skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon is a cheap, abundant material. Making very large, very pure silicon crystals for the semiconductor industry is complex and expensive.

The small, ugly diamonds we use for industrial abrasives cost pennies per carat.
Yes but you still use <a> tag for view transitions native to the browser. That’s the beauty.
How American Democracy Fell So Far Behind
The original article mentioned LLMs needing powerful abstractions

this is basically the case with transformer networks, which is apparent when learning from scratch. The model seems to be going basically nowhere and totally useless until suddenly, at some random point after a bunch of learning cycles the weights find some minimum on the error surface and bam, suddenly the model can do things properly. And it's because the transformer has learned an abstraction that works for all of the input data in an attentional sense (think how you scan a sentence when reading). Not the best explanation but its from memory from a post I saw on HN a while back
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President Clinton supported the Helium Privatization Act of 1996. This wasn't a veto override situation.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-signing-...
This, it ruins relationships
Its the behavior of someone that doesn't want to go to prison in the US.

There are literally only a handful of countries that are viable to avoiding that. Them being geopolitical opponents is exactly what they are countries that are viable to avoiding that. You are choosing to put the cart before the horse, that he went to geopolitical opponents to give secrets, and not that he was going to a handful of countries that would avoid prison in the US. and yes, I'm choosing to see it the other way, because his actions are more congruent with the other way. He was trying to go to a different country but could not reach it. The US intercepted flights they merely thought had him on it.
I'm not aware of a framework that has first-class support for animating between application states, and I've used all the most prominent ones. But regardless, the fact that it's leveraging a native API is significant; it means (a) the browser engine can optimize for it, (b) less code needs to ship to the browser to use it, and (c) native behavior means a standardized API for a complex task.
Living in a world where we only trust photos from official photojournalists because everything else may have been doctored is not a good outcome.
Do you have an example? My understanding is that without browsers doing the tweening between visible states, it would require complex DOM manipulation and animation to make it look good. The native API is an essential part of making this happen for the web.
To go off on tangent, if slime mold theory were true it would be possible to cure obesity by just switching to healthy, non-processed foods. i tried this in my own weight loss journey, and way easier said than done. CICO means you can get fat with anything. Thank god for new weight loss drugs . It took a century to get to this point and a century to develop these drugs...go figure.
Some were. Surely not all of them.
Great find! I really dig these circular stories that shape the electronics history. The story behind ARM has always fascinated me. The search for low power with efficiency kind of seems like the holy grail of the time. The Acorn story reminds me a lot of the Po Bronson novel "The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: [1]
1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306422.The_First_20_Mill...
The example was "energy infrastructure", so network group in those firms use their skills to set it up.

If any government group should be providing guidance and best practices on how to air gap devices, maybe NSA should write the standards. This FCC proposal looks like a ploy to spend the ever-growing pot (reportedly ten billion USD each year) from the regressive USF phone bill tax instead of reducing the USF tax.

As mentioned in another comment, a plug-and-play home device which provides network isolation and filtering for IoT devices may have a market. I would likely be a buyer at home.

"The bigger culprit is the FCC’s spending on USF, which is close to $10 billion per year, practically doubling in size since 2001."

https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2023/5/sen-cruz-it-s-past-du...
That is one way to characterize it. Another way is that the US is a plutocracy where the interests of the rich walk over the interests of the poor.
Viral emissions into the air and environment after SARS-CoV-2 human challenge
Full Title:"Viral emissions into the air and environment after SARS-CoV-2 human challenge: a phase 1, open label, first-in-human study"
You realize that if one password leaks, then the attacker learns the rule, and the rule can be used to get anything else? You haven't really made any improvements over standard shitty passwords. The passwords are different, but that doesn't matter.

The legendary researcher Dan Kaminsky had a hash of his password leak when some hacker forum got breached. Turns out the name of the forum was in the password, and by changing that, his password to his twitter, his blog, and his VPS with all his servers were all using the same pattern. It was a bad day for him.
No, I never touched the splash screen files.
> Scrapers are hostile actors against users

They are also user agents: the idea that the only viable web browser is one that meets a certain preconception (like Chrome) is a violation of the fundamental design principles of the web. If I want to scrape some pages and render them in a terminal (archive them to track silent edits to important news stories), via text to speech or whatever, websites should be produced in a format that’s amenable to it: the web will be richer and more vibrant as a result.
That’s great, but I’ve been able to do that with CSS for years.
Considering the rapid change in HN audience I suspect this person is simply uninformed.
I don't have the latest statistics, but from 2009–2015 the average ACBL member age increased 0.44 years / year and was never less than 0.33 years / year. So the reality is nearly halfway to the joke.
List of VC backed companies with .AI domain names
I like to describe my colleagues as the delta between how smart they are, and how smart they _think_ they are. “Junior” devs almost always fall in the “wide gap” spectrum but it is by no means restricted to any age group.
> There's absolutely no way to crack secp256k1 keys with even a datacenter GPU

That's not what the article is implying is happening.

> “An Nvidia 3090 can do roughly 4 million [password guesses] per second with 1000 iterations, but that would go down to 8 thousand per second with 500,000 iterations, which is why iteration count matters so much,” Weaver said. “So a combination of ‘not THAT strong of a password’ and ‘old vault’ and ‘low iteration count’ would make it theoretically crackable but real work, but the work is worth it given the targets.”
> If the attacker has total control, then all bets are off no matter what mechanisms you put in first.

You could have a second SoC on the device running off ROM, whose only purpose is handling this safe mode and controlling internet access of the main device. Keep it simple and make it essentially just a fuse that can be blown (turning off internet access) by a signed message from the manufacturer. Keep the hardware capability of this SoC to just that, so even if you have a vulnerability on that thing itself, an attacker can't really do anything with it. Keep the code running on that SoC simple and preferably make it a FSM that is proven to be free of vulnerabilities. Also make sure the main device can't interfere with it in any way.

Once the fuse is blown, the user needs to press a physical button on the device to re-enable internet access. Preferably ship the devices with this internet access disabled by default.

Even better yet, don't build an internet connected oven... but that ship has sailed in many areas.
Totally agree with your comment on the gatekeeping and snarkiness. Also my current foray into hardware (as a software guy) tells me there's tons of low hanging fruit on the design rules side to cover all sorts of scenarios for "production ready" component selection, placement, and environment concerns.

My gut tells me that the software market that serves hardware engineers isn't nearly as creative or ambitious as that on pure software and even devops or infrastructure.

Huge opportunity there.
See The Wire.
> But given how much Apple relies on Arm’s designs for the custom chips powering its most popular and profitable products, like the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch, in addition to the upcoming Vision Pro, it signals that Apple plans to continue utilizing Arm’s technology platform for a very long time to come.

But Apple doesn't rely on Arm designs for anything? I think it's just sloppy writing, but I'm not sure I'd trust the analysis that follows weak reporting.
Wanted, ADHD devs because... they can... focus more?

Is this a joke?
WordPress Plugin: Web Environment Integrity (WEI) Warning Banner
WEI Warning Banner is a WordPress plugin that shows up a banner to alert your website visitors of potential privacy concerns when their browser is utilizing Web Environment Integrity (WEI). The aim is to encourage the use of privacy-respecting browsers and promote awareness about internet privacy.

Features:

Displays a fixed position warning banner at the bottom of the webpage if the user's browser uses WEI.

Offers an admin settings page under the WordPress Settings menu, where admins can enable or disable the warning banner.
Amazon product search results are the chaos.
Android does this. OS is read only. Updates happen on second partition and takes effect by swapping partition on reboot. Integrity is verified by secure boot.
It’s a different lifestyle entirely. NYC has a million things to do - you aren’t spending your nights sitting at home watching Netflix.
I genuinely wonder what lead them to choose a word that, by definition, is so far removed from the concept being described?

If we accept how this law wants to redefine Theft, then trespassing, squatting, illegal parking, and many other violations should now be called theft too since they involve using a resource in an unauthorized way and are actually depriving others from using the resource (which does not happen with cable modems). Spamming comments should also be called theft too since they're using server resource in an unauthorized way.

But I have to submit: If discussed within the context of Theft of services in ORS 164.125, then I supposed the misuse of Theft can be excused. That said, I really don't think we as a society should humor or follow how some lobbyist or politician decide to misuses words.
>Much of the time I’m using flags so I can commit unfinished code because I don’t want to create a separate branch and have one source of truth

This seems like an incident in the making. If each dev on a team commits unfinished code into prod behind flags, the whole project is going to be littered with flags and unfinished code. Some intern is going to delete a flag or an if check and then everything is going to break.
There's a video of a previous version of this tool here which I found really helped me understand what it was demonstrating: https://twitter.com/thesephist/status/1617747154231259137

It's really neat to see how this sentence:

> The first time I write this sentence, the model is quite confused about what token is about to come next, especially if I throw in weird words like pumpkin, clown, tweets, alpha, teddy bear.

Shows that the words pumpkin, clown etc are considered really unlikely. But when the sentence is repeated a moment later, all of the words become extremely predictable to the model.

Also worth noting: this demo runs entirely in the browser! It loads a 120MB ONNX version of GPT-2 using Transformers.js.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401155 (raises the same point)
Is there a similar viewer without the creepy anime girl front and center?
Even for VC backed startups, I think it was never a problem until cloud providers started competing with them. It is not a level playing field if your competitors are big players like Amazon who can take away a lot of your possible customers.
Funny anecdote: My mom prefers dull serrated knives. This is because she cuts ingredients over the stove and in her hands - she literally holds the tomatoes and diced them over the pot. A sharper knife doesn't enable this technique so she hates chefs knives.
Even if deployments took 2 seconds you’ll still find a frontend engineer who wants to “iterate faster” and an ear attached to the purse strings who will listen.
> own mutable copy of the model, which is usually huge

It could just be the diff against the main model or similar.
The Moscow Signals Declassified: Irradiating Richard Nixon
They mention targeting 3M ARR in 2024.

I'm honestly astonished by the target number.
I don't think those days ever really existed.

Sure, lots of people (myself included) used to refuse to run windows, refuse to use any micro$hit software or anything bill g@te$ wrote and would loudly decry them.

But, the reality is, most people just ran whatever their employer gave them and for many many years that was almost definitely Microsoft stuff (especially on the desktop OS and core productivity suite).

Now I think the universe is just more pragmatic and we realize we can and should meet people where they are and arguing over tooling is just bikeshedding, at least I have.

I'm never going to ask people to please stop emailing spreadsheets and send me links to spreadsheets we can all edit online together, but, I no longer care if you send me gdocs or excel.

I'm no longer going to reply to your email with a .doc file with copypasta about how bill gates and microsoft are evil.

But, I'm firmly into grey beard territory these days so maybe i've just grown up but I do think (and hope) most of the internet has too.
If steam were ported to ARM, or at least ARM-aware, it could bundle a solution like fex or qemu or box86 just like it bundles proton/wine.
Kagi?
> His behavior isn't what a whistleblower does.

You need to explain this. Why should a whistleblower have to go to prison? Don't deflect with whataboutisms.
"Built exclusively for your Mac"

Like that's some sort of thing to be proud of. Look at me! I made an app just for us cool kids
Believe it or not, love is not a constant, it's a time-dependent function.
Isn't that just how the view transitions API works?
Anything that sounds like Apple making a 15+ year commitment to the ARM platform is going to benefit ARM's IPO massively, so the real question is what Apple got from this.
I believe Apple was a founding investor in ARM and has a perpetual license to much (all?) of ARM’s IP. I’m not sure ARM’s prospective shareholders should ever have expected much revenue from Apple.
Because the founders came here and solicited feedback and he provided feedback directly to them.
In case you're on mobile and couldn't read the disclaimer, this is a work of fiction
Roughly, edges can roll over, break off, or wear down. Honing helps with the first, but not the other two. Which one happens depends on geometry, steel, and what you've been cutting.
I want the mini LED TV long before 8K.

Would be happy with a 1080 HD set.

Having come up on CRT, then Plasma, I find I prefer displays that emit light directly to be viewed over those that filter light in some fashion.
from people who work in those companies:

those cars could be in every city and they’d run great (except snow. snow is tough, rain not so much)

but why aren’t driverless cars there?

It’s been decided you want a perfect track record, as close to flawless - to appease regulation bodies.

regulation is what kills and regulation is the biggest fear. The cars and tech are always getting better, the ‘slowness’ is deliberate, the bet is on the future.
The Longevity Secrets of Singapore
In bytes:

39,516,981,435 books3.tar.gz -- 36.5% compression ratio

108,371,325,720 tar -- uncompressed

Recompressed with 7-zip and xz:

25,221,357,605 b3.7z # with flags: -m0=ppmd (23.3%)

27,077,329,052 books3.tar.xz # with flags: -e9 (25.0%)

To see what other slower compressors could do, I checked results from a random 1,000 books. MCM would achieve about half the original tar.gz file size, but it's very slow.

104,043,048 q-x11.mcm - 19.0% -- from q.tar

106,181,190 q-m9.mcm

114,564,722 q.tar.bsc-m03-b1000000000

118,636,713 q.tar.bsc-m03

130,621,411 q.ppmd -- 23.9%

137,874,349 q-s29.tar.lzip

138,274,566 qultra.7z

141,815,136 q.lzma

142,626,724 q9.xz -- 26.1%

146,786,015 q.brotli

146,933,603 q.p7zip

146,933,619 q.7z

149,371,106 q9.bz2

198,213,051 q.gz -- gzip -9 -- 36.3%

198,213,193 q.zip

227,074,912 q.lz4

228,463,000 q.lzop

546,201,600 q.tar
The (particular) law isn't actually aimed at stopping those who just want to go into their garage and produce illegal interference out of malice. E.g. people can create 200 Watt space heaters in their garage easily but it'd be odd to then conclude CPU regulations wouldn't stop people from doing bad things with CPUs.

That is to say, it's infeasible the average someone will make a working Wi-Fi radio which uses the Japanese channel 14 (involves changing what is sent by the radio, not just raising the frequency... unless you want to accurately re-adjust the frequency inside of your smartphone too) but it is reasonable to expect the average someone might just load some open firmware from the internet which allows them to set the channel to 14.

I will say I agree it's different than a lot of regulation. On the other thing I think that has more to do with radio space itself being very different than most things (i.e. a shared public resource) than inconsistency.
but it won't even work on Mac! This is built exclusively for Mac, that's the selling point!
As I recall, the dash was less important than the commitment to keep Office on the Mac. (Maybe IE too?)
There's no "first". View transitions are an HTML/CSS standard.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/View_Transi...
(Disclaimer that basically all of ADHD is contentious and I don’t want to argue but just explain)

Hyperfocus is a symptom of ADHD. This can be someone who spends 14 hours in one go fixing a bug. Downsides are that it’s generally not sustainable, and it’s just as likely to be the wrong thing as the right thing. I know a ton more about air cooled engines but didn’t do my taxes on time kinda thing.
Yeah well that’s society for ya. If you go with lab grown make sure you only go for a size that’s actually achievable in natural-diamond prices for your income level. The signaling game (silly as it is) is good at outing “that’s an excessively large diamond for his/her income, must be lab-grown” versus “that’s a large diamond for his/her income, that’s an indicator of priority.”
> We forgot that video isn't always a medium that people prefer.

Oof, that's a hard one for me. I'm firmly in the "can't possibly learn anything technical" from a video category. Specifications and copious examples for me.

Personally, I think JSONSchema and OpenAPI are table stakes for a product such as this.

I also think an embeddable version which runs in browser would be killer, replacing swagger-ui.
Attackers accessed UK military data through high-security fencing firm's rig
Cool. Gotta try if this compiles into wasm. Having this in a browser would be amazing.
He gave that data to american citizens in Hong Kong and retained no copy. Obama's people trapped him in transit in russia on his way to south america so that they could claim "russia! russia!" They openly bragged about this. It worked on both levels. He's stuck and people amazingly still claim he's in with the russians.

It always surprises me how many people still come out with this totally discredited line that he gave secrets to china and russia. Are we done with the equally dishonest claim that he put lives in danger or is everyone across that being a total lie now.

When I think of courage I think of Snowden speaking out against Putin while stuck in russia. When I think of cowardice I think of the lack of prosecution for all those spooks who are now paid by CNN to lie to the public. Who decided not to prosecute clapper? How? He's above the law. Why?
I would prefer if browsers offered more powerful API like this so you don't have to rely on a bloated framework to build modern web applications.

Browsers offering a powerful "std library" for building web application would be great. Similar how Go offers a powerful std library for building server application where most of the time you dont need a framework.
https://archive.ph/ZmJhx
I think of kube as the new de-facto OS, just like Linux back then. Of course it needs config to make it useful for your needs but I think it's really the platform to target for the next decade at least.
Interesting. How is it verified? Maybe keep Merkle tree hash of eveything in TPM?
They have a "showcase" page and I looked at some of the linked sites and could not see where the view transitions were used.
nextcloud on a cheap pc stick with large HD attached. connect it to your router via ethernet cable, forward https port on firewall and you'll never have to pay again, plus full privacy for free.
Write them a letter and ask them :)
If the tip is necessary part of the service then it should be displayed to me up front. I have zero issues paying for a service as long as there is no ambiguity about what it costs.
Someone got paralyzed by polio, in New York, USA in 2022. Completely preventable. History needs to be taught.
The main point is to prove -- to you, or to any interested third party -- that the photo in the news story currently open in your browser came from a particular bunch of raw pixels from a particular camera via a series of edits done by particular people, with the identities of both the camera and all the editors being recorded in that final browser JPEG in such a way that their involvement can't later be denied by those parties. The reasoning is that this traceability will make photographers and photo distributors more responsible due to the threat of reputational damage if they're discovered to be up to something.

The technical magic is in a (pretty old, pretty basic) crypto primitive called a digital signature, which doesn't actually require storing the originals publicly at all times -- all that's needed for you to verify Canon/Reuters's claim of photo authenticity is for them to supply the original raw pixels when someone "sufficiently important" (maybe you, or maybe a court judge, etc.) demands it. You can then check whether what they give you is in fact the true original by verifying it algorithmically with the JPEG's signature and their public key.

Storing the original in a publicly accessible place is good but kind of secondary -- it's just the most straightforward and convenient way for them to "produce it on demand".

EDIT: Clarified "their signature and public key"
> I actually wonder what happens if you run a Gnome app on KDE, or a KDE app on Gnome on top of Wayland, does the title bar look consistent in that case?

If you run a "real" Gnome app (that uses libadawaita) on KDE, it will look exactly like what it looks like in Gnome (giant titlebar with stuff on it, no minimize button, etc).