skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why I am starting a hardcore tech company in my 50s
There may not be much of a difference left then between machines and biologicals. Generations would alternate like a jellyfish does between polyp and medusa. No need for generation ships.
"Earth has experienced cold periods (informally referred to as “ice ages,” or "glacials") and warm periods (“interglacials”) on roughly 100,000-year cycles for at least the last 1 million years. The last of these ice age glaciations peaked* around 20,000 years ago."

"The causes of ice ages are not fully understood for either the large-scale ice age periods or the smaller ebb and flow of glacial–interglacial periods within an ice age."

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/whats-hotte...
People don't live in coral reefs, so they don't really care about them.
I got diagnosed a year ago after not knowing I had it my whole life, and I can definitely confirm this. I take Adderall, and the way I describe it to people is that while it definitely helps me focus, it doesn't make it any easier for me to choose what I focus on. So heck yeah, sometimes it's super useful and helps me stay on task at work! Other times, I spend 5 hours diving extremely deep into research papers from fields I have no experience in and end up learning a ton of really cool stuff that is not at all relevant to my day job whatsoever. I have not yet figured out a way to control which scenario occurs on any given day.
> For instance do I live life to the fullest now? Or do I skimp and scrounge now to have some hope of surviving when things really go sideways.

As someone in the mid 30's who survived a bad accident with a TBI: it's never early enough to start living life to the fullest.

A lot of things you might want to do now and are able to do, you might not in your 60s for health reasons.

Do them now.
> I predict that hardware attestation will in 10-30 years become a requirement to maintain an internet connection.

I fear you're right. But if the current trends keep up, I'll have abandoned the internet entirely before that happens.

I mourn for what we have already lost, and we are poised to lose even more.
> I mean, a few month delay on a brand new space vehicle isn't "OMG, Boeing failed!"

> But even that is not enough: Ars doubles down, and now NASA's refusal to provide a concrete updated launch date means not only is it "[slipping] into 2024", but apparently almost to 2025:

A few month delay? It was originally supposed to fly in 2017. with Crews in 2020.
Unity for 14+ kids is not realistic. GameMaker Studio would be a simpler alternative.
Please don't do this here. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Edit: I suppose I need to add—no, we're not pro-$MegaCorp or pro-$web-destroying-dystopia. We're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't suck, and you guys need to make your substantive points without degenerating into mob behavior.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The CDLA license feels like NIH... but at least it looks genuinely permissive, as opposed to fake open source.

Curiously, two of the four layers use the ODbL.
For many years what is now macOS hovered around 3% usage.

The phoenix can rise.

The frozen chicken can not.

Still breathing makes a huge difference.
I wish Gnome would stop rethinking things and just reimplement the basic desktop features every major competitor has, and that Gnome 2 had.
The code is very enterprise oriented and reads more like Java than Python. Bootstrapping a VC backed company off of open source is a known strategy for achieving growth needed for future funding and acquisition.

At some point, all the nice things they offer for free or cheaper will go away or become expensive.
I really love the mosaic concept. I think it's indeed the missing piece for tiling on large displays. It's a kind of stack in usual tiling layouts, where all leftover windows are placed, but stacks tend to squeeze and deform windows, crippling many apps in the process. The mosaic approach can certainly avoid this issue, but it wastes some space (not ideal for small screens) and may not play well with big complex UIs(IDE, CAD, DAW, etc).
How exactly is WEI any worse than say a peep-hole on a door? At the end of the day bots are a huge problem and it's only getting worse. What's the alternative solution? You need to know who you're dealing with, both in life and clearly on the web.

I'm probably alone in this, but WEI is a good thing. Anyone who's run a site knows the headache around bots. Sites that don't care about bots can simply not use WEI. Of course, we know they will use it, because bots are a headache. Millions of engineer hours are wasted yearly on bot nonsense.

With the improvements in AI this was inevitable anyway. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional. Reap what you sow and what not.

edit: removing ssl comparison since it's not really my point to begin with
- 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. It feels like the amount they would have to charge would become pretty financially restrictive to access the code and not in the interests of someone who wanted to open source in the first place...

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

Does everyone who had access through that developer continue to have access?

It seems since payment processing is handled by individual developers, no longer would people have to pay for access to the whole catalog. Does this now mean over the long term you are handling an ever increase supply of people with access who do not pay but can transfer their access to others for free?

- How does this handle the scenario of developers with subscribers who are supposed to pay a reoccurring payment but have stopped?

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

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?

- It seems like although decentralized, this approximates to the journal model but for code? Is this your intention?
> Their influence was organic. Today's music trends are forced.

This is 100% purestrain revisionism.
Also given that Apple (and SPARC) chips have a means to vary the memory model at runtime, I think the way things would go if memory consistency was genuinely blocking Alpha's progress then they'd change it. It wouldn't be an easy thing to stomach but we have about ten billion flavours of X86 and Arm sub-ISAs floating around today
OP’s original statement was that got to me was as follows:

> They're not human, it doesn't matter.

What this and your textbook example share in common is a lack of respect for the human factor. Sony Group Corporation may not be literally human, but to say “they’re not human” is to dehumanize the people the Sony Group Corporation represents because that’s what the actual function of a corporation is: to act as a legal front representing people. I don’t care who anybody boycotts, but I think at a minimum, we can you know, not dehumanize people even if you dislike them.
Maybe it's really head in sand sort of thinking, "If I ignore it, hopefully it'll go away and I'll be fine.". I think if people really come into grips with it, they'd be living in despair fighting a frustrating battle (either against the physics, or against the governments/corporations who are moving too slowly, or against the other humans who don't really seem to give a crap). Then there's a segment who are thinking "Well, we're fucked, might as well enjoy our short lives.", which I'll admit I'm a part of (cast the first stone, why don't you).

I also have a growing anxiety of how bad it'll be in 5-10 years (refugee crises, humans/countries becoming more selfish and isolationist, so the rise of tribalism (and great, I don't look like a native of where I live), countries growing desperate for food/water resorting to use their military, leading to resource wars).
I don’t see complete collapse - but I do see the doom of billions. The security states that have been set up over the past decades, the increased hostility to migration, all of this is a prelude for what inevitably follows, when vast diaspora try to find a better life outside of their bankrupt, climate-change-ravaged countries.

It’s going to get ugly. Being anything but wealthy in a sufficiently wealthy country is going to be uncomfortable, to say the least.

There will be famine, fire, flood, pestilence, and all the rest - but unless we entirely lose our heads, which isn’t impossible but remains less than probable, humanity will go on, chastened and winnowed.
The world's richest man bought his favorite toy. This was kind of expected in hindsight.
I'd like to see people pushing back against motor-normativity and voting out any politician that makes money from oil companies. Also, boycotting any sports event that has a major oil company sponsor would be an easy thing for people to do.

I think it's going to keep carrying on like this for a while until people start rioting and destroying the capitalist institutions that have been hiding and dismissing our problems for decades.
Doesn't it seem very irrational to fabricate data in materials science?

If your result is interesting, people will try to replicate it; it won't replicate, and you'll have to explain why.

If your result is not interesting, people won't try to replicate it, but then you don't gain much by publishing it.
Every time when I look at what has become of Gnome, I wish Unity didn't die. Almost everything I loved in Gnome2 was broken or took a turn for the worse.
My solution is not hallucinating as opposed to chatpdf and does not answer the questions that are not in the PDF (try asking chatpdf about who is Tom Cruise even if the PDF doesn't have any info about Tom Cruise).
Americans Will Soon Need More Paperwork When Traveling to Europe
> Even the 8 glasses a day of water suggestion is considered on the high side and that’s only 1.9L.

The recommended amount depends on who does the recommendation but 1.9L doesn't seem high.

https://www.efsa.europa.eu/fr/efsajournal/pub/1459

"Adequate Intakes (AI) have been defined derived from a combination of observed intakes in population groups with desirable osmolarity values of urine and desirable water volumes per energy unit consumed. The reference values for total water intake include water from drinking water, beverages of all kind, and from food moisture and only apply to conditions of moderate environmental temperature and moderate physical activity levels (PAL 1.6). [...] Available data for adults permit the definition of AIs as 2.0 L/day (P 95 3.1 L) for females and 2.5 L/day (P95 4.0 L) for males."

https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/43403

"The minimum water requirement for fluid replacement for a 70kg human in a temperate zone equates to 3L per day, or 42.9mL/kg [according to the Tropical Agriculture Association]. Minimum requirements for an individual the same size but in a tropical zone equates to 4.1 to 6L/day"

"Age and gender specific Adequate Intakes (AI) for water were established in 2004 by the [United States] Food and Nutrition Board (5). The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for water are [for ages 19 and older] Men 3.7 L/day Women 2.7 L/day"
Plus his claim that there are engineers with first hand experience also willing to testify to congress in a closed setting.
Certainly proves that close encounters were largely bs.

But devils advocate, most smartphone cameras have ultra wide lenses and even those with decent zoom perform really poorly, due to shaking, upscaling and awful autofocus. Remember the “super zoom” smartphone that was marketed to take good photos of the moon, but they just faked (overlaid) the details because the native quality was so crap? And the moon isn’t even that small for the human eye. In fact, there are tons of shitty “ufo” recordings that are useless simply because the quality is so shit.

In either case, there is tons of multi-modal sensor data from the Air Force/navy sightings so that’s certainly worth looking into before random people’s smartphones.
You are correct! Otherwise it would be more like a baked Tostito
I don't think it's true that most ro-ro car ferries are that old, at least in Europe. Most seem to be less than 30 years old, and there are plenty less than 10 years old.

Many decades old ones don't meet pollution standards, and are sold off to other countries. I've travelled on several ex-European ferries around the world, often still with the signs in Italian or French or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%26O_Ferries

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

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

etc, etc.
Self replicating probes, basically spaceship multifactories, is not something trivial to achieve.
The alcoholic bought the bar.
He is wrong, transphobia has no place anywhere. Trying to pass it under the thin guise of "unfair moderation" is both cowardly and thinly veiled. It certainly has no place in the workplace. Would he try to deny the identify of our trans senior developer? Would he say discriminatory things about our trans in house counsel? He has already shown from this blog he has transphobic beliefs and no problem saying discriminatory statements.

Beyond being an ethically bad and bigoted person, this guy would bring state and federal liability to the company from the first day on the job. I don't care if he disagrees, this isn't a matter up for discussion, I will not break the law for you.
Supposedly Bob Silverberg at his peak, could do 10,000 words a day. He shared an office with another writer who was driven mad by the nonstop typing.
I come back to Calvin and Hobbes regularly as an adult and every time I do I'm reminded just how delightful Watterson's work is. Truly a one-of-a-kind comic strip.
Quoting this[1] commit comment:

US:
https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation
antitrust@ftc.gov

EU:
https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/contact_en
comp-greffe-antitrust@ec.europa.eu

UK:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-the-cma-about-a-competition-or-market-problem
general.enquiries@cma.gov.uk

India:
https://www.cci.gov.in/antitrust/
https://www.cci.gov.in/filing/atd

[1] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b28994...
BasicBlocker: ISA Redesign to Make Spectre-Immune CPUs Faster (2021)
What how, she is so young. That is super sad.
Distraction: The Solo Founder's Adversary
ETL (Embedded Template Library)
The difference between 0% and 5% is that at 0%, if you want an alternative, you have to write it yourself, but at 5%, the alternative exists. Mozilla is not dead.

If you don’t like what Google is doing, don’t pretend that Firefox does not exist. Do something instead. File bug reports, send patches, donate to those who are working on Firefox and countering Google.
SSL doesn't demand that some third party approve your software and hardware in order for it to work for you.
Feel free to use PCE or whatever else instead.

There's alternatives, and trust me, one of them addresses your gripes.

Unless your complaint is very specific, assume you didn't just intuitively out-think a bunch of PhDs whose job is thinking about this
I don't know but I think maybe cannabis and other drugs are used more now while people work.
> Can we just refuse to implement it?
> Unfortunately, it’s not that simple this time. Any browser choosing not to implement this would not be trusted and any website choosing to use this API could therefore reject users from those browsers. Google also has ways to drive adoptions by websites themselves.

This is true of any contentious browser feature. Choosing not to implement it means your users will sometimes be presented with a worse UX if a website's developers decide to require that feature.

But as a software creator, it's up to you to determine what is best for your customers. If your only hope of not going along with this is having the EU come in and slapping Google's wrist, I'm concerned that you aren't willing to take a hard stance on your own.
Thanks! I guess I'll stick to running it on my Macbook for the time being until the quantized model gets uploaded. What kind of performance are you seeing with the FP16 weights on the iPad? I've run a few SD2.0-based (unquantized) models on my 2020 iPad Pro but it seems like it gets thermally throttled after a while.
Editing OpenStreetMap isn't quite equivalent to commenting on a post. OSM allows you to edit anything, which is fantastic but also allows for more serious vandalism. We have seen major cities renamed to racial slurs, for example. As with Wikipedia, the community is generally very good about correcting these issues quickly. It's an uncommon problem that a lot of people work to mitigate. But I stand by what I said: vandalism on OSM is in many cases unacceptable to show to end-users.

The OSM basemap is used in many official publications, in many social media applications, etc. I'd actually recommend using the basemap for most simple mapping cases, as long as it's being continuously updated from upstream (or, it is the upstream basemap). If you take a snapshot of that data, however, you risk capturing some bad stuff. That is a real risk for a company like Meta.
WEI and SSL/TLS are completely different.

TLS does not facilitate preventing you as a web site visitor from inspecting or modifying the web content served over it, e.g. by blocking ads or auto-playing videos. WEI does.
I'm not sure. Can we define alien spores as an agent with intent? Perhaps the sun can be viewed as an agent with intent since it displays an inherent ability to influence the solar system. The universe is swimming in alien interactions.
TPMs with attestation do exactly that. Are you opposed to that as well?
I appreciate how organized the Consensys guide is laid out. It's pretty easy to read. Trail of Bits has a similar guide that is a little more in-the-weeds technically. It also covers, what we think is, essential background about certain automated analysis techniques like static analysis and how fuzzers work. Check it out!

https://secure-contracts.com/
February 2020: "So it's a fast spreading virus affecting a lot of Chinese people, but the effect on this country is little to nothing...".
You can rarely solve a social problem by technical means alone. Get involved.

The reason the government is full of decrepit dotards, blustering fanatics, and greedy criminals is because nobody else seems to want to participate anymore.
Well Starliner was originally contracted to be certified in 2017. So a few month slip on top of the 5+ year slip already maybe justifies some of the skepticism from ARS
Can someone explain how its technically impossible to conform to this spec using, for example some desktop linux distro and say firefox? Is there really no OSS way to implement this? Secure boot works today on linux (might not be the default happy path, but that seems fixable). TPM apis are there no?
Feels like you're making a big deal out of nothing by picking apart their language.

They're saying they've designed the system, so it's separated from access to your vault. This is their way of trying to reassure users they have considered user privacy.

Obviously, they could be secretly collecting things this entire time. But also, why would they need the telemetry system to view your vault? If they wanted to view that, they could do that "secretly"
So, it sounds like having a Github could be a net negative. I don't treat personal projects like I treat production code at work. I experiment, don't write a lot of unit tests, use bad practices because they're easier, and I get bored and abandon things because after all, it's not like I'm being paid for any of this.

If that's going to be seen as a red flag, then I'm not going to share any of that.
How many hours per week do you do moderate+ exercise? Specifically things that require coordination and focus.
Yeah it's true that people are still trying to make loud stuff. But as you say, people are so good at making it work now that's not really a "I'm making this -3 because I need to be competitive with other songs," it's "I'm making this -3 because it's a heavy bass record and I want this to melt people's goddamn faces when they listen to it." In other words, an artistic decision, rather than a business one.

I think most modern EDM-pop now is at about -7 or so. These are world-class engineers doing the mixing, they could absolutely push it to -5 or -3 if they wanted, there's just no need thanks to LUFS normalization.

Like when people think about the real victims of the loudness war, it's albums like Californication or What's the Story (Morning Glory), which really didn't need to be that loud except for sounding better (in the louder = better sense) on the radio. Something like Death Magnetic you could argue is both intentionally loud + a victim of the loudness war, but it's also just really poorly mixed/mastered in general.
Please don't do this here.

More explanation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881929

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881034
Author has answered the question in article:

"In this context, does it matter that I am in my 50s? Not really, but I thought it would make for a good hook in the title."
The post seems to be implying that increase in money supply is synonymous with inflation, but one of the main reasons we print more money is actually to keep up with growth.
TLS* does not allow websites to restrict users from using the tech stack (hardware, OS, browser) that they want to use. This does.
insurance companies are a good proxy for existential risks. The withdrawal of major ones from Florida is indicative.
Seems like a strange way to make a point to start out with SSL and then shift the argument to TPM/attestation...
Yes, I have been opposed to TPM since the start.
FWIW, this is not proprietary, it's all FOSS. And hopefully there's something interesting in there even if you don't use any of the tools mentioned.
People who dislike things are just so much more vocal than people who like them. I've used Huggingface extensively, they are trying to do a lot, but its always been the most convenient/flexible for my finetuning use cases.

Thank you Huggingface!
I'm unhappily using their product today, having still refused to update to v8. I still have local vaults.

The point is, that they are wanting to intentionally collect data about me now. It's quite easy to see how that could be data that I don't want collected.

Your question is like asking why it bothers me that all my neighbors have Ring doorbells now recording my walks, when they could just look out their window and spy on my anyway. It's a step along the slippery slope that makes the likelihood of privacy invasion much higher as time goes on. Ignore the CIA if you want, but I'm pretty sure they'll have an easier time collecting data they might want now that it exists. But leaving that to the side, collecting data accidentally is a known problem that keeps cropping up.
Ironically both the Cruze and Focus have both been discontinued for several years now. Blame shareholder greed that neither GM or Ford are "allowed" to sell sedans in 2023, because some of the biggest shareholders seem happier leaving the sedan category entirely to Tesla and Imports right now.

(ETA: The weird "hot hatchback" category that the Bolt fits into seems the closest GM feels comfortable to get away with to a traditional sedan anywhere in their model portfolio. It's a big part of why it is exciting to see the Bolt recontinued. Maybe that means they'll have the guts to start a new sedan if the Bolt sells well.)