skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the internet age they have 100x more information available to them than during the snake oil age the FDA was formed during. There was no Googling "percocet reviews" back then.

Additionally, we're now under a caveat venditor regime regarding product liability, whereas back then it was caveat emptor. Them being able to say "FDA approved it" lets them dump responsibility too (see opioid epidemic).

Dumping the responsibility on a government bureau, while knowing full well those are on the opposite ends of the spectrums of reliability and innovation versus startups, is completely adsurd.

It's strange that this got such downvoting in such a tech savvy community. You'd think they'd know better.
Thanks! If you ever run into any issues or have any suggestions for improving the site, drop me a note: matt@emergentmind.com.
As someone who works in adte h my opinion this was started by Apple's 'privacy' features which just means you opt in to apple tracking everything instead of other companies. The issue I have there is that Apple is the company that knows your real name. They used this to become a late monopoly in iOS advertising.

Google took note and is now building and offering more "privacy tools".
> greatest economic achievements in history.

Who's achievement? This was a supply chain shock caused by COVID and war in Ukraine, then piggybacked by corporate collusion / greedflation.

Taising of interest rates achieved nothing, possibly made it worse by decreasing money supply avaliable to address supply chain bottlenecks. There is a good nimber of economists that support this viewpoint:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/02/joseph-stiglitz-thinks-furth...

We are entering an era where economic dogma is anti-physical - when there is a shortage of energy our governments hike interest rates instead of adressing root of the problem, like building power plants or improving efficiency.
It's Time for UFO Whistle-Blowers to Show Their Cards
https://archive.ph/aGNZn
Hey, I've been following your blog since forever. So happy to see you reply here.
The hyperloop is dead for real this time
Android version on a PC is not a good experience.
The Linux Firefox is installable on ChromeOs but takes a lot of time to load and feels second class
"but if you're running an autonomous vehicle or a factory system or something similar, relying on mysterious weights and fuzziness to make critical decisions sounds like a disaster."

When your brain messes up and you have an accident, isn't that a pretty similar scenario?

Sometimes people make misstakes - some more than others and we do tests to determine whether a human can do a job good enough by its results, without examining their brains.

With autonomous cars it can be the same. Lots of tests - and if it safely can handle complex situations reliable - that would be good enough for me. (But I think we are currently pretty far from it)
> the failure modes of the traditional human-controlled car are incredibly stupid, we've just gotten used to it.

This is missing the point. Just because we accommodate certain types of errors by humans, that doesn't mean should or would tolerate them if the same errors were made by machines. (Or vice-versa, for that matter.) The standards we hold machines and humans to can be very different, and that should be expected.
would have liked to see a video of it actuating
Next week, it will be presented at this year's 37C7 at Chaos Computer Club. Get your popcorn ready.
> I don't actually do LLM research or engineering myself - I hate Python :)

What programming language(s) do you like?
Finally got this working. I was unable to get this to play well with Node or Bun but I did get the <script> approach working.

For the CORS with Vite you can just set a config like so in vite.config.ts

import { defineConfig } from "vite";

export default defineConfig({
server: {
headers: {
"Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy": "require-corp",
"Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy": "same-origin",
},
},
});

I was then able to just use this code example with one caveat (https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer-js?tab=readme-ov-file#use...)

I had to update the SDK import with crossorigin="anonymous"
>A copy of their data is being willingly sent for display to the users machine.

Not if you're telling their posted signage to go fuck itself and ignoring the terms under which it was provided.
What are you saying here? That this entire paper and subject area is an "opinion"?

I still do not know what your main points are here. This study isn't going to be replicated yet because it is considered a "breakthrough" and only two months published. It is going to have limitations because all studies do and authors disclose what they think are their limitations.

Also I haven't downvoted anything for what it is worth.
Fascinating thread to observe. Thanks!
Not managers, product managers. They didn't have any reports, they were still ICs.
Don't worry, once you factor in tunneling expenses it won't be!
Thanks. I hope they enable that by default at some point.
whether or not it's terrorism, at an absolute minimum it's fraud
I tried using it to translate printed Russian text on a package once and it wouldn’t recognize the Cyrillic characters as text. YMMV
Personal care and assisted living aren't alternatives to nursing homes. Nursing homes have to be able to provide a more specialized, higher level of care, in order to meet federal requirements. But yeah, if your loved one doesn't need that kind of care, definitely do not try to put them in a nursing home.
Perhaps someone can publish a paper to arXiv that provides a meta-analysis. But still there doesn't seem to be a clear reason to justify it, given that almost all internet text is not justified.
I get nervous every New Year’s Eve due to date/time issues. I work on emergency 911 software. In our system each time a 911 Call is created, we create an incident number in the format YYYY-NNNNNNNNNNNN where N is an incrementing number. I was oncall a few years ago when a date time bug was introduced that resulting in numbers being created prematurely by a few hours. As each hour passed more customers in a different time zone called in to report the issue. I was the only person working and was getting hammered with cases.

It sounds like an easy isssue to correct, but downstream systems that consume those numbers had already processed them and associated reports and other records with the incidents. I spent the next few months sorting out that mess and helping work with partners to clear out data.
I have the opposite problem. I'll drive from LA to SF for a conference or to visit friends and I have no place to ditch a car I don't need. Finding parking is miserable and hotels will charge $50-70/night.

Heck, I saw a post last night about getting dropped off at LAX. It was taking hours to get close to the airport so they got out of their car and walked the last mile or two to the airport with their luggage. I just can't imagine the scale of what would need to change to accommodate cars.

If out of pocket cost and having your car are the two things you value, do you never plan on flying? The out of pocket cost is often comparable and even with security, it's faster. It's also nice to be able to not have to focus on the road for hours.
Just a note to say that factoring authors into the ranking system is high on my todo list. v1 won't be too fancy - just a hardcoded list of prominent authors whose papers warrant extra visibility. A future version will likely automate it to avoid the hardcoded list.

Also, soon-ish I'm going to add the ability for users to follow specific authors, so you can get notified when they publish new papers.
I know about this actually, but it's tucked in where none can find it and not really the same visibility as Chrome profiles and easily switchable
Fascinating. This really proves that Google knows that the version it's using elsewhere is a dark pattern.
Itch is not exactly a platform for IO games, sure you can put them there, but it hosts a lot of other stuff such as experimental and "extremely indie" games, software tools... It is a platform, storefront and community for things game developers make.

IO games on the other hand are usually characterised by being (sometimes only allegedly) multiplayer web browser games with super minimal friction, just open a page and play.

Put differently, I wouldn't call a supermarket a toothpaste store even though that is indeed an item supermarkets sell.
I really really hope it was the Konami cheat code.
No one has ever seen "big chunk" and thought 10%
I'm not even going to bother refuting this, that's how confident I am that your bullshit is transparent to everyone.

"someone had a stiffer sentence for doing drugs while pregnant ... that's like imprisonment for abortion maaaaaaan!".
I love how we're back to amber after all these years of basically never using that color
thats great news. I was using arxiv vanity to read on mobile phones. I am not seeing it on all articles, is it only for new papers?
This. I work at a research particle accelerator. All the hard real-time, super low-level signal processing and process control stuff is done on FPGAs, there is no other way around.
My email would say that I'm no longer visiting the gym and they must stop charging my card, and to avoid confusion, I'm stopping the payments on my end. I actually did exactly this many years ago with another sleazy gym, and it worked.

Obviously, nowhere in the communications with the gym I'd acknowledge there is any contract. It's no different than going to a grocery store: just because I've been using it for years doesn't mean there's any contract, even if the grocery stores believes so.
They don't make any commitments about user data, and they engage in varying degrees of advertising
Bummer!
Here’s a photo I captured from their very early days [0].

If I recall it’s a composite (stack) of nearly 100 photos.

my goal was to show an industrial startup in one image.

BTW, I signed a 10-year NDA and I’m guessing their employees probably did too. I got to see a lot of stuff behind the curtain.

Such a shame…

[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/BMiyAIdhCJn/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA...
If I am taking a 6h car ride $100 in price isn't a major concern for me. I would pay twice that to be able to sit on my laptop playing a video game, reading a book or just browsing hacker news rather than being forced to stay focused on the road for the whole trip. Sitting on a train with no worries is way nicer than driving, especially if it is faster to boot (which isn't currently the case in the US but is for many more developed rail networks.)
> A few years, the hormones might calm down and, well, if we gave up on all 18 year old adults there wouldn't be too many of us left

Boys will be boys /s

I cannot believe I saw someone give this kind of a statement on HN.
IR (instant release) is the opposite of XR (extended release). I said and meant XR. I don’t even think IR should be used anymore, except maybe in super niche situations (I’m not even sure if I can think of any situation where it makes much sense… maybe narcolepsy?).

XR is obviously preferable to IR, but amphetamines have been falling out of favour over the years (it’s a slow trend). Vyvanse, NSRIs and even SSRIs tend to be regarded more and more favourably compared to amphetamines (Adderall) and methylphenidate (Ritalin).

(Disclaimer: I myself take Adderall XR 10mg as prescribed, so I have the opposite of a conflict of interest in this context.)
I agree we should build bullet trains in all the medians of the interstate like Brightline West is doing. It's totally hopeless to acquire enough land to do anything otherwise.
…the whole thread you’re replying to is about it not actually being necessary. To participate in this conversation you either accept that premise or disagree with it, passing it as a given is not really an option for the argument.
Yes, for photos stored in the cloud, the company that implemented a privacy-preserving CSAM detection algorithm on-device rather than just running it on unencrypted photos in the cloud like everyone else.
I really appreciate what ProPublica did here. But I'm a bit confused why of two places I know that offer the same services, one is listed and one is not. Is it because one has no violations? Or because its legal name is different than the sign out front?

Why is stuff like this so hard? :(
Rubbing alcohol, in the US at any rate, is isopropanol and vodka is ethanol. You're probably thinking of denatured alcohol which is ethanol with methanol added.
Do you even browse, bro?

Profiles have existed in FF for a very long time, I believe even back to the launch of Chrome. I think what Chrome did was made them readily accessible. I might have the history slightly wrong, but FF has had them at least as far back as 2011.

Can you please share where profiles have been requested for many years?
Hyperloop One was not a Musk company.
non-internet-connected data center

Woah. That sounds wild. If you are allowed to share: What industry / company? I would like to hear more about that setup!
Rubbing alcohol is isopropanol, not ethanol.

In the same way that amphetamine is not methamphetamine. Different molecules, different chemistry!
> CPI adjusts prices on a per weight or per volume basis

CPI also adjutsta for quality and performance - if iPad 2 is twice better than iPad 1, but costs the same, CPI will show -50%.

If asbestos was banned in buildings, CPI for construction could be negative even if prices increase.

Not the best link, but you can find more on this easilly:
https://www.cultofmac.com/85778/federal-reserve-president-cr...
It's even easier than walking through that. Just Google the costs per mile of a typical subway line extension. There's a reason subterranean rails only makes when land costs are at a premium.
As long as malvertising(1) exists, adblockers are basic security hygiene. You wouldn’t click a random link, so why would you allow an ad server to execute arbitrary code on your computer?

(1) https://www.tomsguide.com/us/malvertising-what-it-is,news-19...
Wyoming is exciting because a gust of wind can blow a semi into you at any second.
History of Gears
Great site, thanks for sharing. Can you explain how you're determining how many times a paper is cited? Obviously papers include a list of references, but extracting them accurately from the PDF is difficult in my experience (two column formats, ugh) - though the new HTML versions help. And even if you have a list, many authors just mention arXiv paper titles, not their ids, making identifying specific references tricky.
I thought this was going to be a biography of Weird Al
It reminds me of using the STUFF() + FOR XML PATH trick in T-SQL (mssql) for so many years to aggregate row values into a comma separated string. Now you just call STRING_AGG()
There a plenty of non-ad-driver services that allow hosting blogs for free. Github, cloudfare’s free tier, and many others - and you can certainly find a one-click vm deployment of a blogging platform for less then 5$. I believe this implies that saying that you must have ads to have free online services is a fallacy.
Yeah, I wonder why people want government-sanctioned
marriage nowadays except for... Tax?
Wearables are the one area where I'm really not happy with the efficiency of software.

They don't really do anything that couldn't be done on early 2000s handhelds, why don't we have any kind of app-capable micro RTOS with an accompanying app store on Android for this stuff? An ESP32 and a microSD seems to be all any of it really needs.
Those things are all just Objects in Ruby, just with some syntactic sugar, not built in data types. `/a?/` is just syntactic sugar for `Regexp.new('a?')`, ['a','b','c'] is just `Array.[]( 'a', 'b', 'c')` everything is an object being sent messages.
Thannks for that big laugh, Patsy and Ed never fail to deliver.
Seeing that wages mostly remained same but inflation shot up, I’d imagine homelessness would also shoot up.

It is a paradox that the world’s richest country has such a high level of homelessness.

I think in 50 years we’ll either view current homelessness and poverty now like we view slavery or that the technoelite will use AI and regulatory capture and further the divide with quarter of country barely surviving.

US compared to its developed peers has lower life expectancy. That surprised me.

So many people refusing care because they can’t afford it and die early.

US is really a country of extremes.
The only time you've "seen this before" would have been in the 1970's and inflation then was much higher for much longer than we've endured in recent years.
Things were already free before the advertising boom, internet was not really worse twenty years ago
Self-responsiblity being "bullshit" is the most childish sentiment I've heard all year.

Each of us are responsible for holding others accountable too, as we all currently do with other products.

Someone's pill makes someone grow a third arm, they'll be on John Oliver in no time. And without being able to hide behind "FDA said it's OK" (a la opioid epidemic) they'll feel the full brunt of the consequences.

Soviet-style dumping the power and responsiblity on government bureaus is lazy & stupid vice masquerading as virtue.
I'm slowly adding older papers as I work out the kinks in the site. Down the road when the database is more comprehensive, this should definitely be possible.
> They have the resources to continually torture apple

Why is this something we should want? And what gives Samsung and/or Google any sort of high ground position against Apple?
I'm probably biased but in 2008 I couldn't get a job (as a junior), dropped out of college, defaulted on debt(s), and joined the military during a time of war. I watched as friends/former colleagues/neighbors lost their homes, those who didn't went through an utter spiderweb of decision making of who to send the check to. For me, personally, it's hard to compare this to 2008/9. As far as I'm aware, greedflation (what you're describing) is what happens during a recession and a soft-landing is still a recession.
> about 78% of researchers do not regularly use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT

22% of scientists who regularly use ChatGPT already sound like a lot to me, and a cause for concern
>The movement was a bit janky, as expected from websockets

Could you elaborate on this? I played a few "io games" and it seemed pretty smooth (except for the occasional laggy player).

On the other hand, I did a bit of testing with WebSockets a few months ago. If I understand correctly, there are significant downsides to using TCP for games (or any latency sensitive communications for that matter): TCP header being >2x bigger than UDP, additional control packets, and TCP delays transmission of new data while old (stale) data is retransmitted. So WebSockets have these same downsides, due to being hosted over TCP.

Despite all that (TCP supposedly guaranteeing delivery of WebSocket messages), I was able to produce packet loss. So you have the downsides, and as far as I can tell you don't really have the upside, since if you actually want guaranteed delivery you still need to build your own thing on top of it (which you could have just done on top of UDP in the first place, at least for messages that need it!)

(Take this with a grain of salt, aside from a bit of dabbling I have close to zero knowledge and experience with networking.)
Rubbing alcohol is isopropanol. Drinking alcohol is ethanol.

You can get “industrial ethanol” that has some methanol added to prevent people from consuming it, and pay liquor tax on it. These are for chemists for specific applications.

None of these things are “the same”.
All of those businesses subsidize their sites because they're billion dollar companies. Is that better than just... using ads?

> I believe this implies that saying that you must have ads to have free online services is a fallacy.

I'm saying someone has to pay for it.
Tips to save on real estate commissions
"Automobile" here might not mean "car". Rather, something that literally moves under its own power.
I've treated chrome like I used to treat explorer... I use it for work because saas and internal apps are often only tested on one platform. I use ff for everything else. Funny thing is chrome is breaking a ton of internal Amazon tools as they're killing tamper monkey which is used to a very high level inside.
Just shoot durable goods around with a railgun.
How is "if you try not to eat more than you need and create
environmental and energy waste, we will punish you" not a scandal ?
The thing is: mainstream validation works. Whenever little-known sources are introduced, the chances of information being false or misleading just skyrockets. Moderator rings are often detected that way - all citing the same obscure publications that turn out to be factually incorrect.
And all the makefile & python mistakes
If there's an architecture that could be 10% better, I think it's highly unlikely that we would conduct ablation experiments, since it's too expensive, It's really a pity compared to CV.
Incorrect. The US is made up of a huge swath of towns and cities that wouldn’t even exist without railways.

https://vividmaps.com/railroads-in-america/

You say that every other method of travel is more expensive…but that doesn’t really pass the sniff test, does it?

The Big Dig in Boston adjusted for inflation cost more than New York City’s “world’s most expensive stretch of subway.” The California high speed rail project, also notoriously expensive, is in the same ballpark.

We just assume trains cost more money because we put the blindfolds on for highways. Voters salivate over highway expansions because they loathe being stuck in traffic, while the reality is that this style of building induces demand while more transit options make driving better.

I often think about how thousands of American businesses pay for short-hop commercial flights between destinations like New York and Pittsburgh where a proper high speed train could cover that distance in about 2 hours including stops. How much money are we paying employees to show up at the airport 90 minutes early and put their laptops away for takeoff and landing when they could spend the whole train ride productive?

I know my company will pay for a checked bag as a travel expense. How much money is wasted on putting bags in airplane holds? It must be billions!

Car ownership has huge personal costs (car purchase, operation, depreciation, maintenance), collective costs paid by taxes (maintenance of roads, etc), and societal costs that nobody really pays for (excess deaths from crashes, pollution, opportunity costs).

I’d like to know which method of travel besides cars costs an average of $5,000 per person per year on a personal spending basis before even starting to put tax money toward road maintenance. That number balloons to $10,000 if you buy cars new.

Which country’s train system kills 30,000 people annually? Which train system emits more pollution per passenger mile than a car?

If cars are the cheapest way to get around, explain why the poorest countries have the lowest car ownership. Shouldn’t they all be jumping on cars and highways if it’s so cost efficient? Maybe all those people getting on trains in Mumbai should head down to their local Tri-County Ford dealer!
Let me guess - a leftist bias?
It would be if they had a dominant market position. Just controlling the endpoints doesn't mean that much by itself.
common human biases that led to this common incorrect assumption of spying. alexa was definitely not involved here.

i bet you were also talking about a bunch of other things, that didn't show up in the FB feed.
I thought this was about GitHub Actions.
The most expensive parts of tunnels are where you come to the surface. The Channel Tunnel is cheap in that regards because there is countryside on either end and no exits in the middle.

Designing a high capacity train station or highway exit in the middle of a city is quite expensive.
Most code doesn't follow SOLID principles.
It was NOT inaccessible

Look up geocities maybe, most providers gave you some free space anyhow