skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you and was saddened to see such a comment rise to the top.

I don't hold that GPs opinion is wrong, in fact I have no firm views yet on the AI and would generally lean towards stuff being made available even when harmful.

But the idea that people in the field of AI Ethics are all some woke SJW cabal designed to keep Google powerful is for the birds. Like all industry adjacent fields I'm sure there's some corporate capture of research in the field, but maybe, engaging with things in good faith, there are ethical questions about a powerful new technology that can replicate biases in its training data at unprecedented speed and quality?
Does anyone know whether these 911 problems are always due to the "PhoneAccounts" bug? [1]

Or are there separate bugs that happen on their own as well, in other cases? There seems to be a "PhoneAccount Abuse Detector" app, but I am not sure if it can be trusted to tell you if you are suffering from all known 911 bugs, or just one particular one.

[1] https://medium.com/@mmrahman123/how-a-bug-in-android-and-mic...
>SimulaVR should be working with Meta's attorneys on this instead of throwing a hissy fit online.

Well then Meta's attorneys should contact SimulaVR directly instead of sending them a legal letter.
I have a website with a worker process doing RSS parsing that occasionally fails. It would be quite nice to be able to spend 10 minutes fixing trivial bugs from my phone while I'm out and about. Or from my iPad. I'm not doing feature development but this would be nice to have for things that are so easy I could do them now but instead must wait hours or days until I'm back in front of my dev machine.

And actually I have a desktop and a laptop that I do dev work on. More than once I've started a branch on the desktop one night but don't quite get far enough to push it up and the next day I take my laptop to the coffee shop and realize the code is still at home.
Yeah, decentralization is the cornerstone of crypto. The reality of it all is that it is not. But don't tell that to the zealots.

I'm pro-crypto, I think the innovation and paradigm are brilliant - I am developing a small project in crypto. I don't fool myself into believing the hype that exceeds it's capabilities, project organization or true architecture at hand.

Cheers
For more background, the Sun-Times was scooped up earlier this year by Chicago Public Media, the organization that owns the local NPR radio station WBEZ.

https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-public-media-will-acqui...

The CEO, Matt Moog, has a background in the Chicago tech scene. He's also Bob's son.
Ask HN: How long did the honeymoon with your co-founder last?
We all know it's all smiles, good vibes and taps on the shoulders in the beginning. Some time later, reality kicks in and some folks sitting on the co-founder position start to reveal who they really are.

How long until you had a deception with your co-founder?
4) We remember the event incorrectly, which is indistinguishable from 1) without outside corroboration
> The $399 original iPhone SE got six years of OS updates and also got another security update at the end of August.

Apples and oranges here, as yes they get updates but are missing features supported in newer devices.

Whereas Android does not get updates but new features are part of libraries and included in versions 5+ years old easily.

It isn't as simple as just saying "the iPhone SE still gets updates!", context is important
"We don't think they're competent enough to be a competitor" is a bad way to judge whether you're competing with someone. It's like Apple laughing at the IBM PC.
Without extra explanation, "Debian" usually refers to the main section. If the headline is misleading in any way, it's because it implies inclusion into main.

But I think the discussion is old and well known enough for it to not confuse anybody interested on the subject.
This is the same thing that William DeVane has been saying shilling gold for Rosland Capital at 2am to Fox viewers for the last decade. I'm not worried. [1]

Dalio is talking his book.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcdvT09qr4
People being burned by Crypto has to stop being so funny
Strange that the article left out of the history the pivotal point where the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 was about to go into effect and then was entirely repealed in The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 because the new person in charge hailed from a part of the country where psychiatry was associated with Communism even though he was shot by a person with untreated schizophrenia six months before.
No, not at all. We have all of the content from Hunter's Laptop at this time, and there is no investigation that will happen. We know for a fact the story was buried deliberately, we even have the likes of Mark Zuckerberg corroborating as much, indicating the FBI directed Facebook to suppress "misinformation" about the Biden campaign.

We do not have all the content from the Classified Documents story - in fact it's in court right this very second being hammered out.

So no... this isn't a free pass of any sort.

> DOJ successfully executed a search warrant for top secret documents on the former president

I fail to see how this means there was wrong doing. Are we not waiting for the case to actually be litigated, or have we already made up our mind before the facts are known? AKA - what the GP asserted and you have fallen straight into.
Fortunately, we don't have to rely on opinions for things. We have science!
We need laws to ban the government and particularly the military from sockpuppetting online. Crowdsourced fact-checking with no accountability for those doing the voting makes this problem even more severe.
No, they're advocating for forced medication of mentally ill people, so some firm of long term monitoring to ensure you take your pills every day.
Political theater, the money isn’t missing.

In order to prevent fraud and obscure details from spies, the pentagon is setup to hand out money via multiple archaic systems rather than a single computer system. This limits the possible damages, but means audits are really slow and will report massive discrepancies before their complete.
I am not sure why you are being down voted. I think that the joke was not really understood.

https://killedbygoogle.com
I've canceled 3 streaming services this year, none of which I wanted in the first place, but had to accept in order to get some other discount.

Does this study take unwanted streaming service trials into account?
hello HN

I have been working on a new DOM-morphing algorithm for htmx. It is based on the standard morphdom algorithm[1], but uses ID sets to offer better DOM stability with fewer explicit IDs.

There is a demo gif near the bottom that shows how idiomorph can keep the DOM stable in places that morphdom cannot.

The algorithm is still extremely new, so I'm sure there are plenty of bugs and corner cases, but I thought people outside of the htmx world might be interested in the project.

[1] - https://github.com/patrick-steele-idem/morphdom
Fake LinkedIn Profiles Threaten the Professional Social Media Platform
If plastics become too expensive I don't really see that as a problem. Then they will only be used when absolutely necessary instead of literally everywhere. We have so many other reusable and recyclable materials.
Is this related to Peter Turchin's book of the same name? I can't tell from reading their site (historiacivilis.com) if that's the case.
If you work in this industry and don't have at least a year's pay squirreled away, where the hell is all your money going?
Probably similar things as the civil law parts. See the flagrant abuses of things like restraining orders and red flag laws in divorces, or civil asset forfeiture, etc.
yet, they somehow get away with shitty actions which would be unaceptable from an individual.

they are limited liability institutions after all, the reasoning for their existence is precisely to limit the liabilities (negative consequences of their actions)... that's where the tax-payer comes in.
Hedonistic Adaptation. People love the photos of themselves from the 90s, 80s, 70s and every previous decade before that. You're definitely on the bleeding edge of that adaptation. For most people, phones from 5 years ago are already extremely goood.
Not that much different than a power failure at the office, or your uplink going down. Both more frequent, in my experience, than cloud zonal outages.
I took Dr. Jones' course at Princeton and found it extremely reasonable. In fact hundreds of students over 10+ years took his course at Princeton and no one wrote a petition as far as I know about the difficulty of the course.

I suspect this is because the test format at Princeton is rarely multiple choice, and mostly essay or problem solving based. Maitland Jones' class fits the bill in that the problems are mostly about synthesis of organic compounds.

It is hard because it requires you to memorize dozens of reactions and their respective limitations, however there is not always "one right answer" as long as you can accomplish the synthesis of the molecule in a reasonable fashion.

The class taught me to think in 3D about chiralty, and also how to problem solve through multi-step synthesis from simple products.

I'm now a physician and I credit all of my understanding of organic chemistry to Dr. Jones and Gingrich who worked with him on laboratory portion. It was a perfectly fine class, hard but totally doable with a lot of effort.
When people say that conservatism is fundamentally at odds with concepts like the human right to bodily autonomy, this kind of nonsense is what they mean.

There is no authoritative or even moderately reliable way to diagnose "dangerous" mental illness. It is a fairly well established fact that mental illness is more associated with _victimization_ than perpetration of violence. This kind of scaremongering is entirely based in ableism, not actual "common sense."
And they suggested that you write a blog post?
I have never in my entire life expected the truth from the crowd. Why on earth would you do that if truth was truly your concern?

These proposals seem to ignore this basic reality. They also presume that peoples primary desire in communication with one another is truth. Our entire system of language belies that idea entirely.

The condescension of it all gets to me as well, as if you give everyone the unvarnished truth that they would all make the same decisions based upon that information. It's a parochial desire that could only be held by government agents or embarrassed billionaires. It has no true purpose for society as a whole.
That’s off by about an order of magnitude – highly skilled humans can see and react in less than 120ms. One thing which can complicate discussion on this is that there are different closely related things: how quickly you can see, understand, and react is slower than just seeing which is slower than seeing a change in an ongoing trend (that’s why you notice stutter more than isolated motion), and there are differences based on the type of change (we see motion, contrast, orientation, and color at different latencies due to how signals are processed starting in the cortex and progressing through V1, V2, V3, V4, etc.) how focused you are on the action (e.g. watching to see a bird move is different than seeing the effect of something you’re directly controlling). Audio is generally lower latency than visual, too.

All of this means that the old figures are not useful as a rule of thumb unless your task is exactly what they studied. This paper notes how unhelpful that is with ranges from 2-100ms! They found thresholds around 25ms for some tasks but as low as 6ms for some tasks.

https://www.tactuallabs.com/papers/howMuchFasterIsFastEnough...

Keyboard latency is one of the harder ends of this spectrum: the users are focused, expecting a strong (high contrast, new signal) change in direct response to their action, and everything is highly trained to the point of being reflex.

When I’m typing text, I’m not waiting for the change to hit a key outside of games but rather expecting things like text to appear as expected or a cursor to move. Awhile back I tested this and the latency difference between VSC’s ~15ms key-to-character was noticeably smoother compared to 80+ms (Atom, Sublime) and the Citrix system I tested at 120-150ms (Notepad is like 15ms normally) was enough slower that it forced a different way of thinking about it (for me, that was “like a BBS” because I grew up in the 80s).

n.b. I’m not an expert in this but worked in a neuroscience lab for years supporting researchers who studied the visual system (including this specific issue) so I’m very confident that the overall message is “it’s complicated” even if I’m misremembering some of the details.
Some of us are still trying to identify a brand.

--

Note about that friend of mine, again: almost one week after having ditched the bad pair, and having worn it for five days, of relatively light walking, the pains created are still persisting: this to stress the notion of how bad an idea it is to make and sell harmful shoes.
> I think there's value in explaining what a blob is: without any context, it's not a meaningful term.

The problem with the backronym for this is that it's plainly wrong. Which didn't matter in the context in which it was created, it reminds me of the R.V.Jones story about why H2S (a second world war radar system) was called that, you mustn't say it's because the big boss said "It stinks", and that reminded the chemists on the team of H2S, the formula for rotten egg smell -- that would make the boss look bad - so you pretend it stands for "Home Sweet Home" even though that makes no sense because it is for identifying bombing targets.

The blobs Debian cares about aren't necessarily "Binary", it's just as much a problem if we're obliged to send 4MB of inexplicable ARM assembler text to a remote device, or if the firmware is base 64 encoded (and thus ASCII text) for some daft reason. If Binary just means "Of course they are because it's a computer" see Object.

The blobs Debian cares about aren't necessarily "Large" either, what would constitute "large"? If I've got 64 bytes of firmware that are fed to an 8501 controller that's probably its entire program, but it's way smaller than this paragraph of text. Does large just mean "Non-zero size" ?

So that leaves us with "Object", which I mean, I guess? It's as vague a word as blob was.
I think it highly depends on the current economic environment. During the past 10+ years of bull market, suddenly losing your raise or bonus would immediately cause people to start looking for a new job. When a recession is on the horizon, with expected job market tightening, people are more likely to accept it, hold on to whatever job they have, and ride it out.
Yea we used Cognex cameras to read millions of chips, trays, heat sinks, carriers, wafers, etc. Datamatrix is industrial grade. Cognex also has proprietary decoding algorithms which would detect the faintest and half damaged codes.
Don’t live in a city so poorly run that it has a large homeless problem. Not only am I not constantly harassed or assaulted by mentally I’ll people, but I have NEVER been harassed or assaulted by a mentally ill person.
You're misunderstanding the comment: the point is Wasabi Mango and co were good because they were charging significantly less for the lower grade panels.

Now manufacturers are possibly prioritizing the highest grade panels for non-gaming use and using extremely expensive gaming monitors as a dumping ground for everything else.

For example, the 28" UR55 has few complaints about backlight bleed and in my experience with having bought several is a reliable choice. Meanwhile the oddly similar 28" Odyssey G8 is known as a "buy and return until you get one that's ok" type of monitor, as are many other gaming monitors these days.

Gamers seem conditioned to just accept inferior panel quality as long as the other specs work, while business and casual customers would probably just buy another monitor if they saw weird issues. They might not know the term backlight bleed, so they'll still see it just fine.
I like the court analogy. The court determines facts. The jury determines truth. So "crowd sourced truth" seems more appropriate.

Borrowing Churchill "crowd sourced is the worse system except for all the others"
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine. It's known as the alternative for med school rejects basically (not saying this is a fair or completely accurate characterization but that is the perception).
Very much agree. We'd need a very clear definition on what dangerous is before something like this is considered. Some now consider speech dangerous. An authoritarian government may choose to consider those who disagree with policy to be dangerously mentally ill. I mean, only crazies think like that, right?
Very true. Although the scope is quite different between the conditioning you face in a prison and the chemical alteration of various medications. Generally, one can be resisted or controlled, whole the other cannot.
Quest runs Android and Android run on Linux.
Yikes, super hard cringe.
If it makes the hardware work to its design everywhere, reliably, and offloads complexity from the CPU, isn't that all good things? It's not like Nvidia is going to open source their silicon.
Certainly. What I mean is - I didn’t expect image generative AI to get good this quickly. Before DallE I didn’t expect it to happen at all - I had no idea it was possible until it happened and I was forced to face it.

Driving seems like a tough nut to crack, but what if we suddenly start obliterating multiple areas of human employment one after the other? Ones we haven’t even thought of?
No, because I use my reasoning which includes taking in information about systems and balancing priorities. I am very opposed to broad reaching criminalization of mental illness. It will not stop violent crime, it will just stigmatize mental health and wellness.

We should not set policy based on a knee-jerk, tunnel-vision, trauma/fear reaction.

And anyway... Context is important: https://counciloncj.org/mid-year-2022-crime-pr/
Some of them do. And if it turns out that you were actually not thinking what they thought you were thinking -- it's your fault!
I dont understand. Can you explain that?
I have never been in an MRI but I imagine with some good headphones and blindfolds it might be interesting.
So you'd pay someone to listen to Podcasts and send you a summary?
> To be fair, I did spend a lot of time thinking about math because I liked it.

Spending childhood doing things you enjoy and which also have economic utility is a secret power.

Most people in the top 5th percentile of academic things also happened to spend a truly absurd amount of their youth obsessing over that academic thing. They may also be gifted, but spending all that free time in youth thinking about things is probably way more important than IQ.

(For me it was programming and law... I was reading legal briefs and slinging code most evenings of middle school through high school, which set me up with a rather absurd advantage over my peers once I got to college.)

BTW: elite unis/programs are looking for those types of people. It's not the extra curricular box checking that interests them, it's evidence of thousands of hours of practice at high value add skills. The practice can be forced with absurd amounts of grit, which is why it's a secret power when it comes out of intellectual curiosity.
Not true.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2022/09/fact-check-donald...
python3 -m http.server 9000 does all the heavy lifting.

What is interesting is the qrcode-terminal. Never seen that before but makes me wonder. In terms of data exfiltration, you could absolutely store data inside a qrcode.

Looked it up, qrcodes can store about 4000 characters. I guess in situations where node is available it could be useful
Sorry. Non-native so you figured me out. This was a pure error though. My mental pronunciation is quite different.
Amazing! I only just discovered his work. It's sad, yet inspiring to see how many were touched by his art.
serious question: what is your use case for 3.5mm in 2022? I am really happy with the wireless options available and couldn't imagine going back to cables. You have been missing out on great phones if lack of jack is a dealbreaker for you.
Personally, I don't think expanding USB would add any meaning in any context. If somebody knows what USB means, they know the acronym, not the expansion.

But expanding blob adds meaning, even with it being a backronym. Maybe it would be better to define it instead of expanding, but it is better than nothing (differently from USB).
So is research that shows that mental illness has little link to violence. And, hell, so is homophobia! Let's say we make a law that says the state can black bag you and force you to take Abilify based on some arbitrary application of a psychology questionnaire by a state-employed psychologist; what's to say that a future administration doesn't reclassify homosexuality as a mental illness and do the exact same shit?
As a general rule of thumb, the more seriously ill someone is, the less likely they are to realize it. Like every "rule of thumb" there are many exceptions, but it's true enough.

The other factor is that many medications for the treatment of psychotic disorders (psychotic meaning hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thoughts - NOT meaning wanton violence) tend to have unpleasant side-effects. If you are convinced that you are not ill, you wouldn't want to take them either.
Man sells 3D-printed firearms to a buyback program for $21,000
It's worth noting that the same rules and protection that get applied to criminal sentences do not apply to 'treatment' and 'treatment providers' in sentencing. There are cases when treatment providers overrule/ignore judges orders and the treatment provider prevails. 18 U.S. Code § 3553(a)(2)(D) is used as a carveout for treatment in Federal code so that treatment providers can impose 'whatever is the most effective manner' even if treatment imposes rules that the Judge would not be able to impose. The Judge orders treatment, and the treatment provider then has carte blanche to impose their own sentence rules (the rules of treatment) even though in the USA only a Judge is supposed to be able to determine a sentence.
https://archive.ph/Pvu0g
I believe the stance of the justice system is that Facebook's lawyers will behave ethically with the information because it's a professional obligation for lawyers.

You and I might see that as a laughable claim - unfortunately the justice system is run entirely by lawyers.
Agreed, it's basically the same argument as against the death penalty. Can't exonerate yourself if you're dead, can't be found mentally sound if you've been effectively lobotomized.

Obviously psychiatry has come a long way since lobotomy, but it doesn't have a great history when it comes to treating unwilling patients.

If a mentally unwell person is a demonstrated threat (ie commits crimes and harms/endangers people) the state already has the power to lock them up. In my view letting the state forcibly alter their brain and mind against their will is a bridge too far.
I think this is it. As soon as you go from working on one computer to 2 you do have this problem.

I myself work on 2 laptops and a desktop all running different OS.
I feel like they should pay SimulaVR's lawyer fees though. Why would SimulaVR be forced to spend resources to help Meta prove it's not a monopoly