skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have only considered the consequences of you living forever. It wouldn’t just be you, it’d be everyone. Well, more likely, it’d just be the rich, and you’d just have to hope you’re rich enough to afford it. And good luck with social mobility in a world where the ‘generational wealth’ doesn’t need the ‘generational’ part. You’ll find that an internship at a company with the potential to eventually give a high-paying job in a few decades needs 80 years of experience, three PhDs and a personal recommendation letter from at least one legendary figure just to make it to interview because you’re competing in a job market with immortals.

This feels similar to the people who advocate for dictatorships because they picture themselves as the dictators, and end up having their faces eaten by leopards. Statistically, you’re overwhelmingly likely to not end up in the elite in this new deathless world.
I understand that this is fun to read or a "wow" topic, but we're on HACKERnews here... how does this fit the theme of this site?
Not allowing advertising to children I think isn't the correct route for society.

Instead we should prevent children having money. Until you're 16, you may not handle money. You may not buy things for money. You may not sell things. You may not enter into contracts to exchange money.

Your parents however can do all of those things on your behalf.

At that point, advertising to children no longer is relevant - the children cannot buy the advertised things.
Yes, and this is how computer "scientists" think of problems -- but this isnt science, it's mathematics.

If you have a process, eg., points = sample(circle) which fully describes its target as n->inf (ie., points = circle as n->inf) you arent engaged in statistical infernece. You might be using some of the same formula, but the whole system of science and statistics has been created for a radically different problem with radically different semantics to everything you're doing.

eg., the height of mercury in a thermometer never becomes the liquid being measured.. it might seems insane/weird/obvious to mention this... but we literally have berkelian-style neoidealists in AI research who don't realise this...

Who think that because you can find representations of abstracta in other spaces they can be projected in.. that this therefore tells you anything at all about inference problems. As if it was the neural network algorithm itself (a series of multiplications and additions) that "revealed the truth" in all data given to it. This, of course, is pseudoscience.

It only applies on mathematical problems, for obvious reasons. If you use a function approximation alg to approximate a function, do not be suprised you can succeed. The issue is that the relationship between, say, the state of a theremometer and the state of the temperature of it's target system is not an abstract function which lives in the space of temperature readings.

More precisely, in the space of temperature readings the actual causal relationship between the height of the mecurary and the temperature of the target shows up as an infinite number of temperature distributions (with any given trained NN learning only one of these). None of which are a law of nature -- laws of nature are not given by distributions in measuring devices.
IIRC, there have been people doing similar things using something close to brute-force. Nothing of real significance has been found. A problem is that there are infinitely many physically and mathematically correct theorems that would add no practical value.
> the reality of living somewhere new is always more complicated than what you see when "on holiday".

Perfect opportunity to work international for a bit. :)

Honestly, I wonder where the line is. You want to immerse yourself in another culture, but not flounder/drown either.

Might be better to work at a more similar culture (ie us->england) as a stepping stone to a challenging change (us->asia)
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"programs written by LLMs must run correctly and only incidentally be human readable." - Me.
The idea of “zero trust appliances” is that you can reduce the attack surface from the external network, that is how Zscaler positions it, to make you apps 'dark'. IMHO though, the logical conclusion is to give every application, as part of the software development lifecycle its own private network, which implements zero trust principles - least privilege, microsegmentation, default deny, strong identity, device authentication, and more.

The beauty of this approach is that you eliminate a whole class of vulnerabilities (see 'secure by default from CISA), that is, network/IP attacks, without changing the users experience (they just access the app).

Another key aspect is that this approach should be applied to every use case, not just client to server. All of this is possible on the open source project I work on, OpenZiti - https://openziti.io/.
We have seen very similar story to Mexico in the EU. After 20 years of membership, Poland for example is a much more attractive place to live for Poles, so immigration from there to UK/DE/NL is massively down on where it was in, say, 2006. Same for Czech Rep, Slovenia, etc.
I understand what you're saying, I was particularly moved by the story of the Vietnamese woman who lost her son crossing a river. It's heartbreaking.

For some of these people it's better odds. Particularly I'm sympathetic to people living in places like Venezuela or central Africa. But for the rest, people from places like Vietnam or China or Chile, their situations are most certainly not worth the risk. They were either sold propaganda that it was easy, or they are risking their family's lives irresponsibly for the prospect of financial gain on the idea that they can become sensationally rich in the US. I've personally known people from both of those sets, and I've been to some places in the world (and not as a military person or something like that) and seen things about as horrendous as are outlined in this article.

Losing your job during covid is not a solid motivator for a rational person to decide to do this. It takes intense desperation, delusion about the danger, or the idea that it will be incredibly worth the risk. Only people in the first circumstance can justify doing something like this when it's all said and done. The rest, they'll be traumatized in the best case scenario and then wind up in the same situation they were in back home, living in crime riddled ghettos paying too much in rent and working dead end shit jobs to barely scrape by. For many that's a worse existence than they left. There's a siren on the shores of the US, and it's song is "the land of opportunity." I've had people tell me that they literally believed the streets here were paved in gold until they arrived. The truth is, in most of the countries where these people come from, day to day life is pretty comparable, and your chances of hitting it big are about the same.

The only real benefit to those but the truly desperate is arbitraging the labor markets between countries using remittances. You can send money home to your family and they can move up and then when they're set you can return and have a higher class life. I don't believe it's moral to risk the lives of your small children for something like that.
Shouldn’t the title be “Firefox support for puppeteer”?
Are those arguing for immortality assuming that aside from physical
decline we improve monotonically with age? That's not at all clear to
me. For example, the general consensus among linguists is that the
ability to acquire native fluency in a language is lost after a
certain age. Could there be other less obvious deficits in
neuroplasticity that people striving for immortality would need to
address? Sticking with the same example, how do we know it doesn't
confer some evolutionary advantage to repurpose the language
acquisition firmware (whatever that may be) to more age appropriate
ends later? Oddly enough, a couple of star trek episodes I'm too lazy
to look up got me thinking about all this. In one of them, captain
Picard gets a chance to relive a regrettable incident from his youth
and ends up ruining his life, and in the other, captain Janeway goes
back in time to help her younger self and finds out they both have
something to learn from each other. Relatedly, someone asked William
Shatner what he wished he knew when he was younger and he said a
better question would be about what he's glad he didn't know.
Disclaimer: I had an unexpected sudden cancer scare last week so maybe
you should discount my comment as a rationalization.
Yes, it is a bit selfish. But it is also okay to be a bit selfish from time to time. After all, it is your life. Of course, this needs to be carefully balanced. But doing things every now and then just because you want to, is okay.

However the "not how it works" comment ... well, you could make that pretty much throughout the time that humans have lived. We have been continuously changing the environment around us to suit our needs and wants. Early farmers burned down forests to get fertilized land. We domesticated crops and animals and bred them to grow the way we wanted them. We built things to make life safer, better and easier.

You could say "that's not how it works" about a tractor or wheat with multiple stems from a single seed.

But of course, there will be problems that need to be overcome if we ever do figure out ways of extending life. But again, there always have been problems with new inventions.

I firmly believe that humanity has the ability to overcome problems, develop, learn and improve. And that aligns well with wanting more life!
It's basically the same, just with a lot more of a "good enough" attitude to aiming.
So you really mostly on a muscle memory to have pistol somewhere in a target, then aim using iron sights. For whole 8,6 or 4s you focus vision on a iron sights.
During the first phase - moving your arm up from the 45 degree position, you look in the target direction so you know when to start, then focus your vision on iron sights in the end phase of raising arm motion so you are almost immediately ready to aim and pull the trigger, then just move you eyes to the next target, but with "locked" focus (at the distance of iron sights, not target), so again, arm moves to the target area and you can aim and shoot.
Given Boeing's track record, it's possible they'll return to be greeted by apes wearing suits.
But does it replicate _better_ than really running the experiment again?

Joking…but not joking.
Hi OP here - this is not an argument for or against anything. Rather just a reminder that whichever side you are on, or whatever you are advocating for, just to remember we are talking about humans. That’s the only point I was making.
It's not 'dishonest'. It's important data for parts of the world where heterosexual transmission of the virus is common.

And yes, there is a similar study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Not sure I understand the ratchets, so continuing with the theme of broken glasses:

Not so long ago (200 yr? 300 yr?) almost all people spent a significant fraction (2/3+?) of their time just keeping themselves fed. We've automated enough of that that even with distribution, etc. the time budget for keeping oneself fed is now actually dominated by eating (~1/7) and not by production (~1/20?).

So, 200 or 300 years in the future, will we have done something similar to other physiological needs? other safety needs? (note here that many aspects of keeping oneself fed in prior centuries involved long-lead time skills that are no longer necessary because we produce and distribute food in an entirely different manner)

Upon reflection, the broken glasses scenario is not so dire: distribution of new lenses (produced in bulk) according to Rx is low-enough skill that one might imagine easily finding volunteers who schlep packages for the variety of social contact it affords. The toothache would be more difficult, because there treatment (currently) requires specialised knowledge. (and fixing the lens-making machine might be easy enough if one takes the "DEC repairman" attitude of parts are cheap, time and knowledge is expensive, so just swap old parts for new until it passes the self-test again?)
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If Germany was so worried about accidents, wouldn't they have fights and serious arguments with the neighbors like France that is packed with nuclear fuel, plants, and the French character of seeking endless revolutions?

Germany intentionally did something that they knew will hurt its economy, there should be a very profound reason for taking such a hit. Who would be ok to take such a hit because of a "fear"?

My generalization about the German nations may be really inaccurate here, I just thought they all had a huge influence on each other (which affects lots of previous and future decisions).
I think the point is that it's practically impossible to correctly perform RLHF in open domains, so comparisons simply can't happen.
decent phone from past 5 years are excellent candidates for stuff like this, but i personally did not find much use besides basic stuff like an FTP server.

for content, i had a budget android phone whose battery swole within a year of use. opening it without proper tools to remove the battery was a chore for somebody as incompetent as me. but after that, trying to make it set-and-forget like a raspberry pi was a challenge and a half.

you'd like the phone to start by itself when it loses and regains power from a wall adaptor. you'd also like the server/app to auto-launch on boot. these things are unfortunately not a given and the defragmented nature of android ecosystem makes it like a difficult endeavor for those without a lot of determination and free time.

using termux seem to alleviate a lot of these issues but it hasn't personally worked for me when i last tried. but for light loads, this is something i hope becomes dumb-easy in the future. just docker with launch on boot would change the game for me.
Well, we do know COVID did leak from a lab in China at least one time: in 2021, a researcher in Taiwan was bitten by an infected mouse and contracted the disease.

Edit: My bad, as far as public knowledge goes, coronavirus leaked three times in China (SARS coronavirus 2x, COVID 1x), and once in Singapore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

As for Wuhan in November 2019, the Chinese government took several actions at that time which you would expect to be taken in response to a biosecurity incident: visits from biosecurity officials, remedial biosecurity training, and (coincidentally) government simultaneously began work on a COVID vaccine.

Only circumstantial evidence, though... so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Source: a study by the US senate, covered here by WSJ: https://archive.ph/Kh2Fr
I’ve been an amateur bass player since 2008. My GAS stopped when I took a year of lessons from professional player. I learned that most of the sound comes from good playing technique.
I disagree. Again, if the German government demanded everybody call Germany "Deutschland", I'd say "we've been calling Germany 'Germany' for hundreds of years. The English word for Deutschland is 'Germany'. People are entitled to use the language they like, nobody is stopping you promoting 'Deutschland' and seeing if that takes off." It is not analogous with an individual person's name.
Sad. Today's children will never learn how to generate a valid CRC for a hex-edited save file.
if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it lacks strong typing.
Are you insinuating that the only expense the company behind intellij has is the data transfer?
The messaging around potential use case seen on the landing page is so concise and clear, further, product itself felt interesting and very interactive to me. Wish you good luck with your journey!
https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-some-people-call-bit...
Yep, drawing red lines around age of consent has worked so well in the past, I think this is the way.

I'm so glad we have simple and effective solutions like this. Otherwise can you imagine the kinds of problems we'd have with kids vaping, buying lootboxes and scrolling social media designed to hijack their not-yet-fully-developed-brains?
Epithelial skin / mucosa cells are the most likely "patient zero" cells, and those are shed regularly.
It's the good old appeal to nature[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
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> So I expect they will certify Starliner even if it comes down without a crew.

Considering the 'optics' of this, I imagine they will/should certify Starliner not with or without a crew, and at least not after 'enough' time has passed for any audit to be meaningful and for Boeing to prove that they are getting things right. Imagine 'ok-ing' the Starliner, and on the very next mission, the same (or different) critical error happens. Then I bid the NASA folks who ok-ed the Starliner a good start on their next jobs.

If there is one profession with zero tolerance for errors it's the 'space-stuff' because 1) good luck repairing things in space, 2) "in space no one can hear you scream" (profanities because you ended up staying x10 or x100 the time planned)(and I do understand that capacity planning, food, toilets, etc. etc. have been calculated to ensure that they won't be running out of food, toilet paper, etc.)

It would be fun to have a Season 3 of Space Force, and this time instead of Malkovich yelling at Microsoft, to be yelling at Boeing!
The biggest installation is a cyber security unicorn who whitelabels the commercial version of OpenZiti (NetFoundry) which they are selling to many large enterprises. They have hundreds of thousands of endpoints deployed. There is also a massive OT ICS OEM is embedding NetFoundry into its industrial routers, PLCs, etc for all types of connectivity, including machine to machine in factories. The same technology is being used for tactical military networks, with drones connecting to servers. Its being deployed in critical grid infrastructure. A hyperscaler is adopting it to replace hundreds of thousands of VPNs as well as build a multi-cloud zero trust offering for server to server workloads.

So we have not finished our job to make OpenZiti the equivalent to Linux in that every just uses it by default, but we will get there ;)

You raise an interesting point. We provide flexibility for ingress/egress... do not like proxies/sidecars, go in either opposite direction, (1) ZTAA, Zero Trust App access with SDK app embedded via SDLC, (2) ZTNA, Zero Trust Network Access via appliance deployments in DMZ/VP/VNET etc (the one you mention is ZTHA, Host Access). Each of ZTNA/HA/AA have different pros and cons based on your requirements and use case.
I have built a boilerplate for my own project using what I am proficient on. You can find it at https://github.com/aoware/slim-saas-boilerplate

There is a demo at https://boilerplate.aoware.co.uk

The reason for creating this boilerplate is because I needed to have a starting point that include account / user / subscription / pricing / payment for a number of B2B and B2C saas initiatives.

It did allow me to spin fairly quickly Memories (a photo / video storage to share with family ) https://m.emori.es/

In addition, I used the same boilerplate to reskin an old saas of mine. It is not live yet, but you can see the new version here https://test.bankaccountchecker.com
Oh dear lord what went wrong with that guy’s brain? Was it, in fact, the billions, or just the lack of oxygen up there?

No, you cannot get charged in the UK for merely retweeting those words, and only the delusional believe otherwise.
Ah, that totally makes sense! No worries :)
> Does programming have a clear reward function? A vague description from a business person isn't it. By the time someone (a programmer?) has written a reward function that is clear enough, how would that function look compared to a program?

Well, to give an example: the complexity class NP is all about problems that have quick and simple verification, but finding solutions for many problems is still famously hard.

So there are at least some domains where this model would be a step forward.
This, as a side effect, is useful to the clients as well:

1. Don't have to pay a non-refundable advance.
2. Have complete visibility of the budget right from the dashboard.
3. Move smaller tranches of money to the service guy by approving tasks rather than moving big chunks of it.
4. Always have complete control on each dollar that is move to the service provider.
5. Also, enjoy working with a happy vendor who is getting paid regularly, which sort of improves the odds of winning.
Yes. He was referring to a python package called "slut". Instead of using that word he already self-censored - but still they twisted that in one of the most childish instances of disingenenuety, leaving out as much context as one could without being too obvious.

They also referred to it with two bullet points, conveniently spaced to make it seem like separate incidents.
> [...] and trivial problem.

It just took decades and impressive breakthroughs to solve, I wouldn't really call it "trivial". However, I do agree with you that they're a class of problem different from problems with no clear objective function, and probably much easier to reason about that.
A paper I co wrote deals with this problem: can we generate a private key for a corrupted real public key (also 2048 bjt as it happens)? The application is corrupting a public key with rowhammer and then using the factorization to generate a new corresponding private key. This worked for ssh and gpg keys (with some assumptions for practical purposes, eg knowing the contents of the page containing the key). There is an empirically derived success rate as a function of available compute time in Figure 7, and an analytical treatment in section 3. (Explanation of practical method in section 4.4.)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
Sure. Which you should happily delve into after you’ve asked the person with the name and consistently been able to pronounce it in public.
It's not hard to find groups of society where expose to HIV is very high, which are the ideal groups to study. Many people in these groups see contracting HIV as inevitable and do not fear it as you would expect, as it is not seen as a shame or death as as it was around the late 80s.

There subculture of people are people who actively try to transmit / contract HIV, often at so called "biohazard parties".