treszkai

I expect that a large portion of the actually – not supposedly – targeted demographic will still not care or know how to set up encrypted comms, and I guess the EP also expects them not to. If someone actually wants to evade CSAR, they probably would know how to (and if not, all the better).

If Chat Control passes, then encryption will not be effortless and usable by the masses, that's the whole point. Basic encrypted chat will be on the level of Snowden trying to communicate with the journalists back in the days – only possible if both parties are willing to go to lengths.

Even assuming good intent, that was extremely silly from them to donate their money away when they don't have anything to begin with. This either assumes that the community is wiser at doing their work (doesn't sound to be the case), or that they were betting that it'll work out one way or another (most likely through another donation) – not realizing that such a donation is exactly what guarantees their organization's future.

I also found woodworking recently as a software engineer and it's incredibly rewarding. Both the tactile feeling of the activity, the idea of building something that _exists_ in physical form and exists in your or a loved one's home, and the pride that you feel about a finished product and having overcome challenges and learned something.

Unlike knitting, I love its usefulness. There are so only many use cases for knitwear, but furniture, man, everyone needs furniture. And being in a home that I built by my two hands is infinite joy.

The three aspects where it falls short to knitting: - It can't be done mindlessly. It would be unsafe and you'd make costly mistakes that you can't undo by pulling on the yarn. - It's more expensive. The materials are a bit more pricy (compared to hours spent on working them), but the machines certainly are. - You are confined to space and time. Whether it's your garage or wood shop where you have machines and can make noise and dust, or it's your living room where you exclusively use hand tools – you surely can't do it in your car while waiting for the kids, or at the university, or on the public transport. Whittling small objects is the one exception.

But yes, woodworking is awesome.

I love how the last lines of the article read,

> “I don’t think this could have happened in any country other than the U.S.,” Dr. Urnov said. > “We all said to each other, ‘This is the most significant thing we have ever done.’”

And then in the Discover More section is this article:

> Lab Animals Face Being Euthanized as Trump Cuts Research

> Smart Laundry with LG's AI Washing Machines: Efficient Spin Cycles & Beyond

Finally, the perfect example of AI-washing.

Is this a calendly link to you?

"Try therapy" is so overly vague that I expect it's nearly useless for a sizeable chunk of people (especially among HN readers).

I've tried therapy with five different therapists in the last seven years. Every time I came away feeling the same, wondering if I'm doing it wrong or if I missed an instruction in primary school.

Can I get by without it? Apparently yes. Am I doing things more optimally with one? Marginally, at best.

> I'm personally putting a LOT of effort to make our claims as accurate and truthful as possible, in every single place.

I'm not informed enough to comment on the performance but I really like this attitude of not overselling your product but still claiming that you reached a milestone. That's a fine balance to strike and some people will misunderstand because we just do not assume that much nuance – and especially not truth – from marketing statements.

> and I care about its value, I’m not going to say anything to tank its value

Probably people like Kokotajlo cared about the value of their equity but even more about their other principles, like speaking the truth publicly even if it meant their losing millions.

> Come to think of it, perfectionism never really leads to anything of quality.

TeX stood the test of time and it was released as close to perfection as it gets in non-life-critical software. (One could argue it wasn’t perfectionism at work, but sound top-down design.)

A tool to compare two binomial ("n out of k") observations: https://observablehq.com/d/a0a755931533fe11

Bug report, FYI:

Output contains double-double quotes if the input has double quotes:

  "1",
  ""2"",
  "3"

The simplest explanation is that reviewer A was responsible for Home Assistant Companion's request and reviewer B was responsible for Firefox's request, and they judged the request differently. Or that implementation details made the two cases different. Or that the company policy changed over time between the two requests. "Apple can break Firefox's encryption so they happily allowed it" is certainly not the simplest explanation.

> Obsidian isn’t just a note-taking app for me; it’s the cornerstone of my daily organization.

Note that using Obsidian for work in a for-profit company with >1 employees requires a Professional license for $50/yr.

I understand where you're coming from, and I like the idea for a certain kind of people: those who are very good at handling abstractions. Software engineers do have this skill, but the majority of statistics users do not. Trying to explain the similarities between these linear methods and how all is one [1] to a social scientist who doesn't like numbers nor formulas to begin with would only lead to more confusion.

But if you ever do a randomized test with a suitable linear model to estimate the efficacy of these two methods, do let us know, that would be 10/10 :)

[1]: https://lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-linear/#41_one_sample_t...

None of the signatories of this open letter is from OpenAI.

What resource can you recommend for identifying one’s own emotions?

I'm not an entrepreneur but this approach sounds way too safe to be competitive. IMHO if you're starting a 2-person company then yeah, be bold enough to rely on a single payment provider, and maybe consider redundancy when you have already have a working business with massive reputation.

I just realized today: even if I were the best AI engineer in the world (which I'm not), I'm not on a path to achieve anywhere near Andrej Karpathy's impact, and that's in part due to lack of sufficient ambition and imagination of possibilities. I clearly see a failure mode where one excels at their job but due to the small scope one's assigned and the box one confines oneself, their impact on society is limited by the company's mission. (Related: "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer" by Patrick McKenzie [1].)

[1]: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

> “This could mean we have a build-up of male crabs in the south of Scotland, and a paucity of them in the northeast and islands, where they are incredibly important for fishermen’s livelihoods and local economies."

Thankfully that prediction can be verified easily before we jump to solutions such as burying underwater power cables.

Which is great, as such a falsifiable prediction is a welcome part of a scientific paper.

Sometimes it's easier to code all day long than how easy it feels to improve your life. Especially if one excels at work and lacks a social network in life.

You still should pay your taxes on Bitcoin you earn. Tax evasion is easier, but not when your address is on the top of your project's website.

I like the initiative, but I wouldn't recommend these tutorials to my friends. A couple points I'd change in the back squat tutorial (which was the first one I checked):

- "Position your feet with an outwards 45-degree angle": the angle depends on the hip anatomy, and 45 degrees is very extreme. Rather, make sure that your hip, knee and foot is in the same plane at all times.

- "Pause for a moment at the bottom" is okay but unnecessary.

- No mention of proper tension in the upper body (and especially avoiding rounding in the lower back). This can become extremely dangerous, and preventing injury should be the number 1 priority. (FYI, an amazing guide to bracing [1].)

- Also for safety: instead of "until your thighs just break parallel with the ground", one shall not go deeper than their mobility allows (which might be above parallel).

- It's hard to follow the movement with the camera moving up-and-down and zoomed in so much. A fixed camera that shows the entire body (and is possibly circling around the person) would be much better. The knees and ankles are very important, yet we get a single glance at her feet.

- The video shows the squatter in the opposite direction than in the description. This way she needs to walk backwards to put the weight back, which undesirable.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/weightroom/comments/h7yncz/brace_yo...

> Only through working through those unpleasant experiences do I value the end-result of my work seriously.

I don't want to take work or the unpleasant experiences or the good feelings away from you, but this sounds like a post-hoc rationalization; and what Russell argues against in the first part. It should not be the suffering itself that makes our professional life feel whole, but providing something useful to society (even if the entire workday is filled with bliss).

But as you also allude to, there's a good kind of discomfort (e.g. a hard workout or a mind-blowing problem at work) and bad discomfort (drudgery, pointless meetings, annoying software, bad office layout, etc.). There's way too much of the latter at work, hence the (faux) praises of work/life balance.

I presume it's good enough until more sites pick up this approach and crawlers counteract it.

Why avoid spiders, to prevent bots stealing your posts? This also prevents search engines crawling them, which is a major downside, no?

He and his name have Hungarian origins, and Hungarian words can be pronounced letter-by-letter, with emphasis on the first syllable. The main problems: what are the letters (some consist of multiple characters), and how are they pronounced.

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

- M: /m/

- i: /i/ approximately as in big

- h: /h/ as in “hi”

- á: /aː/ as in “father”

- ly: /j/ as in “yes”

- Cs: /tʃ/ as in “cheek”

- í: /iː/ as in “cheek”

- k: /k/ as in “cheek”

- sz: /s/ as in “scent” or “saint” (which means “szent” in Hungarian)

- e: /e/ as in “scent”

- n: /n/ as in “scent”

- t: /t/ as in “scent”

- mihály: as his first name

- i: /i/

Overall: /ˈmihaɪ ˈtʃiːksɛntmiˌhɑːji/ ≈ mihaay cheek-scent-mihaayi

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Mih%C3%A...

These devices were unsecured for a reason: there wasn't money to hire competent people who would make all services secure.

Finding a vulnerability in the grade tracking system is much different than in IPTV: the first can have real-life implications, the latter only gives the attacker bragging rights. Only students would benefit from hacking IPTV (for funsies), but patching it requires funds nonetheless, and then further effort from staff when the default user/pass doesn't work. And then we complain about the hidden costs of low-trust societies.

If the guy had written to the admins about it, they probably would've replied "yeah we know about it, please don't do it".

"But I want to because I can and you're too lazy and incompetent to fix it."

"Okay then here's 50 bucks, please fix it for us, we don't have time for this nonsense."

"F off", and then proceeds to rick roll because that can get him to HN front page.

iFixit has all the special precision screwdrivers imaginable, along with guides to repair MacBooks and the likes.

I like their Mako Precision Bit Set:

https://eustore.ifixit.com/products/mako-driver-kit-64-preci...

You can add a rot13 transformation on the company name (if there is a human on the other end), to be less confusing for them.

https://rot13.com/