skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the Palo Alto/Mountain View/Sunnyvale area I see Waymo, Nuro, and unmarked-but-we-all-know-it's-Apple autonomous vehicles quite frequently. A few times a week at least.

Cruise specifically operated in SF where I agree they have been a very common sight.
ADSP the Podcast: Is C++ Dying?
here are some tips to differentiate:
1. focus on automating integration provisioning ... ie, dev still have to go through the various third parties they want to integrate with and that is a PITA
2. focus on something other than oauth... api tokens are actually way more straight forward to developers than oauth in terms of setting up
From my limited understanding, web browsers were improved drastically by the creation of cross-vendor testing (e.g. Acid tests). I wonder if there is a way to do some sort of AV simulator testing that would allow us to test the different manufacturers on data collected from the others.

AVs seem to all have different "mental models" of the external world, so it seems like we've got a lot of work before we can pipe data collected from this Cruise incident into a simulator and test Waymo, Uber, Tesla, etc.
Yep. Argument one is, this system will quickly be used mostly for other things.

Argument two: Even if you can stop 100% the transmission of CSAM materials, you are not stopping the abuse of children. Just the secondary abuse of distributing the materials.
> cofactors might be less important when we lack complete additional formulae for a Weierstrass curves, which makes them hard to implement in constant time, but much more important once we do (as is the case now).

If I remember correctly, part of the reason for the cofactor in 25519 is because Montgomery curves have to have a cofactor and only those curves have the nice x-only Montgomery Ladder, which basically rules out invalid curve attacks (so long as the curve is twist-secure — not all the NIST curves are IIRC). Do the complete addition formulas for short Weierstrass curves also fix this? Invalid curve attacks are a major danger for NIST curves.

I know you can use compressed point representation to get the same benefit, but that seems very rare in NIST curve implementations (because old now-expired patents). The landscape of NIST prime-order curve implementations is not great. If all those libraries were going to actually switch to complete addition formulas and compressed public keys then I might feel better about them enjoying a renaissance.
I think this is it: https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments
Some are old enough to remember (reruns of) a TV show from six decades ago called "The Millionaire".[0] In each episode, a surprise, life-changing gift of $1M from an anonymous private donor was made to someone not expecting it. That would be $11M in today's dollars, so the status that goes with being a millionaire has been greatly devalued (no surprise).

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millionaire_(TV_series)
'When I tried to play, my hand spasmed and shook': why musicians get the yips
GNOME and KDE have been doing Linux desktops since the 1990s, "literally decades". At Microsoft and Apple there are evidently product managers incentivized to ensure bluetooth earbuds "just work" and do not hang the bluetooth settings app. Apple has sold more than 150M AirPods, has over $12B revenue from them, and would lose a lot of profit if they don't "just work". Core desktop Linux devs on the other hand be like, "Whatev.. I don't use bluetooth on my 24-core BeastStation. Not my problem." They have the brains and talent to make it work, but not the motivation. Open source people work on what they find interesting.
Downvote all you like, but this has been studied. See, for example, Derek Lowe’s blog:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mrna-vaccines-what...

Quoting from it: “ And that's what you see with the intramuscular dose as well: a good part of the dose goes to the liver, but in that case there's a substantial effect in the muscle tissue itself, and it's longer-lasting (out to about a week of protein expression)”

So, yes, an mRNA vaccine (the current ones, anyway) likely causes a fair amount of Spike protein to be expressed in your muscle tissue, but no one has noticed it causing the death of large amount of muscle tissue [0], and despite some searching, I haven’t found any evidence that anyone really understands what’s going on.

[0] People produce cytotoxic lymphocytes that detect bits of spike protein displayed by MHC1, much like CAR-T cells detect whatever they’ve been engineered to target on the surface of cells. Yet CAR-T (sometimes) kills massive numbers of tumor cells, and mRNA COVID vaccines apparently don’t cause the death of massive numbers of harmless cells that took up some of the vaccine. I’m curious why.
Well, Waymo is now giving rides in LA as part of a promotional tour. So you might be able to see one sooner than you think.

https://youtu.be/iNlS1LSDjl8?si=Me-zKKD7g0dPo6tH
Yeah the medical field was probably a bad example, because of course HIPAA already exists. But lots of services exist that collect data that somebody might consider private as a necessary side effect of doing their thing.
Gesture Recognition for FMCW Radar on the Edge
Apache Answer: Open-source Q&A Platform
This extension will auto-bypass many paywalls: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Not necessarily. The command channel likely is encrypted with an encryption key that only Apple knows.

It also may be limited to firmware upgrades (somewhat likely, IMO), and may get permanently disabled the moment a user configures the phone (less likely, IMO)
This is a very obtuse way of looking at things.

Society is not a monolith. The people and companies choosing to invest into self-driving cars are not the ones who would be able to make communities more pedestrian- or transit- or bike-friendly. As much tech as there is in the bay area, Google is not a local duke that can unilaterally make streets less car-dominant.

The people who can choose to make communities more friendly to other modes of transportation are the citizens who vote for representatives and laws, the citizens who show up at local meetings, and very often they fight against safer streets, sadly enough. Democracy is better than non-democracy, but that doesn't mean voters always make smart decisions.

Personally, I would LOVE it if American streets looked more like Dutch streets, or even German streets. But within US politics, wanting safer streets like those is an extreme position. Most people grew up with car dominance, and they're uncomfortable with or skeptical of the idea of actual choice in transportation modes. There's an enormous amount of cultural momentum behind forcing everyone to drive.
I rode in an Argo car (RIP) and it avoided an accident where everyone in the car was like "where did that guy come from". It saw at an awkward angle around the corner before any human could have.
Can we throw twitter links in that bucket too?
> the requests that you do handle often convert to free advertising

This cuts both ways. If you have a well-oiled customer service team working in public, great! But if something major goes wrong one day and you have 3 million people @ing you with no easy way to identify their account in your system and suddenly your hashtag starts trending... that's free advertising too.
IMO, because it’s easier to convince yourself that a rewrite will accomplish all goals faster instead of utilizing the old code.
One has to go back decades to a time before this sort of stifling M&A activity began. Looking at the innovation that occurred in the era before zero interest rates and so-called "Big Tech", it blows away what people call "innovation" during the period of "tech startups" and mega-sized websites.
This is why you should insist on a changes being reviewed by at least two pairs of eyes. Someone responsible for that area of the code might raise those kinds of objections. Someone who is more of an outsider can focus on other problems.

E.g. I'm kind of a human compiler; I can say things like, you have undefined behavior here, in a completely unfamiliar code base where the maintainer of that might miss the issue, too busy pointing out that it doesn't respect architectural conventions, and is not tested.
> no option is adequate to me, and I'm unwilling to present an alternative

Well, it's a blog about software accessibility...
Yes. My root comment is not giving medical advice, but stating the unspoken truth in the original article that people are reaching for psychedelic therapy because existing standard medications do not work for everyone. Real medical advice should be tailored to an individual's history and needs, which is what any good physician or psychiatrist would actually do.
Those sound like trips where you shouldn't call a car at all, but get on the local transit service. Talk to your local politicians about fixing service so that is an option.

Self driving cars are useful to replace various maintenance or delivery trucks in cities, and farm transport. However mass transit is better for most things people are thinking about them for.
Teen Arrested After Uncovering System Bug
This is a great project - is the goal to be more like Gitlab, i.e. no plugins/marketplace or like Jenkins and GitHub Actions?
I had 99%. I was barely off on the bird. After the bird I said screw it with Australia and the USA and barely tried and still got 50/50. LOL
1) collect additional driving data. driving data is the moat for autonomous driving

2) move to a location where you're statistically most likely to pick up your next passenger, to reduce average wait time
>Especially when they already know you have the thing they are looking for!

I disagree, the conversation went that they wanted to Verify it was deleted. That is totally out of grounds for the city to want. The data in this case is contraband, but it was leaked by the city, and hosted by the city in the FOIA portal.

It totally misses the point, you should never consent to a search to verify you don't have it, especially to a third party. Ever. They want to poke and prod around, then it's a warrant and strict chain of custody. None of this third party forsenic firm stuff.
The first horseman of the Infocalypse has arrived.
Could you provide a link to this package? I can't seem to find anything.
Humans should be the baseline precisely because they aren't very good. Imagine a whole fleet of hundreds of self driving car that are worst than the average human driver (who are already really bad) all making the exact same worst than human mistakes.
Not ideal or informative but it exists - http://nic.amazon/
They tried with the 3rd party apps. I still have the developer phone they gave my company to port our app.

It was a fun project, and the live tiles and flat style provided a lot of inspiration that resulted in the next version of our app for iOS and Android.
"a11y" is not accessible to me. I only saw the term for the first time a little while ago on HN, and I still haven't memorized what it means. Like the other absurd <letter><number><letter> abbreviations, I'll get it memorized eventually.

But really, I wish we'd all just agree to stop with this kind of abbreviating. It's impossible to decipher what it means on its face. You have to memorize it.
Apple announces 'scary fast' October event
He's implicitly admitting that he conducts civic business via his Gmail account. That means his Gmail account contains public records and is thus subject to FOIA requests.

I'm not sure if city councilors are subject to such public scrutiny but it's still really stupid.
> I think an equally valid approach is to start building something that you think should exist in the world

Certainly we overall benefit from people trying this.

I think it far, far less likely to work, but if you fully believe in your "thing", you aren't looking at it statistically anyway.
A lot of these things also sounds like autism.
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The companies do track that data internally. It would be nice if the DMV mandated it's release to the public. But of course this type of data is a counterfactual, so much more subjective.
I certainly echo the sentiment that Apple is doing well enough with on device AI/ML features.

* Photo enhancement and object detection

* Text identification

* FaceID

But I also echo the sentiment that they could and should be doing more.

And I only need one example to highlight their massive shortcomings...

Siri.
Show HN: Read any YouTube video with punctuations added using AI in the browser
>This is an attempt to solve the right problem

It really isn't.

When a new law or program is announced that is supposedly meant to fight terrorism, child abuse, or drugs - and when the actual scope of the law or program is more than terrorism, child abuse, or drugs, then:

You are being manipulated into voting against your interests. 100% of the time.
I'm surprised this is controversial.

It seems obvious to me that being actively engaged in (curated) gaming is better than passively consuming videos that YouTube recommends.

With gaming kids can develop:

- Motor skills and hand-eye coordination

- Communication and collaborative skills

- Problem solving skills

- Learning to cope with losses and setbacks

- Social interactions

Of course, I'd rather them play with Legos, run around and play or even play boardgames with me or each other. But if it's a choice between playing games or watching YouTube, I absolutely prefer them to play games.
Very true!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

But like. We can certainly innovate more flexible routing systems of transport that don’t require specific neural training and licensing to use foot pedals to stop it crashing.

(Maybe I could have reserved some of those neurons to be better at drumming!)

What stops us from using modular mass transit systems? Lots of things. But when mountains stopped trains, we exploded the mountains. Built huge bridges over ravines.

Because of the period between 1850 and 1970, I don’t buy the excuses. Unless it’s just “we’re still not there yet.”
Even with the mandated multitude of phone PMICs?

https://www.semiaccurate.com/2023/09/26/whats-going-on-with-...
I agree with you, regulation would be better. But much like the alcohol and tobacco industries tech corporations spend millions in funds on lobbying US lawmakers to avoid being forced to accept government regulation. Also my case actually has done some good. Someone contacted me to say because of it her lawyers were able to get content malicious content removed posted by an ex partner. Over the years I have been contacted by quite a few people who have said the same thing.
More expensive
It's an interesting thought experiment, but it feels a little like trying to come up with the best defense against alien invaders. We're already talking about attackers able to craft cryptographic weaknesses decades of peer review can't discover or explain. Trying to figure out how to usefully constrain their algorithm design choices does not seem like a winning strategy.

The bitcoin block hash thing is interesting, but if you're talking about an attacker with that kind of unknown but sophisticated capability, how do you know it actually thwarts their plans? Maybe all they need is any large number with high entropy or maybe the leading zeros characteristic of bitcoin block hashes is actually key to their attack? Once you imbue your adversary with unknown powers, it's by definition difficult to know what helps or hurts them.
Is there an economic system that doesn’t value economic output?
7 Oct while certainly historically significant & likely significant going forward didn't fuck up the US job market and isn't responsible for the effect I'm trying (badly) to describe. Something in the last ~6 months is just severely off
You have to love the false choice of "do this or quit." You're going to have to fire me or make it worth my while to leave unless I find my next opportunity first. I'm not doing the hard part and giving up potential unemployment benefits.
What this does say to me, tho, is that with better economic policy, taxation, etc. Everyone could live comfortably.

Self Own.
Another vote for Evolution here. I also like its calendar integration. Works well on its own or can interface with Google Calendar as you prefer.
That's why we shouldn't call it scanning for CSAM. We should call it mandatory submission of all private communication to government inspection. Fighting CSAM is just the alleged, first, use-case.
The answer is because Apple has decided you should be a soccer (football) fan. They are the tastemakers and they are making your taste. You might not care about football/soccer today but next year? After enough time investment in related drama shows and documentaries? Maybe then. It’s the same reason why their shows are very progressive and avant-garde.

You'll come around, just give it time.

To their credit, they do it pretty tastefully but still blatantly.
> with features like “infinite scroll” and persistent alerts used to hook young users

> Meta has harnessed powerful and unprecedented technologies

Are we talking about infinite scroll or heroine? It would make more sense to sue Kelloggs over Lucky Charms commercials, but we're all use to them so there's no outrage.

It's politically popular to sue big tech and especially Meta. That's the whole story.

To be clear, the lawsuit is not about the content on instagram or privacy. They're saying kids spend too much time on Instagram. Let me introduce you to the parental controls that are already on your kid's phone.
You think someone goes to the trouble of developing an operating system from scratch, device drivers from scratch, all new applications from scratch, and then training their staff to use, and then maintaining it? For what benefit?

At that level of paranoia you'd run disconnected from public networks and security from remote hackers is a non-issue.
Sure, blame the victim.
> I had to give up any passwords to my devices. It was a criminal offence not to do this.

Veracrypt hidden partition, plausible deniability, use it.

> They asked how considered my tweets were

That’s exactly the reason why, he definitely made a tweet that put him in some arbitrary list that feeds into an official “anti-terrorism” list, believe it or not, there’s a whole business and scheme on adding people on these lists and cancel them just because they tweet something, and sometimes, even taking an out-of-context and make an article about it somewhere, and use that as a “reference” to cancel you and put you in many hidden lists. Besides what some are mentioning here about privacy act and what not, I would go in a different approach, these lists should be searchable online just like any public records, and you have the right to challenge it in court if someone put your name in there and sue for it, but keeping it secret meaning there’s a hidden entity actively blackmailing individuals for their thoughts, the “CI/CD” for these lists goes like this: article about you (fake or real won’t matter) => some unknown list maintained by shady organization => feeding into an official country anti-terrorism list => feeding into a regional one like EU or similar, leading to travel ban, banks ban, etc. and none of them will question the source of such list.
And at the time it was stolen, image reproduction techniques capable of displaying artwork in at least recognisable fidelity within mass-market publications were just being introduced. (The distribution of such images probably also reduced the effective value of the work-as-stolen as it would be more readily recognised if displayed publicly.) Attention returned repeatedly to the Mona Lisa through numerous subsequent events, e.g., Duchamp's reproduction with a beard and mustache added, in 1919.

<https://www.britannica.com/story/why-is-the-mona-lisa-so-fam...>

<https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/l-h-o-o-q-mona-lis...>

Google's Ngram viewer suggests a further increase of references in print following 1980, though that might reflect a disproportionate presence of academic works within the scanned corpus:

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Mona+Lisa&year...>
Next tweet

https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1716902823429038532
This year I started taking care of my health, so I agree w/ you, our foundations are so important.
Beside the point? It's pretty on point if you're trying to say they weren't talking about powering the device too... Also there are only two people here confused about GP's meaning. Can it be controlled by NFC is a trivial question.
Most YouTube transcripts lack punctuations.
So this app adds them back using a deep learning model based on DistilBert converted to ONNX for inference in your browser.
His podcast is but a blip in a giant sea of podcasts, and only listened to by people who don't know enough to know how little he knows.

No personal grudge, just the advantage of experience. I'm hardly alone in holding this view. If you did some research, and listened to some actual security podcasts, you might learn a little bit more regarding all this.
Yes, but they are s4d. It's like l33t grew up and made a mess of localization, internationalization, and translation. The numeronym thing feels so exclusive, like a16z. I wonder, if the international web folks like it, because it's their own language. It's true they've seen use since before 2000, but they've also been declining since 2008 (each peaking along with l33t except for a11y, which peaked during WWI, if you believe GoogNGram).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

Please explain, l10nel m35si li5.
I had actually worked on a greenfield project and was comparing them with ARM, I was quite surprised how expensive they were when you did an apples to apples comparison to ARM. I was expecting like 30-50% savings on ARM, which they wouldn't be anywhere near.

They kept mentioning they would match or do better than ARM pricing, but at least with ARM, there was a bit more flexibility (like paying at tapeout, and for startups with ARM it's like $100k for support IIRC).
I mean it did hit her (again), ran her over, then stayed on top of her. That's not a better scenario at all. A Level 1 system can still avoid hitting people.
European Parliament mostly works and has mostly curbed the EC's incompetence, ill-intent, overreach.

The issue is the European Comission and the Council of Ministers that appoints them.

The EC seems to progressively be filled by increasingly incompetent and unqualified comissioners. But more worrying for me is their increasing affinity with lobbying.

Many legal systems across the EU explicitly prohibit lobbying not sure why we even allow it in the EU.
Why? I kinda like composing in a new window. I may want to read another email while replying to the current one.
The pay scale is negotiated by a union via collective bargaining so the main issue is not that. Your last point rings true however and is also the organizer’s main complaint. And it is not for lack of fighting for better wages as majority women occupations such as nurses and teachers are striking like every 5 years in Iceland.

The primary goal here is to get the uncorrected pay gap down to 0%, it is now around 10% in Iceland. Highly paid positions such as CEOs are almost exclusively held by men while woman majority occupations tend to be underfunded and are suffering from austerity. I think the demand is that majority women occupations will be valued the same as majority men occupations, both monetarily and societally.

A secondary goal, according to the organizers, is sexual violence which is a major concern in Iceland. Quite often sexual crimes are not investigated by the police, and if they are the court system is lacking in punishing for these crimes.

Finally they also want equality in the home (what they are calling the third shift) that child caring and house choirs would be equal responsibility among every adult member of the family. Recent polling in Iceland seems to suggest that women take a disproportionate responsibility of child caring and home choirs, as well as a larger hit over men to their professional when raising a child