skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless they don't know it's coming to pass :o

Or you're in an authoritarian regime where not having an implant may result in longer lines, less financing options, no plane access, harder train access, and direct pressure on/from friends.

I'm not worried about those things happening in Canada tomorrow though.
Most tech companies are in-line with some form of abuse. Whether it's creating campaigns against reasonable salary increases to installing highly intuitive applications to track and monitor your activity as an employee.

More simply put, things we'd give people felonies for tech companies (and others) get a pass.

I could believe this dystopian future, especially as political forces continue to form stern camps whose only substantive difference is an opposing view to the other.
Amp stories and search ranking were the driving force behind adoption of amp otherwise news media wouldn't pick it up.

That is leveraging their existing position as a search engine and aggregator to force a standard.
I presume you're talking about America, since I can assure you that in Asia QR codes are alive and well. In China in particular everything is done with QR.
> We are heading rapidly towards the corollary to “it just works” being “and if it doesn’t, just wipe everything and re-install”.

Is this really all that bad? In the era of everything living in the cloud, it generally takes me only a couple hours to setup a system again from scratch. Not that I've ever had to do this on macOS personally (though I did once on iOS), but if I had, I wouldn't be terribly upset about it.

> If every time your car had a problem you had to replace its engine, wouldn’t you consider that abysmal engineering?

This is a ridiculous analogy. Re-installing an OS is free (both the materials and, for Apple customers who don't know how to do it themselves, the service).

macOS today doesn't always just work. I run into bugs sometimes and get frustrated. But whenever I boot up Windows and have to fight to get the most basic dev tools working, or boot up Linux and have to fight to get a core function like system updates or audio working, I'm reminded how much closer macOS still is to "just working" than anything else out there.
I kind of like seeing comments like this, where you get to see the mental gymnastics that people use to fit their garbage agenda.
Grave danger? Of what? I suspect most of HN had free rein of the internet in their formative years. I’m sure I did a lot of stuff my parents wouldn’t have been thrilled about but I was never in grave danger (or any danger really) and I learned a ton. I’d be far more concerned with the potential lasting damage from a kid’s dumb social media posts than crime.
A SQL injection bug is (probably) not that big of a deal as long as the tenant boundary isn't crossed. They'd be stealing their own data.
It’s not Elon musk that’s doing the work, it’s the actual workers. Sure, maybe Musk has the capital and audacity to try these things, but that does not mean he’s the one putting in the skilled work required for this
> I'd beg to differ. Really good Chinese restaurants in China tend to specialize ruthlessly, selling only a few items.

What are you defining as "good"? Luxury restaurants?

Because I've been to hole in the wall restaurants in the middle of nowhere, and they'll have 20+ things on the menu and the food is generally delicious. I've been to higher end restaurants that have 8 pages or more. I've never seen anything with a tiny menu, except street stalls that only sell one or two items.

I'm definitely a person who prefers larger menus. Small menus make me worry more about what to order because it's usually 1 or 2 things I want, with 1 or 2 things I don't want in the same order. I also generally don't return because there isn't much else to try unless the few items are all appealing, which is rare. Longer menus at good restaurants keep me coming back to try new things.
Hey! I am currently working on something like this. Would it be possible to connect? I would love to get your feedback.
Interesting map, its crazy how often these groups fracture and splinter!

Really wish one of these would go publicly traded and report revenue, leading to real price discovery of these operations and ability to manage risk.

There are permissionless systems they can use now to list shares, and if they have a liquidity issue they just need to take over a dam and generate some electricity for themselves for their crypto mining hardware which will convert to currency.

I know I know, multiple topics for people to disagree with so I don't expect this to lead to a conversation about solutions today, I'm just making a note publicly that I perceived the possibilities before it happened.
>It can be opt in like amp but the difference is here simply that they don't require a new standard.

But that's exactly what amp is. An opt-in set of standards for creating fast-loading, cach-able pages. There is also no reason why websites couldn't replicate this outside of amp ... but they don't.

>Other ways they could solve is just disincentivise slow loading pages.

They do that ... in all kinds of ways. The problem is that with their position, they can destroy a lot of businesses if they apply these kinds of rules haphazardly. There's no simple solution here.
Profits play a massive factor in why governments tend to be incompetent.

What do you think taxes are? They're a wealth transfer without option from everyone else to those in the employ of government.

A whole bunch of people are profit from government expenditure, we even have a word for a special type of fraud about government expenditure: pork barelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel

But, government run operations tend he notorious for incompetence for a few reasons, others have done a better job of detailing:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=why+governments+are+notorious+...
I guess I'll have to listen to those now to hunt down your weaselry!
The issue will be enforcement of these laws.

How will you regulate the possession and distribution of IMUs and electric motors?

Hell most of the parts you need to build a drone are available in a used cellphone and many of the rest can be 3d printed.
Imagine a hundred thousand of these things. Ugh. I don’t wanna know if that’s in our future.
Relatedly, I’ve always found quantum mechanics to be reasonable “proof” that we’re living in a simulation.

Take wave-partical duality: how is that not an artifact of the implementors wanting to reuse some core routines from an legacy particle-based universe while building our next-gen wave based one? The particle-based simulation wouldn’t work at the scales needed, so they moved to waves (much easier to simulate), and rigged up some adaptors to switch to particle mode in a JIT manner as needed.

The folks trying to unify quantum and classical mechanics are essentially reverse-engineering that JIT (and others like it).
Another great game to get the ropes of flexbox is Flexbox Zombies (https://mastery.games/flexboxzombies/).
It goes all the way from very basic stuff to things most people never bother to learn, like flex-basis and align-content.
Back in the DOS days, Flight Simulator had an awesome printed manual, with detailed how to fly instructions and, IIRC, a whole bunch of airport maps.

More generally, the manuals of 80s-90s simulation games were often quite packed with detailed real-world info.
https://twitter.com/StateOfLinkedIn
Do you have a source on Apple “killing IDFA”?

My understanding is that they are going to simply show a consent dialog before allowing an app to access the IDFA, similar to what they have done for years to access other sensitive data like Contacts, Location, etc.
There are pedophiles online who specialize in preying on kids that have parents like you
> I don’t have deep knowledge in this area, but it’s clear to me that more modern designs have very different risk profiles

There are lots of claims of that, but many of those claims sound exactly the same as the ones made about he "safe Japanese nuclear industry" prior to Fukushima.

Here's a take by someone who actually has very deep knowledge on the subject:

>I oversaw the U.S. nuclear power industry. Now I think it should be banned. The danger from climate change no longer outweighs the risks of nuclear accident

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/i-oversaw-the-us-nucl...
“Yes men” get infinitely more results than “no men”.
There have been a total of six deaths related to Autopilot misuse over 3 billion Autopilot driven miles by the fleet. Humans are terrible at risk management.
Each with and incendiary charge and the GPS coordinates of every home/building in a city. Who needs Tokyo/Dresden firebombing anymore.
> but the safety record talk always seems disingenuous

This is WHY I support nuclear, because of their safety record. All the people in all the nuclear accidents (or usage) ever that have died is far less than the yearly death from coal or oil or natural gas. As a death per TWhr it is even lower than solar[0]. So I'm a bit confused by the safety concerns. Having worked with nuclear materials, the reason it is so safe is because the safety levels are set to be much stricter than other energy sources, and by a lot. We've seen coal, fracking, and mining all create zones that won't be habitable for thousands of years.

Now we have reactors that produce thousands of times less waste than previous generation reactors. But you should also consider that the amount of nuclear waste is tiny. Over the last 60 years, the estimated total (radioactive and non-radioactive) waste is estimated to be about 445k tons[1] (324k tons need to be stored). In 2014 the US (just the US) produced 130m (that's million) tons of coal ash[2]. We're talking astronomically big differences in waste size. If we do a basic naive comparison that's coal _in the US_ is producing 18 _thousand_ times as much waste per year than the _global waste_ from nuclear. This is RIDICULOUS.

Saying "nuclear produces more waste and/or more damage to the environment and/or people" just signals one not paying attention to the damage caused by other resources. Sure, nuclear is scary, but the data says it is one of the safest, cleanest, and best sources of energy for our environment. And that's why people get up in arms about it, because the data is there and easy to find. And unfair comparisons are being made left and right.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-total-amount-of-nuclear-wa...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/coalash/coal-ash-basics
How to frame history with understanding that didn't exist for the people in it is probably a whole field of study. Most of the letters in the acronym existed (if not by the same name) before then, though meanings have evolved.
The danger from climate change no longer outweighs risks of nuclear accidents
Man I knew it was just a matter of time for this to happen, to easy to do and to many intelligent people with no morals (or just desperate, threatened etc.).

Anyway thinks like this make it more likely for unreasonable regulations, like even small drones being tracked when used or similar. But the bad joke is it's pointless as:

- The "bad" people can always circumvent such measurements (it's illegal but you plan to do illegal things anyway)

- Even if drones are banned it's not too hard to build them yourself from parts your will always be able to get one way or another for not too much money.
Microsoft doesn't get to import the data. This all ends up in user made mods.
I’m not sure that the high churn rate at the high end is really in Musk’s interest, but it MIGHT be in society’s interest. Instead of sucking up a bunch of highly skilled and driven people indefinitely, the few who are able to work well in that environment stay and are able to get stuff done while the others leave and spread the knowledge elsewhere, perhaps starting up competing efforts that either complement Musk’s efforts or give Musk a run for his money. This is a strong argument against Non-Competes.
Yeah, among other things Lisp isn't big on labels and GOTO (but BASIC is).
I have met very many people who have trouble doing that–and no, it's not because they thought it was a username, or they were too lazy to use the shift key.
The quantity of trees in the game is a bit insane. My hometown in the Sonoran desert looks like a rainforest.

The most common tree there is a palm tree, which the game usually represents as a sort of bizarre obelisk. What they've done with the game is super impressive, but it's really put them into the uncanny valley when there's goofy inconsistencies with reality. I've noticed similar height issues with streetlights, freeway overpasses, etc
That looks like a key point behind the existence of the Neuralink company.
>How I could find in a short notice this kind of sources of investment? I don't live in a country where there's an abundance of investors, let alone "socially responsible investors".

Congratulations for product market fit. Have you considered debt and going to banks? There may also be organizations, either governmental or not, that promote entrepreneurship/startups/small businesses.
FYI, this very same approach worked nicely for my kid, that just turned 18.
> How come hydroelectric dams don't get treated this way? In 2019 a dam in Brazil had a catastrophic failure that cost the lives of 270 people.

Brumadinho wasn't a hydroelectric dam; it was a dam containing leftovers from iron mining (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster for details). Apparently, this kind of dam has a very different design from hydroelectric dams (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings_dam, "Unlike water retention dams, a tailings dam is raised in succession throughout the life of the particular mine.").
I find it strange that you point out that policy makers do not comprehend these concepts, yet believe it will be voted out.

They are just as likely to create policies to the benefit of their wallet, especially when they do not comprehend a topic.
Get a job where that language is the primary one. Coding it 8h+ a day gets you up to speed.
https://outline.com/LgBPeP
Tesla, SpaceX and Neuralink are very different companies, different kinds of products, different markets with different dynamics. So it's hard to compare.
I'm talking about Australia here but I imagine its the same in both countries. QR codes used to be on every poster but now the only place I see them is on the front of the apple store so you don't have to walk in (which is a process right now)

I think what killed them here is that android didn't bundle a qr code scanner by default and they never contained anything that the user actually wanted, they were just for marketers to get people on their site.
we already have cameras everywhere, you cant participate in society without signing up for and along with someone else massive system of bullshit. We cant even review utility bills without installing an app or visiting a website and starting an account. 'That future' we are in the middle of it.
Tannerite is, though. (And where it isn't, blasting charges for mining are. And where those aren't, fertilizer probably still is. Explosives are hard, yet also far easier than you'd think)
> Nobody will ever let thought intrusion come to pass.

Human rights will take steps backwards if it's necessary to keep an economic advantage.

If thought intrusion has any productivity value, a less scrupulous nations will take that advantage, and deregulation by more scrupulous nations will be re-framed as gaining necessary competitive advantage, and will be demanded by unemployed citizens and business minds alike.
It probably is in Musk's interest too. Musk has earned the benefit of the doubt in trusting his decision as to "should Very Smart Person X be employed by Neuralink" or not. There's a lot more to making a company successful than being competent and as much as I find Musk personally distasteful there is nobody with his track record at building transformative private sector companies.
in some cases a most definite YES. America is not some post racial utopia, we are far away from Asians having prominence in politics or social life.
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/25/elon-musk-neuralink-upda..., which is off topic unless someone comes up with a workaround to the paywall. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

If anyone suggests a better URL that's available to the general audience, we can change it again.
This sounds like it could get quite confusing.
>Turns out constant surveillance is not a necessity for learning.

Didn't you just make a post above this one about how much you surveil your households tech usage?
Sounds a lot easier than attaching incendiaries to bats, at least...

Which is something the US actually tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb
> only embed resources that are included with SRI or match a whitelist of commonly-used third-party resources that don't do this

Essentially zero SAAS third-party resources are set up to be included with SRI, because (as you might expect) none of these third parties want to commit to serving one version indefinitely.

> ad-blockers can't just blanket deny access to because that would break non-advertising functionality

Good point! I wasn't thinking about how that played out with Google (since display ads today are served from a doubleclick domain). Pretty much anyone running an ad blocker is also going to be blocking third-party cookies, though, so routing the ad request via a proxy on the publisher domain would work even better.

> Google's currently developing their own version of this, which I think they call the "AMP cache"

AMP doesn't contain anti-adblocking, and an anti-adblocking-via-inscrutable-js approach would be incompatible with AMP's policy of requiring that all AMP code, including extensions, be open source. For example, this is the code that requests AdSense ads and renders the responses: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/extensions...
This is based from arwes.dev including the sounds. The license is MIT.
Does it count as "terrorism" if nearly no one noticed it happened, and no me claimed credit or made demands?

And why try to kill a power plant with guns instead of bombs? And why go to all the effort and only shoot 100 bullets? Seems like a bizarrely stupid plan executed by talented people, a strange combination.

Also, calling it the largest attack on the grid is strange, when it was quite trivial compared to Enron.
> macOS does not have procfs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs

It also got dropped from OpenBSD:

> It was removed from OpenBSD in version 5.7, which was released in May 2015, because it "always suffered from race conditions and is now unused".[2]

The OpenBSD people don't say what you should replace it with, but backing up in the paragraph, the FreeBSD people do:

> As of February 2011, procfs is gradually becoming phased out in FreeBSD.[1]

Chasing that reference:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-February...

> Why is procfs deprecated in favor of procstat?

[snip]

> The security issues are long-standing and there have been many over the years, but the real reason is something that's less evident (or at least less directly apparent):

> Simply put, procfs on FreeBSD has been neglected. There isn't a lot of attention being given to it, and the only modifications in recent months/years have been generally minor compared to the rest of the tree. You can review some of the commits yourself:

> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/fs/procfs/

> Others like yourself have asked what the state of procfs is, going back as far as 2005. Be sure to read the reply as well:

> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/20...

Here's the FreeBSD procstat manpage:

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?procstat

Aside from bitrot, is there a reason to prefer procstat over procfs?
It is quite easy to make your own bombs and firearms as well, all with perfectly legal materials. They may not have the effectiveness of commercially made versions, but they'll get the job done in a pinch.

Typically, I think, laws against possession of such homemade illegal goods are enforced as add-on charges to other crimes, unless you are selling them.
No. That's how radiation affects for human.
Please don't snark or post unsubstantive HN comments. Maybe you don't owe CEO cult figures better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps this[1]? It starts with a bit about how they had to SSH into everyone's car to fix a bootloop, and goes downhill from there.

[1]: https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376
and that it was in 2017
Most of the time it doesn't actually matter that your browser is missing support for webusb or webwhatever but every now and then you hit a site that uses it and it creates a user experience of "Just use chrome and it always works" A good demo is Mozilla spent about 7 years and 43,000 commits on Servo which is JUST a rendering engine and not any of the JS apis and it still doesn't actually work well enough to render most sites.
Why are there so many typos...?
Yeah, I've read it. And the Navy one. And the Army. What do you think I said that contradicts that? How do you think the Air Force would be upholding that oath if it overthrew the elected government or did something to the "deep state" (which is just the bureaucracy)?
The current "fraction" in "fractional reserve" is zero.
Wow, what a bizarre world to grow up in.

I can understand avoiding certain products because other products are better or because of something that contradicts one's values. Yet the author's father seems to be doing so because he held grudges and had a weird sense of brand loyalty.

Gateway, of all companies! Then again, I grew up in a family that went to computer dealers and had systems built. There was no real brand loyalty there, not even loyalty to a particular dealer, but it taught me the value in a custom built PC.

That upbringing reflects how I choose products today. I would much rather spend an hour shopping for components and an hour putting them together than spending several hours shopping for a computer.

My recent experience trying to find an acceptable laptop has driven me to the point where I probably won't buy a laptop in the years to come. I'm the type of person who won't touch a laptop unless the RAM and storage can be upgraded, as well as knowing what type of CPU and GPU it has. Having to dig around support sites or even third party sites to get such information does not impress me. Granted, finding the information often reveals why vendors are so hesitant to provide it. (The performance of your $800 laptop is worse than my middle-of-the pack eight year old PC?! Yeah, that's comparing desktops to laptops, but it's an eight year old desktop!)

But that's different. It's based upon my wants and (perceived) needs as well as the information currently available. If things change in a few years time, the decision will change with it. It's not because of a problem that was fixed several years prior. It's not driven by a misguided sense of brand loyalty.

Edit: missed word, extra word. Sigh.
Isn't Tesla's FSD computer best compared to Google's TPU? Both use integer operations instead of floating point and are optimized for matrix operations.

It's a great product and genuinely impressive, but you're comparing specialist vs generalist hardware. Half an order of magnitude improvements are table stakes, otherwise it's crazy not to just buy off the shelf.

My 2070 Super does 9 TFLOPs but it's paired with an 3900X which barely does 1... is my graphics card an order of magnitude better than my CPU?
My uncle told a story about some restaurant in Italy, where everyone is seated at the same fixed time, and the owner comes out and announces:

"Tonight, dinner will be rib eye steak. It will be cooked medium rare. If that doesn't sound good to you, please feel free to leave now."
Optical character recognition.