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The police exerted considerable effort precisely to prevent it ever going to court. Derek Chauvin would never have seen court without months of protests.

> look to the most charitable interpretation of what happened

This is not a courtesy the police extend to anyone else.

> There is an expectation that the police are the sort of people who could kill someone if the need arises

This is a very serious problem and not an excuse.

> the police don't need to become vigilantes as well.

We're asking the police to investigate, report and submit for prosecution, a crime. If they refuse to do that simply because they're protecting someone they've ceased to be police.
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I miss any discussion about the elephant in the room: On what data does a potential algorithm base its decision? Who puts in that data?

If you know how the algorithm works (and this one must be open source), you can game it by manipulating the data it gets to see (or not) and how the specific wording is.

Can the algorithm generate and ask questions by itself? Again that would be pointless if you know the algorithm - you would know the question beforehand and how exactly a given answer influences the outcome.

This idea cannot ever work until you have a strong general AI (which you can not predict any more and which may have its own biases) and we are as far from a strong general AI as we have ever been.
I am. SpaceX is cool (as is the OP article).

This particular thread of comments is specifically about Mars colonisation.
> Morgan said the episode has made him realize just how embedded Facebook is in his life.

Yes and the reason you should delete.
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I don’t understand how synoptic reading is different from traditional research.

You just read in depth different approaches to the same / similar problem. At some point you build experience and you can classify fast a new publication as good or bs.

The in depth studying of a critical volume of literature is a prerequisite for one to build an understanding of what is worthy and what is trash.
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You can still violate a permissive license by not including a notice and the license text with your project.
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How is this a fringe complaint? The fact that an autocompletion framework is SaaS is an absolute disgrace. Nobody should be okay with using it.
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This is a recognised and effective method after standard approaches have been exausted. It goes by selveral names, though "email executive carpet bomb" is one colourful and memorable term associated with it.

http://consumerist.com/2007/05/11/how-to-launch-an-executive...

I've used this a few times myself. Again, after going through normal channels.

The mode where multiple executives are contacted (and perhaps a member or two of the press CC'd) is particularly effective as it plays off both internal office politics and the bad public relations spillover dynamic.

Remember too that such approaches aren't entirely self-serving. If you are having a specific issue, it's quite likely that many others are as well.

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-contact-executive-customer-ser...
Some comparisons I found interesting..

React,Vue,PHP:
https://techupyourmind.com/trends?about=reactjs,vue.js,php

Kubernetes,Docker:
https://techupyourmind.com/trends?about=kubernetes,docker

Java,Kotlin,Swift:
https://techupyourmind.com/trends?about=java,kotlin,swift

If you have any feedback on the idea of having such a tool, features requests, etc.. please shoot! =)
I'm going to be thrilled if this could push out openrc from certain Linux distros.
I've had many very helpful mentors. But basically all the mentoring boiled down to reminding me not to target more than the specifications and finishing things rather than leaving several things 90% done.
You have to spend your investment at some point. You can't take it with you.
Here's an exceprt from the linked FSF blog article: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-funded-call-for-whit...

Areas of interest
While any topic related to Copilot's effect on free software may be in scope, the following questions are of particular interest:
- Is Copilot's training on public repositories infringing copyright? Is it fair use?
- How likely is the output of Copilot to generate actionable claims of violations on GPL-licensed works?
- How can developers ensure that any code to which they hold the copyright is protected against violations generated by Copilot?
- Is there a way for developers using Copilot to comply with free software licenses like the GPL?
- If Copilot learns from AGPL-covered code, is Copilot infringing the AGPL?
- If Copilot generates code which does give rise to a violation of a free software licensed work, how can this violation be discovered by the copyright holder on the underlying work?
- Is a trained artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) model resulting from machine learning a compiled version of the training data, or is it something else, like source code that users can modify by doing further training?
- Is the Copilot trained AI/ML model copyrighted? If so, who holds that copyright?
- Should ethical advocacy organizations like the FSF argue for change in copyright law relevant to these questions?

While i do believe that the topic is definitely worthy of discussion, my question would be a bit different.

If the tooling is already pretty capable, wouldn't just ignoring all of the ethical questions lead to having a market advantage? Say, some company doesn't necessarily care about how the tool was trained and the implications of that, but just utilize it to have their developers write software at a 1.25x the speed of competition, knowing that noone will ever examine their SaaS codebase and won't care about license compliance. Wouldn't that mean that they'd also be more likely to beat their competition to market? Ergo, wouldn't NOT using Codepilot or tools like Tabnine put most others at a disadvantage?

Personally, i just see that as the logical and unavoidable progression of development tooling, the other issues notwithstanding, very much like IDEs did become commonplace with their refactoring tooling and autocomplete.

I've worked with Visual Studio Code on large Java codebases, as i've also used Eclipse, NetBeans and in the past few years IntelliJ IDEA; with every next tool i found that my productivity increased bunches. Now it's to a point where the IDE suggests not only a variety of fixes for the code itself, but also the tooling, such as installing Maven dependencies, adding new Spring configurations and so on. It would be hard to imagine going back to doing things manually and it feels like in time it'll be very much the same way in regards to the language syntax or looking at documentation for trivial things. After all, i'm paid to solve problems, not sit around and ponder how to initialize some library.
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If you're going to commit a crime on the company expense account, might as well go big.
Usually their criminal clientele are despots and dictators.
Sometimes the megalomaniacs even built a Ritz.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Ritz_(Lisbon)
> Flag wavers think it's all about building giant rockets, planting a flag - and boom. Colony! Asteroid mining! Etc!

Nobody actually interested in space believes this.

> So until that changes

It wont change unless you try to change it.
This Lifehacker article mentions several: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-contact-executive-customer-ser...
I'm not convinced this is the case: Why would you choose lesser tomatoes for this?

I'm more inclined to think that modern "grocery store" tomatoes are generally tomatoes that ship well while still fresh. Anything else means that tomatoes on burgers would not only be seasonal, but regulated to the sorts of places tomatoes can be shipped well from the farms.

I'm not even sure how you eat a good one daily, honestly. I've always lived in places with winter, and the tomatoes tend to lose any worth (cherry tomatoes might save you though). I used to grow or buy decent ones during the summer, but moved further north and that went away.
Wow .. 11,000 tonnes of seawater per tonne of CO2 is indeed huge.

Assuming that the new process stochiometrically generates CaO according to the amount of CO2 taken up from the ocean you'd produce 1.27 tonnes of CaO per tonne of CO2. (molar masses of CO2 and CaO: 44 g/Mol and 56 g/Mol)

Cementa website states [1] an annual output of 2.7 million tonnes of cement.

So in order to produce what is only a portion of Sweden's (a comparatively small country) annual demand for cement, Heimdal's process would require processing of ~ 23 billion tonnes of seawater.

That's 23 billion cubic metres or 23 cubic kilometres per year or ~ 730 litres of seawater per second.

[1]: https://www.cementa.se/en/about-cementa
I'm kind of wondering if this controversy might not end up being a storm in a teacup.

From what I've seen copilot really lowers the barrier to writing buggy code. If indeed it does turn out to be a tool that lends itself to machine gunning rather than shooting yourself in the foot it almost doesnt matter who owns what IP.

The relentless attempts at developer commodification will, of course, continue, but I can already sense this one ending up like the developer outsourcing craze of the mid-2000s that the Economist also got a little too excited about.
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it's not "syncing" yet but https://sharetheboard.com does make it easy to save and send whiteboard content with other people and tools (in real time). one-click integrations are a few weeks off. syncing is just one step after that.
Another problem is making "digital asset" the object of the regulatory restriction, which is so vague that it could include not only anything on the blockchain, but plenty of non-monetary digital items outside the blockchain too.

It should specify digital currencies, because that is the only type of digital asset for which you find comparable regulations in the financial sector.
Why is this safe to say? When does harassment change from "just some employees" to "official eBay sanctioned" (whatever that means). It's people making up eBay, and those people harassing. That makes it harassment by eBay.
Templating is the wrong approach. Component-based approaches where you use polymorphism rather than putting logic in your templates are much better. Look at Wicket for a HTML UI framework done right, IMO.
Yes and in billion years the sun will expand, but we don't bring that up in every discussion.

Its not actually practically relevant and every-time people used it as an argument it has been proven in terms of practical impact.
From a practical persepctive you are indeed correct. In 99.9% of cases - the DMV are effectively a subscription expense you need to pay to use your car.

But they're not actually a subscription to your car; the fees are a subscription to the roads and associated infrastructure, which do need constant upkeep.

If you had a vehicle which was only used off-road (for example, on privately owned racetracks) and was only transported on a trailer then you would not need to register or insure it. For track motorcycles it's even relatively common to buy/sell them used without a title - so $0 fees to the government. Obviously exact laws on this may vary depending on location.
this mostly seems to report about the FSF writing a post, which already had discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27998109 (281 points, 203 comments)
No. In my programs I try to hold John Carmack's advice, that there is no better understandable structure than a large program that you can read from start to end. He is talking about a main game loop, but I found that this advice holds. Nothing beats being able to step the function step by step and see all the variables.
Trying to lay any of this on BLM is bullshit. This is directly tied to the attack on the Capitol by Trump traitors.
How can anyone enter the market quickly with an app that takes crypto as payment, if you have to register as a broker and meet KYC standards? Suppose you want to sell character costumes or start a subscription podcast in crypto, rather than paying royalties to Apple or having payment processing through Visa. Are you going to demand ID verification from all your listeners? It basically makes it so onerous to a startup that no innovation can happen
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This should be read along with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28042185 "Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe". The fundamental question is "should paying tax be optional for rich people?" Large parts of the crypto ecosystem believe that the answer should be "yes". The US government believes the answer should be "no".
> Derek Chauvin would never have seen court without months of protests.

That is an uncertain counterfactual. There was widespread horror at the video. Since he was in fact prosecuted and convicted quite convincingly it obviously wan't impossible.

> [police being mentally prepared to kill] is a very serious problem...

It is expected. That is part of their role in society. Otherwise it'll be necessary to get the army involved in policing crimes.
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What language and framework will you use? I’m thinking node so people could install a module for their religion from npm and then update automatically. That would handle dependencies too, like Christian depends on Bible, etc. Atheist is a placeholder module with no dependencies.
> the Russians did a much better job in recent decades

The they didn't. What nonsense. They just keep flying the same old stuff as the quality gets worse and they don't do anything new.
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Exactly how were they targeted by BLM?
> With a full license plate number in hand from David’s pictures, the Natick police quickly started to unravel the conspiracy.

> eBay’s team knew it was in trouble, according to their own messages

"Ah yes let's stalk these people and just hope they don't decide to take down the license plate." I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people doing awful things have an awful plan, but that's pretty dumb.
Funny, however: a newspaper that learns about what you like and can infinitely supply the most engaging material is not the same as a newspaper that doesn't.
Yeah, not bad, though it's a bit too individually centered for my taste, and just a bit exaggerated (like there were no digital cameras before smartphones). I'd add:

"I bought solid products and I expected them to last more than a couple years. I didn't hear my friends say that for the environment, they changed their fridge only every 2 years and a half. I didn't like all the advertising in the street or on TV, but at least I was in peace at home. I could listen for a CD in my living room peacefully, without an add in between each song or even in the middle. I had heard about kids working in African mines, but what could I do about it? I didn't have an object in my pocket that has a direct impact on them, as well as on the pollution of my county's main river because of the chip manufacture. It's not that I absolutely need this object, it's that it is very convenient (and everybody has one anyways, and they make fun of me if I don't)."

Please a good writer make it sound more friendly :)
Repairs in space with humans never actually make sense. For the price of those missions you could have simply built a better sat in the first place.
You can deduce the number of required infections by taking an IFR and the given total deaths of 613000.

IFR: 0.15 = 613000 * 1 / 0.0015 = 408 million infections (124% population)

IFR: 0.3 = 613000 * 1 / 0.003 = 204 million infections (62% population)

IFR: 0.6 = 613000 * 1 / 0.006 = 102 million infections (31% population)

So in case of the lower IFR would implicate there must be many reinfections. And those reinfections are still deadly. It would imply immunity isn't long-lasting. So best to keep routinely boosting your immunity through vaccines. This would probably be the least favorable scenario.

In the case of the higher IFR would implicate there's still some herd immunity to go. It also implicates infections are more deadly. So better boost herd immunity by getting the vaccine. This would actually be the more favorable scenario if we're going to be able to beat Covid.
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> Linux is the dominant gaming platform.

Given that the article is obviously talking about Desktop Linux, since you can run Proton exclusively on Linux distros (and not Android) the statistics says 96% on Windows and 1% on Linux.

So how is Linux itself a 'dominant gaming platform' here when it is obviously Windows again? It's always cute to see lots of denial of the results here.
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>> We already know that Copilot as it stands is unacceptable and unjust, from our perspective. It requires running software that is not free/libre (Visual Studio, or parts of Visual Studio Code), and Copilot is Service as a Software Substitute.

So they dont know / not sure of the question of GPL usage in copilot. But they have a problem with SaaS and product that are not open sourced?
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>Only that there is no reason to believe that there is one.

That would be agnosticism. Atheists claim there is definitely no god.
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You say you are not sure it is backed up by reality, but you're not giving any new evidence to support your claim. Meanwhile the history of the US is absolutely chock-full of examples of this type of employee abuse, especially during the original dawn of unions (where "war" would honestly be a better word than abuse).
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They don't really have any competitors in the market space Quest targets though.
One startup cannot solve all the problems right?

Also I like solutions that don't rely on people changing their habits, because they are most likely to work.

The alternative to tobacco is no cigars or cigarettes, the alternative to cement is not simply no buildings, no railways, no roads, no infrastructure.
Technically you can (in that you won't usually get an error), but the result is not what you would want: each byte only gets delivered to one of the readers, in a somewhat unpredictable manner, either mangling the data or starving one of the readers
Morally, I hope the FSF wins.

Otherwise, I hope copilot makes it big. It'll create a new generation of developers that are dependent on these tools to do their work. Also it'll lower the barrier for non-software engineers to participate in writing code. SO copy pasting on steroids.

The resulting mediocre spaghetti will break at record-breaking rates; cleaning up the mess will be highly lucrative!
"Reform" has been the policy for decades now, and meanwhile the situation has been steadily and rapidly getting worse.

The whole point of "defund" is that "reform" has failed. Something more drastic is needed.
Could easily be both, compounded with personal problems. Who really knows. Sad state of affairs either way.
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The problems is other who are standing on the same shoulder of the same giants, even the original giants themselves fail to turn this theoretical advantage into actually being

> better/faster/cheaper than everything

So do talking down SpaceX based on that makes no sense.
Hardly any different than hunting down for ?: on C derived languages, clever uses of LINQ inspired expressions, or why a bunch of ([{((}]]) distributed across function call, if, else, while expressions aren't nesting properly.