skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because when they try to solve it the solution is us navigating a cookie dialog puzzle

Please show me where exactly EU laws mandate the cookie dialog puzzle.

> The setting could have just been a browser toggle,

Yes, it could've, and browsers have now had 6 years to implement it. Instead, the industry decided that obnoxious cookie banners are the way to go.

> against incompetents forcing bad solutions

Which solution is forced by EU laws, and can you quote me the exact wording that forces this solution?
Ah, I see. Apologies.
Sure, lots of philosophers talk about lives barely worth living, and what constitutes the line. Lots of public health researchers work on metrics for quality-adjusted life years, and increasing longevity is useful only insofar as it increases QALY's.

But I really do expect most measures which increase population longevity to increase population QALY's. The conflict between hypothetical immortal tyrants and immortal coup-conspiracies would only be a small part of this; material conditions and overall societal wealth would weigh much heavier on the scale.
Even then they don't really examine the card. Most of the time I just flash my card for a brief second while I'm walking and the person at the door just nods and moves onto the next person behind me.
Thank you.

By the way, I agree with you that "a good future for all of humanity" would be a fantastic goal :-)

The multi-trillion dollar question is: How do you specify that goal as an objective function?
Always had the curiosity to put something together with pytorch but it always seemed either a steep learning curve or there wasn't a big motivator (project, problem to solve, something in my daily routine to optimize).

Does anybody have a good starting point to learn with hands-on projects and also that could accommodate for flexattention?
Basically /r/Canada seems to be filled with rage-bait posts from just a few users who seems to always get up voted, with almost no organic content. This is in contrast to main subreddits for other similar countries.
I have proposed a solution, and linked to a peer reviewed paper that goes in depth about it. What else can I do?
'Denial of death' is a nice philosophical treatise on this topic by an anthropologist. It's ideas would likely change many of the minds of posters here.
Where is this example?
> the more I'm convinced that we need independent rankings of news sites and journalism.

How much do you personally spend subscribing to independent journalism? There are great outlets and journalists closing down and moving on every day, because when push comes to shove, people don't want to pay a dollar to read important news that they care about, even in their own communities.
Not sure I'm really surprised. As far as I know, AWS hasn't been the fastest in resolving issues. I just remember the "S3 Bucket - We Charge You For Unauthorized Requests" issue a few months ago
Thanks, afaiu it's also a research reactor that did not contribute to the grid. Might add research ones in the future, even though I do not see how they would be useful.
so, when do you want to die, then?

really, i’m not trying to be mean here. you assert life must be finite, and all i’m asking is how finite it should be.
HN stripped the "Why" from the title. Just added it back.

To answer your question, tldr: config not declarative enough, reliability issues, permissions not granular enough, networking/peering has gaps. But it's all pretty contextual... many of these won't matter until you're in a larger team, and even then possibly not.
Exactly, and people have been saying this for a while now. If an "AI software engineer" needs a perfect spec with zero ambiguity, all edge cases defined, full test coverage with desired outcomes etc., then the person writing the spec is the actual software engineer, and the AI is just a compiler.
> This is probably the only way they'll be able to keep Boeing as a provider. A redo of this mission would cost Boeing half a billion dollars, easy. And since the contract is fixed-price, this would just add to Boeing's losses.

As much as I get that Boeing is a major launch partner for the US in general and one of the only companies competing in the crewed space in the States right now, I don't get this part.

It's not NASA's job to keep Boeing in the running. It's completely up to Boeing to produce a vehicle that can safely and reliably get crews to and from orbit, and to do the appropriate amount of testing beforehand. If they can't be bothered to do that with the understanding the cost of failure, that's on them.
First gene-editing therapy may cure blood disorder
If it "only runs on a million-dollar distributed cluster", they're probably wrong in that claim, and the community will be able to run it to support how they want to play. I agree that the developers should not be required to put in extra effort to be able to run on deployments other than their own, but I believe it would be reasonable to require the source code be distributed too. With the source code, the game will never die an artificial death.
Does anyone know if there's anything opensource similar to what rapidapi does?

I'm interested mostly in managing access to some APIs we run that aren't in the same infra and different languages also.

Thanks.
But why would you bother with this? If you want to know last year's unemployment rate objectively speaking, then you just head to wherever the statistics are published by your government and see it yourself. Well, if you can trust your government's statistics that is (and this is an extremely important "if").

So I doubt people are coming to a news site to read a one-liner with some statistic, they want more development, perhaps adding some opinions in between, comparing it with previous governments, whatever.

But yeah, there's not much business in a "news site" that'd just copy-paste statistics.
Re: 3, you can also use Python’s array.array in some circumstances. If you have heterogeneous types, don’t need multiple dimensions, and don’t need Fortran memory layout, they’re a good choice IMO, and one that doesn’t require pulling in 3rd party packages.
America has absurd amounts of natural resources, compared to all European countries except Russia. It would be fairly rich just by exploiting them, without any advanced economy, just like Australia or Canada are. Add advanced economy on top of that, and regular Americans should be swimming in money, compared to rest of the world.
Fair use. There are lots of fan remakes and demakes out there.
> The comparison with junk food is an apt one.

I don't know if you used an AI chatbot for this, but this is an often used starting point.
Like I said, 1 day of separation doesn't seem like anything remarkable, but it begs the question: do the numbers get reused for the same flight on shorter intervals than a day? If so, when? Even more interesting, why?

And, technically, the two flights 1555 in my example aren't the same - one departed at 4:00, and the other at 4:20. Both flights were on-time, so this wasn't a scheduling issue delaying one or the other. 20 minutes isn't a big difference, but it is still a difference. How big does the difference have to be to make Southwest assign two different codes?

Even more philosophically asinine, what do we even mean when we say two flights are "the same?" If Southwest thinks those two flights are the same, then clearly departure time only matters within a certain fudge factor. So that's one part of the picture. Do the make and model of plane need to be the same? Does it need to be the very same physical airplane?

Are any of these questions important to my everyday life? No! Are they interesting? Absolutely!
Firefox, after 10 years, is still the only browser that correctly renders adding mjpeg images to the dom and have them play in response to an event on a websocket. not chrome, not safari, not edge.

Very specific use case. Maybe I'm the only one that uses it. But it's interesting to note that I discovered this back around 2013 and it's not changed in that time.

It's nice for making popup video camera views in javascript.

Interesting to note, it's only not working when it's a websocket initiated dom change. Keyboard input, result of an http call, all fine.

So please don't take firefox away :)
Actual investigative on the ground journalism costs more money and time and nuances. All of these are expensive. So why not feed the people junk.
When two people argue and neither has sources or reasoning, we all suffer.
I love this and Pratchett’s “Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness”. Imagine the cost to the poor if we discovered immortality before we eliminated poverty.
Thanks. So nice to see official ECC support come back to the non-PRO parts.
There is a considerable distance between "all resources are ultimately limited" and "thus humans should die at 80, instead of 80 trillion when the stars burn out."

See also https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified "Transhumanism as simplified Humanism":

> If a young child falls on the train tracks, it is good to save them, and if a 45-year-old suffers from a debilitating disease, it is good to cure them. If you have a logical turn of mind, you are bound to ask whether this is a special case of a general ethical principle which says “Life is good, death is bad; health is good, sickness is bad.” If so – and here we enter into controversial territory – we can follow this general principle to a surprising new conclusion: If a 95-year-old is threatened by death from old age, it would be good to drag them from those train tracks, if possible. And if a 120-year-old is starting to feel slightly sickly, it would be good to restore them to full vigor, if possible.

Also I don't see how it's ego driven. I want everybody (who wants) to live forever. - And while we're at it, every animal who ever lived in every ecosystem has changed things. That's kind of what it means to live in an ecosystem - no actually, that's kind of what it means to live, period.
This is true, but part of that convincing is actually providing at least some amount of response that is helpful and moving you forward.

I have to use coding as an example, because that's 95% of my use cases. I type in a general statement of the problem I'm having and within seconds, I get back a response that speaks my language and provides me with some information to ingest.

Now, I don't know for sure if everything sentence I read in the response is correct, but let's say that 75% of what I read aligns with what I currently know to be true.
If I were to ask a real expert, I'd possibly understand or already know 75% of what they're telling me, as well, with the other 25% still to be understood and thus trusting the expert.

But either with AI or a real expert, for coding at least, that 25% will be easily testable. I go and implement and see if it passes my test. If it does, great. If not, at least I have tried something and gotten farther down the road in my problem solving.

Since AI generally does that for me, I am convinced of their helpfulness because it moves me along.
>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.

I've heard it said that the idea that Germans are efficient is a myth. (The new Berlin airport is one example.)

Germans are, rather, *rule followers*.
BASIC is literally "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code"

To quote Wikipedia:"They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers."
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My objection isn't that its good but not perfect, I don't think itd be good at all. So far everyone who's tried to be a neutral arbiter of truth has been a political hack, like politifact and groups like that. Training the public to trust things just because they got a good score from some agency is not going to improve their ability to think critically and be informed, the false sense of legitimacy (and the ability to apply the rules unevenly to make your enemies look illegitimate) would make the problem even more odious
Vulnerabilities Exposed Widely Used Solar Power Systems to Hacking, Disruption
> an LLM can pass the ball back and just ask what should happen when A and B but not C

What should the colleagues of the business person review before deciding that the system is fit for purpose? Or what should they review when the system fails? Should they go back over the transcript of the conversation with the LLM?
> While such techniques are available, would they be really applicable in a very dynamic environment such as with millions of PCs running various windows versions, needing continuous / real-time updates.

I don't see much difference in complexity between the affected software and the several existing formally verified software. At the very least the parser/interpreter could very much be formally verified.

But my point is, have they tried? They don't seem to be even aware of such.
Judging by the translated conversation, they seem pretty intense about quickly detecting, and properly turning into, the next wave...
No because we're not talking about that.
Did Casio make things a bit weird on purpose to circumvent the Stanford/Chowning/Yamaha patent(s) on FM synthesis?
futo, the company that keeps trying to hijack open source with their proprietary licence?
Law is definitely the wrong way to go here. Should I avoid writing on my personal website out of fear I may not have the resources to maintain it forever?

A better approach is probably a technological one: a web that encourages permanence. Something like IPFS.
> I’m not sure I would agree. By the time you’ve written a full spec for it, you may as well have just written a high level programming language anyway.

Remember all those attempts to transform UML into code back in the day? This sounds sorta like that. I’m not a total genai naysayer but definitely in the “cautiously curious” camp.
Mass migration of factories and production from the rust belt to areas with cheaper labor like Mexico and china, sure.
Except in the short term, technology is one of the few things that almost always ends being distributed evenly. 2000 years ago, the only way to get running water was to be Ceaser and command a slave, “Go run and get me water.” Now one turns a tap. Similar arguments can be made to innovations ranging from household appliances to medical advances that were only available to the wealthy 50 years ago.

You also overestimate the power of entrenched interests and underestimate the political agency of those who live in a functioning democracy.
Sure, we can chat here or via the contact form on the website
The SPAG paper is an interesting example of true reinforcement learning using language models that improves their performance on a number of hard reasoning benchmarks. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10642

The part that is missing from Karpathy's rant is "at scale" (the researchers only ran 3 iterations of the algorithm on small language models) and in "open domains" (I could be wrong about this but IIRC they ran their games on a small number of common english words). But adversarial language games seem promising, at least.
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Researchers turn B cells into tiny surveillance machines, antibody factories
Seems much simpler than that to me: iFixit isn’t an advocacy group, they’re in the business of selling parts directly to consumers, and they’re calling out what looks to be an outrageous markup from the sole supplier. Any advocacy they do is in support of their business. They’re a free market solution demanding a freer market.
What's fascinating to me is how they're going to call this a success when the mission is over.

I get that there are things that you can only test in space, and so they are testing. But if these astronauts get back, does Boeing then get certified to carry astronauts into space regularly from a successful test?

I should listen to the conference but how would they define the whole mission successful?
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This is a great hack. Very nice!
>Which is useless if they simply encrypt the data before sending it over SSL.

Not entirely useless, you'd still know they were sending something and it would be proof they could bypass Little Snitch.
And yet here we have this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/why-was-russia-banned...
There's a bit where she said she could sense the Americans wanting to hear her mother repeat her story of their journey from "oppresive Iran" to "free America", but seemingly wanting to hear it (again and again) to feel good about "their" generosity. And she is grateful, but she doesn't like this expectation of the "rescuing" community that refugees are only allowed to feel joy and gratefulness.
Elites are not the only ones who get cancer treatments. Since the diseases of aging are extremely expensive, it's even likely that national health insurance programs would pay for anti-aging treatments. Longer lifespans would also help counter lower fertility, which is an economic problem for most developed nations.

Long-term, sure, maybe we end up with a social mobility problem. But solving that seems less difficult than solving aging. Even if we didn't solve it, I'm not convinced it would be a bad trade.

Imagine we lived in world with an average lifespan of a thousand years but little social mobility. And some prominent person said "hey I know how to fix this, we'll just kill everyone on their 90th birthday." I doubt many people would consider that a viable solution, rather than a ridiculously bad one.
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One problem with mixing comedy with serious news is we undermine the gravity or seriousness with which we should respond. Hardtalk on BBC should be common format so that people go into the show with belief that these are not laughing matter
Coming back here, not sure if anyone still reads this thread a day later...

I am not sure about the legality of it here in Germany, but I'm not really sure I could even prove it.

Pressuring us into buying these items are hard to prove, nobody said we need to do anything. You want to be someone who makes sure the feature can launch on time and works correctly, or you want to complain (rightfully) that using your own cards should not be necessary for testing a feature?

It was, though, implied 1. we need to make sure the product works and shipped on time, 2. you can't do it without using your own cards.

I know people on the team who simply didn't test, but as it was a feature I was mainly responsible for and genuinely interested in, I wanted the launch to be successful.

We also eventually got the money back (most of the money? didn't check them all).

In the end, it was in total about 25 euros, and that's not a sum that I would sue my employer over, especially as I was "happy enough" at the company.
> 4. In some ways, Starliner is being held to a higher standard than Dragon Crew-2.

Wat? Have any Dragon missions encountered the number and severity of issues experienced by Starliner?

Maybe they have and are not public knowledge because NASA is less than transparency about its safety predictions and findings. But until the same confidence sapping mission performance is established it is not honest to say that Starliner is held to a higher standard.
Look at the gerontocracy that already exists in the United States, both the politicians and billionaires like Rupert Murdoch. A ruling class will always stick around as long as they can.

Do we really want to make those rulers immortal too? Seems like a tremendous risk that the cure for death will ossify one generation's rule. Those immortal 0.1-percenters who own everything will then fear nothing more than a violent revolution because they can still be physically destroyed. They'll do everything to keep the less fortunate in place under their thumb, forever.

The world of immortals would make Nazi Germany look like child's play. When death is no longer inevitable, avoiding it can become a dominating obsession. Who's to say how many people an immortal human would be prepared to kill to ensure his own survival?
It's the Russians that I'm afraid of. :)

My assumption is that Finland will not invade anyone unless provoked first..
Journalism has always been a rather shady business. "Remember the Maine."

Also, most of what you hear or read is just a reflection of who is spending money to get press. For example, Taylor Swift, AI companies and the Olympics all have a formula to turn press coverage into cash, so it should be no surprise that they are constantly in the news.
I’d go with puppeteer for your use case as it’s the easier option to set up browser automation with. But it’s not like you can really go wrong with playwright or selenium either.

Playwright only really gets better than puppeteer if you’re doing actual website testing of a website you’re building which is where it shines.

Selenium is awesome, and probably has more guide/info available but it’s also harder to get into.
I think the bodycam will never be it on it's own.

Watch - Almost everyone can wear this daily, in almost any environment.
Glasses - Almost everyone can wear this daily, in almost any environment.
Bodycam - Depends on what you're wearing and where. Work at a hospital? Probably not. A night out on a date? Probably not. At the beach? No. Tank top? No. Rainy day with layers? Not easy. It's too dependent on something that varies considerably.
> For the carburetor he used a unit off Amazon

Well that's no fun. This tends to be one of the hardest things to do right in a small engine. Show me one with a carb made out of something from the Home Depot garden center.
From my experience, that concept is mostly used as weapon and shield by the worst kind of people, to let them get away with their manipulative bs.

Speaking clearly sometimes means saying things that are uncomfortable to hear.
I did provide an alternative. Formally verify their software, making implausible for such error to occur. I have linked to a peer reviewed article that goes in-depth about such.
Ask HN: How would you describe a commit?
Assume that you are introducing the concept of version control and committing to a non-dev audience; how would you describe what a commit does?
But this will lead you to the same problem the tweet is talking! You are training a reward model based on human feedback (whether the code satisfies the specification or not). This time the human feedback may seem more objective, but in the end it's still non-exhaustive human feedback which will lead to the reward model being vulnerable to some adversarial inputs which the other model will likely pick up pretty quickly.
The hope is these ratings could more systematically help support good journalists, since news orgs will keep those journalists employed in order to keep their ranking up.
My non-us bank has a feature to block all non-3ds (aka, us transactions) outside of a 100km radius of my phone’s current location. I have to specifically authorize/exempt us payments (like GitHub).
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This is a common theme around Scandinavia as well.

Summer: Light from 08 to 22ish.
Winter: Dark at 16 around december.

Fuck.