skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My cruise speed control system effectively turns my car into a kamikaze rocket if I ever lose attention.

It needs a dead man button like this one
> I think even if you gave most engineering organizations the budget and mandate that NASA has, they still wouldn't be able to pull off something like Webb because they don't have the practice of it

IMO, Webb is a bad example. It was super over budget, late, and experienced a litany of problems.

In contrast, most un-manned NASA projects are roughly on budget and generally have few issues. And even the ones that do, NASA often figures out how to correct them like the Hubble telescope.
I’ve found the book online and will definitrly look into it. It’s going to be my first time with russian math teaching style, i’m really looking forward to it. From what i’ve seen browsing the first chapter it seems very down to earth and straightforward, i really like it. Also, it covers exactly the scope of calculus i want to get better at, so thanks again.
What, if any, are the advantages of skipping a clear coat?
Now my managers have even more reason to rush out broken "features" and use bugs to "fix" them later.
It should not be too hard to verify?

Call up the clerk of the court who issued the order, or the police department of the city, or whoever the relevant authority is, and ask them to confirm.

You don't need digital signatures or encryption to do that.
I started my board game site back in 2010 as a set of CGI scripts that sent the games to people in HTML emails. Then I turned it into a proper website, then I got it running as a persistent process, then I added this trainer, then I moved the trainer to its own domain. So that <center> tag is probably a decade old. I made my first website in 1999 or so.
Don't get me wrong. Democracy is a total joke in Singapore. That's why I left. My dad has never voted in his life because there aren't enough opposition candidates. The police actively harrasses members of the opposition (I had a friend who's husband was an opposition MP).

But given all that could have happened, I do stand by that assessment.
> forces its chronically ill and physically incapable into suicide

What should I be reading to learn more?
Betting it'll be something like Cinavia, but for images and where the embedded data is a key instead of just a simple 1,2,3,4 code. With high color depths, such as greater than 8 bit, there's probably enough "dataspace" to embed data somehow (e.g. imagine embedding a data stream in a band above 20KHz for audio, it can be part of a 22KHz WAV file, for example, but won't be heard at all). The encoding wouldn't survive the situation where a picture is taken of a picture at a lower color depth, but that's probably OK.
that's a fair counter but there are laws about this, and your examples are parody and commentary, neither of which effect the market value of the original

the "screwing" is in the form of getting paid for reselling the work of others (depriving the others of the ability to sell their own work - less downloading a movie for free and more like selling bootlegs in front of the record store), not merely being, like, chronologically dependent.
To find a needle in a haystack, looking at each straw needs to be a really cheap operation. Even if it was right there the whole time.

"cheap and powerful enough that individual researchers can muck around with it at home" seems a pretty good measure of this, because of the explosion in width and pace of experimentation.
> Games where you manipulate other humans are still done in an "arcade" style (eg Among Us). They don't tend to be focused on realistic manipulation

I don't think the scenario has to be any less fanciful with LLM NPCs than with social deduction or tabletop role-playing games. It's realistic in that you have to fool the (LLM/human playing the) character, but it's still within a fictional setting.

> Else they would obviously be the much cheaper approach to learning/testing either of those skills than spending tons of real ammo or driving a real car.

Training simulators are absolutely used. Less so for cars, because real cars are accessible enough that it's not worth sacrificing 100% realism, but definitely by the military.

Or, consider games like paintball/airsoft.
Lol! I do that with drivers licenses too. I laugh at myself as I do it.
> just competing on mental focus

Ahem: snooker, darts, golf, test match cricket, tennis. To varying degrees with these sports, at the top tier, mastery of the skill is merely the table stakes. The winners are the ones who can do so under immense pressure.
I work on gloves like this, and that's really not what we see in the real world.

The active force applied to the fingers is actually pretty small. The geometry of a flexed hand gives huge mechanical advantage. The key is a large holding force. It's easy to prevent you from closing your hands further without needing to actually overpower you.

You don't need to pull hard, you just have to be able to stop hard. No real risk there.
I don't know how old the author is, but I'm not surprised when people even 10-15 years younger than I am (I'm in my 40s) shy away from digging into the guts of how things work.

I feel like I was at the tail end of when it was ok to experiment with technology as a kid and teen. The early '00s brought much more in the way of disposable, locked-down devices. Kids growing up today (despite the educational push of orgs like the Raspberry Pi Foundation) are presented with hermetically-sealed devices that present a sanitized interface. Manufacturers explicitly don't want their customers taking things apart, discovering how they work, or tinkering with them in any way... and often even try to put legal barriers in place to keep people from doing stuff like this.

This is a far cry from when I was very young (and before I was born) when computers and kits would come with full schematics and datasheets!
3D virtual tour, museum dedicated to Sir Clive Sinclair
Miss Cora M. Strayer's Private Detective Agency
Wow, that's a lot of money. I thought my electricity was high because it's gone up a lot to 0.12 in South Texas.
The problem with REST (or really, any current non GraphQL solution) is there is only an implicit link between the consumer of a field and the query declaration. So, REST queries are append only, especially at large organizations where incremental perf improvements are less good than accidentally bringing down the site is bad. That’s the failure mode of specialized REST endpoints that deliver exactly what a given view needs.
oblig. https://xkcd.com/695/
When teenagers are making sexually explicit deepfakes of classmates, that's objectively a bad thing, because it is extremely damaging. People are using it to blackmail and extort too. Consent, ethics and law should be at the forefront of the conversation regarding AI, not whether we trust the contents of an image.
Ask HN: Are we in the Gilded Age II, and should it be reigned in?
Is this period of big capitalist boom, lagging legislation, billionaire playground, defined and legitimate enough to be called the Siliconized Age / Gilded Age II?
(I.e. do people consider it to be a real, parallel phenomenon)

And should it be curbed with legislation, anti-competition commissions etc.? Or is the common and long term good such that we shouldn't stifle this boom period prematurely?

Just an Ask HN to see what opinions are.
I think the more interesting discussion is around how companies are interfacing directly with LLMs without fully understanding the risks to their brand.
Will this land in OpenBSD, given Ted is a core dev?
Any large program is composed of libraries. They may not explicitly be described as libraries, or imported from external sources, but there will be abstraction boundaries somewhere.

Which means that if you're writing a program, you probably are also writing one or more libraries.
I doubt they'd do it via this system. It should be easy to strip this metadata, in fact that is essentially a requirement to make the photo readable on image viewers unaware of it

However if it came out that manufacturers were secretly storing a "fingerprint" of the noise profile of each image sensor and sharing it with the government, I'm afraid I wouldn't be entirely surprised

Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
as a commercial artist you should not tinker in ethics but try to sell and make some. money staying within the law.

tbh,i hate moralization over what I decide to consume. If I should consume less travel for the sake of the environment, make it more expensive by taxing it.

if you want to earn more money as a commercial artist, don't morally trip me into something I am not legally obligated to (watching ads), but deliver a product that is more valuable.
>This is simple law. Why do people have such a hard time with this?

Because this isn’t simple law. It feels like simple infringement, but there’s no actual copying going on. You can’t open up the database and find a given duplicate of a work. Instead you have some abstraction of what it takes to get to a given work.

Also it’s important to point out that nothing in the law is sure. A good lawyer, a sympathetic judge, a bored/interested/contrarian juror, etc can render “settled law” unsettled in an instant. The law is not a set of board game rules.
A lot of things can happen when you are out there on your own rolling coffin, a Heart attack, hypoglycaemia (from Greek “hypo-“, meaning ‘low’; “glyc-“, ‘sugar’; and “aemia”, ‘blood’), low sugar presence in blood.

Now that diabetes has become a widespread problem for millions, having a dead man switch for a case of hypoglycaemia with a Big Bro phone call to check on you can save lives, I guess, by letting the subjects quickly reach the emergency room, where we are now
Show HN: Freshet, a new smart RSS reader
This is our new smart RSS reader, Freshet. It's in an open alpha stage and free to use (donations to our Ko-fi welcome however!), and we hope it's of use/interest to at least some of you.
I'd expect nothing less from Russian side. But my country has and always had a lot of sympathy for the US. Always awaiting their eventual win as our saviors. So it feels just wrong. It's like learning that their main plan to end the standoff was to shoot the hostages in the first volley.
How is the Russian equivalent of Marvel doing? Is there a strong Manga production? How many AAA games does Russia produce? K-pop is pretty popular in Russia, how about that?

Internet/media has a very long tail, which Russia can't hope to replace.
World's First Automatic Strike Bowling Ball (Mark Rober) in 2019 ... https://youtu.be/wM5NHC97JBw

Building Mark Rober's Bowling Ball (James Bruton) ... https://youtu.be/eI33iAXcEYA
Obviously this is a joke, but the real message should be: if you can't manage your own memory, you should be using a language implementation with automatic memory management. If your code really needs to run "close to the metal", you really need to figure out how to manage your memory. In 2024, language implementations without automatic memory management should be reserved for applications that absolutely need them.
The linked Vintage Ads community is great.
I’m saying that there are very many things that I can’t prove are impossible that I don’t worry about happening. I’ve learned to live with that uncertainty.
In such a case the price of the printer itself should better be negative - I may take their printer if they pay me for that. This is how people get rent - they buy whatever others will pay rent first.
Can't wait for the JIRA workflows around this
>You might believe they don't have the right to say "no," but they can say whatever they want.

You have a right to say anything you want. Others aren't obligated do as you say just because you say it.

>If you studied my (we will assume "unique") techniques and used them without my permission, then let us say I sue you. At that point, you would claim "fair use,"

On what grounds would you sue me? You think my defense would be "fair use", so you must think my copying your style constitutes copyright infringement, and so you'd sue me for that. Well, no, I would not say "fair use", I'd say "artistic style is not copyrightable; copyright pertains to works, not to styles". There's even jurisprudence backing me up in the US. Apple tried to use Microsoft for copying the look-and-feel of their OS, and it was ruled to be non-copyrightable. Even if was so good that I was able to trick anyone into thinking that my painting of a dog carrying a tennis ball in his mouth was your work, if you've never painted anything like that you would have no grounds to sue me for copyright infringement.

Now, usually in the artistic world it's considered poor manners to outright copy another artist's style, but if we're talking about rights and law, I'm sorry to say you're just wrong. And if we're talking about merely studying someone's work without copying it, that's not even frowned upon. Like I said, it's unavoidable. I don't know where you got this idea that anyone has the right to or is even capable of preventing this (beyond simply never showing it to anyone).
The proposition of artificial intelligence, whether at human-level or not, is that a suitably-programmed computing device (as opposed to an immaterial algorithm) could manifest the properties which we have chosen to call "intelligence" when we observe them in biological agents, and similarly for consciousness.

Particularly with your comment "no graph traversal algorithm cares, nor will ever", you appear to be trying to impute that the concept of artificial intelligence is predicated on a category error. If so, then this is a fairly common argument, but is itself predicated on a category error.
One question, how do I join? which exhibit will I be after?
Sync server appears to be open source as well! Much better than Logseq/Obsidian when it comes to that. Thank you!
Updated and significantly improved the app.
I’ve been wondering this the whole time. Does it gently stop on the right shoulders so you can comfortably get out the vehicle to meet traffic from behind?
> Handling all the edge cases would make such a simple system immediately complex.

That's the difference between a Proof of Concept and a production system. I'm hard pressed to think of anything I've ever developed that did not have this property.
I did not say or suggest that his actions were justified.

My point(s) is that he was relatively “normal” high functioning autistic guy, who ended up in an intense situation that he did not have the social / emotional / cognitive tools to deal with, and started acting erratically. The whole thing is a damn tragedy.

It is easy to point fingers and divide the world into the good guys and the bad guys. But the truth is that anyone is capable of almost anything under the right circumstances; and we never really know how we will react in extreme situations until we are in them.
Largely same - I wonder if such complexly engineered balls is why bowling has a falloff in popularity as a pro sport. The difference in how good two pro bowlers are is often fractions of a percent. Maybe a step back in technology would make the sport more interesting.
Some of the groups that kept Apple alive were also among first to axe.

What Jobs did fix (and some claim it was due to getting bitter pills few times before returning to Apple), was to play on the feelings when you buy apple gear. And that you stopped being important the moment you paid, though some support orgs were on life support until income stream became just too stable to worry.
Ask HN: Why isn't Twitter / X dead yet?
I thought with Elon's reckless actions that X should have been dead by now.

During the time that X was acquired by Elon:

Pebble / T2 (X competitor) shut down. (1)

Artifact (Another X competitor) shut down. (2)

Post.news is drastically losing traction with it's founder struggling to "kill X". (3)

Threads is faltering and lost over 75% of their daily active users since launch. (4) (5)

Spill is in invite limbo and many people lost interest.

Substack's competitor Notes didn't take off and people are moving away from the platform. (6)

Mastodon is still very hostile to non-tech folks, made no dent to X in user traction and still has major UX & discovery issues. (7)

Hive was a flash in the pan, turned off their servers and fell off with no roadmap. (8)

BlueSky is still stuck in invite limbo with no traction.

Clubhouse and Nostr aren't even on the map here.

All the while X is doing all the worst things possible to destroy their own platform, yet it is still up and running somehow and the X competitors imploded in the process.

If any other platform did what Elon has done they would have been dead a long time ago.

Why is Twitter / X not dead after all these months even when it is valued much less than what Elon purchased it for?

(1) https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/

(2) https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/instagram-co-founders-news-aggregation-startup-artifact-to-shut-down/

(3) https://themessenger.com/tech/why-is-it-so-damn-hard-to-kill-twitter

(4) https://fortune.com/2023/08/04/threads-traffic-spiral-down-82-percent-launch-month-mark-zuckerberg/

(5) https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-app-decrease-daily-active-users-mark-zuckerberg-2023/

(6) https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/

(7) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/18/mastodon-users-twitter-elon-musk-social-media

(8) https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/hive-social-turns-off-servers-after-researchers-warn-hackers-can-access-all-data/
You've evidently forgotten the concurrent attack on the Pentagon in the same hour on 9/11.
Again, that’s incorrect as stated. You could qualify that to say some fraction isn’t educational, or that you don’t think it’s educational enough, but in the broad form that claim is grossly overstated.
Last I checked (which was about a decade ago) Windows doesn't call GetNextVariableName() - it just accesses variables on demand. We should probably handle that in a cleaner way.
I imagine that is something that is not "top secret" that Xi can easily share with Putin and something that could be applied almost immediately to routers in Russia. That sucks that Russians can't see other perspectives. It doesn't seem to matter a lot since 80% of Russians still support him mindlessly, but those other 20% can help set a seed of doubt on his atrocities and autocratic lies but not if they can't get info.
Hahahahaha I love this! Almost as good as fixing race conditions with sleep statements ( which I see a lot )
> awful bland food

Too out of date to be funny. This hasn’t been anywhere near true for at least a couple of decades.
If you use Windows and you have a discrete GPU from any vendor with at least 6GB VRAM, you could test my implementation of Mistral model: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml

Screenshot: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml/blob/master/Mistral/Mistral...
One way I found helpful in giving precise parsing errors without causing excessive false errors is to have the parser auto-completing the missing tokens with placeholder error nodes. E.g.

if (cond1 And ) { ... }

The And operator is missing its right operand, but everything else is valid.

The parser knows the And operator needs two arms. It can complete the missing arm with an error node.

fn parseCondition() {
let leftNode = parseBoolExpr()
if (lookaheadToken() is And)
return parseAnd(leftNode)
if (lookaheadToken() is Or)
...
return leftNode
}

fn parseAnd(leftNode) {
consumeToken()
let rightNode = parseBoolExpr()
if (rightNode != null)
return AndNode(leftNode, rightNode)
else
return AndNode(leftNode, ErrorNode("missing operand", location))
}

In this way, the conditional expression is parsed to completion without interruption. Multiple errors can be handled with completion and recorded. At the end it's a matter of traversing the AST to print out all the ErrorNodes.
It's not some holy grail, it's just one way to think about AI. Regardless of the test used, it's just sad to me that popular views of AI now tend to be more Skynet and HAL than Transcendence or Her.

Guess a few decades of big tech enshittification will do that to the psyche, lol.
yes agree - this was also discussed ten years ago in some math circles. So, trying to agree but note that these are problems that different projects have taken on over a long time, also.
My two cents on the topic. Currently, we are incapable of modeling causality effectively or at all (depends on your definition and to who you ask). LLMs seem to have it, but it's a mockery of causal reasoning. They use data created by us and so they can predict the next word following some of the inherent patterns we humans use which might look like they can reason to some extent.

In this regard something like alphago/zero (in the way I understand them at least )are better than modern LLMs albeit in a very narrow field.
The difference in how good two pro bowlers are is often fractions of a percent.

Maybe a step back in technology would make the sport more interesting.

I think that can be said for a bunch of stuff like pool, snooker, darts, golf, and bowling.
I'm one of the WG founders. Thanks for the mention.
In case anybody has a question, please ask.
(I'm getting a notification if you use the term "WunderGraph")
Tell me where it says training a model is infringing on copyright.
Yes, "nil interface vs nil value" is _eminently_ unintuitive and incredibly easy to get wrong:

https://dev.to/mokiat/the-dark-side-of-go-interfaces-1541
replace “parked car” with “child”. Would it have stopped then?
Also has a self-hosted version however it’s a bit out of date with their SaaS product

https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE#self-host
If you don't want to drag, you can click the piece and then click the target square.

> Is this book out of copyright now?

I think so. The copyright term back then was 28 years, and AFAIK the copyright wasn't renewed.
> Even though today’s nuclear targets list is classified, it probably doesn’t look dramatically different.

Uh I'm pretty sure it does look dramatically different in Europe at least because a huge proportion of the targeted Warsaw pact and Soviet Socialist Republic countries in 1956 are now part of NATO.

Seems like a very ignorant statement to make.
Hey there! Lots of experience with this having lived in China for 2 years. I recommend you look into xray-core or v2ray.

https://github.com/v2fly/v2ray-core

https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

Here are my configs: https://github.com/acheong08/notes/tree/main/xray

Why this over WireGuard or OpenVPN or commercial solutions? Because it’s obfuscated and you’re much less likely to get caught. Try hosting a small game server on the same machine as well so the traffic doesn’t look too out of place.
Why are we blaming the companies because the police are easy to impersonate?
I can do it myself with scripts and stuff. Facebook is just the easiest for me.

But my point is that I like taking pictures of events and it enhances my experience. It’s not the particular way I remind myself. I suppose it would also work if I printed them and put them in a shoebox.
I think misinformation is already out there. I can only guess what extent to which common knowledge on world events is false, but it's not zero. There is an interesting, though not that academically rigorous body of internet analysis on things like Pallywood and the Charles Jaco bluescreen video from the Gulf War that are a good starting point.
If I was in Russia I would be a lot less afraid of USA/Britain/Germany MITM than I would of Putin's agents catching wind of the free flow of information and coming for me and my family and throwing us off the roof or putting polonium in our water supply.
The tears of artists and copyright evangelists is so sweet.
THIS is the kind of thing I was expecting when I clicked on the parent link, ASCII art, instead of computer converted images. While there is nothing wrong with rasterising an image to ASCII, there is something I really love about the hand drawn stuff. Especially the early ones where the 'canvas' size was so limited, it forced such creativity.