skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not actually the interface that's the problem. It's the flow.

* you have to answer dumb security questions constantly

* you pay money in (a lot of money) by direct bank transfer with a long reference code. If you get it wrong I imagine the money is just gone. Not very reliable.

* you have to "set up a new payment" every single month because it's designed under the assumption that your bill is identical every month and it never is

Actually there is one really annoying interface thing - when you set up a one-off payment it suggests a date that is one month from now, instead of one day from now which is what you want. All it needs is a "tomorrow" button. I've missed payments several times because of this.

Oh and it tells you you can't set up a payment for today after you've submitted everything instead of on the date selector.
How Nvidia became a major player in robotics
Bug in the latest firmware. Should be patched during the next recharge or OTA for the newer models.
I think the best part of this whole article is the quote from streamer GHOST WHOH (@WHOH on Twitter/X) starting "All road trips start with @shellstationsus .."

Shell Stations US

or

Shell Station Sus

Yep, pretty sus alright. I'm sure a lot of the target audience is laughing about this.
It's proportionally like the equivalent death toll of NYC on 9/11 or slightly higher.

In NYC, 1 in 4000 people died on 9/11. In Chicago, 1 in 2000 birds died the other day. (Not to say it's equivalent at all, just that it's certainly a newsworthy event to the birds).
> It’s not rocket science.

But it's unpopular and expensive. Here in the UK, we have the minister for transport [0] jumping on the bandwagon of "walkable cities are a ploy for the government to control which shops you go to". In France, there were literal riots when fuel taxes were set to be raised.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/mark-harper-government...
I'm totally gonna start using "satandard" from now on.
It simply blows my mind the lack of common sense on the processing of something so well known and common as bottled water. I don't know how someone can be this stupid (or evil).
Not chemical FROM rocket fuel but "also used in rocket fuel". The fine article describes in some detail how it may have gotten in there. "May" only as apparently the expert only spent so much time on the mad scientist machinery the company was using. Amazing story.
That's weird. I'm using it right now on the Pixel 7 Pro running Android 13.
> As someone who works for the government and whose team is doing nothing but fighting against bad actors, I don't think that's true. We're not doing nothing, that very unfair assessment.

I'm just looking at the dozens of billions of dollars lost to scams in the US alone each year [1]. And that's just scams, not the other forms of cybercrime. And Europe isn't much better off.

(I won't copy your points for a quote since they're too long)

> Globality

Agreed. But Western governments, united, could mandate their ISPs and phone traffic to cut off all traffic from these countries. Most international carriers are based in the US and Europe. Guess how long India would take to dismantle their scam callcenters if cut off? A week tops. Russia wouldn't cave, but I see no reason for this country to be connected to the Internet at all, at least not as long as they are invading Ukraine. And China? They've been running rampant with espionage campaigns for years. It's time to accept this declaration of war and retaliate.

> Velocity

Oh hell yes there are bad actors. Phone providers providing connectivity to scammers and spammers, residential ISPs not acting against abuse reports and thus allowing compromised residential devices (e.g. cheap IoT crap) to continue to attack infrastructure... if I had anything to say, I'd mandate that three credible abuse reports should yield in the disconnection of any Internet participant, and that ISPs were to assist their customers in cleaning their devices. As for domain providers: mandate verification of domain names, and boot off providers that repeatedly violate this requirement. The only thing that reverses profit incentives is serious sanctions.

> Money

See above. Fine providers that don't respond to abuse requests similar to GPDR, up to 10% of yearly worldwide revenue. If they don't comply and show no credible efforts to become a good citizen of the net, cut them off.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1050001/money-lost-to-ph...
You laugh - but my earlier comment was flagged, presumably because of its comic nature. Which is fair enough, but I don't get why some comic comments are a problem (mine) and others not.
I think the CLI is more to blame than the author says.

For example, the "branches are more like bookmarks" point. Well, I think it would have been easier if git called them bookmarks, like Mercurial.

About the "fuzzy identity" part, it is mostly a consequence of git fuzzy naming scheme. Like the "git reset" command that does many different things, the result is that no one know what a "reset" is.

I have never struggled with the idea that a commit is a "worldline". I think that calling it a worldline is making it more confusing than it is. For me, it just represents some work done, but the git tendency to mix high level concepts with implementation details gives people weird ideas.
Probably right
That’s not at all what the report shows. You can just look it up https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

The IT sector has a slightly higher unemployment rate 4.3 than the headline rate 3.9. And there is a special note about the IT rate being specifically impacted by the tv industry strikes as the sector covering sound and film engineers makes up most of the IT unemployment number.

The industry that actually has a significantly higher rate is leisure and hospitality at 5.4.
But are you writing to write or are you writing to convey a thought?
I took it from the article: "We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser." but yes, not yet.
1. the model's responses are unreliable
2. to make them reliable, you have to tell the model the answer
3. even though you now have a process to figure out the answer, you still have to use the model because the VP wants you to
No. The parent comment said "AI Research".

If you want "AGI" so badly, you certainly need to have an "AI research" background and a track record. Can't achieve your "AGI" without that.

Given that Carmack has a close to zero track record in this research, it makes total sense for him to partner with someone that does.
Ultimately we avoid that with a few specific things:

1. As sane config as possible.

2. ability to hook into functional processes and see what's going on

3. Layered escape hatches. You can add functional hooks to actions, or you can use a manual action to take over the data layer interaction, or you can write a "generic action" which gives you even more control. The escape hatches are designed to allow as much customization without sacrificing capability as possible.

4. Ash isn't its own language/environment. It's just an Elixir library. If doing something with Ash is proving difficult for whatever reason, you can opt not to use it for that, and then you're back in Elixir-land in full control. Ash doesn't attempt to "own" the things you use it with (in fact we take extra care to be as compatible with other tools as we can. For example, each Ash resource is also an Ecto schema. In this way, Ash can handle the 90+% of your application that is typically table-stakes, and you can handle the rest.

Also, I liken declarative programming to sushi. There are a lot of people who don't like sushi, because they've only had bad sushi :)
God bless Andreas Kling but I don't think they have the community support to stand up to the Chromes and IE/Edge of the world unfortunately
Yeah. OPs take is a little weird.
It doesn’t need to be global? It can be within your borders applying to domestic production and imports.

You can require an implementation and oversight of a carbon tax as part of a trade deal.

We’ve literally enforced a thousand different rules on the world as a collective species. Stop pretending this one is different.
> Big oil never had to advertise the "benefits" of fuel

Have I got news for you... Check out the latest ClimateTown video https://youtu.be/_pNRuafoyZ4 for just a few examples, but there's lots more and it's been happening for decades.
You're not wrong that this wasn't a sophisticated attack. What's disappointing is that it worked well at scale.

> this attack could be done on literally any website. The issue is people re-used passwords, and also did not have 2fa enabled.

While possible to execute at scale on some websites, this type of attack tends to be quite loud on the receiving end once appropriate metrics are selected for monitoring and alerting.

> "We do not have any indication at this time that there has been a data security incident within our systems."

They should probably work on that, given that those systems were used to extract their customer's data, and that they only noticed when their customer's data was being sold.

Given how far behind they are on disclosure I'd guess they may have only found out from media inquiries.
What makes you think that the game is not currently riged? The country is led by a Chekist junta. They throw economic migrans from the former USSR states and other non-ethnic Russians in prison for whatever motives, then they send them to Ukraine to be "pardoned". This social score is just an attempt to copy China and to rig the game even more. Except Russia is not China, a country of 1.4bn people and 10x Russia's GDP.
Anyone else rememeber "Monsantovision" at Disney World in the 70s/80s? Much the same thing.
Cloudflare exposes Tor as a country that can be blocked, so a website operator could choose to block Tor for their website just as they could block any other country.

Are you seeing more blocks than that?
what's the "item discount" supposed to be...?
Does Chrome OS allow 3P browsers now? I thought the point was it was all just Chrome? (Unless one bypasses the default restrictions.)
Windows needs to vastly improve its multi monitor support. I have a 3070 which supports up to four monitors, but getting them to play nicely in Win11 is a pain. So much so that I just use DisplayFusion instead.
This was stocked on Whole Foods shelves. I imagine many people who bought likely thought this was some kind of "regular" water.

- "A study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in November 2021 laid out 25 cases of acute liver failure linked to the water—22 in Nevada and three in California, all of which occurred at the end of 2020. Specifically, the cases were linked to Real Water's 5-gallon Re2al Water product, sold in multiple southwestern states in places like Whole Foods."
> Why aren't we collectively putting our time/effort etc.. into making Firefox the singular and best FOSS browser ever?

Because the leadership is hellbent on copying Chrome but worse and investing in utterly pointless endeavors instead of making a good browser. It's a shame. Giving money to the Mozilla Foundation is the same as throwing it to a black hole.

I hope a new truly FOSS browser shows up and catches on that does not use Blink and isn't owned by a group of human-shaped leeches.
Every time I log into my Chase acccount, it thinks I'm logging in from a new computer. Every single time. Nope, I've had the same computer for 3 years.
23andMe says private user data is up for sale after being scraped
That's a bummer I think you got unlucky with your mechanic/car combo. Its tough!
Definitely, Germany strongly believes that a document that hasn't been a physical piece of paper at least once can't be real. That makes for folders upon folders of documents and it's actually worse than back in the 20th century because generating and mailing documents has become way easier and cheaper, so things that would have been a one-page typewritten letter back then now are five ten-page ones full of automatically generated crap. One lengthy illness in the family alone filled hundreds of pages and it can be very hard to know what can be thrown away at which point.
What's up with the temperature sensor on the Pixel 8 Pro?
1. Set the example by creating or joining organizations that are not based on Capital owning the majority of the organization (cooperatives, non-stock not-for profit etc..)

2. Increase taxes on non-labor capital growth to directly fund full employment programs Eg make "profit" impossible
I detect a veiled personal attack, stay on topic and keep it civil please. I didn't offer any labels for myself, nor subscribe to them.

I don't provide any blueprint for successful cooperation, I'm just saying increasing the wealth of any random nation for the sake of it (or something about equality) ignoring context or impact doesn't make sense. It didn't need to be "the west", and many would consider Russia to be western, it just needs to be a political unit capable of progress on issues of the commons.
You're smarter than me, anyway. I'll confess that I don't actually understand git and I sweat bullets every time I have to use it. My only consolation is that's true of most of my team as well.
One Happy Rails World
Men are getting rich from AI. Women, not so much
No: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t08.htm

Full time jobs not only didn’t decrease, they increased more than part time jobs in actual terms.

Part time jobs for economic reasons decreased while part time jobs for non economic reasons went up slightly.
> Government employment increased by 73,000 jobs, driven by state government education and local government, excluding education.

That part should raise serious questions about the validity of this metric.

Any taxpayer-funded or debt-funded government "job" is not a creator of real (in the economic sense) wealth.

Rather, such government "jobs" merely siphon off and consume real wealth generated by actually-productive market participants, and then permanently destroy that wealth.

Even worse, the process of destroying of that real wealth is often done in a way that then impedes the productivity of the real wealth creators, introducing a secondary and longer-lasting real economic loss.

Each government "job" added should be seen as a significant net loss to the overall economy.

Those government "jobs" are in effect just destroying the real output of some number of private sector jobs.
I just bookmark the "subscriptions" page instead of the homepage.
Racist crazy conspiracy-theorist uncle was the example given in the article :)
Is your browser set to clear cookies when you close it?
I already pay for YouTube so I have no ads, their music app is included, podcasts I care about publish to all platforms
You should be able to lookup the email on https://haveibeenpwned.com/. If it's there, they might have your password.
You got the second amendment from the English Bill of Rights of 1689 (along with most of the other 10), which states the same right (for Protestants only):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689#The_Act
I was paying for two, so dropping the one that can't write an app made sense
Nothing says fun times like pretending denial is a new - or only an old thing.

There are tradeoffs to every path, many only visible long after the path is taken.

It’s easy to reject the old path because the tradeoffs are visible and it’s clearly not perfect.

That doesn’t mean the new path is going to be better - just less known.
Not to be a prick, but this is HumanNews.
Someone has a problem? I will bring my problem!
Also anti-nuclear greens today and then were looking at significantly different tech. I mean, some of that started when the core catchers weren't a standard thing.
I ADORE this idea.

I wonder how far one could take it with just ligatures?
Polyamory is mainstream already and has been for some time. People just lie about it. Observably speaking the winner takes all high value men ploughing their way through the hookup marketplace while middling men settle for some combination of either sharing a woman, settling for a discarded older less fertile women, or picking single mothers with limited options at best dynamic is already operationally equivalent to old polygamous societies.
I feel your pain, it was getting worse and worse over the years and now it’s just trying to game as much “engagement” as possible. Feels like screen time is the only metric they have.

I switched from Duolingo to Busuu for my Japanese learning and it’s so much better. They did add leagues to it too but you can just ignore it.
Comedy is tricky, fleeting and there is great variance in tolerance to it among HN voters.
It seems to me that that would be an effective temporary solution, but would have to be re-applied following rain. The bigger problem would be cost. The building in the article is McCormick place which was hit pretty hard during Covid and is likely still recovering (financially.) But no business is likely to spend the $$$ to mitigate the issue unless they are forced.

The bigger problem is that this is not the only building in Chicago that is hazardous to birds. Fix this one and there will be another noteworthy for the "most bird strikes" in Chicago.
Oracle lets employees use their own laptops for business purposes if they administer it themselves. So clearly there are no legal issues to it.
Brave is fully open source, and actually defends its users privacy by default.

While firefox still uses google, allows google ads and tracking, and just talks about doing something but does nothing

Also chromium is just a superior engine, in security and speed, using firefox won't change Chromium dominance at all.
> "Graph of history and causality", context, content, "many-worlds cosmology", changes, snapshots, "flows of historical events"... This makes Git even harder.

Thank you for saying that. I had to pretend I didn't read it because it made me even more confused, and assumed it was because I was an idiot.
Yep, you could get visual studio processor packs in the mail. At least for ppc and mips.
True, these benchmarks are mostly worthless because any non-trivial application will bottleneck at things like databases, not the http framework.

In my experience, even with a fast database like redis, one is unlikely to achieve more than like 5k req/sec per process in node.
Yes. How else would they build their OS and applications?
https://archive.ph/2023.10.07-124426/https://www.washingtonp...
I think for a lot of people Firefox does tick those boxes, but the way Mozilla has been run is... less than ideal. I'm sure many commenters here will have strong opinions about it, personally I'm not convinced that modern Mozilla is the right organization to pour this time and effort into.
Interesting, it would be fun to give an estimate based on firefox browser team size and other contributors
How is nuclear power much more sustainable than solar and wind energy?
A true AGI would determine the only solution to our crisis is the elimination of the human race...
Because those platforms provide an illusion of choice, and LLMs do not (by default).

Having a single entity that tells you what it thinks is the right answer short circuits needing to think critically about the answer that was provided. This is especially bad when, in the case of ChatGPT, people are using it as a therapist, doctor, teacher, lawyer, pair programmer, and more.

There is also the possibility of a central authority using the platform to tell you how to think. When you control the model, you control the narrative. I think this could be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands.
Workstations, like the original Sun workstations, also used the 68000 family. The SO question omits that....
>Because the leadership is hellbent on copying Chrome but worse and investing in utterly pointless endeavors instead of making a good browser.

Is this a hypothesis that we can specify and test? Is this how we would approach this problem?

It sounds more like a cynical write-off, not a actual strategy

>I hope a new truly FOSS browser shows up and catches on that does not use Blink and isn't owned by a group of human-shaped leeches

Cool, but that strategy clearly isn't working.

I'm suggesting, instead of writing off Firefox, we (you specifically, and me and whomever else wants to) start engaging with Mozilla to help figure this stuff out

Nothing is perfect, but at least it's got some of the hardest parts right: Organizational momentum and distribution. Technical stuff is easy to change compared to that.

The challenge now is finding competent people who can actually put the effort in, with no compensation, to make it work and that might take convincing the Mozilla folks to do something differently.

Having done this kind of thing a few times, that sounds way easier than trying to totally start over from scratch though.
I’m not pretending the risk doesn’t exist. The data demonstrates the risk is low when safe sex is practiced. Practice safe sex and get tested often if you have multiple partners regularly.
Tell me about your plan to run and maintain a national network of highways without government "jobs"
You’re vastly oversimplifying humans.

That’s like saying a physics simulation is basically an entire sub universe on your computer.

It sounds true, but it’s just not. It’s a gross oversimplification

I think Gödel had a proof for how it’s impossible to fully describe a system from within that system. That’s the nail in the coffin for AGI.

No matter how much data we give it, no matter how big it is, it’ll never be “human intelligent” since it’s impossible for us to describe a loss function for being human or describe being human in a dataset.

We’ll never be able to evaluate it, since we can’t fully describe what it means to communicate because to do that we’d need to communicate it and that process can’t be fully self describing.

Not to say AI isn’t useful or impressive, but it’ll never be comparable to humans, truly.
> the collective learning of uncountable generations

Wisdom in one context can be foolishness in another. To live a good life it is necessary to re-evaluate the actions of your forebears and determine if it is still applicable to your modern context. That doesn't make someone a "social iconoclast", it makes them wise. Our ancestors did the same thing to their ancestors. Homo sapiens is 300,000 years old, and our societies have changed a lot since then, and will continue to change.

Note that I personally have no desire to be anything other than monogamous, but I know several people (both young and elderly) who are successfully polyamorous. I also know people who have catastrophically failed at polyamory; but then, of course, I also know people who have catastrophically failed at monogamy.

As far as I'm concerned, normalizing polyamory will strengthen monogamy. It seems like some people out there just aren't cut out for monogamy, and in a monogamous world they inevitably become cheaters. Let the polyamorous people remove themselves from the monogamous dating pool and you will exclusively remove people who would otherwise be compelled to cheat.
> I'm not sure how many people struggling to learn git (the 'git novices' of the article) are competent with any comparable tool.

I am extremely competent with a couple of other version control systems, but that doesn't really help me in terms of understanding git.

I agree that many of the attempts to explain it that I've read (including a number of the comments here) are really explaining things that all version control systems have in common. For me, those aren't the parts that I struggle with. It's how those things map onto actually using git that I find difficult.
maybe OP is afraid of getting more irrelevant reviews from sharing a link
Bird-Friendly Building Design (2015)[pdf]
They're repackaging Googles software, they've always been already there.

Building a business who's feature is "We're independent from Google" on top of codebase that is dependant on Googles development effort was always a hypocritical thesis.