skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Like there is actually nothing I could say, no evidence I could show to ever convince someone out of that position.

There is, it is just very hard to obtain. Various formal proofs would do. On upper bounds. On controllability. On scalability of safety techniques.

The manhattan project scientists did check whether they'd ignite the atmosphere before detonating their first prototype. Yes, that was much simpler task. But there's no rule in nature that says proving a system to be safe must be as easy as creating the system. Especially when the concern is that the system adaptive and adversarial.

Recursive self-improvement is a positive feedback loop, like nuclear chain reactions, like virus replication. So if we have an AI that can program then we better make sure that it either cannot sustain such a positive feedback loop or that it remains controllable beyond criticality.
Given the complexity of the task it appears unlikely that a simple ten-page paper proving this will show up on arxiv. But if one did that'd be great.

>> You won't necessarily get the escalating harm even if AI doom is real though

> Yes we would.

So what does guarantee a visible catastrophe that won't be attributed to human operators using a non-agentic AI incorrectly? We keep scaling and the systems will be treated as assistants/optimizers and it's always the operators fault. Until we roughly reach human-level on some relevant metrics. And at that point there's a very narrow complexity range from idiot to genius (human brains don't vary by orders of magnitude!). So as far as hardware goes this could be a very narrow range and we could shoot straight from "non-agentic sub-human AI" to "agentic superintelligence" in short timescales once the hardware has that latent capacity.
And up until that point it will always have been a human error, lax corporate policies, insufficient filtering of the training set or whatever.

And it's not that it must happen this way. Just that there doesn't seem anything ruling it and similar pathways out.
One consequence of Midjourney's Discord based interface is anyone can scrape thousands of prompts and image generations.
It didn't matter where the init system came from, but where xz came from.
Exactly. If this car crash is newsworthy, then that actually builds more trust in robotic driving.
In the Rails world, the gem strong_migrations can be used to detect these: https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations

The docs include a handy articulation of fixes.
It better be a critical business initiative otherwise why are we even talking. Product better not be coming to me with half thought through optional BS.
Tvisor: A Tiny Thread-level syscall interception framework
I have no clue if it's too much but allegro is biggest ecomerce website in Poland and it works amazingly. I'm currently in Spain and I'm forced to use Amazon and oh lord - I can't event star to wrap my head aourd how on earth people can use that crap - it is slow AF, it's search functionality is abysmal and filtering results almost doesn't. exist... o_X
I experimented with that for javascript: https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl
In many countries they have a cap of the number of medical students. You might want to check what is happening in Korea rn.
There were no ballistic missiles, that report was confirmed false.
Do you mean without DRL?
You could use this for a Lovecraftian horror game. Make a text adventure, but every room would have a few dozen variations
generated training a model to recover words from embeddings, and randomly corrupting the embeddings.

The lower your sanity meter or the closer to R'leh, the more corrupt the embeddings.
A bit of a late question: My fiancée and I are going to marry soon. I'm here on an ESTA (I'm from the Netherlands), and from my understanding marrying while on an ESTA should be fine, as long as there is an intent to leave and as long there's no adjustment of status shenanigans, I wasn't intending on it.

What's the quickest way to immigrate to the US with work authorization?

My thoughts: go through the CR-1 process. It'll take about 18 months, but as she is a born and raised US citizen living in the US, there seems to be no other way. Direct consular filing (DCF) can only be done if she lives abroad somewhere.

18 months is a long time. Is there a way for it to go faster? Are there options I'm not seeing? I have looked in to the K-1, but that doesn't seem to help much, if at all. Is there a way to make sure that the CR-1 gets processed faster? It's the first reason I was looking into DCF at all. It seems one cannot really influence the process. USCIS seems to be clogged, and we all have to wait longer than what IMO is reasonable.

Immigration based on marriage in the Netherlands definitely doesn't take that long.
I leave my headlights set to "auto." Since I have a cheap-ass subie, they work well. Quite binary, and no frou-frou.

I understand that more expensive "smart" headlights are problematic; especially at dawn or dusk.
To use his own "butter knife / cheese knife / lightsabre" example, it's like if I want to butter some toast, I should choose the butter knife, right? Oh but now I want to cut that melon and the butter knife is the only knife I have because I chose the least versatile/powerful knife because they told me to.
You are seeing an snapshot, we don't know if something comes next.
That used crates, but yes I think it way quicker per ship, because ocean liners in particular wanted fast turnaround times. A lot more labour was involved, obviously.
Good point about 'low voltage' -- which does not mean the same thing in all contexts.

>Circuits operating at less than 50 volts shall be installed in a neat and workmanlike manner. Cables shall be supported by the building structure in such a manner that the cable will not be damaged by normal building use.

The only possible violation of 720.11 for duct taping <50V cables to walls I can see is 'neat and workmanlike' which is vague at best; there is nothing intrinsically 'un-neat' about an attachment method unless maybe using like literal chewing gum or something else absurd or just categorically unfit for purpose. I'm hardly going to call it best practice, but duct taping a (small to modest-sized) zip-tied bundle of low voltage cables to say route it up and around a door is perfectly cromulent in my experience.

Likewise I'd feel perfectly comfortable (from both a safety and code/inspection perspective) supergluing cables to dry wall (on the more absurd end), or p clamp'ing w/ drywall screws, or using adhesive zip tie mounts, etc.
I agree. Still looking for something that bridges that gap, to make modern web pages as simple as old WinForms.

The only web based tools that I've come across that seem to hide all the JavaScript/html, and be 'simple' are tools like Elmish, or some of the other functional programming 'DSL's. Where the page is kind of composed by functions that compile into the JavaScript. With JavaScript, by the time I'm manipulating the DOM, I keep thinking some tool should be handling this for me.
I've never really expected self driving cars to lower the rate of accidents simply because cars are dangerous whether or not you have the reaction time of a computer.

Can it save the human in a moment of inattention? Absolutely, my prius has shouted at me to brake when I was messing with the radio, but it doesnt matter how good your radar is when you're flying around a blind turn or coming up behind an invisible, stopped object.

(%50 reduction would be good, drunks taking robo taxis home is great, but IMO driving is easy and robots wont be better at it)
What do you use poe for inside the house?, outside I would assume cameras and those could be on a separate switch/network.

I run fiber to an outside poe switch with sfp+ that has a grounded power socket and from there poe, in case of shorted wires due to pests or lightning nothing dies in the house.
> I suspect the public will demand higher safety than humans to feel comfortable with these on the roads

Hasn't this ship sailed?

The people angry about self-driving cars aren't other drivers. They're people upset about displaced taxi jobs.
When we cant communicate honnestly its time to pack it up. If there is not trust how can you get anything done?
i suppose it's good for bitcoin as well
I absolutely love that he did this in this manner. Not demoing the concept in Abelton Live or some other music program where it would have taken seconds to do is just much more endearing. I hope it was as rewarding for him to complete it as I am impressed in it being made.

The whole time I kept thinking he needed to wear the glasses that the Hartnolls wore on stage as I kept thinking of the tracks they made with this concept.
This golfer looks familiar

https://stockcake.com/i/golf-swing-action_436349_576163
With an LLM in there (if that even) one wonders if each software version deployed to a driveless / level [can't remember] car should literally have to pass a driving test.

I say this because in line with what you say about teenagers is that the driving test is about being safe-enough to not kill someone, not being a good driver.
I am so glad that I am not involved with self driving systems (except as a squishy object on the same road).

The systems are so incredibly complicated and convoluted that I just cannot see how they could ever be assumed safe. I've worked on (relatively) large legacy hairball embedded systems where you don't have confidence in the behaviour determinism and it was deeply discomfiting even when the highest price of being wrong was broken hardware or ruining a production run and having the customer give a support engineer an earful.

I can't imagine the stress of having to deal with a much larger, more complex system that ends up in an open, public, uncontrolled environment where the price of a mistake is smearing a once-living human into paste.

I'm also intrigued by how these systems are tested. Presumably, as well as unit testing everything to death, you use some kind of integration test where you replay scenarios and check outcomes, and/or some stochastic generated scenarios. This must take a lot of time and resources.

As a shower thought, wouldn't it be interesting if you could get a virtual car model of a public-road self driving car and be able to play scenarios at it at will to allow external testing.
Even with normal cruise control and adaptive cruise control, when there is a lot of traffic, it’s easier to turn it off and take control. All these features seem great when no one else is on the road, to give the driver a bit of a rolling break, but that’s about it.
Better choose ExpressJS then. They still haven't quite made it to 5.0 since they started in 2014.
yeah. and this is why idf speaker jumped into live tv and said that missiles were lunched. after this entire south was covered by air defense alerts and high altitude interceptors were launched.
I think you're possibly describing nurse practitioners?
1099 obviously does not apply

as per the other comments, clearly 1099 does apply. i only briefly looked at a short description and missed the key line "other income".
I meant refactor extremely broadly. As in the stuff that doesnt make customers happy, it makes engineering more effective at their jobs so they can deliver faster.

That includes refactoring, pruning, training, scaling, vendoring, etc.
> This avoids people self diagnosing and taking random doses of various medications.

This is such a non-issue it's impossible to take seriously. People do this regardless of prescriptions and the danger of the substances they're intaking (think: alcohol). What is the risk entailed by the device described in the original post that a prescription guardrail might prevent?
Nobody actually has time for all that
You need to be willing to “fire” customers.

I’ve also been here, and it’s a delicate balance.
React itself has been pretty smooth, and I've been using it since 0.14. Not on any massive projects mind you, but still.
We cut costs by 70% by moving from GCP and CockroachDB to Hetzner and PostgreSQL
If they didn't artificially restrict the supply of doctors the demand would be met.
>You can not look at the 4 Billion in losses while ignoring European laws.

What does the loss and being terrible at selling cars have to do with EU laws? EU laws didn't make them be shit.

>And? Mercedes lost exactly the same amount of money the Chinese did. In no way is this more of a loss for China than it is for Germany.

How would the Chinese have lot money if Daimler lost that money before they entered the partnership with Geely?

>f you consider as an output of the car industry also the social benefits

The social benefit of making Diesel cars that reduce years of our lifespan thanks to air pollution, but at least they're a great place to work? With that logic the war in Ucraine is also a social benefits since it creates places to work.
I suppose it depends, but it's pretty common to see signs saying "Non-Potable Reclaimed Water used for Irrigation" in and around housing developments, hotels, shopping and commercial areas as well as resorts and golf courses.

According to this, Florida uses 820M gals of reclaimed water per day although this isn't all necessarily used for irrigation.

https://floridadep.gov/water/domestic-wastewater/content/flo...
No software -> hardware is massively hobbled. Evidence: AMD.

Ecosystem -> Software. At the moment especially people are looking for arbitrages everywhere i.e. inference costs / being able to inference at all (llama.cpp)

Academics -> Also software but easily fiddled with a bit of spending as you say.
> Here's a paper, "Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice,"

Awesome, thank you. I actually had that saved in my files to read later, then started really digging into it after your suggestion. Almost exactly what I was looking for!

> Can you share [1] what motivated your question and [2] what you're hoping to learn?

I suppose the simplest answer is "[1] pure curiosity and [2] whatever I can to slake it." How build systems in particular piqued my interest is a weirder, zig-zaggy story involving a bunch of different things catching my eye at random, and I'm not sure that's what you wanted to know, so I'll omit for now.
I have no idea where I am, ever, unless I've been there literally a dozen times. Even then it's not a guarantee. If I wasn't actively paying attention I won't just passively pick up knowledge about the route.

One of my personal rules is to treat rotation as if it's an ultra complex operation only computers should do.

I won't even try to read a map that's not oriented to match reality, and I will assume I got the map upside down unless I have multiple references points to confirm(Phone compasses seem to mess up more than the actual GPS...).

I also regularly confirm direction by making sure the GPS says I'm actually going towards where I think I am.

I will check the map again after every turn, I assume that any rotation invalidates whatever nonsense I think I know about where I am.

If it's unfamiliar enough that I even think about using a map at all, I am very careful because of how many times I've gotten lost a block or two away from my destination and wound up going half a mile the wrong way following upside down maps.

This extends to other areas of life. If I have to compare any two things in different orientations I assume it's a high failure rate part of the project.

One would probably assume this causes me a lot of mental discomfort... but luckily I also have maybe a bit too much trust in computers. I can always just use my phone. If it ever runs out of battery I can ask for directions.

If I ever decide to solo hike or something like that, I will probably get a book on navigation and study as best I can, but also bring a satellite beacon.
The goal of a union is to put a fence around the employers and drive wages up. Mission accomplished.
The Drone Revolution (2022)
The poster you’ve replied to mention that they are 53. They for sure learned to drive and move around the world for a couple decades before consumer GPS navigation solutions were affordable for hobbyists.

That post resonated with my own life. I had a passenger seat full of atlases, then later mapquest printouts, then some of the early handheld GPS solutions as soon as I could afford them. As they mention, it isn’t something that seems to be learned later in life, for me I rely on GPS because I’m hopeless without it.
Show HN: Dive Deep Books – handpicked collection of nonfiction books to read
hey!
I love reading books. I mean, I really love it — I even worked in a publishing house for a while, where my main job was to read a lot of books and write articles about them.

So, in the last 10 years, I have read 1000+ nonfiction books. And I would love to share the best ones with you.

Last weekend I gave myself 24 hours to create new project. And here it is — Dive Deep Books. Curated lists with my favorite books.

Hope you will find it useful
> Certainly a human driver could have easily made this mistake.

except a human driver in front of the Mach-E did see the car and avoided it successfully.

that's why cars with driver assist features are supposed to be using radar to detect obstacles.

im not familiar with the Mach-E's feature here that's referred to as "handsfree". Usually these features are supposed to make sure the driver is still in control of steering at all times, like the Ioniq 5. I'm probably going to be a teeny bit more wary of Mach-Es on the road if they are using a not totally reliable radar detection system.
How dare they suggest they know what they want better than Apple.
No, he means what he said. You shouldn't drive at night with only daytime running lights. You need to turn the headlights on because they are brighter but more importantly because that turns on the taillights too.
Can you give an example of code you consider beautiful?
I see, wikipedia's definition is quite informative here. Thanks
Cruise missiles are not ballistic missiles, and even if it was just drones, it would be stupid to not prepare for the possibility of ballistic missiles.
Not at all. I don’t care too much one way or the other for driving jobs, but I do care quite a bit about self driving car safety. They are being trained in an imperfect real world, and I don’t particularly want to find out if they ignore unmarked crosswalk laws (or other safety related stuff) as thoroughly as human drivers do.

I’m not alone. I’ve talked to plenty of people that recognize that car infrastructure is inherently unsafe in many places, the last thing I want is an incentive to have more vehicles driving around because now you don’t need humans inside the car.
tesla.com/inventory are brand new cars fully eligible for the rebate.
> If your device stopped working, it could be because your prescription has expired, and the device has been deactivated. Talk to your doctor about getting another refill prescription for iTEAR®100. Or you can request a telehealth appointment and the company will assign a doctor to you.

So, a Prescription is the new Subscription model?
In an interview with Boston Dynamics, one of their robotics engineers said something like, “the hard stuff is easy and the easy stuff is hard.”

There are things that humans can learn and do extremely quickly, or figure out on the fly, that robots require extensive training for.
But this paragraph from the report clearly states that at least one human did not. A human driver avoided the crash and a computer control system crashed.
I still use Twig templates for a couple of my simple marketing websites, backed by about 100 lines of PHP to make it work. Simple enough that my non-programmer friend can edit it, powerful enough that... well it's not that powerful but it can do templates, which is all I want out of it. And I can still fall back to PHP if I do need to sprinkle some server-side magic in it. Stable, no maintenance, just keeps working and working, over a decade later.
Especially on Texas highways where speed limits exceed 80mph, you'd have to be very alert and likely have to swerve over into the next lane (like the other driver did).

At 80mph, the stopping distance of an average car is around 300 feet once the brake is fully engaged. That exceeds most car radar systems. And with no warning lights the camera won't do much good either.
https://archive.is/FAib2
> Certainly a human driver could have easily made this mistake.

Certainly a heavily inebriated driver might have made this mistake if the car were difficult to see at a distance, but otherwise... no, I don't see this happening at all.
That's funny, I only ever use adaptive cruise when I'm in a lot of traffic on the highway. At slow speeds it's not going to do anything and I'm pretty much just going to follow the car in front at low speed. I use lane keeping the rest of the time and it really reduces fatigue.
This is why cars are required to have red retroreflectors on the back, so even if their lights are off you can still see red lights as long as your own headlights are on. I wonder why this failed.
"less used functionality on-demand" - so the code to handle the rare case remains available, on demand.
Implications of computer science theory for the simulation hypothesis
Yeah I don't understand it either. They're features that seemed aimed directly at one customer: the guy who is already watching YouTube and texting while going down the interstate and just keeping a vague idea of where the lines and cars are.
Battery is for freezer in summer and for furnace fan in winter.
"Cargo ships, as dirty as they seem on a per-ship basis, are crazy efficient on a per ton-mile basis."

As I understand it, this reinforces the parent's comment about scaling down. Efficiency facilitates scaling up, increased demand, supply and consumption, and inevitably, increased carbon footprint and other environmental issues. The comment is not only directed at the footprint of "normal" cargo ships, it's directed at the footprint of the consumption that they enable.

When it is cheap and efficient to ship goods, then more goods will be produced, shipped and consumed; this has an enviromental impact. If it becomes more expensive and less efficient, then perhaps less goods would be produced, shipped and consumed, with reduced environmental impact.
I don't get why social media (Specially big corpos) always fix things that aren't fixed
I sometimes wonder if the daytime running lights do more harm than good, my making it harder for people to realize their lights are off.

That said, I don’t know why automatic headlights aren’t standard at this point. My base model Toyota from 25 years ago had them. It doesn’t seem like any car made in the last 20 years should require drivers turn on their headlights when it’s hard.
Of course people care about safety. That doesn't translate to either public action nor public action requiring self-driving cars be safer than human-piloted ones. Look at every regulatory proceeding around self-driving cars, and the safety arguments are either drowned out by the jobs arguments or made principally by people motivated by job-loss concerns

My gut feeling is we're perfectly happy with self-driving cars that are even substantially worse than human-piloted ones, so long as they crash the way humans do. Rear ending in the dark, okay. Barreling full speed into a highway divider [1] or dragging pedestrians to get out of traffic [2], not.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/04/theres-growing-evidence...

[2] https://abc7news.com/cruise-autonomous-cars-gm-recall-sf-rob...