skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a good argument for MAID, and I think there are countless dystopian sci-fi stories that exhibit this reasoning that I’d like to avoid (The Giver, Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, etc)

If we start looking at people who use MAID as selfless because they are “giving back to society”, and relieving the “financial burden”, what does that make people who choose to stick around? Are they selfish?

No one should be pressured or guilted into choosing an option like MAID - people are more than just balances on a spreadsheet.
No, it seems like an oversight in the code sample. It should be wrapped in Ok()
/Up to 1000 charge cycles/ is a big damper on the excitement, for me. Does anyone know if a limitation like that is inherent to the chemistry here or is this something that they could potentially (hopefully, vastly) surpass?
The government also studied remote viewing, psychic powers, and tried to control people's minds with LSD. The government has been investigating UFOs since Project Grudge back in the 1940s. None of that is evidence that remote viewing, psychic powers, mind control or UFOs are actually really alien spacecraft.

David Grusch repeating second and thirdhand claims about alien conspiracies is not evidence that those claims are real, nor is investigating UAPs evidence of the existence of alien spacecraft. None of this is actually evidence if anything, it's literally the same non-evidence the UFO community has always believed in as a matter of faith, and insisted that everyone else take as proven, self-evident fact.
Imagine being in pain, all day, every day.

Can you imagine such a decision now?
> But in Ontario, more than three quarters of people euthanized when their death wasn’t imminent required disability support before their death in 2023

conditions meriting euthanasia will also tend to be disabling yes
Yes, expected. The explicit order is to give "god" the money. This confers a benefit to the tither, per spec (the spec is kinda old.)
Aha, so you still need us humans to tell you what AI should do.
I got a new, better, improved wife out of mine. And I became a better person overall.

Also 47 seems a bit high. Women go through a midlife crisis around 35-38 years old, men tend to have theirs in the early 40s.
And dies days later. Perhaps inherited caution has an evolutionary advantage.
No one mention this in the big drone thread. Not that it would even matter, but I want to see how deranged it gets before it burns out.
Better health diagnostics through genetically engineered embedded sentinel cells
Is it? TBH it sounds like "climbing a tree is a start on getting to the moon beyond just jumping up and down". Yes, it does "more". But whether it will actually get you to the desired end state is highly dubious. Nobody knows if that will make chess bots more human-like, despite decades of research into the topic.
Using vague terms like "obvious" or "standard techniques" is doubtless wrong, but I would not see any problem in a paper basing its conclusions on demonstrations from a source listed in the bibliography, except that in many cases those who read the paper are unable to obtain access to the works from the bibliography.

Even worse is when the bibliography contains abbreviated references, from which it is impossible to determine the title of the quoted book or research paper or the name of the publication in which it was included, and googling does not find any plausible match for those abbreviations.

In such cases it becomes impossible to verify the content of the paper that is read.
Imagine a game genie like cart for snes that gave kaillera multi-player capabilities to games, along with an eth or wifi card connected to this port.
I was 15 so I spent it all on stupid shit :P I continued this into my early 20s.

Bitcoin wasn't around yet.

Tons of crazy stories for sure. Captchas weren't invented yet, no one really had any rate limits on login pages, inbox spam filters were easily bypassable, trojans like sub7 were just coming around, all kinds of wild fun back then. If you wanted to make money, there nothing was really stopping you.

The 90s were peak internet imo
Alexa has a personality trait,

it's as dumb as a box of rocks
A Momentary Lapse of Reason is right up there with Dark Side of the Moon in number of listen-throughs for me. Back when I was in high school it was one of the albums I’d put on prior to getting lost in working on something or another in Photoshop.
Did not know that! The pulsing baseline on Sheep is awesome. Not as awesome as the way the vocals tail off into hypnotic synth at the end of each line. It’s such a well crafted album.
Taming LLMs – A Practical Guide to LLM Pitfalls with Open Source Software
Without access to painkillers, sure, yes.
Vuzix Blade would be fine too, just something that has a display you can look at when you want to and ignore when you don't. The Blade is way too damn expensive, though.
American cops are using AI to draft police reports, and the ACLU isn't happy
Yes but the signal handling code acts as if it is on a different thread. So it cannot access the critical sections or mess up any existing state on the thread anyways. Sure the other parts need to be managed manually but just that should still go a long way. ...Right?
These kinds of responses seem interesting but they really aren't.

It's just a modern variant of an old man yelling at progress and being a crotchety contrarian for contrarians sake.

All too often the basis of these kinds of arguments are a just-so fallacy where the person using them is oblivious to the fact that generations prior to them would look at their skill-set and the skills that they promote as the best as worse than the ones they had.

The people making these arguments just want to tell everyone that they're better than the kids today and everything is going to pot.
Yes, one of the many differences (advantages) of NATS JetStream over Kafka: with NATS you can ack explicitly each message individually, and even better if you set your stream to be in 'work-queue' mode it will also automatically (and atomically) delete the ack'd message from the stream (i.e. like a 'proper' queue) another difference with Kafka where you can't delete individual messages in the middle of a stream (only trim the tail end).

You can also 'negative ack' messages, specify a back-off period before the message is re-delivered (because NATS automatically re-delivers un-acked (or nacked) messages) when you can't temporarily process it, or 'term' a message (don't try to re-deliver it, e.g. because the payload is bad), or even 'ask for more time before needing to ack the message (if you are temporarily too slow at processing the message).
old people ending it all is one thing, young people wanting to do the same not related to chronic illness is another.
AR is still very much a gimmick as we are surrounded by screens right now and we don’t need anything on our face to see them. They’re also easier on the eyes as headsets like AVP have a fixed focal plane.

VR on the other hand like the Quest, lots of people use everyday for games, exercise, media and socialization.

Unfortunately big tech thinks VR is for children, and keeps plowing money into AR because that’s what adults want. Meta’s best demos for AR was annotating prices on pieces of fruit.

Apple, Meta and now Google are like lemmings jumping one after the other off the AR cliff.

At least Meta made a decent headset. They could probably make some money off of if if the software was better and the store better curated, but they are way over extended on hardware people in AR lala land as their VR software just crawls along.
>CSPs are the ones to deploy the technology

The idea behind this whole paradigm is that you can verify the technology the CSP is running.

I agree with you on the CSP motivations.
I might be rude for this comment, but can anyone explain what did Fei-Fei Li accomplish in AI to be considered a pioneer?

I read her autobiography and I still do not understand. The only thing she did was create the ImageNet dataset, by paying Amazon Mechanical Turk. Am I missing something?
I don’t understand how is she in the same breathe as Cunn, Goodfellow, Hinton, even Karpathy?
It's cool and useful for granular editing, but tools like Kling, Sora, and Runway will make this step irrelevant in the next few years, in my opinion.
Unfortunately, "do no harm" has become "cover your ass". This often translates to a slew of expensive test procedures before one can get diagnosed and treated, which deters patients from seeking medical care.

eg, at one point I had to go through ~$2500 out of pocket sleep studies (after insurance, probably 2-3x that in actual price before deductible limit kicked in), in order to get a $35/month (copay limit, $150 ticket price) _subscription rental_ of a CPAP machine.

A year or three later I found out I could have bought a similar CPAP machine with autocalibration for about $400 online. I would not have had to spend a few nights in sleep studies or repeated doctor visits to "justify" the continued rental.

Plenty of people who should have known the easier and cheaper route, and were explicitly supposed to be my expert advisers in the subject, never pointed this out. They all just padded their bottom line citing the "need to be sure" as rationale for the tests before risking me being unnecessarily uncomfortable at night if I hooked up a machine I didn't need to.

It was mostly the insurance company being ripped off, but a significant chunk of time, money, and effort came from me. I was not amused at the outcome.
There already is underutilized spectrum for V2V, Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC), in the 5.9 GHz band -- the lower 45 MHz(5.850-5.895 GHz) for unlicensed uses, such as Wi-Fi, and the upper 30 MHz (5.895-5.925 GHz) for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications, including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications.

In November 2024, the FCC finalized rules of the 5.850-5.925 GHz band, including for Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology, which is considered a successor to DSRC for V2V and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications.

V2V had spectrum allocated to it since 1999. But V2V+V2I got sucked into C-V2X which is astounding to me; on the one hand it make sense (5G is good at this sort of thing), but now you have gatekeepers taking their cut to provide the Service. It it were straight V2V, then it would have been free-to-use. It is astounding to me that in 2024, we still do not have the vehicle in front of you sending to your car's computers data that the driver ahead just hit his/her brakes, and you should be prepared to do the same. AEB is fine, but the current attitude seems to be "Battleship My Car" - meaning, collect all the data, make all the decisions in MY car, other cars be damned...or, ignored.

My guess is V2V just presented too many security holes to win widespread adoption. If you could go around spoofing braking events on the highway, that would be super dangerous. But that's just my guess.

As to talking with cars around you, get a ham radio license, and set your HT to 146.52 MHz -- the national simplex calling frequency. The more people we have monitoring 146.52, the better. That frequency, more than any other ham radio frequency, is the nationwide "SOS!" channel. If you have an emergency out of cellphone range, but you have an HT, often 'somebody' will hear you on 146.52 and can call for help. The other common calling frequency is 446.000 but 2 meters tends to have better range through forest terrain; and probably more people listen to "52" than 446.000 --- but try both in an emergency.
My grandmother developed vascular dementia and spent the last half decade or so of her live non-verbal. My grandfather had Alzheimer's and eventually forgot that she had passed. They were exceedingly kind and frugal and had a strong support system, but that doesn't make it easy.

I'm unwilling to judge anyone's decision. Old age can be awful depending on your circumstances.
I sloppily used "AI" as a collective term for the currently hyped LLMs and image generators, where especially LLMs are being applied enthusiastically regardless if it works

It's very true that there are many areas of ML where considerable progress has been made and is delivering value

Are companies using QC? It's not like it can do much currently, as I understand it

We're making a lot of progress all over the engineering side of computing. A lot of it is incremental, but a faster or more energy efficient processor is very practically useful in a way that QC isn't yet. We might well get optical interconnects on cpu dies before we get anything tangible from QC
Yes it is :(

I got the glass second-hand super cheap but that was way too expensive new as well.
Are PDF parsers really so bad nowadays (this article is over 10 years old), that opening a PDF opens you up to vulnerabilities?

The author made this seem like such a fundamental issue. Is that because PDFs natively have support for say executing code (i doubt) or accessing the filesystem (i doubt), etc...
I suspect the NJ "Drones" are eVTOL or delivery drones
Previously (5 points, 5 hours ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400917
I thought that Momentary Lapse of Reason was okay: but that could be because it came out when I was a teen and apt to be uncritical about albums. I still enjoy it, but I can tell it’s a lesser work, now.

The rest don’t even hold my attention, though. Not even enough to dislike them.
Depends if you count violating data protection law is a crime or not.
Everyone does. This is another step towards that. The top comment says Google has been stop-and-go about this. Well the tech was never there to do it. But they never really stopped playing with the idea. Since 2013.
Well, I consider that still vastly better for pixel art than it being blurry. If you really want to handle 1.5x resolutions you can scale the image to that resolution yourself in the way you think is best and provide it using srcset.
Canada's rate of medically assisted deaths rises to record high
There is an episode of the original run of Magnum wherein a character picks up a phone and dials “9, 1,” as though they are about to call emergency services, and then hangs up the phone instead. I think, but am not sure, that the caller is using a phone on the Masters estate.

Any idea which episode I’m referring to?
I do not want Microsoft snooping everything I do, I don't trust that they won't do it either intentionally or not, and it's the main reason I'm leaving Windows across all of my systems after 3 decades. It's all just too much.
These server based TEEs are not solely for the benefit of cloud consumers, but end users as well.

You could theoretically ensure your dental appointment booking platform is not keeping tabs on you.
Before the Age of the Golden, Labra, and Snicker doodles, there was an old website that asked you a series of questions to help suggest your ideal dog breed. If you answered that you wanted a dog with minimal shedding, didn't require lots of exercise or attention, the breed it would come back with was an Aibo.
If a war happens that cuts off Europe from the factories in Asia I wonder how long the supplies last?

I'm actually not at all an isolationist. I love trade. But there are certain things a sovereign nation should not outsource. We had a warning with COVID about this but apparently saving money is more important.
This seems to target people who are both highly mobile and have broad networks of mobile contacts.
Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it.

I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender

Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.
Bureaucracy for the win.
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/removing-openvpn-15th-january-20...

Their reasoning is "they will be able to focus their resources where they can make a difference". Whatever that means.
I loved Framework. The ultimate DOS shell, and so very very much more.

All the capability of Mac OS, but with the speed and hotkeys of a department store POS system. I don't know if it had a graphic component, because I ran it on an IBM XT with an MDA display.

I tried to find Framework disks online a few years ago so I could relive it under DOSBox, but came up empty.
Interesting. Is it a vacuum to attach to the bags?
Does it have some sort of digital cert on the system that has an expiry date, though?
Related from 6 months ago:

Google to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of in cloud (3 points, no comments but explains why) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40604194

Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web (181 points, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40583946
Show HN: Cohesion – Evidence-Based Idea Prioritization for Teams and Individuals
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on with a few mates: Cohesion, an idea prioritization tool designed to help teams and individuals make better strategic decisions.

The idea came from our own experiences working in teams where creativity needs alignment with long-term thinking. We wanted a way to bridge the gap between high-level strategies and everyday decisions, keeping everyone aligned while staying adaptable. It's based on ideas from evidence-based product management but baked into a tangible tool.

With Cohesion, you can:

- Continuously evaluate ideas against strategy.

- Add evidence (our team version can do this from integrations with some vector-db help)

- Re-evaluate in light of new information

We’d love for you to try it out, share feedback, and let us know if it’s helpful (or not).

You can check it out here: https://cohesiontech.io

As an example, I've personally used it during my PhD to help identify promising research avenues—the whole process has helped me avoid time-sinks more than once.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and try it out. Your input would mean the world to us!
The potential for unchecked "growth" and potentially fatal infection vaguely reminds me of the terrifying aspects of prion based diseases. Thanks for giving me another theoretical nightmare scenario to worry about in the back of my mind! :-)

Related:

Technical Report on Mirror Bacteria: Feasibility and Risks (stanford.edu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403394
Nvidia, AMD, and Intel all invest in optical networks powering next-gen chips
But that can be done better. I miss DabbleDB.

https://youtu.be/MCVj5RZOqwY
I hear how deeply frustrating and personally challenging this situation is for you. It's particularly difficult when you have the skills and vision to see how things could be better, but are met with resistance and even retaliation. That internal conflict between your natural drive to improve things and the organisational reality must be very draining.

I see two pathways -

1. Don't work for "enterprises" - they tend to have far less technically minded folk than smaller organisations.

2. Rather than trying to completely suppress your natural inclinations (which sounds like it's causing you significant distress), perhaps we could explore finding a sustainable middle ground:

Could you channel your improvement mindset into smaller, localised changes within your immediate sphere of influence? Sometimes working on micro-improvements that don't require broader approval can be satisfying while avoiding organisational pushback.

Consider finding outlets for your skills outside of work - perhaps through consulting, mentoring, or personal projects where your drive to improve systems would be welcomed and valued.

Try reframing "average work" as "strategic preservation of your wellbeing" - it's not about lowering your standards, but rather about making a conscious choice to maintain boundaries in a challenging environment.

I'm curious - have you found any specific strategies that help you cope with this situation, even if only temporarily? Sometimes understanding what provides even small relief can help build a more sustainable approach.
The State of Robot Motion Generation
What does "cooked" mode mean in the context of this article?
That's a comparable rating to the NMC Lithium cells used in an electric car, yet an EV can typically get > 200,000 miles from their cells. A charge cycle is defined as 0% -> 100% -> 0%. If you never do that, you get a lot more effective charge cycles.

Edit:

That's not the full explanation. 300 miles of range for a typical EV * 1000 cycle rating gives 300,000 mile rating.

You likely charge a lot more than 1000 times over those 300,000 miles, but a partial charge counts as a partial cycle.
Discussion (245 points, 16 hours ago, 403 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396733
Fanless Ryzen 9 9950X seemingly outperforms same liquid-cooled chip in Cinebench
To add to your last point, looking at maps of drone sightings in the area, the biggest hotspots are in reserved airspace over military assets, including ones that store and load nukes on ships.

If they were truly a threat, or some random person's drones, they would have been taken care of nearly instantly.

I have personally seen the response of someone flying their drone in that airspace. They do not hesitate to send out goons with guns strapped over their shoulders and megaphones to make it clear that what you're doing is very much not okay.
Show HN: AI-powered, open source LeetCode alternative
That surprises me, and I'd expect the FP version to be at least as fast, with the option to be much faster. With the for loop, you're saying "run against this value, then run against the next one, then run against the next one, then...". If the compiler isn't certain that the iterations aren't free of side effects, then it would have to run each one in order before moving on to the next.

`.map(...)` implies "I don't care about ordering, and therefore you don't need to, either", freeing the compiler to schedule the loops in a more optimal order, or in parallel or with SIMD, or any other optimization that lets it get the job done as fast as possible. I'm sure someone will come up with an example, but I can't personally think of any way where a for-loop's semantics would let a clever compiler write faster code than the equivalent map.
Do people still use ice drawers anymore? I only see dispensers everywhere.

As someone who lived in Europe for a while, I am completely mystified about this obsession with ice in every drink.

When I was young and didn't have disposable income and consequently cheap, I skipped the ice because it simply reduced your available drink quantity and it watered down your soda.
The meta headsets actually do run Android apps. The main issue is every major app uses Google Play Services.

It's true that Google and Apple are in a unique position to leverage their walled gardens. I'm not sure that needs normalizing.
The problem I have with MAiD is I’m not sure the subject really decided it. Forged signatures do exist (a lot) and you’re only a socialist state away from trying to save on public health expenditures by incinerating unwilling patients after pretending their agreement. Without much trace than two witnesses who say “He said it”. Not like it already happened for handicapped people in Germany. I’m quite sure it already happened in Canada, and by dozens.

Consentment fraud is a lesser difficulty than stealing someone’s wallet at gunpoint or horribly mutilating people and leaving them in a bathtub. And yet, the consequences of this fraud are fatal, more fatal than extorting their entire life savings from a person. You just take someone who’s currently lonely, not really looked after, perhaps at odds with their parents… and hop, their life is over. Drug addicts, rape victims, lonely adults. So much taxes can be saved.

Easy fraud for doctors, with plenty of incentives to commit it, and the highest consequences for the victim.
Your link didn't work for me hence sharing https://archive.is/IUfhW