skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Let’s compare how the U.S. responded to the Ukraine war in the physical world versus in the cyber domain. As part of NATO, the U.S. is clear: It doesn’t want to see boots on the ground. But in the cyber domain, the U.S.’s offensive activities are ongoing?"

A few weeks ago I saw Zero Days, which is a good documentary on Stuxnet and it's pretty wild just to what extent tools in that domain are out of the purview of the public. Offensive capabilities that amount to acts of war seemingly have no democratic oversight, and even an ex-director of the NSA thought the amount of classification of materials went too far. Very few people were willing to speak at all to the filmmakers even years after it had already blown over.

Whether its some sort of dystopian privatized policing by Palantir or tools used by three letter agencies, what the article warns of has arguably already arrived a decade ago.
For the first, the prediction was "in the next few years." If we take "a few" as three, that would bring us to 2024-10-02, which was earlier this month. It could still happen someday, but didn't in the time frame of this prediction.

For the second, "sooner than anyone can imagine" is admittedly not a specific time frame, but we're 2.5 years later and I haven't heard any news about long COVID lately, certainly nothing calling it a crisis. But this also could certainly change in the future.
Funny goats screaming like humans -

https://youtu.be/nlYlNF30bVg
Quite a fun hobby. What game you working on now?
Everyone's going to have to buy a Pixel phone, ahahahahaahahha.
Movement Advancement Project has some data about the de facto discriminatory effect of voter ID requirements [1] that separately accounts for for low-income people regardless of race [2] and black people in particular [3].

Here's something I wrote on the voter ID topic before [4] (disregard the citation numbers in the quote):

> A question that isn't for you in particular to answer is, in the current day and age, would the number of fraudulent ballots prevented by a new strict voter ID requirement be greater than the number of valid votes prevented by such a requirement? The current legal framework of obtaining government-issued IDs makes strict voter ID laws de facto voter suppression. 30 million people lacked a driver's license as of 2022 [2], and I'd be willing to bet that at least 1 million of them are US citizens of voting age. Let's assume that 25% of them would vote if they had the option to do so from their homes (a arbitrary but conservative hypothetical percentage in light of actual voter turnout percentages [5]). There's been no national election with 250000 fraudulent ballots. Any new voter ID bill that doesn't take this into account will almost certainly be voter suppression. The problem isn't the principle of requiring a voter ID. It's that the laws around getting an ID need to change prior to or simultaneously with laws that make ID a requirement for voting.

[1] https://www.mapresearch.org/id-documents-report

[2] https://www.mapresearch.org/file/ID-info-low-income-communit...

[3] https://www.mapresearch.org/file/ID-info-Black-communities.p...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41351632
I've thought about this a lot too and I think about a few things:

- The barrier to creating and distributing content was higher (it still had to capture people's attention).

- We didn't have all the tools to artificially create content, just our imaginations.

I'm no doomer by any means, and I think it's useful to look back at history for clues as to how to manage it but it's hard to find clues when the situation is so different.

I still believe education and critical thinking are the best antidote for disinformation, but higher education in the US has continued to come under attack (and perhaps rightfully so with the costs rising extremely out of proportion to inflation).
https://archive.is/Nbx7M
"for other countries that want to retain their sovereignty to impose retaliatory sanctions on the US when it targets their companies."

I wouldn't hold your breath.
Code running on medical devices.
Dont deal with people who deal with my enemies either.
An overwhelming majority of the kind of "art" people are producing with these Slop Generators is supposed to make physical sense - it just doesn't.

Have a look at the dreck in the linked article. The software was not asked to produce a picture of an impossible waterfall that couldn't exist in our physical world. Everything about the prompt indicates the user was looking for a physically real scene. The picture of the girl in a meadow even used hashtags to indicate to the algorithm that it was expected to produce an instagram-like photo, but there's a seed pod floating in mid air, her dress is missing a critical strap, the lacework of the dress doesn't make sense and the direction of lighting is totally inconsistent across different parts of her figure.
Students cheat because our society values diplomas more than knowledge. If we reversed that belief system, cheating would disappear
I found that gpt-4-turbo beat gpt-4o pretty consistently for coding tasks, but claude-3.5-sonnet beat both of them, so it's what I have been using most of the time. gpt-4o-mini is adequate for summarizing text.
I think if one is going to post something like this one should post statistics on security breaches of the risk in question.

How many security breaches have there actually been because of /tmp?
If the raw data is available, a slippy map server is very easy to spin up.
No pain. No gain. That too applies in the earned / sacrifice sense.

Trust is one of now corrupted words. It's current meaning is a Frankenstein knock off of the true meaning of the word. Other examples include journalism, and leadership (which have also fallen due to lack of sacrafic).

Yes, it's Orwellian. Normalized. But still Orwellian.
World Economic Forum (WEF), co-chair of the Global Future Council on Agile Governance
>RISC-V with windows will be an eternity to be feasible.

Will it now?

Microsoft was already deeply involved in 2021 as per that years' summit RISC-V Foundation's technical talks. Ztso was pushed by them.
It's kind of the opposite. Stable Diffusion starts with random noise, changes it, asks the model of it's representative of the goal, repeat. But there's much more to it.
Can you elaborate? Quick scan of her Wikipedia entry and top Google hits doesn’t indicate an authoritarian bent. They all list her as a center-left progressive.
Jeremy Howard posted a link about it refusing to translate
Nobody owns software. Some people control it. Others, it controls.
Qualcomm is known for having a particularly aggressive & hardball-style legal department to enforce its patents on core telecom IP. I believe the most likely outcome is they just settle the dispute here. Arm fighting hardball with hardball.

Which would not really affect the ecosystem of phones using Qualcomm arm chips, it would just change the margins / market cap of Qualcomm.

Yes, longterm Q might invest in their own RISC implementations, but I don't see a viable business case for Qualcomm to just stop ARM development for the foreseeable future.
But does it do any better at soliciting the surprise requirements from the user, who after confirming that everything works, two months later reports a production bug because the software isn't correctly performing the different reqirements on the first Tuesday of each quarter that you never knew about.
"8K video recording" - does anyone really need this? Seems like for negligible gain in quality people are pushed to sacrifice their storage & battery, and so upgrade their hardware sooner...
ASML of course, being a Dutch company and not American, is to say that ASML then has dependencies on somewhere else.

For TSMC though, I think it's much more likely that if they didn't comply, the US navy would land marines in Taiwan to force them to comply
Who does the government listen to when making decisions?

Influence and power follows a power distribution. This is an age old problem.
If you live in a democracy, you show up. That can mean voting, attending local council meetings, and running for office.

Society is shaped by those who just simply show up, so show up if you want a say.
Really? What do you feel that it's missing? I write Go for a living but I have also used Laravel (and vanilla php back in the day),and both actix + axum and I think Go really does hit that sweet spot of abstraction level for backends/web services.

I will say that I do prefer Gorm only to be used to scan the table -> model, I'd still rather write the sql by hand but I also don't want to scan the rows every time. But other than that I really cannot think of what it's missing.
You’re going to have to explain that one.

I don’t see how CGNAT does anything but allow easier access to attacks (using private ip space outside of the local network)
Can’t believe it’s been a decade since I built this stuff… but I used to enjoy recreating futuristic UIs from movies. Tons of fun, wish I had time and energy for this type of play still.

E.g. https://github.com/arscan/encom-boardroom
I think I agree with your core point here.

In an ideal world, anyone who would be affected by a policy (directly or indirectly) should be allowed to have a say in the policy.

Citizenship seems to be a "good enough" bar for letting people in this country vote on matters of this country.

And as I pointed out, any filter, including citizenship, is turned into a way remove voters who should otherwise have a say.
Famed lions' full diet revealed by DNA, humans among prey
Where the floppy disks still come from is quite interesting:

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-with-the-last-person-s...
And? By its own description, that council doesn’t appear authoritarian. For reference, here’s how it describes itself…

“To seize the benefits of rapid technological progress, while managing its risks, it is essential to foster responsible technology governance and regulation, advance the digital transformation of sectors and industries, and promote tech-enabled solutions to serve people and the planet. How can policies, regulations and institutions be transformed to scale technologies responsibly?”

https://www.weforum.org/communities/gfc-on-technology-policy...
2 out of 3 of those maxims are Reasonably Correct?
>Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago

Cursory research will yield that this was a technicality with no weight in Google's strong commitment to RISC-V Android support.
All the details can be found in the EUROPOL publications begging for it to be banned.
> There's an incredible amount of waste due to incumbent tech making interoperability difficult.

So the solution to that is to add another layer of complex AI tech on top of it?
Good to know and thanks for that link. I am curious why this was downvoted, is that not a trustworthy resource?
I hope there's enforcement here. I mean just look at this garbage:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/metamask/nkbihfbeog...

I once tried reporting these blatant phishing reviews, but apparently on Google the only way to report a review is if it's "Child sexual abuse material" if it's "policy related" and only "court order" or "intellectual property" if it's legal related. It's a wholy unsatisfactory system riddled with garbage.
Money and Violence dictates who controls resources hence power. So, companies controlling government is no surprise.
They will ensure that before that happens that won't occur; I'm sure they will cover their bases. AI is great for PM's/Product/C-Suite types (i.e. the decision makers). Bad for the do'ers/builders long term IMO.
Does government not act within self interest? The self interest of the company is to provide the information that people want. The self interest of the government is to provide the information that keep the citizens voting for who controls the politicians. And who controls the politicians is a profitable game for big corporations.

I understand companies act within their own self interest. But the problem is when we provide government with enormous power it becomes within the self interest of companies to influence government rather than provide value to society.
(Naive question) then is it really a big hurdle for a company who knows how to make arm chips to try making riscv chips?
Or as a knee-jerk reply from a kid when asked to do their homework or take out the garbage. :J
My 16 yo cousins already use it and love it. They even showed their friends because the curation makes it a compelling entertainment source. And they request me specific stuff all the time, which makes me discover their culture too.
Completely irrelevant. They are not the owner of the Linux kernel.

Linus holds the trademark. The copyright holders are the contributors to the source code. Nobody "owns" it, that's the point, it's an international project.
What if legal wants to show a TOS page, or you want finer grained authentication than a shared key?

>Or do not offer internet access at all. People carry their own already-connected devices anyway.

Travelers don't typically have gigabytes of bandwidth to spare. I for one like having unmetered internet access even when there's theoretically internet access available through roaming (absurdly expensive) or esims (expensive)
That industry only thinks it controls its devices. Crowdstrike showed there are many bridges over that moat.
Distribution is where the shenanigans happen.

In New York, the Mob likes to control trucking and rail transport, because it allows them to get their fingers into anyone’s business.

Very easy to have a truck make a 20-minute detour into a hidden depot, where the contents are “inspected.” I know folks that used to work for those types of outfits, and the stories I’ve heard, tell me that the wiseguys are very smart. They know how to get around pretty much any tracking and verification system.

The more people have their hands on the product, the more likely it is to “fall off the truck.”
I suspect not? I think the principles and methods of optimization are the same.

But I say this as a software guy who doesn't actually know CPU design.
Do sanctions ever actually work as intended?

To this casual bystander it seems like they usually hurt innocent citizens far more than the leaders of the usually authoritarion regime that it targets.
What's silly is your argument. You're comparing a person commenting on a forum to a service designed to serve millions a summary of someone else's work that's also powered by billions of dollars.

Technology certainly evolves but this is a shitty direction. You yourself are calling the service you use shameless theft. Perplexity themselves have been caught doing shady things. I'm not here trying to defend media companies but I'm saying the current end game here is not pretty and more people should consider that.
It seems they've redacted pretty much everything related to that, and any search sources for that matter. Had to join the discord to even see someone talk about this;

https://layer8.space/@k/113350415680785878
California FFA and AB 2496 Explain Like I'm Five (ELI5) FAQ
Allegro: Open the Black Box of Commercial-Level Video Generation Mode
Nothing to see here, folks.

The highest successful altitude achieved to date is 9.1km. According to Wikipedia, it needs to achieve 60km to launch a payload into low earth orbit. In May 2024, they replaced their CEO. "As of August 2024, no further test flights or other technological accomplishments have been reported by SpinLaunch since its 2022 test flight."
Humans and giraffes.. discussion (50 points, 11 days ago, 71 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818964
We're not quite there yet. A bunch of mission critical stuff like SIMD were only added in the last 2-3 years. As it takes 4-5 years to design/ship high-performance chips, we still have a ways to go.

Ventana Veyron looks interesting. Tenstorrent's upcoming 8-wide design should perform well.

Qualcomm pitched making a bunch of changes to RISC-V that would move it closer to ARM64 and make porting easier, so I think it's an understatement to say that they are considering the idea. If ISA doesn't matter, why pay tons of money for the ISA?
The article doesn't properly explain how DRAM is different from SRAM.
DRAM has to constantly refresh itself in order not to 'forget' its contents.
RAM speeds are still improving pretty fast. I'm running DDR5 6000 and DDR5 8300 is available. GDDR7 uses PAM3 to get 40Gbps
They predict (correctly) that a human will slack off. It is just more prediction engine stuff.
Samsung phones are presumably firm as well. They recently switched to snapdragon (qualcomm) chips but before they were using exynos (samsung) chips.
I've recently moved from Svelte (initially 4, then 5) to Vue 3, and much prefer it.

The big issue for me was the lack of support for nested observables in Svelte, which caused no end of trouble; plus a lack of portals (though maybe the new snippets fix that?).
Whether Microsoft has windows running on an architecture is a very different level from whether it’s feasible to use it as a daily driver on windows. The ecosystem is what matters for most people.

Windows for arm hails back to 2011. They’re only just now getting native arm ports for several major packages. That’s ~13 years for a well established architecture that’s used much more universally than RISC-V. They don’t even have arm ports for lots of software that has arm ports on macOS.

RISC-V will take an aeon longer to get a respectable amount of the windows ecosystem ported over.
As a heads up your project is MIT licensed - that means companies do not need to reach out to purchase a license for commercial use. It might make sense to change that to an offer for official support (or relicense the project to meet your desires if applicable).
Has anyone else gotten a tremendous number of people approaching them online on various platforms seeking people to work as fake review submitters? I always respond with open disgust and admonition, just wondering if it's just me
Qualcomm itself is one such company.
The WEF is ultimately authoritarian.
1. I am fairly sure games and other performance sensitive apps are using the Android NDK which is not available for RISC-V.

2. I am fairly sure a competitive RISC-V CPU is not days or weeks but years away.
Ok, it now banned. I guess my next question is - so what?

Without an enforcement mechanism to monitor the millions of review websites nothing will happen.

And can you imagine the effort required to prove a review is fake?
First you can have democracy. Then separation of powers between the judiciary, the executive and the legislature along with property rights and the rule of law.

It seems to work reasonably well.
Now that the Nvidia deal has fallen through, SoftBank is trying to ramp up profitability while continuing to search for another buyer.
Without (complete) kernel sources, they're already e-waste.
SEGA are one of the most willing companies to look the other way on fan games.
There shouldn't be ballot access for a party nominee. I would be fine with the party endorsement of a given candidate still appearing on the ballot.

It's not a gate, it's privileged access, where organizations that pass some rule play by different rules than other candidates.
Those countries exist? Last I checked there are few true democracies. Where there are free and fair elections the politicians seem bought out by unchecked corporate interests. If all your options are just corporate shills and power hungry spooks and goons is it even "free and fair" at that point?
https://archive.ph/NsdEP
Any comments on alignment with Anthropic's missions. Last time I checked Anthropic is about building SOTA as that is the only way to do safety research. Making money ans useful stuff commercially is a means to an end.
> That doesn't sound very efficient if all you got is an M-mode-only chip though.

There is approximately a light-year of space between an M-mode-only chip and anything where you'd consider running a hypervisor.

Suggesting that you want a hypervisor is implicitly saying that you already have S and U modes, virtual memory, page tables, MMU etc.

Otherwise you're at much the same point as those news stories about how someone is running RISC-V Linux on an AVR or Pi Pico (original) or vim macros, by writing a RISC-V emulator on one of those.
I think it's pretty careless of GHK not to provide any references to the 'compliance requirements'. It just opens the door for all kinds of speculation and guesswork.

On another note, Huawei has 42 maintainers listed in the upstream MAINTAINERS file, even with all the sanctions from the US. It's a bit puzzling, and I'm not quite sure what to make of it.
Ah yes, true, true, I had forgotten about the semicolon. Somehow. Yeah, I don’t think I’d like expression-orientation so much without it.
Ah, allows hiding behind a massively shared single address with less traceability.
In a way, they are. E.g. look at Apple, which is relocating a ton of roles to the San Diego area (and Seattle some).
The splitting a coin analogy doesn't capture anything about entanglement though. It is just capturing a property of all distinguishable persistent objects: if you have two distinguishable persistent objects and you know one is at location A and one is at location B, then if you find out which one is at A you know what the one at B must be.

To be a reasonable analogy it has to capture something this is different between entangled and not entangled particles. That's the thing that is sometimes described as "spooky" and completely missing from the split coin analogy.
I'm interested. Any support for that? I looked around on Wikipedia and LinkedIn.
Regional bands thrived and created gems that even today can be appreciated as masterpieces...

Care to name a few?
Yes, good point. That's pretty similar to scientific falsifiability at least!

I think for topics that are not as easily provable as reproducible builds though, trust gets murky.

There was something else I read (can't find it now) that made a similar analogy for a web of trust.

A web of trust (e.g. PGP) will have de-facto authorities since there will be a tendency for more people to sign individuals presumed to be trustworthy based on their history. It follows that the system runs into issues if their key gets compromised or if a false individual is subject to a sybil attack, producing the illusion of trust. See also: github stars, cryptocurrency, social media follower counts.
I've made blind A/B tests between the Apple standard codec and Spotify Premium.

Not even talking lossless, as Spotify doesn't even offer a lossless option.

I don't want to be patronized on what I allegedly can / can not not hear by a "Premium" service I've been paying for for 10 years.
Yeah and what would be even better is when you go to vote you can get an ID.
Companies do not have such constraints and operate strictly in self-interest.

With companies I have options to not engage at all. I don’t have that option with the government.
First, I assume I’m missing some critical detail and am wrong somewhere.

Both the ERP, and the explanation of the CHSH with the difference being cos^2(theta) an isn’t that just Malus’s law? So in the case of the ERP experiment, if you fired single polarized particles at a polarizing filter at one angle or the other you still get cos^s(theta) as the difference without requiring entanglement, no?

That implies, in the case of entangled particles there is more than one dimension of “whatever” that causes the polarizing filter to “choose” whether to extinguish the particle on non-equal angles - like azimuth/elevation instead of just theta? It just seems to me that rather than disproving a “hidden variable”, it requires one?

Like I said, I assume I’m missing something and am wrong.