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> seems like a possibly immature teenager. What makes you say that? Couldn’t it be an immature adult? > because they have a suspicion you might use AI Was th

by latexr 11mo ago

> seems like a possibly immature teenager. What makes you say that? Couldn’t it be an immature adult? > because they have a suspicion you might use AI Was that the reason? From what I remember (which could definitely be incomplete information) the complaint was that they were clearly using AI while claiming no AI had been used, stole code from another project while claiming it was their own, refused to add credit when a PR for that was made, tried to claim a namespace on open-vsx… At a certain point, that starts to look outright malicious. It’s one thing to not know “the rules” but be willing to fix your mistakes when they are pointed out. It’s an entirely different thing to lie, obfuscate, and double down on bad attitude.

radlad 11mo ago
I just want to point out that even if you are correct, as a Zig outsider, none of this is obvious. The situation just looks bad.
- latexr 11mo ago
  I’m a Zig outsider. I gathered the context from reading the conversation around it, most of it posted to HN. Which is why I also pointed out I may have incomplete information. If one looks past the immediate surface, which is a prerequisite to form an informed opinion, Zigbook is the one who clearly looks bad. The website is no longer up, even, now showing a DMCA notice.
- LexiMax 11mo ago
  The way these sorts of things look to outsiders depends on the set of facts that are presented to those outsiders. Choosing to focus on the existence of drama and bullying without delving into the underlying reason why there was such a negative reaction in the first place is kind of part and parcel to that. At best it's the removal of context necessary to understand the dynamics at play, at worst it's a lie of omission.
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ants_everywhere 11mo ago
The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture, which was pointed out by people who understand language, including me. Now it appears that the community has used an MIT attribution violation to make the Zigbook author a victim of DMCA abuse. That doesn't look great to me. It doesn't look like a community I would encourage others to participate in. > tried to claim a namespace on open-vsx It seems reasonable for the zigbook namespace to belong to the zigbook author. That's generally how the namespaces work right? https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse%2Fopenvsx+namespace+claim&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse%2Fopenvsx+namespa... https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Namespace-Access https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Namespace-Access. IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument. The zigbook author was doing normal software engineer stuff, but somehow the community tries to twist it into something nefarious. The nefariousness is never stated because it's obviously absurd, but there's the clear attempt to imply wrongdoing. Unfortunately that just makes the community look as if they're trying hard to prosecute an innocent person in the court of public opinion. > At a certain point, that starts to look outright malicious. Malicious means "having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful". The Zig community looks malicious in this instance to me. Like you, I don't have complete information. But from the information I have the community response looked malicious, punitive, harassing and arguably defamatory. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in any open source community. Again, prior to the MIT attribution claim there was no evidence the author of Zigbook had done anything at all wrong. Among other things, there was no evidence they had lied about the use of AI. Malicious and erroneous accusations of AI use happen frequently these days, including here on HN. Judging by the strength of the reaction, the flimsiness of the claims and the willingness to abuse legal force against the zigbook author, my hunch is that there is some other reason zigbook was controversial that isn't yet publicly known. Given the timing it possibly has to do with Anthropic's acquisition of Bun.
- latexr 11mo ago
  > The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture It seemed that way to me at the start too, but it quickly became apparent. Even the submitter thought so after going through the git history. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952436 > It seems reasonable for the zigbook namespace to belong to the zigbook author. That's generally how the namespaces work right? Yes. Bad actors try to give themselves legitimacy by acquiring as many domains and namespaces as quickly and as soon as they can with as little work as possible. The amount of domains they bought raised flags for me. > IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument. No idea what you’re talking about. Was the Zigbook author interested in cryptocurrency and criticised for it? > The nefariousness is never stated because it's obviously absurd, but there's the clear attempt to imply wrongdoing. That’s not true. It was stated repeatedly and explicitly. https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/ https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/ Them stealing code, claiming it as their own, refusing to give attribution and editing third-party comments to make it seem the author is saying they are “autistic and sperging” is OK with you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095338 You really see nothing wrong with that and think criticising such behaviour is flimsy and absurd? > I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in any open source community. I’m certainly not excusing bad behaviour, but this wouldn’t even fall into the top 100 toxic behaviours in open-source. Plenty of examples online and submitted to HN over the years. > Malicious and erroneous accusations of AI use happen frequently these days, including here on HN. I know. I’m constantly arguing against it especially when I see someone using the em-dash as the sole argument. I initially pushed back against the flimsy claims in the Zigbook submission, but quickly the evidence started mounting and I retracted it. > Given the timing it possibly has to do with Anthropic's acquisition of Bun. I don’t buy it. The announcement of the acquisition happened after.

by latexr 11mo ago

radlad 11mo ago

I just want to point out that even if you are correct, as a Zig outsider, none of this is obvious. The situation just looks bad.

latexr 11mo ago
I’m a Zig outsider. I gathered the context from reading the conversation around it, most of it posted to HN. Which is why I also pointed out I may have incomplete information. If one looks past the immediate surface, which is a prerequisite to form an informed opinion, Zigbook is the one who clearly looks bad. The website is no longer up, even, now showing a DMCA notice.
LexiMax 11mo ago
The way these sorts of things look to outsiders depends on the set of facts that are presented to those outsiders. Choosing to focus on the existence of drama and bullying without delving into the underlying reason why there was such a negative reaction in the first place is kind of part and parcel to that. At best it's the removal of context necessary to understand the dynamics at play, at worst it's a lie of omission.
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ants_everywhere 11mo ago

The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture, which was pointed out by people who understand language, including me. Now it appears that the community has used an MIT attribution violation to make the Zigbook author a victim of DMCA abuse. That doesn't look great to me. It doesn't look like a community I would encourage others to participate in. > tried to claim a namespace on open-vsx It seems reasonable for the zigbook namespace to belong to the zigbook author. That's generally how the namespaces work right? https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse%2Fopenvsx+namespace+claim&type=issues https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aeclipse%2Fopenvsx+namespa... https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Namespace-Access https://github.com/eclipse/openvsx/wiki/Namespace-Access. IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument. The zigbook author was doing normal software engineer stuff, but somehow the community tries to twist it into something nefarious. The nefariousness is never stated because it's obviously absurd, but there's the clear attempt to imply wrongdoing. Unfortunately that just makes the community look as if they're trying hard to prosecute an innocent person in the court of public opinion. > At a certain point, that starts to look outright malicious. Malicious means "having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful". The Zig community looks malicious in this instance to me. Like you, I don't have complete information. But from the information I have the community response looked malicious, punitive, harassing and arguably defamatory. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in any open source community. Again, prior to the MIT attribution claim there was no evidence the author of Zigbook had done anything at all wrong. Among other things, there was no evidence they had lied about the use of AI. Malicious and erroneous accusations of AI use happen frequently these days, including here on HN. Judging by the strength of the reaction, the flimsiness of the claims and the willingness to abuse legal force against the zigbook author, my hunch is that there is some other reason zigbook was controversial that isn't yet publicly known. Given the timing it possibly has to do with Anthropic's acquisition of Bun.

latexr 11mo ago
> The claims of AI use were unsubstantiated and pure conjecture It seemed that way to me at the start too, but it quickly became apparent. Even the submitter thought so after going through the git history. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952436 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45952436 > It seems reasonable for the zigbook namespace to belong to the zigbook author. That's generally how the namespaces work right? Yes. Bad actors try to give themselves legitimacy by acquiring as many domains and namespaces as quickly and as soon as they can with as little work as possible. The amount of domains they bought raised flags for me. > IMO, this up there with the "but they were interested in crypto!" argument. No idea what you’re talking about. Was the Zigbook author interested in cryptocurrency and criticised for it? > The nefariousness is never stated because it's obviously absurd, but there's the clear attempt to imply wrongdoing. That’s not true. It was stated repeatedly and explicitly. https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/ https://zigtools.org/blog/zigbook-plagiarizing-playground/ Them stealing code, claiming it as their own, refusing to give attribution and editing third-party comments to make it seem the author is saying they are “autistic and sperging” is OK with you? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095338 You really see nothing wrong with that and think criticising such behaviour is flimsy and absurd? > I don't think I've ever seen anything like it in any open source community. I’m certainly not excusing bad behaviour, but this wouldn’t even fall into the top 100 toxic behaviours in open-source. Plenty of examples online and submitted to HN over the years. > Malicious and erroneous accusations of AI use happen frequently these days, including here on HN. I know. I’m constantly arguing against it especially when I see someone using the em-dash as the sole argument. I initially pushed back against the flimsy claims in the Zigbook submission, but quickly the evidence started mounting and I retracted it. > Given the timing it possibly has to do with Anthropic's acquisition of Bun. I don’t buy it. The announcement of the acquisition happened after.