skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does that support verification of the initramfs? I have the feeling no it doesn't, but I am not sure. (Yes you can build the initramfs into the kernel. But I don't think that's commonly done. And UEFI implementations have undocumented size limits of what they can boot. So even if you are willing to spend the effort to configure that the image might not boot in the end.
100% agree. Most appear to be non-technical as well so all we get for the tedium of groaning through their comments Tucker "truth telling" detritus.

Not even a billion dollars will convince them they're wrong though...
> Reddit’s API will remain free to developers who want to build apps and bots that help people to use Reddit

I'd be fine if they didn't. The ratio of useful bots to annoying ones is very low.
The stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison if you don't remember your passcode could very well cause someone to forget it.
Yes but LLMs can also be used by laypeople to explain the issue in plain English too. That’s the problem. Not that LLMs would need human to guide the debugging process anyways (at least in a few years)
IMO it's actually incredibly well-documented and thoughtfully organized for a one-person project! You should be proud of what you've put together here!
I'm ignorantly confident that no one in AI-related divisions/projects are being cut at Meta.
It’s a short-term car lease. Nothing new.
They had 45k employees three years ago.

Maybe they were really hiring too much?
It's a 3-step layoff actually. March, April, and May.
By advocating for selective breeding and genetic engineering, eugenics promotes the idea that some individuals are inherently superior to others based on their genetics, which is a dangerous and discriminatory notion.

Furthermore, eugenics often relies on subjective criteria to determine which traits are desirable or undesirable. This can lead to the marginalization and discrimination of certain groups based on factors such as race, ethnicity, or disability. Eugenics has a long history of being used to justify discriminatory policies, such as forced sterilization, segregation, and genocide, which have caused immense harm and suffering to countless individuals and communities.

Finally, eugenics assumes that genetic factors are the primary determinants of an individual's traits and abilities, ignoring the complex interplay between genetics and environment. This reductionist view of human biology is not only scientifically flawed but also ignores the importance of environmental factors such as education, social support, and access to resources in shaping an individual's life outcomes.
OpenAI is in some ways the new Napster. It's not a perfect analogy but it cracks open the same copyright can of worms.
Meta made the dumb decision to invest in VR, rather than AI. Those giant and expensive VR teams (Or the devs who made horizon worlds...) aren't going to easily transition into AI.

AI generated content is the real core of metaverses, not VR goggles. Hence Nvidia is actually making the right bet on its 'omniverse' infrastructure.

Nvidia has made no layoffs, and I don't expect any within the next 5 years.
Exactly, we are on the same page.

As Above So Below.

I think a lot of really weird shit is going to happen in the next decade.
In my opinion copyright is a law that is always at odds with the free flow of information. I'd hate for that law to start influencing how I interact with user generated text on the internet. As we see on YouTube, nuance for copyright loses to erring on the side of enforcing copyright even when the use is fair.
I like do-not-track, but it's not for everyone. Informed consent is a good start anyway.
It reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture) - Intel wanted to make a GPU out of dozens upon dozens of tiny x86 cores. I think the idea was start building an x86 moat around CUDA (ha).
I’m curious to hear more about the difficulty of breaking DC current.

I was also thinking planning to research more into GFCI for DC current. Seems like it’s possible if you tie the negative terminal to ground just like with AC but that feels weird to me. I guess cars usually have the negative terminal tied to the chasis so it seems reasonable.

Low voltage, high amperage is definitely going to cost a lot in cabling though, that’s for sure.

My understanding is that the only reason AC is preferred to DC for transmission is because it’s easier to transform. But rectifying is super simple and cheap — I wonder what the primary drawbacks are of using DC in homes…
Currently Apple has ads in two place. The News app and the App Store.

- banner ads inside of the Apple News app. Similar to what other news sites include but fewer ads.

- App Store home page - at least some of the apps featured there are paid placements.

- pay for placement listings on the App Store. When you do a search, the first result or two is a paid listing.

- App Store app page with "you might also like" lists at the bottom of the page.
Sorry, that was very misleading wording on my part. I started a job where they gave me a Linux machine that was lying around. When it was clear I was going to stay they said I could get whatever I wanted. I was going to get a Windows machine but since everyone else was on a Mac (and it was the time when the 27" iMac was brand new) I decided to follow suit and that's what I've been on ever since.
> The 1950s called and wants it's meme back. Seriously, though, the 50s promised flying cars, personal jet packs, moon bases, etc.

Maybe they were right but a little off on the timeline. For example there was a lot of crazy tech that people thought would take off in the 90s and flopped, but are now a reality (Online shopping, smartphones, electric vehicles).
As others have already pointed out, going "ultra pro max" on the metaverse was such a huge miscalculation by Zuck. I was so torn when Mark was pushing this idea like it was main thing now. The whole rebrand was flawed. Like you could just ask people all around you if they were going to use this meta crap and no one said yes (basic product/market fit)

What really confirmed this awful strategy for me was when Sheryl (ex-COO FB) left the company. You have to understand, FBs leadership was beautifully segregated. The business side was handled by Sheryl (and team) while Zuck and Boz took care of product and technology.

At its heart FaceBook was a good product (and viable business model), a few tweaks and changes would have made it sooo much better.

Even though I deleted my account for personal reasons in 2017, FB fueled the post 2005 hacker culture and it is sad to see this state of the company that inspired so many of us.
> One of these fundamental ideas was the notion of a system composed of microservices communicating via a well established system of network API requests encoded as 9P messages.

I'm still reading but this strikes me as a misservice.

Messages I recognize are lower in the abstraction stack & this isn't an inherently incorrect statement. But I think it mispercieves the nature of 9p. 9p is a remote filesystem, that so happens to be built out of messages. The author here emphases operations- messages- but 9p is really what's in those messages, what the messages represent, which is structure & state.

The 9p spirit isn't about sending messages. It's about exposing your well structured state to the world. Rather than as most programs do hiding it close to your chest... and only exposing complex artisinally-homegrown inter-face abstracted atop that.

If everyone just exposed their state well, that'd be great.
DMCA Robocops Give 20 Seconds to Comply, but Can’t Muster a Reply
This topic is not about ads in app stores, it’s about ads in unavoidable interfaces that you must interact with on a daily basis, like the Start Menu, security icons, explorer windows, etc. the App Store in iOS can easily be moved into a folder and never looked at again unless you want to install a new app.

Nobody is saying the App Store ads aren’t annoying, but I am saying that it’s nowhere near the same level of intrusiveness as these Windows changes, because you can easily avoid the App Store, and when you do open it you know what to expect.
This same kind of short term thinking is what doomed VMS and UNIX in the first place, and why we use Linux for such things now.
presumably this is ideal for environments like boats or private jets with limited connectivity - the sort of owners of which can afford more insane pricing
These days, this just makes me immediately click Reader Mode.
I'm currently speeding up Mypy + Jedi in Rust. I'm pretty far already and it's definitely a lot faster. Tests are currently running 500 times faster than Mypy.
Curious why you want to run Headscale? Is it purely to avoid the risks of the coordination server?
It's not an axiom that can be arbitrarily retired, it's a description of reality. What is the path by which this could change?

Cutting off people's air supply on a vague notion that air will get to people in some other way seems unwise.
Leaving arguments about new patch releases out, how could we practically track this? Would every engineer log the time they work and track feature work separately from bug fixes?
> Single Executable Apps

That's news to me. It makes sense to have this feature in Node.js itself, instead of various implementations in userland.

"Stability: 1 - Experimental: This feature is being designed and will change."

https://nodejs.org/api/single-executable-applications.html

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> Permissions

This seems clearly inspired by Deno. Glad to see in the docs how the feature accepts one or more paths to limit where to allow file system read/write. Strange that the permissions are not inherited by a child node process or worker thread.

https://nodejs.org/api/permissions.html
Straight from truth.social.
This just feels like a convenient story. Why would tech companies, who bring in billions in profits each quarter, be so dependent on zero interest loans? If anything, the non-SV companies reducing their ad spend would be a bigger contributor, assuming that has happened?
yeah, I know. But as another commenter said[0], the lawsuit still does not explain why netflix changed its recommendation system.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35620957
It's not necessarily that there's anything wrong with shounen anime, but it's actually quite common that I will see anime criticized for how much of it targets adolescent boys, which is, well, probably a misunderstanding. I think shounen is disproportionately popular outside of Japan vs other genre of anime. Contrast shounen that is wildly popular, like My Hero Academia, with something like Akira, a breakout success decidedly outside of that genre and arguably very influential in how anime managed to break into the global market to begin with. Exactly why things shifted since then is unclear, though I do think that modern media in America at least is wildly focused on being more child friendly/focusrd compared to how things were going in the 90's, for one reason or another.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdEQmpVIE4A
Delta weights are on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/liuhaotian/LLaVA-13b-delta-v0

More technical details on the GitHub: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA
“The world's entire scientific ... heritage ... is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations....

The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.” - Aaron Swartz

The irony here.
Once this idea becomes popular, it will get into brute-force probing templates.

My approach now is phrases in a few words in different languages, ideally transliterated from non-Latin scripts; it makes the search space much larger while preserving memorability.
They may have had an idea for it in their heads, sure, but in the mid 90s (when they started their business) online video streaming was very, very far from reality. This was before the first online stream, before RealPlayer, before Broadcast.com. None of the mainstream video compression standards existed. You couldn't even stream video over ethernet back then. It was only the internet infrastructure upgrades over the next decade which made it feasible for general consumers.
Most of the big German news sites require you to either accept ads, or pay for a subscription.

It is sadly perfectly legal afaik. Nobody is entitled to your content without agreeing to some terms. Luckily, archive.is works very well. Wish there were more alternatives.
From Microsoft's pov there's basically no infosec issues. They're running their own copies of GPT inside their airlock. It's no different than any other analysis they do on behalf of their customers.

To everyone else it's turning data over to a 3rd party but for them it's like running scapy.

They can't train on one customer's data and use it on another but that's less of an issue than you'd think.
Elon Musk has shown you can lay off 80% and still have the service is running.
With that worldview, you should pursue banking.
Which was bought by Avast, so lots of people switched to the forked open version [1] (thank you GPL).

[1] https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies
Great write up. I'm thinking about building out a new work from home space and I'm definitely going to be copying some of your ideas.
If the two outcomes don't have equal probability there are no two halves here. In a bull market with everything being green saying that something will go up is not an interesting prediction.
Resounding yes for getting an education. Learning to think and being thrown in with random other people will serve you well. I agree that learning a hands-on skill adjacent to whatever you study is valuable.
Iraqis were murdered by other Arabs under cover of the chaos kicked off by Americans being there.

Being murdered proximally to Americans is very different from being murdered BY Americans (but still bad).
Yeah I did a huge refactoring effort very recently. I put a lot of effort in making the code easy to poke around in and I feel that works very well.

But besides that, there's still a lot left to be desired when it comes to how it actually works. Not everything is easy to glean from the code alond.
Even CPUs without any vector instructions at all can still do operations on vectors; they just have to do them "the hard way": slowly. This worst case ain't the end of the world if each core is fast enough and you have enough cores.

In this case, the design (AFAICT) uses RISC-V's support for extensions to add some GPU-specific instructions for things like vector math and texture lookups.
Floating/Virtual IPs are one networking solution for HA. With Corosync/Pacemaker a cluster of hosts can decide how the ips are then assigned to physical hosts. CARP maybe/probably can do the same. I just googled and apparently there is also some IPVS/LVS project for Linux for HA loadbalancing?
> I have different frustrations with both Windows and macOS.

Agreed.

However, I can continue to feed the Microsoft maw, or I can make a different choice. I choose to tell Microsoft to pound sand.
Can we mitigate these kinds of attacks by using a data only SIM card? If I use some kind of VOIP service for OTA calls and SMS, the calls would be off the baseband.
Why can I not zoom into these graphs on mobile?
Fair enough, but some of the protections in Lockdown Mode seem straightforward enough that I'm not sure why they aren't enabled by default. A couple of examples:

1. Device connections - To connect your iPhone or iPad to an accessory or another computer, the device needs to be unlocked.

2. Configuration profiles - Configuration profiles can’t be installed, and the device can’t be enrolled in Mobile Device Management or device supervision while in Lockdown Mode.
Editoralizing is discouraged and your post will end up edited to match the original URL’s title either way.
I also read that it's legal, but can't see how it's in the spirit of the law.
> It would be more equivalent to refusing to let the police search one room in your house after they’ve established a reason to believe that you might be hiding bodies in it.

No, it isn't. The police searching a room in my house doesn't require me to do anything. They can even do it while I'm in a coma or dead. It's nothing like forcing me to tell them my passwords or any other information.
Facebook's Android application has been riddled with bugs for months, overrun with ads and now they are cutting the workforce. It'll be interesting.
Exactly. Cookie autodelete (remove cookies when all tabs from a domain are closed) + I don't care about cookies (remove the popups).
Thanks! Will fix this typo.
I think the unspoken context here is you want the aforementioned 16 year old to have a decent income over their lifetime.

I think doing something they're interested in has a lot of merit, though at age 16 they may not have experienced enough different things to know for sure.

I'm not sure why you think knowledge is meaningless. Everyone is panicking about AI, but honestly, I've yet to see an AI produced document that's competent or a line of AI generated code that's useful. Yes... it can produce things that are at 80% of what you might want and that means that you (the human) may only have to spend half your time editing AI generated content.

I don't think Lawyers or Doctors or College Professors are going to be replaced with AI. But I think each of these professions will need to develop expertise in working with evolving technology.

How 'bout Literature? Granted, it's not the royal road to wealth my creative writing instructor implied, but it's great fun. And if you love reading and writing, you'll probably maintain the level of motivation needed for an advanced degree, so maybe Literature Professor?

Or spend some time in the military. I spent a few years in the Marines in the middle of my college experience. It made me realize a few things: 1. I don't want a career in the military and 2. I would love to have a job that got me out of the office on a regular basis. But there are plenty of people who love the military and make it a career.

Have you asked your 16 year old what they want to do?
I agree, that is suspicious.
Honestly for the first 10 seconds after I clicked the link, I thought the banner must be a joke because the irony is just too perfect
cough Reddit Mobile Web cough
Large Language Models for Machine Translation
I wonder the same thing about the regular prompts to change my default search back to Bing, all disguised in language about optimizing Edge with recommended settings.
What do “incentives” have to do with anything in a post-Snowden reality?
Ultimate tracking experience
Marshall McLuhan and Norman Mailer 1968
Right now, adding features to an existing SaaS is looking a lot like maintenance work to me.
Theo de Raadt engaging the Rust community would be a sight to behold :)
Very Droll.

(Don't get me wrong... for me, "very droll" is a complement.)
The idea of corporate taxes is to tax profits, not revenue
That was exactly what came to mind as well. "Big" RISC-V performance oriented cores for apps, gobs of "small" RISC-V cores ganged together for GPU. Larrabee didn't work out so good, though.
Can you adopt me?
Is it the case that companies are allowed to scrape data for profit under US law? I was aware of the LinkedIn ruling setting a precedent for scraping public facing data, however, I wasn't sure if it applied within any scopes.
then you probably dont know that i'm actually more supportive of charlie than most and are reading negative intent from a perfectly neutral/innocent question that is perhaps badly phrased :)
How does a non-Chinese person selling Chinese crap make the crap and less crap?
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Henfluence-Inside-Backyard-Chic...
Thanks!! This is very informative
It would show a decoupling between revenue and headcount, which is certainly bad news for tech workers. Meta's revenue in 2022 was 35% higher than 2020, 65% higher than 2019. If tech companies have found a way to simultaneously increase revenue and decrease headcount, the future of employment in tech would not be as rosy as its past.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/268604/annual-revenue-of...
Operative word: grandmother, i.e. not contemporaneous with the actual crisis that’s happening.

It’s obviously not a new thing, it’s the old thing. But the new thing (not having kids) is a big, big problem for most modern civilizations at this point.
It's really bad. For years I've been saying that I want someone to make a search engine where I am the customer and that I am happy to pay. Now kagi is here and I am to cheap to pay for it. I feel called out.
Isn't howey test fairly clear as to what it is?
Ironically this will most probably help as most companies now understand that putting more people on the same piece of software doesn't really help but make it worse.
would be cool if this was a physical clock.
The ones that bring in billions in profits are less dependent, of course, but even those will carry loans on their books. Why not, if money is free. Each large corporation has essentially an investment bank on the inside.
> If you can verify this, then someone else can force you to verify it in front of them to make sure you did what they told you to do, and then we don't have a secret ballot anymore.

Not being able to prove to someone else that you voted a particular way is called "coercion resistance", and it is in fact possible to design a voting system where you can verify you vote was included and counted correctly but that are coercion resistant.

See this comment [1] from a while back about such a system. Link #3 in that comment is to a paper showing that system is coercion resistant.

There are several systems that provide verifiability but are coercion resistant. The one discussed in that comment is noteworthy because it is an easy add-on to existing optical scan voting systems. The cryptographic cleverness that it depends on is in how the ballots are generated and what is printed on them, with the only modification in the voting booth is that you have to use a special marker to mark the ballots.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31675726
User of Ruff here and follower of Charlie's work.

I've been slinging python since 2003, and I've used a pretty wide swath of the toolchain. I've also had the (pleasure?) of using python in a lot of different contexts: desktop applications, web programming, custom scientific calculation plugins, grad school hacks, Maya, and obviously Juypter notebooks.

My honest take: Toolchain tools like Ruff are the only way the Python ecosystem as a whole moves forward. In order to be broadly adopted by the wide swath of use cases, it needs to be universally applicable and have a killer reason for being (in this case, speed, which opens up new use cases that didn't exist before).

Ironically, the commonality to these toolchain improvements for python ... is that they not be written in Python. If you want good analogues, you can look at the work that others have done with multithreading and trying to bypass the GIL, which is one of my other hobby horses with Python. Hot take: For most users, python is not used for itself, but more to flexibly orchestrate some other low-level problem. This is why Maya, scipy, most of data science, and other DSLs use python so much.

To empower these users, you either need to (1) work in the compiler (2) below the GIL or (3) do the heavy lifting of wrapping around the language flexibility without requiring changing the python code itself. Ruff does that, and I imagine the thesis of Astral is to extend that philosophy to the rest of the toolchain.

Lastly, in the spirit of this site, I'll give my second spicy take: I think web development in python is on the decline, and the future of python is in data science and related fields. These fields care a lot about fast toolchain, and will use ruff and other tools to achieve those ends without modifying legacy code. For web, node has won. I know users that use python but you can't really beat needing to learn just one language vs two to build a web app.