skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you substantiate any of these claims?

The latter two are opinion. The first two are factual but hard for anyone else to validate.

I tried looking into "misrepresents his affiliation with MIT" and I couldn't figure out what he's misrepresenting. He claims to be a researcher at MIT. The MIT Deep Learning page[0] is all videos from his YouTube channel, including Fridman lecturing at MIT.[1]

What's the misrepresentation?

[0] https://deeplearning.mit.edu/

[1] https://youtu.be/O5xeyoRL95U
If different users want different features, should the product include them all and charge each user for all the features? That also doesn't sound like user-first development.

I've not used AM in a car in decades. I'd guess Ford has looked at their customers and reached this decision based on evidence.

So it may be likely that their users prefer spending money on feature X instead of AM.
As someone who has been both poor and relatively well off, the main thing is that you gain enormous stability and comfort from things like owning a home and having sufficient financial ability to choose what to do.

For example - "I choose to take the kids to school and then do some woodworking today".

The fancy cars, big houses, exotic vacations aren't that great. The lack of slavery is.
> Dns Over HTTPS (DoH)
> Mullvad Browser is configured to use Mullvad DoH for all DNS requests, without fallback. In the settings, you can also configure it to use Mullvad Adblocking DoH.

about:config DOH entries screenshot here:

* https://imgur.com/a/evd9OzN

Can anyone knowledgeable comment on the security implications of this?
I think those ideas are great for increasing usage, safety and public orderly. Although I would disagree that this should be something dealt at the EU level.
It would definitely be great for all EU cities to work within the same framework and allow me to use a single app between cities, but I do not think EU should be meddling with such regulations. In my opinion, this should be left for each country (even each city/municipality) to decide.
Citizens of countries and even the cities themselves - as most cities do not have e-scooters - should be able to have a say on how to run their respective territories without the EU imposing regulations left and right.
ChatGPT leaks user credit card details
It depends on how you think technology relates to democracy.

If you think this is the modern-day equivalent of a printing press, it's vital to avoid this being in the hands of only one or two multi-billion-dollar corporations with a history of morally questionable moves.

If you think privacy rights and freedom from surveillance are critical to democracy, you want your smart speaker or video doorbell to do all its processing on board, without uploading recordings to the cloud. And you want your neighbour's doorbell to do the same.

And frankly, nobody goes after Microsoft Word when someone writes Xi Jinping satire using it, or ICE buy it - because people know it's a tool rather than a platform.

On the other hand, if you think ML technology is going to produce the next wave of fake amazon reviews and forum spam - you might be a lot less eager to see it in the hands of everyone.

If you think society will be slow to adapt to things like deepfakes; and that cops and corporations will immediately start using things like facial recognition technology - well, then wider access to ML might seem to have a great many downsides.
So how does this situation actually look:

Bill Gates sitting on a yacht controlling a robot army while we're all starving ?
What's wrong with these people? Hubris? They all seem keen on joining the ranks of Elon Musk and Lord Buckethead (whose policy to fight traffic jams, obesity and bike theft was providing free bicycles for all).
> Ada was the CISC of languages - high-concept the same way.

For a long time, many years, in the "programming language benchmarks game", Ada regularly and consistently came 2nd only to C in raw compiled-code execution speed.

There is a huge but mostly unrecognised amount of hearsay, rumour and scuttlebutt in the computing industry. People hear something, believe it, and make choices based upon it, without checking or looking for evidence... as they do with medicine and so on, or there would be no "supplementary, complementary and alternative medicine". It doesn't work. It is a SCAM.

People heard "Ada is big" and thought "big means slow" and avoided it. It was quite big in the 1980s, from what I can tell, but that was about 4-5 chip and software generations ago.

(H/w: Caches, scalar, superscalar, multicore, 64-bit.)
(S/w: 16-bit, no memory protection; 32-bit, ditto; 32-bit with memory protection; ubiquitous hypervisors; virtualised 64-bit with memory protection.)

Compared to C++, Ada is a tiny lean fast sportscar of a language.

> Never bet against low-tech.

It isn't low-tech. It was in 1972 or something.

Never bet against "worse is better" is more like it.
My only hope is that one day we have a media staffed by legitimate journalists that would convey such details.

It's obviously not illegal. But the more the (consumer) market knows, the better its decisions on where to open their wallets.
Your pictures and personal communications aren't enough, they want your iris scans, too.

They're just going to sell this data for identification purposes.
Isn't passing every test going to make the browser uniquely unique? My impression is that they want it to be 'fingerprinted' but look like 1,000,000 other Tor browsers so they can't be told apart.
This isn't useful to 'dark web' types. This is at best useful for 'mom and pop' who heard about 'china tiktok' on the news.
Yeah, and then somebody took care to actually implement and benchmark those cache-oblivious algorithms against the classic algorithms with hard-coded chunk sizes and somehow the cache-oblivious ones decisively lost in every single case [0].

[0] Kamen Yotov, Tom Roeder, Keshav Pingali, John Gunnels, and Fred Gustavson "An experimental comparison of cache-oblivious and cache-conscious programs" (2007). https://doi.org/10.1145/1248377.1248394
I don't know why they wouldn't be able to install it themselves, tbh. The last n times I've installed (various distros) the install process went something like: select keyboard layout, select locale/timzone, go away while it installs, reboot. There was nothing there to do unless you want to get into customising disk partitions or something.
> I have a longish and probably out of date list of settings that I like to chance in a new instance of firefox

Not a user but part of the purpose of the TOR fork is settings, anything that is detectable via JS is supposed to remain default to prevent fingerprinting.

It's partly why it's not widely popular, I don't know if this is still true but it used to be that it was supposed to be run at a specific viewport resolution regardless of your device. All in the name of making your fingerprint as close to the same as all other TOR browser users.
Couldn't you say that about any VPN? Why would Mullvad's browser be unique in this regard?
The internet was invented for cats and pictures of them. I don't understand why everyone doesn't know this.
Why not sprinkle it with something like grsec? Now that would be a secure browser and would really upset a lot of shady people.
How was this handled for Nazi Germany defectors?
Why must it be an "old" laptop?
Get a new board and use it like a portable desktop.

I bet many people don't ever use those PCs but in 2 places (home, work)
From the FAQ [0]:

> Why is the time is wrong?

> The timezone is spoofed, to combat fingerprinting.

> What's this weird spacing around the websites?

> It’s called letterboxing, a function to combat fingerprinting (using your browser window size to identify you together with other measures).

> How do I stay logged into specific websites between sessions?

> It’s not possible. It’s an action to combat tracking.

Not sure if there are other measures, other than that the browser itself doesn't track anything.

Looking much better than a stock firefox, and presumably will improve over time.

[0] - https://mullvad.net/en/help/tag/mullvad-browser/
We do need a base layer of human verification for several reasons that will make themselves clear in the coming years. Can we maybe try that with a system of IRL humans and inherently pro-privacy tech like ZK proofs, instead of a system of proprietary soul-sucking nightmare orbs? Be creative, think outside the orb.

Also, such a system doesn't need any kind of currency attached to it.
> One early adopter, a 30-year-old online entrepreneur living in Portugal, told me over Discord that he hopes his tokens will be worth millions, although he’s been disappointed that Worldcoin keeps delaying the release.

Why would something that they’re giving away, to presumably everyone on Earth, become worth millions?
True. It could be vastly lower than this, right?
>- misrepresents his affiliation with mit

I've listened to a lot of his podcasts, I do not recall him mentioning MIT once.

>- blocks anybody who looks into his past

What? You mean in youtube comments? Aren't they supposed to be talking about the video not about whatever his past is? (I have no idea about his past, I just know he did something related to self driving cars at some point)

>- styles himself as an expert version of jre while being a terrible interviewer

He often describes himself as a terrible interviewer (which I disagree with), so I'm not sure how he's "styling himself" as anything

>- is often misinformed about the subjects of his podcasts.

He's an audience stand in who asks questions to the subject matter expert that he has on his podcast. If he already knew everything it would break the format.
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love position:absolute.
Suppose Steve Jobs used an Android...

I never suggested the CEO needs to be the star tweeter. What I am saying is that the CEO needs to be a tweeter, i.e. personally invested in his/her company's product. Companies with CEOs who don't give a shit about about their product/users tend not last long as "immortal entities".
Altman? Fridmann? White tech?
But I also feel quite a lot of fear for you. And I guess there's a lot of fear there for you. You have as well about how you're going to do this. But I believe you can work it out. You know, I really feel for you in this. It must be a really hard time. I mean, just huge the amount of stuff you're going through. It could be that talking to a good therapist could also really help, you know, because, you know, if you find maybe someone through your network is good to talk to or you've heard about someone through friends or whatever who's good to talk to. I mean, that could really help as well, because what you're basically asking for is personal clarity. Right. And so that is independent of the actual topic. And there are techniques or things that help to get that that are independent of the actual subject of the that you want clarity about.

So a therapist, you know, maybe one session, you know, I think it could be something that helps, you know, I'm guessing you feel you don't really have any friends that really understand what you're going through. Right. I mean, sure, maybe you do. But no one who really gets you or really can provide basically what you're looking for there. And that's OK. So I think maybe a therapist could help assist.

And I'm sure it seems overwhelming. There's so much stuff you need to do. And, you know, so I guess you can just lean on your already great execution skills there by just chunking the problem, breaking it down, small steps, stepping through each piece at a time, even though it's not a business thing. It's your personal culmination of journey kind of plan that you need to get through. Right. You need to formulate and then execute that plan for yourself. So you close that chapter and feel satisfied and can move on.

And I'm sure doing all of that seems overwhelming. And it could be that, of course, naturally that, you know, you're maybe distracting yourself, focusing on business tasks to sort of avoid the enormity of this actual personal thing. But obviously, you know, not addressing the personal things you will not feel you got what you want. So obviously, it's it maybe seems sometimes like this is all about the business and things you need to do for that and financial. But there's probably, you know, it's just about the personal perspective that you need to get right in order to close that journey. So that is the side that you need to focus on in order to free yourself. I understand that.

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Between this and the Open AI hype, I can't shake the feeling that Sam Altman is an effective huckster.
> a global id system that pays everyone some basic income

I didn't know Altman's pockets were so deep he could feed and house the whole planet. That's going to be a problem. Apart from all the other problems with UBI, of course.
Nope, it's now another voice, a colleague who's work you constantly have to check over because you can't trust it enough to just say, "go ahead, I know you're trust worthy".

This is already happening. ??
much much less per unit of power

please look at this, I'm tired of having to remind people that nuclear is the best on ALL fronts except cost

https://i.imgur.com/qKzwxuj.jpeg
Here's to hoping they maintain this for a while. There are a lot of "hardened Firefox" forks around, none of them that I would trust to follow upstream for a long enough time to switch.

I already trust Mullvad enough to use as VPN, and am likely willing to extend that trust to a fork of Firefox they manage, but truthfully, I always concerned when achieving goals means new ventures and projects as it may mean resources are moving to other areas and may impact their code product. I like my core providers to do one thing and do it well.

Edit: I hope they bring this to Android also!
You only download a game once? I think the average game in my Steam folders updates itself with at least 2-300 MB between every time I play them.
Clearly they're winning the war

/s
> “Now they are coming to certain people and saying, ‘please hand in your red civilian passports, because you have access to sensitive information for the motherland, so we want to control your movements’,” she said.

It's amusing what you bothered to reply.
Only if you give those users your modified version.

If I host GPL software on a webserver and my users use that webserver, I don’t have to give them the source code for modified GPL programs. This is fairly common.
You can't expect an interviewer to be expert in every topic they cover.

Isn't the whole point of an interview to let the interviewee get their point across and clear up any misinformation?
I listened to the whole podcast, I thought it was pretty sensible and interesting. But that's just my opinion as a random internet commenter.
Isn't 'giving according to the teachings of the Gospel' achieving another kind of status (in your own heart, in the eyes of God)?
Yes either you want everyone to look the same, or you want every page request to be totally random.
> first responder frequencies

More and more services are moving to P25 and encrypting it:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_25

* https://www.taitradioacademy.com/topic/introduction-to-p25-e...
I find this concept to be helpful in countering the epidemic of false equivalences, or the pennywise pound foolish contrarianism that you see so frequently in internet comment sections.

My favorite example is probably whenever there's articles about sitting being bad for your health. You tend to get a couple of contrarians replying, "Well standing more may sound like good advice but standing can cause lower back pain, so it's not so simple!" However, that reply completely loses grasp of the relative scale of the two things, inviting you to consider the inconveniences of lower back pain as being on the same level as heart disease.

I think the more serious examples of Wronger Than Wrong relate to authoritarian states. A year ago when the Russian invasion started, some people suggested the Russian crackdown on dissent was unremarkable, and compared it to the United States during the Iraq war. And it's not wrong, in that they might fit into a similar category, but it represents a complete failure to assess the relative scale of those two things.
It's not a tech podcast, but I enjoy Hermitix. They are mostly interviews with authors of philosophy/literary studies books. Probably the only "podcaster" that I will listen to on a regular basis.

https://www.youtube.com/@hermitixpodcast
These are the type of scams that give crypto a bad name and tarnish projects like ethereum. Silicon valley VC grifters just trying to steal everyone's data with the promise of having their basic needs met. Wtf is wrong with these people.
The fastest (Mac) Photoshop Machine in 1996 was not a Mac at all and not running PPC either. Apple never transitioned from 68040 processors in their high end Macs to 68060 processors, instead opting for PPC processors.

But since Photoshop 4 was made for 680x0 processors, the PPC had to run software emulation. So the fastest abomination was a Commodore Amiga 4000 with DMA-transfer SCSI-II drives, third party (super expensive) 68060 CPU upgrade, (super expensive) third party 24-bit graphics card add-on, (awkward installation) running a Macintosh 68k Emulator! (Shapeshifter if I recall.) It could even run dual monitors, with the Amiga OS still running on one monitor and the Mac on the other monitor.

You would run up to Mac OS 7 on this thing.

Another insane tidbit. If you run NetBSD on 680x0 hardware, there is an emulator (Basilisk II) which gives you a virtualised classic Mac running at native speed - no CPU emulation.)

Edit: even with all the expensive Amiga upgrades, if I recall correctly, it was all still a lot cheaper than the near-equivalent Mac... of course, already in 1998, the situation was different. Photoshop on PC was well supported and PCs were fast and the PPC Macs had gained speed, too.
Caring for sick family members is status. It's something which people of lesser status are not able to do.
I'm in a farming village in Spain, all of 2 families living here, 45 minutes drive from the nearest population center, and they rolled out symetrical gigabit fibre last year (and not just to us - to every rural village in the region).

The base 300/300 service is price capped at 38 euros/month as well. I'm paying a few bucks more for higher speed.
Do non Americans pay tax to the us if they work for a us company outside the states? As this seems to be what Alabama is trying to do.
I don't think it says anything nasty, AFAICT that was Wirth's approach to languages in general: they were all meant to be modified and extended for each platform and need. Even his own implementations had extensions to accommodate what it needed to do (e.g. IIRC his Oberon-07 implementation for ARM had some additional data types).

Besides in practice in the last ~3 decades or so every implementation was based on Borland's dialect (which AFAIK was based on the UCSD dialect).

Also FWIW Free Pascal is both open source and has a mode to compile code in standard Pascal, though it was added relatively recently (version 3.0.0 released in 2015 - i wrote "relatively" because the compiler exists since the mid-90s).
I am not in the loop on the tech but how secure are eyeball scans?

I remember seeing the CCC breaking "facial" recognition to unlock a phone by just taking a picture of the owner on a park bench.
And I think if you do that ((formulate your personal journey completion plan, addressing all the dark, light, and neutral you need to do to feel complete and move on ~~ the company's "work" may never be complete, but you can feel complete, and that's what matters)), and you also have some sort of ritual--some sort of like sign off final celebration!--where you cherish this stuff and you make the toast and you kind of have that going away party and you do all this stuff and you mark the moment, the culmination of these preparations where you've kind of crystallized all this stuff, this acceptance of the journey that you've actually been on, obviously, as opposed to the first three years and this three, three and a half years, whatever. And this expression of your appreciation and desire to leave things in a good place for the people who are important to you there and for the company. And if you kind of culminated in this kind of big moment, it's going away party, whatever. And then sort of on the other side of that, you have like a ritual for yourself to kind of start that new day, that new life.

I mean, apart from writing down like what things you want to do, bucket list kind of stuff and reconnecting with that, part of your life, you have obviously chosen to maybe, chosen to not invest as much in as you have put in this company. Apart from doing that kind of stuff and everything else I said, I don't know what more you can do. Clearly going through this is gonna be a rollercoaster of emotions that probably take a long time to process fully and you may avoid processing after some time, but it's not gonna be easy to face all of the stuff to go through that. But I think it could be as good as it could be and as comfortable as it could be if you follow your heart about this and align with what you really want.

And that will be empowering because you'll basically be saying goodbye to that earlier version. Not that there's anything wrong with that version, it's just that the way things played out, that didn't work out. And there's nothing wrong with that. Neither with those goals, nor with the fact that it didn't work out. Painful, yes, but nothing wrong, you know? Because it seems what you've done, success or not by the judgment of VCs or not, like you've done something really beautiful. So I just basically see the best path for you is the continuation of that natural desire that you have, a fulfillment of that. And that will be success, I think, as you look back on it and you will know that in your heart that that's success.

So hopefully that was helpful and illuminating for you. Best of luck to you. And thank you for sharing your story here. It was very illuminating and beautiful to kind of see what you've gone through.
This AI stuff and crypto are a natural match. Anyone paying attention to crypto in the last few years has seen the identity experiments happening, and we're in for a ride if OpenAI taps into this.
In the article Richard shows us the compression stats for the png algorithm vs lz4, for the original lossless image. It would also be interesting to see how the png algorithm performs on the lossy, preconditioned versions of the image. Does it also get any benefit, or does lz4 pull ahead?
LLM-Assisted Programming
Taste was definitely more important to them in the past but since the "services" deluge you can see its started to deteriorate in ways that would be unthinkable 10-15 years ago. The amount of times I've had to click through an Apple Music offer to play the music on my device a year is getting absurd.

Like really, you have outstanding hardware, great margins is it really worth deteriorating the experience in the hopes people will sign up to one of more of the 20 or so subscription services you now sell. They've even resorted to car industry-like subscribing to use hardware features on the chunky watch.

End of the day its inevitable unless you have a product CEO at the helm with a strong vision, Apple no longer has that so the money graph will always win at the expense of experience.
More proof that the most pathological customers are those getting something for free.
Not so dumb for him personally I guess.

He placed a large AI bet and in parallel a Crypto bet… nice strategy.