skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone hates tariffs because everyone hates taxes. If a government uses protectionism for a specific policy goal, like developing a domestic auto industry, that can be very effective and we've seen that work lots of times in lots of countries. The US may have recently managed to achieve this with microchip production.

But when tariffs are applied broadly we all pay more in taxes. And it's worse than a more familiar increase in sales or income tax because it can absolutely wreck supply chains.
Some good points overall, and I think I agree in a lot of ways, actually.

> (or have the capability to jailbreak their iPhone and know what they’re getting themselves into)

It is a common misconception that people can "just" jailbreak their iPhone if they're not happy with the walled garden. This requires someone finding a critical-impact zero day vulnerability in iOS, quite literally worth around half a million dollars [1]. Apple is hard at work as we speak trying their hardest to prevent those from slipping in -- and that is a good thing, in general. It's not currently possible to jailbreak any up-to-date iOS device.

I'm all for sandboxing and other iOS security features; I'm not proposing that we get rid of any of that. Sideloaded apps would presumably still be fully sandboxed, and would still only be able to access sensitive data with explicit user consent. This is very different than the situation on Windows, where in 2025 you can still double click an .exe and instantly have all of your passwords and credit cards stolen (not an exaggeration; this literally happens).

I'm also not against the idea of making it difficult enough to enable sideloading so as to make social engineering attacks against grandma effectively impossible. This is what Chromebooks are doing; nerds get root, but grandma doesn't.

However, the DMA is more concerned with delivering alternative apps to everyone than it is concerned with empowering techies. So I can see why you might not support it even if you want to have a little more control over your phone, as a techie.

[1] https://archive.is/9jdW7
Honestly, it's frequently hard for me to not attribute it to malice.
In theory, congress can remove a president. Start placing your bets! Does he get removed before he dissolves congress? :)

I’m only partial joking. The check and balances in the country won’t work if half the population wants to replace democracy with theocracy.
Ironically, i rode a rented electric scooter over hundreds of year old cobbles yesterday - needed to make a meeting on time. New meets old.
I mean, walkability is a big problem for me. My kid would have to cross multiple busy streets in order to get to school (which is ~3 miles away). We don't have crossing guards either, the only ones we do have are literally at the school property.
Why did Google in 2008 chose to built its own browser instead of helping to improve Firefox, which was around since 2002?
That's interesting. I would have thought that any work, incidental or not, would be a violation of the visa. I've heard of people being harassed for e.g. doing work on their vacation property (e.g. Canadians owning US property) while they were vacationing even when it's something small/minor.
Most brain damage would not be considered in the realm of what most people would consider "recoverable".
I do agree partially but I don't see a difference in practice
Using your definition every app on Android and Apple doesn't have access to your filesystem either.

Just like you have to select which image from your camera roll that Facebook is allowed to see / access. It gets that one image, and only that image, on purpose. It doesn't get to have a free for all through your files.
Academic purges are a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

References and examples are too numerous to list so I'll just post a couple from the recent political history of Turkey (this thread and post likely to be flagged in any case):

Abbott, Alison. 2016. “Turkey Sacks Thousands of University Staff.” Nature, September 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20550.

Özdemir, S. S. (2020). Civic death as a mechanism of retributive punishment: Academic purges in Turkey. Punishment & Society, 23(2), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474520941744 (Original work published 2021)

And countless others.
I tried deleting all of Amazon accounts but couldn't becasue I have 88 cents stuck in a seller account. Im glad I kept it. For one, Bezos is not as bad as Elon. Elon is incredibly socially retarded. Two, Bezos is retired from Amazon and just owns its stock. I think Bezos is good at heart, just very apathetic and neutral.
I don't think you need to be an ML researcher to understand his point of view. He wants to do fundamental research. Optimizing LLMs is not fundamental research. There are numerous other potential approaches, and it's obvious that LLMs have weaknesses that other approaches could tackle.

If he was Hinton's age then maybe he would also want to retire and be happy with transformers and LLMs. He is still an ambitious researcher that wants to do foundational research to get to the next paradigm.

Having said all of that, it is a misjudgement for him to be disparaging the incredible capabilities of LLMs to the degree he has.
It's definitely one of the bigger challenges. Currently we don't see a viable way to deploy something like Cwtch on iOS (both in due to how locked down the platform is in general, and the requirement to run a backing onion service for each profile making mobile a hassle in the general case) - we are somewhat hopeful that advances on the Tor front might make it possible one day.
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God had a dozen billion years or so of lead time, but he couldn't piece the plan together without giving your toddler glioblastoma.

Trust the process!
You write: "it's just that at every step the alligator is lurking in the logits because it directly derives from the prompt" - but isn't that the whole point: at the moment the model writes "an", it isn't just spitting out a random article (or a 50/50 distribution of articles or other words for that matter); rather, "an" gets a high probability because the model internally knows that "alligator" is the correct thing after that. While it can only emit one token in this step, it will emit "an" to make it consistent with its alligator knowledge "lurking". And btw while not even directly relevant, the word alligator isn't in the prompt. Sure, it derives from the prompt but so does every an LLM generates, and same for any other AI mechanism for generating answers.
Hurl 6.1.0, testing HTTP requests with plain text and curl
Typical (nice) appartment housing in Stockholm

https://whitearkitekter.com/news/kvarter-7-the-starting-poin...
I made this, but have not tested it yet with this website:

https://github.com/rufname/metricPlease
Jürgen Schmidhuber has a paper with Lucas Beyer? I'm not aware of it. Which do you mean?
> Any cloud service that has end-to-end encryption today can be forced to break it if the jurisdiction in which they're based passes a law requiring it.

If a 3rd party can be compelled to decrypt it, it’s not e2e encrypted.
Yet another reason why I don't connect appliances to the internet. My TV is plugged to an Nvidia Shield, and that's the device that gets online, since it was designed for that.
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Interesting that you chose "they" instead of "we".
One that has to deal with parents either explicitly buying a handgun for their kids or leaving handguns in easily accessible locations.
A transformer will attend to previous tokens, and so it is free to ignore prior errors. I don't get LeCun's comment on error propagation, and look forward to a more thorough exposition of the problem.
The introduction video looks impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwUwgpqgcMA
I hope they make this in ATX (or mATX) form factor, toss out all the size, energy, and heat concerns, and add more ports and interfaces.
CICO has not been debunked at all. If you take it to the extremes like eating 30k cals in a day yes your body will pass much of it undigested, but that doesn’t debunk it at all but rather adjust one of the 2 inputs into the equation, and for the vast vast majority of people following anything resembling a sane diet, CICO is the determinant of weight loss. You can eat straight sugar in a caloric deficit and body weight will fall off of you. You can eat straight fat or protein and it’ll do the same. You can eat in one meal or 20 meals. It still holds in every single study ever done.
>people who have concerns different than mine

"Trying to abduct my child either directly or by proxy" is not merely a question of polite differing concerns.
The next-gen LLMs are going to use something like mipmaps in graphics: a stack of progressively smaller versions of the image, with a 1x1 image at the top. The same concept applies to text. When you're writing something, your have a high-level idea in mind that serves as a guide. That idea is such a mipmap. Perhaps the next-gen LLMs will be generating a few parallel sequencies, the top-level will be a slow-pace anchor and the bottom-level being the actual text that depends on slower upper levels.
> working to carry out a foreign governments interests against the best interests of the American public IS treason

That sounds even more vague and broad than the definition given in the Constitution. But I'm pretty sure the one in the Constitution is talking about a clear and deliberate shift in allegiance from the United States to another group that is actively engaged in hostilities with the United States.
Don't think you can. And also there is big difference in plain old OCR, which is just getting all text out from image and document processing which is can you only get the relevant information in a good structure that can be directly pushed into a database.
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> it is a misjudgement for him to be disparaging the incredible capabilities of LLMs to the degree he has.

Jeez, you'd think he kicked your dog.
> A 20 tonne double-decker bus should sound like it might explode at any moment

I hope you're using "should" as in "that's what I'm accustomed to" rather than "that's how it ought to be"... right? :-D

Personally I feel like quieting buses would be a huge step toward making day-to-day city life more pleasant.
Agreed, it's exactly what I'd do if I wanted the US to withdraw from global relevance.
Anyone know why they are using timestamps instead of /dev/random?

Dont get me wrong,im glad they don't, its just kind of surprising as it seems like such a rookie mistake. Is there something i'm missing here or is it more a caseof people who know what they are doing don't chose a life of crime?
There is not any background on the website. Like who is that society, who is behind it, what is the goal of the app, where comes the funding from. Why for example did you not fund Signal? It has similar goals?
SimpleX relies on out-of-band key material transfer between clients, in addition to the honesty of routing server to protect privacy and metadata.

Cwtch uses the existing infrastructure of Tor and v3 onion services to establish p2p chat sessions, thus relying on the underlying security of the Tor network. There is some nuances regarding how different kinds of groups work, we have a security handbook that goes into it a deeper: https://docs.cwtch.im/security/intro
A new HW architecture for an unproven SW architecture is never going to happen. The SW needs to start working initially and demonstrate better performance. Of course, as with the original deep neural net stuff, it took computers getting sufficiently advanced to demonstrate this is possible. A different SW architecture would have to be so much more efficient to work. Moreover, HW and SW evolve in tandem - HW takes existing SW and tries to optimize it (e.g. by adding an abstraction layer) or SW tries to leverage existing HW to run a new architecture faster. Coming up with a new HW/SW combo seems unlikely given the cost of bringing HW to market. If AI speedup of HW ever delivers like Jeff Dean expects, then the cost of prototyping might come down enough to try to make these kinds of bets.
Honest question: Given that the only wide consensus of anything approaching general intelligence are humans and that humans are biological systems that have evolved in physical reality, is there any arguments that better efficiency is even possible without relying on leveraging the nature of reality?

For example, analog computers can differentiate near instantly by leveraging the nature of electromagnetism and you can do very basic analogs of complex equations by just connecting containers of water together in certain (very specific) configurations. Are we sure that these optimizations to get us to AGI are possible without abusing the physical nature of the world? This is without even touching the hot mess that is quantum mechanics and its role in chemistry which in turn affects biology. I wouldn't put it past evolution to have stumbled upon some quantum mechanic that allowed for the emergence of general intelligence.

I'm super interested in anything discussing this but have very limited exposure to the literature in this space.
I certainly hate that idea as well, but I also accept a pretty decent amount of that because of interactions with the greater world outside of one company’s direct control.

For instance, suppose a streaming service starts requiring a new login method. They have to update their apps to use this new API. If there are and have been over a dozen different distinct smart television operating systems in the past 15 years, and there will be a dozen more in the next 15 years, it’s unreasonable to expect that even companies the size of say, Netflix, are going to reach far enough back in their history to update all those apps. They probably don’t have developers who understand those systems anymore.

And also, the software distribution mechanisms for each of those platforms are probably no longer intact either in order to receive an update. While it’s true that my Panasonic Blu-ray player that I bought in 2009 is still perfectly functional, and has a Netflix app, I assume it doesn’t work and that Panasonic would be hard pressed to distribute me a working updated app.

The only way things would be much different would be if technology progressed at a far slower pace, so there had been no need to adopt any breaking changes to how the app is built, how the apps and firmware was distributed, etc.
a faraday cage should do the trick
Got it, I should use Rankine.
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Would it have been possible to fix this by instead swapping out the LT pair with a ligature?
From my tests v8 jitless was about 50% faster than QuickJS but still almost an order of magnitude slower than with JIT.

Note that I mistranscribed the numbers above: QuickJS was 18-24ms while v8 without warmup was 12-20ms (which I think is similar to jitless perf) and warmed jit was 2-4ms when I benchmarked a couple of years back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33793181

Thanks for the complexity warning. Sounds like I need to wait for an embedded JIT example using fixed executable range before I start playing around. But it would be fun to try and make Deno run inside it somehow, perhaps building on deno_runtime and hooking the http client user agent to make requests through Varnish. Deno's permission system should allow cleanly disabling unavailable functionality like access to the file system.

I see some examples that seem to use glibc but I was under the impression only musl binaries can be truly static? Can binaries built against glibc be used with TinyKVM?
Couldnt we add some "usb descriptor flag" which says whether WebUSB should be allowed or not? Then firefox/chrome would not need to maintain a blocklist.
"You can pretty much sound everything out" is simply what I was saying about the orthography. It's partly a result of Spanish's phonological conservatism but mostly a result of the orthographic reforms by the RAE in 01726, 01754, 01815, and 01832. But that isn't even a part of the spoken language at all; it's just a property of the writing system. English written in IPA or Shavian (or my own doomed eccentric proposal, http://canonical.org/~kragen/alphanumerenglish) would be equally easy to sound out, but it would still be English. If you were talking out loud to someone who had hypothetically learned English after such a spelling reform, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

As for irregular verbs, there are quite a lot more than 20; https://howismyspanish.com/all-irregular-spanish-verbs/ lists over 270 irregular verbs in Spanish, but it also says that's "over ⅓ of all Spanish verbs", so it may not be the most reliable source. There's a lot more than five irregular subjunctive verbs, and they aren't all very common verbs; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_irregular_verbs#Presen... mentions "moler", for example. Other uncommon irregular verbs mentioned in page include "maullar", "erguir", and "embestir". https://web.archive.org/web/20200807095413/https://socratic.... says that the Manual de la Conjugación del Verbo lists 12'290 different Spanish verbs with 63 different models of irregular conjugations; the number of verbs following one of those models must be in the thousands.

By comparison, English has under 200 irregular verbs, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs.
Take a look at this browser popup box, asking the user to select which device to use for webauthn: https://filestore.community.support.microsoft.com/api/images...

Now take a look at this browser popup box, inviting the user to grant access for webusb: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/usb#get_acces...

This isn't just clueless people clicking mindlessly without reading anything. The user wants to log in with their U2F key. They get a box asking if the website can access their U2F key.

Even if they read and understand every word in the box, consult their security training (which tells them "when you log in with a U2F key a box will pop up asking you to select a device, that's normal") the only indication they're doing anything wrong is that the device selection box looks a bit different to normal.
You're not alone. Boggles my mind. I'm on GrapheneOS and they still won't bring it to Vanadium so petty me sticks with Firefox.
As I type this there are 239 comments on a piece that's 6 years old, and also pretty poor to begin with.

So, stuff happens, and you just put up with it? That's anti-human. What are you? A leaf in a stream? Dammit, you have agency.

Nothing good would ever have happened were we all so passive. No wonder the rich and powerful like it, nothing they want to work actually works unless you have a bunch of passive, stoical, individuals. Sheep, basically.
There's a very good video series that deconstructs "The Alt-Right playbook", with respect to how they exist between other communities, recruit new members, rhetorical argument, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLJA_jUddX...
On the contrary, the phrase is a direct threat, "we are here to disrupt and take you down", maybe Jay Graber does not want to be the Mark Zuckerburg, but bluesky wants to be the next Facebook. its just evolving to diffuse the legal and ethical responsibilities of moderating. It's laudable and I agree with them on principle, but I'm not in love with the David Goliath framing. They're equally as silicon valleyish and VC funded as anyone else.
How would they get their data back if someone theoretically knows how to decrypt but never tells anyone.
Oceans 11 is a work of fiction because most people don't have that skillset and the ones who do can make a lot of money doing honest work without risking a long prison sentence, so they're not tempted to rob casinos to heisting music.

The issue here is that the skillset required to produce the forgery has fallen to the level that anybody can do it and then that's enough people that somebody actually does.
I continue to be puzzled by this idea of direct donations being a panacea.

Firefox already has orders of magnitude more revenue than would come in from such a venture. And that already mobilizes development resources toward the core browser, which are already more substantial than what would be raised by direct donations. Just to use some back of the envelope math right now the revenue is something on the order of $500 million a year and I believe that software development is 50 to 60% and then infrastructure that supports the development which is under like administration and operations is another double digit percent.

As far as I know, when it comes to crowdsourcing resources for software development, there's basically no precedent for raising the amount of revenue necessary. The closest analog I can think of is Tor, which gives something on the order of $10 million a year. And the best crowd-sourced online fundraising for any project over all that I can think of as Wikipedia, which I believe is around like 280 million or so, which is slightly more than half of the revenue that Mosia already gets. But of course, Wikipedia leverages a vast user base. A kind of existing compact between themselves and users that I think has given them momentum, and because it's about content consumption rather than software, I think has a different relationship with its user base where it's hard to gauge how transferable it is as an example to Firefox.

I don't think assumptions that starting from scratch, they would eclipse Wikipedia are realistic. And I think the upshot of it is that the suggestion is that Firefox would be better off raising less revenue than they already do to maintain focused developer attention on the browser, which contrasts with a reality where they already invest more resources in that then would plausibly come from user donations, which seems to undercut the point that user donations would 'restore' focus on the browser.

I have nothing against user donations, but I just think for practical impact, especially in the short term, is quite limited and more about being invoked as a rhetorical point to imply an insufficient commitment to developing the core browser at present. I think despite being a big Firefox cheerleader, at present I do have concerns about their wandering direction, but I don't think it's realistic to think that direct user donations would have any impact on market share or would even substantially change the amount of resources available to invest in the browser.
I'm literally French. I'm sorry you don't know the passé simple.

https://la-conjugaison.nouvelobs.com/du/verbe/violer.php
I found this[1]:

Use end-to-end encrypted messaging applications for all your digital communications:
- Ideally, use peer-to-peer and metadata-resistant applications such as Cwtch or Briar. Otherwise, use metadata-resistant applications such as SimpleX or Signal.
- Email is not metadata-resistant and should be avoided if possible. If you must use email, use PGP encryption and register an address with a trusted service provider.
Do not use:
- Delta Chat or Matrix, as they are not sufficiently metadata-resistant.
- Telegram, as not all messages are end-to-end-encrypted.

And this[2]:

Since SimpleX requires that users place some trust in the SimpleX servers, we recommend prioritizing Cwtch over SimpleX Chat for text communication with other anarchists, and using SimpleX Chat or Signal for voice and video calls. Unlike Signal, SimpleX Chat doesn't require a phone number or smartphone.

As well as this comparison chart: Interactive secure messenger feature comparison - https://bkil.gitlab.io/secuchart/

[1] https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/mitigations/digital-b...

[2] https://www.anarsec.guide/posts/e2ee/
Exactly. I'm reminded of Gavin Belson saying something along the lines of "I don't want to live in a world where someone makes it a better place to live than we do" in Silicon Valley.
How did you make the UI? It looks really nice.