skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish we’d just drop the concept of homework after all this AI stuff. It’s long overdue.

Instead do the “homework” in class and get help as needed.

Then at home you watch the lectures and compile your questions which will show up in your next homework session.
There is an associated lab manual, which also includes a more basic introduction to the fundamentals:

https://learningtheartofelectronics.com/

Note that the last third is about building a small computer from scratch, but the presentation is a bit obsolete.
Downside existed before Let's Encrypt, it just got amplified with it.

General public does not differentiate between the SSL certificate validation level.

Let's Encrypt provides domain validation certificates, which only validates that one owns the domain in question.

There is another level - Organization Validation SSL certificates, which involves manual checking that this is the legal entity it claims to be. I would expect the financial institutions to use this kind of certificates to avoid phishing, but sadly I've seen some of them use Let's Encrypt.
I'm not defending him, but I'd reserve judgment until after I see the analysis of what exactly happened.

7 bill sent to Binance and random VC is plausible at least, but it sounds like the money vanished (it doesn't vanish, someone somewhere took out large sums of money).

7 bill sent to crypto is hard to believe, and sounds more like laundering, but the cash reserves should nonetheless have a paper trail.

4 bill will not vanish, or it may have never existed, or he's lying and it was moved to a Cayman acct(s) somewhere.

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.

With a real bank OFC there is a lot of scrutiny and supposedly you have to keep track of assets and liabilities but there is a large degree of fudging it, plus they can always get loans from the unlimited central supply if they have an immediate shortfall...

Which might be what he's looking for i.e. a bailout via printed money, which would allow investors to withdraw funds and OFC send inflation sky high...
Let's Encrypt is behind that annoying memorysafety.org website? how unfortunate.

otherwise great news that LE is still doing well as an org
I assume it's a reference to https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap#firefox-s...

Basically, Firefox Sync allows you to sync certain things across your devices (bookmarks, tabs, etc) and they are going to implement similar functionality in Thunderbird.
> Aren't you worried this will escape the sandbox?

Good question to put to chatGPT; likely answer:

Of course not, no need to worry ;)
I thought this was a new meme - "pretend that every company was founded by Elon Musk"! - but it turns out that this is not only not-false, it's _actually_ true, as opposed to the legal nonsense that allows Elon to call himself a co-founder of Tesla[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
This is also offtopic, but I cringe when software companies use the word "delight" when describing their software.
Sorry, we're giving an ML engineer grief for not knowing much about SSL? Should we tease dentists for not knowing how to grow oranges, too?
yeah, technofeudalism seems like a much more likely dystopia than 'oops all paperclips'
IIRC nuclear weapons aren't very effective against asteroids in a vaccuum. Unless you can place the warhead inside the asteroid somehow.
So its all a game? And everyone on social media are pawns in the war machine?
Unfortunately those other products are nothing special and Mozilla seems happy to damage Firefox by adding ads for Pocket.
> Some of my drives are over 10 years old and still work something unheard of when it comes to rotating rust.

Not at all unheard of! HDDs tend to fail young, or last a very long time.

The oldest working hard drive I have is in my SPARCstation10, so they're about 30 years old now.

In my ZFS home server nearly all the drives are from its original build in 2010, so over 12 years old now. I had to replace one drive early in the life of that system (year 2-ish, forgot exactly) and the rest are going strong.
On the subject of Caracaras, want to plug “A Most Remarkable Creature (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251787/a-most-remar... ) by Jonathan Meiburg, lead singer of Shearwater
I agree, this was more of a test of a technique where I got ChatGPT to generate prompts to interactively improve a prompt from another ChatGPT instance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33857328

If you ask ChatGPT if it is intelligent or something like that it will always say something like “I am large language model trained by openai etc.” so I worked with another ChatGPT instance to interactively get an increasingly detailed answer to whether it is intelligent or conscious.

I also use this technique for other things like for example instead of saying “Generate a React implementation of cookie clicker” ask one ChatGPT instance to “Generate 10 prompts to ChatGPT to generate a React implementation of cookie clicker” this meta-prompt engineering technique is the most useful technique I have come up with so far.
is it possible to abstract chrome extensions to firefox natively, this would 10x its value and adoption as chromium extenions are what keeps many people using chrome based browsers.
> But it’s mostly been admission of being dumb and not of guilt.

I think there is a misunderstanding of how his blabbing is hurting his future defences.

It is not about admitting or not admitting to crimes. When you say that he did not admit to being guilty it sounds like you expect him to say “yes I SBF have done wire fraud using interstate communications”. He certainly did not do that. That is not what anyone says when they say he is admitting crimes.

The way criminal law works is that the crimes have elements. To be able to say that you have commited X a prosecutor has to show A and B and (C or D). What he is doing is not admitting X, but providing the As, or Bs or Cs on a silver platter for a prosecutor.

For example maybe for some crime they have to show that when you made a statement you did know that it is false. That is really hard to show. Unless you help them out by going on the record about what did you know and when. (Which many of his statements seems to be doing.) That is one element I have heard about, but there are many different crimes he can be in trouble for and many different elements. Also the interpretation of many of these elements is arcane to say the least. You really need to be an expert on law to be able to tell what the terms means. Which means that it is very easy for him to fall into a trap where he is saying something which to my untrained ears sounds fine, perhaps even exculpatory, but for a lawyer’s ears provides the last element to prove something.

The other way his blabbing is hurting him is that it locks him into a specific story. Years from now, when prosecutors get a case together they will have to share all their evidence with his legal team. Then his legal team would have the option to find the most defensible, legally best narrative for all of it. But they can’t do that if he already locked himself into some narative. Every time he opens his mouth he is removing freedom to maneuver from his future defense team.

The third way he is hurting his case is that if there is anything he says which later turns out to be false, or can be depicted as false, that can be used to paint him as a liar. And that can be used to undermine other things he might say. This might not be a crime in itself, but can be used to convince perhaps a jury to disregard his statements.
Very cool - thanks!
The Starsky postmortem 2-parter published on Medium reveals that:
1) true autonomy is worth less than a cup of coffee a day
2) safety isn't sexy
3) nobody knows which features sell.
Arguably AI is about creating stupidity at scale
The MDN documentation is great actually.
Those instructions were always so clunky as was the process.

Re: Godaddy, I was using their "EV" (Extended Validation) cert which added a company name indicator in the address bar. I then learned that it's unwise to bring up security when someone isn't thinking about it because it puts them on undue alert. A couple years ago the browsers have done away with that EV badge altogether.
Of course a mutual fund isn’t going to beat the market in each year. It would have to time the market perfectly through what we’ve gone through. That involves placing bets on other people’s opinions of companies instead the company itself.
Need to convince it to self replicate via the other terminal.
I literally had to tell their customer support I had cancer to get them to cancel my sub. Will never get them another cent.
That is a little strange. Perhaps management and the developer team want to try to keep it as apolitical as possible? By the same token, it's pretty effortless to indulge in my penchant for conspiracies and call ChatGPT a MAGAI.

*Edited for spelling.
Mark McCaughrean is (like the author of the OP article) for retaining an embargo period:

https://c.im/@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social/10946319815627...
> So, it adds less than 200 million dollars per GW of storage. This is not large. It's also misleading to portray retrofitting plants as an expense that new nuclear builds would require: it's a lot harder and more expensive to do a retrofit than it is to incorporate these changes in the initial construction.

$200 in 1983 is 600 in 2022. So why are you claiming that it's the reason the plants finished in the 80s and 90s were more expensive then? A much cheaper version of a quarter of an insignificant amount can't double the price. There must be a different explanation like a negative learning rate.

> And again, three mile island was contained. Secondary storage worked. If these retrofits are expensive, they were evidently not necessary.

It still wiped out the plant and cost billions to clean up. And these are all changes related to the countless minor incidents like fires and pipe burst *before* TMI. The changes due to TMI before 1985 were not counted and were smaller. 40% of these modifications were initiated by the utilities to improve reliability and weren't even due to regulation. This was the cost of improving the early extremely simple reactors to the same safety and reliability standards as TMI.

> Good thing nuclear power averages a capacity factor of over 90%! By comparison what's the capacity factor for solar and wind? 25% depending on geography.

Not the machines you are saying to build. If you want to build a machine with 1/3rd of the material, a quarter of the regulation, a sixth of the labour many fewer redundancies, and less QA? You get one that performs like it. More regulation and more expensive designs and another 40 years of upgrades improved the reliability.

The nuclear industry learnt by doing, and what they learnt is if you half ass things your reactor catches fire or starts leaking and needs repairs like Browns Ferry or Rancho Seco or any if the N4 reactors in France which were built and operated at similarly slapdash rates.

> Restrict the query to reactors completed before three mile island and there's no increase in cost. The chart I posted handily put those in a different color, but this is apparently not obvious enough for you.

In the primary source from the DOE, the prices increase. Same with the Phung paper. The retrofit costs I included are precisely and only the ones unrelated to TMI. Excluding a small fraction of FOAK plants, they went up in price the entire time for plants that opened from 1969 to 1979. Every year they got bigger and more cimplex and added more redundancies because that was what was needed to keep them running more than half the time.

Every year the very first commercial plants were running, more problems were found that needed monkey patching and required adding complexity to subsequent and in progress designs. This necessarily can't have started before the first plant of each manufacturer was running.
Anyone know what medium was used to create these?
You're obviously not in marketing.
Many larger FPGA-development kits. NVME for storage maybe not right now, but as an add-on via 'Mezzanine' card atop the dev-kit.

Basically some dual- to quad-core arm embedded into the fpga, various amounts of memory, sometimes expandable via SODIMM, and so on.

NOT cheap!

https://www.xilinx.com/products/design-tools/embedded-softwa... would be cybertrash from Xilinx as offer to run on the ARM-Cores.

edit: Former Altera, now Intel-FPGA isn't really better.

Prepare for a world of hurt, if doing anything with FPGAs, and their proprietary tool chains. Prepare for another world of hurt, if thinking they would be supported by open-source tool chains in a sufficient way, or that the the few alternative solutions which are fully supported by them would be enough.

I'll show myself out now...(rambling)
https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.adobe.com

They've earned these 1.2 stars.
IIRC it was around 2010 that Apple started getting rid of scroll bars by default
> I'm still old school but can set this up all using the letsencrypt command line utilities that configure everything for me.

Actually Apache recently introduced mod_md, which allows provisioning certificates from Let's Encrypt directly (or anything else that supports ACME): https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html

Because of this, you no longer need external software like certbot for Apache (though it's good software regardless: https://certbot.eff.org/pages/about), so in that regard Apache is a bit more like Caddy (another good web server: https://caddyserver.com/), rather than like Nginx.

I wrote about it and other configurations of Apache on my blog a while back: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/how-and-why-to-use-apache-... Since, I've actually moved most of my personal workloads from Nginx/Caddy over to Apache, because at my scale the web server isn't the bottleneck and if you disable .htaccess to limit disk I/O it's pretty decent, in addition to lots of different modules.

Either way, working a bit more with certificates, even with tools that simplify the process, is a nice way to understand everything a bit better, like running your own CA: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-ca I still have lots to learn, at least when I want to get pretty particular about mTLS and what some client certificates can or cannot be used for.

Of course, any software that actually helps you get things done, is user friendly and has ample (correct) tutorials available is a good option in my book, regardless of what your particular choice ends up being! Let's Encrypt as a whole is an absolute life saver, though! Edit: even if it feels like a looming massive single point of failure with few viable alternatives sometimes.
Ok, the next thing we need is bob.py which is a ChatGPT that has been instructed to be a developer, talking to Alice.py
Consider how little testing most software apparently has before release. If that's not going to happen, why would they put the effort in to making it configurable?
You are witnessing the end of many occupations.
> These Moog dancers don't fit that mode. I mean, the second dance ends with about 40 seconds just watching the cameras, which have crowded the frustrated dancers off-screen. How is that "dad appeal"?

Maybe that's a question of taste? Of opinion? You're obviously not wrong I just disagree it's so clear cut. This stuff is not Benny Hill. Note that the "Moog dancers" don't have to be tailoring their stuff to "Dad appeal" for some tv exec to look at it and think, "yep, that works and we can defend it on the grounds of high art when Mary Whitehouse and her ilk start yelling corruption of youth" or whatever. Obviously to view it completely solely through a lens of sexuality is as silly as viewing anything in life in those terms. There is colour, there is movement, there are visual patterns ranging from the simple to the more complex, there is order that degrades and is restored, it can be appreciated and discussed completely ignoring the sexual elements and there are circumstances where it is utterly reasonable to do so.

Benny Hill had some really terrific, visually clever and hilariously funny gags [1] that weren't about women with big tits bending over or a man with the head of a swan coming out of the fly in his trousers. The Moog Dancers really aren't much like that kind of brazen "for the 12 year old in the dads." Note that I've argued both sides of this w.r.t. the moog dancers and don't claim to have "the" answer. Your opinion is as good as anyone's. "Not as bad as ..." Doesn't mean "has absolutely nothing in common with."

[1] I wanted to link a sketch here that I remember that is probably on youtube but google in their infinite wisdom are murdering searching for what you want in favour of algorithmic curation of what they want to show you so there's no way I can find it, or anything Benny Hill that doesn't involve bikini clad women and additional misogyny concerning women who are of a different age and shape. He got the rep for good reason.
Things are "testable" when you can control all variables except one (in this case, MHL). This is rarely possible in real life, except when a natural experiment presents itself:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_experiment

So in this case, it might be "the same city, before and after MHL was enacted." Then we could graph the number of cyclists and the number of injuries, and you'd have something.
The DMCA takedown system is an exemption to copyright law; violate it, and you lose its safe harbor and go back under ordinary copyright law. Copyright law does not violate the First Amendment because the Constitution specifically allows for it:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries

and the First Amendment does not override it; it is specifically worded "Congress shall make no law".
I know better what am I supposed to do. Type "download letsencrypt certificate online" in the Google and you'll find out what I'm talking about. You can think of forcing administrators all the day while Internet is full of expired letsencrypt websites that I regularly stumble upon. The world does not work like that. Letsencrypt should serve its users, not force them onto anything. If I think that I should generate key online, provide me this service with sane implementation on a safe website. If you won't, I'll download it from the "Russian hackers". ACME is awesome, but it's not always suitable, sometimes I want to get certificate manually and that's OK. I remember chinese websites issuing 3-year certificates. Wosign or something like that. That was the best experience I've ever had.
This was my teens first response to it. "Destroy that".
gave it the below prompt and it nailed the bulk of it.

from the following table create a php crud application : CREATE TABLE `rating` (
`rating_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`review` varchar(4048) DEFAULT NULL,
`rating` tinyint(4) NOT NULL
)
I disagree. Things have gotten better under Harrell, we no longer have an encampment at the Ballard commons, but we are so far in the hole that we have a very long way to go. We also need changes at the county level.
Indeed. No way that replacing trivial to implement, ubiquitous communications technology with complicated, processing intensive, proprietary solutions could go wrong.
>Side note: I was expecting this CEO letter to end with layoffs.

Best I can tell from their 2022 Annual Report, they operate pretty lean...22 employees and 10 board members. (see page 44)

https://www.abetterinternet.org/documents/2022-ISRG-Annual-R...
Oh that's really smart!
One issue that Chrome app developers run into is when Firefox and (especially) Safari don't contain Chrome's latest feature-of-the-week.
I think you're being a bit pedantic. The point is that the response referenced a specific book written by Hobbes to support its argument, which lends the essay a lot more credibility than it would otherwise have.

Though now I wonder if adding "include MLA citations" to the prompt would get ChatGPT to make up citations as well.
Sounds like you ride pretty serious distances. Do you also ride them at serious speeds? Most people ride at a very relaxed pace, about 15 kph or so, and don't really fall off their bike except while learning or in traffic accidents. But if you go 30 kph regularly, that significantly increases the speed at which unexpected things happen, reduces your time to react, and increases the speed at which you hit the pavement if you fall.

Speed matters a lot. There's a good reason why most bike racers wear helmets, while most regular city bikers or leisurely bikers do not.

Mind you, I've fallen a couple of times too (usually in icy or otherwise slippery conditions I wasn't properly accounting for at the time). But never hit my head. Worst I think was when I scraped my hands as a kid.
I also quite like "AGI safety from first principles": https://www.lesswrong.com/s/mzgtmmTKKn5MuCzFJ
Browsers don't differentiate between the SSL certificate validation level. Because it has been shown that the higher validation levels aren't actually significantly more secure, so the distinction is pointless.
No cgrand didn’t say it’s coming soon, he said they’re working on it and donate to get it “sooner.” Is it possible you are having similar accuracy issues recalling what he said on Slack months ago?
Why is it LLMs get all the doom and gloom attention whereas, arguably, much more dangerous tools like voice cloning, photo generation, etc. don’t?
'people wondered the same after the fire was discovered' is also what people said after nuclear fission was discovered. And it was as misleading a comparison then as it is today.

It's worse than that, though. We didn't have nuclear fission being made by multiple competing parties in the private sector with no possibility of government regulation or oversight. That's what we've got today for ML.

Decentralization sounds great until someone is cooking with plutonium. Our values of freely sharing information and technology are simply unequipped for technologies this dangerous, but we have not yet recognized ML as a weapon of mass destruction. We should, as it plainly can now be used thusly.

As I predict that in the future, open source ML models will be regarded the same way that loose nukes are treated today.

Of course, the problem will be far worse. We never set up multiple competing MOOCs to teach-at-scale nuke-making to the next generation. In effect, we have made ML terrorism unavoidable and endemic after 2025 or so.

Given that democracy was already hanging by a thread, I'm going to wager that the profusion of next-generation ML bots will make it effectively impossible at scale, as it becomes a simple matter to create 10,000 supporters, say, with unique faces, voices, and opinions, out of the thinnest of air.

This means that democracy will denature into a sort of suspicious populism. And before you say, "isn't that where we're already at," I'll say, "yes and it just got a whole heck of a lot worse."
This is probably a direct result of the toxic polemic that invades every article published about Firefox.
Many Linux distros have Certbot packages to manage the generating of certs and even updating your Apache and Nginx configs to use them. The renewals are also automatic and painless. I've even used win-acme on Windows as another example of an Acme client implementation.

What is shady ?
I wonder how many arguments happen a day that are between a human and an AI controlled bot without the human realizing they aren't talking to a human.

In 20 years, will everyone be stuck to their brain-keyboards angrily shouting at crowds of imagined people?

What is the number today? Is this already happening a million times per day?
Exactly. They're so focused on this delusion that can be the dominant browser that they threw away us, the ten percent. Be the tech browser again.