skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With crop you lose part of the picture, the one who took the photo don't want that.
With AI removal tools they lose nothing.
There a podcast I follow occasionally, the presenter does a brief news-style interest story in a random subject. The first read through is sometimes incomprehensible (to me) but then he breaks down each phrase, and explains them (in French mostly). At the end he reads the piece in full again, and it's mostly comprehensible ... but that's a 2 minute piece of speech. Trying to do that for a whole movie would be way too much for me.

Perhaps that would suit you too:

Learn French with daily podcasts
https://www.chosesasavoir.com

RSS address: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/FODL4957050068

I use AntennaPod installed with F-Droid, far and away the best podcast player I've found.

(No affiliations or associations, just what I've found useful)
Russia’s Gains in the Great Arctic Race
Exactly. I work for a larger company that builds and maintains the electrical grid in many European countries. I won’t say there are no challenges, but I can assure you that we are confident that we can build the solution(s) to sustain no only EVs but everything else that’s gonna rely on the grid. One of the biggest show stoppers is actually current regulation. And even here, at least my employer is building and investing in solutions as if the required market regulation changes were already in place.
I Built a Robot to Paint Expensive Art (video)
Ask HN: Who else low-key wants Google Bard to get better than GPT-4?
I like Bard. It had a bad first impression but after Google threw in more PaLM magic to it, it has gotten much better. There are still times that GPT-4 produces more correct results. But I low-key wish Bard could get better than GPT-4. To some extent, Bard "feels" like a cleaner approach to creating safe LLMs whereas GPT-4 feels like a "hack".

Do you agree on these things?
Is everything that is gong to fail eventually just useless theater? Like new cars Re just transport theater because they will have to be junked eventually?

I agree that master private keys are bad security design, and we can and should do better. I'm just not willing to say that all past security value is retroactively nullified. That feels polemic more than realistic.
The end goal? Does life have a purpose? Is it possible to "solve all problems"? To even have a picture of where we are going? We move forward because there is nowhere else to go.

Perhaps there is a general state of societal enlightenment, but I've read too many sci-fi books to be anything but a skeptic.
That's where I ended up at. Messed with it for a couple hours then realized it had the same shortcomings of my nvim setup so improved that instead :)
Kherson’s ruined villages come to life with counteroffensive preparation
For starters, spell "help" correctly.
There must be something about grocery sites that makes them so awful. I've even submitted feedback to a delivery service that I used to use with comments like

"enabling a filter for meat shows recommended items from other categories above the meat products"

"clicking on page 2 of results resets all filters"

"searching for item X returns a list of results that does not contain it, but navigation shows it clearly exists"

etc.

How can it be so bad??
We've had HSMs for decades and Intel isn't forcing their OEMs to use them. This is pretty sad.
Based on discord's post: https://discord.com/blog/usernames it seems it happens more than you'd expect; particularly as discord has been on the uptick to being ubiquitous among teens/young adults who may wish to add each other after meeting in person
Transit time, particularly in the transfer points between types of transportation. Imagine leaving for the airport 30 minutes before take-off time rather than 2 hours, and not needing to spend half an hour de-planing and collecting your baggage. Many short-haul commuter flights (eg. ~1H from SFO to Reno or LAX to Vegas) become viable, and HSR is much more practical if you don't need to worry about connections or last-mile transportation.

You could commute Merced -> Google in about 50 minutes with this system, less than the shuttle to SF currently takes. It'd be 2 stops on CA HSR (Merced -> Gilroy -> SJC, 30 minutes), then 1 stop on a Caltrain baby bullet (SJC -> MTV, 15 minutes), then a self-driving car for the 2 miles from MTV Caltrain to Google (5 minutes). Best of all, you wouldn't need to interrupt what you're doing - you could take a nap, or code, or read a book, or watch a TV show and not need to put it away every time you switch transportation modes. Think of what that'd do to housing prices, if the commutable distance from the Bay Area extended out to the Central Valley.

Also, computer-controlling all the individual vehicles allows the possibility of moving transfers. Imagine if HSR didn't need to come to a stop for passengers to embark and disembark. The self-driving car could instead accelerate up to ~100mph and the train would decelerate to that, and then pods would move over as their chassis lined up. One of the biggest issues with rail transportation is that you lose much of the travel time to stops, acceleration, and deceleration; get rid of that your trains can go much faster.

There's a lot of benefit to using self-driving cars/scooters only for the last-mile and using bulk transport like trains or planes for the majority of the trip, too. It's fewer vehicle miles overall and a shorter trip radius for the EV, which cuts down on overall energy use and makes recharging simpler.
I fail to see how Apple is his "best" company in the sense of it having sufficient 'moatyness'.

It's products rely on consumers continuing to find their products fashionable which in my opinion can change with the wind.

Additionally as Apple becomes more vertically integrated they risk becoming increasingly stuck in one position and less flexible if consumer desires change or competitive technology out performs Apple's products.
It's not a new technique but more accessible and easier to use and it get integrated into the photo apps.

You assume that people keep photos they don't want, especially if they show "flaws" they don't like.
Of course. I couldn't do what I do there and would never suggest anyone choosing that life should change. I value personal freedom immensely.

There are definitely things that could be done in that situation to limit the need for driving. I have no real way to know if the people living outside of cities do such.
I do not want malware authors to be able to run code on my machine outside of my control. That prevents me from knowing whether it is installed, what it is doing, or to have a way to get rid of it.

Holomorphic encryption allows someone's interests to be secured. But I'm dubious that I'm the one who will actually benefit here.
>a minority of the minority produces a lot

They produce a whole lot of edits. They don't actually contribute an especially large amount of content, which is the thing with real value.

The content is mostly written by subject matter experts that contribute large blocks of useful text to just a few articles each.
No one is building nuclear at scale currently. Maybe with SMR it will be possible.
I would argue that EVs are just the tip of the iceberg.

>The race is on to decarbonize road transport and get drivers to switch to electric vehicles (EVs).

Actually the race is on to decarbonize all the things (at least here in France). My wife works at RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Electricité), which is the grid company here. She makes studies for customers that require more power, so she basically see where new power lines could be placed, whether a new high voltage station is required, etc.

These last years, she noticed a rise for such demands, as the whole heavy industry has been decarbonizing their processes: chemicals, metallurgy... Coal and other fuels (used for heat production for instance) are being replaced either by electricity, or by green hydrogen (so even more electricity).
To complete my thought. Yes Money is used as an optimization function, its just that we have chosen Money as the Goal of our Money Optimization function. We aren't trying to Optimize 'resources' as believed, that is just a byproduct that sometimes occurs, but not necessarily.
I strongly suspect this story is nonsense.

1. It seems unlikely that all the students were conspiring except one. Why leave one student - and exactly one - out? Was s/he incredibly unpopular? Did s/he have minimal contact with the others? I suppose it's possible, but it's also quite strange.

2. It seems unlikely the students didn't understand that if the schedule was random there was a non-zero chance of non-cheating Student 1 doing the admin.

3. It's more likely the schedule was posted ahead of time. Given that, it seems unlikely that anyone would be surprised or flustered when the schedule went as scheduled and the alleged plan failed.

4. It seems very unlikely that the keys would literally be chosen out of a hat. IME of these kinds of exams there's no need for randomness. Students tend to be asked for the less familiar keys because they're less likely to know them well. If someone gets C major and someone else gets Gb major for random reasons it's really not much of a fair test.

5. It seems quite unlikely that a student would be asked to hang around and do admin for an entire day - especially when the admin is essentially trivial anyway.

6. It seems unlikely that anyone who could play the short and long pieces well would be completely put off by being asked to play a scale they hadn't practiced.

7. It seems unlikely that a student would literally say "Oh we didn't practice because we wanted to spend our time partying and dating." That sounds like something someone would say about students, not something students would say about themselves. (This isn't about whether it's true, but whether someone that age would use those words.)

To be clear: this isn't about defending cheating. I just find don't this story very plausible.

Also, the irony that this article about cheating may be somewhat elaborated isn't lost on me.
Network effects in a marketplace are clear. Buyers go where the sellers are, sellers go where the buyers are, etc.

Craigslist networking is mostly local, so some places there's not much in the way of listings (for jobs, services, marketplace, etc) and some places only one category is popular and some places you would find your job, your apartment, your furniture, and before personals went away, maybe your spouse.
Doesn't really matter /a or not, it's a ridiculously reductive and extremist position either way.

Security is about tradeoffs, most notably security vs convenience, but also many others.

Anyone who suggests that their personal preferences in tradeoffs are not just universally correct but also the only reasonable position to hold is just silly.
I don't know if this extension foxes it, but I've found learning language through Netflix difficult as the subtitles and dialog don't match, neither for dubbing or original.
The way I would solve all of this is make disappearing servers so you can just share a server link and add people in the interface that way. I have almost never added people externally most of it comes from in server interactions.
Rideshare doesn't eliminate the need for private vehicles, but reduces the need for the Nth vehicle.
Crypto in the US is dead, who benefits?
I think you have the crux of it... this person has a very long essay explaining why this change makes it more comprehensible to more readers.

This is what an editor should do. What's the problem? Let them spend their time on it if they like, it seems like most times no one even notices the change.

It's not being pedantic if you are doing it to improve real life readability based on real feedback, even if it seems trivial.
For about a decade now I've been building robotics software UIs in a context where we don't have a design team (internal software, tech savvy users, start-up pace). One of the things I've found to work so consistently well is the kind of test shared in this article. I regularly say, "to learn what we don't yet know about the problem space" when asked about why I like shipping things ASAP and then worrying about design characteristics later.

I'm convinced that design regularly impacts a feature's usefulness, but is rarely necessary to make it useful at all. That is: it's important but not required.

Of course this is for a captive audience. For something you're trying to sell, window dressing can matter.
> "clicking on page 2 of results resets all filters"

My favorite is when you add a filter when you're on page 2 and now you're on page 2 of the filtered results.
How is that different from any other language?

For instance, Chinese/Eastern medical jargon is objectively more readable than Western terms (unless you are fluent in Greek and Latin), but that doesn't mean you'll be able to understand them without some prior exposure.

French is also spoken outside of France.
It's most likely people who have a different belief system or cultural background to the test setters...
Ask HN: How do I sell equity from my private company in the secondary markets?
I am fortunate enough to work at a company that would have gone public last yeaar, before the market declined. Think a company similiar to Stripe.

I am considering equitybee, but wanted to know if anyone has gone through this process and what i should know about trying to sell my equity in the secondary markets.
Then you can disconnect and not put any pressure on the grid
Microkernels by themselves are not special; SeL4 is because it's proven to be secure.
The only thing I know of that provides a desktop is genode, which can run on top of seL4 (but also quite a few other kernels). Given that it'll be more like dinking around with genode than seL4 proper, exactly because of this multi kernel abstraction layer...
I agree that this is the reason, but having Intel as the guard only makes it so that it could have already been hacked/leaked/bypassed and you never know.

At least if it was user controlled we can ensure that other people's leaked keys don't bypass our security.
Old reddit has less bugs too. First time, using reddit, I used the new version. But my internet connection was too bad, this caused a lot of problems with the new version.

When I knew about the old version, I tried. And wow, almost every bugs I had with the new one went away. Faster load too.
Yes, that’s one example. Relatively simple to implement yourself. Any frontend for chatgpt already does the basic thing, which is to pass the previous messages along with the prompt.

I think we may end up with first and second stage completions, where the first stage prepares the context for the second stage. The first stage can be a (tailored) gpt3.5 and the second stage can do the brainy work. That way you can actively control costs by making the first stage forward a context of a given maximum size.
Think about current times, and imagine there was some group with an imperialistic vision set out to subjugate the rest of society to help build their vision. Do you think this group would be more, or less, successful in a time where both society and the imperialists had access to the same AGI? In other words, if we give both groups to the exact same tool, would the capacity/knowledge gap widen or narrow?
So are bomb threats and false advertising.

I don't think "it's just characters" is a one-simple-trick.
Drum brakes are one of the many things that contribute towards EVs becoming lighter than equivalent ICE cars over time, as they weigh less than disc brakes (about 25% lighter, 10lbs maybe, and unsprung weight too).

As the link states, they also increase efficiency, and that allows for smaller batteries, less weight. They're also looking into lighter weight aluminium disc brakes because EVs use them less, and it prevents issues with low usage disc brakes rusting.
> I don't know if this extension foxes it, but I've found learning language through Netflix difficult as the subtitles and dialog don't match, neither for dubbing or original.

100 000 times this. I don't understand why it's like that but they simply often don't match. And it's not some automated translation that went wrong: it's as if the subtitles didn't match exactly the final "script". They don't match but the subtitles are still totally correct. Sometimes the sentences are formulated differently.

It's honestly both a mystery and a gigantic WTF for me. Are these only meant for deaf people? And how did they manage to get "correct but non-matching" subtitles?
I was going for cute, but your point is well taken. Might as well treat it seriously. Thank you.
Headers and C style macros are probably the most unfortunate aspects of C (and by extension, C++).

So many hacks in compilers to try to work around this. A shame there is no language level fix for this nonsense.

Really wish there could be a C++—- that would improve on C in areas like this, and avoid all the incredible nonsense of C++. And no, not Rust or Go.
Decentralization of office work will have effects that ripple out for decades to come. There's nothing inherently superior to urban, suburban, or rural living. Everything is a tradeoff. We'd all be better off if more costs of infrastructure were more directly connected to those utilizing them.
I wonder if there's something generally true about bureaucracies in that: do they all eventually come to value precision over accuracy?

Given how bureaucrats often travel in large packs and seem to find safety in numbers, maybe it's unsurprising that they would value agreeing with each other over finding the truth.

I had no idea the SEO world had its own bureaucracies of human web-site raters, though. I guess it makes sense that lots of large companies would invest in creating that sort of thing. :(
The pictures from the towed boat verify this. The sails were reefed during the tow, which says that it wasn't wind that was supplying the power.
Or things like DRMed media systems
AMD OpenSIL Planned to Replace Agesa Firmware in Client and Server in 2026
They don't have especially complementary profiles for a generation mix, unfortunately. So at scale it seems like you have to pick one or the other.
The trend was a net increase in capacity from 2011 to 2017. From 2017 until today the trend has been a net decrease in capacity. There were 206GW available in 2017, there were 194GW available in 2022. Which is a 6% loss overall.

Which may be fine on it's own, but if you're planning on bringing a bunch of new demand on to the grid, you're headed towards an uncomfortable corner.
I have no plans to visit China, thankfully.
FYI, I wasn't trying to be snarky. Just mentioning that people are more willing to help if they see you've done your homework.
That’s the same argument that people use to support the second amendment (the people’s right to bear arms)
Yesn't

1. some EFIs are broken in ways that make using private platform keys hard or impossible

2. there are PCIe cards which need option ROMs to be executed (most commonly that dedicated GPUs), this ROMs are not always but often signed by one of the Microsoft Keys and removing it from the trust db will prevent the ROMs from running and lead to all kinds of problems, e.g. not having any video and in turn not being able to undo to EFI setting/disable secure boot. You can make sure the specific ROMs are whitelisted, but then you need to be very very careful about e.g. graphics drivers updating the GPU firmware and similar. And putting the right data in the trust db isn't easy either.
Which system?
This I think is a result of the mythology of "rugged individualism" so prevalent in the US.
Startup Founders Can Balance Parenthood and Business
I've read a lot of anti cheat RE in the past, seems like the cheater/modder people have found their way to the infosec community, can you elaborate on how this would accelerate Valorant cheating.
Is their watchguard thing using some Intel feature?
How do you train such models? Where do you get the training dataset?
Using predictions from arbitrary models to get tighter confidence intervals
Constexpr auto ymd {year(2021)/January/day(23)}; (std:chrono:operator/)
Fine. Have a first-come-first serve lottery system. Person with the lowest discriminator wins that name. You have to open that up to everyone (not just those who pay), but that should be relatively easy to do.

IMO, I think it's also ok to give preference to people who 1) were there first 2) pay for the service
this process (neutron capture and decay) contributes to only a small amount of magnesium in the reactor coolant, as the probability of neutron capture by sodium-23 is relatively low compared to other reactions involving the reactor's fuel, coolant, and/or structural materials.
3 people can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Good luck with hundreds!
> not really... batching a bunch of orders and delivering them out of a van is about as efficient as last mile logistics can get.

It's definitely more efficient than driving yourself, but it's also hiring out your driving to someone else, which counts against someone being able to "walk everywhere" because it requires you to assume that the person can make up any shortcomings in their location with mail order. Point is, you can't realistically walk everywhere in most places.
Sorry, what things were good and when? Your young what?
The leaked key means that now owners of hardware will be able to read and modify the firmware, including IME, and check it for backdoors
John Novak proposes a different hypothesis for Photoshop's choice of gamma=1.42 in text antialiasing:

"Photoshop antialiases text using γ=1.42 by default, and this indeed seems to yield the best looking results (middle image). The reason for this is that most fonts have been designed for gamma-incorrect font rasterizers, hence if you use linear space (correctly), then the fonts will look thinner than they should."

https://blog.johnnovak.net/2016/09/21/what-every-coder-shoul...
…but that may be the loud minority who posts the content that attracts all the New Reddit users.
I start seeing pink jackrabbits out of the corners of my eyes after about 40 hours.
I don't understand how such keys can leak?

Hasn't intel heard about locking keys in hardware, e.g. like with hardware security key modules similar but faster/flexibler then a TPM. Surly one of the main developers of TPM does understand that concept.... right? /s
Ask HN: Software to share your library with friends?
I and some friends would like to set up a shared library program where we can see the contents of each other's bookshelves and then borrow books from each other easily. I was looking around for suitable software; TinyCat looks reasonable but I'm not sure if it's the perfect solution to this problem. Do you have any recommendations?

I'm happy to self host but that's not a requirement. Bonus points for good FOSS solutions.

Edit: in case you're wondering, I'm talking about physical dead-tree books, not ebooks.
It actually supports the opposite conclusion for me, the fact that physical differences causes experiential differences suggests experience, and therefore consciousness has a physical basis.
There's a difference between temporary security and security theater.

Real but temporary security -> This 2048 bit key you generated will be commercial grade protection until at least 2030. Sometime after that computers will be strong enough to brute force it. Do not store anything with this key that will still be highly sensitive in 7 years. It's possible the underlying algorithm is cracked, or a leap in quantum computers happen that will make the key obsolete sooner.

Security theater -> All software running on this chip must be signed with our master key. Please trust all software we sign with this key, and no malicious party will have access to it. You are not allowed to run arbitrary software on your hardware because it is not signed with our key.

In the first case, the security is real. You own the lock, you own the key, and you control the entire security process. In the second case, you neither own the lock, the key, and basically have limited access to your own hardware.