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People keep on talking about the GPL in these cases, but there’s absolutely nothing whatsoever special about the GPL: any code that is not public domain (or under a public-domain-equivalent license) is equally affected. Any mention of the GPL is a red herring.

Copilot is completely depending on the legal theory of being effectively exempt from copyright, under fair use doctrine; if that legal theory falls apart, the entire space (and a lot of other machine learning stuff) is utterly doomed.

Will it, won’t it, should it, shouldn’t it? Dunno.

(And when people say that it should just say what license the code it generates is under and what attribution or similar is required: Copilot can’t tell whether it’s reproducing copyrightable chunks of code, or indeed where what it produces came from, by the very nature of machine learning techniques. The whole verbatim reproduction issue demonstrates this—they’re trying to avoid such reproductions, which a cynic might say is because it weakens their fair use claim, but it’s not easy to do.)
Therefore, one could easily generate lightning with equal destructive power? Why is it not used yet in war (airplane to ground) or for entertainment (airplane to airplane)?
Okay, so they're showing off the ability for a system to analyze a voice sample and mimic the voice it 'heard' with a reasonable level of fidelity. Intellectually interesting, has some potentially good use cases (IVR call trees, more distinct virtual assistant 'personalities', voice interfaces that seem 'familiar' to dementia patients and the like...)

But they choose to present it in the context of perhaps the most ghoulish use case possible? And not only a use case that's entangled with taboos surrounding death and respect for the dead, but one that's been openly lampooned in popular media franchises like Black Mirror? I'm failing to comprehend why this was the chosen approach. Perhaps because it's controversial enough to distract from the implications for more actively malevolent uses of deepfakery?
And if they win, create a precedence that extends the copyright regime into entirely new domains? That would be a massive self-own. That would be one way to get me to vote for the Pirate Party, I guess.
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I think zig is a little too opinionated.
If Microsoft asserts and represents that their tool doesn’t generate copyright-infringing code, then surely Microsoft is the party which should be liable, rather than the poor unlucky programmer who was lied to by the billion-dollar corporation’s marketing agency?
grug hate magic number, magic string
there was a rare triplet bloom in Chicago but it was closed to the public due to COVID :(

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I regularly use it for a sample of what Google and Bing are intentionally omitting.
I have no idea what I'm talking about, but rust can also be introduced gradually, and async isn't a language feature the kernel will use, actually the kernel will probably not even use the standard library because of how rust assumes it'll never run out of RAM.
Point is that you can ask 100 programmers to write an average function and probably most of them will come up with this answer verbatim. How can copyright law handle this? There is also the opposite problem, I can copy a complicated snippet and change the variable names. Am I absolved from liabilities now?
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The law isn't stupid. This is one of the advantages of having humans in the loop. People can and will say "I know what you are doing, knock it off."
Wouldn't replacing that with a single point of failure be going a bit too far in the other direction? Perhaps three $5 instances?
Yup. And if you have to use the rustc compiler that means you cannot use the rustc compiler from your repositories. Rust changes in forwards incompatible ways so fast that rustc is literally out of date and unable to compile new Rust code in less than 3 months. It's not because Rust is inherently bad, it's just that the type of people who write in rust are bleeding edge types (for now) and have no consideration for forwards compatibility.

They just assume you'll curl | rustup.whatever and install a new version of rustc every month from a third party website like every single Rust guide suggests. That's not optimal for the linux kernel. But maybe kernel dev types won't be as bad as the typical bleeding edge rust dev.

And given that rapid rate of change in Rust, I don't see how GCC can ever keep up. Maybe in 10 years when Rust is more stable.
Pretty much the same problem the military has with their current sniffing around at Starship. Sure, you can deliver 100 tons of cargo to remote Syria in an hour, but then you basically just have to leave the ship there to be buried in the sand. Starships will be cheap, but they're not free.
Rust is mainly introduced to the kernel to allow writing safer drivers, which makes a lot of sense considering a crashing driver likely means a crashing computer.
Which won't matter on SSDs
You'll probably want to checkout https://pyinfra.com/

And also depending on what you're using Ansible for, you may also be able to use Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/
Or a Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones)
I was more thinking about making multiple projects with similar, intentionally vulnerable, code. I personally could see it being feasable, altough, as you said, not efficient.

And yeah, i can see that attack vector (for legal action) through licenses as well.
> I suspect espionage to be a gray area

Espionage is not a gray area. It is one of the core political crimes.

It should be noted, however, that Assange is not a spy. He's a journalist, and the fact that the US government is trying to redefine journalistic activity as espionage is incredibly alarming.
> You’ll notice that none of these graphics contain even a glancing reference to gender

3 of the 4 graphics literally have the gender symbols on them. But I'm sure the author of the article would claim that these symbols represent biological sex, not gender.

> And yet Etsy is home to [...] products [which] celebrate the infliction of various sadistic punishments upon “TERFs.”

Anyone, literally ANYONE who thinks this comparison has the tiniest bit of merit might be interested in googling case numbers of violence against trans people vs. comparable acts of violence against TERFs.

Of course, you can then still argue that both types of hateful content are wrong, and I'd agree with that, but they're definitely not on the same level or even comparable.

> ideologically sympathetic employee

This is, by the way, a dog whistle that means "decent person".

> as there was a change in your business model or your business was considered risky

Welcome to capitalism. Hot news: privately owned companies don't care about your freedom of expression, whether you're spreading transphobic hate or have a podcast about fluffy bunnies. This isn't a problem with any "gender ideology". If transphobia was more accepted, paypal wouldn't think twice about blocking openly trans content creators to avoid upsetting more conservative clients.

> and I have no idea what “risky” means in this context

It means society doesn't like transphobic bullshit and paypal thinks that, on average, it will lose more money by making business with people like this than they'll make. No hard feelings, just good old capitalism screwing over those who aren't profitable enough.

> [...] informed me that any funds not yet withdrawn would be held for 180 days before PayPal would consider releasing them.

This is probably standard practice when they close an account, isn't it? I imagine they'll just keep the money in case it turns out any of it has to be returned. Probably more aimed at scammers and such, but I'm just guessing here. Either way, it definitely isn't nice.

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Overall: I don't like people getting censored like this, but when it happens, I sure don't mind if it hits people like this. Good riddance.
We've known for some time now that the future would be written in Rust. If you do not have a Rust compiler in addition to a C compiler on your system, now is the time to consider installing one.
I think opting out would be quite hard. Due to the nature of copyleft your code can end up in a lot of random projects (which are actually complying with the license) and those projects might not opt out.
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No disrespect intended, but this sounds more foolish than doing it due to being addicted to something!
A cursory search of DDG News & Goggle News reveals "big data" is still a widely used buzzword in headlines. I don't think it went anywhere.
i'm not buying the argument that copilot is infringing copyright. If someone learnt how to program via reading open source projects, you don't get to claim that their future work is derivative.
You could use all the words: "get some from off of your face"
The GPL has teeth. Vendors are routinely sued over infringement. This is why a lot of things like routers and IoT gizmos you buy nowadays come with a notice about your rights under the GPL along with a link to a form to request source code.
I'll bite, name one use case which takes off?
The typical house has 240 volt service in the US (two legs of 120v). I would also say a decent number of homes have 200amp as well
I agree. Considering how WoT fans feel about Brando Sando, this can clearly work.
Of course not, just the code that is produced is all GPL, and under all the other licenses as well.
Who is going to read the manual on an obscure program used in a shell script somewhere? Mostly likely, another dev whose never encountered recutils before, and probably long after the OG developer is gone.

The command itself is a `recsel -e`. Which is not even remotely humorous, unlike, say, `dwarfdump`.
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Anyone got any stories about migrating big, crufty, multiplatform cmake C++ projects to Bazel? "It sucked but was worth it" or "it was surprisingly easy" or "LOL don't even try?"
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A possible response that I'd predict from GitHub would be to attribute much/all of the responsibility to the user.

The argument would be along the lines of: you as the user are the one who asked the eidetic programmer (nice terminology, @bencollier49) to produce code for your project; all we did is make the programmer available to you.
Yeah, good point, of course direct freelancing is always on option. We believe that we provide enough info so that everyone can make a rational economic decision.

For example, the way customers pay is : 1) Customers pay for the developer's salary "en mano", which is specified by the developer, not us, 2) Customers pay for a standard benefits package and taxes (Health insurance, education, equipment etc.) and 3) Customers pay our 15% management fee (charged to the customer, not the developer)

That setup, of course, may not work for everyone, but we do have great companies, companies whose names we would recognize, that feel more comfortable using a US business entity that they can sign contracts with to move specialized equipment, like locked down macbooks, installing special software on work equipment, or specialized local network equipment, etc.. These companies have physical security requirements that makes it tough for them to directly hire freelancers. Thus we bring those kinds of opportunities to our teammates that would be otherwise localized only certain US cities.
Looking at that is giving me a mild dose of trypophobia, even with just one opening.
Check out the new UO Overdrive free server. They recreated that PVP but with a much more modern client and user experience in general which I think is worth checking out if you enjoyed that kind of PVP in those days.
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I use the browser, mainly just to get autocomplete in the address bar.

But, browser bookmark management ranges from barely acceptable to irritating. Never great, or innovative, like some of these services. I wish the browser vendors would adopt some of this stuff.
I had a glorious pair of Brooks running shoes in a really cool pattern that no longer exists. I would have bought those shoes every year or two for the rest of my life if I could.
Is is really stealing when your code is used to change a parameter value from 0.3623727247 to 0.3623727321?
Running the models like this on own computer is already possible with DeepSpeed. I think it even supports training albeit it would be extremely slow.

https://www.deepspeed.ai/
rkt (and many other container solutions) was introduced after docker was released and became popular... they even mentioned docker's shortcomings as a motivation for the project creation [0]. It had all the same problems as other replacement software: there were plenty of bugs and missing features (the announcement mentions "prototype quality release"), documentation was limited, and there are no community to help you. None of those would be fatal if it was significantly better than docker, but it was not -- it had less functionality and needed more scaffolding. So almost no one made the switch. It is closed now [1]

And why "rkt"? There were much better alternative container runtimes. For example Sylabs Singularity [2] -- container-as-a-file, instant mounting, etc... I wish more people knew about it.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20141201181834/https://coreos.co...

[1] https://github.com/rkt/rkt#warning-end-of-project-warning

[2] https://github.com/sylabs/singularity#singularityce
Do you use it? Have you ever used it? How many people making negative comments about it here have actually used it? I don't actually believe many have. I suggest at least trying it out before lighting your torches.

If it infringes everyone equally and everyone equally benefits from the infringement, has a net wrong actually occurred? (which of course begs the "do the ends justify the means" question...)

I don't see how this is any different a form of "infringement" than me copying and pasting snippets of other peoples' code, and then modifying it to suit my particular context, without specific attribution, except that the latter is a much more laborious and time-consuming process than copilot autocomplete, and programming is all about tedium elimination
Why Latam? Which countries do you have operations on?
is 25 lines the limit then? do you count comments? can I codegolf a few lines to get below the limit?
> Grape Nuts. They're next.

Dear God. Never, I hope. There was even a Grape-Nuts shortage in 2020 [0], but thankfully it's over and I think Post understands how much the cereal means to its consumers.

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/03/24/gra...
We store confidential code on Github. How do I know it hasn't been used in CoPilot?
I suppose it might in some cases, especially if the relationship is a romantic one. If it were two friends meeting up for the first time I'd bet they'd be able to maintain the friendship even if there was a bit of a surprise about each other's appearance or actual voice. People do already use voice changers and a huge variety of avatars in VR Chat and other social VR apps so I'm sure this has happened quite a few times.
I've seen plenty of scenarios when a test has also given a false sense of security. It's not actually testing anything important, but looks like it does and should be, but doesn't actually catch defects. This is also a case of no tests being better as at least everyone knows something's untested :/
And really the history of Europe more broadly. If you think Britain had it bad look at the history of just about any of the small eastern and central European countries in particular. I was in some history museum in Budapest, and it's account was basically we got invaded by so and so, and then laid siege to by another so and so, things were pretty good for 50 years, and then a third so and so invaded, etc.
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CoPilot is a new technology, and smallish snippets of code are all it is capable of at this point. Microsoft will surely work to expand its capabilities to produce larger and more complex programs, don’t you think?
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UO had a lot of bugs related to housing:

- Large towers in UO were expensive player owned homes that are narrow at the base, but wider on the higher floors. Some players would place them near water and the widest roof area would hang over the water. At that point in UO you could look inside a container if you were close enough to it (3 tiles?) regardless if it was inside of a building. The game does a check to see if you can remove an item from a container based on walls and other rules, so you couldn't get items out of them, only see their contents. For some reason this can-I-take-item check didn't include the Z axis when over water. My friends and I bought a boat and would sail around for hours looking for towers near the water, sail under their wings and loot them.

- UO had items that were stackable (you could place one on top of another, and they would stack up along the Z axis). For most items that allowed you to pass through them, when you're on the same tile as the item stacked, nothing happens: Your character is standing inside of a stack of shirts for example but doesn't have their own Z axis changed. Early in the game, there was one item that didn't behave like this: fur. Players found that if you stacked fur in a certain way, you could make a ladder that would move your character's Z axis up higher and higher. They would stack enough fur to allow a character to walk on to the roof of houses and fall through to break in.

- When you died in UO you were a ghost. Your screen turned grey and you could walk through doors and other objects, but couldn't interact with anything. When a player resurrects another player, the player being resurrected would get a prompt asking them to confirm. Early in UO, players could walk around with the prompt still on their screen. So! You find a house you wanted to break into, kill yourself, have your friend resurrect you, walk through the front door with the prompt up, once inside, confirm, and you'd be brought back to life inside the house.
Big Data has always been a marketing paradigm. We've always had lots of data we just didn't process it for business intelligence before.

"The advances in computing have made it easier to accomplish tasks that were completely unnecessary before"
Amazon hasn't channeled the dead, but it has developed an inhouse voice deepfake
Crystal pepsi was delicious. Clearly you have some parental neglect issues to work through, because most people know this.
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How much responsibility does Google share for US wrecking Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria?
Make another argument then. There are lots of ways to protect children without limiting the liberty of consenting adults.
Lots of good stuff out there with better content. Hyper Light Drifter for example. That’s not Nintendo specific.

Also Homeworld Mobile.
copyright, such a good thing
... and data leaks are the new oil spills ...
Yes I get the sense that we in IT are definitely one of the minority professions here. I think I migrated over here sometime in the early 2010s when Slashdot was on its way to irrelevance. I have a general interest in innovation, technology, and studied some computer science in school, so the subjects discussed here are of more interest to me than say, /r/sysadmin.

Along the way I've also taught myself a number of programming languages to a crude level of proficiency, which has actually been a force multiplier in my role, even as a non-developer. Increasingly these cloud SaaS apps I am have responsibility for managing include barely any built-in administration tools and functions and instead it is up to you to build your own tools using their API.
so luckily no one owns the idea that you can use both newtons method, and floating point bit-hacking, to produce a good estimate of a square root.
The law is very big on intent. It's one thing if yeah, a corpus is full of copyrighted material, but is used for scientific, potentially humanity-advancement purposes, and completely different thing if it's being used straight for monetization while bypassing copyright holders.

A FOSS license doesn't mean it's all fucking freebies all the way down as any big tech company is quick to remind you (by attaching trademarks all over the place, for example), but if it's a big tech company taking your stuff and running with it, it's suddenly all fair game.

All in all, it's how companies have been behaving since about forever. Fuck little people all the way.
I have kids and I can find 4 hours for an assignment. It's painful but for the right company, I'd do it (I did and I'm glad).

However, if I don't find the ballpark of the salary on Glassdoor, which is information you DON'T control (this is an hint at showing the salary), I won't even consider your company. What's worse than wasting 4 hours and then seeing an offer that's lower than your current pay?
Idk, I think OP indicated that a typical lightning bolt would power a typical house (presumably at the stated nominal full load) for about 15 minutes. I.e., you'd need 4 strikes per hour, per hour. Now granted most houses won't run at peak load all the time, maybe you'd only need one strike per hour per house - but that's still clearly a lot more lightning than is generally seen.
This is true, but I'm fairly certain that the amps of available power are calculated on a 120v basis, a 10 actual-amp washing machine would use 20 accounting amps at maximum power.
Frankly, I'm also a little bit skeptical that the manner in which people who look you are depicted on television is a significant factor in anyone's life, but the point here is that it's an explicitly professed progressive belief. I'm really just asking people to take their own arguments seriously (or don't). You will never hear a progressive dismiss the depiction in media of a minority group the way you've just dismissed depictions of family life.
That's not what Copilot does. It isn't parsing the code, learning what it does, then applying the concept to generate new structurally/functionally similar code.

We like to imagine that's what it's doing, because the utility of what it actually does can have a similar end result.

What Copilot actually does is read every line of code from a project, and keep a dataset built around what code tends to have been written adjacent to what other code.

Copilot's output is literally a translation of the code it was "trained on", using data about that code to do its translations.
I wonder if the code CoPilot outputs is even protected by copyright at all. Would be pretty funny if it weren't, lots of proprietary codebases written using it would actually be public domain.
As a consultant, my executive clients simply aren't helped by phrases such as big data. A big pool of garbage is still garbage. Instead, I've dropped back into the traditional vocabulary of data and analytics, and I talk about statistics and deep learning as a goal, and data engineering as the means.
I've ran Linux (various) for near on 20 years and ran it on hundreds servers for 15. I've only ever hit one such crash for an external piece of custom hardware with a noddy kernel module. Plenty of crashing kernel modules yea.
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I thought the distinction was: "white papers" are not necessarily peer-reviewed by an academic journal's editors; white papers tend to be internally-made documents within an organization, edited by that organization's members, for the purpose of knowledge/information.

Academic papers as a whole can include both "white papers" and "peer-reviewed journal articles" aka the "papers" that many think of. I would surely put a "white paper" onto my resume if I thought it was a great piece of work.
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