skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI is not necessary for this, at least not compared to the coarse process of guessing energy exertion/food intake/glycemic index of the food in the near future and dosing yourself accordingly, with occasional blood sugar level tests. Further I cannot believe a medical company/standards board would ever approve such a device (with "AI" decisions).

I find it hard to believe that's a real story (although they do use a full name), in North America at least, vendors refuse to automate insulin pumps because of the risk of litigation (too much or too little insulin can cause life changing damage, even be fatal) - and that type of automation would be `if (sugarlevel increasing-over-time) administer-small-dose(fast acting) - resample`. Basically a PID controller (although not exactly since insulin can only reduce blood sugar, so you'd err on the side of caution in your delivery and have big alarms to get human attention if you detect crashing sugar levels). Given legislation around the world is starting to require AI backed processes to explain the decisions it makes, it seems more trouble than it's worth - this is people's lives.
> In my personal opinion, when Apple began these scans, they effectively became an agent of the state.

I think reading United States v. Miller (982 F.3D 412) will probably convince you otherwise. Here, the state actor doctrine is defined to include activities that are always the province of the government. While arresting offenders and prosecuting them is definitely in this zone, scanning hashes and comparing them to a list - even one provided by NCMEC/the government - is not. In Miller, the court says, “Only when a party has been ‘endowed with law enforcement powers beyond those enjoyed by’ everyone else have courts treated the party’s actions as government actions.”

Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a terrible product decision to violate the user’s privacy like this, especially in this golden age of the state’s ability to surveillance. But it is certainly not state action.
It’s a stretch to call Linux donated imo. A ton of work is paid and the companies only “donate” because the license requires them too
I've heard it described as the cost of information. You can see that the article in your field is full of errors, but the cost of vetting information in articles on other topics is simply too high so you don't bother.
Yes, they inform the laws.

It’s okay for other cultures to think that it seems crazy to punish someone for showing hair.
2.305843009213694 ;-)
I'm curious to hear from other people who did this if they wish they had done anything differently.

Do they wish they had structured their plans more for example, or did the freedom of not having any fixed goals and deadlines improve the experience?
I'm Firefox on everything too.

I also have Chrome installed if it becomes needed, but it really is quite rare that I have to ask it to lumber to life.
The headline "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bans TikTok on state devices" is more accurate.
or at least something that we have named “black hole” when some light follows a specific pattern after traveling through space for billions of years, no reason to assume that this is how it looked when it originally departed
Have you implemented NPTv6 before? What routing product(s) have you implemented this with? Do you happen to have some documentation links handy?

In my experience, this capability is missing from most off-the-shelf solutions, and in the cases where it is available, the documentation of this feature is missing or incomplete.
I don't see this on Android. I also can't seem to locate any related settings.
Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition
Plenary Talk by Michael Levin on "Non-neural, developmental bioelectricity as a precursor for cognition: Evolution, synthetic organisms, and biomedicine" at the Virtual Miniature Brain Machinery Retreat, September 16, 2021. Introduction by William Baker.
> why the fake number

Backwards compatibility probably? I think having a phone number present is built so deep in the architecture that it’s easier to add a fake number than change it overnight and wait for universal adoption of new client versions.
I don't have ads on my phone or my desktop. Why should I settle for a shittier experience A? The fact that there is an even shittier experience B is no argument.
That's way too much. It should take 3-4 hours tops. The most difficult thing is the ridiculous UI (press b then d then c, etc.) It's basically just a slightly more complicated AoE)
Trans people denied gender-affirming treatment have monumentally higher suicide rates than their peers. You know that.
Do you make the same overclever statements when someone abuses freedom of the press?
Source? Because this reeks of urban myth FUD.
You may be right. I don't have anywhere near Sunny's problems but I do have a flagged passport after I fought in the militia YPG in Syria (legal, but I seem to have been put on a list which has caused me endless issues with CBP). Alarm bells ring to the Nth degree when I enter, but as far as I can tell they don't have much mechanism to investigate pedestrians leaving. I'm guessing if they do have something it only focuses on some exceptional cases (like perhaps Sunny).
We intentionally involve our engineers in product decisions and customer discovery.

We don't expect them to be driving novel, new features (unless they're technical in nature), but we do expect that they call out BS and make sure what they're working on is valuable to the business. Exception is platform teams who's "customer" is other developers.
The apple one was only hash matches with known ncmec images over a certain threshold. Even then there was a human in the loop iirc. So it wouldn’t have been an issue.

Google was doing novel image detection though and mistakes there are more possible and more serious. As evidenced by the recent NYT article about that guy.
Is it possible for me to type-pun a struct from shared memory? I don't want to read the bytes and convert them to a long or whatever. I want to apply a long operation to some memory space. Is that doable in Java with Panama?
> (Although Google does indeed use your search history for ad targeting.)

Yes, and it's not the advertising part that is evil. It's the part where they spy on every aspect of your life because doing so makes ad sales more profitable.
It can write high impact content if you give it a high impact prompt. I asked it to write a short story by giving a bit more to chew on, and it gave me an excellent result [0] (IMHO) Then I can talk to it, and give high level comments to tweak / rewrite the output. It's a completely different way to be creative, but it is very powerful !

[0] https://twitter.com/fvdessen/status/1600128206408851456
This is devastating. I worked with the same supervisor as Chris after he finished his phd. He interviewed me and played a key role in getting me the scholarship. I often joked that he raised the bar so high that it's not worth trying to meet it. I always admired his drive for learning and ability to do things at high quality.
RIP, Chris.
> the possibility that H. Naledi had no need for light to place their dead

There are also sources of light other than fire, such as bio-luminescence.
In my experience most people who joined a BBS didn't have any problems with email or IM, but at that time most didn't have access to either of those things outside of the BBS systems they used.

Even people who had internet access back then used BBSs to communicate with people near them on topics that were either local or which generally interested them.

Most boards had spaces which allowed general discussion of anything, even if the BBS was created with a specific subject in mind (computers, warez, occult stuff, photography, etc).

Lots of the people I saw at meetups were a bit on the shy/awkward side, which wasn't too uncommon for people who were into computers in general those days, but they were able to get along fine at meetups because they already knew many (if not most) of the other people there. They'd spent hours talking, and debating, and sharing ideas with them. They could go to a meetup and talk about all the same things they talked about online and they already had some idea of how people would react to them.

A local BBS was a great place to meet friends because it gave people a safe space to get to know each other at their own pace with carefully chosen words before being forced into real-time face to face interaction, and once they already had relationships established the transition to hanging out in real life was made much easier.
> This kind of over the top bombastic shit happens at least once a week in mainstream media.

I'm reminded of the Fleischman-Pons experiment.
Good luck slapping 800 4TB hard drives from the 1960s onto a rocket. The Delta-v on that baby would suck
It's a similar story with Twitter. I guess those onion services should be seen more as "censorship-resistant funnels to siphon your data" rather than anonymous ways to use the service. (Although I'm not sure how many situations there are where Facebook is blocked but Tor is accessible.)
How much do you believe what this book (by Yasha Levine, writer for Wired, New York Observer, etc) states — that Tor is funded by the CIA and has backdoors?

https://www.amazon.com/Surveillance-Valley-Military-History-...
Dean, that's said a lot but its a pernicious lie that many people mistakenly believe.

What makes it a lie is it doesn't acknowledge or characterize the requirements that must hold true for it to be the truth (or a successful outcome).

Those requirements are simple but don't currently exist in the majority of areas which is why we are having such huge problems today, and people mistakenly believe its something else because they haven't properly educated themselves, and they are working against indoctrination of the education they received early in life.

Those requirements are simple.

* Protection of property rights in the things you own (i.e. you can't be deprived of the benefit from stock you own, arbitrarily (based on someones say so) without effective recourse).

* A store of value that is stable and doesn't change.
Inflation depreciation each year with stagnate wages guarantees only consolidation of existing wealth at the expense of anyone else, inflation is also double taxation without representation, one to the government, and one to the privately owned institution of the FED. (followup: The Creature from Jekyll Island).

* A transparent market with functioning price discovery (sales are done only on the market and visible, i.e. no darkpools, and wash sale collusion to fix prices is severely punished).

Without those three things, you will never in a guaranteed determinable way become financially independent because of fraud, deceit, collusion, and corruption.

It is not sufficient to say we have those through the court system, because the court system is not self-enforcing, there are bad actors within the system that go unpunished, its reactive, and the costs for such privileges to defend against unbacked spurious complaints made by entrusted officials (who broke their oath of office) may far exceed the value of the objects thus they can be deprived arbitrarily (google youtube, Civil Asset Forfeiture, US Private Vaults).

If you decide to dig a bit further and research more into this, you may find that common failures in any of those areas are also commonly found in socialist (centralized systems) such as communism, both now and historically.
I find it curious that no mention is made of the enormous amount of energy required to mine bitcoin. I can't reconcile how with such high costs for equipment and electricity and the slowness/cost in verifying transactions that bitcoin could be used for micropayments. Anybody care to explain?
> So let's continue with the filter question not being a dedicated extra step

I can't agree with that. I don't see point of a filter question if its not a separate step before the full interview. If you're going to bring someone in for a proper interview, go ahead and give them a full interview session. It's weird to put a filter a question into a full day's worth of interviewing.

And I can say, having seen hiring practices across tons of companies, filter questions are almost always a separate step where candidates have a tendency to fall out of the hiring pipeline.

> Even if this is about the phone screen and not a filter question per se, I'm still not sure I really like the idea of omitting phone screens for more senior positions because you might lose on "better" candidates.

Phone screens are fine because they're usually more about culture fit and trying to figure out if the candidate and company are right for each other. Experienced candidates that get asked basic technical questions on a phone screen have a tendency to report a negative experience and not have a desire to move forward with the company.
Yea. The comparison with the Python REPL makes me distrust this post a little.

Any Python user who’d be interested in using Julia is or should be familiar with ipython. (If you’re not, it’s a better REPL originally made to make iterative scientific like programming easier in Python, made by the same person/people behind jupyter, which was originally called the ipython notebook.)

Yes Python prides itself on its standard library and it’s be nice to have a better standard REPL. If this were the point being made I’d appreciate the post more.

But, Python is a large and diverse ecosystem, so having different tools coming out of different domains all sharing the same language is part of the value, so it’s not the most hard hitting critique of Python.

That the author made such a point of this, in my eyes, make them seem a little too keen to dunk in Julia’s major “big-brother” competitor rather than being as fair and accurate as they can. Though, I haven’t read their previous Julia-critical post, so I may very well be overreacting. Still, use ipython.
Makes sense actually. Animals have had half a billion years: if photosynthesis could power them some of them would be using it.
Ok. They may still get a reduction for changing their plea at sentencing at least
Check out bkg, the vercel/pkg for bun
We don't expire.
Arguably, scanning on iCloud is precisely the right answer, but in specific circumstances. I figure that cloud storage accessible only to yourself should be considered as private as the storage on your own physical device. But when you share content with other people, especially if you share via a publicly reachable URL (not sure if iCloud can even do that, though), then scanning for illegal content is fair game.
> or their advocates

Not really their advocates, but upper middle class people giving themselves moral cover by saying they want to get rid of standardized test to help poor people. Really they want to make sure smart poor people cant out compete them.
And in case anybody is interested in the gory technical details, Google let a third party review their implementation of encrypted backups that included visiting their data center because it used their custom Titan hardware. Fascinating read https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/NCC...
That was a bombastic final sentence. I'm going to assume you're ignoring third party Android ROMs like Graphene, Calyx, Divest, etc.? And all of the excellent open source projects that substitute Google's stuff?
I could say IPv6 addresses should have been 8 bits because it would have been more usable but that's not reasoning I'm right and IPv6 is a mediocre design-by-committee protocol it's just me lambasting the designers based on some number I thought sounded nice.

If the addresses were 64 bit instead of 128 bit the situation wouldn't be any different, beyond IPv6 would be harder to use. For humans unused bits end up hidden when written out and for machines most of the bits are used and are used in a way that make it scale and be simplified over using fewer bits. E.g. the assumption that every user subnet is a /64 instead of based on the number of devices in it is a massive simplification that hides a ton of complexity people ran into with IPv4 networks. /48 being the minimum aggregate advertisable on the internet makes the number of participants in the internet scale much better. Giving RIRs blocks of /23 leaves room to expand as assignments grow in the future - avoiding the problem we hit with IPv4. Just saying "half the bits is simpler" doesn't actually make your assumptions correct or the deployment happen any faster.

To re-iterate on this part: The problem isn't the protocol it's that there is little incentive for the average user to switch to anything else on their own volition when most didn't even really set up what they are switching from (and already working on today) anyways.

That's not to say the end user needs a more "usable" protocol so it becomes attractive to switch - that's not where the lack of attractiveness sources. The cost to use the protocol could be 0 (and IPv6 is actually extremely close to that to be honest) and there is still no incentive for consumers or businesses to make the switch yet. Even if everything goes perfect and is 100% done without any human intervention it still provides them no benefit until very recently when IPv4 prices started to rise so why would anyone have rushed to make the switch 20 years ago?

An example of this comes back to the cell carriers - they didn't go to IPv6 because they just like and have the time to do complicated things it was the simplest way to enable mobility across their networks with a large scale of devices. They hit this need much sooner than the price of a /24 went up enough for people to start caring so they pushed for their networks and phones to support this faster (on top of needing to build out a lot of new greenfield stuff anyways so why bother building greenfield with the old).
> I genuinely don't understand how CircleCI is still a business.

In slight defense of Circle CI I think that could be applied to at least 50% of tech companies. Though CCI is perhaps more guilty than most of this transgression.
(2013)

perhaps the most relevant comment from a previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157603

the most points and comments, along with the correct 2013 title: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15105398

and, at least according to HN Refined, the first submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9751110
The big difference is with photos end-to-end encrypted, Apple can't (by choice nor force) have human "content reviewers" look at photos to inspect them for unlawful content, as was the intention under Apple's 2021 plan [1] after a threshold of 30 hash matches was met.

Although it was starting on CSAM material, it wasn't clear which other illegal activities Apple would assist governments in tracking. In countries in which [being gay is illegal](https://www.humandignitytrust.org/lgbt-the-law/map-of-crimin...), having Apple employees aid law enforcement by pointing out photographic evidence of unlawful behaviour (for example, a man hugging his husband) would have been a recipe for grotesque human rights abuses.

With photos encrypted, Apple can't be pressured to hire human reviewers to inspect them, and thus cannot be pressured by governments that enforce absurd laws to pass on information on who might be engaging in "unlawful" activities.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/apples-plan-think-diff...
Exactly, while not intelligent, chatGPT seems to have a LOT of potential. I wanted to make sure i was catching all the cool things people have been doing with it. So ill hit up twitter
> This is what happens when calling bullshit is shushed as incivility

It’s worse than that imo. Calling bullshit on scientific findings is frequently treated as heresy.
Yes, note that I say the equal universes situation only occurs if the conditions are the same (which I agree is unlikely). They would have to be exactly the same to result in copy universes given even the slightest variation in initial conditions would compound into vastly different outcomes.

I think, in the black holes example this outcome is unlikely given even slightly more matter or quarks absorbed would differentiate the system. This would be the "parallelish" outcomes where slightly differences would compound over time. But if there's a limiting condition that only allows for one starting point, then you get the same duplicate outcomes.

In the same way that certain elements consistently arise as a result of fusion in a star, perhaps the same types of universes might arise here. You might have a "Hydrogen" universe, a "Helium" universe, an "Iron" universe dependent on the threshold that initiates a certain "big bang" / that create initial starting points that are "absolutely, precisely identical without question". This is a bit out there, probably wrong. I have no idea.

I'm not sure I'm explaining my thinking very well, but if only so much energy / matter can break through the other side of a black hole and it breaks through in the same way every time then you would get parallel, equal universes.

I am a huge fan of your usage of chaos theory to address this question - I appreciate it.
The ending is ominous, but I hope for the best.
Currently facebook has decided I want to see ads for showerheads that cost over $150 and require the use of an app. The first time I saw one I left a very smarmy remark in the comment section about how the last thing I want to buy is a showerhead that pushes content marketing at me through a newsfeed. Facebook has apparently determined I passionately engage with showerhead related ads so that's all I get now.
That’s a sad and vapid summary of the post. PSA: Please stop flooding every thread with ChatGPT nonsense.
Why is Clojure not as popular as Python (according to ChatGPT)
Btw most of the Russia is not Europe even in geographical sense.
> including the migration from v1 to v2 yaml configs

Holy shit. I forgot about this. I was infuriated when I needed to waste nearly a week rewriting my config with more complexity and reduced features. I literally wasted a week of my life so a company I was paying could save costs.

I would have happily paid 50% more to not have to waste my time on that crap.
The citation you posted said nothing about sanitation and was about “enforcing secularism”.

Honestly, every religion is “wacky” to an outside observer.
I think the better argument is the sibling question about why would you believe you can trust the Graphene developers more than you can trust Apple. Certainly Apple has far more to lose by being shady.
Clearly you haven't seen HN's reaction to any article about economics or psychology.
> Achievement unlocked: I just had systemd-oomd kill my entire X session for unclear reasons.
> Does it log details about the session it killed so I could see, say, which program was using too much memory?
> Nope.
>
> Systemd-oomd has now been voted off my island.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v252/src/oom/oomd-ma...

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v252/src/oom/oomd-ma...

Chris's wiki has now been voted out of my sight.
I feel like I need a trigger warning for existential questions.
"Should" is working hard in that sentence, and history seems to argue the opposite.
>The point about Cyrillic having more letters is also misguided: you can make sounds with letter combinations. French has dozens and dozens of letter combos for various sounds, let just list a small subset: au, eau, eu, ou, ui, oi, euil, ouil, un, an, in, en, oui, ui, sh, ch, cl, cr, tr, ....

Could you please explain how you would represent these different sound and letter combinations in Latin script in a way that would make it obvious how to pronounce them correctly:

ща(вель), ша(тун), сча(стье);

че(й), чё(рный), чье(-то);

This is just two random, very limited examples off the top of my head, not even the tip of the iceberg, but the point of the tip.

By the way, Russian also has many regional dialects and accents.