skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The purpose of my comment is to point out that we all like consuming energy and carbon emissions, and that too much energy or carbon emissions is always consumed by someone else. So is a 5k sq ft lot too much to live on? A 10k sq ft lot? 20k?

In order of impact, reducing energy consumption/carbon emissions on individual level is

0) suicide
1) not having children
2) having a smaller earth surface area footprint
3) traveling less
4) buying less material things, including smaller vehicles in which to travel

At the end of the day, we can’t escape basic physics. Energy = mass * acceleration * distance. The less mass and the less distance you move the mass, the less energy you consume and hence less carbon emissions you produce.
>the world becomes exponentially more polluted. ... The world is becoming a toxic shithole.

I would strongly advise easing off on your intake of mainstream news media, the real world is quite pleasant out here.
I use it in a workstation setting. Two workstation settings in fact.

I dock at home into a dual monitor setup.

I go to work and dock into a dual monitor setup.

I keep my MacBook open, not closed.

Pretty much all my coworkers do the same. All with Apple silicon MacBook pros. No idea what you’re talking about.

I believe you — I just think you need to do a deeper dive into your kit instead of assuming the rest of the world must be wrong about these machines.
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders to Serve on AI Safety Board
https://archive.ph/Ofjni
First patient to undergo combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant
Just imagine that is:

- docker image
- vscode preibstalled
- and everything used the same programming language.
Toronto is getting 'supertall' towers – is it a good thing?
I don't see how this would help. Such protocols may not even be written down, but rather implicitly passed from mentors to mentees in security agencies. I am all for government transparency, but no amount of transparency will reveal that a cluster in Utah is in direct link with a cluster in St. Petersburg is in direct link with a cluster in Kiyv to provide unmasking services to their administrators.

These administrators can then launder the information to their respective agencies by means of any number of play-pretend activities you can write up for the transparency committee. The agency doesn't even need to (officially) know.
> USDC is supported by Circle and Coinbase, both of which are audited...

Circle has given out attestations of USDC, which is not a formal deep comprehensive audit of USDC.

Attestations != Audits.
Nvidia Acquires Run:AI to Run AI Workloads on Kubernetes More Efficiently
Years ago, I stopped coming here for a fairly long time, because I found all the criticisms to be accurate and off putting. But when I came back after spending that time reading things more on twitter and reddit, I found the experience here incredibly refreshing.

I think it's just that two things are true at once. All the mockery and criticism is accurate, but I think it's also the case that the signal to noise ratio here has remained unusually high for an unusually long period of time. (Probably due to years of tireless thoughtful moderation.)
Thanks, I appreciate your support! I sent you an email. I'm looking forward to hearing back!
It happens to me very regularly that a password in my password manager is needed on a different domain. Maybe the logon process is at id.domain.com and password is pinned to domain.com, or maybe the password was created at signup.domain.com and so it doesn't pop up on domain.com, or you have to log in to a hotel's site with the password from their reward scheme (different domain), etc...

In any case users are trained by the internet to need to search for the right password outside the pinned domains. Most of the time I guarantee people don't add the extra domains to the password records. So when a phishing site pops up they'll do the same: search for the site name/domain that they think they're logging into and go from there.

Password managers solve password reuse, weak passwords, etc. but IMO do not solve phishing, especially not for the kind of user who's most susceptible t it (little technical understand, hates this stuff, just wants to follow instructions and not deal with it), but passkeys might.
The people who actually do the work? Or would you prefer the investors who did the work of "already having money"?
Another author making unsubstantiated claims that 8GB RAM is 'enough' for the base model with no evidence. Nothing to see here.
Boeing compensation to Alaska includes custody shift of Flight 1282 jet
Floorp Twitter Account Suspended
Those niche people are the developers they want to use their software. When that niche is the target audience for whole product line of yours pleasing them is a good idea.
win 3.1 was released in early 1992. It looks like it was Dos 5.0 and 6.0 by then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_syst...
I don't get that, if there is no unambiguous link of cause and effect, what is there left to describe, or even observe ?

I think that if someone is completely unable to justify an observed truth to others, then it might not be a truth at all.
Retailers are on track to open more than are closing.

Big retail: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/target-join...
https://archive.is/eZnr9
I would partially push back on public intoxication not being harmful. It does intimidate other people trying to use the same public space.
Exercise is needed I agree. However skipping an occasional day is not a problem - in fact rest days are sometimes helpful. I've already decided to skip today because it is raining. Of course if I lived where it rained everyday I'd have to find a different option, but since most days are sunny I can just skip a day without harm.
The whole point of a public key is that it is not secret. A breach where a service leaks the public keys of its users does not harm your security posture at all.
I’m not well read on LLMs in spite of using them daily. The increase in performance seems incremental. As if they added another 0 to the number it might only go up the same percentage in output.

So I assume that the number is just one facet of increasing output quality. Is that a safe assumption? Like throwing more energy at a problem to improve output it only goes so far.
Fantastic resource! I actually stumbled across it organically a few months ago, and couldn't believe my luck. There's really nothing else out there as high quality that's CC0. So thank you.
>M1 MacBook Air was the most powerful fanless laptop

Huh, my gaming laptop was the most powerful laptop with 3 USB-C ports and was the color blue. It also has an NVIDIA gpu.

Apple had 0 blue laptops with 3 USB-C ports or NVIDIA GPUS.

>I'm also pretty sure it had a GPU. (still has one)

OH man! Victim of Apple marketing right here. You have an integrated GPU in your CPU. This is industry standard for the last 25+ years.
Well, you're plainly stating what we've established here too: you either don't have reading comprehension or didn't read it.

The arch of the CPU doesn't matter. I have the same issue on my M1 MacBook Pro 14"

I really don't care wherever windows does it worse or better either... so your other comment didn't add anything to the situation, really.
Kind of. With the sharp edges filed off. There's no CA though. The web site provisions and authorizes the client's key at onboarding.
> White males hold a lot of power in society, so -- as a group --

What about

> Muslim men commit a lot of terrorist acts, so -- as a group --

this entire line of thinking is the definition of racism and sexism. You take some tiny minority (people in power, people committing terrorist acts, etc) and extrapolate the traits of that tiny group onto some giant group based solely on some immutable trait, where the people in that giant group have nothing to do with it except that they happen to have the same immutable trait.
> The vast majority of long-distance orders are fraud.

What? Could you explain further? Almost anything ordered online is long distance.
When the wheel was the hot new technology on the scene, people talked about the universe being a big wheel, too.

The universe being a big book was short lived.
What motivation is there for stripe to accept cryptocurrency payments? It feels like someone is pushing for it without there actually being enough consumer demand for a large company to bother with this.

Also, one problem with USDC is that there is not a single "USDC", every Blockchain has its own independent version of USDC. So advertising "USDC" is kind of meaningless, because you have to support Ethereum USDC, Solana USDC and so on.
> And many other popular programming languages, including Node.js, Go, Rust, and Java uses UTF-8 by default.

Oh, I missed Java moving from UTF-16 to UTF-8.
The implication that they hold that power because they are white men´, with the addition that there is nothing even tangible to the comment, it's impossible to disprove because there are no specifics to what "power" even means.

One could make similar comments like "Most corporate issues are caused by white women" or "Asian women hold the most societal power" or "Black men are the most favoured by their families", there is nothing to these comments but prejudice.
Comment from the creator https://twitter.com/Ablaze_MIRAI/status/1783785906119520698
I don't think the moon's real.

I think we've largely arrived in terms of capabilities and companies are just competing to work out the kinks and fully integrate their products. There will be some new innovations, but nothing like the moon that caps off "you've won". The winner(s) will just be whoever can keep funding long enough to find a profitable use for them.
I just bought a Tacoma in November of last year. Coming from a Jeep that had nothing but problems, I was looking for something I could make Home Depot runs in and that I wouldn't need to dump money into, so reliability was #1. I wanted to compare with a Ranger but there were literally 0 Rangers or Mavericks in my city to look at, and Tacomas were going and going from the lots every day. They were cheaper too, though the new 24s seem outrageously priced against the Ford.
The truth is that the chargeback capability of VISA cards is simply insurance in disguise. On a technical basis, bank transfers are already capable of replacing credit card infrastructure, as is digital cash and cryptocurrency for that matter. Most domestic bank transfers involving my current account (UK <-> UK) complete more quickly than the average VISA payment takes to settle. Smartcards for contactless use are now the only thing missing, and only in some countries. Britain, notably, being one of those lacking it :/

I think if banks offered fraud victim insurance for payments made with digital cash, cryptocurrency and electronic cheques as standard (above and beyond that which they are obliged to provide by law, which is often scant), then VISA and MasterCard would practically disappear within the decade. With apologies to anyone in the industry, good riddance ;)
Any servers you recommend? I just posted here because I know theres a lot if high-level engineers here, and I'd love to meet someone I could help and learn from. Discord would definitely also be a good avenue.
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Chrontext: Knowledge Graphs and Timeseries
I found chrontext, which describes itself as 'SPARQL-and Apache Arrow-based high throughput access to time series data residing in an arbitrary time series database which is contextualized by a knowledge graph.'

It lets you write a query which first queries a knowledge graph to find e.g a list of sensors, and then queries the timeseries database for the actual timeseries.

Quite a cool concept, and it made me wonder if there are other similar systems out there?
Lifestyle choice or indictment of UK housing crisis? Boom in self-storage
I understand passkeys as authentication through a private/public key generated by the client when creating the credential, with the private key staying client side and the public key kept server side, with some more details around it to make the whole thing discoverable/automatable.

To me the best explanation was just to go to the passkeys.io site, the subject is complicated enough that analogies tend to introduce a lot of cognitive noise IMHO.
Trust is a dependency for human existence. Not just for civilization, but also very small communities and basic exchange of ideas, goods, and services.

I cannot foretell how the risk of trust destruction from GenAI will unfold, but I'm optimistic our creativity will win out.
It is a different technology with some different edge cases so I wouldn't call it a rebranding but in the broad scope yes. The problem with this stuff was always the integration, not the tech.
They're different drugs from different sources. Cinchona is the source of quinine, not artemisinin.
King Charles has cancer so he won’t have to deal with the backlash of this.

It is truly ridiculous that this has become a law in the UK.

The internet is weakening and fracturing at intense speed - faster than it grew.
It is also important to guarantee that the two API designs are coherent and interoperable, and this kind of strict layering is the best strategy to avoid mistakes.
https://www.ewg.org/foodscores/ might help you target specific brands. Many soy milks count as ultra processed because the additives are (calcium, vitamin b etc.). Less healthy than the unadulterated brands? I think the research is still out on that.

(and cow milk often has similar additives, so this isn't supporting the original claim)
Surely we are past this bullshit now thanks to https being everywhere?

Also this is our reminder that yes, HTTPS is worth it even for "It's just my blog, I have nothing to hide, why should I encrypt?"
Meta has spent $46B on VR since 2021. AI has a much stronger business case.

Zuckerberg’s budget for side projects is bigger than most countries’ defence budgets.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/04/01/meta-platforms-has...
No cookies, no frameworks (no JS at all really), plain unobfuscated html. Amazing!
It reads like a patent. Patents enumerate all sorts of possible cases, some of them overlapping, some of them disjoint. Patents do this to claim as much of the idea space as possible, maximizing the reach of the patent.

"It's this and it's also that, and that, and that" isn't a great way to communicate an idea. Just explain the idea instead of brain dumping all possible manifestations of it.
Su-27 Flanker uses iPad tablet to launch American AGM-88 HARM
Someone has to organize conferences and protocols for voting, and organize the documents and get them published. Nothing is free, someone has to organize things.

The alternative is what? Open Source? Where anybody can fork anything. One person puts out a standard, then another and another and suddenly there is no standard there is just a giant pile of one-off hacks.

Any Open Source project that has amounted to anything, guess what, has funding, and an organization. Some gatekeeper to make sure there is one truth.

Would SQL Exists today without some 'standards' body : "as standardized by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) "
This time Apple could say that they didn't release it for privacy reasons and this time it would be correct for once.
In my eyes, we will see a resurgence of P2P and home-hosted services. The reason is that without net neutrality, only companies like Akamai, Netflix, Google, and Meta are able to consistently deliver their bits to customers with low latency and high bandwidth. We have to pay a premium to the VPNs in order to connect to our friends and not get packet loss and jitter. It's one of the main reasons game servers have become so centralized in my opinion.
I think you've just invented Victorian-era determinism.

What causes someone to suppress doing something they want to do, but have decided is wrong, even if they will never be caught? Or to do something they don't want to do, but have decided is right, even if no-one will ever know?

I would call that "will".
I agree with you. I've worked for a while at a company using it in production [1].

For learning Pharo (while not working at a company), I've learned that going to ESUG [1] and Pharo Days [2] (2 conferences) is the best way to actually learn. On ESUG there are many professional Smalltalkers, including people that write Pharo. And on Pharo Days there are many OG Pharo devs. They can teach you certain things much quicker than any course can.

For example, on ESUG, I was shown how to write a debugger extension on the spot for a particular debugging case (with animations) that had no good working debugging support yet. It was amazing to see how quick people can develop it when they have strong knowledge on it. The fact that the language is inspectable helps a ton.

Another way to learn is by asking many questions on their Discord channel [4]. The community seems really active there and I found them to be really friendly. The Pharo website [5] sort of understates how active their spun off communities are as they simply mention that they exist, but the site doesn't really convey the vibe of how lively the communities are. I'm not sure how one would go about that, but it's a shame you can't directly see that from a website.

[1] https://yesplan.be

[2] https://esug.org

[3] https://days.pharo.org

[4] https://discord.gg/QewZMZa

[5] https://pharo.org/community
Isn't this the whole reason for ConcurrentStream, its supposed to make async streaming more ergonomic and less errorprone?

[1] https://github.com/yoshuawuyts/futures-concurrency/releases/...
The article indicates "30% to 40% of those samples test positive". Clearly, spread is occurring, indoors or out.

("The cows never get to see the sun" doesn't really sell me on factory farming, either.)

Side note: The second photo is noted as a dairy on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_farming#Concerns.
Agreed, they unfortunately seem to have gone the vendor lock-in route. The big players don't have export utilities for passkeys, despite it being technically feasible and pretty straightforward to implement. That's a pretty major gap in the spec, there should be a standard export/import format, and vendors should be required to implement it in order to be compliant.

It's probably possible to extract passkeys from a rooted Android device, but it would definitely be out of the grasp of 99% of users. I have not looked into it in detail, but I'd expect a Frida script hooking the keystore decryption function would get the raw data, then it would be a question of interpreting whatever proprietary format Google is using for their password manager.
Duh.

> The challenges are immense. Hydrogen fuel is expensive — as much as four times more expensive than gasoline or diesel fuel.

What a trash opening of an article about technology.

Expensive, according to what measuring scale? By weight? By energy content? By driven mile?

Without these questions answered, the cited sentence contains zero information.

Please just serve me LLM-generated articles (and I'll be happy as long as they contain actual information) instead of this kind of poetry.
> That's why it was already evident back then that Google, Facebook, etc were sitting on a goldmine because in the long run those with the most data, not the brightest PhDs will win this race.

So far it doesn't seem to be panning out that way though. Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Reka don't have any special internal sources of data, yet all have trained SOTA models.

Probably the main reason for this is that data type/quality matters more than quantity, which is why most of these companies are now using self-generated synthetic data.

The companies/institutes that will have a data advantage are those that have private datasets consisting of a different type (or maybe higher quality?) of data than publicly available, but this seems more likely to be in specialized domains (medical, etc), rather than what is useful for general intelligence.

I assume that, longer term, we'll have better AI architectures capable of realtime learning, and then the focus may switch on-the-job training and learning ability, rather than data.
Honestly it couldn't hurt for people to re-learn not to trust things on the internet.

I haven't heard someone snarkily say "it's on the internet so it must be true" in like 12 years. Let's bring that back.
Hah, Alpine Linux is actually not GNU/Linux! I didn't know that.

It's .... Busybox/Linux?
The actual implementation of password managers is really messy. Browser extensions that try to guess which field may or may not contain your username, copy the 2FA code to the clipboard in the hopes that you’ll easily be able to paste it on the next page… passkeys offering a standardized API to provide this information makes it worth considering alone IMO, even without considering the extra security compared to plaintext password.
We clearly failed in the battle against Marxism.

I come from a country where the exaltation and apology of communism, was ever present in the school system. It was not part of the curriculum, but teachers would praise communism openly in the classroom, and academia (part of it) was openly Marxist.

This is the result, a generation that was indoctrinated in this system, and that now sees this behavior as accepted.

Too many echoes of the barbarity of the Chinese cultural revolution come to mind.
How A Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds
Llama-3-8B-256k-PoSE
Back in the day, there was this idea of some applications being "document" centered while others revolved around an "activity". On average you only want one instance of your calculator application open as it's what you use to do math and having two or three might be confusing. On the other hand, when you use Microsoft Word there's really one window per a document and having five Word documents open at once make sense.

This is another idea that has been somewhat lost over time. I believe the way it works now is that you can choose to have your application close when it's last window is closed, or not. That seems a reasonable compromise, it's never been clear to me why you'd want an application like Word with no window to continue running.
Do you remember when we used to self host content and now we have to use a central provider and/or pay a premium to a VPN/CDN?

Net neutrality fucked the internet and its really actually upsetting to me how quickly we as a society had become complacent with the enshittification.
Russia stands alone in vetoing UN resolution on nuclear weapons in space
How is it cloning when it doesn't preserve accent? Seems like overselling.
There was a story where users complained that a particular process is taking lot of time. He coded a progress bar and all the complaints disappeared because it set their expectations and it was visible.
Whoa I've had this same belief - glad to see i wasn't the only person and to see the idea elaborated on.
Usually its offended on someone elses behalf.
The post ww2 period was when the CIA was doing the most illegal things. Imagining the period as some time of limited abuse is false.