skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought about separating them. But by the time I thought about it, I was already famous for it.

I've come to expect it.

Notice that I never wondered why companies don't hire me. I merely said they don't. I know I'm not a good fit in a sterile work environment.
Public opinion definitely veers towards over-pessimism, see for example Hans Rosling book Factfullness. Here is a short summary from a psychological perspective: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/sex-murder-and-the...
Can you remember the story? It sounds thematically similar to "There Will Come Soft Rains", but the details don't match.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_(sh...
Thank you, this is exactly where our headspace is too
So it's a reader app for what happens on you mac plus a Safari mobile browser extension to record what happens there? Clever implementation for an OS that is limited in what it allows in this regard.

I've tried Rewind on the Mac for a little bit but turned it off because I thought it was causing an issue with my notifications (I think now it's related to something else). I never "used" a rewind in part because I hate using consumable things (See also my slight aversion to Kagi, though I want to give it another shot). I also dislike pricing that's not really based on ongoing costs (searching your local archive 10 times or 1000 doesn't seem to cost Rewind anything). I was also not super excited about the whole "we will summarize your meetings" feature I got a notification about as it requires sending your data to Rewind. Also, I think part of my issue is that while I like having the history I don't have the muscle memory to use said history yet and so I forget it's there.
I can't tell about NYC, but they certainly did in Europe and still do. It's probably not too common though, most of kids have school close to their home.
For the curious thread-reader, here are some websites that offer ideas that might make you question whether all "timing the market" is the same and equally bad long term.

- https://portfoliocharts.com/portfolios/ (one step up in activity from B&H one ETF forever)

- https://allocatesmartly.com/blog/ (another step up in activity from sticking to one asset allocation that you simply rebalance periodically)

- https://qoppac.blogspot.com/p/systematic-trading-start-here.... (several steps up in complexity and activity)
Biden really needs to fire/replace Lina Khan and Congress start exerting pressure on big tech for actual monopolistic issues, not just political targeting. Although to be honest, I don't really trust the GOP/Dem house to bring up non-partisan issues which makes the role of FTC head even more important.
Sorry for coming out rude ... I'm spending more time than I should here, refuting same misconceptions and mistruths again and again.

Call it dross if you will ... if it was somehow more valuable were I to write it alone and spend 30 minutes instead of 10 on it, than maybe (please) pretend that I did.

> This kind of thing should not have place on HN.

I also expected HN to be quite different, more open minded, more interested in solving our (environmental) problems ... can't have it all.

Back to work, have family to feed. Sorry.
This is especially surprising coming from a Linux user who presumably understands the desire to have a device that runs code one can read, write, compile, execute, and share freely and without needing to receive approval from a Big Tech gatekeeper.
FTC right now has awful leadership. They only care about blocking mergers and scoring political points.
Exactly. Also, if some anecdata can help change a mind: Firefox is a really good browser these days. I use it quite heavily, and it hasn’t disappointed in the last three or so years since I switched from Chrome.

About the only use case I still need Chrome for is for sites requiring experimental web APIs not supported by Firefox, such as Web USB or Web Bluetooth. Site compatibility for everything else, including very heavy web apps, is just fine.

History sync is encrypted, which is what made me switch over in the first place (Chrome deactivates history sync when activating end-to-end encryption – go figure…)
yeah, the irony now is my parents are glued to their phones. or at least were until recently. i think they have made a conscious effort to put them down.

i think no outright ban in classrooms will ever exist in the US because a large % of parents will insist that their child have uninterrupted access to their phones for all sorts of valid reasons.
What are you talking about? When was it that kids brought TVs to school? Also, when I grew up every kid (well, every boy) had at least one video game console at home but I don't remember anyone ever bringing a console to school. They didn't because it would get confiscated immediately.
> Laughs in GameBoy.

Gameboys just weren't very common. I grew up in a pretty well off area, and I only knew a couple of people with them.

Whereas, I wouldn't be surprised if more than 90% of teens have smart phones.
Look up “coffee flavinoids”. There are plenty of health podcasters promoting coffee and green tea consumption who are independent (Rhonda Patrick, Andrew Huberman, Peter Attis)

By the way, decaf coffee appears to have the same flavonoid content as caffeinated.
> ostensibly being full of freedom-loving techies

> ostensibly

this is a tech news site in an incubator. they're not here for freedom, they're here to make $$$.

a non-trivial number of posters here are, or wish to be, the people that Doctorow is criticizing.
The same way the non-theoretical Firefox business makes money.

edit: Safari as well.
Can they remove proxies without clobbering corporate use of the browser? Companies I'm familiar with don't allow direct connection to the net.
To be perfectly honest, I know absolutely nothing about AI or Llama; I'm just a Windows C++ programmer so I wanted to provide cmake instructions for Windows, sorry. The .bin file is what I got from the OP's link
Police in America exist universally in a position where using their authority is basically unchecked and assumed by default to be "the right thing". They have incredibly dangerous powers, and by and large the response to them wielding those powers is, "if you did nothing wrong, then the police won't harass you."

This dynamic invites bad behavior, and no cop operates outside of this environment.

Add onto this the fact that cops take courses like "killology" that teach them that they are warriors, not servants, and it's a recipe for abuse after abuse.

And the actions of a police officer can send someone to an underfunded justice department, causing an innocent person to be sent to jail to await trial, and then lose their job or relationship or community.

So, when I say, "All Cops Are Bastards", I'm not saying cops are rude or mean, I'm saying, all cops exist in a system that is set up to encourage exactly the sort of behavior this article shows. It's not a judgement on whether I think an individual cop is polite or friendly, it's a condemnation of the systemic issues that exist.

There are ways we could fix this, there are ways we could get to community led policing that would make me change my tune. They are probably expensive and would take time to get right before they got cheap again. But until then, ACAB.
I didn’t specifically try to De-Googlefy my life for some moral reason. I think most of Google’s products are second rate - including their search page unless you use an Ad blocker. But I do find myself using ChatGPT more and Google less for coding questions since it does a better job of giving me exact answers to my problems and code is easy to verify for correctness.

As far as YouTube, I think I only use it for AWS ReInvent videos. I can’t stand ads and there are no ads interrupting the video.
One thing comes to mind: antitrust! It happened to Microsoft as well!!
>If they go further the emulation layer will have to be moved higher, above the virtual machine running the browser for example.

Your hypothetical change of emulation tactics won't work. You're analyzing at the wrong abstraction level.

The "attestation tokens" to validate the integrity of the web browser environment would come from a 3rd-party (e.g. Google Play services).

For example... Today, hacks like youtube-dl work because implementing client-side code to "solve javascript puzzle challenges" is still inside the "world" that Google-server-to-browser-client present to each other. Same for client-side solvers for Cloudflare captchas. The "3rd-party attestation token" breaks those types of hacks.
Can you make a browser extension that makes Elon Musk resign?
Jotai – Primitive and flexible state management for React
Isn’t blocking mergers one of the founding goals of the FTC?
21k gun homicides, 43k car deaths, according to your links. And I'm guessing there are orders of magnitude more life-destroying non-fatal car events than gun events.

Also, maybe this is what I get downvoted to hell for, but I'd prefer we focus on making peoples' lives better so that they want to live; banning their access to quick & painless deaths (of which guns are the ~last; most good suicide drugs have already been throttled, helium is now cut with oxygen, and hanging has only a ~70% success rate) seems like focusing on the wrong side of the equation. I want people to want to live, not be forced to continue existing because of the extreme pain of the dying process.
Is there any way to compute the "capacity" of a model? In theory, if it's encoding all data with 100% efficiency, I guess the data stored in the model should be something like 2^parameters count (weights + biases) ?
Remember: wordpress.com blogs are free. I put my email address in my Hacker News bio if you want to reach out.
Checking Usage of Realloc with Valgrind
Upgraded profiler?

I can’t remember the last time I got flamechart navigation to work in WebStorm. How about fixing what is broken before adding new, guys.
Wow, ton of nice things for a mid-year update!

Really love jetbrains IDEs.
Yes. Cloudflare was irresponsible in fighting to keep 8chan, Daily Stormer, and Kiwifarms up as long as they did. Every other ISP with a competent abuse desk dropped them. If you don't think that's bad, then let me remind you that back in 2012, Malwarebytes actually had a policy of blocking all Cloudflare services specifically because they were hosting malware and refused to remove it[0]. The excuse Cloudflare used for not removing malware from their network was the same language used to justify keeping the aforementioned sites operational. If Cloudflare was paid to run the Great Firewall of China they'd bend over backwards to try and claim it was to protect Xi Jinping's freedom of speech.

Remember that moderators can be abusive not just in terms of removing content that shouldn't be removed, but also by forcing you to accept things that harm you. Moderation is a trust relationship because I'm delegating my own personal decision to accept or block traffic/content/etc to someone else. Cloudflare is not trustworthy.

Cloudflare also used to be a big pain in the ass for Tor/VPN users because competent DDoS protection requires some kind of traceable identity. Their solution was Privacy Pass - an extension that let you pre-solve their CAPTCHAs. However, this wasn't good enough, so their next solution... was to literally partner with Apple to implement Web Environment Integrity, years before Google even proposed it. Nobody noticed this - not even me - because it was sold as a way to make CAPTCHAs less annoying. It was literally the trojan horse Google could only dream of building.

[0] https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/108447-my-site-using-c...
I mention two different things:

1. "use PKI". That's Public Key Infrastructure, what you know as the CA (Certificate Authorities) part of TLS. Basically, keep everything about CAs that you know about now. But rather than using TLS for the connection, you use plain HTTP. The web server would read the content being sent to the client and cryptographically hash it, then sign the hash using the server's certificate, and put this signature in an HTTP header. When the client receives the plaintext, it would look for the header; without it, it can't validate integrity, and could, like, put up a red bar, error page, whatever. By reading the header, and then validating the signature on the hash, and comparing the content to the hash, it can now confirm 1) the content came from the server, and 2) the content is exactly what the server says it's supposed to be. MITM isn't going to happen unless the MITM attacker can create a valid certificate, to use to hash and sign a modified payload with. Integrity verified, content stays plaintext.

2. "use HSTS". HSTS is a crappy hack that browsers use to say "ok, when you first connect to a HTTPS site, if the site tells you this domain should remain HTTPS, then only use HTTPS to connect to it, until a timeout expires". It's similar to SSH's asking you to confirm a host key on first connection. If this dumb hack (which can be defeated if you MITM the first time they connect, or when it expires) is good enough for the web's security with TLS, it's good enough to, say, cache a host key or certificate, if you didn't want to use PKI above. Again, we're just talking about validating the integrity of data, not a full-blown private secure TLS connection, so we don't need the best security in the world (if we did we wouldn't be using HSTS...)
> Farming of big fish like bluefin tuna is difficult

I had seen fry of tuna breed on captivity in a tank. Will not happen soon.

Breeding of Salmon is fully developed at a very sophisticated level.
> The "intelligence" behind it is too unpredictable to be reliable for work

This highly depends on the kind of work you’re doing. It’s great as a starting point for exploratory learning, helpful for some coding tasks, and useful for summarizing text.

As I work on a writing project that benefits from all of these use cases, it’s a good tool.

Not so great if you’re trying to write legal briefs.

> using it for fun is about as amusing as emailing HR

All due respect, but you’re either doing it wrong, or you’ve encountered some hilarious HR departments.
This is why I always answer telemarketers if I'm not waiting for an actual call.

1) answer

2) go mm-hmmm to their first question

3) phone on mute and set it on the table and go about my day

I think the record for a telemarketer monologue is a bit over 3 minutes before they figured out I'm not responding. That was 3 minutes they weren't scamming anyone else to subscribe to whatever. I'm practically a human Tarpit for telemarketers =)
But I don't get any $ from it unless they sign up on MY site, right? Since there's no sharing mechanism.

So I don't see how joining in would benefit me - if anything I'd lose a bit of revenue from people who would have paid and now find they don't need to because they're signed up for some other product which I have no hand in and no revenue from?
Zustand – A small, fast and scalable bearbones state-management solution
30 years ago i rode my bicycle to school on public roads. without a helmet.
I’m not sure what you’re implying?
The NASA Voyager Golden Record master tapes are up for auction
Steam DRM (video games) is also not removable. And iTunes music did work on iPods. The main issue was that most people filled their iPods with pirated music instead.
To turn your browser (an agent acting on your behalf) into a proprietary application (an agent acting on behalf of a website) -- i.e. the equivalent of forcing you to install a proprietary application in order to visit a website.
When the end product is supposed to have any semblance of reliability and durability, even human beings do not communicate in natural language.

As an example:

- Science: Many non-natural languages and notations used for communication, math being the most obvious.

- Laws: Looks like natural language when you squint, but actually very rigid and un-natural.
Yes. Google uses chrome-only APIs in a few of its own products and falls back not so gracefully.

Which sort of underscores the monopoly point. There’s no universal free/cheap alternative to Meet, further entrenching Chromium.
Oh, I quite realize my blog is a liability.

My original post was refuting claims that a blog and public code could get you hired.

I know that companies will see me as not a good fit. That's a good thing for both of us because I've come to realize that I'm not a good fit for a sterile office environment.
In the end, I feel like there is a silver lining to all this. As the world wide web becomes more sanitised with their codes of conduct, corporate censorship, ads, witch hunts, all these limitations - more and more, I hope, would the valuable, interesting bits of it drift to alternative locations.

The internets of old were just that - a place where nerds, freaks, outcasts, and other antisocial personalities congregated. Everything was permitted and everything was possible. Many, myself included, hoped that it would change the world. It didn't - the world is winning again, as everyone can clearly see. Still, I hope that the normalisation of the web might as well create a critical mass of those who just want something more than just a corporate safe space.

I sincerely wish that there is a future where protocols like gemini - stripped from all the visual noise and 'dynamic' features - get a critical mass of useres. If that doesn't happen - as someone who doesn't use any mainstream social media, google and microsoft services, llms and other modern (and some might add - dystopian) stuff - I don't really loose much. There are enough great books for a hundred lifetimes, enough hikes to walk and friends to get blasted with. Maybe it'd even be for the better.
Firefox is my daily driver on all my computers and smartphones. There are some hiccups, often with obscure websites and airlines. Most of them better be avoided anyways. However, Slack and Microsoft Teams don't function properly in Firefox.
> but there will be a fundamental difference in how small we can make the conductor [...]

Considering how much faster super conductor logic circuits have been demonstrated to be driven [0] it might be worth the trade even with a higher fundamental limit on feature size.

A super conducting chip with far less logic could easily beat CMOS in: (1) Power performance (2) Single threaded performance (where CMOS has stalled) - but interestingly it could still compete in total throughput if the raw frequency is high enough. i.e even though there may be far less logic available compared to the latest and greatest CMOS lithography techniques - if it runs so much faster, less or simpler cores can potentially match or beat the throughput of the more parallel and specialised but slow logic available in CMOS dies.

In short, it could be like taking a step back in time to the simpler, smaller CPU days, but a huge step forward in fundamental frequency. That actually sounds like a nice trade regardless, CPUs are so insanely complex these days.

</armchair physics>

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/superconductor-logic-goes-lowpower
That is a defeatist attitude; writing to them couldn't be worth less than shouting into the abyss with our comments on Github issues and on HN, etc.
Actually the free web ended with net neutrality. Didn't you notice when that happened?
It would probably be a good idea to have different groups/regulations for civil and military tech. Trying to get people with very divergent goals to operate under a common set of guidelines seems like a disaster waiting to happen.

Just my opinion...
> By bedtime it is all metabolized.

According to Pollan, for most people, there's still enough in your system to disrupt your natural sleep; your brain doesn't shut down enough to get a good rest. IIRC, he was discussing monitoring brain activity during sleep and you can see the difference between people who drank coffee that morning, and people who didn't. Caffeine has just about left your system completely around the time you wake up and start drinking it again, which usually isn't too long before you start getting caffeine withdrawal symptoms.

edit: half life for caffeine is 2-12[1] hours (most sources claim ~5), depending on the person. For a half life of 6 hours (using this because it's close to 5 and divides evenly into 24), you still have >1/8 of what you drank that morning in your system when you go to bed, and 1/16 when you wake up. Over the course of a lifetime, it's not hard to imagine that having a cumulative effect.

1: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/nutrition/how-long-does-it-t...
I was excited about their AI Assistant, thinking in something local, but it is an wrapper for OpenAI and will go to their servers. Super frustrating
Yoav Weiss has a blog post from 6 days ago on his website. https://blog.yoav.ws/

for a personal blog it has quite a lot of PR speak
Googles main business is ads on google search. Here they aren't a middle man.

Companies give google $X, and hopefully sell Y extra products. X/Y is the cost per sale. Google competes with other advert forms (eg. TV/radio/newspaper ads) on that X/Y number.

If there is ad fraud, that Y number gets decreased (budget is used up on fraud that doesn't translate to sales), and their revenue decreases as advertisers spend their ad budget on other mediums.
shrug your games are on the cloud, your saves are on the cloud even. If you keep good backups of your non-Steam stuff, all you lose is an afternoon with a flash drive and the SteamOS ISO.
Is search gonna stop breaking randomly out of nowhere? No, clearing cache & re-indexing did not help.
Russian cybersecurity chief jailed for 14 years for treason
Once, when I was 18, I went to an anime convention the next state over. I drove 3 friends and we shared a hotel room. We took lightrail into the city, but found that it was unreliable, so at the end of the night, we decided to try to hitch a ride with an acquaintance back to the hotel. He had a car which seated 5, so it was him, his sister, 3 of us, and then the last friend would take a cab.

This 24 year old called his mom to ask if it was okay if he drove some people in his car. A car that he owned. His mom said he could drive one person.

We said "nevermind, dude, we'll just all take a cab". This was 2013.
What about the bolt EUV? It’s not a large car by any means but it is the size of a very small SUV meaning it is just on the edge of the smallest car a US consumer will willingly buy.
Steam was available in the Eastern Europe way before iTunes and Spotify. Music and movie industries really dropped the ball there.
> The only place I’ve personally witnessed wide spread mass transit use for youth in school is Japan.

Kids have been able to ride the busses around Seattle for free for many years now (and before that, during the summer for free). It's worked out pretty well. Or at least the program as continued, and I've seen a lot of kids using the city busses.

Definitely a better system than yellow school busses.
In what way does this increase the security of my bank account? A criminal can use credentials it obtained via a hack, etc. using an approved platform to access my account. My own approved platform can be compromised by malware and used to access my account. This class of problems is addressed by physical ID tokens, not attestation.
Maybe so, but asking somebody to not go to shows of their favorite bands anymore as a form of protest against Ticketmaster and/or Google is a bit much. Unfortunately, some venues seem to be Ticketmaster only at this point. Sometimes you’ve got to choose your battles.
That time Buck Shelford, in his first test match, got his nut sack ripped open. He got the physio to stitch it back up and kept playing (until he was concussed and taken off).