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by jhugo 4y ago
Building something we can't introspect isn't the same as building something intelligent. Anyone who thinks Copilot is writing code with any comparable degree of novelty to Stephen King's prose clearly hasn't actually tri
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Have you ever read GitHub's conditions to know whether they also have the right to use your code that way, no matter how you decide to license it? I feel that you are overly focused on the legal part here, which I'm sure was
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by jhugo 4y ago
Steven King is a human. This is a computer program — a complex one, but still a computer program. How does this analogy make any sense?
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by jhugo 4y ago
> The question is ultimately going to come down to - "Is Copilot the same as a human programmer reading a lot of GPL code and rehashing, in a non-infringing way, the algorithms, functions, and designs used in a lot of FOSS? Or is Co
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by jhugo 4y ago
(2021)
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Do you go and check whether a given reply belongs to a licensed project? All SO questions, answers and comments are CC BY-SA. The terms of the site say that anyone submitting this content agrees that it's licensed that way, and wh
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by jhugo 4y ago
You really seem to be ignoring the core issue by focusing on SO though. Everything on SO is fair game, but code on GitHub is under a variety of licenses, and when Copilot regurgitates it, no matter how complex and inscrutable the process is
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by jhugo 4y ago
> And it's weird people think it can't understand conceptual relationships. Word2Vec demonstrated that nearly 10 years ago and that's a much weaker model in terms of both size and techniques than this is. Saying that Word2
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by jhugo 4y ago
"it no more copies code than a human does" < that's a very big call right there, considering how much verbatim copying has already been documented in Copilot. The primitive understanding Copilot has of what it is generatin
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by jhugo 4y ago
I would agree with you if the AI was genuinely assisting with that task, but it isn't. It's taking inputs, ignoring their licenses, permuting them in ways that are not understandable to the user, and then outputting them. That&#x2
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by jhugo 4y ago
Could you elaborate on why you think a computer program and a person should be treated the same way in this respect? We can take as self-evident that a human is capable of reading about something, conceptualising it, and then writing someth
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by jhugo 4y ago
No matter how complex a program is, and no matter whether it uses techniques sometimes described as "AI" in its implementation, it's not a person. Copilot is just a very complex pipeline from other people's code to your
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by jhugo 4y ago
Back up now.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yes, it can be expensive, but nowhere near as expensive as paying per-GiB rates to a cloud for your traffic (which itself is nowhere near as expensive as paying a cloud's rates for compute if you try to do decode/encode in the clo
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by jhugo 4y ago
You're attempting to reframe the conversation away from "overthrow your government" to "release embarrassing information about your government". I hope you can see that these things are wildly different. The US trea
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by jhugo 4y ago
Not just you. Tested from various worldwide locations, 503 or timeout everywhere.
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by jhugo 4y ago
All of the mistakes are in this paragraph: > The researchers also claim that harbinger households voluntarily cluster: that when a harbinger household moves, it is likely that it will move to another habringer ZIP code (and nonhabringers
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by jhugo 4y ago
P2P is fine for n=2 (and most videoconferencing systems already try to flow media peer-to-peer in this case), but it often has a pretty severe impact on UX if you go much beyond that. Even with say n=5, P2P pushes the required upstream band
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by jhugo 4y ago
Why would any government encourage its citizens to get better at revolution?
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by jhugo 4y ago
SFUs aren't forwarding everything. Using either discrete simulcast layers or SVC they're forwarding one size out of several (usually 3) to each other participant. Bandwidth will be a high cost no matter what (and anyone planning t
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by jhugo 4y ago
While the average person does theoretically have the option of revolution, it's realistically a very difficult and dangerous thing to even attempt to arrange, so most people -- in any country -- would watch their leaders do many terrib
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by jhugo 4y ago
At least they didn't say "just overthrow your government", I've seen that one plenty...
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by jhugo 4y ago
Any reason for doing audio and video work on the backend rather than adopting the (much easier to scale) SFU model and just forwarding packets? Similarly for the physics, seems like doing that work frontend would scale much better.
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by jhugo 4y ago
The article is about a state punishing people for making a private choice. Whether you think their choice is responsible or not has nothing to do with it.
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Why on earth do some people think it’s okay to include USA with countries like Qatar? Of course they're not at all comparable, but it is worth pointing out that Qatar is a very close ally of the US, and that close relationship lik
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Or does one of you mean that even the constant delay is significant enough to be noticed on top of the video call latency? That's what I meant. Video call latency is noticeable but in most cases is not detrimental to conversation
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by jhugo 4y ago
For today's lucky ten thousand. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by jhugo 4y ago
Depending on where you live, this can backfire on you if you don't inform the other party that you're recording them. (IIRC, in some locations, "at least one" party needs to know the call is being recorded — so since you
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by jhugo 4y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I have a colleague who uses an OBS virtual webcam setup like this, and it's really disconcerting having a conversation with them, compared to others who don't use it, because of the additional
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by jhugo 4y ago
As your sibling comment mentions, people used to be taught (apparently in school, but I went to school a bit early for TLDs to be part of the curriculum) about the meaning of the TLDs. It has never been the case that you needed to be any pa

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