skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh dear, I wonder how I'll ever be able to use the code I wrote over the years that controls uncounted lathes, mills, plasmacutters, lasers and a whole raft of other industrial tools.

Obviously the only people that can be trusted with our safety are the manufacturers, because the people whose lives are on the line are irresponsible madmen.

> Designing a vehicle to be hackable will very likely lead to an unsafe vehicle.

Vehicles are hackable, but they're not documented which makes them more dangerous, not less dangerous. Witness comma.ai and others.
Well fuck them.
2015 is just some arbitrary commit that touched the message and was easy to Google: if you worked on Android I'm sure you're handy enough with Gerrit to find exactly when the message was added but afaik it dates back to the earliest versions that supported this.
I find I'm in the opposite position - I would rather the date picker is not consistent, because different date pickers have different purposes. The date picker I want to use to put in my date of birth is different to the one I want to use to add an appointment to my calendar, and that's different to the one I want to use to browse prices for different days, and that's different to the one I want to use to be able to select a range of dates, and even that's often different to the one I want to use to select the two dates of a return journey.

Of the classic form controls, choosing a date is probably the one that has the most application-specific needs, and therefore the one that I would most expect to vary between applications.
It starts with the DSP enabled, so that's the "good" state. Then it's toggled off and on a few times.
And now I'm self conscious about my biases...

Can you explain the misogyny? I'm not able to recognize it.

The only potential I'm seeing is the 'mad girlfriend' bug, but that could be rewritten as the 'mad partner' bug without any change in meaning, so I don't see any misogyny.
> Currency denominations seem to be efficient* when they follow roughly half-an-order-of-manitude increases -- e.g. $0.05 to $0.25 to $1 to $5 to $20 to $100.

Thanks but no. I’m not gonna carry around four bills ($5 x2, $20 x2) if I just want to carry $50.
Hackable does not mean crackable. The best security implementations in the world are free software.

I'm not even a tiny bit convinced that making cars hackable would be a detriment to safety. Give me one example of that happening in literally any other sector.
Yes, I'm aware of that. Which is why my assumption that this would be a red herring was born out. As long as Freescale and Bosch are in control I don't see any of this changing.
The alternative to learning it using GPT-4 is not to learn it as deeply as other people did over much longer periods of time.

The alternative is whatever one can learn without GPT-4 in whatever amount of time is reasonable/allocated for it at the moment.

Like, take Docker. Yes, you would not be wrong to say that "by getting help from GPT-4 to do stuff, you won't learn it as well as people who didn't get that help and slogged through it over the course of 2 years at one of their last job", but this ignores that I probably will, over the course of the next several months, learn a lot about Docker in a fraction of the time it took the hypothetical other person.

I don't doubt that leaning too much on LLMs as a crutch may have negative effects, but I find this to be a surprising line of argument on a tech forum; there is such an obvious difference in efficiency between learning using an LLM versus the slog of other materials--again, aside from books, though I think they offer, ideally, a different kind of learning.
For the first time, gene-editing provides hints for lowering cholesterol
RMS might. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/jx6fz1/stallman...
This probably strikes a lot closer to the real story.
On the AI policy side: https://aipoliticalpulse.substack.com/
> It's hard to appreciate the scale of these places unless you have visited them.

I think what’s especially hard to grasp from pictures is not just the areal loss, but the massive amount of volume that has vanished. For example, the Aletsch glacier, (at a length of 23 km, the biggest one in the Alps) has lost more than 100m of thickness in only 150 years. If you stand on its surface as it is today, it’s impressive to realise what a sheer amount of ice there used to be above your head and around you just a few decades ago.
It'll never happen because regulators don't get involved except on the most abstract level (say: a recall with a proposed fix).
Defined as what? Even a bottom-of-the-line NUC with a dual core Celeron and only half the memory populated, using a 4GiB SO-DIMM even though at this point those cost more than 8GiB modules, would be more than plenty to run any popular distro.
Sounds very close to the firstness, secondness and thirdness categories from Charles Sanders Peirce.

(Which I think are nothing but nonsense from a madman =)
in an effort to clear your confusion; the first number is persistent storage, the second one max main memory.
> There've been PvE missions for a few months now. I think part of the reason they were initially cut/delayed was because of all the shakeups at Blizzard after so many people left and/or got fired for misconduct.

The missions they released have nothing in common with what was discussed. PvE was meant to have persistent hero levelling, skill trees, and a proper story. What they eventually released wasn't far off what would've been a seasonal event game mode in the past, in addition to being laughably expensive and horribly broken.

> Also, you mention unpopular balance patches, but "Blizzard sucks at balancing" has been a complaint since the early days of OW1 :P I remember when the first Mercy rework dropped... and the Bastion rework... and everything about Brigitte...

The OW2 changes went beyond a broken hero. They made fundamental changes to the way the game is played with the reduction in team size and changes to tanks.
I'm all for open access to the code for the sake of safety. On the other hand, I'm completely against hobbyists accidently bypassing a safety mechanism.

Open access, but secure access to software download could make sense, at least for commodity parts.

When it comes to features with competitive advantage, though, I don't see that OEMs or its suppliers have anything to gain.
I'm confused. I see where to buy it, but I don't see how or where to hear a sample of it.
Speaking as somebody who isnt into EA, I assure you most of the people criticizing EA havent donated a dime or spent a single minute volunteering. Everybody talks the talk about how to charity but nobody walks the walk
Why would it (legally) be on the car manufacturer if someone hacks his own car and causes an accident because of modifications to the ECU (firmware)?

This doesn't intuitively make sense to me. At the very least there are probably huge differences between countries when it comes to this?

Aside from the fact that some people would likely love to modify their car in every way possible to use it on the racetrack or whatever private property?
It could be improved yes, but that’s an acceptable kind of issues. Steam’s important functionality works well and is reliable - package management for games. It doesnt spy on me, doesn't push crap, doesnt use dark patterns. We need more apps like steam tbh.
If we're talking emissions and coffee then another important aspect is the source / growing practices / distance travelled of the beans. Better labelling around these kind of aspects would better balance the current cafe decision matrix of blend / extraction type / roasting characteristics.
You do you, and please don’t take this as a complaint about altruism per se. But making one feel good is often considered the most important (and most effective) part of effective altruism.
aka make your website look like shit because half the default elements can't be styled
and you've just spent $5 worth of time and effort for 50 cents
That’s messed up indeed.
This is my problem with the paper straws that are now ubiquitous.

They're not a problem if you drink your soda in ten minutes, but if you want to sip on your iced coffee all morning? Uh oh.
> Is “Effective ___” a managed brand in any way or are people just riding coattails whether their product is good or not?

The word Effective is trademarked in the context of computer reference books:
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75936440
There was a historical market correction of labor wages upwards after the 1918 pandemic. Strange to think, but it sure seems those days had fewer factors pushing labor down than now, but here we are.

You’re absolutely correct. Price/wage is how to incentivize people to work for a company. Though also these jobs (medical, law enforcement, firefighting) have always been high stress but seem much worse after the pandemic. The answer would probably be less hours worked for higher pay and making sure they have all the resources they could ever need.
I feel like we’re close to that with automated testing and rollbacks. Still, it seems like a ton of complexity for what feels like a fundamental need
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But don't use a prime number as your password ;-)
I too have this problem, but I’ve come up with a solution. I pay a guy to handle transfers of my money for me. I give it to him, and he puts it in a vault, and then I tell him when I want him to give it to someone else. I’m sure he keeps it safe for me.
Looks like a Vercel, probably Nextjs error ?
A translation by the original source is now available: https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-lays-hands-on-login-data...
500 pounds of wood according to the video. If it can't handle that would be horrible if it rolled over on you.
Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts
At the moment it seems like discussion of GPT prompts falls largely into two camps. 1) The camp that has adopted GPT and uses it daily or 2) The camp that can’t seem to get anything useful out of GPT despite multiple attempts. Since 2 often asks 1 what they use GPT for I thought a thread might be a useful place to collect some examples!
It’s more like there’s not an alternative.

Only an insane country would use China as their reserve country. And Euros have their own problems.

So it’s kind of like countries can use dollars or nothing.

I remember taking economics classes in the 90s and the professor said the same think you did. About how not sure how much longer the US will be able to have such a privileged position. But still 25 years later we’re in the same boat.
Hey Porsche execs: The actual recipe to attract better developers is to raise your salaries.
Along similar lines, Season 1 Episode 7 of The Orville, "Majority Rule", had a similar theme.

Also Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 1, "Nosedive" and Community Season 3 Episode 1, "Biology 101" apparently have similar topics (but I haven't seen them).

Hat tip to ChatGPT for helping me track these down, since I couldn't remember at first what show I'd seen related to this:

https://chat.openai.com/share/d2ac7651-4ab3-4504-9369-7ea4db...
The story is a little more complex than that; the semantics were internally consistent, but foot-gun-ey, and they could technically be taken to match GCC's documentation of how they behaved, depending on an unfortunately ambiguous phrase in their docs.

The old semantics also matched GCC's actual behavior; when we brought this up in a GCC issue, those present decided that GCC's behavior was wrong, but the appropriate maintainer couldn't be reached for a final say. The issue is still hung like that.

There were also a few other folks trying to do the same kinds of whole-program call graph analysis this enables, IIRC for GPU purposes. So, there was a lot of conflicting opinions about how this should work, a lot of uncertainty, all the recipe for a big long endless thread.

EDIT: This is of course my extremely biased take on the proceedings. This was also the first and only "open source kerfluffle" I've so far been direct party to; I've seen these come and go on mailing lists before, but I was surprised how different it felt to actually be inside one.
thou even the "old-school" port seems to require a 486

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/
I agree with everything but inline javascript

<button onclick="this.classList.add('bg-green')">
Click Me
</button>

This is going to be problematic when it comes to debugging. I still think scripts should be in a file and loaded in the header.
I think that's a misread of my response. I commented that empirically, my experience has been the opposite. And that my suggestion was simply that your assettion that it is so clear, appears to need some serious support, since it seems the data does not support your position, neither empirical or otherwise.
PA 143 in Chatelet was particularly remarkable for blending in. One of his earlier ones not using the usual plasticy tile. And a very bold placement. https://murmuresdemurs.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/1-143-pla...
The most interesting integer out there must certainly be the least interesting integer!
Well, the client doesn't have to verify anything. They just need the yes/no response.

The ID provider is the government in this case, so hopefully there would be laws and oversight to closely regulate their behavior in this context.

I'd probably opt out though, due to a lack of trust in government competency and motivation. Australia has a similar eID thing and I've avoided it completely, and will until it's mandatory.

> why it's necessary to avoid systems that require anyone to give their name just to prove their age.

Well, in this case the name is never given to the third party site.
Glad it's worked out for you. But if you had been inspired to take charitable action by, say, being born again in evangelical christianity, should people abstain from pointing out the problems with that institution? And does every article critical of such an institution need to be tempered with praise to satisfy those who have not experienced its dark side or who disagree with the premise?
they lost the competition, but in the end it was them who paid the prize
"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."
> This is because the waste is sealed in massive containers and without oxygen they will not decompose.

Anaerobic breakdown is still a thing. But you get more methane rather than CO2.

Landfills will generally tap "wells" to flare it off. If there's enough, they'll collect it an burn it in containerized generators for electricity and/or heat. It's a really dirty gas, but it can be "refined" and injected into municipal natural gas networks, but imo, that's greenwashing and not worth the effort.

Some municipal compost systems do have sealed vats for their compost processing, which better captures all the methane produced.

But as cities divert more paper/paperboard/compost from the waste stream into the recycling/compost stream, the landfill gas doesn't produce as much methane. The capture systems do best in somewhat old landfills before these diversion programs ramped up.
If I want to criticize a cult do I need to join it or try on their beliefs first? Seems like no to me? It feels like you are trying to point out a hypocrisy that isn't there, the authors weren't correcting the movement on 'how to charity,' but rather problematic behaviors encoded into the group's mode of operation.
Does anyone else find that blue tint on the top of the page makes it really hard to read? I guess I usually scroll the text I'm reading to the top...
> On the other hand, I'm completely against hobbyists accidently bypassing a safety mechanism.

Accidentally.

Besides that: it should be fairly obvious that hobbyists are not going to 'accidentally bypass a safety mechanism', they can cut their brake lines as well and they don't generally do this. What you'd see is that the aftermarket would finally be able to produce stuff without dealers in between and people with the 'right' kind of tooling (authorized by the manufacturer) to get your replacement to be recognized by the firmware. Because of course absolutely none of this would ever be used to protect the bottom line. Right?

Also: if anything open sourcing this stuff would likely result in more rather than less safe vehicles, maybe at the expense of a couple of embarrassments. Because I have absolutely no illusion about the people working on these systems professionally to be somehow magically better than the ones that work on them for themselves, after all, they have a pretty big stake in the outcome.

Imagine that, working on your car in a safety related way... replacing brakes, steering housing components, linkages, suspension components tires and so on is all at least - if not more - risky than working on software.

FWIW one of those 'safety features' tried to kill me twice and caused me to let go of my recent car and switch to a 1997 issue vehicle that has behaved quite predictable compared to that modern one. Whose 'safety features' could not be disabled.
I would say Yes and No. I think Effective C++ was one of the first books to use this name, but now there is a publisher who uses "Effective xxxxx" in a series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08R2PKL9M?binding=paperback&searc... but that publisher does not seem related to the original Effective C++ author...

Anyway the introduction to Effective Rust explains the choice of name in a way: https://effective-rust.com/intro.html
> I believe what I just wrote applies similarly for security too.

Automotive security is nearly an oxymoron. The reasons for that are simple: the difficulty and expense of attacking a vehicle exceeds the bored grad student/curious tinkerer threshold, and the automotive industry has collectively the worst attitude towards security I've ever encountered.

The depressingly predictable result is that third party automotive security testing is a sport reserved for people who are extremely disinterested in disclosing their methods to you, aka the actual attackers.
It appears they used original historic images from 1930, and overlayed them with a recent picture taken from (roughly) the same position and with the same angle as the original one. So it’s basically like a leap in time of the very same perspective, 100 years apart.
Or maybe to make it safer.
AI is trained on the body of work of others. i would not want to use anything generated by AI in a commercial work or website without understanding who the copyright holders are of the material the AI was trained on.
I would generally suggest if you haven't patched a Netscaler by this point, which Shodan suggests they had not, you're a timebomb for a ransomware outbreak.

There's a lot of political suggestions that have reasonable arguments but I'd be very surprised if there was much more targeting than "hey we found another unpatched Netscaler".
And someone could respond "Okay, fine, tampering with the onboard software voids the warranty and shifts responsibility to the tinkerer." But that's a liability issue. The safety concern is still there regardless of who is held responsible. A change that seems innocuous may, in fact, be breaking safety regulations. This is a big deal and a matter of public concern.
You might have a point there, but I struggle to find any completely hackable product that is also safety-critical. Some airplane, nuclear reactor or some train, perhaps?
> Personally I think they should just charge/tax for single use cups

This sends the message that people with money can do whatever they want, environment be dammed. We need to simply ban things that are terrible for future generations, not continue to allow people with money to do it.
I still recall trying to recruit one of the dejanews SREs to come work at my then employer (VA Linux) to now avail. A couple of months later he was a Googler.
I have the slightly newer version, branded by HP as the SpacePilot, and use it daily in Fusion 360 CAD. It has a native USB connection, and 6 user-definable hotkeys below an unimpressive LCD.

It requires some old drivers that aren't officially supported (why would they remove support for perfectly good hardware from the newer drivers? To send good stuff to the landfill, of course!), but when Autodesk tried to move Fusion to the new driver model exclusively, user outcry persuaded them to leave the old drivers in as an option. Apparently there's quite a few of us using those SpacePilots, and the phrase "from my cold, dead fingers" comes up not infrequently.
This isn’t even a take until they define their terms. What is “non-crazy political views,” for instance?
It is going to be problematic when it comes to refactoring. "Can you make the button's parent container green" request comes in. Now you are hunting through CSS selector going up and down the tree. "Can you put the button that goes green into this page". Now bam! The CSS selector you used breaks as there is another element to confuse the query.
EA sounds rational and wonderful. And it does make sense. We should follow our logic to its rational conclusions. Our moral intuitions are obviously wrong a lot - just look at the trolley problem. With reason we can do better.

The problem is that it quickly becomes an invitation to ideas like longtermism. Which involve long chains of potentially flawed reasoning, leading to the belief that you're doing tremendous good. And with confirmation bias making it hard for you to doubt your logic, leading to an unbounded potential for error.

As the old moral goes, "Nobody is as easy to fool as a person who wants to fool himself."

This problem is not original to EA. The history of the 20th century is full of potential utopias. On the basis of the end justifies the means, the prospect of infinite good justifies unlimited harm. Unlimited harm came in the form of wars, famines, and mass repression. But the utopian futures never materialized.

That said, there is a lot of good to the idea of EA. It is better to do something effective than to virtue signal. But we should also be biased towards wins we can be more sure are real. Things that are short term and concrete. The more distant and hard to measure the win, the more that we should bias ourselves to the belief that we're missing something.
you create nothing with AI, you type in a search query and AI remixes the work of others.
Pretty sure China won’t let anyone use its currency for reserve building, given that it isn’t fully convertible.
This is an interesting observation worth discussing, however the evidence for this claim seems to be that "the author has noticed that classical liberals are more religious."

There probably needs to be some actual data and polling behind this, or else there's no way to tell whether the author's observations are broadly valid, or only apply to some of the people he knows and observes.
Can You Freeze Olive Oil?
As mentioned in another answer, megasquirt. I used the first generation one to retrofit injection to my carburated rally car with home made manifold and repuposed injection throttle bodies from a gpz 1100. Even badly self tuned it worked better than the carb did.
I think people like recycling so much because they can live their high consumption lifestyle then throw the guilt from their high consumption lifestyle in the recycling bin.
What kind of web dev can't handle React? Meanwhile, htmx uses clunky, non-standard attributes that rely on logic and templates that are split up in a million different places. Plus it requires a context switch to do anything client side.
All this.

I discovered OW1 a year before it was ended. I was addicted to this game like I haven't been since I was a teenager. I would sleep and dream of the music.. it was bad.

OW2 came out and it instantly changed things. Tanks were no longer fun to play. I haven't played a single game of OW2 in almost 10 months.
A week of bug fixes doesn’t exactly seem like news. I think most people are hoping for like an entire release dedicated to it.
My favorite is 2: Shared joy is a double joy, and shared sorrow is half sorrow.
Any old car will do.
Investors use AI to glean the truth behind executives' soothing words