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Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by samtheprogram »

praash wrote: post #455
samtheprogram wrote: post #396

What a joke. Nearly as many upvotes as tmux-rs in half the time, ~50% more comments, and this is just shy of the front page / twice as far from #1. Doesn’t seem to match the natural algorithm.

My observation is that HN intentionally downranks highly commented threads. I used to think of it as unfair, but now it truly makes sense, considering: - Posts with high comment-to-vote ratio often have political, scandalous or other kinds of heated themes - Highly popular/engaging posts already act as self-amplifying snowballs - High-volume discussion triggered by emotions is hard to navigate, is repetitive, and att…

This was informative. Thanks for the analysis.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by vlovich123 »

aleph_minus_one wrote: post #397
mathiaspoint wrote: post #370

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Did you not understand what YC was? They're essentially an investment bank that doesn't accept new clients. They make money, they're not a charity. Quality only matters insofar as it drives sales and doesn't create liabilities.

> Did you not understand what YC was? They're essentially an investment bank that doesn't accept new clients. They rather sell themselves as early-stage startup incubator. See https://www.ycombinator.com/ "We help founders at their earliest stages regardless of their age." "We improve the success rate of our startups." "We give startups a huge fundraising advantage." and https://www.ycombinator.com/about "The overall…

The exchange the cache of their brand and access to their network + 50k and the company gives up 20% equity. That doesn’t sound too dissimilar from any other VC - their incentives are only loosely aligned to their portfolio companies.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by pyman »

taytus wrote: post #367
JonChesterfield wrote: post #246

"Fair enough. Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first. We’ve now revised it. Thanks for your contribution." We didn't notice that we copied your codebase, changed the name then pretended to have built it in four days? Good grief.

This is the type of shit YC invest in? It has been like this for a long while. So fucking shady.

I blame Zuk. His slogan was "Move fast and break laws", later changed to "things" by his lawyers.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by taytus »

pyman wrote: post #473
taytus wrote: post #367

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the type of shit YC invest in? It has been like this for a long while. So fucking shady.

I blame Zuk. His slogan was "Move fast and break laws", later changed to "things" by his lawyers.

You can, but you'd be wrong.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by xandrius »

Hasnep wrote: post #332
xandrius wrote: post #291

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Probably you've been out of the getting hired game but I had a glimpse of it last year: absolutely terrible. When I started you'd send a mail to the company directly about a position, you'd go to the office, have a short interview, meet the team and they'll let you know. That's it. Now it's 2 rounds of HR bs, 3 layers of tech interviews, then meet the CEO/CTO/etc. And then references and then a final "chat". And you…

A two week probation means that nearly all candidates will need to quit their current job to do the probation which seems unlikely to be popular with candidates

Well, if you're shopping while already having a job then it's different.

At least a company needs to be willing to pay for 2 weeks before making someone go through hoops and loops.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by xandrius »

dahart wrote: post #399
xandrius wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably you've been out of the getting hired game but I had a glimpse of it last year: absolutely terrible. When I started you'd send a mail to the company directly about a position, you'd go to the office, have a short interview, meet the team and they'll let you know. That's it. Now it's 2 rounds of HR bs, 3 layers of tech interviews, then meet the CEO/CTO/etc. And then references and then a final "chat". And you…

I actually like your idea of a probationary hire, but you can see this is just an even longer extended interview, right? If companies were to adopt this model en masse, they would over-hire and then drop most people after the first 2 weeks, and you’d be out looking for another job, having wasted even more time than 5 rounds of interviews, and being unable to interview for multiple jobs at the same time. Software inte…

If I was out of work, I'd very willingly accept a 2 weeks probation if that meant getting paid for the opportunity.

If these companies are ok to people for people they already know they won't be hiring, that's cool.

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by 6thbit »

Some shady stuff. They seem to have "re-created" the main branch, and force pushed an "Initial Commit" with GPLv3.... https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/commits/main/

Maybe they don't know that the history is still there? https://github.com/pickle-com/glass/activity?ref=main

https://web.archive.org/web/20250704222510/https://github.co...

Re: My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]

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Post by lelanthran »

hopelite wrote: post #275
HacklesRaised wrote: post #160

One starts to wonder whether the LLM vendors laissez-faire approach to the legality of ingesting copyrighted / licensed material will start to infect the industry in general?

I have yet to hear a convincing case for why what the LLM vendors did/do is different than what humans do to learn and become proficient in producing their own work. Do you owe everyone you have ever read a royalty for influencing your writing style or voice? How about for all the other things you have leaned and become competent in? There is a bigger issue here that is related to what humanity actually is and how we…

> I have yet to hear a convincing case for why what the LLM vendors did/do is different than what humans do to learn and become proficient in producing their own work.

That's because you have either not read enough or have been dismissing the very sound case: Scale.

In law, scale matters. It might be legal to possess a single joint while at the same time being illegal to possess a warehouse of 400 tons of weed.

Now, at least, you cannot say anymore that you have not heard a convincing case for why ingesting every single piece of work by an artist with the intention of out-producing them is a bad idea.

You have heard at least one, supported by precedent in law in multiple jurisdictions.

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Post by [deleted] »

mopenstein wrote: post #467
XenophileJKO wrote: post #310

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From an open source software perspective, I don't understand the feelings around LLM ingestion. The models isn't generally recreating your software, but might be spreading your way of thinking in pieces. I get it from the artists and to a lesser degree, writers. I just don't understand it from software projects. I guess if you think of it as something to replace you, but since you are already a creator, it is also a…

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mopenstein wrote: post #467
XenophileJKO wrote: post #310

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From an open source software perspective, I don't understand the feelings around LLM ingestion. The models isn't generally recreating your software, but might be spreading your way of thinking in pieces. I get it from the artists and to a lesser degree, writers. I just don't understand it from software projects. I guess if you think of it as something to replace you, but since you are already a creator, it is also a…

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