skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, Musk's getting coverage on HN. Let's check it out...

...oh. OK. Hmmm.

Starting to get a little worried about the neutrality of coverage. It's never good when technical issues and technical projects get polluted with political animosity.
You can usually beat adversarial examples by training against them, which makes the whole thing a cat and mouse game, which in the end only strengthens the AI.
Just root the device, then you can disable it. And don't give me any of this "it should be possible to do this without rooting the phone"

Smartphones are already locked down in a million other ways compared to eg a desktop Linux install. Why is this different?
During any incident, the current CRM is one pilot flies the plane while the non-flying pilot runs the check lists. I hope the single pilot is good at multi-tasking.

(* I am not a commercial pilot but I've watched enough Mayday/Air Accident Investigations to get interested in the FAA publications on CRM. Interesting read. Active work was being done ~20 years ago in this area.)
> As long as the concept of a corporation is based on a legal obligation to maximize profit..

That's not actually true, and never has been. Corporate law is more nuanced and flexible than that.

If we're talking about how to improve the world using corporate structures, there are also more options, such as corporations with obligations to non-shareholder stakeholders representing the environment and employees human rights, for example.

http://in-houseblog.practicallaw.com/fallacy-of-the-duty-to-...

https://www.thesustainableinvestor.net/blog/2016/02/23/fact-...

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...

https://www.legislate.tech/post/does-the-law-require-public-...
Hey Zach, since you're new to HN my recommendation is to check out the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"…please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
> Your desktop CPU may not be memory I/O bound for your average single-task desktop use case, but a 128-core server running intense workloads or doing HPC can definitely be I/O bound.

Indeed. From my measurements (very unscientific), processes stall first for IO, then for CPU resources, then from memory.
I'm not a fan of any authoritarianism either.... and if you're describing the US the same way you describe China, then you're missing the forest for the trees.

Two things can be and often are _true_ at the same time, but often the difference between them is that, for a given conversation, one of them is a proportionate contribution, and the other is a troll.
Exponential View
Substack -> Ghost -> Substack

The Browser
Substack -> Ghost

and seemed quite happy with the move last time I checked.
Didn't have time to explore [0] but my kid struggle a lot to focus on things "that matter", but pandemics brought a new reality where he engage a lot in school activities if he is pairing online with his friends. Since 2021 school is not online anymore and that's something neither school nor I motivated him to do.
> Globalization has led to unprecedented global peace over the last 30 years

Millions of people worked towards peace, peacekeepers, activists, anti-war protesters, diplomats, lawyers, soldiers, etc. Many have laid down their lives.

It's offensive. and disrespectfull for purely commercial interests to claim all the credit. There is not even a rational argument provided beyong a correlation.

Maybe it's the other way round global peace has allowed globalisation. And it hasn't stopped Russia.

> unprecedented amounts of money were injected into the global financial system over the last 13 years

Every time I see a person that complains about government printing money, they can never answer how is money supply supposed to grow along with economy to enable economic expansion? The only mechanism is government printing money or banks creating loans

Also do you know that many governments owe like 30% of their debt to themselves?

'HM Treasury owes £2.1trn to holders of British government securities, of which approximately £745bn is owed to the Bank of England'
Having followed a lot of the SBF discussion since he keeps giving interviews, here's the FAQ--

1) How did you lose $5ish billion of customer deposits?

- They were deposited to Alameda, a totally independent hedge fund run by an unrelated party (my ex-girlfriend who lives with me). We credited Alameda without properly debiting Alameda on FTX.

2) Why didn't you track them?

- There was a bug in the dashboard. I made a boneheaded mistake. Oopsies.

3) What happened in the days leading up to the collapse?

- It was an attack from Binance, they're the bad guys. They cashed out and broke FTX.

4) Wait but they cashed out their assets, how would that effect people who had cash and other assets at FTX?

- Well we didn't comingle margin and non-margin customer accounts/assets if that's what you mean. It's more that we had this terms of service that was really complicated. Yes there's a part of the terms of service that says we won't lend out your assets, but there's this other part somewhere that says we will that applies to everyone even though it says it only applies to margin accounts. It's because of complex accounting. This is all actually just really complex and I don't remember all of it.
This is the entire reason I use Wayland on my personal machine (Ubuntu 22 with Gnome). The X11 fractional scaling is fine, but a bit blurry. Wayland makes it look crisp, like it should.
The doubling is relative to if they had paid a dividend of the same value.

Stock price can double with the same market cap if you reduce the number of outstanding shares by half.
IIRC in purism phones baseband is totally/mostly isolated and has no DMA.

Edit typo
It's almost as if the people who think absolute capitalistic libertarianism is a good idea always think that they'll be on the good side of it and get to reap the benefits of being a monarchical overlord and not the bad side of it where their organs are being sold overseas for a week's worth of food credits for the rest of their starving family.
Yea but with a bit of luck it will feel like a new project ;)
> Not a fan of any authoritarianism, but USA could also be described the same way. We have massive data warehouses that just collect everything, phone calls, texts, internet packets. We just have different owners, but its the same game

This is hardly a reasonable comparison. Most of the crazy shit you're talking about like breaking protests with the military and the LSD trails are from 60 years ago. Firebombing cities happened during WWII and was the accepted (though terrible and it turns out strategically wrong) air doctrine of all sides.

Yes, US bulk data collection is wrong, but we know it isn't being used to round up people en masse for wrong think. We don't run massive reeducation/forced labor camps for ethnic minorities. The Xinjiang internment camps have housed basically the equivalent of the whole US prison population and where there is institutionalized forced sterilization, mass rape, water boarding, torture involving electrical shock, and beatings. Even the worst US prison is basically day camp by comparison, and the people of Xinjiang are being rounded up largely for their ethnic identity.

You false equivalence is frankly, fucking bullshit.
Then again, many bad things happen at a constant rate somewhere within a 400 mile circle. If all of those bad things generated an alert to all people within that circle, and then consider that every square inch is part of infinite other overlapping such circles... Evereyone but a few researchers in Antarctica would have useless phones that don't do anything but scream these alerts at all times.

The idea doesn't scale unless the events are actually quite selective, and a missing person that isn't even necessarily missing yet probably shouldn't qualify.

Even if you are sympathetic and care about that kid, it doesn't matter because it doesn't work anyway. Everyone just ignores the alert. It's just not a reasonable balance between how much some bad thing matters and how many people's attention are commandeered for it. Every single death even from peaceful old age after a rich full life is a tragedy, but the rest of the world can not care about it. Literally can not, because it doesn't scale. Those tragedies are happening at a constant rate of many new ones every second of every day at all times. Instead there are a much smaller set of people who care about or who's job is to care about each one, and that set is smaller than "everyone in a 400 mile circle". The fact that a person can drive 200 miles in any direction in a few hours doesn't change that.

It's probably a good thing for the system to exist, but if it's used the wrong way, it's entire utility and reason for existing is sabotaged and nullified.

However the real point not about the alert system but about a carrier's ability to control your device more than yourself, even if you own your device outright, that I do not say is a good thing that it exists. I accept that there's not much to do about it. I do have a rooted phone running LineageOS, which gives me a bit more control, but I don't kid myself that that really means much. But I don't think it's good or right.
> Like Unix, C was a success born of failure. In both instances, programmers took the best parts of projects that were doomed because they sought to do too much. Multics, which spawned Unix, was—at its peak—only used on about 80 computers worldwide, and CPL, which ultimately led to C, was abandoned by Cambridge researchers in 1967 without being completed.

Unfortunately for C and Unix, it turned out that features like memory safety (PL/I) and ring security/ACLs/MAC (Multics) were actually good ideas.

Of course memory-safe C/C++ compilers/ABIs/runtimes are possible and seem like a very good idea - certainly if you have the hardware (CHERI) or are willing to take a performance hit (probably acceptable considering that computers are fast enough to run apps in JavaScript/Python/Java/etc..)

Unfortunately Linux inherited Unix's security architecture and we've ended up with a hodgepodge of stuff like SELinux, AppArmor, hypervisors, containers, gVisor, etc. to try to fix it. And of course it usually runs on vulnerable hardware which has prioritized speed over security.
For the avoidance of doubt, it wasn't a good catch, it was a joke; there is absolutely no way ChatGPT omitted B from its acrostic-thing in order to make a Hamlet reference.
As an adult who feels like they identify with these characteristics, it is hard to know when to try to get help, or whether you are just seeing what you want to see and looking for an excuse.

I have always shied away from seeking an adult ADHD diagnosis, partly because of prideful denial (not wanting to acknowledge that there might be something wrong with me), and partly because I have no faith in the NHS giving a shit, since I am an otherwise health and successful 30-something.
> Smartphones are already locked down in a million other ways compared to eg a desktop Linux install. Why is this different?

It's not, but it's bad that smartphones are locked down like that, so we should be pushing back on it at every opportunity.
If Ukranians cannot be Russians then all Russians are Ukranians. It's as simple as that to me. But I accept now that people have the freedom to choose whatever nationality they want to be, even if it appears irrational. Similarly restrictive though, nobody is allowed to be Russian in Ukraine now and since this whole mess began.
Snowball Fight (1897)
In my pod we've been talking about the overlap between a system getting (1) logically correct answers and making (2) correct moral judgements. I'd say that that (2) requires (1) in that you can't make correct moral judgements if you can't understand the facts of the situation.

Somebody who is biblically oriented might say that you can make moral judgements because "god is inside you" and/or because you have a soul that makes you subject to discipline in the afterlife.

Our family business is a horse farm and my son told me that he thinks animals have a moral instinct and I can believe that because I've seen that. The first time I fell off a horse it seemed to me that the horse expressed contrition. Frequently I've seen animals, even cats, seem to know it when they haven't lived up to the expectations of their groups.

Modelling intelligence in terms of language has a controversial history (e.g. the failure of structuralism as well as the failure of linguistics to make working language technology.) Animals seem to have a high level of "commonsense" intelligence including theories of mind, contingent situations, etc.

I don't have an airtight argument about it yet but I think we're going to hear people say that they perceive GPT-3 is lacking a "soul" or some spark that people have and I think there will be some conflation there of that ability to make correct judgements about "the situation" and the ability to make moral judgements.
Try dosbox on a raspberry pi. Win 3.11 flies (office and all), though I'm running it on a giant desktop these days.

I haven't bothered with Win 95/98 emulation, since I mostly use that setup for games, and Steam already has modern-ish windows games covered.
Wartime != Peacetime.

Also, what do you mean firebombing our own cities. U.S. "strategic" bombing during Vietnam and WWII was on our enemies, not U.S. citizens as you claim. MKUltra was, sure, but it wasn't millions of people. And who cares about wiretapping; that's not even in the same ballpark. For most people in the U.S., we can live a free, safe, and open life, and so did our parents and grandparents.

One example of how the U.S. is not currently authoritarian is that we're all able to have this exact discussion strongly criticizing the U.S., on a U.S. website, over the U.S. internet, and still no one from the government is going to have us whacked.
Dinosaurs are distant ancestors of birds, and we keep billions of birds in captivity all over the world, which has allowed for a whole host of pretty nasty diseases that affect birds to evolve. It would be surprising if none of those were capable of infecting dinosaurs.
Seems like "languages" have evolved within a monospace world, or more accurately, as human being design programming languages, few, if any, have done so with proportional fonts in mind, which is likely to make adoption difficult?
> if you curate a good one

wow, didn't expect A&R to be the only part that couldn't be automated
I wonder if there would be repercussion from the Chinese government for wearing this. The fact that people would attempt to create something like this and publicize its finding means maybe there's a bit of hope for more free China?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_%26_Frank
> This is all actually just really complex and I don't remember all of it.

Saving that one for future use.
Breeder reactors are not "notoriously dangerous", they are just a little too expensive to justify their construction when the uranium is cheap (like it is now). Also, there are proliferation risks. However, these are not engineering problems nor scientific problems, breeder reactors are production-ready and safe.
Not-surprisingly, my rooted Android 9 phone didn't receive any alert, while my non-root device did.
There are plenty of examples of people running Serenity on physical hardware. It probably doesn't support a fraction of the HW that Linux supports, but still.
> Globalization will live on, but only for countries who align themselves with the west.

That's just a return to status quo, isn't it? A patchwork of defense alliances and trade agreements?

It's more interesting to me, to point out the relative decline in the relative power and influence of the West. Whereas U.S. was 25-30% of global GDP post WWII, we are down to 15% and declining. The so-called "global south" nations, interestingly a lot of these nations are rising in relative economic power and influence and yet many of them straddle the line between aligning with East or West (see India's oil / energy agreements with Russia, or south America's reluctance to join along with Russian sanctions).

In this sense, it's more apt to point out that globalization will live on, but only for countries that neither strongly align themselves with the west nor the east.
Definitely the exact same artist/album pairing I thought of as well. It's an incredible album from someone who was already at the top of his game. He almost appears to be pulling beyond the limits of mortality by acknowledging it.
>A digitized pendant or pin seems to accomplish the same idea and easy to take with you.

They don't even resolve at the distances the camera detect people, what effect could they possibly have?
Vasa was awesome. I also recommend some of the ferry tours out of Stockholm.

I spent three weeks in Stockholm and built a four day trip to Odda (Norway) as well, where I flew from Stockholm to Bergen and took a bus/ferry to Odda. Awesome chance to get submerged in the fjords, and the Trolltunga[1] is only a few miles north of Odda.

[1] https://www.visitnorway.com/places-to-go/fjord-norway/the-ha...
Are you saying that a phone manufactured in 2022 can have its firmware remotely changed to record microphones?

Specifically can your whatsapp/signal audio calls be recorded by FBI remotely in this manner?
Reductio ad absurdum, wouldn't it be better just to have everyone's phone explode? Chances are pretty good the (alleged) killer will have one on them, so let's just blow everyone up.

If you don't, we'll end up with a murdered child, so why not?
Entire life of the engine. After 1800 hours total operation, the engine should be overhauled: taken apart, cleaned, each part examined and replaced if necessary. Note that per FAA regulations in the USA, only actual flight time counts toward this limit, not time spent taxiing on the ground.

It'll take a normal private pilot a few years to reach 1800h of operation, so it's more economical if you're not flying the plane continuously for weeks at a time.

But yeah, it's expensive. Owning a plane is expensive. It depends on if it's worth it to you to operate the plane. Small single-engine planes like the Cessna 172 are commonly used for recreation or training. So if you use it often, such frequent overhauls will pay for themselves in terms of safety and reliability.

Maybe when all-electric recreational aircraft become common they won't have to be maintained quite so much...
Hi Chris! Love what you're doing with Substack. One quick thing though - this may seem weird, but Substack at the moment does not, in my opinion, offer a lot of customisation of the website. If you see a website, it's extremely easy to tell its a Substack.

Over the past year, I've only read high quality Substack posts - and my brain has sort of come to instinctively believe that if I see that specific layout, the post will be high quality. E.g. (not a very nice one) but in general, if I see the Medium layout, my brain almost immediately get turned off, believing the quality of the content to be sub-par.

I think individual theming, as in the case of The Free Press, takes away that immediate notion. I understand that the vast majority of people will not face this issue, but I think I will. I just wanted to know if you think this is an issue, and if it is, what you'll do to 'counter' it. I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this!
That's actually a really good idea. Although given everything in linux works with ctrl-c except terminal emulators, that's probably where the change needs to happen, ie using meta there.
I am a reporter, and I cover crime. Occasionally, I cover a story whose publication might endanger people. Think cases involving gang violence and/or individuals cooperating with law enforcement. Before I publish those stories, I contact the lead detective on the case to ask whether that concern has merit, and whether certain people’s names, for example, should be anonymized.

In one of those conversations, I was asked to not publish details about the extensive cellular tracking data that had helped to make the case. According to the detective, despite the ubiquitousness of cellular tracking data in prosecutions, your everyday criminal is not doing anything remotely like ‘throwing mobile phones out of the car window after each call.’ Quite the opposite, they are posting pictures of themselves with contraband to Instagram, and using their phones to facilitate crime as if they were untouchable.

Perhaps drug lords are more careful than lower-level dealers, but I’m not so sure. Total conjecture here, but I suspect the money gets to their heads, which leads to a feeling of invincibility — with consequent opsec failures.

If you keep an eye on major arrests, criminals routinely get taken down in essentially the same ways as the criminals who were caught before them. Despite their belief that they had been taking precautions against those failure modes.
Do people actually care that an incredibly small amount of people that can afford private jets are flying around? How many less dogs would we need on earth to offset the carbon footprint of private jets? What does the pollution look like as a percentage of smog China pumps into the air, or cities in India where they're burning all their trash?

Billionaires flying in planes is such an infinitesimally small issue in the grand scope of pollution that it doesn't even feel worth the brain power to think about. It's like both of your legs were blown off and you're haemorrhaging blood but being concerned about the paper cut on your finger.
I know this isn't a specifically Amazon issue or topic, but I am so disappointed by their SDKs. From Amplify to AppSync they're just layers of half baked ideas and implementations. I've hit a lot of bugs and limitations on their platform.

And they they still have no concept for native dev tooling for most of their services. Its always "just setup separate environments for testing, CI, development, staging, release" and pay them more money.

I hate AWS, so much.

I am not shocked their DB drivers have issues.
I feel like we need to give a hat tip to Philip K. Dick's Scramble Suit from "A Scanner Darkly".

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=997
There are two different levels of these alerts. The phones allow people to silence Amber Alerts. The higher level is a National Alert, and those cannot be silenced.

They shouldn't be sending out Amber Alerts for something a couple hundred miles away, because as you said, that causes people to ignore them. In my area, we only get very localized Amber Alerts, which makes them pretty rare... 1-2 per year.
Double checked and both the initial comment and the correction are incorrect: the original v1.1 was trained on LAION-2B, then subsequent versions were finetuned on the aestethics subset.

Either way, the main point is the same: more training data gives better results.

https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#weights
Is the title of the post still accurate?

@dang, thoughts?
There are significant questions about the efficacy of AMBER Alerts, which is concerning given the massive disruption and potential for negative conditioning for other government-originated alerts (severe weather, terrorism, etc.). Here's one paper from 2014 that analyzes AMBER Alert cases compared to those without an alert:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0735648X.2014.10...
As presented in the slides it's obvious that it's a generator-paradigm, thus like Icon etc. It's really just a way of making iterators very fundamental in the language. It's deterministic and you are assume to understand that. The "PROLOG style goal searching" is probably less relevant here.
There's only one thing I'm really interested in seeing and it's the org chart. I want to see how the company is structured and their manager to IC ratio. It tells me all I need to know.