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I find the entire "java world" as I like to think of it, littered with slow IDEs.

The "Electron bloat world" editors have been much more snappy in my experience.

Typically the "java world" editors will lag out to the point where tapping on the "File" menu will take 3-5 seconds on occasion. Also they seem to rely on "indexing" and while the "indexing" operating is taking place, the entire editor just slows to a complete crawl.

I've seen this in Android Studio, IntelliJ, Tizen Studio, Eclipse - pretty much anything that's "java world". Apologies for the imprecise nomenclature, but this has been my experience and after so many years it has reached a stage of just low expectations from me whenever I see anything related to these IDEs.
https://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theo...
To respond I'm gonna quote an artist* I recently interviewed on my synths & artists newsletter >

"The fact that synthesizer music is a machine-human interaction allows you to think less about elements that you'd generally focus 100% on when you perform a "traditional" instrument.

For instance, with synthesizers you have the luxury of focusing solely on expression without worrying about note execution."

*Elan Dare on the [G.A.S. Newsletter](https://gasnewsletter.beehiiv.com/)
Yes this is a direct threat of using nuclear weapons, but addressed for the NATO. This becomes clear if seen in the context of the speech.

The cold war has actually never ended and the situation is getting worse.

My argument is that this is not the premise of the article: "people worry about whether Putin could turn to tactical nukes if faced with a total defeat in Ukraine."

Putin has enough conventional weapons for not to use the tactical weapons in the Hiroshima/Nagasaki desperate style.
200 years ago the Grimm brothers collected tales that had been memorized and shared for generations in the German oral tradition and made them into a book of fairy tales. 70 years Walt Disney made some animated movies based on these fairy tales. Today sharing a copy of Cinderella is Piracy.
You could start with rationalwiki if you want a rather biased and very critical take.
You can walk, you can't verbally authenticate
> Microsoft will likely need to add checks to prevent copilot from offering verbatim copies of code going forward to try to avoid copyright violations here.

Or they could integrate a way to find the produced output back in the corpus if it's sufficiently close and provide a reference/attribution. Basically whatever tool a copyright lawyer would use to track down original work.

And that's just the engineering solution. The AI researcher solution would be to extend AI learning algorithms to attach attribution metadata to the learned data so that the output could already come annotated with information about the source.

But the latter is much harder to do, so maybe the engineering solution would suffice.
The chief people officer and a couple interns who prepared the list know… so it’ll be something like ‘didn’t get a bonus for X years’
Reminds me of Terraform plugin that broke after 0.11 they „fixed it”, yet I still get notifications about new ppl commenting how its again broken in newer version.

You had one job JetBrains -> speed up developers. I dont need half of the features available. Terminal does a better job at most of them and will never change.

But for the stuff I need and is used by millions if not tens of millions of developers.. just keep it working.

I feel like its slowly the time to move to VSCode. An army of JS Devs will keep on updating it.
> the real value lies

The real value lies in testing something you would have forgotten and saving your butt. So the question is . . . where is your butt hanging out? Can you define that in a way that translates convincingly into metrics for someone who doesn't know your code?
Didn't expect the last bit (Bedlam cards). These were fun.
While I agree with this point, I also like my interfaces small. Because, since I don't click around on them, I don't like them taking up space.

I also use a mouse on my PC, so I'm fairly precise in case I want to use the icons. There's no need to blow them up, so my fat fingers wouldn't misclick on a tablet.

I like to code with two windows side by side, usually IDE + browser for docs, sometimes on a small screen. I'd rather have the extra pixels for the docs instead of random useless space around the IDE's widgets.
> It’s actually not stupid. It’s genius.

It's genius if you don't have a shred of ethics left in your bones.
One of my proudest achievements-that-dont-count-for-much-outside-of-internet-nerd-innercircles is maintaining a seed ratio of >7 over a a decade and a half in a world where most folks are happy with their seed ratio if 0.1
But do you really think they're losing marketshare due to the UI?

VScode being free and comparable feature wise surely is the main challenge.

It doesn't help that VScode is catching up and in many cases surpassing their engine for some languages. Looking at their poor typescript performance and longstanding python type hinting bugs. I've also heard VScode has much better docker dev container support.

I get the it's not necessarily the same resources working the UI and these things but still. If the UI drastically change to be more like VSCode it's just one more reason for me as an existing customer to change.
I'm not sure I follow the point that is being made here

The comment is referring to the standard practices of private investigators in this country, and the nature of the corporate world based on what has been seen in some TV show

What's the problem with this?

Hypothetical example: I once watched a documentary about Africa and smuggling of ivory and it showed X, Y and Z. What does this mean? That because of this documentary I have a bias about Africa which now shapes all my decision making? Where does that line get drawn? I consumed the information, what does that have to do with how it affects my opinion of the people there?
Sometimes you can.

Especially in small towns where people know each other.

That used to kinda be the norm.
How is this not treason?
These up trends make me nuts. Just like so much of apple’s desktop apps like App Store are removing classic list interfaces with two column collections views. Totally non standard, so lacking all of the useful filtering/alerting by column, etc.

Why?? For more white space.
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Sounds like you need to study up on your Jante Law! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
I am not offended, not by a long shot but I would be if someone asked me similar question.
I really appreciated the argument in the book "The New Breed," which is that we should adapt ideas around the governance of animals to governance of ML: You can train your dog to attack random passersby, but if you do, you're a monster and ultimately responsible for the dog's actions.

Likewise, you can tell Copilot to crank out code specific algorithms written by specific people, but if you do so, you're still creating infringing code, same as if you'd taken the more direct route of ctrl-c+ctrl-v. The fact that you /can/ make the algorithm misbehave through adversarial input is irrelevant to the primary use cases which lead to boring non-infringing code completions.
The Unabomber and the origins of anti-tech radicalism (2021)
> What now? vim + billion plugins?

Just vim :-)
> Also VSCode is faster which still boggles my mind as to how that's possible.

They do a lot of smart engineering around the editor: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2018/03/23/text-buffer-r...
DreamStudio got one million users already, generating 17 million images. Granting that most people don't pay in (I got $2 credit for 200 generations by logging in), a $10/1000 images is still, ah, good enough I'd say. Especially if they stayed fresh by agglutinating all the advances in the open ecosystem.
They absolutely should not be customizing headlines for fear of how it affects a small fringe of people who are going to think that way regardless of a Reuters headline
This sucks for everyone, but clicking on this thread, I see that KC got laid off[0]. She's somewhat famous for having created Bedlam[1], which not only introduced me to a lot of Microsoft culture when I was pretty early in the company but also has provided many hours of amusement when mixed with Cards Against Humanity.

FWIW, I'm in E+D but didn't hear anything about this.

[0] https://twitter.com/kclemson/status/1582175419268501504

[1] https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/inside-bedlam-a-car...
It's probably not that uncommon that people working for companies, governments, or criminal organizations can't talk about their work in public.

One group I remember in particular are mathematicians working for the NSA, etc., who are not permitted to publish their research, then they watch as other mathematicians rediscover their work and get the credit.
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They are leaving for greener opportunities. Wouldn't it make more sense to take all your assets with you to sell it, if required?
Just like the plural of breakdown is breaksdown, the plural or checkup is checksup and the plural of hard-on is hards-on.
As @rolph links below, oxygen is toxic at higher partial pressures.

I have an acquaintance who went to the hospital within 24 hours of her first hyperbaric treatment. She was coughing up blood, iirc: "I warned you about this, don't do that again."

The antidote for oxygen toxicity is somewhat therapeutic, beyond neutralizing the toxic effects of O2.

https://www.taxiwars.org/2021/06/folly-medical-hyperventilat...
That seems like a weak defense: "sure, we violated copyright but only because many other people do, too".

Kinda the same problem as YouTube. Lots of people copy movies on the high seas, but if you are as big as yt you cannot easily get away with it.
True, but people will also not have to explain themselves when they eventually switch to VS Code because VS Code is free, has the same UI, and get more feature rich by the week.
Is there a license that explicitly forbids corporations from ingesting my code and making a billion dollars off of my work for free? The AGPL? I've been using the MIT license for more than a decade, but it's time to change that.
CommonSim-1: AI that generates 3D simulations
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Your comment is full of good and deep analysis and it uncovers a deep flaw in the Copilot: Copilot helps create new code.

All the problems and confusions mentioned above is due to this concrete inherent property of the Copilot.

If Copilot was made to help rearrange [1] existing code to satisfy new or changed needs, there would be no need in such a deep and explanative analysis of yours.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

Code is a liability. Less code is less liability. New code is a new liability.

Even tools to create new code is a new and unknown liability, it seems.
> Forget what VSCode is doing.

Except for remote development extension. Do that. It's the killer feature of VSCode.
I use VSCode a lot and can say that for my specific use cases, it's still a decade behind or more. The debugger in VScode isn't even in the ballgame.

I found the slack support for JetBrains to be absolutely fantastic. Super helpful and very technical. Having written plugins for both VSCode and JetBrains I prefer the latter but I have a heavy Java bias.

I agree that the multi-IDE strategy is problematic. They usually offer an option to just install plugins but with CLion they kind of dropped the ball. Which is surprising because I run their rust plugin on IntelliJ and it works well. Hopefully they'll address that too.
Almost every FOSS license requires attribution, and Microsoft already seems perfectly happy to violate that, so I don't see why they'd be any less happy to violate whatever other license you'd come up with.
I love that Matthew is investigating this and agree that Copilot warrants more scrutiny. His suggestions that Microsoft let developers opt-in to having source used for training purposes, to pay for source it uses, and to attribute or credit it appropriately all seem reasonable.

Can someone help me to imagine a reality in which these points are viable concerns?

> …how will you feel if Copi­lot erases your open-source com­mu­nity?

> …Copi­lot will become not just a sub­sti­tute for open-source code on GitHub, but open-source code every­where.

> …Copi­lot is merely a con­ve­nient alter­na­tive inter­face to a large cor­pus of open-source code.

> With Copi­lot, open-source users never have to know who made their soft­ware. They never have to inter­act with a com­mu­nity. They never have to con­tribute.

Is the author suggesting that Copilot will be used in place of `npm install next react react-dom` or `cargo add tokio --features full` or `raco pkg install pollen` — that developers will be content to use augmented autosuggest in place of large, well-tested, well-documented open source libraries?

Does he see Copilot's final form as some kind of AI package manager that drops a library of untested unattributed undocumented files into our projects?

Or is it more that he thinks those libraries won't exist because open source contributors will grow to feel more abused than they already do, perhaps quitting the scene or developing in private, like certain artists have already done in response to the AI art movement?

There is already such a huge disparity between paid package consumers and unpaid package contributors. I haven't seen that change since Copilot launched in beta or under general availability. I see the same ratio of help/feature requests compared to code and documentation contributions that I always have. And package usage has not declined so far for the open source things I work with.

It would be nice to learn more about the “Copilot will lead to the death of open source communities” line of reasoning — what is the author's perceived timeline to open source's decline and fall as a result of Copilot's current path?
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I wonder if people are actually leaving Jetbrains' products for VS Code, or whether VS Code simply has more new people starting to use it. People who, probably, wouldn't have used IntelliJ anyway (just like many, many people used to use Eclipse – and, likely, many still do).

Looking around me, I see many people who have to work on crappy corporate PCs where management figures VS Code is good enough, and it's free, so why pay for IntelliJ? And since the devs themselves don't seem to complain, they'll just use VS Code.
I also had this feeling for Java IDEs, but my idea changed when I tried IntelliJ IDEs 10 years ago. I still feel IntelliJ IDEs fast and, many times, more powerful than VSCode. But I also see the gap getting thinner. Maybe that's why they created Fleet. If they match the dominant UX and add features only they can offer, they might stay in the throne.
I work in a field that operates under similar development constraints. (Namely it's a mature product in a mature field with well defined requirements) Because if this I regularly get calls from my customers wondering why their system can't do X or Y in the B way instead of the A way, and I have a similar conversation. Wherein I have to explain "no, that wasn't part of your requirements 5 years ago, if you want to change it, you'll need to pay us for more development", that normally eliminates the requirement for whatever it was they wanted pretty quickly.

Also, uptime is a factor, I've seen what windows looks like when it runs out of GDI objects, it's strange. But once you see it, you can explain to the customer the importance of regular reboot/restarts.
Capital and the Capital-owned State work in tandem to make things like this happen. They are one and the same.
On the flip side, the only thing I want Jetbrains to do is implement proper UI scaling.

I want to be able to hit Command+Plus and scale up the whole interface for presenting something to the team or when I have to code pair with someone who doesn't have as large of a monitor as I do.

Presentation mode is an absolute mess, and does not help with code pairing or code review presentations, and font scaling only affects the one file and not all the fonts, so the project navigation is still small and I have to repeat it for every file and again in reverse to reset it.

And the best past is, they could do it without impacting anyone else who doesn't need it, unlike this proposal.
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As the founder of emuparadise some 22 years ago, I can relate. I got into retrogames because I never got to play those games growing up in India. I thought, well let me archive these games and make them available for everyone else to play.

It was wildly successful. At it's zenith EmuParadise was ranked 700 or so as per Alexa on the entire internet. We're talking millions of visitors per day and thousands of active users every single second. I ran it all by myself with an entire team of moderators, contributors, etc.

It did have ads. Heck, our server bills were in the range of tens of thousands of dollars a month. How could I pay for that without having ads on the site? Then we're in commercial copyright infringement territory. Basically if you get sued, you can go to prison, and you will be bankrupted for sure. At the time there were no torrents, no IPFS, no distributed hosting solutions in any case.

As time went by the stress became enormous. Of course threatening letters and DMCA takedown notices were the norm. And the fact that the site was hugely popular and government agencies such as the FBI could get involved at the behest of Nintendo et al just made it worse. But also keeping it online, through various CDNs, trying to keep it anonymously run at all times (my OpSec was terrible starting out, it started in the year 2000), keeping servers online and uptime to almost 100% and bandwidth flowing and hard drives spinning and RAID arrays working. It was a whole lot of everything all at once and I was just one guy doing it all.

After another website Loveroms got sued by Nintendo in 2018 (for $12MM) I decided I had had enough. Reading stories like the kickasstorrents guy getting arrested while on holiday with his wife and kid, loveroms getting sued, I decided that this was the end of the road for me. I pulled all the games from the site. Eighteen years of work down the drain.

My mental health had suffered tremendously, I was depressed and anxious almost all the time. The sight of a police officer on the street would set me panicking. The cost was too high.

Was it a blast? Oh yes it was. I used to receive thousands of emails from grateful people. Cancer patients who reminisced in their last days playing video games from their childhood, soldiers at war whose only escape was a few rounds of Bomberman (the irony is not lost on me), and so many more beautiful stories of nostalgia and connection.

But current copyright law is going to destroy all this art and culture. There is no real legal way to preserve it. And people like me may do it for a long while, but at what cost to ourselves? I firmly believe that a 7-10 year copyright (extendible even somehow? debatable) would be fair and would let authors get what they need out of their creations. It would help us preserve all this beautiful art and culture that we have enjoyed and share it with future generations.

I would love for a human kid living on a distant exoplanet in the far future be able to play Chrono Trigger and wonder about the history of the earth and our stories.
I'm not convinced of what you wrote. Is it actually true that cases like that are dismissed? Or is it that the infringing party is ordered to stop, but not damages are awarded to the rightsholder? You've offered no examples of dismissal to back up your statement.

I absolutely agree with you that copyright is not a boolean, but I don't buy the idea that a judge will just shrug and allow infringement to continue just because there was no commercial harm.

I also think your example is just irrelevant to the case at hand. Sure, someone "performing" someone else's copyrighted words once may not be a big thing. But if Copilot is actually found to be infringing, these infringements will keep happening, over and over and over.

Bottom line is that none of this has been tested in court. I think it's great that someone is working on doing just that. Maybe the end result will be that Microsoft's use is indeed fair use, and that Copilot users have no further obligations. But I'd like to hear a court decide that, not a bunch of armchair non-lawyers (myself included) on a random web forum.
Good point. I'm not a lawyer, but looking it up, the factors for fair use are:

1. the purpose and character of the use; 2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used; 4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for the original work.

All of these are quite debatable, and I'll leave it to someone more familiar with the law.

Though if it's not, I believe there are licenses that allow derivative uses of code and licenses that don't. For many of these, the intention is that they create more code, but not be used to fuel AI behemoths.
As a solo founder, I had promoted one of my early employees to be on the board. He was an excellent Chief of Staff. But looking back you’re right he went off the board when a VC came in. But still was an important member in board meetings. He really scaled personally, became indispensable to the company, I trusted him completely and employees liked the idea. I even made employees 20% shareholders apart from an open 7% esop pool just before the VC round. Unfortunately the firm shut in the lockdown since it was ops heavy, but today he works on several things including an M&A firm, apart from his own startup. In fact I feel proud that post the 4 year journey, during the acqhire core team employees made 20x their first month salary, and today are all doing well, some even Angel investing themselves.
You aren’t factoring in the cost of running the model on GPU instances. They might make a bit, not sure if it’s enough to satisfy their investors.
Tell that to some of my past prospective employers.

It's getting so bad, that some insist on being able to drive to work even if you live within 15 minutes walking distance.

"But what about bad weather?" They ask.

"I'll dress appropriately." I reply.

3 days later: Phone rings.

"We're sorry, but we decided to go with someone better suited for the job."

The job... was at a restaurant, as a cook. Cooks... don't need to be able to drive to work... usually. (There are maybe some jobs where driving would be ideal, or necessary, but let's be real here. Most don't need to be able to drive.)
It is still very weird. The ratio of upvotes and comments is way off for posts that are upvoted like that. Also with this amount of votes it’s starting to be one of the highlights of the last 6 month maybe the year…
Yes, vim + a couple of plugins. It has it’s downsides, but one thing it does well is being familiar, and never breaking a contract. Even the plugins themselves can be pinned to a certain version.