skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Tom have recent writings on this? I could only find news articles from 2022.
> If the internet contains shitty solutions for solving a problem, it’s going to recommend shitty solutions.

Have you ever noticed how the dumbest people tend be be the loudest, most confident, and most eager to share their opinions? Those are the voices that trained ChatGPT.

It’s a hard pass for me, but I fear I’m going to be forced to used it because the dumbest half of humanity will view it as a peer and use it for everything.
This makes the assumption that the only characters in the string are "s" and "p". There is no basis for this assumption. I think this code solves a different problem rather than being an optimisation of the original code.
Ah, apologies you’re correct.
The fundamentals of these frameworks are not inherently bad. The main problem is that they are treated as the checkbox solution that should be implemented regardless of context.

If you take your IT security work seriously you will in most cases already fulfill the requirements stipulated in the frameworks, and if you are setting out to get started with more structured approach they are a good place to start.

What cannot be understated however is the need for context, IT security is a set of choices that determine where you will have exposure and those business risk. For any business these will be different, as regulation and value creation differs. Exactly as any other risk management, but for some reason this does seem difficult for most to understand.
sad to see
When I opened the comment section, it said "404 Comments".

Now, I am not superstitious, but...
Yes, DNS is good enough for organizations (though I should note that governments don't rely on DNS registrars, they run their own). The crucial difference is that organizations can hire people to care about those things, or hire lawyers to ensure they can be recovered if accidentally lost. And in fact many of these organizations change domains in the longer run for various reasons. So even there, DNS is often only used as a solution to identity at one point in time, it's not meant as a permanent solution for the entire life of an organization.

For individuals, the cost of losing your domain is far too high if it means losing your identity on multiple services at the same time. And, if nothing else, people eventually die, so domains will be lost by their original owner and then re-used, breaking the notion of identity again in the longer run.
Thank you both for your comments. I'm going to check out Nix(OS) before reformatting my SSD.
It gives people a choice, if they want the more moderated experience they can go with threads, if they want a more free for all then Twitter. Competition is a good thing.
I know this is the mantra, but my experience has been highly mixed and only generalizable to how low in the stack it sits.

For, say, security implementations for authorization and access controls, or even low level HTTP request routing? Absolutely. The goal there is to adhere to something standard and battle tested by experts, and the third party libraries tend to be fewer in number, and of higher quality, with longer term support and clearly defined upgrade paths.

But that’s the lower level stuff, where your special custom needs are superseded by the primary goal of just “doing the one right thing”, or “adhere to the commonly agreed upon standard”.

For all the other things that make an app unique - things like CSS frameworks, UI components (beyond basic, accessibility-minded building blocks), chart drawing, report generation and caching - my experience has taught me otherwise, the hard way.

Being stuck using a 3rd party library that doesn’t do what the client or business needs it to do, having to juggle our own internal patches and bug fixes with updates to the library itself, all only to have the library abandoned or deprecated in favor of the author’s next pet project, really sucks and often comes with a high opportunity cost and a high development cost.

I now consider third party implementations of higher level features (and especially anything front-end) to be something that needs to be evaluated as equally costly as an internal implementation by default, and not favored just because somebody else wrote it.

Maybe I’ve just been unlucky in my experience, though. I also suspect ecosystem makes a difference. The PHP and JS ecosystems are full of poor libraries with snake oil sales pitches. I suspect this is different with, say, Rust.
The features are for the bankers, not for you.
wow! this is an amazing site! I'm about an hour from Albuquerque, and if this place has an in-person store I'm going to have to make a pilgrimage!
Yeah, I was addressing both Mastodon and BlueSky in my comment.
>If something happens to that server instance then I'm basically losing my "identity".

This is why Mastodon instances should be run by user-owned nonprofit cooperatives so that there's accountability on the day to day operations to the people who depend on it and there's policies around continuity of service. This doesn't have to be hard, and it already fits into existing legal frameworks.
Now, imagine the same problem, but for a kid who didn't really have a lot of exposure to English in his daily life.

I both loved and feared those moments in early adventure games: all good, moving on with the story and then... am I an idiot? Is this part of the game puzzle, or I have to iterate all the dictionary words again?
Have just read the Reddit post in question and am curious about something you've mentioned here. You theorize that the OP may have had help from high-level Reddit admins as part of an attempt to appear targeted by INTELOPS. In your opinion, is it plausible that the OP themselves is 3-lettered or an asset thereof? Would this not explain certain unusual features of both the post itself as well as the underlying mechanisms that facilitated it's appearance and growth?
For instance, the appearance of high-level admin help or the seemingly extensive knowledge in a very exclusive, knowledge dense field.

Just curious...
https://techinch.com/

Inconsistently updated, but it's been the one constant across my career. An early article hitting Hacker News' homepage (https://techinch.com/blog/ipad-the-microwave-oven-of-computi...) was the early spark to keep me writing.
They all can and already do it afaik.

This is just "allowing" them to actually use what gets collected in court instead of having to do so much parallel construction to pretend they can't.
Meh. SystemD makes me nervous. One system that does so much and can rewrite my BIOS. I may have to just go back to VMS.
Josephson Voltage Standard
Next step: open a criminal case for attempted fraud with your local prosecutor.

I find it outrageous that we simply let it slide that companies lie to avoid fulfilling their legal obligations, and count it as a victory if we can get them to pay up eventually. Where are the consequences?
No, it's really a fundamental problem with DNS. Owning a DNS name is, by design, a temporary deal. Ultimately the domain name system is meant to help give a user-readable name to your IP, not to establish your identity for your entire life.
Put this line in html:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom feed" href="https://blog.nawaz.org/feeds/all.atom.xml">

UPD: type="application/atom+xml" for Atom, type="application/rss+xml" for RSS
Frankly to me it's not the productivity loss, which might be minimal, but just that people who do that automatically look dumber.
DHT based naming systems (GNS, IPNS, Tor Onion names), Blockchain based naming systems, Web-of-Trust style naming, there's lots out there.
The US and UK do this too, intelligence agencies routinely break the law with no consequences.
or 10, for example
http://www.consumertronics.net/policies.htm is impressive. Some choice nuggets:

“Typically, most entities which interface with the public do not provide callers and emailers the complete or accurate identities of their responders, neither do we, so please do not ask for the identity of any person you are communicating with. This is because GPS trackings of phone calls and ISP trackings of emails occur and pose high security risks to our personnel if they divulge exactly who they are and/or where they are or will be located on any day or time.”

“NOTE: John Williams never buys, sells, trades, gives away or distributes customer information about any of his good customers (i.e. "good customers" are Buyers who pay for Items in full within 30 days of sale, and who don't try to steal from, extort, scam, threaten or harass Williams or anyone else) (about 95% of all of Williams's Online auction site customers are good customers).”

(nothing said about the other 5%, haha)

“WHAT WE DO, ESPECIALLY RELEVANT TO MIND CONTROL, ELECTRONIC ATTACK AND ENERGY R&D, IS CONTROVERSIAL, SO WE MUST TAKE EXTRA STEPS TO PROTECT OURSELVES AND OUR CLIENTS.”

“Whether or not related to Consumertronics business, any visit to our facilities which is not with our clear, written, prior permission, or so permitted by us based on a fraudulent, erroneous or deceptive representation by the visitor, is an unauthorized visit which automatically results in a non-refundable Unauthorized Visitor Fee (UVF) for each visitor and for each visit for which the visitor assumes total personal liability for paying. The amounts of the UVFs are set by us based on our perception of the real and potential injury to us caused by the visitor and visit, as well as the amount of our time and inconvenience for the unauthorized visit. The UVF amounts may vary between $0 and $1,000,000+ per visitor per visit. UVF fees are independent and separate from all other fees, charges and costs the unauthorized visitor may be required to pay.”
Per-service identities, as we have them right now. Alternatively, government issued and policed identities.
You very much can delete the app separately to Instagram, what a weird headline
Threads was built by 10 Engineers, upon Meta's infrastructure by thousands of engineers.
The free advertisement they get by potentially being sued by twitter surely helps https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66129215
It shouldn't if the control flow is actually identical.

E.g. note how both the switch- and if-based functions generate the same code using a lookup table here:

https://godbolt.org/z/qoT3M7r5G
- Payments, particularly from P2P transactions. If I send you money, and then you request the deletion of your profile, there's plenty of complexity there.

- Enforcement records from illegal content / violating content

- Local data cache for offline mode in mobile apps

I'm not saying all of these apply to "Threads". But there are tons of edge cases to consider that need code changes t o behave as expected.
your best fit is product manager.
Actually the best is not to get another job if you have some savings but to start another business again. I am 35 too and just quit my job. I no longer want to participate in the rat race. I no longer want to sell my time/freedom. I want to create products that I can leverage. I want to work for my own vision and equity. I live in a country with low cost so I can probably last 3 to 5 years with my current savings.
app.net was supposed to make sense as a name because it was supposed to be like a Sandstorm or Chrome Web Store for social apps, with a feed engine like getstream.io at its core.
Hreads already has over 95M posts
Just because your neighbour is doing morally questionable acts, doesn't mean you are getting carte blanche for you. So your first argument doesn't hold.

Your second argument might hold but you are not providing anything. I reject the premise that criminals are more tech savvy than regular citizens.

I would be more likely to support this law if somehow i was proved it wouldn't be used against peaceful ecologists and Macron protesters.
Positive change starts with someone acting on the thought "it doesn't have to be this way."

Fatalism and cynicism are comfortable because they don't ask you to do anything.

Cynicism is ultimately resigned consent.

How many security professionals here have actually sent a thought out letter to their congressperson or the NIST directly? How many people who express the negativity in this thread have tried to e-mail someone in a position of institutional authority or a tech related think tank? How many people have given government service a try? How many people have waited for a security catastrophe and then e-mailed someone who might be able to change policy? How many people have looked up a law and tried to reverse engineer who wrote it and who can influence it?

How many people have tried and failed?

When everyone thinks like yourself, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Last time AMD was 9 USD per share was Q4 2016. That is a LONG time ago. What made you bet on AMD at that time? I'm still shocked how fast AMD turned around. And I cannot see the end of Intel's slow slide into dinosaur tech company, similar to IBM, HP & Compaq.
Whaaaaat, how are you getting 100ms per token on an 5 year old potato without a graphics card?

Like, not vaguely hand wavey stuff, specifically, what model and what inference code?

I get nothing like that performance for the 7B models, forget the larger models, using llama.cpp on a pc without an nvidia GPU.
> who wishes to have an easy API for graphics programming, and anyone who doesn't want to do that just uses an engine or high-level graphics API.

I'm guessing this niche is just pretty small in commercial sense; most people probable end up just using UE/Unity/... as their graphics API.
nothing they can do afaik. these capabilities are built in at the hardware level in the baseband processor.
Pascal's wager only works if you presuppose that gods don't care about beliefs in other gods. What if they are fine with atheists, but despise those who believe in false gods? Even the christian god is described as jealous! So it doesn't seem safe to believe in any god, on account of not angering the "real ones" due to misbelief.
It’s not clear if their license terms would hold, for the moment just act and worry later.

Update:
That is only true for the legal system I am currently residing in. No idea about e.g. the US.
Petals

Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

https://petals.ml/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34215665

DEMO:
http://chat.petals.ml/

NETWORK:
http://health.petals.ml/
>Nothing about society or college was comparable pre-industrial revolution, unless maybe you came from wealth and are comparing the life of aristocracy. What's your inheritance?

We must be talking past each other.

I was saying that being a farmer, or not being a farmer, but with no more formal education than a typical farmer, was brutal.

People that could've done a hundred things with a college education spent their lives doing back breaking physical labor until they couldn't stand any more.
> A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_build_automation_sof...
This would require people to pay, which is a non-starter for most users.
A superb writer. My favorite story of his is Hell is the Absence of God, which I think is one of the few science fiction stories to actually engage with religion in a meaningful way.
It's not about what people in Vietnam see and how much money it loses. It's about message it sends, you can't simply push an agenda and get away with it.
This article reads like GPT generated. Very superficial and general understanding of the subject matter.
As other pointed out, this is probably just down to terrible airline IT. I don't know if AF/KLM are worse than others but it's remarkable just how bad it is.

Recently they had a bug where once you selected a seat for one flight in a booking you were blocked from any later seat selection in that booking. The only way to fix it was to call customer service.

I'm lucky enough to have access to the platinum line. You get to talk to people who are pleasant, competent and have sufficient authority to actually get things done. This should be the experience for every call to customer service but I guess it would be too expensive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230707064008/https://ktxr.rs/d...
Yes from 1986 to 1996-99. It is legal since then.

Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiffrement#En_France (in french)
The sad part is that most of the people are using a higher level API like PyTorch. So AMD or Intel just need a simple low level API to access their HW, and then write and tune some kernels for PyTorch (and I suspect the community or AI will gladly help with the tuning). So basically there does not seem to be a real CUDA lock-in, it's just the fact that the competition still seems unable to do even this.
I have never met a chat bot that worked. I try the same question worded 6 different ways, I try asking it to connect me to an actual fucking human being. If it even does I still get stuck in a choice menu at first, which half of the time tells me that I can get help with this via their chat bots and disconnects.

Fuck chat bots and the money-saving horse they rode in on.
It has its quirks on occasion and has changed a bit but has been around since 2007 and still going great.
> Not launching in the EU is a massive red flag on the data hoovering ambitions facebook have for threads

Not really. It just means they don’t want to wait for EU compliance to launch. It’s fairly standard to have an EU lag for feature releases, in the same way there is a lag for releasing certain content in Asia or financial products in the United States.
I think the correct perspective is that they lie as an organization. Sure individually maybe no single person is obviously lying, but as a whole they certainly are.
I write various stuff at various times.

https://blog.torh.net/
>wielding one's body is a mental activity. While my strength hasn't increased, my coordination is now well above average...

First part is true and it brings up the question why Professor Xavier did not controlled his body with his telepathic powers?

The second part is not true. If one can coordinate to fire more muscle fibers at once, one can exert more power.

I also do not like that two superintelligent beings are fighting. It is such a bad trope. From what I know, these of intelligence quotient above 160 usually are interested in their work and life and rarely exhibit any, let me say, non-normal behavior.
Scrolling – GameBoy Graphics (explained) [video]
Wonderful story.

I can recall reading this for the first time two years ago. I opened the book and started reading at 11:00p as I was winding down for the evening, thinking that I'd spend 30 minutes reading before I got too tired to keep my eyes open and turn in for the night.

I very quickly got sucked in and found myself LEANING into the story. Within 45 minutes I was energized and sitting upright in my bed. I was fully alert and HAD to keep going. It was invigorating. After I completed the story I stayed awake for another 2 hours. Coasting on the inertia of this story. I was wired and inspired.

Who needs drugs when you've got masterful storytelling like this?
MIT Discursions: Architecture Machine Group (1983) [video]
part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU9o1GSZt_s
Milchakov was seen on a Wagner photo in Syria and "allegedly since the summer of 2017 a group of 6 people from Rusich fought in Wagner" ("С осени 2017 года у Вагнера в строю якобы целая группа из «Русича» – шесть человек.") [0]
So much for Rusich being a part of Wagner. The same source says Wagner killed 5 fighters from Rusich guarding one of Donbass warlords.

"so for all intents and purposes they were both part of it"

Not really. Rusich is a dirty secret just like Utkin's personality. They are not legitimized in any way. Azov with the Wolfsangel on their banner and Aidar are openly ultra-nationalist and touted by Kyev as heroes.

[0] https://www.fontanka.ru/2017/10/19/101/
And meanwhile everybody from 18 to 30+ that lives paycheck to paycheck, without a possibility of getting into a mortgage, without being financially stable enough to become parents, get nothing.

Also, "everybody" will get 20k? Even people that are rich? What is the reasoning behind that?

Too many edges to sand down in this proposal.
Keep in mind though, some of the generated text is against their guidelines, you will see a warning when you get there and be told it's "flagged" and you should use the moderation API. The chat API is nerfed to oblivion, good luke making it generate non PC text
There's no part of anything I posted that required straight lines.

Whether you use structured code (straight lines and spacing) or squiggles (spaghetti code) is up to you as the developer implementing the requirement.
But not your account
https://jeroenpelgrims.com/

As eclectic as my interests.
> Can you say specifically what goes too far?

Twenty-eight independent data regulators on a complain-investigate model. I’ve seen folks bury early-stage competitors with regulatory inundation as an effective, if unethical, strategy. Zero chance Musk wouldn’t have armadas of randos complaining raining in on Threads.
In my German news podcast, they did complain about the „Th“ difficult pronunciation. It’s difficult.
Great response, love your project. I'm a big music nerd and did a bunch of work in radio for a while.

Personally I think that this project is really onto something, I can see music visualization being a really great integrated feature into a lot of different pieces of software, such as in a spotify player, or ableton, youtube etc...

I think that your idea is in the right place but your go to market motion needs some work as other people pointed out. I don't know if you're going to find a lot of solo producers, or individual devs willing to pay 8$ a month for this.

I could see there being a generous free tier and then having it scale as the use of the product increases. There are also other options for changing monetization.

If you want to talk about this more, I work with companies a lot to discuss pricing strategy and gtm motions. Feel free to ping me my contact info is in my profile.
Namecheap is the worst company possible for this, because it's trivial to trick them into removing domains. Here's a reminder that a troll managed to get them to remove domains, through Twitter, by claiming that they were run by Russians.
How do you know you aren’t violating it?

Even with the best of intentions, these laws can be labyrinthian and ambiguous, and therefore expensive to (try to) observe. And there is still always the risk that you are found guilty of something. For a small or medium business, you are likely to be far enough out of the radar to avoid issues. But as a large company you may easily end up in legal crosshairs, costing millions or billions of euros, even if you ultimately prevail. And if you lose…
I bought AMD at around $1.50 and sold at around $2.50 and congratulated myself at the time for how well I did :)
GPGPU was a thing well before that! In 2004, it was ready covered in a few chapters of GPU Gems 1, increasing to 18 chapters of the 2005 GPU Gems 2, which including an FFT implementation.

https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems2/part-iv-genera...

I don’t remember it getting much more traction after that: as soon as CUDA was released, end of 2006, it was game over.
The past section resonated with me. I spent some time building a personal timeline during COVID. Parts of the interface are exactly like you designed them, but the screenshots are outdated.

This project is partly abandoned mainly because it’s impossible to get the data out of various silos. I only get geolocation and photos now, and even that relies on very specific software that is nontrivial to set up. It’s just not elegant.

https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/timeline

I love your website design, especially the mockups. How do you make those?
https://archive.ph/sLBI5
"those naive, brainwashed fools in Western countries"

You might be right, actually. Naive and brainwashed Americans supported criminal invasion of Iraq in 2003 on the false pretext. And reelected Bush afterwards. So don't underestimate the power of Western domestic propaganda.
Escaping High School
Great, so why do you link to it then?