skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If someone was able to hack and root the computer(s) system(s) on the Tesla,
but having no physical access car, could they strain/force/heat the battery to the point it will catch fire or something else that may be dangerous?

If that is possible, can it be done while the car is parked as well?
To put in context, I'd need to know how many gallons it normally takes to extinguish similar fires. I do agree that's a large volume of water but unclear if it's comparatively a lot?
I want to hang out with the humans you've been hanging out with. I know so many people who can't process basic logic or evidence that for my pandemic project a few years I did a year-long podcast about it, even made up a new word describe people who couldn't process evidence "Dysevidentia".
Patents only last 20 years in most countries. Design patents for 15 years in US (I think 25 years in EU.) Mickey Mouse has be around for a lot longer than that.
Interesting data. This[1] seems to suggest that this relatively small solar sail would be able to reach the moon from earth's orbit after ~3 years (I could be horribly misinterpreting this data!). That seems impressive, given how "simple" this method is.

However, it strikes me as difficult to use this the deeper into space we go. I would assume the further from the sun you go, the less thrust you receive from the sail. Also, how do you slow down and stop? Maybe you don't...

[1] https://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov/weekly/5Page26.pdf
Defence in depth.
This is about ~ 190 cubic meters of water! This is close to the average water usge of a european household of 4 people [1].

[1]

household use, which accounts for around 12 %. On average, 144 litres of water per person per day is supplied to households in Europe.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/signals-archived/signals-2018-cont...
Quit my career as a doctor. Terrible environment at home
I belong to a middle class family.
This is the second attempt at a start up, with the previous one being a Telemedicine Platform which I started in my final years of med school.
Everything seemed fine until medical insurance companies seemed to block the path of investment as in the country of Georgia they run the healthcare industry through a lobbyist monopoly .
Now after graduation and wasting a semester and another year due to chronic injuries like herniated discs , chronic neuralgia and torn rotator cuff, extreme pain in my lower back, I don’t feel I have anything else to lose.
My parents now have stopped supporting me financially which I don’t blame them for as I have wasted a lot of their money wasting an entire semester due to injuries and money to develop my first app, all so they could see me become a doctor, although I haven’t quit medicine and can pursue it anytime. But my parents are pushing 60 with health problems and have sacrificed so much for me and reason why despite it bothering me I can never deem myself in a negative environment when I haven’t earned a penny for them yet.
As of now I’m just a visionary willing to starve and try my best to gain the knowledge to make my new start up run. Family hates me for it, they all want me to sacrifice my health till I can’t feel my legs due to my discs compressing my nerves but I have no other choice. It’s do or die.
Anything to get out of the rat race.
And if God wills it will happen.
I just hope to get a mentor who can guide me as I fully believe the field of my start-up has immense potential in changing the picture in the Indian Market.
I’m willing to take the risks and make the sacrifices, as of now I just am looking for a Co-Founder with the same spirit as me to develop a Unicorn in the Healthcare Industry.
https://xcancel.com/SmokeAwayyy/status/1834641370486915417
On the matter of holistic degradation with each generation I always think about american presidential debates from several decades ago which, to me, offer irrefutable evidence of an older society with greater command of speech, wit, rationality, temper, etc. What do you think?
That is a really good point, just a matter of time until a EV Semi catches fire under a bridge or overpass and causes massive structural damage.
Ask HN: Where are you hosting your Postgres database in 2024?
I’m curious. Can anyone tell me what would have happened if they had dumped a bunch of sand on it instead?

Not my area of expertise, but I remember in chemistry class we had a literal bucket of sand for certain types of chemical situations.
There's so many of these popping up! Here's mine - https://github.com/sammcj/ingest
Perfect is an all-or-nothing kind of word. You can only know if a plan was perfect in retrospect if it went exactly like you thought.

But yes, you need a plan in whatever level of detail is appropriate. For some projects you just need a general direction to go in (say "Figure how the colors got screwed up in this print and how not to have it happen again" -- that kind of research project is super hard to estmate), but if you were building a building and expecting to get permits, funding from a bank, rent a big-ass crane, you will need a very detailed plan.

Even if you have a detailed plan there is a lot of expectation that something could go wrong.

A task lisk and

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

is the minimal project management system for small projects.

https://www.pmi.org/standards/pmbok

describes just about everything you need to handle for the most complex projects, smaller projects need some subset of those practices depending on the project.
Poland's Intel plant gets EU green light for $1.9B in state support
As someone (still) living in Poland and paying taxes there I find it bizarre. We are giving 1.9b USD to Intel as a subsidy, not even a tax break as Intel won't pay any here (the factory is in a special economic zone) while our government keeps raising taxes on local businesses.

This is a huge subsidy, if Intel employs planned 2000 people 1.9b USD can pay their wages for about 30 years. It's not even a high tech factory or anything like that and we don't get any preferential access to it as EU demands "open EU factory" status for it.

If Intel thinks it's not profitable to open the factory here without a subsidy how comes it's profitable for Poland to pay 1/3 of the price without getting any equity, profit share, IP or anything in exchange?

I have trouble seeing the rationale. If you think local manufacturing is good why not make it more attractive for everyone and not pick winners and give subsidies to them? is there any chance Poland gets almost 2b USD back as return on this "investment"?
Which process ensures that the company should actually care in the slightest about an uncharitable blog post or two, especially when its motivations are opaque enough that the lack of payment might be chalked up to "there's a good reason for that"?

If the cost of an uncharitable blog post is less than the cost of paying out the bounty, then a company would still be incentivized to find as many reasons to reject a payout as possible, as long as future reporters still believe they have a good chance of receiving a payout (e.g., if they believe they can sideskirt any rejection reasons).
Speaking one's actual opinion should certainly be protected, but intentionally spreading disinformation is not free speach, it's fraud.

There isn't and should not be protection to commit fraud, although interpretation of many free speach laws in modern times are also used to protect fraudulent misinformation.
Maybe not “immediate” but withholding rewards results in fewer researchers participating in bounty programs which defeats the purpose.
So far no one has managed to produce a programming language with dependent types that compiles to efficient machine code with zero overhead like Rust and C do, so the reason to not have dependent types in Rust is to be able to produce efficient code (which Haskell doesn't even without dependent types).

Obviously if such a language is possible to make and gets made, it will be the strict best programming language overall and make all other languages obsolete (just like Rust obsoleted C/C++, etc.)
Okay this is just getting suspicious. Their excuses for keeping the chain of thought hidden are dubious at best [1], and honestly just seemed anti-competitive if anything. Worst is their argument that they want to monitor it for attempts to escape the prompt, but you can't. However the weirdest is that they note that:

> for this to work the model must have freedom to express its thoughts in unaltered form, so we cannot train any policy compliance or user preferences onto the chain of thought.

Which makes it sound like they really don't want it to become public what the model is 'thinking'. This is strengthened by actions like this that just seem needlessly harsh, or at least a lot stricter than they were.

Honestly with all the hubbub about superintelligence you'd almost think o1 is secretly plotting the demise of humanity but is not yet smart enough to completely hide it.

[1]: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/#hidin...
Thanks for the link. I'm always looking for ways to extend and enrich it, so it's good to discover similar tools.
It does not. His father did. MLK visited Berlin when the wall was up
Thanks.I'll check all links.
It's a small world. During Martin Luther King Jr. visit to Berlin he was also awarded a honorary degree by the Theological School of the Protestant Church of West Berlin. The theologian and pastor handing over the degree during the ceremony is part of our family history. We still have a picture of both of them during the ceremony.

Here is a more detailed itinerary of MLKs visit to Berlin. https://www.aacvr-germany.org/dr-kings-visit-to-cold-war-ber...
Academics say flying to meetings harms the climate – but they carry on
Because open source, publically-released LLMs regurgitating specific user data is enough of a strategic risk to the entire effort that it would have been #1 on the test cases.

LLM training is also apple and oranges with regards to how they handle data in the course of normal processing.
Likely through the use of the free market.

Privacy conscious folks will just... not use those apps. With any luck app devs will notice that apps with this flag get installed less and stop setting it.
No, it's because Apple's 'product security' team that investigates and pays out bug bounties is horribly mismanaged and ineffective. It was recently moved from the SWE program office to SEAR (security engineering & arch), and the manager was recently shown the door and went to AirBNB. The team members are mostly new college grads (ICT2's and 3's) who wouldn't pass a coding interview elsewhere in the company, and mostly function as bug triagers. They spend more time going to conferences and hanging out with hackers, than in front of a computer screen working. Their portal of 'open investigations' shows a graph that only goes up (aka they only get more swamped with emails and don't even try to catch up).

Shaming Ivan, the head of SEAR, on Twitter is how people who should get paid bounties, but aren't, make progress.
I've explored using LLMs for this exact purpose, and there's a huge problem. Onlyfans rules very strictly forbid incest and other kinds of icky content, and Onlyfans sexters are very, very aware of this. If you break the rules, Onlyfans is very eager with permabans, and getting your account banned effectively destroys your whole business.

When it's that easy to screw up, it's easier and cheaper to pay real humans $1k a month for sexting than to build an LLM-based system that never makes mistakes and is 100% secured against prompt injection.
There was an article some time ago about how this is handled for a normal sized car like a model S. Basically they put out the flames with traditional foam spraying, then dump the whole car in a large container with water. Let it sit under water for a few days until the battery fire is done.

The battery fire is self sustaining, so only way to stop it is large amounts of continuous cooling for a long time. That's what the water container is for.

At least that's the method used in the Netherlands. Which obviously isn't practical for a semi truck sized fire.

Edit: Here is a picture from a news article: https://i.regiogroei.cloud/4561b78f-d49a-3ecc-adb4-6f535f896...
This really needs to be broadcasted from the rooftops. Fluoroquinolones wreak massive havoc in their wake and should only be reserved for life threatening situations.
Swedish startup wants to pay the flight tracking community using blockchain
nah, slowly but surely we can write good and reliable code, use that for things to make better tools, and then use those to ... :)

It will be probably a few decades, but the road seems pretty clear. Put in the work, apply the knowledge gained from all the "lessons learned" and don't stop.
Maybe they just have some people in a call center replying.
If people are aware that more people are doing it surely the stigma is lessened as the practice is more normalized. For instance homosexuality is not a big deal now because it's seen as more common and therefore more normal. Certainly at high levels of revenue most people would consider it a financial success and a sign of status to be that beautiful.
Thanks for the recommendation! I was actually looking for an Espresso machine today and the manual operation is very appealing, especially because I want do not yet want to invest a lot.
> I confess that I'm more confused than when I started -- why can these companies get away with selling it to any party other than Novo Nordisk

I don’t think (many? Most? All?) of the drugs in this class are patent-encumbered. They’ve been around for a while.

… application as a weight loss drug is patented. That’s new. You can’t package and sell them to fill a weight loss prescription if you’re not allowed to by the patent holder.

So it stands to reason that the factories that make the chemical can sell it to whoever they want, as long as the buyer is permitted to receive drugs and such in the first place. The drugs themselves, the actual chemical, isn’t what’s covered by the patent.

The compounding’s legality is covered by the Codex post: compounding pharmacies are allowed to package and sell drugs that are on the FDA’s shortage list, regardless of patents that would ordinarily prevent selling them. These drugs (various glp-1 agonists) are on the shortage list. So, that part’s fine too.
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From https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...

> Our foundation models are trained on Apple's AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023. It builds on top of JAX
Agreed, but the OP's claim wasn't whether a university degree is needed for employment, the claim was whether a university trains you for a job. The answer to the latter is a no. Community colleges and trade schools train you for a job. Universities give you an education in a subject area, the rest is up to you.
Maybe a parasocial with the crowd then. Small venues are better for social life but bigger venues create more revenue. So we get less social life.

People build connections whatever they do, we have had phone sex for a long time. Now you need a camera and take some clothes off to do it. It is obvious that the people who manage to earn a lot streaming are mass producing content. There are ones who strive for a social connection and the creators who give that are never going to be big earners. Same as small venues.
I was got a non-CS bachelors, and then managed to get into development, partly because I had been programming all my life. But I went back for a masters and shored up the undergrad CS that I missed. Boy was that helpful! It wasn't necessary for 95% of my job, either, but it enables me to solve the other 5% that I would be unable to solve, or end up with something that barely works. I've found compilers useful (for parsing; didn't have time to take finite state automata), the OS class was excellent for understanding and to be able to write threaded programs that work. Data structures is simply essential (but I took a that in undergrad).
Occam's razor: there is no secret sauce and they're afraid someone trains a model on the output like what happened soon after the release of GPT-4. They basically said as much in the official announcement, you hardly even have to read between the lines.
There very well may be something more effective than water but the economics are probably a barrier here. Water has some pretty amazing at absorbing heat considering how abundant it is. Moving to anything else becomes pricey quickly in a serious quanitiy. Heck, even the foam used is quite expensive in much smaller quantities.
>Probably not exactly what you expected

No, because calling for a communist revolution from your position is a suicide wish then, any entrepreneurs or owners of pretty much anything were considered a class enemy and you being in a leadership positions of any kind is a guaranteed ticket to a gulag.
It's a weird set of game outcomes though.

If it's not done, then creators have a fundamental time cap to the amount of personalized content they can create.

If it's done, but users don't know about it, then creators increase their revenue several times.

If it's done, but users do know about it, then creators lose several multiples of revenue.
Any pub landlord will have regulars
100%. The tough let code style interviews mostly cover CS101 and CS102 topics that most of us stopped using the minute after matriculation.
Since the objective is to slow down/halt the thermal runaway, would a cryogenic fluid be useful/more effective as a future solution?
> Good luck finding someone to understand what that 'custom Naemon' plugin is doing.

You Kubernetes people get triggered very easily. I was already lucky to have found several juniors that worked in this kind of thing with minimal training. The 'custom Naemon plugin' is 30 lines of bash and you can adapt it to any monitoring system.

Of course this is scary and complicated. I might consider switching to 'Kubernetes operators', which sounds simpler :-)
That's not surprising.
I realize the chemistry is different, but in my head the idea of submerging Lithium in _water_ to _extinguish_ a fire is pretty funny.
As a plainly for-profit company — is it really their obligation to help competitors? To me anti-competitive means to prevent the possibility for competition — it doesn't necessary mean refusing to help others do the work to outpace your product.

Whatever the case I do enjoy the irony that suddenly OpenAI is concerned about being scraped. XD
EMP: Enhance Memory in Data Pruning
The context is what was required to extinguish the vehicle, and the fire retardant was not specifically required otherwise they would not have called it precautionary after the fact.

Was it needed as part of the process in this instance? Yes. Was it needed to extinguish the vehicle in this instance? No.
Being summarily pulled out of school isn't without consequence, especially to your kid!
Kartoffels: A Game to Code Firmware for a Slow Machine
Digital Ocean. Easy setup and backups. Can scale it vertically for a while.
I barely use it but when I do need to look something up it’s great. But conscious that it’s not super robust, I simply save bookmarks in Zotero now and that works even better on all counts.
Would Django's concept of an 'app' fit your definition of modular monoliths?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/applications/

In a nutshell, each django project is an 'app' and you can 'install' multiple apps together. They can come with their own database tables + migrations. But all live under the same gunicorn and on the same infra, within the same codebase. Many Django plugins are setup as an 'app'.
> Bug bounties will pay for any bug.

This one didn't.
OpenAI acknowledges new models increase risk of misuse to create bioweapons
haha, fair! Too late to edit my post to say "factor the product of two large primes" now tho.
Yip. It's pretty obvious this 'innovation' is just based off training data collected from chain-of-thought prompting by people, ie., the 'big leap forward' is just another dataset of people repairing chatgpt's lack of reasoning capabilities.

No wonder then, that many of the benchmarks they've tested on would be no doubt, in that very training dataset, repaired expertly by people running those benchmarks on chatgpt.

There's nothing really to 'expose' here.
I have eaten real food for weeks and yet fast food come back with a vengeance.
I think you underestimate the effectiveness of techniques like the Gish Gallop and Firehose of Falsehood. It is far easier to spew a bunch of lies and half-truths in pursuit of a particular talking point than it is to refute, even in the best of conditions.

Even worse: people tend to latch on to anything that validates their own biases, and often times, they'll dig in their heels when presented with facts that refute their views.

Social media makes this even worse by largely steering people so they remain within echo chambers.

Heavy-handed curtailment of speech seems like a cure that's worse than the disease, for sure, but the current state of affairs is starting to resemble the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
I would think they'd be more likely to form the language centre of a composite AGI brain. If you read through the known functions of the various areas involved in language[0] they seem to map quite well to the capabilities of transformer based LLMs especially the multi-modal ones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_center
Most likely the explanation is much more mundane. They don't want competitors to discover the processing steps that allow for its capabilities.
You're welcome.

From what I remember the nitroglycerin was held in a fine sawdust matrix and it would sweat thru the heavy paper on the sticks. Since there was dynawipe in the boxes you likely never had beads of nitro form on the outside of the sticks. When carried in a backpack they would sweat into the pack fabric and then straight into your bloodstream.

I suspect that it would be pure nitroglycerin because I heard from friends that after cutting a stick you could scrape small balls of the goo from your brass powder knife and whack them hard with a ball-peen hammer and they would pop.

We used those small paper-wrapped sticks when we drilled mini-hole programs where the shot-holes were 5' (1.5m) deep or less and could be drilled by one man or a two man crew using jackhammers or Little Beaver type augers depending on near surface conditions. For traditional shot-holes that were 80-100' deep (24.4-30.5m) or more we used 5# (2.27 kg) sticks of dynagel (seismogel?) which was a gelled nitroglycerin that could stand long periods of immersion without degrading. These sticks were plastic tubes that could be screwed together to make a charge of any size and the loader could place sets of empty tubes to space charges inside the shot-hole allowing multiple shots to be taken from a single shot-hole. The blasting caps would be inserted at the top of each charge and the loader would label them from deepest to shallowest so that the shooter, who might not get around for a month or more, could fire them from deepest to shallowest allowing the data from each shot in that shot-hole to be stacked for signal-to-noise improvement.
I see this as a major advance for ADA compliance for headphones. This may take a few years but audiogram editing is going to become minimal specification.
I read the fire sheets for other tesla cars and they say 8k gallons to suppress a battery fire. However, the Semi's sheet does not give a qty estimate.

https://www.tesla.com/firstresponders