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freshhawk··on Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his IP address
Probably the movement to squat in empty buildings and organize more of the same in response to pandemic evictions, that's been getting the kind of attention its very dangerous for left wing groups to get.
freshhawk··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
This is a hard thing to get across to people coming at it from a perspecitve of being higher up on some imaginary natural hierarchy.

Also, real organized crime immediately flips on you when people notice their loud obvious daylight crimes and there is blowback.

freshhawk··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
So, have a domestic armed force checking people for rental papers and imprisoning them if they don't check out.

That's considered an "easy fix" now?

freshhawk··on Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
Yeah, if we can't get something like edn (json but well designed and extensible) then jsonl is at least OK.

> people tend to forget this

There are people with strong opinions about this that don't even understand why you need something like JSONL in the first place and I'm surprised by that. If they never use unix pipelines I don't get why they feel we want to hear their hot take about how they should be redesigned.

freshhawk··on Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
Uh ... what about when I don't want to load the entire stream into memory before the next stage starts running? Are these implicit json arrays that stream out?

Or do we now have incompatible json shell tools and streaming text tools as a permanent fixture?

I'm excited about structured output ideas, but json? I'd much rather have streams of whitespace separated words than json. That's in that "No type system is better than a bad type system" metaphorical area.

I'll take grepping with a theoretically brittle regex over this jq[1] any day of the week.

[1] jq -nc --stream 'inputs | select(length==2) | select( [.[0][0,2,4]] == ["results", "data", "row"]) | [ .[0][6], .[1]] '

freshhawk··on Electromagnetism is a property of spacetime itself, study finds
Sure, it would take an enormous amount of energy to do it though.

Oh yeah, and you'd also be annihilated as you were completely turned to energy as you tried to go through it of course. But you'd sure fire a hell of a lot of randomized high energy particles out the other side after the amount of time it would have taken light to get there.

Not my preferred kind of "travel", I'll just freeze myself and go the slow way or something.

freshhawk··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
Also, it's trivially easy to teach a real neural network to output a specific binary stream in response to a specific input. My OS AI could use the exact same technology as Copilot, I'd just train it very specifically.
freshhawk··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
Yeah ... that was my point. What copilot does underneath the indirection is steal GPL code and derive "new" stuff from it in a way that launders the licenses.

We know what it's doing, it's doing very well understood statistical inference techniques to derive outputs.

freshhawk··on GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright
"Or maybe it is, but if so it essentially means the end of licensing because it would be trivial to make an AI that can take an input and produce the same output."

Yes, this is what is pretty interesting to me. I said in a previous comment that I have a really good OS generating AI. It asks you your favorite color and outputs a disk image you can use as an installer.

Right now it just happens to output a cracked version of Windows if you answer "blue". Who can know how that happened? It's a black box after all. Seems useful though, since Microsoft is loudly saying that if I distributed this it would have no license problems at all.

freshhawk··on FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood
So these new /r/wallstreetbets and related manaics are obviously going to burn piles of money going to war with the IPO.

Do you think the size of those piles of money is priced in? The size of the fear of the size of those piles of money?

The PR related stuff seems easier to figure out.

It's either a great idea or a terrible idea, and I can't tell.

freshhawk··on FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood
So a smaller pool of people than those people + people on robinhood. So nice convenient price pressure is applied.

Which I think is the OPs point.

freshhawk··on FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood
Yeah, those are very big fines but there has been so much attention on this that we all know that 70 million is a small dent in the profits from the play that caused all this.
freshhawk··on Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?
Yes. It includes many members of the top-tier scientific community.

For many of them, the reason we get the benefits of these top-tier people is because of sci-hub.

freshhawk··on Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
Nah, that's well within the normal range. This is the Federal Bureau of oops-that-terrorist-actually-was-an-informant-of-ours after all.

It really does seem like you all aren't aware of the (deserved) reputation of the FBI outside the US.

freshhawk··on Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
The Stundin article they are quoting has the source, it's Ögmundur Jónasson, who was Iceland's minister of interior at the time.

Also ... maybe there is a problem with censored news in the US. Because outside the US mainstream media reporting on the latest "US intelligence caught spying on everyone again" is as common as the latest "Russia caught mistreating dissident artist" story.

freshhawk··on Media blackout after key witness against Assange admits lying
A key witness in the current extradition case is my understanding.

The claim about Assange guiding Manning that Thordarson is testifying too is definitely a major piece of most of the related court cases.

freshhawk··on Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
And it's up to the end user to evaluate the tool that makes the suggestions.
freshhawk··on Copilot regurgitating Quake code, including sweary comments
That would actually be potentially useful, it could do a kind of combination of autocompletion of internal libraries, automatic templates for common patterns and internal style/linting type tasks all in one. Certainly augmenting those other things.

It would be interesting how much code you would need before it was useful (and how good does it have to be to be useful? Does even a small error rate cost so much that it erases other gains, because so many of the potential errors in usage of this type of tool are very subtle?)

freshhawk··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
"* in functioning democracies"

Who cares about this theoretical BS though? It's useless. The model isn't predictive. Those are spherical cows. At this point we know the areas where public support is most detached from policy and it always corresponds to wealth.

So just start using the adult model of the world already.

freshhawk··on GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
Yeah, you'd have to assume they are parsing and normalizing this data in some way. There would still be some AST patterns or something similar you could look for in the same way, but it would be much trickier.

Plus considering this is a legal issue ... good luck with "there is a statistically significant similarity in AST outputs related to the most unique sections of this code base" type arguments in court. We're currently at the "what's an API" stage of legal tech understanding.

freshhawk··on GitHub Copilot as open source code laundering?
I suppose someone should make a OS-generating AI, conceptually it can just have windows, osx and some linux distros in it and output one based on a question about favorite color or something.

You'd just have to wrap it in a nice complex model representation so it's a black box you fed example OS's with some meta-data into and it happens to output this very useful data.

After all, once you use something as input to a machine learning model apparently the license disappears. Sweet.

freshhawk··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
Because framing collective action problems caused by a very small powerful minority of people as mass moral issues is how we all fucking die.

In fact, you have a moral imperative to stop doing this, since you are covering for the actual actors with bad morality by misrepresenting where the moral failing lies.

freshhawk··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
"A single action by the government"

Yeah, this is generally called "collective action" when it is contrasted with "individual action".

freshhawk··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
I know you didn't mean to, but amazing job getting HN to embarass itself.
freshhawk··on Canada Records All-Time High Temperature of 49.5 Degrees: Weather Service
I thought we were past the fairy tales about individual action doing anything useful?
freshhawk··on Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? (1978)
I agree. For me, when I'm working with something where I can get functionality like Differential Datalog [1] is when I move over to a reactive-ish paradigm. It's half the answer, and there is a lot of state-related stuff in the other half.

There are probably other ways to provide the rest of the pieces, rules engines, some of those DSLs that describe stream graphs with composable nodes, other incremental querying stuff I can't remember right now ...

[1] https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog

freshhawk··on The collapse of the IRON stable coin
"Code is law"

except for the DAO fork of course, when commit rights were law.

freshhawk··on DraftKings: a $21B SPAC betting it can hide its black market operations
Aren't SPACs just nonoperating shell companies that own only cash? I thought the whole point of them was to be allowed to disclose nothing and report nothing.
freshhawk··on As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen
Uh ... is it news to people that american nationalism is a very religious belief system?

It isn't to outsiders, I definitely heard this comparison made when I was in school ... which was the 90's.

This also feels more like americans adjusting to having explicit ideological beliefs in the first place, since the decades-long political monoculture is breaking up. There is an interesting religious feel to party affiliation in the US, but nothing particularly exceptional compared to other places. Maybe that's an outsider missing some nuance though.

freshhawk··on El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
Yes, a stable currency also helps people to intelligently buy unstable assets. This is a point for the other team, not yours.
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