skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was biking along Apache within the last 18 months. Apache itself still isn't [/wasn't] especially bike-friendly. McClintock is worse, and Price is even worse.
> Think about it for a moment, the bird has to understand (to a degree) how an automatic door works

I'm not sure I see that, that is, the "understanding" part. I mean, this is not some new kind of behavior, even if everyone here reacts with surprise. Anyone with a pet dog or cat knows the various mischief they can get into. Many of us have been at the beach and watched seagulls do all sorts of interesting stuff. Animals aren't "dumb" and I don't know anyone who would say that they are. What people do object to is the unwarranted inference that because they display what looks like clever behavior then this must entail capacity for abstract thought with concepts. I don't see how abstraction is necessary in these examples at all. Language in the fullest sense demonstrates the existence of abstract thought. Non-human language does not appear to show any sign of descriptive and argumentative function, only signalling and expression (in the Popperian sense).
I'm personally tired of only having a choice of multi-bedroom apartments wherever I go. I would love to get a small one bedroom loft thats cheap and low maintenance but all the housing is setup for families.
"The disclosure came in a series of media briefings in which Apple is seeking to dispel alarm over its announcement last week that it will scan users' phones, tablets and computers for millions of illegal pictures."

Yes, this definitely "dispels" my alarm. Thanks, Apple.
i differentiated between between people working and people wanting to work.

it is also true that if a generation is chronically overworked, they will not be interested at all in working till their death.
> I'm not sure how it squares with taxi medallions being the highest-performing investment of the 20th century

Taxi medallions are an artifact of how NYC regulated its taxi fleet; other places may have had them but the investment factoid probably comes from NYC. Joe’s Cab in Peoria, IL probably doesn’t have a medallion worth $1 million to borrow against. And, of course, note: not all cabbies owned (or currently own) the medallions they drive under: many lease them or drive for a company that owns them, and has sat on them as a speculative asset for decades.

Source: went to school in NYC with plenty of cabbies’ kids. It’s not a job many people eagerly take.
Did I miss the sarcasm tag when it is implied that Google is immune to government demands in a manner that Apple is not?
Seems like there might be but wondering if theres any overlap here with the frozen brain solar sail nuclear bomb space detonation acceleration idea from Liu Cixins Dark Forest romance novel?
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To be fair, that's how most of us approach puzzle games. "Okay I've learnt the individual tricks, now let me just try piecing them together in the order that they become available."
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The tank story is urban legend.

https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
This isn't true. "More convenient than hailing a cab" has also been a very large component of the value proposition. As has "knowing where the driver is on their way to you."

Cheaper is a big part, but not all of it by a long shot.
This reaction to quantity does not imply the concept of number.
I'm a Luddite. You should be one too
"- Startup is intentionally non-Elementary-branded, better enabling OEM/Vendor branded startup splash screen — "we don’t need to constantly advertise your operating system to you"."

Dang, I really like their logo and it sorta feels nice to see it on bootup. I'm sure there is some way to bring it back though, and it's a tiny thing that, like they said, will probably be far outweighed by the benefit it brings to OEMs.
> The CFTC’s litigation against BitMEX’s founders continues.

I’m surprised that it’s “only” $100m given that they are continuing to pursue criminal charges against the founders.
Broadcast your job application to a large set of employers
If you're running their equipment, you may see your ISP provided modem's login page, which ideally should have whatever randomly generated password was on the sticker on the bottom of the modem when you got your service. A shade more secure than a router with default credentials.
Decentralization doesn't mean isolation and that nobody is cooperating. It's a centrality measure. More decentralized networks have less nodes that hold outsized importance in the network.
Indeed, the basic frozen vegetables I checked at Walmart [1] look fine.

Previously, people have said canned tomatoes have added salt in the US [2], which they don't tend to have in Europe [3] (choosing the basic, cheap brand in both cases).

[1] https://www.walmart.com/browse/food/frozen-vegetables/976759...

[2] https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Petite-Diced-Tomatoes...

[3] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299768716
I haven't looked at this book yet but I did like HPMOR.

In a different vein, "The God Proof" (a mystery novel revolving around Kurt Gödel's ontological proof of God's existence) was a fun read:

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/gp.html
I’ll switch devices but need to read about pinephone etc. I think the fallout will take a while to play out.

I also plan to get Linux next laptop swap in a couple of years (last 3 were apple)

Google and MS are certainly no better so Linux alternatives seem the only option now
>when Apple talks about using their CSAM technology for 3rd party apps

Citation needed.

Apple has made no such claim and has made it clear that if you turn iCloud photos off, nothing is scanned.

>If users are not using iCloud Photos, NeuralHash will not run

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/interview-apples-head-of-p...
Do you need a DE? Linux is my daily driver for work and home. I've tried DEs and found them bloated and slow. I have been using i3-wm for years and loving it. You can always use picom compositor on top to mitigate visual glitches.
I feel like one of the few JS devs who is happy to just write SQL. Inline or as a stored procedure I just don’t see how learning an ORM and all it’s issues and bugs is harder than learning SQL.
This is utopian. I want this but don't believe this is possible.

Perhaps they might agree to stop tracking a portion of users who opt out but forcing them to stop tracking anybody is unlikely to succeed, and even if it succeeds they will just track everybody secretly. I also am not confident in total elimination of tracking being a good idea from the economical point of view - many small businesses rely on precise targeting today.
I've never used TikTok, but that sounds nice.

The "comment" section that has appeared under every piece of content on the internet in the last 10 years is the source of so much wasted effort and conflict it's truly depressing.

If TikTok is breaking that pattern then it's a step in the right direction.
> That's not exactly uncommon in cheap consumer routers.

That's, in my opinion, the only fair criticism available here.

> No rate limiting is as good as no authentication.

Trying to even load some of the links found in Google takes 10's of seconds. That's effectively a rate limit, even if it doesn't temp-ban per IP address.

Someone would have to dump the firmware to find out, but it would be trivial for each device to generate their own salt - making a potential lack of rate limit a non-issue.
Does a US competitor need to be FB? I would like to see a new more privacy focused social experience prop up. It doesn’t need to be a network per se, but it can be. How do we create a fertile bed for development of new connected experiences? Do we already have it? I am wary of venture capital culture that requires outsized gains. Isn’t there a slow stock market concept now?
The way back machine will be perceived as a threat to the ministry of Truth.
Well, Facebook held the crown for way too long, it was bound to happen, but honestly I don’t see TikTok as a Facebook killer. It feels too niche to be popular in the long run.
>The traditional view of Jews & Christians being that moses wrote genisis is a fact about the world. It can be either true or false. They either believed that traditionally or they did not. Both it and its negation cannot both be true.

How so? If there was more than one early Jew/Christian they could have held different beliefs about that. If you want to be exact, you can't state any facts about the beliefs of somebody, living or dead.
And if there's more than one person you can't say they all held the same belief.
Let's not forget KeyKOS which ran very early ATMs in the 80s!
Hope you didn't upgrade past 90: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20647
I would say no in production. I was recently testing a ceph + rgw as an on prem s3 solution, but high throughput puts + ls caused an index corruption that “lost” files according to future LS’s, the file was still there if you directly get it. When this was reported it was already found multiple years ago, and never fixed
I work in this domain, and you can make these things say anything with a little probing, even stuff like "Hitler was right to kill all the Jews, I wish he was still alive today."

They likely don't want to have "OpenAI GPT-3" and such stuff associated to one another in such demos, would be really bad for their appearence.
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Maybe you're not the target audience of the blogpost then?

The blogpost is pretty clear to be coming in from an angle of "stockholders" perspective.

> Uber didn't need self-driving cars – it needed us to think it would have self-driving cars. That way the company's Saudi owners could raise investment capital from subsequent "investors" (AKA "suckers") all the way up to the IPO, cash out, and walk away, whistling innocently.

> That's the bezzle at work – a dazzle op that keeps new money flowing in, convincing people that a pile of shit this big must have a pony beneath it. But as the years went by, the stories that Uber told us about its path to profitability got more and more fanciful.

The big gist of this entire blog post is "Hey Stockholders, I think you've been swindled by Uber's CEO". That's the thesis in a nutshell.

If you don't care about the stockholder perspective, that's fine and dandy. I'm not saying you should care. (I'm not a shareholder, so I certainly don't care very much). But... as someone who does participate in the stock market, I still find these stories fascinating. I probably will be buying stocks in the near future, so I do want to know about all of this drama going on in different companies.
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I have been reading some version of this article for 10 years now. Yet Uber and Lyft and the entire "sharing" economy is surviving and thriving. Reading this article you'd be convinced that Uber is going to end tomorrow and all the investors who collectively value it at $80B are idiots.
Billions of dollars aren't enough to fix America's train problem
It’s such a horrible idea. This is what you get for giving 7% of your company to YC these days - not even your own thread.

A Show HN is free and you don’t even need to write twenty paragraphs about how you noticed an opportunity to disrupt the market after spending your career in back office sales for insurance claims for dogs.
Perhaps, but "being able to do X" isn't the same as "being able to do X, using approach Y". After all, Deep Blue could play chess more than reasonably well, but no-one would suggest that it understood chess anymore than a calculator understands math.

So, is GPT-3 more like a brute force calculator like Deep Blue (or AlphaGo for that matter), or is it more like a human in it's ability to "understand" language ?

Given that GPT-3 is a language model, just trained to minimize errors when predicting next word in a sentence, and given the nature of it's transformer architecture, I'd say it's pretty clear it's really just another Deep Blue or AlphaGo. It's a "predict next word" brute force calculator, that - interestingly - is nonetheless able to perform many "NLU" tasks surprisingly well.
We don't use it because we found it to be too brittle. The type system is really bolted on. We've hit super weird bugs, in the compiler. And any kind of preprocessing/compilation introduces layers that make in-process debugging much harder.

If browsers actually spoke a strongly typed functional language a la ML/Haskell natively we'd probably switch in a heartbeat. But otherwise it's either vanilla js (no jsx either, simply htm) or Rust compiled to WASM.

And we'd advocate for its removal because it incurs opportunity costs.
The deno team is small enough as is, and we don't think that TS is a selling point for it.
The great tooling it provides is however so we'd rather see more of that.
the people working multiple jobs is due to how the jobs have gotten 'securitized' - people have become specialists in low skill jobs, leading to no growth at all.

A person who is a Uber driver and a dog sitter is unable to display much skill addition after years on these jobs.

i can only quote anecdotal data about the attitude to work among generations. On the other hand, because of the changing nature of the work, it is completely understandable.
What a shockingly simplistic view of art you have. It pains me to know that the cultural artifacts of my people will be viewed by you in the same vein as a 30 second TikTok video.
Funny you mention that I had the same idea; why is there never any discussion of this problem

Let's say the user wants to encrypt a file on her "smartphone" (portable computer bundled with a cellular phone)

Using her own choice of open source encryption program and her own key(s)

Are there even any "apps" that do this; theres an app for that; not this time

AFAICT its easier to encrypt the file using a different computer running an UNIX-like OS then transfer the file (back) to the phone

From there it might be copied to someone else's computer, i.e., a "tech" (middleman) company's data center; this could happen, e.g., when sending "private messages" or when "syncing" with "cloud storage"

When the user encrypts herself with no tech (middleman) company assistance, only the user has the keys and only the user can decrypt

"But users will lose their keys!" - Big Tech industry enthusiast

Tech companies never, ever lose keys, right
But don't you just move the problem to the token-granting authority?

Don't get me wrong, I do see the hypothetical benefit, I'm just having trouble envisaging a practical solution. Is there something else not on AWS (or third-party for it) that works as you'd like IAM to?
Like most things there probably is more than one cause, and I suspect a pretty big one is around compound effect of instructors having poor instruction themselves and then having to admit that they themselves don’t really know the subject.
I cant seem to reply to your other comment. Here is where they talk about expanding it to third party apps:

"Apple said that while it does not have anything to share today in terms of an announcement, expanding the child safety features to third parties so that users are even more broadly protected would be a desirable goal."

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/09/apple-child-safety-feat...

Do you really think they would go to all this trouble and then say oh you don't want to get scanned? Just turn off iCloud photos.
not every tp-link model (or revision, or locale, or firmware version) that shares a web interface with the c7 requires you to manually set a password. even if that were the case, there are bound to be users who aren't security savvy and chose a very weak password (e.g. "password", "admin").

many tp-link routers also have configurable vpn servers built in, which can open up the whole network to malicious actors.
OpenVSP 3.25.0
You'd be surprised how much it does not. Not saying its the same amount of folks out during Fall/Winter/Spring, but a surprising amount due walk.
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Strings do give you the ability to copy them right into your code from the SQL console after testing.
I can't wait to watch this about SpaceX and Elon!
I'm curious how big the adjacent parking lot or parking garage will be.
The article read like it was written by GPT, I don't think we can read too much into any "analysis" it makes, it's just filler to get to a word count.
Taxis are both a mediocre margin business, and typically cartel restricted. Many people here are likely familiar with the absurd stories of the NYC medallion prices from just before Uber took over (a million dollars for a taxi medallion, before Uber smashed the cartels, tanking the value of the medallions). NYC extracted $855m in medallion fees from just 2004-2014.

So how did the eg NYC medallions become so valuable? The taxi cartel bought into the (mostly unspoken) notion that the medallions represented a government guaranteed blockade on competition. For a city like NYC with rather epic taxi demand, a license to print even just 8% margins perpetually can be an enticing prospect (especially in an age of forever low interest rates). Then, instead, the city governments mostly allowed Uber and Lyft to continue to operate (after their initial move to operate first and seek forgiveness second), rather than shielding the taxi cartel from competition.
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But why ask for consent right away when someone just visits your website for the first time? Imagine that you walk into a shop and the owner starts harassing you right away, blocking your path and your view and nagging you whether you consent to them following you around the shop tracking what you’re looking at, what you touch, what you actually purchase, and then give the shop next door a call to tell them all about your visit so that they can all “improve your shopping experience by giving you personalised recommendations”. Pretty sure almost no one would keep shopping there. In fact, this is pretty clear from Apple’s new do not track option where Facebook said in their quarterly report that it’s really hurting then (contrary to their statements that all of their users already happily consented to tracking and that they’re actually doing their users a favour by tracking them).

What should really happen is that sites just stop asking for bullshit consent to being tracked. No one will consent to being tracked if given an actual, clear and explicit opt-in choice, if there’s absolutely no downside in refusing consent and no one is tricked into giving consent by dark patterns.

Websites should just abstain from processing personal data until the visitor does something that actually requires personal data (e.g. sign up, make a purchase, …). In those cases, most obvious processing of personal data can be done based on other grounds (performance of contract, legitimate purposes, …) so really there should not be any consent nag screens needed at all except for some very specific exceptional cases…
Good idea. Not inline with their extreme stance of calling other OSes, and presumably closed-source, unethical though. "The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS"

It's a bit insulting, really.
But as somebody upthread already said, a raw number will just say California has the most people moving out and probably also the most people moving in because they're the biggest state.
Apparently Gnome Sushi does this similar to Quicklook, wasn't installed by default though (on 3.38.4 on Ubuntu).
Nither is Air Travel. And we had the same arguments after 9/11 about the No Fly List and possible abuses. And the same reassurances.

Guess what?

Everyday people who didn't want to become informants:

https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/11/opinion/hu-shamas-no-fly-list...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/supreme-court-case-no-...

https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/laws...

>The lawsuit is brought on behalf of four American Muslim men with no criminal records who were approached by the FBI in an effort to recruit them as informants. Some of our clients found themselves on the No Fly List after refusing to spy for the FBI, and were then told by the FBI that they could get off the List if they agreed to become informants. Our other clients were approached by the FBI shortly after finding themselves unable to fly and were told that they would be removed from the List if they consented to work for the FBI.

Journalists

https://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/17/watchlist.chertoff/index.h...

>A House representative said Thursday she is requesting an investigation after learning a CNN reporter was put on the federal no-fly list shortly after his investigation of the Transportation Security Administration.

Whistleblowers

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-apr-27-la-oe-ra...

https://whistleblower.org/in-the-news/buffalo-news-governmen...

>In my case, I started having trouble flying after I blew the whistle in the case of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh, the first terrorism prosecution in the United States after Sept. 11. As the Justice Department ethics attorney in that case, I inadvertently learned that my e-mail records had been requested by the court. When I tried to comply, I found that the e-mails, which concluded that the FBI committed an ethics violation during its interrogation of Lindh, had been purged from the file. I managed to recover them from the bowels of my computer archives, gave them to my boss and resigned. I also took home copies in case they “disappeared” again. Eventually, in accordance with the Whistleblower Protection Act, I turned them over to the media when it became evident that the Justice Department withheld them from the court.
Is there any way you ever make $320m back by selling a better performance version of teamviewer/remote desktop? Or is there some other play here - e.g. a Stadia/GeForce Now competitor?