skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> … advanced 12MP … camera

wot, m8? Only Apple will call a 12 megapixel camera “advanced”. Same MPs as an old iPhone 6 rear camera.

Aside from that, it’s pretty much the same as the prior generation. Same thickness in form factor. Slightly better SoC. Only worth it if you jump from M1 (or any Intel mbp) to M4.

Would be godlike if Apple could make the chip swappable. Buy a Mac Studio M2 Ultra Max Plus. Then just upgrade SoC on an as needed basis.

Would probably meet their carbon neutral/negative goals much faster. Reduce e-waste. Unfortunately this is an American company and got to turn profit. Profit over environment and consumer interests.
It's not exactly the same imo, since GS laws are meant to protect someone who is genuinely trying to do what a reasonable person could consider "something positive"
I think the real-world analogy would be to say that the case is shaped exactly like a machine gun and the hotel calls the police, who then open the case without a warrant. The "private search" doctrine allows the police to repeat a search done by a private party, but here (as in the machine gun case), the case was not actually searched by a private party.
> There's even a rule against obfuscation

Does that only cover the background/web-worker or does it also include the UI parts (popup, content-ui, dev-tools...) ? That would make using something like React or Vue almost impossible.
I post this not only because it might be of interest to HN'ers, but this is a huge bet by a university, isn't it?
Haven't been on either of those platforms, and couldn't even tell you what they look like.

But if that's the only defense you have for the current farce -- sure, go ahead and run with it.
I agree it lessens the depth though I think it generally aligns with Valorant flattening out some of the complexity of CS to free up overhead for hero abilities and ultimates. Each round has as many as 40 abilities to think about across 10 players and many maps add unique mechanics on top of that (e.g. teleporters). Also in CS because of a fixed sun position the parts of the map where shadows are relevant never change and become mostly rote memorization which is another thing I think Riot tried to minimize somewhat (e.g. Brimstone and Omen smokes not requiring memorizing dozens of lineups across the map pool).
This seems impossible without Chevron Deference. I doubt one can exercise one’s rights under this.
Should heroin merely be priced higher, not banned, because of the harm it causes to society?

Consider that artificial pricing always creates the Cobra Effect: unintended consequences abound that eventually more than undermine the original intent. This is how George Soros legendarily broke the Bank of England - by taking advantage of artificial pricing (in particular, exchange rates).

Furthermore, healthy societies enforce moral lines through criminal and civil law, not merely through fines and price manipulation.
Google CEO says over 25% of new Google code is generated by AI
Yes, Google's calculation.
Chain-of-thought can hurt performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse
They are coming from the same developer with the same certificates, how come?
I guess what I am asking you is what is the most important figure in that paper, as I read it and I'm no scientific expert but it made me come away more confident in the efficacy and safety of the vaccines. What am I missing that you are finding?
It is not "you say you thought you could", it is "you have reasonable evidence a crime is happening".

The reasonable here is "google said it", and it was true.

If the police arrive at a house on a domestic abuse call, and hears screams for help, is breaking down the door done in good faith?
I have been using evolution as well.

I have a relatively niche use case where thunderbird would no longer find my smime certificate on my smart card. But only in the compose/send UI, not in settings.

While I understand not many people are doing this, it also... Used to work, and I would have thought that detecting regressions in X.509 cert validation should be well covered by tests.

In comparison, evolution works.
Last month the moral panic in the 24 hour mainstream (pretty much every major media outlet in the US) news cycle was the environmental impact of LLM for writing emails, a bottle of water per email, think of the kittens, etc. Not to comment on the merits of this reporting, but among the middle and upper middle class US this is common, mainstream stuff. This is Apple's demographic, we're not talking $100 Android shit phones.
> It's the CEO showing you empathy for the hurt they cause you for having failed to steer the company in a viable direction.

There is no empathy whatsoever involved when someone says "I take responsibility" and then faces zero consequences. It's just a slap in the face.
It reminds me of encryption in 90s in the US. Motivation is different but I could see outcome being similar, driving development out of Europe. Interesting history read IMO: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab... & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Smaller follow up, it's multiple read-only references NAND one mutable reference, since it's also safe to have no references.
When I see that someone is excited about something, I believe in encouraging them. If you're looking for a more polite word to disparage people who love and are optimistic about something new, then you're overlooking what that says about your character. Also AI isn't just another fad like NFTs and web3. This is it. This is the big one.
> There are two principal ways of applying asymptotic analysis to algorithms: time or memory used.

It is usually both, but I meant time, because to be able to address your stack frame you need* a stack pointer that can take as many distinct values as your nesting depth, so it must have o(log n) width.

It is easy to dismiss this as irrelevant because your integers are usually fixed-width, but then you'd need to parameterize your algorithm on the size of input you're willing to handle (at which point you're no longer doing asymptotic analysis), since arbitrary-precision arithmetic really does just work this way normally.

> Also, regarding "without tail calls", your example already has tail calls. What do you mean by that?

I mean "without tail call optimization", or if you're particularly keen on getting into a pedant-off, "with the function call in the tail position not implemented as a tail call".
Naively, 1/(2^{hash_size_in_bits}). Which is about 1 in 4 billion odds for a 32 bit hash, and gets astronomically low at higher bit counts.

Of course, that's assuming a perfect, evenly distributed hash algorithm. And that's just the odds that any given pair of images has the same hash, not the odds that a hash conflict exists somewhere on the internet.
You can just search for HDR videos in Youtube.
> will enforcement of the rule bring back those 100 people?

Yes. Enforcement of the rules, when done properly, does save lives. We have psychology studies that show that judgement/punishment needs to be swift/certain. When that is the case, human behavior is altered (sometimes permanently).

> and that in real life you won't get 100% compliance and enforcement

No one needs 100% compliance. We need something up near 98% or 99%, which is achievable.
But its not, as we see in the posts above. CS has shadows and a fog-of-war anticheat implementation, Riot could have managed it if they really wanted shadows.
Absolutely unhinged.
That’s not what that means. It means you’re allowed to block their path. Everywhere else you must stop if you will block the path of a person. In NYC you do not.

Of course you can’t run them down.
"The media talks about it a lot" is our standard to determine "widely used"?

We had a similar "moral panic" about Satanic child sacrifices in the 1980s. Satanic child sacrifices were not a widespread practice, though.
I personally prefer approval voting over rank choiced voting. Simpler and gets most of the way there. Also, ranked choice voting is incompatible with the electoral college. As much as I despise the electoral college, a constitutional amendment to correct it is seemingly impossible. Not sure how ranked choice voting would work with an interstate compact though.
I feel like if they pushed Win32/Gaming on Apple Mx hardware it'd give at least a single reason for people to adopt or upgrade their devices to new models. I know for sure I'd be on board if everything that ran on my steam deck ran on a mac game wise, since that's holding me back from dropping the cash. I still think I'll get a mini though.
> I've never kept any laptop as long as I've kept the M1.

My 2015 MBP would like to have a word.

It’s the only laptop purchase I’ve made. I still use it to this day, though not as regularly.

I will likely get a new MBP one of these days.
> the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule supports denial of Maher’s suppression motion because, at the time authorities opened his uploaded file, they had a good faith basis to believe that no warrant was required

This "good faith exception" is so absurd I struggle to believe that it's real.

Ordinary citizens are expected to understand and scrupulously abide by all of the law, but it's enough for law enforcement to believe that what they're doing is legal even if it isn't?

What that is is a punch line from a Chapelle bit[1], not a reasonable part of the justice system.

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WlmScgbdws
People always complain about those structural things but don't actually want to exercise the immense power they have right now: voting in primary elections. Primaries have abysmal turnout rates, and given the geographic self-sorting and gerrymandering, serve as the de facto election in most places. Politicians know their real constiuencies are the 10% of people who turn out in primaries. Those are the folks they're afraid of. Everyone else is ceding that power by not participating.
Google at some point decided how to calculate that hash and that influences what the value is right? Assigned seems appropriate in that context?

Either way I think the judge's wording makes sense.
I believe that was their point in calling themselves a veteran jaywalker. If it were a proper legal way of crossing given local laws, it is not jaywalking.
What stops the electrical college from giving the majority an advantage?
Only reason they wouldn't take off outside China is the astronomical tariffs the West are putting on Chinese cars (100% in the US).

Though depending on the wording, they may be able to just build a plant in Mexico and take advantage of NAFTA. I can't tell from the whitehouse post on the tariff if it's tied to country of the manufacturer or just country of origin (usually it's origin).
It's Zelda tradition :) I used to love "Zelda" when I was a kid, and I would always run around the sunny home island in Wind Waker on the Gamecube. When I went to play "Zelda" at my cousin's house, it was Majora's Mask on the N64, and I remember it scaring the absolute shit out of me!
What kind of interchangeable are you talking about? Vulkan and OpenCl exist.

The CPU analogy for the GPU case isn't AMD and Intel, it's x86 and ARM.
> A direct drive electric motor has no torque curve, so a transmission is pointless.

Actually it does, but it's much flatter than that of an ICE. For a brushed DC motor, it's a straight line, from max torque at stall to zero torque at no-load full speed.

The original Tesla roadster had a 2-speed transmission, because the motor didn't have a high enough operating speed range. That worked badly. The jerk at shifting was high, and the transmission wore out. Tesla finally developed a water-cooled motor with more speed range, got rid of the 2-speed, and retrofitted their first cars.[1]

Variable speed electric motors with smooth acceleration are an artifact of smart control. The motor itself is not that well behaved.
DC electric traction motors used to have "transition controllers", where the windings were switched from series to parallel.
That's what the "throttle notches" on electric locomotives did. Here's a locomotive which works that way, a common Diesel-electric locomotive in India.. This loco is an old Diesel-electric, where the Diesel runs at a governed constant speed and driving is done on the electric side.[2] This is the true electric equivalent of a manual transmission. The big white handle on the left is the transition controller, and the two levers in front of the driver control engine and train brakes. This setup is workable for slow-accelerating trains. Watch the driver work the white handle like a shifter. This takes some training and practice. If you move that lever too fast or incorrectly, fuses will blow or the train will stall. That really is a manual control.

Streetcars, which spend much of their time accelerating or decelerating, had an good electrical "automatic transmission" by the 1930s.[3]
That's a large electromechanical device which uses transition switches and resistors to smoothly control acceleration. The driver just has an accelerator pedal, and all that machinery manages the motor torque. That's the power train of a PCC car, the base model San Francisco still uses on Market Street.
The controller has speed and pedal position as inputs, so, like an automatic transmission, it's following what the power train is doing.
Stomping on the pedal will give you normal full acceleration, and will not hurt the machinery. So this really is an automatic.

Modern electric cars with AC motors have a similar function, created with electronic controls. Older golf carts demonstrate how electric drive lurches without some smarts in the controller.

So that's what the electric motor equivalent of a "shifter" really does.

(I'm really bored this week. Hence these long posts. I'm waiting for a open source project to fix something they broke in a new release, and my main project is stalled on that. They're in denial at the moment.)

[1] https://www.autoblog.com/news/breaking-tesla-has-a-solution-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRWMaykHDzg

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqnsNhDVefs
It seems like a large part of the ruling hinges on the fact that Google matched the image hash to a hash of a known child pornography image, but didn't require an employee to actually look at that image before reporting it to the police. If they had visually confirmed it was the image they suspected it was based on the hash then no warrant would have been required, but the judge reads that the image hash match is not equivalent to a visual confirmation of the image. Maybe there's some slight doubt in whether or not the image could be a hash collision, which depends on the hash method. It may be incredibly unlikely (near impossible?) for any hash collision depending on the specific hash strategy.

I think it would obviously be less than ideal for Google to require an employee visually inspect child pornography identified by image hash before informing a legal authority like the police. So it seems more likely that the remedy to this situation would be for the police to obtain a warrant after getting the tip but before requesting the raw data from Google.

Would the image hash match qualify as probable cause enough for a warrant? On page 4 the judge stops short of setting precedence on whether it would have or not. Seems likely that it would be a solid probable cause to me, but sometimes judges or courts have a unique interpretation of technology that I don't always share, and leaving it open to individual interpretation can lead to conflicting results.
Unbelievable! how bloody rude can you be?

To the moderators (dang), do people get to keep their account here just because they're a "famous" poster despite writing the way they're doing all over this post? I'm assuming other posters have been banned for substantially less aggressive behaviour...
Euclid, in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters
// I can't make sense of anything going on in the US economy //

Just follow the money, for example:

// Stock market is up but people can't find jobs. //

Re-write that as: Companies are able to lower the amount they are paying on salaries and bonuses. This increases their profits, which boosts their stock price.

// Are we seeing meltdown due to AI in realtime? //

No, quite the opposite. This is what disruption looks like on the other side of it.

We are seeing companies using AI to make their workers more productive. So they don't need as many of them.
In this case you're correct. But the good faith exemption is far broader than this and applies to even officer's completely personal false beliefs in their authority.
Ugh, should have caught the bit vs byte, thanks.

The M4 max is definitely not a 4090 killer, does not match it in any way. It can however work on larger models than the 4090 and have a battery that can last all day.

My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I believe the m3 max did decent on some games compared to the laptop Nvidia 4070 (which is not the same as the desktop 4070). But highly depended on if the game was x86-64 (requiring emulation) and if it was DX11 or apple native. I believe apple claims improvements in metal (the Apple's GPU lib) and that the m4 GPUs have better FP for ray tracing, but no significant changes in rasterized performance.

I look forward to the 3rd party benchmarks for LLM and gaming on the m4 max.
Don't bother with thunderbolt 4, go for USB 4 enclosure instead - I've got a Jeyi one. Any SSD will work, I use a Samsung 990 pro inside. It was supposed to be the fastest you can get - I get over 3000MB/s.

Here is the rabbit hole you might want to check out:
https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/01/list-of-ssd-enc...
Unless I'm missing something: Defining traffic laws is something that the states do on their own, and these aren't things that the federal government generally gets involved with.

Thus, there are 50 different sets of these laws, plus DC. Any similarities between them may be nothing more than incidental.
Python Ellipses Considered Harmful
Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I thought the context provided it.

> you do any illegal action you want and get away with it just as long as you say you thought you could.

And as for corporations: that's the point of incorporating. Reducing liability.
This reminds me of the PR Agent open source tool:
https://github.com/Codium-ai/pr-agent

I've found the code walkthroughs very useful
Aside from the Knowledge Graph buzzword, isn't this exactly the same idea as Tim Berners-Lee and the Semantic Web back in 2001?
- web of resources, not pages
- ontology-based schema
- RDF based encoding
- URI (IRI) resource identifiers
- Automated agents and reasoning (DL) support

Considering the ensuing reception and general avoidance of the semantic web outside academic papers, I guess no one wants to talk about it.
The article Lammy linked is indeed the correct one. When that bit of news came out I checked my account, and it turned out that Dropbox had added and enabled the toggle without my consent. I was a paying customer mind you, I paid like $120/yr for my storage. After they pulled that crap I started working on setting up Nextcloud hosted in a VPS. It's more expensive, but Dropbox permanently burned my trust when they did what they did.
I'd say the focus on hashing is a bit of a red herring.

Most anyone would agree that the hash matching should probably form probable cause for a warrant, allowing a judge to sign off on the police searching (i.e., viewing) the image. So, if it's a collision, the cops get a warrant and open up your linux ISO or cat meme, and it's all good. Probably the ideal case is that they get a warrant to search the specific image, and are only able to obtain a warrant to search your home and effects, etc. if the image does appear to be CSAM.

At issue here is the fact that no such warrant was obtained.
Whether this stops at the uncanny valley or progresses to specific "AI celebrity" voices, I'm left thinking the engineers involved in this never stopped to think carefully about whether this ought to be done in the first place.
> If we don't treat almost all integers in an algorithm as fixed size then the analysis gets really messy and annoying in a way that has nothing to do with real computers.

I guess nobody does numerical computing or distributed systems with real computers anymore, huh.
There's no rule against minification, which I assume is what you're referring to when you say it would make using React or Vue impossible.

There's a difference between minification and obfuscation, but again, I'm not sure how they adjudicate it or how much they enforce it.
Correctly ingesting and visualizing data that's captured by different devices while also accounting for travel across timezones, is a real challenge. [1] is our guide how we do this for diabetes data generated by CGMs and insulin pumps.

[1] https://tidepool.stoplight.io/docs/tidepool-api/branches/mas...
I edit all my video content from a USB-attached SSD with Resolve on my MBP.

My only complaint is that Apple gouges you for memory and storage upgrades. (But in reality I don't want the raw and rendered video taking up space on my machine).
> OLED

I use mine for productivity only (I don't game at all) and it seems the consensus is OLED's no good for things like Kconsole/xterm (-style) windows and general text readability, though.
Respectfully, it's not pornography, it's child sexual abuse material.

Porn of/between consenting adults is fine. CSAM and sexual abuse of minors is not pornography.

EDIT: I intended to reply to the grandparent comment
> 0 correlation is obviously false with how much denser the plot is at the extremes and depending on how many questions are in the test set, it could even be pretty strong.

I took it as hyperbole. And honestly I don't find that plot or much of the paper convincing. Though I have a general frustration in that it seems many researchers (especially NLP) willfully do not look for data spoilage. I know they do deduplication but I do question how many try to vet this by manual inspection. Sure, you can't inspect everything, but we have statistics for that. And any inspection I've done leaves me very unconvinced that there is no spoilage. There's quite a lot in most datasets I've seen, which can have a huge change in the interpretation of results. After all, we're elephant fitting
I 100% agree. It’s always disheartening to see how different the spread is between the popular vote and electoral vote.

It’s such a sham and we should move to ranked choice voting, but sadly I don’t think it’ll ever happen with the current political layout.
Yes, according to the WHO[1]

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobi...
I use a dedicated NAS as a Plex server + Plex app on Apple TV itself for local streaming, which generally works fine. Infuse app can also index and stream from local sources.

But there are some cases like e.g. watching high-res high-FPS fractal zoom videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cgp2WNNKmQ) where even brief random skipped frames from other things trying to use WiFi at the same time can be really noticeable and annoying.
It interrupts some (depending on scenario) but isnt as rude and is way quicker then all the steps need to take to get out my phone and do a search.

Also at times friends will ask me to ask my glasses things during our hikes and what not.
Sounds like survivorship bias to me. A substantial fraction of drivers are generally not looking forward or paying attention at any given time... you're just rolling the dice by assuming they will see you and stop.
2008 would like a word. House prices absolutely do go down. They rose for a long time but recently they are again beginning to fall.

Median home price in the US peaked at $479,500.00 in 2022. By Q3 2023 it was down to $431,000.00. In Q3 2024 we reached $420,000.00.
I dunno how handy you are with Python, but its fairly easy to build one on your own.