skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am wary too, but of something a little different. I worry about people passionately drawing very sharp, red, punitive moral lines on things that are pretty subjective and that different people will have different opinions on. We're going to be in a bad place if we all draw slightly different lines on various issues, then condemn and work to punish each other for crossing our lines.

I think this ideology of moral maximalism - "everything I object to morally should be punished harshly" - has been pretty disastrous for the human race, if you look at history.

However passionate people are about primates and their resemblance to humans, I don't see how you can draw an objective line that condemns this research but sanctions all the horrible things we do to, say, rats, for the greater good of medical science. Who can claim to have the objective view of how moral obligations to non-human animals increase with their resemblance to humans?

We don't agree on this stuff, and it isn't objective. Can we all find something better to do with our lives than try to punish each other for not toeing the exact line of our individual moral opinions?

Let's calm down, stop taking our moral emotions as legitimate universal prescriptions, and put moral maximalism behind us.
FWIW, informing you that the system exists is probably already a breach of NDA. If they failed to produce any evidence or conclusive examples of this happening, it's likely they were running one over on you. "Dead internet theory" has been a 4chan-staple since the mid-2000s, and it's more-or-less the same idea - "when people don't engage with my problematic content, it must be the fault of AI!" Needless to say, this is pretty easy to prove wrong and mostly just reflects conspiratorial loneliness. It might be true that your friend is trustworthy, but their theory holds little water and sounds more like a gross misunderstanding than systemic abuse.

But hey, maybe he's right. I don't know (or really care) what our next steps are as a society if it's true, but assuming he's telling the truth seems a bit like jumping-the-gun.
Well, the roadster is also a 2+2 coupe reminiscent of a 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro, which is ~3860lbs (1750kg) for a V8.

A roadster would be a 2-seat convertible (no C-pillar), like a Mazda MX-5 (Miata) or a Porsche Boxster.
Exactly. Alberti was the genius, Michelangelo the worker.
Then industry will just go back to calling various "AI" technology what they really are: machine learning, computer vision, etc. Suddenly no one will be doing AI and the regulation won't be able to keep up.
I think this is conflating two phenomenon. The parent poster was asking:

Do companies push for the creation regulatory bodies to stifle competition?

Whereas regulatory capture is the process by which companies shape existing regulatory bodies to serve their interests. But it presumes the existence of a body to regulate them; regulatory capture can't occur if there isn't regulation to start with.
Five origami books by Shuzo Fujimoto are now public domain
> I'd like compiler writers to embed a 'default profile' into the compiler, which uses data from as much opensource code as they can find all over github etc.

What would be the point? The whole thing about PGO is that it measures which paths of _your_ code are "hot".
I was raised in an ultra-conservative christian home.

I am a bi man.

I can promise you that hearing "gay people should be stoned to death" from the elders of my parent's church did not socialize me into my "lifestyle" (this is a misnomer, as I'm not even actively dating a man right now...)

The only thing that made my teenage years bearable was what little privacy I could create for myself. Thankfully, the Internet was young and I was able to find supportive communities that helped me navigate these challenges. Without that, the only messaging from every authority or leadership figure in my life was that I was an abomination, going to hell, and unworthy of love.

I don't know how I would have survived without that outlet in an otherwise restrictive/repressive environment.
it is a good description. the issue is our code has lots of these types of patterns. look at sql injections alone.

certainly it is our job to tighten up our software - but we are very vulnerable with the current model of the 'authenticate after connect' networking model (L3 access mainly by firewalls...with stronger auth only later at L7).

said the other way...imagine if the log4j attackers couldn't even get to my firewall unless they were already authorized to have access to the specific service they are trying to access.
Key takeaways from all keynotes I saw at SaaStock Dublin 2022
Yes, there are still many unanswered questions, such as who created the spoof Workplace account and for what purpose.

https://twitter.com/ahalam/status/1583041350114500608

> Newslaundry asked Meta if they had identified the person who created the spoof Workplace account. "Unfortunately, we would not be able to share this detail as it will go against user privacy", a Meta spokesperson replied.

https://twitter.com/Aditi_muses/status/1583044799556296705

> They have identified the account but they refused to tell me if they had ID'ed the person (because "privacy"), or if it was created by a Meta employee.

Also, the commentary I've seen around the "video proof" seems to mostly infer that it was ignorance or malice to use such an easily spoof-able partially redacted video as proof, but are there no other reasons they would choose to redact info like that? Such as, protection of sources? If you have to redact, then you can't give people full cryptographic proof, and all you can do is describe your process and rest on your reputation (which has obviously degraded for thewire.in now). I'm not aware of enough details to know if protection of sources is even a plausible justification in terms of technical details, but the online debate is so accusatory and empty of information.
The scenario that worries people is less "photograph of some important person naked" and more "photograph of you naked". State of the art image tech is more than capable of allowing people to create convincing porn of their enemies (or creepy crushes). I don't know if that genie can be put back into the bottle, but it's hard to complain that researchers aren't interested in providing the genie as a service.
> Your theory doesn’t work… otherwise why managers are not on-call

First it’s not a theory but observations. Many of them.

Second, i dont see how your argument refutes the theory if it was a theory?

Managers may and in fact are usually on call from what I personally have seen. They just have different type of oncall within their areas of competence, and it’s often bat called “oncall”.
Not necessarily on the economy, but here's one that goes over crime, which one could argue is linked with the economy.
https://economics.nd.edu/assets/153486/carr_jillian_jmp.pdf.

Results indicate that voucher receipt causes a large increase in violent crime arrests for
male recipients. They do not, however, indicate that vouchers have an effect on women
or on other types of crime. Specifically, we find a statistically significant increase in
violent crime arrests for the overall population and male recipients alone. There are no
statistically significant effects for female recipients alone. This dichotomy in the effects
for male and female housing voucher recipients is consistent with previous research on
the effect of the MTO experiment on juvenile criminal outcomes (Kling et al., 2005,
Sciandra et al., 2013, Zuberi, 2012, and Clampet-Lundquist et al., 2011).
This of how dangerous it will be if everybody can write a book. We must limit bookwriting to only educated and responsible people with the proper education in ethics and morals. /s

This happends with every new technology.
He setting up a strawman: only criminals(specifically terrorists, drug dealers, traffickers) would care more about privacy than what their vague promises provide.

There are endless scenarios where a person may not want their searches being individually identifiable where they aren't a terrorists, drug dealers or trafficker.

Imagine the scenario where 13 US states banned women eating Fuji apples and a new administration takes over and is really motivated to enforce that ban. Kagi is absolutely able to report the identity of users who search for specific keywords, "mail order Fuji apples", etc.

A malicious Kagi engineer could track someone's searches, for example as part of a campaign of stalking or harassment.
At about the 20 minute mark, they show the Foucault testing of the mirror, and actually put a camera at the test focus, so you can see a Foucaugram of the mirror. It's of poor quality, but still. You see the donut. To anyone who was into amateur telescope making, ground their own mirror, used the Foucault test, and was as interested in mirror metrology tests as I used to be, this is absolutely fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4miVqgNSRVY&t=1223s
Very cool. Miri is seriously awesome.
Making Creative 'Anti-Cheating' Hats in the Philippines
A group of engineering students in the Philippines have been making headlines recently for their creative method to avoid cheating during exams.

Students were asked to make 'anti-cheating hats' to wear during their mid-term examinations.
I don't think it's true. For 2020, >75% come from individuals; corporate is only a tiny fraction:

https://www.eff.org/files/annual-report/2020/index.html
OT: any recommendations for lesser known sci-fi movies (in space) that are actually good (even today)?
DARPA developing universal translator for satellites
Just to extend that analogy: real estate and construction companies tend to build a lot more roads than other companies. Even small construction companies have built a decently long road on some project, and the smallest have built a long driveway. Specialist road building companies that build a ton of roads exist, but all construction companies can build a good road.

By the same analogy, tech companies should not run from building server racks and/or datacenters. It may not be your company's core competency, but it should be one of your competencies to understand how to run a computer. It really doesn't take that much work to run 10 computers.
What do you mean by “physical characteristics”? sRGB is not a physical color space, which is part of why it’s non-linear. You seem to be confused about what people mean when they say “nonlinear color space”, and what makes a value linear.

A value is only “linear” with respect to something else. Not all values are linear. In the case of color, the words ‘linear’ and ‘non-linear’ are used with respect to physical measurements of light intensity such as watts per steradian or radiance.

sRGB values are not linear, because those values are not a linear transform away from physical measurements, it takes a non-linear function to map from physical measurement into sRGB.

The reason sRGB is non-linear is because when you add or multiply two sRGB colors to simulate physics like emission or reflection, you get the wrong color compared to what happens in the real world. To get the right color, you must transfer your sRGB inputs to linear space, combine them there, and then transfer the result back to sRGB space.

> many color spaces do define a transfer function for storing and transmitting the data, usually meant to be used for cases where not much precision is available

This is mostly wrong. The transfer functions define the color space, and they’re almost always defined for the purpose of emulating either display devices with non-linear response or human perception (which has non-linear response). sRGB’s non-linearity is emulating the non-linear gamma of your monitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB#Transfer_function_(%22gam...

Data space savings is almost entirely a byproduct of more closely matching human perception, and data savings is more or less only relevant to 8-bit color data or less (because 8 bits is not enough to represent linear color without getting visible color banding, but is almost enough when using a non-linear color space like sRGB, while 9 or 10 bits actually is enough to keep things in linear without banding). You still have to switch to linear color spaces to blend colors, even when using 16 or 32 bits per channel, so the compression side-benefits have very little to do with whether you need to use your transfer functions to switch between color spaces.

> So to say that you have to “switch to a linear color space” is incorrect, as you are not changing the color space, you are just transferring (applying the inverse transfer function) the values from their non-linear representation to linear.

This is entirely wrong. Using a transfer function or inverse is always a change from one color space to another, by definition. That’s exactly what a transfer function does, and it’s the only thing a transfer function does: changes (transfers) values from one color space to another. There is no such thing as a ‘linear representation’ of sRGB, there is only sRGB space and linear space. You aren’t making sense with the “non-linear representation” part, you just said all color space values are linear (even though that’s not true).
I’m confused. I did respond to your argument which is that these things can do harm so people are trying to be responsible. My response is “actually no harm is being done so what’s the ethical problem”? The part that’s BS is when people who espouse this argument wave their hands and pull actual tangible harm out of thin air and and claim that these models are capable of causing it.

(You also suggested some impending moral panic. I don’t buy it.)
Show HN: I created a lightweight cryptocurrency app to view the stats
This is cool, but I think we are talking about different things. From reading the description of this project it looks like you can't actually _edit_ the individual modules. They still require compilation since it's C++. You can change the patch by adding modules and tweaking them a-la hardware Eurorack.

M4L and PD allow you to open the patch ("patch" as in MaxMSP patch, not a Eurorack patch) and edit its source code. Which is a completely different level of sound manipulation and synthesis.
> is legally obliged to take into account almost all of its negative externalities

I always thought waste disposal was not accounted for. Could you point me to any information indicating otherwise?
I get your point, but I still think they could go out of their way a bit more to use alternatives that align with their values.
What’s the Financial Impact of a 4-Day, 32-Hour Work Week?
There is a cruise control option to the lower right. You can choose a slower speed
A lot has happened since 2017.
Xi is mistreating people on the West Coast? wtf does that even mean?
>"Really neat! My only complaint is that the handling is very sluggish"

I tried it on PC, laptop (both are Windows) and on Google Pixel 6 Pro. All are very fluid. But reaction on keypress I think has slight constant delay. Not sure what's the reason. Anyways I used it on auto drive and just stared for a while.
Ah yes, why don't you also talk about how well this works when one party lives in poverty and the other party spends 10's of millions on lawyers and media clips attempting to discredit the affected party.

Just please stop with this tired and broken line of thought, it does not work out for the individual in the end.
Things I Wish I'd Done Earlier as a Coder
There's plenty of really good criticisms of cryptocurrencies, but that's not one of them.

The whole point of proof of work is Sybil-resistance. Because your voting power is tied to your hash rate, you can't just conjure up a bunch of voting power by creating as many wallets as you want. Ethereum's move to proof of stake keeps Sybil resistance but trades the power consumption of PoW for some amount of centralisation (because you need to hold funds to vote).
Those apprentices don't get paid a journeyman salary though, but many of these very new programmers seem to think they should.
A remotely operated hole punch. I have used one to quickly make small round holes in hard materials on several occasions. Also to install small lead weights into things. Mostly though, they are good for humanely harvesting meat.
The actual quality of the currently public models is why they decided to release them.

The worst case scenario of the currently public models is why they want to take it slow.

It's like the lottery in one of the episodes of the TV show Sliders: you probably won't win, but if you do win, you die.

Unfortunately, most people are really bad at grokking probably, and, by extension, risk, especially in scenarios like this.

> Bad actors will have enough money/lack scruples to train their own models or to steal your best ones regardless how "impact conscious" your company it.

Indeed, totally correct.

But this is also on the list titled "why AI alignment is hard and why we need to go slow because we have not solved these things yet".

Saying "it doesn't matter if we keep this secret, someone else will publish anyway" is exactly the same failure mode as "it doesn't matter if we keep polluting, someone else will pollute anyway".
I'm glad NPR took the time to get his thoughts since Bezos was too busy playing with champagne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU
No, looks like it was just over a week ago: 2022-10-15T01:04:51Z
Somewhat related here in the US - when we had our second child, it was touted that with health insurance the cost out of pocket with my insurance of having a child was less than USD$1,000. The medical care providers figured out a neat way around this: they have a bunch of professionals come to the room after your child is born and have you sign paperwork for the post-birth checkup. (What I learned: do not sign anything.) Then, each professional is billed as a separate private contractor and our health insurance didn't cover service from a private contractor, so we paid around $8K out of pocket for service that used to be covered as part of child birth. (The benefit being that the hospital doesn't get bargained down by insurance providers if you get suckered into paying out of pocket.)
I know two separate people in real life that are in their twenties but don't look a day over 14. I don't know if it is some hormonal thing or just extraordinarily youthful looks.
> We're talking about the NSA here

And the NSA is not some magic eye of Sauron. You can dodge their gaze. Yes you need 'ridiculous' amounts of effort, but that's the price one pays for being anonymous. You need to make surveillance expensive, and this is done through good opsec combined with properly implemented cryptography (no side channel attacks possible). Snowden changed the game here. Many have gone dark and the NSA is now compromised as a result.
> Nope. Of course I don't. It's just a job.

This is another signal supporting my thesis.

I am personally convinced that as soon as your job requires a complex and hard activities from your brain - it inevitably touches all its cicruits responsable for our deepest motivations, values etc.

It doesn’t mean you have to be crazy about your job etc, but it means a part of your personality is working towards some common goal too, not just your skills.

And personality tends to be very picky about how it wastes its relatively short lifetime.
The trick with "under the cap" winnings, was to ship the lot with the grand prize, to a slow consumption area.

I grew up in a rural area, but one with a tourist season. The population almost tripled in tourist season, and tourists consume far more "on the run" consumables.

More than one local won the grand prize, months after a 6 month contest ended.

I won a brand new car, 2 months past win date.
Except nobody has issues when the tech is meant to exploit somebody but isn't public. The morality angle disappears with sunlight
You can't use AI to create ethically questionable material the same way you can't use Google Images to search for ethically questionable material. Companies can control how their products are used, no surprise there.

This is the same argument that people make regarding why they should be allowed to 3d print their own guns.
There's also the Lick Observatory's refracting telescope, still usable:

https://www.lickobservatory.org/explore/36-inch-lick-refract...

The lens was built in France in the 1880s and transported to San Jose. I don't know about COVID closures now, but I looked through it in the early 00's.
The Age of Unpredictability
> Ethereum Executes Blockchain Hard Fork to Return DAO Funds

> https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2016/07/20/ethereum-executes-b...
You don't even know what you're talking about. Their gatherings don't address "millions", but are typically just a hundred or so guys, mostly other donors. This could be hosted fine on an alternative like BBB.

Writing lazy and uninformed comments like yours on HN certainly is a classic though.
Don't what the problem was, I got my free holiday to Orlando out of it, on the day I wanted and from the airport I wanted... ;-)

The article missed out one important detail - the deal included very overpriced accommodation, which is how they were going to claw the cost of the flights back. But they failed to make booking the accommodation through the deal mandatory, so people took the flights and not the accommodation.
Democracy or Decision-Making by Experts?
The energy labeling regulations get updated all the time to account for new classes of products, I expect that will happen here.

But...

> It’s not as if 8K TVs are treading just over the line, either. Many 8K TVs on the market blow past the limit by like 300%, so they are nowhere close to compliance.

That's a lot! Especially when electricity ain't cheap. It's a good reason to discourage 8K from becoming the high-end norm if your typical setup means you won't actually notice a difference.
> Git is not a data store but a version control system, it can't store data. Data is stored on your disk

By the same theory, you don't store data in MySQL, you store it on a disk.
There's a longer video that shows he listened to him until the end.

I think the one you linked is just clickbait.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSNXBvpLb9o
Yet the risk of non-civilization continues to exceed the risk of civilization.
I didn't see that argument a lot. I'm glad their ISP dropped them. "Censorship" is a bit of a silly word to me at this point. Is it censorship when your email provider removes spam? When your antivirus removes malware? I mean, spam is speech, malware is code and code is speech. So it is censorship. We just all agree it's a good thing.

This is a good thing.

edit: Since this keeps coming up, it's not just spam emails/ malware but also domains/infra hosting those services. If a hosting provider finds out that they are hosting Command and Control infrastructure, or malware, or spam (ie: SES), they will remove that. And no one is up in arms about censorship over it because that would be really stupid.
As the discrete impulse is meant to approximate average derivative, applying decay after the impulse ensures that the value is always attenuated by decay (low frame rate underestimate the ground truth impulse, whereas the converse overestimates at low framerate).
I've seen nothing about poorly supported celerons anywhere? Details, links? They all have UEFI, they all should boot mainlineinux easy, almost all drivers should just work.
The Ripples of a Beijing Protest
The difference is that database is an external entity. The physical representation of the database's state is not owned by your app. On the other hand your redux instance is owned by your client side app. It lives and dies with your app.

At least that is how your user expected your app to be.

There are no strict rule over your system design other than "whatever makes sense the most"
Sorry, the OP just reads like sheer entitlement.

So start your own AI startup? Make your own text to image AI? Host your own service?