skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't do that until someone has written and tested the code for the "easy defaults". And you can't do that until that someone has hardware in their hands.

If you want only company insiders to have hardware until every last bit of software is perfected then you can do that ... with your company. And you'll be releasing things to the general public at the same time as the other companies are releasing the next 2x better generation of hardware.

Or, you could just yourself personally not buy things until they've been in the market for two years.

Heck, I don't update to the latest OS version on my Mac until the next one is on the verge of coming out. I'm running Sonoma and recently it's been nagging me to update to Sequoia. Nuh uh. It's a mature product, progress is slow, and I don't even remember the last time there was a new feature I cared about. It's the same in Windows. Microsoft can't get people to upgrade from Windows 7, let alone Windows 10.

RISC-V on the other hand is changing incredibly quickly. There was not even one RISC-V chip or board on the market when Windows 10 came out.

There is genuinely exciting new stuff coming out every 6 to 12 months. The P550 boards in the last month, The SpacemiT boards with 8 cores and RVV 1.0 with a decent amount of RAM in the middle of 2024. The 64 core 128 GB RAM Pioneer in January 2024. The TH1520 boards with OoO and high performance RVV 0.7 in mid 2023. The JH7110 boards, the first cheap multi-core, in January 2023.

I, and many others, prefer to get new hardware the instant it comes out of the fab in mass production, even if there will always be some rough edges.

But you don't have to do that. No one is forcing you. You can wait a little until others (whether in the manufacturer's staff or not) have smoothed off the edges.
I think you're just throwing a link out without understanding the topic in the title.

It's talking about opening up scoring system for BEAD to let the best technology for the market win based on features and costs.

Right now it is heavily weighted for fiber, and is done in a way that wouldn't require 25% matching funds for something like the middle of Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, etc.

But if you want to fiber up, say, Alaska - you're going to need a lot more money than $45Bn for just /that/ state alone. That's a lot of tax dollars better spent elsewhere when other sufficient technologies exist.
That's the right to play the music, but you received it through illicit distribution which, depending on jurisdiction, can result in liability.
So what is the conclusion here, that DEI needed to include aging workers? That’s going to be tough sell in this society.
Obviously there are many types of security vulnerabilities, but one thing that should start paying off for Ladybird eventually is the move to a memory and race safe language (Swift). Of course, that will be a gradual process (they haven't really started yet and they will be using the Swift C++ interop so there will be C++ parts of the browser for years to come).

They do also benefit from using off-the-shelf libraries like Skia, OpenSSL, image libraries etc. that the other browsers are using too. Previously they were rolling their own for everything but changed after the split from SerenityOS.
> "That’s a promise."

That always has been a lie, ever since they accepted Google's money.

Now due to the anti-trust lawsuit, 'principles' don't pay the bills. Now you are seeing that Firefox doesn't care about the privacy of its users.
Google Tweak Creates Crisis for Product-Review Sites
Discussion (289 points, 16 hours ago, 97 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194024

Related Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus (906 points, 61 days ago 201 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535217
I only tried the intersection of 'free' and 'trusted' (the latter being subjective, based on a glance at website/repo). I hadn't yet tried Magnet, but I see it's $5 so I'll splash out over the weekend and give it a try. Thanks for the rec! Any newb tips appreciated.
Isn't this common knowledge? All the big companies got their start either through theft or copyright infringement.
Fairly large Nomad Enterprise user here, and I just want to say thanks for all of the work you and the team put in. I'm a big fan of Nomad and really appreciate the opportunities it has afforded me.

Regardless of the general sentiment, hoping for the best outcome for all of you.
Wait until that author learns about Edward Snowden or advertisement agencies.

I used to play with Twitters firehose back in the day and there's quite a lot of personal data you derive from private accounts. We could tell the city someone likely lived if they followed a certain amount of people from a specific city, etc. Could also guess their gender with 95% accuracy with just using n-grams from their tweets. We'd test our algorithms with public accounts.

I think there's too much power and money in personal information for it to stop.
sources:

- Google's own privacy policy

- Extensive evidence provided by brave national heroes and civil rights legends like Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, including training materials for specific named NSA programs like PRISM that offer explicit lists of cooperating partners, including Google, Microsoft, Apple - basically every big tech company, but also smaller but popular ones, such as Skype (pre-Microsoft acquisition); this is well known among technology's civil rights advocates, and isn't hard to find discussion of by credible technologists, including the folks behind Protonmail¹

- Elon & DOGE: see literally every major American news network besides Fox pretty much since the inauguration, large swathes of the internet, several prominent discussions on HN. It's not just illegally mass-surveilled stuff either, they're going through all sorts of classified stuff right now!

¹ Here's one such example literally on the front page as of the time of writing this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201732
I mean, there are still different reputations for certain techniques. And SQL sanitization has a bad reputation for good reasons. But SQL parsing, whitelisting and then reserialization still has a bad reputation in the eyes of many people, but that's only because they don't understand the difference between the two.

No one would say "parsing json is broken if it's not tested" right? Then for SQL the same would be true.

So if you were to use this technique in a business that doesn't mandate regular pentests, it would not change how well the technique works and how secure/safe it is.
Writing in a text field in one window while referring to another window, where the window with the text field would overlap the other window if it were frontmost.
Very true, for me, spotlight search felt so broken that Alfred would be worth it even if search was all it did.
The keyboard doesn't work at all on Chrome Android
I've worked for very large software companies, some of the biggest products ever made, and never in 25 years can I recall us shipping an update we didn't know was an improvement. The idea that you'd ship something to hundreds of millions of users and say "maybe better, we're not sure, let us know" is outrageous.
Same with Red Alert (etc) through the modern rewrite OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/). Similarly there is a guy FiveAces who has been commenting videos for nearly a decade.
Elsewhere in the commit is a change of wording. That particular part of the commit didn't have the updated statement.
> There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure using the mouse/trackpad more than you'd prefer)

I don’t know your requirements for good, but I like Mizage’s Divvy. Works on Mac and Windows and can configure gTile similarly on Linux.
They have enforcement powers if they they prevail in the suit and the people who have legal power enforce their will. Which is something that has happened in the past. That includes them just successfully abusing the defendant into settling, no matter if they would have won in the long run.

The RIAA clearly has the power to enforce economic harm on anyone who has to defend their lawsuits. Against small enough defendants, that makes their positions extremely relevant.
It has not only been possible to simulate empathetic interaction via computer systems, but proven to be achievable for close to sixty years[0].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
There's also this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/free-ruler/id1483172210?mt=12
You may like uBar: https://ubarapp.com/
Discussions

(116 points, 1 day ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423

(162 points, 15 hours ago, 131 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536

(252 points, 5 hours ago, 142 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
Imagine the nodes in those visualizations are not just a static state, but each have metadata attached to them used to infer the next state in the "chain", which is keyed on a value assigned from a mysterious lookup table based on the current state - so each time the state shifts the metadata on all states can also shift.

(There are also types of LLMs where that metadata is limited in access, one such type is when the current state can only check metadata on previous states and weigh it against the base value of the next states in the chain.)

Then, imagine each chain of states in a Markov Chain is a 2D hash map, like a grid plot. Our current LLMs are like an Nth-dimensional hash map instead, and can have a finite, but extremely large depth. This is pretty near impossible to visualize as a human, but if you're familiar with array/map operations, you should get the idea.

This is a very "base level" understanding, as my learning on LLMs stopped around the time Tensorflow stopped being the new hotness, but hopefully that gives you an idea.
Apologies for mentioning the same idea in multiple comments, but it seems relevant.

In my opinion, a good path forward is to add safety features to mainline C toolchains. An example is -fbounds-safety for clang/llvm

https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafetyAdoptionGuide.html
Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
SuperGlue is a name in the AI space already: https://github.com/magicleap/SuperGluePretrainedNetwork
You know what the really sad part about this is? If we switch to an alternative browser, fingerprinting makes us even more easily tracked. It's lose-lose nowadays. We need political changes to make selling off our private data no longer profitable.
Discussions

(116 points, 1 day ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423

(162 points, 15 hours ago, 131 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43194536

(253 points, 5 hours ago, 142 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200065
I was really hoping this wouldn't happen given one org (IBM) effectively controls both Terraform and Ansible.

Salt and Puppet both don't seem in a great place.

System Initiative is just AWS still, yeah?

Welp.
Biggest change I've seen is the intranet page now has an option to use IBM's single sign on in addition to RH's single sign on.
It feels like Ms. Casey is narrating these in my head.
I agree on the class thing. The only classes I attended to learn French (besides all the grade 1-11 classes which were a joke) were during French immersion program, and I can't pin down any specific thing I learned in class itself. The 5-week immersion program helped immensely in general, though.

I was motivated to learn because I was dating a bilingual person, and so for once in life I had very strong, continued motivation for a good amount of time. I learned on my own and from texting.

I suppose what I meant was that I wish I had tried something like Anki for conjugation and potentially even vocabulary. I find when I read in French or follow conversations, I can understand pretty well and the details of the grammar or words used don't stick in my head, and so I've been at a B2 for years. Granted, I stopped using the language for a long time, but even when I lived in Montréal, I was fluent, but never actively improving through just living in the language.

(Sinon, si tu as assisté à des meetups tech à Montréal l'année dernière, il y a de bonnes chances qu'on se soit déjà parlé en personne.)
I love the “listen to this article” widget doing embedded TTS for the article. Bugs / feedback:

The first words I hear are “introducing gee pee four five”. The TTS model starts cold? The next occurrence of the product name works properly as “gee pee tee four point five” but that first one in the title is mangled. Some kind of custom dictionary would help here too, for when your model needs to nail crucial phrases like your business name and your product.

No way of seeking back and forth (Safari, iOS 17.6.1). I don’t even need to seek, just replay the last 15s.

Very much need to select different voice models. Chirpy “All new Modern Family coming up 8/9c!” voice just doesn’t cut it for a science broadcast, and localizing models — even if it’s still English — would be even better. I need to hear this announcement in Bret Taylor voice, not Groupon CMO voice. (Sorry if this is your voice btw, and you work at OpenAI brandi. No offence intended.)
Image mode RHEL is a pretty significant investment.

Apart from that, in terms of keeping RHEL relevant, most of the attention is on making it easier to operate fleets at scale rather than the OS itself. Red Hat Insights, Image Builder, services in general, etc.

Those are the key things that would keep it competitive against Ubuntu, Debian, Alma, Oracle etc.
People being wrong (especially on the internet) doesn't mean they are lying. Lying is being wrong intentionally.

Also, the person you replied to comments on the wording tricks they use. After suddenly bringing new data and direction in the discussion, even calling them "wrong" would have been a stretch.

I kindly suggest that you (and we all!) to keep discussing with an assumption of good faith.
If we define left wing in terms of the population as a whole, then there is a huge portion of the population that is opposed to neo-liberal & far right positions and there are no major media organizations that represent them. That's the point that I am attempting to make.
According to the paper’s abstract,

- We’d like to study exoplanet atmospheres, but that’s hard because you can’t separate them from the star. Brown dwarfs are a good substitute because they are kind of like really big exoplanets.

- There’s chemistry happening inside the atmosphere of a brown dwarf, and chemicals will get transported up or down from where they are made. The detection of HCN in the brown dwarf spectrum means that some of our models for brown dwarfs are wrong.
Maybe accidental, but I feel you’ve presented a straw man. We’re not discussing something that _may be_ better. It _is_ better. It’s not as big an improvement as previous iterations have been, but it’s still improvement. My claim is that reasonable people might still ship it.
alt url: https://amoy-tech.com/blog/id/5970

While GPT-4.5 may not be immediately applicable for most business use cases due to cost constraints, it represents a crucial direction for AI development - one that prioritizes understanding humans rather than just processing information. This focus on emotional intelligence may prove essential for AI safety, security, and leadership as these systems become more integrated into our society.
Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting
I empty the trash with command-shift-backspace. I use the dock icon to open it, but I think there’s an entry in the Go menu
I use librewolf as my daily driver after the Firefox "privacy preserving ad measurement" SNAFU last year [1,2]. The fingerprint resistant and anti-canvas functions were different, but I got used to them and I really appreciate the added features.

With that, having everything turned on can break some sites. If a site wasn't all that important and isn't respecting privacy, I just won't visit it. Otherwise, I'll keep another browser around just in case I absolutely must for business or something else.

When Firefox began opting people in by default to leak data to advertisers, it felt like the beginning of the end to me. After looking into canvas and other fingerprinting capabilities, it's somehow still surprising and alarming to me how far companies go to invade our privacy.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971247
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974112
It's perfectly normal to hold good actors to a higher standard than bad actors. And the leadership should be fired instead of rewarding itself. What if they put 10% of the hundred million a year they got from Google for the last dozen years into an endowment instead? They'd be sustainable without needing to sell out.
> MacOS is still more open and the world didn't collapse

the world didn't collapse because the world is not using laptops/desktops as dominant computers for many many years.

Ordinary people use phones. Anyone using laptop is to a degree professional especially in any third world country. Somebody who mostly abandoned using laptop literally yesterday told me "I got a new laptop from work but I'll just get a virus in a week won't I". This is the adversarial reality the rose-eyed takes about freedom of computing are contending with. Maybe most of them live in the past when computers were used by tech literate and blackhat hacking was in intancy.
Transformers like Llama use rotary embeddings which are applied in every single attention layer

https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/222505c7e4d...
Discussion (787 points, 10 hours ago, 219 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131
uBlock Origin always worked best in Firefox anyhow:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
I'm not familiar with every lifecycle argument but I don't know of any that prevent resources being destroyed if they are removed from the tf file (what the parent was talking about). prevent_destroy, per docs, only applies as long as the resource is defined.

I think the only way to avoid accidentally destroying a resource is to refer to it somewhere else, like in a depends_on array. At least that would block the plan.
The book from a year or two ago, "Means of Control," by Tau, goes into some pretty good detail on the data collection and sales from just the adtech firms - where the entire ecosystem seems to be, "You can't use our data for anything but advertising... wink wink", and everyone knows exactly who is bidding on ads, and never winning any, just to slurp up location data and sell it. Or the "companies that don't sell the government." Also, they don't vet any clients beyond "The credit card is good."

> And because giants like Meta, Google, and Apple must collect as much of your personal data as possible, there’s little they can do to protect your privacy.

I quite disagree with the "must" there. They choose to collect as much data as possible, because that's their business model.

And the good news is, it's fairly easy to opt out of quite a lot of that.

Turn location services off, turn your phone off when moving about, and pay cash without "personal tracking cards" associated with you. Just about everywhere has [local area code] 867-5309 registered, if you care.
Building infrastructure in this country is already nearly impossible, without adding another whole dimension of things that can be used to bog down and litigate projects to death.

I’ve got 10-gig fiber to my house and drive an SUV, I don’t care. The people who should be most upset about this stuff are the folks who want government to facilitate building fiber, trains, etc.
Congratulations on the launch. This is really cool, and useful.

Coincidentally, yesterday I had a client meeting and they ask for exactly that.
I'm working as lead developer for https://howie.systems and we are building a co-pilot (knowledge platform) for the AEC industry.

Would love to have a talk. Your product could save us lot's of work!
> The kind that the gifted schoolboy gets when they put their hand up in class to a tricky question posed to the class.

I completely forgot this feeling and now I want it back
They both use chromium so they’re not independent of some technology decisions made by Google.

Whether that level of independence is important is up to you I guess?
This is clearly someone that is not paying attention to what Red Hat is doing.

RHEL is the enterprise gold standard.

Fedora is a lot of the pipeline for it, which itself has become an incredible server and desktop platform.

All the work with Open shift, backstage, podman / qubelet, etc.

They're going to be fine, from my graybeard position.
What these analyses always miss is that providers on foreign soil have even less protection against the US IC: breaking into foreign providers is literally NSA's chartered mission. That's not to say you should deliberately use US providers! Unless, that is, abuse of legal process in the US motivates your decisionmaking, in which case: an abused legal process beats no process requirements at all.
So, the easiest way to swap between windows:

Cmd-Tab, up arrow, arrow keys to the window you want, enter
AI waifu getting scary.
I strongly recommend https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/a-trip-through-the-... if you're curious about GPU architectures. Though in the 14 (!) years since, a lot has changed still.

In the modern era the 'compute shaders' part of that has become more dominant and lots of fixed function parts of the graphics pipeline have moved to software.

I'd love to see a more modern take on this if someone has run across it.
Instagram Flooded Feeds with Gore. 'Sorry' Doesn't Cut It
There is a bound on the degree to which terminal patients are willing to be human guinea pigs, and a bound on which the data is statistically useful to anyone.

I’ve read many reports of terminal patients who wish that they hadn’t wasted the last few months of their healthspan searching for Hail Mary treatment options. If you were to ask yourself what you would do with 1-3 months of healthy life left, would you spend it in a hospital on chemo?
Markov chains are a one dimensional chain of immediate previous states and base their prediction on that very specific linear chain of states.

A good way to immediately grasp the flaws of a Markov chain is to imagine it predicting a pixel in a 2D image.

Sure in a 1D chain of states that goes something like [red green blue] repeatedly a Markov chain is a great predictor. But imagine a 2D image where the pattern is purely in the vertical elements but you’re passing in elements left to right then next row. It’s going to try to make a prediction based on the recent horizontal elements and there no good way to have context of the pixel above. A Markov chain doesn’t mix two states, its context is the immediate previous chain of states. It’s really really hard for a Markov chain to take the pixel above into context if your feeding it pixels left to right (same is true for words but the pixel analogy is easier to grasp).

Now you may think a good solution to this is to have a Markov chain have some mechanism to take multiple previous states from multiple contexts (in this case vertical and horizontal) and somehow weight each one to get the next state. Go down this path and you essentially go down the path of early neural networks.
The command-tab switcher has a lot of hidden functionality:

I always only use cmd-tab to open the switcher, then I use arrow keys to pick an application, up/down arrows to view an application’s windows (arrow keys and enter to select a specific one)

You can also hit Q to quit an application from the switcher and probably more things I’m currently forgetting.
Huh? What kind of RDMA has a completion latency of 20 nanoseconds? It's more like 5 microseconds.

I agree that a lot of "modern" storage stack is way too slow though, tried to find a replication-first object storage for crazy-fast random read in small number of objects last year and found none.