skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That’s not what this. This is largely about mitigating the damage that can be done once someone finds a memory safety error.

Hmm, seems like Apple should do better when there are perfectly good languages available which could prevent memory safety issues altogether. Seems like Apple would want to compete with Linux rather than watch it race away into the memory safe future, leaving XNU behind with legacy memory safety problems.
They were already hemorrhaging users. Does he think turning Twitter in Parler is going to make anything better?
After years of cutting my bread at a bias, I can safely say I can now cut it more or less straight.
He's a total clown and has been a pawn and shill for wall street.

You can watch this old video where he brags about he subverted SEC laws and regulations at a hedge fund and fomented stories in the media and told lies because it was a lucrative game:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyaPf6qXLa8
Cartesian: Go package for computing Cartesian products
This is a common sentiment, and pundits have been making similar remarks for decades. This author writes "Sixty years later, however, high-level reasoning and thought remain elusive."

That's the wrong problem with AI. The trouble with AI is that it still sucks at manipulation in unstructured situations and at "common sense". Common sense can usefully be defined as getting through the next 30 seconds of life without a major screwup. At, at least, the competence level of the average squirrel. This is why robots are so limited.

If we could build a decent squirrel brain, something "higher level" could give it tasks to do. That would be enough to handle many basic jobs in unstructured spaces, such as store stocking, janitorial, and such. It's not the "high level reasoning" that's the problem. It's the low-level stuff.

A squirrel has around 10 million neurons. Even if neurons are complicated [1], somebody ought to be able to build something with 10 million of them. Current hardware is easily up to the task.

The AI field is fundamentally missing something. I don't know what it is. I took a few shots at this problem back in the 1990s and got nowhere. Others have beaten their head against the wall on this. The Rethink Robotics failure is a notable example.

The real surprise to me is how much progress has been made on vision without manipulation improving much. I'd expected that real-world object recognition would lead to much better manipulation, but it didn't. Even Amazon warehouse bin-picking isn't fully automated yet. Nor is phone manufacturing. Google had a big collection of robots trying to machine-learn basic manual tasks, and they failed at that.

That's the real problem.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...
What is the point of generating a cryptographic key that you can never safely use?
Hi HN! This is just a recent project I'm working on and thought others might be mildly interested in. It's still a work in progress, but I've had a lot of fun working on it so far, and wanted to share :)
With Jellyfin I used:

- a ngnix reverse proxy container

- a free cloudflare account

- a free .ga/.tk domain name

Now I can access Jellyfin (among other apps) over cloudflare proxied https wherever I am. It works flawlessly, in Jellyfin I did make sure to:

- disable user login tiles

- require strong passwords

- disable admin rights from outside of my LAN.
Pumped storage does not, in fact, depend on finding conveniently placed lakes.

That is cheapest, but building a dike for a reservoir works fine too. A conveniently placed box canyon may need a dike only at one end.
I am sorry.I don't mean to. The comment felt so biased. I am biased too. but just opposite.thats why it came out that way.
> And wind turbines decimate bird populations.

On what planet have wind turbines killed off 10% of the bird population?
Really? You would say that the 1200s are better than a new top of the line Reloop?
They decided it was good enough. It will be locked in for some time. Mainline Rust development will be separate but related to Linux Kernel Rust development. It will be like using TinyGo instead of Golang because you're doing WebAssembly or embedded.
4/8 is still impressive. It is telling that you don’t realize that.
Clearing huge swaths of Brazilian rainforest, “the lungs of the planet”, to make way for cattle seems like a pretty significant contributing factor though, would you agree? Less demand for meat, less demand for eliminating large pieces of a rather important natural carbon sink.
This is going to be the single best thing that's ever happened to Twitter - or this is the beginning of the end.
Meta built a box that nobody asked for, nobody needs, nobody cares for. Now they're trying to force us into their box. How's that for a bad business model?
California has dozens of hydro power reservoirs high up in its Sierra Nevada range, many built a century ago, with penstocks down to power stations far below. The penstocks have lately been fitted with pumps to push water back up.
hmmmmmmmm

Why now? what has changed that Python now needs to be fast in pure python?

I can still recall when the python core dev team constantly argued against advanced or complicated changes to the virtual machine. Discussions around the GIL and especially JIT (this was around the time pypy was beginning to take shape) were brushed aside as they would introduce too much complexity.

What has changed in the core team to make this PEP acceptable?
How MSU is working to future-proof chemical discovery
My grandmother had a plum bush about 12 feet high that would produce thousands of plums every year. We would eat a few hundred, but about 90% would be “wasted”. Of course, they rotted back into the soil and provided nourishment for other living things.

Luckily, the bush is dead now, and all that food is no longer being wasted.
I read it from cover to cover (well, I'm sure I skimmed some details) and it paid off very quickly-- multiple times in the following months I encountered problems that I knew the book had solutions to.

e.g. page 246-247 has some newtons method based modular inverse mod 2^n.
It's definitely opt in. Sorry I just noticed the FAQs weren't up to date – should be fixed now. You can see the break down of Sentry's donation at https://thanks.dev/p/gh/getsentry. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive from maintainers.

Disclaimer I'm the founder btw.
Snake oil salesmen are also upfront about their products features. All of them... except the part about them being snake oil.

I dunno pal. I think the idea behind thanks.dev can be a good one, but I think I agree with GP. This seems rather snaky to me.
Working correctly for me on Fennec 105.1.0 (f-droid version of Firefox) on Android 12.

105.1.0 (Build #1051020), b1e7cbeeb+
AC: 105.0.7, e2aeb82d54
GV: 105.0-20220922052055
AS: 94.1.0
They can issue more equity if they need to.
leveraged
In a parallel universe Samsung is spending 10B a year on 3D TV. They are improving software, introducing new stands for their 3D TV sets, acquiring 3D TV production companies. Samsung's CEO Nam is convinced that in the future every household and office in the world will have a wall-sized 3D TV set in every room.
The Tesla Cyberquad for kids has been recalled for not meeting safety standards
Presumably the sensors in the car can detect multiple people in a wide (360 degree?) arc/circle… but the eyes can only acknowledge a single person at a time. If you’re standing next to another person, how do you know that the eyes are looking at you and not the person next to you?
Tesla definitely benefits from its relationship with SpaceX - the Falcon Heavy maiden launch, Bob and Doug riding Teslas to the launch pad - those are the kind of positive brand stories that money can’t buy.

Nobody knows how Twitter under Musk will turn out. Some critics predict it will soon be a far right swamp no advertiser will want to have anything to do with. If they are right, Tesla’s association with Twitter stands to do it great harm. But if they are wrong, Tesla could benefit from its association with Twitter, much as it does from SpaceX. Musk is (surely) telling Tesla’s board and execs that having just paid billions for a firm, he isn’t about to alienate all its customers (the advertisers) - and the Tesla team is going to take his word for it.
You haven't been there in a while have you?
I just tried it in VR on my Quest 2, and while it was neat, it was only photospheres, and wasn't really 3D. very disorienting. Weird because there is clearly a 3d model, but in VR everything seems to be a fixed distance away.

I think this is a matterport limitation?
I’d like to see GitHub build into their product a way for Organizations to set donation budgets per user.

For example, Microsoft could allocate $100 annual budget per user in their GH Engineer team. The people on those teams could then donate those dollars to whatever open source projects they see fit on GitHub.

I know this would require a lot of paperwork, etc, etc, but they’ve already buried themselves in it with donations and seemed to have outsourced most of that to Stripe.

I know there would be some shady shit and scams that would happen if this was built, like people donating to their cousins OSS project that has 2 stars and is a fork of Scriptaculous, but there’s lots of different ways to minimize those risks so it’s a moot point.

Overall this approach would lower donation friction for both the company and the employee and inject a lot more cash into the donation ecosystem.
I have to say it takes some chutzpah for a person to just out and say their level of consumption is the correct amount and someone else's is not.

Sure you can eat the beans and grains instead. You can also stop driving, stop heating and cooling your house, stop buying computers and phones and cars, stop air travel, live in a small apartment you share with several other people.

I don't have a problem with the idea of reducing environmental footprint or moving consumption patterns to more efficient products. Great ideas. What I have a problem with is making choices for or passing moral judgement on other people.

Your lifestyle results in the death of life and animals, and you do not do everything physically possible to minimize that, therefore you simply do not have that moral high ground. If killing animals is "wrong", then we are all wrong. "Oh but I try to minimize" is not an defense because you are minimizing according to what is convenient or valuable to you. You'll accept some killing of animals because you fly to Europe once a year or have a smartphone or heat your house and that's okay, but somebody who chooses to eat more meat than you would prefer?
The only 'purchase' model that works for me is where I have control of a physical or electronic copy. I got bitten by 'purchasing' music on Google Play Music - yes, there was / is the 'take-out' option, but that was such a clunky process and I'm pretty sure there were albums I paid for but didn't appear in the download (I didn't keep track of all my purchases, they were there on Google, they'll be forever, right?).

My self-imposed restrictions:

1. Subscription: no lock-in monthly payment

2. Purchase: get physical / electronic copy that's outside the reach of remote deletion or any kind of alteration

(I did say, when GPM shut down, that I'd never go back to subscription music and committed to spending the $10 / month on music from Bandcamp instead. I've since subscribed to Spotify - the catalogue at your fingertips is too good to do without - but also maintain my $10 / month Bandcamp spend on my flavour of the month - and I keep track of it!)
Lake volume is just that: it's volume, plus the dam, times two for the lower reservoir. Battery storage facilities however mostly consist of maintenance access, scaffolding, temperature control and fire suppression, we don't just dump cells on a big heap and call it an energy storage solution. Pumped hydro is doing fine in density, particularly since we rarely think in volume for large facilities, we think in acres, and nobody would build a battery facility vertically stacked.
My understanding is that de beers created most of the luxury diamond market in the first place.

Prior to a particularly successful de beers advertising campaign diamonds were not all that associated with wedding rings. now, it is most often the expected thing.

https://www.jaredvandermeer.com/3-reasons-the-de-beers-a-dia...
For the record, people and restaurants put cheese on the bottom of the burger/sandwich all the time so I wouldn't say Google was wrong.
> I really want a hybrid solution. Where my files are in both the Cloud and my Local NAS.

IPFS?
There are, in fact, far more than enough suitable sites to store as much energy as we could ever care to store. Hydro power generation needs a watershed, but storage really needs only a hill.

But there are lots of different storage technologies, and costs are falling fast, so pumped hydro may be undercut in places.
I really don't think we have a "virtually limitless supply of sites" here in Australia - in fact I would suggest the opposite. It's a really flat continent.

I'm more familiar with the southeast, so I can't speak for Queensland, but areas that have both good rainfall and high topological relief, already have a lot of damn construction (and associated destruction of wilderness).

There's the Snowy Mountains scheme of course (which has drained dry the Snowy River of Banjo Patterson's day) and also the lesser known Shoalhaven Scheme, and in Tasmania practically every river except the Franklin is dammed.
I have used it to extract a table to restore from a MySQL database dump.
This is utter nonsense
Nice to see the product finally live. I managed to connect my git account & the dependency tree breakdown is awesome. Great work Ali!
U.S. Unveils Strategy for Nuclear Threats from China and Russia
In bitcoin you can use multisig instead of secret sharing. Lots of good and well audited code for that. If you want some one key or threshold policy there isn't any transaction size overhead in the one key case anymore.

I think my contention for SSS implementations has mostly been that the need/benefit seldom justifies the extra effort required to be confident you got it right. Obviously for a treasure hunt the bar is pretty low. :)

It's hard to be sure when sidechannel resistance is really needed. Right now you could have some JS running in silently in a browser thats conducting a sidechannel attack to steal data. Probably not, but these attacks have been witnessed.

Common issues aren't limited to sidechannels, e.g. it's pretty common for there to be "random" number generation problems that make it possible to recover the secret with fewer shares than the threshold. (the bitcoin wiki page I linked to gives two examples of that)

I'd also agree that the "abstinence only" approach to cryptography doesn't work. But the underlying issue that drives that advice is real.

The best alternative to overkilling the implementation is documenting the intended uses and known weaknesses, I guess!
For this scan specifically, I used a Leica BLK 360 and Matterport Pro 2 Laser scanner and took photogrammetry photos as well. In the presentation layer using the Matterport SDK, only the laser scan data is displayed.
There is a very good chance the class of $44B successful investors will go on to grow and thrive with the coming of climate change and the untapped potential of Africa and Antartica landmass. The next round of $4B successful investments rises to $4T, assuming $40B turn out to be failures. Hard to believe the cash Apple shovels into their car effort and there has been nothing to show for it after 10 or 5 years. Maybe the Twit alumni will back 7 kinds of biodomes on Earth's surface for colonizing Mars, constructed by Tesla Optimus bots.
I still wont use twitter.
Not sure I understand the question correctly, but the way it's working is that Sentry have allocated a monthly budget to be distributed to their dependency tree. That budget gets trickled down to the projects that have signed in. The list and breakdowns are visible here https://thanks.dev/p/gh/getsentry.

Donors decide how much to tip thanks.dev at time of donation.

Please let me know if I missed the question or if I can improve thanks.dev in any way. I'm very keen to learn. :)
I mean a site where I partnered with a local team and sometimes international partners to complete laser scanning and then built virtual tour with the Matterport SDK.
Open source relicensing: A risk for your business
I tried starting a manufacturing unit in India (2020)
He can always sell it down the line if it doesn't work out (though it's gonna be a steep discount)
It seems the year 2022 is a sort of "experiment" in terms of testing this theory. Food prices have inflated ~10% this year, nice round number although lower than your suggested "2x the price." Do you think this resulted in less waste?
This man is building the infrastructure to colonize Mars. Tell me more about how much harder it is to run a social media company.
Thanks to you both for feedback on the minimap--this is one that we've had some requests for but I haven't started on yet.
I would believe this comment if it was some other billionaire. Elon Musk is a talented executive for tech companies. He got his start as a founding employee for paypal and moved onto tesla, which is essentially a tech company that makes cars
The "major consumption" from a 4 bay nas is usually from the drives.

I used WD official documentation for my consumption figures (https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library...), which state 5.5W idle, 8.8W access.

Being WD Red (Plus) drives, they don't support hibernation (not supported in firmware), so they're spinning 24/7, though supposedly using only 5.5W doing it.

So in theory the NAS should be able to go as low as 20W, but in reality it rarely does, at least not when running the drives in raid. Because it uses the same drives as its root/boot partition, anything that logs will write to disks, essentially keeping them active most of the time.

Over a weeks usage, my DS918+ rarely dipped below 40W, and the average consumption was 44.8W over that week. There could be an easy "fix" for it, as the 918/920 models have 2 NVME bays, so in theory if Synology would allow it, those could be used for boot/root, allowing the spinning rust some rest every now and then.

Instead i've turned it off, and replaced with a small ARM device with an SSD.

I'm also experimenting with a NUC7CJYH with a large Seagate Barracuda drive and a USB stick for root/boot, and that averages a power consumption of about 5W over a week being used for daily backups. I tried with a RPi 4 with a bus powered USB drive, and that ended up at 4W, so if power consumption is "almost equal", the NUC has a lot more power.
If one could solve the app validation problem with OS enforcement, Apple and Google certainly would have already. (Though both have made incremental progress). They spend a huge amount of resources in the app review pipelines.

In particular, validating privacy policies is an unsolved area. How would one enforce that an app is allowed to access health data but doesn't forward it to the internet? One might envision some language environment that can track taint-style the flow of data through an application, but this seems beyond state-of-the-art.
How much fertilizer, pesticide, labor and water from underground was applied to this bush? Were the fruits diverted to landfill after or composted? How much fossil fuel was used to transport the plums from her back yard to a sort facility, to a grocery store, to someone’s house and then back to the landfill? Landfills btw emit significant quantities of methane that are not present in aerobic composting.

This is a silly response that misses the forest for the trees if you will.

It beggars belief that the difference between industrial agriculture and ornamental plants is lost on you. Especially since my focus was on animals not plants - with a particular focus on water use.

Your average grandmother by the way (in the 70s), wasted 50% as much food as the average American wastes today so it might be worth a follow-up conversation with gammy about why that was.
Right, but we aren't talking about private citizens but nation state actors with an interest in cyberwar capabilities. USA is probably near the top of that list.
Maybe the world needs that (Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry for the future also more or less makes that point, and I think it's one of the better ideas in that book)
This Energy Bank system could possibly be practical.

Unlike "Energy Vault" (NRGV), a purely fraudulent investment scam. Energy technologies seem to be favorites of frauds (fusion especially so). It seems like nothing is so obviously nonsensical as to attract the attention of regulators.
>"However, the current focus on doing AI research via the gathering of data, the deployment of “deep learning” infrastructure, and the demonstration of systems that mimic certain narrowly-defined human skills — with little in the way of emerging explanatory principles — tends to deflect attention from major open problems in classical AI. These problems include the need to bring meaning and reasoning into systems"

I'd go as far as saying that ML is now at a point where it's basically a mirror image of GOFAI with the exact same issues. The old stumbling block was that symbolic solutions worked well until you ran into an edge case, everyone recognized that having to program every edge case in makes no sense.

The modern ML problem is that reasoning based on data works fine, unless you run into an edge case, then the solution is to provide a training example to fix that edge case. Unlike with GOFAI apparently though people haven't noticed yet that this is the same old issue with one more level of indirection. When you get attacked in the forest by a guy in a clown costume with an axe you don't need to add that as a training input first before you make a run for it.

There's no agency, liveliness, autonomy or learning in a dynamic real-time way to any of the systems we have, they're for the most part just static, 'flat', machines. Honestly rather than thinking of the current systems as intelligent agents they're more like databases who happen to have natural language as a way to query them.
I always find it hard to say anything of value about a subject like this. I used to not believe in these things at all. But now that I think about it, gaming did get me into programming with Roblox. I'm also quite adept at puzzle solving and in general spotting things that are out of the ordinary. I guess I could attribute that to my great love for the legend of Zelda series but I'm no expert in this field. So, who knows...
> But what is "data"?

It's a sequence of bits. You take reality (or whatever you want) and represent it as bits. That sequence of bits is called "data".
If you wanted an answer to your question you could google “sources of food waste USA” however if you’d like to make a proper counterpoint instead of a glib remark I’m all ears :)

> They'd still have drunk 1 milk, but for half effective price. Why aren't people already doing that?

I think I've already mentioned expiration dates and education around them, no? [1] My secondary argument is that people value things that are cheap less, and are more likely to waste them.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/07/28/1114335397/expiration-dates-l...
Another cool application would be home movies. Imagine being able to film your child’s first party from a headset and be able to relive it down the line. Would be pretty dope.
How to Escape Scientific Stagnation
Ceci n'est pas des ciseaux.
Invasive tech analyzes your voice for signs of mental illness
All digital photography is computational, the question is which computation should be aplied and when/where.

In general companies want to create phones which take photos the customer likes, with as little effort as possible. As it turns out people do not want to see accurate photos with natural colors. They certainly do not want to see ugly people or boring scenes, irregardless of the photo being taken.

Like many things phone cameras are a thing which is for people uninterested in the thing itself.