skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the government can see every transaction you make?
The historical hype around Lisp is from back when the alternative was C
Sabine is either straw manning or didn't read the actual paper, because the whole point of Max's paper is that there's no substrate or quintessence beyond just the mathematical properties.

If her counter is that "No there isn't just mathematical properties", then what is there? What is a quark if not its mathematical properties?
What specific problems have historically been made better by "hanging all the journalists"?
where can i see the average size of changes in my repository?
The fact that enough people believe it makes it self fulfilling and thus true. And thus more believe it.

Very odd overall
GlobalFoundries claims German chip subsidies will 'distort competition'
It could potentially change energy storage. Superconductors with refrigeration are already used for this, but only in niche applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconducting_magnetic_energ...

I'm not an expert, and everything that follows comes from a quick reading of this Wikipedia article.

It seems like (counter-intuitively) refrigeration isn't a significant cost compared to all the other stuff that's necessary. So at first glance it seems like high-temperature superconductors might not make a big difference.

However, that Wikipedia article does say this:

> The critical temperature of a superconductor also has a strong correlation with the critical current. A substance with a high critical temperature will also have a high critical current. This higher critical current will raise the energy storage exponentially. This will massively increase the use of a SMES system.

Right now, superconducting energy storage has a lot of advantages, but it doesn't have very good energy density (by mass). Not even a tenth of what lithium-ion batteries have. I assume you couldn't power a car with it. But it has some compelling advantages in other areas. It has unlimited charge/discharge cycles. It has zero self-discharge. It has unlimited (in theory) power density, so you could charge or discharge it arbitrarily fast.

Depending on what the energy density ends up being, it might suddenly become way more useful. It would have to be a gigantic leap in energy density, though.

Also, not needing refrigeration could potentially open up smaller scale applications. Maybe you could have a residential superconductor storage system for your solar panels. (Although I don't know about its safety, so maybe not.)

All this assumes the cost to build it is reasonable compared to other alternatives, that the discovery is real, etc.
Maybe for two different definitions of conservative. But it seems easy enough to want to conserve something that the market will destroy, and to realize that one feasible way to do that is nationalization.
A material with no electrical resistance. Build a wire out of it and the voltage will be the same on both ends.
Almost no one that trades for a living, including finance professionals.

Lots of people saving for retirement do though.
I'm co-founder of Phylum (https://phylum.io), the group that originally identified/reported this campaign back in June [1] and that Github references [2] in their security alert. Happy to answer any questions about this campaign and any other supply chain attacks.

1. https://blog.phylum.io/sophisticated-ongoing-attack-discover...

2. https://github.blog/2023-07-18-security-alert-social-enginee...
It doesn't work. The article ends with:

> What’s more, drivers hate all the digital bullshit, from the janky touchscreens to the shitty, wildly insecure apps. Digital systems are drivers’ most significant point of dissatisfaction with the automakers’ products:
As long as using it remains optional, I don't mind that SSO systems exist. But I am personally allergic to them, so I fear the day that they are no longer optional.
Again, I am not a Worldcoin booster, but I also didn't say it had the same disadvantages. Everything has trade-offs, and Worldcoin has definite advantages against using a small piece of plastic with a bad 2D picture on it.
This is not the apocalypse
The magic words being "Secure Attention Key" (on multics in particular, it was specifically caught by the Front End Processor, so nothing in the OS could interfere by (for example) catching the signal and printing a fake login prompt, becauase it was literally a separate computer handling the request...)
But you specified JS/HTML, that's through the browser, and it doesn't have APIs for interacting with the OS as a normal language runtime does. JS on Node is about the same as PHP in this regard.
Here's one reader's attempt: the hidden factor seems to be "the ability of the collective consciousness to achieve a sufficient degree of internal coherence that it understands how the system works and can exercise agency to break the power of feudal lords". Reality changes -> comprehension has to catch up. New mediums of communication help a lot.

The resulting "agency" has historically been pretty violent, when the injustice and tension are too severe. So it's wise to constantly be course-correcting by recognizing the new skins of feudalism and wresting power away from its lords.
PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language
https://archive.is/L9zxI
Ah that's an excellent point about the foundries, I hadn't considered that. Also, in reflection, I'm being pretty handwavy about the "as soon as it was determined there was real money involved."

Honestly, I'd probably be pretty unsurprised to learn if the time difference between "big commercial interest" and "custom chips appear" is probably pretty similar for both cases.
It happened before because at that time the government(s) didn't give a damn.

Not true anymore.
What if your PC did not need cooling, because it generated no heat? How much more potent could computers be?
I find just small occasional annoyances. I tend to not use Apps, preferring web versions of Twitter, Reddit, etc., etc.

Reddit is the only platform that can look visually bad running in Lockdown Mode.

I do online banking and sometimes have consulting customers' data on my devices, so for me Lockdown Mode is worthwhile. Online and digital crime must surely be one of the largest business sectors on the planet, right?
This is the ultimate skeuomorphism.

Do we keep the Triglyph and metopes when we no longer have transverse wooden beams in our temples? Sure, we're still building a temple shaped object.

Do we keep the floppy disk and phone icons even though our system has no disk drive or handset? Sure, we're still shipping software that saves files and makes calls.

Do we make a box shaped as if to contain a video, even though we ship nothing and you own nothing? At least once! We'll see if you buy it.
I don't understand the smugness of Software Engineers' belief that pure remote is the only option. It seems short-sighted.

If everything is remote then companies don't care where they hire from. Whats the difference between you and an engineer from South America? Maybe you're a better engineer and maybe you are a better communicator in English. How much better? When do the scales tip? Why hire an engineer for over 200k who's remote in Wisconsin when you can hire one who's remote in Peru for $75k?

It might be better for you right now, but what about in 3 years or 10 years?
I agree with you, but I’m not sure making it taboo/criminal/a regulatory violation/prohibited/etc for device manufacturers to embed keys at manufacturing and enabling the resulting attestation capabilities is the right move either.

If I’m Apple, or Google, or Samsung, then I have a genuine interest in device attestation in my own ecosystem for various good reasons. Apple makes extensive use of this capability in servicing, for example. That makes sense to me.

That’s what I mean by a cat-out-of-the-bag technology. Threat actors, counterfeits, and exploits being what they are in this era, it’s almost an inevitability that these capabilities become a sort of generalized device hygiene check. Device manufacturers don’t have to provide these APIs of course, or allow the use of their device attestation mechanisms, but they’d be pressured to by industry anyway. And then we would have something else.

I do like your idea of having the platform bring keys to the table and requiring some kind of admin privileged action to make them useful. But I wonder if we had started that way with web attestation, would it inevitably turn into this anyway?
Looks nice!

I use LaTeX for my invoices, combined with the "rechnung.sty" module which allows creating the typical invoice layout.

The advantage is that I can use the scrlttr document class, which - if I call it correctly - can generate PDFs that perfectly fit in my country's (Switzerland) window envelopes when printed out.

And because I put all my base config in a reusable and importable file, every .tex file with an invoice is really short, essentially just the address and invoice positions.
Yeah I also just use Excel or Google Sheets, I guess this is useful for those without it
Group Theory for Kids?
I don't think the "holier-than-thou European smugness" is the reason why people lack workers' rights in the US. Most americans have never talked to a European person. But that certainly is the narrative some billionaire backed media is pushing. You only have the recourses you fought for. Having a culture where an organized workforce is not seen as rampant bolshevism would be a good start.
https://archive.is/oblrG
"I see you are not running an ad-blocker. Sorry, but I cannot in all seriousness allow you to view this site."
Japan’s indie game scene is growing up
Slashdev explicitly differentiated between commissions and spread which is what im responding to. So my point stands.
Web attestation would remove the need for captchas (reference to the web attestation threads)
Which they do. Many kinds of HFT trading strategies actually look a lot like a more mathematically rigorous version of technical analysis. It is very likely that they take all of the alpha that TA traders used to get.
Came here for this. Maybe Doctorwow tounge-in-cheek posted it on Medium since they knew you would be insta-blasted with a paywall gate?
US income tax inclusive of state taxes rolls to something like 33%...but then you have health insurance that, for many is FAR greater than 12%. If you include the cost of what your taxes get you, it is far greater than in the US.
Keep in mind that even with health insurance people still get multi-hundred dollar medical bills. Broken bones? Min of $1500.
Your first article:

> Lingering prenatal effects

So not “long influenza”.

“Lingering effects of influenza”, which I stated obviously can exist. Would you associate the words “long marriage” with “lingering effects of marriage”?

Not a single one of your sources used “long X” terminology. I wonder why that is? Perhaps because “long X” in the English language refers to either a large length or a large duration of time. Not “after effects”.

I suspect the authors of each paper knew this and intentionally made sure not to imply it was a continued disease. But I suppose when something is politicized people find it hard to move on, such as the COVID era.
https://archive.is/KKA2P
Mediterranean Sea reaches highest temperature ever
ChatGPT isn't the only AI. It is possible, and inevitable, to train other models specifically to avoid detection by tools designed to detect ChatGPT output.

The whole silly concept of an "AI detector" is a subset of an even sillier one: the notion that human creative output is somehow unique and inimitable.
I get that, and maybe I'm a dinosaur in terms of social network user expectations....but how can you not have that as part of your SOCIAL network? But I guess it's just a platform for surfacing whatever engaging content the platform designers can think up these days.
It's very common to post papers to arxiv while at the same time submitting the paper to a journal.
This reminds me of MRI which started out as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, but dropped "Nuclear" because of the stigma it carried.
Do you think that Doctorow was expecting at least 9 years till this putative war got started?
To prevent isp or mitm injection... ISPs have a history of injecting ads into http connections.
I think vouch not appearing might be a bug when somebody flags + unflags (I accidentally flagged, then unflagged, and it didn't revert the "flagged" state. Not showing vouch could be related). I've emailed dang.
No, it's to have multiple independent implementations of the same standards.

I can't tell if you are joking, what sort of fragmented hell do you want?
Can you explain what Bourbon is? People are making one-off references to it but I can't find a search query that results in anything relevant to climate or scientific scandals
Mass extinction event 260M years ago resulted from climate change
Asking questuon without cost and put nothing into effort to work toward an answer is not doing science.
Given you use private browsing a lot it might not be something you’re willing to trust, but I find Consent-o-Matic[0] to be fantastic and indispensable. I have it set to blanket deny all non-essential cookies and the mobile web is a far less miserable place now.

[0] https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/consent-o-matic/id1606897889
> "Family" doesn't mean employing you past the point it makes sense

Actually family does mean that, literally. It makes absolutely no sense to use this term in a business context.
People are just now fed up with those things, at their lowest point in history?
I’ve found it a bit tough usually to make sense of all model updates from OpenAI - which models are getting deprecated, which new ones are coming, etc.

I’m a visual thinker, so I created a simple infographic that hopefully puts everything neatly for anyone to understand

Here is the link with both the images: https://www.reddit.com/r/GPT3/comments/1596j95/understanding...
Yep. Not to mention LLMs bringing down language / cultural barriers.

We're digging our own graves here.
That's an API someone has to write, and Google just burned down Analytics for no particular reason. It won't happen. The UTM parameters were a Schelling point. They won't be replaced because once you try to coordinate something else, Apple will block that too, so no one is going to bother trying. Google will be happy to just keep the data to themselves instead of sharing with others.
"We're not firing you for discussing your wages, we're firing you for leaking proprietary individual labor budget information with unauthorized employees."
I have several friends, programmers, who brag about their big concentration powers.

But can you turn it off?

To concentrate one on thing is to ignore 1000 things. If that can't be turned off, becomes habitual, permanent, fades to invisibility as constants and habits generally do, one might be suffering from a massive distortion of perspective and not even know it.
You don't believe in the 𝕏 utopia?
I think not just maglev: a lot of typical bearings could possibly be switched from ball / roll to maglev, saving a lot on friction and maintenance.

Undersea cables are a pie in the sky; current high-load cables in urban an industrial areas could be made much smaller, simpler, and lossless.

I wonder if transformers, currently huge and expensive, could be made better with this, too; at least the ohmic losses could be removed, and thus a lot of need for cooling, and the fire hazards.
Perfect, thank you a ton.
Let's hope so. The easiest way to convince the world that you have a room temperature superconductor is to make up a big batch of samples and offer to distribute them to national labs for testing. First test, does it levitate a small permanent magnet, demonstrating diamagnetism?
All of those elements are so common - this should be easy to test. We'll see.
Also see the equivalent chart on GapMinder.

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$bubble$encod...

You can plot other types of charts like bar plots or bubble charts for lots of country statistics.
I agree that it's a better choice for web development purely from technical standpoint (so ignoring things like smaller market for devs), but I'm biased towards it.

And yes, when it comes to AI, things also could change in favour of Elixir - I would be pretty happy about it.
But this is exactly the quiet please reproduce? It's a preprint posted to arxiv, with a very easy to follow material synthesis process in the supplemental materials section?
> Except /e/OS then throws that out the window

I checked your link, I don't see the connectivity check listed there. Can you please elaborate?

> And /e/OS is still 224 days behind Chromium updates

Did I mention anything at all about Chromium updates? Or is it just to add a link to your website?
https://archive.is/1dsuE
Mandelbrot (of the set) studied the effectiveness of technical analysis and wrote about it in The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. This PDF [1] has a summary of the findings.

Spoilers: The math shows TA's bullshit.

[1] https://users.math.yale.edu/users/mandelbrot/web_pdfs/getabs...
He's saying to pour yourself a stiff drink ;-)
The more I read about Rust, the more I've come to respect it. I still think:

* It's a specialized tool not suitable for all (or even most) projects

* It needs a bit more time to both develop as a language and ecosystem

But it's clear that it's not half-assed and a lot of thought went into it.

Interesting to hear about Go's development as well. It was starting to pick up when I was in college, and now it's had a few more years. Bit disappointing to see it's so messy.
I think that makes a lot of sense, both of my parents hate traveling. The point of my post was just to suggest that the parent's opinion wasn't universal, that some of us really do actually like traveling. There are obviously aspects of it that aren't great in the moment, cramming into a plane, jet lag. But generally those aspects are worth the rest of the experience.
Under capitalism, the wealthy class tend to be the trendsetters and tastemakers, if no reason other than they can afford the biggest billboard and most magnified microphones, so I don't see a path to the solution you've described, if you believe that societal trends need course correction away from this.
Could we not add invisible characters into the text a bit like a water mark?
Do those allow multiple versions of the same dependency? With npm and cargo (as opposed to composer, etc.) you are never forced to resolve those types of conflicts so you can just keep installing dependencies forever without ever having to trim the tree.
you can do this in office / hybrid too. It wasn't uncommon when FAANG hiring was ebbing and flowing or people would leave to come back at those places (some FAANGs have weird policies on promoting internally vs externally. It was sometimes easier to leave and comeback)

I worked somewhere where we always had a dozen boomerang FAANG engineers, the practice stopped when everyone realized they were coasting often and getting way to close to deadlines, had poorer than expected engineering output etc.
It has too many syllables.
Okay, but we have a name for people who think concepts normally exist in some fuzzy way…
>Specifically, you have a business relation with whatever website you are going to that serves you ads. That website has a clear interest in helping their ad-platform attribute ads on their website. After all, that website depends on those ads for your income.

Just a nit, "...that website depends on those ads for their income," not mine.

But yes, you're correct. And I do, in fact, aggressively block ads and the trackers/spyware/malware that goes with them.

And website owners are well within their rights to block me from viewing their site if (when, actually) I refuse to view their ads -- a point I've made in perhaps a half-dozen comments here on HN just in the past 12 months or so.

And I'm fine with that. For exactly the same reasons I gave for not wanting anything to do with ads/trackers/spyware running on my private property -- a site is the website owner's private property and they should be able to "charge a cover fee" (i.e., require that I view ads) to view the content of that site.

But WEI doesn't change that dynamic even a little. Rather, it forces me to give up control of my private property and privacy whether I want to do so or not.

I'd add that the "benefit" here isn't giving website owners the option to block me if I don't wish to view the ads run on their site -- they can already do that without WEI. In fact, some sites already do so. The only "benefit" AFAICT is that the ad platforms would now have enormously more information (in that they can now track me everywhere with a cryptographic signature regardless of any steps I might take to protect my privacy) to validate ad impressions and reporting metrics for the advertisers.

The result is that website owners have the same capability they've always had, but now I'm forced to subsidize some of the richest companies in the world with my electricity, CPU cycles, data, network bandwidth, browsing history, and likely my PII.

That's what I object to.

>In that case, there remains an argument of "if we don't do attribution the entire web is worse off, so we solve the tragedy of the commons by 'making the right decision' in the defaults for the user-agent". But that argument is clearly unreasonable to me.

Yes, it is unreasonable. I take great pains (I never log in/create accounts on any Google properties, block trackers and "analytics," self-host my email and content I wish to share in the Internet, etc., etc., etc.) to maintain at least a semblance of privacy, which is already a time/cost sink for me.

And these rapacious scumbags want me to jump through more hoops and run their code on my systems just so they can charge advertisers more for shit I don't want anyway? I'll say it again: Fuck. That. Noise.

tl;dr: Websites can already (and I support their ability to do so) block me (or anyone else) who runs an ad blocker from viewing their site. As such, the only folks that will have new capabiliities/benefits from WEI are ad platforms and advertisers. With whom I have no relationship whatsoever and don't want their spyware to execute on my private property.
They have photographs of that on page 7 of the sister paper: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2307/2307.12037.pdf

Would love 3rd party confirmation as well, of course.

Edit: Here's a video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVjGWpbE7k
Im not buying this argument. Hes not suggesting its foolproof so its reasonable that he would want a lower risk/reward vehicle.
TBH, a properly-administered polygraph is probably more accurate than OpenAI's detector (of course, "properly administered" requires the subject to be cooperative and answer very simple yes or no questions, because a poly measures subconscious anxiety, not "truth")
If some version of TA worked, then as soon as enough traders adopt that version of TA, it would stop working.

That is not to say that no versions of TA will work. After all Long Term Capital made a fortune on reversion to the mean...right until they went bankrupt. (And then their portfolio went on to make a fortune again. Too bad they were insolvent.) But it will only continue to work if the trading strategy is not widely known, or comes with trading risks.
No, but they might be doing it to save on incident response, time wasting, protect IP, and meet a certain security standard in the future.
You wouldn't want the browser updates without OS and library updates. It'd do something like call a new system call and crash.
Superconductors will typically levitate if placed above a magnet, and vice versa. Magnets are weird--superconductors even more so. I assume that's what they were referring to?

Edit: Judging by Fig 4, which has a large object conspicuously labeled "magnet", that's probably what they're referring to.