skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ownership of identity

This isn't currently a reality with ATProto, though they're making important progress over the status quo.

Your identity in atproto is your DID. Your domain (if you use one) is just a handle. Currently all DID resolution goes through https://plc.directory, which is completely controlled by Bluesky. Their plan is to eventually have this run more like the DNS by something like a nonprofit, but AFAIK that process hasn't started.

The question is if Bluesky turned completely evil today, what recourse would users and app developers have?

All the other apps could form a coop for a new DID directory and switch their users over. That might work, but I would like to see something like this in place running alongside Bluesky's directory since the logistics of running such a thing are not obvious.

Also, it's not entirely clear to me that running an alternative pseudo-DNS is really better than just using DNS like the fediverse does.

One really nice thing about it is that DIDs are opaque values, so squatting should essentially go away. And there's not really any good reason for DIDs to expire like domains do. This is nice for account recovert, since in the worst case if you couldn't prove your identity to the DID registrar your account would just go stale, rather than potentially being taken over by a bad actor[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42699099
The biggest concern is having just one player directly or indirectly controlling all of them. One voice, under Trump (or anyone else) control.
Which formulation of magnesium? And how long (days/weeks) of supplementation before you noticed a difference? Does it 'wear off' once you stop?
Honestly, I think it’s actually the second generation Prius that transformed the auto industry. The first generation was quirky, had poor crash test ratings, and was full of compromises.

The second generation showed that they could produce a sedan with high reliability, a decent sized passenger cabin, high crash test ratings, and very little compromises over a regular car except speed and sell it at a massive scale with incredible gas mileage, lower maintenance costs and great reliability.

I think it also showed that you could build a smaller car, throw in all the technology features and young people would buy it where previously, manufacturers would only put the latest and greatest features on their largest vehicles. For example, if you wanted the latest and greatest features from Mercedes, you would have to buy the S class, so even if you wanted a smaller more efficient car, if you were an early adopter, you had to buy the largest model. I think the Prius was a point where people realized that the youngest people wanted these tech features but they didn’t want a giant car.
Unlike most bicycle chains, timung chains are permanently lubricated with filtered oil. Belts are not.
As I wrote in my reply, I don't have "sources".

Pure decode excluding any other requirements is probably pretty low, but running a decoder isn't all you need. There's network, display, storage and RAM so your OS can run etc. There will probably be plenty of variation (brightness, environment, how you get your stream in since a 5G modem is probably going to be different energy-wise compared to WiFi or Ethernet), and if you have something like a decoder in the CPU or in the GPU and if that GPU is separate, more PCIe involvement etc. But we can still estimate:

Hardware decoding (1080p video): ~5–15 W for the CPU/GPU

Overall system power usage (screen, memory, etc.): ~25–45 W for a typical laptop.

Duration (30 minutes): If we assume an average of 35 W total system power, the energy consumption is:

Energy = 35W × 0.5h ours = 17.5 Wh

We can do a similar one for inference, also recognising you'll have variations either way:

CPU inference: ~50 W.
GPU inference: ~80 W.
Overall system power usage: ~70–120 W for a typical laptop during LLM inference.

Duration (30 minutes): Assuming an average of 100 W total system power:

Energy = 100W × 0.5 hours = 50Wh

We could pretend that our own laptop is very good at some of these tasks, but we're not taking about the best possible outcome, we're talking about the fact that there is a difference between decoding a video stream and doing LLM inference, and the fact that that difference is big enough to make someone's point that video streaming is somehow 'worse' or 'as bad as' LLM usage moot. Because it's not. LLM training and LLM inference eats way more energy.

Edit: looking at some random search engine results, you get a bunch of reddit posts with screenshots from people asking where the power consumption goes on their locally running LLM inferencing: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/17vr3uu/what_ex...

It seems their local usage hovers around 100W. Other similar posts hover around the same, but it seems to be throttle based as other machines with faster chips also throttle around the same power target while delivering better performance. Most local models use a quantised model which is less resource-hungry, the cloud-hosted models tend to use much larger (and thus more hungry models).

Edit2: looking at some real-world optimised decoding measurements, it appears you can decode VP9 and H.265 on 1 year old hardware below 200mW. So not even 1W. That would mean LLM inferencing is orders of magnitude more power hungry than video decoding. Either way: LLM power usage > Video Decode power usage, so the article trying to put them in the same boat is nonsense.
I meant the display. The Daylight Computer has a monochrome LCD which updates very fast compared to e-ink screens.
Good overview before the Higgs discovery.
Exactly (mostly).

Coop is historically a two interest cooperative structure (business+customer/employee/producer)

This model generalizes two to N and formalizes it.
Caring, being able to tell differences, design or envision something for the better, as in many of the example you pointed out is more of a curse than a gift.

Being the 1%, and sometimes 1% of the 1% is this world, is either what most normal people call genius or simply insane.

The first thing that springs to mind of "better" world is Japan is I shared this immensely with the author. If only I could learn Japanese I would have lived there.
Ah yes high tech, an industry where there's famously no weird distorting influence from VCs subsidizing unprofitable business models to grab market share.
Better yet why not transliterate it so the rest of us can read the conversation.
The TPM is a computer running code that says "after 3 bad password guesses, forget the underlying key forever". That's the value it adds here. It's assumed that typing the password is the only way to get the actual encryption key out of the device, so the only attack is to guess the underlying encryption key, which is much harder than guessing a user's password (that they probably typed into totally-legit-blog.example.com to post a comment once).

In the real world, it's not clear that this is strictly better than using a slow password-based key derivation function. With a key derivation function, the attacker gets unlimited tries for all of time, so it is technically slightly less secure than "the key blows up in a ball of fire after 3 guesses". I don't have data on whether or not passwords are successfully guessable on average in 3 attempts, but they probably are for certain users. (You look at data breaches and if they use the same password on all of them, it's probably their TPM unlock password too.)

How secure TPMs are is also up for debate. I think I had an early one that was just a standard 8 bit microcontroller speaking the protocol the right way, without any actual security. That loophole is likely plugged for DRM reasons (software can ask the TPM to certify itself), but assuming that a computer running code you've never read has 0 bugs is unwise.
> This boat could be easily sunk by drones or a guy with a big gun. Taiwan has plenty of both.

And China has plenty of RORO ships.

> Only way China sends this ship to Taiwan is if they already have a strong beach head and supply lines.

Yes, this is what I was saying here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746043

These ships are the supply line. Sustaining a landing force after capturing a beachhead is an important problem and these ships are the solution.

> At that point it’ll be tough for Taiwan either way.

Yes but it will also be tough for China if their landing force can’t get reinforcements, food, fuel, and ammunition. A beachhead is just the beginning of a much harder fight to come through the cities and mountains of Taiwan.
My boox note has lasted years, been to the beach and on hikes, visited multiple countries, and commuted with me most work days. No sign of fragility. In that time I've had two kindles and one kobo break.
> It seems like people ... just don't even look in their inboxes for legitimate, personal correspondence anymore

I disagree with that - in my experience sending persona correspondence to my friends/family are generally received and read.

It does seem like people really want the "like (with an emoji)" funcitonality of the rest of the web in email ... Gmail and Outlook are building it in, but unless you're in their walled gardens it does not work great (i.e. email reply: "X has ed your message")
They started that project as Roentgen as I recall, and while they did exist there were eye-watering of expensive.

Around the time Apple started delivering HiDPI displays there was still a bit of scrambling by everyone to get software to play nice on OSX and Windows. Always fun when a game doesn’t realize you’re on a 270 DPI screen and makes the main menu so small you can barely read it to change the settings.
Nice! How did you find working with the Textual library?
The switching of command and service in the argument order from the init script days still catches me out.

foo restart vs restart foo
Looking at some claims that quantum computers won't work
> Did it correctly identify the language as Old French, at least

Yes! But that's the easy part. :)

> I was talking about OCR'ing modern English cursive handwriting

Yeah, see, I think that's a very narrow expectation. Archive paleography is substantially broader than that. I'm not saying that the tools are useless, but they're often still not better than humans directing focused care and attention.

> o1-pro, on the other hand, completely shat the bed

The result is absolutely hilarious though! So kudos to the model for making me laugh at least.

> 4o did pretty well

It is indeed pretty good and very impressive as a technological feat. The big problems I guess are:

1) Pretty good isn't necessarily good enough.

2) If one machine gets it right and one machine gets it wrong, can a machine reconcile them? Or must we again recruit humans?

3) If a machine seems to get a lot right but also clearly makes important factual errors in ways where a human looks and says "how could you possibly get this part wrong, of all things?" (like the year), how much do we trust and rely on it?
In this comparison, Ozempic is nicotine patch.

And yeah, it is not a cure, but in the absence of a cure, harm reduction is a worthy goal.
It’s totally insane that China can ban all American social networks on security concerns and ban all kinds of just basic speech on their apps, but banning a Chinese social network is so controversial.
Since both sides are using terrorism it’s fine, right?
> NLPs are dead in the water right now, except in terms of cost.

False.

With all due respect, the fact that you're referring to natural language parsing as "NLPs" makes me question whether you have any experience or modest knowledge around this topic, so it's rather bold of you to make such sweeping generalizations.

It works for your use case because you're just one person running it on your home computer with consumer hardware. Some of us have to run NLP related processing (POS taggers, keyword extraction, etc) in a professional environment at tremendous scale, and reaching for an LLM would absolutely kill our performance.
Show HN: Hackslash.org Slashdot-esque AI summaries/tags of HN posts
I've been working on this for a little bit and just got the site up off my own dev machine today. This is a site that uses the Gemini API to summarize HN posts and comments using Gemini 1.5 pro. It also tags stories using the Gemini API. Tags can be browsed for all stories that have that tag. All the tags annotated with the number of stories that have that tag are browsable. The web application portion is written in Django, backed by a Postgres database, served by gunicorn and ultimately pushed out through an nginx reverse proxy. I ended up making this because it was something that I wanted, I'm an old Slashdot nerd, always reading the stories and never the comments. I like HN, and the comment threads here, and wondered one day what it would be like to get Gemini to summarize posts in a way similar to Slashdot.

I don't have any plans to charge for the site. I will probably only have it pull stories once or twice a day to keep the API costs down. There are five API hits per story, verbose summaries (story and comments), tldr summaries (story and comments), and tags. Right now I've got a python script separate from the Django application that does all the interacting with the HN api (which is very nice by the way), the Gemini API, and the Postgres database. I ended up using the Gemini 1.5 pro model to do the summaries as it seems to have access to the Internet, while the other model I tried do not. Getting the model to consistently output JSON for the tags was a bit tricky, until I asked Gemini itself to fix up the prompt for consistently generating JSON. Now it seems to output valid JSON every time without a JSON prefix.

I have noticed that Gemini likes to hallucinate when it comes to the comments, I have it just about ironed out for the story URLs. Mostly when there are few or no comments it seems to summarize like the comments it expects to be there. I'll probably keep tweaking the prompts, and if there's interest demonstrated on Patreon I'll take some polls there of new features to add. I might add more summary types, Gemini seems to do an alright job when I tell it to critique an article but I haven't looked into that too deeply and I have a hunch it might start to hallucinate more. Setting up a personalized page with tag filtering might be an interesting thing to add.

Regardless, I hope you find it interesting. I'm personally curious which tags will end up with the most stories after I have it running for about a month or so. Questions and critiques welcome!
Edit for anyone confused:

GP comment changed significantly (for the better).
I think Apple and other people maintained that 150 DPI is around where you start perceiving a monitor to be similar to a printed page.
There are lots of things that China does that would be controversial in other countries. Why is it totally insane?
checkout ClickHouse cloud maybe they have cheaper options for your usage
Yeah totally insane that our government actually has to be concerned with public opinion.
Nobody cares what HPC industry has to say; until recently, they have happily been jerking off Monte-Carlo simulations on overpriced nation-grade supercomputer NUMA clusters and didn't know what a "GPU" was anyway! Also please stop spreading "consumer grade product" propaganda. I had used AMD Instinct MI50's—supposedly datacenter-grade hardware, and have faced the exact same problems as George. Except in my case there was no call-line at Lisa's.

Guess what, the AI industry has spoken: hyper-scalers would buy NVIDIA, or rather design their own silicon. Any thing, any how, but nothing to do with AMD.

Also: if your business is doing so great, how come you're constantly in all these Hacker News threads talking and talking and talking but not actually releasing products of any kind, of any bread, that any of the hackers on here could use?
How do you verify identity in that prototype? (Not providing my data to a signup form before I know at least the rough idea.)

> I think the only way in which this can be done is by relying on passport (and other government IDs) verification.

Given that most national IDs currently can't anonymously certify personhood to third parties, this seems like it puts unreasonable trust into the "identity broker" preserving both anonymity and not certifying sockpuppets. I don't see a scenario in which any even moderately successful solution would not eventually crumble under these two types of pressure.
Had my mind drifting back to days of S/Key [1] and little scraps of paper with crossings out on them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/KEY
Clickhouse on a cheap hetzner vm or server?
what is an urbit
> Note that this if-then statement is written backwards from how it’s written in English: the “then” part, the conclusion is written first, followed by the :- symbol. After the :- symbol come the premises

Why not write it like it’s written in English? It could be one less thing to learn for people trying to adopt the language.

https://dusa.rocks/docs/introductions/graph/
TIL you can ls and run GitHub workflows using their CLI
Yeah I can’t think of any practical applications of plastics.
There is an option in feed settings:

[x] Fetch original content

But most power comes from URL rewrite rules. Here is the one I use for problematic sites:

rewrite("^(.+)$"|"https://markdown.download/$1")
For any heathens like me, the history makes a lot more sense when you know that Simon and Peter are the same person. It chops and changes with no explanation.
If you brag with freedoms and free speech, you can't really use what china is doing as an excuse to do the same.
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interesting!!!! I have not been able to train IG and have deleted
my account few years ago
> I am annoyed by the redundant "systemd/system" directory name

It's not redundant, you also have /etc/systemd/user (and /lib/systemd/user) where units that run in the user context (as opposed to system-wide context) are stored.
> What specific speech do you think is no longer allowed?

The TikTok ban was specifically prompted by Congresspeople being upset about pro-Palestinian / anti-Israeli speech on the platform.
>But sure, just assume it's because everyone is stupid.

Well thanks to all the replies below to prove may be he is not assuming it's because everyone is stupid.

I think this reply also amplifies what the author was saying. Just because the standard is like this and everyone is following the standard doesn't mean the standard is good.
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I think this is true for a long term solution, but the standard treatment to alleviate symptoms of reflux is to consume antacids, so I think parent's point is still valid.
Excellent write up! This is not the first blog post I see in recent times on going to owning infrastructure direction, but it is certainly well written and I liked the use of Excel in it, a good use, although visually daunting!
I'm sure they make some modifications, but they started with the plans for a prison. The overall building footprint and architecture is the same.
Having different semantics with different proprieties on the same command is really confusing.
The problem was that all the people who volunteered that they’d read the book were narcissistic assholes who just became much bigger assholes afterward.

I really wanted to read that book as a young man to understand why it was so toxic. But I didn’t want anyone to ever see me reading it. I went as far as making a plan to glue another book cover over it. Problem was I also didn’t want the Rand estate to profit from my curiosity.
Why is that insane? We should lead by example if we value free speech.
>Thirdly, the haplodiploidy hypothesis only works if all sisters share the same father and if a queen is biased to produce more daughters than sons.

The sex ratio doesn't actually seem like a problem for the theory, because it sounds like for a worker bee, the relatedness of the marginal sibling is 5/8 in expectation, vs. 1/2 relatedness of the marginal offspring.

I think you also have to discount the relatedness into the future. If the colony you are born into is already established, your 5/8 related marginal sibling has a much higher likelihood of survival than your 1/2 related marginal offspring when you take into account the risk of breaking from the colony and starting your own.

That probably goes some way to explaining the first problem of multiple fathers. Marginal half-siblings are only 1/4 related to the worker, but they may have a greater chance of survival.
No. That’s not subsidization.

Of course insurance is about pooling risk. But subsidizing implies you’re doing it below market rates.

If I pay my market rate but still -EV insurance premium, I’m not subsidizing anyone. I’m just happy to pay for the convexity insurance provided.

If I have to pay 20% more than I otherwise would, because the insurance company can’t charge someone else 20% more, that is actual subsidization.

A subsidy distorts natural market forces. This is what I am talking about.

Don’t be so quick to be a dick.
Because it’s hacker news. You are the out crowd. So sucks to be you.

Absolute insufferable.

REDNote.
Is it a color boox? Mine was color. I think those are more fragile.
The navigation in 3D-space is annoying. I do my fair share of Three.js development, was very experienced in Maya, but I just can't use this one here. Panning is on the screen's plane at unbelievable slow increments, that I can't help but thinking that someone made this for VR and only tested it there, I can't imagine that a mouse was used during testing.
Trump will take office on Monday. If he chooses to declare some progressive idea as anti-american, a lot of people, who previously said nothing illegal, could face hostility from "patriots".

I hope this doesn't happen. But I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Old data can become toxic waste.
First I've heard of this one. I never got into Inform7 because I didn't find the language very discoverable; it felt like writing AppleScript. Do you know of any links to larger examples of Dialog code, like a full open source game written in the language?
Certainty not magically, but it did disappear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empir...

Formally through the Treaty of Sèvres and Treaty of Lausanne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_S%C3%A8vres

The thing coming closest to a successor state would be modern-day Turkey, I believe.

Creation of Mandatory Palestine (under British rule, but not considered a state) was a part of the partition.
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"Little red book" aka rednote
Your conclusion is right, but in bees, sex is determined by Haplodiploidy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplodiploidy ), not X0.
Also, the daughters have the same number of chromosomes as the mother so they share 50%, not 75% of their genes with their mother (they do share an average of 75% of their genes with their sisters).
The article leaves me totally unsatisfied, with even more questions than answers.

I still have no idea how so many people like me [1] can feel increasingly disconnected from the party that has been totally remade in Trump's image, while these guys have gone in the other direction.

[1] A registered Republican since the Bush era. I've vocally opposed the man since he first entered the picture in the spring of 2015, and I seem to be in good company; see Bush, Cheney, McCain, Romney, all of his former cabinet members and even his own former VP. My dad has voted Republican since the Nixon era, but said he couldn't do it anymore either.