skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I noticed after I watched an episode of Stoic Finance[1] about a possible "impending crash of the Chinese economy" is that YouTube started recommending about a dozen "independent" channels.

I put the word independent in air quotes because they all have near-identical looking title cards with the similar fonts, some variant of the phrasing "The collapse has begun!", and the same-ish content. Different presenters, different channels, same message. Over and over. And over.

Reminds me of the "This is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy" clip that edited together dozens of apparently independent local news channels saying the same script, verbatim.[2]

You've got to wonder if there's someone with deep pockets trying to influence public opinion on China? Or is it just the same thing as the "local" news channels, where a bunch of YouTubers have been "bought" by a corporation that send them material to read?

I would love to know if anyone on Hacker News knows something about this kind of thing...

[1] In case you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stoic+finance

...and some copy-cats clips I recommend opening in a private tab unless you want to be inundated with even more clones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6slQLbT_fNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-tLenP5NA4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDVNag9Pq7s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JEdz1eA2vQ

[2] Entertaining and terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZggCipbiHwE
Like an airgap for money
Is there some explanation for why this person does not like WASI?
That is literally what I said...

First Amendment is the application of the principal of free speech to law

However freedom of speech is also a larger principal then just the first amendment. People seem to only want to focus on the first amendment and government censorship as if that is the only type of censorship
Whenever that comment comes up I feel the urge to just post the wiki entry for the Kelly criterion. If you don't have as many resources as your competitors in the market, reduce your bet size!!! Yes, that may mean you cannot challenge Mark Zuckerberg for yacht size just yet, but it will also mean that you can try again if you fail. Match your ambition to your means. Super risky plans with no room for errors make for great movies, but are terrible ideas in real life.
It is better in some things and worse in others. It was better in some places and it's now worse in others. Why does every comment about how some things are getting worse has to be met with the same "rational optimism" automatic response?
Even building functionality to communicate with the person behind a suspended account is hard...

For example, if the login requires a password and SMS 2fa, but the SMS is to a Google Fi phone number, then you're going to have to also enable the Google Fi account for that user to be able to login. Or what if they need to use email password resets to another suspended account? (remember you will probably suspend all accounts of a user at once if you suspect something illegal).

Making a special 'chat' tool inside the login flow that only requires a single factor (the account password) which allows presenting evidence to a google rep seems like the obvious solution (or requesting the account suspension be delayed, or that the data be deleted).

Building and staffing that sounds like quite a lot of work though, which would be hard to justify for the tiny number of impacted accounts and zero revenue potential.
I'm not a lawyer and the best advice is to check everything with a lawyer...that said it sounds like the contract would be covered by Cypriot and (if you're in the south) EU law.

I live in Ireland and these sorts of clauses are pretty standard, but I don't know how enforceable they are...there's a lot of nuance. For example, creating a direct competitor will probably put you on shaky ground as it could be argued that you used company trade secrets to gain an advantage.

If you create something completely unrelated it could come down to whether you used any company resources in the process i.e. a company laptop, company email, worked on the project during work hours etc. But even if you create something unrelated and didn't use any company resources that doesn't mean your employer won't try to enforce the clause which could result in a whole bunch of expensive litigation which you probably don't want to have to deal with.

What I have seen work is discussing any side projects (including open source) you're going to work on with your employer first and get written confirmation that they're waiving their right to enforce this clause. They may have legitimate concerns about what you're doing (is it competing with their business, will it be a distraction from your work etc) that you may have to address. This may not work in every case, but usually does.

Ultimately you need a paper trail to ensure you can prove the project wasn't something your employer was paying you for, but as I said if you anticipate your employer enforcing this clause you probably want to think hard about whether you want to have that fight.
> The internet until around the time of Facebook felt magically obscure. [...] There won't be anything else like that feeling.

The name for that feeling is Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

(note that happened around two decades before FB)
I'm sure a lot of NGOs do.
The Push for Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in Schools
I'd argue that the UK has always had a 2-party system, and if anything the US adopted it from us. The Lab/Con split goes back to ~1910, prior to which we had the Tory/Liberal split going back to ~1850, prior to which we had a Tory/Whig split going back to ~1780, prior to which the political system was very different.
Not trolling. Average starting salary for an SDET is 58k according to Google and I was making well below average. I was making barely above starting salary after seven years, my yearly raises didn't even keep up with inflation. I made 30k more in my first full year of corrections with the optional overtime I worked than my last year as a tester. I can provide plenty of details for each job.
> Unlike this article, nobody sings odes to the boldness, inventiveness, motivation, honor and leadership qualities of the African migrant. Maybe they should.

It's a bit odd that choice of traits to ascribe to economic migrants, which could be better describe the African entrepreneurs who chose to stay and improve their home community.
Good to know, I wasn't aware PostgreSQL supports this.

I'm currently on SQL Server and it doesn't support INSERT as a CTE (and I think most DBMSes out there still don't). It would definitely make my life easier if it did...
Perhaps a nice way to figure out what general topics to learn (and what order to learn them in) when self-studying a subject

Edit: looking closer, it seems to be more about recommending textbooks based on how many syllabi include a given textbooks
Neither academics nor priests have significant authority today. Propagandists have. This isn't a fight between science and religion. It is a fight of politics. While religion formerly had an influence, it is almost irrelevant today. And even in the past piety was abused for political purposes.

Russia is trying to erase Ukraine because it feared it would succumb to western influence. China is trying to erase Uyghurs because they believe they pose a separatist or terrorist threat. This is not about belief or misinformation, these are calculated political goals.
They have two eyes close together that do tracking of depth. Plus they have ears and touch, multiple types of sensor synthesis that the Tesla doesn’t even come close to having with a plain old video camera.
> We call the area around Dresden "the valley of the clueless" for a reason.

Who are "we"? It was a term coined in the GDR and you are for sure not from there.

I'm not a white German, and I don't live there, but I love Dresden. To walk through the city center, or walk around the Elbe River is a fantastic experience. One of the most beautiful Capitals in Germany (and one of the safest too!)
hence the generous free tier. You want it to be big enough for a team of developers to do all the experimentation and development work, and also to launch a product to a small audience.

As soon as your product is a success, you run out of free tier, and you will have to negotiate a price with the sales team.

If I were OpenAI, then while I had a market leading product, the price would be 'I want half the profit margin of whatever you're using it for'.
The language is ambiguous and childish, nothing like I would expect to find in a legal document written by an adult and meant to be legally binding or even taken seriously.

"The employee shall shall not be allowed to provide any services to another company and not to run any other business"

This clause sounds like an instruction for the employee's handler.

Also, the employee "shall shall"? wtf?

Or maybe it just applies to Mr. Shall, first name Shall.
Discontinuing Google Cloud IoT Core Service Stirs the Community and Customers
Apple holds an architectural license, but I've never heard it suggested they can avoid paying royalties to ARM before. Doesn't seem very likely to me.
I used the optimized script from https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion, I think it does that automatically?
They move money from one party to another by updating a ledger. That's what money transmitters do. Not being in possession of the funds, or the fact that the specific entity that moves the funds is chosen at random, doesn't change the fact that they're money transmitters.
Seattle locations? I'd love to find somewhere that does this in Seattle.
I've searched a bit with no luck, anyone know where does the on-location roasting?
Have we really reached a point where DDoS mitigations are useless unless they're done by cloudflare and nobody else has a chance of keeping a site from being forced offline by these attacks?

I'd like to think that cloudflare isn't the final word on who is able to maintain a web-presence, or at the very least that they have competitors capable of offering a sufficient (if unequal) level of protection, but I honestly don't know.
I think what makes false positives scary in this context is that accusation is guilt for most practical purposes. There needs to be a tremendous ammount of openness around systems like this so that people understand the meaning of it's outputs.
Chinese people really need to standup to the bully that ccp has become. CCP needs to be "properly dealt with".
> but just beautiful images, are not art.

But the definition of art can't depend on your knowledge of how was it made. I can show you two beautiful pictures and ask you if any of them is art, and you'd know I was trying to trick you. But you could pass a piece made by an AI as art if you didn't know how it was produced.
Depends on who you ask. The general feeling in Europe is that treaties signed by the USA (or Russia, China and many more) are basically worthless. I mean, when does USA ever ratify treaties into (federal) law, or into the constitution for that matter?

Republicans would say "hell no it's our sovereignty", Democrats "maybe", the American courts: "maybe but probably not"
Congratulations on the work! I’ve been doing startups for +10 years but also worked in big companies. This is pretty interesting, how do we contact you?

One thing I really wish I had learned from a book is how to adapt the architecture to the current stage the company is in (something like this likely exists but IDK).

For instance, the “brittleness” of your systems must follow the “certainty” the company has on product-market fit. In other words, if the % of changing code is high then it should be cheap to change it. I could explain this in much more detail, and I have seen countless under-engineering and over-engineering issues in practice because people lack this mental model.
I was about to say something similar. I don't even work at a streaming service, but I know label-provided metadata is enough of a steaming pile that there are third party start-ups which promise to help with the problem and such.
> Spotify's own fake artists - session musicians generated to capture royalties in-house.

Is this something you have any references for? It sounds super interesting, like shadow kitchens for music.
Oh yeah, but what I mean is, he could make it "shareable", have a button to share the text have some hashtag, link, you know, viral market the tool and mock #influencers
Sorry, but this is absolutely not true. As a person of color, you may experience the same difficulties all over Germany (or, Europe or in the US, by the way), not just in Dresden. I am not saying that this is good or acceptable or anything, just that Dresden does not stand out in any way in this regard - only perhaps from an outsiders perspective.
If it's just code and there is no money involved, then it's not a business - A business necessarily involves customers and money. Of course company directors will tend to say that side projects are not allowed; they prefer it if their employees don't do (in order to protect the company's interests).
The commission does not seek to break encryption

Okay.

Encryption is not only important to protect private communication, but would also help perpetrators/criminals

No.

It is there to protect us from perpetrators, criminals and all the people which think they are on the good side. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Authoritarian regimes on our planet always thought they were the "good guys". Encryption is actually there to protect us from you!

The mothers and fathers of the German Grundgesetz (~ constitution) learned that the hard way.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/gg/art_10.html
I think it's important to draw a distinction between 'can' and 'will' here.

With the the A7 SoC and the A64 ISA it became clear that the ISA and Apple's Silicon design capabilities were sufficient to build SoC's that would compete with the best that Intel could offer.

However, the costs of making a transition would still be significant, maybe not in cash terms for Apple, but certainly in manpower and focus.

I suspect that it was Intel's process stumbles that led to the decision being made in the end. How many times, I wonder, did Intel promise something to Apple behind the scenes, only to fail to deliver? With the success of TSMC the opportunity for Apple's management to take more control of their own destiny would have been too compelling.
Your life is as valuable as the freedoms and things you can access. If you are living in Cuba with no money, no freedoms and no prospects; your life is worth very little to nothing. It's a no-brainer to jump on a boat and move somewhere else where your life value can increase.
https://twitter.com/CrociDB/status/1562012506452787201

it works
That would be work for the label. Most of them won't DO the w word.
This happens in almost every company that acts as intermediary between buyers and sellers, I.e., a marketplace.

Uber had (still has?) similar challenge where fake drivers were created, who took fake rides to liquidate stolen credit cards.
Disgusting. Wonder if people working on these commissions ever consider the thought that they are "the baddies". In any case, the gestapo would have _loved_ this service.
France is now offering a €4k e-bike subsidy to people who trade in their car
In the U.S., "bread bin," or more commonly "bread box," is also known. I have one.

I think it might be a generational lapse, rather than a geographic quirk, as bread boxes don't seem common in younger households.
If B4nan is around here from Apify, amazing work. On Crawlee, and on MikroORM. I especially use MikroORM extensively in production. One of the best, if not the best, ORM for NodeJS.
I don't know of any books. My experiences are vast periods of boredom interspersed with quick bouts of adrenaline. I've felt mostly safe but I work at a more relaxed max. We find weapons all the time but they're almost never used. I've only been almost assaulted once but the inmate coming at me was actually pulled away by another inmate. I would have been alright though, there was plenty of staff nearby if it went that way. We talk a lot of shit about each other but when the alarm goes off everybody is on the same side.

If you want to hear about prison some pretty legit channels from the side of prisoners might be interesting. Check out Lockdown23and1 or FreshOut. I prefer stories from their side, it's free intel.
True. But it is more often so than not. For example women were actively kept from being equal, to quite some extent by not educating them equally. Also the ages of feudalism were quite long until something finally changed.
Repressive Countries to Stay Away From
Hey! This sounds really interesting and I think I can help with something. Do you have any contacts?
I have already closed mine but I put "I want a pay raise" and the CEO gave it to me and then I got fired, with the same exact phrasing like another example posted here. (I didn't look at the hashtags carefully, truth be told)
Due to the volume of messages and the endless need to maximise profits, companies will accept 10% flagged content may be false positives but act against all 100% of flagged content, meaning that the default will be innocent people having action taken against them but with no real recourse to clear their name.

I also didn't find anything in there about expectations for reducing numbers of false negatives (where automation fails to flag suspicious activity). Content control is basically just PR if it ignores the majority of activity it is designed to police.
> The whole story is about a fridge such as this operating in the heat of Africa.

In Honduras, Central America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast_(novel)
Well a backup in your house is worse, in case of flood/fire/robbery it's lost. Some people have a remote location or family home with good internet where they can place a NAS or something, but many do not. I've done it before, you have to call family member and ask them to unplug/restart.

They are backups, you can make a new backup, unless your computer catchers fire at the same time as you get banned.
"Any relation to digital sensors is a coincidence."

The colour science of these sensors is designed to emulate the characteristics of film, it's not just raw sensor data coming in. So I wouldn't say it's a coincidence.

Also, in what way does film handle dynamic range better than modern sensors? That's definitely a case of "citation needed", I would argue :)
That's a good tip though I'm not sure that there is an option for it in the car when I most often get a request for nursery rhymes, or more recently Disney songs.
I had the opposite for the intro to programming class. Sure, I learned a language I didn’t know (but that took like a week tops) but all the actually programming topics were things I learned years ago. It made me very bored and gave me a tendency to skip class, which is a bad habit to fall into.

The other intro courses (eg computer architecture, which taught assembler) were great though, even if I found them easy due to prior knowledge.

Unfortunately that experiences doesn’t give a clear line for what to test out of and what not. I bet I could have passed the computer architecture one too, but I would have missed out, while the programming one would have been best if I used the time for something else (I mostly did, but there were lab sessions that were graded and couldn’t be easily skipped)
It is repeated all over the place but its not true. Talent and intellectual diversity doesn't come from skin color. "Region X needs more people of skin color Y" is always nonsense.
Finally a proper Google Cloud Service that is being discontinued by Google. Every time there is some news of Google discontinuing a consumer products, it gets mentioned on HN that Google would not do this to the proper Google Cloud services.

As per the article this service is being discontinued within just 5 years of it being announced.
If this ever gets into production I hope the tech community can come together and work on a system to generate false positives until this system is no longer viable.

Let's hope its a typical EU project and will take at least a decade to complete, or better, let's just hope it will outright fail.
Depending on your work environment, the last one may be especially important. I'm more worried about snakes personally having found a pit viper napping in the garden last week.
Love it:

> It's only 10:47... but I already:

> 1. wiped my own ass

> 2. shared it via livestream

> 3. wrote an E-book about the time I wiped my own ass

> 4. launched a new online course on how to wipe my own ass (pssst... a little secret: my students learn to wipe other things as well)

> 5. Made $80K passive income

> What have YOU done today?

> Do you buy toilet paper?

> Agree? Thoughts?
Tell HN: Google Photos API does not allow downloading original images
Inspired by the NYTimes story[1] of the past few days of several families that were locked out of their Google accounts forever I decided to try syncing my photo library from Google Photos to S3 using rclone, but it turns out Google Photos does not support getting your original quality photos back OUT. The only way is through the manual and laborious "takeout" process.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html
> Let me paint you a picture.

> Whilst the team is discussing an important architectural change, Bob’s got his headphones on.

> But what if Bob

This level of irony is simply incomprehensible to me. The picture is clear, the author of the post is an idiot.

Have you considered talking to Bob instead of wasting your time on whataboutisms? Because if Bob ignored an important talk in a meeting on the clock, chances are that Bob didn't even waste time reading your stupid blog post in his free time.

> This article is a reminder to sense check yourself, are you being a team player? Or a solo fiddle?

None of the teams I've been in ever had this problem and the reason is me, if they do, the reason is you. You don't even have to be the leader of your team, you're a team member and can talk to the leader about it. If you cannot, then let me tell you - Bob is the least of your problems.
For news, there's a poor man's Bloomberg Terminal: https://biztoc.com
I've had companies try to take my OSS projects. It seems that the smaller the company, the greater the likelihood that they'll try (you can get some real dicks who go on power trips in small companies, whereas larger companies tend to have a bureaucracy tempered by good lawyers and usually cooler heads).

The first rule is: Go to a lawyer and discuss such matters with them. Consultations are cheap. Often you can get clauses you don't like stricken from the contract (I do this all the time, and as a bonus it helps filter out companies that will become a problem in future).

The second rule is: If they refuse to negotiate on the points you don't like, consider working somewhere else.
> There are of course, great use-cases of ML

It would be great to hear about them
No comment on the policy etc, but I think the presentation of the numbers is a bit misleading.

That 10% is the percent of flagged images which are actually OK. Whether this represents a large fraction of all legal content depends on how much illegal content there is. It would be better if they quoted the false positive rate and false negative rate as a fraction of legal/illegal images respectively.

e.g. if 1/100,000,000 legal images are flagged incorrectly, and 100% of illegal images are flagged correctly, then a corpus of 100,000,000 legal images + 9 illegal images would result in the stats in the headline. That seems like a pretty good system (ignoring any principled objections to the scanning in the first place).
Not really, the sensitivities demonstrated are quite low in terms of what you can pick up with an antenna. Radios that were around in the 1950s routinely pick up 1 microvolt signals, which it turns out is about all you'll ever need. Noise from the environment swamps out any weaker signals.