skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious. "Defense" in this article and in "DoD" is a euphemism for military, isn't it?

I mean: these technologies (and the DoD) are perfectly capable of offense (attack). All while they prefer to call themselves "defense". This is just PR-speak right? A way to look good in the eyes of those who do not understand new speak?
> The obvious problem being the conflict of interest in developing a browser (which is meant to serve users) and an advertising platform (which is meant to serve business customers). That alone should have prevented Google from entering that field, but here we are.

Considering that probably 90+% of the content that the average person uses their browser to browse to is paid for by ads, and there is no other existing business model that would currently [1] be workable to pay for creating and distributing 90% of that content, I think you'd have a very hard time making a winning legal argument that Google's advertising platform does not serve users.

[1] There are things that are workable technically, but they either require cooperation from many governments to change how they handle sales taxes or VAT because otherwise accepting micropayments from customers is a tax collecting and reporting nightmare or they require websites to sell the content through third party marketplaces that will act as the legal seller and handle the taxing so that the websites are only dealing with one potentially international relationship (if the marketplace company is not in their country). But consumers don't want to have to have accounts with a bunch of different content marketplaces, so for this to not end up like video streaming has (Netflix, Disney+, HBO, Peacock, Paramount, Hulu, Apple, Amazon, ...) which would be a million times worse for websites we probably need to end up with at most two marketplaces which together cover pretty much everything.
it's still a good PoC for robots?
Microsoft’s data centers are going nuclear
I am a citizen of the %countryname% and I have seen a lot of that kind of information in school while studiyng the history of the %countryname%. What do you expect to learn on these lessons except of bigotry, propaganda and other flag-waving bullshit?
I really don't understand the toxicity here.. People saying that 'you shouldn't do things just for recognition/gold starts/reward/cv/etc are insane to me?

Do they have jobs? If so, to make these kinds of comments imo they should be working completely for free. Salary is a form of recognition for contribution.

Personally, adding a co-author (even if the final solution ends up different to the one proposed, but the solution is based around the findings of the original solution) is such a tiny thing to do. I think the author has a valid point to moan about this.. it isn't the first and won't be the last instance of somebody feeling their contribution to something is going unrecognised.
Given that this scenario has happened on the PC side of things, where I now need to have a Steam store, Epic store, EA Store, Ubi store, and GOG store (it's optional — thanks GOG!), I'd say it's not as baseless.
But you can have sensitive APIs behind permission prompts
And I'm typing this on a fully custom, hand soldered, hand lubed, modded Maja V2 from KBDFans and MT3 keycaps from Drop. Easily costs more than all those boards in that post combined. And let's just say this is not my only keyboard.
This is some wonderful performance art you’re doing here
Is the opinion of the users irrelevant? They’re all racking about suddenly being independent, something everyone who’s sighted takes for granted.
Also, keep in mind that Robots may be scifi level in 2 years. Like, able to cook and clean with hands! Crazy, but I think we will see it happen so fast:

https://www.tri.global/news/toyota-research-institute-unveil...
GPT-4 has a default limit of 200 RPM and you can request an increase.
Man Faces Prison Sentence for Reselling Hacked Streaming Service Accounts
Keep Your Users Happy
>Since then i use unicomp "new model M". This one has been going stong for 2+yr now, expect it to start losing function soon. Tried a couple different logitech "mechanical" and beat them to death in under a year.

I had one of those for a bit but it had constant firmware issues. usb dropouts and resets that required a full power-off. had to return it.

was an OK repro as far as the typing feel goes, though.
What are those superior "business-grade" phones, computers, OSes? Please provide some examples.
Apologies for the clickbait headline.

My dad worked in IT and used the same keyboard for like 20+ years. Part of me hopes that one day I can find a board that survives for an extended period of time, but I guess modern spending habits and build quality has changed. I have to buy a new phone every 2/3 years for the same reasons.
Moreover, what is the guarantee the maintainer won't pull another one, will say that he again likes his version better and point to yet another bug?
Haven’t watched the video yet. What is the kernel philosophy? Is it a mono or microkernel?
The Story and Math of Differential Cryptanalysis
What I don't understand is how this is acceptable to enterprise IT departments at, say, Fortune 500s. It would have been an embarrassment 20 years ago for employees to be receiving these kinds of ads, news, and games from within the OS. What happened? When did people stop caring?
I did and I think that I see the narration that's there.
> I wish Apple would separate the updates of their bundleware from their OS.

In a way it's a bit of a philosophical standpoint: macOS is the whole indivisible thing developed, built, and released in lockstep, kinda like FreeBSB base is the whole indivisible thing developed, built, and released in lockstep (and the rest is ports). In a way, removing tcsh from a FreeBSD install because you only ever use bash from ports does not make sense and may break things; so you just ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist.
I’m not discounting the cultural part because it’s a big factor, but you’re also missing that the US has more stringent safety standards that significantly drive up weight. There’s more reasons that those little Opals and Citroëns aren’t sold in the US beyond cultural norms.
The kernel documentation defines some tag conventions, one of them is "Suggested-by".
Its definition:

A Suggested-by: tag indicates that the patch idea is suggested by the person named and ensures credit to the person for the idea.
Please note that this tag should not be added without the reporter's permission, especially if the idea was not posted in a public forum.
That said, if we diligently credit our idea reporters, they will, hopefully, be inspired to help us again in the future.

It could have been more appropriate to the situation, I think it's convey better the idea that you have found a solution to a problem, but because you are not familiar with the project, the exact syntax of your patch has not been kept.

Ref: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Facebook app can, of course, send its tracking data back to Facebook, but it will only be able to track what you do within Facebook itself. That's fair and that can't be prevented. I'm talking specifically about cross-app and cross-site tracking.
I particularly hate number pads on laptop keyboards because they put the touch pad right where my wrist occasionally touches as I type.

I've used the old Mac 104 key aluminium wired keyboard for about 10 years now. I originally used it with Linux and now with MacOS at work and my home Windows PC. I've occasionally had minor difficulties with mapping but nothing insurmountable.
Yeah, consoles are even worse. You are not only paying 400-500 dollareuropounds for the console itself, you pay for the multiplayer, and another huge markup for the games and/or the game pass.

And you can only game on it, you can't do anything else with it. In 2 years you easily spend up to 1000 dollars on it, which in comparison could get you the most expensive GPUs other than the 4090.
... like operate my phone without a UI?
I bought an X1 around 2016, and its still super reliable. I think it was a 4th gen.

It has a couple small issues, sometimes the USB ports fall asleep and never wake up regardless of OS, the lid has a couple hairline cracks where it takes the brunt of the open/close force. The fingerprint reader never worked in Linux.

Aside from that, it still has 90% of its battery life after all this time, boots fast, does everything I need a laptop for.

Even though RAM is soldered, 16gb still works and its a decent sacrifice for a laptop so light and thin.
> I never understood the Mac keyboards

I actually prefer them to most keyboards. I wish I could make the full size one tenkeyless, not a fan of the cramped smaller one.
Wrote my own RSS feeder. It ingests 3000 articles a day from 100 feeds and picks out 300 a day to show me, I thumbs up or thumbs down every one of those and it trains a machine learning model to pick the next 300.

At least that’s the plan. It also shows me the “top 100 likely to front page HN” and “top 100 likely to get a lot of comments on HN” and I scan those quickly. I usually take more than a day to read the 300 which is OK because more articles go into the process so what is selected is even better. If you look at what I submit to HN those articles were all selected by YOShInOn first and me second.

That’s a good idea of what my feed looks like but I also like articles about sports which I rarely submit to HN.
I use an x250 which has dual batteries

An internal 3 cell battery and a removable 3 cell battery (a 6 cell one
is also available)

I don't have a spare but the main point of this set up is to allow hot swapping of batteries wit no shutdowns when AC is unavailable
I like the experience more than the alternatives, so I'm not ready to switch it for what is for me a worse experience. You probably won't be able to convince me otherwise.
Sounds similar to GNU Stow. What feature do you need that Stow doesn't provide?
How's it different from other `pipe` implementations around, e.g. the one from `fp-ts`?

https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/function.ts.html#pipe
I feel I must still be misunderstanding something. OWASP has pages of resources which talk about the lack of safety of JSON:

https://owasp.org/search/?searchString=json

Perhaps yaml and xml have _more_ ways to inject behavior into an application, but I would still not consider JSON safe in any way. Why would JSON.parse() even exist if `require()` and `eval()` were safe to use?
I think there's a lot of truth to this. I also suspect that, if you translated the median person from the US to the alternate-reality world of FALC they might look around in wonder; while the people native to the FALC reality would be as disaffected as many are today.
Sorry, you're way off base, in particular with the especially snarky last paragraph. If the effort up to the point of the patch was used, then the effort has value and an acknowledgement is necessary. Taking the work without attribution is tantamount to plaigiarism.

Could you tell us which open source projects are yours so that we, as a community, can avoid contributing to them? We don't want to support this type of behaviour.
The company Unity is exploiting Unity the development platform.
Developers have a choice to use it.
But at the end of the day, it's an analogy. It won't be perfect. My point remains that this is perhaps the only way an end user can boycott Unity. By not using products that use it. If you have a better way of doing so, I'm all ears.
Shop around. I have one at 4.5%. My credit union has one that goes up to 4.9% if your balance is high enough.
ARMfuck: Turing completeness from two RISC instructions
This is when I lose all sympathy for the OP. All of it. Misrepresenting the actual statement this way is garbage. There's a world of difference in the two statements.

I do understand why people clamor to get a patch into the kernel. It's a big deal. Feeling like you've come close and fallen short has to sting.

But, part of having a patch accepted is being able to work with maintainers. Clear fail here. There's a definite air of entitlement in claiming that you're "robbed" of a patch and misrepresenting other people's words and actions.
Paying "per version" is actually common and fine in my opinion (discounted upgrade too which is nice).

And "If you bought Bartender 4 from July 2022 you are entitled to a free upgrade to Bartender 5, Bartender 5 will accept and use your Bartender 4 license."
The goal of the "disinformation flooding" narrative is exactly to avoid any kernel of truth that other nations may be telling. If someone says anything that goes against the US narrative, they will immediately say that it is result of the "disinformation campaign", not the fact that the person concluded independently that this single piece of information may be correct. You can see this happening in this very discussion board.
Is this a new level of user satisfaction wrought by AI? Sounds like there has been a non-AI solution for a while too?
Great.
Pretty incredible what can be done with WASM.
I meant a legal case. That's what lawyers are going to want - not an absence of cases but one that has already happened.

Honestly, go talk to your org's lawyer.
I think it depends on the stage you're at. I have helped companies get FedRamp, soc 2 type 1 and 2 and into govcloud marketplace in less than 6 months. I would argue the more expensive part is proving compliance rather than becoming compliant, especially if it's an early startup with a small team and without too much written in stone.
God I miss chonky laptops. Instead of toting it around or throwing it in a bag I have to put it in a protective case first that makes it just as thick as the old one. I'll never get over the loss of the sheer convenience of being able to store a bluetooth mouse inside the laptop's ExpressCard slot.
All: We got the HN hug on our images. This has now been fixed.
T430 is a piece of cake to replace the fan.
Don’t be ridiculous.

They’ll use YouTube, just like they do right now. Maybe if it could watch the video, then step you through it step by step. …but it cant, with what they’ve actually released here.

Oh whatever. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. Time will tell.
That's not `pipe`, that's `compose` or `flow`.
A solution mentioned a few times here is to take the patch as suggested by the maintainer, but to give a 'co-author' credit to the person who did all the debugging.
This gives the best code quality (or at least style match) and still credits the hard work done by the author.
Kernel people don't care about GitHub, and rightly so.

Here's the relevant documentation of commit tags: https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patche...
Maybe I missed something, do colleges publish detail cost like hospitals are now required to do? Like cost per credit, food cost, room and board cost.
I'll be the first to admit that I'm definitely a Linux fanboy, and am totally biased, but while yes, some distros require a lot of configuration, but others, like Mint and Fedora, just work. The only major issue I've ever had with those was, on rare occasions with niche WiFi cards or very new ones, missing WiFi drivers, which are available separately and can be installed pretty easily with just a quick Google search.

In my opinion, it's much less time to configure and get Linux working than Windows. For example, just last week I was on Debian, but then I decided I wanted to switch back to Fedora (just some minor preferences, nothing major), and I was able to reinstall and get back up and running within an hour or two–including reinstalling programs. And I had a separate /home partition, so I had all my data separate and just switched out the OS.
> there were way more helpers than help-seekers

Yes, about 15:1.

https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/4-million-volunteers-strong

https://www.bemyeyes.com/blog/what-would-you-do-with-5-milli...
That's just the introductory rate limit. Be My Eyes has a closer relationship with OpenAI than most of us https://openai.com/customer-stories/be-my-eyes
For predicting the next data point?
The JS proposal is very dubious imho, I'm really not fond of the direction they want to take the pipe operator.
Where did you see coercion? MacOS offers both options. You and I both know how popular the Mac app store is among both users and developers. I'm sure there are people who use a Mac and would not install anything from outside of the app store out of principle. It's their right to do so.
Recently I tried enabling "Syncing to OneDrive", to see what would happen. Documents, Desktop, and Pictures were moved up a level into "OneDrive - LongCompanyName.com" folder, those have become the preferred file save destination, and the original folders emptied out.

A lot of time is spent synching to the cloud. Also, "Date modified" metadata was all reset at the time of transition, so distinguishing "pre-OneDrive" files by date is not a thing anymore.
I've had it for five years and have had 8 or 9 calls, so you're right about it being very infrequent. You need to be mindful, at least on Android, that as the application is infrequently used that the OS may remove permissions. This feature can be disabled for Be My Eyes specifically.

As for menial tasks, I could definitely see people wanting to use this instead of calling a stranger for more personal matters -- at least initially.
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I’m using an X220 with Archlinux short before 10 years now :)

The best feature is the seven row keyboard with regular size and regular key drop. The mobile form-factor in a size of A4/Letter combined with power and docking-ports. Also a small notch to lift the display and USB 3.0 port. Maintainability is great, you can upgrade the BLE 4.0 from the later L-Series, add 16 GB (unofficial) or even swap the entire WiFi/BL (requires MOD-BIOS).

The weak points?

The PCI-Express card slot reduces stiffness of the palmrest. The remaining flat four cell batteries from Lenovo are deep discharged and cannot be charged. The USB 3.0 tends to go into low-power state (use powertop or /sys to change). Some IPS-Displays could show “ghosting”.

It will be replaced now by an X13 Gen3 AMD. It ships in Europe without an operating-system (130 EUR not for Microsoft shareholders - spend that for the FSF, GNOME or Mozilla or your fav Distribution!) and can be shipped preinstalled with Linux.
I had to replace the screen by the HiDPI option myself because Lenovo is weird.

Why not Gen4?

I avoid the Gen4 because of the reverse notch sticking out of the chase. The reverse notch is ugly and parts sticking out of the device surface tend to break and hinder save storage. Furthermore the keyboard is hard to replace which is bad because that is the most stressed part.
There was a programme the other day about this on BBC Radio 4. Unless they’ve resolved the problem already, it will refuse to describe any scene with faces in it, for privacy reasons. Which obviously rules out a lot of useful use-cases. You’re in a cafe wondering what’s going on, Be My AI can’t help if there’s a face. I think it was related to some EU legislation which Be My Eyes are now at least trying to change for this use-case. I wish them the best of luck.
"don't give up, there's so many jerks you still have to meet!"

not exactly encouraging
How long until generative self-driving cars? Precision is for the last century anyway /s
The EU has already shown itself willing to fine Google for antitrust shenanigans: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/14/tech/google-loses-eu-fine...
Okay interesting! So how did you build it?
They can always go the not-so-subtle sabotage route: https://archive.ph/tgIH9
There are issues with the simple "line out -> line in" solution.

First an aesthetic one: You're doing a totally unnecessary step, converting digital audio to analogue in the device on the "sending" computer, and then converting the analogue signal back to digital in the "recenving" computer.

A theoretical one: You're losing quality both at the DAC, electrical interface and at the DAC, along with the two devices not being clocked synchroniously so you get quantization due to clock drift of the DAC/ADC.

A practical one: You're creating a ground loop between the devices which presents itself as a 50 (or 60) hz hum along with whatever noise is picked up.

The practical problem can be solved (as I do in my setup) by using an audio isolation transformer, which solves the ground-loop issue but introduces additional loss and distortion.

I'd prefer the audio not to leave the digital domain before it's doing the final conversion to analogue by my speakers.

So, the situation that lead me to this particular solution is, that it seems the most intuitive and user-friendly way to achieve a universial solution for digitally transporting audio from one computer to another using existing drivers and operating system infrastructure (the usb audio class) with acceptable latencies (while the latency from a USB audio device may not be good enough for professional musicians, it's certainly good enough that I can't perceieve any lag between for example what happens on my display and the sound that goes along with it when watching a movie or playing a game).
That works, but probably it works better in the context of things that are not reported as security issues where speed and accuracy matter more than form, the kernel maintainers did the right thing by crediting the person as 'Reported-by', your 'Suggested-by' would make things a bit better but clearly isn't what the OP is looking for, they want to be labelled 'Kernel contributor' based on a miniscule patch.
Alas I felt that most of the solutions surrounded around government regulation and government action two things that basically have been fundamentally compromised by Citizens United.

I also am struck by the fact that he talked about how he's 50, how he's been an EFF for 20 plus years. How he remembered a better internet. And how in tech terms that basically doesn't just make him old that practically makes him prehistoric.

I wonder if the internet being associated with freedom is something that's just already dead that all the users of the internet that seem to matter that would be "the youth", already don't remember the internet as a free platform. And in fact it's not even one tech generation separated away.

The internet has a free platform that notion is itself prehistoric.

Because of consolidation of tech, the winners write, and delete , history

It was a fun talk.
I think they care more about being a tech demo and positive press for OpenAI. There's no advantage here, only risk.

Not to mention I imagine the carbon cost of pushing this through AI is much higher than just using humans.
The "act as if you [have] it" really depended on your government's policy at the time.

I live in the Netherlands, and during the height of the COVID scare here and in the EU you needed e.g. a negative test taken days before every flight, before attending a concert etc.

So even if the false positive rate was say 0.05% that's for each individual test.

But that quickly adds up. I think I did on the order of 50 tests during COVID.

If your spouse needs the same that's a 0.05 * 50 * 2 = 5% chance that one test during that period was a false positive.

Which could be a relatively life-changing event, e.g. the difference between a nice holiday, and being locked up in a quarantine hotel for weeks on arrival.

There were other ways those relatively small false positive numbers could cascade upwards, e.g. policies recommending that if anyone you've recently met had COVID, you should also quarantine.
> God forbid that we acknowledge this tech is fundamentally flawed. There’s money to be made!

I don't believe that Be My Eyes is a for-profit entity.