skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of those things really affect the banking, government services, education, ID, health etc apps that the OP was concerned with.

Of course they do. All those entities have to follow terms and conditions of Apple to reach THEIR customers/citizens, requiring them to share crucial information to Apple, the sole gatekeeper with a vested interest to maximize user-profit.

> At a stretch, you could argue that the banking apps sort of kind of compete with Apple wallet in the credit card space, but like I said, it's a bit of a stretch.

No stretch at all. The market operator also offers financial services directly, while having privileged access (as preloaded app) and a superior level of information (via user profiling) about the users needs and behavior. Other financial service providers have the choice between paying revenue-share to Apple to be integrated with Apple Pay, or have their services only surface if the customer explicitly searches for their app (all while a competitor may pay the rev-share and have higher integration/visibility from the market provider)
> Is this one of those generational things like "on accident" vs. "by accident"

"On accident": Abomination! Kill it with fire, now! </OldFartRant>
There was a discussion on /r/professors about this exact issue. The big downside they identified with blue exam books is that 90 minutes or 2 hours or whatever with no spell checker is insufficient time for most students to have developed appropriately deep insights for college-level work.
Good title pun, discussion yesterday (29 points, yesterday, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40775252
Encrypted with what key? Do you just mean obscured?
>The work was not for profit and in the public interest.

And so, in your world, if I rob a bank and give all the money to really good charities that measurably make peoples' live better, it's not illegal?

Or if I kill a known pedophile/child rapist to keep them from hurting more children, is that not illegal?

Is that what you believe? If so, why bother having laws at all? We just need to ask our modern-day Solomon -- akira2501, that is -- if something can be justified, and as such, is legal. Or am I missing something?
I live in a wealthy part of Wyoming. Rivians are by a decent shot the most popular EV I see driven by locals. (There is one Cybertruck, but I think it's on Turo and mocking it brings the F-250, EV and Subaru drivers together. Plenty of normal Teslas, though.)
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40790640
yes, and they also have the power to tell multinationals where they are allowed, geographically, to store the locals' data.

the grandparent has invented a fake problem (data regionalization, as though it cannot be addressed with regulation) and has conflated a nationalist-socialist desire to replace a foreign private enterprise with a nationalized public one. it's nationalist because it assumes that the nation needs to own it, and socialist because at the national level a public solution is proposed.

the solution, in turn, doesn't actually solve the regionalization problem unless the state organization running the nationalized ride share app is required through further legislation to keep the data local -- the same legislation that would be needed to regulate private entities, except now it's the government regulating itself since the public national ride share app is operated and owned by the government, and is now open to all the problems of corruption that plague every command economy.

But by all means, be more like North Korea, South Korea. Just nationalize everything. You don't want American influence. Those American monopolies and American dollars have really made you worse off in the last seventy years. /s
Yeah 2003 they were getting away with that - now they have to list the VIN and "only one available" and similar wording.
> In fairness, he's been busy with another legal battle that he appears to consider a matter of life-and-death.

Agreed, it will be very interesting to see how this particular thing goes forward from today. Ideally, he would defend himself. I wouldn't hate to be proven wrong, as heroes are few and far between.

However, post-release, becoming a main character in a certain political branch of the podcast-sphere might allow him to ignore any of these annoying factual issues and do just fine.

/cynical
So what does VW get out of it? Anything specific from Rivian that they couldn't get otherwise?
It depends on what you're writing. I've seen slow C++ and fast Python. Not to imply your director made a bad call; especially if you already had a reference Python implementation to check against the new C++ implementation for correctness, you can gain quite a bit depending on The domain you're operating in by swapping out a Python engine with an engine written in another language (if for no other reason and it gives you an opportunity to check all your assumptions against a system solving real problems for real people).
I hope your code doesn't use colons anyway, :parameter for example is a forbidden word.

Oh, and line breaks get replaced by something that breaks some editors¹, and quotes obviously get mangled.

1 - I mean, look at their name! Teams is right here!
My love of Aldi comes from the fact that my attention isn't being accosted as soon as I walk in the door. It's the stuff I need, without advertisements, screens, music, etc.
The price doesn't hurt either. Before I began shopping there, I was exclusively at The Fresh Market, so when I switched, my grocery bill was cut by 2/3.
You're talking about the employees of big tech firms, right?
Same. Assange was an actor for Russia, and acted against American interests, whether by design or by accident. He played a role in the election of Trump and in the weakening of US standing and intelligence.

This soft-handed approach towards anti-American behavior is the culmination of multiple movements in the post-Soviet era where the remnants of Soviet-sponsored communists and other home-grown agitators align themselves with anti-western groups around the world (Russia, Iran, China, various terrorist groups, etc). These groups have a lot of influence in the left in general, and in the current US administration, so it's not surprising that now is the time that Assange gets a friendly deal. Between this and Manning's sentence being commuted, I think a lot of damage has been done to our security apparatuses. What's the dissuade the next kid with delusions of toppling the corrupt American empire from exposing state secrets in a noble act on behalf of our comrades in the benign and honorable states of Russia, China, and Iran?
+1 for secondhand, surprisingly easy to find around the world too (I had one couriered from Paris, from a liquidated startup to my home office in Toulouse)
I would replace government with people: people should collectively demand what you have described.

This ultimately is a function of education, which will get better as technical knowledge becomes more widely and freely available.

As you say, it's only a matter of time before the walled gardens start to crumble.
“A developer could typo something” is kind of weak because you could use this argument for basically anything.
Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet 'tipping point'
iCloud sometimes silently fails to download files. Dropbox have, on multiple occasions, resurrected years-deleted files, Drive is a dumpster fire - it doesn't even support exclusions, so will happily (try to) sync multi-gigabyte PST files, causing drastic CPU, drive and network IO saturation and Outlook faults. But hey, at least people consent to this trouble.
Why would we think that every country blocking out foreign companies would result in better software being written for consumers in that country?

I think some tiny amount of protectionism can be necessary to get a domestic industry started, when it is important for reasons beyond giving access to the best products like national security. Especially in edge cases like competing with foreign companies with the backing of their state government or an international market that has degenerated to a monopoly. But ultimately free trade makes better products and international consumers richer and is the desired end goal, not every nation rewriting the same tech stack and providing local flavors of software solving similar problems.
Tesla once looked futuristic, but now they're sorely lacking : automatic windscreen wipers still don't work properly (they work perfectly well on my 2005 Ford Focus, thank you), they now lack basic ergonomic features such as a turn signal lever, their "self driving" feature is horribly lagging behind most other makers (constant phantom braking still a recurring problem after years and years, no proper automatic overtaking, inferior speed control and speed limit enforcement, etc).
Your privilege is showing, lol. It didn't even occur to you that what you call an unimaginable "straw man" is just normal life for the majority of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck and send the majority of their assets off to their landlord every month.

The OP didn't explain this since it is obvious to most people, and the elite few who don't get this knowledge for free, frankly, have a basic duty to society to learn a little bit about how the other half lives, so that they don't constantly embarrass themselves as you just did, or as Mrs Vanderbilt once famously did when she asked where the gardeners bought the leaves to place on the lawn so artfully (having grown up in an estate where thr servants cleaned up before the family could see them)

I know, I know, living paycheck to paycheck sounds crazy right? Maybe to you or me, but you try living off $13 an hour in a major city and see if you do any better.
I think an "easy" way to manage this would be to require people to submit a DRM free copy of any work they want copyright protections on to the United States Copyright Office who will keep a record of when copyright was applied, contact info for who to reach if you want to negotiate rights for using the work while copyright protections are in effect, a countdown timer showing how long until copyright expires, and once expired a download link for the work available to anyone at any time going forward.

It would mean that people's work wouldn't enjoy copyright protection (or at least not full protections) unless they give all that info to the copyright office, but I think that's a minor trade off for what would quickly become a vast repository of public domain works.
I see no benefit in being pedantic. Obviously writing code that performs simple API interactions is "programming". The definition of programming is extremely broad.

It is rather clear to me that yazzku is saying that the programming required to pull of what the R1 does falls well below what Rabbit promised their customers. That this is such a bullshit design that we can infer that the entire product is a scam, because if they were serious it wouldn't be so obvious that no work into actually making a useful product.
I can recommend looking up Options as a strategy. A well known approach, with clear benefits (and downsides ofc).
> Tesla's solution monitors ~6? cameras at once with accurate depth in each

No, the depth is estimated. It's not accurate, at least not in the way you need for L4.

> I never said anything to the contrary. Animals get hit all the time, not just because a human wasn't paying attention.

I was just clarifying what the bar is. The bar is that avoidable accidents need to be avoided. Nobody will get mad if a plane crashes due to unavoidable circumstances (freak accident where two engines go out due to bird strikes or something). People will stop flying in the plane when it becomes clear that the airline is not doing everything it can to avoid fatalities.
> I've stated several times, in this thread... I don't believe that anyone should be deprived of property for living another year.

Yes, you have. You keep repeating it, like you think saying it ends the argument.

The problem that people are trying to address is wealth inequality. They want something that affects the rich more than everyone else - more than linearly. The problem with all your "points of interaction" is that they don't do that. They especially don't touch someone who has 10 billion dollars and just sits on it - leaves it invested in the same thing, maybe for decades, and doesn't spend nearly in proportion to their wealth.

What do you have to say to the people who are trying to address wealth inequality, other than just repeating that you don't think they should do that? Do you have anything that might actually make them change their minds?
I wonder if not being shielded by the Earth's magnetic field during full day would lead to a different balance of isotopes deposited by the solar wind.
> They have thwarted many potential terrorist attacks since 9/11

Is there a source for this claim that isn't just the NSA saying "trust us"?
Wouldn't the native executable be smaller using modularized code?
>Example: a junior Jiffy Lube high school dropout in 1960 c

Nowadays the company wouldn't hire a junior to train. They'll only poach already experienced people from their competitors.

Paying for training isn't considered worthwhile to the company because people wont stay.

People won't stay because the company doesn't invest in employees , it only poaches.
So the bombing of Germany in WW2 was bad? It was done for the humanity. Many died, but the world became a better place (without Nazis) in result.

Same thing happens here. Hamas needs to be defeated, and this is the grim price for that. And its fully their fault and their responsibility for the death of many people — as they're the aggressor. Israel is not to blame here.
I strongly despise C#, and I say that with about 5 real years of experience with it. I have been on teams delivering real products with it.

It is like Java but married to microsoft while philanders as it pleases. And when I say that out loud some putz always responds "but Mono!" and then the thing I need is inevitably not supported on Mono. When it is working it is stuck on windows server and needing a reboot for some half-assed update microsoft is pushing. With Java I can have all that on a Linux but at least pick which major vendor bends me over! Maybe C# works in Unity, but that is its fan scattering mess.

In C, C++, or Rust I am not beholden to one company and can actually control the hardware to do my bidding. I can go into the compilers to find bugs and the creators are responsive when I make bug reports. Often these are more expressive and have tinier code as well. Isn't C# supposed to be faster to develop in these old crusty systems languages? Why that never the case on real teams I am on?

If performance isn't what I need but rather short development cycles there is Lua, Python, BASH, or my personal favorite Ruby. All of these allow hacking together stuff so much faster, and when I have needed they it offer more control of the garbage collector or other runtime features so I often get better performance out of them.

Then there are the shops using C#. I don't know why, and I see no obvious mechanism that causes this but the culture in C# shops are invariably terrible. I have done 16 contracts in the past 22 years and the least stressful most productive shops are always the nix using professionals or JavaScript slinging kids fresh from college.

The overly corporate C# shops always seem stuck in bad ways, pushing some non-agile scrum, lacking any critical thinking, and are often overtly hostile. These are the shops that buy whatever consultant are selling and force it on me without ever consulting me. I have seen one fist-fight break out in the office and it was in a C# shop. Somehow those backend Unix greybeard wizards are always able to talk through their differences with the 22 year blue haired kid who wants progressive typing on the TypeScript interface that is fed by that wizard's service, and they often do it while discussing technical merit instead of political posturing.

At last C# contract I started I left after 2 weeks (and I am not counting that towards my 16), because the lead developer was preposterously racist and felt comfortable opening up to me about that in that short a time period. I had a lot of self reflection about why he felt comfortable dumping his race war crap on me, and I have no clue why.

C# is not as fast as the slow languages but productive languages. C# is not productive as fast but low productivity languages. And every other thing I mentioned doesn't even have a wiff of vendor lock-in. I am good without C# and the cultures that somehow arise around it.

(and the pay sucks I easily get double doing anything* else)
The vast majority of the world doesn't know English, why do you want to deprive them of technology?
The state of louisiana has a similar issue with their domain servers - if you have an errant client somewhere, anywhere, that has the wrong password (or whatever their IDS thought was 'fishy',) you get locked out of your desktop in the office. for two years my wife had to call State I.T. every morning to get logged in. Her office locked so no need to log out until quittin time.

i was never able to track down what device it was, we reformatted a couple of laptops, wiped a couple phones.
> How does that work in a place with no spare water?

I wonder if recycling human liquid waste through evaporation could be of some use for that purpose.
tangential but ultimately the same mentality that thinks enacting collective punishment is okay
Here's hoping they put some of that money into coming up with some less-ugly designs.
When I hear Alan Kay talk dismissively about current applications and interfaces, and the lack of attention given to what was developed at PARC 40 or 50 years ago, I often wish he was more explicit about WHAT was developed. (I have watched the mother of all demos, which is truly awesome, but partial information). This video is another significant chunk, and it puts modern interfaces to shame for their lack of power and imagination. The depth of power here is analogous to the power of Lispy languages, where, until you really understand the concepts, you are ignorant as to how (for example) C++ is in no way "Object Oriented" in the way Alan Kay meant it, how impoverished it is, and how critical late binding is.
Matmul is cubic compute, but quadratic memory.

For [M, K] @ [K, N] read is O(MK + NK) compute is O(MNK)
A quick estimate for compute/bandwidth is min(M, N, K). M is batchsize, so they can just blow that up to get nice looking numbers. On Llama 70B, min(N, K) is 3584 and 7168 for matmul's 1 and 2.

Groq needs a ton of SRAM because they optimized for batch size 1 latency, so M is very small.
> The DNC hack/wikileaks release timeline is absolutely disgusting and shows the true nature of the organization.

in my experience people who condemn wikileaks for this almost universally praise wikileaks for other releases (just so longs as the other releases happened to paint their political opponents in a bad light).
Interesting, I never considered that. Any details or examples?
HyperCard Simulator
I was on the pre-ipo (and post ipo) design team. So its partly my fault lmfao.
Without those perfumes the scent of vomit and faeces would be more present.
There are a lot of users who don't see any value in Carplay/AA. Myself, I just don't care, and it feels retrograde to plug in my phone in the car.
I agree. I dont think the language is the issue, do you?
A trans-oceanic flight of over 4200 km by Painted Lady butterflies
This is heartbreaking.

The problems with local newspapers are so widespread that the venerable AP is looking for donations to keep up their reporting.

Journalism is expensive. And its being gutted.
California 'shipwreck,' beloved but rotting, has got to go, officials say
But to answer where it came from? It came from the limitations of the web at the time - table based layout, low graphic resolutions, browser running under 16 megs (not gigs) of ram.
People seem to like the designs. My neighbor has had one for over a year. I’ve seen a few more around town recently.
> Internet Explorer is a dumpster fire that no one would pay for. But, [because] it's free and rolled out everywhere, it's a little late for the government to step in.
I think the whole vehicle industry is looking at a slightly milder version of the "Kodak problem". That is, the money is oriented towards the service aspects of the industry.

Kodak wasn't a camera company, they were a chemical company. Cameras and lenses were a loss-leader for selling film and the equipment and chemicals used to develop it. You can't just swap the products and make a little less money, it changes the entire business model.

Likewise a lot of these car companies make money on the long chain of maintenance as much as or moreso than the cars themselves. Electric cars come with a whole new business model. And the core competencies that are required are much different. Less precision machining and more electrical engineering
Building products myself, with my own rules on how it'll be built, and how we get feedback from customers.

I fell out of love for programming after working at too many feature-shops where we'd churn out feature after feature (and in some cases blindly remove features), with nearly zero feedback from real users - just input from product managers with zero domain knowledge.
> I would replace government with people

This is... The entire point of a government. Yes, they're flawed, but they're meant to exercise the will of the people, especially in terms of regulating entities that have outsized power vs. an individual citizen (corporations, wealthy magnates, etc).
Solids points until you started uselessly commenting on people's appearance.
We also had a rule that no page could weigh under 26k, although pages by users of Geocities could be larger, all the pages that ran geocities had to be 26kb or less.
Throwing plastic in the trash is not pollution.

"We" are not working on solving those other actual sources of pollution. We're just making people's lives worse. People think they've "done their part" by not using bags, when they haven't done shit.
I read through these threads and no one blames Nadella for these decisions. But when Google makes a mistake inevitably someone will blame it on the poor leadership of Pichai. Why does HN have a double standard for Nadella?
Discussion (37 points, 1 hour ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40793174
Apparently their TTS service is already back online, but more interesting is the original post about why the keys were revoked

https://rabbitu.de/articles/security-disclosure-1

tl;dr they had hardcoded their Elevenlabs admin keys into their client, which allowed anyone to access the entire history of TTS responses for every Rabbit R1 user
What changed? It's now trivial to write exporters for Office formats for specific use case. Save a sample of what you want to have exported, and then just template the XML, generate it based on source data and zip it.

Most of the time you don't even need to read the specification.

Compare that with the times of eg. closed binary XLS format.
Reminds me of this one [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_lxBwvf3Vk

I remember when I saw it I wanted to play with it - just seemed like a good way to organize things and 'play' with your desktop
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Nah I'm getting Rats In The Walls vibes