skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was in school, we broke a teacher's curriculum by me having a digital camera (Agfa CL20)

The teacher's process was to put a slide on the projector and have everyone write it down. Repeat until class is over, maybe with minimal discussion.

I just snapped a picture of a slide and told the teacher to move to the next one, I already sent it to everyone in class =)
(Slightly off-topic) In the past 1.5 decades my perspective on programming languages changed a lot.

At first I thought the most important thing about a language is its popularity.

Then I thought it's compiler vs interpreter.

Then I thought it's OOP vs functional.

Then I thought it's static typing vs dynamic typing.

Now I think the 3 most defining priorities of a language is:

1. The culture and community around it (not necessarily == popularity)

2. What's its default way to handle memory: GC? RC? Borrow? Just write unsafe code?

3. How its macro works? Is it so powerful that people all writing their own DSLs?

In this order, cause obviously 1 can "overwrite" 2 and 3.
You may not use Gmail, but every email you send and receive goes through Google infrastructure.
I bought a Unicomp 15 years ago, no regrets. A couple years ago i had to replace it (a couple dead keys) and 8 keys on the new one didn't feel right. Kind of mushy and wiggly when fully depressed? I swapped in the keycaps from the old keyboard and now they're fine. This keyboard has a date of 2/25/2020 but my issue was with keycaps so no idea when they were made. In 2038 when this one dies I'd prefer to buy another Unicomp but we'll see.
This is great but what would be even better is integrating this data to show the true female winners of women's sports, in cases of male infiltration: https://www.shewon.org
> Happy, well fed, cared for plants are the tastiest, healthiest and most sustainable option

There, repaired it for you.
Yes and it’s because, like I said, that the idea of a single tuna being worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars is fantasy — not reality. But many people believe it to be true because of a TV show they saw or something they heard on NPR.
Micron Unveils HBM3 Gen2 Memory: 1.2 TB/SEC Memory Stacks for HPC and AI
Who has been mismanaged for at least a decade and depends on Google to pay their bills..

I don't see how this matters, it's an open source project, if people find enough value, it will be forked and improved by community or a new organization will form around it. This is the beauty of open source, you must embrace.
Not only is Edge based on Chromium, as a major operating system vendor with strong influence on the hardware market, Microsoft is well positioned to be one of the widely-accepted attesters. So they have little motivation to oppose this proposal.
>> The same technology could easily be applied to simply blocking anyone who isn't verified

Sounds like a great way to enforce censorship:

- websites can deny access to unverified web browsers / web clients

- WEI-enforcing web browsers / web clients can refuse to go to unverified websites (not a stated goal, but it is a logical next step to boost website adoption of WEI APIs once a critical mass of clients is reached)

Google wants to build a wall around the Web and have their own walled garden:

https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM?t=57
And the Armenians still exist.
Firefox is helping you, Ticketmaster is evil.
Thank you! Just ping me on the website, I'll get in touch with you!
I've seen racks of CAMAC modules that all use LEMO. I rarely see them elsewhere. I've heard they are very popular in Europe.
You enforce discipline from an extrinsic source until the expectations are understood and self discipline takes over. Works with dogs, soldiers and kids the same. Doesn't work with cats sadly.

And the best thing you can do is model the behavior of putting your phone away and out of sight for things like meals and family time.
Mental note: "If true then" comments skip "true?" part yet add to the momentum of this story. The ratio tells me not true. We'll see how this ages.
Hi, I've collected many monetization approaches in the "Awesome OSS Monetization" list on Github - maybe it helps you to find alternatives to donations / sponsorships:

https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization
They’re also the big “winner” in the allocation so it seems reasonable.
> that it's even possible to treat livestock unethically

You should really watch https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch

Your statement seems to imply that the concept of livestock experiencing suffering or deserving ethical treatment is based on 'absurd premises'. This seems to stem from a viewpoint that animals are fundamentally different from humans in terms of consciousness, emotions or the capacity to suffer. However, numerous scientific studies have shown that many animals, including those we commonly categorize as livestock, do indeed exhibit complex behaviors, show signs of consciousness, and display clear responses to pain and stress, indicating a capacity for suffering. This is particularly true for mammals like cows, pigs, and chickens.

The concept of treating livestock ethically is not about equating animals to humans, but about acknowledging these capacities and adjusting our behaviors and systems accordingly. It's about understanding that, while they may not experience the world exactly as we do, they do have experiences that matter to them. It's not an 'absurd premise' but a logical conclusion based on observed evidence.
Picked some moves from this series as well! :)
This is compatible with that.

One such service that distributes payments could sell subscriptions in this system. That's one of the ideas I have had all the time with this project but I guess I forgot to write down; payment distributers should be one of those you can subscribe to.
We had a long phase of "models aren't good enough but get better if we make them bigger, let's see how far we can go". This year we finally reached "some models are pretty great, let's see if we can do the same with smaller models". I'm excited for where this will take us.
Thank you! Do share your feedback and comments on how can I improve it! :D
Don't forget, increasingly transport, you won't be able to get a taxi in SF soon without being monitored / tracked by Google.
Templates of Doom
Lunar settlements would probably be underground or "hobbit homes" piled over with regolith. Nobody's sunbathing on the Moon.
Totally. In most things, you need to have the ability to trust that users will make (or at least see) the right choice even over multi-million marketing initiatives. Given today's people and today's marketing, I'd say we're properly fucked.
Unblockable ads, sites can serve you data that you can’t manipulate or copy, micropayments can exist, invasive surveillance.

Surveillance is possibly the worst of the bunch. They say it’s just to do a better job of serving ads, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Governments could easily use it to know and track everything you do online. Just wait till the next elected nut job wants a list of everybody that has ever looked at or searched for a certain type of information, maybe they don’t like that you looked up info on abortions or lgbt info, now they can know the full extent of what you saw and when.

Ads will be worse. You think YouTube ads are bad now, just wait till you can’t visit any page without the mandatory viewing of their ads. They can require a cam installed to make sure your eyes are on the ad, helpfully pausing the video when you look away.
The evidence is well known and any Google search will produce it. Here's a document from WHO: https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Monograp... Spoiler: bacon (as it's a processed red meat) is classified as carcinogenic (Group 1), red meat as probable carcinogenic (Group 2A). There are quite a lot of analysis showing there's up to a 50% increase in overall cancer risk due to eating red meat and up to 70% with processed meat https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...
There wouldn't be anything close to an open internet with the engineers of today. I despise my generation for this. Generalization yes, but the draw of big money to big tech did something. How about being smart for once and think two step ahead the next time...
Agree progress is rapid, but I was under the impression model training for LLMs was still the preserve of mega-corps, with the support of eg NVDA providing the hardware.

Military may be doing the same behind closed doors of course, but still a large endeavour.

Are you suggesting it is too late for regulation?
I have had coworkers who wanted to stick with a dumb phone. It sounds great to give junior a dumb phone until they're "old enough", but not much communication happens via sms. It's all done in other apps.

Your kids will be excluded from a lot of conversations and events. They will feel ostricized socially and will inevitably be frustrated at you because of it.

Having no phone versus a dumb phone would make the resentment worse. No idea what the best answer is beyond all of society collectively realizing it's a bad idea to give smartphones to young kids.
Not that extreme but some banking apps on android did check for root at some point and refused to run so there may be precedent
What you can do:

- stop using Chrome

- do not implement web DRM on your personal site

- do not use providers like Cloudflare if they will support web DRM

- maybe add a warning on your personal site for Chrome users

Maybe something else?
Thank you! Let me know if you find the time of each puzzle fast or long..
Sorry, this was wrong. I was a fool to post that without providing context and I apologise. I have updated my comment. I sometimes forget there are real people on the other side of the computer sometimes.

It was this thread, where you mentioned emailing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212
Mostly no. As said by others, now instead of being on a device that you can track, their usage will be on friends devices that you cannot. When every other child has a cellphone that's the way it works.
> "I worship God and I'm His slave" just never seemed to ring any bells.

Let me tune your system for you: Slave to Love.
As someone who is a somewhat new to web technologies, can someone really explain why this is bad? I saw the techical discussions in the PRs made to the WEI repo but it was all super technical that I was not able to understand the arguments made for and against it.
The attitude from Google towards this has changed significantly over the last few days (unsurprisingly).

From the "explainer": "we are evaluating whether attestation signals must sometimes be held back [...] However, a holdback also has significant drawbacks [...] a deterministic but limited-entropy attestation [i.e. no holdback] would obviate the need for invasive fingerprinting".

From the Google worker's most recent comment on the issue: 'WEI prevents ecosystem lock-in through hold-backs [...] This is designed to prevent WEI from becoming “DRM for the web”'

So, in other words, WEI could be used to prevent fingerprinting, but won't be able to if holdback is introduced -- 5-10% of clients would still get fingerprinted.

Looking at the list of "scenarios where users depend on client trust", all of them would be impacted by a holdback mechanism:

- Preventing ad fraud: not for the holdback group

- Bot and sockpuppet accounts on social media: not for the holdback group

- Preventing cheating in games: not for the holdback group -- and thus not for anyone playing against someone in the holdback group

- Preventing malicious software that imitates a banking app: not for the holdback group

In other words, if there was holdback, WEI would require places which currently fingerprint to retain and maintain the fingerprinting code and apply it to fewer users, in the best case, or would be completely useless in the worst case (for things like games).

However, it's also quite interesting to look at the implications of successfully attesting a browser which supports arbitrary extensions:

- Preventing ad fraud: install an automation extension

- Bot and sockpuppet accounts: as above

- Cheating in games: install an extension which allows cheating

- Malicious software which imitates a banking app: a malicious browser extension could do this easily.

In other words, unless you attest the browser with its extensions, none of the trust scenarios outlined in the explainer are actually helped by WEI. It's not obvious whether the Google employee who wrote this deliberately didn't think about these things, or whether the 'explainer' is just a collection of unconnected ideas, but it doesn't appear to hold together.

It is not surprising that the first target of WEI -- Chrome on Android -- does not support extensions.
Rewind for iPhone
It’s been 14 years since my first submission to HN and I am so grateful to this community for all your feedback & help on my first company (Optimizely) and now my second one (Rewind). Today we’re introducing Rewind for iPhone - a truly personalized AI in your pocket. I’d love your feedback!

Browse & search for any word you’ve seen (including screenshots)

- Rewind automatically captures what you read in Safari and imports your screenshots.

- You can preserve & search for anything you’ve seen on your iPhone.

- This opens a new dimension of computing: time.

Summarize and ask any question using AI

- Rewind integrates with OpenAI GPT-4 to allow you to ask any question about anything you’ve seen.

- Create summaries, synthesize information across apps, or remind yourself how you know someone.

Private by design

- Private browsing in Safari is not captured.

- Using GPT-4 is optional and only the relevant text necessary to answer your question is used.

- Your data is not used to train AI models.

- All recordings are stored locally and only you have access to them.

Please let me know what you think!
From the spec author, in 2022 [0]:

> I decided to make this an app in the end. This is where my costs started wracking up. I had to pay for a second hand macbook pro to build an iOS app. Apple’s strategy with this is obvious, and it clearly works, but it still greatly upsets me that I couldn’t just build an app with my linux laptop. If I want the app to persist for longer than a month, and to make it easy for friends to install, I had to pay $99 for a developer account. Come on Apple, I know you want people to use the app story but this is just a little cruel. I basically have to pay $99 a year now just to keep using my little app.

The double-think is absolutely astounding.

[0] https://benwiser.com/blog/I-just-spent-%C2%A3700-to-have-my-...
I would always suggest decoupling domain registrar from everything else -- emails providers, DNS providers, other hosts, etc. Take care of your domain and be able to point anywhere, then the DNS provider to be able to again point to any hosts.
That decision completely depends on the context. For a small team, without too much native experience, I'd still 100% recommend using expo. It's just going to be easier for everyone with less bottlenecks and less code to maintain.

If PWAs were actually used by the mass markets, I'd go with that option, but the fact is they're not, and you can't expect to force your users to learn a new behaviour like that.
Well, and none of those are 'evil' commercial interests.
I stole the AirPods Design, and improved it (with download) [video]
> when regulations don't exist

It’s very likely governments will make this mandatory if they have the chance to regulate over this.
> He writes of Operation Pressure Pump undertaken by Washington in July 1952 and describes the unprecedented quantity of bombs and napalm dropped on North Korea

More importantly he misses the biochemical weapons dropped on North Korea and China by the Americans. A war crime, leading to MKULTRA, persuading the witnesses to be either crazy or not testify about it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178974
IntelliJ IDEA 2023.2
Yeah, fair. Forth especially really commits to that left-to-right order in its general style -- I like it when a language and its culture are conscious about readability in this way.
The bright side is, when Google really pushes through with this WEI nonsense, it will not only break the Web, it will also create some kind of premium Web run by Google, analogous to gated communities. And then the worldwide Internet ad market bubble will finally burst.
Such a thing is easier said than done. While self control and concentration can be taught, it is probably the case that schoolchildren just aren't up to the challenge of resisting smartphones at such a young age. Especially when it seems like most adults aren't capable of exercising restraint when it comes to smartphone usage.
Not only did iOS implement this, but everyone either sleep-walked on it, or worse, praised it, because Apple sold it as a CAPTCHA bypass instead of a DRM scheme: https://mastodon.delroth.net/@delroth/110775677023220850
Glad they didn't put more money into Starshit
We have been working on something that sounds similar. It ain’t perfect yet, but we are using it quite a bit already.

https://github.com/django-beam/django-beam
Just say no.

Ignore Google and educate your friends and family about the alternatives. Make it your mission to save the Internet.
Well, not for long anyway!
I should be able to mention it en passant without having to dive deep into my opinions of the matter which are wholly unrelated and just a way to entrap me.

The discussion is around identity, and mentioning that these days only gender identity is a corporate-acceptable struggle. I claim that identity in general should be celebrated. I shan't be afraid to say, on my blog I'm an anarchist, or, for argument's sake, I'm a satanist, I am trans, I vote Trump, Google is a shitty company, or Star Wars is a terrible franchise.
Here's how this goes:

WEI randomly fails, website sees it, has never implemented any error checking (or fails on purpose without WEI), WEI becomes effectively mandatory.

Google is a gun manufacturer telling people on the other end of it "don't worry, every one in 20 bullets doesn't fire".
Thanks for the info, i wasn't aware of that at all.

> They'll do it when their bank website tells them so.

Right.

> The day Cloudflare flips the switch to require it for all connections is the day the open web dies.

Makes sense and unfortunately seems realistic.
Stop using it altogether. Use Firefox and contribute to it.
We did just fine in schools before smartphones. Perhaps even better.
Don’t know if there is much evidence, but I have heard that the switch from the main consumed beverage from alcohol based drinks to caffeine based drinks may have possibly contributed to the Enlightenment.

Europe went from a depressant to a stimulant, suddenly lots of science.
I would presume he means they're break-even in cashflow (aka the bills he actually wants to pay).

They are racking up massive debt to leaseholders, cloud providers...
Except 50 was never on the table, and 75 is a fraction of what it would be worth if you stopped trying to actively manage your portfolio.

I cannot overstate how bad of an idea this is. Investing is not the same as decorating, there are objectively bad ways of managing your investments and this is one of them.

You will end up poorer as a result of this behavior. I hope that happiness is worth it, because you are paying through the nose.
Even in KFC, that was a nice finding for me, after a long walk through Toledo a few years ago.
> (yes, in a system with growing inequality you need constant growth just for things to stay the same)

I'm not sure what you are talking about. Global inequality has decreased in the last few decades.
I'm surprised we haven't seen more soft/semi DRM-like behavior through WASM+canvas.
The thing is that this solution scales better. If you had to pay all developers individually, that would not be worth it but with my solution, you have to pay only one.

Also, it doesn't have to be a subscription. The payment is 100% up to the developers that you pay, so they could sell a one time payment and register a lifetime subscription in this system for that.
Most of the framers didn't own slaves.
sure, we can also teach them to not eat junk food while living inside mcdonalds, how hard can it be, its just self control.
I think the next logical step would be to find a community of like-minded parents and set those kids up to be friends.
> Other retailers continue to shutdown and it's a direct result of Amazon.

It is not Amazon, it is online shopping in general. They never were going to survive a world where their competition can sell the same goods without having all the capital and labor expenses of a storefront.

A few of the big ones will survive due to convenience, but the niche stores where you do not need the product today or tomorrow have no competitive advantage against a website, outside of a few high end stores where richer people can afford to pay extra for the shopping experience.
Firefox accepted EME. Why are we all suddenly so surprised this is the ultimate outcome?
As a former child I would likely scrounge enough to get something and simply exist with WiFi

Phones are cheap, kids are clever, etc. Unintended consequences seem like a guarantee

Granted, I'm not a parent
1. This isn't external, it's internal

2. It's not feedback, it's a bug report on something being broken

You don't get a gold star for being like "See, they're listening!" when they allow people internally involved in the project the privilege of having their bug reports heard.

The proposal is de-facto bad. The goals it wants to achieve are bad. There is no "technical argument", just like there's no "technical argument" to being against a proposal that says you must share all your passwords with me. Stop the sealioning.
> The people who work in infosec seem to be the drunkest I know.

Less so in tech-heavy Utah, I imagine.
There's two aspects to that actually.

1. Often the feedback goes completely to the wrong address. You won't stop Google from doing google things.
2. Most often the depth level at which the discussions on web standard are made will alienate most people, so instead of participating in "standards making" they turn somewhere else (1.).

The web is awesome and it got awesome because for the first 15 years of its existence it was actually very straight forward to run a web entity. But success brought ever growing companies and ever more complex interests. The discussions also vary a lot nowadays. There are still things being done to make the web more approachable but at the same time we see stuff like "Web Environment Integrity", DRM etc.

The problem is that a process that requires the public to be vigilant will eventually fail if the public cannot appoint people to be vigilant full time for them.
Can someone please explain what this actually is. Without the poetry.
If some part of your day involves 40min walk, we wouldn't comsider that a "walkable" city in the US. Is that a common commute walk elsewhere? With temperatures as they are now in the southern US and southern EU, I think it could quite realistically kill people.
any suggestion on where should I keep my domains then?
This is patently false. Tons of Enterprise orgs use Alpine for security concerns, ease of administration, and size. I guess all those prod microservices existence is "insane".