skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know we're comparing relative evils here, but that's interesting. I think my main concerns with surveillance are the chilling effects it has on those who would break the law for ethical reasons. But ultimately I think the tangible negative effects that surveillance has on most people are indirect. That's not to say they aren't important. But as important as advertising?

Advertising causes a great deal of surveillance, but it causes a lot of other issues, many of which affect almost everyone, very directly, and in some tangible ways. At a basic level, we're being lied to constantly in ways that hurt our self esteem, break our concentration, introduce us to new fears and angers: the exact intention of which is to create problems for us so that it can persuade us that giving them money will solve our problems. Advertising tells us our partners aren't hot enough, we aren't cool enough, our houses aren't big enough, our cars aren't fast enough, that we aren't doing enough for X cause. It tells us that our financial future is insecure, that we're missing out, that we're at risk for disease, floods, and car accidents. If a parent or partner told us these things, we'd call it emotional abuse, but from advertisers it's both accepted and commonplace. And it affects us deeply: we're overmedicated, overfed, overworked, and over-indebted.

And that's just the direct effects. When you consider the kinds of content that advertising funds, it's almost universally harmful. News that prioritizes clicks over information by inciting anger and fear. Informational resources that avoid speaking truth to power because power advertises. Social media that courts flame wars, conspiracy theories, and echo chambers because they all provoke engagement. Everything advertising funds is fast, shallow and emotional, because slow, deep and rational doesn't promote clicks.

Why even look for a compromise here? Easy to spot ads aren't better: they're still people shoving a lie in our face. There's nothing of value here. Ads are a tumor: even if we can find some part of it that's benign, there's no part that shouldn't be excised.
Just on this topic--dedicated napping spaces might be the single most powerful dollar for productivity boost you can buy an in-office dev team.

Oh and noise cancelling headphones.
Well, they said “services”, so I was curious what they meant there, since it sounded like something actually required, like to get signed up for school or something. I guess social media services might be what they were talking about, though.
Whatever happened to “let people be their own judge?” Or are we really that elitist, and do we really have so little faith in individual's ability to think for themselves? Why is Mozilla, of all entities, seemingly seeking to influence YouTube, and to what end? Should we just abolish the idea of a free market of ideas? Is it bad to be radical? Are you automatically wrong if you are? And are YouTube's own policies flawless? Just some questions that come to mind.
Are you sure it's different? Or do we just have a much lower tolerance for spreading disease than most animals.
I guarantee the Grim Adventures intro is spammed.
In a similar vein, I've discussed with customers why it's not a good idea to slavishly follow conversions, in our case on our hosted corporate careers site product.

If job seekers are not well matched to a job, then we don't want them applying (i.e. a conversion)! That wastes everyone's time and good will. Instead, we want them to leave the process as quickly as possible.

It's not unknown to have one person at the customer banging on about realistic job previews, to discourage unsuitable candidates as soon as possible ("if you take this job, you'll be standing and lifting boxes in the warehouse for 5 hours a day"), while someone else is banging on about why/how the site's conversion rate could be increased.
> To slim results. Elon Musk explained his new nihilism about the possibility of stopping AI advancement on the Joe Rogan podcast, when he said:

“I tried to convince people to slow down. Slow down AI. To regulate AI. This was futile. I tried for years. Nobody listened. Nobody listened.”

Rather rich coming from one of the self driving car market leaders. It certainly makes business sense to mislead academia and the policy sector into wasting resources on figuring out the best philosophical and ethical regime while large corporations benefit from regulatory capture. If he has his way, ML would become like the pharmaceutical industry, with multiple barriers of entry if you are not well-funded, well-connected, or established.
I feel the same. I think with movies, we don’t have put in any effort at all. We just sit there and watch. With books, it is a lot more effort - not just reading, but imagining while reading.

Maybe that extra effort makes it more enjoyable and valuable?
How do you estimate the quality of your landing sites?
Hey, guys! I'm new in startup activity so every step is hard for me yet. I've created the site to present my product but don't know is it perfect or not. I found it confusing. How do you get that your landing site is perfect? Maybe exist some must-have metrics or any article with a collection of advice? Thank you.
True. Google or Facebook's ability to obtain, analyze, cross-reference, retain and leverage this type of information makes them billions of times more powerful than a small company selling gardening tools, however.
Someone said elsewhere thst it id not a heavily used airport. If there are inly a handful of flights a day I imagine that means there are only a select number of airlines arriving. If you were one of the select few airlines landing here, i could imagine you'd br able to schedule an experienced captain to be with a first timer when landing.

note: i am only speculating, and have no ideas of rules that prohibit two captain level pilots flying at once.
I think you're reading it too literally. There are real-world considerations outside of the fantasy world of legalese. They can only collect data that they specifically read using code. The code is open-source. So they need to either build a keylogger right into their public source, or send you a special update that adds a keylogger before the fact.
That's sounds like one of those tasks that's isomorphic to the halting problem. Replace the malicious opcode sequence with "HALT" and your static analyzer can determine whether an arbitrary program can halt, something known to be impossible.
Totally almost off subject but if you want some cool Gibraltar movie action check out Das Boot. And I watched Dunkirk right after if you really want to sob about the meaninglessness of war. The ending of Das Boot transitions well into the story of Dunkirk, in my opinion. And the ending of Dunkirk is one of the nobly beautiful things I've seen.
Damnit. I haven't used Erlang in a long time, but I should've known that.

So, no language does it "right".
The first time they might do it under the supervision of a check airman, or at least an experienced captain.
Jetbrains has a huge marketing presence and lives off a small number of users to pay the bills.

They infiltrated my college and got all of our students to use phpstorm for free. Upon graduation they smack you with a huge cost to continue.

I imagine quite a few grads didn't want to learn a new IDE.
We are almost to the age of maglev trains. Hopefully Japan begins operation this decade.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.caranddriver.com/news/amp30...

China of course built a maglev almost 20 years ago to the Shanghai airport. I’m not sure what it will take to get the cost down.
Perhaps publishing negative or non-novel results ought to be an equally important goal of publication. Only publishing novel results is a primary cause of publication bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
I have read some of the literature - ie. the bayes by backprop method, etc.

It doesn't seem like getting a posterior over the parameter space of a neural network is tractable as of now.
There won't be any overhead once the file is cached. Your method requires the favicon to keep getting downloaded on every page load.
I did this to Cocomelon as my daughters watched it a few times and the algorithm thought I wanted to watch nursery rhymes all day long.
I think the cat is out of the bag when it comes to AI and its potential, and you simply can't regulate and trust foreign nations to play ball. The possible gains are too big to expect everyone to get together and consider the downside carefully, i.e no coordination on the morality or risks; winner takes all will be the prevalent mindset when the first player hits major strides. It's going to be an arms race sort of scenario aimed at automation and productivity until it reaches the military industry, then we'll see.

You know, as I am reading The Cultures series, I can't help imagine how much fun would be to have a Mind taking care of a few things for us.
> as long as

The number of things that will reduce STD rates "as long as" you do them is very very high. I'm sure I don't need to provide you with a list.

The reality is that people don't do all of them.

Despite the claims of some activists, circumcision has no negative consequences, so if it helps, then it helps.

There's this weird messaging I see sometimes, where people are against something that can help because "you could do this other thing (but no one is)".
My understanding is it is legal for planes in Alaska to just land on a road. They have relatively few roads and many places are only accessible via plane, boat or some other alternative to cars (like dog sled) for at least part of the year. They have about six times as many pilots per capita as the rest of the US. Some of their little towns have amazingly minimal airport amenities and crudely constructed landing strips.

I sometimes post articles related to that but there seem to be relatively few good articles on that subject per se. Instead I end up posting articles sort of related, like where a small Alaskan community called everyone to show up with their vehicles to provide impromptu landing lights for a medical evacuation after dark when the lights were not working.
I believe your claim is correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758461.
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Economics of Money and Banking [1] is what you’re looking for, especially if you’re interested in a historical narrative of the monetary system.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking
Did you miss where I wrote about the woman lying unconscious on the street in Bali after drinking too much and the question what the Indonesian police officer would do with her? Being unconscious she would not be able to tell him that she was a woman. The same goes for medical emergencies where being unconscious is not uncommon. How would an unconscious person disclose their sex?

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I would be seriously worried about something falling off a car that the plane hits during takeoff
There is nothing complicated to deploy a single deployment on Kubernetes, people that say so either don't use Kuberentes or are just lying.

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/de...

What's complicated is to operate a Kubernetes cluster, nothing forces you to do that, major cloud provider all do it pretty well.

As for OP post lot of things don't make sense, I think the only valid reasons is about isolation which k8s is not very good at for now ( multi tenancy ). The rest is interesting... let them build there own solution to maintain and operate and see how it goes for them in 2 years.

Things that I found strange:

- Complexity "understanding how Kubernetes works and why it was implemented this way is hard"
So instead they're building their own tools? If you have the knowledge to build a similar platform, extanding and understanding k8s is easy.

- Global and multi-zone deployments "Implementing multi-zone with Kubernetes requires deploying a full cluster per zone, with a dedicated control plane for each data center." good luck with a single control plane controling all of you regions, one little problem will bring down all your servers. You should always have isolated regions. Nothing prevent you from building some sort of orchestration around multi region deployments.

- Scalability: Kubernetes is known to have limits in terms of the number of nodes in a cluster.
Yes there are limits, but looking at your startup I bet that 5000 nodes for a single cluster is more than what you need in a single region.
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-larg...
But why should they maintain communications with them? Don't get me wrong, it would certainly be nice of them to, but I don't see how someone else doing unaffiliated, unrequested, unguaranteed work based on my own work creates any sort of obligation for either of us.
Just ham, not HAM, not H.A.M.
We should be actively building this new "AI Species" because we are going to be extinct eventually and should think about making a better successor for the human species. The morality argument is nonsense.

How about this: "The primary objective of humanity should be to build an intelligent system with far more precise perception, reasoning and physical manipulation capabilities than humans"

That's my starting point.
I expect streaming will be adopted like anything - first in smaller more mobile teams working in greenfield contexts, then later in large organizations when the idea is less novel and lower risk/cost to apply at scale.

Regardless I feel streaming has been around long enough now it should be urgently considered anywhere where the words "data pipeline" and "scale" are thrown around together frequently.
It fails with complementary products, like when you give away a browser for free to boost your search engine business.
Agreed, these are both good replies to that (which is probably the most common response for some reason)
I don't recall seeing it. There's a plane, and parachuting from the plane, but I don't recall that you ever see the runway.
>Why did you use the word Blessed?

It's a fairly common idiom when talking about platform APIs. Some APIs are "blessed" in that they are the APIs that they platform owners would like you to use and others they would like you to avoid. "Blessed" isn't wholly positive as it implies the platform plays favorites, and frequently the new blessed apis don't support all the old functionality.

Here is patio11 using the idiom 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7658396

It's not as nefarious as you are implying - I don't have an agenda, I've just been on HN for too long.
While I understand the problem, the only solution is a big red sign "Abandon all hope ye who enter" or taping it all shut. It was fun while it lasted.

I guess a big userbase will always attract people with malicious intent, abusing the tech behind everyday apps. But the original creator cannot do anything, when his or her successor does not weed out the bad. Even if they do, this cycle will never break. Interesting morale problem for open source software developers.
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One of the problems the Butlerian Jihad ran up against, aside from the inevitable skirting of the lines from Richese and Ix (many machines on Ix, new machines), is that it runs directly counter to "Thou shalt not disfigure the soul."

Replacement of AI with Mentats (as well as other narrow specialities) has done nothing but disfigure the soul. We see few Mentats -- aside from Paul and eventually another -- who are not constricted. Similarly, if you practice medicine, well, you get the Imperial Conditioning. Certainly, a sign of trust ... but also a sign that the person's actions are no longer completely free.

Now, I am not touting the Heinlein "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship ..." line, exactly, but the alternative to AI is the kind of stagnation we see in Dune, millennia of locked down ritual, honed again and again, with some people becoming ... utilities.

Before we begin this jihad, we must examine the alternative futures.
Basics:

Ten Four Good Buddy

Intermediate:

Breaker One Nine
You got your ears on

Advanced:

That’s a big Ten Four
Good Buddy.
Double Nickels
All The Way

I might be dating myself.
Mad Men. Furious Women
I do believe it's reasonable to draw a distinction between what we're doing now (which is essentially just "statistics") and what Musk warns about.

It's a mistake to believe strong AI will just be a more powerful iteration of today's weak AI. He is arguing to slow developments toward general intelligence, not developments in any narrow field.
lol never heard of nukes or mutually assured destruction? Can’t even stop Iran or North Korea and you think China can be stopped?
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All the browsers have said that they consider general-purpose cross-site tracking to be deprecated, not just cookies. They are working on removing other forms of linking users across sites, including the browser cache, link decoration, and fingerprinting.
Former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao: “Deplatforming Hate Works” on Reddit and YouTube
Yes of course, but i meant as far as you can [while still being a market participant].

Nobody really cares (except for traders) if the US 10 year note is at 1.54% or 1.52%, but rather if it's at 1.5%, or 2.0%, or 3.0%. Or even 10%.
Don't be bullied away from CB by the hams. I agree it's a good idea to get a ham license, but CB is still fun if you understand it's a different community. If CBer's and Hams could get in the same room without insulting each other it would be a beautiful thing. Hams tend to focus on reducing losses and squeezing signals out of the noise floor, CBers tend to focus on air chain (audio/modulation) and maor power.

I would highly recommend a CB that supports sideband, you will get much better range with sideband than just AM (most common CB's are AM only). However that range will only matter if those you need to communicate with also have a sideband CB. Export CB's cover different CB bands for different countries, just make sure you're using the correct band for the US. You don't want to draw the FCC or an angry ham to you by stomping on a non-CB band.

A 1/2 wave whip and a side-band CB can get you maby 6-12 miles or so. You can probably do better with a directional antenna but that gets a hair more complicated. You'll want to get SWR meter as well for HF. Even if the CB has one built-in, don't trust it for your initial setup, it's just for spot checking for coax degradation after your rig is setup.

And a word about power... hams like to flex that they will track you down if you run a linear amp/kicker on your CB. However what they don't mention is that as long as you stay in your lane they won't notice because they're too busy talking about their medical problems and radio gear on 2 meters. If you do run a kicker stay a few channels away from channels 1 and 40 so that you don't bleed over into the adjacent bands. It's also worth verifying you don't have any harmonics kicking up noise further up the band. Multiply your frequency by 2 for the first harmonic, multiply by 3 for the 3rd, on up to the 5th or 6th harmonic. Use a scanner or receiver if possible to listen on the harmonic frequencies when you key down. If you hear noise within 10 feet of your rig do more work to eliminate it or ditch the kicker.

After you get all your other bases covered... Modulation actually counts for a lot, especially on AM. It's possible to do wonders for your CB by adding a compressor/modulator combo. In a pinch you can just hook up a power mic though, but they tend to be very cheaply made. While this will not get your more range technically, it will make your voice much more legible out in the outer fringe of your range so it still helps. This is all part of your airchain/front end and so often gets ignored by hams who think it's only possible to increase modulation at the expense of sound quality. As long as you are monitoring your audio while adjusting your modulation and compression you can dial it in to be louder without being crap-tastic.
No. It's a blog post. End of story, I don't care who made it. Letting someone view a blog post is not a security risk, anyone who treats it as one is wildly incompetent.
Is this the reddit culture infecting hn the other poster was complaining about? Stop being a little brother. cf 1984.
It’s naïve in the extreme. Also way too late
Proper care for animals increases their life expectancy a lot as well. The difference in life expectancy between (domestic) cats being cared for by humans and living in the wild is huge: 15-20 years vs. 1.5-4.2 years.

German source, because English WP lacks this information - just use a translation tool of your choice: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauskatze#Lebenserwartung
It really is as bad as it sounds.

>I imagine there is similar processes in taxpayer funded healthcare systems too to properly allocate resources.

What the doctor orders is what you get. You can typically choose your doctor, as well as get a second opinion. The doctors are generally paid the same.
Location of U.S. Navy Ship Spoofed to Crimea
Wasn’t it Andrew Ng that said something like:

Worrying about Superintelligent AI is like worrying about over crowding/population on Mars.
I think it would be easier to emphasize and teach philosophy and ethics of computer science. The problem is, they can't even do this for business students, so focusing on the existential risk of AI alone is a drop of rain in the ocean. If you follow the topic, of let's say, sustainability, then you know this is a huge blind spot in economics and business. Look at only palm oil production as an example. The current threat to the environment of Indonesia has been recognized for decades, yet the world refuses to legislate against the multinational companies who are destroying the forests for palm oil. Again, this is only a small part of the problem, and it's deeply connected to many other problems, such as the profitable harvesting of Indonesian wood from this destruction, which recently showed up in Japan as a source for the Olympic Games infrastructure.
This is one of my concerns about myself.

I have never really had the opportunity to work with experienced developers for a long period of time (at least not experienced with the work I was doing) so for all I knew I am doing all sorts of things with bad form.
I've never heard it referring to all pseudo-medicines. Wikipedia seems to agree on a narrow definition about just heavily diluted shits.
Why is the alt-right NIMBY? Homeowners are NIMBY because their home is their retirement fund, and housing scarcity boosts the value of their home. Anti-development is literally in homeowners' immediate self-interest.