skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we can just encode the program as a graph

What is the output medium for the encoded representation? A linear address space, like a file, or virtual memory.
Chrome already uses seccomp-bpf to that end, this is why the `chrome-sandbox` binary is setuid.
> Online voting is insecure, period

Starting like that the author saves our time by letting us know that

1. This is a biased take.
2. There will be no attempt to asses overall security, its weak and strong points.

But I still have read it to learn that the author says that paper voting solves security problems. Here’s the bonus point:

3. The author ignores security issues with paper voting.
I am an engineer and I will work on a project from conceptualization to production and there are a dozen 'Project managers' and 'Program managers' who come out of the woodwork to take credit at launch. I've never seen them in a single meeting. What the hell do they do?
The privacy argument is extremely important, also in regards to avoiding tracking via ads, but I do not think bypassing or blocking ads is the way forward. In the free democratic world, we really should aim to do better than this, and instead try to actually develop privacy respecting alternatives that is not going to undermine the internet, further empower the big players, or hurt website owners unnecessarily – including Google/YouTube.

The obvious problem with such tools is that it may allow bypassing YouTube's ad-wall, and as a website owner I can see why that is problematic. It is bad enough that local GDPR interpretations can practically prevent website owners from monetizing their websites via interest based ads.

For YouTube it probably does not matter as much it would to smaller sites and bloggers, but it is still a violation of their TOS. So, if you want ad-free, consider simply paying.

Besides, I am personally not too worried what Google might be using my data for. Thankfully, Google is owned by a US-based company – I would be more worried if the company was placed in China, Russia, or any other country that does not care about freedom rights at all.

Of course, there is always the risk of data-leaks, and that's a valid point – but then why do we tolerate that the government has data on us!? That's even worse than a company tracking us!!
> I aim for well-being because I think that whatever is beneficial to others is likely to be beneficial to me as well

My question was explicitly about cases when you have no benefit whatsoever in this life.

> theist-adjacent arguments in your post

Yes, how else can you argue about "the meaning of the universe" otherwise? Science simply does not try to answer such questions, it asks other questions. Of course there is no evidence for any of that and you have a good reason to reject it. But by rejecting it you are also, in my understanding, rejecting the reason to help the humanity whenever that is against your own goals (like with having children!).
Best consumer cash back card is 2%. I'd have to spend over $400,000 to get $8400 in cash back. I definitely haven't spent close to that. So if I value the $8400 at cash value, it's better than any cash back credit card available.
Being an atheist doesn't need a "root cause". Believing in something needs reasons, the absence of belief is the default.
VCs, stop wasting your money on AI chatbots
If this is too off-topic please just ignore it (and don't DV).

I want to embed YT videos on a website, but we would like them to be as private as possible. For example, DDG has a player which shields the watcher from YT's data hoovering.

Any suggestions? Perhaps the search terms I'm using are wrong?
Then your application won't be portable. Which is fine if you have no plans of distributing it. But otherwise I can guarantee it will break on some machine.
Alternatively they just arrest whoever they want to arrest
You're right, and if you're implementing a profile for a widget chances are you can stumble your way through the spec and get something that mostly works.

The problem is that the cross product of hardware on the sending and receiving sides leaves sufficient gaps that you will be banging your head against the wall trying to figure out why a profile isn't working and it's because Vendor's part doesn't implement the spec properly.

I sometimes wonder what a world where every radio is a software-defined radio and we can all just update our full Bluetooth implementation alongside our OS. Instead it's the worst case of "actually another CPU with closed source blob firmware" and so we're absolutely left stranded.

I think what is being advocated here is moving profiles outside the implementation, into libraries we can port around, or e.g. the kernel somewhere, and I think that is indeed a step in the right direction.
Haha it sure as shit does not. Landlord's keep it. The reasoning that shareholder/landlord savings either via by tax or fiat are shared with tenants or customers is a hilariously wrong fallacy of trickle-down economic thinking that has been debunked.
But not all paperclips are the same and not all crude oil is the same either? We sort of pretend that they are for the purposes of price comparison.

And realtors do the same with houses. Have a home on the noisiest street in your neighborhood? NP, all the realtors will use comps that favor their preferred narrative anyway. Why would you get to pay less for that when that other house is available? Comp sheet doesn't say anything about traffic noise.

Rightly or wrongly, real estate largely gets treated like a commodity.

It is just a commodity where the cost of transactions have been highly optimized in the wrong direction.
I'm a tech optimist but this isn't my manifesto. I'm good with the tech but then he mixes in:

"The Enemy": “social responsibility”, “tech ethics”...

"Patron Saints": John Galt

which it quite a different thing. You can be tech optimistic without being Randian.
Salaries are not the entire income. Corruption is usually some income in addition to a salary, but it may still be reflected in the tax record (that is, it's usually some service, board position, etc, not a suitcase full if cash).

Thus public tax records give a better transparency picture than salary records.
Society is better because it offers you comfortable living in exchange for some work. In the state of nature you'd likely already be dead, so that's a huge improvement.

Also, how is the current scarcity artificial? Are we limiting the output somehow? Could we for example produce much more cheap food, but we don't, in order to keep the proles scared?
Funnily enough I literally just today launched a big job on LUMI that I have started also on another smaller cluster with nVidia GPUs. Basically, I'm running Llama2-70B to do some zero-shot text classification. The nVidia setup uses 4 A100s, while on LUMI I could access 6 MI250Xs.

It is, unfortunately, not an apples-to-apples comparison, because on the nVidia cluster I'm running it via llama-cpp-python and a quantized 34B version, while on LUMI I'm running the official non-quantized full 70B version via the transformers library.

Long story short, I'm getting a 7.5x higher throughput from LUMI than on the nVidia cluster (which means each card is 5x faster on LUMI).

Edit: The AMD GPUs work fine because one can run Pytorch for ROCm via the pytorch-triton-rocm package.
Did you think it was effective? I didn’t. There’s still the issue with the name, the pestle wasn’t successfully abstracted into a more general health association, and the colors are less distinct.
Looking past the "nomads were an idealized version of our own society" lede, ancient DNA is very cool. A good place to follow news is Razib Khan's blog. It's also exceptional that a high percentage of the constantly-growing data is conveniently made available in one place by the David Reich lab:

https://reich.hms.harvard.edu/datasets
Especially with these gems in the text:

> (Norway) the most robust democracy in the world (which also happens to be a EU member state)

Norway is not in the EU.

> Hungary and Poland, are still immature barely-liberal regimes with more than a whiff of political repression (“flawed democracies”)

Coming from a Spaniard? Go fuck yourself.

Like tripu, I am strongly and vocally in favour of privacy and individual agency. But some of the ideological drip in this piece left a bad taste in my mouth.
"The laundry hamper was in the way of a thing I check and I don't move stuff."

"I'm an inspector and I dont warranty my work."
Onyx Boox Note Air3 C: Color eInk Notebook
I wonder if my iPad 3 story with YouTube¹ can be fixed here, with this service

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37700283
Onyx just released a color eink reader / note taking device.
They can guess based off ranges. They dont have a list with your name and exact salary. In fact it’s explicitly illegal for them to ask in many states so this would circumvent that law.
Experience in any JavaScript framework applies to every JavaScript framework
With a name like "Piped" I wonder if it's related to the NewPipe app, one of my favorite apps on Graphene OS and something that I really wish existed on iOS.
Is memorization how we should measure IQ? If so then LLMs have already far surpassed humans.
I believe the manager should at least know how to do the job of the people whose work they oversee... how else would you possibly check the quality of the work? Lol
Does “other countries do it” make it right?
As a layman, seems to me that the cutoff for what would qualify as genetic is also a tough question that is more philosophical in nature.
Michael? That you?
When I was at a .EDU that had a long history of computing (my desk in the 00s was in a 40ish year old "data center"), I heard the same bullshit from the greybeards. Then, when I went to work for a software company, I heard the same bullshit from the DEC alumni. I experienced this myself in seeing my last job go from awesome to another corporate borefest over 10 years.

I think this is a natural way that things tend to go, and if you like the dynamic environment, you have to jump to what you think is the next interesting, new thing.
I was curious so I did some back of the napkin math:

On ethereum you get:
~3 gas per instruction
15 million gas per block
12s per block
~420000 instructions per second

From online sources of stable diffusion on a GTX 1050 at 20 steps:
40 seconds to generate
1.8 TFLOPS at full precision
70 trillion instructions

That's around 5.2 years.

If you account for a lack of floating point instructions (a ~34x instruction
overhead) that's 180 years per image.
Are the Android APIs that bad? (I've yet to develop an Android app)
I found this so funny. There's a rite aid we would go to occasionally, since the area is so skewed rural and geriatric, so they constantly have a great clearance area since nobody goes there for most of the stuff they sell.

Noticed a freezer absolutely brimming full of this ice cream brand I never heard of. I can't imagine how much they have to throw out month after month.

I bought a case of it. It was fine. On par with....eddys.
I would recommend you watch Grizzly Man as an introduction to him
The only such thing as job security is the job security that one creates for themselves.
The continued growth and maturity of typing and LLMs like GitHub copilot finally make IDEs powerful for python. Excited about the future of the language.
you asked for stuff that already exists ... which seems kinda silly, no?
It's a good recommendation, but I'd prefer the whole thing were less complicated so, like USB, I could figure it out in a few days, finish my work and move on with my life.

I certainly appreciate one being able to make a career out of these things, but I'd rather not.
For small time real estate investors we still use realtors and pay their ridiculous fees.
Even with real stuff, people don't like having hard conversations. It's how toxic people stay in organizations, and poor performers are never let go.
Insurance is a Casino. Losses are covered by the dupes playing the games.

It's a state-mandated scam perpetrated on all.

Yay US.
The difference here is that they can do it with few people or alone, possibly hard do detect, and most importartly, at scale. Attacks on paper voting require many people in differet locations, can be re-counted, an they don't scale.
Then you shoupd tell the goverment in the Netherlands, they seem to believe they got 14% of their electricity from solar in 2022:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/the-netherlan...
The mechanical motion involved, physically putting your thoughts down. It isn’t the same as typing at all where you just click a button, having to motion the letters and words is surely worth something in itself.
> It can’t be what Amazon uses in any case, since I can use 1Password on Chrome, but not Firefox.

Correct, this is not attestation using the spec, but it is blocking off a device for logging into the service. To me, the relevance to attestation is that I'm just not confident that attestation "doesn't make any sense" for companies to pursue while I'm watching a service cut off a browser in a way that also doesn't make any sense for them to do.

I think if attestation doesn't make sense, it should be fine for the FIDO alliance to have as part of certification that any provider implementing the spec should be supported and that roaming passkey providers should all do what Apple is doing and refuse to identify themselves. That's kind of two separate things: roaming providers should refuse to identify themselves, and also services that are claiming to support passkeys should as part of spec implementation not be allowed to do things like cut off a login from a passkey provider either by relying on attestation or by implementing their own hacky solution and doing something like sniffing the user agent.
Odious isn't an opinion, it's a fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538
The android codebase is so huge there is nobody who really has a good view at all of it to make architectural decisions.

Also internal politics sometimes impacts technical decisions ("No, you can't add an API to our teams codebase - we're underresourced and don't have time to review your changes till Q4 2025").

End result: API's are added in silly places.
That's what the "RISC-V Application Profiles" are about: to standardise a set of extensions for application-class processors.

The SiFive P870 supports "RVA23"[1] which provides more or less feature-parity with ARM. It also supports vector cryptography, which is optional in RVA23. (RVA23 is the successor to last year's RVA22, making Vector and a couple smaller extensions mandatory)

RVA23 + vector crypto also lines up with what Google has announced is likely to be their baseline for RISC-V - based Android handsets in the future.[2]

[1] <https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/rva23-prof...>

[2] <https://youtu.be/xLwdUn3DQp8?t=990>
How often does this easiest way win you an argument?
(Stylistic) point taken.

I stand by what I wrote, although it could be argued in less stringent terms.
It's retribution for the billions paid in claims yes. If at any point an insurer is paying out more than like 80% of the fees they are taking in, they are going to either jack rates or pull out of the area.

I think this is 100% fair, and the alternative that I should have my tax money go from BFE to subsidize beachfront living is insane. I am 100% fine with people living literally anywhere, but until every square inch of land is used - there is no reason people MUST live on the beach in a hurricane zone.
Yes, that's where I want to get to. Oh, and to preempt the inevitable replies: yes, I would 100% rather have 100 bosses (customers) than one 'boss'. I can't easily fire the latter without quitting. I can find new customers.
So people will be paying a higher tax than they ought to be if they aren't trend-chasing the economy to always be engaging in that "best use" from year to year?

That sounds perverse in itself, especially since an economy needs diversity to function, and if everyone is incentivized to chase a single thing per region you end up with overproduction of that and underproduction of everything else.
Wikipedia distortions are standard. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement stubbornly avoids mentioning the reality of the underlying demographic changes. There's a lively discussion on the talk page about this omission. Like writing about JFK assassination conspiracies without mentioning that JFK did, in fact, get shot.
Not sure any longer since 13.4
I feel like that would make it harder for a vendor to keep up with the industry.

Say you took all the effort in the world to build your custom LLM toolchain to train a Llama on custom hardware. And then suddenly someone comes up with LoRA. You didn't even finish porting it to your toolkit then someone comes up with GPTQ.

Can't keep up with a custom toolchain imo.

It's like a forked linux kernel. Eventually you're gonna have to upstream if you're serious about it, which is what AMD is actively doing with pytorch for ROCm (masquerading it as CUDA for compatibility).
A bit aggressive, but beautiful code review nontheless.
I find it interesting that house ads don't yet include a topographic map or simple elevation indicator, but I really do expect this to soon become standard.

I know I wouldn't buy a house without checking this out first.
And can you blame them? Werner has gone from smart dude doing cool stuff to a drunk that makes his presentations the night before.

Loved aws from the start and still use the platform but frankly it’s expensive, feels very hard to get help from and when there’s alternatives it’s hard to want to continue to reward their mediocre customer experience.
> Anyway, most everyone likes to walk around and explore whatever environment they're in.

I know a lot of people who never walk anywhere, never really "wander", think it's weird at best, unsafe at worst. They will on vacation, in an environment branded for it. think cutesy town, think Disneyland.

What you're doing is maybe not exceptional, but it _is_ noteworthy that it's not universal.

Wandering in nature isn't really the sort of urban wandering the "flaneur" does either. That only exist in the industrialized city. It requires some anonymity, since it's a little voyeuristic. It requires leisure time, wealth, it's consumptive, since the flaneur and cafe culture are complementary. The city needs to be large enough to discover new experiences.

I don't think we're disagreeing overall, more maybe in our assessment how widespread it is.
> You can also get the worst of both worlds by trying to implement the Bluetooth HCI USB transport protocol!

Are you me??? Truly this was entirely horrors that I will never unsee.
There should not be a deduction for the interest paid. It makes no sense and only helps the relatively affluent who can own/buy homes.
The user-visible API's aren't great, but okayish.

The innards are spaghetti.
Doesn't OpenBSD have an API that has this kind of functionality too, albeit in a slightly simpler form?
In that situation I’d favor self-hosting - it’s easy, friendlier for users, and unless you’re getting a huge amount of traffic not very expensive. Swimming upstream against YouTube’s business model is just locking in time spent worrying about what you missed.
Hackernews: Working remotely is so much better! Why would they ever want us to work from to office!

Also Hackernews: Ever since Corona started, I hate my job. I wonder what changed?
> I don't get this weird paranoia about salary privacy. Opening it up helped everyone negotiate.

To be clear Im not asking you to dox yourself. You havent proven that you aren’t paranoid though, because we have no idea who those figures belong to.
Yes. The burden is proof is supposed to be on the person making a claim that breaks the known pattern.

We can think of consciousness in it's most simple terms as an experience of any number of bits of data.

If we are to accept that we ourselves have experiences, which we must lest we go down a fun pathway to madness (that I highly recommend for those excited by the prospect of existential crises), then there is no reason to accept that "lower" life forms do not also have experiences.

This chain of reasoning follows down, down, down, into what we may think to be simpler and simpler experiences of being. Down to the insects, and then the microbes.

There comes a point where whether something is alive or not becomes more about its ability to create cogent copies of itself, which certainly does not feel like a requirement of having an experience.

Beyond that lies the Earth, the wind, the rain, the basic elements our ancestors have respected and reverred for millenia in societies that did not invent the patriarchal dichotomy between subject and object that teaches us the unfounded "fact" that there are some things called "objects" which have no experience of reality, that we the "subjects" may control entirely.

Get deeper into intuitive practices, and one may have experiences of interacting with so called "objects" in ways that suggest a deep union between subject and object.

A union that precludes the separation our hectic monkey minds have been taught.

It is as if every particle of this universe is "alive" in its own writhing way, at different scales. All feeling the subtle vibrations of others.

The burden of proof is on those that say that consciousness "stops" at some point and the entity becomes an object, yet a mechanism has never been found.

The belief in fully unconscious objects, is then, faith based.

The "hard" problem of consciousness is only a problem when you want it to be.
Indeed, maybe Microsoft would’ve created an even better smartphone, putting us today in a position with 3 major competing mobile platforms! And just imagine what else after that…
> It isn't an extra tax. It is a rebalancing tax. The rich have nothing to do with this.

So effectively normal people that don't own empty land will not pay this or pay an equivalent of the previous taxes?

> If your lad value tax increases enough to be unpayable, then your house has likely appreciated 3x+.

I guess you could try to argue that but I still feel like that's going to hurt folks. Imagine a scenario where I live somewhere for decades. Suddenly there's a new subway or some other factor that increases the value of the land enough that I can't pay for it.

Now I'm forced to leave this place when it finally becomes better to live in. In theory if I sold it, it would make me some money, but that's not the same as saying I'm a rich person now.

It's also not free in the sense that I still have to move somewhere else, which will probably be worse than the current place I live, since I will be required to buy a house with a lower tax (less valuable).

I can see the benefits if this was part of a bigger set of changes that would overall benefit everyone. But in isolation it seems like it will hurt normal folks and companies will just turn their empty plots into useless parking lots (or some other loophole they will find) to say it's "valuable".
That's what I mean, someone is going to have to review many, many photos. Sure they can leverage AI, but a single type II error at a hotel and they are chucking every single sensor.
I'm more than happy to be served ads, I'll just make sure my user-agent hides them from me like it hides all kinds of other spam.
You'd be surprised, I had some old Symbian phone with some really ancient Youtube app and it still was working couple years ago. The phone's screen eventually died, so I can't check now
There's a difference between a TM/algorithm/etc. that computes a function, like BB(n) (for all Natural numbers n); versus computing a particular value, like BB(748).

For comparison, there is no TM which computes the halting function halts(p) (for all programs p); but it's easy to compute particular values like halts("exit") or halts("while(true){}")
Why use a throwaway to say that? It’s just truth in the current system, and the current system is the most abundant we’ve had for any significant duration.