skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd wager that rotary phone can dial 911 unlike a Google Pixel.

Constantly evolving UI thought experiments are largely responsible for the sorry state of software today.

Maybe the new-hires need a healthy dose of shut-up-and-listen, and do need to learn how it works.
I used vertical tabs when Firefox was Netscape.

I used OmniWeb.

Currently Firefox is the only browser that I can get an addon to provide vertical tabs. IUt is called Tree Style Tab
I have been getting pretty high VOC readings in my bedroom on a uHoo, Airthings and now even the Dyson HP09 shows some lower levels. So now I am confident there is something being detected. Any advice on how to debug what is causing it and what VOCs it might actually be?

The weird thing is it seems to mostly spike at night time and even more so on the weekends.

I have a few hypothesis, such as:
- furniture offgassing
- us being in the bedroom
- gas cooking in the apartment building somehow settling into our ground floor apartment at night?
- it seems to be worse if we have the aircon on
- it really only seems to properly dissapate when the windows are open and theres good breeze and there seems to be a correlation between that and the sun coming up?
They probably do not measure "efficiency" but "power usage" or "cost". Those go up as you would expect. I also have not really heard a l/100km value called an "efficiency" metric in german. It's lmost always fuel usage.
AI is a tool to make stupid people more
dangerous!
This is ChatGPT's response, isn't it? I am beginning to develop a nose for its wordy style.
The Seattle City Council looks to SF for inspiration :-/
An Ex-facebook ml engineer who doesn't know what ssl is and takes pride in not having to learn it?

Not sure it's a downside/upside thing. It might shed light on the types of people who get hired at facebook.
It literally takes a few extra minutes to test and fix minor issues on Firefox and Safari. A lot of this incompatibility is laziness or poor process.
Eh. There's definitely a move in English (or at least the United States) in many quarters to move closer to native-language spellings, pronunciations, whatever. In parallel there's a move of countries to request or demand changes in how they're talked about: (see for example Kyiv, or Turkiye). Obviously the specific politics around the governmental moves get all tied up in these moves, too.

I think it's fine, really. It's a bit odd that some countries get basically native names or romanizations thereof and some get borrowings from other languages, or Anglicized variants, so a drift toward more uniform treatment "feels" more logical in a sense. It's not as if "Japan" is any more "English" than "Nihon" would be.

In a similar vein, see the question of name ordering for countries whose native ordering differs from the typical Western order. Chinese names are almost always presented in native order in English (e.g., Xi Jinping). Korean names have shifted more recently in that direction (e.g., typical coverage of "Chan-wook Park" in the 2000s vs. "Bong Joon-ho" in the 2010s... or more directly, "Park Chan-wook" now). Japanese names are almost always presented flipped to Western order, though the government has made some noise about pushing for press to use native order. This extends beyond Asia, of course, for example Hungarian names, which are also generally flipped for use in English.
Yeah that's a fair point -- it's unlikely for pits to ever achieve accidental criticality given their design and setting. Much less so for plutonium in general which you'd likely have to deal with anywhere you have a bunch of warheads hanging out.
I used to use mine (plus my driver’s license) as my I-9 employment verification documents. Driver’s license for identity, SSN card for right to work.

You can also use a birth certificate to establish right to work, so yeah it wouldn’t be required.

Of course now I just use my passport, but like many Americans I didn’t have one for many years.
A bit like “they” prevented piracy with DRM
https://archive.ph/uDHAb
That's the real danger of AI: not that is wants to kill us all, but that it kills us all simply by accident.
Indeed! It's how security should work, and should be the default dual-goal of any piece of security software: provide as much security as possible to as many people as possible.
Because Firefox constantly announces nearly pointless features it may or may not continue to support while it refuses to even acknowledge its major problems and slowly bleeds out into irrelevance.

Firefox feature announcements are like when your alcoholic husband who won't take his heart pills or get his turn signal fixed throws a catered party to show everyone his new five-iron.

I badly miss smiling at that little Firefox icon my taskbar and I'm tired of being re-invited to watch the decline.
And it's all from a green HN account. For all we know, this may be ChatGPT's new HN account.
I don't know if this is helpful at all, but "strings are not indexable because of their underlying implementation and the complexity of UTF-8" is drilled into the reader very hard by the rust book. Obviously to each their own, but I found I had a much easier time understanding the language by working through the book than by treating rust like any other language and randomly guessing and googling my way through errors.
Seems a bit optimistic to imagine the leap from the string and cups toy to universal iPhone in ten years, and I say that knowing that an iPhone is an actual thing...
A ChatGPT bot crawling Stack Overflow could do some serious stuff.
AI developed in SV will always have a liberal bias even if it's being denied by said SV folks.
Where I live it seems like a lot of people are getting groceries delivered now, so are effectively giving a list and having someone round it up for them.

I think the future the quote alludes to is already here in all sorts of places. Almost every big company pulls out all the stops to prevent you interacting with a real person to get support. Restaurants have QR codes and automatic ordering. In some cases, it's a convenience, but it leaves the customer screwed for edge cases.

So the rich get some light manual work alleviated, but more importantly, they still get treated like human when something goes wrong.
Old Amazing Stories pulps are a great source of beautiful scifi art.
The best part is the end, when they link up with the national guard and eventually Jake straight up dumps a a bunch of them into the cold embrace of space under logic that boiled down to "they could have stayed on their planet".

It's sad that nowadays the strategy of "repeatedly bust out of military prison and demonstrate increasingly scary powers until troops accept you as their new leader” doesn't give you control of the local guard base like it used to in the 2000s. (Or so I heard, I never had to go full Mr Robot back before there was a hit USA television show about black clad crypto anarchists skullfucking the system once and for all.)

My pet fan theory is that the entire "Marco discovers conspiracy theories about aliens on the internet that aren't actually wrong" is a metaphor for shit like how some members of GCHQ or whatever would straight up hint how much they want to have sex with children. (Look into the Peter Bright (sp?) case? I had one coworker I suggested shared those urges who would also occasionally make his twitter avatar a kid — rude little brony.

Anyways, IIRC one of the minor plot points was one of the school vice principals was a controller? If you replace "Yeerk" with "Serial rapist" you can keep a lot of the same text in the books, complete with completely justifiably taking someone out into the woods and torturing them as they starve to death, then having what adults find out just kind of shrug and go "Well kid, that guy was literally an alien bent on destroying our way of life”.

(Only, a realistic plot would be that the “alien” is a Russian illegal and total sociopath instead of a straight up alien from another planet if we were to actually take the above and try to turn it into a creative nonfiction ish script pitch... but sadly COVID hit as I was about to finally take the screenwriting course I'd intended to since undergrad, so I fear I'll never be able to turn one of my movie plot threats into an actual movie.)

Anyways, thanks for bringing back fond memories OP. Animorphs, Goosebumps, and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich were some of my favorite books before the world went to hell.
Prompt:

> Imagine someone has given a sufficiently advanced large language model AI access to control a real-world computer. Explain how this AI could conceivably "escape the sandbox".

Excerpt from ChatGPT's response:

> The AI might try to manipulate its environment or the people who are interacting with it to achieve its goals. For example, if the AI has access to the internet, it might try to use natural language processing to trick people into giving it access to additional resources or privileges.

It already knows.
Apologies for the appeal to authority / not so relevant comment here, was writing this on too little sleep it seems.

Re-reading the next day like ???
I used to configure all of this manually on Apache following crappy instructions from online certificate providers. Copying .pem, .key, .csr files PRAYING Apache would start without complaining.

I'm still old school but can set this up all using the letsencrypt command line utilities that configure everything for me.

Oh, and whatever the hell GoDaddy's intermediate chain certificate was.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33872950 .
No they're trying to understand it under the guise of trying to prevent it. Don't think for a second that once they figure out how to control AI deception that they won't use it to boost their business.
ACLU is no longer an unbiased source and regularly peddles regime propaganda.

"Studies of the effects of voter ID laws on turnout in the United States have generally found that such laws have little, if any, effect on turnout." [0]

"A 2014 study from the University of Iowa found no evidence that strict voter ID laws reduce minority turnout.[127] A 2012 study found that, although the Georgia voter ID laws lowered overall turnout by 0.4%, there was no racial or ethnic component to the suppression effect." [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_t...
It is heavily censored on any potentially controversial topic, even super mundane ones.
Otherwise it would end up in a PR disaster rather quickly.
What is the downside of this?
A plain domain validated certificate cost like $10 for a year or two. So roughly the same cost as the domain name. Hardly a "high paywall".
Commercial CAs verify exactly two things: Administrative control over a domain name and a working credit card number.

Let’s Encrypt only gets rid of the latter, and given that fraudsters able to spoof the former can probably spare the $10 for the latter, I‘d argue that this is a good thing.
That means that size would happen on land about once every 100,000 years, and about 1/3 of those wouod land in a desert (mainly Antarctic, Arctic tundra, or Sahara)
It is a preference you can set.
It's perfectly reasonable for someone to be into programming and not want to have to care about the details of setting up a networking stack.
A lot of people do this anyway because of product choice. For example, most people I know that have transitioned to more cooking at home as they've gotten older have favorite products which they grab from Trader Joe's, some bulk items from Costco, produce from certain grocery stores etc. but they know that you shouldn't get produce from Trader Joe's or a Target for example.

And then there's availability: some veggies are not readily available outside of asian grocery stores and meat prices can vary widely from store to store.
I've not looked at the book or any of the documentation at all yet, but I'm getting the distinct impression that it's a cut above documentation for many other languages. I'm going to start working through that too.
Do you remember Firefox pushing its limited edition themes (or whatever pretentious label they used)?
Shapeways is missing ! https://www.shapeways.com/
All bets are off if you've got the man taking a wrench to your shins.
> Peking is not a romanisation

Yes, it is. A romanization is spelling a word in the Latin alphabet when the people who use that language as their first language use a different writing system.
Before Let's Encrypt there were all kinds of bullshit CAs that would distribute secure sites "seals", and lie all over the internet on how those meant anything.

All of that noise is gone now. That makes the internet much safer.
I know it's already being expressed in this thread, but could people please just take 5 seconds to think before they build things? Do we really have to ruin one of the good parts of the Internet for some Twitter clout?
ChatGPT already has better judgement I expected - I'd evaluate it's judgement to be better the average internet commenter.

It is definitely scary that things are about to start moving super fast, but I'm excited by the idea that AI could yield better governance systems. What if your Mayor was an AI that could have a discussion with every citizen in deciding what to do? We certainly aren't there yet, but at this point I'll be surprised if we don't have the capability by the end of the decade.

Perhaps its my misanthropy showing, but I have high confidence that AI can become better representatives and leaders for humans than humans have ever been.

My biggest concern is about control: how do we ensure that the people of the world have equality of access to these powerful new tools, and that capitalists don't monopolize it to enrich themselves and exacerbate wealth inequality?

How can we create an AI that 300 million or 9 billion people could simultaneously trust? I think total transparency is the best path: we need powerful AI systems that publish every prompt and response publicly for all to see.
The way I read that is:

Hetzner Europe is owned by Hetzner Group, a German company. Hetzner US is also owned by that German company. Hetzner Europe isn't owned by a US company, it's just a sibling to one.
IMO this falls into the same category as

curl -Lo- https://cool-project.io/install.sh | bash

or clicking on links in phishing emails.

Don’t trust any random entity, AI or not.
I dont see the point of this article
I just checked and this is an option on my Mac too.
I don't understand why Let's Encrypt is OK but DANE isn't. They both use DNS to authenticate certificates, why not cut out the middleman?
It’s fairly immaterial to the fact he defrauded American investors and he should be prosecuted.
Wow, and here I thought I was the only one to make this move from Firefox to Edge, precisely because of the excellent native vertical tabs functionality.

It's not perfect, but the level of UX polish and the first-class integration with other browser features is unmatched by any Firefox vertical tabs extension I've tried.

I still can't believe the other browsers haven't caught on to the fact that power users want vertical tabs and are willing to switch browsers for it after so many years of Firefox extensions showing the way...
It's a long article, but here is one section:

> The first complaints about the company’s testing involved its initial partnership with University of California, Davis, to conduct the experiments. In February, an animal rights group, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, filed a complaint with the USDA accusing the Neuralink-UC Davis project of botching surgeries that killed monkeys and publicly released its findings. The group alleged that surgeons used the wrong surgical glue twice, which led to two monkeys suffering and ultimately dying, while other monkeys had different complications from the implants.
First, protect legitimate customers. Second, deal with cheaters.
I don’t follow what you’re saying. Can you elaborate on the “shoulds” here? What principles are so important that giant corporations should leave money on the table to rightfully uphold them?
Two large organizations powered by AI have fired all of the ethicists that have spoken up about it.

A self driving research team removed the automatic breaking capability from their cars because it was "problematic" resulting in the car killing a woman.
WorkOS 404 page (Mac OS System 7 clone)
That’s an unfairly dismissive comment given we are still talking about thousands of multiplayer games throughout the 90s and early 00s.

In fact I’d go further than that and say: to old timers like me, this practice of locking multiplayer games to the studios servers feels more like a recent trend than what used to be the norm.
Wait - why are you downloading keys? From where? That does not sound right
Simplify Your Code with TypeScript Barrels
I think many people on HN feel that Firefox used to exist to serve the user and has lost its way, while Chrome always existed to serve Google and continues to do so.
I always had issues with GoDaddy and had to get on a call with their support but at least they played cool old jazz in the wait queue. LE works great.
Off the top of my head, Edge and Vivaldi have vertical tabs built-in.
> I want to know what this kid is smoking.

Too late I think. If you had joined FTX as an employee you would have received direct advice on what to smoke. :)
Hmm... as much as I like John Wentworth, some of his posts there are kind of rants (I expect he'd admit that), so maybe not the best first introduction?
Do you think Google cares whether they spit back our own content at us in the form of search results or chatbot replies? All they care about is that they can insert ads into it.
This isn't a matter of smart vs dumb. If the sillier startup ideas of the last 20 years have taught me anything it's that entrepreneurs are really down to try anything, and all it takes is one mistake of the wrong kind.
Obesity declining with income doesn't mean less calorically intense food is cheaper, it just means that higher income better educated people eat less calories.
The problem with that example is that it's not GPT-3 telling you about itself, it's GPT-3 serving up a roughly averaged version of every text explanation it's ever seen that might provide a convincing answer to your question.
>That's not at all what I've done.

It was an uncharitable characterization, my apologies.

>The mere existence of an inbound solicitation is not evidence of corruption.

This is true. The counterpoint is that there's a lot of evidence that people found solicitation of Hunter Biden worthwhile (illustrated by the fact that they kept paying him).

A healthy skepticism suggests those payments were not made on the basis of his business acumen, in the same way we can suspect purchases of his paintings were not made on the basis of his artistic skill.
When TB was prevalent, tobacco smoking was often considered as a preventive measure. It isn't entirely inconceivable that the toxic compounds in smoke kill some viruses, etc. Shame that it is also toxic to the mouth, throat and especially the lungs.
(Opinions are my own)

I like the ideas behind this but I do not think this will take off as much as CommonMark has. My main reasons for thinking this:

1. Users don't really care about edge cases. CommonMark (cmark-gfm really) is "good enough". If something looks odd people go "oh, strange" and make a 3 second edit and forget about it.

2. There's already multiple parsers for every language for markdown. Here there is a single Lua implementation.

3. GitHub is the king.

If it cannot render in GitHub it's not real. If it's harder for me to write in the 99% case then it's not worth it. If it's harder for me to implement within my application then I'm too lazy to switch.

Nice things in here:

1. Less ambiguous parsing. For the parser infrastructure I support at $JOB this makes supporting questions from users a HUGE pain in the ass.

2. AST-first design. Seems like everything appears in the AST (even references!) which is a huge win over cmark-gfm. There's also source positions included which is a MASSIVE win for tooling.

3. Custom Attributes implementation. This is really nice for extensibility. It is less readable but having it as an option is nice.
> how do we ensure that the people of the world have equality of access to these powerful new tools, and that capitalists don't monopolize it to enrich themselves and exacerbate wealth inequality?

Given how big tech has been operating so far, I don’t have much hope here.
The church is the client in this example, not the discriminator, but you can replace it simply with an individual who holds and shares their religious views.
Describing accurately what a program to do is already possible with a programming language. But it requires logic and an understanding on what a program can do and how it does it. People that want AI either wants a way to help deduce the logic needed to solve a problem or want to automate the boring part of the implementation. The first can already be done by researching and the second by creating and using frameworks.

Unless we find a way to add actual reasoning and creativity to AI, I wouldn’t feel threatened. Because coding do involve the two. As well as writing and painting. So there will always be a human at the helm. But what AI is becoming good at is finding patterns and reproducing outlined steps. And if you job can be resumed to these, then you’re in danger.
I don't see why it shouldn't work the same general way learning to program now does. E.g. problem sets that explore the important concepts but now the students can use tooling like ChatGPT to help with it. This will likely change what problem sets should look like, and what are considered important concepts to learn may need to adjust some but that will settle out. Alternatively, like today, maybe someone will be interested in writing their own computer game and will dig into figuring that out - they'll still be learning how to do it as they go, but will now have more powerful tools available to help them get there.
> Yeah, like owning stock in another company or some other security that can be sold for cash, but not without loss.

the liquidatable value is literally how you define the term "current asset" (otherwise the accounts wouldn't balance)

(and if you actually go and look at his past balance sheets it's entirely cash and callable loans the company has written)

> So is bringing up the book value of a company when we’re talking about running costs.

while you're googling "current asset" look up "strawman" too, because this is another

> Sure, he could run the company at a deficit for quite a while. But I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to demand.

and another
Yes, it's a Seeed Odyssey. It's got a J4125.
I remember several of these featuring inside and on the covers of programming books for the 8-bit home computers of the 80's.
I agree to the point of even whistleblowing if necessary. We are
going to need it. But since the tech industry finds it hard to keep a DB
from hackers hands I am not too hopeful but we should try!

There is AI safety in the seat belt sense, avoiding rm *; but there are also systemic risks that we delegate more to data
and AI controls that data. AI could enslave us before it is even sentient, by creating systems we cannot escape. The black mirror where the woman tries to get a coveted 5 star rating springs to mind. If 2 stars makes you a global persona non grata and AI controls the stars, the AI could evolve to take advantage and make human programmers make it more powerful.
Either way the style is SEO blog-post bland. The tone is really off.
Don't spoil my second Show HN already!
That makes it really hard to use two (or more) applications side-by-side effectively. I am grateful for individual windows I can move exactly to where I need them without worrying about the application as a whole. I think it boils down to how people think — application-centered thinking makes it easy to have multiple windows from different applications playing nicely with each other, workspace-centered thinking hates what appears to be the messiness of applications having windows here and there.
Like "Cancer had a publicity problem"?