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My biggest concern regarding GitHub Copilot is that it is cloud based and opens up our previously private coding activities to continuous surveillance by third-parties.

It's only a matter of time before intelligence agencies will get their hands on the data. And if use of Copilot becomes an industry wide practice then those who wish to preserve their privacy will become uncompetitive.

I really hope we have some decent offline alternatives eventually.
The phone number gets used during account recovery; when I reset my iPhone once without a second Authy device to activate it, I was locked out for 24h while it bombarded my number with calls and texts about the impending restore. I appreciated that safety measure.
Daaaamn, this post was on my top almost since it was published.
Well, the foundry business is now a two-horse race between Samsung and TSMC. Intel, many believe won't make it. The US gov't knows it too -- that's why Trump arm-twisted TSMC to open new plants in Arizona.

Samsung was making Apple's A's in Austin, Texas some time ago, but Apple ditched Samsung's US manufacturing in favor of their China/Taiwan-first offshore outsourcing strategy.
> The customizability of the Epic UI and workflows for each type of visit was completely insane

Ah, Lotus Notes Syndrome.
> Problem solved

Other problems caused
They'd need to pay me more than that.
In term of real noise pollution I would rank: 1) motorbikes, 2) modified cars/sport cars, 3) sirens 4) trucks
The noise is not ridiculous on all of them.

I ride what they call a maxi scooter, my exhaust is bog standard and I try to ride calmly, not revving like a madman at every green light. I hate that people are mounting loud exhaust on similar bike, this is not even a sporty motorbike what is the point?

Having said that, Yamaha T-Max scooters should be banned. There is not a single decent human being riding them, I think they are just a close third at the bottom of the scale after the nazis and the feyenoord rotterdam fans...they are all riding like assholes.
Migrations are a huge issue, and many companies don't bother. They just wipe the slate clean, dust off the erasers, and start over.

I don't have the data (but I'm sure it's there), but I suspect more than one company ended up committing seppuku, over a badly-done migration.

I just got finished migrating a fairly crucial SDK, in the app I'm working on. It was one the fundamental "infrastructure" server connectors, and affected everything.

It came out great. Far fewer bugs than I expected.

In my experience, migrations take planning and strategy. Often, they need to happen over a long time period, in steps.

Many companies and engineering teams don't have the patience to manage that.
Software developers as developers: "Why does that random guy still pay for v1??? It's 20 years old, using Java 5 and old crap, let's force them to upgrade!!!!"

Software developers as users: "Don't force me to upgrade"

The hypocrisy is tangible and close to mind boggling.
You are talking about me, a 55 yo who got a pair of EarPods Pro from my kids only recently and man... the quality of life improvement is incomparable with anything I have ever experienced.

I have tried suppressing sound with more sound over the years but that is not even 20% as efficient (for me). Now may recipe for relaxation is EarPods in, Noice canceling on, a song on repeat and Bob's your uncle! Better than retalin even.
i agree, and im not trying to undermine modern research and development on emissions, but my point is that perhaps larger cars should be discouraged as they are hugely overkill for most people's needs and exist as status symbols - if coming purely from an emissions standpoint they are terrible compared to an equivalent small car or motorbike etc yet people seem to blame 2 strokes and old cars when in reality they are not the sole cause of the problem
If we're talking daily participation, you don't (or shouldn't) need ID. For one off events like registration or entry, then ID is a fair requirement (sometimes).

I don't know who is arguing for bank accounts without ID though.
Humor aside. It is great that they charge money, sometimes big money for their products & services, instead maybe running ads?
Companies are being forced to reveal what a job pays. It’s a start
I disagree with your statement about ai being an independent behavior.

Suppose we add a button to a visual studio plugin called 'Copy me a function' and when you click it, it 100% grabs some random code from github and plops it as-is into your code base.

I don't have to argue the ethics of if the button is 'thinking for itself'
I used Slack for the first time the other day and I don't see the fascination and buzz behind it. I'd rather an open source / in-house solution, regardless of whether it's for a business or non-profit project; Mattermost or Zulip, for example. Perhaps even IRC.

I wouldn't be drawing anything with a mouse or trackpad, that much is certain - perhaps a tablet with a stylus would be more suitable for those things. I could use a digitiser tablet with Gimp or Krita if I wanted to do some drawing.

That said, I have access to a web browser which allows participation in Slack, Zoom, etc if required as well as any other GUI programs I may want to run in my minimalist environment. Even in the screenshot I have IRC and Matrix - those are used for collaboration, it's just the clients aren't written in JavaScript/TypeScript.

Some people consider Discord essential for collaboration - those people are probably bad dangers.

I'm more productive and my life is better because I know every file on my computer and what it is doing or what it is communicating with at any one time; I can customise everything to be used in the way I find most optimal/efficient without permission from anyone :)
I'm afraid I can't see this as freedom of expression, what idea are they expressing? If this is about freedom of expression, isn't fly tipping a type of expression that should be protected?

In terms of general freedom, the question is does it disproportionately affect others? The answer couldn't be clearer - where I live a single person cruising around in their modified vehicle can ruin the sleep of thousands of people.

In terms of the law, this is already illegal, all that's happening is the law is being enforced.

I'm responding to this comment because I think a lot of people have a similar, erroneous, reaction - isn't this just another freedom being taken away? In a way yes, but the costs to individual liberty are vastly outweighed by the consequences for those who happen to be near by.

And, of course, you can always modify your car and drive round a private race track, no activity has been totally prohibited.
I don't know that I'm convinced of that point though. I've been developing software professionally for almost 20 years and my usage and reliance on a debugger has decreased over time. At the moment, I think it's been probably three months since I've last used one.
Expand on the unethical part. So people published code that could be referenced and copied on GitHub. There was no ethical problem, the world, society were happy.

Github make a convenient way to search and contextualise this publicly available code and paste it into your code (adjusting local scope, format, language along the way). Suddenly we have crossed an ethical line!?

Which ethical line? Are you pretending people never copy and pasted open source code before copilot? Are you pretending open source code never copy and pasted other open source code? That we were in an ethically pure world until copilot came along?
Well: https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2022/06/addressing-the-new-u...

> The new UI will remain customizable. It is, and will be, possible to change many aspects of the look and feel, such as icons, colors, font sizes, and spacing between controls through theme plugins. We’ll add options as needed to accommodate user preferences, like the ability to customize the toolbar.
I can block ads with ublock origin, I can't block credit card charges from my bank account - well I can but then I can't use the service any longer.
Depends on where you live I guess.

Trains, airplanes, helicopters & neighbours are my top 4.
> Up to today boar and mushrooms have an elevated level of radiation in the forests around my home.

Their coal power plants made you breath more radioactive particles than Chernobyl
What is 37c3? I have only figured up that c3 is "Chaos Communication Congress".
Of course the suggestion of “banning on sight” could have been an attempt at humour by way of hyperbole, something I should have noted in my previous reply.

> that would take less effort than

Unfortunately, not always. Sometimes the only way to convince people that it isn't worth their time continuing to try to change your mind, is to blatantly be a dick about it. I try not to jump straight to dickishness though: I'll state my position politely once, I may have time to repeat that once or twice more, then out come the big guns.

On a public mailing list or similar I might be more blunt: linking to past discussions in the first instance then jumping to DickCon1. On a public group the discussion is taking more than just my time and might encourage others to chime in and drag the matter instead of letting it close.

And again: the suggestion of “banning on sight” could have been intended as an attempt at humour by way of hyperbole, rather than the direct “off you fuck” that was felt. Communication of sentiment online is very prone to errors like that.
> dynamic lifetimes

What do you mean ?

If you refer to heap allocations, then you can use Box, Arc, Rc. They are not a "garbage collector" nor do they incur performance hits other than a regular heap allocation.
> I get I'm an outlier here

I do often wonder how much of an outlier that makes you (and me too by the way). The question really is how you define things. I would bet that the majority of people lose focus when exposed to sudden loud noises, causing them to lose their train of thought when for example discussing things in public.
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> If an AI is ingesting and perfectly reproducing someone else's copyrighted works, it is in violation of copyright law in the same way a human would be if they reproduce someone else's copyrighted works.

"In computer programs, concerns for efficiency may limit the possible ways to achieve a particular function, making a particular expression necessary to achieving the idea. In this case, the expression is not protected by copyright."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Compari...

Consider the impact on innovation if Microsoft or Oracle were allowed to claim a copyright over utilitarian aspects of their works such as the Java or Windows API!

BTW, Copilot seems to be reproducing copyrightable material when the tool reproduces comments verbatim!
I love the illustration.

Here's a suggested solution: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2016/06/29/the-regurgista...
But how would you connect such a device to your iphone?
So happy to learn of this and I wish them best of luck in their efforts. And I'm surprised to find so many people klinging to Copilot.

We shouldn't shed any tears for a megacorporation which shows such blatant disregard for the licensed works of people's labour.

Yes, AI is here to stay but we should be able to build AI that respects copyright. Yes, it's easier to just steal data and call it fair use. Whether or not that's stealing will be interesting to try in court.
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Handhelds have never really gone away since the days of the Newton.

I owned a Psion 3, then 5, then Palm IIIxe, then a Dell Axim and then the first smartphones came out. First Symbian which was basically Psion, then iPhone and then Android.

I've never not had a smart device ever since the first. And while they have improved a lot some great features were lost (for example the Psion was much better to type an email on than a smartphone).

But my point is: it doesn't have to be perfect yet to be adding value. If it's not for everyone yet it doesn't mean it's a useless flop.
“Johnny, put your headset back on!”

The whole thing is unnecessary and dystopian to the max.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/production-and-supply-chain...

That's from April, but in short there's a huge order backlog that they're still working through apparently, despite producing half a million units per month. With the lockdown gap in production and the Pi 4s getting increasingly integrated into various 3rd party products I suppose that's no surprise.

It's quite apparent that there's little demand for the Pico, since it's always in stock.
Retrospectively you might be right.

The majority of software is slow and not safe to use and the majority of people do it anyway.
Unrelated, but in general, a deadline can be used as a tool: avoid unnecessary work, focus. Especially, if it is a soft deadline. It is not just for teenagers, there are whole books on the topic e.g., "The Deadline Effect" by Christopher Cox.
Totally disagree. Training is fair use. It is akin to learning. Code licenses do not restrict you from reading or learning.

ML training needs to be fair use of copyrighted works, or most machine learning and AI projects will be impossible.
> You don't see blatant drunk driving or insane speed get ignored.

I see the very same people who have ridiculously loud cars also drive far too fast for the road they are on about as often as I hear their stupid cars. So yes, insane speed does get ignored just as much as the noise, at least from my perspective.
? Did you read what I wrote, MS doesn't even claim copilot is covered by their terms.
They claim it is covered by fair use (some people also claimed there is code not hosted by GitHub in copilot, which would further confirm that they believe they are covered by something else)

Moreover terms have been largely unchanged for years AFAIK. If someone agreed to the license years ago, they can't have agreed to copilot use. Also copilot is not a service on their website, it is a separate service and they charge for it, also contradicting the terms.
It depends; there's actually a mod that adds realistic n-body gravity, and it's remarkable how much it affects.
Your comparison is bad and you should know it.

If they'd be complaining about their mobile phone bill being higher than their landline bill, fine - but that's not the case.

I'm pretty sure the last land line phone my parents bought was under 100 bucks and it would still be working just fine 10 years later (that is in addition to the fact that we kinda transitioned from analog to ISDN around 2000, and then back). Compare to a new mobile phone every 3 years if you want security updates.
> having done a sport with seasickness, sailing, you'd be surprised who is susceptible to motion sickness despite doing the thing _all the time_

> VR is gonna be a tough sell to the masses until this is sorted out more, is my rather non-informed opinion. Complete physical disorientation isn't something that happens often day-to-day.

You're contradicting yourself. Clearly having a small measure of discomfort is not enough to dissuade people from using the technology. Otherwise they'd never have continued sailing.
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I used to live in a shack, err i mean “cozy studio”, close to the m25 and i could tell car models by their exhaust noise. Scooters and motorbikes where the most annoying, followed by “tuned” peugeots and similar small clunkers.
> You might have to go back to the early 90s for that, we had PocketPC and Palm and Symbian in the 00's... The change since 2002 has been incremental, I think 2002 me would find today's Android similar but faster and simpler - and today's iOS equally as confusing as 2022 me finds it.

Someone never did VR boxing at the Trocadero in London in the early 2000s.
Seeing everything through the economical lens is exactly why we're still burnin coal and sucked Putin gas until a few months ago.

We're letting imaginary numbers dictate the future of humanity, "why did you let the world die, it was cheaper than fixing it" isn't a valid excuse}

And if you want to talk about number show much does it cost to the German healthcare system to take care of the hundred/thousands of people getting sick and dying because of coal pollution ?
I thought vestibular vibration was going to fix this problem?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29590147/
You've just asserted that it's stochastic with no basis. It could easily be (and in fact is much more likely to be) a periodic operation that leaks memory.

This sort of analysis is completely normal in software. E.g. in safety critical software you often analyse maximum possible stack depth to check that your stack is big enough (one of the reasons why recursive code is sometimes disallowed). This is exactly the same class of analysis.
Exactly. If the manual says "reboot every 51 hours", you do just that and all is fine. If you have to reboot every, say, 25 hours, something is broken.
> tl:dr Global recession => lower chip demand for consumers

Global recession is to blame for everything. I'm waiting for some years for payable video card, nothing special, but i guess Global recession is to blame. /s
Products become great by being "mission-oriented": they help their users achieve a goal. Often the UI evolves organically based on user feedback and becomes "locally-optimized" for the user's workflow.

When you get a PM/Designer who insists on following the design principles they learned on YouTube, they tend to throw out the UI along with all the implicit knowledge accumulated within it. This is related to Chesterton's Fence https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
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Easily checked at https://twitter.com/search?q=pmino&src=typed_query
Eh? Most people use speakers at home instead of headphones and most indoor time is spent at home. So I'd imagine plenty of people use speakers outdoors.

I, personally, exclusively use headphones and I still use my headphones outside all the time - while walking, working outside, gardening, snow shoveling, etc. Even just relaxing.
Where I am it's seagulls, then owls.
But a 787 works fine with those reboots being part of scheduled maintenance. So the issue is what exactly again?
The motion sickness happens when moving around in VR without physically moving. In a business scenario you can work around this. There's no need to walk around too much an he teleporting works as a good alternative.
All I can say is: finally!

This should be rolled out nationwide immediately, but especially in big cities ASAP. As I am typing this I have just heard a loud car that sounds like it's at least 5km away but is still very audible. I live in East London and the amount of cars that sound like explosions going off is absolutely ridiculous.
Something I've really disliked in VR is when near a bush or tree full of leaves which are made of polygons hovering in space, or anything else with similarly zero-thickness objects.

It feels like being near a bush of razor blades, and if I have to walk through it, especially with polygons clipping near my face, it feels unpleasantly like close to being cut. I can ignore the feeling but it's quite unpleasant.

I don't get that (much) when looking at the same thing on a screen. Only when it's through a headset.
Are those backups E2EE?

Also to be totally honest, each device should have their own TOTP key and while backups are fine*, key sharing isn't.
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> Germany was facing a cold winter, without energy for heating, and the potential for rolling blackouts. With this change, it does not eliminate the threat but makes it less likely.

Eeeeh not really, most building are heated by gas, the industry runs on gas, nuclear does't really help with either.
Because the new UX feels more geared towards looking like VSCode, than actually improving things.
There's a map here that graphically shows just what a wipeout it would be: https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/158203973484657459...
I think there's much more chance of an anti-Meta article from The Daily Beast than a pro-Meta one. Or at least the former will receive much less editorial scrutiny, as it's pushing at an open door.

Not that I'm a fan of Meta. I'm just also not a fan of articles like this.
This isn't really JetBrains fault, but the track record of products making full redesigns is bad enough that we do tend to assume that the priorities, values, and considerations of UX professionals run contrary to developers/users priorities, to the point where the result is often less useful/ergonomic than what it replaced.

To be fair, this tendency to prioritize your own values above those of your users is not unique to designers. For example, Linus' insistence that kernel developers "don't break userspace."
They seem pretty universal to me. For example, the tedious error handling in Go that is mentioned is a turn-off to a lot of developers. Safety and speed are both things most languages strive for, and if Rust is not THE fastest or THE safest language, it’s on the efficient frontier of the two.
NSA mathematicians still get some recognition though:

* Fellow NSA employees, your coworkers and boss

* Cash money, my personal favourite form of recognition

* Your close friends and trusted loved ones will know the broad outlines of what you're doing.

It doesn't make you world-famous but it wouldn't be as lonely as a job that needed total secrecy.
Meta publishes and enforces a long list of detailed software guidelines, all of which are a requirement for being published.

Isn't this the part where we're all supposed to jump up and down and shout "walled garden!" and "monopoly!" so we can pretend to be all HN counter-culture?
But then we get into the balkanization of our society with increasing polarization and extremism, no?
The majority of things in general is not safe to use, and yet somehow we do it anyway, and thrive.
There are actually more police per capita now than at times over the past 70 years when there were much lower numbers of both police and crime, but those periods also had much higher numbers of police on foot patrol.
Just because charges don't get brought doesn't mean that you didn't commit a crime.

I don't know how I could possibly get one but I'd love to read an independent comparison of this sort of behaviour between US operations and Russian ones. My belief is that the US aims not to kill civilians but is often careless and nets a lot of collateral damage, whereas Russia doesn't care at all and will happily bomb schools if it thinks there's a target in there. But of course I mostly read Western media and writing so my view is potentially very biased.
What's wrong with that? (Apart from using a bareword filehandle, and weird spacing on "my($l, $r)"). It does exactly what it says.
Good thing that people voted for david cameron's "strong and stable" government back in 2015.
> Another issue is the safe disposal of nuclear waste.

And coal waste isn't an issue because it's filtered by our own lungs, right ?
Yes, I've seen the photoshop plugin. You're comparing playing with duplo blocks to marble sculpture.
I'm sure some creative people will find a way to make an EV very noisy.
I don't think these are mutually exclusive. However, a preference for perfecting infrastructure doesn't explain most of the behaviors mentioned above.

IMO, the curious thing is that in addition to focusing on slightly different problems, there exists a cultural difference with respect to work values.
I didn't follow the news on this but there used to be regular protests against Google
Ah, yeah, that's fair. Each individual vintage vehicle is terrible, but there really aren't that many of them, whereas there are millions of large cars/pickups being sold per year. I'd certainly support some sort of measure aimed at large vehicles which aren't used for some sort of large-vehicle-appropriate task.