skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like a broken record, as I’m always saying what you’re saying when people discuss health insurance. Most folks want to trash public health care under the quick quip of “that’s socialism” or trash “privatized health care” with the current employer-provided system as a proxy for “privatized health care”. People get so caught up defending “their side”, that they forget the objective is to get a better health care system.

IMO, a huge number of the problems that exist with US health care (non-portability between jobs, people stuck with plans ill-suited to their needs, lack of access to affordable health care) could be easily addressed by a ban on employer-provided healthcare with a provision to ensure the costs are forwarded to the workers as monetary compensation. Workers can go choose a plan that works for them.
Thanks, I didn't know that, I thought indeed that it was simply not possible with TPM 2.0.

I do think it's time for a TPM 3.0 though. What apple does with their T2 security chip, and later with the M1/M2, is having the secure element not only handle the key material but the actual encryption as well. They have hardware acceleration that can handle encryption at full disk speeds. This is still a much better option than a TPM especially with symmetric encryption where the key would inevitably end up in the main CPU. In Apple's scenario this no longer happens.
Short investor Hindenburg erases quarter of Icahn empire's value
See but that refers to something illegal and nothing that cops do is illegal
The greater the number of people in a given area the worse it will be for that environment.

Honestly, I even think detached houses beat most apartments. Apartments often depend on electric baseboard radiators and window AC units for heating and cooling. They often have multiple massive hot water heaters where the people on higher floors must leave their water running for 10-15 minutes before they start getting hot water. They also tend to have outdated appliances that are less energy efficient like electric ranges, and old refrigerators and ancient clothes washers/dryers. In most of the apartments I've lived in, it was firmly against the rules to hang your clothes on a line to be dried by wind and sun.

The appliances you get are often not as well maintained either. Tenants aren't pulling out the fridge to clean the coils and landlords rarely do either. Renters don't have the ability to make the kinds of improvements that would reduce their energy bills and landlords are incentivized to cut corners on construction and maintenance since it saves them money and the expensive utility payments are the renter's problem (a problem they can't even know about until after they've signed a lease and gotten their electric bill).

Public transportation is better than driving cars, but most people don't use public transpiration anyway and the number of cars on the road in dense urban settings is much higher than on rural streets. We can see that reflected in the air quality, which is abysmal in highly populated urban centers compared to rural areas.

Urban environments have fewer trees, fewer unpaved expanses of land, more pollution (air, water, light, noise), less wildlife (greater habitat destruction, more poisons and other dangers to animals) and more trash/litter.

Urban settings are by far less climate friendly than rural settings, but certainly we'd have new problems if everyone lived 2 miles from their nearest neighbor.

There's a middle ground that I don't think we've really reached yet but for now it's probably a good thing that we have masses of people concentrated into small tightly packed highly polluted pockets of filth and disease and also wide open spaces where it's clean and quiet, where animals can live, and the air is cleaner. We'd be smart to try to increase the efficiency of the spaces we move into while still avoiding going over the number of humans a given area can sustainably support, but I have a feeling that there will always be people who want to live farther way from anything else than is practical and people who want to live in areas that are too densely populated to be good for the environment.
Now that's an excellent proposal: look into the future to pre-determine what will work and then pick the things that'll work.

El Salvador proved what was already known. You can rapidly eliminate crime by just imprisoning anyone suspected of crime. Now tell me... why doesn't every country on the planet do this? Why does the United States have such strong restrictions against this, by design (e.g. "Blackstone's Ratio" to let 10 guilty men go free rather than imprisoning a single innocent one)?

Could it be that this behavior tends to scoop up innocent people, delegitimize the state, and yield more violence and more chaos?

This is exactly the type of simplistic thinking I'm cautioning against. Maybe it'll work out for El Salvador, but in general throughout history this has not yielded good outcomes, which is why most of the prosperous countries on the planet do not behave this way despite its obvious near-term advantages.
Founder of Replicate here. Also YC founder (W20). :)

It's also worth noting that we bill by the second for how long your prediction is running, and we don't bill for any idle time, so in practice Replicate works out cheaper for many workloads. We can give discounts if you're putting through a decent amount of traffic. We should be able to match Runpod's pricing.

Drop me an email: ben@replicate.com
Built an online radio with retro aesthetics as a non-coder with ChatGPT's help
Cosmic Chords is an online Lofi/Synthwave/Techo radio inspired by retro 90's UI.
Having recently recovered from Legionnaires where I was in a medically induced coma for nearly 2 months where I received CPR twice for flat-lining here is my experience... I didn't know what happened but I did get to meet deities, aliens and participate in a bunch of sci-fi oriented excursions. In short I learned about where the mind goes under a lot of drugs and I appreciate the experience. It was easier to remember and clearer than dreams. As to the bright light -- I thought it was nuclear war :) It a long "bad trip" but recovering well, thanks to a great community of concerned friends and healers.
Even Bing Chat seems to sometimes get confused and fail to summarize results properly, as when seems to have parsed a debunking of a ChatGPT hallucination but still spit out the hallucination again:

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/1643692259332743171
The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.
I mean you can also go low tech with stuff like a hidden kill switch and all sorts of things that would actually prevent the theft.
Not necessarily:)

A circle is endless, and yet certainly isn't infinite.
If the linked article does not contravene any of HNs guidelines, all your predictions on how the conversation could turn out still does not meet the bar for flagging.
Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?
Chrome's compatibility is 100%, because it's defined in terms of compatibility with Chrome. (Despite the fact took 21 years before Chromium got a limited subset of MathML, when Firefox had it from Mozilla 1.)

> I am very much against the monopoly Google has over the web space and their positioning to dictate future web standards

Then, to the extent you can, stop using Google-controlled browser engines. Google can only dictate future web "standards" if they're the de-facto standard browser engine… so just refuse to acknowledge them.

If you make websites, use stuff that only works in Firefox (and the indie browsers), like Content MathML, or stick to stuff that works in every browser – and by that, I mean clean, semantic HTML. Force Google to play catch-up for once, or make the whole "catch-up" game irrelevant.

My favourite such feature is alternate stylesheets. Supported by Firefox, and by basically every CSS-supporting indie browser, but by almost none of the Chromiums.
Are you sure about that? We haven't seen what GPT-4 multimodal can do in the wild, it can even take into context the full conversation history in addition to just the images. If it can understand visual jokes easily, are you sure it can't detect CSAM?

We can also reliably GENERATE inappropriate content now, by simply adding a 'nsfw' tag to Stable diffusion, it flips a normal image to an inappropriate one. It doesn't sound very difficult to reverse this.

Also, for these services, you don't need it to be perfect. If even the flagging accuracy goes up significantly, that's a lot fewer human workers to review it.

The AI ecosystem as a whole is also booming massively regarding hardware, datasets, talent, software infrastructure. So that makes development in traditional ML faster.
which infinity? ;=)
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This doesn't sound like strong evidence. Users rarely understand technical matters, base assertions on out of date recollections, remember incorrectly, and lie.

A small sample size of users means very little. Meanwhile it might be easier to compel testimony on actual policies as enforced right now. If they are justified it would be like standing in front of the ax murderer holding the bloody ax in one hand and a newly collected head in the other and asking for his cell phone history.

On the other side of the equation there are folks who have been permanently kicked off the only broadband option they have at their house in poorsville because the kids downloaded movies. Such policies can already be pretty punitive to some folks while other more savvy folks simply use a VPN and avoid issues. All in all not a very effective policy.
Thank you for this advice - I've started to reach out to some lawyers to get some direction.

I'll also write a formal email to the Founder to understand his intent.
ChatGPT Confirms Data Breach, Raising Security Concerns
Tl;dr: I think that a left brain/right brain parallel is in the cards for LLMs

Our own brains have multiple neural circuits. Parallel, serial, competing, cumulative…

Including ones which error-check others’ output.

I guess the term in the ML niche is ‘adversarial networks’.

From the robotics side, there was subsumption architecture which used the real world as a basis for informing decisions.

So, I respectfully disagree that fixing up creative but occasionally erroneous networks is papering over the problem.

If our own brains use multiple neural circuits to check each other to try to optimize for output that agrees with reality, why would it be preferable or logical to try to create a single artificial neural network that has perfect output?

My sense from playing with LLMs is they’re knowledge without understanding. Weirdly akin to my own dreaming consciousness, to the extent that conscious me has seen it.

It seems very natural to me that the next step would be integrating checks/validations in parallel and considering each half of a matched ‘whole’.

It could still be considered a single network. Just made of two distinct smaller specialized ones.
Going through mmap for bulk-ingest sucks because the kernel has to fault in the contents to make what's in-core reflect what's on-disk before your write access to the mapped memory occurs. It's basically a read-modify-write pattern even when all you intended to do was write the entire page.

When you just use a write call you provide a unit of arbitrary size, and if you've done your homework that size is a multiple of page size and the offset page-aligned. Then there's no need for the kernel to load anything in for the written pages; you're providing everything in the single call. Then you go down the O_DIRECT rabbithole every fast linux database has historically gone down.
open article. Ctrl+F "tainted". zero matches.

I didn't bother reading the article because of that.

Big Enterprise won the kernel wars. After Balmer freaking out and paying a hit piece calling "Linux a cancer", everyone managed to work around GPL and be able to inject non-free parts in the kernel. Linux compromised with the "tainted kernel" and later just gave up. Result: Android is a linux, and is the most closed source system on earth. Thousands of people throw away perfectly good android phones just because the owner of the source code refuses to release a update.

Linux lost. Well, at least the spirit of it.
>On the contrary, it's entirely natural. The technical definition is quite intuitive.

https://xkcd.com/2501/
Ask HN: Has Mastodon Failed?
I read this blogpost about Mastodon's new onboarding experience and was shocked that Mastodon's app is deliberately pushing new users to mastodon.social as the default server.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

I thought the whole point of Mastodon is to be a federated social network where the first choice is to choose their instance, so why has Mastodon's app chosen mastodon.social as the default instance to centralise new users on one server instead of encouraging federation?

Did Mastodon recognise that BlueSky and others are gaining rapid traction due to Mastodon being extremely hard to onboard new users? BlueSky may have an invite system now, but even then, I can't imagine the massive adoption it would get when the invite system gets lifted.

Mastodon's new change was probably too late and may have severely dented it's aims to become mainstream and friendly towards non-technical folks. It looks like they swayed against its federated principles and now has taken the route to select a default instance for users to make mastodon.social even more centralised and less federated.
> "During the alphabet's heyday between 1854 and 1869..."

that's pretty short for a "heyday," IMO.
What‘s the decade by decade trend?
Why, is it odd?
I believe they are thinking about the cost of building the next NumPy/PyTorch/TensorFlow.
Biden proposes a 30% climate tax on crypto mining
Seems like using memory mapped files for a write-only load is the sub optimal choice. Maybe I’m mistaken but surely using an append-only file handle would be simpler than changing the behaviour of how memory mapped files are cached like they did for their solution?
They will eventually end up switching to some Azure based ChatGPT that's 'private', along those lines.
I think there is a huge difference between participating in an ephemeral conversation about some topic and having your comments permanently and irrevocably archived and searchable.

I would much prefer comments here to automatically delete after some reasonable time period (a week?), or provide an API I can use to go in and scrub every so often. But HN decided that it doesn't work that way so I live with it. I don't really see how the site benefits from keeping comments alive forever. Do a significant number of people really go back and read comments on articles from 10 years ago?
I recall thinking when Amazon was building out SLU that they should just go ahead and build the apartment buildings too. Why let Equity Residential take the vig? At that point they could include housing in the comp package and it would essentially be a barter arrangement of work for housing. While that's still taxable, it would help maximize the ever important future free cash flow.

If that pattern became widespread popular then I expect some kind of COBRA, but for housing, would be legislated.
Cloud exit pays off in performance too
Aren't you still just trusting that they won't "accidentally leak" all that data to OpenAI for training?
This looks exciting, and I'm looking forward to its progress. I have questions about GPU infrastructure in particular. It seems like the GPU backend is primarily through MLIR. Does that target CUDA? Vulkan compute shaders? WebGPU? Metal shaders? I note that IREE has the first three of those listed as targets, but am not clear on exactly where that fits in to the rest of the ecosystem.

I have an idea of a dream GPU infrastructure based on compute shaders, where you compile your problem into GPU IR suitable for your operating system (SPIR-V, Metal, DXIL) and have a very lightweight runtime that just runs those. For the ahead of time compilation case, you wouldn't need to ship GPU compilers in a deployed application, though you would want that for more rapid iteration when doing research and exploratory programming.

From what I can see so far, this seems basically orthogonal to what Modular and Mojo are trying to do, but it's entirely possible I'm missing something. I'm wondering if anyone is actually building this (IREE and MediaPipe are the closest things in the space I'm aware of), and if not, why not.
(GP's comment does not appear to be advocating for violent revolutions.)
Viral reservoirs are a prime suspect for long Covid sleuths
And they've been drilled by experienced creative professionals full-time for four years. Many of the creative controls these generators abstract away are the most consequential, and they will never be more than an amalgam of what they've already seen. Smooth? Sure. Polished? Yes. Visually striking? Absolutely. Will every detail be considered, reconsidered, pored over, lightly massaged and then reconsidered by a team of people who've dedicated their professional lives to using images to elicit precisely crafted emotional responses in people? No.

That said, SyFy Originals and Hallmark Channel movies will probably operate much differently than they do now.
:facepalm: of course. Thanks.
This is also very much like the pick operating system, currently the biggest multivalue operating systems are UniVerse, UniData and D3. If you want to try them out, look into scarletdme. The multivalue style is a total mind bend at the beginning!
The first one is... incredibly convoluted. Like reaching your right arm over your head to touch your left esr (try it!). The second one sounds like it sucks.

With the pay-once AirTags you can just find the car thief yourself and shoot them.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/02/texas-man-used-apple-airtag-to...
Founder of Replicate here. Looks like you're using DreamBooth for TrainEngine. We have a beta version of really fast cold boots for DreamBooth trainings. I'll drop you an email to get you set up with it.

We've got some big cold improvements rolling out across everything soon. We can also just keep models switched on to avoid cold boots entirely.
Yea. Maybe tell me what this site is about?
You can park for free after 6 or 7PM weekdays and in some limited places (Chelsea), all day long.
Some of these could make rather nice freedesktop.org Plymouth themes.
Adeptus Mechanicus
I drive a standard.

That’s basically a kill switch at least in the US.
It also said something about a lottery, so I suspect there are enough buyers for them. "Immediately" likely meant that they had their down payment and everything else all ready to go. Others likely needed to make arrangements to sell their existing homes and other things before committing.
Half of America’s banks could be insolvent – this is how a credit crunch begins
But they don't, so they are?
My point wasn't about selling products but about a foreign company having some activity in the EU.

I agree with you the EU is probably not going to prosecute you, but that doesn't mean it's legal.
That's probably the only solution because from the stories I've seen, when someone has something stolen that's airtagged and they tell police, the police basically just tell them to fuck off
It sorta feels like LLMs or some kind of NN should be useful (with training) for parsing malformed jsons. I suspect its a hard problem but honestly it would be such a massive help for those of us dealing with data at work!
So.... Take your laptop with you everywhere?

When did we start creating nightmarish system complexity to guard against attacks that are generally exceedingly rare....oh wait. Forgot where I was.
Picking the wrong spouse will destroy your life in every way, financially, emotionally, logistically. Pick someone you’re confident you can go to war with.

(married 15 years, together 20, got lucky)
"Actively collaborating" meaning doing the bare minimum to keep Google paying while actively fighting the bad things Google does everywhere else?

This is the rich philanthropists debate all over again. Yea, sure, they got rich from participating in the system, but they're using a big chunk of that wealth to fight its consequences. Sure as hell beats the alternative, where the only people willing to fight are the ones without the resources to do it.

I'd honestly rather see Firefox development be funded by selling NFTs and mining crypto, than not funded at all. Volunteer/donation-driven FOSS is great, but it has never been able to compete with for-profit products and it sure as hell couldn't compete with Google here.
Well, they usually end up with the people everyone was most angry at for causing the circumstances that lead up to the revolution powerless or dead, as an explicit aim.

So regardless of who ends up in charge after or if that regime succeeds, you can’t say revolutions themselves are not frighteningly effective. After all, every existing country on earth is the result of a revolution against the leaders of its past.
Currently writing a talk about loss of institutional knowledge.

Can I quote you? Also, if you're comfortable, can you give me more background on yourself so I won't just be quoting a rando on the Internet?
Okay Joe and Sue don't pay back their loan.

Either Beth now has to borrow for her house or business at a higher rate of interest OR we deflate the value of the currency (by increasing the money supply) to make up for the loss on the balance sheet.

Congratulations your civilization just discovered run away inflation.
The readahead is a bit of a readaround when I last checked, as in it'll pull in some stuff before the fault as well.

There used to be a sys-wide tunable in /sys to control how large an area readahead would extend to, but I'm not seeing it anymore on this 6.1 laptop. I think there's been some work changing stuff to be more clever in this area in recent years. It used to be interesting to make that value small vs. large and see how things like uncached journalctl (heavy mmap user) were affected in terms of performance vs. IO generated.
Definitely should not have shot at those redcoats
Xerox Donates Legendary PARC Research Center
Given that nobody has found concrete evidence of any phenomena being supernatural ever, defaulting to assuming natural causes seems reasonable to me.

If you open your mind too much your brain might fall out.
> They might just replace their phone a lot. Some people do that.

I actually don't like to replace my phone a lot. The issue was, with each Android phone, despite great recommendations from others and lots of research I was left wanting. And after being disappointed by each Android phone, another Android expert would tell me that some other newly released hardware would blow me away. I was tricked by this again and again and again. Until eventually releasing I would just be so much happier on iPhone. I was.
Go OR python.
For the file being entirely pre-allocated case I understand, but for the file hole case I'm not sure I understand why you'd get such high disk activity.

If the index block also got evicted from the page cache, then could reading into a file hole still trigger a fault? Or is the "holiness" of a page for a mapping stored in the page table?
like Google and apple - they use exact locations of WiFi hotspots most of the time...
Why I Like Using Maps (and WeakMaps) for Handling DOM Nodes
Cellebrite UFED Cellphone Forensic Extraction Device Teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLGGCXH9MQ

UFED, get it? its right in the name :] Video has little demonstration with older phones, one click bypass for all passcodes.
The current network permission does not block IPC
That terminal is beautiful. The colors, typeface, and sparse layout make it incredibly readable for me.