skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a Catholic, I think I can tell you that it might be more nuanced. I believe that ethical norms are not some arbitrary rules, but are a bit like the part of a manual for some device that says under what conditions the device works properly and under what conditions it may break, only for humans. As in "if you commit adultery, you will end up unhappy; you have been warned".

Forewords: I was raised in a Catholic family, in a Catholic environment and I was a practicing Catholic up to almost 18yo. Then, I changed my mind through reading and experiencing the world as a young adult, and now I 'm probably biased the other way round (just like smoke quitters). No offenses intended, don't feel attacked.

I really struggle to understand how nowadays we are still somehow blind to the fact that religions were always basically a way to pass ethical behaviors to the population, playing the "almighty divine being" card.

Just like you would tell a child that Santa Claus is bringing their gifts and he and his assistants are watching you all the time, and know if you are good or naughty, and bring presents accordingly. Our society has - or should have - grown up by now, and we should be able to teach a shared ethical background without the need to use the God device. There is no need for a God that will give you his love Heaven or Hell to treat someone that is just like you, the same way you would like to be treated.
> The machines already decide for themselves what something is or isn't,

if making choices (badly) is agency, then a random number generator has agency.
I've never seen issues with obtaining any required quantity of physical US dollars cash, and that includes 2022 Russia.
iMessage can be disabled in Settings > Messages
I once ordered a gift for my father for christmass. The order page indicated that it would arrive on time. When it didn't arrive, I requested a refund. They then pointed to their FAQ page where they said that orders during the holidays would incur extra processing time, and refused the refund.

I wrote back that unless they issused a refund, I would issue a charge back. You don't get to present the customer with one thing and then do otherwise because you say so on a page the customer has never read when ordering.

They eventually caved, but man, the nerve.
I wish I could install it through chocolatey
Eh he might be right. I would listen to his ideas dispassionately. Many geniuses who were right were ridiculed.
I had this happen with Rogers! Another loved and treasured bigcorp in Canada! Called to tell them I was moving in 2 months and to cancel my service and the agent says, oh well if you want to still have internet in the mean time, you'll have to call back in two months when you move. Ok. Great. I do that. Agent number 2: Well you didn't cancel with X many days of notice so there's a cancellation fee now on your acoount. Pay up!

I suppose agent 1 was jerking my chain so he wouldn't take the hit on his retention metrics so I don't blame him 100%. I blame Rogers bullshit system of incentives for their employees and their bullshit contracts they force on consumers who have little to no choice in the market here.
Why is that unfortunate? I honestly don't think there's any value in using AI for this if it's not guaranteed to give you correct answer.
The premise that catalytic converter thefts have plummeted in the last few years is incorrect. In fact, recent data indicates that vehicle-related thefts, including catalytic converter thefts, have surged. According to a report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the nation experienced more than 64,000 catalytic converter thefts in 2022, with California and Texas leading the country in these incidents[3]. This represents a significant increase from 16,660 claims in 2020 to 64,701 in 2022, indicating a rising trend in catalytic converter thefts[3].

Furthermore, overall vehicle thefts have also increased. The FBI's annual crime report showed that there were 721,852 car thefts across the country in 2022, up from 601,453 incidents in 2021 and 420,952 reported in 2020[2]. This surge in car thefts has been attributed to various factors, including economic downturns, supply chain issues, and the high demand for cars and parts[4]. Additionally, a viral TikTok challenge encouraging the theft of Kia and Hyundai vehicles for joyrides, known as performance crime, has contributed to the uptick in car thefts[2].

Therefore, the data clearly indicates that catalytic converter thefts, as well as overall vehicle thefts, have not plummeted but have significantly increased in the last few years.

Citations:
[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-auto-the...
[2] https://nypost.com/2023/10/18/car-theft-soared-20-last-year-...
[3] https://www.nicb.org/news/news-releases/catalytic-converter-...
[4] https://www.deepsentinel.com/blogs/car-theft-statistics/
[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2023/11/06/report-...
[6] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191216/reported-motor-ve...
[7] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/car-thefts-are-on-the-rise-why-...
[8] https://stateline.org/2024/02/09/car-thefts-and-carjackings-...
So did they held any humans accountable then? This wasn't the case when I checked but I probably missed some updates
I respect the work that he's done and the contributions he's given to humanity but for once I would like to see something by Stephen Wolfram that didn't involve at least 50% of the content being a form of self-aggrandizement.

I find that everything I try to consume from him contains his autobiography interspersed in the giant wall of text. This video is exquisitely cringeworthy.
If you arrest and convict car thieves you may be accused of discrimination. If you ban FlipperZero you can pretend to be addressing the problem with no such risk
If you really do sympathize with assailants like this, you're ripe to be predated on. Some day you might get hit with a hard dose of reality.
The situation doesn’t need to be as strict as #2: you could have a way for a registered service shop to get a per-device rekey by shifting some liability to them. Making it per device prevents bulk usage and an active communication with the manufacturer would mean the cops could ask the owners of a shady auto shop some questions when 80% of the stolen cars in the area are being rekeyed at a place the owners have never been to. I lost a car key once and the locksmith who showed up checked my drivers license against the title database because he could have been penalized for unlocking a vehicle without doing so - we could make the same model work electronically because while car thieves are anonymous, legitimate repair shops have a business presence and reputation to preserve. Even someone amoral isn’t going to look the other way for something which will cost them their primary revenue stream.
To be fair, it is possible for a command to obfuscate it's own command line (I've seen this in `ps auwx` but can't offhand recall which command was doing it).

But in no way is that high - CVE ratings have turned to useless junk quite rapidly, probably sometime around when it became monetizable.
We pride ourselves on being very responsive! We usually create a Slack group with users actively integrating and answer any questions ASAP
Shhh! Don't tell anyone.
Good.

Still absurd that such loans exist, and people ended up on the hook for decades for a bad decision they made when they were barely adults.
I agree. If bad information is given and the customer makes a decision on it, then either the customer must bear the risk or the business. I think it's more fair for the business to be out the money.

In this case this could have just been a $650 'bug bounty' had Air Canada issued a quick refund. A reasonable QA expense to find out that your AI agent is misleading your customers.
> Our real problem is just the pendulum swinging too far towards assuming people want to be good and they just need some compassion.

There's an entire field of study covering how ineffective punitive justice is. Unless the perpetrator at hand is literally an irredeemable monster, locking them away in a box until they're later released with even more stigmas, even further behind the curve, and without the ability to earn a living does nothing except push them right back to the anti-social behavior that put them on the radar of the justice system in the first place.

All evidence on the subject points to the same thing: the best predictor of who will be a criminal and who won't is their zip code, because of things like under-served communities and generational poverty. When you give people no options to make a living in a pro-social way, they will do it in an anti-social one.

Does that mean every person in the justice system just needs a firm pat on the back and to be released? Fuck no. But if you long term want to actually reduce crime, the evidence is in: you do that by improving home lives and giving communities the resources they need to grow, not by locking people up.
Everyone's job is easy apart from mine.
Preventing some other party from riding on the coattails of your trademark is reasonable behavior as far as I'm concerned. This doesn't prevent anyone from offering an SVN host, just from stealing free publicity from GitHub in the process. That isn't arrogant at all.
Software Engineering is a really forgiving field for those of us with ADHD and I feel lucky that it’s my chosen profession but I’m certain that it still has a much higher stress impact for us than it does for our neurotypical colleagues.
You can very easily disable iMessage completely
Imperfect Compression
Gemini advanced = Gemini ultra
GCE fares a little better than this:

- VMs with SSDs can (in general -- there are exceptions for things like GPUs and exceptionally large instances) live migrate with contents preserved.

- GCE supports a timeboxed "restart in place" feature where the VM stays in limbo ("REPAIRING") for some amount of time waiting for the host to return to service: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/host-mainten.... This mostly only applies to transient failures like power-loss beyond battery/generator sustaining thresholds, software crashes, etc.

- There is a related feature, also controlled by the `--discard-local-ssd=` flag, which allows preservation of local SSD data on a customer initiated VM stop.
It works for the people of El Salvador who are no longer being murdered by the gangsters who are all now in prison.
>> There is no pipeline stall. There is no waiting for memory.

I mean this is a bit of a hyperbole. Even if things are deterministic, the compiler might not be able to schedule things optimally, their can be pipeline interlocks or memory bank conflicts (depending on sizes involved) in some scenarios.
Fixed.

For those not familiar with the slang, "Scooby" is apparently a response to say one doesn't understand what you're talking about and could use a clue.

However, even a Google search on the typo of "repoructive" was able to reveal what I meant with zero context.
That's why I get all my questions answered by CC'ing legal@example.com and privacy@example.com
Start by not allowing thieves connect thru wheel well https://kentindell.github.io/2023/04/03/can-injection/
if someone is 12 or 13, they're far more receptive to change than a CEO whose spent their life stealing wages.

one gets constantly brought up while the other is celebrated.
Wouldn't SMS be more insecure?
I don't intend to dispute your stance here, but I am interested in understanding a bit more about it. Do you mind giving an example and what the alternative(s) are?
For every genius who was right and ridiculed, and celebrated accordingly, there are many people who were wrong and ridiculed, and forgotten accordingly.
It was a while ago now but I think it was about two weeks.

Coffee crept back into my life though, the most recent time I cut it out I mixed decaf and regular, decreasing the amount of regular until it was fully decaf over a few weeks. It was mostly smooth, except for one or two steps. I think the week around 50 was bad but still no where near doing to abruptly.
Developer Relations compensation and culture report
If anything they should promote the commercialization of these type of devices so the cars and other tech products get safer. They are just trying to hide the real issue.
I don't even see how this is a big story. An expressed representation about what a product is or does, how it works, and the terms of sale in consumer contexts are binding on the seller. It is the same in America. If you go into a store and they say that you can return it if you don't like it, then you can. If you buy a TV and the guy at the store tells you it also makes pancakes, you can get your money back if it turns out that it does not make pancakes. This is true even if the representation is made by some 16-year-old kid working at Best Buy. By extension it would still be true even if it is made be an automaton.
Wow.

On the one hand, I'm not surprised at all that there are security people in the company that can instantly pull up security cam footage of a register from the receipt number. That makes total sense.

But on the other hand, I never would have guessed that a customer service rep would have access to the system -- or even that if they had to transfer it to the security department, that the security department would be allowed to use the footage for anything customer-facing like that.

Still, that's kinda cool and helpful! Assuming it can't be used for any kind of nefarious invasion-of-privacy uses...
The Übermensch is fortunately/unfortunately not a mass-market kind of product, but one designed for isolated individuals.
I see this sentiment repeated a lot. I can see where it comes from (humans make mistakes too, and are often confidently wrong), but I don't think it's quite the same.

LLMs are confidently and repeatedly wrong about very simple things that a human would never be. They're also not even consistent; ask them one thing and then tell them they're wrong: they'll often apologise profusely and flip their answer right around. Tell them once again that they're wrong and they'll flip back again. Ask them about their thought process, and they'll just produce a load of waffle that looks like it describes a thought process but usually doesn't correspond to anything of the sort (and of course it doesn't; if you understand vaguely how these systems work it'd be a miracle if it did so).

Since one can invariably take any criticism of LLMs and immediately reply with "but some humans do that too", I don't think such lines of argument say very much.

It's the weird combination of superhuman memory, speed and wit and at times utterly subhuman logical consistency that makes it hard to interpret how 'intelligent' LLMs can be said to be. That said, they can still be very useful.
You just described the “rule of law” and this is the basis for how modern governments are formed and function

A constitution is written and codifies the process for making ratifying and enforcing laws. That then is the common standard for some subset of behaviors as defined by the constitution which defines who it does and does not apply to. Different constitutions outline different processes but the structure of the “Rule of Law” is the same.

This is in contrast to other structures like pure monarchies (unlike constitutional monarchies) which have a “divine” process for defining the structure of the governed land.

What you seem to want is for civil law to be subordinated in favor of common law, but that simply kicks the can and doesn’t actuall solve the problem.

What’s actually happening right now is that society at large is questioning the foundational assumptions of society. To Wit this is a perfect example of effectively questioning the foundational function of governance in the post World War II world while also not being aware of it apparently.
I usually defend him from the inevitable HN accusations of hubris. But four hours is a nope from me. Would be interested in a written summary though.
Is there only one possible solution for each board? Today I felt like deriving contradictions was a lot harder today than usual, but I still ended up with the correct answers.

I think there should be a way to mark dominos as "confirmed" vs "guesses", because not everyone is going to have working memory to remember which tiles laid down are "guesses" for deriving contradictions.
That sounds potentially problematic in the long run. If Bitcoin is primarily used for long term storage, then you need some [at least] constant flux of people moving money in and out of long term storage, otherwise your stored Bitcoins will depreciate in value. Therefore this is a kind of bet that Bitcoin will remain popular as a long term store or that some other use case emerges and maintains the price.

Another factor is that with decreasing mining reward transaction fees are becoming more and more important for financing the entire system. But by its very nature using Bitcoin as a long term storage will lead to a small number of transaction and the relatively few transactions moving money into or out of long term storage will have to pay for the network resulting in high transaction fees or alternatively the hash rate will have to go down which could itself be problematic for the system.

One would have to run the numbers - how many people are storing how much money for how long - to see how problematic or unproblematic it would be to use Bitcoin primarily for long term storage. My gut feeling however is that without other usages like speculation or actually buying and selling stuff, it would be a rather expensive way to store money long term.

EDIT: Back-of-the-envelope estimate. Bitcoin market capitalization is currently 1000B $, electricity consumption is an estimated 138 TWh/y, 13.8B $/y at 0.10 $/kWh. So if it was all long term storage financed by transaction fees and with a stable price and hash rate, it would cost about 1.5 %/y to store your money in Bitcoin, assuming hardware, infrastructure, labor and so on adds another 10 % to the costs.
Here are some simplifications that are worth mentioning, I think, of course, it's easy to find fault with any of them. But I'd be curious in what you think is a better alternative.

- loader, action, component colocation

- code splitting without thinking about it

- automatic data revalidation on mutation

- useFetcher for optimistic updates

In terms of the fancier things (the react components) -- none of that is necessary. Personally, I don't use <Await> or <Defer> at all. Although it's nice to know that I need to pull some performance levers, I have those options.

One React component that I do use a lot is <Link>. The thing I love about it is that I can add a <Link prefetch="intent"> to it, and I'll get an near-instant page load when I click it.

The web APIs that I work with in Remix are Request, Response, Headers, Cookie and FormData.
Hmm. “Let me turn on this lead water pipeline which may or may not poison an entire town and then blame faul when it does.”

I don’t think failing to take adequate precautions is preventing AI tools from being used. I think this was plain corporate incompetence and greediness. They started using a system without properly testing it and don’t want to pay for the consequences.

What if Boeing says “Oops. We forgot to put the bolts that keeps the door in place but we shouldn’t be kept accountable for our actions”? The fact that they used a tool for it shouldn’t change the outcome unless we are going to create indemnity for big cooperations.
I tried using pijul as the main VCS for my projects I really did and the fundamentals are awesome, but last time I used it the UX was pretty terrible. The easiest and most immediate thing that’d address my issues would be git status-esque command, which has been in development for quite some time, but still hasn’t landed last time I checked.

I wish pmeunier all the best and I’m glad to try out pijul again once it’s a bit friendlier.
Isn't it like 16% of population?

That is a lot of people.

So it is probably more that a lot of people didn't realize they had it, until it became more widely known, and then they started connecting dots.
Elders have complained about the impetus of youth for longer than the boomers.

"The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint ... As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behaviour and dress." - Peter the Hermit, 1274
Somehow people who are most convinced of their genius are the least interesting to me. Contrast with Roger Penrose and you couldn't meet a more humble, interesting and interested conversationalist
I'm with you, I think these cannot possibly be disorders if so many people have them, and certainly not if you're living a normal life. People sometimes say they're "high-functioning X", but that just means you're normal. I talk about some of the behaviours I have here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39049655

> I have a bunch of odd behavioural characteristics too that overlap with mental conditions: clanging, rocking and stimming, and until my mid-20s if I 'touched' something (including stepping on a tile-edge or crack at an angle) on my one side I had to symmetrify with the other side.

Since my life is otherwise fine, I think it's probably just the normal variance of the species.
that's only 16% of total market.
This is such a powerful move!
I'm really rooting for SMRs, but are there realistic projections on what the energy production costs will be?
There is empirical evidence that git is diabolical: Git can be thought of as an experiment in how to make an API GUI-proof. There is no possible direct manipulation visual representation of git operations that doesn't dumb it down.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ is one of the only PL-centric websites with discussion I can think of.
>Apple turned over iMessage conversations between journalists and senators at Trumps request.

source?
It can be an incredible hassle to have a bullshit CVE "high" assigned to a project when you're dealing with various requirements and reporting.

Assuming the curl dude actually makes some money selling services to people who have to do that reporting, he now has to not only show that the "high" CVE is fixed in the latest release, but go and back port a fix to all the versions that are being "maintained" for these customers who have to fill out reports about CVEs.

Even if all you have to do is respond to each with a "here's why this is bullshit", it still takes some time, time that could be better spent posting on HN.
Oh, that proves me so very wrong!
Those that were forgotten may be right too.

I would still listen dispassionately. He's smarter than most people on this thread, that's for sure.

Being logical is ridiculing someone for being wrong, not for being full of himself. Many geniuses were ass holes.
Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
This lets you talk to local LLMs in Apple Notes. I saw Obsidian Ollama (https://github.com/hinterdupfinger/obsidian-ollama) and thought it was handy, but I'm too lazy to migrate away from the Apple ecosystem, so I quickly hacked this together. I tend to use Notes as a scratchpad for prompts, so it's nice to do some quick inference without leaving the app.

Notes doesn't really support plugins so I'm using the macOS accessibility API for reading selections and then stream responses using the clipboard (not ideal but it works).
You can entirely disable iMessage (and FaceTime, and Siri, etc) via provisioning profiles on a managed device. Use Apple Configurator 2 to do so.

(A very important privacy setting with no corresponding toggle in the UI that can only be set via a configuration profile is the option to not auto sync your list of recently emailed people to iCloud (“Disable recents syncing”). This leaks your email contact history and social graph to Apple if you have iCloud turned on, even if you aren’t using an Apple email account and aren’t using iCloud Contacts. AFAIK there’s no way to disable it other than via configuration profile.)

This is what I do.