skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Planes are about 1 in 10,000,000 in terms of accidents.

There are about 1,000,000 police, so I guess 2 bad police events per month would be equivalent?
Full-stack web app in 2023. What did I miss?
What if you don't need a massive ecosystem? For example, the project I am currently working on has (checks package.json) react-router, react bindings for redux, and react-spring (the latter could easily be dropped; it is almost not used). Plus Storybook, but that's not even react-specific. That's all.
Sheldon Brown was a huge inspiration for me in life and work, despite not being a bike mechanic myself. I love his iconoclastic courage, humor, depth, and meticulousness, as well as the grace and humor he had about his old age and poor health.

Not many people realize how controversial much of his advice and ideas were when he wrote these. He was such a big influence that his once controversial ideas on things like safe (vehicular) cycling technique, tire tread, fixed gear bikes, cadence, and chain lubrication were one heresy- just suggesting these things to other cyclists could inspire intense rage, but everyone pretty much accepts them now.
This is an argument against the TPM, not WEI.
Perhaps in this case of medical questions, but GitHub Copilot Chat will start ai-splaining code readability when you ask it questions about concise syntax so.. It's a total mansplainer.
I'd guess it's not restricted to the /etc/shadow file and could leak the contents of "any" memory in the system - that is just used as an example that can be (relatively) easily searched for in memory due to having a rather unique pattern.

I'm a little confused about the presentation of this - I think a fair bit of work has been put into the presentation and make it look "hacker" rather than actually required for the exploit, which doesn't fill me with confidence, but I guess we'll see when the actual description gets released.

Like why is the shell loop re-building the exploit code? The output seems strangely character rate-limited but extremely even when if it was being rate-limited by the exploit itself I'd expect more noise if it relies on some probability to read the memory contents, and absolutely no description of the technique itself.
wish for and expect are two different things. I wish the war in Ukraine would end tomorrow, I don't expect it will though.

while China invading Taiwan is not a guarantee, it is certainly highly probable. this risk should be taken into account by the us government
Well, exactly right.

The competition only works if competitors are willing to give consumer a better deal, and if moving between competitors is easy enough.

But if they decide "well, media say there is inflation so we have excuses to rise prices far higher than actual rise of costs", well...
It does seem basically the same as signing up for a scam success course.
Reminds me of the idea of creating a shell-script to delete and purge specified (probably smut) directories and files, to be left behind for heirs and executor and make it a little less awkward.
The main way people compete, outside of vampire-FAANG, is by a willingness to work for lower wages

There's a massive power imbalance, a lack of alternative employers, but employers all have a huge number of potential employees, so we end up with zero real wage growth in the last 50 years or more while profitability is soaring

And if you don't like unions, I hope you're looking forward to the age discrimination in your future as you, instead of gainins security as you age, lose all your job prospets in tech
I tend to agree with most of this.
Flakes still being an experimental feature in particular seems to discourage newcomers from adoption. Especially since the benefits of flakes are not terribly obvious nor well documented (though they definitely exist!).

Sometimes I think that I keep using nix only because of sunken cost fallacy and I should just switch to guix...
I don't avoid the news, but I'm pretty selective about my news sources. I do mostly avoid discussions about the news, though.
Passkeys have optional attestation payloads, which is basically what WEI is doing. Google in particular doesn't recommend requiring attestation except in corporate-security scenarios, but the fear is that banking and media sites will require attestation anyway, which locks users into whatever attestation mechanisms supported by the server; so basically Google, Apple and Microsoft.
My first thought was - what you mean by alive? A person can be brain dead. And alive (with vitals) at the same time. With some assumptions, one can say she was alive at noon.

However, I believe OpenAI has added significant safeguards to prevent any such assumption, to the point where GPT-4 isn’t very useful at times.

This may be fixable with prompt engineering if it can be persuaded to let it’s guard down a bit.
Given how many contracts we agree to online (including online orders and TOS) we need a browser plug-in that records the screen, saves it in a text-searchable form and makes it easy to figure out when I orders that LG TV and what the warranty was, even if the warranty was blurry text in an image.

If all the data was saved to our PC, and maybe to our Google Drive, I'd pay for that SaaS.

It should automatically record, but ditch the recording if it seems to be unimportant and if I do not tell it to keep the recording. That way, when I click "I agree" and instantly regret it, I have a record.

It should capture all the text hidden in scrolling text boxes.

Does anyone make something like this?
Just because it was accomplished via a "legislative process" doesn't automatically make it a good idea. Surprise laws are a bad idea in any economic system IMHO. It isn't even a "capitalist" issue.
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> Rust for web dev instead of Go? I want to believe. What’s the killer app?

No killer app here. We just prefer Rust itself. Go is very capable and a great choice.

For me personally i found Go to spread logic out far too much. Some features of Rust, Iterators for example, massively simplified how i think about data flow. That was my #1 issue with Go. This has side root-causes in Go of course, like no generics to allow for Iterators, etc - but these days Go has generics so it's likely improving. Features around Enums are also huge for me.

I left Go ages ago and it's improved a lot sense then. I still prefer Rust, though.

As i said no judgement on any lang, including Go. This is merely my experience and preferences.
I keep getting surprised at how a large chunk of HN's demographic seemingly struggles with the simple notion that a black box's interface informs surprisingly little about its content.

I'm not saying that GPT-4 is reasoning or not, just that discounting the possibility solely based on it interfacing to the world via a stochastic parrot makes no sense to me.
We can't even agree on who the good guys and bad guys are. Is a bank bad for excluding certain browsers?
As a Belgian I simply use US intl and damn AZERTY to hell and back. The biggest problem is the size of the left shift which is only "right" on the Apple US intl keyboard and just wrong on anything else in Europe.

I also hate the extra big enter key, I mean what the hell? Give me my backslash above the enter any time of the year.

Thank god I got my escape key back BTW. I needed an external keyboard just for that crap.
Egypt do block VPNs in much more aggressive way than Cloudflare. Also this is my first time to hear that cloudflare is blocked in Egypt. People will even complain that they cannot connect to their cooperate VPNs.

Blocking cloudflare ip addresses means that half of the internet wouldn't be accessible from Egypt. its closw to blocking port 443 because some people use DNS over https.

disclaimer: I'm Egyptian living in the US.
That's cool that's cool, but the problem is getting people to use Raku.
This is always such a bad faith argument. When you have to choose between freedom/privacy and being able to perform daily tasks, that's not a choice, but coercion.
Everyone remembers the PET for its iconic industrial design and chiclet keyboards but mustn't forget the integrated "mass storage" cassette tape player and recorder visible in the other images on that page.

I had a whole supply of cassette tapes that I bought somewhere with just 6 minutes of tape on the spools, for saving and loading of programs for the PET.
Oh wow, the nostalgia!

Ocarina of Time felt so much larger! Playing BOTW and TOTK, it now feels like a tiny level. Also, nice to get to explore the Water Temple after so many years living as a mythical space in my mind.
Looks like many VPNs allow access to the local network. And you can assign public IP ranges to the local network which.. is enough to make clients leak traffic to those IP addresses.

Website with a short explanain: https://tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com
It's requesting client certs for their internal intranet stuff hosted behind cloudflare.
My fear with strictly air drying is bugs, but wood usage is primarily indoor furniture and fine woodworking. Have you had any issues with that?
> 7 PM - 8 PM

Back in my day and in Germany, "news" was from 20:00 to 20:15 with the last 5 or so minutes of that were dedicated to the Bundesliga :)
This seems a derivative of Iain M. Banks "Culture" books which I love. Banks was taken too soon, so wish we could have had more from his mind.
Is it possible OpenAI saw this as a bug report and fixed it?

Also that LLMs output is random so perhaps you just got lucky?

(peer review of your replication attempt)
I guess you'd get better results if you knew the font the site uses (which in many cases you could figure it out pretty quickly) or even just override every font with your own.
Hah, I just went down a whole rabbit hole on super-logarithms and tetration wondering why you found it so critical as to warrant standard-library inclusion.
And of course it isn't a "game". That is a figure of speech to make a point about fairness.
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TunnelCrack: Widespread design flaws in VPN clients
That's not a lot of information for such a complex subject.

Eg. If you live in a dictatorship and use a VPN. You're traffic is together with a lot of people.

The website owner can disable cloudflare their checks and that will leave their site unprotected. The choice of that is up to the website owner, no?
when you look properly at the end of the video the root hash starts with $y$ implying its yescrypt

more info here https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/libcrypt-dev/crypt.5.en...

https://www.openwall.com/yescrypt/

once you have the hash you have to use some rainbow tables if they exist for that hash function or bruteforce it

the authors of yescrypt claim: "Technically, yescrypt is the most scalable password hashing scheme so far, providing near-optimal security from offline password cracking across the whole range from kilobytes to terabytes and beyond. "

in any way, this is a local attack, someone / some software on your local machine would need to execute it so i am not overly stressed, password hashes leak all the time from all different sources

yet, it does worry me because my AMD stock is dropping on value because of this today :D
I can't see a gradual change of heart working out for him. Twitter works only because everybody else is already there. Once people start leaving in large numbers, their friends will already be at the other place, and there won't be anything at X to draw them back.

It seems to me his best strategy is to let it happen. Lean in to the customers he particularly wants. It's a much smaller and less lucrative base than he paid for, but I don't think he ever expected a profit. I think he wanted a big thumb on the scale of the global dialogue, and he might as well play that out.

Obviously that has cost him more than he expected, but he can afford the loss. Rather than admit he was wrong, he might as well continue to insist that he's right and wait for the universe to agree with him.

Besides, maybe he really can make something genuinely compelling with his WeChat clone/"everything app". I doubt it, but he's rich and I'm not. (I did make a tidy profit buying TWTR stock below his offer price. I donated it to a local food bank. But that was 5 figures, not 10.)
> 1 billion per mile

That seems incredibly high. My city in France just finished building a new subway line and the cost was ~100 million € per km (170 million $ per mile)

Not sure why there's an order of magnitude difference?
The definition of what "the news" is has become blurry...
Are the articles I read on HN considered 'news'?
(I mean, it's right there in the title!)

Is this article 'news'?

The article talks about 'traditional' sources of newspapers, NPR, MSNBC -- is there a certain type of 'news' that people are starting to avoid?
Every failed answer is data that feeds the model when reported. Every suggested correct feeds the model.

It’s expected that specific prompts will improve in this way, but I don’t think it invalidates the finding that GPT-4 was unable to reason in these ways from training data.

Whether the improvements over time are able to change the overall quality of reasoning or not is an interesting and difficult question to answer.
> Would the US tolerate those acts?

Yes? What about their nuclear policy from the past half-century convinces you otherwise?
Also new virtual threads might be beneficial. I was experimenting using Vector api for matrix multiplication once and effect was pretty good.
I mean the VC model seems kind of broken these days. Second growth/market penetration/new product related profits are different from windfall profits so it's not quite the same though I see what you are trying to do is frame it in an SV start-up viewpoint.
I cannot really see how it can be a worse experience than waiting for the model to run, fix the error found, wait a second time, fix another error; when you can just check instantly if the model architecture is sound.
I'm somewhat confused: the "Related" section says:

"[...] that motivated me to rewrite it [- presumably: svgbob -] in JS (svgbob is written in rust)" [...]"

So, is "Typograms" a modified rewrite of svgbob in JS? IF yes, isn't it a Derivative Work of svgbob, and (per the Apache License, which seems to match the one used here) shouldn't "Typograms" keep the mention of the original author somewhere in the Licensing information, and notably their original Copyright note? (As present e.g. in svgbob's License file.)

IF NOT, then why mention a "rewrite"? What is actual relation of Typograms to svgbob? This becomes even weirder given that some of the examples in the Typograms demo seem reused verbatim from the svgbob demo - but rendered poorer (at least on Firefox); making it sound like it is a rewrite also makes it sound like it is a - sorry for this - crappy rewrite... and this under google's name... but then in the end is it actually not a rewrite? is it just a - still at first glance seemingly crappy, sorry - clone? (hm, at least I'd love to show some clearly highlighted improvements over svgbob, maybe? if I'm not to focus on the somewhat-broken parts of the demo?) aaaand still under google's name?... reeeeaaaaaallllyyyyy wierd and confusing case to me... (O_o)
Earth Just Had Its Hottest Month Ever. How Six Cities Are Coping
You don't need to define good and bad, instead you focus on better and worse and the metrics used to measure them. Now the goal is to maximize "better" and minimize "worse." You may recognize this as the essentials utilitarianism. The advantage utilitarianism has is it can be applied algorithmically without passion or emotion - in other words, by AI.

Utilitarianism leads to controversial outcomes, but every decision is defensible.
"I was recently listening to a podcast recapping a television show set in the early 2000s, where a current college aged student basically said "I wish I had the experience of being a teenager in that time period - it seemed much simpler as you weren't aware of every bad thing that was happening around the world"

I'm sad that kids these days did not get to experience things like the Sopranos, otherwise known as the best TV series ever.

One hour. Once per week. No binge watching.
[EDIT: I think you are correct, and that it is not as legible on the phone as I thought it was. Using a different font might not fix that, although it's something for me to keep in mind for future blog post diagrams]

I thank you for reading the content.

> FYI not everyone find 'handwritten' diagramms cute and more importantly sometimes this cuteness actively interfere with reading comperhension, ie this font is quite shitty for me, esp. on the mobile when I need to actively pan and zoom this big diagramm.

I understand that not everyone finds this sort of diagram as usable (by which I mean legibility, approachability, memorability and understandability).

By the same token, not everyone finds the usual sort of diagram as usable as this. In my experience, I've found that cartoony/sketched images results in the audience being more receptive to, and remembering more of, the message.

I think this is why this sort of thing is more and more popular these days - it mostly works (not for everyone, obviously).

> on the mobile when I need to actively pan and zoom this big diagramm

I'm sorry about that; I chose an image size that would fit most mobile phones in landscape orientation, and set the fontsize to what I personally could read without my glasses.

For reference, on my mobile, HN text is too tiny for me to read without my glasses, so I was fairly sure that, if I could read it with no glasses on, it should be large enough on most screens for most people.

Once again, thank you for reading the content.
I can write a book on the topic. I'm attempting to refrain from that.

0) "What do you want" is the question. There isn't a deeper question behind it. Pretending that there is a deeper question is just one of the self-sabotaging ways we avoid answering the question.

1) Investments aren't sacrifices. If you want to, say, lose 50 pounds because of Your Reasons, then you are investing your attention and your non-renewable time in accomplishing what you want by eating/doing things that make that outcome more probable. You are not "sacrificing" chocolate cake and icecream and whatever.

2) You sacrifice things that you actually have/do and which are valuable to you. Since you can't have or do everything, and since things that take you away from what you actually want are not valuable to you, then you aren't "sacrificing" anything when you "give up" things that you couldn't actually have or do, or things that aren't actually valuable.

Everything is a choice. Choices involve tradeoffs. That is a fine, rational way to view it if you must view it in some way. Framing it as "sacrifices" dramatically increases the likelihood of failure, poisons your own emotional relationship to the process, and sours your feelings toward the goal itself.

In some people it also tends to promote a false narrative that "sacrifices are necessary", but that's heading away from my own goal in commenting. So. :)
How large of a dataset can I submit? I have hundreds of thousands of words of text.
From your citation: "The accuracy of the law of the fourth power is disputed among experts"
It's political suicide for Republicans. Left leaning Democrats like Bernie are all for it.
That definitely should go to "Humour & Fun" category )
Seems like chatgpt is not factchecking the input, assumes it is true.
I think you don't understand what the word suffer means. Those entities don't lose anything. It's not possible to lose something you don't have. In an alternate universe where the windfall tax did not occur those entities have more money. But in this universe they don't lose anything. They don't suffer.

To call it a loss means that money was taken from them. If someone promises to leave me $1 million when they die and then they decide to change their mind I do not suffer. Nothing was taken from me. I did miss out on having $1 million but have suffered no loss. I never had the $1 million to begin with.
Right. Some people are thinking about this really black-and-white, like you either have control or you don't. In the very end, WEI aims to collectively reduce the users' control.
Nah; the mentioned paper above (from a few days ago here on HN) show about how GPT4 is nondeterministic because the sparse mixture of experts technique used is nondeterministic based on batch positioning.
WEI is a mechanism that forces you to let websites use the TPM to stop and frisk your machine before access. There’s no difference.
Isn't the CEO of Nissan some Brazilian guy who escaped jail in Japan? Honestly, besides Tesla, Nissan is the only other company I can think of, and he is the ex-CEO, but almost as interesting (notorious?) as Musk so we actually remember who he is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn
> Why bother shipping an item to a customer if you're running a scam?

Because they have a warehouse full of ugly misprinted clothes and need to get rid of them. and those clothes still cost (some) money to make or acquire.

and as others have said, not sending anything is wire fraud, and outright scams will catch criminal charges; one more line on an Interpol indictment. Crappy or underperforming goods are a civil issue, and no one is launching an international lawsuit over a $100 item
Books are a fantastic resource in this space. We made this into a 5-10 minute a day mobile app for a few reasons:

+ A lot of people don't have the time or patience to invest several hours into reading a book. They'd prefer things broken down into actionable steps. In fact, we've done a lot of product testing to figure out how to improve program efficacy and we found out that the shorter and more "bite-sized" we made our modules, the more willing our users were to follow them, and the better their result.

+ The big "open secret" in the sleep research community is that yes, CBT for insomnia is a great starting point, but it needs to be followed up with further psychology-based care. Stellar Sleep delivers CBT for insomnia-based programming initially, then transitions into continued psychology-based programming which sustains the results of the initial CBT for insomnia work.
GPT-4 gave me a concise correct answer without disclaimers.

This may be due to using many custom instructions like the following in ChatGPT settings:

- No need to provide disclaimers about your knowledge cutoff

- No need to mention you are an AI language model

- Only discuss safety when it is not obvious and very important

- You should act as an expert in the relevant fields
This would have been categorically true circa-1970s.

Unfortunately, US industrial vertical integration now includes foundations placed in global low-labor-cost countries.

The crash vaccine manufacturing scaling program was possible because we were rich enough to throw mountains of money (of which we have the most) at any international supply problems.

If the Atlantic or Pacific had been hostile to commercial shipping, or countries hadn't cooperated, it would have had a very different result.

> We are decimating (and then some) Russia's military by giving away second tier equipment to Ukraine, and the amount we're giving away is basically an afterthought. A one-time superpower is scraping the bottom of the barrel for equipment fighting against largely NATO supplied spare equipment.

"We" are not. Ukrainians are dying and holding their own against a much larger country, with the help of NATO surplus equipment.

20,000-50,000 Ukrainians now have at least one limb amputated as a result of the war. [0] [1]

And Russia's military is not being decimated. It's holding its own with an elastic defense, that's making progress difficult and costly for a Ukrainian army that's trained halfway between Soviet mass doctrine and Western maneuver warfare.

At some point the Ukrainians will hopefully manage to exhaust Russia's logistics sufficient to break through their defense, but that's in no way a sure thing.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-ukraine-a-surge-in-amputatio...

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/19/ukraines-amputee...