skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is statistically significant. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00850-x:

“Earth’s rotation seems to have accelerated, outpacing the time standard, and raising the possibility that an unprecedented ‘negative’ leap second might soon be required — a daunting prospect in a world reliant on consistent timekeeping.

• Agnew1 reports that human-induced melting of polar ice exerts a slowing effect on Earth’s rotation, effectively delaying a decision on the need for a negative leap second.”

Global warming moved the date that we would need a negative leap second out by 3 years.
Don't bring logic to this discussion. It's an EU Commissioner...
Will there be another solution for the desynchronization of SI days and solar days? It looks like there’s been about 25 seconds difference in the past 30 years or so.
How is this supposed to work in reality? Do we really want to provide Meta, Apple and Google with a list of phone numbers of accounts of militarly and security personell in order to have their feature-flags for sharing links/photos enabled?
Or kill the potential victims, that will prevent future crimes too!
That is the kind of mess you get with such laws:

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2022/08/22/google-account-deleted-du...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805
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In AI, that doesn't sound too surprising to me right now.

I just experiment with some local LLMs, but the differences are pretty huge:

Llama 3 8B, Raspberry Pi 5: 2-3 Tokens/second (but it works!)

Llama 3 8B, RTX 4080: ~60 Tokens/second

Llama 3 8B, groq.com LPU, ~1300 Tokens/second

Llama 3 70B, AMD 7800X3D: 1-2 Tokens/second

Llama 3 70B, groq.com LPU, ~330 Tokens/second

There seem to be huge gaps between CPU, GPU and specialized inference ASICs. I'm guessing that right now there aren't many genius-level architecture breakthroughs, and that it's more about how much memory and silicon real estate you're willing to dedicate to AI inference.
Right. That is the OPs point, however (as far as I can tell). They think it will be intentionally abused by governments as a way of collecting data by mandating certain hashes that will intentionally have many collisions.
To be fair to Ylva, she may say this dumb crap but it's not from any extensive knowledge she may have about the subject.

Instead politicians are always briefed by experts in the field about said topic.

The issue is they can selectively pick and choose which field of expertise the experts should be listen to or just personally put their fingers into the ears and go lalala.

In this case she never invited privacy or security experts but instead US based corporations represented by a lobbying group and charity and the Europol.
In Sweden we have this:
https://chatcontrol.se/status/

Hopefully other EU countries has similar sites.
If you have a local Pirate Party, that might be a good place to start. I'm guessing they would link such a site.
Yet almost every major piece of software or idea started in California and almost nothing noteworthy in the space started in Austria. I think that tells us something about the real value of a piece of paper granting you the right to call yourself an "engineer".
I love how Europe with all it's GDPR laws (even binding on the government in many cases) and specifically Germany and it's Datenschutz-fixated citizens is sleepwalking into DDR era authoritarianism. Stasi's wet dreams couldn't think about this much control
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I know why you were voted down, and I don't think it's fair.

But the problem with your example is:

-criminals CP-sharing etc use end-to-end encryption -> politicians: encryption must be weakened, but that doesn't work...damn opensource

-Now we need local scanners on every phone, but damn those Linux laptops the criminals use still have no scanner.

-And now we need an authorized operating system ...., but damn those open source guys.

-So now there is a full file system scanner chip in every router, laptop and phone. If you get caught using a device without this chip -> straight to jail.

It goes on and on, and next we have to leave the laptop on so gov can always inform us about important stuff ;)
All I mean is he is the person paid to do this already so it's not extra dangerous. It's like a policeman doing a citizens arrest if they spot a crime on the off hours. It's frowned upon but you know it's the same thing they do in their job.
Per earlier news the scanning is said to have a 10% false positive rate[1].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/voaicx/10_error_ra...
incase you want to give it another shot sometime, teaching your self via youtube/other platforms like steezy.co is a viable option if you want to go at your own pace w/o peer pressure.
This is surely the wrong conclusion to draw from this.
My cynical take is that we accidentally started a self-sustained frenzy. C-levels hear that AI is literal magic, and that you can't afford to miss that boat. Nobody wants to be caught not doing AI, so all the KPIs, OKRs and bonuses have AI tied to them. Everyone slaps AI on stuff as fast as they can, further accelerating the trend.

The Onion had it right a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8
I am thinking about having some hooks for the custom logic. I like the entity listeners/subscribers from typeORM: https://orkhan.gitbook.io/typeorm/docs/listeners-and-subscri... but I the end I guess we would probably need some functions stored somewhere. Not sure how to implement that though
> What are we suppose to find?

Well, with recent revelations of money spent on EU politicians, it would not be surprising to find just that. Money. It's rather naive to think that all the Russian influence operations have been found and revealed already.

https://www.politico.eu/article/voice-of-europe-russia-influ...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/reveal...

I ask myself, can someone who openly was a communist in adult age as late as 1990s and beyond, truly have left those beliefs and values behind?
He is edutainment. Stricktly better than reality TV but don't expect it to be as good as real education.
Hmmm... I can assure you people doing security in the Putin's world also just want to delegate stuff to computers and collect salary
But by then it'll be too late. They will promise they'll tweak the filters and whitelists, but in the end, the scanning will stay. They only have to succeed once to implement this law, and it's here to stay... we have to succed in repealing it every time and must never fail.
I'm not sure why you spread this kind of crock when EUParl already stopped it once.
It’s not, as I understand it, something that the European Parliament has even debated yet. Nobody in the Parliament has proposed or voted on it, unless I have misunderstood.

This measure is still being developed by the European Council, which is a non-legislative body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Council

It would have to be submitted to and taken up by the Parliament for the information you want to exist in a meaningful form.

Parliament is not keen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_to_Prevent_and_Comb...
I thought Germany was pretty big on privacy protection. What exactly do you mean?
It's not wierd at all because you assume the same mental framework. What's been obvious for EU politics for years now is that they do not assume government/security privacy violations as same kind of violation as private person/company violating privacy.

Remember that GDPR has carveouts for governement as well.

Everyone speaks like "privacy" has a common, shared meaning across all people and it couldn't be farther from truth. And we need to keep that in mind - for governments, online posters and even organizations like Signal.
Wrong again. When you apply statistical learning over a large enough dataset, the wrong answers simply become random normal noise (a consequence of the central limit theorem) - the kind of noise which deep learning has always excelled at filtering out, long before LLMs where a thing - and the truth becomes a constant offset. If you have thousands of pictures of dogs and cats and some were incorrectly labelled, you can still train a perfectly good classifier that will achieve more or less 100% accuracy (and even beat humans) on validation sets. It doesn't matter if a bunch of drunk labellers tainted the ground truth as long as the dataset is big enough. That was the state of DL 10 years ago. Today's models can do a lot more than that. You don't need infinite datasets, they just need to be large enough and cover your domain well.
Early 90s, I had to teach a class to psych undergrads, and I got neural networks. The book had already been decided: Rumelhart and Mclelland's PDP. There was software, we had a computer lab, everything was set.

For the first class, I had prepared a bit of an overview, starting with the perceptron, and then showed Minksy and Papert's proof that it could only learn a linearly separable membership function. So I had these formulas on the blackboard, ending with something like "for every delta > 0 there's an epsilon such that ..." etc. Then before the break, I ask if anybody has questions. One person raises their hand and says: What's a vector?

That was a bit of shock. I had completely not understood the knowledge level of my students. Not that I ever became a good teacher, but that was an eye-opener.
Ensuring data reliability and observability in risk systems
nah hes right. Sometimes something said is so dumb theres no other response.
How many kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables are there? – Benson Leung (2019)
Did you get the same emails that other people did? An email almost every day with the words "disruption", "apologies", "frustration" used multiple times.

A few days in an email titled: "A letter from the CEO"

> I am writing to provide you with an update on the disruption to our services.

> Firstly, let me begin by personally apologising for the outage, and thank you for your patience with our teams as they work around the clock to progressively get our systems back online.

I'm really not sure that you could ask for clearer communication at the time or a clearer description of what went from inside Google Cloud
Well, the engineer first move should be "do we really need this dynamic to achieve the global goal, or can we do without"?

Most of the time however stakeholders will prefer that someone unleash the last technical shiny tech stack (that no one master in the team and that is about to be dethroned by the even newest thing) to deliver a pixel perfect reproduction of the mock-up rather than question the relevance of the proposal.
My laptop is plugged in most of the time and I use a menu bar app called "Al Dente" that sets the max charge at a certain value (I set 80%). I'm hoping this will help with battery longevity, however I have no real idea if it will. My iPhone it will cap charging at 80% sometimes until the morning to help prevent the battery being at 100% for too long, so I figured 80% was a good number for the MacBook as well.
> Previously unknown images and videos are also to be scrutinised using “artificial intelligence” technology.

Can't see any way this could go wrong at all, none whatsoever.
Nah, this plan is outright evil. We all learned from the cookie banner madness that everybody just opts-in to everything all the time, just to make the thing go away. This proposal gives us a fake choice, because so many coordination of real life activities happen in WhatsApp in the EU that you have to opt-in to still participate in a meaningful way.

I'm not talking about sharing vacation photos with your friends, but stuff like:

- here is a link that explains how to do taxes for your nonprofit

- here is our new school logo

- this is a link to the soccer tournament schedule

and so on.
That is like realizing cucumber in the US is a different vegetable from cucumber in Europe (which I thank Adam Ragusea for pointing out). :)
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL
tl;dr, there are 8 kinds of USB-C to USB-C cables
EP rejected ChatControl once already. So what the heck are you going on about?
The authoritarians are a particularly dangerous minority, but they are still a significant part of society. "We should try authoritarian tactics!" is always going to be a part of the debate and should be treated with enough respect to get a real reply.

That being said, encouraging government snooping is an idea that can have terrible consequences and we shouldn't do it. It is going to be a support of some truly horrific future political shenanigans, including genocides, and we should be discouraging it everywhere.
> To be fair to Ylva, she may say this dumb crap but it's not from any extensive knowledge she may have about the subject. Instead politicians are always briefed by experts in the field about said topic.

The exact same excuse, used by the CEO at the head of the UK Post Office, at the time of the infamous scandal.
A bit off topic, but I was thinking recently if EU ever deregulates anything? Do they only add new laws and paragraphs? Are they rewarded in LoC? What are examples of laws they removed or deregulated?
This lasts until every single major app decides to exit the market and they are forced to remove this nonsense.

At the end of the day Europe is not even the place where most apps are created, just a bureaucratic nonsense.

If you though the cookies law were bad just wait.
It has real power, it has to approve almost all legislation before it becomes law. It has no initiative and can only act on proposals from the European Commission (for new laws, or repealing old laws, or amending them), which while not directly democratic, has all its members nominated by the governments of EU member states (themselves elected) and confirmed by the EU parliament.

Democracy can be slightly more complex than direct democracy without being a sham like "elections in the USSR".
Also, drawing angles breaks the flow and speed of writing. Back in university, I remember replacing squares checkboxes by circles because it was faster to draw. (And a friend copying me when he noticed it) All those angles seem painful to write by hand.
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I learned to lace my shoes correctly at 40+ thanks to a post on HN. I will search for the post tonight.
There's an absurd amount of far right parties with much deeper affiliations with today's Russia.

I don't think someone who was a communist over 40+ years ago in their idealistic youth is still clinging onto nostalgia.

Especially when there's way more far left people simpling for Russia because "west bad", I don't see her views being reflected that way.
With respect, you did not further the discussion. You turned it round and ran it backwards, misleading an unknown number of people in the process.

> But in that case, ... WhatsApp, ... can (and probably do) already spy on me and my pictures.

This is just factually false. Research end-to-end encryption.

> I don't think it's all that draconian for authorities to take a look, too, after you have already voluntarily !!! sent them to a for-profit corp with questionable morals.

It's time for this idea to end. Communications platforms are no longer "voluntary" any more than, say, using electricity from the grid is "voluntary". Sure, I could just not speak to anyone in my family anymore, or share photos with them. I can cut myself off from broader society? That's the alternative? The thing with politics is _we get to choose_. We get to fight for a future that actually works for us. We don't have to settle for this kind of ridiculous choice.

> And I feel like the proposed law design also matches with the real risk profile. Pretty much all of the blackmailing scams that drove teenagers to suicide were being perpetuated from outside the country that the victim was living in, e.g. [1].

Steel-manning your argument for a second. Yes, there are risks to privacy. There is a real risk of domestic violence in the home. There is a real risk of sharing CSAM, or scams, or any number of shady human behaviour.

> So it makes a lot of sense to more tightly control cross-country online messaging on almost anonymous platforms than in-person photo sharing.

But this takes it too far. It only makes sense if you are min-maxing on crime enabled by the existence of privacy, and care about _absolutely nothing else_. You also place a huge amount of trust in governments to wield this overpowered tool in good faith, from now until the end of time. This kind of change is extremely difficult to reverse without violent revolt. Two or three decades from now, when the governments decide that actually, we should try to predict risk factors for future crime (with 99.99% accuracy!), will you be there supporting it?
I’m sure they will but you won’t have some governmental organizations trying to protect the privacy when others are trying hard to invade it. They will be aligned.
I haven't gone in detail on the draft, but what is nuts is that those are exempt, as well as everyone who uses a service not-for-profit.

So, if you self-host [1], you don't need to adhere to the legislation.

But, wait… Are you telling me that security officials are allowed to use not their self-hosted infrastructure, but use public one to send (I assume, based on their exemption) confidential data?

And, as @WA proposed, will be a list of contacts of these officials given to all for-profit organisations?

What a stupid joke it is!

[1]: See third row at https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#current... .
Lawyers and regulators are the strongest and most cutting edge sectors of the EU economy
Transformers are SSMs (Mamba-2)
One of my favorite copypasta, for it’s cosmic level of deranged belligerence:

“A LETTER TO ALL ALIENS SPYING ON EARTH'S WIRELESS INTERNET SIGNALS:

DEAR ALIENS,
IGNORE EVERYTHING THAT NASA AND THE SPACE NERD SCIENTISTS HAVE TOLD YOU. THIS IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL, LEGITIMATE, HONEST STATEMENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE AND GOVERNMENTS OF PLANET EARTH. ALL OF US COLLECTIVELY, WITHOUT EXCEPTION, THINK THAT:

• EVERY ALIEN IS A SON OF A BITCH

• WE WILL WIN ANY SPACE WAR

• OUR ENTIRE PLANET IS A BOMB

• FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

WE WILL NEVER EVER CHANGE OUR OPINION IGNORE EVERYTHING THEY PUT ON VOYAGER 1”
I have used this platform and found it very interesting. Nice take on hiring
I wonder if they are going to kill open source chat applications.
Last time this came up Parliament stopped it. It’s popular for certain YouTubers and politicians to pretend there’s no accountability but it’s not the case at all.
I wish they European Parliament had all the power. Most of the bullshit comes from the Commission, which is the least democratic body of the EU.
EU produced tens of billions in lawyer fees. A regulatory superpower.
Dang, could we change the title to 13 kB(yte), which is in the title of the the page? It is not 13 kb(it), which in this case a quite significant difference.
It's honestly a little absurd to me how much hand-wringing people do over cats killing birds and mice when society has more or less just accepted dogs killing/maiming humans as a thing that happens.

In fact, many dogs are explicitly kept at least in part for their belligerence, but somehow it's cats that have the reputation of being violent. Is it simply because cats' hunting instinct is uncommanded/uncontrolled by their owners, unlike with [well-trained] guard dogs?
"It's a bad thing that is already happening, so why not make it worse by mandating it on government level" is not as good a take as you think it is.
This also has a filter for job seekers to add their profile.
It's even more fun than I remember. This compiles without warnings with "gcc -Wall", and produces an error (declaration of x shadows a parameter) if f4 is uncommented

struct S {
int x;
int f1() { int x = x; return x; }
int f2(int x) { return [x=x]{return x;}(); }
int f3(int x) { if (int x=x) return x; return x;}
// int f4(int x) { int x=x; return x; }
};
int main(){}

clang warns a bit with -Wall

a.cpp:5:26: warning: variable 'x' is uninitialized when used within its own initialization [-Wuninitialized]
5 | int f3(int x) { if (int x=x) return x; return x;}
| ~ ^
I really want less speech, more text. So for people who want speech to make it easier for me to always be async. I don’t know how many times a week people (try to) call me and then say something (usually we a shitload of background noise) that they need to repeat a few times which would’ve been a lot faster via text. It has its place but I definitely don’t want more of it.
Its the reason why we only can compete with the US in legislation heavy businesses, which in the US is also slowed down by bureaucrats such as making planes and cars.

Any other market and any developed country will have us beat.
i'm glad its not just me
But other branches of engineering are also about doing a lot of repetitive work, exactly what "programmers" do.

Engineers shouldn't compromise on things like safety, security, legislation, budget, properly documenting, properly communicating with others, etc. Same as anyone working professionally with code should, no matter the title.

But there's nothing that says that engineers should only be doing groundbreaking or interesting work.

The "artist" analogy works much better.

EDIT: Perhaps the main difference is what psychoslave mentions below – engineers are expected to question the relevance and necessity of requirements, and work together with business, rather than just doing as asked.
Yep, a real positive thing about that hyped up crab language is how no company has asserted control over how it should be used.

Which is why a certain K-language is not an option for me. Sadly, since as a language I would much prefer it.
If and how :)
On the other hand he wanted "no law beyond Do what thou wilt" - so he's also the prophet of amoral fame seeking and small mindedness ala tiktok.
Er. The fact that I don’t realize that there could be a wrong way to lower and raise window blinds tells me that I may be doing it wrong too! Would you mind sharing what you did wrongly?

For my part: I think I learnt at age 35 the difference between sneezing and coughing. Duh!
Is deregulation desirable?
Every action has an opposite reaction. Thanks to Apple's refusal to cede even a little bit of central control over their ecosystem, to enable decentralized innovation, members of their star silicon design team departed to start afresh with Nuvia.

Now we have Windows Arm PCs with UEFI and upstream Linux support, "close enough" to Apple Silicon perf/watt. PC OEM price competition and enterprise volume buys will yield affordable Arm laptops in a few years. Framework has proven that laptops can be modular. Did they inspire Lenovo to make a more repairable Thinkpad? If Framework releases a modular Arm laptop based on Qualcomm/Mediatek/Nvidia, watch out.

On the software front, the sold-out "Local First" conference recently wrapped in Berlin, https://www.localfirstconf.com/. If HTTP can be extended to support synchronization, it could dramatically lower the cost of cooperative infrastructure, including offline (think Cuba sneakernet) sync, https://stateb.us/what & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40480016, tearing down big walls of tech and lobbyists.

Some conflicts are won by making them irrelevant.
How does this compare to duckdb/polars? I wonder if GPU based compute engine is a good idea. GPU memory is expensive and limited. The bandwidth between GPU and main memory isn't very much either.