skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's my opposing view: I love Passkeys.

I use Firefox as my browser and 1Password as my password manager. On my iPhone, I use 1Password + Firefox.

I look at https://passkeys.directory/ every so often and switch my logins from passwords to passkeys. This has included a lot of my common logins like GitHub, Google, and Microsoft.

There is a lot of confusing terminology. For some reason sites will say "login with Touch ID" or "login with Windows Hello" instead of "login with Passkey".

Aside from that quirk, I love it. 1Password syncs my passkeys between devices. I can use them both on my laptop and my phone. It would be inconvenient if I needed to login to a shared computer e.g. at a library or friend's house, but I don't do that often enough to care (though of course some people do, which is totally valid).
In a pure fantasy libertarian society where the powerful actually respect the rights of the powerless, then yeah, unions would form organically. In the world that has actually existed throughout recorded history, those contracts are "do what we say or starve, we've made sure everyone else gives the same offer", and unions are put down by force.
Agreed. If RAM demand picks back up due to local LLMs/GenAI, Apple can increase the base to 16GB and still have plenty of people who will upgrade to 32GB+.

The situation right now is that Apple wants the 8 to 16GB upgrade money. But if they increase the base to 16GB, there aren't enough 16GB to 32GB upgrades to cover the deficit. This is due to the reasons I posted previously.

I'm currently on a 16GB MBP M1. For my next upgrade, I'm considering an M4/M5 Max with 128GB+ to run local models. Without local GenAI, I have little interest in more than 32GB of RAM. 16GB is actually enough for me.
If you look at it that way, anything can be anything. We feed soybeans to pigs, ergo I can serve you edamame beans and call them ribs.

What you described - desiccated waste meat and grain - is a dog biscuit.
College students often prioritize battery life because they are away from chargers for so many hours of the day. And you absolutely have to admit the M1 Macs really just destroy Windows and Linux in terms of battery life.

Regardless, there are very practical reasons to have different priorities than yours.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159776
What kind comments do you hope for for a post like this that has very little to do with what’s normally discussed on HN?
I've had nothing but issues with systemd-resolved.

Networkmanager seems to be what things are standardizing on these days. Which, while for some reason I've always avoided networkmanager and used various combinations as alternatives, I'm all for having one most common standard networking utility for Linux.
It’s interesting to hear someone use the phrase don’t listen to main stream media think that Foxnews, Newsmax, Alex Jones, etc are all cranks who can’t be trusted. Given your implied self professed ignorance you must occasionally wonder if your very limited experience exploring the world is indicative of its true state. Ignorance is bliss so continue to stop watching Foxnews, Newsmax, and other like minded sources.

EDIT: Looking at your past comments it’s clear you do consume news! What a surprise given your comment.
Today usually you are paying for the product while being the product at the same time (example: ads in smartphones, Windows).
But I don't see any alternatives being discussed, like say, sky scraping towers of factory farmed cows that take up a square block and can feed hundreds of thousands. Like apparently the only solution is abstention or restriction. Where are the crazy visions of feeding tens of billions of people through some high tech magic whatevers.
They do it here too, especially obvious in political campaign ads but no doubt the established powers do it to maintain their own image as well.
Pharo uses green threads https://www.pharo.org/features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_thread
> everything has to be computational to be real

But that's just circular logic.

It begs the question as to what is "computational" and what is "mathematical". E.g. Tegmark has good points in the "Mathematical Universe" that describe possible interpretations of what it means to be mathematical. But how is computation different than math? I'd argue that computation is primarily stateful, logical, and (mostly) deterministic with a clear flow of time, whereas mathematical models are often time-reversible (as most, if not of QM is), stateless, and not necessarily "logical" in the sense of relating finite symbolic quantities. Rather mathematical models happily relate infinite series, manifolds, surfaces, high-dimensional spaces, they talk about fields and operate on functions, etc.
Mac/Windows/Linux Window Management Tools
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
> USDC is supported by Circle and Coinbase, both of which are audited

We hold banks to a higher standard than just audits because plenty of audited entities collapse. (FTX was audited [1].)

> there's nothing inherently scammy about accepting crypto payment methods

Inherently, no. But statistically, you're more likely to be doing something illegal or generally be a compliance hassle than someone accepting standard payment. (On the other hand, you're also more likely to be less sensitive to high transaction costs and less financially sophisticated in general. And a lower priority for law enforcement and regulators.)

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/930c6cea-5457-4dfa-9d47-666c0698c...
It absolutely does. My whole family have 8GB MacBook Airs, including my aged parents. None of them have problems or even notice.
I just started seeing very long ads on YT that I could not skip. I turned YT off immediately.
It depends on the implementation. Some sites use it to replace both 2FA and passwords, some use it for just 2FA.

> how do you get a passkey on a new device when you only have passkey auth on some other device enabled?

You'd use a sync service like a password manager.
Well they could make deepfakes of youtubers to recommend products during videos.
I have two monitors plugged into some generic docking station, and I keep the lid open below those.

Found this from a post here on HN a few weeks ago, but apparently manufacturers of monitors don't bother to give the monitors unique machine ids, except in batches. Since everyone's two monitors are almost always from the same batch, they can't be told apart on a hardware level. I thought I had struck paydirt in that HN post (a tool that helped with this), but since the two monitors of mine aren't plugged directly into the Mac, the tool can't fix it for me. It would have to somehow work on the level of the docking station. If I didn't have bad luck, wouldn't have any at all?

But it's so much worse than you describe. In theory, I should be able to hit F3, see the little "desktops" at the top, and drag the one from the left monitor over to the right, and then vice versa. But somehow, there's always one virtual desktop that can't be dragged in this manner, and it's always the one with the applications.
The typical government response to European Court rulings against surveillance is just to interpret them in some favorable way, then ignore them. So if the court outlaws "mass surveillance" and you've instituted a mass surveillance system, just call it "targeted surveillance" or ignore the ruling altogether. Maybe in 6-7 years you'll get another ruling against that, but it doesn't matter.
I'll add that POTA and antenna building is just a small sliver of this hobby of hobbies.

Josh of Ham Radio Crash Course did a talk the various things you can do with a technician's license

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV3nzEdXhbw
> Passkeys have no easy way to extract the private key and do not request to enter the private key to authenticate.

Sure the do. All somebody needs is the password to your password manager. It's a single point of failure and by putting your passkeys in there to you've made it even more vulnerable.

Do you put a passkey on your password manager that exists outside of that ecosystem? Once you have that why not just use it for everything?

The parent wasn't giving security advice. They were asking a valid question.
> No, but it's reasonably suspicious. And if whatever service you use to "mix" your money is connected to crime, it's not unreasonable for you to have costs involved with defending yourself.

If I'm sending crypto to a friend, they can see my account balance, and my entire account history. It's perfectly reasonable for me to want to hide this.

I ran into this exact use case a few years ago, and ended up depositing into a centralized exchange, immediately withdrawing it to my friend's account, essentially using the exchange as a "mixer".
Do you think the staff making minimum wage (or less) at a salon are qualified to do that? Is this a regulated industry with certification for these treatments? Genuinely asking because I barely feel comfortable having my blood drawn at an actual medical lab by a random worker.
AMA with Steve Wozniak
Pharo features - https://www.pharo.org/features
Why can’t you refund them?
If Chrome knows that users leave open an insane amount of tabs which kills performance why wouldn’t they have a built in mechanism to suspend the content on the tabs until it’s necessary? Why does there need to be 3rd party ad on to do the same. Why doesn’t the Chrome team write unbloated code? The binaries just keep getting bigger and bigger. While consumer hardware typically stays about the same with less incremental upgrades.
whether or not that's true (and other replies here say it's not): they will always just deny without any specifics.
That looks pretty cool, I hadn't heard of it before, has it been reliable for you?
So sick of the 30 seconds commercials every 4 minutes on ATV, mostly car commercials, but I got the paused ad yesterday, and that was the last straw. They really take advantage of you when on a TV device. If you don't skip in some cases the ads are endless.

Other methods have been implemented and no ads at all.
Feels like a rebranding of git-ssb (git on Secure Scuttlebutt), but with a coin offering?!

Anyways, a good introduction to git-ssb would be this document: https://github.com/hackergrrl/git-ssb-intro
Bit of a tangent, but the fundraiser that the Canadian government froze was initially organized by a Canadian secessionist and a white nationalist, and during that protest (and possibly unrelated) weapons were seized at a border crossing from members of diagalon, a white nationalist group that wants to carve out parts of Canada and USA to make a “white” nation.

Unlike your other examples, that one is an example of using crypto for nefarious reasons.
The solution isn’t to pay YouTube either
If radicle doesn't involve any coins, what's $RAD?

UPDATE: Found this in the FAQ https://radicle.xyz/faq#what-is-the-relationship-between-rad...

Radicle is a true peer-to-peer protocol. It doesn’t use nor
depend on any blockchain or cryptocurrency.

Radworks, the organization that has been financing Radicle is
organized around the RAD token which is a governance token on
Ethereum.
They should go after SUVs. They weigh as much (or more), use far more gas, obliterate anything they crash into (smaller cars and pedestrians), and they get a fucking IRS tax deduction.
Then there is the whole thing about the procedure having no effect anyway which is easy to find out.
I've been running a Mac three display system for 5+ years now, maybe even longer. A 27" iMac with two 27" Thunderbolt displays on each side. It mostly works well... I haven't really seen (or been bothered by) most of the problems that OP complains about. The only thing is these thunderbolt displays are getting pretty old, and Apple isn't making any more similar displays in this category. I've already replaced the guts of both of them as parts have failed, and one of them has a persistent problem with the thunderbolt cable, to the point where I had to use a separate cable rather than the built-in one.

I admit I do get annoyed that even in a mostly unchanging environment (same monitors plugged into the same ports forever), macOS forgets where windows are supposed to go.

Another thing is the OS's handling of plug in events. When you have just one monitor on and plug in another one, the main monitor blanks briefly, then both monitors turn on and you're good to go. Not too bad. But when you have two monitors on, and you plug in a third, it first blanks the secondary monitor, that comes back on, then it blanks both the secondary and main monitor, then they both come back on, and then the new monitor turns on. Super irritating.
Think of all of the password leaks you've heard of. How many were due to syncing password vs password reuse, poor site security (e.g. storing in plaintext, weak encryption, etc.)

I'm not saying syncing is 100% secure (nothing is), but for most people it's not the main attack surface to be concerned about.
What's this going to do to content that expects or incentivizes the user to pause the video?

Some youtubers put little gags that you only get when you pause the video (Jay Forman does this frequently). Others put "info blasts," where they put non-necessary info on screen for a second, so that people who are interested can read it, but others can safely ignore it (Tantacrul does this occasionally). Still others explicitly tell you to "pause the video" to solve a puzzle (Agadmator, does this so the viewer can determine the best move in a chess position).

There's likely other use cases that I haven't even thought of. Will these just have to go away due to the new pause ads? This seems like an obnoxious way to serve even more ad content, which will make the content on Youtube noticeably worse and less creative.
Yeah, the big lie of mathematics education is that everything currently known just appeared fully formed inside mathematicians heads because they are mathematicians gifted with mathematical thinking.

The reality is that every advance in mathematics evolved after decades of people crunching numbers (typically for some engineering application) with an earlier form of math until they worked out the advance. I think students would have more confidence in their own ability if they understood that the mathematical innovators were equally stumped for long periods of time.
Linux is libre software. Facebook is gratis.
I have seen many sites scoring well on various accessibility metrics. There’s no inherent technical limitation of frameworks that would make accessibility impossible, even when dealing with text to speech. We will see many more next year with EAA coming into effect (and many European companies do care about compliance).
Does your Llama3-8B (llamafile or ollama) also answer a question in three paragraphs, and then spit out language-like garbage for a dozen paragraphs?

Is something wrong with my installation?
Video Game Preservation Has Become an Industry Urgency
"free will is your current decision (possibly influenced by) your previous ones" ?

At the end of the day, you are still making the choice, even if you are using your previous experiences. As in you would still have the option to disregard your previous experiences and arbitrarily make a new decision.
Mention of the Obama era reminded me of one of my favorite Onion headlines:

Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People

https://www.theonion.com/mitt-romney-haunted-by-past-of-tryi...
Protools or another DAW will do that easily.
I gifted a family member an 8/256 M1 Air in late 2023. I was confident that this laptop could still last 5-6 years for this person who uses for basic office tasks.

I used an M1 Air 8/256 as a dev for 1 year when it first came out and before the M1 Pro/Max released. It was adequate. If I can do that, 8/256 can perform for many years as a basic office machine.
Let's say hypothetically someone found this hacked website, sent an e-mail to the site owners' security reporting contact, and after a year they hadn't taken any action.

Some would say a "responsible" disclosure which allows the danger to continue unabated for a year is a greater danger than a public disclosure, which would lead to the danger being fixed.
Short of a law that forbids the math which makes encryption possible, this is noise.

Wake me up when there's an actual threat to privacy in...

(checks notes........)

OH WAIT

The heat death of the Universe will come first -- Carry on, nothing to see here...
My insurance just asks me for a picture of my odometer once a year.
This does depend on the jurisdiction. In some legal jurisdictions the effect of putting something in the public domain is to assert that no copyright exists in the work. In other jurisdictions that's not legally possible.
That's only because Google is shortsighted and stuck in the ads business, the ARPU is abysmal with ads even compared to a mediocre paying user.

YouTube gets the lowest revenue per user of all the major platforms and shoving even more ads through the pipeline won't help that.
Ehh... Chrome does exactly that without plugins.
>If I have any fear that the associated private key have leaked. For instance if my off-site encrypted backup is stolen.

That sounds like a totally separate threat compared to "when one service is breached". In your last comment you were talking about your password manager being hacked, but in the post before that you were talking about the service (ie. the website you're using) being hacked?

Also, while I do agree that if your your password manager database were hacked you would need to rotate both passwords and passkeys, but I would hope that occurs far less frequently than some random service you use getting hacked.
You may not be trying hard at all then. The first thing I thought was to clone your voice to use in real-time translations. I can probably think of several others mentioned in comments below, but this is a 100% always-useful never-nefarious(assuming perfect translation not being maliciously used) application.
That's precisely my point. There are healthy and unhealthy meat-centric diets. There are healthy and unhealthy meatless diets. The absence of meat isn't the cause of a bad diet, as GP was alleging. People have bad diets because they like the taste of unhealthy food and either don't care or don't know about the consequences.

(And I'll quibble about it being entirely fast-food derived. Steak-frites is classic French and Belgian food.)
Is there any software meant for casual users for displaying and walking around these objects? I'd love to have some sort of VR room with the simplicity of "The Sims" where I could add these, plus perhaps some connections to the rest of the internet. A fake TV that displays the frontpage of HN or a 24-hour Twitch feed. A radio object that can play Spotify streams, with 3D audio enabled.
Only if it goes "nuts" in very specific ways: Anything that means the government can exercise large scale organized violence while backed by a sufficient number of people means it doesn't help.
AAA is technically a co-op. Cheapest option all around when I lived in Cali.
Free clothing
This is important. If we're really trying to open source and preserve DOS, we need a better system. Someone at MS needs to create museuem.github.com and allow us to browse everything just as it was preserved on disk.
> My previous experience with Qwen releases is that the models also have a habit of randomly switching to Chinese for a few words. I wonder if this model is better at responding to English questions with an English response? Maybe we need a benchmark for how well an LLM sticks to responding in the same language as the question, across a range of different languages.

This is trivially resolved with a properly configured sampler/grammar. These LLMs output a probability distribution of likely next tokens, not single tokens. If you're not willing to write your own code, you can get around this issue with llama.cpp, for example, using `--grammar "root ::= [^一-鿿ぁ-ゟァ-ヿ가-힣]*"` which will exclude CJK from sampled output.
I think it’s less about $/GB (though that always matters) and more about power usage. As much as people love having 16GB of RAM, the extra memory will get used (fill RAM then swap right?) and active LPDDR5 memory uses quite a bit of power I think.
All I am looking for now is a way to add an item to the right click menu on Firefox to open a video with mpv. This way, I can give my relatives an easy to understand procedure for watching videos without eye cancer.
Also, basically all Prime services.
Only in the very short term. In mid-to-long term it increases the incentive to actually roll out a fix sooner then later.
>They're optimized around a different set of rules, and a different game than governments are. It's just hubris and ignorance that would lead them to think they can apply their ridiculous systems to the world outside their gates.

What's ridiculous is that you can look at governments today, at any level, and imagine them being run worse.
ya it's been mentioned but I just go through a "window ritual" with Rectangle every time I open up. I've never thought it was a big deal... until now. dang you all. now I want instant window placement every time.
This is partly why I'm so fascinated and disgusted by trolls and astroturfers. They erode trust in a given forum, which degrades the quality of discourse because no one wants to invest time in untrustworthy discussions.

Sometimes I wish I could get an honest answer from trolls about what they hope to achieve, but of course that will never happen.
IF the Universe is a computer, then the important question to ask oneself is "am I a feature or a bug".
> No, but it's reasonably suspicious

So you agree there may be valid, legal, usecases for this technology for Americans?

The fact of the matter is Americans used to have a degree of financial privacy and the state is in the late stages of revoking it. Far more crime is done with USD than Bitcoin.
In NYC you should also have some law that prohibit's going more than 20mph on bike, as some e-bikers are a bit crazy.
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150M monthly active users
Please elaborate on issues with Japanese cars.
Pay for premium. On my work machine, I don't co-mingle my personal accounts. it is impossible to watch lectures with the amount of ads.
YouTube in 2024 is basically what Idiocracy predicted. All that’s left is to fill every house in America with Roku TVs that can’t be turned off. Ever.
Say what you will about cable but it's the last bastion of skippable ads, full control over the video stream. The DVR could never be invented today, it's too beneficial to the user.
There's a 30 Rock episode from 2011 where NBC executives decide to boost viewership and quarterly earnings by broadcasting skin flicks but using a black bar to censor, and showing ads inside of that real estate.

The satire-to-reality clock is almost at midnight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBDtmAX_vNs
> I’ve considered reading on the computer, maybe I should actually give it a try.

I should note that I haven't actually gotten into a workflow where I read ebooks and take notes. Most of the reading I do is documentation for systems I program with. I take tons of notes on documentation so I can easily find what I need again in the future.