skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the “reasonable means” requirement. Modern MMOs are huge: they almost certainly require more disk space, RAM, and clock cycles than a mere consumer-grade laptop has. Moreover, they’re designed to run on distributed servers, constantly, by professionals; they’re not just an `.exe` that you double click on your laptop.

A consumer-grade laptop can run an OSRS because it released over a decade ago. It can run a Minecraft server because Minecraft also released a decade ago, and was designed for servers to be run by players; even its single-player launches a local server. Running a server for e.g. No Man’s Sky is entirely different.

Publishers can certainly release their server binaries. I don’t see any issue with them being forced to make it possible for a dedicated group to keep the game running. But at minimum, “reasonable” has to be clarified to mean that publishers only have to put in reasonable effort to make the game playable. i.e. publishers can’t make it harder for players to run the server; but if the server is a mess of binaries that only runs on a million-dollar distributed cluster, it's not like that for a stupid reason, and the game company runs it like that, they can release it like that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym :)
You're flailing your arms around.

They are first of supporting the rebels which are also working with the al qaeda group.

Secondly we still don't know how the truck explosion was pulled off if it was Ukrainian driver or Russian.

Lastly even if you consider Ukraine has used an attack ONCE like terrorist do, then I wonder two things: what about Russia then and how do you even remotely draw parallell between nuclear terrorism and use "tactics" used by terrorists?
Even pedantically and by definition, it could be argued that it runs in the mouse's firmware.

It is quite often that "firmware" refers to a set of programs stored in the ROM of an embedded device, not just the one for a key functionality.
Current LLMs are optimized to produce output most resembling what a human would generate. Not surpass it.
Hi there, not that I know of.

Our control plane is in Ruby, but our data plane uses different open source projects for managed services. For example, we use Linux KVM (C) and Cloud Hypervisor (Rust) for compute, SPDK (C) for block storage, Kubernetes (Go) well for Kubernetes.

My cofounder Daniel will talk about why we picked Ruby at the YC meetup next week. Maybe, we'll turn that into a blog post. Happy to hear your perspective as well!
Guessing this is going to kill Bartender. I don’t love that it does screen recording, but this is probably the nail in the coffin.
One interesting snippet is:

> [...] the researchers note that their findings demonstrate the importance of treating potential identifiers, such as AWS account IDs, as secrets

Which seems to be pretty opposite to the prevailing opinion, at least in some circles. For example the comments here [0] about how to get the account ID for an arbitrary S3 bucket, where many said it was essentially a nothing burger, similar to IP's or emails.

Regardless of who is correct, I think it's a telling example of the "dangers" with identifiers that are kinda-public-kinda-private. I'm guessing at least part of the root cause of this bug are AWS engineer's not thinking about the fact that account ID's aren't fully private.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39512896
These numbers are very apples to oranges. You also need to account for additional healthcare spending, dental, vision, pension, benefits, cost of living, expenses, costs of education etc.

I lived and worked both in LA and in Germany and while the salary sticker prices are quite different, the outcomes are quite similar. Furthermore, the "prosperity" in the US is much, much more unevenly distributed with luxury on one end (e.g. Westwood or Pasadena) and living and working conditions for others that felt more like a third world country (e.g. south of LAX felt very sketchy). And that is not even touching on the drugs and homeless problems.

Germans definitely grumble too much, but Americans overshoot in the other direction and gloss over very real problems.
This is something I could see a group like Software in the Public Interest doing. They’re not going anywhere or changing hands for the next foreseeable version of your GUI Mac App
You might like Axios: https://www.axios.com/
I don't wanna be a buzzkill but:

I don't see how living (potentially) forever is anything but a horrible, horrible ego driven idea with 0 rational thought put behind it, you may enlighten me here:

- Unlimited human life expectancy vs limited resources? How would that work?
- Do we really want the next dictator of XYZ to rule forever?
- The lack of control young people experience when it comes to their own lives (voting, etc) will worsen, if the median age is 80+ or older.
- Saying stuff like "There should be no death" is a clear example to me why humans in general are problematic. As long as we consume resources and need space we are still part of this ecosystem and cannot just simply change the rules of how it all works just because we would like to.
- I suck at Bingo.

Edit:

I just want to clarify the following:

Don't feel attacked, I am curious to hear your take on this and I never said that I am right on this, I know too little to ever make that claim. I wasn't aware how emotional this topic is to many, this happens to me IRL alot too (I am also aware of why). I am just looking for exchange of ideas, i don't need to be right on this.
Imane Khelif and Western delusions of white innocence
The small African country with the highest suicide rate
John Oliver's program is both funny and informative. "Infotainment" as it's sometimes called.

I think its success can be attributed to how it presents things that are often inherently worrying, controversial or critical. By partially presenting it in a funny way, it's easier to digest.

The reports typically present verifiable sources and quotes - at least in part. But I don't think he is suggesting that he's the arbiter of unbiased truth. There are clear biases, exaggerations and so on. What they choose to cover is also impacted by these biases.

Given all that, it seems more honest and authentic rather than less.

Compare that to (non-satirical) news media that _does_ act as if it's objectively truthful (except for example if pressed in court). Where claims are made _without_ verifiable sources but via punditry and half-truths.
In other words, lawyers also see possibilities, albeit maybe not the same possibilities as the engineers.

(That's assuming that this was shut down by Samsung legal. I didn't see that in the article, though I skimmed a bit so maybe I missed it.)
You should compare individual incomes, not household incomes. American households are large by the standards of the developed world, and single-member households are rare.
> The multi-trillion dollar question is: What is the objective reward that would induce AI models like LLMs to behave like AGI

No, the reward for finding the right objective function is a good future for all of humanity, given that we already have an algorithm for AGI.

The objective function to acquire trillions of dollars is trivial: it’s the same minimization of cross-entropy that we already use for sequence prediction. What’s missing is a better algorithm, which is probably a good thing at the moment, because otherwise someone could trivially drain all value from the stock market.
Deciphering the Voynich Manuscript
Why we left Fly.io
" he cannot see anything we can see. For instance, we cannot say, “Look at Ursa major; now see how those stars are arranged"
Or weather reports for aviation[1]…

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METAR
I agree with the article that there is a lot of low-quality "journalism" out there, designed to outrage or entertain rather than inform.

However, that does not mean that all journalism should be disregarded. I read the Washington Post and listen to NPR (regardless of how you feel about their cultural programming, their news organization is excellent.) Citizens in a free society have a duty to be informed about the issues facing that society. I reject the idea that there aren't readily available high quality sources of information about the world. Are any of them perfect? Clearly, no. But ignoring them because they're not perfect strikes me as nihilistic.

There's one quote from the article that alarmed me:

> The news is overwhelmingly about things you cannot possibly influence

In democracies, we do have elections...
also https://meduza.io/news/2024/08/08/polzovateli-v-rossii-soobs...
Spoiler alert: the common knowledge “cartel” actually made a rational choice which balanced longevity, light quality, efficiency, and cost.

The longer lasting lightbulbs were worse at everything except lasting longer. This was not malicious.
OK seems like things changed a bit. Back in the day AE was someone who would work in lower level, less aggressive sales (fewer deals, bigger size) doing a mix of business dev and customer support - or it would be companies trying to add "manager" to the job title back when word manager carried some weight. Been talking from my own experience from basically 15-18 years ago from London and Europe.
I like how the article refers to it as 0.0.0.0-day
> If consciousness does not exist in a non-physical space, the very possibility of knowledge at all becomes impossible to reckon with. We could not have any interaction with metaphysical ideas like logic, reason, mathematics and so on.

Why not?
Department of national defence maybe
There is a growing trend of applying Multimodal LLMs directly to PDF pages without doing extraction first (i.e. classic RAG). We've had this request from multiple customers whose products are supposed to handle visually rich documents like "GPT for pitch decks" or "GPT for investment bankers". The problem is that you must first find the relevant page to feed into the LLM. This helps to avoid the overhead of running an expensive model on each single page.

We first attempted to extract text from pages and do a semantic/hybrid search. Still, it felt massively suboptimal since much positional information was lost, so we decided to train our model that could help with this task!
I disagree. We need more companies like iFixit who advocate for repair. If they are for profit, so be it. A non profit doing the same would also be good, but more the merrier.
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Honestly it's a very low bar and Germans should aspire for better and not for a meager "we are not the worst there is".

I would say you need to compare DB to other Western European railway operator/networks. In my personal experience, DB comes dead last and it's not even close to the 2nd to last. Renfe (Spain), Trenitalia/Italo (Italy), SNCF (France) have much better services, at least on the long-distance routes (> 200KM). So much so that they are a viable alternative to domestic flights.

Additionally, most of those countries also have a much worse geography to contend with (e.g. Italy with the Alps and Appennini) and they still manage to have a nice high-speed rail network that works.

Finally, answering your last point, Japan still is THE role model. So much so that you can get stuff delivered to a train station your train is transiting through (at least with the Shinkansen lines) because the carrier knows exactly when your train will be there. I was astonished by that.
>I don't know the precise odds but we can infer that it's roughly on the order of 2^-32 (for some definition of trivial)

The chance is way, way, WAY larger than 2*-32. Consider the following code:

primes = [2, 3, 5, 7, ..., 499]
def miller_rabin(n, k): ... # your fast primarity test of choice
def is_prime_trivial(n):
for p in primes:
while n % p == 0:
n //= p
if n == 1:
return True
return miller_rabin(n, 20)

It fully factors a random 2048bit integer in around 100 tries, for me.
Children can't interact with these ads to get into the wheel of more ads targeting their specific tastes. Very different level, and degree.
> dabbling in lobbying for regulations to force manufacturers to make devices that you can buy ifixit (and other) kits... feel as disingenuous

Availability of parts and tools is critical to being able to repair anything and iFixit's entire business is based on repair.

Strategies restricting parts and tools as a moat protecting repair and secondary (used) markets should rightfully be illegal. Lobbying for this, especially when your business is repair and repair supplies, is self-preservation, and not lobbying against forces trying to put your business out of business is... irresponsible.
Privatization has brought some truly crazy incentives into the spotlight. Like how bridge maintenance is paid by the company, but when a worn out bridge needs replacing it's suddenly a government investment.

I consider it safe to assume that the reason for this is that it had been just the same when it was still a government org, but a government org will see its responsibilities very different from a company eagerly cosplaying shareholder-value while the sole shareholder happens to be the government they can freely rip off because of an ongoing legacy approach to the principal-agent problem.

As for delays, I think one reason, besides lack of maintenance and the massive interdependence in that large network that allows neither a star nor a main axis simplification is the high speed Autobahn: if they weren't overambitious in terms of travel times they would perhaps put bigger time buffers in their schedule and that would certainly help a lot.
Many people find the alarm worse than the quake, how did you find it ? :)
The article is extremely shallow beyond saying "Formal verification a la SPARK" should have been used, while not offering how this could actually work in the real world - I don't think the author has any experience working on any similar piece of software either.

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.

And yes, we of course know that QA and testing magically removes all possible failure modes/bugs.
Why Should I Do Business with You? (2007)
I can't say for certain but I'm not so sure the people you're describing are a sizeable majority. I think most people are just watching news and doing their best. If a news site has a "C" rating on it -- which would require some sort of government regulation to enforce which would be a whole other thing -- which is then clickable and let's you see "exactly" what it has that rating ( eg "17 inaccuracies in last month [links] > 10" ), it could help (a) incentivise the news site to have better standards, (b) incentivise the watcher that they might have to be more diligent. The main thing is: provide any incentive to news to be more reputable.
But how does that fit SAAS vendors? If someone cut my fibre wire and added a box that stopped it working if I didn't pay them, I would say that that is rent seeking. A SAAS vendor doesn't seem to fit that pattern.
FWIW Switzerland is the only country outside the US where Google pays comparable salaries to Mountain View / NYC (as in: over the past 4 years or so, it's actually been hovering around 99-104% of Mountain View salaries, depending on exchange rates).

(The only other location that keeps pace with any US salary bands is Israel / the Tel Aviv office.)

The cost of living in Zurich is quite something, though...
Also, please feel free to take a look at the blog post if you are interested in more technical details!

https://blog.bynedocs.com/layoutlm-byne-v0.1-the-new-sota-in...
The Context Is Conflict (2018)
When markets get scary, crypto proves its worthlessness
Even more previouser discussion (2019): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21659876

=)
Generally I agree, but this is one single paragraph of colour followed by the rest being straight reporting below, and adds important context.
I recently conducted benchmark testing for one of my open-source modules, and the results revealed a critical performance issue when using plain CloudWatch for logging. During the tests, I saw that plain CloudWatch dropped my Node.js app's request handling from 350,000+ requests per minute to just over 50,000+ requests per minute.
Ya im a big fan. The way they break down topics is great. But I was still left scrolling and scrolling.

I am using LLMs for what I am building and i'm envisioning a system that understands what you read yesterday so its able to give you more concise and direct information.

I also enjoy the completeness of a set amount of stories.
If we will struggle to create reward functions for AI, then how different is that from the struggles we already face when divvying up product goals into small tasks to fit our development cycles?

In other words, to what extent does Agile's ubiquity prove our competence in turning product goals into de facto reward functions?
You can focus on multiple things, you know. There is some low-hanging fruit in Python for performance in certain circumstances (mostly hot loops, at least, in my experiments). For example, if you need to extract a string from a datetime object, doing so manually with f-strings is about 20% faster than strftime. If you use the string mini-format language instead, it’s 40% faster.
Pretty insane that these folks are YC 2020 and just now pivoted again. Shows how hard company building is.
As Skies Fill with Space Junk, Nonprofit Urges US to Pause Starlink Launches
Your statistics are crude. Here is a proper analysis:

https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68...
I believe this would also fit the bill:
https://planner5d.com/
I pay for Bitwarden for personal use, but I work in a company that uses 1Password. I can say that 1Password is waaay ahead of Bitwarden in terms of UX.
Decoupling Decoupling from Rationality
> it's hard to think of other major features C# lacks for a language

Heh yeah well, for better or worse, it seems to be C#’s design goal to have every single feature possible, with multiple variations of each of them. It means it’s able to cater to everyone and doesn’t turn people off the way strongly opinionated languages can. But it can make it a bit tricky to pick up.
False on both accounts.
Canadian investigation suggests foreign interference on /R/Canada Reddit group
Furthermore, there’s a replication crisis in social sciences. The last thing we need is to accumulate less data and let an LLM tell us the “right” answer.
> trashy lies, very biased and informative. Misreporting what people actually said is a strong tell of the first two

For "biased" rather than outright lies, I think the two most common easily observable techniques I see are:

- Quoting known unreliable sources: "Black people eat human babies! (say KKK leadership)"

- Using passive and active voices to shift blame: "Police shoot and kill bystander during drug bust" vs. "Shots fired during drug bust fatally injured potentially uninvolved man"
I’m surprised it took AWS ~4 months to fully resolve the vulnerabilities…
It might prompt people to ensure their disaster kit is in good order, know where the shelters are, home preparation, listen to radio for alerts, etc, etc.

https://www.bousai.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/book/pdf/en/01_Simulati...

You are correct that for some people it will be situation normal, but not everyone is always prepared.
Software devs in the US are not struggling to make rent and buy food. More likely for them to have one or two airbnb side hustles than be starving. Yes, some have it rough but I'd wager the bell curve puts professional devs in the better-off-than-most boat
Maybe It Should Be Illegal to Instantly Delete a Website's Archives – Aftermath
Russian pilots are still and must be capable to navigate with the stars.
You misunderstand.

The phrase "the multi-trillion dollar question" has nothing to do with acquiring trillions of dollars.

The phrase is idiomatic, indicating a crucial question, like "the $64,000 question," but implying much bigger stakes.[a]

---

[a] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/The+%2464%2c000+Questio...
Germany's complex public broadcasting system
That shows 50th percentile disposable income shooting upwards over the last 20 years and the only competition being Norway and Switzerland, and breaking away upwards from the developed country average. Again, if OP is waiting for prosperity and doesn't see it yet, they'll be waiting forever.

Add US, Germany, France, Spain, UK and you'll see the US graph incomes shoot upwards for 10th, 50th, and 90th percentile, and the other countries stagnate or even decline, even for the 50th and 10th!
Glad you like it! Several years ago, I wrote my first project, Zircle UI, which mixed zoomable navigation with circular UI. It was not flexible at all, but I enjoyed it and learned a lot from this experience. Then, I decided to split Zircle into two independent parts: Orbit for radial UI (I mean, not constrained to circular shapes), and Zumly, a JS zoomable WIP engine (https://github.com/zumerlab/zumly). While you can use both projects together, they can also be used independently
HSV is inevitable if you hookup, but its also not that bad.
name one Soyuz operation to the same space station that resulted in a similar failure....

It would seem that Dragon is being held up to the same standard that was set for Soyuz...Boeing is the only one failing....

We are looking at a testing and engineering failure combined of Boeing.
It is a MVP of 70-80k lines of well written code. If this is true and the app is good, he is ahead of 90% of even the projects accepted by YC which by the last ones I have see the github, it is nothing impressive at all, just React/NextJS.
Laws cannot describe every single intricacy of all possible human behaviour and activities, news at 11.
If you have kids, welcome to 5 hours a night for 2 years!
Circles are not grouped in any way, just overlaid.

If you hover on the center of the circle you'll see all of the Chinon blocks (they're 7: A1-3 and B1-4). You can search for "Chinon" to see them on the list or just click the circle that will scroll the list to the section where all the blocks are visible.

Will try to find a more intuitive way to show the reactors that are located in the same place.
U+237C ⍼ Is (Also) S9576 ⍼
I don't see anything referring to testing in https://stripe.com/en-ca/legal/ssa
Other than that you are provided test keys and live keys.
Well yeah, you have to read between the lines a bit, but it's pretty obvious: Samsung prefers customers throwing away old phones (especially cheaper ones) and buying new phones (preferably Samsung, and preferably more expensive ones), that's why replacement parts are more expensive (and disproportionately more expensive for cheaper phones). Of course they are glad if they can have some positive press releases about sustainability thanks to a gullible repairability website, but when it comes to actually put it into practice, their enthusiasm evaporates very quickly...
Scandinavian countries have tax rates above 50%, quasi free healthcare and free meals at school.

In the US that isn't even considered socialist, That's seen at total communism that would destroy the country in q couple years.

Scandinavian countries have done it for decades and are some of the freest countries in the world.
You typically write down the specification before claiming that your code is done so you can’t use it to claim that any undesired behavior is not a bug. I naturally agree that in general tests are insufficient to show correctness because the state space is of impractical size, but, as I said above, for certain programs they totally can be.
They shouldn't make tv ads; they should be in a white paper that doctors read.
Joe asked me to delete the “free plan” button. I swear.

Joe: I never said to do that.

Records are important, not just for the law, but to cover your own ass.