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What's your investment horizon?
> The main way in which IBM mainframes in the 1950s-1970s were "firewalled" was simply by being fiendishly expensive – most people's houses cost significantly less.

This was the primary aspect I was referring to, in the same way that training a ChatGPT-like NN can be (or could become) prohibitively expensive.

But your comments about openness are relevant on an entirely different axis.
The whole women perspective is ridicolous. I subscribe to the pov that there is no pay gap between sexes sprouting from hateful discrimination.

But this will be great for Italy because a huge problem of our labor market is that salary is considered something dirty. This law may create a better culture. I hope so.
I mean isn't the truth somewhere in between? You can probably get one a lot cheaper than $150 or whatever it's selling for on Amazon if you don't need it today. At the same time you're right that it means something that you can't just go out to the store and buy one at anything remotely close to MSRP
"I see both sides. This dilemma is capitalist hell."

It seems simple to just offer a few different pricing models and let users choose which suits them.

Why not offer both a recurring subscription and a lifetime option ?

Not only do you satisfy both preferences but you leave the lifetime option on the table, for future uptake, from all of the recurring customers.
People who'd like to understand the /s should check out "How to F#€k up an Airport" from Radio Spaetkauf: https://www.radiospaetkauf.com/ber/
Wait, what? I thought a commodity was corn and a security was stock and everything in this discussion was about arguing which it was closer to.

What is a commodity then?
It's way too complicated. But if this is all you have ever seen and if you've been designing such systems for a decade, this seems like normal to you.

Here's an alternative stack that can handle over 99% of websites:

- Self contained executable

- One-file database

- Cache is memory

- Text search is a library function

- Indexing is a library function

- Serving http is a library function

Such a stack can handle > 20k concurent connections (per second). The code doesn't need to be "optimized"; just non-pessimized.

You can scale "vertically" for a very long time, specially in 2020 and beyond, where you have machines with over 64 CPU cores. That's almost a cluster of 64 machines, except in one single machine.

If you _must_ scale horizontally for some reason - maybe you are Twitter/Facebook/Google - then you can still retain the basic architecture of a single executable but allow it to have "peers" and allow data to be sharded/replicated across peers.

Again all the coordination you need is just a library that you embed in the program; not some external monster tool like k8s.
They'll make it up in volume.
I can't help but the hear the distant, very very quiet echo of Clever Hans.
Ask HN: Max line length for visually impaired
Max line length has always been a hot potato. I want to ask the community, especially those who do research in accessibility and those who are visually impaired, what are your experience/understanding of the effect of line length?

Specifically, there is a great debate over 80 characters, 88 characters, or even 120 characters.

Does max line length matter when visually impaired developers have access to a larger screen?
It had everything to do with it. If SVB diversified its depositor base, it wouldn't have gone bankrupt.
I would be very interested in that, do you have a writeup?
"Open" AI.
We are not talking about purely US market share, because the argument being made is that the headcount is required to compete globally.

Job board popularity varies greatly by country, but from the look of it LinkedIn has more of the global market share of Indeed.

My point is that unlike indeed they do this without jobs being the core, 100% thing they are dedicated to. Even if they are slightly behind in market share the point still stands that LinkedIn is clearly doing more with less.
I have been wanting to do something similar. But there's a snag:

How do you tell which of these available boxes has Intel AMT (or its AMD equivalent) fully enabled?

No listing reports this, and sellers seem to not be able to answer the question either.

How did you figure that out? Or are you managing without remote management? If so, how?
It can. You don't even need to go all the way to Rust. I'm doing it with Go, which has a GC and a runtime. A single executable on a single machine can handle millions of users per month.
We have this in Slovakia and it's the best. You know what to expect.
Removing user-controlled input indeed removes the incentive, but for reasons beyond my comprehension, our sign up form _still_ gets periodically blasted. Without additional countermeasures, our sending reputation would be at risk.

We apply a few strategies...

1. Require oauth-based sign up for gmail.com, hotmail.com, and live.com addresses. No emails sent until after authentication.

2. Drop obvious spam. If your name contains "http://" or "Whatsapp" or your User-Agent is "python-requests" than you get a 400.

3. Manual approval for suspicious sign ups. High Abuse IP DB scores, statistically unusual names, etc generate a help desk ticket that someone from our staff approves before an email is sent. Persistent bad actors are blocked by IP for 2 weeks.

4. Rate limiting by IP. This prevents bad actors from spamming our help desk.

All together this seems to have largely solved the problem... for now.
Are non-paying customers no longer eligible for support?

Yeah, basically. "If you pay nothing, you get nothing."

The last paragraph is brilliant foresight. I guess apps will need to move towards the AAA gaming market where Internet connection is required to verify license, plus a bunch amazing anti-cheat/-hack stuff. Assuming EU does crack open the app stores (pun intended), it sounds like a great small business to offer some libraries that mobile app devs can use for these new needs.
Oh man, thank you. The few that I click seem to be on an interesting topic. Yet they're always frenetically edited together and either don't explain anything (cooking shorts, for instance. Much worse than old school GifRecipes) or are just a teaser to get you to subscribe for the full video a couple weeks/months later.

I wish I could just wholesale disable the feature in my app, as it wastes scrolling space.
What are the real life usages of this?
We have developed nearly 30 Provider, and after completing the internal testing, we will open source in Github, which will be very soon. I also hope you can participate in the code contribution.
Companies already do that if not directly then via all kinds of vendor platforms, so what's the difference?
If you watch German youtubers you will sometimes see a very clear banner during the entire video to make it clear it contains sponsored content which isn't specifically mentioned as being an ad.

Same goes for old television. For example the German version of "the price is right" has a banner during the whole show that says "dauerwerbesendung" which means continues advertising program.

#ad in a description/tv program guide is never sufficient.
Here’s the problem with the abortion win: those same people are going to keep fighting for more and more things.
Well of course Microsoft is going to say something sensational about it, aren’t they in charge of the project somewhat? This is just an advertisement for them, by them.
That is the usual support period for cars in Germany I'm aware of, and it includes, or should include everything. On the hardware side the awareness is there for much longer, but when it comes to the increasingly more complex software stacks -- especially in the central hub -- I wouldn't put a bet on proper support for this amount of time. Keep in mind we are talking Android here, other companies might use Linux, plus there is increasing pressure to do virtualization (i.e. dashboard + "infotainment" are effectively run on the same piece of hardware). Cars are getting more and more connected, which opens them up to all kinds of problems, which then requires security fixes and updates all along the way, which in turn means you have to provide organization + technical infrastructure for this amount of time (and pay for that, too). So this announcement, while it sounds "lightweight", is actually pretty heavy handed once you think about the consequences.
The CFTC says they're in charge of cryptocurrency. They're already actively enforcing it too, the CFTC has brought multiple prominent cases against people in the crypto speace. For example Avi Eisenberg, FTX/Alameda, Gemini, aso.

It almost seems like there is no regulation nor clear guidance and even different arms of the government can't decide which it is.

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/03/08/stablecoins-ether-comm...
Training is a bandwidth-intensive operation and requires huge (20Gbps+ stable and uninterrupted) bandwidth between all peers.
The reason Utah likely has that provision is because they would comply, but in the easiest of ways: if a state is too small to bother, stop selling the devices there.
The smaller than a finger nail size ”user unfriendly SD card“ is replaceable with USB memory as boot device.
> This year, Florida, South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Iowa, Idaho, *Texas* and Montana lawmakers are all considering versions of the bill

(emphasis added)
Bad idea. e.g. the Russian and Chinese governments would submit block votes in favour of whichever candidate would most trash the U.S. military and U.S. economic independence. Pollution wouldn’t come into it.
"It turns out that Xcode is also using the same domain to host an API for their cloud CI/CD offering. (hypothetical example) ..."

By "domain" I think you mean a full FQDN and not a top-level "apple.com" and I agree that this is troublesome and then go further and suggest that this is by design.
Fuck these prudes. It's time to stop accepting the demonization of sex by religious extremists. If we don't fight for our rights we forfeit them.
I've been trying to make it be a DM for a while now. It works seemingly well for a while but it's making everything up on the fly, which is fine as long as there's not state that needs to be maintained/remembered. Once you start trying to get it to do combat, it seems like it's working pretty well but eventually you realize that it's just making shit up behind the scenes. It'll tell you there are 4 goblins ambushing you and then you can ask it how far away they all are and it'll list three. You ask what happened to the fourth one and it'll say I'm sorry, there were only 3. I was mistaken before.

If it lists the properties of an item that you might want to buy in a shop, you can ask it to describe it twice and it'll describe two completely different items.

It's really cool and it's pretty (seemingly) creative but it can't actually run a game for you. You can have it as an assistant DM though, that works pretty well. You can have it write a story for you ahead of time and then keep it around during the game to ask it to elaborate on things you didn't anticipate on the fly. Like, "generate DC tiers for a level 3 party investigating strange writing on a wall" will give you a good breakdown and some results that you'll have to bend to be consistent in your adventure but it's pretty helpful.

That's probably not really necessary if you're an experience DM but the DM for the group I play with is pretty new (as are we all) so it's been really cool to have it around. It's also pretty good at answering questions we have but it's confidence when it's wrong makes it so it's not that helpful really because we still have to check it.
Oh, I remember you from T5 debug messages. You are most certainly more knowledgable about this topic than me.

My info might be outdated, but I've noticed that on asyncronous routes, there seems to be a large bias that's based on on assuming upstream latency == downstream latency. It might just be the clock not getting adjusted (even most NTP imlementations make this assumption), but it also has been since ~T7 that I even checked. Conditioning the network to add ~40ms to downstream latency could actually reproduce this behavior.

People don't really realize how hard of a problem sub-10ms clock sync can be on cursed networks.
The "it's too complex" argument usually reflects more on the commenter than on kubernetes itself. It's actually one of the most very straight forward and thoughtfully designed platforms I've ever worked with.

What I've found in my experience is that applications in general are complex -- more complex than people assume -- but the imperative style of provisioning seems to hide it away, and not in a good way. The inherent complexity hides behind layers of iterative, mutating actions where any one step seems "simple", but the whole increasingly gets lost in the entropic background, and in the end the system gets more and more difficult to _actually_ understand and reproduce.

Tools like ansible and terraform and kubernetes have been attempts to get towards more definition, better consistency, _away_ from the imperative. Even though an individual step under the hood may be imperative, the goal is always toward eventual consistency, which, really only kubernetes truly achieves. By contrast, MRSK feels to be subtly turning that arrow around in the wrong direction.

I'm sure it was fun to build, but one could have spent 1% of that time getting to understand the "complexity" of kubernetes - by the way, which quickly disappears once it's understood. Understandably, though, that would feel like a defeat to someone who truly enjoys building new systems from scratch (and we need those people).
Why? My Samsung A40 will be 4 in June and I don't see why it could not be 5 in June 2024. It's also a good case for repairable hardware: I broke its screen and got it replaced (about 100 Euro,) broke one its two cameras after the nth fall to the floor and replaced it myself (~20,) battery started to run low too quickly and replaced it myself too (~40.) There are plenty of videos on YouTube about how to open it, replace components and close it again.

BTW, my laptop (HP ZBook first gen) is also a good case: it will be 10 next February and I replaced myself its keyboard many times (they last to me 2 to 3 years), its screen once (a bad contact in the hinge when it was in on site next business day warranty) and upgraded disks and memory a few times. It's not under any kind of warranty though.
https://safing.io/
Furthermore, people who paid a lifetime subscription are presumably less likely to switch to a competing product without a good reason, because they already paid for one.
It's 2K lines of code and another 2K tests.
You don’t need a car in SF. Also can you name a city that has “died” recently? Maybe Detroit?
I don't even understand how they would be against something that benefits them personally. I wonder if it's the mentality that "one day" they would become the IT moguls that own one of these companies, and wouldn't want this to disadvantage them?
In the UK, AI's operator gets copyright instead.
I believe the best results will come from training the base LLM on as many sources of quality information as possible, and then fine tuning it with a narrower set of data later on. Here’s a small scale example where someone took LLaMa/Alpaca and fined tuned it with all the scripts from the first 12 seasons of The Simpsons. https://replicate.com/blog/fine-tune-llama-to-speak-like-hom...
Yes? Attention is all you need and Alpha Zero are the first that come to mind, but there are thousands.
No point adopting this, when we know (RISC-V org CTO talks in December's summit) that Microsoft is working on Windows RISC-V support.

I see no future for ARM powered laptops. They'll disappear before they reach any significant adoption.
My prediction for the top comments of this thread (paraphrased)

1. It's just Microsoft's advertisement

2. No it's just a very effective pattern matching algorithm

3. Please define intelligence first otherwise it's nonsense

4. I welcome our machine overlord

5. Lmao I asked it to do $thing and it failed

I'd like to know if GPT-4 can predict the top comments of this thread?
Neat project! Cool to see ideas merge like this. Obviously it’s really slow on my phone, but the idea is cool. Btw the conversion isn’t great. I wrote hello and its response Was way off
What do we actually need to build? We have plenty of buildings to shelter people, but use them roleplay career professionals. More than enough roads and highways.

Plenty of farmland. Maybe could use some hospitals.

A real need to rebuild post-world wars seems to have become some mind virus we have to constantly crank out mega projects.

Can we get over the ridiculous hallucination we need to “drill baby drill” and grind through all the resources to goto Mars? You and I will be dead before that’s tenable let alone implemented… can we let the future sort itself out a bit?

Why do we still buy into the story of post-war shell shocked paranoids who spent decades huffing leased gas fumes, expropriating the world from everyone else dropping democracy bombs.

Decades of television as a carefully curated propaganda pipeline has messed the last generation up.
Yes I saw that. I’m saying they won’t worry until Texas actually gets past “considering”
That isn't what the argument is about. Neither does Coinbase argue the SEC is in charge of regulating what isn't a security, nor do even other branches of the government agree. The CFTC says they're in charge of regulating most cryptocurrencies.
Top Ten Fallacies About RISC-V (David Patterson)
There's a lot of stuff you can do to Linux on the Pi to make it have some of the nice qualities you're describing.

I've set up my Buildroot project to copy "authorized_keys" and "wpa_supplicant.conf" from the fat32 formatted boot partition to their normal locations. So I flash an SD card, drag and drop the files onto the SD card, plug it in the Pi and SSH right in.

With regards to filesystem corruption on power failure, you can mount the root filesystem as read-only. If you need to write to files you could mount a tmpfs volatile filesystem.
Two questions from someone who genuinely considering paying for "Little Snitch Mini":

1) Can I install this myself, without the app store ? Is there a binary or .dmg (or whatever) with published checksums that I can just download ? I assume the answer is "no" but ... surprise me.

2) What network traffic does LSM itself send home to LSM developers ? Can I disable all traffic as a specific preference or do I need to configure LSM to watch LSM itself ? (A specific preference would, in my mind, be preferable).
There is an interesting side effect here.
Salaries throughout EU vary a lot. This will give people chance to better understand the salary differences between countries.
I always thought General Intelligence would be Achieved by IBM or at least Apple, not by Microsoft.
Now it will be used to pressure us into Windows Upgrades...
I would not normally reply to this except I know I'm right in is instance. If you line a USB stick with a titanium or nickel sealed container and fill it with RDX or C4 or any other such compound and it explodes only a few feet away from you then you will likely be severely mamed or killed.

1. I was nearly killed when a small primary Li-ion cell short-circuited, it blew a milk crate size plastic box to bits and what was left of its nickel case embedded itself in the brick wall about three meters away—and that battery wasn't designed to kill people. Had the case traveled directly at me it's probable I would have.

2. Keep this in mind, SanDisk used to make titanium-cased USB sticks—I still have about a half dozen of them. Enterprising people who mean harm could make their own lookalikes.

3. In my early 20s I had a miner's right (permit) and friends and I would go prospecing in old gold mines. For most work, we'd cut a stick of gelignite into between 4 to 6 pieces because one stick was far too powerful for our needs.

4. Before that, I made black powder with my schoolmates and even now many decades later I won't admit how we nearly killed ourselves. (Also, if you want to search, you'll see that ages ago I posted on HN the fact that I had made nitroglycerin in the school science lab—that time I was very careful and everything went well). What I can tell you from that experiment is that a fraction of a gram can do much more damage than one would expect.

5. When I was in primary school we had the police come and lecture us on the dangers of railway detonators as kids had been killed by them (but not from my school). These devices (dummies of which were shown to us) were hardly bigger than a USB stick.

As I said, I don't claim great expertise (although one of my mining buddies did a Mines Department course on the subject and we had lots of advice from him)—but I do have enough experience to know that if you put even few a few grams of mercury, or silver fulminate or picric acid or similar in a sealed metal case and you detonate it near yourself then you will likely be killed. I've had too many close shaves to know that that is fact.

Please speak from fact and not hypothetically,

More importantly, keep away from any of this stuff unless you've been properly trained in using it and are authorized to do so.
Dropping the tactical nuke of ChatGPT was PR brilliance, nearly anyone would kill for shifting the public conversation that dramatically. That kind of marketing first is a synonym for "winner", it almost doesn't matter what the actual product is, or if it works.

But it does, and then look at the impossibility of their position. If the massive cost of research and operations _augments a profitable line of business_, it is perhaps acceptable. Otherwise, you're just setting cash on fire.

Extremely difficult to operate as a non-profit, more realistic as a division than a standalone org, as much as I dislike saying my second pro-MS thing in a week, it makes sense, and I am OK with them operating anywhere except tucked inside an ad business.

Maybe this sort of thing should be operated by the government funding or whatever, but... it isn't.
Wikimedia Foundation: Copyright Analysis of ChatGPT
the leading manufacturer of capacitor
Reminds me of the Italian Unabomber case.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Unabomber

Not related to the American one, except by newspaper sensationalism.
This post will probably age as well as the guy who argued with Drew Houston on the market need for DropBox on here when he announced it.
Except one of them is a C/Rust app, and one is a Javascript app. So one is harder to lock down extensions on than the other.
"Most of the news coverage of Google’s move against Pinduoduo emphasizes that the malware was found in versions of the Pinduoduo app available outside of Google’s app store..."
Given this, it could also be the work of some shady third parties.
It sounds like parental controls would just be turned on by default.
Says the guy with a nickname from a language that has XML support on its type system.
Your timeline is wrong, GPT-4 finished training already in August.
The irony, of course, being that actual snake oil worked...
Actually we have a pressing need now, obviously :)

What would be your reasons?

Stability -- pretty much all top 20 banks should be pretty stable (until they aren't lol)

So I honestly cannot think of anything differentiating besides how modern is their IT infrastructure.
So you predict the top comments For a claim would be:

1. Dismisal

2. Trivialism

3. Non Well Formed Claim

4. I accept the claim

5. Disprove by counter example

Are you sure you have not forgotten any tactic of debate to include in you prediction?

I predict that you Prediction will result probably in these actions:

1. upvoted

2. downvoted
The above is obviously false. This is why you should not learn about finance and economics on HN, many users have no idea what they write. Something is either a security or a commodity, these are legal terms and treated differently by law. The status may be undermined but it can not be both.