skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a fair amount of new tech coming out soon. Ring sells their drone security camera, and I expect to see outdoor patrolling drones soon. There is also the new WIFI tech that can detect people via mesh network signal interference. One company is already selling a home security network that leverages it. We will soon see plenty of cheap mesh systems that can count the number of people on the property and recognize types of motion.
Article with more details: https://archive.is/dogNs

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08176

Surprising that it’s just two equidistant azimuthal projections, centered on the poles.
Switching to a system of "user agent claims" have been up to any one of the browsers, when they had a majority of marketshare, to push through. Mosaic/Netscape/IE all had a chance in the Web 1.0 world, unfortunately, none of them did.
At least Google does those things as an open standard.

So it should be easy for everyone else to do their own.
If you’re right and the gains from productivity improvements were equally distributed among the populace, you’d expect the Gini coefficient which measures inequality to stay level - that is neither rise nor fall. And it’s clearly not for the US https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

So either the top end of the bracket is pocketing more or the bottom end is loosing some. But it’s definitely not equal. Acknowledging that and considering that a problem is neither a Marxist standpoint nor a sign of a rotten mind. And neither is acknowledging that there’s a whole class of people that are exploited by society.
Less people in-office -> less office space -> less security guards

Less in-person retail -> less security guards
Cute!

Mine said, "I 9 U!"

But I see what they were trying to get me to do, cute.
> The "one size fits all" approach: Assuming that every task will take the same amount of time is a recipe for disaster. Different tasks have different complexities and require different skill sets.

I sometimes wish we lived in a world where we'd have enough data to accurately predict at least the common tasks, thus freeing people up to reason about the more complex tasks.

For example: adding a new path to a webapp, which will resolve to a Ruby on Rails template, that needs 2 dropdowns and 3 input fields, which need input validations and checks against already saved DB data on saving will take around X hours of work. Doing this with Python and Django will take around Y hours of work. Using a certain set of tools to assist with development will affect these estimates by Z hours.

But I doubt anyone ever has data that granular.
A couple years back, I worked for one that got "acquired" for a couple hundred K. This was literally pennies on the dollar.
intersting point. I think one other difference is that as a kid, you don't have much stuff, but if you're old, you have a houseload of stuff you own and maintain, so each failure is a responsibility and an annoyance.
I mean... you started by saying nobody writes Makefiles anymore...
Adding variances is not a naive idea but a fundamental property of variances! And I don't think that's what GP means because they bring up heavy tails as a point separate from "classical" methods -- and the lognormal distribution is heavy-tailed under appropriate parameters.
Complain loudly on Twitter and hope your tweet goes viral.
Many people want to skip bundling altogether for as long as is possible. It's really nice to have a build-free (or almost build-free) app, especially when you're starting a greenfield or personal project. Why get mired down in researching the latest third-party build tools before writing code?

But ESM doesn't actually give you this, this is precisely the point I'm making. ESM doesn't become ergonomic without the use of some sort of tooling. Perhaps you have your setup that just spins something up and auto-compiles an import maps or something. Great! But that's not at all the promised dream of finally escaping tooling. It's the same thing we had before, just outputting different stuff. Different stuff that happens to be worse in a lot of ways.

Import maps are a perfect representation of this. It's essentially asking you to hand-write a manifest file just to be able to type "import 'lodash'". This is not an improvement or simplification to the web ecosystem. In my experience, the people who are actually using any of this stuff, are doing so through some build pipeline. And again, this is unfortunate since no one should be shipping this to production since it is both slower and less secure.
Both

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles_location....
Open source and free software are separate things, despite how much they're used interchangeably.
But...Aren't the beneficiaries of those pensions 2 types of people: 1) retirees who technically are not impacted by the job loss that is happening or is about to happen; 2) fund managers that are "Actively managing" portfolios including pensions? Happy to be corrected.
https://openai.com/research/gpts-are-gpts

Another source of info.
To me, Win11 is basically identical to Win10. Some minor cosmetic differences, maybe some under the hood changes. Nothing noteworthy.

I swapped over and it's been no benefit or hindrance.

Time will tell what happens when our work machines are moved over to it, but I suspect very little.
Such an awful name, given what happened.
Very true. One of the sites I’ve inherited has an OEM branded unit that I can find for sale, but not find any manufacturer page or any new firmware. It’s been there for four or so years… Who knows what vulnerabilities havent been addressed… It’s pretty high on the list for replacement.
Yes you nailed it. There’s nothing left wing about what most people o here keep saying wrt to something like Vice
There's sadly a subset of IT folks, often in large corps or government, who tend to just drink the Microsoft "Customer Success Engineer" koolaid without thinking. When I worked briefly for a gov org, any time the IT staff came out of a meeting, we would always be worried about what "solution" they had been sold this time.
Yes, it seems search hits inside an inactive slide are inaccessible. Great point. Will look into fixing it. Thanks!
You're begging the question here, which is:

What defines 'consciousness'?
That’s more of a free software mentality. Open source is just open source; Microsoft has some open source software, they use some open source software, but they are in the business of selling proprietary software and free software as Stallman defined it is antithetical to that.
The best paid CEOs are not the most connected, though
Treasuries with a shorter time until maturation would be one option.
Funny how just a few years ago they were saying that truck drivers are doomed because they will be replaced by fully autonomous trucks.
Who’s gonna apply this to LLama weights?
Completely agree. I loved Discord's unique and wonderful discriminator system for usernames. I imagine their current system would have worked if they had:

1) Only allowed ASCII characters without any case sensitivity

2) Required users to pick their own discriminator when they create an account, rather than having a default one automatically assigned to you (that you can change later)

But I'm sure they looked at the difficulty of changing that and what it would mean to blow away everyone's current username and replace it with a mostly-identical looking system and decided that would be awful.
don't forget room temperature super conductors
Unity sold it's soul when doing this Deal with this shitty ad company.

So...
I built a new Rails app with importmap-rails last year and it was an absolute joy to work with. Being able to forgo all of the JS compilation bs was a massive simplification. I've wasted so much time in the past dealing with Babel and Webpack so finally being able to kick all of it to the curb was a joyous day.
Cars created all kinds of jobs. Gas production, gas stations, car production, mechanics, and driver's ed most obviously. An expansion in the hospitality sector as people became more able to take vacations. All sorts of small vendor jobs became feasible that previously weren't. Indeed groups of all kinds be ame feasible that weren't before, as people became more able to join each other from farther away. The invention of cars had an effect similar to the invention of cities.
Mu was developed using Haskell, that's the point. The strict runtime and interpreter may or may not be build using Haskell, I dont't know.

As far as I know, the author of Mu is Lennart Augustsson, also author of Bluespec [1]. Bluespec compiles language that is very reminiscent of Haskell into a hardware gates. And Bluespec is relatively successful. Is there anything in the hardware gates' "evaluation model" that is related to the success of Bluespec.
I guess I don't see it playing out quite like that - let's say we replace a lot of creative-but-not-very desk jockeys of various kinds, lawyers, graphic designers, software devs. For the rest of society, they continue to get adequate output from those fields, now mostly from AI and a few handlers. They didn't really need more of it, and the owners of the companies producing it are unlikely to pass their new savings along. So the benefits don't seem to trickle down meaningfully? And the replaced middle-class folks can't get work doing what they trained to do, so at best they start over.
I was explicitly taught to chunk it this way. I think it either has to do with whoever first spread the chunking method, or the fact that VUTS, PON, MLK, JIHG, and FED are either words or word like, making the memorization easier, with ZYXW, RQ, and CBA just leftover groupings of convenient size.
The reasoning they are alleging is so unsound: "so you don't have to context switch"

Going from my email into a browser that doesn't have any of my history or autofill stuff is going to result in a butt-ton of context switching. It's almost worse that they don't set it as the default browser.
Extremely expensive, though as I understand it, the goal is to get maximum performance out of a given model size so that you can actually inference at product scale. A few extra million for training is expensive, but then consider what it costs to run inference for something like Bing for 100 million daily active users.

If they can develop new methods to “overtrain” these models they will get more bang out of the smaller parameter model buck.
I can't parse that statement. Fake article under her name was someone else's article for which that someone did not give a permission?
I only occasionally use Edge on a machine where I use Firefox because it has similar API support as Chrome. (I only need it for like one web site). I've never needed Edge on any machine where I have Chrome, but I'm not installing chrome on any new system.

M$FT wants me to install a dev build of Edge if I want to try Bing chat on Linux? Dream on. No Google or Microsoft applications on my Linux machine, thanks.
We used them for real time array signal processing and beam-forming. They worked great.
Is it just me, or does every "what is a passkey" definition never actually define what passkeys are?
I'm baffled by why MS still cares about their browser. It made sense in the IE 5/6 days when they were using it as a way to lock people into their platform, but that seems unlikely to happen again unless their browser offers some huge advantage (ActiveX support was arguably the advantage in the past). This seems especially unlikely given that they are irrelevant in the mobile space.

Pushing Bing search as a replacement for Google search seems like a much smarter play with a much larger upside.
just nonsense

semiconductor research has propelled us forward, and it was for the most part not done for curiosity's sake. (Not that "curiosity" is anything other than evolved hunter-gatherer profit maximization, most of which was carried out on time periods shorter than a quarter.)
There is a less sinister motive available - reducing customer support costs - but the default of syncing everything to the cloud does give me pause.
> No. Passkeys can't be phished, passwords can. Passkeys can't be cracked after a data breach. Passwords can. Passkeys can't be set to something easily guessable. Passwords can. Passkeys can't be written on a post-it note and taped to your monitor. Passwords can. Passkeys can't be reused across multiple sites. Passwords can.

Passkeys don't need to be cracked after a data breach of your backup provider, they are just usable, right there.

> There are so many ways passkeys are superior to user-memorized passwords from a security perspective, it's laughable to call them "as insecure as a password".

Passkeys are accessible permanently on some devices unencrypted or decryptable in the filesystem, if part of e.g. a backup. Whereas passwords are usually only accessible temporarily. That makes the attack surface top copy over some passkey far larger than for sniffing a password.
Pretty sure that's intentional. It's replacing something you know (a word) with something you have (a key stored on a device or some kind of account).

It doesn't necessarily need to use biometrics or be bound to a specific device, so those aren't quite accurate. Thus, passkey.
I honestly could not care less whether crypto mining is or is not a viable business. I don't do it myself, and I don't hold any crypto. I just hate to see yet random tax meant to appease people who are upset over this week's headline and will move on to being upset about something else next week. it's not an effective recipe for addressing actual root causes of problems.

but yeah, I don't really expect anyone to care much about crypto bros getting a targeted shafting. dueling windmills would probably be a better use of my time.
> superficial similarity
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for LLMs.
> Cars created all kinds of jobs.

Not for horses
> There were PWAs of the most popular Google products that worked just fine in Windows Phone.

No, there weren't. PWAs did not even exist at the time. User experience was severely degraded when browsing Google properties with Windows Phone IE.

Google also barred Microsoft from releasing a native YouTube app for Windows Phone, insisting that it must be done with HTML5 instead, even though Google's own YouTube apps for Android and iOS were native.

> Microsoft didn’t do the same with theirs. Outlook didn’t get an Android version until late 2015, Edge took a few years to arrive, and Bing Maps never made it.

Bing Maps works fine on Android as a PWA. It does not get degraded if I use Chrome. So yeah, Microsoft didn't do the same with theirs.
Yeah! As far as I can tell from the research, what's going on there is primarily getting range information from the amplitude of the return (rather than delay or phase like "real" sonar uses). But still, it's very useful our brains are elastic enough to allow us to develop new senses!
Facebook's response [0]:

- "a political stunt"

- "...no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory."

- "Let’s be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil,"

That last bit might be valid in part, but I'm just here for the schadenfreude.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ftc-says-faceboo...
I would also love to see RSS with a filter parameter. I want something roughly once a week.

It would be best if the feed can also update one-by-one rather than the daily batch, but not a deal breaker.
Does GPT-4 think better in JavaScript?
I think the horse had left the barn on this one.
The arbitrary centrally-planned foundation of the economy has been clear to those paying attention on the way down, as rates were repeatedly lowered further and further over decades for one political purpose or another. What has surprised me is that the Fed did end up having the will to raise rates a decent amount.

So it seems the Fed actually has been following their technocratic mandate, just with horribly broken criteria based around consumer price inflation - horribly broken because the real price of manufactured goods should have been dropping significantly due to offshoring and technological progress, but the Fed's feedback loop created enough new money so they couldn't (hence the ever-growing asset bubble).

As a libertarian student of Austrian economics, seeing this play out is actually warming me up to Modern Monetary Theory - at least it means the newly created money gets directed to deliberate purposes (like sorely needed infrastructure), rather than just handed to banks in a mostly undirected manner while feigning austerity for everyone else.
I mean that huge pools of capital actually represent the interests of a lot of people, such as Norwegian Sovereign Wealth fund and CALPERS which collectively fund the retirements for millions of people. And there are 401ks and IRAs, and even social security which is backed by the dollar which requires a healthy economy to maintain its preeminence.

It’s hard to just point the finger at this thing or that thing and pretend it’s just “the 1%” who benefits and they are causing all the problems. The economy, and society itself, is far far more complex and trying to do something extreme like destroy private business has enormous knock-on consequences.
> They weren't making risky investments.

These banks were not hedging their duration risk, which means that they were in fact making risky investments. Their failures lie solely on the bank management and fund managers.
(SimulaVR dev) It's not wrong to say that in most cases, tasks are better solved without an FPGA.
But when you need one you need one (or an ASIC if you have the volume and don't need reconfigurability)
What are prerequisites of math for this book?
Ask a person on the street and they will either say "I don't know", "I don't have time for this", or on rare occasion you'll find some nerd who starts juggling numbers outloud eventually reaching some rational terminus (at worst with an error in recall but not in principle along the way).
Passkeys don't negate regular account recovery processes. Just as if you were to lose your password, you would have to talk to support.
then "ok, well i'm not paying you until what i asked for is in production".
No thanks. I trust google to a degree, but not that far.
Isn't the obvious answer to let us pay a bit extra for that thing either per-movie or with a subscription add-on?
Actually, SNOBOL is a 1960s programming language[1], so it wouldn't have been a trendy new language in an 80s version of HN.

In the 1960s, most programming was done on punched cards, and keypunch machines (and many computers) didn't have lower case letters on them. Hence, languages from that era, like FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/I, LISP and assembly language, were written in all-caps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL
It's a race between unemployment and the UBI. A UBI of 1000 USD per month would cost the US around 20% of GDP even if nobody stopped working, so it's not feasible yet, but it could be within our lifetimes.
I thought similarly, how cool would it be to have a framework chassis in a Commodore-64 style?
That happened over several decades with the mechanization of agriculture - gave people enough time to adapt and skill up to other jobs.

The pace at which it's happening now with no social safety net for the work force being left by the wayside - is what is worrisome.
I'm saying that where they lost me, is that they carefully consider the human rights of the criminal, but completely ignore the human rights of the innocent, including the right to live without being murdered. They had literally no idea on how to solve the problem outside of crackdowns. El Salvador had already tried rehabilitation for two decades in various forms, and had even sent MS-13 $25 million as part of a deal in 2014 in the hopes they would stop killing people; but they still denounced the crackdown. What else was El Salvador to do? Just continue multiple failed rehabilitation strategies and let criminals kill people openly in the streets because "human rights" requires it?
Battery life is bad overall for this, at least on the sister T14s gen1. Is it the same experience for you and what tweaks have you made to increase battery life?

According to this thread we might never get AMD pstate driver working.

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Other-Linux-Discussions/amd-pst...
Please don't just blindly use a debloating tool without knowing the caveats.

Some people just want to get rid of telemetry & candy crush, not the ability to do math or look at photos on their computer.
Google Workspace Updates: Expanding Upon Gmail Security with BIMI
WSL 2 is available on Windows 10 already just in case the above comment made it sound like it wasn't.

Also Windows 10 won't be EOL until October 14th, 2025.
All these rate hikes has made me understand how deeply manipulated the economy is. All these scary stories about the old left going to mess with the market ...

It seems to me that the FED arbitrarily can manipulate the lowest return on money invested that is possible to get away with aswell as the highest rate you can expect to get on your money by some opaque banker only interest system.

Like, how is printing money and givinging it to the poor any worse. Both are manipulation.
The chimp paradox.

Helped me to be cautious about my emotions. It made it a lot easier to visualize what’s happening inside my mind in a simple way.
Vergonha (France)
UK proposal to criminalize possession of “SIM farms”
Ah, I misunderstood your point.

You're right that this is a possible avenue. I just hope you're wrong. Or we may have some kind of butlerian jihad on the table in the future.
The unworkable bit, which I really hope we're moving toward over time, is banning all monetization of personal data for advertising purposes.
Didn't MosaicML do the training for them?
Not sure why this post is flagged, while all these other FBI-related posts remain unflagged: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
US nuclear power plants have what appears to be a rather simple safety requirement:

Any event with a probability of 1 in a million or more of occurring must be accounted for, designed for, tested, verified and documented in an approved manner.

In practice, what this means is that every piece of steel and every batch of concrete and every piece of electronics used in every building structure, piece of equipment or control device in a nuclear power plant must be thoroughly tested to make sure it meets required specifications.

First, you have to find vendors that will even attempt to provide equipment and/or materials that have been tested in this way. Documentation must be maintained of these tests. The individuals signing this documentation must be approved beforehand as having the necessary qualifications. These records must be maintained and available for periodic inspection and verification by inspectors who have also been verified and approved.

And it goes on and on and on.
> iOS now requires interactive user consent for apps to Paste from clipboard.

Fortunately it does – a big security win. But unfortunately, macOS does not yet, and I'm copy-paste-ing passwords there more often.

I'm often wondering if drag and drop of text is actually more secure than the pasteboard?
Nice PR stunt but probably inconsequential.
“jail”
This is one huge benefit for me in subscribing to Criterion. There is much, much more behind the scenes content, commentary and extras. I'd really enjoy watching critics or directors discuss their favorite films. Shudder is the only other service that I've see that includes this.
Congrats on the idea and execution. I was thinking about launching similar product, but I thought it'd be too costly to parse all these articles. I was thinking more of first summarizing these articles (avg article has like 1000 words) and then implementing a recommendation module. Without a successful paid plan,I think I'd fail hardly with cost :(