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> I cannot speak for the rest of the community that have been hurt by this project, but for my part, I would be okay with not pursuing the answers to any of these questions with you in court if you agreed to resolve these problems now.

I mean... has anyone really been "hurt" by Copilot?

Copying from another thread... The concept of intellectual property exists to incentivize creating valuable art/literature/code. In theory at least, we agree to uphold IP laws because we recognize that more value gets created when they're a state enforced monopoly on the person who came up with that piece of art/literature/code.

But we also recognize that sometimes these laws go too far; eg that there are patent trolls and corporations fighting public domain and game publishers going after anyone who makes a let's-play of their video.

In those case, it's reasonable to think the world would be better off if we all shrugged and told the IP holders "too bad, someone else is going to create value off your work and you're not going to get a cent from it, we just think it's not worth building and maintaining a nightmare bureaucracy just so you can tax them".

And from that point of view... Copilot is fine? It's not like the people posting code on Github or StackOverflow were thinking "I'm only doing this because I know a future AI 10 years from now won't scrap the code I wrote to train a neural network to create a code completion engine". Yeah, yeah, this breaks the spirit of the GPL and Stallman's vision, etc, etc.

But... I mean, at some point, you got to stop debating semantics and wonder what we're coding for. What Microsoft has created is a tool that can collectively save developers billions of man-hours. It's a net good for humanity. As far as I'm concerned, the fact that this net good was developed is infinitely more important than the fact that Microsoft didn't pay royalties to a nebulous amount of developers who wouldn't have noticed anything if Microsoft hadn't developed Copilot.

tldr MIT license is great, piracy is great, fanfiction is great, screw the very concept of intellectual property.
Critiquing the Cultural Revolution has been acceptable since 1981 when Deng published/authorized the party's second "Resolution on History," which laid out officially that there were "excesses" during the Cultural Revolution, and that they were primarily Mao's fault.

This is in line with a lot of Chinese/Communist political thought in general - the Party is never wrong. If the Party endorsed what is later viewed as a "wrong action," then it must be the fault of an individual who erred or was corrupted in some way.
Yeah, tbh I know it's not particularly healthy, but before I was just going to the bar every damn night to stave away boredom.
'jcranmer gave a good summary, but to add one or two more points:

* It's very difficult to predict allocation patterns in C++ (even modern variants) from just the source code. An innocent looking object allocated on the stack might have a nontrivial constructor with all kinds of side effects. Rust, while being slightly less explicit than C, is much more explicit than C++.

* Modern C++ doesn't actually play that nicely with C. C++'s aliasing rules and casting rules keep getting more and more strict, whereas kernel programming lends itself to a lot of "bag-of-bytes-to-struct"-style programming. It would be very unfortunate if adding a C++ compiler to the kernel's build broke pre-existing C code by detecting UB in the context of C++ and decided to simply erase it.
If you buy it from a store they have THC %s listed on the container. Knowing vodka was more potent is a learned behavior and there’s an entire culture that propagates that knowledge. The same can happen for weed.
There were already several cases (over the last couple of decades) in Germany where the GPL was part of the proceedings.

They understood the license just fine back then
Airflow uses it for task ordering within a DAG, but that's used in the parsing step that happens before/outside of any actual task execution so it's not really in the source code of tasks at least.
I agree. The inconsistency is like a text-based speed bump slowing my progress thru the paragraph and, like a physical speed bump, forcing me to look around to try to determine why the bump was necessary.
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My wife worked for Darden Restarurants for awhile and corporate training materials always referred to customers as "guests", too.

On one level I suppose it's just silly terminology, but it grates with me. I guess it's supposed to imply some kind of familiar relationship, free of the gauche trappings of economics. To me a customer demands more attention than a "guest".

It shocks me how many people don't recognize that their employer wouldn't exist if not for customers. That should be front-and-center in the minds of anyone working for a for-profit entity. I don't think there's anything gauche about economics.
Keyword: deemed.
There's also https://historio.us/ - it's essentially same as what OP is doing but it's as easy as bookmarking
I don't think anyone is saying that humanity is close to AGI, but check out DeepMind's Gato work for a more well-rounded agent:

https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent
> Wasn't Tolkien also butt-hurt by the decline of the British Empire?

In typical Russian apologist style (as evident by your comments), you resort to whataboutism, even without actually checking your accusations. Tolkien was conservative, but he was an anti-imperialist.

"I love England not Great Britain and certainly not the British Commonwealth" – Letter 53 – December 1943

"I know nothing about British or American imperialism in the Far East that does not fill me with regret and disgust.” – Letter 100 – May 1945

https://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/tolkien-and-...
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I've always done the same. As you say, it does have to be something very familiar. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy original radio series more often than not, for me. I've tried purpose created material, like This Book Will Send You to Sleep on Audible, but it was too interesting.

I've never tried with a Bluetooth headphone but have always used a wired one, with one line cut off a the Y junction to help avoid tangling. Sometimes have to use a player which supports sending stereo as mono, otherwise you often only get one side of the dialog in dramatisations, like Hitchhiker's.
It was an experiment in utopian capitalism between the post civil war era and the the beginning of the Great Depression (which if you notice is when most of those worker crackdowns occurred). A feature of democracy that is separate from the economic system is that you can have peaceful revolutions which is what occurred when FDR gained power and implemented the socialist policies of The New Deal.

I’ll grant you that’s still several decades of utopian capitalism before it collapsed which is significantly better than what people might assume if they are only familiar with recent experiments like grafton nh
I believe what the parent is getting at isn't that the sample size for Julia is too small to conclude anything, it's that the differences in sample size between Python and Julia reflect differences in sizes of the total user base. That means Python is more likely to be used by people who have no other choice, whereas more Julia users are using it because they like it. If Julia grew to be as popular as Python, it might no longer be loved by as large a proportion of its users.
A “dieter” mindset rarely leads to sustained weight loss because they rarely last 3 years.

Too many people go on a diet when they should really be changing their diet.
You've named three people, and some YouTube videos.

On the other side, the FSB has deported 1.3 million innocent Ukrainian civilians to concentration camps. (number is from official Russian sources)
Yeah, and Q-Tips weren't meant to go in your ear, but we do it anyway. Modern smart phones are built to run applications - they're built with a CPU, RAM, and storage, just like your desktop. The only thing special about them is the integration of the cellular phone radio/modem into the main chip. Doesn't matter what they were or weren't "meant for", it matters what they _are_. Smart phones, nowadays, are essentially general-purpose ARM computers with really good power management.
> id say its fairly normal to at least answer slack between 700am and 9pm

Uh...it really isn't.

Unless your job requires being on-call, such as IT, incident response, or site reliability, you shouldn't be getting Slack messages that late. There's no reason a software engineer should be responding to messages 14 hours/day.
> So to that point, your doom & gloom absolutist scenario could not play out if the product of the model was sufficiently different.

It would absolutely play out, because it is impossible to guarantee that such a model will always produce something "sufficiently different". These models are black boxes with billions of parameters. That's how they work. It's just as unrealistic as those politicians pushing through "lawful access to encrypted data" that'd effectively make strong end-to-end encryption illegal. There's no middle ground here. We either accept that such a model might sometimes output a snippet from its training data and benefit from the 99% of times it doesn't, or we can be copyright maximalists and ensure no one benefits. (Except ironically huge corporations like Microsoft, either because they can license the data for training, or because they have sufficiently well funded legal departments.)

> Now imagine you're a not-Google sized company, are you going to take the chance that Copilot will spit out something that they consider copyrighted?
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> I think in terms of legal/business risk, it's just too high as it stands now.

This is a fair point, but you can say this about any other interesting model. Is that piece of text generated by GPT-NeoX-20B (which is a fully free and open model trained by essentially hobbyists) illegal to use because it might infringe on someone else's copyright? You don't know. And it was also trained on code from Github. Where are the posts calling for people to sue their authors because they're not respecting the GPL?

Here, I've just tried it and screenshoted it for you, spitting out GPL'd code: https://i.imgur.com/2T4uSJR.png

Again, this is not the Copilot. This is the free GPT-NeoX-20B model that anyone can download. The model's not under GPL, and yet it clearly "contains" GPL'd code. Anything which affects Copilot's legal status will also affect GPT-NeoX-20B, but even more severely since GPT-NeoX was also trained on a ton of "all rights reserved" data. So when you raise your pitchfork at Copilot you should also ask yourself the question - are you fine with also killing projects such as GPT-NeoX, or maybe a more lax copyright law is more beneficial to the society as a whole when it comes to machine learning?
The mantra "Simpsons is bad from 13 season", or "from 15 season", or "all after 19 season is garbage", or "the last good season was 23" is just something that people repeat like a parrot moving the date of the season around to fit their time interval experience.

Many people blame the Simpsons, when what really happened is that they grow

They remember how funny Simpsons were in the past. A past that in fact is highly idealized in their minds. They forget that 70% of the jokes flied totally under their radar at that age, and that understanding the double meanings and finding the hidden twisted messages about how the society works was a lot of the fun.

Discoveries are more interesting when you are innocent. To see somebody slip and get hurt in the workplace is not so funny when that person could be you and experience a real workplace. School jokes are more funny when you are at the school and can use that information.
I'd like to see staff training for major outages in retail like this.

For example, if the shop loses power, do they have the ability to sell goods still?

One approach is to let staff members estimate the value of goods - for example at the register, the staff member looks at the cart contents, estimates that it's about $120 worth of goods, charges the customer $120, and hand writes a receipt saying "$120 of goods sold, Date, store name, signature". The staff member then uses a phone to photograph the cart and the receipt.

At the end of the shift, the shaff member drops all the photos into a big store wide Dropbox account, that the accounts department can use to pay taxes.

You'd probably want to practice this process ahead of time with every staff member.

I imagine it might actually be a good process to use on very busy days too - it is probably quicker than scanning every item at the register.
I use Pinboard - and I always tag my bookmarks. Then I usually never look at them again.
If they had a reasonable basis for believing they had a license they're in the clear. "I didn't know" might not be enough but "I had good reasons to think otherwise" is.
To add a voice of skepticism. The recent rush to open source these models may be indicative that the tens of millions that’s spent training these things has relatively poor roi. There may be a hope that someone else figures out how to make these commercially useful.
Again: these are engineering details, not people; they aren't "arrogant". There is lesser engineering and there is better engineering. As someone who does quite a bit of work with iptables and who has used ACL systems like Tailscale's, I can tell you right off the bat that Tailscale's system is better, and if you have the option of using one or the other --- there are good reasons you might not be able to --- you should use something like Tailscale's, which is identity-aware, testable, dynamic, and simple. Obviously, if you're not using Tailscale at all, this is a moot point, for many reasons, including the fact that if you're not using Tailscale, you don't have to think about how it interacts with your iptables rules.

I'm not making a value judgement about people who need to keep using iptables. I might be making a value judgement about people who demand that everyone else keep using iptables.
Why are there 10,000 startups who got their GPT3 keys and immediately decided that they would add some kind of unique value by turning a hello-world demo into a startup.

Great - you bring GPT3 DaVinci to Google Docs. Or Chrome. Or whatever.

You think this hasn't occurred to Google. Or that your prompt engineering is beyond Google? (In reality they're waiting for their own model, or trying to negotiate a large-scale deal as Microsoft did.)

"Extend a popular application of your choice to support GPT3" is likely already on curriculum everywhere for people learning to code.

There's no value-add being one of 1,000 people implementing the most-obvious use case when an API gets released to the world at the exact same time.

And clearly in 2 years time this is wrapped directly by Google & provided by OpenAI directly & also will be a very popular beginner code tutorial project.
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> I think your scenario reflects the main benefit of no-code, to let business users fix their own requirements.

wvenable stated that the no code solution was so complicated even the developers could not make sense of it, how does a business user with no development knowledge make sense of it? If the code is in pictograms instead of words I don't think that makes it any easier on the non developer to be honest with you.

I see this being cited a lot but I know from experience the business types like the idea of them being able to do everything themselves, but they won't actually do it.

My business users insist that every part of their site be editable in the CMS which we give them access to, a manual and training explaining how to use it, after 6 years not one of them have ever used the CMS, at most they will login to test I haven't cheated them on the CMS functionality.

They all just phone me and ask me to post a news item or change contact details etc because "I don't understand all that technical stuff" its literally a text box and a save button. I don't see them getting over their fear of technical stuff and getting their hands dirty because its pictures instead of words.
That's fine, and that's a metric that's worth considering, but you're not talking about the same kind of efficiency arcticbull was talking about. When someone says that "a solar panel is 20% efficient" what they mean is that, of the energy contained in the light that hits it, 20% of it is converted into electricity and the rest is converted into waste heat stored in the panel. Yes, if the panel hadn't been there 100% of that energy would have gone unused, but that's a different discussion. It doesn't make what arcticbull said false. Optimistically a new solar panel is 20% efficient, and that efficiency becomes worse with age.
Let MS buy BlackDuck scanner and integrate in to GitHub/CoPilot. They could then suggest code and also scan it for any license violations, and give you both sides of the equation in the same tool.
I was simply pointing out that your absolute statement that it’s “a systemic toxin” has holes in it since there are valid medical uses.

I wasn’t claiming that nicotine use is appropriate for kids, although there are likely medical uses of small doses to provide sensory gating, and it’s also not at all uncommon for wizened psych nurses to tacitly encourage schizophrenics to smoke/vape since it can provide such a rapid self-administered de-escalation of symptoms. In cases like that and many which are less dramatic than full blown schizophrenia, it’s definitely preferable that vapes are more or as accessible than cigarettes.

More to the point, most people use some sort of psychoactive drugs from time to time as methods of changing state or mood, and all have preferences for some over others. All too often we assume that other neurotypes don’t exist and that everyone else should be fine with our own preferred mixes of caffeine, alcohol, cannabis, research chemicals, plant medicines, etc.. Recognizing that if your own preferences are valid, that it’s likely others are too is a good forward step, and it’s arguable that vapes are less addictive and far less harmful than smoking, and are a win from a harm reduction perspective.

We made a huge shift as a society from nicotine-dominant workforces to caffeine-dominant workforces. There’s no indication that the availability of vaping products is reversing that secular trend in any meaningful way.
Personally I find edibles ideal. I love the 1-2 hour come up. I love knowing exactly how much I'm taking and what I'm getting myself into.

With any form of smoking or vaping I have no idea how high I'm going to get. I hate the smoke, the coughing, the throat burning and just about everything else. I also hate going from sober to high in less that a minute, the come up is my favorite part.

I'm not trying to discount your opinion at all. I just found it fascinating to have such polar opposite experiences with the same thing. I also assumed smoking was so popular just because it was the only convenient way to use when it was illegal. Now that it's legal I just assumed most have formed a habit they haven't really considered or realized.

EDIT: Also just for context, my range varies from 3mg - 15mg depending on if I'm going for a little buzz or completely stoned
> Should we make video games illegal

Didn't China do almost exactly that?
I can't even imagine what that means. How do stock photos work in France?
The headline suggests that the findings are generally applicable and that the weight loss comes simply from sleeping more than 6.5 hours per night. The study -- which is a great study -- demonstrates neither of those things.

The study has no demonstrated applicability to:

* older adults

* teenagers or children

* BMI obese individuals

* BMI normal/underweight individuals

* people who already sleep more than 6.5 hours per night

* people who sleep longer without being counseled in sleep hygiene as performed by the clinicians -- which presumably involves a comprehensive set of sleep guidelines and possibly even personalized assignment of guidelines and other forms of coaching

Do you think most people reading the headline or even the article would recognize that? Do you think most commenters did?
Historically, the answer to that was "yeah totally." But folks have put a lot of work into getting clang to build the kernel, and IIRC Google has been building their Android kernels with clang for a few years now.

~~It's not~~ (see below) It wasn't supported directly by upstream, and in fact historically was pretty much the opposite: the intention was to not care about portability between compilers at all.
Agreed. This is one of the most transit dense areas of ny and the country. The amount of available street parking was minuscule compared to the amount of people walking/biking/transiting on 14th.
It’s kind of hard. As some one that used to smoke a lot but only smokes maybe once a year at this point, I have to put impossibly small amounts of pot in my bowl and it still gets me very high.
Top 10 as per [1]:

Rust 87%
Elixir 75%
Clojure 75%
TypeScript 73%
Julia 73%
Python 67%
Delphi 66%
Go 65%
SQL 64%
C# 63%

[1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-loved-dre...

It may be just me, but both the list and the ranking are really weird. Not just apples to oranges, more like apples to toilet paper.
Still no built-in index on the fly for larger numbers of records? linear search doesn't fly with >5.000 records, it's not even sorted on the fly for logarithmic search.
Yup, TerminusDB has a very similar set of capabilities, just for a graph DB instead of SQL / relational. Very cool product if you're in the market for a graph DB.
What does "inspired" mean in the context of a computer program?
I feel like you are omitting the fact that smoking causes cancer.
I think most people, including the person you replied to would agree with this. The key is that people shouldn’t be required to have a car to go everywhere.

By increasing density in some places, we would decrease density in other places, allowing people to have a choice in how they want to live. But in huge swaths of America, there is basically no diversity in density. You literally can’t live somewhere that’s walkable or bike-able to grocery stores and restaurants, and you can’t live somewhere that’s more rural than a suburb (because it’s all suburbs).

Even in non-cities I’ve lived in places where it’s perfectly fine to walk or bike to do my daily chores, but to have a car for longer trips. But if the only options are a Walmart 10 miles away, and a Home Depot 15 miles away from the Walmart, it’s just not possible.
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I considered making one but didn't really feel it was worth it; in fact, there's a bit of a catch-22 in that Julia folks seem to have accumulated a reputation of "not being able to take criticism", so I think most folks in the community just decided to take it this time. That said, if there's popular demand for a "rebuttal" of sorts I would be happy to come up with one after I get a few more things off my desk (among I'm sure many others who may be more qualified).

I think it's safe to say that Julia has a notable ability to polarize people -- you tend to either love it or hate it. Personally, I can hardly even imagine using anything else at this point.
1) Most likely

2) TBD

3) Not likely. Worst case a judgement will go against them, they'll effectively pay a fine and then they'll retrain it on a more restricted set of source code.

4) OSS has a pretty tragic history re: enforcement. It wins nearly every skirmish but has no interest in the war so from a big picture standpoint, it loses due to apathy.
It’s a terrible anxiety medicine as probably the most common side effect is anxiety.
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