skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not any privacy-respectful business that won't eventually be acquired by private equity and squeezed for every just-this-side-of-legal dollar they can get.

Don't give away your genetic information if you can avoid it.
It doesn’t really matter how Apple is doing because the rules of cryptography are set in stone.

- To ensure that you message is unreadable, you must correctly encrypt the data symmetrically or asymmetrically with a key. Well we can assume Apple or Meta can do this properly.

- Second, as the sender or recipient, you MUST verify the authenticity of the key, whether you are using asymmetric or symmetric encryption.

In TLS/SSL, key verification is handled by third parties called certificate authorities.

In SSH, key verification is handled by comparing the key signature that the SSH client displays.

Most of these services right now do not do either (trusted third party or display of a key), therefore it cannot be verified overall.
(That said, some people said they are doing what SSH is doing soon.)

I’m happy Apple is doing those things to exchange your own key between your own devices. This is already way better than most services. However, that problem is orthogonal to the problem of key exchange between you and a recipient.
There is no hope to redeem the Web of these banners :(
I absolutely love the "What's In A GIF" series. It's what inspired me to write my own GIF decoder while learning Erlang at the same time: https://github.com/avik-das/giferly

The first time around, I struggled a lot with decoding errors. Many years later, after being a more experienced developer, I wrote the LZW decompression with unit tests. Doing so forced me to think about each edge case, and fix issues without breaking existing functionality. Very quickly, I was able to open pretty much any GIF file I threw at it!
Valve still has a good reputation, although I don't think I consider them a game company any longer.
Yeah other people here who rank car so low in satisfaction must be talking about traffic jam only. If the road is free and I can go fast, the satisfaction shoots up above any public transportation.
Simple solution: Do not use cookies which are not strictly necessary and you don’t need a banner.
Which is Nintendo Switch when it comes to latest gen consoles.
https://www.vgchartz.com/article/458542/ps5-vs-switch-sales-...
How do you define censorship? Is it different from editing and curation?

Is the the choice to exclude some sources from the training data "censorship"? How about the choice of loss minimization strategy?
"Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?"

I reckon it was Conde Nast.
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Work will just move to a higher level of abstraction.
Oh wow, googling it, Larian is only 5 years younger than Blizzard? I thought they were some post turn-of-the-century young company.
> In EU countries you can easily and anonymously get a US number that works fine on Signal.

How? And even if that's feasible (for many people I'd argue it's too big a hurdle) it still only gets you pseudonymity.

There are some interesting encrypted messaging ideas floating around that allow you to have per-contact or even per-conversation keys or multiple identities for different contexts; Signal is just not doing much in that regard.
No, just entrepreneurship with many equal shareholders. Unless you start demanding for special treatment and exclusion from market forces, which is usually what the communists are actually after
Huh, same here, that “LOL” response was the exact same thing for me. Pretty weird.

When I expressed my surprise about its casual response, it switched back to the usual formal tone and apologized.

Not sure what to make of this as I don’t consider myself to be in the know when it comes to ML, but could this be training data leakage? Then again, that “LOL” sentence would be such a weird training data.
It should not be cumbersome to enter your query and be suggested a solution before being connected to a human. In some cases the suggestion will resolve the problem, relieving the load on responders.
> If you put too many directories with common names into CDPATH and export it, it might break your scripts.

It will also break your shell history.

I’m probably in the minority but I’m wary of tools like this (asdf’s .tool-versions and similar things like rbenv/pyenv, and especially direnv) that change behavior based on the state of your shell’s working directory.

I like being able to ^R to a shell command from a month ago and just run it without worrying whence I’m running it.

I do like that you can directly use shims from asdf/pyenv/etc.
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These are not complicated words
I've used Linux since the 90s and I'm a huge advocate for it, but I just can't take these tests seriously.

Phoronix has also posted a lot of these tests where Linux seemingly performs better than Windows.

I don't have the technical wherewithal to challenge their methodology but it just doesn't seem right that you would add overhead and still outperform Windows on a system barely used by 1% of gamers. It seems like Linux fanatics fantasizing.

I love what Valve have done, thanks to them I am never bored on Linux and never wish I had a windows PC anymore. But something is rotten in the state of denmark.
I don't really get the purpose of this. Can anyone share some insights?
>If you want me to trust your system, show me the complete source code

Sounds like you set yourself up to never trust anything.

I mean, do you fly on airplanes without having inspected the flight code? Or do you put your money in a bank without having inspected the accounting code?
This could be an answer to an intent to violate any law.

The counterpoint is that this doesn't actually work in practice.
This is a great Code of Conduct and anyone who follows it will be a great person. Its also great that it doesnt have a bunch of enumerated punishments and mechanisms, just a call to goodness.

In general, I wish there were a wider variety of CoCs. Yes I can be super nice, but it might be nice to work in a team that is brutally honest with each other and takes nothing personally. I have the stomach for it and, if someone else doesn't, they don't have to participate. Of course such a CoC would be excoriated by the mob.
I'll take this change to hype up BirdNET-Pi, a citizen science project where participants run a bird listening station 24/7. The results can be sent to birdweather.com. I'm always kind of shocked that I'm one of only six such stations in the Los Angeles area, and I'd love to see more people sign up.
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Lemmings and Uniracers need sequels, but they won't do it!
yeah it's really good for those kinds of "i'm trying to remember a thing here's a bunch of random details i remember about it what is it?" kinds of queries.
remember laplink?
To put it in perspective Bank of America alone has over 60 million customers.

60 million real people. People that forget a password, lose their wallet, encounter fraud, need to walk into banks occasionally, use debit cards/deal with cash/ATMs, credit cards that are also accepted everywhere, and as you point out financing products people can actually use (not some crazy smart contract DEX who knows what), need help, have questions, etc, etc, etc.

Safety deposit boxes to notary services the list just never ends. This is just retail.

Plus little things like at least trying to comply with the law, customer protections, regulation, oversight, fraud departments, etc.

People that even bring up comparison to the banking or financial system in discussion of bitcoin power usage instantly have zero credibility.

Although the same could be said for almost any comparison between bitcoin and the banking system. It has total users measured in the 7-8 figures tops after 16 years for many valid reason.
I think that having the right to ask companies to tell you what personal data they're storing on you and asking them to delete it is well worth the minor annoyance of dealing with cookie banners, which are largely the result of the industry trying to discredit that regulation, btw (until they became something that can be de facto considered part of the law through adopted practice).

As regards the lesser availability of American tech, I'm sure that's much more limited in China, which coincidentally happens to have the most notable domestic AI industry outside of the US. It's something that economists can be reluctant to admit, but for which there's solid evidence by now afaik, that at least temporary import barriers, if done right, can be a boost to industrial development. The thing that is weird about the EU regulation is that they're putting the same shackles on their domestic tech industry, which is dwarfed by the giant US incumbents who have more resources to invest in compliance than startups (apart from the bits that apparently only target said encumbants that some posters have mentioned here, which I don't know anything about).
I'm super excited by all these new prospects.

With Starship and ..... SLS...... anyway.... coming online I'm extremely excited at the prospects of reusing JWST concepts/tech on larger arrays or larger single mirrors. A whole new upper limit of space telescopes unlocked.
Today, your restaurant's custom website largely doesn't matter, as ordering is done on delivery apps, and people visiting in person look at things like Google Maps reviews. Only reservations are not quite as consolidated yet.

Similarly, in the future, there may be no more "apps" in the way we understand them today, or they may become completely irrelevant if everything can be handled by one general-purpose assistant.
Yes I have, it was a nightmare. The biggest scaling issue was that on a server you must open a new db connection for each request.

There's also little benefit because you still need to track application user data, so you still need a user table.
Depends on a lot of things,
- What is your input : a stream, files, a queue (rabbit, kafka,...)?
- How often do you need to process your input?
- Can you scale at will/need?
- What is the max quantity of data per second you can recieve from your source?
- What is the maximum rate of data your infrastructure can absorb in input?

Usually you try not to update your software config every 5 minutes. You find one that suits best your infrastructure.
> They’re not “real” monopoles, in the sense of individual particles that generate a divergent field but rather a quasi-particle (the collective behavior of many individual atoms producing this overall effect).

Can this be replicated on the macro scale with meta materials?
For me it was the previous data corruption bug [1] that killed any enthusiasm for ZoL. After that annoyances like the caching issues you mention and the constant kernel upgrades breaking DKMS on Fedora just stopped being worth it for me.

I finally moved to btrfs earlier this year, and so far I'm glad I did.

I run raid1 on my primary array, and raid5 on my off-site backup array at my mom's apartment connecting with Tailscale.

Replication is with rsync and borg, not snapshots.

Yes, it's more painful to replace disks after a failure, but once you get a bit used to it, it's really no big deal.

On my main workstation/laptop the dedupe and compression work much better than my experience with ZFS.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16797644
Wow! That's a great project and it's very cool to see all those other murals. You can really see that same style of art in a lot of them. They have a very sturdy feel to them.
thx, corrected :-)
Where do I find my private key?
I look at my kids and then I look at this kind of project and it's promise.

If it works, if we can get fusion and it's promise, then my kids are going to live in a radically different world, and a much better one.

Gone are many of the resource wars, gone are the fears of fission based power, whether it be the waste or refinement, gone are the limitations of the electrical grid due to weather (mostly).

Finally, we'll have electricity too cheap to measure. Finally, they won't have to care about the price of a barrel of oil and how that affects their governments. Finally, they'll have the energy to actually do something about climate change without adding to the problem.

But all these thoughts are going to seem like 'faster horses' to them. Their ideas in a world of nearly free and clean energy are going to make mine seem so very antiquated.

I'm hoping that they are going to live most of their lives in a world just so much better than mine. And I really do think that fusion is one step in that direction.

Something about that makes me just smile.
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OP's point is that the hardware specs are 2-3x higher in many places, but all their benchmarks are 20-30% higher. The article mentions this as well. It means AMD couldn't even utilize their own hardware very well at this point.
This is at the same time as they've announced they're getting rid of encrypting their outgoing messages with PGP! (If you add your public key of course!)

I was always very impressed by this-- every service that sends emails should support this. Even banks don't!
From the article: "In response to public protests over these incidents, President Nixon disbanded the Army Chemical Corp, and took action to ratify the Geneva Protocol to prohibit chemical weapons in war."

After always hearing bad things about Nixon, this came as a surprise. However, I did a little more looking and yes, Nixon did some good things for the environment.
SB is definitely imperfect, but a useful tool in moving toward a trusted boot. I think we'd all agree having a trusted boot sequence is desirable, the point of contention being who gets to decide the criteria for trust. It's been a few years since I worked in the space but I think SB gets a bit of an undeserved bad rep (I'm sure because people were vocal early on). There is a SB signed uefi application that allows for enrolling other loaders based on the hash of the loader.
I was going to write something tongue in cheek but instead I will simply say that your "simple solution" automatically opts you out of a lot of tooling that site operators have grown to find indispensable over the last couple of decades. Compliance with the EU regulations such that you can legally operate a website without a cookie banner establishes a fairly retrograde set of bounds on how you operate your site.

Which is their prerogative[1]. I'm just pointing out that the people who run the EU's official websites aren't able to operate inside those bounds, so it's fair to say those bounds are not commercially reasonable in general for functional sites. QED the banners are de facto required.

1 - The extensive reach of the law is breathtaking. The EU claims jurisdiction over any web property, based anywhere in the world, that might be seen by an EU national.
It also implies that it's harder to program efficiently and is slower on the interconnect.
Ah, here goes the "recycling otherwise wasted electricity" myth again. I just don't buy it from an economics point of view:

Bitcoin miners don't stop mining as soon as literally anybody else needs the electricity – they stop mining as soon as local electricity prices make it uneconomical for them.

In the end, they'll accordingly always contribute to raising prices from the demand side and will at least sometimes be pricing some other consumers out or, worse, raising the electricity price enough for gas turbines to have an economic incentive to start producing. (Renewables have an effectively free marginal cost per joule but are inflexible/unpredictable; gas turbines are expensive but flexible.)

Additionally, some types of hydroelectric plants support variable flow – they can just increase storage levels instead of running their turbines at maximum capacity.
You have to go through all of this and give away your body's code to corps and governments just to learn maybe your grandparents were from some part of the world?
Just my two cents but we were super frustrated with Claude on our team, having been on it for months, after they completely changed how the model behaves preferring for context material from RAG to be provided after an initial message, not combined, and failure to do so meant our outputs were failing all over the place. No warning, they just changed the API behavior. Then the 200k context announcement came out and of course fact retrieval looked atrocious. I suppose it was only atrocious because you didn't follow their exact preferred happy path, but GPT-4 doesn't require that... and we switched to that and are happier for it.
I am curious why it was very difficult for messenger to implement E2EE by default. iMessage has been doing it* (with a giant asterisk because there are flaws in the way Apple markets its E2E on iMessage but in general it has something there). The implementation they're describing on the blog seems very similar to iMessage (keys stored on a server so that syncing is possible

Asides from iMessage, they pretty much have most of this working for WhatsApp from the perspective of the user. The challenges they've mentioned seem like they've mostly been solved in WhatsApp? I could be totally naive here though.
Purchasing a rent license! Yay for newspeak. Rent is rent, purchase is purchase.

Hey, we ended contract with the store were you bought your DVDs. Please return them.
Oh they updated the docs! Then I'll have to give it another look. I tried to make a simple subscription/memoization setup but I couldn't figure it out. They have a lot of keywords/terms (task/flow/etc.) that a bit hard to understand.. and even when you make sense of them isolation it was still a bit unclear how to compose them properly. The resulting code had to specify a lot of things and was more verbose than I had hoped for

I'll be honest, part of the problem is I don't work in the web space. So I don't care for (or completely understand) the things they're looking to solve (ex: server/client sync issues). I just want to have simpler state-management and have changes propagate across my program in a way that makes my life easier :) (think like a "notebook" where you update values and everything gets reevaluated where-needed)
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The newness of the field has nothing to do with it. The internet and tech in general has benefitted from being outside the law and doing all the old illegal sales and marketing techniques, online.

We can get into the weeds on the detail of the law, and we'll find in the end it looks something like where we started with 'common' law.

Law doesn't need to satisfy the majority of people, most don't want or care about what the law says or does. The law needs to secure some core concepts of liberty, freedom and move on.

There's nothing new under the sun, it's a lot of work. Making small changes works better than thinking about an entirely new system.
I think they’re still doing split testing.
The banners drive me absolutely crazy. And I don't care if the authors of the law never intended the banners, policy is judged on is consequences (not it's intent).

Is it possible for the law to be amended so that non-EU citizens can use a browser flag that just says "I'm fine withe the cookies"? That way Europeans can enjoy all the cookie consent clicking and the rest of us can go back to how the web was before?
> This is illegal in France

What is illegal in France?

>Are there public web sites which you can use to get an analysis?

For example, Promethease. Takes you from a SNP array to results in a few minutes.

> How to "bootstrap" the process

The easiest thing you can do is to calculate your HLA/MHC haplotypes and then infer the risk of many common infectious and autoimmune disorders. This region has most of the common associations with biggest effect sizes.

Also easy, filter high quality rare variants and go to something like gnomAD. Then try to find rare ones with a big impact, i.e. those generally linked to Mendelian diseases. It'd be weird to find anything interesting here, as you would already know.

Easy, doable with a SNP array only, no full genome needed. Take some marker SNPs, and calculate your admixture using some topic model, usually LDA. This gives you your ancestry.
> Whatever happened to that infectious, enthusiastic incarnation of wired magazine?

I assume it didn’t make money. I have fond memories of reading PC magazines front to back in the 90s but they’re all gone now. The audience has gone online, to a hundred different blogs or YouTube channels or whatever.
What added overhead?

There's no emulation, just alternative implementation (kernel, drivers, userspace, including Windows APIs with Wine). I don't play and I haven't looked at the results but it does not surprise me that an alternative implementation can perform better.
>Because the manufacturer of a self-driving product

Hold on right there. There is no self-driving product in the picture or in the conversation. Other than one in your imagination maybe. It is a beta which is not yet self driving.

>should be primarily responsible for how it functions.

By your logic, should Toyota pay for all accidents that happen in Toyotas? No, because Toyotas are not fully self driving? I have news for you. Neither are Teslas.

>How exactly is that controversial to you?

Your hypothetical sounds reasonable in theory, but it’s predicated on an imaginary situation that does not exist.
> If you work with videos in machine learning, you generally accept a 6 dimensional tensor (width, height, time, red, green, blue

(Assuming you do work with ML+videos) - it's surprising to hear you say you work with RGB instead of YUV - can you briefly explain how that's the case? I'd have thought that using luma/chroma separation would be much easier to work with (not just with traditional video tooling, but ML/NNs/etc themselves would have an easier time consuming it.
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https://gist.github.com/rincebrain/e23b4a39aba3fadc04db18574... is a great writeup of the actual bug.
To your first point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38553315

Again, folks say the cookie banners are not required, but even the EU web managers are unable to build a site without them. So maybe they are "practically" required for all sites?

> they're putting the exact same shackles on their domestic tech industry

The Digital Markets Act is an attempt to fix this by targeting the American tech companies specifically, without explicitly naming them in the law. I would venture that the DMA is why Gemini isn't available in the EU right now, like it is in the rest of the world where US companies are allowed to do commerce.
CAD$24 or ~US$18 in most of Ontario Canada. But that's every month, so could be 10% or 100% of your bill. But oddly gas stoves and especially gas dryers aren't that common here, despite gas being cheaper than electric (historically, dunno about today).
Shadowrun eventually went free or very cheap on Xbox live… I had fun with it, but free is always appealing. No idea why they used the Shadowrun IP for it.