skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't make a difference if people doing work were vaccinated or not. It turns out to have had little in-practice effect on transmission

This is because of Delta. The original strain was substantially reduced but an order-of-magnitude efficacy jump made that moot. You’re right, however, that we should have focused on masking and air filtration since that was actually effective at preventing spread in close quarters like a school or workplace.
Being this is ostensibly related to an AI company trying to make AGI reminds me of "Eagle Eye"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1059786/
Those organizations were doing so by government mandate — at the direction of government healthcare agencies. They didn’t invent those policies on their own.

That’s “imposing” and it speaks to the lack of ethics in the healthcare system they joined in coercing medical treatments rather than refusing to perform treatments people were only accepting under duress.
The hope there would be that the backup is from before the OS bug reared its ugly head, so you can get what you need off of it. (or hope it doesn’t happen again)
oh ffs please stop treating every situation like its a binary situation.

EVERYONE has different experiences and issues. some need surgery, some have a 30 min labour and its almost like a luge.

The answer here is not "every one should just suck it up like they used to" its "every situation should be treated based on the data and facts of scientific theory, and adjusted to deal with the different environmental variables"

Yes its more complicated, but the world and the lived experience of it is not black and white.
Okay, first boeing now openai... Yep, my view of this world being more civilized than portrayed in the movies is disappearing every day. Looks like we're going to start having to take conspiracy movie-like theories seriously now.
To what, encourage whistleblowers to not come forward because "everyone knows they'll get killed"?

The only benefit of turning it into gossip is to dissuade other whistleblowers, without the inconvenience of actually having to kill anyone.
I didn’t realise the Thunderbirds was a documentary

https://youtu.be/h9kPmX32j9A?feature=shared
what i said was "a superset of IP with a different packet format and wider fields"

well, yes obviously you need more bits. what you don't need is all the other changes.

> I really hope you stop respond in to people with nonsense before you look at the packet structure yourself.

don't be condescending.
At least malls had a functional economic agreement between the mall owner and the shops. With social media platforms, they will bring in partners and then screw them the second they can cannibalize their business opportunities. Imagine a mall where the owners forcibly removed successful shops with their own carbon copy the moment that shop figured out a good business model.
Here’s the real reason we won’t move to IPv6: NAT is used as a security feature in IPv4. World isn’t willing to do the work to make that transition.
Would have been far more interesting and mysterious if it was Georgia (U.S. state).
Do you have a team? Or is this largely a solo project? Very impressive — I hope you keep at it, would very much be interested in a v2 or v3 Turbina grinder.
> but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior.

That is an exceedingly charitable read of these lawsuits.

Everyone knows LLMs are copyright infringement machines. Their architecture has no distinction between facts and expressions. For an LLM to be capable of learning and repeating facts, it must also be able to learn and repeat expressions. That is copyright infringement in action. And because these systems are used to directly replace the market for human-authored works they were trained on, it is also copyright infringement in spirit. There is no defending against the claim of copyright infringement on technical details. (C.f. Google Books, which was ruled fair use because of it's strict delineation of facts about books and the expressions of their contents, and provides the former but not a substitute for the latter.)

The legal defense AI companies put up is entirely predicated on "Well you can't prove that we did a copyright infringement on these specific works of yours!".

Which is nonsense, getting LLMs to regurgitate training data is easy. As easy at it is for them to output facts. Or rather, it was. AI companies maintain this claim of "you can't prove it" by aggressively filtering out any instances of problematic content whenever a claim surfaces. If you didn't collect extensive data before going public, the AI company quickly adds your works to it's copyright filter and proclaims in court that their LLMs do not "copy".

A copyright filter that scans all output for verbatim reproductions of training data sounds like a reasonable compromise solution, but it isn't. LLMs are paraphrasing machines, any such copyright filter will simply not work because the token sequence 2nd-most-probable to a copyrighted expression is a simple paraphrase of that copyrighted expression. Now, consider: LLMs treat facts and expressions as the same. Filtering impedes the LLM's ability to use and process facts. Strict and extensive filtering will lobotomize the system.

This leaves AI companies in a sensitive legal position. They are not playing fair in the courts. They are outright lying in the media. The wrong employees being called to testify will be ruineous. "We built an extensive system to obstruct discovery, here's the exact list of copyright infringement we hid". Even just knowing which coworkers worked on what systems (and should be called to testify) is dangerous information.

Sure. The information was public. But OpenAI denies it and gaslights extensively. They act like it's still private information, and to the courts, it currently still is.

And to clarify: No I'm not saying murder or any other foul play was involved here. Murder isn't the way companies silence their dangerous whistleblowers anyway. You don't need to hire a hitman when you can simply run someone out of town and harass them to the point of suicide with none of the legal culpability. Did that happen here? Who knows, phone & chat logs will show. Friends and family will almost certainly have known and would speak up if that is the case.
Children are still behind in school.
Distribution of documents is not a system backup. I haven't used Box but if it is a distribution mechanism I suspect it is opt-in, as in you have to choose to distribute a document with it. You could still print or email the document, or use any other service. Box is just the mechanism by policy. The policy wouldn't even apply to documents that aren't distributed.
Criminal charges for execs and board members
There's a question I've had about htmx for some time, might as well ask it here. Why does it keep the history cache in localStorage and not sessionStorage or memory? Some kind of a microoptimization? sessionStorage seems like it would be better to me if it's really a good default. I also think it should be publicized more, because it unexpectedly keeps stuff in a location that can be accessed more easily and beyond where the browser's back button cache can.
If we're going to control for life situations, you have to calculate the suicide rate for people who are actively involved in a high stakes lawsuit against a former employer, which is going to be much higher than average. Then factor in non-suicide death rates as well. Then consider that there are apparently at least 12 like him in this lawsuit, and several other lawsuits pending.

I'm not going to pretend to know what the exact odds are, but it's going to end up way higher than 1/10k.
Was completed gutted in a few months and job was done in less than 2 years.

Same job would take a decade today.

Are we really more advanced nowadays?
Yet here I am, with all my freedoms intact, and still not vaccinated.
Yeah I'm in favor of a single payer system, but I think that's even less likely than adding some guardrails to what we have now.
Yeah, I don’t understand system backups anymore. I keep everything I care about in a single directory and clone that to the cloud. I no longer need to worry about backups outside of this. It’s easy enough to install a fresh OS and restore my directory. I’ll need to install a few apps but I’ll also have a nice clean system to work with.
Indeed, and to me it's one of the reasons it's hard to argue that generative AI violates copyright.

At least in the US, a derivative work is a creative (i.e. copyrightable) work in its own right. Neither AI models nor their output meet that bar, so it's not clear what the infringing derivative work could be.
I'm going to be annoying and simply laugh at the fact it's a 2k line, single file in source. It's TypeScript! You HAVE to compile it to ship it as an npm package (_technically_ you don't but). Split it up into smaller modules with `import` statements!
> Let's start with the reality check: I hit the timing jackpot. Right org, explosive growth phase, and a manager who saw something in me before I saw it myself. If you're looking for a pure meritocratic story, this isn't it. Nobody lands promotions this fast without the stars aligning.

Very much appreciate this being the second paragraph, made me immediately much less skeptical.

In general, I think these are excellent principles. I didn't really realize how important speed was, in particular, until I was in an organization that pathologically lacked it. It absolutely sucks the life out of anyone who wants to do more than the bare minimum.
Those numbers are approximately zero, because demand will immediately 10x as soon as AI makes that affordable, as computers have always done. So, profitable (if the AI can cost less than a human for the work), but not changing how the economy works
That's what he is doing. He designed the department to have an expiration date.
Nothing worse than these straw man arguments.

a) Nobody has ever said that pharmaceutical companies should be blindly trusted.

b) The companies only have an exemption for COVID and similar emergencies and only when the damages are not caused by wilful misconduct. The idea being that getting the vaccines out sooner would save more lives than any side effects.
"we have reason to believe AGI can ultimately be built with less than $10B in hardware"

"Within the next three years, robotics should be completely solved, AI should solve a long-standing unproven theorem, programming competitions should be won consistently by AIs, and there should be convincing chatbots" (2017)

"We will completely solve the problem of adversarial examples by the end of August"
My impression is that economics is like voting. We have a dozen different alternative structures that aim to fix many of the most obvious issues from centuries of use. but no government system has an incentive to shake things up to such a degree.

We have a gigantic broken window, but the house still works. And ofc my government system has generally had a reactionary response rather than a preventative one; nothing gets done until it's too late and many people die.
Discussions

(54 points, 1 day ago, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886

(60 points, 12 hours ago, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361

Article title: Confronting risks of mirror life
Blockchain and NFT took over the Super Bowl. That's pretty mainstream. There are Bitcoin ATMs.
They can use NAT on v6 if they really want to
Show HN: CAD Viewer – view CAD models privately, right in the browser
CAD Viewer is a chrome extension that let's you preview CAD model right inside your browser.

Workflow when you see a CAD file link on the internet:

- Without this extension: download the file → load it with your CAD software

- With this extension: preview the file inside the browser → confirm that it is the part/model you where looking for → take action.

Imagine, you had to download an image file from the Internet to view what it is! That is what most people using CAD files on day to day basis have to do with their models.

Currently the extensions works with STL & OBJ file formats in GMail attachments. There is a plan to add more file formats like STEP and IGES soon, along with integrating other commonly used services like Google Drive, Outlook, etc. Apart from that will also make it work with any `<a>` (anchor tag) with CAD file links.

I had seen similar extension on Chrome Web Store, but that extension used to send CAD files to a server to view. Which I found it to be a big red flag, especially given how sensitive this data could be.

I hope you find this tool useful and if you give it a try, do drop a feedback (bug, feature request, etc)
Something very cool about the Georgian language is that its family, the Kartvelian family, has no known relation to any other language family. It's one of the world's primary language families. Its origin, including the alphabet, is very mysterious.
If you're talking about legal matters then words are important.

No one was ever forced to take a vaccine. Nor were they coerced by the state.
Oh, I’ve used SuperDuper for years, and I adore it. Several years ago I had a spinning rust HD die in a Macbook. I plugged my backed drive into it, booted, and had access to all my stuff. Without that drive I would have needed another computer.

I could keep going making a list of all the ways I’ve found a bootable clone of a MacOS machine to be useful, but damn, I’d hate to live without it.
mostly, but comprehension speeds are something that is built into the brain and can only be improved but serious effort.
Oh thank god. I can finally retire my docx to pandoc to markdown tool chain. I can’t believe M$ was the big one to go first. Good on ya.
Yeah, I disagree with Dijkstra on this. And many other things.
drones

- with bright lights,

- flying over the same populated areas

- at the same time each night.

Not fake at all.
I think if you let C=3 it isn't that long. The first two terms are less than x for x>5, the last term is also less than x for all positive x, done. Those lemmas are pretty easy to figure out.
And not just that: if an update breaks my Linux install, I can figure out what broke it and roll back to an older version. Rolling back updates on macOS or Windows is just... not really a thing, at least not without a full reinstall, assuming you even have installation media for older versions these days.
So Arnab "Arnie" is facing 20 years [1] for destruction of evidence

But Martin Elling (very much his senior) can only get a maximum of 1 year [2] as per the plea deal.

> A former senior partner at McKinsey, Martin Elling, has also agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice for destroying records related to McKinsey's work for Purdue, according to court papers. He is scheduled to enter his plea on Jan. 10.

[1] https://www.globalindiantimes.com/p/mckinsey-opioid-122024

[2] https://www.reuters.com/legal/consulting-firm-mckinsey-pay-6...
Hahahaha, what? Most of western news sources are blocked in russia after they published Bucha reports. They are literally jailing people for mentioning it on personal vk pages and such.
Yeah I strongly suspect that there's something in the GTFS spec that I'm missing that's resulting in some vehicle journeys not being added to the timetable. This would also explain why it completely fails to find routes on the return trips for some of the examples. I'm still pretty stoked about it and hopeful I'll get the bugs ironed out. :)

edit: also if you look at the Berlin to Barcelona trip you'll see a bus, which makes no sense to me whatsoever, so I suspect that some of the high speed rail trips didn't make it from the GTFS feed into the packed timetable that I'm serving itineraries from.
I’m thinking similarly.

I’ve been using normal Time Machine backups, together with iCloud (not really backup), occasional copies of data I care about to external SSDs, and occasional encrypted backups to remote storage (rsync.net)

But it never even occurred to me to want a bootable backup or include the OS in it. In fact whenever I upgrade my MacBook, I choose to set it up as a fresh device and don’t use any of the tooling to copy everything-and-anything.
Can you add (Country) to the title?
Which part? The inability for 3rd parties to create bootable images instead of using Apple-signed tools? Because that was 4 years ago and is kind of a fundamental requirement for the chain of trust needed for signed system volume security introduced back then.

Or are you arguing that this blog post is wrong in asserting the OS release this week introduced a bug in those tools?
> And calling teams low in the desired section is such an odd assessment.

I said it ranks low in "admired" (i.e., those who use it and want to continue using it). Less than 50% of those using it want to continue using it despite it being the most "popular" by a significant percentage. If everyone had their choice, Teams would drop heavily in popularity.

Regardless, it was just an example of how "popularity" doesn't mean anything because most people don't have a choice in their day jobs.
Not a fan of the tubes sticking out the bottom aesthetically but looks nice! Looking forward to hear of other people’s experiences with it once some people have got their hands on it.
are you an anarchist, then? i am curious
https://x.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1866619697745236382

"9-9-6 culture" listed as an advantage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Sometimes I wonder if these people read back what they just wrote and think about how some of these statements look. If you do 9-9-6 for 3 months because otherwise your company will go bankrupt, then fair enough, desperate times call for desperate measures... but if it's a "company culture", then you're a fucking exploitative scumbag, plain and simple.

You see a lot of devs complaining about "crunch time" in the games industry, they're very vocal about that, and while I understand that's an issue too, people (and by people I mean serious journalists) need to focus on Elon because this shit has gone unchecked for way too long and affects vastly more workers given the size of his companies.
> if something is expected then return either nil or some {:ok false :message "..."} value (and {:ok true :value ...} for success)

Maps used in this way are uncomfortable. You end up with a function (foo x y z) and in practice you don't know how may values it is about to return. Technically one, but that one might be a map with who-knows-what in it.

There is a general API problem here of how to handle operations which really require multiple communication channels to report back with. I'm not sure if there is a good way to handle it, but complex objects as return value isn't very satisfying. Although in practice I find it works great in exceptions because the map is secretly just a string that is about to be logged somewhere and discarded.
Why would I need to choose just one? He’s the only person with a serious presence on the planet. He builds a landing pad that works exclusively with his rockets, and ANYTHING that happens on the planet will be going through him. Hell, he can probably convince China or the US to pay to build the habitats if he wants to.
> 2. Malls died because there were too many of them. Social media is now entering that same phase.

This is a good thing for social networks, not bad. The model of everyone being in the same place is what's failed. Twitter and Reddit became entrenched enough to turn hostile to their users. The passive will stay with those, but the deliberate are now able to seek out the community that suits them. It's good that there's more selection. It would be a big failure if the whole eternal September migrated to Mastodon or Bluesky or some other single place.

We've long known that smaller communities are higher quality. "Too many" choices ensures we'll avoid the failure of recreating Twitter elsewhere.

The author of the piece is thinking about their "vocation". If people advertising their blog are discouraged from joining the new spaces, that just preserves them for more organic communication and less self promotion.
It obviously shouldn’t panic, but have you looked at the dumps for what could be the cause? Or perhaps try a different cable and/or different hdmi device? It’s still a bug, but perhaps it’s a non-spec-compliant hdmi cable or device?
memory wouldn't survive a page refresh

sessionStorage wouldn't survive a tab close

i'm not opposed to making the latter an option though
> the wiring is a actually silicone

That's very cool.

When taking into account the power brick, what percentage by weight/volume is plastic? 5%? 10%? That's the number you should be advertising.
“Aligning” seems a perfectly good word to me. It’s the technical term that gets used, and it’s not particularly overloaded so people aren’t going to expect it to mean something else, and it’s easy to demonstrate even pictorially.

(I would also use the term “synchronising” rather than “syncing”, because “syncing” has kinda developed a meaning of its own, even though it came from the same place. And use the word “with”, and try to use the words “text”. “Synchronising ebook text with audiobooks” is way better than “syncing ebooks and audiobooks”.)
As a left handed mouse user i can confirm, mashing keys is uiop and jklñ etc
"[EHT Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)] Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new [polarized (phase filtered)] image" (2024-03)
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/28/1241403435/milky-way-black-ho...

"Astronomers unveil strong magnetic fields spiraling at the edge of Milky Way’s central black hole" (2024-03) https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2406/

ScholarlyArticle: "First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring" (2024) https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df0

ScholarlyArticle: "First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII.: Physical interpretation of the polarized ring" (2024) https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2df1
Where do I begin?

- his work pracices at all his companies are that of an imbecile manbaby. There are very public reports of this for Tesla and SpaceX, at the very least.

- his "hyperloop" plan delayed a proper trans-state transportation system for a decade+

- he proceeded to further ruin twitter and be completely contradictory on his whole "free speech" advocation

- he literally tried to buy votes for a national US election. Then admitted his lottery was never a fair lottery (i.e. fraud). Pretty much knowing any lawsuits after the election was a cost to do business.

- and his punishment? being a part of a stupidly named cabinet organization that will probably do the opposite of its stated goals, given his history.

Those are just off the top of my head.

What reasons do I have to like Musk? Because he didn't screw up SpaceX as hard as NASA was screwed by the federal government? That he was first to market for American EVs (because US was too busy defending oil and ignoring that other countries were pushing ahead)?
yeah, the htmx JavaScript API is not widely used, but I agree it's right on the edge of what's acceptable in a patch release
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