skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not an expert here, but I have worked at a couple startups. The answer I would give is probably not: VCs basically work on a premise like this: 1 in 25 investments will return 100x, 5 in 25 will make they're money back, and the rest are just a wash. The only way the make money is if the company is mega successful, so they're not really interested if that's not a possibility. That being said, not every person at a VC is going to be super greedy or anything like that, it's just the nature of the business model for venture capital.
Reading this actually makes me feel more secure about my Mac laptop.

It seems that social engineering attacks on Find My are pretty well guarded against.

Just remember to set up Find My.
they kept the unlocked laptop and bought an icloud locked device on ebay and sent that one to you, thats why it took a long time and they wouldnt return it to their airport.
Read the file on startup.

Bonus: you can watch the file for changes. Which means your app can pick up rotated secrets without a process restart, whereas if you inject secrets via the environment they're fixed for process lifetime.
Does anyone know if agave attenuata is edible?
Author would be able to check the hardware serial number to what they bought from and that receipt, no?
> included having them use remote access on my iPhone.

I don’t understand what this refers to
Yes! I feel like Not setting up Apple's "Find My" ended up bricking my Macbook is easier to parse?
> Have you joined your current company only very recently

Yes. ~4.5 years. Prior was small companies.

> ~FU Money

In the words of JL Collins (youtube him for fu money) ,to me , it’s about operating from a place where you have options to say no to things that does not interest you. I would still work but not for “the man” and deal with the politics and be on the receiving end of task given by people who are above me simply trying to further their agenda and/or have no idea the real need of the organization/team/customer etc
See the counter argument there is that they weren't blaming innocents for their own deaths, they were saying the government of Israel is responsible for the situation.

And then it will turn into "oh but Israeli actions are/are not justified military action" etc etc.

And then it will turn out that many of the people doxxed didn't actually sign the letter and do not agree with it and merely signed up to a mailinglist/membership/something.

And then someone will physically attack someone who was doxxed.

etc

This cycle doesn't get stopped by amplifying bad actions.
Yeah. I have been thinking about it. It'd require a different sprite visualization and there's some weird edge cases, but it's how SimAnt and others like PocketAnts handle their underground perspective (https://thekingofgrabs.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/sim-ant-s...)

There's this game, Oxygen Not Included, that tackles the issue with ladders. https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/08/Oxygen-No... I know ladders are immersion breaking, but was thinking maybe ants could form living chains or something, idk.
Yeah I don't disagree that if the AI can get it spot on which I think it will be able to do eventually it will take over. It will take over even if it's not spot on, because the bottom line is all that matters to the major studios now.

> Why would they? Very few people can notice and appreciate the level of detail you are describing

People might not consciously appreciate the detail but I think almost everyone subconsciously appreciates the overall vibe. Everyone can watch that The Good, The Bad and The Ugly clip and see there's something special about that location.

The reason I feel like the execs should be able to see it is that they're cutting off their nose to spite their face. If you watch a movie and come out seeing like you've seen something breathtaking, you're going to tell your friends and ticket sales are going to go up, not just for that movie, but for future movies as well. Whereas if film after film after film is a dud, which seems to be more common for me than not nowadays, you stop watching films and spending your money on films. For me this has already happened - when I was younger I used to go to the cinema once every week or two. The state of cinema is so bad now I might only go once a quarter.

So the execs take these cost cutting measures, but they have the overall effect of losing them money in the long term. The film may end up pulling in 200% over production compared to 100% if they'd have used practical effects. But that "missing profit" isn't missing - they're instead spending it on raising their overall brand value and reputation by offering up a higher quality product.

Like the last film I watched at the cinema was Gareth Edwards The Creator. He'd built up a little bit of brand value with the original Monsters and Rogue One, but The Creator was so monumentally, insultingly bad I don't think I will ever go watch a film he's made again.
I was going to post the same thing.

A moral of the story is: put a sticker on the cover of your laptop. Similarly, a bit of flagging tape[1] on luggage isn't a bad idea. Having an expensive and precious belonging that looks exactly the same as an uncountable number of other people's belongings is, on the face of it, unwise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagging_(tape)
Why the gimme-your-email-to-subscribe wall?
Apple confirmed it didn't match with "If you need help removing Activation Lock and have proof of purchase documentation, you can start an Activation Lock support request." -> "We are unable to process your request at this time."
Ten Language

https://github.com/lukehoban/ten

Ten is a statically typed tensor programming language for defining AI models.

Ten has the following features: (1) Succint syntax and operators tailored to AI model definition (2) Fully statically typed tensors, including generic functions over tensor dimension and batch dimensions (...) (3) First-class hyper-parameters, model parameters and model arguments for explicit model specification (4) EinOps-style reshaping and reductions - tensor dimensions are explicit not implicit

Example (a functional GPT2 implementation):

Gelu(x: {...}) -> {...}:
return 0.5 * x * (1 + Tanh(0.7978845608 * x + 0.044715 * x**3))

SoftMax[N](x: {...,N}) -> {...,N}:
exp_x = Exp(x - Max(x))
return exp_x / Sum(exp_x)

LayerNorm[S,E]|g:{E},b:{E}|(x:{S,E}) -> {S,E}:
mean = Mean(x)
variance = Var(x)
return g * (x - mean) / Sqrt(variance + 1e-5) + b

Linear[N,K]|w:{N,K},b:{K}|(x:{...,N}) -> {...K}:
return x@w + b

FFN[S,E]|c_fc, c_proj|(x:{S,E}) -> {S,E}:
a = Gelu(Linear[E,E*4]|c_fc|(x))
return Linear[E*4,E]|c_proj|(a)

Attention[Q,K,N,V](q:{...,Q,K}, k:{...,N,K}, v:{...,N,V}, mask:{Q,N}) -> {...,Q,V}:
return Softmax[N](q @ Transpose[N,K](k) / Sqrt(K) + mask) @ v

MHA[H,S,E,K]|c_attn, c_proj|(x:{S,E}) -> {S,E}:
q, k, v = Linear[E,E*3]|c_attn|(x) {S,(3,H,K) -> 3,H,S,K}
causal_mask = (Tri[S]() - 1) * 1e10
out = Attention[S,K,S,K](q, k, v, causal_mask) {H,S,K -> S,(H,K)}
return Linear[E,E]|c_proj|(out)

Transformer[H,S,E]|mlp, attn, ln_1, ln_2|(x:{S,E}) -> {S, E}:
y = x + MHA[H,S,E,E/H]|attn|(LayerNorm[S,E]|ln_1|(x))
return y + FFN[S,E]|mlp|(LayerNorm[S,E]|ln_2|(y))

GPT2[H,S,E,B,V]|wte, wpe, blocks|(inputs:{S}) -> {S,V}:
x = wte.[inputs] + wpe.[Range[S]()]
z = for i in 0...B: x, y -> Transformer[H,S,E]|blocks.[i]|(y)
return LayerNorm[S,E]|ln_f|(z) @ Transpose[V,E](wte)

Status: Working prototype, but lots more I'd love to do to bring this to life (README has more details of future thoughts/plans).
OpenAI products are so censored and crippled they could pay me and I'd still prefer something else.
Pragmatically, read "Venture Deals" and "Founder vs Investor" before you start your company. Then hire a reputable law firm and imagine you're an employee rather than a founder, and setup the initial structure in an employee friendly way. When raising your first round, have some non-negotiables that carry the structure forward. You can DM me on Twitter/X if you want more specifics based on my experience.

Successful startup companies can and should compensate employees well with both cash and stock. It's only incompetence and greed that endangers this outcome. VC expectations are a red herring, only bad VCs are so short-sighted as to deprive a founder of one of the major tools of team-building (truly valuable company equity).

As a founder, there are forces you have to fight against from first principles using your moral compass via a thoughtful fundraising strategy, but it can be done.
Not a FAANG person, but have done a start up. I think a good rule of doing a start up is “ only do it if you must do it” what is meant by that is your passion for the problem you are trying to solve needs to be obsession level. That is generally needed to invest the level of work that success requires and sustain the level of pain required to survive. Wanting to get rich can be a strong motive for people but I think it would need to be coupled with a burning need to address the problem for a start up to have much of a chance.
At least on macOS, this is a gloabal system setting, which also applies to any web browsers. (I can't speak on the subject of other OSes/GUIs, though.)
Only if you are not familiar with Find My.
Example.com is a second-level domain name reserved by IANA for documentation
As far as I can tell, there are only three such reserved second-level domain names: example.com, example.net, and example.org. An example website is actually hosted on them by IANA too.
The Chipmaker's Visa: A Key Ingredient for CHIPS Act Success
I made something similar a while back where you can set your own start and end time for the "day": https://alexsaveau.dev/10hrday

The point was to be able to divide the day into nicely sized bites for getting stuff done. I chose 10 minutes in an hour for that reason: you can get a small task done in one "minute."
Sure. I’m saying OP could confirm explicitly by turning the device upside down (and looking near the regulatory markings) and pulling the receipt up. Apple is being too opaque considering Apple has the purchase history on file and could communicate, “this device is not in your purchase history, that is why we can’t unlock it.” This leaks no information of value.

Edit: no worries!
That's fascinating to this lay clay tablet thinker. It had never occurred to me that clay tablets were reused. In fact, it nearly fundamentally changes my estimation of them as a long-term durable storage medium.
Cool, dude. Have you decided on a fee structure? I know bandcamp takes 15% for digital and 10% for physical items, not including merchant fees.
Maybe I'm missing a needle in the haystack, but "35 security holes" looks more like "I ran a fuzzer against Squid, and found 35 code paths where feeding it malformed input can crash it".
This is like Uber if self-driving cars had simply been a matter of making a faster GPU.

OpenAI gets cheaper by twiddling their thumbs for the next few years, meanwhile they continue to amass more and more data for RLHF.

It's weird that people are trying to drag non-software scaling into a software scaling problem: Lyft, Doordash, Instacart, etc. all relied on VC dollars to scale non-software growth like software. OpenAI really is just stupidly cheap compared to anything those past high CAC plays were aiming to do.
Leporello.js: https://leporello.tech/

Leporello.js is an interactive functional programming environment designed for pure functional subset of JavaScript. It executes code instantly as you type and displays results next to it. Leporello.js also features an omnipresent debugger. Just position your cursor on any line or select any expression, and immediately see its value. Leporello.js visualizes a dynamic call tree of your program. Thanks to the data immutability in functional programming, it allows you to navigate the call tree both forward and backward, offering a time-travel-like experience.
s/Average Redditors/tech companies/
My approach is:

- defaults are sensible (safe and secure) defaults for prod

- prod secrets are only available in the prod environment

So if you accidentally end up trying to run with the prod settings in a nonproduction environment it might try and access the prod database server... but it won't get anywhere because it doesn't have those secrets.
You should be able to cancel a request, but you don't get it back (as in, can't send another) until the server acks the cancel.
Very small nit: there's a reference to the Apple T2 chip. The Apple Silicon devices don't have a T2 - the functionality is integrated directly into the SoC. If it had been a T2 device then it would be possible to "simply" jailbreak the T2 and wipe all enrolled ownership data, since the T2 is based on the Apple A10 and has the same bootrom vulnerability.
And? One has a negative effect, and the other a positive one.
> Since Apple isn’t able to handle legitimate requests to disable the Activation Lock like mine, you should turn on Find My on your own MacBook, or risk it becoming a brick like mine.

Why do people accept this nonsense when it's Apple? They wouldn't for any other company.

You bought and paid for a laptop from them. It's broken. You've gone through their process and they haven't fixed it. At that point you escalate to a credit card chargeback and/or small claims court.
https://gudzpoz.github.io/brocatel/tutorial.html

It's a (story-)scripting language based on Markdown and Lua. Basically it lets you write choice-based interactive fictions in Markdown (and Lua code blocks for advanced usages).

It is not actively developed these days since I consider the language itself is somehow usable and I have little free time these days. But the runtime-time API and compile-time macro API will probably need tons of improvements and I am still looking to implement a few features, like subroutine calls and threading support (not those threads though), and probably an IDE or at least a LSP implementation. (But again, I am quite occupied these days so the to-do list just piles up...)

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!
Better yet, don't use hardware backdoored at the factory.
DTrace on Linux using BPF [video]
Let your lawyers deal with it.
How refreshing. I wish more news publications saw it that way. It's not their job to tell me what to think.

Of course, they're lying unfortunately. It's not some ethical stand to save the soul of journalism. The UK has a sizeable Muslim population and they're attempting to avoid the social fallout of backing a horse here. So they're staying neutral and dressing it up as journalistic ethics. Whatever gets you there I guess
Ah, Win98 installation dialogs… :-)
I think what would help me a lot more, if I had to do this again, is a specific article only for the amd framework with everything you need to do after.

For instance, the fingerprint sensor, it’s a red note on a step, sure, but it’s kind of hard to go through every guide and read all these “if you are on X version of the platform”

Compared to knowing you are reading a guide 100% for the platform you have, less stuff in the way that isn’t applicable and less likely to miss important things.

Also, there is no knowledge base article at all for flashing red lights and I have to find a forum post to move the foam back into place. Would be good to get a page up with the light codes for red flashing.

Even the fingerprint pam setup that is required for use in 1Password and others, is at the bottom of another guide I found in a forum post, might be wrong here but it’s worth noting some of these

Love what you’ve been doing overall
ah yes, correct. I don't know if disassembly is required for the HWID when its forced into bootloader lock, and i am not going to experiment to find out haha. But yes correct reasoning.

edit: sorry for bad reading comprehension it's late for me >_<
Which is like everyone outside the Apple Reality Distortion Field.
I do not agree with this article at all. While I cannot speak for the service specifically, self learning is in my experience _the_ dividing factor between OK employees and great employees

Thus, investing in such a platform does not seem off to me.
Random Drop Selector

https://www.droprandom.app/

https://github.com/yhippa/cod-wz-2-drop-randomizer

I had so many fun ideas for this but once I got the basics down I stopped working on it further.

Edit: this might be one of my favorite HN posts. So many cool projects here that are actually interesting to me.
I get that this lawsuit is about discerning whether Apple built enough safeguards into the AirTag system…

But taking a step back and acknowledging the amount of heat Apple has gotten for releasing a legitimately useful product while we drown in an ocean of guns always makes me chuckle uncomfortably.
https://simpledbapp.com

My attempt of ms access for the web. It is version 0.8, then I hit caveats and limitations of using blazor, so i am in the process of rewriting it on asp.net core 7 mvc

tables, forms and reports are defined in xml, it has basic querying facilities and account and security management. It uses Lua for backend scripting. It allows for full app development in the browser. database is sqlite, but i made an orm that is database vendor agnostic just in case

Created an app for simple course management which is working fine, including certificate generator.
Absolutely. I am well aware of this, as are most tech people, that's what I'm saying. It's not us that are trying to convince our orgs to build a rack in the basement "to be more secure" just because we want to hear the fans running and see the lights blinking.

It's the lawyers that you need to convince. Good luck convincing any bigco lawyer that your company's data is safe on openAI because their legal agreement says "we don't train on API calls."
The difference probably is the hardware it runs on.

It feels like the same argument about hosting files: if you provide a service then you're responsible for what happens in it.

There's plenty of self hosted image generators without any guardrails whatsoever if you're so inclined. Browse around https://civitai.com/ for a bit you'll quickly see the implications
> Since Apple isn’t able to handle legitimate requests to disable the Activation Lock like mine, you should turn on Find My on your own MacBook, or risk it becoming a brick like mine.

Or don’t buy overpriced gear from a company that is aggressively user-hostile. Take them to some kind of small claims court. It is your device, you purchased it from them, and they have no right to refuse to un-brick if they have the ability to do so, just because you didn’t do the magic handshake in the right way.
I don't understand why if you have the invoice apple won't remove the FMM activation lock from the device.

I have gotten apple to unlock devices just with screenshots of them being managed in an MDM at one time and a copy of my work badge.

An invoice is like the golden ticket they require that you have.
The funny thing is that the early VC gold rush investments mostly went to companies founded by older workers who gained their experience working in the military-industrial complex and its suppliers. You can trace a lot of early Silicon Valley history back to military radar and communications research that started during WW2.
Why? Just so they could have a higher specc’d machine?
Is there any hope for the wifi bugs mentioned in the article?

I was trying to avoid reviews like this because I didn't want to be thinking about all the problems instead of looking forward to my new laptop.

I am now wondering if I should have gone Intel.
Any verbal or physical expression can be considered speech but there is a consent issue here.
Thanks. I'll try this out. For my next purchase, I'm going to stick to an Intel Thinkpad. I still use my 10 year old T530, and I bought this to replace it, but I still find myself using the T530 most of the time.
A little bit of userchrome.css magic fixes this. I use treestyle tabs and for mine I simply added:

#TabsToolbar {visibility: collapse;}
#sidebar-header {visibility:collapse;}
Why would someone not set up activation lock? This is exactly what it is for!

> An attacker could “prank” someone by wiping their MacBook, activating it with their own Apple ID, and then reporting it as lost. The victim then has no way to recover it.

When you lose physical control of a device, there's an even bigger denial-of-service vulnerability: https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/breaking-a-laptop-compu...

There is really no solving denial-of-service problems associated with losing a device. The priority in that case should be preventing unwanted disclosure of data, which is exactly what Apple did here.
The wheel doesn't tell you where you are in the page, which is why scrollbars are good (I don't know that I've ever used them to change position, personally; that's not what they're "for" in my brain).

It's like how Safari has this weird insistence on hiding URLs. Every other browser tooltips or status bars a link you hover over, but no: we're apparently just supposed to click blind. For that matter the address bar doesn't even show you the full URL you're at right now unless you enter edit mode.
Not an option for a lot of people who don't get to choose what they use for work.
I wrote this cross-platform graphing software in Rust: https://github.com/Titaniumtown/YTBN-Graphing-Software
I assume you're talking about Leach's papers. Leach chose a particularly small family of Agaves for his work that also stores less energy per kg, and chose very conservative numbers beyond that. His results, given all that, were unsurprisingly that Agave is just barely worth growing on a caloric basis.

Better estimates are that typical agricultural varieties produced twice as much heart "meat", at more than twice the caloric density he found. It's a much better crop in that light, but it's still not comparable to maize. Agave is also an amazing utility crop (the fibers are good for cloth and rope, the spines for needles, the heart for alcohol), a good border crop to keep animals out, and it's incredibly resilient to climatic conditions that would kill any other crop.

Agave was basically an agricultural insurance policy before global trade networks and financial systems existed. If you were worried that a heatwave or a drought might affect you, you could plant a ton of it on marginal land somewhere and leave it alone for years until you needed it.
Apple support can view a live stream of your iPhone screen. They used this to confirm what the author saw in their iCloud account.
> Since Apple isn’t able to handle legitimate requests to disable the Activation Lock like mine, you should turn on Find My on your own MacBook, or risk it becoming a brick like mine.

Or not buy MacBooks anymore. I don't want my computer doing anything out of my control.
"Because FY, that's why. We don't have to care. We're literally the phone company." - Apple
South Korea Had High Hopes for 5G. What Happened?
The problem is that in many cases figuring out which is the 0% interest debt and which is the expensive debt often costs about as much as fixing it. So blaming the developers for "not articulating the real cost of the problem" is a bit of a cheap excuse. If the debt causes customer visible problems it has a chance of getting addressed. If the problems are only internal, the chances are much lower.
It's a mix of both, depends a lot on the sponsor. Some may figure it out but it wasn't explained properly. Others may do as you say even if Einstein himself said we needed this refactor otherwise WW3 would start.
Wasteful reference: x bags for customers, y boxes online, x + y = z

Virtue signaling example: x bags received and delivered directly to landfill instead of to customer at checkout, y boxes online, x + y = z

Apparent reality: 0 bags received, y boxes online, 0 + y = y

If y is significantly less than z, we are forced to discard the claim of virtue signaling given that a measurable reduction in overall waste is a measurable reduction in overall waste.