skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and I doubt Europe alone will ever have the military might necessary to defend its sovereignty against a possible Russian-Chinese-Iranian axis.

That's mostly a political/budget choice.

US: what, a bit over 300M people? EU: some ~550M? Both advanced economies.

US military might is a result of budget, raw manufacturing capability, and a glut of defense-related industry. Which (obviously) also sells their warez abroad.

No fundamental reason the EU couldn't obtain similar capabilities. But EU countries simply chose to outsource much defense design & manufacturing, apply a smaller budget, and rely on the US in several ways.

I'm sure some of this was regretted since Russia-Ukraine war started. Not sure if (given time) that's enough to bring EU up to military self-sufficiency.
> It's not unreasonable to trace the Sunday's horrors in Israel to that event in 1953.

Israel doesn't care if their neighbors are islamic dictatorships, military dictatorships, or democracies, they work hard to keep them all as weak as possible.
> They haven’t owned Bethesda for very long so I think it’s fair that they haven’t released a F:NV successor yet.

Word on the street is that the principals at the top of Obsidian and Bethesda still hate each other, Microsoft keeps them at arms distance, and Obsidian isn't in a rush to do a new Fallout game even if "Daddy Microsoft" forced Bethesda to share its toys with the other studios (just like "Daddy Interplay" used to do, which is part of what led to the mess of Obsidian, inXile, and Bethesda all having crazy drama with each other before Microsoft became the new Interplay of RPG company owners).

I think that Obsidian's Outer Worlds was a very good F:NV successor. It had most of the hallmarks of the Fallout universe, just tweaked with a bit more space sci-fi and a weirder sense of humor. One of the interesting things about Starfield to me is how often I'm comparing it to Outer Worlds (and how often it feels like Outer Worlds was the better more coherent story/RPG in a similar way to F:NV fans like to compare Fallout 3/4 on either side of F:NV).
Extremely strict consequences for impersonating the plate will tamp that down real quick.
Flash-Decoding for long-context inference
I'm shocked at how true this is. A huge amount of software is only redundant by being hosted in mutiple parts of aws us east.
very interesting! Another thing Morse code led to that I didn't think of.
Funny that both this and Tesla's API release are on the front page the same day
I am particularly concerned their remediation includes disabling auto-update with no discussion of how they will replace it. I was operating under the assumption that updating the OS for the customer is table stakes for a managed platform.
This makes some assumptions about both how effective any of this is in practice, and how criminals operate, and I’m pretty sure none of those assumptions are true.
I worked for an automotive company for a while and I recall a meeting wherein were learned about compliance, fault, maintaining records, etc. One thing I learned is that you do not know how far lawyers will go to reach a verdict or a settlement. And if you're reading this right now, I will tell you do not know how far a lawyer and their clients will go to reach a settlement. And that's lawyers on both sides of any argument.

If you ever have an opportunity to attend a training/info seminar put on by legal, I promise you it is way more interesting than it sounds on the face of it.
30 months?! I'm so glad I don't have to deal with suppliers directly.
> and perhaps reason to nudge the developers to find ways to get rid of it!

Or perhaps nudge users to understand what `unsafe` means and why its necessary rather than evangelize at maintainers.
The capabilities of the vehicle_commands section are frighteningly diverse (able to control details of the charging systems, make noises, remotely prevent the car from moving, plug locations into the GPS (unclear if that'll cause autopilot to start moving there).

I guess this means that the remote parts have basically unrestricted access to what they can do to the car that you theoretically own. Fun times.
What kind of resources do you need to run this setup, and how well does yours perform? Is it like chatting with any other chat bot (ChatGPT or Claude, for example) or is it significantly slower? Can you train it on your own self-hosted documents, like markdown?
In addition to all the crap already mentioned, I would add the scrollbars of vscode which are horrendous. I never know where I am, where the "holder" of the scrollbar is and where I can scroll.

This is a real nightmare.
people are not naturally sexually attracted to children (13 and under) in more than say 0.0001%.

In the US alone, that would be ~30,000 people. Get back to me when you've read some legal cases or know anyone who's been abused to produce such material. Perhaps you'll learn some critical thinking and better manners along the way.
I agree with this. There is a lot to be said for leadership through honesty. In some ways I feel like we've entered something like a "Foundation Crisis" (if you have read Asimov's Foundation series) in that a long series of events has lead to a crisis in the world order where the "good guys often seem just as bad as the bad guys.
That doesn't mean oauth2 isn't still the best practice. I'd go as far as saying OIDC is best practice for oauth2 as well.

What you're saying is orthogonal and more about figuring out how to effectively manage users and the accesses they can grant, how easily they can grant certain permisisons, how often they should review access, all that.

Facebook has had issues there, and I'd say Android has also had issues with similarly vague/permissive grants (local-only, completely outside OAuth2), and has learned ways to proactively manage those for users and keep sets of permissions minimized to apps you actively use/want. But none of those really has much to do with whether or not oauth2 is a great way to allow third party access to user resources. That remains a really solid control mechanism.
> Promising results from an initial clinical trial at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne, published today in Critical Care, show that sodium ascorbate – a pH-balanced formulation of vitamin C – is effective in treating sepsis

> “In our trial at Austin Hospital, patients were given sodium ascorbate into their bloodstream, resulting in promising improvements to multiple organs.”

Oh boy, vitamin C is having a very strange year. First cancer, now sepsis.
Calendar.js v2.9.0, Now with Timeline, Pin-Up, and Custom Rendering Support:)
I really didn't think anyone was applauding the "hallucinations" but maybe I just hang around people who aren't visionaries.
Again, thank you to everyone that found the issues that have been fixed in this release.
Rebooting the Planet Hollywood idea: stores to sell merchandise and overpriced food.

The item they are least likely to sell are DVDs and Blurays of their shows.
I thought they just pretended to definitively disprove the whole vitamin C/sepsis thing?
vec2text has a pretty nice demo notebook too! You just need to provide your OpenAI API key, since we use their API to get embeddings. Here's a link: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/14RQFRF2It2Kb8gG3_YD... and a link to vec2text on Github: https://github.com/jxmorris12/vec2text.
Affirmation of "Hydrocortisone, Vitamin C, and Thiamine for the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Retrospective Before-After Study"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27940189/
To download application.
People at that level have complicated employment contracts. Getting rid of them without huge downsides isn't always straightforward.
But this is something very different, from sending all the data from all the sensors (optionally including interior cameras) all the time.
I've noticed post-delivery filtering the past few months.

Messages show up in my mailbox that disappear minutes or hours later. Typically from other gmail users.
They don’t want to take any cases, they want a moat.
Appreciate the kind words, and the suggestions!

> It was tough to close the "Test request" window. - I wasn't sure how to interact with the product without more trial and error.

Ah, this is great feedback. We can make it more clear with a button, as well that you can hit escape.

> Add OpenAPI linting to the editor.
ah, great idea. will triage this and get this in.

> Allow users to import an example spec from the initial Getting Started page.
In the getting started page we have "import url, paste swagger" & "petstore + tableau + cmc" examples to import by clicking.

Did you mean to add it to the editor?

Ah that's very cool, back in the day I always would install redocly instead of swagger UI, great work with Redocly :)

Again I really appreciate the kind words and your time.
I would love to be able to get the data on my car for making a phone/watch app. Ford has an API but it’s private and they have revoked accounts of people using it.

Too bad. It contains a ton of great stuff, more than their app surfaces.

I’d be quite happy with just read-only access. I bet devs could make some great stuff.
I can confirm that as a non native English speaker I don't make this kind of mistake often. I think spelling is easier for me because I first learned how the word is spelled and only later how to actually pronounce it? And i separate homonyms like they're/their in my head because they're very different words in my language.
We're still fighting in Taiwan over whether or not average speed cameras are legal in Taiwan.

There's a couple strong, imo, arguments against the legality.

For one, average speed cameras are constant, identified surveillance of everyone that drives passed them (as opposed to CCTV, average speed cameras positively identify every vehicle that passes by). Blanket surveillance is bad and possibly illegal, but also it happens to civilians the State has no reasonable suspicion have committed a crime, which is also bad and possibly illegal. Finally, a ticket gets written for someone breaking the law by driving faster than the speed limit... but in fact, nobody, including surveillance, actually witnesses them breaking the law. They just assume they broke the law because timestamps.

I know it sounds silly but it really is a pretty big legal leap to "assume" someone broke a law without actually witnessing the crime itself. You might suggest the timestamps are strong evidence of the crime being committed, and sure, you're right, but then we're back to the blanket surveillance issue. Furthermore, there are actual ways to pass two average speed cameras within a time frame that would "require" speeding, such as by taking a route unaccounted for in the camera's design.

Though in the end the cameras are pretty useless because they put them in the best fast riding zones in the mountains so we just zip back and forth between two cameras practicing the same route a couple times at 3 or 4 times the speed limit and by the time we go past the second camera our average speed is like 20km/h lol. Whereas regular actual speed cameras at the entrance and exit of small towns actually force you to slow down for pedestrian-heavy or dangerous areas.

I've had an argument with some police politician about this, about how putting the cameras in the good riding areas is pushing people away from the safest riding spots in Taiwan with wide shoulders, double lanes, and barriers between oncoming (SO COMMON for cars to violate the double yellow here!!) and into the single lane unlit nightmare roads alongside the big good road, which are impossible to get speed camera infrastructure to (without great cost anyway). Which is driving up deaths so really defeating the purpose.
I agree with you. People are worried that an AI might say "do a therac-25" but forget that it might also say "don't do a therac-25". I think it's averages out to neutral. Nobody bans Home Depot from selling a hammer because you might hit your thumb with it. We accept thumb injuries because even while people are out their thumb for a few days, society as a whole gets more work done with hammers than without. I think AI will probably find a similar role. Some idiot is going to make a bot that calls people and makes them buy it gift cards. Someone else will cure cancer. So it goes.
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"According to Section 102(b) of the Copyright Act of 1976, no “idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery” is eligible for copyright protection."

"Copyright law generally protects the fixation of an idea in a “tangible medium of expression,” not the idea itself, or any processes or principles associated with it." -- https://strebecklaw.com/idea-expression/

By tokenizing the data an AI bypasses the tangible particular expression that can be copyrighted under the Copyright Act, and takes away just the concepts. On generation, those concepts are converted back into tangible human expression that's unlikely to be protected by a copyright.

The indemnification means that Google engineers have convinced Google lawyers that this is in fact the case.
Cool! Is it possible to make this self-hosted model reference my own content, for example markdown files? Or does it only know how to respond to things it was trained on?
Only in some helicopters. More of a trivia term than anything engineers reference. Source: was a helicopter stress analyst for 7 years on military and civil models.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/4a/d0/d6/4ad0d68003a6d213e0a56f9b4... - CH-53K, No jesus nut

https://www.copters.com/mech/pictures/r22_head.jpg - R22, also none
> Also, like Apple devices, I assume Tesla will have master control over the cars in the same way and can brick them if needed.

They’ve done this in the past a few times haven’t they? Like when people have done battery swaps or refurbs without Tesla’s approval?
Conspiracy theorists can be wrong about 100 things before they're right about one thing. They're useless for understanding the current state of the world.
What do you mean backwards-date? It's how someone would do it naturally. Like when we say one thousand, we do 1000, not 0001, most significant to least significant. I suppose we use mostly little-endian computers, so perhaps you'd expect to see it as 01.32 to correspond, but that would seem quite confusing to everyone, wouldn't it? A point-release would be 1.01.32? And the tenth point-release (god forbid) would be 01.01.32? I suppose we could put it at the end and get 01.32.1 but that then has it go up and down all over the place.

I think what they picked is quite natural: most-sig to least-sig. 23.10.1 has year.month.point-release
Such a service could only work as advertised if it were run by a benevolent dictator with a zealous aversion towards anyone changing the product to include stories that tell you "that's a good thing" or "X group most affected" or "top 10 reasons men love hairy women" or "the science is settled". Otherwise, I can picture such a service declining rapidly.
In your hypothetical where a company gives your their services for free, the company runs out of money, goes out of business, and all of a sudden the services that you were relying on are no longer available. That doesn't seem in anyone's interest. Giving away services for free doesn't seem in the interest of users.

In fact we can see first hand how Google search and other Google products have gotten worse because they give them away for free and as a result have to make money by selling their customers eyeballs to advertisers.
Will it work without Tesla.com account? Or no internet access at all? I just want to drive the Tesla car without internet without any smart features. Is that possible?
The Lunar dev has a variety of recipes for a hardware widget you can build which allows their macOS-only brightness-control app to implement adaptive brightness on any monitor that permits backlight control over DDC/CI. I'm sure a more-motivated and clever person than me could tap into that hardware and use it to drive ddcutil/ddccontrol outputs on Linux.

https://lunar.fyi/sensor
What’s the point in this acquisition? Why do enterprise projects need short form videos (aka Tik Tok)?

Atlassian products are already dog shit slow. Add in the number of plugins that admins add over the years plus processing and hosting of videos … It’s going to be a hot mess.

Would hate to be the person on the project that has diminished vision or completely blind. Screen readers don’t stand a chance against QA’s short form videos with no audio or description of the bug or feature.

Seems like bloat to me. Atlassian trying too hard to become the sole solution for project management.
He's not willing to do it. He explicitly does not want to do it and is only going to do it to lower overall utility by more than the £10 can provide to either party. That is, it only makes sense if he values his finger by more than £10.
Great, now do Pinochet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
"Hallucinating" is really a euphemism for fluent bullshitting. It also doesn't fit the normal understanding of a hallucination. It's just wrong information expressed confidently. Partly it's how the conversational UI works, and partly how the model works. Without the nice generated text that creates in our minds an impression of competence, it would just be an error.
$15,000 mistake – NAS data recovery [video]
Waze.
Around the same time I got a portable CD player that could play CDs, MP3s, and VCDs. Video CDs were pretty rare in North America but it wasn't much of a feat to author them yourself. You'd typically need two discs to hold a full length movie (MPEG1), but it was kind of a perfect size for television episodes (especially when utilizing RW discs).

And playing them on a CRT tv (still the norm) was a huge improvement over broadcast quality. I think that led to a further interest in DVD-authoring and then Web/Media development.
Very on-topic, stimulating, and technical news right here. Meanwhile... /s
they could monetize differently, without ads. let creators monetize it like patreon tiers and let users make proportional donations to their favourite creators through a flattr-like system. take the ads out and a place like youtube only need like 5 guys to run.
"And if you're reading this right now, I will tell you do not know how far a lawyer and their clients will go to reach a settlement"

It always depends on how much money is at stake. Usually a lot, when it is about setting a precedent.
I remember a time some 25 years ago when shareware developers, years after Winamp, discovered that you could leave the rectangular UIs behind and make "skins" for their software. For several years everybody was adding skins for good or for bad reasons. It has become an indicator for me: if a new major version of a software has "Skins!!!" as the first item of the changelog, you could assume real innovation has stopped and you could reasonably expect its downfall in the next couple of months or years at most.

In the case of AI it's a bit different for existing software and probably more of a hype train fueled by marketing departments than true lack of ideas. But the readiness to jump on these trains should be alarming, especially when long-existing features are suddenly being replaced by "AI". I hope this will end soon and after sifting through fad ideas we'll be left with few, but really usable products.
I've seen more and more of it over the past few weeks. I work in clinical trials and just recently saw the claim that hallucinations can help researchers "expand the search space for molecules they didn't consider." I'm doubtful...
> 3) Very few people are in a position to review AI progress accurately as most advanced systems aren’t public.

The most advanced system (GPT4) is public. Same goes for image generation and most others. I certainly can’t think of a counter example.
Machine Mirage in a Silicon Whisper – Faraz Vahedi
I Study Climate Change. The Data Is Telling Us Something New
As global temperatures shattered records and reached dangerous new highs over and over the past few months, my climate scientist colleagues and I have just about run out of adjectives to describe what we have seen. Data from Berkeley Earth released on Wednesday shows that September was an astounding 0.5 degree Celsius (almost a full degree Fahrenheit) hotter than the prior record, and July and August were around 0.3 degree Celsius (0.5 degree Fahrenheit) hotter. 2023 is almost certain to be the hottest year since reliable global records began in the mid-1800s and probably for the past 2,000 years (and well before that).
#2 seems very dependent on the competitive landscape in your market. If you have well-funded competitors growing quickly and taking market share you could absolutely fail due to not scaling rapidly enough.
I don't agree with the parent, but they're not wrong either.

A good high-profile example is Alex Skeel, who refused to tell responding officers anything about his ordeal on-camera. Guy was basically Theon Greyjoy living with Ramsay Bolton as his girlfriend. You can't testify against your torturer outside of a courtroom and risk her finding out about it. Calling for help is a big no-no when it comes to hostage-taking.

Cops are not good at discretion when it comes to intelligence. Snitches get outed all the time. While off-camera, you can dismiss anything as hearsay or rumor, but you really, really don't want there to be video evidence of you snitching against someone dangerous.
Iirc, this currently happens in China.
Many tools in this space have overlapping functionality, but have a lot of differences when it comes to building with them or consuming information from them.
The products take shape around opinionated solutions that are fundamentally different. So, while they "do the same thing", some have better tools for API authoring, some are more usable for non-technical stakeholders, some emphasize performance, some emphasize extensibility, etc.
A good analogy is cars. They all drive, but some have 4WD, some have truck beds.
> They all mastered the material in "Introduction to Computer Science" in the semester.

There is no way all of them did. Eric Mazur tested this for people taking physics at Harvard, he found that even though every student got an A they didn't actually learn the material. He tested before and after on standard physics understanding, they didn't improve even though they got A in the class.

You can watch this video where he talks about it:

https://youtu.be/tn1DLFnbGOo?t=959

Teaching so that students actually learn the material is extremely hard.
I have been slowly doing this but in my experience, I have never had anyone care about my open source projects and the real problem is not raw coding skill, its being able to work in a large team and follow all modern processes that you'd pickup in modern teams. I am trying to learn and adopt these processes on my team (my coworker is onboard) but its a slog.

For example we compile locally, then manually move the compiled code over to the server instead of using something like docker. Part of this is the restrictions we have over our environment, part of this is inertia.

Fortunately I haven't given up trying to move to that paradigm but sometimes I actually dont want to be on a modern team. Its like I have plateaued to a comfortable state that I know wont always be there but I wish it did. I hope what I am explaining makes sense.
Free trial.

Tesla APIs are temporarily free during this trial period.

Oof.

I wonder if this is one more reason Tesla vehicles have gotten cheaper and cheaper. Elon's probably betting on how much companies would pay for access to APIs and thus user data, and gain income to Tesla on top of simply profit margin on the vehicle itself. Much like he's doing at X. I wouldn't be that surprised to see Tesla data become a major part of X strategy as an "everything app" if he continues that path.

Definitely has me second guessing the trigger I was about to pull on that Model 3 performance that just keeps getting cheaper.