skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US is slowly moving towards adopting the same ubiquitous surveillance that we used to pride ourselves of not needing to worry about in this country. In both the public and private sector, systems that monitor people are going to make life a living hell if nothing is done about it.

There is currently no federal law preventing the deployment of a privatized social credit score to be passed around in the same way financial credit scores are today. And there is every incentive to do so. Using present-day technologies, stores could quickly refuse customers who have been blacklisted, and this list won’t require any conviction or pesky due process whatsoever. It doesn’t even have to be that accurate: a list that’s right 90% of the time is rejecting undesired patrons 9 times out of 10.

Some places can and will ban law enforcement from using facial recognition, but that’s hardly enough. Many places have private security which will not be bound by those rules. And most of the infrastructure we use and treat as “public” really isn’t. Credit card processors are private. Transportation is almost all private. ISPs and cell phone carriers are private. Grocery stores are private. A blacklist doesn’t even need to ban people, raising the prices and downgrading service for “troublesome” customers is enough.

If I were marketing such a product, I would focus on the positives: you can also quickly identify big spenders based on prior shopping (including at other stores). Stores will give priority customer service to these people and maybe even other perks.

I should also note that it is immaterial that facial recognition currently has major issues. There’s no question that bad ubiquitous surveillance is bad, in the same way that a diet of radioactive cheeseburgers is bad: removing the radioactivity doesn’t solve the problem. Arguments relying on the accuracy of current capabilities are always at risk of being outdated. I’m not as focused on “what is inaccurate” but rather “what if facial recognition is 100% accurate”.
I used to believe this after reading Dawkins as a teenager. After reading lots of philosophy I’ve come to believe that the question as posed is unfalsifiable and thus not possible to test scientifically. Asking “is the bible divinely inspired” is similar to asking “what is the meaning of life”, it cannot be tackled scientifically, thus it falls into philosophy and theology.

The same thought process led me to abandon the Sam Harris notion that science can provide us with morals. A simple way to see my point is to ask yourself “what scientific experiment could I design to test whether science is a good basis for morality?” You will find this statement contains a categorical error: a “good” basis can only be defined prior to the experiment, thus the question can only be tackled philosophically.
HN actually is generally quite negative on AI/ML and are the first to point out that humans are vastly better than this so we have no worries. This is indeed generally true for people on HN.

However, it seems like many here never talk or see ‘other people’ as I have said and keep saying; if you use fiverr or upwork, for the vast crowd of workers (as they are called) are far worse than stable diffusion (compared to the ‘artists’) or chatgpt (compared to programmers, writers, reviewers etc) now. Not only in what they sell, but also their communication about it.

So this is now; soon these people have 0 chance if they don’t pivot.
But there are lots reports of people who received severance, so why assume Sam's situation is the default.
>all vaccines went through the same testing process as any other medication, they simply sped the process up by layering some of the steps - all that means is that rather than wait to see if one study passes before doing the next one (save money or whatever), they just overlapped them

This is misinformation. The normal process involves at least 4-5 years of observation to identify long-term side effects; you can't speed this up, as no matter how many people you test, it's not going to make long-term side effects manifest sooner. And while the technology has been around for 20 years, it certainly hasn't been trialed on humans until very recently, due to difficulty finding a safe delivery mechanism.
Practically every computer geek/nerd of the 80s and 90s has come across and used a Sound Blaster at some point. Part of our childhoods, as the saying goes.

RIP, not many get to affect quite as many people as Creative did across entire generations.
It's gone longer without a breaking change than Python, for one...
It's actually very readable
There is any kind of party you would want to go to here, except for maybe like, Ozarks style river hooliganism.
Private trackers are small, uninteresting targets.

Even the big private trackers have less users in total than you can find in individual public swarms.
This proves much of sexual assault is incest, not that much of incest is sexual assault.
If it were a genuinely innovative new technique, it should be patented, which will grant exclusivity for some period in exchange for it _not_ being a trade secret.
How excellent do you want to be at generic enterprise CRUD apps?

Somebody has to build and maintain them.

Have you considered that maybe they’re fine with their level of responsibility and can leave work at the office?
IIRC technically all California based employees are still employed to get around the WARN issue where you have to notify employees 60 days before a mass layoff.
You completely missed my point. I mean the actual mathematical analysis concepts involved in integration (measure theory, Rieman integration, principal value) are far more intricate than the concepts involved in differentiation.
Pretty simple with the built-in command

ATTACH customer145.sqlite as customer145;
ATTACH customer2.sqlite as customer2;

Then query the attached tables.
I don’t think forced was used negatively here. He was, in fact, forced to buy Twitter insofar as he was forced to complete the deal he so desperately wanted to get out of, by Twitter and the courts.
How's it working for you? It's the one that's available where I live, but the reviews I've read of it have me thinking I'd be better off waiting until the newer versions come out?
Nothing, if it’s insightful or provides facts or at least factually based musing that’s interesting. So little of these threads are any of that. In this page alone we have wild speculation and even a mental health diagnosis, which is always a sure sign of complete lack of insight.

Some people here have asked questions (e.g. was the poster paid during those 2 months?) which require answers in order for actual scrutiny of Musk to occur and this to be worthy of HN, so the scrutiny right now should be of the Twitter post and then we can move on to Musk.
I remember explaining why I used FreeBSD instead of Linux back in the day, and just after I said "it's a bit more stable than Linux" the system completely froze. Ouch, embarrassing. Needless to say, no one was especially convinced. That was on 5.0 or 5.1 IIRC.

(These days, there isn't too much of a difference any more; Linux has come a long way in the last 20 years.)
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I think you didn't understand what I was trying to convey.

At a surface level, magic is a form of entertainment that plays with deception.

The Spanish school of magic (which is what we're discussing) deeply relies on psychology, that has nothing to do with deception.

It involves the fundamental aspects about how humans behave. That is useful in all aspects of life, and has nothing to do with deception.
Nothing special, just plain Typescript and canvas rendering.
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Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, that's definitely a problem. Will look into adding a feature where we take the brands and attach it to an apparel aggregator like (nordstorm, amazon). If the same product still exists, it'll direct to that product, else, it'll give the latest related product line from the same brand.

And +1 on the industry selling less clothing than it would. Haha! Nowadays if I find something I like, I buy like 5x of the same jeans/t-shirt etc.
Where exactly is he protecting free speech? He’s banned people for saying things that hurt his ego.
His landlord can evict him and/or sue him (well, Twitter, not him) for the back rent. Whether they will or not is a separate issue, but that’s technically something his landlord could do.
You know those are engagement bait where they take an easy problem and claim it's hard, right?
Because AHK is about 20 years old. If it was created today it probably would.
That makes me happy, because it can seem like a dismissive comment, but I promise it's not. :)
> They have very little credibility currently because of past miscues beginning in 2018.

Citation for above: https://twitter.com/NorthmanTrader/status/161072868776647475...
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Maybe focus more on making music instead of playing music that others made.
The man has a name.
The way the current immigration system works is not taught at all in schools. Maybe if you’re lucky you get taught about the Ellis Island days where all you had to do was prove you had enough money not to starve and not have any signs of infectious disease like tuberculosis.
I've barely heard about PlanetScale, but from the looks of it, it looks interesting. However, is it compatible with "normal" MySQL, meaning that I just can change my connection information from `currentMySQLhost` to `planetscaleMySQLhost`, and it just works (after creating the database, tables etc., of course)?
Also Dragon's Egg. A book about evolution of life on a neutron star. One of my favourites
Nobody at my org did, either.

Fun night when you need to reroll your credentials...at least it's nice to have a list in the CircleCI UI, but sucks when you need to make sure that you have all of the scopes available to you.
The Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches consider it canonical, which is why we still have complete copies of it, albeit in Ge'ez.
What is a hater?

Is it somebody that pops up to tell people that their opinions are wrong and insult them?
In many cases, potential future employers won’t be the wiser I would think. For example, some companies have a standard policy of not discussing past employee’s history. You have lost a reference however, which is often worth something.
PHP and Golang have had a child. At last, a modern rope to hang yourself with.
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I'm a web and infrastructure engineer with expertise and proficiency in all things JavaScript/TypeScript, the web, Python and multiple infrastructure-as-code frameworks. I also contribute actively to open-source – see https://github.com/paambaati and https://github.com/orgs/getoslash

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This thread was linked from https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/136869/orange-sight-po...
My suspicion was correct after reading the screenshots:

“trash” in USA

“bin” in UK
I would absolutely hire somebody who sued Twitter for failing to pay what was owed. In a heartbeat. I like working with people with character; you can trust them to let you know when something isn't right.

Similarly, I'd look very carefully at anybody who stayed at Twitter well into the Musk era. As I did people who were at Uber during the Travis era. Sometimes decent people have good reasons for working for bad execs. (E.g., I hear a lot of the SpaceX people see putting up with Musk as a necessary evil for getting to work on something they care so much about.) But sometimes they are clue-deficient or lack a moral core, and those people require too much close supervision for my tastes.
Discussion of a Mastadon thread on crows from a couple of weeks ago led to heaps of interesting comments¹. Far outside my wheelhouse, so I've no idea of the links between the authors and their lists.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34139048
"What factors do you think are influencing your desire to eat more or less?"

There is a lipostat or setpoint in the hypothalamus. It acts like a thermostat for fat. Fat levels are controlled by a homeostatic system, just like body temperature. The highest amount of bodyfat you've had will typically be the bodyfat your brain will defend. It not only does this by making you hungry, it also will downregulate your metabolism. So you become less active. Anyone who has been obese, is fighting their own brain to maintain fat loss. Losing fat is easier than maintaining fat loss. Semaglutide disrupts this system.

BTW, the mechanism of the setpoint is Leptin, a hormone secreted by fat almost exclusively. Muscle also releases Leptin, but in small amounts.

So if you cut the fat out, if you use liposuction, or you diet down slowly, or you diet down quickly, it doesn't matter. Your brain still knows how much fat you have, based on the leptin signals it gets. You cannot trick it.

The reason bariatric surgery is effective is that cutting out the stomach reduces the amount of ghrelin released, which is a hunger hormone that the brain sends the body. Again, disrupting the homeostatic system...which is the only effective way out of this mess.

I was expecting more people on hacker news to know about homeostasis of fat by now. Leptin was discovered 27 years ago.
Come on man, he mentioned the bipolar himself in multiple recorded interviews. It's a matter of public record.

Mania doesn't make you abuse your workforces at multiple companies over a period of decades, lie about holding your son that died from SIDS when you actually weren't home, or dump half a dozen spouses when you get bored with them. That's not having empathy. This man does not have empathy.
Do you have an example of a non-crypto web3 project or are you literally just here to contribute “I don’t like you”?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34247305.
They could, but that would require proof and documentation, and at least a discussion with said employee about said cause. Firing someone for cause is actually quite hard, especially in CA, unless there is an obvious transgression like a crime being committed. Laying people off is “easy” in comparison, provided you pay out the required 2 months of severance.
That's the correct apple.
The Tewahedo church in Ethiopia considers it cannon. There is no english translation of their bibles currently but wiki says a translation project is underway.

Can I ask - are you a biblical scholar? Reading a different bible each year us impressive
"forced"?
So? Brilliant as he was for his time, your average modern middle-school student has a more fundamental grasp of the natural world and its secrets than his alchemy would ever teach him.
The "most reliable way to lose weight" doesn't work for most obese people. The studies on tirzepatide seem reasonably conclusive, at least as far as weight loss goes. Is your issue with undiscovered long-term side effects, or with lifelong dependence on a drug that causes unpleasant side effects, or something else?

My position at the moment is that different obesity interventions work for different people. Obesity is the result of a huge number of different factors such that no single intervention will work for everyone. An obvious example would be an obese patient with thyroid problems, vs an obese patient with sleep apnea: both sleep and thyroid function can cause weight gain, but they have different treatments. I don't think we should ignore a drug that works well in some stubborn cases, just because other cases can be fixed with lifestyle and diet changes.

(I say this as someone who lost 15kg, went from obese to normal, and has kept it off for years by occasional calorie tracking. Most evidence suggests this doesn't generally work for obese patients.)
You should start a business and grant permanent jobs.

Low interest rates created a lot of bullshit jobs in the first place. You have a problem with those jobs taken away but not people loosing savings bcz of interest rates lower than inflation.
It's a very natural and obvious term (far more natural than "closure" IMO). The wikipedia page has citations going back at least 20 years.
I agree AHK is warty... but Lua?
I believe that GPT is an enormous step forward for the voice interface. My favorite example is to give a csv of hourly weather data and it comes back with a human-esque interpretation of it. Not just the rules engine approach that you get from websites...

Summarize the following weather forecast for tomorrow

12 am, 2° F, clear, 15 mph
1 am, 2° F, clear, 15 mph
2 am, 1° F, clear, 14 mph

Tomorrow's forecast will be cold and clear with temperatures dropping from 2°F to 1°F and winds of around 15mph decreasing to 14mph.

That's a small token example - give it the full 24h and its right on.

Give it the proper data in a machine reasonable format and as it to make it into a human summary, and that's where its strength appears to be.

The problem is that GPT would be too expensive for Amazon Alexa right now.
Oh really? Got any more info on that drug?
Back when Dragonfly 6 was released, phoronix found it quite performant in their benchmarks[0].

0. https://www.phoronix.com/review/corei9-freebsd13-dfly6/4
pg-native is a good example actually. Its readme lines out how you need to first get a compiler, libpq, and have some certain commands in your PATH. With psycopg2 (Python’s equivalent), the most common scenario is ‘pip install paycopg2-binary’ and you’re good to go.
Oh I see. That is indeed correct, but even a difficult book like Apostle largely concentrates on Riemann's theory for the introduction.

Learning should be like peeling onions. You peel off one entire layer, from all sides, before moving on to a deeper layer of complexity.
AHK is the only reason I miss Windows (being on Mac presently). I had dozens of system-wide text expansions and optimizations. Also, a num lock toggle every 9 minutes to keep my screen awake.

Text Shortcuts on Mac is limited and unreliable, and I haven’t found a good 3rd party replacement yet.
Here’s the full picture. Since 2018 we have experienced a series of tremors in AI. We know that eventually the big quake will happen — it’s inevitable. Some people said the tremors were directly preceding the big one, most people denied the tremors were even happening. Now that the tremors are over, we have a new geography where things are different but thankfully chatgtp has turned out to be very advanced search. But that’s not all it is. And it’s clear that we are building the subconscious of what will eventually become AGI. People who are alarmed at these recent surges forward are justified. People who assume the worst are justified too. We can’t turn it back. And no matter when AGI comes, people will think that it has come too soon.
> you have to press Fn-F1 to access F1

Yep, by default, but you can change that in the settings. The the Fn modifier isn't required.
I think it's because most employees just have no interest in diminishing competition. And if they did, most don't have the bargaining power to make it happen. And that to me is what corporate non-competes are generally about: exercising power for gain, and nevermind who it hurts.
Exactly – "perfect visual reasoning is AGI-hard", the tweet that seems to have inspired this, suffers from several problems:

• "perfect visual reasoning" is not a thing, because "visual reasoning" isn't clearly defined. Nor "reasoning". Most importantly, neither is "perfect".

• It's not clear whether it's even accurate to say you need "perfect visual reasoning" for the application at hand (driving)

Determining whether something is AGI-hard is AGI-hard.
> [Editor's note: this example actually finds 20^4, not 20^3. I'll correct it when the load on the server goes down. Still, it serves its purpose.

I guess the load on the server has yet to abate for 24 years.
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that. Is that the case if it was settled out of court? Often employee labor disputes are settled out of court if the lawsuit is less than $30-50K.
Scrutiny is fine. But how does saying "He's bipolar and just want attention" or "Second coming of Trump" add anything to the conversation?

His intention was very clear to anyone that paid attention. Jordan Peterson was banned. Babylon Bee was banned. Sitting president was banned. An election swaying story was completely suppressed. There's only 1 side of the COVID conversation. Whether you think that's okay or not that's on you. But a lot of people are not okay with it, and one of them happens to be Elon.

Yes he made a bad offer and the market crashed and he was stuck with it. Seems pretty logical to me. Nothing to do with attention seeking. And even he himself admits he f'cked up if not at least on the pricing and terms. So he's a rash crummy negotiator. But its not SpaceX rocket science what happened here.

More logical than calling everything 'QAnon' and not able to add anything constructive to the discourse.
All shareholders saw the cash, as did all employees with stock options and RSUs. This was an especially good deal for the employees because their equity would be worth a small fraction of that if Twitter followed other social media stocks. In reality, it would likely have done much worse, because it doesn't have the fundamentals of a company like FB.

Future vests after purchase pay 54.20 cash instead of stock.

It was a great windfall for everyone with stock or shares vesting.

If not for the buyout, Twitter stock would probably be trading in the teens or single digits now.
Let’s rephrase that and ask “why should the web win”?

As developer, the only advantage I see is to only write things once. But that comes with many disadvantages: worse programming languages, worse frameworks, worse tooling.

So in the end, it might even be easier to write an app twice natively than doing it once for the web.
> have got average people to think it's perfectly normal to try putting random chemical compositions into their bodies and see what happens

This smells like you devoured some anti-vaxxer BS, btw. But for the record, these things go through a ton of testing and clinical trials. The reason science types are excited is BECAUSE this class of drug looks safe AND effective... based on the data.

(And I'm also down 35+ lbs on tirzepatide, so far. This is the way.)
The latest models of USB power meters have multiple ports and can also do some checking of cables (and chargers) including reading the actual e-marker chip for capabilities and testing the negotiation capabilities of attached USB-PD chargers.

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