skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
May I ask if you’ve considered taking measures to end your own life?

I think I’ve had an unusual number of people close to me choose that option, including my father recently so I guess I’m still trying to reconcile it all. Their pain vs mine, what could have played out differently, etc.

I sincerely wish the best outcome for you and yours.
No, that appears to be incorrect.

It is the case that with completely generative models, you will get hallucinated details very likely to be untruthful. But with this approach, you can see blurry input images of license plates that with our naked eye we could not possibly decipher the characters, then put through this model where the output is very close to the actual ground truth.

https://dachunkai.github.io/evtexture.github.io/static/image...

Where does this information come from? It seems they are generating synthetic "event camera-like" events just from diffs between still frames? So maybe they trained a model based on real events from a real event camera? It's hard to tell from their write-up. But these results are very impressive.
You guys have a great product, I fly for a major airline and really like it. Hurry up and get Delta onboard so we can get their data too: I’ve used their in-house app at my old job and Sky Vector is much better.

Any plans to change the Jepp integration? Most of my colleagues don’t use it, too much data displayed at once. I’m not sure of a solution but would love to hear if you guys have any ideas.
But “releasing these models” is the whole problem. Models and prompts are different things. Prompts evolve daily. And any safety at the prompt level is literally non-existent when developers access the model itself without the prompt used in a commercial product. OpenAI playground versus ChetGPT, for example.

The article he’s negative informational value. I wouldn’t mind all of the energy Register puts into snark if there was a real effort to be informative, but it’s irritating to read something where far more energy went into tone than content.
Amazon Decides Speed Isn't Everything
no kidding, dude is 93 and outlived Jimmy Buffett. On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone blah blah blah.
The story of Teonimenu, a lost island of the Pacific
Factorio has stuff like this:

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Moon_Logic

Besides, it's quite limiting to create software that can't just execute in a Turing complete environment.

Anyway, we really need interpreters that include a strong capability system.
Our solution is compatible with Airbus, Boeing, or any other aircraft. It's important to note that connecting to the aircraft systems can be more expensive and add maintenance and complexity costs for the airline.
It's all about running technique, not the shoes.

Nike, et al., spent millions of dollars demonstrating that this statement is untrue.

Big, padded shoes are for a specific (wrong) technique.

Demonstrably untrue, as TFA discusses at length. TFA isn’t talking about the Hokas that your grandmother wears to the grocery, these are race shoes. You going to go tell Kipchoge that his “technique” is all wrong, and he needs to switch to Vibram Five Fingers?
> get a Dell PC, ones I've read online that were serviceable

When I "repaired" a Dell PC, I destroyed the machine.

Dell power-supplies looked like standard PC power supplies; they connected to the motherboard using the same Molex plug. But Dell's Molex connector wasn't wired the same as normal ones. Dell power supplies only worked with Dell motherboards, and vice-versa.

Things may have changed, but that experience blew away my illusions about Dells being repairable.
Citation needed indeed. I claim an absence of a prohibition. If you have text saying “Congress may not delegate”, please cite it.

Note that the phrase “separation of powers” does not appear in the Constitution.
Costco plans to build 800 apartments above its newest store
i think this is expecting to much from corporate america. i dont think these problems are unique to tech companies. maybe i missed the point, the post kind of went all over the place at times

Are we selling our selves and authenticity to companies? i guess in a way, but we try to get as much as we can out of companies too

As far as separating your self from tech and being technologist. I think its like music, the pop stuff sucks and is mass produced. tech that used to be cool is mass produced, im sure there is cool stuff out there if you put the work into finding it. like underground music. i think trying to label your self is a mistake in general.
That link says the document needs revising, specifically "to clarify the guidance in connection with the IV constructions" (NIST calls the nonce an IV). It defines GCM normatively but its non-normative recommendations are outdated.

I also don't agree with the specific claim (made or at least implied by NIST) that a single 96-bit deterministic nonce isn't limited to 2³² blocks. The counter block will wrap around regardless of how the nonce was generated, because the GCTR function that is used to compute the ciphertext and authentication tag sets CBᵢ = inc32(CBᵢ₋₁) and CB₁ = ICB = inc₃₂(J₀) with J₀ a function of the nonce and inc₃₂ only incrementing the bottom 32 bits. Modern recommendations do not make this distinction around how the nonce was generated and I see no justification made for it by NIST. Perhaps it was meant to apply to the case where a portion of the nonce was implicit and thus not sent or stored in the clear, but deterministic generation doesn't always mean partially implicit nonces and the implicit part is too small (usually 32 bits) and too easy to obtain (often derived from a hardware identifier) to provide any additional security anyway.

Using any nonce lengths other than 96 bits is not recommended today, regardless of the recommendations in 2007. Shorter lengths are obviously a poor choice, but longer lengths are not always supported by implementations. Moreover, while the published standard supports various lengths (with support for <96 bits marked for removal), the invocation of the GHASH function and its effect on nonce entropy is not well studied AFAIK and all nonces other than 96 bits are fed into GHASH. Thus, one shouldn't use a nonce longer than 96 bits, which means the birthday paradox can become a real problem if the same key is used to encrypt a large number of messages, each with different nonces. A single or relatively small number of CSPRNG-generated nonces for the same key is usually okay; a lot is a problem. This problem is a major reason why AES-GCM-SIV, XChaCha20-Poly1305, and XAES-256-GCM even exist.
New study determines why some people got Covid while others did not
For curious readers, the "building a plane as it flies" metaphor dates back to at least 2000, to these commercials for EDS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2zqTYgcpfg

I thought it was IBM but I was quite mistaken, so good thing I looked it up lol
Interpersonal communication consists, by definition, of at least two parties. Do you never find it difficult to understand, to be persuaded, to accept feedback, to take on a proposal, to be encouraged, or motivated by someone? If you're only ever the transmitter of those things then I don't think you're actually communicating; you're just orating.

Not to mention that "being friendly", "satisfying interest", and other reasons exist to communicate.

Not everything is about your agenda. Maybe internalising that is hardest?

(A bit pompous but you take my point, right?)
Some very interesting cultural through lines highlighted here.

> For Nussbaum, the clip shows COPS and America’s Funniest Home Videos (both premiered in 1989) were also “the first draft of internet culture.”

While this comparison is probably as old as YouTube itself, it’s fascinating to look at the evolutionary parallels from those first clip shows to the comparatively far more elaborate reality TV that begins a decade later.

Observe how the prototypical YouTube content, the “cat video,” has long since given way to something much closer in form to the evolution of reality TV described in the book review: vloggers, blending autobiography and contrivance with increasingly sophisticated production values, the rise of the influencer, and its proliferation across platforms including Instagram and TikTok.
link to study paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07575-x
Oregon pioneered death with dignity so this is a huge surprise.
Not condoning his actions, but "a thinker and doer" is certainly a fitting eulogy, and not a bad one to have in ones grave.
It’s because when you’re in the middle of things with a lot of context in your head, adding another little wrinkle feels like a negligible complication (in particular if the new wrinkle is ostensibly to reduce some complexity, or to ship more quickly), but those complications accumulate up to the limits of any developer’s comprehension (and beyond) rather sooner than later. Hence developers tend to work close to the limit of what they can handle in terms of complexity, which for anyone who hasn’t all the same context in their head (like the developers themselves some time later) is really more than they can handle in an effective manner.

From another perspective, this is a form of entropy: There are many more ways to increase complexity than to reduce it. This is also the reason why biological life has been getting more complex over time, the only criterion being if it’s fit to survive and reproduce.
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In the US, the big reason is religious groups that want to force their religion onto others.
only a prompter would think that looks realistic
Absolutely. I was an Android user for years and got an iPhone as a gift in 2022. On Android, I used Firefox with uBlock Origin. Mobile web browsing is not the best experience regardless, but that made it tolerable.

The worst thing about the iPhone is the web browsing experience in Safari. It's awful. The ads totally ruin it. The rest of the phone is fine, I still prefer Android but that's most likely just because it's what I started with.
> something did happen

Yes, it took 2 years after creation and truly massive amounts of copyright infringement before the lawsuits by copyright owners showed up. OpenAI is getting sued, but don’t expect your requesting a website be rewritten to provoke anything unless you publish such rewritten posts at scale or something.
> I just open vi with default settings and am productive right away. I tried VS Code and couldn't get a "hello world" example to run out of the box after a half hour of trying.

I take it that you've learned vim (otherwise you wouldn't be "productive right away" - you wouldn't even know how to input text or save a file) whereas you had apparently never tried vscode before. How can that be a fair comparison?
Well per the NHS you should consider taking 10ug (400IU) daily, but up to 100ug (4,000IU) as a supplement would be safe. (Risk of hypercalcæmia if too high.) (As a supplement too, so that's presumably saying ok maybe the person's not deficient, they're naturally at 20ug or whatever, they take a 100ug supplement, add some margin, and it's still safe.)

So basically what the doctors/gov health plan say in Canada according to GP makes sense to me wrt that in the sense that you almost certainly are deficient, 10ug is enough, an order of magnitude more than that is still safe; so just take it.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

(I don't know about the cost to the Canadian government if they wanted to provide it obviously, but to me as an individual it's cheaper to get 365x 10ug supplements than it is to get 1x test to see if I'm deficient.)
Loss Aversion is a feature of the chimp brain but it turns into a bug after the chimp accumulates too many bananas.
very few people can afford to be ethical.

it's like Joe Rogan trashing factory farms and bragging about only eating wild elk be killed with his bare hands on his private game preserve.

writing software for an oil company doesn't make you evil it makes you like everyone else. not particularly helpful nor particularly harmful
> Your ambiguity may not be mine

Which is what the courts decided.

> Chevron deference was being used even when there was NO ambiguity.

Because Chevron was a legal framework to decide if the agency should be deferred to or not. It's not itself a decision.

Using Chevron deference doesn't mean the agency was decided in favor of, it means a series of questions was used to analyze if the agencies interpretation of the law was reasonable.

Here's some reading on the matter assuming you actually care about facts instead of just trolling https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference
you have to pay extra for that feature
Seems like the hardest part would be getting rid of all the coins. I'm not surprised he got caught, given two appearances on America's Most Wanted, and his tendency to pay for hotel rooms with rolls of quarters.

As another comment noted, perhaps he should have opened a laundromat or video arcade to launder the stolen money.
To me, this seems like a solid tradeoff of authority.

In practice, complexity and customizability breeds ossification, because "safe" becomes the tiny sunset of common configuration.

I could definitely see network appliance vendors, IT network security admins, endpoint security vendors, etc. rapidly fucking up everything.

At least with delegation to browser vendors + certificate transparency logs, we have a semi standard path for a detrust like this to be forced without exploding the ecosystem.

Additionally, if there were more wiggle room, you'd alter the balance of power between browsers and CAs, which seems decently calibrated now.
It's just as easy or easier to google "cyclist who robbed banks."
The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation already spends $500 million annually and has doled out over $6 billion in total donations [1]. A simple Google search would have prevented writing easily falsifiable info..

1- https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/476...
Thank you. We are actively working to onboard as many airlines as possible, and partnering with Delta would be highly beneficial. The more data we have, the safer and more efficient flights become.

Regarding the integration with Jeppesen, we would greatly appreciate hearing more about any issues you encounter and receiving your feedback
New release of find/xargs in rusr
This is one of the better advice posts I’ve seen. Especially the parts about finding the balance between shipping fast and shipping bug-free code.

Too many engineers think their job is “great code writer” and not “value adder”
They'll definitely do some cancelation of the signal they're sending, you can't really hear people saying commands over your own music otherwise.
It’s about level of investment and effort.
I don't know that I agree with your first line (in which case all hiring managers would end up with essentially indistinguishable outcomes), but I want to address the next 2 paragraphs.

"Best" being a subset of "good" is not some obscure fallacy; but well recognized by HR departments. For the purposes of most jobs one hires for, they are well aware that Persons A and B are likely fungible quantities (and, also, why the impersonal word "resources" is in their very job function). We hire for demonstrated work ethic, ambition, the ability to deal with adversity, and work track record, rather than skin tone, genitalia, sexuality, handicaps, etc. Foreseeably, we end up matching (more or less) the demographics of the population we source from.

Being fallible humans, we absolutely do have blind spots in our hiring process; something we fight hard to correct for. I concede it is entirely possible that some experience a diverse person has had might some day become useful, but I am skeptical that similar experiences don't exist in most candidate slates. I am obviously overstating this for effect, but we have never done a lessons learned session and said "damn, if only we had hired a black lesbian quadriplegic, instead of John Smith, we would have succeeded at our task".

We hire those we perceive to be the best match from our slate of candidates. Some of these people are women, some are old, some are variously pigmented, but all of them can do the job they were hired for.
Would you be interested in learning more about the ITAD industry? I built a warehouse monitoring solution that included quiet a bit. Surveillance, sales-performance tracking, employee-performance tracking, guided repair on broken machines removed from pallets, cost-benefit-analysis "what do I work on" kinda apps. We supported 50+ orgs in my local community and some major fortunre 500s before i left over some ethical concerns. Schools, hospitals, and other refurbishers/resellers/recyclers in our industry some years back all used our software.
So they found that it's slightly better than simply limiting blue light which every phone already has an option for.
Open LLM Leaderboard v2
If the second link is rendering at 60fps then it’s probably an issue with the DartPad version, which doesn’t surprise me, that was hacked together pretty quickly. I’m planning to do a much more robust version when I get a chance. Thanks for the feedback!
I thought those were done to investigate migratory patterns, movements, and inter-connectivity of historic populations, not to establish ancestral lineage of living population, and certainly not to assign a geographical region to existing ethnic groups.
Announcement,

Performances are plateauing, let's make the leaderboard steep again - https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/blog
Cool, a cryptocurrency company trying to improve Haskell's reputation.
100%. Incidentally (obviously) that also applies to teachers, restaurant workers, and others who aren't fortunate enough to be among the tech Eloi.
He can't afford to rent an apartment. So this man sleeps in an office
It could stop listening only when it's saying the word "Alexa", or even just part of that word, and listen the rest of the time.
That's a misunderstanding of Chevron. Chevron said that if an agencies interpretation of the law was reasonable, it was deferred to. It did not let agencies do whatever they fuck they wanted unchecked.

What the SC just said is in the case of ambiguity, it's a coinflip how it'll go based on the whims of the court you land in (or more accurately, which one you bribe)

It's neither reasonable nor feasible for Congress to make fully thorough and ambitious-free laws for regulators to enforce. That line of argument is in bad faith, there's no "returning authority to Congress" here.
Overruling Chevron doesn't require Congress to make laws covering every nuance. It just changes who resolves ambiguities in the laws. The irony of your comment is that federal clean-water legislation dates to 1948. The governing precedent at the time was Skidmore v. Swift, under which courts deferred to agency interpretations of statutes tot he extent the court found them persuasive. That regime functioned just fine for 40 years before Chevron changed the law.

Chevron, of course, was a case where the Reagan EPA interpreted the word "source" in the Clean Air Act to refer to an entire plant, rather than a distinct pollution source. The D.C. Circuit, in a decision written by Ruth Bader Ginsberg, disagreed with the EPA's interpretation of the law. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the EPA was empowered to resolve such ambiguities in the text of the statutes.
A permanent solution to a temporary problem still leaves the problem solved.
You never ever swap cables between PSUs. It's not a Dell thing - you must use the cables that ship with the PSU. Many people have fried their mainboard like you.
Nature of the system. The incentives are in place that you can either wallow in the torment nexus with everyone else, or try to invent it and get rich and escape to some little imagined slice of paradise. The world, and especially the USA, is no longer about trying to make things better and solve real actual problems - it's about trying to accumulate enough capital such you can personally opt out of the problems entirely.
I have talked about this with people, in this forum.
This is achieved using Acoustic Echo Canellation (AEC). This essentially subtracts the output of the speaker as well as reverberations from the room from the microphone input. Here's a youtube video explaining the basic principle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJKGrheOoY4

Source: worked on 3rd party Alexa speakers
Wouldn't it be simpler to add noise above 20kHz and ignore the key phrase if the noise is present?
It doesn't even have to always be electricity on demand, sometimes we also need heat. I wonder if heat storage will be a thing we'll have in the households (or maybe it's enough to have it in district heating facilities?).
“If I ran the business” (TM), I would just put it in Factorio settings as a toggle switch called “Reduced Security Mode - Allow Lua Bytecode.” By default, it’s turned off. People who really want those mods can turn it on, as long as they are informed (UAC prompt style) that they better trust the mod authors. I’d also add an API for mod authors to detect if bytecode access is enabled; so they can make their mods compatible with either environment.

Or maybe, down the road, Factorio could enable mods with greater privileges, as long as they are open source, and do an App Store-style review process with the community. Approved mods get not just bytecode, but perhaps even some of the typically forbidden modules like filesystem access. Unapproved mods using those enhanced privileges won’t run without a startup flag.
I would take a look at BPF.
This was a big unlock for me -- I recall antirez saying the same thing in a comment replying to me when I asked a similar question about potential LLM features in Redis [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617370
No place is rather be than with my spouse in a time like that!
Yes, satellite internet is now standard on many Western airlines. In addition to this, we utilize weather data and real-time turbulence reports to predict Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) events across the entire sky, even where iPads are currently not on flights.
Exsept do to CAFE emissions standards there is a selection presure removing small trucks before market pressure can influence anything.

So so one buys small trucks because there aren't any so people that just need a truck buy are large one as there are no new small truck in the market so sales numbers of large truck go up so more are made because large truck sales are up and viscous cycle continues untilled it gets so bad people who just want a small truck start importing used decades old kie trucks from Japan because regulations have distorted the local market. If it was functioning properly no one would go to all the effort as that is a signal of high unmet demand.
What are the many negative health effects of steak?

I eat a ~1lb pan fried strip steak with steamed broccoli for breakfast 7 days per week.

It’s the easiest and most consistent way to help me meet my protein and fiber goals.

My GP does my bloodwork twice per year and the only thing he has ever told me is that I need to take a Vitamin D supplement. But he also said that he tells all of his patients that.
I’ve always wanted to write a hit pop song called “hey Alexa, order twenty pounds of sand”. Only a complete lack of hit songwriting ability has stopped me.
Oh a "prompter" is it? No, I'm not a prompter, but if you want to interface with a GenAI model, a prompt is kind of the way to do it. No need to be a salty about it.
"learn fundamentals: data structures, networking, performance, operating systems, security, unix, math. These are so neglected in the industry, and we’re left with super complex systems we don’t actually understand as a result."

I sometimes hold a "command line fundamentals" course for my teams. Just being able to understand the basics puts them above any team that doesn't.

You have to know the ground you're building on. Otherwise even your foundation will be faulty.
Yeah, just like having a Google meet with speakers and microphone that's built in, when someone is speaking it gets cancelled out