skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, how about the fact that gnutls allowed passive cleartext recovery attacks to go unpatched for about 2 years?

How about the fact that GnuPG is predicated upon the web of trust which has been demonstrated not to work, encourages misuse in the form of long-lived identities which discourages key rotation, has no ratchets nor forward secrecy, has multiple internal key parsers, and a littany of vulnerabilities involving authentication and downgrade attacks?

GNU is just organizationally incapable of producing secure code. These tools are not good tools. GnuPG in particular offers absolutely nothing that another single-purpose tool doesn't do better, but for some reason people get emotional and mount all kinds of irrational defenses of it. GPG is not good. It is broken at a fundamental level.
I am not a hardware engineer or anything of the sort. My laptop has a slide shutter over the webcam, but this obviously does nothing about the microphone. How difficult/error prone would it be for the power signals to the microphone and camera to be individual wires/traces and have a physical switch that breaks the power or data connection physically? Surely these are very low voltage so the switch could be like the iphone mute switch?
They are collected — this is probably good, it means that at least it doesn't end up in the (local) environment — and a part of that is certainly reused, but have a look at the reporting digging into the actual numbers from the past few years. What do you think happens with those plastic recyclers who file for bankruptcy? In one case a local municipality is now stuck with thousands of bales of shredded PET left on the facility's grounds that no one other recycler wants to have, not even for free.

In part, it is the oil industry itself which kept the myth of plastic recycling going:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/climate/california-exxon-...
Let's chat. I am curious and want to hear more.
Buck Rogers sure is alive and well at HN 8-/

Add this to the list including Mars habitation and nucleat fussion, of lease valuable and most expensive ways to piss away money.

But for sci-fi brain damaged kidults, this is so neato!
Simplest way to summary, no complications or anything just url and summary it,I love it
What monumental architecture is older than Göbekli Tepe?
not sure but probably google ads on the summary page. I might also add a paid plan to give user more customization over summarization e.g. style, length, language, etc...

Any suggestions?
Every time I've opened the bluesky homepage it's been highly political. Not even in the sense of "here's a topic I feel strongly about". It's just "fuck conservatives" over and over. At the same time, even the most mild conservative opinions result in a ban. That's not a platform that one goes to for an escape from toxicity. It's a platform that one goes to so that they can burn strawmen with like-minded toxic people without worrying about getting blowback for it.
Patagonia has always payed under market rates, perhaps in exchange for their culture.
thank you. you should try the bookmarklet too :)
> First this isn't true, as most good comes with legal guarantee, retraction rights and so on.

Finality of the underlying transaction is a different concern than that of the means of payment.

Cash is indeed, at least in some jurisdictions, the only thing you can be sure to not have taken away from you when acquired bona fide, even if it turns out to have originally been stolen from its legitimate owner.

Practically, some other payment methods have similar guarantees, though (for example, you generally can't have money clawed back as a merchant accepting credit or debit cards in person).
Changing requirements requires changing code. I don't think it's a valid argument to say "we shouldn't take that approach because as requirements change we'll have to change the code". That's essentially software development.

You're misunderstanding me. Of course changing requirements mean changing code. The distinction is between a situation of "a small change in a requirement means a small change in code" and "a small change in a requirement means a BIG change in code". The make "make an enum of all the legal cases" approaches produces a situation where adding more binary conditions and requirements around them resulting in each change resulting a larger increase in code. And this in turn can result in a "we have to refactor this if we get one more change" and that's even more frustrating to those dictating requirements (and not uncommon in enterprise software).

Practically if you don't want to use enums and want another option, use a "builder" object. Pass in all of your booleans there and have it do you validation when you call its build method.

Cases are fine in some circumstances, enums of legal cases are fine in other circumstances and these builder might even be useful in a few bizarre cases. The main argument I'd have is that when one passes from "this approach can be useful, let's look at the situation" to "anything without this is bad", you often wind-up with a complete misallocation of resources and a fragile inability to make changes, as can be seen in today's legacy code (which was often yesterday's "best coding practices code").
I did not read the article - but I guess it all depends on the level of abstraction we are talking about. There is a very abstract level where you can say that AI learns like a biological brain and there is a level where you would say that a particular human brain learns in a different way than another particular human brain.
The microphone also can't be covered with a $1 plastic camera cover off Amazon. It's so easy to solve the camera issue if you care about it, but there's really nothing you can do about the mic.
giving money to build shit always works out. I think $6 trillion might be roughly enough for couple of buildings :)

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/05/congress-ev-charger...
HBM has a very wide, relatively slow interface. A HBM phy is physically large and takes up a lot of beachfront, a massive waste of area (money) if you're not going to use it. It also (currently) requires you to use a silicon interposer, another huge extra expense in your design.
I think its time for the federal government to get involved, and it already has leverage

If your company benefits or plans to benefit from QSBS tax treatment, then evaluate engineers on things they’ll be doing in the company:

the application development process, sprint ceremonies, asynchronous communication and tooling

they wont be implementing data structures often, and if they are reinventing the wheel they are wasting company time, if your company needs a more efficient data structures for its super scalable problem - it should trigger a process audit to be honest.
I see it more of a freedom from versus freedom to distinction. Under Elon’s Twitter you have the freedom to say anything (*almost anything — no tweeting about where his jet is lol). Under jack’s Twitter you have freedom from being bombarded with rape threats if you disagree with the wrong influencer.

Personally I prefer the freedom from regime but the nice part of the divide is everyone gets to choose for themselves. I’ve seen more of the people whose create content Im interested in (scientists, artists, authors etc) migrating to Bluesky but it’ll be interesting to see how it plays out over the next few years.
Same for me. 1,000 followers and barely any engagement. I swear it used to be different. My posts weren't any less dumb years ago, but I used to at least get a few replies and likes, even retweets.
Betteridge would be proud
Love it! Exactly what I needed
You can literally host your own PDS, and no one will stop you. It's based on protocols: so what thou wilt.

But that doesn't mean you also get to show up for free in any place you want & spout off your mouth. Block & moderation tools aren't censorship; we don't let lunatics into our living rooms to say whatever they want any time.

The X experience for many is being drowned in the muckiest shittiest slime. Paid-for bluechecks drowning out the air, spouting wild conspiracy theories, hate, disinformation, and every other blood pressure rising attention grabbing FUD they can push. The open protocols are a great possible virtue we hope keeps combinatorially improving the ecosystem, but really it's the absolutely despicable descent to bedlam that X has dug its own hole with.

And if Bluesky thinks your account looks antagonist (which a significant number of right wing agitators are doing), I respect Bluesky 's right not to have to host hot slop garbage.

Your post is full of incredibly slanted wild flame-wars level accusations & bitter slant. That I don't think represents reality at all. Underneath the mud slinging your core argument seems to be censorship, but that complaint is so very on the face of it obviously factually incorrect at the most basic levels.
This is the simple solution. 10 years seems fine to me, 20 years at a stretch.

The current regime is a clear case of regulatory capture.
Ah yes, the tried and true South Park Underpants Gnome business model...

1. Make Twitter/X Clone

2. ???

3. Profit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
Wireless noise-cancelling headphones. Oh no, the microphone is back through bluetooth.
That's almost a non-answer in the context of an interview for a technical role.
I've been in tech for almost 20 years now. I've worked in all sorts of industries, small companies, start-ups, big companies, you name it and I've been there. I'm currently in FAANG. I've been tech lead, in management, and even offered c-level positions in the past. There has not been a single time in my entire career where such a thing was even remotely true. Having been the interviewer before on many occasions, if I heard a candidate speak this way, I would absolutely not hire them regardless of how well they performed otherwise. This reeks of "I can't work well with others, so it's my way or the highway". It's very toxic and I question if you're trolling at this point.
The Rise of the NormieNet – Echo chamber politics
Does absolute power consumption matter or would it not be better to focus on per-core power consumption? Eg running 6 32-core CPUs seems unlikely to be better than 1 192-core.
Censorship isn’t absent from Twitter. Quite the opposite.
seems very logical considering the last centuries. nation state needs military, military needs people to STFU and do what needs to be done.

and unfair, considering that rich people always found ways to dodge the draft or serve in armchair positions, but taking this into account it's just even more obvious that special interests did what they usually do.
> It might be a response to the many, many claims in articles that neural networks work like the brain. Even using terms like neurons and synapses.

Artificial neural networks originated as simplified models of how the brain actually works. So they really do "work like the brain" in the sense of taking inspiration from certain rudiments of its workings. The problem is "like" can mean anything from "almost the same as" to "in a vaguely resembling or reminiscent way". The claim that artificial neural networks "work like the brain" is false under the first reading of "like" but true under the second.
Thanks for sharing context. That definitely reflects poorly on him and hurts his credibility.

When I read "an investigative journalist is publishing information alleging criminal activity" my reaction was "so what?" What you linked is not that.
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We can follow the development of the Sumerian writing system, so we know it didn't derive from an older source.

While nobody can prove there wasn't some civilization that had writing prior to Sumer (can't prove a negative), it stretches the imagination to think that a civilization ONLY ever wrote on perishable media and not on, say, pottery or building walls. Then died out without transmitting their invention to successor civilizations, all of which we can account for their development of writing.

Also, what perishable media? The invention of papyrus was contemporary with Sumer's clay tablets.
I already have an app that does this on Android (One Sec is the app) and it only inserts a "mindfulness break" for specific apps (e.g. Chrome and social media), and I came to the same conclusion you did.

It's grind when I just mindlessly tap to open the browser to search for something random. Lots of times, though, the browser opens when I want to do something quickly, e.g. I get an email and I need to open something in the browser, and it becomes a big annoyance. After a while I just started subconsciously ignoring it, which I think defeats the purpose.

It's a tough problem to solve - I want it to prevent me from doing "mindless scrolling", but not when I have an actual task to accomplish.
Screenzen (android) does exactly this and I navigated through all the use cases you mentioned successfully.
> Do "AI" fanbois really think LLMs work like a biological brain?

If you read the article you'd know two things: (1) the article explicitly calls out Hopfield networks as being more bio-similar (Hopfield networks are intricately connected to attention layers) and (2) the overall architecture (the inference pass) of the networks studied here remain unmodified. Only the training mechanism changes.

As for a direct addressing of the claim... if the article is on point, then 'learning' has a much more encompassing physical manifestation than was previously thought. Really any system that self optimizes would be seen as bio-similar. In both mechanisms, there's a process to drive the system to 'convergence'. The issue is how fast that convergence is, not the end result.
On the SpaceX example, they couldn't release their designs even if they wanted to. ITAR prohibits it.

If they weren't prohibited from sharing rocket technology SpaceX might share. Tesla patents are open. I don't see why Musk wouldn't do the same for SpaceX if the government allowed it.
Investors just can't pull the plug despite datacenters facing AI power crunch
Yes and no; the warmongers put a lot of money into persuading people who neither know nor care much about what is happening to support policies they don't take much of an interest in. We saw something similar in the 2000s where the right-wing types were very supportive of wars that in hindsight made them really angry at the Republican leadership for lying/facilitating them into several disastrous conflicts. I expect we'll see something for the left in a few years assuming we don't see a full WWIII escalation (or maybe even if we do). At some point the lack of any possible upside from or reason for US involvement in eastern Europe will be decisive.

The pro-war types don't have the numbers - US elections follow a consistent though imperfect principle that whoever is advocating for peace wins the election. They rely mainly on short term plays leveraging hysteria.
Whom would you side with?

People whose livelihoods and retirement depend on their copyright.

Or people who want to play old video-games for free.
OK, say constant operation at room temperature indoors.

No matter how well temperature and moisture controlled your environment is, I highly doubt that 100 years is easy. 100 years? 876,000 continued hours of operation? Large companies regularly have expensive recalls because of premature failures for all kinds of reasons. Components fail for myriad reasons and I think to get 100 years you’ll need careful component selection, de-rating, plating, thoughtful solder selection, conformal coating, etc.
Reddit in large part is very left leaning with a big echochamber, but the individual specific communities are generally really good, especially for search.
I Love the idea of the website, but I wonder what is the tech stack it’s built on?
I believe you can go far with this idea make the user build his own blogs of summaries like categories and articles. but for sure this should be a paid one.
Yeah you’re probably right. Nevermind.
> I've had a checking account and debit card since I was 10 years old

I dare you to teach a 4 or 5 year old to use one!
Coop fiber is the best.
> That was true previously as well.

No, it really wasn't. Don't even try and pretend please. Musk was spreading deepfakes about Kamala for example without labeling them as such. Jack and Musk are not comparable.
Sure, but that requires the manufacturer to be intending to spy, in contrast to someone compromising after the fact.
nextjs, postgres, react, shadcn... deployed to a kubernetes cluster (which is new to me and very exciting to work with).
This is like expressing surprise that a photon doesn't perform relativistic calculations on its mini chalkboard.

A simulation of a thing is not thing itself, but it is illuminating.

> pile of linear algebra

The entirety of physics is -- as you say -- a 'pile of linear algebra' and 'backprop' (differential linear algebra...)
Leaving marks on trees and such is not writing. It is not the transcription of spoken language. We have examples of this kind of symbol-placement on ancient cave art stretching far back into the ice age. It is not considered writing.
> Maybe the laws should be changed. But pretending that there's one set of rules for books and then a higher scrutiny for games is utterly backwards

Is it pretending? There actually were different rules in this area for rentals, though it didn't necessarily translate to digital transmission:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_of_America,_Inc._v._B....

> Soon after the settlement, the United States Congress passed the Computer Software Rentals Amendment Act prohibiting software rentals, excluding Nintendo cartridges from similar protections. Although Nintendo criticized the game rental business, they came to accept it, even working with Blockbuster to offer exclusive rental versions of their games. The first-sale doctrine was eventually subverted by end-user license agreements, which describe that the consumer is purchasing a singular, non-transferable license to the software, thus limiting the sale of used software.

Computer Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990

https://www.congress.gov/bill/101st-congress/senate-bill/198

> Excludes certain home video game software from the prohibition (including a computer program embodied in a machine or product which cannot be copied during the ordinary operation of such machine or product).

Libraries had a specific carve out as well over software in general "Authorizes nonprofit libraries to lend computer programs if a copyright warning has been affixed to the computer program packaging" which probably wouldn't apply to digital. But, it is wrong to say there weren't different rules for software vs books vs specifically game console software.

The DMCA had lots of flexibility for administrative law to make specific carve outs treating different media circumvention stuff differently for things like preservation:

> Lawmakers opted to create a rulemaking mechanism through the United States Copyright Office to review the state of copyrights and fair use to make limited classes of allowance for fair use which would be considered lawful means of using circumvention technology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
See then it's not hardwired at all. It is equally vulnerable to a reflash. Apple just did hardware security (i.e. signed firmware) better and also are relying on security through obscurity (its not a publicly available part).
Do you think they'd fare much better with budgeting physical cash?
Show me an actual person whose livelihood or retirement depends on their copyright (and not, say, owning somebody else's copyright). I'm not convinced that the current state of copyright law actually benefits authors and artists.
>OK, say constant operation at room temperature indoors.

Suddenly a wild humidity change appeared.

You must spend a lot of time defining your environmental parameters.
The title of the paper is: "Inferring neural activity before plasticity as a foundation for learning beyond backpropagation"

The current HN title ("Brain learning differs fundamentally from artificial intelligence systems") seems very heavily editorialized.
Yeah there's other near east settlements of this sort going back a full 10,000 years. Sumer was the first with purpose-built monumental architecture.
> Even using terms like neurons and synapses. With those claims getting widespread, people also start building theories on top of them that make AI’s more like humans.

Except the networks studied here for prospective configuration are ... neural networks. No changes to the architecture have been proposed, only a new learning algorithm.

If anything, this article lends credence to the idea that ANNs do -- at some level -- simulate the same kind of thing that goes on in the brain. That is to say that the article posits that some set of weights would replicate the brain pretty closely. The issue is how to find those weights. Backprop is one of many known -- and used -- algorithms . It is liked because the mechanism is well understood (function minimization using calculus). There have been many other ways suggested to train ANNs (genetic algorithms, annealing, etc). This one suggests an energy based approach, which is also not novel.
The post headline is distracting people and making a poor discussion. The paper describes a learning mechanism that had advantages over backprop, and may be closer to what we see in brains.

The contribution of the paper, and its actual title is about the proposed mechanism.

All the comments amounting to ‘no shit, sherlock’, are about the mangled headline, not the paper.
I might be dense, but I don't understand what that has to do with type hints...

To my eyes, the problem of choosing useful defaults for complicated types/datastructures is independent of whether I add type hints for them.

I think I am missing something...
The Framework laptop does this for both microphone and webcam, and there are privacy focused Android phones which also have a microphone switch which cuts the power to the microphone. It's definitely possible.
Go to https://www.ifixit.com/Device/iPhone, then search for your iPhone's battery replacement guide.
I believe it is possible to turn a speaker into a microphone. Found a paper which claims to do just that[0]. So, there is no safety anywhere?

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit
It is possible to manipulate the headphones (or earphones) connected to a computer, silently turning them into a pair of eavesdropping microphones - with software alone. The same is also true for some types of loudspeakers. This paper focuses on this threat in a cyber-security context. We present SPEAKE(a)R, a software that can covertly turn the headphones connected to a PC into a microphone. We present technical background and explain why most of PCs and laptops are susceptible to this type of attack. We examine an attack scenario in which malware can use a computer as an eavesdropping device, even when a microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. We measure the signal quality and the effective distance, and survey the defensive countermeasures.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07350
Interesting approach. I wonder if you could ping the iCloud servers to figure out if an email is associated to an iCloud account (I.e. for FaceTime validation). But imagine it's pretty locked down...
Can you provide some examples where this comes up?