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Beeper's esoteric fix for iMessage access suggests why it's pushing politically
One of my first jobs in the early 90's was to write a device driver for a floppy disk drive in an embedded system. There was the drive itself, the floppy disk controller chip, and the direct memory access (DMA) chip. I only had the specs for the latter two in English.

Analysing the circuits, I saw the controller chip was wired such that use of the DMA chip was software configurable, so I thought beaut, I'll write and test the first iteration without DMA, then add and test that after.

Couldn't get it working. Scratched my head for a while until, while discussing it with one of the hardware engineers, was told that while the controller chip had been wired software configurable, the floppy drive itself was hard-wired to use DMA. If only I had the spec for that I would have figured it out!

So added usage of the DMA chip… success!
You know I thought you were right but apparently for that day sunset was 6:30PM.

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-francisco?month=10
This is true, but even with all that taken into account taxes on the very wealthy are lower now than they were then.
Would be better if it worked against ultrasound, xray, or other focusable beams that can pass through flesh.
A couple of things to add:

Having watched the planes land at SFO at night provides an additional context. There are often two long streams of planes, like a spaced necklace, coming in to land. They look far apart when flying but then you notice just have fast another one comes.

And to those who fault the traffic controller - it is on the controller if something bad happens. Politeness, even a charge of grumpiness goes out the window in the face of that responsibility. Period. IMHO.
Big companies—and even established mid-sized companies—have the room and the motivation to hire people for long-term considerations. At that scale, some low % chance that a new hire will not do anything immediately is just part of the cost of doing business. If you're big enough that you can amortize costs like that, it's really not a big deal: if 1% of people took a whole year to get started and needed to be paid 300k, that's only $3k/employee, which is far, far lower than other up-front costs involved in hiring. $3k/employee/year is not a major cost for a benefit that people really value.
I'm in the same boat as many -- not particularly excited by the idea of a new terminal, but curious enough to take a look and (unusually) a smidge interested after seeing the website. Well done, you've got further with me than most "reinvent the terminal" projects :).

Issue 88 is a blocker, though, I'm afraid. I may be monolingual, but I still need to be able to use "international" characters.

In the interests of being interested, I did install the cask and I have some feedback :P.

I have four symbols printed on my (Macbook Pro, UK) keyboard that don't render in the output: "±§€£". Curiously, they do render in the input.

My profile files are apparently too big for Wave to process. So I ssh'd to another machine and was slightly disconcerted to see it installing software on first connection? Not something I expected, I'm afraid.

In conclusion: I can't use it, and I'm not sure I want to if it's going to automatically install software on other machines.
> Whether those numbers are true

Wow, hold on cowboy. If you’re going to insinuate stuff, you better come packing with some sources.

> malware on Android can generally do a lot less damage than on other systems (first of all because Android is not used for servers and workstations).

I suppose that depends on your definition of damage.

Considering most of the trojanized apps consist of banking apps that subsequently drain their victims’ accounts, I’d say that’s pretty damaging.
It amazes me how people pick and choose when they want us to be “dumb animals“. And it amazes me that someone on hacker news would say this. Even dumb animals are more communal and fair than modern humans are.
thanks, i’ve wanted someone to build something very similar to this for a while!
This is a nitpick, but I learned something.

I've always thought "Capital" referred to assets, whereas "Capitol" referred to government. And it irked me that the headline used the wrong version, as I thought D.C. was the nation's "Capitol".

Turns out, I was wrong. "Capital" is correct to refer to D.C., whereas "Capitol" is correct to refer to the building that houses the legislative body, but not to the body or event the city itself.
Every company I've been involved in had some full-time DevOps people wrangling YAML files. I'm not buying the argument that cloud providers reduce manpower demands. PaaS sure, but not cloud.
Driving south on a clear night on Highway 101, from SFO on down, is a neat experience because you can see these planes lined up clearly for about 20 miles. All the way down to the South Bay and beyond.
YES!! but for me its not actually the full the song, just my voice singing a line or two, and it feels like sometimes i cant even control it it's just happening at the back of my mind
One bit:
> However, I don’t know why the lower edge of the sprite is bent that way. For the perspective it wouldn’t be necessary (below is a 3Ds Max scene to show that the horizontal lines are straight if the camera isn’t rotated around its front axis):

I think (think!) this is necessary to simulate a vanishing point "below" the ground for vertically-oriented sprites. If the three pikes rotate out at the top, the bottom has to rotate a bit with it. A skew transform wouldn't look right.

The 3dmax scene didn't show much of it b/c it was straight-on with the viewport and with square textures a skew looks ok.

In the moving example, the three stakes would indeed spread out w.r.t. the eye position in real-ish life as you got closer. The 3dmax render does not illustrate this well.
What's the hot stack for self-hosting headless blog stuff now? Been out of the loop since I started reading about jamstack. Hugo? Gatsby? Is Jekyll still a player here?
While I understand what you are trying to say with your analogy I think it shows a misunderstanding of how they work. If you meant a very good autocomplete then yes that's exactly what they are. However, predicting the next word in an autocomplete can be naive or rather involved.

> not really useful for anything other than a VERY good spell checker.

Try GitHub code pilot. Try asking it to summarize something you know nothing about and then tell it that you need the explanation to be more simple several times. How can you compare this to a spell checker?
Misinformation has not harmed people. Stupid people have believed stupid things at face value and acted on that information.

Information cannot harm. Only inform. For better or for worse. If you are too stupid and get duped by incorrect information, that's on you. No one else.
Hard to say whether economically a PhD always makes sense, but it certainly can open doors that are otherwise firmly closed.
How would this type of attack work on an android that is locked to play store?

I guess you could use a web phishing page, but you couldn’t remote access their device. Maybe you could get a malicious data capture app into the play store that simply collects data, but it would eventually get banned
I think the FAA leadership is ultimately in the wrong for allowing their area of responsibility to deteriorate to the point where a controller and a pilot were put in this situation.

They have a controller shortage that they are not doing enough to fix, and they have a troublesome airport with limited capacity to accommodate traffic, that they are being too bureaucratic about fixing. The controllers at SFO have used a number of tools to address the handicap, but the FAA recently put a lid on that by forbidding side-by-side IFR/VFR approaches while also failing to authorize custom precision landing procedures like SOIA.

The request for ILS is entirely reasonable in this context, and the decision to hold the flight out of the sequence is also reasonable in the context, but to hold the flight with no updates for half an hour is not reasonable and to require it to divert is not reasonable either. The FAA should be held responsible for planning things better than this.
I wonder if Tim could get my stolen Apple ID back? A thief took my phone after watching me enter my passcode, so they were able to change the “trusted phone number” and lock me out. There’s a new feature in iOS 17.3 to prevent this but it wasn’t available at the time.

Several calls to Apple Support explaining the situation and offering to provide any form of identification they’d like hasn’t helped; their policy is that the phone number is the key piece to verify your identity, even more so than the email for the Apple ID.

I lost a couple hundred in purchased apps, but losing years’ of photos was the worst. I had apparently selected an option to keep the full-res images in iCloud, so my backups only contained thumbnails. Lots of lessons learned, but such a frustrating experience.
Dropover
Different kinds of 'investment'. You're correct that if they can't turn a profit, they won't build. Same as with cars or bicycles or any other good. But that's not a long term thing - they want to sell the goods they have produced, turn their profit, and move on to the next project.

What people who buy homes are told, though, is to essentially 'buy and hold' because it's a "good investment" that will gain value over time, even if they are not building anything or adding any value to the dwelling they inhabit.

Where I live, during the recent runup in prices, the median home gained something like $100,000 of value in a year, which is significantly more than the median household income.
such a bizarre world Apple lives in
While we're on the topic, let's not forget foreign investors. Most of the properties in my neighborhood were purchased by foreign investors. My block in particular has at least 4 houses that are owned by asian investors. I've met the families who live-in and rent those houses. The property management company also runs the HOA and votes by proxy for those investors, investors who don't care about the daily goings-on of the community.

If we're going to use statistics for anything, let's look at it in the affirmative instead. How many homes are owned by the family living in them? The most recent data for Florida is for 2015-2019. Here are the owner-occupied housing for the most populated counties, starting with the one I live in.

Hillsborough County - 58.6%
Miami-Dade County - 51.2%
Orange County - 55.4%
Broward County - 62.1%
Palm Beach County - 68.9%
Duval County - 56.7%
Pinellas County - 67%

The National Average is 64.8%. In my county nearly half of the housing is not owner-occupied. As a nation, nearly a 3rd of available housing is not owner-occupied. I bet this is worse now, as this information is pre-pandemic and from the very beginning of the most recent housing rush.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/note/US/HSG445222#:~:....
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/HSG445222
https://www.florida-demographics.com/counties_by_population
https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/ac...

Edit to add some relevant information:
https://cdn.nar.realtor//sites/default/files/documents/2023-...
You can roll your own or use a utility library. A simple zero-dependency library would be something like just-* [1]. Although I now prefer remeda [2] as it seems to have the best typescript support, especially the strict variants such as `groupBy.strict`.

[1] https://github.com/angus-c/just#just-group-by

[2] https://remedajs.com/docs#groupBy
Mistral 7B is very good, definitely way better than such confusion.
And nothing ever went wrong with that in the history of mankind, right?
It sounds like you’ve found it already but th original pYin implementation is in the VAMP plugin. Simon Dixon is my PhD supervisor but he’s quite busy. Feel free to email me questions in my the meantime. j.x.riley@ the same university as Simon. There’s also a Python implementation in the librosa library which might have a better license for your purposes.
I think the real issue is they promised 10 minutes max then once 15 minutes elapsed and the pilot complained, tower told the pilot to GTFO. It just feels wrong.
I don't live in your city but in my city we just got finished pushing a project approval through a 7-year political process. The project will build 1000 new apartments on the parking lot of an existing subway station. Most of the new apartments will be deed-restricted affordable housing. At the most recent and final hearing there were still Boomers showing up to demand the project be scrapped because they prefer free parking.
> If anything, this is an example of money influencing politics since the people who have been paying those taxes for Medicare are more likely to donate to politicians than people who require Medicaid.

That is what I wrote, the elderly have more political power.

The same legislature that allocates society’s resources towards healthcare for people age 65+ also chooses to allocate less resources to people who happen to be poor (or have poor parents).

The Additional Medicare Tax is another lovely reminder of how society’s resources, because funnily enough, even though it has been widely known Medicaid does not even pay enough to keep the lights on, there is no Additional Medicaid Tax.
Meh if you're old enough to be online by yourself you're old enough to see some titties.

The puritan approach to sex in America is ridiculous.
In Menlo Park, you have to pay something like $50/yr to get a key to the courts. The key price is higher if you live outside the city limits, in unincorporated Menlo Park (I assume because you're not paying city taxes). Fortunately there are unlocked courts in Palo Alto.
I like the idea of this, but I imagine at some point, this will be leveraged by aggressive drivers who know they can behave forcefully to get their way around the road. Thinking specifically of freeway merges, lane changing and passing.
The other side of this coin is emulating a floppy drive in software: https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy
It's not punishment. The reason air travel is so safe is because every near-miss is root-caused and policies are put in place to prevent the same cause from resulting in a future accident.
Battle Tanks: The Next Generation – ZX Spectrum Next
Ah ok thanks, did not get that at all.. then more understandable.
This seems the opposite of good.
I use a Google Nest Hub for two weeks now. It has sleep tracking via IR cameras. It promises this is all on-device. I think it is reasonably accurate. Google said it is going to charge 8 euros per month for it starting January 1st. I’ll stop using it then
I am not familiar with that situation, but I think my previous statement could apply in any situation. I'm not picking sides here.

There are ways to discuss sensitive and ideologically divisive topics in an academic and neutral way. The way religion and politics are covered in social studies courses is often a good example of this.

You don't have to pick sides to cover a topic in a neutral manner.
Yeah, I know and that's how I've been using it for the past decade, but it's not that simple. The language keeps changing and this forces adding cruft to the code if one wants to use newer compilers.

For example, there are cases where the existence of move semantics necessitates adding some boilerplate when working with STL containers. There's no functional reason for it, just something to please the compiler.
I think it's a base human nature to find humour in such things.

As the saying goes: "You can grow old, but you don't need to grow up."
> It is not short-term rentals, it is not individuals owning too many houses, it is not rich people moving in to a neighborhood, it is not Chinese money fleeing the PRC, and it is not private equity "commodifying" housing.

It's all those things. Stop looking for a single explanation. That's not how the world works.

> overburdening regulation.

Last two times my country tried to cut out the red tape it ended up costing trillions in fixes, and meant fewer builds in the end. Building regulations are good, there is a reason they exist.
I have done similar work using the GitHub APIs before. I recommend using their GraphQL explorer to develop your queries interactively. You may need to fall back on the REST API instead of the GraphQL one for certain stats.

https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/explorer

You can also refer to my code here, which may already collect some of the statistics you're interested in.

https://github.com/jstrieb/github-stats/blob/master/github_s...

I predict the most annoying part of this project will be dealing with authentication. There are a handful of ways to do it, and the permissions can be finicky depending on what data you are fetching.

Best of luck!
The Words Not Spoken: The crash of Avianca flight 052
Still, if your software is data-center scale, it's better to build your own data center and hire the needed expertise. You have more control of what happens there (desired and undesired), and it's probably going to be cheaper, because you still need most of that expertise to herd your numerous cloud instances.
> As I understand it, C++’s slow compilation comes from the fact that it usually parses all of your header files n times instead of once.

That's one of the things that can slow compilation down but it's definitely not the only one. It helps that precompiled headers (and maybe modules?) can go a long way towards reducing and possibly eliminating these costs as well.

I think some (most?) of the larger remaining costs revolve around template instantiation, especially it impacts link times as well due to the fact that the linker needs to do extra work to eliminate redundant instantiations.
A lot of very sensitive data is on other computers, but they remain useful and safe enough despite allowing software not signed by Google.

Meanwhile, for a lot of people around the world the only affordable computers are smartphones; and if they are so dumbed down, those people are enormously more limited than they'd need to in their capabilities.
> Since there are ~5000 dimensions, in which of those dimensions are we moving k out ?

> Is the idea you just move, out, in all dimensions such that the final Euclidean distance is k ?

If I understand correctly, the basic idea is that in earlier experiments, they were able to use a relatively-simple technique to come up with what they call a "probe vector" in the embedding space which represents "the property of a word starting with <letter>". For any given token, the authors established that it was 98% probable that the token's embedding vector would be closer (by cosine similarity) to the "probe vector" representing the first letter of that word than any other probe vector. This is shown in the first graph of the section "A puzzling discovery".

With that in mind, the diagram below that should start making more sense: "emb" is a particular token's embedding vector and "probe" is the probe vector for the token's first letter. "emb_proj" is the projection of "emb" onto "probe".

What they're doing is tweaking the network weights by subtracting multiples of `emb_proj` from `emb` (where the specific multiple is the parameter K), and then seeing how it behaves differently for different values of K.

Their original observation when doing this was that it reliably caused the model to claim that the first letter of the tweaked word was not the letter in question. In this article, they're trying to figure out how far they can push the tweak and still get reasonably accurate definitions of a token.

What they discovered is that when they push a token's embedding vector further and further out along its "first-letter vector" and ask the network to define that word, the definitions it provides seem to follow particular themes during different regimes of K.
Heh. Years ago I had a call with Comcast's CISO about them setting up a bug bounty program after I informed them about a leak of exposed information (sysadmin's home dir, with ssh keys and more). They told me that if they setup a bug bounty program like that, that they'd effectively go bankrupt. So here we are. Not expecting them to go bankrupt from this, but it's sad to see how their apathy turns into actual harms.
"this" and virtual functions are pretty damn useful too.
I suppose there are no famines either, just starving people unwilling to pay for food.
As far as I understand, I don't think even importing is an issue, unless you are distributing the module too as a combined artifact (e.g. docker image). See e.g. https://github.com/pyFFTW/pyFFTW/issues/229

There's a lot of GPL FUD though from commercial interests though.
You've never needed to change the temperature while driving? Or turn on/off heated seats? Or adjust fan speed? Or turn on recirculating air?
Would love to get any suggestions for what people would like to see rendered inline in the terminal. Things like graphs, audio/video streams, filesystem view (that supports drag&drop from your local machine), graphviz, pdfs. Maybe a graphical way to view a JIRA or Github issue and add a comment? Visual diff? Let me know what you think?
I find the idea of computational irreducibility useful for rescuing a type of free will in a fully determined world. Computationally irreducible programs are perfectly deterministic, yet you can't predict the output before you run them, and nor are there any shortcuts to get there before running them for the first time. The program running in our brains for 'free will' can be computationally irreducible in this way. No-one can say with perfect accuracy what we will choose to do in advance, not even us.

For me, this kind of free will is enough, though it is rather deflationary when compared to some kind of godlike non-causal free will. I think that if we search for non-causal free will, we lose any hope of explanation or understanding: presumably if it's non-causal, then anything can happen, for no reason.
The system is currently very broken. Less laws wouldn’t make this situation better. Either update/adapt, or require specific amendments?
Can you please provide a source for the rent decreasing? Maybe a site showing the historical rental cost(s) for a given unit? I've not seen that happen in my market at all, I've only seen existing rental rates increase.

Edit:
I think I see where a lot of our disconnect is coming from. We have no rent control here, rent very rarely decreases and is mostly pegged to comparative sq.ft. rentals in the area. Age of the property does not factor as much as location.
I have yet to see a large scale hack on services hosted on Linux stacks using basic technologies like SSH. Whenever large companies get hacked and their technology stacks consist entirely of overvalued "security for midwits" enterprise software, I just groan. It irks me that my own information security is orders of magnitude more robust than a company worth many billions.

It is clear to me that security is theater to these companies, and that is why companies that resell TLS tunnels with 2000s technology bolted on like Citrix get away with charging so much. It should be assumed that there was no security to begin with. If you told me in 2 years that a foreign adversary had compromised all American companies since 2012 I would not even blink. It is more or less something I expect to eventually hear.
I'm not saying Adobe competes with Microsoft.

Adobe competes with Figma. The fact that Microsoft doesn't compete with Figma is precisely why it's ok for the former to acquire the latter.
Ive always been very surprised at companies that want in-office but then spread the workforce across a handful of timezones
Festivus (Wikipedia)