skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't block a hosts file, or a firewall between you and your ISP.
TPMs can be emulated. Also basically every hardware platform can be placed into a hardware debug mode that allows live debugging of the underlying operating system. Keys can also be extracted from hardware. If even one supported platform leaks a key (and in this doomer fantasy world all platforms must be supported right?) then the attestations can be bypassed. It only needs to be bypassed once to be bypassed everywhere, basically forever.
I keep reminding myself to uninstall Chrome from my phone and desktop.
Virtual Windows machines with thin clients are used all over the world. Microsoft is even trying to make Window 11 an online-first platform according to news like https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-window.... Some of these companies may run Windows on bare metal, but I doubt the majority of them doesn't do at least some server/workspace separation through VMs.

I know people want convenience. Anyone interested in convenience will just use Windows or macOS. They won't need to mess with VMs. This whole problem is only an issue for the small percentage of the population that wants to use their own weird operating systems, browsers, or addons.

If the need arises, someone will make a user friendly tool to do all this. Cassowary can do it today after following a step by step guide, they can also add their Web Integrity patches to those steps if they need to.

If you, as a user, want to have a special button that makes banking work without needing to know how or why, stick with proprietary operating systems. Linux isn't user friendly enough to accomplish this and it probably won't be for a while. The same is true if you want to watch your HD/4K streaming content without a huge struggle.
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of X in Y”: Papers that follow the trope
Automated Testing Handbook
Chrome feels faster though. I just switched back to it after using Firefox for the last year. Chrome on my work computer felt snappier than Firefox on my comparable spec personal machine.
>"Homer: There's three ways to do things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Max Power way!

Bart: Isn't that the wrong way?

Homer: Yeah. But faster!

- "Homer to the Max" "

Now that's funny! <g> :-)
Yes, especially SIMD Neon where gcc producing horrible Neon code for all versions < gcc-12 even by using simd intrinsics. From version 12 gcc is at same level as clang.

You can try it : https://github.com/powturbo/Turbo-Base64
I don't think you understand what I'm saying. There are no rules for delegation of congressional powers in the constitution. There are no rules for administrative agencies in the constitution. We have made them all up, and can rewrite them at will. We can move the "FTC" box on the org chart to be under a congressional committee rather than the president and let it operate exactly how it does today, just without delegating power to the executive branch, which already has too much.
> Farage says he was effectively "de-banked" for his political views and that he is "far from alone"

Contrary to the BBC's portrayal, this is not an unsupported opinion coming from Farage - he is citing what the bank itself wrote in their internal discussions on this matter, that he obtained through a subject access request.

In their apology for getting the story wrong, the BBC writes: "On 4 July, the BBC reported Mr Farage no longer met the financial requirements for Coutts, citing a source familiar with the matter. The former UKIP leader later obtained a Coutts report which indicated his political views were also considered." - https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66288464

This is misleading past the point of deceit. The BBC tries to give the impression that financial requirements were the primary reason for the account closure, and his politics were just an at-best secondary "also". But the Coutts report explicitly said that he “meets the EC [economic contribution] criteria for commercial retention”, so his politics were the primary and only reason - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/nigel-farage-cou...

If you can ignore Farage's hyperbole (I wouldn't describe collecting information posted willingly to public social media as "Stasi-style" surveillance), he lists the reasons Coutts used to close his account, which include friendship with Novak Djokovic, and re-Tweeting an allegedly transphobic joke by Ricky Gervais ("old fashioned women. You know, the ones with wombs."): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/18/nigel-farage-cou...

Most of this information is absent in the BBC's reporting, which uses only vague, anodyne phrases like "political views" and "politically exposed person", avoids specifics, but does find time to cite Labour MP accusations that it is hypocritical how quickly the government reacted to banks trying to financially deplatform the enemy political faction, when the government hasn't yet rid itself of corruption.
100% agree.

I switched to Chrome pretty much the day it first came out and it was revolutionary. Switched back to Firefox a few years ago due to Chrome becoming too dominant and Google throwing their weight around in standards committees too much. When I desperately need Chromium for something I use Edge (which I actually rather like).
I don't think there is any real user-friendly app ready. But those are some prototypes/ideas:

- https://github.com/taviso/nntpit (reddit to nntp)

- https://gitlab.com/antekone/desugar (reddit/lobsters to nntp)

- https://github.com/nkizz/mop3 (mastodon to pop3)

- https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/LobstersNntp (lobste.rs to nntp)

(although reddit gateways probably stopped working after Reddit closed the doors to their API)
One more in the endless parade of examples of the fact that Open Source is meaningless. It's Free Software methodology with ethics stripped from it, and therefore is malleable in its meaning to the point that it has none.
What do you mean by drivers? The kernel ones? AMDGPU and KFD runs out of the box and without problems from my use case so far.

Id say though that the whole ROCm runtime is in a bit of a weird situation.

But if if you run anything 5.15-ish or later you don’t need proprietary drivers.
Customize Django Admin Interface
Because both were a lot faster than IE. Nowdays almost everyone uses Chrome, Safari or Edge. Because Firefox is rather slow given the current competitors, not because the others care more about privacy (Also because that's just what their devices come with)
Chromium is open source. Is Chrome completely open source?
Tell me you don't have a mortgage and kids without telling me
Same here. I got into loose leaf tea to cut down on coffee drinking. I tried all sorts of greens but had to stop drinking it because it made me some combination of anxious and easy to anger.
I like Rust's struct + traits approach, because they avoid inheritance and encourage composition. I am sure people have built bad workarounds though to do inheritance anyway.
The numbers I found on a quick search are 3% loss per 1000 km for HVDC lines. That's a pretty huge loss for the 20k+ km lines you'd need to transmit power from daytime to nighttime areas on the globe.
> like rolling over the head

I almost killed myself on high school gym classes on this, if you combine it with subtle lunge forward, and end up hitting your head&neck perpendicularly to the ground. Vertebras shifted in my neck, doctor said if 1cm more I would be dead on spot. Absolutely stupid and useless exercise for school gym classes, I am pretty sure it creates tons of issues with neck, head and back decades down the road.

But try to bring yoga (without the spiritual aspects, just workouts) into gym classes and in primitive societies like back home in eastern Europe, and religious fanatics with a lot of political power will go nuts and fight it like Satan's coming (and of course they won).
The point of attestation is to verify the integrity of your execution environment. With a "compromised" execution environment, access to websites could be blocked. Presumably, the attestation process would send a fingerprint of your browser configuration to the attester, who would then be able to see whether you're using "compromised plugins," and deny you access by not attesting your browser.

There might be ways to filter away the ads after they've been served, such as memory manipulation, but the problem can't be solved with a plugin anymore, as browser attestion could let websites deny you access altogether if you use a plugin they don't like.
If you're serious, that feels overly broad. I know a lot of very good Googlers. Organizations are a bit of an abstraction in how we organize people.

A blacklist seems like a fine idea here, but it's important it be specific enough to pick out just the bad actors.

The way I manage my life, I want to make sure the work I do makes the world a better place. For the past many years, virtually everything I've done has been aligned with advancing humanity (education, medical, etc.), and has been open-source. I'm fortunate enough to be somewhat well-known for a former project, so I've always been able to find jobs like that. My values state that:

- If that meant working at a good subdivision in an evil organization, I'd do that.

- If it meant doing evil work for a good organization, I wouldn't.

- Heck, if it meant helping reform an evil, powerful organization to be good, that seems like worthwhile work too.

I haven't been in a position to need to manage those conflicts, mind you, but that's how I'd play them according to my ethical compass, if they came up.

I'll also mention: It's also important to be aware of people's situations and more complex trade-offs. Consider a person who does scammy sales pitch telemarketing calling during dinner to sell you on snake oil medicines. Now, consider that they make minimum wage, it's the only job in their town, and they have a five-year-old they need to feed. I'm in no position to judge.

I am in position to judge Ben, Borbala, Phillip, and Sergey.
Almost all in Chromium is open-source, there are some missing pieces though.

For example, the per-device configuration (GPU acceleration enabled or not, etc) is not there, the statistics collection infrastructure, the WebAPK minting code is not there, etc.
> 4. Tries to do too much and breaks quite often

This is the impression I've gotten recently testing their waters. Overall, my take has been to stay away from it unless the app I'm making is simple enough they have templates floating around the web and won't need further tweaking: similar to wordpress, great to have a certain type of app up and running fast but the minute you have to do extensive work on it, you'll wish death on it.
Mark is right here on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mark_l_watson
Can you share any information on why the Remote Lounge shut down? I took a look and basically just found that it got "seedy" over time: https://ny.eater.com/2007/11/30/6808673/the-shutter-remote-l...

I'm curious if you think web2.0 expanded so rapidly that the novelty of interacting with strangers over a camera was no longer foreign to people (though it seems ChatRoulette didn't even launch until after the shuttering of the Remote Lounge), or if it was just the kind of gimmicky thing that had an expiration date regardless of how the world around us changed during that time period
I did my part, my website shows "Not available on Chrome, Use a more modern and open browser instead... and some explainer text"

if most of us Devs do this, this change would have no chance.

What would be even nicer is If someone can build a JS file that the rest of us could include to show a hard blocking pop up just to show how the future web might look like, supported with a nice explanation and link to good videos, that would be nice too.
If you have a customer who pays more than 50% of your income that’s not a customer that’s a controlling interest. Track record shows the relationship looks the way google wants it to look and behaves the way google wants it to behave.
It should fairly simple for MS to block this API (if they wish to).
What should HN readers do that are forced to work within these ecosystems? Ex. Work, school.

It’s not always so easy to walk away from an entire platform. People’s entire livelihoods could be based around Google.

I don’t see any issue with Google owning some of this responsibility.
People don't work for the dignity, they work for the paycheck. As long as people are willing to pay others more for doing this than saving the internet, it will continue the trend. Lashings will continue until morale improves.
just you wait, one day google cloud pub/sub will have a queue pause feature!
Not even a #pragma once.

It was a bundle of declarations that included duplicate definitions on each source file. The candidate then expected stuff to remain consistent by updating all declarations.
>Google ensures that the tokens will not include unique identifiers

Let me get this straight, so they want to establish "personhood" without attesting a unique ID to also preserve privacy.

Then how will they prevent a single secure element attesting an entire FSB worth of fake internet users? I feel like these two goals are mutually exclusive.

This is of course the least of my concerns. The whole thing should've been uprooted ages ago.
Altman wants all of you's eyeball pic. How much of a creep does that make xim?
Altman wants all of you's eyeball pic. How much of a creep does that make xim?
Ask HN: What web frameworks/technologies did not succeed as per your expectation
We come across some web frameworks and technologies that we think will succeed, but they wither away as time passes by and don't succeed to the level we expected.

Which web frameworks and or technologies did you come across that you thought would succeed but did not as per your expectations?

For example, I thought that Opa Lang[0] and UrWeb[1] would succeed but did not, even though the ideas were sound.

[0] http://opalang.org

[1] http://www.impredicative.com/ur
some cognitive dissonance from that explainer github

> "Users often depend on websites trusting the client environment they run in."

Nope, websites depend on the advertisers trusting them.
WEI is solving a website vendor problem, not a user problem.

> "The web page executing in a user's web browser"

From a user perspective web pages "render" in the browser, not "execute".
Vendors that want "execution" on a client machine should distribute a rich client app, where many OS platforms already support environment attestation.
WEI is web page vendors wanting to have their cake and eat it.
Your link is not how the branches of government work either. We changed that with the creation of agencies like the FTC. Most of the legislating in the US is now one by agencies under the executive branch that have had their authority delegated by congress. If we changed it once, we can change it again to give power back to congress and make it work more like it was supposed to.
> Where does co-location and transfer come from when someone says bare metal.

Parent was not happy with cloud providers. Tbh, I see the low end bare metal boxes with automatic provisioning as just another cloud provider. It's just not VMs. Apart from noisy neighbours, you end up with mostly the same types of issues.
You can, but generally only in certain places in their own bin. Some grocery stores and some Home Depots offer plastic bag recycling.
Seems pretty big.
EME is a great example. It's been around for over a decade now. In what way has it negatively impacted users? Is piracy any harder than it was? EME has been built into Chrome since long before it was an official W3C spec, which it has been for six years now. People lost their minds when EME was getting standardized, yet here we are. This same nonsense is playing out with WEI, yet people haven't seemed to learn a thing.
> an unlimited marketing budget for.

I never seen a single chrome add. I'm sure we're in different part of the world and in different add segments, but seems to me chrome marketing in not that widespread, is it ?

As a retired FE engineer, the top reason I used chrome and test with it was the powerful yet light devtools.
It works for me on the Beta. No need to go to nightly. Mozilla was even gracious enough to allow us to go to about:config!

I don't know what you're doing wrong (all I can say is that the name of the collection is case sensitive) but I haven't had any trouble adding the custom collection settings to my Firefox installs.
That's cheap argument to try to remove responsibility. Everyone who is part of this is responsible because they have a choice. It's like saying nuclear scientists is not responsible for making bombs that kills so many people, govt is responsible only who makes those decisions.
Analog gap. An AR headset that classifies ads in its field of view and filters them in real-time. Adversary model being, the evil Googleborg fully control your web browser and the locked OS it's running on – but you still control the gap between the display screen and your eyeballs.
European SpaceTech Ecosystem (Vs US and China)
I don't work at Google. I know of people that have the circumstances I've mentioned.

Some that help their parents, some that have kids, some that have sick spouses, some that brought their parents to live with them and support them due to health issues, some that have work visas.

I am simply saying that even though the right thing to do would be refusing, you also have to consider everyone's life circumstances when they make decisions.

The fact that they make $100k, $200k, $300k like another comment said means that they don't just need a job, they need a job making roughly the same amount of money and having the same benefits to be able to risk getting fired.

My original comment I wrote it so that we wouldn't just place everyone in the same group and generalize. It's not necessarily always as easy as refusing and risking your job. You're risking whoever else you support for example.
I wonder if www.emlia.org qualifies?
Mentat – an open source, GPT-4 powered coding assistant
Someone who feels comfortable letting a tech company control a microphone in their home (and by proxy all the agencies that company is obligated by law to serve) probably isn't too concerned about the local neighborhood prankster getting in on the action too. I think the great fear they have is that someone will come along and install a daemon on that speaker which charges them rent.
> The whole world is going this way

No. The world population is projected to increase till the end of this century.

> It’ll be good for the planet to have fewer people

Good luck hoping for population decline before irreversible changes in climate. Only hope is advancements in policy, research and tech.
In practical terms, what’s the best think and individual can do to make this less likely to happen?

I’ve been doing webdev for 20+ years, haven’t used chrome for the past few years besides using its inspector in Chrome canary. I’m content, I don’t feel like I miss it. I will try to convert my family to FF as I did in the past. But this makes me feel hopeless, unless there’s a strong legislative pushback (probably from the EU) or we break up the behemoth… It’s the first time I can’t see a way out of this.
Superconductor Pb10−xCux(PO4)6O showing levitation at room temperature
I use, almost exclusively, the open-source version of ColdFusion (called Lucee).

It’s fantastic. And users don’t care what your stack is, a long as it woks.

https://www.lucee.org/
BlockSuite is the open-source block-based editor
English ships hauled slaves around a lot later than that.
https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyages/Elnd5Nzy
But my point is that you do have plenty options in the industry! For sure if you're in charge of something like this you can have a pretty decent job elsewhere. You sound as if those people have nowhere else to continue their careers... Am I wrong?
That graph does not show cassettes were responsible for that, it just shows revenue numbers. There are other possible causes.

As someone who lived through part of that (I’m from ‘78 but for a country that was lagging in media developments; we got CDs in the early 90s) I can say that cassettes were a lousy medium. I love them because I grew up with my Walkman and I loved the tape swapping scene (physically compiled and traded playlists, for those young enough to not have participated), but objectively they sucked. Even the best tapes eventually had hiss if you played them enough times. Yet they were not sold at a significantly lower price to compensate this. I mean vinyl decays too but a good pressing handled with care will outlive you (for real, I’ve got plenty of great-sounding LPs from my grandma, and she’s been dead for 8 years), but after paying a high price for a cassette only to have it sound like crap after not that much time, you wouldn’t fall for that trap too often. You’d make a copy right after buying, and then share more copies with others too.

You say that cassettes were responsible for that drop in revenue and I disagree (though of course respect your opinion), but I say the climb once CDs came in could also be interpreted as people willing to buy music just fine provided it sounded good and kept sounding good. I mean it’s not like cassettes went away as a piracy medium once CDs came in, yet revenue climbed anyway.
This is the most thought-provoking company I’ve encountered in a long time. Congrats on doing genuinely interesting innovation.

Speaking as a potential user, my biggest hang up is trust. How can I trust that Roundtable’s results are accurate and not the result of hallucination?

One of the powerful things about data is that they surprise you. This is why data integrity is so important (“crap in, crap out” as the old adage goes). But if I get a surprising result from Roundtable, how can I verify it? I think you two are already thinking about this and building features to address it.

I’m also wondering if trying to verify a surprising result from Roundtable is the wrong response…Why would a LLM give me that answer? There may be something useful to understand about why the LLM is “hallucinating.” In terms of features, it may be interesting to see whether Roundtable’s LLM could explain its answer.

The UX could be like having a brilliant but inscrutable research assistant…
> I held all my stocks because, well, what else was I going to invest in?

I recently learned about a class of investment strategies called tactical asset allocation. One aspect of TAA is to switch to some other asset when your main one isn't performing well.

It's a form of market timing but it's systematic and backtestable. Reallocating once a month, a lot like a rebalancing that even B&Hers probably do.

This site [0] has some interesting articles on their blog. HAA has really piqued my interest [1].

[0] https://allocatesmartly.com/what-we-do/#whatistaa
[1] https://indexswingtrader.blogspot.com/2023/02/introducing-hy...
> That is at least some small degree of insurance against potential freedom-limiting shenanigans by tech giants.

Chromium being open source is a red herring. The web is a protocol between clients and servers, and having the ability to fork the client doesn't matter if all the servers ignore your fork and continue speaking the protocol dictated by the dominant client. You need to fork the entire protocol, which is to say, you need to fork the entire web.
You get a fast link between the GPUs, which should help when you’ve got a model split between them.

However, that split isn’t automatic. You can’t expect to run a 40GB model on that, unless perhaps if it’s been designed for that—the way llama.cpp can split a model between the GPU and CPU, for instance.

What you can do without trouble is keep more models loaded, do more things at the same time, and occasionally run the same model at double speed if it batches well.