skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, kinda? We did that. Then we discovered that about 10% of the time it didn't actually lock anything. So we included yelling across the room into our "grab it exclusively from VSS".

Yes, we had MS support, and they looked into it, and eventually basically shrugged (I'm told. I wasn't the one working with them).
You're absolutely right, but the issue is more nuanced than simply "porn is good" or "porn is bad.". The root of the problem lies in the fact that the discussion around sex and sex health in the US is often clouded by puritanical beliefs and an aversion to discussing these topics in an open and honest manner. This typically leads to a lack of comprehensive sex education and the stigmatization of porn, which has never done anyone any good. As a country, we need to be more open and honest about sex, and recognize that censorship and puritanical attitudes have no place in shaping our laws or social norms.
I think its possible there could be a backlash against this change, as even though many peoples' understanding of the security implications of the lock icon didn't align with reality, their expectation vis a vi "lock icon means secure, no lock means insecure, be careful if there isn't a lock" could force a broad unlearning of something that the security community has tried to teach over the past ten to fifteen years.

> Despite our best efforts, our research in 2021 showed that only 11% of study participants correctly understood the precise meaning of the lock icon.

It doesn't seem to me that this is the right thing to be measuring. What matters more is: how many people critically misunderstand what the lock icon means, leading to the potential for trusting sites which shouldn't otherwise be trusted. The study itself goes on to better answer this, though its absent from the article: only 23-44% of respondents referred to the padlock at all when asked to evaluate the trustworthiness of a website. Its safe to say that some subset of that group would be shared with the group who critically & negatively misunderstand what the padlock represents, but its also safe to say that the entirety of the 11% "we know what the padlock means" group is also in the center of this venn diagram.

In other words: not more, and likely less, than a third of users were being misled by the padlock to the point of compromise. That's still a lot of people and its worth improving, but its a far cry from the 89% the blog post advertises.

When combined with the notion that the padlock's absence could cause harm; a different kind of harm, moving from "yeah this site is trustworthy I'll enter my credit card" when it isn't, to "no way this site is trustworthy I'm out of here" when it is trustworthy for some in that 23-44% group; I'm not sure this is a positive change.

I get that the world of HTTPS is evolving, and its very broadly default-on instead of default-off nowadays, but it seems to me that this is something of an expedient and ineffectual solution to something much harder: education. The article says "Despite our best efforts, our research in 2021 showed that only 11% of study participants correctly understood the precise meaning of the lock icon", but I'm at a loss for what exactly Google means by "despite our best efforts". I don't intend to be mean or combative with this observation. Education is really difficult; but when viewed through a more critical lens this article and the associated change really smells like "We failed to correctly educate our users about internet security, so we're changing an icon to absolve ourselves of the responsibility of the previous icon's inferred meaning."
I'm not sure that HN readers-- a community that will disproportionately skew towards folks educated &/or employed in STEM fields-- are indicative of other people's contact with 6-year old kids.
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You're just making my point. This is the new and improved PH that's trying to go legit and abides by local laws and regulations.

All the other sites? Not so much.
Oh god I hope this is not a close source language. I have spent 10+ years fighting the MATLAB ecosystem, I prefer not to spend the next 10 years fighting this thing.
What alternative means do you see as having the potential to be effective? Is there a version that does not require unmasking everyone just to identify the children?
I will paraphrase Geoff Hinton here - Predicting next word requires understanding context. Otherwise, you cannot predict the next word. It is a big deal.
oh google pay a LOT of people to do it.

Either outright commits by at-google email addresses, or things like summer of code. All to play catch up with the features they shove on chrome.
All of those businesses you mentioned do largely compete with each other, in addition to other smaller players in their respective spaces.

Could you give an example of them not competing?

A government run bank seems particularly scary in this highly polarized political climate. What if this administration decided not to give out loans to buy ICE cars, but the next administration swings to the right and decides to not give out loans to buy EVs?

The federal government having direct access to your checking account is scary as well. What if they had the ability to freeze the bank accounts of those who refused to get the COVID vaccine or asked the wrong questions on social media?

The government running our entire banking system directly is one of the most dystopian things I can imagine.
> The largest digital asset by market value rose 3.0%

This happens at least once a week.
If you're using Chrome, right-click the URL bar and check "Always show full URLs", so you can see the https:// prefix like it's 1999. This also fixes a variety of UX problems with editing URLs.

By the way, does anyone know of a good alternative to http://neverssl.com ? I had been using this for years, but now it supports SSL for some unfathomable reason.
The amount of real numbers between any two distinct real numbers (a,b) is the same as the amount of all real numbers. This is true for (0,e), (0,1), and any other combination.
> In this case, nothing particularly meaningful or useful

You're either playing dumb or weren't able to understand what was in the code. IHelloWorldString is an abstraction over the way the string was implemented, IPrintStrategy is a strategy pattern that abstracts away how the abstract hello world string is supposed to be printed, and finally IStatusCode is an abstraction over how a status code is implemented.

> they mostly just shrink wrap the underlying (single) implementation's details and re-expose them as-is for the caller to cope with.

No, not really. Their purpose is to abstract away implementations. Just because there's a single implementation that does not mean this wasn't abstracted away.
That's true in calculus, and probably a lot of other applied mathematics contexts where rigor tends to get swept under the rug, but it's not completely fair since there are versions of "infinity" that are defined and used rigorously. (The transfinite ordinals and cardinals mentioned in the Stack Overflow article are the example I'm familiar with.)
The website is unusable for me (brave on android). I can't really scroll. Am I the only having this problem?
Interesting. I don't collect but i do calligraphy and use a fountain pen as my main instrument. I use a noodlers Ahab primarily because of a flexible nib. I used a Waterman for a long time till sometime I lent it to dropped it. I also have a Lamy gifted to me it. It's good but i prefer a narrower nib.

I concur with your point about the ink. I used to use private reserve but recently shifted to Waterman and I'm happy. I prefer the colour of the later. Another important thing is the paper. It needs a bit of a bite that produces a scratchy sound. Also, older paper that's exposed to humid environments tend to bleed the ink causing bad writing.
Consumer escapism: Scale development, validation, and physiological associations
I dont understand this dude. He could have just made this video without the stupid bet. Are we supposed to believe it was just intended to get our attention? The only attention it got was of people who already follow him. This all seems so dumb. What am I missing?
I don't think they're saying jesus didn't exist, hence "unvalidated", i.e. a real person but not the son of god who rose from the dead.
It's a testament to the democratization of ML that practitioners today can get by without knowing what a logit is.
While I fully support this, I think it's important to bear in mind that

a) what constitutes anticompetitive activity or otherwise warrants antitrust action is likely to always be at least somewhat subjective, and require human judgement, meaning that motivated humans can choose not to do it in many cases, and

b) depending on the degree to which the government is captured by a party that actively works against antitrust laws and believes that bigger[0] is always better, and on how long said capture lasts, it doesn't matter what laws we put in place now. Laws can be changed by the government.

We're not going to be able to make a foolproof system just by making better laws on this one issue. If we believe strongly in antitrust with teeth, we also need to be committed to supporting politicians who favor it, and political and governmental systems that prevent a vocal minority from seizing control of the engines of power, consistently for the rest of our lives.

[0] Bigger payouts for their friends, that is, which means bigger kickbacks now and bigger paychecks later when they go to work for said friends
So Gradle is not a build tool, it's a tool for building build tools?

That's wonderful, but that's not what I want.

I am trying to solve problems in my particular domain. I want to spend my time solving those problems, not wrestling with my tool for building build tools.

I just want a tool which knows how to build my things, given the dependencies I give it.

I want a tool with clear and up-to-date documentation.

I want a tool whose behavior I can reason over.

Is that too much to ask?

Apparently, for gradle, it's too much to ask.
Firefox has certainly improved a lot since 2008.

Google has and had major distribution advantages for Chrome; same with Apple/MS and their browsers.

I've gone back and forth between FF and Chrome a few times and since the big FF perf improvements several years ago, I don't understand why Chrome is still seen as a wildly better product except for residual Google goodwill among the tech crowd. FF has had much much much more reliable session management / sync for me for years now.
Hey, thank you for the feedback. Just to add more clarity, currently it is generating simple data management (basic CRUD) - table listing, create/update and delete methods with some additinoal functionality, wrapped in a nice clean UI. It sort of understands/correctly guess (mostly) what columns should be present on listing, how the form should look like (it guess the types of the fields just by their names, etc.), it adds media uploader if relevant and it creates relations between different entities, etc.

So it's basically just a code generator that is much more intelligent then standard code generators are.

It's still in beta, we would like to hear what people think, if it is something worth working on more. We already have like hundreds of ideas, some more visionary than others, but we would love to hear the feedback.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/amazon-convinced-apple-to-r...

Interesting, did not know this happened.
This is not at all how I understood the paper. It was to allocate consumer funds directly with the Fed to prevent bank runs from restricting access to cash on hand for consumers. They just move spigots to different institutions this way. Nominally, this is what the proposal is all about. I didn't see anything about the Federal Reserve or the Government being able to access that money on a 1:10 basis or any other reserve basis. It does however outline how this would stream line government policies and operations, such as Tax Refunds, Social Security Disbursements, or any other qualifying disbursements.

Additionally, the idea that is also present in the paper is expanding low risk (demonstrably historically "safe" loans such as SBA Loans, FHA loans, traditional mortgages etc) through the Fed directly, but explicitly bans things like margin loans, PE bridges and other risky behavior.

Which, as anyone who has gotten these kinds of loans, knows the government already does this, just with extra steps. The People's Ledger paper (proposal?) simply outlines removing extra steps and barriers for the citizenry to have a better banking baseline, all told.

In essence, it makes the Central Bank, more....bank like. With some privileges, being a whole arm of the Government, its less focused on collecting fees and more interested in streamlining banking for the average citizen.

It has nothing in the paper about forgiving mortgages (or student loans, for that matter)

The paper is here, for anyone interested in this: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
When it is going down, it is too volatile.

When it is going up, it is almost nothing.
people used to talk about R vs Python for data science many years ago, for instance, and we all know how that ended. imo if Mojo lives up to these claims, the pitch of Python compatibility is almost certainly too compelling to ignore. not to say Julia will die; R still has its uses and dominates some niche areas
every year i try using firefox again, because the dominance of chrome bothers me and i want there to be a good competitor. and every year i inevitably run into some issue that makes me give up and go back to chrome. I think last time it was a themeing issue with ubuntu's default built-in dark theme. a previous year it was a sync issue.

with their continued slide in marketshare to what is essentially an irrelevant portion of the market, i'm guessing this isn't just me.
Sounds funny but... I had a near-death experience and this is exactly how it feels - data recollection before departure. The weird thing is that you understand that it's not a totally new feeling - it seems that you are already got familiarized with it some time in the past but just forgot it while you was living your current instance of life.
"It's clear from this investigation that the proliferation of MaaS and the use of AI-assisted code has created new opportunities for less technically proficient bad actors."

Now, I think the real issue is if and when advanced bad actors generate their own custom AIs for MaaS.

Another thing is that something really ought to be done with public repositories such as PyPi and npm.
A low-carbon electricity sector in Europe risks sustaining regional inequalities
Yes, I learned long division fairly well around that time. I was fortunate (/ disruptive) enough to be sent to a "Montessori school". Long division was definitely pushing it when I was about 5 or 6, but, honestly, given steadier instruction in math starting earlier, I suspect I could have been entirely solid on long division by that time and moving on to algebra. And, I think this is true for a reasonable proportion of children.

My experience, ultimately, was much less ... 'high-quality', let's say. When I left the Montessori school (by 3rd grade), I learned practically no math from then until after high school. First, in normal 'elementary' school (US), multiplication was still being covered in 6th grade. Then, suddenly (from my perspective), letters were being brought into the picture in 7th or 8th grade. So, in my arc, math started to not make sense, at all.

From my perspective, we had spent multiple years on multiplication and long division, which I already understood very well by the end of 2nd grade ... so, there was the period where I basically didn't learn anything, where it seemed like we'd reached the end of math or something. Or, perhaps, like there were some sort of subtleties remaining in multiplication and division. It just gave me a chance to be bored with all of it, boredom correlates heavily with mistakes with kids with attention issues (IMO), this fed into some sort of doubts about my understanding of everything etc., and then, suddenly, there was new material again starting in 7th grade. Material that was 'mechanical', and that didn't seem to have explanations I could understand.

Ultimately, I struggled along with that garbage through high school, then, after, took a course where we actually did PROOFS. Basic number theory stuff - modular arithmetic, etc. Bam, suddenly, the subject started to make sense.

Typing this out actually makes me slightly angry. I'm not sure I previously connected it all together - why I had so much trouble with math for some years ... how this 'arc' was pretty much perfectly engineered to make math a problem, for me. In any case, schooling through high school can be a really low quality experience at times - for some students, subjects, etc. The math curricula, methods of teaching, and progression I was exposed to, worked together, in some sense, to make the subject a problem for me. To do almost the opposite of what was intended - to pretty well impede learning. There's no one factor in that story I can point to and say 'here, fix this' ... no one involved in the story was actively attempting to do anything other than what they thought was best or what they were required to do, but, the net result was honestly worse - I now believe (and believed some years ago, even without quite this analysis) - than if I'd just been given some selection of math material to pick from and been allowed some sort of semi-self directed coursework.

Even better, though, if I'd simply had that course with proofs / basic number theory in, say, 8th grade ... guh, would have avoided so much pain, I'm pretty sure...
I’ve always thought infinity is not a number but a concept that represents something which is ever increasing.
Number go up. Now's a good time to dump the HODL'd diamondhands.
What is this news... who pays them?
Ukraine war: what China gains from acting as peacemaker
Who knew the next "billion dollar security mistake" after C's memory handling would be LLM-suggested misconfigurations? I bet someone will try to sell an LLM-based service to fix thr bugs caused by other code-generating LLMs.
It would be nice if they added the ability to more completely style their scrollbars. They could at least pretend it's 2015 or so.
Funny, I've had the opposite experience. That might be down to things like hand size, how you hold the pen etc.

I've had 3-4 Lamy pens and they have all ended up wither being given away or thrown in the bin because the nibs tend to be either dry or scratchy for me. I think I have only one regular Pilot pen and it works well for me. (I did try a flex nib Namiki Falcon, and that just didn't work at all for me. Namiki/Pilot are the same company, right?).
Or we could look at what history tells us and find out we don't need some convoluted theory of evidence with a bunch of 1st time contributors.

You might for example, just outright buy out the cryptography solution providers:

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

Money is a relatively simply mechanism to achieve an end goal. Much safer than for example, torturing someone or beating them with a wrench.
I'm very interested in this space and played with a lot of tools, but i've yet really to manage to have enough use cases for any of them, beyond finding them fun to play with, I feel that a lot of them are just not quite there yet but very close.

Although I am hoping for easier/cheaper GPT 4 access soon, then I might start using it a bit more.
Could definitely replace the press release writing dept. with AI.
Adblockers increase the incentives for AI generated "organic" content since in the absence of the ability to push explicitly-marked ads, you're gonna get astroturfing and such instead.
FakeSpot will benefit from a parent company like Mozilla.
Address the growing urgency of fungal disease in crops
English units (feet, pounds) are not ideal, and we have a better solution, yet ...
Seconding the 51! Excellent pen for the price.

If one doesn't mind jumping through a hoop or two regarding shipping, vintage Montblancs are just about as cheap from Japan as the 51 is in the US, and sometimes cheaper. The 12/14/32/220/etc are smaller than the flagship Meisterstucks, but they're also about 1/10 the price and really quite nice quality. Recently I've paid 30-50$ per pen to develop a little collection; the 220 was most expensive at 70$.

Piston fillers that are still going strong after decades, minimal maintenance, pleasant gold nibs.
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IBM still makes boatloads of money providing support and upgrade paths to it's legacy customers. They aren't _actively_ offboarding because it wouldn't make sense to lose that institutional market that they effectively own by the balls and that nobody will fight them for. It'd be hard to sell that tech to new customers though and it would also invite comparison to modern solutions, which would not please their current customers. It's like IBM is running a island prison / amusement park for rich old people. Just keep them happy and they'll keep paying.
TWSBI leans towards the thicker side for me personally, but it's a great workhorse pen for anyone who uses fountain pens daily on real writing tasks. TWSBI Eco's ink reservoir size and ease-of-use is simply unrivalled among competitors in the same price range.
Good question. From https://github.com/chipsec/chipsec:

For any questions or suggestions please contact us at: chipsec@intel.com
For AMD related questions or suggestions please contact Gabriel Kerneis at: Gabriel.Kerneis@ssi.gouv.fr

CHIPSEC should issue a statement about potential support for non-Intel platforms, https://www.basicinputoutput.com/2016/05/a-tour-of-intel-chi...

> CHIPSEC began its life as an internal Intel tool. As the tool matured and grew in utility, Intel released it as open source, available on Github. Anyone can download it and run it on any UEFI-based system.
> Pretty much all of what psychedelics taught me is that the human brain is soooo fucking primed to see patterns and make sense from anything.

Or was this the pattern you were primed to see?
Of course there are also stories of people who claim to have left their body and seen the operating theatre from above and to have noticed some unexpected object on top of a cupboard or in some other location visible only from on high ... and later, when someone checks, the object really is there ... [spooky music] ...
HN isn't the comment section or feedback mechanism for 99% of the stories posted here; in fact, a large percentage of stories posted on HN are here without the knowledge of the author. So in addition to the fact that threads about presentation issues are attractive nuisances --- low-specificity issues that generate opinions from large numbers of HN commenters, often unlike (and competing with) the high-specificity topics of the stories themselves that we're actually here to discuss --- there's almost never any point to them. The original story authors aren't taking our feedback. We're just yelling at the clouds and making things worse for ourselves.