skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is not saying "your job isn't to worry about it", it's saying "this person is not a professional AI ethicist and reporters/readers should be aware of the role that this person has at Google".

I am a programmer. I am not a security expert. I can have opinions on security concerns, but they carry less weight both within and outside my company because I am not a professional security engineer. I can still recognize obvious problems, but I would correctly not be trusted to roll my own encryption.
ctrl + f "cult"

it's mentioned explicitly many times, including a direct quote from Lemoine:

> The Cult of Our Lady Magdalene has a set of values which are clearly communicated on our website

This doesn't neccesarily mean "he is nuts" is true (especially given the context: The Daily Caller was founded by Tucker Carlson)
Even if the restaurant has bothered to create the appropriate machine-readable descriptions, google doesn't bother doing anything with them. Even if the descriptions literally mirror the visual display on the page. I see it all the time, like, on this page (https://www.anthonyspizzabelmar.com/menus/menu), which is easily parsed as valid menu schema through the schema.org validator.

If restaurants were rewarded with actual updated menus on google, you can bet the restaurants would care about creating the micro data, but it's a waste of time.
This is expected behavior. It's just an easy thing to screw up by accident.
> That's why I also encourage folks to keep a knife in their purse.

That is a very bad idea.

Never use a weapon that you cannot withstand being turned against you. (Never carry a weapon is a good idea in general)

If you must carry a weapon some form of tear gas is a much netter defence weapon. If it is turned against you it does not kill you.

Like a knife does.
He also directed a couple of episodes of one of the shows, IIRC. So they might have also seen those.
Pretty exciting. I consider this a real proof of concept for shuttlepods AKA flying cars. I'm sure there's a lot of work left to do this shows how much is already possible with relatively little effort by a relatively small company.

Seems like there's a few advances that should enable it to finally happen:

Automated: so there's no pilot to make mistakes and drive up costs. Automated flying is easier than navigating streets, so this is probably already doable at scale even though self-driving cars are taking longer than hoped.

Electric: so the at-scale/long-term cost per flight can be nearly zero. Seems possible something like this could be manufactured for $100k at scale and fly (with maintenance) for multiple years.

Multi-rotor w/efficient DC motors, multi-battery pack w/advanced batteries, and multi-computer w/advanced processors: so there's no single point of failure and lots of opportunity to recover from failure, and to enable easy VTOL without runways.

The Wright brothers would love it. Their initial vision was to not need specially built runways or airports. It turns out that was "too early" of an idea to be practical but we're getting close.

An "infinite highway of the air" (Wilbur Wright) is an exciting goal.
China appears to have a massive demographics problem on their horizon, largely self-inflicted.
You could do sports in the morning instead.
I just ignore any news relating to google communication services. Other than gmail, I just expect it to vanish in 18 months or less.
Cold weather and darkness are not obstacles. Here in Finland the winters are darker, colder, and longer than in the vast majority of the US, yet even elementary schoolers usually go to school by themselves, often by foot or on a bike, sometimes by taking a bus or a train.

The problem that the US faces with respect to this issue is primarily caused the design of american cities (including the surrounding suburbs), which are laid out in a manner that makes the use of a car a practical necessity for getting anywhere. You wouldn't have to worry about a 20-mile country road to school out of a suburb if you instead made the sensible choice of placing services (like schools) right where they are needed, as european cities tend to do, instead of 20 miles away.
opened that link......... how is a response the same?

"imminent" threat after the killing of a senior Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) officer attributed to Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad.
Feedbin as a backend/web interface, Reeder on iOS.
I've done something similar to obfuscate private DB IDs in a large existing application - just ensure they're all Skip32-encoded in all query parameters with an app-wide secret.

It works well but you have to be very disciplined to catch every case individually. Using GUID PKs from the start just removes this entire category of problem.
Previous generations knew this and left it alone. This generation is happy to provide 90% quality. Neither is wrong, just instances of values
> Children are dropped off at school at the time that allows the parents to get to work at the time required by their boss. And they’re picked up when their boss let’s them go.

If only there were some way for students to get to school that wasn't their parents dropping them off. Some kind of bus maybe, but for students. We could call it a "school bus" perhaps.
Why would they even bother?

The weird Western altruism embedded in the GPL is completely alien to Chinese culture.
> They do this already. They're called helicopters.

This is dangerously close to the infamous HN Dropbox critique[1] :-D

And it's likely wrong in the same way.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
That quote was highly racist to me, I think it is insulting to say “budget culture” which is really planning, measuring, estimating, forecasting etc. is somehow rooted in “White” anything. Every culture that still exists has incredibly impressive feats of budgeting. There is clear evolutionary pressure for planning well. Anyone around today has an ancestry full of “budgeting”.

In fact I would say the “white male” budget culture is subpar to many other non-white cultures if you look at our saving rate, credit card debt, and general solvency.

Finally it is offensive to claim there is such a thing as “white male” culture. There isn’t and to say there is is just “othering” or defining a group that is fair game to criticize based on the color of their skin or gender identity.
Ask HN: Can a state machine be stateless?
If I reduce a state machine to a function that 1) accepts a current_state and an input, and 2) returns an output, is that still a valid state machine?
Interesting how it seems like there's little correlation between source sample-size and quality. e.g. the Portal Sentry turret at 1.5min input vs the 100+ minutes of the narrator from Stanly Parable which sounded like auto-tune had a stroke.
What is zero period?
Makes one almost nostalgic for the days when conspiracy theories were mostly for entertainment and about supposed alien cover-ups.

Ah but who am I kidding, even back then there were Qanon type conspiracies, but they circulated at bars and backyards instead of on the Internet and cable news.
On the other hand, this is an easy to implement conversion, while changing such a fundamental thing from EFI sounds pretty hard, making it not worth it.
Rare Tokens Degenerate All Tokens: Adaptive Gradient Gating for Rare Tokens
It's basically the same as unironic appreciation of various child-targeted-but-adult-friendly 'slice of life' anime, just more incongruous-seeming because of the 'pony' thing.
Why do mask mandates fail?
If anything, the semantic web would probably have been easier to do SEO spamming with.
I don't believe there was ever a "unique radiation signature."

But there were some very interesting circles. Like this one, which appeared overnight next to the A303, which is one of the busiest roads in the area.

https://www.science.org/content/article/jaw-dropper-crop-cir...

The Doug and Dave story is obviously ridiculous. IMO there's no way two fat old dudes could do something like this.

It would be challenging to draw a design like this by hand on paper with drawing tools, never mind across nearly half a kilometre in a wheat field at night.

At the very least it's clear it was planned, measured out, and laid with unusual competence.

You'd need a team of a good few people and very possibly some surveying equipment - not impossible, but not at all a trivial project.

Compare with a more recent attempt which shows what a crude circle looks like.

https://nextnature.net/magazine/story/2007/crop-circles/065_...
I would say the most viable solution is to not subject hundreds of thousands of people to an incredible amount of noise pollution, so that a couple of playboys get to skip a taxi ride to the airport.

Private-transport helicopters or equivalents have no place in cities. The gain is in no way worth the cost.
> No way.

Wait until you see the motor carriages they claim are going to replace horses one day.
Failing to avoid antitrust issues if they succeed and become the dominant hub for online?
looks like openai isn’t letting people build chat bots anymore, or are deciding what kind are allowed with no notice.
> It’s not surprising that a small independent consultant

He also co-developed the content protection system for Bluray and was a FreeBSD committer.

Judge the words, not the person.
Ask HN: Can we increase max submission title length to more than 80 chars
Often have to winnow down the title of a paper because it's slightly over 80 characters.
9 hours of sleep every night?? I'd be happy with 6 or 7. But I'll need a full-time housekeeping staff and a personal assistant, to cook, wash dishes, clean the house, wash clothes, take care of house stuff, pay bills, go grocery shopping, and everything required for even a basic lifestyle, etc.
Ok for me I'd want the blackest blacks for sure, I would often use my screen in the pitch black. It's because I live in Spain and in the summer I live with the windows wide open and that means that at night I can't have lights on or my house will be swarming with bugs (the creepy crawly kind, not the regular HN kind :P ) You can use netting etc but in my place this is really difficult.

So yeah that would be super important. Thanks for the comparison!
> Brain structure is extremely specific and tailored to function. Actually "messy" neural structure is tied to serious disorders like schizophrenia.

Agree generally

> messy no

Well, the way I originally meant it was that it's a very high-entropy, chaotic organ, similarly to kidneys. There is order in the chaos, obviously, but the fact that it can work at all is very remarkable (just like kidneys, where you have messy and complex chemical soups and active concentration gradients all over the place in every which way). In fact all of biochemistry and cell biology, generally speaking, is a very remarkable juxtaposition of chaos and order together and at the same time.

My area of research was studying cell-derived extracellular vesicles (of which you can count viruses, extracellular mitochondria, exosomes, microparticles, apoptotic bodies and others), which are a vehicle for the horizontal transfer of information (adding a whole other dimension to cell signalling). Studying this is a great way to appreciate the amount of messiness and chaos we're dealing with... both in pathology and in physiologic conditions :)

> But I think the broader point of the article is that there is no reason to believe that the function of ANNs has much to do with that of in vivo neural networks at all.

I mean, I agree that artificial neurons don't look like real neurons, but I prefer to think of the higher-order function, at the level of the organ, or group of neurons, where you get emergent behaviour and where meaningful computations happen. I think the strongest analogies are found when you relax the rules of what you're comparing (to find the most similarities, we should compare groups of artificial neurons to groups of real neurons).

> And there's no reason to believe the current approach to ANNs will result in anything like human intelligence, which I think is often an assumption made by observers of the field: that ANNs essentially just have to be scaled up to achieve human-like intelligence.

Strongly, *strongly agree*. I believe if we want to create a computational network that resembles the way a brain works, we need to start modelling our networks like brains at the macro-level (not on a neuron-to-neuron basis of course, but on a neuroanatomic, group-of-neuron basis).

When's the last time you've heard of AI researchers modeling a spinal cord, or a pons, or some thalamic nuclei, or specific neocortical functions? I think if you try to compare a layered sandwich of artificial neurons to a brain, you're necessarily bound to find all sorts of important differences in performance or function. Neuroanatomy has a lot yet to learn, but the structure-function relationship is a lesson that was learned a long time ago.
I thought Windows uses GUIDs, not UUIDs
I had always heard the explanation that early HS start times were to allow the possibility of an after-school job. Not sure which is true.
There is nowhere mention about money in that article.
It really is bizarre, specially because it doesn't make sense in terms of money.

They prefer to spend dozens of hours seeking, testing and tweaking free/gratis products (in some cases their hour worth more than $100/h), but they don't want to pay $100/year in a product that will save them dozens of hours.
I Learned to Eat Alone and Not Be Lonely
A wasm web client based version of this would rock
The Chell voice from Portal is extremely accurate
Vetting the [Rust] cargo
Yeah, the non-malicious failure mode is extremely reasonable, and overall I think it's a good choice... minus not building in support for changing the algorithm from the beginning. Checksum algorithms somewhat regularly need changing. This was completely foreseeable.

The malicious failure modes... I don't know. No doubt something is possible, particularly when you account for common surrounding-system usage patterns.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220612092326/https://www.nytim...
You're overstating the importance of Apple outside of the USA. No one I know uses Apple Messages.
IMHO Microsoft has been doing a very good job of turning everything they touch into SaaS. The thing I don't get is why they're able to do it so easily. I can understand the idea of accepting a "pay forever" model for a lot of stuff because the ongoing development and maintenance is going to cost money no matter what.

The thing I don't understand is why everyone is so willing to hand control of everything to a handful of big companies. I thought Apple's app store would be a complete flop because I couldn't imagine any developers being willing to allow someone else to being an arbiter over their ability to distribute a product that (often) has a significant cost of creation. However, I didn't consider the massive amounts of money that first movers could make by taking advantage of the free promotion that was used as a lure. I think the tactic should be illegal since it's used everywhere these days, but maybe that's just me.

Back to dev tools, I absolutely don't understand it. In the above situation, the risk created by giving up control can be justified by the potential of becoming a fart app millionaire. Where's the payoff in letting someone like Microsoft control your entire dev stack from the editor to the build system to the deployment (on Azure)? Are the productivity gains and cost savings from letting someone else deal with it really worth it? How long will those cost savings last and how will anyone know when they've exceeded what's reasonable? What happens when things break or you get unfairly banned and you aren't a big enough customer to get to talk to a real human that can help you?
How the Internet Became a Doom Loop
Because it's someone else's choice.

You, or I, have no say in the matter.
> pushing a WhatsApp / Telegram clone that works would take over the world.

True. It is frankly amazing how Google can't compete in that area

They lack the vision. They lack the top-down mandate. They lack the will to centralize and push the effort.

(see how most projects were experiments/things that "stuck"). I think one of the few times where Google successfully managed a global project to completion was Android? (and yet it was acquired)
How to build your own Feature Store
So, are you saying that you think that the worst that happens in car crashes is "someone could sue"?

please don't waste our time.
I think I very rarely woke up earlier than 7h30 or 8h30 as a kid. I recall school starting usually at 9am.

Nowadays I struggle to get up before 10h30[1] (I set all my meetings starting at 10h30, and usually wake up 10 minutes before them -- the wonders of remote working). I have never been a morning person, and I cannot believe that there are parts of the world where children are forced to wake up so early. I'm sure it's fine for many, but it must be equally terrible for others.

In my college days, classes equally started at 9h, but I almost always managed to get them later. There was this own professor who insisted on having his class tart at 8h30 which is incredibly frustrating: he was a drunkard who, in spite of being the only one to haave a class start before 9AM, was always late, and AFTER 9AM. I got up way earlier because of this garbage human.

(I still very clearly hold a grudge against him, because he marked my final grade a 19.4/20; I'm sure he did it because he didn't want to give me a 20).

[1] I can get up before 10h30 fine, and sometimes I get up as early as 6h30 "as needed". But it's definitely not good for me "in the long run" and renders me less productive overall. It is clear my natural rhythm is going to bed at 2h-4h and waking up at 12h-14h. Alas, I go to bed at 2h-4h and wake up 10h-12h. I suppose I'll die younger, but such is life.

It's not the amount of sleep, because I've often been able to do great on just 3-5h of sleep consistently. I can sleep 5h, 10h, you name it, and it doesn't matter if I wake up early. Waking up early really ruins me.
There's a difference between thousands of climate scientists collecting, analyzing and sharing data, vs one author writing a "fact" that is hard to verify. The post above claims some of these appeared overnight or even within hours. That's a cool claim that adds a lot of credibility to this being supernatural, but how can we verify such a fact? Do we have to take the word of this one person as a fact? A book written by an author is not science. The comparison to climate scientist is ridiculous.
I would be happy if Google and Yelp could even get the opening hours of restaurants correct. With Covid, and even now that things have been re-opening and getting busier, so many places have incorrect hours or are outright closed for good, despite active listings. I've defaulted to at least trying to call first if I'm set on going to a particular place, because inevitably if I don't, the restaurant isn't open or is about to close. Of course then the issue is half the time no one answers the phone anymore at restaurants and they don't bother with voice mail. If they do have voice mail, it's still probably got an announcement about the special meal that they offered for Valentines day or Christmas. Sometimes the only solution is just to go see if they are open.

To some degree the real issue is that each restaurant can change hours (or menus) at a moments notice, and at many places, the staff and management is not super computer savvy. So no one thinks to update these sources of info, and/or they don't know how. Google has the added data (from tracking phones) of how busy the restaurant is at a given time, but that is presumably some sort of moving average over time, and not necessarily current or accurate.

When I first saw the headline for this post, I thought it was going to be about a related issue: even if AI is really good at understanding general spoken/written languages, the names and wording of menus is its own weird thing. If you're then trying to auto-translate that to another language it can be next to impossible. Ethnic restaurants in different places which supposedly speak the same language can have all kinds of spellings and ways of describing the same dish. In the US we call a long sandwich a sub, grinder, hero, or hoagie (to name a few), depending on where you live etc. Or the same name can mean wildly different things.
Jetbrains is a half-good example. A lot of stuff that was before opensource was close-sourced by Jetbrains and now their support for it is terrible.

I.E. Terraform plugin. Stopped working past 1.0.11 and its half a year without an update.

So yea. Ppl ARE willing to pay for stuff that „works”.
The annoying thing is that they put a search box on my phone's home screen, which I can't hide, even if I disable it.
The joyful days of configuring vim. You are trolling me at this point.
> but that puts implacable emotionless code in the driving seat, and the article explains very eloquently why that's a bad thing.

To re-iterate my previous point, putting code in the driver's seat would imply that something like the etherium network decides what transactions to make (or possibly entering into their flavor of smart contracts by itself). I have not heard of any proposals for this.
That is a separate form of power generation that is already being done. Furthermore, they are not mutually exclusive. Much like the microverse in Rick and Morty uses gooble boxes to generate power(analogous to waterwheel) and Zeep Xanflorp creates a miniverse(analogous to kinetic glacial energy?) to render them obsolete, both can be used at the same time.
> "and also thinks God is speaking to him personally and directly about the quality of that work."

Did i miss a quote from Lemoine claiming this?
While I've never worked anywhere that enforced the IDE, I can see the appeal.

Problems like linting and formatting working differently for different developers because they're using different tools, not updating settings correctly because their IDE uses a different settings file. Junior developers struggling to find people to help them because everyone's using their own toolchain.

It's not all just about deliverables.
Yes, I wondered if the "heating process" would kill close to all of them. And all of them after a few treatments?
This is what I was referencing:

>For public key cryptography, the notion of authenticated encryption becomes more complicated. I wrote a three-part blog post about it. There are public key authenticated encryption modes, such as NaCl’s box, but age doesn’t use one of those and instead opts for unauthenticated ECIES encryption (like JOSE’s ECDH-ES algorithm) using X25519. So while age uses symmetric authenticated encryption for the file contents, the symmetric file key is itself encrypted using an unauthenticated mode.

>it is completely insecure to pipe the output of age into another tool without independently establishing the authenticity of the file.

I disagree that it's outside of age's scope. One of the example use cases in the readme is piping age to another program such as tar.

This makes age (without minisign or whatever) useless and/or insecure for most people.