skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google bans taking screenshots of “secure” apps
It fits the very definition of a pre-crime because you don't have a problem with how they're currently using that information (sparsely to catch criminals), only with how they might, in the future, use that information.
What are you talking about? Lots of people liked Unity.
You were always going to lose access to that data on a free plan right? Now you just know exactly when you'll lose it.

It's going to be worse for small private instances but much better for large public instances.
Some clarification regarding the differentiable rendering vs inverse rendering.

Differentiable rendering is what it says: differentiating the rendering process. Imagine that x is the scene, then f(x) is the function that renders the image. Then, Differentiable rendering is simply taking the derivatives: f'(x).

Inverse rendering is a process of finding scene parameters x, such that f(x) produces the given image y. This is often achieved by using differentiable rendering together with an optimization algorithm (like SGD or Adam). However, due to the nature of rendering, it's easy to get stuck in a local minimum. Therefore, even a perfect differentiable rendering engine is not sufficient for the inverse rendering.
You can't run much welder on the ordinary British 13 amp plug, usually need the next size up which is much less common.
> reproduction is not a state concern

Supreme Court just made it state one, instead of keeping the decision on doctors and pregnants.
Your comment seems quite hostile/condescending, and not in the spirit of HN. Hmm, I dunno, why does one submit anything to HN? Context is in the eye of the beholder. For me, this is a fantastic movie, and I believe it may be timely for the current economic condition/struggles..
I've got this email from Apple and it looks legitimate. The problem is there are no warnings on in app store connect - agreements,tax and banking and I received payment last month..
that vid needs its own post
Yes, a heavy horse can drag more.

But the question here is how far the horse can go on a single load of food. We're purely trying to convert food into work via the horse.

And if you assume that the conversion of potential energy stored in the food to actual energy produced by the horse is less than perfectly efficient, then it will always be better to avoid doing work than to try to make up for doing extra work by starting with more food. That would be true even if starting with more food didn't require doing even more extra work to move the extra food.

Improvements in strength aren't helpful to this problem; what you need is higher efficiency.
I hope it comes with the option of fuzzing out houses on demand. I believe Germany has this feature? Since law enforcement is so weak here, I don't want Google Maps to create a privacy nightmare.
An important lesson in second-order ethics. If your opponent is willing to operate outside of the rules of the game (as you see them) aka acts in bad faith, they can achieve their ends by taking advantage of your adherence to the rules. Recognizing when someone is doing this and refusing to play along is a difficult, but sometimes essential, skill. (Though one we all learned to some extent on the playground)
Less then flattering is weak sauce, comparatively.
You should know that Google street view picked up traction around the same time the Mumbai attacks happened.

And that attack was largely coordinated thanks to extensive recce of the city by David headley.

Security concerns were valid because the government had the infrastructure to check the legitimacy of every foreigner entering the country. But a Headley-like recce could be possibly done by anyone from anywhere without the government knowing it.

Yes, there are workarounds, but The government was not wrong in taking it's time in giving clearance to something like this
As of last year Quest 2 was outselling the Xbox.

So clearly Meta does know to ship a popular device at scale.
yes that was the point. now we have that datum to extrapolate for future
Worst case scenario, we may have a bit more acceptable lesser-evil...
I think the newer version of this is https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_rust
which lets you either vendor the dependencies or pull them from your Cargo.toml directly every time.

Per the article: bazel + rules_rust should have the flexibility to override the linker flags that Cargo may take as required since that would be a property of the bazel toolchain used.

It's a nice amalgamation of how cargo works and how bazel works.

In general bazel supports hermetic builds, multiple toolchains, cross complilation, and ways to compile multi-language projects.

I still wish that Cargo.toml didn't support build.rs as it can cause a lot of system-dependent problems that bazel sidesteps entirely by being hermetic.
It's a fascinating set of priories that lead to these policies.

"We trust you enough to run your code in production but we can't let you read another team's code because you might steal it. Yes, the odds that anyone wants to steal the code for this mundane microservice are staggeringly low... and yes you're going to be less productive and more prone to serious bugs by being in the dark, but that's your problem."
From TFA:

> The hardest 1% of the technical problem, automating the surface streets and interchanges, would end up being worth only about $600/truck/yr. Level 4 truck autonomy has less value than a daily coffee.

Note that savings is $600, not $600,000. For a $100K truck, that’s 0.6% per year. Not nothing, but they’re happy to let someone else do the Herculean effort to get to L4.

For each programmer on a team that could do it in a year for, say, $240K in comp, you’d need 400 truck-years ($40M worth of trucks for 1 year) to make it a break even proposition. How many programmer-years do you think it would take to build L4 autonomous trucks? How many programmer-years have FAANG alone (leave out auto manufacturers or taxi apps) spent over the last decade on autonomous driving?
Great and detailed article. I agree with the comment from balaselvam though. On the way towards full autonomy (whenever that might be achieved) you will get there incrementally (like Tesla is trying to do, their constant delays/promises notwithstanding). At some point highway driving will be ok, but even for highway driving it is absolutely imperative to have a very good understanding of how to drive, the level of autonomy needs to be quite advanced. Otherwise you can quickly end up in a situation where unforeseen traffic guidance, debris, loss of communication will result in a situation where the truck does not react well enough.

I doubt it is really possible to design a system for 'just' highway driving of such high quality that no intervention is required within the reaction time of a remote operator without actually trying to fully solve it. This could be limited to highways of course, but a loss of connection in city regions would then automatically mean the truck would have to stop where it is (in the middle of the road with hazards on)

I do like the remote operator scenario for start and end quite a lot though as it would ease the incremental inclusion of autonomy into the truck economy and offer higher safety with machines this big.
> I haven’t met an European who consider the US an ally,

What hyperbole. There are plenty, myself included. Don't confuse criticism of the US with us not being an ally.

> the energy crisis we’re going through thanks to US

??? The finger is clearly pointed at Putin and Germany's naivity over the past 10 years for this mess we are in.

I'd be curious to read a European publication that even suggests this is due to the US (if you have a link).
> Americans, on the other hand, tend to take them as admissions of weakness, and try to pile more abuse on you. You are punished for apologizing, and they never let you forget it.

For this reason, sincere apologies can probably only work in very private situations, with those rare people who are overly generous and forgiving and won't take it as an invitation (if not a moral imperative) for endless retribution, bullying, and public shaming.
Strange - we use Druid at scale at work, and it doesn't really require much maintenance. In fact, for the most part aside from some incidents caused by our own misconfiguration, it buzzes away just fine. Runs on Kubernetes. Most annoying thing was tuning segment compaction.

It's actually quite nice - because since everything is stored on GCS/S3, it is mostly self healing, we can treat the historical as cattle and not pets.

We also run clickhouse, and unfortunately the above is not true - at least in our setup.
Refusing to play along will be seen as a loss, which is precisely the intention.
Elicit dear boy.
Cultures and systems can select for biased treatment of groups even when looking exclusively at the local segment of a larger system which happens to have black decision makers. If you look out your window into America today and don't see systemic racism either statistically or with your own eyeballs I honestly don't know what to say to you.

The topic of discussion is a company that produces a product that due to echos and analysis doesn't actually know where or if guns are fired being deployed in shitty crime ridden neighborhoods where disproportionately minorities being poorer are obliged to live. In the context of the gun shot imaginer system they have been literally caught doctoring data to match what the police wanted to be true in order to obtain a conviction.

Multiple things can be true. The shot spotter can be deployed in areas where gun fire actually and truly is more common, it can be misused to shake down or frame people in that area, such behavior can primarily be misused against people in that area, because more poor black people are obliged to live their they can in turn fall victim to such bad behavior more frequently even if not specifically targeted by law enforcement. Further faced with multi decade scare tactics and shitty public defenders poor people and by extension disproportionately minorities flinch and cop pleas.

This is how you fill your prisons up with black people.

This is literally what systemic racism means. Its a racist outcome of a fucked up system even when said system isn't consciously malicious and lets be a little honest with each other. We both know that there is plenty of honest bigotry. There are plenty of folks in government and plenty of folks in uniform that wouldn't mind donning a sheet and burning a cross in their neighbors lawn.

America was born in racism and as much as we hope to generation by generation make it more equal some of us remain more equal than others and a lot of us like it that way.
Because at first glance it lacked context. Now the OP has updated it with relevancy, by quoting a bit from the article author.
Reminds me of Daniel Schmachtenberger's excellent article, The Endgames of Bad Faith Communication: https://consilienceproject.org/endgames-of-bad-communication....

Under his framework, this would be a specific example of bad faith communication, and he agrees that the breakdown in our ability to communicate in good faith is a threat to true democracy.
I didn't even know what "Quaternions" were until I started to get into 3D graphics and found that they're often used instead of degrees or radians to avoid camera "gimbal lock".
Sigh I don't see why I need to use a 3rd party tool for what should be a very straightforward process in Python out of the box. In fact, I think these days it actually is straightforward, of course once you work out what you need to do...

Python is a mess.
Even that is not enough, as the US reserves the right to extraterritorial personal jurisdiction over companies on a case-by-case basis, depending on the nature of the company's dealings with the US and business interests in the US.
I wish I knew about this earlier! It's interesting that this project doesn't have a much higher visibility. Also wondering, what's the current relationship of this project with Google? (if you are involved with it)
It’s not the only difference. If I think along with a video/audio, I lose tracks quickly and have to rewind, but there is no obvious cue to where. Text has a fundamental property of being in sync with whatever level of attention I’m paying to its parts. Talk doesn’t have it.
Bugger me… I just commented on that very thing, and then read a few more comments and find you beat me to the punch by several days. LOL
The "livestock vs pets" comparison seems off. It's assumed with the livestock you can lose one server and don't care much – though with real animal livestock if your cow gets ill you don't kill it and order more healthy cows.

And the comparison also assumes you cannot kill the "pet" server. I have many pet servers with carefully chosen names, but I still can painlessly kill them and redeploy with the same name because I have Ansible or SaltStack code to do so
move yourself out of the equation and you will stop getting frustrated. Write about the incident that you are ruminating about(This is important you actully have to write it somewhere). Then read it as if it is happening to a another person(don't skip it or it won't have effect). Now give advice on what should be done.Try this and let me know if it helps? if it helps do it whenever you find yourself ruminating, eventually it would stop.
If a fallacy is wrong, wouldn't a fallacy fallacy be right
As a former child from the US, my only recommendation is not to take the US school system too seriously. Every state has a different system which is further broken down into subsystems where the quality of education can be completely different. 20 years ago the standard quality of math education was terrible where I grew up, I spent my whole life trying to find resources that were outside of the system. And when I was a teachers assistant during university I was often surprised how little math the students knew. That being said, find a textbook on algebra with a solutions manual and do all the exercises. If you can't figure out an exercise use online tutorials or lectures to make sure you understand all the concepts. If you can figure out all the rules and tricks of algebra you'll have a more solid foundation than a huge proportion of American university students and you'll be ready to apply them to the other fields of math you want to study.
I'd say this is somewhere between Aserto.com and https://www.permit.io

More fullstack than Aserto, but less than Permit.

More pure API play, but less than Aserto.

Compared to both Permit and Aserto, Warrant seems to lack open-source standards (e.g. Open Policy)
Am I the only one who is deeply unsettled by tiktok as a format in and of itself?

The weird unnatural voice and the fast pace and the shallowness of the content. Is this what people really want? I think the answer is yes. But the people who want this are broken people. There's no sugar coating it. This is like some weird drug for reverting people to their dumbest instincts. The fact that everyone immediately acknowledges that this is great and the future is terrifying.
Sorry about that, I realized it once I saw the downvote (thank you - it made the post better).

Empathy is essential.
Can you expand on the allusion to real estate?
Well, they were/are the dominant player who could not adopt another standard and had zero incentive except regulatory and public opinion.

It is a proprietary standard full of History. Nothing else than horrible in standard and process is to be expected.
I’m not sure that drones are any better than cars in terms of recharging, not to mention local regulations.

The 360 cameras are cheap but getting things accurately localized (if you care about that) and having LiDAR like google has (also if you care about this) is a bit more expensive.

I think one promising route might be to stick a 360 camera on some random cars in exchange for a fee (similar to how ads are put on top of Ubers/Taxis). I bet you could cover a city pretty quick that way, as long as you figure out how to offload the data. Maybe an agreement with a taxi company to plug into the top of the cars a couple times a week.
If you're in the EU you don't have the right to give your IP address to a US company?

Your own IP address?

What's the point of having personal data if you aren't allowed to make decisions about it
Overall, I think it's less about effect of porn and more how the industry has been morphed to focus on only the sexual aspect (in contrast with the older built up story driven porn) instead of the entire picture /story.

Since then all you got is one "type" of actors show how a real man/woman does it with no wiggle room for self exploration.

It also doesn't help there are categories becoming popular that quite literally undermines your confidence.
Seems you're building on top of another HN thread from today:

"Ask HN: Higher order derivatives in everyday life?"

https//news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32257887

Unfortunately real life is more complex than Calculus I. The analogy is simultaneously valid and useless.
“recommendation to change the meaning of #!/usr/bin/python from Python 2, to Python 3.”

This isn’t exactly true. The recommendation was for a long time that it should alias python2, later it changed to be ambiguous and up for distros to decide, which is possibly even worse, but I guess good in the long run once py2 gets completely eliminated. It can be found in https://peps.python.org/pep-0394/ Only way to be sure is to use more specific shebang or a venv, which is a good idea anyway. Especially when trying to run some really old sw, like in tfa, that is not up to date with other packages.
I did receive it as well.

The previous payments went through with no problem and I haven't made any changes since then.

Strange that the contact us redirects to a itunes account. When trying to login it says I don't have an account there.
Ironically Carmack is just one of those technical minded people who also has been hella creative... Fo 30 years
It's not out of the question for it to work to some extent -- the question is what extent, when, how, and when it doesn't work. We can't make those determinations because the company is covering that up.

Even your ears can somewhat locate sound sources in 3D space, just not with perfect accuracy, especially in complex soundscapes like cities.
Ho wow, I did not expect an hacker news front page code review today. As you can see I am not a seasoned C developer so that was very welcome :)
> If one’s aim is not so much discovering the truth as winning an argument at all costs, fallacy theory can provide a training in the dark arts of closing down a discussion prematurely

Good HappyOpossum:
“I totally need to make sure I avoid doing that”

Real HappyOpossum:
“That’s totally how I can win arguments on HN, gotta make sure I study fallacy theory”
I think I still have that as it is hard to sell old camera. May have a look :-).
Not at all. You are commiting the fallacy fallacy fallacy: incorrect reasoning about fallacies above first order.
Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly shaky
Is compiling once and running on 6 platforms really that compelling? One of Rust’s super powers is that it’s really easy to write code once that can be compiled N times for N platforms without making any changes.

I’m all about writing code once. But compiling a few times doesn’t seem like that big of a deal to me?

The article says it runs on “six operating systems” but I can’t find them listed?
There's literally nothing to run. The source file is just a bunch of type declarations.
Your attitude and reply makes me wary of Mozilla as a whole.

No matter the benefit to the user or the company, telemetry should be opt-in. If the user doesn't opt-in, then all the potential upsides don't matter.
The problem is that frameworks we have with the US keep being shot down by the EU judiciary. First Safe Harbor and now Privacy Shield. For good reason I might add.
Sounds like a great data feed for industrial espionage.
> you are no longer in control of your own software

I don’t own any software. To the extent I ever have, I rescind my copyright. There. No more problems!
Have you considered getting a textbook and its solutions manual and then just trying to do all the problems? When you find yourself stuck you can turn to Khan Academy or whatever for the particular concept. I just find that lectures aren't as effective as working problems until you're stuck.
checkout cataclysm dda if you're into cyberpunk
This applies to you processing the personal data, but not you transferring it to an American provider, which is entirely illegal even if necessary for the operation of your service.

The "trans-atlantic data privacy framework" can't come soon enough to finally end this farce. In the mean time, it seems like the most useful thing to do is just ignore all this.

Ain't nobody got time for all this uncertainty. And chance of any of these regulators suddenly caring about your particular company before it's solved for good is quite low.
You can use local group policies to configure whatever privacy settings you need.
The term originates from CERN mostly, which does HPC stuff in its data center. We are also an HPC center, and it's very fitting.

The cattle servers are generally HPC worker nodes. Your users don't notice when a cattle server goes offline. Scheduler reschedules the lost jobs with high priority, so they restart/resume soon.

But, pet servers on the other hand are generally coordinators of the cattle, like your shepherd dogs, keeping them in order, or giving them orders. Losing them is really creates bigger problems, and you need to tend them quick, even if you have failovers, etc. (which we certainly have).

You can re-deploy a pet server pretty quickly, but they generally have an uptime of ~2 years, and reinstallation periods of 5-6 years, if ever. We upgrade them as much as we can.
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hint: instead of using .gitignore, use .git/info/exclude - then there's no extraneous files in $HOME.

And I agree, symlinks seem like a smell.
Is there a way to fund Firefox development directly (rather than Mozilla at large)?
When you are suspicious of any incoming emails, look for "received from" lines in SMTP envelope (not in the header fields which are trivially forgeable): as soon as email hits a normal server, it can't be forged anymore, and a relaying/delivering server will insert the actual header.

If there is no apple.com mail server in the sequence of received-from lines, it's not a valid email.

If there is, it should be valid or their MX servers are compromised.

Regardless, always browse yourself to wherever you need to update any banking info or personal data.
I agree that pointing out fallacies can get excessive, but is mainly based on the intention for so doing.

The difficulty is that there is an entire class of people who don't even care about being logically correct or in finding truth. They desire or "feel" something and will barge their way through to get it, even if it is antithetical to their stated goals and eventually results in their misery. Reasoning with such people is somewhat futile, even pointing out their fallacies in good faith will do nothing. They may even reject logic entirely, as is becoming more common in our society.

In that case, pointing out that someone is committing a fallacy can be something of a canary test of their desire to reason. You could offer to help them with their argument, point out ways around the fallacy, engage with them in good faith, but if they are obsessively attached to their fallacy and their flawed position, then there isn't much you can do. There is no mathematical or logical solution to that problem, that is a "people problem".

When dealing with such a person or class of people, using humour to make them look foolish can be more effective, since then the main goal should be to reveal to others how childish their position is or pressure them into abandoning their purely emotional position; or resorting to even better emotional fallacies. The name of the game is to get emotions on your side.