skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the article they describe using the checkra1n jailbreak for exploit process.
Yeah. Their first example of the decoy is not the best, imho. The Economist example is much better.

IIRC, around the time the Economist did this change, their annual print price increased. I imagine that this change made the transition much smoother.
When given the chance, I like using SPDT switches and an SR Latch to deal with bouncing.
> The problem is desire. We need to want these things. The problem is inertia.

I agreed with most of the essay until I got to this point, at which point I rolled my eyes and briefly skimmed the rest.

It's akin to people who say that the reason there are so many overweight people is that they lack willpower and motivation. Look at pictures from middle-America in the late 1940s - virtually everyone is thin, whereas today you basically the vast majority of a similar population is overweight-to-obese.

Did we all just magically lose willpower over the last 70 years? Of course not, there were huge structural changes over that time in lots of areas (design of our cities, rise of the automobile, industrialized food and agriculture, etc.) that caused the person with "average" willpower to become obese.

Similarly, it's not as though people have less "desire" than before. There are large structural changes, many of which Andreesen doesn't address at all, such as the forces that have led to so much inequality and a hollowing out of the US manufacturing capacity.

I don't fundamentally disagree with Andreesen's goals, but "try harder" is the sort of platitude that rarely brings about real societal change.
In the article, Marc doesn't mention software. Maybe software could eat the world faster too(probably will, since many companies starting communicate over the internet). But there is still a huge gap between developers and consumers. I'm wondering what he thinks about that? Also, I'm glad He mention Westworld, great show.
In the book there is a long passage about how video calls were initially very popular, but after a while people realized that with video calls they were supposed to be looking to the screen all the time and how that led to unnecessary anxiety - e.g, on the telephone you could talk on the phone while clipping your nails, on the video it would never happen.

There is also a part where people had to start worrying about their looks on the screen, so that led to a cottage industry of virtual make-up, stand-ins to pose in front of the camera while you could stay away, etc. After everyone realizes that no one is actually in front of the camera anymore, people start going back to regular phone calls.
Is a different problem. Olives need very specific temperature conditions to flower well. Not too warm, but not too cold, either.
For the record, there's also a community-edited research document summarizing various contact tracing technologies:

"Unified research on privacy-preserving contact tracing and exposure notification" - https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9o...
Widely Used AI Machine Learning Methods Don’t Work as Claimed
Sounds great! But how do we separate cronyism and government? More government?
For better or worse, the United States government is deeply entangled with the financing of college educations. Much of the money flowing in to Harvard via tuitions is involved in government-related loans in one way or another.

The idea isn’t to make demands of how a private institution spends their money. The idea is to add conditions to government-sponsored loans such that they could only be used at institutions that meet specific criteria. If a university doesn’t meet the criteria, then we don’t give government-sponsored loans to attend that institution.

Harvard isn’t the best example of this idea, but consider how much better the student loan crisis could have been if we attached even minimal criteria that degrees must reasonably be associated with job placement and a minimum level of student earnings after graduation.

It’s not a great idea to let the government essentially funnel money into these institutions at large scale via student loans, then leave students entirely on the hook for consequences, without at least minimal expectations that the universities use this money wisely.
For the same reason why when a human pilot makes a mistake it's a mistake, but when an autopilot malfunctions every single plane of that type is grounded until the issue can be found and fixed. Machines cannot be just as good as humans, they have to close to perfect when human life is involved.

As another example, imagine if you had a radiotherapy machine, when operated manually it randomly kills 1/10000 patients, but when operated by AI it randomly kills 1/100000 patients. Yet I'm 100% certain even though it's a 10x improvement over a human operator it still wouldn't be allowed on the market.
could you post some examples with dropbox of the 'less than stellar' results you were getting?
From my original post:

Governments DID see this coming, both federal and state. California, at one time, was prepared for exactly this crisis. The 2008 financial crisis wiped out state budgets
Exactly, thank you mtmail!
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Checkm8 bootrom exploit. Checkra.in uses this for a jailbreak that should work on any iOS version as well.
Since we're being pedantic: I seem to remember that A or B can be char or unsigned char or signed char. Plain char can be signed or unsigned, but it is a distinct type from the other two regardless of that.
Then what are they talking about with the Symbian phones?

And Apple didn't use ARM reference designs in early iPhones; they were using Samsung SoCs. Pretty much nobody uses the ARM reference designs except as an early prototyping target.
As far as I'm aware, no-one actually knows the true mortality rate yet, nor things like which demographics are more or less severely affected other than in a few clearly distinct cases.

Most of the US seems to be a bit behind Europe in where it is on the curve, so it also seems premature to compare statistics.

Until we know when and how different places have implemented lockdown conditions, track-and-trace programmes and other responses, possibly in several stages over an extended period, and how successful each place has been at limiting total excess deaths caused by the virus and at avoiding unwanted side effects from those responses, it will be difficult to draw any reliable conclusions.

That seems to be a big part of the problem we face: the data we have so far is still well short of what we'd like to know in order to accurately assess the threat and decide on a proportionate response. Consequently, everyone is basing policy largely on educated guesswork and hoping to avoid any catastrophic escalation happening too fast to react, with some increasing awareness that the more severe responses will probably have serious consequences of their own if maintained for more than a very short period and we don't necessarily fully understand those either.
Can you explain rather than simply state? Regulatory capture typically refers to regulations entrenching current players and increasing barriers to entry. By definition, less regulation, lowers barriers to entry of new participants. You surely cannot actually believe that no regulation increases barriers to entry of certain industries?
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It also works the other way around: sound will make harddrives malfunction.

This means that one could theoretically use a harddrive as a microphone!

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4 for a demo, yelling at harddrives increases their latency.
Then perhaps Intel is ultimately to blame for this mess, since requiring alignment is completely at odds with how x86 normally behaves, and as shown in the article, there's a version of the instruction not requiring alignment and not really slower at all.
Thanks for the DigiCert link. Are there other CAs that offer the same service that you know of? As DigiCert is very very very expensive as they target the top end enterprise.
I'm in the process of reading _Why Nation Fails_. The central thesis is that the rich and poor countries are separated by inclusive vs extractive institutions. The extractive institutions are characterised by elites that attempt to defend their own wealth and status by maintaining the status quo and resisting the creative destruction that may threaten that position.

It seems to resonate a bit here, when Marc speaks of things like regulatory capture. I heard a few years back that a US health insurance startup had to provide on the order of 6000 pages of documentation to be approved. No wonder that there hadn't been another provider for twenty years or so. It seems like some things are hard to build mostly because some people want it that way.

I can't help but think that there's a fundamental flaw in the American regulatory approach. From the European perspective, the US is sometimes viewed as some time of free market haven, but in practice it often turns out that the regulatory burden is much higher. The framework imposed on financial markets by the SEC and related authorities is on a whole different level in the US, and with higher complexity you a also get a larger surface area for special interests to make their mark.

Point being, why not write simpler laws and regulations and leave it to the courts to interpret what adheres to the spirit of it? With the barriers of entry gone, I think we'd see a renewed vitality to many ossified sectors.
The federal government continued to spend trillions of dollars a year during this period of austerity you're referring to. Any liquidation of emergency stocks was not motivated by financial need.
This is very much how the world was built.

How many people do you think questioned the Queen of Spain's logic in paying for Columbus to go yatching?
But it lead to the "discovery" of America and massive amounts of European expansion. Ok, debatable benefit...

How many people questioned the validity of the space race? Which the entire world now benefits from the knowledge and technology created during that time.

To pmarca's own history, how many people questioned the resources put into developing the internet, or why the University of Illinois was wasting their time with students building a "web browser"?

Private Public partnerships for the most part, seem to be the only things that can really drive these huge changes. The only counter-example I can think of (and I'm probably wrong) is the computer revolution, which was a grass-roots development.
Andreessen's point might not be that the government should force them to do anything necessarily, but that no one even expects them to do anything. They have 40 billion dollars in the bank. No one expects them to do anything with it. The government, donors, anyone in Harvard, the proverbial man on the street, none has an expectation that they should try to do anything greater than whatever they're doing now.
Germany also faced the China shock and Japan. They didn't deindustrialize. Policy choices matter. Leadership matters. And the social factors that lead to devaluing competence and doing things matter.
A global capital levy is Piketty's central proposal in _Capital in the 21st Century_.
> even though it's a 10x improvement over a human operator it still wouldn't be allowed on the market

Hmm I don't agree I think people would go for that.
Since it's not from subject matter experts, expect things like sampling bias and administrative reporting issues to be completely neglected. That is to say, the uncertainty estimate is simply based on observed variance.
Honest, no snark question -- what exactly US government did in last 30 years that should warrant providing more money to it? Is there any guarantee that another trillion dollars will be used more efficiently than blowing up another Middle East country?
I don't know, it looks like Singapore has missed a step somewhere. Adjusted for population and looking at the curves logarithmically, they're not doing so well.
Wait. So you're now going to just dump me at the side of the road if it starts raining?

I appreciate the general point that autonomous driving that only works under some conditions would be useful. But I think it's more along the lines of handling highway driving under most circumstances which already pre-supposes a licensed sober driver that can take over control with a minute or two notice.

I already have an option for local driving. It's called taxis/Uber/Lyft and robo versions won't be all that much cheaper.
This is just expected behaviour isn't it? So many processors require aligned access from the original C target of the pdp-11 onwards. That it happens to work on a x86 is pure chance.
Ok, assume I'm bought into this idea - where would I even begin?

What are some companies working on these kind of fundamental building things problems? I know of the Boring Company, though haven't really heard anything from them since the flamethrowers a few years back. Sidewalk labs was doing some cool things in Toronto, but I think they've been running into big regulatory issues too and it one point it sounded like their plans were completely on hold. The YC New Cities idea sounded intriguing, but as far as I know they never talked about a single thing to come out of that program and it's now been shut down.

I really haven't heard of very many companies at all doing these kinds of things (which is Marc's whole point), and the ones that I have been casually following, I check back 5 years later and they don't seem to have made any tangible progress. Is there just no way to iterate quickly at all in the physical world?

Then of course there would be the challenge of trying to actually get a job at one of these places, I'm not sure what experience would even be required for this kind of work. Maybe a Civil or Mechanical Engineering degree? As a software developer I'm not sure how I'd even get my foot in the door.

I guess that would leave trying to start something myself, but there too I really have no clue where to even begin. It doesn't seem like you can just start tinkering on construction innovations with minimal upfront investment on your nights and weekends like you can with building an app. On this front someone like Marc Andreesen could offer a ton of advice, I'd love to see him follow up on this post with more thoughts about this. Or even announce a program to fund new companies focused on this type of fundamental building.

Anyway, I'd be really curious to hear if anyone knows of either 1. more examples of companies working these spaces to look into or 2. resources to even just learn more about the problem space and which areas might be ripe for innovation.
Flying dragon or Poncirus is a must if you want to grow Citrus in cold places. Is the only decicuous Citrus.

The fruits are non culinary, but is an excelent rootstock

In any case the "lemon" of cold places is Chaenomeles (and not all are able to bear fruit).
And perhaps more importantly, government grants for research.
Presumably they are talking about how monopolies are hard to compete against, and that monopolies are a fairly common outcome of no regulation.
So according to this video these psychoanalysts completely redefined a good number of emotionally charged terms when developing their theories?

Or did people hear the words and redefine them later? The wanton disregard for existing structures really bugs me, perhaps more than it should. It's seemingly intentionally misleading, like they're afraid other people will find their conclusions too simplistic so they intentionally obfuscated the language to appear more sophisticated.
Communism is stateless and therefore was never applied. Capitalism isn't working, we just have convinced ourselves that the suffering of millions under this system is not a sign that it's not working.
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Yeah I was surprised by how this article tried to oversell itself as if it was revealing some fundamental secret. This stuff is marketing and pricing 101. Reading that the author thinks presenting it in this way is somehow novel is a red flag for me that they aren't experts or qualified to be presenting this material, since experts and practitioners should be more than familiar enough with these tactics to know that this is like the most basic set of pricing tactics anyone would learn.

What would be more powerful is a "formula" for figuring out the exact willingness to pay for a product to know what number to anchor/distract around as your target number. Figuring out willingness to pay is one of the actually hardest problems out there that a never before seen formula would be interesting for. But like, the anchoring effect? That's not even marketing 101, that's covered in AP psychology
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Federal and state governments are different.
How many large companies have come from federal grants? How much would that tax actually generate? If the govt can print money in emergencies as needed, what would the taxes have done?

I don't see how concentrating more money in the organization that is the worst at spending it will produce any more value.

Modern govt isn't failing from lack of funds, it's how those funds are spent that is the problem.
a16z's portfolio is an ICU ward of companies all on ventilators. Marc does not have the answers, sorry.

Silicon Valley needs to have a massive die-off of over-built solutions for what the world of 2014 wanted.
Here’s an article from 2016 about the same team. In this attack, they use the sound of the fans instead of the vibration. The difference is, they would need microphone permissions in infected smartphones, whereas the vibration method can be transmitted with accelerometers (which doesn’t require user’s permission)

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/clever-attack-uses-sound-compu...
It's a "stone brush" 石刷 shíshuā. (Alternatively "It's a number!" 是数啊 shì shù a, but then pinyin orthography requires writing it as "Shishu'a" with an apostrophe in front of the third syllable.)
> This is all about tricking people, and nothing about designing pricing to match the value provided.

Hmmmm... maybe.

That said, I would say that they are more often just a way for a company to price their products in a way that more accurately reflects the value to the purchaser.

The easiest example of this is anchoring. The difference in a pricing page that offers 100-220 and a page that offers 100-220-500 is typically very large, and that’s true even if no one selects the 500 option! Having that high end third option effectively gives folks the permission to select a more expensive option that probably has more utility for them and/or their organization.
I don't know why soaring skyscrapers should be viewed as some sort of penultimate view for the future. With remote work tech, we can rid ourselves of the need for dense urban cores, and we can decentralize our population centers more appropriately.
Him funding many effective people working on big ideas at once is probably more effective than him doing one idea himself.
BS. If they were prepared, where did everything go? CA had lower income so they burned all the PPE and shut down hospitals?
It doesn't mean the job is not important. It just means it's a different job from the other job titles which have existed for hundreds of years in the physical domain.

Programming is more like being a lawyer than engineering. But let's stop making analogies to other professions and just call it what it is: programming.
Not a subscriber to this view, but the concept is that we take care for our family and friends for free, and charity is driven by showing us real people rather than cold facts. For the rest of the "people we don't know", investment and payments are capitalism's way of helping them out.

In this context, it sounds like he's surprised that investors are waiting for government to bail out any normally-profitable airlines, rather than making an investment or buying in while keeping them afloat. This seems simplistic to me; the cost of maintaining an airline or hotel for the upcoming no-revenue months is so high that your investment would be lost.
Can you write tests for that?
Well, if you know that the US represents half the spending on healthcare in the world (!) and that its GDP per capita is 20-60% higher than even the one of Western European countries plus the fact that its total GDP is higher than the EU one... You might be excused for expecting a better result in the US.
Then look up Therac-25, because that's roughly what happened
It is still being supported, if you buy said support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4527878/faq-about-e...
Population adjustment doesnt make much sense imho. Until you have a significant fraction of exposed population the dynamics will be the same.
Good feedback: there was no reason to believe this was intended to replace churches. There is no mention of church or religion anywhere. There is no reasonable read of it that sounds like "trying to replace something that already exists: churches"

It looks like you brought it up to pick a fight, knowing how unpopular religion is in a place like this, and lashed out with a passive-aggressive blame-redirecting comment when called out.
Re: Housing

Housing is about the least desirable form of real-estate development for land owners. That's why low cost market housing is built in former cow pastures outside of town and in town market rate housing development tends to be built for upper income and luxury buyers. That's why affordable housing has been done with public subsidy. First as public housing. Then as tax credit financing and housing vouchers. Recently as a condition of building market rate housing.

Real-estate is where wealth is parked with long time horizons. Pension funds and life insurance reserves and intergenerational personal wealth preservation. When wealth preservation is the goal or the investment horizon is thirty years or more, sitting on under-utilized land waiting for a commercial use on a triple net lease provides higher returns than selling houses. Even better if the land is producing rent off the sunk cost...and there's always a market for used car lots. Housing competes with every other use and most uses are much more profitable and stable.

Even leaving land vacant is better than converting to housing when the goal is wealth preservation. In wealth preservation, if you sell, you have to find someplace else to put the money. When real-estate is the wealth preservation vehicle, that means finding another parcel of greater value for equal cost. E.g. a more valuable parcel than the valuable one already in hand.
Learning about stone "industries" is probably one of my favorite wikipedia dives I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing.

Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldowan

You can see in the sidebar that you can traverse the industries in time (Preceded by and Followed by links). Amazingly, these span _species_, since stone tools were in use before Homo sapiens were on the scene.
This is correct. If we were to invest in a moonshot project for the future, my choice would be nuclear fusion.
> it's /r/roastme

Have you visited /r/toastme? [1]

Its whole concept is built around kindness (like the app), the opposite of /r/roastme.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/toastme/ (link for convenience)
Now, instead of having to send video data, you only have to send a representation of the facial movements so that the recipients can render it on their end.

The MPEG-4 part 2 actually had something like that, called "face and body animation (FBA)". As far as I know, there are no implementations in widespread use.
Germany having top pharma factories for things like testing and other medical stuff seems a good reason
I want this badly on gnome-terminal. If anyone has this type if thing on a linux plz. advise.
The linked article isn't a scientific study and doesn't refer to any studies. It just talks about relapses without explaining how they happen. So an explanation of how they're thought to happen seems entirely appropriate.