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Tell HN: iOS lets carriers add WiFi networks that you can’t stop from joining
Well this was a major surprise so I figured I’d share it here to get some eyeballs on it.

Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device.

These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal priority with your real, personal networks.

So guess what happens when your neighbors get a wifi/modem combo that blasts a free hotspot SSID? Not only does it pollute the already crowded 2.4ghz band, your iPhone will often prefer this connection over your real /local wifi (despite said wifi being at 1 bar).

As of post-time, there is no way to remove these networks short of completely disabling cell service/removing the eSIM and resetting all network settings.

You can see this for yourself by going to WiFi/“edit” and scrolling down.

Edit: to clarify, I can disable “auto join”, but in 4-5 minutes all of my devices have auto-join turned back on. I’m guessing it re-syncs with the carrier profile. Also, this does not seem to be eSIM or SIM related it can happen on both.
> Our model can be customized to suit specific needs, e.g., users can select the media outlet, time interval, topic modeling algorithm, and even the language

Right. So they made an algorithm that predicts the stock performance, but you apparently have to tune it. I guess that if it is not tuned correctly, then it won't have good predictions...

Further work: build an algorithm that will predict the tuning required to make good predictions.
10 was only good in comparison to the versions next to it, it has a lot of the problems like intrusive telemetry and bad UI that plague newer windows.
Learning gambling at least has some real educational merit. Risk management, understanding probabilities, statistics, and how to quickly estimate under pressure are all generally useful skills. I recall hearing that the science of probability was basically discovered by one of the Bernoullis who had a gambling patron.

I suppose someone with enough gumption could learn useful skills like sales, marketing, loss prevention, and customer retention from drug dealers too, but that’s a whole level of seedy past legal gambling.
String Operations! Amazing. Putting the emphasis on “Complex” in CISC.
I'm not aware of any better alternative, so yes from me. It's kinda raw but it does what it's supposed to do!
Why link to a tabloid behind a paywall instead of the published research? https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
That really irked me too. I really loved the multiplayer game and got really good at it. I didn't get a chance to beat the single player game, it's a bit lame that that was online-only so all those puzzles are lost forever. They could have patched it to at least preserve the single player levels and just not update it anymore.
Numerous machines had user-definable microcode. For example, the PDP-11/60 had a "Writeable Control Store" (WCS) option, as did the early VAX-11s. I once knew someone who actually did create his own VAX instruction (I want to say it was an FFT, but that might be wrong).
Not so far. It would be interesting to attempt to quantify how much the thread does or doesn't help job seekers.
For all the rightful hate 11 gets for ads and tracking crap, once you turn it off it feels... fine. I even don't mind the UI look and really like the new window management, but I don't use windows for anything serious anymore, only gaming so maybe there are other issues.
Nice! Also enjoy the ffmpeg usage. Gonna give it a try!
Without going into anything identifying, what exactly were those circumstances?
I'm imagining something like this happening, but at the same time I can't help but think if its a technical skill issue, handing them a book on the relevant technology and telling them studying this book is their job for the next two weeks would be better than trying to roll the dice again, put out a new job ad, interview, vet, rehire, and hope they aren't somehow just as technically incompetent as the original engineer.
For me, the big change came with Windows 2000. It had user benefits from 9x in a stable package. That was the first version that I can play games on and also leave it running for months, just like a Linux box.
> - AIs becoming sentient and causing harm for their own ends.

I believe this is actually not going to happen, but I think something like it will happen: people will trust it enough to delegate to it.

So AI won't be sentient, but because people find it good enough and hook it up to some decision, or process or physical system. And that can cause harm.

This is just like tesla autopilot. People will begin to trust it and let it take over. But smart people realize they shouldn't use it in ALL situations. Exceptional circumstances like deep snow, pouring rain, a really curvy road, in a parade of people or in a dangerous part of town - that might not be a good time to delegate.
Here is an example of a paper on inner alignment misalignment with a relatively simple level of complexity and even reward/punishment layers visualized.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.14111.pdf

The authors show specific examples of goal misalignment. To say that we know how something works because we know the underlying principles is not correct. What is going on in a 150gb~ 65B parameter model (ie, llama 65B) of matrix multiplications is not just complexity, it is tough to say "we know how they work inside".

We can explain backpropagation and transformers and RLHF principles. When you scale that to the size of GPT2, the model layers become practically inscrutable to our current understanding.

You can have a conceptual understanding of chemistry and physics, but that knowledge is not enough to look at a human brain and say "We know how it works inside!".
> Tax compatibility is a pretty solved problem

Tax compatibility with VAT only is a sensible concept where the destination country has a VAT itself, which the US does not. Otherwise, a minimum VAT on imports is just a global punitive import tariff, and has nothing to do with compatibility.

Even where its sensible, it still has potential problems that can be introduced through other parts of the tax system, but…we don’t really need to consider that in this case.
In case anyone misses it buried in the readme, your accompanying blog post looks like the solid introduction to the subject that I've been looking for: https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/intelligent-agents-guided...
Pre-SP3 XP was slow out of the box, buggy, and insecure.
I think you are confusing apathy about attribution with quality/originality. Sorry was produced by Skrillex who is unquestionably a musical genius. Even though most people aren’t interested in the producer credits Sorry is only as good as it is because of Skrillex’ work
When your butt's so big it fits two extra people
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_seat
I think rep is expected to be combined with a condition. repne lodsb will read while not fetching 0, so a search for end of C string. Using the remaining cx or si value you can determine the length fetched until the condition failed.
>And old software works on Windows pretty well. Rather, Apple and Google don’t value backwards compatibility that much.

You have it backwards: Microsoft values backwards compatibility in Windows so much it's eccentric.

Game consoles are a hit or miss whether they implement any form of backwards compatibility with previous hardware, and the concept of backwards compatibility in the world of personal computing in anything other than Windows flat out does not exist.

We (as in common and power users) are very, very fortunate Microsoft cares about Windows backwards compatibility so much, but by no means is such an attitude the industry norm. The industry norm is: Code fast and break shit, maybe fix later.
That zipline company seems quite legit. There was a youtube video about it just 2 days ago.
Curious if you'd ever used a version of Windows NT prior to 2000? Since 2000 was part of the NT line, it might not be a fair comparison.
Also did some early experiments but didn't go very far. If someone wants to investigate: use structural code analysis tools (parser-parser-generators) like Comby[1] to factor existing code, letting GPT remix it instead of generating test cases all by itself.

[1] https://comby.dev/blog/2022/04/11/comby-decomposer-compiler-...
Are all the old vulnerabilities patched up adequately? Are all old expoloits defeated?
I tried this approach and the latency was through the roof, easily a second or so off, making it effectively useless for video conferencing. Switched to an HDMI grabber so I could get something that was actually realtime.
This role is played by the smart phones in China. The customers pay by scanning the printed QR code, and upon success, the WeChat or Alipay app on the vendor's phone reads out the amount loud.
https://endless-sphere.com

I got really into ebikes in 2018 and built one that replaced my car for all in-town commuting for the next 3 years. It was a really significant investment for me at the time, and this forum was really helpful.
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Depends on how many segments you allocate. With 16 byte alignment, it can be practical to have each object (e.g. a linked list node) in its own segment so that the pointers will be only 16 bits while giving access to 1 MB of address space.
Probably never, same with that hardware "buy" button they have/had.
As the other poster said, I just buy them, but I’m in Japan and also pick up these cable organizers for the cost of an American candy bar (¥190): https://www.amazon.com/MUJI-Cable-Smart-Phone-Stand/dp/B097R...
What do you dislike about 95?
1 - Every search? What nightmarish code base are you imagining? That paranoia is not based on experience.

2 - Negligible cognitive load in my experience. You can just ignore that part of the language and treat it as case sensitive and everything will work. Inside projects it's effectively case sensitive too. And the rules just make sense, they are just there to allow you to be consistent in your casing, nothing less nothing more. It applies everywhere they are need for that, and nowhere else.

3. Gofmt wasn't a thing when Nim(rod) started and now is too late to force all projects to a single style. But projects are internally consistent, and you can always use your preferred style, so I consider Nim's a superior solution.

> I fully anticipate a Nim linter that bans style variation from the canonical one. If that doesn't exist already.

The compiler already warns you by default if you are not consistent on the spelling of identifiers inside your code, and you can make that an error too. See `--styleCheck:usages` and `--styleCheck:off|hint|error`. There is a nim linter that can make your code conform to NEP-1, but last time I saw it was a bit too buggy in that style transformation, so people don't usually use it.

I've been programming for years in Nim and never had any problem grepping or searching for things because the style insensitivity. In pratice it's a non-problem.
There: http://hnapp.com/?q=score%3E100%20-openai%20-ai%20-gpt%20-ch...
The advances that AI will give us will help cure diseases, make energy plentiful, make huge advances in stopping climate change, and plenty of other things that will help save millions of lives. People are literally dying until we make these advances.
I had the one PC in that era that WinME was smooth sailing on. It was a Packard Bell with a 200mhz Pentium 1 (96 mb of ram at the time, i think). For whatever reason, and combination of hardware, ME had no issues running. I had less blue screens on it, and overall found it to be enjoyable and much more stable than 98 and 95c was on that machine.
I think the primary innovation is that they can distribute money in a way that is analogous to how attention is distributed. Getting that money from their ad business strikes me as a temporary necessary evil. I hope that the long term plan is to get people to recognize that a non-ad-funded-web is a better web so that we just pre-load our BAT wallets with $10 each month with the idea that it'll gradually go to the content creators as we browse.

It's a bit of a leap from where we are today, but if anybody can make a culture shift like that happen, it's the content creators united behind a common cause. They're influential by definition.

Also, in a soon-to-be-dominated-by-LLM's web, I think a steady trickle of BAT contributions to your site might be a reasonable component in a scheme that suggests to you that I'm a human user. Sure, bot makers can fake such a history, but it would be expensive for them to do so at scale. Hopefully something ZK something can be done to allow for this in a way that doesn't require me to also make my browsing habits public.
In the USA at least minors aren’t allowed in casinos and in my experience the staff are quite zealous when it comes to enforcement.
I wonder is it already possible for an AI to write documentation from scratch based of code base?
Langchain has been amazing for me to demonstrate what's possible as a product guy but my engineers are highly reluctant to use it for production deployment - I half get their concerns, many of which are in this thread already. I would say they have 6 months to prove our their enterprise value, hope they can do it.
> Close runner up: an engineer who writes code that is inscrutable and therefore unmaintainable

The most spectacular example of this I've ever seen was a developer writing Java that only ever used single-character identifiers.

As in the following style:

class D {
public A foo(B b, C c ) {
D d = b.x( c );
return new A(d.f(1));
}
}

Now imagine this for several hundred thousand lines. Zero comments. Massive functions.

You might be wondering: what happens when he gets to "z" and runs out of identifiers? No problem! He just kept going thus: aa, ab, ac, ad, etc... I saw code up to "dh" or somesuch.

He had perfect job security... right up until the startup he was working for imploded because nobody could collaborate on that code.
"Personal failure" is a stretch, and in contrast broadly saying it's never about willpower is also a stretch. Humans are capable of accomplishing amazing feats of physical control. Our minds have incredible power over our bodies. Buddhist monks are a testament to this. There is a huge factor of belief becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy when it comes to willpower. If you don't think you can control your own behavior, then it becomes negative reinforcement until it becomes true. Thinking you cannot control yourself from putting food in your mouth is the epitome of a 1st world problem in current times.
Your second point is well taken, but there's a lot of pain in between even if those worried can take refuge in their culture continuing.

To your first point, I think this is a case of trying to predict when, not if. The article calls out the year of Edward Gibbon's book: 1776. An Englishman in 1776 would be right to recognize their empire was in decline. Looking to Rome's decline makes sense. But from 2023, we mark the end of the British Empire as about World War II, which makes this smell like analysts predicting a market crash will come without an argument for when.
Not victim blaming. Point out when you order a drink made with boiling water. It’s boiling water.

I don’t think it’s the victims fault, nor do I think it’s McDonald’s fault. Seems hard for people to comprehend an ”accident”
They are obnoxious at night when a large cluster of them are all flashing their warning lights.
Some of the logos are pretty cool too. I mean, how could you even be against something called EUROJUST.
It was a server and workstation OS not really suited for consumer desktop.
Oh wow, I feel exactly the opposite.

Windows 2000 was no-nonsense, but all good stuff. The good bones that Windows XP got came straight from Win2k.

The only real problem it had was a narrower hardware compatibility profile, but it still wasn’t that bad.
>Isn't "Fire Emblem: Heroes" doing pretty well in the mobile space though?

Hell no.[1]

It's still doing well enough to evade the End of Service grim reaper for now, but it's by no means doing "pretty well".

[1]: https://game-i.daa.jp/?APP%2F1181774280
California has card rooms because poker is legally considered a game of skill and not gambling. Playing chess for money, as is common in organized tournaments as well as parks, also isn’t considered gambling. I wouldn’t be surprised if other states have similar laws.
I would personally argue that Windows 2000 wasn't bad, it was just painful in the beginning. It was the transition point from the 9x kernel/setup to the NT kernel/setup and some manufacturers navigated that change better than others in the beginning.
> Trademarks for horrible and awful products with terrible reputations

... don't provide value to the consumer either, because no one would intentionally infringe on such a mark. Your argument works equally well against your own claim as the one you are trying to refute.
Off the top of my head - Sugars and <edit> complex carbohydrates </edit> that break down to derive a lot of fructose - being used in excess in manufactured food. New Scientist had an article in the 90s in regard to tests on fructose free and normal diet on rats. Pretty much tended to show the increase of appetite as well as more storage. In recent years Harvard did further studies why.

However there's a lot more than that going on, iirc didn't Michael Moore produce a doco on some of the tricks big fast food industry use to entice more food consumption.

I don't think there's just one box and everyone is the same, but in my 20s due to an accident I gained a lot of weight where I needed suspenders to keep my jeans and trousers up, and once I was well enough I first walked a few mile every day and eventually using a push bike to travel to my nearest town for further studies about 30 miles (50km) away. Sure those trips moved from taking around 4 hours down to just over 2 and peddled near everywhere at that point, I still had most of that excess fat around the gut. Even after I stopped riding a bike, it was about the same but I still did quite a lot of manual work at that point and ... I tried that experiment more or less they'd done on rats, I used glucose instead of sucrose and maybe it would help ... in a mere matter of weeks instead of months the fat just fell away, and even before much had fell away I'd felt so much better.
From the Deigin article:

>"Curiously, her death certificate was issued on the basis of testimony of a sole witness, a 71-year-old unemployed woman (i.e. not a doctor or nurse) who “saw her dead”
The usual response is that this would be economically suicidal for the US, and that other ambitious competitors would attempt to create a new world order more suited to their preferences. This would probably anoint China as the next century's global hegemon, although it's at least equally likely that the world would devolve into warring fiefdoms as the world economy imploded.

Tens or hundreds of millions of people would die as a direct consequence of this economic malpractice, including a decent portion of the US citizens who voted for the persons responsible. Reelection would be tricky, although it would not be difficult to imagine the US democratic process being suspended as a reaction to the catastrophe (legal precedent is not relevant, see history).

Don't get me wrong: climate change is a problem! But this would create a much bigger and more acute problem.
Qu'est-ce que c'est?

Oh I get it now. Ai yai yai.
Isn’t the trademark unenforceable in that case because Jack Daniel’s the drink and the book are in totally different markets and trademarks only apply if you’re competing in the same space.
LODS, STOS, MOVS, INS and OUTS are all unconditional (doesn't matter which version of the prefix you use, but officially REP should be the same opcode as REPE).

SCAS is the one that scans for e.g. a nul byte.
Again, I’m sure you do, and I’m sure a lot of people who read hacker news do. And it’s easy for those of us who live in bubbles to fail to see outside of them.
We are not close to determining the answer to Busy Beaver(5,5). Not every problem is decidable.
I’ve been using MacOS as my daily desktop for over a decade, switching from Linux. Seeing the busy cursor is so rare I can’t recall the last time. And I have tons of things open all the time.
You can actually delete the WWTBH comments several weeks later, I believe. I've done it before though I'm not 100% sure.

But you're only deleting them on HN. Both the major job threads are heavily scraped and your profile goes all over the internet.
The New York Times? A Tabloid?
I think you're absolutely correct.

But this is by 'design', I have very unreasonable suspicions that indeed, the whole VC 'world of entrepreneurs' is just the way the USA government does R & D on an industrial-corporate scale. The 'brilliance' behind this way of doing R&D is that they only pick up the winners after they won, so they don't "waste" money on R&D death ends nor moonshots.

on the other hand, this is a good way to 'explode' for cheap the technological applications of already developed scientific innovations. meaning none of those VC-backed startups are doing innovative research, but in fact are devleoping commercial applications for corporate overlords who having seen who won, step in to buy them out.

even music industry is shifting to that model, they are now only signing bands/artists/influencers who already build their audience.
Following Your Bliss, Right Off the Cliff
You’re moving the goal posts. How many people boil water to make tea?

They pour it hot and they know it’s hot and they wait.

No one steeps tea in a kettle, so the “holding at 100c” is not relevant.
They are running a Chrome from 2016, so they are vulnerable to ~every exploit found in Chrome since then.
You can run 20 years old Windows game on Win 11. Phone is a different story of course.
People are bearish for 2 reasons IMHO.

LLMs are in many people’s opinion overhyped. Their capabilities are overhyped.*

People don’t trust the powers to be to use AI to benefit the masses. Instead of the Star Trek-like utopias, we are more likely to get Blade Runner-like dystopias.

* Tech has a real “hustler culture” problem, I guess it was always a part of tech culture, but with the advent of cryptocurrency it really exploded. With the implosion of crypto (and real people losing a lot of real money), all the hype people need something to hawk. “AI” is that something, it’s the new “blockchain”.
i used several versions of nt prior to 2k - 2k was better than those in every respect.
Google Project Zero is a list of known vulnerabilities. It is not a comprehensive list of all vulnerabilities.
Windows NT before 2000 had problems with games and such, 2000 worked well because most games were now working to target XP ( and 2k had better compatibility with 98 anyway).