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Well, heck, you can shrivel it down to ONE employee and then fire them, if you just wanna tank Twitter.

It seems like the sorta crackhead move we have come to expect from mister attention whore extraordinaire. He’s in a competition of some kind with Kanye, apparently.

Why is he wasting 40 billion on a trumpet of little worth if it’s worth so little?

What a weird mid life crisis sports car to buy, it’s not even red.

Says you.

If it’s all just disposable code, WHY ISNT MICROSOFT TRAINING COPILOT ON WINDOWS AND OFFICE CODE?

Google then handily provides you A LINK to the original ATTRIBUTED SOURCE.

“Their largely replaceable code”

Smells like: “ I stole this lousy apple that wasn’t any good” Then why did you steal it?

Put your money where your mouth is, Microsoft, train copilot on your own code!!!

Don’t wanna train it with windows 11 code? Prefer to hijack others projects and use their for your needs and then pretend thst insulting others and calling their code worthless will get you off the hook????

Backfire

It’s a net harm for the programmers whose code is being willfully plagiarized.

It’s a net boon for Microsoft in their efforts to rule the world.

It’s a net loss for society and ethics.

Open up copilot code, Microsoft, if you are so sure that everyone must wear transparent underwear let’s see you wearing some. Train copilot on windows 11 code. It’s not public domain.

Truth matters. Lies matter

Plenty of living musicians today have this capability.

It turns out that humans can extrapolate generalisms to a degree we are currently unable to explain clearly enough as a model to imitate.

It turns out that much ML is merely referenced regurgitation.

Marketing and hype are rather advanced skills in 2022, however…

I hope I shall never be forced to call a Microsoft product a person. I find your entire implied world view to be a cheap parody of the rights living beings inherently should have.

If we get to the point that capitalist maximalist-utilitarianism insists upon hijacking the very concept of what a living organism is, I can only compare it to a teddy bear vs an actual bear.

It’s not enough to merely put fur on it and an internal rom for it to regurgitate prefabricated roars upon contextual prodding.

Respect the life you are only one instance of, for hubris has always brought suffering and pain in its wake.

Yes, copilot IS copying code verbatim from GitHub hosted repos, right now.

The license and attribution are stripped from regurgitated copied code snippets. Verbatim with no context, no attribution, no citation, no reference to the project it’s part of…

If the people don’t known which project the code was taken from, how can they one day contribute to that codebase?

Copilot is an interloper who doesn’t even tell you which project the code snippet was ripped off from!!

IF they attributed the code snippet to the project they ripped it off from!!

But they deliberately don’t tell you thst… it’s just a code snippet floating in space like they invented it

You are willfully ignoring thst the article absolutely DID address this point!

The license and attribution are stripped from regurgitated copied code snippets from code projects. If the people don’t known which project the code was taken from, how can they one day contribute to that codebase? If the code projects on GitHub are not getting the people who use their code at least aware of the project, that project disappears. Copilot is an interloper who doesn’t even tell you which project the code snippet was ripped off from!!

The license and attribution are stripped from regurgitated copied code snippets from code projects.

If the people don’t known which project the code was taken from, how can they one day contribute to that codebase?

If the code projects on GitHub are not getting the people who use their code at least aware of the project, that project disappears.

Copilot is an interloper who doesn’t even tell you which project the code snippet was ripped off from!!

I see your statement as an inversion of consensus reality. What actual coder would use copilot? A beginner or dabbler.

I predict your attempt at tactically “managing” this copilot scandal will not play well on HN to experienced coders, your Microsoft colleagues chiming in next claiming it boosts their productivity notwithstanding.

Yes, I do indeed suggest astroturfing afoot.

Mmm maybe rephrase that as “depending upon which entity’s copyright was violated”

Surely I don’t need to recite the last 50 years of tech legal precedent and case history for you to see that such a blanket generalization cannot be left unaddressed.

Litigants litigate

It’s not about “learning” at all, copilot spits out copyrighted licensed code verbatim directly copied from the source to your project in violation of specific and multitudinous repositories.

They are making rips of other peoples stuff, selling the contents of peoples “books/movies/songs” sans author attribution or album credits etc… to put it in terms you may be familiar with Vinegar and salt on open wounds. Bad

Your assertion thst copyright doesn’t matter and that people should “get used to it” is… pretty incorrect on the former (surely there are still pending copyright suits on earth circa 2022) and ill-conceived on the latter (I’ll just rob your house while you sleep and you should just get used to it)

You should read the article before commenting.

The WAY it was done with copilot is the problem: no attribution, just shoving all legal liability off on the end “programmer” without providing the attribution required TO COMPLY WITH LICENSES as the diligent programmer tries to clear all the code copilot handed it without meta data.

Go read the article before arguing further, please. Otherwise you are wasting all of our time.

I sense deflection and an attempt to change the point being made above your response. It’s particularly unethical to promise a badly thought out goal that cannot be meaningfully achieved in the interests of drawing out financial support for a longer period of time.

I am reminded of the person who called their intimate partner “tomorrow” because they never came.

WHY is a fully autonomous vehicle even interesting to pursue, given that wheeled vehicles and their infrastructural requirements are such a large expense and social and environmental problem relative to the benefits provided?

I mean, out of all the moonshots, why die on this particular hill?

I consider an actual hyperloop to be a much more compelling vision for the future: those pneumatic tubes the banks use in suburban US locales coupled with maglev capsules being routed around electronically by magnetic field switching, etc… Or flying jetson mobiles etc…

Why is the current obsession a robotic driver of a boring old car ?

If companies choose to use proprietary software for needs that FOSS can and has served well for years, it would seem that those companies are cutting their own legs.

I speak primarily of Slack and Zoom and other “low hanging fruit” of already solved problems that feature VC-funded wheel reinvention made popular by their VC-brethren dogfooding said products, when threaded messaging and webRTC don’t necessitate proprietary solutions. https://meet.jit.si for example…

I don’t think mindless cargo culture is a trend to follow, nor will tech savvy devs disappear nor will the need to remotely administer servers via command lines tools disappear.

Remote Desktop solutions are not realistic tools for server administration in any sort of serious way, so I’m pretty sure that’s a niche that will always exist…

Seeking to browse the web exclusively through a cli browser, however, is probably not something one can do while working in the field of web development. The web is primarily graphic lauout based

Funny, bad drivers are one of the reasons I left windows. Even needing drivers for class compliant USB audio was a dealbreaker

Except that windows is demonstrably a less smooth solution these days, regardless of Linux even existing. Windows just sort of fell over and started stabbing itself and bleeding all over the floor, so a dead windows is just no use at all. They even removed the start control panel stuff, just gutted and useless now. It really feels like Microsoft went out on a mission to literally destroy everything they built while still mandating OEMS to suicidally preload it on all hardware anyway, and people still buy this stuff.

When are people going to state the braindead obvious that it’s never going to be the year of the windows desktop ever again, as Microsoft has committed to utterly pooping on all its users henceforth forevermore or?

Funny, same reasons why I don’t windows and just Linux.

I can’t even windows, it just doesn’t anymore

Why wait for a psychiatrist to prescribe one, go to a museum!

… or an arts center. In Brussels the Bozar stands out as particularly cool. I caught some great concerts there during a night soirée there last week, including Anouar Brahem Quartet and Arve Henriksen with Janne Mark and friends.

Free?! Now we are talking !

I don’t think it’s so tricky to analyze: they’ve deliberately sent weapons that are effective for liberation of Ukrainian territory and not sent weapons appropriate for conquesting Russia with. Germany has its own inner soul struggle regarding moving from a pacifist stance to being able to support Ukraine, but the UK and US support hasn’t been ambiguous in any way I see it.

All of this could change in a second if Pooty either messes with Moldavia/Poland/Baltics or uses um unconventional weapons. I would not consider measured responses to be an open invitation for silliness

> Eventually Biden and Blinken will back away from Ukraine...the US public will find another Current Thing to obsess over, and US troop commitments are completely out of the question. Basically, Russia gets Ukraine eventually, its just a matter of how bad the carnage is

Thank you for echoing Russian state propaganda, however your predictions are predicated on false premises that don’t match the commitments already made and fulfilled.

Your scare tactics might have sounded plausible 6 months ago, but it appears impossible for Russia to ever own and manage Ukrainian territory. The occupation has done no rebuilding, hasn’t brought drinking water supplies to occupied cities, hasn’t even managed yet to bury the bodies that still litter many streets and is an oppressive and failed occupation in every sense of the word. Presuming that this occupation is inevitable is itself a point of major contention I can’t see any evidence for.

Russia has already lost. How many more will die before it’s leadership realizes this?

Your statements are not backed up with either public communication or a lack of monetary support. In fact, the US just sent over a billion more $ in military aid. Think again.

Speculation city, and Biden did clarify precisely a response to that a few days ago. The strength of the response depends upon the relative strength of the attack. Putin has been threatening nuclear holocaust for months now, and he would be wise to not do foolish things from his petulant temper tendencies. Bullies can’t accept people standing up to them, but them typically show themselves to be spineless cowards when the medicine is returned in force. It’s kind of characteristic of how bullies are formed from weak oppressed victim types who go sour and decide inflicting pain downstream is some solution to what ails their souls.

Despite the recipes, culture war forays, and lesbian dance theoretical discourse, you will note that the Grauniad regularly breaks top stories, such as the Snowden revelations. Their international news is unrivaled in the consistency and quality of coverage. Where even an American staple like NPR regularly mixes cute dog stories with headline news, you can count on daily updates to major world storylines in the Guardian. Witness their coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, for example, to see: “day 265” or whatever it is by now, with clear threading and updates to those threads.

Al Jazeera is OK, but tends to be inconsistent in coverage and carry a relentless Gulf perspective, which is great for the region, but not anywhere close to the level of serious journalism the G brings to the table. Even the Washington Post, with its paywalled exclusive appeal to mainstream centrist Democrat-leaning upper-middle class folks fails to achieve the consistency and egalitarianism of the Guardian. It’s simply the pinnacle of modern journalism, in my opinion, and as such, belongs to its own category.

Serious journalism indeed

32bit FLOAT is 24 bits of audio data, and has the unique advantage of being the typical internal processing format of plugins and audio workstations, due to the desire for headroom while processing to avoid artifacts from overflows of various kinds, among other things. (Upsampling is also common before performing calculations that may alias or mirror.)

The stacked ADC approach does allow for a wider overall dynamic range, but I would be skeptical of the physical transducers capabilities in using it all, but the 32-but float format here appears to be largely about lossless transfer to a DAW such that further processing is lossless, as we are not converting from int to float and back.

This format could then be said to be useful as a master media format.

The article in the OP is about a flac containing a 32-bit int audio stream, however, which appears less useful and not at all related to 32-bit float

One would only have the SNR worth of content inside those 130db, was the point I think that person was trying to make. Real world physical transducers will have physical limitations of some kind, not all of which must be simultaneously surpassed to encounter said limitation.