skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rereading it I agree, I misunderstood it. I guess this bit got me though "Even if we accept that psychedelics are medicinal, there's still the paradigm that you only take medication when you are sick, and it has to be the right medication too". Taken recreationally, why should you need to take them for any other reason then you enjoy them? With care and moderation of course.

By the way I love this bit (commenting on the article, not what you said).

"Why wasn’t there a global vogue for eating San Pedro cacti or tripping on morning glory seeds in the same era when global consumers embraced so many other novel drugs?"

Try it and find out, just keep a bucket nearby.
If i make an analogy to p=np.

If someone claimed to have a complex proof, i dont think people would stop and drop everything.

If someone claimed to have a constructive solution to p=np, claimed to have implemented it, and put the code on github - yeah i think lots of people would drop everything to run it and see if it works.

Im not a physicist, but maybe with the relative ease on making this material (according to other comments) it is more like the second situation.
If this material does just what they say it does, what would it revolutionise?

Or as the article talks about, is this just a pointer at other possibilities that would be the real game changers?
they said "detection" not "destruction"
Including the text since it’s pretty illuminating:

>Holdback

>To protect against both risks, we are evaluating whether attestation signals must sometimes be held back for a meaningful number of requests over a significant amount of time (in other words, on a small percentage of (client, site) pairs, platforms would simulate clients that do not support this capability). Such a holdback would encourage web developers to use these signals for aggregate analysis and opportunistic reduction of friction, as opposed to a quasi-allowlist: A holdback would effectively prevent the attestation from being used for gating feature access in real time, because otherwise the website risks users in the holdback population being rejected.

>Although a holdback would prevent the attestation signal from being used for per-request enforcement decisions, there remains immense value for measurement in aggregate populations.

>However, a holdback also has significant drawbacks. In our use cases and capabilities survey, we have identified a number of critical use cases for deterministic platform integrity attestation. These use cases currently rely on client fingerprinting. A deterministic but limited-entropy attestation would obviate the need for invasive fingerprinting here, and has the potential to usher in more privacy-positive practices in the long-term.

>We ask for feedback from the community group on the idea of a holdback, and are very interested in alternative suggestions that would allow both goals to be met.

To me this is very clearly stating there needs to be some mechanism that forces website developers to not block access based on the results at attestation so as to allow clients to opt out. I’m not seeing the “maybe we could this,” interpretation, instead I’m seeing “we need to do something to allow client opt out, here’s one such way (with issues)”
Everyone always gets upset at me when I bring this up. The infamous fatal "autopiloted" Model X crash in the Bay Area happened because the road lanes were painted to drive the car into the narrow side of a jersey barrier. The next day a near fatal accident happened in the exact same spot, likely because Caltrans as an organization has little to no liability and generally doesn't stay on top of freeway conditions.

There is an intersection in Houston that is one of the most dangerous in the USA that kills a dozen people a year due to poor design and planning from TxDOT. There are probably hundreds of intersections like this around the country that will need to be fixed.

If I go paint road lines into a wall painted like a tunnel, are the drivers who hit the tunnel wall responsible, or is it me who painted the road lines?
I wanted to write some proper feedback on the GitHub repo, but they've closed issues and PRs. Until they open it back up again, here are my thoughts on the spec:

- Mozilla is already publicly and officially opposed (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/852#is...), on principle ("Any browser, server, or publisher that implements common standards is automatically part of the Web") as well as on technical concerns around the safeguards and downsides of the proposal.

- WebKit is not committed to a position, but has mentioned several concerns (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/234):

"We have Private Access Tokens (aka Privacy Pass) for some of the claimed use cases of this spec. We think it's a more privacy-respecting solution. The Explainer isn't very clear on why specifically Web Environment Integrity is better. It mentions a feedback mechanism, but not the specific mechanism. It also exposes more info to the page. The Explainer claims this spec is necessary because Privacy Access Tokens don't support feedback from websites on false positives / false negatives, however, neither the spec nor the explainer include a feedback mechanism. Without more specifics, we would not be enthusiastic about duplicating an existing standards-track solution for the same use cases."

- Vivaldi is clearly opposed, per this blog post.

- Holdback as a mechanism is a weak defense against abuse. Some potential stakeholders are already suggesting to scrap holdback to support their use-cases (https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...), leading to the possibility that it may not even be part of the final standard. Holdback is not technically enforced: a user agent can choose not to hold back, and if they are sufficiently popular they may induce web site operators to rely on their signal (at least for that browser) which would have the exact "DRM" effect that the proposal claims to avoid. The exact implementation of holdback matters a lot: if it's e.g. per-request, a site can simply ask repeatedly; if it's per-session or per-user, a malicious agent can pretend to be heldback the entire time.

- Since holdback is being touted as essentially the only defense against "DRMing" the web, it's a real mistake to have it be so poorly specified. The way it's currently specified makes it sound more like an afterthought than a serious attempt to mitigate harm.

- Compared to Private Access Tokens, WEI leaks far more information. WEI allows attesters to provide arbitrary metadata in their (signed) attestation verdict, whereas PAT tokens are fully opaque and blindly signed. Furthermore, PAT tokens can be in principle obtained through alternate attestation mechanisms (e.g. captcha, authentication, ...) without leaking the details of how that attestation is performed. WEI does not provide for this, and instead is designed around explicitly validating the "web environment".
"Are those Z-80s cache-coherent?" is not a thought I ever expected to have.
Maybe they are trying to subtly steer our planet out of the way of an extinction event meteor with ballistics - and we’ve accidentally steered the meteor back into a collision course!
If you want to play around with Stable Diffusion XL: https://clipdrop.co
Please explain how you made this connection.
Oh wow, I just went through a red light onto a highway at night. Better go back and do it again while operating a phone.
This is an extremely useful summarization of the original paper.

> The authors believe that the modified/strained structure of their material creates a large number of “quantum wells” between particular lead atoms and the adjacent oxygens of the phosphate groups bound to them, in effect making a two-dimensional “electron gas”. They propose that electron tunneling between these quantum wells, which are between 3.7 and 6.5 Ångstroms apart, is the superconducting mechanism. I am not enough of a solid-state physicist to judge this proposal, but the authors are making a detailed mechanistic claim that is subject to experimental proof, which is very good to see, and and they adduce a good deal of data to back it up (x-ray diffraction, EPR, and more). And they demonstrate the behaviors that a superconductor should have, such as the Meissner effect (expulsion of a magnetic field), sudden resistivity changes at a critical temperature (bizarrely high though that is in this case), current-voltage (I-V) plots at different temperatures and under different magnetic field strengths, etc. If these data reproduce, the superconductivity of this material seems beyond doubt.
> Not to mention the risk of getting hit by the banhammer if detected

Or probably CFAA, it seems inevitable to me that these organizations will use state violence to enforce their monopolies.
I suspect the driver, based on their commentary in the video, was trying to see if this was a one-off fluke or something more consistent (they mention the car already blew through that light once before).

I would hope a driver using FSD or any other system like it would be alert/aware to intervene...but for this video, it looks like they were trying to see how the car would react.
Yup! And the same can be said for your work also, if you produce digital content

It will all become hobbies
It is important to read the article before commenting on it.
> A friend recently told me I paid too much attention to diagnoses

Oh dear... that's not how executive function disorders work. It's not lack of focus, it's an inability to direct focus.
next to nobody will pay 100x a spotify subscription for anything, no matter how great it is. Despite what buisness owners like to believe, most normal people in the first world have like $100 dollars a month total after food + rent + utilities with which to spend on any and all entertainment and luxuries. at best you could maybe charge like 60 dollars a month, like cable, but that would have to be an unbelievable deal with no alternative (not possible, its incredibly easy to make new software, so you'd constantly be undercut by startups and open source chipping away at your cataloge)

I could maaaaaybe see it working on iphone, a premium apps service, where they have a lot more control
Friday is more plausible than a couple months. If the radio silence ends up extending well-into next week, people are having trouble replicating and want to cross their ts before calling it out as fraud.
Make your money and get out my friend. As off the grid as possible in the country is where it’s at
> - What do you expect open source developers to charge at minimum for access to the catalog in order to make this make sense to do at all?

> If people subscribe once and access everything, it seems like they'd need to charge a lot to make it a worthwhile co-op to participate in.

I have thought about this a bit and yes, when this thing grows, the subscriptions will be worth more and more.
I haven't really done any calculations though because it's really hard to know what things will be like.
Anyway, let's try one:

Let's say there are 100 developers (individuals) and a developer wants $4000 per month. Then if we want a subscription to be $5 per month or maybe we could allow it to be $10, the number of subscribers per developer would have to be 100 * 4000 / 10 / 100 or just 4000/10 = 400. So I guess as long as the number of subscribers are a few hundreds times more than the number of developers (individuals), it could work.

> - How does this handle the scenario of a developer disappearing?

Interesting question; I have not thought about that. Developers register and unregister the subscriptions so hopefully they would unregister their subscriptions before they disappear.
If they don't do that, it could be forced by the system but there would have to be rules about that then so everybody knows what will happen.

> Does the developer have the ability to remove access to the catalog from specific subscribers?

Yes, they can register and unregister subscriptions as much as they want.

> If the developers have the ability to remove subscribers at will, doesn't this disincentivize paying at all because paying gives you no security in your access you just bought? What is your plan to arbitrate this without access to primary payment information to confirm who is right?

That is between the buyer and the seller. If you buy something and you don't get what you bought, you would try to solve that with the seller.
Of cource people can complain to 1Sub too and then maybe the other developers will lose trust in that developer and they can be kicked out.

> - It seems like although decentralized, this approximates to the journal model but for code? Is this your intention?

I have not thought much about the journal model but I can see how this is similar.
My main vision has been tax that everyone who wants to be a citizen pays so that they then can enjoy things that are not sold directly to people.
I saw a massive car accident happen at night at an intersection. A drunk driver was coming down a hill rated at 45. He was doing 60 probably. Tboned someone turning on their green arrow across the intersection. Massive accident I stayed to help with for a bit.

A few days later I was going down the hill at night just like the drunk driver. For a second I saw the upcoming light and then one soon after it overlap because of the gradient on the hill and the distance between the lights.

I could definitely see AI and people not paying attention getting overlapping lights like this confused.
Holy shit, there're aliens.
Pretty confusing intersection with the light not being above the lane. He himself wasn't sure at the start of the video which light was his. He was a "advanced driver assistance systems test operator" and didn't know that disengaging is how you teach it to do the right thing and that you should disengage if you are about to run a red? Posting it on social media is just the icing on the cake for him being terminated.
You’re really underestimating the incentives at play and the amount of change that can happen in 10 years.
It doesn't require the kind of equipment that you have to justify to accountants and run at full capacity. And while the reactants are things that I believe most labs won't have at hand, they are the kind of thing anybody can buy on the web to arrive this week.

Whether people will stop what they are doing to verify it is literally a matter of people stopping what they are doing. University labs are usually quick on that.
What do the "super forecasters" have to say about this? Was this predicted on prediction markets? Was the assumption of this tech existing already factored into prediction models?
He had names of people willing to testify, names of people to investigate, and exact locations of where to look. All of which he offered in a scif in accordance with the requirements of his clearance level. As soon as they get approved for the scif, then they'll see very quickly if he was full of shit or not.
Those with conscience get filtered out of these kinds of projects.

I mean, we are in a climate crisis and massive worldwide inequality and some really competent people both made this happen and prevented the general public from being able to avoid this - because that happens to profit the few.

Most of the worldwide economy is predicated on this (capitalism). It's a logical outcome.
And his temper tantrum with it last year probably got a few people killed in Ukraine.
The difference is a college degree is a cert issued by the state. It's not unfair for part of the cert is the presumption that the person is honest. And to deny cert to people known to be dishonest.

Disclosure. I never cheated in college and have a hunch that people trying to make excuses for cheaters are cheaters themselves.
You have failed to successfully account for your bias in this conversation. This illustrates your limited skills as a critical thinker.

Who I am, what I stand for, does not matter. These are facts, and you'll either accept this reality or you won't.
Fed raises interest rates, leaves door open to another increase
The 1108 had simplistic memory protection and didn't have cache so there was no concerns around cache coherency. The 1100/80 which came 15 years later finally introduced a cache that was really just a buffer and, to my knowledge, had no coherency scheme largely because of the way the architecture of those systems worked.

The Alpha team was working on a much more sophisticated system and had to solve a much coherency problem. Weaker models allow greater throughput and save transistors (and reduce power/heat) at the expense of more carefully written software and operating systems.
Exactly! Ironically it's a possible reduction in security on custom roms as well if one chooses to bypass it, which is trivial, but requires rooting the device.
Clock domain crossing is a named problem with a finite set of solutions.

When you get out of abstract logical domains into real world physics, than the notion of machine state becomes fuzzier at higher clock speeds.

Good luck. =)
> You said the web stopped be open when EME was accepted.

Neither Flash or Silverlight were ever web standards. Flash was never accepted as a web standard. EME is a web standard.

EME is as bad as Flash or Silverlight from a conceptual perspective. EME has no place in web standards, no more than flash.

Again, it's you who brought up Flash and Co, I never brought it up.
trot out some maps from 1934. or maybe relate MeeMaw's recollection of "that hot summer"
Fundamentally the iPhone sucked. It came out without 3G when every other internet enabled phone had it, and constantly dropped calls in the US for the first 2 years until AT&t upgraded their networks. Android phones could run Flash just fine, it was a selling point for them, at least until the Google app store had enough content.
> “I don’t want to oversimplify it, but how are you going to fly one [spaceship]? You got to have somebody in it. That seems to be pretty simple,” Burchett said.

“Simple” is not the word I’d use to describe this conclusion.
>putting their reputation and career (and maybe safety) on the line

They aren't because there is literally no new data, none. This isn't like Manning etc... where there was a materiel leak of classified data. So what would they be charged/fired for? Nothing. It's so much lazier, the claim is that being prevented access is somehow a proof of a coverup. All of the claims of harm were long before any of the publicity here.

All of the "whistleblowers" in these cases were not on any kind of career trajectory that this would have put in danger or even still serving in those roles.

They were all regular joes with uneventful military careers. They didn't bring new data to light like other whistleblowers - it's all rumors and speculation in this case, and literally a handful of shitty FLIR videos in others.

I'm baffled at the lack of epistemic consistency across truth claims. Nobody would accept this level of speculation for anything actually related to reality yet here we are wasting time on this. I've hurt myself today by being involved here at all. Totally irrational.
> Can you give me an example of a nuclear power station that was built entirely without taxpayer subsidy by a private company, and manages to sell electricity to the grid cheaply and make a profit?

Why is that a goal? Zero-carbon electricity is a goal, so that we don't all sink. Profit isn't. If ever there were a job for taxpayer dollars, IMO, this is it.

"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
8 months from what point?

Gpt3 is 36 months old.
Dalle-e is 28 months old.
Even StableDiffusion is like 11 months old.
I am deeply saddened by her passing. Her performances always featured powerful vocals driven by equally powerful emotion.

But her version of Pink Floyd's "Mother," performed live in Berlin in 1990 with Roger Waters, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson, was Sinead at her most
vulnerable and in my opinion, a full expression of her soul.

Audio with onstage video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRbKXACBaoc

High quality audio only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSd0Yl5mDuU
Remember when Lance Armstrong got in big trouble for taking performance-enhancing drugs for the Tour de France, and he was lambasted in the media?

That might have been right and proper. But years later, I read that of the top 30 finalists that year, every single one was taking performance-enhancing drugs. Presumably the same was true in previous years. Armstrong just happened to be the first-place finalist in a year where they finally had the ability to start testing.

In a case like that, it's not enough to say "if you can't bike fast without steroids, then biking isn't for you!" If cheating is pervasive, those who can't or don't cheat will fall behind and quit, and all that's left will be those willing to cheat. From the POV of Science writ large, if the culture is rotten then the incentives must be changed. You can't rely on the independent integrity of every individual not to cheat, or you'll just end up with only cheaters.
yes. This article structures the material needed to study specially the data structures and algorithms to start with.
It’s an extremely common pattern for the lights for one direction of an intersection to be visible from the other (usually at an angle). Very few human drivers would confuse the two. At the very least they would slow down until they were able to confirm rather than driving full speed ahead like this car seemed to do.
> "Keep in mind that after the amount becomes very small, it is likely that the body will dispose of it all at once rather than halving the amount forever."

I don't think that's how it works...
> Can you really "synthesize" human-like mouse movements around the page?

Yes. It's not even very hard.
Did you watch it?

He doesn't come off that way.

He testified under oath. Every time he was asked for specifics, he said he had them, had already provided them, or in some cases would provide them immediately after because they were classified--which is the proper response if you don't want to go to jail.

If he's a nut, you'd expect evasion, contradiction, waffling and avoidance when asked for specifics. I didn't see any of that. He is already providing data that will be verifiable. An attention-seeking con would work hard to avoid providing anything he can be called out on. I have no idea what's going on, and this is all nuts, but that certainly didn't fit the mold I was expecting.
For the same reason they shouted in fake surprise anger, despite clearly anticipating this would happen.
They are not interchangeable though and that's the crux of it. When a service like this tells you you're eligible for using their product for free and then boot you off their service, they are potentially leaving you in a worse state than if you had never used their service to begin with.

It's hard to express how benign most of this is and I'm not trying to oversell the damages, but there is potential for it to be bad and thus at some point there's a responsibility to your users (that champion your product and give you indirect value) to do at least the bare minimum of giving them an email or something.

It certainly takes less time for netlify to send an email than it does for their users to change platforms.
> Flash wasn't just DRM though. Incorporating video and animations into the web proper through browser was a win for the web despite the bitter pill of not ridding ourselves of DRM.

DRM as implemented by EME is necessarily a closed source, proprietary plugin just like Flash, I never said that Flash was just a DRM. Flash could be used as DRM system, in fact its video format FLV supported DRM.
You aren't serious, are you?
This video (https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n) showing the Meissner effect should be the easiest to replicate: just send a sample to another lab and put it over a large magnet.

As far as I know, the only explanations for this occurring is room temp superconductivity, or a strong diamagnetism (which would also be very cool to see)!