skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
copilot will be interesting in 10-20 years. Now it's an early stage ml driven experiment in a field that hasn't advanced in forever - the strides it'll make will be very gradual, incremental and filled with mistakes along the way.
I think it goes beyond defusing seriousness.

Setting a surprised pikachu icon conveys way more meaning than anything I can think of in ascii form. All the Slack workspace I’ve seen had specific custom images that helped bring nuances in discussions that went a long way to give an angle to interpret your thoughts.
Copilot doesn't seem like the right word. Maybe first year college student with no previous programming experience? Then it would be clear what level of help you are actually getting.

Impressive, for sure. Unclear whether it's a net-positive tool, though.
Literal unearthing is a fairly rare usage, compared to "to discover through the expenditure of effort". The more-common usage doesn't need quotes; they imply either that it's reported speech, or that the author is sceptical.
Cavalry is amazing and pretty disruptive. It’s much easier toLearn and it’s working fast. It’s a great example of magical software design.
> Every day a crack doesn’t come out is one more teenager who is hyped about latest game who will buy it.

Taken literally, that's all of ~60 additional copies sold!
That article is dated 2020, while I'm referring more to changes throughout the 20th century, the Bretton Woods era etc. The UK had formal capital controls until 1979, for example.

> the US government, despite its vast powers, fails to stop it.

Yes, and so long as it fails to stop it there will be pressure to "do something".

And establishing a threshold below which there is no surveillance is unstable, because immediately you have to face "structuring", and the digital space makes this worse. If there were to be truly free no-surveillance payments of $1, say, people would move a stolen billion as one billion payments of $1. This is already happening with gift cards: https://www.napier.ai/post/prepaid-cards

The truly big money laundering is incredibly difficult to stop, because it can fund its own bribery zone that can extend to entire countries.
Gabe's DRM platform isn't as bad as the rest! That's the thing: he saw a service problem and tried to solve it best he could. Steam's DRM is way less intrusive than Denuvo.
> me @'ing them several hundred times about ICE

This is such curious behavior to me. Does someone really @ a corporation hundreds of times about anything? Does this have any effect? Should it?

It makes me doubt the rationality of the author’s post if ve truly did this. Although I suppose maybe their use of Twitter is just completely different from anything I understand.
> So, yeah… Their "anti-piracy measures" actually lost them a sale that would have likely turned into a repeat customer

Yeah, and in the same vein, I skip buying games which have certain DRM systems in place (like the nefarious Denuvo). Again it's a lost sale for them, since often it's the only thing preventing me from buying an otherwise good game.
I have to agree with barcoder here. To top it off the use cases for a filter aren't that great due to the temporal nature of stuttering.

For a look into the intersection of technology and disabilities I found this interview with a live streamer with tourettes pretty incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tlWjsaF1Og
The £3-5bn fee is a one-off payment (I think..), so you can't really compare it to a single year's profit. It'd need to be amortized against the lifetime of all the iPhone products that are covered by the patent.
Reads a lot like Jordan Peterson. Essays on psychological symbolism are hard to judge; I’ve read some Jung and Campbell but my comprehension still feels weak.
I had not considered the proliferation of terrible open-source code on GitHub. I'd wager that the amount of code in public repositories from students learning to code may outweigh quality code in GitHub.

I wonder if there was any sort of filter for Copilot's input — only repositories with more than a certain number of stars/forks, only repositories committed to recently etc.
We have tons of opportunities in the UK to build a mobile firm. ARM is based here, for starters.

Unfortunately with Brexit it has become fashionable in certain quarters to 'do-down' the UK's capabilities.
Why? You might disagree but the article is interesting?

Can you also assert that there’s nothing “natural” you can do that would systematically help with COVID prevention? Quitting smoking, running, healthy inmune system with dieting and so on?
A colleague implemented a small utility in Clojure (~50 lines long) that worked great. It led to a mandate that allowable languages are: C/C++, C#, Python.

The colleague left 4-5 years ago for an external job. Part of the problem was the utility needed some enhancements/extensions and nobody wanted to continue it in Clojure. I think it was rewritten as an overhaul/revamp of the larger project it was part of.

I also left but for a different internal position where I can write C/C++, Java, Rust, Python (no C# in new group because new job is writing software to run on linux, and our IT does not support dotnet core - in addition there is no demand from us because we have a zillion lines of code all written before any dotnet on linux existed). EDIT: Old group can use C# because that work was on Windows (just to clarify C# wasn't dropped company wide).

Anyway, some orgs might be more receptive to "exotic" languages but I know where I work you'd have to fight really hard to do it. I was pleasantly surprised to see Rust got the thumbs up.
Reading the documentation on MDN[1] it looks like it sends more data than just the Origin of the request. Metadata headers include if the user initiated the request (e.g. navigation or click events?) and how the data is meant to be used (e.g. as audio data for <audio> or a top-level document).

This spec seems really powerful, provided all browser support it :)

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers#fe...
I am not sure how to interpret your sense of "oddity":

if somebody is investigated for something, it does not mean they did it. The grounds to conduct an investigation are not necessarily good. Innocent until proven differently.

You understand that some may find deeply disturbing that an employer ceased the relation because of «deeply disturbing» charges.

Anyone can be subject to error or defamation.

I read on these pages recently about Chris Avellone. Supposing it was a case of gratuitous defamation out of "I thought he was different" etc., what is the responsibility of the company which dismissed him?
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Still not as passive aggressive a response as a single thumbs up emoji
I'm pretty sure that this conclusion isn't new, but I've come
to think that Copilot shouldn't be thought of as a better
developer, but merely a quicker one. Obviously its code
will be somewhat average, considering that it's been trained
on code the only unifying characteristic of which is that it's
public.

Something like Copilot, but trained explicitly to analyse
the code instead of writing it could be much more useful, imo.
Basically a real-time code review tool. There are similar
tools already, but I'm talking of something that is able to
learn from the actual codebase being worked on, perhaps
including the documentation, and giving on-the-go feedback.
I wouldn't bet on it, they didn't filter by license after all.
Can you give some examples where something like this played out the way you describe? Even a single example?
Sure. Worth mentioning cars are also insured, so there is no loss for the owner as they get a "refund". That means there is monetary loss for them. The car maker is also happy to sell them a new car. The only people losing are those in between. Just like with software. You know, those people also work for money.
right? I think I saw it myself and I'm not around water that much
Cases should be irrelevant at this point with considerable vaccination coverage of the most vulnerable tier groups.

Does anyone even remember why all this started?
It's an executive order, there is only so much the President can mandate outside of the organizations he controls. Look at most of Trump's presidency, feckless EO's that in the end were reversed anyway or were blocked by a court. My guess is that the goal here is to have the regulating authorities be "encouraged" to put the screws to some of these big-X companies. In other words, have them set their policies based on the general direction given by the President. I think that's probably normal operation.
That is the equivalent of having a 5m column on one side and being open to air on the other side.

There is no free lunch - for the membrane to experience 100m of water pressure on one side only, something else has to be reducing the pressure by the same amount on the other side.
Luckily global warming should be killing me about the same time machine learning is taking my job. That's pretty good planning right there.
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CCTV is impersonal, and rarely watched.

Impersonal collection and personal collection evokes very different concerns in people. Impersonal bulk collection is easier to dismiss as "they're not looking for me", whereas the latter raises all kinds of questions about motivation.
> We know the rules of society are arbitrary

Author clearly has an underpowered pattern recognition module.
Forking a project is fine. Stealing the name is not. It creates confusion as to which is 'real'.

The original is the real NSM, the fork, if they really want to be seen as legitimate, should do a full scale rename.

It really is that simple. All the rest of the comments are noise.
i can’t play a game on my steam account while my son plays another game on it.
Sounds about right to me.

Fermi estimate:

apps-not-abandoned * average-developers-per-app-this-year ~> 2 million apps * 2 developer-months ~> 333,000 developers
Web technologies have become the most productive UI layer due to a lot of developer work on abstracting them via things like React and the many React-based view libraries.

The same kind of paradigm could be done with native-mode libraries but nobody has done it because all the momentum is behind web technology now.

My real argument was that fighting this trend may be pissing into a hurricane. All the momentum may be behind web tech, so maybe we should just focus on making it better as a UI layer and fixing its problems instead of developing native mode UI layers that nobody will use.

WASM may eventually liberate us from JavaScript. Another way to do that would be to add C/C++ level API hooks to web renderers like Chromium and WebKit to allow the DOM to be manipulated from native code. Then we could write a native UI toolkit using web view renderers with no JavaScript at all.
As a filter that can be enabled in a video player UI, it would act very much like subtitles or voice over - here it is an aid to the consumer and everybody makes their own decision. As a mandated thing for all stuttering content it's limiting freedom of expression and is bad. My point is that it is not black or white, and it depends how something is deployed.
Can't mention numberblocks without Alphablocks as well. The BBC did something awesome with both of those shows.
> But then how does the buyer make money? They buy a ton of stock of a company that still might go out of business.

But then how does the short-seller make money? They short a ton of stock of a company that still might not go out of business.

See how it works both ways?

As for everything else, I don’t know what to tell you - there is no basis in reality for your extremely narrow hypothetical construction, so there is nothing to argue with. As someone with some expertise in finance and investing I am telling you that you don’t understand what you are talking about, and I don’t mean that in an insulting way - this is complicated stuff. You can choose to ignore me as an a-hole on the internet, or you can choose to take the feedback and accept that there is more for you to learn on this subject before you offer opinions. It’s entirely your call.
The author's reflections after stopping using emoji:

"In the end, I found myself adding a lot of exclamation marks, "hahaha", and writing more sentences to better communicate my mood. The need to better convey my messages forced me to have a deeper understanding what I was trying to communicate in the first place. Sometimes, a heart means “I love you”, “I miss you”, “I hope you’ll feel better soon”, “I love what you’re saying”, etc. Was I expecting my interlocutors to guess the exact meaning? I’m happy that it forced me to phrase my thoughts, look deeper into them, better identify and express them. I had to write "Thank you" or "That's great!" instead of adding a reaction emoji under a Slack message, Twitter DM, or Discord message, and I like to believe that those words carried more value than one more thumbs up added to the pile."

This helped me make a connection to a larger phenomenon in changing speech, something which I struggle with. Emojis a way of communicating with loose precision. There are also analogous ways to do so while using words. And there are speakers in their daily speech which greatly lean into the saftey of loose precision to the point of subterfurge and agression.

A 'like' softens all opinion. A 'you know' coerces the listener to agree. A 'whatever' implies others' priorities are misplaced. An 'uh' or 'um' is a don't interrupt me! Overreliance on ambiguous prounouns. 'Stuff' or 'Thing'.

I find these mechanisms off putting. They sometimes correlate with paranoia, esteem issues, or sociopathy. So I try to avoid such speakers if possible, since I feel like an asshole to point it out.

It's ok to wait until your thoughts are formed. It's ok to be incorrect. Pick your target and try to hit it. If you communicate with loose precision or emoji you inhibit building knowledge together.
The 7-38-55 rule is a useful way to think about communication even if it isn’t strictly accurate. My own feeling is that the percentages are more evenly divided between words, tone and body language. I think emoji go a long way towards making up for the failings of text only conversation but we’d be even better off if we could capture the tone as well.
Well, ok. But the reason it costs more in the US is because it is illegal to go to Germany, buy drugs, ship them to the US & sell them.

If that was legal, someone would do it and make bank. And it is the US that is responsible for those laws.
> My 18-year old son, who I mostly communicate through text messages, went cold on me recently. I assumed he was angry about something so I called him. No, he had decided to give up using 'childish' emoji. I asked him to reconsider.

It's very common for me to place a smiley at the end of a message. Text or image, doesn't really matter, but it serves as a marker of "how I'm feeling about this message". Most common are some variety of :p and :/ .

I think they serve a useful purpose, but I do get self-conscious about including them in every message. :/
Yes so lets hand our kids over to advertisers and the state, that's always worked out wonderfully.
> Ultimately, a human being must take responsibility for every line of code that is committed. AI should not be used for "responsibility washing."

That's the whole point, and the rest is moot because of it. If I chose to let Copilot write code for me, I am responsible for it's output, full stop. This is the same as if I let a more junior engineer submit code to prod, but there aren't blog posts about not letting them work or trusting them with code.
With the pace of technological innovation, I'm honestly not sure what a similar product will be able to accomplish in 20 years. It'll be crazy for sure. But I'm worried about today.

This is a product by a well-known company (GitHub) which is owned by an even more well-known company (Microsoft). GitHub is going to be trusted a lot more than a random poster on Stack Overflow or someone's blog online. And GitHub is explicitly telling new coders to use Copilot to learn a new language:

> Whether you’re working in a new language or framework, or just learning to code, GitHub Copilot can help you find your way. Tackle a bug, or learn how to use a new framework without spending most of your time spelunking through the docs or searching the web.

This is what differentiates Copilot from Stack Overflow or random tutorials. GitHub has a brand that's trusted more than random content creators on the internet. And it's telling new coders to use Copilot to learn things and not check elsewhere.

That's a problem. Doesn't matter what generation of the program it is. It creates unsafe code after using its brand reputation and recognition to convince new coders to not check elsewhere.
I’ve never met a person inspired by what we thought the Internet would be in the 90s who isn’t sad that it went the way it did. I suspect the more idealistic of the cryptocurrency people will also feel nostalgic when Goldman and JP Morgan run blockchain in a few years.

It’s extremely tempting, especially to technical people, to believe that some piece of technology will create net freedom and equality.

The reality is more mundane: technology is just a fancy word for tool, and the only thing the guillotine ever freed anyone from was tomorrow.
The android app doesn't work without forced broad access to all storage. The reasoning provided for the Android app's storage permission[1] is a privacy nightmare.

1. Performance reductions for sake of privacy is acceptable.
2. Feature reductions such as watching a directory are also acceptable. No other app even uses this feature. This isn't Linux.

In any case, The app can still run without storage access, but chooses not to. It can access it's own internal storage at root without permissions. It can also access a dedicated app specific directory in external storage. If I just want to use the app without storage permissions, I should be able to.

1: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/Android+app#Storage+Permis...
I think there is some difference. You don't come across some piece of code by chance, you were actively looking for it, probably there were multiple blogs, SO entries with needed information, one of those sources has to be chosen. You know that this is some random blog post or SO answer given by someone fresh.

Copilot is something different. Code is suggested automatically and, what's the most important, suggested by the authority - hey, this is GitHub, huge project, largest code repo on the planet, owned by Microsoft, one of the most successful company ever. Why should you not trust the code they are suggesting you?

And that's for starters before malicious parties start creating intentionally broken code only to hack system built with it. Greedy lawyers who will chase some innocent code snippet asking to pay for using it, etc.
An important input to this (and similar) algorithms is multiple sequence alignment, which tells the algorithm which parts of proteins are preserved between species and variants, and which amino-acids mutate together. So already it is relying on natural selection to do some of the work. And the algorithm will probably not work very well if you input a random sequence not found in nature and ask it to find the folding.
They literally didn't exist back then though. so not just the term was unknown back then, the practice itself too...
Must-read psychology books
"Best they could do" on the budget from EA.
My completely amateur understanding of chip manufacturing progress is that it is not bound by routing problems or similar (which I am guessing you are referring to), but by lithography physics, chemistry, etc. I might be wrong though, are you saying that faster chips are actually becoming possible because more compute power has become available through the previous generation of chips, at this point?
==There aren't any other markets where "pricing controls" are needed.==

The minimum wage rate is a price control.
So you don't have any corroborating evidence, any sources, anything other than your word? You might as well be making it up. "Well I'd get in trouble if I'm wrong" isn't a good defense, especially on a pseudonymous forum where people post wrong information constantly. I think the odds of AMZN trawling through your comments to try and figure out who you are just to pursue libel charges are as close to zero as anything could be.
I actually think this was maybe one of the few things Trump's admin did that roundly was viewed as good.
Procrastination is your antifragile mechanism
And this story that windows drivers work forever is a rosy tinted view of the world. Many drivers (my ltc scanner) stopped working working from win9x to xp. I saw an USB projector driver break when a system was updated from win 7 to 8. The same device worked as a fb device out of the box on my rockpi4. And windows drivers are platfrom dependent, the same driver will nit work on 32/64 systems or arm/x86. Linux is entirely another world.
Interesting concept. If I was in the market, I'd be looking for a way to find people based on specific topics that were relevant, or even just shared cultural background. And maybe more than just "conversation" but maybe someone who had stories to tell (or a listening ear for stories), or could teach something etc
That's not particularly alternative, it's interventions completely accepted by the medical system.
I disagree with your way of looking at this, There's monetary loss from the insurance company because someone has to pay someone to make that one specific car that you want to steal, while the software is already written and distribution is free. In the case of software, nobody pays. Hardware, someone always has to pay.
> We should start seriously considering other paradigms. If diet and exercise are out as explanations for the epidemic, what could possibly explain it? And what could possibly explain all of the other bizarre trends that we have observed?

> [Next Time: A CHEMICAL HUNGER]

That's the part I really wanted to see. I've now bookmarked it so I can read the next instalment. I expect to hear some fascinating theories -- perhaps some modern equivalent of lead poisoning of ancient Rome.
> Sometimes, a heart means “I love you”, “I miss you”, “I hope you’ll feel better soon”, “I love what you’re saying”, etc. Was I expecting my interlocutors to guess the exact meaning? I’m happy that it forced me to phrase my thoughts, look deeper into them, better identify and express them.

Actually, I think the ambiguity can be an advantage. One interesting thing I noticed in communicating in a foreign language is that sometimes, I'll feel like either of two meanings might be appropriate -- and the other language has a word that might have either sense. It always feels like a big win to use that word when that happens.

On the other hand, I used to message someone frequently who would use really weird emoji like a pig face, and who steadfastly refused to ever explain what any of them meant. That got annoying.
I switched from Bear to Obsidian due to the inertia of bear development. What hooked me was:

- Vim support

- text files on disk

- plugin support. community around it makes that worth it. currently i have 16 plugins installed. and most of them work fine on the mobile app too
Ok so, option C: philosophize for a while, then follow option B. For the vast majority of customers, the calculus during an Amazon outage still favors option A.
Depends on the locations and cars in question; on the east coast there are lots of DC Fast charging stations between anywhere and anywhere else.

This is double true for Tesla where there are superchargers nearly everywhere. With access superchargers, road trips are roughly as complex as driving a diesel with a 5-8 gallon tank.

Also the tesla UI is very good at managing the trip so it is trivial to offload the "how do I get there including charging" task to the UI.
What exactly do you find restrictive with MD?
Me, a user with shitty internet -> =(