skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it has a real place on industrial equipment which the Compute Module 4 is expressly designed for, and I cannot deny that for smartphones it has a very large security value. On iPhone, for example, there has been no exploit since iOS 9 that can persist between reboots. A reboot allows the system to start from a guaranteed-secure state, see something is out of place, and repair it, at least until the same bug is exploited again.

However, that does still have value. Let's say (one dramatic example) that I'm imprisoned. The government so generously agreed to let me use my phone for an hour, but managed to use an exploit to install a keylogger for when I enter in my PIN code (an actual marketed feature of GrayKey). I can simply forcibly reboot the phone using the hardware reset, and then enter my PIN code knowing that their attempts to log my PIN code have failed.
What we have now isn't what we the general public aimed to legalize

I don't think the general public knows (or cares) much about potency, actually.

Also, they were plenty aware that legalization wouldn't stop a certain segment of the population from harming themselves through overconsumption, no matter what was done to try to convince them otherwise.
Military expenses, for example, can be cut back at any time. Handout programs become a dependence and will never be removed once implemented, no matter how poorly they're executed.

What about social security and medicare, massive parts of the budget?
Social media is good for kids. Here they can't just be dismissed because they're kids but will be judged fairly on the basis of their merit. Freedom of speech only exists online for them.
The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga is very quickly shaping up to be this book for me.

It's probably highly unpalatable to modern Western sentiments (e.g., one of the chapter titles is "Trauma Does Not Exist") but it otherwise has really original lessons that I haven't seen articulated elsewhere, despite the sometimes overly formal English translation.
Ok, I will give it a try again, thanks for the explanation.
ALGOL 68 has first-class and higher-order functions. Arguably ALGOL 60’s call-by-name allows you to do some higher-order things, even though its functions are not first class.
> and there's plenty of restrictions on who should be able to have guns which are seemingly reasonable

Is it the "people" as a group of singular individuals, or the "people" as a group. I almost wish the founders had set up the same structure that Switzerland had, instead of making it so ambiguous. Because as is it seems any restriction may be unconstitutional. Why should felons or those declared to be non compos mentis be specially excepted?

> Without going too far down the slippery slope, which other rights are you willing to compromise on with the least generous interpretation?

It's been a few years since I've really thought about this and I can't recall them to mind at this time. I'm distracted by other things in life at the moment.

> Or would you rather prefer the strongest interpretation that maintains the most personal protections at the risk of a safety over freedom?

One person's right is another person's limit. I'm generally in favor of the Scandinavian/Californian right for the public to pass through, and even use, certain property regardless of ownership. But as a bleeding-heart vegetarian I'd be enraged if I ever manage to own land, and a hunter passed onto my property to kill animals who I know by name.

I personally will probably never own a gun because historically I know I probably would have, at minimum, brandished it out of anger. I value my own freedom, and the safety of others, too much to own a gun. And from what I've read in news articles it seems a bunch of other people should do the same. But they don't. You can try to train morality, but you can't force others to use it.

The government acting the way it does is an instance of power corrupting. And the powerful not caring about the imposition others must deal with. It, too, is a balancing act.

I want to edit to add:

> but in my estimation if you consider it a right (which not everyone does clearly) you should defend it because there's no shortage of governments wishing to remove rights from its people.

The few times I am aware of that the right to bear arms has been pushed against the US government wanting to remove guns, a lot of people have died, and not on the government's side (thinking Ruby Ridge and Waco).
The parties flipped?

If that was true, I expect the Democrats to change their name to remove the taint of their slavery ,Japanese interment camp, KKK, and Jim Crow law legacy.
> 64 bit pointers

64 bit pointers was not "optimistic assumptions" about anything, it was just 64 bit pointers on 64 bits systems like most everyone else. And compressed oops were added more than a decade ago (https://wiki.openjdk.org/display/HotSpot/CompressedOops).

For reference that's about when x32 was added to the linux kernel, and unlike x32 compressed oops have not been on the chopping block for 5 years.

> enormous object headers.

Hardly? They're two words a class pointer, and a "mark words" for GC integration.
Which is why you have short lived (less than a week) certs that have to be renewed only by access to the corporate network before you can even power on and unlock the machine's drive encryption.
Then the well-off will just do whatever the fuck they want for a small “service charge”.
That's why he said that Git's feature set doesn't go far enough. Most projects need an issue tracker and a tool for discussing proposed changes. These things are out of scope for Git, but since people needed them, they congregated around a centralised service that builds around it. Of course, decentralised alternatives for issue tracking and pull requests exist, too.
It is not too far from the usual meaning if you take it to be a number instead of boolean. E.g. humans ~100, rat ~1, single-cell ~1e-8, etc
Where was your collective desire for world peace while the US invaded Iraq, Afeghanistan, bombed Lybia, and yes, promoted a coup of state in Ukraine to them close their eyes for 14 years to the bombing of the ethnic portion of their population in Russia?

Have you ever get at least superficially interested in the human cost on the Saudi military intervention on Yemen for the last few years?

Do you want me to introduce you to people that have been tortured by military regimes in South America, every one of them put in the power with the help of the United States of America?

If you think what Nuland and the other neocons that have been in the state department for the last 30 years, no matter which party is in power, are interested in world peace, you've drank too much kool-aid.
It's hard for me not to view the situation as intentional. Conversion of buses to guideway operation has been done by local shops in several cases around the world. If you look at the tunnel design it seems that the small side curbs may have been intended to support side guidewheels similar to what many AGTs use. It's hard to believe that introducing at least steering guidance would have been that big of a project, but when you look at the stations it seems pretty clear that there was zero consideration of any kind of existing guidance technology. Sure, some of this can be attributed to a very hand-wavey "we'll do it in software," but it's hard for me to believe that automation was every seriously planned when they didn't build out mechanical steering guidance and design the stations for it. That's well-established technology going just about to WWII and the early Boeing APM experiments, and with a track record of shops doing semi-custom conversions of existing vehicles.

Ultimately I think Boring/Tesla would introduce automation to the Las Vegas tunnels faster if they just bought a commercial moving-block system like Cityflo and adapted the vehicles. The fact that they don't seem to be pursuing this makes me think that the automation goal was never serious outside of its potential as a marketing tool for Tesla, which they are perhaps ironically also failing to deliver.
That's not a similar situation at all. Germany was very safe to build soon after the war, but was an occupied country that had to first prove good intentions. Remember the famous quote about NATO's purpose: "to keep Russians out, Americans in and Germans down". The last part was dropped some time later.
Uhm, I had pixel phone is the first Pixel. Once it started using wireless charging, I only use usb-c in three scenarios: I'm traveling and using a powerbank, I'm in a car and want to use Android Auto (for some reason my car has wireless Car Play, but not AA), or I'm on a couch and my phone is low on battery (never happened when I iPhone tho). For this reason, I travel with cables that have adapters for lightning. Annoying, but not the end of the world.

I realistically don't care what port is on my phone, but my wife's phone has USB-C and I have 9000 and 1 usbc cables at home.

> Every Operating System has to offer the user the choice of which browser they want to use. Except for Apple, they offer a choice of which UI you want to use, but on iOS the browser engine is always Safari (which kills competition hard on iOS devices).

This is due to security imposed on App Store apps: can't do JIT, and you can't have a reasonable JavaScript engine today without it. Frankly, I'm not concerned with what engine browser uses as long as everything synced.

I have plenty of annoyances with Apple, but what people usually bring up are from people just looking for reasons to hate on Apple for no reason.
Actually, it's built on users supplied to advertisers.

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Facebook's utility for me is now near zero, possibly negative. I'm only there because mom is there. Mom's only there because her friends are there.

Moving out of that morass - at least, until mom stops using computers is impossible.

At least with Amazon, Google, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft, etc, I (currently) have meaningful alternatives.

Network effects suck.
But shouldn’t we regulate the whole industry then instead of going after a single company?

You go after one company to establish legal precedent. Then you go after the whole industry.
Given that a third of the article is dedicated to talking about how a safe space is more important than freedom of expression, and seems to imply that "neutrality", rather than massive commercial influence and suppression based on that influence, is the key problem with social media, I have extremely low hopes for this.
Hey, I built this tool for myself, thought you lot might like it. Let me know if there's anything I should add or change to make it more useful to the community. I was thinking of somehow incorporating charts?
Well, the 3 billion devices (r) Java ran on certainly weren’t Sun workstations.
Okay but

> To avoid misleading the public, the images included text stating that they were produced by AI.

So doesn’t this really only impact the people… careless enough not to RTFA?

And then we get this hackneyed parting shot, parroting common myth/misconception about AI generated images:

> AI-generated images stitch together photographs previously taken by humans to create new ones…

Which, no, that makes it sounds like a collage,

> …raising questions of plagiarism and in photojournalism and the industry’s future. Torres said Amnesty’s use of AI images was an insult to the photojournalists who cover protests from the frontline.

“Won’t someone please think of the photojournalists!”

I am not impressed with this article.
Organizations learn, it gets embedded in the culture, tooling, and automation. I shared some of the rules that were embedded in our organization via style guides and onboarding.

There were a thousand automated checks to prevent you from doing the same thing as someone else that caused downtime in the past. It was virtually impossible to commit code that deleted/truncated a table, for example.
That's insane. Where?
Looks like a 404, would love to see the gist though!
Python's Missing Batteries
> The Hue bulbs are on the dimmer side compared to a traditional bulb

What do you mean, do they not produce the advertised number of lumens?

Just looking at specs, their highest output coloured bulb produces 1521 lumens at 4000K white colour temperature and 1055 lumens at 2700K [0].

That's very close to the brightest regular bulb I can find in stores (1600 lm).

[0] - https://www.philips-hue.com/en-gb/p/hue-white-and-colour-amb...
Something similar was reported years ago

https://youtu.be/vm1U5E44W90
Did you see the article on HN a few days ago about how legal marijuana purchases in the US fell from 2021 to 2022? There was a fair bit of debate around why exactly that was but I personally do think that what you mentioned is a part of it.

edit: here's the comments section https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35788120
Meanwhile, the EU tries to push similar nonsense: https://chatcontrol.eu

Let's think of the children for a moment! The children in the EU, GB and the USA will grow up under constant surveillance. So much growing up today happens in connection with digital communication. To invade children's privacy like this is just sick.
It is the fault of Git because it doesn't take it whole way. If the things I need to work are centralised then Git is not doing everything it should.

For comparison, check Fossil - https://www.fossil-scm.org/
It's talking about different families of programming languages, much like how we classify the different languages that people today speak[1]. I definitely got thrown off by the choice of terminology, but it makes sense once you go through the list.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-...
Sell them products that are secure by default. Unfortunately many of them are stuck with Office and Active Directory, so that's a bust. Even if it had secure defaults, it makes it incredibly easy to create huge gaping security holes without realizing.
Since we are on the topic, does anyone know what Shannon was up to after disrupting 3 fields?
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He got into ball juggling and built the mathematical theory that led to creation of an automated juggling machine: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/soco/project....

He actually showed that ball juggling is one of the most complex cognitive tasks that a human can undertake:
"The physical constraints that affect mastery and limit the number of objects juggled arise from gravity - more specifically, Newtonian mechanics (h=1/2gt2). Each ball must be thrown sufficiently high to allow the juggler time to deal with the other balls. The need for either speed or height increases rapidly with the number of objects juggled."
Waymo doubles robotaxi service area in Phoenix
Can we change title to "Shopify lays off 20% of it's workforce. Flexport acquires its Logistics sub-division".
Personally, the difference between GPT4 and 3.5 is, pretty immense for what I am using it for. I can use GPT 3.5 for things like summarization tasks (as long as the text isn't too complex), reformatting, and other transformation type tasks alright. I don't even bother with using it for logical or programming tasks though.
This article also misses the part where JetBrains got accused of being a Russian asset by tech media.
Getting regulatory approval to build is a very long process.
He proves that you can't necessarily derive semantics from syntax alone.

You don't need a whole room to do that, though. You already know that a sentence can be semantically ambiguous, with multiple distinct readings that can be resolved with context.

A Turing machine is distinct from a lookup table. It has a memory. Of course a lookup table doesn't "speak Chinese", but that's not a question anybody was asking.

It feels like Searle is trying to confuse your intuition: if you can look inside and see the mechanics then there can't be any "qualia" there. But the mechanics he's proposing simply do not work, so the question is moot.

I think the grandparent post is on the right track: the question Searle should have been asking is closer to one about P-zombies. The question he's actually asking isn't worth discussing, because the intuition he's pumping isn't about computationalism at all.
The next logical step is for CPU, in hardware you physically own, to have subscription that will unlock more cores. Imagine owning an Apple M2 device that requires an extra 30$ a month subscription to unlock 2 more cores.

I hope I'm joking....
Dang doesn't receive pings when at-mentioned. It's much more effective to email hn@ycombinator.com when you notice something you feel should be addressed or fixed. Cheers.
That's how it works for an object's attributes inside methods, since this is optional by default. I hate it but there's precedent.
Yup, `:C:THe::The` will do it.
In these kinds of moments I wish we had a parallel universe simulator because I would put pretty much any amount of money on that not being true.

The fact that kids crave fat, protein, and sugar and don't like vegetables isn't some mystery or a product of Cap'n Crunch and is as old as refined sugar. What do you think those visions of sugar plums were all about? They're growing and their bodies are sending them the "more calories" signal 24/7. When I was in HS I could put down two Chipotle burritos without breaking a sweat. When I bake for my nephews I have to make them sickeningly sweet to my own pallet but they practically unhinge their jaws to eat it faster. Little kids also haven't developed a taste for bitter and sour which adults for some reason forget and act shocked they don't like broccoli. It stopped being bitter to you.

I put all my chips on the fact that I had nowhere to expend all the excess energy. My neighborhood didn't have a park, I got a 30 minute recess, and the only entertainment that was readily available growing up was books, tv, and video games.
I was curious, having spent a couple decades doing network config automation, and it appears there is quite a bit of overlap with what they are calling SDN-WAN now.

It is my understanding that software defined networks in a data center local area network have controllers that set up a switching path for each new packet flow. When a new flow is detected the edge device, perhaps a switch, asks the controller what to do with it. The switches are dumb, it is the controller that is programmed with all of the rules for the network. A single (redundant) set of controllers has the rules to direct traffic through all the network devices in a data center.

The article seems to describe software defined networking over a wide area network as having a centralized configuration management server that maintains the configurations for all wide area networking devices - the configurations for tunnel endpoints, security access lists, and queueing. Software is put in charge of the device configs, but they are the same configs that a human might otherwise manipulate. Decisions on packet routing are handled by the end point devices, not by the controller.

This makes sense, given that outages on a wide area network might affect access to the centralized controller. You wouldn't want all the sites on your network to be unable to route traffic just because the site with the controller is no longer accessible over the wide area network.

Network config automation brings a lot of value, removing the element of human error, and allowing a set amount of network engineers to accomplish much more than they could otherwise.
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I'm not going to make apologies for SMS and MMS group chats, but in my close and extended circles (US, SF bay area) every single person has either Signal or WhatsApp. These aren't all tech people either, just people who are conscientious about privacy.
Way back when I was in grad school there was a fair bit of "tech" (a lot of it storage hardware) in the greater Denver area and the computer companies definitely pitched the skiing and general outdoor lifestyle as a reason to come work for them there.
That's true for EUR countries but another commenter claims 6% in a non eurozone EU country.
I got a Sowilo LED Strip (the discontinued Bifröst-147, replaced by -168) with their recommended power supply and Hue Controller, and I couldn't be happier. Its advantage over Hue is that it's much brighter.

https://sowilodesign.com/

I'm told there are cheaper equivalent solutions out there, but Sowilo's mostly turnkey solution was good enough for me. It helps keep S.A.D. at bay.
A lot of good points made here, thank you for sharing!
that’s the point of representatives then, which I’m into if they take this narrowly tailored approach
This a Canadian company which means you can get upto 2 years of pay via the courts. This stops most lawsuits but the one month for every year standard could mean some will sue. Older workers should sue because 4 months is not enough time to find similiar work

You could be over 50 work for a month and be entitled to 9 months pay. Talk to a lawyer before you sign
Getting an occasional "Error generating response" but pretty cool overall :) great work.
I’ll take that recommendation :)

Or at least I shall approach them with a more open mind.
> This is not in exclusion to all other AI research

well, even setting aside DHS, IBM is also listed as a funding partner. are you saying that after IBM gives cash to the NSF, then the NSF is fair and unbiased about publishing work that might hurt IBM and help their rivals? IBM is no doubt on this list because they want to buy influence and future government contracts before they miss the boat completely, whereas google/fb/openai feel they don't need to.

i think we should follow the money, look for the conflicts of interest. it's not like you have to make research illegal to exclude players. you just gradually push them out of the loop, restrict their access to capital & research.
> In the case of GitHub, Microsoft deploys changes whenever they want, whenever you want it or not.

That's because GitHub is used by millions of people every day all over the world. Business hours for them are around the clock. No matter when they update, if it breaks something, many people will hear about it regardless of when the break was deployed.
Underground things are more susceptible to flooding, not less. That's why basements flood so much.
All this talk that every investment pays off in the end is faulty and dangerous. Many investments don't pan out, 95% of the firms you see in the ticker this decade might be gone, and yet everyone is very confident is underwriting these "losses for future gains" but really it's economies of scale. It doesn't cost MSFT much more to run the GPU than to turn it on in the first place.
I personally chuckled when I saw this on the front page within minutes of finding out that the new Zelda is $70.
> Right, but in the mid '90s when Java was designed, 64 bit machines were basically an exotic architecture

No they weren't, not in the enterprise market. At home? sure.

SUN Microsystems released the Sparc v9 architecture in 1993. SUN also made the Java language and JVM.
YOU'RE THE MAN NOW DOG
Small communities do indeed own land and utilities.
Looks like Fragomen concurs with my solution:

> “Running the H-1B lottery by individual instead of by employer preserves employment flexibility while ensuring an even playing field for everyone,” said Kevin Miner of Fragomen in an interview. “A worker with ten job offers would have the same chance of being selected as a worker with one job offer, and if selected, he or she could then choose which of the ten potential employers will file an H-1B petition for them.”

> “If this change is made, it is important that the rules mandate that only one petition could be filed after the lottery selection, so only one H-1B number would be used,” said Miner. “However, it would be the worker who would have the freedom to choose their employer. This would be a fair and simple solution entirely consistent with the statute.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/05/01/immig...