skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What made the fiction literary was it spoke the language of memory, where the reader inhabited the experience of the characters, and this changed how readers experienced the world after. It was an intimate experience. Writing on the internet is participatory, impersonal, performative, and anti-intimate. It's a homegenous voice. We used to laugh about the engineering students who would say without irony, "why would I want to read something someone just made up?" Now, engaging with books comes at the opportunity cost of missing internet points and time spent not promoting your brand, so I don't see it coming back among younger people.

I spent a lot of years practicing to become a writer like many of the men I looked up to growing up, and when I look at writers today, there is no there there anymore. You're only ever as good as your last tweet, and part of the promise of literary culture was that the esteem of the people who were a part of it was valuable and enriching. For a while it was. It's not now. Books were a great thing to have in common and a way to find people who were really just interesting. They were a social glue. Now, authors remind me of those old soviet olympians propped up as representatives of their ideological system to be proof their system could produce peers to western athletes whose talent was the effect of freedom and desire.

I think the literary novel had its moment. It was a couple of centuries, but I think it will become what victorian cameos and shadow drawings are to photos. Art assumes a level of mystery that I don't think can exist in a homogenized culture like we have online, as without an apprehension of something greater than the concrete and material, it's just another picture or inpspirational quote on a wrapper for something cheap.
> there's no "drop _item" so unfortunately _item remains in scope but we promise not to use it

This is actually a very intriguing programming language keyword. I feel like there are lots of cases where you don't want to split something into a separate function just to avoid being able to use a variable that was used previously, and these things often get refactored over time to the point where the not-to-be-used variable gets used unexpectedly.
The opposite -- I'm so proud of her for taking that stand.
If websites wanted this feature, and the choice is between Chrome implementing it versus me installing proprietary software, I would rather choose Chrome, especially since Chrome is implementing it in the open.

There are already various services that require proprietary applications to be installed, most of which are closed-source with dubious security track record. Replacing those propriety apps with a common web browser is not necessarily a bad outcome.

Personally I am voting with my money and just avoid services that are user-hostile, independent of which user-agent I use to access those services.
Except Crew-1 Happened in 2020, Staliner-1 has been delayed until probably late 2023, 2024. Demo-1 Happened before OFT-1. They both started at similar times and also their delayed missions were delayed by similar amounts initially. By all accounts, Starliner is behind is every possible way with much greater funding than SpaceX.

SpaceX is at Crew 7, Starliner isn't even close to Starliner-1
Sumerians
While it's a much lesser offense, many APIs are only available in "Secure Contexts", so it's not entirely a new concept https://webidl.spec.whatwg.org/#SecureContext
It's the article's own title so I don't think it's unfair, but it's also distracting so I think we can cut that entire bit.
Don't worry, those just stop oil protesters blocking roads for the average citizen will save us!
If you need any further proof this country has a hard time innovating anymore, this UFO story push that coincides with the start of another Cold War is a great example.

I remember listening to Art Bell as a kid, fascinated with the stories of aliens, MIB, military coverups, etc… with former military men telling a lot of the stories.

Then I read Carl Sagan and realized how silly it all was. Then I learned how the government lies about so much. How they use current and former military and intelligence to further those lies.

Shame so many still buy into this at all. Highly suggest reading a demon haunted world if you haven’t. It makes these claims pure comedy.
Are you aware of any websites that have tried to implement payments, but failed or chose not to because they couldn't verify which users have paid? It's an incredibly easy problem to solve without WEI.
The assertion was that even if it doesn’t feel like it, you support open source indirectly.

It was not that all funding or contributions are made by large enterprises.

I applaud efforts to more directly support projects that give you utility. It’s becoming easier for individuals to do that (as evidenced by the article).
Actually I'm seeing a big new wave of open source projects that you can host yourself, but can be used as SaaS if you are willing to pay. I'm always paying because I don't want to bother and because the devs have my /respect
A bit off-topic, but would be good to read what TigerBeetle folks think of the tech behind the recently released FedNow.
> I've been trying to find a term for "behavior focused on maintaining your job when the need wouldn't exist without such behavior"

The concept of self-preservation or calling it superfluous self-preservation probably works here. But perhaps saying auto-preservation conveys better the sometimes lack of conscious intention that goes on in these situations.
That this as a solution applicable to _personal_ computing is a bonus. The real benefit is in datacenters which could be made smaller, more efficient, and cheaper while simultaneously adding capacity.
Getting closer. Get really thrifty with a computer build (Buy a used 3600 processor for cheap and an old GPU, like a 5700xt or equivalent), buy a brand new Index, and enjoy.
One of the best things of traveling to Peru is to taste their enormous variety of corn and potatoes. We see how bland our diet really is.
There are several papers on 4/8 bit quantization, and a few implementations for Vulkan/CUDA/ROCm compilation.

TBH the UIs people run for SD 1.5 are pretty unoptimized.
Microsoft was the same, and still they were humbled into opening the space for others (with the browser-choosing screen at first boot). If people are noisy enough, lawmakers can be distracted from their payola.
The US was the first country to eliminate the specter of famine around 1800. Thanks to free markets.
Suaimhneas síoraí mo chara
I’m going to have a hard time responding to this comment without breaking HN guidelines by being completely candid about how irresponsible, uninformed, and bad faith your comment seems to be.

But let me go ahead and try: one anxiety-riddled UN official and a random Newsweek article do not represent, or supersede, scientific consensus. Your points are not only irrelevant, it’s not even clear to me why you felt the need to bring up either of these links as if they carry any weight at all, or are corroborated meaningfully by any members of the scientific community.

If you care, Newsweek and Peter Gwynne, the author of your mentioned 1975 article, have both independently retracted and clarified their positions and recognize the nature and significance of modern climate change: https://www.newsweek.com/newsweek-rewind-debunking-global-co...
A good way to measure how annoying this would get is to look at the handful of applications demanding SafetyNet on Android. It is not quite as much as one would assume, since adding friction of any kind is a retention killer. On the open web this would likely be worse, since you are locking out more than jailbreakers and emulator users.
It's just a media doomerism. Life in western/eastern societies improved every generation. I speak as someone who talked to a lot of old people in my family and is interested in genealogy.
When you don't have kids, someone else will have 5 and that someone else will most likely be a religious fanatic. In couple of generations they will overwhelm our socities and then it will be the end/modern Dark Ages. What is happening in Israel right now is prime example of this demographic disbalance.
Maybe the question should be, what is the normal summer high for these buoys? Headlines make it sound like a significant departure, but I don't think I have seen any article talking what the normal summertime high temps are. Maybe its a case of sensational media misleading for headline clicks.
Room-temperature superconductor 'breakthrough' met with scepticism
A french singer contest saw a normal/chubby girl winning by a wide margin. The tour after te tv show bombed horribly.

There's a reflex in crowds to seek for some traits and physical "beauty" seems one of them. The rest seems the exception (and those singers have either very special skills or a super solid persona)
It still feels like they rather bend over and take it than risking losing market share.
> Remember when Apple killed Flash?

Yes. Every SECOPS person let out a collective sigh of relief when the weekly p0 patches for flash stopped coming. Apple may have been trying to push towards 'native' apps but that was almost certainly secondary; safari was leading the way on html5 APIs.

Let's not pretend that the death of Flash was a tragedy.
Optional for what? If you use Ask Rewind you currently need GPT-4, and AI is the meat of this product.

I think they shouldn't tout privacy as a feature until their models go open source. If they did that what would they say then, "Now we're really private"?
Getting a secure context costs $0 and takes no effort in many common webservers at this point.

I do remember the controversy at the time of everybody shifting to HTTPS only, though, and how it might exclude small/hobbyist sites. Fortunately, we've found ways to mitigate that friction in the end. I'm much less optimistic here.
Don't nail me down on this but I think since nowadays' websites are often dynamic, you most likely have to employ headless browsers in order to do whatever it is you want to do. This should then result in fake impressions.
Luckily, we have a gigantic fusion reactor in the sky that's not set to be decommissioned any time in the next billion years and which outputs orders of magnitude more energy than is needed by our civilization. Otherwise, we'd be screwed :P
I'm a part of a group trying to reduce driving on 1 small section of a neighborhood street in favor of wider sidewalks and maybe bike parking, in a very liberal area.

You would think we're proposing a second Holocaust from the reaction. Insane. Accusations that we're trying to round everyone up so we can send them to Trump's camps, to wipe out everyone over 50, etc.

We're fucked. I don't pay attention to this stuff anymore, I've done what I can.
Remember in the 1980's when you might dial in to a BBS that was run by some tempermental teenager who randomly decreed whatever arbitrary and inconsistent rules suited him on that particular day?

Well that kid earned a few billion bucks and runs Twitter/X now.
Yes, we need to protest. And I don't mean protest by slamming Google's github repositories with comments. That's not a protest. Go tell the media. Go tell your elected officials.

I also think web developers getting together like we did with SOPA/PIPA and raising awareness on our web properties can also help. How do we organize that?
That was not a requirement when I first signed up.
It provides a uniform service for ensuring a client has desired properties.

That’s kinda tricky to do well. Traffic for monitoring, you can do with a jwt, but like, enabling chunked transfer in python request lib is a problem you discover. An array of attestors could guarantee feature sets.
How do they do that? I thought OSM was licensed in such a way that if you combine it with other data, the whole thing needed to be released with the same license?
It depends on the exact engine, but as far as I understand them the hydrogen is turned into electricity and water and then exhausted out back.

They're not exactly ICE cars or hybrids because they don't ignite the hydrogen (they use fuel cells instead) but they are pumping fuel around and filled with combustible material.

I suppose in terms of fires, they're closer to hybrids because they'll charge an electric battery that can also be used with tech like regen braking for better fuel efficiency. Then again, if a hydrogen tank lights on fire, that'll probably cause a strong burst of flames (assuming explosion prevention mechanisms work) similar to bursts that escape from burning lithium cells.

They're really their own category, but there are so few hydrogen cars that I don't think it really matters to be honest.
Bots will get sophisticated.

This all seems to me that in a decade we'll be having the same discussion, with the same excuse, but eventually the proposal from big corporations will be to require plugging-in a government-issued ID card into a smartcard reader in order to access pre-approved websites with pre-approved client portals running in pre-approved machines.
> then the sites in question can simply choose not to enable it

Google can reduce the page rank of websites that dont enable it (or just not give any page rank at all) and now everyone who wants to be found has to enable it
The problem of provenance is significantly smaller than the problem of monopolistic companies given control over who is and is not an approved user of the web.

Provenance to the extent it is a problem is already handleable and largely handled. Note that "handled" here does not mean it is 100% gone, only that it is contained. Monopolistic control over the web is not containable.
She was right. Few people listened, and those who did took little or no action. That puts her in the highest of culture heroes to me. RIP.
Do you mind sharing with us what your little world is made of?
Someone argued yesterday that in instances like this users are choosing what to use of their own free will. At the micro scale sure, at the macro scale I disagree. Users want their shit to work and if you play these shenanigans it's less of a choice and more of a ransom.

Insects in a swarm can choose where to go but they can't choose where the swarm goes.
EDIT: Ignore this. I hallucinated "HN" where it says "YC".

Even if it does, that is OK because it is just an online forum, not a landlord or an employer or such.

(I can say that because I'm in my 60s.)
No popups on me on the desktop FF, but I have strict security enabled. No uBlock bullshit.
> the fact that someone like myself is already putting mental energy towards this does say something in my opinion

Wouldn't it be expected that you'd have the mental energy to put towards such things, lacking the tried and true distraction of having puppies?
The researchers addressed the criticism wrt diamagnetic properties:

“Kim says that this is due to the sample being imperfect which means that only some part of it becomes superconductive and exhibits the Meissner effect”

https://archive.is/Lve8I
There’s a select few mullvad addresses that don’t trigger it but the majority I use I’ll get hit with them.

I honestly find it more concerning when I’m expecting one and I don’t get served a ridiculous puzzle to solve.
The second mission had to be added due to the first's failures. (https://spacenews.com/boeing-to-fly-second-starliner-uncrewe...) It wasn't originally in the schedule. (SpaceX, by comparison, flew crew on their second test flight.)

And again, Starliner's third attempt is now indefinitely delayed for a rebuild of critical systems.

"largely delays in funding not just the actual program" is simply not the truth.
Hi Dan! Small correction: This is not a ConsenSys guide. It's my own work. As a private person. :)
More content on offensive security techniques is yet to come, so stay tuned!
ULA is half Boeing
They support another monopolistic player that would do exactly the same thing.

... oh wait, they already did. They force a monoculture on all the platforms they can get away with, and even shipped this WEI crap already.
Occasionally it's cancer though
This seems like a problem they'll have to solve eventually, and they're just putting it off for now. Fair enough. I wish services like this were more proactive and willing to invest in updating their safety practices and equipment, but sometimes I guess it seems easier to push things out. It's a private company, isn't it? So, they'll feel the pressure, or they won't.
Look at how climate related deaths have dropped dramatically over the past century.

https://www.humanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cha...

https://images.wsj.net/im-428434/?width=700&height=434

What are you worried about, exactly?
With the don't-care allowable, the "load" nets can be tied directly to the instruction decoder (i.e. LDA = BIT0, LDX = BIT1) instead of needing intervening logic (i.e. LDA = BIT0 & !BIT1, LDX = BIT1 & !BIT0). If you can make the opcode illegal, you can save two gates (which matter for cost, yield, power and timing).
> We can not let a tyranny of 1% of users steer the ship.

Normally I'd agree with you on that the tyranny of the minority is a bad thing, but sometimes the minority actually has a point and this is one of the cases where the minority is _objectively_ correct and letting the majority decide would end up in a complete dystopia. Democracy only works if everyone is informed (and able to think logically/critically, not influenced (either by force or by salary), etc.) and in this case the 99% simply do not have any clue on the effects of this being implemented (nor do they care). This entire proposal is pure orwellian shit.
> This is not true. Sites will not be obligated to implement WEI.

There are a number of sites I frequent but don't log in to or register for an account.

Every single one of them has an absurd number of captchas, or I see the cloudflare protection thing come up for first for 3 seconds.

So while hypothetically it may be true that they don't have to do it, they will. It's not even clear to me that Firefox could implement it too... so do I have to switch back to Chrome (or [barf] Safari?)? Dunno. I can't predict the future, but you'd have to be in some sort of denial to not see where this is going.

> At the end of the day bots are a real issue

Bots are fucking awesome. We should all have bots, out there doing the boring stuff, bringing back the goodies to us. If someone tells you that bots are bad, they're lying to you because they're afraid that you might find out how much you'd want one.
WEI acts as proof that "this is a browser", not "this is a human". But browsers can be automated with tools like Selenium. I'd guess that with the advent of complicated, JS-based captchas, browsers under automation are already the major battleground between serious scrapers and anti-bot tools.

I also don't understand how WEI does much to prevent a motivated user from faking requests. If you have Chrome running on your machine it's not gonna be too hard to extract a signed WEI token from its execution, one way or another, and pass that along with your Python script.

It looks like it basically gives Google another tool to constrain users' choices.
Trained a model on my voice and set up a cardboard cutout of myself next to my baby's crib so that I can provide validation and encouragement around the clock. Has freed up considerable time for my wife and I to enjoy each other's company. Currently hacking together a robotic bottle arm attachment for on-demand feeding.
I love how some people find a way to inject "Israel Bad" into any discussion on any topic.
A few years back, a 60 Minutes segment was on a startup was making grid scale batteries out of seawater and dirt. Haven't heard anything about it since.

Lithium batteries are great due to their energy/weight ratio. But grid scale batteries have no issue with size or weight, it's energy/cost that matters. And seawater/dirt is cheap as dirt (!).
It was delayed the same amount of time as Starliner initially. Now Dragon is operational, and Starliner still isn't done with the final design/assembly of it.
"If you put too much requisites and ask for only ideal flawless careers, made in some unicornia university; in the short time the candidates interested in your job position will start lying. After a while all that remain at your door are cheaters"

Are you saying doing science is so hard the only way to succeed is to cheat?

This is a slap in the face to scientists doing honest work.
I found the Forge plugin on GNOME Extensions to be a much better solution.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4481/forge/
They follow the “fail fast, crash early” design philosophy.
Yes… let your hatred of OpenSocial and ActivityPub flow, you supporters of Big Social!
whats the memory usage of sdxl ?
SpaceX is the only organization in the industry that prioritizes speed. For the regulators and the other players, they are all pretty happy to do things at their own pace and speed.
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor dies aged 56
I support myself using a TPM to attest if my system has not been tampered

But I oppose others, Google/Microsoft/Facebook/..., attesting if my system is according their specifications
I doubt it works for almost anyone. Who is making $80k in donations? More likely seems the following: People listen to music on Spotify and don't even begin to think about donating any money to the musician. They already pay for Spotify after all. And of course Bandcamp can't compete with Spotify pricing, let alone piracy.
YC the program, not Hacker News.
Can you say more about what “using GPT-4 is optional” means? What features do I lose by not using GPT-4? How do I opt out?
That is not controversial at all, but rather a plain fact about the short term incentives! If adoption of this technology weren't an attractor, then we'd have nothing to worry about. But the problem is the functionality of this spec, supported by the fundamental backdoor of corporate TPMs, is set up to facilitate power dynamics that inevitably result in full corporate control over everyone's computing environment.
I think what changed is

The place of music in society. Availability doesn't mean wide impact. It often created smaller sub cultures.

The place of music in people, there are more things capturing your mind now.

The place of the industry, in the past access was granted through a tree of labels and record companies, it also had a weight in the inertia of styles and art. You went through more skilled eyes, it gives you a different legitimity.
Midjourney may be better for plain prompts, but Stable Diffusion is SOTA because of the tooling and finetuning surrounding it.
You are right to worry; these things are insanely nonlinear, and we're already well into the meat of several feed-forward loops / tipping points (e.g., melting permafrost releasing gigatons of methane which is 22x as effective at blocking IR radiation vs CO2, melting of arctic icecap leaving open ocean absorbing far more heat vs white snow/ice, etc.).

Worse yet is the threat that few are mentioning: the breaking of the food web. This incredibly delicate web literally keeps us alive and is under threat not only from anthropogenic climate change but also from everything from pesticides, plastic & microplastic pollution, habitat destruction, slowing and impending collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, and 100 other scaled-up threats. We're already in the anthropocene era marked by the sixth mass extinction in the planet's history, and everything from fish to insects are nearing single-digit percentages of their pre-industrial populations.

Disaster can be averted, but only if we take serious action. Good luck with that.
Corn will not pollinate correctly if it is not in a rather dense clump. If you grow it in your garden you should plant 3 or more rows(or a square/circle). Otherwise you will get mostly empty cobs.
The attestation is about the device, not the website.

I think just from a security perspective it makes most sense for the device or os manufacturer to handle attestation for that device.
I use Forge, it works really well most of the time.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4481/forge/