skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the headline alone made me angry. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I am getting 500 from https://roadway.report/v1/accidents_by_location_geojson

and

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There’s a ton of interesting stuff at https://www.web.dma.mil/WEB-NextGen/

Just look at the significant links section
Bring a billboard with you everywhere, and point at it?
There's very little evidence in my view that Republicans intend to be friendlier to big tech than Democrats. Democrats take vastly more big tech donations still, and its still a significantly smaller percentage of their politicians that are culturally or ethically opposed to a "free and open" internet than in the Republican party, which has a significant contingent of traditionalists that (sometimes understandably) view the unrestrained spread of the internet and related technologies as inherently evil (the Democrats mostly stop at saying its partially evil and just needs more competition or some form of very light regulation). There's a significant social conservative / anti big-tech overlap.

Its also the case that the Republican party is trending overwhelmingly in an anti big-tech direction recently, whereas the Democrats mostly seem to be treading water at about the same overall position.
Big LittleJS engine news about the logo, game jam, and community contributions
There have been so many updates to LittleJS recently, this post highlights some of them including the massive sprite rendering speed increase up to 400,000 at 60fps on my computer. I also completely reworkd the logo with feedback from the community. Mostly though this post is to announce the LittleJs game jam that starts on November 11. Peace!
GP is describing traffic calming road design. Where planners make roads purposefully feel less safe in certain neighborhoods because that statistically makes them safer per mile driven. A common example here in SF is to add unnecessary bends to an otherwise straight alley. This stops people from speeding right through a residential area because it's straight and empty.

An example you may have seen in more rural areas is a straight road with an unnecessary curve before a stop sign or before entering a town. This forces you to slow down in a way that a speed limit doesn't.

https://globaldesigningcities.org/publication/global-street-...
A lot of horrible state laws from the civic DNA of post-slavery "black codes".
Again, I didn't say that what they do is the right way to do it, but what about discoverability? Would researchers just submit their document to every library in the world? If no entity is vetting these papers in a basic way, what's to prevent the entire channel from being taken over with spam? Is it done entirely by URL, and what's to stop the cited content from changing? What if they lose their domain? Is the similar domain that pops up with similar content the same author or someone that just ripped the site and is going to start serving up ads as soon as everyone switches their URIs? Or maybe we'd have libraries go out and actively retrieve this stuff rather than passively accepting it-- Would they monitor... mailing lists? What if someone posts a timely and incredibly controversial paper that lists a respected authority that just died as its author? What's to stop an author that published a bullshit paper from passively claiming it was a forgery? Would you, currently, give equal weight to citations published in the New England Journal of Medicine and a google doc with a bunch of citations to other google docs and personal websites? If we have centralized locations for this work, how would they not be publishers? Beyond that, current URL citations are a fucking mess. Link rot is a huge problem and most of the people that make citations in papers have no idea how to mitigate it.

Discoverability, relatively stable hosting, and the most base-level vetting and credibility are problems that they address, even if they do so poorly and greedily. If they went away tomorrow, so would the databases of work they manage, the APIs libraries use to query them, their mechanisms to confirm that whoever said they published something actually published it... Publishers don't have to be the answer-- I think a lot of these problems could be resolved through field organizations, librarianship and university organizations, but what's the likelihood that of universities and field organizations will try to monetize it and essentially become publishers in all of the worst ways?
Covid-19 origins: plain speaking is overdue
I heard all Windows PCs at the University of New South Wales were also boot-looping.
8 posts of this article in the last 4 days. What's up with that?
At least the people of East Sentinel Island remain resolutely free of imposed contact, well, except for the few people who've attempted it and been killed for their efforts.
Garage: Open-Source Distributed Object Storage
You also need to receive similar data from outside the hospital.

And now you've added an army of people running around moving USB sticks, or worse, printouts and feeding them into other computers.

It's madness, and nobody wants to do it.
That’s so cool, I didn’t know the government had an open GitHub acct!
But would the Linux sysadmins of the world play along in the way that the Windows sysadmins of the world did? I think they might've given Crowd Strike the finger and confined them to a smaller blast radius anyhow. And if they wouldn't have... well they will now.
though Exchange certainly did mutate like stillbirths at Chernobyl.
Ah, Firefly fans.
They'll still install crowdstrike or some other rootkit that will bring it all down anyway
CrowStrike foot gunning itself would be amusing, if expected.
Honestly until we can get rid of the perception that SOC2/Sables-Oxly/HiTrust provides any meaningful security we’re stuck.
ok, i was trying to do this for production. I am switching over to firebase but it's not working well with my client-server-architecture
I wouldn't expect any better given the source, but this is complete nonsense... what is the logic here?

If per-worker productivity increases, there are 3 options:
1) output increases;
2) under pretty much any labor rights some workers are going to lose jobs;
3) some former workers have to be maintained for free.

Is this supposed "labor" movement advocating for (3)? Because they are clearly against (2), seeing how they destroy the machines, and they are not considering (1) seeing how they don't plan to just get jobs working on the machines and not trying to compete with machines/go to other industries.

If it's (3) it's at best a "now-useless labor" movement. It's like throwing a tantrum because back in the days your parents gave you some cash to clean your room but at present that no longer obtains.
The “comically bad e-mail” is a test to see if you have a critical eye or not/willing to gloss over things/give the benefit of doubt
it's a kind of palliative care if you extend the analogy
Don't forget that nearly all crypto lockers are run by North Korea or other state espionage groups pretending to be North Korea.

If we adjusted our foreign policy slightly, I think we would dissuade that whole class of attacker.
The methane plume is 2 km off from the blowout location:

https://satellites.pro/Kazakhstan_map#A45.338220,52.376976,1...

It is probably a pipeline leak.
> It feels like such a worthy cause to make sure they stay "uncontacted": they obviously used that fact to do great deeds.

Indeed they keep the tradition of carrying a great deed long lost for most humanity. The deed of still being able to thrive using just stone-age tech. I suspect that in case of sudden collapse that ends civilization, these groups will be among the few ones able to repopulate Earth, because the overwhelming majority of "civilized" people will die in a short time without all the technology they are used to. The continued existence of human groups living in stone age is an existential insurance policy for us.
Ideally, governments are competent.

Realistically...competent governments are the exception. And competent-at-long-term-technology-policy governments are virtually non-existent.
I think it is this paper? For the phosphine detections.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.05160 ("Venus, Phosphine and the Possibility of Life")
I think you have the priority backwards. We shouldn’t be relying on trusting the QA process of a private company for national security systems. Our systems should have been resilient in the face of Crowdstrike incompetence.
the frequentist fallacy at work
Everything is a tradeoff. Iced is blazing fast, with a low memory footprint (~30MB binary), cross platform, extensible and pretty elegant if a bit challenging to learn.
"FOSS funding vanishes from EU's 2025 Horizon program plans", 20 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002044
Counter anecdote: I’ve been using Linux for 20 years, nearly half of that professionally. The only time I’ve broken a Linux box where it wasn’t functional was mixing Debian unstable with stable, and I was still able to fix it.

I’ve had hardware stop working because I updated the kernel without checking if it removed support, but a. that’s easily reversible b. Linux kept working fine, as expected.

I’ll also point out, as I’m sure you know, that the BSDs are not Linux.
IIRC previous Arkane Austin titles are Dishonored 2 and Prey which were great games, but Redfall was definitely not so well received. I wouldn’t necessarily agree they were closed for “pretty much no reason,” but should one big flop mean a studio gets the axe?

With how expensive AAA development has gotten maybe that’s the stakes now, and a reason so many are taking the modern Hollywood playbook of churning out sequels and remasters.

The really egregious “no reason” closure was Tango Gameworks, makers of Hi-Fi Rush.
It's great if China is genuinely going renewable. I read about this often. But I also read that they're the biggest producers of coal (confusingly both the biggest importers and exporters, and consumers). Still, maybe that's being phased out.

But why do you want to "slice up" emissions at all, if you're interested in reducing them? The problem is a big load of gas. So identify the biggest emitters (in total volume) with the most control over it. Don't say "oh San Marino, you're a really greedy country, with all your tax haven shenanigans and conspicuous consumption and more cars than people, you're the problem", because they really aren't. They may be really awful, but that wasn't the question and isn't something it's viable to fix, nor are they capable of helping more than minutely, unlike a giant authoritarian state with giant emissions, capable of helping a lot. And perhaps, as you point out, already doing so.
Speed and convenience also matters. I like big, fast, and wide roads because they let me and many others get to where we want to go quickly. It’s a trade off. We shouldn’t let “think of the children” safetyism decide what the balance is, since that line of thinking is extremist and does not consider what is at stake on the other side of the argument. Efforts to eliminate every last death on streets are a waste of time since we’ll never achieve perfection and roads are very safe already. The road diets made under that unrealistic goal are simply making everyone’s lives worse by causing us to spend more time on the roads in traffic.
I don't disagree with anything you've said - I was trying to make a tangential point: while the CEO is ignorant of financial analysis, and the quant is ignorant to the business ramifications of said analysis, both people lack humanity: neither character gave a damn about the wider consequences of their company's actions.

Steve Jobs may not have cared much for individual people, but for all his faults, he really did seem to care about humanity (in his own way). He preferred plain language because he deeply valued shared understanding, not because he wanted to flex on his overly cerebral underlings.
> It's a wonder mini Jan 6 events don't happen more often.

An event involving a bunch of people with the financial wherewithal to all take vacation from work and travel across the nation, in order to support an auto-coup with the tacit blessing of a President in power who keeps not-really-joking about being president for life?

I wouldn't use that label since I don't see a lot of overlap with the downtrodden people we're talking about here.
Went back to the market this morning:

Those bananas were dwarf Cavendish. And the farmer said " .. and we don't treat them with (ethylene) gas."
> With how expensive AAA development has gotten maybe that’s the stakes now, and a reason so many are taking the modern Hollywood playbook of churning out sequels and remasters.

The studio was owned by M$ though. There's no reason they couldn't have kept all those people in-house and just moved them on to some game with a tried and true IP attached to it.
That's happened several times, actually. That's probably just the latest one. The really fun one was when S3 went down in 2017 in Virginia. Caused global outages of multiple services because most services were housed out of Virginia and when EC2 and other services went offline due to dependency on S3, everything cascade failed across multiple regions (in terms of start/stop/delete...ie. api actions. Stuff that was running was, for the most part, still working in some places).

...I remember that day pretty well. It was a busy day.
Their "one job" is to not make things worse than the default. DoS'ing the OS with an unhandled kernel mode exception would be not doing that job.

How about a different analogy: First do no harm.
This is not 1492.

We can send robots with video screens, to mention one of the many solutions for that well known issue.
windows security experts are as useful as astrologists, but astrologists are cheaper
Ignore him.

Keep building.
Source on google sending home people?
To me the comment spoke to our criminal lack of intelligent road design. It’s well known through multiple studies that road design impacts how fast people drive far more than posted speed limit signs. If we actually cared about road safety, we would design roads to be more safe and not just design a road that is comfortable to drive 60mph on and put up a 25mph speed limit. When you want slower speeds you need to make lanes more narrow. Add obstacles along the side of the road so it doesn’t feel so open. Add medians as areas where pedestrians have a refuge when daring to cross a place designed for vehicles. Add chicanes and bollards to force speed compliance in especially dangerous areas. There seems to be almost none of this happening in most places in the US that I have visited.
I think it will eventually be good public policy to make it illegal to post massive amounts of texts produced by AI without disclosing it.
As with all illegal things on the internet, it's difficult to enforce, but at least it will make it more difficult/less likely
PyPy received an EU grant sometime in the late 2000s or early 2010s, although it had to be a different one. If I understood TFA correctly, NLnet is partially funded by this money? NLnet itself distributes money to very cool software things[1]—some moonshots such as Spectrum[2], some very down-to-earth and usable ones such as Nitrokey[3]. A discussion[4] linked in a neighbouring comment also mentions Sourcehut and Bcachefs.

[1] https://nlnet.nl/project/current.html

[2] https://spectrum-os.org/

[3] https://www.nitrokey.com/

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002044
OP should have used the patterns from Cerberus: https://github.com/emailmonday/Cerberus
Latency, throughput and cost are still very important for many applications.

Also the output of a purpose-built encoder model is preferable to natural language. Not only is it unambiguous, but scores are often an important part of the result.

Last, if you need to get into some advanced methods of training, like pseudolabeling and semi-supervised learning, there’s different options and outlets for utilizing real world datasets.

That said, I’m not sure there’s much value in scaling up current encoder models. It seems like there’s already a point of diminishing returns.
I wonder how much of Wikipedia has been contributed to using AI by now. Almost makes me want to keep a 2023 snapshot of Wikipedia in cold storage.
This is at best misdirection. So, let's say England then had robust labor rights. Perhaps there's no child labor and instead, the same workers now use the machines, except most of them are fired and get 6 months of severance. Heck let's make it even better and say new skilled workers are needed for the machines and so the salaries for the remaining minority of workers are doubled.

Do you think the fired workers wouldn't have attacked the machines? I think they totally would have.

The only labor regime where they wouldn't is where they are maintained in perpetuity even though their labor is useless. Something like Soviet Union with "guaranteed jobs", or NYC construction unions with 5x staffing on the same jobs vs even the European companies... all great examples to emulate for "labor movements"!
Contextual AI Models for Single-Cell Protein Biology
Less time urgent, and would not take an army.
> Not "just some recast" otherwise everyone would be doing it:

Only needing raycasts through the geometry was in response to the idea that the server would need to "render the 3d world from each players perspective to do these tests". I don't intend to claim that it's as a whole an easy engineering problem, but rather that the tests don't need to involve much/any of the rendering pipeline.
One of us, one of us...
Dumbest NASA Decision in Years? NASA Grounds Rover and Sends Ballast [Scott M]
I think there is a little bit of a "Prime Directive" at play (which may be a rehashing of your thesis). Uncontacted peoples are also highly sought by researchers for scientific investigation (which human traits are due to our culture and which aren’t?). There’s also the reality that economic interests may eventually force the issue and these people may be "relocated" to support mining, logging, fishing.
Won’t the sweaters snag easily tho?
You have no idea what you're talking about. Even mediocre FPS players use positional sound as a huge cue for how to react, which means the client is going to know the positions of every player and non-player entity in a medium range. That's a _huge_ advantage to any hacked client.

Even if the FPS had no sound, an aimbot-free hacked client that knows the positions of only the players that you can see would still provide a significant benefit because a high fidelity radar and pointers can be placed on the screen. No one can sneak up on you. And no you can't base it on which way the player is looking because you can turn around faster than network latency.

Can you limit the impact of hacked clients? Sure, people might not be able to do egregious stuff like X-ray your position from across the map. Locally, though, game clients need a large amount of information to provide a good experience.
Some countries such as Canada have taken minor steps towards this, for example making it illegal to call oneself a software engineer unless you are certified by the provinces professional engineering body, however this is still missing a lot. I also don't wish to be "that guy" but I'll go further and say that the US is really holding this back by not making using Software Engineer as a title (without holding a PEng) illegal in a similar fashion.

If we can at least get that basis then we can start to define more things such as jobs that non Engineers can not legally do, and legal ramifications for things such as software bugs. If someone will lose their professional license and potentially their career over shipping a large enough bug, suddenly the problem of having 25,000 npm dependences and continuous deployment breaking things at any moment will magically cease to exist quite quickly.
It highlights the difference between engineering and science. Of course, engineering works better as an applied science, but engineering predates modern science by thousands of years.
But I don't care how old they are, why did you mention that property as if it's something relevant to how the project should be perceived?
Who would pay them, and would you trust their review if they were paid?
Lol ok I'm trying to get home and figure out why it's server error city (yikes)
Chrome on android, but it seems to be working now. Either they fixed it, or my browser was glitching earlier.
> The point is not to make it or not.

I fundamentally and vociferously disagree. The point is to ensure sapience and intelligence survive the heat death of the universe.
Maybe get started by speculating in real estate and mineral (gas?) rights. Don’t forget some sort of platform for managing space start up company HR training video sharing across different planetary time codes. It couldn’t hurt to try to patent whatever atmospheric components are on Venus just to establish some claim to ownership. Oh and interstellar crypto - duh.
I’m not sure Hims are the greatest example. Erectile dysfunction in young men is up to around 15%, from 5% in 2005 (if I’m remembering correctly). This is likely due to the increased availability and potency of porn, but the issue with Hims isn’t that it’s humiliating men it’s that porn is so potent.
It is really odd to me that Bangladesh even exists as a nation, and that it is an officially Islamic nation. This country was formed as a result of the partition of India, where the British empire left a mess on their way out by subdividing India into what is now Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. But really these countries should be recombined into India - their status as religious ethnostates is unacceptable in the modern world and given that Islam came to the region through brutal genocidal invasions by Arabs in the Middle East, it seems strange to give those colonizing invaders their own land and ethnostate. Pakistan and Bangladesh have also been messy throughout their existence, and continually on the brink - as current conditions show.
Why can this not be addressed with vaccines?

Our newborns don't have these immunities either, right?

Or am I misunderstanding the human immune system?
Not if you use Crowdstrike! :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1c8db7l/linuximage6...
Okay but that will affect hospital profits and our PE firms bought these hospitals specifically to wrench all redundancy out of these systems in the name of efficiency (higher margins and thus profit) so that just won't do.
No, the lawyer was working pro bono. 600k is what those hours would have cost.
Perfectly stated!
Of course RCA should be conducted. But malice should be considered a likelihood until ruled out entirely. Without assuming malicious intent, we will overlook many avenues of attack.

Think about it this way. At the present time, CrowdStrike can accept dark money from an entity in order to halt the world's compute capacity in a plausibly deniable way. When the dust settles, they will be found guilty of negligence at most. This will allow this perverse incentive to persist.

If the stakes for bringing down a great deal of American compute infrastructure were greater, this would happen far less often. It is simple economics of risk.

Furthermore, CrowdStrike, being an entity that enjoys access to privileged sales channels thanks to its relationship with the government, is exactly the sort of entity that should be viewed as skeptically as possible, if the interests of the US Government are paramount. Why should the US Government create a small monopoly for CrowdStrike and not expect the strictest controls? That is not only bizarre, it is stupid.

Hope for the best and plan for the worst. That is how an entity should be viewed when it becomes critical to national security.
I am not sure what to make of the EU’s agenda on free software. On the one hand, we see provinces of some countries announcing open source adoption strategies. On the other hand, we see controversial regulation on things like AI that basically proposes to pull up the ladder and give the market to incumbents.