skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extra sensors also generate a lot of extra complexity in fusing all the sensors into a common consistent view of the world. And if your goal is just 'more data' then you might as well just add more cameras, that's also 'more data'. I guess what you wanted to say way 'diverse data'.

As with everything else there are benefits and costs to those approaches.
And same goes for MS and Apple.

Regardless, I care less about the US government having my info than, say, Russia (especially being part Ukrainian, having Ukrainian friends and family, etc...).
I’ve noticed that people tend to disapprove of AI trained on their profession’s data, but are usually indifferent or positive about other applications of AI.

For example, I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools. I also know software devs who are extremely excited about AI art and GPT-3 but are outraged by Copilot.

For myself, I am skeptical of intellectual property in the first place. I say go for it.
A reminder that "support arbitrary hardware" and "secure" is a really, really fucking difficult problem.
I've never encountered anything like that, myself, but I have been in sort of a "silo," for most of my career.

The author may be in a contract outsourcing shop.
> Media personalities, politicians, high level executives, and leaders of any kind generally aren't real people. They're figureheads. They're simulations of human beings occupied by a real human playing the character. And when the human behind the scene starts deviating from the character they're supposed to play in service of the institution or the meme it leads, they get replaced and a new pilot takes over running the simulation.

There's a word for that: actors.
GPT-3 is susceptible to a variant of this. User input that masquerades as instructions will get it to parrot you.

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/
It’s ridiculous to say that the go to hiring strategy for most of the highest paid positions in the world is useless. The only trend I see that I agree with from leetcode dissenters is that it doesn’t make sense when you have issues maintaining headcount. I’m a newb, and I definitely have no experience hiring, but it doesn’t take ANY intelligence to know that leetcode makes sense when you have a long list of halfway decent applicants.

Whether or not it’s ethical. I don’t know. Having to take the time to practice for an interview is going to select privileged folks.
Mutagen tries to be secure so in principle one can develop on untrusted remote machine. VSCode remote always assumes that the remote part is trusted.
Google's fundamental definition of security and privacy is to expand your privacy to Google, so yes.
i'm sorry but this is not true. postgres pipelining is not allowed in the benchmarks any more, and even when it was, just-js was completely compliant with the rules and it was other C++, PHP, Rust and C# frameworks that were non compliant.

the postgres driver was rewritten in JS because i spent so long benchmarking using the pg C driver and couldn't get the performance i needed from it. if you actually read the github thread you can see i even did a lot of work to verify the various frameworks were compliant with the requirements.

in round 21, postgres pipelining was disallowed for all frameworks and just-js/JavaScript is in first place. \o/

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&hw=...
Make the boardwalk wider (so you can have fun things like restaurants on the boardwalk), add 2 direction bike lanes on both side and have thin single direction car lane in the middle.
How do I/we/you unflag this? It's an apropos topic worth discussing.

I notice it where I work to an extreme degree (MAANG).

There is no value in holding religious opinions about any particular tool in the toolbox independent of use. But, there are individuals who throw their weight around with smartaleck negativity and many worship them as a result. I posit that people who cannot backup their claims with data or a survey of concrete experiences are selling their ego over engineering discipline. Arrogance isn't a signal of quality of anything beside arrogance. You'd be surprised how many over-confident people crash into hubris be it a startup product no one wanted or get sloppy with hiring based on trickery or trivia. Get too cocky and the Sword of Damocles of karma, life, or social capital is waiting to chop those who get "too big for their britches". (2022 cross-cultural context: it's an idiom of people who believe themselves to be 3 meters tall. I'm surprised it's recorded as an Australian saying when my 8th generation Irish-American grandfather said it in Texas. Australia is the Commonwealth's "Texas", I guess.).
Doctors shouldn’t be sharing their opinions online is your hot take?
If Tesla wants to be serious about self driving cars they should be seeking regulatory approval and running pilot programs with test drivers. Without regulatory approval it’s just a toy, albeit an incredibly dangerous one.
Yes it is excellent, syncing macos (Jetbrains tools and a few other things) with a Linux VM .
I could have sworn you said “best”.
One of the images sci-fi authors hold of AI is an intelligence you can direct to be fair.
“Design a housing policy so it’s fair to the highest number of people”

Humans might claim we want fairness but our policies inevitably favor the people who make the policy. AI as an ostensibly objective party might be able to be more fair.

Of course we probably won’t like it because when presented with objectively fair policies we’ll wonder why we can’t have policies that unfairly favor our group anymore. For example a fair housing policy will probably favor people who don’t have a lot of power.

Think for a moment about who that is and you’ll prove my point.
Would you need 2layered paper, with a different color underneath? Or would engraving the words directly onto card stock be legible?
Not your repo, not your code.

I celebrate Microsofts shameless plundering of Github to create new products that increase productivity. The incredible thing is that people trusted Microsoft to use their code on their terms to begin with. This is a company who has been finding ways to make open source code into a proprietary product since the 90s.

Nobody can stop people from replicating what Microsoft did in the long run anyways. Eventually any consumer with enough access to source code will be able to make their own copilot. Even if copilot is criminalised Microsoft can just sell access to the entire GitHub dataset and let other people commit the "crime". Then you're right back where we started with having to sue the end users of copilot for infringement instead of Microsoft.

Use private repos or face the inevitability that copilot-like products will scrape your code.
Oh, no argument - but for how long relative to the time they have been going up? I wouldn’t say they never go down but there’s been a pronounced trend for ages. I bought a house relatively early (thanks dotcom bubble!) and was constantly reminded of how much extra income I had relative to my friends who were renting, and that really adds up over the decades where people in decent jobs were struggling to amass down payments.
they upgraded postgres recently and it uses a different default authentication mechanism which broke just-js. they seem to have stopped doing runs right now so just-js should re-appear when they start again.
> Why is this?

Because why put your admin interface out to the web if you can also just send some HTML files to a static site hoster. The static hosters are nearly impossible to hack and they can be heavily optimised because they only serve files.

As another argument, software engineers are used to Git meaning that you’ll have a proper backup for your site.
https://99percentinvisible.org/article/vintage-skynet-atts-a...

In the United States there are abandoned Microwave towers left over from this kind of system. People have investigated them out in New Mexico, they run roughly parallel to I-81 between Syracuse and Binghamton and many cities have microwave antennas built into or on top of old central office buildings in cities like Manchester, NH.

American Tower has bought up many of them and could potentially lease the properties for cell phones, broadcast radio and TV, emergency communications, amateur radio, etc. but these are frequently sited in locations not favorable at all for these uses.
> This is a blue team tool used by reverse engineers to analyze malware

It's also a red team tool for binary exploitation.

EDIT: The cynic in me posits it was used far more for exploit development than for analyzing malware, unless that had offensive applications too. But I don't know anything, I never worked there.
How To Solve It by G. Polya [1,2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It

2. https://archive.org/details/howtosolveitnewa00pl
I see. You're clearly knowledgeable in this area and my naively used terminology has misled you. In terms of contrast I'm talking about the simple stuff "Contrast is the difference in luminance..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(vision) whereas you're talking of something typographical I was unaware of. Sorry for the confusion.
There are high costs to an empty apartment. The bank doesn't stop demanding payment if the apartment is empty. Same with property taxes, heating, insurance, groundskeeping, etc. You can even find that the maintenance costs increase as problems that would have been seen and fixed (particularly leaks) are missed.
Ask HN: Where to publish a critical work with potentially offensive content
I have a publication on Medium https://medium.com/luminasticity where I publish some critical works, some poetry, some science fiction, humour etc.

I have been pushing around writing a piece that might end up being quite long on Mark Twain and Racism, as it pertains to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, and Pudd'nhead Wilson.

And of course in writing this there are some well known racial slurs (and some antiquated, unfamiliar ones) that will have to be quoted and referred to, which I expect would probably end up getting my account automatically banned.

The article will be showing Huckleberry Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson as anti-racist works, so don't suggest any actually pro-racism sites.

I suppose this is an argument for hosting one's own blog, but I do have a lot on my plate already.

So just is there a platform for this kind of thing where one won't run into algorithmic banning - or moderation by people not overly familiar with American English literature who might misinterpret what they read?
G4 Macs didnt run that hot, compared to G5 ones, which came factory water cooled in the case of a PowerMac G5. (https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/faq/powermac-...)
> It’s ridiculous to say that the go to hiring strategy for most of the highest paid positions in the world is useless.

Hey, be nice. I was talking about my experience, in my career, which was fairly unique.

I managed to make some very picky people fairly happy, for a long, long time.
it is! people who love bashing JavaScript always come up with this line that just-js "is not JavaScript". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wordpress sites also take some work.
This is evocative and beautiful. Thank you for building this. As an implant in the US (25 years and counting), I was and still am awestruck at the variety the country offers in scenery, conversations, music and food.

I started driving all around the country when Rand McNally maps were the source, and visits to AAA for Triptychs, and Motel 8 for 20$ a night was life-altering for this 25-year old newbie. Not to mention the $10 Geo Metro car rental and 99cents gallon of Petrol (~3.75ltrs).

Now sitting in a fancy part of the country, where Burgers sell for $20, it is a sucker punch to read this Craig's List posting:

Darling Nigerian Dwarf Buckling Goat
This little guy is a doll with a sweet disposition. Pretty tricolor with frosted ears. If you want to add a sire to your herd, a sweet pet or both, he'll fill the bill. His dam is one of my milk goats. Will band upon payment if desired. Current on CDT and has had first trim. Located north of Franklin NE.

Thank you again.
While I'm big on free and open source software and aligned with the general GNU mission, I find that the projects that go under its umbrella or often terribly misguided, pointless and hopeless and thus largely ignored by the rest of software community.
The synchronization uses a repeated three-way merge algorithm, very similar to Git's merge when merging branches. It is triggered by recursive filesystem watching, which is also used to accelerate filesystem rescans. It maintains a virtual most-recent-ancestor and uses the two synchronization endpoints as the "branches" being merged. Much like Git has "-X ours" and "-X theirs" options, Mutagen also has automated conflict resolution[0] modes that can be specified. You can find the reconciliation algorithm here[1] (and there are an exhaustive set of test cases in the corresponding _test.go file).

To avoid a large class of race conditions (at least to the extent possible allowed by POSIX and Windows), Mutagen will use `*at` style system calls for all filesystem traversal on POSIX systems, with a similar strategy on Windows.

Also, to avoid race conditions due to filesystem changes between scan time and change-application time, Mutagen will perform just-in-time checks that filesystem contents haven't changed from what was fed into the reconciliation algorithm.

[0]: https://mutagen.io/documentation/synchronization#modes
[1]: https://github.com/mutagen-io/mutagen/blob/master/pkg/synchr...
Shadow IT could be seen as ignoring externalities such as security, operational resilience, and process coherence in order to "get things done". Eventually the bill comes due (security incident, key employee exit, incorrect results). Questions are: can you recognize failure? who pays to fix it? what happens while it's being fixed?
One of my favorite technique for building a hardware RNG uses a cheapo FPGA circuit (something like this: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32241350256.html?spm=a2g0o.p...) with a bunch of free-running high-frequency oscillators called ring oscillators (basically loops of NOT gates, which have a lot of phase noise, especially if they run hot) that are sampled at constant frequency.

The entropy isn't very "clean" (lots of auto-correlation), but it's unpredictable enough to seed a crypto hard RNG which can also be built into the FPGA and operate at very high speed.

It's also an increasing PITA to convince synthesis tools to actually emit ring oscillators, which they consider to be a design bug (which they almost always are, except in this specific case), but it's still possible.

[EDIT]: a quick search on github yields:

https://github.com/stnolting/neoTRNG

https://github.com/Netnod/rosc_entropy
I used to lecture with lyx. Think about trying to express how you’re solving an algebra problem. Set up a keyboard shortcut for “duplicate previous line” and you’re off to the races.
Such drivers may enable local attacks like the Razer driver issue (one description at https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-let...) since plugging in a particular device (or, really, a cheap USB chip that will fake the proper device IDs) can automatically download & install the vulnerable driver.
> I'm not sure why BBC finds it so fascinating that the Moors were able to dig ditches and channel water through them 500 years after the Romans had built highly advanced aqueducts in Spain

I'm not sure why many think it is so fascinating the Romans built aqueducts. The Etruscans built hydraulic works as irrigation channels, drainage systems, dams, etc., while the Greeks had also built similar hydraulic structures long before Roman influence. And the Romans neither invented aqueducts nor built the first aqueducts. The first sophisticated long-distance raised conduit canal systems were constructed in the Assyrian empire in the 9th century BCE, half a millennium before the earliest Roman aqueducts.
yeah this dude has the right idea lol, we answered the same thing but you were much more to the point
What are you using it for that you think it is best in class?

For everything I use it for IDA is still well ahead.

I only do x86 work, so maybe in other areas, but I doubt it? The decompiler is getting better, but still has quite a ways to go, the plugin support is way behind, etc etc.
There's public KML/KMZ files of most of the AT&T Long Lines sites if you search enough. Probably 5-10% have been demolished entirely for various real estate/land re-use reasons.

One note that much of the same technology was used by the other assorted non-ATT legacy phone system operators like GTE. It all looks the same to an observer on the ground looking at old horn antennas but not everything that looks like an ATT Long Lines site was actually Ma Bell.
Housing tends to go up over time due to inflation, government regulation, and increasing population competing for the same housing stock.

Housing in many rural areas has stagnated, because people don't want to live there.
“In the 21st century, Karl Marx is probably the most famous critic of political economy, with his three volume magnum opus Capital: A Critique of Political Economy as one of his most famous books.”

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Critique_of_political_economy
From everything I am learning about the US on Youtube by transport people, they universally despise bus service in North America cities.

Some have light rail but at a far smaller rate then cities in Europe.

There are tiny cities in Europe that have more light rail then cities 10x the size in North America.

My tiny town of less then 100k people literally has more extensive bus and train connection then most cities in the US that have million+ people.

> But in a big country with a spread-out population, public transportation is tough.

Compare for example Switzerland (lots of maintains, rivers, hills and so on), with a equally sized metro area like Torronto, Dalles and so on.

The reality is many of your metro areas are the literal exact opposite of spread out, they are just badly designed.

Zürich for example is a city that has only like 600k people, with maybe 1.5M in the larger metro area and Zürich has more trains and trams going then whole Texas city triangle.

So please stop with the excuse about how everything is so spread out in the US. Its not spread out, its just badly designed.
I think sadly it's just people being protective, the technology is interesting so if it doesn't hit their line of work, it's fantastic, if it does, then it's terrible.

There is no arguing against it though, you can't stop it, all this stuff is coming eventually to all of these areas, might as well try and find ways to use the oppurutinies while you can while some of this is still new.
Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficial to everyone.
It does seem like the perfect thing to be documented in a GIS. Presumably you could even use high resolution satellite or drone footage to automate much of the data collection. Interview the caretakers in situ recording GPS locations and times. Perfect project for colleges
The repo he linked to on twitter is a public repo though. Am I missing something?

https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581462433335762944
Well that just sounds like Bayes's theorum with extra steps
It has tangential costs, because a site which is slow or drains battery will lose at least some users or SERP positions and a site owner will take measures to rebalance that. All this already works through various metrics.
That sounds interesting but I can't find any mention to it in the docs. In fact, it sounds like it's just copying files over to the remote and running commands there.

Are you able to provide a reference to how Mutagen secures my code on an untrusted remote?
Colleges are addicted to the new normal and will never go back. Applications surge by tens of thousands -> colleges make more of the $75 application fees. Acceptance rates go down -> your ranking in USNews goes up. Average ACT score increases (because why would you submit an under average score now) -> you can make your school look more prestigious than it actually is. Is any of this good for students? Standards can only continue to drop so low.

Just look at Harvard. Since they don't require any additional essays applying there is now literally just a button press away - wouldn't you?
Same issue with Stable Diffusion/NovelAI and certain people's artwork (eg Greg Rutkowski) being obviously used as part of the training set. More noticeable in Copilot since the output needs to be a lot more precise.

Lawmakers need to jump on this stuff ASAP. Some say that it's no different from a person looking at existing code or art and recreating it from memory or using it as inspiration. But the law changes when technology gets involved already, anyway. There's no law against you and I having a conversation, but I may not be able to record it depending on the jurisdiction. Similarly, there's no law against you looking at artwork that I post online, but it's not out of question that a law could exist preventing you from using it as part of an ML training dataset.
I think you’re over thinking it.

The simple description of how this likely works is:

- the tracks are encoded with Dolby atmos that allows encoding positional data for sources. These don’t match up to channels on an audio system in anyway because it gives them flexibility

- the audio apps simply provide the atmos encoded stream which is pulled into the cars own audio system. The audio app needs no knowledge of the target playback device.

- the cars audio system knows where the speakers are so can then playback sounds on each relative to where the atmos sources are positioned.

- this isn’t done over Bluetooth. In this case the Apple Music app is running natively on the cars MBUC system. If it weren’t native, it would use CarPlay which isn’t using Bluetooth for either its wired or wireless mode.
> Local hidden variables have been ruled out.

Superdeterminism is a local hidden variable theory, that has not been ruled out. Superdeterminism circumvents the Bell's theorem, by extending determinism not only to the things being measured, but also to the entities doing the measurements.
I'm not sure I agree, I have an idea that Beyond Belief's plant-based meat is supposed to taste so much more like meat than the other brands, I'm pretty sure I must have picked up this idea from their marketing.
I get that as a profession journalism exists to report happenings largely uncritically but I wish we could get the teeniest amount analysis because just a little thought would have made this a non-story or a very different headline, "students, don't assume your ACT scores being shown as above average means they'll be above average in the pool of applicants at university" with an explanation in the article that this has always technically been true but that the gap between the average as reported by the ACT and the average as seen by schools will be wider this year and here's why.
Thanks! I can recommend writing, even just short stuff, I think it helps consolidate things you have learned (or just lets you show off your skateboard collection)

if/when I get back to clojure, maybe I'll even code something in it and write about it after :)
Why not? In a group call audio setting it can still help you separate who’s talking easier
It’s faster, but less accurate than a trackpad, and certainly faster than keynav (and probably the thing in the post, which is a re-implementation of keynav).
Also, while Mutagen's exact implementation is novel in a number of ways, I would be remiss to not point out that huge amount of academic work in this field was done by Benjamin Pierce[0] and later implemented in Unison[1].

[0]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#Synch...
[1]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
The Fed creates the money that Congress wants to spend.