skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> feels like intentionally creating a bunch of security vulnerabilities that you simply don't need to have, in order to be high-tech

Making unique ids for tracking is not being "high tech". IDs provide traceability, which is protection against unauthorized modification/deletion, which is part of information security, etc.
Seven smuggled US military tech for Moscow, say Feds
I've a 18 year old and a 20 year old. Both boys in college. Despite my being an electrical engineer and they're having grown up in an environment where I've always had computers and electronics of various kinds about, they really never took an interest. They are both education majors and are taking up my wife's calling in teaching. Which is great, but they really don't have a clue about technology beyond Xbox/PS5/iPhone.
This is a very anglo-centric view. As someone who belongs to a small nation, I'm very happy and grateful that I'm able to use my language on the Internet as much as possible.
> It is possible for people to learn and change their minds.

In this case, it seems to be more about serving his self-interest. What do you think he might have learned beyond that?
Yes there is.

There is Nintendo, as well as the PC (which is both an open platform and larger than the rest of the platforms combined.)
For a real list of objections...

PWAs don't integrate well into the native menu system, like say MacOS. This is much more noticeable on desktop. On mobile, it's fine.

The access to the file system is more limited (can be a feature rather than a limitation). Again, this is more noticeable on desktop as mobile apps tend to be heavily sandboxed.

Specialty hardware access like bluetooth, USB doesn't work. Direct access to the network stack or information isn't available, etc etc.

It's much more popular to use a wrapper around an HTML5+JS+CSS stack to overcome these shortcomings. Electron, Capacitor, etc.
A prison stint for bike theft seems a bit intense. Yes, it's very annoying to have a bike taken but there must be a better sentence than prison time.
Manipulating CSS properties via Javascript/jQuery often is a code smell for a cleaner alternative purely CSS-based solution:

some-selector .foo {
display: none;
}
I think this is more true than not. But also underestimates the technical problem.

Airplanes are not fully autonomous, even in the instrument flight rules system which is highly standardized. You don't have non-standard or non-predictable things. In instrument conditions, only instrument planes and pilots exist. While portions of segments are automated, transitions between segments and phases of flight aren't. It's ripe for automation, yet isn't fully automated.

The automobile environment has more objects thus more density of complexity, more non-standard and non-predictable actors like non-autonomous vehicles along with bicycles, mopeds, pedestrians, etc.
I wish I understood electronics
> 1. Remove 14 on the font scale entirely (which used 14px on large screens and 12px on small screens)

HN please take a note and get rid of the tiny `font-size`s on this site please. Some text gets down to 9 or 10px.
...and many people would be ready to donate. I wonder if it's possible to crowdfund lawsuits against billionaires, a reverse Thiel (vs Gawker), in a way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021%E2%80%932022_global_energ...
> Are you sure that plane actually has a PIA ICAO number?

I'm not sure that it does at this very moment, but public statements by Sweeny himself said that it did indeed have a PIA ICAO number and that Sweeny de-anonymized it. It's possible Elon stopped using it because of that de-anonymizing.

> The strange thing is that adsbexchange also lists the plane as being part of the LADD (Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed) program (but I don’t know the source of this annotation). AFAICT, LADD limits public display of information, but only for data distributed from the FAA. Crowd sourced data isn’t limited (nor could it be).

Yes LADD is a different system and you're not required to follow it as a data provider. FlightRadar24 for example follows it and does not list any LADD aircraft as they use FAA's data feed which requires as it's terms of use that you follow the LADD program.
Politicians are public figures. The threshold for them being “singled out” is mich higher than for a member of the public.
Reconsidering Our School’s Engagement with Twitter
Property managers likely buy many more than one per property - it’s not likely that 3% of Americans decided to buy a Nest if you consider that apartment buildings would buy these in bulk
This is super interesting, but honestly it was clear from the video immediately that it was sour grapes. Part of being a pro poker player is having an intuitive sense when someone is bluffing. The guy bluffed and was called on it. That he then came up with an elaborate accusation and even cornered her for the money is pretty crappy behavior. Even if she just got lucky with a jack high, it's not unheard of for people to shove in poker with absolutely nothing.

Now that this report came out, I'd say she has a clear avenue for a libel suit against him.
Polestar (Volvo's EV spinoff) has copied this piece of the Tesla playbook, and their cars are pretty competitive in features and price as well. But the Polestar 2 is also much more "traditional" vehicle than Teslas, and most all reviews rate its closest competitor the Tesla 3 more highly.
Honestly, returning half the winnings on the spot is the thing that makes me believe no cheating took place.

If you did actually have a strategy that you put months of effort into, you’d deny deny deny. If they’re asking, they’ll already check for cheating (like they did above) and you planned for that. You knew you had to cover your tracks and you know the train had left the station.

I honestly think this was just bulls*er luck and no-one to cry cheat like a pro male poker player who just got a bad beat against an amateur female player.
>Your support of inviting cops into community spaces is simply bootlicking masquerading as reasonability

There are communities that work with and support the police and communities that are adversarial to the police. Your "bootlicking" comment assumes everyone is adversarial to the police.
...without prior Microsoft approval. In [0].

> Universal License Terms for Online Services: Updated Acceptable Use Policy to clarify that mining cryptocurrency is prohibited without prior Microsoft approval.

Not a complete outright ban like what Hetzner did and only requires permission to do so on Microsoft Azure. Just like how Consensys (Microsoft is an investor) is running Ethereum validator nodes on Azure. [1]

Sounds like a better deal than Hetzner.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/en-US/product/chan...

[1] https://consensys.net/blog/quorum/consensys-quorum-blockchai...
Was there a police report? This sounds like something you would want to get law enforcement involved with.
The rewrite was pretty bad yes but it's good again now. I never use chrome anymore on my Android devices.

Only things that still bother me on FF is not having access to all extensions and not having pull to refresh.
Knowing the location of your plane is legal requirement as well.
> [...], since a place like New York would have every pedestrian no longer afraid to just walk into traffic.

London already has near suicidal pedestrians.

And I say that with respect: it's the opposite of the usual tragedy of the commons. Every pedestrian in central London who just crosses the street without looking places themselves in appreciable danger, but contributes a tiny bit to training London drivers to be extra careful.

(Going off on a tangent: tipping is an interesting opposite.

If everyone in the US stopped tipping tomorrow, economic equilibrium would shift so that service sector people would have comparatively higher nominal wages and roughly the same overall income. That's how it is in Japan or Australia or Singapore (or the US before the 20th century), where tipping is either less common or severely frowned upon.

Because eg prospective waitstaff in the US expect to be tipped, they accept lower wages. Similarly, a single patron not tipping in the US gets a lot of social awkwardness without shifting the equilibrium much. A single waiter in the US not accepting tips loses out on income and also gets social awkwardness, also without shifting the equilibrium much.)
This is an imaginary dichotomy, though. The proponents of content moderation on social media argue that hate speech causes tangible harm. For example, there are many mass shooters that say that they got radicalized purely online, such as Dylan Roof. This is not intangible harm, it is tangible.
"Don't publish someone's location in realtime (24 hour delay is required)" seems like a simple rule that can be enforced even-handedly against both sides. On the other hand, "don't do speech that causes harm" is so vague that it guarantees endless battles.

If the New York Times writes an article criticizing someone, and then a crazy person shoots that someone, is the NYT now required to stop writing articles criticizing people? If not, then why should LibsOfTikTok be required to stop criticizing liberals or children's hospitals that do gender-affirming surgery?

U.S. case law sets the bar for incitement really high precisely so you don't have prosecutors trying to silence newspapers in the way I described above. Some people have argued that Twitter should adopt a lower bar in order to prevent harm, but I've never heard anyone describe a coherent principle that wouldn't also allow the NYT to be banned as I described above.
I assume you mean font-size? Because HN doesn't use any non-standard font-weights?
This might be a myth but when I was a kid I assumed (or was told?) that there was always another space shuttle ready to go if there was a problem with the one in flight. Since SpaceX has nearly perfected quick turn launches, I have to believe that they can get one fueled up relatively quickly.
They aren't all kids.

https://www.hackread.com/15-years-prison-for-man-who-hired-a...
I didn’t read it like that. I read “attacks” in the “verbal attacks” sense as opposed to physical.
The ! was important.

Physicists Teleport Bullshit Through imaginary Wormhole FIFY

I like this article because it sums up the mis-reportage of simulation in the modern world. If your simulation puts preconditions in, and you test if those preconditions produce outcomes, then its a feel good moment the sums add up but you really do need to be confident about those preconditions and in the case of wormholes, they're conjecture. All you really did is say "I got the outcome I was tuning for"
He just posted a video of the guy: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603235998263123969
Either it is GPT generated, or imitates the style and quality
In previous startup, we develop a virtual deal room where each prospect has their own private deal page.

We use Page Visibility API to gauge how focus/interest the prospect is about a particular deal package.
> in the context of video editing, yes, 500MB is cheap

This type of thinking is pretty common in HN, where they live in a rich country. Then the same people apply their situation to whole world. It's not same in developing world. People still have to manage their savings for storage.
This is a different age, but I think the same principle applies. When I was 20, I started getting issues from excessive keyboard usage. It stayed for 5 years even though I cut down substantially & tried massages. I ended up rock climbing and my issues went away with larger muscles. I’m in my 40s now and still use the same approach: where can I build muscle and make the pain subside. It doesn’t take much muscle, normally 3-6 months of practice @ 2x/week. The results normally stick pretty long, even when I back off the practice.
He also posted a real time photo of X (at twitter HQ) two weeks ago so he can’t be that worried.
Yup - she'll call his bluff - again.
> Scott Aaronson, a quantum-computing expert who often debunks extravagant claims made for quantum computers, told Overbye, the Times reporter: "If this experiment has brought a wormhole into actual physical existence, then a strong case could be made that you, too, bring a wormhole into actual physical existence every time you sketch one with pen and paper." Aaronson says on his blog that the wormhole episode "risks damaging trust in the scientific process itself."
Exactly.

I had a problem with the temperature in my house often being wrong, so I bought a smart thermostat. Now I have ten problems.
I disagree. Just today I had headache again because of a legacy jQuery-based codebase.
The jQuery version is so old, it is a security risk.
A pure JavaScript codebase updates itself with each new browser release, so to say.

So my verdict: "you shouldn't use jQuery"
Different models for now, but it's essentially doing this through the teacher model. If you go down to the numbers, it's very similar. They're saying they want to do this later.

Gato does this in the same embeddings IIRC, but I skimmed the paper so I could be wrong.
What are your thoughts on airplane autopilots then?
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An LLC can be converted to a C Corp prior to taking investment.

https://carta.com/blog/convert-llc-c-corp/
Excellent counterexample. I think they made a huge mistake by not only sticking to their guns on telemetry, but also building a terminal client that you need to log in to even to use it.

I remember opening it, seeing a GitHub login page and instantly closing it.

It just seemed so tone deaf.
For one bike maybe, but what about 10 or 100? Or if you run a chop shop focused in stolen bikes? There are a lot of enablers out there, but it is all seen as petty enough to fly under the punishment radar (at least here in Seattle).
In other words you’re just repeating that sticks and stones may break bones but words will never hurt. Hardly a well established / obvious statement, and one that’s covered in early grade school discourse
The loophole that Musk is relying on here is that it's not real-time and is therefore not against (the new) ToS.
create a voluntary association of people

Yes, it’s called “the people who voluntarily bought property in this HOA”
>"Don't publish someone's location in realtime (24 hour delay is required)" seems like a simple rule that can be enforced even-handedly against both sides.

He posted a real-time photo of X at twitter HQ like two weeks ago. And then a picture of him getting his badge.

Should Elon suspend his own account for doing that?

Also what sides? Elon jet wasn’t political afaik.
Forced work? That’d fly like a lead balloon.
You should tell that to people who invented the phrase "stochastic terrorism."
Yes. The only reason why they shouldn't be features is the massive conflict of interest.
Not really. Attention is all you need describes a new mechanism used in transformer networks, but the model is still a Bayesian word chooser
Last post supposedly on Dec 12, so unrelated.
Casinos live on their reputations of running an honest game. I guess "smart cards" can further that cause. But there's a risk that the opposite can occur.
> Sweeny himself said that it did indeed have a PIA ICAO number and that Sweeny de-anonymized it

I read that too, but haven’t been able to find any source that wasn’t Sweeny on that. Without another source, I’m more inclined to believe that the plane is part of LADD, but not PIA (or isn’t anymore). And that the plane from the Sweeney tweet from February 2022 may have been another plane entirely. Maybe Musk’s plane was enrolled at one point, but it honestly doesn’t make much sense to me to have a plane enrolled in PIA.

I mean, if I had a private plane, I’d like to keep the option of flying it internationally, which you couldn’t do with an anonymized ICAO (again, according to my limited reading).

Also, given the limited number of PIA planes, it would be trivial to look for ICAO numbers that disappeared at one airport and then for a new private ICAO number to appear at the same airport. The system only makes sense from a privacy perspective if you don’t have continuous monitoring of the ADS-B transponders. As things currently exist, with a small number of PIA planes, it would be obvious to find new codes.
I feel like in my tests, reasoning is currently clearly weaker than knowledge. When asked to provide demonstrations of simple mathematical theorems, I've observed ChatGPT repeatedly confuse assumptions and conclusions, and even get it to "demonstrate" facts that it knows are wrong when asked directly, like 1 = 2.
The idea that whataboutism is the only hallmark of a poorly conceived argument you need to look for picks up another case.

If we remove the part where you try and brush of Epic's negligence because "oh yeah?! Apple makes mistakes too!!!" and try to imply that Chrome isn't a massively more lucrative target than Safari... this is just fearmongering about security.

Alternative app stores on Android are either F Droid, or crap. And the crap ones vastly outnumber F Droid, and mostly push malware laced versions of the play store, like Aptoide. The ones that don't are bloatware like Samsung's half-baked attempt at an app store, or the Amazon App Store serving up outdated packages so you can enjoy last year's vulnerabilities today.

> Here's a fun figure: exploits for iOS are cheaper than exploits for Android because exploits for iOS are more common than those for Android.

For 12 of the 15 years they've both existed iOS exploits were more expensive, and unlike now the margin was entire orders of magnitude.

I've lead shipped Android products from datasheets. Would not bring up Android in any conversation about security: you don't need fresh backdoors with the culture SoC manufacturers have driven. A quarter of the platform is on versions that stopped getting security updates years ago.

That's why I'm perfectly happy with Android being the OS for psuedo-Stallmanists who say things like "Consumers should have the choice of running whatever software they want on the devices they own".

It's disappointing that Apple is going to let something that's proven itself to overwhelmingly be used for garbage onto the platform because non-technical people are getting lobbied by companies with an agenda under the guise of "freedom". Let Android be the containment zone for that stuff.
It's still during an exam. The expectation of complete privacy of what happens on an exam webpage while you're taking the exam is an unreasonable expectation.
Perhaps his security guys called 911, but so far LAPD says they have no record of the event. I'm wary of trying to draw any conclusions about the event absent some independent confirmation.
It'd take one button with a label to solve that.
> Until Waymo's cars are better than most humans in every single situation, they won't be able to win over the public perception war.

The current situation as basically the opposite: waymo's cars are better than humans in almost zero situations. It's hard to gain the my trust when your car can barely drive in a drizzle.
Time to revisit the classics from the great minds in our industry, who foresaw all these SNAFUs...

Bruce Schneier, more than 20 years ago (a short read, I highly recommend it):

Security Risks of Unicode

I don’t know if anyone has considered the security implications of this.

Unicode is just too complex to ever be secure.

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2000/0715.html
> We estimate 14.83 million excess deaths globally, 2.74 times more deaths than the 5.42 million reported as due to COVID-19 for the period.
That would certainly be an interesting twist on the story if it wasn't actually covered by PIA and only LADD. I haven't heard this variant before, but it would make a lot of things make sense, but it would give me more questions than answers.

Even if you have PIA though, I don't thing you're restricted from flying internationally. I don't see any comment on the PIA page that says you can't fly internationally with it. Wouldn't you just revert to your original ICAO when doing international trips?
And this trump card was actually a lie that was called out as such by his ex-wife within a day.
In some other countries these guys would simply be told to not target domestic infrastructure and then the feds would look the other way, in exchange for "borrowing" access from time to time.

Shame it had to go this way
Brave is very much a thing.
> But if you disable JavaScript, then htmx won't work either, right?

It would work if either HTMX became standardized and implemented by the browser, or if I could allow HTMX (the JS) and not other scripts [selectively].
You must offset those emissions saved with the emissions credits they generated for ice vehicle producers if you’re talking balances
Um, don't cross-subsidies inhibit price discovery, information discovery, etc?
As Andrew said, it depends on the community.

Portland is has been setting records for violence, getting pretty close to a reversion to the 90s. NYC is reverting to mid-2000s levels of crime. All the west coast cities are seeing major public disorder issues.

Organized retail crime is also a big issue now. Linked statistics only show violent crime; property crime is a different phenomenon but similarly problematic for feelings of safety. Stores near me and including in the building I live in have closed due to theft and ongoing vandalism.

https://www.koin.com/news/crime/portlands-homicide-rate-near...

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2022/09/23/homicides-sea...

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/11/24/why-its-h...

Crime is a myth/crime has been going down everywhere since the 90s is a very 2019 take that needs to be updated for the new reality, at least in big cities.
Street art can be beautiful, for sure. But a lot of graffiti is just scribbled words and names. It's weird for the article to suggest all graffiti is "street art."

In fact, worst of all, I often see scribbled words and names added on top of real street art.
Just the way that strings and extra dimensions, universes are mathematically compelling, they still are merely theoretical and can't be proved. Whereas, concepts such as entanglement which is so fascinating if one thinks about it, molecules interfering with molecules without any connection... cannot be proved theoretically, no-one knows why it happens, experimentalists got the Nobel because they proved it and proved a lot of scientists wrong.

Does anyone else get the irony of this? The actual concepts that are theoretical in physics cannot be proved, and the concepts that are getting proved aren't justified with theoretical physics.
The key shortcuts in ltspice are hilarious, it took a decade before I found another program that used R and E for rotate and mirror instead of right clicking in some way. I still haven't decided whether I prefer the horror of embedding models, creating single-system-only library files that I can't give to anyone, or ... it's amazing.

I'd probably pay if it was just simple to import 3rd party models, even if they're encrypted. Every time I have to screw around with some encrypted model I worry about whether it's going to end up accurate.
The problem right now the separation of concerns for GUIs is a complete shitshow on ALL platforms.

Even such "simple" tasks as how to composite a window, a video in that window, and a floating menu over that window are not very well specified in any OS (try resizing that window and watch the fun). Or, for example, your floating menu--should the parent window resize itself and paint with transparent pixels in the extra area or should that menu be a separate "window"? And, what does being a "window" even mean?

Add into that the fact that we really should be making multithreaded GUI systems at this point and it's very clear that GUIs are stuck in a local minimum that's really hard to get out of because GUI systems require so many lines of code.