skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me explain to you as a journalist how this works.

- Facebook is under fire for its leaked papers.
- Google is a hot topic because of the lawsuit that reveals collusion with Facebook.

- Apple is relatively free of controversy recently after the CSAM blunder. Then let’s cook up a controversial piece on the other behemoth to cater the big chunk of readers that thinks and wants to see that Apple is evil too, “because of course they are and here is why”. Is this based on facts or on a simplistic interpretation of tech? Who cares!
Author of the wiki here, I think GitBook is quite usable on mobile for me. What is the issue?
How will that help you? You need the orb, too and those operating the orb can presumably tell the difference between a real person and a jpg of an eyeball.
> My two year old intel laptop cpu (i7-9750H) also outperforms the xeon's he's comparing against by almost 40%.

Yeah, but for how long? My laptop has a respectable CPU as well but any kind of sustained load would melt it down if it didn't automatically throttle itself back to 2 GHz and below after like 5 seconds.

These M1 chips somehow manage to have great performance while also keeping temperatures and power draw low. I think this will change everything forever.
They don't even need to sell this package, it's free and a lot of people do it: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/

The benefit to hosting by a company is it should be more reliable.
You don't understand what a hash is.
The entire structure of the senate is designed to give maximum power to the slave-holding states, and every political decision in the country before the civil war was made with the aim of preserving their power in mind (this counts for the electoral college too).

This is the reason votes in rural areas count so much more than urban votes. Because rural areas in the south were heavily populated by enslaved people and the slavers (meaning not just the title holding slave owners; many people who did not own slaves were still fundamental players in the system of slavery) held a lot of influence.
Thanks, couldn't find anything. I knew that happened years ago and didn't hear much.
If he had let him into his house, he would have been robbed of worse.

There is a reason every single person in their life abandoned them to sleep in the cold.
> You need a unique identifier / derivative of it

What prevents anyone from mass-generating unique identifiers?
Linux fans are exceptionally good at diverting the blame and whataboutisms.

This article is about the Linux kernel, Linux distros and their issues. Let's stop right there.
that would be a signal

That is the point. The statement I made which sparked our discussion was "I can imagine a structure where shorts do signal an imbalance".
You need to lay off on the Jordan Peterson. It's more complicated than "clean your room".

> "I am depressed". No, you are depressing yourself.

You're assuming a brain that's in good working order. It's difficult to imagine a different one. Consider that not everyone's window into consciousness works like yours does.
Certain technologies are simply too abusable to be unrestricted. In fact, many technologies only exist to do things we consider wrong, so we outlaw them. Granted, many times these laws are not well enforced.
This is just so wrong in so many different ways, it actually fills me with despair to think that there are people somewhere who actually think this is in some ways a good idea. To the point of wondering if there is some way of organising more direct action to stop this kind of disaster from befalling the human race.
DRM magic inside the Orb.
26 panels at 300 W / panel is indeed about 7.8KW with some leeway if it is cold they will do a bit better and when it's warm they'll do a bit worse. Rural Canada is quite far North, so your sunlight will not quite reach the 1KW/square meter that you can expect elsewhere due to the longer path the light needs to take through the atmosphere which causes some attenuation.
It depends on the meaning of "observe." What if the data is secret-shared among many independent parties, so that no single party (or even a group of parties smaller than some threshold) can process it in any way? This is a common model for using MPC to protect privacy while collecting user data; in fact the first real-world MPC deployment was organized in this manner.
What a great look for a ‘hobby’ renderer!
> I'm an ex-rower in my 40s and my usual cardio workout these days is 10km at about a 2:05 pace.

What? Assuming that you are talking about running, the current world record for 10K is 26:24 for men [0] and 29:38 for women [0]. It makes you quite a bit faster. Am I missing something?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10K_run
Spain[1]:

> The Guardia Civil (Civil Guard) is a gendarmerie force and therefore, has a military status

> The Policía Nacional or Cuerpo Nacional de Policía (the National Police Corps, or CNP) has a civilian status

Italy[2]:

> The two main police forces in the country are the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie, and the Polizia di Stato, the civil national police.

France[3]:

> There are two national police forces called "Police nationale" and "Gendarmerie nationale".

Need I go on? There are more, as the other comments show.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Spain

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Italy

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_France
Programmable Money and Identity
Genuine question: what is Sam Altman's reputation based on? I'm aware that Paul Graham had a serious mancrush on him, and that he somehow managed to turn a failed startup into a $40M acquihire, which is nothing to scoff at -- but is his success mostly based on his genius of selling himself and whatever he's involved in, or has he actually said or done anything that shows some deeper form of insight or ability?
> Even 5-10% productivity gain can offset the 2.6x difference.

I think this heavily depends on what you're gaining. I think for a lot of tasks or scenarios it's not worth it. Especially around things like video encoding.

For example if you're a solo worker and you need to batch render 10 hours of video and your computer is essentially unusable for that time you would do this action overnight. If rendering everything finishes in 5 hours instead of 6 hours that doesn't matter because you're sleeping. If you need to render a quick 1 off video that takes 10 minutes there's a bunch of semi-productive things you can do while that finishes and it finishing in 9 minutes instead won't make a noticeable difference.

Now you might say if you're a professional video renderer you'll want to render videos during business hours as fast as possible in which case if you're operating at that scale you wouldn't use your daily laptop to do the rendering. You would remotely render it on a dedicated server (this is how most "pro" places work). This way you can comfortably edit video #2 while video #1 is rendering.

Even 6 year old hardware that costs $800 all-in can give you sub-100ms code reload times in most Rails, Django, Phoenix, Laravel and Node web apps even with Webpack or esbuild running -- even running within Docker on Windows (WSL 2) or native Linux. Also all major code editors can run well without input latency. That's a decently large amount of "pro" web development use cases. Unless you're doing hardcore continuous compiling in a spot where you expect to do this sequentially on your main laptop I can't really see a 10% gain being worth a 2.5x+ cost increase for most dev work.
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These happened due to networks, not our loss of privacy.

I understand your point is that our loss of privacy didn’t lead to arrests or in these instances, but there has almost certainly been arrests in other instances, and we’d be losing sight of the bigger picture if we deluded ourselves into believing oppressive governments, companies, billionaires, etc.. weren’t already heavily using mined data to counter dissidence movements in more ways than just arrests.
We had that last month in the UK with people fighting over gas.

https://metro.co.uk/2021/09/29/more-petrol-fights-break-out-...

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fights-petrol-station...

In the US, people constantly pull out a gun at fast food outlets because they've got the wrong type of cheese on their waffle, or because burger king don't take discover, or some nonsense.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/waffle-house-employee-p...

So yes it's inevitable
> In Sweden we have only two kinds: hard and soft.

I'm not sure where you get this idea. Even a basic supermarket like ICA knows more than that: https://www.ica.se/icas-egna-varor/produkter/icas-potatis/
> Just by raw numbers there are going to be more "technical users" running on other platforms

Observation bias. The vast majority of desktop users in 2021 are found in a professional setting (offices, etc.). Those users don't use computers at home, whereas the vast majority of Linux users do.

> You can only really assume they have enough skill to put an Ubuntu image on to a flash drive, boot it, and follow a few prompts.

I'd like to see some statistics on that. Gaming has shifted to consoles and gaming on PC has been the domain of MS Windows for decades. Survey¹ says that >96% of users are on Windows and the few Linux gamers (~1%) are just as likely to run Arch as Ubuntu (0.26% vs 0.29%).

The choice of using Arch over Ubuntu is a strong indicator in- and of itself that the user made an informed decision (e.g. is tech savvy as opposed to "insert media and click 'next' a few times).

> Not treating your users like morons and giving users actual feedback about why something crashed [...]

As I mentioned that's not up to the OS but to the software in question. Also you're contradicting yourself here: on the one hand you argue that users aren't morons and have technical knowledge, while on the other hand you assume they're basically trained monkeys that can flash an image and follow prompts.

Which is it?

1. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
>I think it will fail, because they are solving the problem that does not exist

Admittedly I never bothered to read about it but the problem they are solving is purely the distribution. Currently there's just no way to do a fair distribution where everyone gets equivalent amounts of it except perhaps with KYC but then they have to store way more personal data.

I'm much more comfortable with someone having a hash based on my biometric data than having my passport and other details.
There is flexibility - in the P2P model if one of the clients has bad latency - their buffer gets increased to prevent drop outs.
How is a server better in this scenario?
You can unittest it, by providing for "adversary interesting triggers" and watch for unexpected output.
Ask HN: "transparent" RPC library
It baffers me that we are still writing networking plumbing code in the 21st century.

I really like the simplicity of zerorpc from dotcloud (Docker), but they stopped maintaining it. I wonder if there is a rpc library like that with implementations in most mainstream languages.

I know gRPC but just curious if there is anything schemaless and/or can be backed by a message queue
Rehab in the US is almost always 12-step based which entirely spiritual in nature.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/04/the-irr...
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A ton of anecdata, yet

1) Tons of Wifi adapters are not supported by the Linux kernel - you need to scavenge the web and compile random git repos

2) The games _you_ play work perfectly which means all others play well. Oh, great. Now please check DXVK which already contains hundreds of quirks thus mimicking AMD/NVIDIA Windows drivers in making badly coded games work.

3) https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues - absolutely nothing there. All work perfectly.

Good luck and have fun.
You would essentially need a Terminator robot to enforce it. Something deployed independently that could destroy you if you deviated from the specified mission, and could not be reasoned with or recalled. This might be possible someday, maybe even soon. Smart contracts, orbital lasers, etc. But then the org would just spend all their time arguing about how to define the mission and protocol and never get it done.

But another reason is that organization would probably just stop being funded when it upheld its hard-coded mission in ways that were unpopular. If the mission is that you must advocate for providing speech/payment platforms for someone who is saying heinous things, people will just stop donating to you. The org has to survive to execute its mission, and it needs to adapt to survive. That will always result in drift, decay, and death.

And the powers that be would not let such an organization gain enough ground that it could become independently wealthy.
But it's weird to say Apple normalized surveillance when websites did it long before.
I think there's a clear distinction to make between clicking on links to other people's content - that's like walking into a store and the proprietor sharing his video footage of you in there with other vendors - vs. having your own personal expression (photos, personal sentiments, friend networks) shared without your consent.
Has Wired, like Apple, claimed at any time that it won't do so? Can't you read the article for free on Wired, unlike with Apple products that you have to pay for and still are subject to excessive data collections that you often have no control over?

(And it's the ad platforms that are doing the detailed surveillance - similar to the one Apple is working on again to serve better" personalised ads").

Even if some of you do believe this is hypocrisy, does it in anyway change the facts highlighted in the article?
A meeting. At 7AM?

I dunno, man, I think I'd demand to be paid a million a year if someone forced me to attend a meeting at 7AM.

Even with everyone working remotely can we please try not to make this kind of BS a norm in the industry?
If you define "respect" as personally responding to every user request, on a product used by thousands of people, then your definition of respect just doesn't scale.
Maybe I'm missing something but A->B is likely to be faster than A->S->B ?
> I personally cannot help but feel like the strong push for rust in the kernel is overstepping some sort of boundary.

As a Linux kernel developer, I feel like non-kernel developers like yourself telling me which language I should use is definetly overstepping a boundary.

I couldn't care less about what non-kernel-developers think about this issue, but "since you mention this": please do mind your own business.

> Why, if C is so bad, wasnt one of the alternatives introduced to slowly replace C in the kernel years ago?

Because we, as in the actual people that spend their whole day developing the Linux kernel *do not want* to write and maintain Linux kernel code written in these languages.

> The only reason there is a push for Rust so much harder than anything else can only be explained by the community and their almost aggressive spirit of "if its not written in Rust, it should be".

This is so wrong. We, Linux kernel developers, are already writing drivers and kernel modules in Rust, *because we want to*. We now want to merge this new code so that other devs and users can use it. Most other devs want this too, so now we added Rust support to the Linux tree.

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It really is that simple. My code, my body, my rules.

I really don't know what's so hard for people to understand here.
A lot of those guarantees are only available in the alloc-free subset of Ada, which make them much less attractive. The devil is in the details, making Ada guarantees not always better than Rust ones.
I don't have a pilot license, but from what I recall of limited training, don't you do most of your training based on Heading Indicator? You adjust it at beginning, which can easily be switched to whatever heading/offset of the runway is (true or magnetic); then reset it to compass as needed on level flight - which is rare during short training flights, and could be adjusted to appropriate offset.

So I don't think training itself will be a problem.

Once you have actual flights in those aircraft though, I imagine it'll be a bigger kerfuffle for pilots.
Ada doesn't use a GC!

The only reason it isn't highly adopted was the high cost of its compilers, only SGI and Sun cared to have compilers on UNIX back in the day, and Microsoft, IBM and Apple rather doubled down on C++.
Not gonna lie, many bug reports are not really useful. You need to "send them away" somehow without angering the users who opened them...
Is there somethin like this that is open source?
I’m not sure you’d want to fork it like version control does. If someone makes a variation that is not a correction, you’d want to have that easily available on the main repo with a link back to the original.
> The only reason there is a push for Rust so much harder than anything else can only be explained by the community and their almost aggressive spirit of "if its not written in Rust, it should be".

It could also be that Rust is just much better for the kernel use-case than the alternatives we've seen so far?
Counter argument: a big monolith is way more complex than a bunch of small services and the ops platform is the simple one as the services needs grow
> The distinction in meaningless. We exist, ergo intelligent life can develop in this universe.

I didn't say anything contrary to this. I was just pointing out an interesting detail about probability theory.

It's impolite to edit your comment in such a way as to turn its existing replies into non-sequiturs. For the record, this comment initially cast doubt on the claim about zero probability events, hence the reply saying it was correct.
Farmland is so passe, redistribute Intellectual Property, and we'd be talking
woah what is this fastpast magic ?!
Same is true for all private keys
>The problem with this article is that is poorly researched. Most of the services listed are running locally and storage is also local.

It's also part of the backup to iCloud, which is not encrypted, no?
It seems Sam is going for his wealth before equal distribution of wealth.
The original 'Doge' meme sold as an NFT for $4M–now you can own a piece
Plus, I don't think you can really overdose Heroin, people mostly die from contamination.
Mine used to do that too, as well as the microphone and other peripherals. They are just being tested as the browser opens I think, not exactly while going to google.com

I decided to move to FF where it didn't happen.

Also Chrome asked for my root password to open up 2 keyrings (as it opened, every time) so that was a big no, why do you want root access? You're a browser.
The Windows 3 compatibility was licensed from Microsoft. That way, in order to offer Windows 3.1 compatibility, IBM needed to pay Microsoft per OS/2 seat.

IBM also refused to bundle OS/2 with their own computers at a lower price point than the ones with Windows bundled.

All things being the same, OS/2 was more expensive to run, while Windows 3.1 was crappy but got the job done.

In Apple's case, they could just not make the MS-DOS compatible module. If someone else made it, Apple would still make money out of licensing.

Since all Mac software relied on the Toolbox, it wouldn't be that hard to offer some form of multi-processing more or less the way we used X in the early days - by having a puny workstation (!) on our desks and running the heavy lifting on a big machine (that didn't even need to run the same flavor of Unix, or Unix for that matter). The difference would be that any "network" between the boxes would be on the backplane bus and VERY fast.
>It can also help us buy things we didn't know we needed

It is remarkably difficult for such a thing to happen. Very little is needed and that that is tends to be rather obvious.
I agree. I've been meaning to buy an Apple laptop to develop on for years now and constantly kept putting it off; first because of quality concerns that have no place in a device with such a price tag and now because of this.

If only there was a Linux-compatible laptop with specs similar to the M1. The only thing that comes to mind are Thinkpads and those things are ugly as hell.
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If the predictions by Gurman hold true, they have chips in planning which are twice and four times the size of the current M1 Max...

I so hope there will be a Mini with the M1 Max, as this would finally be the desktop Mac, so many people have been waiting for (me including).
> has already resulted in large-scale leaks of sensitive information

I must have missed that, could you share more?
> average civilian

Why should the average be relevant. Phrased this way, it seemed that the object of concern are the grayest.

> with non-controversial [positions]

Are those who decide what takes the label of "controversial" reliable?
>D and Ada both use a GC in many contexts

Can you point me to a (non-jvm) Ada implementation with a GC?
> I'm someone who believes that it would be a huge benefit to the world if desktop Linux were 10X more popular than it currently is.

Linux' unpopularity is a direct result of its bugginess and not adhering to certain popular proprietary OS principles which are: 1) API/ABI stability including on the kernel level 2) Strict QA/QC 3) Broad HW support 4) Rich API support

Linux is lacking everywhere.
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> What sort of studio do you work at?

Wrote and sold software into the VFX industry. Most notable Deadline, a fairly popular render manager. Also wrote/sold another dozen or so tools into the industry.

While CPU renderers are popular among the old crowd, no one wants to use them because they are super slow. The cycle time is brutal and it kills artist productivity. Artists want redshift, octane, GPU cycles, and hybrid Pixar Renderman, basically anything with multi-GPU support. Wherever artists can they want GPU-based renders because they are fast.

Large feature film shops are laggards in adopting new technology and often have a ton of workflows/plugins that can not be easily changed. They have their tired and true pipeline. But up and coming studios tend to be nearly completely GPU-based, because it cuts costs, even if it limits things a bit (but much less than before.)

This is also why you see Unreal Engine getting into architectural rendering -- again because it is a much nicer workflow than waiting around for a few hours for V-Ray to finish up.

Many children TV shows are GPU-rendered now right out of game engines, in part because of the cycle time and the lower visual complexity of the scenes.

So I think we are both right. Large studios are using CPU-based rendering -- you are correct. Artists and more nimble studios are using GPU-based rendering as much as they can because it reduces cycle time while being roughly equivalent costs (well except for the last 2 years because of crypto screwing up GPU prices.)

Remember my original statement you took offence to was:

"3D artists these days want their render boxes to be filled with gpus so they can use cycles or redshift or octane to render fast."

and

"The reason why most artists highly prefer gpus is it gets their cycle time down. Farms often use CPU’s still because of cost and less pressure on a single image render time."

I was speaking about what artists want and I am absolutely correct on that. And what artists want will filter into the rest of the industry -- although a bit slower now because of stupid GPU prices.
So… then why do they need retina scans? If the whole process has tons of checks and balances, it sounds a lot like the normal verification processes followed by governments for IDs/Visas.