skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can have those things while still being given an opportunity to generate your own executable signing key upon first boot of your device.

It's not increasing the surface area in terms of system complexity; the OS is already checking signatures to create this barrier to general purpose computing in the first place.

If you don't want the additional key, you skip the step, to be never asked again until you factory wipe+reset the device.

Your listed wants and the freedom to run your own software are not mutually exclusive.
Lol my first digital camera was a Mavica and I don’t think I once was under any impression that the quality was better than my 35mm point and shoot.

They were basically Polaroids for nerds. Nobody else took them seriously.
It doesn’t actually go into any of the cities though does it?
help me understand this better. you are afraid that someone may access your private content if Apple allows side loading of apps? How is it any different than what's on macOS today? you can run any apps (after clearing it in System preferences) on your laptop but suddenly it's a security risk on your phone?
i wish SO would something about the fact that the edit queue is almost always full
Although the AOB lab book, on its own, presumes you have the same kit used in the original course. If you’re a newbie, annoying/confusing.
Would you say the same about workers at Philip Morris or Shell? If the money and prestige is ill-gotten, I’d say those workers are complicit.
The gorilla has a brain 1/3 the size of a human brain with a very similar evolutionary history.

The sperm whale has a brain that is several times larger than ours.

What do you do differently in your AGI design to get a human, gorilla, or whale brain?
I think you have a point about regulatory capture. I would say, however, that in a market with massively unequal wealth distribution, those that control the capital are (1) looking for the best return on investment and (2) know that land value will continue to appreciate as long as population growth is trending up. I think you would need to both fix the massive wealth inequality _and_ the massively corrupt and inefficient zoning laws in order to address the whole problem. If you only fix regulation, the rich can still just buy up all the land and become modern day feudal lords and rent-seekers.
More likely that they just wanted to keep it at that as a kind of worst case scenario. If you meet their recommended spec, there should be no way you will have issues.
Moving to another walled guarden just gives them something else to acquire and signal is not immune to this.

Xmpp, matrix, and sms are options.
Software bugs notwithstanding, the actual design choices made in the settings menu are baffling.

Having items needlessly nested under modals/popups is a design choice and the complaints have little to do with the fact that the beta is buggy.
Why would you connect the two airports if the point is supposed to be that you don’t have to use the airports?
Don't tell me, Shelob lives in your back yard, and Ungoliant lives down the street.

You've likely lost several children to them.
Weirdly a few years ago (7?) I made the most stupid app for a friend. The app was really bad and coded with my feet as I never did a mobile app. It was based on Ionic and just had one screen. It was a feeding calculator for horses for a brand of horse feeds. You input the weight of the animal, the age and it's level of activity and it calculated how much feed to give daily and what type of feed. The app was clunky, outright bad. It got approved on the first try. I was surprised.
Great! I’ve driven the I5 so many times and I’m so sick of it. I’d love for a viable alternative and going from downtown LA to San Francisco on a train sounds like a dream.
Or we just don't want to die/be enslaved/etc
> If they voluntarily improved somebody else's land under no contractual agreement with the owner, why do they think they're entitled to a share of the new value?

> If they voluntarily improved "public" land, good luck extracting gratitude from the state after the fact. The bureaucrats are more likely to issue fines and send in bulldozers.

I wonder if this is a fringe example as I imagine few people are radically improving public land, esp. to such extent that it's causing a real estate rush. We might then go across not only the country but to other nations like Canada and ask what proportion of real estate booms are due to this scenario.
While its true that dithering changes the original signal, dithering is a necessarily evil that prevents quantization errors as a result of downsampling 24-bit+ source material due to CDs being 16-bit. It’s a choice between some barely audible noise, or some weird spectral artifacts..
In the ideal case, an AGI makes solve-able problems that are either impossible, or will take a very long time, for us to solve. There are a lot of problems left to solve, or at least that a lot of people would like to solve, and who knows what new ones will come. If AGI lets them be solved a lot sooner, then there's a strong motivation to build it.

Terminator is of course fiction, but AGI being more agent-y than tool-y suggests we ought to be very careful in trying to design it so that its interests align with (even if not perfectly matching) our own interests. There are lots of reasons to be pessimistic about this at the moment, from outright control as you say being laughably unlikely, to the slow state of progress on formal alignment problems that e.g. MIRI has been working on for many years relative to the recent relatively fast progress in non-G AI capabilities that may help make AGI come sooner.
Yes, there is. We've all seen it. Just like we saw Tiananmen square.

Don't astroturf. Everyone can see that you're a new account that only speaks positively of China and negatively of the US.
While I agree with your sentiment, I don't see why this couldn't be accomplished with just standard cryptographic hashing verification based off of, say, a scan of the artist's iris salted with a timestamp that is then encoded into the file. What do you think a blockchain would add to it?
There are plenty of good ones, but you probably fail to recognize the best ones. In fact, the very question suggests that you have a limited world view. You will reject what I say because it doesn't fit into your narrow view. That's not meant as an attack, just an observation of human nature.

For example, one "remote desktop" that has become popular lately is called Wireguard. You connect, open the spreadsheet stored on the office network drive and print it to either the printer in the office on to the printer sitting next to you.

Many people would say that is sooo much better than RDP. That is not Windows thinking. That is Unix thinking--you know, Mac/Linux. (And BSD and most everybody else in the world)

So, to say it differently, Mac/Linux people often solve problems a different way, so they use different tools. Why don't laser printers come with whiteout toner?
This is a classic case of scope creep caused by underspecified scope (evidenced by how little HLI improves the non-definition of AGI). If humans accurately exhibited causal reasoning in any but the most mind-numbingly obvious conditions we would be living in a very different world!
Birds are pretty well used to flying in sunshine without being cooked. They can even fly over solar farms in the daytime. I have seen it done.

They mostly don't fly at night, anyway, when this system would be in use.
MicroMathematics Plus: Powerful Spreadsheet Oriented Calculator for Android
I gotta say, it's hard to know how much of a hurdle has been cleared here when this project seems to be absolutely nothing but hurdles to clear. Normally I would guess that getting this report approved would be a big deal in that construction could finally really get going, but then I read this:

> The Board’s certification of the San Francisco to San Jose Final EIR/EIS and approval of its project section will move the project section closer to being “shovel ready” when funding for final design, pre-construction and construction becomes available.

"Closer" to being "shovel ready" when "funding for final design... becomes available" is not a series of words that gives me confidence that meaningful progress has been made. However, I grant that I am no expert in the art of parsing press releases about big infrastructure projects.

Anybody out there with meaningful understanding of what this announcement might mean in practical terms?
They definitely changed it before 2017. I know it existed in 2016, but I don't know how early they did it.

It wasn't (and isn't) well publicized. But "side load to your phone is hard" is a way to lock it away from your grandparents and to power users only.
> I would argue that people have a very intrinsic need for the "doing" mode (setting goals, spending effort achieving them, slowly observing the progress). If we don't get enough of that, we start inventing goals. If we don't manage to find/invent anything worth spending effort, we get depressed and step out of the game, freeing up resources for those who have goals. Brutal efficiency of nature in action.

I agree. I also think people tend to set goals in very binary fashion (Success/Fail) and it puts people on path to be depressed all the time. You either succeed (and get a temporary high from success) only to set new goals and be depressed about hitting another goal for yourself or fail outright and be depressed about that.

I've experienced that myself (social and professional) and it just sucks...
What Can a Long-Forgotten Moth Tell Us About Climate Change?
"Historian Joachim Remak[0] says:

'The nation that...can still be held least responsible for the outbreak of the war is France. This is so even if we bear in mind all the revisions of historical judgments, and all the revisions of these revisions, to which we have now been treated....The French, in 1914, entered the war because they had no alternative. The Germans had attacked them. History can be very simple at times.[1]'"

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Remak

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_entry_into_World_War_I#...
Thanks for the info -- I'm going to try this out!
Hopefully this stretch will relieve congestion on the 101 on the Peninsula.
Do you mean in the sense that they are still working on it? The route goes straight through downtown Fresno, Bakersfield, and Madera (to the extent that "downtown Madera" exists).

The people who quibble over the alignment want it to go straight down I-5, bypassing millions of people but only shortening the route by about 50 miles.
Thank you Sergio :)
Show HN: Easy Steps to Implement Apple's GameCenter Leaderboard
I wrote this article about why Apple's GameCenter is Making a Huge Revival and it got accepted in FreeCodeCamp's news so I thought of sharing it with you all!

You can make iPhone games without a scoreboard, but leaderboards can help make the game feel more competitive, like people are competing against one another around the World.

Instead of creating and managing your own backend, the GameCenter Leaderboard allows you to scale with traffic infinitely, skip an entire login page for authorization, get the Image, Name, and friends playing the same game – all without your users having to enter anything.

Especially with iOS 16, Apple is investing more in improving it, and driving more app usage, like through Push Notifications when your friend beats your score in the game.

There wasn't much updated documentation on how to do a lot of this, especially none with SwiftUI nor with the advent of async and await in Swift. So I consolidated and simplified it for everyone to build amazing apps. In my journey of learning SwiftUI, I have been creating and publishing open-source apps like this one https://stairmasterclimber.com/app because IMO that's the best way to learn. So feel free to invite me to test your apps too!
I'm just imagining the founders as every stoned business school student at the time like "Bro, wouldn't it be cool if there was an app where you just press a button and it tells you what song is playing" and they actually managed to find the guy capable of building it.

To this day, Shazam still has that aesthetic of "press big button, do magic".
Possibly of interest:

How NEPA Works
https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-nepa-works

As I understand it (and all I know is what I read there), completing an environmental impact statement means that environmental impacts have been considered and documented in a way that is hopefully secure against lawsuits claiming that an environmental impact review hasn't been done. (But you never know what people will sue about.)

It doesn't mean anything in particular has been done to protect the environmental or any plans were changed. It's just... documentation, that's hopefully adequate.

Compare with the laundry list that the FAA required SpaceX to do to get a launch license in Texas. This random stuff, hopefully that benefits the environment, that the FDA wants so that they don't have to write an environmental impact statement. (Which could take years.)
AGI isn't really explicitly defined (it wouldn't be a problem if it was) but it's essentially an artificial version of the "general" intelligence that humans have, aka we can do and learn many things we were not programmed or trained by evolution to do
Or protothreads example : http://dunkels.com/adam/pt/
Thank you for clarifying that.

What I'd love to see is a place where I could view a bill and also the code it impacts, with inline diffs for the relevant bits (but not the dumb formatting / bullet numbering stuff).

Is that too much to ask for?
even if a server implements that behavior, it could however just send the PUSH_PROMISE frame (containing HTTP headers) but doesn't have to send the associated data frames yet. The frames associated with the original response could follow earlier.
that's referring specifically to the SF->SJ section; building of the HSR is apparently already underway in the central valley: https://www.buildhsr.com/
but they're certainly indicative.
It means that Stu Flashman's lawsuits are all dead, and that was the main roadblock the project faces.
Has there been an actual recorded case of licence violation?
I'm not sure I agree that there is a distinction between scaling laws and a model being "capable of scale." RNNs are Turing complete, so from that perspective they should in theory they should be sufficient for AGI. But of course they are not because their scaling with regards to network depth and the length of sequences is abysmal. LLMs do scale with depth and sequence length, if their scaling laws with regard to dataset size prevent us from training them adequately, then we are stuck nonetheless.

I haven't heard of any groups who are studying data constrained learning in the context of LLMs, but that will probably change as models get bigger. And at that point, architectures with better scaling laws may be right around the corner, or they may not. That's the pain of trying to project these things into the future.
Ha. I would watch this movie.
It’s minoxidil, also known as Rogaine. Not exactly a shocker…
Whether you believe it or not, most people have sensitive information on their phone and not their ‘computer’ (I guess a desktop thing,
if they have one!).

For most people, they couldn’t care what happens to their computer. Not everyone is the same, but it’s not an uncommon situation.

So security for the phone is more important for some people than computer security.
I think there is - if you're willing to pay for it: Parsec's a pretty good cheap solution, and Teradici (HP have taken them over now) is good at the enterprise level.
Unicorn role. Absolutely don’t leave, generate more income elsewhere.
Yes, I do. Austria-Hungary only invaded Serbia because they had the support of Germany. Germany's invasion caused the civilian death tolls across the continent. No German and Austria-Hungarian invasions, likely no mass murder.
Not necessarily. Since my wife and I married 8 years ago, we’ve never spent more that 40% of our combined income annually.

I haven’t had consistent income for almost 9 months now as I am attempting to transition from a blue collar lifestyle (carpenter and electrician) to become a web developer.

I wrote my first html and qbasic code back in the 90s but I always told myself that I could never be anything other than a tradesmen because of my upbringing.

Now I’m looking to change that and it’s only possible because we’ve been so frugal.
Any disruptive technology for environmental impact assessments?
because people flying into SJ from elsewhere (therefore not taking the train) can take the HSR to get into SF instead of driving (and vice-versa)
I'm not in the field at all but just generally curious regarding #3. I'm under the impression that a lot of plasticity in our brains is related to sleep, are there areas of AI research following that thread, plasticity at downtime so to say?
I think your viewpoint is the more naive one and I think you have the burden of proof to argue why local trends are representative of global trends. This is because the non-local argument accepts a wider range of possibilities and the local argument is the the more specific one. Think of it this way, I'm saying that every function looks linear given the right perspective and you're arguing that a particular function _is_ linear. I'm arguing that we don't know that. The burden of proof would be on you to prove that this function were linear beyond what we have data for. (Path towards HLI doesn't have to be linear, exponential, nor logarithmic but you do have to make a pretty strong argument to convince others that the local trend is generalizable).
I have a similar setup myself. I use basically an older PC running Proxmox + openmediavault as my NAS (and a bunch of other things, including Plex). I currently have an NVidia Shield and 'Chromecast with Google TV' as clients, as well as a couple phones and tablets. It is pretty hands-off and my family can all use it just fine.

I'm content to replace the relatively cheap client boxes every few years. That said, I think I've had the Shield for over 5 years now and other than the original remote being bent in half (likely a jumping-on-the-couch-related failure) it's still going strong.
I converted the Android App I work on to Compose with zero problems everything just worked. Everything that didn't work was my fault because I didn't grok something about how recomposition worked. I was able to convert everything in small encapsulated pieces without breaking other parts of the app.

I'm converting the iOS version of the app from UIKit app to SwiftUI and it is a nightmare. Nothing works, everything is tightly coupled, and nothing works out of the box without some hacky modification and much googling. I've also come to the conclusion that they don't use SwiftUI before releasing it.
Some time ago, https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ was created to fix that problem. I don't know whether it's been kept up to date since then, however.
Another private company is just going to do the same things, pledge or no.

For actually community owned protocols (an example is matrix or fediverse), someone has to go first. May as well be you.

Make an account, ask a community group to be contactable without signing over your private info, get a couple of friends to do the same.
JavaScript looks like Rust next to C macros.
> Any arguments against the necessity of this?

Supposing it's needed, a universal computer can simulate physics. Now we're just haggling about the price.

It's possible that developing a robot is the most fruitful angle to take on the problem -- giving you the right subproblems in the right order, with economic value along the way. Hans Moravec thought so, writing a few decades back.
The post starts slow, but is worth reading for when they get to embedding C and VB Script directly in rust programs.
Because the train stops other places too, and it allows the train to replace both SF/LA flights as well one leg of a Fresno -> SFO -> somewhere else flight.
California only knows how to increase red tape and hurdles to construction. I voted against the project because I thought it would be excessively slow and costly to complete as a result of the regulatory landscape. It's a fine concept. Under different law it would be a great project.
I was under the impression that the dithering level is well below our threshold for hearing. Can someone confirm or deny that?
You don't even need a linter for most of this. Just turn on modern compiler diagnostics and you'll have common footguns flagged.
I haven't used a debugger in 20+ years.

If I don't understand what is happening to data without stepping, the code is too complicated.

If it's too complicated, I don't understand it now, won't understand it later, and it's probably wrong.

If I was working (again) in embedded systems, I might use a debugger as a substitute for print.
I guess you simply can't in the density required where this would go. It was just a knee-jerk reaction to the napkin-math for the cost.

I've never wanted to build a single box pulling that much traffic when 20 would do.
Interesting. I understand what’s in it for Apple; but I don’t understand what’s in it for users? People can have their cake and eat it (i.e: a closed ecosystem with strong security and reliability guarantees but we let you leave for more freedom, but we promise you very little)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Sock-pup...
> Richest Silicon Valley Suburb

Not just richest in SV, but in the entire United States, for the fifth year in a row - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/19/10-most-expensive-zip-codes-...

Also, recent prior story: Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350657
I have an app that I've now installed on 3 different cell phones as I've upgraded them over the years. It was given to me by the writer for feedback and comments, but then their professional life became such that they never finalized the app.

Thing is, I use the app a lot. It's very unique and has no competition because it fills an extremely narrow niche. Side loading it has worked for several years on several increasingly newer phones.

I'm not sure if that's exactly what your question is about, but I think it might be.

When we reach 128-bit architecture, that app will fail. But I don't expect that to happen any time soon.
Dense US metro areas are desperately in need of better mass transit, the quality of life increase would be substantial for tons of people.
I hope users get privacy wise and stop using FB, TikTok, etc... Probably your hope is a lot more likely to happen.
Jacobin: Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad: US Empire in Withdrawal
I agree, I doubt it's much of a real thing, but the hypothetical got me thinking.
There is also Miracast and Steam Link.
Let’s say you want to provide an alternative to flying between some major airports. Wouldn’t you want it connected to them so people arriving on one end had a really convenient way to just get on the alternative system?
I'm not sure if this will actually be an HSR stop, but it would be super convenient for someone living in e.g. Fresno: Instead of having to use a connector flight to SFO, you can just take the train and transfer.

There are formal partnerships between rail providers and airlines around the world, where your train ride is treated like a leg of your flight. You have a guaranteed connection, and often your bag is transferred from the train to your airplane.
There is no recourse. So have said all three electricians who I have consulted. The PG&E project coordinator makes a decision and that's it.