skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History rhymes.

In the medieval ages, book production and reading were rare and highly controlled capabilities unavailable and unpractical to learn to most. Then Gutenberg and his movable type printing press came around, and suddenly affordable media production and with it, reading. People quickly learned that not only you could print books, but also (political) leaflets, and before long, you had all kinds of these early propaganda instruments floating around, some more outrageous or potentially dangerous than others, from commentary about the local counts's promiscuity to divergent religious or reports on UFO sightings[1]. This of course did not suit the powers to be, and they introduced strict controls on what could and could not printed, they set up censorship offices and heavily taxed or banned private, unlicensed movable type presses. We can only dream about what information, which plays, which artifact we lost because they never were created - and we can be thankful that censorship never works 100%, and some still was printed in secret. It took us 300-400 years and several bloody revolutions to get rid of these governmental controls - and it is a process that has not been completely finished in many parts of the western world.

Then, much later, the Internet came around, the Web being intended as a document store/sharing system for scientific information ("books"). Access to the net was rare and most people did not see the point in getting it ("reading"). But eventually, the system became more ubiquitous and with more non-scientific info around, people started to flock in ("more readers"). Simultaneously, publishing on the net became more approachable, and this made all kind of low-level information available, which sometimes was outrageous, sometimes outright dangerous ("leaflets"). And in the last five years or so, we have seen an increasing push to supress unwanted information (under the guise of "battling fake news") and opinion ("censor's offices"). And just like back then, we will see that censorship does not work perfectly - but how much information will be lost, how much this will hold back society.

This BMJ thing is a symptom of a beginning of things, things will become a lot worse before they become better.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over...
The point is that no matter how hard you try, electrical, mechanical or chemical failure will always be a risk. It's an inherent property of physical objects. It's impossibly to make them perfectly safe. Although, to be fair, given the number of objects compared to the number of failures, we're pretty close. Obviously manufacturers should attempt to minimize the risk but they'll never reduce it to zero.

If you're concerned about exploding lithium ion or lithium polymer devices in your home the only recourse available to you is not to buy any.

If you do that you should also be aware that corded devices also catch fire sometimes though. You should avoid those too.

Maybe just avoid electrical systems entirely.
> This is correct. The privacy policy listed here is for the website.

Is that the 100% honest answer?

From my understanding, your website is where you collect my mandatory personal information, if I agree with your TOS. It's not just a glossy brochure for your product - it is your product.

I cannot choose what I share with you. But you can choose with whom you share what information I provide. And from your websites TOS, you seem very eager to share it.
Let me clarify: we just snug together reading our respective books in silence with a cup of coffee :)
The United Nations seems to think he might as well have been a political prisoner...

they also highlight a number of problems with the case against him

> It is reported that, during the trial, Judge K denied the defendants the opportunity to present scientific evidence of Chevron’s alleged pollution and corrupt activities in Ecuador, including the results of 64,000 chemical sampling results. Judge K also refused to examine or consider the evidence used by Ecuador's courts to reach the verdict. However, he allowed Chevron to present “secret” and anonymous witnesses who could not be effectively cross-examined due to purported security threats. In addition, Judge K allowed Chevron to present a witness who conceded that the company was paying him a monthly “stipend” twenty times his former salary.

Why should I be concerned with a ruling that Donziger won his case ‘fraudulently’ under circumstances like that?

> In 2014, Judge K ruled that Mr. Donziger had committed or participated in acts that fell within the definition of “racketeering activity”, including “extortive” efforts to pressure Chevron through “celebrity advocacy”, government lobbying, a disinvestment campaign, and an NGO-driven media strategy. Judge K enjoined enforcement of the Ecuadorian judgement in the USA and pre-emptively seized any “profit” that Mr. Donziger might personally earn as a lawyer from any enforcement of the judgement. Judge K ordered that he transfer to Chevron all property that he had or might later obtain that could be traced to the Ecuadorian judgement.

Racketeering because he tried to organize a boycott against Chevron for poisoning people?

> In addition, Judge K reportedly also made remarks about the villagers in Ecuador who sued Chevron, referring to them as the “so-called” plaintiffs and calling Mr. Donziger’s work in Ecuador a “not bona-fide litigation”. By contrast, Judge K referred to Chevron as a “company of considerable importance to our economy that employs thousands all over the world, that supplies a group of commodities, gasoline, heating oil, other fuels and lubricants on which every one of us depends every single day”, and postulating that “I don’t think there is anybody in this courtroom who wants to pull his car into a gas station to fill up and finds that there isn’t any gas there because these folks [the Ecuadorians] have attached it in Singapore or wherever else.”

Does that sound like a judge prepared to fairly assess whether or not Donziger's case in Ecuador was won fairly? Jesus Christ

> In 2017, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association expressed her concern over a “worrying new approach” in the USA of litigants using the racketeering statute to “intimidate advocacy groups and activists.” The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders has also expressed concern over the restrictions faced by environmental defenders in the USA. The source reports an alarming trend since 2019, in which human rights defenders were being targeted and harassed through the criminal justice system in the USA.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac2615b8f5130fda4340...
and I got down voted :( Honestly like little daggers and makes me really never want to comment on HN.

Surely the idea of the world putting some effort into producing a material that can help stop this happening isn't completely stupid...?
In statistics and machine learning this problem is called concept drift and it's an open research problem. Indeed all the models I listed are already out-of-date with the present state of the world; unless they are fine-tuned on new data.

The regime for the above networks is called "pre-training". The idea here is that rather than training _directly_ on some challenging, specific task, you instead train a more generic task on a _lot_ of data. This gives you a "backbone model" that winds up being very strong on more specific tasks as well. In many cases, the ability to (cheaply) curate or create enough accurate data for specific sub-tasks might not even be possible. It's easier to scrape 400 million captioned images from the internet than it is to find/create millions of visual Q&A prompts/images.

CLIP is a great example of this. While it was trained explicitly "just" to compare images and captions and to output a score of the cosine similarity between the features of the two - I have seen it approach effective state of the art on text-to-image generation tasks, image-captioning, Q&A, etc.

This style of training needs to be updated after it is trained, typically because of the way these datasets are curated. Automatic curation via pretrained models is one option. Another option is to give the model direct access to the internet which is starting to be explored. Pre-training helps a lot with general distribution shift; but it's _probably_ not going to be able predict memes before they happen anytime soon.

Reinforcement learning, on the other hand, requires an agent to learn in real and simulated environments. This obviously lends itself to re-training on-the-fly (and indeed, self-play and on-the-fly retraining are used heavily in practice).

https://youtu.be/kopoLzvh5jY

I have not yet fully grokked reinforcement learning but it is incredibly exciting research and is the correct direction towards making effective use of machine learning in robotics. Note that reinforcement learning and pre-training are not mutually exclusive and may be used in tandem.
All arbiters of truth will eventually end up deferring to whatever the current holders of power wants the narrative to be as that is the nature of power and authoritative fact-checking is merely one more aspect of how power is exercises.
> The problem comes from the giants using close source algorithms for mail filtering

The root cause is that email is an open messaging network without moderation and sending cost. Other open network is SMS, but because of the sending cost the spam problem is much smaller, albeit still exists.
I wonder if all these "shit happens" commenters would be saying the same thing if this happened on a plane to the guy sitting next to you.
In the UK there is a data mining exemption to copyright for non-commercial research if you otherwise have "lawful access" to the work [1] but it clearly wouldn't cover something like copilot and just allows you to build the model. It doesn't give you a copyright exemption if the outputs of the model would otherwise be infringing on the copyright of the input material.[2]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright#text-and...
[2] That is to say it is not mentioned, and to give you such an exemption it would need to be mentioned. Hasn't been tested in court either as far as I am aware
UPI works on USSD[1]. You need a phone but not necessarily a smartphone.

[1] https://www.npci.org.in/what-we-do/99/product-overview
With the Advantage 2 you got 4 extra keycaps in the box: 3 Mac keys and an additional Alt key to replace the Windows one.

For the Advantage 360 they're saying 11 additional keycaps in the box. I'm sure one of those is a Windows key replacement.
Only having read some of the comments - which btw. are often the best part of a HN submission. It is not like we are only getting the fluffy part, just because we are trained to go for the meat, when authors often had to literate a whole backstory before getting to the point. This ability is what makes a great information worker like a developer. So despite only having read some of the comments and finding it hard to start reading a book, I have no problem to keep my focus on difficult professional problems for very long hours (>10).

So I don’t think it is attention span in general. Might be just your mind being trained for things you value.
I think there are pretty good solutions out there with zfs.
What's clear is that Bose QC-35 II headphones caused bodily damage to the consumer who used it in a completely normal way and in accordance to the instruction manual, without any potential of such damage being indicated on the product that is generally assumed to be safe.

We should stop nitpicking of which part of Bose QC-35 II headphones malfunctioned and caused the product to be deadly dangerous. Instead, we should focus on the following problems:

* How do we incentivize the manufactures to take safety of their products seriously?

* How do we make sure the manufacturers don't skirt the responsibility of selling unsafe products as safe ones?

One doesn't get enter the free market without agreeing to some rules first. The rules are what differentiates a market from a scam.

Actually delivering the product for which the money was paid is one such rule.

Clearly warning about lethal dangers of the stuff you try to sell is another.

Violations of either rule come with a cost - because these violations damage not only the customer, but the entire free market.
I find your point 2 very odd on both counts. First, I would find it pretty surreal to walk out of a movie theater because of 1-2 minutes of exposition. You literally spend more time walking from the booth to your seat or watch advertisements before the movie starts then the few noments of on boarding for those that don't know the universe.

Second, there are literally millions of books published each year. Yes many are bad fiction or bad nonfiction but there is an incredible wealth of books that use each page well. E.g. I read 'Sex, Power, Suicide' by Nick Lane a few weeks ago and there was not a single page that felt wasted - every page i learned something new. Similar with e.g. Hans Rosling's book. And there is much fiction where each page matters in driving the plot.

Tl;dr: choose good books.
those are official sanctions though?
> That's an assumption. The contrary view is that language is just part of the I/O system, not where the hard work gets done.

FYI, this is the [Sapir-Whorf hypothesis](1)

> We lack some fundamental understanding about how to interact with the real world. The problem is not on the language side.

This is to a significant extent a sensing issue, not a understanding issue.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
So what? Honestly, I don't understand the direction of your point.

Is it Don't have opinion diversity? Control what people hear and believe? Don't allow (what you consider to be) lies? There are so many responses to each of these.
Even a "We're very sorry this happened and we will immediately raise to the next level to investigate" is a better reply rather than fobbing off with a replacement.
> Rust requires compiler support to take apart async functions and put them back together as state machine, and the others lean on their GC

C# actually does the same thing, though it indeed still relies on GC.
If only it didn't feel like it passed away years ago. :(

I mean I still write Perl for my day job, and I like the language, but unfortunately that doesn't change the reality.
It's good to reduce keyboard width because we need to put pointing device somewhere near. But reducing height isn't sense for me because vertical space isn't matter at all. I don't strongly need F1-12 keys but prefer to have because nothing is harmed by having dedicated keys.
The title is fine, you have a problem with your own implications.
Plenty of smart people all over:

New York, Boston, Pasadena, South Loop Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Northern Virginia, etc.
While I agree with you, if you may, I will augment what you said slightly:

>Whether or not the battery started it or something else did, it is clearly the defective Bose QC-35 headphones that provided the serious problem, so if you have them, the danger is there.

Which is something that they should put on the label.
If they commingle, I don’t feel that it will matter if you filter by seller. That’s one reason we buy much less from Amazon.
Failure is so common in this area that using “should” is a bit odd. The problem today is not like the Mercury minor difference (which in one stage some tried to invent a planet inside Mercury orbit called Vulcan).

But we are not of that scale. 90+% things we do not know, we just label them as dark … matters or energy. It looks like we know. The key is the dark part.

If you do not know 90+% things out there, there is no way you can think of should.

Just say the universe once again serve us a curve ball …
Millennials and especially Gen Z are thought to have higher rates of depression and anxiety than previous generations. I would be very surprised if social media weren’t a factor.

Despite making a career in tech I believe some of what we’re doing is very harmful to culture, mental and physical health, the environment, and democracy.

At some point I would like to focus on mitigating these problems.
Courts care about "equity" (restoring fairness). So the scope of the breach determines what is a fair remedy to make the plaintiff whole. A breach in a beta release (with lower circulation) would seem to be lower impact than a breach in a production release in that context.
You have to use violence in order to stop people from nationalising their own resources instead of opening themselves up to foreign corporate penetration. The US federal state had to use violence to suppress the socialist Black Panthers.

I could go on like this all day. You have no legs to stand on when your claim is that capitalism is just voluntarism.
It seems like it can save Mobi/Kindle files as ePub, but it’s not clear if I can do the reverse, which would be rather neat.
Because for NYTimes e.g. they don't allow online cancelation and need to through the phone retention loop.

RBI mandate thing could have been implemented better but I absolutely support the idea that recurring payment control should be with the consumer and not the merchant.
Ask HN: Can Software Feel Intimate?
Recently I've been reading the book "Wabi Sabi" by Andrew Juniper.
It occurred to me that while it's not uncommon for someone to have things that have a special value for them - things or rituals that hold a special intangible value - I cannot think of software that brings up the same feelings.

I wonder if I'm alone in this. If not, I wonder what aspect of software prevents us from having those feelings?
> Why do you think it covers the data collected by the agent?

The agent is not the only concern. Before you even get to install the agent, you have to provide personal information to their website (I believe - I don't now, because I rejected the TOS and don't have access to the non-public part of their website).

The thing is - Drata collects mandatory information from their customers employees and contractors trough their website. The TOS for the website is explicit about how they plan to use that information.
Agreed. It's fair that remapping keys is great to reduce moving hands in some cases, but it not mean dedicated keys aren't needed. I prefer to have both. Remapping feature is confused to reducing keys.
> Animals with very limited language capabilities have the ability to run their own lives, and to some extent manipulate their environment.

This makes me think of the ongoing effort by some people to train their pets to use talking buttons to communicate. These include the animals occasionally trying to convey relatively complicated ideas with simple sets of words, like "play help" ("I'm bored, come entertain me") [1] and "dog settle" ("make that dog outside stop being annoying") [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAQKA9WFlq4

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sY3K83Zao8
I had a question about the veritasium video, at some point they say that the electrons barely move, that confused me since that doesn't match my understanding of amperage, flow of electrons being for example 6.24x10^18 per second.

Anyone care to help me out? Maybe that just isn't much?
C and C++ are completely different languages. The arbitrary parsing of data into structs in C is what makes it incredibly suitable for file parsing. Among other things.
Is Perl 6 out yet?

:)
The QC-35 II's were great for concalls. You can connect multiple devices at once via bluetooth and the mic quality was quite good. For music, I agree there's lots of better options. I've now using an external microphone and some wired DT-770's, however it's not a great portable solution.
So? The solution is that services travel with teams. I've been through more than one reorg. That's what always happens. The point is to have clear ownership and prevent conflicts from too many people working on the same code.
My conspiracy is that DIY keyboard builder want to solder less parts as possible.
> And that an immediate action is for cities like Venice, New Orleans, and Miami to ready themselves for that.

If you really believe in what you say, now is the time to go short on housing in these (mega-expensive) cities and re-invest your incredible profits into clean energy.

Alas, nobody is actually serious about what they say, on both sides of the so-called "debate".
I feel this is the new "will someone please think of the children?" argument which showed up every now and then, with every other law officially meant to "stop child pornography", a goal no sensible person would dare to speak out against, but were later used for far less noble purposes.

If you cut out a man's tounge, you do that because you are afraid of what he might say - or that's what people will think. It's better to make better arguments than they do. If you resort to obvious censorship, you are just creating martyrs.
You can also create transactions for batches of messages if you want. Same as acking batches of messages in a queue system.
Specially around 1:38 (1 hour, 38 minutes), when they talk about myokarditis on kids and young male athletes.

Mr. Rogan did a great job being impartial, even though he was biased on that matters (Rogan followed the McCullough covid treatment protocol). The doctor is a polemic person, great to listen in front of the computer where you can pause it, search for the references given by him, read it and evaluate it by yourself. Impossible to agree with 100% of his thoughts, however you cannot refute data and peer reviewed papers as not being scientific. I really would like to hear the opinion of the experts
“The phrase ‘no evidence’ is a red flag for bad science communication.”

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...
Twitter user releases video showcasing mining factory with NVIDIAGeForceRTX 3070
General rule, no. But for certain nations, yes. Those nations just happen to include the global heavyweights.
I bet 10$ they do it on purpose two fold. They know it's absurd to say reality is not behaving well and they know it sounds better to say it anyway.
Do you have the universe's home address? Maybe it's still living with its creator?
> If you do not know 90+% things out there, there is no way you can think of should.

They're just leaving off the implied "according to our models" at the end of the sentence. This is mostly fine, because it's obvious we don't know the true model of the universe, so our expectations are based on our current understanding.
> But what can we do?

Use Fastmail, or anything other than Gmail, basically.
People talk about the visuals a lot because that's what you can see, but the visuals are actually one of the less interesting things about the experience.

For instance, why do I meet entities (nominally my self conscience) that appear smarter and wiser than myself? And why do they explain systems that then match up with other people's experiences? Why do different people's subconsciences come across such similar high level concepts during the experience?

If you know you know and if you don't you don't. It's an experience few will ever have and most people are not ready for. So they seek to reduce it to something pedestrian.
My background is in image processing and I can see quite clearly that the high frequency noise happens when you subtract two images, one of which is shifted by half-pixel for instance. What you are left with is the edges (high frequency) of the image. The same applies to 1D in my opinion. For this reason I am not convinced (1) is actually true. The argument about lack of low frequency is interesting, who knows what is happening there indeed.
Agreed. Remix is pretty good for what it is, but it lacks a lot to be a “one person framework”. A database, for example.
If you're going tot quibble about the units, it should be "1m/c". " 1m/c s" gives a result in s².
What's clear is that you seem to have a bone to pick with Bose for some reason or another, since you're apparently the only one spamming the equivalent of SUE THEM SUE THEM SUE THEM!!! in every single one of your comments.