skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The platonic ideal of end-2-end encryption is that it is encrypted from my brain until it is received in my correspondent's brain. This is obviously not currently feasible.

The closest approximation, is having a trusted client. This hashing scheme ruins the "trusted client" and I would no longer consider it e2e.

Not to mention that a database of hashes is trivially to expand with content that isn't CSAM. Next thing we know the European equivalent of the Tankman picture is included in the hash to more effectively pursue political opposition or activists.

This would destroy all ability to protest and singlehandedly eliminate democracy in Europe. I'm not exagerating. Climate activists in Germany are already put in "präventivhaft"[1] (preventive detention) before a civil disobedience / crime occurs. A scheme such as this would make it trivial to do at massive scales.

[1]: https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/staatsregierung-verteid...
Where to showcase your startup project?
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Does anybody know what kind of deal early Microsoft employees had in terms of wealth redistribution?

I am fine with founders expecting employees to give swear, blood, and tears if they are substantial payoffs at the end.

Not that I have ever heard of such a deal. From what I read, it is usually investor first, founders next, and employees dead last.
FFS thank you!

Just because you make your large industrial robots look like cars does not mean you should be able to test them in the street where the kids and old people (and everybody else) exist and do their thing. It's fucking insane (and I almost never swear online.)
I’ll vouch for non-malice. Bun’s creator frequently tweets about hypothetical APIs he may want to introduce, often seeking feedback explicitly. The ideas are always earnest “would you find this helpful?” sorts of things. (For what it’s worth, I frequently reply that these hypotheticals are a bad idea when they break expectations etc, at least if I can fit my reasoning in tweet length. I think this has been at least marginally successful in pushing back in some cases.)

The problem, with Bun but really with the ecosystem at large, is that shipping stuff is (still) the de facto way that standards kind of congeal into something resembling actual standards.
State senators, like all US citizens, are free to travel just about anywhere, including Washington DC, and Hong Kong, for that matter. "Operating" in any of these places is a different matter. State legislators are typically not full-time legislators, since legislatures are usually only in session part of the year. They have jobs or (more often) own businesses as well. They typically don't have any legislative business in the nation's capitol.
Very cool, thanks for sharing! It reminds me of my early days on the internet, full of potential and comforting weirdness.
I don't understand why all these companies keep trying to innovate in CA/SF. It's obvious that the climate is anti-progress in a lot of ways. I'm still salty that I can't get a scooter or ebike easily anymore and have to uber everywhere.
I would like to see legislation mandating greater transparency, but my impression is that these systems are already safer than human drivers.
Excellent visuals for ELI5 on complicated subjects. I especially like the use of different colors and 3D animations.
> primary reason why Apple throttled phones was to force you onto a new one, which is false

If you believe Apple's marketing, it's false. If you look at customers' reaction, it's likely true. There were a lot of complains after every update, and the only known solution was to buy a new phone.
The old joke that mathematicians can't distinguish a donut from a coffee mug (because of topological "equivalence"/homeomorphism) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mug_and_Torus_morph.gif
If by "not allowed" you actually mean, "implements safety protocols so easy to circumvent that they may as well not exist", then I agree.

Otherwise... not so much.
To a topologist, a mug and a donut are the same shape (can be deformed to a torus without changing topological properties)
Sorry but what does reading the “riot act” mean in this context? Never heard this before.
I live in SF and ride waymo/cruise all the time and I think it sucks that the news focus on the few incidents because the whole thing is awesome
That is essentially the entire idea behind patents. They get a limited time of control, the public benefits later. Like it or not, this is how the system is supposed to work.
Luddites in HN is crazy
Even then it wasn't a reliable mark of authenticity as Twitter would often remove verification from authentic accounts as a form of punishment.
The article you link to says there was more to it! The Cruise vehicle, after running over the woman, stopped on top of her with the rear axle/tires pinning her to the ground, trapping her there. And it just... sat there. I hesitate to believe that a human driver would do something like that.

You could, however, argue that staying in place was the right thing to do; continuing to drive to get the woman out from under the car may have injured her further. A follow-up article[0] suggests just that, and emergency crews ended up lifting the car off of her instead of trying to tow it.

If this is indeed why their permit was suspended, it seems like a questionable reason. Some of the other dumb things Cruise cars have done seem much more obviously egregiously bad. But in this case the crash may have been unavoidable (by human or robot), and avoiding injuring her further by not unpinning her may have been the right move.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/cruise-driverless-tax...
Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake
False advertising giving clueless drivers an ill-guided confidence getting people killed.
Write what someone else knows. You'll get corrected which is free publicity.
> If you make information about effective and readily available ways to end ones life available, people harboring bad depression will read that, acquire these tools and use them on impulse during a dark episode.

If you don't make that information accessible, people harboring bad depression wanting to kill themselves on impulse during a dark episode will just jump in front of traffic or off the nearest bridge or try whatever pills they can get their hands on or any other means they can find in total ignorance.

It's not about helping people choose death, it's about making sure that people who have already made the choice have access to the information they need to get their affairs in order and can end their lives as peacefully and assuredly as possible.
"harmful youth marketing" ? Adults are just as dumb as kids, and can actually impact the rest of the world with their dumbness. We should be suing them for harmful marketing, period. I have had adult friends have literal emotional breakdowns because of social media's harmful effects.
Yeah. I follow him on twitter too, and it's both impressive and distressingly chaotic the way he spitballs and then settles on APIs in the form of twitter surveys
It would either be Waymo or Cruise. There's been viral videos of both blocking intersections, or being disabled with traffic cones.
> Surely companies should want an active relationship with the developers of their most important and fundamental projects as well.

This sets up a false dichotomy. We _do_ have active relationships with the developers of our most important and fundamental projects.

> establish a business relationship to satisfy what open source licenses leave lacking

We do this. We pay on contract for work we need. This is separate from that.

> the results they are hoping for

The result we are hoping for at a company level is to give a more-or-less fair amount of money in return for the value we have received over the past year from sponsorship-seeking Open Source maintainers. I think of this as IOR instead of ROI—we are paying for value already received. This result is achieved. :)

Our hypothesis is that through social validation we can encourage other companies to follow suit, and if we're successful enough this could create opportunities that don't exist now. The $25k/yr scenarios you describe would be the bottom rung of this. FOSSFunders.com is where we're pursuing this. Wish us luck! :)
It never occurred to me that I should not open a new window to compose an email. How would that work? Displace the folder I'm in, or the message I'm looking at? And why?
Meta sued by 42 AGs for addictive features targeting kids
To be fair, it’s not like we hold human drivers this accountable when they cause crashes.

We should be suspending all bad driver’s licenses, AI and human alike. Today we give people passes for crashing while driving badly, and we should not.
agreed - but not only did they know they didn't have all the information - so they were in effect making a guess based on the limited information they had - but they also took the extra step of discrediting anyone that held a different opinion.

That is not 'science'.
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> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Yeah, who the hell does this guy think he is? We want to explore every nook of his house and he gets uppity? Clearly something to hide.
> of offering euthanasia as a 'solution' to poverty in old age

Nobody needed Canada for that. That option has always been on the table and plenty of people have taken advantage of that. It's not as if Canada was keeping disabled people out of poverty before euthanasia was an option. I don't think very many people are saying that Canada shouldn't improve conditions for people just because poor could simply die with government approval instead of dying illegally they way they always had been.
Isn’t that kind of making the point?

Big tech is too big to fail
Hey, that's totally fine if that's what you want to do, especially if it's for your own convenience. What I'm trying to communicate really has nothing to do with whether anyone is being forced to install anything. My point is that there easily avoidable problems that are inherent to pulling in packages hosted elsewhere, and that programmers should consider whether they should avoid suggesting that using a third-party package for something that can be written by hand in a few minutes. That's all I'm saying. For your own use, this makes a lot of sense. If it were me, I would avoid sharing it, and I hope more programmers move away from relying heavily on other people's packages for tiny units of functionality. But I probably wouldn't have been vocal about that here if I knew your intent with that package (or that you even wrote it, which perhaps I missed somewhere).
I really think they actually meant literally powered by here. Being on HN I make the presumption that commenters are a bit more savvy than the average Joe Public.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002621
This is the correct answer.

My websites don't have cookie banners because I don't collect any PII.
Make sense, thanks, fuel, gravity, not easy feat
Yeah, same. Was surprised not to see it.
And did you have to sign it? What would have happened if you hadn't? Why do you have to sign a legally enforceable document because some idiot messed up?
uBlock Origin has a few "annoyances" blocklists that get rid of all of those.
I'm kinda of the reverse opinion...

Nobody should be able to sell any cars at all unless they can demonstrate decent headway in self-driving research.

Car manufacturers should be put on notice that the government expects 10% annual reduction in deaths on the roads every year for the next 20 years. If their car brand doesn't keep up with that, then they're gonna be fined $10M per excess death (for selling a dangerous product). They can achieve that any way they like, but a decently working self driving system is probably the only thing thats gonna let them continue to sell cars a decade from now.
Slightly earlier submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002752
Rolling around in money from all the licenses, I would imagine.
The author says in his videos images on web are wrong but then for the why says they are missing details mostly because they aren’t 3D. Isn’t that incomplete not wrong?
This piece is just brilliant: "We dedicated 10% of our budget to giving small amounts (in the $4 to $10 per month range) to as many dependencies on GitHub Sponsors as we could. We were able to achieve 95% or greater coverage of our fundable dependencies in our three primary GitHub organizations (getsentry, codecov, and syntaxfm). We were not able to reach 100% because some of our dependencies have minimum sponsorships higher than $10, and a few of our dependencies are maintained by employees. Sentry is the first company to approach 100% coverage of all of our fundable dependencies through GitHub Sponsors. Nobody else even comes close (I asked)."
I'm just amazed that people expect any sort of privacy from a product made by a company that has targetting as its core revenue stream.

Bit like being surprised Chevron has a large fossil fuel footprint.
its takes a few seconds parsing all the accounts/folders (as I have an indecent amount of email) but it never had any trouble finding things
Even better you can replace your fuel injector with a scoop at the front of the car and drive forward along the fuel tube for a sort of JIT fuelling option.
I was 95% accurate!
⬜
Can you do better?
https://www.brilliant.org/challenges/halfsies
It may be related to the AI driving the vehicle continuing to drive to pull over after hitting a person:

"When the AV tried to pull over, it continued before coming to a final stop, pulling the pedestrian forward," the company said.
I'm not able to move the white shape.

This might not have been tested on desktop Firefox.
Those weren't around in 2005, the time that was written (which is not me defending the claim about OpenBSD in 2005, I have no idea).
I have not seen any easy way to get a tesla to drive without anyone in it. Any chance you could provide a link showing this?
Given Nokia’s history in the welly business, it disappoints me that the headline writers keep failing to say they are giving 14,000 employees the boot.
I was thinking that they were talking about netting/clearing and how to minize the amount of transactions that need to happen as actual wire transfers.

Actually no. This post is about doing something akin to first in first out accounting to match the payments to the invoices.

I wonder why they aren't simply using virtual IBANs...
It depends on the shape of your data and whether or not you need extras like pub/sub. Redis (and Redis protocol compatible databases) have rich support for HashMaps, Sets etc. Previously I've used redis-persistence as the data storage for an RBAC system (Lots of sets, lists, hashmaps, mostly flat objects).

I've also heard of it as a database for online game scoring systems.
I do not believe "it's as dangerous as a human driver" is a good reason to look past all the problems with self-driving cars. There should be a higher standard than that.
One must normalize to how unhealthy the population is, in that case, the US medical system is doing amazingly well!
Companies would rather not provide customer service at all to many categories, as many customers statistically are cheaper to churn than serve.

So you don’t need to funnel them. In many cases the ideal resolution is they go away.
Love me some decorators for defining web components in TS
While clearly the initial accident was caused by the hit-and-run driver, when the Cruise went to pull over because it detected an accident, it drop on top of the pedestrian AND STOPPED right on her - "hurled her into the path of a driverless taxi that then ran her over, stopping on top of her as she screamed in pain".

This poor woman was involved in two accidents really, and it is fair to shut down Cruise until they address this failure scenario of driving on top of a victim in road.

The first picture in the SF Chronicle article is harrowing: https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/34/54/62/24300697/3/1100x0.jpg
Indie game devs are extremely passionate about their work and art. They don't really think about the financials or how many man-hours they're investing into their project since they're doing it out of passion and love for their vision and game.

They're like artists and it's best to think of them like this. And artists can be idealistic and stubborn about their work and vision.

Marketing, finance, target audience, time investment, scope of work— These are after thoughts to indie devs.
They seem to be pretty much the opposite of a patent troll, no? I mean, you and I may not like how aggressively they are approaching it, but they did develop the technology.

Overall you can argue they as a company would have done better to allow the tech to broaden and reap licensing fees, but you can't argue that it isn't their decision to make. Or, you can, but you aren't arguing against these guys but the system of IP laws in general.
Maybe it's not a bad thing to let social media die. Everyone already knows how damaging they are. If people stop using social media, it won't matter what state laws require.
Yeah, there's a couple email newsletters that do this.

- TLDR (https://tldr.tech/) <- it's mostly tech-related news. Has like 1 million+ subscribers

- Quastor (https://www.quastor.org/) <- sends summaries of the engineering blog posts that hit the top of HN (full disclosure - I've been writing this newsletter for several years now)

- Pointer.io (https://www.pointer.io/) <- summarizes the engineering leadership content that rises to the top of HN

etc.

I believe someone also developed a chrome extension for HN that would let you filter out the non-engineering related content but can't remember the name right now.
I'm not sure how you reached $7...

0.2 kw * 8 hours * 30 days * €0.60 =

1.6 kw/h/d * 30 days * €0.60 =

48 kw/h * €0.60 =

€28.80 per month

I game about 3-6 hours a day, but I also do a lot of (unreal) programming on the same computer. So according to measurements, it draws about 2-3kw/h a day. Without limiting the framerate, it's closer to 10kw/h per day. We're talking a savings of ~€4 per day. That's over €100 per month in savings.

> Downclock your monitor to something like 60Hz, then pin your frames there too.

I'm not sure what my monitor rate has to do with fps. They are two totally independent measurements that are very rarely synced if you are doing any kinds of graphically intensive work, even if you pin them to the same rate. The monitor will still double-post frames every so often, or even skip a frame. Another good example is a paused video which is 0fps, but the monitor doesn't care. It just keeps showing the same frame over and over again. The same thing happens here, and with (g|v)sync, there's never any tearing.
my grandfather who happily let his cheese age on the countertop until larvae appeared because it improved the taste would not be shocked at all by that.
Kind of the point. Let's hope he has a good therapist and does not see himself as a god like other big name billionaires.
I have personally witnessed multiple occasions where Cruise vehicles have completely obstructed intersections.

In one instance, as a Muni bus was making a left-hand turn onto a busy street, a Cruise vehicle pulled forward into the intersection (from the direction the bus was turning toward) blocking the bus from completing its turn. As bus drivers cannot—in general operation—go in reverse, the only solution to this was for the Cruise vehicle to back up or to exit the intersection to its right and allowing the intersection to become unwedged.

Unfortunately, without any real motivation to do otherwise, the Cruise vehicle was seemingly willing to wait patiently until the heat death of the universe for the problem to remedy itself. I watched for fifteen minutes as the intersection was completely wedged due to this situation, while the bus driver and others attempted unsuccessfully to convince the Cruise to do anything to fix the problem.

I eventually left. I have no idea how long it was before someone at Cruise managed to get the car to move, but it highlighted for me how many situations in traffic require impromptu and improvised coordination between drivers in order to keep things moving.
Cross-posted at https://github.com/getsentry/loose-confederation/issues/4#is.... ;-)

One of our goals is to keep the parameters to an absolute minimum, to aid in adoption. The simpler we can keep it the more easily it will get picked up, is the thinking.
> If enriched uranium shows up at your door, you don't just get to hold onto it just because someone screwed up.

Yeah but that's because there are specific laws regulating possession of certain materials (NBC capable, explosives, drug precursors).
I blame the electorate.
Apple to make tools and parts to fix phones, computers available nationwide
From the article, it sounds like the Cruise vehicle didn't just strike the pedestrian but stopped on top of her and pinned her in place. A bystander needed to recognize the incident and reassure her until emergency services arrived and mechanically removed her from below the vehicle using the jaws of life.

While not impossible, it's hard to imagine a human-driver scenario that would look quite like that, regardless of how legal accountability might resolve. Would a human driver stop their vehicle on top of the person they just struck? Would they then ignore the person they'd trapped and wait for a bystander to intervene?

I'm not suggesting that this scenario necessarily warrants the suspension, or that most of the same problems might not occur in some human-driver scenario, but it points to some of the subtle differences of human vs automated drivers that come up in exceptional situations. There are a lot of exceptional situations when driving and it very much matters how automated processes navigate them.
How many surplus people will be killed by human drivers today, tomorrow, next year, and next decade because of this suspension I wonder? No one ever seems to consider them in these decisions[0].

[0]I can see myself not agreeing with the conclusions, but to not even see the question broached in these terms is maddening.
"Too big to fail, but not too big to bail out" was what was learned after 2008. Why wouldn't tech want to get in on that graft?
California DMV suspends Cruise's robotaxi permit