skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in general you would think this is just a DRM race then between tesla and unlockers. however, with so many of tesla's features existing outside the car, tesla has a lot of leverage. a music cd or blu ray is generally finished content. a tesla is constantly getting software patches and most owners use the app which i'm sure is going through teslas servers

is it reasonable for tesla to lock you out of the app or software updates if the software hash doesn't match what they provide ? would it be okay for them to void the warranty if you run software they didn't provide ?
I feel like that was just an exploit waiting to happen. Showing a different URL than the page was delivered from.
It doesn't look like he couldn't have left the job he found unsuitable. Especially in Kenya, where the rule of law and contract enforcement are not that stringent...
If I don't like blood, I better not work at a hospital or a butcher shop. Content moderation is hard and it's not for everyone.
Ask HN: Why do investors see Apple as a $3T company?
I love Apple products and I use all of their devices but at the end of the day, they are the least important company compared to Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta. The world would go down without Google. Governments and businesses run on Microsoft suite of apps. The internet runs on AWS and Azure. Businesses would go under without Meta. If Apple went bankrupt today, it would suck but people would just use Android and Windows devices. The economy will not be impacted because App Store developers will just migrate over to Androids App Store and sell their devices there.

I guess the argument is that Apple is a money printing machine but so is all of these other Silicon Valley companies.
Depending on location right now is the perfect time to get a seasonal farming job.

Your brain needs something other than screens for a while.

The brain capacity thing is real: context switching destroys your productivity and you can’t use your whole brain for your project if you’re doing that.
Really? No shades of gray there for you? Why couldn't it be 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1?
I'm of the opinion that these two things aren't comparable. True, IBM and others have locked extra capability through software... but they were only ever selling/renting to the corporate world, which presumably had enough in-house legal expertise to not be completely dicked over.

To take that business practice, and then try to foist it on consumers who don't have $500/hour lawyers on retainer looking out for them is more than just morally questionable, it crosses a line into some sort of fraud/extortion-adjacent realm.

If Tesla was really upset about this, it's a problem completely within their capacity to solve. Only send bugfixes OTA, require a service visit for new features. I'm betting that their software's such a trainwreck they wouldn't be able to compartmentalize it properly like that to save their own lives.
Brave Search launches own image and video search
I think it was even a post here, because somebody had to fix something on his car, he don't even had the licence to use it.
https://youtu.be/52KR_eC8UFE

I wonder which schools had the children watch this after the pledge of allegiance.
> paid software features requiring teams of devs.

This makes it easy for me to make up my mind about. FSD is about far more than just the hardware - there's many teams of devs working on it.

> heated seats

There's little (no?) justification for software locking heated seats. Press the button, make the seats hot. This is just capitalist bullshit and we shouldn't put up with it.
TCP over DNS has been a thing for a long time, though I guess it's fallen out of favour because "real" VPNs are so easily available nowadays.

For example you can see here:

https://analogbit.com/software/tcp-over-dns/
A New Spin on String Art Machines [video]
Only Google sold them for a long time.
I don't get saying it has the legs and body like a dachshund and then saying it's "Chihuahua-sized"

Why not just say "Dachshund-like"?
The currency section is very nicely done. My own reactions split into the three obvious buckets. 1) Oh, I don't make that mistake! That's an obvious oversimplification. 2) Yeah, having read your counter-example at the end, I'll insist that I pretty much know that one, too. But thanks for the reminder, even though if I weren't skimming so fast, I'd have got it right, too. And, of course the inevitable. 3) Ouch. I had no idea. You got me on that one.
I've used them for several years now (for the odd TLDs that CF doesn't support) and can also recommend them.
That's more am argument for simplifying modern society in my opinion.

If I think Google's latest antics are dangerous enough for society as whole to warrant government intervention, I first have to assume that the majority of people don't get it but would be opposed if only they better understood. What gives me the right to make that decision on their behalf? And if I don't know they would care, can I really push through my own intervention?

Not to mention the assumption we have to make that government regulators actually do understand and can relate in an unbiased way with only consumers best interests in mind.
> it's good at conversation Turing tests without faking it like ELIZA

Just like ELIZA can be said to be faking it, ChatGPT is faking it in a different way.
> I say Tesla should be free to sell whatever they want, but if the end user finds a way around it too bad.

The same should go for DVDs, BluRays and streaming media and yet here we are looking at jail time for bypassing the DRM.
Elixir seems to benchmark as half the speed of python, which would put it about 100x to 200x slower than C++. That's a lot of speed to give up for the silver bullet promise of immutable data structures (which I've never understood the appeal of in the first place).

https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-vs-python-performance-bench...
> In Japan, you don't pay at the table, you get up when leaving and pay at the exit.

Some (well, one maybe) restaurants near me are like this but it is uncommon. Ram's Horn comes to mind.
Fire Retardant Gel
Better would be:

[X] Only send to low/no settlement peers (default)
There is https://www.recurse.com/
I'm not torn at all. It's my car. I should be able to "hack" it as long as it doesn't involve illegal access to anyone's servers.
I really don't want to defend Amazon's practices on this, but

> Amazon is paying for hosting an audio file, basically, and the development of the player app, and that's it.

"development of the player app" is kind of load-bearing in that sentence:

They host a directory of books and provide recommendations (which amounts to lead-gen, probably (?) increasing the number of copies of your book that sell because users stumble upon it either by browsing or by searching for keywords).

They take payments (not a high bar, but that's 1-3% if you wanted to do it "yourself", not to mention the cost of either integrating with a payment provider yourself or paying somebody to do it, so it shouldn't be forgotten about).

Finally, their model where you pay a subscription that gets you a credit per month or whatever leads to even more book sales. I hate this model and I finally ejected myself from the Audible ecosystem, but before I did I spent a bunch of credits that I had saved up.
They can't even build two cars the same way everytime, I think we'll be okay.
Pretty sophisticated attack vector: low voltage attack on AMD secure execution environment during boot. I wonder how many tries you need to get whatever bits you need in the right place. Also, I imagine you only need to cut 12V wires to do this, but I admire the willingness to get in there direct on these systems. I'd be a little nervous to make those cuts personally.

Buried in the article is the claim that this will let them pull the RSA private key the car owns out for other uses -- while this is likely to remain a very niche attack vector, that's got to be really bad news for someone in vehicle security at Tesla. On the other hand, post jailbreak you could anonymize your location on Tesla's servers, which would be nice.
super impressive performance improvements!

do most of your customers replicate their postgres database to Hydra for analytics jobs, or what's the typical set up?
"office staff will now also be required to clean and restock the bathroom as part of ongoing restructuring efforts"
The interface to almost everything either contains or is based on a macro. This persists even in cases where you can clearly see there needed to be no macros at all.

The non-standard (won't work with anything else) and basically superfluous websocket protocol has bad fundamentals and has been marred by bad JavaScript code being needed for it. On top of that it's pretty bloated.

The actual channel processes could've simply followed a standard Erlang interface but someone (...) felt they needed to put their fingerprint on it, I guess, so it kind of doesn't. And yes, again everything surrounding channels is a bunch of macros until you at least get to write and use normal functions in the actual channel module.

They've had a long history of arbitrarily deciding to hide settings/configuration from dependencies they use and having no actual argument for doing so when asked to expose them.

If the part about macros being overused wasn't bad enough Phoenix also promotes this type of thinking by overusing them even in generated code, so people can follow the bad example.
Eh it depends, some python packages do things like pull data samples from my experience and it can be quite a mess detangling the package to give PyInstaller everything it needs to bundle stuff up. It also takes a lot of additional configuration for a lot of packages.

As much as I hate how containers are often misused, this is one of the reasons people obsess over them from my experience. The ability to bundle all your crap regardless of how many layers of package management idiosyncrasies your application ultimately woul have to deal with pretty much transparently.
Yes, GPT-4 is in general much more tuned to respect the system message.
They haven't managed to "unlock" the features yet. They've got root on the IC which "could" lead to unlocking them.[1]

https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/briefings/schedule/index.html...
Then customers have the choice to purchase a vehicle from a manufacturer with more scruples who is willing to sell those features without charging to "unlock" them.
As I said I feel reminded of the discussions, I did not compare this scientific finding to crypto-assets per se. What I did however compare is the way this finding is being discussed in comparison to how crypto-assets have been discussed at a certain point in time.

More specifically I was comparing a specific trait of some actors in both of these discussions (the "I want to believe"-type). I stand behind that observation, although I see how people can read more into my comment, depending on where they are coming from.
Obviously we can’t prove this, but my instincts are that we don’t do things with probabilistic decision paths. Not very scientific of me, but I just don’t buy that’s how we make decisions.
Very interesting - I like how Microsoft has changed from testing their own software to making their own users dogfood it for free! I remember seeing a video or article somewhere that went into how Microsoft tested their OS on various hardware configurations - warehouses of computers hooked up for automated testing.

Bit of an aside, the article has a tweet embedded showing an article in the Feedback Hub related to a feature called "Sign in without password when my device powers on" and how it helps maintain compliance in China...

I know it's not 100% related to the article the OP posted, but why would a setting like this maintain compliance in China? I assume the Chinese government already has an agreement with Microsoft to allow backdoors into the Chinese version of their OS...?
> almost universal at this point

Where you live maybe.
Yeah, and you don't even need to add the extra "1"s either.
I am in a very similar situation. Been freelancing for 6 years, done my own saas thing which is profitable but needs more time to grow. Seriously burned out, like to the max.

I just took on a full time w2 salary position at a mid stage startup. Salary isn’t incredible, but it’s predicable and is allowing me to establish a work life balance. I plan to do this for a couple of years at least to rest my nervous system and rebuild my savings.

There’s no wrong answer - do whatever will bring back your sanity (but don’t go broke doing it, that’s just more stressful!)
Just find one or two temp agencies in your area - they’ll probably get you placed into the type of gig you want quickly, and there will be no expectation for long term commitment. Can’t hurt to try.

At one point I had a 3 month break between research gigs, and just got a temp job moving boxes around a factory. Long hours and bad pay but it was a nice change of pace for a bit.
Instacartel
The wasted economy on lugging around the extra weight for a useless seat heater.
"Freedom fighters" has a lot of negative connotations in many realms as well. It evokes images of rebels using violence to push some political agenda. Sometimes for worthy causes, sometimes less so.

No, we're keeping the word "hacker".
“Oligopoly” is the word you are looking for, carried out by oligarch.
"A group of security researchers (aka hackers)" is an especially bad connection to be drawing for the general public.
> It was basically a case of a politician, Wendell Murphy, who helped pass 28 laws making it illegal to sue a factory farm, then left office and went into partnership with Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned company

Said politician was in office (NC House/Senate) in the 80s, and his company was bought in 1999 by Smithfield Foods. Smithfield was bought by WH Group, a Chinese company, in 2013.

> They now control 80% of pork US production

This appears to be fiction. The closest I can find is that 6 large companies control 80% of the wholesale market, Smithfield being one of them.
A light rail doesn’t have the same option to scale in three dimensions though…
Eggs are a fungible product (well, sort of).

In a working market there are a lot of sellers and buyers and I'd find the lowest ask price and buy it.

In a failed market, the price is locked.

You’re actually advocating for anti-competition and anti-capitalism.
This is pretty awful.
I can almost guarantee that if you look into the campaign donors for these judges the chicken farms will there.
It reminds me of the judge that used to send kids to prison because he was getting a kick back.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/judges-sent-children-pr...

Sometimes those we trust to enforce justice are the biggest criminals of all and we give them essentially unlimited power.

Abuse of power to this extent and the ruining of so many lives should be a death penalty offence.
I feel like this is all part of the plan.

The CCP has always been salty about how economic interaction also causes cultural interaction, exposing their citizens to ideas that the Party dislikes. The fact that casual tourism is dropping plays right into their hands.

Perhaps China feels self-sufficient enough now that they are willing to go the isolationism route?
I don’t mind hardware shipping locked and being an optional fee to unlock. I have paid for the rear heated seats in my model 3.

What I’m vehemently opposed to is ongoing fees for things that don’t have ongoing costs. BMW wants to charge monthly for seat heaters or carplay, but those things are not a service and don’t have ongoing costs for BMW to provide. If anything creating an ongoing software lock creates an availability risk. If BMW’s authorization service is unavailable do you lose heated seats?

Several manufacturers are offering either monthly or one time costs for certain features. I’m less clear how I feel about that. Maybe quite valuable for someone who lives somewhere warm and only needs seat heat one month a year. It would take many years of paying for a single month to justify paying for the fully unlocked feature. I think I can live with optional monthly fees for things as long as you can always pay once and just have something that stays for her life of the car.
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I created ScoreCast, a tool to predict the outcome of soccer games
>We don't see contraction in overall spending because when someone suddenly is too poor to afford stuff the richer people above them are also getting poorer and changing their spending habits to pick up the slack.

How does this make sense? Total spend = poor spend + rich spend. Poor spend decreases. Then rich spend has to increase.

If total spend is staying the same, then some group has to be spending more if people at the bottom are dropping out.

I think what you might be trying to say is the spend at the very top is increasing, offsetting the decrease in spend for everyone below.
I am happy to share with you a web application I've working on the past couple weeks. It's a tool to predict the outcome of soccer games in minor football leagues. Named ScoreCast, it predicts the outcome of soccer games in six minor leagues: Serie A Brazil, Serie B Brazil, Primera Division Argentina, J1 League Japan, Eliteserien Norway, and Veikkausliiga Finland.

Since I am really interested in football analytics and also not being able to find many online tools for predicting the outcomes in minor soccer leagues, I had the need to create ScoreCast to have it as a tool for guidance on this field.

If you want to check it out, here are some links that might help:

Github: https://github.com/Costasgk/ScoreCast

The App: https://score-cast-3a6cb8fe5c50.herokuapp.com/

Medium: https://medium.com/@costascg9/scorecast-a-tool-for-predictin...

Thank you for your time!
A runtime signature check is far more secure than an install-time signature check. On Linux you can swap a binary with an evil version using one of a million local privilege escalations available and nobody would ever know unless you have additional tripwire-style tooling set up.
That sentence's grammar is intentional. (I wrote the sentence.)

English is not a programming language. I'm sure that we can both name revered authors who have used far "worse" grammar consistently throughout their careers, whereas the word choice that has so ruffled you here involves a single word.

As to "flexing knowledge": I had some fun in a couple sentences in that article. I aim to be at least slightly more than a machine that extrudes gray paste of unit density. Fabricating an ulterior motivate and attributing it to me is offensive.
In reality, you're still paying for the hardware. Don't think for a second that these 'optional' features don't figure into the price.

Sure, maybe they have a lower markup if you don't buy the license up front, but you still paid for it. These types of gimmicks are free money for the company pulling them.
If something is opened or modified without manufacturer consent, there is no question of liability because there is none.
no dude you're seriously overcomplicating the problem

it's just a finite-dimensional vector space over ℚ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis#Mathemati...

the conversion tables are in /usr/share/units/definitions.units (or previously /usr/share/misc/units.dat)

they are the result of many years of careful scholarship by adrian mariano
Desktop software. Also it's not unreadable.
the money went from TSLA's insane over-value to twitter shareholders.

e-dawg was dipping into that overflowing fountain of made-up money that would have probably vanished before too long anyway.
The exact same way you should be able to install your own software on your iPhone
But a metro does.
Is there though?

Even on game consoles, the “DLC” is often a couple meg download because the actual content is already built into the game.

You could turn Windows NT 3.51 Workstation into Server by just changing a registry key!

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/ms/differences_nt.htm...
One distinction I would make is that at true AGI should have internet access and be able to query for updated information, instead of being stuck in the time moment it's trained.
I'd rather go to prison. Take the gamble, at least prison has time off for good behavior and over crowding. This program looks like its designed to drain you of everything for as long as possible.
I loved it - I used to run it in the 90s.
+1, The PRs we made 2 months ago were really bad. That's also been the biggest barrier to getting them merged.

Definitely check out what we've been able to merge now though. The ceiling for tools like Sweep is incredibly high.
you don't like chicken that smells like gym socks? i thought i was the only one
Flight to quality. They think apple will preserve capital better through inflation / us currency devaluation than other things. Just my opinion.
Seems like as long as they all fit, that should work. But does require a non-iPad/non-mobile device with enough storage, as iPad/iPhones don’t have backup mechanisms besides iCloud.

I don’t have a Mac laptop anymore, and my library was starting to get too big to fit on any one device. That’s when I realized they had no other way of accessing/moving/transferring/backing up, so I moved it out using some special photo backup software before I got stuck.

Lesson learned!
> Some people might react "well, you're going to need those things broken out anyway as you scale" or something to that effect, but it can be really nice to just not need them until you have scaled further.

Dist messaging and mnesia scale pretty far. Although it must be noted that they were original built around rock solid networking (two nodes in one chasis), so if your networking is flakey, you have to handle that; my recommendation is to make your network not flakey, but that's easier to say than it is to do.
What do you mean by "fix the problem on their end"? As I explained, I am not able to fix the problem on my end, if that's what you mean. In fact, this is the exact reason why public DNS servers are so useful: they are much more reliable than the available alternatives, in many cases.

Sure, if everything was perfect and all ISP/hosting provider DNS servers were modern and well-configured and had great availability and didn't censor or hijack results, then they wouldn't be necessary. But alas, unfortunately we have to live in the real world.

I am not against rate limits, because as you said, sending a billion requests per second (due to misconfiguration, or a bug, or for malicious reasons) is not reasonable. But 10 requests/second is way, way too strict, especially if you use DNSSEC and/or have multiple client machines sharing the same IP address without a common DNS caching resolver in-between (which may not be possible to have for several reasons).
> is it reasonable for tesla to lock you out of the app or software updates if the software hash doesn't match what they provide ?

Of course, and I don't think anyone here is arguing against that.

> would it be okay for them to void the warranty if you run software they didn't provide ?

There are laws governing this exact thing (in the US it's the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act), and in general Tesla would have to prove your unauthorized modification caused the failure which you're claiming under warranty.
Is this something we could do together? I'm a member of a few groups in the W3C, so I might be able to get something going there. My email address is in my HN profile if you like the the sound of that prospect :)
> The price of inputs is going up

Except it didn't. That's like, the first thing in the article.
Manned Venus Flyby
Proton Pass
If you lose half your wealth, you have to double your wealth to get back to where you were.

The log change intuitively shows this.... log (0.5) = -0.3 & log (2) = 0.3

If you lose three quarters of your wealth, you have to quadruple your wealth to get back to where you where.

Again, log intuitively shows this.... log (0.25) = -0.6 & log (4) =0.6
I only saw Simmons Food Inc here, does Tyson do it too?
Sure, I think I used a version of it back in the day too - but I wanted something cross-platform and batch capable ;)