skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it’s because the noise cancellation is muting sounds and when you remove them your body is readjusting to the normal world.

Much like the phenomenon that users report: when they first get AirPods they think the noise cancelation is top notch. After a year or two they report the cancellation has significantly degraded. In fact, it was their mind’s expectations that changed rather than the noise cancelation hardware.

Just suspicion. Not an expert in audiology.
Please. Corporations would LOVE to zero out corporation taxes and replace them with a consumption tax.

For years Steve Forbes the billionaire was the face of "the consumption tax". You dont get richer or more corporate than that fucker.

I dont want to tax the middle classes on their income either. It's regressive just not AS regressive as a consumption tax.

I want a land value tax.
A better system would be one where the company paid a fine starting at $500 per record. Also, not all consumers who have had their data stolen gave it to the organization willingly.
I have caps lock remapped as escape: I decided long ago that the standard escape key is not accessible enough for me, so maybe some people do need a wide escape key
Litmaps: Improving Literature Review
I agree, but hardly any of your replies were into the sense of what WinDev is doing to support .NET on Windows like Swift are Java/Kotlin are on their respective platforms, instead of their usual COM and C++ agenda, rather what DevDiv, rogue engineers we should be thankful for their sice project efforts, and FOSS .NET community.

Yes the community is doing lots, WinDev is not.
You can still scrape Linkedin today, can you not?
At least in the US, property ownership has been public record. You can look up who owns any parcel of land. You can't opt out of your address being public. It's just somewhat easier to search this data in today's era.
You can define 'C' macros to replace the curly braces with #BEGIN and #END if you like, but it makes you look like you'd rather be writing Pascal. In which case, you are fighting the language, not embracing it. It's not a great idea.

I feel like if you don't like writing Python, write something else. I hear good things about "Go" and it has curly braces.
first half a year-year babies can't focus their eyes, iirc

still several of OOM difference
Sure, but there are one-size-fits-95% solutions, and they're better than one-size-fits-90% solutions.
Data breach insurance is not helping.

Using weak passwords, leaving credentials where others can see them and downloading infected files can all lead to compromised data. Data breach insurance is specifically designed to protect a company in the aftermath of such an unexpected event.

Business correctly recognizes data breaches as a risk. The insurance industry allows companies to export that risk to them. Data breach insurance pays for the financial impact to the business as a result of a data breach. This does not protect customers and in-fact creates misaligned incentives between a business and its customers.

One solution would be to legislate that insurance is not acceptable for an organization to mitigate cyber risk. States and the federal government could do this by passing a law. I don’t see something like that getting passed though. The insurance industry and every business, both large and small, will lobby hard against it. You’d really need a strong grassroots consumer advocacy group to push hard for this, something that tells people’s personal stories to the media.
Get our reproduction cycle to be based on advanced tech. Then let society collapse so it doesn't have the tech anymore. Will take a few generations still.
>Distal to the tech here but man, once you see the passive voice vs active voice stuff on this issue, you really can't un-see it. Astounding.

The author is an Arabic speaking, English as a second language pro-Palestinian activist/writer. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make?
Of course - I was being facetious. But I disagree with your assessment of how realistic it is. We already have it on a small scale today in the form of some projects using their own gitlab/gitea instances. If Github were to enshitify I expect we would see a push for this from a lot more communities.

I don't think it's that much of a stretch to design a system that keeps, for instance, issue, wiki, and PR metadata in git alongside code. This could then support simple import/export between instances. You could also support cross-instance forking and PR's.

The biggest problems I think you would still have are 1. third-party integrations and 2. abuse/spam prevention. Having been the system-owner for GitHub at a large engineering org before, I can say that for us, switching away would have been virtually impossible because of all the integrations we would have to replace. But, this is a consequence of the centre of gravity being Github currently and not an immutable law of nature.

As for 2, well I expect that'll remain one of the hard unsolved problems of computer science for the time being.
Nvidia CEO: no one-on-one meetings for his direct reports
Yeah I think it will always be that way though because there's no real reason for hobbyists to design a custom IC - anything they can afford to get manufactured could be done on an FPGA.

Still, even the open source FPGA tooling is very far behind the commercial software, and there is a reason for hobbyists to use FPGAs. I really hope it improves eventually.

I'm not very hopeful though. My experience of switching from the software industry to the hardware industry has shown me that most hardware people are just really bad at software and also don't really care about it. (Which is kind of weird because hardware design is really just programming for an unusual target platform.)

The fact that Verilator exists and mostly works is a big outlier.
You answered your own question, there, Berty.
I mean isn't security by obscurity generally accepted as bad practice?

If everyone treated it as easily available data, and stopped using the act of having it alone as "proof" of anything we could be much more secure. E.g. merely having someones address should not be enough to get their house swatted.
There are uBlock Origin filter lists to get rid of StackOverflow clones from web searches, such as:

* https://github.com/levymetal/filter-lists

(I don't remember where I took that one from, but probably was from this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33747333)

uBO already works fine on Chrome, Firefox desktop, and Firefox Android. Same syntax could be used to block any other domains, as desired. No need for a whole independent extension to just do that.
From what I understand, according to the best estimates this is already happening and we should have seen global cooling for a long time now if it wasn’t for greenhouse gas emissions

.. which means that the level of emissions we have right now is far, far beyond what’s necessary for avoiding global cooling.

This should be obvious if you look at best estimates of the rate of cooling/warming in the past. The warming we see now is happening much faster than anything seen before so it’s absolutely not a good thing in any conceivable way
Not really sold on this take. It seems pretty bigco-focused and a bit weak and arbitrary.

You could equally divide R&D teams in many other ways, eg. academic vs. startup vs. bigco, shipping vs. pre-market, targeted vs. wandering, focused vs. scattergun, single domain vs. cross-domain, business focused vs. possibility focused, full time vs. part time, dedicated space and facility vs. shared with production, etc.
What Emacs got right, or how modern apps were more like 50 year old text editor
The GitHub user-base cares more about decentralization than the Facebook user-base. Maybe there is hope.
Most cosmic neighbors have evolved to enjoy a good firm anal probe by way of introduction. We are the weird ones, yet again, in our distaste for getting thoroughly probed.
I remember using Text OCR and Voice recognition in the 90's. It was like 90% there, it seemed like we were just a few years away from it working perfectly.

Almost 30 years later, OCR and voice recognition, now backed by machine learning, is far more impressive than it was back then, but it still keeps making mistakes that I have to fix. And those are far, far easier problems than driving.
You're taking it too far. KYC concerns legal entities, that's a different story. In regards to individuals and their privacy, there are ways to greatly minimize personal information processing in "plain" form while keeping records (or access to records) to fulfill legal obligations.

Having had conversations with people on security and anti-fraud teams, many experts clearly share this view.
The "computer is always right" precedent is now being challenged by the Chartered Institute for IT https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/law/it-experts-call-for-review-...

It's astonishing this 'guilty until proven innocent' approach has ever been allowed to stand up in court
Employees are not a finite resource. Pay enough to hire half of the chartered accountants and that will drive the creation of more. Demand follows supply.

Land is finite. Buy half of all the land and that won't exactly drive the creation of more land will it? It'll just drive up the price of existing land.

This is in a nutshell why some things in America are dirt cheap (e.g. electronics, clothes) while houses keep getting more and more absurdly priced.
Go is more than a language; Go is a platform
My goal was to provide context on what is out there in terms of consumption of Windows APIs (many people are hand-rolling bindings, where they could have added CsWin32/Rt and two lines to an imports file, or write a complex C++ sandwich for DX12 where they could have consumed it, effectively, directly) and to that extent it is achieved :)

We don't know what is current WinDev situation, FWIW COM interop changes in .NET are "official" rather than grassroots, but then again, MSFT is pretty much a huge conglomerate of smaller sized companies rather than a huge monolithic entity.
Use mudguards, chain guard and coat guards.
Technology is always developed to earn more monies. Progress is just a side-effect of monetary greed.

It's said thrice, but when you remove the monetary greed, you have Mullvad VPN.

P.S.: Yes, I say monies specifically, because the people who use "monies" as job parlance has the most monetary greed from my experience.
I have FSD and totally agree with you. I use it about 90% of the time, feel less stressed and more safe. I feel like I have a good idea and where it might have an issue and am super vigilant in those situations but way more relaxed on those same stretches of road it's driven perfectly 100 times already. It's "nice to have" in normal driving conditions and f-ing wonderful when there's traffic.
There are apparently ways to opt out of that too, with a land trust or shell corporation.
>> Theorem proving and program fuzzing seem like good candidates for combining search with LLM's, due to automated, fast, good evaluation functions.

The problem with that is that search procedures and "evaluation functions" known to e.g. the theorem proving or planning communities are already at the limit of what is theoretically optimal, so what you need is not a new evaluation or search procedure but new maths, to know that there's a reason to try in the first place.

Take theorem proving, as a for instance (because that's my schtick). SLD-Resolution is a sound and complete automated theorem proving procedure for inductive inference that can be implemented by Depth-First Search, for a space-efficient implementation (but is susceptible to looping on left-recursions), or Breadth-First Search with memoization for a time-efficient implementation (but comes with exponential space complexity). "Evaluation functions" are not applicable- Resolution itself is a kind of "evaluation" function for the truth, or you could say the certainty of truth valuations, of sentences in formal logic; and, like I say, it's sound and complete, and semi-decidable for definite logic, and that's the best you can do short of violating Church-Turing. You could perhaps improve the efficiency by some kind of heuristic search (people for example have tried that to get around the NP-hardness of subsumption, an important part of SLD-Resolution in practice) which is where an "evaluation function" (i.e. a heuristic cost function more broadly) comes in, but there are two problems with this: a) if you're using heuristic search it means you're sacrificing completeness, and, b) there are already pretty solid methods to derive heuristic functions that are used in planning (from relaxations of a planning problem).

The lesson is: soundness, completeness, efficiency; choose two. At best a statistical machine learning approach, like an LLM, will choose a different two than the established techniques. Basically, we're at the point where only marginal gains, at the very limits of overall performance can be achieved when it comes to search-based AI. And that's were we'll stay at least until someone comes up with better maths.
I think that is very different from cloning repos from Github in accordance with the licences.

I agree crawling sites to the extent it causes problems is a problem.

Googlebot and Bingbot do follow robots.txt and respect HTTP 429 responses and usually have reasonable default crawl rates.

Is it possible that these are scrapers using fake UA strings?
Because it doesn't work that way. I was suggesting ways you may get what you need now, because lobbying on HN for Apple to change their hardware and software probably won't accomplish much.

We could all think of things that would make our devices work better, for us, but Apple sells consumer electronics to a global mass market so we have to live with their design decisions or find something else that works better for us.
This magnetic anomalies have been noticed before an earthquakes on many occasions.

For example this study found 2 out of 3 major earthquakes studied had similar precursor events. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14747...

It’s not consistent, but it’s more than a one off correlation.
They use underhanded tactics such as showing a pixel-perfect recreation of the address book permission dialog with only the "accept" button functional, and upon clicking that the real one pops up - most people would think it was just a glitch and click again on the real one (even though technically the "decline" button is now functional too).
Richard Stallman has never done a single thing to make me believe he’s anything other than motivated by deeply held principles rooted in the right to privacy and other individual liberties.

Snowden’s true motivations are far less certain.
I'd like to say Sun SPARCstation Voyager[0], but I have nothing on it but the name and its LCD screen. In the trailer some UltraSPARCs can be seen, as noted by others

[0] https://www.oldsilicon.com/sparcstation-voyager
Even if the modular housing factory is union?

In the Bay area there's an SF carpenter's union vs Vallejo carpenter's union thing, because there's a modular housing factory in Vallejo.
Developing your own framework for understanding reality
With the speed of light being a hard limit, should be sending out more probes like this with more and more advanced sensor tech so that our children can see far away things. They will need to know where to send the generation ships.
> I very much doubt that it is technologically ahead of its competitors.

This is where they are as of April 2024: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INCLA-EA22002-14498.pd...

"ODI completed an extensive body of work via PE21020 and EA22002, which showed evidence that Tesla’s weak driver engagement system was not appropriate for Autopilot’s permissive operating capabilities. This mismatch resulted in a critical safety gap between drivers’ expectations of the L2 system’s operating
capabilities and the system’s true capabilities. This gap led to foreseeable misuse and avoidable crashes. During EA220002, ODI identified at least 13 crashes involving one or more fatalities and many more involving serious injuries, in which foreseeable driver misuse of the system played an apparent role. ODI’s analysis conducted during this investigation, which aligns with Tesla’s conclusion in its Defect Information Report, indicated that in certain circumstances, Autopilot’s system controls and warnings were insufficient for a driver assistance system that requires constant supervision by a human driver."
Not everyone owns a house, and people with privacy concerns have for a long time used companies or trusts to hold property or to simplify family ownership (my next-door neighbors are nowhere near rich but used a family trust to simplify inheritance when the owner started getting old).
Games are closed systems. There’s no unknowns in the rule set or world state because the game wouldn’t work if there were. No unknown unknowns. Compare to physics or biology where we have no idea if we know 1% or 90% of the rules at this point.
They need to go back and asset strip the project managers who lied. They also need to prosecute people for perjury, perverting the course of justice, fraud, misrepresentation and misuse of public funds. They all need prison time. It’s clear as day.
I have clients who have done it. The last one was a service for brands who wanted to see how their products were placed and described on Amazon.
It's rarely about growth per se. Inferring someone's social graph and reidentifying them based on that would allow you to link them to their other accounts/shadow profiles and better target ads for them and their friends.

Simple example, let's say the social platform knows you're into football. It has no information on whether your friends are into it, but if they see that you are mutual contacts they can try show football-related ads to your friends too and potentially get a boost in ad performance.
I think VVC is even better, MXPlayer streaming already has shows streaming in VVC in India! I dont know how they're doing it but its live. VVC is supposedly 20-30% more efficient than av1
Ironically, iPhones for the China market actually allow you to restrict not just cellular data but also Wi-Fi.
It’s a bad sign for Boeing that I immediately wondered what kind of 737 this was that failed and whether it was a new issue or not. Pilot issues and weather never entered my mind.
The theory I've heard is that if the kids end up advanced in grades far beyond their peers they'll struggle to develop socially, since they'll be surrounded by older kids/adults. If that's accurate then gifted programs of peers could be one solution.
This just rekindled my desire to self-host my git repos. The whole idea that a platform provider can use the IP I host there is obscene. That thieves steal by bounty from each other is not the story.
Rust implementation of the FastLanes compression library
I agree to some extent, especially about the value of truth. But I think you’re oversimplifying.

For example, let’s imagine we are in a hypothetical future Sweden where “true defamation” is legal and that somebody is spreading false rumors that you are a rapist. Now you have to decide if you should take them to court or not. If you don’t then people will think “oh it must be true then”. If you do then you will have to prove you are not a rapist, under a balance of probabilities test. This is much harder than defending yourself from a criminal indictment, where the burden of proof is on the prosecutor / victim. So what do you do? If you do go to court and fail to prove your innocence then there’s now an official document that essentially states you are a rapist.
Could still be done by re-incorporating companies in countries without kyc laws. And if fines for being breached get high enough, that's probably what would happen.

That would probably be bad for tax receipts though, so it's more realistic that there's an upper bound on infosec related fines
Presumably you don't allow curl requests to your application to set passwords. In practice the password probably comes from an HTML form input, which doesn't allow entering a null byte. And you could sanitize the input before passing it to the password_hash function, or reject it as invalid. A couple of PHP applications I work on have a function to check for a valid password -- printable ASCII characters only, minimum length, etc. A null byte would not pass.

If someone deliberately tries to insert a null and get it to your backend code somehow they deserve to get an error.
We don’t need legislation, just dramatically increased penalties for a breach. Now insurance premiums drastically increase unless you’ve done x, y, z.

I’m not all “free market solves it all”, but it definitely works well at balancing money through the system. We just haven’t correctly priced a data-breach.
Oh my, that person dressed in white: https://youtu.be/KnPiP9PkLAs?t=55
Microsoft could sabotage Amazon's AI model by returning poisoned code to accounts registered with @amazon.com email addresses.
Have you tried mailinabox (https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox)?

If so, what do you think.
Swiss parliament spurns European climate ruling
as one female academic said it: scholarships specifically for women are reinforcing the idea that women are inferior because they would not be accepted without that scholarship.

https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39943464
I use FSD a lot and generally like and feel less stressed and safer. For me, since I dive mostly the same roads a lot, I know which roads and intersections FSD can handle correctly and which ones it can't, so I use it where it works and don't use it where it doesn't. I've personally had a pretty big increase in use over the last year because it's just plain getting so much better. It works in places now where it didn't before.
These, got em used: https://a.co/d/1QXJlmw
Very cool. Quick note on the SNR, though. My understanding is that every bit gets you 6, but maybe with this architecture that's not the case. Regardless, SNR is unitless so it's dB, not dBm. It's a very common mistake and I made it a lot starting out. The rtl tcp bridge is an great way to quickly leverage existing work.
Darkness is coming!

https://xkcd.com/1391/
It’s funny how yesterday’s submission (mine) only has 75 points and this one 441. Goes to show that the time and date you post something on HN plays an important role.

I remember seeing an analysis on when is the best time and day to post something based on your country, but couldn’t find it now.
There is a brilliant documentary series about metal detecting in the UK called The Detectorists. It's very insightful and highly recommended.
And the "Bing" just links to Bing's Dalle3 functionality
Completely agree on this. A company-killing level of fine, based on number or records exposed, is appropriate. Then the insurance companies would not ensure companies unless they passed stringent audits around best practice and data hygiene.
Can you give five examples?
Swaayatt Robots – Autonomous Driving
Can you backdate the app? I've taken to even turning off auto updates from Google Play (would be nice to leave some on for anything I care about security but whatever). No more random "yeah we redesigned everything and now it sucks" surprises. But, some apps phone home and require updates.
That’s the thing. There’s a ton of grifters and/or idiots in the compliance space. If you talk to an actual lawyer that specializes in SOX litigation, or similar, you’ll find that many of the measures your compliance or fake-infosec people are telling you that you have to do aren’t actually required by any law or regulation.
Do your Macs a favour by getting a UPS
The word that's missing from the headline: "results"
https://www.youtube.com/@swaayattrobots1827/videos
Well, that's not universal:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/norway/tromso
Park rangers, all the fire departments, normal people who try temporarily route traffic around something unusual like a crash, animals, hazardous conditions.

And to detect when someone is doing a prank or just a homeless guy yelling and waving their fist at cars etc