skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why ? Isn’t this the dream ? Endless growth and endless workers ? No one really cares about less people, just less money.
AI is somewhat useful in some cases, but the most useful case is spam and scams. It really is just the pivot for crypto now that the shine has come off the crypto movement.

NVIDIA must feed, Silicon Valley must feed, and the scammers must feed. In 5 years people here will be opining about how they 'always knew' it was unsustainable.
Sure, but they each wield billions of dollars, and there are plenty saner industrialists with a similiarly grim (and undeserved imo) opinion of Europe.
I do get frustrated with the state of modern software, but often times the comparison ends up being between a crappy version of something or nothing at all.

One of the major problems is that many of our core software assumptions were based on design decisions made decades ago, when the industry was young and figuring out a million details.

I've mostly done web dev, but recently was trying out IMGUI and was amazed by the tiny memory footprint and with how quickly it started. But even that system has limitations, requiring that you learn a bunch of details for targeting different platforms. Isn't it amazing that native cross platform development is still so difficult in 2024? The platform owners could so a lot to ease this burden, but everyone wants their own little fiefdom.
Lately it's just been YouTube and Crunchyroll. Sometimes I'll rent a channel on Amazon without ads for a month to watch some back catalog. Discovery is a pretty good one. Sometimes Paramount+. I absolutely refuse to watch ads on anything these days.
This makes a big assumption that you can properly capture all learning with a test. The lack of comfort students feel with the active learning approach should not be ignored.
> That requires users paying

That's clearly not a solution either since expensive products and services with subscriptions still routinely collect every scrap of data they can get their hands on. Companies will always make more money by violating your privacy while also charging you as much as they possibly can so that's exactly what they do.
I was expecting to trash the idea of custom roms for the laymen, but this is actually a really smart idea. In this case, "minimal" means "as close as possible to a dumb phone", which means uninstalling everything that's not the phone app. I'm not sure how much longer society will tolerate somebody with a phone that can only call, but for those who truly only need to be able to call and text I think it's a brilliant solution.
> the Model S, Nissan Leaf, and an unsuccessful car based on Renault’s Z-E platform

One of these things is not like the others. Take the Model S out of the list, and the world might have concluded that EVs weren't yet practical.
The reality is no one speaks up or you get like two people who speak up the entire class when the professor engages with the class. Sure active learning is best, but it requires a level of attention, alertness, and engagement that most students aren’t interested in stepping up for. Very few even take advantage of office hours even while struggling in the class. Maybe its from being burned out, maybe its from being tired, maybe its from being shy, whatever it is, teachers can’t exactly fix it and make people want to be active in class. It takes two.
I have been bitten so many times by bugs in third-party IP that I almost never use it unless the company literally cannot build the thing that the IP provider is selling.

Many companies instead buy the IP and then spend almost as much time as they would have needed to recreate it having back-and-forth conversations with their vendor sending bug reports and reproduction test cases.

Verilator is amazing for building huge systems when you make that tradeoff. Yes, you will do a lot more RTL development for logic, but you have none of these vendor headaches and you get to write your testbenches in C++ and also run tests that are extremely long. A single computer can simulate an SoC design at reasonable speed.
Often we wonder what distinguishes humans from other animals. Measurement and optimization. Do other species measure, and optimize? Others use tools, but do they optimize?
It's worth noting that both TapChanger and StealthChanger both require a flying gantry and won't work on a Trident style machine (and thus aren't suitable to a lot of CoreXY type machines).
Thank you, I will give your resource a read :)
The iPad is a bit of tragedy. If it was an open platform, a lot of its problems would be solved - first by third-party software, and later perhaps by Apple copying those successful features/solutions. Because the iPad is a walled garden, it's at the mercy of Apple's narrow vision for how it can be used.
> Common in a situation where you're writing for a presentation layer and you need human readable data.

Yup, this was it. For compactness (theoretical) alot of the fields were stored as small integers, then a lookup. Here is the relevant offender if interested.

https://github.com/praphael/baseball/blob/main/retrosheet_in...

Alot of lookup for player names and more descriptive fields (field conditions, play descriptions, etc.)

In retrospect, this all could have been done as part of a post-process step on the backend. I already was doing that for certain fields such as the month. Which does fail the "anything that can be reasonably be done on the DB end should be done by the DB" test. But it might be a better idea.
This needs to be a viral tiktok. Just take the scene from 2001 and replace HALs voice with a chipper OpenAI clone.
Yes, this is a process called (fittingly) data re-identification.

There are many papers on the topic. One of the more popular examples is "Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets" using the Netflix Prize Dataset.

>We apply our de-anonymization methodology to the Netflix Prize dataset, which contains anonymous movie ratings of 500,000 subscribers of Netflix, the world’s largest online movie rental service. We demonstrate that an adversary who knows only a little bit about an individual subscriber can easily identify this subscriber’s record in the dataset. Using the Internet Movie Database as the source of background knowledge, we successfully identified the Netflix records of known users, uncovering their apparent political preferences and other potentially sensitive information.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

This paper speaks about AOL in 2006, which I think you are referring to: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

However, it should be noted that the AOL dataset had a bunch of stuff that was identifiable by its nature (e.g. people searching for their full names or address), and the dataset wasn't scrubbed of those searches.
So the controversy wasn't just re-identification of data, but also just a bunch of already-identifiable data.

>Anonymized data is not always anonymous

More importantly, in my opinion, is that data that is anonymous now is just one other dataset away from not being anonymous anymore.
The updates seem to all be geared towards corrective updates rather than expansion of capabilities. We're still typing prompts rather than speaking them into a microphone.

If it was truly Ai, why isn't it rapidly building itself? Rather than relying on scraping human content from wildly inaccurate and often incorrect social media posts? So much effort is wasted in trying to push news cycles rather than a careful, responsible, and measured approach to developing Ai into becoming tools that are highly functional and useful to individuals. The biggest innovation in Ai right now is how to make it modular and slap a fee on each feature, and that's not practical at all into the future.

I'll begin to believe that consume Ai is making strides when Siri and Google Assistant stop missing commands, and actually can conduct meaningful conversations without an Internet connection and monthly software updates, which in my opinion is at least 5-10 years away. Right now what is presented as "Ai" is usually often incomplete sensor-aware scripting or the wizard of Oz (humans) hidden behind the curtains operating switches and levers, a bunch of underwhelming tools, and a heap of online marketing. If they keep that act up, it erodes faith in the entire concept, just like with Full Self Driving Tesla Trucks.
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It's pretty undeniable that there exists a significant cohort of folks whose sole reason for getting into security is to find vulnerabilities to collect bounties. Beg bounties are that taken to an extreme.

> But if not, the reasonable response is to stop doing security research for free for Apple, not doing research with a goal of using it immorally due to a kneejerk reaction.

I'm sure lots of people will! But that won't necessarily stop folks from saying "I've discovered a vulnerability that would yield me an amount of money that would substantially improve my near-to-medium-term quality of life" and doing what's necessary to profit from that. Apple's program _necessarily_ inflates the amount of money a vulnerability sells for through immoral channels regardless of whether anyone is participating in it.

> If Apple stops their bug bounty program today this is still not a justification to look for vulnerabilities in their products and sell them on the black market.

This might be true for you, but that doesn't mean it's true for even a majority of other people.
I would respect the announcement more if they just came out and said it - "we need cash to keep running and Google is offering to pay us a bajillion dollars for some anonymized search data. Sorry folks."
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Ah, so we 'solved' it by finding so much more oil that life on Earth would be burned to a crisp long before we used it all, then just burning more every year.

All while subsidizing oil companies to an absurd degree, even as they make record profits and avoid liability for environmental disasters.

So glad we 'solved' that. How great for us, and what an interesting example of how we come together to solve global scale crises that was.

Maybe we can solve PFAS rain by coating everything in Teflon so the PFAS don't stick.
The context is that it's somebody else setting up what's basically a dumb phone for family members. I agree that custom roms are a terrible idea for non-tech savvy folks if they have to set it up themselves, but in this specific narrow case it's a good solution.
Whether corporations are people or not is irrelevant because the corporations are acting together to abuse market power at the behest of the people running the corporations to maximize benefit for the people running and owning the corporations, exactly like how the unions are acting together to abuse market power to maximize benefit for their members. All the businesses I mentioned could be unincorporated sole proprietorships and it would still be illegal on the business side and so yes it is still weird that it's legal and ok on the labor side.

At the end of the day, in all examples, the mechanism is to corner the market in something and withhold it until price for that something is pushed above the competitive price shrinking the total benefit available and causing dead weight loss to society. The result is the same regardless of who is doing it. Less for everyone, artificially more for the group that cornered the market at the expense of literally everyone else. So I'll say again, it's weird that it's ok for labor to do this and not ok for companies. It should be not ok for everyone because it's universally bad (this doesn't mean there aren't other bad things corporations do that don't hit the threshold of illegality for market power abuse that we should also be trying to fix, it just says uncompetitively withholding is a bad method of trying to deal with those things)
How many people say "yes, I sacrifice my personal life work" but in reality don't have much else going on / a different alternative?

I have a young friend, been trying to be a co-founder/entrepreneur for about 3 years now and he's 22.

He can easily fall into this category. "I hang out with my friends less, I am less interested in romantic partners because I want to focus on business. I spend less time getting into trouble and more time focusing on my business"
> the only way a messanger is wrong is if they send the wrong message.

Well, if a messenger carries a message that he or she knows or should know is incorrect, illegal, or lacks crucial context or qualification, there's a problem there.

The message might be "correct" in that it is an accurate word-for-word transmission of what the message's author said, but the message could still "wrong" in other senses of the word.

Sometimes we just want accurate transmission of content, e.g., with a phone call. In other contexts (scientific, legal, journalistic, political) we expect broadcasters of messages to exercise some responsibility over what and how they say things.

> no subjective take can truly be "wrong"

No one wants to live in a world where everyone believes this. Have you ever been mugged? I have. Being tackled and having my wallet stolen was "truly wrong." I am not interested in political or sociological arguments to the contrary.
To the naked eye it was a slight purple, pink, red tinge to the northern sky. With a 3 second exposure on my phone camera it was vivid purple to pink.

To really see it you need a short timed exposure with aperture opened up on the camera - so small F-stop or high-speed film setting for low light, >800 speed.

I am right outside a huge metro area and directly in front of me there is a large warehouse facility with floodlights on all night long. In spite of this I could see the slight color change in the clouds (it was very cloudy here until nearly the end of the show) since the normal light color tends towards blues and oranges depending on how far off of north you are looking.

I saw red curtains here back in 2003 during a storm that also was visible in Mexico. I knew where I needed to be in my yard to be able to see things. That display began a little east of north and walked slowly west until it faded. With that in mind, that is how I started watching for lighting changes this time. The auroral oval moves from east to west during these events and for me here in N Texas it appears to be visible only for about 20 degrees either side of north before it fades. In general, if the oval extends to Kansas or into Oklahoma then we have a shot at seeing something down here since we can see the upper atmosphere from this distance. It's a bit like trying to photograph sprites above thunderstorms in that you need to be a long way away from the storm to be able to see the activity above it. I did take a photo behind me to the south and it shows aurora too so that is how I knew this was a powerful storm that would be visible a lot farther south than my place.

We should have more of these events over the next 2-3 years so keep your eyes open. Find Polaris at your location and monitor space weather reports to get a feel for the likelihood that you can see something there.

Good luck.
>If it was "objectively bad" I and the other commenter wouldn't be able to refuse it, nor would "everyone overlook it".

Something can be objectively bad without you noticing its failures. Consensus does not guide objectivity.

>Do you genuinely believe any complain is legitimate?

No, just legitimate ones.

>The OC said it himself: "everyone overlooks it". Perhaps because it's not really there for them, and you're just more fussy ones?

Fussy means to be overly caring about unimportant details. However, I would not call this issue unimportant.
The Antmicro team are doing good work with making Verilator support SystemVerilog / UVM tests but from what I understand it's not complete yet.

I've also heard from various people that although Verilator is generally fast, it tends to choke on compiling sufficiently large designs, whereas the Cadence and Synopsys offerings eventually get it done.

Still, Verilator is an awesome piece of software. Maybe the biggest thing recommending it: it's totally free, so the number of simulations you run in parallel is bounded by compute availability rather than licenses.

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I didn't take what they were saying as a slight.
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SV has always been heavily dependent on government spending- military or otherwise. I see no real change, other than perhaps more people are aware of the sausage making process.
My team is also in the process of refactoring a number of shell script CI pipelines into Go. With `go run` it might as well be interpreted, from a UX standpoint it’s as easy to call as a shell script but with the benefit of static types and a robust ecosystem of supporting libraries and not having to sed/awk your way through command output.
You could employ Face ID for that no?
A nice side-effect, is that it will help you to make your home a lot more livable.

My favorite pattern is "Light From Two Sides." Amazingly simple, and absolutely correct. Not sure where it is, in there, but I remember it clearly, when I read the book.
Part of the problem is that it's inherent that corporations will generally have more power than individual employees. So there is no option where both sides don't use market power. The only question is whether employees band together to match the power that corporations already have.
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> Meanwhile Ford loses $100,000 on each EV it sells

No they don't. The calculation of that number incorrectly included the fixed costs.
I think the issue is that disabling notifications entirely from an application is undesirable; applications (Uber, Starbucks, Walgreens) will send you advertising notifications, but if you disable all notifications for the app because it's spamming you, you don't get notified when your car arrives, your drink is ready for pickup, or that your prescription has been filled.

It would be nice to be able to simply switch to a non-spammy vendor in that case, but that's not how the market works in the US.
Not according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40351963
I find Microsoft's 5 Pillars in their Well-Formed Architecture to be a useful way to explain this to non-technical people.

At the start of a project, fully focusing on your features makes sense. But as a project grows, non-functional concerns can sabotage the business model if not addressed.

- Reliability

- Security

- Cost optimization

- Performance Efficiency

- Operational Excellence

The first four have a direct impact on the customer. Buggy or insecure software, or excess costs, will all affect the customer directly.

The fifth point is about devops, and making sure that we can continuously (as a process) meet the customer's needs in all of these areas.

I've found that if I can fit refactoring into one of these pillars, it is much easier to explain to non-technical people. Of course, some people just can't be helped, and aren't open to alternate ways to think about software projects.
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I posted this on another story 6mo ago:

Every time I hear "anonymous data", I think of that time AOL published anonymized search logs (for academic research). The anonymization was negligent, and an NYT reporter de-anonymized and tracked down one of the users with the local & personal info present in the search queries.

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20130404175032/http://www.nytime...
the quote cannot be hallucinated but we use a different approach. your work seems interesting though.
Or you could use a laptop...

I just don't get the obsession some people have for the iPad, jumping through hoops and putting up with so many compromises when most issues are solved using a laptop. Can someone explain this? I have an iPad but I primarily use it for watching films, I wouldn't dream of trying to get any work done on it when I have a Macbook.
Makes sense. I remember an early gen atom was horrendous on hard drive and totally usable on an early ssd. Useful to hear compatibility is good on this one.
These regulations should have been done decades ago. Now these lead to corporations growing abnormally big with immense power to corrupt policymakers and help them create regulatory capture.

It's great that EU sees some sense and does not give in to the temptation of easy money from big corporations.
Some days I agree with that sentiment. But then I remind myself that I treat my iPad as a task device. In this context, task and app are somewhat synonymous.

I've a short list of tasks:

Apple TV: for task "watch Apple TV+"

Safari: for task "surf internet"

Google Maps: for task "surf geography"

Animoog Z: for task "make music"

While for sure I would love ipadOS to be a real OS, as long as it's the best device for even one task that I do regularly, I'll probably keep buying new ipads - but generally only once every four years, as I get my boost for my tasks from new hardware.
I love SPECULOOS as a network of robotic telescopes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas
We need to give more credence to our subconscious abilities. People like their knowledge to be sheets of notes or flash cards they can rattle off because those are easy for our conscious minds to quantify. The subconscious mind is way stronger though, a basketball player can instantly calculate a shot that would take a few minutes to consciously calculate by hand.

We should view education more in this light, less memorizing a bunch of facts and more getting problem solving repetitions in with an expert to guide you through them. It would be insane if we taught basketball only on paper and then sent players out on the court, but we do that with a bunch of other subjects.
HEB "just another grocery store". Hoo Lordy, better not say that in the South! HEB is ultimately a corporation, but as far as corporate ethics exist, they're a good place and the stores are great.
I just checked on my Mac: It's really called "TV" (both in the dock and in the "about" window inside the app), or "TV.app" in the file system.

And why would they need to trademark it?
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The iPad Pro is the most wasted potential of any device right now. Single core speed like a i9 14th gen, but the device is so limited no AAA games selection, desktop apps, or anything. This thing could literally be running desktop-class COD / Fortnite/ Photoshop/ VScode / Xcode but Apple won't let it.
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