HackerNews Summary (2023-05-08 01AM)

Source: The ‘Devil Bird’ Lands in New York, With More Likely to Come

Summary
A devil bird, or an Anhinga, has made a rare appearance outside of its migration range by perching over the treetops of one of the Three Sisters Islands in Prospect Park Lake, Brooklyn. It has stayed there for over two weeks.

Facts

🦜 Anhinga is a large water bird with a snaky neck that is generally found in Southern states along the Gulf coast to Texas.

🦜 The one spotted in Prospect Park is the first devil bird observed in Kings County, and only the second sighting in NYC since 1992.

🦜 The name “anhinga” comes from Tupi Indian language of Brazil.

Source: Please don’t upload my code on GitHub

Summary
Developers are requesting others not to upload their work on GitHub due to the Copilot feature, which suggests lines of code by scanning GitHub repositories. This is causing a problem with copyleft licensed code as Copilot does not identify the original author nor license, resulting in violations of license terms and intellectual property.

Facts

🤖 GitHub’s Copilot is an AI pair programmer that suggests lines of code by scanning billions of lines of public code on GitHub.

🔍 Copilot might suggest copylefted code without any notice of the original author or license. This violates the license terms and the intellectual property of the authors of the original code.

📝 Developers request that others do not upload their code on GitHub to protect their work from legal abuse.

💻 Even if a project is not hosted on GitHub, someone else with the legal right to redistribute the source code can share it on GitHub. This violates the license terms when Copilot analyses the code.

⚖️ While not a legally binding document, adding a badge to a website or repository’s README requesting others not to upload the code on GitHub is an ethical choice.

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