skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you can’t recover from without stopping production for a long time.

Should that not be addressed at the level of Architectural design of your System? Everything fails all the time...bla bla....and all that?
Just a note - these guys, goodereader.com, I had a bad time trying to buy from them.

Placed an order, a birthday present for a family member, paid, done, fine.

Ten days later they come back and tell me I need to provide passport by email or they'll consider the order fraudulent. I refused (passport is too sensitive a document, and disproportionate for an ereader), they cancelled. At that point, no time to get ereader in time for birthday.

The guy I spoke to was, frankly, arrogant as all hell. In any event, though, which has nothing to do with character, if you're going to consider an order fraudulent, do it in a timely manner.

I Googled around after that and found a bunch of people complaining about them (this being a few years ago, so things could have changed).
They do, and from it they learn many other things even before language, including some non-verbal expectation of what is likely to happen next, and that they have some ability to participate in the external world. Until recently, we have not seen anything that has gained some competence in language without having these precursors.
> "www.zilog.com" has requested that you identify yourself with a certificate
A counter point being, most people assume other people can be trusted.

It's a small percentage of people hacking (in a malicious way) but the reach of the internet means we're all vulnerable.
Null(0) did nothing
Came across some people that reversed serious myopia (upto 6 diopter) well into adulthood. They have interviews on their youtube channel.

https://endmyopia.org/
A very small amount of the fee every ISP pays to access the internet actually pays for the hosting.
Cathy Wood of Ark investments just gave Tesla a $2000 price target on the back of FSD taxi service...
That's around a $5T valuation.

You have to wonder if she is dumb, or just knows Tesla investors are totally delusional.

Or perhaps, when you come upon an OG delusional musk worshipper, and call them out, they can point at their money pile and call you the idiot...
Right, I was confused. "Hands-off" intially sounded like it was trustworthy to drive itself.

But in this case it means the car now trusts you to trust it by not putting your hands on the wheel?
Don't underestimate how dogma of social consensus can stifle otherwise innovative techniques, regardless whether they are proven effective or not.
Today Dave‘s iPhone controls doors which if I remember right became a problem for Dave in 2001.
But `find -iname` always worked; why was it proposed again?
What is being scraped is not GitHub s data. It's other people's.
Looks like it's still expected to a be a big net win for brake wear: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974912...
map of where Voyager 1 and 2 are currently: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/#where_are_they_...
We can do it, see https://qubes-os.org
Waymo operates a business that offers hundreds or thousands of rides every day under regulatory supervision, and we have public data about accidents (there have been a few.) My anecdotal observations aren’t a replacement for data, but there is data. For the Tesla I’ve had FSD on my personal car since it became available in beta and have way more than three rides. My observations are sufficient to tell me it’s not reliable enough to run unsupervised, at least as long as I’m liable or in the same city as an unsupervised one.
Is there any detailed technical write up as to how various issues with the Voyager, over the years have been resolved?
I don't get the love of quaternions in this context. How are quaternions more intuitive than matrices?

A matrix acts on a vector. Rotations act on vectors. What could be more natural than to look at rotations as matrices?

The matrix exponential then makes all this intuitive to work with, if you connect it to solutions of ODEs: dx/dt = Ax has solution exp(t A). If A is skew symmetric, then the change in x is orthogonal to x at all times. So it's a rotation that doesn't change the length. (Alternative: apply a small orthogonal change over and over: (1 + delta A)^N x)

Lie Groups/Algebras vastly generalize this, and you can call skew symmetric matrices geometric algebra, but that's not important. Important is that you generate rotations by continuously making orthogonal changes, and that the exponential map describes this process. I find this picture far more geometric and intuitive than anything else.
> low level stuff like parsers, small KV stores and some network programming

That's not actually "low level"; you can pretty well do all of this using JS or TS. Go is very well suited for these kind of topics, and you can master it within a year. I don't see a necessity or clear advantage to learn C++ for these kinds of topics (mastering C++ takes 3 to 5 years).

> I have the FOMO of not learning to manage memory

There is no reason for this. It would be different if you would like to develop resource constrained embedded systems (those with less than a MB of RAM).
The question had nothing to do with that. It was whether LASIK can have life-altering complications. The answer is Yes.

But to your point: I will assume the HN who posted here was smart, and that the procedure was performed by a licensed professional within a standard risk profile, using equipment that was functioning as expected.
> The same thing is happening here - Microsoft pushed what objectively is a great tool, but they did so in a way that never gave users a choice of whether or not they wanted it.

Citation needed. I highly doubt this is true.
Django is a critical project, and I am sure your contributions are of high quality. But making it too easy to get new contributions in, somehow raises other concerns around the project governance.
Trivial compared to space consumption... in what sense? That sounds very difficult to compare. I also live in New Mexico, which is a huge state full of next-to-nothing but space, so perhaps I'm missing context.
This in the US.
Would expect a lot of user testing and validation goes on at Apple.

Seems like you need to RTFM and probably make some mods yourself.
H.265 is magic (2021)
I’m not disagreeing with the premise of what you are saying but did you read the article? At least with this I don’t think anyone was saying it was the British that made it go extinct. The article references a study saying about the native people eating the eggs like 50,000 years ago.
Well, maybe the database should have more suitable defaults? Arguably, slowing down a bit once when the WAL grows beyond X MB to clean it up is better behavior than having it grow unboundedly, but maybe that's not possible.
Suppose that the laws were changed so that breaching personal data meant the CEO had to personally visit each affected customer and apologize face to face. Would it really be the case that “we can’t do it” because everyone is being popped by elite Chinese military operations, or would it instead magically turn out that companies could cut into the executive bonus fund by 10% to resolve understaffing for boring O&M work, and maybe reconsider collecting so much data in the first place? As the post notes, breaches of the data where they have real penalties are much rarer.
Ethically Microsoft has about as much claim to be able to use the data for co-pilot as anyone else.

On the other hand, maybe a MSFT v Amazon lawsuit over this could be the wake up call the world needs that maybe we should stop centralising critical infrastructure in the hands of a single company. Which is why I think they wouldn't do it - at most I could see Microsoft tightening request limits on accounts associated with Amazon.
> Humans are very bad at security.

Security for who. from whom and to what end?

I think many humans are bad at it. A smaller group, may be 10 percent,
have the "security mindset".

For the ninety percent who use technology or run businesses it's a
schlep and imposition. They just want to forget about it. And there
are many psychological and cultural devices to help them ignore
security.

Around 8 of remaining 10 percent are on what I see as the "dark side".
They are guards for the castles, and primarily concerned with
_helping_ technological abusers take advantage of the majority's
weakness.
Another nice source of information about this fascinating archaeological site is the official website of the Must Farm Project. In particular, I have found their "about" page to be quite interesting: https://www.mustfarm.com/bronze-age-settlement/about/

This page contains, among several things, pictures and plans of the excavation area, sketches of metalwork, photos of various artefacts, etc. Quoting from their page:

> Alternatively, the presence of weapons, such as swords and spears, and shields during the Late Bronze Age suggests that conflict was an aspect of society at this time. Swords and spears were found at Must Farm, the settlement was built in a defensible location over water with a palisade of sharpened stakes surrounding it. Could it be that the settlement was burnt down in an act of aggression? However, a lack of human remains from the site suggests none of its occupants died during the fire, could they have been driven away?

> Ultimately, despite the incredible preservation at Must Farm, the cause of the site’s destruction is likely to remain elusive.
Why the NYC TLC trip data is a nice training dataset for Data Engineers (2019)
A judge ordered us to turn over privileged documents
I have a Sonos portable speaker that works via bluetooth. I bought it because I couldn't find anything else on the market with a replaceable battery. Having to connect to the Internet to set it up in the Sonos app irritated me, but that was something I could live with, and I can play music directly from the Spotify app without having to use the app from Sonos. I'm happy with the sound quality and was thinking about getting a Sonos sound bar, but with the T&C changes I don't think I'll be doing that anymore.
Both those things are stupid. Or scary. Whichever you prefer.

This isn't dev. This isn't hacking in the classic sense of the word. This is asking a genie to do it, trusting he's not malign or incompetent, and then saying "look, I made this!"
>> She was called Leela Chess Zero — ’zero’ because she started knowing only the rules.

That's a common framing but it's wrong. Leela -and all its friends- have another piece of chess-specific knowledge that is indispensable to their performance: they have a representation of the game of chess -a game-world model- as a game tree, divided in plys: one ply for each player's turn. That game tree is what is searched by adversarial search algorithms, such as minimax or Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS; the choice of Leela, IIUC).

More precisely modelling a game as a game tree applies to many games, not just chess, but the specific brand of game tree used in chess engines applies to chess and similar, two-person, zero-sum, complete information board games. I do like my jargon! For other kinds of games, different models, and different search algorithms are needed, e.g. see Poker and Libratus [1].

The need for such a game tree, such a model of a game world, is currently impossible to go without, if the target is superior performance. The article mentions no-search algorithms and briefly touches upon their main limitation (i.e. "why?").

All that btw is my problem with the Bitter Lesson: it is conveniently selective with what it considers domain knowledge (i.e. a "model" in the sense of a theory). As others have noted, e.g. Rodney Brooks [2], Convolutional Neural Nets have dominated image classification thanks to the use of convolutional layers to establish positional invariance. That's a model of machine vision invented by a human, alright, just as a game-tree is a model of a game invented by a human, and everything else anyone has ever done in AI and machine learning is the same: a human comes up with a model, of a world, of an environment, of a domain, of a process, then a computer calculates using that model, and sometimes even outperforms humans (as in chess, Go, and friends) or at the very least achieves results that humans cannot match with hand-crafted solutions.

That is a lesson to learn (with all due respect to Rich Sutton). Human model + machine computation has solved every hard problem in AI in the last 80 years. And we have no idea how to do anything even slightly different.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libratus

[2] https://rodneybrooks.com/a-better-lesson/
Again, not paying attention to your chauffeur and the road situation is the point of having a chauffeur.
Can’t in this context mostly means aren’t willing to do something with current incentives.

Remove the ability to do online or offline credit card transactions without dedicated hardware for chip and pin, thus eliminating the value of stolen credit card numbers. Are you crazy we can’t do that customers would use a different credit card!

Change the incentives so credit card companies would be personally liable for any fraudulent transaction and suddenly everything changes.
If the system is small enough for a single postgres (which let's be honest 99% of them are) and short maintenance downtimes are easily tolerated by customers it's easy to forget about some failure modes and especially if you haven't been on the receiving end of such an incident. An experienced DBA would also notice the problem if only because they've been resolving a few of them in their professional past (hence 'experienced').
Fair enough. I haven't found any issues, but sounds like you use it a lot more heavily than I do.
https://civi.plus is our cloud hosted version civicrm which includes a huge number additional features specifically for associations and membership organisations. Feel free to check it out!
Automatic Bug Detection in LLM-Powered Text-Based Games Using LLMs
> I'd rather see disclaimers ("this may be wrong information" or "do not attempt") than my own computer (or the services I pay for) straight out refusing my request.

Are you saying that you want to pay to be provided with harmful text (see racist, sexist, homophobic, violent, all sorts of super terrible stuff)?

For you, it might be freedom for freedom sake but for 1% of the people out there, that will be lowering the barrier to commit bad stuff.

This is not the same as a super violent showing 3d limb dismemberments. It's a limitless, realistic, detailed and helpful guide to commit horrible stuff or describe horrible scenarios.

in4 you can google that, your google searches get monitored for this kind of stuff. Your convos with llms won't.

It's very disturbing to see adults people on here arguing against censorship of a public tool
He'd better not be also studying cdS, because that hits too close to oikos.

(Acronym because I need any now or ever other lurkers on this thread to work just a wee harder)
The dirty little secret of the entire modern financial world is that the remit of banks is to get people to feel their money is safe, thereby convincing them to deposit it, and then use it to make loans way in excess of how much money they hold, thereby creating the ease of access to capital that the economy needs. And as long as people feel their money is safe, it is safe, because loaning money out is actually pretty reliable if you do it sensibly, the bank will be paid back eventually.

Unless everyone wants to take their deposits out at once and buy treasuries instead!

It's very reasonable to criticise commercial banking for delivering such poor value to depositors that narrow banking looks like a better option, but regardless, if that's the situation, your choice is between suppressing narrow banking and allowing the collapse of the entire system. You cannot reasonably expect an institution like the Reserve to make the other choice there.
disappointing that large mega Corp does the exact same thing broke developers do to get around rate limits
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but, given enough capital, a lot of wild sounding things can become real. Hype is a great tool to attract capital.

Clearly Musk understands this very well and plays that game expertly.

It's really not necessary for all his promises to come true, as long as he can point to a track record of having made some of those wild things come true. So far, that's working.
These electromagnetic anomalies are likely caused by stresses in rocks deep underground similar to the phenomenon that occurs when piezoelectric materials are put under stress. As stresses build up before a quake, similarly EM anomalies ought to be detectable beforehand, thus detecting them early could give people enough forewarning for them to seek safety.

I don't know whether satellites are ideal or are sensitive enough (because of their distance from the ground) for this kind of earthquake prediction but over the years there have been significant numbers of terrestrially-bound observations of electrical/electromagnetic disturbances occurring before a quake happens to suggest the phenomenon ought to be fully investigated.

These EM anomalies have been the subject of a news report in an earlier HN story and I made a suggestion then that until the science was fully established that the Amateur Radio Service could be of possible assistance.

Amateur radio operators could perhaps establish a worldwide network to monitor and or detect changes in the EM field on, say, an ultra low frequency band (below the AM broadcast band) as it's likely the most suitable. I'd envisage Amateurs operating a network of CW TXes and signature changes in their carrier signals would act as the early warnings.

This could be done as a separate Amateur operation (national operations—RSGB, ARRL, WIA, etc. and or through the IARU), or in conjunction with various government agencies, IPS (Ionospheric Prediction Services), etc.

The advantage of using the Amateur Service or including it with government operations (which at the outset would be small) is that many more monitoring points could be established quickly. Moreover, given the science is not well established, it's unlikely governments would fund a large network early on. That's where Amateurs come in, by contrast, the cost of establishing an Amateur network would be minimal and would grow organically (as Amateurs are inherently flexible).
This reads like a linked in post.
safest bet you can make - no one old enough to have HN account today will live to see anything even closely resembling FSD
Disclosure: I work for a Tesla competitor, not on self-driving. This is solely my own opinion.

More and more, I feel that we need at least a couple more paradigm changes - specifically:

- More understandable models - being able to get good answers to "why did you do that"
- Better retraining - Don't do that thing! (without training a whole model)
- Better internal learning - don't wait for the next download

Non ML changes: Public understanding and acceptance of self-driving, favorable insurance and legal framework.

Public understanding includes improvements to two way communication between humans and self driving vehicles.

Legal framework includes limited liability for manufacturers. NOTE: I don't love this idea or even like it, but without it we will only get driver enhancement features, not SDC. (If you're angry at this suggestion, know that I am too)

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My basic approach to all of this is that you need to have a solution to any problems that automation will encounter. The World is a problem generating machine. Most solutions to automation problems involve constraining the problem space. But as that guy said "Life, uh, finds a way"
I highly doubt Africa cares about 5G as much as the west does. Someone will need to pay for that stuff and 5G also needs to be hooked up to a backhaul which supports 5G speeds.
Clickable Euler diagram of supranational European Bodies
It's simple: AI companies are allowed to scrape whatever they want, but if you scrape an AI companies data then you are a copyright terrorist and you will never see the light of heaven.
> I think arguing that "driving" requires the same amount of effort as "not driving" is a more specious claim

It's really not, the human brain is _really_ good at abstracting.

In pretty much exactly the same way you don't have to pay attention to balancing to walk, your brain learns to do the same thing for cycling and driving. It abstracts the mechanics of the car (e.g. turning the wheel to turn left/right) and sort of extends its view of your "body" to the car.

This isn't an instantaneous process of course, it takes time to build up that abstraction, but it absolutely exists. If your brain wasn't good at doing those types of abstractions then walking/running/typing/speaking/breathing/etc. would take a phenomenal amount of attention and practice.
Why do Elephants have a Trunk?
Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre (2018)
Ok, it’s a lot more like a boltzmann brain in Plato’s cave learning what language is with zero other external context of what reality is.
An Arm laptop project conclusion
Nango (YC W23) Is Hiring a Senior Product Engineer (100% Remote)
> I ran a stress test of 14k RPS

My built-in Devil's Advocate feels compelled to ask: do you have any reason to believe that your production site would get even a small fraction (single-digit percentage) of that traffic?

As a point of comparison, i have it on good authority that sqlite3's own sites typically get far less than 0.1% of that traffic. Two of those sites (sqlite.org/src and sqlite.org/forum) are database-driven applications.
>> Alphabet and Chinese rivals still focused on automotive market

Alphabet, automotive?

Was not aware.-

(Through Wqymo, 'haps ...)
> I’ve had a Model Y for more than 3 years now, well before Elon revealed himself as the kind of person he really is, and I’ve been happy with it

Logical fallacy in the second paragraph. Doesn’t bode well.
what could the OS do to "blacklist" things on its own?

How would the OS have any chance of knowing I don't want my programming session recorded if I don't' tell it?

How would google chrome know to go to incognito mode if I don't tell it?

Of course the burden for this is on the user, what other way could possibly work?
You do know Microsoft has also used all private repositories to train its models, right? Especially for Copilot
When people leave snarky comments there is usually (but not always) some trigger and I am genuinely curious what made you leave the comment? Was it because I required student projects to have a list of tools and methodologies?

It is easy to forget what it is like to be a beginner, even for those in the current generation growing up with so much technology. I think they are great for helping expose people to ideas, tools and software and give them leads on how they can create similar works. Even if a project can't be open source there can be all sorts of valuable info in just listing the underlying tools / software / libraries used.

A few good examples https://indieweb.org/colophon
Now there are gargantuan fines, shelves of regulation, auditing and compliance, even jail time for executives.

What companies paid a big enough fine to have an unprofitable year? Which executives are sitting in prison?

These things only exist in theory, not practice.

I’ll give you endless reams of pointless box checking exercises in the name of auditing and compliance.
Is it possible for your to share any of those presentations?
> There have also been multiple public promises that FSD would be delivered in a matter of years

This is a fun read, even if it only goes up to 2021:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-timeline-promise...
Is the cover image itself generated via some ML model? The old guy in the middle is missing substantial parts of his arm. The box right by him also has some artifacting in the corner.
Yes, the fact that special laws had to be made to exonerate the postmasters shows just how poorly the legal system has performed