skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being exploited doesn't come from being dumb. If anything, the way I see it, it's no coincidence if people just happen to be kept ignorant in a way that's beneficial to the systems that are also exploiting them.

We do have some printers here that are designed for this use case for what it's worth. Dunno if they are any good. Personally, I have had a Brother color laser for years.
Hackers remotely unlocked Kia cars with just a license plate scan
This is coincides with my headcannon cause of the business cycle.

1. Firms compete

2. Firms either increase their efficiency or die

3. Efficient firms are more susceptible to shocks

4. Firm shutdown and closures are themselves shocks

5. Eventually the system reaches a critical point where the aggregate susceptibility is higher than the aggregate of shocks that will be generated by shutdowns and closures

6. Any external shock will cause a cascade

There's essentially a "commons" where firms trade susceptibility for efficiency. Or in other words, susceptibility is pooled while the rewards for efficiency are separate.
Go deep enough into the woods on some remote place on Earth, and I bet you'll find them. Bring your own electricity though, they likely don't have any.
Fortunately Enron Musk is here to defend free speech.
I thought Starbase was more for experimental launches. I don't follow every launch of SpaceX but the one's I saw where mostly of test vehicles.
> I guess I'm a victim of this reporting to some extent, because I remember this situation going on for months, and I keep thinking every time it's mentioned (often) how terrible it must be for these astronauts and why something isn't done about it.

I'm not Butch or Suni, but I think the astronauts most negatively affected by this would be the two that got bumped from Crew 9. Astronauts define their careers by the amount and quality of the time they are blessed to spend in space. Chris Hadfield, e.g., has taken it for granted that the pair would feel lucky to be "stranded" for a few months, and would have plenty of meaningful work to occupy their time.
It's frustrating how a cheap VHF handheld is often recommended as a "first radio". What you can do with one is quite limited, and for most practical purposes you'll be tethered to a repeater.

I would always recommend a cheap, probably second hand, desktop HF radio to start with. You will be forced to learn how to make a simple antenna, how to cope with impedance matching, and in the process of using it you will learn about HF propagation, and the reward is that you get to communicate across the world, not just across your town. It's a much better, and much more educational place to start.
I mean to give Elon credit for being able to deliver a viable program where nobody else can.
Their worst engineers are the ones responsible for shipping planes + systems that have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people.

I don't think I'm a fantastic engineer, but I'm certainly doing better than those people when considering the metric of "how many people has my software killed".
Sort of. Compare doing laundry at the laundromat to doing laundry in your basement.
I would have paid extra for free profanity, consider to offer it as an addon
And yet whenever the EU is brought up around here its "draconian" regulations are blamed for stagnating tech innovation. At least there are governments that try to protect their citizens from the habitual privacy and rights violations by Big Tech.
Because that inefficiency directly impacts whether or not, and how fast, it makes sense to pursue tapping into this source, especially that there's a limit to the build up rate we can sustain, and because there are alternative sources to pursue in parallel, that are better along these dimensions.
Yes, it's difficult to see how this won't end up needing constant infusions of cash whilst delivering very little to nothing.
You might find https://fold.it interesting.
You have cause and effect flipped. The non-profit didn’t try to oust Sam because he was getting the non-profit to disengage from OpenAIs capped profit entity, that makes no sense and he can’t do that, he can’t stear the hand of the non-profit board. What is happening is that he’s detangling the non-profit from what will be the for-profit in order to not have people trying to throw him overboard. It was obviously going to happen the second the non-profit board thought they could just fire him and take control.
How many moons must a moon rover before you can call it a rover?
My hypothesis is that the PDF format bears much blame here. The results might be
very different if the material is in a reflowable format like an epub or a web page.
If you think about it, the notion of a page exists only because of the physical
limitations of the paper medium, and PDF is page-centric only because it was designed
to represent printable materials. There's no reason to stick to pages anymore if
the material is to be consumed on a screen, and PDF is therefore also the wrong
choice for this.
Probably works as intended.
Web server with DB backend.

Pause times can exceed 2000ms. No doubt some code changes could help but the fact remains the GC is not an optimised one.
The blog posts shows how great the technical expertise is at Discord. I work in IT and in my company devs are so incompetent, they don't even know how to create an M365/Azure dev tenant and constantly request *.Read write.All to our production tenant. I'm so envious!

On the other hand, the HOME/END keys jump to the beginning of the input field rather than the line and the frontend devs are unable to fix this non-default behaviour for years, which makes it a fucking pain in the ass to use the Posts feature within a Discord channel. I believe the budget for the backend geniuses meant that frontend had to be juniors only.
I'm not familiar with JWT at all, but I found a description of how to generate an ES256 JWT from the command line: https://techdocs.akamai.com/iot-token-access-control/docs/ge... .

I don't know if this would meet your needs, but from Tcl you could use `exec` to run these commands and read the result.
And if you were rich enough you would commission life-sized sculptures: https://x.com/garyniv/status/1802586931395440883
I think you should assume that a company provided laptop is already using a tool to key log and screenshot your computer usage. That such tooling is now first party from Microsoft changes little.
In their defense, Azure is terrible.
It’s an interesting point but your argument fails in that you get a standard deduction that probabilistically exceeds the expenses related to your job.

Perhaps it would need to be something like x%revenue above $10M, y%revenue above 1B beginning after three years of operation.
He never said he didn’t care about money, he said he didn’t care about making a lot more money at a point when he had tons of money.

Like you might say “I don’t really need another car we already have 8 at home between the two of us driving so why would I need a 9th?”
Vectormagic.com is the best I've come across.
This is more a meta comment about the blog itself (as is customary for HN): I like the blog, there has been a lot of work put into it, so it makes me sad that it's hosted on GitHub pages using a subdomain of GitHub.io. When the day comes that GitHub inevitably kills/ruins Pages, because it _will_ happen, there is no question, the links to this blog will be stuck forever pointing to this dead subdomain that the author has no control over. We just have to hope that the replacement blog is findable via search engines, and hope that comments are enabled wherever the pages link is referenced so that new people can find the blog. An unfortunate mess that is definitely going to happen, entirely Microsoft's fault.
No, I haven't replicated these tests. I'm just not assuming them to be true.
That isn't reassuring at all. It's pretty much the worst case scenario. I don't want my private notes sent to places like openai who will use them to train models and who don't have any reasonable corporate governance. They have leaked customer data before.

And I'm not anti AI. I'm an ML researcher who uses LLMs all the time. But there's a big difference between that and revealing all my private information to them.
Why TCP needs 3 handshakes
As long as those countries are willing to accept increasingly diverging standard of living in exchange for endless privacy popups.
> Just wait a sodding minute! You want a question that goes with the answer for 42? Well, how about "What's six times seven?" Or "How many Vogons does it take to change a lightbulb?" Here's one! "How many roads must a man walk down?"

One more for the list!
It's interesting that you can be "punished" by a judge in the EU for making a last minute request. This is considered standard practice in the US because it gives your opponents less time to organize or respond.
https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/EB/H/Hesse%20-%2...
I’ve always wondered how the apple 2 pal version worked due to the way the us version used ntsc artifacting from my understanding for some aspects of the graphics.
And SESAC was bought by equity firm Blackstone.

Hah, love this zombie epidemic of equity firms walking around not moaning "brains... brains" but "money... money", and swallowing anything they think they can squeeze money out of. Housing? Culture? Transportation?
I've also been impressed by how simple transformers, mamba and co are.

Maybe we get an llm to design the next evolution and benchmark how potential improvements fare?
Multiple things can be true at the same time.
The point is that OpenAI (the for protists) won’t die from not having invested AGI, they have an extremely profitable opportunity from “just” selling api calls and consultant hours. But that just brings them a successful shovel seller, not the societal transformation that the non-profit is aiming at, so it makes sense to detangle the non-profit and for profit.

Also because you know… the non-profit tried to strangle the for profit to take over control when they tried to oust Sam, so there’s that.
Ansible gets the job done for me.

I use it to bootstrap new servers (security, dependencies, etc) and deploy apps on them both on prem and vps. I have playbooks and roles for everything I ever needed.

I don't really like it but it's a tool that you can bend to your needs and move along.
The dates are available digitally too of course, but that's just not as convenient as having them all on a calendar by the backdoor.
Towards a Realistic Long-Term Benchmark for Open-Web Research Agents
Yes, we don't truly know much (not nothing). We can, on occasion, drill into whatever is being claimed, look at the data and see if we agree with the conclusion.

If you personally sample test studies, comments or whatever you then get a handle on how many assumptions you feel are being made, whether you always/occasionally/never agree with what is stated.
What the hell are they going to do with "1.3 million documents"? What even is a document in this context?
How do you sort the good from the bad? I'm sure most of my conversations were shit posts aswell but some weren't, especially when it figuring out how something new worked or how to fix a problem.
If the cost is not “good enough”, why are the big guys buying a lot of it?
Or just burn the huge piles to charcoal (pyrolysis), then you're only storing carbon, and it certainly won't decay. Even use it as a soil enhancer.
Apple can definitely do wrong, but the companies manoeuvring against them are an order of magnitude worse.

I pay Apple and I’m their customer.

I’m the product of almost every other company that is even vaguely related to mobile devices — especially the companies pushing to force Apple to stop protecting their users from their depredations.

“It’s unfair we can’t exploit your customers to our own advantage!” seems to be the entirety of the arguments.

PS: I stopped buying Epic games years ago because of their generally sleazy behaviour. I just got an iPhone 16 Pro because Apple is the only company I can trust not to abuse AI mercilessly to my detriment. I’m sure that one or more people at Epic are working on using AI to better addict children to loot boxes or whatever, right now.
These are big words.
There's not enough useful demand to tame CO2 this way.

Anthropogenic emissions of CO2 are currently about 37 billion tons per year:

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

That's enough CO2 to make 22.7 billion metric tons of cellulose per year, or ~2.8 tons per capita for Earth's 8.2 billion people. That's too much to to turn it all into furniture or even buildings.
What is not great is the fact that vendor 1 exhibited a string of concerning anomalies and accidents. Vendor 1 may be institutionally unfit to be a leg on which the US space program stands.
Inside my head days are in English (or French), but what's written on the actual bin is Portuguese.
Totally different experience than I had as a fourteen year old back in the sixties. I learned Morse code and theory on my own. Back then the novice license was only available through volunteer examiners. Now all licenses are taken with volunteer examiners. After passing I built my radio and launched my antenna which was a vertical. I was limited solely to code and low power but quickly had contact with hams around the world.

Then to upgrade my license I had to have my dad drive me down to the FCC office in Detroit where I had an appointment. I still remember the glass lined room where I took the code test had a bit of an echo which made copying the code a little difficult but I passed the first time. My Dad treated me to a corned beef sandwich at the legendary Lefkowski's at Eastern market. Then I upgraded both my radio and launched a tower and a yagi. Did it all before I had a drivers license.

Started a ham club at my high school which a half century later I am proud to report is still going strong.
Part of the reason is exactly so the talent gets easier liquidity on their stakes.
Sucks to have been part of building the success that OpenAI is only to not be able to get anything significant out of it just because the company is a capped-profit under a non-profit, they’ll instead just end up owning shares in a traditional for profit on the market, with the ability to sell shares to pay of their mortgage or buy a new car etc.
Drive.file scope is not some secret sauce, it's the standard file picker loaded with UX trouble and bugs. Implementing it would lead to a flood of angry Play Store comments.

We know because we talk to our users for 14 years. We know their needs and their use cases. And we have the numbers to verify. We built this. You're an anonymous guy with a throwaway account on the Internet playing the expert. Your comment history shows that you have a lot of time to show that you're an expert on a wide range of topics.

You say that "we" shouldn't get access to Google Drive. It's not about us, our users demand Google Drive access. They want to decide what to do with their files. We couldn't care less about what is in their drive.

But what if we're hackers or if we get hacked? Yeah, that all or nothing access is not the best engineering from Google, is it?

CASA is trying to tape over that bricolage with the usual security theatre. Because guess what... after paying KPMG for a superficial scan, "we" still would get access to the Full Dive. Until recently we could have done the CASA scan in house and get full access. That's what's bullshit.

It's bullshit like almost all of Google. Bullshit Search that only gives you ads. Bullshit Maps that has become an unusable circus. Bullshit YouTube that is now just as ad infested than 80ties TV. Bullshit "log in for security reasons".
Strengthening the importance of the Archive (the Wayback).
Can you just communicate like a normal person instead of a redditer trying to win an argument? There's a growing body of snarky responses that are not literally denigrating, but tacitly assume you're such an idiot that you have to be reminded of things like "objects exist after they leave your sight". It wears me down. I'm tired of it.
How to Plant the Three Sisters
This whole problem wouldn't exist if we used distributed chat protocols which have been around for over 40 years (IRC).
With the added benefit of having an open specification and multiple implementations. No walled gardens.

And if you think IRC is too old for the modern world take a look at matrix or xmpp.

How did we let discord take over is a mystery to me, or rather a tragedy.
"endless privacy popups" are the invention/reaponse of the great amazing consumer-facing and consumer-caring industry of ours.
A document could be a memo, meeting note, an email, sms/imessage, chat thread, …

Think of “a document” as “something written down”.
> Some companies are also clever about taking I line lithography and patterning tricks to make smaller features for gates.

Well that's the critical question. Is that being used?

Lithography using 193nm light varies from 130nm down to 10nm, if not wider.

365nm probably doesn't vary as much, but just saying the wavelength doesn't give a clear answer about the node size.
Can you explain this further? What library are you talking about?
I made a remark over on Reddit some time ago about how I'd prefer to live in the EU because I'd prefer the quality of life there over a bigger number on my paycheck (that mostly goes to rent anyway)

People were borderline out for blood on such a defiant worldview
Are you able to say that 'you assume that the earth is a sphere but don't know that to be the case'? Do you actually say 'I know the earth is a sphere' even though you don't "know"? Do you know the difference between belief and knowing?
This is a great example. Areas where an expert can write a synthetic data generator (eg code, physics simulators, etc) are the dream scenario here.

It seems to me there is a huge amount of unharvested low-hanging fruit here, for example IIUC GPT is not trained on synthetic code in languages other than Python (and maybe JS, I don’t recall).
>How is the relationship between the two maintained when the developer is hard at work, when the text is not just a set piece for pretty presentation?

The text editor or IDE can provide a feature to show(pop up) or hide(collapse) the side comment section when needed while formatting the comments to make them look bold or italic.

This will become a quality of life improvement if the implementation is done right. If not, it will be very confusing as you mentioned. I think writing API documentation can become very easy and since the function and its comment/description align on the same line, generating API documentation will become easy as well.
https://www.space.com/artemis-4-5-moon-missions-european-ast...
I mean whatever Valve is doing with their biweekly-ish updates becomes available for non Deck users, as a proper branch or whatever you want to call it.
EU? This lawsuit is taking place in the states (CA).
I loved Buzz. It's like something from an alternate timeline.
Very good characterisation of close, but distinct concepts. (a map of a domain)

If we squint a little, focus on close/far-away instead of same/distinct and s/metric/model/g (because usage of a metric implies a model), we can see how close these things can be.

Optimizing for the wrong metric - becomes “using a wrong model”.

Excessive efficiency - is partially “using a wrong model”, or maybe “good model != perfect model”. We start with good enough model, but after certain threshold we get to experience the difference between “good enough” and “perfect” (aparantly we care about redundancy, but it was not part of our model; so we were using a wrong model)

Overfitting is “finding the wrong model” (I wanted a model for the whole population, got a model only for a sample)

..or if we squint even more and go meta..
overfitting is part of “good model != perfect (meta)model” of modeling.
(using sample data is good enough, but not perfect)

P.S. I liked the article. Choice of the title - not so much.

P.P.S. Simplicity of a model is part of meta-model.
Because it was written in 1962; don't read too much into it.
Essentially all work is driven/prioritised by the product owner and is signed off by a product council. I can't instruct the team to spend time on things not on the backlog.
Social care is always going to crowd out other spending for councils. I do wonder if that should be separated out to another body.
It seems like there's a simpler, lazier solution to having a puzzle with just two solutions.

Just make two corners diagonal from each other interchangeable, then simply print "this side up" on one of the corner pieces and have the image be a rotational illusion that look like different items when rotated 180°
>The T2 security chip, for example, makes it more difficult for customers to install alternative, more lightweight Linux operating systems that can make old Macs run more nimbly than macOS

As a Mac and Linux user this is my concern, my old Macs have always been repurposed as Linux computers once Apple drop support for them, extending their lifepsan but it's getting harder now especially with Apple silicon. Asahi is an option but it's also easy for Apple to block if they wanted to in the future.
> Last time I used it, the file picker was by file, not folder, and was fairly janky.

Well, that sounds like Google haha. I’d drop it just for that reason alone, to be honest.

> The real issue is that Google should not be the arbiter of what apps are allowed that kind of access, and they certainly shouldn't be making small developers jump through the expensive, ineffective CASA hoop to get it.

Absolutely. In case of whole Drive access, I think a big scary warning should suffice here: the user should understand what they get into, but still be able to continue if they want. Perhaps the warning can be made less scary if the app passes an audit (something more suitable than CASA, of course).
What about Apple's behaviour makes you think you're not the product?
It's become the normal way of thinking here on HN. Everyone is so deep inside a box that they can't even see the edges. They're brainwashed with cult behavior.
If you read the article you’ll see the judges explanation as to why last minute was not acceptable.
I'm also quite stunned. For a corp that's been running an electronic shopfront for years, something like this shouldn't be that big of a surprise.
This reminds me of RDP. It's opt in. There's visibility. It's encrypted. So incredibly secure!

Yet it acts like an amazing built in tool for scammers that has fooled millions of people.

MS will never apparently learn that visibility and logging mean nothing to anyone unless they actually understand what the heck is going on. The same with that the countless "press yes now, no, don't read this box because it's meaningless, what you need to do is press yes to get on with life" boxes.

Giving people more complexity. More tools no one will understand or use. Like the ability to filter out specific websites. It's just the same ridiculous MS approach to everything. Except that now when people's machines are compromised it will be even worse for them.

The whole point of AI is to make things simpler for users. Not to add yet another massive layer of complexity.
This is true, these "laws" are approximations and imperfect reductions.

Which one is useful or descriptive will depend on the specific example.

Optimizing ML VS Optimizing a social media algorithm VS using standardized testing to optimize education systems.

There is no perfect abstraction that applies to these different scenarios precisely. We don't need that precision. We just need the subsequent intuition about where these things will go wrong.
a document likely means an email. this sort of request will be something like "send us a copy of every piece of communication from the last 10 years that you have which contain "epic", "revenue split", "monopoly", or "shut out competitors". from there the documents will be reviewed by some combination of AI and unlucky law school students on an internship to see whether Apple is doing things they shouldn't.
And then you optimize around the slack, and we're back to step 1.