skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is a controversial opinion here, but I think software locks aren't inherently bad in a car that can be driven by software. I don't really trust Tesla's self-driving software as is, I certainly don't trust some random person's hack of already questionable Tesla code. This isn't an iPhone. Someone mucking about in the software can kill people.
Oh, apologies for reading your comment this way, my bad.

Voice Dialogue is amazing. Perspective that we have different, very much independent sub-parts to our personality is not new and it is gaining more and more popularity (both in professional context (different modes of psychotherapy, etc.) and in popular culture (more and more references which use this 'many parts' view)).

Voice Dialogue in core is _practice_ of talking to these parts of our personality (or rather consciousness) (edit: engaging with them in a conversation). This is where one person engages in a conversation with different parts of another person.

To give you an example, one could talk to Your Inner Child (in fact, one could talk with diffrent child-like energies in you), your Rational Mind, your Cautious One, your Joy, and so on...

If you do it well, a certain shift in consciousness accurs. You just realise that these are in fact 'voices' or 'parts' ('energies' is also a good term) in you and you are not them. I dont hesitate to call it an insight.

Even reading a book about it can make that shift happen for you. I am pretty sure of what I write here. :)

In English there is https://voicedialogueinternational.com

Seminal work by Sidra and Hal Stone, authors of VD, is their book "Embracing Our Selves", which I highly recommend. You can check it out in Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8683721M/Embracing_Ourselves

You will find similar approaches, I favor VD for many reasons.
Noooo!! Why?!!!?! Arrrrrgh!!
If they want to *lease* the vehicles, that's fine. They need to make it explicitly known it is a lease for X term, and at Y cost per month of the lease. Modifying their property would be completely in the clear, or at least a hell of a lot less ethically ambiguous.

But they're selling these vehicles. As in, transfer of title to the person they're selling to. Taxes are paid. Transfer is registered with the state(s). Insurance is purchased on vehicles in your possession. And full coverage is required for vehicle loans (another set of showing proper legal transfer).

And, just because some click-wrap software has "We are allowed to murder your family and eat your children" does not make illegal clauses legal. And given in this instance, it was tesla->first owner->second owner->third owner , any click-wrap garbage would have been done by the first owner.

Basically, this is the end-run around physical ownership for all the IoT companies and companies that pay for/demand 100% connectivity. All of these companies that have these always-on remote tie ins are the Darth Vader here - "I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further."

All the EV companies are doing this. I so want to buy an EV. I'm not willing to subvert my ownership rights for that.
can you turn this into a captcha mechanism pls?
hackaday.io has people showing off their projects in a different but similar way (though usually people on hackaday don't write step-by-step instructions.)
> In reality, 'land and expand' is almost universally hated by customers

Honest question but do you have any source for this or is it primarily your personal experience?

In my experience land and experience has been leveraged to help get a foot in the door sooner than later, it was never anything more than that. If we had the ability to walk into a shop and start with 100% of the clients environment we'd have done that but the problem was typically tied to the customer not being ready to rollout from 0-100 overnight. For us the best approach was to start small and work with the customer on gradually rolling out as they were comfortable.

Regarding your other point:

> How about neither of these - how about selling solutions that you honestly believe are right-sized, being transparent about the sizing/requirements assumptions you have made, and then being flexible contractually if reality turns out different? This is how you actually build trust and consumer satisfaction, not by deliberately underquoting.

I'm in complete agreement, this is the best case scenario and is certainly the best way to build long-term trust and relationships but universally it doesn't happen or when it does it's not transparent. The customer really has to push to make this happen only leading to anxiety, relationship damage, etc.
Yes the title should be "Could machine learning fuel yet another reproducibility crisis in science?"

There's a bit of denial about the framing of the article, which is maybe telling.

The article is about a slightly different form of reproducibility crisis I think, one more specific to ML studies. But the title maybe isn't quite right.
The only reason to software lock the capacity of the battery in this manner is to extort customers.

There is apparently absolutely no additional labor, no additional material, nothing to distinguish a P90 from a P60 except for a software lock.

That's labor that was not necessary. All the work needed to software lock the charge capacity of the battery could have been avoided. The only way it makes sense is if you get to charge more for the exact same thing. Which is what Tesla is apparently doing.

Essentially, every P90 should be $4500 cheaper and every P60 should have the range of a P90.
As much as I wanted to get into VR, Meta taking over the Quest has thankfully saved me countless sunken dollars and hours.
This was a good write up but was kind of short of details. It would have been really awesome with some code examples. I love socket programming. Love, like I love going to the dentist.

Having a state machine to handle basic I/O between client/server kind of blows when it comes to plenko machine switch statements of arbitrary state enums. Languages like Go or Python allow you to have a way of communicating with the client from the server in a more direct client->server oriented way. Write/Read input, do thing, write, read, do, repeat until you finish ops.

Go is my favorite for this as I can spawn a goroutine to read/write to a socket. Rust is my second favorite for this but it's a bit trickier. Python's twisted framework has something like this with Protocols. I wish C++ had a standard socket implementation (std::network?)

Anyway, this gave me a smile today so thanks.
Sold my barely used Quest 2 a few weeks ago and had a real hard time getting even $235 for it.
This is one of those rare videos that makes me feel less alone by describing something it seems like everyone online is unaware of.
Every story about Microsoft--every time--ends with "...and then Microsoft fucked people over". After decades of watching the shitshow that is Microsoft, and the moral equivocating around defending them, I always return to this.
It's a sequel contained within the original. So it's worth the purchase for new players and those that played through the original.
I would love to have this wonderful blog recorded as a podcast.
Quality does matter and can have serious consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse
I've only played the original release so far. It was fantastic and refreshing.
I'm sorry but I agree with the essence of the TP on this. The best way to learn grammar and style is to develop your own. Regardless if you're writing in your first language or not, getting a good command of a language is going to come from personal effort, not relying on some piece of software to correct you.
the clock starts when the crime was committed which is when Tesla cut the range
Things are improving, but non-conformity to the DICOM spec by some vendors is quite common. I regularly encounter DICOM files that don't even have the 128byte preamble or 4byte `DICM` prefix.
Devils advocate here. Does the action of the customer service person (and maybe their manager) reflect the real mission of the company? Could it be employees (for whatever reason) not realizing that leaving the full range unlocked is in the best interest of the company?
Well, when a company starts considering who to lay off, they're not gonna start with people who they think are rockstars. At worst those folks would get reassigned.
Veteran British actor David Warner, star of The Omen and Tron, dies aged 80
Ironically it was written by Caberet's authors.
Ironically, crypto VCs are sitting on a lot of dry powder and the narrative is much stronger (WEB3! METAVERSE!) since it is completely detached from reality.

In situations like these where the wealthy still have a ton of money, it is far better to be in a business that a) the wealthy don't understand, and b) is so outlandish that you can't assign a hard value to it.

If you make $1 in profit, then investors can assign it a hard value (10-15x ARR). If you make $0 in profit, then investors can spin up narratives about your "potential".
I use vim-gnupg. It makes the whole thing a breeze. And in my experience, the author is completely right: I won't open up all the way unless I have guaranteed privacy. It's not that I have anything criminal to hide, but we all have things we're uncomfortable putting on the page and being forced to acknowledge as reality.
I don't think this sort of thing is all that unusual.

I once did a web-of-science search for citations to a foundational paper in my field. It was published in volume 13 of a particular journal, and that was listed in a little over 90% of the citations, but the other citations all listed the journal as 113. My assumption is that somebody cited it in error, and that others were basically copying the citation from the bibliography, rather than going back to the original paper to get the original metadata.

Does this mean that about 10% of writers were basically lying about having read the original paper? Well, maybe. But I fear that the number might be higher than 10%, because the correct citations might also have resulted from just copying from a bibliography.

I tell this story to my students, in hopes that they will actually read the original papers. Quite a few take my advice to heart. Alas, not all do.
$97 million operating loss on $1.2b in sales.

That one isn't an accounting quirk. Nor is the wall that their sales growth just ran into. The pandemic pulled future results forward by many years, Shopify will suffer near-term accordingly.
> Pluton is de-facto a Secured Core PC implementation

No, it's not. You can deploy Pluton without having to implement the Secured Core PC spec.

> Microsoft Pluton does not make the mistake of repeating,

No, seriously, the only remote attestation supported by Pluton on x86 at present is literally this TPM-based remote attestation. There's no meaningful fragility here - remote attestation means you can look at the individual log events rather than just looking at the composite PCR values, and that lets you ignore the noise created by things like hardware configuration changes. I have helped build and deploy infrastructure that makes use of remote attestation to validate secure boot state.

> the TPM could be easily virtualized

No, because the EK certificate won't chain back to a trusted CA>

> hacked over the bus

True in some cases, but already mitigated on all systems that are using fTPMs (ie, most Windows 11 systems).

> the Pluton is explicitly designed to give a computer a permanent identity that can never be erased, which (again) TPM does not guarantee.

TPM does, in fact, guarantee that. The endorsement key is static over the lifetime of the TPM.

> why does DICE even exist

DICE provides a set of features that don't require the functionality of a full TPM. This allows you to implement things like device identity attestation in a standardised way that works for both hardware with a full TPM and also IoT devices where a TPM would be too expensive.

> Today customers receive updates to their security firmware from a variety of different sources

Look at the diagram immediately above that quote. They're talking about the firmware that runs on Pluton, not the firmware executed by the main CPU.

Again, you're raising a legitimate issue (remote attestation can be used for bad things), but you're burying it under a bunch of misconceptions and just flat out inaccuracies. I agree that we should be worried about widespread use of remote attestation, both from a "War on general purpose computing" perspective and a privacy perspective. But literally everything you're legitimately worried about happening could happen right now. Framing this as something that's tied to Pluton risks giving people the impression that they can avoid it by just not buying anything with Pluton, and that's simply untrue.
>What are the right questions for a buyer to ask in order to ensure they're not left in this unfortunate position?

Just a few spit balls for you:

Do you have another used car for sale that is not a Tesla?

Does this Tesla have any features currently enabled that might be disabled when someone realizes I'm no longer the original owner or the current owner realizes their credit card is still paying for services they no longer use, etc?

In what ways will Tesla fuck me after purchasing this car?
You should assume every Tor instance is hacked. You should be concerned if a bridge is malicious and slightly concerned if an exit node is malicious. You can protect yourself by using application layer encryption like TLS which you can enforce with HTTPS Everywhere (an extension now included by default in the Tor Browser Bundle, anyway).

Frankly you should assume that all your traffic over Tor to clearnet is deanonymizable and you should act accordingly. For browsing Onion sites, you can be more confident in the integrity of your traffic, but keep in mind you also need to trust the operator of that Onion site not to get hacked or otherwise surrender whatever data you provide to them.
LanguageTool is useful, I self-host it in Docker and use the VS Code extension to integrate with it, since I do most of my writing in markdown (including Dendron for my note-taking).

Even with a degree in technical writing, I still find it helps. I overuse passive voice and unnecessary words, and LanguageTool flagging them as I write is useful.
Evidence points to a market less than 2 football fields away from the Chinese CDC's Wuhan bioanalytics and pathology center.

Seems pretty easy for rats to pick something up from leaking bat juice in improperly secured trash, and bring it to the market.
I've got a close relative who reviews papers all the time in their field (not CS). Based on that my take is that if a paper passes peer review it is a good indicator there's nothing egregiously wrong with the stuff that's written.
And for those unaware, the original was made in the Source (Half-Life 2) engine, while this remaster is running using Unity.
> we

Indeed, Russia has had its share of problems with Poland before that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Muscovite_War_(...
> Why do you ignore that the one Federation that didn't teach Russian in schools was forced to change their policy?

What federation? I have no idea what you're talking about. I made a specific claim about the status of minority languages in Russia and Ukraine. Do you have any evidence to show that it is inaccurate?

> Russia can have all the written rules they want

What exactly are you implying in this specific instance? That minority languages aren't actually used? The state broadcaster runs services in a dozen or so minority languages.
It certainly echos the approach of other tech companies like google and apple. Save money and reduce risk by not giving your employees any power or freedom to think on their own. Or not having employees even exist when possible. The customer suffers but the customer is also the sucker who used your service because it was the cheapest or free.

its all gross and unnecessary
You can actually delete the Facebook app from your phone with adb (Android Debug Bridge). Here's an example:

https://www.reddit.com/r/samsung/comments/ay39vh/first_thing...
Mega-influences don't give a shit, it ultimately comes down to the money and what their managers tell them. If your agency says to post a TikTok at noon, you do it. If you get an ad sponsorship on Instagram, then you're downloading the app. It's fun to imagine arbitrary acts of protest like this causing an impact, but to what end? People will just do the Cupid Shuffle through Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok, looping through the platforms and playing Russian Roulette with data privacy.

You're welcome to root for any side you want, but the only outcome of this scenario is the rich getting richer. That's why I commented on this in the first place, that it's asinine that any newsletter taking itself seriously would report on a celebrity stunt like this. What's next, do the editors have some hot takes on Kanye West that they'd like to make relevant to Apple products?
We are not open source, however, we hope that through the pre-alpha that users can try our product out a bit. I know that users still need to take that initial leap of faith in that what we are saying is the truth regarding our peer-to-peer CDN and desktop app, but I think that initial level of trust is required to adopt any small non-open source technology that has been released before it has grown to be larger and more recognized in the market.
"It's not the Republicans"

Do you know what Critical Race Theory actually is, and where it's taught?
I think in organizations where the loss of an individual with years of institutional knowledge is felt, this applies more.

Startup just acquired a competitor and doubled its headcount overnight? Who cares about retraining folks you want to fire after that? You have to reorganize the new merged organization anyways, what better than to realign salaries with existing budgets?
> I think the difference here is that an EV battery fire quickly spreads to the entire length of the bus

It's an interesting theory, but I don't see it supported by these articles.

The entire diesel bus had its back third engulfed very quickly, from these sources.

The entire electric bus burned, but we don't have any information on the rate at which the fire propagated.
‘They look almost human made.’ NOAA finds weird lines of holes in Atlantic floor
Most modern exploits on this level are extremely difficult to get onto users machines - without any conspiracy at play, you would have to essentially get users to run untrusted code, and for general use case there are a whole bunch of blockades against this. For private entities seeking financial gain, its completely pointless to burn a zero day like this for the return that you would get.
Contracts and DRM are two sides of the same coin when it comes to chipping away at ownership. They want to segment the market as finely as possible, to capture all of the excess value of their product.

E.g. they don't want to sell you a general-purpose GPU, but a GPU that's good for one purpose only, and you have to pay extra to use it for anything else [1]. Tesla is leading the way [2], but I'm sure other automakers are also trying to come up with ways to restrict "personal" vehicles from being used for "commercial" activities.

[1] Nvidia’s updates EULA to ban the use of gamer-oriented GPUs in data centers - https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-bans-consumer...

[2] Don’t plan on using your autonomous Tesla to earn money with Uber or Lyft - https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/10/dont-plan-on-using-an-a...
It is definitely true for the most part. I took a software engineering job in A software firm that’s considered on of the OG Silicon Valley company after I graduated. Unfortunately, I very quickly realized that whenever I applied to FAANG or other “SV cool kids” companies, I would not get an opportunity, meanwhile, new grads from my same Uni kept getting those jobs. You don’t get interviews because you work at a non glamorous company, but you work at a non glamorous company because you don’t get interviews. It’s a tough cycle that takes some serious work to get out of.

A thing that may be at play here is that you add “years of experience” on your resume, and therefore as a lateral hire, are expected to get paid more and therefore the risk aversion.

Another thing at play could be the recency of experience. Your most recent item on the resume is what catches the most attention, so if it is something like SWE at Walgreens vs Senior at MIT, the latter sounds more promising (even if it’s not true).

TLDR; there are consequences of not starting at the right company, because they compound over time.
It seems strange to raise the price of something that has been on the market for a while, right?

I do love my Quest 2.
Care to share the others? I'm weighing my options as well.

Anything you are leaning towards buying?
I just completed a paper review as a reviewer. After I think 4 rounds, the author finally ran the calculation I had asked for in the initial review and admitted I was right. We got there in the end, but I had to sit on my hands.
My brother lives in Tunis (and is not always a knee jerk fan of democracy) and my friend studies it for a living and just wrote an editorial in the Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/07/25/tunisia-c...) the other day, for sure I’ll ask them.

If you’re going to tell me FIS/GIA ran on that platform then sure, but I somehow doubt they were upfront about girls being out of school at first.
To everyone who says they want to get laid off-- this is an obvious sign that you should find another job! If you would quit your job for four months pay, you might be able to get that in a signing bonus and a raise. Plus, why be somewhere that you are so happy to leave?
I wouldn’t use one for free right now. There just isn’t a compelling experience there yet.
When did humans start making art and were Neanderthals artists too?
Also known as sandbagging... Just a way to game the next round's valuation if you find strong demand.
All cars are doing this stuff, it isn’t EV specific
This. It's not about losing the job, it's about you just showed they don't need to offer raises to keep you.
hooking into win32 kernel is not something uefi developers usually do
It's as addictive as what apps you run on it. Facebook and Instagram aren't going to be any less addictive just because you get them running on a Linux phone.

The smartphone UX is all kinds of poor, I'm immediately repulsed and turned off by it versus a keyboard and mouse. Hamburger menus at the top of a now-very-tall screen? Yeah, fuck that.
It's a strange move given Facebook changed their name to promote VR and the Quest is their flagship device. Also surprised that after mass producing this device for almost 2 years their manufacturing and supply chain costs aren't dialed in enough to maintain the current price. The message here is that VR is 'failing'. I hope it's not, but that's the message with this backwards move.
I couldn’t get into the original. Seemed like the one and only kind of game I would rather watch an streamer do.
I struggle with using it and frankly struggle with understanding why people are so offended by it. People seem to be orders of magnitude more offended by using it than calling someone an idiot, moron, mentally challenged, developmentally delayed, or saying they have an IDD.

The outrage honestly just comes off as white knighting.
Self-driving cars make driving easier so they will increase the demand for private vehicle travel and make it even less likely that we can satisfy demand.

I'm not even sure it is possible to satisfy this demand in a city. Houston has 26-lane highways and they are still building more roads to handle traffic. LA uses 14% of all land for car parking and is still building more parking spots. I suppose there must be a theoretical upper bound past which building more space for cars does not eventually induce more driving, but I know of no city that has reached that limit.