skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They weren't eradicated through biotechnology use that could get out of control (people don't complain when there are mosquitoes eradication campaign based on suppression of stagnant water either, but some people are legitimately scared by the prospect of using gene drive at scale).
Show HN: PyDICOS, releasing an open security scanner interface
DICOS is an "Open Standard" for security body scanners, CT or standard X-ray scanners. It is meant to be an inter-operability standard, designed by NEMA and promoted by TSA (https://www.tsa.gov/for-industry/open-architecture), heavily inspired by DICOM.

However there currently aren't any open source implementation of DICOS : you have to contact TSA to get access to binaries of a DICOS developper toolkit. As a further hurdle, big brands of security scanners lobby hard against this standard and opening themselves up to competition.

As the CTO of a 3rd-party algorithm provider for scanners, I believe the "Open Architecture" approach is the future for airports. We are releasing the pyDICOS library to make it more accessible and hoping that people make the most out of it around the world, and making it standard everywhere.

Please leave a star on github and contribute if you feel like it !
We progressively advance towards Cyberpunk:

- governments around the world proceed with bowing to megacorps/cults/mobs;

- entire jobs disappear to AI [1], people are told that they "just need to" learn a new job, at the age of 50+;

- money is further diverted from fundamental research and towards AI, because governments and private institutions are convinced that AI will magically solve the world's problems;

- AGI remains 6 months away;

- nuclear fusion remains 3 years away;

- as Pax Americana disappears, the UN remains paralyzed and the EU remains in crisis, international relations return to wolf-at-the-door style anarchy [2] and generalized economic+proxy wars;

- new crypto boom (possibly followed immediately by large correction);

- with further deregulation and wars, we proceed to destroy the Earth and ignore the consequences, predicting that AI will somehow solve it;

- as a consequence of both international anarchy and environmental collapse, record number of refugees;

- as a consequence of major despair, ecoterrorism, ploutoterrorism (is there a better way for a CEO getting shot?), fascioterrorism start becoming fashionable;

- eventually, a truce/occupation in Gaza;

- no war in Taiwan just yet;

- some Line-of-Control-style truce in Ukraine [3];

- more escapism, with the budget for super-hero movies, video-games, etc. increasing;

- lots of AI crap, with GenAI-written books saturating Amazon, GenAI-written content saturating social networks, GenAI-written content replacing journalists in at least one major news source, a few semi-experimental GenAI-written movies and/or videogames;

- generally speaking, people understand less and less the world around them, because their news sources more and more filled with disinformation and random crap;

- companies still believe that AI will magically solve all their problems;

- Netflix starts generating series with GenAI (although the release might not be in 2025);

- companies that sell hardware and services to company that try to adopt AI make lots of money;

- we do not hit planetary limits for AI yet, but we inch closer;

- rich countries (perhaps with the exception of China) further decrease their investment in education;

- the signs show that the economy is just fine, so no need to change anything.

[1] Despite AI not necessarily being able to do their job.

[2] That kind of anarchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_(international_relatio... .

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_Control
Some Passengers Riding in Waymo's Driverless Cars Face Uncomfortable Situations
With gene drive you can only hope it works locally only, that's the thing.
I assume the missing word is "seconds", as I think "elevator pitch" normally means "30 seconds to 2 minutes".

So: "founders under 18 seconds".
> of being able to exchange it if needed

yes. But my point is that "being able to exchange it" is what gives all assets value. From gold, via bonds to dollars.

So 1) this isn't unique to crypto and 2) we should avoid narrowing this definition to "exchange crypto for dollars" because that's not true today and possibly even less in future - if only because there are other currencies already. Exchanging it for goods (i.e. buying stuff) is a killer feature of crypto only in very small niches. And exchanging it for other valuable assets isn't common either (yet? I doubt it, but don't see clear reasons why not)
Not in a way that matters here.

As alluded to by the source in my last comment, formaldehyde is produced in a variety of ways inside the human body, including literally inside our cells, in the mitochondria. It is also used as an input in other biological processes. These processes collectively result in formaldehyde being continually present in the bloodstream in quantities more than a thousand times higher than the residual amount potentially present in a single vaccine dose. Therefore, one vaccine dose would not have a measurable effect on the amount of formaldehyde already in the blood, let alone inside cells and elsewhere. The body is very good at maintaining formaldehyde homeostasis. If it were not, we would be poisoned by our own cellular processes and typical diets.

> The continuous generation and degradation of formaldehyde in the body serve to maintain the homeostasis of formaldehyde metabolism. A common mechanism of formaldehyde generation is located in the mitochondria by the action of serine hydroxymethyltransferase 1 and 2…

> The main source of exogenous formaldehyde in healthy individuals may be through various fruits, vegetables, meat and alcoholic beverages…

> Formaldehyde in human fluids and tissues maintains the metabolic balance of formaldehyde through the continuous action of formaldehyde‐metabolizing enzymes through multiple metabolic pathways…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8184665/

Regarding aluminium, the link I cited in my previous comment addresses this.

> Once aluminum ends up in the blood, its source does not matter, meaning that our body processes it the same way regardless of how it arrived in the blood…

> Once the aluminum associates with one of these new partners, it is carried to the kidneys, where about half of it is removed from the body within 24 hours. Half of the remainder is removed by the next day, etc…

> Although the relative quantity of aluminum introduced on a vaccination day may be significantly greater than that introduced by food on that day, over time, we are exposed to more aluminum from food than from vaccines because the exposure from food occurs daily. If you consider that half of the aluminum in the blood is removed from the body every 24 hours, you will realize that each day additional aluminum is introduced through food. As such, over time, most of the aluminum in the blood could be traced back to that source…
> Fair warning, coders think about learning a trade like plumbing, electrician, so on...

You mean that coders will think about learning a trade? Sounds plausible
That's called a coping mechanism.
90% confidence level, Hottest weather in recorded history. Extreme weather in many places not seen before. No one is prepared for this commonplace outlier, Globally common, locally outlier. Huge insurance payout but most not fullfilled.

90% CL: Top search engine results completely inundated by LLM text, we none the wiser. SEO solved. Search engine switches to new algorithm based on LLM.

90% CL: AI with tool use that has access to physics simulator and CAD software will automatically advances efficent engine design.

70% CL: Million dollar prompt run on million dollar math prize. Millennium Prize Problems

40% CL: AI sucessfully held back invasive species encrochment with lessons from AI war machines

30% CL: Cheap AI nose sniffs out many common diseases. Automatic data analysis of Gas Chromatography and spectroscopy readings on patients' VOC(volatile organic compounds) produces fast and cheap diagnosis.

10% CL: Not next year, Cost of renewable electricity in remote area becomes cheap enough to pull oxygen from air or electrosis from water to be sold as commodity. Or other processes to package solar energy for trade.
> you can use a pointer to str_buf anywhere a function calls for a pointer to str

Yes, you could, but I see no function mentioned in TFA that wants a pointer to str, only functions that want a str: print_str(), print_fmt(), com_write(). At the same time, the functions that return strings return a struct, never a pointer: str_new(), str_from_range(), str_from_buf(), fmt_buf_new(), and the pseudo-function STR().

To use the memory layout trick you should go through reference + cast + dereference:

*((struct str *)&...)

My question still holds: is the code littered by such conversion artifacts?
For me, it's allowing me to do things I wouldn't have even attempted before. I'm writing in languages I've never written in before (python) and dealing with stuff I've never dealt with before (multicast UDP). This isn't complicated stuff by any stretch, but AI means I can be highly productive in python without needing to spend any time learning python.
> with significant benefit to kids

Straight kids from stable homes, perhaps. For LGBT kids, or kids in abusive homes, it's the end of a significant lifeline.
But what if you could use AI to check instead?
You’re on hacker news so Occam’s razor would pick the simplest explanation is which the latter
Aren't you describing the ideal scenario for WASM here? Some runtimes like wasmtime have a concept of fuel [1], which can limit the execution time.

One of the Rust-based Lua VMs, piccolo [2], was also made specifically with the ability to be interrupted in the middle of anything, by being stackless.

[1] https://docs.wasmtime.dev/api/wasmtime/struct.Store.html#met...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40239029 (see "Fuel" on its article)
> -Crypto has a major correction; bitcoin finishes the year well under $100k.

Eh, I was expecting the opposite, with people flocking it to bitcoin (or some other crypto) as a backup strategy in case of political/ecological instability.

What makes you think that there will be a major correction?
Rotten tomatoes seems like a good case study in the value of both by presenting a critics score and a general audience score. Usually when they diverge greatly is when it is most valuable for me, e.g. critics loved it and audiences hated it, it is probably pretentious and arty and I can skip, audiences loved it and critics hated it, it is probably mass appeal slop.
Hmm - but you can't just have it take a picture of the bird!

It needs to alert you to the presence of the bird - what's the latest and best practice in notifications nowadays?

And ID the bird too - what's a good API for image based AI? Might be expensive, better run it locally, how do we set up a sever for that? No, not server, serverless!

What are the legal implications of running an AI based autonomous camera service outside in your locale? Better research that...

.... Yeah, I've ended up going down a lot of rabbit holes on my own little projects, but that's part of the fun I guess. ;)
Not worth 1B ? Come on man. I see them improving the tool enough for most people willing to pay 50$ a month for a subscription. And for most companies to be willing to pay 300$ per employee. It's perhaps not there yet but I'm sure they'll reach this amount of value for their offering.
It remains to be seen what competition will do to the prices though.
Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?
I wish JMAP was more widely supported on the client side. None of the clients I use support it, sadly.
Let us know if you can think of any benchmark, that you'd like to see added.
And a lot of European weapon systems have US components, so if Americans want they can certainly freeze and prohibit supply of military aid to the point where it won't be sustainable to resist Russian assaults.
For those curious how well you did last years - I built a table with evaluated predictions some time ago: https://hn-predictions.eamag.me/
Infra-red in-situ (IRIS) inspection of silicon
You're right, "technical debt" doesn't raise any sense of urgency. What people actually mean by technical debt is that there is a trade-off to be made: short-term gains at the expense of long-term costs. Your kitchen metaphor works beter because it conveys that message. But still metaphors usually end up in discussions about the metaphor and not the actual topic itself. It doesn't propel the discussion forward. I'd much rather prefer to discuss specifics instead of metaphors.
>> Crypto has a major correction; bitcoin finishes the year well under $100k.

This is easy. Bitcoin reaches it's high between Jun and Oct. This is based on historical 4 year trends.

Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.

And yes, while past performance is not indicative of future performance, the bitcoin cycle has been following this, and when everyone expects this, it ends up happening by the virtue of everyone's expectation.
> When the incentive is that when you develop features to distinguish yourself from the competition

The value of a networked feature goes up with the number of nodes implementing it. A product that is able to send files/stream media to all products is more valuable than one limited to sending to products of its own brand.
I would go with lua for the players.
You can easily sandbox it, by not compiling in the dangerous functions.
Using debug.sethook you can limit execution by count (https://www.lua.org/pil/23.2.html).
And finally you can bring your own alloc for lua.

There are also decades of articles on how lua works with C and C++, and you can find examples for Rust and others too.
It does work, for in-distribution detection/generalization. Which is avery useful tool for a mathematician (basically, a calculator on steroids), but it's not at all what a good mathematician ultimately does. Discovering new maths is by definition stepping out of distribution and into the unknown. There, mathematical intuition is much more important, and that's not something we understand and even less can model today.
My alcoholism is significantly worse when I am not working, even if I have other things to do. Like week long 24/7 drinking level. That's one of the reasons the FIRE stuff doesn't appeal to me. I have been willfully unemployed and it is not always a bed of roses.
Suppose the correlation was this simple and reliable, why don’t the markets already reflect it?
I have "Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details" in my PDF stash: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Spherical-Harmonic-Lig...
can i have some of what you have been smoking?
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42493130

Reposting:

This is easy. Bitcoin reaches it's high between Jun and Oct. This is based on historical 4 year trends.

Then falls. Falls around 70%. Again, this is based on historical trends.

And yes, while past performance is not indicative of future performance, the bitcoin cycle has been following this, and when everyone expects this, it ends up happening by the virtue of everyone's expectation.
Sure, and also the less slavery we have, the fewer pyramids we build. They're all tradeoffs.
pseudonyms are fine until the moment they can be linked to real identities.

At which point, because of the public, mathematical provable, ledger, the pseudonyms become concrete evidence, often in a "viral" way, i.e. through transactions a pseudonym can be linked to other pseudonyms and events.

In crypto, pseudonyms are a real and high risk threat.
Not all, e.g. Monero internally "launders the coins" for you (technically not at all correct term, but you get the point...) so diminishes that risk. But even there, its there.

Edit: and while cash comes with serial numbers that can be used to trace transactions, crypto is only serial numbers that are precisely there to trace all transactions publically.
Yes, but how do you know which is which?
And yet the GP assumed otherwise.
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models
I don’t think global temperatures get another record because El Niño is over. Your „weather“ suggests a more local reference though?
Some say the world should take cyanocobalamin,

Some say methylcobalamin.

From what I’ve tasted of each vitamin

I hold with those who favor cyanocobalamin.

But if my supplement could have a twin,

I think I know enough of niacin

To say that for nutrition methylcobalamin

Is also great

And would fit in.
The title is very wrong, "ChatGPT O3" is not a thing, OpenAI's new o3 model is not even demoed in ChatGPT, they don't call it "O3".
The subtitle at the top is "o3 preview & call for safety researchers".
The web page title is "12 Days of OpenAI".
Taking for granted all these points. How many businesses out there actually need this kind of security/scalability, compared to how many use cloud services and pay extra cost for something they don't need?
What happens if the table is one with a big number of deletes? The Bloom filter false positive rate will keep increasing as time goes on.

One way to address this is to recalculate it every n deletes, but this sounds similar to AUTOVACUUM issues in PostgreSQL and might result in unexpected drops in performance
Autonomous slaughterbots will become reality
> I don't think Ireland has the pub culture you have in mind. Honestly not much to do besides pubs here, and unless you have an established friend group, good luck making one. Locals are in their own bubbles.

I've been to Ireland many times. So cannot really confirm this.

After a night in a pub I know everyone in the town. Or almost.
Which of your single use extensions was causing you to like things on Facebook?
Stammtisch might help a little but for me, loneliness comes from lack of a lover. It's not the sex, it's the support, hugs, caresses, pillow talk, companionship that, at least I, need.

I had a weekly drink up for 15yrs and seeing friends 3-4 times a week for dinner and activities. It was 100x better than not but not sufficient to cure the loneliness of not having a life companion.

Of course good relationship > single > bad relationship
Any plans to support FireFox extensions?
> random people with typical (or at best, idiosyncratic) opinions,

> highly-educated professionals who saw the role of the critic as something worthy in itself.

Which one then describes men like George Plimpton, Gore Vidal, or Alistair Cooke? The distinction you've made is unclear and unsubstantiated.
One alcohol withdrawal caused me to hear faint music everywhere all the time. I thought it was an unreasonable neighbour and was thoroughly convinced as it seemed to get louder as I walked around.

Nope, it was withdrawal. I discovered I could change the lyrics of the song by thinking them. And fans or other noise sources made it worse. Once I knew it was in my head, it was harmless and easy to ignore, if just a little annoying.
Wow, did you assess all of them?
That’ll be the case in ten years as well.

I know a couple of people who run large email stacks (500k+ users) and this isn’t on their radar and there is no interest in it. There is a little disdain as they are comp sci people and don’t like JSON at all (I share that concern).

Email is probably the most conservative, reluctant to change set of protocols there is.
The latter. I don’t think any YouTube movie reviewer is remotely close to someone like Gore Vidal’s level of erudition. (And even he had plenty of faults.) Maybe Every Frame a Painting is the closest thing?
Old (American) geezer PoV - that sounds very similar to any number of fraternal and veterans organizations of a half-ish century ago. And not dissimilar to what many municipalities are trying to do with senior citizens' centers. And ...

Financially, the secret to the old fraternal and veterans halls was that they were built when it was (relatively) cheap & easy to build in America. And their membership was dedicated enough to pay for that, then do most of the work of running the place.

These days...a few such place and organizations persist. But mostly, relentless capitalism has optimized away American's willingness to undertake any activity which fails to enrich Wall Street.
It seems to me that Musk's eco-credentials have been long largely abandoned, assuming he every really had them to begin with. I get the sense that they were only ever useful to help sell cars and support his ego-trip (make him seem a "visionary"). None of his other projects are particularly eco-friendly (a tunnel, but just for cars, big rockets, autonomous cars rather than larger scale transit, etc.)

I think the more likely reason Musk and Trump will fall-out of... whatever it is they have... is they both have huge egos and don't like sharing the spotlight.
On the flip side, I would like to see a free of cost email provider offer JMAP as well. It could be a limited version in the sense that something like the free version only has limited storage or something but it offers the full JMAP experience ^TM or at least that's my expectation to use JMAP.

How come there are no free of cost email providers that support JMAP?
You need a constant supply of new bag holders, but miners need to be paid.
just a question for understanding - if we say 'it learns', does it mean it actually learns this as part of its training data? or does this mean it's stored in a vector DB and it retrieves information based on vector search and then includes it in the context window for query responses?
This ^^^^^!!

Progress in the applied domain (the sort of progress that makes a different in the economy) will come predominantly from integrating and orchestrating LLMs, with improvements to models adding a little bit of extra fuel on top.

If we never get any model better than what we have now (several GPT-4-quality models and some stronger models like o1/o3) we will still have at least a decade of improvements and growth across the entire economy and society.

We haven't even scratched the surface in the quest to understand how to best integrate and orchestrate LLMs effectively. These are very early days. There's still tons of work to do in memory, RAG, tool calling, agentic workflows, UI/UX, QA, security, ...

At this time, not more than 0.01% of the applications and services that can be built using currently available AI and that can meaningfully increase productivity and quality have been built or even planned.

We may or may not get to AGI/ASI soon with the current stack (I'm actually cautiously optimistic), but the obsessive jump from the latest research progress at the frontier labs to applied AI effectiveness is misguided.
> it’s like something out of a sci fi movie where humans encounter an alien species that thinks in a way that humans cannot even comprehend due to biological limitations.

I've increasingly felt this since GPT2 wrote that news piece about unicorns back in 2019. These models are still so mysterious, when you think about it. They can often solve decently complex math problems, but routinely fail at counting. Many have learned surprising skills like chess, but only when prompted in very specific ways. Their emergent abilities constantly surprise us and we have no idea how they really work internally.

So the idea that they reason using something other than human language feels unsurprising, but only because everything about it is surprising.
The Lighter and Princess Gown Chapter 9
Should we start a (play money) prediction market for HN?
Crypto correction on 21st Jan is my prediction.
JMAP is the best email protocol out there that nobody uses (besides Fastmail), sadly.

It would be great that the two big email providers (Google and Microsoft) implemented and supported it.

It would make so easier and reliable to have a single client that works really well across personal and business email accounts, for example.
Crypto moves with financial liquidity. If the stock market falls, so does crypto. Gold is for investment diversity not crypto.
That's what libriscv excels at. It's the ideal solution for exactly that

https://libriscv.no/docs/intro/