skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my main gripe as well.

My current workaround is to use Orion as my browser. Its profiles are clunkier than safari and don't exist on iOS (but I don't care about that)
Why Search is not a solved problem yet
I would say almost certainly. I worked for a large insurer a decade ago and they were using ML models for predicting some kinds of home insurance risk (I want to say earthquakes and maybe flooding, but it wasn’t my team and it’s been a decade).
So you founded a startup that helps dumbfounded founders:

Dumbfound

Startle

Stupefy

BeWild: Get After It!

Gobsmack

Knockside
I just did: https://louisabraham.github.io/articles/probabilistic-tic-ta...
That's a false dichotomy. You may have to trust someone but that someone could be something else than an opaque for-profit company.
I love the Rectangle app. The problem is that the average Mac user has no idea this exists at all.

So when Joe Windows considers switching over to Mac, they see that there's no equivalent to the Windows snapping feature that's been in their OS since Windows 7, and they might think macOS is inferior.

I personally don't need this feature from Apple but I think they needed to add it for their own business needs.
He's saying that the bootloader is in ROM so it's unbrickable, but the application code that the bootloader jumps into can be updated over USB. Most mid-range and higher microcontrollers have a similar feature, but they almost always have a custom protocol that requires a specialized flashing program rather than showing up as a mass storage device.
Solving Probabilistic Tic-Tac-Toe
Can you explain how? Genuinely curious. The author only refers to "security theater" which seems to be when a product or system around a product makes people feel like they're safer, when actually it's not making anything more safer or more secure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
Apple DatacenterS

Gotcha, makes sense :)
The devil isn't real and ignoring things doesn't protect you from them. You're better off exploring this tech to see what it's good and bad at.
GP is surely talking about Apple changing/breaking the rules when they want to, as being unfair.
Nope, you’re moving the goalposts. You were talking about the latency of making a network call. I pointed out that Apple’s current proxying architecture has low latency for web browsing, with orders of magnitude larger requests moving through it. We’re not going to bring GPT slowness into the mix because that’s not what we were discussing.
Spam, junk, slop? The latest wave of AI behind the 'zombie internet'
I'm not super familiar with the space, but I don't think technology that nobody can use captures the "effective" part.

End the human race by transferring all our consciousnesses to the immortal AI mainframe? A-OK!

End the human race for a fancy new sub design? Not effective. :(
Analyzing the security properties of a ZKTeco biometric terminal
That's becoming less the case. As Apple's advertising and services revenue grows and hardware sales slow, they have increasing incentive to mine your data the same as any company does. They already use quite a bit data on the location and content personalization front. I would argue that Apple perhaps cares about protecting your data more from malicious third parties (again like any company should - it's never good for FAANG when data leaks or is abused), but they are better at it (and definitely better at marketing it).
My company requires us to use a "burner" phone and laptop when we travel internationally. I can helpfully print out the policy from the employee handbook and show it to the border guard. I'm not sure that's considered as suspicious as you think absent any other suspicious behaviors.
Pretty clean shell script: https://github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch/blob/master/patch.sh

Surprised there are no protection/obfuscation methods against patching the `.so` in this fashion. No checksums, signatures, etc.
The whole reading this was in my head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoLJSmvsbs8
This one is tricky. You just don't have the same rights when trying to enter a country as you do if you're stopped by the police. Border officials have the power to deny you entry and generally there's very little recourse if they do. This makes you way more vulnerable and likely to cooperate than you would, say, during a routine traffic stop.
> why are they no longer turning up in the search results as much as reddit, quora, etc?

Because they might contain "fake news" and are thus too problematic to show to you. And of course, they don't make any profit for Google since those kinds of sites are largely ad-free.

The sites are of course still out there, Google et al. just don't want to show them to you.
We also had the term "slop" before and it's not strictly related to AI but "content or media of little-to-no value".
That's almost by definition true. Something like 8-9% of the USA's population is millionaires, lots of times just from housing and 401K appreciation. 8-9% of the population didn't graduate from top tier schools.
That's a result of natural selection forced by search engines. I think that's why I like ChatGPT so much. You can ask it very specific things and it will tell you exactly what you need. It does also output verbose answers by default, but you can control it by promoting for a short answer.
Fictions are encoded in the brain's microstates and drive its behaviour, comparable to how gate charge on transistors drives a computer state. But that is an interesting thought, because all of those microstates and their evolution are counterfactually described by a computer program, and much like math, perhaps a computer program in some sense has a platonic existence that isn't reducible to physical states. I probably wouldn't go in that direction, but some philosophers have made this case for math.
The bootloader is read-only, the firmware it boots is updateable.

The bootloader allows you to update the device with new firmware. MCU are different than computers. And since you can't overwrite the bootloader, you can't brick the MCU. You can always just reset it.

fwiw; I've never bricked an MCU buy flashing something weird onto it. The hobbyist MCUs sold are typically quite easy to re-flash with new firmware.
Use whatever word you like better. Straightforward, Simple, uncomplicated
not difficult.

Seriously, set up a new phone, new number, new Gmail account, new IG/FB accounts, use them a week before you leave- tell your friends "Follow me here for my trip!" and have your phone number forwawrded. Put a few contacts in it. Done. Not a big deal at all for most technically competent people. That's us, right?
> the question that follows is: Why 8? Why not 7 or 9?

The reaction you may get:

https://youtu.be/rnso4nfdM9w?si=YixDlKDmBXB7xrXc

(From "Something about Mary" film.)
Personally I think an API endpoint is "dead simple" but if your API endpoint is async, you still need to know not to call sync functions in it. The fact that such a large share of Python developers don't understand this concerns me.
I don't think the executive going down in their own creation and using a video game controller before imploding is a tale as old time.
My favorite answer from soccer moms when I ask them why they drive their huge (by US standard tiny to normal) SUVs just around the city: 'I see better from up there and I feel safer in big car'.

So, bad driving skills and realizing it via lack of self-trust, being compensated with degradation of roads and parking for everybody else, or just throwing money at the problem (without fixing underlying issue, but feeling less shitty about it).

All could be easily solved by proportional taxation. Swiss folks figured it like many other things already, each canton has their own car tax rules but most are some formula with horse powers and car weight combined. No chance this decade for anything similar in the US I believe.
https://wiby.me/ is also a good search engine for (re-)discovering the alternate (or rather original) web.
nit: There are 6 different espressif microcontrollers in that table, not "dozens".

Espressif also went many years with only the ESP8266, then many years more after introducing the ESP32 before this recent binge of releasing a new series every time they blink. ESP-IDF is really suffering for it, so I hope Raspberry avoid this fate or at least find a better way to support them all.
At the heart of it: I feel like I'm Apple's customer in a way that I never feel like Google's customer (in everything they do it always seems like their real customers are Ad Buyers, even when you are ostensibly paying for services). (And Microsoft is in the middle and all over the map where some divisions treat you like a customer and others don't depending on the prevailing winds and the phase of the moon.)
I started reading the abstract and thought immediately about Gregory Chaitin [1] measure of complexity, then searching on the text it is obviously there. I think it is a simple and good read to review Solomonoff–Kolmogorov–Chaitin [2] before reading the paper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Chaitin

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
> when were you last excited for a new phone? Well, I mean really excited?

Everyone already had phones by the time I came into this world, so I'm not sure there was ever a time to be really excited. They were just an every day part of normal life, not providing much to get excited about.

I was really excited for my first internet-connected pocket computer, but that too is something everyone has now and are just a part of every day normal life. They will never be really exciting again either.

Something will really excite me again someday, but it won't be something I (and just about everyone else) already have. That level of excitement requires something that will completely change the way of life.
I love the "unfortunate OR unexpected" demise phrasing.

I've created a document several years ago, after getting married, that outlines what I want to be done with my company, my products, my IP, my devices, and so on.

Now that you mention it, I need to update it a bit.

But yes, the idea is that I'm setting a bit of money aside for my executor to hire somebody to drip-feed the videos with whatever the technology of that year is.
Here there is no problem.

You have a completely free choice to use 1password, BitWarden, KeePass etc ..... Apple is not stopping you.

Forcing all browsers on iOS to use Safari is a different matter.
> At the very least, if an application absolutely requires an account to function, this should be prominently displayed,

This is the answer IMHO. I love that Google has been moving this direction with the Play Store, and I'd love to see them continue. Labels with "requires account" or something would be immensely helpful, and would be mandatory if I became ruler of the Play Store.
The extreme invasiveness of anti-cheat software is why I stopped buying and playing most modern video games years ago.

It's a much higher price than I'm willing to pay.
> work in progress

In the euphemistic sense. In the literal sense, there are no commits for over a year.
Slightly off topic feedback: find a different name. There are too many products named Thread or Threads out there, it's impossible to Google and doesn't convey much information about your particular tool.
> Most of the cost for NJ Transit is to pay the driver.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you actually claiming that a majority of NJ Transit costs are paying bus and train drivers?
I recently visited the national bowling hall of fame in Reno. On the bottom floor there's a consumer grade bowling alley.

For the lanes, they had some fancy new tablets in place of the old school 80s keyboard system.

We couldn't figure out how to change our names from "Player 1". Tapping the name did nothing. Navigating all over the various screens revealed nothing helpful. No help page. Turns out you need to tap the little default avatar for your player, barely a fingertip large. None of us imagined it was a touch target. When someone quit, it turns out you need to ask the front desk to remove them.

Eventually I noticed that there were no fun animations between plays, like the old animated videos of a bowling pin stopping his car to get out a "spare" tire. Just a scoreboard. You might say they were imitating the professional atmosphere upstairs, but then I wouldn't have bright lights flashing in my eyes during my approach to bowl.

The lane next to me reached a stuck state where no matter how many balls they sent down the lane, the system wouldn't pick the pins up or send the balls back. I had never seen this happen in my prior 20 years of yearly bowling, though I'm sure it happens occasionally.

What happened to computing? Are we the only industry whose output quality seems to go backwards every year? Is it just a beginning lull while we figure out how to provide lane bumpers for the Eternal September programmers? Or do we accept the econ-left topic of the year and blame private equity for our inability to produce UX, too?

Anyways, I do recommend the bowling hall of fame. The HOF player pictures look exactly like you want them to. Late in my last game a guy strolled by and explained how to bowl a strike by lining up on the right side instead of the left like I was doing. I handed him the ball and he threw a slow, easy strike, which scored me a spare because I suck. I thought he was an employee but I was later filled in that he was a hall of famer leaving the upstairs tournament late.
> amazing view of the Titanic

This is the sort of experience where I doubt the view was anywhere as good as what an unmanned vehicle that prioritized lighting and filming could capture. I suspect this was far more about being able to say “I spent $[huge amount of money] and got to see it with my own eyes” even though the view was probably pretty shit with everyone crowded around a small dome.
Good point.

I do find myself sometimes even prompting for a shorter answer after it hits me with a blob of text ;)
Cars slow down in narrow winding steets. Wide straight streets are very prone to speeding.
You can be two things at once.
People wants to pay for content, but publishers are either not working on content worth paying for or don’t want you to purchase, they want you to rent instead.
Not sure if it's half the work, since they did do the work at one point. And projects like armbian do the work to provide recent versions of debian/ubuntu that work on the popular SBCs.
Raspberry Pis also need some work to be supported, Raspberry Pi OS is just maintained by Rasperry Pi and not some third party.

> Either way the reasoning "somebody one day might start doing what Raspberry Pi is already doing" is not as damning as you make it sound.

I'd say "Plenty of companies do similar things".
Like a Galaxy Note?
The subscription usually comes in a package and people hate to pay for something they disagree with, even if it's just one author of several, or the occassional mistake.

Might not be the main reason, just that these unsatisfied users are so vocal, idk.
To elaborate on the alternative:

When the bootloader is not read-only, you can upload another bootloader.

This is great in a different way because custom bootloaders allow for more flexibility.

For example, you may want to keep two copies of your firmware on the chip: One that you're uploading, and one you can fall back to if the most recent one has problems. This protects you against failure during firmware upload or post-deployment failure, because you only overwrite one of the two. So if the device switches off while flashing it, and you boot back up, a custom bootloader can just default to the older copy.

But... what if you update the bootloader and it fails?

Then you can't use the bootloader to upload new firmware. Bricked.

To unbrick a bootloader you need to overwrite the bootloader using alternative methods that don't involve the bootloader, which usually involves attaching wires to the print. This is highly inconvenient in a production setting: Maybe your hardware is encased, embedded in a bigger thing, or located on a pole on a mountain top in a different country.

So a read-only bootloader is a safe choice, and you can make other workarounds wrt. flexibility.
Same here. I tried them all several years ago, and BW was the only one that gave me anything like a native experience across all of my wildly varying devices.
3. Get arrested for bringing "indecent material" or whatever they call that into the country.
If there is that much demand for a more traditional bowling experience, it seems like one of the bowlers complaining about the "new" experience should open an alternative. And will make a killing.
I switched from ESP32 to the RP2040 because it's a much more reliable and documented device. My only concern right now with the RP2040 is that there are many ESP32 models with SPIRAM but it's not so simple to find a SPIRAM equipped RP2040 board. To be honest, given that the C development environment of the RP2040 is so good, you can make good use of the memory, but when one wants to develop a large MicroPython project, the SPIRAM is really a great asset. Other than that, everything about the RP2040 is just great.
I think you're right. Since LLMs went mainstream, I've seen a lot of my colleagues' presentations and thought "was this written by ChatGPT?" but I've come to wonder if it's just given me the frame of mind to identify low-effort slop that lacks any original insight but uses all the right sorts of words and phrases, regardless of if it was authored by a human or not.
After Babel is Jonathan Haidt's site. He is very much not a conservative, as one might guess from his insistence on governments controlling everyone's social media and smartphone use. Although his work has tried to address the exclusion of conservatives from academia, that doesn't make him one.
Apple made an iPad calculator app after 14 years and it works with Apple Pencil
It's not fully homomorphic encryption. The compute is happening in the plain on the other side, and given the scale of models they are running, it's not likely that all of the data involved in a computation is happening inside a single instance of particularly secure and hardened hardware. I don't think it's reasonable for most individuals to expect to be protected from nation-state actors or something, but their claims seem a little too absolute to me.
see slop ? say something !

there will be a backlash against robotic phone assistants in support centers.

support businesses that dont put out slop or ai-garbage.
One nice side effect of headlights becoming LED arrays is that selective dimming is free in terms of marginal cost. Right now it's a luxury car gimmick but it'll eventually trickle down, and then we can mandate it.
Chicken and the egg there as far as "worth paying for" although I'd argue that's not really any different than "don't want to pay".
As the article states, they can take your phone and try to hack it, but they can't otherwise punish you for refusing to give them your password.
What I like about this is how neatly it reduces everything to a small set of concepts. Much like lisp and forth, but not the same as either. It's exciting to think that there may be more of these out there, waiting to be discovered!
> you have to be relatively sophisticated not to get taken in

More than that, you have to be ever vigilant, which is not a resonable expectation for anyone. It only takes one lapse at the wrong moment.
Maxwell demon?
There's no need to apologize. This whole line of work by Haidt and his associates has been heavily attacked on the grounds of poor methodologies, and Haidt's responses were astoundingly bad. For example, someone spot checked some of the hundreds of studies he presented and found none of them really supported the social media/teen girl mental health link he was asserting; his response was "they can't all be wrong" and "you shouldn't demand a high standard of evidence in a crisis" (where the evidence there was a crisis was the same evidence he was presenting...)
Shouldn't you focus on the firms selling to PE's instead?

The PE's can only hostile take over public companies, the rest have to sell themselves.

I think the growth of PE's is due to the firms' owners realizing they don't want to be in business anymore, having the goal of eventually selling to someone (ala selling to FAANG in the DOT COM space), or the owners can't scale their businesses beyond what they are now.
Story time: when I worked at Google we had a specific policy for traveling to and from China. IIRC it went something like this:

1. You absolutely aren't allowed to take your regular phone and laptop;

2. You will be given loaner devices to take into China;

3. If you're asked to open such devices on entry, comply and then, when you can, inform IT;

4. Once you got back, I'm not sure what happened to those devices. I believe they were in the very least wiped. They may even have been destroyed in certain circumstances (eg if a border official examined the open device). But that's speculation.

I never travelled to China so never used this. A colleague who regularly traveled to China told me some stories about this.

But yes it does seem prudent to wipe your device and restore when you land. Then again, border officials can also deny you entry with very little justification so who knows?
> There is no limit on how long the devices can be held but the agency said the policy was to keep devices for no longer than 14 days unless it took longer to examine them.
False. False. False.

1. People could forcibly seize and redistribute content already made in years 1980-2020. Even that would be better than slop.

2. People could read only those - like scientists or open source and public domain authors - either funded by the state or otherwise willing to publish their works for free at high quality without the monetization slop text. The content exists, but monetized slop hides it.

3. Actually good AI can compress multiple slop articles into useful, non-sloppy content.

I'd be perfectly fine if the internet consists of just math textbooks and science papers, and actually good articles automatically distilled from slop.

It has the potential to give us what we need.

The problem is that slop hides all that!
They are boring because these not-quite-future-proof smartphones need to also look like e-waste to the consumer in 18 months time so minimal sentimental attachment is preferred.
Phone searches at borders have been common, all around the world (and in Australia), way before COVID existed.

https://i.nextmedia.com.au/Assets/fa-220200502-document-rele...
Some people with insomnia think they're awake when they're asleep