skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understand here that a couple comments and a read of the website just aren’t enough to give you an informed opinion. The best I can do here is "trust me bro", and a bit of social validation: https://monocypher.org/quality-assurance/audit (Cure53 audit, no bug found), https://www.mail-archive.com/curves@moderncrypto.org/msg0102... (Curve448 inventor says "Monocypher is an impressive piece of work.")

> The people who wrote OpenSSL thought they knew what they were doing.

The people who wrote OpenSSL had a much harder job, and my epistemic position is a lot better: I have over 20 years worth of additional collective wisdom to draw from, the primitives I implement are much* easier to deal with, and the problem I set out to solve is at least one order of magnitude easier.

> Are you liable under the license they’re using?

I’m not. And to be honest I’m on the fence on whether I should be. Nobody paid me for this work after all. On the other hand, if a law made me liable I wouldn’t complain too much to be honest.

If it’s regulation more than liability, I already followed most, if not all, the procedures outlined in the upcoming EU law on software resilience. I should have little problem going all the way to full compliance there (except perhaps if they ask for third party audits, I’m not paying 6.000€ per release).

> you’re responsible if it gets people hurt.

Believe me, I know. Thankfully so far nobody reported being hurt in any way — even from the sevcrit. And I continue making sure it stays that way.

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By the way, I’m planning to work on an FPGA RISC-V core soon. I’m pretty sure nobody will give me any flak for this. And yet when you look at it, this is even more critical than a cryptographic library.
> try catch is different keywords from virtually all other languages

Python : try/except/finally/else

C# : try/catch/finally (no equivalent of “else”)

VB.net : try/catch/finally (no equivalent of “else”)

JavaScript : try/catch/finally (no equivalent of “else”)

Java : try/catch/finally (no equivalent of “else”)

Ruby: begin/rescue/ensure (no equivalent of “else”)

C++: try/catch (no equivalent of “finally” or “else”)

Python’s try/except/finally/else seem to use nearly the same keywords as many other popular languages (Ruby is an oddball here, using similar semantics with different keywords), except that it uses “except” in place of “catch”, and “else” is a unique feature, and C++ lacks “finally”.

EDIT: The above has been edited throughout to correct an initial thinko that had Python using the common “catch” instead of “except”, which I really can’t explain because I've been wading throw Python exception handling code a lot recently.
If you scroll down to the comments, you can already see some examples. Here's WatchmanForTruth:

> It's not the FBI it's the 666 Zionist Nazi Spy network of Parasites that dominate this planet, they're like cockroaches. See my posts...learn the truth about who rules over us all...modern day Israel is NAZI HQ!
Pickett’s Charge: What modern math teaches us about Civil War battle (2017)
You also need to understand how rating works there in general.

80% fresh means that 80% of reviews are "positive" it's not 8/10 how some people like to think.
Interesting, I haven't used GoodReads for years. Has it become compromised in some way by the Amazon acquisition?
I love Asianometry!
Why would it be useful? Doesn't seem like it would change anything about the tactics, techniques, or procedures they're recommending. I suspect that most potentially vulnerable organizations don't care who the intruder is at all, let alone between a nation-state vs. a more heterogeneous country.
Tbh I feel like that's probably an underestimate, but otoh that's probably a fraction of the cost of maintaining the trees themselves, so I'm not sure it's worth fretting over.
If that's your only complaint, I'd say they nailed it.
GP means that people running around yelling about their experiences is irrelevant in the face of studies that contradict them (provided the studies are good).
Breaking Down the Chances of All the 11 NYC Casino Proposals
> No one has to claim copyright infringement for it to be copyright infringement.

That's a little bit like "If a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it..."

I mean, sure, "theoretically" any number of things can be infringement. But it's obviously a gray area, so it only really matters when somebody brings a suit and a work is found to be legally infringing.
I have 10gbit service, 1gb internal network. So like you, but 1 generation forward.

I don't usually saturate 1gbps, but I definitely saturate 100mbps with XBOX downloads, any cloud provider, torrents, etc.

You could probably pull your old cables fairly easily. Attach two wire pull tapes or strings to the old cable, pull the old cable out with plenty of wire pulling lubricant, and then use one tape/string to pull a Cat 7, leaving a spare for mistakes or additional pulls.
The body attacking donor organs in general is a huge obstacle that still needs to be overcome, as it requires the users of the organ to be on immunosupressants, and in general greatly lessens the lifespan of the organ.

If they can make pig organs be accepted by the body without compromising the immune system that's a big breakthrough right there.
Ultimately I find that commoditization enables the purest form of the banality of evil.

Commoditized goods allows the bad to be sorted in with the good, allowing a price to be put on the commodity. Great where it's applicable but horrendous when it's improperly done - ie, home loans, or intellectual property.

If your commodity markets aren't properly regulated you get a race to the bottom. If you are trying to commoditize something that shouldn't be, it's effectively enables white-collar looting or money laundering.
The first thing that came to my mind was Portal 2, the "you can't portal here" shower of sparks when you're spamming the gun in the elevators. :)
I wonder if active sabotage of military operations of a friendly country has any legal precedent. What legal standing would Ukraine have in a case against Musk?
If they believe their own assertations, like:

- that it doesn't output training data verbatim

- the product is very transformative, only "learning" from training data

- There are no copyright infringements because of these two above

Well, then there's really no reason not to throw their own private code on the pile.
> i have decapitated bitcoin.

Unless you've proven this out by running it against real Bitcoin nodes, you haven't done anything.

This would be easy for you to test, even on a test net.
What I find disturbing about things like Replika is all your conversations are owned and stored by the company. At least with a real-life partner, there's not a database that someone can query to pull your intimate in-person discussions.
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Even at 1.16 billion the city of Chicago got fleeced. What they sold was worth a lot more than that!

Nevermind the policy nightmare of not being able to freely reallocate street usage, and being obligated to maintain the spaces as sold for 75 years.
It seems like a reasonable inference from a shocking statement.

> The point of parking meters and tickets is not to make money.

According to whom? Is it equitable because all citizens have the same amount of money?
A metered world where you only pay for what you use.

And presumably denied access to anything you don't pay for.

There's more than one sci-fi story including that premise
I did not look at the source paper before posting, but the paper makes it clear you're right.

However, the Wikipedia page titled "Phosphine Oxide" states that reduction of the oxide back to its original state is straightforwardly done with cheap reagents.
A little bit of context: Driving on wet playa is prohibited (and pointless, you get stuck no matter how good your offroading capability is). So while music festivals may get muddy, when it gets muddy at Burning Man vehicle usage has to stop, otherwise fines get levied ($500~800 per ticket, and BLM will keep ticketing you if you keep driving).
> These kinds of speeds are available in Switzerland because their laws state that any fiber laid down must be usable by competitors, so that ISPs must compete on service alone. I wish we had that in other countries as well.

In Italy, nobody would lay fiber to stunt the competition.
> When 95% of critics tell you to see a movie that only 10% of people enjoy, something's broken.

Well... expectations shift between a movie ticket and a bucket of popcorn for 10€ or the same for 30€.

Cinema has gone really damn expensive, and loaded with ads to boot - but movie critics don't get that crap experience, they get exclusive previews. It's literally a different world.

My GF adds other points: while the audience as a general loves "typical plot" movies, critics who have to see 20 movies based on the same formula a year will be sick of it.
The reason it flipped is that it’s a SUBSCRIPTION. That’s just insanely obvious nickel and diming.
Its not about FAANG, big tech or even VCs for that matter. Its about resources, incentives and vested interests..

Building anything interesting at scale requires a group of very talented people collaborating over a period of time. This is not easy and its definitely not free or cheap.

While hobbyists and tinkerers might invent groundbreaking tech, it takes resources to propel such projects to their full potential. Resources require vested interests (skin in the game).

If it wasn't for Googles and other early adopters strong financial motive (vested interest) to avoid paying Microsoft/IBM licensing fees, linux would likely still be a niche operating system for hobbyists.

Every major OSS tech you can think is supported by either a consortium of commercial interests, a single direct commercial interest or public grants. Public grants are extremely unreliable because of reasons I will refrain from explaining to avoid the wrath of señor dang.

P.S. Git was invented by Linus out of necessity because linux crossed a threshold of complexity and scale.
Some features are nice to have. Give dmenu [0] a try, pipe it into other CLI utils and see how useful it can be to have drop-downs sometimes.

[0] https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
It is nuanced. If they did not sell the car for a penny more than last years model without heated seats, in other words they put up the money for the heated seat hardware in hopes of recouping that cost (and making their usual profit on it) later, then I don't see why people have a problem with getting the same features for the same price as last year.

In fact, as someone who likes to buy lightly used cars, I love this idea even more... even though the original buyer didn't want heated seats, I can still have them for the original option price? SOLD! (I would not do the subscription option of course)
I think your analysis as to why the west is different from china in this regard is correct. And while you say that they are far from reaching the same degree of intensity, I say that I disagree. But to elaborate much further would lead to unnecessary flames.

Certainly large block of oppositional parties and thoughts are allowed to spread, but those large blocks all fall within the more or less same [insert-state-ideology] group anyway which the west adheres to. And anyone who does not fall within that ideology is in fact censored just as harshly as china censors things.

This is also a fairly recent development, up to as early as 2015 the internet landscape did not look this way.
The hardest part, I think, is making use of that speed.

25 GBps is about the sequential speed of a decent NVMe SSD, and much faster than anything SATA.

It is also faster than what a CPU can handle for all but the most basic of processing. Working at GBytes/s speeds require serious performance considerations when coding, often involving working with assembly, SIMD, etc... Things like the TCP stack start being a bottleneck at this point.

There is also a limit on how fast you can consume content. 25 GBit/s is about 4k@120Hz uncompressed video.

And remember that both ends need to handle the bandwidth.

Doing something useful with the full bandwidth is a challenge in itself. Running a server for many users is the most probable use case, but you need a beefy machine, maybe several to be able to serve at such speed. You need to find enough users too.

I am not saying that getting 25 Gbit/s at home is a bad thing, it is a technical achievement and I am all for it. But I feel like finding an application that can saturate that kind of bandwidth is like a continuation to the challenge. Maybe something to do with gaming or VR.
There are some pretty out-there ones now. No .muffin yet, but its a lot more plausible now than it was 5 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...
Usually there's a separation between transport (physical) and the service (billing and so on). Not the same companies. At least, in Italy there is.

It's the same for power, one or two companies lay the cable, myriad others sell the service.
North Korea is a nice foil, because then you don't have to cast aspersions onto trading partners.

"Look, see? NK. We even copied some Korean words into the comments."
> The concept of requiring a special string to gain access to an account is massively dated, whether that string is something a human has memorised or random output from a password manager.

I disagree.

Any system, whether computerised or not, needs to pieces of information to authenticate a person - something the person has (identification), and something the person knows (authentication).

You cannot simply rely on something the person has; that thing can be stolen and used by someone else.

If you have a reasonable replacement for "something the person knows", I'd love to hear it.
Oh, I’m not going out of the way to find someone to interrupt. But we’re already having a meeting or discussion and by the way, do you have any quick tidbits on this thing? Especially if the thing was a new topic in the meeting.

I’m happy to research and guess. But if it’s convenient (for everyone) I’ll pipe up asking for whatever morsels you have that will save time.
As someone said, "Ubuntu is Debian-based like milk is grass-based" :)

But certainly the bulk of the tools must be familiar.
It used to, the professional critics were mostly just those that were paid by newspapers or similar. Lately as in the last few years the gates were opened to basically anyone with a blog viewed by more than their parents. This let everything be manipulated much more easily.
phi-1 supposedly does 50.6 on HumanEval with 1.3B parameters. (Python only) https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644

Weights haven't been released, though.
Nobody would pay to supply to the grid. If it came to that, panels would have an automatic shutoff, or some device that burns off excess electricity by doing pointless work.
Weird top post considering the context of the article here is Rotten Tomatoes reviews literally being bought. Might need to include bribery in your formula.
There are many issues with organs from people killed in accidents. Availability, randomness of occurrence, suitability, immunity.

To be able to have a 'manufactured' supply seems much better, not least or especially if it is ultimately possible to remove all immunity problems.

The current system, whether opt-in or opt-out, is because we simply don't know how to do better. On demand grown organs using the recipient's own DNA seems to be the holy grail. I reckon we'll get there someday.
How do you know? Perhaps that person built or improved something very important to your life. Even if they stamped papers at the DMV for 40 years, someone needed to do that work if we're to have a functioning society.

And don't wave that away saying that worker could now be replaced by a kiosk and AI, or a contractor in India. Someone needed to do that work, manually and in-person in the 80s and 90s when that wasn't an option. If you want to slim down the civil service today, that doesn't erase the work done by those workers in the past.

Finally, remember that you don't personally benefit from every tax dollar, but as long as many (or sometimes even a few) do, then that dollar wasn't wasted on those grounds alone.
It seems like wayland got a lot closer to generally usable in the last few years, but it's still not for everyone. Some of this is (intentionally) limited design, some of this is lack of people caring to migrate their software to work with wayland.

I was looking to switch to wayland in my VM after noticing that it does have much lower cpu utilization, and better compositing behavior, at the same time.
Yet, can't do it. right or wrong, wayland's stance on security before convenience on the whole clipboard access thing means I cannot copy-paste between VM and host, because those vm tools do not support wayland, and I don't know when they will.

Also, I noticed that people who prefer obscure window managers or desktop environments are mostly in a bad spot, as the amount of WMs that support wayland isn't much.
I just learned I'm a hanger-on. God damnit.
In my opinion, this is because the angle is too small. Just add another 15-25° and it would be good.
You're getting a lot of pushback, but the EU seems to agree with you: https://creativecommons.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CC-St...

https://www.notion.so/DSM-Directive-Implementation-Tracker-3...

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/790/oj

The TDM4 copyright exception allows datasets to be created consisting of copyrighted works, as long as there is a mechanism for rightsholders to opt out. This seems like the best of both worlds: the dataset is transparent, rightsholders can assert their rights, and certain AI companies can train on copyrighted material.

Of course, this doesn't grant commercial rights for the trained model, only scientific and academic research rights. (I.e. it's fine for Meta to train and release a LLaMA model trained on books, as long as they're not commercially profiting from it, and there's a mechanism for authors to opt out.)

I'm talking with Jordan from https://spawning.ai to try to build some kind of opt out system that makes sense for books. One could imagine doing this for music too.

This is a European law, but unlike other overreaching EU regulations, this one seems like an extremely sensible compromise.

EDIT: Oh, Jordan emailed me a correction:

> Looking at your hackernews comment, my understanding is the right to opt out only comes for commercial research. So making a dataset for eleuther (or whomever you compiled it for originally) probably doesn't even require opt outs. It'd be if openai used it for gpt-5 and charged for it that it would be required.

Wow. So this law actually applies to commercial uses of ML, and non-commercial uses such as LLaMA wouldn't even require an opt-out.

That's wonderful. This gives researchers legal cover, and requires commercial uses to be transparent in their datasets.
I love the topic. My view on the companies: they are similar to countries in terms of organizational complexity. And the way companies are run are similar to the way countries are govern. Mostly due to the fact that there are not that many ways to manage groups of people or individuals.

So, I’m not surprised the observation about startups also applies
Can you please stop using HN to promote your podcast? You're doing it way too much and users are complaining.

HN is supposed to be a place for curious conversation, and promotion is the opposite of that. Hence the guideline:

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Funny that iMDb is owned by Amazon and their retail platform is infested with counterfeit products and filled with reviews not worth looking at.
To take the other side of this, what % of the wealth you created would you have been willing to share with the engineering teams charged with KTLO work, and by them doing so enabled your team to focus on the new product?

What about all the software teams who are not customer facing, and without whom you would not have had the opportunity to create this product?

How much of your success is due strictly to your team? What externalities are you not counting?
It does seem that litter is the important issue. Harder to measure, of course, so it doesn't make it into the neat bar charts.
Developer drama on twitter was always tiring but it's gotten so much worse since direct financial incentives for high engagement came into play
96% of Norwegians use a spot price contract. Seems to work just fine.
Try getting autotools to work on Windows. Then try getting it to compile with Visual Studio. Then try getting it to cross-compile 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit system. If you aren't bald already I promise you'll tear your hair out.
> I bet this this website cost London £100k or more.

Perhaps spend less time worrying about a made up estimate of tax money spent and more time lobbying internally for Google to pay their fair share of tax?
"Return to office" is all about control. Companies want to control their workers' lives to squeeze every last ounce of work out of everyone. They'd demand employees live on premise if they could get away with it. Forcing employees to commute to the office and have their social circle consist of fellow employees increases company power over the employee.

Really what these companies should be doing if they want to lure the minions back into the cages is to entice them with things like benefits and compensation increases. Making ultimatums like this is just terrible for morale, and I imagine many talented employees will leave. I don't use AWS, and hearing this kind of thing makes me less likely to want to use AWS in the future, for the same reasons I prefer not buying clothes made in sweatshops
> what is it...?

Presumably, reason and society
Yes, this is why I went with the medium 10gbps package from Init7, with only a 1gbps internal network. Each port is 100% independent bandwidth-wise, and maybe I'll eventually add a 2.5gbps adapter on a suitable host.
I saw a talk with a similar thesis once (don't remember who by, unfortunately, it was at least a decade ago). He was arguing that we're hard-wired for cuteness to appeal to us, and just as Bratz replace Barbie, cute tech will replace regular tech. If you want your tech to be successful, explore neoteny.
The thread is about innovation
> Your garbage will still turn into compost, just in a landfill

It will compost, anaerobically, producing more methane and VOCs, and as they do, they create a sludge, that often picks up acid and other contaminants, which quick create leaks in landfills.

https://www.clf.org/blog/all-landfills-leak-and-our-health-a...

> The water that gets into landfill cells picks up contaminants from the waste and becomes “leachate.” What’s in the leachate depends on what’s in the landfill, but some chemicals can be counted on, such as volatile organic compounds, chloride, nitrogen, solvents, phenols, and heavy metals.

> The safeguards intended to prevent leachate from escaping a landfill cell – pipe collection systems in newer landfills and the plastic and clay liners mentioned above – fail over time. This toxic brew of “garbage coffee” leaks out of the landfill and seeps into groundwater – contaminating wells and waterbodies.

Anecdotally, 3 of 4 landfills in my area have ongoing leaks from leachate and now strictly police cardboard and other organic non household trash from the sites.
We can't even replicate the F1 engine, or make new nukes anymore, and we have the recipe book and the chefs.
One possible reason is trade secrets in their source. There's generally more to source code than just what actually ends up in binary releases and that might contain such secrets.
How a Torque Amplifier Works [video]
Yes. You also need something to force strictness and disable certain potential optimizations, though. The counter isn't actually used, so the compiler ought to be free just never to evaluate it, or delete it altogether.
neat, any thoughts on how to use a different base app?