skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"tyranny" also seems like a concept mostly unrelated to the topic at hand. Practically speaking, nobody can really prevent you from taking your own life.
Or, perhaps a bit more intuitively, an option to show the timeline as "years ago".
That's basically Google's strategy on everything.
A single balloon that maybe was a surveillance balloon traversed the US, did nothing, and then was shot down over water? Then the US was so panicked it shot a few million dollars of missiles at balloons elsewhere that definitely did not originate from China?
If multiple lines have equal-ish winning probability, rather than a single line, then you can sort of translate it to "human" complexity.
I don’t even know if this is a negative aspect of what Recall is intended to do.

The whole point of Recall seems to be to allow you to…recall previous work you were doing.

It reminds me a lot of whole-device backups. If you have some secrets in plain view then the backup itself is going to need to be secured.

From the Microsoft website:

> To use Recall you need to opt in to saving snapshots, which are screenshots of your activity. Snapshots and the contextual information derived from them are saved and encrypted to your local hard drive. Recall does not share snapshots or associated data with Microsoft or third parties, nor is it shared between different Windows users on the same device. Windows will ask for your permission before saving snapshots. You are always in control, and you can delete snapshots, pause or turn them off at any time. Any future options for the user to share data will require fully informed explicit action by the user.
> significantly more effort than you are asking back.

This is backwards.

The transaction does not balance against an individual party. This is the double coincidence problem from economics.

You’re describing yourself as a net loss. I hope I’m not in your organization.
This is an appeal to emotion.

While people should have autonomy over their lives we should not be legalizing assisting them. This is a path that is well-trodden. Many dictatorships have "mercifully euthanized" various sectors of people. It always starts out as the disabled, cancer-stricken, or unviable. Then it becomes a simple way to get rid of the people deemed to be a burden. Suddenly being depressed is a good way to get the needle. Can't perform your job well enough? Yep you guessed it, needle. Or I guess these days they've made sarco pods for the personalized gas chamber experience. This isn't even a slippery slope, we're watching it happen in real time as the bar for euthanasia continues to be lowered.

There's been several cases that MAID has willfully disobeyed the law. Doctors not filing the correct paperwork, rushing patients, etc. We are already seeing the sprouts of a system that if allowed to continue will become a virtual Soylent Green.

Of course I'll be downvoted for this by the bleeding hearts but history has not been kind to people who allow this.
Hi aarya!

A really amazing project. I would really love using this tool, and other GenAI tools to generate art. There is one recurring problem that I don't know the answer to: how could I know that no one is going to sue me for using this kind of tool for copyright infringement? How can I know that the model I generate is not too similar or copying some artist's style somewhere?
Cheney is just one person in a long list of republicans who endorsed Harris[1], and these people were part of a much longer list of republicans who opposed Trump[2].

Meanwhile The Trump-endorsing 'coalition' individuals in question are wildly unserious people, to the point that they're going to be laughed out of their senate confirmation hearings if they don't withdraw beforehand.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_former_Trump_administr...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose...
There are new alternatives that are basically AccessOnline™, see https://visualdb.com
yeah they shot down a friggin weather balloon with a JET, but nothing to worry about with these? they definitely know what they are and they're fine with it. field testing new drone based surveillance systems?
Wow, most navigation - what a feat! /s
IMO, the key quote:

> The vast majority – around 96% - had a death deemed "reasonably foreseeable", due to severe medical conditions such as cancer.
It’s had it for a few years for messages already left.

I think iOS 17 (last September) was when they added live transcription as it was being left in the lock screen if you press the icon to see it.

Or maybe it was 18 this September.
I used to agree with you, but unfortunately the conspiracy is true (or at least was at one point):

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2450052/do-smartphones-liste...
I like how it even has a fake internal email thread at the bottom!
The Missing Piece in AI Coding: Automated Context Discovery
That doesn't matter. Impressumspflicht means it's your pflicht to have an Impressum. You can also get an Abmahnung as an individual.
"Inflated sense" of something for sure. When mine attacks, he doesn't know when to stop no matter how many times I grab his neck.

I raised this one from the egg. Once they reached sexual maturity he became an asshole, but clearly has conflicting processes — he follows me around outside, pulls weeds off the tiller with me, etc. But inevitably eating corn from my hand turns to biting my fingers. If he didn't have a female to protect (she's chill), we could probably be friends again.
I share your view, but it gets crazy complicated when you're dealing with homicide (I'm using this word to mean it's literal definition: 'death caused by another person', not to mean a crime occurred necessarily).

Euthanasia is controversial for a lot of reasons. Some people worry that authoritarians will use it as a way to "purge" or, such as here in Canada, as a way to "reneg" on health care obligations that tax payers are paying for. Others worry that family members and care providers will abuse the law for financial gain ("legal murder" for inheritance etc.).

Then you have cases like this one: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-maid-father-d...

It's complicated because we're not talking about an elderly person with terminal cancer. We're talking about a 27 year-old high functioning adult who sought, and was granted, medical assistance in dying due to a mental illness. When you dive into that story, even if you agree that the courts made the right decision and that the 27 year-old had the right to decide her own fate, your heart can't not break thinking about the father.

Morally, I agree that every [adult] individual has the right to commit suicide by any means of their choosing (as long as they're not infringing upon the rights of others in the process). That doesn't mean that there aren't valid reasons for people to debate whether or not ehutanasia should be legal and under what circumstances.
Can an AI Agent post autonomously to Hacker News? Yes.

Will it be very obvious that it is doing so and get shadowbanned? Also yes.
Yep that's one side of the argument and it's valid and I sympathize with it.

The other side is when you're hearing stories of people being told that, in lieu of the procedure they're about to undergo, they can surely sign up to receive state-approved death.

"Are you sure you don't want to just die? This is gonna hurt a lot!"

Ghoulish.
Will the US, EU and Japan assist?
I wouldn't mind paying into it if there was some kind of balance.

If we broke healthcare spending down by person a small percentage of the population is probably consuming a huge percentage of healthcare. The average person just goes to the doctor once or twice a year and has a few large surgeries during their lifetime.

I would be ok with that if there was some kind of guarantee for those of us who didn't abuse the system and did our best to manage our own health. If I haven't gone to the doctor for 2 years and I need to wait 3 months to get an appointment that doesn't feel right.
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Partly because in practice, there's one group of people _setting_ deadlines and a completely different set of people responsible for them. I don't know how one moves into the deadline-setting ruling class, but it definitely isn't diligent work, careful attention to detail and achieving demonstrable results.
His quote from the interview was "six and a half to seven", so I rounded to 11 years, as he is now 18.
I think they were being facetious
If we can prevent even one person from having a gruesome death, it’s worth the sacrifice of the other 99?
Nearly half of US teens are online 'constantly,' Pew report finds
It's not that clear to me why it's like that though. Something about the political system that makes voting in a change harder? I'm a Brit and you can largely vote in a different government that can change everything if it has a decent majority but it doesn't seem to work that way in the US.
an order of magnitude less*
I have little interest in chess and no real knowledge in its current events beyond mainstream media coverage, but always enjoy lively writeups of the matches like this one.
Authoritarians that want to force doctors to provide death as a service?
My job requires me to interact with HHS basically weekly and everyone I talk to has no idea what the heck is going on and constantly sends me over to someone who also knows nothing. And this department is the one who makes the rules for healthcare, scary I know. As for the ratio given you can see it in in the increase of federal workers over the years. Government is the only sector that didnt have a plateau effect with the birth of technology. Now the 5:1 ratio is completely arbitrary but the point still stands.
After watching my father die with COPD, it because obvious that euthanasia happens in the US all the time. He opted out of lung-reduction surgery and was ready to die. So the hospital withheld IV hydration and provided a morphine drip and he was gone in 36 hours. How long can one live without water, a few days max? So that's what killed him. My sister-in-law who's a physician told me that's how it's typically done. I was horrified at the time.
You only do that politeness as a novice.

My questions to copilot.ms.com today are more like the following, still works like a charm...

"I have cpp code: <enter><code snippet><enter> and i get error <piece of compilation output>. Is this wrong smart ponitor?"

[elaborate answer with nice examples]

"Works. <Next question>"
Echoing other sentiment to say: I agree with others who believe it's a majorly crappy move, with the name. Immediately suspicious of any project capable of such childish attention-grabbing!
uBlock Origin hid the feedback button for me. It's possible a similar extension or built in blocking functionality in Vivaldi may be doing the same to you.
Just chiming in because I think the discussion is interesting (creator/founder here).

We don't need the OSS crowdsourced funding. Early 2025 I have plans to distribute whatever OSS capital we still have back into the Rust community, so at least donors won't feel like their money went directly into a company.

Fortunately, we did raise a good round and have plans to get "more serious" about it. Hiring is hard and this year it was challenging to balance hiring with solving users' issues in a timely manner. It's my first time doing it. Lots of the project's details are tucked deep in the depths of my brain.

We sadly have the curse of maintaining a project where the devtools need to work on mac/win/linux/wsl and the apps need to work on mac/win/linux/wasm/wsl/android/ios. I don't think people grok the scope of this work and the permutation explosion it brings. We test against mac/windows/linux of course, but there's always some weird issue with WSL or Windows Paths or some dependency's missing system library.

For example, we had to drop 3rd party tooling for mobile this release since that was constantly breaking our setups. There's still more dependencies we don't own completely that break frequently. I'm hopeful that hiring a larger team and prioritizing quality for the next few months will "solve" the majority of issues people run into.
Federal agencies don’t just get $X billion to be spent at the direction of the agency executive. Each program gets funded at a very low level.

I did some contracting for a federal agency, the area I was meeting with was a hot area… Aeron chairs, nice office spaces, new computers.

One time we had to cut through an office area on the other side of the floor that was being starved. 1970s orange carpets, DOS computers, people who looked like they worked in a coal mine.

Same agency, different budgets. IRS is the famous example, Republicans when they control the house always starve the enforcement division as much as possible.
If only that were true.

Someone unable to move is unable to take their own life without assistance. A surprisingly large percentage of people go through some horrific experiences before their bodies completely fail.
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the military isn't responsible for domestic security/surveillance.
Sure (though imo, even the difference between dialect and language can be significant - try listening to Bundelkhandi as a Hindi speaker, you won't understand it even though Bundelkhandi is counted as "Hindi" largely for political reasons), but entirely different caste structure and political social structure historically speaking.

Coastal Andhra had been under direct British rule since 1823 and before that largely under the Northern Circars, but Rayalseema was a frontier land between Mysore, the British, the Hyderabad Sultanate, and plenty of local kings and factions.

All over India, the British administration largely just co-opted the preexisting administration and governance, which wasn't professionalized until the early 20th Century. This meant that functionaries of the pre-existing states were co-opted into local administration.

Ofc, in princely states the difference was even more significant.

But my argument is that it makes sense for Rayalseema to be split off from Coastal Andhra, as the administrative history is distinct, and even the history is distinct.
I share this optimistic take.

I'm Canadian and when I see these stats, and see that they are rising, I get the sense that there is a greater number of people able to experience a good death.

I'm old enough to have experienced a reasonable amount of death and suffering caused by aging.

A grandmother I wasn't particularly close to, but who when I asked "How are you" on the phone, would reply "I wish I was dead". Great Aunts and Uncles who experienced Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and dementia.

And a cousin who just recently chose MAID after given a terminal cancer diagnosis. I applaud her courage and bravery. My nine year old nephew was able to pass along a message to her. "Have a good death".

Far too many people don't have a good death. More people should have the option available to them.

It's possible to balance both the value and importance of MAID with the need to ensure the system is not being abused and is working well.
Are you suggesting that a company where ads are a major revenue source going to release a product that doesn't spy on you?
>And another event from the 1800s of craft that is era-appropriate, mimicking airships of the time:

You do realize that's because those too were cases of mass hysteria, and the delusions matched what they knew to be airborne at the time - airships. Now all you see on the news is drones and suddenly everyone is having drone-flavored mass hysteria.

> I've studied the phenomenon from all angles.

Give me your most convincing evidence. I've seen none so far.
My first paid programming jobs were writing Clipper applications for small businesses around the city I lived in. I have very fond memories of the work, the people, and the equipment I worked on (XT clone with a floppy drive then after I made some money, an AT clone with a 20 MB hard drive).
Just signed up. Would be cool to learn about Derivates!

I have an earnest question and I reckon you might have given it some thought. Is teaching financial modeling to humans a growing market? If so, why do you think that?

If you think not, is the idea here to test this space for a product that comes down the road? :)
The Dangers of Mirrored Life
How would you know it's a bot?
>Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

Because PII detection is a probabilistic exercise. You will miss things.
UFCS is great. I really wish more languages would support something similar, although both pipe operators (thing |> function1 |> function2) or Rust's proposal for thing.(function) seem to also satisfy the syntactic ideal.
"... unless, of course, somebody comes up with six minute abs, then you're in trouble, huh?"
It's the disingenuous marks on the whole thing.

Using the trademark of a very popular 3d software, coupling it with a very popular product name from the biggest AI corp in the world.

And not mentioning it's a wrapper over a model so new that it's easy to assume this commercial product is innovative (other than the design of a UI over a service).

Even if there was nothing illegal (there is on the trademark infringement), calling it a scam would be a stretch but the author has forfeited its ethical right to be treated gently.
If you don't want to use web technologies but still benefit from the non-web parts of the ecosystem (SDK, hooks, build tools) there's Freya. The creator is a wonderful guy and has put a lot of great work into making a nice Skia-based renderer for Dioxus.

https://freyaui.dev

WRT the other comment - `rsx!{}` is carefully designed to not leak details about the web. RSX is entirely abstract over the element+listener set so you can build whatever you want with it.
Considering how little the difference is in phone UIs, one would expect XR UIs to be highly similar as well
this is why we need DoT and DoH everywhere.

If my resolver can connect using DoT or DoH all the way up to the root servers then ISP cannot intercept or poison it..

And making ISP block the IPs is the correct way to approach this problem..
Oh, so you're still receiving the same number, but now you have a way of filtering them before reading/listening?
trackpoint - its called a trackpoint
I agree that pushing kids too hard to perform at a level that they're barely capable of is bad, and a lot of middle/upper-middle class parents seem to do that when it's totally unnecessary for them. I don't plan to pressure my own kids just for the sake of it.

That said, I was incredibly bored in school with a bunch of AP classes, and still didn't feel much pressure with a double major in math and engineering in university. Like I would skip my real analysis lectures sometimes because they felt like a waste of time (in retrospect I probably should've talked to my advisor to see if I could take the graduate version instead, but oh well). Some kids need a faster pace, and it's good to have somewhere for them to go. The trend seems to be if anything (particularly in certain major west coast cities) that public schools are opting out of being that place. Especially when it comes to non-AP classes, you'd might as well let those kids go home and play video games. They might actually learn more.
One thing I really enjoyed about Rust that I didn't imagine I would-- good compiler error messages. I actually find the compiler to be helpful, which shouldn't be surprising but it is.
Thanks. My son and I first started watching together for Magnus-Fabi, so it's something we enjoy doing together. I enjoy the sporting aspect of it even though I've never been a particularly good chess player. I'm more interested in the human aspects of it, and I enjoy the commentaries by Leko, Bobby Chess (Robert Hess), Naroditsky, Giri, and Judit. I love learning from people who have achieved greatness.

It was evident to me from the beginning that Ding was struggling physically (he had an occasionally rough-sounding cough throughout) and, perhaps, emotionally. And Gukesh was locked in from go. What a struggle!
> There's just not enough power there to do anything meaningful to us.

Unless specific frequency bands cause problems because something very specific is triggered.

Sure, wifi may only be hitting you with 1 milliwatt per square meter. But between 2.4GHz and 2.5GHz the sun only hits you with... if I did the math right, and just accounting for blackbody emissions, around 10 picowatts per square meter.

We're probably fine, but whether it's fine can't be proven with a simple physics calculation that ignores spectrum.
This is the last line of the linked article:

"Canadian news outlets have also reported on cases where people with disabilities have considered assisted dying due to lack of housing or disability benefits."
Guess what - russsian developer. Who knew.
slippery slope fallacy that giving people control of their own deaths will turn into the state euthanized anybody against their will
https://visor.com and https://immersed.com

Immersed works with lots of VR headsets, Visor is their bespoke HW shipping in '25
"Above all else, do no harm" - Hippocratic Oath (translated)

The reason why a big concept in medical ethics is Do No Harm is because it is very easy to justify some bad outcomes for the sake of many good ones, similar to what is happening now with this application of character.ai -- it's easy to justify Mostly Good.

However, Mostly Good doesn't scale, because often patients need to seek medical attention more than once. Each visit then becomes an increasing risk factor of being hurt by treatment, eventually making malpractice inevitable.

_That's not good._ Move fast and break things cannot apply to the ethical practice of medicine, which is what is currently being attempted.
That’s completely different.
Right - and this is why people don't trust these sources.

Previous numbers, incorrectly stated at 10x true values: "of high concern because they are 80% of daily value"

New numbers: "still of high concern even though they are only 8% of daily value"
Ultra-low-power localization tag uses cellular signals [pdf]
The problem with Trellis is that it insists on generating textures that are already illuminated. Is there a way to exclude lighting?
For a while there I would have been in agreeance with you, but the thought that models can be trained purely on synthetic data has shown to be wrong on multiple levels.
Synthetic data needs to be reviewed by individuals to ensure data quality, significantly reducing the speed at which an organization can adopt training data.
Reasonable engineers would suggest that the answer to this is to have other language models review the synthetic data, but we have seen that this is what leads to model collapse due to compounding issues around hallucinations.

At best Synthetic data is a "slow follow" for training a model due to the need for human review, but a competitive model, it does not make.
When you stack bricks for a living you're either stacking bricks or you're not, and the total number of bricks stacked in a given amount of time is a pretty good measurement for who is most efficient at stacking bricks.

Coding is not stacking bricks. It's problem solving. Sometimes I'm problem solving in the shower after a long day. Sometimes I'm solving problems by getting away from the laptop and running on the treadmill for 20 minutes. Sometimes I lay down in bed at night, sleep for a couple hours, then sit bolt upright because I just figured out the problem that has been stopping me from seeming productive all day. The amount of time I spend making my keyboard go clicketyclack or the total amount of code I write is an objectively shit measurement of my coding efficiency because, again, coding is not stacking bricks.
Russell’s paradox did the same thing. They had to go back to the drawing board.