skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They were effectively forced to let the web be an open field by antitrust cases

They won that case on appeal though, and Mozilla wasn't a factor until years after the fact.

The more accurate read of the early-00s browser wars was that MS "won" with IE (95% market share!) and then pretty much lost the stomach (or focus/budget/etc.) to advance the web in any way.
Agreed. This whole thing seems incredibly user hostile. At the very least, there should be severe legal recourse (criminal liability and also large, material-to-earnings statutory damages) if one of these providers intentionally locks you out of a third-party account.

That third party account should be treated like your personal property, and them denying you access to it should be treated like their CEO breaking into your house and stealing your stuff.

If they don't want to take on the liability, and it kills the passkey spec, that's fine with me. The current system avoids the issue by allowing people to store credentials in a decentralized way.
CEOs often us this excuse.. I'm not selling company stock, I'm just diversifying.
That's probably a net benefit for the USA. The same people will still accrue the benefits of mining, but without stressing domestic infrastructure.
>Excel [is] damn near unusable on anything complicated

There are billion dollar financial decisions with the most sophisticated financial models being made (rightly or wrongly) using Excel.

I'm sure you have had a bad experience, but saying excel can't handle complex things is not reality.
No.

You're taxed on how you're using energy. We're also taxed on how we use money. If we buy an electric car, we (used to) get a tax break.

You could see a tax break on energy used to charge an electric car, say.
That is probably the objective. Make it some other country's problem.
Those guys should not work in identity and access areas. Period. Only one reason says everything: they provide no support. Customers will be left in the cold, minus all their belongings.

But they may separate into several companies to avoid conflict of interests, if they prefer, this time with proper support and everything. Or they can be forced to do so, if they are too stubborn and will continue running their dystopian playbooks.

So, the situation is not strictly technical, it's much deeper than that. A blog post won't make a dent.
The level of confidence both sides give here is not warranted. We have no idea about what internal structures emerged within LLMs. We only know outer behavior.

From a humanist / secular perspective, humans evolved to make babies. Emotions are an emergent behavior to maximize the number of babies made, and their survival. Nothing less, and nothing more.

What analogues emerge when we train machines not to survive but to complete text?

We have no idea.

There's the "ghost in the machine" crowd, the sentient machine crowd, and the mechanical machine crowd. None have presented any compelling evidence, but all speak with complete confidence in their hypotheses.
What is the difference between computing crypto and something like Prime95 to discover new prime numbers?
I feel your pain as I am waiting to do the same.

Apparently it's not just the keycaps but also stuff like warranty, returns etc. - quite a lot of legal bullshit before the product can reach you.

I haven't seen any official announcement for a Ryzen Framework 16 though, so for me specifically it doesn't change much for now.
They should get what they fucking deserve jk of course
Personally I don't want to be dependent on a third party like Google or Apple for my identity. That's never going to be acceptable.

If they just accept normal Yubikeys (and multiple at a time for redundancy) that'd work for me but this passkey stuff where the vendor gets to decide things and I don't fully own my credentials is just wrong IMO.

I wonder if there's a fully self hosted passkeys option?

I'm also opposed to attestation. With TOTP I can use any app I want and back up my keys however I like. But Fido gives a lot of control to websites, they can choose what kind of authenticators or apps to accept. This can make it too easy to get locked into vendor solutions because they are the only ones every website trusts.
I used to entertain myself embedding various languages into Haskell, mostly hardware description related.

Usually, one goes with a static parameterization of a monad. But [1] shows that it is possible to have a dynamic parameterization, where underlying types of a state can change.

[1] http://blog.sigfpe.com/2009/02/beyond-monads.html

This means that we can control state types and, borrowing from ST monad, we can control introduction of resources and their use. If certain free type variable is in state, we can use associated resource. Deletion of resource is a deletion of free variable from a state parameterization.

All this is from 2009 or so.

The borrow checker of Rust is a library in Haskell, if you patient enough.

The purity of Haskell made many these libraries possible, exactly because we can control different side effects.
> If Google/Amazon/Apple/Meta/whoever locks your account out, you now lose access everywhere.

Fortunately, both iOS and Android also support "detachable passkeys" a.k.a. Yubikey and co. ("roaming authenticators" in WebAuthN/FIDO parlance).

Unfortunately, only Android is planning to offer [1] a first-party Passkey provider API, because that's what I'll probably be using 99% of the time (finding my external authenticator for every login is frustrating).

> Also, Passkey providers now get sweet sweet metadata about your accounts around the web.

To my knowledge, both Google's (for Android) and Apple's sync backends are end-to-end encrypted. I'm not sure if that includes the metadata as well as the private keys, though.

[1] https://developers.google.com/identity/passkeys/supported-en...
The time I was there, there was no subway connection within a mile of Javits. At least, not one that was open. I needed to connect from a subway to a bus to get there.

> the vast majority of people that live in NYC seem to do perfectly well without a car

Yes, you can work around a lot of public transport issues (and NY has many of those) by extending your walk. Which is unpleasant in many situations but absolutely possible. And yes, I wouldn't want to drive in NY either.

I also knew a few folks who live in the NY suburbs who have a car as well, for when they need to do something other than commute to work in NY.
> 1. Pandemic economic relief to offset otherwise lost wages due to restrictions is roughly equivalent to "injected money/liquidity from the sky"

> 2. Subsequent inflation

I dislike this representation a LOT because I have the feeling more money was distributed to business owners under the incredibly corrupt PPP loans, and then... it turns out corporate profiteering is the real driver of inflation.

People keep peddling this "giving people money in a pandemic caused all our problems" line, but it's just not true, it's not grounded in reality, and if it was a contributing factor, let's look at the other things that costed more...

Citizen's tax dollars being paid back to them when you can't leave your home is not a driver of inflation

Citizen's tax dollars being gifted to business owners who also proceeded to jack up their profit margins due to shocking price elasticity due to a complete lack of antitrust enforcement for 40 years is THE driver of inflation

It's amazing how on an article about VC you've both managed to argue that no one should write articles about VC and then blamed citizens for corporate-driven inflation.
This seems to be a night manager bringing their kids to work with them to work, not "McDonalds hired 10 year olds"

It's still concerning that the night manager felt the need to bring their kids into work with them. 2am fast food isn't exactly the safest job.
I’d be happier with a 99% tax on crypto mining, however I don’t see how this could enforced.
I'm really tempted to buy some ETH at this point, and I'm a crypto skeptic who owns nothing.

Smart move?
lol. I did my Chemical Laboratory Assistant Apprenticeship at exactly this place and my uncle just retired as a Chemist 5 months ago, working at Agroscope Liebefeld for over 30 years.
This is good info.

It would be nicer if they rephrased it "non-intel locked" to properly assign blame for the lack of modularity. This isn't a Ryzen thing.
They never claim to be open in that blog post, and on their about page they only say the laptop is open for repair and upgrade.
Actual text of proposal:

...

Any firm using computing resources, whether owned by the firm or leased from others, to mine digital assets would be subject to an excise tax equal to 30 percent of the costs of electricity used in digital asset mining.

Firms engaged in digital asset mining would be required to report the amount and type of electricity used as well as the value of that electricity, if purchased externally. Firms that lease computational capacity would be required to report the value of the electricity used by the lessor firm attributable to the leased capacity, which would serve as the tax base. Firms that produce or acquire power off-grid, for example by using the output of a particular electricity generating plant, would be subject to an excise tax equal to 30 percent of estimated electricity costs.

Except as otherwise provided by the Secretary, the term “digital asset” means any digital representation of value which is recorded on a cryptographically secured distributed ledger or any similar technology as specified by the Secretary.

The proposal would be effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023. The excise tax would be phased in over three years at a rate of 10 percent in the first year, 20 percent in the second, and 30 percent thereafter.

...

From: https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/131/General-Explanati...
A friendly nitpick: the word 'conductive' is a physics term. The term which means "tending to promote or assist" is 'conducive' with no 't', pronounced 'cundoosiv'.

> Something conducive "leads to" a desirable result. A cozy living room may be conducive to relaxed conversation, just as a boardroom may be conducive to more intense discussions. Particular tax policies are often conducive to savings and investment, whereas others are conducive to consumer spending. Notice that conducive is almost always followed by to.

* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conducive
Bing adoption. Microsoft wants to get a bigger piece of the ad pie, and they hired a former Yandex exec to run it if I'm not mistaken.
> that doesn't imply I might as well share the same password across all my accounts

Irrelevant to the argument I made. My argument already assumes you're using unique passwords, since it's made quite simple these days.
Wow that’s horrible. I’m so sorry you are going through that.

I agree, it seems the best option is to move. There’s a good amount of housing inventory right now and prices have come down a bit, if you sell and buy a new primary residence you won’t have to pay taxes either, which is good.

Best of luck, keep your spirits up.
Show HN: EmoLink – Novel(?) URL Shortener Using Emoji-Encoded UUIDs
Hi HN,
I've been a reader for more than a decade, but this is my first "Show HN."

A few weeks back, I figured out that I could use IRI to make a URL-safe encoding of a UUID using emoji, which takes it from 32 => ~10 chars! So, for fun, I made a novel(?) emoji-based, backendless, offline-capable, collision-free URL shortener.

Fun Surprises:

- Emoji links work almost everywhere (but not Twitter)
- Unique client-side ID generation means it's backendless and offline-capable!
- Infinite address space = less stress about bad actors.

Links and Stuff:

- Try it out: https://emol.ink/
- How it works: https://ericbaer.com/blog/emo-link
- The Code: https://github.com/baer/emo-link

Feature requests, comments, and PRs welcome!

Edit: Formatting Fixes
The model is not RLHF'd or instructed. It's an inline autocomplete model so it will get confused if you talk it like you're talking to a person. Altho it is possible to finetune it this way. To get better full function completion try giving it the function definition and a descriptive docstring as a prompt.
What you describe sounds awesome. Is it still something people could use? If the WebAuthn protocol gains broader support because Google/Apple are pushing passkeys then anything that speaks WebAuthn should be a viable option, right?

Disclaimer: I own 2 NFC rings :)
I think what stresses me out most right now is the idea that my life may be more than half over and I have a lot of stuff I want to do.

I really struggle with energy levels. I work hard at my job and I find myself unable to work effectively on the things I want to do after work and on my weekends. I waste a lot of time.

I've been in this holding pattern for years and I mostly cope by telling myself that I still have more time.

But recently realized my time is still passing. I'm trying not to fall into the mid-life crisis traps, doing some dramatic rash stuff because of this. But I wish I could find a way to break this holding pattern and do the work I want to do.

It's challenging. I hear about people who died early with super tragic cancer or heart attacks really young and I worry like hell that could be me without ever even starting the stuff I want to accomplish.
As someone who's neutral/vaguely positive on crypto (which is to say, it's gonna happen regardless of what any of us think of it) this is a great idea, simple and to the point. Mining crypto is (now DEFINITELY) wasteful; make it more expensive. I'd go higher, even.
> Quite frankly, we should view deliberately dropping old nuclear reactors into the ocean as a practical and economical method of disposal.

Imagine the optics! If this is a good solution it would most certainly have to be done by governments in secrecy.
This is cynical nonsense. Sure, Wall Street is so in charge that government policies of recent years have contributed to a wide slump in the markets. Why didn't they use that control to benefit themselves?

Sure, there's corruption in Wall Street. But if you believe they write the laws, then I have some penny stocks and SPACs from Chamath Palihapitiya to sell you.
'Top CEO', not 'Average CEO'. How much does LeBron James make in salary/endorsements/etc vs the average NBA player or Ronaldo vs the average professional soccer player?
Lots of things are intuitively noticed by human observers, only some of which exist. We are heuristic pattern-finding machines who believe in ESP and fairies: why wouldn't we also find mythology in the machines we build?
All in all, an extremely accurate article: "it can be argued that both the government and the church came into existence to protect economic oligarchs, by manipulating people into submission."
Hamas armed wing announces suspension of Bitcoin fundraising
The military wing of Hamas has stopped accepting cryptocurrency donations in order to ensure "the safety of donors and prevent them any harm".
Gee, thanks a bunch Paul. Specifically asking for reports though.
That's what it's best for, but personally I use it for everything. If I ever get into low-level code I'll probably use Rust though.

You can confirm that parsers/tokenizers is ranked "best in class" here though:

https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md
Correct me if I'm wrong, but...the example from the talk still wouldn't prevent the error in the article example at compile time? You can happily write INPUT instead of OUTPUT and it would compile without error?
To be honest, I don't know anybody in Europe who buys American cheese :D
Passwords can be both stolen (they are valid for multiple authentications) and are susceptible to phishing/MITM attacks.

TOTP/HOTP solves the first problem by making the credential provided during authentications single-use, but they're still susceptible to phishing/MITMs (since you don't know where you're entering your OTP).

WebAuthN solves both.

> What happens if i lost all my devices due to a fire?

Passkeys are synchronized to your device ecosystem vendor by default (i.e. Google or Apple, and soon also third-party password maangers on Android), for better or worse.
The number of cars isn’t fixed - this is the flaw in your analysis.
It seems pretty clear-cut that it just costs more to make them in other countries: "TSMC has complained a number of times that building fabs outside of Taiwan is significantly more expensive than building fabs at home."

I wonder if fabs in Africa or South America would be more expensive.
You might find this survey of Haskell's maturity of different use cases very useful:

https://github.com/Gabriella439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md
Yeah I get the count vs area distinction, but I think the point would have been more cleanly communicated with e.g. a stacked barchart with failures by quarter. With circles, the filled area over any span of the x-axis is not solely due to failures which happened during the corresponding time period. So the area above a short span in early 2010 includes area contributed by WaMu, which happened in Sept 2008.
> The solution, for you, is a cloud synced passkey manager

This is in fact the only possible solution you get on iOS, and the default solution on Android.
Freman, not "person".
Humans as lightbulbs: 3D human reconstruction from thermal reflection
I could take a picture of some roads around me if you like, and you can compare them to the goat path that existed between any two ancient cities that you like.

I think I remember reading that when the Matrix sequel came out, they spent something like $10 million building a 1-mile length of highway. I assume that this was neither much cheaper nor much more expensive than building the real would have been.

Which fallacy is it when you make a false equivalence between some gigantic construction product in the modern world, and someone having cleared some brush in the pre-modern world, all because we happen to use the same word to label both things?
I have... doubts. Already webauthn isn't prompting for passkeys on Apple. Chrome wants a bluetooth connection out of the box, and firefox does its own internal auth path that doesn't involve the OS.

Chrome and Edge on Windows are the only ones that prompt me for passkeys today (Firefox tries to use Windows for auth, which throws up a scary prompt).
That's not correct. They don't even mention the asset store in their annual reports or shareholder letters any more, but in 2020 the Asset Store revenue was part of a category that was less than 8% of revenue. Their main revenue drivers are their ad solutions and engine licensing for large studios.
Attributing Chrome's popularity to it being included in download.com bundles doesn't sound accurate at all. If anything, the "Download Chrome!" link on Google.com yielded far far more installations.

Chrome didn't even really catch on until 1-2 years after release when they finally added extensions and themes around 2010.

People liked Chrome because it really was a quantum leap over Firefox, which itself was a quantum leap over IE at the time. When Chrome was released and Google explained their tech decisions, it was a sea change. Everything they said in their illustrated comic about Chrome[1] made perfect sense and accurately predicted where web apps were moving to.

Google saw where the ball was going and designed Chrome accordingly. Isolated tab processes, seamless auto-updates, and a prioritization on JS performance were great bets that were copied by everyone else.

1. https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
Kangas: Pandas for Multimedia Datasets
I'd say a hallmark of an intelligent agent is knowledge seeking. You can only learn so much without venturing out into space.
IMO the US government has a big interest in trying to get American companies as big as possible, and to keep them in the US. Or maybe you can point out some things that the government has done (recently) to show the opposite?
Of the three languages that I deal with semi-frequently (JS, Python, and PHP), I have by far the least trouble with PHP's package management.
I fed it some OCaml and it worked, though the example was trivial:

type point = { x: int; y : int }
let manhattan_distance (a: point) (b: point) : int =

which it completed to

type point = { x: int; y : int }
let manhattan_distance (a: point) (b: point) : int =
abs (a.x - b.x) + abs (a.y - b.y)

...which is a valid and correct OCaml definition of this method:

https://try.ocamlpro.com/#code/type'point'='$4'x:'int;'y':'i...
The article says "Instead, passkeys let users sign in to apps and sites the same way they unlock their devices: with a fingerprint, a face scan or a screen lock PIN."

Does that not rather imply that, if I log in with faceid on an iphone, my login will be tied to my ability to faceid on an iphone, and hence only available on iphones and macs?

As a user, that's sounding a lot like platform lock-in to me.

And as a developer, if I want a way for users to log in without a password, and I don't mind that login mechanism being reliant on the user's account with apple / google / microsoft - wouldn't I just add a 'log in with apple / google / microsoft' button to my login page?
What does "fine tuning" mean in this context? Does it mean you fine-tuned it on a specific code repository, or collection of code repositories and then had it do work in those repositories?
Can't speak for GP, but the o365 Word is better than Google Docs as well. And while you can view Visio in o365, would be nice if you could edit the diagrams. Odd, but Visio is still imo much better than alternatives in that space.
In astronomy? Shouldn't that be biology?
I'm just starting to learn Haskell and I honestly can't fathom how it gets written in production. Everything requires so much more consideration, which is fun and valuable in some situations, but not when you just need to get the damn thing done in time for a deadline.

I'm not experienced enough to know, but it does feel like Haskell prioritizes "clever" code. Very beautiful, but hard to understand at a glance.
I find it interesting that they haven't rebranded "CNC" as something in Korean.
> Public transit leaves you totally dependent on the government.

Who do you think maintains the roads you're driving on?
It's a smart idea. Who is going to have sympathy for crypto miners? As a citizen, would you rather a Watt of power go to driving an industrial facility, heating a home, or making a Shibacoin? For most it's a very easy calculus.

Either they pay up, in which case there's a new revenue stream, or they don't, in which case energy prices will go down due to the lowering of demand. A win for the general public and an easy sell. Who said policy was boring?

Wonder how fast it will be copied elsewhere.
Ha, for me I'd invert your last sentence: I'm skeptical of being sure AI won't be sentient for the same reason.
I liked playing this game! The art style, animations, and overall messages were a really good experience! I look forward to sharing this with my friends later.
Unless I'm missing something embarrassingly obvious, redirecting HTTPS->HTTP doesn't help those use cases at all.
I keep saying that it's obvious that local execution is the future of LLMs. Remote execution makes a ton of sense for databases, and most web apps are on some level just CRUD over a remote DB, so we've all gotten used to the idea that in the 21st century a software business should be running remote servers… But LLMs don't need to run remotely, and they don't especially benefit from running remotely either (okay, more training data, but you can batch that and send it back asynchronously). The future is local.