skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Did the social worker lose their job?

Certainly not initially, DCF backed them up. Maybe eventually? I'd ask but the friend passed away a number of years ago. This happened just pre-internet enough that it's not well documented online.

> The main point is, if everyone just rolls over, these abuses and terrible bureaucrats will not be uncovered.

That's true but it doesn't mean that standing up works out for the betterment of you and your family.

Not everyone has the freedom to make a martyr of themselves. I'm grateful for those who do.

> Also, there's a big difference in how you invoke those rights. If you get aggressive, that can be a problem.

More precisely, if you're perceived as being aggressive it's a problem. The distinction is important because we have less control over how we're perceived than how we act-- particularly because an important characteristic (perhaps even defining) of abusive bureaucrats is perceiving anything short of complete submission as an attack.
Related:

EU chat control law will ban open source operating systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34608330 - Feb 2023 (190 comments)

Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34183772 - Dec 2022 (3 comments)

EU chat control bill: fundamental rights terrorism - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31416599 - May 2022 (5 comments)

Chat control: EU Commission presents mass surveillance plan on May 11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31329368 - May 2022 (323 comments)

The latest EU plan to outlaw encryption and introduce communication surveillance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308617 - Nov 2021 (251 comments)

EU interior ministers welcome mandatory chat control for all smartphones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29200506 - Nov 2021 (59 comments)

EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066894 - Nov 2021 (197 comments)

Messaging and chat control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28115343 - Aug 2021 (317 comments)

EU Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27759814 - July 2021 (11 comments)

European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communication - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727 - July 2021 (415 comments)

Indiscriminate messaging and chatcontrol: Last chance to protest - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736435 - July 2021 (104 comments)

IT companies warn in open letter: EU wants to ban encryption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825653 - April 2021 (217 comments)
It's just the same good old EU BAD -> everything coming from there BAD.
There's even a comment under this post on how GDPR "degrades the web in the name of privacy", I guess trackers are just way better then cookie banners after all.

Then you read Utah and California have comparable proposals yet I've seen a single mention of them in the whole comment section.
A simple intuitive model is to assume functional black box f() is a polynomial of degree N, where N is the number of parameters.
I have no problem sondhacking with my 2.1 setup.
One solution is pretty simple: pedigree.

Divide up the 'net into trusted and untrusted sources. Make the trust ratings public. Use search tools and corpuses such as the Google Books dataset to source "knowledge" back to pre-Internet roots, when necessary. In short: bring academic reputation back and bring it back hard.

It will make for a more elitist web, but given that even without ChatGPT we've had a problem with wildfire misinformation spread in social media networks it might be a change that's a long time coming.
I am not convinced that the current iteration of progressivism is confined to a minority of "overly-online often out-of-touch people". Progressive leftism perhaps, but overt "leftists" are a relatively niche minority even online. The difference is that their belief system isn't openly bigoted, so they don't feel the need to hide in the shadows as much as, say, the alt-right. But that's also evidence against the both-sides equivalence you are proposing in the first place.

When it comes to published literature, you might be disappointed to find that there is a lot of radical leftist literature out there, just as there is a lot of radical right-libertarian, traditionally conservative, religious fundamentalist, classical liberal, etc. literature out there.
We think Zapier is a fantastic product and we've used it ourselves many times. But it's more focused on simpler use cases and we found ourselves hitting the wall and then being frustrated that there wasn't a good alternative that could live in our code.

You can use JavaScript and will have a great experience – all of our code is in TypeScript which means you get a really nice experience as either a JS or TS developer.
Ronald Reagan, the actor!?
OP never said he was their manager. In fact, OP's manager probably doesn't want him to be mentoring all day long.
Things we might cringe at in the future
The problem isn't the different pricing. The disgusting greedy thing is purposely designing something to destroy itself to enforce that false dichotomy.
btw-- they are kind of commercializing something that was created based on public and collective knowledge...I wonder what the ethics of that are?
Because it’s interesting and makes me use critical thinking.
Looks like there is a TP-PID field that has values to indicate replace message:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/19731/how-does-...

I find this fascinating; I didn't know this functionality existed.
They have been experimenting with "auto-pilot" for cars for years

https://web.archive.org/web/20110630104552/http://media.vw.c...
Yes, this is the model, even though people generally wont speak it out loud within the company.
Full paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04584
i am sometimes interested when what i consider to be technically correct comment gets downvoted, because it may mean that i have misunderstood something. otherwise, i don't care.

same on stackoverflow, actually.
I like it as I have the ability to do a few things after certain Karma but I don't think about it when engaging on HN because I want to be authentic and myself. I do refrain from certain things that are more reddit-isque like sarcasm, jokes, low value comment etc and try to keep it focussed on the topic at hand.
https://archive.ph/ak4s4
It will never be able to detect sarcasm amd satire and this will contribute greatly to the degradation of content quality , I think.

This will not work, its too soon.
How would such a model work?

Let's take your recipe example? I don't think grandma got compensated for her original chicken soup recipe that someone posted online and then got tweaked to 100 versions of which 30,000 people upvoted or liked the various versions.

And then the AI comes along and outputs a new version of the recipe that's not identical to any of the previous versions because you told it to substitute pepper with some kind of other substitute.

Who should get compensated what?
Not sure Eternal September is an apt ad hom, when the parent you're responding to has been bitching about government overreach since the original meaning of the phrase.
ChatGpt generated comment,?
Why did they wait so long to charge for the game?

(I've never played it, so forgive my ignorance)
Link? A 2016 comment where you laid out the arguments for SQLite and were downvoted for it is something I'd find impressive.
> How

By force of law, which is my point :)
A cousin brought me a CD with cs beta 0.6, had not heard about the game before that. Spent several days downloading a half life patch on 33.6k modem. Recall having very low fps (p1 133mhz) and 200ms ping.
Also tried out hacks later on but made sure to do that on servers without anti cheat enabled.
>I don't see how you can make the jump from "response was disproportionate" to "commentators are not that different from the person who reported the incident" though.

The point is that the call didn't come in from one of the "more equal animals". Any one of us could have made the same call and got the same response. It's not like the cops were doing someone a favor by responding.
It is a strange accent! (Brit here). Bawston?
Social workers also score poorly on communication skills, in aggregate.

I'll happily agree that my description was extremely critical-- more than it needed to be--, but we should hold anyone whit the authority to invade our lives with minimal oversight or accountability to an extremely high standard. What what I've seen, we've often failed to do so.

We don't send our best out to become law enforcement or social workers. These are extremely difficult, even dangerous jobs, and we fantastically underpay them.
i mean...wow. that's a bit mind blowing
> I’ve been on the receiving end of what Silicon Valley bros choose to designate as “edge cases”.

The edge cases don't even have to be that "edge".

We have a pretty 'normal' family, (two parents, single household), but happen to have 5 kids. We fit into a single regular minivan, but Amazon Kids Tablets don't work (Amazon families max out at 4 kids, I suppose) and this new Netflix plan also has a same 4-simultaneous limit.

Like, either no one at Netflix thought about this at all, or some senior leadership is high on their own supply, and overruled every reasonable voice within the org.
Most physics revolutions refine rather than replace their predecessors. So, for instance, gr gives similar predictions to to Newtonian gravity in an appropriate limit.

It is possible that relativity will be refined by further developments (quantum gravity?), but it is reasonable to expect that the refined understanding will reduce to relativity in an appropriate limit, one core feature of which is the causal structure of events in space time.

Hoping that exotic physics will allow ftl travel is like hoping that an exotic theory of gravity will give a radically different prediction for the time it takes an apple to drop from tree to ground. True that “never” is a strong word but this is just about as never as any fact we know.

I use this strong word as a corrective to the impression you get reading discussion threads, where you may suppose ftl is next up on musk’s bucket list, or just limited by sluggish tech development.
https://archive.is/IRr7p
> Perhaps naively, I'd have thought someone intelligent enough to develop a technology like this would also be intelligent enough to understand the complex ethical issues it raises. It seems, unfortunately, that there is no such correlation.

Correct. There is a tendency to think that because a person is exceptionally intelligent or skilled in one area, they must also be intelligent in other areas. It's simply not the case. An expert is authoritative in the areas of their expertise, but outside of those, their opinions are no more likely to be correct than anyone else's.

This error is often leveraged in persuasion campaigns -- thinking that, for instance, a brilliant physicist's opinions on social policies are more likely to be accurate than any random person on the street.
Yes, but as income at a more reasonable tax bracket. By default this kind of windfall is taxed the same as someone who makes that much money every year for years; all those shenanigans let you get taxed as someone making a smaller income for a longer time.

Plus, over that longer time you can list a lot of dual-use purchases as untaxed business expenses.
The proposal from the EU is not the first step towards the end of our privacy. In fact, it is the last one. Everyone else does already have our data, they just want what the rest already have.

TBH, I think we've lost every opportunity to correct this. And I'd be happy to be wrong
Not really, but it is nice seeing it grow slow and steady over the years. I find it amusing when it drops a few points over a random comment.
It’s important to understand your metrics and position roles. If your role is to guide and teach do that. If your org requires you to commit more lines of code then tech the ones you like and let the rest drown.

The success of the project is rarely your responsibility but if it is then obviously manage some sort of in between where you prevent damage, improve others work and do some of the core stuff yourself. This is the worse case scenario because you have to play both lead and manager
The fact that there are unintended consequences in legislation does not mean no one read, or thought about it. These are thousands of Congressional staffers who read and study legislation, along with many more outside of Congress, but there are missed requirements, implementation bugs, and other problems in edge cases in legislation just like everything else, because the world is complex.
ChatGPT itself is being trained on curated content, it is clearly not trained on unscreened internet sites - this is easy enough to establish if you ask it questions around hot topic issues in the conspiracy groups - it gets the correct mainstream answer.

I suspect we will see the rise of both groups of machines, curated A.I.s and A.I.s just trained on anything, which should be entertaining.
It was dozens of Canadians, it was a transaction freeze by certain banks for a few days, and it was because there was a suspicion of contributing to terrorist organizations. It was not an action by the government and the freeze was lifted quite quickly once the facts were established.
Absolutely, it's also going to get much more echo chambered and biased by corporate and political motivations.

And I'm not looking forward to a swathe of AI generated songs pumped into the charts and streaming services at potentially lots of songs per second.
Ask HN: Interview Prep for Front End
Most roles that I see have some sort of coding assessment but you don’t know beforehand whether it will be a role based assessment where you build something in a framework, or a leetcode type algorithmic problem. Should I just focus on learning the role based skills and building my portfolio or should I also dedicate time to the leetcode stuff?

I’ve been a web dev for the past several years on the marketing side, but my vanilla JS and combined 1.5 years of angular/react experience aren’t getting me much traction on product side job applications so I’m not getting interviews.
This is a new version of the game with a GUI on steam. previously it was text only, and not very accessible.
+1 for the movie Network. This is one everybody interested in the intersection of media and demagoguery should watch.
I half agree with this, but I think the problem lies with the people downvoting for extremely pedantic reasons or a misunderstanding.

There is value in having pure drivel or outright false/hateful information hidden from view. It serves no purpose.

This is the age old problem of every site with a social aspect though. I don't blame HN.
They scared business owners enough that some of them started planning a fascist coup :-/

OTOH they also scared them enough that we got The New Deal. So. Mixed bag?
Here's a site that can tell you whether two steels have the same composition, though I'm not sure how the owner would feel about scraping.

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/steelgraph.php?nm=M390%2C%2...

It even includes manufacturing process information on individual steel pages:

http://zknives.com/knives/steels/Crucible/cpm_154.shtml

zknives.com/knives/steels/Crucible/154cm.shtml
You'd know what happened if you'd read the article.

The police did drop charges. But then a social worker got involved and they had years of grief afterwards because of it. Which couldn't have been reported on back when the event happened, and makes it a lot more than just "stupid cops got immediately corrected".

Honestly I would have liked to see the police sued for what they did, but the whole doctrine of "qualified immunity" means that that would go nowhere. Which is another can of worms.
> Privacy is a human right

I believe you where talking about secrecy.

WhatsApp chats are secret, but not necessarily private.

Authorities can ask Meta to release the meta data and they can inspect phones to retrieve the chat logs.

Private communications have never been secret, it was always possible for the people with the necessary authorizations to access them.

Privacy is consensual, secrecy is not.

But there is no right to secrecy.

As much as I love mullvad and their excellent products, they never link the proposal they talk about in that page, which hinders the people' ability to form their own opinion.

All the material we can find revolves around the same actors, quoting each other, some like the Pirate party, say it was leaked

Leaked Commission paper EU mass surveillance plans

https://european-pirateparty.eu/chat-control-leaked-commissi...

But it's not true, it's officially published on the EU website, it wasn't being kept hidden, it had to be translated to all the EU official languages before being published.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=COM%3A20...

I understand being concerned, what I do not understand is being catastrophic.

Even if everything they wrote was true, a proposal is not a law, so whatever happened in the Swedish parliament, was not influenced by the EU proposal.

p.s. the system is similar to CSAM, which I don't like either, but sooner or later such systems will be everywhere, like it or not.

The discussion must be held in a way or another.

Apple too considered scanning the users' devices to match CSAM pictures, they dropped it, for now, but probably only because they are developing their own system, independent from the government, so they don't have to give them any kind of access.

Here the discussion is being held in public, by people elected by European citizens directly with their vote, these people are paid exactly to discuss these matters, theya re doing their job.

You wrote "the real motivation is to control people's freedom of speech and communication even though they will 100% deny it." but the they you mention are elected officials, not SP.E.C.T.R.E. evil agents
Yes I care about my Karma. I earn it by saying thoughtful and supportive things and I actively spend it to learn sentiment on something controversial.
I don’t follow the last paragraph, first it acknowledges and claims the areas are beautiful landscapes and then it goes on to portray people who want to protect them as straw man extremists…

there are a ton of people who want to protect those areas but don’t advocate for the extinction of the human race as the paragraph implies, why would that straw man be made?
Only until I got to 500 and unlocked the down vote button
I feel it important to write the full tweet you're quoting in context.

> They asked my daughter Ivanka whether or not the media is the enemy of the people. She correctly said no. It is the FAKE NEWS, which is a large percentage of the media, that is the enemy of the people!
It wasn‘t necessarily gray:

http://calmira.net/screenshots/josiah.htm

http://calmira.net/screenshots/david_b.htm

http://calmira.net/screenshots/mike_g.htm

Back when Windows supported real color theming.
I turned on showdead for a while but it's so often unnecessarily mean comments that I turned it off. I got no value from seeing the dead comments.
You are comparing 2 different things. Buying a stock is instant. Starting a startup takes years and incumbents already have the same advantage as you. Also, you can sell a stock whenever - liquidity is easy. You can't just throw your hands up and give up a startup that easily, especially if you take funding.
Agreed, it's the best museum in the DC area.
If they're hiring people who have no more than 2 years of experience they must understand that it will also take a senior like you to be an almost full time mentor to make them productive instead of you building stuff yourself. Are they expecting you to continue building stuff at the same rate you were without doing constant training? That would be a mistake. If not and you're just missing what you used to do, I think you'd have to move to a new team where you're not the one mentoring multiple juniors.
>This is not intended as a shot, but you just did by saying classifying Assange as 'someone accused of political crime'.

I'm confused what you mean here and whether you are saying I used biased or unbiased phrasing. If you are saying it was biased, why was my comment neutral when the original "Julian Assange is possibly a criminal." was not? If what I said was biased, how would you describe the fact that he has been accused of crimes?

I'm not asking rhetorical questions here. I'm challenging people to write an unbiased version of that original paragraph. I don't think it can be done. We can't address "Americans Lost Faith in the News" without being honest that this ideal of a universally agreed upon unbiased reporting of facts isn't truly possible.
I pay for way more streaming services than I should but unsubscribed from Netflix years ago and started sharing a login with extended family. Even though I have access to it I rarely use Netflix. The only thing I remember watching in the past year is The Sandman. Almost every interesting new show or old movie is available on a different service. I wonder if this is the beginning of the end for them.
Highly recommend this school.
I think people should care about it a little: if your posts are generally negative karma there's a good chance you're confused about what we're doing here. But it's fine if it goes down sometimes, especially if people are downvoting you for controversial opinions.

Personally, it hasn't stopped me from expressing myself, no.
Yes and no.

I care about making sense. Not always the case :)

People agreeing with me, not so much.

But even if I'm going to say something that few agree with, there are ways and ways of saying it. I'd rather choose the one that doesn't atract downvotes. Not because of karma, but because it's the right thing to do, both online and elsewhere.

Karma is a "gamified" way to learn something.
> I’ve avoided opining in my more than fifty years as a reporter. This time, however, I felt obligated to weigh in. Why? Because I am worried about journalism’s declining credibility and society’s increasing polarization. The two trends, I believe, are intertwined.

> My main conclusion is that journalism’s primary missions, informing the public and holding powerful interests accountable, have been undermined by the erosion of journalistic norms and the media’s own lack of transparency about its work. This combination adds to people’s distrust about the media and exacerbates frayed political and social differences.

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-p...

The press versus the president, by Jeff Gerth in the Columbia Journalism Review
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