skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> human development will slow down: after all if it requires a generation of human scientists to die so that new ideas can be accepted then

A worse problem is that whatever generation is in control when immortality is achieved will rule the world forever. Falling fertility makes this even more likely.
I read stuff like this and think to myself that contributing to a large open source project simply isn’t worth it
I think you do political satire - because that's what the Daily Show is - a disservice. Spitting Image (for example) massively shaped people's perceptions of British politicians in the 80s. That Maggie puppet is still an iconic image of the woman herself.
The core neoliberal claim that the economy would thrive if government just got out of the way has been demolished by the events of the past three decades.

Has it though? Where did government get "out of the way"? Where did government "in the way" to make the economy thrive? What does it mean for an economy to thrive anyway? Is it more important for an economy to be efficient, or the people being (ostensibly) subjectively happier with it? After all, several poor countries rank among the happiest in the world.

The fact that neoliberalism has not shown itself to be a panacea should not be held against it, considering the lack of demonstrably superior alternatives.
> now to the most complex train system probably in the world.

Having seen the US attempt and lived with the UK railway, the German one is definitely a huge improvement. Yes, it does go wrong sometimes, but my experience at university in the UK was the end of term had two carriages with twice as many passengers as seats, that regularly terminated 20 minutes before the official destination, and my experience visiting the UK now that I live in Berlin is that the UK rail fares are (or often were pre-pandemic) more expensive than the flights to the UK. There's even a standard "money saving trick" on UK fare prices where you split a journey from A to B into A->C, C->B, where C is one of the stops in the route from A to B so you don't need to disembark.

That doesn't mean there's no room for improvement, neither the UK nor the US railways are role models. (I assume Japan is still a role model for rail? Not heard much since the 90s…)
they are in fact against france's nuclear and are trying very hard to not include nuclear as a green source to not give it eu funding.

But there are other reasons ofc including lobying from russia and auto industry
> Because they assume the EU would be weaker and more malleable to US influence than China and the CCP.

That doesn't really fit, because the course of action would be the same in both cases. If the CCP says they have to ban apps then enable side loading or third party stores so customers in China can install the banned apps from another source but the company can still feign compliance. This is the same thing the EU says they have to do anyway, except that it actually defeats the onerous regulation in China whereas in the EU the regulation is intended to benefit rather than oppress the user and Apple objects to it because they're the one wearing the boot.

The explanation that fits is that they care about their own control (and so fight the EU) but don't care as much about China oppressing their customers (and so bend the knee there).

> US companies keep trying to impose local US rules, policies and way of thinking of their HQ whenever they operate abroad, especially in Europe, but totally do an 180 when they operate in China.

In general company leaders should try to have morals and use their influence to push back against rules from governments trying to harm their people. Obviously publicly-traded companies have a perverse tendency to do the opposite of this once they're controlled by Wall St rather than the original founders.
Cloud storage lockers from Microsoft and Google spread state-sponsored malware
I stopped reading the news because of this. When 90% of the articles on the BBC are irrelevant to me and have titles like "Taylor Swift Vienna concerts cancelled after attack threat", "The 'absurd' real-life sting operation that inspired a movie", or "Behave yourselves, China tells its Olympic fans", I lose all interest.

The news has become like intellectual sugar, written more for page views than for merely informing, and I find that exceptionally irritating. Writing so-called "catchy headlines" and an overwhelming bias towards bad news has made me sick with all news organizations.

Of course, I am sure some people like it. Probably most. I am in the minority for most things, but I simply hate it.
I don’t really have an opinion one way or another but why would we need to?

There doesn’t really seem to be any plausible practical or moral imperative to do so.
Came here to say this.

Alos, one important thing that happened in Sweden was that the part that was not privatised was also ran like a for profit company.

The railway infrastructure "CEO" basically stopped a lot of repair work and long term projects and was able to show some very good numbers to the goverment, which they very much liked. 10-15 years later things started falling apart, by which time she was long gone.
The situation with trains in Germany is appalling. Our kids need to go to school by train. Even though it is the only line using that route, there are constant delays and cancellations. DB (Deutsche Bahn) often does not even care to inform the passengers of such events over the loudspeakers or displays. I routinely take at least one train earlier to increase the probability of reaching my destination in time. Working from home has saved me a good amount of stress over the years.

This is not motivating anyone to switch from cars to trains.
Yes. By her own account, by her family’s account, and coming from every remotely reliable source that could have any knowledge to the contrary, she was born as, raised as, lives as, and most importantly is a woman.

Now, what I’m not clear on is if Colin Wright belongs in the human race.
I've tried this in Teams and people just don't ping me and are confused when I message them, thinking I was OOO. How anyone puts any stock in the accuracy of the status is beyond me.
its not useful, I can't tell what a 1 or a 2 is if I don't know the value of "Terry Davis". 1 or 2 is bad if "Terry Davis" is 3 but we don't know that.
The real story here is that there is on going investigation by JMA scientists that this might be a precursor to a larger "mega thrust quake", the government has asked people in certain areas to evacuate for the next week or so, and for everyone else, make emergency preparations.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/3509/

Edit: It's considered cautionary, just so no one freaks right out.
Would that put them in a better or worse position to improve what they see as shortcomings of the military? Where does the instinct to suggest the cowardly approach of running away from a problem come from?
Perhaps it's time for an anti-racist fork of a python. Maybe the JIT could only turn on subject to a blood test.
Right, we all have a responsibility to act ethically in all parts of our lives. Refuse to work for organizations that do unethical things; if you are in an organization, refuse to do unethical things even if it gets you fired. Do not facilitate the doing of unethical things in any way.

The difference with the military is you can be put in prison for behaving this way.
> Google transfers 1.2 EB of data every day using Effingo

So that's how much data they collect from their users every day. /s
Having read through the links you provided:
You are comparing two different things. DB’s Reisendenpünktlichkeit takes in delays caused by missed connections etc. SBB’s 3 minute delay are just the individual train delays. For that DB has a similar measure which defines punctual as below 6 minutes of delay.
So the difference is big (3 vs 6 minutes) but not that big (3 vs 15 minutes).
> Delays of 15 minutes are because of network complexity not uncommon.

If the delay is that likely, due to the long distance of the route, isn't the obvious step to take then to adjust the schedule? So that at some stations along the route trains have a buffer.
Costco does this for sure, but Costco also creates their own products. For instance there are some variations of a package set that can only be bought at Costco, so you aren't getting the exact same box and items as anywhere else.
Japan did it differently than the EU counterparts:

>The most basic, fundamental difference between the British and Japanese railways is how they were privatised. In Britain, the tracks were split from the trains.

from a ft article I apparently can't link

The split of infrastructure and the invisible hand of the train operator market seems to be a correlation.
Try posting it again. Remember to put the URL in the URL field but leave the TEXT field empty. Then, after 1 minute post a comment explaining you are the author and the explanation of the features.

Two more questions: Can it understand GitHub markdown? How does it detect which engine generated the markdown?
I believe the source files for the game, without specific branding and stuff, should be released so another company can essentially make the game if they want to. As for forcing companies to lose money with unprofitable games or renew expensive licensing deals, it doesn't seem like a great idea to me.

Also, perhaps based on the time spent in the game, players should receive some kind of compensation such as credits for their next purchase.
All technological leaps come at a cost. Future technological leaps have unknown costs.
While I agree to Karpathy and I also had a "wut? They call this RL? " reaction when RLHF was presented as an method of CHATGPT training, I'm a bit surprised by the insight he makes because this same method and insight have been gathered from
"Learning from Human preference" [1] from none other than openAI, published in 2017.

Sometimes judging a "good enough" policy is order of magnitudes more easier than formulating an exact reward function, but this is pretty much domain and scope dependent. Trying to estimate a reward function in those situations, can often be counter productive because the reward might even screw up your search direction. This observation was also made by the authors (researchers) of the book "Myth of the objective"[2] with their picbreeder example. (the authors so happens to also work for OpenAI.)

When you have a well defined reward function with no local suboptima and no cost in rolling out faulty policies RL work remarkably well. (Alex Ipran described this well in his widely cited blog [3])

Problem is that this is pretty hard requirements to have for most problems that interact with the real world (and not internet, the artificial world). It's either the suboptima that is in the way (LLM and text), or rollout cost (running GO game a billion times to just beat humans, is currently not a feasible requirement for a lot of real world applications)

Tangentially, this is also why I suspect LLM for planning (and understanding the world) in the real world have been lacking. Robot Transformer and SayCan approaches are cool but if you look past the fancy demos it is indeed a lackluster performance.

It will be interesting to see how these observations and Karpathys observations will be tested with the current humanoid robot hype, which imo is partially fueled by a misunderstanding of LLMs capacity including what Karpathy mentioned. (shameless plug: [4])

[1] https://openai.com/index/learning-from-human-preferences/

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pi4owuC7Rdab7uWWR/book-revie...

[3]
https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

[4] https://harimus.github.io//2024/05/31/motortask.html
Maybe it always was. But smartphones and social media definitely pushed it a lot.

You can even see it here, whenever people get downvoted just for posting something that is too uncomfortable (e.g. bcs it's criticism that touches their own lifestyle, ...).

There are ripple effects everywhere. Nowadays it's like yoi said: People are often explicitly proud to be stupid.
>So everyone is just ass-covering all them time and not taking any risks.

Heaving lived and worked in Germany for a few years, I realized that's the reason behind all the excessive bureaucracy and processes for everything: extensive ass covering. If something goes to shit under your watch then it's not your fault because you did everything by the book and you have the extensive paper trail to prove it.

And nobody wants to go around the processes or change them, even if they know they're broken because then they would be the ones liable for the outcomes, so the entire society revolves around preserving the status quo even if the ship is heading towards the iceberg.

Change to processes is usually exclusively top-down where a boomer detached from the work in the trenches but with connections, a laundry list of a academic credentials and a pompous CV of management positions at large consultancies/companies, makes the decisions and those below execute without question while mumbling at the canteen lunch how stupid and out of touch the decisions are.

That's just my opinion as an outsider, it's not a fact I can provide citations for in case anyone asks, so it can be incorrect as all opinions go, feel free to disagree or correct me.
Maybe that will help extend the veneer of science on social studies for a few more years before the echo chamber implodes.
It's actually a different system - Japan's network was privatised and split into competing companies with all shares publicly traded (bar some exceptions), the Deutsche Bahn was privatised into a single, state-owned company. As such it is beholden to slow, non-deciding German governments, including investments into the network.
A decade ago I switched from my local morning news to a French show. Instead of violence, traffic accidents, and soccer, the French show talked about recipes, books, travelling, etc. It didn't really try to be a news show, just something light to start off the day.

Nowadays I prefer silence during breakfast.
Age is important factor here, not just contract brands.

As you get older, your eyes get dryer. Also, having done Lasik and needing contacts after many years is a recipe for dry eyes.
(0906 UTC)

The warning has since been lifted.
I wonder if a tsunami mixes the fish around in the water or if they can avoid to get dragged along.
Many of these comments seem almost malicious in their take. It is an initiative not a law or referendum on one. The goal is for EU to take it in consideration and possibly start working in drafting suitable regulation to implement these goals.

And often it is forgotten that there is quite wide range of online dependencies. In some single player games there might be some features that use online. But most of the game would work well enough without these and be in essence "playable". For many games p2p matchmaking is well enough so simply little work for third-party interface would be cheap enough.

MMOs and heavily server based online experiences are a mess and probably not realistic, but for rest of the games. Only greed and maliciousness of developers and publishers kill them.
The terms in that context are fixed cost vs variable cost.

CapEx vs OpEx deals with how the equipment is managed financially. Buy vs lease/rent/IAAS. Good examples here https://centersquaredc.com/blog/choosing-the-best-data-cente...
Already exists, demo by some dutch(?) privacy expert on how much info he can get out of you and just from your picture.

I showed it to a colleague from marketing as a 'look how bad up this is!' They asked 'cool, can we do that too?' sigh
Thanks for this. If the modern materialist skeptic did the basest level of research into their own position, perhaps by starting with the likes of David Hume, they would soon realise that their position, and most of their presuppositions, had already been proven impossible several centuries ago (or several millennia ago for some of these presuppositions if we look at Aristotle). The lack of even the most basic philosophical training in even the modern university educated population is frankly appalling.
Wait until you get to 50 and you have to take OFF your glasses to read things that are small or close.

This is the most annoying part of all my vision problems.
Critical vulnerabilities in 6 AWS services disclosed at Black Hat USA
Emergency rooms are less likely to give female patients pain medication
Shouldn't that be surprising? Christianity has the same rules around pornography so predominantly Christian countries would block it for the same reason.

Or perhaps there are no predominantly Christian countries anymore.
putting this into my archivebox to read later /s
i work for a large swedish furniture company. can we chat?
Not sure if blackholes have been agreed to be fundamental [Corpuscklese] (i.e. being the event-horizon-in-itself), but [my personal] intuition suggestively emits that Goethe, inserting the mediating entity, did the first verifiable produce.

-- and is so become the first Undismal Scientist, the Undead Beholder (cf Herodotus, &c)

Histories 1.32.7:

"εἰ δὲ πρὸς τούτοισι ἔτι τελευτήσῃ τὸν βίον εὖ, οὗτος ἐκεῖνος τὸν σὺ ζητέεις, ὁ ὄλβιος κεκλῆσθαι ἄξιος ἐστί: πρὶν δ᾽ ἂν τελευτήσῃ, ἐπισχεῖν, μηδὲ καλέειν κω ὄλβιον ἀλλ᾽ εὐτυχέα."

-- Seems like evidence we are within Mephisto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephisto_(Marvel_Comics)
It's space. If you want safe you stay at home.
There will always be a risk when you ride a rocket into orbit.
As a foreigner, I am currently travelling for work in Europe and had a DB train from Munich all the way to Ljubljana (Slovenia) through multiple connections. Interestingly, the trains were on time until we were in Germany but when I reached the last connection in Villach (Austria), suddenly they cancelled the train from Villach->Ljubljuana without any notice at last minute. As a foreigner without any understanding, I had to scramble through and find a Flixbus which thankfully I was able to buy tickets online.

Look for using Bus like Flixbus as an alternative if possible. They are not perfect but more reliable than the DB train for sure.
Climate goal and public transport is also more of a joke than scientifically sound.

For example, the gear for the participating teams at the latest EM in Germany was transported in parallel by the empty buses the teams usually use.

The whole VIP travel caused a lot of additional cars on the street.

Don’t confuse means for an end. There is a lot of marketing and money involved - especially in green energy.
Why is in the subsequent paragraphs:

> More users, more awareness of limitations and side effects and how to treat them.

> Longer working lives for the labour force, less need for expensive pensions and expensive old age care
> Because they have the ability at any point to push software to your computer that compromises your privacy and security in almost undetectable ways. And short of them having an entirely open-source OS that will always be the case.

We know this isn't true because the contrary to this is how we know this is happening. Even when the OS is closed source, someone can still inspect its network traffic or get it running in a virtual machine and see what it's doing, and then publish the result if they find something untoward.

But once your data has been exfiltrated onto their servers, you no longer have any way of auditing what they do with it after that. So the only way to have any assurance of your own privacy is to call any behavior that exfiltrates your data a violation of trust.

It might be easier to audit open source code than closed, and maybe then we should be demanding open source operating systems, but there is still a large difference between "this is difficult but possible and so someone in the world could do it and let everyone else know" and "there is no mechanism for members of the public to validate their claims at all".
Deutsche Bahn is wholly owned by the federal government (https://www.deutschebahn.com/en/group/ataglance/aufsichtsrat...). This is exactly the same relationship as SBB has to the Swiss government. I don't think the corporatisation (not privatisation) is the problem in this case.
It really needs new textures.
But if it's state owned, surely it's not privatised? In what what is the ownership private if it's 100% public?
Klarna's AI chatbot: how revolutionary is it, really?
100%. Very insightful.

Follow the money.

I used to be a huge news junky. After a while I realized it's all designed as entertainment to drive ad revenue. Gave it up and I've been happier ever since.
Another issue is that they have a lot of nonsense on the public TV and radio, such as game shows or light comedy. These broadcasts could very well be done by commercial stations, but as these would need to compete against a state-funded entity, it creates an unfair playing field. The public channels have the advantage of guaranteed funding, which allows them to produce content without the same financial pressures faced by commercial broadcasters.
To quote the article I linked:

"The network is simply overloaded," said Böttger. In contrast to Luxembourg and Switzerland, which invested around €575 (about $625) per capita and €450 per capita in rail infrastructure respectively, the figure in Germany is just €114.
Too late to shorten Boeing?
I had an idea similar to this for a model that allows you to parameterize a performance vs. accuracy ratio, essentially an imbalanced MoE-like approach where instead of the "quality score" in your example, you assign a score based on how much computation it used to achieve that answer, then you can dynamically request different code paths be taken at inference time.
Author's tweet text:

"apparently I made an encryption key that is orders of magnitudes larger than RSA, generates faster than RSA and due to sheer massive size, is practically virtually uncrackable.

1: Key Size Comparison

• RSA 2048: 2048 bits
• RSA 4096: 4096 bits

• “Fractal Key”: 268,435,456 bits

2: Key Generation Time Comparison

• RSA 2048: Varies but typically much longer than “Fractal Key”
• RSA 4096: Varies but typically longer than “Fractal Key”

• “Fractal Key”: 0.0044 seconds

4. Graph 3: Security Benchmark

• RSA 2048: Crackable in ~300 billion years with current technology

• RSA 4096: Crackable in ~15 quadrillion years with current technology

• “Fractal Key”: Estimated to be practically uncrackable within the lifetime of the universe due to sheer key size and complexity."

Mirror: https://archive.is/0v50D
Go and join the Distributed YouTube Archive project
> Honestly, how could it be otherwise?

It can't be otherwise if you're just assuming a straightforward compilation model where your written roughly reflects the assembly code that's generated. This just isn't the case with better compilers though.

For instance, Haskell can often perform rewrites or fusion passes that entirely eliminates the loop and all intermediate data structures, effectively giving a near-infinite speedup compared to alternatives. You typically can't perform such optimizations when side-effects are in the middle of the computation, for numerous reasons.
What do you think about political cartoons in newspapers and elsewhere?

https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/exhibits/virtual-exhibits/a...
In my opinion, if you are going position yourself as a neutral arbiter of device repairability, it does not pass the smell test to enter into for-profit business relationships with the companies manufacturing the devices you rate.

Providing consumers with information on where to find reputable companies selling repair parts would be a much more palatable alternative to selling them yourself.

> “I don’t know why Samsung insists on charging so much for service parts,” Wiens says, visibly frustrated. “The prices that we see are out of line with what we know components actually cost to manufacture.” Wiens starts to elaborate but stops himself. He clarifies that he would love to discuss this more, but his contract with Samsung prevents him from doing so.

In this case, the for-profit business relationship with Samsung also stands in the way of advocating for consumers.