skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great parallel, especially since it supposes a possibility of a good(or at least acceptable) ending to all this, rather than just spiraling into chaos.

I only fear that there won't be enough profit motive for such gatekeeping/curation, which would only happen if very few people were willing to spend more money for human generated content. I can see this potentially not happening, either because the tech advances to quickly for people to even tell the difference, or people do realize but don't care because the AI learns to feed them exactly what they want(exactly what's happening with a lot of BS "news" already). Or maybe a decent group of people do see the value in real content, and pay for it, but the majority still remains oblivious or indifferent, and the effect it has on this majority is still enough to influence the direction of the world negatively enough that even those groups who avoid it will be forced to accept the consequences of living in a world created by AI and the majority of other people
No, he has been all over the place. The chips act, the student loan forgiveness(pending), the pro union EV moves pissed off his rich buddies but gave some crumbs to the people who voted for him.
If you’re going to use stock pictures to demo your interface at least make sure that they match the sex of the name…
Yes it is. I've only come off a handful of times, but I never noticed my feet being trapped - after a while it becomes almost a subconscious action.

Toeclips are considered more dangerous as you often need to loosen the straps first to free your foot. I know one person that broke bones in his foot when riding up a curb at the wrong angle (i.e. wheel slips) when using toeclips. (I also hurt my wrist when using modified toeclips on a unicycle and didn't get my foot free in time).

They're still in use, but probably more likely on a fixie than a road/racing bike.
> A surgeon is not going to see the vast majority of people who don't suffer head trauma

Which is a very silly argument.

A surgeon is one among the few that can see a spike in brain traumas cases and can investigate the causes, it's totally more reliable than you or me, because he has the data and the knowledge, we don't.

I don't know about you, but I would ask a veteran about the horrors of war, not to 4 years kids, who, having seen none of it, are, by your reasoning, less biased.

> A surgeon is not going to see the vast majority of people who don't suffer head trauma

Because surgeons are notoriously not people too and live in a closet in the hospital.

> Now, get me a statistician and we can talk.

first of all, medical professionals typically study statistics, epidemiology doesn't really figure out itself on its own.

Secondly, I work with statisticians to assess the risks for insurance companies (not in the US).
I work with that kind of data everyday and, guess what, MDs reports are highly predictive of risks, the average Joe with a laptop opinions, are discarded because, after examination, have been found "completely non-predictive".
Wow, even worse than I thought. Just fire them all already.
SpaceX unveils ‘Starshield,’ a military variation of Starlink satellites
Sure, it's going to be harder to run detection on a short snippet. But a short snippet also isn't very useful in the context of writing a school paper for you.
Lest we throw rocks while we live in glass houses, counterparty risk is rampant in software ecosystems as well, especially distributed and cloud environments. This is an old, old problem in complex environments.

I've yet to find a solution that tracks down every dependency from a call made inside an application that crosses many platform boundaries. There are dependency mapping "solutions" but they all are incomplete inventories at best, and I've yet to find one that acts as a metadata repository for distributed tracing solutions.

I would really like an AOP-style way of attaching code, turtles all the way down as much as possible, that shows me all dependencies and each of their various affiliated sensors and probes that get automatically called for known failure modes whenever there is an unexpected value, and when an unknown failure mode happens dumps all the sensors and probes instead of just a stack trace. I want to be able to attach such tracing code to third party code without causing their support teams to suck in their breath through their teeth and with a grimace tell me they can't support that "modification". These days, I not only need a call graph, I need the exact state of everything when something broke because I increasingly see Heisenbugs in environments due to various pressures in software development, and most vendor support teams' way of collecting data is woefully inadequate in cloud/distributed ecosystems.
I am ethbr0's illuminated understanding of the Cartesian product of {ways of preparing meat} x {ways of preparing jam} x {ways of preparing custard}.

Thank you!
Thanks this was a fascinating comment.
Their AX line has 32 core, 64 thread AMDs for ~200 dollars/euro. That is unmatched by any major provider. So, so attractive.

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax
Only $150/hour as a Senior in a big4?
More like no supply.
Because the police for a hundred years have cultivated a culture of horrific abuse of power, and if you bring it up, half the country calls you a radical.

Some people, whether they notice or not, prefer a world where "others" suffer.
Although asking about books, I'll share my current experience as a software developer with 15 years experience trying to self-learn electronics.

1. "YouTube University" as per the top comment on this HN post [0]. I watch a few videos on the train to work or when winding down in my spare time. Over the past few months I've come to appreciate certain channels, your learning style may prefer others, but my list includes: The Engineering Mindset, Ben Eater, EEVBlog, learnelectronics, and ElectroBOOM, as well as whatever else I stumble upon when searching specific topics.

2. Reading theoretical concepts from text books. I've read https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/ recommended elsewhere in these comments and found it very well written for someone like myself just starting out. It covers the full gamut covering basic movement of electrons through to practical stuff - indeed much like the Ben Eater YouTube channel does).

3. Practicing mechanical skills like soldering (which also results in earning things I didn't know I needed to learn, such as "how do you keep this thing still while trying to work on it").

4. Prototyping with breadboards - both projects including micro controllers and those focusing on discrete electronics. This feels most like a literal application of my software dev skills, but with all of the theoretical electronics stuff sprinkled in. Although starting with just a basic collection of a few resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors was fine, now I enjoy having a steady stream of orders from AliExpress coming in. Each one is only the price of my morning coffee but takes a month to arrive, so whenever I am working on something and think I am lacking the components, I'll place an order then forget about it until it arrives.

5. Pulling apart things to see how they work - this is extremely satisfying because it helps not just with learning about how people lay out electronics projects, but also how the physical connections are made - how are PCBs mounted, where are springs and screws and other bits placed. It also helps practice desoldering skills.

6. Designing PCBs and getting them printed. It only costs about $5 to get a few copies of a PCB printed and mailed to you, designed using the free software KiCad. When I've got a toy project that worked on a breadboard, then also worked on a prototype board, I then go and design a PCB to print. So far in 2 months I've designed and printed 3 boards. This is also extremely satisfying, and also helps learn more skills on the software and design side of things.

Finally, I share liberally with my friends via SMS when I make progress. I have a few close friends who are good at electronics but don't do it professionally. By sharing my progress with them, I have people ask me how it is going, which keeps me honest and makes me want to keep making progress.

After 2 months of spending an hour or so each night after the family goes to bed, I feel like this time I may actually pick up the skills I wanted. Previous attempts over the past 10 years have all failed due to lack of motivation.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16775744
Google Ryan Dougherty.
https://i.imgur.com/kBGRUqL.jpg
> coalition of conservatives and Greens

Sounds like an interesting combo.
> I don't care what statistics say about assertions and possible changing circumstances for cyclists safety.

Why not? Shouldn't we want to increase cyclist safety? Wearing helmets does that, both the data and common-sense concur here. But article was making a different claim. We shouldn't have laws MANDATING helmet use due to unintended side-effects actually producing more net-harm than the whatever deterrence impact the laws have in increasing helmet use. This is really not an obvious conclusion and requires reviewing the empiric data - but I suspect it is right.

> And titles like could lead to people to thinking that they won't need one.

Yes - the title is badly phrased. They are trying to present a subtle, nuanced argument that is not-obvious to a casual reader scanning headlines or even an article summary.
I haven't seen much discussion about how AM gets used for local road condition or emergency communication. When you're driving and see a sign that says "TUNE TO 1610 AM" and the car has no AM receiver, what do you do?

This may be a shrinking niche, but it's potentially a last bastion of AM radio usefulness.
Is it though? Is it any more trivial today to put together a CRUD+/line of business app than it was with VB6?

Excel is older than 15 years and still fulfills its niche just like always.

What were we doing 15 years ago that is trivial today.

Other than incremental productivity/Intellisense+ improvements (with a mixed reception) from Copilot I am waiting with bated breath to see this ML revolution of software dev.
Unless this changes the market for ML engineer will be similar to that of compiler engineer - an essential but very limited market.
I love that for you (and me), but note that there are just as many people whining about macOS Ventura's modest changes.
And the probability of them being on the "right" flight to come to the rescue out of thousands would be..?
I program regularly, what I don’t do is use all the various tools in my IDE regularly, including the debugger. The context aware keys are helpful there. Especially if you use multiple IDEs in different contexts.

As for delete, your mileage may vary but I find fn-backspace to not be particularly annoying when I need it, especially since I’m already using fn-arrow keys for page up, page down, home and end. But I also don’t use two many applications that dedicate specific functionality to the delete key (IDEs being the exception, but since all that functionality is gated behind modifiers anyway, adding fn is effectively free.
How many people sunk costs into Windows RT? I thought that disappeared as quickly as it came. And I seem to recall the store always being pretty empty, even by today's Microsoft Store standards.

(I might be outing myself for missing something fundamental - but can you really blame me for losing track of MS's platform reboots?)
First off, well done on examining your problem domain, realising that your operations are not in-fact commutative, and realising you need to discard your model. A lot of people would have just decided it was 'agile' to 'iterate' over there fundamentally broken solution until they had coded themselves in a corner, but I digress.

I would note that your path 2 is essentially another kind of CRDT though. Instead of your replica being in individual document, your replica is now the entire DB, and your changes are a grow only sequence. (Wish I could remember how pointed this out to me on HN, my mind was blown).
The point here is that the "mandatory helmet" part is less significant than the "law enforcement" part.

People who would happily be riding with a helmet are disincentivized to go riding at all, because they don't want to be the subject of police patrol. That's the effect we clearly don't want.
just ax the stupid mandate.
It's really fast so you can fuck the crapware off in record time.

That point is in jest but it really annoys the hell out of me that the excellent work the core windows guys have been doing is being compromised by the veneer of diarrhea over the top.
The bakery incident really made people wonder whether you can deny anyone and stay in business.
what might you think of trading posts?

e.g use a visual cue, such as a dollar bill, coupled with food reward.
attempt to cargo cult the birds, into replicating conditions associated with reward. to the end, birds will find the cue [$] and bring it to the trade post /vending machine.

the bird doesnt need to "know" any material value, other than; a particular item, at a particular place, allows food discovery
I'm skeptical of the claim that a protein included by GMO was both 1) the cause of a death, and 2) could not have been produced with traditional selective breeding.

Can you source those claims?
Look at the footnotes on page 71 of the BIS report. They know they are significantly overstating it and yet can't be bothered figuring it out, or making the best estimate they can.

And then the reuters report lede makes it sound like pension funds are short $80 trill. People on this thread think it's what is being reported.

It's awful.
If you are an American, you already have a federally issued ID it just isn’t very good. If you are an American who has traveled internationally you have at least two distinct federally issued IDs, which can get out of sync and cause a huge headache. At least 3 if you ever interacted with the IRS, 4 if you have a KTN, 5 if you have a TSA redress number…

There are plenty of places where just a drivers license isn’t acceptable (getting a passport for instance) and requires you to play the stupid 1/2 from category A/B game.

I agree that bringing up voting is a red herring, that’s a state thing and the several states should solve that for themselves. The US federal government needs a unified ID system which was designed as a robust, centralized ID system that can then be mandated for federal agencies to use.
While it took way way way too long for the scientific community to recognize airborne spread, it's hard to say that stuff like Diamond Princess could ONLY be explained by airborne spread. It was early in the pandemic, the disease was poorly understood. It's hard to know if the quarantine was effective--passengers could have continued socializing, sick workers distributing food may have been spreading it, etc.

It's a big leap from a single data point.

The more damning issue is that the assumption that it wasn't airborne in the first place wasn't really well founded.
Medieval Manuscript Fragments in the Classroom
> The even more fundamental thing though is respecting people's autonomy

Yes, and this includes people's linguistic autonomy; their freedom to say what they see.

We all know that Page is female. We also know that Page most likely wants everyone to refer to her as if she is a man.

Some people, who believe in the ideology of gender identity, will say that she really is a man, so this is no problem for them. Others will acquiesce out of a feeling of politeness, or social pressure. But many will say, no, she's female, so she's actually a woman.

Please respect the autonomy of the latter group to express a view that you disagree with, due to your differing beliefs. In particular, there's no need to start haranguing people with unfounded accusations of hate.
I recently used a legacy win32 app at work, on a windows 10 laptop. It looked old, even though the buttons etc got styled the win10 way. Since the app had some issues, I wanted to rule out a compatibility problem with modern Windows, and ran the app in a windows XP VM on the same laptop. Unfortunately the same issues arose, but I was really surprised by how snappy the app felt. Everything was just immediate, sub-windows popped up instantly. Sure, the machine was an order of magnitude faster than the typical XP machine back in the day, so it's not an apples to apples comparison, but still it was one of these revelations that we just seem to be taking one step forwards and at least one step back every time we improve something.
Could you cite a source? I thought unemployment was at an all time low. Where are these hundreds of thousands of laid off workers?
I'd actually rather be out at -20F than +30F. Once things have frozen, there's no risk of being cold and wet at the same time, which is harder to dress for than just being cold.

That's the real issue in Maryland and similar latitudes. We often alternate between sub-freezing and above-freezing temperatures. Snow falls, melts, and then accumulates in large puddles. Bonus: on a particularly cold night, the puddle freezes on top, and then you fall through.

I'm not trying to win some kind of misery Olympics. But mid-temperatures can be tricky to handle in ways that aren't obvious.
thanks.

A very good example of what "selection bias" means.
Just pointing out that the "no marshal have ever stopped a terrorist" is a bad argument. It may be a deterrent. We don't know
GPT-3 definitely has a writing style that can be detected by AI. But here's the thing: it's really easy to change its writing style. All you have to do is give it different input data and boom, you've got a whole new writing style.
We still haven't sent either Trump or Clinton (either) to jail. How do we not already have the supervillain system? Some of Trump's admin genuinely believe that the president should be above the law, and other's in the republican party agree
Looks like very little crossover from last year's list. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-podcasts-presen...
> 364 claims

while this is indeed 364 too many, this number is still absolutely tiny. there is going to be lots of confirmation bias in this thread -- of bad interactions. whereas the very very large majority of customers are probably happy with hertz. i always have been.

don't get me wrong, someone at hertz should go to jail for this. but your chances of being one of those 364 seems absolutely tiny doesn't it? they must do a billion rentals a year.
The impression I get is that in-flight crimes (or general disturbances) have increased roughly proportionately (and sometimes beyond pace) with the flying population. If the object of the Air Marshals is to provide a "chilling effect," that effect has not been demonstrated.
One might expect all those extra services and capabilities would make application development faster, though. Less for application developers to worry about, since the OS and built-in services do way more than a typical 1990s OS—and any that aren't helpful, ought at least not be getting in the way. So, sure, the situation for our industry's even more embarrassing than my original post implied.
> How does imprisoning someone help the victims in any way?

It doesn't help past victims, it helps future victims. Turns out, people do things that hurt other people if it will 1) benefit them and has 2) never resulted in any consequences.

> People have some really fucked up ideas of justice.

That people who have harmed other people face imprisonment is not one of them.

> rehabilitating the perpetrators to prevent victimization in the future.

Will this be done with a magic wand?
a) don't underestimate the importance of feeling like having received justice

b) deterrence is important, especially in cases like this: if there are consequences for willfully ignoring something that causes severe harm to others, it's less likely to be willfully ignored in the future. If you can expect to only have to make others whole (if caught), it's a lot easier to just not care. And legal compensation rarely actually makes people whole.
I thought the parallels was that his hard work would have caused on a strain on his bandmates, which it didn't, because he didn't really have any.

I thought Band Mates was the best comparison, because we were talking about fellow employee's suffering at a company. And if your comparison was of Prince to The Music Industry at large, it sort of works, but sort of doesn't because other musicians are Prince's competitors not team mates.
The truth is the opposite: more bike infrastructure and safer riding conditions with fewer barriers (e.g., mandatory helmet laws, cyclist licensing — another stupid idea that comes up with regularity) brings more cyclists.
> A bug on Webview would be fixed with an app update

TFA isn't about web browsers. It's about the security keys for multiple vendors leaking to the public.

>Łukasz Siewierski, a member of Google's Android Security Team, has a post on the Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (AVPI) issue tracker detailing leaked platform certificate keys that are actively being used to sign malware. The post is just a list of the keys, but running each one through APKMirror or Google's VirusTotal site will put names to some of the compromised keys: Samsung, LG, and Mediatek are the heavy hitters on the list of leaked keys, along with some smaller OEMs like Revoview and Szroco, which makes Walmart's Onn tablets.

These companies somehow had their signing keys leaked to outsiders, and now you can't trust that apps that claim to be from these companies are really from them. To make matters worse, the "platform certificate keys" that they lost have some serious permissions.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/samsungs-android-app...

Are you claiming that the Play Store will push an update to fix this issue on unsupported devices?
Sure, whichever ends earlier. The product is still alive so far.
and was extraordinarily hesitant to do so.

The supply chains are a mess as it is, the US can’t stomach a rail shutdown this winter, and the votes aren’t there to pass sick leave.

Biden isn’t a hypocrite; he’s never been a union absolutist.
Wouldn't that also apply to pasteurized cheese? Cultures are usually introduced which I would expect to outproduce bad bacteria just like with raw-milk cheese.
Not true, many states give Real IDs to non-immgrants.
Yes, frequently. It's not uncommon at all where I was raised (US South). We can talk to my father, or almost any member of his congregation, about how a national ID is a government plot to identify, control and harm the faithful.
I'd argue discoverability is a currently unsolved problem. Or maybe "uncared about" (optimizing engagement >> enjoyment).

At least when I'm getting far better recommendations from HN than any front-page algorithm I've seen.
"we do everything by hand"

... proceeds to demonstrate large churning machine (:

No, I know they're doing a much more manual process than most such factories. I think even the Amish use automation for churning.

For reference though, 380 tons is actually a smallish number. Seems France produces about 1000x that much in total, per year, not to mention other countries.
I asked ChatGPT how to write texts so it can be identified as human generated.

The answer: "One way to make it clear that a text is not generated by AI is to include a joke or riddle that is difficult for a machine to understand or generate. For example, you could include a joke that relies on wordplay or a complex pun. Here is an example:

Why was the math book sad?

Because it had too many problems."
What is Mathematics by Courant and Robbins is surprisingly good. For something a little more specific Pinter's A Book of Abstract Algebra would fit the bill.
> identity theft is so prevalent in the US, and pretty much nowhere else in the world.

That’s decidedly untrue.

https://focusonbusiness.eu/en/news/one-in-five-europeans-hav...