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Are people angry at copyright violations, or Microsoft? Copyright and patents have their place, but they've clearly overreached long ago.
You've chosen an unreasonable and silly interpretation of my words. There's no reason for this subthread to exist.
You can use a data- prefix with all hx- attributes if you'd like, which should allow it to validate.
The Maryland (?) Supreme Court case made me think that some involve just misunderstand DNA...they think of it as something like a very long random string that makes for a good, unique identifier. That is, of course, completely wrong. I can know all sorts of things about you that are, or should be, private...like who your real parents / kids are, whether you're likely to get cancer or not, whether you are intersex, etc.
The SQLite website itself is pretty well written.
Some unknown person is trying to get some hype on “cancel github” cry.

I don't give a shit about the Copilot, but I care even less about Rian Hunter and his statements.
If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code.

(And charging for a product which adds value to your developer experience and needs money to be run is not a bad thing)
Why would one mimic matplotlib's API besides the fact that everyone knows it?

I use matplotlib a lot but I keep googling the same things again and again, which is my subjective indicator that something in the design is wrong. How to set log scales again? Do I apply this method to the figure or axis object? Setting a different backend (like agg) after pyplot was importet?
Also, nested kwargs make it impossible for my IDE to give meaningful hints on parameters, not even talking about typed interfaces so far. Global state!

I mean, this library solves a truly complex problem and yes, I get things done but none of the hours working with it was close to be pleasant.

I wish some day someone is brave enough to enter new lands, leaving this matlab style of thinking behind.
I like the idea of "negative citations"
Thanks for that idea!
I said nothing about "lawsuit you don’t want to be in". A DMCA claim either ends in an agreement (CNET agrees it's infringement or the submitter agrees it's not), or else the submitter has to go to court to prove their case. As I said they can of course "drop the whole thing": avoid any lawsuit but also drop the claim. Which is where the "misfire" rather than "backfire" analogy comes from.

Unlike the usual YouTube situations, CNET is both the online service provider and the party accused of infringing so the content can only go down if CNET agrees to take it down, or a court decides this.
Does github guarantee that my private repo's content are not being leaked this way in the future?
My thoughts too
They will still use an enormous amount of fuel, carry fewer passengers, and heavily pollute the environment. I'm not too excited about the prospects.
Yes, it will be really interesting to read a post-mortem of this.

I also got a notification just saying "foo" 5 minutes before that and thought that was somebody testing in production.
robots.txt, or a copyright notice saying the code can't be used to train AI which bots will ignore and open their corporate masters to liability.

on edit: fixed typo
That article is a bit silly. While I'm sure it's nice, this is not one of the high-end ryokans in Kyoto, and by no means is it "the best hotel in Japan" (I lived in Kyoto, and have been there many times). Reading the reviews, it mainly sounds small and difficult to book, and it has a cult reputation.

I was actually a little surprised Jobs stayed there, given that there are really high-end places where dignitaries and utra-rich people tend to stay. This particular place is not in a fancy or scenic area, though it is in a very convenient location, very near Teramachi, Sanjo, Kiyamachi, etc. Many of the elite ryokans are further out in more scenic areas (in Arashiyama, for example).

The service standard in Japan is quite high, so pretty much any mid-range ryokan will provide an umbrella or making reservations for you. And if you're an internationally famous billionaire...
I'm not surprised. I imagine all images on the internet are used to train image classifiers as well. It's a shitty future, but it's the one we have.
Agriculture produces 10% of the greenhouse gases emitted by humans.

Let's say we can make a wish, and snap our fingers and have all the necessary factories in place to replace *ALL* food farming for the globe.

I doubt the entirety of the 10% of green houses gases will be eliminated, probably cut in half, however then we'll need to take into account the electricity needed to run all the new food factories, which will probably add back in another 3%, so once the dust clears we'll see a reduction of about %2 of green house gases, that's assuming all food agriculture is automatically replaced, via a wish.
Why is this noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something?

I agree that there needs to be talk about licensing and copyright but with so "less/no content" there can be no meaningful discussion other than aimless banter.
It was very common to rob money transfers back in the days. It kind of peaked around the big helicopter robbery +10 years ago. The use of cash has been on a decline for decades. The transports are never armed like in other countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4stberga_helicopter_robb...
I’ve worked on multiple codebases where nobody on the team had been there when the sausage was first made. The squash commits are some of the worst commits for finding out why a weird design decision was made because all the things that came out in code review or would have had bugfix commit messages in their local branch are all squashed together in one commit. CRs help a lot but frankly I do want to know how the sausage was made when I’m look through the git history or else I would just look at the code directly. Especially when I’m investigating some bug in prod.
IMHO, that kind of thing is a contract, not a copyright license. And a contract is only valid if certain conditions are fulfilled, like if you signed it, if both parties are actually aware that a contract has been established, etc. (Exact conditions vary with jurisdiction.)

The main point is, you can’t be party (and bound) to a contract if you only downloaded something without the direct knowledge of the provider.

EDIT: To clarify: You are still always bound by copyright law, and always need a license to distribute. If you don’t fulfill the terms of a license you were given, then you don’t have permission to distribute, and are violating copyright if you do.
How should we read 'sweet and savory pies predate the Americas' that doesn't say that the Americas didn't exist until after pies?
Also

>Who asked?

But you deleted that comment.
Sigh. Of that list, only one is even plausibly an "economic" indicator, and it's laughably wrong.

Even squinting and spinning as hard as you can, you'd say that current inflation might be as high as 5% at this very moment. Which while higher than it's been in a decade or two is hardly a historical outlier. But then you have to conveniently forget that over the pandemic we experienced quite high deflationary pressure which is merely being eaten up. So in fact CPI and similar metrics are up about... 2.5% per year since 2019. Which is to say, business as usual.

I'll ask again: which specific US media sources are telling you there is "rampant inflation"? They're lying to you.
If you don’t have US citizenship or a green card that’s an additional hurdle.

Consider freelancing for US companies to find one that will sponsor a visa. You will most likely bypass the leetcode interview process.

Optimizing for the interview seems like a waste of time to me, but if you’re determined to get into one of the companies that does that I guess you have to play along. Ideally you get referred by contacts and bypass the filtering nonsense.
This is an extremely binary way of thinking

You're saying it has to be one or the other:

A) Against all reason, Jobs decided eating fruit would solve his curable cancer, or
B) Jobs has some deep philosophical ponderance of the human condition or introspection on his own mortality

Why can't it be both? Humans are notoriously inconsistent
Nah, all will gonna be fine
If you want a real mind trip, check out the reconstructed pronunciation of Classical Chinese.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chinese_phonology
I cannot see them even throwing together a library.
For example, how could they architect, let's say something like jQuery?
Knowing Russian, Lithuanian and bits of Polish I would also add that it's amazing how lithuanian is very similar to slavic languages in grammar structure but radically different phonetically.

I.e. a direct translation, word to word, works (with some style issues), but it's hard to recognize the sentence when pronounced.

This makes me wonder how sanscrit sounds...

Also, the language is quite complex, probably more complex than polish or russian, which is typical for archaic languages, afaik.
The owner/creator of Nexus Mods is an abusive one toward his users.

Years back, there existed a simple Nexus Mod Manager for well... managing your mods for installed games. It was a simple tool that did the job well.

At some point the owner of Nexus Mods decided/needed to monetize, so he started jamming ads and slow connections to non-premium customers.

Soon after, he deprecated Nexus Mod Manager for Vortex. Go search their own forums if you want to see the nightmare, but "installing" a mod via Vortex takes around 9 clicks, doesn't always install the mod properly, and generally is slower than molasses. It's essentially an app wrapper over a poorly written website.

No shock at all they're making yet another anti-user, anti-creator move. They generally seem to have a grudge against their own community.

The entire "mod" community around gaming is like this as well. ModDrop was created as a response to the onslaught of ads/premium/bad stewardship and became the very thing it hated.
The busses go to places besides SF
I really hope this weakens copyright. We can live without it.
The main source of problems in the US is the winner-takes-all system in its elections.
The US is stuck with a two party system. There is no realistic way that a relevant third party can evolve.
Based on their website, Gitlab are pushing the CI\CD future not AI.
I use both Windows and Linux for a long time, and I tried Steam on both platforms in last two years.

On Windows, game installation worked perfectly every single time.

On Linux, I firstly needed to instal Xorg (because Steam couldn’t start under wayland). After that I spend whole day configuring drivers (I switched from Noveau to proprietary and then back) because I couldn’t get full performance from my card. As time went by, and I tried more and more games, I regularly needed to apply some ad hoc fixes (if you open protondb you will see that most of games sometimes need manual adjustments).

I must say that some games worked perfectly under Linux, but I still can’t recommend Linux to my friends gamers who never seen console in their life (and tbh, even I gave up on Linux gaming, and I just use Windows now).

Also I don’t use Ubuntu. I would probably have nicer gaming experience if I did, but for some other reason I don’t want to use it.
The author makes the argument that 'first parent' being the original branch is a mere convention.

And he's right. If someone does the merge while checked out on the feature branch, then commits it _as_ the master branch, then the first-parent concept breaks.
If you happen to have NoScript installed, you can add something like this to the My filters

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ycombinator.com##.c5a:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.c73:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.c82:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.c88:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.c9c:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.cae:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.cbe:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.cce:style(color: #000 !important; )
ycombinator.com##.cdd:style(color: #000 !important; )

Change the color to match your preference.
Turing completeness never fails to deliver program translation surprises.
Coop stores closed due to Swedish hacker attack
remember the arguments are A then B or B then A doesn't deepen your understanding

What I meant is that you will coincidentally learn new things by going to the docs for old/simple things. In addition to remembering that method ordering, you might learn about a new method that simplifies your task.
> I hadn't used finally much in JavaScript until recently, where I find myself using it like this in async functions:

We can tell by your notation. Mixing try blocks with async/await and promises is mixing patterns and obscuring what you are attempting to accomplish.
I mean.. I am? I care much more about Google or Facebook profiling and profiting off of my data (especially when I don’t consent to giving it to them in any meaningful way) than I do letting GitHub do things with code I knew was freely available and that other entities could use in profitable ways.
Show HN: Atto – BASIC computer that runs in the browser
Who asked?
If you’re ever in Kyoto set aside a whole day for the train museum. It’s absolutely through the roof train paradise.
Can't you just put a robots.txt file in your project which says "no ML".
So it’s a print driver only for WASM source code? Yes, I had the same thought, but it turned out to be Photoshop ;p
This kind of learning needs to be opt-in, not opt-out.

I would also be extremely surprised if most open source copyright holders didn't already expect their licensing terms to protect against this kind of code/authorship laundering. Speaking individually, I know that it certainly surprised me to hear that GitHub thinks that it's probably okay to regurgitate entire fragments of the training set without preserving the license.
I want lab grown FISH... I'm a fisherman and LOVE fish and we're ruining the ocean. Are there any firms working on artificial fish?

Fish are seriously underrated because we can't really connect with them like we can with dogs or cats but they're VERY intelligent.

I've been a fisherman for 30+ years (since I was a boy) and they constantly surprise me with their behavior.
I've said it before, but it deserves to be repeated again: the term "E2EE" has been hijacked to infer things that are decidedly not within the remit of end-to-end encryption. We keep seeing the term to be interpreted to mean "fully anonymous communications".

>Govt is also asking [...] to store information about the "originator" of message (which defies the concept of encryption).

No, it doesn't. I realise this likely comes off as pedantic, but encryption has only ever implied confidentiality, and more recently, integrity of the communication content. Obscuring and/or hiding the information about the communicating parties is an entirely different - and in fact a lot harder - problem.[ß]

Please note: I am not saying that governments requiring to store (rich) communications metadata is somehow right or proper. Hell no. As far as I see that's a massive invasion of privacy. But I will object to the misuse of terminology. It's bad enough that the shorthand form "crypto" has been hijacked by wasteful funny-money peddlers. I will fight tooth and nail to not let the term "encryption" suffer a similar fate.

ß: At scale, that is. For example, using a numbers station will make it technically trivial (if expensive) to transmit a message from an unspecified sender to an unknown recipient. But enabling similar level of security AND anonymity to millions and millions of participants is a much, much, much more difficult problem.
Selling drugs at a children’s park. What’s wrong with that?
They're not particularly popular on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thelig.ht (except for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133450 )

And their only huge project on GitHub is dbxfs, a userspace dropbox filesystem with 687 stars https://github.com/rianhunter?tab=repositories&q=&type=&lang...

I think this is just a post meant to continue the discussion of CoPilot past the first 2 days of news.
Exactly, you can even rent seek by buying a plot of land and intentionally keeping the number of units below what demand would suggest. E.g. you have a plot with enough demand to house 20 people but you only build a single family house for 4 people (2 parents 2 children) denying 16 people the possibility to live there. The land is still priced as if it could support 20 people and you make your money off of the sale of the land. This is what people buy into when they buy their house as an "investment". They bank on population growth and increasing demand. If upzoning is impossible then you gain nothing from selling because you have to pay taxes and then buy another property that costs the same amount (which you cant afford because of the taxes), turning the real estate wealth into paper wealth that has to be paid (your mortgage) for but is difficult to draw from except via reverse mortgages.
Another casualty of transliteration keyboards.
>Who asked?

Now this was completely unexpected.
I would like to know this too. I understand that GitHub is a private company and you have to accept their T&C, but surely they aren't allowed to use source code found elsewhere on the internet to train their ML models without asking for permission first unless it's a B2B cooperation such as with Stackoverflow.
Why are we downvoting someone who is respectfully disagreeing?
If you write MIT code you expect them not to strip your license out in derivative works. This is exactly what license are for and GitHub is blatantly violating it while people applaud.
Lots of people arguing this guy isn't anybody, but the name seemed sort of familiar to me and my quick googling and looking at his site makes me think he probably has done something that some people use? For example dbxfs seems to have quite a history.

on edit: just saw there was a description of who he is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27724247 as noted I don't know but not sure if it's enough to imply a bad motive of him wanting to get some sort of attention for opposing copilot.

on second edit: huh, seems to be one of those occasions when I have mysteriously offended some people on HN without swearing, joking or being rude.
“Free and open source, assuming I approve of the usage” is a common sentiment among people who paste Apache or MIT and don’t think about the ramifications. It’s increasingly common.

I think this situation is slightly more complex but that sentiment is at the heart of a lot of pushback against things like this.
> But I can remember accessing a state resembling flow only a few times; the vast majority of the hours I spend writing are closer to a grind than a trance. With any project, there are so many variables I can’t predict. Will my sources respond? Does the information I seek exist? Will someone send me a text starting ‘OMG’ to take me away from my focus?

This resonates a lot. I never understood why people in software talk about flow so much. For me completing a challenging task always means oscillating between several pieces of documentation and jumping between various places in the code to understand the interconnections and where the task naturally belongs. There is hardly any flow there, and a lot of decision making.

Then when I want what I'm going to write, it's almost mechanical, I can complete it with various degree of focus, but even when I'm focused, it's definitely closer to "mindfulness" than to "flow" because it lacks challenge - all the challenge was about deciding what and how has to be done.
I'm glad that Copilot is bringing the grey areas of copyright into discussion. If I write a book and it is copyright, what's the smallest unit which is covered by that copyright? Each word is obviously not. Some sentences will be fairly generic and I will not be the first person to write them. But some sentences will be characteristic of the work or my own style. Clearly how we apply copyright to subdivisions of an original work is an open question.
MIT licensed code must still be distributed with a copy of the license.
> People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data.

...what?
Good article. I wonder what improvements/efficiencies would be possible if consumer tastes could be shifted significantly (e.g. through marketing). I'm not thinking about small things like vinyl finishes, but larger shifts like building structures. Example: Could a company like Apple or Tesla make alternative structures like Quonset huts seem modern and fashionable.
All overland passenger transport should be rail. Over the oceans I suppose we should strive for ships and dirigibles.

That said, I find it hard to believe that plane travel can be eradicated for e.g. diplomacy. And frankly, if frequent contract between the powerful different countries is needed to avoid e.g. world wars, it's is worth it.

In the short term, any carbon we can capture needs to go in back in ground and stay there. But once we have good good greenhouse gas levels, much of carbon capture tech can be reused to make biofuels. I guess we can reward ourselves with lots of supersonic air travel then.
Anyone publishing anything on the Internet should expect this type of use case. If it is removed from github and republished via another site, there is absolutely nothing preventing another service/company from doing the exact same thing (or 'worse'... i.e. imagine a learning system that can actually understand the code) when scraping the alternative location. It's not unusual for bots to be among the most frequent visitors to low traffic pages these days and they aren't all just populating search engines.
I get things done with the team I hired. I don’t hire people who can’t do their jobs and question those who hired them.
Portuguese has a lot of interesting stuff going on with nasal consonants. It always strikes me that they go for writing <m> in places other romance languages chose <n>. This also hints that over the history of latin languages, nasal consonants may have been kinda flexible.

I used to look at those topics and think in terms of what is "more like Latin", but at one point I realized... All of them are probably accurately capturing some form of the history of Latin, and there isn't right or wrong.
Am I too old when PS means PostScript to me by default?
No to which part exactly? Nothing in "ends up with a lawsuit if the 2 parties don't agree [...] or can drop the whole thing" suggests CNET can file a lawsuit. Without an agreement the only way to take down the content is a lawsuit.
Hardware getting 100x faster isn't a good reason to make your software 100x slower so that the user-experience feels the same as from 20 years ago.