skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The motivations that led to end-to-end encryption going mainstream lie far out on the political fringe. The original impetus for Marlinspike’s entry into cryptography, around 2007, was to challenge existing power structures, particularly the injustice of how (as he put it) “Internet insecurity is used by people I don’t like against people I do: the government against the people.” But sticking to anarchism would imply an almost certain defeat.

What a reflection of the massive political shift from individual liberty and 'all men are created equal', for which privacy is necessary, to compliance with power. Now that's "far out on the political fringe" and even "anarchy"?

I know most people don't think philosophically about it, but Signal's principles are pretty mainstream American (and probably other free countries), afaik - or knew?

EDIT:

> Signal has managed to maintain an unusual focus on the autonomy of the individual, a wariness of state authority, and an aversion to making money, characteristics that are recognizably anarchist.

Doesn't that describe, to different degrees, a great many open source projects? Mozilla? BSDs? etc?

EDIT2:

I think that's what the article really is about: The author's theory that this sort of vision is utopian, very fringe, and therefore impossible.

It's pretty shocking to see it in Wired, which once led in exploring, beliving in, and bringing to the world's (or its readers') attention exceptional innovations well beyond the conceptions of the norm.

Now they doubt such things ipso facto. Nobody seems to remark on the extraordinary reactionary philosophy that is flooding the public space, the antithisis of creativity, freedom, innovation, and 'intellectual curiosity'.
> isn't foolproof but [...] it works perfectly well

You're not using those words correctly.
I don't agree, I think it's a fair assessment of the impact.

For data to be exfiltrated through this exploit, the sensitive data must first be loaded into an AVX register. On GNU/Linux this happens all the time, because strcmp et al use AVX. On OpenBSD this is not the case, so only applications that themselves are loading sensitive data into AVX registers would be vulnerable.

Anyway, OpenBSD users have the new microcode now, while most Linux users don't (I checked Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu, none of them has updated their packaging yet).
Id argue that's exactly why we should look at per capita data, otherwise people and companies from smaller countries look at the data and throw their hands up in the air and do nothing because (some big country) dwarfs the numbers from where they are.

A factory pumping out N units of c02 should be trying/incentivised to cut c02 emissions regardless of whether they're in the United States or in Niue. Per capita emissions data gives us a much better idea of where those factories might be than data that doesn't take population into account.
That said, there’s a very nice “timeline of Unix’s major releases and architectural design decisions” (figure 1) on p. 1138.
Can you explain how you'd bypass it?

Let's say example.com decides to require attestation from the {MS, Apple, Google} providers, and that they attest to only Chrome without extensions. You can't forge the attestation because cryptography. You can't fail to provide it (because they'll just refuse to send the bits). You can't use a "malicious" attestor because example.com won't trust it.

What's the trivial bypass I'm missing? How does a freely accessible standard impact the ability to bypass things in any way?
This is awesome! I spent weeks looking for something like this a year back and am very interested!

I have some feature requests, if I know you've at least considered these (and are/are not planning them), it would definetly persuade me to pay for the product:
- Is there an API or some way to programatically upload a snapshot of my banking data, I don't care if the API is cumbersome, as long as there's way for me to interface with this from some custom scripts. (I'm envisioning a cron-job running on a VPS which polls my bank account using the Open Banking standard and uploads a snapshot to Projection Lab).

- I'd love a dedicated section for "Jobs". By this I mean a way to set what my current salary is, but also when I expect to be promoted and how much of an increase that promotion should be. This way I can model a successful career trajectory without having to create a bunch of jobs for each promotion (I guess the frontend could just delegate to doing this in the backend).

- I work at FAANG and I believe it's quite common to recieve vested stock RSU units that vest over n years and are then reissued, being able to model that would be super useful... and finally a real killer feature would be visualising actual stock prices and manually set growth expectations
As someone who routinely travels every year between two fairly rural stops on the Empire Builder, this doesn't seem to hold true at all. In fact, I can generally travel by train for less than it would cost me to drive myself, and plane tickets would be far more pricey.
It is harder, although people have tried to do it, e.g.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289373031_Environme...
> very common

Are there statistics on this somewhere?
I disagree because it isn't possible for language to be precise on it's own syntactic merit. There is meaning and there is context and the biggest problem with research papers is that the context of many statements in the paper are incredibly ambiguous. The reason for that is that the papers are trying to be "concise". Context can only be disambiguated with more statements. You must eliminate potential interpretations that a reader could make.

"Spectrum sharing in an “apple-like” or a fixed set sense is not a coexistence. ". What does that mean? Coexist? Who knows, the author thought they were being precise, but they understood the statement they made with a head full of context that gave it precise meaning. As readers, we can only scratch our own heads as to what that context could possibly be.
Do they want to eat their cake and have it too?

They could add an export tax or whatever (maybe pollution tax) and use that to offset emissions (diff sources of energy or scrubbers, etc)
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This echoes my experience. None of it was complicated enough in practice to cause me to seek out documentation, let alone a tutorial, and over time its more complex utilities became apparent organically through my own needs, which it met on most occasions.
> I have yet to find another open source project that has the same community involvement as vscode

Emacs. I mention this specifically because it's clear that VS Code is heavily inspired by Emacs in all the ways that you describe.
iPhone users are using Manifest V3 _every single day_ in their Safari. There was never another option for them.

Yet, noone cares, even on HN.
Yes, with Fedora 37 and now 38, GNOME, on my desktop.

The only issue I have is that I prefer KDE but this just seems to work.
It’s starting to decrease!
The US, Europe and other places.
Expect the poorer place to follow as they get to use the same technology.

Solar PV is going to be huge and will replace most other sources.
Our biggest problem is population aging and decrease.
That's an interesting take on having books read to you!

I am genuinely curious though: what do you do with the information you absorb? Are you able to retain all of it and use it at will? If so, do you have any tips on how to do that?
Thanks for your reply, I thought they did but not entirely, it was all listing use cases that are specific, like a student or onboarding or using phone/tablet, which is all fair and useful in those cases maybe, but in a “normal” scenario, I find that might be an issue especially from security perspective, more machines connected means more access and possible unauthorized access in theory at least. As for the environment setup, using nixos can solve that hurdle as well.
Anyone have good examples of how/when to actually use this? I've personally never interacted with or written a generator that expects to receive values.
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As far as I am concerned the reputation of this Ben Wiser guy is so far down the toilet that there’s practically nothing he can do or say to recover it.

Like the old joke goes “you screw a goat once…”
Top on my wish list is a solution for the Ctrl/Cmd + W key binding conflict with the browser tabbing system. Definitely a hard design problem when you put browser technology inside browser technology >_<
It is fascinating that we are even talking about this in a serious way. A year ago, this kind of conversation would have been pure science fiction to the majority of human. But today it is real philosophy applied to a real, publicly available, AI. Isn't it incredible?

To address your point, you are making a very strong claim about "no possible way it can". We simply don't know and it would be anthropocentric to make such definitive statement about something born out of silicon.

Let us assume for the sake of argument that in the near future, a sufficiently large and advanced model is somehow truly sentient, then it is an alien mind in every sense of the word. We simply have no standard or comparison to make between a thing running on silicon and electrons to an organic mind running on chemical potentials and carbon. Not when we used to argue about whether human babies and certain human races were sentient or not...

Such an alien mind would operate entirely differently from us and it would be unfair to impose our standards to it. It is like a bird considering a human useless based on flight capability alone. Perhaps for the bird whose entire life depends on flight, that is correct. But a human is so much more than just that. And a sentient AI is perhaps so much more than just meeting some human sentience standard.
I hear your point and thank you for your service as one. That said, how much do we think this is more attributed to the existence of coding AIs like Co-pilot or ChatGPT. I hardly use stack overflow anymore thanks to OpenAI
Drops like that are either due to how bots are tracked, a Google algo change, or a major internal design change.
Fair enough. "The planet doesn't care" was meant as short hand for "in order to maintain the goldilocks climate balance under which human civilization has flourished since the last ice age 10k years ago"
Based on experience, highly intelligent people can and do believe in things that are absurd.
That doesn't seem like the free web though.
> he's the guy who started companies aiming to make satellite internet that doesn't suck

He started SpaceX because he wanted human missions to mars, he's as "progressive" as every American was in the 70s.

> popularize electric cars when every manufacturer had given up on them

Eh... "The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning."
> like what to do when the obvious brake cable fix doesn’t work

The interesting thing: those useful information probably aren't seen as "books" even when they're in written form. The obvious example is the repair manual in PDF on the brake maker's site. Or the blog explaining how they dealt with their vintage bike's brake cable.

Of course that information is probably actually a youtube video (I refresh every single components of a bike with a toolkit from amazon and hours of youtube videos with Shimano's PDFs on the side)

> It’s odd how you’re acting like you’re making an argument against the general imperative to read books, but your examples are people being requested to read specific books which may or may not be useful and/or interesting to the reader.

You're right. I should be clear that I find the very premise of pushing people to do a category of activity pretty odd. I wouldn't tell people to "go watch internet videos" or "go study academics" or "do some sport". If I'm close to them, such a generic advice would be dumb, and if I don't know their life, I shouldn't be throwing random platitudes at them either.

From that point of view, "read books" doesn't make any sense, and If I had to say something I'd come up with an actual thing that could benefit them.

The same way I'm kinda wary of people explaining they read X books a month. This feels like they don't see books as individual items, but as a KPI, which is weirding me out.
I hope there is the EV equivalent of that idea. And EVs might have less maintenance (although things still break).

I wouldn't mind having a rooted tesla.
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The stack size starts at 2mb, but unless the code in the thread actually uses that it doesn't really get consumed, because virtual memory.
> You're essentially arguing not that the device can't include a potentiometer, but that the case has to be sealed so the user can't install one.

No I'm literally saying a company can't literally include a potentiometer that boosts power above the licensed levels. It doesn't matter if the case is sealed or screwed shut. The design will not get a Part 15 license and can't be sold. User modifiable firmware is the same thing as the power boosting potentiometer. If the user can boost the power the device is no longer a Part 15 device and needs a different license for sale and the user will require a license of their own to operate it.

It doesn't matter what you think the law should be that's what the law is. The FCC as a regulatory body doesn't care about FOSS, they care about keeping an easy to over exploit shared resource continue to have significant and extremely profitable use. If licensing keeps the system working but makes FOSS inconvenient they're going to err on the side of a working system. The FCC is far from perfect and title 47 regulations are far from perfect. But they don't exist for no reason and didn't just appear overnight to inconvenience FOSS enthusiasts.
My brother in Christ if you think being lenient towards conservative governments is a condition limited to public ownership, turn on a TV.
In the US property rights trump most other considerations, and courts are often biased in favor of property owners. Drivers frequently ignore cyclists and pedestrians, because they feel the road belongs to them, and to some extent the larger and fancier the vehicle the more carelessly they drive. Commercial drivers, who typically don't own the vehicle but can easily lose their commercial driving license, tend to be much more considerate of other road users.

(Of course I am being slightly hyperbolic here; deal with it.)
I mean the way we'd do it is a series of sawtooth climbs, since weight typically has a profound effect on climb performance.

Other than a nerd-sniping exercise I don't see the point of going down this rabbit hole, because on an aircraft with pax the pilot's job isn't to screw around playing Chuck Yeager and estimate fuel with test pilot techniques.

If they can't fly with confidence that they're safe, then the pilot's job is to put the fucking aircraft on the ground as soon as able.
/laughs uncomfortably
In grad school, I was always most productive after dinner because that was the largest uninterrupted block of time to do math / code.
It's kind of dumb that someone could trademark a letter.
Ok, an oligarchy of genuinely good rulers for each region and specialty...which is exponentially harder to ensure, because it only takes one to cause problems.

The point still stands that we're better off with a democracy.
like alphago, machine could play in playground, so that it could improve it self.
This is interesting. So, train llms on "everything", including SO, and then replace "everything", including SO. I think we'll see companies such as google, bing, etc... paying to scrap different websites.
So a key fact from the comments after the paper was published I expect all the blogs to miss: I asked the author how many of the reported CSAM hits were blocked by servers that include a very common "bare minimum" blocklist for bad servers, and he checked and said 87%.

So the majority of the CSAM that they detected never reaches most of the fediverse. Furthermore, the methodology of the study relies on sorta Mastodon's firehose, which is instantaneous. That means the hits they catch are before moderators get a chance to handle them. In most of the remaining percentage, they likely get reported and blocked quickly.

So most of the fediverse is blocking the vast majority of this garbage already.

Sure, there's still a lot of work to do, and plenty of ideas how to improve moderation, but the fediverse doesn't have VCs. Donate to Mastodon if you want to help fund work on this stuff.
yeah well then america and europe should be building stuff for free everywhere else. you're not going to convince the poor to worry about the future by pulling up the ladder behind you
The #1 trivia book on Amazon is AI generated, and free for two more days
If democratic governments forced people to be vegans, they would be voted out of office and replaced with pro beef politicians.
The US does not use Imperial measurements that I know of, which can be confusing to Americans if UK mpgs are interpreted as equivalent to US values.

But there's more than one kind of ounce in the US. Fluid ounces are volume whereas dry ounces are weight/mass. From memory - and I memorized this from cooking - 8 fluid ounces (one cup or a half pint) is 8.337 dry ounces (assuming the approximate density of water).

Then there's metric horsepower vs. other types. It's clearly so much more natural for a horsepower to have a German name (pferdestärke!) and mean 735.5 watts instead of 745.7 watts (numbers copied and pasted, not checked).
Random question: how are files stored in this browser IDE? It seems like there's some sort of browser cache but I can't find the files in said cache.
What would the benefit of that be?
It should be no different, both use stepper motors and gcode for movement.
Thanks! I think a good cross-section is already doable :)

There isn't a formal API yet, but there are several methods I've exposed on the early access channel to facilitate community plugin development, including the ability to programmatically update objects within PL. Here's an example thread on the discord where a community member has been leveraging those methods to build a Chrome extension that can pull balances in from YNAB: https://discord.com/channels/869222901054857216/112400124222...

For modeling career trajectory, have you seen the Advanced change-over-time editor yet? That can be super useful for mapping out a series of advancements within a single overall job. It can also come in handy for modeling how RSUs vest over the years, and between that editor and the "Recurrence" feature, you should be able to model some fairly sophisticated patterns.
Google doesn't generate traffic data for public transit services; they buy it from the agencies that run those services. You can go directly to them for it.
So, if the Nazis hated it, it must be good... right?
We should all aspire to be more like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
github.dev now has a "Continue With..." call-to-action which spins up a Codespace, so that differentiates it a bit.
You don't think there are reform efforts for these released prisoners? There are.
Looks like I’m going to be reading a lot more books in the future.
It seems like some of their data is dirty, how can Sint Maarten and Curacao have used so much in the past to go down relatively by a lot?
An opinion piece is a persuasive piece, as you've already noted.

In persuasive writing, you are supposed to... persuade the audience to share your conclusion.

This piece does no persuading. It's written for a certain subset of readers that already think poorly of the current Israeli government, and stops just short of shouting a token "Hitler!". Which leaves one to wonder - who's this piece really for then? It's not persuading anyone.

We learn in grade school that persuasive pieces must address opposing viewpoints. It's not enough to just state your opinion within a vacuum. There's two sides to a disagreement, and making zero attempt to cross that threshold and provide context or discussion fails to bring anyone closer to the writer's viewpoint.

Overall it's a very poorly written opinion, devoid of any facts or reality. It doesn't even present one "side" of the issue, it only shares the writer's naïve and poorly articulated viewpoint. In essence, this piece doesn't even need to exist... anyone who's going to agree with it already does, and no one else will take it seriously.
Doesn't really explain why not more typical ReLU + layer norm or some alternative.
Hm.. Interesting question. It felt like it one doctor pronounced it, others would follow suit, but I can see I was mistaken there.

However, it seems like there are two options, surgery, and physical therapy. Maybe I should have given the PT route a chance.
D'Arcy Thompson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Growth_and_Form (1917)

in the pdf:

Thus, self-similarity in plants is a result of developmental processes. Growth and form By emphasizing the relationship between growth and form, this book follows a long tradition in biology. D’Arcy Thompson [143] traces its origins to the late seventeenth century, and comments: Organic form itself is found, mathematically speaking, to be a function of time.... We might call the form of an organism
an event in space-time, and not merely a configuration in
space.
It at least exports to Markdown and CSV. It requires quite a bit of tweaking to migrate the exported data to anything resembling a 1:1 representation of its “databases”, but I imagine there will be something akin to an ORM eventually (if there’s not already) to better facilitate such tasks.

That said, I absolutely understand your concerns, and I really don’t think its export ability is a meaningful answer for them. It’s enough for me and my needs, but I wouldn’t presume to suggest it would be the same for anyone else. I would absolutely say that anyone considering Notion for their business should aware of these potential issues.
Repr prints source code that will (often) give you an equivalent object. I would be highly surprised if it got you
The same object instance. == but not ===
Habeas corpus only applies to criminal cases, and it's about the state having to justify its detention of an arrested person. You can be tried and convicted in absentia although this is quite unusual. But you see a few murder cases prosecuted against fugitives every year if the evidence is strong enough.
Maybe, but I'm hoping Meta and Twitter will somehow get into a long, and very, very expensive courtroom battle over this.
There's nothing unfortunate about living under capitalism. Capitalism has reduced poverty more than any other economic system.
> I've never personally associated mindfulness with any of the things you describe

What is mindfulness, to you? What sorts of practices and contexts do you experience as mindfulness?