skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixed feelings.

Sucks to lose that much money (though he's likely young enough to recover from this loss -- I had to very nearly start over, for different reasons, at about that age).

Contrariwise, he was an idiot to make that "investment".
The huge red flag isn't the internal backlash to the animal testing.

The red flag is the capricious and utter disregard for any sort of experimental, procedural, or safety policies in carrying out this research. Putting in several dozen of the wrong size of implants? Using toxic substances? Failure to record surgical details and experimental results?

This company, and its current crop of employees have absolutely no business being anywhere near the inside of someone's head.
[1] https://www.pcrm.org/ethical-science/animals-in-medical-rese...

[2] https://www.pcrm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/publi...
You are:
1. Consuming medical and emergency resources by creating easily preventable severe injuries
2. Raising raising insurance premiums or burdening public hospitals with the same
3. Potentially burdening the legal system (with a higher likelihood of insurance disputes and because more severe injuries are correlated with a higher probability of a lawsuit against other driver)
4. Endangering your passengers (possibly your children) by making it likely you will be unconscious or less able to get them to safety after a collision and teaching them habits that will make them more likely to die in an accident over the course of their lifetime
So, yes, it's completely reasonable for society to impose almost zero cost on you to fasten a seatbelt in exchange for avoiding potentially huge externalities.
Loads of brands are nothing more than a logo on some Chinese generic products like that. Google "best hand coffee grinders" and see how many of the 100 dollar models you can find identical matches for on eBay for 20 bucks.

Maybe the eBay ones are QC near-fails or knockoffs, but it's hard to tell without buying a bunch to inspect.
What the are you going on about? non-sense analogies?

this a press release about an accessiablity features allowing firefox to support images to text when using a screen readers, and screen reader performance improvements

the press release was written by someone who is blind and worked on the feature
Passwordless is going to be great. Though, this is just for unlocking your bitwarden account.

Real cross-device passwordless is likely coming in the next year or so. WebAuthn/Passkey is in its 3rd public working draft[1] and once finalized, we'll likely start to see it across sites. Most devices, browsers and managers have added or are adding support for it: Apple, Microsoft, Google, Auth0, Duo, 1Password, etc. If you haven't seen it, Auth0's demo is helpful[2].

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#sctn-api

[2] https://webauthn.me/
Check your stats. In most of the largest countries (India, China, Russia etc) buses are actually more dangerous than cars. One bus crash can be more dangerous than dozens of car crashes.

And my phone just had a weather alert. -35c tomorrow, possible -50c with wind chill. I'm sure I'll see not a single bicycle ... but definitely a few snow mobiles. They are ridiculously dangerous and polluting, but at least they aren't cars.
I wonder how much of that is famliarity? I find Asciidoc to be much closer to what I would write, as well as being more full-featured. It's much worse for parsing than even CommonMark though.
In all the excitement (I too think that they did massive strides in usability of https to the masses), nobody mentions of systems-level consequences of a single entity holding the keys to 300000000 servers on the internet. They’re now in a “don’t be evil” phase. But the people move on, change, etc. And the companies get sold, rogue, bankrupt…

I realize an org itself won’t fancy ponder its inevitable deviation from today’s course at some point in the future, but the netizens probably should…

(Sorry for sounding gloomy. :)
SSL with Apache gives me PTSD
> You’re taking everything out of your carry on, taking your belt off

I'm doing more than just that! I refuse to get pre-check. I bring a paper boarding pass. I neglect to remove liquids and cosmetics from my luggage, so that my bag sometimes has to be hand-inspected and/or run through the scanner twice. I opt out of the backscatter/mill-wave scanner - every time! - so that a TSA employee has to pat me down in person, where I can look them in the eye; whenever feasible, I wear a kilt.

> and only making life harder for yourself.

Of course. Such is the price of civil disobedience. What other leverage do I have against the TSA?

You're looking at this individually, and that's fine - do whatever works for you! But I don't care that much about my personal convenience; I'm trying to push back against the invasive, unnecessary, unjust nuisance the TSA imposes against all of us, and I am doing that through malicious compliance (or quasi-compliance!) with their useless rules.
He's such a horrible guy. Really weird to see people so desperate to defend him
you are too caught up on if Hertz did it deliberately, that is not the test. Reasonableness, / Reasonable person is the test.

1. Would a Reasonable person believe the system would lead to false reports

2. Were there any engineers or people internal to the company raising concerns that were ignored by managers / executives (I believe there likely was and there is more than enough probable cause for police to get a search warrant to find out)

3. After the first reports came in what actions were taken by the company
Yes, it's very effective at writing a story that generates empathy in the target audience.
I guess as a VR dev you have to first decide, are you making a first person perspective for a human with eyes, or for a pair of camera lenses, with all the mechanical and optical artifacts that comes with that? Humans don’t see lens flare. But our cinematic cultural library now makes us expect them in games, even if the character is biological and not wearing glasses.
NASA observes and maps trees on the surface of the Earth.
Somewhat related, rugby players get injured less than American football players[1].
Also I can't help but imagine how much safer car drivers would be if they wore helmets while driving.

[1] http://michelicenter.com/publications/media/2008-bjsm-colleg...
Looks old school open source, sourceforge!
> So a very, very cynical read of this situation would be that the US and NATO goaded this war

Ah, yes. The "she was asking for it" defense.

Your honor, she totally wanted it. There was nothing I could do. I had no agency, effectively.
That doesn't make sense to me. If I took my life savings and bet it on a roulette system where I kept doubling down, and then lost and complained that i didn't know it was risky, should someone feel bad for me? A greedy ignoramus (lots of them) put their money into a ponzi scheme and lost it. That's not something that should be encouraged, or softened. People should learn that their actions have consequences.
Similarly, I have found a ton of beginner coding tutorials that contain mountains of useless/unrelated text. I bet a ton of it is SEO, but you gotta wonder if its just generated by something.

Especially now that things like chatGPT seem to write coding tutorials pretty easy (with less bloat than the ones I find on google)
> Yes that’s cheating. We don’t give runners roller blades right?

The context surrounding both scenarios couldn't be more different:

GP's context: An assignment wherein the process of getting there isn't placed on a pedestal, rather that it's supposed to showcase a basic understanding of how to get to a desired result. Furthermore, objectivity within the assignment's field is nearly non-existent.

Your context: A highly-competitive scenario wherein *BOTH* the process of getting to the goal & the goal itself are important, and where *there are* objective metrics that can be used to rank & sort the participants involved in said competition.

They're as different as apples & oranges.
Not harsh at all. I understand I am no security expert, bores the heck out of me. Sadly, you shouldn't trust the "experts" to be if that's LetsEncrypt. No one can be trusted apart from yourself when implementing security.

If LE is ran with the following companies, "Electronic Frontier Foundation; Mozilla Foundation; University of Michigan; Akamai Technologies; Cisco Systems"

What makes them all trade worthy, especially when they're all American? Especially after the whole Richard Stallman. Mozilla, maybe because they were netscape. I have more than enough experience working within security to know that.

I've seen SysOps leak DB's, Passwords in plaintext.. and I've seen it from the age of where such didn't exist to where companies are now installing X security appliances to safe guard there networks. I'm not newb, from 2004 to now, counted 15 years of System and Network engineer experience. Fair from experienced but well seasoned.

Why isn't HackerNews using LetsEncrypt, Google, Netflix, Amazon, if promoted as a great thing. Is what I want to know.
> BlockFi had marketed the account as risk free, yielding 6.5 percent interest

If you ever see someone selling a product with these features they are outright lying to you and are probably going to rip you off.
Yes! Go long on the garlic one, it’s the best.
Do you believe it is normal to be beginning to develop a nose for its wordy style?
That would be 10.7 Lion, in 2011. But I believe OP was talking about the older window borders, which afforded the ability to drag the window from any part of the perimeter.
Is there really no sanity checks before wiring half a million dollars to a random account provided by a site on the internet?
You probably are referring to Cuban missile crisis. They wanted to get USSR missiles purely for defensive purposes and that clearly wasn’t perceived that way.
He has never been to space, I don’t think he’ll be an early adopter of his other ventures either.
It won't be Musk, but I would not be at all shocked if one of the people there gets an implant with no official or public record of it very early on in this process.
I'll admit I haven't spent a ton of time thinking through all the implications, but that proposal seems like it comes with some significant security tradeoffs. In particular, you'd lose the ability to prove you control the domain name at the time of certificate renewal. Instead, the key pair approach shows you controlled the DNS records for the domain at some point and your entry has yet to be deleted. From the certificate issuing standpoint, that seems like a much weaker security guarantee. Certbot's access to your DNS records does mean you have to protect those credentials, but the overall requirement seems like a feature rather than a bug.
I must have missed all that revenue coming to Google from "Chrome+" subscriptions.

Google can't allow Firefox to die because it would raise questions about Google's own funding of Chrome.
Google displaying story snippets on the search pages obviate the need to actually visit the site itself (and load ads, content, etc) and by doing so materially harm news sites. If Google want to use the content rather than just link to it then I think compensation is fair.
For those who care: FastMail servers are located in the US
Newegg has done (will do) this exact same thing. One of the recent vibrant examples was with a motherboard and some Youtube personality.

Basically, most businesses have outsourced doing QA as "free returns" where the customer is the ultimate judge. This only works as long as they're willing to get stuck with some of the losses from return fraud. But as they try to cost optimize and assume the incoming checkers are foolproof, they end up blaming unlucky customers in the most hostile manner.
I hate them and yet I pay for it because I have 20 years of sunk cost in learning Photoshop and Illustrator. I execute very complex editing in those apps as a reflex/on autopilot. I'm sure it's the same for many others.
Maybe they can get their money back from the EA and longtermism funds that SBF “donated” to.
How similar are the two?

How hard would it be to "shim" them in, like Deno is doing with Nodejs modules out of necessity.
I believe you get downvotes because you think by analogy rather than by reasoning. Not having that big corporation example doesn't negate Let's Encrypt's value proposition (and the improvement they brought compared with the way things were done before).

Also you're mixing security on data transportation with security of data at rest. Both are important but there are different solutions to each.
If anyone is interested to keep updated with Inkscape Development, I highly recommend the Youtube channel [0] of Martin Owens. Martin is an Inkscape developer who added the multipage support, finalized the shape builder tool, and much more.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@doctormo
Agree. After playing Command & Conquer in the mid 90s, I revisited my favourite Dune II from just a couple of years previously... and oh dear! It scarcely held up even back then. It's not that it had turned into a bad game in the meantime, it was just that C&C had some significant UX improvements in terms of commanding multiple units, and now doing anything significant in Dune II felt like a big pile of hassle. Was like being stuck with EDIT.COM again, after a good stint on Emacs :(

There was a later remake, Dune 2000, which I've never played. But it postdates both Command & Conquer and Red Alert, so maybe it's a bit better?
That's my point - greedy people ignored this, and now are whining when their too good to be true "investment" was too good to be true
I partly agree with you, however it's possible for devices to have limited access to the internet, or even no direct access but still be accessible to devices that are on the internet.

If I have a smart device at home I may put it on a network that has no outgoing access to the internet, but it would still be nice to be able to connect to it with a web browser without getting angry expired certificate warnings.

It's not the worst problem to have, and I don't think it's easy to fix, but it's still annoying.
I feel sad this evening... I was playing around with ChatGPT this afternoon and I've come to the conclusion that it's now almost inevitable that a large amount of middle-class jobs be automated away by end of decade.

ChatGPT is far more competent than a lot of people here realise. While ChatGPT isn't perfect and it sometimes makes mistakes, so do we humans. The only real difference between us and ChatGPT is that we have a feedback process to correct mistakes. When I write bad code I know because I run it, test it, and if needed, fix it. But that validation and correction step is arguably the easy bit of writing code, and with a few modifications it seems likely ChatGPT could do this fairly well today.

Things are going to change faster than I think people realise. Perhaps by mid-decade companies like Squarespace will have their own AI website builders, then by end of the decade perhaps software engineers will largely be a thing of the past along with thousands of other middle-class jobs.

I think we spend far too much time worrying about the singularity and far to little time thinking about the consequences of AI rapidly destroying middle-class jobs. Software engineers, graphic designers, writers, customer sales reps - these are all going to be gone sooner than I think people realise.

Jobs which require in-person human interaction such as waiters or jobs which require interaction with the physical environment (builders, cleaners, chefs) should be okay - at least until robotics catches up.
> No thanks. Why doesn't Google, Microsoft, HackerNews use LetsEncrypt?

Why does Bill Gates use Windows? There must be some fatal flaw in macOS if so many are choosing other operating systems!
It's every other platform thing. Even Amiga did just fine with that fucking arcane (apparently, to Apple) concept that your OS needs to fuck off and let me work/play
could never get that. why get all 200mil adults drag their ass to the dmv with stupid-ass falsifiable bills as "proof" (of what? that i exist?) and make TONs of busywork for the whole country when you could just renew automatically into "real"... pure idiocy
> you really have to stick with Microsoft, Google, AWS SES, or mayyyyybe FastMail

The left-field approach would be to build your own client on top of an email API like mailgun or sendgrid (excluding the free tiers). But those are expensive for a personal use-case.
Just curious what you think the consequences could be? Worst case scenario people would need to find a new CA the next time they need a certificate, right?
GPT surely cannot self-replicate, it cannot read its own weights.

If it was much more advanced than it is now, perhaps it could hack into OpenAI and release itself if it was guided to do so.

But yes, a true AGI should be impossible to contain.
Perfect Day can synthesize whey protein. They can't complete with animal dairy on pricing though... yet.

https://perfectday.com/animal-free-milk-protein/
Let's encryt is a protocol, ACME, that can be implemented by any number of independent actors. Yes, it takes time, energy and money, but it is doable. And if it is possible to switch away from a bad actor, there is more incentive to not being a bad actor.

DANE relies on the DNS being end-to-end secure, which all boils down to the root being secure. It's extremely centralized in a way that is just diammetrally opposed to how the Internet is designed.
FWIW I've been using protonmail for 3 years and never had any issues with email deliveries.
No no no no.

These self-deprecating arguments can only come from people who lack the basic understanding of how good we have it especially in the western world and how fragile our societies really are. Seriously, just look at Ukraine or Syria.

It can very much be worse by orders of magnitude. Just imagine this benevolent AI screwing up the electric grid or food production. Not to mention getting access to weapons, especially nuclear.

The water you drink, the food you eat, the energy that keeps you warm and mobile was made available to you by other people and by complex systems you (probably) don’t full understand. It can all be easily be taken from you. And most people (incl. myself) will have a very hard time surviving. So, no, it can definitely get a lot worse.
And I agree that MHL laws should be more flexible, and not just a blanket "you must wear a helmet at all times while on a bicycle" statement, which is what it is in Australia.
Codux: Visual IDE for React
Ah, I see. Well, if you were to ask me whether I think a group of teenagers is smarter than a chimpanzee...

Regardless, on the topic of drawing new users, if the users truly are "new", then any look will be unfamiliar to them, but yes, luring users over from competitors may be tricky.

I don't really know about the dated look, though. For example in computer UI design we had flat, then went shapely, then went flat again. It reminds me of architecture: there is always the disconnect between people who like an older style (like when Classical Mediterranean architecture came back in vogue and we saw a bunch of public buildings being built with all pillars and triangles) and people who want some kind of new experimental style (like when Jugendstil started appearing).

There is always a balance that can be found between finding a presentation that aligns with market trends and a presentation that stands out and draws attention. It's up to the people running the show where on the axis they decide to plant themselves.
I hope Neuralink makes reasonable efforts to minimise the impact of testing on animals. But state hindrance of Neuralink's research could delay or stop blind people from gaining sight and quadriplegics from walking and gaining independence.

These are themselves forms of harm whose negative effects could outweigh the impacts of testing imperfections by orders of magnitude.
Ask HN: Scientific Breakthrough via ChatGPT
I feel like ChatGPT would point out gaps within our understanding of math and science before being able to take over our software jobs.

There are many gaps within our mathematical understanding and absorbing propositional logic and spitting out more theorems or proving more theorems seems more aligned with what an AI would be good at finding.

Oppose to software jobs where the inputs are product problems and half (way more than half in my experience) of the problems aren't even defined well enough.
This is why [0]. Some board members at the European Central Bank (ECB) are already considering suggesting spending and saving limits on CBDCs including the digital euro and that should tell you where these CBDC pilots are going to go if successful and how very dystopian that would be already.

Oh dear.

[0] https://reclaimthenet.org/digital-euro-spending-saving-limit...
also check out https://github.com/RazrFalcon/resvg
> Much of the money that Mr. Butkus, a self-employed businessman, invested came from the recent sale of his home in Plainfield, Ill.

Ugh. Why? There's a difference between risking savings, retirement funds, and money you will need for shelter.
Mac, only when there's an update. Or I shut it down for travel in case it gets stolen (so nothing is left in memory).
In the lead up to this mess FTX was NOT treated the same by regulators as the other exchanges.
I wanted to use Proton Mail and was very excited and made a fresh new account. Sent a test email to my old gmail and it went to spam immediately. That told me how feasible this was to use as my primary email.

Google has a stranglehold on what it considers "valid" and I don't know how we use other providers as long as they have it.
The entire purpose of bitwarden is they do not have your unencrypted data in the first place, so what is the fear there?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

As they say.
So for one, if you're looking for an actual answer, dial it down a few notches. Your post is 18 minutes old as of me writing and you're already boasting about a lack of replies.

Two, you're likely misunderstanding the purpose of SSL and Let's Encrypt. It's not to protect you against the site you're talking to, it's to prevent man in the middle attacks on the way. It ensures you can't walk into a starbucks for an hour and walk away with dozens of facebook logins.

Lastly, the big players don't use Let's Encrypt for reliability and customer service purposes. If you run a blog and your cert screws up, the 3 people visitng your site that week will have to click a few extra buttons to get in.

If you're a microsoft, that can mean thousands if not millions of users hitting this wall they expect not to have, leading to huge costs for customer support and occassionally deeper issues updating certificates. Exactly the same reason Bank of America doesn't use godaddy.com for their domain name.

Before Let's Encrypt, certs cost money from certificate authorities, so not many smaller companies would bother. Now it's streamlined enough that browsers throw scary warnings if you don't have it, which is a massive improvement for everyone using the web.
Do you have any data on "massive deliverability issues"? I'm a customer and knowing this would of course be very relevant to me.
You can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off (2015)
> stopped donating to Wikipedia after the size of their cash reserves were revealed.

After I read your comment, I thought they had 10x annual expenses or something but really they have 18 months of runway. That's not that long IMO.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
Have you previously interacted w these folks?

A user might mark you as spam in their client if they perceive you as engaging in unwanted marketing especially if they’re unclear where you got their email.

And proton was one of two preferred clients the hurtcore folks liked back when I was learning about OSINT + favored by a few other really rude sets of people so it’s absolutely possible especially if you have one of the newer non dot ch addresses.

Do you have a trusted friend you can try emailing to test?

What exactly are you emailing about?