skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fundamental limitation of computers, you run into the halting problem or decidability problem when you have same fixed inputs and multiple different outputs.

human's can handle multiple different meanings given the same inputs and provide a correct response.
How many different anonymous oyster cards will you use.

Likely one card, for years? At best it's pseudonymous not anonymous - a dataset identified by a GUID not a name.

That card has a unique id, and so a large data history attached to it. Commuting habits will be evident in the data. Should the person who uses the card need to be identified, it won't be that hard to find a clear image of them using the card to enter or exit at an otherwise quiet station in that history.
Windows used to have hinted fonts that respected the pixel grid. OS X used antialiasing. As a result, Windows looked much sharper, but chunkier. For creating media that was going to be rendered to print, the Mac approach was better, because the exact size of text was the same on the screen as it was printed. Personally I preferred the Windows approach. With HiDPI it doesn’t make much difference either way.
‘Poison in every puff’: Canada to put warning labels on individual cigarettes
It nags a lot on model 3/y in Europe unless it’s very slow stop and go traffic. Similarly than other brands. It will even put you in "jail" mode if you don’t react quickly to the nag too many times during a drive (didn’t happen to me as I’m obviously the most perfect driver).
Hah! I enjoyed that pun. Thanks for improving my day.
> Even if some additional advances are required, the probability that they will happen in the coming decades is at least in tens of percent.

You don't have any idea whether additional advances are needed. You don't have any idea what advances are needed. You don't have any idea whether those advances are even possible. But you're confident that they will happen with probability > 10%?

You're making very confident assertions, but you have no factual basis for doing so. (Neither does anyone else. We don't know - we're all guessing.)
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Germany does not use a global unique identifier like the social security number in the US. The Germans do not like such global identifier for people because the the Nazis used them and data protection is very important in Germany.
I don't think it can be reasonably disputed that software re-deploying an improved version of itself is plausible and obvious. Automated commits and automated deployments are both fairly common in modern build systems.
Unfortunately this assumes that the only thing which can go wrong is lack of reproducibility. Not so. I read a lot of public health papers during COVID and a staggering quantity (IMHO nearly all of them) should not have been published; many of them would have been reproducible despite that.

Other things that can and do regularly appear in reproducible, peer reviewed papers:

• Nonsensical methodologies

• Logical fallacies

• Mis-representation of their data

• Incorrectly implemented software

• Source datasets that are cherry-picked

One might think that things like incorrectly implemented software would fall under the umbrella of irreproducible research, but that won't work. Some fields don't really recognize a distinction between model implementation and specification. The model is the implementation and if a description was once published it's quite possibly either too vague to implement, out of date, wrong, or all three. IIRC Prof Neil Ferguson's team actually rejected an attempted replication of one of their epidemic models on the basis that only they were qualified to use it! Pseudo-science like this goes unremarked in universities, only outsiders seem to care.

Sometimes you get an honest academic who knows what they're supposed to do and actually does it, but there's no observable benefit to them from doing so because the ones who don't bother don't seem to suffer any consequences.

tl;dr The biggest problem with the replication crisis is the framing of it as being about replication. What the world actually faces is a misleading research crisis. You can drive the replicability rate to 100% and you'll still find whole fields consisting of logical fallacies and misinformation.
Poor or middle-class people in London don't generally buy or own cars.
Lmao, key-signing parties are bad as a concept but signed by a public administration is up there.

Have PGP, have a web of trust with...people you actually trust.
I am only scratching the very surface of data science, but coming from .NET 1.0 and just starting to learn Python, I'm still finding it far easier to use Python for these tasks. It's most likely just the library ecosystem, and I'm hoping that Microsoft continues to add officially supported libraries to .NET for these tasks. ML.NET feels very foreign to me compared to using other libraries in Python, even as a beginner in Python (although I have experience with various languages, but only minimal experience in functional languages, mostly F#).
> A 27" 5K is 218 PPI, which is the minimum pixel density for desk work, IMO.

I completely disagree with that. 110 dpi is totally fine for desk work. Always has been and will probably continue to be for a really long time.

I take my 38" doing 3840x1600 at 110 DPI over a 27"K (or even two) doing 218 DPI any day.

Now if you do photography or work on designing bills (as in money), then you'll want higher DPI. But for "desk work", there's zero need for anything more than 110 DPI. It may be "nice" to have retina fonts but it's by not a requirement.

I'd even say the real world is powered by something like 95%+ of people doing "desk work" on 110 DPI (or less) screen.

Also, if 5K / 218 PPI is the "minimum pixel density" for desk work, what's the minimum density for creatives?
I think it’s a testament to how people like Drama more than they like nuance.

Technical people are just as prone to it as anyone else.
> It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents.

Morally, and in terms of our own personal opinions, it should be sufficient, even if emotionally and to broader society, it isn't. We as individuals should not be advocating for the modality that maximizes the number of deaths, regardless of other trivial factors like status quo bias.
Will Hurd is not close to "far right."
First, China has always paid significantly less than Europe for Russian gas.

Now, it looks like Russia is going to spend $100 billion on the pipeline to sell its gas cheaply. But wait, China isn't that eager to commit to the project: https://www.ft.com/content/541f8bcb-118a-419e-869f-3273fcc9c...

Maybe China is trying to bargain even better price? China can, after all, buy energy from other sellers, but Russia has nowhere else to sell its gas.
try giving tsx a try instead of ts-node: http://npmjs.com/tsx
> the True and Extraordinary Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Separate Personalities

I never knew where the name for “Sybil attack” came from. Until now.

Previously I was imagining a “Sybil” to be some kind of creature that was similar to a gopher, a beaver, or a capybara. For some reason.
>Very much agree with this. If the signatories believed this, they would shut down development.

This just ignores the very real coordination problem. The signatories do not represent the entirety of AI development, nor do they want to unilaterally forgo business opportunities that the next man will exploit. Government is the proper place to coordinate these efforts, and so that is where they appeal.
And for some reason that thread was marked as a dupe despite being first, odd.
That's at the extreme of unlikely.

The carbon that we're digging up was in the atmosphere before, it has just been sequestered, we're returning to a state that the Planet has seen before.

Across the entire Earth's history we're still at a fairly cold point and a long way from "Greenhouse Earth" and the temperatures at the Eocene Optimum.

And according to the IPCC: "a 'runaway greenhouse effect'—analogous to [that of] Venus—appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities"
I wish GitHub made it clear when the repo was created. The commit history comes from git and frequently predates the GitHub creation when imported from somewhere else.

The api shows created_at as 2008-06-18 but this seems like relevant info that should display in the ui.
There was a distinct change to the font rendering sometime around macOS 10.14 (Mojave). I use the same 1440p monitor for computers running 10.13 (High Sierra), 11 (Big Sur), and Windows 10. I far and away prefer High Sierra to the others, with Windows 10 slightly better than Big Sur.

I don't have a citation handy, but I believe this was a conscious design choice to favor HiDPI displays.
It's Pascal's Wager, right (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/)?

Sure, the probability of AI-triggered extinction is lowish, but the consequences are essentially infinite, so we are justified in focusing entirely on the AI-extinction threat. (But I guess it's not infinite enough to justify rounding up all the AI researchers and shooting them?)
Maybe, but I'd still take the other side of this bet sadly. Is there any data on usage rates for third party Reddit clients? Anecdotally, I don't know anyone outside of tech who would even notice this change, really.
In my experience Tesla is pretty strict, especially now with the driver camera able to tell if you are watching the road. With the new driver cam it cares less about you applying pressure to the wheel but it's still pretty nagging.

My Volvo on the other hand (which has Lane Keep Assist with Adaptive Cruise Control) will gladly just slowly drift into the other lane sometimes (not always) if I don't correct it.

Edit: who the heck downvotes someone sharing their personal experiences? It's not like I'm fan boy-ing out. Sigh.
Lessons from Metafont (2018)
If you've never used it before might you need to for it to show you more relevant things?
People love to latch onto Structurelessness but it seems that I can’t stop hearing about “leadership in Rust” this, “governance in Rust” that, “working group on the subcommittee” this-and-that for the last few years.[1] So an insider realized that they have less power than they do. So what? This isn’t “structurelessness”; it’s just the formal structures having less power in reality, and also insider infighting.

As if informal politicking doesn’t happen inside ostensibly formal governance.

And Graydon has (according to himself) been out of this game for ten years. Then he was like, “Oh this sounds like this meme that I like” (which he came up with as more of a bystander than an insider, by the way).

[1] See the previous submission [2]. How many levels of leaders of the leadership chat on the leadership working group steering committee is it on when it tries to explain the chain of events.

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36101501

> Fasterthanli.me called out these informal networks and promised to stop participating in them in order to try to minimize their legitimacy

Concretely, he

> Up until recently, I was part of two private online discussion spaces where a bunch of Rust people hung out.

So he’s resigning from two private chats/forums about Rust. Okay.
Easy, because the commenter making that argument is a proponent of men getting vasectomies, and they are choosing to interpret the statistics in a way that is favorable to their position. Just like what the people you are describing were doing with covid stats. Just like what people do with statistics on gun crimes or school shootings.

To me it seems like whenever statistics get posted on HN the discussion is bound to devolve into pointless arguments. Statistics are crucial and necessary and we have to have hard data to support everything when said hard data supports MY positions, but when it supports YOURS it's obviously biased and incomplete and inaccurate and useless.

And I guess I should point out that I am in no way saying statistics shouldn't be used when making decisions. It's just that whenever I see them posted here, it means I'm not going to learn anything from that particular comment thread and it's time to move on to the next one.
Barracuda Email Security Gateways bitten by data thieves
Oh right! I see! Sorry I couldn't check it myself as I don't have access to a Windows device yet. Thanks so much!
Hedge funds are deploying ChatGPT to handle all the grunt work
I'm not sure that we do make policy decisions based on data, otherwise we'd be doing a lot more about climate change.
North Korean spy satellite launch ends in sea smash
Not sure why, but I found this gave me a lot of anxiety.

I think maybe the focus and fine motor control needed to keep the ball within the lines…
Exactly right and saddening as well. Their growth strategy is clearly working because based on MAU graphs it seems like most Reddit users joined in the past 2-3 years which is when all this stuff started. I wouldn't be surprised if the average comment length is half of what it was even 5 years ago. A lot of the growth seems to have come from mobile users but mobile users are terrible from a comment quality perspective so I hope this ultimately backfires in some way though I'm not hopeful.
This only works in countries where $5-10 is not much. Also this does not account for power users who can easily rack up enough API calls to put Christian in the red.
The default fonts with a base Linux install are at best terrible; not comics sans terrible but websites look off when compared to other operating systems.

Fortunately, you can remedy this by installing better fonts. Some people will even go so far as to install all the fonts from Windows and MacOS to give them the right look wherever they go.
Well that's just the thing, the AI crowd spans a lot of opinions, from those who believe the endstate is a time travelling cyber Satan that will torture everybody and make clones to torture more people until the end of time, to those who fear large swaths of workers being replaced by an influx of heavily automated processes, to those who are worried about LLM-powered spambots destroying the notion of truth.
> We don't make policy or design decisions as a civilization based on whether individuals are going to be emotionally outraged.

I feel like we're living in very different democracies. My provincial government just offered to pay just over a third of a billion dollars for a hockey arena so they could have a better shot at winning an election. That's entirely playing to people's emotions.
I found Apollo to be fairly shady. I paid for the app and they “lost” my account or something so suddenly I could no longer use the pro features. Pretty lame, no amount of support could help, so I used the app for a while as a free user because I didn’t want to pay twice. One day they pushed like 50 modals over the course of a day to “upgrade to pro” and eventually moved to a monthly subscription service, which suddenly made me realize why they “couldn’t find” my previous account.

Love the features, but feels shady to me still. The API pricing thing does suck, but at this point I’m not willing to throw any money at them.
It is their data but your copyrighted work :P

Seems to me this is more them trying to push ads on people; apps like Apollo do not serve ads (or, as a long time user of Apollo, I've never seen them). I think this has been a long time in the works, before all of the LLM buzz.
Criminals spent 10 days in US dental insurer's systems extracting data of 9M
I think if Microsoft would have continued to invest in projects such as IronRuby and IronPython, we'd be much further along in integrating different paradigms in a way that feels more natural, while also continuing to grow the DLR (for both features and performance).
old.reddit.com is fine. The alternatives are awful. So when old.reddit.com is removed, I'll be leaving Reddit.
Military draft is one of most drastic freedom infringement and is almost always limited to males.
It wasn't first. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083 was first.

It fell in rank because it set off the flamewar detector and then we turned that off and it's back on the front page. This is standard lifecycle stuff on HN.
Nope, I don't get it sorry, this is so infuriating. A gamified version of all the frustrations I have with mobile UX and my fat fingers.
Twitter now worth just a third of what Musk paid for it
So people killing people is ok, but software killing people is way out? I have seen plenty of human-made accidents that were very readily avoidable - one that springs to mind is a colleague who killed himself and his three passengers by driving down the wrong side of the M1 at 180 mph while absolutely slaughtered (pun intended).

I mean, you’re saying that he couldn’t have handled that any better?
The Tesla safety report has never been a good-faith attempt at communicating their stats.

They compare Teslas to every single other vehicle on the road. The average Tesla owner is already in a demographic that would have dramatically lower accident rates than the average. The average age of a Tesla vehicle also dramatically lowers it. Then you add in the fact AP is skewed towards highway use and disengages in tricky situations...

Before you even factor in AP you're already starting with the picture Tesla wants to paint.
agreed but that’s what your up against as an app developer. free and shit or good and not free. people will deal with shit sadly.
Posts tagged NSFW are filtered out by default, but yeah, a lot of stuff isn't really office safe.

Things are weird though. Kind-of a peek at what an unmoderated, non-algorithmic feed would look like.
Any nation state with any sense will be developing AI - we see a number of countries announcing national strategies for AI publicly, and you can bet there will be other states working on this in secret. To expect these states to comply with international 'regulation' is extremely naive.

And in the meantime here are we, hackers, with with our dark Web, our peer to peer systems, our open source and our encrypted communication. We can develop AIs of our own, distributed across jurisdictions. Training costs are getting cheaper, as is computing hardware. They think they can regulate all that? Come and take it from us.

The horse bolted months ago, and surely the great minds at these leading firms can see this. What's the real reason behind these calls for us to set aside our curiosity and close our minds?
AI is both what you say, and it is something more.

While wealth is busy stepping on you with its jackboots it is vying with other wealthy people for resources and power. Because AI is something that will increase the wealthy persons power, there is the counter risk that another persons AI will make them even more wealthy if they don't keep improving their AI.

The wealthy really don't want to get in a very expensive AI war with each other if they can avoid it. They'll seek to regulate it enough they can gain power over most, but setup a regulatory system they feel gives them some form of control.
It has little to do with the look and feel. Loading a "new" reddit page feels like going on a 2010s news page without an adblocker. The page takes 15 seconds or more to load. Elements are shifting around during that time. If I'm not logged in, I get a screengrabbing beg ad to install their apps.

Reddit code is trash. The old version is just much simpler and therefore less annoying. If it weren't for the fact that the smaller subreddits have lots of value, no one would put up with it.
What a deceptive headline. They cut these things from general science courses (what Americans would consider K-8), but they are still part of "high school" biology.
And in the replies to the thread, the admin is now publicly back-and-forthing with Christian about the number of requests made by his app and how "other bots and apps" are more efficient.
RARBG was my favorite for finding HDR/4k content. Anybody got an alternative?
Well this is actually that exact situation. The driver was supposed to be driving.
Clutch is super cool! I'd say our main differences are that we offer a hosted product and we're not focused on infra management. While it's clear from this thread that self-hosting is critical for some companies, many others prefer a hosted product so that they don't have to manage any additional infra. They're also specifically aimed at helping devs manage their infra, while Onu's focus is helping devs share scripts with their non-technical teammates. We're seeing that most of our early customers are product engineers who have to interface with ops or CX often. Do you use Clutch?

Regarding Backstage, I've actually never heard of it! I'm skimming through it now and on first glance I'm not sure how we would integrate with them. Do you use Backstage? What would a helpful integration with Onu look like for you?
As a security professional, I often get asked whether adding a root check is advisable. My general recommendation is to go ahead and implement it, but with a focus on data collection rather than taking action. For instance, you can log if a user is using a jailbroken or rooted device, without interfering with their experience. The responsibility for running a secure operating system lies with the users themselves, not the application. Applications that attempt to restrict how users utilize the app can be likened to malware.

Now, there might be instances where a business executive argues in favor of DRM or ensuring that certain coupons are limited to specific regions. In such cases, its sometimes suggested as a requirement to verify if the app is running in a simulated environment or is rooted. However, I can assure you that if you lock some kind of value behind this check and then rely solely on the operating system to provide this level of security, there will eventually be clever hackers who find ways to bypass the protection. The same principle applies to business-to-business apps that demand extensive control. In such situations, you need to rely on other software solutions or provide dedicated hardware. It's important to refrain from attempting to take ownership of my device, considering it's already under the control of Apple or Google anyway... /sarc. If you require stronger guarantees, I suggest reaching out to them.
Building Systems with the ChatGPT API – Free Course from Andrew Ng and OpenAI
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I prefer new Reddit when I’m on my phone (which nowadays is my primary causal scrolling device). I think part of the reason people stick to old Reddit is because they haven’t ripped off the nostalgia band-aid yet
Indians predominantly subscribe to the Hindu belief system, which is quite foreign from the Western ideologies imposed on them by the British.

Consider the concepts of atman (essentially, meaning Self) and avatars (essentially, deities coming down to earth to take on human form). Darwinian evolution acts as a simplified, analogous representation of the grander evolution of Self as told in Hindu mythology. According to Hinduism, atman evolves by inhabiting more complete forms of physical vessel, passing from fish to amphibian to cow to human to Buddha.

Additionally, Hindu belief systems admit the existence of reincarnative process, which Western belief systems, including our most fundamental prevailing scientific axiom, do not. Darwinian evolution and an overarching reincarnative process cannot coexist because the former requires that the physical world is the totality of reality while the latter requires that the physical world is a small but important portion of reality. Humans are either the descendants of monkeys via a completely-observable evolutionary process, or forces beyond those which are Seen shape our development.

Western arrogance dismisses these ideas as invalid at face value. A Westerner should honestly seek to understand the Hindu belief system and suss out where it is accurate and inaccurate without resorting to pathos argumentation.