skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to watch a lot of Go. I watched live as Lee Sedol beat AlphaGo in one single game in the last match a human could feasibly compete against AI. Against all odds, and knowing AI had overtaken us, Lee Sedol found a move to get one last victory. [1]

But I never saw anything like the crowd hype from the clip you posted, lol. This was next level in terms of the energy in the room. Very fun, thanks for sharing!

[1] https://youtu.be/mzZWPcgcRD0
>Of course I don’t know all the circumstances around it.

And that's the point. The person expressing the wish (and expressing it before the death) did.

People make choices. We should let them, wherever possible. Yes, there are consequences - but we also let people fly wingsuits and base jump, and those have known consequences as well. Would you also enjoin people from doing that after a traumatic event? What about mountain climbing? Diving? Crossing the street?

If you apply the "no major choices after a traumatic event for a while" line of thought, we'd need to install temporary guardians for anybody who has a traumatic event. That doesn't work.
For anyone wondering about related facts: the oldest age someone had while being the chess world champion was 58 years [1].

https://www.chesspower.co.nz/chess-records.html#theoldest
I don't think this document has been modified since it was first published around a month ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20241104192103/https://automatti...

(I tried running a diff on the current text v.s. the Internet Archive copy from 4th November and unless I made a mistake there have been no updates.)
> From a morbidly capitalistic point of view, insurance companies should rejoice at the prospect of a very ill person opting for assisted death. I imagine the procedure to end ones life would be much cheaper than multiple years of procedures and medicine to keep them alive.

This would make sense if life insurance and health insurance were covered by the same insurer, but they rarely are.

The more fundamental problem here is that insurance is a) to prevent financial hardship b) in the case of a rare event. Neither death nor serious illness are rare events for the elderly, and more often than not, health insurance fails to prevent financial hardship, so both of these fail as insurance in these situations.
Cool. Thanks for explaining!
"scientist, associate professor"

"Deputy General Designer, Head of the Software Department of the Mars Design Bureau"

Doesn't sound like a Software Engineer as most think of the title and responsibilities

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-top-russia...
That was implied, yes.
Playing a chess bot that works this way feels like playing a Magnus Carlsen who's trying to let you win.
This reminds me of the Rizatriptan I take (a migraine medication). I'm supposed to dissolve the tablet in my mouth. Most batches wont dissolve, they form like a clump dough under my tongue until I eventually swallow the clump with some water. But occasionally I get a good batch and I'll put it under my tongue and a few minutes later I'll be ready to swallow the clump of dough but find that the tablet has completely dissolved into nothing. I couldn't believe it the first time it totally dissolved, it was like magic.

I suppose I should ask the pharmacist, because the quality control is all over the place on this medicine.
That is psychopathic.

It would be a bad thing.
Novel link between cell nutrition and identity could improve immunotherapies
Plus they get to avoid the pain, chance of partial recovery, messy cleanup for their family, and carrying out a criminal action.

Not saying it's right, but there are practical reasons why "dying" looks a lot more attractive than "killing yourself"
From the article:

>The impulse behind it is a sense of helplessness over a long-term rise in violent crime. Ten years ago Sweden, with 10m people, had one of the lowest rates of gun violence and murder in Europe. It now has one of the highest, averaging a shooting a day. In 2022, 62 people were shot dead; last year it was 53.

The Amish are not shooting people or forming violent gangs, comparing the two is not really a good example. In fact your comparison makes the point that the real reason for the problem in Sweden is the culture of the immigrants and not just the fact that they are immigrants or live as a separate society.

The Amish are deeply non-violent, and have no problem existing alongside the rest of the country. The same is not true in Sweden.

>Or perhaps you mean the Anglo immigrants

It wasn't colonized by only people of Anglo-Saxon origin, but people from all over Europe including Eastern Europe.

But yes, Texas was created in the same way that Mexico itself was created and that almost every other nation was created.

I think almost every Swede would consider it to be a bad thing if the same thing happened in Sweden.
If she came off of oxygen and albuterol, she would be dead within a day or two or three.

It would be an agonizing death, worse than her current situation.

So instead of drinking something and peacefully going to sleep one last time she has to slowly degrade until the machinery of the healthcare system sees fit to give her a dosage of morphine large enough.

That's the shittiest part of all of this, nearly 100% of all hospice deaths are medically assisted already. Personnel just keep upping the morphine as the gurgling increases in order to make it stop because the gurgling is "pain".

Eventually the doses get so high that literally every single person on Earth who knows what morphine is knows, irrefutably, that the morphine killed the patient.

But nobody calls it that. You can't call it that. You "managed the symptoms".

The only thing MAID does is speed up the clock.
> This is the most *ucked thing Zuckerberg has done. Trump is going to have even less respect for him.

That's how lobbying works.
Finally!

I tried to build something like this a few years back [0], I thought it was a great idea, but LLMs were not available yet, and I was busy with a hundred other things.

You can see an example of the summary there.

[0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN
yeah, wow, blast from the past. I was thinking of Path while reading this also. These kind of small-scope social app attempts.
Before people start acting like "let's not kill old people to save money" is somehow right-coded, here's Jacobin on the matter:

https://jacobin.com/2024/12/uk-assisted-suicide-maid-canada-...
Must have been from a more innocent time.. It sounds super cool until you think about the privacy nightmare it could be? I'm thinking about how people managed to triangulate users locations from grindr, or the cesspit of bullying that YikYak was.
Oh, huh. I assumed it was not registered since Blender uses "™" instead of "®" at the top of its homepage. I guess that's just for the logo then, not the wordmark.
Sorry you had to go through that.
Here's a theory, they are owned by United Health or hired by the healthcare industry to flood the news cycle and distract everyone.
The thing is, someone has to.

If you walk in very drunk asking to be euthanised, one would hope that they would have to wait until you are no longer drunk to confirm you really want to be euthanised. Then, who decides on the waiting period?

Likewise if a traumatic event clouds your judgement (as some events can do), it's not unreasonable to make you wait until your judgement is sound. Then someone has to decide on the waiting period.

Potentially this can be studied statistically. Just collect data regularly after an event (such as binge drinking event) to evaluate how quickly people's judgement stabilises. That way we may find that the death of a spouse doesn't cloud the judgement, in which case the waiting period is 0.
How come Gukesh got to sit in a really tall gaming-style chair which towers above Ding’s ordinary looking chair?

To me that looks like a power move designed to intimidate the opposition. Is there a story behind it or do they just get to choose their own chairs?
On Quest 2 it's the exact same process, you have to create a developer account (sometimes verify a credit card or phone number) and have a companion phone to enable developer mode. In fact you need to have a companion phone to use either headset at all. I had problems pairing my Quest 2 headset with my phone initially and the headset was just a useless brick until it's set up with an account through a phone app and a brittle pairing process.
Agree. Why take on Decabromodiphenyl ether at all? If a black spatula puts me at 12% of the EPA's reference dose I'd rather not.
I guess there are many perspectives on this; these are questions that touches on many serious ethical and philosophical topics: health care, the value of life, death, autonomy, ...

There is a tendency in our time to think about all issues in terms of economy. I think that's wrong, that we shouldn't think about life and death as economical questions, that it is a reductive discourse. Others might disagree, of course

For example, is this really a question about being in charge of one's own life or about what services that should be offered in a society? I guess that's also a link to the OB/GYN example you give; at least some health care professionals might think it is unethical to damage an organ or body that's working: primum non nocere

Others, who have another philosophical view on what health care is, may say that the society should offer the services that people want or need
C Northcote Parkinson wrote more books on how economics works. They're well worth reading.

https://www.amazon.com/Parkinsons-Law-C-Northcote-Parkinson/...

https://www.amazon.com/Law-Profits-Cyril-Northcote-Parkinson...

In-Laws & Outlaws (not on Amazon)
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Well, the catch is, you may not like what the judge decides is feasible. At least in the divorce cases the interests of the parties have to be balanced, here they don't have to be.
By the time Access came out, Ashton Tate had already declined and been swallowed up by Borland.
You know what? Yes, I make selfish decisions about my life. So does everybody else. We do not exist to satisfy the needs of other people.

The choice behind death is that it's preferable to the alternative. Before we had medically assisted options, people would do it in more painful ways, but they'd still do it. Many cultures had the idea of "walking off into the wilderness" when your time was there.

When that time is is a personal choice. By all means, let's put some non-gatekeeping hurdles in the way (e.g. mandate a conversation or three with a therapist), but ultimately, we should all be in charge of our own life.
> Fifteen years ago, flying into Vancouver, a local told me charities would give homeless people one-way bus tickets there from colder regions of Canada to prevent winter deaths. No return tickets in spring. Calls into question what we consider "charitable" when the solution is just moving vulnerable people elsewhere.

Does it? Given the number of homeless deaths caused by Canadian summers, I'm not seeing the urgency of homeless people returning to colder locations.

This obviously isn't a solution to the problem of homelessness: the solution to homelessness is homes. But it is a solution to the (much smaller) problem of homeless people dying due to seasonal weather.

Incidentally, this program was never large and fell out of practice due to bad press in both the US and Canada, and thousands of homeless people have frozen to death in its absence.
I actually wanted to know, real person proof
user: AH4oFVbPT4f8
created: August 12, 2013

I'm going back and forth between the different models seeing which works best for me but I'm trying to learn how to read and use other people's feedback in making their decisions.
To me, this looks like a fantastic idea, and something that could be really useful in a niche, but I think it's going to fly over the head of a lot of folk because it's fairly obviously targeted at highly mobile, maybe HNWI's who do a lot of travel - it's not going to be useful for "most" people.
Cool. I want this for my cats, my kids, my keys and everything else.

But I wonder: if millions of this are deployed, would this weaken cellular signals (by drawing power from it)?
It would be, if it would be stealthy enabled, unbeknown to machine owner. That - and not the fact it records screen - is what differentiates malware from legit software.

It is opt-in, which makes it equivalent of user explicitly setting up a camera to record their work, for a well-intended ability to review those recordings if they need to recall something.

If we'll start saying that end-users are somehow incapable of comprehending what screen recording means, then we're basically giving up our agency and arguing we need a nanny. I sincerely hope we don't. Like, literally, it's a screen recording, anyone with a working brain (no matter whenever they're technically literate or not) should be able to tell what consequences - positive and negative it would have.

I found a screenshot - the opt-in prompt literally says "Allow Windows to save snapshots of your screen?" If that's not clear or comprehensible, I don't know what is. People who are caught by this must simply ignore and not read what it says on the screen.
C++ has std::clog[1], but it's basically cerr, and the OS still only knows about stdin, stdout, and stderr.

1: https://cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/clog/
it because obvious that euthanasia happens in the US all the time [...]

So the hospital withheld IV hydration and provided a morphine drip
and he was gone in 36 hours

I had a family member with late-stage terminal COPD opt out of further treatment. They were in respiratory crisis and were going to be intubated for the nth time with no real hope of recovery, and so they said "fuck it" and delined further intervention.

The hospital (a Catholic hospital, even) provided a morphine drip and they were gone within an hour.

I was never really clear on what killed them in the end, if it was the morphine or the COPD. I guess technically it was the COPD.

Anyway, as somebody who went through something similar: I'm so sorry. COPD is such a slow and crappy way to go. Have you been able to find some peace in the years since?
Agreed. I always thought of it as 'how close to the cliff edge are you' metric. It'd probably be easy to do, look at all the possible moves and add up the resultant evals. If you're currently tied but you have only one good move to keep it tie while the rest of your moves give mate in 1, well, saying the board is tied is not helpful.
I must be holding it wrong. It consistently gives me low quality code / changes. I try it about once a month for a handful of hours.

The code somtimes runs, which is a large improvement over recent years, but generally doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

And this is using claude 3.5, which works dramatically better for me in a chat session where i give it exactly what i want it to look at.

I just haven't found a way to be productive with it yet.

I've even tried the usual tricks of forcing it to write comments about what it's attempting to do throughout the code, but even then, fails.
Watching Google talks at GDC throughout the years, convinced me that they don't have any idea how to deal with game studios, exactly the ones relevant to VR/XR.

They mostly talk about PlayStore analytics and marketing approaches, seldom about game technology or design.
I can understand the camera feeds not being accessible to every app. Tbh that makes total sense. Do you trust every app developer to look around in your home? I would trust random app builders even less that I do meta :) I don't even care that much personally but I'm sure many people will.

The guardian system doesn't apply when you are in passthrough mode. You can walk around and leave screens in different rooms, you will see them through walls even :) So that's not a problem anymore. Meta has improved passthrough mode a lot since the Vision Pro came out.
> I didn't think it would be 96% but I also wouldn't be surprised if it was

Wikipedia says 93% in 1981. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Canada#Visible...
Yes, I remember Multimate -- it had a very weird user interface but that was because it was designed to be similar to the dedicated Wang word processors of the late 1970s/early 1980s. When I was working in a university library in the 1980s the staff all used Multimate because they had recently gotten PCs to replace their Wang word processors and wanted something familiar.
It's pretty much the same problem set, I think? You have a relatively small social circle (as a percentage of the whole population) and your plans probably won't appeal to those outside of that group.
Well at first it's the bank's problem.

If you end up with a large history of causing problems for banks they will drop you as a customer and it becomes your problem.
> Most of the time unintentionally but, any personified information broker is manipulative in its nature.

I'm past calling this unintentional. It's not. If it's some random account barely anyone has heard of, posting interesting stuff every now and then, then sure, that's unintentional - and also mostly harmless. However, if the creator is somewhat known[0], posts regularly, and their content is structured and polished, and they start uttering phrases like "like and subscribe" or "ring the bell"[1], or Patreon is mentioned - then you're looking at entirely intentional manipulation.

To a degree, it's unavoidable - it's the nature of the medium and the economy at large. Making quality videos is pretty much a full-time job, so even the creators with purest of hearts will be forced to include stuff that puts their videos on SponsorBlock lists. But then there's a difference between those who want you to subscribe to their Patreon and maybe buy some stickers so they can afford treating their hobby as a job, and those whose content is just a vector for feeding you first-party and third-party (sponsor) ads. Most well-known vloggers are, unfortunately, the latter. Also anyone who's called or calls themselves an influencer is - it's literally the definition of that word.

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[0] - Perhaps you could say they're "effectively a brand" in their niche - but then, that phrase alone should tell you something.

[1] - Unless it's preceded by "climb the steps" - then you're dealing with a whole other barrel of monkeys.
What really amazes me is that society feels that we're in such a perilous state that they've deluded themselves into believing we're all going to be saved by little green men. If you think about it, it's the same reason humans invented god, but for the antitheistic.
> x86 cannot have acquire/release semantics

As I said at the time, this is nonsense. All stores on x86 are have release semantics and all loads have acquire semantics.

Atomic RMW are sequentially consistent.

Technically you could implement relaxed stores via non temporal stores but it would be pointless.
Definitely thought of that kind of thing. There are about 20 restaurants in Collegetown, it would be fun to try them all, even more fun if I could share the experience with other people who feel the same.
While I agree as a whole, there are parts that are easily captured even with some small false positive rate, like credit card numbers. I do think it's acceptable to do PII detection probabilistically for some classes of identifiers/quasi-identifiers, because you can't really do any better without crazy false positive rates, things like credit card numbers have enough structure that it's more work to do it entirely via an ML model with a higher chance of failure, versus just building a simple heuristic for it.

Add to that the fact that missing a credit card number is way higher stakes than missing something like a zip code, you can understand why something like this is just not acceptable in a product like this, with the resources Microsoft has at their disposal.
Well that exists Harbour https://harbour.github.io
that but also:

> The median age of this group was more than 77
No, the standard is not "very loose". It is clear, and strict. And you also got the "condition could kill you" part wrong. So it's all wrong.

You can read about eligibility criteria here[0], specifically what constitutes a "grievous and irremediable medical condition". Like, believe it or not, but this legislation took a very long time to write, and quite a bit of thought was put into it.

I hate to post the link for the third time in the same thread, but seriously, talking about eligibility criteria necessitates reading what they are. Preferably before talking about them.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-servi...
Forgive me, but your last sentence seems like a platitude. What would such institutions look like, and how might they reduce the suffering of someone with, say, advanced dementia?

I'm not trying to have a go btw - it genuinely seems an intractable problem to me.
I've been unsatisfied with Heliboard, so I might give this a try
Yeah, you would have to weigh the moves based on how "obvious" it is, such as how active the piece has been, how many turns until it leads to winning material, or other such 'bad habits' humans fall for.
I'm so sorry, that's just awful. I am glad you guys had some resolution, I guess for lack of a better word... I hope that time has eased the pain some
Intrinsic motivation can be better than extrinsic motivation. Google won a lot of fans and dedicated employees with its original version of 20% time that encouraged people to find stuff they were highly motivated to want to work on and could do so relatively safely in the company's sandbox. It is possible this sort "everything the company needs you to do can be done in one afternoon each week" could be an incredible "80% time" company. There are lots of people that would find "80% of my time at the company is my own" to be quite motivating.

Of course, certainly not in the example scenario above where one layer of management is effectively lying to another layer. That's not a healthy "80% time" when it involves duplicity and covert play acting.

But if you were feeling crazy enough to try to build an overt "80% time" company you likely wouldn't have a hard time finding some of the "most talented" people.
I've heard the opposite, that wood has anti-microbial properties that results in less cross contamination than plastic, even though it is harder to sterilize. For example, here is one study on cutting boards[1].

[1]https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31113021/
I'm not privy to GP's use case, but the "non-standard" part you nodded at makes it far more likely they "rolled their own crypto" and thus the landscape of vulns or leaks introduced by the "how hard can it be" crew is vast. That's not even including the similar, although smaller, risk pushed down upon the consumers since they are also now have to eject from the vetted libraries to interact and start doing their own fun //FIXME hacks
What does your contact at ByteDance think the CCP staff does in the ByteDance offices all day? Why does the CCP need a board seat?

These companies are coordinated enough to keep out mentions of Tiananmen Square or Xi as Poo from Chinese users. If they can drop politically sensitive content in particular regions, they can boost political content in other regions, right? Whether or not they actually try to put their thumb on the scale today doesn’t really matter. That’s the nature of a security risk.

The Conversation had a pretty good article earlier this year on how (in some ways) there's no real separation between the government and companies in China.

https://theconversation.com/is-tiktoks-parent-company-an-age...
Lean has a small “kernel” that has been independently checked multiple times, and the rest of Lean depends on the kernel. A soundness bug is still possible, but pretty unlikely at this point.

https://lean-lang.org/lean4/doc/faq.html
I wonder what Palmer Luckey[0] from Anduril[1], which makes drones for Ukraine, thinks about this precedent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey

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