skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So this is a great point - but - we're not bound by AI ... can we not start to narrow the issues with regular tech? For example, in this situation, something that more predictably tells the driver that there is 'literally something in the middle of the road', or at least possibly trigger an alarm?

I wonder if someone can comment on the relevant advances on giving AI the proper human-designed boundaries that may help?
How about silent updates, like the one Apple pushed to remove Zoom's ghost server last year?
What about time travel, or alternate history? Is that fantasy?

edit: If you count time travel as fantasy, please do so for any SF which features FTL :-)
This statement conflicts sharply with my anecdotal experiences from today. Went to the grocery store, the cashier tells the woman before me that she doesn't believe in the whole thing, its a conspiracy against the people and it needs investigation. I told her that there's more than 300k dead people globaly, you can't deny reality. She asks if I know personally anyone, told her I do, actually know 3 people who were severely seek and one of them died.

From there I went to visit my grandpa, in the hospital, after having a heart attack last week. He is 98. He sees me with the mask, tell me he don't ever follow orders, didn't even follow the Nazis orders. I tell him I wear the mask because I actually believe the situation is dangerous, he looked at me as if I said the weirdest possible thing.
I think people would be a lot less concerned about this if the manufacturer toned down the marketing.

To quote Monty Python, as is traditional on the Internet:

> Inspector: It doesn't say anything here about lark's vomit!

> Mr. Hilton: Ah, it does, on the bottom of the box, after 'monosodium glutamate'.

> Inspector: I hardly think that's good enough! I think it'd be more appropriate if the box bore a great red label: 'WARNING: LARK'S VOMIT!!!’

You shouldn’t have to proactively ask the salesperson to learn that it’s unsafe.
The days of hacked routers and IoT devices harken back to that, though.
> It is like the old saying it is the Jews I do not care.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...
I myself have seen fake “tweet screenshots “ that are trying really hard to scare suburban people that antifa is attacking them that night and I am in a liberal circle for the most part. If that is the case I can only imagine how bad the situation is for people in rural areas.
It's dangerous, even if it has no teeth.
Any technical solutions to this that HN can think of? Twitter tracing traffic? Anomaly detection on tweet contents to find tweets from hacked accounts like the one in the article? Some sort of CA type model? I feel like this is a technical problem that could have a technical solution.
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Of course it does. But politicians who ramp up the rhetoric and threaten to have people killed does not. Flint and Camden and other cities where the police sat down or walked with the protestors have no issues. People connecting to people with understanding rarely results in violence.

I think places where the police still walk a beat (or other regular outreach over a wide area) and get to know the locals rarely have issues with regular people. But cities don't want to spend that kind of money on these things as they would rather not tax people to pay for it. Yet it's an investment in cities' future; otherwise you wind up with this.
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Perhaps poetry after it matures.
They’re a gang, and every officer involved should be sent to jail, for the same time they’d demand any other violent gang member be sent.
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Unfortunately the mainstream has portrayed "antifa" as some kind of covert organization acting inappropriately. They fail to point out that antifa is literally short for anti-fascist. In other words, unless you're pro-fascism, you're anti-fascist by default. It's akin to calling yourself a liberal or conservative.
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter - https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/twitter-takes-down-was...
similarly, cultured rat neurons can operate a mall robotics and avoid obstacles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0eZytv6Qk
Barely. 25 years of progress should have gotten us farther.
I live in Minneapolis, and I'm not a Twitter user, but I've found that following news reporters on Twitter that are on-site has been the best way to get reliable information quickly during the protests. (I use nitter.net to follow them.) I don't even like Twitter, but I can say unequivocally that it's not "trash, bots, and trashy bots all the way down". It's been extremely valuable to me this week.
I have found if you have nothing constructive to do, then twitter sucks you in and is very addictive.

But after a few years or so of constant nonsense, you become adapted to the addiction and just ignore everything on it. Atleast thats what happened to me.

I went from constantly checking twitter to deleting my account and just going to the feed of one or two people once a day to keep informed.

I now laugh at how worked up everyone gets, and all the play acting and rival factions involved. Its almost like an iq test, where you pass if you dont play the game.

The problem is a lot of people are staying indoors right now with nothing to do and are discovering twitter/reddit for the first time.

Imagine a person not only new to social media, but new to the internet as a whole with no bs filters built in. He/she would be such a mark.

The real herd immunity is people understanding over time how emotionally manipulative social media is and learning to ignore it like we do 99% of advertisements.
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I do not understand the asterisk reference, but nope.
My main issue with bay area public transportation is the public. I've had a person threaten to stab me because I was white. He got away. I've had someone smoke meth and then scream in my face, wanting to fight me because I was being racist. He got away. I've had someone pull out a taser and start playing with it. He was arrested, fortunately. One of my acquaintances has been robbed at gunpoint. Not sure if they ever caught the guy.

In addition to the risk of violence, there are also the annoyances. Smelly homeless people. People smoking. People blasting music. (The buskers are the worst.) In a car I have none of those issues. I don't even have to listen to someone loudly talking on their phone. It's quiet. It's clean. It leaves when I'm ready. It's far less stressful.

Nowadays there are only a couple of commuter bus lines that I'll take. Though with the lockdowns and the curfews, it's been months since I've used them.
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Well, that's because a number of the protestors said exactly that all over social media. I don't see how that would be misinformation.

Here's but one example:

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1266286100743520257
This seems to be leveraged on top of a distribution, and IMO is a good way to do things. But definitely you're relying on the work that the distro people do.
You lost us at "Politics is really about the values our society wants to live by"
how on earth do you read thedonald.win regularly.

To me it's a better formatted version of 4chan. its a collection of trolls all circle jerking.
A more valid hypothetical would be the expectation that developers working for Google and Microsoft would be expected to work for free, creating entire codebases for no money, with the only contribution from the publisher (Google and Microsoft) being an editor to glance at and reject ideas they thought unprofitable after the developers had spent countless hours / months / years creating them.

If the occasional developer working for free finds a profitable idea, the Google or Microsoft would pay them well under what that person requires to survive for one year, plus a small (less than 10%) residual royalty only after the developer has "paid back" the less-than-one-year amount which the Google or Microsoft called an advance rather than payment for the original work.

The only way the working-for-free developer could survive would be to teach other developers who also aspire to work for free, and in so doing suppress their urge to tell those students to go do quite literally anything else more productive, because succumbing to that moral urge would result in less students, which is the only way the developer can pay for rent and groceries.
The mission statements of every Antifa group of which I'm aware start with "Protect peaceful protests from violent counter-protestors."

Where do you get your information from?
Realistically, a tree is judged by its fruit, not what it blabs on about on national tv.
As someone who has used the public internet since the late 80s I have turned away from it almost entirely in the past few years. Its content is similar to those free rags like SFWeekly you can pick up from a dispenser on the streets. It's largely poor quality content supported by largely poor quality, irrelevant advertising. If you want to get riled up and find a rub-n-tug to calm you down, you don't even have to leave your home anymore.

The internet is in need of a reboot.
I think it is hard to categorize Chinese (I imagine you're speaking about Mandarin?), Korean, and Japanese all together for a general statement.

I have read some Japanese programming books. For programming, and IT in general, Japanese borrows heavily from English vocabulary for novel terms, along with using a lot of abbreviations which also come from English.

So you will see sentences such as: "hoverイベント
要素にマウスが乗った時、外れた時に指定した処理を行う" which uses literal "hover" with borrowed イベント(ibento:event) and borrowed マウス (mausu:mouse) all within one short sentence. You will very often find sentences made up mostly of borrowed words when describing a new term and its context.

Korean also borrows a lot of terms from English, but I feel I run into it to a lesser degree than Japanese.

For example: "여담으로 외국 오라클 홈페이지에 들어가면 Java SE 11버전까지 나와있지만 8버전을 사용하는 이유는 버전이 높을수록 새로운 기능들을 제공하지만 안정성이나 버그 등의 문제가 있기 때문에 8버전을 사용하였습니다", where you see borrowed words "오라클 홈페이지" (orakeul hompeiji:Oracle Homepage), "버전" (beojeon:Version), "버그" (beogeu:Bug) along with literal English "Java SE 11". So it also has a lot of borrowed words, but they're more spread out through the actual sentences.

I do not know either traditional or simplified Chinese well enough to comment on that. But from talking with the native speakers I know or work with, it seems like Mandarin does not directly borrow as much English as Korean or Japanese.

Between the 3 you mentioned, I feel Japanese would probably have the hardest time trying to describe CS in its native language without using borrowed words, because a lot of words are no longer thought of as "borrowed" since they're so frequently used. I can not think of any good words to use as replacements that would not sound archaic or forced.
Would be the same with dividends or poor investments.
Twitter is trash even without the bots (which can easily be distinguished).
It's quite amazing how unpopular facts and fact based discussions are.
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"Why do they think that?
It's unreasonable to assume that. Autopilot is a term most people would he familiar from where? Commercial aviation, right?"

When you think of 'most people' - think 'Grade 9 education'.

Swaths of Americans grauduate HS with difficulty reading.

I used to market to retail mobile stores, like Sprint, and store managers had difficulty understanding the concept of 'percentage'.

The lowest common denominator is low, and when it comes to safety ... it's the fool among us (or within us because we all have faults) that is the target.

I think it should just be called 'cruise control' and that's that. Tesla can market it as being 'better' but that's about it.

I cringe every time I hear the term autopilot used in that context.
Sorry I am not a doctor and at a superficial level I was thinking of veggies vs bad carbs. Would not go further because what I know, I know, but I am sure it can be challenged and people will do better to read on these.
Yes, such a requirement for my visits to the US would also motivate me to not open any new social media accounts if I was planning on visiting the US within the next five years.
Depends maybe Panasonics enterprise SEO game is weak - you should rank your product pages on page one
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It all depends on where the violence is directed.

People are protesting police killing a black civilian. Now, if Antifa were to show up, who would they attack, the protesters or the police? The police. If the alt-right showed up, who would they attack? The protesters. Well, who's getting attacked? Not the protesters. So that fits with it being Antifa rather than the alt-right...

... unless it's a false flag, or alt-right accelerationists. In that case, it could be either.
White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
> If miss information leads to people distrusting the US government based on lies

You do not need lies to distrust the US government. They do a fine job by themselves (and have been doing so for decades).
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Is it also necessary to have the precise level of transparency and style of media coverage we have now?

Is there precisely nothing that our massive improvements in information technology and widespread connectivity of the public to the internet can do to improve the state of our political process?

Is this situation optimal, no possible improvements can be made whatsoever?
I would like to take issue with your claim that it's closer to processing and manufacturing infrastructure. If expressed in km that is correct. It gets really interesting once you express it in Delta V.

It gets more interesting yet when you take into account things like linear accelerators which can launch things for pennies. They're not practical on earth, but somewhat practical on the moon. They might also be usable enough for asteroids.

I agree that the initial investment in the first space or moon settlement would be very, very expensive. On the other hand, once it is established it would be self sustaining, and even potentially competitive with earth.

Early on it could maintain itself by launching satellites to GEO and LEO. This is already a viable industry today.

It would also be much MUCH cheaper to source construction materials for further settlements from asteroids (or the moon, at a pinch)

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/29cxi6/i_made_a_delt...
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Isn’t there some far-right group called boogaloo too? And I thought I read something about the proud boys being involved?
Cryptopals strikes me as a very good way of scaring people from not only inventing, but also implementing their own crypto. It seems it's primary effect is to make people confident enough to repeat the "don't roll your own crypto" mantra to anyone who would listen.

Some people however don't really have a choice. "Just Libsodium" doesn't work on anything smaller than a Raspberry-Pi, or pretty much any embedded system out there. There are alternatives out there (shameless plug: https://monocypher.org), but sometimes your only choice is to code and optimise it yourself.

Sometimes, your only reasonable choice is to implement your own crypto. And I can tell from experience, a few weeks of full time learning is enough to not shoot yourself in the foot. The trick is to learn the right things (not everybody can spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh), but if you limit yourself to simple primitives like Chacha20 and Curve25519, it's not that hard. (Fun fact: I did not spend a few weeks with Dan Boneh, and I did shoot myself in the foot once.)

Because let's be honest: you don't need to know all the attacks to protect yourself from them. What you need to know is the relevant classes of attacks, and how to void them. For instance, all timing attacks are stopped if your code runs in constant time (which in practice mostly means without secret-dependent branches and without secret-dependent indices).
Make cops carry liability insurance. Like car insurance. Make every wrongful death or civil rights violation payable by the insured NOT the tax payer.

If the whole "few bad apples" argument is valid, then the premiums will stay low.

Like car insurance, an officer's premium will go up and insurability will go down with continued claims.

This will root out the bad apples and protect local budgets.

Arguments have been made that this will cause cops to second-guess themselves in the line of duty. They'll think "how will this effect my premium". Welp, they should already been considering whether their actions violate an individual's civil rights. This just shifts the liability from the tax payer to the perpetrator.
China had an extensive system to delete disinformation. Every IM, UGC website or app are required by law to provide a report button and ICPs are required to response to user complaints immediately. There's also national wide hotline 12377 or website 12377.gov.cn to submit all categories of information you want to disappear. Any bad content esp. those against-govn't ones contained pretty quickly, which means not only the existing ones, but also prevention of future uploads or posts would be blocked. And the original uploader would be backtraced by "cyberpolice", and jailed if found.

I imagine if any technical measures taken to combat disinformation, it would be more or less like what China did here.
And we are allowing it. From the dangerous tactic of allowing them to MITM all users via the AMP platform, to pushing their features only in their browser. A browser, which I may remind, was pushed to success by abusing their market position.

Had Google pulled this in the 90's they would have been attacked like Microsoft.
Seems like you'd just be better off learning English so your ability to find help online isn't hamstrung.
> Google can challenge the chargeback and will probably win

Challenging the dispute would at the very least involve contacting the customer and letting them know what the charge is for, at which point it can be determined whether it's legitimate or not.

> They might sell the debt to a collection agency.

So what? The debt has yet to be determined as legitimate. So far all the information suggests it's fraud and his card has been compromised.

A lot of people seem to be afraid of collection agencies but I've dealt with them multiple times in the UK (thanks to terrible telecom companies) and in both cases they've quickly dropped the case. The interaction with the debt collection agency was actually more pleasant than with the company hiring them.
I agree. We are seeing the weaponization of the internet like nothing before. It's becoming more dangerous than nuclear weapons at this point. When people can't come to a consensus on basic reality and are primed to respond with hate and violence when their reality is challenged.

The world is moving quickly into a darker future.
Same here, hadn't heard of it before. Looks like it's FOSS too:

https://gitlab.com/minds

Minds is a free & open source social network dedicated to privacy and freedom.
The level of disinformation I'm seeing around this is like nothing I've ever seen before. The thing is: many of these protests have dozens of people livestreaming the entire thing. You can see what is happening in real time, and it makes a lot of the disinformation extremely obvious.

I think a lot of the disinformation is just a function of how twitter (and to a lesser extent facebook) encourage misunderstanding/rage. For instance: there was a report that the majority of arrests after a Minneapolis protest were from out of state. This of course went completely viral, and was also completely false.

But the retraction of course did not go viral (since it will not create as much rage), and people are still repeating this misinformation.

Twitter especially is such a sad thing, and I hope at one point we can look back at the it the way that we look back at drug epidemics. It encourages people to misunderstand one another and get angry, not to seek a greater shared understanding.
Could you give a couple examples of attacks that you thought was just theoretical but turned out to be very practical? Very curious about this topic.
What’s striking to me is the stark differences in policing with the US vs other common law/Anglosphere countries, where policing is by consent.

I guess the other countries were still much more under British influence during the formation of policing?
Here in Pittsburgh, it was literally the latter.
There are definitely people who proudly identify as "Antifa". And a pretty good number of them are what one might generically describe as agitators (at least).

If nothing else, they seem to be the douchebags defacing war memorials.
Yeah, my 6 year old Toyota has millimeter wave radar, and so do a lot of cars, for detecting objects in front of the vehicle.