skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All success is simply relative to someone else – usually those around you.
That’s important for spending money, because for so many people the question of whether you’re buying nice things is actually, “are your things nicer than other peoples’ things?” The question of whether your home is big enough is actually, “is your home bigger than your neighbor’s?”

This is pathological behavior. Unfortunately, it's ingrained in humans. We are improving the world in a faster-than-ever rate, and the objective difference between wealth classes was never lower than it is now. Not even remotely close.
(see the book "Factfulness" for some interesting data)

Yet due to the way the world stopped "being huge", due to social networks and everyone being "approachable" (low degree of separation or whatever), the level of envy is at absolute maximum. This problem was always present in humans and is perhaps the primary reason (well, if we can make the jump or at least connect envy to evolutionary pressure for procreation) we have achieved so much in this world. Not knowing when is "enough" is unsolvable problem, even though philosophers wrote thousands of books on this topic.

People cannot stop being envious even if it leads to unhappiness, almost always.

For myself, if I don't have to worry about bills, buying healthy food, having shelter and I don't have to work 14 hours a day, I consider myself on par with anyone in the world money-wise.
Cellebrite Hacked by Whistleblowers
Cellebrite (mobile phone digital forensics) software and manuals available to all… from disgruntled whistleblowers annoyed they sell to shady governments
Australia misses 20-year public transport accessibilty target
I don't actually want an answer because it isn't my business but you should ask yourself: are my parents "terrible" because they hold different beliefs than my own? Or are they terrible because they did something heinous like abuse me or someone I love?

Deeming parenthood a "social construct" and deserving of no attention from the child is ... you must not have kids of your own. That is the only way to explain your current attitude.
> always remain skeptical

The appropriate amount of skepticism is exactly proportional to the probability that the theory is false.

Since a lot of people are very certain about vaccines, they are very un-skeptical about them. And therefore don't want to spend time on "skepticism".

(Of course if one's prior distributions are very whacky, it's no surprise that they end up with bad posterior distributions after reading/seeing new data/information.)

> and engage in rich discourse.

There's definitely room for improvement. Especially when some folks throw out sentences like "At one point, so much as uttering the word >corona< could get you silenced by the powers-that-be regardless of the context."
Where is learning a right specified by the copyright laws? See https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...

* 1. Right to control the reproduction of the work

* 2. Right to control the making of derivative works

* 3. Right to control the distribution of the work

* 4. Right to control the public performance of the work

* 5. Right to control the public display of the work

* 6. Right to perform a sound recording publicly by means of digital audio transmission

The closest is the right to make derivative works - is the ML model a derivative work of the training data? I guess this would need to be tested out in court.
> [...]And the usability of Mastodon is so confusing that it's hard to see people moving

... multiple former-Twitter-app-developers are working on this problem right now. If the apps are user-friendly, it won't matter how esoteric the protocol or web interfaces are.

This might be one of those occasions that we'll look back and wonder why Elon chose to intentionally stepped on this particular rake. Filed under "unintentional first-order consequences". I have a feeling these individually small rebellions will snowball into something fierce.
The truth is... .gov data is leaking here and there, but, if it's not the access that is punished, then it's the distribution... or knowledge. Which brings us to a VERY sensitive topic of knowledge. And thought crimes. /(o_o)\
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There is no officilly recommended (or even useful) OTC drug for covid. Maybe you can treat mild symptoms with NSAIDs and similar.

Nothing of what you are saying is helpful beyond the official advice given by doctors and public health sources and even the media.

You vastly overestimate your knowledge of the topic.
I have an Oakcastle MP200, it cost £20, is tiny and weights nothing. I can use the controls without looking at the screen. Battery lasts seemingly forever. I can take it to the gym, clip it onto my clothes and listen to music without being interrupted by phone notifications and without having to take my phone with me.

Makes me nostalgic for the pre-smartphone era
Out of a small list of Mozilla-blessed add-ons, though. I mean, it's worth it for the ability to run uBO, which is on the list, but if you want to run just about anything else... I heard it's possible if you go through some convoluted process involving Firefox nightly/beta.
Why gay agenda though? What is the connection?
> Computers are now for serious business

Always have been.
Same in Germany. Too many people who need care, too little doctors and nurses in the public healthcare system even though spending on healthcare has never been higher.
> one sign is the "balanced" audio output, which they pretend is better but isn't.

Maybe for a MP3 player it does not matter, but in general the physics behind balanced analog audio is quite sound (pardon the pun). It is a simple trick that provides better resistance to interference.

Every XLR cable on the floor at a show is balanced and it is not because the sound guy fell for audiophile marketing, it is because it works and costs next to nothing.
> Blind trust in science is no different from worshipping a religion or cult.

> We are the Galileo against the Church's Geocentric Model, but far more precarious and farther gone.

This sounds far more like the utterances of a cult than even the most dismissive "listen to doctors, they know better than you" media commentary...
> Notable outliers are (kind of) the Office apps

We must be living in different realms. My work windows experience was entirely Windows + Outlook + Excel + Word. 2000-2010's was horrible - daily crashes, lost work even with auto save, odd formatting artifacts that would vanish with ye olde power off / power on debugging step.

> the results of his management

Maybe he was just a terrible manager, maybe the corporation was just dysfunctional (those two might be the same thing).
One app I use frequently when composing is Tonaly on iOS. It has an interactive circle of fifths that also indicates the chord grades on the selected scale. The cheat sheet is also a good approximation.
Yeah, but this is a whole new level. Voice is part of biometric data, reproduction of which could be practically classified as impersonation.
> I see your eagerness to defend the definition of human

I am not eager to defend the definition of human. Your comment has interesting points that could start an interesting discussion in its own thread. I see you do have a separate comment thread about it. So that's all good and fair.

But in this comment thread, you are completely missing my point! The OP has a very specific question that many HN readers care about. The question is complex and there aren't any easy answers for the question. My point is that the OP does not deserve shallow dismissals. Heck, no post deserves shallow dismissals. If a post is so bad that it should not be on HN, flag it and move on!

So my point is not to defend any definition or any particular school of thought or any particular view of AI. My point is to defend the OP from shallow dismissals. I am seeing these shallow dismissals more and more often these days and it makes reading HN comments a chore sometimes.
Millions have died. Are still dying, especially in China. More could have died if there hadn't been a robust world-wide response.

How do you illicit a robust world-wide response? By making the potential consequences of not acting abundantly clear, aka "fear-mongering".
> the mental load of Rust is a lot higher than C++'s and it takes a long time for regular people to become as proficient in it as they are having written C++ for 15 years

There are very good reasons to use C++ rather than Rust for some projects, typically interoperability, or developer already having experience in C++, as you mention.

However, having coded in both C++ and Rust professionally, my experience is that switching Rust has liberated much of my brainpower to concentrate on actually implementing useful stuff, so I have to strongly disagree on "mental load".

What is true is that, for a while after switching, getting code to compile in C++ is easier than in Rust. Took me maybe 6 months to 1 year before it became natural? However, as we all know, there is a huge difference between writing code that builds and writing code that works. In my experience, that difference is order of magnitudes larger in C++ than in Rust.
The article fails to explain - how does using the red cross symbol on e.g. a videogame health pack make it more likely that Red Cross personnel in the field get shot at?
I don't believe it one bit that you haven't done C in 2^64 seconds.

EDIT: technically 2^63-1 seconds.
Personally I found Rust much easier to learn than C++
The irony is that slurs gain their potency from their novelty which is emboldened by censorship and hindered by exposure. If taboo language was used freely and often, it would lose its shock value and subsequently its power to harm people sensitive to it.
Maybe the site; the project isn't.

[0] https://github.com/pygame/pygame/pulse
The Daily Aus (TDA) creates accessible and engaging news for young Australians who want to read the news but don't know where to start.
Protip: restarting twice a day - once at start of day and once over lunch reduced the number of crashes and lost work by about 75%.

Also might have been holding it wrong.
My three children all have completely different attitudes to money despite being very close in age and being raised together. Two spend freely now they earn their own money, my middle daughter saves almost all she earns and knows the price of everything.
Published 18 Aug 2022

Also, Title should probably be reverted to it's original "How CISCO got Attacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Gang"
> projects like Chromium still have a lot of mem. related safety.

Chrome might suffer from being a Google project. At least the old Google C++ style guides heavily pushed a C with classes approach and where outright hostile to every improvement over C new versions of the language brought along.
The MRNA vaccines that were introduced were novel and used a mechanism that hasn't been used at scale before and without long term human studies.

And increased amount of skepticism in such a case is completely warranted.
That’ll be a nice upgrade. Newark and La Guardia look so old. Same with Terminal 1 in Boston.

The Detroit airport looks amazing next to them.
My comment above reflects exactly what I work on at Stripe.

My role has a general title of Communications Manager (we have a ~flat structure and our roles aren't particularly descriptive). This role sits within the Comms team at Stripe.

The majority of my time is spent telling the stories of businesses that build on Stripe (and helping users). In other companies, this is often called marketing or just "comms".
This property may be an often overlooked advantage of the TUI?
Not really, no. People can wear short skirts without being sexualized; it's a fashion preference like any other.

Even so, I dispute the idea that sexuality or moe doesn't belong in the products of our labor. And moreso, I dispute the idea that school uniform fetishes sexualize children in the case of an adult wearing one.
>>Their initial response was not lazy. Yes it was, it didn't consider what could have been meant and instead of asking they presumed the worse and attacked. Yes the initial comment was short, but also a very valid question even if it was lazy as well. If one wants to critisise, it should not be done by doing the same as what the criticism is about...in my opinion of course
Twitter still controls the API: if there's content they don't want to appear next to ads, then can choose not to serve it.
This is what I think. It's the old business model, which worked when everything was expensive, only really needed by big corps with deep pockets, and any machine a teen would have at home had nothing in common with the big irons at some insurance company. IBM would make big money, consulting firms would make big money, you being good with AIX would make big money.

Then with Linux, you could have what could run on any big server, for free, as a teen in your bedroom. You could poke at everything, look at the source code, ask around how you do this or that, since knowing how to do X wasn't some well-guarded secret to have an advantage over the competition, but something fun to share. Eventually those teens would get older and look for jobs or go to university, while at the same time Linux keeps on maturing, and now if you as a company want to build some system from the ground up, or just replace something ancient, you can pick that expensive well-established system from IBM, requiring expensive experts to maintain them, and program for them, expensive software, ... or go with that free OS that a lot of people know their way around with and ask for a much lower salary.

Of course, this didn't happen over night, especially the "it's free but there is nobody to yell it if it breaks" aspect of open source was very strange to $BIGCORP and seen as an unacceptable risk, but there was a steady shift towards that, also in large parts because it was pioneered by all those late 90s/early 2000s tech startups that were exactly created by those "Linux teens". Because that's what you tinkered with in college, not some proprietary OS that you couldn't even afford, or get updates for, or ask anyone for help if you got stuck.
Economist articles are usually well-founded and fairly objective, but not this one. With cherry-picked quotes from several reports but no citations, this read like it was written to serve some agenda/narrative.

E.g. a study "found only one example where there were more covid patients than intensive-care beds". For real? Was it perhaps because of the triage process used during covid? What about the non-covid patients that were left without an IC bed because of IC bed segregation?

It is also reprehensible that everything is pinned down to "productivity" of health workers. Are those the same people hailed as "heroes" a year or so ago?
The replies say it all.
> control exactly when and how they are read

this is, unfortunately, a right to distribution and display. It is most definitely not learning.

> Contrast that with a human drawing knowledge or inspiration from a work they read before.

But neural networks is mimicking a human's brain function in simplified form. The requirement for consciousness is not needed. If the argument is that humans' brains do something so special that a machine cannot be made to reproduce it, then you have an argument; but i do not believe it to be true.

Using a machine created algorithm to extract ideas, knowledge, structure and form from a literary work is exactly what i would call learning.

Imagine, as an example, i learnt how to make/cook new recipes by looking at existing recipes. Is the knowledge gained from doing so a derivative work of the existing recipes?

What if i wrote a machine and parsed these recipes, extracted all of the forms/patterns, and used it to reproduce new recipes? How is the outcome any different from above?
It doesn’t have cellular network AFAIK.

But again, the target users don’t bother with streaming much, the device just so happens to run android, and that makes running streaming apps possible.
So America rounds a large number of people based on tenuous evidence or no evidence at all, tortures them for 20 fucking years, and then says, "There was never even a way to give them a trial in the first place"?

It would have been a lot kinder just to murder them.

It's disgusting. America is just the shittiest place.
Yes, the proof... Actually, there must be some diff tool to compare models before and after processing some source? I'm not sure, but it must be possible to detect pieces of come ingested data in the model itself. I've seen the famous "wolf misdetection" investigation screenshots, when the AI, apparently labeled a dog as a wolf because there was snow around on the picture.
Google Keyword-Search Warrants Questioned by Colorado Lawyers
Oh OK, so you're specifically talking about bitrate difference. I wouldn't agree that that 8x higher bitrate means the file is 8x more accurate, but I get your point now.
Looks like there are two lists in the linked document - one of them includes Rust and the other doesn't. My bad.
Yes. That is my experience as well. Some people think LLM-powered models will be able to solve this issue. I think that is being overly optimistic. But maybe that's what we technologists have to be—especially the ones building the apps of the future.

To be fair, there *are* golden nuggets of information out there. But you have to know where to look for; be an information connoisseur.

Anyways, how do you cope with the current shallowness of the web?
I feel like I'm opening myself up to some abuse by posting this, but I still use my original brown Zune every day. I bought one as soon as they became available and I've always loved it. I've swapped out the original hard drive twice (once early on for a 100 GB HDD until it died, and then for a 128 GB SSD), and I've replaced the battery twice as well. Sometimes I wonder if I just hold onto it out of nostalgia, but I hope it will last a long time to come!
>"C/C++ are in a category of their own."

If one wants to know it all then yes. C++ is huge language. In practice except few people nobody really needs to. Subset of modern C++ enough to solve many real world tasks is very easy to learn in my opinion.

With Rust one must first train brain to wrap around those ownership rules and this might not be easy.

Fortunately or not I do not know even remotely enough of Rust to do the real comparison of "mental load" but at some point I will.
Not everyone's currently building for the Web, but probably more people should
Doesn't really matter, as Python is only the glue, and the hot paths happen in native code or straight on the metal/gpu.

But I'd wish there were as good libraries for typed languages. Exploratory coding in python is so hard, because you don't know what you can do with a library or your tensors etc.
Giving the undesirable experience to one player is strictly superior to giving it to all of them.

There just aren't many modern multiplayer games where slow players can negatively impact the experience of others, and that's because the industry has learned how terrible the experience is.

And that's for players playing in good faith on bad connections - abuse by inducing latency was a big thing in the past. Think a player that runs out the clock when they're a move away from being checkmated.

Basically the only time you'd ever want to operate the system to pause if a player fell behind is during a tournament, where fairness is more important than player experience and they know that going in. And even that, IMO, is questionable.
> unlawful combatants. [...] therefore they have no legal rights beyond what the US government chooses to grant.

"We'll make up this meaningless word, and this will allow us to keep people with NO EVIDENCE AT ALL and torture them for 20 fucking years!"

The whole thing is horrifying. It makes a mockery of the law and of morality.
Not available for sale in the US :(
Lol! I actually chuckled at this. I completely missed that.
> there is nothing different than a machine reading it, other than scale

Copyright itself was introduced because of the scale of the printing press, which fundamentally changed the economics of publishing. Is it reasonable to assume that scale doesn’t change things?
I assume this is because the number of properties that can be statically audited in Ruby (or in most dynamic programming languages) is extremely small wrt what you can do in strongly-typed programming languages such as Rust, Ada, Haskell, OCaml, F#, ...

Static audits (including, but not limited to static typing) are very strong barriers against entire classes of safety issues. Not supporting them doesn't automatically make code bad, but it prevents lots of defense-in-depth (what the Rust community calls "fearless programming").
If the assignment is online, there's absolutely no need for the teacher or grader to know the name or ID of the student at all. If its offline, there can be an ID assigned which can change randomly.

In some exams I've sat for, they used IDs to avoid people cheating or playing favorites.
I mean modulo interop with legacy code or need for proprietary compilers Rust can be used wherever C++ is used. Not quite true for C#, Go etc.
Not necessarily clueless, maybe the consequences of violating aren't that dire or the laws aren't actively enforced.
It's the opposite of my experience. The mental load of Rust is lower than C++ because I can trust the compiler to take care of and track ownership and lifetimes, whereas with C++ that has to be done manually.

And yes, I aware of all the bells and whistles modern c++ can bring to alleviate some of that burden - but people can and do subvert those mechanisms intentionally and unintentionally, especially over refactors.
BTW, there are apparently two main concepts for ambulances:

“Scoop and Run” (just get the patient into the ambulance and then the hospital as quickly as possible) vs

“Stay and Play” (emergency doctor starts treatment on site, then transportation to the hospital).

Apparently the former is more associated with the UK and US, the latter with the European continent.
But still, ML needs, in my opinion, a distinct category.

I wonder if CC-NOML will pop up any soon (Creative Commons).
> the spread of medical misinformation benefits the platforms on which it happens as it generates plenty of "engagement"

There was a great paper which I can't find now about the link between the "supplement" industry, whose products range from the ineffective to the actually dangerous, and aren't regulated by the FDA, and the rightwing channels that tend to advertise them.
I don't think it was me but maybe it was another page someone else shared from this cool site? Please share what it was if it's relevant.
I would like something like this but one thing that makes Android-based music players like this unappealing is the versions of Android they start with. When this is releases in February, Android 13 will have been out for six months. Android devices don't get security updates for long enough as it is, so starting out the gate with a non-current version of Android isn't great.
The quoted document has two similar sentences, one on page 3 includes Rust, one on page 5 does not:

> Examples of memory safe language include C#, Go, Java®, Ruby™, Rust®, and Swift®.

> Some examples of memory safe languages are C#, Go, Java, Ruby™, and Swift®.

https://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI...

Stroustrup quotes the second one without Rust.