skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collect information about your sex life!? In what way?

Also, will these brand track geolocation information, etc?

Insane that any regulator would approve of this. A car shouldn’t be smart, it should be hardware that knows nothing about you. You can then enhance the car with something like Apple car play since you already use that phone everywhere anyway.

750 billion a year industry? What kind of dystopia do we live in?

Should we move to a system where a company can only do things or make things that are in their direct industry? So a car company can only make and sell cars and not sell data?

I have no idea what the solutions are, but this sounds horrible.
> I've been CEO only for 18 hours ... Who was in charge of the company then? You, but not in the title?

Especially considering that before being the CEO he was the ... Executive Chairman of the Board, i.e. the person that the CEO reported to!
There's no reason sites from 2000 would no longer work, unless they use APIs that weren't properly standardized.

I guess that's why it recommends Chrome. Hah.
Although given that the Australian version is "autofilled with any data they've already received (e.g. salary paid and tax withheld by employers)", it's definitely not as good an example as them. The UK system requires you to do a lot of working out yourself, including if you have crossed certain complicated thresholds related to pension contributions.
> where we obsess about longshot disasters we can't control

Wait, you seriously think a comet impact in the next 100 years is much more likely than mass extinction from warming planet? Comet impact IS the longshot disaster we can't control, and you are the one obsessing about it. Fossil fuels, and all the reasons why we don't just stop digging them up today, are totally in our control, and the time is ticking.
New Synopsys Big Data Analytics Tools to Fuel Chipmakers with AI-Driven Insights
It's not like putting that message there will stop those complaints, more like the opposite.
> they're still casing the bank vault.

I don't understand the meaning of this part.

> Moderation of online speech is speech

AFAICT, they're not being forced to moderate. They're being forced to say how they approach moderation. "Not at all" being a valid answer, as far as I understand it.
It is all in the price. If you invest and create value in the future, it is in the price today.

The only reason companies are doing buybacks is because it increases the CEO's comp (if you reduce shares, you increase EPS...many bonus packages are based on EPS). If anything it has a negative impact on returns because companies will typically buy back shares when they are overvalued.

I think people assume that there must be a reason why companies are doing all this...there isn't. Companies are run for executives. It was bad ten years ago, since Covid it has reached comedic levels (where you have executives on packages at loss making companies that are meaningful percentages of the company market cap).
just one more reason to always keep in mind that it's rarely the author (in larger sites) that makes the titles for their articles.
just tried it and its not good. I think one of the better feedback was asking for play an adventure in the style of Space Quest 1
This is such a classic strongly opinionated, inflammatory, and fundamentally ignorant Hacker News comment.
Not a book but look up Milton Friedman's remarks on negative income tax. They're on YouTube
- "Section 230 immunizes the supposed expressive content of X's editorial policy"

The First Amendment protects the expressive content of X's editorial policy.

- "X shouldn't have as free rein to run that program in secret according to unknown whims"

The First Amendment protects secretive editorial policies run according to editors' whims.
I’m trying to understand what kind of phenomenon beams a column of light into the sky from the South Pole. I can understand auroral curtains, but a cylinder beam sounds far-fetched.
I'm just toying with a Ruby terminal talking direct to X (no X lib) running a pure Ruby TrueType renderer (and running a pure-Ruby editor in it...). Ruby is still not "fast" (but I haven't tested it with yjit yet). I put up with it because I know I can make it significantly faster later (and the quick and dirty first approximation is memoize what I can, like glyph shapes)

As it turns out for a whole lot of things Ruby is slow for people because one of the nice things about programming in Ruby a lot of the time is expressing the problem the more readable way first rather than paying attention to performance. When people are aware, it makes it easy to iterate fast and fix performance later. The problem is a lot of the time that leads to pathological cases of people not thinking this through at all.

You'll notice most of his performance increase came from writing better Ruby. Clearly the original Graphql parser was nowhere near optimal. It's worth keeping in mind that writing a C extension ought to be a last resort after making the Ruby as fast as you can first, because often that means you don't need to.

E.g. another of Aaron's recent articles (EDIT: [1]) is about speeding up a parser by cutting down on object creation, and one specific example he gave was to return just the token type from the lexer instead of [token_type, token_value]. The latter forced creation of an Array object to hold each token and a string object for the token value (though for fixed tokens you could avoid that by returning the same frozen string literal), and for a whole lot of tokens the parser had no interest in the token string (e.g. if you see :lparen, or :rparen, getting "(" and ")" is entirely uninteresting). When people run into slow Ruby code like that it's tempting to resort to C right away, rather than understand why their Ruby is slow.

I love that yjit makes it easier to get to a point where you don't need to reach for C, though.

EDIT:
[1] https://tenderlovemaking.com/2023/09/02/fast-tokenizers-with...
It's actually about the GraphQL parser mentioned in the original article.
Not comprehend it
Crap like this happens a lot more often: https://defcon.social/@fortyseven/111006211167398287

Granted, the result was on the page but I only noticed because I have custom CSS highlighting result keywords.

Then there's the whole instant answers thing where it scrapes a page to answer your question directly on the search result page. It's quite often wrong. Confidently wrong.

The quality in general has dropped like a rock. It's clearly no longer a priority.

The whole company is tanking in slow motion.
The whole culture around extreme spice is incredibly stupid.

Idiot: "I dare you!"

Intelligent person: "No, I choose not to torture myself."

Other idiot: "What are you, afraid??!"

Intelligent person: "Yes, I don't like pain and discomfort, and I don't see any reason to subject myself to it."

After a certain level of "heat", it's not food and shouldn't be treated as such.
> the board and new CEO agrees

The new CEO was the Executive Chairman of the Board, one and the same. And also the person that the old CEO reported to.
Why would it? It's not like the car's OS is off while you're using carplay. There's still microphones, GPS, cameras, etc.
History of Email Spam
Twitter suspends journalists who have been covering Elon Musk and the company
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-suspends-j...

"He had earlier put up a poll with a variety of options, asking whether or when he should reinstate the journalists’ accounts. When a plurality of respondents voted to restore the accounts immediately, he deleted the poll and started a new one with fewer options."
You are not forced to use the "poison" - you can get them as LinuxONE machines and run everything on top of a very thin hypervisor (which is necessary, since nothing runs on bare metal on the newer machines).
Of course things go horribly wrong, and Mars crashes into earth. The moral of the story being if you don't have ultra-superior technology and experience doing the same thing outside of your own solar system and checking the results to adjust your procedures, then nudging things and seeing what happens at planetary scale is playing with fire.
Not when it comes to speech in the United States, thank goodness.
This just reminds me of what originally got me into PHP as a teenager. Creating a site for our gaming community in PHP-Nuke was all too easy. Extending it with plugins, and eventually writing my own plugins to show live data from our game server.

Now I look back on PHP3/PHP4 with disgust. Globals, function names, massive pieces of code right in the middle of HTML, shell_exec.
Any news worth its salt will have a source in the article vouching to the story:

>The CWA filed a new labor complaint against the company on Wednesday, the second such complaint in about a month.

>“These decisions have left Grindr dangerously understaffed and raises questions about the safety, security and stability of the app for users,” Erick Cortez, a member of the organizing group, said in the statement. “It is clear Grindr wants workers to be silenced and deterred from exercising our right to organize, regardless of the expense.”

In this case, the forming union group reported it, likely after getting info from some manager who talked about it. Or perhaps estimating based on some internal metrics.
Only a minority of people who don't have children regret it, so your last statement is definitely too broad. Most of us are happily child-free.
While I consider julia lispy, I do think it's quite a reach to call it a lisp. I also think it's quite a reach to say julia lost in this space. It's still working it's way up.

Julia is growing and evolving and finding new users and niches. It certainly hasn't 'won', but it's a bit early to call it a loss.
> apply [their] skills to something of actual use

What a bizarre thing to say in 2023.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find someone under 40 who doesn't know at least one couple who met online.

These people lost their jobs. No need to ignorantly denigrate their work as well.
This might have been among the worst examples you could have used, considering current affairs.
To a certain extent it is the black swan more important than 1 million white swan. Just wish the black swan is real. Got any pic … or evidence, reviewed journal etc.
> How many times have I been asked (indirectly by the government) to declare my "race" and not been presented with the obvious option of "human"?

This particular statement by X doesn't get at the root of the legal matter at issue. Statistics about constitutionally protected behavior are not analogous to statistics dealing with demographic information.

> The reason I think it's an appropriate topic is because Section 230 immunizes the supposed expressive content of X's editorial policy so ... X shouldn't have as free rein to run that program in secret according to unknown whims.

They're immune from liability related to how they moderate content, therefore they have to disclose information to the government about how they moderate content? That sounds an awful lot like they're back to being liable.
> you don't need to take control of the sandbox

Your original request was: “If you've seen an exploit caused by a big pre-allocated array of untrusted RGBA data, please explain how.”

> It's something to keep an eye on but not important itself. You have to add a vulnerability to get a vulnerability.

Which is exactly how exploit chains work.

A single vulnerability usually doesn’t achieve something dangerous on its own. But remove it from the chain and you lose your exploit.
> It's the 25% and 26% increase in prices for flavors of archive Cloud Object Storage.

Which is rather odd - they are increasing prices on the most commoditized products they have.
So a few weeks ago, I found some possibly LLM usage and I wanted a second opinion on whether this was likely. So I asked my coworkers in Slack, you know, because some of them should have expert opinions and more experience than me with this sort of thing.

The only answer I received was a guy who copy-pasted the text into ZeroGPT and took screenies of the results. Then there was a thumbs-up by someone else.

It was sort of the opposite of LMGTFY.
Doesn't sound very perfect to me. I'm no fan of Python but it is at least readable. Lisp is not.
> tree-lined streets encourage slower driving without any speed limit signs

Somewhere near me (south UK) has a dual carriageway that approaches a roundabout. There is a fence on the side of the road as you approach the roundabout, so that you cannot see what traffic on the adjacent road is doing, forcing you to slow down on the approach, rather than maintaining a higher speed when it appears you might get away with it. Seems to work quite well.
Vyper compiler $200k security audit competition
But it overwhelmingly is.
What do you recommend as ideal foods to improve the microbiota? Are there any non-obvious foods, such we kefir?
You mean investment like this?
https://info.juliahub.com/juliahub-receives-13-million-strat...

You can imagine what a company like Boeing might be interested in when it comes to a programming language.
Right on the money. There’s a reason PHP shows so high on this list, and e-commerce is always mentioned. Analyses only have access to public sites, and PHP’s niche of blogs and e-commerce have lots of publicly crawl-able pages.

The majority of sites may well be in something else, and the majority of things that people will pay you to code may be behind a login page.
The only way it could be worse is if someone tries that, and then gets told they don't meet requirements!
Kind of like setting up a new computer and don’t migrate the bulk of your stuff unless you really need it. Turns out you can dump 95% and never notice. I’m sure that rights holders will show up and passion communities will lobby for the stuff of great value. Overall the world will continue.
Wonder who is not. Even cpm … ibm Tso and vm/cms … not to mention unix.
>Of course, there is massive overhead in doing so. Just look at go, which had to rewrite practically everything already available in go, and must always require a native implementation (protobuf for example shares the underlying interface across ruby, python, php... but then has a full separate implementation in go, and java I think)

Both Java and Go could just as well use FFI for those things "already available" as C.

They don't because native (to the language) is better, and can be even faster (due to GC or lack of crossing the boundary).

Python, PHP and co just take the easy way out. Plus, given their speed, if stuff like JSON and co were native-to-the-language they would be much slower than C extensions.
> Every single time you start the car it shows a consent screen for data aquisition.

My parents new Hyundai does this too. You cant say no, and you cant store your reply. Incredible. I'll never ever purchase such a vehicle.
> it is not visible to the baked eye, and it would certainly fry your retina trying to locate it with a binocular.

Baked eye indeed.
Forcing them to answer a question like that is compelled speech about constitutionally protected behavior. It doesn't matter how easy the question is to answer.

What is the government's interest in getting this question answered?
The Berkeley Hotel Hostage of Douglas Adams
Example of a HN ChatGPT Spambot
User lmiq articulates the sentiment well in a later comment in the OP thread:

> what I find more interesting here is that the reasoning and code type applies to any composite type of a similar structure, thus we can use that to optimize other code completely unrelated to calculations with complex numbers.

It matters less whether super-optimized code can be written in Julia for this particular case (though there's some value in that too), the more important and telling part to me is that the language has features and tools that can easily be adopted to a general class of problems like this.
I think that "noun class" muddles the picture.

Experience of learning some gendered languages makes it painfully obvious that it's a runaway effect, some kind of a mind virus. If 3 alcohols the wine, the champagne, and the sangria happen to use 3 distinct rules for declination in a language (and make you sound like a nitwit if you misremember one) something must have gone seriously awry. Partying hard cannot require such complexity.

If there would be some usefulness in that distinction, you might argue that it's as useful to assign woman together with one of the alcohols, man with a different one, and a child with the remaining one. To me it looks like standing the issue on its head.
> "like... a HTML file?"

Serving a static HTML file is not server-side rendering.

It's much dumber than that. The people advocating for SSR want the server to respond with HTML generated based on whatever is in the request.
> It has no legitimate interest in mandating statistical data-collection about online speech, either: because there's no legitimate government function that data serves and informs.

Not sure if this is an actual legal argument, but I don't see at all how the latter follows from the former - I think it would in fact be really bad if it did.

Statistical data collection isn't just necessary for the government to implement its current obligations, it's also necessary for policymakers (i.e. parliaments) to know which laws should be changed and which new government functions might be necessary.

I you don't like this for partisan reasons, it's easy to flip this around as well: Imagine some hypothetical federal government going all in on "no borders, no nations" and making it illegal for states to stop people at the US-Mexican border at all. By your argument, it would also automatically become illegal to even just monitor the border and count how many illegal immigrants are crossing.

Then later, when opposition and advocacy groups want to challange the federal government's policy, the government party can just say "the policy seems fine, we don't have any data that would show any sudden influx of illegal immigrants, so why should we change it?"

> the DeSantis government of Florida has mandated social media platforms disclose statistics about LGBT content on their platforms

There is an important distinction between data that makes someone personally identifiable and data that does not.

Not an expert in US domestic politics, but I believe that progressives don't generally have a problem with broad statistical data collection about marginalized groups - on the contrary, they often use this data for their own arguments, i.e. to show how unequal the distribution of men and women in leadership positions is.

What is a problem is any kind of data that would allow the government (or anyone else really) to individually identify persons from some group. (This includes "pseudonymous" data and very fine-grained statistics, because those can often be deanonymized)

So:

"How many % of SF's population are gay?" -> cool

"How many % of the tenants in Christopher Street are gay?" -> not cool
>Critizising the title is not exactly nitpicking. The title is important.

Only if one doesn't bother to read the article. Else the title is just an insignificant detail, or, at worse, a redundant piece of promotional material attached to the article.
It's just a collection of people (employees)

Yes, and if a company breaks a law, there was at least one person at the company who also broke the law. When the mob breaks laws, we use RICO. There appears to be no equivalent for corporations.
>Reality is practically continuous not discrete.

Do we actually know this?
While the writing system and phonetics of Chinese are complex, the grammar is relatively simple. For Arabic, all aspects are quite complex.
I'd say that the Cold War had a far bigger potential to end the humanity than climate change currently has. It's a well known fact that we were on a brink of nuclear confrontation more than once during that period.
Oh dang, I can't believe I got downvotes for this?! I must've accidentally posted it just as I fell asleep last night. It's hard to describe the sensation other than my fingers involuntarily tap my phone's screen as I lose consciousness. Oh never mind!
I started out as a symfony snob. Got sick of writing java in PHP so I picked up laravel. Got sick of having to modify my code every time Taylor huffed some new shit so I started building things using WordPress.

It's so refreshing knowing that my websites auto update themselves and I never have to update them unless there is a legitimate reason to do so.

Backwards compatibility is the ONLY thing I care about in a framework. Life's too short to babysit some frameworks ideas of how my code should work ten years after building the damn thing.
JSX and PHP are actually seriously different. When you break out of PHP, you're just outputting text to standard output. When you're using JSX syntax, you're constructing Javascript objects that can be manipulated using standard javascript techniques. Anyone who believes they're comparable seriously doesn't understand the task that is before them.
I was a teacher and the enormity of the highs and lows is spot on. It's not a job for the faint hearted.
What about if you rotate a register by more than the register size? Does it just rotate a few laps around the register unnecessarily? Does it optimize? Does it not work?
Even that can't prevent computer vision with a robot mouse.
If my car isn't connected to the internet how is this data being sent ?
Google are planning to release a native dashcam feature soon. Perhaps a Pixel exclusive feature, perhaps not.

https://9to5google.com/2023/05/16/pixel-dashcam-personal-saf...
Hardware acceleration.
Hardware so protected api so kernel.
It's been a while since i did the "law for business people" class.

You're right, promissory estoppel applies to arrangements made on the anticipation of a contract or more formal agreement. The courts recognize that it's not unreasonable that people do things on the promise of some future agreement.

As the other comment notes, such a claim must pass a number of tests with regards to the reasonableness of actions, the beliefs of both parties at the time the actions are taken, etc.
People who get existential crisis out of this can find relief in the fact that the Universe can expand faster than the decay. So, it is possible that decay never reaches your region of Space.
I was job hunting this year, I'm a long-time PHP developer (since '99).

It wasn't the language, it's everything around it. It's knowing frontend and how it works, it's knowing about cloud/operating systems, databases, 3rd party integration, IAM, SSO and the list goes on.

These skills are applicable everywhere, next to any language. Compensation I was offered revolved around the ability to be non-invasive towards younger teammates and to provide education with emphasis on critical thinking. During the years I've done this job, I learned other languages as well and I can safely claim that initial language one learns has huge impact but it's learning additional skills that makes up for a valuable employee.

In the end, knowing C# but not knowing PHP bears little insight into whether you're capable of listening about a requirement and coming up with a solution that satisfies the need, code it in such a way code can safely die one day and make in such a way that additional people in the team can jump in and manage it.

I also found a lot of job offers and opportunities. My previous engagement was insurtech/fintech, there's quite a bit of PHP used there (and it works well).

Wordpress, Magento, Facebook - these aren't the only places where PHP is/was used, the world we don't hear or read about is larger than the blogo-investo-googlesphere we're used to reading about.
Oh yes... IBM Cloud spends more on paper and mail than I pay them. I guess I'll start getting even more paper over the mail from them...