skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like them cancelling their meetings is a reasonable response no matter the content. Clearly there's some amount of attention going towards these meetings, and they have a literal court case directly policing what can be discussed. If I were some rando working for Facebook doing communications, I'd cancel that shit until my boss told me what to do. Conspiracy or not, I don't think the cancellation of be used as a strong signal.

Much more likely they'll resume meetings but with transcripts vetted by lawyers
Trivial to code up a custom feed to show however long you want.
>But even students treat it as such. Many of the people I know went to get a degree because they believed "they had to", not because of an intrinsic desire to learn.

They're responding rationally to a fucked up employment market that erroneously views education as an employee production pipeline.

If those perverse incentives disappeared, we'd see students more able to study what they want, not what's marketable on a resume.
Python is generally around 50 times slower than C++. Obviously it varies massively with the benchmark but that's a good ballpark.

Just Google "python vs c++ speed" and you will find hundreds of examples (or "python vs rust speed" - Rust is essentially the same speed as C++).

Here's the first result - they got a 25x speedup:

https://towardsdatascience.com/how-fast-is-c-compared-to-pyt...
And Nvidia did nothing to support until like a just a few years ago and even now their support is basically half cooked.

If it takes them that long, it's very clear they don't care about Linux in general. Same thing is reflected in them not working with upstream kernel.
It's app-only for now, no web version
When you read "data linked to you" don't think about the store of health data that's *on your phone.£

Think instead of all the data that all huge number of advertising networks, like the one paying qz.com's bills, that have massive hoards of data about you, without your consent, that gets bought and sold every single day.

This is not a trivial distinction! The health data on an iPhone is secure, and Threads is not getting access to it. What this is talking about is Threads linking up with all the data that all the other advertisers are already doing!

I deleted my Facebook account circa 2012 when I heard what some of their ML engineers were up to at a casual meet up, like geolocation all photos and and doing facial recognition to place which bars everyone had been in over the weekend. Back then, before the deep learning revolution, this was a mind-blowing capability. These days, I have no idea what ad networks are up to but rest assured, by getting all of HN to load the ads that are served from qz.com the advertisers have now gained far more than they did when I installed Threads (because I already have an instagram account and that does all these same things. Five years after deleting my Facebook account I was ready to give in because the rest of the networks had the data anyway).
Social tolerance is a market. We are seeing the results of running a debt in that market.

Small scale automation is brittle. Large scale automation is far easier, especially if you're willing to purpose build infrastructure for it. This would be light rail, trains, and busses.

Also like infosec... if these cars "behaved better" then these faults would remain obscure and possibly unpatched for longer periods of time. It should make everyone wonder what other fault modes these vehicles have.
Well, they are questioning the motivation to question the motivation of others. Assuming that this invalidates their point would, however, be a logical fallacy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Thanks for the answer. I had somehow thought that compiling and rapid iteration requires high power or that devs would be heavily into home servers, smart home stuff etc.. But I guess you are right and that only applies in some cases. Hm, then who is supposed to be the target audience for maxed out "pro" devices?
WI Governor Drops Characters in Budget Bill to Change “2024-2025” to “2425”
Why shouldn’t robotaxis be allowed? Do you think the law be wielded to protect legacy business models?
No. Please check for legionellae if your warm water is cooler than 60 deg Celsius.
Well, the point of my suggestion was to discourage student loans. Exactly as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36626179 points out.
This is incredibly surprising to me.

When I visited Paris over a decade ago, I was nearly assaulted on multiple occasions by Parisians for taking photos of buildings and other interesting things. They mistook my photographing as taking photographs of them without permission, and were quite upset and adamant about it being illegal.

Fortunately I'd just show them the photos on the lcd (OG canon powershot w/CF woot) and they'd chill out when they weren't in them...

How their streets aren't full of burning cars and protestors fighting police over this is beyond me.
Some of our recent/relevant work: https://selfrefine.info/
If I want to take stock of my available goods, do I count how much cargo vans going in and out of the warehouse are carrying, or do I have to go inside and take a look at what’s actually in store?
Yeah but I don't want to reinstall
Plug:

For anyone who wants to quickly try this out in VSCode for your custom prompts -
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ppipada....
The only thing I like about robotaxis is that we are calling them "robotaxis". I'm sure that won't last, but I am really sick of the referring to a taxi as an "uber" or the somehow even more ridiculous "ride hailing service".
What is good? Public GPG keys?
Note that the Azure endpoint is not being sunsetted until July 5th, 2024.

One supposes openai has a 6 month notice period vs a 12 month period for azure. This might generally effect one’s appetite in choosing which endpoint to use for any model.
localStorage, IndexedDB, cache storage... + Service Worker
We don’t drop customers who get DDoSed. That would be crazy. https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
those are signature algorithms. aes/chacha are symmetric ciphers
If you need school to develop your education, you’ve already lost. This is the dichotomy of formal education: those that require it won’t benefit by virtue of the requirement and those that don’t won’t need it to become educated. Education is something you have to pursue for it to have much value. You can’t educate people that don’t care, and people that care are often quite capable of educating themselves. Is the purpose to chase credentials or to be a maximally functional human?

Far too many cultures conflate collecting credentials with a constructive education. A low-key advantage of US culture is that they care far less about educational credentials than most cultures in most contexts; people motivated to educate themselves outside formal processes are given proper consideration.
What's the difference between rss and opml? Just different standards?
But that server would be built by someone else? My thinking was that cloud servers, google colab etc. are cost effective for sporadic use, but that "devs" could justify needing this power often and locally.
I think there’s probably some game theory at play. I can imagine the mindset of the vandals mirroring a train of thought that I share somewhat:

1. This autonomous robot is not doing anything for me, and is helping someone else realize their capitalistic aspirations.

2. By vandalizing the robot, a victimless crime, I can do my part to just slightly close the gap between I, one who has gotten the short end of the economic stick, and some corporation/ceo who is on the other end of the economic spectrum, profiteering.

Thus slightly narrowing the gap between the haves and have nots, which for most individuals isn’t realizable in any other way
IANAL, but if you are recorded without consent, the video evidence may not be presentable in court. In CA, and about 15 other states, you need two-party consent for the evidence to be admissible. I remember talking about it to a former DA who told me this, so I believe them.

Of course, you can’t be expected to have privacy in places like public parks according to CA law, so I’m not sure where the law stands on that.
MIT's missing semester
That doesn’t sound like an edge case.
Except it doesn't work everywhere, far from it.
N64 had several 2D games, it just wasn't common.

Yoshi's Story is prob best example. 2D platformer by Nintendo with gorgeous graphics. However, it was a lackluster, forgettable game. Still it proves the 64 was more than capable of exceeding 2D experiences from SNES.

Other examples are StarCraft 64, Bust-a-Move 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, SimCity 2000, Killer Instinct Gold (character models 2D), Magical Tetris Challenge, Rampage 2, Ogre Battle 64, MK Mythologies: Sub Zero, Clay Fighter 63 1/2 (2D character models), South Park: Chef's Love Shack, Mischief Makers, etc etc

It was more than capable of exceeding SNES quality graphics on every metric. The RDP on the N64 already had to render 2D rasters that were pre-transformed from 3D projections by the signal processor chip.

Remove that 3D transformation step and allocate some RAM for buffer and you had a perfectly capable 2D platform.
OPML allows your to export/import the list of RSS/Atom feeds from your RSS reader. So this is a list of 500-600 blogs that people submitted at that HN discussion, that you can import in your RSS reader.
> a senior fellow at the New Zealand Initiative

When they were still called the Business Roundtable, the neoliberal policies of the NZI were avidly taken up by the government of the day, and inequality rapidly skyrocketed.

Just so you know that the person they heavily quote is coming from as much of an ideological position as the bureaucrats who _drafted_ this curriculum.
This wasn’t organic. It was organized by a tiny group of activists looking for an anti-tech flashpoint.

EDIT: I’ll be more direct. It’s a hoax. A fiction. An attempt to portray widespread safety concerns among the populace that do not exist.

There’s a hearing coming up at the board the state of California appointed regarding expansion of the robotaxis.

Alongside that vote, the city’s quality of operation has noticeably deteriorated. Encampments are more common, drug intoxication to the point of collapse and physical decay is highly visible. Robberies have become commonplace.

These effects are now beyond the point where they be explained by pointing at flat trend data, or as a temporary effect of more severe pandemic measures.

A number of local politicians have been facing significant heat over this dysfunction

National and international media publications have begun to distrust local publications for papering over issues and have amplified that pressure.

At that point, those SF politicians began a sudden unified push attacking self-driving cars. Self-driving cars have recently become more reliable than manually driven taxis in SF in terms of accidents per miles driven.

The attacks escalated to the point that false data was submitted against robotaxis to the California board, mischaracterizing accidents where another driver impacted the self-driven car while stopped. That falsehood was later discovered.

When those same people began promoting this “night of the cone” meme, the origin was obvious to even the most casual observer.

Robotaxis have been up and operating for some time. The city is in trouble and it needs the revenue innovation brings.

We need to stop playing games.
I'm guessing that back in the day it all came in one bag?

When I built Titantic last year (first Lego I'd done in maybe 30 years) it was split out over dozens of small bags, and all the parts you'd need for one section would be in that one bag with no more than, say, 200 pieces in it. Often there's be a smaller bag inside for holding the 1x1 stuff.

So I built the whole thing with two tupperware containers..one decent size square "bowl" and s much smaller one for the tiny stuff.

Killed a month off and on putting that thing together. I was recovering from foot surgery so stuck in bed.

Luckily, the Titanic actually builds as 6 sections, with 3 pairs that join more or less permanently, while there are then a couple of pins and rods that hold the whole thing together (along with a rather clever tensioning gear... the main lines are there as strings, and do hang in a true catenary. )

So each of the 6 sections I basically built on a hardback book.

A few build pics:

https://imgur.com/a/yqHR3m4

Made for a very doable build, even given pretty hefty physical limitations.
How long before they add a robotic arm to the roof?
Who said require? I said it's nice to any future reader explain the algorithm if the implementation is complex. I've certainly benefited from such explanations in code.
> people that care are often quite capable of educating themselves.

This is nonsense.

Have you ever been to a doctor that educated themselves?
Exactly, what CEO has not confidently said that they're great?
Yes, any change that's expected to go on a social scale needs buyin from the average people. If these AVs were more expected to be used to help the more vulnerable people and in general improve everyone's life it would be cast in a different light.

Right now it has more of a technobro and rich people vibe, hoping it doesn't fall into the same kind of rabbit hole as the Google Glass and other useful innovations that just had horrendous PR and the worst people to evangelise it.
Isn’t that why they are partnering with Namecheap, to make the process simple?

I do agree with you, I just don’t think it’s really an issue unless having a domain is the only way to have an “identity” on the network. If it’s something you can opt into, then I don’t see how it’s a problem. It depends on the implementation of course.
> Python doesn't let you use naked jumps

Not natively, but you can do it. It's just "a bit more annoying".

> you have quoting and quasi-quoting

That is obviously not what I meant. What I meant was that you can write (x y z) instead of ("x", "y", "z"). The latter is just "a bit more annoying" but that "bit" makes all the difference.

Also, ' and ` are not really a core part of s-expression syntax, they are just a convenient shorthand. Any s-expression written using ' and ` can also be written without them. The core syntax includes only parens and dots, and of course the constituents of atoms. Modern implementations also include native support for double-quoted strings, but that was not part of the original spec. Everything else is just syntactic sugar.
Hardware switches ubiquitous finally
Idea: bring a fellow along whose job it is to remove the traffic cone.
> Apple is not likely to try and register iphone.apple.com on Namecheap.

Definitely not because that’s not how it works. They already own apple.com and can verify any subdomain they want. Plus, I think some of those domains are so valuable the company creates their own registrar to manage them. Ex: RegistrarSafe is a subsidiary of Facebook. They’re definitely not using a consumer grade registrar like Namecheap.

I think domains are complicated for the average user, but if you sell them as premium, globally unique handles for only $10-20 (ish) per year, that’ll create a lot of demand.

Even if it’s only appealing to business users, domains as identities make a lot of sense because it allows a business to be definitively recognized across the internet. There’s no ambiguity or impersonation.
The Battle of Fishkill
Pinterest felt especially egregious.
The Measurers Measured (2017)
All movements need their initiators. The question is if they are still actively driving it, recruiting, funding, promoting. If not, then I feel it was an organic thing...
have you tried with a vpn?

on edit: obviously haven't given a thought to Threads, but is it possible to get account through site or does it have to be through app?
Laziness is a poor choice of words in this instance - a combination of lack of knowledge about the laws, perception of low chance winning against the goliaths that are airlines and a (probably correct) cost-benefit analysis favoring inaction is more accurate.
https://blog.peramid.es/

Not much yet but I'm trying to get back to blogging (mostly STEM)
Google calendar supports travel time.
https://www.howtogeek.com/839258/how-to-add-travel-time-to-a...
Embrace Extend Extinguish
- MS Eternal Mantra
Why does Apple (iPhone) and Google (android OS) enable this?
It's wild how much they're charging for the scooters. $1 unlock + $.35/min ride time. Back in 2013, you could rent an entire Smart Fortwo from car2go for essentially the same price!
I think you can come up with a range of issues as to how this will eventually fail for some people, but what is a better alternative?
After a quick chat with regular (non-tech) people, they're fine with it. The main reason being that "they can't just do that, they need a judge to sign off on it". They do seem a bit unsurprised that the politicians carved out an exception for themselves ("of course they did").

People here still seem to have faith that the institutions generally work as intended.
IANAL either but 2-party consent was apparently just struck down by the Supreme Court:

> Ban on recording without consent is unconstitutional, US court rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609560
In Defence of DOM­Content­Loaded
http://lizmars.net
Just install a 'hood popper' that automatically opens and closes the hood remotely. The cone will just fall off. You can use it for repairs at the same time.
These cars that have millions of dollars in R&D sunk into them can be rendered useless by simply covering the sensors. It reminds me of the Keurig situation where they tried limiting the functionality of the machine to Keurig-signed (barcoded) K-cups. People immediately figured out how to bypass this by taping a keurig lid to the sensor so it would run every time. People are going to look for ways to get around this.

> especially if you're willing to purpose build infrastructure for it.

These companies are gonna have a hard time pulling that off politically. Public transit serves everyone (which this technology also kills), why should governments support infra built for private companies like this? The technology is not public by design. It would be political suicide.
Not really trivial if you have to support any input set of triangles and don't know much about them. Software rasterizion exploits things like localized chunks of triangles, but the hardware rasterizer does not know about that in advance. Also, these kinds of software rasterization algorithms add limitations, which aren't much of an issue with your own rendering pipeline that specifically knows how to deal with these limitations and works with them.
The distinction between a linked list and a binary tree is in the eye of the beholder. One of the brilliant things about s-expression syntax is that (a b c) is equivalent to (a . (b . (c . nil)))) so there is no distinction between binary trees and linked lists (whose elements can be other linked lists) other than that to be a "proper" list it has to be null-terminated.
for now. They are losing again.
How does it make any sense? The map in the trailer is obviously nonsense, complete gibberish that's meant to be gibberish.

Why would a random dashed line be the one they don't like to talk about?
VoidPapers: A Product-Led Growth Mindset
Not if they're outlawed! Think of the children/terrorists!
> People are going to adjust. I remember the local forum in town with people freaking out about the Google streetview being a massive invasion of privacy and saying how they're going to chase those cars and destroy the cameras

Open Google Maps and try to streetview over Germany. People (or provacy laws) did not adjust, and I can’t say I’m sad about that - even though not having SV can be annoying.
> Stipends were the lowest in the country among major research universities

Is this adjusting for cost of living?
google seem to be specialists at making people feel like that lol
What has that fact about Tesla have to do with the opinion about Zuck?

Nothing.

Diversion is what-about-ism.
Huh. Looks interesting but I have a weird feeling it might be the same old sappy boring thriller. Opinions so far?
Agreed. Infocom games were initially my introduction to text based adventures on an Atari 800XL, then moved to Sierra upon getting a 386xl. I started w/ Leisure Suit Larry 3, then played a variety of Space Quests, Hero Quests/Quest for Glories, King Quests, Police Quests. I also bemoaned the move to point and click.

Despite having an original Nintendo (w/ Rob!), those text based Sierra games were the highlight of my game playing youth. There was a perfect blend of imagination, interaction, frustration, that just felt so intimate.
While reading this I was thinking about how it would integrate with the OS calendar implementations, I my primary thought was to have it connect use the description field as a text document with all the additional metadata about each event. Possibly as YAML, JSON, or some custom human readable format
> Threads claims plans to federate with Mastodon after all.

Note that this is deeply worrying to a lot of Mastodon users. There's the fear that this is an embrace-extend-extinguish type move. Only time will tell.
Calling early winners is a longstanding pastime of tech...the Internet protocol stack was the dark horse candidate in telecom circles back in the 80's. Apple was "done for" in the mid-90's, in the same boat as Commodore, Atari and all the rest.

The reason to engage like this is basically a mindless chasing after of hierarchy: you want everyone to know who their overlord is now. This is very important to a certain kind of mind in a certain kind of position, because they will start engaging with that as if it were already true and make business decisions presuming the winner...and to be right, everyone else needs to go along with it. Otherwise they're the weird guy at the meeting, talking about the also-ran.
> You can specify an EtM construction that accepts additional authenticated data. However, you can also do it insecurely (as the post I linked above describes) without realizing you did it insecurely. This is why most people prefer to use cryptographer-approved AEAD modes.

Sure, I agree with this. But then the advantage of AEAD over a bespoke EtM is not that AEAD allows the authentication of unencrypted context.

>> In fact, you must ensure that the nonce, a piece of unencrypted context, is authenticated.

> For CBC mode, sure. For CTR mode? Not really.

If you don't, you do not get ciphertext integrity: decryption will succeed, but mostly yield gibberish, if the adversary changes the nonce in a decryption query. This may expose a padding oracle, with all the nice attacks those things allow, depending on details of the application.

>> Nothing stops you from throwing more stuff in there.

> What prevents an attacker from shifting bits from the ciphertext field into the AAD field in the decrypt path and yield the same HMAC tag? Unless you have an answer to this question, vanilla "encrypt then MAC" is not sufficient. You need a better-engineered construction than that.

Yes, you need a well-engineered construction.

> Please let me know if something wasn't clear, or you feel it was missing.

And yes, your linked post covers all this, but that is not the point: your summary of the linked post just claims superiority of AEAD (which I took as integrated AEAD modes) over EtM because of a functionality you claim is missing from the latter. But in the same way you need a well-engineered integrated AEAD to get any kind of security, you will need a well-engineered Encrypt-then-MAC-with-AD construction to get a secure construction. And here "well-engineered" means "ensure unambiguous parsing of decryption inputs," we're not talking about high-flying stuff that doesn't have standard solutions.

In short: I accept the point of your linked post, and I agree with it. But I reject the claim that a functionality mismatch is what makes integrated AEAD better than a constructed EtM.