skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is literally all I can think about these days. I’m getting paranoid and I want to start my OS from a clean slate and use sandboxing for every project. I spend so much time auditing random scripts and libraries because I run them on my laptop.

But sandboxing options aren’t that great right now. Docker doesn’t cut it because it isn’t a security sandbox, and full blown VMs with vagrant have too much friction and needs lots of resources.

I think this is something where Firecracker (Amazon’s lightweight VM) can really shine. But it needs a better a DevEx to act as a disposable/reusable environment that’s easy to start up, easy to specify dependencies. Maybe something uniting firecracker and nix would be the sweet spot for both isolation and reproducibility.

I’m rambling but it feels like this should be a solved problem, maybe it is and I don’t know where to look.
Either of those sounds quite fair, as long as the software isn't bricked once the year is up.

Wouldn't even consider a subscription.
And they're betting with other people's money but keep the profits.
I actually played with Unityper.jl and SumTypes.jl, but my conclusion was that if I was going to depart from dispatch on Julia types in my code, I might as well just stick to an untyped tree, since either way I'd have to have a single `evaluate` function for interpreting any kind of node.

Reconsidering now, it seems that there might be benefits beyond type dispatch to having a typed syntax tree, so maybe I'll give that a shot as a next step!
The best investment calls are on trends that the majority initially dismiss. The mismatch between public expectations and real potential is the source of returns. So they may still be great investors, making calls that you lack the vision to appreciate.
You should compare with GA to get closer to apples-and-apples. Comparing a highly regulated industry with everybody from 16 year olds to 90 year olds over and extreme range of experience and health isn't going to give you a useful result.

And even GA pilots are probably in much better physical shape than the general public that drives cars.
Yes, which is plenty on 16" – after all one still gets 141 PPI resolution, that's more than one would get from 4k on a 32", which has 137.68 PPI.

ps. check out https://www.sven.de/dpi/ for a simple but nice DPI calculation app.
I was bad in school during the first 6 years or so. Then something started to click and I got better, especially at languages. I was not putting a lot of work in but was still being able to graduate my technical college with the perfect grades, my German exam work had not a single mistake in it.

Curiously, my feeling is that even years after things still got easier for me. I am convinced that a particular kind of intelligent person might just take longer to get adjusted to the school system. For some this will also happen after school.
The Wembley Point Mystery
Chess Tournament Games and Elo Ratings (2014)
Why are you counting only fatalities? They are low because modern cars have lots of safety features. In 2021 there were 5,400,000 medically consulted injuries related to motor vehicles.
If biological weapon would not be deployed, then why Ukraine need it at all? There is no other hostile country populated by Slavs AND separated by ocean from Ukraine, to be a target for such weapon.

Can you give us a logical reason why Ukraine needs a weapon for mass-suicide?

Other nations may want a such weapon, but why Ukraine may want it to such extent to participate in development of such suicidal weapon?
"In Intellectual Mathematics a topic is introduced only when the student can be convinced of the value of doing so."

If I understand this correctly, you cannot bend the approach to the teaching of any particular topic (e.g. what's in your son's homework this week). Rather you would have to bite the bullet and teach your own parallel course, abandoning the school curriculum to the teachers.
Maybe so. This one just sort of gave me the "no clocks and no mirrors on the casino floor" vibe. Keep you gambling away your money on crypto with no easy way to see how much you are down.
There are some frameworks that allow you to change OS without touching the hardware. Converted a Three UK one to Openwrt like this.
i feel like this means aliens will be shaped like crabs. literally crab people
There are cheaper and lower co2 footprint ballasts than copper and magnets for getting the weight.
Yeah, there is some extremely shady stuff taking place among the Reddit powermods.
Decoupling a core service from your monolith the right way
Microsoft will end support for Cortana
Did they really?
Then results are not really surprising. If you have access to a large body of code the mere ability to query it efficiently and re-use boilerplate or snippets of code performing some standard function and/or adding documentation is a productivity booster. Now we know its 8%. Small but measurable.

Arguably if you optimise the system to do precisely that rather than pretend to hold civilized conversation you could get quite a bit more bang for you gazillion parameter buck.
Conjuring a fiction out of almost nothing
After years of trying to perfect my home "office" system, I just have a 2-year stack of correspondence (electric bills and whatever) , which works out to about about a ream of paper. Upon intake I stamp the date in the upper right corner (because nobody can seem to standardize on this) and every couple of months I peel the >2yr off and shred it.
Musk endorsed high resolution radar as Tesla was removing the existing radar. https://electrek.co/2022/06/08/tesla-files-use-new-radar-con...

Given what is public now, I'd speculate that perhaps they were working on replacing radar all this time. Then they used vision as an excuse to dump the existing radar early when there was a parts shortage.

I see Musk acting a lot like Jobs in certain ways. They were both very cagey about the future direction of their products. Although Musk didn't exactly backtrack on radar, he wasn't transparent about Tesla's plans either. You don't telegraph your moves to your competitors. Similarly, I'd be very surprised if Tesla wasn't keeping an eye out for lidar crossing a specific cost/function threshold. They're not saying that aloud, though.
Well, this
> As a result, well-known scientists tend to receive more credit than lesser-known scientists for work of comparable quality [27].

basically just references a bunch of other works.

One way of quality measurement is with the benefit of time I suppose - which would also be the way you would have the best metrics for idea diffusion.

If the future is already here just not evenly distributed yet it follows that what is evenly distributed now at some point in the past was unevenly distributed. With a good enough paper trail, which scientific publications provide, we could have a model of the distribution of these ideas that we believe, with the benefit of hindsight, are of similar quality.
https://archive.ph/2fWeS
Sure, with 80 years and a trillion dollars that could work. Why bother working on self driving software when you can restructure all of society.
They are releasing proprietary software, that’s the default state, not an act of rebellion against copyright systems. Free software is by itself a middle finger to copyright. Releasing code without license isn’t.
Yeh thats what I was getting at, though in reality the expectations are even more unrealistic. A lot of the (less technical) people I've spoken to haven't been saying that so much progress has been made in a matter of years, but a matter of months. Because of course if you weren't following the early development of these models, it appears that chatGPT came out of nowhere
Yep, it's either science fiction or science fact. There seems to be a lot of opinionated people that insist they can counter reality by yelling harder. But their points of view don't necessarily align with the facts.

My view is very simple. Lots of people insist that this stuff is dangerous and will kill people. Lots of Tesla FSD capable cars are on the road and are racking up billions of miles. Where are the traffic deaths? Where are the countless crashses? Those supposedly dangerous situations escalating all the time? It's all failing to happen as people insist it ought to be happening. Maybe that's because they are wrong. If anything, it seems Tesla runs circles around the likes of Volvo in terms of car safety by now. They certainly seem to insist so and they claim to have the numbers to prove it. And I'm not hearing a lot of statistics that counter that.

Meanwhile, there are of course lots of traffic deaths. The vast majority of which involve human drivers making fatal mistakes and getting themselves into trouble. Even adjusted for relative miles driven by humans and AI, the numbers aren't good for humans. They are terrible actually. It's not that hard to do better than that. AI vs. drunk, tired, reckless, moronic, etc. human drivers is basically no contest. And there are a lot of those. Roads are dangerous because of that.
How to use repetition (2017)
Thank you for the suggestions! I was actually just searching about MLIR today after reading some Julia language community discussions on the new Mojo language that uses MLIR.
I remember how I learned networking protocols basically over telnet in the 90s. You could send email by telnet'ing to some SMTP server, using the (HELO, MAIL FROM, RCPT TO commands). I of course debugged my HTTP cgi gateway using telnet and sending "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost:somehost.com\n\n". I connected to IRC using telnet, joining channels and sending privmsgs (although answering PING requests from the server become annoying quickly). I learned that you can connect to FTPs using telnet, and on wrongly configured ones (FXP), you could use the FTP control channel to have the content of an arbitrary ASCII file be sent over a socket - just to use it to have the FTP server connect to an IRC server and send message to my online buddies.

Good times. I look back at it with my rose-tinted glasses of course, but I wonder how it is today, given that everything is now SSL/TLS secured and you can basically not tamper with anything anymore without a deep understanding of the protocol and writing code first.
> xdg desktop portal workarounds

Desktop portals are not "workarounds", they are the new correct APIs to use
This is really cool, thanks!

I noticed that it's missing results from Distributed Code Jam, which happened 2 or 3 years only, and I'm partial for it since that's the only Codejam competition where I have ever managed to win a t-shirt:D
Drag Your GAN: Drag to edit photos
Opium’s Part in Imperial History
Are they, though (dogs I mean, not bees)?
I would think the same looking at my cat, but I also know that some animals are amazingly good at reading our behaviour, body language and even signals (like smells) that humans can't pick up. See the Clever Hans story for instance.
Could it be that we are (unknowingly) giving them hints that bathtime is coming?
And even despite this negative experience, I would say Revolut is still a safer choice compared to the apps listed in the article.

Theoretically, your Revolut balance should be safe from bank failure as it's FDIC insured through their partner banks (according to https://www.revolut.com/en-US/how-we-keep-your-money-safe/)
In Praise of the Park Bench
It's too early to tell, but given current technology I'd say BCI is a hard egg to crack.

Being someone that have been working on it for the last two years all I can say is that it's too noisy and unreliable. There have been some excitement with using ML/DL as improved decoders but it's still hampered by myriad of problems for it being a product, or even better than existing interface devices.

Working with those devices suddenly gives you a massive dose of scepticism to neuroscience papers that use hose devices for experimental verification of their theories.

Advancement in (hardware side) ECoG is the only way I can see it get better but that's still far fetched
It's hard to not read this as elitist and entitled, to be honest. There are many people who know that GitHub exists but don't want to use it, and they also don't care for you having their source code. It's a choice they make. This entitlement is interesting because the solution obviously is to just make your own tools and not be a lazy library/tool hunter all the time.
Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
Fascinating how such a simple solution is so timelessly effective. A "framework" going two centuries strong.
Practice interviews from any job offer (Linkedin, Indeed, Monster, Glassdoor, ZipRecruiter)
Crypto is just totally ruthless with software exploits. Any software exploit leads to millions of dollars worth of assets being stolen, by whoever found the exploit.
You're arguing that something observed so often and consistently that it has had a name for decades -- the ELIZA Effect [1] -- doesn't actually happen often enough to care about.

I have referred to ChatGPT hallucinations with multiple friends and family, some in tech and some not (like my parents and my kids), and with one exception none of them knew what I was talking about. Like most people they think computers can't make mistakes, so it follows logically (for them) that an (apparently) intelligent machine can't make mistakes, i.e. hallucinate. I have a couple of my own ChatGPT transcripts that include hallucinations and when I show those to people they say that I deliberately misled the AI, because how could it make a mistake?

In my own experience, which includes people who work in the software field and people who don't, including a couple of friends who work with neural networks and LLMs, almost no one understands how LLMs work, or what limitations they might have, or what "hallucinate" means in the context of ChatGPT. Almost everyone I know is much more likely to believe AIs have already or will soon put them out of a job and start turning us into slaves or launching nuclear strikes, because that's the nonsense they get fed my the media.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
The great filter is birth rate. If we can't solve that, big trouble.
The article mentiones "conductive grease" that is added to the membrane.
Exactly, FSD Beta is currently driving me around 90% of the time, and none of the problems are sensor/vision related, but decision related.

Updates are happening around once a month and the decision making is getting noticeably better.
Because it's slower
Thats what I said
Tesla drivers are the product, they train the machine and put up with garbage so that Elon can invest in his future profits. Self selected clones.
This is a fantastic reference! Thank you!

Quote from the paper:
“Relativistic principles and effects which must be considered include the constancy of the speed of light, the equivalence principle, the Sagnac effect, time dilation, gravitational frequency shifts, and relativity of synchronization.“

So many factors to unpack yet the solution is right there.
By the way...

Gold codes (this article calls them chipping codes) can be used to solve a lot of engineering problems where you need to synchronise two things. Eg. "I want to transmit an infrared signal and receive it somewhere else, but the signal isn't bright enough to detect! - no worries, use a 1023 bit gold code, and suddenly you get a 30x effective brightness increase, and perfect time sync, with no hardware changes!"

However... beware that you should never transmit the codes once per millisecond. Thats the GPS rate, and GPS is very easy to accidentally interfere with if you use their gold codes. Instead transmit at some other data rate (ie. once per 1.2 milliseconds), or generate your own gold code set, and you won't disrupt GPS.
MWIR sensors are even more expensive than LIDAR, are military controlled and dofficult to export, and Tesla does not have them.
Since OpenSSL 1.1.0, you can turn it off with -nocommands:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/6ba8a5b77af5792b
Freedom is scary. We all must deal with it.

Fact is, that art is as offensive as you think it is. True for everyone.

Responding with crime is profoundly selfish.
A Tale of Twin Sisters
The walls are obstacles for moving on. Like storage and transport are obstacles for solar energy. But once we find solutions, we hit a next barrier. They can be large (ie not so much changes) or small (we get a series of follow up innovations, because energy has just becomes much cheaper and more abundant).
Wow, the whole concept of a peephole optimizer is a bit mind blowing to me. I'm appreciating all the reasons to power through to writing a bytecode VM as the next step.

I'm not sure how far down the compiler I actually will enjoy going vs. exploring ideas around type systems, linters, etc. up near the AST level, but if I do venture down this advice will certainly come in handy!
Privacy and full control over your OS.
Yes, see the "if statements" section in the (very terse) documentation https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng/blob/main/TEMPLATE.md#i...

You can see it in use in the PNG format template, here: https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng/blob/main/templates/ima...
? It is literally uncountable how many times the big banks stole money from regular people. Crypto indeed is a good place to store money.
A significant portion of the American population doesn't accept the results of the 2020 election. No amount of proof will change their mind.

Everyone alive has been exposed for decades to both sci-fi tropes and media hype around AI, and the ideas that stick in their heads tend to be those repeated and reinforced by media, not by direct experience. When LLMs get rolled out to everyday users who aren't experts it will come in the form of chatbots or plugins or text summarizers or code writers, not in the form of carefully fact-checked conversations with ChatGPT. Lots of people already use ChatGPT through Bing, and they aren't likely to check what it tells them.

We see people misled and scammed every day because of their own ignorance and misinformation promulgated by both mainstream and social media. I can't begin to understand how anyone would think -- contrary to all evidence -- that the huge population of non-experts will figure out the limitations of an opaque technology on their own after a few interactions with it.
With openssl s_client you can totally connect to most IMAP and SMTP servers and have fun
> and a myriad of others

'and a myriad others' is sufficient, the 'of' is not needed. It's like the 'y' in 'relevancy' or machine in 'ATM machine'. You're just adding... redundancy.
Ah I see! Thanks!
Is it legal for people in Hong Kong to commemorate the Tiananmen crackdown?
I'm surprised so few people are interested in this. It's a very good collection. I think it'd be very useful for people wanting to have a go at it, now that google has sunsetted it. I am not sure how it is hosted but maybe a GitHub repo with source files could ensure they'll be archived even better for posterity. OP have you posted them anywhere on GitHub/Gitlab?

Edit: My bad, I saw the downloadable zip archives for every year. This is nice.

(Also if we want to mirror this to help individually - can you post some brief howto. Happy to mirror & share the load)
Good to know !
You're very welcome. I revisit it periodically and understand a little more each time.
Feels more like polemic and opinion than something that’s true or false
I'm surprised because it never ends well for the company in the long term, and they should know this.
Thank you for the tip! Getting to implement a different language from Lox feels like a nice way to cut down on the tedium.
Unfortunately, Mastodon is designed to look like Twitter, with people disorganizedly shouting at each other rather than being clearly organized in nestable threads.
.ga domain names soon to return to Gabonese management (from Freenom) [pdf]
interesting indeed, will follow up with you on contact@editor.do
No.

You listen to the road condition.

You sense the road bumping.

You feel the acceleration.

Your eye have better dynamic range.
[3] https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-row-over-holocaust-history-...
But the browser could run any kind of javascript code
The organic certification process does include consideration for "Buffer Zones" to help prevent contamination from neighboring farms.

https://tilth.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/BigQAnswered_Bu...

It's a mischaracterization to say "organic doesn't matter" - it's not perfect, but it does work to drive pesticides out of the food supply. It's not just a cynical marketing ploy.
API Schema Validation with Zod in TypeScript
I don't think OP identified their gender. Otherwise I agree that OnlyFans maybe not a great second income for a man. The men making money from videos seem to use YouTube and Patreon.
> > The first fatal accident involving FSD Beta

> first?

According to your own citation, there are no deaths where FSD Beta has been alleged to be involved in any way.
But humans eyes often look away from the road, close during a sneeze etc, and have a very narrow viewing angle compared to a car surrounded 365 degrees by cameras... so there are plusses and minuses.

Human vision isn't that perfect for driving when it's looking at a mobile phone.
There is definitely a much larger health issue for farm workers!

One way to minimize your exposure to this kind of chemical is to buy organic produce.
I originally had “radar/LIDAR” everywhere you see “LIDAR” in that comment but it got really unwieldy halfway through. I think what I said generalizes from the specific example of LIDAR to other forms of sensing pretty well anyway, so you can just sub in radar if you want. The general principle is “vision” (in the sense of cameras feeding 2D image data into something that is probably a neural network) vs “everything else”. I would have said cameras vs sensors but some of the sensors use the visible light spectrum and so their sensors are called cameras. I like your use of “optical”, that might be the cleanest way to point at what I meant.

I broadly agree with your second point, about vision-only presenting big computational challenges. I think you do get some easy wins that bring down the challenge a bit - e.g. you don’t need to model human brains, you just need to model whatever the brain is doing when it’s driving; also the fact that we can teach people to drive without understanding what their brain is doing is a reassurance that we can teach a neural network to drive without understanding what it is doing either, so it frees us from (some) of the modeling of thought processes as well. But it is still a big computational challenge. I heard that Tesla has a server farm with thousands of Nvidia A100s, if true, that could make a dent in the problem for sure.

And yeah, I also wouldn’t say vision is the be-all and end-all when it comes to driving. (It’s a pity that we can’t easily integrate LiDAR, radar, and other sensors into the human brain so we could use them like we do sight and sound in order to drive better.)

My point is more that roads come in all shapes and types and sizes, but one consistent thing about them is that they’re all designed so that humans can use vision to drive on them. Like, you don’t know if future roads/signs/cars will be built in ways that are hard to read with LiDAR, but you can be pretty confident they won’t be built to be hard to see. Road builders, car makers - everyone else involved in the driving industry is designing for vision. It’s implicit, and it’s aimed at human vision, but it’s one of the few universal constraints on driving.

That’s what I mean when I say it’s a standards-based argument, that vision is sort of a “universal interface” for roads. Another “universal interface” for roads might be wheels (with traction), or more specifically tires. You don’t need to have rubber tires, or even wheels at all, to drive on roads - but if you do have tires, you can pretty confident that you can drive on pretty much any road you come across.
Could that be used as a case for a lawsuit?