skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know how you can claim the art and music derived under influence as positive benefits.

Alcohol has provided similar "therapeutics" to overworked people. But in retrospect, disconnecting the brain to stressors is difficult to argue as a positive effect. Stressors cause the body to adjust for tasks. Likewise, inducing hallucinations and mental states of poor mobility yet calling it therapy is like removing a few cells from the brian and saying the effects are good because the existing problems are worse.

Arguments like alcohol is worse because of A,B,C and therefore Marijuana is better, is like saying "the other guy is much worse than me and therefore I am OK." Or "America is better than other countries so we have nothing to improve." You can't use the lack of certain negatives as justifications. It still has other negatives that the former does not have.
I am a fan of fountain pens, but do not have a lot of cash to splurge on experimentation. This detailed comment is a great resource.
AI and Cybersecurity, Persuasive AIs, Weaponization, and Hinton Talks AI Risks
Because I let my nostalgia of 2004 get the best of me. And as much as I may gripe about their loss of focus, or their lagging behind in certain areas, I still appreciate them for the good things they do (e.g. fingerprint resisting, containers) and for the potential that they still have—even today—to implement user-focused improvements in their browser.

They may not lean into it as much as I'd like, but they still do better than Google or Microsoft in this regard.
> Firefox continues to be written in C++

The amount of Rust code in Firefox is pretty substantial, and growing. Did you expect an instant rewrite?
I wasn't talking about the Macbook Air, but rather the 12" Retina Macbook [0].

Also known as the A1534 Macbook8,1 (yes, Apple's naming is always confusing).

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP757?locale=en_US
I think he meant that people are less likely to have home repair skills
That's not an option if you use your machine for work and your Dev tools only work on windows. PS5/Xbox toolchains only work on windows, as a gamedev I don't really have a choice.
....to continue providing them with maximum compensation for minimum effort
Objection, non-responsive.
Hey thanks a lot for the detailed response! I’ll read all the research and see what we can find.
Probably, but the biggest issue here is that most people aren't American, even on this website.
I'm not sure why it's listed as a distinct thing, it looks like it's just Debian's GitLab instance. The search bar says "Search GitLab".
I don't really understand what you claim to be the Soviet propaganda. 400 years of the unified Kingdom of Georgia founded in 11th century?.. Mingrelia was one of the pieces of a single country torn apart by Arab, Persian, Turkic, and Mongolian conquests.
Only if you set up wifi calling.
Did they mean to say "Firefox [has] a lineage that dates back to the origins of the i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ web"? Tim Berners Lee invented the Web, not the Internet.
The manufacturers perhaps. They provide the keys in the modules anyway.

BTW, there is Chinese passport law which states that the algorithm should be independently developed. The law once blocked TPM 1.0 but allows TPM 2.0
The concept of "infinity - 1" doesn't exist. Subtraction isn't defined for ordinals. Furthermore even if you try to define it, it doesn't work for limit ordinals.

If you are thinking about the difference between

[0,1,2,3,…]

and

0, [1,2,3,4,…]

Then I regret to inform you the former is omega and the latter is 1+omega which is the same as omega. In other words attempting to subtract one from infinity by removing from the front results in infinity.
Great, so if it really doesn’t already, let’s just get rid of the pretense. Make it illegal to offer demand deposits while taking risks with depositors’ funds. No more need to worry about bank runs.
I'm put off by the entire classification system. I suppose I'm someone who rarely fits into classification systems anyway, but I don't think I'm so atypical here by:

- occasionally reading a link from HN

- regularly reading discussions on HN

- occasionally reading other tech blogs

- never going to conferences

- never blogging about programming

- almost never coding in my free time (but doing other hobbies instead)

Am I in the 1% of visible programmers? I absolutely do not think so, largely because I don't blog or talk about tech. But I'm also not in some kind of weird sheltered place where I have no idea what's going on.
I started programming when I was 6. How old am I?

My father started when he was 11, how old is he?
So in 2008, home owners were underwater (houses worth less than the mortgage balance), which meant the bank's mortgage holding were worth less due to an unrealized higher risk of default. Today, the banks loans are underwater due to the low interest rates on the terms of those loans. Fed to the rescue again? All they have to do is lower interest rates to make the bank loans worth more, or they can buy or promise to buy the bank loans at face value if needed. Does that sound right?
The same way you would recognize if Google was selling your GSuite data or Msft was selling your Office data.
I think regulation is a little more complicated than that.

There is a vast system of interests, but I don't agree that overall incentives are to make US companies get as big as possible. They lose competitiveness at some point.

Middle East is not relevant.

Github not being part of Microsoft could be better for the overall economy. Consider the development of the World Wide Web. If you consider Github and aspects of Github as a network and communication protocol, it would be better in the long term to decentralize control.
Stockpiling unleaded gasoline in or near your home is a poor idea. It's more likely to suffer exothermic depreciation than to successfully hedge against anything in particular. Unleaded will generally last less than a year without stabilizers anyway.

Diesel is a little better, but still not really the best choice.
I found it funny.

"Guys, did you know there are developers who are just developers and don't jump on the self-promotion-and-conference-speaker-train out of actually-writing-codeville at the first opportunity?! Shockingly, such people exist! They might—and you'll want to sit down for this—even not be bad at their jobs!"
Please don’t give Mozilla any more ideas
Sure. But "if this was scaled up several orders of magnitude, and continued for years, then there would likely be bad side-effects" is a argument against doing pretty much anything. Ever.
Does the name have to be registered with Zoho first?

I have a long account history with GoDaddy, so I just jumped on a cheap domain for my latest project without realizing email wasn’t included anymore.

It’s unfortunate because GoDaddy has been a decent domain provider for us for over 10 years. We have domains connected to services across AWS, Google Cloud, and Digital Ocean, and never had any issues before with their domain services. It was always great to buy a domain, and have a free included email out of the box that we could set up as a help/support catch all box.
I do believe it is quite clearly a rebuttal to the following overreaching statement:

> At basically no point in history has it been the case that the sole responsibility for the well being of children lay entirely with the parents.
And most people are oblivious to this simple observation, allowing the situation to continue. Feels like the war is already lost a long time ago.
I’m hoping that Mozilla has a secret plan to extend Fakespot beyond just shopping and to become the killer app for distinguishing all AI generated content. May not even be possible to achieve, but that would be a worthy goal for Mozilla.
Probably not very high.

I know a lot of people who sell hard drugs and get caught selling said drugs. They spend a night in jail, bail out and go on probation where they can time the ankle monitor to know exactly when they have to stop drinking at parties

I’ve seen people drive kilos of coke across the country for years without being caught or having any worry

I’m all for weed but the idea that we’re locking people up in prisons for smoking a joint is very misguided compared to what the legal system really behaves like
Sick. So they get pretty much the "base" model? That's almost too powerful
Totally agree! Code reviews are not only for 'making sure things don't blow up $$ in production.' If your team doesn't use pair programming, code reviews are the best opportunity to share knowledge and align vision and values across the team.

If you feel like code review conversations are taking too long and affecting your cycle time, then you can use the tool I created: https://pullpo.io to have these conversations on ephemeral bidirectional GitHub-Slack channels.
This one got me recently, and the workaround that saved me was the save-as-pdf option hidden behind the "share" icon. Thankfully it uses the print stylesheet specified by the website.
Your overconfidence just got you hacked by your son because taking away the admin access did nothing. The kid just installed a scummy Chrome plugin that gives him a "free" VPN (I say "free" because it's surely logging everything he does) and it works directly from chrome. no admin needed. Source: my son did this to me
It’s not blank. Zoom in to see the labels for different cultures on the map. There just aren’t any defined borders.
Chatbot ‘journalists’ found running almost 50 AI-generated content farms
There's a reason it's a meme that people always append "site: Reddit" to the end of web searches. It's one of the greatest sources of genuine, peer-to-peer information out there. They also have open APIs that allow everyone from researchers to developers to access it.
"fixing that one library will be a walk in the park compared to remaking Figma or Google Docs if those sites ever go down"

Most core tech is trivial to rebuild for a single user. It becomes complex over time due to scale and with the addition of user-guardrails.

I've been running a homegrown Object-Oriented Database for months without issue. It's less than 100 lines of Python including the interface.
Should have bought a CD paying 5%.
what have the Tuskegee airmen to do with that except for being also black?
Is the accompanying story untrue, or is this just a case of someone using an AI tool to create a generic stock image for an otherwise-truthful article, and then the provenance of the image being lost?
If you read the actual report they quote, it says no such thing: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/working-papers...

> On the other hand, SVB had a disproportional share of uninsured funding: only 1 percent of banks had higher uninsured leverage. Combined, losses and uninsured leverage provide incentives for an SVB uninsured depositor run. We compute similar incentives for the sample of all U.S. banks. Even if only half of uninsured depositors decide to withdraw, almost 190 banks are at a potential risk of impairment to insured depositors, with potentially $300 billion of insured deposits at risk.

Having fewer investment assets than liabilities does not necessarily make a bank insolvent - but it should be very concerning how much money has been left parked in low-interest uninsured bank accounts.
Swift already imported Python code in a similar fashion. Feels like this is a more Pythonic syntax for Swift and likely carries over all the underlying goodness.

[FWIW, folks waiting for this should also look at Cython, which is different, but uses Pythonic syntax for more of a C-like semantics.]
The "environmental damage" consisted entirely of a small dust storm. The car, need I remind you, is not part of the natural environment.
> In my party days,I always understood MDMAas being pure MDMA while X was MDMA mixed with coke, meth, or heroin to make the drug effects last longer, as the half life of MDMA is smaller than those other three.

This is a common misconception. MDMA is often presented as "pure" (often by the people selling it), but in reality, almost all MDMA outside of a pharmaceutical setting is impure. Most MDMA contains some amount of methamphetamine[0], but not necessarily enough to be subjectively identifiable by a user as "meth".

Also, the half-life of MDMA is longer than cocaine, but shorter than methamphetamine.

[0] MDMA is actually a methamphetamine, but it's not the one that people are referring to when they say "meth" colloquially.
What are you talking about? Interest rates for savings/cd accounts for USD is like 4% now....
> If I had just left funds in Vanguard I would be down.

My vanguard lazy portfolio is at +2.2% over the last year, and +5% since ~2016. Cash is bringing in 4% or better for decent savings accounts, and a CD ladder would be better still.

I’m not claiming this will continue to be true, but chasing AI to get 1% sounds like something to reevaluate.
Microsoft has the potential to make Windows 11 UX great. They made it worse than 10 by removing functionality that's existed for years.

Will Microsoft do it just because the potential exists? No.

Mozilla CEO takes a $3m salary and their biggest earner by many magnitudes is a search partnership with Google. Nothing is going to change with how they treat Firefox at a consumer-level until they need to man the battle stations with a rugpull on losing that partnership.

"Why would they lose it?"
AI happened and the current economic climate means Google is reducing spending by killing things that don't bring tangible value.
Firefox is behind on general web support compared to any other browser. That's not just weird APIs like WebUSB and WebSerial and WebGPU, but also CSS things. It's almost as bad as Safari, except it's broken in very different areas.

There's plenty to improve. On Android there's the whole extension mess (and tons of other quality of life improvements), on desktop Firefox could use some proper PWA support (even Safari has that implemented well now), Spidermonkey is still the slowest mainstream Javascript engine out there, and Chrome's process sandboxing has some features that Firefox is yet to implement if at all. Firefox users on Gnome on Linux are a subset of a subset of a subset, that's hardly important, but "Firefox is slower than all the other browsers" is.

Mozilla cares more about their charity programs than they do about their browser (that's why you can't directly donate to Firefox, only to Mozilla). Maybe this acquisition is a way to add a new revenue stream, though I doubt it'll matter much because I've never seen AI detection that actually works. I hope this was a smart move, but I fear this will end up as one of those buttons everyone disables in the default toolbar, like Pocket has become.

Mozilla has also fired 250 people during the pandemic, so somehow coming up with the money to buy a company feels a little jarring when dev capacity still hasn't recovered.
The problem I have with the Safari is that I don't write much and they dry out before I use them much. My Kaweco Sport lasts for ages, and I think it's to do with the fit of the screw top compared to the relatively loose clicking mechanism of the Safari cap.
Governments are even worse than banks with money, if they were private companies every government would be bankrupt ages ago.
What does society do to solve the peanut problem? Outside of schools, it seems totally on the parent to stop the kid from eating peanuts. The parent does the grocery shopping, asks the right questions when taking the kid to a restaurant, and lets friends/other caregivers know not to give peanuts to the child.

People do "make changes" for specific allergies & food restrictions by making the information available & creating some allergen-free zones (just like adult content is currently kept out of schools and family-friendly locations, and there are adult-content warnings most times) but peanut access is absolutely currently up to the parent, in general.

I'm not even sure what the billboard thing is getting at. We shouldn't have nudity on billboards (except female breasts in nonsexual contexts), just like we shouldn't keep peanuts where we know anyone allergic has to be. Counter-hypothetical: it would be incredibly stupid to lock up peanut butter because kids might take a $5 bill to the store and buy the clearly-labelled jar.
My grandfather and mom would sing this occasionally.

There's a danger to society when the common case becomes a factory town. Too many risks of depending on the company store for everything.
No, the US government is well known for following the letter of the law when it comes to domestic and international spying.
This is what I ran in 2002 or so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
Does anyone have any examples of baroque web design?
There is actually a hierarchy of reincarnation with enlightenment being at the top.

You can think of it like a mouse is lower form of life and if he works on his karma he can reincarnate as a racoon and then then if the racoon works on himself he can reincarnate as a monkey all the way up until enlightenment.

The animal right before reincarnation as an enlightened being is of course man.

But do you know what being is right before man?

Woman.

True story. Not even joking here. If a woman works on her karma, she supposedly can reincarnate as a man.
Getting Started with Lammps
It's hard to imagine what it would be like to actually live as something that doesn't remember, but we do have some experience observing people who have lost the ability to remember through illness or brain trauma or otherwise.

In general it seems like attempting to live in human society without memory is a pretty traumatic experience. Or it would be, if you could remember experiencing it.

It's also very hard on the people around you.
Because it quickly became a tool that was so useful that I feel I am doing my job better with than without now that it’s available. Similiar to how I would disregard rules and/or quit if I was not allowed to use my operating system of choice at work or was denied the use of a specific tool integral to doing my job (well).
Never. Never in school? It's totally normal in the US, it's the reason as many people know that π starts "3.14" as do.
I live in a building renovated in 2010ish and all circuits are 20A minimum.
We haven't looked to much into encrypted sessions, but for anyone wondering how they prevent MITM attacks in such a scenario: systemd-cryptenroll seems to be ahead in this regard: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/acbb504eaf1be51572...
This is why free software and open source aren't the same. Free software is about this kind of fairness, among others. The simplicity of open source does have its downsides.
American here.

Visited a psych ward once (because suicidal idealization was happening and I wanted/asked for help for the first time in my life).

Well if my experience in one of those facilities is not an uncommon one, then they are horrifyingly dehumanizing and actually cause harm to other people (this is what I observed).

A big problem in facilities is that the information they receive will determine more of what they will do/prescribe than what the patient is actually asking for.

I watched transgendered patients be purposely miss gendered by staff.
Countless other patients being otherwise ignored or treated like anything they have to say doesn't matter because of where they are or the diagnosis that they have.

For myself I was told I was schizophrenic and prescribe meds with terrible side effects because my parents told that to the admit facility. No treatment for depression and anxiety was really given (which is what I was saying I wanted), I was ignored by the therapist and social worker assigned to me, and the contact that I wished to hear from was conveniently removed from my file.

Therapists and support staff in the public sector outside of a mental hospital are grossly underpaid, thus only the inexperienced and inept (with a few people that care too much for their own good) are the ones likely to be working in Federally funded health centers.

Mental Healthcare is a abysmal joke in the United States. Suicide is very easily a valid and top choice here.
Yes banks should be better regulated to avoid letting them make risky moves. That aside, many regional banks rather than a centralized government controlled bank is critical to our freedom. Government controlled banks or CBDC will give government total surveillance and control over us since you cannot do much without money.
most people use way too much. start with 0.03g per session and then report back.
On the contrary Mozilla correctly anticipates that low quality AI generated content will increasingly ruin web experience and has therefore correctly chosen to invest in technology that will combat that.
My post didn't state that, you're replying to the wrong person.
Stress tests never modeled for interest rates rising, but keep banging the regulations drum.

See https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/dfa-stress-tes...
They wouldn’t. These are “deep pockets” platforms. Ramen eaters need not apply.
I see this as a sales pitch for consulting, they want people to hire them to transform their companies from overseas outsourcing to AI outsourcing. Doing it to themselves first serves as a case study.
Who says you have to get reincarnated in the future? Maybe next up you'll be a 17th century peasant. Hell everyone that has ever and will ever live could all just be the same person.

[0] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
At some point, it starts to feel intentional that every time an issue that could bring us together begins to gain traction, it’s diverted into some media concocted idea about how (left wing or right wing group) is out to destroy (social thing).
I could. I don't have the most fancy job. A lot of internal/external communications. I work with words. I could easily use ChatGPT to generate a lot of my content, and save time by simply proof reading.

A lot of smaller marketing-agencies would be able to automate the generation of bullshit ad-copy for all their smaller clients, seeing as quality in that area is low in general.

There are so many jobs what could benefit from the use of ChatGPT. I know enough coding to formulate a prompt that helps me build small scripts. I got ChatGPT to build me a Scrapy-spider the other day.
TBH, I think they could easily add another 10 reasons not captured in the current set. My guess is they've made a decision to limit the number of reasons to a specific number and reevaluate the list every _______ months.
There's no "should" because there's no high authority in humanity which decides what should and shouldn't exist. Banks exist because some people want to found banks and then other people want to use their services. The only way to prevent this from happening is to threaten violence or threat of violence to either of these people.

The better question would be, why would anyone use violence to force his opinion on other people.
Exactly. I use content controls even though as a kid I easily worked around them. The reason is that it is insanely easy for kid to accidentally stumble upon explicit stuff. The content controls help a lot with that, whether kid is 5 or 15
The Tuskegee Airmen and the Tuskegee Syphillis Study are two different things; you seem to be conflating them.
If Facebook ever does build their employee housing, it really needs to be named Zuckerburgh.
This sounds like a smart response until you think about the possibility of an academic study researching exposure of minors to hardcore porn. Think that would pass ethical muster?

The fundamental questions are

1. Does porn usage line up with other patterns of addiction?

2. Are similarly addicting things withheld from children because their brains are less equipped to handle it?

If yes to both, then it’s a no-brainer.