skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Truth is stranger than fiction. After the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was dissolved, the CIA transformed the lethal pill, or "L-pill," that the OSS had developed into a suicide silver dollar,

https://www.spymuseum.org/press/press-archive/2019-press-rel....

It had a tiny needle that delivered saxitoxin and/or botulinum toxin to the agent, giving them a fast and very painful death.

AFAICT, there's no public record of how many of these were given out and how many people used them. But we do know of one famous case where someone didn't use it — Gary Powers. He had one of these silver dollars and he refused to use it. He chose capture and torture instead.

This is what his suicide dollar probably looked like, https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/a...

For me, personally, there's something very funny about the CIA turning one of the country's most recognisable symbols, the dollar, into a suicide pact.
Google convinces website owners of things all the time. Remember how AMP became popular because otherwise Google lowered your website's ranking?
Gonzalez vs. Google – Amici Brief of National Police Assoc., Inc., et al. [pdf]
Someone else in this thread linked to Webauthn supporting coming for KeePassXC.

Hopefully we end up with a variety of password manager options that support these standards and devices/browsers that allow you to use your own password manager for the passkey flow.
You can be a legitimate user who wants to (legally, according to SCOTUS) scrape a site.

Or is it better to farm the manual labor out to Amazon Mechanical Turk / Filipinas / etc?
From this narrow perspective, Internet Explorer was the exact same story. Starting around version 4.0 it really was a better browser than Netscape, implemented the new standards better, and also did essential new things that other browsers couldn’t (XmlHttpRequest anyone?). IE’s dominance really made the web better because developers could write to a single standard and end users had a unified browser UX.

Now, I disagree with this definition of “better” because it doesn’t consider the indirect effects on the open web platform. But my opinion is presumably a minority one because the community has sleepwalked into the same situation with Google and Chrome.
What makes you think that it hasn't been forgotten?
> What you want is for people to be familiar and nice, what you actually get...

Is actually people being nice (for the most part) in my experience. The failure modes you describe are a possibility, but far from a certainty.

People generally community and a sense of belonging, and I would wager are typically happier with it than without.
Or he goes on the run soon and we never see him again. Someone who was fraudulently handling billions surely has a few millions somewhere that isn't accounted for. Other crypto scam artists have disappeared after taking funds. Ruja and Kwon are two I can think of and SBF had access to more money than either.
While WebAuthn is an open standard, but the fact that it explicitly provides attestation API [1][2] and related database that can be used to verify devices [3] is already worrying.

Site owners really have the option to lock you into one or a dozen of ecosystems should they decide to. It is entirely possible that your home-made hardware key or software password manager will be disallowed from logging into Google or Apple.

For example, Cloudflare actively uses the attestation feature [4] to replace captchas, and they probably only allow a few manufacturers.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Authent...

[2] https://developers.yubico.com/WebAuthn/WebAuthn_Developer_Gu...

[3] https://fidoalliance.org/metadata/

[4] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attest...
The pin or biometrics is just in the client side, let's say to decipher the private key before usage. No?

Probably even not an encrypted key but just to protect your local passkey holder.

I don't think that any of this is sent to the website.
> Almost everybody was safe from covid -- it was a handful of high risk people who we were trying to protect.

Just on that point, it’s also worth considering what happens when hospitals are overwhelmed.
2 days ago I saw this: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/zea7ho/ramp_a_c...

"Ramp - a company which facilitates fiat to crypto purchases within the GameStop & Loopring Wallets - launches its OFF-RAMP, facilitating sales of crypto back to fiat. This is how you become your own bank."
One important change coming from elon:

Terminal for each user showing their Shadowbanned status. And ability to appeal against it.
Strong Opinions and Eroding Discourse
Drugs have been illegal for DECADES, not milllenia.
Same for me, bur the parent poster said they tried that 10 times already.

Maybe ask more people to do it!
Yes, we have an open issue to leverage that in a future release. The issue is that MPS misses many operations, so we will see how challenging it will be.
Mass sodium-ion battery production rolls off GWh-class factory
A glance at political contributions of Twitter employees at 99.7% to one party gives you a very strong prior in what the political leaning of random Twitter employees to be.
Pretty sure Firefox does that by default. It gets highly annoying, sometimes.
There were no users when C#, VB.NET and Managed C++ (replaced by C++/CLI on .NET 2.0), likewise there were no users per se when WinRT was created with another tooling and API surface than its Win32 and .NET counterparts.

I know those numbers, and can even refer to the blog post they were presented, if a big company like Microsoft wants people to use language XYZ, they can make it happen if management cares about it.

However they aren't caring enough to sort out the GUI civil war, so why would the .NET languages by any different, regarding coherent management across the board.
We clearly have multiple modes of thinking, and we know when to apply each, reasonably well. It’s really interesting to see ChatGPT in its current state of language rambling, that’s impressive and coherent as can be. When it does symbolic or logical work, it often does well for a bit and then completely goes off track, seemingly unaware that it’s “lost touch” with reality, similar to someone with a stroke or concussion. But future iterations may not be so simple to reason about, unless we can turn on and off certain features and OpenAI continues to be less than open. I suspect coming iterations will integrate math, searches, crawling etc and that can truly be powerful in combination, just like our own brains, but again on steroids. I’ve always been quite skeptical of grand proclamations about AI btw.
It is the very rare site or service that actually refuses to let you back in with an email confirmation or something. Sites with SMS 2FA / mobile app 2FA will nearly 100% of the time let you fall back to email.

And why not? It's a huge support burden to do otherwise. You can say "we told you that you'd be locked out" and not even confirm to the user that an account exists with that user ID, but then half of the users who get locked out will complain about it on social media.

You can only really enforce 2FA if your site has to do with money or similar.
Delimiter-first code
I don't see the "rest" part. At most, usually the business owners get some rest, while employees continue the usual work. "Rest" is not a synonym of "not working on weekends".
True, but in time, it will be assumed that programmers use AI to write software. It's just another tool for programmers.

As far as revenue, yes, our economic system works on doing something for money. We haven't found a better way to allocate resources and get needs filled. So, someone will make a buck out of it. Without a revenue stream the whole system falls apart.
Building an Asynchronous, Internet-Optional Instant Messaging System
While the German industrial system may well be at risk of collapse, what you've proposed is completely impossible.

ASMLs technology is Dutch and German technology and it will never move anything to the US. It won't desired and it won't be allowed. Especially since the US has had part in causing these gas problems. Why would a Dutchman at ASML want to move to America, which is so culturally different and which has its own ruling class with which he has little connection?

Furthermore, this is actual high-tech stuff, not industry, and it won't be affected by high electricity or gas prices.
Sometime around 1998/1999 (Q3A-era) I recall John Carmack commenting, probably either in a .plan entry or at Quakecon, that you could calculate arbitrary RenderMan shaders using ye old 1.1-ish fixed-function OpenGL given enough rendering passes, long before GLSL or even ARB_fragment_program was a thing. So the answer is probably longer ago than you'd think.
How is having a hash-based scanner a step forward for privacy compared to not having one?
no i did not because when i click on “sign in with GitHub” flow, that is the only thing i expect to happen. whatever the dev added to the workflow is what i assumed to be needed for the login to happen
Also the abundance and instance satisfaction of many things makes the thing itself less satisfying.

A kid loves Christmas because of the presents, ritual, food.

But if you made every day like Christmas, it wouldn’t make the kid happier overall. The kid would get sick of it and move on to the next new thing.
But is it really Artificial Intelligence or is just the production of logic algorithms based on data?
I guess it comes down to what the definition of intelligence is. Arriving at totally new concepts from directions not pointed to by data or by conventional logic seems to me to be more the definition of intelligence.
Having said that AI does present some spectacular results that would be impossible any other way. I think of it as data mining on steroids.
But back to the original question. What I fear most is that a significant number of people will embrace it as a doctrine to the exclusion of all else.
Believing what AI produces as fact is very very dangerous, but that seems to be where this technology is leading us.
I remember years ago reading research on what was originally called "beam robots". Basically the premise was that if an organism (in this case a mechanical robot) was constrained to a finite set number of random movements then given enough time it could be said the robot has memory. It is a strange concept. But look for beam robots now and you find lots of information but it has diverged completely from the original concept. It was one of those concepts that was really hard to understand so the "new" proponents decided/changed the concept to something entirely different, but much easier to work with.
AI seems to be doing that.
If this is the case, should it become mainstream, then I think we will lose the advantage of intelligence. That is truly dreadful.
(actually if you have to teach your AI any more than fundamentals then it is just learning by Data mining, its not intelligent)
What market does Microsoft operate in where there aren’t strong competitors? Google docs, AWS, PlayStation and Nintendo, Zoom, Chromebooks, Postgres/Oracle, Splunk/McAfee. If Microsoft exited any of those markets the competition would soak up the market share and keep right on going.

Doesn’t sound too-big-to-fail to me. Big on it’s own isn’t necessarily bad.
I've always had at least one confirmation page where it stated what data would be shared with the 3rd party and what kind of access they get to my account.
I was with you until the last two sentences.

I'll honestly never get that point of view: it's an evolutionary disadvantage to not fall for these kinds of attacks. Our intelligence is largely predicated on how easily we can pattern match and filter out "excess" information.

So OP being bombarded with a list of harmless permissions along with one deceptively dangerous one (deceptive because they wouldn't expect to lead to being pwn'd anyways, since it's stars) and granting is not being sloppy, it's being an intelligent person.

Github is large enough to have UX experts who know this stuff, and at the very least if stars are grounds for being banned, they should be grouping it with dangerous permissions and using more confirmations.

And even better... they should just rate limit starring! How often is someone going to star 500 of someone's repos legitimately that rate limiting would ruin everyone's day?
Gonzalez vs. Google – Amicus Brief of the United States of America [pdf]
I’ve had no issues with power automate and logic apps the few times I’ve had to use them. The last time I called voice to text and sentiment analysis APIs triggered on receiving an email with an audio attachment. It would reply to the email with the transcription and sentiment details. Was stupid easy and took about an hour to build and test and it just worked and has worked without any issues for the last three years. I have no idea how well most business users could work their way through something like that though.
That is ironic, collaborating to get out of collaboration-space :-)
> i logged in, clicked through a bunch of pages because its the same drill everytime.

Nah, the list of permissions you were granting were right there. This is on you.
You will probably have one public/private key set per device or browser to be able to connect to the website.

At the opposite, if you share your private keys on all your devices with probably automatic sync. It might defeat it's purpose in term of security. Imagine if you were to copy your ssh private key on all your machines instead of having one per device.

Now, if I'm trying to connect with public key 1234 to Facebook, it will be that I'm connecting from my home computer Firefox. If I try to connect with public key 6754, then I'm definitely on my work computer chrome.
Maybe OP was just having a look, out of curiosity.

But I agree on your last sentence, like when a porn site invites you to sign in with your Google account. That feels like a way to get compromised somehow.
The same legitimate use you have for blocking ads: they're annoying.
Being completely self- centred of course my first question was "who is [my name]". The first half was ok, scraped obviously from my linkedin and goodreads profiles and quite nicely written. Then it went off into the weeds about the top 10 singles that I had put out and I eventually realised it was talking about a pop singer who shares my (admittedly unusual) surname.

Better than Google? Hmmm... about the same, really.
I'd imagine distributing tarballs is also an important use case.
Ask HN: What’s your best understanding of the religious/god impulse?
I’ve always wondered: How do billionaires ensure their security?

Does this old lady have no security detail at all? Are they as prone as us to street-mugging?

Do people like usual unicorn CEOs, I know some who have street-facing houses or houses without a big fence (they don’t live in gated communities), have armed guys to protect against intruders? Do they walk their dog at night? let their kids walk to school in the morning? Do they have security detail for all this, or are they just like us, crossing their fingers that crime be low? Being CEOs with large interests at stake, they surely receive targeted blackmailing in large quantity, don’t they? Even as billionaires, do they simply take the first Uber from their airport to a downtown hotel? Do they simply assume airport-uber-hotel facilities are naturally safe, even considering how much interest they concentrate on their person?
> What Twitter did was at best unethical, but ironically, severely tampering with our election…

Huh? Twitter does not administer US elections last I checked. I am sure people could read this hugely consequential information you're claiming on Reddit, 4chan, OANN, AM radio, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, or various other outlets that right-leaning voters typically seem to use. In fact, I seem to recall all of those running several stories about it at the time.

Or are you claiming that Twitter is the sole source of media that the entire United States consumes?
This seems to be one of the better responses to my comment. Thanks. Some thoughts in reply:

1) People should be more hesitant to speak in absolutes. Unfortunately it’s possible that having a nuanced take is inversely correlated with the tendency to post noisy comments online. Maybe, regardless of the underlying stance of “most” skeptics, some more honest dialogue is warranted. Point conceded.

2. Hm. If that’s the case, the author’s assertion that most people who have been scammed are the kinds of people who fall for scams is fair, but not going to change many minds.

3. This is discussed ad nauseam below, so I’ll just add a reminder that we’re debating the author’s statement that “big crypto projects are very rarely scams” as evidenced by his google search. He goes on to say that “Crypto is a few hundred interesting projects, plus a long tail of thousands of scams.” So, most crypto projects are safe if you just ignore most crypto projects and only consider the most dominant. Realized losses vs unrealized market cap aside, the dynamics that incentivize that long tail of scams are worth worrying about in my view.
It's just a guy talking.

> Plus from the video: "do you have a thorough idea what OpenAI is doing, neither do I" - cut to strobe light and rock music. Jeesh, can't see that as support.

The hell are you talking about? There's no strobe there, he just goes to a slide with a white background, and the music is very quiet compared to his voice and not at all something I would call "rock".
The trick is to use the carbon tax to fund direct air capture and permanent sequestration of CO2.

Current startups are targeting $100 / ton (within a factor of two), which translates to $1/gallon of gas.

Personally, I think the carbon tax should be 2x that until we are back to preindustrial levels.
Have you ever moderated anything? A discord server? A forum? IRC channel? Literally anything at all?

You didn't actually address the OPs claims and the reason why shadowbanning exists. Sometimes you get people that are literal stalkers, harassers. People that chase out other individuals. The problem is when you ban them you give them a clear signal that they are unable to post. So what do they do? They create a new account. Then they repeat the process.

Not informing them that they violated the rules is the entire point. The broader population already knows that these behaviors are bad. The problem is dealing with specific users that refuse to give up and refuse to go away. To them their account has zero value; a ban means nothing to them. Their value is based on dealing damage to other users of your community.
xkcd explains it better than I can.
I think he's referring to Web Ontology Language; IIRC it is a kind of schema for relations in graphs. It was a big part of the Semantic Web surge from 10+ years ago.
Never heard of it.

Can you access the code it generates too or only rom dumps?
I did that from 3 different accounts. I've tried doing that on a phones with GPS on so the overlord might pick up that I am a local. But nothing works, I think I am 'shadow-banned' from edits now, because it says my edits are accepted but they are never updated on Maps.
> they might have a big base of predefined response "templates".

Sort of. They fine-tuned the existing GPT-3 largest model on samples of dialog, which would be like your templates. The program doesn't "render templates", but the fine-tuning process has instructed it that responses following the template are statistically more likely to be the correct response to a given prompt. See their homepage [0], Methods section.

> Also, they can have specific "plugin" calculators or things like that, so that once tokenized, the operations would be performed by the plugin and not by some magic AI understanding.

This is likely the direction they are going to take it, but this tech demo doesn't seem to include it. Some of the "ChatGPT jailbreaks" suggest that they are experimenting with enabling web search, likely in a manner like you describe. [1]

[0] https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

[1] https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313
You can't?

Why on earth would anyone use SSO? Are we that lazy?
>Certain problems that you'd otherwise spent weeks debugging during a large project just don't happen.

I write C++ professionally and I've never come across a problem that took weeks for me or a colleague to debug. With modern tools like Valgrind, address sanitizer and thread sanitizer it's generally possible to identify an issue within at most an hour or two. Far more time is spent debugging logic and performance issues.
In America today, when people say “monopoly” they just mean “big”. It’s watered down to the point of being meaningless.
> It's not that you can't transmit, but your risk of doing so is several times lower.

Is that really the case? Even for the early variants, the reduction of transmission risk was <= 23%

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597
> This means things can be, and are, very spread out. It is not unusual for a person in the US to live 20-60+ miles from their work - by choice.

Probably less common, but it is not that unusual to meet someone in Europe who commutes long distance by train. Probably it will become even more common as WFH or partial WFH becomes the norm in many industries.
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Giving a website access to star repos through the API for my convenience is not anything I should be banned over though.
If it was done in secret how could you know it was abused to silence criticisms primarily from the right?
Ask HN: How do decide between build or buy in your private life?
I usually look at how many hours I have to work to earn the money(+tax) to buy a thing or service.

It's almost always cheaper to do it myself, if I can, or can learn within a short time.

For some things (like laying torch down roof), it takes more skill and practice and are relatively high-stakes, I consider that factor against it.

But for some thing (like building a wall), the price of work are orders of magnitude higher than doing it yourself, and the result is going to be the same..

So I'm always kind of considering "How many days do I need to sit in the office to pay it" versus "How many do I need to work.."

For simple things, like changing a window in my house, it's obvious.. It takes 2 or 3 hours to do myself, but I'd pay someone 2-3 DAYS worth of my salary to do it for me...

I end up doing a lot of stuff myself..

What's your considerations and decision process like when you decide whether to build or buy stuff ?
2FA was created to guard against every single problem you mentioned. There is no concern that Aegis, which allows personal backups, management, and encrypted cloud backups of the secret keys. PKA where I don't control the private keys doesn't seem more safe. Especially since passkeys are being marketed as a replacement to TOTP.
Not OP, but as someone who also moves around a lot, I'd say a few. Mainly, you don't get too entrenched in the local culture. You learn to kind of just be able to blend in with anyone. I could talk to some blue hair about radical ideas today, talk TCP pros and cons with some reserved networking guru tomorrow, and talk pro wrestling with a 50 year old redneck trucker the next day. Not that I'm super knowledgeable in all of those subjects, but would be just as comfortable doing all three. It's not as simple as having some extroverted ability or anything - anyone could do that, you just learn enough about people of different backgrounds and regions to understand how to interact that you really only get through exposure.

You also don't hold awful stereotypes that most people have - even most of those in a place like here. The south isn't all racist, the coast isn't all snobby, the southwest isn't full of dangerous cartels murdering everyone, middle America isn't a bunch of uneducated hicks, etc.
Can you expand on how that’s possible? Don’t the reset emails break you back in…?
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Ask HN: Game Devs, do you care about cheating in your games?
I am working on a new anti-cheat. Want to talk to game devs or anyone having experience about this. hmu.