skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Refuse to work that way?? And how are we supposed to do that? Stop working until our requirements are met and leave everyone on their own during that time? Who do you think people would blame? The C-suite execs?

The only choice you really have is to leave medicine. After dedicating ten years of your life to it's study, a fucking huge debt and no guarantee of finding a better life elsewhere.
It's not necessary to think that one size fits all to think that 12 hours is too long. There is plenty of evidence that long shifts affect cognitive functioning[1] and so it could well be reasonable to say we don't know where the safe threshold is for each person so there may be some individuals who might otherwise safely work with no impairment but in the interest of safety for users of the cars we can set some cap at less than 12 hours.

Secondly, even if someone was to show that some workers are still able to function well, make good decisions and not make manufacturing errors that would likely impact safety after 12 hours it might still be reasonable to not have such long shifts because the length for some workers would tend to compell all workers (including some for whom that shift length would be too much) to work the long shift if they want to keep their job. There is lots of research associating long shifts with chronic health problems[2] and poor wellbeing for example[3] .

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/12/6540

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7117719/

[3] https://journals.lww.com/joem/Fulltext/2020/04000/A_Qualitat...
Self-reasoning tokens: teaching models to think ahead
Are you saying that any use of Alpine is, by definition, a supply-chain security problem?
OHHHH That's like 500 cores in one box?

cores/threads total? How much ram? disk? do you know the all in cost and rack U?

There are lots of folks whose entire production infrastructure is half that core count or less.
The whole thing cost me a few hundred bucks to put together.
It's much worse than that: based on measurements these use a loop that goes one set bit of the mask argument at a time. uops.info and so on measure a mask that's almost all zero so they vastly underreport. Worst case is in the hundreds of cycles. Do not use pdep/pext before Zen 3. https://twitter.com/uops_info/status/1202950247900684290
> Hell, I would argue that a lot of services at established companies don't actually need to worry about it (and the ones that do, need to worry about it a lot). Tons of stuff inside of $megacorps is running on crummy "non-scalable" architectures because somebody sat down and did the "engineering" part of "software engineering" and went "y'know, I think all we're really ever need is..."

Yeah, those system architectures are the ones that end up in all the other rants, the ones about how companies never prioritize fixing technical debt and legacy code :)
The invention of mailing letters allowed counterfeit people.

AI just makes us better at everything we do, including lying to people.

I'm tired of dealing with people who do not understand that.
British Columbia has banned self-driving vehicles that exceed Level 2
Tempting. But the addition of an upper/downer mash-safe minimal-profile/motion post-to-post navigating trigger pair would be a deal maker.
So they are being taught by the pharmaceutical industry?
The Russian Revolution and subsequent Soviet mobilization are one of the main reasons why the Nazis didn’t end up taking over all of Europe, so these things aren’t really comparable.
From his twitter:

(I'll copy and paste the text here, as I don't know how much you see of this text logged out)

> Why couldn’t I just emulate a standard mouse and scroll smoothly? Sounds easy. Unfortunately there is a holdover from two decades ago in the way mouse drivers are written into USB. Because mice used to use low resolution encoders, a single “detent” event would be about 22.5 degrees. Hard coded into the kernel level of Android and Windows is the instruction to interrupt this single detent as a 40 pixel scroll for generic devices. This is what results in the chunky style scrolling on a PC.

> Only recently have specialty devices like the Logitech mice used custom drivers to bypass this and offer high resolution single pixel scrolling instructions. Unfortunately these drivers were not rolled into the Android kernel, so even when I sniffed the BLE traffic with Wireshark and impersonated a Logitech device, I wouldn’t get that silky smooth scrolling on mobile. No go.

> The slightly hacky workaround was to go one level deeper than the standard Arduino libraries.

> A quick description of how USB devices work. HID stands for Human Interface Device and is a protocol implemented over USB protocol. HID devices do advertise their capabilities through the HID report descriptor, a fixed set of bytes describing exactly what HID reports may be sent between the device and the host and the meaning of each individual bit in those reports. For example, a HID Report Descriptor may specify that “in a report with ID 3 the bits from 8 to 15 is the delta x coordinate of a mouse”. The HID report itself then merely carries the actual data values without any extra meta information.

> My goal was to use a customized descriptor to send the byte package of a one finger touchpad with absolutely coordinate system and 1 button to the host. This way I could perform the digital emulation of a finger making contact with the screen, performing a Y axis movement while remaining in contact, and then lifting off the screen before reaching the top. This movement would have to be repeated hundreds of times seamlessly to provide the illusion of smooth scrolling.

> Additional complications arose from the fact that Bluetooth low energy has a minimum latency of 8milliseconds, with most hosts negotiating an even slower rate such as 20 milliseconds. Simply blasting commands at a few hundred hertz doesn’t work.

> The internet is filled with unanswered forum questions about how to do all of this. I think I’m probably the first one to achieve a working implementation of this particular smooth scrolling solution. This single problem occupied much time than the rest of the project combined. No doubt that Logitech or Apply could achieve a more elegant solution. My hope is that a big company takes interest in Doomscroller takes it off my hands.

https://x.com/andrewmccalip/status/1781674889679982991
It’s not an equivalent of running a red light. It’s an intersection showing green lights to everyone.
There has been a lot of consolidation of village and town services as rural populations have declined. This started decades ago, when the national government announced plans to shrink from 3200 municipalities to 1000 by 2005:

Small towns can choose to go it alone, but a system of carrots and sticks crafted by the central government makes it a costly proposition. “This utter despotism will only kill off towns and villages,” groused one group of local officials.

Exactly how the decision to merge is made can be a bit murky. Some municipalities hold public referendums, but local officials are free to ignore the results. Other municipalities don’t even bother with a vote.

Among the factors towns use in choosing a mate are proximity, shared history, and whether the prospect’s job base, hospitals and shopping are desirable.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-07-fg-merge...
> It is installed pretty much everywhere

Yes, but which version?
The obvious fix is to remove the repo information, but do you grandfather in old files by redirecting to the new URL?

I’d say no, which I guarantee will break some legitimate packages that depend on files uploaded in GitHub comments.
it reads more like you're bitter because he exposed the simple formula for success in a modern corporation and you're gatekeeping ICs from seizing this opportunity
> "Drivers can activate Mercedes's technology. called Drive Pilot, when certain conditions are met, including in heavy traffic jams, during the daytime, on specific California and Nevada freeways, and when the car is traveling less than 40 mph. Drivers can focus on other activities until the vehicle alerts them to resume control. The technology does not work on roads that haven't been pre-approved by Mercedes, including on freeways in other states."

It's remarkable how often these significant limitations are ignored.

The difference between SAE Level 3 versus Level 2 is liability, not functionality. Conceptually, it would be relatively simple to create a Level 3 system that only worked in parking lots and never drove over 5 MPH. And yes, such a system would be "Level 3," which naively sounds better than "Level 2" because the number is higher.

But you could compare such a system that works only in parking lots against Tesla's Supervised FSD Level 2 system which controls the vehicle at prevailing speeds on all city streets and highways, executes left and right turns, stops at traffic controls, executes U-turns, parks, and everything else. Tesla doesn't want to assume liability yet because they are still iterating fast. The last few builds have been released about two weeks apart.

The functional domain of a Level 2 system can be significantly greater than a Level 3 system. And that is the case when comparing Tesla Supervised FSD versus Mercedes Drivepilot. It remains commendable for Mercedes to take on liability, but we should not kid ourselves. Doing so is a play for cheap media wins and punchy-sounding milestones like what we see in this article. It's not actually moving autonomy forward in any meaningful way when compared alongside Waymo and Tesla FSD. The scope of the Mercedes system is simply too narrow.
you can change your region very easily. Many Chinese iPhone users are using Turkey accounts due to its price advantages.
I work on AVs and this is a) incredibly useful b) the future of self-driving

L3 is 100% the groundbreaking part because it's when the manufacturer has to take liability and it's where people can actually afford it.

I believe in the technology "trickling up" for L3 much more than I believe tech in our million dollar robotaxis trickling down to consumer vehicles.
Agreed. Every time I’ve used it or been in a Tesla as a passenger with FSD engaged, human intervention has been required several times each trip to avoid accidents, harm to pedestrians, or moving violations. It’s frankly embarrassing to use and terrifying to imagine the masses relying on it in any way in its current form.
Yeah like almost everything wrong in the economy, the question is where is the stabilizing feedback loop? Where can patients choose something better, and how do they get the information to choose the best option?
BedZED
I hate it. I love it.

I've been thinking of removing the scroll wheel from my media PC's mouse to make doom scrolling harder. Love to see the innovation in going hard the other direction.
Yes, it does have to be LR. Which can be a real PITA if you're working with a restrictive subset of LR, like LALR. But there are other options too. LR(1) is pretty powerful, and GLR even more so.
This is L3, so you don’t have to constantly supervise like you do a Tesla with FSD (L2). Mercedes even says you can watch movies or read books. They will achieve a minimum safety condition on their own, which for this system is stopping in the lane with hazard lights on. They also say they will take liability provided you haven’t misused the system or failed to properly maintain the car.

But L3 has this grey area where you can be notified to take over with sufficient time. IMO, It’s the most ambiguous level of automation. How this will work in practice, I have no idea.
You misunderstand me. Consciousness definitely exists, but its workings are likely different to our preconceptions of how it should work. I offer saccadic masking as an example of how aspects of how it works are 'hidden' from us. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccadic_masking
On AWS, based on what I run for my own startup and what I've done for my current employer.
Newline-delimited JSON is so much more useful to me than weird Unix line-formatted output that I have to parse with pattern matching or regular expressions.

It's basically a line-based format that can represent all of the JSON types and includes support for nested data structures where necessary. What's not to like?
I think more realistically google right now does not want to undercut uber and by extension real drivers who're doing it for a living.

They don't need that kind of bad publicity when potentially the licenses they operate under could be pulled given enough political pressure.

I wouldn't consider current pricing indicative of what it might ultimately be, consider that if aggressive enough google could divert a big portion of the countries car spend to themselves.
International turned on
I wouldn’t take it personally if I were you, the employment situation suuuuuuuuuuucks right now, worse than it’s ever been. Five years ago you’d have had a much easier time.
“really good insurance”

I’d guess a massive % of the us population is having a different experience than you.
When I was a very small child, I used to go in vacations to my grandparents.

They raised various animals, including many chickens.

I liked to play with the chickens and I succeeded to train some of them to execute some simple commands (by giving them generous recompenses of maize grains).

My grandparents and all their neighbors were amazed by this feat, because they believed that chickens are too dumb to be trained like a dog, despite having decades of experience in raising chickens.

So I believe that when you do not look for evidence of intelligence, you do not find it.
For me, it was the nicest country in the world. (I live in France, but was born in CCCP)
Magic does exist. Rephrase it as regulation. Just think the minimum wage with current day inflation for 1968 is just less than $15 an hour. Deregulation and push for top 1% profits and shareholders has pushed wages down over 50%. This cuts into long term economic growth and mobility.

Reading most of your comments. You support treating works terribly by rejecting work life balance. For example, my brother in law will boast about working 100 hours in a week and in the same breath complain about having no time for himself or his family.

A strong labor force is only true when it is mentally, physically, and emotionally healthy.
We formed completely different opinions. And that's fine.
VLC is up to date on F-Droid, for what it’s worth
Not really. Even with post 2016 ART, opportunistic infections are very common. TB is a massive killer even if you’re on medication. The rate of cancers go up by like 2000% in some cases. Yes your life expectancy is going to be close to the normal life expectancy but you’re going to be sick a lot.
Fertility rate dropped, parents are more anxious to let kids roam, kids now have a lot of alternatives to spending time outdoors. There are just fewer kids around, and this drop is then amplified by suburbs' low density.
How about this --- any animal that can evaluate it's environment and use this information to make deliberate decisions that enhance it's odds of survival --- is sentient to some degree. A mosquito that moves to evade a hand trying to swat it is sentient to some extent.

Or taken to a grander scale --- the universe is sentient and this is manifested in living creatures both great and small.
Tesla FSD capabilities far exceeds all other car manufacture systems by a wide margin. Mercedes has Level 3, but that's only a legal thing, it says nothing about what the car can actually do.

Right now hundreds of thousands American Tesla owners are in their one month free trial FSD month and drive around with it on all kind of streets and weather conditions. There is no one else beside Tesla that is capable of doing this (no, not even Waymo).
The House votes for possible TikTok ban in the US
Thanks for the links!

On religious apologetics, that fundamentalists use philosophical arguments to justify their positions doesn't mean philosophy is largely transparent cover for religious apologetics, does it? I imagine fundamentalists are only using a small sliver of philosophical arguments. Most philosophers today don't think they're providing cover for apologetics, anyway.
Why a deluge of Chinese-made drugs is hard to curb
Edit 3:

Originally I'd replied about population demographics and migration; @giantg2 has a good reply to that, which you can see below. In reviewing the conversation, I got mentally stuck on the comparisions to reservations, because I think it's a severely fucked up comparison. But saying that alone isn't a helpful or effective conversation, so -

> Shouldn't we be trying to bring similar opportunities to all social groups? If we want to look at how this turns out, take a look at Native American reservations.

In terms of "should we be trying to bring..." - yeah, more or less, yeah, we should. The issue, for me, comes first from trying to say that the social group that is a reservation is the same kind of social group that is a disappearing small town; second, that "bring[ing] similar opportunities" to both would look similar (ye olde equality/equity conversation), and lastly that a meaningful comparison of outcomes can be made between the polities, due to, you know, all the ethnic cleansing (Trail of Tears, etc). But, that's a a hard conversation to have, or to continue, and it's based off of me making a lot of assumptions about what comparison actually is trying to be made.

So, to be constructive about it:

> If we want to look at how this turns out, take a look at Native American reservations.

Can you walk me through this? What are you seeing as the outcome, and why do you think these polities are comparable?
You are guaranteed 12 or so seconds to take over. That means the system can handle anything, from moving over from emergency vehicles to unexpected debris while you take over
Evaluating Geothermal Learning Curves (2023)
Honestly, I'm a bit tempted. I read quite a bit on my laptop while lying down and my arms are always in a bit of awkward position in order to scroll. I have been thinking of getting one of those presenter tools.

The only downsides are price & lack of click.
Blue, but it's more to do with manufacturing defects and the minerals used for the mirrors.
I’ll see if I can scrounge up the data. For some years, I had the entire batch covered, but most had holes since not everyone had a LinkedIn account. Unfortunately, the more recent the years the less the data.

Personally, I don’t see anything wrong with what YC is doing. Startups are hard enough as is, and they found a formula that works consistently.
I wonder if anyone has done an analysis looking at a set of tasks and ordering them according to the ease of automating them compared to the cost of labor.

Self-driving cars seem like a poor choice of market, since the task is very complex and there are also many people worldwide who are willing to work as drivers.

The sweet spot would be a task that is easy to automate and also doesn't have much human competition. Obviously the OG automation case of assembly lines fits this. LLMs can occupy this space since there are probably more people who can drive a car than can write grammatically correct natural language. I would put self-driving trains in this category as well but that's an outsider's perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveilla...

2008.
They are opening themselves up to massive liability even with “fine print” — this is meaningful and should not be disregarded. Just because there’s some super indem clause in their customer agreement doesn’t mean the courts will rule in its favor and not strike it out.
A patient who is vomiting blood does not need a "vibe" or "spidey-sense" to figure out something is wrong. There are, however, a surprisingly large number of situations in which doctors have to work with rather less information about what is going on, especially when you move to the hospital.

I'm an anesthesiologist, so I don't have a clinic at all. I meet you just before surgery and we go. Vibes and spidey-senses matter a lot, because I don't have time to run down a two-week-long investigation of your problem - I have to fix it right now or you're dead.

Could AI improve me? Probably. Can the AI observe the way humans can? Not yet. Can they intervene like humans can? Not even close. When you have an autonomous robot that can successfully run down the American Society of Anesthesiologists' difficult airway algorithm, you're getting there.
Ask HN: Best Open E-Reader?
I have too many books (~200) which I bought but I don’t want to have around. Mostly novels which I’m probably going to donate to local libraries or similar.

However I feel entitled of having a copy of those books in electronic format. Very slowly, I’m looking for .epub files and storing these in a hard drive.

Now, say I want to read one of them on an e-ink device. Which one is going to allow me to load these files without going through proprietary stores (I’m not going to pay twice for something I already own) or jailbreaking the device?

I simply want to spend x$ and have something which will last for a long time.
> Not only in the US, but everywhere insurance companies are a thing.

No, not at all. Insurance exists in plenty of places, without significantly influencing doctors' treatment.
They don’t know, that’s the difference. A human would be haunted by that for their entire life, in the same way that humans suffer because of fear of death. Chickens, dumb or not, don’t seem capable of knowing that that’s going to happen, so they enjoy their constructed lives more than a human would.
That's how it works in the USA, not necessarily how it works. Other forms of governing exists.

A big step forward for the USA would be a vast reduction of federal power over the states.
And that's a very annoying condition to drive under. So quite useful.
Slime molds in pitri dishes are famous for using up their resources and then plateauing ..

Sustainable growth is like saying humane torture. An oxymoron and a lie. Sustainability is all about an equilibrium and long term circular processes, how can that be compatible with ever increasing resource usage, aka growth?

Our financial and societal systems are built on growth, we define prosperity in terms of growth. A traded corporation isn't considered successful when it earns as much as last quarter, it needs to earn more every quarter, ad nauseam.
> That's a cop-out.

A reference to the published literature is a cop-out??? Sorry, no.

> Sure, the methodical process of science doesn't, strictly-speaking, require induction, but we still have to decide whether to expect the result of scientific inquiry to be useful.

What??? No! We just have to observe empirically that the results of scientific inquiry are useful.
Uber has sent me cars that did not have tires, wipers, or headlights. The fact that Waymo sends you a roadworthy car is, by itself, worth $5 per trip.
Symbolica
Symbolica landed a $33 million investment earlier this year led by Khosla Ventures. Traditional symbolic AI solves tasks by defining symbol-manipulating rule sets dedicated to particular jobs, such as editing lines of text in word processor software. That’s as opposed to neural networks, which try to solve tasks through statistical approximation and learning from examples. Symbolica aims to leverage the best of both worlds.
Anti monopoly law already handles that.
> [..] As a fairly shy kid, this already annoyed me in first grade.

(I suppose the cons outweighted the cons.)

Did you perceive any pros?

I suppose one way to do grades is first read through all papers to get an idea of the levels of the students. Though you still have bias/nepotism and such then. Perhaps a teamwork or commitee would work, or teachers swapping classes/schools?

I had a French teacher on high school who dropped a pen on list of students and then where it landed that person would get rehearsal. People in mid (waves) were fried.

Plus, there is also the issue of certain last names being common in certain cultures, leading to skewed statistics.
Not really what you’re looking for but close

https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book