skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not enough. Still cheaper to defraud and kill people than to do it right. As a former Boeing engineer, though not involved in commercial manufacturing, I think there are certainly about 20 people who had enough to do in the decisionmaking to rate a jail sentence.

Some of these items are profit-driven, e.g. sales reps telling airlines they didn't need to recertify /retrain to get the sale. (One of the new features ended up killing people) Other items were not directly profit driven, lazy engineers that don't care to understand and follow the procedure and guidelines laid out for them. Actual process improvement recommended by an engineer can earn bonuses after being vetted out, but they knew what they were doing was not legit. Certainly shift managers were aware what was going on also.

In purely financial terms, shareholders lost far more value than the fines so what does this do besides absolve the company?
Agree: engagement over activism for maximum effectiveness, thanks GM.
Isn't "pay or consent" already illegal under the GDPR?

It says

Consent should not be regarded as freely
given if the data subject has no
genuine or free choice or is unable to
refuse or withdraw consent without
detriment.

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-42/

Wouldn't having to pay be considered a detriment, and therefore make the consent invalid under the GDPR?
I haven’t read it in a while but I remember this post giving a good rundown of rnns

https://dennybritz.com/posts/wildml/recurrent-neural-network...
> Statement

> The flaw affects RHEL9 as the regression was introduced after the OpenSSH version shipped with RHEL8 was published.
Looks like they're evaluating several alternatives to C++ but haven't chosen one yet:

"We are actively evaluating a number of alternatives [to C++] and will be adding a mature successor language to the project in the near future. This process is already quite far along, and prototypes exist in multiple languages."
Amazing news! It would be great to read how did it come to attract such great sponsorships. Was that actively searched for by Andreas?
No. WA LNI provides further guidance under Chapter 6 [0].

> The wage scale or salary range should provide applicants with the employer’s most reasonable and genuinely expected compensation range for the job.

[0] https://lni.wa.gov/forms-publications/F700-216-000.pdf
2006: Flash-based, online/web NLVE, focused on clipping / remixing (eg: "TikTok / Stitch Me").

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/jumpcut.gi...

...sadly, acquired by Yahoo, and you know what happened next.

I can't find a lot of screenshots / video from the era, but the one above should give you a sense of it.
Yes, it also demolishes the naïve Copernican argument that because life is on Earth, it must be common.

The more subtle argument was that because life originated early on Earth, OoL must be a high probability event. But that argument implicitly assumes the probability of OoL is relatively constant with time, so it wouldn't be biased to occur early. OoL on small planetesimals is naturally biased to occur early, due to decay of those short lived radioisotopes. After the planetesimals freeze OoL there doesn't seem possible.
I dunno. If I look at even a very simple diagram of the flow of air around a wing I see air deflected downward on the bottom and air accelerated around a curve on the top. Both would be expected to produce a downward reaction force.

Added: Or more Newtonish (no action at a distance), there is more upward vertical force contributed by the particles in both cases than downward force.
Review of "Design for a Brain" (2005)
It's an interesting idea...most news outlets are pretty similar, but with variance in a few (of the same) dimensions. A radical change could be to vary along new and more dimensions, and in new ways, but also to introduce variance (or novelty) to the shared axioms it all sits on top of (~"the reality").

If it was all powered by AI I think you could get some really interesting results. I bet it would invoke extremely strong emotions in Humans, they tend to not like their "reality" being messed with (well...in ways other than they have become accustomed to - these ways they seem extremely fond of, and defend them passionately).

Another angle no one's run with in any serious way would be a sort of meta-journalism, again with the techniques described above. I think a well done implementation could steal/borrow 50% of Trump's base, and 30% of the Democrats. Actually, with different variations of parameters I'd think you could get a wide range of outcomes, it is often hard to know in advance what will strike a chord with people, some of the weirdest things work like a charm.
There are millions of subscribers on subs like r/malefashionadvice that do exactly what you say in your second paragraph, most of them are those interested in fashion but can't concretely judge themselves as they haven't built their fashion sense yet.
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This is a great example, and the first time I've heard it phrased this way. Thank you, I'll file this away for later.
> To model the state, we need to add three hidden layers to the network

Why 3?

And why use "h" for layer names?
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That is certainly false. You're born with plenty of very specific reflexes, and with lots of information about how to use our neural wiring to control much of our body. We are born with certain associations built in (good and bad smells, good and bad tastes, certain shapes that scare us, liking shiny objects, and many others).

This is all somewhat hard to gage in human babies, as we take a relatively long time to become functional. However, it's clear when looking at many other mammals - baby reindeer or horses, for example, are able to run within minutes of being born; they can see, they can interpret the images they see as objects, they understand things like object permanence, they can approximate distances and speeds, they have a simple theory of mind and can interact with other agents, they can recognize their mother's udders and suckle at them for food, and many many other tasks that they have 0 training for. The only possible conclusion is that their brains are pre-trained, and they are only performing some quick fine-tuning based on experience in their first hours of life.
It obviously violates the DMA in writing, but why does it not violate the GDPR? Almost every other EU newspaper is doing this which obiously defeats the spirit of the law...
It would be great if YouTube implemented something similar to community notes. Either that or show a warning on channels that share the same display name as a verified channel.
The silence and arrogance of the HN COMMENTARIAT makes this point unwinnable for you.

You miss a key emotional boundary: to cannot know. You dismiss just undermines by revealing lack of empathy
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LLM Application development is extremely iterative, more so than any other types of development. This is because in addition to all the activities involved in regular application development, we also need to make the LLM Application accurate and reduce hallucination. To improve performance, we need to trial and error various combinations of LLM models, prompt templates (e.g., few-shot, chain-of-thought), prompt context with different RAG architecture, try different agent architecture, and more.

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> Life requires water to survive and grow, doesn't seem like you can have a living organism terraform Mars for you unless you've introduced a ton of water through other means.

This is the example I constantly refer to about how slow progress has been with probes and rovers, and why we really need feet on the ground. Mars is surprisingly relatively moist. The topsoil is about 2% water by mass! [1] To use the really confused metrics from the article - that's a liter of water per cubic foot of soil! The even more enticing thing is what's below? It's strongly suggestive that it may be even more moist below.

Back to the slowness - this was only discovered in 2013! It's one of the very few things that "The Martian" got accidentally wrong. The book was written before this discovery was made, and most people thought the soil was as barren and dry as it looks. It's not!

[1] - https://www.space.com/22949-mars-water-discovery-curiosity-r...
Agree with this. Similar to something like Frame.work, this kind of product will never have universal interest and is unlikely to take more than a couple percent of the market, but that’s Fine. Pick your audience, build them the product they want, and charge them money for it. I’ll happily pay for an open-source standards compliant browser with no conflict about who it’s building for.
Do they really detect heart rate through pressure sensors? That seems like it'd have so much noise the data would be unusable.
Edit: Looks like they couple it with some fancy statistical analysis to get accurate enough data. Interesting
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This is a strawman argument: You've setup a scenario where cash isn't very beneficial, and then show why it's not beneficial.

Before the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, women could only use cash. Sure it would have been way cooler if they weren't discriminated against, but many women still only survived because of the cash option, and none of them would have said "Well since I might run out of money anyway go ahead and make it impossible for me to use what I have".
Supreme Court finds some immunity for presidents, complicating Trump indictment
1953 review of "Design for a brain" by W. Ross Ashby, https://www.jstor.org/stable/685995

When a physiologist wants to investigate the working of the nervous system he normally examines samples of this system, dissects them, traces out all their ramifications, ascertains what physical and chemical changes they undergo while they are working, conducts sundry experiments on them, and thus acquires bit by bit a knowledge of the function of each component part and the way in which it works.

Dr. Ross Ashby's approach is more theoretical. He has constructed a machine, which he calls a homeostat, the mechanism of which makes it behave in one respect somewhat like an animal or a human being adapting itself to its environment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostat

> The homeostat is one of the first devices capable of adapting itself to the environment; it exhibited behaviours such as habituation, reinforcement and learning through its ability to maintain homeostasis in a changing environment. It was built by William Ross Ashby in 1948.. an adaptive ultrastable system, consisting of four interconnected Royal Air Force bomb control units with inputs, feedback, and magnetically driven, water-filled potentiometers. It illustrated his law of requisite variety — automatically adapting its configuration to stabilize the effects of any disturbances introduced into the system..

> When Alan Turing heard of Ashby's intention to build the homeostat, he wrote to Ashby to suggest that he could run a simulation on Turing's Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) instead of building a special machine.. In 1949 Time described it as "the closest thing to a synthetic brain so far designed by man".

Full text of book: https://archive.org/details/designforbrain00ashb
I'm not sure this is the great retort that you think it is. Current Christian fundamentalism in the US looks every bit as insane from here as Islamic fundamentalism does in the Middle East.
As someone who routinely formally verifies code, I can confirm that you should not trust yourself. I keep finding bugs and hidden assumptions in the most trivial code or even in code covered with unit tests. In my opinion, formal verification is the only way to truly trust some code.
That probably helps to reduce the occurrence of issues, but I feel you are still ultimately relying on the correctness of proof assistants like Coq. And I am sure that bugs are occasionally found in Coq!
I saw a video a while back (it was since taken down) from a guy with a low power TV station who experimented with broadcasting much more modern video codecs. He experienced some good results with modern "smart TVs" largely because they have good hardware support for various modern video codecs and seemed to handle the streams just fine. He managed to get multiple 4K video streams over standard ATSC 2.0 signaling working on a range of different TV models. It seemed like a neat experiment.
New Web Development: Or, why Copilots and chatbots are bad for modern web dev
Or perhaps they could play different songs!

In my country DAB has station dedicated to playing classical music, jazz, youth-oriented pop music, current affairs, religion, rock music - not to mention dozens of local radio stations!

FM allows for only a very limited number of stations, which means it ends up in a bidding war between the large commercial stations - who in turn have to play fairly generic music to attract a large number of listeners. With DAB there's plenty of space left over for niche stations, as they can transmit essentially for free.
Any plans for future articles?
Thank you for your feedback,
the 30fps limit is temporary, until I have fully tested perfs with video files at a higher framerate
can you tell me more about 'and let go with momentum', not sure what you mean? Is it about loss of precision, not being responsive, bad snapping to closest frame?
Creating a tool that allows people to aggregate writing from a website is fine. This project goes one step further and shares a copy of Graham's writing as an ePub on Github,[0] which I don't think is ethical or legal.

It's Graham's writing, and he can choose how to publish, but if you're not the author or copyright holder, you shouldn't be republishing someone else's writing without their approval.

[0] https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays/releases/download/late...
.NET 4.8 is the last .NET to be bundled with Windows. It's a legacy stack, but it exists on every Windows >= 10 so it is a legacy stack that makes deployables easy (just assume it is installed). (.NET 4.8 is the new VB6.)

With .NET 9 right around the corner, how far behind the legacy stack is only increases.

.NET > 5 will never be installed out of the box on Windows PCs. The trade offs to that concession however are: cross-platform support, better container support, easier side-by-side installs support ("portable" installs). .NET > 7 can do an admirable job AOT compiling single-file applications. For a GUI app you probably aren't going to easily get that single-file < 40MBs yet today, but it's going to be truly self-contained and generally don't need a lot of specific OSes or things installed at the OS level. Each recent version of .NET has been working to improve its single-file publishing and there may be advances to come.
For those who capture cable or antenna broadcast TV programs or use HDMI capture devices like the Hauppauge HD-PVR, MythTV has had frame-exact editing of TS recordings for many years.
I've been waiting for an embedable, rust-based, browser library broken down into modules like "rendering", "scripting", "network", "encoding", etc, for over a decade now. At certain points, it felt like a foregone conclusions. These days, it feels like no one else even wants something like that (or at least, no one is willing to work on it in the open).

All I want to do is write apps that have native performance using the world's most popular document format and styling language, and so far the only response that even remotely looks like interest in that from the OS designers has been "use a webview" because they apparently, inexplicably understand the first clause of this sentence as 'I would like to embed a full browser stack to accommodate visuals'.
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> Do you never end up having to privesc in your pentests on linux systems?

Of course I do.

I'm not saying privsec isn't useful, I'm saying the cases where you will ssh to localhost to get root are very rare.

Maybe you test different environment or something, but on most corporate networks I test the linux machines are dev machines just used for compiling/testing and basically have shared passwords, or they're servers for webapps or something else where normal users most who have a windows machine won't have a shell account.

If there's a server where I only have a local account and I'm trying to get root and it's running an ssh server vulnerable to this attack, of course I'd try it. I just don't expect to be in that situation any time soon, if ever.
If they went with a more modest goal of 250kph (155mph) maximum speed (Class I HSR), it almost certainly would have been easier and cheaper to build. The problem with that is that the Bay Area -> LA times would have been 4+ hours which would have been a pretty hard sell vs flying or even driving.
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