skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got huge amount of mileage out of Psion Revo. It was more limited than 5mx, but exactly the right form factor to write anywhere. And well, having usable spreadsheet, OPL and EMX Unix-like environment was also a large plus. And well, I got it almost new-in-a-box in 2005 for something like 50EUR. Sadly the battery died and I managed to break the hinge while replacing the battery.
Most of exchanges and brokers have a dialog window “Looks like unusual order with high price impact - do you really want to execute yes/no”

So definitely an UI issue.
> Microsoft states that "Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot+ PCs themselves, on the local hard disk, and are protected using data encryption on your device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker." From the wording here, that looks like your snapshots will only be encrypted if you have Windows Pro or a business Windows code.

I don't think that's what their main page is saying, but it is ambiguous enough to be confusing.

For reference, the quote being referenced is "How is your data protected when you use Recall?" on this page: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/copilot-plus-pcs?r=1...

The parenthetical after the "and" is throwing people off. My interpretation of the sentence is that recall snapshots are protected using data encryption on your device, no matter the version of Windows 11. However, if you have Windows 11 Pro or the enterprise SKU, you gain the additional level of protection of using Bitlocker - which could mean that the key to encrypt those snapshots lives in the TPM (or not). It's just too ambiguous and needs clarification.

The support page for Recall (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-cont...) provides some clarification in this area that drives the point home:

> Snapshots are encrypted by Device Encryption or BitLocker, which are enabled by default on Windows 11. Recall doesn't share snapshots with other users that are signed into Windows on the same device. Microsoft can't access or view the snapshots.
I get the point, but this is a terrible goalpost to be using. Medicaid and SNAP have both expanded enrollment by making it easier to qualify. Being on government assistance is neither here nor there. I realize it's being used a proxy for poverty, but that's not going to be very accurate. There are multiple ways to qualify for these programs. Being a sold bread-winner for a family of 5 is a different scenario to a secondary breadwinner for a family of 2. We have enough direct data to compare their compensation levels that don't involve shaming people for needing help.

Also, this guy has no citations.
I don't think this sort of casual lawbreaking is good for society. The law should either be changed or always enforced, rather than creating issues with (especially racially) selective enforcement and normalizing this 10-over behavior for city streets where it can easily be life-and-death for folks outside of cars.
The average thing I (as someone in the academia) hear about MIT is their press office exaggerating the importance of some research finding. The average thing I hear about Stanford is a controversy in mainstream news. To an outsider, MIT culture seems to be more about conventional nerds. Stanford culture seems to attract more than its fair share of political weirdos.
What's next is real apps using LLMs efficiently. It's weird but besides chatGPT I see no game changing apps.
Being Lazy When It Counts: Practical Constant-Time Memory Management for FP
Agree 100% with the cost analysis.

Let’s say you want to purchase a math tutoring platform. The cost is $30 per student per year. CA schools get about $5 per student per year in lottery funds to purchase instructional materials (shared across all materials). General fund is pretty much all spent on staff/teachers or facilities. One time covid funds are running out. Schools can purchase textbooks at ~$100 per unit and use them for years without subscriptions.

In short, there is no money in public education for these tools.

These platforms look great, but the price is prohibitive. Maybe some basic aid district could pick them up, but those are usually small (I.e., it won’t keep a start up in business).

Note. This is an observation from California. Other states might find education better.
I disagree.

There's only so much money to go around, if I chose to spend more money on preventing fraud than the fraud would cost, I'm prioritizing righteousness over helping people.

If you have funding for 500 people, and fraud would cost you funding for 10 people. If you spend the cost of funding 40 people on fraud prevention, you're harming the 30 people you can no longer fund to keep those 10 from undeserved funding.
Wonder if the error rate can be controlled?
>When I run a local model (significantly) bigger than the 24GB VRAM on the 4090 it won't even load for 15 minutes while the 4090 is pegged at 100% all the time. Eventually I just gave up.

Yeah the key here is partial offloading. If you're trying to offload more layers than your GPU has memory for, you're gonna have a bad time. I find it kind of infuriating that this is still kind of a black art. There's definitely room for better tooling here.

Regardless, with 24GB of vram, I try to limit my offloading to 20GB and let the rest go to ram. Maybe it's the nature of the 8x7B model I run that makes it better at offloading than other large models. I'm not sure. I wouldn't try the 70B models for sure.
Why can't smaller companies get away with paying poverty wages? I don't quite see the connection.
what were you using it for
Having tried both BlueSky and Mastadon I found Bluesky pretty easy to use and Mastadon bewildering. There were so many Mastadon servers I didn't know where to start. I guess maybe it doesn't matter what server something is on because the app can connect to all of them, but then discussion topics would be repeated in multiple places and it all seemed so disjoint. Like the chaos of old IRC networks but amplified. All in all I felt like a babe in the woods on Mastadon while Bluesky is pretty shamelessly just "Twitter minus Nazis". One thing I like about Bluesky is when a thread starter mutes one of the posters, it mutes them for everybody in the thread, not just the original poster. While this might unfortunately facilitate creation of echo chambers it is a supremely powerful anti-troll tool.

The other big reason I went with Bluesky over Mastadon is that several of the people I used to follow on Twitter have moved over to Bluesky.
That guy who put thousands of working Internet satellites in orbit, is currently the only way for U.S. to get humans to and from ISS, essentially created a non-existent electric car market from nothing, and built the heaviest self-landing rocket in history, among so many other things.

That charlatan? If that's how you define charlatan, I wish we could all accomplish that much.

(what other accomplishments did I miss; tbh I don't even like electric cars from a practical or even environmental perspective, and yet even I can admit that what he did was simply incredible.)
The New Surface Laptop [pdf]
I have been using Rewind.ai on macOS and this company got a crazy investment. Many people like the idea. Many just don't trust Microsoft.
I'm disproportionately enraged by this.
Nikon FA
Another more recent one (on-demand instead of upfront downloads):

https://github.com/ericmedina024/podcast-sponsor-block
Is there a version of Clojure that compiles to LLVM or something? Sort of like what Scala-native was supposed to be (but never materialized). I like functional programming but I can't abide the Java ecosystem in 2024, it's just too archaic for my taste.
Shuttle was heavy rocket. Decent in quite a few metrics.

Also the arguments about not having heavy rockets has nothing to do with engines, it's either "we don't need them" or "just use propellant depots". Without certain Alabama senator even SLS would be probably dead already. Big rockets are only useful when you sacrifice performance for reuse AND have enough payloads to maintain good flightrate.
This is exactly why I bought a car that has a fuse for the Data Communication Module (DCM) that I have pulled, and I will never buy another car unless I can physically disconnect anything in it that sends radio transmissions.
From what I understand, LPRs are very precise; especially the car-mounted ones that I see around here.

The biggest issue with LPRs, is the private corporations that run the infrastructure, sell the data to non-law enforcement people.

Basically, license plates were designed to give authorities the ability to match the car with an owner, and are designed to be public, but the matching data is supposed to be behind a lock. LPRs simply supercharge the collection of the data, but they have contracted out the matching, and those contractors seem to be using what is supposedly a “locked” ability, to make money.
Agreed for current systems. I’m sure we’ll get models in the future which will facilitate this but for now LLMs don’t really stay on task like a professional human would.

And even in AI Dungeon the AI plays so fast and loose that it breaks immersion. Like if I’m doing a space trading roleplay, it doesn’t consider things like making sure the product I’m buying selling meets a specific spec, and often a vendor will start offering to buy Product X from me while I’m negotiating purchasing Product X from them. This "type" of continuity problem happens constantly in AI dungeon.

We’re just not there yet, but I have confidence we’ll get there. I think it’s possible even with our current model/training paradigms but we aren’t using RLHF for game applications yet.
True. And yeah, I'm also a bit concerned about the longevity of bsky. Hope they can figure something out, without stooping to twitter level stupid ads or lock in (like disabling api / the openness)
With MA ez-pass, the enabling legislation specifically forbade the use of it for speed patrolling. (This may have been limited to i-90 which was the only thing that used it at the time.)
50M Points Bouncy Simulation
Thanks! The pads are very much like I was thinking. Maybe I could tilt a unit like this on a desk. At this price point it might get expensive to build up a keyboard , but something to think about.

I don’t know anything about MIDI though I’ve heard the term before. I’ll look it up.
If they are being forced to allow access through private property, and injuries could occur on the private property, I do wonder why there hasn't been any cases? Are we sure it is private property and not some amount of reasonable public property allowed for access to the beach (which the owners might be pretending is private property and then being sued to allow access)? On a non-California beach I've been to, there are public access ways (about 20ft wide) between every 3 to 5 houses. The houses are free to block their own land, but they can't block the accessways, the beach, or the dunes because all of that is public property.
customer? who's paying for it?
there's significant evidence that this is due to corporate price gauging.

though it is fair to point out that this type of system does require a few other changes in the corporate incentive structure. shareholder primacy for one, would have to go. you can't really be a shareholder profit maximalist and provide a consistent standard of living for everyone in your society, because every possible penny is supposed to end up in the shareholders pocket. even if you could technically build more long-term wealth by investing in things like education, infrastructure, and affordable housing.
My immediate question is whether this information will be used to raise your insurance rates like GM was caught doing.
They use UEFI (like previous Snapdragons did) and EL2 is apparently unlocked on the SXE series (unlike previous Snapdragons.) It's mostly a matter of getting the device trees in place, I guess (I don't think these use ACPI natively, but might be wrong.)
No need to mess with the software to deactivate these things. Just yank a fuse, disconnect the antenna, or -- worst case -- physically break the support circuitry.
I'm an advocate for Clojure, and while I believe that the usability speed bumps are more than made up for, I completely agree with you. The awkwardness of Clojure's errors, REPL experience, and build tooling is a dealbreaker for many.

A couple years with Rust has taught me that intuitive errors and tooling will funnel you far enough into language to get you productive, and then you're much more likely to stay. There's just no way I would have stayed long enough to be a Rust professional if it hadn't been for cargo and rust-analyzer.

These "non-language" components of Clojure are just not easy enough to use, and its inhibited Clojure's growth. If, however, you do put in the time to grok these parts, the joy of using the language itself never fades.
Amazon Warehouse positions all pay well above minimum wage, in every state. They also offer benefits. Concluding Amazon isn’t paying enough, because a large portion of their workforce qualifies for food stamps, is the wrong conclusion.
I love the idea of a UBI, but there is a real risk of the UBI being impacted like the minimum wage. When initially passed it's set to a barely reasonable level, and then not adjusted for decades.

Not saying it can't be solved, tie it to inflation or CPI, but I doubt that could pass.
As a side note, I'm always amazed by people who can use a highly expressive language (Clojure, Rust, even TS) but switch to Go when they feel like it (especially pre-1.18).

To me, switching to a less expressive language is painful and infuriating. I remember having to switch from Python to Java 5, and how everything started to take 3 to 5 times longer code to express.

Maybe the key thing is to only write small things in less expressive languages, like shell scripts, or small C functions to help performance or FFI, or, well, tiny Go utilities.
This is surprisingly common. C++ is huge and filled with many features that are only understood by a small subset of folks and so many teams have restricted coding standards that define which features can be used and how.
This is pretty much the definition of "cursed".

I'm reminded of the much more positive story from Steve Yegge about a customer service system at Amazon that used Emacs as its UI. Apparently the customer-service reps loved it, and missed using Emacs when the transition was made to an all-new Java app.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel

(C-f "When Amazon got its start")
It's not that difficult. Lisp makes it easier, because one can look at code.

For example look at this built-in Lisp macro example, which iterates from 0 to 9 and writes the numbers.

CL-USER> (dotimes (i 10)
(write i))
0123456789
NIL

Common Lisp has tools like a pretty printer for code (-> PPRINT) and a tool for expanding a macro form:

CL-USER> (let ((*print-right-margin* 30))
(pprint (macroexpand '(dotimes (i 10) (write i)))))

(BLOCK NIL
(LET ((I 0))
(DECLARE
(TYPE UNSIGNED-BYTE I))
(DECLARE (IGNORABLE I))
(TAGBODY
(GO #:G267)
#:G266
(TAGBODY (WRITE I))
(PSETQ I (1+ I))
#:G267
(UNLESS (>= I 10)
(GO #:G266))
(RETURN-FROM NIL
(PROGN NIL)))))

From above one can see that the code gets transformed in very low-level Lisp code, with a GO operator (-> a GoTo). It's a low-level loop expressed by loop made from a simple goto operator. One can look at the code and try to figure out what it is doing. One is not guessing what the expanded code looks like, one can generate the expanded code and see what it looks like.
Related threads:

"AI PCs are the final nail in the coffin of open computing", 52 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40436975

"How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security", 48 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40433884
Where do we buy stock in the company? Sounds too good to be true.
For old cars we say say "If there ain't no oil under it, then there ain't no oil in it."
You can probably just enable Airplane Mode on your phone and expect that to work fine.
If you edited within ten minutes then something isn't working, because your comment changed multiple times after I replied to it. The delay is supposed to prevent me from seeing it at all until the period is up.
I would argue progressive taxes are less complex than your proposed flat tax because you can load all the expenses on the high brackets who won't miss a meal if you set the value too high instead of trying to pick a single value that works for everyone.
I prefer to keep them separate. The christian councilor I saw was very big into 'everything happens for a reason' and 'god has a plan' and given my background it turned my stomach. If what i went through was 'part of a plan' I have some very pointed questions for god when I meet him.
Securing Team Funds Onchain
That's an odd straw man. I'd appreciate you not put words in my mouth. You're claiming that self-driving cars are better than public transit and will replace public transit in Europe (assuming they were available). I'm merely saying they won't because that is an inferior solution. I said nothing about manual cars or the shift of manual to self-driving for the segment that does drive cars.
> micro-transactions leads to bad games.

That claim is true. It was more than "a handful" of micro transaction games that are bad, it's virtually all of them. Micro-transactions, even if initially implemented with a "good intent" are intrinsically corrupting and any developer who implements them will get dollar signs in their eyes blinding them to taste, tact and good game design.
It appears your issue is not with the comment at the head of this thread specifically, but generally with other comments elsewhere (on HN and Github); that doesn't make the comment disrespect or untrue by association.

AI is a lightning rod issue, while insults are not ok, disagreement is inevitable, disagreeing wirh a decision a maintainer made is orthogonal to dis/respect.

Open Source is fickle - you can diligently work on a project for years and have it forked for mundane reasons, such as some people thinking you're not doing things fast enough for their liking, or you included a controversial feature - and they won't have to pay you or even send you a "thank you" note, that does not change the value of the contributions.
Spot on. Part of it is wanting errors-as-values without knowing what that is (which is good and contains a kernel of real insight), and part of it is assuming that error handling can be a negligible fraction of the work (which is the opposite of the truth and can only be achieved by doing a poor job of it.)
> As far as I know, there is no (legal) way to deactivate OnStar or similar GPS trackers

Naively...

Is it illegal to cut the power to the GPS unit?

I do not see why a car needs a GPS built in. So why can I not simply disable it?

What am I missing?
Or COM's evolution, WinRT, where the .NET metadata also doesn't really map to JavaScript or C++, without some additional kludges with metadata as workaround.
also completely missed /e/OS-murena. based on lineage, de-googled and customized to be very user friendly. microg is available but optional.

if graphene or calyx don't fit, then /e/OS is really the best option from all the remaining alternatives.
Kodak had a massive investment in analogue photography and failed to see the future in a non-binary way where both film and digital photography could coexist. Film photography is making a modest comeback, but there are no new cameras being made apart from Leica M6 and the upcoming half-frame Pentax compact film camera.
> It was okay until someone wrote a thing in php (!!) in a day that would be have taken at least a month in Java. Maybe two. I understand the "good" of Java, but for me personally, the cost of that good is just incredible tedium. This is personal and I understand that.

You understand that this has everything to do with Java and nothing to do with the JVM, right?
Well, if they were going to do that, there's nothing stopping them from doing it right now when you get home.
The blog post is mentioned in the first linked article. Needless to say I fundamentally disagree with Apple's decision* - If I explicitly install a firewall, I want it to actually function like a firewall and not let some packets through. The overhead explanation seems a bit like a stretch.

* It's actually not clear whether this is a feature or a bug. Apple never responded to the bug report (FB12088655).
> Food stamps though, that's not cool.

Why?
It's a stop-gap because people want DMs and implementing them correctly (decentralized, e2e encrypted, etc.) is non-trivial. Rushing e2e encryption is not a good idea (and no, you can't just slap on matrix/signal and call it a day).

The alternatives are to:

1. Wait a bit longer for something half-baked that appears to meet the goals (i.e., something you're going to regret but will be unable to replace).
2. Wait even longer for something perfect.

By making the protocol centralized and stupid-simple, it's also stupid-simple to replace in when everyone is done painting the perfect bikeshed.
the car may not even start, or may disable virtually all functionality until the problem is fixed if you do that
Poverty wages comes with the cost of constantly hiring, and hiring is a relatively expensive thing to do, mostly in terms of time, unless you're big enough to make it a fixed cost (eg an internal team and a job marketing budget).
What's going on inside an LLM's neural network
> 10-12,000ft is generally accepted as negligible impact on cognitive function

That is just a guideline.

Each person responds to hypoxia differently and starts becoming hypoxic at different altitudes. One person might start having symptoms at 8,000 while another can function without oxygen at 14,000 for hours. It depends on your health and acclimation. All else equal if you live in Denver your tolerance to altitude will be greater.

This also applies to carbon monoxide exposure. For either condition you may not get headaches at all. Or you may get loss of color vision first. Or maybe your fingers tingle first. It is highly variable from person to person. Many people in those situations report they excluded hypoxia or carbon monoxide as a possibility because their symptoms didn't line up with the published lists, unaware that those lists are merely guidelines.

The one constant is that by the time you realize you are hypoxic or have CO poisoning you will either not care or be unable to fix the problem. This seems to be nearly 100% universal. Even when briefed ahead of time in a test scenario almost everyone will fail to take any action to rectify their situation on their own. Sometimes they can be coached into taking action (like descending or putting on an oxygen mask). For that reason a number of GA pilots use a pulse oximeter when flying above 8-10k to detect the signs early, while they are still aware enough to take action.

Also be aware that perversely CO causes your pulse oximeter reading to increase. Those chemical dots are useless, you need an actual detector and the sensor inside them is good for 10 years. Once bound to hemoglobin CO takes a long time (12-24 hours) to be removed and breathing oxygen only speeds that up by half. This is very unlike hypoxia which disappears in seconds once you start on oxygen. For aviation don't use household detectors - they have relatively high thresholds. On a long cross-country or multi-day flight you can accumulate exposure at levels low enough not to trigger a household alarm but cumulatively become very impaired due to the long half-life of CO in the body.
And it is also inefficient because it is used in cars taking 4 passengers max so it can not really scale.

But if a bus, a tram or a train would have a self driving... but that smells like communism to our techbros from Silicon Valley.
I don't think that Activity Monitor is getting detailed info and thus doesn't need root. You can also get the same kind of info from powermetrics without root.

(it's been a while since I've messed with this stuff, I could be missing some details)
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