skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, perhaps I’m a purist, but Derek Sivers’ list isn’t sufficient for this type of “tech independence”. You can’t get around having to essentially rent your domain from the registry, unless you set up a registrar yourself. Perhaps you’re fine with using a numeric IP address and you don’t need to engage DNS; then you are still relying on your ISP: Comcast, Centurylink, Starlink, etc. OK, set up your own ISP - it is possible. But your connectivity to other regions of the state/province, country, or globe is fundamentally an _interdependency_ relationship, and pursuing independence is anathema to that.

Not to say that this list isn’t incredibly valuable for most people; and I have a similar “tech independent” setup myself. But it’s definitely not an alternative to the types of solutions that Cory Doctorow puts forth.

Edit… I missed your note about them not being incompatible so this whole comment is a bit of a strawman. But I highly respect the depth of knowledge that Doctorow has on these matters and don’t think he means for government regulation to be an alternative to personal tech agility.
As a child, I was always told by everyone around me, family, friends, teachers that going to the US or UK should be my dream. Those that manage to go either via scholarship or wealth are described as geniuses and assumed to be smarter than the rest of us.

I ended up earning enough to either live 6-8 years without working in Malaysia during high school but I decided to blow it all for getting a degree in the UK (which costs more for international students as well).

Yes, status but probably also just a lot of conditioning and propaganda.
From my experience this is wildly incorrect. Not even big tech hires that many devs, especially for frontend. That's at least half the reason why most frontends are terrible.
Why don't you spend 15 minutes playing around with it and see what you can get it to do that google can't do?
Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about Gato. Thank you for reminding me. There's so much research activity that the Gato paper feels as if it was published eons ago. There's only so much I can retain in my puny little human mind at once!

In any case, I'm not sure Gato qualifies as a "large" model with 1.2B parameters -- it's kinda right below the threshold at which it could or would start exhibiting emergent behaviors. Maybe a new Gato with 10's or 100's of billions of parameters operating in the physical world?
In my experience that's true mostly of large companies that have very standardized interview process. All the startups I worked at so far had some kind of coding question but it was not very leetcode-y and more conversational; Trying to get your thoughts about how you'd solve the problem and assess whether you had the right intuitions about software challenges.
I'd encourage you to exercise your network and see if you can find a small to mid-size company that does something interesting to you. You'll likely have a much higher success rate!
Why not offer a choice of expensive on-prem with average support costs baked in vs. cheaper cloud with savings passed to the customers?
I gotta be both the reactor operator and the throttleman?!?
Specific example:

https://youtu.be/XMVqNO3hRlc?si=6pOvAitq1NRX-nTX&t=281

"If you don't come see it, then you're sending a message that black women cannot lead the box office globally, that you're supporting that narrative"
Yes, I wouldn’t say the UK is bad or anything since I haven’t really explored. I guess I’m just salty I spent so much for nothing.
I never thought of using "number of docker instances" as a metric for evaluating software before now.
> The hard part of spotify is getting the deals and the labels and the users.

Having worked for a (now defunct) company that was trying to get labels onboard, this is exactly correct. They had 3 or 4 people (plus the founders) who mostly spent all day chasing up music industry contacts and lawyers trying to get them into conversations and persuading them to license their content. And having had to deal with CWRs and ERNs, that's also a nightmare of hideous proportions you have to deal with for streaming services.
What LLMs can do efficiently is crawl through and identify the secondary forms of evidence you mentioned. The real power behind retrieval architectures with LLMs is not the summarization part- the power comes from automating the retrieval of relevant documents from arbitrarily large corpuses which weren't included in the training set.
A text recognition and face/object recognition model runs on my iPhone every night. A small LLM is used for autocorrect. Current high-end smartphones have more than enough RAM and compute to run pretty sophiscated 7B-param quantized LLMs. This level of capability will find its way down to even entry-level Walmart phones in about five years. Server side, things are going to be even cheaper.
Government has power which we individually lack. It makes sense to harness that power for individual freedom and the common good. The idea that this will be subverted by corporations to fulfill their ends is naive, because they are trying to do that anyway.
Why do you think that some random result from Google is plausible? Why not to just search a cure from cancer or Rieman's proof in Google or DDG?

The snoop-phone case means that I do not want to see mobile browsers in those digits because as far as I know about them, there is no way of activating dev mode in browser on your snoop-phone, correct me please if I'm wrong.
Injured Engine is a similar game where you have to maintain a car engine and repair any part that breaks due to wear (but don't need to put it together): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injured_Engine
I'm very bearish on Passkeys as a concept. As a technologist and security advocate, I'm glad that it helps to defeat phishing attacks, and the problem of reusing passwords/credential stuffing. But the UX is just not there yet. I jumped on the hype train and set up Passkeys for my Google account using 1Password, from Chrome on my iPhone. At some point, the enrolment procedure "failed", that is to say, my passkey was set up, but I didn't know it, so I repeated the procedure. This meant I had two "identical" passkeys for Google in my 1password, and two passkeys to which to sign into Google.

Neither Google nor 1password had any way to distinguish which key was which. There's no export functionality (yes, I understand this is by design). There's no (user facing) key IDs. So, my choices were: accept that I have two passkeys, and never know which is which; risk deleting one or the other, or abandon the whole notion and go back to hardware 2FA.

This doesn't even get into the mess of:
* browser based passkeys: what if I switch computers or phones? Now I have the "yubikey problem (have 3 so you can safely lose 1)" for every single device I own.
* hardware security tokens (Yubikey): in the case of Google, they aren't accepted as a "sign-in" passkey, only a "verification" passkey. However, a browser passkey is accepted. Do I need hardware 2FA? Do I need a password? I have no idea.

Let's be clear. There are absolutely solutions to all of the above. I am certain I made bad assumptions or mistakes here. But I also have been using computers with a bent towards security for my entire life. If I can't get this right, how is the average user being pushed to go "passwordless" on eBay going to deal with this mess in 3 years?

If you're a company considering implementing this, I'd be taking a very hard look at the ongoing support costs dealing with confused and panicked users locked out of their accounts.
When people say firefox is more performant than other browsers, they mean to say you can use actual powerful adblockers like ublock origin that then make it a totally rigged race against other browsers in terms of real world performance.
> Working more than 55 hours a week kills 750k people a year worldwide

This cannot be true. I read about a CEO who worked 16 hours a day for 35 years. /s
Raffi Krikorian, IT of "failed" 2016 political thrust in US, rabid proponent of deploying, using, collecting geolocations, mass aggregation of private data.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffi_Krikorian
I don't really know what you're referring to from history, given that this level of technological development and fine-grained agile government/corporate perception/control is a pretty recent phenomenon. Our society is no longer kept in line by force projection from groups of humans with small arms, but rather surveillance tech, dispatchable forces, and the economic advantages of specialization/cooperation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
> GPT4 is getting beat by the small prompt library LATS wrapped around GPT3.5

The link you shared doesn’t quite reflect this. Omitting other models…

LATS (gpt-4): 94.4
Reflexion (gpt-4): 91.0
gpt-4: 86.6
…
LATS (gpt-3.5): 83.8
…
zero-shot (gpt-4): 67.0
zero-shot (gpt-3.5): 48.1

I’m not quite sure how to translate leaderboards like these into actual utility, but it certainly feels like “good enough” is only going to get more accessible and I agree with what I think is your broader point - more sophisticated techniques will make small, affordable, self-hostable models viable in their own right.

I’m optimistic we’re on a path where further improvement isn’t totally dependent on just throwing money at more parameters.
Unless it has been doctored:

"The Tohoku University study was published in the journal Nutrients. A wasabi company, Kinjirushi Co., provided funding"

of course:

"though the researchers say the company had no role in the study itself."

Yeah, right...
I think if you bring up a dystopian nightmare, it assumes someone in power acting in bad faith. If their power is great enough, like maybe a government intelligence agency, it doesn't need things like due process, etc., to do what it wants to do. For example, Joe McCarthy & J. Edgar Hoover didn't need the evidence that could have been produced by AI-aided mass surveillance to justify getting people people who opposed his political agenda blackballed from Hollywood, jailed, fired from their jobs, etc.

If everyone involved is acting in good faith, at least ostensibly, there are checks and balances, like due process. It's a fine line and doesn't justify the existence of mass spying, but I think it is an important distinction in this discussion & I think is a valuable lesson for us. We have to push back when the FBI pushes forward. I don't have much faith after what happened to Snowden and the reaction to his whistleblowing though.
Code looks good! Postscript is a pretty sweet alternative to forth.
I actually don’t think they made the right call and whomever wrote this article, began it by planting a seed in the readers mind that these chimps are killers and will maul people on first contact.

Of course that will make you think that they did the right thing, but is it actually true that no person interacts with these animals directly across the world?

It sounded to me like sheer ignorance and complete lack of experience of the people who worked there. I don’t blame them seeing as how they are located in the middle of nowhere, and having the right people at hand might not be optimal, other than one of the other women who actually had connection with the smart chimp.

But that woman was denied entry. And yet she was probably the only person who could have accurately judged the situation for what it was as opposed to “what it could have been”.
The question is, can you change the market share? Specifically as long as you depend on Google for your income.

If not, then the goal should be to build up assets and alternative revenue streams.
Testing on target platforms is an inherent part of shipping production software.
It is common to use --privileged (or -v docker.sock) and run docker commands inside docker. But then you're not really in the container, you may as well be on the host.

I think genuinely containerizing inside an ordinary container, without --privileged, would mean taking extreme compromises like bocker or proot.

What's the state of the art here?
> Google forced its way upon carriers

Or was it because carriers couldn’t get their shit together? [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/verizon-att-and-t-mo...
> About a year ago I created a Wikipedia page for a TV personality and author I enjoy. Spent literal hours on it collecting citations and what have you. Within a couple hours the page was deleted for not being noteworthy. He had his own TV show, has multiple published books and a popular podcast. Seems noteworthy enough to me, but what do I know.

Would this be Andrew Heaton? Here is the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio... it doesn't look particularly contested.

Like there is always going to be disagreements about what should or shouldn't be an article, but this case seems pretty reasonable and hardly a close call.

The wikipedians claimed there was no independent coverage of this person, and nobody disagreed. Seems reasonable to delete in such circumstances.

----

> Within 5 minutes of posting the page, someone else did read my citations word for word, and it was marked for “rapid deletion for copyright infringement”. No chance to explain. No chance to reword. Just gone completely and I didn’t have a local copy of the article.

Well yes, copyvios put wikipedia in disrepute so they are handled quickly. That doesn't mean it is the end of everything - you can still discuss after it was deleted. Even if it remains deleted an admin would likely be willing to give you the non copyvio part if you asked.
> You are now the target of an investigation

All you have to do to clear your name for that crime is to turn over your DNA to the police to be in their records forever[1], and Bob's [2] your brother [3].

[1] - You might be able to get a court to order that your DNA records are destroyed after proving your innocence, but it's an ask to believe this would actually happen in every case.

[2] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bob

bob 3 of 7 verb (2) bobbed; bobbing

transitive verb

1) obsolete : deceive, cheat

2) obsolete : to take by fraud : filch

[3] - https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bobs-your-uncle.html
YouTuber who staged plane crash in California sentenced to 6 months in prison
I would say instead it's a PEOPLE problem, not a technology problem.

To quote Neil Postman, politics are downstream from technology, because the technology (medium) controls the message. Just look at BigTech interfering with the messages by labeling them "disinfo." If one wants to say BUSINESS POLITICS, then that's probably more accurate, but we haven't solved the Google, MS, DuckDuckGo, Meta interfering with search results problem so I don't think we can trust BigTech to not exploit users even more for their personal data, or trust them not to design AI so it inherently abuses it's power for BigTech's own ends, and they hold all the cards and have been guiding things in the interest of technocracy.
Of course they have all of the public keys of the secure cryptographic elements of all Apple devices (that run iMessage) ever created. Why wouldn't they?
And I have no interest in a system where a small cabal of speculators are hoarding all the land, and are just collecting rent from me, while providing zero value-add.

Land isn't widgets. Unlike industrialists, real-estate 'Investors'[1] aren't making any more of it. The world would go on just fine, better even, if we got rid of all of them.

[1] Not to be confused with developers, who actually build useful things.
thanks for the feedback! i'm curious, how critical are graphs for your internal tools and what are some examples of their use?
That feels super backwards! Why not have the typo redirect to the correct spelling?
EU Emergency Response Coordination Centre: Daily Maps
Bad idea. I had my iCloud account in a constant autoblock mode. This works only with insecure Apple account setup.
I don't understand what for
> > so it adds almost nothing to the CPU time.

> If two threads go to CAS-sort at the same time, the cache coherency overhead would be apocalyptically bad. I'm assuming that's not what you meant?

I think it's apparent they didn't mean the CAS atomic instruction, just the compare-and-swap operation in bubblesort. Nothing in their comment suggested this was a multi-threaded situation.
Oh no question; the amplification is concerning. Send one packet, get 19 responses, versus having to send 19 packets to get 19 responses: it's a "gain" of 19 to 1.
I'm not that familiar with ios apps, can they not push out updates to individual apps?
I recently installed the STM32 Cube IDE from ST [1] and discovered that it contains a stealth binary of Google's Chrome in my home directory. The fans started spinning and I found the culprit pretty fast, but if you delete the Chrome executable in the double-hidden directory it just gets installed again at the next run of the IDE.

I wonder what percentage of market share can be attributed to this kind of clients that are used not for browsing but for lazily loading some web interface or product page.

[1] https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stm32cubeide.html
Where can I buy a 7nm device made by SMIC? (let alone 5nm)
I'm going to guess at that country being Germany.

There's an edge case where if you have the "state" insurance, then leave the country, have private health care abroad, and then move back, the health insurance situation gets difficult. You're no longer allowed to get the "state" health insurance, and must go private. But the private ones can basically rack you for the maximum amount if you're old enough, so you can end up not being able to afford the insurance. At that point, you're now breaking the law, as I understood it, because you're without health care insurance in a country that mandates it by law.
100k reached.
> Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity

There are plenty of "democracies" where suffrage depends on one having the appropriate citizenship.

Full disclosure: I have permanent residency - and pay my taxes - in a country where I'm neither allowed to stand for election nor allowed to vote...
Is this a joke? Spotify is European.
Scraping GitHub emails and spamming your project is not cool
Same here, though I only use a small subset of Xero features.
For arrays, did you end up taking the diffing/memoization approach like solid?

I've yet to see any framework have O(1) collection mutation reactivity.
Grafana mini docuseries ep. 1: democratize metrics [video]
If a browser breaks forms somehow, then yeah I don't think it's reasonable for anyone to try to fix their website to somehow work (if it's even possible). Same as if they break links, or TLS, or HTTP. The government should just say "chrome 287 doesn't work".

The "evolving" standards of browsers mostly add a bunch of useless toys that create security vulnerabilities. There's no reason for serious sites to target them. The old standards do everything you need to quickly and easily make a functional tool that will require no maintenance for years or decades, which is exactly what you want from tools.
> they already implement an interoperable, open standard in their primary texting app (RCS)

Yes, but Apple has announced they will do the same thing. That is not the same thing as interop with the actual iMessage protocol. Similarly, Google Messages does not allow interop with its encryption and newly announced sticker/effects, which remain proprietary to the Google Messages app.
I've done two-week trips of Central Europe, the UK and Ireland, southern Spain and Portugal, and the Low Countries/Normandy with no guides (except for local city guides to see interesting bits of history) and no assistance - land, rent car, drive to hotels, drive between cities, usually change itinerary partway through.

So I'm not averse to doing things that way. And I'm not doing some &^#$Q@ bus tour. But if you want to see the countryside and stay in an onsen* and all that, it's not quite as simple as "someone has good English". I've encountered places in all those where nobody around spoke good English, and we made do in another language and Google Translate. Assuming that, of course, you have good cell service - which was a problem when I tried to drive into a restricted area of old town Krakow. The police officer was polite and helpful, but we didn't share a language and cell service was slooooooow. And Google Maps was absolutely dead wrong about routing and cost me an hour of driving around in a circle (it was rush hour, so traffic, and it though certain roads were connected when they were not - this was only five or six years ago, so not ancient history). My hotel was in that area, so they let me through.

My concerns may be overblown, but they're not arising out of some complete ignorance of how the world works.
>If you don’t like ads embedded in videos, don’t watch videos from creators who take sponsorships.

Or just use SponsorBlock?
Yeah, I do think it's worth doing both :) As well as at least making 2FA an option for your users - 2FA is the ultimate defence to most of these problems, but depending on the company/use case, not everyone is willing to make it mandatory, it does tend to be a lot more annoying to users. Things like failed login rate limits, minimum password length/complexity, and banning known breached logins is less intrusive to the user, and still pretty good defence when combined, though not as good as 2FA.
I'm pretty sure that such a banner would be squarely protected by the First Amendment as long as you didn't make it look like you were sponsored by Pepsi.
Maybe that should give you a hint that professional working scientists don't care much for definitions from wordbooks.

Besides, I was commenting on the topic of falsifiability. To be a scientific hypothesis or theory it must be falsifiable - in principle, not practically. At least that's my claim in the context of Popper. Evidence didn't even enter the discussion.
Writing an Immutable Slice in Go
If it realistically stayed with just several hundred thousand users, I would agree.

My suspicion though is that there will now be a rush of apps doing imessage on android or windows etc, and probably also spam on iMessage will go up which might stoke the fire a bit.

I guess we'll see what happens!
They keep repeating that since years, but we are still waiting for the proofs
Yep, with the summary of board members that i have posted outside of this comment, it looks to me like a money laundering is going thru Mozilla.

In short, Mozilla Foundation is becoming the post-de-facto shell-company under a guise of a real company, but for who? Where is the money flowing into Mozilla F. coming from?

There is no real concern for maintaining the main flagship, Firefox. It would not surprise me to see a 25% cut of Mozilla workforce soon.
> Sadly, that'll never happen, because CU made bribery legal

Citizens United was a USSC ruling; TFA is about Poland.

Poland is in the EU; NEWAG seems to be a formerly state-owned company, that was fully privatized in 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newag

I'm awfully worried about both Poland and Hungary, and their place in the EU even though I'm a brit, and now out of the EU. I think both countries should have had their EU membership suspended years ago, for corruption; meddling with judicial appointments; and generally not allowing free media. I suspect Hungary is much worse, but for me, a major reason for supporting Brexit was that I didn't want to be in a political alliance with countries that didn't comply with international treaties, which the EU was so reluctant to enforce.