skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site asks permission to send data to more than 160 servers. To read an article.
The article notes that phones usually weren't permitted in schools, but it was difficult to enforce. Granted, the article doesn't give much reason to believe that it will be any easier to enforce. It suggests that they don't expect full compliance at the outset. Given the penalty is removal of the student from school, I doubt there will be much enforcement unless the phone is used to harass other students or staff. The more sensible solution is likely the one that you were exposed to: seizure of the phone.
My point is they’re not doing any sort of planning to minimize their liability. They’re not doing sound tax planning of any sort.
So the state wanted to block tweets that didn’t align to their ideology And Musk didn’t comply. Doesn’t seem so far from what China has been doing
Releasing powerful, novel models like Sora shortly before a major election is just asking for trouble.

I believe they are restraining themselves in order to stay somewhat in control of the narrative. Donald Trump spewing ever more believable video deep fakes on twitter would backfire in terms of regulation.
The article says the problem is them recording video of kids bullying other kids, which won't be fixed by signal jamming, plus then you're screwed in an emergency.
The blanket policy used to be “I see it, I take it” by the teachers. That seemed reasonably effective since it allowed them to pretend they didn’t see it at times when it was genuinely an accident.
It was a trap. Clickbait to get every privacy-minded tech enthusiast on their site. Now, simply because they interacted with the page, facebook, in their opinion, gets a blank cheque to track you wherever they wish, on and off-site.
> thinks reality is an uncorrupted, level playing field

Did I say that anywhere?

> Tell that to the kids in Congo who have to dig out Cobalt for free. That's actual reality and it has arrived in the west.

What does this have to do with the concept of someone "earning" something?
You can’t throw a stone very far without running into an IRL businesses or ATM that takes crypto (In my small town there are many), congress is writing laws to legalize it, a presidential candidate is running on it, and the Fed is creating a “coin”.

When businesses stop accepting dollars and your employer starts compensating you in crypto will it stop being a “scam” or will the goalposts move again?
People didn't believe negative interest rates were possible either.

Anyway, I bet at that level of loan the customer has a lot more power; no lender is going to want a billionaire to do their business elsewhere. The human lender who signs the loan gets a promotion for increasing the bank's future-money. And if it goes sour, that human won't lose money. Even the bank doesn't need to worry about its existence if it will be bailed out by the tax payer anyway.
You claimed the problem got worse but if you've never seen it yourself, what data are those "well known" facts based on?

Also naming names of criminals is not illegal, I'm confident you know this.
Also from this author:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...

ChatGPT is a blurry JPEG of the web (newyorker.com)

574 points by ssaddi on Feb 9, 2023

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34724477

About the author:

Lunch with the FT: Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang (ft.com)

https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4753927952212231&w=P5zSV2b...

Recommended by HN moderator:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34728965
> these types of conversations seem like they're going to be more and more in the (sorry!) rearview mirror because we won't own the car nor the cameras that are recording the world as we "drive" around.

Perhaps in the urban setting but the majority of this country is not contained within cities. Even then are you planning on banning motorcycles and RVs?

> because they will consider it their right to drive themselves

Until a law is passed otherwise they are absolutely correct.

> the right-to-drive-oneself into the state constitution.

I doubt it. The real fight is likely to be whether we continue using mixed vehicle and pedestrian infrastructure or if we force pedestrians off the roadway entirely. Then we'll have a "right to walk" constitutional crisis.
I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things about https://www.usestable.com/ which sounds similar!
> few CPUs execute all instructions in the same amount of time. Division, for example, still takes longer than a register move on most architectures

easy solution, as you allude to, don't have a division instruction! arm doesn't, 8048 doesn't, sparcv7 doesn't, even the cdc 6600 and cray-1 didn't, and even risc-v finally got zmmul: https://wiki.riscv.org/display/HOME/Zmmul. it's not just dsps

the big issue with complex addressing modes is i think fault handling. if your nice orthogonal add instruction updates two registers as it reads operands and a third register with the sum of the operands, what do you do if you get a page fault on the second operand? if the os can service the page fault, how does it restart the instruction?

as you point out, real-time latency is also an issue. on older arm chips you have to be careful not to ldm or stm too many registers in a single instruction so as not to damage interrupt latency. newer arm chips can restart the ldm/stm

i'm no expert on the area either
A lot of IT jobs are fake. Moving numbers and data around so that, in the end, someone sees a graph to continue to make bad decisions anyway.
Can you elaborate why? As in, you got hit by an insured driver and so your insurance was able to bill them, whereas you didn't have collision coverage of your own?
I was a Pick user back in the late 1980s and that was, indeed, my first thought too.
Two questions that need answering:

1. Are chatbots going to get much more effective than they already are? It seems like all the major players are plateauing and the different models are becoming commoditized. That doesn't bode well for sustainable GPU sales. Also if the hallucination problem can't be solved, it's not clear that this generation of AI will ever be deployable at scale.

2. Are there genuine at scale use cases for AI outside of LLM's? Autonomous navigation seems like a major one, but I'm not sure how close that is to production ready. I know drug discovery and other applications are talked about, but not sure how much GPU consumption they can realistically generate. As we leave the novelty phase of the adoption curve, it's clear that a lot of the use of the image generators was unsustainable experimentation. My personal experience has been, a year ago my friends were creating tons of images but now we hardly do at all.
Apple dropped Nvidia after a few years of Nvidia falsifying thermal specifications on GPU chips.

It drove apple crazy both with high failure rate of MacBooks where the GPU was desoldering itself and general problem of a hot as fuck bottom. Nvidia refused to pay out for damages to Apple as well from what I recall.
Because cell jamming is illegal?
If you can't use a "reasonably priced model" GPU for "a few years", I'm really confused as to what you're doing. I know people still using 1080's and 1080Ti's and playing pretty much anything they want to, and I only just upgraded from a 2070 Super to a 7800 XT (with 16GB of RAM on it, even) this summer.
That’s not the point, a surveillance state where the panopticon autonomously gives $250 tickets is the issue

Rules aren’t meant to be cold hard algorithms to blindly punish people with; we wouldn’t automate a judge with an algorithm why is it somehow different to automate a police officer with one?
Owning productive assets is a tortured use of the word hoarding.

edit: Hoarding is buying assets that could be used productively and storing them somewhere instead of using them. People with a political axe to grind like taking words with negative connotations and applying them to things that don't make sense to manipulate you.

If you think about it for more than two seconds you will understand we already have a word that describes someone with a lot of assets, "wealthy" or "rich". So hoarding as a term only makes sense when used in the context of someone stockpiling something that could be used by people in need. "Hoarding" shares in a company does not make sense for example.
They already have facial recognition entry at events in some cities like Seattle. It’s dystopian seeing everyone accept it without question.
As someone who got their first drivers license in California, I can say with certainty that there are in fact speed limits.
Eh, anything AI is clearly in a massive bubble.
> it would substantially disincentivize driving like a complete maniac.

You are presuming that the manics are otherwise legally entitled to drive and have valid insurance. It should be no surprise to learn that they, very largely, do not.

They already don't care about your incentive system.
Is aducation a word?
Yeah, it's an advertisement, but it was informative enough for me not to bristle
I did miss something, you can type in Math Notes in iOS 18. It’s a little glitchy in the betas though.
This is actually a problem with speed limits that don't match the road or alternatively, roads that aren't designed to incentivize people driving the intended speed.

In theory, the speed limit should be set to the 80th or 85th percentile speed of traffic, and the road should be engineered so that the 80th percentile speed is appropriate to the surroundings.

https://www.mikeontraffic.com/85th-percentile-speed-explaine...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming
I might like punishment, but I don’t mind a completely fresh install every once in a while.

The only way to not go insane is to keep notes about what you like to change, why, and how. That way you can get up and running with a fresh system quickly. No need for snapshots and the like.

Some people say that I like to do things the hard way, however.
There's no point talking about this sort of stuff.
If you have capital, just get your guns out. It's a more honest approach.
I swear the LG G6 I had did this. When I visit family, it's a long drive through some pretty spotty areas and the phone would be hot to the touch and the battery drained faster than usual. As if it's just constantly screaming out into the RF void.
Those are likely for Cloud, used by clients.
And:

> Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS)

As an aside, though, I really enjoyed working on a Pick system a few decades back.
At 3am? Bed presumably.
We're talking about a rolling right turn on red, not crossing the whole intersection on red. The turn is allowed but the camera took issue with how much of a stop came first.

I don't know very many drivers who wouldn't recognize that camera behavior at 3:00 in the morning as unreasonable.
10% of global revenue is practically unenforceable and would result in major tech companies simply ignoring the fine and pulling out of the EU.

"Forcing" companies to pull out in this manner would instantly ignite a trade war between the US and the EU.

This is a no-win situation for the EU - if WhatsApp is shut down in the EU, for instance, it will cause massive problems, loss of life and money, etc. Whatever new solution arrives on the scene will struggle to turn a profit and probably be even less compliant with regulations for many years due to the sheer amount of regulation that has slowly accumulated.
That's just RAG.
> and celebrated with stories.

Are you sure those are organic?
Brave ai summary:

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Data Collection and Potential Sales to Third Parties in Texas

Based on the provided search results, here are the key findings:

In 2022, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, alleging that it collected facial recognition data without users’ consent, violating Texas state law.

The lawsuit claimed that Facebook repeatedly captured and commercialized biometric data in photos and videos for over a decade without informed consent, sharing the data with third parties and failing to destroy it in a reasonable timeframe.

The state alleged that Facebook’s actions put Texans’ well-being, safety, and security at risk, and sought damages of “billions of dollars.”

In 2024, Meta agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement in the biometric data lawsuit, related to the unauthorized use of personal biometric data from uploaded photos and videos on Facebook.
I did some side by sides and repeated perplexity queries to SearchGPT when I got access about a week ago and I thought SearchGPT was a lot worse, in some cases just plainly misunderstanding a question or surfacing the wrong info. Just my anecdotal data, but feels about right for its beta status. Assumably Perplexity must have a little bit of secret sauce that OpenAI has to figure out.
I’m a strong advocate for Tailwind, and I believe that this approach is truly effective. In my experience, this subset of Tailwind has been sufficient for every project I've worked on that used it. Moreover, I've observed that it often converts skeptics into supporters.
I believe the commenter is in US where you are allowed to make a right turn on a red light but you must stop and make sure it's safe to do so.
Not at all clear to me that AI models can do search-like functions cheaply enough to outcompete Google (in the very near future). Yes, quality is amazing. But cost per search needs to be very low.
Chat with LLMs in Rstudio using chattr
Aside from the hundred and one obvious reasons that’s a pointlessly complex solution that would cause it’s own problems, if you think about it for even a moment I bet you can come up with some ways for a pocket camera and video game to be disruptive in school even without signal.
Generally speaking libraries don't pin versions, applications do (in rust-land, a Cargo.lock is respected for the folder you're building, not your dependencies. A dependency can specify an exact version if it wants but an application can override that kind of thing, and it's generally not considered a good idea). This makes 2) a non-issue for the ecosystem (if an application needs to pass objects from X between A and B, then they'll need to pin to a single version of X). 1) is more of a disadvantage, but it's unclear to me that the effort distro maintainers put in to fix to a single version actually results in a reduction in effort overall.
"They have tools to make it hard to download personal pictures without uploader consent"

What tools are you talking about. Facebook images are save as. Privacy rules can make your photo not appear on your profile but tag a friend and their friends get to see it. A few years ago facebook would show you the first picture of every private album if you went to a general url (photos?id=1234). Back in those days photo urls were sequential with hundreds of numbers skipped between photos but easy enough to take the first photo of a private album and sequentially get every photo.

If you put your photos on facebook at some point someone you didn't realize had access to your photos.
Show HN: RHY26 – A Free PC 30-Key Rhythm Game
I always want to make a rhythm looks like harder.

Therefore, adding more lanes/tracks is a good idea!
Mobile phones are already banned from Greek schools since 2006.

The government issued a new set of cost-cutting changes for this academic year. The most fundamental change is that they merge classes together (at least 25 students) to save money. The teachers are unable to work with such big classes.
Having actually worked for Meta in both security and privacy capacities, I guarantee you that it's really not that conspiratorial.

No one wrote this article with the intention of "trapping privacy-minded tech enthusiasts."

I mean no offense, but this sort of thinking (that an engineering blog is attempting to attack you) is unhinged. There is not some grand conspiracy. Companies like this are not the shadowy, highly-competent and absolutely evil entities you think they are. They are barely functional to begin with.
They can't even do a 9 to 5 day and we are to believe that they can go to a 4-day week just because the government suggests that they do so? This is literally a marketing campaign with no law changes or subsidies or anything. Public policy vaporware
I managed to build a non-trivial desktop app (a game trainer which hooks up to a process and reads/manipulates memory in real-time) using Tauri framework (which is based in Rust) almost entirely using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. And I had zero Rust experience prior to that. There were some issues along the way but with the help of Claude I was able to solve them.
It doesn't matter if it is Napoleon, Hitler or who ever. Asking about winter boots and blankets is a no go. Plan for the plan.
We rest easy knowing the wealthy are using their money more wisely: https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/18/zuckerberg-sculpture-prisc...
If you think I'm wrong, you can make your case without the weird "you'll never get anywhere in life, kid" tone.
Thank goodness you aren't hiring, since you apparently believe that you can judge a person's abilities based on OS preference. God help your org if they decide to grant you more responsibility.
I was watching a youtube video about the "Kia Boys." A group of young men who made a lifestyle out of stealing Kia vehicles with flawed anti theft systems installed.

What interested me is that they make a habit of connecting their personal phone to the entertainment systems of vehicles they steal. They then use the large list of connected devices in their phone to brag about their stature as criminals.

Which is hilarious because it's not only evidence that connects them to a rash of vehicle thefts, but it also means every stolen vehicle retains evidence of who _precisely_ stole that vehicle.

The police don't seem to have a clue. The criminals surely don't.
well just one data point, but i left texas for california, which may not do much better on the surveillance front (i haven’t really checked) but definitely does on the personal autonomy and movement front (at least, i haven’t heard of any cities in CA trying to adopt sanctuary-city-for-the-unborn laws restricting the use of their roads). we’re just a couple af clicks away from TX trying to mandate pregnancy tests to leave the state at this point.
If that home is over 10, 13 or 20m dollars... you can pay tax on it. If you have siblings, I assume it would be divided between you, so multiply value by siblings.

If you got a home worth that much, you can pay some taxes on it.

https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/more-than-1-500-homes...

1,500 homes sold for over 10m in a year. We're talking about the richest of the rich. That's exactly who should be paying some taxes. The people bitching about losing 'their' home this way... are either a) delusional or b) looking for a way to protect their incredible wealth.

Is your family home worth more than 10 or 20m dollars?
Chase Bank Money Glitch
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You can tap a few buttons and get trouble codes. At least on the 2018 or so Sportsman I had. This feature was described in the manual, if I remember correctly, and all the trouble codes were well documented. It would show things like “P0012” which then said “high voltage to xyz”. It was very similar to OBD-II systems I’ve used.
Ouch. So we (app developers) are doomed with this feature?
Every time I ask for cafe recommendations, half of its suggestions are listed as "permanently closed" on Google Maps :/
Problem: bullying.

Cheap solution that won't work, but they need to do something: take children's phones away.
What does the 4th Amendment have to say about this? The guiding philosophy at the time 4A was framed is "the public is entitled to every man's evidence".
> Almost all software is 64 bits nowadays, and avoids the problem entirely.

Sure, we say that now, but 584 billion years from now when we use up 64 bits, we’re going to be cursing our ancestors for being so short-sighted.
But does it? Google has gotten drunk on their ad margins. I struggle to believe someone can’t displace them if they’ve got better technology and are willing to be more aggressive on margin profile.
Very few, if any of those costs are passed along as a direct surcharge like small stores do with card payments.
SIGBOVIK is always fantastic, and Tom7 is consistently the star of the show
I would argue that it'd defeat the purpose in terms of teaching children delayed gratification.
Why would there be context switching? One core is exclusively running user code and polls for new pre-processed packages in some loop, the other core is exclusively running low-level network code and dealing with interrupts.

It's a Cortex M33, so there's no meaningful cache to speak off. Access to all memory takes essentially the same amount of time. If you're really worried about access time you could probably use SRAM banks 8&9 (each 4k, with their own connection to the AHB crossbar) and flip-flop between the two - but I highly doubt it's going to have a measurable impact.
usually this is correct, but there are some exceptions. most instructions on a non-pipelined but synchronous stack machine like the mup21 take a single cycle, for example

even with a register file, it isn't really inherent that you need to decode inputs, do alu operations, and write outputs in separate clock cycles; you can do all of that in combinational logic except writing the outputs, and you can even decode which register to write the output to. it just means your max clock rate is in the toilet

for that kind of thing a harvard architecture is pretty useful; it allows you to read an instruction in instruction memory at the same time you're reading or writing data in data memory, instead of in two separate cycles
Because phones can operate without signal?
How do you figure the authoritarian left has experienced a surge in the past decade? What are some examples of policies or positions that you consider authoritarian on the left, particularly in the US?
ReconX: Reconstruct Any Scene from Sparse Views with Video Diffusion Model
No, that is not how the math works.

N is your cost basis.
M is the gain.
E is the estate tax.
G is the gains tax.

((N + M) * E) is tax on the automatic step-up, option A.

(M * G) + (N + M - (M * G)) * E is the tax on the non-automatic step-up, option B.

Reorganized to ((N + M) * E) + (M * G) * (1 - E), it is clear that option B is strictly more taxes for any estate tax less than 100%.
> whereas you didn't have collision coverage of your own?

That's the majority of people who don't have a lien on their title. Liability insurance covers what you do, it doesn't cover what someone does to you. So having evidence of who caused the accident is important when everyone just has liability coverage.

In California, though, I really do recommend you have the "Uninsured and Underinsured Counterparty" option on your insurance. It's usually far cheaper than the alternatives and it just covers you with no effort on your part.
Rather than the normal solutions, it would be really nice to just move to a progressive consumption tax.

1) All investments are tax deductible, not just 401Ks.

2) The sale of investments is treated as income.

3) Money from loans is also taxed as income, unless used for (1).
Kind of like homeopathy where water supposedly has a “memory” of the substances previously dissolved in it.

Inanimate objects apparently have a memory of their designers’ political opinions.

I can’t say I know who designed even 1% of my possessions, let alone their opinions, and I would bet that the author is the same. So is it knowing who the designer is that’s the issue?
Almighty Will Make You a Mac God
The middle school our kids go to bans smartwatches as well as phones. If either is discovered, it is confiscated and must be picked up by the parents at the office.

It's a private school. All the parents agree with this policy. It's fantastic for the kids, and for teaching.