skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dealers aren't called Stealerships for nothing. My friend had a rat chew through a fuel injector wire. Dealer quoted $8000 for a new wire harness. My friend said there's no way he can pay that. They said "don't worry, file it with your insurance and it'll be covered since an outside action did it" with a smile.

My friend has a $1k deductible, and doesn't like filing claims he doesn't need to.

He and I soldered the wires back together and protected them. Took us about 30 minutes. Been 4 years since.

Why can't the dealer offer a professional version of that at $200 an hour for 1 hour? Because they'd prefer to sell 40 hours of wire harness replacement.
It can be defended against. The detail is that the only way to harden those defenses is to toss it out in the world and let folks poke holes in it.

This was an extremely complex exploit. It was complex because of all of the defenses put in place by Apple and others. It required State level resources to pull it off.

We also don't know what, if any, external skullduggery was involved in the exploit. Did someone penetrate Apple/ARM and get internal documentation? Compromise an employee? Did Apple/ARM participate? Maybe they just dissolved a CPU cover, and reverse engineered it.

But, that cat is not out of the bag, and it's been patched.

Progress.

As many folks say, when it comes to dealing with security, consider the threat model. Being under the lens of an advanced State is different from keeping your young brother out of your WoW account.

This exploit wasn't done by a bunch of scammers selling "PC Support". That's the good news.

When stuff like this happens, I always go back to Stuxnet, where not only did they breach an air gap, they went in and did a sneak and peek into some other company to get the private signing keys so that their corrupted payload was trusted. There's a difference between an intelligence operation and a "hack".

Making stuff like this very expensive is part of the defensive posture of the platform.
To get to a retrial you'd need the case (or a part of it) thrown out, in which case the ban should definitely be invalidated until the new trial happens.

Generally an appeal like this is just a short pause while they work out whether there's more that needs to be done in the case, and so it hurts less to stop the ban for a few days while that's happening. Then if it actually goes up to an appeals court for more expensive lawyer-work the issue would indeed still be undecided and the pause should continue. For a company that's not a behemoth like Apple you could certainly imagine a poorly-decided import ban causing them to run out of money to fight it, after all.
How would you ensure things like industrial farms use a more expensive multi-antibiotic approach instead of a cheaper single-antibiotic one without effective regulation?
Mostly you still have to use their tools, Chisel just compiles to Verilog and then you use their tools for the rest of the process.

There are open source tools based on reverse engineering the bitstream for some smaller FPGAs like the Lattice family, some preliminary work on Xilinx, and one vendor actually supporting the open source toolchain (QuickLogic), but for anything serious on the major FPGA platforms, you still need to use the vendor toolchain.
If it's okay when I've first listened to it in 2023 (if I enjoy a podcast, I listen to the series' previous episodes, so most of my listening is from the last few years, similar to how I don't only read books that were written this year..), provided it's still accurate/contemporary, then these are my recommendations:

English: Lingthusiasm 34: Emoji are Gesture Because Internet (can emojis be used as a language? They discuss what makes a language a language, and why sign languages are languages but "gestures" in general are not and what similarities emojis show from the latter category)

German: AstroGeo episodes "Asteroseismologie" (starquakes) and "Der Atomreaktor Oklo" (a natural nuclear reactor)

Dutch: Napleiten #16: "Stomdronken een ongeluk veroorzaken maar toch onschuldig" (legally causing a vehicle accident on public roads despite being drunk AF)
+1 on Palmer Luckey and Jeff Bezos.

I listened to Palmer Luckey on Moonshot with Peter Diamandis, but I'm guessing they discussed many of the same things (VR Origins, Anduril, Meta).

It seems like we have similar interests. I'll have to check out the Charlie Munger episode.
Their legalese is careful to include the 'if any' qualifier ("We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output.")

In any case, the point is that they made no claim to Output (as opposed to their code, etc) being their IP.
We're not "giving them the same rights as people", we're trying to define the rights of the set of "intelligent" things that can learn (regardless of if their conscious or not). And up until recently, people were the only members of that set.

Now there are (or very, very soon there will be) two members in that set. How do we properly define the rules for members of that set?

If something can learn from reading do ban it from reading copyrighted material, even if it can memorize some of it? Clearly that would be a failure for humans a ban of that form. Should we have that ban for all things that can learn?

There is a reasonable argument that if you want things to learn they have to learn on a wide variety, and on our best works (which are often copyrighted).

And the statements above have no implication of being free of cost (or not), just that I think blocking "learning programs / LLMs" from being able to access, learn from or reproduce copyright text is a net loss for society.
> Exercise will not produce cognitive function. Lack of exercise will contribute to its decline, but you have to use your brain to train your brain. People don't exercise to get smarter.

There are numerous studies that contradict your statement. Here's the first of many that came up for me in Google. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6684954/

That's leaving aside the common sense observation of a healthy mind in a healthy body, which dates back at least to the Romans.
Genes encode a ton of behaviors, you can't just ignore that. Tabula rasa doesn't exist among humans.

> If you go back to the beginning of our experiences, there is little identity, consciousness, or ability to reason.

That is because babies brains aren't properly developed. There is nothing preventing a fully conscious being from being born, you see that among animals etc. A newborn foal is a fully functional animal for example. Genes encode the ability to move around, identify objects, follow other beings, collision avoidance etc.
If an expert system is not reasoning, and a statistical apparatus like an LLM is not reasoning, then I think the only definition that remains is the rather antiquated one which defines reason as that capability which makes humans unique and separates us from animals.

I don't think it's likely to be a helpful one in this case.
Which is what lockdown mode already does
I find the "Usage relative" and "Date relative" tabs on caniuse.com to be very useful for this: https://caniuse.com/?search=color-mix
To broaden the question; is it proven that sea air is healthier? The top search results point in both directions.
The problem is not the form factors or the depth of the tooling. I'm not even going into different form factors.

The major issue here is how the default experience is unpredictable and messy, and restoring/kickstarting a proper development environment takes hours/days instead of minutes, and it breaks quite often if you're

What I would like is predictable builds and isolation. Packaged, versioned and rollback-able development dependencies, like we have with backend/frontend web tools.

Things like Cordova's CLI and Unity's Build Server help halfway with this, but there's more work to be done even with those tools.

What I'm suggesting is that some company could step up and handles this, plus things like CIs, deployment bureaucracy, instant demos of web apps on phones, etc, like someone mentioned above that Expo does for React Native.
A government which can't regulate effectively can't be trusted with a monopoly.

If only the world were as simple. But it isn't, and everyone knows that those with power (in general, governments) will never be regulated effectively enough for everyone - but that doesn't make them never to be trusted with monopoly, nor does it mean that the government's monopoly is bad.

Sorry, I don't really want private militaries nor private tax collection. I'm happy the government runs things like IDs and drivers licenses. In fact, various department of motor vehicles (or whatever your local thing is called) is an excellent example of how a monopoly can be a good or bad experience. I'm originally from Indiana and the motor vehicle folks are great there and the service is easy to use - by design - but it isn't like that everywhere in the US. This has nothing really to do with how "effective" their regulation is.

I'm not sure actual monopolies are better - are you really satisfied with your electricity provider or ISP?
Eiffel Tower closes as staff strikes, union says landmark "headed for disaster"
I bet there are lots of small time inventors that lack the capital to setup a worldwide manufacturing and distribution infrastructure right off the bat that may disagree with you.
When I took enough time to look at the picture of the old map, then read the paragraph, and refer back to the map, then I could see it. But, yeah, it becomes readily apparent once you go to the map app of your choice and look at 42nd and Lexington to find the east side of the Chrysler building.

Were the author to superimpose the Chrysler building plot on top of that old map, it would have been much more clear, IMO.
Thank you for explaining it. Whose theory is that? Is there a name for it? A prominent author?

I also wonder how that claim is made to fit the evidence: It seems very hard to claim that our lives and abilities haven't improved generally and significantly over the 7 million years since we divorced the chimpanzee taxa, though certainly there have been many years and millenia where we went backward for a short time (short relative to 7 million years - of course it's not always linear improvement, but that's a strawperson).

Also, is the theory part of the modern political attempt to reject the Enlightenment and anything associated with it? (Edit: I'm not trying to discuss that movement, just understand the context of these claims.)

> parallel, diverse evolution, sometimes with independent discovery of the same thing

Does anyone say otherwise? It seems unavoidable that, without modern global communication, many/all discoveries would be too isolated to be known globally.

> retrograde motion

Temporarily? Again, who says otherwise?
I know utilitarianism is a popular moral theory in hacker circles, but is it really appropriate to dispense with any other notion of justice?

I don’t mean to go off on too deep of a tangent, but if one person’s (or even many people’s) idea of what’s good for humanity is the only consideration for what’s just, it seems clear that the result would be complete chaos.

As it stands, it doesn’t seem to be an “either or” choice. Tech companies have a lot of money. It seems to me that an agreement that’s fundamentally sustainable and fits shared notions of fairness would probably involve some degree of payment. The alternative would be that these resources become inaccessible for LLM training, because they would need to put up a wall or they would go out of business.
The Mozilla Developer Network.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_c...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_nesting...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@scope
Vett Abstractions
Wireless devices go through an FCC certification process that publishes teardowns. And iFixit posts.
That is why vaccines need FDA approval in the first place.

Everything else you said is true for all kinds of appeal and not just for vaccines. There are horror stories about everything and lawyers not wanting to take things up without upfront payment. But that does not stop those things. Marriage and divorce, child custody, DUI cases, police excess, companies overcharging for things, DMCA being used incorrectly, tech companies having too much power etc. are all problematic and very expensive to appeal. But we live with those. Similarly, there are trade-offs here.
There is a technical difference though- the current RCS standard doesn’t have end to end encryption.
Do you know how this is possible? Would decapping the SoC or taking an xray of it provide a physical map of the registers?
Treating computers like humans in this one particular way is very appropriate. It is the only way that LLM can synthesize a worldview when their training data is many thousands of times larger than their number of parameters. Imagine scaling up the total data by another factor of 1million in a few years. There is no current technology to store that info but we can easily train large neural nets that can recreate the essence of it, just like we traditionally trained humans to recall ideas.
My understanding is that in general there no need for supplements with a normal, balanced diet, especially with eggs, dairy products, grains, and others if iodine is naturally present in the environment.

So if Switzerland imports a lot of those, raw, or in prepared/processed food, or even the animal feed for its hens and cows the Swiss today probably already get much more iodine in their diet than 100 years ago.
However this one seems to have been coordinated with Apple. A nonprofit nonaligned independently managed project could be more immune to pressures of the national security apparatus. I think it is incredibly naïve to think that the largest US corporation does not cooperate. This is why I keep donating to GrapheneOS.
They certainly can do that (as well as build it themselves). Linux distros all offer builds, for example.

I've tried to build a community where supporting the continuous full time development of the software is seen as a social good, and thus worth participating in even if the software itself is available at no charge. Most of our income comes from "subscriptions" which have nothing to do with the licensing-style arrangements seen today, but are merely a recurring payment agreement that gives us a consistent income, allowing us to avoid endless "got to make a new release" mania.
This conversation goes the extra mile in terms of mental gymnastics in order to justify a code violation and a legal liability. This is past the point of preferences or removing possibly offensive elements to end up with a souless society. It's not unreasonable to supervise your dog in a public place, period. This is not a preference thing, this is a legal liability thing.

It's hilarious, really, to draw a parallel between this and generally 'offensive' stuff. Nobody is 'offended' by a lose dog. I see way more people being offended by other people pushing back against the current dog culture by just asking folks to obey social norms and even laws and regulations (just watch downvotes - or the equivalent - pouring in pretty much any online community when you say something even remotely critical). I mean just look at this thread. OP just said it's rude to bring a pet into a public space and not supervise it and got philosophical-level pushback trying to convince everyone that being polite may lead us to a sterile souless society. I'm not sure who feels more offended here.

And this is going to get worse as modern society is using pets as a pacifier against the loneliness crisis we're all facing.
And yet not being a mind reader I won't know what your reason is until you tell me. You're not obliged to tell me what that reason is, of course, but so long as you don't say what that reason is, you fail to rule out the possibility that you don't actually have a reason.
The native android TV app is very bad. I just launch the app on my phone/tablet and cast it to my TV/Chromecast. I did not see any ads when I was casting. I am not entirely sure how things are on the apple side of the ecosystem.
Linux isn't quite right either, but certainly a big improvement
Automaker halts Japan production/admits tampering with safety tests for 30 years
Edit: My C preference and iostream hatred is showing again, because I answered a question that was mostly about C++ iostreams with results based around C stdio (I think iostream is possibly the worst standard IO API in existence for a popular language, so when using C++, I recommend using something custom calling out to OS syscalls or C stdio). I could easily be wrong about C++ iostreams, so the most relevant half of my original post is highly suspect. I'll test it out later, but my C stdio answer is as-is below.

I've tested that I'm correct on glibc, where the behavior is documented here: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Buffering...

I can't remember using an alternative platform that behaves differently.

A better test than the one you ran is to look at the resulting syscalls from a loop of `fputs("a line of output.\n", stdout);`, vs. `fputs("a bit of output. ", stdout);`. Buffering accumulates strings in memory before an eventual write syscall, so looking at syscalls is an easy way to see the difference: a write per-'\n' means line buffering.

Compare the syscalls of both using strace. I did so, and when stdout is to the terminal, I see lots of calls to `write(1, "a line of output\n", 17)` compared to `write(1, "a bit of output. a bit of output"..., 1024)`. (To confirm, manually insert an `fflush(stdout);` in the "a bit of output. " version, and you'll see lots of `write(1, "a bit of output. ", 17)`)

Then compare both when redirecting stdout to a file, and you'll see both cases make large write-s of 4KB. Only adding explicit fflush-es will make either version go back to small write-s of 17B.

Compiled the trivial test programs with `cc -O2 ./main.c -o ./main`
That's fucking terrible.
> 1) the travails of those who buy android aren’t my concern as an iPhone owner

I'd argue they are, if you think you're texting someone and they aren't actually receiving those texts.
People work much harder when they have job security fears.
Maybe they should just RTFA
> I hear ya, but I still don't buy it.

One of my relatives was a learning styles proponent back in the 1980s and talked about it quite a bit. In my mind it feels like the conversation has moved from "here is a tool for you to consider" to "we have scientifically proven that you don't need to create lesson plans for each of The Five Formal Styles".

It feels like we might be missing the thread if we're able to talk about "debunking" a point of view.
> we're so far in uncharted territory any speculation is useless

I definitely agree with that (at least the "far in uncharted territory bit", but as far as "speculation being useless", we're all pretty much just analyzing/guessing/shooting the shit here, so I'm not sure "usefulness" is the right barometer), which is why I'm looking forward to this case, and I also totally agree the assessment is flexible.

But I don't think your argument that it doesn't negatively affect the market holds water. Courts have held in the past that the market for impact is pretty broadly defined, e.g.

> For example, in one case an artist used a copyrighted photograph without permission as the basis for wood sculptures, copying all elements of the photo. The artist earned several hundred thousand dollars selling the sculptures. When the photographer sued, the artist claimed his sculptures were a fair use because the photographer would never have considered making sculptures. The court disagreed, stating that it did not matter whether the photographer had considered making sculptures; what mattered was that a potential market for sculptures of the photograph existed. (Rogers v. Koons, 960 F.2d 301 (2d Cir. 1992).)

From https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
My understanding is that this lawsuit is about the training corpus. This is on the level of asking it to cite its sources for a/an/the.
Please recall how much the world changed in just the last year. What would be your expected timescale for the solution of this particular problem and why is it more important than instilling models with the ability to logically plan and answer correctly?
Sizing Up the Worst Healthcare Hacks of 2023
Lovely. Thanks for posting that.

With all our popular narratives about the inevitability of scientific progress, it's always refreshing (from a historical point of view) and important (from a personal, ethical perspective) to remember that there's no guarantee that chronologically later developments will necessarily be improvements on earlier conclusions.

It brings to mind our current replication crises in science.
Because people will delete and create new modes as they iterate so those hash links become stale. So while the person who replied to you is technically correct, effectively it is still very unstable.
> Better than medicine, agriculture, electrification, or music?

Shoulders of giants.

Thanks to the existence of medicine, agriculture, and electrification (we can argue about music), some people are now healthy, well fed, and sufficiently supplied with enough electricity to go make LLMs.

> I hope the NYT is compensated for the theft of their IP and hopefully more lawsuits follow.

Personally I think all these "theft of IP" lawsuits are (mostly) destined to fail. Not because I'm on a particular side per-se (though I am), but because it's trying to fit a square law into a round hole.

This is going to be a job for legislature sooner or later.
Prime started adding the pay/subscription rows to the UI some time ago - they used to have a filter button "free to me" - but since they ramped up the number of paid rows - they removed the free to me button and have more pay rows than free ones these days.

Its a fucking joke. Netflix, while not having ads has the worst UX for finding genres, movies - cant sort, cant change view modes, cant favorite or easily recommend - they removed the downvotes, then they added them back in.

I asked a friend who is an engineering mgr at netflix some time ago about the UX - he told me the shitty UX on netflix is intentional to hide the poor quality of their content library.

And that was a few years ago - its never gotten better.

Streaming was great until MckInsey and the MBAs hit the market.
Drawing and painting

Tango

Spanish

:)
Brain as a Zoom Lens
> For example, click on anything on the canvas and you'll observe the URL change.

I think this might be the problem. The URL doesn't change as you move around, so folks just copy the URL at the point in time of whatever they're staring at, and end up sharing whatever area was previously focused / clicked on,
I would recommend reading the actual paper, and not the press release. The main novelty here and what the paper is about is their method, not the discovery of the antibiotic.
IMO, the SSPL solves this. If you only use/develop FOSS stuff as RMS intended, you can use SSPL without an issue. Don't use or develop FOSS everywhere? Pay for a separate license. It's unfortunate that OSI and friends are OK with the AGPL but not the SSPL, and IMO shows that they think the status quo is OK when clearly it's sustainable for FOSS creators.
What if LLMs are hot air balloons of flight, or kites of flight? Kites and hot air balloons didn't really lead to getting to the moon, they are a very different tangent.
Ceftaroline

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20334458/

Discovered about at the same time or later. Also works against MRSA.