skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they are not. Most people can't explain off the top of their head how the derailleur works to move the chain from one cog to another, or how freewheeling allows the wheel to move without the pedals to move, or even how the cable allows brakes to be remotely activated from the handlebar. Most people can't even explain why it is possible for a bike to be stable while moving but can't stand on its own. It's counter-intuitive.

There's plenty of ingenuity in the design of a modern bike.
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The issue is that riot has designed it so the 50% has become the target rather than the metric.

The result is that you'll go on win and loss streaks and if you play long enough it becomes obvious it's being manipulated that way.

Winning 1 or 2 and losing 1 or 2 are just fine.

winning 10-15 followed by losing 10-15 just feels bad and isn't worth it. And if you've played long enough you can start feeling when the tipping point is about to happen. The wins will start getting more and more difficult as more people on your team obviously don't belong in the game. Or vice versa, and you'll start getting people on your teams consistently such that nothing you do matters because you'll just win.

Then you add in a dash of streamers and people doing "bronze to plat" challenges and it's just not fun. Either they're losing on purpose to tank their rank or they're pubstomping people far below their skill level.

The end result is that it all just feels bad and the only people that end up playing a significant number of games are actively addicted to it.
Sarcastic remarks like "if [mostly good things] aren't principles for your security practice" an strawman arguments seem a bit provocative for this type of debate.
>Yes, along with a massive superiority complex that led the grandparent to ask “why didn’t those Silly Billies just listen to us?”

But that's exactly what this boils down to. Indeed, why didn't the Europeans (really, "Germans") listen to the Americans? No amount of "How uncouth of you to tell us the truth, and how unfair of you to tell us that we should have listened to you" doesn't affect the validity of the truth, or the wisdom in listening to it in the first place.
You're literally on one. Do you want to upload your driver's license to Hacker News? Does Hacker News want to be in the business of storing those driver's licenses securely?
> It's very telling that this post does not mention Cloudflare dropping switter, a social media site by and for sex workers which was, at the time, not violating any laws.

Not true, it was dropped in response to SESTA being signed into law less than a week earlier which greatly expanded their legal liability.

Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_...

Reporting: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17256370/switter-cloudfla...
We have a Next.js website with a blog section that's powered by Sanity. Problem is, it's pretty finicky to install basic components that we like to use (which looks like Payload comes with out of the box) + communicating with Sanity via groq is clunky with Typescript (and possibly causing some SEO issues).

How simple is it to install Payload in an existing Next.js app to power basically just the /blog/* subdirectory?
Part of it is medical regulation.

For example, only a human doctor can make a "diagnosis" or write a prescription. Even just making "treatment recommendations" (e.g., a more-effective treatment or one with less side effects than the current one), which would then be reviewed and approved by an appropriately-licensed physician, is a problem.

Not having worked in the radiology space, my naive hunch is that it has to be framed as a "screening tool" which "helps the physicians find cancers." (Which can be justified to regulators because ML tends to have higher recall than humans on these tasks, albeit lower precision).

In theory, ML helps doctors spot cancers they wouldn't ordinarily see. In practice, it probably means that the physicians still technically "review" all images, but only give a cursory glance to those not flagged by the system.
Right, but a state can't e.g. cut off a river to do something with the water then be like "lmao it's an experiment in democracy, cry about it". The internet is an interstate "thing" where we can't even 100% say who is where so this kind of regulation absolutely violates federalist principles.
I likewise found this annoying. The giant link previews are especially disruptive on mobile where two in a row can literally take up most of the screen, although they're also obnoxious on the desktop.

When I first saw them I thought maybe they were ads, or there was a mistake and I ran into the end of the article early.

I liked the post, though! Geoffrey, please reconsider this citation style where you have an ellipsis and then giant link previews. I think it distracts from good content. Could similar link previews upon hover still scratch the itch that drove you to try these link previews?
Yep! As our cloud hosting is not yet launched, we don't have the pricing finalized for that but for our enterprise features and SLAs, it's all broken down based on what you need. For 20 seats, a few enterprise features and a lower-tier SLA, you'd pay a few thousand a month.

For hundreds of seats, with a more robust SLA, your costs would scale linearly, but it's entirely based on what you need.

Does that help?
That's quite an extension.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement
The last sentence is applicable to both sides by the way.

Especially because of https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrai...

But both sides are hostages of their own politics and narratives of who's good and who's bad.
California nearly has the GDP of Germany and among the highest GDP per capita figures for any major population (~$85,000 - just below Switzerland). That's the difference.

"For many websites that target a global audience that would not be a big number to lose out."

Now replace that with India, Germany, Japan, France, or Britain; because California is in the same economic tier as those countries.
The problem with anonymous dissent is that it's cheap and easy to DDOS into irrelevance with the "firehose of falsehood." Just spam the public square with endless amounts of anonymous bullshit and no anonymous comment will be believed. Since it's anonymous there is no way to verify its provenance.

AI is automating this process at scale.

You can do this with non-anonymous discourse too but anonymity just makes it easier.

The future is private forums, channels, Discord/Slack instances, invite-only private networks, etc. The public web and public social media are entering their twilight.
Yes. Hesiod is safer than DNS TXT once secured by DNSSEC, because I envision mass blocking of DNS TXT in the near future.
I'm not sure if you're talking about an energy recovery ventilator, but if you're not, you should use one for that. It uses selectively permeable membranes to transfer HVAC exhaust heat and humidity to incoming air. They can recover like 85 to 95% of the energy difference between the air streams. They're pretty cheap now too - totally worth it.
I wouldn't use hackernews if they required that. So, maybe they shouldn't store my IP address and location by default.
Depends on when the options of the executive team were issued..... and whether a buyback gets them back into the money?
<not a snap employee>
I'd bet most of them just want to work, get paid enough, and left alone to do other things with their lives.

Strong opinions about what a founder does to their comp package is something people who are either close to the top or in an early stage company would worry about.
The thermal sensor inside of the microwave seems like a neat idea, but I'd be very interested in a microwave that was capable of heating food evenly - I always end up with cold spots, and the only solution (that I've found) is to increase the cook time and decrease the power.
The irony of using a throwaway account to advocate for a site that doxxes people.

You guys are the ones undermining the legitimacy of freedom of speech by passing doxxing off as merely being an opinion while it in fact surpresses actually bipartisan discussion. Disgusting.
KF is not "investigative journalism." It's just a site where people gather to point and laugh at mentally ill people with a web presence. Anything they dig up on someone is in service to that singular goal. There's no reason to pretend that they do what they do for any other reason. Clouflare shouldn't be shutting down websites because of their content, but making fun of mentally ill people is not "an important function in society".
Can you qualify any part of your statement? I'm trying to understand where you're coming from, but none of it follows at face value.
Jesus Christ dude, there's people dying here and you're arguing over technicalities. The site is still up!! No one's been arrested! You'd rather people keep dying while you argue that both sides are bad, while one side is killing people?
There have been more reasonable explanations of the causality of that.

To wit, that multinational energy deals of that magnitude require political investment and certainty to be tenable. Schroder's involvement was a tacit acknowledgement of this reality, and gesture of political good faith.

Or put another way, neither Russia nor Germany would have contemplated the project without serious indications of political support.
They’re saying Stable Diffusion is to artists as Expedia was to travel agents.
Insanely simple. You can opt-in on a page by page basis with NextJS to any data source that you want to use. I LOVE NextJS' paradigms, and we've actually modeled a lot of what we do after its beautiful DX.

Great question!
They have no incentives to care. You're no one to them, and they have no legal obligation to do anything about it.
I really like the idea of significant mandatory family education prior to a marriage license being issued.

We need to move beyond the “it’s a melting pot, everyone has their own way” and realize that people are making babies with little understanding of how to do more than keep them alive.

There is a whole field of early childhood development and another in early childhood education and none of it is taught except to specialists.

edit: I realize this is imperfect but I believe it is better than doing nothing or regulating actual reproduction (however you propose to do that).
Agreed.

If I am looking at a company FAQ about how to open a ticket, then the emotional interaction here is that the company is putting in not only 0 effort, they are asking me to put in more additional emotional labor to figure out how to get _them_ to address the problem that is causing _me_ harm.

To then ask the user to do yet more labor to fill out a _good_ ticket for the company just adds insult to injury at that point, so it should be no surprise so many tickets have nothing worthwhile mentioned. At that point I'm frustrated, have been given the cold shoulder by your company, and have no desire to do your !@#%$ job for you, to help you fix your software, that should have been working already.....

I understand that a company might not be able to dedicate a human phone call for every ticket, but I guarantee if they did so, the mere fact that the company would be putting in emotional labor on their end to address the harm their 'bug' has done so far, would cut the number of empty raised issues down massively.

In lieu of doing a phone call for every ticket, perhaps try to figure out ways to interact with your customers when they have a problem, that isn't as emotionally barren and uncaring as an FAQ page and forced work to submit a ticket.
guys, come on, it's just a meme.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/everyday-we-stray-further-fro...
Spoken like someone who has never had to distrust police in their life
The FDA Presser - August 31, 2022 - Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update:

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I've been there. I don't like barriers personally, but I do understand they can deter people to the point of the problem solving itself or at least the urgency of the problem.

People will go through hell and back to not fill out a quick form for help.
Not a name change, just an editorial prescription for discussions. The proper name is .NET Framework (just don't call it that!).
> Why is the scaling hypothesis so disliked?

This is a difficult question. I have several hypotheses. When one works with highly productive/prestigious/famous people, one can't help but notice[1] how they instinctively avoid subproblems in their niche which don't let them leverage their intelligence/energy/fame to a sufficient degree and/or don't give their personal brand enough credit. This dynamic is at play in academia and in tech corporations as well (though arguably, tech is still more amenable to large-scale engineering). These people live by (public perception of) credit and have very fine sense for it.

Scaling could be (during the recent history, at least, maybe increasingly not so in the near future as the obvious breakthrough results became widely known) an inconvenient lever for applying one's academic presence simply because there is little prestige behind it, and (at least as understood by academics) it's merely engineering work, which doesn't require true genius.

Naturally, academics are led to creation of sophisticated theories, or even whole fields (even better, because it's hard to measure the output in this case), preemptively predicting and deflecting as much criticism as possible - and view such efforts and their conceptual output as a mark of true intelligence. Engineering large-scale systems executing gradient-descent doesn't really look valuable from such point of view, because it tells little about the brilliance of the chief investigator.

1. http://yosefk.com/blog/10x-more-selective.html
The culture is the big thing. Keep meetings to an absolute minimum. I’ve worked late nights every chance I had but some people get irate that they don’t see you in the morning but see you leave when they do (a guy has gotta eat)! Don’t hire (or at least educate) those people.

Having a view, especially at night, to just stand at the window and see the city bustling about helps too. It’s also a great indication of how late it is (no cars on the roads, probably time to go soon…)

Also get some good napping furniture, because that is super important. If for whatever reason I have to stay up until 8am to have a meeting, I’m not even going to bother going home. Also, back to that culture thing: don’t wake me up unless there is an alien invasion, or my life is literally in danger. Hmm, actually, even then, just let me sleep through it.
You should also quote the following section:

(4) “Likely to be accessed by children” means it is reasonable to expect, based on the following indicators, that the online service, product, or feature would be accessed by children:
(A) The online service, product, or feature is directed to children as defined by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 6501 et seq.).
(B) The online service, product, or feature is determined, based on competent and reliable evidence regarding audience composition, to be routinely accessed by a significant number of children.
(C) An online service, product, or feature with advertisements marketed to children.
(D) An online service, product, or feature that is substantially similar or the same as an online service, product, or feature subject to subparagraph (B).
(E) An online service, product, or feature that has design elements that are known to be of interest to children, including, but not limited to, games, cartoons, music, and celebrities who appeal to children.
(F) A significant amount of the audience of the online service, product, or feature is determined, based on internal company research, to be children.

I can't speak for the GP poster, but my own personal blog meets none of these criteria.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy#Analogy_symbolism
>What are the top 3 things accomplished and implemented by the “extremely powerful” neural networks and machine learning?

Off the top of my head and in no particular order :

1- Playing human games at superhuman performance from raw pixels

2- Recognizing objects and people in images at human or better performance

3- Recognizing human voice in real world noisy environments and parsing it into text at human or better performance

>How significant are these top 3 things?

They generate billions of dollars of profit and beat human knowledge and expertise that took thousands\millions of years to craft and\or evolve with nothing but a GPU and a lot of electricity.

>Have you ever built a production model for a large company or have a tier 1 phd?

No.

>what are your qualifications for labeling a claim ridiculous.

I have a brain that can spot ridiculous hyperbolic claims, and experience-backed knowledge with neural networks and machine learning that can explain with examples why they are ridiculous and hyperbolic.

If you do have the qualifications you request, start with using them to support your claims. Here's a small challenge that should pose no difficulty to you.

Show me, with derivations and citations, how an RNN is "just" an obscure statistical model. Which statistician first published or applied it ? Is it taught in a statistics course you know of ? Which ones ? Are research statisticians publishing on it right now or ever ? In what sense is it part of the science of statistics like, say, the normal distribution is ?
SCOTUS is going to smack down California eventually on the extra-territorial impact of its laws.

There's a case pending about the impact of their recent legislation on humane livestock handling for meat sold in California. Regardless, of how people feel about the livestock issue, single states should not be able create legislation that forces entire national and international industries to re-tool.

If you want to do that you should be a country, not a state.
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That’s so coincidentally funny. The most recent story we’ve made up is a cat sleeping in the living room gets woken up by a toy sized steam train chuffing towards a mouse hole tunnel. The cat leaps after the train, hits the hole and is transported to a humanoid cat land where he’s lying on the tracks in front of a full sized train tunnel. Below lies a new world to explore.
StableDiffusion's img2img helps with this now, in that you can create a character, then use that character as input to future images. It's not as good as it will be, though.
Sanctions are against Russia, Gazprom is “private” company…
Agreed completely. The threat model for DNSSEC is vast; why would you diminish the security of a perfectly good end-to-end model in SSH keys or certificates, as long as you control 100% of that infrastructure.

Introducing any outside actors at all objectively diminishes the security of the whole model by becoming another link in the chain, even if that link isn't necessarily the weakest (and I certainly believe it would be, because both DNSSEC and the public Certificate Authority industry are object lessons for the abject failure of highly centralized global, government-wide, or even just company-wide security), but simply increasing any of the surface area is enough to decrease the security of the system.
I've seen creations that IMO are better than a lot of fine art I've seen. I acknowledge the point of fine art is not the art, but rather a conversation between the creator and the audience in an attempt to make them think or feel something.

This is some of the best art I've ever seen, to my tastes (found in a previous hn comment yesterday):
https://youtu.be/Nz_n0qxqoPg

edit:
Ironically, I just came across this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwo...
They desperately need aid however I fear the money will again fall into the wrong hands, isi or military to use it to fund war and weapons. Be careful who you donate to
Preventing a Martian Plague
Originally it was created to make the Bush administration look good for "doing something"

This is a really common effect in government and even companies. If it's important to be seen as doing something, something will be done, even not very effectively. It is far better to be seen as genuinely trying but not quite succeeding than to not even have showed up.

I doubt the employment program aspect of it is relevant at all, except in the sense that once a program is created, it is hard to get rid of it.

You and I might very well be smart enough to see it's a waste, but there's over 300 million Americans, and a lot of them vote, and a lot of them don't have the habit of thinking that critically.

So that's what the TSA is there for.

PS: Out of curiosity, are you old enough to remember 9/11? I hypothesize not since I hypothesize it would be obvious to someone alive at the time why TSA exists despite being ineffective, but I may be wrong. Just curious. Making me feel old!
I've had my personal photos stolen by Instagram spammers, and using their DMCA takedown process, I was able to get them removed within 24 hours.

A lot of these platforms will limit or ban accounts that accrue DMCA takedowns. Sumbit a new takedown for each instance of copyright infringement you find.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/08/29/age-verification-provide...
I like the point of making sure it closes off the story and always feeling safe. I’m going to play with this thinking some more. Thank you.
Well in short, if it works don't change it. But, it's the story of industrial, and difficult to replace (technically) components.
Seriously, it's liberating to -say-. We're so happy with the move. Credit to the community.
Call the cops, file restraining orders, and get a good therapist.

Assholes and trolls are still going to exist regardless of what any platform does.

You can’t have what you want by trying to pressure cloudflare, it won’t make a positive difference. Do something real instead of advocating for something toothless and symbolic.
>Doesn't make sense to me why OpenAI has kept DALL-E closed source for so long.

>leveraging it for money
You aren't shadowbanned yet at least.

I think shadow bans are applied to accounts rather than comments on this site.

TBH "this site loves authoritarianism" seems a bit over-dramatic. But I guess we'll see what happens...
I save CA root into private github repo for the pass app. Then i can sign certs whenever i need them.
This thread is effectively a eulogy to a Russian in the name of Cold War-inspired West >>> East ideology.
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It's obvious there was a joke in the comment. It just didn't lie in the conflating-/not-conflating-things-with-JS part of the comment. Also, it was lame.
I don't care if you say hello as long as you follow up with a detailed question. What grinds my gears is developers not linking to tickets or error logs, or not pasting the error messages into the question. I'm not going to play detective and investigate your failing CI logs -- provide me with the exact line where the error occurred.
If you're building a product, consider using capability based security.[1]

A capability is an access token to a resource, and NOT a user account. Think of it as a $10 bill. If you pull a $10 capability from your wallet, you can't lose $1000 by accident, no matter how badly things go.

Flickr makes it possible to give out a guest pass for photos, for example.[2] The nice thing about a guest pass is you can revoke it at any time.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

[2] - https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404069601172-C...
Is there necessarily any more danger than installing a random exe from the internet on a typical Windows admin account with UAC turned off?

e.g. from https://windirstat.net/download.html
That analogy is obviously manipulative. A DDoS is not going to kill anyone unlike a fire (or swatting evidently).