skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an absolutely amazing onboarding experience. Drops you right into the product and you "get it" almost immediately. Then context pops up and describes what you just saw with the option to continue playing before signing up.

Love the call to action in the sample too "remember to save :point_up:" - but that wording threw me off a bit. Why save and not "save by logging in"? Does saving not happen automatically after every change?
> Why go for a user and not Microsoft themselves?

1) the user likely doesn’t have the legal resources of Microsoft.

2) the user is the one committing the infringement.

If Microsoft stood behind this they could offer to indemnify users against lawsuits relating to CoPilot usage, but they don’t.
He was saying the opposite, one of the biggest supporters of regulation in the space, and reportedly had several one on one conversations with Gary Gensler of the SEC and was the second largest donor to Joe Biden
The Progress Forum
Might I suggest Jitsi? We've used it with success with our older relatives.

https://meet.jit.si/
Be great if you could open your certificate store, look through the list of roots, and see how often you have used each one, and a list of sites they have approved.

Then you could say "hmm, these I've never used -- set it to manual approval for each site they try to authenticate"

Or "For this one, that's great, I'll use it to authenticate .ae domains, but nothing more, or I'll allow .bankofchina.com, but nothing more"

Would only apply for 0.001% of browser users though, and they are the ones who are more likely to push for a better solution which will apply to the rest of the world, so I can see why they don't want that.
Braeburn has a lower rank than Pink Lady? This ranking system is broken.
SWAT teams are one option, but they're not the only option. Sometimes surprise might be more beneficial.

Presumably not even the police want to be shooting it out in the middle of an apartment complex.

And I guess the general calculus is that even the most aggressive neighborhood bystanders in America are usually less dangerous than a criminal suspect.

But it speaks to the contradiction: the entire point of a no-knock is surprise.

But legal, authorized surprise is practically incompatible with the second amendment (as currently interpreted) and stand your ground laws (as increasingly being passed).

So... that leaves us in the ugliness of reality.
While adding a new CA to trusted set requires some kind of rigor, there's a quite large selection of CAs that were just "always there".

Since many browser vendors are reluctant to remove CAs (because it breaks lots of websites for users), they don't have too much leverage enforcing security practices.
I’ve been dabbling in this, and created my own keyboard layout to include all kinds of math characters using the right Alt key for level 3 and level 4 shift. Also replaced caps lock with the compose key. Didn’t take too long to get accustomed to it since it’s a corruption of the Greek keyboard layout (which is laid out similar to QWERTY).

I haven’t had the audacity to use it in production code, but it’s interesting to play around with and great for quick note taking or hacker news comments. (Sadly I’m on my phone right now to not make use of it for this comment)
No Cox?
And his "wealth" shrunk far more than what he had to liquidate and pay twitter for.

Because no sane organization will lend out real cash over the same amount of collateral TSLA stock, and leveraged lending opens TSLA to extremely high risk as value dropping would means Musk will be forced to sell to cover/and or stake more TSLA. This is exactly how FTX failed - they counted their own token as their "asset". Spoiler: it didn't work.

Does this wealth have a high impact on the world? Of course it does. But does it has the same impact as same volume of cash? Absolutely not.
Can’t solve which problem?
Do you make less than minimum wage? Because even at minimum wage it saves me enough time a month to pay for itself. In my opinion it has a positive ROI after a single day.
secureboot is a nightmare from user perspective. its not a simple case of enabling it like some buttons and options might have you beleive. besides kernel taint from major vedors refusing to sign their kernel binaries there is actually tons and tons of stuff to be aware of. grub is one cog in the machine which is difficult to understand and configure (including external config options like kernel options which affect it somewhat).

sometimes i liken secureboot to zero trust. its more a concept than a technology. shame some features and options are having it as the name, misleading people with a simple misconceived string value :<
Yes, they are pretty popular in the US but somehow less popular overseas.

I think they are great to prevent bacterial growth below the gumline.

IMHO very underrated.
Is 'what would a microsft dev do' really the bar we want to live by, though?
Time to talk about Linux on mobile perhaps.
As others have said: what about the stuff that never catches on?

3D TVs
AR glasses
Luggage that follows you around
phones with projectors built in
Segway
etc
Love the game. I wish I had taken a screenshot to help describe this, but I completed with 68 moves and in the 15th percentile. On the lower right of the completion page was an illustration of where my solution fit - to me, it looked like the illustration was showing a small number of solutions "above" mine (I assume the 15% of people who took more moves) and a large number "below" mine.

My intuition is that "Higher is better". I would expect my solution to be near the bottom, not near the top. Of course, maybe it's complicated because I have a higher number of moves than most, so maybe the thinking is "higher is higher"?

Minor minor issue. I love the game and I think the stats page is great.

One other issue - it's sometimes hard to select which character you want if both the rabbit and the dog are on the same node.
Also, it gives Coinbase plenty of growth opportunities ahead. This makes Coinbase, IMO, a great way to get exposure to the crypto space.
lots of the money came in 2021 and 2022.

the audits done in july 2021 were by armanino and prager metis, both of which are trying to expand into the digital asset space and would stand to benefit from continued growth and success by ftx. the implication i am making is that there was no way for the audits to be unbiased.

if the audits weren't junk, the company probably wouldn't have been big enough to cause such a mess
What're the examples of false positives?

Agreed it gets things wrong very frequently. But I've found it much easier to use its suggestion as another "input" to writing code.
A parasitic fungus turns ants into 'zombies' (2019)
politely but firmly (with all my soul) disagree.
I've read elsewhere that below $13K it is not profitable to mine bitcoins.

We're very close to this threshold now, given what is happening now and during the next few weeks I would not be surprised if BTC is going below that threshold.

I think it's time to stash a few bottles of champagne.
This. If copilot suggests anything more than basic syntax or boilerplate I don’t use it. If it writes code I don’t understand or wouldn’t be able to write myself I won’t use it. Why? Because at the end of the day it’s my code. In what world is a good engineer submitting a PR for coworkers to look over that isn’t their code?

If this is a real issue the solution is not banning yet another tool. It’s education. Teaching engineers how to properly understand code attribution and licenses.
He still thinks Twitter's issues are technical. They are political.
Even rogue states have their own CA's and we are trusting them.
Thát is a real security concern.
This is definitely not the heart of the problem. Governments issue bonds for what turn out to be bad investments all the time.

The heart of the problem was the completely unnecessary default which seems to have been done for petty and self-defeating political reasons.
Rose's is barely juice, probably only really suitable for gimlets. You can get straight lemon/lime juice in glass bottles. I find that works as a mostly fine alternative if I don't feel like squeezing.
Jitsi is a good option IME. No signup required, just click a link.

https://meet.jit.si/
Sure - on the day of the next presidential election in US, tiktok shows everyone political content that makes them vote one way or another - tailored specifically to their interests and presented in the way that is most likely to have an impact. Before the government has any chance to react, the damage is already done - what do you do then?

Or they can do the same but in a way more subtle way over months or years, they control the algorithm after all.

Or they can influence how people feel about Taiwan, Ukraine, military, religion or a million other topics - they have the audience. They do this already elsewhere too - see comparison between what tiktok shows you in Russia and what it shows you in Ukraine.

And yes Amazon Facebook and Google can do the same - but they are American corporations so the American government obviously isn't going to act against them..
There’s like 5 clones from major US companies, people haven’t moved yet.
Are you talking about the site from the submission? To be fair, it never claims itself to be HTML only. It does say performance was improved by being much more mindful about how much other stuff, including CSS and javascript, is included. The linked blog post about the perf improvements goes into some detail about that. Doesn't smell like false advertising to me. The site then goes on to show by extreme example that you don't technically need anything other than HTML to make a website.

I do agree with your points about what is necessary these days. A dash of CSS, tables only for tabular data, other small touches. Like, that's a more reasonable standard for "what is necessary". And to me, I think your comments are in line with the spirit of the original post.
Faster DNS Name Decompression
In Intellij or Visual Studio, syntax suggestion/tab completion are already great. Those technologies - which involve none of the legal risks of Copilot- are a massive step forward in productivity. Copilot does help extend these benefits to other languages that I occasionally dabble in, like Lua and embedded C, though it's clearly better in languages which are better represented in its dataset.

I don't find the natural language comment to buggy algorithm part of Copilot to be particularly useful. I know some people asked to be able to write a "DoWhatIMean(), method, but programmers really only wanted that to auto-expand to "protected virtual void DoWhatIMean() {}" without having to wait 30 seconds to check for a compile error and see if it was protected void virtual or protected virtual void...
I love this idea and have used it in my own, personal projects, and it really works! I was playing around with the AWS CLI the other day when I received a WARNING email out of the blue.

It turns out that my canary tokens were configured by default on my local system and I didn't realize it. It surprised me, but in a good way. I like security solutions that stay out of the way but are simple and still work when they should.
This is simply fantastic - learned plenty of stuff about apples while genuinely laughing until my face hurt.
> You get, what, 5% on your USD: great. But real inflation is, say, 12%. So that's still 7% down.

Sure. But lets say you put $100,000 into BTC last year, exactly 1-year ago. BTC's price on Nov 17, 2021 was $60,3xx or so. So you'd have 1.66 BTC. Today, that BTC is worth $16,650 or so. Or $27,639

Then, real inflation is... I don't think 12% but I don't feel like arguing. So I'll use your numbers. According to your 12% inflation number, you're at $24322.32 in 2021 dollars.

That is to say, if I stuck with US Dollars, I'd largely have most of my money. If you used BTC, you'd have lost most of your money.

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We've had the big inflation event that the BTC community was "hoping" for for years. And BTC *FAILED* the test. Everyone who bet on an "inflation hedge" lost most of their money.

> I was all in cash after the war in Ukraine started

I bought oil. An oldie but a goodie strategy. Wars need oil, and Ukraine/Russia have substantial oil trade, so I knew that oil prices would rise.

Also, because oil is a huge component of inflation, its... like... actually an inflation hedge? (EDIT: I guess others could have bought food futures, like grain and/or corn, given the huge amount of Farmland in Ukraine that's been hampered by the war, plus also as an inflation hedge since Food is another major component of inflation. That would have done well too)
This is like saying "potatoes are all you need to make a meal." I mean, no, you're not wrong. But nobody really wants to eat what you're making.
Do you think we'll be writing software 200 years from now?

50? 25?

I'll bet the people spinning cotton thought that would endure forever.

(Sorry if my tone comes across as fervent. I'm excited to be displaced by this, because what follows is the stuff of dreams.)
The lesson learned is that frauds can go on for a long time. It took decades and a once in a generation market crash to expose Bernie Madoff. Enron spent years running their sketchy accounting. Wirecard was only finally exposed after the German government essentially lobbied on their behalf against the journalists trying to expose the fraud.
Honestly - I think you're wrong here.

You seem to be stuck in the era where the "web" was really about distributing text content - often blogs or articles.

I'd argue that's not really what the web is anymore. A good chunk of it still does that (for example - this discussion probably falls into that category). But there's a whole section that actually is distributing applications using html/css/js.

They are not distributing long form text. They are providing spreadsheets, collaborative word documents, rich monitoring and analytics solutions, custom CAD software (yes, really - https://www.tinkercad.com/), online chat applications, plus far more than I can list.

Basically - if there was a desktop app for something, there's probably a website version of it now too.

So - no, I don't agree that the web is just text. I also don't agree with your main focus comparing it to books.

Imagine the fucking gall it would take to walk into a comic conference and say this: "Imagine if people criticised books for the fonts they are printed in, how the paragraphs are formatted, whether they have images, and so on."

How out of touch would you seem?
https://archive.ph/pURO3
The Enron scandal would have been much more interesting if their CEO had tweeted through it.
The Center for Strategic Translation Glossary
> Until I can chat with all... regardless of which chat app

I should remind you that your application and their application will share your messages but may have very different privacy policies.

(Some problems will persist and still require further assessment and decision and possibly division.)
Yes! Exactly.

The article suggests that he wants to know "who wrote the code" if a senior dev he trusts submits a PR. He doesn't want to be surprised that "the AI" wrote some of this code.

But its ALL written by the senior dev. If he trusts that dev, that means that dev has thoroughly read and tested his code! That's the important bit. Remembering proper syntax/imports/nesting levels is the tiniest piece of writing good code. And copilot can take that off our hands.
> As long as tech companies remain fantastically profitable the culture will not change.

I think it’s slowly changing. Maybe not getting “boring” and stodgy but changing. The culture from fb and goog in 2005 of crazy perks like food is probably going away. It’s probably be replaced with new things, like WFH and super funded 401ks and cushy healthcare. It’s a sign of an aging workforce and a changing WFH first culture. Eg Google provided digital (and pricy) reusable Covid test kits to everyone during the pandemic.
I'm surprised that he doesn't blame Caroline Ellison more for what's going on. She ran the hedge fund, she f'ed up, and when she f'ed up she took funds from FTX.

These people are such idiots.
> the type of code executed on a page changes wildly depending on what you're doing and what actions you take.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I feel like one of my goals for mature software is to start factoring out common bits of code so that a lot of the workloads either share code in common, or share output in common (avoiding code re-execution).

There's a high correlation between Choose Your Own Adventure code that's doing random stuff for every request and my unhappiness on a project. I usually find at least a few highly effective people on any team who sympathize or agree.

If at least 20% of the code isn't "in common" I'm uncomfortable. In common doesn't necessarily mean every task, but multiple tasks. EG, every task runs 5 of these 20 common concerns.

I'm a sucker for complementary code and processes though. I am sure that some of my preferences in software design have an origin story in hardware sympathy, some in ergonomics/cognition, and a number in both. I couldn't begin to guess which opinions started with which observation at this point. Did I rationalize a human optimal solution or rationalize a hardware optimal one?
The point of crypto for the vast majority of people is to not be the one left holding the bag. It's just a ponzi scheme that's open for anyone to participate in.
How much web does removal of these CAs actually impact? I’m an English speaking westerner* and most of the certs I see signed are either letsencrypt or digicert.

* Relevance: I assume other languages / countries use more localised certs.
KX Kdb+ and Intel Optane STAC-M3 Benchmark (2021)
It's a decentralized system https://freeread.org/ipfs/
I also work for a crypto payments firm

There's a lot of interest in taking crypto payments mainstream, but large, established institutions are unwilling to expose themselves to the regulatory risk they would take on by building this stuff.

A lot of these folks express extreme skepticism in the media, but are super willing to talk/partner in private.
Red Delicious hate is is one of the corniest high-status opinions I see currently in rotation.

Red Delicious apples are regarded as some of the best apples on the planet by most people, the SV and NYC types hate on them because poor people like them.
Well you could actually very much look at it as childish.

The "free" food is obviously paid for by the company with money that could otherwise go to salaries.

If everyone got higher salaries and food was charged for, then you could make choices about spending money in the cafeteria or saving money bringing food from home. Adults make choices.

By making the decision for you that you'll take the lower salary but get unlimited food, the choice is being made for you, much like a parent decides for a child.

So yes, there's a very strong argument to be made that "free" lunch takes away adult autonomy and is indeed "childish".
You might want to take a look at some of the pieces of code examined in Google vs Oracle before you decide small and obvious cannot bear copyright in the way that you think it does.

That horrifying back and forth showed that lawyers can consider very small and obvious fragments of code to be absolutely copyrightable. And that it went on for nearly a decade, should tell you that none of this is simple.
> But that's up to each individual.

I'm with you, but my friends and family are all on Instagram and Discord, even if they're using the browser version of those apps. There's a lot of interest in Mastadon since Musks' Twitter antics. I hope it takes off, along with Matrix, but the network effects are really powerful.

It's nice to see all the development going into WebAssembly as it promises independence from proprietary desktop OS's. It also allows proprietary applications that are even more locked into a vendor's subscription model than traditional desktop software. So yeah, more web is great, but we can't assume that the web and open standards are the same thing.
Where do you live then?
I was excited for the Cosmic Crisp to broadly hit the market. I have been a Honey Crisp fan for a long time, but was looking forward to seeing if the CC could beat it.

Turned out, I just don't like the CC at all. It's too sweet? And the sweetness is syrupy almost. And I miss the tartness of the HC, I guess.

Cool looking apple, with all the stars on it and all, but I actually think the ranking places it just right. e.g. in "The Most Overhyped Apple of All Time" category.
I'd be interested in learning more of what you mean about "good programming". If you mean the standard practices around software engineering - code reviews, unit testing, integration testing, automated testing, archiving and version control, and so forth, then yes, I would agree that CS programs don't teach "good programming." However, speaking as a math major who has had to continually study to remediate gaps in my understanding of CS fundamental, my impression is that CS majors do a lot of programming, especially around algorithms and data structures, operating systems, and compiler design, and were way ahead of math majors like me at the end of college. And I actually had a somewhat CS oriented math degree, since my classes in number theory, numerical analysis, linear and non-linear optimization, and graph theory all had programming labs.

What are these schools where an algorithms class has no coding assignments? At my college, you could take graph theory in the math department and not take the optional programming lab, but in CS? Really? Not saying this doesn't exist but... weird.
Yes, your example is more stupid. Because OP never asserted that "anybody be allowed to walk into the testing facility for new military planes."

It is beyond stupid, and an absolute affront to the First Amendment, that it is against the law for a US Citizen to even draw a picture of something they can see with their own eyes, while standing or flying outside of a restricted area.

If the military doesn't want people to see stuff, then don't leave it outside where it is visible.
Here’s a real example of someone making it about themselves. This is a real post from someone else from LinkedIn:

In the summer of 2008 I had just got back from an internship at Microsoft when the impacts of FC started to land. Microsoft was generous to extend me an offer (to start in 2009 fall), and as I just started negotiating my recruiter reached out to me to let me know that I have 24 hours to accept the offer due
to 18,000 employees (~18% of workforce) being let go.

It was a mind numbing number. These were people and families that we knew and had an amazing summer with. I personally knew interns who had declined offers to try and negotiate a different offer who did not have anything to show
for all the hard work put in.

I came back to campus a few week later to complete chaos. Harvard Business School, at that time, was a feeder school to Finance and Consulting. I had so many friends whose internships were yanked from under them. In some cases bankrupt banks came after part of the tuition payments that they had made on behalf of their former (now students) employees. Over the next few months we saw families and lives disrupted, mortgages, visas and plans thrown into
disarray.

I felt thankful to have a job then. And I feel thankful to have a job today.

My hope for Meta emerging from these deep, needed cuts is that (a) we telegraph clearly that we are done with cuts for now and we give teams the psychological safety to work and create impact (b) we take the moment to reevaluate who we are as a company and how we evolve systems to value
what we need in our employees to accomplish what we need going forward.

To Meta employees who have been laid off today. My network is your network. Please ping me here. I am deeply networked in the Seattle community and am happy to make introductions for you. In addition to that I am happy to make
time to do resume reviews and/or interview coaching and feedback