skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly did not expect the physical side of robotics to be the bottleneck for fully autonomous robots doing tasks out in the world.
> You might as well argue that radiation therapy is safe for everyone because it's been used on cancer patients for decades.

Blocking puberty in children is not a novel use of puberty blocking drugs.
Bans don't have to be perfect to be effective.

Free speech isn't absolute, not even in the US. It's normal and healthy for a society to adapt it's view on speech over time and as the world evolves. Hopefully toward being more open, yet openness must be balanced against the negatives.
Who are the Thought Police? A comment by qpingo is [dead] within seconds of his posting it (and no, he and I have no connection).

btw, in your profile, set showdead to "yes."

dang: you need to do something about flagging. It is out of control.
> 0.2 or less

I find that questionable. What does "software engineering in a business environment" require that a competent competitive programmer couldn't also learn?
Mistral 7B also answers with "7 books".
Regarding GP's argument, I would argue it's less about freedom of speech and more about trade protection. Although software is not a physical good, letting another country restrict us and simultaneously flood our market is not good either.
Apparently some kids were calling crying saying that they will kill themselves if they ban the app. Absolutely crazy.

TikTok trying to sway users made a huge mistake.
Same reason as anything, externalities.
I had an addition done where they had to bolt LVL and steel plate together for a rather large span with cantilever. That bit of support isn't ever moving.
Farming animals like this might create alternatives to poaching and take pressure off endangered species.
The person who made the mistake leading to the Bluetooth memory corruption bug we found is not at all at fault and neither is whoever reviewed it. It's a hard to spot race conditions leading to use-after-free. It was not immediately obvious what was wrong to us, but we suspected that it was a use-after-free since it usually is and then suspected that it was caused by a race after seeing what looked like a concurrent task being passed data without being passed ownership over the data with the responsibility to free it It's not clear that the function they called runs code concurrency without blocking until it completes, and the language makes writing safe code in extremely complex areas like Bluetooth near impossible. Google is doing a lot of the right things but not going far enough. It's mostly not a developer knowledge or skill issue. It's a tooling issue and we know how to fix these problems in a systemic way. It's viable to secure a small amount of memory unsafe code that's highly audited and receives special attention. It's not viable to write millions of lines of standard C++ without exploitable memory corruption bugs. The in-progress C++ safety guidelines, etc. are highly inadequate and presented as doing more than they actually provide. It's also too inflexible and highly unlikely to be broadly adopted. Rust is also a more usable, more production language that's a lot easier to learn. Rust developers can focus more on avoiding logic vulnerabilities and using the type system to prevent more of those, since there's underlying type/memory safety to build on. C++ doesn't have the foundation to build higher tiers of safely, since it's all built on sand.
This isn't a First Amendment issue, it's regulating commerce with a foreign nation.
He violated State, Federal, and International laws in pursuit of his enterprise. I gotta hand it to him it’s an impressive scheme to (almost) pull off at 80, I hope when I am that age I’ll be half as motivated to do stuff as he is.
The actual bill is here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

And I think the interesting bit is what is considered a covered company: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521...

The wording could be applied to many companies, including chat apps like Telegram. The only saving grace is that the company has to be controlled by a "foreign adversary", and it seems to explicitly list and target byte dance only.
Culture issues do exist. IME different cultures have very different approaches to communicating e.g. “I don’t know” or “I made a mistake”. Not everyone in a particular culture acts the same, but it definitely affects the average outcome.
Could you help me understand how that isn't censorship, with more steps?
@dang, headline is highly editorialized.
The first amendment in the bill of rights in the US constitution prevents the US government from restricting the speech of US citizens. It doesn’t say anything about foreign nationals with no status in the US. The government also has the authority to deport whomever it likes, impose tariffs and restrict imports.

Regardless of moral stance, that is the reality as I see it.
To add to the other stuff, French Bulldogs probably won't reproduce in the wild and outcompete native species, but these sheep might (as the grey squirrels are doing in the British Isles).
As someone who met his wife in an MMORPG (World of Warcraft) and still actively plays it each week with the same group of friends from 15 years ago, I'm not so quick to hope they die.
GrapheneOS for Automotive
Many reasons, including:

* Spreading diseases

* Introducing an invasive species to a vulnerable environment

* Encouraging expanded trade in endangered species (gets more people interested, which causes them to go extinct faster)

Not to mention the fraud he committed in order to import in the first place.
I hear you, and there's relatively little literature on what making MCAS more powerful means.

You might assume that this was after the first test flight (also 2016), and that the lead engineer on the system decided to increase the lift MCAS applies after a real-world test. Would they run that by the CEO? Surely not. Was the MCAS system already approved before Dennis? Yea. Would Dennis take a massive risk by cancelling a 6 year project as he became CEO? Definitely. He's between a rock and a hard place. I can't see that he's at fault.

The people who are at fault are the ones who green lit. IIRC, that was an MBA CEO, obviously in tandem with an engineering team who came up with the idea.
No, you can do it all on your own. I’ve done it over mail and if you only have regular salary or hourly income, it is like one form.
See, that is still stuck to 12 months a year or 30 day a month... If we did not have Earth and Moon we could get rid both of those notions. And build something now non-existent ground up from seconds.

I also forgot to motion timezones, leap seconds and leap years...
Why hasn't there been a big winner in edge AI chips?
If anyone is looking for a similar feature in sway, there's a tool swayr, which does exactly this and more.
You're not a slave to the clock, get up earlier in the Summer if you want. No one is stopping you. :-D
I’ll be thrilled when Siri can spell my wife’s name correctly after 13 years of continuous usage and explicitly training it in her name. Admittedly her name is wildly complicated and totally unknown to the software folks at Apple: Ada

Also my radio-trained voice is so generic a caller every week-ish assumes I am a bot, so I’m pretty sure the problem isn’t me enunciation or accent.
Ask HN: CSS filter to set a max width of Hacker News?
I'm trying to use uBlock Origin's "My Filters" page to set the maximum width of comments pages, like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39692801

I've got a filter already that does the right thing for comments:

news.ycombinator.com##.comment:style(max-width: 70ch !important; overflow: hidden !important;)

And this is what I've tried for the headline/article text:

news.ycombinator.com##table.hnmain:style(min-width: 500px !important; max-width: 500px !important;)

but the headline/article text and the first comment box are still taking up most of the width of the screen: https://gist.github.com/aclarknexient/ca490d4f7a2bedb2c06965fe918e127a

I'm not a CSS expert, and the Firefox devtools don't seem to update the table width for me, so I'm wondering if there's something script-ish going on.

I would be very appreciative if anyone could help!

EDIT: The dark mode is made via this filter:

news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:invert(95%) hue-rotate(200deg); background: white;)
You think that reality is a pattern, and that properties obtain from configurations. Eg., that, of course, we can transmute gold into lead. Alchemy.

The problem with this is that the patterns have semantics, a pattern of wood does not have the same properties as a pattern of lead. The pattern isnt the important bit.

If you want to turn hydrogen into lead you first have to fire up a star and wait a very very long time, and as protons and electrons bundle up in every more complex configurations interactions between them come to dominate their properties... so that lead is nothing at all like hydrogen.

What is the only known element that enables "weak polymerisation", ie., adaptive self-replication at the molecular level: carbon.

What are the properties of all intelligent systems known to science? They're organic.

Why? This is no coincidence. In order to think, you have to grow -- self-replicate at every level from the cellular to organs, tissues... the material placitity of the machine that holds your thoughts has to itself adapt its structure to that of your body (the device which explores the world).

Now, should we expect hydrogen to do that? No. Silicon? No. Why would we? Ah, only because we loath the idea of being apes, and of oozing.. our biological disgust instincts tell us to run far away from it. How more beautiful if, like in genesis, we can fashion man out of clay and breath in life.

but alas, we arent clay; nor will clay ever think or desire or want.. clay cannot take impressions of the world without becoming an impression. It cannot adapt.
How many comment spam bots are general purpose that they'd get fooled by something like that? I always assumed they targeted particular websites or particular common CMS's.

Also this is from 2007, they heyday of blogs. Is comment spam even much of a thing anymore, given how much has been sucked up by social media platforms?
It makes sense if the goal of the criminal code is to disincentivize certain behavior versus the pithy phrase “the punishment should fit the crime”
Do you have case citations to prove that claim?

Even if you do, that's not what is happening here. At all.
I on the other hand like to retort with two quotes:

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than whether a submarine can swim." - Edsger Dijkstra

"Deep Blue was intelligent the way your programmable alarm clock is intelligent. Not that losing to a $10 million alarm clock made me feel any better." ― Garry Kasparov

I don't care if a statistical model feels anything when analysing pictures of weird lumps to diagnose cancer, I care if it's accurate.

I don't care if a statistical model has hopes and dreams when generating the text of a computer program one textual token at a time, I care if this is risking my future employment.

I don't care if a statistical model has created the same abstraction of the economy that I have when giving me financial advice, I care that it's got a high rate of return at low risk.

I don't care if a statistical model wants to win at chess, or at Go, or at Diplomacy, or at poker, or at paperclip maximisation…

I will care if someone figures out how to do brain uploads, but that's a question for the future.
But not integrity of the program itself. You can still have data loss and garbage results.

I really like the borrow checker and Rust's Send/Sync thread-safety markers, because they nudge towards cleaner thread-safe architecture, and give compile-time guarantees that work even across complex code, all kinds of collections, and 3rd party dependencies.
I didn't go chasing through all the typescript but I'd presume adding a new PassphraseGenerationStrategy https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/blob/desktop-v2024.3.0/... (related: https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/pull/7690 )
@CactusBlue: Cool, I realy like the reasons and as much I feel welcomed by the idea of moving to a new home, the same I feel strongly pushed away by the used images of oversexualizied stereotypical boobproviders, completely not cool.
And no, this has nothing to do with peoples love to manga and stuff. Many women just feel that they as a single person, and as women in general, are reduced to the size of their bodyparts, if constantly shown stuff like this - even when it's not meant that way.
Think twice, if that's the picture women get from your internet, is this their internet as well? I wonder, do I want to live where everyone judges women just by their bust size? And will your little sister want to live there?
The current internet is stupid enough, make the new places better.
Did you succeed in porting the code? It would not be easy according to my experience with PRIMA. I would be happy to learn if you have a GitHub repo of it. Thanks.
Stock buybacks per se are not bad.

But when they come on top of:

- cutting R&D and QA budgets

- losing money year after year and amassing further debt and liabilities

- buying your own stock at market highs

they are just reckless.

At that point why don't just buy another's company stock instead of your insanely overvalued one. It's nonsense.

There's a reason why Buffett buys back Berkshire, but only if he finds the stock being undervalued. Otherwise it's not the best use of Berkshire money, it's just stupidity.

Please understand that buybacks are just one way to use money a company has and they are not always the best usage of money and they aren't even the best way to return money to shareholders (e.g. buying your own stock at market highs is a terrific way to burn equity as Meta has learned few years ago). It really can be nothing more than money burning.
> I walk into them and just see knock off snacks such as chips/poptarts, an aisle of rice and pasta, and an aisle of canned food items, and pretty much nothing else in them

That's the entire point! They have the basics with few options for each type of product. It's not luxurious but it's low stress and inexpensive...exactly what many people want/need.
> he has publicly called out the VC industry and has become a sort of political warrior

These violent warriors challenging status quo and established norms: Only if they were obedient decent appropriate conformists, my world would be so much nicer.
I know someone who is medically confirmed to never had covid: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3...

Here, we report on a 62-year-old male hypervaccinated individual from Magdeburg, Germany (HIM), who deliberately and for private reasons received 217 vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 within a period of 29 months (figure A; appendix 1 tab 1).

[snip]

Furthermore, HIM had no signs of a past SARS-CoV-2 infection, as indicated by repeatedly negative SARS-CoV-2 antigen tests, PCRs and nucleocapsid serology (figure A; appendix 1 tab 1).
I am completely sympathetic, my advice comes from a place that'll make you more effective communicating your views.

I highly suggested taking a deep breath and stepping away for a bit. If you're looking for a clear milestone, it is where you're able to name 2-3 clearly abhorrent things that happened since 10/7 to an interlocutor while condemning them.

You're flattening everyone with different views into mentally disabled people who don't know well-known information, and using language I haven't heard aloud since high school to do so.

It's a infamously complex issue with correct rationale for both. Absolutist reactions done anonymously to college kids worked maybe through mid-December, but at some point, you run out of people who know nothing to berate, and start turning off everyone who does know something. You're left with the "feels good" part but accidentally reduce sympathy to our views, at least by most adults reading it.
There were 112 heroes available at that time. It's also worth noting that two of the heros chosen for OpenAI to use, Viper and Sniper, are considered some of the mechanically 'easier' heroes, as they rely primarily on autoattacks to do damage, as oppose to decision-making around when to use spells. Crystal Maiden, Lich, and Necrophos, the other 3 of the 5 OpenAI heros, are similarly considered 'easier' as they have spammable, very forgiving abilities that can be used almost indiscriminately.
Eh, that's still better than my days at Uni where my student ID was my Social Security Number and grades were posted outside the classroom as a sheet with everyone's SSN and their scores.
Many of the issues it brings up are already an issue if you work across timezones. For example "today" is already ill-defined if you're in the US and have a team in India, who's day does it refer to?

It'd be much easier to just have a single "timestamp" that everyone uses then think about offsets from that.
Sufficiently high fines are no different from a ban. The DMA will never actually fine at 20% because companies would be forced to leave, triggering the above scenario.
I downvoted because of a completely unfounded and frankly offensive assumption that the worker "who killed him" must have been one of those "muh freedumbs" types - if you read about Paul's life and the people who were next to his side, they were most kind and most caring people you could ever wish for, he was so lucky to have them. To say to the people who literally spent decades with him and looked after him, frequently without any compensation, that they must be the "muh freedumbs" types will all related connotations - to me, that feels like spitting directly into their faces, like the armchair judgement of an internet expert to the highest degree. We don't know anything about the circumstances here, but we are so quick to pass judgement - that's why I downvoted OP.
A simplistic economic model that overlooks hundreds of important factors may provide a basic Econ 101 understanding but it does not reflect how the world truly operates and proves nothing.
This needs to support any ol' wireguard client. We use it in `flyctl` but people also use it to create gateways so they can, eg, peer with VPCs.
This is why trials should be conducted with a jury of your -actual- peers.
A perfect legal way to rip off and take profit. Now I wonder who (which company) is going to get the chance to take the golden goose with a steep cut, considering they have to sell it in 6 months.
original title is:

"4,000,000,000,000 Transistors, One Giant Chip (Cerebras WSE-3)"

So I guess they're trying to stay true to it.
I'm not sure I agree they're any more unhealthy than the non-MMORPG games full of microtransactions trying to get more money than the upfront cost in this day and age.

We've reinvented how arcade games used to try and extract maximum quarters, but the iteration cycle is so much faster now that we can't really play whack-a-mole on all the pathological human manipulation strategies people deploy now, and with people not being able to physically walk away from their phones or other devices in many cases, it's Bad(tm).
If US bans TikTok then other countries should ban US apps because they can be used for spying and manipulation of public opinion the same way. Either a country makes its own apps or it becomes a subject to foreign influence.
I figured you had a different idea of reliability because I figure you couldn't seriously be saying that something that has been used is less reliable than something that has literally never done the thing it's supposed to do.

Cars, phones etc all have to do the thing they're designed to do before they're sold to consumers. In that way they're all "flight proven" like SpaceX's boosters. By the point of a used sale, the price drops because you don't know how a random consumer will have treated the item.

There's a lot of irony in you accusing SpaceX fans of living in an alternate reality and repeating team propaganda without skepticism.
This is something that's a slow and steady ongoing process - increasing from 5% to 17% cover between the years ~1900-2000 with the aim being 21% coverage by 2032[0]. I don't know what is the "right" rate of afforestation is, whether it's going too slowly or whatever, but it's not something that's completely abandoned.

[0] - https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/land-and-sea-man...
Sometimes I wish I had the reach of Google Deepmind. I created a sandbox environment for the text-heavy RPG 'Disco Elysium' [1]. The current research I'm focused on is having an agent use a natural language interface (via text generation) to solve quests in the game.

The project required lots of reverse engineering on my part to make a web-based facsimile of the game such that it's possible to conduct controlled experiments on the language capabilities of current agents.

Hopefully what I've created will be useful for others, because unlike big tech, I've released all my code under the AGPL [2].

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev
[2]: https://git.sr.ht/~dojoteef/pl.aiwright
I think the issue is buying parts of an endangered species. It’s problematic in the same way that buying a rino horn is illegal. He’s supporting a market that harms an endangered species.
I tried to renew my passport and it looks like they tried to get an online renewal system off the ground, got lift for a few months, then shut it down indefinitely. From the country that brought you the internet, here’s a broken web form. Then again the state dept is pretty anti common person; poor people wait for months to renew their passport while rich people just pay extra to expedite it.
HWAsan is semi-hardware-accelerated memory tagging usable on most arm64 devices. MTE makes it much lower overhead for the debugging-oriented synchronous mode but also provides the asynchronous/asymmetric modes aimed at production usage. Asynchronous mode is near 0% overhead and asymmetric mode is overall comparable to the overhead existing barely useful legacy mitigations like SSP. MTE provides both bug detection in production for resolving the bugs and also hardening against exploitation. It would be nice if it had more bits, but it can already provide a lot of deterministic protections.

Highly recommend that any Android developer with a single native library shipped with their app gets a Pixel 8 or Pixel 8 Pro to use MTE for finding and debugging memory corruption bugs. One of the major advantages of MTE is that you can use heap MTE with instrumentation only added to the allocators (such as malloc) without building all the code with it. Stack allocation MTE of course requires instrumenting those stack allocations.
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Wheels falling off... controls all dying at once while a plane drops 500 feet in altitude for no reason...door plug flying off while things are sucked out of the plane. Hundreds of people dead because a "smart" control reading from a singular failed sensor (because multiple sensors was a value add) pushed the plane into a dive to hard for pilot to pull out of unless he immediately recognizes that the plane is trying to murder everyone and disables a feature he hasn't been trained on.

None of this is normal. If you look at the price its probably based almost entirely on the presumption that Boeing is too big to fail and will be given as much time as required to fix its problems because its hard and long for its few competitors to pick up its slack but it could easily be more painful than is expressed in its price.
I'm not understanding why these are federal charges. I thought selectively breeding animals and crops for desirable features is common place. For example: pugs can't reproduce naturally because people selectively bred them. Small dogs also don't occur anywhere naturally, they're human engineered animals.