skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The X-Forward I have done just gives you the application in your own Desktop Environment. Shure depends on the application itself
If I wanted to read ChatGPT's responses I could use it myself. I come here to read the comments of actual people.
It's a markdown-based collaborative note-taking app where anyone can access, edit, and contribute to notes, making knowledge open and community-driven.
"range of hundreds of millions of people in tech environments, other hackers, programmers, executives, etc. making this exploit deadly if used."

Bit too hyperbolic or whatever... Otherwise thrilling read!
Didn't mean to bash you, sorry.

I saw years of uptime on those systems whereas Win2000 iirc needed a reboot for every single update of the OS, and even for applications like IIS or Exchange.

Compared to NT4 it was probably very stable, since I remember telling most clients to just shut it down Friday evening and boot it Monday morning cause the pre-SP4 NT4 could not stay up more than three weeks.

Compare that to AS/400, where we pushed updates all over the country, without warning clients, to system running in hospitals, and there never was even the slightest problem. It sounds irresponsible to do that today, but those updates just worked, all the time and all applications continued to work.
Not all dollars spend translate back to direct dollars earned, but rather political power or influence - which itself is a catalyser for other benefits. But some don’t seem to understand that.
There was no discussion. It was a knee-jerk decision by then-chancellor Merkel in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear incident, and constituted pretty much a 180 (relative to the maybe-phase-out-not-clear-when-definitely-not-now that was pretty much the bipartisan consensus at the time). It was clear to observers at the time that it would make Germany more reliant on coal and gas and, by extension, Putin, that it would threaten the energy-intensive German industry and it was criticized for that at the time. Calling this a hindsight debate is just silly.
1. Build a rootkit into your product.

2. Release your product.
Unfortunately short of a revolution, there is no realistic way to pass any kind of meaningful constitutional amendment in the US. And it's hard to imagine that fact changing, which makes me pessimistic for the long term future of the country.
Only 400?
I will add, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta... was created to "convert" the Electoral College into a popular vote.

The only way that can happen is if several red state legislatures agree to the Compact. This Compact is useless to replacing the Electoral College if only blue states sign up; these states would have voted blue in an election, anyway. It tips over to 270 if several red states sign up and allocate their electoral votes against the wishes of their own red state constituencies. Would that be democratic? It is obvious why the growth of the compact has stalled at 209 votes; it is irrational for a red state to join it. It is also true in the mirror image if it were a "red state 270 vote compact," no blue state would join it.
In case it helps, at least on desktop browsers, there is a toggle switch to disable autoplay.

I agree about shorts. I’ve repeatedly “removed” them by clicking “less like this” under the ellipsis next to the Shorts heading, but they keep coming back. I’ve also submitted UX feedback about this customer hostile (I pay for YouTube premium) pattern. It’s frustrating when features like this are force fed to you.
Don't copy and paste ChatGPT at me please. It is amusing to me to see how poorly ChatGPT structures sentences and arguments. It must be trained almost exclusively on HR guidebooks and press releases.
Of course. Why would you expect anything but? Pride is actually a very good driver of change if you ask me because people often do their best work when they are proud of what they are building.
So many assumptions there about my point of view, which you clearly don’t understand, and about how the cartels exist and are funded. Did I say our support any of the things in your reply? Read again. Some life advice: spend less time assuming, a little more time educating yourself, and a lot less time insulting people.
He did. Merkel accelerated it and Scholz chose not to delay. They all wanted this.
This stopped being a territorial dispute long ago.

Russia is only interested in a ceasefire as a pause before occupying most of Ukraine.

Not a single time Russia has even hinted to accepting presence of any sort of third party force in Ukraine for peacekeeping.
Thank you, this is awesome. I will communicate my plans properly. Basically, It's a markdown-based collaborative note-taking app where anyone can access, edit, and contribute to notes, making knowledge open and community-driven.
> I'd love to have some idea of what they could actually have that he'd be ashamed of, but he's so shameless it's hard for me to imagine.

“Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.” -Eric Trump, 2014

"In terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets" -Don Jr, 2008
The javascript world has a culture of lots of small dependencies that end up becoming a huge tree no one could reasonable vendor or audit changes for. Worse these small dependencies churn much faster than for other languages.

With that culture supply chain attacks and this kind of vulnerability will keep happening a lot.

You want few dependencies, you want them to be widely used and you want them to be stable. Pulling in a tree of modules to check if something is odd or even isn't a good idea.
The bookmark UI is a bit weird. I have most luck using the bookmark toolbar which is open by default for new tabs (this might be an option).

How on earth do you find what you're looking for in 200+ tabs?! When I'm deep into something I'll have maybe 10-15 open. It's such a good feeling when I'm done and realise I can close them all. I could almost let out an audible sigh.

If you forget about a bookmark, is that a bad thing? Maybe what you really need is a todo list that supports more than just browser tabs.
> That data only exists in encrypted form and in a trusted execution environment, based on the evidence.

First of all, please don't try to pretend that claims that the data remains encrypted and secure and only in trusted environments are claims that should carry any weight. The data cannot only exist in encrypted form. The entire goal of these systems is to mangle and aggregate the data "enough", then share that result as plaintext with the highest bidder.

> I mean, everything you do on the computer is also in RAM - is that tracking too?

No, not everything I do on my computer is tracking. Most software doesn't keep a long-term record of detailed interaction data. I don't expect my window manager to log how much time each app spends in the foreground. But even for the stuff that is logged, you should be able to understand that the real concern comes from when that information is exfiltrated from my computer, processed by a third-party, and sold.
On the L/S unit impact: data movement is expensive, computation is cheap (relatively).

In "Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach" there are numbers for the now old TSMC 45nm process: A 32 bits FP multiplication takes 3.7 pJ, and a 32 bits SRAM read from an 8 kB SRAM takes 5 pJ. This is a basic SRAM, not a cache with its tag comparison and LRU logic (more expansive).

Then I have some 2015 numbers for Intel 22nm process, old too. A 64 bits FP multiplication takes 6.4 pJ, a 64 bits read/write from a small 8 kB SRAM 4.2 pJ, and from a larger 256 kB SRAM 16.7 pJ. Basic SRAM here too, not a more expansive cache.

The cost of a multiplication is quadratic, and it should be more linear for access, so the computation cost in the second example is much heavier (compare the mantissa sizes, that's what is multiplied).

The trend gets even worse with more advanced processes. Data movement is usually what matters the most now, expect for workloads with very high arithmetic intensity where computation will dominate (in practice: large enough matrix multiplications).
I'm not sure how whatever the vast majority of Americans are interested in has anything to do with my point, but...

> The Chinese are not stupid enough to send their kids to die in war

I see you already understand why China would be a better world leader than America!
Thank you. I will take care of that. Basically, it's a markdown-based collaborative note-taking app where anyone can access, edit, and contribute to notes, making knowledge open and community-driven.
Sounds like a recipe for getting people with knowledge of security best practices and people with knowledge of the systems being developed, but not both at the same time.
France has nukes. But for nukes it doesn’t matter in practice if you have 10 or 1000. If you use one, it is one too many. It only matters that you have them.
I don't equate personal freedoms with conquests. If you are a threat to our country I give no cares for what we do to you. If your nation has to be thrown on the pyre of Americas freedom..so be it.

Alec I can't respond to your response. But no it wasn't a parody. I don't actually think we are cozying up to Putin. Europe keeps throwing money at him, we are just trying to end a stupid war. The "purge" is more of a fact finding to see who is wasting our money and how. No one is being killed, jailed, or tortured. I would however not mind if many politicians end up in jail. People forget previous presidents have fired over 350,000 federal employees, the sky didn't fall. But the national debt did for a time...just saying...
You can't cherry pick one example and ignore all the times choosing war was the wrong choice - Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Libya, Iraq 2, Somalia, Afghanistan, Panama, Grenada, Syria, Lebanon, Dominican Republic.

But yeah, good point about Germany!
I know that it feels like the military situation is like that. In reality Russia is much weaker than people think. Three years of war will do that to a country.

All that is needed is sanctions and enough resources for Ukraine to defend itself. And the military intelligence as a force multiplier.

Thats exactly what we have been providing. And it was working. Russian inflation is a 20%+. They are running out of soviet era equipment. They are running out of easily conscriptable men. All of this is documented using open sources.

All that was needed was time. Time for Russia to implode.

But democracy is a fickle thing, and Putin was counting on this. America will have to live with this period of infamy for a long time. And the world will suffer the consequences.
But for how long will you be able to have the strongest and most modern military in the world if you start losing money because of trade wars and/or other countries stop buying US weapons and so on? I believe it won’t be good for your economy, or ours, if we stop being friends and allies.
Maybe populists just tweet better? Maybe populism, the way it is understood today, just is social media driven politics, so that "populists do better on social media" is a tautology?
Trump has always been a caricature of the rich asshole. They even made fun of him in a Robocop movie, if I remember correctly.
I'd expect software that issues prescriptions to be a class II or class III medical device and that any or all of the manufacturer, the institution using it, and any human operator in the loop (if there is one) would be liable for errors, depending on the exact situation.
Effective Rust (2024)
Update: I contacted the Durango Herald, which is a tiny weekly in Colorado. They said that item would appear in the next print issue, and went up on the web site too soon.
You really think the current conflict is the same as a world war?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the US (and Europe) are absolutely not willing to fight Russia to win this war. It's not worth it.

So the war will end eventually in a stalemate. So the choice is to either do it now, or wait until another million people die.
> Worlds of difference, and a simple key-value query takes ~10ms to do.

Unless that query goes over the Internet to another continent, that's a really long time isn't it?
I always find unbelievable how we NEVER hold developers accountable.
Any "actual" Engineer would be (at least the one signing off, but in software developers never sign off anything - and maybe that's the problem).
Titanium is an odd duck here IMO. Titanium is abundant in the Earth’s crust, and titanium ore is fairly inexpensive. We use the ore for all kinds of unglamorous things, e.g. paint. The hard part is turning that ore into nice pieces of metal —- the process is complicated and expensive. While China produces an outsized share of titanium ore, the US has some large-scale operations that turn titanium ore into metal. As far as I know, the only real limit on our domestic production is demand, and demand is limited because the prices are far too high for most applications.

I recall various sources saying that we’re just about to have a revolution in titanium processing, kind of like how aluminum went from being more expensive than gold to being cheap. It hasn’t happened yet, and I wish Iperion luck!
Some understand it fine but are realizing the influence we get isn't worth it. Stop acting like we are idiots for not wanting to engage with geopolitical power games as much as we have been. We know our history, we know our place in the world, we understand all the trade offs, and we may actually not feel they are worth it at this time.

It is the constant refrain of "if they disagree with us they are not informed or are not as intelligent as we are". It is as if they can't believe people could have informed opinions that differ from theirs...wild...
It's been done. We have AI music websites
This doesn't require genetics or epigenetics to be the cause though. For example, there's also the possibility of stressed people passing their stress onto others through their actions.
But some rare worthwhile people don't just lay down, or bend over, to take it from a bully.

Fairness exists as much as people are willing to pursue it.
I think they are brutal for America in particular, but not so much for the developing world. Happy to be wrong about this.

But I do believe that is why Americans are so frightened of a multipolar world (or really, any world where the US isn't the singular superpower).
Sure. It's the part right after the horizontal rule line.

> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” [is the transfer] of a consumer’s personal information [from one business to another in exchange for something of value].

> [...]

> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners, including our optional ads on New Tab and providing sponsored suggestions in the search bar.

This is them saying "it's not that we've suddenly become more evil... we've been doing this for a while... we gotta make money somehow, and advertising and sharing your data is how we do that, but now state privacy laws make us have to be clearer about it".

Firefox gets almost all of its money from Google Search sponsorships and other ads. (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/041315/how-m...). It's not really that different from any other adtech company. It's just one degree away, but most of that sweet user data still flows to Google in the end. Sure, they might obscure some of the PII... but so did FLoC, Google's controversial attempt to keep tracking users after third-party cookies.

Firefox is just a privacy laundering operation for Google and some smaller advertisers. Then Mozilla uses most of that money on unrelated marketing and virtue signaling, pretending like they're some sort of privacy / civil rights champion, when in reality they're not really very different from any other ad-based browser maker — except that they're horribly inefficient at using their millions. All that money and Firefox has still fallen way behind, all while Mozilla keeps pretending they're some sort of enlightened think tank. Nobody actually pays attention to any of their think-tank related work or their other services. Either as a browser maker or a privacy-oriented nonprofit, they're completely ineffective.

If Google stops funding them, they'd shut down overnight, losing 90% of their revenue. And maybe that's a good thing... it's time for a more capable org to take the reins. Mozilla has been a terrible steward, and Firefox went from the thing that saved the internet (from a Microsoft IE monopoly and the super-bloated app suite that Netscape Communicator / Mozilla Suite became) to then crumbling under the poor leadership of its lost decade.
Your premise and any assumptions that build on that are invalid.

The Soviet Union and China had a war. When they both had a nuclear umbrella, the Soviet Union having twice as many nuclear weapons as they do now. What else... India and Pakistan? The Korean war? mjfl, here's some news... did you know there's _two_ Koreas? Russia is in other European states right now - Moldova, Georgia. Never mind the hybrid warfare, I feel at best the need to only vaguely point in that direction. Just as much as I'll vaguely point out that that nuclear umbrella just shrunk to a quarter of its previous size. And how can you say "Europe is covered by a nuclear umbrella" when the largest nation by area entirely in Europe is not covered by it.

Can you do us a favour and at least make a list of Wikipedia articles or historical events or entire nations we're supposed to pretend don't exist, including, paradoxically, Russia?
Are you computing a single expectation value, or are you searching for the bet of maximum expected value among all possible bets ?

How long does it take you to compute a single expectation value ?
> I mean that ideology is, practically speaking, what "the West" is.

This makes no sense. The current ideology is only 70 years old. The "West" has existed for centuries before that.

Maybe you're young and you think there are no options but the current path, but I can assure you there is.

The truth is that the US (or Europe) is not willing to go head to head with Russia. They have neither the public support or the willingness to take the economic hit.

So if they aren't willing to defeat Russia, what is the only possible outcome? A negotiated peace.

So rather than grinding up another few hundred thousand human lives in the war and end up in the same place a few years from now, why not just finish it now?
>but that involves uncomputable physics and thus permanently out of reach of whatever computers can do.

And yet is somehow within reach of a fertilised human egg.

It's time to either invoke mystical dimensions of reality separating us from those barbarian computers, or admit that one day soon they'll be able to do intelligence too.
I get it, change is hard, but sometimes you need to do it. How bad would your living situation have to get before you considered moving? I know many people let it get really, really bad... IMO a key to happiness is making changes when you can and resisting the lure of convenience.
> I'm not sure you and they agree on the meaning of collect: If you input personal data into Firefox - e.g., an email you type in a Gmail - then they 'collect' it.

"They" in this context is Mozilla the organization, not Firefox the process in memory. For Mozilla to collect information, information has to leave my computer and end up on Mozilla's computer.
I'm happy to learn that.
I’d like to see some thoughts on where we go from here. Is there a way we can keep end users protected even despite potential compromise of services like ToDesktop?

(eg: companies still hosting some kind of integrity checking service themselves and the download is verified against that… likely there’s smarter ideas)

The user experience of auto-update is great, but having a single fatal link in the chain seems worrying. Can we secure it better?
Firefox is at least any kind of opposition.
"No one ever said most."

"Most countries definitely do not have nukes. "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43209283

Also by my understanding, even 4 more countries having secretly nukes counts as "much more countries having nukes than officially known".

But my point is not semantics, but that even one nuke can trigger a chain reaction. Unknown nukes just makes this more likely.
Nasser Hussain's cricketing truth-bomb fights back against march of AI robots
Bit breathless. How could this kill people?
U.S. should have responded to the letter that Russian president sent to U.S. president in 1991 suggesting that Russia should join NATO in the future.

U.S. ignored that suggestion.

And when almost 9 years later Putin pitched the same idea again - he was left ignored, again.

EU and U.S. reap what they sawed.
Take a look/follow
https://github.com/canvas-ai/canvas-browser-extensions

Its meant to sync your browser tabs (chrome/firefox) to a self-hosted virtual "directory" tree powered by lmdb and roaring bitmap indexes. In retrospect, we should have used rxdb or pouchdb from day one (keeping the bitmaps) but eventually we get there.

Workflow

- Create a new context path based on the task you are working on(universe://travel/2024/03/barcelona for example)

- Depending on your configuration, your browser stores your current tabs and closes them, you then start your airbnb journey adding new tabs to the context path

- Your significant other may even open the same context and work on it with you(as in, add additional ones, if auto-sync is enabled close yours etc)

Server component is under a rewrite atm, my amateurism at play! You can do stupid things with a 2 user user-base (like a full api + backend + module rewrite started simultaneously, breaking existing functionality beyond repair) but with the new tools available these days (cursor, claude 3.7), the most important limiting factor for an idea becomes .. well, time!
Very much disagree. Air to air refueling is done in a very stable manner at cruise altitude. Takeoff is a much more dynamic flight regime where things can go very wrong very quickly.
Could a Quantum ASI Overcome Self-Reference and Infinite Regress?
Then you should have to click a big red button labelled "Enable insecure mode".

Defaults should be secure. Kind of blows my mind people still don't get this.
From Scratch – The Convolutional Layer
Eventually the Russian economy would've caved in. The ruble was in a free fall up until Trump decided to betray the free world.
Not just "some people" but specifically a MAGA Republican Senator's boyfriend.
Why is it the responsibility of the US to single handedly stop the war?

We don’t know what Harris would or wouldn’t have done.
But we know that what Trump is doing is not going to end up well for Ukraine.

Dealing directly with Russia as if it was up to the US to decide for everyone else isn’t just callous, it’s extremely dangerous.
There's no magical thinking involved in discussing the limits of computability. That is a well researched area that was involved in the invention of digital computers.

Penrose's argument is interesting and I am inclined to agree with it. I might very well be wrong, but I don't think the accusation of magical thinking is warranted.
>>A future step is to incorporate transparent conducting windows in the trap to enable light transmission while screening unwanted charging effects. A future problem to tackle is how to integrate necessary ultraviolet beams into the trap, for which charging effects have proved even more challenging.

So at least two scientific breakthroughs required before scaling.

It's great research, really fun - but years away from (doubtful) application
I'm taking that a "yes" in response to my question?
Et tu, Mozilla?
Google and ChatGPT
Erm yes! Even the White House has said that.

The only reason we didn't for so long was because we didn't have a viable alternative. Now we do, we should absolutely stop writing C.