skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complete opposite of the direction things have been moving in. Unless you're arguing that something that does general purpose computation, but also has special hardware/instructions to accelerate certain tasks, is no longer a CPU (in which case we haven't used CPUs for a while now, hardware accelerated encryption has
been essentially standard on most CPUs for a while).
I think you'd have a pretty difficult time constructing a history of morality that doesn't involve what we refer to as "religion." Certainly that doesn't mean that all religious beliefs are good or justifiable, but that isn't what I claimed, either. I just claimed they were the foundation.
Religious norms and laws were the same for much of history. You could get stoned for adultery for a good while... The decoupling of the two is a pretty recent phenomenon.

For a while after, religious and secular norms still provided a fairly rigid template for how you're supposed to behave, but we dismantled a lot of that too. For good reasons, just with a lot of unforeseen consequences.

I don't think the phenomenon you're describing is a matter of replacing the old system with something completely different. The laws we're passing are a consequence of belief systems too. One of the beliefs is that businesses are inherently greedy / immoral / destructive. Another is that individuals are. For people who see the world that way, these beliefs are unfalsifiable, just like the belief in an adultery-hating god.
Hmm...so if something did need to happen, pijul would also reject and I would have to pull, do the local edits until everything is consistent and then push, just like git.

So it's a low-impact optimization of the fast path?

But actually, how does pijul know there are no conflicts? Textually?

https://pijul.org/manual/conflicts.html

Hmmm...yeah looks like it's purely textual. Er, no. There can be semantic conflicts that I need to resolve that do not conflict textually. The test suite needs to be green locally on my machine, and then we replace the Top of Tree wholesale with the code that passed the tests locally on my machine.

So to me this feature of pijul is clearly an anti-feature, a bug, and the git behavior is correct.
We use Gerrit internally and use GitHub as a pseudo-mirror. We allow (and welcome!) community contributions to GitHub via PRs.

Our internal Changelists in Gerrit get synced to GitHub as those PRs you are seeing (the branch names correspond to Gerrit change-ids), and any community PRs get copied to our Gerrit first before going through CI and then being merged and synced with GitHub.
It’s not ‘if’ but ‘when’ persistence becomes suboptimal. If you move too early you’ll collect fewer berries.
it's worth it, good product
Rebellion can mean a lot of different things. Mostly it amounts to opposition in a fairly superficial sense. Different clothes, different haircut, different music, maybe some intentional bad choices... But although these things are high-visibility, they're not that fundamental to identity and culture. It's rare for kids to completely cut ties with the fundamentals (i.e. all the things you mention) of their parents, particularly now when kids are still dependent on their parents for longer into adulthood.
Thr landing page on ai.google.com seems to be machine translated, for Huggingface it uses the literal German translation (Umarmungen Gesicht)
> it's just fine

yes and no, the basics are pretty good... but as you mentioned there are some insidious effects from the centralized platforms themselves that weren't as broad reaching in earlier technologies; instagram promoting content that makes teens girls spiral into feeling terrible about themselves, youtube radicalizing incels, etc

then there's the monetization aspect that's leading kids to say things like they want to aspire to become youtubers when they grow up
It's easier than that. You access the asteroid, the prices drop.
The video is about a RISC (as in the category of ISA, not an implementation thereof such as RISC-V) core that AMD used internally well over 20 years ago, not a currently in dev RISC-V core (as in an implementation of RISC, and not the category of ISA).
There is a decent (<50%, >20%) chance that frontier foundation models are less oligopoly like than it seems. The reason is that there are so many levers to pull, so much low hanging fruit.

For example:
* Read the Bloomberg GPT paper - they create their own tokenizer. For specialized domains (finance, law, medicine, etc) the vocabulary is very different and there is likely a lot to do here, where individual tokens really need to map to specific concepts and having a concept capture in several tokens makes it too hard to learn on limited domain data.
* Data - so many ways to do different data - more/less, cleaner, "better" on some dimension.
* Read the recent papers on different decoding strategies - there seems to be a lot to do here.
* Model architecture (SSM etc). If you speak to people who aren't even researchers, they have 10 ideas around architecture and some of them are decent sounding ideas - lots of low hanging fruit.
* System architecture - ie likely to see more and more "models" served via API which are actually systems of several model calls, and there is a lot to do here.
* Hardware, lower precision etc likely to make training much cheaper

It's reasonably likely (again, guessing < 50% > 20%) that this large set of levers to pull become ways to see constant leap-frogging for years and years. Or, at least they become choices/trade-offs rather than strictly "better".
> .yaml is the preferred extension, .yml is dated

Is this really true? Basically every project I've ever cloned or set up that relied on YAML still uses .yml as the extension.
In some cases, the customers are interested in paying for a place that will remind them (a degree of accountability).

Think 'japanese school kids clean their school'.

I'm guessing those places will also have exceptionally polite and motivated customers, but may be overly structured and difficult to do oddball things in.
I think that specific subquestion is an interesting one for sure (whether guilt has been replaced by strong authority, like it's not wrong unless you're caught and punished).

I'd love to see how it trends with factors like responsiveness in the political system (Canada vs the USA vs Russia or whatever), wealth inequality and social mobility (both between and within classes), softer things like expectations of "honor", etc.
> rom a use case perspective, could someone help me understand why a developer would adopt something like this over a database like Clickhouse, outside of some fintech use cases where milliseconds of latency really matter?

Concurrency. ClickHouse works best with a relatively small number of concurrent queries: hundreds to low thousands, not 10s of thousands or more. That allows each query to hog more resources and get done quickly.
It is a dead end path. They probably are exploring multiple paths in parallel. ein0p claimed that their progress down the dead-end path is evidence that they are making good progress down the productive path. It isn’t. That’s all I’m pointing out.

Don’t read more into the post than that. I’m not going to defend an affirmative claim that they aren’t making progress. They have a ton of engineers and are willing to invest in the field, so it is entirely plausible to believe that they’ll catch up.
A caveat: my impression of Phi-2, based on my own use and others’ experiences online, is that these benchmarks do not remotely resemble reality. The model is a paper tiger that is unable to perform almost any real-world task because it’s been fed so heavily with almost exclusively synthetic data targeted towards improving benchmark performance.
Building Business Services in Rust
Wow, finally!
> Classical mechanics for example, we can safely say we've got that pretty much locked down and know what it's good for and where we need to apply other methodologies

Yet even classical mechanics holds some surprising mysteries, such as how bicycles self-stabilize [1].

[1] https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/ex-l...
The manufacturer should maintain a root cert that can be used. If that root cert is compromised then they should have a way of rotating keys if the vehicle and physical keys are present. Breaches then constitute what amounts to a software recall, putting the onus on the manufacturer to report them or be held liable for thefts. The recall notice puts the liability on the driver to have their vehicle updated (for free) in a timely fashion.
How does this compare to http://flexipl.info/

Iirc backend and goals seem quite similar.
This. MistralAI is also underdog and released Mitral 7b and Mixtral 8x7b, but as soon as they got traction, they closed their models (e.g., Mistral Medium).
This is like the reverse of the Trojan Room Coffee pot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
You can do this in uBlock Origin too, saves needing to install another extension (as I assume most of us already have it installed)
> Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card?

Many times people who steal credit cards will try to make small purchases to validate cards. Since there is no human interaction someone who has stolen ~10 cards could try each one by buying a $1-2 coffee and seeing which ones work. The machine takes photos which could then be turned over if/when the card holder reports fraud.
You can approximate extremely fast moving bullets with rays that are large and don't move at all. Which, thinking of it, is definitely a game programming design pattern.
That makes at least two of us then.
I would really love to see a v1.0 release. That is a big milestone to wider adoption and possible investments that follow.
This. Owning cars should be something that corporations and the rich and hobbyists do. If you dont want your car broken into maybe dont leave it lying around unattended in public?
Please clearly label the posts as being from your bot. Some bot posts are useful, like when someone asks what product solves X. If yours are clearly labeled, people will upvote posts that are actually contributing to the discussion and you'll be able to optimize for that and be useful. The majority of bots make the world worse, though.
> Why is a camera involved in purchasing coffee with a card? Genuine question. Was there an issue of people stealing coffee cards, so they used facial-ID matching?

There's huge loss/fraud prevention value in creating visual audit trails.

You don't need to do facial ID matching to recognize recurring theft. You just need a historical photo to correlate who used a card (that you subsequently might learn was a fraudulent charge).

Same way CCTV cameras are used in retail.
Sounds like they had some rich parents to bail them out. I highly doubt they had court in less than a week.
That is highly interesting and contrary to a number of reports I've read about the Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series (and experienced for myself) specifically! Can you share more details about your particular setup and methodology? (Specific model name/capacity, Firmware release, Kernel version, filesystem, mkfs and mount options, any relevant block layer funny business you are conciously setting would be of greatest interest.) Do you have more than one drive where this can happen?
This is not a tenable position. Most cars are older than these devices- and even big tech co's like Apple were late to patch flipper vulnerabilities. I was on a plane last month and someone was flipper-jamming DOS-ing via continual bluetooth connection requests and completely bricked all iOS devices in range for the 4 hour flight.

These sort of devices are nuisances with very low positive utility, and there is plenty of precedence for banning them.
If so it should be faced at the ground if that were the case. But that would require privacy considerations by engineers who design cameras into their hardware :/
The author isn't blaming kids, but is falling into the same trap as previous "back in my day" types of focusing on cultural trappings rather than material conditions.

I didn't say the author was being disrespectful to anyone; I guess I should have added more caveats or something but I was just trying to describe my preference.
To lessen the cost of the first step that begins The Thousand Mile Journey: I plan to do everything at least twice. Leave room for failure in the prediction to (at least partially) avoid the planning fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy (if you haven't encountered this one weird quirk yet, it's a must read/skim). I believe most mammals tend toward optimism... They naturally have less fear of doomed endeavors.

I had an essay on Emergent Design Principles around here somewhere... For instance, I do a quick and dirty stab in the dark to map the problem space. Then totally rewrite and refactor now that I can make a more educated guess. Right then I generate the API and all (public function stubs), organizing and documenting everything. Management will demand I "ship it" without full docs and full of kluges otherwise...

I'll save the rest of that for a more on-topic thread. The gist is that procrastination can be countered by allotting time to play around in the problem space (incorporate procrastination into workflow -- can't beat it, join it). At worse I try a deliberate attempt at failure (well I knew it wouldn't have worked, but it would have been cool if it had), and at least I got myself into "code mode" doing something at all. No fear of failure, since I planned to fail that time anyway. Then I'll at least know a bit better the "lay of the land" (problem space features to fit against). It's oft the first step for me that's the hardest.

My favorite trick is to have at least one side project that I work on as procrastination of doing main projects. Without fail I'll be worrying about the main project enough that I'll realize some side-project procrastination-code I've just written shows an elegant way forward in the main project and I can no longer resist the urge to see it in action. At the least I'll be making some manner of progress, and getting closer to that "Zen" state wherein I do my main project work.
There's a conflict of interest on the part of car manufacturers, if insurance just pays out and they get to do another sale, they're happy that your car got stolen.

Also, I agree with the main point of the article, but it shouldn't be so easy for any 16yo Tom, Dick or Harry to buy a gadget and start stealing cars. If it's so easy to make with off the shelf parts, then let the 'security experts' create their own.

Consumers need to be educated about keeping their keys away from doors/in a faraday cage.
In a previous HN discussion there was a link to some application that you could use (at least on a Mx mac, but possibly on more platforms) to run these free public models locally.

Of course I closed the tab and lost it. Yay for using lingering tabs as a "to check later" list.

Can anyone repost the app name(s) please?
Just to help not spread misinformation, the 12 year old was released as he was a passenger and police believe he was forced by the driver (his brother) into the car.

The 13 year old driver was not released and will remain in jail until his trial.
>while a flipper zero can be used for instructional purposes and research.

Only in the same way a weapon can be used for instructional purposes and research. Someone buying an off the shelf product and using it in the way it was intended isn't doing research except in the loosest sense of the word. E.g. "Does the radio transmission open this garage door? Does it open this garage door? Does it open this garage door?" v "Does this rock swung hard cave in this skull? Does it cave in this skull? Does it cave in this skull?"
You are assuming US rules here, invasive monitoring of employees can be illegal in other countries.
Requires iOS 17 so my still-perfectly-functional iPhone 8 Plus is excluded.
The idea that guilt has been replaced by a strong authority sounds like a more precise framing of what I'm talking about, definitely.
> this is exclusivity on individual customers.

Yes, individual customers who choose to buy an iPhone. It’s not like Apple is the only phone manufacturer in the world, and the iPhone is only barely dominant in the United States. There is plenty of competition for the iPhone. If you don’t like the iPhone and its singular App Store, go buy an Android phone.

What you want is an iPhone on your terms. Sorry, that’s not how the market works.
There was a point in the US where encryption was barred from export based on arms export laws. Lots a pretty famous open source stories from such. So it's not far fetched at all for the most part.

Though this is in US law, not Canada as related to the news story.
Electric wake sport boat with 570hp, 226kWh
This is an abomination and I very sincerely hope it fails. It's a "good idea" in the same way that scamming old people is - you might be able to make some money off it if your sense of ethics is so twisted that you can convince yourself you aren't a horrible person for doing it.
Why put all Western countries into the same bucket? Car theft is much more prevalent in the US than Germany, for example.
You mean like how fentanyl is a banned substance so nobody sell- oh wait...
It's a voip service isn't it? Those numbers will not work with many online services and even some more obscure normal providers.
This is a great question! For some added context, this is the tool that bootstraps the developer environment. It installs Nix and Homebrew, configures the PostgreSQL service, and so on. I also work on developer UX full time, so I had hoped code signing would be a way to make the developer experience smooth and seamless (we already pay Apple for the signing certs, after all!).

> in an internal, trusted environment, why not post a "curl ... | sh" command?

It's internal code, so we can't use a public (e.g.) GitHub URL, and developers running this tool may not yet have SSH keys or the VPN set up yet.

> point them at the master/main.zip of the repo

Basically the same issue -- developers would have to install a Rust toolchain and compile the code themselves.

> Alternatively, since you're already using nixpkgs, that contains some wrappers and examples for signing Darwin binaries.

It would! But this tool is what developers use to install and configure Nix in the first place, so it's not a great fit here. (Although we do have it packaged in Nix for users that already have Nix installed.)
I would argue it's the opposite.

"Maybe killing people is bad. How do we get people to not do that? Tell them god said not to!"

It starts from the ethical perspective, and uses religion as the blunt hammer to drive it into the masses.
In my experience, these markets can overlap but don’t necessarily always do so.

I message everyone via iMessage, and while I enjoy the feeling of security from the blue bubble it’s not a must-have for me. Signal on the other hand seems like a must-have for many people living under oppressive regimes or whose data is significantly more valuable than mine.

I am one data point, but that’s what I’ve noticed in my bubble.
Since it's a scandal, it worked until it didn't.

And AFAICT "the computer did it" wasn't the argument, it was "the computer did it so it must be correct because the experts said so".
The video can also be subpoenad and used to support the labor side of a lawsuit.
The reality is that if you can’t deploy force in support of your ‘ethical norms’ and you live in a pluralistic society, both of which are true of the US and Canada - then you have to resort to the law.

> Instead of discussing how car theft is fundamentally an unethical behavior, the discussion is about preventing some thing from being sold or existing, whether that be insecure vehicles or Flipper Zeroes. It's designing the playground so that kids can't get hurt, not teaching them how to play responsibly.

…okay? I am still left with the question of “what do we do” and how do we do it without leveraging a legal apparatus.

Surprised this is the top comment, it seems sort of inane and faux-deep.
Can these not be scanned using a laser as opposed to a fully fledged video camera?
It‘s not breaking the rules. You‘re breaking the rules.

Stop harassing people!
Locksmiths can make new key fobs for nearly any car with access to the OBD2 port and the right software (though I don’t know if it requires a connection to the manufacturer)
The fallout from this isn't done yet.
> Yes but that would have meant giving up sales in exchange for actually backing up their words.

I saw that you moved the goalposts in your reply, but anyway: which words?

> They aren’t even going to use the developed encrypted RCS protocol.

The protocol that was designed by Google and in which Google’s infrastructure is crucial? It’s not Apple’s fault that RCS does not have mandatory end-to-end encryption.

> I have intimate experience here with them both openly lying and purposefully deceiving their user base in this case.

Do you mean that they lied to you personnally? You should write about that, it sounds much more interesting.
The problem is that I think these hands free remote start locks are more expensive than actual real physical locks which are immune to the types of attacks so that argument just actually doesnt work at all.
Something else that struck me, they said of the ~500 participants, about half of them scored as having a clinical diagnosis of ADHD using some black-box test of 6 self-reported questions.

Given that ADHD diagnoses are about 5% of the global population, something incredibly hinky is going on here.
I get that, but how does that help with overloaded servers? Unless the friend code is actually an IP address for peer to peer networking (which is rare in online games because of cheating), it still has to go through some central server.

At a minimum, the server would connect the tokens to players in a database. But usually I think they do more than that, such as hosting lobbies, punching through NAT, and in many cases, actually hosting the games themselves and being the authority for all the state.

In that case I don't see how tokens would save any load over matchmaking.
They have a bit about their technical foundation here[0].

Given that Readyset was co-founded by Jon Gjengset (but has apparently since departed the company), who authored the paper on Noria[1], I would assume that Readyset is the continuation of that research. I wouldn't call that "just" incremental view maintenance, as it's a lot more involved than the simplest implementation of IVM (though obviously that is the end-goal).

So it shares some roots with Materialize. They have a common conceptual ancestry in Naiad, where Materialize evolved out of timely-dataflow.

[0]: https://docs.readyset.io/concepts/streaming-dataflow

[1]: https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/papers/osdi18-noria.pdf

[2]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2517349.2522738

[3]: https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow
And same counter-argument: those who are more likely to abuse tools are less likely to care about the legal status of said tool (they will illegally import or DIY the tools).
> What do we know about computer security and physical access? If I can touch the machine, I can hack and own it.

You are damn good then :)

One can protect against such that's by using well placed cryptography.
Banning either is silly. Locks on things in the physical world can only be a deterrent because physical objects are subject to much easier brute force attacks than a problem in the digital world is. If you forced automakers to make their digital keys more secure, it wouldn't improve security, because you could still winch the whole car on to a rental trailer in 30 seconds.

The Kia Boys notwithstanding, basically all cars that are stolen these days are either stolen with the keys, or towed.
There are many conditions that confer a narrow fitness advantage and have significant disadvantages too: sickle cell anemia (malaria resistance), diabetes (cold tolerance) are two I can think of off the top of my head.

Here's an interesting book on the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_Sickest_(book)