skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you make the system decide that a situation is uncertain? It might have high conviction in an outcome only because it lacks general understanding. You cannot just handwave the problem away saying "oh just pull over when the system doesn't know". You are ignoring the most difficult class of errors, high conviction but incorrect predictions.

This is not a question of reducing complexity, as even very simple statistical tools will sometimes give you high conviction (and yet incorrect) predictions because they are simplified models.

The assumption that error conditions are easier to recognize and control than normal operating conditions is insidious.

For example, an AI could misidentify a patch of ice with very high conviction that it is line marking. A human could too, but we are talking about an AI that has to recognize when it's unsafe and pull over (as you wrote).

I'm sure you've seen the case where an NN taught to recognize wolves did so by picking up the presence of snow as the sole feature in a photo. Only because that happened to be the most distinguishing feature of images with a wolf on it! That AI would only recognize a wolf as long as the photo had some snow. It'd also of course misidentify mere snowy landscapes as a wolf. The mistake is silly, but issues like this are very difficult to diagnose once the inputs become more complex.
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Yep if you click through to the article they linked that's exactly what it says.
It's not using Adblock Radio, though that is an interesting idea. All new technology.
This is quite common - many podcast apps, if not the very biggest ones, support feed importing and those feeds can include a username and password. It's really not that complicated, it just looks like a long URL and in most cases you can click on it in an email or website on your phone, and add it directly to the podcast app from there.

The hard part at the moment is the friction from your podcast app to paying to "unlock" that feed to importing it back to your podcast app. Some of us are working on a standard called PodPass (https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/08/podpass-wants-to-build-the...) to make it seamless, but without the walled gardens.
This is why we can't have nice things. Podcasts rely on advertising for revenue, and given the static nature of pre-recorded ads, they are the least intrusive in this era of AI driven hyper real-time ad-targeting. Reminiscent of print ads on newspapers.

So respect the effort of the creator and stop automating ad skipping. Heck, I even implore you to listen to the ads that make your favorite shows available for free, but you always have the skip-ahead button in your player
How is this different than, say, Brave blocking in-flow YouTube ads? Minus the fact that this one is a paid app.
> because it's currently controlled by the opposition party.

It's not because it's controlled by the opposition party, it's because it's doing something we believe is immoral. The distinction is important.
At no point in the events described did he do anything other than “simply tell the truth”. The words he quoted himself as saying were factually accurate.
I believe this is false equivalency. I probably agree with the overall argument that it's not unethical, but in both examples you give you're not requesting someone's service in exchange for nothing. For TV, you're already paying for a service, so do what you will. For billboard's, you're literally getting nothing in return or asking to be bombarded by ads.

A better example would probably adblocking on either YouTube or any website. The service is otherwise free, and you're demanding it in some sense.
There is a certain intellectual laziness in this perspective as might be expected from a short blog post - obviously Bayes' formula is theoretically sound because it is trivial to deduce and prove.

So we know that if the conclusion is not acceptable then either the method, the prior or the evidence is not acceptable. Evidence and method can be ruled out; so the prior was not reasonable.

Basically, he's saying that he doesn't believe the prior is flat. A reasonable thing to say too - as he says practically speaking if we suspect the distribution is probably random noise then the prior is we are probably looking at noise. So in practice the prior is heavily weighted towards 0. It isn't intellectually honest to use an uniformed prior unless you think the probability of a process being statistical noise is almost 0.
> The advent of second-generation sequencing technologies allows for the retrieval of ancient genomes from long-dead people and, using non-human sequencing reads, of the pathogens that infected them.

This is pretty cool. I'm not sure what state of the art is in DNA sequencing, but it sounds like this is impressive. The abstract mentions that it's the oldest DNA sequencing sourced the celluloid (a newspaper in this case), but I don't know if there are successes from other sources that are older.
I recommend reading up on Turcios v. INS and Akinmade v. INS. Both cases of refugees who lied to Customs and used false documents, and the court determined that is valid if fleeing persecution to seek asylum.
Currently, the police do not have access to it. There is a centralized system they can use that simplifies the process for the police to request footage from a homeowners, but that's all it is, a request.

That said, since it is data in the hands of a third party, if the police really wanted that footage, they could issue a search warrant on Ring, and compel them to turn it over, just like they could compel you to turn over your footage with a subpoena or search warrant.

> Ring will only provide video content in response to a valid search warrant or with the verified consent of the account owner.

>https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001318523-Law-...
Seems obvious he meant they are varieties of Unix.
There's a whole community of "CRT enthusiasts" who search these out on Craigslist now, and buy them for retro video gaming setups. A big Trinitron CRT 27 to 36 inches in size, in good condition, is actually appreciating in market value now due to how many of them have been trashed.

Sony PVMs (professional video monitors), such as used in a tv production studio have been increasing in market value. Similar tubes but with more advanced electronics.

To the best of my knowledge there are zero remaining manufacturers of CRTs in the world.
There is a startup yet to be founded to sell inexpensive, high-quality original photos for exclusive use.

Unique photos, i.e. photos not considered "duplicate content", are critical if you want to rank organically on Google [0]

Getty will eventually be disrupted.

[0] https://www.rebootonline.com/blog/long-term-duplicate-image-...
Google's initial funding, when they did not have a business model, was around 1 million dollars. By the time they got a significant chunk they had decided to use ads to try to monetize. Not all useful things make sense as income generating businesses.
It's an open system because the numerous and ongoing attempts to make it a closed system have been unsuccessful because users don't like that. Spotify and Stitcher are the most recent attempts to secure tons of exclusive content behind an app gate or a paywall.

Even if this app is successful beyond OP's wildest dreams it's going to take 1% of the market or whatever -- the idea that this is going to cause a sudden shift in business strategy, and that that shift will be in favour of proprietary apps in a way that people aren't trying now, beggars belief.
AirFrance gave me the option to get "Stream speed" in a flight from Paris to Sao Paulo a few days ago. By "stream speed" I assume it allows netflix. I didn't test it tough.
For any arbitrary n, those clustered at the top will arrange their affairs to maintain the n-1 wealthiest person in society to avoid the reset. Giving away 100s of millions to keep billions makes rational sense - especially if you can arrange it to flow to your spouse/children/trust/charity you control.

In fact, you could game such a system by spiking a competitors net-worth right before the reset i.e. by suddenly buying a small, but significant chunk of their shares to move the market value on their shares.

What exactly have you thought about?
It doesn't have to be different. They can both be a bad idea.
Haha, that is exactly what is going on with us now. We just launched our first Kickstarter[1] and its not going well.

We will go ahead, eat ramen, and pursuit this, and its a HW product. Wish us luck.

[1]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pycno/pulse-building-sm...
Not GP, but considering he said “Cloud Station” I assume he’s using a Synology NAS which is a ready-to-go product (just add drives).

Personally I have a 2U Dell R520 I run FreeNAS on which cost me as much as one of synology’s systems with a lot more capability. But I also have a 24U rack in my office and use it to provide storage for my hypervisors in addition to Plex, general SMB shares, etc. so I have use cases that are a little more complicated than even the average HN user from their home network.
Podcasters should probably provide ad-less versions of podcasts for subscribing users, e.g. using Coil or similar extension for monetization.
Evil is banal.
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> Agree. And it helps in general that podcast ads are largely inoffensive.

For me some podcast hosts are so ridiculously funny that I actually intentionally listen to their ad reads. There's been a time or two when I've gone back and re-listened to an ad because I was dying from laughter the whole time. Most of the time it's because the hosts are ripping on the advertiser a bit but it still seems like an amazingly good value for them. The only other time I'll ever do this is for Super Bowl ads, even though those are generally pretty lame. (Other hosts do just dryly read their ads with nothing ad-libbed -- or don't read ads for their own show at all (NPR) -- and I'll usually skip those when it's convenient.)
Stocksy United is a photographers cooperative.

A much more worthy company to support.

No affiliation, just a fan of cooperatives and high quality photos.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocksy_United

https://www.stocksy.com/
I agree that this app is somewhat less than ethical and that folks should refrain from using or supporting it. It's one thing to block 3rd-party ads on the Web, which come with fairly severe privacy implications for the user and ruin their Web browsing experience - but none of this applies to ads which are simply part of an open audio podcast. If the industry shifts to proprietary players in order to enforce ads, this will mean more invasion of privacy, not less, and we will all lose.
> He does not suffer from these issues, and directly communicated that he did

At no point did he directly communicate anything about custody in his statement.

You are confusing implication with direct statements.
100-150 years ago, the world bent hard to integrate cars into the existing traffic infrastructure. I don't see why we won't be able to adjust our infrastructure again to support new developments.
This wasn't meant to be a question of ethics, but one of incentives— let's view it from a standpoint of "will this ultimately be bad for society."

> Is it ethical not to look at a billboard when you're walking down the street?

This is fine, you're in a public space where somebody paid for an ad on nearby private property, and society wouldn't be worse off if everybody ignored billboards, advertisers were no longer willing to pay for billboards, and we got rid of the lot of them.

> Is it ethical to mute the TV when commercials come up?

This is fine, you paid for the TV and you pay for cable, and there will be no consequences to many people muting the TV during commercials.

If, however, you're given something for free that could be taken away, and it is able to be offered for free due to the business model of ads, taking this concept to its conclusion where everybody automatically skips over ads will make the free and open podcast system no longer viable.

Advertisers will no longer be willing to pay for ad space on podcasts, and the podcasters will have to move to charging per episode, or more likely, getting tiny royalties from a company like Spotify.
It's not different. Brave's business model of inserting themselves as a middleman and charging a ransom is awfully unethical.
http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/
Well, I couldn't tell because I wouldn't want to create competitors! I don't think it will ever register a false positive. It's really that good.
Haha that was great. That young lady is a future action star.
Does this give significantly better results than just Google and TinEye? They often fail me.
The coupon codes or referral links being advertised will see a drop in traffic.
Absolutely. I will stick with my 80USD shutter precision hub dynamo. 5W of output is plenty for charging in the day and lights at night, and I don't even notice the drag.
But Andrew, they don't care if you put effort in to curate ads that your listeners might find valuable, they just want to skip the ads regardless.

They want you to keep working your tail off, and entertaining them for free - they are apparently entitled to it.
That seems like it would only happen if your player is spying on you.

No. It works the same way any newspaper, radio, and TV advertising work.

If advertisers sponsor a podcast and get zero return, then the advertisers stops sponsoring the podcast and the podcast dies.
Thank you. Which podcasts do you listen to?
How’s this for a desperate argument?:

Complying would require spreadsheets with hundreds of thousands of columns, the groups said in the lawsuit. They say such files could crash most standard computer systems.

”Some members worry about the ability of their websites to function at all with such a large file,” the lawsuit states.
He meant because it was much sooner than everyone expected.
Ripping off the classic talk by Rich Hickey:

Simple - composed of a single element; not compound
Complex - consisting of many different and connected parts
Easy - achieved without great effort; presenting few difficulties.

This is not as easy but is simple. It is explicit, fundamental Java.

public void allocationOnlyPossibleWhenOpen() {
LocalDateTime expected = LocalDateTime.now();
TimeAllocator sut = new TimeAllocator(new Clock() {
public LocalDateTime getTime() {
return expected;
}
});

sut.setOpen(false);
assertThat(sut.allocate()).isNull();

sut.setOpen(true);
assertThat(sut.allocate()).isEqualTo(expected);
}

This is easier but more complex. It depends on a multi-thousand line library with its own API.

public void allocationOnlyPossibleWhenOpen() {
LocalDateTime expected = LocalDateTime.now();
Clock mockClock = mock(Clock.class);
when(clock.getTime()).thenReturn(expected);
TimeAllocator sut = new TimeAllocator(mockClock);

sut.setOpen(false);
assertThat(sut.allocate()).isNull();

sut.setOpen(true);
assertThat(sut.allocate()).isEqualTo(expected);
}

The 2nd example has:

A versioned external dependency, externally versioned == opportunity for future conflict. Remember the java logging library wars? Today it's trivial to encounter conflicting spring dependencies on your classpath

A complex (but convenient) reflection based implementation, the object has non-obvious behaviour with a clever implementation

An entire api surface distinct from the components of your software system

Tens of thousands of lines of opportunity for bugs, security risks or just plain old $$ cost to hide in

Once you're able to see the world in complexity, it opens up a whole new dimension of cost & quality for your code.

All this said, in practice complexity is just a consideration. Often the complexity is worth paying. I don't want to risk the impression that i'm saying never use mockito. If my argument is anything then it's consider the impact of complexity.
> Indeed. People fear monger about the police's ability to request footage from a neighborhood (key point being request, the owner of the Ring still gets to look at the footage and decide to release it or not).

If you refuse to give police the video they can just request from amazon directly. You don't get to control what happens to that video once it touches amazon's servers. Once the police have it they can keep it forever, share it with others (like ICE or the FBI), and once again you have no control. Amazon tracks people who refuse to hand over video to the police directly and they share stats about them with police.
> and deeply cared about the customer experience

I'm guessing you missed the whole Betamax thing?

That's tongue-in-cheek though. I think the Betamax experience is what motivated them to listen to consumers.
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Right. But then you've changed the default from "not having to pay tax" to "having to pay tax". That is, far more people live in the house they own than rent out the one house they own and live somewhere else. Right now the 5% (say) who rent out the house they own get taxed, the 95% who live in the house they own don't. The change you propose would result in the 95% now also being taxed. That's fair, I suppose, but it's also the most drastic change you could make to create fairness. You could, for example, offer the 5% that the rent they pay could offset their rental income for tax purposes.

So why change it in the direction you propose? We're back at my initial complaint: This turns into "Saving money rather than spending it deprives us of the tax we would have received, so we'll tax your saving as if you had spent it. Don't own a cell phone? Pay us the taxes that would have been on your monthly bill anyway. Don't own a car? Pay us the registration fee anyway. Walk to work? Pay us the gasoline tax anyway. Don't drink alcohol? Pay us the taxes as if you did. Don't smoke? Pay us the taxes on the cigarettes that you could have smoked. Don't visit national parks? Pay us the entry fees anyway."

Do you see that that's insane? But if it's insane, why isn't "imputed rent" as something taxable insane?
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It is not meant to address the clout of the incumbent, who might be of any political party, it is meant to reduce the influence of money in politics; to reduce corruption and de-facto bribery.

If it favors incumbents then it is not favoring any particular ideology since the incumbent can be any.

If you want to address the staying power of incumbents, arbitrarily favoring opponents who happen to have the most wealth is not the way to do it. It will just consistently favor political movements that money approves of.
The reason people don't use dynamos often is that good ones cost $300 + another hundred + for the lights, and if you're spending that much money, you're serious about wanting to ride all night without worrying about batteries dying.

If you're out for a couple of hours, batteries are grand.
I was thinking about going with a dynamo wheel on my touring/camping bike when I realized that instead of building a $200-300 3 watt dynamo wheel I could use a 28 watt solar charger on the rear rack for $50. Not to mention batteries have gotten so big/cheap and places to charge are all over the place.
Amen. And a many are undercharging for subsistence. The prosumer market, subsidized by day jobs, really impacted the industry.
I believe colloquially the call that frog “the doctor” (shown in Vice Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia https://youtu.be/C3Yd7M3JNlw)
There's an interesting video about the history of Trinitron.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aFhzGEBQlk
To the people saying this is morally wrong, let me give you a different perspective: I watch a lot of YouTube videos and they are ad-supported (although I do support them on Patreon whenever possible). The ads are for the likes of SquareSpace, Skillshare, etc (there's also lots of shit like VPN providers but let's focus on the good ones first).

I'm already aware of these brands, I even recommend one of them to clients. At this point, the ads aren't telling me anything new, don't make me aware of a new product, they are just annoying and waste my time.

Is it still wrong to block these ads?
Thats the point tho! Nobody does this. People usually self-regulate quite well.
Thanks for letting us know. We're embedding a note to become the blog page, so presumably reader mode isn't hip to that. Curious if you can get it to work from this page (the note that is source of the blog)? https://public.amplenote.com/28y8CL5tsLYsGPN6HUguMpJF

Edit: Actually I'm pretty sure this alternate page also uses JS, so if JS is turned off, it's probably not going to work either. Not sure off the top of my head how to work around that.
Apple has a short 'making of' video here, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJwbyu-2mE

I think it's interesting to note that for the majority of these 'shot on iPhone' videos, there are likely hundreds of thousands of dollars of production work and accessories provided, including:

- Production staff and crew
- Location scouts / grips / etc
- Stabilization gear / gimbals
- Video monitors and edit stations

It is nice to know that 'the camera you have with you' is of high enough quality to get decent 4K footage, but that has been the case (well, at least with 1080p) for the past few years. What makes videos like this watchable is the creative minds, the crew, and everything else you don't see in the final frame (well, besides the talented individuals doing the stunts and blasting each other with snow).

I don't want to be negative, but it's kind of like saying "you can build a competent Kubernetes cluster with Raspberry Pis". Sure, you can (and I maintain one—see www.pidramble.com). But the Pi is nowhere near a professional tool that makes it _easy_ and as painless as actual purpose-built tooling.

And if you're talking about having small cameras that can mount anywhere, something akin to a GoPro is even better suited for this purpose than your $1,000+ phone, which you also want to make sure is available for browsing HN later in the day (and wasn't crushed by a gnarly smash into a tree, then doused in melted snow).
A good percentage of the ad-supported podcasts I listen to also have an ad-free feed for their Patreon subscribers. I'd say look there first if you're looking to spend money to avoid ads.

We messed this up 20 years ago when online print media tried doing the same, and the result has been an endless and wasteful arms race. Let's not mess this up again.
Also, wheel hub motors can function as a dynamo too if the circuits are designed properly.
Quick googling tells me the current record is a horse from hundreds of thousands of years ago: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12323

I wonder though whether it's been replicated and whether there were any differences in the outcome.
You’ll have to let me know what you think. I’ve got 5TB of data on my FreeNAS box I would like to have a hot backup of, Wasabi is pretty much the only affordable solution on the market outside of shipping another box to my dad and using ZFS send/receive (which I’ll probably also do since he wants a media server in his house someday, it can just pull double duty as my offsite backup).
Given the nearly existential problems we are facing, it's really time we started thinking bigger.
There is a lot of quackery surrounding lyme disease, and patients who think they might have lyme can easily end up spending a fortune on dubious treatments and unproven tests.
> I appreciate the work of photographers, but plunking down $500 for a high-res photo and knowing they're going to resell that same photo to others god knows how many more times has always rubbed me the wrong way.

Honestly, that doesn't bother me that much.

What's truly absurd is wedding photography. Photographers get paid $1000+ and keep the copyright. Almost every other work-for-hire intellectual job involves an IP transfer.