skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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imgur has gone to shit as well. I'd imagine the trend is happening across most sites with surveillance as their business model.

I also don't understand why discussion of this topic rarely touches on adversarial interoperability? Explicitly published and versioned APIs are a nicety. If companies are going to choke them, then why not just use the same API the web interface uses rather than paying the Danegeld?
That "comparison YouTube video" is absurd and dangerous, because, at minimum...

A Level 4-capable vehicle (a Waymo vehicle) is an incomparably different system than a Level 2-capable vehicle (a vehicle equipped with FSD Beta).

The Waymo vehicle has a design intent such that there is no human driver fallback requirement within their vehicle's Operational Design Domain (ODD).

The Tesla vehicle has a de facto design intent such that the human driver is the fallback at all times - which makes the control relationship between the human driver and the automated system exactly the same as if the Tesla vehicle was equipped with no automation at all.

The risk profiles and failure mode analyses are Night and Day different and, therefore, the validation traits between these two vehicle are Night and Day different.

But, more than that, there are no guarantees that:

- The human driver of the FSD Beta-active vehicle shown in that video did not manipulate any of the vehicle controls out-of-view that clandestinely assisted the vehicle without deactivating the automated system (possible and inherent Human Factors safety issues with that aside); and

- The creators of this comparison video did not select the most visually-performant run out of several attempts.

Naturally, since we are dealing with safety-critical systems here, assumptions of "positive safety" are not compatible with any internal or external analysis.

Lastly, I have yet to see a video involving FSD Beta where indirect and "unseen" systems safety issues were satisfied. Appearances can be deceiving and deadly with safety-critical systems.
> My guess Reddit also noticed most people using Apollo doesn’t create content, so Apollo users are just extracting value from Reddit.

You don't have to create content to create value. You can also promote the platform and grow loyalty, something possible with Apollo.
It's true that these functions are in some sense very different to traditional hash functions, because they are designed to create "collisions" (or at least be similar) for elements that are similar. But I still think it is intuitive to use the term, maybe qualified as a "similarity hash" (I've also seen "perceptual hash" or "semantic hash"). In both cases we are describing a (potentially) large object with a short code. In normal hashes, the hash is supposed to be the same for objects that are exactly the same - in similarity hashes, that is softened to similar hashes for similar objects.
I think in most circumstances, 2 weeks illness would qualify as some level of 'extreme' -- that's rarely something not serious. So you and the parent are probably in agreement.
I use PayPal because it's convenient (lots of places online nowadays accept them) and safer than giving out my credit card information directly (obvious reasons).

However, I'm well aware they aren't a bank in any traditional sense so I only keep as much money in my account as I am willing to lose to a random act of god.

Needless to say this has worked well for me.
Related:

The Monkey's Paw, Norbert Wiener, and the Alignment Problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35605944 - April 2023 (1 comment)

When Wiener met Einstein - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27871850 - July 2021 (12 comments)

When Wiener Met Einstein - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27003241 - May 2021 (10 comments)

On Norbert Wiener's Relationship with Bertrand Russell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26619347 - March 2021 (44 comments)

In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24470037 - Sept 2020 (1 comment)

What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21554401 - Nov 2019 (46 comments)

Norbert Wiener: The Eccentric Genius Whose Time May Have Finally Come (Again) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7880846 - June 2014 (2 comments)

"I'll eat my hat if that isn't Einstein" (Einstein as seen by another scientist, Norbert Wiener) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46165 - Aug 2007 (5 comments)
Nanobots don’t exist in any meaningful let alone threatening way. So any ai scenario involving them is bullshit, and actually about nanotech not ai. That’s what you hear from the likes of Yudkowsky.

It doesn’t have to be boring, but boring sounds more likely to me, because it’s soemthing we don’t think much about… because it’s boring.
Plugins case study: Envoy WASM extensions
Park sensors, for example, use radar but they are not equivalent to human vision because humans can't see the back of the car, and they can't measure the distance as accurately.
I had an old device that spit out some odd format serial data I wanted to log recently. I pulled out an random ESP8266 on a tiny board from a drawer and quickly wrote some code to read a single pin for the Rx. I didn't have any memory onbaord to store anything, and figured it would be cool to just dump this data onto my network and use something else to check what the current value being reported was and log it on another machine.

I could have used any number of packages that would create a little host on the ESP8266, or something that sends out MQTT packages to another server, etc etc.

but you know what was quickest? Telnet server on port 23, open, blasting out the buffered serial data once every second. It just sits there and does this. And if I want the data I just point a dashboard to that IP at that port and out it flows. If the device loses power and reboots, it is back up in a fraction of a second.

Security? who cares. it's some random numbers on my internal home network.
Very cool. I’ve been using ChatGPT quite manually for similar effect here, though I’m often using it for fragments of code less than whole projects/files, given I’m often dealing with an existing codebase.
It sounds a little like Bayer’s ViviTouch, but for higher frequency bands. ViviTouch was only used for haptics and sunwoofers as far as I know. https://www.innovationworldcup.com/finalist/vivitouch-eap-he...
Those concerns are entirely unwarranted, boarding on hysteria. FSD has an adequate real world safety record.
You're not making any sense. The media has no such responsibility. There is no foreseeable future where we have good reason to trust AI technology as source for medical diagnoses. But fools have already been diagnosing themselves based on random sources since before modern medicine even existed.
> Pump the brakes on a "Chernobyl" comparison here. No NRC reactor would ever get to that - part of the reason it takes so long to approve.

I guess we are saying the same thing, aren't we? We have the NRC, and the NRC is conservative in giving approvals, precisely because we don't want a Chernobyl. I'm happy about that, and I do think the NRC is doing a good job, so a Chernobyl in the US is extraordianarily unlikely. But if we didn't have an NRC, then we'd have a Chernobyl in due time. Why are you saying "pump the brakes on a Chernobyl comparison"?

> The technology discussed here was invented by the US in 60s. None of this is new. The US pioneered reprocessing, separation and everything.

All this was before Three Miles Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. The technology exists and it may even be used in a research setting, but without the NRC approval it is as good as nonexistent for civilian reactors.

> USA HAS NO PATH for dispositioning all this fuel.

That's not because of any technical difficulty. The US is disposing of military nuclear waste at the WIPP facility [1]. I just read in the book "Energy" by Richard Rhodes that the US could dispose of all the spent fuel it can burn in a thousand years at the same place. It's not a technical problem, it's a political problem. If it's a problem that is personally bothering you, you should write to your representative. I am personally not that worried about storing the spent fuel on site. It is not a huge amount.

Plus, in a hundred years, if we make progress with the nuclear technology, then it might become easy-peasy to reprocess spent fuel, and do what the Oklo guys are saying. I don't think we are quite there yet, and we won't be for 20 years, but I think it's entirely possible to get there in 50 years or 100 years. Why bury what something that holds the energy of hundreds of billions of tons of coal?

[1] https://www.energy.gov/em/waste-isolation-pilot-plant-wipp
You might like the scifi novel of the same name by Peter Watts
Not sure which package problems are swept away according to you? You mean possible issues with library reuse, devendoring, etc?

Besides, why 2 KDE AND 2 Gnome versions would be needed. The 'minimal' freedesktop would most likely suffice.
Sorry, how does history change?

I think perhaps the narrative, the evidence on-hand, primary sources, etc. could all be considered and as a body of historical evidence we could say the understanding from our perspective continues to evolve; but there's no world in which the history changes. Events, causality, arrow of time, etc.
Damn, this looks great.
Reminds me of PunBB. I loved working with PunBB.
They can't freeze them, but they can transfer money out. It would be illegal, but a lot of effort on your part to prove anything, and until it makes it through the courts you are out the money.

The above isn't just PayPal, it is anyone who has your account number.
We really have enough federal regulation on money to be honest. Just get your money out of venmo/cash app and put it into your bank account and there will be no worries.
> People like you act like wearing a breathable fabric over your nose and mouth is some kind of huge sacrifice

Well, yes, it is, especially when it is a symbolic gesture.

> Healthcare workers wear them everyday

And? Construction workers wear helmets every day, welders wear goggles, farmers wear rubber boots, blacksmiths wear leather aprons. The fact that some professions come with their own protective clothing and accessories does not mean those things should be forced upon the populace unless there is a very good reason to do so.

> It's such a dumb thing to kick up a fuss over.

If you are fine with being told what to do without justification, fine, that is your right in a free society. I am not fine with being told what to do without justification which is my right in a free society. I do not claim you should not wear a mask if you want to do so, by all means wear one. Just don't expect me to do so without a clear cause.
Yes like I said, we won't reckon with it, we'll continue to argue about if more people were killed than not killed by the mandates.
If the card were on a wire, it could work. That’s one way to move items through and around a suit.
About 2 months ago they killed the i and .compact versions of the site.
Maybe they plan to swap batteries in and out of the ship, have a rotating set of ten (or whatever) batteries, one discharging, eight charging, load the tenth with a crane, swap out for the discharged one, cycle through...
Yes, thanks for demonstrating what I meant by "not reckoning" with it.
Always ship via US mail if possible, as then it becomes mail fraud which is a federal crime. You probably can't get anyone to investigate though.
> They are nothing more than common criminals in FinTech drag, in my opinion

What state are you in? Maybe you can use some of the fresh anti-drag laws to help /s
> My guess Reddit also noticed most people using Apollo doesn’t create content

How did you come to that conclusion?
If you watch the video you find that he has valid complaints, and he's not opposed to paying Reddit but thinks these terms are designed to sink 3rd party apps. Some highlighted points.

* The API access charges about 10x the price compared to the revenue per user they would expect if the users accessed reddit via web or official app.

* There was 30 days notice of the new pricing. He has many customers that pay per-year that he is going to lose money on until renewal.

* The price is too high. Compared to similar platforms that charge for API they are charging way more.

* An individual from the company called him out for having 'inefficient' code, which he took personally and mounted a good defense of his usage.

* The API is losing feature parity with the first party website/app.

* Reddit is itself building a bigger business on the backs of reddit users generating content. Many of those users use a 3rd party app. In fact, 3rd party apps were largely responsible for transitioning reddit into mobile usage. They seem to be overstepping their position in the ecosystem.
Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation
When Obama made his first visit to Alaska, China sailed warships sailed nearby as an implicit intimidation move https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-military/five-c...

What about the balloon that crossed US territory?

Or what about breaking the agreement over Hong Kong? https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertolsen/2021/03/14/uk-says-...

Don't forget the promise Xi made not to militarize islands in the South China Sea.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-completes-runway-on-artif...
> Given that, perceiving the environment with radar, lidar, visible light, infrared, and so on is equivalent to human vision.

When paired with a general intelligence evolved over a couple million years, and visual sensors that have much more dynamic range than commercially available sensors yeah.

The problem is without those 2 things Teslas crash into fire trucks.

And different bands of EM have different properties so eyes aren’t equivalent to radar. Otherwise we would be able to see around corners.

And if humans had more sensory data we would definitely be integrating it into our driving. Otherwise ADAS tech wouldn’t be so commonplace in 2023.
Show HN: Similarity Search Engine for Equities
I wanted to make it easier to find interesting 10k's, so I made this.
The real conclusion from your question is that the AI never “sees” the image even if it did decode it.
Thanks for sharing, that’s a pretty damning indictment of how science is currently done.

I think the two most important quotes being:

“The spread of ideas in the scientific community is often viewed as a competition, in which good ideas spread further because of greater intrinsic fitness, and publication venue and citation counts correlate with importance and impact.”

“We find that research from prestigious institutions spreads more quickly and completely than work of similar quality originating from less prestigious institutions.”
Here's the background story to this: https://www.carscoops.com/2023/03/elon-musk-overruled-tesla-...
It's obvious they're trying to push the app as hard as they can get away with, but I'm confused as to how "unreviewed" content relates to the viewer using the web or the app. If anything, I'd expect the opposite; app stores sometimes object to spicy content.
It's absolutely a useful realization since there were many things we could have and should have done, that would have been cost-free, if only people were a little more willing to admit that the vaccines did confer meaningful rates of harm.
Do you see the problem as being the third party apps are superior? Or is it the pay-walling off of an API by a private company?
I don't care what happens to Reddit. The platform has been riddled by insane people since the great Tumblr Exodus and has been a strictly political space since Trump won the presidency.

What I do care about is a possible Reddit Exodus and them coming to Hackernews to censor the living hell outside of their world view. Not every comment section has to spiral into "republicans bad", "boomers bad", "cars bad", etc.
When people have already been scammed, they will argue till blue in the face that it's not a scam, even if it's clear it is to everyone else...

So if I said yes, what's your response? No, of course.

Not saying everyone thinks it's a scam here, just that your argument it's not doesn't do much with the bias of already paying...
> Managers say they will renew the push to get employees back into offices later this year.

Of course, who else would “renew” such a push?
With a few draconian exceptions, immigration is up to individuals, not their native countries.
Or you can send it to me ...
No, I trust my distribution to do that for me, and more importantly update libraries as needed. With snap and flatpack I have to trust every single upstream to keep track as if there is a problem i'm vulnerable until everyone updates.
I just realised, at some point, hopefully soon, we will have a chat gtp to create PowerPoints!

I have to say I will be signing up for that one
Standard English? Maybe.

Unfortunately, the context here is journalism. There's more to that than being grammatically correct. It goes unchecked because so many are clueless about the higher standard.
I genuinely wonder the same actually. Seems like there would go even more engineering into making a speaker that is "true" and not coloring the sound as one expects from their monitors.
Love this movie, still watch it every few years. Like another poster said, this movie was a big catalyst for my interests in computers. Probably helped that he got the cute girl in the end.
Probably, since you do not know the operational characteristics of the safety-critical device you are operating. It is a safety-critical device with known safety defects that is incomplete and that rejects defining any operational domain where it can operate safely. It literally does not define any way it can be used safely by a general consumer or the limits of its safe operation unlike say a chainsaw or a gun where there is a safety manual which defines the ways it can be operated safely by a user. This is acceptable when tested by a trained operator who is in direct contact with the designers and is made aware of the specific operational characteristics of the device, but not when operated by a untrained consumer. The product is literally, explicitly unfit for any use as it is a safety-critical product.

I guess you might not be getting scammed if you know it is unfit for any purpose, but at the very least you are being a danger to society for using a explicitly unsafe product that can not be operated safely.
It is not entirely clear how they can change to make less requests, or if the Reddit employee even compared apps fairly. There is a floor count of API calls needed.

The Apollo developer tested the official Reddit app, and it makes a similar amount of API calls: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_upda...
Is this an insurable sort of situation? Surely it is foreseeable.
The problem is, you don't hear the counterargument from the folks for whom it didn't work, because they're dead.
I'm guessing I'm not the only one who just uses the web and the official Reddit app, and basically is happy with it - no issues, no complaints. And so maybe only sees this as a business decision (good or bad) that's up to Reddit to make that will really not impact me at all.
Most word processors have some web abilities. Click and link and the web browser opens. That link can be custom crafted to send data.
I miss Slashdot's 2-dimensional voting system, and meta-moderation system. It seemed to work fairly well, it's just that the submissions got stale over time and the community smaller which is all that matters in the end for this kind of site.
there are a few services in beta that offer to scrape them +/- automatically using LLMs

what I do when I get lazy is to copy some html, send it to chatgpt and ask it to generate a puppeteer script, usually works with a bit of tweaking

if you have a budget I've done a lot of freelancing missions of this type
Our software is kinda horrible.

I mean, no other industry insists that users accept weekly automated updates because their products have so many critical security bugs.
Degrowth is death. We must adapt or die - this rule of evolution still applies to all of us.

Less people is bad. All of us matter but only as long as humanity continues.

Degrowth is stagnation. We must survive tho - even at the expenses of the Earth if that is what it takes.

We are the highest evolutionary life this planet has produced - the only life able to exploit all other life. The entire purpose of evolution could be to create life as we are.

If it's all just random and we ended up as we are solely due to genetic mistakes over time - our existence is even more unfathomable, a seemingly infinite number of things had to occur exactly as they did so that we exist as we do now.

We are the most important thing on Earth - potentially far, far more so.

The Webb telescope has viewed into the past and didn't see so many things it would have if the universe was full of advanced intelligent life - with all the data we possess now, we cannot say that we are not the first to "wake up"and only "if" indeed the universe will ultimately create an infinite number of species with our capabilities.

That's a real big if.

We can't take that chance on something as stupid sounding as "degrowth"

Remember, adapt or die.

That's what we do

If Earth is going to heat up than it
As a San Diego resident I can't argue with that one -_-
Regulators (NHTSA in the US specifically, but other countries as well) continue to allow it.

Elon is a bit of a monster (personal opinion), but regulators have the final say. When they force FSD to be pulled, then there is weight behind the argument, but this hasn’t happened and that sends signal.

You already share the road with inattentive drivers and drunks, so the risk acceptance/appetite benchmark has been set. FSD is arguably better than both cohorts, considering number of deaths caused.

As always, nuance. More people will die in the next ~10 minutes from traffic deaths than have ever been attributed to Tesla’s autopilot or FSD (33 total, as of this comment).

https://www.tesladeaths.com/

(Again, not a billionaire simp, just a rationalist; booo on Elon, but props to Tesla engineers in the aggregate; personally, I hope he gets blown out the door and JB Straubel takes over as CEO)
Beyond the benefits of actually proving you give a damn about work-life balance, I suspect mandatory minimums of 4+ weeks of PTO force organizations to structure/hire/work in a way that makes everything more robust since you need to have people who can cover for others when they take time off or sick leave or just plain leave.

You can't silo information if the silo can go off grid for a month or more.

You can't have a dependency on a single individual without predictable and avoidable consequences, and what might have taken years to show up instead is obviously going to be you can see coming within the year.

Your SMEs and high performers won't feel the pressure to avoid taking time off, and they'll need to improve documentation and knowledge/skill sharing. Managers will have incentives to support that as well.
I'll just add to the comments here that various apps or using .old don't support reddit nfts, which reddit has repeatedly said is a current business priority.
Third party app users make up a tiny fraction of all Redditors, even assuming they’re more predisposed to posting or commenting.
It's a short, quick read. It's honestly shocking it could be written in 1909. True imagination.

I think a nice balancing title [equally short] would be Marc Steigler's Gentle Seduction[0] to which I was first introduced in a "Socrates Cafe" philosophical discussion on technological progression and its attendant erosion of magic and wonder.

[0]http://skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
Fun fact: PayPal's EU branch is in fact a bank: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/2808982/PayPal-b...