skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah, i would be more suspicious that he accepted a default setting provided at OOBE, and created a new icloud account, than some bug in the Activation Lock system. i haven't gone through the OOBE flow recently but it's super easy to overlook something like this.

he does question whether this might have happened:

> That the iCloud address starts with a “p”, my first initial, is haunting me. Could it be that I somehow created an iCloud address when first setting up the MacBook? I certainly don’t remember doing this though.

Or another scenario:

> If I hadn’t set up Find My for the MacBook, they should have been able to wipe it themselves. When they set it up for themselves, they could have set up Find My, and now the Activation Lock would be enabled.

Very, very plausible.

So in either of these cases, the system seems to be working as designed and they just got caught up in an edge case. The criticism of Find My seems appropriate ... the link to activation lock is definitely not well known. Just as macOS gives you an annoying notification about "take a tour" after a little while using it on a new install, it should give you an annoying notification that without Activation Lock someone with physical possession can make it theirs.
I'm not sure they appeal to the same group of users. macOS is IMNHO much worse than GNU/Linux with a proper window manager, much less comfortable to use with multiple desktops, and forces the use of a mouse/trackpad way too much.[1]

The m2 can run Linux - but external display support is probably a long way off.

So for the user wanting to run Linux - m2 isn't really viable - unless you actually work on it with just the built-in screen - for me that doesn't work ergonomically.

I have the m2 - it's not terrible - I suspect I'd prefer one of these.

[1] Rectangle and AutoRaise helps a lot, making the UX livable:

https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
It really feels like tech companies are taking the approach of "we'll guarantee you anything you want!" As a sales strategy.

The cynical part of me wants to say it shows that they have high confidence they can manipulate the legal system enough to dictate the outcome of any challenges.
I don't think they have bricked peoples cars directly...

They just take away the ability to do supercharging and to use the app.

Basically, your smart car becomes a dumb car. But you can still drive it - you just can't use any service that requires their servers.
Thinking about money is what leads to enshittification though, so it's useful to think about it initially but if you continue along that path, your company and product will irreparably suffer.
FYI this is a fluff article that has zero value. Just skip it if you're curious about LLMs.
> But Sony having some real competition is a good thing. Sony has a bad tendency of anti-consumer tendencies in their gaming space when they are the leader and they get cocky. They did it with the PS3 and they are repeating some of that with the PS5 generation.

PS5 is widely regarded as the best playstation experience since the PS2.

Great backwards compatibility and third-party support.
Implementing a GPU's programming model on a CPU
Sunset Overdrive was a single game publishing contract with Insomniac Games best known for its Sony second party games and now entirely owned by Sony since 2019 (just after Sunset Overdrive). Microsoft can't follow up on Sunset Overdrive.
Wait, does that mean there are no flights to Ukraine at all? Or is it mostly over the war zone in the east?
Yes, giving monopolies more power has historically been good for consumers
Both are CoW filesystems with different strengths and weaknesses. BTRFS is part of the kernel, has interesting integrations with systemd (and possibly better Linux tooling in general), and has more flexibility with adding and removing disks (for now). ZFS has (arguably) better reliability and has more built-in features like encryption, read/write caching, and exposing virtual volumes.

I don't think folks should default to using one or the other, everything depends on your workloads. Ext4 might even be the best choice. Though bcachefs could be an "endgame FS" if it delivers on its promises.
Part of why a lot of readers have found this literature to be inexhaustible is, I think, its surprising combination of familiarity (since it's had so much influence on subsequent Western culture) and foreignness. For example, consider the career of the term "hero," which seems to have meant something like a warrior-aristocrat in Homer, and later, in Greek tragedy, takes on the moral grandeur that we meet with in characters like Oedipus, but somehow also is used to describe the boxer Kleomedes, who massacred dozens of kids because he was upset over losing a match.

When I first started reading classical literature I was struck by an idea I found in Bruno Snell's The Discovery of the Mind, that Homer, apart from having no words corresponding to our "mind" or "soul," didn't even refer to the body as a single whole--more as a collection of limbs. The article here talks about this: https://intertheory.org/torrente.htm .

None of this makes ancient literature easier to read, though, unfortunately.
Conspiracy theories do not emerge from nothingness but the lack of transparency, double-standards and lack of a clear moral framework is what gives them a breeding ground.

Realpolitik is like corporate America today. It optimizes return for the next couple quarters disregarding the long-term damage.
If anything this is making it safe for the owners because pretty much all the third part apps have full access to vehicle because some owners shared their password to some random third party company so that they can have some additional features on their app.
Is the api page down for anybody else?

https://www.developer.tesla.com/docs/fleet-api
Why Uncontacted Tribes Want to Stay Uncontacted
This is a thinly disguised vehicle to deliver ads in sneaky places.
The LLM AI technology generation is optimized to be fluently conversational and not to be factually correct all the time.

1) Hallucinations often appear because LLMs are designed to create fluent, coherent text.

2) LLMs have no understanding of the underlying reality that language describes.

3) LLMs use statistics to generate language that is grammatically and semantically correct within the context of the prompt.

It sacrifices accuracy for being good at conversations as it is designed to do. All these criticisms of hallucinations are missing the point.

Generative AI is generative and basically is a specialist at making things up. It’s going to take things like multiprompting, network AIs that fact check output, and a host of other technologies or even entirely new models of AI to solve these problems, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that the system is supposed to be working without hallucinations right now — that’s not what it’s optimized for.
The most important question: Can I use the car as intended without dealing with the vendor (Tesla)?

If not => it's a service, not a product.
This is about North Sentinel Island and the Sentinelese, and an 18-year-old British imperial officer who arrived there in 1879.

Previous submissions (not much discussion but some interesting articles):

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=North+Sentinel+Island
What makes the debate confusing is that some people probably believe it is about CSAM. Like the Swedish PM Ylva Johansson for example. She probably believes in what she's doing, and other forces are simply taking advantage of her crusade.
Not sure about Android, but in iOS you can be in Airplane mode and then explicitly turn Wifi/Bluetooth back on. But I believe the default behavior is for Airplane mode to disable all of them.

Edit: It is unfortunate that the iOS Control Center toggles for WiFi/Bluetooth no longer turn the radios off but just prevent "association". AFAIK you can still turn these radios off in "Settings", but it's pretty misleading UI.
1. You listed 8 conspiracies. How many false conspiracies (or ones that failed to pan out) are there? If there are 800 of them, then OP isn't exactly wrong.

2. For the ones you listed, were there specific and credible "conspiracy theories" that existed prior to them being discovered/confirmed? Or were there only vague theories of "government doing something shady"?
> Lockheed Martin has a fashion line

i assume made exclusively of titanium and composites?
If PIs or employers want to discriminate based on class ranking, they can ask for it and do exactly that. Why conflate that with grades?

A common understanding of a grade is as an indication that the course material has been mastered. Higher grade = more mastery. This is a measure independent of the performance of fellow students.
Not as fun or educational, though, in the well-rounded sense. The best way to understand the business of software is to start one.
The related slang term Jesus pin refers to the lock pin used to secure the retaining nut. More generally, Jesus nut (or Jesus pin) has been used to refer to any component that is a single point of failure which results in catastrophic consequences, and the only thing left to do is, metaphorically speaking, pray to Jesus, hence the name.
Oh, so just like silicon valley techbros?
In retrospect we probably should have just done that.
I think it is reasonable to say that most of the Bill Of Rights is exactly that in both strict reading and principle - rights bequeathed to individuals directly
our swagger parser isnt perfect yet, appreciate this comment and I added it to triage. We will get this fixed quick
I’m empathetic to responsible dog ownership and your situation. It does suck that you’re precluded from some experiences as a result of the selfish actions of others.

I’m not the type who thinks dogs have zero place in nature. I was happy to see a dog summiting a rocky scramble at 13000 ft just the other week. I plan on adopting this coming spring and am acutely aware of how it will affect my ability to travel and plan outings.

I responded, maybe too bluntly, because I felt your language including words like discrimination was heavy handed and you did not even allude to the absolutely Herculean task the NPS faces when trying to balance accessibility and conservation in nature areas that see millions of visitors every season.

I hope you and your pup enjoy the winter. We just got our first big snow up here in the rockies.
Maybe it has a great camera but the average user will never make photos like this. It would have been better to take more real life photos
Question for ZFS experts: the docs say ([1]) that I can change the checksum used, and I want to change it to BLAKE3.

However, based on [2], it seems the checksum doesn't store the type of checksum, so it seems that it's an all-or-nothing thing instead of a setting that only applies to new blocks.

Can I actually change the checksum? What happens when I do?

Edit: It appears the type of checksum actually is stored per-block, in `blk_prop` ([3]) of `blkptr_t` ([4]).

Edit 2: The manpage says that the change only applies to new data, so yes, it's safe.

[1]: https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Basic%20Concepts/Chec...

[2]: https://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/zfs_doxygenation/html/d9/d...

[3]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2...

[4]: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/blob/c0e58995e33479a9c1d97fb2...
We'll just keep rolling through the 21st century with horribly outdated laws on every front, because the government can't function well enough to change them
That's an interesting one, I wonder if they have self-baked jobs or they had misconfigured `unattended-upgrades`.

In both cases randomly upgrading production environment to major version is something that should be done with a lot of extra care and testing.
Christopher J Peikert, Re: Kyber security level?
I really like how they're rolling out updated headunits for all their cars right now. Just about every Porsche from the 1960s to late-2000s can be updated to support a modern Porsche infotainment interface as well as CarPlay/Android Auto.
It's similar to screen sharing over FaceTime. You first have to accept it, afterwards the technician can see a video stream of your phone and tell you where you have to click. They can't directly interact with your phone.
And have hundreds of people keep showing up to do the thing you don’t want to do until they see the sign? Until drumrolls someone posts the sign on Instagram…
And they hanged one of their own spies in 2006:

https://archive.globalpolicy.org/iraq-conflict-the-historica...
I set up Google Home on my HA instance. The process is quite convoluted but extremely well documented. You must just accept to click, click, next etc. without understanding what you are doing.

I usually use my smart buttons but when I am in the living room and want to open the roller shutters in my children's rooms what it is noon and they are still in bed I have three choices:

1. go to their room and die because I will step on something and fall in the dark. I may also step on undefined things that should not be there. This is not a place I go to without a hazmat suit.

2. open my HA application on my ... phone which should be somewhere around or I may also go the computer which is nearby and .. ah, I have to log in, blah blah blah, it is now 13:00.

3. say "hey google open shutter michael", to which the Google Mini Lady yells (I do not know why she is yelling when she answers) "yes of course boss, I am doing it".

I may sometimes switch on the light in the living room instead because she will misunderstand but hey, it was quick.
This is a very Stack Overflow response but, yes, don’t use USB for any storage you expect to be reliable.
Exactly, now you're getting it.
No, because of the Ninth Amendment. The Bill of Rights is quite explicit that it is not an exhaustive list of rights.
Mine is 100% resolved. If you haven't gone to an ENT, do so

My whole life I'd cleaned my ears with q-tips. I knew I shouldn't as it's written right on the package. I'd stopped doing that after I was told not to by countless people.

Fast forward a few years and I had tinnitus. Went to an ENT, told him of my symptoms, and mentioned a story about my great grandmother's hearing being impacted by ear wax build up. He tells me "Well, we'll take a look but chances are you're going to have this the rest of your life".

As he takes a look in my ears I hear him mutter, "Oh, we're going to fix this right now". He promptly fishes two plugs of ear wax out of my ears. Ringing resolved 15 minutes after that.

I asked him what should I do to prevent this? He said "You could come back and I fish them out again, or you know... you could use a q-tip to clean your ears on occasion"

Edit: he did mention that once the build up is bad enough you can't clean it out on your own. That cleaning it on your own could push it further in, causing damage.
For filesystem geeks (of a sort) like myself, note that ReFS has had block cloning support for some time now:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/ref...
Right. I’ve never heard of someone losing control of their company at the seed stage. It’s always after later rounds.
so i put on my scientist hat and started to write a reply going through the mechanics of beating water's heat capacity, first pointing out that what you want for these types of systems is likely high volumetric heat capacity rather than gravimetric. then i went on to discuss the density of room temp ionic liquids (RTILs), only to find myself digging into their heat capacity numbers and man, you're right! I forgot how well water stores heat compared to other liquids. RTILs vol. heat capacity has trouble breaking 2 J/cm3-K![1]

[1] Table 4, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231542196_Heat_Capa...
My point isn’t that existing languages are designed this way, but it wouldn’t be hard to retrofit this onto an existing language. Especially one like JavaScript that already has relatively widely-used transpilers
Thanks, it keeps me warm at night.
Award-winning professional photographer takes photos with an iPhone and a tripod, artificial lighting, long exposure and hours/days spent in post processing. Apple – "buy our phone and you too will be able to get pictures like these!"
Blockers on iOS are a weaksauce. I still sometimes get malvertising ads in Safari, such as an alert("You have a virus! Call Microsoft on 0xxxxx"). I've never seen that on desktop with Firefox + uBlock Origin.
I wonder if there is something unique about the iPhone camera that a Pixel couldn't do it it was my in the hands of the master.
I've ran from such places. Luckily for every such management, there are many more managements that understand the correlation between short term and long term gains.
You are correct, and all carbuyers should be aware. I know I will work with the service department of any new vehicle I buy to determine how to disable communication, if not faraday/RIP out the modem of any car I buy.

That said, I think a lot of non tech savvy people associate the two. My dad dislikes EVs for many reasons Fox News tells him to, but one of them is "self driving cars are never going to be safe or practical". He doesn't get that EVs can exist separate from Tesla self driving shenanigans, or that ICE vehicles are trying to do the same thing.
This is a conspiracy theory made up and spread by teachers unions for their own vested interests.
Reads like an ad-copy/Apple press release...
I'm not sure it makes me hopeful that anyone can have a horrible AI in their pocket.
I like Blind, but let’s be real - if Blind was to be believed, then the next round has already been in the process of being decided on since at least April.

Kinda similar to how we had “the next recession is about to happen any second” since at least 2015.
You left out "and how much of the image is the artist"

I am impressed that he used the default Camera app and not a 3rd party like Halide.

But, I also want to know how much tweaking was done in post-processing. Sounds like he used Apple's ProRaw format, which I haven't played with much. Does it need the same level of processing as a normal Raw from a consumer mirrorless camera? Or is it as simple as hitting the "Enhance" button in the Photos app?
I dont disagree with this.
I just want to highlight that to do this sort of sandboxing in any systematic manner, you’ll always need to go down at the system level.
Because here we’re trying to sandbox the system using abstraction at the language level which is bound to run into impedance mismatch. I don’t think it’s the role of the language to restrict which system calls are acceptable.

However, there is some appeal to the syntax introduced by the author if we use it for a proper and portable sandboxing mechanism.
Maybe WASI, with capabilities?

To be more specific, there’s no reason for rust to know that writing to a specific file will allow modifying the program’s memory. It’s also not a security problem from the system, it’s just how it works. It really only makes sense for the system to enforce that kind of sandboxing, because it has enough context to enforce things sensibly.
Hos much usable range do you get after pulling for a few miles?
I have some, though maybe outdated, experience with that:
In 2008, I was 15 and had the idea of creating youtube videos using MIDI files of classical piano songs that had entered the public domain. They're free to use and in theory, videos stay up forever and these classical songs are timeless, so that means after uploading I'd earn passive income forever!

Or so I thought... Every single video was copyright claimed. Youtube falsely thought it was a recording (which do have copyright). The second a claim was created I stopped earning money. I would then dispute the claim, explaining that it's not even a sound recording and they had a month to react to my answer.

In almost all instances the claims were retracted but it would only take a couple of days until another claim would be filed on that video. Answering all those claims took up more time than producing the videos so I gave up after a while.

But in my experience it wasn't really malicious actors filing these claims but youtube's filter simply not managing to distinguish between a recording of a classical piano piece and a well synthesized version of it. I actually remember most claims being filed by Sony.

It's interesting to hear that it's still this way because I don't really believe that nowadays, youtube still can't distinguish between different recordings of classical music. I guess they have no incentive to improve in that regard.

But I think the fact that nobody but the large labels are able to earn money with classical music on these large platforms is actually an excellent argument against upload filters and in my experience it's an argument that non-tech people can much better relate to than hash-collisions.
Yea it’s a chatgpt output, when it comes to this type of information Google search results are good for finding definitions of glutamine for example but harder to get specific lists of things
No flights at all. See it yourself https://www.flightradar24.com/
This bait-and-switch article goes down exactly how you think it will. Models are accurate, and Earth is getting hotter. There is absolutely nothing 'new' here.
To my understanding, most aircraft use a combination of INS and GPS for both redundancy and spoofing resilience.

This actually makes spoofing attacks very difficult, since you'd need to target each receiver individually and in a very precise way (e.g. a reasonably filtered system would reject a GPS signal indicating that the plane just by a couple of kilometers and changed direction by 90 degrees without any measurable acceleration).
Nah. The log crate primarily uses unsafe to poke at pointers in a probably-ok-but-racy way on platforms that don't support atomics. It would almost certainly be better to use a platform-appropriate mutex for those limited contexts, or at least allow the presumably-faster, presumably-benign race to be hidden behind a feature flag.

I'm quite familiar with what unsafe means. And in the context of supply chain attacks, there's a clear benefit from going from "a few uses of unsafe as a possible performance optimization" to "no unsafe". Obviously, that doesn't work for all crates and we shouldn't demand it. But I made the comment about log after looking at the code to understand its use of unsafe.
Now name the thousands that they aren't right about. Your comment is literally survivorship bias in action.
Pretty much. "Lawyers as a Service" for any AI related copyright claims.

I also find it interesting that generative AI for images seems missing? I wonder if this is intentionally selective. Also possible I'm misunderstanding where Imagen etc. lives in the listed products
claude2 tldr:
Here are a few key points I gathered from the article:

The article explores optimizing LoRA hyperparameter settings for finetuning large language models.
The goal is to maximize performance while minimizing memory usage and training time.

The base model used is Llama-2 7B. Experiments compare default LoRA, QLoRA (4-bit quantized), AdamW, SGD optimizers, and different choices for rank r and alpha hyperparameters.

Key findings:

QLoRA provides substantial memory savings (6GB less than default LoRA) at the cost of slower training. Performance impact is minor.

AdamW vs SGD makes little difference in memory or performance.

Increasing training iterations from 50k to 100k hurts performance, likely because the Alpaca dataset lacks diversity.

Tuning rank r and alpha is most impactful. Good rule of thumb is to set alpha=2*r.
Best model uses r=256, alpha=512. Improves over base model on most tasks, except arithmetic.

The optimized LoRA model was submitted to the NeurIPS efficiency challenge and showed improvements on several benchmarks compared to the base Llama-2 model.

Takeaways are practical tips for tuning LoRA hyperparameters and trading off memory, compute, and model performance.
> How do you do it?

Just for argument's sake, it can be done: Renters are supposed to give notice months in advance, so landlords can advertise during that time. (And yes, painting etc takes some time, but not that much.)