skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The “emergency” exception to this process allows police to request video directly from Amazon, and without a warrant. But there are insufficient safeguards to protect civil liberties in this process. For example, there is no process for a judge or the device owner to determine whether there actually was an emergency. This could easily lead to police abuse: there will always be temptation for police to use it for increasingly less urgent situations.
Fractional scaling works fine for me on Fedora 39. I've had some similar issues as others with amd stability, specifically with fwupd services, glitchy video playback, lots of amdgpu errors in the logs, etc...

You can dim the fingerprint reader from the BIOS settings to what I consider acceptable levels, though I hate that blue is the LED color of choice for so many things. I buy stickers to dim them in the office and bedroom.

I didn't have problems with the foam that the author did. I did have some initial boot issues where nothing happened for a few attempts. They quickly went away for whatever reason on their own.

I can't speak to battery life, my use-case keeps the laptop on power most of the time, so I set the charge percentage to 60% in the BIOS per it's recommendation to save long-term battery health.

It's too early to feel like it's a 100% solid, but it's good enough for me to use as the daily driver. I knew what I was getting into when I ordered it. I know it'll get much better within a short time. No intentions of looking back for me. I am very happy with my purchase.
Had a new Heat pump HVAC system installed last year and had them put in a whole house dehumidifier at the same time, since my winter indoor humidity was frequently topping 70%.

It keeps the indoor humidity between 40-50% which has noticeably improved the mild-to-moderate mold issues that I had previously and it doesn't seem to consume much power (I haven't been able to obviously note it in my power use graphs the way I can the regular HVAC)
cloudflare also comes to mind, as they proudly do whatever they can in their power to check off that CSAM box as long as it makes them money somehow.
Rooting your car might very well void the warranty.
That is a big incentive the build the company in the first place. If you eliminate that option you would simply have fewer startups.
Even with no brains, jellyfish can learn from their mistakes
https://web.archive.org/web/20051214182952/http://support.mi...

Note that I _never_ saw 95 as a CD in retail. I actually took a trip to the US when it was released to search for it, since I got confirmation from my local MS that it was not in EU. Several people do ensure me that there was a retail CD version, but I have never seen it in person myself. I have seen plenty of OEM discs, though.
Explaining the reproducibility crisis: Pride, greed, envy, sloth.

(Alt) Explaining the reproducibility crisis: acquisitiveness, rivalry, vanity, power-seeking.

(Alt) Explaining the reproducibility crisis: being human.
Just tried to sign up, got an immediate rejection.
Heh don't think that was us. We're mostly using ourselves as the target market for planning our own meals :P

I'm curious who it was though if you find the podcast again.
> support for overlayfs

Does this mean I can use the overlay2 driver with docker instead of the ZFS one? I've had many people tell me this was possible in the past when it definitely wasn't.

The performance and reliability of the ZFS driver leaves lots to be desired. The last time I ran Docker on a ZFS partition I actually used a zvol formatted ext4 just to avoid these issues.
> Interestingly it blocks the revoked one by turning it into a self-signed one.

Well spotted! That's crazy...
This seems like a huge problem without an easy solution. Now that grocery stores are starting to deploy electronic price tags, I don't see why they wouldn't implement exactly that.

The only ideas I have are to limit how often prices can change or mandate prices, but both of those have some huge implications and downsides.
hey! co-founder here, appreciate your comment.

Ah that's great feedback!

As for the rendering of the schemas, we have a pull request in draft from this morning! hopefully will be done ASAP

https://github.com/scalar/scalar/pull/244
>Covid showed that no physical center is the best physical center.

Did it? Based on what data?

Almost all of the world's largest companies (including those in Silicon Valley) require some level of office attendance for most employees.
Just try working with banks around this...

Bank "Your container is showing this CVE"...

Us: "Any container that uses library X will show this CVE"

Bank "You have to get rid of the CVE"

Us: "You cannot get rid of that CVE because your software checks for the existence of the library, not the existence of a potentially weak configuration that could cause a problem. This is like saying we have to get rid of the car because it contains gas, rather than ensuring we have safe gasoline storage practices"
Many ways to trick a deep model
LLMs have been more useful on the encoder side than the decoder side in my experience. Creating embeddings is useful in all sorts of ways. Specifically, if your business involves any sort of recommendation system, embeddings are useful.

On the decoder side, the use cases are more subtle. Rarely do you want your product to be the raw output of a statistical language model. More often the output is an enabler of other things your business is doing. For example, you can use it to develop “doc queries”, which are queries that a doc might be surfaced under. This can help with cold start issues by supplementing existing doc info.
Show HN: A game to memorize fretboard intervals on the guitar
Elon is not against open sourcing more code: https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/25/elon-musk-says-tesla-might...

> Consumers have the right to understand how their machines work

Windows and macOS aren't open source either and the vast majority of consumers don't care. It would be cool to be able to install an open source third party OS on your car though...
It's right there in Multimedia section.

The minimal install of 95 is ridiculously small. 3.x practically fits in 10MiB of disk space.; they could not just multiply it by 10x and call it a day.
The Minecraft permissions UX is fucking nuts. To be fair, Sony's is ridiculous too. The only one to get it right is Nintendo. Anyways, yeah, I have no doubt you'll eventually need an Xbox login to play Activision/Blizzard games on Playstation, just like Minecraft.
Yeah, my options are kind of limited.
no duh. Why the "presidential alert" days before?

IDGAD about your responses
If you type my username + .com, you'll know why ;)
I think that’s definitely true at any point in human history. But also, wildly insufficient as analysis or solution here. Malevolent people exist, in all classes, of all political persuasions. Morons are real, likewise. Now that a lot of the world is newly-minded to connect with each other and bond over unsourced and unsourceable text, do we want to really arm them with industrial bullshit generators? Calling this stuff ‘safety’ is irksome in the extreme, but far from completely wrong.
Slightly OT, but I've been wondering for a while now if and when license plate scanner camera data will be compared and analyzed for traffic violations, like "you went from Park Ave to Boardwalk in a time frame which would have required you to exceed the posted speed limit, here's your ticket".
The obvious solution to AI safety is already right there: the OpenAI ToS. We currently have a defender from the technodystopia in Sam Altman. By making sure that every bit of text generated by LLMs costs money (and that money goes to OpenAI) he can ensure the safety of the world through his Terms of Service.

Giving one guy or one small group of people vetted by Elizier Yudkowsky complete monopoly over this technology or industry is a small price to pay to ensure that the power to easily generate text does not get too spread out and accessible to the wrong people. By concentrating all of the power over content and revenue from the industry into the hands of Good Guys we make sure that no bad things can happen.
gasoline powered cars are a privacy nightmare too and a terrible "its all going digital" nightmare. the problem here is obviously oppression by the majority
I don't know if the price is too high, but the limits are too low. I can't deal with niggling thought that I might exceed the query limit -- every time I'd be thinking about whether I'm going to have to do another query because I made a typo or didn't pick the right search terms.
I will never buy any Bluetooth streamed headphones. I will always prefer good wired headphones.
I hear "bus factor" bandied about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
i don't know why this was downvoted, onstar is one of the original cancers
Google is forgetting their roots.
Maybe it's a good thing - competitors will have easier job to take search market.
just checked with ChatGPT and they are not here yet

"Aliens do not live inside AI, including this model or any other AI developed by OpenAI or other organizations. The idea that aliens could be inside or operating AI is a popular trope in science fiction, but it's not based in reality.

AI, like this model, operates based on algorithms and data. It doesn't have consciousness, emotions, or any form of life – extraterrestrial or otherwise.

It's important to differentiate between science fiction and factual information, especially when discussing advanced technologies and concepts that might be unfamiliar or easily misunderstood."
That, and the quality of the results.

They've had to give up the latter, so might as well dump the former too.
It’s better that what people are currently doing. You can cut and paste your auth token into 3rd party services that will give you stats and remote control over your car.

As of 6 months ago there was no way to manually revoke an auth token
According to PDF metadata, it is dated 3 November 2010, and made with Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0.4).
Same thing with Java Security Manager which is in the process of being removed with no replacement.

Unfortunately supply chain security is incompatible with developer convenience. At least not without a lot of work to make it bearable.

We will have to suffer through a lot worse attacks than now before people will take it serious (most developers likely never but governments will at some point intervene - see EU's CSA).
It's not even a copyright claim. It's just a process in YouTubes inter al system.
Without reliable restores.

FIFY
That is certainly the "legend" of how they succeeded. I honestly think it was less about having a clean homepage than it was a single text input for searches. That said, hard to view any story on how they "won" as much more than a "just so" story. :(
>Ideally the classes at any two schools should be roughly on par with one another. But I would assume that disparities do exist, unfortunately.

Do you really think an intro to calculus class at the local community college and at Stanford should be the same class? Because I guarantee that the standardized class will either bewilder most of the community college students or bore/waste the time of many of the Stanford students.
This sounds dystopian, but it's very close to happening. Unfortunately
News stories can and do reveal where rich people live for targeting, reveal security weaknesses at businesses, and encourage copy-cat crimes.

Public security vulnerability releases can and do lead to slow-patchers being targeted by criminals.

Hell, having been involved in physical security leads to me amusing myself while waiting at businesses by analyzing their camera lines of sight and speculating about other measures. (It is usually pretty easy to tell who installed their own systems.)
First author here! I thought it was interesting that so many people thought this was obvious after-the-fact. What we're trying to convey is that although inversion turns out to be possible, it's not trivial.

Here are the three levels of inversion model described in the paper:

(1) Training a decoder to invert embeddings gives you some similar text, but only with some overlapping words.

(2) Training an encoder-decoder with the embedding projected up to a 'sequence' for the encoder works better, and gets more words back, but almost never gets the right text back exactly, especially when sequences are long.

(3) Training this fancy architecture as a 'correction' model that recursively corrects and re-embeds text works really well. It turns out that search is necessary for this kind of thing, and can get many texts back exactly.

A fourth option would be to simply scale the inversion model up by 10x or 100x, which would give us predictably better performance. We didn't try this because it's just not that interesting.
> I mean - didn't the team that would work on that launch Starfield in the last month?

Yep. Although one could argue there are are other studios who could be tapped to make a sequel.
And it's just the start I believe. Nobody want to admit it but Apple is extremely uncompetitive with their current hardware offering that is completely locked up.
Those companies sees that it is not worth investing in this dead end. They understand the clients they have will figure this out eventually and switch with them in the long run. macOS doesn't offer anything special that would warrant focus in itself and the hardware can be interesting only if you want to lower power consumption for some reason (without considering other factors).
Locate works great.
Number 4 and 6 are merging to become number 3.
Contains false negatives, for example only listing a single police department using Clearview (https://atlasofsurveillance.org/search?vendor=Clearview). Likely a limitation of the current data sources.
Never before have I been ordered to sign in with Google in order to play a web game. Pass.
> Tesla Engineering has their shit together

The pictures I've seen of panel gaps on their cars say otherwise
https://bugcrowd.com/tesla :)
I think advanced alien life exists in different dimensions we can't access yet. The 3D plane is boring for them, so they live on higher dimensions, unseen.
Curious. I always assumed the primary purpose of an exam was to demonstrate proficiency, not mastery -- especially for undergraduate coursework. If you want mastery, you look at other work product: Projects, research, letters of recommendation, etc.

Pedantry and intellectual hazing seem endemic in academia -- from the perspective of someone who spent entirely too many years in the sector (all the way through postdoc).
There are easier ways to get into FANNG:

* Read Cracking the Coding Interview and practice every exercise twice.

* Publish high-quality content (projects, tutorials, blog posts).

* Contribute to OS in some meaningful way, like owning the packaging for your favorite library for your favorite distro.

* Reach out to people at the company you want to work for, or go to a meetup hosted by that Co.

All of the above is much easier than starting a company.
The Steven Seven believe in an uneven heaven.
When you can initiate a search directly from the address bar, what should the role of a "homepage" be? It's reasonable that there should be some "zero click" attempt and content that would be useful.

If this is instead used like the typical chumbox content, that would be a real disappointment. Google would also be shooting itself in the foot if it added a bunch of distractions to the page just as they were poised to realize a intelligent assistant capability (which would benefit from having as clean and interface as they had when they launched web search).
> They got into Harvard

Harvard admits quite a few people who would normally not qualify as the cream of the crop. Above average, even good - but the worst Harvard admit is probably on par with the smartest kid at the local community college. They might bring other things to campus! But that doesn't mean you want them handling your legal defense or managing your money.

> and were subsequently successful there.

If 80% of the grades at Harvard are As, this just means you're not in the bottom 20%. I would also generally assume that this 80% is not uniform - some classes or even majors will give out higher percentages of As than others.
Honestly can't remember the last time I used Google's home page. I get to it via omnibar, new tab page search, or voice search.
If it doesn't catch a picture of the driver it most likely will not valid in court in most states.

Be fun to troll the shit out of politicians/elected officials with this. Have someone monitor them leaving one place, then with another car and a fake plate have them get scanned at another location moments later.
Dress for the ride, change at work, and allow enough time so you're not trying to break any speed records on the way. No worse than taking public transport and walking a few blocks.
Right, because nothing shitty and unforeseeable ever happens to low-income kids in the middle of a semester, because kids who definitionally have fewer resources aren't held back in any way by their environment, and because the people setting the standard are unbiased angels. Dollars to donuts you've never actually taught a class.
It's one of the few cities in the US where I could stand living.
But I had read that with an actual beginner's* mindset. Since then, not once have I had the thought that Shapiro misled about this or that.

In the Preface there is a paragraph Package Systems, S-expressions and Forms where Shapiro explains what those mean. It's clear that he's not using S-expression just to refer to compound syntax. The paragraph concludes:

In this book, I distinguish the S-expression from the form—the printed representation from the object—in Chapter 1 and continue making the distinction consistently and explicitly through the entire book.

There is only small matter there in that Common Lisp uses form for an expression in an evaluated context. What Shapiro wants there is "distinguish the S-expression from the (internal) expression".

Some of that paragraph also rather belongs in the book proper rather than the Preface.

Chapter 3 does not leave it to the reader to infer that number tokens are S-expressions. It says so explicitly: "According to this definition (1 2 3.3 4) is a list S-expression, since 1, 2, 3.3 and 4 are S-expressions (denoting numbers)". That's just re-iteration; prior material in the book hammered the point that the printed representation of any object is a S-expression.

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* Well, a Lisp beginner's mindset. Not a programming beginner's mindset. If you already know things like that compilers scan textual numeric tokens, turning them into binary numbers, that colors the interpretation.
Same for Tim At Apple?

Same for Microsoft?
this is trippy
ALPRs are totally fair play IMO -- if that's their only function. I'd rather have a robot triage criminal activity than a biased human. Facial recognition, however, is 100% the wrong move.
Wow -

1.it’s one of these things you didn’t know you still remembered

2. I never realized that KPT Bryce was Kai’s Power Tools !
Much better now :)

Thanks for taking that onboard and resolving it.
My own anecdotal contribution, based off the constant bickering of people I know who work for engineering firms that have Tesla as a client, is that they do not have any of their shit organized in a manner which could be remotely described as "together".
There's some FOSS called TeslaMate that piggy backs on credentials you can steal from your Tesla app. It monitors and records all manner of statistics for whatever purpose you choose. It can also integrate with Home Assistant and all of the wonderful things it can do. The Tesla app shows a tiny amount of information in comparison and none of it is actionable by automations I write.
> > I do suspect that Microsoft may have been behind Starfield releasing in its half-baked, dumbed down state though a la “We need it on game pass by X, make it happen!”
> In fairness to Microsoft, "half-baked" would be how I describe all of Bethesda's previous releases as well. I don't think Starfield is that far off how Skyrim or Fallout 4 was on release. Starfield's a long shot from where Skyrim and Fallout are now after years of patches and DLC, but I think not far from where they started.

Jedi Survivor has been out for 6 months and it's still got major problems. Imagine being in the middle of a saber battle and the game stops responding to your attack key/button. I've paused the game, gone into Control Panel, tested that my controller is still good, gone back to the game, it just won't respond to the command. And then suddenly it will start again. Same with any button, they randomly fail. And it's got to compile all the shaders EVERY time you launch the game, no caching. All AAA game studios push out broken games on launch.
It's funny the Elon haters downvote the person saying that the Tesla development is solid yet the parent gets no downvotes and has nothing to prove their statement other than referencing something about Twitter. They are separate companies and APIs. The API used by the Tesla phone app can be used unofficially. I've used it for 5 years, every day. It has been completely reliable for the 5 years I've owned my Tesla.
Right, now look at economic data that directly influence things like quality of life, or economic stability of the country, and compare between 2008 and today. You'll find that things are better to a degree that cannot really be overstated. For instance real wages are up to a somewhat ridiculous degree, home ownership rates are substantially up (now higher than 90%!), and so on.

This [1] page is a data orgy for any sort of economic indicator that might interest you. The one thing to be careful about is to ensure you're using real (inflation adjusted) values and PPP adjusted values. A dollar goes much further in Russia whether buying tanks or tacos, so doing something like comparing nominal GDP values is misleading. It's like how a guy earning $70k in Bodunk is, in practice, earning dramatically more than a guy earning $70k in San Francisco. Even though the nominal figures are identical, $70k goes much further in Bodunk than San Francisco. Same thing, often to an even more extreme degree, between countries.

[1] - https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/home-ownership-rate
Cool.

There's probably 10,000s of devs who think otherwise, tho.
they recently made some changes to their pricing plans. $10 plan now includes unlimited searches, and they introduced a $5 tier too.
Many school districts with teacher shortages have already eliminated gatekeeping requirements. They will hire new teachers with just a relevant Bachelor's degree, then pay them while they obtain a proper teaching credential.
What about NVME optimizations?
Is this a joke?

None of the companies that you mentioned have any incentive to let users run local LLMs. And Facebook/Meta doesn't make hardware (GPU) in case you didn't know.
It's only if there's a relatively big class of weak curves that you know about that you can find a seed that generates one. It can't be a small set of degenerate cases.

So it definitely adds some confidence.
Right. Microsoft is just about the only player left in cloud gaming because Sony, Amazon and Google all tried and gave up in different ways, in part because none of them really found a market nor an audience. I heard Sony is trying again but leasing some cloud servers from Microsoft Azure's white box version of xCloud, ironically.

That last part is also why I think the Ubisoft deal is probably funny. Rumors are Ubi is also leasing much of their cloud gaming from Azure's white box version of xCloud, so Microsoft is likely still going to get paid for people playing Activision things through Ubi's so far unfinished cloud gaming app.
This is interesting. Is there anything similar for Europe?