skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a supporter of Copilot, but I think it's pretty easy to access the same data through BigQuery:

>The Google BigQuery Public Datasets program now offers a full snapshot of the content of more than 2.8 million open source GitHub repositories in BigQuery. Thanks to our new collaboration with GitHub, you'll have access to analyze the source code of almost 2 billion files with a simple (or complex) SQL query.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-datasets/github-...
FWIW re the mangling: According to foone, the reason they blank out the name is to avoid it showing up on searches for the game (automated or otherwise), which they say has led to a subset of fans of the game sending them transphobic comments because of the past drama and the presence of a trans flag on their twitter page.

But as you say, people can do what they like.
And the EU will continue to fall farther and farther behind in software development.
> "look I prompted CoPilot for this piece of code that I already knew about and it spit it right out"

https://twitter.com/docsparse/status/1581461734665367554

An english description plus three characters of a function name is enough to coax CoPilot into distributing LGPL-licensed code out of context, without a proper license. That's neither "emotional" nor "cherry-picked", it's a clear-cut license violation.
But if the terms of service says nothing that is in contravention of your licence choice when you agree to them, then the service does something that you consider to be in contravention of your licence choice, what you have is one party unilaterally changing the agreement. Of course the exact legal meaning of the terms and any perceived change in them could and will be debated long, hard, and potentially expensively…

I'll stick to self-hosting instead of using services like GH. Keeps things a little more simple in that regard.
I think you're significantly overstating his impact on the fashion world.
This is a heretical idea in some circles. Utter it and expect to be ostracized. In my case it’s cost a few job offers when I’ve suggested that a few python processes running under supervisor (e.g.) would be more than sufficient. It has its place but that point lies at a stage of development and sophistication far beyond where most cargo-cult users are currently.
The poor, I can understand, when they don't have bank accounts.

But the elderly? If you're receiving social security checks and paying utility bills, surely you have a bank account and a debit card?

> The elderly are less able to manage cashless payment methods, especially without transition support. If local authorities or utility companies do not support cash...

Since when have utility companies ever accepted cash? The elderly have spent their whole lives paying utilities by check. And they've been using ATM cards for decades. If they can use an ATM card they can use a debit card, since they're the same card.

This article throws "elderly" into the headline but gives zero actual evidence for that group.
Markdown for low-level detailed stuff, Trello for higher-level more abstract items
I think that’s true and a more casual setting may prevail. Sometimes a part of the restaurant experience is being served and when done well can make for an exceptional experience. I can see myself consuming both depending on time, place and mood.
This financially illiterate meme needs to die. It's like MLM scammers saying 'well all companies are structured like a pyramid'

There's a massive difference between "we issue a token which has purchasing power because people are legally required to obtain it to pay their debts and taxes. Its purchasing power is allowed to slowly diminish over time, but it will continue to be demanded because people need it to meet obligations" and "we issue a token and lie that it's worth a dollar because it's backed by an equivalent quantity of dollars. Its purchasing power will collapse at the time we stop redeeming them for dollars, whether that's because we run out, get arrested or move on to the next grift with lots of un-redeemed dollars in our pockets"
Whilst single hop proxies are great at stopping IP level tracking, they are just that: single hop. They can be trivially torn apart to uncover the real person behind it, much like a VPN.

Multi hop makes it more difficult. You could chain a bunch of proxies together to make trivial correlation attacks much harder, just like Tor does.

As for Apple's private relay: it's a cute idea, but Apple has other telemetry endpoints it can use to see what you're doing on a device. Whilst private relay does the job, you are surveilled in other ways by Apple, so it's really a marketing ploy and 'privacy washing' on the part of Apple.

Then there's extreme steps you can take like booting a Whonix workstation coupled with a gateway if your threat model requires it and you really don't want to be decloaked.

Most are happy buying a few SOCKS5 proxies and calling it a day. You can mess with AD tech by regularly changing your IP and surfing in isolated sessions to stop cookies correlating your old IP with your new IP.
I'm not going to reliably charge my phone. I dont care about my phone. They're terrible devices that do everything they do badly except call and text. I'd much rather have a wallet and keys and paper boarding passes.
That’s the problem with big tech. When they own all the roads, it makes organic competition almost impossible, as they will always be 2 steps ahead.
Counterargument: it could be that recent detections of UFOS are just more likely at these installations as that's where our best sensors are (our best ships and aircraft) most often, in other words there are other hotspots of activity but we don't have military sensors in those areas 24/7.

But if a civilian group pushed on this, we'd at least find out where the limits are before gov/military stopping it. Actually, UAPx went and tried to record with sensors off Catalina but I believe only for a week. Loeb's Galileo Project will likely place optical sensors near these hotspots but haven't seen any mention by them of sonar or acoustic monitoring.
I agree. Any law that's only clear after a court ruling is, de facto, an ex post facto law. Disgusting.
There are accessible code datasets that contain massive scrapes of Github.
It definitely does violate licenses -- this is true EVEN WHEN the repo they pulled it from is the original violator.
Though knowing what an assembler is didn't translate to easily getting one.

I used an interactive instruction-at-a-time assembler inside the Apple II+ ROM. This was a small level above entering hex. MS-DOS had a similar facility in DEBUG.COM.

Eventually I got my hands on a copy of Randy Hyde's LISA (Laser-Systems Interactive Symbolic Assembler), and was able to make larger, more complex programs.
Bingo, I feel so uneasy at the thought we could risk a lawsuit because a colleague put unlicensed code in our repos.
The actual report:

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/economic...

The sub scores on which the US has lower ratings are “size of government” and “freedom to trade internationally”.
The argument is along the lines of John Rawl's theory of justice: I would prefer to work at a company where the culture is such that I feel comfortable joining it regardless of my place in the org structure. (Or at least -- the company where I would feel least uncomfortable doing so.)

A democracy would certainly give a company a huge advantage. I would take a significant pay cut for that. But it does have to produce tasty soup as well, and in order to exist at all, pay salaries.

I'll be candid in saying that I haven't found a company that meets my high expectations. :)
> What do people think the future looks like where publicly available resources on the Internet (art, code, etc) aren't fair use for training ML models?

A better future to me. I don't want pictures of my face training ML models, nor do I want my art, or my code. I don't want my face to be more recognizable to AI, and I don't want my work to contribute to the consolidation of power to a few big firms. And for what, what can ML models even bring me besides surveillance? Cool art? Text-to-speech?
But you can lock down that egress for your cameras. Why does your camera need to establish any outbound stream at all? Might want to keep an eye on that...
See my notes in https://dercuano.github.io/topics/energy.html about this and related topics. The note https://dercuano.github.io/notes/solar-economics.html predicts energy optimism 14 years ago, including a lot of the details about how it's happening.
Sweden did an investigation. We can wait for them or we can engage in baseless speculation like Jeffrey Sachs in this article who "bets" it was the U.S. I don't care for Jeffrey Sachs, but nobody cares that I don't care for Jeffrey Sachs. Why is it so hard to say "we don't know" at this point?
This is definitely not true. When your license requires you bundle said license with any reproductions of the code, and Copilot spits out said code sans license, they are breaking the law.
I personally expect the law to end up with a "safe harbor"-like situation. Consider YouTube. Occasional copyrighted content does not make YouTube illegal, or able to be held liable for slip-ups. See the DMCA as well, which requires takedowns upon notice, but otherwise provides near total indemnity for user-generated content.

Because of this, if the law looks at GitHub Copilot, I would expect that they would find Copilot to be A-OK despite the occasional regurgitation of copyrighted material that isn't fair-use, as long as it is removed upon request.
In a less corporate greed light: give person X coupons and discounts to healthier restaurants and change their behavior, if they choose to.

But don’t “punish” them w/higher rates as some people would view that as some sort of discrimination.
That's correct! But federal income tax isn't the only way to get taxed.

1) All goods sold in PR have to pass by mainland US ports, raising living costs significantly. This means re-boarding into a US vessel on the mainland, then sailing to PR if coming internationally.

2) We pay other federal taxes (as freelancer, I pay social security tax among others).

3) Related to #1, customs taxes and levies on all goods transported, paid to the US Treasury.

This is an excellent overview:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Puerto_Rico
I'd be with you if these devices weren't hundreds of dollars with obsolescence lifetime treadmills measured in the ones of years and bound to a duopoly of corporate-controlled ecosystems that require opting in to onerous contract terms.

Just a few of those factors might not be so bad but with all of them it could become impossible to do legally-required things like buying car insurance without being effectively legally required to look at Google ads. Or renewing your passport without agreeing to a software EULA that forbids you from ever suing Apple for leaking your private data. All of this "it's just opting in to societal progress" crap is why Experian even ever had your data to leak[1] it in the first place, and why Google and Braze and every other tech company has it too.

0: https://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
1: https://threatpost.com/experian-api-leaks-american-credit-sc...
Yunohost.org has a lot of applications that you can run on your own VPS and it has several applications that you might find useful: https://yunohost.org/en/apps.
A brief dispute over contract terms is not the adversity his stans make it out to be.
well if we are delving into pedantry, natural language is spoken; we learn our native language as pre-literate children and we already have our vocabulary stored in our brains with phonetic features way before we learn to read and write. Orthography is thus but a facsimile of our language.

We exchange and learn new words primarily by hearing them, and I'll bet "drop the mike" was first uttered out loud by a comedian/entertainer type, and to say that it even had a spelling is an unjustified leap.
Nice to see an ambitious project like this trying to do something a bit different.
some things have those expire based on time. Off the top of my head NYC area passenger rail on Long Island Rail Road and Metro North have that for electronic tickets.
Calling something elderly discrimination is the most universal way to gain support, everyone either is, or plans to be, old.
> Pretty much same argument could be said against checklists

No, the same argument most certainly cannot be made against useful patient safety tools like simple checklists. Not only are they useful, they are simple and integrate seamlessly with pretty much any workflow without obstructing them.

Meanwhile poorly designed software can go so far as to actively impede the work being done which I have no doubt is the case of the software described above and its micromanagement of nurse's work.
I'm afraid I couldn't make that argument with a straight face.

I would recommend that you go with something like Hugo[1], throw it on an S3(-compatible) bucket and be done with it.[2]

[1] https://gohugo.io/

[2] This is what I have been doing for my personal blog and for my wife's professional website for many years and I am very content with it
Harms small businesses for obvious reasons.
Medical staff don't like Epic because it's the kind of software that's sold to administrators, but used by providers. Guess who has the most sway in things like what features are included and how much effort gets invested into making the UX good?
> - It's still unclear exactly why both occurred. Supposedly it's antisemitism, but he also just wore a "white lives matter" shirt

Ye saying he's "going to go defcon 3 on the Jews" is absolutely antisemitic and absolutely why he got restricted on Twitter. [0] That's the tweet that was received moderation, and its subject matter is very clear. I don't see how one could be unclear of why that got removed or unclear that's it's antisemitic.

Wearing a shirt doesn't magical erase one's behavior. "White lives matter," "All lives matter", it does not matter; what a shirt says won't make his antisemitic comments not antisemitic. Kinda like staring a sentence "I'm not a racist but..." doesn't make whatever racist comment that follows not racist.

As an aside him wearing the shirt isn't in support of Jews or white lives, it's him being funny/ironic. Read your own source. When you have a "<minority> lives matter" it's about speaking up for an un/under-represented group. White lives matter is a joke, as they are the majority. To paraphrase your source, it's funny because it's a black man stating the obvious.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/09/entertainment/kanye-west-twit...
The social graph itself should perform moderation rather than having a single all-powerful centralized censor.
If you're against Copilot as developer, you're shooting yourself in the foot.

Locking up code under non-permissive licenses stymies the pace of code development and increases the costs of progress dramatically.

We all stand on the shoulders of others before us. Including the organisations that stand to benefit the most from aggressive licensing.
Well, what does the future where those materials are free use look like?

You argue that desiring ownership of works that you created is “extremely emotional and cherry-picked”, but you do not provide a compelling argument why artists, photographers, and indeed programmers should be excluded from the conversation when it is their art, photography and code that is being appropriated in the first place.
> Last week, Gartner said PC shipments recorded in Q3 fell year-on-year at the fastest rate ever seen.

Anecdata: approx 3-month delay between ordering and shipment of HP (AMD) and Intel NUC _2021_ business PCs in 2022.

We need a better metric than "shipments", which can account for demand suppression due to unavailable supply.

Raspberry Pis are still impossible to purchase.
As I posted elsewhere, Seattle has about 30 standard chain grocery stores within city limits and all are owned by Albertsons or Kroger. The rest are smaller operations, boutiques like like Trader Joe's, or higher-priced like Whole Foods. There is no Walmart in Seattle, and many of the 4-5 Targets are smaller stores with limited selection.
Are they following All the licenses they are consuming?

Why haven't they uploaded Windows source to Copilot?

Just how much code reproduced violates copyright?

If, instead of Copilot, Bob was giving me code to copy, and it was a AGPL codebase, am I still subject to the AGPL?
There must be a line past which copying is no longer "fair use", otherwise no copyrights in code would be enforceable at all. I suppose it is up to a court to decide, but in the Tim Davis thread from yesterday it looked to me like Copilot was emitting entire, nontrivial functions verbatim.
You can buy non-reloadable cards at most super markets or drug stores.

You can get a reloadable if you provide SSN and DOB. You don’t need to pass a credit check.

Do elderly and poor people not have SSN and DOBs?
so what? You can put on a cowboy hat and larp as one, but that does not mean everyone else around you have to take it seriously. Same way with these made up licenses. If it's on the internet, it belongs to all. Or else keep it with yourself.
I also use Copilot a lot, and while it does suggest large function bodies, I'm not sure that it's "regurgitating" them (though it could be...I don't know). I suspect that it's seen so many function bodies that are similar that it generates another similar output. Like autocomplete in a word processor has seen so many similar chunks of text that it reproduces them based on past experience. I don't know this as a fact, of course. I'm just reacting to the word "regurgitating."
> It would be because it's illegal and violates the licenses, desires, and intentions of the thousands of workers who wrote the code in its corpus.

Copilot makes source code much more open, if you think about it. It implements code reuse in a different way than classes and libraries. It offers its skills equally to everyone, skills learned from everyone.

As for the cost of the API - it's expensive to run large language models, I think the price is justified. But there are free models if you like to run your own.
And it also goes to show that while it’s possible to re-create similar sounds in a DAW, these hardware instruments were an integral part of the original creation process (mood, texture, composition, etc). The use of the Swarmatron defined some of the key aspects of the soundtrack.
How do you distinguish 'funnel leaks' (people who could have been converted by hiring a better sales director) from 'bad leads' (people who would never have been converted because they mistakenly clicked on a deceptive ad).
for i smell jank code
Interesting, because I think enforcing an opinionated workflow would be a similar mistake to enforcing mandatory requirements.

There should be some flexibility in both.
If you want half-assed keyword based completion, you don't need any plugins at all (e.g. ctrl-n in vim).

And if you install a proper plugin that uses language servers, you're at the same level of VSCode, which I'm pretty sure is the most used editor by a wide margin.

Your rant sounds more like you're more annoyed by "wannabe-vim-hackers" than any actual limitations of the tools.
You are going upset Tim Apple with comments like that.

I don't see any similarity between Ukraine and Taiwan though. The US has been involved in the regime change in Ukraine at least since 2014 and actively funding/training the forces on the ground since. Taiwan has a lot of investment in China and their engineers are practically running China's chip industry now -- it's not clear to me how/what China would gain from a violent take over and an end of this symbotic relationship -- ie, there are so many downsides to this.
There is a distinction between being able to access the source code, and a tool giving it to you without any context of the underlying license it is governed by.
The “who provides the tools?” is just one test among several, which is not enough to conclude the employer legally must provide tools to employees under all circumstances.
> I'm gonna guess that Microsoft GitHub (tm) would shut you down pretty quickly if you tried to clone tens or hundreds of thousands of repos in a short window of time, b/c of course that's sketchy/abusive use of their infrastructure, right?

ArchiveTeam has a distributed Github archive project[0]. It's unclear what the status is right now. It seems like a worthwhile idea.

[0] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/GitHub#Archive_Team_p...
There are plenty of regulations that only apply to companies with more than X employees, etc. What makes you think any way to improve the law would necessarily harm individuals?
The quality is alarmingly bad. I get occasional notifications from the Medium app suggesting programming articles on their platform. They usually go ignored but recently I’ve checked a few out. What I saw was really bad advice, plain falsehoods, and grade-school level coding. The only positive thing I saw is that at least the comments were full of people calling out how bad the article was.
Some UFO activity has been claimed by the Navy to not be them:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/pentagon-relea...

You don't need to believe them but that's what's been publicly said.
> look I prompted CoPilot for this piece of code that I already knew about and it spit it right out" (that's not how it's going to be used in practice).

So what? I’m not being snarky: does that actually make any difference, legally?
I agree! But what would you put in the database? A NULL? A special fuck-it value?
The license agreement is irrelevant. Literally it does not come into play here. Github is not bound by the license; they are bound by the terms of service. The code is co-licensed: once however you declare it, once to Github independently.
>There is more to life than where you’re from and where you put your privates.

I'm well aware. However, Thiel has doubled down on the MAGA movement, and a lot of that movement don't really feel the same way as you or I do. That base absolutely DOES care where you put your privates, and has constantly created policies to reinforce that worldview.

Thiel is just another wealthy, useful idiot to that crowd. He's fine now - but when push comes to shove, he isn't like that crowd. He's literally helping bankroll the party that, in its current form, caters to extremely Religious Ethno-Nationalists.
Sorry, how does ripgrep save you tens of hours? I get that it is faster than regular grep, but that doesn't really answer the question; I don't find myself stalled waiting for grep. The only reasonable explanation would be something ripgrep does that grep actually doesn't. I could try to guess, but have no confidence I would guess right.
If you want a persistent database, use a persistent database
Of their works: the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has a few choice coding songs. Some of it is little too dark or a little too airy. Before the Flood is also pretty good a little sad at some points. The Juno single they put out as part of the 2016 Jupiter probe collaboration with a few artist is pretty nice. The Vietnam War soundtrack never quite vibed right for work. And finally, Watchmen Vol 1 is dope, especially NUN WITH A MOTHERF&ING GUN but good luck getting work done to that.
Geometry in Action
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