skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah that is the hypothesis some people have floated for as to why we only "just now" discovered this simple idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837349
The US is the wealthiest country in the world, and the US got to that place by having these programs in place.

Who makes shoes/other goods, mines the earth, or other dangerous work? The people in those poor countries. These programs are often the stepping stone that western countries use to enter countries and "develop the economy" in these areas to the benefit of everyone. Developing the economy brings jobs then brings peace. Then the cost of goods stays down.

Fewer orphans. More experience treating diseases. More stable economies to exchange goods and services with.

Very likely these programs pay for themselves via your taxes via price of goods and services. Entirely ignoring the moral good
You have to provide your email to sign up for HN, however, it is not publicly visible. If YCombinator had to pay $10,000 for leaking a user email, this site isn't going to exist since it's not their core business and represents a huge liability.

It's also disproportionate. If my email is leaked in the context of receiving treatment for a stigmatized disease, that's a lot worse than an MMORPG leaking my real name.

Maybe some penalty is necessary but $10k or above per user is disproportionate for the vast majority of people. A $50/person penalty with gradations for sensitivity of the information is going to work better in practice. If leaking an SSN is more expensive than an email or site-specific ID, corporations might stop using SSNs to identify people to reduce their exposure
What they meant is buying two whole separate computers.
Things change. They made sure people could go back to any legacy behavior they personally favored, or not. "Please constantly be trying to improve your product, so change the things I don't like, but don't change anything I do like, even if I still have the option to pick and choose between legacy and updated options". Man, people will bend over backwards to be offended.
On of my favourite hardware investments as a teenager trying to learn c and assembly under dos was a caching hard drive controller.

It made those post crash reboots so much faster!

Talk about solving the wrong problem...
London doesn't even require a red-eye from NYC--or actually from Boston/Washington although it's a very early star--on a conventional jet. I've done it pretty regularly. Not pleasant but I can get to London in time for a late dinner.
> The solution was to use the java api to move the mouse back and forth over the progress bar.

Oh the memories of playing with java.awt.Robot...
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Superheavy element half-life measurements push back the limits of stability
Modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular provide their own state management and DOM manipulation approaches that are more efficient than jQuery's direct DOM manipulation
Ah! I can share something, you can setup an app called displayfusion to show satellite shots from google earth iirc, it's endlessly interesting
Probably not the best choice of words from me there. However, there is a positive correlation between a star's metallicity and the number of planets a star has.
OK, but the article seems to focus on boot time and not performance afterward. During the netbook craze, it seemed like a big performance boost to remove a hi-res desktop in favor of a solid color. At least that's my recollection years later.
No, GOP is the party that received the most votes but most Americans did not vote GOP. The way you are using "most" implies a win by majority but this did not occur (49.8% < 50%); Trump did win the popular vote but it was a plurality.
> The word is directional, it needs a goalpost to move towards [...] How do you define that goal post, and if we got there would you be happy to stop there?

I'd claim you can in theory have a direction without an end-point - where even if some measure is at 9^99 there's always still 9^99 + 1.

At the very least, you can definitely have a direction without setting an artificial end-point. May be that in reducing malaria cases/infant mortality rates we hit 0 and thus literally cannot go lower, and so hit a goalpost in that sense, but if we're at 500 malaria cases and can reduce it further (without equal/greater degradations in other areas) then I don't see why we should ever be "happy to stop there".

> To me that seems like and endless loop of changing stuff

Might agree about, say, website redesigns or fast fashion, but I consider humanity's position as a whole (such as standard of living) to be on a significant upwards trend.
They haven’t yet. From https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-apple-cpu...:

Apple acknowledged the shared proof-of-concept and stated it plans to address the issues. However, at the time of writing, the flaws remain unmitigated.

"We want to thank the researchers for their collaboration as this proof of concept advances our understanding of these types of threats," Apple told BleepingComputer.

"Based on our analysis, we do not believe this issue poses an immediate risk to our users."
If it's cheap to produce.
In this approach the size of deployment bundles / images is not necessarily reduced.

Reduced is the size of javascript loaded into the end user's browser.
It's a common misunderstanding that the CPU suddenly has twice as large performance envelope when SMT is enabled. Only specialized software/scenarios will tangibly benefit from the parasitic gains of SMT-induced extra parallelization, e.g. video encoders like x264 or CPU-bound raytracers to name a few examples. These gains typically amount to about 15-20% at the very extreme end. In some cases you'll see a performance drop due to the inherent contention of two "cores" sharing one actual core. If you're stuck with a dual-core CPU for your desktop setup you should absolutely enable SMT to make your general experience feel a bit more responsive.
> Individuals could choose a "secure" browser or browser mode that provides increased protection from such attacks or a "compatible" one that is less likely to break old websites.

And then we get thousands of posts whining about Safari being broken because it is "not like Chrome" and developers moaning that their unsafe pet API is not supported. Web developers are never going to play ball.
I do think that congress would impeach if he said "I declare martial law and cancel elections". He'll have to get there piecemeal without creating a single moment for opposition to coalesce.
I’m sure that will come up next year when they privatize NASA.
Safari definitely does use site isolation (if you check "Activity Monitor", you'll find Safari processes named after the sites they're displaying) in almost all cases.

window.open, in some constellations, is an exception, because the opening and opened sites have an explicit communication facility available to them, unless at least one of the two explicitly opts out of it. As far as I'm aware, Safari also correctly implements that opt-out.

The only thing that Chrome and Firefox seem to be doing on top of that, as far as I understand, is to actually enforce process-per-site even for sites from the same "browsing context group" (i.e. all that can hold programmatic references to each other, e.g. via window.opener), which requires using IPC.
The material is very cool, but I'm almost more interested in the progress in 3D nanofabrication this shows - "printing" material in 3D by selective solidification tends to be pretty slow, as you need to move around like a 3D printer head instead of one-shotting an entire layer like in 2D lithography.

The fact that they have made a millimeter scale version of their design instead of a small demo that looks cool under an electron microscope is very impressive! The method is pretty clever too - 2 photon absorption works only where the light is focused (and therefore high intensity). They use a lens array to create 49 focus points, allowing them to parallelize the printing of the repeating grid!

Scalable 3D fab could have fun implications for materials like this, and for chip-scale photonics.
Try https://hiring.cafe/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803304

(no affiliation)
Ppstep: An interactive C/C++ preprocessor macro debugger
Windows before some version (maybe before XP?) only supported BMP wallpapers. BMP is uncompressed, a 1024x768 24-bit BMP is 2.25MB. That could be 7% of the 32MB system RAM and if the image got paged out - you were looking at it being redrawn line by line...yeah, I'm not doing that :)
How does it work that it helps the motor symptoms?

And while it’s something if it doesn’t help with dementia it seems like it’s not addressing whatever is the root cause of dopamine deficiency
I think you misunderstood. Among the coarse grained capabilities I mentioned would be "access to folder X and it's subfolders" (read or write).

But to answer your question there are, eg, tons of programming packages in any language that I want purely for their computational abilities, and I know this for certain when using them. In fact for the vast majority of GUI programs I use, or programming packages I use, I know exactly what kind of permissions they need, and yet I cannot easily restrict them in those ways.
ML models do have a "source" though
Simple example: Third party SW in a corporate context. Maybe you want to extend some permissions to some internal sites/parts of the FS, but fundamentally, there's limited trust.
It feels faster than the other web-hosted maxima instances out there and if you take into account the cost of installing common lisp and maxima (I only need to use this about twice a year so I don't keep them live), it can be much faster than a local instance.
Very interesting. Am I reading into this too much when I say

Biden Response = Paternalistic, trust-based. Interpreting the data, but not sharing the data

Trump Response = Neutral, sharing the data (all drones are "authorized"), non-interpretive
The real tragedy is that our processors try to win a bit more speed by sacrificing simplicity and therefore increasing the chances of such exploits. The other tragedy is that our operating systems are obsolete and have worthless security. Back in the day when UNIX was relevant, a hundred people could use it at the same on a mainframe with no fear of it breaking, now one person cannot safely use a single computer.
For gaming, we have hours and hours and decades of let's plays for games - but those could disappear in an instant if Youtube decided they weren't profitable.

Archive things. It's easier than ever to keep local copies of media, and it could be quite valuable someday.
I'm a liberal democrat. I'm just going to be up front about that. I think the left has made some real tactical errors in their policy, and it's upsetting people. Most people just want to live their lives and are fine with others living theirs.

On the trans topic, I obviously think trans folks should be able to live their lives, and I think the nonsense about bathrooms is ridiculous. The solution is obviously just not segregating bathrooms by sex.

Most of the hostility here has to do with sport. Where I think the left has fumbled this is not taking the argument for trans folks seriously enough. Gender is a social construct, sex is not... but we don't segregate our sports because of gender differences (that it's somehow icky to have boys touching girls), we segregate our sports because sex differences means biologically female folks are at a natural disadvantage. If we on the left actually took this argument seriously, we should be arguing for trans women competing in (biologically) male sport, because the point of gender being a social construct means we shouldn't see this as a problem. Same for trans men competing in (biologically) female sport.

That we conflate them is an unforced error and honestly undermines the entire argument that trans solidarity is based on (an argument that I generally support).

The conflations continue when we are discussing "immigrants." I've long held that I have no idea why the American left seems totally fine with ignoring the fact that people are overstaying their visas. I'm pretty close to an open borders guy, so I very obviously hate our immigration policy. However, that doesn't mean we should just ignore laws we don't like. We fight to change them. If we're allowed to just ignore perfectly reasonable laws like visa limitations, then there's no reason the right can't start ignoring background checks for gun purchases, or prosecutions for civil rights violations of, say, trans folks. Ignoring laws we don't like breaks the "faithfully execute" oath that executives generally take... it's also wildly undemocratic.

Overstaying a visa is not something we should be exercising civil disobedience over. It has nothing to do with asylum seekers or refugees. It's just people ignoring the perfectly legitimate -- if onerous -- rules for visiting. If I want to live in France, it would be ridiculous to suggest that I should just go their on vacation and then stay.

Again, we elected a fascist, I'm not denying that, but the main complaints I've heard from the right that have led here aren't fascist arguments. They all seem like legitimate complaints about the left, complains I generally disagree with or are low priorities for me, but legitimate. When I start hearing actual fascist desires from the electorate, like eliminating opposition parties, then I'll start freaking out. That's not to say it's not bad, it is, my point is only that the previous three cycles look much more like repudiation results -- because the US is facing financial headwinds and an awkwardly divided electorate -- and the coalitions are shifting.
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haha. saving it as pdf-with-timestamp.. Will check in few months the pro-gress/re-gress - my psychoanalysis-for-free!
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I cleared the board multiple times using the exact tactic I outlined.
> In other words, enshittification affects everything.

The presence of this comment in every HN thread is a meta-example.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if their site loaded a WASM-compiled remote-desktop viewer to interact with 'Edge in the cloud' just to view the page you want.
you don't even need to have your DNS turned on or run a reverse proxy - how often are passwords updating? my instance is local network only and the phone, desktop, and chromium extensions sync when I'm at home.
> I'm all for reigning in government spending and our unprecedented deficit,

My bold prediction: the deficit will continue to grow at record levels.
systemd-run inherits afaik all the extensive sandboxing features from systemd

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...

sure, the command line get bit verbose but nothing that an alias or small wrapper couldn't solve

the big problem is that modern operating systems have huge surface area and applications tend to expect all sorts of things, so figuring out what you need to allow is often non-trivial
They did, you must have a pretty bad information ecosystem.
There is no upper bound here. The eradication of smallpox is money saved and suffering prevented every day for as long as humans are around.

Border screening clearly has a high failure rate, our recent experiences with this should be fresh in your mind. Besides threatening public health domestically, outbreaks in foreign nations are nevertheless a major economic liability. If COVID had never left China, we would still have seen a huge worldwide disruption, for example.

And anyway, screw them, we got ours is a shit perspective. Empathy should be part of the conversation when talking about so much suffering and death.
> Ah, you are considering a platform like Meta, who has to give space to everyone.

This is what I at least focused on since

- Facebook is the platform that the discussed article is about

- in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852441 pixl97 wrote:

"Then this comes back to size of the network. HN for example is small enough that we have just a few moderators here and it works.

But once the network grows to a large size it requires a lot of moderators and you start running into problems of moderation quality over large groups of people."
> First aid, how to make fires, materials and uses

This scares me more than it should...

Please do not trust an AI in actual life and death situations... Sure if it is literally your only option, but this implies you have a device on you that could make a phone call to an emergency number where a real human with real training and actually correct knowledge can assist you.

Even as an avid hiker the amount of times I've been out off cell service is miniscule and I absolutely refresh my knowledge on first aid regularly and any potential threats before a hike somewhere new.
An identically useful comment would've been to place the bounds at 0 and infinity.
What do you think of Mermaid's AI?
Modern design: looks cleaner, is harder to use (more clicks)
> Thankfully nobody is trying to sell humans as a service

That’s a description of the entire service economy.
this was the original approach for Java, and the main idea behind being able to ship untrusted apps directly to the user and run them in the browser

tomcat also gave different privilege levels to different parts of the classpath

nice idea, but didn't seem to work in practice
Psychic retreats: Unbearable states of mind and technological addiction (2010)
Just speculating here, but would it be possible that the redirecting domains could actually overtake the original site in terms of search rank, etc? If yes, this could be preparation for a semi-targeted phishing campaign:

1) set up plausibly-named fake domains that redirect to example.com

2) ensure that the fake domains rank higher than the original domain for "example" searches.

3) after a while, people have gotten used to accessing the service through the fake domains or might even think those are the official domains.

4) pull up the net by replacing the redirect with phishing pages. Suddenly, everyone googling for the service will end up on a phishing site, without any obvious way to fix the situation.

Phishers could also run this scheme for lots of sites in parallel, without needing to have some specific interest in any of them.

Edit: Seems like the semantics of the 301 redirect should prevent this from working though.
I’ve been one of the skeptical commenters (under another username), not because I think it’s technically impossible, or because I hate innovation or bold bets, but because I don’t think the economics make sense, and their original timelines and cost estimates were off by an order of magnitude, at least. Aviation is littered with startups that burned through hundreds of millions over the course of a decade or two and then disappeared.

And as others have pointed out, this is cool, but hardly novel, and after nine years and hundreds of millions, they’ve only accomplished the easiest part of what they need to accomplish in order to carry commercial passengers on supersonic flights. Regular passenger jets built by the most experienced companies in the world take tens of billions and decades to go from conception to flying. Boom has decades ahead of them before they’re going to reach the finish line.
I had an issue like this once installing windows 2000. If you didn’t move the mouse during the installation, it would hang and fail. Finally got it to install by sitting there moving the mouse.
And you can just self host local only, it's what I do. clients sync at home and don't lose the data when you leave the house. Even updates on one client (ie mobile) will propagate to others
Maybe it's been fixed in 11, but in windows 10 the automatic accent color option would lag the entire machine in order to pick a color. Which if you use the slideshow option can be quite frequent.
After years of react, svelte is such a relief. It’s such a joy to do webdev again.
Claude’s auto completions in Cursor are often not great though.
Ha nah, the whole goal was unattended installs. Nobody felt hijacked except me for wasting so much time.
I work at Bitwarden and I have that same pet peeve! Let's see if I can get a PR up without causing a UX stir :)
There's a huge moat with getting the critical mass of users to produce/consume content to make everyone follow-on to the platform before your startup cash runs out. That all depends on technical competency to make and keep it smooth, on top of offering enough to creators and advertisers to be competitive.
The article is almost entirely about reactions to the outage, but it isn't clear what happened. What's the timeline for the freeze on loans and grants? Is the outage from a sudden influx of applicants hoping to get approval before the freeze comes into effect? If it goes into effect immediately, I would expect activity to drop, but could it be prompted a DoS attack by a disgruntled nonrecipient? Did they switch to a new system because of a change in regulations, and have troubles with the new system, like FAFSA?
> But surely quite a lot of the 671 GB or whatever is knowledge that is usually irrelevant?

Small correction - It's 671B Parameters - not 671 Gigabytes (doing some rudimentary math if you want to run the entire model in memory it would take ~750GB (671b * fp8 == 8 bits * 1.2 (20% overhead)) = 749.901 GiB)

It's a MoE model so you don't actually need to load all 750gb at once.

I think maybe what you are asking is "Why do more params make a better model?"

Generally speaking its because if you have more units of representation (params) you can encode more information about the relationships in the data used to train the model.

Think of it like building a LEGO city.

A model with fewer parameters is like having a small LEGO set with fewer blocks. You can still build something cool, like a little house or a car, but you're limited in how detailed or complex it can be.

A model with more parameters is like having a giant LEGO set with thousands of pieces in all shapes and colours. Now, you can build an entire city with skyscrapers, parks, and detailed streets.

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In terms of "is a lot of of irrelevant?" - This is a hot area of research!

It's very difficult currently to know what parameters are relevant and what aren't - there is an area of research called mechanistic interpretability that aims to illuminate this - if you are interested - Anthropic released a good paper called "Golden Gate Claude" on this.
I'm sure that a smaller generalist model with RAG would work for many cases, especially where the RAG is just looking up some facts or technique, but would you really want a smart high school kid who's googled brain surgery to be operating on your brain? Books are useful for looking up facts, but there's no substitute for experience/training in actually getting good at something.
Lord do I wish that were true. The main reason I left Facebook was less the algorithmic content I was getting from strangers, and more the political bile that my increasingly fanatical extended family and past acquaintances chose to write.
Great milestone, but still pretty far away from taking passengers as this is a scale technology demonstrator.
It is not required by window.open semantics, you can absolutely implement site isolation even in the presence of COOP unsafe-none
I mean, you have to uncompress an image to display it anyway, so it would've made no difference.
I disagree that it is close enough to "most". When I read/hear "most" in conversation I think a super-majority. Even if it was a simple majority at 51% I'd think using "most" is a bit pedantic but I wouldn't argue the usage.

I completely agree with your later points -- my point was that that is not only who we are, and Trump winning doesn't mean everyone else now has to hold their tongues.
neither administration shared data. Trump's did a much better job of framing the issue though which is just about the only thing his team excels at doing.
> does your organization's S3 costs ever become a problem

A bit. We moved to a stricter data retention policy.
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