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Best practice is until it isn’t. This is why we should prioritize innovation over process.


In practice, that line of thinking is going to result in not bothering to use the current best practice.

Sure, be open to something better coming along. But while you're waiting, use the best we have now.


Leave it to Google to find a “responsible” AI


"Yes we would like to be responsible for it."



We must believe in ourselves. We are too quick to be cynical about the future of the web - too quick to forget our ingenuity in the face of adversity.


FWIW this made sense to me right away


So true…


Love the connection to home studios. Everybody was able to make more music much more easily - but it also inflated the music industry with a lot of mediocrity. So some will find ways to use AI for greatness, but most won’t.


+ 1. Let me filter by most to least insane.


I’m no cybersecurity analyst, but there’s a reasonable amount examples that don’t seem that out there to me.

For those who get this better than I do, what would be the ideal set of password rules?


1. Make it long. 2. That's it.

I wouldn't want to claim that one ideal set exists. But this one comes close. There is an often-cited XKCD comic that illustrates this: concatenating random lexicon words into a long, letter-only password (no special characters needed at all) is usually a very good password strategy.

https://xkcd.com/936/

Anything beyond that, in terms of better IT security, does not involve better passwords, but rather e.g. 2FA, Hardware tokens.


I’m surprised it’s taken this long to see something like this on HN.

Maybe something like this could be a propellant for legitimate copyright reform.


Given who has more money for lawyers, I worry that copyright reform will take the form of small creators being given weaker protection than large entities - for example by making formally registering a copyright on a work necessary to get "full" protections, while self-applied licenses are treated as merely suggestions.


There have been plenty of discussions of this subject here.

Eg

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=copilot+copyright


Well I clearly saw this miles away. [0] [1]

Effectively you can't even use the code since it has trampled on licenses which are incompatible with each other. But it is more of a problem for Copilot.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725322

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772446


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