cmsefton

What are being called GitHub Copilot Products seems to confuse products with licensing plan and features.

I always think of GitHub Copilot as the product.

I can purchase the Business or Enterprise plan.

That enables features like Reviews, Chat and so on.

IMO this chart (at least for GitHub Copilot) is confusing products, features and licensing.

That's not to say it isn't confusing understanding what features are available when you get a GitHub Copilot license, but calling them all Products feels wrong. I can't purchase GitHub Copilot Reviews separately as far as I'm aware.

Minor nitpick: OP didn't say "maybe very likely". He said "hopefully very likely". They are, in my mind, different things.

Thank you!

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47191414

Agreed. We use RFC language at work for documents, and whenever I see someone using the word SHOULD, I always ask what is the MAY where you don't need to do the thing? If they can't think of one, then make it a MUST. SHOULD always means there are valid reasons to not do it.

Ah thank you, missed these!

The craziest thing about UK energy is that it uses marginal pricing, where the price of energy is dictated by the most expensive generator to meet demand i.e. gas. Doesn't matter if your energy is coming from wind or solar, you're still going to be charged according to the price of gas. Until this can change, consumers are always going to suffer and think green energy isn't cheaper.

I posted it as a separate message before I saw yours, but you can view it here https://archive.ph/GMB11

https://archive.ph/GMB11

Surrey University Press Release: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/news/justice-being-lost-translation...

And next week, "Meta argues new Law AI tool trained on books from Pirate Library is fair use."

I've also tried many things over the years.

The problem was always about finding a process that fit with my needs, a process that worked for me, and then having the discipline to stick with it.

I finally settled on bullet journaling. I like books, I like writing, I like journaling, the simplicity and adaptability worked for me. There was value for me in being able to tailor the system to my needs, rather than me trying to fight with UIs that forced me to change, or didn't quite do what I wanted.

If you are resisting or fighting your system, it will fail, regardless of the tools involved. Go with what works for you.

That's not my intention of the word peace. Whether through surrender or negotiation, it's the end goal I'm referring to.

Can you explain why you think that's what I'm advocating?

I am one of those that think that the dropping of the bombs was unnecessary.

The decision is complicated and multifaceted. It's also difficult to know what could have happened if they hadn't done it. If my brother had been born a woman, he'd have been my sister.

To your point of some people refusing to surrender on the Japanese side, on the US side Generals Douglas MacArthur and Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Admiral William Leahy opposed the dropping of the bombs, and viewed it as completely unnecessary. Does this then demonstrate it was not needed, because there were elements who did not support it?

The Japanese had no navy to speak of at the time, America had complete air superiority, and had no qualms of firebombing Japanese cities and killing its civilians. They were essentially already defeated. There were peace envoys from the Japanese side towards the end of 1944 onwards exploring a negotiated peace. Peace was already likely without the need of a ground invasion, if it had been explored seriously.

What seems likely is that dropping the bombs was an attempt to end the war on American terms, with no Soviet involvement in a negotiated peace. It likely had little to do with avoiding a ground operation; those plans were never approved, and it's unlikely they would have been needed.

I don't discount that people may really have believed and intended that this would save American lives. I do think there were other reasons behind dropping the bombs, however, things are rarely binary.

Edit: I should also add here that from the Japanese perspective (for example, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa), the invasion of the Soviets is considered to be the deciding factor in ending the war, and not the dropping of the bombs, so even the assertion that the bombs were responsible is questionable.

This resonates. The article has some interesting points, and get where they're coming from. Unpacking can be helpful to think about the next smallest step, but I agree, thinking of all the things ends up creating a mountain that looks too hard to climb, nevermind that many of the questions and challenges you ask may not even materialise. My main takeaway is just to ask the question of why you want to do this thing you've said you want to do, and what the next smallest step is to do it. If you find yourself enjoying it, carry on.

For example, when people say they want to write a book or be a novelist, what they really mean is, they want to have written a book and been a writer. They're looking at the finished product. This is likely true of most people who want to do X, because they see it as a solution to their current situation.

The better thing is just sit down and write stuff. Poems, diaries, letters, very short stories and vignettes. See where it takes you.

The professor thing made me laugh, because some people like helping others grow and learn and blossom, despite all the day to day stuff. That was my step father's motivation for it. He found he enjoyed it.

There is value in just throwing yourself into something and seeing if you enjoy it. For example, I have a friend who started brewing his own beer. He loved everything about it, and enjoyed it. He connected with other home brewers, and gradually he ended up becoming a master brewer. He didn't start with the end in mind, he threw himself into what he was doing and carried on because he enjoyed it. Funnily enough, another friend started roasting his own coffee beans because he liked drinking coffee, and today he sells his own beans, and has just opened his own coffee shop. He carried on doing it, because he enjoyed it.

I've always liked Tim Minchen's advice on this: "And so I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. Be micro-ambitious. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you… you never know where you might end up. Just be aware that the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery. Which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. If you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out the corner of your eye."

2015? The title should be 2025.

I immediately started thinking about Brazil when I read this, and a future of sprawling bureaucratic AI systems you have to somehow navigate and correct.

The headline really made me cringe.

Previous discussions (there are many!)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43830613

Thank you for this link, very informative.

Thanks for that, I always forget that people outside the UK tend to get redirected to .com and submit that.

Pine martens were driven to extinction in England at the turn of the 20th century by the loss of forests and persecution, with gamekeepers in particular targeting the animals for preying upon pheasants and poultry.

Studies have also shown the pine martens are effective predators of grey squirrels, giving hope that they may provide a natural control for the introduced squirrel, which damages trees in commercial plantations and has virtually wiped out the red squirrel in England.

If, like me, you were wondering whether they also predate red squirrels, apparently pine martens hunt and eat grey squirrels far more, as they're able to easily raid grey squirrel nests. Red squirrels have evolved alongside pine martens and have better awareness to the threat they pose. This article was informative:

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/pine-martens-predate-o...

Looks like someone's done it:

12:36 AM Flores LATIN MAFIA

12:36 AM Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley

12:32 AM El F Natanael Cano & Junior H

Ah right, I understand. Thanks for clarifying.

I skipped ahead in the book to chapter 8 entitled "Rewiring the Machine", which delves into what to do, and the first point is "Worker Power", with unions specifically mentioned.

They also mention it here (amongst other things) in this paper which may address some of your points: https://fair.work/en/fw/publications/ai-for-fair-work-from-p...

I came across them while reading Feeding The Machine: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/publications/feeding-the-m...

Very insightful book so far.

They seem very aware of issues around AI, I'm wondering why you think otherwise?

He recounts this story in his book, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, which is a cracking read. The audiobook is narrated by him, so I imagine that would be worth a listen (not done it myself). I had the privilege to see him talk in London several years ago, and the thing that struck me from both the talk and the book, was how curious he is is about things, and his general attitude of just trying to do the things he was interested in regardless of obstacles, exploring his ideas, no matter how hard, outlandish or crazy they were.

We've run the Juice Shop as a capture the flag competition at my work twice now, once as an individual event, and then a few years later as a team event. Heartily recommend it, it's a lot of fun, you learn a lot, and it's very, very addictive. A great way of learning how these exploits work.