skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is not that all websites should let anyone in, it's that Google often controls the entire stack of website, ad network, browser, operating system, and mobile device. So Google can use this to pressure web users into using Google products that they otherwise would not have used, without providing any benefits. You can't use Google Search without attesting that you're browsing with unmodified Chrome on unmodified Android on an unmodified Pixel, for example. Or, an independent website can't run Google Ads unless it verifies all users are visiting using approved Google web environments.

If it were impossible for a company to have such a high market share in all of these areas at once, this proposal would be much less concerning.
There are applications where glyphosate is perfectly appropriate. The issues with it arise when

A) farmers use it as a crop dissicant in large quantities to make their crops cheaper to harvest, outside the spec of the product and

B) when it's used in unsuitable soil, temperature, and humidity conditions.

In the right conditions it has a half life of a few days and will be completely inert in a couple of weeks. This is a relatively small impact for a pretty big benefit. In poorly suited conditions it can persist for months or years.

We should just make it legal for use in situations where it decays quickly and harmlessly and disallow it's use in jurisdictions where the conditions are not appropriate for it's use. It's just a chemical, like any other chemical as long as it's used responsibly it can deliver incredible benefits. In this case cost-effectively feeding the world.

If the price for all that is some impairment to bumblebees for a few weeks maybe we should weigh that against the benefits and make a rational decision.
> The web was more open when to play those videos you had to use a proprietary Flash or Silverlight plugin?

That's what you are claiming with your sarcasm hidden behind a rhetorical question, I've never said anything about Flash or Silverlight in the comment you've answered to.

There is absolutely no difference from a conceptual perspective between EME implementation and proprietary plugins, EME is necessarily based on a proprietary spyware, but you can't fathom that fact apparently.
> But browsers can be automated with tools like Selenium

And I will bet anything that if the browser is being instrumented via webdriver it will attest as such. You would have to automate the browser externally.
> The same is not true of web attestation. If a website requires it...

I don't think I've made a category error, that again is true of all browser features. If your browser does not support JavaScript or WebSockets or WebGL, many sites would lock you out of them entirely as well. It's a choice of the website creator what to assume and what to require, and how to degrade the experience or offer alternatives when a feature is missing.

The way I imagine it, WEI will start with skipping CAPTCHA. Then it will be about serving ads (users without WEI would generate no or very limited ad revenue.) Then it's up to the owner of a site whether or not they want to allow non-WEI traffic at all. Some will choose to block users without WEI, and hopefully the number of browsers that have chosen not to implement it, and the number of users on those browsers is high enough that that option will not be appealing.

I hope that Vivaldi remains one of the browsers that doesn't implement it, whether or not the EU rules against it.
Pretty sure what y'all are talking about already exists and it's called running bamboo. Grows aggressively fast, spreads quickly, and pretty successfully invasive.
Free markets and the labour of 1/5th the population working in slavery.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36881814
OpenAI's open source LLM release, codenamed G3PO, views Llama 2 as a threat
Yes, the best way out of human hubris is more human hubris!
Boycott 100%.
The celestial phenomenon over Nuremberg & Basel have been time & again discussed to be purported works of fiction. (This is also from a recent cursory literature review on the topic in JSTOR).

Summarily, many supernatural themed events were written by fantasy writers of those age to peddle to crowds outside their region. Those people have died, and the enigma forgotten - but these writings have found their way as proto-evidence of unusual activity from medieval times & now being used to support arguments.
The only thing more unbelievable than aliens, I am afraid
Un-ironically, I make a living from people who pay for my software. I have for 30 years, as both a developer for hire, as an independent developer and even from royalties. It's not hard. Make something useful, make it well, place it where buyers can find it, and price it in a way that makes sense.
Yea, I don't mean to target individual software developers here. "Developers gotta develop" is commentary on the entire industry, and all the contributors, including developers, UI designers, product owners, QA, executive sponsors. I remember hearing the saying "Programmers are like beavers. Leave a beaver alone to decide what to do and they'll just keep building dams, regardless of the fact that their home is done." I don't know if that's really true about beavers, but it's true about software organizations. The whole software development team will just continue working on the software even long past the point where they're done.
Well, most of that was about plastic semiconductors, not superconductors, but it is an impressive story of how someone can get away with a blatent fake for so long.
for examples of government censorship orders that were given to Twitter and then followed, look at Musk's Twitter. Such as orders from the authoritarian government of Turkey to suppress tweets critical of the ruling party during an election, and these orders were executed by dutifully followed without question in obedience by Musk's Twitter [1]. He is after all beholden to his Saudi investors now.

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4019109-twitters-turke...

Musk's Twitter is now a fully authoritarian-censorship platform, increasing compliance to government censorship requests to 80% from a previous level of 50%, including from countries such as India:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...

Prior to Musk's takeover, Twitter went to court to directly challenge such requests - no such messiness under Musk where censorship on behalf of authoritarian governments is now a feature:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/02/twitter-indi...

As with all things conservative, the biggest fake outrage they have always points to exactly the thing they are guilty of in actuality, only much worse than the claims.
Move deep learning to "hardcore."

I interpret it as, is the technology specific to the company?
This links to the chromium repo where it is behind a dev flag.
There are obvious benefits here. The ability to remove captchas is one, the ability to ensure that clients are running the latest updates before accessing sensitive content, etc.

But the power is too significant. If it were some small subset of positive assertions I'd be ok with this, but the ability to perform arbitrary attestation is beyond what is required and is far too abusable.
So does, "Announced in 2012 to be launched in November 2016, the program suffered numerous delays until four years after the initial launch date, it's taking off..."

> and the situation in Russia

Presumably you mean the Ukraine invasion, which had zero bearing on this, given that it happened nearly a year and a half later...
>Academia is the most prestigious scientific institution.

For some. For others its national labs, like Los Alamos or NASA centers. In those, the culture is very different.
Cool. Wishing you good luck. Many founders/CEO’s are in there 20’s/30’s starting in the hype riddled world called tech. When you are that age you are still discovering many things in life and maybe being the CEO of a tech company is not that right. More ‘older’ CEO’s will create a more stable, slower, environment to create lasting products
So what? That's about top of band for an AI product manager. Care to compare that to top of band for an A list actor? They pull in $50M for a single film.
Somewhere in the middle.
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I think it's just a hatchback, the "hot" refers to it being a fast car.
You are mostly right, except that in addition to the same license, the Share-Alike provision in the OSM license (the ODbL [0]) also enables derivatives to be re-released with "A compatible license."

I am not a lawyer, but I would assume someone at Overture has deemed their license (the CDLAv2 [1]) to be "compatible" with ODbL. (edit: From the link in OP, the OSM-based data is being released with ODbL. I think I'm wrong about license compatibility. Again, not a lawyer.).

[0]: https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
[1]: https://cdla.dev/permissive-2-0/
More examples of you assuming the worst about me. I'm well aware of what you posted.

My sarcasm didn't go through. I mean no one has written a published and cited paper about our conversation. Therefore no one should make any decisions based on our discussion.
> I work in an average org with average joe devs. an average joe dev to me is someone who "just wants a job" and is not very interested in furthering its own professional development or learning new things unless trained & forced by the job

so basically you're all doing things you hate, which is literally the worst possible work environment, and you're trying to use this as a data point for why Elixir "isn't for average coders". I have news for you, dude, you're not even at the "average coders" level, you just work in a "code mill", I'm guessing India.
> People use Apple's AppAttest to e.g. ensure that high scores submitted for a game are from a legitimate copy of the game and not just someone calling the SubmitHighScore API.

But that's for Apps. Native Apps, not websites. If we argue this way, then this becomes a solution seeking an issue, since the first thing you learn in web programming is to never trust the client. I don't even see how this changes here, given that it won't mitigate any bugs, except giving me proof that the only bugs present on the client side system are the ones written by me.

The reason Google actually want's to implement this, is because they risk loosing huge amounts of revenue due to adblocking, something they can control on mobile (since they control the software supply chain there) but cannot do in the browser (since I have access to the DOM).
Weren't we told over and over again that cooler-than-normal years don't disprove climate change? Wouldn't that logic also apply here, that hotter-than-normal years don't individually demonstrate anything?

Sure, climate change is happening and it's making the hot years hotter, but pointing at this year as "the disastrous consequences of climate change" feels like trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Correct? That shouldn't be too hard.
Idk Midjourny ignores prompts.

For the longest time I thought it was google imaging things and doing some photoshop to make things look like Pixar because it was so bad.
my wife spent a year trying to reproduce some data that her research depended on only to eventually find out that it was fraudulent. the original researcher even admitted this to their lab, and he retired and his lab was shut down. no retraction was ever published. my wifes lab tried to publish a paper showing that the original research was fraudulent and the journal was not willing to publish it. she has since left the field, and i have been pretty jaded on science and academia since then
> SpaceX’s dragon had test failures

There's a major difference between internal tests intended to discover problems and "we think everything's good, NASA, can we send it to the ISS?" tests intended to show everything's working.

> Funding represents significantly more than 4 years of delays

Sure. Add on additional years worth of failed tests on the actual production vehicle and you get the $1.1B in the article. Boe-OFT was now nearly four years ago.
I probably don’t want a calculator to be full screen, even a terminal full height might make sense but full width almost never does.
> It’s also a sign you aren’t looking. Yeah, music is going to be trash if you’re just looking at what’s popular on the radio/TikTok/charts. Spend some time on bandcamp going through what’s been posted in your preferred genres.

There's more recorded music than ever, and I don't care what your tastes are there are - new and interesting artists are out there to discover.

... which is also, in its own way, a new difficulty. There's so much to sift through, finding what you think is "good" is going to be difficult. This is doubly so for people who grew up listening to the radio or watching MTV, where these decisions were made for them.

The best advice I could give anybody is to find an actual radio station that plays what they consider to be good new music. This probably doesn't look like a commercial station, and you may not even have any in broadcast range of you, but there are plenty out there that stream online. I'm partial to my local NPR music station, but maybe you'd have better luck with college radio or a local low powered station instead.

DJs may be a rare breed these days, but try to find some you like and just let them do the work for you. The algorithms aren't going to cut it.
> you are talking about means, I am talking about ends.

You see, these things are not necessarily separate, but many people fail to understand that. Continuing shopping analogy, imagine shop sells some candies in multiple flavors. Do you need to weigh them separately when customer takes multiple flavors? The process requires you to weigh them separately. Nothing wrong will happen if you don't. Although, eventually managers will resupply you with a single flavor.

> but we need to make sure the user knows these reasons and sees why they are not a hindrance in completing the task but part of the completed task.

So what's the task at hand? Is it to simply sell candies to customer or maybe keep shop operational, properly stocked and then sell candies? For the shopkeeper the process may seem to start at customer entry and end at customer paying. For the shop that is just part of a grander process.

It seems to me that you argue for single-person scoped processes to be treated as standalone and microoptimized, regardless of how that fits into master process. I try to argue that it is the master process you have to care about.
I never tire of this. Tim is a wonderful no nonsense person. I love these posts and I love that it stays up to date.
That testimony was all meaningless, a total nothingburger. No hard evidence. And just because the witnesses testified under oath doesn't mean they were accurate or truthful. If they want to be taken seriously then let's see some actual artifacts or specimens.

I do support continuing the Congressional investigation. Even if there are no aliens, they might find evidence of misuse of government funds or violations of oversight rules. Let's get clear on how our tax dollars are being spent. Members of the Defense and Intelligence committees are cleared at the highest levels so there's no legal reason to conceal the existence of any programs from them.
Fox News is the most watched cable news program and it's not even close. It's everyone's problem unfortunately.
WEI stands for Web Environment Integrity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity
Nice logo and infrared a good name, a technology with many nice linked memories, sharing songs with etc.
It wasn't good sarcasm. There are published and highly cited papers people can read to learn more about what I am saying (and how what you're saying is nonsense).

I am stunned sometimes when I discover how completely unaware people are of how to apply critical thinking in the modern world. It's second nature to me, but conversations like these make it abundantly clear it's not a universal skill.
When the primary persuasive technique is fear and the proposed solution is "send us all your money" then it's natural to be skeptical.
They have been doing this

https://www.eurasiantimes.com/denied-atacms-ukraine-says-it-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/09/its-simple-and...

Surface to air: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/24/the-ukraini...
Not necessarily. There are different kinds if multi chip interconnects (with the fabs introducing more and more over the years), and leaving out HBM potentially allows for a cheaper interconnect over a smaller area.
I think I've more or less decided that DX12 is gonna be what I focus on, for my hobbywork. After evaluating all options. Vulkan is a close 2nd.

Gobs of boilerplate code is annoying, but I honestly can live with it. The tooling available for DirectX is really good.
AwesomeWM as well. It allows you to write your own tiling algorithms in Lua.
> VS Code has the remote server extensions as well, which are seamless … No other editor has this experience.

Emacs has TRAMP.

> it supports rich graphics

Emacs supports graphics in a GUI. I view PNGs and PDFs in it all the time.

> HTML preview

Emacs has eww, w3m-el, emacs-webkit & xwidgets.

> notebooks like Polyglot Notebooks that can share data between cells in different languages and display images and animations

Have you heard of Org Mode? It’s rather more than that.

> Emacs does not have that support to the same degree.

While I am certain that is true of at least a few things, for many things it has more impressive support.

Emacs is not perfect. For one thing, it’s not written in Common Lisp (blame rms for a startlingly bad misjudgment there). And it’s certainly acquired some cruft over the course of its lifetime. But there is a very real sense in which time spent using or extending any other editor is ultimately wasted. I am fairly certain that in 40 years there will be no VisualStudio; there will be no Vimscript; there will be probably be no Lua; if we are very, very lucky there will be no JavaScript. But there will be Emacs, and there will be Lisp. Each investment made in either today will continue to pay dividends for the rest of one’s life, no matter how young one is today.

> Erlang actually probably got [condition handling] first.

Erlang was first released in 1986, according to Wikipedia. Guy Steele’s Common Lisp the Language was released in 1984 and documented a language which had been in use for quite some time. The condition system was reported on in 1983’s Signaling and Handling Conditions.

I think that Smalltalk’s condition-handling is similar to Lisp’s. Smalltalk is a really awesome language. So’s Erlang, from what I remember!
I’ll just point out you are making an assumption that the craft which crashed are what traveled interstellar, however that clearly isn’t necessarily true. Isn’t it more likely those are local probes and therefore might have lower specs and high tolerance for loss for example.

I also encourage those who are very skeptical to think about how we as human would likely try to explore
other star systems, in fact we already have started such projects. Our first step is to send a craft that with subliminal speed takes 100s of years, but even us we think about sending a craft with smaller probes inside it.

My point is those probes inside the transport craft, we would likely have a pretty high loss tolerance,
so is it really that surprising they might crash sometimes?
It does, true, but it feels like a dead end.
A behavior being bad, and a system being arranged such that it selects for that bad behavior, are separate things.

Observing that fixing the latter might eliminate most of the behavior doesn't mean you think the behavior's good.
I suspect it’s less about chances to break due to dice rolls and more chances to not meet the feature/requirements that change based on varying contexts of users, which create a lot of legal and integration and reqs which require lots of code and maintenance.
I just got done having a conversation with someone who experienced this kind of problem in banking. Lack of domain experts and a dry pipeline. I suspect everyone is struggling with finding people who aren't a complete waste of space these days.

Today is one of those days where I feel like I am watching the modern world grind to a halt in real-time. You only have to hop up a few threads to read about how our education system is hopelessly wrecked because of ineffectual leadership/parenting blaming technology and other worthless political nonsense.

How long until certain important semiconductor industry knowledge suffers information theoretic death simply because no one was around to tell it to?

Perhaps we could we radically alter our HR policies and try wild shit like... hire literally anyone who is willing to walk into the clean room, assuming they follow proper protocol. Do we really need to be gate keeping & piss testing our employees when we can't even find candidates anymore? At a certain point, I'd be happy to buy the chips made in the non-compliant clean room by drunkards if they are the only ones available on the shelf.
Why would a bunch of republicans want to distract from something they’ve been desperately trying to use as an attack on Biden for years? This is a bipartisan hearing.
The same reason people have been falling down in Arizona and suffering burns from the ground, but the air doesn’t burn them.
Maybe you haven't seen the movie, but the guy being observed wasn't egotistical, everyone around him manipulating and observing him was.
Enforcing artificial scarcity is idiotic and counter progressive. There will be other things that will continue to be uncommon that humans will continue to appreciate. This is what human progress looks like. Imagine someone said this when agriculture started up- “The great thing about fruits and vegetables is that they taste so sweet the few times we find them. We shouldn’t grow them in bulk”
Pretty sure download statistics don’t reflect usage. And are we even sure those are unique downloads?

At any rate, 100M downloads across the lifetime of the app isn’t much to write home about when considering the billions (plural) that use Google products. Furthermore, there’s an entire class of people that think Chrome IS the internet. It’s wildly more common than the average HN would think.
All this for an Evanescence album - does anyone even remember that band exists...?
I admit I'm mostly familiar with the Intel (formerly Altera) side. There are no restrictions at all on the Xilinx side? That's pretty neat.
No because people with enough influence will terminate your hosting, domain name, isp, bank account, or just get your site blocked. See kiwi farms, nigel farage, and the wikipedia-iwf dust-up.

Mastodon and the fediverse are close, maybe, but many instances refuse to "speak" to one another because of their users.
YES. I don't any teachers to mention anything that isn't part of my child's direct education. How is this so difficult to understand? Go talk to an adult.

The children are not the teachers friends. Leave them alone.

I don't care who their partner is, neither does my child. No one cares. Maybe we should ask why government employees aren't keeping stronger boundries when around children?

Also... Seriously? You aren't fooling anyone with these absolutely convoluted hypotheticals. No one is going to jail for saying "that's my <whatever>". It's an weak case when you need to reach outside of reality.
There are still single board computers and Linux to play with.
Drag them into the town square!!!

The town square remains empty!
Can you expand on that? What's in the middle?
In challenge to Tesla, automakers launch EV charging network