skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Idea extraction" is a method of doing market research that is taught/popularized by Dane Maxwell.

Idea extraction doesn't cost a lot of money and in some ways is probably more effective than companies like Bloomberg or Gartner.

Dane first came onto my radar after the product (based on Gartner surveys) my company wasted 144+ man months building failed to garner a single sale. Meanwhile I heard Dane single-handedly built an SaaS with over $50,000 MRR despite lacking any coding skills and being borderline technology-illiterate. (He actually built several of these SaaS's). I had to find out what the difference was...

The goal of market research is to find a pain point people will pay money to solve. You don't need to survey thousands of people to find that pain. Dane actually built https://www.paperlesspipeline.com/ as a solo entreprenuer after a single person told him exactly how it should be built. (He spent months before finding that person and then having the right conversation with them, though.)

After building several profitable companies, Dane tried to codify his method into a process he called "idea extraction."

Dane has discussed his process a lot. I'll share two examples below:

- https://startfromzero.com/

- https://mixergy.com/interviews/dane-maxwell-foundation-inter...
President Samia: Why technology is crucial in justice delivery
Individual initiative, corporate inertia, good bad advice (on caring about work)
Loads of very popular languages don't have formal specifications at all:

* Rust

* Python

* Ruby

* PHP

* TypeScript
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Projections of an ice-free Arctic Ocean
Worse for both, the patient & the loved ones. Even with "blissful ignorance" dementia (in my limited experience) people can very quickly get agitated. Yes, they may calm down quickly too, but it's not always calm.

The problem with dementia isn't just at the "old person chilling in room" state, as I mentioned if it progresses far enough (which is nearly guaranteed if they live long enough) basic bodily functions become difficult. A parallel case of eg paralyzed people (both of whom are unable to swallow properly for different reasons) shows how frequently they can die from something as simple as choking on their own saliva.

> There's a reason we sedate people undergoing most medical operations.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, if you're referring to people waking up but being unable to move being potentially torturous I agree.
How would you know it's warrantless without further time investment? It's likely cheaper and safer to blindly process any subpoena originating from an authoritative source than to request and validate proof of warrant. Of course, it would be even cheaper to never receive such a subpoena in the first place. Securing a ruling against their legality would help with that, but as I said, it's unlikely the ends justify the means for a rational megacorporation.
I'm not a lawyer, but yeah it certainly does seem that way based on how the law is worded. I wonder if Sterlingov's lawyers tried that argument in court.
Even if it was self-motivated, he could with the thought that this is an only solution to make public opinion aware of the Boeing problems.
And undercut what they'd like to use as a huge motivator in people moving to GCP? Not likely. Even if they wanted to they can't keep up with their own internal demand.

Beyond that they might not be as stable or resilient outside of the closely curated confines of their own data-centers. In that case selling them would be more of an embarrassment.
Good point. I've wondered about costs becoming prohibitive. However, I've seen impressive optimization of some models where compute requirements are reduced by orders of magnitude. I'm not sure if these accomplishments will be transferrable to all expensive AI use cases, though.

If we were to pay for the actual costs at this point, I do wonder how many people would consider it worth the expense. But I wonder, how much should ChatGPT cost, for example?
So, by your logic, if someone forgets to lock their door, you should be allowed to walk in and steal everything not bolted down?
> but instead of directly editing your code, it helps you come up with a solid plan before implementing a change.

Is this similar to Devin that just launched today, except that Glide is less autonomous and gives you more control? How do you compare to them?
https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/176754876313496400...
> Instead, workers tend to have higher productivity, which drives higher wages.

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
Yes, bypassing DRM is against the law unless you're doing so for one of the approved reasons. What content you're bypassing DRM to access is unimportant.
There’s also a significant personal risk. The NYPD has been very casual about abusing their powers before and anyone fighting it that hard might find it necessary to leave the city if they didn’t want 100% enforcement targeting them personally.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/14/nyregion/whistle-blower-p...
This gives a whole new meaning to the sentence "My car crashed"
In practice, flash based SSDs basically never do a full read-modify-write cycle to do an in-place update of an entire erase block. They just write the new data elsewhere and keep track of the fragmentation (consequently, sequential reads of data that wasn't written sequentially may not be as fast as sequential reads of data that was written sequentially).

RMW cycles (though not in-place) are common for writes smaller than a NAND page (eg. 16kB) and basically unavoidable for writes smaller than the FTL's 4kB granularity
Congress, don't give away the keys to our encrypted communications
Makes sense, very cool. Thanks!
CSV isn't even restricted to comma as the separator. You can use any character you like (pipe | is a common one) and csvkit will happy still work with a simple CLI flag. Pretty much all Unix tools have a similar flag. I've always been able to find an ASCII character that my data doesn't use, though maybe there are exceptions I haven't hit.
> That is one of the reasons why businesses must have security software monitoring your entire system on macOS, but not on iOS.

Because it is not even possible on iOS, so false sense of security

> On Windows, people literally just give everything they install complete root access to their entire system when installing applications, might as well bring that to iOS too, right?

You have not used Windows for looooong time, otherwise you would know that this is not the case since Windows 7 and not the case at all on Domain (enterprise) Windows since Windows XP

> I can grant anything access to my iCloud Keychain on macOS, do you honestly think iOS users should be able to press a button to allow this if a random app requested it? Do you even think they will know what that means? Now imagine if unsigned applications could access keychain like on macOS. How well do you think that will go down?

Of course, why not. Are iOS user dumber than MacOS users?

> Apple drew the line at consumer safety, and developers hate that they can’t abuse their powers like they do everywhere else.

This has nothing to do with safety, but with users demanding support for their iOS toys, while refusing to acknowledge, that if Apple bans me from App Store for whatever reason, all the money spent on iOS support are now running down the drain.
Tor's new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship
The problem the slides are raising is that the POSIX shell's grammar is ad hoc: despite the POSIX standard containing an LR yacc grammar, it is annotated with English-language rules which violate the LR formalism.

But not being LR-parsed in particular seems like a red herring – if it had been designed to be cleanly LL-parsed, I don't think anyone would be complaining.
Finally something to level the playing field for the little guys... of over 1M annual downloads.
I can see someone whistle-blowing in good faith, realizing they made a mistake and called out the company for something that it wasn't doing or something that wasn't actually a problem, and killing themselves.

I can also see someone whistle-blowing in good faith, getting harassed by ex-coworkers/managers or the court of public opinion, and just getting overwhelmed by the negative attention and feeling bad for the betrayal and killing themselves.

I can't really see a company faking the suicide of someone that already whistleblew and got national attention. That seems like a great way to exacerbate a problem that, if you leave it alone, probably won't be made worse by your leaving it alone. Like, what, a Boeing executive hired an assassin off the dark web with the click of a button to kill someone that already did the thing he was going to do? Executives can make some pretty poor decisions, so I'm not going to say it's impossible, but it would be a pretty wild mistake to make.
Looking at the rules and fees associated with them, it doesn't really seem like Apple made any changes. They "sort of" allow third party app stores, but they're still milking money from them anyway.

Even Nintendo wasn't able to get away with that in the 80s. Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree made unlicensed games by bypassing the lockout chip, and as far as I'm aware, they didn't have to pay Nintendo extra fees on top of that.
Not really. Point still stands. Nothing like a traditional fiat exists today and his point is just wishful speculation.
This space is so compeitive, even if Nvidia is asleep at the wheel a competitor will come and push them before too long. AMD has a history of noticing when their competitors are going soft and rapidly being compeitive.
Scrap bin would allude to using parts that are out of tolerance, time expired, or single use ie regardless of cycles or time on wing, the part is required to be replaced every disassembly.

This can include parts that have been assembled only to be disassembled because an issue was found before it left the shop.
The libcxx & libc++ bugs both just pointed at the Rust CVE as a "this impacts us" - it doesn't seem like anyone bothered to file a CVE because they were too busy just fixing the issue. I don't see any evidence of this being some sort of standard for CVEs, especially since C++ doesn't have a CVE committee at all.
Politics Is Not Leadership
> take away all the devkits Epic uses to test Unreal Engine, demanding they delete the console ports of the engine, and refusing to cert any new games using Unreal Engine, forcing all their partners to license different technology and rebuild their games

I think this is a lil extreme. Even if Epic had some reason to sue the console makers, there are too many high profile and high grossing games (e.g. the next Witcher and Cyberpunk, Hogwarts Legacy, Star Wars Jedi series) for Sony/Microsoft to choose to completely ban Unreal. Imagine too: if one of them announces they will prohibit Unreal games, why won’t the other swallow their pride and become the console-exclusive platform for that title? Not even Apple has banned Unreal, and I can’t think of any big games on their store that use it.
… I don’t know how to respond to this. This is basically epistemic relativism. Yes, we know that scrap bins are for scrap. I am 100% sure that there is never any reason to be pulling stuff from scrap bins ad-hoc in order to avoid having to reorder parts.

As far as your point is “the whistleblowers could be lying, the video investigations could be staged/one-offs, and the ongoing massive increase in safety incidents could be unrelated to the publicly-bragged-about intentionally-done corner cutting”, that’s fair, the jury is still out. Figuratively, ofc, because they aren’t yet facing any real weighty investigations AFAIK, only small ones.

But “maybe the you’re supposed to use parts from scrap bins”? No. Not for fucking airplanes

EDIT: an analogy; is it ever okay to store passwords in plain text? Maybe, if by “plain text” you mean the text that’s encrypted by a normal auth system. But that’s just not how that word is used, and is giving an absurd benefit of the doubt to people who do not deserve it
I sure see a lot of people claim that others do advocate that, but I rarely if ever see anyone actually advocate for that, and if they do, it's not someone who's representing any of the organizations advocating for this issue. It's a "make up a guy to get mad about" kind of situation.
What moat exactly? Much of the user data they have access to is drying up due to new regulations, some of which prohibit IIRC direct use on models as well. I'm not even sure they can use historical data.

Meta certainly has an edge in engineer count, undoubtedly. But I'd say they really, really want the metaverse to succeed more to have their on walled garden (i.e. equivalent power of Apple and Google stores, etc.). There's a reason they gave a hard pass to a Google partnership.
maybe, or maybe not. https://lwn.net/Articles/963608/
You are vastly overselling current generation AI here. It can do some things -- GitHub Copilot has been useful for people to reduce the boilerplate generation, for example -- but in terms of actual programming which 98% of the time is maintenance (fixing bugs, debugging, adding tests, refactoring, adding features) it's performing mostly bad. It's only good at generating code and maybe "understanding" some of it. Prove me wrong with links and the AI equivalent of CodePen (something that's a very glaring omission in the area).

Secondly, bosses try to fire the most expensive programmers ever since expensive programmers became a thing. All the outsourcing to wherever the salaries are much smaller is being attempted even as I type this now, by probably no less than 1000 companies, in this very second. Why hasn't the area in general still gotten rid of their expensive programmers?

Easy -- the outsourced "talent" produces crap that then costs more to fix and repair than if you hired proper programmers in the first place. Of course that requires some forward thinking that's not limited only by the short-sighted "we are about to save money muahahaha" mindset and as we know many businessmen are incapable of looking forward -- hence this mistake is being done 24/7.

It's 99% the same with these AI coding bots.

Wishing cost savings into existence so far hasn't worked.

Will some interns and smart people who coast on much-higher-than-local wages because they wrote some Python to import their boss' Excel spreadsheets and automatically generate other stuff, lose their jobs? Yes, that's very likely.

Will the senior programmer be replaced? It's not a zero chance, surely, and we already saw significant layoffs in most big US companies but (1) most of the world didn't over-hire during COVID and (2) it's unclear if senior devs were fired, or actual redundancies, and (3) well, most of the world isn't the USA.

So again, you are vastly overselling the current generation AI.
The prompt you're talking about is a part of the operating system's security and privacy model, this has nothing to do with the App Store or the DMA. The DMA is not requiring this to be changed.
Sure, the frontier is always messy. Scientists talk about “quarks” and “dark energy” but those are just placeholders for “we kinda get what they do but we have no idea what they actually are.”

100 or 500 years from now, QM and GR will turn out to be approximations, or shadows, of some deeper theory. But that won’t change how insanely accurate their predictions are.

Our understanding of reality isn’t just moving forward, it’s getting asymptotically closer to ground truth. New theories may upend the conceptual framework, but they still just add decimal points — they have to, otherwise they’re worse theories than what we already have.
Would this mean that something like safetynet and the payment api need to allow 3rd party alternatives? That would be very good for the rooting/custom ROM community.
Right, but security bugs don't all come from the language. They also come from logic errors. That's the "window" analogy here. If the language (door) is no longer the way people are getting into your house, then that's job done for addressing the language and you need other tools to focus on other issues that now are the problem.
Ruby is weirder than that: it has an ISO standard, but that standard is 100% irrelevant.
And are you skimming over the part where I said lower orbit would still be cheap?

While not responding to my other comments?
Meta is still playing catch-up. Might be hard to believe but according to Reuters they've been trying to run AI workloads mostly on CPUs until 2022 and they had to pull the plug on the first iteration of their AI chip.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/inside-metas-scramble-cat...
Yep, I'm struggling to find a use outside of computer science where I'm starting to suspect it originated
FB does not have the flywheel of running data centres - all three of those mentioned run hyper scale datacentres that they can then juice by “investing” billions in AI companies who then turn around and put those billions as revenue in the investors

OpenAI takes money from MSFT and buys Azure services

Anthropic takes Amazon money and buys AWS services (as do many robotics etc)

I am fairly sure it’s not illegal but it’s definitely low quality revenue
> What I do find interesting, are those that read it and still don't perceive it at all. Their response is "That is exactly what I want."

I think there's a basically (new movement) religious desire to see a lot of these technologies come to fruition, either radically fundamentalist or lazier and less informed, that interferes with the application of the implications. They believe in the idol of technology, as told in the good news of sci-fi, and avert their eyes from the glaring cracks, blemishes, and lifelessness of it.

I sense a lot of things in those types that I can't fully articulate, but some of the things they say are just mind-boggling, and gesture at a broken and unhinged aspect of software engineering culture.
I’d be curious what would happen with my kids who grew up with pretty much equal levels of Spanish and English at home, although right now, they’re mere bilinguals (my ex-wife as a trilingual (Spanish-English-French), is a bit of a laggard among her family where many speak four or more languages).
> Lawyers don't do this though because the best thing to do for their client is get the NYPD to withdraw

This is where groups like the ACLU come in.
It could be, but with Apple's overseeing has turned into a Damocles sword hanging over everyone. The rules has been ok (and that's why most business didn't care about the 30% fee), but lately the rules has been only in Apple's favor. And with their ubiquity today, it's more rent seeking than curation.
Probably some software written in C++ by one of those "I never write bugs" types followed by a hardware watchdog thankfully catching it and rebooting.

Maybe its time to rethink software safety and verification there of? Safety in software is a bit of a joke. Document the behavior, its safe! Yeah no.
> can I simply "withdraw" the demand once it reaches court?

For the per se dispute, absolutely. That's what you went to court to get.

If your demand caused damages, that's a separate controversy that isn't cured by withdrawal.
> The user has paid for the device and the operating system, the developer has paid for the developer account, so I am really interested to see how Apple justifies that fee in a court of law.

pretty much the same way nintendo or sony or microsoft justify it, I'd think.

it's pretty much exactly the same thing as windows S edition, or a console - you paid for the laptop, the developer paid to get notarization to release it. As Android shows, it is also probably legal to refuse to unlock the bootloader... now you own an "appliance".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/03/windows-1...

And again, consoles have been doing this for two full decades now. PS5 isn't sold at a loss (and I don't think it matters if it is - your business model is not my problem) but I can't go mine crypto or emulate games on a PS5 or Xbox even if that's what I want to do with it as a user.

And I know that consoles got a specific carveout in the DMA "for some reason" (more evidence this is really just a bill of attainder in generic dress) but really there is not a moral difference here, and people have (including here, including the apple haters) have generally convinced themselves that it's OK. It's simple, just do the same thing with apple: "my phone is an appliance and I don't need to emulate games to be happy with it". It's a console in my pocket that makes calls.
If you're distributing your free app through the Apple App Store, no you wouldn't ever pay a core technology fee, even if you had a billion downloads.. it's a fee only for apps distributed by third party app stores.
LIGO/Virgo are better version of Michelson-Morely experiment. Gravitational waves are found, so existence of a medium is confirmed.
That's actually hard for me to answer. I'm afraid to taint it. Honestly, I'd be wary to touch it especially being advice coming from someone already well versed in the domain. It's too easy to accidentally complexify and then you end up losing your target audience. But maybe the connection to VAEs could be made clearer? Maybe a bit clearer or better introducing the topic of optimization? But again, it's a hard line to walk because you've successfully written something that is approachable to a novice. This is the same problem I suffer when trying to teach haha. But I think the fact that you're asking and looking to improve it's the biggest sign you'll continue to do well.

For later topics I think there's a lack on discussions about things like score modeling, the difficulties of understanding latent representations (so many misunderstand the curse of dimensionality), and Schrodinger Bridges. There's so much lol

The better advice I can give is to listen to anyone complaining. It's hard because you have to try to see beyond their words and find their intent (I think this also makes them more digestible and less emotionally draining/hurtful). Especially consider a novice isn't going to have to right words to correctly express their difficulties parsing and it may just come out looking like anger when it's frustration.

Just keep doing your best :)
I'm no expert on character encodings or Unicode itself, but would this be as simple as checking for the byte 1F in the data? Assuming the file is ASCII or UTF-8 encoded (or attempting to confirm this as much as possible as well), it seems like that check would suffice to validate the absence of the code point in the data, but I imagine it's not quite so simple.
All development was offshored to a lowest bidder. Thanks to this, all our critical flight control software is now developed by a single intern aided by Copilot (sic!) We are now looking for a way to optimize the intern away.
Murphy's Law? Or, Follies of a Finite Physicist
Wouldn’t you have to recompile all your dependencies or run into ABI issues? For example, let’s say I allocate some memory & hand it over to a library that isn’t compiled with fat pointers. The API contract of the library is that it hands back that pointer later through a callback (e.g. to free or do more processing on). Won’t the pointer coming back be thin & lose the bounds check?
It doesn't need a warrant, but a subpoena is just to compel Twitter/X to release the information, while a warrant would legally require Twitter/X to release the information.

The issue is that the subpoena told Twitter/X not to inform the accountholder that their information was going to be given to the NYPD, nor inform the accountholder of the subpoena's existence. While that's enforceable with a warrant, it is not enforceable with a subpoena.

This shows how NYPD is attempting to compel companies to provide them with personal information of users, and keep it secret from the users, all without needing a judge's approval or warrant. That is not the proper channel to do this, and they know they have no legal leg to stand on which is why they aren't going to try to fight it's legitimacy in court.