skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could do that in a weekend.
iPhones are necessarily cloud connected, TVs not so much. Activating my iPhone is something I normally do and provides me value (payment, location services, etc etc) so there’s a natural place.

All this is bloat on a tv.

Also the iPhone bricking requires a police report and has a pretty defined process and I’m not aware of any overreach by Apple to brick phones like this story.
It's not clear to me if this is predictive. E.g. HN has been right about AMD. Years ago when people were talking about AMD it was worth peanuts and look at it now. I don't think it's a case of a group of people being right/wrong, it has more to do with since you're fed all the perspectives, you can find the right/wrong ones yourself and take action accordingly.
That fits the stereotype in my head, but I'm not sure what you're getting at. Just that they're bad?
Interesting. As someone who hasn't done any mobile dev at all, is there a way to prevent something like this from happening? Can't you somehow encrypt such secrets in the app?
Self driving was never impossible, just infeasible with tech at the time. Surely it'll be standard in a few decades, despite that being quite far into the future.
And this sentiment is why so many hardware startups fail. At small scales, you need sale prices 2x, 4x or more above your BOM costs to have any hope of profitability.
So: will HBO max ever add Linux support, or are we still out of (legal) options?
Ask HN: How to present an idea to potential investors without having it stolen?
I've had experiences where it was a disservice to myself to run an idea off of everyone I could find before implementing it myself. Wondering if anyone had any advice on how to not repeat that process.
I love how they still buckle the seat belt across the empty front seat.
Amazon put a cellular chip in a Kindle over a decade ago. And that was for a device that cost less than $100. One year of advertising and analytics would easily cover the cost in a larger purchase like a TV.
I assume that they just don't solve the really wacky edge cases which might require AGI.

Many people assume that a self driving car must be 100% successful. To me it is sufficient to beat the top 20%/bottom 80% of drivers.

So the car will crash if a seagull flies in front of the camera and there is a deer just beyond it. The human would probably crash too.
It says they will have a human onboard at all times.
You can bond with people over similar ethnic or life backgrounds without devolving into supremacy... people do this all the time around the world. Obviously, there need to be reasonable limits around the 'tribal identity' that preclude supremacist behavior, but it's certainly a valid way to build relationships and feel supported.
Don't sleep on the Prime app in the race to Worst.

The Prime app on iPad won't stream at high resolution. The only workaround I've found is to play in a Web browser on the iPad. The overall experience is worse than other streaming apps (but still better than HBO Max, obviously).
Most important one you missed:

Given sufficient qualitative and quantitative investment self driving may be technologically feasible at some point in the future but not price competitive with human driving.

Self driving proponents seem to assume the tech is free. Just keeping sub meter scale 3d street maps up to date has a massive cost.
I'm in glen park neighborhood of sf, it's the suburbs basically. I see them anytime I walk outside, but I don't think I keep track of which company I see driving by. It could be waymo, cruise, etc.
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I think it depends on who initiates the lock. If a company can choose to arbitrarily lock my device then inevitably it will be misused. In the case of phones it is usually the customer initiating a lock, either from Find My Phone style apps or through the carrier itself.

My TV phoning home doesn't really seem like it accomplishes much, and will likely be misused in the future, not to mention is an entire layer to vectorize in terms of fleet device attacks.
Of if you live anywhere besides the middle of nowhere. Inflation isn't uniform across all locations, if you live in say SF and your rent goes up 15-20%, it's likely your spending power went down by more than 3%.
The irony there is I have never ever bought anything because Amazon recommended it.

Amazon is better than Walmart because you can search for and buy what you want when you want and have it show up the next day, and the prices are generally good enough.

Reviews are a nice touch, but those just need to be “good enough” to differentiate cheap chinese crap.

It’s not rocket science.
No, supply and demand is an economic theory, it would be imbecilic to confuse the two, the way you did.

Do you even know what a "permissionless transaction" or an "immutable ledger" are? Do you believe Bitcoin has achieved both?
When it's cheaper and easier to summon a Waymo than to find a public toilet in San Francisco, expect need to find solution.
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When you see what the open source community is able to do with entertainment systems I'm sure there is a market for an open source smart TV. But the issue will always be marketing to the customers and brand reputation that will make years to acquire. But sure, done right with quality premium products first, not low cost ones and times, this can be achieved.
Because IRC hasn't meaningfully improved in about 30 years. There have been attempts to make it friendlier with things like IRCCloud, but then the beards just scoff at the idea of a $5/month bouncer-as-a-service and go right back to wondering why the protocol is dying.
IRC is just a protocol; it’s not immune to these issues (see the last Freenode debacle).
File a provisional patent application. Costs $65 but gives powerful protection for many kinds of commercial dispute.

Scares away people you don’t want to be around, opens doors with those who see it as a sign you’re serious.
Why does Waymo use a niche British luxury car for their platform? Must be very expensive and what are the benefits?
> The security group [in Reuters] approved the embed plan. “We were talking about the Afghan Special Forces, the elite,” said Rogers [Reuters global pictures editor]. “They had all the hospitals at their disposal, all the equipment needed to evacuate, including air support.” Siddiqui would join their headquarters near Kandahar.

On display here are the deep miscalculation and disbelief over it. It's a pattern that has unfortunately played out innumerable times in the last 20 years as organizations outside of Afghanistan tried to figure the place out and failed miserably.
Well, yes https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/1-bi...
Selection bias: immigrating to the US from a far away country is easier if you’re educated and rich. Doesn’t mean you’re treated any better once you get here.
5-10mph under while within the city limits, on streets where things pop out at you all the time, sounds really nice actually. It's one of the things that happen all the time that drivers ignore the possibility of.
mandatory public visibility should be regulated and enforced through legislation.

I would prefer open and standards-driven information dissemination (ActivityPub, RSS, et cetera) rather than publication into walled-gardens.

call your congress critters and tell them that their publicly funded agencies need to spin up a self-hosted Mastodon/Pleroma/PixelFed/PeerTube (or use WordPress with the AP plugin).
Ants create stable tunnels in nests, much like humans play Jenga
I would agree, covid fits the medical definition of pandemic. Saying it is a "so called" pandemic is not accurate.

But are you any better than the person you called out with your projection that covid will cause "tens of millions most likely" people to die? I know of no real evidence to support that statement, based on what is known of coronaviruses specifically. There's many who would consider your statement to be misinformation, also. And fear-mongering.
"Advertising doesn't work on me!"

If this is true, congrats. You are the .000001%. It works on people really well in the broad scope. It makes them gobs and gobs of money.
Did you read the first paragraph of the FTC link I posted? I put the quote in the comment. It seems to strongly disagree with you.
The larger question for society is do we even want smart everything? I rarely see this issue debated. Undoubtedly, software enables complex/rich functionality for what were hitherto relatively "dumb" devices, but the same flexibility can also lead to exploits, backdoors, bugs and place too much control in the hands of the manufacturers and many other nameless parties.

The most important aspect here is remote connectivity. Software without remote connectivity may be less correctable, but it is also resistant towards tampering from unwanted directions. With network connectivity the device basically becomes impossible to fully control. In fact, admin control shifts from you, the owner, to someone else on the other side of the planet, unless you want to take a hammer to it.

These issue need vigorous debate. 1. Do we even want every device to become "smart"?, and 2. should smart devices be designed with 24x7 network connectivity requirements?
The government isn't funding a lot of those things now. Also, Europe has access to the new technology that came out of the US government funding so it is irrelevant to bring it up. Europe has access to the internet, they have a space program, etc.
"beginning later today"
> I almost got murdered terminator style by a Cruise while riding my bicycle around SF... hopefully they figured that out.

I had to google "Cruise". To save others a moment or two, Cruise is a self-driving startup unrelated to Alphabet. In the quoted sentence, "they" != "Waymo" (I wasn't sure).
“All rides in the program will have an autonomous specialist on board for now”

This tells me that we’re still a long way from full level 4 (and certainly level 5) autonomy in a busy city like San Francisco. The edge cases requiring immediate human attention are still too frequent for the human safety driver to be remote, as is the case in Phoenix.

Also, just a reminder that Waymo in Phoenix is nowhere close to being level 5, since it is still heavily geofences and requires those remote safety monitors. I still think that true level 5 (i.e. ability to drive autonomously everywhere with zero human oversight with a safety record equivalent to the median human driver) requires AGI. Would love to be proven wrong!
I bought a high-end Samsung 4K tv in 2015 or so for about $3000. I picked it after a week of research that showed it had the highest quality panel.

After taking delivery of the TV, we noticed it had bright lower left and right corners that we later found out were due to new packaging that pinched the TV and caused most of the TVs in that batch to be ruined. Samsung claimed that the corners were "in spec" and refused to replace the TV. Thankfully the retailer replaced the TV.

I vowed that I'd never purchase another Samsung product. I've stuck to that, but a house I just bought has all Samsung appliances, which I'm not looking forward to.
The superiority of a blended computer vision system for this task, over a human performance, is almost impossible to overstate. The computer is not going to overlook even one deer.
I think it's time for Chinese manufacturers to step up to the task. I've recently bought a (filament) 3D printer, and reading up on the domain, it was interesting to see how it developed:

The open source community figured out how to write software that can turn CAD drawings into CNC instructions and wrote firmware that could drive the printers. Meanwhile, multiple Chinese manufacturers built hardware, competing with each other to build better stuff and increasingly cheaper prices. The end result is that you can buy really decent 3D printers at around $250 with open firmware.
Not OP, but I'd say the problem is that someone, doesn't matter if it's the manufacturer, can disable your device remotely or that he has access to it at all.
That's awful. I am almost murdered daily and I live in a city without self driving cars.
this but with real identity. it should not be that you are only who government says you are. days are past when you can move to a new place under new name and have no issue and government not know difference.
I mean, that's exactly what the opaque number is trying to do - typically you have some thresholds, below X deny the loan request, above Y approve, in the gray area review.. The number will have some complex weighting, but I'm not sure how you get away from assigning a score if you want to make an automated decision.
I'm really bad at hedging and parenthetical remarks! (I guess I should add "quotes", too!)
Actually it’s kind of odd to me that Samsung isn’t doing this to block child porn.

Since they are already scanning content to sell to marketers it’s odd that they aren’t also scanning it for CP or anything else with a defined set of hashes.

I’d prefer Samsung not do this at all, but if they are scanning for making money, they should scan for public good.
Even more fun is that there’s some receipts where the ink fades/rubs off in a matter of days so even though you have the paper receipt you still have no proof of purchase.
Perhaps they really do mean, "Beginning later today" and it will be available for your area later today?
Ok, thanks for the thorough explanation
For a general overview of this, see The Digital Imprimatur from 2003: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/
Everybody loves to talk about Netflix's data advantage, knowing when people stop watching something, etc.

And yet Netflix's content and suggestions today are absolute and complete garbage. I used to be a big believer, now I'm not sure why I'm still a customer.
Spot on with my experience, but jesus laying it out like this really does show how dystopian it is.
Ah, I see. It's mainly the lack of due process and the implication that legitimately purchased units might have been included in the bulk lockout. Thank you for explaining!
Jeez. I am going off the grid.
so, what are "key-derivation functions"?
Alternative frontends like Nitter[1] should hopefully continue to work. They could always scrape as an authenticated user if that becomes necessary.

[1] https://nitter.net/
So they’d need more training data. It doesn’t sound difficult to get.
Well, namely it's not my decision to enable them for the entire codebase :) but I may very well try to talk some people into enabling this on debug builds.
It's a bad habit since it encourages commenting before reading the submission. But I do the same thing as well, and it's not clear to me how someone could do otherwise without spending extraordinary time on HN. I find HN a very valuable source, so scanning some amount of comments is more important to me than reading all the submissions.
What happens when a tweet is embedded in a news article?
This looks super neat. Thanks!
I have to plug this similar laser science FAQ, maintained by Sam Goldwasser http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/lasersam.htm .
Waymo already "self-drives" today, it just is extremely slow at making turns when the road is busy, and if there is any kind of unusual obstacle on the road (such as construction cones that require you to drive partially in another lane) it just stops completely and has the rider wait for twenty minutes for a manual operator to come and take over.

Those two obstacles won't be overcome until AGI. At best their frequency will be brought down a bit but not by nearly enough orders of magnitude.
It's barely an indicator of what's currently popular, skewing heavily to subsections of the tech world
What's the biggest technical challenge that they have right now? And how much time and effort will it take to overcome?

I feel like there is a lot of disconnect between the different media pieces and opinions I come across specifically when it comes to Waymo's self-driving - from "we're already there" to "it won't happen in the next 10 years".
YT doesn't allow me to download my own videos – a legit use case for YT-dl?
We do as part of the device cost. 5G makes it pretty cheap so a manufacturer adding in a radio ups their cost by a dollar or two. The revenue from surveillance is marginally profitable including data costs.
> SF is a real nightmare to drive.

'cause they decided not to build most of the roads: https://www.cahighways.org/maps/1955trafficways.jpg
https://archive.is/hBa9u
Dumb (probably) question: Do phytoplankton in the ocean consume CO2 in the same way that land plants do? If so, does the increased dissolved CO2 cause them to grow faster?
Can you elaborate more on how?

HN is getting to reddit's status where people make comments and everyone just upvotes because it sounds good to them.
> Financial shenanigans

I am curious, what's your job? Are you involved in finance in any way?
> I see a lot of folks here saying they wouldn't know what to do with this much memory

You could run several electron apps at the same time.
I skimmed past that detail. Thanks!
Yeah it's been really odd to see the take that self-driving must require strong AI. It needs to be done carefully, but it's clearly a manageable engineering problem if you have good sensors.
They’re hiring. Yes, I declined the informal reach-out a while back, as soon as I saw “Travis Kalanick”.
LiquidSoap is great - literally once you get a hang of it, it's very powerful at what it does - scripting a possibly dynamic and interactive program list for a digital radio for example.

But its documentation is difficult to parse, examples are too advanced and the learning curve steeper than it should be.

It took me a week to have something going, even if it was "take this bunch of MP3s and randomise them with jingles here and there", nothing more complex than that.
I was working at smaller companies and I crossed over into cloud and infrastructure incrementally by necessity. So at one company, I was managing a team of developers who were all decent at web development, but the company mandated that we take a number of disparate products they'd bought from other companies, running on mostly on-location and migrate all to the cloud. Since there weren't any cloud engineers around, this work fell to me.

After getting some hands-on experience with this type of work, I found a job at a managed services company that had lots of AWS expertise, but really didn't have any good programmers working for them. Since the company wasn't really a software company, they neglected programming skills in the interview process, but then found themselves in need of more development horsepower. While there, I ended up building internal tools and APIs that smoothed over some gaps not covered by the myriad 3rd party solutions they were cobbling together, and also build APIs over some janky ad-hoc Lambda based processes they'd built.

After a year at that company, I was able to land a better gig at a company as a "senior cloud engineer". What clinched this role for me was also programming ability. It seems like a lot of "cloud" teams are composed of former operations guys that seem to hit a brick wall when they come to certain tasks, and I'm pretty good at bridging that gap, and that's how I sell myself.
There is a backup driver, in an operations center, via data uplink. When the car is confused, it asks for human help. It's more of a system to help with decision making and perception than to drive the car by remote.
You can try, but you won't succeed against a dedicated reverse engineer, simply dropping a hook in on the API calls would be enough to grab the decrypted key in a case like that, if not simply statically reading the encryption keys and decrypting it. That's not to say it's useless - some reversers will simply move on to the next app when there's a list of dozens.

You can also send requests via your own server, which would allow you more control over the requests that get sent out to your 3rd party APIs and just restrict tokens as much as possible to the minimal set of features necessary for your application.
The legal community isn't interested in petty 'gotchas' like this. A judge would just apply a test of what a reasonable person (so not a HN user) would think and say that obviously this is fine why are you wasting their time with such a question.
>In contrast, the mental health picture for isolated urban professionals starts with self-regulation, then jumps straight to being treated by The System.

It's pretty wild how poorly equipped some parts of the country are to treat mental health. My younger sister (13) suffers from anxiety and depression. She says she just needs a therapist to talk to, but every time my parents have reached out to local resources covered by insurance they all want to immediately destroy her future, institutionalize her FULL-TIME in a residential program, and pump her full of drugs for the next five years. School and college prep? Forget about it.

Like, what the fuck? She just needs an affordable therapist... thankfully, I passed on some resources about sliding scale therapy and affordable options outside Florida Medicaid (Open Path Collective is run by angels, IMO). Yeah, she probably will need some medication, but the idea that, with only one major incident, a 4.0 GPA gifted student with a bright, educated future should essentially be orphaned and doped up through adulthood sends shivers down my spine.

The options covered by Medicaid are:

1. No treatment at all, because the system is overloaded, likely leading to further decline.

2. A social and mental nuclear option, certainly leading to further trauma and isolation. TBH, it's heartbreaking to me to think about how many parents have been duped into believing this is the only option (especially with affordable remote counseling being a more available option now).

Great system. We're lucky I have a well-paying software job, otherwise it's like the state wants people to suffer.
self-driving is more of a language problem than a technology problem. In 2005 grad students had cars driving themselves on a course. Tesla and Waymo both have cars that very drive well on many roads. self-driving is here, now all that is left is for people to argue about what "L5" means as the systems improve. They will improve as there is a clear path to improvement.

I don't expect that we will ever see the day where everyone is OK with self-driving cars on the roads regardless of the safety statistics, because there will always be edge cases of crashes and personal preferences around driving styles.
It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?
Considering the Density of Dhaka, it would be much better served with public transportation/metro.

While the US has a lot of Urban Sprawl, dense Asian cities have the option to invest and reap the benefits of public transportation instead. Eg im incredibly excited about all the metro lines in India, HSR in China etc.
My confusion was why this is considered to be a positive feature in some cases (e.g. iPhones), but not in this case.
I don't want to know what other security holes exist in applications that don't even support TLS 1.2.
television and radio were at least publicly available and based on published/known standards. you didn't need to ask anyone permission to receive signals.