skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're entering the age where having private, personal space is becoming almost impossible. If you have a conversation around your phone, you best believe that government actors can tap that mic. If you have a conversation at home, either your "smart" TV, fridge, or Google Home / Alexa is listening. Now, cars are just becoming tablets on wheels.

In my Tesla, I am quite literally, being watched every time I drive. There is a tiny camera behind the rearview mirror. I have to assume that my vehicle will collect data that could be used against me in court. It's a weird shift, going from a completely analog & disconnected vehicle now to an internet-connected tracking device. You truly think about every move -- e.g. "Gee, I hope my insurance company doesn't misinterpret this 'hard braking event' as me being an irresponsible driver."
Going to church which is usually local doesn't compare to the entertainment industry's waste from touring, production nevermind the collective gas usage.

We shouldn't be promoting emotional effects that are massed produced like facebook feeds that trigger real emotional responses to fake simulants
I think the argument here is that you don’t need a full N:1:M mapping of data types to make this work. Transparency is a myth. If you try it (as in Sun RPC, DCE, CORBA, COM, etc.) you end up just writing wrappers anyway as you hit some edge case that the universal type system doesn’t support. E.g., look at the clunky IDL interfaces COM had to invent to get interop with JavaScript objects because IDL had baked-in assumptions about how records work.

Since the point is to enable component-level interop, not fine-grained function interop, you can instead define a simple interchange format (more JSONish than IDLish) and write the library interfaces accordingly. More of a microservice approach than a linker approach.
I enjoy the tone of this article, which thinks we are entitled to track the movement of private citizens if it involves too much jet fuel.
This is fascinating. I don’t think I’ve seen this before. Thank you.
I wouldnt call that getting clever, its just a string of what you did

> (type (+ 1 2 '(1 2)))
#object[String]
Fintech nightmare: 'I have nearly $38,000 tied up' after Synapse bankruptcy
Clojurescript compiles to Javascript and so inherits some of it's idiosyncrasies.

This is one of the real problems of clojure: you need some knowledge of the host language. It's also one of it's major strengths, and the only reason a lisp managed to get so much (relative) commercial traction.
Taiwan is not now, has never been, and will likely never be a part of the People's Republic of China.
>The used car market has been pretty strange for the past few years.

American automakers no longer make compact cars. Actually, they don't make full-size cars either (with the sole exception of the Ford Mustang).

Once you understand that, you understand why everything's fucked up. 20 years ago, each of the Big 3 would sell 6-figure sums of compact cars, all for less than 25K (inflation-adjusted).

Turns out that they'd rather make 50K SUVs and 100K trucks instead.

Part of that is safety and fuel economy standards that make it functionally illegal to turn a profit on a small car now (and electric compact cars that will be forced at gunpoint in the future will continue to be complete garbage range-wise simply because they don't have enough room for the batteries, so there's no point in designing one- customers already refuse to buy full-size EVs for this reason).

Part of that was people getting used to negative interest rates, and US automakers tooling up to exploit that fact.

Part of that is increased labor costs make it uneconomical to make an inexpensive car (which is specifically why the US bans imports of Chinese compact EVs- even if they passed safety regulations, which they don't).

It's not actually possible to solve this in the short term; which is why the meta remains "buy a Corolla and drive it until the wheels fall off".
I thought the author covered that pretty well. How would you make sure that function calls and object lifetimes are managed correctly/deterministically while also remaining compatible with existing C++ code and compilers without having to have `extern "C"` everywhere?

Edit: I just reread this comment and realized the beginning of it could come across as a bit condescending even though that wasn’t at all my intention. I’d edit it out, but I don’t like doing that, so my apologies if it did come across that way!
I'd recommend studying some existing macros and spending time recreating them. Starting with simple use-cases of the macro and working up. Repeat this with a few macros and you'll eventually learn how they operate. Let Over Lambda is also a good (opinionated) book on macros (most of the book is available for free), and of course there's PG's On Lisp (jump to page 95 in the PDF if you're already comfortable with Lisp).

https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc

https://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
It will be easier to drone bomb each and every one who is against the US government or its associates. Terrifying
Termux doesn't need root. Just get FDroid.
Thanks for the comment and hear you on the anonymization. What we see is that customers will go through and categorize what is PII and what is not and anonymize as needed. If not, they'll back fill with synthetic data. You can change the gender from male to something else, same with the city, etc.

It's really down to the use-case. If you're strictly doing development, then you'll probably want to use more synthetic data than anonymization. If you care about preserving the statistical characteristics of the data then you can use ML models like CTGAN to create net new data.

Definitely a balance between when do you anonymize vs. when do you create synthetic data.
Nowadays it's chat, photos/videos, and online purchases thus forming an all-in-one app. Not quite popular here in the West, though that's Elon's eventual goal with X. But think WeChat in China.
I would say yes, as someone who got used to it a few years ago.
RAII is the worst name they could have selected and C++ devs openly admit that. Its more SBRM, Scope Based Resource Management.
commercial planes are actually better per mile on emissions than most cars (around 100mpg per person). private jets of course are way worse though.
How to Shoot Yourself in the Foot (1995)
With so many mentions of footguns these days, I was surprised that a cursory search of HN didn't show this timeless link in a post recently.
Not the world leaders who started massive wars?
I suspect that you mean "Police told me they didn't have any way to track it." Maybe they had a way but no motivation.
I'd take the verbosity over having to count the operators from the start of the line to figure out which one are used at the end of the line "1.5 2"
Here's the thing. This is going to happen to everyone, as in, no person will be valuable enough via the contribution of their labor to survive without subsidies.

At the level of automation we've reached in society, low-skilled labor is worth, per hour, a very small amount.

As AI and automation improve, the majority of people will have negligible economic utility. The only way around this is to let those people starve or implement UBI. There is no magical future where AI serves as a democratizing "labor enhancer" for the masses. The value-add of some random person will be 0 in nearly all cases.

We will have to decouple our implicit assumption that a person's value is tied to their potential economic value.
Not anywhere. Or if it is it's just for show.

People would just bring their friends in, or give them contracts as freelancers. In one instance the us office got involved and stopped it. I've been in a few "mock" interviews.

They call it trust in Denmark, I call it nepotism.
Use the thread macro to make this easier to think about:

(-> (+ 34 68 12 9 20) (/ 140))
The two basic places to start are Yan LaCun on Lex Podcast and Hintons lecture at University of Toronto on YouTube -- both are easy to find.
This is somewhat framework dependent, but factory_boy supports connecting factories together via SubFactory. There's a real-world example I'm building [0]. See where "author = SubFactory(UserFactory)". I'd imagine there are similar ways to do this for Rails and others too.

[0]: https://github.com/totem-technologies/totem-server/blob/main...
> Demanding that my services always returned correct-looking data, even if it wasn’t available

Ah yes, the age old "special values will signal an error, so we don't have to deal with error handling" approach. Which is always either a pitch for reinventing error handling in novel and ad hoc ways (usually bad), or for disregarding error handling altogether (always bad, sometimes entertaining).
A while ago, I tried compiling a simple Kotlin hello world on the command line (my preferred "IDE"). I vividly recall it taking around 7 seconds to even compile, every time. It could be that my rickety laptop was to blame, but not probably wholly.

AFAICT, the only viable avenue of Kotlin developemnt is by using an IDE (or maybe launch a Gradle deamon--but that'll be another rant).
I have up on Mastodon when I had to switch servers because of subs political dispute between admins.

Plus realising that global search was something that many admins were fundamentally opposed to.

Oh and the array of UX issues that made me suspect that many demographics would never adopt it.
> An engine produces power. Locomotion can be derived from power but isn't required to.

By this definition, is a fuel cell an engine?

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells#:~:text=A%2....
Don't forget the extra fun that happens when you call free() from a different allocator than the one that allocated the memory object, though I suspect WASM's module approach might make it difficult to happen...
Impressive editor! How easy can I extend it and use?
I'm glad this is back. A version of this existed in the ancient past and helped encourage me to try Clojure which ended up being by far the most impactful decision in my professional life. It went away for a while for reasons I'm unclear on.

I use Clojure nearly daily at my job and at home. Sometimes it's standard Clojure, sometimes it's the excellent Babashka flavor which I use as a make-like task runner and Zsh-like script replacement. It's not the only language I use of course, and Go is a strong second place most of the time especially if I need something compiled to a single binary. But Clojure is where I generally feel most at home thanks to the irreplaceable REPL based development flow which is more like a dialogue with my program than your typical write compile run loop.

Combine that with it running on the JVM and you have a wonderful set of tools to get things done in a pleasant way.

I strongly encourage anyone with even a passing interest in Lisp and functional programming to give it a try. If you're using VSCode there is the excellent Calva plugin to help you out.
Your location isn't that big a deal. They can easily get that from License Plate Readers.

What will be interesting, is if they ever use the data to give you tickets. I know that there was a discussion of a plan to use the New Jersey Turnpike tollbooths/EZ-Pass to judge speed between two points, and mail you a ticket. I don't think it ever made it out of the starting gate.
Thats actually good to know, I thought this was reflective of Clojure itself.
A Wikipedia page[1] claims that Chandrayaan-3 used Am241 but the referred article does not mention anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_systems_...
Anonymizing aircraft registration was, for the most part, already possible. I first figured this out when I started playing with ADSB reception many years ago before it became the trivial effort it is today. The first plane that I happened to receive just happened to be a learjet registered to "Bank of Utah" or something similarly obtuse.

It took all of about 30 seconds to figure out this was Steve Jobs' plane; it had already been removed from all public tracking databases. (aircraft owners can request their aircraft be removed from datasets like flightaware, etc.)

I don't think this new legislation has any practical effect on the ability to track a specific aircraft. Once you figure out which one you want to track and have sufficient ADSB coverage, you will be able to track it. It's not as if the tail numbers are changing between flights.
Whats nsfw about it?
>What is the future of proving that I know something myself?

What is the point of knowing something yourself?

This is just a reheated version of the argument against literacy by Socrates:

>You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing.
They are taking action - the google doc has been updated to show this. They aren't taking PUBLIC action and I suspect won't make a PUBLIC statement until the investigation is over.

How about you give them some time to go through the process?
“Mean words” are a small part of what trust and safety does.

CSAM, beheadings, videos of the worst things imaginable are what trust and safety deal with on a daily basis.
Microsoft investigated over new 'Recall' AI feature that tracks every PC move
I never said that the evidence proves that conscious machines are impossible. I said it strongly suggests that it's impossible. Also I disagree that air-planes can fly, for the same reason that I don't agree that boats can swim. The term "can" implies agency, and machines don't have that. All the technological progress during the last 200 years doesn't appear to have brought machines any closer to having such capability.
> Should the companies shoulder more of the burden?

Note: this only works for large corporations. Small corporations don't get this benefit.

To make it more fair and increase competition and reduce corporate corruption, the system should increase support for everyone on a fair basis, not just these particular wage slaves.
> As far as I know, there is no (legal) way to deactivate OnStar or similar GPS trackers built into cars.

I'm not aware of any law (in the US) that prohibits you from disabling these things in a vehicle you own. Is it actually illegal?
Went down a rabbithole, found this prototype with bluetooth https://web.archive.org/web/20060409104320/http://cgi.ebay.c...
> The USA can have something similar whenever there's not a single party holding a trifecta, and even then between the Supreme Court and filibustering it's not really streamlined unified government.

In a parliamentary system you don’t even have an executive branch unless you can get a coalition. And when it comes to Supreme Courts, not only does nearly every parliamentary country also have one, they sometimes have more of them. Most European countries are subject to ECtHR on top of their national supreme courts.

> You have to trust that the party you're voting for will negotiate in a way that is acceptable to you. I'm not convinced that's worse than your situation in a two party system where you're guaranteed a coalition that's probably not exactly what you wanted.

But at least you know what you’re voting for.
So 2048 instead of 1024?
Musk was taking 20 minute flights in his jet to go to the beach - insanely wasteful because the fuel overhead of startup/taxi/takeoff and landing/taxiing is extremely high for the distance traveled. It's about the most environmentally damaging, wasteful way you could possibly move yourself from point A to B.

At least Swift's flights are often very long distance, and she has several major reasons for using the private jet; because of how large and obsessive her fan base is, it would be beyond difficult for her to travel via non-private commercial travel and a huge annoyance to anyone else on the plane. There'd even be fans and paparazzi trying to predict what flight she'd be on and booking tickets themselves.

There are also security safety concerns, although they have to be weighed against the much higher crash rate for bizjet travel than commercial passenger aviation flights.

She also has to physically travel for a tour. There's no other option.

Musk can do 90% of what he does via videoconferencing or phone calls - and from stories that have come out in the press from former executives who worked for him, he incessantly calls his subordinates, even in the middle of the night.

Still, people are missing the true motivator behind this legislation. It's not just about the rich 0.01%'ers. It's also about all the FBI, DEA, and CBP planes that are registered through shell companies to somewhat hide their purpose...but ownership and purpose becomes obvious when you see the model of plane (the agencies have their favorites), photos of it by plane spotters (showing obvious surveillance equipment pods), and the flight paths available online (usually endless loops over an area, or loops that follow a track from one point to another, obviously following someone.) This makes it somewhat harder to track them.
Wouldn’t this greatly increase inflation? Look at post Covid rise in the cost of literally every humdrum item.
Because taxation works for fairly? Social shaming is completely valid, and powerful. Just ask Ghandi if you don't believe me
This was also MY start to programming. I won a Psion 3c when I was 12 or 13 and built shareware apps for it. I did my work experience at Psion's HQ in West London when I was 15, became a software engineer, director of engineering, startup founder, exited that startup, blah blah, venture capital investor today. All from programming on my Psion (and Acorn computers).
The government should remind the farmers that last time someone resisted, the government exterminated them?
"Eliminate means testing" doesn't mean that you stop verifying if someone qualifies for the program, it means that you stop imposing conditions on qualifying for the program, i.e. turn it into a tax credit that everybody gets unconditionally, and adjust rates to compensate.

In principle you can do this without affecting the budget at all -- if there is a benefit that phases out at, say, 20% up to $30,000 in income, this is equivalent to paying the benefit unconditionally and increasing the marginal tax rate by 20% in the same income range. All it does is eliminate the application paperwork.

In practice the problem is that there are multiple overlapping programs like this, so the poor aren't paying a 20% marginal rate (on top of any formal taxes), it's more like 60-80% and in some cases it even exceeds 100%. This is a poverty trap. But to get out of it while balancing the budget you'd have to use a lower total phase out rate, requiring higher marginal rates on people who make more money. These people -- as much upper middle-class doctors and computer programmers as Jeff Bezos -- then object to this, and so here we are.

Of course, another way to do it would be to cut some other government spending and use the money for this.
If by "detected" we consider the E2E chain of humans and computers, then yes, that was the problem.
No, I apparently dodged the trap of words pretty handily there when I meant to type "subscribe".

I apologize, I'm dealing exclusively in XSLT today and I can feel my brain screaming.
Another example is some devs chain maps and array filters when a mundane for loop would do.
While I have no plans to watch these, I have been very curious how they cover gasoline production. Fracking and cracking aint easy.
>In this case, these are Amazon government subsidies by way of the disadvantaged. "Why are consumers receiving low prices and shareholder profits more important than workers receiving a wage they can survive on?" seems to be a question no one wants to answer.

If this is a "subsidy" to Amazon, what do you think would happen if they were pulled? Would amazon be forced to raise wages, or would the wages stay the same (because labor supply and demand is still the same) and the people starve instead?
This could make for a good action scene in a movie. A hacker has to get access to data secretly, so they constantly minimize what they're doing every 10 seconds to avoid the AI monitor.

In the end, just as they breathe a sigh of relief and stretch their arms, a popup gives them away.

Then the scene cuts to a security guard getting an email. Then the scene cuts back to the hackers booking it.
Teslas, maybe. How about Nissans and especially Volvos?
New Nvidia driver boosts LLM performance for ONNX and DirectML
Can we decide which is it? Paper tiger or "a threat to all of Europe so we should increase defense spending 50x"?
No you are entirely correct; the registration data is already effectively anonymous for any entity that has chosen to care about it. To be honest with you, anyone I know who is wealthy enough to own a plane is already set up with a mountain of LLCs to own shit anonymously. This legislation is a NoOp
What's illegal about removing the fuse for the OnStar system from your own car? Certainly the doctrine of first sale applies here?
Thanks, that's an interesting restriction. Where does it come from?
we're actually working on this right, can see the PR here -> https://github.com/nucleuscloud/neosync/pull/1832/files

it's a combination of creating a random number of records for foreign keys i.e 1 customer - create between 2 and 5 transctions. Working on giving you control over that, and handling referential integrity with table constraints (foreign keys, unique constraints, etc.)

ML based approaches typically are not very good at this and struggle with handling things like referential integrity. So a more "procedural" or imperative way is slightly better. The ideal is a combination of both.
I used a Kodak digital camera in the late 90's. I don't remember the model name. These cameras were not "one offs". They were not quite consumer products either. They were more "Pro-sumer".

Even later they had some pretty good models but were just a touch too late into the consumer market vs. others like Sony, Fuji and Canon when the market exploded. I'm not really sure anyone made a lot of money in this market.
Yes, especially because the language is so consistent.

99% of the syntax is just (foo arg1 arg2).
Indeed, now I know that when I get my private plane (I'm temporarily not a billionaire) I will also benefit.

Privacy isn't some monolithic good. There are, frequently, very good reasons to restrict privacy. Things like the finances of politicians, court proceedings, and the ultra-wealthy flying around in private jets disproportionally dumping C02 into the atmosphere all seem to be worth sacrificing a little privacy.
> Writing code that lives in an event loop is pure pain,

Do you think?

I find explicit event loops pleasurable.

Does that make me a freak?
a relevant fact here is that python was, to a significant extent, guido's attempt to reimplement the abc teaching programming language without the design features that made it useless for anything but programming exercises; one of those, if i recall correctly, was that abc implemented lists as some kind of balanced tree structures (maybe avl trees?), in exactly the way this discussion is about, and was very slow as a result
The poster hints («AI ... has been around for decades») but does not say explicitly: also deterministic AI has found its space in business since a long time.

Revolutions with Machine Learning are more recent; «AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots» - and the deterministic algorithms of the late Professor of AI at the MIT parked planes maximizing fuel efficiency, for example.
Pretty much, yeah. Use normal distribution so you can get some outliers.
Open source isn't a charity, it's a strategy for both building and selling