skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reminded of the Black Mirror episode with the killer robot bees, in that the danger there is that those drones basically have science-fiction levels of speed, range and manoeuvrability and cost only $35, but they're otherwise operating in a world no different to ours. A pocket-sized quadcopter that can fly half-way across a city, carry a lethal payload and outrun a human in full sprint is magic. And also implies a world where an overloaded phone battery in a subway car can easily kill everyone in said subway car. It's a world where you don't even need AI weapons to kill half a city (given the unspecified hacking technology also mentioned in the video), because everyone's got an IED in their pocket that's one zero-day away from killing their entire family.
If legislation helps the big players so much, why do they spend so much lobbying against certain legislation? Why do big time CEOs complain about regulation so much, if it's such a boon?
It seems to me that computer systems have always been a secondary concern on ICE cars.

It’s possible the ECUs in question have been so cost optimized there’s not a lot of power left to do asymmetric (or possibly even symmetric, idk) crypto.

Bus capacity is also a concern.
How often do you talk to people about privacy? The general feeling I have, and that I’ve gotten from other people, is that they’ve basically given up, not because they don’t really care, but because it is a totally hopeless fight.

The options are: have your privacy violated, or use some tiny boutique service that isn’t hitting any economies of scale.
Null Island is also the place where so many self-driving cars, UAVs, and navigation systems achieve their best possible performance.

I've run across multiple products that represent latitude and longitude as floats internally. At double precision, this is suitable for most purposes... but it does mean that positional precision is maximized in and around Null Island, and slowly decays as you move away.

I do wish more folks would represent latitude and longitude as binary angular measure, or other sane fixed point representation.
Waiting for the headline "Rough life of a non-state actor prompt engineer"
ChatGPT creates mostly insecure code, but won't tell you unless you ask
oh god, could you imagine some of the car drivers you see flying a _plane_ -- above your house? Self-flying would be the only way to go.
A Foundation Models Primer – March 2023
Large swaths of jobs also have an unspoken requirement of looking good. Notice how most FAANG engineers are fit? Notice how you don't see fat bankers often? Pretty privilege
Guns are designed to emit projectiles, some of those projectiles were designed for use against humans, some were designed for other purposes.
Nope. Current algorithms can already do this. The killer drone problem already exists. The possibilities will dramatically expand as we solve the power problem and can keep a drone flying for days.

Killer AI steals the voices and personalities of people you trust and convinces you to kill yourself or others. Killer AI controls stock markets and economies. Killer AI starts wars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Interview

> In June 2014, the North Korean government threatened action against the United States if Sony released the film. As a result, Sony delayed the release from October to December and reportedly re-edited the film to make it more acceptable to North Korea. In November, the computer systems of Sony were hacked by the "Guardians of Peace", a North Korean cybercrime group. The group also threatened terrorist attacks against theaters showing the film. This led to major theater chains opting not to release the film, and Sony instead releasing it for online digital rental and purchase on December 25, 2014, followed by a limited release at selected theaters the next day.
IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes
Nope, don't waste network bandwith and client CPU on data that shouldn't have left the database in first place.
EU West is UTC+2.
Louisville bank shooter Connor Sturgeon wrote chilling manifesto
The same way that when someone fires you and you're gone the same day?
It doesn't really help that they use Arabic numerals and rotate them 90 degrees.
Yes yes yes. Another day, another claim of a revolutionary battery.
These cookie banners are so bad. Bad idea, bad regulation, bad execution. The time wasted for all humans in the world dealing with such a bad idea is out of the charts.

If I don't want to be tracked I will use an anonymous tab or configure my browser to not allow any cookies. The solution already existed. The people that care about it already knew it. The companies would come up with something better if there was a real problem, with people being worried about to the point of changing browser.

Ayn Rand was right and still is. We live in the age of envy. Hatred of the good for being the good. Useless waste of time for all human beings to hurt a few big successful companies because of tiny, envious people with the excuse to protect some helpless citizens.
“ I'm in the US, me and my countrypeople shouldn't get a say in what happens in Hong Kong.”

This is only if you assume all people are not created equal.
> My god 2 weeks lol, someone quits and he is gone the next day. How is this legal?

How is it legal for this not to be the case? We have constitutional laws against enslavement or indentured servitude here. Nobody can force you to work if you don’t want to. You can quit right now if you want to.

What happens if you stop showing up to work in Switzerland? Do you go to prison?
Tools in the Unix world aren't too robust in that regard either. Gnu Make is particularly egregious.
Wait! what? why? as part of the DC to DC conversion? how does it affect efficiency?
Central UK govt awards £12M+ contract leave Google Workspace for Microsoft 365
Inventing contrived words to obscure reality is a form of lying to yourself and others. Normal means typical, "like others". It doesn't mean good, because in a hospital ward it's normal to be sick.
How about you elevator passengers up to a runway that is a thousand feet up in the air. Then use electric lines on the runway to power the takeoff to avoid using any onboard batteries until airborne. Just daydreaming here a bit!
An important distinction is while fasting for Ramadan, you can't ingest anything at all, including water. Unlike intermittent fasting where practitioners might still have 0 calorie coffee to stay stimulated, and water to stay hydrated.
This is the Elon Musk BTC scam that's all over YouTube now and it's almost on the homepage of HN :facepalm:

LinusTechTips had their account hijacked and replaced by this recently: https://youtu.be/yGXaAWbzl5A?t=63
The CEO of Mozilla, for comparison, receives an order of magnitude more compensation.
Look at the history of articles from restofworld.org and you might be a little more skeptical about their claims: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=restofworld.org A lot of sensationalized headlines with little substance
Sounds like another opportunity to make money.

"Well I charge $x per store for testing.
Curing disease is the hot new field for AI talent
>no mention of cost

Means expensive chemistry.

>targeting aircraft first

Means expensive chemistry

>no mention of durability

If they were highly durable this would be an important feature so they're likely not.

Sounds like these are going to be expensive special application batteries.
Flip side is when Google left China in 2010 it opened the door for Baidu, which is completely state controlled and gave the CCP more power. Is that better? I think what we're finding is that the world is interconnected and authoritarianism anywhere is bad for everyone. It's complicated.

Also, think it's important to note that the CCP is not China. Many Chinese citizens don't like the CCP but are powerless to resist.
At least, people asked to implement them will be able to point at this page and say "No, we should not, because it is a well-known dark pattern and doing this would make us look bad which is not good for the business, and that's also not GDPR-friendly and conforming to the GDPR is the whole reason why we are implementing this consent banner in the first place so it makes no sense doing it. If we are doing it, we might as well not display this banner at all".
Today, the gaming industry is showing gigantic growth rates. Modern games are not complete without 3D models. Game designers collaborate with creative teams of artists and programmers to push the boundaries of the imagination and create amazing animated images using the latest technology.
I think this is fine, the problem is that they aren't calling it a beta/preview which would temper people's expectations.
> is an affliction more common among

That is a tautology... "Those who weigh the downside more remain in the alternative option." What did you want to mean?
Replacing existing text and having it remain coherent is nowhere near the difficulty of creating it from nothing. It is pretty funny that even in this strawman argument you felt the need to write "semi-automated."
Any company with so little money they are forced to use gasp gitlab strikes fear into the heart
Nope, still parallel hybrids. The closest we've gotten to a true series hybrid was the Chevy Volt, but even then, it was technically a parallel hybrid.

I also take issue with anyone calling a hybrid 'effectively an electric vehicle.' That is only true for PHEVs. A regular hybrid still gets exactly 100% of it's energy from gasoline.
It's not a solution because many people will disagree with the premise.

Just because LLM can generate text doesn't mean generating text is useless. Namely, it helps thinking.

Do you also believe humans have to understand fractions because computers can do them? Genuine question; a lot of people think like that.

EDIT: Also, no one is putting anyone in debt. People are free to choose what they want to do. Don't wanna study, just don't. Easy. No, what's actually happening is that individually are making dumb decisions out of their own free will.
The US does have a national continuity with Britain going back millenia.

Half of jurisprudence is grounded not in writings that came after the Revolution, but English Common Law. We lean on the First Amendment for issues of free speech, but we lean on the Magna Carta for questions of whether you've produced the right magic slip of paper to prove you own the land your outhouse sits on.

... hell, many of the states have a right to grant exclusive ownership of that land that's fundamentally rooted in a king having granted them that right.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. You can't ignore that we're mostly speaking English for some reason...
Todays China is only about a century old now. Current leaders have done much to erase ideas and icons from the past.
> UNC paths have a peculiar way of indicating the drive letter, we must use $ instead of :.

I don't believe that's true, I am almost positive they're SMB shares, just like any other, but are created by the system, which is why "accessing drives in this way will only work if you’re logged in as an administrator."
The bit about "UNC Paths" is a bit simplified. The "$" shares are administrative shares. They're created by default, you can delete or disable them (though, if you delete them, they'll be recreated on a reboot). You can also add normal users to them.

It should also be noted that while the single driver letter ones are automatically created, the "$" at the end just marks them as hidden. You can create your own hidden shares if you ever want to.
It does that for me on a laptop, but only if I'm scrolling with a trackpad instead of a mouse.
Knowing nothing about it, what causes fuel calculations to be done wrong?

Is it math errors, or uncertainty about exact weight of cargo and passengers, or wind conditions different from predicted, or something else?
I also categorically disagree with this advice. The people who benefit are not the ones in charge of the decision, and the benefit to your reputation for the ~5 people it really impacts does not outweigh getting to take a stress-free, risk-free sabbatical in between jobs. I have always asked to extend my start date out as far as possible and the new company always pushes back and I end up taking off a few weeks between jobs at most. I am not sacrificing that time for the potential of better parting feelings for a handful of coworkers who take over my stuff, when you should be working toward that lowered bus factor day-to-day, regardless of whether you are planning to leave.
Usually the fuse box is accessible right under the dashboard. Remove the ignition fuse and keep it in your wallet, and the car won't start, without any clear message about what's wrong (most of the time).
The article mentions this in the Disallowed Names section.
I dont know, but London is pushing very agressively towards that goal.

I am not sure if its a good idea, nothing seems to be a good idea in London, but the congestion charge and the newer diesel charges surely add up.

And predictably, some of the worst usual suspects are exempt.
Collection of datasets to train your own multi-modal GPT-4/LLMs
This is getting away from the relevant definition of poor. The person above was talking about how people will vote, so what matters here is whether they're poor relative to other voters within their own country.
It is a matter of database tooling, Oracle and SQL Server provide quite good IDEs, graphical debugging, merge tooling, testing infrastructuring.

I can tell you that at least a pharmaceutical is quite happy to have plenty of stored procedures into their Oracle databases, including making use of Apex, and it is at least several decades in production.
The Hungry Judge Effect has been debunked. Not that your larger point is not valid.
If you are a US taxpayer, you should be highly critical of exorbitant publishing fees of major journals. Grant money is automatically reduced by the rent seeking behavior of firms like Elsevier i.e. you are not getting your money's worth out of taxes which make their way through NSF et al.
Christianity was not locked in during the time of the Byzantines and in many cases discussions were common about it's different interpretations. Monphysitism, Iconoclasts, various flavors of Arian (named for the monk Arius), etc. were all floating around.

Constantinople had a reputation for having constant theological debates; writers mentioned how common townsfolk were debating the nature of Christ, etc.

Historically, looking back at them we see "unenlightened" folk -- perhaps the way future people, the ones who survive WW4, will look back at us and our debates about race and gender -- but at the time they were wildly well educated and highly versed in religion, politics, and philosophy.

And they did have science -- we have yet to fully understand Greek fire. Innovations in armor and horse breeding created the Cataphracts, based on Eurasian horsemen that the Byzantines routinely clashed with.

And, as the article points out, they smuggled silk and created a new industry from scratch. We scorn them for not being as advanced as we are 1000 years later but for a while Constantinople was, to quote Napoleon, "the city of the world's desire".
> Read the comments on the article itself, it is just full of "i dont want to do this".. so great, don't sideload apps (no one is forcing them to), but why are they so keen on preventing others from doing it as well?

because it's going to make unscrupulous companies like google/fb/etc all force you to go through their app clients to install their sideloaded apps, without any of the scrutiny and control the apple store has provided historically. that's not really a world I want to live in. While yes, I can just uninstall those apps, some are nearly intrinsic to a mobile experience, like the youtube app.
Umm ... the sandboxing on ios is extreme enough that malware is just not having much to do.
Needs mention of auto-generated short file names (8.3 alias, typically with ~ in them) on volumes that don't support long names
Ask HN: Ever hire someone and quickly realize it was a mistake? What went wrong?
Do you mean just AI, not GPT? If so, I'll add an option in the some time. You can also clone the extension and remove GPT from the regex :)
Alternatively, we're reaching the point where we're creating a secondary AI to keep the first AI in check, like Wheatley and Glados.
When it happens it is time to actually use the big boys databases.
Spoken like a true salesman!
Humane First Public Demo
Full TED talk will be available tomorrow, here’s a video of said demo: https://old.reddit.com/r/humane/comments/12tq36e/humanes_fir...
A lot of people are lactose intolerant
The fact these paths are considered at all "weird" just underlines how much we live in a Unix world.

Filesystem paths used to all be weird in the sense that there was more OS diversity. I'm sure some people here remember that classic MacOS paths used colon as the separator:

Hard Drive:My Folder:My Document

VMS (designed by the same person as Windows NT by the way) had paths that looked like this (per Wikipedia):

NODE"accountname password"::device:[directory.subdirectory]filename.type;ver

RSTS/E had [project,user] in the filename.

Multics paths:

>dir1>dir2>dir3>filename

Apple Lisa used dashes as the separator. Etc.
This is sometimes done as a security concern to keep employees from swiping data or causing havoc. An employer may also assume that an employee with 2 weeks left will have tanking productivity, so why keep them around? The good employees will try to wrap things up and do knowledge transfer, but this certainly isn't going to be the majority of people.
There is definitely a market for an intelligence crutch or assisted critical-thinking aid.

Like people slowly getting more obese, the general IQ and CT have been sliding for the last few decades. Not sure if it’s the food, media or zanax but society needs something.

I’d wager the Altmans of the world know this and figured out a way to monetize it. Necessity is the mother of invention after all.
AlphaFold Is the Most Important Achievement in AI–Ever (2021)
I'd love for that to also include hair type.

I struggled finding hair cuts for myself until I found barbers that have worked with different types of hair (mine is very straight and thick). A barber suggested a hair cut that works perfectly for my hair type and head shape. I've stuck with it ever since!
What you "should" be able to do when it comes to flexibility is highly subjective and relative to each person and their needs.

Lack of flexibility is touted as this bogeyman that needs to be fixed. Saying people "should" be able to touch their toes without bending their knees has no basis in science and unless your job or daily life requires that kind of flexibility, you don't need it.

If anything, strength training should be what a person spends their times doing to increase quality of life.
There are lots of jobs even in tech companies that don’t require knowledge of SQL at all. That doesn’t make the skill set of those people any less valuable.

Making a company successful is so much more than just cobbling together a CRUD app and some fancy reports, yet many engineers are sadly so caught up in their hubris, they don’t get this.
These types of things need to be studied with an appropriate methodology, otherwise we're just sharing anecdotes and opinions.

I will share with you one specific anecdote. One of the people I admire most in this world, who taught me everything that I know about software engineering, who - we both suspect - might be on the high-functioning autism spectrum and has the exact personality and knowledge profile typical of someone who cares.

This person straight up told me that "convenience trumps privacy" for them. This is a concrete example of someone telling me that they don't care if companies prioritize privacy or not, they just love the convenience that modern tech offers them.

So those types of experiences make me wonder. If someone who is in the industry and has the personality type typical of someone who usually cares more than most, if THEY don't care ... what does that say about the average every day person?

Again, it's purely anecdotal. I would love for this type of stuff get researched properly at the academic level so that we can get answers.

EDIT: Another anecdotal example is my mother. She has told me that she doesn't value or care about data / online privacy at all. That convenience matters most. Anecdotally, the only times I hear people complain are either tech nerds or on Joe Rogan's podcast. The people I talk to about this in every day situations tend to tell me that it's just not top of mind for them and if they had to sacrifice convenience to get more privacy they would prefer the convenience.
I have to concur with the article. That said, this likely won’t get far. Google has allowed multiple app stores for years and, still, the vast majority of purchases come from the Google Play Store—so much so that the vast majority of developers don’t even bother putting their apps on other stores.
Thanks, appreciate the kind note on the license. And yeah, air is really nice; we've been using it since the beginning. Gives us a "JS hot-reloading" like experience with a server-side app.
That’s so cheap when you see how huge the impact it already has.
sorry, no, it doesn't keep the numbering, just hides the post elements.
Social media are entertainment platforms. Unfortunately, they have also become de facto news delivery platforms by sheer percentage of eyeballs. It's a bit like what happened with screwdrivers: people kept touching them to live electrical lines, so the wood handles with metal ferrules disappeared and the handles were redeisigned to insulate human hands from electrical shock. But no one is trying to fix social media so it can deliver news better- rather they are being retooled to compel users to instead consume more content more quickly. Which leaves the mind with even less time to question and consider. It's a recipe for disaster.
Yeah, unless your job is the military. This is a 14th amendment issue.
What is an alternate data stream?
It’s pretty simple. Side-loading can be exploited by social engineering.

Two very bad consequences for me if sideloading were easy:

1. There would be no safe product to recommend to my aging parents who would be vulnerable to social engineering.

2. A company with a popular produce like Facebook could go outside the store, which would normalize side-loading, thus rendering argument like ‘people who want safety can stick to the store’ moot.

The arguments about not wanting to control what other people do are moot. If you want a platform with side-loading, buy android.
Disabling by default but allow sideloading with some disclaimers and warnings seems like a fair compromise, similarly to how Windows will put up barriers and warnings if you try to install software from unknown sources.

The downside is that you don't protect those who enable sideloading and see the warnings when installing Facebook sideload and tap through anyway.
> the first ammendment has nothing to say on whether a private company can or can't censor speech

Yes, but the first amendment _does_ bear on whether or not a private company can or can't be compelled by the state to censor speech, which is what OP was referring to.
Is Elsevier generally considered the Walmart of academic publishers, or is this just some random misperception I’ve had? I’m really bad at the who’s-who bit of academics.
Can anyone shed light on what the weapons would be?

The first thing that comes to mind would be weaponizing the citizens. An extension beyond the social media manipulation via algorithms. Social Media Manipulation V2.
> Bard is still an early experiment, and may sometimes provide inaccurate, misleading or false information while presenting it confidently. When it comes to coding, Bard may give you working code that doesn’t produce the expected output, or provide you with code that is not optimal or incomplete. Always double-check Bard’s responses and carefully test and review code for errors, bugs and vulnerabilities before relying on it.