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Can we change the title to “GitHub _signs_ deals with Google, Anthropic” ? The original got me thinking it already had deals it was getting out of
by holografix 2y ago
Can we change the title to “GitHub _signs_ deals with Google, Anthropic” ?
The original got me thinking it already had deals it was getting out of
- eddd-ddde 2y agoI agree, very weird choice of words.
- kelnos 2y agoTo "cut a deal" is a common (American?) English idiom meaning to "make a deal". But agree that it's better to avoid using idioms on a site that has many visitors for whom English is not their first language.
- archgoon 2y agoDo you mean that Bloomberg should have used a different title or Hacker News should have modified the title?
- pxeger1 2y agoI think Bloomberg’s at fault: “cut a deal” isn’t usually that ambiguous because it’s clear which state transition is more likely. But here it’s plausible they could’ve been ending some existing training-data-sharing agreement, or that they were making a new different deal. Also the fact it’s pluralised here makes it different enough to the most common form for it to be a bit harder to notice the idiom. But since we can’t change the fact they used that title, I would like HN to change it now.
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