skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For months everyone has naysayed the idea that money printing would have a negative effect, now just Google "inflation" news articles.

I did, they all say inflation is transitory largely due to supply chain issues, and that it looks like it's starting to come down.
I wouldn't go that far. I need something with a decent browser at the very least.
I see, guess it was a bad question. In the context of this discussion the comment chain seems to be talking about money supply as being the source of inflation. Seems like there's different types of inflation. I see some other comments trying to clarify that too
> but they decided later that any sort of free form chatbot was dangerous.

Seems like OpenAI saw this video differently. But then again, now OpenAI wants to police how to use GPT-3 and reject or approve what is acceptable for others using their service; since they can change their guidelines at any time.

They need a sense of humour, rather than policing projects like this.

> What they allow changes on a weekly basis, and is different for each customer.

Exactly. I don't know what to say to entire building their entire business on top of OpenAI, since they can just revoke access instantly and simply they may not like what you are doing and will point to the 'guidelines'

> I don't understand how they expect companies to rely on them

Won't be surprised to see Rockstar Games using a tweaked, self-hosted or private version for their future games for this use case, Since OpenAI knows they can get a significant amount of money from large customers like them.

But not from smaller companies.
China Port Shutdown Raises Fears of Closures Worldwide
It's interesting that the map for minimum wage earner housing affordability is what you might expect (really unaffordable near big metro areas), and kind of smooth gradations. But the "average renter" map has a lot more local variability, with extremely unaffordable metrics for some counties that are really out of the way. What's special in Skamania County, WA, or Pike County, PA, or Park County, CO?
I don’t think it’s imposter syndrome that’s the problem. It’s mutual dishonesty. When an employer asks for 10 years experience with a technology that has only existed for 5, they’re being dishonest. ( no I don’t think it’s a simple mistake). It’s impossible to satisfy the requirement and they’re being dishonest asking so the logical response is to simply be dishonest in your response. Yes, I have 10 years experience.

This extends to other things as well. When they say we are going to start using technology X. They don’t want to hear, “I don’t know it but I can probably get up to speed in a couple of weeks.” They want to hear,”oh ya, I’ve been working with that on my nights and weekends for about six months now. They’ll usually know no one knows it because they’ve been looking foe people for the last couple of months but can’t find anyone who has worked with x.
Signatures typically appear on printed documents. More and more often, they appear on separate signature pages, which don't include any terms or the signature of the other side. Authentication is not document integrity. Printed documents are also easily edited. Print and PDF pages are easily exchanged.

I've seen contracts where parties initialed each page. Don't ask me why. I don't think I've ever seen a contract of more than one page signed on each page.

I own several bottles of Noodler's ink. If I ever sue on a paper contract, I expect I'll be sending a scan or a photocopy into evidence.

There's nothing magical about pen and ink, new or old. We just have a longer history with it. Everything's just evidence.
that said 80% of what's described here is a dev experience modernization, if limited real value to the user experience. oops. over jumping my claims a bit.

who gives a crap about esm? you need to have it. bundlers that arent shitty bloated slow beasts? good yes, but to me not a tuallyuch of a difference h my hot reload was under 2s before, usually I didn't even bother & suffered a full 5s progressive recompile. shaving those seconds off is a distraction from architectural redefinition of the core constituating elements of web which is the real ongoing game afoot. value? oh sure, by eliminating inefficiency, but not fundamentally progressive: a way to do more faster.
And the number of singles is projected to continue to increase. We need to go back to committed relationships again, life is so much easier with 2 incomes.
> I admit 600 doesn't sound like a lot more than 250 but we're nowhere near those charging speeds, not even in a planning phase.

Chargers substantailly bigger than that are definitely in or past the planning phase, for example: https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-semi-megacharger-charging-po...
You have to configure iCloud backups when setting up a phone for the first time. Someone who is non-technical, but privacy conscious isn’t going to do this.
The problem is that this is very hard to prove since government is a black box.

Take this example where Pelosi, one of the richest members of Congress has personal calls with Tim Cook where she also holds her most worth stock of 17%:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/nancy-and-paul-pelosi-makin...
No it is not fine at all. That was a terrible answer from the recruiter.

It is fine only for junior engineers. For people on the higher end of the ladder, you have to let them know what type of roles you are recruiting for, and see if they are willing to make a move. Some will make the move if the job is an upgrade. This recruiter doesn't get it.

The recruiter is just bad at his job and makes amazon look bad. He/she is bad because amazon probably just requires hard quotas, and doesn't care about relationship building.

Every last job I have had, it was a recruiter sending me a message, then maybe months later, when i was ready we went through the process.

This recruiter is destroying the long term pipeline of the company for short a term quota.
since this is amazon, I am not surprised of it.
It has much better energy density than batteries, which is useful when mass is at a premium (in specific circumstances because it also requires heavy apparatus), or when you need some backup power supply to supplement a worst case scenario that would require a prohibitively large battery to handle.
> Technology comes in, makes peoples lives shit

So pessimistic. Basically all tech (except perhaps certain weapons advances) improves our lives. Yeah doomscrolling sucks but is it worse than watching the grass grow while you get drunk on the porch a hundred years ago? (Assuming you had a porch, or booze for that matter.) Yeah biased AI sucks, but is it worse than overtly racist societies from 50 years ago? We certainly can and must keep improving our collective lot in live, but "all is shit" is fundamentally lacking perspective.

> We value our life and youth because it runs out.

No, we value life because it affords us agency and positive experience. We value the memory of youth for its limited responsibility, higher fecundity, and being earlier in our life's decision tree.
Thanks for all the support along the way y'all (even tho you did not know you were supporting me.)

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Why stop at 2?
>From my experience it understates the very real price increases I am seeing where I am

the "very real price increases" you're seeing is clouded by the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic. The CPI uses a fixed basket to weigh the different price increases. Meanwhile in your head, your brain weighs price increases based on the shock factor. That lyft ride that got 2x more expensive? That's going to have much more mental weight than your rent that stayed about the same, even though the rent makes up 40% of your monthly spend and your lyft rides makes up 5%.
The vaccination gives better protection against ending up in ICU, if we believe the literature. You want agency, do you also volunteer not to occupy an ICU bed (or even a hospital bed) in case you get Covid? Seems very selfish to demand the hospital service (at the end of the day, provided by others in society, e.g. others who went to medical school so we don't have to learn medicine/how to intubate ourselves) but refuse to contribute to protecting it (e.g. by making sure hospital beds are available for those who need it).

And how am I misinterpreting your comment?
You do realize reddit is a company that hires humans, right, and those humans need to be paid for their time with money?

You're making a huge leap about profitability based on a fraction of their running costs.
There's no evidence that the voting machines or that voting is fundamentally broken. It's probably not that hard to fake a single vote, but it's exceedingly difficult to fake them in bulk, in a systematic manner.
> it's quite possible that being a liberal democracy may not even be the most efficient way to become a prosperous country

I can't phanthom what could happen on the planet if at some point China becames a democratic republic..and it fails.

And then you could have a good chunk of the planet in chaos.

I think that for the time being, if anybody with chances of success, tries to pursuit a democratic revolution in China, many West forces would came in aid of the CPC just to make sure that their own countries remain safe.

If you want to extend the idea, I think the same could happen for many powers, US, Germany, England, France, etc.

The "regime change" is an extreme strategy, not much wanted to happen by most powers in other great powers. There are simply too many variants that could go wrong, and most could not be contained.

A single (out of control) army regiment with the control of 1 (one) ICBM could be nightmare scenario to solve.
Yes it will come with the next "+1" version due out in late fall (winter?). It will be an integral to the icloud photos platform. Supposedly if you turn off iCloud photos backup it gets turned off as well
They're required to investigate and possibly file a suspicious activity report if they thought a transaction or a series of transactions was (wait for it...) suspicious. They might simply believe "there is no way this guy has $500k." This kind of report doesn't necessarily result in any kind of action that the client will notice, even if the investigators decide to pass it on to the government.

This is all governed by laws like the Bank Secrecy Act. There's been a push in recent years to make it personal with bank personnel, who are reminded that they're subject to civil and criminal penalties if they look the other way and knowingly let the wrong kind of transaction through.
> How could I live knowing that I brought it to someone because I was so stupid to avoid the vaccination?

First, you would never know, the virus is out there and some people get COVID symptoms days after getting infected.

Second, by vaccinating you are not preventing infecting other people. You are increasing your chances that when you get COVID it won't be very bad

If you really can't sleep because you can still infect someone, I think you have to self-isolate till the end of your life. In space-suit preferably.
Our only option is minority screech.
> Why would they have to fear being convicted if they don't actually hold any incriminating evidence?

Because going to court is extremely expensive?

Because retaining legal council is extremely expensive?

Because your district attorney will likely inflate the charges to coerce you into taking a plea deal, despite your innocence?

Because you don't want all of your private documents, including ones completely unrelated to the alleged crime, entered into the court records?

Because a "jury of your peers" can be convinced to believe just about anything?

Because even if you're acquitted, most people will still believe you're guilty, and treat you as such?

There are a myriad of reasons one shouldn't let the police go on mass criminal fishing expeditions. A lot of innocent people take collateral damage as a direct result of the incentives involved in an adversarial justice system.
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Hashing is done on device, matching is also done on device. In the event of a match, a "safety voucher" is generated and uploaded to iCloud. Multiple safety vouchers are required for your account to be flagged, at which point the contents of these vouchers (which contains metadata and a grayscale thumbnail of the photo) can be viewed by Apple.
>if a Nazi installation was a "concentration/extermination camp" or a "collection camp"

I'm not sure if a "collection camp" is an accepted term, or a term related to Holocaust denial, but there is a fact-based distinction between concentration and extermination camps, and a "collection camp" sounds like it might mean a camp that was used to gather people to be sent on to the others.

For example, "the Theresienstadt ghetto functioned in part as a transit center for Jews from Czechoslovakia, Germany and Austria on their way to extermination camps and other mass killing centers"

Regarding massacres:

"The term massacre, being a synonym of "butchery, carnage", is by nature hyperbolic or subjective, primarily used in partisan descriptions of events. There is no neutral definition of what constitutes a "massacre" although some authors using the term may lay down general "working definitions" of what they mean by the term"

Things described as massacres seem to range from the killing of 3 people to a million.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some weird telemetry tied to this too
> Why hire someone unless they are enthusiastic about joining?

Because they need engineers. As they grow they will need many more. Their success will partly depend on their ability to get those engineers to work for them who might be productive but don’t drink the kool aid.
Given what I know about how FAANGs are run, they probably shrugged and wrote down whatever threshold felt right.
He also appeared recently on Sam Harris's podcast to a bit more more skepticism.

I thought he didn't break much new ground from his previous appearance on Lex's podcast in 2019, which I went back and listened to before listening to the latest one.

But...in saying that - listening to him again triggered a multitude of aha moments for me, and got me thinking about things like: "what is a dream", "how does deja-vu work" in the context of cortical columns, 1000 brain theory, predictive voting, etc.

I though his most recent explanation on how creating an artificial neocortex is not a risk in itself, but rather what you ask it to do. He was also adamant that giving an AI the ability to self-replicate should be where we draw the line.

This was very interesting when they previously discussed that topic but was months before SARS-CoV-2:

https://www.happyscribe.com/public/lex-fridman-podcast-artif...
Atari shipped a final Rev C basic both in the ROMs for the XE computers and on cartridges for people that requested it.

There were several derivations. The original authors of Atari Basic produced BASIC XL and BASIC XE on cartridge, each with additional language features. There's also the really cool Altirra BASIC (see https://virtualdub.org/downloads/Altirra%20BASIC%20Reference...) which ships with the Altirra emulator as a tokenized-code compatible, but faster and more featureful, implementation. A version of that was included in the ROM for the new 576NUC+ all-in-one Atari-compatible.
Also fun, along the same lines: "And He Built a Crooked House", by Robert Heinlein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22%E2%80%94And_He_Built_a_Cro...)
or we could pay people more so they earn a living wage
Discussions like this always get flagged and removed.
Thank you; this was catharsis.

The amount of times someone decries any argument as a slippery slope fallacy based only on the merit that we are trying to figure out a trend is... far too common and it just really upsets you, yah know?
You can just not connect your TV to the internet. If you must, you can firewall it to prevent it from connecting to unwanted hosts.

Regarding media players, VLC is open source. Is anyone even using proprietary media players any more?
Did you expect them to be the same, in order for there to be a causal effect?
My money is this is secretly about nuclear, bio, chemical or other WMD or “dangerous” material. I can’t imagine that Apple would be so stupid to open such a Pandora’s box to an Orwellian state and crimes against all children in the name of making no statistical difference in the porn problem. There has got to be a hidden story here and severe pressure on top executives, otherwise I can’t see how the math makes sense. Please keep digging, journalists!
Bud when you make your 1.5B you can come here and post about what you do with it and we will let you know if you are pure and virtuous.
> It's ridiculous that there are 100 years old works of art created by people who have been dead for three quarters of a century which are still under copyright. You cannot spin this as a positive thing, I'm sorry.

One counter-argument I've seen when I've taken your side is that some works are higher quality for society (in some fuzzy, aggregate sense) because they have gatekeeping that maintains the image of a given copyrightable work.
Its a terrible move for their business, I am already looking for an alternative.
Are you announcing a murder-suicide here? @dang
I assume they've tested NeuralHash on big datasets of innocuous pictures, and gotten some sort of bound on the probability of false positives p, and then chosen N such that p^N << 10^-12

What's interesting about this faulty argument is that it hinges an assumption that "innocuous pictures" is a well defined space that you can use for testing and get reliable predictions from.

A neural network does classification by drawing a complex curve between one large set and another large set on a high dimensional feature space. The problem is those features can include, often include, incidental things like lighting, subject placement and so-forth. And this often work because your target data set really does uniquely have feature X. So you can get a result that your system can reliably find X but when you go out to the real world, you find those incidental features.

I don't know exactly how the NeuralHash works but I'd presume it has the same fundamental limitations. It has to find images even they've been put through easy filters that are going to change every particular pixel so it's hard to see how it wouldn't find picture A that looking like picture B if you squint.
If the human reviewer doesn't see a photograph of a sex act with a prepubescent (NCMEC classification "A1") then it will be rejected.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28146902
Not really. People say stuff like this, but what they're really talking about is their own familiarity with GitHub (in the vein of <http://lighttable.com/2014/05/16/pain-we-forgot/>).

What GitHub has going for it is that it is familiar to ("a majority of"?) working developers, and that it's better than both the competition and the Git CLI itself, but from a reality-adjusted perspective, GitHub is pretty bad, too. (Then when people like me make comments like this, others wrongly infer that it comes from a history of false starts and firsthand frustration, unable to conceive that anyone would speak up on this sort of thing if there weren't something personal at stake; no way that it could just be the result of empathy for the uninitiated.)

It's pretty tragic that we've basically killed wikis —like, actual wikis—and regressed back to directories of text files managed by version control systems originally meant for handling program source code. That people then go on to call these wikis is basically an insult to history.

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How would you organise a rebellion on platforms controlled by the same entities you're rebelling against, ones who have shown that they can exert tremendous censoring power? They've also become an essential part of life for much of the population. As much as I'd love to be proven wrong, I don't think there will be any mass revolutions or other "liberty tree watering" going on in the near future. The masses have already been beaten into submission and thoroughly enslaved.
I’ve noticed the same behavior.
I agree. I wanted to believe that despite being a greedy coropration - like they are all - and despite the hidden compromises in security they do (like not encrypting backups because the FBI asked them to) they would at least try their best to avoid being scumbags.

Too bad. Scumbags they are.
> Then where are the news reports or articles of these false positives that would have shown up within the past decade?... Is there even a single verifiable report of such a false positive? I feel that with the amount of attention brought to this issue, if there was such a report then it probably would have been brought up by now.

Positives get reviewed by humans, at which point false positives are identified and discarded. We would not hear about them, and there would not be any reporting about them in the press.

You might think that this is the system working as intended, but I do not and would never consent to Apple giving my photos to some random anon to look at.
The Supreme Court won’t block Indiana University’s vaccine mandate
That's not what I read in multiple sources. They including mac os as part of it. And why wouldn't they the software will be easy to compile into the apple photos app. https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-child-abuse-material-sca...
> How will Apple know whether a hash is for non-CSAM content? Spoiler alert: they won’t.

As I said, the flagged content is reviewed by an Apple employee before it actually triggers an external report. If the flagged material is not in fact CSAM, it will not be reported.

> And Apple claims it will be reviewed by a human. Sure, just like YouTube copyright claims? Or will it get automated in the near future? And what about in China? Or Saudi Arabia or other countries with less human rights?

First of all, the volume of flagged CSAM content is much, much smaller than the volume of YouTube copyright claims. It's entirely plausible to ensure that a human reviews all flags. Second, Apple is actually constitutionally-barred from automating this step entirely. You can thank Neil Gorsuch's decision in United States v. Ackerman for this. [1] The crux is that since NCMEC is a qausi-governmental entity, automatically sending CSAM-matched content to NCMEC without an Apple employee first inspecting the content would constitute an unreasonable search and seizure and would violate the 4th amendment.

[1] https://library.law.virginia.edu/gorsuchproject/united-state...
I think hypergamy is declining, and likely to decline even further. Purely anecdotally, I know a number of couples where the woman significantly out-earns the man, and I get the impression it is becoming more common. Many women prefer hypogamous monogamy to hypergamous polygyny.
This is the most honest take on this that I’ve seen. The slippery slope arguments don’t make sense, nor does the risk of false positives.

But the idea of being suspected even in this abstract way, because of something other people do, is at the very least distasteful, bordering on offensive.
I envision a choice of stores on user setup, no need to enable and go into developer settings to install outside apps, an opening up of APIs related to push notifications and allowing auto updating of apps installed outside the Play Store.

In a perfect world a locking down of SafetyNet or a complete rework of the concept so having a rooted phone doesn't disable a ton of apps.
There are apps like Plane9 (very similar to Milkdrop from Winamp) and the commercial Luminant Music. I'd say FL Studio's integrated plugin ZGameEditor Visualizer is probably the top alternative considering the sheer number of presets and templates as well as configurability. They're all listed at AlternativeTo.

https://alternativeto.net/software/projectm/
I have tried to play around with perceptual hashing on an image set consisting of very similar images (flowers) and there were clashes all the time.