skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand the answers to your "what is a legitimate website with a malicious owner" question, but I kinda see this as the same concern as downloading a phone app that requests an OAuth login via a native webview. You can't always see the true URL of that login page. But it comes back to what I think is your main point -- you've already downloaded something malicious from the get-go. But I guess there's some damage control if you can spot a fake login page and remove the install.
you are simultaneously complaining about your loss, doing nothing to stop it, and postulating either that you cannot sell(?) or that continuing to seek rent will ultimately be a net profit for you.

I'm not sure what you want to hear.
>Whether the wavefunction collapses or not shouldn't depend on what we consider the system to be.

It's not about consideration in terms of choice of what constitutes a system; the systems are defined by sensitivity to informative states. It's like a quantum analog to the light cone, the information boundary defines the system. But this information boundary is much more elaborate and dependent on the dynamics of the structures involved. In this case, the mirror imparts a different information dynamic than the diode and so has different implications for the information boundaries.

What the rules are that govern the interactions that integrate the informative states of two systems isn't obvious. Funnily enough, I've thought a lot about this problem in an entirely different context. Somewhat surprising that it comes up naturally in quantum mechanics. I don't have any fully worked out details, but I do have some intuition. The issue is related to supervenience of macro structures on micro details. The macro structures can carry information (i.e. have mutual information) about external systems; this is how two systems are informationally integrated. A measurement is when the macrostate of one system becomes correlated with the microstate of another system. The correlation is between macro and micro because for state to be useful requires it to interact in a specific way to result in a macrostructure correlation which can in principle be computed with. It's the information analog of free energy. Not all interactions produce state that one can compute with. Information integration requires precisely this kind of state. I suspect the exact nature of this kind of interaction can be characterized in principle.

>What you apparently are inclined to deny is the notion that you could ever be put in a quantum superposition yourself, and that this would merely feel like observing one particular nondeterministic outcome out of a deterministic distribution of possible outcomes. Superpositions for thee, but not for me!

I don't deny that I could, I just don't seem to be. And the interpretation that coheres with unobserved superposition I reject for external reasons. I don't have any qualms about the implications for personal identity from MWI (assuming that's what you're getting at).
Every time I boot up Squeak, I think about what the desktop os could have been had all the millions of dollars and hours of work gone in that direction instead
This question could be applied to every other case of zoonosis and reach the conclusion that zoonosis does not exist.

The expectation that explanations be satisfying is not an unbiased razor.

An infected animal had a chance encounter with a person that resulted in a transmissible infection. The desire to uncover who this is and when is admirable, but again. I suggest we apply the same standard to the lab leak hypothesis, there are plenty of labs why this one and why covid? Again, it's a satisfying explanation, but satisfiability and reality are orthogonal. Shall we need to track the lab leak down to a specific lab employee and ask them why it was leaked by them even if inadvertently?
It’s not just TSMC - they also have a very good CPU team giving AMD heartburn even when you compare the chips on the same TSMC process, and they have the part which is hardest to match: they control the OS, compilers, libraries, and key apps. That allows them to ensure that hardware acceleration is actually used, tailor chips for the power and usage patterns their devices need, and avoid the conflicts of interest inherent to multi-vendor systems because they share responsibility for a great device and profits aren’t unevenly distributed. That’s not perfect and they’re certainly in a bad place if they misjudge but it’s worked so far.
usually performance takes a hit with quantization. are you getting quality responses?
Something like Eye Gaze perhaps
Please note:

This submission is a blog post from Silicon Valley VC at Andreesen Horowitz about where some of the bad ideas on the internet come from. According to this blogger, they come from SillyCon Valley VC group chats.

It is not a blog post about a shift to private discourse.

If the blog post is true, these VC are likely using group chats to come up with ideas of how to "sell you stuff" and "extract value from you". The chats may be subject to social norms, but _commerce_ is 100% driving the discussion.

Please don't misunderstand me. I am a long-time supporter of peer-to-peer networking amongst small networks of friends and family. But according to the blog post, the VC using group chats are interested in something else: using the internet to spread bad ideas. Further, today's chat apps are generally controlled by companies found in the portfolios of these VC.
I understood the ideia and agree with it.

Just want to point out that starting an OS from scratch, even if reusing an existing kernel, is a monstrous epic.

I find it difficult that one would be able to just use existing kernels like Linux without some considerable changes to support a more secure userspace (which seems like a requirement in order to do wild new things).
Let me reclarify - I really want this app. I tried RemNote (as they say it's easy to convert notes to flashcards) but it doesn't support hand-drawing on othe iPad, and is just really unintuitive to me still. The flashcards I couldn't figure out back-->front as it's always front-->back.

LLM question --> flashcards is exactly the workflow I want. I ask ChatGPT to do a lot of breakdowns of the grammar and the furigana and the words, being able to consolidate that with spaced reptition flash cards just makes a ton of sense. I don't know how hard it is to make this product really high quality, but happy to pre-pay you $10 for example no strings attached (I'm moved to Japan since 6 months ago)
> The pentester used Burp Suite...

We run an SaaS and we get a ton of these. Most of these are absolutely inane and complete waste of our time having to look through their poorly written email begging for 50/100 USD payouts.

We pejoratively refer to them as "Burp Babies", the equivalent of "script kiddies".
can I still use my keyboard shortcuts for switching between sessions and windows within the session?

I am much happier with that muscle memory than whatever the iterm shortcuts would be.
I had to get out.

I spent the last 2 weeks looking at the job market but it seems really bad right now. I had a few where it was like "yes this is so obvious for both of us" clearly not even read the cover letters.

My current plan is to try to monetize a side project and wait for this current state of affairs to blow over. Rejection letters are demoralizing and I'd rather just build at this point. This path makes me a little anxious, but the formerly fantastic pay has given me quite a bit of runway to play with.
Is WSL2 available at launch day? If not that will be a deal breaker for me.
Like any PC laptop, the results are going to vary wildly based on the manufacturer's thermal solution. You can't buy based on the CPU part number. You have to wait for reviews of specific machines and buy the one that's actually good.
Maybe. As with many things Microsoft, one guy can do a better job.

And anyway, Microsoft did this in reaction to increasing demand. The pie will grow faster than Microsoft's pie slice will take from this guy.
Portland is kind of like this
Tesla's I'd allegedly way better. And when sodium ion hits volume at 200 wh/kg in a year or two, look out

Which is why the question is valid for EVs. There's about to be a revolutionary drop in the core cost of a car: batteries, motor, brakes. That's it!
Washer-dryer combo units (sometimes called "laundry centers") have been around for a long time in the RV, marine, and apartment markets where space- and water-savings are essential. Coincidentally, most Japanese households also greatly value space-savings.

Splendide[1] has been in the business since 1984, and according to Wikipedia the first washer-dryer combo unit was invented in 1953 by Bendix[2][3]. Both are American companies.

[1]: https://www.splendide.com/index.html#faq

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washer-dryer#History

[3]: https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlpfw-9ikKAC&q=bendix+duom...
I would buy a cheap basic car. I don’t want any fancy features and don’t want to care about how someone else took or didn’t take care of the car.
> without much recourse

If you mean crying is a recourse, otherwise this is an understatement.

There's no recourse.
Fix the url:

https://www.businessinsider.com/adobe-employees-slam-company...
I agree with you, fwiw. I don't get the hate for landlords either. There's just a large segment of the population that want to own a house and don't care who gets stepped on once they own it - which is really how we got into this situation in the first place.

I'd much rather blame systems and regulations that make it hard for enough housing to be built. It makes zero sense to me that there are blocks worth 5m in the inner city, while houses in newbuild suburbs cost 400k. In any reasonable system it should be trivial to unlock value by buying the expensive block, sticking 20 apartments on it and selling them for 1m each.
Discretionary government revenue, is a subset of that total gross revenue.
Why do you guys insist on presenting as an educated authority but get such basic verifiable facts wrong? Among other things, the US was absolutely worried about maintaining access to Saudi oil. And the us-saudi "oil for protection" scheme stated in the 40s when the US was the world's factory.

Its not even the wrong facts, it's that you could just Google it and still present as this authority you want to be, but actually be correct.
> But it isn't as if the Phoenix is really flushed with water. An accident of legacy water rights from Colorado via the canal makes water available, but that doesn't mean that water supply is local nor sustainable.

Odd to be well so informed overall but somehow not aware of the SRP?! I think Phoenix is flush with water because of the CAP and SRP combo. It sits on the confluence of the Salt and Gila rivers while CAP water comes down canals from the CO plateau.
I haven't looked at CPU architectural comparisons, but Apple must have a major benefit in owning the whole stack: from the lowest hardware level to the OS to many of the applications. And with the right focus (which they almost certainly have) the ability to optimize the system as a whole instead of each level taking care of just their own section.

If the x86 translation team can make their case that a specific CPU feature will be a significant enough performance benefit, chances are that a discussion within the company will have less friction that a discussion between, say, a Microsoft SW team and a Qualcomm or ARM CPU design team.

And while Microsoft may care about power consumption and power management, I can't image that they care as much as the Apple MacBook team. (My POS high-end Dell laptop is still a power management disaster. It would fail any internal go-to-market review at Apple.)

But there's also the simple fact that the Apple silicon team is very good, and they've been cranking out best in class silicon IPs for more than a decade. A lot of IPs on an SOC are developed incrementally, with smaller improvements from one generation to the next accumulating into major advancements over the years. Even if the competition builds an equally capable silicon team, they may not have the solid foundation to build on and it can take generations to match what the competition already had.

It's also true that for Apple, the silicon is not a product that's being sold on its own. I'm sure they care about silicon area (and thus cost), but they can once again put this cost in the larger context of the full laptop. For Qualcomm, increasing a cache by 50% is a much bigger hit on their gross margins than for Apple. If that cache increase will result in significantly better laptop characteristics, Apple may decide to go for it while Qualcomm may not.
BRICS+ is all talk, no action. Russia, China, and India all have diametrically opposed interests on core issues and none will ever agree to a total realignment of the global financial system lest one of the other two gain an advantage. South Africa is a failed state with a crashing economy.
Are there really so many OS options these days? Everything is pretty much "a Unix" of some sort, or else Windows.

There is a key difference between today and the period of the 80s/90s when we had true OS efflorescence. Back then, the real concern was compatibility of software and in particular file/data formats. These days we have so many data format standards and protocols that a lot of this interoperability is essentially system-agnostic. I think that's a huge advantage.
http://archive.today/eYjqI
I wrote in "Apple Strategy in a Nutshell"[1] that this deal is awful for OpenAI.
Not getting paid obviously makes it worse for them, and more favorable for Apple.

[1] https://nextword.substack.com/p/apples-ai-strategy-in-a-nuts...
I honestly really think this depends on the age/generation of the participants (or perhaps it's just personality and I'm wrongly ascribing it to generation).

I'm with you 100% (and am later Gen X FWIW). But I have some friends born late 80s who will have these drawn out, intricate, sensitive conversations for literally hours over text and all I can think is "jeezus, just call them on the damn phone!"
Jupyter notebooks can be executed roughly like scripts by papermill. You can also save a .py version of the notebook without outputs using jupytext. We use these packages together where I work to basically auto-generate the start of notebooks for exploratory work after certain batch jobs. For dashboards only used by a small number of users, we’ve found voila occasionally useful. Voila turns notebooks into dashboards or web apps basically.

You generally shouldn’t put code you want to reuse in notebooks, but we haven’t found this to be much of a problem. And >3/4 of the people who’ve worked on our team don’t have software engineering backgrounds. If you set clear expectations, you can avoid the really bad tar pits even if most of your co-workers are (non-software) engineers or scientists 0-3 years out of college.
They have more people than any other country (besides India).
We did that. You're welcome to use ASN.1 or some restricted subset of it if you want, and people did for quite some time, but it's brittle and inflexible nature and it's inability to be quickly edited or observed during edit-test-debug cycles deprecated it the minute we had something human readable that could reasonably replace it.

In any case.. computing is entirely about serving human needs.. early computer science sort of missed the boat on that point.
They are actually making money on their long NVDA position (which is the real game), and channeling VC investments into semi capex.
> Shifting to zero-trust requires a lot of migration work across all of this, "training" ie figuring out how to get stubborn IT people to buy in to the new way of doing things[...]

You're right, most times organizations need a fire lit underneath them to change, for Google, it probably was the NSA annotation "SSL added and removed here :^)" on a slide showing Google's architecture from the Snowden leaks.
I think in psychology this is a concept called locus of control (internal vs external). Not necessarily linked to the introvert/extrovert framework.
> why are they buying iPhones?

Because their friends and family also own iPhones. Also, you get higher social status from owning an iPhone. For normies, being part of the same mobile phone ecosystem is more convenient.
While I agree with you, I think that we have reached a local optimum that is difficult to improve anymore. I mean, what else is missing from modern controllers? Unless we move to VR with direct neural control, I don't see a way forward.
Mubadala battles to salvage investment in insurance startup Wefox
Bit of a clickbait headline

This is based on a Reddit report of a CPU that seems like it’s not boosting…ofc the score will be low

Yeah a cpu clocking 2.5 isn’t going to give you the same score you see at designed 4+. Unless it was limited that way due to thermals this is likely not a big deal in long run
Python in excel is a feature I would only expect to be used by power users. Someone who spends a lot of time in excel. Calling these people “non-programmers” isn’t true, excel itself is a pretty esoteric programming language.

I personally don’t think python is the problem here, but if their users can learn python they can certainly learn lua.
Thanks, and I'm hoping likewise.

Here's the 2-month-old discussion on the Torrentfreak article:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143549>

And that seems to be the only HN submission with > 5 points that matches this description since 1-Apr-2024:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1718327852&dateRange=custom&...>

A similar search for "OCLC" turns up nothing.
All Google dev’s personal projects are under the Google account on GH for legal reasons. I assume the same for Facebook. I believe fb championed zstd and lets the dev work on it at work but it was a personal project iirc.
> It makes sense to remember that all these countries were just fine very recently

The entire Middle East was colonized and f_cked up over a century by the US, UK, and France.

I'm sorry that I can't visit these countries now, but (assuming you are a white Westerner) to say that they were "fine" and then blame them for current problems - is a bit steep.

You should spend more time talking to non-white people from non-white countries. Just this afternoon I was chatting about global affairs with an economist from an Asian country, and although he is quite "liberal," his educated and very-well-informed point of view on global conflict is very different from what you'll read in American newspapers.
>What gives you this idea?

I mean I asked about this, and at best you are playing coy games by kinda-sorta implying knowledge without owning it when specifically asked.

>Hahaha, believe whatever you want to believe. What possible motivation could I have to make this up?

I can only say I'm profoundly disappointed on how this response reflects on your information literacy.
Ok, these are good points. I was not aware. Thanks to share. It sounds like the "friction" to use Apple AppStore is much too high. Do you think this is done in the name of security or tracking users' behaviour?
>The state can't mandate that they don't censor their models.

Sure they can; all they need to do is refuse to do business with companies that don't offer uncensored models to their general public or withhold industry development funding until one is released (this is how the US Federal government enforces a minimum drinking age despite that being beyond its purview to impose).
> It can be very difficult to weld some of the materials used in these systems.

Yes, lots of dissimilar metals welded together, using TIG, inertial/friction, electron beam, and probably other welding techniques.

>Cracks in welds can be hard to find, although I would expect every weld in a system like this to be X-ray inspected, and maybe also penetrant tested.

Indeed they are, and not just the welds. Any fracture critical component should have 100% nondestructive testing performed. This includes radiographic, liquid penetrant, helium leak test, etc., often all of the above. Like you, I would also be surprised if there were a single component or subsystem that was not subjected to these tests
I was not aware. This is interesting to know. Let's go deeper about "malware". I'm sorry that I was not more specific. What about some dumb app that shows holiday calendars or "the weather", but actually uses your mobile to secretly mine Bitcoin? Does their process also stop that type of malware?
No but you can run Linux on the Apple m-series laptops using Asahi Linux.

This is a laptop chip, right?
I wonder whose fault that is exactly. Did it just get neglected or were PMs fighting against “technical limitations”? Sometimes supporting the new shiny feature means breaking the old one. If it’s not clear that the new one is a winner, some might hold onto the “better” (old) one and stale out.

To me it’s insane how MSN Messenger and Skype got left out in the cold.
This reminds me of the meme where you read up instructions of good sleep, at 4am before getting ready to go to bed.
We'd welcome a Merge Request on our Gitlab for a Captcha implementation that is as good as Cloudflare but can be done without any external dependencies. If anyone cares enough to make that, we'll merge it!
It's the same fix IRL.

The solution to a broken market, is to fix the market. Write the rules / laws to encourage competition and thus the desired outcome. If something is a natural monopoly then make it a utility, regulate it properly, and have the competition at the worker union and/or contracted workers layers.

The only way to fix too expensive housing is to build enough housing to drive the cost down via supply. If there's enough 'close enough' to where people want / need to live, then if someone asks too much it won't sell. Taxes that incentivize one (or at most two for a summer/winter home) dwelling per person and the 'Land Value Tax' for density and under-utilization issues help prevent unwanted speculation and rent seeking in the market.
Many many executives do not believe happiness improves productivity and in fact many believe it reduces it.

Specifically midwesterner’s who think pain is honor and grit vs a waste of energy and distraction.
There is non-trivial chance that once these enter the civilian market (say, via a government auction), there will be a requirement for the buyer to add the emissions control components back.
> why did he recently become an investor instead of either working in policy or working on the tech itself?

Even he needs a nest egg.
A parallel take to the sister comments: the concept that employees have information and can easily move away from the job is still newish and the prevailing management theories are from decades to centuries ago. Of course it's not only the employer, a significant number of people still see a job as something they're supposed to stay in despite the competitive market.

Employers still keep some assumption that the employee doesn't have a choice or won't execute on it, and there's enough employees working under that model that the assumption doesn't look so wrong at a distance.
Which cities? Metro Phoenix non-agricultural water usage is flat over the past 30 or 40 years despite experiencing double digit population growth for most of that time. Agriculture is the majority consumer and incentives and stewardship norms are evolving.
Naive question: if the team behind this is essentially the same folks who pioneered Apple's A/M series, does that mean that basically there's basically very few people in the world who are capable of designing these high-performance SoCs?

When I tried to skim what was so "special" about the apple M1 secret sauce, older HNs posts said that it was basically just a well-executed design (large RoB, beefy cache, wide pipelines, etc.) using the latest tsmc node. But even in the years since then it doesn't seem like any other companies have managed to design something comparable, and it basically took this team of ex-apple folks to produce something similar.