skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You post a link to a blog entry, which doesn't even have a listed author, and which looks like something a student cobbled together from the internet.

The post lists its sources at the bottom, and the data comes from MERICS[1]. I suppose they shouldn't be trusted either, but the experts that align with your viewpoints should.

> Jeremy Daum, the person who actually translated the law you're citing, disagrees with your claims about the Social Credit System

I'm not claiming anything beyond what the sources I linked to show: that a social credit system does exist, regardless if that's on a national or regional level, and that it's applied to individuals, and not just companies. Your claims that this system is entirely a myth, and later that it's only applied to companies, are patently false. Now you're moving the goalposts again that I need to be an expert in Chinese law to have an opinion about this.

> I don't think you're an expert on Chinese law

I don't need to be an expert to understand English. The translation is written in plain English, not some alien language only experts understand. There are surely nuances in certain phrases, and the vagueness leaves it open to interpretation, but the intent is clear.

Anyway, I feel like we're going in circles here, so let's stop wasting each others time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_Institute_for_China_S...
The Creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Where It All Went Wrong
I looked at SSPL, but it was really between BUSL and ELv2 for me. I ultimately chose ELv2 because it allowed me to keep my community edition and enterprise edition in a monorepo, where the latter edition is protected by license keys, i.e. ELv2 has a clause to where you can't remove or circumvent the license key functionality.

Since Keygen was previously closed source, I didn't want to split the repo up into the ee/ directory structure that you commonly see in other open core and fair source projects. I deemed doing so as 'too risky' -- too much code churn for little benefit -- as those changes would have a direct effect on the SaaS.

Instead, I opted for ELv2 because it offered me the ability to say, "hey, I'm making this fair source, do what you want with it, just don't compete with me or remove the license gates for the paid features."

Here's some of my internal dialog i.r.t. the license choice: https://github.com/keygen-sh/keygen-api/pull/668
But how would you know how the targeting was done? You place an ad and it gets a lot of clicks because it was targeted accurately (for example by using microphone recordings). You look into the dashboard and see a high click rate. What’s your story now?
Spice86 is some sort of tracking emulator like Dosbox giving you the ability to replace original code parts with C# - i don't think that Spice86 can emulate Win16 currently
What does the authorities say when you contact them?
Pro work can be done in iPad. Audio production, photo processing, painting, 3D modeling and what have you.

The only pro thing that is being complained about here is programming but hey most people are not programmers. Don't let the HN echo chamber mislead you...
[One of the authors of the paper] I wouldn't recommend writing a network stack from scratch, that is a lot of effort. Instead, with the Unikraft LF project (www.unikraft.org) we took the lwip network stack and turned it into a Unikraft lib/module. At KraftCloud we also have a port of the FreeBSD stack.
I think also very US-culture-specific.
All the younger engineers I talk to think you would need to be Albert Einstein to bootstrap a bare metal server.

As someone who made a living doing this at scale, where we would build a new datacenter every 2-4 weeks using 100% open source or off the shelf tools, I completely disagree.

I think PXE booting some servers and running a binary on them is 90% easier than most container orchestration engines, Kubernetes control plane, and all the other problems engineers seem to have invented for themselves. I also think it’s almost always much more performant. Engineers don’t have an intuition to realize that their XXLarge-SuperDuper instance is actually a 5 year old Xeon they’re sharing with 4 other customers. Cloud Prociders obfuscate this as much as possible, and charge a King’s ransom if you want modern, dedicated hardware.
It’s amazing what a few hundred million in VC funding can do!
Her enthusiasm about it "being about her" was really bizarre and I wonder if it wasn't staged a bit. I mean I hope it was staged a bit. If my AI servant started wasting all that time by acting all silly I would be pretty annoyed. But maybe it's smart enough to know that this is a situation where they just want her to be playful and fun instead of deliver information.
So this "gatekeeper" stuff doesn't seem to have any similarity to American antitrust laws or European laws for fair market competition. What is the purpose?

Booking is a gatekeeper because many accommodation providers are too lazy and incompetent to sell their rooms themselves. So are airbnb. The 15% charge is the fee you pay for refusing to do your job and a reminder that you are not good enough.
Macbook displays are already covered with glass, I don't think adding digitizer to it would make it any thicker.
Sir, we have reached alpha centurion, please use the puke bag.
Twitter/X human verification workflow fail
I have been having an account since 2015. But Twitter (X) asks to 'authenticate you are a human', and the flow is buggy. Even if you pass 10/10 tests, it continuously shows a screen 'Something went wrong', 'Due to a technical issue, we couldn't complete this request. Please try again' screen.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/PXsnRIA

Anyone else facing this issue?
> You can hit a robot very hard while it does its job and then what ? It just goes on without complaining.

Maybe you’re referring to a different video than the one I watched (or I may be misremembering), but from what I recall the point of the video didn’t seem to be “you can abuse robots and they won’t fight back” but rather to show them recovering well from unpredictable situations (which could be environmental, not human).

Well, there was one video where the point was abuse, but that was CGI and not made by Boston Dynamics.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/6/17/18681682/boston-dyna...

I do agree with your larger point, I don’t wish to detract from that.
Shameless plug: http://cwerg.org

Cwerg has backends for x86-64, Aarch64, Arm32 (non-thumb)
and can produce executables, i.e. comes with an assembler.

It is however fairly opinionated in many ways.
That's easy to say when you're not a security researcher whose income depends on getting paid for finding vulnerabilities—a career that wouldn't exist if Apple hadn't created the bounty program in the first place. It's really bad when you do good work that a third party goes back on their promise to pay you for: it's not always possible to accept the L and move on without pay.
How do you define "socialist"? I know you respond here to op but you generalise at lot here, don't you think?
> double tap on word, start typing the correct one.

Why can't I select the correct location and just backspace one or two characters instead? Android handles it perfectly fine, and has for more than a decade.

> I'm not sure what you mean here, as I can't say that I find myself doing this often, so maybe I'm not your target audience here.

Copy-paste menu is very finicky. Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't, the selection marks seem to miss the mark occasionally as well.
> It's not a security boundary.

It is a security boundary, just not necessarily the best one.
Just to clarify your comment via a question: are you pointing out that barrier instructions are a scheduling ‘issue’ that the processor uses to order instructions versus something like a memory read that actually requires a pause in the execution of instructions?
Different people with the same name?
I agree with you, but the world seems to think otherwise!
Mathematics. Your new theory need to be compatible with proven theories.
Here are some projects that run docker containers on top of micro/lightweight VMs:

- https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...

- https://github.com/kuasar-io/kuasar

- https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers

- https://github.com/QuarkContainer/Quark

- https://github.com/google/gvisor

- https://github.com/containers/libkrun
You can ask it to use a different voice.
Kind of, in that traditional tracking device aren't aubject to this, but it's more expensive; you can't both leverage Apple or Google's network of devices as BT location receivers to track the target and “not implement this”, since this isn't something implemented by the tracking device but by the receiver networks.
Tesla owners complain of unexpected 'phantom braking' [video]
The US (and Europe I'm guessing) banned human germ-line engineering in the 1970s, and so far the tech has stayed stopped worldwide. The Chinese scientist who proudly announced a success with the tech (about 10 years ago) was jailed by the Chinese government.

So, no, if the US and UK ban large training runs, there's a very good chance the rest of the world will follow.

What the Chinese government wants more than anything is a stable domestic political situation: they want to avoid a revolution, and they want to avoid the country's breaking up into 2 or 3 countries. And just like they perceived (correctly, IMHO) that the internet has a lot of potential to cause political instability and responded by vigorously regulating it, they're likely to vigorously regulate AI (while using AI to help them surveil their population). Facebook has made it more likely China will vigorously regulate AI by releasing a potent model under open-source-like terms, which proves to Beijing exactly how advances in AI can put power in the hands of the average Chinese citizen, which again the Chinese government does not want.

BTW, there's no need for you to stop running your open source model on your Apple silicon or 4090: if those models were capable of causing significant problems for people, they would've done so already, so stopping their distribution and use is not on the agenda of the people trying stop "foundational" progress in AI.
Same. It cuts off really quick when I'm trying to phrase a complex prompt and I wind up losing my work. So I go to the manual dictation mode, which works really nicely but doesnt give me the hands off mode. I admit, the hands off mode is often better for simpler interactions, but even then, I am frequently cut off mid-prompt.
If your use case allows for it there's nothing wrong with using the OS you find the most enjoyable to use. I find myself doing stuff on my PC frequently that either isn't practical or currently possible on an iPad (but in most cases would be on a Mac).

The only time I use my iPad over a laptop or something is for reading, watching videos or if I'm simply using it as a glorified ssh/rdp client to work on my other machines, but that's only if I want to consume media or read before I want to do anything else, which isn't often, and I don't generally put away my laptop to switch a tablet if the laptop can already do it.

Little things like the complete lack of multi-user support is why I don't ever hand it over to my kids or anything, they're insistent that it's a personal device and I find that unacceptable when they market it as a general computing replacement device that can't do something that has been available for decades everywhere else, even amongst their own products.. and that's without even going into having the ability to run software without Apple's blessing.. sideloading is not convenient and I've decided I'm no longer interested in buying a tablet or computer for myself that fights me on what software I can run on it.
I work with a couple of the national labs and the talent there is generally incredible.

"I went to school for > 25 years so my life's work could be selling more ads" isn't a motivator for most of these people.
> It's horrendous and I seriously don't get what's so difficult in just coding these scripts in a programming language that provides single statically linked binaries (like Golang) and just distribute it with your images -- or run them in CI/CD and have init containers and never include them in the images in the first place.

It takes longer to develop (for sufficiently small scripts), it's harder to verify, it's harder to debug, it requires a build step and it's a lot more effort to modify it in-place. The process for calling other programs is also extremely streamlined, making it perfect for integration tasks like CI/CD pipelines.

Some of these issues don't exist when using an interpreted language like Python instead, but this comes with its own problems. Shell is pretty universal, well-known and is, for sufficiently small problems, the quickest solution.
In my language (Romanian) it refers to itself as a male. Although if I address it as a female it responds as one.
I think that would depend on whether OpenAI was justified in retaining and restricting access to that data in the first place. If they weren't, then maybe they get fined and the hacker gets a part of that fine (to encourage whistleblowers). I'm not interested in a system where there are no laws about data, I just think that modeling them after property law is a mistake.

I haven't exactly drafted this alternative set of laws, but I expect it would look something like this:

If the data is derived from sources that were made available to the public with the consent of its referents (and subject to whatever other regulation), then walling it off would be illegal. On the other hand, other regulation regarding users' behavior world be illegal to share without the users consent and might even be illegal to retain without their consent.

If you want to profit from something derived from public data while keeping it private, perhaps that's ok but you have to register its existence and pay taxes on it as a data asset, much like we pay taxes on land. That way we can wield the tax code to encourage companies that operate in the clear. This category would probably resemble patent law quite a bit, except ownership doesn't come by default, you have to buy your property rights from the public (since by owning that thing, you're depriving the masses of access to it, and since the notion that it is a peg that fits in a property shaped hole is a fiction that requires some work on our part to maintain).
OS: I provide isolation where needed, handle safely interacting with outside world, and abstract away all the pesky stuff so programmers can just get stuff done.

Container / VM: I provide isolation where needed, handle safely interacting with outside world, and abstract away all the pesky stuff so programmers can just get stuff done.

I get that a dev machine (OS) isn't usually suitable for deployment or shared development (Container/VM). But seems to me the promise of the Operating System has fallen short, if we are striving to meet so many of the same goals of the OS, with something on the OS that tries to abstract away the OS.
There are certainly cases for both. The default case should be the simple one that you want most of the time, ie. don't drag formatting from one document to another, just drag the information.
Thanks for the kind words. I've seen quite a lot of open/fair source companies this past year. But I'd love to see even more! (And I'd really love to see more bootstrapped ones!)
Wow!

I came across Unikraft a while ago and went “wow that’s cool, but I have no idea how to use this”, cloud offering and docs you have up there now look amazing! Will 100% be giving this a go first thing tomorrow!!
The "public square" talk is pure marketing from Twitter. It began in 2009 when Iranians held mass protests against their government and used Twitter as a way to share information as the state had turned off SMS texts. This led to wall-to-wall coverage on US news channels as Iran is of course denoted as an enemy state, and here was Twitter, an American social network helping spread free speech. This would happen again in 2011 during the so-called Arab Spring.
VanMoof bikes connected to the Find My network if I remember correctly. I thought you can pay for access.

But to disincentivize theft, any device would have to be built in such a way that swapping the electronics or discarding that tracking module makes the device you were protecting worthless. Lots of secure handshakes between paired components, very secure software kept up to date, etc. which sounds unrealistic in most cases.

Together with that network access fee probably makes such solutions economically infeasible today.
I mean that it does not follow basic logic rules when constructing its thoughts. For many tasks they'll get it right, however it's not that hard to find a task for which LLM will yield obviously logically wrong answer. That would be impossible for human with basic reasoning.
> Ford loses 100K on every EV...

...when it includes all the startup expenses needed for a new type of vehicle

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-11/us-car...
So what are the concrete problems with the DMA? I do not know it well enough but as a EU citizen and small business owner I am generally very happy with other EU regulations.
Where is the tooling to build and distribute lightweight vms like containers? How can I copy one html file into an nginx VM, built this vm image with multiple architectures (I have arm and x64 servers), publish it, pull it, and run it multiple times?

Once again: Containers are not about isolation or security, they are a package format for shipping applications. The packages are easy to build, distribute, multiarch, ...

And requiring a Linux-VM on macOS to run Linux containers, is not particularly surprising.
Spotify is in an odd position; it's the labels which are monopolies, by definition of how copyright works. They're the current winner of the fragile truce in the piracy wars between consumers and labels. Normally considered to be bad for artists, not consumers, although they have been engaging in dark pattern behavior lately.
It is also a hollywood trope. Sometimes it gets a rebrand (Gothem, Metropolis) but New York is often the stand-in city to represent the rest of the planet in the big battle (Ghostbusters).
Yes, I'm sure that's what they were looking for. I hadn't heard of it before but I improvised my way in that direction until the interview was over. :)
I'm interested in anything that can help us get a better understanding of ML-related topics: generalization, tranformers, optimization...
So I have a bias in favor of experimentation and theoretical stuff, and less so about practical applications (eg AlphaFold as you mention). With the caveat that sometimes these applications do lead to discovery.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

> What's True

> The standard U.S. railroad gauge is similar in width to the wheel spacing of Roman chariots.

> What's False

> That similarity is based much more on coincidence and inherent physical limitations than a direct line of imitation.
You mean for the container launcher to not require root?

Root isn’t required — look at Podman.

Docker spent so much on marketing, the world is too blind to pivot to a superior alternative!
"By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s."

~ Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
Ask HN: Typeform but for Creators (or Early-stage startups)
Typeform is super expensive. So I came up with these 2 niche use-cases.

1. Creators need to monetize (sell digital products, gather leads)

2. Early Founders need to validate idea (offer early bird access, gather emails)

So I thought to build "Gumroad + Typeform" combination. A form builder that helps you showcase products, take payments, capture leads/data.

Does it make sense to build? Anyone expert in this category, would love to hear your thoughts!
Is the entire kraft stack open source? Can I run this on my own hardware?
A clearinghouse is valuable in and of itself, not some weird accusation of "laziness" on the part of individual market participants.
Why I'm Betting on Dart
Similar to .GIF, which I prefer to pronounce "Gif" instead of "Jee Ai Ef".
Weight loss drug could reduce heart attack risk by 20%, study finds
Yep that was my answer too. I didn't get the job so I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure that's it.
Hey there! I am Dhruv Agarwal, one of the co-founders of MiddlewareHQ. Today, we’re open sourcing the core of our product.

Being both an engineer and an engineering manager in the last decade I observed that builders are stuck in slightly sized orgs (>40 engineers) and leaders have a meek sense of the blockers. So, I observed 2 types of leaders: micro-managers or gut feeling wingers.

The end result in both cases are unhappy and stuck developers.

Hence, we built Middleware.

This version offers DORA metrics out of the box to help any engineering team get started on tracking their delivery pipeline health (both in speed and quality).

Engineering productivity is a complex topic and a crucial decision is to pick a framework which is non-monitoring, non-gameable.

DORA metrics fits well right in and being open source Middleware makes it easy to start within your infra/env securely.

Looking forward to your feedback and thoughts!
ChatGPT is now better at being a human than me
> Clearly, more people are using these things to track down stuff that has been taken

Clearly, adding “clearly” before a slight rephrasing of the unsupported assertion made upthread doesn't turn it into a supported claim.
I would even claim it's a pretty good security boundary, good enough for most applications.
The model of a single container within a VM just adds overhead. The ideal case would be to remove the container layer and have the application(s) within the container run directly in the VM (which hopefully only includes the libs and OS modules needed for the app to run, and nothing more).

This is the approach we take at kraft.cloud (based on the LF Unikraft project): use Dockerfiles to specify app/filesystem, and at deploy automatically convert to a lightweight VM (unikernel) without the container runtime/layer.
Europe would never... do what they just announced that they did? What are you even trying to communicate beyond "Europe bad"?
Why Jack Dorsey gave up on Bluesky
That would be fact - AMD was the second source for the 8088. (Licensing IP from Intel.)
And how do they trick the OS into not displaying this to users? At least iOS has indicators for camera, microphone and location. How do they access these hardware features without making the indicators show up?
Lets ignore that it's not really clear that Clinton raised taxes (he increased the income tax rate but dropped the capital gains tax rate, which is pretty unclear as to effect because it took a while for people to adjust their tax strategy to move as much as possible to capital gains). What happened under Clinton was primarily the same thing that happened up here in Canada, the dotcom caused a massive inflation in income as the stock bubble grew and was crystalized. It primarily wasn't more taxes, it was the taxes we primarily already had taking a share of a bigger pie. Overwhelmingly this isn't what happens though. Overwhelmingly more taxes mean more government in a historical context.
AI gun detection company name-dropped Disney in its successful pitch to NYC
Analytics and attribution for open source projects
> many statements were reiterations of previous ones

SEO spam got into the training data.
Large box in the closet has always been a competitive strategy.

You have to keep your closet clean and organized or else everything is bad, but if you can, it works well.
Reading "Breton" and "TikTok" in the same sentence, my gosh. I wonder how he would feel about Dali's landscapes being mentioned.
Did something come out of it? What's the best way to run thousands of superlight VMs in 2024? WebAssembly?