skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. But I wonder, why this, and why now. Where were these people when car makers started to have proprietary everything, from chargers to service points, to the point where you can't even service a punctured tyre on certain makes. Or certain operating systems having a complete "walled garden".
Call me a cynic but at this point, after normalizing DRM and phone-home, online DRM, it's too late. For this initiative to stick, it would have been at least 5 years ago.
> Death is a tragedy.

And so is life. One thing is sure, life is much better enjoyed when you don't spend the entirety of it trying to bend the rules and worrying about things you have no power over.

If you're not fit, exercising two hours per day, eating clean food at every single meal, skipping alcohol, living in a rural area far from pollutants, &c. you have no business discussing longevity in the first place imho. It's too easy to wait for the silver bullet complaining about how death is tragic while letting ourselves rotting away every second of every day
Link Between Board Games and Autism May Be Explained
Anyone knows if re-ordering also helps here?

If i can sort the lines of the matrix, which is probably defined by how the token embedding is setup, i could potentially zero out weights which do not contribute at all and have areas of zeros i could mark and skip?
If data is served from ARC, it's primary cache, ZFS does not perform a checksum check before handing it to you, as the data was checked when it got read into the ARC.

If you use ECC you're quite safe, but ECC can't detect multi-bit errors, just single and double bit errors.

So if you care much about your integrity, you might want Postgres to do its checksum check as well.
Bitcoin, ether hit multi-month lows as recession worries take hold
Hi HN,

I would like to share this with all of you.
AnyClassifier is a framework that helps you build a classifier without any label, with as limited coding as possible.
As a machine learning engineer, one of the unavoidable but the most heavy lifting issues is to build and curate a high quality labelled data.
By leveraging LLM annotation with permissive license, one can now label data at a better quality and at lightning speed ever.
This is inspired by some of the challenges I faced daily in work and doing open source - it is built for machine learning engineer and software engineer, by machine learning engineer .

The project is still experimental, but I found it worked in some of my use cases. Feedbacks welcome, and feel free to contribute. See Future Roadmap.

I would love to have your feedback and also collaboration to make it better.

Best,

Ken
I have a wonderful proof that it actually will, but it won't hold in the narrow space of this comment.
You can rent for below median though.
I always think of the steroid xkcd when this stuff comes up: https://xkcd.com/1173/
Well, I don't want it to get to a point where it is already a solved problem.

Length of life should not be the criterion; quality of life should be. If every one lives to be 200, then the quality of life will necessarily reduce for everyone; we are already straining the planet's resources, even if we don't make strides in keeping everyone fit and independent until they die.
I'm not following how it made this headline confusing or misleading.

Seems like removing the "how" simply exposes the presuppositions a bit more without changing the meaning.
> the idea of preserving games for future access aligns with broader movements toward digital preservation, similar to efforts in other digital media industries like film and music

And from the FAQ:

> If this practice is not stopped, it may be codified into law and spread to other products of more importance over time, such as agricultural equipment, educational products, medical devices, etc.

So there is a notion of using games as a step to 'stop' companies from being able to discontinue services.

If this passes for games, next would be software in general.

Next thing you know if you develop and sell any software you will have to make sure it is usable forever. Any MacOS updates or Windows updates (or iOS/Android updates) breaking a software or app you once sold to a few people and discontinued? You will have to fix it until you die or face penalties.

Do you have software with a cloud component sold under a lifetime license? Be prepared to maintain that service forever or release its complete source code if you don't. Additionally, you would need lifetime licenses for any critical proprietary third-party components your cloud service relies on or be prepared to cover their service fees indefinitely.

While this perspective may seem exaggerated, there is always a double-edged nature to such regulations. The sword slices both ways.

I think all games/software would then convert to a service/subscription based model, cause there would be no limit to future liabilities when selling any lifetime license.

Pay monthly to play the game.
Pay monthly to use any software (including downloadable software and apps.)
Pay monthly to use the OS.

EDIT: Actually thinking about it, it seems this proposal wants to cover mmorpgs which already are subscription based.

In that case if the same rules applies to software in general, then any software that is subscription based would also have to be usable indefinitely even if you sold just 1 month subscription and went out of business.

This kind of creates a bad incentive where users of software / players of games might want the company to die so they can use the software or play the game for free forever.
> In international development, it’s not enough to try to do good.

I would expand that to all things. The problem is there are way more people that want to get monkeys off their back more than they want to actually do good.

This is the same problem that causes things like crowdstrike (sorry for bringing that into this). People want to say they are doing good because saying it gives them most of what they want from actually doing good at 1 one thousandth the cost.
This is just what life is... We can spend all day talking about fairy tales of living forever but this is reality lol. What position is there to rethink ?
I think you do not need 24 hour flights for that. Some flight numbers are used multiple times throughout the day. If one gets delayed too much, then two planes can be in the sky at the same time with the same flight number.
> the problem is your parenthetical - it's not possible, so attempting to do so isn't actually really possible. what's worse than a watermark? one that doesn't actually work.

If it's not possible to watermark, then just ban LLMs.

Tech people have this weird self-serving assumption that the tech must be developed and must used, and if it causes harms that can't be mitigated then we must accept the harm and live with it. It's really an anti-humanist, tech-first POV.
The cost of thunderstorms has doubled from 5 years ago.

https://www.swissre.com/press-release/Insured-losses-from-se...
Yeah I lost my sessions a few times (crashes and just randomly), been using this plugin since. Worked great.
It's a good observation, but probably a bad example since that page is clear on what criteria they consider for something to be "safe".

That aside, of course DJB would choose criteria that let him label his own curve as "safe".

I'm no cryptographer so ultimately I have no choice but to rely on others' expertise, but that does not mean I take at face value the words of someone talking about their own project. Probably for the same reason HN requires disclosure when talking about something you're involved in.
HIPAA eBook – Looking for Experts
Hey,

I'm writing a HIPAA related ebook and I'm looking for experts who can help and perhaps co-author this. Anyone interested or know anyone who might be?
All that survives is The Love Boat, and future humans will fashion their entire understanding of ancient American history, culture, and religion around this show.
SlashID RBAC: Globally-available role-based access control
Path to precision: Targeted cancer drugs go from table to trials to bedside
Yeah, this, paired with a social scorekeeping system that literally kills old people if they are less useful (lonelier -> general health problems)
Jill Wohlner started a recruiting co to help startups hire tech folks
New SLUBStick Attack Makes Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities More Dangerous
Yet the Windows 3.1 calculator couldn't subtract properly.

While I bring that example up in jest, there are real limitations to how computers do math. The calculator app may produce correct results for everyday problems. Yet there are many domains where you must know how floating point numbers are handled, how the computer handles trigonometric functions, etc.. It's not that the computer is wrong. There are simply limitations due to how floating point numbers are represented. Even integers can be problematic due to their own limitations.
He used to get written up as if he was a serious voice in The Economist and now he's teaming up with Jordan Peterson.

I guess that's at least some progress in our collective information immune system rejecting his calculated BS on climate change.
RAG in Detail
The game is live again at https://www.stubbenedgelabs.com/reverse-captcha (this is our new domain).

We haven't formally released the game, and we took it down temporarily when we saw an unexpected spike in traffic from many different countries.

Feedback is most welcome!
The ability to live our lives online well predates the pandemic. Remote work hasn't prevented experiences (except perhaps being tied to a commute), it's enabled us to live more flexible lives.

My partner (extreme introvert), and myself (somewhat an ambivert) have travelled the world for 6 years as digital nomads and rarely if ever do extroverted things. But introvert is not the same as not leaving the house.

We've done ~50 countries, quietly, patiently and without broadcasting our lives for all to see. We've learned to sail and lived on a sailboat for a while without starting a youtube channel so the world can follow us doing it.

I find the article mostly to be flawed and ridiculous. Calling introverts selfish is obnoxious. This reads like a (fake) column from "Sex and the City".

Carrie: "I found myself wondering if humans would go extinct if they didn't go to bars every night".
Show HN: An app for downloading YouTube videos, transcripts, and thumbnails
I found the manual process of downloading various YouTube assets painful so built a simple app to help myself and hopefully others.

The app wraps up popular Python libraries (`yt-dlp, scrapetube, youtube-transcript-api`) and makes their functionality easier to use.

Python and Docker versions are available.
That's undisputed. The lawsuit will be over how much the damages are and the balance of liability.
What why ?
Would people browse bigcocks.net unless it’s explicitly blocked?
What about cox?

Is „tube“ on a blocklist as well?
I think a good place to start would be the question "Why do I feel different now?"

> If I could enjoy the process as much as I enjoy the results, I would be able to persistently achieve more.

This is an assumption, be wary.

My advice: Explore this new feeling and where it's coming from, rather than trying to work around it.

The advice you asked for: Start somewhere. Anywhere. Anything. Momentum is your friend.
Crowdstrike is going to talk a big game in pre-trial because they know that once the jury cuts through the PR spin, Crowdstrike is still responsible for screwing up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people by their negligence.

Delta's tech team will be forgiven for not instantly wanting support from the group responsible for the largest IT blunder in history.
Reasonable, but the level of copyright protection for games is actually really small! It only actually covers the art and text, not the game mechanics. I don't think I'd support that trade overall but it seems better than the unilateral requirement on game companies.
Could you cite your sources?

The only thing that I could find was that VerDi has a very good stance being PRO open-source software, and ANTI encryption and chat backdoors:

ver.di setzt sich ein für die Nutzung und Förderung von Open-Source-Software durch
den deutschen Staat, indem er in Verwaltung, Behörden und staatlichen Organisationen
so weitgehend wie möglich Open-Source-Software nutzt. Zudem soll die Entwicklung von
Open-Source-Software finanziell und institutionell langfristig gefördert werden. Dies
gilt ebenso für die benötigte Hardware-Infrastruktur. Wenn der Staat Software
programmiert oder in Auftrag gibt, muss diese Open Source sein. Dadurch macht der
Staat sich unabhängig von einzelnen Anbietern und langfristig werden Kosten gespart,
da weniger Gebühren für Lizenzen anfallen.

https://www.verdi.de/ueber-uns/bundeskongress-2023/berichte/...
Now to compile with wasm so we can use it in a browser
I named my home server (that I mostly run machine learning experiments on) euripides, because I found a quote by him very insightful: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
Have spent too little time with Haskell, and am fairly indifferent to pure maths beyond forcible conversion to applied maths against pure mathematicians’ will - but I have an enduring love for jazz. It is freedom incarnate, and the most perfect musical metaphor for life yet known to me.
Solar Atmospheric Water Extractor for Off-Grid Water Generation
Yeah...Old 8-bit computers didn't exactly have any OS services. :)
the Fed thinking it can "fix" the economy is exactly how we ended up here

they'll try again with rapid and deep rate cuts, and we'll be back to raging inflation and asset bubbles without the necessary wage growth

at what point do people realize that the price of a forever-growing stock market is a four-digit weekly grocery bill?

we're running out of corner to paint ourselves into
If they did decide to do this, the "intellectual property" thing seems like a complete non-issue to me. Third parties wouldn't have any customers if they didn't license things in a compliant way, so they'd just change their licensing to follow the law. This seems vastly easier than e.g. restricting the use of various chemicals in manufacturing, where you actually have to solve engineering problems and alter physical supply chains to make the change.
Hundreds of thousands is a pretty conservative estimate.
What's "Xtian"?
Okay, I know this is just meant to be twitter-style bullying, but I'll bite:

As I wouldn't want every local governmental authority to freely define what constitutes "art", it means that everything can be categorized as art.

So the most economic and democratic solution then is to close the whole circle and reduce tax for everyone in return of submitting "art", even if it's just a picture of a milk-carton in a corner.

However, the consequence would be excessive governmental cost for the Ministry of Culture and Arts to preserve every piece of contributed art, so every citizen can see every art created by every other citizen.
This of course would have to be funded by tax-money, which unfortunately means increased tax-burden for everyone...

Result: A development put in motion which will definitely not end up prioritizing people being paid to create art!
re: https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/age-authentication/#on-c...

other than inelegance and the computational overhead, is there a reason why sign then encrypt then sign wouldn't work for this?
Do you disagree that Trump pressured the Georgia elections people to find him votes? On a phone call? Because he very clearly did. He had no business making that call at all otherwise. And lots of people were on it and were in no doubt about what it was about.

Do you disagree that his campaign -- headed by him, reporting to him, with him aware of it -- created fake slates of electors to try to steal electoral college votes? Because that seems pretty obviously to have happened.

Do you disagree that Trump knew the January 6th protests would lead to people marching on the Capitol? Do you think it plausible he didn't know and wasn't advised what would happen? He had no business organising that march otherwise -- there was nothing that could happen on January 6th to change the outcome that wasn't against the constitution.

--

The Russia collusion stuff was not, in fact, all a lie, at all.

https://time.com/5556331/mueller-investigation-indictments-g...

People were convicted for actively misleading the FBI about their contacts with Russia, so it could not be prosecuted properly. That's pretty serious (and it has precedents: Scooter Libby for example).

Mueller just pulled the final punches. Including that Trump -- then a sitting president -- lied to the investigation.

Nobody has ever "admitted that it is not true" because nobody knows for sure except probably the people who lied to the FBI about pretty much everything. But there is a hell of a stink (and that stink started with Manafort, who -- surprise surprise -- Trump tried to recruit again for this cycle, and who got the 2016 RNC platform changed to stop promising to arm Ukraine)
This title is about as apt as my username
The obscured cookie popup should also be fixed now.
Founder of Social Media Site 'Irl.com' Charged with Fraud over Faked Users
SEC Press release -> https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-92
I like this take, but you're saying something different I think, which is more along the lines of "Customers don't care about how the sausage is made".

You didn't polish a turd, you found something that could be valuable to someone and found a way to make it into a polished product, which is great.

But "You can't polish a turd" implies it's actually a turd and there's nothing valuable to be found or the necessary quality thresholds can't be met.
> a world which prioritizes people being paid to create art! The horror...

You misunderstand. Creating art is hard. Putting oil paint on a canvas is easy. So if you pay money for paint on canvas without any other checks you will get the simplest passable form of paint on canvas. If you don't mandate that the whole canvas is covered all you will get is a pile of canvas with a single brush stroke.

Look up the concept perverse incentive, or cobra effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
> The problem of dying is a much more urgent problem than, say, overpopulation

How are you not connecting overpopulation and longevity? The earth is already straining, even with the current level of population and longevity. If no one is dying until they are 200, and increasingly consuming like the richer nations, we are going to be living miserable lives.

Perhaps the people who advocate for longevity should spend a year in any one of the third world's populated cities and experience it first-hand.
I seriously doubt this kind of stuff has ever messed with their bottom line. I think they just really resent users trying to do more with their service than they intended.
This is the sort of body horror that cyberpunk warned us about
There seems to be some relevant prior work that is not referenced by this paper, such as our work on training sparse neural networks:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01312

Abstract: "We propose a practical method for L0 norm regularization for neural networks: pruning the network during training by encouraging weights to become exactly zero. Such regularization is interesting since (1) it can greatly speed up training and inference, and (2) it can improve generalization. [...]"
> Disagree. It's enough for the average voter to trust that some other people - independent experts - are able to verify the vote.

It's interesting how attitudes about digital voting seemed to flip overnight once Trump challenged the 2020 election. Beforehand there as a lot of serious concern about the trustworthiness and security of digital voting machines, now I get the impression that's all been muted and its taboo to do anything except trust the authorities.
Do Twitter next!
What happens if you abort the binary fission? If the answer is "you shouldn't", please tell me why. My argument for why we should is that some people want to scientifically know if it is possible to artificially, arbitrarily extend the lifespan of an organism. What are the constraints? What are the possibilities? What is the cost? Can we use GPUs?
In my experience, only a tiny fraction of people in the charity sector manage to make "a hell of a lot of money"

Mostly they're paying on the low end of market rate.
Not suggesting that testing other things isn't useful but not as straightforward and not as obviously beneficial as pure function testing. It is easy to just dogmatically pile on tests but they may not be helpful.
I believe the following is going to happen:

- AI will fizzle because businesses won't be able to make enough money with LLM relative to the costs, NVDA and tech will plummet

- Inflation will rise again

- Global Recession. I think China will be the center of a financial crisis
> an obvious counter-example is an explanation that happens to be coincidentally correct

How can you establish "correctness" without something like the scientific method? How do you even bind loosely-defined english to verifiable claims to real-life referents without agreeing with others on terms? No, you're chosen simple, comforting delusion over anything resembling objective truth.

> This seems like an attack on the notion of objective truth

Yes, truth is an apriori concept; objective truth is a silly delusion. Coherence is generally a much stronger concept anyway.
Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week
If anything it creates an incentive that we shouldn't be encouraging. I'm surprised that more elite athletes haven't already sought an ADHD diagnosis.
> Yet the Windows 3.1 calculator couldn't subtract properly.

OK, but I'm sure that Microsoft treated that as a bug to be fixed, rather than as an inherent limitation of computers that we just need to understand and deal with.
Yes and no.

I only need to care about my SSH key(s). Which I had to anyway. But now the secrets for all the services (except SSH) lie right besides their config. Any change in one or other is directly visible in git log.

In short, age cut down on the number and types of secrets that I have to manage out of band. Which is very good. It's always easier to be able to remember 2 things (config + SSH keys) than 2+n things (config + SSH keys + whatever secret mechanism any service uses, times number of services).
Related and also useful US-based sites:

Fire incident map: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/

Smoke and fire map: https://fire.airnow.gov/
Then such code needs to be written in a language that actually makes the relevant timing guarantees. That language may be C with appropriate extensions but it certainly is not C with whining that compilers don't apply my special requirements to all code.
World of Warcraft is probably the murkiest example since you had to buy a copy of WoW to play the game, but the packaging clearly said how the box only includes a month of gameplay and you need to pay for any additional time after that. So it was never really advertised as a full and complete game, even though you had to buy it.

If World of Warcraft was just a subscription without having to buy the game, then I think it'd be a lot clearer. You pay $12 for a month of WoW and you get a month of WoW, nothing more, nothing less.

It's quite a lot different from a game like The Crew, which is sold as a complete game, even though it stopped working when Ubisoft axed the servers and was even retroactively removed from players' game libraries.
Elon Musk inherited Steve Jobs' distortion field? Did you pass it to him?

It's marketing. You're making things very complicated and distorting reality.