skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing Mac default screenshot file format to jpg
“Relax, it’s only the Department of Justice” is not exactly reassuring. USAs have a 99+% conviction rate for a reason.
Just as with real brains, "the autopilot" isn't a unitary thing. Different parts do different things. The ML that recognizes objects is different from the software that makes decisions as to which recognitions to honor. In this case, all we have is evidence for the first half: the vision system detected (correctly!) images of traffic lights, which then got presented by the UI visualization (correctly!) in the right place.

But the software model is that traffic signs are static, and these were moving, so the visualization had no way to present that. It just left them there until the ML told them they weren't there anymore.

What would the AP have done? We don't know. But I don't know why we should simply assume it would have done the wrong thing. Driving is filled with false-positive indicators that it already knows to ignore successfully.
I really wanted to protest this, and disagree. ...But no, I really can't argue with it. I am known for finding the thing I like at a restaurant and ordering the same thing.

"You order the same meal every time?"

"I order the best meal every time."

-CollegeHumor (Brendan is a national treasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5oL4QKb6Sk)
The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
Is opening the computer a possibility?
I would be willing to bet that, 3 years from now, only the GitHub link will be valid.
Musk Should Build Pumped Hydro with Tesla Energy, the Boring Co., & Coal Miners
Well put.

It is an absurd argument up to the point of "reasonableness" that it's the responsibility of the company to defend against 100% of theoretical security vulnerabilities, in my opinion.

There will always be a vulnerability, unless some truly secure-by-design technology exists .. airgap, not vulnerable to social engineering .. ?
The F35 is a primarily a sink for public cash that happens to fly. There is literally no incentive to make these projects cheap, fast, and economically streamlined.

The lifetime cost is projected to be $1.7tn. Someone is getting very rich off that.

For comparison, the entire Manhattan Project cost the equivalent of $30bn in modern money.
Team Building Ideas for June (Pride and Diversity)
I'm most certainly not "taking the position that the actions of some people who follow some version of a religion to be defining for it", and I'm perplexed as to how you reached that conclusion. That's quite a ridiculous claim and quite a ridiculous inference as well. But we agree that that particular statement is not very interesting!
It really depends how that attack is being organized and backed though - in most cases we'll be left with only a strong suspicion of who actually launched the attack and, due to the nature of technology, it's much more likely with a cyber attack for the real perpetrators to frame someone else.

Even once that's all decided, we'd need to figure out if war would be a reasonable response. I'd propose that one of the main reasons the US hasn't ever escalated the situation with North Korea, even if we ignore China's likely response, is that actually subduing the populace and occupying the country would likely be extremely difficult. It's unlikely that a thoroughly bombed North Korea would be any more stable and friendly than the current North Korea.

War is extremely inefficient at bettering the lives in any of the countries involved - there are times when it is necessary, but it should be avoided whenever possible.
I have been saying for years that full self driving is extremely unlikely to be developed any time in the near future because it is simply too hard of a problem for any reasonable near-future extension of currently available technology. I am gratified to see that the conventional wisdom has recently come to also see things that way. I am not surprised that journalists bought the hype - I assume that half of them have no idea what they are writing about and/or are just advertisers in disguise. But it does surprise me that so many experienced corporate professionals and investors got taken in. I guess maybe part of it is that they just are not as smart as I once thought they were and maybe another part of it is that some of them used the hype to grab a bunch of cash with both hands, cash that the people who put it up will now never see again.
Have white people been a recent focus of genocide that successfully wiped out 1/2 of all of them?

See the difference?
Thank you, but this was never something that I wanted to do for my own interest.

I just saw someone with an unsolved problem and found out that I'd had to go through loops to help, so I gave up.

Actually it seems that owners became rich and it's now a popular site without my help, so I guess it can still survive without me :)
IME, Chargepoint fast chargers are the most expensive I've seen. The ones near all charge a session fee of $3 to $8 plus 0.35$/kwh (which is almost 4x residential rates).
You may well be right; I don't know any of the details. The problem is that there don't seem to be any good URLs, by which I mean ones that would provide a good basis for objective, interesting discussion. Maybe one will turn up.
Do you think there is a difference between the relationship of a business to employer and business to customer? I do.
Agreed. I'm a bit tired of the victim blaming with security. It's physically impossible to build a house that can't be broken in to, and even harder for computer systems. Crime is a social problem, we can't rely on a dream world of mathematically perfect zero trust security.
> Because the lessons of capability based security were ignored for decades, and not taught, the common consensus is that computers can never be made secure, and your best hope is to hire the smartest people in the world, at less than the average market rate, to secure your systems.

I presume the OP is a fan of capability-security and while I'm not an expert on capabilities, I agree they can go a _long_ way to mitigating risk. Unfortunately, none of the mainstream OSs even offer a smidge of a way of actually working with capabilities. Google's recently laughed Fuschia _does_ support capabilities out of the box, but they have a long way to go before they're regarded as mainstream.
Hi! I'm the author of this chapter of the casebook. I didn't expect it to show up here, but I'm happy to answer questions.
Or the notes fall off, etc
Follow the $$$.

If US government authorizes the NSA/CIA to infiltrate/attack all bitcoin exchanges that accept payments from wallet ID with ransomware, the problem likely be solved very quickly.
>Once the car throttles down the charging speed, you are probably better off finding another charger an hour or two away - unless you're planning a longer stay.

This is 100% true and, from recent experience, generally a much better way to road trip. Stopping every 150 miles or so breaks up the trip into nice chunks and keeps you fresh.

I took an earlier trip where I had to charge from 10-90% twice due to charger distance and it was much worse.
Long term: Vision is better, and less prone to false errors (see all the talk of phantom breaking).

I think it was on the way out by maybe 2022

Short term: Global chip shortage made supply tight, and it was either remove it and rush out with the no radar code branch, or stop shipping cars.

Long term I think it's a fine decision, but short term it's kind of a big thing to rush.
On a quick scan, I'm not seeing any mention of OS/2, but I feel like this extensible behavior of the shell first showed up there. Not sure if that was an IBM thing or a Microsoft thing (or both), but it was WAY WAY WAY different from what came before.
Most of these are private companies, the NSA doesn't really have a role there.
Some of the more vocal users on twitter in other words.
You could monetise via an "insiders" lane. Like the way material for mkdocs works. https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/insiders/
There's some kind of weird penumbra here. The intent of the owner of the computer system clearly matters, but how much?

At the "seems pretty clearly like unauthorized access" end of the spectrum, we can imagine someone brute-forcing a password to gain access to a system. They're "authorized by technical access" once they have the username/password, but that's surely a focal case of the kind of crime that the statute was intended to address.

Alternatively, say there was a guest account activated with a default password.

Would we argue that someone with no relationship to the owner who discovered the account was active and then used it was "authorized by technical access"?

Presumably the answer is that authorization in that case depends on whether it was the intent to allow strangers to use the system as a guest or whether it was some kind of technical oversight.

What about if you were hired as a data entry operator, but your account was accidentally set up as a superuser? The owner of the system intended to give you one level of access but accidentally gave you another. Are you a hacker if you use the unintended access grant to snoop around? Again, you're "authorized by technical access".

What about if your boss puts his username/password on a post-it note on his monitor and you use his account without his knowledge? What about if you use it with his knowledge and agreement?
Did Big Wheels have any actual patents other than design patents (which aren't much related to functional patents). Was there not a penny-farthing trike before?
If I had a magic wand:

I'm not a "security expert", I have no encyclopedic knowledge of the ways of criminals. Let's agree that is well established.

I do know how computers work, down to the transistor level. I've been playing with them since 1978.

Rules I would impose:

Industrial control systems would be isolated from the internet by a unidirectional network. Data could get out, ONLY. You can have helpers on the inside and outside to handle things like buffering logs, etc.

If you need remote control of something industrial, it has to be on a physically separate network, airgapped from the world.

In Government, I would have NEVER connected the Office of Personnel Management system to the internet, except to allow data INBOUND through a data diode. All outbound queries would require passing through a human with the proper security clearance.

All sensitive or classified systems would be similarly isolated, and only allow ingress of data.

Multilevel secure computing would be required for all government systems. Red Teams would be used to test security periodically, run by the Inspector General.

Capability Based Security would be the norm. Most users wouldn't see much of a difference in their day to day interactions.

Bug bounties would be required for any commercial software vendor, with public disclosure after 1 year of all payouts. Bugs submitted that aren't paid would be disclosed in 6 months.

The NSA would shift roles from spying on everything just because they can, to first making sure nobody can spy on us, and only then spying on everyone else.

Also:

Email would require authentication on send

Null terminated strings would be abolished

Broadband would be nationalized and free to all
It wasn't good for the users whose questions I wasn't allowed to answer, but you have a point.
These are DC fast charging stations, you can get a decent charge in ~10/min on newer EVs.
> But the AI drives slowly and gets confused easily.

Probably better to say that the AI drives slower than you would and gets confused differently. Real drivers die every day to terrible mistakes that look obvious in hindsight. Most of them probably thought AI was terrible too.

The bar here is much lower than you think it is, and frankly existing automation has already crossed it.
I don't know the specifics of how TinyPilot is supposedly based on Pi-KVM, but seeing how the all Pi-KVM repositories seem to be licensed under GPL 3.0[^1] even distributing his code under MIT seems potentially legally problematic. See the "same license" clause of the GPL 3.0 for derivative projects and projects even just using GPL 3.0 code.

This is of course only relevant if the above comment is correct and TinyPilot actually derives from and/or uses code from GPL 3.0 licensed parts of the Pi-KVM project. I do not know if this is the case.

[1]: https://github.com/pikvm/pikvm/blob/master/LICENSE
A clean visual style would be welcome. Current basically every settings anything screen looks unique and navigates about the same
Or, say, SetApp’s iOS apps.

Are droves doing that? (I am.)
'If X can't do it...' is a bad argument that doesn't take any consideration of real life.

Just because they are a huge company with big spending power does not make it impossible for their codebases to be a pile of hot steaming garbage that even the best engineers struggle with.
> showing someone’s nude photographs to the entire world without their permission for nothing more than a pornographic and homophobic shock factor is A-OK because it comes from the sacred media.

The media don't have any special privileges. But the details of Katie Hill's life are of public interest.
> The statistics are pretty stark if you start with the incorrect assumption that "all men are created equal." This is, quite simply, not the case, and will never be the case. Of course, hell will freeze over before anyone accepts that "horrific" truth.

> I'm sure you recognize different dog breeds, and possibly know that certain dog breeds are known to act a certain way. This is due to generations and generations of artificial-selection in breeding. Herding breeds were designed for herding, German Shepherds were designed for herding and protection, Shitzus were designed for companionship.

> You probably wouldn't expect to see a Shitzu herding sheep. That does not, in any way, make Shitzu's "less than" a herding breed, they're just built for a different function. Shitzus evolved in environments where companionship was prioritized over herding, obviously.

> And yet, when it comes to humans, we choose not to acknowledge this fact: geography influences evolutionary pressures, and evolutionary pressures influence the humans that evolved there. You see this in culture too. Cultures evolve just like the humans that belong to them do, and it's a big soupy mess of genetics influencing behavior/culture, and behavior/culture influencing genetics.

> Expecting African Americans to act like neurotic white protestants is fundamentally racist, you're trying to shove a square peg in a round hole. Human diversity is real, except it goes beyond skin color. On average, racial groups exhibit similar behavior, across socioeconomic spectrums. Racial groups evolved in similar geographic regions, they are optimized for survival in those regions, around those people.

> "All men are created equal" is perhaps the most harmful lie ever told.

Just to fast forward the discussion for some people so they know the conclusion noofen is leading toward.
> How many times have you heard people insist that Instagram showed them ads based on a verbal conversation they had where their phone was nearby

Yeah and most of the time this is recency bias. You know: when you learn a new word and suddenly see it everywhere.
Matt Taibbi contextualized the main quote here: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...

Sam Harris and his conversation with Antonio covers the whole thing in more depth: https://samharris.org/podcasts/251-corporate-cowardice/
Ask HN: If you have a free product, how do you give it away?
I run a form SaaS business that offers a free tier as a means of letting people see the app, try the service, etc. I think it's not only a nice resource, of course, but also pretty valuable in its own right, and enough to run a couple small sites off of.

I'd like to partner with organizations and companies that could use it (could be a great part of a larger teaching tool, or an ad-hoc backend for something like codepen) but have no idea how to go about finding them, other than cold outreach.

If you have a free product, how do you give it away? I know this sounds a little like "What marketing?" but are there any channels or strategies that work particularly well when price isn't an issue?
> This seems like a tactic to bring in more money

This is every business decision!

It's great that Toyota has measured the improvement in customer trust or loyalty being more valuable to them in the long run than shirking on quality.

I only wish more companies would do this!
sccache[1] is a similar project, which supports remote execution and caching for C, C++, and Rust. Unfortunately the remote-execution mechanism is designed for Mozilla's internal environment and doesn't support cloud backends like Lambda or Google Cloud Build. But the code is well-structured Rust and not too big, adding a cloud backend would be a nice project.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
Not quite (HTML5 wasn’t even finalized for release until 2014). Jobs really intended for Apple-only Native Apps, one of which was a Safari, that allowed third party services via webpages

> similar to Palm Pre and WebOS.

not quite. webOS was more than 'tech based applets'. webOS tried to leverage HTML and CSS as the programming language for native apps much like Android leveraged Java. It was not the same philosophy as iPhone OS 1.0
I used to work on some telnet based "campus wide information services" in the previous century. I know we had a special hardened shell someone at academic computing wrote for our BSDi boxes.

nowadays, with the "https everywhere" movement -- would it make more sense to do anonymous user terminal access over ssh somehow?
And most of the uses of any new legal powers will be in drug cases.
GitHub repo of links to Graph ML papers and code
I didn't know what was TinyPilot before so a search gave me this: https://tinypilotkvm.com/ It looks really neat, well done!
Honestly, the Atlassian app store is pretty bare. There’s pretty much only one or two solutions for everything, and they’re likely 2+ years out of date.
At that rate, you'll spend as much per mile as gasoline.
There's a running joke in the security community that CSO stands for Chief Sacrificial Officer.
Ebullism at 1M Feet: Surviving Rapid/Explosive Decompression (2000)
If I was given 100k I would divide it into 10 10k investments in local businesses. Instead I'm just doing them one at a time as I get each 10k through my salary. The first business is a tattoo shop opening this month and which is already very profitable. Next I'm thinking a car shop with another partner. I'd also like to start a locally produced goods store for creams and things. Fun times ahead! Oh yeah but this is garbage. The financial class and the new crypto class both fail to see the opportunities in meaningful and local small scale investment. Their loss!
Putting in DC fast chargers can mean a lot of new infrastructure and red tape:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv7my/building-an-electric-...

Battery integrated chargers can help with the infrastructure side:

- VW: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/vw-group-components-e-on-...

- Freewire: https://freewiretech.com/products/dc-boost-charger/

- Jolt Energy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v33Dy3AKf6g
For your book; You wrote about how to address high level goals (write an interesting blog) which depend on low level details like verb agreement.
My answer to you is : hyperlinks.
In your high level chapter, mention various skills like verb agreement followed by a icon for "detailed glossary" skill that links to your low level details about how to do verb agreement. Then if someone doesn't know how to do it, they can click the link.
Imagine how many marketing emails these guys get.
My favorite quip about Stack Overflow:
Boss: Where did you get this code?
Dev: Stack Overflow.
Boss: From the questions or the answers?
If 7-11 becomes anything like their counterparts in Japan, it might actually become a success in the upcoming age of EVs.
Ah, you're talking about home user backups, then sure. I was confused because I thought we were talking about corporate backups and no corporation which does backups does them anything like how you're describing them.
Other thread: I don't have a magic wand

Things will continue to get worse. Google's Fuchsia and Genode are two capability based Operating Systems that are likely to be good enough to hack in the next year or so.

I expect 3-5 more years of this before enough experience is gained with Capability Based systems to finally cause mass adoption.

In the meanwhile, it would be nice to have a Raspberry Pi based data diode setup that can buffer all the standard stuff, as well as SCADA.

Also in the meanwhile, there is non-zero danger that Congress will use this as an excuse to purge the nation of general purpose computing available to the masses.

Also, the Military Industrial Complex will push for more funds from this.

Also, many a Startup will sell more security snake-oil.
wholy -> holey? Definitely not wholy. That's partly wholly. Wholly is derived from whole (all/everything/complete) and not relating to a hole.

This is an adjective derived from a noun, so hole -> holey. It could be hole + ly -> holely but it isn't.

Now, we have the word pinned down. How on earth do you pronounce the bloody thing? For me (en_GB): hole-ee. The dash "-" is not a pause, I would run the word hole straight into the ee sound. The ee phoneme is quite short.
If Apple reduces platform fees the price of the phone could go up to compensate for that.

Also, my experience aligns with this too. I dont game on my phone and basically use default apps. I use the United app to book flights but could easily use the mobile website. Same with Twitter
Neat idea. This looks somewhat similar to Actionable Agile except it's up front rather than relying on ticket cycle time.

Are you able to share the task list so that each project member is able to fill out their best and worst case estimates on their own in an async fashion, preferably anonymously?
I can't articulate a good definition for who the right kind of person for a diversity job is, but I can give you an example: Chloé Valdary https://theoryofenchantment.com/meet-the-founder
> My conjecture is we end up building AV only roads. initially one lane of a highway, then ring roads round cities and major warehousing hubs, then across urban areas. Walled off in some way they simply become railways with benefits.

That would be awesome still and make people want to have that technology...how does that murder Tesla's business model? Waymo would easily pivot to licensing their tech to car manufacturers.
> He agreed that some operations (such as opening or removing files) should be audited, but said that auditing read and write operations was "just utter noise and not useful at all"

Seems a perfectly sensible half way point - and consistent with other IO mechanisms.
It is quite evident that this person has been affected by the plight of the Lebanese and the Palestinians.
As unbelievable as it may seem, many modern-day Israelis consider the Palestinians to be sub-human. That the Palestinians do not deserve their land.
This attitude is indoctrinated through the military service.
They make the Palestinians in Gaza really suffer.

That article is hard to understand. Makes yu think that this person witnessed somehow whats going on there.
Apple to summon staff back to the office in September
Yep. People already complain about not actually owning their software products. And now suddenly this is a good thing?
Show HN: A weekly ranking of the most viral creators and sounds on TikTok
One is a member of a privileged group and one is not. One of those groups can do or say whatever they want and be insulated from the consequences. Thats how you know they are NOT the privileges group.

Newspeak is real and in effect btw.
Related recent discussion for anyone who missed it:

The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27240927