skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, “can be viewed as” is not the same thing as “is”

Ultimate reality is fundamentally unknowable but what I said about computers and digital circuits is correct. We have a formal theory of computers and that is why we can construct them in factories. There is no such theory for people or the biosphere which is why when someone argues for intentionality or some other attribute possessed by both people and computers I discount whatever they are saying unless they can formally specify how some formal statement in a logical syntax (program) corresponds to the same attribute in people and animals.

This confusion between formal theories and informal concepts like intentionality is why I am generally wary of anyone who claims computers can think and possess intelligence. The ultimate endpoint of this line of reasoning is complete annihilation of the biosphere and its replacement with factories producing nothing but computers and power plants for shuttling electrons. The people who believe computers are a net positive might not think this way but by equating computers with people they are ultimately devaluing the irreducible complexity of what it means to be a living animal (person) in an ecology with irreducible properties and attributes.

I'm obviously not going to convince anyone who believes computers and algorithms can think and possess intelligence but it is clear to me that by elevating digital computers above biology and ecology they are devaluing their own humanity and justifying actions which will ultimately end in disaster.
Julian Assange agrees to plea deal with US to avoid imprisonment in US
> virgin really is a complete non-sequit[u]r here, unless the idea is only virgins use ChatGPT?

The idea is pretty explicit, if you just read the immediately following paragraph:

>> I mean I literally could not find the book again. All versions of A Girl’s Quest for Healthy Eating appeared to have vanished, as though it never existed in the first place. (Is Amazon deleting these spammy books as fast as they can be generated? Again, I don’t know. Stop asking me questions for dorks.)
> It's a service that to be compromised requires state level interference

For servers it's definitely harder, although definitely not only state-level, but another big issue could be client-side. NTP servers can be set by DHCP, so the admin of any network you connect to could exploit such a bug against you. And once you have code execution on a desktop OS, all bets are off, even if you're not under the primary UID.

It's not the most important threat vector, but it also doesn't seem as difficult as some of the other system services to rewrite, so I'd say it was a good first step for the memory-safe-everything project.
These tech companies have gotten very comfortable pimping out their users to advertisers. They already believe they own your ass; if they perceive some benefit to it, why would they not just rape users directly?

And whatcha gonna do about it? Run to one of the 2 or 3 other pimps who treat their bitches with equal contempt?
Bankruptcy trustee discloses plan to shut down Infowars and sell it for parts
Free the consoles, too.
I’ve enjoyed this story over several decades, but what stands out to me now is the fact that Bill Atkinson was working from home during the creation of the Macintosh.
You can go back a few versions if you want to use something MIT-licensed; generally all the releases since v0.1.19(ish) are quite stable for mainstream use cases and configurations.
Having external backups set up correctly is pretty good for users, and I think that would justify trying to make it more of a default. This seems pretty obvious to me, but I expect if Microsoft did surveys they would find people complaining about how terrible losing a document or disk was for them in the past. I don’t know what ‘explicitly chosen not to use it’ means, but I think you or I would probably consider such an action to be more deliberate than the average user doing that (guess: trying to get rid of notification or reduce steps in install or just randomly clicking through screens is reasonably likely).
Claude 3.5 is My New Computer
Simple advice that is difficult to achieve: work with people you deeply respect and admire.

Find a manager that you can learn from that might not have technical skills but is a genius in another domain like sales. You will learn so much and the difference in culture is mind blowing. In my experience the smartest people tend to be nice and confident. There's been this assumption that being abrasive and being smart go hand in hand, especially in the tech industry. This is for the most part not the case.

You can provide enormous value to an org with your skills.
You can probably generate C code from Python now with Nuitka and pump that into this Cosmopolitan tool, today, to get that?

https://nuitka.net/
It'd be very surprising if this wasn't arranged as part of a rule 10b5-1 plan, but absent any other information, there's nothing to suggest that this was anything but.

(https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rule-10b5-1.asp)
>But, to me, this cannot be an unintended side-effect. It's a feature, not a bug, of the regulatory model.

I think you're giving politicians/regulators too much credit. Skimming the media coverage about this law, the supporters' for the law is a vague sense of "we need to ensure delivery/taxi drivers are paid better". I couldn't find any serious discussions for what would the second order effects of the laws would be (ie. what would happen if uber decides to lock out drivers so they don't have to pay them)

eg.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/nyc-minimum-wage-de...

>"This minimum pay rate will guarantee our delivery workers and their families can earn a living and keep our city’s legendary restaurant industry going strong," Adams said in a statement.

>Supporters of the city's law, which is the first of its kind in the United States, say it is needed because delivery workers in the city earn about $11 an hour on average after expenses, far below the city's $15 minimum wage.
Isn't it illegal to copy documents off of a system without permission in many jurisdictions?
> the rule also forbids “vehicles to be equipped with a manual control whose sole function is the deactivation of the AEB system.”

That seems unreasonable. It's nice to have a button to turn off these kinds of things, individually. But as written, that seems to be against separate buttons to turn off aeb and lane keeping, but you could have one button to turn off both. I'd rather have more buttons.

My experience with AEB has been good, but other people report issues, better for them to easily be able to turn it off if it doesn't work for them, IMHO. Unless NHTSA is going to require debugging and tuning and etc to be easily accessible and magically fast.
It actually occurred to me that this style of writing feels mass-generated at this point: it's the default mannerist tone if you were going to knock out a fairly surface assessment of a new online phenomenon.

Not that there's anything wrong with that! Max Read was one of the people who defined that tone in the 2010s[1], so I'm pretty sure that's what people come to his substack to read. But I must admit, my meta-snark was whispering all through this piece: "Maybe it would have saved time to just type 'Here are some titles of things I have been advertised on Kindle, please knock out 800 words on them in the American Internet Journalist House Style".

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140429233811/http://www.cision...
It might, in a world where school busywork had anything to do with learning useful skills.
Apple Pauses Work on Planned North Carolina Campus
Don't forget WSL.

Step 1: "Why do I need to run Linux? I already have it in Windows"

Step 2: "Oh, and now this software runs better on WSL or requires WSL to work properly"
Another (immutable/persistent) AA tree implementation, in Go:

https://github.com/ncruces/aa
Event-Driven Texture Enhancement for Video Super-Resolution
It's wrong and always a problem when people start lying, either to themselves, others or both.

I agree there is nothing wrong and people advocating for their preferences, opinions, arguments, solutions, whatever.

However, when you get so attached that you need to start lying to say it's better or that the alternatives are worse, that's no longer rational and makes the people doing so no longer trustworthy.

This is true for all types of tribalism across all areas of society.
Every single party I have been to since becoming a dev there is always at least one person who feels the need to tell me how all of us techies are going to lose our jobs.
There's limited amount of people who can do the litigation, so it's slow going, and the whole point of the mess is to condition people against GDPR
Somewhat off topic but what is the status of Elm these days? Seems like it's been effectively abandoned.
It's not possible to reverse. Once you send information to an online service, you should assume it'll become public domain in only a matter of years. Digital information is permanent. Hacks happen. Crypto will be broken. Culture will change. Governments will most likely even pass laws requiring it. That's why tech wants this so bad they're willing to do what I thought only cyber criminals would do ten years ago.
Really?

I remember I expected Europe to try the appeasement nonsense that only emboldened the precious century’s fascist expansion effort.

I was surprised and delighted to see any level of resistance, even if it’s only to enable Ukraine to hold the line.

I dunno, friend. No offense, but I’m going to go with the professional geopolitical strategist’s take over yours -especially where I perceive subsequent reality validating his ideas- unless you’ve got comparable creds of your own or more substance to your refution of his ideas.
After I moved continents (again) I am now more stable and since I use my 55" 4K TV as my monitor, I decided to make a desktop PC which can game on it -- I went with an 5700X3D CPU with a 7900 XT GPU and 64GB RAM.

I do not think there's anything like it in the Mac world.
It's yin and yang. We forever shape each other.
The decision of whether to proceed through a yellow light or whether to stop also has nothing to do with whatever may or may not be seen in the rearview mirror.

I mean:

A driver is approaching an intersection with a yellow light, indicating that it is about to change state.

Should the driver:

A) Look where they're going
B) Look somewhere else entirely
"ahead of Tesla's robotaxi unveil" by many years if ever
A black hole made from pure light is impossible, thanks to quantum physics
Feeling vindicated in having gotten rid of my windows comps and gmail. I used to have a dedicated linux box but lately have been preferring the ease of macs. Maybe one day I'll get another linux desktop up, or just run it on the m2.
Then vote with your wallet and stop using this piece of shit of a software
I like a microfeature of Dan Luu's blog where the content is so good that you don't give a shit about the aesthetics or microfeatures on the page and just read it.
Agreed. First couple paragraphs of the post had me like, wtf am I reading right now? Threw the article into Claude and had it succinctly summarize the key ideas the author was trying to convey. Thankful for the clarity that provided and time it saved me.
I find it just weird that 1. They think that this should be a default option that people would want. 2. They assume everyone just has unlimited data to use.

My parents laptop is on a very limited mobile connection in which they do all their photography stuff on. This move would just chew through a years worth of their internet data in one swift move. Just an outright idiotic move.
It's somewhat of a grey area but if you can get your hands on the IoT version of Windows 10 LTSC - the supported lifecycle end date is all the way until 2032.

I have a dual-boot mid-tower running EndeavourOS (Arch Linux flavor) and the non-IoT version of Win 10 LTSC (support ends in 2027) with strict group policies around disabling of telemetry that's been humming along for several years now.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/rel...
Hahaha I love reading this because this is basically me. You try to do you. But Windows has other plans. When you get down to the bottom of it, although you don't even have time for that, it's always the same experience. You feel like someone shat upon your head intentionally. To the point I just became indifferent to all of this. I don't expect any good from it anyway and just click yes to all everytime. If it decide it should backup my computer without asking me - so be it. It is what it is.

Remember the thread from the other day in which someone asked how many video encoders Facebook should release before we forgive them for all the crap throughout the years?
People bring up postfix all the time in this context because supposedly nobody has ever found a memory safety vulnerability in it. Presumably this is supposed to make the point that it is possible to write complex programs in C safely.

The reason people know this about postfix and keep bringing this one specific example up is because it's so unusual! It's an example that almost stands alone, it's extraordinary.

I don't think this is making the point about the safety of C that you think it is.

There is a mountain of evidence suggesting that C is dangerous, particularly for network services, and one possible example to the contrary doesn't change that.
What should I do now?
Hello, I am a CS graduate from UIC - University of Illinois Chicago and have a decent GPA of 3.81. I am currently unemployed since 6 months. I do not know what should my next steps be. I have applied to a lot of jobs(800+) but did not get any interview calls. I want to hear some tips/suggestions on what should I do now? Where should I start? and what should my strategy be?

A little background - apart form the education I also got into OMSCS at GT and will be starting in August. I also worked as a software development intern at a small company in Greater Chicago Area. Now even though it was a small company, I was able to learn a lot as they gave me a whole project of developing an inventory management system for their production line. I developed a web based application for them and was able to complete it in around 12 weeks - which was obviously not perfect in the sense of code structure(which I improved on after finishing my internship) but it did contain all the features that were requested by the management.

After graduation I started learning IOS - mobile app development and got the Udemy course which I did complete and made a lot of projects based on it - uploaded them on Github and put them on my resume for recruiters to see. I did get my resume reviewed and made a lot of changes, but I am not having a lot of chances.

I want to ask you guys out there what should be my strategy - should I work on building more projects? should I learn something else? in short I would like to know what you would do if you were in my shoes?

Thank you.
Ahead of the reveal, two months from now?

Do people really think Tesla is going to flip the switch and have a fully functioning robotaxi network, just like that?
Why must people write using Man instead of Humanity? His instead of Our?

I get that it's "just language" but it's a bit annoying. That's all.
Definely part of tge Copilot iniative. Remember when openai and dropbox had to clarify that you had to agree to let openai scan your box for integration?

This is basically the same. They want your files to start doing copilot in the cloud for you'

It doesnt work to keep your data even if you acceptbthe premise that they wont keep yourbdata.
Rounded corners are one of the common things on macos that make it look modern and cheerful. iphone icons are more pleasing because of this.

other platforms should add more of this.
Wait until step 2, which I experienced recently:

> You're low on disk space. Storage Sense is freeing up space on your PC to help it run its best. Synced files that haven't been used recently will become cloud-only.

All of my family and friends get tricked by tactics like this. None of my family wants to use OneDrive or the cloud storage from Google / Apple for photos, etc., but their data always ends up synced to these nasty services.

How is it not considered predatory? Fine them a gazillion dollars and make the CEOs smash rocks with a children's hammer for the rest of their lives.

Edit: And how is that a "backup"? They're moving my files to their servers eventually. That's not a backup. That's theft.
Do the business through the browser, view the content in the app. Netflix is happy to sell you a subscription through Safari.
That's interesting, how detailed are your models you pull out to observe? Are the models static? It's like you have your very own mind-linked AR setup.
Unless that permission is buried somewhere in the EULA every user must accept before installation.
They already do, you can't survive in ecommerce without google ads.
We use kids' tales to teach kids. The lessons of fairy-tale Europe are not the same lessons we need now, but we can use them to teach kids what yesteryear's kids used to be taught.
Its probably worse. Theyre doing tbis to get people using copilot.
I thought the 'typical person' train has sailed a hundred years ago. You either take time to learn the fundamentals (in this instance, the fact that m$, crapple, etc. are all enemies) or you get exploited.

Notice that linux is not safe from that trend as well: you have to learn tech stuff to operate it in any capacity.

So there's no free lunch in this world, that much is obvious. I don't see where 'typical person' can reasonably survive intact in this tech climate so I also see no reason to bring them up.
Github link has few more amazing video examples https://github.com/DachunKai/EvTexture
One option practiced in some cities with a pigeon population problem is to offer them safe, clean nesting places and to periodically swap out their eggs they lay there for decoys as part of cleaning. Perhaps surprisingly, they won't lay any more eggs as long as they're busy "incubating" the decoys!

That'll also prevent at least the particular pigeons nesting there from building nests in other, more annoying locations, and when kept clean decreases the chance of spreading diseases both among themselves and to humans (bird flu, for example).

Some other methods of decreasing their unnecessary suffering is to just generally keep cities clean (hopefully an easy win-win?), especially of human hair: Apparently barbers and hairdressers sweeping hair cuttings out into the street are a main reason for pigeons slowly and painfully losing their toes or entire feet.
>during times of low demand, Uber/Lyft/etc. are forced to simply boot off a bunch of drivers so that there are enough fares left for the remaining drivers so they will be able to make minimum wage.

You are claiming a false binary. They could hire drivers as employees. Or work together as an industry to make things work out, the same way they cooperate to oppose any legislation that threatens profits or promises worker rights.
You know, I don't think this is a left vs. right issue. I think it is an education jobs issue which affects both the union and the school administration. Ultimately taxpayers will have the last word, not governors. And there is no issue to bring left and right together like paying for local schools--both sides are very conservative on this issue
Disabling telemetry is easy with O&O shutup, I have been using that.
Is it not? Apple does check for unreasonable entitlements (permission requests) in apps. And for other creepiness too. And I like it very much.

I think Apple users are underrepresented here, more developers here.
Quiet EVs only make noise (not engine noise usually) at low speeds.

It's very annoying in cities like Seoul in Korea because the cars are louder than normal cars at low speeds and sound like UFOs, even at midnight.
I don't know about this, but looking at the terrain on Google Maps, the western end seems constrained by the hills. Can you fit Panamax-sized ships through that proposed waterway?
Crazy that this has gone on for so long.
I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste from their secret fab
Did you have to get a degree for this? How was the process?
What I'm trying to get at is that musicians are still music'ing. We just also now have musicians that we didn't have before who are using these new tools.
"Hermann Bondi named the principle after Copernicus in the mid-20th century, although the principle itself dates back to the 16th-17th century paradigm shift away from the Ptolemaic system, which placed Earth at the center of the universe... Copernicus himself was mainly motivated by technical dissatisfaction with the earlier system and not by support for any mediocrity principle."

Copernicus' solar-system model is entirely separable from any assumptions about star size distribution, and the latter was apparently not a concern of his (nor do I recall seeing anything to the contrary elsewhere.)

On account of this separability, the mediocrity principle cannot be used to eliminate heliocentric models of the solar system from consideration, at least unless there's good evidence for it.

Nevertheless, the presumed huge size of the stars was seen as more or less of a problem (depending on which way one leaned on the heliocentricity issue), but it turned out that the apparent size of the stars was merely an artifact created by diffraction (the Airy disk) [1], making it possible to hold both that the sun is well within the range of stellar sizes and that other stars are far enough away that their parallax is difficult to observe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airy_disk
The problem here is that the EU law is "whatever the bureaucrats say it is". The DMA rules are not specific enough for Apple or anyone to know a priori if a feature or product is going to cross the line. Thus Apple is now announcing new features won't immediately be available to EU customers.

We should all want more competition but I'm not convinced "because the unelected technocrat in Brussels said so" is the way to do it.
Google also taxes for transactions on their Play store, but yes, Apple takes it to the extreme. You don't have to buy into the walled garden though.