skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You put prop 65 as backfiring, but it looks to me like the original intent was reducing toxic products in tap water for instance and it largely achieved that goal.

From there warnings proliferated on so many more products, but getting told that chocolate bars can cause cancer is still a reasonable tradeoff. Especially as nothing is stopping the law from getting tweaked from there.

Comparing it to prop 65 or GDPR makes it look like a probably deeply effective, yes slightly annoying rule...I sure hope that's what we end up with.
You would emit more CO2 switching to glass than you would save. It's not worth it.

Glass is heavy, breakable, and not worth recycling (the planet's crust is made of glass so there's no real reason to recycle it, the glass shards harm the recycling of everything else, and the weight consumes extra energy in transport.)

And yes, you could make plastic directly out of air. And you can recycle the plastic back into air by burning it. It's a very clean process.
clearly they don't know any coders
I am a subject of the species Sapiens, genus Homo. Subject is a civilized example of the species. An unfortunate side-effect of being civilized is an encouragement to collect paper, with which subject is to trade for essential goods. The method subject has devised to collect these trade papers involves sitting on a soft yet sturdy apparatus and being bent at an approximately 90-degree angle at the hip and knee joints, and looking at a glowing rectangle while subject taps on a noisy set of squares.

Of the unfortunate side-effects of civilization, one is risk of injury. Of the several injuries subject has sustained in this pursuit (including to eyes, fingers, wrists, and elbows) is injury to subject's neck. In particular, a musculoskeletal injury of the muscles supporting the head on the spine, due to repeated stress from looking at a downard angle at glowing rectangle, as opposed to looking straight ahead.

This injury did result in up to 11 months of recuperation. During this time period, finding a way to rest the neck and head was extremely difficult and painful. After completing several weeks' worth of paper collection, some attempts were made at recuperation outside in nature. Upon attempting to sleep on the ground, rest was significantly painful and uncomfortable. Thus were attempted many months of trial and error at attempting to find positions with which to rest in a comfortable manner, while allowing the neck to heal.

At the end of recuperation, the result of attempts at finding resting positions was quite unexpected. Rest for this subject no longer requires (nor benefits from) pillows when side-sleeping, and back-sleeping is easier, though still not preferable. The explanation for this change appears to be an adaptation in musculoskeletal alignment when sleeping. This subject now acquires a particular alignment of head, neck, spine, shoulder, chest, back, and hips, that keeps any one body part from receiving undue strain. Sleep quality is consistent with sleep quality before injury, with the benefit of no longer needing props to assist in sleep quality.

The linked article's conclusion appears to be supported by subject's experience. Subject additionally notes that a single ear is enough to be alerted to most dangers. When sleeping outside, or in an enclosed cabin, such things as mice, deer, and the occasional canid, do tend to wake the subject, as well as odd sounds such as socks falling off the bed onto a plastic bag, or elastic bed sheet end-corners snapping upwards. Whether non-h.sapiens species are also alerted to the latter sounds with one ear open has not been formally evaluated.
AFAIK Serendib had "large" artisanal "blast" furnaces making "high tech" crucible steel maybe as far back as 300 BC :

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/06/science/ancient-smelter-u...
I don't get it. Is your point that new software shouldn't be written to fulfill new usecases? We should always bolt new patterns and architecture onto existing codebases?
I'm always amazed by Crispix. It's not a heterogeneous material, it's not a poured mixture of two parts, it's not a coated material, it's an assembly. And you can eat it by the handful.
This is a step in the right direction, but what about a giant leap in the right direction? Imagine using signing key cryptography to authenticate all of your messages on any computer anywhere in the world. Then your identity doesn't need to be nomadic, because it can exist everywhere all at once.
>Hard to claim to have implemented a system before a word for that system was invented.

You said "pretty much every country" had implemented them, and the name has been around for well over a century, it's actually one of the older active schools of Economics these days, we have hundreds of countries and many more in recent history and none of them have claimed to have implemented Austrian Economics? The comparison remains total nonsense.
The phrase "ideal engineering material" doesn't make any sense. You can't define what is ideal until you define the design goals.

If you want to optimize price and fire resistance, and you have no other goals, asbestos is ideal.

But yes, VAG quite likely has other goals when designing a Lamborghini.
Does that mean movies clips will need to be labeled?
> Any form that doesn't have loose fibrils, microparticles, or dust.

Encasement breaks, materials erode, have to be manufactured and disposed. That's not a valid argument at all.

> I'd compare it to wood from walnut trees

Well, then you are very uninformed. The toxicity characteristics are nothing alike. If you want to point to a similar hazard, I'd suggest beryllium compounds.
They do. My gym has a garage door like this. Because of the lack of springs, I didn't realize it had a door opener until the owner went to lower it.
Vermeer is the "shiny Pokemon card" of painters. Some museum recently announced they'd gathered a temporary collection of 20-odd Vermeers. Tickets for the show were sold out within minutes - a year ahead of time. Normally if you wanted to assemble a "complete collection" of Vermeers you've seen, you'd have to travel to like 10 different countries. Guys online talking about having no hesitation paying for a ten hour flight and two-day vacation for the sole reason of seeing this exhibit.
About 5 years ago I got a new doctor that noticed I had Ricketts level vitamin D. They say in New England everyone has a deficiency but I also spent the previous 15 summers in dark server rooms. My level was 9 on the scale they use and the cutoff level for low level is 31.

I have been taking between a 1,000 to 2000 units daily and just this year made it to 31.

My doctor looked at my labs on-line and sent message telling me to boost my intake to 2,000. I was crushed having finally made the goal of being low on the chart. I started immediately and had my appointment a few weeks later.
During the appointment she asked how much I was taking I responded 2,000 since she told me to a few weeks earlier. Her response was that I should double that.

I decided that she had already told me to double it a few weeks earlier so I didn't boost my intake to 4,000 like she prescribed. I will see next year what my level is.

I'm doing better than I have in a long time but I also gave professional systems administration.
It takes one asbestos exposure to get a fiber hooked in your lung. It's worth some hassle. It's not just about you, but also the people who handle it downstream in the waste disposal pipeline, people who are involved in unrelated construction, etc. Asbestos killed a lot of people.
It's crazy that this particular use case wasn't already banned. I mean, the stuff is only dangerous in particulate form – so why on Earth was it permitted to be used for things that by their very nature wear down to particulates during use?
> Youtube isn't some mom n' pop operation - they do have a review process and make an attempt at following the rules they set. They can ban you for any reason...but they generally don't unless you're clearly breaking a rule.

They use (with some irony) AI and other algorithms to determine if you're breaking the rules, often leading to arbitrary or nonsensical results, which the review process frequently fails to address.

> I'm not getting into the rabbit hole of finding out if it was actually generated - once again, that's a different problem.

It isn't a different problem, it's the problem. You want people to label things because otherwise you're not sure, but because of that problem exactly, you have no way of reliably or objectively enforcing the labeling requirement. And you specifically have no way to do it in the cases where it most matters because it's hard to tell.
That doesn't seem unusual to me, given that to get to this page you either have to be searching for the specific terms already (and know what they are) or come from the homepage -> RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico) projects -> Custom serial bootloader for the RP2040 -> Preliminary reading RP2040 boot sequence
“Cost is not a good argument [to not do it]” is the actual line taken with the ADA for public accommodations (which includes most private businesses). There is a reasonable accommodation rule as to how an accessibility function may be implemented, but not if, and the rule scales with the resources of the provider.

The result of which is, in the USA, a person in a wheelchair can enter nearly every business, use many public restrooms, and generally participate in life on their own.
I think the author simply assumes that Murati doesn't answer because she doesn't know. She's not answering for legal and competitive reasons.

The author is clearly unfamiliar with ML from a technical perspective as well as the state of the industry, which account for the things not detailed or not precisely estimated in the interview
Presumably the LLVM and Cranelift backends in the same rustc version generate code with the same ABI, and it would be a bug if that wasn't the case.
It's a variable width font, so it can be smaller than a fixed 3x3 font.

For example it chose this (ambiguous) encoding for "o":

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where a bigger 3x4 font could choose the overhigh and wider

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I don’t know about their long term thinking when it comes to policy but politically the BJP has meticulously planned and successfully carried out a takeover of the Indian political system in a strategy that spanned atleast 4 decades.
One limitation of SSE compared to long polling (and WebSockets etc) is you can't efficiently send binary data such as cbor, protobuf, etc. Though if your long polling is chatty enough eventually the HTTP overhead will kill your efficiency too.
I feel like there's some structural similarities to the trolley problem. With hindsight, inaction (not pulling the lever) would have had the better outcome but you explicitly intervened. This is more painful than a similar situation where the default was reversed and where you would have explicitly had to act to buy those same shares with cash.
From your mouth to God's ear.
They can, but it's often possible to prove it later. If you have a rule against lying and it's retroactively discovered to have been broken, then you already have the enforcement mechanism in place.

Really, your argument can be generalized to 'why have laws at all, because people will break them and lie about it'.
This will make AI the new sesame allergen [1] — if you aren't 100% certain every asset you use isn't AI-generated, then it makes sense to stick some AI-generated content in and label the video accordingly, out of compliance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/08/30/1196640...
Hardly a phpbb forum... those had a working search function!
Could you describe how you would design a "good, well-controlled science" study/experiment on the effects of PFAS in humans?
In the case of pictures taken with your phone, the "true" answer would be "real" as it's not a synthetically generated image, just some post-processing/cleaning-up. The overall classification is going to be affected by how much of the image has been altered, if it's only a small part, it shouldn't effect the overall outcome too much.
> But instead, we have billions of people now, and it was at least 2000 years ago that we reached 100 million. When you have that many people, although most of them are still working on the basics (growing food, building housing, etc.), in absolute terms there can be millions of people working on specialized tasks.

Now let's imagine what happens when AI and machines step in and completely take over the menial jobs. The redistribution to cognitive task occupation will deliver another technological revolution.
I think A11Y has been approached incorrectly. A11Y should be an additional standardized data feed that A11Y devices have to consume. Right now the requirements while helpful to everyone, also restrict the full potential of CSS/JS/the browser. With highly complex UIs it becomes almost impossible to be compliant. Right now any A11Y device has unique control over applications. In theory it seems like one could introduce a new product to market, claim a website does not support it, and then file a suit.
AI can already create photo-realistic images, and the old "look at the hands" rule doesn't really work on images generated with modern models.

There may be a few tells still, but those won't last long, and the moment someone can find a new pattern you can make that a negative prompt for new images to avoid repeating the same mistake.

I think we are already there, and it seems like we aren't because many people are using free low-quality models with a low number of steps because its more accessible.
> producing documentation

I remember watching this really funny video where a writer, by trade, was talking about recent AI products they were exploring.

They saw a "Make longer" button which took some text and made it longer by fluffing it out.
He was saying that it was the antithesis of his entire career.

As a high schooler who really didn't care, I would've loved it, though.
Thank you. Yes this is much better. When talking about how things would look a picture is a must.
Yes, AI could have been used anywhere in the production pipeline: AI could be in the script, could be used in the stock photo or video, and more.
> Things like alt text is so time consuming it would be incredibly expensive to label all the images. Facebook has long resorted to using AI descriptions.

> Really it shouldn't be up to the developer it should be up to the disabled person to buy tools. Just like someone may need to buy a wheelchair to move around, they should have to buy a specialty browser that handles their limited visibility needs or brail tool interface.

How can buying a specialty browser solve a problem of a blind person needing alt text for images?

You, as a developer, can determine when AI-generated text is good enough for your images—sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't. A specialty browser cannot, and should not, be trusted to make that decision, so it will need hints from the developer. And, once the developer offers those hints, any mainstream browser, not just specialty products, can make use of them.
I couldn't disagree more. If possible, always interview with companies you really want to work at later in the process (its often not possible, but this should be plan A.)
The general rule of thumb should be "don't breathe dust", not regulating specific types of dust. Almost all forms of dust are bad for you.
Hey, one of the SpinKube maintainers here!

You are correct that there is nothing extra required if what you want is to run Wasm inside a container.

However, that comes with a few disadvantages, primarily stemming from bundling your wasm runtime with each container image — and while your wasm workload is portable, the runtime itself needs to be compiled for the specific OS and architecture you need to execute on.

SpinKube comes with a containerd shim (or plugin) that executes Wasm workloads directly, so you can continue to integrate with the Kubernetes API (either by using regular pods with a runtime class, or the Spin application manifest), but not get the overhead of a full Linux container for your lightweight wasm component.
AI-generated images got through peer review [video]
> And yeah; how do you tink a 3-year old in 2050 is going to be able to setup his dev env?

Dunno about 2050, but it wasn’t particularly difficult in the 1980s.
How much progress do you think is possible only using dietary adjustments and getting a couple hours of sunshine per day?
I think the main way where the line will move is what is considered "realistic" and what is "animation".

A lot of early stable diffusion seemed "realistic" but comparing them to newer stuff makes them stand out at obviously AI generated and unrealistic.
Do you have some specific examples?
> I struggle to believe that a physician told her to take 5000 IU

Believe it.

When one of the most trusted vitamin companys (Nature’s Made) sells a 5000 IU single pill dosage that can be found at any drug or grocery store in the US - it nots surprising that people buy and believe 5000 is ok.

https://www.naturemade.com/products/nature-made-extra-streng...

If 4000 IU is the max dosage anyone should take, it shouldn’t be allowed for a compnay to sell a 5000 unit dosage.
Thanks for the tip about the original Chinese version. I'd be more interested in that with subtitles than in the Americanized Netflix version. Half the point of reading 3BP is to escape The Culture for a bit.
have him register a new, anonymous HN account and go say that in one of our weekly "apple bad" threads
> I think a lot about "steel saucepans with copper bottoms". I read this article by Le Guin at a time in my life to make a real impression on me

Same for me but with sewing machines. Relevant Veritasium video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYuyHNLPTQ&ab_channel=Verit...
> They're surfactants so they can interfere with basic processes in the intracellular matrix like cells sticking to each other and forming tissue.

You know what else is a surfactant? Soap.

Literally every surfactant "interferes with basic processes in the intracellular matrix" -- they disrupt lipids (fats). That's how they work. They're not inherently dangerous as a category of chemicals. You slather yourself in them daily.

This discussion is veering into "the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide" territory now. You can make pretty much anything sound scary if you try hard enough.
Good point, though the result of my clever maneuvering is having to deal with a loss carry forward for a long time due to the amount involved.

I guess the bright side is that when I finally have some capital gains to report when I retire, I'll have something to offset them as the amount is large enough that the capital loss deduction allowed for ordinary income won't even be close to depleting it when I hit retirement age.
Music with no soul, it would be like eating fake meat that tasted very real. Not bad if you weren’t told before hand
Often the limiting factor is ankle mobility, as not being able to drive the knee in front of the toes means falling backwards as the center of mass never reaches mid foot.

It's why weightlifters have elevated heels, and why great squatters tend to have short femurs (and/or be short in general).
Right, but the ADA is not held accountable to the cost. They get their federal budget chunk whether or not Main St, USA can afford to stay in business.

They may not be the best authority on the question of whether cost is a good enough argument.
Oh, that’s nice to know, now that the CheatSheet has been discontinued.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121114115948/http://mediaateli...

I thought CheatSheet was the original indie app which Apple copied for its iPad menus, but it seems KeyCue seems far older and such more original.

> Similarly, this is what permits scripting desktop apps from AppleScript.

AppleScript also has a second interaction in which the App gives access to an API to its “logical” object model. Instead of “Select item in list, then click on the delete button” the programming model is more “Tell the app to delete the e-mail”. On more complicated scripting tasks that makes a huge difference. But that depends on the developer on providing an AppleScript dictionary – which not everyone does. And Electron apps are of course black boxes, in scripting and more often than not in accessibility.
I suspect this is the wrong take. AI can only perform integrations when there are systems to integrate. The frontier of interesting work to be done isn't supervising an integration AI, but building out the hard components that will be integrated. Integration work itself already has been moving up the stack to low-code type tools and power-user like people over the past decade even before LLMs become the new thing.
Vastly more people have died from hydro accidents, let alone coal pollution, than have ever died from all the world’s nuclear accidents combined.
> As long as browsers still work with TCP, some networks will continue to block UDP (and thus HTTP3/WebTransport) outright.

I keep hearing it, but I've never actually seen such a network. There are many things that run on UDP. I can see it being closed in some tiny offices (but those usually lack brain power to accomplish it) or some dystopian corporate offices you can only see in a movie.

I really don't see how the fact that some networks might ban UDP has anything to do with it. Some networks ban google.com and wikipedia.com, you don't see them failing.
Tell HN: OpenAI will require pre-purchased API credits from March 25th
The vast majority of web content is published on sites that want people to use the content in their extremely curated walled garden. Making it easy to mash up content and integrate it with other sites is the exact opposite of what's happening on Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, et al.
>most Americans’ only retirement savings option

Not true. Anyone can buy stocks and bonds, and for most part defer paying taxes on unrealized gains for decades. And when they do need to realize gains (i.e. sell), the tax rate will be the lower LTCG rate. And anything left over at death passes to heirs free of income tax (basis adjustment to FMV).

>a no-brainer way to put away an aggregate of $76,000 in tax-advantaged

You keep on using the term "tax advantaged" without defining what that means.

For Trad. IRA/401k compared to Roth, it is a simple matter of your future tax rate compared to today. If those two rates are the same, there is no difference[0]; if future tax rate is higher, go Roth, if future tax rate is lower, go Trad IRA/401k

> pointless and easily bypassed MAGI limits for IRA

Please explain "easily bypassed". If you meant the "backdoor" aspect, that is only easily by-passed if one does not have any pre-tax money in Trad. IRA. And if you mean Roth 401k, those are even much less common than the ordinary 401k.

>In a just world we would eliminate ....

Just as we would allow health insurance to be paid with pre-tax money, whether employed or not.

[0] for simplicity-- using round numbers and assume 5% simple annual investment return (no compounding), and 20% tax rate

Pre-tax contribution: $10K + (20yrs x 0.05 x $10K) = $20K

withdrawal at 20% tax = $16K net

Post-tax (Roth) contribution: ($10K - $2K tax) + (20yrs x 0.05 x $8K) = $16K

withdrawal at 0% tax = $16K net
I built my app in Flutter without thinking about a11y at all, and had a blind user complain about a feature I updated. She had been using the app for about 6 months and she said it’s one of the most accessible apps she’s used. Flutter pretty much takes care of it all for you and the highly custom feature I built didn’t need much tweaking at all to make it work for her again.