skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Impressive! But I'll note to readers to not let the inclusion of HDMI imply anything special. There's not a lot that is different between HDMI and VGA or NTSC in the particular case of displaying bitonal images. I suspect running at higher resolution and displaying color would really throw off the ability to perform this intercept. I don't know where the ML is actually coming into it though; maybe helping to recreate sync or doing some kind of thresholding or phase correction on the scanlines maybe? In any case it doesn't look like anything new is happening here to my observation, but these twitter announcements are essentially useless for details, so I'll reserve judgement.
Killing someone is also illegal and you have to go to jail .. but it does happen still all the time. Human are human. Sometimes things just happen.
Hours in an Invisible Epidemic
I want to do something like this. Should I get the esp32 or go with an Arduino/Raspberry Pico?

Also, for the e-ink screen, is there anything I should watch out for? Do I need it without PCB or with?

I want to order the pieces now and do something with Rust, but I wanna make sure I don't order something wrong. Any pointers would greatly be appreciated!
Again, 100% agreed. But for someone wondering "why do we pay these people?", this is the answer.
Disinformation most active on X, formerly known as Twitter, EU says
Since I read "Why we are living in JG Ballard’s world" [1] in 2020 I've slowly been making my way through Ballards short stories, and each and every one of them is treat.

Some fall flat, but ones like "Studio 5, the Stars" [2] about automated poetry hit hard in the modern context of ChatGPT and AI generated art.

1. https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2020/04/why-we-are-l...

2. https://readerslibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/Studio-5-The-S...
This isn't even the problem. There are shitloads of open bugs found by fuzzing, even in the linux kernel, that nobody is fixing. Serious security vulns in the kernel regress because of lack of tests.

It is clear that even if we stood up the best bug finding systems the world has ever seen that critical software will still be a disaster.
i found this and had to find this thread... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q-6M2P6mAx4
You won't, because once Chrome becomes available it will kill every other browser vendor.
I would add a fifth - advertising.
EU should follow the EU's lead and open itself up in the name of openness and fairness. Instead, they're working to make it easier to expel immigrants.
1. Unfortunately yes, at the beginning of the month.

2. Not sure, still searching.

3. As of yet unsure. I'm grateful that no one in my social nor professional circles appears to feel this is a stigma -- most people have expressed sincere regret when hearing about it.

Since I'm in the US, the immediate impact was health insurance, which will run out at the end of this month. COBRA is so expensive that it isn't a real option, so I will have to figure that out, as I take a daily medication that I rely on. Unfortunately, not one of the Obamacare plans I found covers both the medication and the prescribing physician, which is really shitty.

Otherwise, though, the period of rest (working on personal projects and applying to jobs notwithstanding) has been welcome. I'm lucky to have gotten some severance that has been affording me the time off without yet having to tap into my savings.
You haven't even begun to enter the world of unscrupulous activity, and Amazon is mostly 'hands off' because they don't care - but other 3rd party sellers DO and they know all the tricks about how to pump alternative sellers off the page, etc.

The whole thing is a worthless Alibaba ripoff now.
Indeed, it will be so great when web developers can just force everyone to use chrome.
The OP called for disbanding or curtailing. Allowing for a single agency to carry out the 9/10 status quo would be curtailing. And I think that would be sufficient.

Or you could phase back into airport authorities running the security, but allow for centralized policies and audit. Having local authority subject to central audit and consequences might be a lot better than central authority subject to central audit and no effective consequences.
I'm not sure why Notes needs to be bundled with the OS update, but Safari isn't. You can download Safari 17 for macOS Ventura as well! Only the features that require integration with other apps (such as auto-filling 2FA codes from Mail) require Sonoma.
The vendor toolkit is in C, so often you'll see for newer boards that Arduino/CircuitPython/etc don't support it yet because they have to build their own wrappers. Rust lets you use bindgen to basically immediately have access to the entire vendor library.

Now, in this case I'm using an older esp32 board so something like CircuitPython probably would have been equally fine, but it was nice to be able to share the same buffer type across the server and client. I also just enjoy writing Rust and find it less error-prone than C.
As far as I know, the US was among the last countries to adopt what other countries did, which was have some sort of federal police perform airport security.

Also, I fly pretty regularly - about one round trip a month - I find the TSA folks pleasant to deal with, and generally courteous - but I also know I'm an actor in a play, and I need to go thru the motions like everyone else.

Functionally, TSA is about 50% theatre, its meant to make Bob and Eileen from Cedar Rapids who fly twice a decade feel safe.
The Reuters article mentions a list of dos and donts but I couldn't easily find this after a quick search, does anyone know where it's available?

EDIT: I found it "What are the “dos and don'ts” for gatekeepers?" [0].

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
Yes, I found it interesting that Safari and Firefox are immune. Perhaps this should be framed as another chromium-based exploit rather than a GPU issue.
Uber is getting tighter with taxi companies
Also what Trader Joe’s does. It’s kinda their whole deal, and partly the cause for their success.
Panda exchange program targeted by misinformation, driving propaganda narratives
Oh man, this is exactly what I want to see on HN frontpage!

I commented on another article about an AMD chip that had no OpenCL support that it made it dead in the water for me, and was downvoted; surely everyone understands how important CUDA is, and everyone should understand how important open standards are (e.g. FreeSync vs Nvidia's GSync), so I can't understand why more people don't share my zeal for OpenCL.

I've shipped two commercial products based on it which still works perfectly today on all 3 desktop platforms from all GPU vendors... what's not to love?
I don't understand if this is an ask or a demand backed by the power of the EU.
I guess, but resistance in Ukraine and the Baltic states was mostly post war.
iPhone 15 connected to a USB 3.2 hub
Relevant, we deployed Lamini on hundreds of MI200 GPUs.

Lisa tweet: https://x.com/LisaSu/status/1706707561809105331?s=20

Lamini tweet: https://x.com/realSharonZhou/status/1706701693684154766?s=20

Blog: https://www.lamini.ai/blog/lamini-amd-paving-the-road-to-gpu...

Register: https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/26/amd_instinct_ai_lamin...
CRN: https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/llm-startup-...

The hard part about using any AI Chips other than NVIDIA has been software.
ROCm is finally at the point where it can train and deploy LLMs like Llama 2 in production.

If you want to try this out, one big issue is that software support is hugely different on Instinct vs Radeon. I think AMD will fix this eventually, but today you need to use Instinct.

We will post more information explaining how this works in the next few weeks.

The middle section of the blog post above includes some details including GEMM/memcpy performance, and some of the software layers that we needed to write to run on AMD.
Willpower occurs after awareness. They are objectively different things.

If you are not aware of something, you cannot choose to make a reaction for or against it. For example, imagine that your body did not detect heat. If you put your hand on a burner you would instinctively withdraw from it (and yes this happens in people that do not feel pain).

Willpower is in the ballpark of conscious awareness. "I choose to do X or Y"

Training on the other hand attempts to remove the conscious decision part from the mind after awareness occurs. "If X then Y", this way you're not wasting time and brainpower trying to figure out what's going on.
Bored Stiff: A Cranky Historian on ChatGPT
Looking forward to a healthier background execution framework so apps other than iCloud / Apple Photos can offer a reliable sync experience.
This seems well done and well-researched. I appreciate the diagrams and art and references to the likes of Rubin and Pearl.

A few headings down:

> Causal inference provides us with tools that allow us to answer the question of why something happens.

This is not necessarily so.

Randomized controlled trials suffer from black box problems the same as models. This is clear enough when thinking about something like a tutoring program. Suppose I randomly assign a bunch of schools to learn algebra with curriculum X and the rest to continue business as usual.

Program X does better, so we infer the program has a causal impact on algebra learning.

However, we still do not know for sure why program X does better, only that it does better. This is important to inform how to take what works about the program and apply it to other circumstances, adapt it, and so on.

I suppose compared to a big data set, we have a better "why" answer to the variation between the outcome and the treatment. The difference being that we actually know the cause of the observed effect with a trial, whereas with correlational analyses we're not so sure. But that's a very deflationary view of "why." I don't mean to be too cynical here; we can always push "real" causality one more level down. For example, suppose we figure out the secret sauce to better algebra teaching relates to a specifical pedagogical practice. We can then say "but why does that practice work? what does it do in the brain?" So I don't want be too reductive.

But even gold standard RCTs don't always give us a "why?" answer. I remember attending a conference about a decade ago among causal inference-devoted social researchers specifically about "the black box" of causal inference as it pertains to RCTs.
Apple would likely rather delete the code and stop releasing phones than do that.
Is it feasible for something like, e.g., teflon to be decomposed biologically?
support isn't even in the vernacular with these kinds of tools:

https://docs.verilogtorouting.org/en/latest/vtr/cad_flow/#vt...

the question of pynq support is addressed/implicated in several places (timing/delay maps, tech mapping, bitstream generation).

the short of it: this shit is proprietary/encumbered beyond belief.

the medium of it: there are OSS flows that can generate bitstreams for pynqs (depending on the actual FPGA part) but they are not at all supported by AMD (formerly Xilinx) and rely on rev-eng work. the problem is while burning a bitstream is important, it's not the only thing you need to make OSS worthwhile. in particular you need the timing/delay maps and as far as i know, those are all shipped encrypted with vivado (and the cracks haven't been released).
This is the actual quote from Breton, EU Commissioner for Internal Market:

> The next job for Apple and other Big Tech, under the DMA (Digital Markets Act) is to open up its gates to competitors, be it the electronic wallet, browsers or app stores, consumers using an Apple iPhone should be able to benefit from competitive services by a range of providers
If that was true, Google Assistant would have been archived years ago.
There's always one like you.
I heard stories of companies like this doing things like buying old coal power plants that were slated to be closed, closing them, then claiming they had reduced emissions by 1 coal powerplant's worth. To give people an idea of what the kinds of fraud looked like.
Apple defends Google Search deal in court: ‘There wasn’t a valid alternative’
Virtually every consumer tech product sector is a segmented monopoly.
Yes, but we need more anti-trust for all of them. Edge has been repeating the old Explorer tricks and Google pay-for-play is even worse (if Apple didn't get a cut, would they be as willing to push the increasingly ad-infested google search?)
From no way in hell it seems I'm gradually getting an iphone. I cant be bothered to buy my own prison. (If you don't agree I have a cage to sell you.)
As I've noted elsewhere in the thread, somehow "clean the streets" is considered to be "evil socialism" to half the country but "stand around looking bored by the security line" is not. And that's why it is the way it is.
Because Apple isn't a monopoly.
Hm. From an American law standpoint, this suit is thin on the ground for consumer harm. I can see the competitor harm, but IIUC US antitrust is generally grounded in consumer harm.

I'll have to see the argument they actually make in court.
Or you just run the kubelet(with systemd) and drop your manifests I to /etc/kubernetes/manifests

Nothing can kube better than the kubelet! The new sidecar support for init containers can be used today. Every other abstraction is playing catch up
What's MOC?
> it's effectively a jobs program

Then build roads, infrastructure, etc. Don't put a "jobs program" in charge of banning citizens from flying ever again, violating citizen's rights and more.
Also relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27695574
Apple ships a non-broken secure boot, unlike almost everyone else.
All of your points are addressed in the article, but in short: phenotypic and behavioural diversity within each sex class in gonochoric species does not imply that sex itself is a spectrum. Nor does the existence of hermaphroditic species, in which each individual embodies both female and male reproductive systems, imply this either.

It's quite telling that no-one who advocates for a 'sex spectrum' model can actually define it in a way that applies to all anisogamic species, is consistent with the observations of biologists, and has any scientific utility.
The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules
I find the premise that Amazon has a monopoly to be pretty far fetched. I order goods online from various shops all the time.
I was just about to say that there isn't any changes worthwhile in this release and that Apple employees x people in the marketing sub department that takes care of the yearly releases and they will – regardless of anything else – do the yearly release fanfare with all the bells and whistles :-).
Yes, parts (or all) of a PDF page could be expressed in PostScript as special objects. The separate (from PostScript) regular drawing primitives of PDF are inspired by PostScript, but those only form a sub-language within the PDF format, which adds enveloping structures and many other features.
I don't like it, but I kind of don't blame them because it's, frankly, a rational act.

Everyone vies for control/power. Once you have control, you can exert pressure to get more from less (this is essentially what "bullying" is). There's nothing (but any laws set up to counteract this) stopping you, so you do it, because relative to you, there's only upside. Can you really blame these entities for taking advantage?

Literally, the thing we all want more of (success and control), will turn us into bullies. Veeeeery few people, or companies, get to that point and then continue to "play fair", at least completely. So we set up the system with rules we think will limit this, but it's not perfect, so rules get exploited.

In games (which are systems and sets of rules), one of the most fun things is to discover an "exploit". Sometimes this comes from a developer oversight, sometimes this comes from rule complexity leading to unexpected states, sometimes from bugs. I remember figuring out how to get an extra enchant on a weapon in Neverwinter Nights (I somehow got 1 past the supposed limit) and how fun that felt. But there was no cost to other people in doing this. (At worst, if I found too many exploits, the game would stop being fun due to not being challenging, and I would just "cheese" through it.)

Amazon is a bully that is cheesing its way through the rules, at some unknown but probably large success cost to many other people vying for the same control. Perhaps it's time to dismantle the bully dominating the schoolyard lunches.
To get people to upgrade! It's extraordinarily effective. They seem to always do it in the first major patch after a major release, to kinda ensure everyone gets a stable version of the OS.
I worked in retail ops for ~10 years. I can tell you the problem mainly lies with your banks and credit card companies. Most small retailers aren't fully utilizing their data, and often lack the knowledge to do so.

Worried about your purchase history being sold/shared? Use cash. I'm quite certain credit card companies and banks are much better at selling your data than the local grocery store (large retailers are definite offenders though).

> The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

TIL. What's really crap about this is the predicting of human actions vs. improving products.

When I worked in retail, I made a lot of use of various dimensions of purchase data. Time of day, day of week, day of month, time of year, and so on. This is vitally important information. Some other abstract information I used was mostly researched - what event happened last year to explain this dip or increase in our sales? What event is happening this year that might affect sales? When you're trying to prevent food waste, but have adequate stock, there's a lot of information to take into account.

If I had better access to data, I would have been much more efficient at my job. This would have meant many things to pass off to customers: cleaner stores, better product availability, better product selection, better/faster assistance in service departments. For the most part, data isn't made available to improve products or services :/
Good! I'm looking forward to having to uninstall a crypto miner on my mom's phone because it told her the only way to play a slots app is to allow third-party apps.
I don't think there is any news here.

He's saying that Apple should abide by the Digital Markets Act, which goes into effect in November. A summary of the changes the DMA will require would be nice.
How do you know that you're not missing out on an even better deal?

If amazon had real competition maybe they would not have raised seller fees so much, and would not have prevented sellers from allowing lower prices in other places. So a cases can be made that they are using their market share to drive up prices, not lower them. Costing the consumer more.

There's other issues besides cost, for example counterfeits. If they had real competition then maybe they'd have to do something about all the counterfeit products they sell, which hurts both buyers and sellers.

Just a couple examples. There are other ways that monopolies can impact markets.

I've had similar thoughts about facebook. We could have had much better social/messaging systems, but facebook bought the competition. We likely missed out on more variety and perhaps much better options. Consumers were harmed by these lost opportunities.
That might be a different case. If you look the court's opinion for this case[1], it explicitly says it's not about whether the TSA officer can be sued.

>Whether Leuthauser can state a claim against TSO Serrano under Bivens is not at issue in this appeal

"Leuthauser" is the plaintiff, "TSO" stands for "Transportation Security Officer"

[1] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/06/26/2...
Minimum Viable Product (MVP): What Is It and How to Build One?
"But it shouldn't be assumed that the high fees necessarily mean reduced income for the original seller."

I agree. It just gets passed down to the customers. Most of my shock was directed at the 50% increase in fee in just a few short years. You can't do that without having a lot of leverage.
https://archive.ph/PETc0
Apologies, that was meant for the specialists :) It is mostly just technical jargon so do not feel too humble ...

So I'll break it down:

- "feruloyl esterase" : an 'esterase' is an enzyme that makes or breaks ester bonds. In this case, 'feruloyl' which I've never heard of but apparently is some small molecule that is normally attached to a sugar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feruloyl_esterase

- "conserved alpha/beta-hydrolase fold" : a structural pattern (fold) that is shared (conserved) between a set of structures. In other words, these enzymes all have roughly the same shape. https://www.cathdb.info/version/v4_3_0/superfamily/3.40.50.1...

- "additional flexible 'lid' domain that covers the active site" : a 'domain' is just a compact part of a protein, without going into too much detail. They are calling it a 'flexible lid' as the idea is that it moves out of the way to bind the substrate to the active site (where the reaction is carried out) and back again when fully bound.
Back in the day, using CUDA was really hard. It got better as more people built on it and it got battle tested.
Why is it news?

These websites tag these articles as "identity politics" to give them an ugly name, but then jerk off to the same concept in their own piece. Why is something on a podcast or Twitter important or meaningful? How is this not the "Kardashian"-izing of reality?
>I get good products for cheap delivered in two days or less.

You would be getting the same products for cheaper, that's the point. Their "two days or less" hasn't been true for several years. "Prime" to me basically has become "sometime in the next week" and there's a massive warehouse within 30 miles of my house.
This one struck me : Future Now - Interview with J.G. Ballard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELjQkAI1RA
The Dangers of Sleeping with Your Cat in the Bed, from a Feline Expert
(Edited) Right, okay, but who should operate those things?
certainly frightening, but the pixel stealing POC is so good!
how? I can still install Firefox on desktop and android despite chrome’s dominance.
It seems like the only two types of drivers are generic USB device drivers and HID input drivers, though.

There needs to be some OS-side FUSE-like kernel interface for userspace drivers like this to be able to actually mount them in the VFS.
“The U.K.’s storied universities have a problem. They lose money on almost every British student they teach.”
The crisis is they cannot charge more money, and aren't profiting enough from students?
Just wait until the WSJ finds out about the crisis at U.K. Hospitals. They're not making enough of a profit through the NHS!
Is there a better source that isn't a proud apple fan site?
For the application of sales tax to all purchases including stock and the abolition of capital gains tax.

give vertically integrated businesses an edge

Why is that bad? Vertical integration allows the more efficient use of resources.
If Scheme/Racket people are feeling inspired, you could look at two that I made, and make something with different properties, informed by Spinneret:

* Static syntax-based: https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-template/

* Dynamic data-based: https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-writing/

I like that Spinneret focuses on HTML5. My work started over 20 years ago, with HTML always being quirky, and also sometimes used in conjunction with my permissive HTML parser. So there's a need to maintain backward-compatibility with how things worked before, including weird non-open-source things. (With the parser, I've also recently gotten requests to support 20yo HTML, for dealing with legacy data.) Doing something all new, tailored to HTML5 or something higher-level, would be able to do some things better. (But I strongly recommend trying to stick with SXML representation/syntax at some level, though, since it's a de-facto standard in the Scheme world, and can be used in a way compatible with representing HTML5.)