skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get how one is supposed to stay secure with the current way extensions work:
all you have access to is a button that only installs and runs an extension, and
at any point of time, it may automatically update with malicious code after the author has agreed to transfer control to someone else for an enticing sum of money. It happened several times before.

To fix this, I've made my own UserJS that changes the "install" button into "download CRX",
then I unpack the CRX file and remove the autoupdate URL from it so the code stays as it was when I last looked at it.
Sometimes the extension's job is not worth having an extra extension installed (each spawns its own separate background process) so I paste the code into a userscript or a conglomerate extension instead.

The chromium-based browser I use, Vivaldi, prevents injecting user scripts into "chrome.google.com" so I have to change the string in the browser binary to something like "chrame.google.com". Then it works.
Quibble: It's probably not going to be a 1:1 loss of jobs.

A call center's goal is to find the right spot along the cost/satisfaction curve. You can pay more money to answer calls quickly and increase satisfaction, or a smaller amount of money to answer calls slowly with lower satisfaction. More satisfied customers are more likely to spend more money with you, so as an operator you're trying to find the level of support that optimizes your bottom line.

If AI reduces the cost per call resolution, you're shifting that cost/satisfaction curve. Unless the wait-time to satisfaction relationship is perfectly linear, the new optimum will result in not firing 100% of the workers who could be "replaced" by productivity gains. You'll instead keep some of them around, with a lower total cost, and higher total customer satisfaction.

You'll still reduce staffing, but probably less than the raw productivity gain number.
I'd extend the shared goals bit to include difficulty. Physically challenging, life risking, risk of failure etc... I've seen far too many "team bonding" setups fit all 3 of your criteria, but fail dismally to result in bonding.
Mid 2000s - that was pre-Facebook. Did other social media companies draw folks away?
I kind of don’t understand how someone’s gonna go through all that work, and not realize that someone on the Internet is going to leak the game and you can just play it on a hacked console or an emulator.
I think Zuckerberg is excited. Apple will only expand the market. I think it will be strictly beneficial to Quest regardless of what the blog/tech comparisons say.
> I guess everyone's journey is different on that one.

Sounds like your experience is more on the uniquely difficult side; I've been advocating and seeing very positive results from at least a dozen peers since I learned of this method 20+ years ago. For most people, including myself, it was like figuring out a confident is a liar, so one stops listening. Simply not listening to the negative self talk triggers it's own outlook rewiring, typically positively. That negative voice gets humiliated and shuts down.
It's disingenuous and intellectually lazy to equate a regular personal residence and a trillion dollar exploitative corporation.

I will always stop a person from robbing their neighbor. I will never stop a person from lifting from a mega corporation.
Comments are focusing on legal aspects, but I believe not enough attention is paid to gaming addiction as a mental health issue.

Many decades ago I had some friends dropping out of college because of it, and myself, I quit cold turkey more than quarter of century ago when I realized how much gaming negatively affected my well-being.
I find the argument that they don't shut down because if they did less concious companies would take the lead...incredibly weak. What's stopping the bad actors now? Why not just stop subsidizing them and only have nationalized labs working on it?
Your name probably doesn't even start with "A" so how could you possibly even relate to this circumstance?
> too young or rural to remember

>> Antonio G. Di Benedetto, a writer covering tech deals and The Verge’s Deals newsletter, buying guides, and gift guides. Previously, he spent 15 years in the photography industry.

He is on Twitter since 2009 so he is at least 35?

Probably just never paid any attention for the pocket watches. Or just "journalism".
Government confiscation of most of the money you’d make selling your home is…a moderate-left policy?

I think I see the problem here…
In the long run, the person who got a job at Amazon, stole a copy of Zelda, and spent all his time playing it will have about the same experience as someone who waited until release day, or even much later. Years from now, the extra few days he got to play won't matter at all. In fact, that's probably already the case now that you can just buy the game and finish it whenever you want.

I've never gotten hyped for a product launch, followed the news religiously, waited in line to buy it, and later in cold blood concluded all of that was attention well spent. I can think of plenty of times when it wasn't: why did I wait in line for a Wii not once, but three times? Why did I take off work to play Cyberpunk 2077?

I wonder how much of fan hype is genuine excitement for something you love, and how much of it is just falling for the marketing. I'm not saying not to love the things you love.
In my cranky opinion I believe that the thing people are calling AI won't directly harm us but rather make us harm each other. Social media algorithms have already proven to be very powerful in rage baiting people, dividing people and causing social unrest. I see LLM's as several orders of magnitude more powerful than simple algorithms. Now it is armed with massive data sets and can perform human mimicry to the point where some people are claiming sentience. I think that is the actual risk, turning more of us against one another. I have absolutely no idea how to even begin to legally mitigate that.
Well, perhaps "no one" is an overstatement. "No one" seems to conveniently exclude those of us running businesses, juggling skyrocketing energy costs, and witnessing first hand the daily impact of supply-side pressures. It seems "no one" in this context refers to those comfortably ensconced in the boardrooms of central banks and the ivory towers of the economically detached, where the nuances of different types of inflation are lost in a haze of aggregates and theoretical models.

By all means, let's keep simplifying complex economic phenomena to fit neatly within preferred policy approaches. It's much easier to adjust the monetary supply levers than confront the thorny reality of supply chain bottlenecks and surging commodity costs. After all, those dealing with these realities on a day-to-day basis – the small businesses, the consumers, the workers – they aren't "anyone", are they?
One thought experiment I use for morality is "What if everyone did what this person did?"

And in that thought experiment, I think things turn out really badly. Not only is it materially bad, a lot of society's trust is burned.

I think the only reason this person's actions are "okay" is because they are washed away by the sea of good people doing good things.
This shows that anyone who markets FOSS projects with statements like "It has 12k stars on GitHub!" is either clueless about this kind of manipulation, or complicit in it. I have previously expressed skepticism about how useful stars are in the first place, but this is pretty clear evidence that they are basically minor ads that can be bought and sold on the marketplace.

As such, I will be examining open source projects that emphasize their star count in marketing a lot more closely from now on.
I got a little chuckle out of it.
NASA scientists identify polar cyclone swirling on mysterious Uranus
Would you be willing to try replacing your plates with Chesapeake Bay plates? I don't recall the add-on being that high.
Fair enough. I do enjoy a daily dose of meme though and I’d prefer that that didn’t come from this website. It feels like this is the one place I can go to to find (usually) intelligent conversation about a wide range of topics.
Maybe an operator-overloading region?

#{
m3 = m1 * m2 + m3;
m3 += m4;
}

Basically, pure syntactic sugar to help the author express intent without having to add a bunch of line-chatter.

Speaking of operator-overloading, I really wish C++ (anyone!) had a `.` prefix for operator-overloading which basically says "this is more arguments for the highest-precedence operator in the current expression:

a := b * c .+ d;

Which translates to:

a := fma(b, c, d)
use their logic against them politely by walking through their decision making with them.

the polite part is the important part and is the part that i fail at the most.
Ok, that makes sense. I just bought a 1997 car and had it rebuilt, about 30% of the price of a new one and none of the crap, roughly just as safe as the current ones and much less likely to be stolen. Not the most economical decision because of course it is still a 1997 car but it will hold its value well enough that I'm not worried about it and I'm not really planning on selling it anyway. But if I ever do crash it then I'll probably lose a bunch of money because the present day value is less than what I put into it. Otoh just the write-off on a new one would have been roughly the total invested.

It's very frustrating how tech can be mis-applied. But I also see the regulators point of applied statistics and that even if these systems cause the occasional crash they prevent a much larger number from ever happening.
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Just like cars didn't eliminate walking, they just enhanced transportation efficiency.

Gains in efficiency only occasionally result in less jobs, generally they result in more production.
Considering the dozens of billions of USD already spent, instead of playing half-way, Facebook could have considered to have a fully immersive experience by choosing the same path as Neuralink; connecting directly within the brain, or in some areas nearby (like one company that Neuralink allegedly tried to purchase).

If it is possible to read your mind, then it will be possible to inject game and ads at some point.

Facebook could open a gigantic business model: "we are directly in the brain of our users, our users are happy and are connected to the Matrix (Meta), you will not find better ad placement than here".
>and those that have tried to fully replace humans with chatbots like ChatGPT or artists with Midjourney/Stable Diffusion haven't had as much success.

Being that it's an application that's really only a few months/years old it would be rather insane and worrying if we did replace people that fast. A better way to look at it would be farming in the US. In the 1850s we went from a very large percentage of people working in and around feeding the population. Today that number is rather small. This change lead to a massive amount of people moving from rural areas and a further increase in industrialization and factory workers.

The question we have today is, ok, we won't eliminate all humans in jobs, but what percent will we eliminate? How fast will it happen? What meaningful labor that actually pays enough for people to live will crop up in its place? If we look back at the history of the 1800s industrial revolution it was a very unstable time. There were labor wars in the US over unionization. Do we want to blindly stumble into another age of instability because of rapid changes in the labor market?

Never forget, it's not a companies job to have as many employees as possible, it's just currently that correlates with how much money they make. It is completely possible for AI to tip this balance where companies make huge profits, but those profits are tightly held and not distributed to a large labor pool. Income inequality is a huge problem in a world with expensive assets.
I just tell everything to my wife.

Soooo if you got married and prefer your friends you should rethink your marriage.
I expect it's a combination of scripting, some manual effort, and AI.

For what it's worth, I've seen lots of examples of this, and "usable optimizations" is entirely false. The PRs are often not working code. It's scattershot. The point isn't to make a PR that benefits the project in any way, it's to fill in the green square on the profile so it looks like there's a human doing things.

Anyone giving this stuff more than a cursory glance would see that it's all bullshit. But the point isn't to stand up to scrutiny. It's to defeat abuse protection measures with legitimate-looking activity. And in the case of stars, to make it look to anyone who's just glancing at the star-ers that there are real people starring the repos.

It's deviously clever and absolutely terrible.
It's true that it does massive unaccountable opaque surveillance without the need of a buyer (other than the taxes of the people it surveils ). But the state definitely allows this information to be bought and sold, as the state is ultimately responsible for safeguarding its citizens from itself, other states, and from private entities.
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Can you imagine a CEO of a company coming out and saying, "oh, and my product could wipe out humanity", as a way to benefit their company?
Well, i submitted such a PR today. It hasn't been rejected (just yet).
Floating windows are cool but VR operating systems will be much more interesting when they start integrating 3d tactile widgets and mixed reality. For example, to access your disk it could look like a shelf you pull down from above or something which renders each directory as nested boxes.

Or a collection of retro games could display in mixed reality as if it were real boxed games on a shelf along your real wall.

Or it could be integrated with a smart home control system so you could just point at a light to turn it on.
Python and C++ aren't replacements for C# due to different issues with them (which are not present in Rust).

Neither ONNX, nor DirectML, nor ML.NET excel at deep learning. TorchSharp is the closest to what is needed for the modern ML work, and there is almost no investment in it - I believe there's just one person working on it, and even that is part time.

The only thing that keeps me on C# is lack of Rust debuggers that would be able to evaluate arbitrary Rust expressions including full support for traits.
yes 3 years without hardware reset of a component not designed for long term high reliably use is irresponsible (the are servers fir very high reliability, they are just WAY more expensive)

BUT this doesn't mean you need to have downtime, in the same way a train unit in a railway system going through maintenance doesn't mean your railway system has downtime.

Redundancy is a must have feature for reliable systems and that means you system must be able to cope with random hardware failure or rebooting a server unit.

And both planned and unplanned maintenance of components are important normal business which in a well desingned reliable system should not lead to downtime.

Similar testing failure cases is important and should be done.

so either you don't run a high reliably system (and likely don't run into this bug ever), or you run a proper reliable system (and it's not a big deal), or you run a badly desingned or operated system pretending to be high reliably but but really being that... which is irresponsible (if you are aware)
I judge OS projects on github by the presence of donation/sponsor information. If this is missing, the project will eventually die, regardless of how popular it may be. Sure, forks will popup, but would you use semantic ui fork or the original semantic ui?

To all of you out there who host their open source projects on sites like github: please provide ways for your community to help out. PRs are not helpful as if you get 100 PRs in a week, there is no way that you, as a single maintainer can ever evaluate and merge all of them. You will get tired, exhausted and start looking at your project as a second job which pays nothing.

Your project will be used by fortune 500 companies and when you find out about it, you will regret not having opened a gateway for donations.

I want to support projects like semantic ui, but please help me help you. Stop hunting “stars”, as this very article clearly shows how worthless they are (github should remove this feature imho).
It's an expensive process. It can happen, generally when you have skills that the company really needs and is hard to replace. Best of luck!
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I think we have a difference of the definition of 'relaxed' in this case.

A normal definition would be along the lines of sipping mai-tais on the beach.

But in the case of active labor, then yes, you're correct. I have close family members that are quite familiar with stalled labor (30+ hours). However, in that particular case, it was due to really bad doctors.
The Mayak plant, which basically is the Soviet Hanford, neglected any environmental concerns and was the place of the second-worst nuclear incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

>Initially Mayak dumped high-level radioactive waste into a nearby river, which flowed to the river Ob, flowing farther downstream to the Arctic Ocean. All six reactors were on Lake Kyzyltash and used an open-cycle cooling system, discharging contaminated water directly back into the lake. When Lake Kyzyltash quickly became contaminated, Lake Karachay was used for open-air storage, keeping the contamination a slight distance from the reactors but soon making Lake Karachay the "most-polluted spot on Earth".
You can't really just scrap the html of a a single-page app, or with a reasonable delay to make your app usable
This reminds me of the story from Darknet Diaries about Xbox underground, and that one guy who, despite investing a ton of time hacking and infiltrating Microsoft and various other companies....still purchased retail copies of his favorite games and deluxe editions of the Xbox systems because he wanted to support the companies.