skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super obvious you aren't focusing on Enterprise by the radio silence on asks for Teams or Microsoft TODO integration.

Since pandemic there are a ton of real companies making actual money and willing to pay for things (!!!) who are using M365. Something like 85% of companies, in fact.

I so often see products starting with e.g. Google Docs integration or dev tools integration, and feel as though, okay, you're scratching your particular itch, but please won't you pop up from SV/HN/dev bubble and let companies with money all across middle business America give it to you?

Start by adding "Sign in with Microsoft" and support the Work/School accounts not just personal. Boom, you just expanded your reach by becoming frictionless to the 85% of the market you were not previously catering to.

Also consider answering the Teams integration and Microsoft TODO object integration threads. They're sorted in your planned columns, with not a peep in over a year.

PS. Don't forget Sign In with Apple. If there is a group as apt to toss money at you for productivity as people with Gmail, it's people with iPhones and Macs.

TL;DR, your login should look like this:

https://www.xsplit.com/user/auth

PS. Yes, that example has SSO, and no, it's not that hard to add support for now that Google and Azure both have wizards, not just startups using Okta. In fact, if you get rid of the little email icon, tada, you no longer have to store people's passwords at all, and can say important-sounding things about taking people's security seriously.

PPS. Great product idea, and slick implementation so far. Countless people I know want this. They'll need you to support their IdP though.
That's fine, but it's one thing to say "I don't know, and therefore I assume it's insecure" vs saying "it's not end-to-end encrypted"

I'm just humbly asking people to be clear about what they know vs what they assume.
Did you mean 'hear, hear', or is 'here, here' something I missed?
I fully understand that Elixir might not have been the right choice for you and your team, but ...

I doubt most of the people singing most of these praises on Elixir have actually tried to go all in with it and build a business on it.

Lots have and some quite successfully

* divvy - https://getdivvy.com/blog/why-divvy-uses-elixir/

* discord - https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-scaled-elixir-to-5-000-...

* frame.io - https://medium.com/frame-io-engineering/elixir-open-source-f...

Both Divvy and Frame.io were acquired btw -

* https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/adobe-buying-frame-io-in-1...

* https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/06/why-did-bill-com-pay-2-5b-...
Posting publicly, self-posted in many cases, information hardly counts as doxxing.

and as for harassment, let alone "serious harassment", 100% utterly false.. Even talking about interacting with people talked about is and has always been banned! Users downvote attempts as well. It's a gossip and documentation site, not a place for calls to action. "Look but never touch"
The Stack is ~3tb: https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack

If you had 10tb worth of decently written code, you could probably train a competitive model.
Average down and buy the dip are real.
My mother does the same with ravens
Indeed. Just like apple, i have plenty of money set aside but i am worried about the incoming recession.
Demanding? No. I think it's a smart business decision and removes a ton of overhead and stress.

And no, App.net was Dalton Caldwell's halfhearted attempt (the UI was okay at best) after Twitter already had the network effect in motion (six years after Twitter launched).
That's backwards looking tho. We don't know if inflation between Nov 2022 to Nov 2023 will be 8.2%.
That’s just a receipt, isn’t it? Always get a receipt.
I noted what those unintended consequences are. They are that the less knowledgeable do not understand the nuances of the criticisms. All they hear is "Firefox bad, so I'll stay with Chrome." The reason of this is the sensational behavior, not the critique itself. I personally don't want any browser to have a monopoly (or excessive control) over the internet. A global utility. Competition is needed. Firefox has a lot of issues, no one is denying this. This would be a different issue if the the bashing were equal.

But this is akin to hyper focusing on Montana's Greenhouse emissions. They're problematic (one of the highest per capita) but clearly there are bigger fish to fry (<1% of US emissions). If we focus all our efforts on Montana then Texas incidentally gains, since they are the largest contributor to US emissions. Perspective matters.
I'm probably wrong about this because I've only cobbled it together from reading various ARM-related submissions, but I think that their license probably doesn't allow it. You need a special license to design your own state-of-the-art workstation/gaming desktop-class ARM CPU. And on top of that, Microsoft and Qualcomm had or have an agreement with some degree of exclusivity.
You need to think bigger — if the class action wins, it effectively would ban training AI classifiers on internet data.

Yes, we all want to stick it to Microsoft, but that’s not what’s at stake here.
Especially when this press release isn't trying very hard to make the distinction clear
This reminds me of a great short story about the intelligence of parrots, "The Great Silence" by Ted Chiang.

Full text available here: https://electricliterature.com/the-great-silence-by-ted-chia...
How does CBL-Mariner running atop the user’s distribution in WSL work? Is the userland managed by the user’s distro or by this one?
Using a computer as a consumer is an entirely different skill set from making them. Just as most car owners barely know how their machine works besides stepping on an accelerator pedal and occasionally inserting a fuel nozzle.

Even before the smartphone revolution brought computing to global masses of all income levels, most users were not makers.
> No, but capitalism is the sole source of international trade.

It's not though. As an example, North Korea's exports [0] in 2021 were around US$150M, down more than US$30Mi from the previous year. Their imports [1] were larger, at ~US$276Mi, about half the previous year's.

Cuba's exports [2] are much larger, just short of US$1Bi for 2021, and nearly US$8.5Bi imports. [3]

It's feasible to imagine that non-capitalist international trade would be of much higher volumes if it weren't for the embargos these countries suffer.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/north-korea/exports
[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/north-korea/imports
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/exports
[3] https://tradingeconomics.com/cuba/imports
People seem to forget that Hulu has been supported by this model for quite some time. In some ways, it's a return to form: television was historically supported by ads and is returning to ads for support.
what exactly were you appalled at?
Happens by accident all the time, though.

Copyright laws, if enforced perfectly, would make programming simply impossible. We've been skating by on people not really enforcing them, despite the laws still being on the books, and the existence of tools like this makes that not a viable strategy. Today it's Copilot, which can be shut down, but tomorrow it'll be something developers can run at home. Bits don't have colour; there's no way to distinguish between a copy happening by independent recreation, and one that's actually a copy. So we'll need proper rulings.

In fact, considering Fauxpilot, that will happen as soon as the models have improved somewhat.

*: Of course I don't think "independent recreation" is really a thing. Humans are excellent at open source laundering. It's called "learning".
Tape-Reading Molecular Ratchet
People online called you entitled because you were complaining about how hard life is on 200k.
For what it’s worth, I agree with you. I understand why most of the HN crowd is against this, because Microsoft is big and evil and people want to see them suffer.

But realistically, a win here would effectively ban training AIs on the internet.
Sometimes I wonder how good jira would be if developers actually embraced their environment and improved it rather than deal with $100/month plugins that don’t really do much.

Maybe jira would improve? Nah.
when I say erase years, I mean I remove positions, not hide the years

I just keep the last 5 years of work on my resume and delete the earlier ones

"senior engineer" is like 2 years of work experience anyway, it doesn't matter.
It does give you the right to write excerpts from memory though. If it happens to exactly match the text in the book, nobody gets excited about that, even if you could potentially rewrite the whole book.
Elon Musk Begins Layoffs at Twitter
How did you arrive at this? 3x salary as the norm?
What does TFA have to do with "free speech loudmouths"? I may be missing backstory on the author, even so the comment seems out of place to the article I read.
You seem to be conflating the general principles of free speech with the specific protections defined by the US first amendment.
>where is that deep hatred of patent trolls

Is it patent trolling when you are defending your future labor from being made obsolete by megacorps and signularitarians using your past labor without permission?

No, it's justice.
I blame both, but I think the audience/reach factor is more ubiquitous. Specifically, I think the problem is an inability for most people to properly filter in sufficiently large rooms, not the audience/reach factor in and of itself.

This commenter is talking about whatsapp behavior in Brazil and gives an example of a seemingly similar situation where there doesn't seem to be as much engagement focused algorithmic influence at play https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459878
> The use of RPM though is IMO a bad choice and one that lets me know that it is very unlikely that this would ever become a major distro for Microsoft.
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Interesting take. Care to elaborate?
Nope, because anyone forking would have to come up with new name and run their own community.

If you are building an SPA then there is always Mint[1] (it's an Elm like language).

[1]: https://github.com/mint-lang/mint
These are such great questions, and worth exploring IMO. My thinking is biased towards online communities (like old Usenet groups or mailing lists) and not towards giant free-for-alls like Twitter, so I think I have a lot of blind spots, but this is something I've thought about a lot too, so it's great to hear peoples' ideas, thank you.

> I think it requires either a formal taxonomy [...] or a post-hoc cluster-based system identifies the semantic distance

Yeah, I wonder if some existing subject-x-is-related-to-subject-y mapping could be used, at least as a hint to the system, e.g. all the cross-reference info from an encyclopedia. When communities become large enough, you might also be able to tease out a little bit of additional info from how many people in group X also participate in group Y maybe.

As an experiment, I'd also be curious to see how annoying it'd be to have your reputation not transfer across communities at all, but instead you build reputation via whatever that community defines as good behavior and having existing community members vouch for you (which, if you turn out to be a bad apple relatively soon after joining, then their endorsement ends up weakening their reputation to some degree a little too). There are some aspects to how it works in real life that are worth bringing over into this, I think.

> system model the difference betwwen a knowledgeable jerk (reputation 5/10) and a hapless but polite and constructive novice (reputation 5/10)?

I touched on this in a sibling comment somewhere though I've long lost track of the threads, but I think the platform would want to rely on human input to some degree - part of being a good community member is doing things like periodically reviewing a batch of posts that got flagged by other users. In one community, there might be an 'anything goes' mentality, where another may set stricter standards around what's considered normal discussion, and so I think it'd be hard for a machine to differentiate but relatively easy for an established community member (again though, it always has at least a micro impact on your reputation, so how you carry out your reviewing duties can also increase or decrease your reputation in that community).

Odds are too that, if you occasionally have to put on the hat of evaluating others' behavior, it might help you pause next time you're tempted to fly off the handle and post a rant.

Anyway, the focus of the technology would be less about automatically policing behavior and more about making it easier for communities to to call out good and bad behavior without much effort, and then having that adjust a person's reputation - often very tiny adjustments that over time accumulate to establish a good reputation.

> independently of their domain knowledge, they have a behavior reputation that follows them to new domains

I really like this a lot.
Indeed, this is often how you distinguish between a mere camera trivia nerd (or camera salesman) from someone with an eye for composition, color, and proportion.
Does this mean my GoDaddy Office 365 e-mail is going away?
>So, why should an AI be treated different here? I don't understand the argument
for this.

Because the AI is not a human and only humans have rights, including the right to learn.
I think this was a Slashdot April Fool’s about 20 years ago.
> own experience in republican-white dominated areas includes attempts to block buildings for minorities, gloss over historical events to favor one side, suppress different viewpoints, forced participation in Christian religious activities even at the governmental level, and deeply ignorant, bigoted takes on the “other”

What does that even mean? Are people in Texas making you take Communion? Are they beating you for being brown? Yelling profanities in the street? Are they robbing you or denying you jobs?

And if not, how does any of that affect your daily life? That all seems extremely abstract to me. How can it be more relevant than democrats wanting to legalize discrimination against Asians in universities and workplaces? That’s concrete harm. Why should I care what “takes” some white person in Kansas had about people from Muslim countries, when democrats want to legalize discrimination against my kids?
I disagree.

Because different cameras facilitate different types of pictures. Partially through ergonomics, partially through technical capabilities, and partially because these overlap.

An iPhone SE has a different picture making envelope than an 8x10 large format view camera, and both are quite different from the latest full frame DSLR (which offers different ergonomics and capabilities than a similarly sensored mirrorless).

What I would say is that the camera is among the least interesting aspects of a picture…not the least interesting because the color of the photographer’s pants is objectively less interesting.

The focus on cameras is in part because shopping is easier than making pictures.

And the ways in which better cameras are described as better is usually by parroting the marketing points of camera manufacturers…the sharpest of corners won’t make anyone weep.
Ory Keto is in Go. Maybe they wanted an alternative available in Java perhaps?
So I may create a tool that is capable of "incrementing every hex value" of an image, and also of "decrementing every hex value", and than distribute any of your images after "incrementing the hex values", together with said tool, right?

Or maybe it would be enough to just zip your image, to be allowed to distribute it? In the end the bytes I would distribute than "would be so different then your original image that you wouldn't have any claim to them at all", right?
check out - https://apex.sh/

Really good!
Yeah, and that’s completely fine.

I’ve seen this point made before, but it assumes you use the entire input as output, which is silly.
You do have to admit that it is Microsoft (and the other vendors of similar CoPilot-like services) that are on the side of "Information wants to be free!" this time. The irony of FOSS advocates reversing course on their own principles to oppose it is deep indeed.
And not one bit of even evidence that the site had anything to do with that.. Keffals wasn't even doxxed on the site, it was on another site. Plus the person in question just got done fighting and de-platforming another internet personality with a huge following and then gloating about taking away their livelihood. They didn't leak photos of Keffals, they found self posted porn from the past.

Stop posting misinformation!
I'm in favor of the First Amendment remaining at least this strong. None of the above things strike me as nearly as dangerous as "the ruling party being able to suppress criticism and opposition by claiming that their opponents' words have potential for ill social effects".
That's not a solvable problem. People are going to try to kill their leaders if they get upset enough. And given how high the stakes are in the modern state which controls every aspect of our lives its going to happen. Whether that's Ortega-Hernandez trying to kill Obama or Hodgkinson trying to kill Republican senators...

The best you can do is try and convince them otherwise, which requires talking to them rather than ejecting them from your community and having them form little communities out of the rejects that then radicalize.
> The cost of being a jerk online is too low - it's almost entirely free of any consequences.

Put another way, not everyone deserves a megaphone.

Devil's Advocate here...Let's presume you're correct. The question is: who gets to decide? Who gets to says, "Sorry, no soup or megaphone for you."

On the other hand, light sanitizes.

However, as you noted, reputation matters. And too many who should be able to outshine a jerk, don't have the juice, nor the will.
Wow, thank you. This is exactly right.

The entire response to this suit on this site is mind-blowing to me. Everyone is up in arms that someone trained an AI model that could potentially spit out tiny, twisted fragments of public, open-source code. This response is nothing but selfish behavior that runs counter to the core principles of open source development and the free software movement.
You could try to contribute a license-finder for copilot that would detect potential copyright violations and emit valid attribution / reproduce the licenses of copyrighted works that copilot's output is derived from.

Oh, and you'll want to detect incompatible software licenses and prevent derivative works from being created with such conflicts .

In so doing, you would be helping Microsoft to follow the law and respect my copyright. The lawsuit would probably evaporate overnight.
Mariner isn't being pushed for others, it's a way for Microsoft to mitigate risk of supply chain attacks in their services currently using other distros
Hunter Biden's "laptop" is a misdirection campaign.

The contents appear to be from Biden but whether or not it was actually sourced as claimed will likely never be verified (the recipient is conveniently effectively blind).

But those that care about this story only seem to care about the story about the story, i.e., that there was effort to prevent propagating it.

I find it fascinating that every person who is hung up on this story doesn't care about the substance or relevance of it.

In regards to substance, it's a story about corruption. The corruption on its face is irrefutable (i.e., Hunter Biden was paid money in an attempt to purchase the influence of his father). That's genteel, old school corruption.

But the relevance of it is that Hunter himself is a private citizen and his (mis)conduct is not really newsworthy. But the implication of it is that his father is equally corrupt (which has not been shown), and that is the entire point of the story.

That charge of corruption is important to deflect any reports of corruption by the political rival of Hunter's father (of which there's significant reporting of such).

My commenting here is pointless yet necessary: pointless because I've yet to see a cogent rebuttal, and necessary because this topic is toxic and should be countered as best possible.

edit: 4th paragraph substance to relevance
It’s used as the “system distro” for running support services and stuff before/between when distros are loaded. The distro userland sits on top of the VM running CBL-mariner (and I’m almost certain that when you run multiple wsl distros they are all in one VM, though that may be wrong).

Of interest, the CBL-Mariner ”system distro” is where the X server is for WSLg. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/wslg/main/docs/W...
It helps that Signal uses an HTTPS apt repo and includes "signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/signal-desktop-keyring.gpg" in the apt list entry. If their download server were compromised, (and assuming the hacker didn't also get the private gpg key) the attacker would have to provide malicious archives selectively to avoid detection. Anyone who installed the old key (e.g., me) would notice the key validation errors.
Because when you ship a security product it's important to control who distributes it under the official name.
Not parent, but I assume it's something in relation to https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/robinhood-to-pay-70-million-...
Extend,Embrace,Extinguish
Amix – Amiga Unix
Also no death cert or even family comment either.. Just a "friend" who "heard" over the phone.
That one fails the "toned down" aspect. It looks like one of those old G-Shock monstrosities. Definitely not the same aesthetic as the Pebble.
They effectively told their users "you're being children, we know better than you".
> The future of desktop Linux is a VM under Windows.

Is there really any demand for this though? What Linux gui apps exist that windows users want/need? Enough that Microsoft sees an addressable market large enough to get roi?

The inverse seems to have way more practical use cases that could actually drive revenue - games and legacy business applications (as mentioned in the esr prose).
But there is no equivalent of "unzipping" for Copilot.

This is a generative neural network. It doesn't contain a copy of your code; it contains weightings that were slightly adjusted by your code. Getting it to output a literal copy is only possible in two cases:

- If your code solves a problem that can only be solved in a single way, for a given coding style / quality level. The AI will usually produce the same result, given the same input, and it's going to be an attempt at a solution. This isn't copyright violation.

- If 'your' code has actually already been replicated hundreds of times over, such that the AI was over-trained on it. In that case it's a copyright violation... but how come you never went after the hundreds of other violations?
> And we are fucking bickering about how we were cheated out of $0.00034 because our repo from 2015 might have been used for training.

I just hope Microsoft AutoPlagiarist is not the Final Solution to Free Software they have been seeking since before the millennium's turn.

Seems to me this discussion is likely to pivot on a fulcrum located between "old enough to remember Microsoft before Bill Gates began spending his ill-gotten gains on philanthropy" and "young enough to see Microsoft primarily as the Xbox people".
What data about you could they possibly make money off of, in less than a megabyte, that is worth more than the cost of putting the modules in?
A fact that most people don't believe is that users of addictive services don't really care that much about downtime. They will complain but keep coming back.
“About half of Twitter’s workers appeared set to lose their jobs, according to previous internal messages and an investor, though the final count may take time to become clear.”
Jack Dorsey Unveils Bluesky Social, the Decentralized Twitter
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey might have something for you – Bluesky Social, a new “decentralized social network” that reportedly aims to reclaim user data. Dorsey stepped down as CEO of the social network he co-founded in 2006 in May 2022.