skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to point out also that C++ is not yet compatible with itself. Even GCC has dozens of C++ features it doesn't implement and it was the first compiler to implement 100% of C++11: https://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx-status.html
Antipattern: The C-Buddy Manager
As the article says, you don't need an active subscription to be vulnerable. In this case it seems that if the model supports the features at all, you are vulnerable.

This makes sense, because they want people to be able to subscribe to their services later without having to visit the dealership, so they make it possible to remotely enable the service.

I'm not sure if you can buy a tinfoil hat for a car.
You can use llama.cpp server's tokenize endpoint to tokenize and count the tokens:
https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/...
> Is common sense still in beta?

Common sense has been deprecated. The system is just waiting for all of the modules with common sense preinstalled to sunset.
Truly one of the worst takes on AI I've seen. What is the purpose of a lawyer? It's not to read the law, the text is free (or should be). It's to advise you, based on the law but also on the immediate, historical and sociopolitical coontext, as well as on their understanding of the characters of all the humans involved.

If that gets automated, we are in AGI territory.
https://parts.subaru.com/p/Subaru_2020_/Remote-Engine-Starte...

Not sure how you program it to your car, but I would get it just so I don't need to use an app.
That's an interesting way to look at it, however on reflection I think I usually wanted to "weaken copyright" because it would empower individuals versus entrenched rent-seeking interests.

If it's only OK to scrape, lossy-compress, and redistribute book-paragraphs when it gets blended into a huge library of other attempts, then that's only going to empower big players that can afford to operate at that scale.
Unlock via Bluetooth is perfectly viable without internet connection (unless you mean unlocking it for someone else?). Remote start and temp control should probably work from a few hundred feet away. If only phones had a longer range local radio, perhaps something like Zigbee. Maybe WiFi direct?
Otherwise it spies on you with no account
I'd rather see them at rest stops.

I hate having to rely on bathrooms inside businesses to relieve myself during road trips while charging. Sometimes they need a code and the business won't give it to you unless you buy something.
A majority of the shares in most publicly traded corporations are held by retirement funds, both "private" (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street) and public (FERS, CalPERS, ...). These entities, generally, have no appreciable interest other than maximizing profit. They are all regulated financial entities, even the private ones are quasi-governmental (e.g., BlackRock has close business relationships with the Federal Reserve), and the public ones are just straight up government agencies.

So, in a pretty real way, there is a legal requirement, though like many such things in the United States today, it is not properly formalized.
Upvoted for the mention of state lotteries.
Octopuses don’t have money, so the people with money aren’t interested in putting more resources into understanding octopuses.
This article focuses solely on a mother's in total isolation. It makes total sense to me that a single mother would rather be holding a cat and not a baby in most circumstances. Because maybe these aren't single mothers or maybe they are I don't know the article is not clear.

What is known from copious amounts of research is that single motherhood despite all of the social programs designed to help it it's not a desirable situation to be in. So it becomes obvious people are opting out of having kids because they're also opting out of long-term relationships as well. You will see a decline in both of those.

If society promotes families and long-term relationships you will see an increased desire to have children together.
Google hails move to Rust for drop in memory vulnerabilities
Numerous kinds of artists are feeling the squeeze. Copy writers, stock photographers, graphic designers, UI designers, interior designers, etc.
I didn't downvote it, but, while I agree that there's reason to be skeptical that this research generalizes, the framing is aggressive.

> stridently extrapolates hard numeric values to all code without qualification.

The sentence they quote as evidence of this directly qualifies that this is from Android and Chromium.
We have been waiting quite a while for holographic lenses to hit the market.

I get that this kind of form factor is exciting, but all I really want is a Pimax with these lenses.

If Facebook (Meta) put out a below-average spec headset (think Quest 1 specs, or even worse) today, and put holographic lenses in it, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

AR is cool and all, but that's not the reason holographic lenses are exciting to me. The real reason is that they don't have a fixed focal depth. That alone is the single most significant limitation of contemporary VR.

Just imagine: No more IPD adjustment (that can never be perfect, because pupils move). No more godrays. No more stretched projection. No more prescription inserts. Holographic lenses are a leap forward, and it feels like these companies have just been sitting on it, absolutely clueless, for half a decade now.

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Dear Billionaire Oligopolists, please stop waiting until you have completely finished designing and building the distant future, and sell what you have today.
Just to add some context. The U.S. ranks very highly in healthcare innovation, top marks in drug discovery, and highly in patient centric healthcare. The main component that you’ll see drag the U.S. down on those indexes is cost of healthcare, and that’s particularly weighed down in private insurance as opposed to Medicaid/Medicare.

Whether that cost is entirely good or bad is up for debate, as U.S. doctors get paid twice as much and perform twice as many interventions. First place countries usually have costs around 4K per person on healthcare. Other top countries around 6-7k, and the U.S. is at 10k.

But it is worth coloring exactly what we’re talking about when we say “abysmal rankings” because some folks might weigh the innovation and patient centered scores higher than the cost score.
OpenAI in throes of executive exodus as three walk at once
FYI, if it's vocalized as letters rather than pronounced as a word, then it's technically not an acronym. It's an initialism.
I installed an aftermarket remote start kit in the 90s. It cost less than $100.
All the big sports betting companies are now dumping money into political television commercials with school teacher testimonials and happy classroom shots urging how passing Bill X will benefit state schools, yet years into legalized sports betting, teachers still have some of the lowest compensation rates.
If you need concurrency then depending on exactly what you're doing with it Rust still looks like the right choice. If you can just have it magically work no worries, but the moment you need synchronization primitives or phrases like "thread safe" come into the conversation you're much more likely to get it wrong in the other languages.
500 Internal Server Error. Hug of death?
It's been a while since I've looked at elastic pools in Azure, but maybe Neon (https://neon.tech/) or recently Nile (https://www.thenile.dev/) might work in terms of spinning up a bunch of separate logical DBs with shared compute/storage.
Pretty classic hacker behavior. "This sucks. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go make it better because everyone else working on it is an idiot and I, alone, see the True Way Forward."
Even when it isn't a "prototype" and simply just doesn't have a consumer version, the public will be negative about it. Look at the Apple Vision Pro. That's a shipping product with a massive negative public opinion because it doesn't have a consumer version and no one understands if they are "Pro enough" to care to buy one. Look at Microsoft HoloLens. That was a shipping product with some large Enterprise and Government customer contracts. But the public perception of it was miserable, which is partly why Microsoft dumped a lot of their research in that area and lost of their brains in that area to Meta, so it's ironic and hilarious to see Meta making the same mistakes again that Microsoft already made with a variation/iteration of the same tech.
I’m not sure why there’s such a high expectation of accuracy on something called “hood maps” that doesn’t use extensive moderation? Just move on if you don’t find it interesting or amusing.
ACX Classifieds 9/2024
What baffles me is how OpenAI keeps its doors open. They're paying Microsoft to be able to exist, plus their product requires huge amounts of electricity and infrastructure. OpenAI is unsustainable.
I read at the time that there was massive coordinated pressure on the rank and file from the upper levels of the company. When you combine that with OpenAI clawing back vested equity even from people who voluntarily leave, the 95% support means nothing at all.
The goal isn't perfection. Splitting PRs has overhead, especially depending on what code hosting platform you're using.

Do you advocate for making code easier to read and understand by humans? What would you do if someone told you, "no I don't want to waste my time trying to make it perfect." It's the same misunderstanding. I try to treat code history like I treat code: I do my best to make it comprehensible to humans. And yes, sometimes multiple PRs is better. But sometimes multiple commits in one PR are better. I use both strategies.
Kind of like everyone's favorite interior design non-profit, IKEA. (Seriously. It's a non-profit. It's bonkers.)
well, except for the switch to cannibalism.
Those are all funny and somewhat useful. What’s the issue?
As opposed to any old Saturday morning cartoon? I was about to say "without the ads", but Netflix is pushing those hard. They're all designed to keep engagement.

I'm not sure what people expect kids to do on iPads except watch stuff, 99% of the time.
A non-profit can't give away its assets to a private entity, but it can exchange its assets for fair value, in this case, equity in the for-profit.
SHiuMail – Public Temporary Email Service (made full with Cloudflare stack)
I was just going to say the same as it's stated pretty early in the article

> These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.

If this should tell companies anything is that most of these services should be opt-in instead of opt-out in favor of security and privacy.
Actually, of all of these, every browser being Chrome with a mask has been kind of nice as a web developer. Never have I had to invest fewer resources in wrestling browser quirks to the ground.
> Understanding what kind of tasks LLMs can and cannot reliably solve remains incredibly difficult and unintuitive.

That’s because the idea of it being a super human intelligence (an undefined metric) is being sold. So you have to lie and say “it’s amazing, it’s going to change everything”. If I tell you “it’s okay and is often wrong” you wouldn’t buy my product would you? This is just to say I can’t blame that on easy/hard task agency, specifically.

=== addendumb ===

“it’s okay and is often wrong” Sounds like working with my junior coworker who I don’t enjoy pairing with. If I said “it’s impressive how the results are to the level of a junior engineer” you sell me on your product.
(neon ceo). We have lots of examples of this. Here is one with Retool.
https://neon.tech/blog/how-retool-uses-retool-and-the-neon-a...
It just doesn’t have to be the internet.
I'm not sure what you mean by "all the paperwork", and I'm not sure what Elon would be wanting credit for, other than "my company's lawyers have been very careful when checking removal requests and demands". A government trying to remove speech _should_ be putting effort into filing paperwork with evidence that the speech is illegal, and the lawyers at Twitter/X have been filing their own paperwork to document the requests (and to reply to them).
Would you rather it not exist? This is just like a casual project, not a business.
> we could have first attempted to address the underlying cause of programming security issues.

A lot of the recent moves here are motivated by multiple large industry players noticing a correlation between security issues and memory-unsafe language usage. "70% of security vulnerabilities are due to memory unsafety" is a motivating reason to move towards memory safe languages.

What do you believe the underlying cause to be?
Yep. Turns out HN is just avg people that think they're really smart because they know how to write code.
Anything I say above not true?
To be honest, pooling money with strangers to buy property sounds like a recipe for disaster. But then I'm sure I'm not the target demographic.
Ask HN: Who's low key working two jobs?
I've heard of cases where people are remotely working two jobs unbeknownst to either employer.

It seems to be a phenomenon among developers, enabled and masked by AI productivity gains.

I'm interested to hear any first or second hand stories about this and the motivations behind it.
> putting json response (from API, created from scraping, ect.) into jsonb column and then writing a view on top to parse

That’s a very good idea!
Trying to watch the Builder Day live stream (https://cloudflare.tv/event/xvm4qdgm). Over the top excitement and meandering chatter. Rough.
Private Credit and Banks Team Up
Yes, I say dope a lot because it’s funny but still informative.
AI Safety is a science fiction created by large corporations and useful idiots to distract from working on boring, real AI safety concerns like bias, misinformation, deepfakes, etc.
The first example, “Tanya”, has a husband. I think these are women who just don’t like children.
That's why this AR sunglasses bid is absolutely the wrong move.

Someone needs a lesson about the uncanny valley. Short story: unless you are all the way at the top go down, not up. Lean into the goofiness that your limitations demand. Make a decent new thing, not a strange old thing.
https://archive.ph/YhIo9
Could be part mindhack! I remember Apple's iPod advertising campaign which centered around silhouettes of hip looking users with the trademark white dangly wires snaking into their pocket. I guess with this desirable tech hidden in your pocket, the wires were the best way to recognize that someone had one!

I guess since airpods are visible (and expensive) they are now the desirable focus, and anyone with wired earbuds is hopelessly out of date!
12 Porta-pottys for 2000 people, squid game indeed.
Ah the old "we must sacrifice the weak for the benefit of humanity" argument, where have I heard this before...
CarPlay doesn't use your car's internet, it uses your phone's internet. That's part of the whole beauty of it.
I used to support SG legalization quite a bit, but after seeing how quickly it can get people that I once thought were rock solid financially into a very bad financial situation quicker than I thought possible, I have no problem with heavily regulating bets sizes and interaction limits, if not an outright ban. Before it was slightly illegal and those people I guess avoided “bookies” as a result of being afraid of that whole scene. The most I ever gamble is when the lotteries get to ridiculously high amounts like $500 million and get a $2 ticket. However, people seem to get addicted to sports betting as fast as crack cocaine and it’s much wider spread than I thought, and contributes almost nothing to civilization other than the pocket books of the middle men. Is it because sports betting gives you quick feedback as oppose to lotteries making you wait or maybe the ease it is to drop your whole bank account as a bet? It seems like net societal negative in almost all ways other than a brief chance of thrill.
I must be missing something because that feels easy to implement. A date seconds + random data in the same way as UUID4.

Where is the iceberg complexity?
I use my Tesla app to lock and unlock our vehicles all the time, in all cases outside of RF range. I have a Twilio number wired up I can call, enter a 10 digit code, and it will unlock and enable the vehicle to drive in the event I have lost my phone and keycard. These are material quality of life improvements.

Physical access is required to exploit any unauthorized access to the vehicle. What are you going to do? Steal my change?
Except it's not just about redistribution of copyrighted data, it's about usage and obtainment. We don't get to obtain and use copyrighted content without permission, but they do? Hell no.

Their arguments against this amounts to "we're not using it like they intend it to be used, so it's fine if we obtain it illegally", and that's a bs standard, totally divorced from any legal reality.

Fair Use covers certain transformative uses, certainly, but it doesn't cover illegal obtaining of the content.

You can't pirate a book just because you want to use it transformatively (which is exactly what they've done), and that argument would never hold up for us as individuals, so we sure as hell shouldn't let tech companies get a special carve-out for it.
Today I learned that counterintelligence and sabotage concerns about a major geopolitical rival are "xenophobic trade war reasons."
> a. test - this has been getting slower

AI helps with this one - if you use a code editor that has an AI plugin, being able to write out some describe/it blocks and add the code you're testing to the LLM context as well as some similar specs, the LLM can bootstrap parts of it for you
Most of these threads turn up comments like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657531 which say that the thing you say will never happen has already happened.
They are, but their biggest expense is probably cloud compute, and most of the "investment" that Microsoft made in them was in the form of cloud compute credits. Essentially, Microsoft has spare cloud capacity, doesn't want to admit that to Wall Street, and so covers that up by giving away the extra capacity in the form of an "investment".

Now, in the end, it likely won't amount to much, but if it keeps Microsoft stock up for a while, it may pay off for the executives involved. Apparently not OpenAI execs, though...
Whatever you think of the IRS, they aren't the master of their own destiny:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-irs-was-gutted (2018)

> An eight-year campaign to slash the agency’s budget has left it understaffed, hamstrung and operating with archaic equipment. The result: billions less to fund the government. That’s good news for corporations and the wealthy.
I think getting wiped out financially by lotteries is still pretty rare in comparison to stuff like sports betting and drug use.
> What do you love so about PowerBI?

For a large portion of my career, the dashboarding solutions I've worked with have followed a similiar model: they provide a presentation layer directly on top of a query of some kind (usually, but not always, a SQL query). This seems like a natural next step for organizations that have a lot of data in one spot, but no obvious way of visualizing it.

But, after implementing and maintaining dashboards/reports constructed in this way, big problems start to arise. The core of the problem is that each dashboard/report/visual is tightly coupled to the datasource that's backing it. This tight coupling leads to many problems which I won't enumerate.

Power BI is great because it can provide an abstraction layer (a semantic model) on top of the many various data sources that might be pushed into a report. You're free to combine data from Excel with msSql or random Json, and it all plays together nicely in the same report. You can do data cleaning in the import stage, and the dimension/fact-tables pattern has been able to solve the wide variety of challenges that I've thrown at it.

All this means that the PowerBI reports I've made have been far more adaptable to changes than the other tightly coupled solutions I've used. (I haven't used Tableau, but my understanding is that it provides similar modeling concepts to decouple the data input from the data origin. I'm not at all familiar with Looker).

[disclaimer, I'm a Microsoft Employee (but I don't work in Power BI)]
I am stopping myself from releasing shitty chatgpt wrappers which I see at every trade expo. I am just not doing it because I don't want to add more shit to the shitshow.
facebook has not been negative, they notably refused to play ball with the antipoaching agreements with other big tech companies in the bay, and technical people such as myself greatly respect them for it
"not allowed" signs are for you citizen losers, not for badass in charge heros.
Android was released on September 23, 2008, so it just had its sweet 16.
I would be very interested in learning how ATT compares with Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection. Does anyone know?
Sonos Execs Launched Ill-Received App Despite Employee Protests
But that's not what this would be, this would be gaining access to the system without permission.

It doesn't matter if my door has shitty locks, you still can't enter my house unless I invite you.
One More Thing... Goodbye from iMore
Ukraine Discovers Starlink on Downed Russian Shahed Drone: Report
U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction
Rather everyone not wearing Apple glasses and how they feel that's an invasion of privacy (a camera in their face everywhere they turn).
Fair enough on wordpress.com. It still doesn't strike me as plausible that any reasonable person in a purchasing decision thinks WPengine is wordpress itself. I certainly haven't seen any such confusion online.
git-absorb is a complementary tool to `git rebase -i`. git-absorb will create the fixup commits (from your staging area) for you and set them up for use with `git rebase -i --autosquash`.
> The alternative is the npm hellscape where you have a package for "isOdd" and a package for "is even" that can break the entire ecosystem if the owner is disgruntled because everything depends on them.

The is-odd and is-even packages are in no way situated to break the ecosystem. They're helper functions that their author (Jon Schlinkert) used as dependencies in one of his other packages (micromatch) 10 years ago, and consequently show up as transitive dependencies in antiquated versions of micromatch. No one actually depends on this package indirectly in 2024 (not even the author himself), and very few packages ever depended on it directly. Micromatch is largely obsolete given the fact that Node has built in globbing support now [1][2]. We have to let some of these NPM memes go.

[1] https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/path.html#pathmatch...

[2] https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/fs.html#fspromisesg...
Yes, she was dating him at the time. It did not go well for Rust, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28633113 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28513656

Ashley is just one out of many, unfortunately. Other former and current top contributors share similar qualities. Those qualities tend to trigger unnecessary explosions like last year's https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13vbd9v/on_the_rustco....
If you invented search engines (or, for that matter, public libraries) today and ran one, you'd be sued into oblivion by rightsholders.
Swift/Java interoperability tools and libraries
Sounds like a dream to me, as I live my life on a 3 city rotation like this. Practically speaking, I just rent a house seasonally which is not so hard to do. There’s a small premium, but then I get to keep my equity in the market instead. A lot less headache and someone else gets to worry about the hurricane heading right for my Oct to Jan rental.
This is a "Deep Dive" podcast generated with the NotebookLM using information from Harbor's Wiki.

Harbor is a containerized LLM toolkit that allows you to run LLMs and additional services via a concise CLI.

Repository:
https://github.com/av/harbor