skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By mocking the system time and manually progressing it a set amount of time. Otherwise your tests actually take seconds rather than a few milliseconds.

Not a great example, but here is something I did recently that tests time based state (thousands of seconds) but the suite passes in tens of milliseconds.

It also uses a random number generator with a deterministic mode to allow random behaviour in production, but deterministic results in tests (unrelated but also handy)

https://github.com/steveadams/minesweeper-store/blob/main/sr...

Some writing about the repo in case you’re curious: https://steve-adams.me/building-minesweeper-with-xstate-stor...
I'd say it depends more on "the production" than the human.
There are legal means to hold all people accountable for their actions ("Gross neglience" and all that).
So you can basically always trust that people will fix what they messed up given the possibility.
So if you can afford for the production to be broken (e.g. the downtime will just annoy some people) you might as well allow your team to deploy straight to prod without audits. It's not that rare actually.
The post you’re replying to gave 2 concrete examples.
Remembering Rosemary
I kind of assumed that already happened. Does it not? Is anyone pushing for it?

Honestly it seems like it ought to be federal law by now that municipalities need to notify a designated centralized service of all road/lane/sign/etc. changes in a standardized format, that all digital mapping providers can ingest from.

Is this not a thing? If not, is anyone lobbying for it? Is there opposition?
> the "end to end black box" approach is perhaps misguided, because the result will be a non transparent system by definition

A black box that works in human language and can be investigated with perturbations, embedding visualizations and probes. It explains itself as much ore more than we can.
Welp, there goes this recommendation out the window. Back to suggesting Dropbox.
It's 22 years ago, roughly
It's also a problem that gets worse as the software gets better. Having to intervene once every 5 minutes is a lot easier than having to intervene once every 5 weeks. If lack of intervention causes an accident, I'd bet on the 5 minute car avoiding an accident longer than the 5 week car for any span of time longer than 10 weeks.
You’ll often see “source available” used for that.
I've been pronouncing it with the short 'i' for 30 years, but mainly, possibly only, in my head.

In 1998 I started a new job, and my boss pronounced "URL" as "earl". That threw me for a loop, had to fight my way through our first conversation before I figured out what he was saying.
No, they don’t delete the archived content. When the domain’s robots.txt file bans spidering, then the Wayback Machine _hides_ the content archived at that domain. It is still stored and maintained, but it isn’t distributed via the website. The content will be unhidden if the robots.txt file stops banning spiders, or if an appropriate request is made.
IMHO simulations in VR&AR are overrated since they are extremely shallow, a simple video is good enough. I don't think that there's much value in deep diving into simulation graphics.

On the other hand, enhancing reality for enhanced awareness and data is something I think is very promising. We already do it all the time, putting light indicators or feeling the heat are things people are used to do to monitor and understand systems. Imagine how useful would be to integrate proper sensors and device connections? They are doing it for fighter pilots but why don't do it when we deal with any kind of machinery?
> The commission found that governments and experts have vastly underestimated the amount of water needed for people to have decent lives. While 50 to 100 litres a day are required for each person’s health and hygiene, in fact people require about 4,000 litres a day in order to have adequate nutrition and a dignified life.

This formulation grants an amount of wiggle room that makes the whole exercise pointless. Experts were previously wrong because they used a different definition of what "decent" and "dignified" mean? The resulting difference in water demand from upgrading a "dignified life" is a 40x-80x increase! If you can simply pick an arbitrary definition of what's good enough and then declare a crisis on the back of the new definition, there will never not be a crisis because declaring crises is how the NGO sector gins up funding and attention.
Soviet copper kopecks coins (1, 2, 3, 5) weighed their exact nominal value in grams
If you cough, you're off
When I search (amazon, google, and other searches) for one these books, the other also shows up as a very close result. And vice versa as well.
Hot take, this is the way it should be. If you want better security then you update the requirements to get your certification.

Security by its very nature has a problem of knowing when to stop. There's always better security for an ever increasing amount of money and companies don't sign off on budgets of infinity dollars and projects of indefinite length. If you want security at all you have bound the cost and have well-defined stopping points.

And since 5 security experts in a room will have 10 different opinions on what those stopping points should be— what constitutes "good-enough" they only become meaningful when there's industry wide agreement on them.
I've done a few apps as part of my day job. And my best explanation and/or analogy is government regulations. The store requirements, apis and rules are documented up to the upteenth degree in 49 pages spread across many areas, and unless you're "in the know", you have no way to implement it to a reliable degree. And then all this ends up doing is punishing small / low-budget / low-time developers, leading to consolidation around the big players.

The big players can push their weight around to some degree, they get an element of built-in trust, and they have the sheer budget/time to implement all the ridiculous and sometimes onerous requirements. All in all, they're cementing their market position and trying to make "sticky" and invested players that will prop-up the play store for the coming decades.
I wish I could use Cypher for everything
Don't Listen to "Yes"
Assuming your compiler implements TCO properly, also.
I gave it a shot by using phrases that avoid negation like “without”

https://chatgpt.com/share/67153500-767c-800f-b3a2-bad706935c...
> A lot of what I see in Google's ads is features no one really wants

That's true of the vast majority of AI features from every company; its not a problem unique to Google. No one cares about any of this; its stockholders making products to sell to other stockholders.
> the people action created the change (contrary to your claim that it doesn't matter).

This never was my claim. Of course people action created the change.

Your question was different though:

> What technological breakthrough made, for example, women's suffrage possible?

The answer to that is "reduction in child mortality". It didn't "create the change" but rather "made it possible" in a quite literal sense. Same with the fall of communism.
Rivian also allows recording drives to an SSD. They also just released a feature where you can view the cameras while it's parked. I'm kinda surprised other manufacturers aren't allowing that.
C++ Packages in 2024
That's not a particularly interesting description for multithreaded code. The procedural/imperative element of it may be true of any given thread's execution, but with the right user-space or kernel scheduler, you may or may not care what the precise sequencing of things is across threads. This is true whether you're using lightweight user-space threads ("fibers") or kernel threads.
Yeah, Glean does this and there are a bunch of other competitors that do it as well.

I think you may be confused about the length of the context window. These tools don't pull all of your Slack history into the context window. They use a RAG approach to index all of your content into a vector DB, then when you make a query only the relevant document snippets are pulled into the context window. It's similar for example to how Cursor implements repository-wide AI queries.
https://archive.ph/n4wq5
Raising rates works in the beginning with high fiscal deficit driven inflation by slowing demand and bank lending.

But raising interest rates and keeping them high in an environment where runaway government deficits and high government debts are causing inflation runs the risk of exacerbating inflation.

You have high interest rates on a large amount of government debt which continues to push _more_ money into the economy.

The Fed doesn’t have any real options at this point but to lower rates.
The attempts have actually been focused on specific types of content, such as historical videos.
But if you fix your broken local router, it can be the enabler of low power devices.
It's not even good as a heuristic. It's simply a bad idea which only got off the ground because it came from the Google testing blog.
old grannies driving at 30mph on the freeway, me at infinity.

on edit: not everything travels at the speed limit, if the speed limit right now is the speed of light - then why doesn't everything travel at the speed of light?

People say if the speed limit was infinite that everything would happen instantaneously - but they still need to explain why everything should go at the speed limit in this other universe, when not everything goes at the speed limit in ours.
But computer chips have always had limited usefulness because newer chips are simply faster and more efficient. The datacenter build outs and increase in electricity capacity will always be useful.
> Title: A New Artificial Intelligence Tool for Cancer

Curing it or causing it? Because that's the typical AI marketing appeal, no? "It will kill everyone, except our customers."
Similarly, I like to compare AI (more specifially LLM) "investment" to the cost of building the channel tunnel between UK and France. The original investors lost their shirt, but once built it is profitable to operate.
yes people would, if we had a reliable metric for safety of these systems besides engaged/disengaged. We don't, and 10x safer with the current metrics is not satisfactory.
zifpanachr23 said:

> AI people sound more dug in to be honest from my perspective. But I guess that's cause the crypto stuff tends to be less overtly religious and more overtly batshit crazy politics and economics, which I'm much more used to dealing with haha. And mostly, everyone has figured out the scam by now on the crypto side.

>>The AI people freak me out cause they are all talking eschatology and shit as if they have stumbled upon the literal ark of the covenant like in raiders of the lost ark or something.

>>>It's a really great act to be honest. They've been clearly studying a lot of the more dishonest American religious culture of the last couple of decades.

I'm going to commit a HN faux pas to prove a point and show you why I think Bitcoin has a valid use case here alone: I decided to repost what he said because there are valid points here and are worth discussing.

Had I the inclination I can hash this into the blockchain for all to see what was written from this poster for the aforementioned reasons for as long as the mainchain continues to be maintained, protected and supported .

This has great utility, and the mere suggestion that you cannot get over that is because those 'crazies offend me and my disposition' and stop there you fail to see why and what this technology can already do--create an actual immutable archive of all Human history if we desire it.

But to his point, yes it's roots in Crypto-Anarchism (which started in CA at the inception of the rise of modern SV btw) has many of you questioning the ''sanity' and 'motives' behind this technology, and you assume they are all the same but rest assure their is a reason for the brain drain from all of tech/STEM/finance during my era and time in Bitcoin.

Most of whom are now incredibly wealthier than they ever were working in academia or private industry if you think money is a measure of one's success--I don't, but most of you do.

The AI people strike me more as a range of the introduction corpos from banking and academia into bitcoin (Gavin's, Hearn) to total con men like Veer and sprinkled in there are the cult memebers you mentioned who honestly think that their techno-utopian trans-humanist dreams are being built one LLM update at a time. It's sad... it's the same thing just different names/faces.
"Warning: This paragraph is about science so, if this topic causes you undue alarm, please close your eyes until you've finished reading it."

Amazing.
I have little interest in the ycombinator legacy of hustle culture, growth hacking, get-millions-for-glorified-todo-app, etc. As far as I can tell it is effectively the underlying reason for why crypto and AI get hyped up to the point where we can't have reasonable discussions about them in forums.

I'm just here because it happens to be where like-minded people (_sometimes_) hang out.
Not true. Inflation is defined as the increase in the cost of goods. This can come about by an increase in money supply, a reduction in demand for the money that exists, a restriction in supply of certain goods or an increase in the demand for enough key goods. I’m not an economist so I’m sure one could come up with more examples.
If it's all-way stop there will often be a small placard below the stop sign. If there's no placard there then (usually) cross traffic doesn't stop. Sometimes there's a placard that says "two-way" stop or one that says "cross traffic does not stop", but that's not as common in my experience.
Why? I want it to have access to the folders I want it to sync, not everything on my device.

Seems like a perfect fit for SAF.
I'm aware that one can't feed millions of messages into an LLM all at once. The only way to do this now is to use a RAG approach. But RAG approach has pros and cons and can miss crucial information. I think context window still matters a lot. The bigger the window, the more information you can feed in and the quality of answer should increase.

The point I'm trying to make is that increase context window will require more compute. Hence, we could still just be in the beginning of the compute/AI boom.
Not really because a light second is meters.

I mean like yes you can measure time and space with the same units in the way you suggest but then the concept of velocity changes as well.
Lab Grown Human Brain Living in a Virtual World [video]
When I migrated from Android to iPhone, syncthing was my main pain point. There is Möbius Sync, even though not open source, at least it’s an one-time small payment, which is fair considering the dev license cost. Unfortunately it’s not as reliable as the Android official app or the fork, I guess Apple is very strict with background processing, but hey it’s better than nothing.
It reminded me of this conversation where DALL·E 3 refused to generate a picture of just water.

https://mastodon.social/@sibilant/113340784251650338

It's funny, their current landing page reads: "DALL·E 3 understands significantly more nuance and detail than our previous systems, allowing you to easily translate your ideas into exceptionally accurate images."

I'm still impressed most of the time, don't get me wrong.
> didn't involve communication with transmitters along the road itself (like a glideslope and localiser for aircraft approaches) and with other cars on the road

There will be a large number of non-participating vehicles on the road for at least another 50 years. (The average age of a car in the US is a little over 12 years and rising. I doubt we'll see a comms-based standard emerge and be required equipment on new cars for at least another 20 years.)
The body tends to use the same amount of energy regardless of what you do in a day. You can certainly over exercise which causes undue stress on the body. However other than an adaptive period at the start of regular exercise your body adapts to the increased caloric use from exercise by down regulating other processes to conserve energy. Typically an excess of calories is used by production of lipid fluid in adipose tissue and over expression of global inflammation. Once you begin exercising regularly the body generally stops using stored lipids for extra energy to compensate for the exercise and instead down regulates inefficient and generally harmful processes like random global inflammation.

As mentioned the Goldilocks zones are where you’re not forcing the body beyond what it can safely allocate to exercise in a day without causing stress in other processes. Generally though that Goldilocks zone is significantly greater than most people do in exercise in a week, but would typically fall in the zone of “moderate” exercise from a clinical point of view. This is effectively 3-6 times the expenditure of energy from rest for 150 minutes per week spread over a week for at least 10 minutes of moderately strenuous exercise at 70% heart rate per session. Most people in their 40’s or 50’s would typically find this fairly grueling, but that’s because of that homeostatic adaptation - the body resists changing its homeostasis and induces all sorts of negative experiences during the adaptation phase. Once you’ve adapted the opposite feelings present for the same reason - you begin to crave a routine of exercise because you body resists the adaptation to a more sedentary life.

N.b., This is why while exercise definitely helps lose weight, it’s primarily by managing inflammation and mood. This is why the only significant way you can lose weight over time is to reduce caloric intake materially under your homeostatic energy consumption.
I'm genuinely not sure what the answer is.

When you're driving directly in the direction of a setting sun, polarized sunglasses won't help you at all. That's what sun visors are for, but they won't always work if you're short, and can block too much of the environment if you're too tall.

The only truly safe answer is really to pull to the side of the road and wait for the sun to set. But in my life I've never seen anybody do that ever, and it would absolutely wreck traffic with little jams all over the city that would cascade.
How specifically do you define 'meaning' and (the domain of) 'any thing'? Pls. consider if your definition of language would lead to an inference that most animals have language abilities.
Show HN: I built a Firefox Extension which can encrypt messages on any website
Hi all! I wanted more control over message encryption across different sites I use, so I built Coconut Shell, currently a Firefox extension, using OpenPGP.js to handle encryption locally in the browser.

I released v1.0.1, still in Proof-Of-Concept, so I hope to get some feedback on how it works and features you think would be helpful.

Try here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/coconut-shell...
> British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell answered the question with a flat yes, asserting that language’s very purpose is “to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.” But even a cursory glance around the natural world suggests why Russell may be wrong.

I don't know why Russell is catching strays. Saying language exists to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it does not in any way imply that you can't think without language.
Sure, they often are less reliable, which is the R of the smurf and not the M.
De-Extinction Company Says Close to a Complete Tasmanian Tiger Genome
Which is kinda ironic considering how they had a head-start on Nvidia with the whole TSMC partnership thing. Maybe, just maybe Apple will see enough writing on the wall to bring back OpenCL out of nothing more than petty greed...

...who am I kidding. This is the company that won't let Nvidia support their desktops because they value a decades-old grudge match over giving people a rational reason to own a rackmounted Mac. Apple? Functionality? I must have mistaken them for a company that was motivated to compete.
BitWarden leaves open source community
My previous comment was specifically targeted to those who feel offended this is even brought up.

Jules Verne's books often features adventurers inspired by the heroes created by colonial propaganda, like Lyautey, Marchand, Brazza... Understanding the context of the time Verne lived in is necessary to get where his stories come from. Not mentioning it would lead to a pretty subpar analysis, in my opinion.
I remember learning about Maxwell's Daemon through the Apple II game Dr. Maxwell's Molecule Magic, in which you take the role of the daemon. You must toggle the barrier on and off in order to trap enough gas molecules at high enough pressure to launch a rocket ship. Once you think you have enough, you can then launch the rocket to see how well you did. If you were successful, the rocket would blast off the screen and an image would show of an astronaut on the moon saying "Hi, Mom!" (Speech was provided via PWM through the Apple II speaker.)

Eleven-year-old me was easy to entertain. Especially if rockets, robots, or science was involved.
Speaking of Mr García, he recently started working at Bitwarden. Would be interesting to hear his thoughts.
I had a Send instance exposed online for years, but I changed it to 1 day retention and I never had any issues.

It was literally just to send large files between friends so more than 1 day was redundant.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I just think Apple is clearly pitching one thing to investors - "Apple Intelligence is here now and is basically AGI!!!" and another thing to customers - "Apple Intelligence is not available for awhile until we figure out the quirks, will mostly handle "basic" NLP style tasks such as summarization of notifications". Playing both sides of it.
Why is this on hacker news? It seems obscure and unrelated to business or technology or industry.
> (think a car on the left in front of you who switches on indicators to merge in front of you)

That car is signaling an intention to merge into your lane once it is safe for them to do so. What does the Tesla do (or not do) in this case that's bad?
Self fulfilling prophecy - hilarious !
But that happens in every bubble. Over investment, consolidation, huge winners in the end, and maybe eventually a single monopoly.
Rivians start at $30k more than Teslas, and while they may be nice, they don’t have the track record yet that Tesla does, and there is a risk the company goes bust since it is currently losing a lot of money.
This part doesn’t seem to be common knowledge. I don’t own a Tesla but I have been a few. From my understanding the feature as always said it was in beta and that it still required that you have your hands on the wheel.

I like the idea of FSD, but I think we should have a serious talk about how the safety implications of making this more broadly available and also compatibility with making a mesh network so FSD vehicles can communicate. I’m not well versed in the tech but I feel like it would be safer if you have like say have more cars on the road that can communicate and making decisions together than separate cars existing in a vacuum having to make a decision.
I'm afraid that it just hasn't been tested in court yet.

I haven't read this paper yet, but...

https://www.tesble.com/10.1080/0270319x.2021.1886785

from the abstract:

> The article concludes that Perma.cc's archival use is neither firmly grounded in existing fair use nor library exemptions; that Perma.cc, its "registrar" library, institutional affiliates, and its contributors have some (at least theoretical) exposure to risk

It seems that the article is about copyright, but of course there are several other reasons that might justify takedown of content stored on perma.cc:

- Right to be forgotten... perma.cc might be able to ignore it, but could this lead to perma.cc being blocked by european ISPs

- ITAR stuff

- content published by entities recognized by $GOVERNMENT as terrorist organizations

- revenge porn

- CSAM