skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They ended up going with a different platform that's still newer than Power9. It's even bi-endian.

https://www.talospace.com/2023/10/the-next-raptor-openpower-...
Well, that's a multi trillion dollar project that would involve every country in the world. Will never happen.
Well, at least they are doing something. Last time I checked a former US president is still a able to run for office and may actually win again.
Immigration to Boost US GDP by $7T over Decade, CBO Says
On the other hand in the US police routinely kill unarmed people, which seems like it’s much worse for personal freedom. Do you have freedom to consider your rights when doing so gets you self-defenced to death for not cooperating?
Not just perverse incentives, or incentives in general. People have a hard time thinking about second-order effects of all kinds and tend to think quite linearly. They're treating you the same as auras and astrology because they are unable to tell the difference.
Can you share what kind of changes, in your case, improved the performance?
They left out a lot of details in the interview. They never said we'd be working on Christmas Day. They never said we'd be working on the weekends. You can be sure in the future I am explicitly going to ask whether we work on Christmas Day.
gsudo is great! It's got a lot of features for power users, it's got a great community, and I can't recommend it highly enough. There's room here for us to be better together - Sudo for Windows can cover a number of in-box scenarios, with OS-side support for things like GPO, event logging, etc. But then for power users who need access to some of the wilder features of gsudo (running as TrustedInstaller?), that's always available too.
Execute the function correctly, or the Princess will have you executed.
I do care about big iron, about open hardware, but... I do not have the financial firepower to help developing a computer architecture, and buying expensive iron with limited software support is not much interesting. At least if some major distro do support OpenPower as a tier-1 arch, meaning almost all packages are there, updated at the same speed (almost, at least) of amd64 well... I can buy a classic workstation and making that a main personal desktop. I can't do much more otherwise...

PS while I prize and want open hardware I really doubt it can really be auditable at hw level, at least for most owners, even if technically well skilled. Projects of a certain size can be known only if they are FLOSS from the first SLoC in a way a spread community born around them, knowing them from the start and passing knowledge.
Balzac didn't dare: Tom Crewe on the origins of the gay novel
You completely sidestepped their criticism of Google’s Chromium dominance, which will only be exacerbated by Chromium engines being able to enter the last bastion Google needs to conquer: iOS.

I’ll leave in the middle any value judgment on whether that warrants blocking other engines. Still, it must be pointed out that you sidestepped it and then held up a shiny new topic before pulling a whataboutism.

> The issue is that because there is no browser competition on iOS, Apple doesn't need to fear losing market share. That in turn ensures they have no reason to invest in Safari or web apps.

And yet, they did invest in Safari and specifically in supporting web apps. So, what was the incentive? Or are you going to follow up your cynicism with something along the lines of “they want to evade regulation”?

> Apple has the staff and the budget to make a decent browser and to ensure web apps work, they don't because they don't want anyone competing with their AppStore or their 20b/year google search revenue.

Talk about a poor take.

This is not true. Since Jen Simmons joined Apple in 2020, Apple has made considerable strides in improving Safari and WebKit and added significant support for web apps.

They’ve consistently scored high on the annual Interop score, if not outright lead the pack at the top, and every update continues to add heaps of improvements.

People in the industry who can see past the trite “Apple bad, Safari sucks” mantra also acknowledge this: https://www.threads.net/@syntax_fm/post/C22hyslOABy/

Your choice to name-drop OWA to produce a fallacious argument from authority followed by poor takes ensures I won’t bother taking OWA seriously when it’s mentioned in the future.
This resonates a lot with me (someone with ADHD) great explanation.
Don't try to sneak an Apple Vision Pro into Germany,the import cops will nab you
Yes there's some of loss of the sense of absolute democratic
purity. But then Aristotle saw that tradeoff against real polity quite
some time back.

I think your point (that people ought to be smart and strong enough to
withstand all and any malign influence(?)) made a lot more sense 20
years ago. In the Internet and AI influence age I think things have
significantly changed. It's the integrity of the democratic process
rather than the "soft skills" that requires a little more protection.
Hardware Decimal floating point is very useful, both for legacy and new financial systems and some numerical problems you need improved stability on.
So for some reason I stumbled upon asking Bard/GPT for a reccomendation of a biography on Gregory of Nyssaa as a test, I wast looking for one but it turns out there really isn't on, at least in English. This gives them the tendency to Hallunicate. Sure enough tried on Gemini and get a fictional biography Saint Gregory of Nyssa: An Intellectual Biography by Rowan Williams (The former Archbishop of Canterbury). I think it's making this up based on the book
St Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography but that is by John McGurkin.
The other ones it recommends are Gregory of Nyssa by Lewis Ayers (A real author, no such book), Gregory of Nyssa: The Life and Works of a Cappadocian Father, and Gregory of Nyssa: Asceticism and Anthropology by Sarah Coakley. This last one is the closest to actually existing since she edited the book Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa which is a collection of essays on him.

So it didn't make up any authors at least, but did make up some books. It will happily make up ISBNs for them if I ask and even provide links to Amazon, that of course go to other books.

Asking for a book about any other figure notable enough to have a Wikipedia page but obscure enough to not have any existing book written about them will do the same thing, I tried it out with multiple signers of the Declaration of Independence for instance.
If Mozilla is truly going to be taking privacy seriously, they should start by reading the Firefox Privacy Notice:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/

Firefox could then be modified to remove the need to mention "Google", "Microsoft", "DuckDuckGo", "eBay", "our partners", "our third-party ad platform", "a third-party referral platform", "our campaign marketing vendors", "sends Mozilla", and any other companies/organizations/third-parties we find referenced in that document.

A privacy-respecting browser would never collect nor send any data beyond that necessary to provide its core web browsing functionality.

Any functionality that might compromise a user's privacy should not be bundled by default, and would instead have to be explicitly opted into by manually installing an extension that provides such functionality. This would include Firefox's/Mozilla's own "telemetry".
It is common for liberty-oriented officials to put their own home into an LLC and have an appointed officer/manager as the public-facing contact.

I am quite sure that rich and powerful people will do some decent but firm pushback if FinCen goes too far in making records public.

Edited: replaced 'privacy-oriented' with 'liberty-oriented' in light of Bruce Schneier's blog.
I think crossing the chasm resonates more for a later stage, rather than just for getting started. I read it and felt like it really applied a lot more to my experience at a multi-hundred person company trying to become sustainable and public.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100825182626/http://money.cnn....

https://fortune.com/2010/08/23/inside-the-secret-world-of-tr...
Great idea! I recently heard of a family that leased an expensive home (in Atherton) that was immediately adjacent to a public elementary school. They assumed it was zoned for the school that it abutted, but learned after trying to enroll their kids they discovered it was not. When you look at the district map, you can see that it extends quite a bit into Atherton, and there are many homes that are much farther away from the school that are zoned for it. Good thing they were just leasing, and hadn't bought!
The Talos stuff is cool but it's priced way too high for anyone who isn't taking a business expense tax deduction for it. Especially post 2020, the pricing for their products has gone way up.

It's what, $6000 for the 4-core, 8GB memory entry level model?

I know it isn't that insane considering what new and used POWER servers cost, but also is anyone using these who isn't locked into AIX or IBM i? Is there any real reason to use POWER when priced against commodity AMD64 machines?
> It seems like they're targeting the symptom instead of the problem.

I believe this is a quickly adopted band-aid in response to the recent political scam calls that pretended to be President Biden telling voters to skip voting in the primary.

It is going to be an interesting year.
They stopping printing phone books because everything is online.

Google your name and you’ll likely find much more information than the white pages ever had. I found an old email address of mine from the 90s that is long gone, every place I’ve ever lived, relationships to various family members, my parent’s address dating back decades, even my grandfathers last couple addresses and he’s been dead for over 20 years.

About 10 years ago someone on eBay tried to pull something on me and I was trying to figure out what I was dealing with. Within 45 minutes I had his name, parent’s names, phone number, and their address. I didn’t do anything with it, but it wasn’t that hard to find, with nothing more than a username or email address.
I honestly find this to be unforgivable it should have been obvious early on by how fast the virus spread that it was airborne and many people died because policy and guidelines were set up around a contact spread model. IMO I think it's better to run with worst case scenario early on and then relax guidelines once proven to be less transmissible than to pretend a deadly virus is not airborne when the spread obviously points towards it.
I'm trying to go smartphone-less, but a major blocker are services that rely on apps that are critical to my life, e.g. banking, insurance, transport. Some of these services don't even have alternatives and you MUST use an Android/iPhone to do basic operations like transferring money, logging in, or showing your ticket.

Now that I mention it, it seems like the critical functionality that these apps provide are usually just credential holders, e.g. ticket / card, MFA auth that happen to be locked in a proprietary app. I really hope more services adopt standard credential/authentication mechanisms.

Anyone happen to know a list of services, e.g. banking (US/EU-based) that don't require an app these days?
OpenAI's New Watermark Will Make Our Fake Image Problems Worse
I'm sort of charmed the author directly replied. Thank you for your work. I'm not an arty or missile SME, but, speaking as humbly as possible, I am one in the realm[0] of technical publications, IETMs[1], specs and such.

[0] I keep my sanity by staying grounded in lightweight markup and developer tools - there's really nothing you do in the Big XML world that you can't do in vanilla Asciidoc on standard tooling.

[1] Real hard for me to not put that acronym in quotes. The IETM as a thing is a bit of an open joke. Each IETM implementation is basically a completely nonstandard, homebrewed content browser. Think if you went back in time to Ted Nelson's Xanadu, and then just had every single hardware manufacturer go absolutely nuts making their own idea of what that means. Then you make up "IETM Levels" of capability defined by total non-sequiturs.
But Apple said their App Store is so safe that you do not need to worry about these kind of scams
I am neither a physicist nor a mathematician, but this looks like an awesome undertaking that will benefit both communities! :)
How much of the bad fit is due to their misrepresentation of the role, vs. how much is due to your, ah, "optimistic naivety", vs. how much is due to "this role/team/organization is just plain dystopian"?

Not that you'd want to talk up any of those in a future interview...but there are often ways to allude / hint / talk between the lines. And obviously you want to be sure that you don't repeat the mistake.
We need a new form factor that allows a small motherboard to be parallel to a back-mounted GPU/PCIe. This is what people are already trying to do with SFF cases and those wonky PCIe cables/boards.
They did the same with Wakanim, a french streaming service. Its catalog is now part of crunchyroll.
Imo standups shouldn't have more than 5 or 6 people in them. If there's more than that you're probably not all working closely enough for the standup to provide much value - find some nice cutting point in the project, split into smaller teams.
This is really cool. Can also serve as a Rosetta Stone for physicists wanting to better understand the language of mathematicians.
Google's competitive advantage is threefold:

1. Real estate - Youtube, Gmail, Maps, Search (for now), etc.
2. Compute - probably still the best in the industry, but with recent Microsoft/meta compute buys it's hard to say for sure.
3. Talent - probably also still the top of the industry. Geoff Hinton and Zoubin Gharamani setting direction and Jeff Dean building it is hard to beat, and the ranks are deep. Yann LeCunn is also brilliant and Andrej Karpathy while less seasoned is one of the top researchers in the field, but overall there's still a bit of a spread from Google's roster, at least when it comes to AI researchers.

If Sundar and the other top brass weren't MBA-bots with no vision, and the famous Google bureaucracy had been reigned in gradually over the last 5 years while promoting a builder-centric culture, this would be in the bag for Google no question. Instead, Satya Nadella played 3D chess while Sundar was looking at a checkers board.
The Dutch also have a law that they cannot involve a civilian in long term observation for more than a year and then they need to provide them with a contract in advance but they don’t give a shit. I know that they have kept this up for more than 10 years and is not left at surveillance but also involves harassment and criminal offences. And also against none criminally involved people.

They have their laws and they have what they do. The laws are just to pacify people. But they are structurally ignored.
I also get very few spam calls, but I ended up buying Verizon's thing that prevents spam calls. It is all a scam but before signing up I got a ton of spam.

(What makes me sad is that I mostly use Google Voice; and that blocks spam pretty well. But people can still call my actual mobile number by guessing it, and they do.)

Google Voice has gotten somewhat difficult recently because some API-to-SMS services consider it "VOIP", and so they flat-out refuse to send text messages. Some places do this on purpose (Discord won't let me use it for 2FA because 2FA is really their anti-spam mechanism, not a security feature), and some places do it by accident (I couldn't add my Fidelity FSA debit card to Apple Pay because it simply won't send the verification code to my number on file). So some people have my "real" phone number now and it makes me sad, but that's why they call it the Internet Of Shit. (I don't even WANT SMS 2FA. Less secure than making your password 1234. Harder to use than a Nomad. Please let me use my Yubikey or a Passkey.)
They are looking for an invitation to be able to post and comment not the site url.
I think Google lost the top researchers when they destroyed the culture. All the competitor companies are mainly led by ex-Google talent, and honestly who in their right mind would take a Google job today over OpenAI, Mistral, or even Meta (where you will be releasing models like Llama for the world to use).

Google killed the culture and is bleeding top talent. They have reduced themselves to digital landlord and sure they can extract rent, but that’s not what attracts people.
If a company is serious about making POWER based SBCs or motherboards that are affordable yet fast enough for enthusiasts (no ECC, commonly used components), there would be a lot more interest. The price is what would make me turn away from POWER, as much as I love it and the ability for it to be based on completely open hardware. Someone with a lot of new ideas and a lot of energy doing something crazy like x86 binary translation or a Cell-styled CPU would also bring more attention to the platform.

RISC-V built a lot of traction very fast and was affordable and is now starting to be competitive with ARM, so it has different circumstances around it.

There's a group developing a POWER based laptop with a quad-core NXP processor, I've been watching them since 2020 and they've made some pretty good progress. It even has an MXM3 slot for adding a dedicated video card.

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/
I don't agree. I made friends and noticed other cliques of friends on forums like GBATemp over a decade ago.

Regular visitors knew each other after seeing the other users' posts, there are in-jokes, and it's not so different. I would say HN is less self-centered (we don't have unique avatars or signatures) than many old-school forums were. Friendships are less likely to be formed here.
There are audio players that allows you to find radios by various criterias: genre, bitrates, location, etc.

I don't think it is hard in term of UI nor does it justify a different app when you can have an additionnal tab that allows to find podcast. You just have to change the criterias.

Subscription to podcast is done via rss right? I don't think that is a huge deal either.
This is a 2021 paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3958426 [Deepfake Fight: AI-Powered Disinformation and Perfidy Under the Geneva Conventions]

Maybe there's something in the citations.
Baruch Spinoza and the art of thinking in dangerous times
Your metric is too simplistic. I'm not an expert in 1933 German politics, but the Russian state is quite involved in engineering the appearance of political choice. The FSB and friends ("siloviki") do hands-on screening of candidates from KPRF, LDPR, etc. and coercing of voters (using the "administrative resource" as they call it) and fabricating election results. The Duma has been nearly 100% ER and friends for a very long time now - representatives ("deputies") who don't fall in line are ejected, prosecuted, and sent to prison. The same thing happens with gubernatorial elections (which are a much more obvious sham as they don't have even an appearance of being binding) and local assembly elections as needed (sometimes leading to hilarious/tragic results as the FSB realizes that a particular assembly has gotten too independent).
https://web.archive.org/web/20170610000147/https://www.nytim...
Khrushchev also gifted Crimea to Ukraine under somewhat questionable circumstances.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_Crimea_in_the_Sovi...
I didn't know it is such a divisive point. You can be perfectly very traditionally religious, but be aware that today's authoritarianism tries to appeal to you. I know first hand.

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I will add something. Religious tradition can be a great source and motivator to uphold human values. Let's focus on that.

I propose we move away from the concept of conservatism, as I get the feeling that for the US audience this is too political. Rather, let us answer the question whether we want to do good for our neighbour.
The paradox of bounds checking is that it both rarely matters and always matters.
Definitely wanting the job is separate from can do the job, although to be honest, I would be happy to get paid $6+ million for the job "Fail to turn around Mozilla". Heck, I'd be willing to do it for 10% of that compensation.
I haven't said that it makes search obsolete but all the concepts of SEO/SEM and the stuff around search engines could be significantly reduced with chat prompts.
I didn’t accuse you of using the term homophobe (though, now you’re calling him a bigot in the same vain). I was speaking about the how author of this article is using rhetoric is divisive and rude, and how “homophobe” in this context is an anti-Christian slur (Eich is Roman Catholic). That is the argument I’m trying to make. I have not argued the merits of his beliefs.
There presumably was a time when Google considered going more into the “assistant” branding. They own assistant.ai but they don’t do much with it.
https://archive.ph/2024.02.05-142256/https://www.newyorker.c...
There have been stylometry tools built on HN content that will attempt to link accounts to other accounts based on your writing style.

Some people reported it found their old/alt accounts.
Unleashing the Power of Preemptive Priority-Based Scheduling for RT GPU Tasks
... Do you seriously think Russia in 2024 can't do 1956 level tech?
Good points, I concede for some users and perhaps the majority there is progress.

(For me - and probably many others - though I use 1password since the beginning, have 50 tabs open so sync is a challenge and never understood to use the profiles, perhaps I'm too stupid or the UI is bad)

When it came out I thought profiles was a good idea, eager to use it, but it's often difficult to say what is in what profile. AWS is clear, and banking, but reading some articles? For me to work the UI would need to be smooth so I don't need to switch profiles just because something is in the other. Perhaps I'm not focused enough ;-) It then was too complicated for me to use and switch and I dropped it.

Writing this in FF, where would I need to click to switch profiles? I have a drop down on the right (it's not in there), I have a drop down on the left (also no profiles), I have a menu at the top(can't find it there) and a drop down in my sidebar (no profiles in there).
> As it is often said in various designer forums, please avoid pure white (#FFFFFF) on black (here #111111), as it makes the text glow for the human eyes (therefore making it unreadable for long text). Instead, try to lower a bit the contrast on the text color.

If you want an objective measure for this, see APCA:
https://www.myndex.com/APCA/?BG=000000&TXT=ffffff&DEV=G4g&BU...

From https://git.apcacontrast.com/documentation/APCA_in_a_Nutshel...: "Lc 90 is a suggested maximum for very large and bold fonts (greater than 36px bold), and large areas of color". White on black scores Lc 108.

It's the likely future replacement for the standard WCAG2 contrast checker (which becomes really inaccurate for dark mode and I don't think makes any suggestion about maximum contrast).
You can watch it live on the BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-68237950
I'll have to look into whether there's some public API to pull cpubenchmark score as I agree, it'd be immensely useful.

To your other point, EPYC and Threadripper are listed now:

https://www.cpuscout.com/?Processor+Type=Epyc

https://www.cpuscout.com/?Processor+Model=AMD%2520Ryzen%2520...