skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you reference my comment in this same GP thread I completely agree with you. If you want to take control of a local society, you need a cast of hitmen willing to do what you want. Conversely, if you try to take control of a local society and you don't have a cast of hitmen willing to do what you want, you will not gain control.
I didn't believe you (because my blood boiled too) but then I decided to search for this story in Google (without using names but just the incident and location) and didn't find any reputed news organization reporting it, which admittedly surprised me. I found a similar case where parents got in trouble for letting kids walk around alone[0], but not this case (and considering the specifics here are bound to touch the nerves of parents and practically guarantee viewership, I would think that it would be pretty attractive piece to print for them assuming it was found to be genuine).

Not trying to agree/disagree but just sharing what I noticed.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/free-range-pa...
That's OK, you can compile your program with -O0 if that's the behavior you want from your compiler.
>correlations to crime,

Sure is, but the biggest of them would be illegal to even mention.
Hard to say, working faster/harder doesn't usually mean the quality will remain unchanged, and their user base probably care more about the quality of releases rather than how fast they put out releases.
None of them are going to function.
Systems outside the control of any government entity devolve into a familiar cavalcade of horrors. You need a better answer for the fact that those horrors exist, and that many people who draw government paychecks devote their careers to fighting them in good faith, with good results.

You'd think that after twenty years the debate would have moved past advocating for complete lawlessness, but we get stuck in the same puerile tropes. The fact that bad state actors exist does not change the fact that horribly abusive material, with real victims, will be shared on any platform those abusers consider safe, and that the existence of such platforms will encourage further abuse.

Anyone who has worked on child sexual exploitation material on any platform knows this, and any privacy advocate has to have a better answer for it than 'nuh-uh'.
Quit. Been there myself, and it became obvious what my manager was upto, i helped the new team members get upto speed just like you, and taught them everything i knew about the product, but along with that, i also quit the organization. I knew this wasn't the kinda workplace i wanted to be in. I didn't receive a single hike or promotion for 3+ years, even though i was considered critical to the team before the arrival of the new team members (whom i eventually trained).

I raised concerns about my stagnation and brought up issues with the team and also confronted about the new team members getting personally trained on the product by me without showing me a roadmap for myself to get to the next level. He was acting smart i felt, and then eventually decided to move on.

Once i quit, i was offered ridiculous sums of money to withdraw my resignation however, i didn't accept the counter offer and left the place. Post my resignation, a lot of people resigned from that team, and subsequently that manager was fired (i came to know after i had left the org).
> Had DF monetized in 2006 instead of going free, and played the industry game as others do, I would not be surprised to see DF at $100M in 2023.

I didn't play DF in 2006 but I did play it first in about 2011, and can categorically at that point it was so user-hostile and batshit crazy there's no way the trajectory you're talking about would have been possible. Even just the normally-simple step of getting a copy of the game you could run was a bizarro-world nightmare involving multiple trips to the bay12 forum and searching for threads to find the download link etc.

Eg if you look at this example Youtube tutorial series from 2015, the first 2 episodes are all stuff before you actually launch the game. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0sBhCMFBvPlF7wG7OH-N...
>listen to the loudest and most organized group

I donate money to the EFF in the hope that they turn out to be this group eventually
Not a super well thought out article. Example: lots of speculative complaints that ChatGPT will lead to an explosion of low quality and biased editorial material, without a single mention of what that problem looks like today (hint: it was already a huge problem before ChatGPT).

Ditto with the “ChatGPT gave me wrong info for a query” complaint. Well, how does that compare to traditional search? I’m willing to believe a Google search produced better results, but it seems like something one should check for an article like this.

IMO we’re not facing a paradigm change where the web was great before and now ChatGPT has ruined it. We may be facing a tipping point where ChatGPT pushes already-failing models to the breaking point, accelerating creation of new tools that we already needed.

Even if I’m wrong about that, I’m very confident that low quality, biased, and flat out incorrect web content was already a problem before LLMs.
https://vector.dev/

Edit: i think i mean https://milvus.io/

https://milvus.io/docs/image_similarity_search.md
Not an accountant so: Wouldn't taking a 90k salary be the same thing? (If you're building something new.)
One hypothesis is that the antidepressant effect of SSRIs is due to them interacting with a different part of neurons by accident. Here’s Derek Lowe writing about a potential target that was discovered recently:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/how-antidepressant...
Is ok I got it fixed, by asking chatgpt to write me some new code.
> No police officer in the country should feel comfortable making those threats. They are out of control

This is what gets me. Even if this town is as dangerous as these police claim that it is, I can think of a hundred other responses that are orders of magnitude more useful than the route they chose, if their priority is indeed the safety of the children.

Follow the kids for a bit to make sure they're ok. "Hey kids, your parents know you're going to the store? ok!" "Hey parents, you gave your kids permission to walk to the store alone? ok!" "Hey just checking in, you know that there's this sex offender around the corner right? ok!" You can surveil the sex offenders. You can, you know, make your town safer (you are the police, right?).

I doubt this town is that unsafe, however. Ironically the polarization, paranoia, untrusting nature, and general hysteria in the US are a vicious cycle that leads to actual danger and more polarization, paranoia, etc.
GPT-3 is a system that can appear to be close to artificial general intelligence (AGI), but it's not. Under the surface, it's fundamentally different. Which is why I'm skeptical that it can incrementally evolve into AGI. But who knows, I'm really curious about GPT-4.
Can you please at least find and link to this list before you call hundreds of thousands of low-paid highly educated essential workers "literal morons"?

I'm asking because I don't believe you. Here's a list I found, see page 28 for Social and Behavioral Sciences' above average scores: https://www.ets.org/pdfs/gre/snapshot-test-taker-data-2016.p...
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I remember when facebook wouldn't release an app for android in the Android 1.5 days because they were rueful that google disallowed them from scraping peoples contacts.
Isn’t this likely from bias in the training data? The system is more sensitive to label something as hate if that group is more likely to experience hate on the internet. How the system responds to “Blacks” vs “African-Americans” is a perfect example of this. The latter has historically been perceived as more respectful so it won’t be used as often in the hate speech in the training data. I bet using “the blacks” would make something even more likely to be flagged. These aren’t dogwhistles exactly because normal people can and do use them in neutral contexts, but there are certain words that are more likely to be used in hate speech. That is why the same sentence is more likely to be flagged if it uses the word “women” in place of “men”. That isn’t a intentional bias towards women. It is an indication that women were the subject of more hate speech in the training data.
Last month I have ordered this pocket scintillator/spectroscope "Radiacode-101" from a Cyprus sales company.

https://radiascan.com/products/detector-of-ionising-radiatio...

The waiting time is few months, so I hope the toy arrives eventually.
Wow. I had no idea this was happening. Not a peep from my accountant, either.

I have an S-Corp so "profit" would pass through to my personal taxes.

I've found over the years that most people writing and administering tax and business regulations at the local, state, and federal level have little clue about the needs of small businesses, whether it's a software startup or a local pizza place.
This ratio is by definition short vertically. Yes it could be 100” or 2.5m across in 8k resolution, but not what folks typically mean.
>Singapore is a brutal police state

Yes? That's exactly what I said. But because Singapore is not a progressive state, filled with progressives, their police force is appreciated and work in harmony with the community. Because you know what?

People there follow the law, and appreciate that the law is enforced, and don't blame the police for the bad situations that arises from mass criminality.
I'm no fan of cops but I blame the system as much or more. Police are designed to arrest evict and cite, and little more. Make the rewards revolve around protection rather than punishment and the people currently police would go back to a more suiting pursuit for their personality which is likely violent crime.
Toward a State of Esteem (1990)
Ah yes - familiar and agree with this as well. It does however depend significantly on whether the perp was known to you or not. You'd be far more likely to report a stranger abusing you randomly on the street than say your family member, teacher, coach, etc. (see Hockey Canada for a sad example of this continuing to date).
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Nonsense. Government organizations never do things in secret. The very idea is patently absurd. I mean, how would that even happen in practice, someone does something without blasting it on Twitter, as I said, absurd.
We may be in a post-Minecraft world but Dwarf Fortress does not come from one. It predates, and was in fact a major source of inspiration for, Minecraft.

If we're talking about whether the highly obtuse ASCII version of DF should have monetized earlier we cannot point to its highly accessible direct descendant from seven years later.
> EU commissioners propose laws, they don't vote for them.

The distinction isn't meaningless but it's certainly a generous one when left to stand on its own.

The commissioners hold little allegiance to the spirit of democracy and these proposals are either career boosters or pet projects for them. They're not just going to pass it on to the parliament and leave it at that. They're going to do their best to finagle behind the scenes, horse trade, intimidate and pull from their endless infatuation with coddling the children the most fantastical justifications that, by pure chance I guess, smear any opponents.

> As a brit, let me tell you that leaving the EU will not solve this problem. Your local politicians will just do that anyway.

But it will help. No modern government will pass a law that grants its citizens more privacy. It's better to have a many smaller ones, each with different rates of deterioration (re privacy) than a super government where every little nudge towards the eventual zero-privacy Internet affects us all at once.

Sadly, residing in a region formerly part of the Russian Empire, together with last year's events, kind of kills the glee I felt in the past whenever I fantasized about the EU disintegrating, which is to say voting to leave the EU would only makes sense if online privacy was the only thing you cared about.
Police officers in the United States are universally indemnified by their employers. There’s no constitutional or case law which requires this it’s just the rule everywhere.

Indemnification means that their employer (i.e. municipalities) must pay for their legal defense in a civil suit and any judgment that arises under it.

1983 cases are technically against individuals but not at all in a practical sense.

For some reason activists have zero interest in tackling this issue even though it could be done on a divide and conquer basis and even though it would provide much more deterrence than eliminating QI. I almost suspect the influence of the plaintiffs’ bar is at play.
The "bog of war" sounds like a real world "dead marshes" from Lord of the Rings.
I haven't tried, what's the issue?
> "Unschooling: Allow more freedom for students to pursue their academic interests with less guidance."

This, big point here. I started programming by firing up Visual Basic Express 2010 on a laptop running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM and a single-core Pentium M. I was 9 years old, and it was so interesting. I was blessed to be homeschooled - I would never have branched out the way I have if I had spent my days overloaded with homework. (I also entered college at 16 straight into Calculus I, so... my education was certainly not neglected either). Call it a sample size of 1.
Clearly that town needs more werewolf free zones.
A quicker way is to note that a given policy would be difficult to effectively enforce. People like to say unenforceable, which is rarely true given enough resources. But if there are two solutions to an issue, and one isn't as easy to enforce, that is a valid point. Using gun control as an example, restricting sale of ammunition instead of firearms might be difficult to enforce, because ammunition is easier to manufacture at home. Restricting sale of marijuana isn't effective because anyone can grow it in a closet, but testing at employment centers adds a lot more friction as you say, and you don't neednto monitor people's power usage or send around sniffer trucks.
Isn't television the same, then? Just with fewer creators and a much higher barrier to entry.
Fig wasp cannot lay eggs in the female figs (those that we eat). They reproduce only in the male figs (caprifigs). But they cannot differentiate them so they enter the female figs, pollinating while entering. After they enter they hardly can escape, as their wings are lost when trying to enter the tiny hole.
In the example I am giving it would be any expense related to "software development." So paying a salary to another person on your team (or 1099 income to a contractor), buying tools to aid in the development, anything at all really.
That’s fair, but it’s still an unsavory argument style. “I know the secret motivations of those in power, which even they don’t know”. It’s a weird way to remove agency from the powerful in the name of, IDK what.
> While these phrases accurately describe the matter in some situations, they do not create a society that is sustainable, desirable, or any value of ethical (even for the abuser/autocrat, who must always watch their back).

It accurately describes our society that is not sustainable, desirable or ethical.

Pretending that it is doesn't help us with evolving it towards some noble goals. To evolve the system you need to understand it.

For example you can't progress society untill you understand that the one we got after thousands of years of societal evolution is the one entirely based on the concept of monopoly for violence. Some people feel very offended about this. I have exactly zero hopes for their revolutionary attempts at transformation working out.
I like paper to-do lists. It is satisfying to cross things off and I think the process of occasionally recopying the list is a good way to keep track of what is on it. The physical size of the paper has the function of preventing you from making the list too long.
> Even if user would not notice 5% difference in CPU usage can mean reduction in AWS bill significant enough to care about

Users won't notice, but they will notice...?

> A test suite usually doesn't run in tightly controlled environment.

What don't you have control over?

> but not significant enough to spend days to avoid adding a few lines of comments by embedding all knowledge into tests

Why would you avoid comments? Why would your tests have to take longer to write than your comments? Days to write a test or two to clarify your intent?
When I read articles like this, I feel like the authors play fast and loose with interpretations. In this piece They read off statements of literal propaganda and then act like the statements were simply understood as true. Would we take as fact the particular wording of a crypto Ad to try and read into the American psyche of 2021?
Qualified immunity pertains to civil liability and therefore wouldn’t be relevant to the parent comment’s suggestion.
I prefer a ‘not host <x>’ filter using info found in $SSH_CONNECTION to filtering all port 22 out, but yeah, good stuff.
Fewer humans or just those with access to the "filter"?

Reminds me of old Twitter again.
The second amendment doesn't prevent lawsuits against gun manufactures. The PLCA, passed in 2005, is what provides special legal cover to the gun industry.

If you'll allow me to be cynical for a moment; I believe the PLCA was passed because the people in power felt safe from guns, behind their security and metal detectors. I don't think they feel safe from deep fakes or hackers (nor is there much lobbying money), so a similar law protecting technology would never pass.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerc...
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Connecticut has approximately the same number of Dunkins by land area as Massachussetts.
* 'unelected officials'

The UK has had 4 unelected PMs since 1990, and dozens before that.

And as pointed out before, the UK is ahead of the EU in terms of surveillance. You even have to opt in with your ISP to watch porn.

The UK has hundreds of thousands of government CCTV cameras and they can comprehensively track your movements through the entire country.

The Brexit rhetoric was more about nationalism than anything else, it was marketed as "we don't want the EU telling us what to do", but that just played heavily into nationalism.

All that aside, if you think any major political system in the west, or indeed globally is safe from lobbying and major corruption you are wrong. Corporate and industrial influence is rife throughout, IMO. When was the last time you saw any significant legislation come through to give working-middle class any kind of help or upward mobility?

I am wandering from your initial point, but I am angry and frustrated with our rapid decline. We trashed our economies over COVID and we're now splooging billions of dollars into an un-winnable proxy war which escalates monthly.

All of this shit is done in the same vein as this surveillance proposal "think of the children", I mean how could you not think of the children?? How could you not think of your neighbour? How could you not think of your fellow Europeans? It's all built to socially shame and coerce us into terrible policy that ultimately puts us in the hole unable to get out.

Anyways, yes I have an axe to grind and probably have some stuff wrong here, but I am frustrated with my economic decline. It feels like the middle class is constantly being drained for the benefit of oligarch, war mongering liars.

Apologies for a reactionary derail, it's cathartic at least. Please feel free to tell me how I am wrong, I genuinely want to be corrected because I feel depressed with my perspective.
I'm closing on 25 years of being a programmer, some of them being a manager, and, on top of that, worked in other industries... through all these years I've met very few good programmers. Probably less than 10, maybe significantly less than 10. I've never met good managers. The spectrum in management seems to be from "passable" to "what a train-wreck!".

So... it sucks to be in your position, but... it will happen again. It sucks to miss the benefits of working in the same place for a long time, but it also sucks to have a toxic environment to work in.

One thing I never tried in my career is to start my own business. I'm too afraid and repulsed by the need to do accounting, beg for sponsorship and deal with people in general. But, that's me. Many people seem to like that, or at least not to mind it as much. I'm mentioning this as just one more option on the menu, not the solution to your situation. One thing I'm sure of: the more I was my own boss (i.e. progressing towards the management), the less I had to worry about the kind of interactions you are facing. It never goes away, of course, but the most petty and vengeful people are somehow always the lowest level of management in any organization. It gets better if you are just a grunt or the more you progress up the hierarchy, especially in big corporations where nobody really cares about much the higher up in the hierarchy they are.
It hasn’t happened in practice. NYC’s is way up this year, Adams is doubling down on supporting the police.

Instead of hoping for trickle down to work why not attack the problem directly?
There are plenty of countries where kids can still live in freedom. I can let my 8 year old son play outside with his 7 year old friend, and trust they'll be alright. I see lots of kids around their age go to their judo lessons on their own. This should be completely normal.

For police to come and arrest parents for trusting their children with some basic freedom is unbelievably oppressive. It's bizarre to hear this coming from a country that once claimed to be the "land of the free". And this is hardly the first story like this.
Republicans aren't a "demographic group", they are a political group.
If the App Store had been free for 15 years and then Apple said "if you don't pay us $100 a year in one week, we'll delete your app" then you can bet that Tim Cook would be seeking new opportunities _within hours_. There's a big difference between "this has always cost something" and "this is going from free to paid with _one week's notice_".
The other comments show how the demonstrated biases were created.

In many well meaning liberals heart, there is a strongly held but rarely publicly discussed belief that they alone belong to the well-meaning, high IQ class. Any other worldview or ideological flavor is always understood by this type as simply incorrect, perhaps caused by failures in morals or intellect. Talk about a buzzkill.