skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good news. Obviously wider context is no less alarming but any forward progress should be celebrate. China - largest emitter and manufacturer for the world - might have already reached peak CO2 - and will no doubt continue to accelerate energy self sufficiency which non-carbon based sources provide.
That's certainly hasn't been my experience, all my watches have kept an accuracy if a few seconds over a year.
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If compared to the national currencies Bitcoin is 16th largest, larger than 100+ national currencies

https://coinmarketcap.com/fiat-currencies/

So the development is towards other direction - less currencies of lords.
Play.

The app made me realize that I have several mental representations, depending on whether I read tabs or a score (low at bottom) or when shown by someone else (front view, low at top).

Guess it comes from teachers and bandmates showing me something on their guitar.
But the scam described in the first link is not much different than what is plaguing Microsoft Authenticator in phishing mails. Sending a QR code and getting someone to scan it to steal OTP access.

It's still much better than anything we had before, and it is after all 20 years old. So I can see that there is room for improvement.

So what is a better eID implementation? Freja?
Google Riggs Bank and BCCI.
The approach is interesting but I'm afraid that the benchmarking is bogus, as it's usually the case is in this kind of papers.

Part of the problem I think is that they have to compare to other existing solutions (click, VPP etc) otherwise everybody will ask, but at the same time it is very difficult to do a fair comparison.

I'm a VPP developer hence I'm both biased and a knowledge-domain expert, but focusing on what I know, which is VPP: figure 11b, they compare VPP to PacketMill for some L2 patch workload. They claim their approach is fare because they use automated tooling to benchmark, good and we also do for VPP, but our results don't necessarily match theirs - and, surprisingly, our results are higher than what they claim for VPP.

PacketMill paper figure 11b for VPP for L2 patch for 64-bytes packets at 1.2GHz using DPDK MLX5 driver [1]: ~5Gbps

VPP for similar configuration [2]: ~7.5Gbps (already a 50% error margin?)

VPP using a more optimized NIC driver (native AVF vs DPDK MLX5) [3]: ~18Gbps (almost 2x what they seem to claim for PacketMill...)

All this to say comparing different solutions is terribly hard, and I'm not sure of the value of this kind of benchmarks.

For VPP we built CSIT [4] which is opensource under the Linux Foundation Networking to automate tests in the same environments, to compare between VPP and DPDK between releases and platforms.

[1] https://packetmill.io/docs/packetmill-asplos21.pdf

[2] http://csit.fd.io/report/#eNp1kd0OwiAMhZ8Gb0zN6MRdeaHuPQxidS...

[3] http://csit.fd.io/report/#eNp1kd0OgjAMhZ9m3pgaVkS88ULlPcwcVU...

[4] http://csit.fd.io/
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John McCarthy on Marxism (2008)
I'm not sure if one of us misunderstood "pot-boiler" but Dune is surely no popcorn entertainment. It felt ponderous because its author invests much time into the development of characters, philosophy and politics. It's not for everybody, but it surely is not a pot-boiler.
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Similar pricing, suspiciously https://jspreadsheet.com/pricing
Adding a rubber protection to it highly improve the experience. I love this remote too. So compact and inobstrusive. I love how I can startup my tv through hdmi and using only one, the most basic possible remote. KISS at its best and definitive life improvement. Apple in a nutshell. I used to love being nerd and doing/breaking DIY setups for my media players for years and years but now I just love the simplicity of things just working and making my life easier.
This is an interesting point of view.
This also pertains to root certificates in browsers however.
Would a better way be not to setup a body to monitor certificates issued to police certificates for their own CA and ensure any offending certificate is immediately removed and to bring in laws to penalise the offending CA.

Instead they're prying a new threat vector open wide.
Sure, AML might be beneficial if it had no cost. It does make crime slightly more inefficient. However, AML has a massive cost. It makes legal transactions inefficient as well. Billions of people are unbanked and underbanked, in large part thanks to AML. It forces money transmitters to carry out what amounts to extrajudicial punishment on people and industries deemed "at risk". The estimated global cost of compliance amounts to hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Imagine if all those wasted resources instead went to chasing terrorists & human traffickers for those actual crimes.
More precisely, making things reproducible after the fact costs you significant time - there are tools for reproducible setups that take maybe an hour (at most) to setup upfront, after which it takes very little effort to do your work within that framework and keep things reproducible (for eg. Julia has DrWatson, DataDeps, etc., I'd be surprised if Python doesn't have equivalents).

The problem is knowing upfront which of your work would need to be reproducible, or having the discipline to do all your hacking starting from such reproducible setups.
Not sure how they do it specifically for LLMs, but you can do what is called model or tensor parallelism where you can split a layer over multiple GPUs or even nodes.
If you look under the hood it's the same distributed matrix multiplication stuff with MPI, as far as I know.

I think Deepspeed has bespoke transformer kernels which handle this stuff specifically.
There are other OOP paradigms, no need to force 'this' pointers on everyone like C++ does. Both 2 and 3 could be done with semantic-aware macros instead.
That is what public funded universities and research is for. Many claim projects like CERN is a waste of money but this is where many new ideas and tech comes from as a side effect of trying to solve problems that arise while trying to build a bigger and more powerful accelerator.
I'm interested in the 'slower/tougher' route you mentioned, do you recall the final performance, am assuming it was equivalent or worse. Given the vast disparity in power consumption between silicon and meat space it's surely a rich area to explore, especially given the feedback loop present where AI is being effectively used in more accurate observation and interpretation of brain activity.
> An overwhelming majority of people in the world (including cryptocurrency enthusiasts) are incapable of following through a fizzbuzz program, let alone an SHA256 implementation, and the hash algorithm is barely the tiniest building block.

So? It's still more open than traditional finance. You can actually see how it works if you try. Unlike some central bank's political machinations at some abstract far away place. We need exactly one guarantee: that nobody can change how the system works to benefit themselves.

Besides... The overwhelming majority of people do not even understand the nature of money itself. They do not understand fractional reserve banking. Most people think inflation is caused by the government printing money. Somehow that's not an argument against having money.

> Proof of waste stopped being sexy the moment we realized the environmental impact

Not this nonsense again. Even at the peak of the last bullrun, it didn't even amount to 1% of global energy consumption.

> The original idea was noble, but it was almost meant to be perverted.

I agree it was a noble idea and that it failed. I disagree that it was "meant" to be perverted.

> What we should have done was to get back to the drawing board: how can we build distributed/decentralized infrastructure that actually helps people.

Agree. At this moment in time, I think Monero is closest to that ideal. I am not opposed to even better and more decentralized technology. Ethereum's zero knowledge proofs are very interesting.
I'm not but a lot of people are living in simulations of one sort or another. If your information diet is algorithmic then you are essentially living in a simulation.

I recommend going outside and taking a stroll around your neighborhood if you want to see what it is like to live outside the confines of algorithmic feeds.
I have a pair of Edifier monitors (R1280DB), they're a low priced Chinese brand, and surprisingly good for the price.
>"... a popular business without defrauding customers. There were no victims"

I believe it's been proven that Binance traded against its customers and manipulated token prices on its platform. That kind of thing is completely forbidden in the world of traditional stock exchanges and brokers.

That makes Binance customers victims of their manipulations. When Binance made profits from trading on its own platform, it came from the pockets of its customers.

Crypto exchanges are less like stock exchanges and more like casinos where the house is guaranteed to win in the long run in bets made by customers. Maybe that's the deal that Binance's happy customers signed up for, but I don't think regular retail investors could be expected to understand that's how it works.
As I like to call it, anthropic arrogance.
The point is that the concrete manufacturers pulverize and homogenize the aggregate. This makes random sampling acceptable.

If you haven't pulverized and mixed the inputs, a random sample is merely a random sample. It isn't meaningful unless it comes from a high-entropy source.
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And yet, no fart?
This argument did it for me.

> banning e2ee would render crime evem less efficient

Yeah, don't care if criminals use something that helps us all protect ourselves and reveal or be vulnerable only to disclose that which we CHOOSE. Like, the real choose, not Apple's "choose" what we want or you can't use everything
Also AML is very ineffective despite massive surveillance. It harms consumers more than terrorists

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

This is because a lot of compliance is not optimised for maximum benefit (capture terrorists) but is just a tick boxing exercise.

There is also abuse. India is also using AML laws (forced by American led FATF) to crack down political opponents and human rights activists, as per Amnesty

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/india-stop-ab...
It was actually Russia. Putin is known to be an effective altruist just like Xi.
Alas, I didn't notice these when I last visited Prague (even though the article notes that these are in the downtown).
Not if they're just values. They make it hard to reason about the system if they mutate variables - even then, mutating local variables would probably be ok, the problem is they mutate distant variables through references. In the language design the article is proposing, async promises would not cause trouble (though by the same token they would be quite limited in power).
> it certainly violates the spirit of the Bill of Rights.

Sadly the list of acts that violate the spirit of the BIll of Rights is really, really long.
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Here is on the cost of AML

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25741292.2020.1...

We could also make traffic accidents go zero by putting a police at every crossroads.
That animation is just so hilarious.

The craziest scene from the 1980s movie _The Thing_, recast in bird claymation. What kind of wild mind comes up with something like that...
Humanity is running straight towards extinction and techno-optimism, which basically requires merging with computers, is our only hope. For anyone interested in merging with machines, Sam Altman has a post explaining why it is inevitable, it's titled "The Merge" (written in 2017). Linking to the post is not allowed on HN for some unknown reason. It was flagged last time I posted it.

But anyway, there is no reason to worry about hothouse scenarios because we have technology and can innovate our way out of this mess with the help of silicon and basic algorithms like Q*. All you need to do is believe in techno-optimism ♡
While I am personally not happy with any of the offerings on MacOS, alternatives don’t help those interested in wanting to use Apple Music with any lossless archive other than ALAC.
MSI B550 Mortar, mid-tier AM4 motherboard: 2 M.2 slots, one shared with the PCIe 4x slot. All the boards in that range are configured the same way.
There is an interesting thing going on here that the article doesn't quite make explicit - the interaction of the principle-agent problem with the bias tech companies have towards action.

A tech company has to have a bias towards just building something. Nobody knows what is profitable. The industry is littered with low-hit wonders who seem to have stumbled on a good idea then under rare circumstances muscled their way into a few other fields. Google is a poster child for this, one product that may as well be the hand of Midas and a graveyard of ideas (some of the concepts were winners though, just other companies took the profits). So we suspect that anyone who succeeds in tech probably has a bias towards trying a large number of things until they get lucky and strike good. The pattern seems common to me.

Then we have the basic principle-agent problem where employees are all rather incentivised not to rock the boat and draw attention to parts of the tech stack that are poorly designed but not literally a legal liability. Companies don't have the capability to figure out the difference between a badly designed system and a hard problem anyway.

Put these together, and it is no wonder that people don't bother measuring things. It is quite rare to see someone hugely successful who got there through measurement. Managers do themselves no favours proving that systems under their command are unreliable. Cultures likely have a heavy bias toward action.

The problem here is really the primitive management theory in the tech industry. One day we'll have a Deming moment where someone convinces management to focus on quality and has some huge success stories - hopefully inspiring copycat behaviour. I expect we'll see that once hardware stops improving at an exponential rate and the benefits of being first to figure out what to do with it dissipate.
It's a politico-technological arms race. Government makes laws, people make technology that gets around the laws. With every iteration, they need to increase their tyranny to maintain the same amount of control over the people. The result is either an uncontrollable population or a totalitarian state.

The only question is: how much tyranny are you willing to tolerate before the government becomes worse than the criminals you want to stop?
I believe the C++ way would be the right thing for C. Note that this does not mean in any way to inherit all the stuff from C++, nor even constructors and stuff like that. Simply a way to avoid doing this:

list_add(&mylist,1);

But instead:

mylist->add(1);

Note that doing this is not an option:

mylist->class->add(&mylist,1);

It's not just ugly (even if often used), but also uses an additional pointer, which in some application (like Redis) is a no-go because of memory usage.
But what do you need these certs for, is there a national website that gets an "insecure" warning if you visit it with a foreign version of Firefox?
> blackjack and poker were games that were then co-opted into the gambling scene.

As far as I know poker has been played for money for hundreds of years?
> Structures with fields and pointers to other structures is the ha-ha moment of C. It is what really makes the whole language so special

How is it special at all?

> you have full control on low level details.

Yeah, if you add random attributes to the language and control the compiler. C still can’t properly do vector instructions, while even Java can, but so can C#, Rust, C++. It’s simply not a low-level language.
Sadly a large part of the public believes it will happen and is all in.

To the average person chatGPT is literally magic.
I must have missed something: why do you feel the need to explain why you used the C language?
If you start an ICO, you are harmless until you get someone to buy into your token. For the SEC, you are harmless until you collect "millions" of dollars. Otherwise, you are just another one of these small scams that are happening all the time regardless of it using crypto or not.
> In terms of binary size, memory usage, you probably can't beat a slim C project

Zig can and do routinely beat it
1% of global energy consumption is outrageous.
Why is this GIF's animation speed different in Firefox vs. IE? (2012)
golang-based SPR is open-source and can run on RPi: https://github.com/spr-networks/super

> An unspoofable device identity is established with a MAC address and Per-Device Passphrase for WiFi (or a VPN Public Key for Remote Devices). From there, each device gets its own /30 subnet to exist on. Hardening and strict firewall rules block network spoofing and impersonation, and routing rules redefine connectivity between devices and to the internet.
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I’m using Tamagui for my decentralized social network, Jonline. It’s my favorite web framework by far, period, and a close runner up to Flutter for native usage (and I could easily see it surpassing Flutter).

https://jonline.io
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More like 0.5%. A literal drop of water into the ocean of western wastefulness.

My only objection to it is the fact all that energy is being poured into obsolete technology like bitcoin. I wouldn't even mind if Monero used even more energy. That energy is buying us something: a true cryptocurrency.
On harmful overuse of std:move
For those looking for a more technical overview of the process, the overview video of the research paper is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxpE5yryCTU
Reject tradition (comics), embrace modernity (memes).

/r/NCD[1] uses memes to tell the news to American adults (and fight misinformation along the way).

Disclaimer: I'm an unashamed contributor and a NAFO[1] member

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAFO_(meme)
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Here's a link to an old Stack Overflow question where it's stressed that JWT should be stored as cookies.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27067251/where-to-store-...

The Stack Overflow question is nearly a decade old. This is hardly new. This is not a JWT issue.
> AML/KYC banking laws are rapidly degrading into complete bullshit

It did not. That was their purpose all along but it's nicer to say we are implementing AML instead of we are sanctioning these guys or we are restricting outflows.

Crypto did not boom because it is mathematically revolutionary (it is, but most people don't really understand it). It boomed because there is a market for it.
That's literally what I dreamed about as a little kid :-)
Didn't they do that in The Grinch?
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Cant you just use 365 instead of using something less accurate like 12 months (months are unevenly distributed)
Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it
I was browsing the dotnet/maui repo and the vibes over there are not great.

decided to give the framework a quick spin myself and for god sake, this thing is in terrible shape. I built a quick holy grail layout with basic content and it looks completely different on all platforms. basic controls are not working and collections are laggy.

seems that nobody in the team really uses this thing in production or interacts with the community

more of the same
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/17917
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/15203
More than 43,000 people voted in a Louisiana election. A candidate won by 1 vote
South Park already did this > CrabPeople. They're among us yet /s
I hope blogger sticks around. Twice I have exported my content and imported into a blog I self hosted. Both times I went back to blogger because of ease of use.p, especially on mobile devices.
The alternative is to require a warrant, which has so far been a pretty good system.
The back-end can be opinionated, allowing developers to choose their preferred stack, whether it's Python, PHP, Node, or Go.

In my view, a UI component should not be constrained or reliant on a specific back-end language.
Truth be told, the FTX case isn't even a cryptocurrency case. The Bankman essentially ran an unregulated bank. People deposited money into it and he just took it. He pretty much robbed his depositors.

It's ironic. Cryptocurrency was supposed to put an end to guys like that by ending the need for banks.
Can any financial system exist without financial crimes? Just look at HSBC. Nearly all of Binance's failures also happened at HSBC which continues to operate within the law simply by paying fines as the cost of business every so often.
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Great alternative for Product Hunt. Congratulations on the launch
No, it straight up doesn't work as a money, outside of very niche use cases like crime and evading the state.

Most people have no use for that, or speculation upon that, and just want a money that's simple, easy, fast, and reliable.

A decade after bitcoin, no-one but crooks and when-moon fanboys use it. Contrast that with AI: the moment it hit the retail market every man and his dog is using it for everything.
Man I love HN.

Also, thanks for making this. It looks amazing.
the adjoining farm next to our backgarden had sheep that was obsessed with getting into my backgarden - no idea why. they would jump over the 5ft wall with barb on the top.

When we complained he move the sheep to another field, they escaped that field and entered our back garden through a totaly different way - through our front garden. eating loads of our plants - I can understand the pain Clarkson went through (made up or not)
Decline precedes collapse a bit like old age precedes death.

That would be three centuries prior.

The 3rd century crisis, two centuries prior to the (2nd) sack of Rome (1rst one was 8 centuries before that), already looks like a stopped, and partially recovered from, systemic collapse to me.

(Also even collapse isn't instant - Rome got sacked 3 times in a span of 62 years !)

I'm not progne, so I would rather say that the cycles are about growth and decline, with "collapse" being notable because things can decline much faster than they can grow (again, consider gestation - birth - early years vs death, especially accidental death). (And yes, business cycles are also like this, on a shorter timescale.)

As for guessing were WE are at, consider how the combination of growth then of decline also results in a semistable brief peak : we seem to have had it in the 90s. Unless of course you also consider the (ex-)URSS, which had a first collapse at that point, at which point the peak was probably more something between 1945-1970-1991. But then previously we were exclusively talked about the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for another millennium !! (Including recapturing Rome, which then was sieged/sacked two more times.) I guess you might want to look into that for counter-examples ?
He left Stripe earlier this year. https://x.com/patio11/status/1627815282776637440
A year ago I had OpenAI GPT create a meditation sequence for communicating with the Simulators of the Simulation.

Weird things ensued.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/78oONqh9wRUf2QzcpFhTCr?si=O5...
TLDR store session things in cookies with httponly set.

Basically nothing to do with jwts. More to do with xss
It's interesting how much of an upward hill battle it has been for me to argue that JWT tokens need to be stored in cookies rather than LocalStorage. In my latest project, the lead backend dev is convinced it is insecure to store the accessToken in a HTTPOnly cookie, and that it HAS to be stored in LocalStorage.
Curious, is that your AS?