skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While they don't track other people everywhere at once, the media does record what people say or do and you as an individual have little control concerning what's published about you and how and to what degree other will react. But this form of recording isn't generally called spying, even if the circumstances are disadvantageous or even dangerous to the subject being recorded. When it comes to the media, the general understanding is that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in a public area. I don't see why it would be different for government. In addition, the government needn't set up these cameras when it can simply request footage from third parties such as Nest and/or its end-users. The person "violating" your expectation to privacy in a public setting is your fellow private citizen whether for occupational or security-related reasons. The same is true for public posts on the Internet. There is nothing that forbids the government from copy and compiling information that's publicly available to all.
How does the setup process check for firmware, anyways? If there's a malicious firmware preinstalled I'm guessing it could just lie to the host computer and pretend to be not there until setup is complete. Once an attacker has hardware control, no software can save you.
if f(x) == g(x) is satisfiable, you get one value of x for which f(x) == g(x)

if f(x) != g(x) is satisfiable, you get one value of x for which f(x) != g(x)

Both of these are useful in practice.
Isn't this what some of the nordic countries do? They send you have receipt/bill and you have a window to correct it.
I wonder how curated the input data is. Just on the surface of it, there's a lot of spaghetti code out there that people may have shared. I once saw a codebase that used three different implementations of a date/time structure and overloaded operators to convert between them. Or people rolling their own crypto, sort, or random functions, reimplementing data structures, etc.
But why do you care?

It’s like debating whether “the internet” is a moat, in 1990.

Tech is never a moat. That’s not new or interesting. Business processes can be, brand can be, scale can be. And it is far far far far far far too early to even think about moats in the AI business.
In terms of code, do you know if he has contributed substantially to any open-source projects? I just about the fetchmail/CML2 from wikipedia.

I guess ncurses sort of, but..
edit- Wow, THE Don Hopkins?
Nowhere. Where does it say RMS is entitled to give this talk?
KIP-405 is coming :)
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-405%3A...
> We ll never know what "the situation" is and whatever "statements that do not correspond to any of our values" are.

All we know is that someone was paid by the Swiss tax-payers to write that.

> Did stallman say something since he was invited that was particularly noticeable?

Maybe they found another anonymous blog post to cancel him? Who knows.
Also posted 12 days ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35808792
You just narrowed your claim down to a very small group of nations in the entire world.

It's like when people say: Europe is so much better at xyz. When what they mean is: Finland is amazing, you know, tiny little 5m person Finland, with very little diversity and a strongly exclusionary (just try immigrating into it as a low-skill poor person) homogeneous culture, it's amazing. The same goes for much of affluent Europe: it's hyper exclusionary, elitist, and often extraordinarily racist against outsiders.

Meanwhile the US is the world's largest economy, has welcomed tens of millions of poor people from the third world over the past 40 years (and that door is still very much open), has the third largest population and is hyper diverse compared to nearly all peers in Europe. Even Canada is drastically less diverse than the US. It's far easier to manage a nation that consists of an overwhelmingly dominant single culture, there are far fewer competing interests or complexities.

A country as large and complex as the US, with that much diversity, and that many layers of government to manage it all (federal, state, local; the US state government system is gigantic in its own right), is going to be a very messy machine. There's no scenario where that isn't going to be the case, no matter where it exists.

The only reasonable comparison regardless, due to the scale, is the US to Europe broadly. The US does just fine on that comparison. Shall we talk about how nice Western Russia is? How about the last 20-30 years of Greek and Italian history? Or is the premise to only refer to the good outcomes of Europe?
I love this AI cheating detection stuff.

Mostly because it really gets at the root of the issues in education.

Like, fine, you have made some system where cheating is impossible. Great.

But have your students learned anything?

If educators put in even a iota of effort into learning their students, then they know who is cheating and who isn't.

But if they put that same amount back into teaching, then everyone wins.

Education is not a contest with winner and losers.

(Yes, ok, you went to a bad school where it was a contest for your pre-med degree. Look where that has gotten US healthcare.)
For physically hardened devices, this attack vector can be mitigated quite efficiently by including an attestation key with each device and validating that after taking possession (or ideally before any interaction). At least one competitor does that.

To my knowledge, current Trezor devices are unfortunately not (sufficiently) key extraction proof, though; in that scenario, attackers might be able to extract the private attestation key of a legitimate device and then go on to impersonate it in their own version.

This again could be mitigated by e.g. making the attestation key device-unique and offering an online validation service (which could keep track of unusual verification patterns and alert users), but it's not an easy problem to solve.
Is this training just to understand code, or is training to understand code and language?

(If we're comparing you to the model, is the model starting at "baby" or "teenager"?)
The last artist listed (Desmond Henry) was one of the professors of philosophy when I was a student at Manchester University (actually his official status was Reader). I still have one of his original drawings he gave me some 40 odd years ago. He was one of nicest people (and certainly the most eccentric person) I've met in my entire life. His academic speciality was medieval philosophy.
Agreement is predictability. Predictability is vulnerability. Vulnerability is susceptibility.

Evolution in identity either creates super organisms like ants or infinitely recursive "self" that necessarily requires unpredictability to ensure theatre not susceptible to coercion towards vulnerability.

So, if you want self identity, you can't be agreeable and if you want survival, you can't be vulnerable.
Musk must still have his tweets approved by Tesla lawyer, federal court rules
Yeah, that's literally the point of the study, recruiting a small group of people to go first and see how it goes.
It's funny, flu shots can make you feel sick. That's your body reacting and your immune system adjusting.

But compared to actually getting the flu, you get to skip the part where the disease eats at your organs and rips through your body destroying things.

So yes, you may feel sick after a flu shot. But I consider the alternative makes it worthwhile.
I was actually wondering recently why we haven't heard from him in years.

Do you have any news source you learned this from? Or was it through people who know him?
Free filing would by definition be both, as people using it would be unlikely to have separate tax prep services.

Ergo, imagine there's a checkbox option that would apply to 25% of free filers to save them money. How would the IRS free file handle that from a UX perspective? What are their incentives?

Alternatively, suppose a feature used by 10% of filers is broken for the current tax year. How long does it take to get fixed?

Current private solutions are incentivized to optimize those ("We save you the most money!") and fix them ("Our software isn't broken").

And because only the data transfers over to the IRS, all the prep optimization can be done independent of the IRS.

Some of the incentive concerns would be alleviated by (as this did) building this from a different branch of government (e.g. US-DS).

But at the end of the day, it's still the government telling you how much to pay the government. Or as the joke went about the 1040-EZ: "How much money did you make? Good. Give it to us."
My pedometer says otherwise
You are mistaking pop-ethics for ethics. Ethics has a technical terminology (which the GP presents) that doesn't 100% align with pop-usage, as is very common in many fields. If you want to talk in detail about a subject matter it is usually best to align your thoughts with the specialists to avoid having to re-hash things they have already sorted out. This is in comparison to talking to a general audience where these sorts of details aren't important (and this is reflected in your references) where even the specialists won't differentiate.
They're all perfectly cromulent words.

Now... let's ask Chat GPT to make a pop song that would make Adriano Celentano blush. https://www.npr.org/2012/11/04/164206468/its-gibberish-but-i...
Biology: Its Principles and Implications, by Garrett Hardin.

Engrossing, interesting, even funny. I read it as a teenager in a Spanish translation and couldn't put it away.
Or... even better! "Case study: fake"
I’ve changed how I use Twitter. It’s now in readonly or reactive mode for me. I may comment and retweet but all new content is now being posted to mastodon. While this seemed hard to want to do at first, mastodon actually has a ton of quality of life improvements like edit your post to fix your typos. I swear I feel like I was in a Stockholm Syndrome with Twitter just accepting that you can’t edit your tweets. Why was that ever acceptable? You can’t add alt text to an image you already uploaded. You must choose to delete a tweet that is maybe gaining traction or live with your typing mistakes. Ugh. Honestly it feels like getting out of a bad relationship. Happy to invest in communities that are outside of Elon’s control.
Yeah I just figured if AWS or my Bank could get back to me within a few hours that maybe Twilio would too. This is my first experience with an API that has done this. For example setting up other APIs like Apple Notification, Google Maps, Spotify, has always been pretty strait forward. Haven't used Strip yet but maybe they also have this level of security.
If the attacker's goal was to erase the user's data, and the firmware _didn't_ erase data on invalidation, then the attacker could simply write a firmware that erases the user's data.
William Scheier, the guy who wrote “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” wrote and article warning against the rise of a united Germany.

It seems quaint in retrospect.
Germany is currently making noises about maybe, possibly, rearming. Other countries (France!) seemed ticked they aren’t doing it faster.
Given the anti-vaccine resurgence, I think it is unlikely for the flu vaccine update to reach that sort of critical mass.
> The main safeguard is to buy your wallet directly from the official vendor and choose models with special versions of protected microcontrollers (even original Trezors aren’t ideal in this sense: there are other brands’ wallets with better protected chips and extra protection mechanisms).

Yet another hilarious example of where a the solution to security in an alledgedly trustless system designed to subvert authority comes down to ... trust and authority.
Of course CAs revoke certs all the time. Are you implying the CA was politically motivated because of the site?
Kafka won't ack to the producer in default conf until the replicas have acked to the leader.
I recommend getting the book if you have the remotest interest in the topic. It's only $3 on Amazon.

It's a great read, better than any novel.
Confluent don't own Kafka :)
Maybe it's that I'm not rested right now but I find it hard to follow this train of thought because your reasoning is kinda wide, lofty and out there but I think OP means that it's irrational to throw Bill Gates entirely to the side based only on -another person- he associated with. Like how picky and fussy people refuse to touch something clean and unspoiled just because it sat next to something else that happened to be gross and smelly. I know it's clean but eww, icky. That kind of guilt by association.

Epstein's lawyers and his realtor, his tailor and his golf partners also associated with him but they don't appear at all to be desirable targets to debase with the same treatment and that's probably because they aren't rich or powerful or influential. And I'm certain that's what's tripping you. It's not just OK but maybe even preferential and encouraged by you to take a dump on certain people when a tiny vague chance presents itself only because the person is powerful.

I found this earlier comment from you on this topic which is a bit funny given your statement. To me youre kinda describing yourself.

HN is pretty divided about Stallman. Bringing up the things he actually at one
time said, even if later he said something different, results in a lot of
downvoting and toxicity. You can't talk about him without it devolving into
binary thinking and binary debates. Same as everything else in 2023 I guess.
The fundamental problem is that the government spends way more than it takes in. Until they fix that, the currency is just a detail.
More sophisticated version of the malicious firmware could try to patch the new ota firmware image on the fly. Once compromised - always compromised.
In Warcraft we call this deathrolling, and it’s a fun way to gamble away all your gold.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Get started making music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29055433 - Oct 2021 (144 comments)

Get Started Making Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965386 - Sept 2019 (184 comments)

Get started making music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14299628 - May 2017 (461 comments)

Get started making music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14291332 - May 2017 (2 comments)
Show HN: dreamGPT: What if LLM hallucinations were a feature and not a bug?
The first GPT-based solution that uses hallucinations from LLMs for divergent thinking to generate new and novel ideas. Hallucinations are often seen as a negative thing, but what if they could be used for our advantage? dreamGPT is here to show you how. The goal of dreamGPT is to explore as many possibilities as possible, as opposed to most other GPT-based solutions which are focused on solving specific problems.
["string","string"] and [1,2], that is comma-quote and comma-number are both fairly common. Granted ModKey-(#|") is also pretty unlikely to be a command
Here is GPT-4's attempt; 49-51 appear to be far off while the rest at least have some relation to the British Museum translation. I imagine there is some room for ambiguity.

(49) They brought the (il-bi-nu) sig4 e2-gal-tur-ra to his (szu-a-tu2) place.

(50) To the market, they went (aq-qur-ma) quickly (qaq-qa-ru), very much (ma-a'-du).

(51) Like (ki-ma) the (a-tar-tim-ma) from the heart (lib3-bi) of the (a-sza3-mesz) they were taken away (ab-tuq-ma).

(52) His (ugu-szu2) foundation was laid (usz-rad-di) in the (na4) stone (pi-i-li) of the (na4 kur) powerful mountain (dan-ni).

(53) They (usz-szi-szu2) built (ad-di-ma) it complete (tam-la-a) and perfect (u2-mal-li).

(54) And thus (ad-ke-e-ma) the kings (lugal-mesz) of Hatti and the other side (e-ber) of the river (i7).

(55) King (disz lugal) Balu of (iri) Surri, King (disz lugal) Menasi of (iri) Yaudi.

(56) King (disz lugal) Qaus-gabri of (iri) Udume, King (disz lugal) Musur of (iri) Maab.

(57) King (disz s,il-en lugal) of (iri) Haziti, Metinti (disz me-ti-in-ti) the prince (man) of (iri) Isqaluna.
Stallman's comments can be verified. However we have no idea what Reid Hoffman saw or did on the island - he had plausible deniability. Therefore Stallman can face social consequences for his actions (without exposing EPFL to a defamation lawsuit), that is much harder with Reid Hoffman.
Does the meat really taste better, or is it because it's buried in a sauce full of sugar?
Easy as one, two, three!
> All Trezor devices are distributed without firmware installed - you will need to install it during setup. This setup process will check if firmware is already installed on the device. If firmware is detected then the device should not be used. [...] The bootloader verifies the firmware signature each time you connect your Trezor to a computer. Trezor Suite will only accept the device if the installed firmware is correctly signed by SatoshiLabs.

This is an absurd security model. Where's the root of trust here? How do I know I am initially talking to an authentic "blank" device, and not a malicious one pretending to be one?

> If unofficial firmware has been installed, your device will flash a warning sign on its screen upon being connected to a computer.

Hopefully, malicious firmware won't meddle with this feature in any way...

The vendor here is either completely clueless, or is trying to paint a better picture for prospective customers despite knowing better.
This could/would be bad for consoles other than Xbox. Truly bad news.
I also don't believe the people that say they want a simple tax code. This is the same country that loves coupons, discounts and promo codes. You really think they're gonna give up the tax breaks in the name of elegance and simplicity?
"Don't drive off the cliff"

"I agree not to drive off the cliff if you agree to these other things."

Yes, technically those are both demands.

[EDIT] I think the core thing I'm not getting here is why you think the Republicans aren't the ones demanding something in exchange for a debt ceiling increase because they put those demands in bill form and passed them. I do not follow how that somehow makes it not the thing that it literally is.
The best parts of the show were the original parts that focused on the Empire and Lee Pace did a great job as Brother Day. The show dropped off hard whenever it focused on the actual settlement on Terminus and it remained extremely unfaithful to the books all the way through.
Intel already has Clear Linux actually.

I don't think there's really a ton you can do at an OS level. ZFS L2ARC, system swap, etc, but a lot of the benefits would come from tuning DB configs/etc to suit the new hardware. If it's a fast SSD... ok are you the DBA?

Similarly, PDIMM is really best utilized by a ground-up rethink of applications operating in a persistent context (think of like, javacard multicore 1TB or whatever). If you treat it as slow RAM it's gonna be slow RAM. The point would be building systems and applications that exploit the "writing the memory is now writing the disk" idiom. The ideal ecosytem for PDIMM isn't Linux at all, it's JVM, or LISP/Haskell. Or android I suppose lol.
> Yes, not every random app and feature you use on Xorg will have a Wayland equivalent. Deal with it.

This is straight from the Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers model: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html.
I have the old (1975) book "Writing And Selling Science Fiction" by Science Fiction Writers of America (ie various).

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1739693

and it has lots of good advice. Pretty sure it has the Adam and Eve Trope.
See https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/22/whats-going-on-with-certif...
In one sense you’re of course right that correlations are all we have.

I think the most basic thing is correlating with wealth, or other aspects of a livid environment. “Urban life engenders both early smartphone acquisition and more mental issues (at least self reporting)” is one hypothesis. Another is “social network usage correlates to more mental issues, and having smartphones gives more access to this” (which is relevant! But should be checked. Is it the phone? Is it social networks?)

The point being that you are trying to establish a causal narrative, and right now there’s not much to chew on.

If we want to help children we should dig deeper to understand actual causes instead of simply reporting the horizontal lines we found.
The Three Paths of Micro.Blog
Many soft contact lenses in US made up of PFAS, research suggests
Framing "let's not drive off the cliff" as a demand for... not driving off the cliff, is pretty weird, but OK.
That's the thing, Stallman does not say anything about teenagers being attracted to other, younger teenagers!

Especially since the quote was in the context of dutch pedophiles organizing to create a pro pedophilia party. Those are explicitly adults, some were very old adults too, organizing to be able to have sex with kids and teens. It wasn't just him defending teenagers fooling around or sending nudes.

(I added a bit more to my other comment after I posted, sorry about that)
It’s interesting nobody is predicting the wars of the 1990s - Bosnia, Serbia, etc.
Gotcha. My bad, thanks for clarifying.
> If you thought of and executed ChatGPT, or Tindr, or Facebook, before their creators, would you still have the same "ethical" views that you claim should be followed?

Do you mean in terms of developing the services, or in terms of scale? If you're talking about scale, I can assure you there are many people would never be confronted with that scenario since their ethics would have held them back. There is a world of difference between being successful and being a titan. Even though anyone can have questionable ethics, amassing power over others virtually ensures that one has questionable ethics.
Well, they did write most of it, and the PMC composition is changing.

> Nothing gets done without Confluent's approval or best interest at heart.

I disagree. This explicitly competes against the tiered storage in Confluent's enterprisey Kafka flavour: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-405%3A...
The user is meant to keep a backup copy of the seed written down somewhere safe.

If the firmware had been tampered with, there is no safe way to extract the key. Better that the user uses the recovery seed on a fresh device.

Which means the weakest link of your fancy hardware wallet is how well you hide that bit of paper with your seed phrase.
we also had more secretaries and people who just retyped things all day in the 90's!
Count me in. Any kind of formalization is empowering, but what practical applications can it have? I'm sure there are quite few of them, but what are they?
> When did everyone suddenly start spending what seems to be a non negligible amount of time worrying if they are affected by this or that or that or this?

I don't spend time "worrying if I may be affected". Who does?

My reaction to reading up on the topic was "oooooh, so many things that didn't make sense about my behavior suddenly make sense now". It was a happy moment.

Reading up more, I started to find advice that actually works. Which was extremely refreshing, as most of the advice I was getting before outright failed, regardless of how hard I tried to implement it. Now I know why.

Are you sure you aren't fighting a straw man?

Mindlessly "toughing it out" is exactly how you end up with people who aren't responsible and independent and have no slightest clue on why or how to change it.
Both of these checks seem to rely on the device playing along nicely. During the setup process it can just pretend to be empty, and completely ignore the uploaded firmware. Similarly, the warning sign depends on the device to show it - which the article mentioned was patched out by the attacker.
> The claim was that unions would be an improvement.

You do understand that something can have a similar base, but one is better in other areas, right? Surely you get that and you just forgot.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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