skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very constrained system. The startup rom is pretty small, and you want to keep thing simple so you don't mess it up. Cartridge mappers were certainly well known at the time, but they would have switched mappings based on program controlled writes/maybe reads; and the cartridge doesn't control the startup rom. Of course, it's not terribly hard to trigger based on the startup rom's access patterns; but sometimes the realistic goal is to increase the cost to do something, rather than to prevent it.

Additionally, I'd guess the goal would be to freeze after the wrong logo scrolled down, but you might not be able to read the logo back from display memory. It's also possible the boot logo scrolling was done early, and then they added the logo check later?
> Kind of like “nobody drives, there’s too much traffic.”

That makes perfect sense to me? I can easily imagine a city where only 1% of people drive because that's all the roads can handle before being slower than walking.

> Translation: Canada is wealthy including most Canadians I know. That’s why things are expensive.

Wealth doesn't make things expensive. Supply/Demand imbalances and/or costs make things expensive. In this case, intergenerational wealth is consuming more than it produces, creating greater burden on the rest of the economy to make up the difference. Same with many Western countries. That's why debt in the west just keeps going up.

> People want big McMansions to store their consumerist junk because of our HGTV culture but you can live a good life in much less. Your kids can share a bedroom, they’ll even likely be happy with it.

That argument would carry a lot more weight if a 100k salary could afford even a studio condo in these cities.
Forget cartoons. Here's a video shot during the premiere of a Charlie Chaplin movie in the 1920's showing a woman walking along holding something to her ear and talking to herself. Looks an awful lot like a cell phone to me.

https://blog.myheritage.com/2010/10/a-mobile-phone-in-the-19...
> prices are low because the quality of products is low

I don't see how this is a bad thing. If people want to buy cheap low quality products they should be able to.
Hasn't been updated since 2017? :(
I used to think that, but my latest Asus laptop has a trackpad just as good as the macbook (which I use professionally). Actually, I like PC trackpads more, just because they tend to be reasonably sized rather than the monster trackpads on most macbooks (although, fortunately, they seemed to not be quite as big in the M1/M2 iterations!).
> Well the paycheck ends when the company folds. "Doing good work" is in the best interest of all parties.

Option A is being an average worker, not trying especially hard, not thinking about work outside of work hours, and having absolutely no emotional investment whatsoever in the wellbeing of the company - and potentially having to get a new job in a few years time, often with a pay increase

Option B is "doing good work", "going the extra mile", "being a rock star", putting in lots extra time and effort and emotional energy (for years!) - just on the tiny chance that your particular efforts will be the difference between the company folding vs. being successful

Option A sounds a hell of a lot better to me than option B.
At the risk of being a racist and apologist, I'll point out that obviously, slavery has many benefits (mostly for the people on top of it) because if it did not, it would not constantly grow and expand, and we wouldn't have fought wars and passed laws against people who won't give it up. Seriously.

I think this is one of the times when an AI has clearer eyes about the topic than the progressives attempting to rewrite/erase history.
credit data is quite a bit more detailed than that.
One probably needs a bit of religiousity to be able to meditate as much as senior meditators do.
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I know you didn't mean any harm (so please don't take it personally), but yours is the third comment of this type I've seen in a relatively short time this morning, so I'm going to point it out. Your comment repeats the exact premise and conclusion of the parent comment, but in a critical tone.

It's like it's a common personality quirk amongst users of this site. I think I avoid it in writing (though check my comment history? I may not be blameless!), but it's something my wife (with justified irritation) pulls me up on in person, because I do it all the time to her. She'll say "babe, we're agreeing loudly", and I'll have to apologize for doing the it again.

Does anyone have any insight into why the hell we do this?
Any computer can be hacked, so nonsense (?) and you are saying a AI robot car will never be hacked?

It previously happened in Charlottesville sometime ago (https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2015/5/1/20...) and will surely happen again but possibly not just one car but a fleet as others in this thread agree/noted.

There's two sides ..either you're all for them or on the fence or against. Im on the fence with trusting Waymo more then Cruise as Waymo's been at it for more then a decade but am concerned about all things I noted.

I did not insult anyone it was tongue and cheek. As well i was just responding to the drinking and driving analogy which my argument and that are two different ones.
Identity theft is a crime meant to reframe lack of due diligence as a problem of an unrelated third party.

https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E?si=2bpxWKWXDM4vn0iz
"Free" parking, as far as bicycles go is often: how much can you afford to purchase a new one [after it gets stolen, despite the lock(s)]?
The article says that people pretend to be private investigators and the data companies don't confirm except 'remotely'.
good thing c# supports pattern match too. just this morning, I wrote something like this

var thing = (enumA, enumB) switch
{
(EnumA.A,EnumB.A) => DoStuff(),
_ => throw new Exception(),
}

suffice to say, c# is pretty ok, coming from ml family.
I've used Linux+Thinkpads for years.

W-series, P-series, top of the line

Switched to Mac M1 this year, and....longer battery life, better performance, higher resolution, brighter screen...it's not even close.
Right. The fact that they've somehow managed to make me the victim when I wasn't even involved is maddening.

The bank/lender/etc is the victim here. But somehow I have to take the fall. Well, next time they should ask me before lending money to "me".
There is no difference except decades making vba in excel less horrible.
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U.S. Now Promising to Fast-Track F-16 Fighters for Ukraine: Report
Do you expect repair of a Windows filesystem (ExFAT) to work better on a Mac than on a Windows system?
Not OP, but it happened to me. Started meditation to deal with anxiety and the introspection that came with it, ended up with me on the verge of a complete breakdown. I started off doing Sam Harris and then progressed to doing an hour or more each day. I had some moments of insight and then hit some dark night of the soul which wrecked me, I was close to admitting myself to hospital for psychological help.

What fixed me was finally reading Breath by James Nestor and how you breath has a direct impact on the parasympathetic / sympathetic nervous system. I learned to take long slow breaths into the diaphragm and too nose breath all of the time. Basically my vagus nerve was fried from burn out and being in the fight flight mode of the parasympathetic system, as opposed to the 'rest and digest' chilled nature of sympathetic nervous system.

My own view now, is that mediation should not be attempted (at least by anyone with mental issues) until the parasympathetic / sympathetic system is balanced and stress is significantly reduced. This should start with the breath.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/vbaedd/meditation-is-a-power...
Between nil and zero. Just because excel is "bigger" by various metrics, does not give MS any more ability to quash Python. The software world is way larger than it was in the heyday of EEE.

Excel still has a fraction of the power Python does, it's not becoming "de facto" anything that it isn't already de facto for (which is highly interactive data wrangling and making reports by folks who cant/won't use a python env for that task).
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I'm not saying a bald head is ugly, I'm saying baldness is generally not attractive, as opposed to neutral or unattractive. However, when given the choice, a bald head is very likely to be considered less attractive than a full head of hair.

> we aren't hardwired by society and culture to see baldness as a unattractive trait

At least historically, baldness rarely occured before "peak mating age", so it's not a trait that was strongly selected for. That said, it is a trait that is strongly selected for in today's dating market.

https://hypebeast.com/2021/4/tinder-data-study-man-with-with...

> A poorly kept head of fuzz, sure, make sure to shave it well, but nobody I know thinks that you're "uglier" because you are a man and have a fully shaved head.

Nobody you know will tell you this. Like I said, people will lie about this to keep the peace. Experimentally, outside of the social context, the impact of baldness is quite substantial:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7037739/
law enforcement largely do not care either
I know there's a smiley here but for others coming across it who may not know, it's "photographic", not "picture"
Yeah, that makes sense to me (as a somewhat religious meditator).

I disagree that a focus on something other than logic is problematic, though. I'd actually argue that all-logic-all-the-time is a sickness.
Agreed there is a semantic argument here. I don’t think anyone is anthropomorphizing LLMs. I’ve had to adopt “objective” with one customer instead of “task” (my preferred default term) because their industry overloads “task” with something else. Now that said, as you point out, the real objective is next token prediction not “help the user with a truth bomb.” and it just happens to have emergent accidental usefulness (I think a natural bias from the training data).

They (chatgpt et al) do move closer to “clear and coherent” by adding extra layers such as a beam search on LLM outputs. Good to remember that ChatGPT et al are products, not bare metal LLMs.
I’m trying, but I don’t understand. Birth and death are the beginning and the end, respectively. What’s missing?
This has nothing to do with that

Everyone is vulnerable to what this article is about
Oh yeah I think I was looking at the other building also.
> and a large off-the shelf propane tank for cloudy days (or weeks!)

Months. I have a residential sized propane tank for gas and backup power that only gets refilled once a year at most. Worst case scenario I can go off grid for two to three months in the summer on a generator (tested frequently) and this is a pretty standard size for exurban houses in California.
They know who these A players are but are afraid to hire them.
"Obviously, Canada needs better housing and immigration policy, but I’d call those pretty minor and resolvable problems for a country that is doing so well."

And your solutions are...?
Something I've wanted is more customizable upgrade logic for selecting versions, especially upgrades for end-user packages. e.g. latest tagged release (without having to update the package/flake), latest tagged release but wait a week/month (like phased releases but end-user configurable), HEAD but no more than once a week (so you aren't compiling packages every day, c.f. emacs), whatever the latest version is provided it is in cachix, etc
I found this study, which sort of makes this claim with a lot of qualifications: https://engrxiv.org/preprint/view/1973. It's comparing Autopilot to "normal" Tesla driving, which still includes auto-braking, blind spot warnings, etc. It is still based on Tesla's own data and has to make a ton of assumptions, but it seems like they did the best they could.

> By correcting for roadway usage differences between the Autopilot and active safety only data, much of the crash reduction seen by vehicles using Autopilot appears to be explained by lower crash rates experienced on freeways. While the raw crash rate shows an average 43% reduction in crash rate for Autopilot compared to active safety only, this improvement is only 10% after controlling for different rates of freeway driving. Correcting for age demographics likewise produced an 11% increase in the estimated crash rate. Several other factors may explain difference in safety rates of new vehicle technologies based on who is using them, where they are being used, and when they are being used. Some safety features cannot be used in rain or snow, for example, which may bias the data towards clear weather and lower crash rates generally. In another example, drivers often disengage Autopilot to change lanes or prepare to exit a freeway (Morando et al., 2020), both areas of increased crash risk. While Tesla includes crashes where Autopilot was deactivated less than five seconds prior to impact, there remains a potential for Autopilot use to be biased towards safer, within-lane driving. With more data regarding not only the crashes but also the use of vehicle technologies can allow for more accurate and thorough assessments of vehicle safety benefits.
Considering that flakes aren't a critical feature for Nix, it balances out.
In USA telephones, unless you timetravel to "party lines" (when sets of local numbers had the same line, so picking up while a call was in use allowed people to listen or join in), hanging up any one end of a line disconnects the call the departing user from the call.

If the described scam happened, in should have required a simultaneous fault in the phone system. Or more likley, the scammer played a recorded sound of a disconnect+dialtone, which could tricker the target into dialing.
Current hot "interventions" for those interested:

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Yemen
It's doable, but the general consensus seems to be it's not worth doing - anyone who wants to dox you for the purposes of legal matters will get it anyway, and that's the biggest reason it's usually discussed.

If you're just trying to keep yourself off the Internet, just change your name to John Smith or Michael Jackson.
You can also just take 2 100mg caffeine tablets, that's usually a bit more caffeine than coffee, but does not make you have to go.
As to 3:

We have been having that discussion in the courts for decades. The consensus is that the tools we have are at least part of why eight of the top ten global websites are run by American companies. To the extent you want to have a thriving marketplace to ply (what I assume is) your trade, these tools are at least desirable.

I do agree that the existence of law that supports these techniques is a choice, and that it’s entirely possible that avoidance of these techniques might win in the marketplace.
Reviewing the impacts of smart energy applications on energy behaviours
>there’s nothing hypocritical about both using and blocking an exploit

If by exploit you meant the general capabilities granted such app's popularity, then in my opinion it is at least somewhat hypocritical for a nation who's motto partly is basically(or was, I'm not sure as of right now) "free trade and free speech"

>and I can immediately see how this could be used to identify and recruit potential assets or improve psyops.

So should all cross border internet companies be banned by all the countries since cross border activity inevitably "exfiltrates" some data on the populace across the border, which could be used adversarially?
> It's really disappointing to see everyone bashing Apple when it's clear to anyone paying attention that they made a conscious decision to leave the door open for 3rd party development.

Maybe I'm just a jaded grey-beard but I suspect that this is more of a "placate the anti-trust regulators" play and not a genuine olive branch offering.

Apple gets to say "see, look! Not only are we not locking people out - there's a whole micro-niche community that's taken root. If that isn't proof we're not abusing our position, I don't know what is..."

They left the door open, but just barely. The reverse engineering efforts will always be a step behind making sure that there's always going to be a "non-apple" experience that will be objectively inferior in one way or another.
Also png ("pOrtable", "network", "graphics"). The `ing` diphthong in English is a very different IPA letter sequence than N or G in the corresponding words, and the "natural" vowel from the abbreviations is "o" rather than "i".
Someone got rightly flagged for making a call for vigilantism. I'd like to respond to them in a non-flagged comment.

To the person apparently so frustrated that they were brainstorming vigilantism-- I'd suggest first at least trying the one thing that HN is allergic to-- getting engaged with politics. Few to none of the respondents here who are vaguely complaining about lobbyists (at the Library of Congress, of all places!) have any experience whatsoever organizing politically.

There is a pair-- literally, two humans-- who were able to get legislation passed in a state that is of general benefit to a) an industry where they weren't big players, and b) to society in general. They weren't oligarchs or billionaires or whoever HN thinks controls the keys to the kingdom. They were just interested and diligent enough to attempt the work. (Well, one of them had enough free time to go and meet with nearly every representative-- I'm not saying it's easy or quick.)

Think about the number of times a bugfix can fail to compile before you finally get it to work. If you apply that discipline and focus to find real, lasting legislative protections to projects like the IA or Sci-hub, you're way more likely to end up making positive changes than through vigilantism.

And of course if you're successful, HN will still criticize you for failing to solve the problem with a fast, homomorphically-encrypted, decentralized, statically-linked, non-Electron, portable executable. I guess you'll just have to accept the tragic ending that the most intelligent people in the world won't understand what you achieved. :(
Of course the CCP is your biggest threat when you are in their territory, just like how the American government is your biggest threat back home. Actually not even only in your home, given its extraditionary powers which I haven't checked but should be one of the stronger ones when it comes to 'extradited to usa'. Either case, on American territory and especially as an American citizen, the American police and American government is your biggest threat vs any other foreign power.
I used to play a game as a kid where I'd close my eyes and try not to see or imagine anything. To keep a black empty universe as the only thing I see, for as long as possible. It isn't easy!
Does anyone know if zigs reached the point of maturity to having solved most compiler bugs? I used it a couple years ago and it failed HORRIBLY for anything real I was throwing at it.
You've missed the profound part. The author was probably not the first person to think of wireless communication, but they thought through the ways it would negatively affect our day-to-day lives. This is a rare perspective. Even today we typically only see speculation on what benefits new technology will give us (or doomsday scenarios of how they'll ruin society). It's impressive to predict how new abilities plus ubiquity equals expectations of utilization, which burden the individual. Although even the poor are godlike in their capabilities compared to the ancients, we're dying from stress.
> Oh, and the facial recognition unlock is the best.

This is scary as fuck. Combined with all the telemetry and tracking M$ is now doing without care from within its operating system.

Windows and Android are subsidized data collection applications which run on subsidized hardware. Simple as.
Are other search engines/browsers/advertising networks similarly blocked, or is this exclusive to Brave?

Not to defend Microsoft here, but these kinds of large-scale blacklists are almost always riddled with errors and fuckups from the rushed staff who are assigned to quickly review domains to meet their quotas.
> As it is, they have to deal with the nuisance of you buzzing and they know you're going to probably ignore any important things they send your way. At least turn notifications off so you can spend time with your kids distraction free and it's not a total lose-lose for all involved.

> Well, I guess you're getting a feeling of self-righteousness in front of your kids...

I appreciate the parenting advice and the free psychoanalysis, but what you may not know is that I have special settings for "known contacts" that ring differently. Depending on what I'm doing, I also usually check within a few minutes to see what it was, so it's not like I'm just sending all the stuff to /dev/null
Amazon retail is profitable. It's just that all the profit is from selling ads so some people don't realize it.
Google’s ecosystem makes this incredibly simple.. all you need is to populate BigQuery with the datasets of interest, and Sheets can pull it in via a connector that’s configureable in a GUI. I sincerely hope my org never migrates to MS for this reason alone.
100% possible technically, and some countries may have/may already have had success in this area. Sadly, at least according to our popular narrative, America was founded on the principle of extreme distrust of the government. Combine that with mass ignorance and a technological solution to these issues becomes impossible politically.

We only even have SSL because no governments needed to be convinced to approve of it, and the list of operating system and browser vendors is so short that it became possible to essentially self-organize a set of generally-trusted root certificates.
not at all, when my phone is ringing (if it isn't on silent as usual) then one of my kids will come running excitedly telling me about it or even bringing the phone to me. not looking at it then means rejecting their effort to help me. it's like someone (not me, for sure) has told them that answering a phone right away is important. (but wait, i get annoyed if i call them (without a phone) and they don't respond, and i'll probably get annoyed if they ignore my phone calls in the future, so there is that)

btw: your tone is off.
This is reality-bending class of achievement without any random-luck help, just pure attention. Incredible.
I haven't seen any evidence in any of your comments. You try to persuade (which is not evidence), but I haven't been persuaded.
The level of certainty you need to have that a measure captures all and only what is important varies with how much weight is given to it. When it becomes a key and decisive factor in evaluating individual and/or unit performance, tied to reward and punishment, the required certainty is near unity, because you are very strongly creating an incentive structure which will exhibit Goodhart's Law if it isn't perfectly aligned with your actual intent.

Things that make tolerable broad status indicators make horrible KPIs for that reason.
OpenGL(ES) are basically old legacy APIs at this point, it’s not too surprising that Apple won’t invest in them besides existing app conpatibility right?
On a tangential note, slightly less than 20 years ago I got a phone call from an ex of a girl I was seeing at the time telling me to back off. All he had to go on was my name and what college I went to. I asked him how he got my number, he said he used a service like you're describing. This has never been particularly hard for someone who was determined.