skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really getting tired of lawyers, and collectively our "inner-lawyer", poo-pooing this merely for licensing and GPL issues, neither of which have any practical implication on anything a software engineer does.

All this "controversy" around Copilot just reeks of a kind of technological "social justice" that most people didn't sign up for but seem happy to sit, watch, and commiserate on.
There’s quite a few things I’ve built or been involved in building (I just do this on the side, but I’ve had a few commissions and it’s all primarily gaming-based):

- Discord as a notifications service: perhaps the most common thing I’ve built, but it’s very common for there to be a lot of things that people want to be notified about (an activity that starts every x hours, <thing> just spawned, price of x just hit y, shop that has different stock every day has x today, etc) a variety of things. How it’s usually done is that a bot posts notifications to a central #notifications/#announcements channels in a guild and people sign up for roles so that they get pinged for notifications that they want. I’m not sure if you already support this, but it shouldn’t be that much work

This was before the whole follow channel feature, but that’s very limited and I would imagine this is very common even outside video games, as you said live game threads, pings for when a streamer/game starts, etc

- Ad-hoc wiki: a lot of guilds have what’s basically a few (or many) wiki channels, and I’ve been involved in turning that into a bot-controlled channel that also syncs to a website so non-discord people can access it and you can index, search, etc (see `pvme.github.io` for example; I wasn’t involved in building it but it’s very similar to stuff I’ve built)

I’ve wanted to build what’s basically a wiki that’s discord bot controlled (to bring the interface to where the editors are), but also a has a nice web interface, access control, etc. but never found the time or the motivation

- Database frontend - various different forms of “write these things into a DB, and then spit it back out in a nicer format”

- Crappy REST client - sometimes games have stuff that’s only hidden behind obscure APIs, so you just write a bot that forwards /commands to the correct endpoint and spits it back out

- Informal market - some features around aggregating price/demand/supply information for informal trading of game stuff, for lack of a better term

Edit: I completely forgot, but communities around streamers/YouTubers are probably a huge market. I haven’t been involved in that area, but I know friends that funded a nice vacation from building bots for these people. Stuff like patreon management, perks, moderation, engagement, etc that I see your service as a perfect fit
> We're talking about a fundamental regulation hurting innovation here.

Which innovation is being hurt by this?

> yet we're the ones giving our data (which we don't have to)

In practice, there's not much of a choice between "give up your data" and "don't participate in society". It makes sense to use regulation to fix that.

> forcing a ridiculous amount of cookie accept boxes virtually on every website on Earth is not the way to go.

The GDPR provides a great way to avoid consent boxes: stop tracking your users!
This happens entirely too often on this website.

I used the phrase 'inherent value' to describe what you're referring to as 'use value'. But of course someone decided they had to argue against it by arguing that the trade value between countries went negative at one point (which isn't all that surprising but has nothing to do with the original point).

arguably 'use value' is a better phrase, but given the surrounding explanations, the poster engaged in a clear strawman.
Context is important - for a random person wanting to keep up better on financial stuff, $2500/month is extremely pricey.
It wouldn't be extradition, it would be sanctioning. Same mechanisms and difficulties apply as trying to sanction Russian oligarchs.
"BEST USES: Compost"

couldn't agree more for red delicious. tastes like styrofoam.
> Fractional reserve is a scam, not crypto.

Why? Because you say so? Fractional reserve banking is generally heavily regulated such that most of the value created from new loans are tied to actual physical value in the real world. Fraction reserve banking is genius in my opinion, because if you want to take out a loan to build say a mine, or an oil well, that you know is going to generate millions in value, you're not fully dependent on finding smoe kind benefactors to loan you their own money to open that mine. If you can prove to the bank that you are likely to be able to create value greater than what you're borrowing, they'll create that money for you. And that's how it should be. If you're adding say $10 million to the economy, it's not a problem at all that $5 million was created out of thin air to enable that. In fact, that's exactly what you want. Ideally nobody who is able to create significant value should be stopped just by the lack of capital.

There are cases where lending isn't tied to value creation, like loans for consumption or stock gambling. Those should be regulated out of existence, but that's not fundamentally a problem with fractional reserve banking.

Loans for purchasing land is also iffy.. I think Georgism may be a solution to that.

Crypto is the exact opposite of a well regulation fractional reserve banking system. The creation of cryptocurrencies, espcially with PoW, is tied to the destruction of value (wasted electricity and silicon), not creation of value. IMO, that makes it fundamentally unsustainable.

> Proof of reserves and audits are extremely easy in crypto and it doesn't require any regulations.

You say that, but everything we've seen so far indicates the exact opposite. Perhaps it's easy in theory, but nobody seems to be interested in doing it.

I suspect with all the regulations, external systems and oracles necessary to make sure it's all correctly audited, you'll find that you could just as easily do without a PoW/PoS blockchain and have a far more efficient system. Maybe a proof-of-authority blockchains can make sense, just so you have some explicit cryptographically signed trace of who you're trusting in a transaction. Trustless systems are a lie. You'll always find you need to trust some humans/organization in the end.
Discord was fined 800k euros just today for keeping deleted account's data for too long among other things, which is something at least.

https://www.cnil.fr/en/discord-inc-fined-800-000-euros
You've never temporarily put a key into a file while testing? Or accidentally pasted one for a second then deleted it? Can you say the same for your entire team or company?

Since Copilot is constantly making new suggestions, a momentary entry is all it takes.
There used to be Apache server-side includes for this. It is kind of an odd omission from HTML that you can't insert a bit of DOM from a different source without Javascript.
New FTX CEO's Declaration to Bankruptcy Court [pdf]
There are no universally applicable "right words" for this (or many other situations), so sometimes "I do have the right words" are the right words because they do a good job at conveying the speaker's intent (of showing that they care and are there to help).
GDPR PII is defined as such:

> ‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

(Article 4)
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Once all bitcoins are mined, miners are supposed to fund themselves solely through transaction fees, as they partially already do today.
So, I don't know, necessarily. I'm not a sociologist or philosopher or anything else that would give me particularly strong insight on how we can structure society to meet our goals. But that doesn't discredit my discernment that policing as we have it is overall a harmful system that needs to change so significantly that it will be unrecognizable from it's current form.

> Or how do we manage the population from infringing/violating each other's rights?

Do we manage it now? Do police do that? If they do the US should be one of if not the safest country in the world. Is it? The very clear evidence is that police don't accomplish this goal, or that this is not the goal of police.

My belief, earned through experience, is that keeping us safe, "preventing crime" is not what police do. And what they is do is not something we should want or endorse. Yes, we will need "policing" the norms of society, management of the boundaries between individual rights, reaction to transgressions against them. But what we have isn't effective at that anyway, so why are we so invested in keeping it? We can do better and the police themselves have no interest in helping us figure out how.
> "Rent seeking [...] is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain added wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity."

But implicit in "reciprocal contribution of productivity" is "compared to what." After having installed a barrier across a river, productivity increases by charging a fee and lifting that barrier. In that same vein, Warp spending extra development effort to block continued use of something you've already paid for and downloaded to your machine unless you keep giving them money is textbook rent-seeking UNLESS there's some value they're adding by doing so. Admittedly I should have referenced that value rather than their costs, but in practice the two are related because organizations aren't inclined to incur costs without adding value somewhere.

> and is only used by people who have an agenda trying to slander Warp for some reason

That seems like an unnecessary ad hominem. I don't even particularly care that they are rent-seeking. I just don't want to see that term redefined so far that we have to come up with some other name to refer to the same bloody concept, and especially not for the purpose of needlessly bolstering the profits of artificial SAAS. We're all adults here, and anyone who cares is presumably capable of making a proper argument for why rent-seeking is acceptable here rather than trying to redefine the word to brush their payment model under the rug.
> every step that trusted-person took to get to that code is immaterial.

Which is, unfortunately, completely useless when it comes to copyright infringement. Trust in the individual will not change the output of an audit for copyrighted code, or the results from said audit.

The only thing that a "trusted" individual can contribute in a copyright infringement investigation is attesting that they did not know that the code they put in the codebase was copyrighted. And all that does is save the company from getting the higher "willful infringement" fines, if it should get that far.

Wilful Infringement Damages: https://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/708
God I hate websites like that

Reminds me of the 90's cringe trend of having gifs and audio and crap everywhere.. But at least those still had some html and could potentially be semantic.

This modern cringe trend seems to have abandoned any hope of semantic web + all of the original ideas behind it.
> Any free-form field must be treated as PII.

I've definitely never received this advice. I think your DPO/counsel are being excessively risk-averse, but IANA(EU)L.
Both you and falcolas are off base.

Porn restriction for minors is not controversial, legally. Your first amendment argument will go nowhere.

So then the question is, should something that harms young minds be restricted?

You can argue that TikTok doesn't, and that's a fair argument to make. But if your argument is "yes, but it's free speech" then I think you lose.
> - each time an exchange / scam goes down - they publish those papers saying they have 0 exposure to them (recently FTX, Genesis) - this despite findings that Alameda (FTX affiliated hedge found) was on the recepient of >30% of all Tethers

Why would this matter? Tether gives out USDT to (almost) anyone who wants it in exchange for cash, and only redeems it for cash if you give them back the USDT... 100% of their USDT could be held by FTX and that would not suddenly cause them to have any exposure to FTX.
Smart home cameras.
Try opening top and moving your mouse around a lot. For me, CPU usage goes up to ~30%. This is on Fedora with pretty banal hardware. For extra fun, google "gnome-shell high cpu usage". That's just one example.
> The structural completions are way more useful than the entire function completions, even in IntelliJ, where autocomplete is already extremely high quality.

I needed to run a comparison over a window of a numpy array, and given the sheer size of my data, I needed it to be fast and efficient, which means vectorized operations with minimal python interaction. Copilot figured a solution that is orders of magnitude faster than what I could conjure up in 10 minutes, most of which I'd spent searching for similar solutions in SO.
Nonsense. If you're made aware you're storing PII, fine. That's different. If it's a field designed for something else, and you have no knowledge it's being used to store PII? You're not going to get a penalty for that.

This isn't American law, where everything seems to be decided based on technicalities and the exact wording of the law. These decisions are made by reasonable human beings who review the facts of the situation and come to a judgement.
That's actually how it's supposed to work. Only the most recent ruling, and it was Google specific, forced them to add "Reject all" button.
You are saying that it is plainly un-American to have military secrets?

They go back to George Washington, before the founding of the country.

The rights and freedoms we have are not absolute. They are also tempered by responsibility to maintain, sometimes by force, the ability to have those freedoms.

Of course, all of us would like to live without the need for police or military. But the fact of the actual (not ideal) world is that there are always bullies and authoritarians who are happy to take what they want and rule how they like, not by assent or fairness, but by deceit, force, and violence. Anyone who wants to live a self-determining life or live in a democracy must be better armed than the bullies and expansionist autocracies, or they will soon be ruled by them.

Military and technological secrets are a key part of maintaining an advantage over expansionist autocracies, and are at least as American than Apple Pie.

So, NO, people claiming that we should not have a military or secret technologies are not making us better off — they are literally helping undermine the only force that keeps us from being ruled by the likes of Putin or Xi. Ask any Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian, or Taiwanese. They did not enjoy the privilege of growing up well-enough protected to be ignorant of the threat. Consider that before posting that ignorance.
Everyone dies, not everyone lives. Freedom isn't free.

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.18169-9/1012350_10...
Certificate Transparency is even better, it allows you to see all certificates these CAs issued. This also means the site operator can monitor for certificates issued for their site and notice if a CA they aren't using issues one.

Unfortunately, Firefox doesn't seem to enforce CT https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Certif...
Yeah I’m definitely not saying that it’s a good business to be supporting boutique bots for small communities, but there’s a very long tail of communities with a few thousand people that have some custom needs. Supporting them almost definitely does not scale at all.

But that’s the problem though - everybody uses a slightly different set of features, so the more you add the more people you get.
> I think we would be naive to assume anything has improved in the past century.

What a naive assumption.
> Imagine the turmoil if a newly elected president of the United States announced that the U.S. government would no longer honor any outstanding Treasury bills because most of them were issued under his profligate predecessor.

Actually, I think the reason that the Gangwon government is not going to honor outstanding debts, here, is because the value of the collateral[1] has fallen below the outstanding cost of the debt. In such a situation, any rational economic actor would at least contemplate defaulting.

[1] In this case, the collateral was land (which has plummeted in value, and the creditors are welcome to), and his government assurances (to which Kim Jin-tae seems to assign a value of ~zero.[2])

[2] Which is the real scandal, and his constituents should be looking into hemp and lamp-posts. He, in his stewardship of the region burnt down an asset of significant value for a pittance of a budget line item. Burning the furniture to stay warm, and all that.
Russian Poem
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to remove a Facebook post comparing the Russian army in Ukraine to Nazis and quoting a poem that calls for the killing of fascists
agreed. Fuji is my go-to when it's on sale at Costco.
Copilot doesn't retrain on data generated by you in the moment; so I don't see why this is an issue unless you push the files - with the keys - to github.
Which require compliance with them. If you work at a company that cares to actually comply they will. I luckily work somewhere where it's taken seriously.

But it's shockingly easy not to and auditors couldn't possibly catch all of the instances of non-compliance
Where? I don't mean this as snark. Are there any household brands that actually accept crpyto?
As I recall, I hung out with him before his room was ready. I guess I must have gotten his signature on the video release. That's about all I can remember of it.
this is super helpful, thanks

all stuff I don't know but I should
Sapling SCM from Facebook
The funny part is that the highest risk, most speculative trading strategies and instruments are available only on-chain (meme coins, high APR token farms, even decentralized margin trading platforms).

These people took on risk, but not enough to warrant being on-chain, and in the process, lost it all. Weird place to be in - risky enough to lose it all, not risky enough to be completely speculative. Really in no man's land.
D'oh! Yes, ethanol. Thanks for the correction!
> When you help someone down, they never forget.

Does that matter?
> As ever, a significant minority of Americans on Hacker News really Just Do Not Grasp the benefit of the EU or its regulations such as GDPR. "All regulation must be bad!!" It's quite tiresome, really.

Now you know how we feel when Europeans pontificate about issues in the US without really knowing anything beyond the headline.

Also, FWIW a lot of HN participants are in California, which has CCPA. Your stats may well be objectively wrong anyway.
What We Know About Elon Musk and the Emerald Mine Rumor
Google agreed to pay $360M to Activision to stop competition, Epic Games alleges
To be fair the EU can barely prevent this shit in European waters.
You're also forgetting that medicine is cheap everywhere else because US citizens pay 99.9% of the bill.

Every new medicine, every name brand medicine, every generic is paid at an exorbitant rate in the US which allows companies to provide cheaper medications to other countries. Every new surgery, every new technique, literally every part of the medical process is subsidized IN FULL by Americans.

Put it simply - if the US decided collectively we will not pay any more than cost for generic medication the entire world's healthcare system would collapse overnight. Most of the west would no longer be able to socialize their healthcare. 3rd world nations would likely halve their life expectancy. This is why, in my opinion, the US will never be able to do a medicare-for-all type situation. It's already unaffordable on the current tax basis strictly to take care of Americans. The unmentionable cost of subsidizing literally the entire planet's medical system through paying insane prices for everything makes it unaffordable even in some fever dream scenario.

When you're getting your cheap healthcare and free medicines take the time to thank your nearest American. They are dying so that you can afford to live. Your insulin is only cheap/free because some poor sap in America is paying quite literally 1400x your cost. The taxes other countries pay into their medical system pales in comparison to the amount of money Americans pour into their healthcare to keep it cheap everywhere else. There is simply no comparison to how badly Americans get bent over.
In what way is "scam your way to billions so you can donate billions" incompatible with EA? Honestly it seems like it would be the expected outcome. EA is the pinnacle of "the ends justify the means"
Wow, he also worked at Enron's bankruptcy. I just learned of it now, and I now get it why people are comparing FTX to Enron.
Opal apples are at the top of the list when fresh: sweet, tangy, intense apple flavor, crisp, and reminiscent of trips to the apple orchard growing up in northeast Ohio.
> It never had a real use outside of scamming people and buying illegal shit

HashCash was invented to make spam expensive and save email.

> Everyone was yelling at people to hold. Don't spend it, it will go to the moon!

No, most of us "in the community" were having fun buying pizzas with it. The vast majority of the people involved early started for the features it unlocked, we didn't foresee being able to ride it to riches like this because nobody could picture our families using it or putting money into it. We thought it would remain a protocol-level thing.

> And sure it keeps your money away from the spooky scary government.

Horses for courses. I like having some "untraceable" internet money for buying things overseas, like servers, etc. If I wanted to have posters put up in Moscow I could find and pay someone in BTC but not from USD.

> But I prefer my government insured bank account using a government managed currency and recourse for any scams/hacks that might happen to me.

Generally, yes. Modulo inflation, "haircuts", forced confiscation, looking suspicious because you have too much money, etc.
“Elon Musk does not have a BS in Physics”
All the studies that I have read indicate that protein quality is important and children on strict vegan diets do worse on multiple growth metrics. As a layman on the subject I cannot really give you professional advice, but in my very best estimation is does seem to me, that a healthy diet that includes animal protein is a more cautious approach to one which totally excludes it, assuming the health of the child is being prioritized.
Gonic subsonic-compatible music server release v0.15.0
If an item only works well in theory, then the item itself is the problem.

A firearm is absolutely, 100% safe as long as no one ever interacts with it.

Because we are humans, in a society, and everything we do relies on human interactions, if Bitcoin (and crypto in general) cannot operate positively and effectively, except in theory, then it is the problem, regardless of the underlying reason.
Do you have a link to something where I can read more about this?
What's ironic is that the meltdown of crypto and crypto culture came right when central bank excesses are at the peak - at least for the vast majority of people alive.
Jira was just an example, 2 out of 3 sites nowadays are pure CSS/JS-induced waste of energy.