skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
George Hotz recent talk during Comma Con was pretty dope. He was pointing to a future where Comma would not be a self driving system, but a general purpose robotics one. And his confidence was great too.
I know he made a mess out of his twitter stint, but I still feel he's a good engineer/entrepreneur.
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every time I click on my profile settings it locks my account and forces me to do an onerous 7 stage captcha which is actually really difficult...if you have vision problems I would say impossible.

if you choose the audio captcha option you get a json error of "access denied".

really starting believe the agenda was to destroy the platform completely. Because it's becoming more trouble than it's worth.
Supermarket AI meal planner suggests chlorine gas and ant-poison recipes
This is more or less how some multibillion dollar firms work. An issue with the strategy is that of course you cannot just do this, your up-front costs to acquire the data and connectivity are tens of millions of dollars.
The biggest issue was the allocation of the collider. Experiments are booked out to YEARS. If you want to have an experiment on it, there’s a non trivial amount of politic involved to convince others that your experiment is worth for a time slot.
> “I've worked at companies that give you 10 days, _that they choose_, for your first five years.”

They choose? I’ve worked in a lot of companies in a lot of parts of the US, and have never heard of employers choosing a worker’s vacation days. That’s awful.
Humans only have the delusion of agency.
Did you read the article? There was nothing accidental about this. It was done with a lot of planning and premeditation.
Client side data is only part of the problem, and it's a common myopic argument to GDPR for opponents of GDPR to say people should just use their browser's cookie controls. Server side fingerprinting is as much as a problem, something the ad industry has adopted since Safari added ITP and are accelerating since Chrome has been making noises about following Safari and Firefox for a few years now. I suspect as soon as Google figures out how to do it without disrupting their own ad business it'll come into effect.
> Do we have enough historical weather data to train a decent AI on?

I have no particular insights about weather data or models, but I want to note that some prediction problems are just not limited by historical data (as you seem to assume implicitly). Consider the simplest example of a coin toss: the outcome of the next toss in unpredictable no matter how much historical coin toss data you collect and no matter how sophisticated your AI/ML model. (The only thing you can predict is the fraction or amount of heads/tails in a large batch of coin tosses, and you don't need much historical data for that.)
One of my most favorite demoscene tracks is `Beams of Light` by TRSI.

It's 4 channels, the front two show an animation video in an oscilloscope at X-Y mode and the rear two are the music. It's very impressive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdWxKZVYC0
>I than proceeded to put a Pi next to it, that would listen to incoming Plex requests and would start up and shut down the server with WoL.

How hard is this to configure? I have a server at home I use to run a database and computational heavy code, however I am the only user so realistically it is only in use 8 hours a day and some weekends etc. However in the fear of forgetting to turn it on before I go to work (or if I suddenly find time to work while away) I find that I default to leave it on. Being able to control it would be fantastic.
> I believe that the Mozilla execs have no faith in Firefox and instead are using whatever branding remains to position themselves as champions of digital rights.

That’s a charitable interpretation. An uncharitable one would be that, due to flaws in American 501c3 legislation, at least some people involved in Mozilla view their job as a sinecure. Capture of a non-profit for personal benefit is a longstanding phenomenon in the USA.
Better yet, wonder if someone can steal that safe, open it, then replace it with an identical looking one with the same note?

Two words: tamper seals

An envelope is easily steamed open.

And you better hope nobody bypasses the alarm. Or you won't know to check the seals until it's way too late.
Sorry about that, it's just a shortcut for https://github.com/fcoury/oxide.
there was a popular medical textbook, reprinted well into 1920s, that still recommended bloodletting.

(and not in some sensible "did you know actually leeches are still useful for healing wounds?" way. just old school bloodletting.)
But then a single minor refactor means you have to dig through history after puzzling over something for long enough to decide that it's definitely no obvious instead of just seeing an inline explanation (or at least a link to one).
You can get versioned link directly into rustdoc:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.71.1/src/core/slice/mod.rs.html#...
We also already have laws against evil behaviour, no need to introduce AI specific regulation. People can poison the water supply, or make bio weapons already. Yet people don’t because there’s laws and the same will stop people from using AI for evil.
In my country and some others it's amusingly called "Don't get angry, man"
There was no testing. No staging setup.

So, premeditated or not, it counts as pushing development code into production. The accidentally part I believe is because someone didn't know any better.
This is such good news. It was a huge bummer when O'Reilly was removed last year, and glad it's coming back, even at a price bump. I'm all for paying a fair price for quality content, but my use case (reading a couple of books per year, and scanning a handful of others) doesn't justify the $499 regular price tag. The add-on Skills Bundle fills this gap nicely.
It only needs to get somewhat smarter. The hardware, software and AI models will continue to be sped up.

Also there are already many ways that improvements have been made without requiring exponentially more memory.
Oh my god, I absolutely hate the torture system this person works for. Pretty sure they are talking about the thing at Ralph's where you have to "clip" a coupon by scanning a QR code in the store, except:

- the QR code is often deep in a refrigerated display case, so you're holding the door open with one hand while you stick your phone in there and the camera fogs up

- there is rarely good enough cell signal in the store, even more rarely in the fridge

- the web app for clipping is buggy as hell (yesterday I used it and clipping via the QR code failed on 4 out 4 coupons, and it was the worst kind of failure - "clipping" animation just plays forever while I was standing there blocking the supermarket aisle)

This damn thing has been around for a few years and has changed shopping from fun and easy to frustrating. I might just go back to Amazon fresh or whatever.

Better, I think I'll just write a script to hit all the coupon endpoints every day before I go shopping.

Coupons were always a stupid, user-hostile game, but this system is taking it several steps too far. Also, it's discriminatory against seniors and people who don't have smartphones (or don't want to have to have them out the whole time while shopping).
I'm not sure I understand the concern:

- company is bought in a LBO by a PE company

- PE company has onerous fees as a part of the buyout agree (which the target company agrees to)

- the victim are institutional investors who pay these high fees, but were willing partners to the LBO

I mean it sounds like one group of people from Wall Street trying to rip off another group from Wall Street.

Can't the institutional investors just pull their investment if they think it's a bad deal? Can't they read the fine print on the LBO deal?

Do we need to somehow protect institutional investors who manage tens of billions of dollars? Are they a victim that needs protection?

How is it all that different from a company owned by a majority shareholder who makes bad business deals? What do institutional investors do then? Presumably they use their voting power to stop it, or else just exit their position?
> we haven't seen the slightest proof that human intelligence is not something special.

Have we seen the slightest proof of opposite?

> I know lots of animals are pretty clever, none approach us in any practical sense.

What senses might you consider as enough practical? Have you heard about Koko? What do you think about corvidae?
The article said something quite alarming … not working is different from software controlled killing speaker etc. I think the priority is “safety” to hardware so we can try it. And if it can run under vm even better. We agree we need to help to test. Linux desktop is hard because there is no easy way to globally test it (and the Microsoft past is just dump it to you and you sort it out as well. But they have decades and captured users …)
Who is everyone? I imagine any serious business is paying for RHEL instead of an unheard of fork, and in my use if I wanted to change from Fedora Server I'd go to CentOS Stream, followed by RH with a free dev license.

I'm getting the vive that some people just want free RHEL, feel entitled to have it, and don't realize that actual RHEL is free within reason (apparently up to 16 simultaneous machines). Nobody remotely concerned about security is running a non-mainstream distro and public-facing services in an age of randomware and crypto.
Show HN: Spotitube – synchronize Spotify collections from external providers
Some time ago I published here about Spotitube, a side project I had been working on to synchronize Spotify collections by fetching blobs from somewhere in the internet (e.g. YouTube).
In the past few months it's undergone a huge rewrite which I think has let it become a nicer piece of software.
I could definitely use some feedback, if anyone feels like it :)
"It is your moral imperative to be kind, ecspecially if they are an uggo."
Note that you've been able to use custom collections to get extra extensions on FF-for-Android for a while provided you put the browser into developer mode first.

It's a pain in the arse and certainly doesn't count as 'released' by any means but it's been at least just about possible for a while.
Our bodies were made for Africa afaik, and for outrunning prey across long distances using the revolutionary sweating method, and for having children at 14 years old. Anyone who isn't doing this can be argued to be unnatural.

I find this argument always very weird, especially on hacker news. Just because something wasn't made for X, doesn't that mean you can't or shouldn't use it for X? That's basically the definition of hacking in the hacker news sense of the word. By this logic, we shouldn't be taking any mode of transportation because we didn't evolve to sail, drive, or fly. Heck, we shouldn't be writing on the Internet, let alone writing at all!

Wouldn't it make more sense to argue the point itself, e.g. our bodies don't deal well with X because of Y, rather than citing historic evolutionary pressures?
For all 14 cancers in question? Likely more in 2000 than in 2012. Don't know by how much and not saying they didn't control for that, just answering your question...
Solr is a separate product. It is also an Apache project, though so are a million other projects.

It also doesn't even have a commercial offering; Elasticsearch in no way affects any financial ambitions.
Why aren't there any images from the game?? Even in the app store, there are just promo photos.

"Replace addictive scrolling with mindful entertainment." Hmm, this gives me pause. "Mindful" entertainment is no nobler than any other variety of scrolling.

"Mindful entertainment" is an oxymoron and quite ridiculous to read for anyone who practices true mindfulness-based meditation.

True mindfulness cannot be found on a screen.
I'm not in support of war. Don't try to straw man me as a Putin supporter. This is just baiting me into an argument about "who is worse" when that's irrelevant to what I said.

To be clear, I'd much rather live here than in Russia, and I also would prefer that Russia wasn't slaughtering people in Ukraine, including their own.
umm so he had the master key printed out as backup anyway so there was never really any danger if i read correctly. clickbait?

> Ha. I forgot all about it, but in a bout of “what if it doesn’t work” paranoia, I printed out the base64-encoded master key when we had generated it the night before, stuffed it into an envelope, and gave it to John for safekeeping.
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In my life, I nor anyone I know has ever gotten a counterfeit product. I've gotten obviously opened, returned, and repacked shit, low quality AliExpress shit no one would buy if they inspected it in real life, but nothing actually fake.

I've used Amazon regularly, back even when it was just a place to get cheap books. I assume it happens but I think the comments on Hacker News are just not representative of the general public on this issue. Any Amazon thread on here is chock-full of people saying they constantly get fake products.

I avoid large purchases on Amazon when I can, but that's mostly because I want there to be competition for them.
Why do we even use SMTP and IMAP when we could be using XMPP instead?

I know there are some caveats preventing XMPP from becoming the one protocol to rule all the chats, but why not use it for email exchange?
No, not by many orders of magnitude. Even if you had sensors measuring temperature, pressure, humidity, wind velocity, etc. in every cubic metre of atmosphere, weather is chaotic (a tiny variation in starting conditions can lead to completely different outcomes) so you'd still only be able to predict a limited time ahead.

Meteorologists have been working on this problem for a long time, and have thought of and tried every obvious idea (and many more). Weather prediction is literally where modern chaos theory started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory#History:~:text=Hi...
The inventor of UML, Grady Booch deals with people like this on Twitter every day.

People seem to think that because ChatGPT appears to be intelligent that somehow we are on the cusp of a new AGI world. And that we need to serious thought leaders like George Hotz and other arrogant tech-bros to rescue us. It's just crypto all over again.

The real thought leaders are going to be those in academia, government etc. Boring policy people who know the subtleties of the real world far better.
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I somehow cannot but be skeptical about the "correct" data shared by SO. I also don't think it's just a failing in not leveraging AI sooner themselves, but also in building trust and community (especially after how the strike was handled).

Also why is the data shared with the most active contributors inaccurate?

Overall= more questions and less trust.
Appears to be available for lending at archive.org
OK, I can say I don't have it if that helps. My point is that I share a lot of the problems that two important people in my life do, and seemingly the same way they think about stuff that other people find very weird, I also do. And it's been this way for a very long time. They are diagnosed professionally with ADHD. So, I think there's a high likelihood, but I don't know, obviously. I was asking for others experiences in handling said situations.

edit: I'm also not interested in getting a diagnosis since I don't want it to be on any file in general. Call it paranoia, I don't want some medical file marking me as having a disorder or being mentally ill.
There are two types of nix users.

Those who tried it and swear by it.

Those who tried it and swear at it along with words like 'never again'.
Not zero money; it turned a profit of about $16,000, but it was hard fought. I wrote a detailed post about the economics of the gadget here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/closing-and-on-78683968
The main point of this article is the conflicting interests of greedy managers.

> If they make a profit then they're actually adding value.

Martin Skrelli. [0]

Please tell me what and where his added value is. And please no fear mongering about the rich getting poorer.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
Why do OUL and Rocky exist if not to compete with RHEL?
1. How dramatic?
2. Which cancers?
3. Could it be explained with decrease in other diseases, which leaves cancer as last illness.
4. Could it be explained with better diagnosis methods - are the cancers benign or malignant. Slow or fast growing?
The single thing I am most envious in this setup is the little box giving symmetrical 1Gbps from the ISP. I wish fiber could grow in remote areas...
Metro 2033 author sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's war
My first implementation of this pattern predated GitHub Actions and used CircleCI - though GitHub Actions made this massively more convenient to build.
Well... my own Safari extension Tweaks for Twitter does, but I recently discontinued it because I got sick of Twitter's shenanigans such as the strict usage limits, and I have no interest in supporting X, the so-called "everything app".

There may be other extensions, I don't know. In any case, the technical capability of the API is there.
Tracking changes vs. tracking full versions of data is one immediate benefit (or difference, depending on your thoughts)
I have a couple of similar scrapers as well. One is a private repo that I collect visa information off Wikipedia (for Visalogy.com), and GeoIP information from MaxMind database (used with their permission).

https://github.com/Ayesh/Geo-IP-Database/

It downloads the repo, and dumps the data split by the first 8 bytes of the IP address, and saves to individual JSON files. For every new scraper run, it creates a new tag and pushes it as a package, so the dependents can simply update them with their dependency manager.
Peer reviews are skeptical:

“imprudent and incomplete”

“These claims are inadequate, incomplete and are largely assumption-based – rather than evidence-based”

“do not present convincing evidence”

“I have no issue with the idea that non-Homo sapiens species disposed of their dead, but I do have an expectation that there is robust scientific evidence to support such statements before scientists go on massive media campaigns regarding these ideas”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/22/small-braine...
Not really; no modern profession is a close analogue, because Roman lawyers of this era weren't professionals. They were first and foremost aristocrats, trading favors and running patronage networks.
Would every citizen having their own personal nukes make the world a more pleasant place to live?
> We should start thinking now about limiting the performance of AI hardware.

Congratulations, you just ceded the market for AI, and with it any hope of controlling it, to anyone who doesn’t limit it. Like China.

That kind of strategy is doomed to failure.
So this is basically a *safe* optimization, since the index will always be valid and there's no need for the compiler to do a check and unwrap, panic.

This is how unsafe {} should be used. Sometimes some things are true but the compiler can't know that. And here the unsafe {} means that it dereferences a raw pointer (the index that we know is valid). If the unsafe {} safety condition is valid, unsafe {} is, well, safe.
Related: A similar analogy of 51% attack in crypto to AI-companies https://www.iamnotmj.com/blog/Comparing51ToAI
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The top end engineers are currently paid competitively. That’s a fact.
It is MS SQL Server, but I guess that also has its own issues with reserved names.
I think they're talking about holidays. Like Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. Pretty much every US company does this.
Who cares if the title is enough to trigger a discussion on the subject, facilitate sharing of opinions and bring some useful insights to some participants at least (which is often the case for the news in the HN top)? As for me I rarely even go by the title links to see the actual articles :-)
> a main factor he credits

I won’t dissuade you from reading (listening) to Gibbon as he is something of a literary classic, but you must always be aware that Gibbon was writing two centuries ago and had his own ideological ax to grind. Historians today, drawing on a wider range of sources than Gibbon had access to, ascribe many developments in Roman history to very different factors than Gibbon claimed.

In fact, it is advisable to read several more recent works on Roman history first, so that you are then reading Gibbon purely as a literary classic and not as any authoritative source.
This argument (at least the way I am reading), goes deep in uncertainty modeling (Partially Observed Stochastic Games the hardest class to optimize for), stock market here used as analogy more then it is not.
>They were first and foremost aristocrats, trading favors and running patronage networks.

Sounds like the modern upper middle class nepo parents...
thanks for the prompt, i looked and found: https://github.com/ulatekh/quake2-WOD
What is the link to cancer?
This is a common mistake in predicting the future. Like in the 90s, seeing that oil reserves are getting harder to find and assuming that humans will run out of oil in 50 years.

Trends don't exist in a vacuum. Especially in regards to technology.

AI doomers are expecting everything to stay the same except capabilities of bots, especially to do bad.