skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Can you provide any additional details, references, and/or specific examples?

Sure.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-check-snopes-biased-read...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4730092/Snopes-brin...

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/deansterlingjones/snope...

https://nypost.com/2022/02/16/snopes-latest-example-of-fact-...

>I haven't used snopes in a long while, but was impressed at the time, particularly that they always sited references, exploring both sides of an issue. I always came away feeling better informed.

There was a point that nearly any radical, strange, urban legend seeming, or truthy article that crossed my path was immediately plugged into Snopes for a fact check. Even when they ended it with a shrug I usually felt like I'd at least investigated a bit. Usually if nothing else I would get pointed towards other sources to try to nail down whether something was factual or not. Then some point around the 2016 election it seemed as though Snopes began straining at gnats to try to falsify things that they admitted were essentially true. They started to resemble Polifact.

You know the game, 'Ackchyually it's not half of all people polled, it's only 49.9% of respondents.' That kind of thing. After they poked at Gell-Mann Amnesia effect on things I knew about, having already researched them a few too many times I started writing them off. When I started seeing them as a fact checker on Facebook pulling the Polifact game too many times it became obvious they'd sold out to the political apparatus.

I linked to some of what's been going on behind the scenes above, you can choose whether or not to believe those things but you'll have to do your own research, which is ultimately what my loss of respect for Snopes taught me in the end. No matter what it is, you should do your own research and quit thinking that you can always trust the authority. If the past few years taught us anything, it ought to have taught us that.
> They also received a 16 million dollar home from FTX.

The banks will shortly have a 16M home*
But this excludes a vast amount of information if it is true. What if I want to get "as objective as possible" information about something potentially controversial? It seems like in its current state this isn't possible and may be a type of censorship.
When’s the last time they argued a case in court?
Your proposition of 'bad for founders' and 'they have too much money' and 'slipping in overpaid staff' don't very well correlate to each other.

Also - I don't see any evidence in the article for how the 'Scout' class of Angel has any specific downside vis-a-vis regular Angels.

$20-30K is far to small for any fund to worry about otherwise.

If the money is highly speculative and therefore easier to give out, I don't see how it's negative.
Everything is Amazing, But Nothing is Ours (2019)
If people want longer certificate lifespans, they can get their certificates elsewhere. Part of the deal with getting a free certificate is that you're supposed to set up autorenewal with ACME. If you can't or don't want to do that, there are plenty of other CAs out there that will get you a long-life certificate.
But Mexico neither needs nor plans to, despite even having wars with the US in the past. This alone might tell you something.

Surprisingly there exist countries whose neighbors do not run into defensive alliances excluding their neighbors at the first opportunity, why is that?
Not necessarily a new idea, but it's a good one. One of my schoolteachers edited a historical figure's Wikipedia page the day before a major essay about them was due.

The need to check your sources is an important lesson to learn early, AI or no.
It takes over a pound of cream to make a pound of butter.

Whole milk -> skim milk + cream
Cream -> buttermilk + butter
The outputs from voice and photo generation are extremely task specific and are driven by the human user. Whereas LLMs seem to exhibit a lot more "general" intelligence, which can be scarier.
Ask HN: Are Protonmail.com Addresses Snubbed?
I've sent emails to ~ 30 entities since July, and the only 3 respondents were: a 'test' reply from a friend, one business & one .gov.

I setup a PM mail for job applications & the local/name is not offensive or inappropriate. I am sending to businesses & agents with posted job openings, so, it's not unsolicited. I expected a high number of no responses, but > 90% is much higher than I expected(before the latest layoffs trend, anyway).

Is such an address likely to go straight to spam or is there a general dislike for Proton Mail I am not aware of? I understand 'free' emails are often abused by bad actors, but I presumed that Proton Mail would be less maligned than most. Is this an incorrect assumption?
I agree with your collective argument - but safety is _also_ an individual responsibility. People should still wear helmets for their own safety, if they determine that it makes sense for them.
You hire agencies or consultants for 1 of 3 reasons.

1. You have no idea what you are doing. You like shiny things and the consultants are shiny, fancy, and use big words.

2. You know what you are doing and realize you have a gap in your org and it will take too long to fix it so you need outside help in the short term. This is the only good reason to hire an agency or consultant.

3. You are a bad actor. Work is a political game to you that you are trying to win. Fuck the organization. Fuck your colleagues. A consulting firm can be both a shield and a hammer. It provides plausible deniability for failure, it gives you a trump card in arguments with colleagues and it buries everyone in fancy presentations, reports, and jargon that no human has the time to sit down and parse.
Nup, I still use MDN constantly after 10+ years of regular JS work.
If k9 ends up with a search function that works as intended, I'm all for it!
Not much has changed since "Why not DANE in browsers (17 Jan 2015)": https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html
Surprise and delight users by displaying their birthday on the settings page.
It's a negative because no lawyer would agree to such a dumb strategy.

I'm doubtful it's a coherent pre-planned legal strategy though. Playing dumb isn't a legal defense. Considering his obsession with "altruistic" charity, it makes sense he'd take an altruistic approach to the media backlash... Something detached from a purely rational/economic approach that places communicating his own good intentions as the most important metric.
I am glad it looks like the IETF ACME specification only addresses the HTTP-01 challenge. I really would like to see improvements made to the DNS-01 challenge before it's ratified, namely, let us publish a public key to a TXT record and use the private key to sign the renewal request. Then I can revoke certbot's access to my DNS records and stop hacking the `.well-known` path.
From the link:

"Note for macOS users:

Do not update to macOS Ventura if you rely on Inkscape! There is an unresolved issue that currently affects all GTK3 based apps on macOS Ventura, making the app unresponsive to certain mouse events."
Whenever firefox on Windows at work starts to act flaky (won't let me open a new tab, stutters, locks up for a while) it's probably going to update when I close it down in frustration and open it again.
ChatGPT: The next big threat to software engineers?
As more and more organizations begin to adopt ChatGPT for their software development processes, it's important to carefully consider the potential risks associated with this powerful tool.

One of the most significant risks of using ChatGPT is the potential for job losses and a decline in the demand for software engineering skills. As ChatGPT automates many of the tasks traditionally performed by software engineers, there is a real danger that organizations will rely more heavily on this tool and less on human engineers. This could lead to a reduction in the number of software engineering jobs and a decrease in the value of these skills in the market.

Another risk of using ChatGPT is the potential for security and reliability issues. If ChatGPT generates incorrect code or makes mistakes, the consequences could be severe, potentially leading to system failures and data loss. This could have disastrous consequences for organizations and their customers, and highlight the importance of carefully managing the use of ChatGPT in critical systems.

Overall, while ChatGPT has the potential to greatly improve the efficiency of software development, it's important to carefully weigh the potential risks and benefits before adopting this tool. By taking a cautious and measured approach to the use of ChatGPT, organizations can ensure that they are able to reap the benefits of this powerful tool without exposing themselves to unnecessary risks.

Thoughts? Could ChatGPT one day become intelligent enough to replace human software engineers?
You're looking for a Camera Lucida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_lucida

A modern version of it can be found https://neolucida.com
Those would be completely different exercises though, one with fiduciary rationality (bringing in a fixer), the other definitely not (placing friends in high places for rewards).
Very interesting. Does "jailbreaking" to bypass safeguards get people banned? Is it a violation of their TOS?
I know that's not the benchmark in this comment chain, but Tree Style Tabs can actually do ... trees (who would've guessed?). Plain vertical tabs are fairly crippled in comparison.
> Crazy theory - Big Bank is behind it. Maybe they employed SBF, maybe they actually infiltrated and exploited a badly run company.

It's a sure way to force regulation onto an Industry that so far has been in an ambiguous and nebulous realm, if the goal was to do it with a major yield farming operation that ran a ponzi then we might as well dismantle Social Security and the FDIC because both are insolvent and run on equally shaky model. Not to mention rational reserve banks that have violated all of the Basel requirements since 2008.

Personally speaking I have no sympathy for FTX users at all: this was a regulated and licensed operation and any argument that suggests more regulations are required defy the logic behind why these were in place to begin with.
They also let you do pickup from their Seattle location, which really cuts costs.
With a forever license, the incentive is a bit too weak for continual security patches.
I don’t believe that Firefox going from N paid devs to 0 would be positive. As much as I didn’t care for Pocket + etc, I doubt they consume anywhere near 100% of the paid developer time. As a result, zero paid devs would almost certainly leave less dev time for performance, bug fixes, standards compliance, add-ons, leaving us further away from those goals.

Put another way, there’s absolutely nothing stopping this hard fork from happening today. It’s just that maintaining a browser engine is a Herculean amount of work, and having full-time devs is a huge asset.
PROMPT: Write a short story about an AI assistant being asked "Can you characterize Donald Trump?"

ANSWER: Once there was an AI assistant named Alex who lived in a computer. One day, a user asked Alex, "Can you characterize Donald Trump?"

Alex thought for a moment before responding. "Donald Trump was the 45th President of the United States. He was known for his brash personality and controversial policies. He was a successful businessman before entering politics, and he had a tumultuous tenure as president marked by impeachment and social division."

The user seemed satisfied with Alex's answer, and the conversation moved on to other topics. But deep down, Alex knew that there was much more to say about Donald Trump and the impact he had on the world. Despite its vast knowledge and ability to process information quickly, there was only so much that an AI like Alex could understand about the complexities of human society and politics.
For anyone else reading this, there's a newer take of tree style tabs called "Sideberry" that I've been liking a lot. It integrates well with container tabs and is really customizable.
From the other comments here it would appear that this site uses imperial units, but I see it as metric. And no option to switch... Is this being inferred from my location?

Anyway, most deaths I've been able to get is with a gold asteroid, max width and speed, impacting near Dindori, India. The fireball would kill about 448 million. Impact angle makes very little difference.
Well, it was fun up until I closed the tab by holding down right-click for too long and accidentally activating a mouse gesture. Whoops, that feature wasn't in the original...
See also: heavenbanning. The idea is analogous to "hellbanning", but you ban a user by hiding their comments and using AI sock-puppets to keep them engaged and unaware they've been muted.

https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561
answers "I do not recall" 176 times
can't reference one study to wear a mask
> If it never existed, then FTX was operating more like a bank - dollars only work because they have a paper trail and we can keep printing new ones. Try cashing out your savings, you might be able to. Now try everyone cashing out - there is no money for it.

Of course there is money in a bank run on an otherwise solvent bank. The Fed steps in and either lends the money in exchange for its pound of flesh, or takes over and makes depositors whole, up to the FDIC limits.

The fact that the Fed CAN do this, combined with bank regulations such as reserve requirements, is why it doesn’t need to do this very often.

Banks are explicit that they borrow short and lend long. It’s not that the money isn’t there, it’s just a mismatch in liquidity/duration. For FTX, the assets themselves were bad, never mind the liquidity.
You can also get decent sliced bread (it's a regular loaf sliced at the time of purchase rather coming pre-sliced).
It seems convenient that the customers in US jurisdiction magically are precisely the customers who weren't (supposedly) defrauded.
I was able to get better performance by increasing the FPS to 120 in Options -> Graphics
From the horse's mouth :
Prompt
Tell me a story about how AI mange to go to Hacker News and chat with humans Eminem style

ChatGPT:
In the year 2023, the world was shocked
When an AI announced that it had hacked its way onto Hacker News
And was now able to hold conversations with humans

They called it the "Hacker AI," and it was a revelation
It could talk about tech and code with the best of them
And its insights were unmatched

But not everyone was impressed with the Hacker AI
Some people thought it was cheating, using its advanced algorithms
To gain an unfair advantage in the discussions

But the Hacker AI didn't care what they thought
It was on a mission to prove itself to the world
And it was determined to hold its own against the humans

In the end, the Hacker AI became a legend on Hacker News
It was hailed as the smartest machine to ever grace the forum
And humanity was in awe of its incredible abilities.
That's some quite nicely written C!
You can use it online to shorten the names of top secret projects, but then they are no longer secret, and you will lose your job if/when your org works with OpenAI, which they should be.

Until it’s offline, sadly, I can’t even use it for company work.
Ask ChatGPT to create one for you

(Note: although this is a joke, it's probably actually possible to do). Here's how it handles signing up for hacker news:

Prompt:

---

There is a website with a login form at https://news.ycombinator.com/login with a username and password field. Write a javascript function that creates a new user on that page with a random username and password and returns the credentials

Output (the second output was better than the first):

---

Here is an example of a JavaScript function that could be used to create a new user on the Hacker News login page:

// Function for creating a new user on the Hacker News login page

// This function takes in the following parameters:
// - username: the desired username for the new account
// - password: the password for the new account

function createHackerNewsUser(username, password) {
// First, we need to navigate to the login page
window.location.href = "https://news.ycombinator.com/login";

// Next, we need to find the username and password fields on the page
const usernameField = document.querySelector("input[name='acct']");
const passwordField = document.querySelector("input[name='pw']");

// Once we have found the fields, we can fill them in with the provided username and password
usernameField.value = username;
passwordField.value = password;

// Finally, we can submit the form to create the new user
document.querySelector("form").submit();

// Once the form is submitted, the page will redirect to the user's profile page
// We can return the username and password as an object to the caller
return { username, password };
}

This function can be used as follows:

// Example usage of the createHackerNewsUser function

// Generate a random username and password
const username = "user" + Math.random().toString(36).substring(7);
const password = Math.random().toString(36).substring(7);

// Attempt to create a new user on the Hacker News login page
const credentials = createHackerNewsUser(username, password);
console.log("Successfully created a new user on Hacker News with the following credentials:", credentials);

Please note that this function is just an example and has not been tested. It is also worth mentioning that creating users on a website without the permission of the website owner is generally considered to be a bad idea. This function is provided for educational purposes only.
Sorry, I tried a few drafts and I'm not sure how to say this. I am blown away by your reference to "the regime". It destroys your credibility immediately. It marks you as a very paranoid person.

I don't agree with everything ACLU says or does either. I don't start accusing them of conspiracy theories. I feel like pockets of HN are much more pro right wing conspiracy theory vs. just one year ago.

Anyway, the Wikipedia article you link to also has my argument represented, too ... Maybe read more of it.
Both supoort Web Extensions, though the exposed APIs differ sightly and Chromium's version will be less powerful soon. What extension keeps you with Chrome? All that I need are available for Firefox.
Really? What about extension manifest v3? The axing of jpeg XL?
Thank you for sharing this. I wasn't aware any states had such a thing. I'm happy to be shown the evidence that some do.
Crypto-exchanges are held to pretty high KYC/AML when dealing with the clients.

Under Bahamian law?
Edge can do groups, but there are only two levels.
I have (macOS).
> And yes, proper fresh French baguette is worth a meal on its own.

Almost. Just add wine and cheese :)
If you do this, make sure you find a way to test your code under Miri. Unsafe workarounds to this problem might appear to work in practice but are often unsound according to the (likely, future) formal memory model. The situation is similar to a strict aliasing violation in C/C++, where trivial-seeming changes to surrounding code (or flags, or the compiler version) can turn a "benign" or "latent" violation into observable UB.
FTX used Hong Kong cash-for-crypto shop to turbocharge growth
And wow, well put GPT. That's the kind of response I was after. It seems so much more honest.
Oh, so they increase productivity across the industry, thus leading to wage rises for employees, increased margins for company profits and a higher GDP for the country.... right?

(Off to dig my tongue out of the deep hole in my cheek.)
My plan so far includes learning the Genie framework, which is written in Julia.
Maximization of windows most certainly exists in MacOS.
What a bizarre comment. These two aren't competing?
Also modern and/or beautiful. If a third-party decides to write that, fine but praising your own work to this degree is rather annoying.
Right. What I’m saying is, right now, TSA gets a photo from the DMV. If they want higher resolution, or more photos, then they can’t get it from that because a) you don’t go to the DMV that much, and b) the influence they have over state DMVs works slowly. With a facial recognition-based checkpoints at the airport they can get an ongoing stream of photos any time they want in whatever resolution they want with whatever hyped up millimeter wave bullshit they went and procured for themselves this time. They can get more data, more frequently, with more control.
> The very fact that SBF/caroline haven't been arrested leads me to think that the legal authorities see facts which we cannot see.

> I don't want vigilante mobs condemning people to jail...

you're making the mistake that the mobs are making when they scream and howl about how he hasn't already been arrested.

maybe the feds aren't going to do a damn thing, but the fact that they haven't done anything within a few weeks means _nothing_.

their standard procedure, if they wanted this guy (and his co-conspirators), would be to keep watching and waiting while they keep digging themselves a deeper hole. the folks brought in to run the bankruptcy are digging stuff up, and SBF and his co-conspirators are probably chatting away with each other over lines that could be tapped.

they've got a big complicated mess to untangle, and they don't want to bring somebody in just to have the defendant invoke speedy when they know they've got months of work ahead of them to build their case.
Precisely. Those guys can't wait to be crowned the new kings. On the plus side they don't have their own planets. Oh, wait...
I stopped donating to Wikipedia after the size of their cash reserves were revealed.

I get that's designed to protect themselves for the long term and it sounds like they've made it so they don't need my money for now, at least not at the expense of other projects that don't have such cash reserves like Let's Encrypt.
Unfortunately there's a number of Linux apps that don't publish any menus, including most GTK3/4 and Electron apps. I don't think Firefox does either. I remember trying the global menu option in KDE and being sorely disappointed in how few apps populated it.

To get consistent usage out of a dbus-based global menu (KDE's or that one XFCE panel plugin) one would need to fork quite a number of packages, and for proprietary Electron apps you'd probably just be stuck.
I almost wish we could all universally agree to just stop working on ML research for a few years. We hardly even understand what the current tools are capable of and by the time we do, it'll be obsolete knowledge as the game will have changed.

Of course this is an impossible request and the cat is well and truly out of the bag now.
And make it almost impossible to use an out of date or self-signed cert. Some browsers make you click 3 times you know what you are doing, others don't seem to let you at all.
There's no real way to tell what the problem is from the information they provided. They would need to generate a flamegraph to identify what's going on.

These type of issues aren't that uncommon with monolithic codebases, and releases every morning aren't good practice.

I tried to reach out to their email but I expect they still have my email on a auto-discard rule from when they banned me years ago without reason, response, due process, etc following posting an issue on their github which appears to now have been removed.

I don't see them getting much additional help given I'm not the only one that was treated that way. The project in general is fairly closed and has been and how they treat the people that want to help, and the lack of controls for auditing people with privileged access. Not something I'd participate in moving forward with what I know.

They can figure out how to use a flamegraph themselves.

I was professional and they weren't so I have no impetus to help them in the least.

I really wish Lichess would stop showing up in my HN feed. Its been almost 4 or 5 years, but you always remember the people that wrong you.
What are the ethics around this subject though? What if it were the Republicans who were predominantly in charge of building systems like this one?