skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since integrated LIDAR in humans is a bit hard to imagine, how about a human with 10 eyes? Will they be a 5x better driver?

You've still got things a bit mixed up. My stance does not imply that a computer functions as well as a human brain. I am not claiming that better sensors won't (eventually) give you better results. My stance merely implies that the brain (digital or wet) is a very important part of the equation, and just throwing sensors at the problem won't fix the fundamental need to have a highly sophisticated ML system running the show, and it's easier to get the training data you need for such a system if you're not using LIDAR.
Most of the loopholes are there by design. The solution is not to make the bureaucracy more complicated but to make it simpler, by removing most deductions and distinctions in the tax code.
One of the main drawbacks of FHE is that it usually leaks some details of your data. E.g., if you do a multiplication of two (encrypted) values, an attacker can memorize the input and output. Since for most useful applications (eg ML) your computations must be deterministic, an attacker can build up a table of calculations. Once this is filled a bit, he can use that with some heuristics to estimate the data.

The problem here is that it can be very difficult to prove that an application using FHE is really secure against leaking information.

I guess Intel will just do some marketing a la "it's encrypted, thus is safe" BS that semi- or non-technical managers will buy to put a checkmark on their security checklists.
They have been testing in snow in Michigan, rain in Washington and a bunch of other places. You just don’t see it because they’re not operating a commercial service there yet.

Arizona is where bulk of their operations is currently and where they offer a commercial service, so it makes sense for them to focus on that area in their safety reports.
only true if the platform is not open enough for arbitrary competition.
Carrying a cheap/old/second-hand small android phone can be cost effective. Plus, it works as a backup for phone if the PinePhone runs out of battery.

Also, PinePhone can run anbox - slowly.
Sure; sometimes its complicated. But it seems pretty simple here. The article in question[1] makes a liberal appeal to care about good art, and care less about the artist. It isn't overtly racist or sexist. It isn't a work of intolerance that we need to steel ourselves to be intolerant over in turn. Its a pretty middle of the road, classically liberal opinion piece that 15 years ago would have been entirely uncontroversial and boring.

Deplatforming someone over this isn't "bravely standing up to intolerance". Deplatforming the author is just simple anti-intellectual intolerance of the diversity of ideas that (used to) make the academy so great.

[1] https://arcdigital.media/self-censorship-in-the-academy-5241...
Is that likely due to a lot of those niche Facebook products simply launching to very little hype? Or simply only launching to a very select audience for essentially testing purposes?

I remember hype around the Facebook Phone and Facebook Email, but that's about it really. Email didn't really feel like a death either as the rest of Messenger continued to evolve to what it became today.
It seems like a lot of these problems at the core stem from corporations or the government not being held accountable. How do we fix regulatory capture so these privacy issues are a non sequitur?
My approach to getting a computer I own has been influenced by the esolangs website and I am implementing a single instruction set computer using random ttl chips. I don't care that it won't run preexisting software. Networking will be implemented using hand-couriered one time pads.
Why on earth would they use re-imaged Lenovo laptops when that company has a history of hiding malware in firmware so that even a reinstall can't remove it? Why should anyone trust they haven't shoved something nefarious in a chip somewhere. If you want a trusted system you have to start from trustworthy hardware or at the very least avoid manufacturers that are already known to be both untrustworthy and unethical
Never miss a chance to namedrop that infamous Dropbox comment.
> The reality is that you can't dictate what power is used.

Inner Mongolia thinks otherwise apparently.

for the rest of it... I don't find that especially compelling. This feels like the definition of cherry picking specifics against a general problem.
In my old house in WI,a few min from Madison, it was 40,000ft of copper between my house and the central office. They had repeaters that were fine for voice traffic, but DSL is usually 15,000' or less.
Great post. An interesting aphorism I used to spout was “to never listen to a first year PhD student sing praise of their PhD experience.” Though that was aimed at commodity phd students in regular universities not at people who can just choose to work at Google Brain if they feel like it.

But ignoring that one persons warning about PhD still sounded like he had the typical arrogance contained by every person who ever did a PhD (including me). If someone says “don’t do it” and your reaction is to not even follow up with questions perhaps you should acknowledge you already know why they’re saying that! It’s still not clear to me a person of this cadre need a PhD in a technical field in this day and age; they might contribute just as much faster if they chose any other route.
Your average desktop/laptop CPU runs a blackbox like Intel AMT or AMD PSP which is basically an always active mini-CPU that runs in the background and is OS-agnostic. If you consider your OS max privilege level as ring 0, this is ring -1.

If/when someone manage to conpromise those, they can basically take over your computer, and Intel/AMD doesn't provide any sort of killswitch or physical way of disabling it.
Well, it gets interesting if you actually look into it. Somewhat simplifying it, but there are 4 types of actors:

1. Content creators. People that share viewpoints. They are motivated by influencing others who read their pieces.

2. Content consumers. People that read what is published by creators. You can split these in 2 groups:

2a. Non-activist consumers. They don't have much free time and generally just skip over something they don't like. They are the majority.

2b. Activist consumers. They have lots of free time and want their share of influence. By influencing what content creators can write they feel an influence over what non-activist consumers can consume.

3. Providers. They provide platforms connecting content creators and consumers. They generally just care about making money and rely on partnerships with other providers (banks, payment processors, hosting companies, domain registries, etc). They would gladly cut off business that brings negative PR to them.

So what is happening recently is a very small vocal minority of activist consumers is getting increased control over what content creators (1) can share to regular consumers (2a). They do it by forcing big providers (banks, cloud providers, etc) to cut ties with smaller providers that are not aligned with the activist consumers' viewpoints. Hence, many other providers are forced to self-censor in fear of losing access to banking and other vital services.

It's a rather weird negative selection process powered by the social media. Instead of encouraging the unhappy unproductive people to learn from their more successful peers and knock off what worked for them, we are giving them increasing control over the media space, so they can make their views (that lead to unhappiness) more mainstream, resulting in more unhappiness and more social tension.
>That doesn't address the issue in other parts of the workforce though ... nor the biases coworkers/etc may have. It also doesn't force others to adopt the solution you propose.

Of course not, but it's a start. Getting X hired and in the door, means we can at least have the opportunity to tackle problems downstream. Hoping that we can solve X-ism (for the points you mention) and then everything will magically be fixed, is going to probably take at least another 3 generations.

>Recognize the contexts people aren't blind in and be an advocate for diversity in them (not instead of ability, but alongside it). Recognize that a person's lived experience may be different from yours because of their skin color or gender. Which implies recognizing when their skin color or gender is different than yours.

All great points, however we've been doing gender/diversity training (at big tech companies at least) what ~20 years? and we are still having problems. I guess it's getting better slowly...

Growing up in the UK (Ukrainian background), I was always taught to never trust Russians because they were the cause of ALL the problems of Ukraine. Completely idiotic I know. I had never meet a Russian and the people telling me hadn't either. Sigh.

Working in NYC, yep, I was right in the middle of a team of Russians and what did I find? There was nothing crazy about them, they had a dry (similar to British) humor and I got on well with them. My prejudges fell away.

Generally IMHO we can only change our view of X, by mixing with X and realize they're just 'normal' people and that previous generations/peers that manipulate us are a bunch of idiots.
"but also sends a message to his students: that he doesn't whether they feel safe being there matters, "

That is some very serious gaslighting.

To suggest that somehow students would be 'unsafe' around writers such as him or his works, is a toxic form of rhetoric.

That term - 'unsafe' - used in in an intellectual context such as it is is anti-intellectual and oppressive.

There is no 'harm' in his words.

Even if the publication felt it wasn't exactly perfect - they could have published it anyhow at very least on the basis of erring in the side of expression.

Then people cold read it, make up their own minds, disagree, not care, whatever. We're adults, we can do that, that's the point.

And FYI nobody is arguing that any real, material history should not be taught.
Oh come off it. "Dog whistle" is just a made up term used by dishonest bullies to accuse people of saying things they didn't say. I challenge you to list the "dog whistles" in the original article referenced.
If I read the TechCrunch article properly the UpCodes case was decided at the district level by judge Victor Marrero. The judge cited the recent victory by PRO Inc. in the Supreme Court

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1150_7m58.pdf
Does the colleague have full open sky, or some obstructions?
Apparently Apple will display ads for Safari on the desktop if you run Edge.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-opened-microsoft-edge-and-ap...
Great! So it's not just me! As I understand the paper, their main point seems to be that as you extrapolate out in time, you need to not just handle the physics of CO2 that is already in the atmosphere, but predict say how much populations will grow, as well as how much GDP will grow, and how CO2 emissions will be effected by that. So, say if there is an economic recession, then there will be less CO2 produced than if you predicted just say steady growth. This seems to be a case where I could see different assumptions (some reasonable) leading to different results--it's a far cry from say the breast cancer-vs skin-cancer mistake that he leads with
There is no visible wake in the ocean, which there should be, even if a mirage made the ship that made the wake appear to be above the oceam. Therefore this photo is fake.
Perhaps. On the other hand, moving complexity from hardware (in whatever form) into software has proved beneficial.
> lower-end Android phone from half a decade ago and with only 2–3GB of RAM

For $150 it's quite a good deal. Plus, the software stacks are quickly improving, especially Mobian.
Yeah my guess is that OP is on Windows, judging by the way they mention advertising. This is the way I used to think and now that I am solely on macOS and Linux for my personal computing tasks, I don’t feel like that any more, though I am not foolish enough to believe that even on those systems you can’t be spied on at a hardware or OS level. Even if you’re on a theoretically 100% secure OS, any third-party software such as, oh, a browser, could be phoning home or have analytics hooks that track all kinds of things. If you’re super paranoid, I suppose you could always install Kali Linux on a VM and run TOR on that for covert communications. Or use smoke signals and manual OTPs.
I agree, google's search certainly peaked a long time ago. It's great for anything highly popular but between marketing bullshit and spam results for anything else have just gotten worse
Clearly adding LIDAR do your own fleet is tremendously expensive, otherwise Waymo would have 10,000 LIDAR-equipped cars driving around.
My primary audio-related hobby is making sound effects libraries for video game developers but when time allows I make weird electronic music.

This release used modular synths, an Octatrack, Ableton Live, acoustic drums, and tons of soft synths.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5SYOh9MmkJX4ztmmKkpmyJ?si=9R6...
It has to do with truth.

Great art and comedy both can illuminate truth in a way that prose and rhetoric can't touch, because they can approach it obliquely and not get hung up on the details.

This get missed by the overly ideological, and you can tell because they produce bad art and no comedy.
Regardless of debates over the utility of "levels", it does seem misleading to name something "full self driving" that is not intended to fully drive itself.
> temperature was held consistently until you took control of the cargo after arrival, or if it was tampered with during transit in any way.

There are already temperature and tamper devices for sensitive freight. There are devices that will show if orientation has changed or if shock occurred etc.

Sensitive freight is an entire industry that has already innovated around the lack of connectivity.

That's not to say there isn't further innovation to be made.
This is literally something that NEVER crosses the mind of the average consumer. We should have a HackerNews version of "first world problems" and call it "HackerNews Problems".

You now have a computer that is 10,000 times faster than one you had 30 yrs ago at half the price. Oh and it fits in your pocket. A lot of time and money went into creating that. Those people need to get paid. And yes you pay for it with some loss of privacy.

The reason why this product doesn't existing on the market is because because NOBODY (except the odd 4000 people on HN) wants this product. Most people don't even use a VPN or know what TOR is. If you don't want it, then design and fab your own chips and write your own software from scratch.
Look at the data on deficits linked above.

This seems to be the pattern:

Republican president: spend on this!

Republican congress: OK

Democratic congress: OK, as long as we spend on this, too.

Democratic president: spend on this!

Democratic congress: OK

Republican congress: No, deficits are important.
It seems to be that the US ends up with the worst of both systems. States are not separate countries so they can not deny access like another country would deny a rapist from immigrating but they are also not unified so they can't take any collective action.

Seems to be the core of the covid situation too. There is no unified plan and guidance but states doing well can't shut borders to continue doing well.
I don’t know, a $1200 for a phone sounds expensive enough.
There are capable desktop computers with open hardware, down to the silicon: you just have to pay for it.

For example, for $4k, you can get this with specs roughly equivalent to a normal developer machine: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1SD1/intro.html
Two accounts:
Molydenum is my more mainstream stuff.

https://open.spotify.com/album/0KAtTxEPv2YqeGLs63D7ZU?si=MX7...

More personal, experimental stuff is under my name.
https://open.spotify.com/album/6lQ9JWrD8tt8iP4hI6Q5eO?si=y5b...

EDIT: YALL ARE MY TARGET AUDIENCE!
Show HN: Tmpcli.py: Tether Management Protocol Client
I recently created a client after reversing the closed-source binary TP-Link uses as a client for their Tether Management Protocol (TMP) and Tether Discovery Protocol (TDP - possibly stands for something else).
How does your IRB feel about having people pay to be part of a study?

Do you look for specific non-dental disease factors, such as microbes that can lead to damage to the heart valves? What about signs of oral cancers (would those be strained out in the process of rejecting the human cells?)
> If you’re a woman and you want to be a coder but all you hear about is hell stories, why would you sign up for that major

I think this is a bit more complex; think of something like Revenge of the Nerds where computer peeps are all socially inept (sometimes borderline creepy) otherworldly nerds whose only interest in life is computers.

Would you want to work in an environment like that? I wouldn't. And luckily I don't because that's not really what most programmers are like. I can count the number of people I've met that fit this stereotype on a single hand, and I've met quite a number of programmers at conferences and such over the years.

I feel these problems run much deeper than just "hell stories from women". Luckily in the last ~10/20 years attitudes seem to be changing somewhat for the better, but for a long time during the 80s, 90s, and 00s the perception of the average programmer was not especially positive.
Notifications are pretty easy to disable though, right?
A few jobs ago, the company I worked for based their own custom processor on a MIPS core. Why MIPS? The answer I got when I asked was that it was the only affordable option. ARM in particular was called out as beyond reach financially. Years later, long after that company was gone, RISC-V came in at an even lower price point. AFAICT there's no need to look for other reasons behind this news.
Excel is amazing for rapid data analysis and modeling, the flexibility it provides is exceptional when you're working alone and are trying to do one thing, fast.

It becomes a pain when you're trying to use it to enforce workflows, across multiple people.

The problem is that it works "well enough" that building a proper data model/system to replace the spreadsheet workflow is not going to get prioritized because it already sort of works and there are likely bigger problem areas in the org.

It's a pretty classic problem where something enables you to solve a problem fast and well enough as to often preclude an excellent solution.

On the flip side, if something is new/evolving and is handled in excel, it's a mistake to try to tighten it up in an application right away because you are going to end up evolving the app at a cost whereas evolving the spreadsheet would have been nearly free.
From what I've seen of Tesla's FSD beta, it could very probably be T4 if Tesla geofenced certain areas and worked out any particular kinks manually. T4 with geofencing is a far cry from T4 on any road anywhere.

That last sentence seems like a strange one. "Stuck" would be if you massively invested in LIDAR and it didn't help. If no-LIDAR FSD is not as feasible as Tesla hopes, they can just... use LIDAR. And they'll arguably be in a better position tahn early adopters because they weren't investing when the hardware was expensive.
You can also use one device to hotspot another thus providing data without the added risks that come with having another mystery binary blob.

You'll need a external battery pack though for longer days away from home.
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Why limit simulations to fatal crashes instead of all reported crashes?
Yes, this is a coherent, stable proposal. For a tolerant society to adopt complete tolerance, even of things designed to destroy their society, is unstable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Aw thanks, appreciate the kind words! It would be a dream come true to perform onstage someday, but for now I'm just counting down the days until we can bring back live music again :)
Of course they're incentivized to test and implement for other areas. Their system will be worth astronomically more if it works everywhere and if it requires less precise mapping. Why would you assume otherwise? Also, small thing but it's AZ weather, not CA.
Windows has been the mainstream OS for nearly 25 years (probably more, had a hard time getting good historical stats). The desktop has never been free, just simpler and less 'rent seeking after the fact'.

https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-95-remains-most-popular-op...
You said it like it's an unthinkable thing to do, but it used to be a policy - FCC fairness doctrine.
If we were so smart (as a society) these problem would not exists.

Personally I think these things are scaling problems. I'd argue that we are not smart enough to centrally organize these things for 330+ million people.

Perhaps the problem is that the federal government was never designed to do so much (tenth amendment). The federal government was designed to answer to the states, not 330+ million people. Look how much better smaller countries do with this stuff. We give the "bigger is better" government too much credit. Historically "bigger is better" causes all the big problems.

I'm 100% for progressive policies at the state level. I'm 100% opposed to progressive policies at the federal level. Government should be "by the people", not by some rules written by career politicians and civil servants a thousand miles away.
I make ambient music. I haven't released anything in a while, but am getting back on the music production train.

Here is the only real collection of songs I ever put out: https://helenave.bandcamp.com/album/stuff-things
> Yeah my guess is that OP is on Windows, judging by the way they mention advertising. This is the way I used to think and now that I am solely on macOS and Linux for my personal computing tasks, I don’t feel like that any more,

I don't think either are immune from the problem. Even Ubuntu was sending people's local disk searches to their servers so that they could push amazon ads. Everything I've ever touched from Apple seemed to push you to their own apps/ecosystem. If you want to put music on your iphone, you can't just plug it in and open it like a drive, they'll push you to itunes. They also seem to very heavily push their cloud stuff.
Alternatively, they want the NSA to obey the law, and for surveillance-for-profit business models to be forbidden.
HN is substantially larger than 4000 people, besides, telling people to design and fab their own chips is disingenuous.

The right to privacy is not a 'first world problem', it is a problem.
> some academic literary magazines are now being forced to admit they have political agendas

I think "have political agendas" is a logical leap. If your employees or customers are going to be angry with you for working with someone, you don't work with that person. To go against the wishes of your employees and customers would be having a political agenda.
Industrial/experimental work --

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2TlBEBrqsr7zt0eEipU023
I call bs on that article. A guy wants to do nothing and get the stuff for cheap. We'll guess what, even if you get your thing for cheap once you get on the internet you'll be open for all kind of malice and there's ain't anybody but you to deal with it.

Get a free hardware or hardware with crippled anti-features, they're plenty of vendors that supply it, slap Linux on it, PGP encrypt your email and use secure chat. Oh, your want all of that to be done for you? Well you'll have to pay then.

Or that another argument - that encryption is workaround. It's like saying that food is not solution for being hungry but a workaround, a ridiculous statement. How are you supposed to stay private and anonymous if you communicate in the open? Are you going to have a private cable line to every correspondent you talk to?