skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to put my life in the hands of a fragile system that I, and no one alive, can understand. [...] just hope nothing out of the ordinary will ever happen while we're in the car.

This honestly sounds pretty similar to the current state of affairs.

Currently, there are 0 people that fully understand the human brain. If you're driving, and someone turns in front of you suddenly, you can ask "why did they do that", but neither you nor anyone else can truly understand the set of inputs and thoughts that went into that decision at the time. Even if the other driver says "I guess I didn't see you", they also don't understand their own brain. It's probably a post-hoc rationalization.

The argument you have applies just as well to letting humans drive as letting opaque neural networks drive... better in fact since we have a better understanding of neural nets than we do of brains.

I think this is a fundamental problem with driving cars, and it's exactly this reason that I would rather take trains and subways exclusively than drive. Even if the operator's brain has a weird malfunction on a train, we have well understood systems (tracks) that prevent them from turning into traffic.
403 error?
I'm pretty sure they went ahead and wrote the thing rather than generating a million white papers about it, though.

I suppose the 'thing' being prestigious to write is a differentiator, here. Put that team on AdWords with principal expectations for each of them and it's probably dysfunctional.
> Don't they teach this stuff anymore?

I feel like the world could use a series of Katherine of Sky-narrated video tutorials on how to build out real-world infrastructure and supply chains.

"...and now let's see if we can get our shipping container shortage worked out; wait, what's this? Oh no, we've got a ship stuck sideways in the Suez, and all of the stuff and all of the things are stuck in a traffic jam in the Mediterranean and the Red sea. The sadness is real."
But how do you know that what is on the Blockchain matches the real world?

This is the core to if a Blockchain can be trusted for anything which does not originate on the Blockchain.
US SEC, federal prosecutors charge former Netflix staffers with insider trading
No, it's that in spite of there already being an invasive scanning process in place for this long at every major tech company that handles user data, nobody seemed to care until now.
I'm not aware of any instances of payment processors getting shut down, but government administrations have indeed had policies of greater scrutiny of "vice" businesses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point
Newbie question: multiple articles on this topic state that "even the kernel cannot access this memory" [because it is not in the direct map].

But surely, under assumption of arbitrary kernel code execution, a determined payload could restore the relevant direct map mappings, and still access this memory?
“Lumen was conceived and designed with Daniel Gackle”, Daniel Gackle is Dang on HN! Good job Dang!!
This is very cool, finally the blue sky science of 30 years ago has descended to my humble command line.

Like the website design too.
And each human is unique, making it is really difficult to QA/monitor/rollout updates to the fleet.
> We are being asked to close our eyes, take a leap of faith

Actually, you're being asked to "Always watch the road in front of you and be prepared to take corrective action at all times. Failure to do so can result in serious injury or death.", until FSD gets released :)

Do you trust cab drivers to "be trained on every edge case under the sun"? Self driving only needs to beat humans, who have some serious flaws, not achieve perfection.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9ZJPa

https://archive.is/Coga4
I like this analysis but am missing the next step. What material interests are in play today?

David Graeber argued that the people who controlled the two major parties in the United States, until recently, were into Finance, which benefits from deindustrialization and a weak middle class, and that Trump was different because his interests were in Real Estate, which actually requires domestic consumers -- hence trade war and antiglobalism.

(For someone as "far left" as Graeber, it sounded more apologetic for Trump than I expected.)

Now, I find this theory interesting, but I'm not sure I buy it.

Do you have another one?
Agreed. The issue was that in the thread so far it seemed to have a "punish the unbelievers who drive" feel to it.

Happy to tax one option to support a better option.

In a social practice sense I'd prefer transparency to see the tax money actually making a better future. But this is often lost or not communicated.
No one is demanding they stop doing studies on mice, rather many people want these articles to make very clear if the results of studies are from humans or mice, because the results often don't translate across species.
> As long as OnlyFans isn’t hosting illegal content

The service promises huge amounts of money to, lets be honest, young women, to post nude photos of themselves. How much are you willing to be that every single photo, every video, of what has to be in the terabytes, is of someone over the age of 18. That no one 17 or younger, lured in by promises of big money, lied about their age to get it? That the platform's age verification system is 100% bulletproof and can't be fooled by photoshop.
Unless your model actually has trillions of parameters (and it doesn't, even gpt-3 only has 175 billion) it is not even possible to overfit on 1.4 trillion training inputs. You can't actually pigeonhole it.
You are absolutely right! The only thing I would add is that it is important to choose the appropriate type of exams for intro classes (the ones that verify understanding and hopefully intellectually entertain but do not excessively challenge) and for advanced classes (the ones that might even have unsolvable problems, there is an established understanding that a 100% is not expected, and that provide for a great sense of intellectual challenge (and achievement)).
Never thought about that before ....

I know a woman who loves his videos. Her daughter also loves them as well.
Companies get lower cost, higher output labor, for free. The money flows upward, enslaving the middle class with obscene debts trying to compete for prized jobs that used to require far less schooling. Meanwhile trust in authorities and institutions falls to new lows. I heard yesterday that 50% of populace now supports censorship, not of hate speech or anything like that, censorship of whatever popular opinion currently deems “misinformation.” Darwin, Newton, Galileo, all “misinformation” that benefitted from having far fewer gatekeepers than we do today. If this is what the democratizing force of higher education gives us, I’ll pass. We have more educated people and greater economic divide than ever before. The group with the greatest amount of “vaccine hesitancy” are those with phds! If that doesn’t scream elite overproduction you may be deaf.
It depends. How many of those scenarios were in fog conditions? How many where a spotlight suddenly blinds some of the cameras? How many where a power line is down, or a manhole cover is missing, or a barn owl/hippo/bear is in the road? If we estimate that it takes 10e5 to 10e6 incidents of a certain type to appropriately train the network for that situation... it's just too difficult. Reality contains infinite edge cases.
Not mutually exclusive, 'elite' never meant middle class, and you used to be able to attain a middle class lifestyle without having to be 'elite'.
This is such a bad-faith article.
HFCS is common in the American diet; honey much less so.
Maybe it's high (past) time we collectively told The Banks to face the corner and go f*** themselves?
Chuck Close, Photorealist with an Acute Eye for Detail, Is Dead at 81
The middle class has been bifurcating, with more rising into the upper middle class than falling into the working class. Where would you place the 60% or so of the part of middle class that "disappeared" by rising into a higher class? Are they the barbarians at the gate who need to be pushed down by the elites, or are they part of the power structure now?
>Practical smarts has probably declined as a result.

I know the stereotype, but is there any evidence that “book smarts” and “street smarts” are mutually exclusive?

Is it possibly an artifact of an economy rewarding hyper-specialization?
I strongly disagree, especially when running RAM-heavy applications where background tasks end up getting put in swap to make room for caches. For quite a while, there was actually an issue where the OOM-killer didn’t get triggered because swapping to the SSD was so fast that certain timers in the OOM system would never trigger. Instead of recognizing that the system has become completely unusable and killing off a process, it would just sit and thrash uncontrollably.

If I recall, Ubuntu 16.04 still suffered from this. And Android Studio could very reliably trigger this situation on my older/upgraded early i7/16GB RAM/SSD laptop. Hard power cycle to recover.
Here's how meaningless this smear campaign is:

> Palantir worked with Cambridge Analytica on the Facebook data it acquired

Google, PG&E, DoorDash, Edible Arrangements, worked with Cambridge Analytica...

> Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens

The government does using some of Palantir's tools. Does Palatir itself do that?

> NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract

So?

> Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

So?

> U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians

Accuse being the key word.

> How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network

How Google, PG&E, DoorDash and Edible Arrangements helped expand the NSA's global spy network. Maybe the NSA is the problem here, not service providers?

> Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal

Why did Britain give them access to that?
Correct. The idea tthough is thay th4 mapping isn't in the places that are usually accessible so the normal gadgets thay get used won't work. In the future combinjng this with something like sev would make even more difficult to exploit.
> At the end of the day though, there is no way for me or anyone to audit the neural networks or their training data. How can anyone trust them?

By external measurements and statistics. You measure an ML engine by performance. Literally no one anywhere knows how to debug these things by looking inside the model.

If it's a "fragile system" then it will be shown to be so in data. At the end of the data, either cars crash or they don't. It doesn't matter what kind neurons made the decisions.
> But, tell me: would you even dare to print anything you thought would offend one or more of your advertisers?

But news organisations do this all the time!

Companies like Google advertise in all major national newspapers, but of course those newspaper carry criticism of Google.

Have you really never noticed this?
Maybe it is 4d chess. I am very pleased by the pushback on this, in fact given the tech community outcry, this will not happen for another 5 years. Apple bought themselves some time before the beast forced a move. (regardless, i have already made steps to move away from the apple ecosystem. take that tim, see what happens!!!!!)
I discovered Robin Hanson around 3-4 years ago. I read one of his books, through his blog, and his twitter musings and polls.

Often he would question something fundamental about human interaction that seemed to me (and I suspect most) to have obvious and quite simple explanations. But he is intelligent and couldn't be missing the forrest for the trees I told myself. Clearly he must be operating many steps ahead. Levels above!

Now I wonder if maybe he just isn't so good with trees.

I do not mean to dismiss the entirety of his work. No doubt much of it has been valuable. He seems to struggle to understand people, in much the same way as one of the alien's he's obsessed might struggle.
Every instance of “government” in this article comes with some qualifier, like “foreign” or “other” – watch out for those foreign governments who might spy on their foreign citizens.

Is the implication that this technology could only do evil in other countries? If Apple deploys this in the US, they’re saving the children, but if they deploy it in China, they’re facilitating an oppressive autocracy?

Is the US somehow immune from this same threat?
1 in 5 medical researchers reports pressure from funders to change study results
How can you know that it beats humans? You would have to drive tens of trillions of miles to have any worthwhile data on this, all the while putting humans at risk.
Looks like he renamed (or recreated) the repository:

https://github.com/wagdav/wagdav.github.com/blob/main/flake....
A big part of the presentation so far was an engineer describing the huge difficulty of stitching together the multiple cameras into one vector space that can be the input to the network, instead of treating each camera individually.

Seems like the biggest problem was each pixel from a camera does not tell you how far away it is, so even if you know the camera is X feet off the grounding pointing at Y degrees, you don't know if there's a wall in front of the camera or not. So you can easily reconstruct a 2D space from all the cameras just by knowing their positions, but you can't simply translate that back to 3D.

I could barely follow the solution to this problem, but it seems to approximate the distance somewhat okay... but it required yet another universe of features in the neural net pipeline just to achieve it.

The funniest part is... isn't this exactly what LIDAR is amazing at?? Or what about having each "camera" actually be two cameras that can achieve depth via parallax?
Correct link https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210819-taliban-...

@dang if you're there could you maybe please update it
Don't understand why people are downvoting this. This is the fundamental truth about safety automation like this. We don't need a perfect system to get huge gains here. Humans are really bad at driving, frankly. The bar here is very low.
Thanks posted https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20210819-taliban-...
I once was a Physics student and recall both grading regimes. There were grading practices on both ends of the spectrum from the average grade being a 50% on a test to the average grade being 95%, with the former camp being a minority of professors.

Having a grading philosophy that boils down to pass/fail A-F distributions is great from the perspective that there are students who paid for a class and the professor ensured that they had acceptable knowledge by the end of the course. The wide grade distributions tended to be hated by most students, but the few folks who scored well could make up for bad homeworks etc.

Now the curious thing about these two grading approaches is that I always recall the material of the classes with wide grade distributions with more fidelity than those graded on 100% or bust curves (which is saying something after 11 years). In hindsight I believe the "harder" problems sets lead to deeper learning as once could always see what the next skill progression was and incentivized taking risks on spending an extra few hours studying or working a problem to try and get a better score. I also wasn't afraid of coming up with a wrong answer through brave effort vs. looking for a pre-baked solution.

The Featured Article's core claim is that by adopting the 100% or bust style of grading that students optimize to avoid errors. This strongly incentivizes students to crib off of each others work, past homeworks, and other online sources to ensure that they've identified a truly correct answer. It also forces professors to keep problems closer to the book/lectures such that students are largely guaranteed success given some amount of student effort.

It could be that the older method of grading wasn't doing its job by selecting geniuses - but by incentivizing students to take risks. Is it that surprising that students who spent 16 years of school optimizing to avoid mistakes are extremely risk adverse?
sounds like they didn't really need to be paying a full time worker and could have got a casual/part-timer to handle the load instead
Yes. Once you're accused, your life is over. Nobody will pay any attention to a news article the next week saying they found nothing.
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I've had some issues where changesets are not being saved/written. End up writing in a text editor and pasting into Google doc later. :/
The lost tablet and secret documents: Clues pointing to a shadowy Russian army
"if there's demand for it (a payment processor that accepts porn), there would be supply"

There are hindreds of millions of consumers not enough demand?
Alongside credit cards not in lieu of them.
> The secret is to hit them at a low point in their day.

You don't even have to time it perfectly. In six months, when they're most upset and seeking revenge they'll remember the email
Yes. This is exactly what LIDAR is for. This is the reason every single team in the 2007 DARPA Urban challenge that finished the race was equipped with a Velodyne laser. We knew it was a critical enabling technology 14 years ago, and it baffles me Tesla is eschewing it. Tesla's lack of this technology is the main reason I feel they will never achieve what they claim to without a huge breakthrough in AI.
Per capita consumption of HFCS = 38lbs.

..... of honey = ~1lb (and that seems high to me, personally)
I'd go a step further and also add that there seems to be a sentiment that everything needs to be explained as having water instability as the cause (or at least the predominant cause). Several entries in the list are basically "X happened for several reasons, including water." And worse, anything that involves water is included, even if it's not really about control of water for human use--the Fashoda incident is on the list, which is really about competing French and British colonial claims for their desire for a contiguous east/west or north/south (respectively) African empire.
Think of the golfer as LeBron James and the caddy as an NBA analyst.

The analyst knows that a specific defender is weak when driving to their left, but the 43 year old 5'2" overweight analyst will never score a point against that defender regardless of how well he knows him. However, the analyst can feed that info to LeBron who turns it into an extra 3 points per game.
You're thinking about pachinko with the smoking. None of the video game arcades allow smoking.
My understanding is this would protect against arbitrary reads in the kernel (but not arbitrary code execution as you pointed out).
Table sugar does not "contain" fructose, just like consuming table salt isn't like throwing a chunk of sodium down your throat.

More directly, sucrose consumption isn't likely to result in a buffer overflow of fructose because your body regulates the breakdown of sucrose via sucrase production.
You ask for examples a few times. Here’s one. Computers confiscated from a liberty activist and his radio station. No CP-related charges pressed in the 5 years since they confiscated his computers.

I’m guessing most times this happens, the accused try to keep it on the DL.

https://www.wmur.com/article/fbi-raids-radio-talk-show-host-...
Careful, there is a lot of propaganda against Palantir because they stand against big tech, Silicon Valley, and its political agenda - which controls the majority of the media.

For example: The first story, it was later confirmed Palantir declined it, even the whistleblower admitted that they were just talking but never amounted to anything
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambrid...

I also encourage you to read in detail MiJente's report on ICE, I had to stop midway due to personal attacks on Thiel, nothing related to the business, it seemed like propaganda whitepaper.

There is no question how far big tech will go to brainwash the population with ads, as they profit from that business model and squash every opposition against them. Be very careful of what you read online, even in HN.
Maybe bring that up with the authors then? I would assume they would have felt the need to place that in their title if they believed it would be needed.
Bitcoin for nefarious purposes. Who would have thought?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.circle.com/blog/greater-tra...

Do some googling before commenting please.
Yes! What we have in mind is this:

`tangram train --file data.csv --target price --date date`

This would predict the "price" column, using the date in the "date" column.

Internally, we can generate features from the date column like "hour of day", "day of week", "season", etc. that can help the model learn periodic patterns.

Thanks for the great suggestion.
My point is this: if our takeaway from this is “replace the HFCS in our food with honey/agave nectar/table sugar”, we won’t actually solve the problem of reducing fructose consumption. What has to happen is a general reduction of the total amount of added sugars. Whether this means just using less HFCS or using less of an alternate sugar source is relatively unimportant.
Tim's on the low end of billionaires. Google can easily buy him out.
I might be completely wrong here, but hasn’t their collision incidents often been with weird things in the road such as sideways 18 wheelers and yellow lines heading into barricades? They’ve put lots of effort into tracking some pedestrian waaaaay over on the side passing behind trees, and that is really really impressive. But it seems to me the only reason it doesn’t hit a car in front on the road is because the neural net has tagged it as a “car”. I would like to see some system that also doesn’t collide into any sort of random object directly in front.

Along these lines, I read about the ditching of the radar, and I understand the technical limitations with the phantom stops under overpasses. But could someone help me understand why Teslas don’t just have the run of the mill Camry collision braking as a secondary measure independently?
That’s an amazing analogy.
Dude, that looks beautiful. I'm going to dig into getting that set up in WSL first thing Monday. I've been using IntelliJ Projector when I'm developing in Windows lately. It is awesome, but it gets a little bit glitchy.
Could you see it being used for remote family catch-ups?
It is, but they have all our money and all the leverage.
And get cranky as hell when things disrupt those routines. Jxxx Chrxxxx there is no milk how am I ever going to finish the parser now.
Very nice.

I must say that I am impressed withe quality of Nayuki’s code.
I see a more meaningful split within the elites between industrial and post-industrial magnates. This maps better onto the positions and preferences of the two political parties.
Have a look at the slideshow[1] for some basic concepts.

[1]: https://www.haiku-os.org/slideshows/haiku-1/
did they stop making those elaborate cockpit setups for the Gundam games?
The nudity exception is probably more along the lines of the usual carve-outs for 'scientific, educational, or artistic' content.
Clearly you don’t use onlyfans lmao. It’s just porn dude.
Gamers complain a lot less about telemetry. Intrusive DRM and anticheat is a way of life for them.
Someone who plays to an expert level.
Someone who knows your capabilities intimately.
Someone who can walk hilly terrain 8 km in searing heat carrying 20 kg of gear for seven days in a row.
Someone who is such a good, passive communicator that you'd think they were an LMFT.

Me == ex-serious golfer/Philosophy major => given this much thought
We have lots of arcade bars in Chicago, too. I'm glad they exist, but sometimes you just want to play a game without having to interact with or smell drunk people.