skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's more of a function of the relative difference between the sizes of your vehicle and the other vehicle, not the absolute size of the other vehicle. The relative size is a big factor in why mixing bikes with cars is so deadly. The other one, of course, is relative speed. Years ago I got my CDL and there was a multiple choice question to the effect of what is the safest speed to drive. Three of the answers were all relative to the speed limit and the correct answer was relative to other traffic: the safest speed is the speed of the cars around you, or zero relative speed.
Training Deceptive LLMs That Persist Through Safety Training
It's the straw that broke the camel's back, at least for all the lamenting of Google here on HN lately.
>> "That most any pro-science person I engage with tends to follow this methodology is a part of the reason for my anti-science stance: the combination of deceit/disingenuousness combined with implied superiority (times the percentage frequency of this behavior in my experience) bothers me."

Because scientist test their theories.

If the test fails, then that become part of the known false things.

If the test passes, then they become known true.

There are no ''things that are believed true because of science as some pseudo religious belief'', they must all be proved true.

So to be anti-science, you are automatically saying that you would ignore true results. That truth does not matter. Or be willing to believe false things.

This happened a lot during Covid. 'Scientist' would offer very narrow results on exactly what was tested and known. And people really didn't like that, and either wanted to read too much into the results, or mad the results conflicted with their belief.
I would argue its mostly a hardware problem because lots of engineers, including Carmack, have already explored and solved a ton of the hard software problems e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20140719085135/http://altdev.co/...
Note that this was several years after performance artists (not even state-level actors) had demonstrated compromising toys retail supply chain with hacked firmware. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547659/barbie-liberation...

So, look of concern at whomever thought it was a good idea to bring an effectively blackbox electronic device with a microphone into a secure area where those were prohibited. Kudos to whomever raised the issue.

Someone should've done a proof of concept mod (firmware or hardware) of a Trojan Furby to appear (to visual and X-ray inspection) to have the stock hardware, but do something nefarious. Or shown how, say, the stock Furby hardware and firmware turned sound into RF leakage.
Gift article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/health/deaf-gene-therapy....
In a lot of places that was the real waterfall method, and also how waterfall earned its illustrious reputation.
https://gifmemes.io/

Made 240 USD in December.
About 9k visitors and 27k page views tracked through plausible.
Spent maybe 5 hours working on the codebase in 2023, which makes a solid ((240 * 12) / 10) = 288 USD / hour.

All of the money are from the watermark removal sales (10 USD). A lot of people say I could be making much more with some subscription model, but so far I'm resisting. (And the codebase is a mess :D )
The file format is pretty good, though, and that's largely what's being discussed here.
I think each of these is already handled, or at least most. They say 99.4% of uptime in record inclement weather, which seems like it should satisfy "all".
https://waymo.com/blog/2023/08/the-waymo-drivers-rapid-learn... I don't think they really mean "all" (like it shouldn't need to handle a lava flood). Just "all a human might do". This feels superhuman already.

I actually see the main thing right now that would mean this bet is "not currently won by Carmack" is that they are not officially offering freeway access in its commercial product:
https://waymo.com/blog/2024/01/from-surface-streets-to-freew...
But this seems minor, and I can't imagine it taking more than 2 years to allow freeway driving in multiple metros.

I can't fathom what would need to happen to derail this particular bet from being satisfied in Jan 2026 let alone Jan 2030.

(Note: if it wasn't for Waymo, I think this timeline would be much less clear. Tesla/Cruise feel much less predictable.)
you must have bought a long time ago
The one time I tried riding a unicycle, I couldn't even get on it sufficiently enough to fall off.
Whats available on the Web, such as on DDG, is very poor compared to the native apple maps.

It's like google maps ten years ago... Well no, they already had itineraries.
Could you link it here? It's hard to say without knowing what we are talking about.
Cooperation and symbiotic relationships exist in nature as well.

The trajectory of history suggests that it’s easier to trade than to steal and easier to ally than to fight.
I've seen bells for skaters made with a metal or plastic ring you can pass through your finger. They'd probably work just as well for a unicyclist.

(In related news, Firefox's built-in spellcheck doesn't include "unicyclist" but Chrome's does.)
"You're assuming that their goal is to find the correct culprit. But that's not the case."

Not necessarily. In most cases I'm my experience the faults are out of ignorance rather than malice. Or at the very least out of ego/pride of believing they are right.
That's true. Sometimes it is flatly stated too.

You see, this is how scrum really works as without this, how would we be able to control development timelines? Also mumbling compliance means it just has to be this way for unspecified reasons!
the minute it goes online, it gets the kill signal
Creating synthetic fuels also seems like the only practical option in the table for seasonal storage. If solar energy is free in summer, even pathetic round trip efficiency could be worthwhile to provide winter reserves.
People travelled, but regular people didn't routinely travel to the other side of the empire. The road network was probably used more for "local travel" than "far travel".
> Some Deaf parents, he added, celebrate when their newborn baby’s hearing test indicates that the baby is deaf too and so can be part of their community.

Tough one. You want to respect the wishes of the parents, but you also want the kid to have the option to hear (and understand spoken language) when they are an adult and can make their own decisions. You may not be able to have both, given that this kind of deafness is progressive, and even with gene therapy you evidently need to treat it when young to give the child any hope of hearing. What if it turns out the kid wants to be able to hear, but by the time they are of age, it's too late and their inner ear’s hair cells are all dead?
I migrated away from gmail primarily because they regularly filed important emails as spam
Apple already have a global scale mesh network that's used for e.g. AirTags. iPhones are just absolutely everywhere, they have the true internet of things.

I imagine that could be very interesting for self driving technology.
Only if the measures for an individual are uncorrelated, which there’s no reason to assume.

It needs to be <= 0.01% false positive for each individual author. If it’s just that 0.01% of all tests are false positive, that leaves the possibility than a given individual might have anywhere up to 100% false positives.
Last time I was on an Embraer, the emergency exit door alarm was buzzing until the plane left the ground and the fuselage flexed enough to get a seal. The fight itself was fine but that left a questionable impression.
> The whole thing is just curve fitting.

> We only understand and build these things at a high level. At the very low level we don't actually understand what's going on.

Contradictory..
Yup. You need a sea salt-like grind for Chemex because of how thick the filter is.
I feel that people who are clever enough to raise this question are also clearly clever enough to answer it for themselves.

Anyway, operationally speaking the difference is in how easily the matter in question can be digested by living things.

If it's easy to digest it's food, if it can't be digested at all then it's worse than artificial: it's anti-life.
I’m curious who your customers are; being tech savvy enough to use an api, but not enough to scrape the web confuses me. Mind explaining how you make money?
It seems that no one has yet posted the famous article linking SUVs to immaturity and low self esteem, so here we go.

> Car companies managed this remarkable feat because they ran—and continue to run—quite possibly the most sophisticated marketing operations on the planet. They knew what people really wanted: to project an image of selfish superiority. And then they sold it to them at a markup

> Who has been buying SUVs since automakers turned them into family vehicles? They tend to be people who are insecure and vain. They are frequently nervous about their marriages and uncomfortable about parenthood. They often lack confidence in their driving skills. Above all, they are apt to be self-centered and self-absorbed, with little interest in their neighbors or communities.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7q7eb/electric-or-not-big-s...
How is the end goal not clear to you? The goals have been stated clearly many times by many company -- but they happen to be extremely difficult.
If you have an audience in mind, try meeting them in person to demo your solution. I've found people are most receptive when they see your passion and resolve.
I think it is more like telling the marketing team that you can't add an HDMI port to the computuer because it has already finished the production run.

That is to say, it is as much of a hardware issue as a software issue.
Try a service like lemlist
But usually it’s not free in time and/or money. Even harder if it does not really solve a pain point
If Jobs were still around, I would agree. I'm skeptical this will be true for a car under Cook.
If you're struggling to land your message, your value prop might be off or you might not be communicating it well in your pitch. Take a look at your outbound marketing and focus on the call to action, destination, content and "give a shit factor" ... then test various approaches. If nothing works, it's probably not your message, but the product's value proposition itself.
LOL what a joke. Isn't there even a news story floating around about someone deep faking Biden's voice? I expect banking security to be better than what's in the public lexicon, not worse.
Do you really think professors flag plagiarism only when it's cut and dry? Absolutely not. Plenty, if not most, flagged cases of plagiarism are ambiguous. The process at most colleges and universities typically accounts for this via something like review by an academic integrity committee.
If you want stronger coffee, use a lower water-to-coffee ratio. For example, the standard ratio is 16:1 water to coffee, i.e. ~300g water to 18.5g coffee. To make it stronger, add an extra gram. Grind size doesn't affect strength.
I got annoyed that my MacBook case would slightly buzz when plugged in, so I worked with a factory to make these grounded Apple adapters:
https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Duckhead-Apple-Mac-Adapter/d...

They've been selling consistently to others annoyed by the problem or who want to ground their MacBook for other reasons.
What struck me is that it lacks a design vision, and so you cannot reach identity. Brand Identity isn't easy, it requires critical thinking about what/why/who.

I can see tough AI improves the baseline for the "do it yourself" people that have no design skills. But using a humanly (well-) made pre-designed template would yield a better result currently.

I am wondering if the output will improve if the user has a good understanding of what they are and how this should translate into visual language, or that the network would just be capable of discriminating between some design trends.
> I don't recall it expanding at light-speed

It may have been slower, but I'm not sure why it would be or what the mechanism was. Regardless, it had the effect of consuming the entire system didn't it? As you say, it was deployed with reckless disregard for the fate of spacetime itself as it was irreversible and unstoppable, that's the important part.

Could be that other species had more targeted tools, but to me the implication was that Dark Forest Theory basically encourages an overwhelming and rapid response, so taking more time/effort to specifically target a planet is disincentivized on pain of extinction.
If "looking nice" was the main factor, people would be buying jewelry made of materials that look identical to gold AND are more durable AND are less expensive.
5 people sounds like a lot. But it's not just individuals. There are schools, offices, factories, government agencies in the area, and their activities benefit from support.

I find the idea of "slow is good for the rubes" to be distasteful.

Some benchmarks of $/installed mile and $/access point would be useful. I realize these will be 2024 dollars but still.

Musk may be unhappy, but this is generally why you don't want to go around biting lots of hands.
I agree. I started with Anathem then went to A Canticle for Leibowitz. Together they were a fun read, I've put them both on my bookshelf.
they need protection from the other people also driving giant walls of steel for no other reason than...
Tried opening the link on iOS with my app’s built-in Safari browser.

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Browser Blocked
We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser).
‘’’

I do not use Brave…
"In any case" meaning you can change capitalization and it still works?

This doesn't work on my chase.com account.
I started and run https://pacsbin.com, a radiology teaching file/research platform. I’m a radiologist and started this as a resident while unsatisfied with all existing options. It has been really gratifying to work on a niche problem for which a lot of my colleagues need a solution, and has helped me learn a ton about the tech and standards that underpin my profession.
Aren’t they all?
I wasn't expecting much going in but that was a great read. Hearing quicktime turned me off but it's actually an interesting format from this articles description.

Obviously proprietary formats with not many open source parsers is the biggest issue, but still a neat idea to think about.
If you're already making an energy-intensive material anyway, you can avoid the round-trip loss on seasonal storage by just going 'one way.'

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/

The main downside to factobatteries is the same as for e-fuels: high capital cost due to low equipment utilization.
You're talking about different things. Apple officially supports / provides software updates for its iPhones for 7 years. Other phone manufacturers' durations of support vary, but they're usually much less. Until fairly recently, Google provided 3 years of software updates for Pixels, for example. [1]

[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/phone-update-policies-16586...
Is it the capacity to learn to speak a language, or the capacity to learn to understand spoken language that shuts? Or both? It's not quite clear from the way it's phrased here if maybe the inability to speak is only a consequence of the inability to understand, or if it's theoretically separable. Aren't there people who learn to speak, albeit with an accent, even though they have never been able to hear? So they might learn to read lips and speak, even though they wouldn't be able to understand a spoken language if they gained the ability to hear?

I ask because I'm interested to know which parts of brain research might eventually try to prop that door open. Granted, most people born with this genetic condition would probably just be treated shortly after birth and learn spoken language during the normal time frame, not go through some special other treatment just to prop that mental door open, but I'd still be interested to understand what's actually going on in the brain better.
Personally I think you are making the right call avoiding subscriptions in a side hustle project like this.

Once subscriptions get involved you have to deal with a lot more complexity, churn metrics, refunds (more so than now because of people 'forgetting' to unsub), the stuff around do you pro-rata at subscription cancel or leave it running until date is reached, stripe makes that a little easier but its still a thing.

so yeah, good move imo.
> This is not that visible but it does produce some blur

At these pixel sizes (except 125%), it is irrelevant. MacOS and iPhone do exactly the same for years, and nobody was ever bothered.

> along with the performance overhead.

By the increased resolution of the framebuffer; the scaling itself is done by hardware (and here I do not mean GPU; I mean output encoder).
As someone who would have been of age to apply to Chicago 20 years ago, lived in Chicago, and went to a Chicago college prep high school, it surprises me to hear the suggestion that Chicago had an acceptance rate comparable to that of Madison today. That sounds pretty high! It was perceived as an Ivy-grade reach school back then, and that's at a school that sent lots of people to Ivies.
I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) in 3ish weeks.

In short, I wrote about React from my own perspective for a year (despite thousands out there doing the same thing), made money, and got inspired to do the same thing with an uptime monitoring tool (200th alternative to pingdom when I released it).

I turned a tool I used for convincing contracting clients to not cheap out on hosting into a proper product, 2 hours a day at a time, and kept adding features since.

Here's how I got my first 10 customers: https://onlineornot.com/how-to-get-your-first-ten-customers
I think the true answer is not impossibility, but significant, near insurmountable difficulty. The sound processing is not hooked up to cognition in the way it would be in a brain that had always had sensory input from the ears. Aissam would first need to learn to differentiate tones, voices, mouth-sounds, consonants vs vowels, etc. That's a lot to ask of a brain that had no understanding of that form of input at all.

But all of this may turn out to be untrue! Our understanding of language acquisition comes from Feral Children[1], who had no language understanding at all, but could hear. Aissam has language skills, though developed late - The article mentions he started learning Spanish Sign Language at 8 years old. That's already a remarkable feat. This might overturn our views of language acquisition, which were mostly formed in the 1800's; Pedagogy has come a long way since then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition#As_a_typi...
These "turn polution into X" technologies are fraudulent on their face. Carbon is extremely easy and cheap to source. However the cheap plentiful sources are not tightly bound to oxygen and thus requiring a massive energy input to use. Then there is the need for hydrogen as well, which would mean splitting water, which is also energy intensive.

Theres no scenario I can think of where it actually makes sense to use 5000 units of energy to clean up the CO2 generated by the production of 100 units of energy, rather than just turning off the 100 and keeping the 5000 instead. The obvious case would have been offsetting cars, but hybrids and electrics make that absurd as well. This is a scam.

CO2 is fungible. If a plane produces CO2, we should still replace all the coal power plants before we worry about airplanes. Once all the coal and oil and natural gas uses are replaced by renewables there is no need to offset planes anymore as humanity is well below the CO2 production level to avoid warming.
If they are as competent at their jobs as they think they are all the dumb, blind investment going on around them should just help them out.
Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic.

I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.
No, I think I was right to disagree. He said Samsung doesn't put larger storage to sell Microsoft cloud storage.

I said that's false because Samsung doesn't put larger storage for mainly other reasons, but if they did put larger storage, then it would be a conflict of interest with their cloud storage partners, so they have an extra incentive to stick to this, but it's not the main one like (I understand) he claimed.
Turkey Backs Sweden's NATO Bid
For real, I want a real language (Lua/JS/Lisp) for configuration but without 3rd party imports so that it's secure and predictable.
Yeah, at some point it's sensible to learn using all the available tools. Use calculators in math class, the web while programming, etc.

Still, there is a reason why calculators are not used since the very first grade -> it makes sense to learn how to do basic calculations without them.
The F150 lightnings registered as a VAN can carry two passengers and about 250kg before going over it's registered and allowable weight limit. As a civilian those fines are hefty where I live, doing it as a company is extremely expensive.
It's a useless vehicle except maybe for towing. If you fill all seats with some hefty adults wou'll already cross the weight limit.
The increasing complexity of modern leverage raises risks
It's also something to do with density, probability and function ;)
Where did you get those tiers from? They seem pretty arbitrary.
I feel like 0.01% is one of the more dangerous levels of false positives. Widespread use would result in far more than 10,000 tests resulting in the near certainty that innocent people would be accused. The moderately low false positive rate would then be leaned on to imply guilt.

You might find for every 10,000 tests you get around 151 targets. For each one individually you can say they probably did it, but cumulatively you can say that one of them is probably innocent.

Consider using two positives. Do schools and universities generate 100,000,000 essays per year? Sure would suck for that innocent person tagged as having a one in a hundred million chance of not being guilty.
The point they're making though is that subcontracting in the way that Boeing did is part of the problem. Not all subcontracting involves stripping off core components of your company to pay them rent instead.
Empires often destroy themselves from the inside before someone from the outside mops them up. Even when we look at the Cold War era with active sabotage, it's the Soviets who did themselves in.
> Digitization is one direction but I think augmentation is perhaps a more likely one. Or a first one.

First seems likely, but as a permanent alternative I don't know why a species would eschew lightspeed transportation and effortless immortality for the fragility and slowness of an organic body. It's possible there are good reasons, but I don't know of any.
I love these threads fwiw and will come back to them from time to time to read about what others are doing
Thinking about prompts from a RAM point of view
This blog post suggests approaching LLM prompt management by drawing parallels with RAM optimization and memory management techniques in programming, offering a new perspective on enhancing LLM efficiency.
Not sure about "grapefruit-sized" when compared to the hand holding the object in the picture. Assuming it's the one they are writing about.
I'd say it's closer to the size of a lime.
Unless that person has a uniquely large hand of course.

Really interesting find though, never heard of these artefacts before.