skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martial arts in Brazil have had to have a notion of "cover", the other big one pretends to be a dance, because it was outlawed to practice martial arts.

https://www.abada.org/capoeira-history/

I think rather than look at the results, it is interesting to look at the forcing functions the results operated under.
> In spite of its reputation for bolstering users' privacy, all Fairphone models contain a Qualcomm chip probably loaded with the AMSS blobware. The Fairphone has therefor the same issue with sharing of personal data with the Qualcomm XTRA Service.

When calling out a specific brand like that, I was surprised by the "probably".

Why not first confirm it, such as by testing, or by getting a statement from the brand or Qualcomm?
I'd like clarity on how it works

i.e. it's "completely free" but also involves a signup and a login

what data is going via the PromptWatch servers?
I have a hard time feeling sorry for any retail investors who made the decision to buy BBBY on their own.
I would challenge you to first propose a structure that somehow compensates people who create artistic works now to be able to do so in the future without subjecting them to a patronage system.

Figure out how to fund research that doesn't need to rely upon licensing of patents.

The bold statements of "eliminate copyright and it will solve {problem}" without the corresponding steps that you would need to get there are intellectually dishonest and ignore the current economic system and wellbeing of the authors and artists who produce work.

I would also note that I do value the software freedoms and without copyright there would be no way to enforce the redistribution of the source and the improvements that a company makes on it. "Here's the binary, but good luck trying to back port the bug fixes we did" is something that the licensing that copyleft provides.

The approach of "burn down copyright and something wonderful will emerge from its ashes" is not a convincing argument.
Why is "Smokeless" in the name?
The book Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez is my only source, but, the efficiency of rectenna is discussed there, and particularly, though the efficiency of the transmission is somewhat low, the efficiency of solar panels in space is MUCH higher than on earth, and they can operate 24/7, so the overall system efficiency is still substantially higher than the equivalent solar panels on earth... at least, assuming you can build the solar panels in space from mined material as they do in the book, I imagine if you needed to launch all the material from earth, it would probably be a fairly different story, assuming you included that in the calculations.
Bed Bath followed the email scammer strategy of making their scam so obvious only the most financially illiterate people could fall for it. Hard to pull of, but once you've got an investor base that's willing to believe anything you can dilute them repeatedly and they'll still believe it's 5D chess.
Bed Bath and Beyond the Pale
Midwest "old school" firms tend to be very conservative in terms of compensation and headcount. That was definitely the case when I was managing teams there. Good talent, but at a fraction of the cost of hiring people at any tech hub.

Ninja edit: The company I worked for did layoff (around 2008) but that was more of a scare tactic which I ended up leaving the company over.
It may have a reasonable explanation of benefits it provides, but so does Intel Management Engine and nearly every privacy-invading feature ever.

I know you didn't personally design it so I'm not asking you these questions, more just thinking through this (although anybody knows the answers I'd appreciate hearing them so I can be more informed).

Why does this need to be built in at such a low level that not even flashing a new OS can see it/stop it? Why can't it be something users can opt in to, or at a minimum opt out of? Whether sinister or not, it's a "call home" mechanism built into to the lowest levels of the hardware, an area where users are powerless, even though they "own" the device.
It’s funny that tech workers (rightfully) were up in arms when there was industry wide collusion over poaching each other’s employees and now they are complaining that big ole mean Apple is offering engineers twice their compensation. Not to mention I would (and do) take RSUs in a public company any day over statistically meaningless equity in a startup any day.
A PR is just a properly scoped nugget of review-ready changes. A formalized review process helps way more than it hurts in the long run.
NP. Worst case maybe just ask him to take the time away :D
oh, whoops, somewhat duplicated your point, sorry!
NOYB [https://noyb.eu/en] do their best to hold big tech's feet to the fire (and they exist on donations so we can all help out).
My understanding was the reason the US didn't end up transitioning to chip and pin was they couldn't transfer the liability in the case of compromised pin. That is the consumer liability would still be limited to $50. So there was no incentive for the card network to roll it out in the US. You still get the benefits of the fact the card cannot be copied which is significant.
Successful brain washing?
Not sure where the personal bit came from. They literally blow particulate off of the ground and into your lungs. We have non-smoking areas, but suspending whatever is on the ground into the air is somehow okay and opposing it is being "progressive"? I don't think it's such a progressive idea.
Harry Belafonte has died
Though those academic words are often loan words from German where the ur- prefix is still very much in use (urtext and urheimat in particular)
Non-techies like me haven't a clue what "OSI" stands for.
These[0] two[1] videos are probably the best overview of imaginary numbers I've ever come across. The whole channel is a treasure trove of the history behind math, notation, and conventions used in physics.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwxpSInhvU

[1]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M12CJIuX8D4
Quite impressive visually. I think I'll give this a try.
If you are up front about your intentions to the interviewer, it's up to them whether they want to interview you or not. Any hiring manager worth their salt would not turn down an offer to interview a good candidate, even if they're not hiring right now. Having one or two great candidates in your back pocket is always handy. Even if that candidate isn't available when you need them, if they had a good experience with you, they'll likely refer someone to you. And, as the hiring manager, maybe you want to move somewhere else, and now you have relationships with good people at other companies. Networking is a long game; don't get annoyed, play to win!
Given how much money YC investors have in the GPT/AI/LLM space, I wouldn't expect it to slow down any time soon.
holy crap, I didn't expect downvotes for asking such a simple question. I actually used to enjoy tf2, but the hacking became unbearable.
I believe this is tracking content about LLMs, not content written by LLMs.
>general relativity has had considerable predictive success, so replacing it with something else that works the same in some situations but differently in others seems more complicated than "there's mass here in some form we don't understand yet", though people have of course tried to find such replacements.

Do the models use GR? My understanding is that they make the assumption that Newtoninan gravity models are sufficient.
If they were booby trapped and maimed the theft that'd be one thing. Public embarrassment is a fine punishment though.
Torvalds in one famous Google presentation he talked about the "circle of trust"
in relation of how we all should handle sharing code as in: "Is my repo and I accept code from a selective group of trusted individuals"

In the corporate world is more like Seinfield's Soup Nazi skit.

We are all working towards AI accepting or rejecting code changes. Humans have egos and their idiosyncratic bias/baggage get in the way of adopting or rejecting code changes in an objective manner. Githook 50/72 rule anyone?
This article summarizes a feeling I’ve had such a hard time articulating.

At many of my previous jobs, I was so frustrated by the people obsessed with tooling instead of doing the work. Like, why are you trying to develop a react application in VIM after you spent months evangelizing VScode to me?? Who cares, ship the thing!

Of course, these were the most visible people to upper management, and the darlings of our department. :/ Meanwhile I was the one staying on task, making sure things got out on time. Lesson learned: be loud. Advertise your accomplishments and advocate for yourself if you’re a do-er.
"Unavailable"

Well of course there is, it's one the most exciting new technologies we've had in a long time. For so many years all the best models could do was identify handwritten digits, then semi-recently identify subjects in photos and now more recently (all of a sudden, really) generate beautiful and detailed images from plain English as well as converse in English and perform a variety of tasks to varying success.

It's exciting as hecky and while I'm sure that some people are having the same reaction to it that an Intel or AMD fan has when the opposition releases a new CPU everyone wants to talk about; everyone else is appropriately excited.

If this AI boom ever dies down, don't worry, everyone will go back to posting/complaining about the posts of new JS frameworks. ;)
Good luck with that: https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/britain-in-crisi...
Sorry, but trying to be optimistic about RISC-V is only going to lead to more pain.

It's just an instruction set architecture and it's still going to be made in large SoC fabs by Qualcomm-class companies that want to save a buck on ARM licensing. There's no way to win here.
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This is a really nice one! What did you use for the board itself? Is it 3D printed?
Well, just like

Printing press had destroyed history, religion, culture, literature, and etc.

Radio had destroyed music industry.

Cassette player had destroyed music industry the second time.

Internet had destroyed music industry the third time.

...
There is no "better in fact". It's literally the worst since WWII.
There's no big mystery about why colleges are ditching the SAT
Transmetropolitan did a story about a woman who was dethawed and society basically told her to get lost. The world she knew was gone and she didn't fit into the one she woke up in. It was extremely poignant at the time, I hope it holds up.

I'm pretty sure that pre-dated Futurama too.
Hi folks,

Thank you for the comments on this important topic. 1Password's mission is to help people safeguard their most important information and to do that, we have always taken a human-centric approach to security. In order to deliver the exceptional product experience our users expect from us, we need to better understand how they use 1Password.

And while our goal is to deliver better 1Password products, we won’t require our community to help us if they don't want to. We're fully committed to transparency and will provide updates coming out of our research and development period. When we are ready for a wider rollout of this functionality, we will provide clear, in-app messaging, and you’ll be able to control whether or not telemetry is active on your account.

In the meantime, thank you for sharing your feedback – these discussions are always valuable to us, and we appreciate your constructive candor.

-Ben, 1Password
Did I miss something in the article? They see the connections were made, it was plain http, but they didn't actually show any of the real payload/data? Instead they quoted the list of what Qualcomms policy says could be collected? Seems like low hanging fruit...

Disclaimer: work at Qualcomm but have nothing to do with any of this
Not to mention legal ramifications - evidence such as audio, video will be brought into question
but that's exactly why multiple implementations are a good idea, because it will help encourage further specification and standardization of the unspecified and heuristic behaviors.
Are you sure you were using GPT-4? If so, can you provide a transcript or screenshot?
Before F# came into VS 2010, we already had C#, VB, C++/CLI (nee Managed C++), IronPython, IronRuby, and all the third parties targeting the CLR.

It is really not having a clue what purpose they want for F#, I bet they have repented to ship it on VS2010.

First it was for libraries only, then during the VS Express days it was for Web development, now they are trying to pivot it into data analysis and ML, while DevDiv manages to bring Guido out of retirement and finally manages to pursuade CPython core team about improving its performance.
> The problem is less that people don't understand shell commands but more there is too much stuff to remember.

But is it really better in the long run to add more and more additional tools?

Is it less work to understand and remember more uses of fewer commands or is it less work to understand and remember more specialized commands? The latter is clearly more administrative work, because you have to install all those tools on your machines. On the other hand, finding more uses of a few select tools creates those associations in your brain that you need to cover new usages for them yourself.

To me that's a clear win for the side of fewer well-understood tools.
Having a custom domain does not prevent you from also having a separate gmail.com account.
> Since I have you, what do you consider communism?

To start with, nationalizing mass media and the press.

> Literally created by venture capitalists to promote capitalism and further capitalists' aims.

Capitalism and communism go hand in hand. If you don't believe me, read the communistic manifesto. Marx writes again and again that they need capitalism first before they can introduce communism. The ideologies are not each other's opposite.
here's an extension I created for this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-filter... firefox : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-f... . no llm filter yet but I can add that too.
Right? That would be much more interesting, and I wonder why they didn't show packet data. They already went through the work of setting up wireshark, might as well peek into the packet data to see what's going on.
Would it be a good idea for a programmer that did not work with Rust before, to dive into GUI programming with GTK4? I'd like to build a simple desktop application for mainly personal use, been dabbling with PyGObject and GJS a bit, but haven't accomplished much yet.
You can ask ChatGPT to write you a script that hides those posts for you ;)
He's 80.
This is just so stupid. It's the classic case of some govt official hearing a tech buzzword, then announcing that they will be putting $X towards <some_buzzword> to further the goals of <buzzword_1>, <buzzword_2>, diversity, equity and inclusion.
The latter is not really the case. There seems to be something that causes animals being fed antibiotics to gain weight faster than without, all other circumstances being equal. This might have something to do with gut flora.
> had no meaningful logical reasoning or problem solving skills

This is 70% of software development, this is why I think people from the hard sciences often make better software engineers (in the true engineering sense of the word) than people actually trained in CS. Most CS folks can't experiment their way out of a paper bag.
I understand. My comment was solely about the joy of being a geezer.
GPT-GB
> Yup, ss and friends do this, but they don't read "/proc/$pid/cmdline" N times (where N is the number of file descriptors the process has) in the hotloop.

This one doesn't either. The code structure could be clearer IMHO, but `kill_processes_by_inode` reads the cmdline within the `if target_inode == inode` block, which breaks out of the `for fd in fds` loop at the end. So it only looks at the cmdline once per process that has the target inode.

That said, if `find_target_inodes` returns n inodes, `kill_processes_by_port` will call `kill_processes_by_inode` n times. It'd be better to find all fds only once and compare each to all the target inodes at once with a hash set (if n might be large) or by bisecting a sorted slice. Multiple inodes per port could happen in a few different ways: different processes listening to the same port on different IPv4/IPv6 addresses, an old-fashioned pre-forked sort of server model, a bunch of individually spawned single-threaded servers listening on the same port via `SO_REUSEPORT`/`SO_REUSEADDR`.
I'm reading that as "no browsers on iOS support sufficiently powerful extensions to filter out individual HN posts by word".

Have you checked out any of the HN apps for iOS instead of reading with a browser? I'd expect some of them to include a keyword filtering feature.
> People are kinda stupid when it comes to eating meat. The current scale of meat consumption [1] is just mind boggling. Yet even this comment has to be a throwaway because people can't handle someone telling them they shouldn't eat meat 2x a day.

I'm sensing a lack of empathy in this comment.

Calling people stupid or attaching any label to them will only hinder your attempt to sway their minds.

Portraying black and white thinking (splitting), when we know the world is shades of grey, also hinders your ability to change minds.

It's great that you found benefits to moving to a non-meat diet. This helps others see what they could benefit from. Continue from here.
I mean…you can technically have a function that take void* and return void* be the interface. But you wouldn’t be able to represent things like iterator and chain them together without care. In C you would be tripping all over the slight details like forgetting to check errno or something.
> You mention RISC-V, but was it ever really tested against the same proposition?

Good point, there's no reason a manufacturer couldn't build it in. My thought was more along the lines of lower barrier of entry that would enable more competition (Qualcomm is near monopoly and has pretty anti-competitive practices that make it super hard to compete with them), and hopefully there will be more transparent options out there. As a user of GPS I'd like the option of enabling something like this because the old days of taking forever to sync with the satellites did suck. But I want to be able to decide for myself, not have the decision forced upon me by the chip's firmware.

> I miss the dumb everything days, where the manufacturer simply could not spare compute power on additional features like telemetry.

Oh man, me too. The nostalgia for this burns like a fire in my soul.
You are getting trained during an apprenticeship.

You're literally being paid to learn.

And pretty well! For example, an apprentice welder has an average salary of close to 50k/yr [1], a senior apprentice welder is closer to 60k. In Florida, it's a bit more for electricians [2].

Even the lowest salary range I can find for apprentice electricians is in the high 30's. Is that pennies?

The college grad comes out with a degree and anywhere from 50-200k of debt.

The apprentice made 200k during those four years.

That's a 400k difference over four years.

And the tradesman is poised to make the same, if not more, than the college grad after that.

Oh, and I'm not sure what industry you work in, but everyone who is employed by a profitable business sells their labor for pennies on the dollar, otherwise the business wouldn't be profitable.

[1] https://www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/welder-apprentice/un...

[2] https://www.salary.com/research/salary/alternate/electrician...
This article just has little to no information in it, at least not enough to get all up in arms about. Supposedly this nefarious information is sent in the clear but no analysis was done to see what it actually happening? They're just guessing?

The whole article is "Qualcomm privacy policy says they can do xyz" and then extrapolating from there.
This is very important and written in a neutral way, but I'm flagging it because it doesn't seem to fit the HN guidelines to me. It likely won't inspire curiosity or discussion, and it likely will invite flaming.
Unless telemetry is opt-in, there is no commitment to transparency. Opt-out may as well just be buried as a disclosure in the EULA that no one reads.
Just watched a documentary about a deranged BBBY superfan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrU0DAAylEk

In one of his videos I he was standing in an empty parking lot shouting into a megaphone that Bed Bath & Beyond would never go bankrupt. I think he did the same thing in front of Lehman brothers (minus the megaphone).
How many people do you interact directly with when ordering something from Amazon? (Not to pick on them specifically, they're just an example, hardly unique in this way.)
Even more than I love Notion, I love how effective the PR I just read was
Defense of Ukraine tweet of resting soldier with totenkopf
Great article. I've owned a bunch of Garmin devices. Right now I'm not sure if any of them even support Connect IQ. When I tried Connect IQ the apps rarely did anything I much cared about.

If I cared about that kind of thing I'd be wearing an Apple Watch. I like the Garmin devices cause they're so much simpler and does the specific built in sports functionality very very well. They are also far more tailored towards being functional whether or not you have internet connectivity.

I would far far prefer Garmin to make Garmin Connect on iOS/Android work without internet connectivity than almost anything else. It's ridiculous the devices (this is not just watches) can't sync to the phone for you to review data on the phone if you there is no internet. What they do right now is send everything from the device right to the cloud, then have the phone download something else from the cloud.

In my case one of my devices (Edge 1030) is completely capable of mapping and navigation without any internet connectivity but you can't do anything on the phone with the data till you return to internet connectivity.

Garmin even has another app (Explore) that has mapping on the phone without internet connectivity once you download the maps. The mapping data in that app is amazing. Yet Garmin Connect only works with Apple Maps data, not Garmin's own map data. When you're on the Garmin device you get a vastly superior map compared to what Apple maps can provide!
No country is in the position to print money -without causing massive inflation. It's a common myth that the "west can just print money".
Degradation is not necessarily linear. I have seen reports before that EV batteries show a sharp decline for the first few years and then level off but I don't have any references that I can find right now.
I saw this pop up yesterday on the unfortunately named https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/ – a subreddit well worth checking out if you want some inspiration around styling your desktop. Lots of interesting tools pop up in the comments I'd never heard of before.

(Edit: The reason I say it's 'unfortunately' named is that not everyone has the privilege to load pages containing terms like 'porn' without the risk of trouble in their workplace, country, or otherwise. I have no problem with the name personally, and it's a fantastic sub and Discord.)
We work in different places. Here the index in closed tickets would be smaller. But you know, some sales guy called and they want this little feature NOW.
So you think two different syntaxes for allocating N bytes of automatically managed (i.e stack) memory are in fundamentally different classes of memory management because one is slightly more explicit than the other (because a pointer is returned or something I guess?). I don't agree, but at this point, it's semantics.

In the literature though, you may find that "manual" memory management usually refers to memory management where the programmer has to call a 'free'-style function manually, while automatic memory management usually refers to anything where the programmer doesn't have to call 'free' (be it thanks to lifetimes or GC or automatic refcounting or whatever).