skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> NOAA plans to use a POES Extended Life Internet cloud-based system through Microsoft Azure to control those satellites, using a contract with Parsons Corp. awarded in September 2022. The new "ground system as a service" approach should keep the satellites running until at least September 2025, years beyond their expected lifetimes. With more years in orbit, the older satellites will compliment the newer members of the polar orbiting satellite family, at lower cost than direct operations by NOAA, the agency said.

Kind of wild path. I hope they have significant value past 2025; surely setting up this transition took some significant resources. Would be weird to me to do this then turn them off two years later.

I wonder how much of the ground control stuff is custom versus comes out of the box. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/orbital/overview
There's no such thing as "@dang". When you have concerns like this, mail hn@ycombinator.com, rather than crudding up the thread. Whatever this users is doing, Dan Luu's posts tend to be treasures, and we can have reasonable threads on them even as you try to clear up the submission behavior with Dan.
Dihydrogen monoxide is present at almost all drownings! We'd better ban that too.
It's a software demo. If you ever gave an honest demo, you gave a bad demo. If you ever saw a good and honest demo, you were fooled.
> Wired charges at all only so that you believe that getting it into your house was your idea rather than theirs.

No, they charge at all because people who pay for print ads pay more based on paid circulation (you get people who pay for ads in free publications, but they pay less), probably on the basis that paid subscribers are likely to actually read the publication it and not just pick it up to use as dropcloths for painting or kindling for fires.
> application of various mediums

for some reason this made me think of collaging as memetic expression, then right to Advice Dog

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/000/027/advic...
Why Smaller EV Batteries Could Be the Next Big Thing
Chick Fil A? Is just another fast food chain, but it has associations with evangelical Christians and funding anti-gay positions.

That's your example of a company with a conscience?
Ah XHTML the web’s dark age of pedantry. Call them whatever you want man, we’re much chiller in the HTML5 era.
Not liking someone is arbitrary and subjective

Swedish unions are not subjecting Tesla to strikes because they dislike Tesla or Musk, they are doing it to ensure they sign a collective bargain
Fully agreed, but the conspiracies are now manufactured at a rate that would've been unfathomable 20 years ago. I have a friend who knows exactly 0 transgender people in life who, when talking politics, it's the first issue that comes up. It's so disheartening that many people equate Trump to being good for the world because they aren't able to make off-color jokes without being called out anymore, or because the LGBTQIA+ agenda is ruining schools. Think of the children! This person was (seemingly) totally reasonable before social media.
"Ivan Krstic has headed Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), the group responsible for end-to-end security of all Apple products, since its inception. He has led the design and implementation of key security mechanisms across Apple platforms, including Lockdown Mode, Two-factor authentication for Apple ID, and Advanced Data Protection for iCloud."

The author works for Apple.

Should personal data should be "in the cloud" under the control of third parties like Apple. Why does Apple want this data. The company competes with the likes of Facebook and other privacy-destroying "tech" companies. We know why Facebook wants such data. Apple's advertising revenue continues to increase.

Unfortunately, this submission reads like PR for Apple. And it coincides with similar propaganda from Facebook:

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/06/security/building-end-...

We know that Zuckerberg actually wanted to break WhatsApp encryption.

Encryption is a good idea if person A wants to protect against someon stealing their computer or storage device, or if person A wants to send data to persona B over the internet. But if all storage is on Apple's computers, and if sending data to person B requires sending it through Apple's computers, then Apple is the one controlling encryption, not persons A or B. Given that Apple is in the business of collecting people's personal data and metadata for profit, ideally below the user's awareness, e.g., encrypted in a way that the user cannot view their own traffic, that's not a good idea.
"I just hacked the system against clearly stated rules. Not my fault poorly secured documents were on a server the same time an exploit existed"

have fun trying to skate by on that technicality.

>We really don't want to open the "prosecuting crimes performed against an LLM" can of worms.

"Pushing buttons on a keyboard should NEVER be illegal. That's my freedom of speech"
I really thought this was a realtime demo.

Shame on them :(
How do you think the cup demo works? Lots of still images?
It's frustrating, but she's exposed to potentially massive personal liability for the board's actions. I'm surprised that she agreed to an interview at all - frankly, I probably wouldn't if I were in her position - and I'm sure her answers were carefully scripted and run by her attorney(s).

I think this Reddit comment captures the most plausible story at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1812w04/co...
This is HORSE SHIT, and I will tell you why:

Was source code released? Can I build Facebook messenger with private cicd running on my own silicon? If not, there is no encryption worth a damn. You have to be very very stupid to believe otherwise.

What Facebook is doing here is deploying a massive honeypot.
That's the thing: Signal and Matrix are still the right answer for those cases!

Consider the ANOM[1] case: the FBI found it easier to FUD criminals into using a backdoored chat app than to break actual chat apps.

[1]: https://slate.com/technology/2021/12/fbi-fake-encrypted-mess...
A group of friends and I would go into empty classrooms on our college campus and play Duck Game on their projectors. Made a great drinking game: You die, 1 sip. You die by falling object, another sip. If your death is memorialized (either by having your eyes closed, or turned into a tombstone), another sip. There were enough of us that we were constantly passing the controllers around. Absolute blast.
It's a big meme in the Smash Bros world, too. Tons of people who beat their friends but get bodied at tournaments.

If I could stand the BO or the competitive atmosphere I'd consider it.
Added a Table of Contents below. Probably it helps SEO as well :)
The bloomberg article seems to have been taken down and is now going to 404.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...
Pen's Parade
I mean the great thing about the free market is there is always someone else.
The big problem with transparency logs is that they can't prevent attacks in real time because of the merge delay. You'll only find out afterwards if you've been attacked. It significantly raises the bar for an attack, but can't stop one from happening.
Just because the conscience may be aligned in a direction you find morally objectionable doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Of course, a conscience, in and of itself, is only as good as what is aligned to.
Above all, the probability of a restaurant being able to provide a meal with sufficient quality is too low.

If my family gets together, we can bang out a multiple course guaranteed high quality meal in one hour, having fun while we do it.

But a lot of that is due to cooking knowledge that the elders in the family pass down and refine over many, many decades.
"The entire point of the layout is to keep your fingers on the home row."

No, that is how you're told to type. You have to be told to type that way precisely because QWERTY is not designed to keep your fingers on the home row. If you type in a layout that is designed to do that, you don't need to be told to keep your fingers on the home row, because you naturally will.

Nobody really knows what the designers were thinking, which I do not mean as sarcasm, I mean it straight. History lost that information. But whatever they were thinking that is clearly not it because it is plainly obvious just by looking at it how bad it is at that. Nobody trying to design a layout for "keeping your fingers on the home row" would leave hjkl(semicolon) under the resting position of the dominant hand for ~90% of the people.

This, perhaps in one of technical history's great ironies, makes it a fairly good keyboard for swype-like technologies! A keyboard layout like Dvorak that has "aoeui" all right next to each other and "dhtns" on the other would be constantly having trouble figuring out which one you meant between "hat" and "ten" to name just one example. "uio" on qwerty could probably stand a bit more separation, but "a" and "e" are generally far enough apart that at least for me they don't end up confused, and pushing the most common consonants towards the outer part of the keyboard rather than clustering them next to each other in the center (on the home row) helps them be distinguishable too. "fghjkl" is almost a probability dead zone, and the "asd" on the left are generally reasonably distinct even if you kinda miss one of them badly.

I don't know what an optimal swype keyboard would be, and there's probably still a good 10% gain to be made if someone tried to make one, but it wouldn't be enough to justify learning a new layout.
It's easy to be in the top 99% in a competition nobody cares about.

Try being in the top 1% of basketball players if you're under 5'9".

Easier said than done.
All I can say is it’s really fast
Since I don't agree, it cannot be everyone.

More precisely, I don't agree with web clients not connecting to old servers.
Did the lady let you keep her undergarment?
Showing a product in its best light is one thing. Demonstrating a mode of operation that doesn't exist is entirely another. It would be like if a demo of your swipe keyboard included telepathic mind control for correcting errors.
Awesome to hear from an expert. Im looking forward to some teardowns to see how the set this all up.
In my experience, testing code in a way that ensures that it works is often harder and takes more time than writing it.
It's not hard to imagine a system where you can contact the server in the MX record for a domain over HTTPS (really just TLS) and query it for a specific email address to get the public key for that user.

Sure if someone knocks over TLS then your email encryption will be in trouble, but you will also have plenty of other problems at that point.
I never had enough jumpers at the time(early in my computer explorations), and hoarded them like gold up until around 2007 or 2008 when I finally had plenty from old spare parts.
> Maybe [Facebook is] doing it because it's the right thing to do

This is the most autistic thing I have read on the internet this year, second to a personal friend sperging out thinking he was going to wife up the first girl he met at a party.
It's funny to see the CEO of Lucid interviewed for this article, since Lucid differentiates its vehicles in part through their extremely long range (500 miles).

Regardless, I do hope that this comes to pass. We bought a used PHEV with about 20 miles of all-electric ranges, and the vast, vast majority of the miles we put on it are electric. This short radius won't work for most people, but it works for us (partly because of the included ICE powertrain, and partly because it's our second car).
> So in other words the unions don't own the government so much as they own the voters (or is it the other way around)?

Yes, that's a good way to put it. Although memberships are rapidly decreasing in later years. The reasons for that can be saved for another discussion.

> Another explanation could be that both sides of the political spectrum agrees and thinks that the power re: labor decisions such as this _should_ lie with the unions, regardless of left/right lean. Even the "right" parties in Sweden are pro unions.

There really isn't any "both sides" of the political spectrum in Nordic countries when it comes to labour. The way the "right wing" parties can get elected at all is to say "We promise we're not going to do things differently than the left wing, but we'll give you a $100 more per year in tax deductions".

> Huh? This hasn't been the case on paper since the year 2000 in Sweden, but in practice far longer than that. The church might still be called "Church of Sweden", but it has nothing to do with the government.

It is still the case in Finland, Norway and Denmark. These countries have a government church, that performs government functions, and levies taxes to the church from your salary. You still have to fill in a form if you want to exit the government church. The year 2000 is not so far away, compared to when other nations separated church and state.

And AFAIK the former state church of Sweden (along with neighbouring countries) is still controlled by secular political parties, whose candidates are elected by church members. The largest church party by a huge margin being the Socialist Democrat party.
The Trunk registry[1] that they support is also super interesting, nice to see all Postgres extensions in one place

[1]: https://pgt.dev/
Correct, and the Conservative governemnt have done a stellar job of taxing, cutting, and stealth-taxing the public sector who all voted Labour 1997-2010 for their own benefit to get annual 15% pay increases. Just look at Leeds area who were predominantly Labour hotbed who were clearly punished by the Tories and had their HS2 train route cancelled, and have been cut more than most areas. If you are a Labour borough 1997-2010+ you are going to receive the biggest cuts and least support from the Tories, likewise under Labour 1997-2010 Tory boroughs were slammed too.
I thought this was going to be about phase-conjugate mirrors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_optics#Optical_phase...

Demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAy39ErqV34
Apple autocorrect has a tendency to replace technical terms with similar words, eg. rvm turns into rum or ram or something.

It's even worse on the watch somehow. I take care to hit every key exactly, the correct word is there, I hit space, boom replaced with a completely different word. On the watch it seems to replace almost every word with bullshit, not just technical terms.
Every now and then there’s a comment on HN that either ruins my weekend or my budget. Yours does both. I have to get both types of devices now to play around with.
I didn't live through the era but I did watch that "Icons" documentary detailing the crash. They had people from Activision stating that the issue was really that they initially ignored the avalanche of companies coming in and releasing garbage and just brushed it off. What caught them off guard was that all those companies going out of business and dumping their unsold product into the clearance channel for dollars per cartridge meanwhile good developers are still coming out with premium games and trying to sell them at top prices. It was very hard to survive this.

[1]:https://youtu.be/RuHbRPoOEEA?t=783

Rewatching this documentary they also talked about how it took them time to realize that you need to update the hardware and they dragged their feet on this before finally relenting. Looking at what ended up coming out (Atari 5200, 7800, Jaguar) its clear that they suffered the same nonsense that many American companies tend to end up as: A bunch of idiots parachute in from elite business schools who know nothing of the business and know better than the people on the ground. They manage to eventually destroy whatever advantage/good will they had. Why does this happen so much in the US?

I am left wondering if the execs at Atari even played video games?
So you don't think there's anything new to be said about this article, by anyone?

We're deluding ourselves if we think we're finding new ideas on what amounts to a faded techbro subreddit. Much of the discussion in tech happens in circles until we start talking about concrete code.
My suspicion has been that the well-publicized removal of many servers that used to be part of Twitter's infra had a negative performance impact, and the series of changes to how anonymous users and/or tweet embeds worked are a band-aid on that.

For an anonymous viewer, they still don't show you the rest of a thread a tweet is in, or even any indication of the fact that there is a thread that you're not seeing. This doesn't even make sense as a nudge to join Twitter, so load reduction feels like the most likely reason to me.
> (Signal, Matrix, WhatsApp, iMessage);

None of which are anywhere close to as ubiquitous as email. None of which are well suited to long messages. Only one of those (matrix) is federated. Only one (matrix) wasn't designed specifically for use on mobile devices. Yes, the others can be used on a desktop, but the experience isn't great.
That's almost how it was back then, one episode per week. ;) I haven't done a complete rewatch but from time to time I just watch some of my favorite episodes like, "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas", "Field Trip", "Quagmire" to just name a few of them.
I remember watching it and I was pretty impressed, but as I was walking around thinking to myself I came to the conclusion that there was something fishy about the demo. I didn't know exactly what they fudged, but it was far too polished to explain how well their current AI demos preform.

I'm not saying there have been no improvements in AI. There is and this includes Google. But the reason why ChatGPT has really taken over the world is that the demo is in your own hands and it does quite well there.
> query it for a specific email address to get the public key for that

This is actually possible for OpenPGP, with WKD ("Web Key Directory"): https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-koch-openpgp-web...

It's an expired draft, but is relatively widely supported: https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD#Implementations
With these new transformer-based vector models, like Adobe's (https://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/text-to-vector-gr...), generating SVG will become easier than ever.
"No one wanted to go to Microsoft." This person called the company "the biggest and slowest" of all the major tech companies — the exact opposite of how OpenAI employees see their startup.

Lol. I was wondering about this...
As one of the first people in my friend group to start playing Doom and Heretic using a mouse, I hear ya.

My friends could always tell when I was essentially just letting them kill me so that the fun could otherwise continue. Wound up playing way less PC games with them than N64/Genesis/Snes.
Bring us some fresh wine, the freshest you've got!
Or the Galileo Satellite project
> That's why the WoT and strong set were important (before they violently collapsed, revealing that they weren't load bearing after all).

I hadn't heard they violently collapsed; do you have any links where I can learn more about this?
they didn’t want to leave because of OpenAI’s great compensation packages ($300k+)

I do think it is a little unfair to characterize MSFT as “slow and boring” when they’ve been the ones to make the fastest pivot to supporting generative AI as a product line
I value free hotel breakfasts at zero for this reason, or whatever the contents of the sealed food items. I prefer Embassy Suites though, where I can see them crack eggs.
Just an error in the link, here's the corrected version: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...
My understanding is that this project has been around for at least 3 years (going by reddit posts). Are there any tangible accomplishments that anyone can point to?

For instance, I googled "OriginTrail is enabling frictionless international trade for over 40% of US imports by fostering secure exchange of security audits" and found it repeated, verbatim, in a PR news wire and some crypto forums, but nothing else.
> Nobody really knows what the designers were thinking, which I do not mean as sarcasm, I mean it straight. History lost that information.

My understanding of QWERTY layout is that it was designed so that characters frequently used in succession should not be able to be typed in rapid succession, so that typewriter hammers had less chance of colliding. Or is this an urban myth?
1:1 Nat is a great solution... except in cases where IP Addresses of peers are transmitted as part of the protocol, like in Gossip structures or (Not that anyone should be using this!) FTP. Most games do this, though explicitly to get around NAT so they understand which packets are coming from where.

Honestly, in none of my use-cases will it matter - I can't see myself running a gossip protocol across servers that I do and don't control.
Everyone already knew that. It was just to get sam on the board with as little chaos as possible.
The images came from this database: https://sipi.usc.edu/database/

Of Pirate, Cameraman and Peppers, only Peppers seems to remain:

https://sipi.usc.edu/database/database.php?volume=misc&image...

Or I'm being thick.

(Edited to add: Mandrill is still there, but the paper doesn't recommend it.)
Conservatives are anti-taxation and pro self-reliance, the only groups who are geting their taxes increased are the Labour voting public sector workers who love a sytm of taxation because it has benefitted them and put them up the ladder.
You have to be taught to use the home row because the natural inclination for most people is to peck and hunt with their two index fingers. Watch how old people or young kids type. That being said staying on the home row is how you type fast and make the most of the layout. Everything is comfortably reachable for the most part unless you are a windows user ime.
I was fooled. The model release announcement said it could accept video and audio multi-modal input. I understood that there was a lot of editing and cutting, but I really believed I was looking at an example of video and audio input. I was completely impressed since it’s quite a leap to go from text and still images to “eyes and ears.” There’s even the segment where instruments are drown and music was generated. I thought I was looking at a model that could generate music based on language prompts, as we have seen specialized models do.

This was all fake. You are taking a collection of cherry picked prompt engineered examples, then dramatizing them for maximum shareholder hype. The music example was just outputting a description of a song, not the generated music we heard in the video.

It’s one thing to release a hype video with what-ifs and quite another to claim that your new multi-modal model is king of the hill then game all the benchmarks and fake all the demos.

Google seems to be in an evil phase. OpenAI and MS must be quite pleased with themselves.
Google 'the thing' and tell me that you could have predicted what it was and how it worked. Hardware is finicky in that way: you look at one thing it can be quite another.