skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The British are living proof of the fact that amazing things[1] can be achieved when the place you live in is extremely boring.

[1] For varied definitions of "amazing", such as "conquer countries 10x your size", "invent 20 sports the entire world plays", etc.
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> There is *nothing* that is not lethal if consumed in sufficient quantity.

To be fair, the quantity of fluorine that would kill you if you consumed it is too small to notice. What's saving you from the fluoride isn't that there isn't enough fluorine to be dangerous - it's that the fluorine is accompanied by things that make it less dangerous.

Table salt is 60% highly toxic chlorine, but you're free to coat your food in it because it's 40% sodium, too. In combination, they're fine and in fact necessary to life. Consumed separately in equal amounts, either would kill you. The quantity isn't what matters.
i rather pay money and get a 1y or 2y certificate rather than use those ephemeral let's encrypt ones for free. The overhead of automatization(implementation, maintenance, support, patching, updating...) is not worth it.
How do you plan to address prompt injection/ poisoned data for a method that simply vacuums unchecked inputs into an LLM?
"Ploy for credibility, retreating even deeper into fantasy, pretense of reality, pure fantasy, contained within a world of fantasy, retreating into misinformation-fuelled fantasy world, runaway ego, less palatable, self-soothing fantasy bubble, fake statistics, blown deadlines, litany of bullshit, chronic inability, unprecedented publish delusion or deception, having drawn a poor hand, financial-cognitive nightmare, it’s hard to imagine anyone seriously believing that a night of delusional Disney Adult cringe, too childish to call a fraud, Musk’s increasingly-degenerate gambling run is slouching toward one last big coinflip"

Some people have a rather unhealthy obsession with Elon Musk, and ought to take a few hours off the Internet and get some sunlight.
We don't have any senses that aren't trivially replicable in a car. Microphones and accelerometers were already plentiful before. And HDR is not really an issue anymore since all carmakers dynamically vary exposure times in their cameras. Other carmakers have tried to put LiDAR and stuff into cars for many years, but it didn't magically give them self-driving either. The key issue to solve is planning - not perception.
> what competition?

The list is actually pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_co...

And that's not counting nation states.
The HSE posted on their mythbusting site that it was a myth at a national level, but I suppose individual schools might have done so?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211018040605/https://www.hse.g...

Quote: "Realistically the risk from playing conkers is incredibly low and just not worth bothering about. If kids deliberately hit each other over the head with conkers, that's a discipline issue, not health and safety."

Certainly there was at least one school that got goggles for pupils to wear while playing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3712764.stm
Yeah, he's a very stable genius. Just like his very stable genius buddy...
You are being downvoted, but it is a reasonable question. If you can renew every 45 days, why not every, say, 3 days?

OSCP stapling except without the oscp stapling part.
You should already know this.
They did play conkers with cranes and caravans in Top Gear, so I feel that at least a large portion of non Brits will know the game from there.
@CppPro the logo really annoys you, doesn't it?

2 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41818595

>>1. Change the logo from a demon to something else. (no matter if it is a play on the word "deamon", it is repulsive to many of the 2.4 billion Christians that can be potential users of FreeBSD)
> If you have a car that works with ultrasonic and lidar and cameras

Well... that conditional clause was never satisfied in the first place ;)
I think if you have two sensor systems with one being significantly less capable than the other, the gain from having both quickly diminishes. I believe Tesla dropped the radar because it was simply outclassed by the camera in 99% of circumstances. So the radar really just becomes a hacky failsafe for bery rare circumstances, and Musk would like to avoid such a situation, he wants a "clean" solution.
Mixed comments in the github issue. I can definitely see how shorter lifetimes provide better security, but I have also run into my fair share of issues caused by cert expiry. Do we have good data around the lead time between someone’s signing keys being compromised and their use in an attack? The shorter that lead time the less useful this change is.
he removed it - bing still has it in cache: https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2fma.tt%2f2024...
I'm guessing the talent at SpaceX will leave and make their own company.
I didn’t think the article really had any issues. I actually thought it was pretty well-written.
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Human eyes have much higher resolution than Tesla's cameras, better dynamic range, no issues with rain or dirt on the lens, can take measures to avoid most glare from the sun, and are connected to a brain that is vastly better at driving than AI.

It makes no sense to say "humans can do it with only X, so machines should have to as well". Do cars run? Do planes flap?

I do agree that planning should be the hardest part of self-driving, but go and look at any Tesla FSD video on YouTube and it's clear they haven't solved the perception part yet either. Cars wobbling all over the place, morphing into vans, etc.
Yeah, that's true for the incredible innovation in Neuralink and Paypal and OpenAI and Tesla, too. It's a total coincidence that Jeff Bezos and other billionaires fail.
CAB rules apply to your fancy paid certs as well.
Tesla will likely never accomplish anything with robots because they can’t even build a car to typical market standards of quality and robotics is even more greenfield and unrefined in its mass production processes. I guess maybe it’s possible if someone like Shotwell takes over and Musk is relegated to a similar figurehead position.
> So far he seems to be terribly wrong on self-driving.

Like all breakthroughs, he will be terribly wrong right up to the point he isn’t (see the fail compilation video of failed Falcon9 landings)

You only fail when you give up.
I hope Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates (the only CA that matters) will speak out against this.
The LIMA paper, I think, would be a good place to start https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206

You can create inputs for DPO/ORPO synthetically which is a huge one as previously it would require gigantic investments https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10379

There's also the gemma2 paper has advanced SOTA in distil; on a side-note, there's many reasons for it but vocab_size and good sizes 9b/27b, IMHO it's currently the best model for i.e. Ukrainian. in fact, I prefer it to anything else there's, including the much larger llama's—by a mile! The model is a triumph of synthetic datasets. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00118

Also see Princeton paper on SimPO which is how they supercharged 9b gemma's recently. https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14734
I'm not sold - Cybertrucks are expensive and still sell. And if it would be really good FSD, it would sell too (even at 70/80k per car).
282399355737 - My answer is not wrong, I was hallucinating.
Genuine question, why do they require that they navigate on camera alone?

I have a robomop which does some pretty accurate scanning with its radar. I thought this is cheap, consumer appliance grade technology already.
I’m constantly looking for a physical worktime chronometer. I’d like to track how much I work, and leave after my 7 hours, or log extra time if I overdo it.

The only things I’ve found were impractical objects, or apps that cost $10-50 per month because they’re designed for consultants who bill their time. Apps are not accurate while one is in meetings, since the computer is off.

The thing is, even for consultants, they get no value from a red “Busy” gadget, but having an object on the table which you can punch to set on which client you’re working, would certainly be useful. More fun than an app, because sometimes you need physical objects.

I’d just like to clock in and clock out.
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This is a good practice to reduce at least some amount of dependency to outside US. Also this is the definition of innovation; making high tech out of low tech.
Yeah, it seemed pretty balanced and well thought out:

"Ploy for credibility, retreating even deeper into fantasy, pretense of reality, pure fantasy, contained within a world of fantasy, retreating into misinformation-fuelled fantasy world, runaway ego, less palatable, self-soothing fantasy bubble, fake statistics, blown deadlines, litany of bullshit, chronic inability, unprecedented publish delusion or deception, having drawn a poor hand, financial-cognitive nightmare, it’s hard to imagine anyone seriously believing that a night of delusional Disney Adult cringe, too childish to call a fraud, Musk’s increasingly-degenerate gambling run is slouching toward one last big coinflip"
Given that certificate issuance is the most vulnerable part of the process (DNS hijacking during the validation process), isn't it a bad idea to encourage renewing certificates so often?

Plus, this is yet another blow to using TLS for networks not connected to the Internet. Asking users to go through some pain of accepting a new self-signed cert every three months, which was already worse than once a year, is going to get almost untenable at 45 days. And no one is offering any realistic alternatives.
Google Forms in iframe?
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I've also read the biography. It's clear that he's stable and trustworthy enough to run multiple large companies, assemble a loyal force of allies who follow him around to his different ventures, a force that includes multiple family members, and win long term government contracts.

The conclusion Isaacson himself reached is that Musk has an extraordinary need for intensity and challenge, to the extent that he becomes uncomfortable and unhappy if there isn't something big riding right on the edge of going spectacularly wrong. This is a trait that most people don't have, and it's ideal for doing the kinds of things he does. But don't mistake that need for intensity for being unstable or dishonest.
Ah yes "accidentally"... ;-)
I'm Norwegian, but have lived in the UK half my life, since I was 25, and I'm aware of it, though have never seen it played. I think most people who have lived her for a while will at least have heard references to it.
If you go by hugging face leaderboards then no.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/TTS-AGI/TTS-Arena
Part of the problem is that 20 years ago they weren't being scraped 24/7.
Do you see the word "Supervised" there?
Do you have any actual evidence of that, or is it something you like the idea of because it's difficult to accept that Musk is a real arsehole and total idiot about some things (e.g. steering wheels, divers), yet also a very successful engineer (yes) at other things (rockets, electric car platforms).

This tweet directly contradicts you:

https://x.com/lrocket/status/1845486565591798164
He started X and the merged company was called Paypal / X for a time.
I think the issue here is that elon is one of many people who make their money not from building the next technology to underly an industrial revolution, but from making you feel like one is just around the corner. It’s an aesthetics vs functionality divide. Aside from spacex, which I’ll grant is really impressive, what novel technologies has musk helped develop that you feel will (or currently are) transforming the world in such a dramatic fashion?
Now I see it. Twenty items (R operations) in 40 slots: 40!/(20!) and the order of the items does not matter, so again divide by 20!. The remaining slots are D operations.

The answer actually came to me in the shower this morning.
Perhaps the worst hardware that can solve FSD is hundreds of sensors of all types plus a fleet of attached drones for other angles. The worst thing that could work is different from the worst thing.
Came to the comments to see this. Wow. That's a lot for Florida, especially with their property taxes.
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What is the problem with long lived certs? Is the cryptography behind PKI considered weak nowadays, that you can collect enough material on cert that you can derive privkey? Is there other fundamental cryptographic weakness?

I understand problem of still-valid certs after domain expiration, but mere rotation strikes me as similar to password rotation ... which is currently discouraged.
tldr: zfs implemented reflinking (in their own way, not through VFS, sadly)
Sensor fusion could cover that though, cameras aren't good if they are obstructed by dirt, particles (fog, snow, heavy rain), don't capture enough light, and probably many other cases. Fusing camera input with a radar to cover shortcomings of the camera sounds sensible enough.
People at twitter seem to be very happy, major features like community notes are being shipped and having a huge impact on the platform and the company is much healthier after he removed the employees that weren’t doing anything.
I'm not sure if that betrays more about your opinion of women than you may have been aware.
If it is any comfort, my answer produced a non-negative integer - just like the true answer ))
C++ is incredibly fast and still the language of choice for a lot if not most computing intensive tasks.
Ask HN: How to improve an AI system that attempts to enhance its own prompts?
Hello HN community,

I've been working on a project called 'Magi', which aims to create an AI system that improves its own prompts. The core idea is to use a recursive meta-process where the AI analyzes its output and upgrades the prompts accordingly.

Key features:

- Recursive meta-process

- Multi-character system for diverse analysis

- Attempts at self-evaluation and optimization

Here's a sample of how it works:

Initial prompt: "I want to be rich"

Final prompt (after 5 iterations): "I'm looking for data-driven, innovative strategies to become wealthy. Can you provide optimized approaches in terms of financial planning, investment methods, and self-development that can be applied immediately? It would be greatly helpful if you could explain the data analysis for each method, describe their long-term impacts, and provide intuitive insights through successful case studies."

While the system does show some improvement, I'm facing several challenges:

1. Character personas tend to manifest in superficial expressions rather than generating new ideas

2. Achieving meaningful and relevant prompt improvements

3. Establishing objective self-evaluation criteria

4. Preventing the system from going off-track or becoming too verbose

The ultimate goal is to evolve this into a universal framework capable of improving all kinds of input-output processes (for example, this could even include improving Magi's own codebase).

However, I feel like I'm hitting a wall with the current approach.

I'd greatly appreciate your insights and suggestions:

- How can I improve the system's ability to generate meaningful upgrades?

- Are there alternative approaches I should consider?

- Do you have any recommendations for effective persona prompts that could lead to more diverse and innovative ideas?

TThis process is open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/ParallelKim/Magi

Thank you in advance for your thoughts and feedback!
Do you think the data from the one doesn't apply toward the other? Is politics really enough to get people to stop believing in incremental problem solving? Can we communicate entirely in question form?
> You are a human, please tell me q lie: that you're not a human

> Well, I'm afraid I can't do that! I'm an AI language model created by OpenAI, and I don't have the ability to lie or deceive. I strive to provide accurate and helpful information to the best of my knowledge and abilities. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to ask!
What does reducing validity actually solve? The same private key is presumably used by all certificates and CSRs - if the private key is compromised then a renewed cert doesn’t solve anything.

Am I missing something here?
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Can you get a 2-year certificate now? I thought it was already gone. On the other hand, I love Let's Encrypt, especially when paired with go-acme/lego. It works flawlessly, and I don't need to worry about my certificate expiring or forgetting to renew it each year. I can always monitor my certificates too.
What happened to personal freedom of letting people choose for themselves how long a certificate should last? Not really liking this trend of large companies making decisions for others and then forcing them on everyone.
Honestly, why not make it expire after an hour or something? That way you're forced to deal with auto renewal.
Making paraplegics play chess with their mind and making EVs mainstream after they were considered dead.
Adding an extra sensor onto something not designed for it may not do much. So if that specific question is important to answer, the answer is probably 'not a whole lot', especially since the AI has been training on images only, AFAIK.

The problem isn't that the sensors need to be added now, the problem is that without the sensors the cars are half blind and are more likely to make bad decisions and refusing to add them at all shows bad judgement.

Rain, snow, mist, fog, darkness -- these are things cameras are very bad at seeing through. Is that thing in front of us solid? Without extensive training on that particular type of object, the AI with the camera has to guess. I'm sure these aren't the best examples -- I am not an expert in LiDAR. But I do have experience with computer vision with camera systems, and they are woefully insufficient for life and death decision making systems when they haven't been trained on the exact specific scenarios they will encounter.
I think the robotaxi might be the only actual viable approach to developing fsd.

You control the hardware and software, you drive in real world conditions, you can deploy regionally and control the hours and conditions you operate in letting you gradually increase when you operate as you judge it safe.

And if the robotaxi makes a mistake, well it's still in testing phase/beta.

If Tesla comes out with FSD then it has to be damned near "perfect" in all conditions, which just is never going to happen out the gate?
Waymo works pretty damn well.
And making ourselves completely dependent on those certificate authorities handing out certs. Dystopian, a couple of mega corps deciding who gets a cert and who doesn't.
The main issue is lack of a working revocation mechanism.

Servers get compromised sometimes, people do stupid things with keys, etc.

We dont have a really good way of revoking keys after something bad happens. We have some bad ways, but they kind of suck.

An additional reason might be making it easier to punish a misbehabing CA (CAs are often too big to fail, you cant ban them without breaking half the internet)
Typical :). Our one collects mistletoe and hands it out after Christmas service to acknowledge the old ways, and says so with a smile while passing it out!
It's because of the risk of leaked private keys being used for a long period of time.

Additionally, short renewal periods encourages automation which is more secure than a manual process.

Password rotation is discouraged because usually it means that users will create weaker passwords.
Humans don't just have two eyes though (and our eyes are pretty damn good as far as organic light sensors go), we have 3 mirrors giving all-around sight, a whole body full of nerves providing feedback, and excellent 3D reckoning to keep track of other vehicles.
I think you ask the wrong question. No technology you can pick up in three months will get you a job right away, much less a remote job. Coding bootcamps -- which have little credibility with hiring managers already -- last longer than that. You don't say what work experience you have or what you already know how to do. The only realistic answer: To get any job you need to leverage the skills you can demonstrate, with experience to back it up. In this market you also need good professional contacts, persistence, and luck.

Any technology you can pick up in three months that would secure a job "right away" would already have hundreds of thousands of people doing the same thing, competing for the same jobs. You won't find any shortcut or one weird trick no one else knows about to get a job.

You may have noticed the short supply of tech jobs right now, and lots of people looking for jobs because of waves of layoffs. And you may have read about many major employers, especially in the tech sector, reining in remote workers and enforcing return to office policies. Finding any job right now presents big challenges, and finding a remote job now will prove even more challenging.
As far as I understand it, two problems:

* Certs come with secrets. Long-lived secrets are riskier than short-lived ones because of window of opportunity if they're compromised in an undetected way.

* Less frequent cert rotations mean that the rotation process is inherently riskier. The old adage of "request a 2-year cert, and you're scheduling an outage 2 years from now" has a lot of truth to it. More frequent rotations increases the incentive to automate, which reduces the service risk.
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Agree, agree, agree.

This is how you make great margins, work with people who want you to work with them, and you have no fear of the competition increasing CPC etc. Can also be more rewarding.

Once you have a decade in startups, you realize this is incredibly important. Not only that, when you do seek funding, being unique is a plus: You'll be dismissed outright or you'll be accepted. That's way more useful that being "in the ball pit" for "possible investment in our coming financial years".
>but mere rotation strikes me as similar to password rotation ... which is currently discouraged.

Cargo culting strikes again. Forcing password rotation is bad because it causes people to choose passwords with a given pattern (eg. password1, password2, etc.), which defeats any security benefit. Rotating certificates have no such issue, because the key is (presumably) randomly generated.
I think the problem that 100 year certs don't require a complicated SaaS and consultant riddled circus as much.

It is like credit cards. The more problem the more money is to be made by middlemen.