skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this proves you can just launder away copyright - nor do I think even we want that at this point.

First off: the claims dismissed have to do with 17 USC 1202, the part of the DMCA that deals with copyright management information. It's a bit of a plaintiff meme[0] to add a CMI claim onto a copyright infringement lawsuit. Obviously, if you infringe copyright, you're also not going to preserve the CMI. And if an AI were to regurgitate output, it doesn't even know that it did so, so it can't preserve CMI even if it wanted to.

Problem is, the AI doesn't regurgitate consistently enough to make a legal claim of CMI removal. The model does generate legally distinct outputs sometimes. You need to point to specific generations and connect the dots from the model to the output in a way that legally implicates GitHub, OpenAI, and/or Microsoft in ways that would not be disclaimed by, say, 17 USC 512 safe harbor. This is distinct from the training-time infringement claims which are still live, wouldn't rely on secondary liability, can't be disclaimed by honoring DMCA takedowns, and which I think are the stronger claim.

Let's step out of the realm of legality. Why do we want to get rid of copyright? For me, it's because copyright centralizes control over creativity. It tells other artists what they can do and forces them into larger and larger hierarchies. The problem is that AI models do the same thing. Using an AI model doesn't make you an artist[1], but it does move that artistic control further towards large creative industry. This is why you have a lot of publisher and big media CEOs that are strangely bullish on AI, a bunch of artists that ordinarily post shit for free are angry about it, and the FOSS people who hate software copyright were the first to sue.

In other words, AI is breaking copyright in order to replace it with more of the thing we hate about copyright.

[0] Or at least Richard Liebowitz liked to do it before he got disbarred.

[1] In the same way that commissioning an art piece does not itself make you an artist
I'm very much approaching this from a level of "I know what some of those words mean", but is this result surprising that quantum systems lose entanglement at high temperatures? Isn't that the whole point of running quantum computers at very low temperatures?
The Blinking Cursor
+1 for Newsblur
A Cure for Child Anxiety Hiding (and Seeking) in Plain Sight
I understand what you mean. I believe that the authors would contend that what you're describing is a typical attentional state for an awake/aware human: focused mostly on one thing, and with surprisingly little awareness of most other things (until/unless they are in turn attended).

Furthermore, even what we attend to isn't always represented with all that much detail. Simons has a whole series of cool demonstration experiments where they show that they can swap out someone you're speaking with (an unfamiliar conversational partner like a store clerk or someone asking for directions), and you may not even notice [0]. It's rather eerie.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSxSQsspiQ&t=5s
> GPUs

I wouldn’t be so sure, a good friend of mine ordered a GPU and it was an older and much cheaper model with the shroud replaced and flashed to call itself the newer model in windows. He would not have found out except he immediately ran a benchmark that returned an extremely low score and then investigated from there.
What about Tor? Or even internet in early days, I guess
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Auditory Noise Facilitates Lower Visual Reaction Times in Humans
I would agree it's marginally better, particularly around the back teeth where it's hard to move a regular brush back and forth very much.

But in general if you spend 2-3 minutes brushing with a conventional toothbrush, that's going to be good enough if you're also seeing a dentist regularly to remove tartar and check for cavities.

The problem most people have with a regular toothbrush is they brush like a madman for 20-30 seconds and that's just not enough. That's another advantage of the electric brushes, they run on a timed cycle which is a lot longer than most people would brush on their own.
Historical Analogues That Can Inform AI Governance
Cheating at the Paralympics is a growing problem, some athletes say
You can add whatever you want in your license and none of it matters unless you are prepared to go to court. Even then, you might have a hard time getting the company to respond if they aren’t based in the same country as you.

For example, Onyx is a Chinese company that makes a line of e-ink tablets (Boox) that are based on open source software. AFAIK, they have refused to honor the terms of the GPL and release their modifications.
> You can take a List inherited from the NonEmptyList

Shouldn't it go the other way?

All NonEmptyLists are Lists, but not all Lists are NonEmptyList.

So NonEmptyList inherits from List
I guess when you label your mendacious, snooping, encryption-breaking, backdoor sneak schemes created for the sake of easier mass surveillance as "child protection measures", moral alchemy turns them into wholesome good programs that only monsters would object to.
fwiw, I feel the same way and made a simple GNOME extension to support quarter tiling https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4857/quarter-windows/
You're making an assumption there that the educational/opportunity systems in the country aren't designed specifically to feed these jobs in particular.
Thanks! Happy to get more things not working as expected yet if there's anything.
Britain on the Brink
I believe it is only on unrealized gains over $100m.
Why is the mobile version of the website so slow?
Thanks, noted
You’ve never heard of cities being cheaper. Well you would if you heard about poor people living in cities. You know, like in the bad part of town.

They can’t do that in the suburbs, because the suburbs are deliberately constructed without the infrastructure that enables cheap living in the city.
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I make good salary right now, someone sending me $20 or $100 doesn't really mean anything.

I used to make money off someone else's open source project. I offered him a couple hundred dollars and he said he didn't need it.

For the OSS projects I work on someone coming in and fixing bugs and whatnot would be more helpful.

Of course, it depends on the project, some of them do need money.
> had monopoly lawsuits aimed at them in 2020?

Who was President in 2020?
> I had always been under the impression that chat gpt just learned from sources, and then gave you a new result based roughly on its sources. I think some of the confounding variables here were, 1.

If I’ve understood the transformer paper correctly, these things probabilistically guess words based on what they’ve been trained on, with the probabilities weighted dynamically by the prompt, by what they’ve already generated, and by what they “think” they might generate for the next few tokens (they look ahead somewhat), with another set of probability-weight adjustments applied to all that by a statistical guess at which tokens or words are most-significant or important.

None of that would prevent them from spitting out exactly what they’ve seen in training data. Keeping them from doing that a lot requires introducing “noise” to all the statistics stuff above, and maybe a gate after generation that tries to check if what’s been generated is too similar to training data and forces another run (maybe with more noise) if it is, similar to how they prevent them from saying racist stuff or whatever.
I disagree entirely. Having written everything form little tools for my own use to entire linux based firmware for small embedded machines, Erlang and Elixir are powerful tools. I genuinely find Elixir fun to write in a way no other language manages to match.
> Sotomayor and Thomas have both expressed disdain for qualified immunity.

Thomas spends an inordinate amount of time signaling that; but then signaling is his thing. Is there a chart of his prize-winning showdog ideologies? Perhaps there's one that could conflict - that he might inject into a case because he does that.

Sotomayor's previous day-job was to safeguard Gov abilities to abuse civil rights, to support and defend the desires of US LEO and IC agencies. While her SC decisions can run counter to that, I'm believe it's influence can be glimpsed.

In a sort of backhanded way of affirming you, there are absolutely times that a justice can go against expectation. Sometimes a justice will put the actual welfare of individuals over whatever other factors drive them. I think it's too weak a peg to hang hopes of a QI overturn, however.
"Extra large quick-release battery" solves that (presumably recharge spares while it operates)?
> destroy small business

On the All-in Podcast they said it was only on unrealized gains over $100m. This is meant to target the Bezos and Musks of the world who can avoid taxes by borrowing against unrealized gains.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm glad you're enjoying ChartDB. We appreciate your feedback about handling large tables with 100+ columns. Improving that experience is definitely on our radar! It would be great if you could open an issue on our GitHub repo with more details, that way, we can ensure it gets the attention it deserves and make it even better for your use case. Looking forward to your input!
So this is a rather niche industry concern but it's been wildly disruptive to anyone dealing with sheet music in practically any capacity. I run the Music Engraving Tips group on Facebook and I wrote a little essay given the situation, maybe some can get value from it.

Full disclosure, I'm the Senior Product Designer for Sibelius, so I'm uniquely embedded in this stuff this week.

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RIP Finale

This is a very sad week for our industry, a titan has fallen. The only other parallel I can think of is when the Sibelius London office closed in 2012. But this feels so much more tangible given the short timescale of the shutoff. Finale will no longer activate within one year, effectively locking people out of their scores.

To all the thousands of users out there who's entire catalogs of scores have now been put in jeopardy, I greatly empathize. I felt similarly back in 2012 when Sibelius looked like it was going away. Back then, Finale was the only viable alternative, though I didn't jump ship at the time. Fortunately, today there's a wealth of options and competition in our industry is strong.

Since this is such a monumental event in the music notation space, the mods and I are going to relax our restrictions on notation software how-to posts (Rule 2) so folks can discuss how to deal with their files, via MusicXML or otherwise. Please keep the conversations civil, I know tensions are high. We will monitor things closely and won't tolerate any animosity toward one platform or another, nor gloating or other unprofessional behavior. (Rule 3)

Back when I was literally 5 years old, I did my first arrangement in Finale. It opened up a new world to me, the world of the written note. Music notation has been my passion forever as a result. No matter which platform you use, remember the joy that music can bring and how these tools enable it. They are essential, and to lose one means a great deal.
A test to try out whenever these blog posts show up describing the burnout that is purportedly endemic to "open source":

If you ignore GitHub, how many of the problems described go away (and of the ones that remain, how potent are they)?

The problems are not intrinsic to "open source". Conflating GitHub culture with open source is like conflating being on Twitter with using the Internet.
How would you propose to increase the supply of higher-paid and diverse jobs? The USA already spends enormous amounts on education subsidies and Keynesian economic stimulus. And what is a "diverse" job anyway?

The USA and many other countries already have a surplus of people with college degrees that have no real value from a job skills perspective (elite overproduction). Future job growth is likely to be concentrated in skilled labor fields as we re-industrialize. We should probably shift some funding away from universities, and towards community colleges and trade schools.
Also, from today:

Ask HN: Who's building an AI-free product? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41375100
Yes I think Zuck is being a diva to hedge on the outcome of the election. No I don’t think the evidence exists.
> Instant is like Firebase; it is not a completely local solution. If you are worried about exposing some data over the internet, I would store the same kind of stuff you were thinking about with Firebase.

What does this mean exactly? If you host your own it is still not local?
They can fork Chromium instead. Doesn't mean Firefox is the best base to start.
>your dishwasher is definitely not tipped

I posted this elsewhere in here, but this is not true. They are often tipped out of a tip pool, especially in pricey ($100+ a head) restaurants with a lot of tip money to go around. People I know have made $40/hr this way, and I even know a guy who dish washed at age 17 at a counter service place and still made $20-35 an hour this way just off the tips that the little payment machine asked for when you picked up your food yourself.

It is a complicated topic though, as it is actually illegal to include BOH people in tip pools in some states. This is because it is often a sneaky way for owners to steal tips by underpaying BOH compared to how they would have to pay them without a tip pool. So you might live in such a state.
It's a well-known tool and the example is one which people will very often encounter. A lot of tooling is terribly behaved, regardless of this specific example.
That blog post is 8 years old and predates things like mastodon. Nothing has changed in these intervening 8 years?
UB and unsoundness are different things. "If it compiles, then it works (properly)" is true for sound code only. Direct indexing of arrays with `for` loop is unsound, because of typical errors with indexes, such as off by one. Iterators are sound.

I want to debug my code less, so I use sound interface to arrays: iterators. Other than that, both interfaces are equal.

If there is no ready to use method for my usage pattern, I can write unsound code directly, or I can write sound interface and then write sound code using it, so compiler will not allow me to write stupid mistakes. Unsound version will be faster to write, but may require more time to debug and support.
Did the division have an anticheat when it was released? I remember it being really bad some time after release, like a few steps above most other games in both the number of hackers and their abilities (not just the usual aimbot/esp).
Overfishing and pollution will wipe out most of the remaining ocean fish in the next couple decades if nothing is done about it. We're on track to destroy 99% or more of the species of fish and large animals in our oceans.

Maybe state funding for privateering navies given license to sink illegal fishing boats would be a good start. Trawling and other wildly destructive practices funded by various south asian countries are doing incalculable harm all over the world. Sink on sight is an appropriate policy.

Humanity has to get their shit together, or jellyfish will be all that's left.
Ask about price match. Often times they are happy to match the price with Amazon as long as it's shipped from Amazon.
Black Hole Telescope Makes Record Observations from Earth's Surface
I am all for fair wages

No, you're very obviously not. This line of argument is the very poster child of "if you're not doing something I think is important (and, apparently having clean dishes at a restaurant is by your own words "fairly low value") like being 'innovative' or 'creative', you are of little value and don't deserve adequate pay". Were you twisting your Mises Institute wristband fondly while writing it?
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Don’t forget that happy people have a far more chance to get and stay married.

Marriage is not the cause of happiness.
I didn't use the word unexplored.
Nobody's frightened. We enjoy the storms. :)
Very interesting, but it seems like a symbolic debate among folks who were somehow involved in deciding the shape of a roof or who were already invested in a larger social debate.

Random every day person, were they aware of this debate, and did they actually shop for housing based on roof shape?
Protecting Your Users' Data from AI Training Crawlers
Some Show HNs are linked to sites/blogs with open source links. Next iteration of this can include those.
You're a twat for correcting people about your silly pronouns.
> Amazon, which reaps ad revenue from the infringing competitors

I've actually found ads on Amazon to be more detrimental to my experience than marketplace shenanigans and ALLCAPS sellers.
I think you should be able to select columns you want to show in the diagram, and hide the other behind a small ... Button. That way you can keep table box size small.

A default of "show none" is probably sane for visibility, in particular if you have many tables or columns in the whole diagram
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Some credit reports that Durov travelled to Russia more than 60 times between 2014 and 2021. https://x.com/YaroslavAzhnyuk/status/1828498176854385111

Honest question for this group: Does anyone actually believe Telegram has any sort of privacy? Like, I assume all your TG data is available to the Kremlin in the same way that all your TikTok data is available to the CCP.
A few times. The one I regretted the most was the last year of my career in game development. We were asked to work the weekend once to get some features done. That turned into two weekends in a row turned into a full year of non-stop crunch. Programmers these days like to say how they're so "burned out" because they don't like the work. I was so burned out that I was mainlining energy drinks to stay awake. I developed adrenal fatigue. I still fell asleep in meetings. I have almost no memories from that year. I was a zombie.

The worst part is that it didn't matter. The game was so far off the rails that it never shipped. They closed down the studio soon after. They closed most of the company's offices with a year of the studio closing. 2-3 years after that, the company was completely defunct.

No employer has ever asked me to work that hard again. I would quit on the spot if they did. Life's too short.
> strategy where they burn one engineer by having them read the original code, have them document it carefully with a lawyer to remove all expressive aspects, and then have a separate engineer develop it from the clean documents.

Interesting. What kinds of situations is that strategy used for?

(I'm familiar with cleanroom, which I understand means that you start with un-tainted engineers, who've credibly never been exposed to the proprietary IP, the work only from unencumbered public documentation and running the system as an opaque box. Then there's also validation, like with parallel systems and fuzzing. But I haven't thought through in what situations this might not work, so might require the tainted documenting approach.)
Feedly [0] (web app and on IOS) has been amazing since Google Reader died. On IOS it makes flipping through items and saving them for later a smooth and relatively fast experience.

[0] https://feedly.com
That depends who's doing the talking. You're a large business with a dedicated connection and your own network engineering team? Yeah, totally matters.

You're a single consumer, or a small business? Your dialog is limited to "Yes, I switched the router on and off. Yes, my local network works. No, I can reach the website over my phone, this is your problem".

Repeat three times, then get the inevitable reply of "it'll be up again in the next 24 hours".

Unless you're a network engineer, this really doesn't matter.
Registering my uneducated guess: Is this implying there was previously hope you could trap a hot system in a Gibbs state and demonstrate nice stable quantum supremacy with those, but they found hot Gibbs states are necessarily all boring and decohered after all?
I wonder if he stepped down and no longer had the ability to comply if they'd still hold him or not.
This is absolutely a work of propaganda the CIA worked on.
The article seems to deal only with FOSS coming straight from the enterprise world, also as a byproduct of professional developers' free time. This is sometimes the case, but it also misses completely what FOSS is for non professional developers: their best possible resume; and that is not going away anytime soon.
In some languages there are few ways (or 1 way) to do things, so everyone writes the same looking for loops, etc. And sometimes in the same order, with the same filenames, etc. by convention - especially in the case of heavy framework usage where most people's code is mostly identical % wise. The flagging system would have to be able to identify framework usage separate from IP and so-on.

Beyond that, it seems like you'd need a highly expressive language for this to work well. You can effectively scan for plagiarism in English because it's so varied that it really is an outlier to see several lines of text that are identical to each other from different sources, but maybe it's not that strange to see entirely identical files, or at least very similar code, in totally distinct, say, React or Ruby-on-Rails projects.

I think of code methodologies as more like construction techniques. Maybe some pieces and parts are patentable, and some can even be productized as tools, but a lot of it is just convention and technique.
I’m sorry, but a press conference televised to everyone in a country that disrupts the default programming, every week, when most people were watching, by a government official about a novel virus that’s spreading around the world and the medication for it… and I shouldn’t take it literally?

What moment in the world would be a better moment to be as clear and pedantic as possible, with as little reason to doubt as possible? And when is it better to keep the talking point open to even the most “dumb” questions, even if it’s over and over again?

To be clear again, I’m Dutch and was watching the Dutch news.

Whichever of the many sides you believe, they dropped the ball there. They should’ve been informed and should’ve informed us correctly. They didn’t.
Imagine feeling bad for the CIA in this day and age. They deserve what they get.
this looks great! not sure if i'd want to store my waitlist in notion though :/
Have to assume they are about to arrest the CEO's of all of the largest internet providers in France for the same reasons. If not then this is absolutely a political decision and France has decided to punish anyone daring to allow people to speak without government supervision.
A plausible lower bound would be useful, but $4B is a joke. That’s less than the annual budget of single major university (Harvard is around ~$5-6B).

Gartner says the world spent $4.5T on IT in 2022. To pick some numbers out of thin air, let’s assume half of that is on software, and half of that is on new software (not maintenance). And the let’s assume that software is sold at ~20% net margin. And open source powers an enormous fraction of it at some level, but let’s be conservative and say it’s 10%. $4.5T * 0.5 * 0.5 * 0.8 * 0.1 = $90B per year just for the new stuff.

Recreating the existing stacks… if we multiple that number by 25 years, you are at over $2T to rebuild OSS in some kind of manhattan project.

But even that is a massive underestimate. For one, it would be competing with other development objectives—there aren’t millions of principle-level engineers just sitting idle. And more importantly, formally run projects have radically different levels of passion and “giving a shit” compared to how people often start OSS.

You simply couldn’t do it at all. It would be like asking “okay, but assuming we really had to replace all the metal with wood, what would it cost to launch a manned wooden rocket ship to the moon?”
I assume that the kremlin has more knowledge of the drug trade in my city than the local police