skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I discovered that I have an automatic headlight dimming feature. It works well most of the time, often surprisingly well.

BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, it sometimes fails, and at the worst times - like when it is drizzly & foggy at night, in a tight bit of road and a lot of wet pavement glare from the oncoming car — so the workload is already high with bad visibility & grip, and now I have to ALSO flick the lever and move my eyes to the dashboard display to check whether or not I got the lights to the correct state (it may unpredictably finally work and my action goes back to high beams a half second later).

I keep being lulled into giving it a few more chances, but I'm pretty sure it'll get turned off for good. I already reliably switch the hi/lo beams at a subconscious level with near-zero mental workload, so I'm better off just letting that instinct work by feel, rather than randomly having to engage another higher-level attention task at particularly high-workload moments.

This is a Ford and I read that they had this same feature about a decade ago and had to remove it because it just wasn't good enough. It seems that they're a lot closer, but not enough.

Something like the uncanny valley of tech features - almost good enough makes it really bad?
I don't know why I didn't see them. I read through the docs with Genie; it seems to be about where Django was 12 years ago as far as feature development goes. Enough to be very productive for some use cases, not sufficiently productive to consider it a step up from the existing tech that's out there.
In the same vein, the Washington Monument is topped with an aluminum pyramid. This material was selected because at the time of construction aluminum was still considered nifty and new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument#Aluminum_a...
I guess, my assumption is that for pair programming only one person ought to be actually writing code at a time, you should be looking at the same files at the same time, and you likely want to have some live voice and/or video channel open to discuss what you're doing, etc. So, I kinda think that as janky as it feels, screen share of a normal IDE over zoom ends up being a less disjointed experience than zoom + "collaborative" IDE where you might each be looking at different files or different parts of files.
My personal idea would be 10 years, but renewable. However, it can only be renewed if new copies of a work are made available in decent quantities. For a book, this would mean a print run of, say, over 1000 copies. Same for reprinting a CD. This means that, while it's still copyrighted, there are copies able to buy and be acquired. And if it's popular enough to still be relevant 10 years later, it should still be being reproduced. This can extend indefinitely to life of creator, as long as it keeps being reprinted or reproduced like this.

Basically, as soon as it becomes difficult to get, you lose copyright if another run isn't made. This works especially great for academic texts, in my opinion, as well as certain types of music etc. And if someone has a big hit, well, it'll get another print run anyway.

I'd give a longer term for artwork and things like that that don't get republished in the same way, with no renewal. Or maybe something like two free renewals for these things after 10 years, to a maximum of 30 years or life of author, whichever is shorter.
So?

Shouldn’t I be able to go to Walt Disney’s Wikipedia page and set the knob to 1949 and see Snow White but not Disneyland?

Our is the point that GPT-3 got namechecked?
Another limitation to be aware of is that it generates text by randomly choosing the next word from a probability distribution. If you turn that off, it tends to go into a loop.

The random choices improve text generation from an artistic perspective, but if you want to know why it chose one word rather than another, the answer is sometimes that it chose a low-probability word at random. So there is a built-in error rate (assuming not all completions are valid), and the choice of one completion versus another is clearly not made based on meaning. (It can be artistically interesting anyway since a human can pick the best completions based on their knowledge of meanings.)

On the other hand, going into a loop (if you always choose the highest probability next word) also demonstrates pretty clearly that it doesn’t know what it’s saying.
Leaked papers link Xinjiang crackdown with China leadership
Are you able to submit them back so it's easier for users to find your work?
I'm currently trying to create a programming language for UI designers, and my approach is very similar to this. Although, the language looks much less like a typical programming language since it's not meant for implementing an actual program, just an interface.
Right, I certainly agree with you that if you're specifying a composition of ChaCha and Blake, you want to get these details right --- you need a KDF (most designs that use straight-up Chapoly already need one, because they're keyed from a DH) and, as you point out, a canonical encoding for the ciphertext and AAD.

I think that's a good argument against just composing constructions "on the fly" casually, but to me, there are some kind of clear benefits to replacing the poly mac in Chapoly with a hash KMAC; it's worth going through this exercise (maybe just once) and then considering using it instead of a "standard" AEAD.

By way of example: with the KDF and encoding --- which you can pull from x/crypto --- it seems like you could pretty easily make this proposed system fit Golang's AEAD interface.
https://archive.md/vSXUL
Has mediating access to information been the defining tool of control for civilizations? Maybe in tyrannical, despotic societies that is true, but those don't allow Twitter today via firewalls, so that's mostly a moot point in this thread.

I'd say the sword and the coin have both been far more controlling than limited information spread.

What of free society? Is the government of the USA, UK, or other "enlightened" societies throughout history relying upon censorship and denial of information? I think they're moreso allowing moneyed interests and plutocracy to have lobbying and backdoor dealings, they can easily ignore the public square most of the time. I just don't see Twitter piercing the armor of entrenched interests that well.

In contrast, I do see it degrading and toxifying democratic discourse, making us less resilient and more divided. That's anti-thetical to a free society in my view.
BMW does "automatic high beams" in Europe, they turn on when there are no cars ahead or opposite and off when it detects a car through the cameras. I've had it since 2006, so it probably existed a few years before that.
Having used a few tools in this space I'm kind of jaded. I'm not sure what I was expecting but not this. WOW this works really great! Great work, very very well executed. I am definitely a customer
Its also feedback that doesn't really land, since the library I'm working on that this blog post was written in the context of actually does make extensive use of AAD, namely for verifying segment headers in files which must appear in plaintext for the protocol to work, but I'll allow it since this was posted to HN without context
One feature I really like about my car that I'd never seen before (2020 Explorer) is that the headlights will always return to automatic mode every time you start the car. It doesn't matter what they were set to when you turned it off, and there's nothing you can do to disable that behavior. When you turn it on, the headlights will be on automatic mode no matter what. It's a small but helpful feature.
"I'm not aware of any effort to censor Galileo at this point. If that is the case I'd like to hear about it."

He's saying Galileo was censored during the time Galileo was alive.
Those are the consequences for line-level workers caught doing something bad, too. The company fires you and refuses to give you a good recommendation. Worst case, you might get hauled in front of court to answer questions.

The difference is entirely in how people view those consequences. For most line-level workers, getting fired or laid off is a source of intense shame, as well as a big logistical inconvenience. As a result, they'll do almost anything to avoid it, including making bad economic decisions for job security. For CEOs, it's an opportunity to do the same shit to other people. As a result, they have no inhibition toward taking risks that might potentially get them fired, as long as the payoff is worth it. And then part of the reason why CEO searches are so challenging and CEOs get paid so much is that it's hard to find someone who is rational about this - willing to take risks when the payoff is high, but prudent about it so they don't tank the company on a whim.
for folks with somewhat old windows with poor insulation I found 3M film helped to greatly improve insulation and save a ton on heating bills (https://www.amazon.com/3M-Indoor-Window-Insulator-5-Window/d...)
He's left to focus on his ideas for making money with Bitcoin. Compared to crypto, Twitter is just not very exciting.
really? citation?
The complaints around censorship have to do with users posting anything related to certain viewpoints (in fact or in error) no longer being able to post anything at all.

Shaping the tenor of public discourse while also claiming that one is not legally a publisher is not something we should allow in our society.

If you think this has anything to do with merely 'lies' or flaming, you're not keeping up.
r/ethfinance
It probably is not what you personally mean, but outright censorship is what will likely happen if we do not actively resist the calls for silencing the deplorables. Freedom of expression is not the default state of the world.

Do you believe that Twitter banning the Hunter Biden laptop story (to the extent that you couldn't even DM a link to it to other users) before the election wasn't an act of political corporate censorship?
Brave does ad-hijacking and has been caught hijacking referral links in the past. I'm not sure I would call their model "good".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442027
Bitcoin difficulty does not always increase and needs not always increase.

As for the rest... so what? It uses a lot of electricity and there is some pollution---but a lot of bitcoin mining is done with hydro or geothermal (and will be nuclear if bitcoin continues to grow), so, so what about some pollution?
What is "genuinely bad" is debatable. I disagree in this particular instance.
Check out GPT-3’s performance on arithmetic tasks in the original paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165)

Pages: 21-23, 63

Which shows some generality, the best way to accurately predict an arithmetic answer is to deduce how the mathematical rules work. That paper shows some evidence of that and that’s just from a relatively dumb predict what comes next model.

They control for memorization and the errors are off by one which suggest doing arithmetic poorly (which is pretty nuts for a model designed only to predict the next character).

(pg. 23): ”To spot-check whether the model is simply memorizing specific arithmetic problems, we took the 3-digit arithmetic problems in our test set and searched for them in our training data in both the forms "<NUM1> + <NUM2> =" and "<NUM1> plus <NUM2>". Out of 2,000 addition problems we found only 17 matches (0.8%) and out of 2,000 subtraction problems we found only 2 matches (0.1%), suggesting that only a trivial fraction of the correct answers could have been memorized. In addition, inspection of incorrect answers reveals that the model often makes mistakes such as not carrying a “1”, suggesting it is actually attempting to perform the relevant computation rather than memorizing a table.”

It’s hard to predict timelines for this kind of thing, and people are notoriously bad at it. Few would have predicted the results we’re seeing today in 2010. What would you expect to see in the years leading up to AGI? Does what we’re seeing look like failure?

https://intelligence.org/2017/10/13/fire-alarm/
I think "post pandemic" there means "after the pandemic drove everyone to WFH anyway", not "especially after the pandemic is over" (which would be an argument for more local offices, not less).
It wasn't more deadly. That's a total lie
You can flash the rear fog lights for that. It's annoying enough for those behind you to at some point start looking at their own dashboard.
This post has been on HN several times; for instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019029

It's sad that advocating for Internet security requires advocating against a major DNS security protocol, but that's the way the cookie bounces.
Internet Explorer-Chan – Season 1 (Official)
> However even on twitter the "the glorification of violence" is very subjective

Sure. Running a company is subjective! That's why we celebrate CEOs rather than try to perfect an objective CEO algorithm that runs in the cloud. Lines have to be drawn somewhere. You could draw the line at "absolutely anything is allowed" but that might not be a wise business decision.

> who many believe

> has been reported by many

> I have seen attempts

I'm sorry but these are all very vague assertions. I don't know what any of us are supposed to do with them.
> I recall then that even new PC's couldn't decode at full CD quality and you had to downscale.

I remember pentium 90's struggling to play mp3's on Win95/98 while at uni. They would play but you couldn't do much else otherwise they would stutter. Even minimizing and maximizing the mp3 player would cause stuttering.
a few videos of him chatting with "investors" are on youtube et al

he seems also a bit into the transhumanist narrative
Poor soul, he was crushed by the system, his place certainly wasn't there. I wonder how many human lives get wasted in the wrong place for a meager salary.
Do you have a reference for this? I’ve heard this too but have never actually seen a first hand account
Your analogy fails because copyright going to public domain doesn't deprive the original owner of it's uses, only from the monopoly on rent-seeking.

Much more like "You have to pay 1% of the price of your house per year to prevent others from using the same blueprint to make an identical house" - you still can use your house, but others can utilize that information as well without your ability to stop that productivity.
dns block it at the router
ghostwriter is a cross platform markdown editor I use that's written in c++.
Twitter was never meant to be a platform that all information can be shared their 280 characters. It was always meant to be abbreviated and force short handed information. OP comment that Jack had to post an image to pass on the information completely misunderstands what/how and why twitter was built.

OP comment was a throwaway comment trying to say that long form text based comments should be allowed on twitter? Think how terrible twitter would become if that was the reality.
Thanks a lot for your kind words! Sometimes naysayers are overwhelming and in those days your words are even more precious. I'll read them again especially in some gray days. Thank you a lot for taking time to support my spiritual powers).
If the adversarial image is intended to cause car accidents or bodily harm in some way, then the people printing the t-shirts and the people wearing them are already breaking the law.

And if they actually do hurt someone, I imagine they would be criminally liable.
‘The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot’ Review: Keeper of the Flame
Yeah, I use gaming mode for my TV-as-a-monitor and if I don't the lag is noticeable even on the desktop. It has the nice side effect of disabling the obnoxious sharpening filters, too.

My dedicated monitors have had dismal reliability: one died right after the warranty, one died inside the warranty and they flaked on the warranty anyway. My reliability expectations are rock bottom, my TV will have to work hard to undershoot them.
I'm so tired of seeing my friends tweet about their "p*treon" without even appending a link, it's such a horrible little hellworld detail. I don't bother with that but I sure have ended up with the habit of tweeting the art, then tweeting links to buy prints, support me on Patreon, and read more about how I did the piece on my blog, as a reply, in hopes that this will suppress the post less. I should probably try actually looking at Twitter's analytics to see this for sure but I find staring at that shit and trying to modify my behavior towards what Twitter likes to amplify to be pretty depressing and stressful.

You will probably be unsurprised to find that I am a furry artist. :)
In India if we are ahead, and road is not straight, means a driver behind me can't see far, I will blink the directional blinker one or twice to tell him that its safe to overtake me now, from this direction.

A headlight flashes to incoming driver is saying, I see you want to overtake, don't, let me pass first.

A honk at sharp turns on going uphill, telling opposite traffic that I am heavy, cant afford to stop & then start, you give me way if required. There, there is a text painted (officially or informally) "Honk" or "Horn Please"
I was posting about returns on investment, not entrepreneurship. Some entrepreneurs really are takings significant risks, beyond the risk that the huge numbers in their accounts become somewhat less huge. Some are even taking more risk than their employees. Investors generally are not—again, their most-likely failure state is still being rich and in the absolute worst-case they lose enough that they have to actually work for their income... like everyone else. Their absolute worst (but unlikely) case looks suspiciously similar to most folks' best (likely) case: a well-paid, fairly well-respected (among we mere plebs, anyway) job. They are taking on a great deal of risk in one sense, but are hardly taking on any in another, arguably more meaningful, sense.

I've repeatedly seen people use risk to justify returns on capital in relation to wages—but the risk is all bullshit, in many cases. Again, I'm not claiming that investment shouldn't yield returns, but I've seen the "risk" argument used to justify income inequality, while the actual real-world risk workers & capital are exposed to are the inverse of what that would imply.

Mine is essentially an argument for the marginal dis-utility of risk, I guess. "Capital deserves a huge up-side for the moral reason that investors take great risk" is a BS argument, IMO, yet one that crops up from time to time. I don't think "deserves" has anything to do with it, and I don't think that framing holds up to any amount of scrutiny.

The reason this was relevant is that you see similar arguments for why CEOs are so well-compensated—"if things go poorly, they'll see the consequences for it!" Except the "consequences" (short of actually criminal activity, and even then, see e.g. Wells Fargo) look an awful lot like what would be a life-changing-for-generations windfall for normal folks. Their worst day, after all of the shit has hit all of the fans, would be 99+% of people's best day of their life. So... is that, meaningfully, risk that justifies crazy-high compensation? My objection isn't even that the compensation is high, but the way supposed risk is used to justify it. Their compensation is, for a bunch of reasons, a fact, but I don't think "it's fair because they take on so much risk" is even a little valid. More likely is that it's not, by many folks' reckoning, anywhere near "fair", and that's just how the system, and perhaps life, is. Investment is, largely, similar, once you're past the smallest of small-fry investors, or people investing in their own small business ventures.

[EDIT] To be clear, I'm not arguing that investors (and certainly not arguing that entrepreneurs, in general) do not expose themselves to risk. Of course they do. Lots of it, by some entirely-reasonable reckoning. Rather, I think the kind of risk makes trying to use that as some kind of moral justification for their returns, to be blunt, extremely dumb.
It's a marketing and awareness channel for YCombinator, not directly for profit.
> I missed when the community wanted to do away with tab groups, compact mode, or keyword searches synced via bookmarks. The project is handled by a corporation with a multimillion dollar advertising deal with one of the EvilCorps. Uhh, yeah.

Hm? When were keyword searches or compact mode removed? I’m still using them in 94.0
NPR: Books We Love
https://archive.md/Vr4j7
Alternatively, are there any secret menu options that can make a smart TV dumb? My TV has advanced service menus that I never explored fully.
> I don't accept jobs that want me to be on call unless fuck you money is involved, and so far nobody has offered it to me. The product that drives most of my employer's revenue is a gigantic pile of tech debt, and there are some people on call whose lives are kind of miserable.

Yeah this is the right answer. I know a lot of people who are earning more than I am in exchange for being on-call (or being de-facto on call, ahem) and it just ain't worth it.
https://github.com/iamcco/markdown-preview.nvim works for me.
Birds don't need 150,000 litres of jet fuel to fly across the ocean. Given that the development of airplanes was made by studying birds I'm not sure I see your point. The 1889 book "Birdflight as the Basis of Aviation" is one example.
Nit: to me at least, "Never deal with another freelancer" comes off as unnecessarily harsh (even if it resonates with some). I understand the product is targeted to early-stage startups without the budget to hire someone, but it sounds like it's putting down the idea of working with a designer altogether (see "no need to hire a designer"), when you could poise it as complementary to working with a designer eventually if we choose to do so.
It's toxic if you're actually an expert in the subject at hand. People here would rather feel smart than wrong. Lots of armchair experts here touting misinformation but you don't notice it unless there's a topic you know well.
If you think that's unfair, wait until you hear how much they're paid!
> the single biggest, indeed killer failure of the whole mode, the fact that if you for some reason fail to [implement a core and simple feature of the mode], you're sending what's effectively plaintext (it's recoverable with a simple XOR). It's an incredibly brittle mode

I think most people would agree about that if you omit parts of cryptographic algorithms, it is not surprising that it's now broken.

Also who even implements GCM by hand? Who's supposed to forget to increment that counter?

> the equivalent of the historically frighteningly misuse-prone RC4

Libraries let you call RC4(data, key) and it would work as designed. It was up to you to realize that you shouldn't reuse the key. With GCM, incrementing the counter is done in the library and not exposed for you to forget.

Don't roll your own crypto is the only takeaway here.
How is VS Codes support for Java a hot mess? For the most part as long as you use maven or gradle it works perfectly fine.
The thing is that this cycle is important, because you can learn it when it's easy to learn and as it evolves. Jekyll has been very frustrating for me to learn because of all the accumulated cruft, even if it solves very real problems. Sometimes you just need to restart to get the new people on board.
Sure, but enjoy the battery being degraded to ~70% of its capacity after barely a year of doing that.
I get it. We all wish more people would use Firefox.

I tried to switch from Chrome to Firefox, and 98% of my websites work fine, but you still need Chrome as a backup for those sites that don't. Without 100% compatibility it's a hard sell when most users have no reason to leave Chrome.

I can't recommend Firefox to friends with the caveat "Keep a copy of Chrome around for when stuff doesn't work" Hopefully Mozilla can keep making things better. I'm glad someone is competing in this space
As Tim covers, none of the N1's engines that were flown were tested. That's not the case with Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy or Starship.