skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that America is even more aggressive than either Russia or China when it comes to spreading propaganda. Russians and Chinese are more willing to accept state control that limits some of their rights as that's the political system they are familiar with. Thus, the Russian and Chinese government can get away with a lot more "dictatorial" stuff than the US can. Their propaganda methods thus aren't as refined, as they are used to using state power to achieve their political goals. The Americans however need to be more refined with their propaganda because their democracy limits them from abusing state power. A good example is when a Russian politician told NATO that Russia is very serious about it's goals in Ukraine and are even willing to sacrifice more than 300,000 soldiers for it. Where as America continues to be scarred even today by the backlash it faced during the Vietnam war decades ago (and more recently, criticism about its failure in Afghanistan) that it can no longer indulge in the kind of military adventurism it used to do in the past, and needs to do even now to preserve its superpower status. And ofcourse, the way America's capitalist system ties its private enterprises to the heart of its government - the so called military-industrial complex - it's easy to pretend that any propaganda isn't "state" sponsored, whereas the reality is that it is. (The only difference is that because of its democratic system, the US government can't exercise absolute control and is forced to work with corporates to push its agenda knowing that the corporates can turn against them too).

(And note that even in Europe, BBC and DW are much better at their jobs than any Russian or Chinese owned media).

As for the Quran burning, I am not debating the legality of the protest. I am just highlighting that for all the public hue and cry made about joining NATO, Swedish politicians don't seem to be acting with the seriousness that should be given to an issue of national security. Some may say that the easiest explanation is that the Swedish politicians are stupid. I don't believe that. Either they have made a backdoor deal with Russia (received some guarantees for their security) or genuinely believe that it is in their best political interest to remain "neutral".
Article text: https://archive.is/n6teo
ArcGIS the desktop tool, or ArcGIS Online? The desktop tool at least has a pretty complete (but pretty annoying) python API so that if/when you have to, you can circumvent the GUI and automate almost everything. ArcGIS Online is unfortunately extremely inflexible, and things that should be easy are often impossible.
I'd suggest governments generally want total control of everything, and in the digital age they see they might finally get it.
can it be called loyalty when it only appears to exist when it's not an inconvenience to the business or an owner's profit?
I think the ultimate problem with AI is its overvalued as a technology in general. Is this "amazing level of comprehension" really that necessary given the amount of time/money/effort devoted to it? What's become clear with this technology that's been inaccurately labeled as "AI" is that it doesn't produce economically relevant results. It's a net expense anyway you slice it. It's like seeing a magician perform an amazing trick. It's both amazing and entirely irrelevant at the same time. The "potential" of the technology is pure marketing at this point.
I didn't realize Dilbert stopped wearing a tie; according to Wikipedia the dress code changed in October 2014: https://dilbert.com/strip/2014-10-13
> There is no way I ever will go back to doing some chores manually, like grocery shopping.

Awesome, these companies can pay good wages to their workers and pass on the cost knowing they won’t lose you as a customer.
I’m not sure whether the hype train is going to crash, or whether only a few very smart companies, using language problems for what they’re really good at (aka: generate non-critical texts), will manage to revolutionize one field.

We’re at the very first beginning of the wave, so everybody is a bit overly enthusiastic, dollars are probably flowing, and ideas are popping everywhere. Then will come a harsh step of selection. The question is what will the remains look like, and how profitable they’ll be. Enough to build an industry, or just niche.
This headset is going for the crowd already owning a kit, but wanting better visuals.

-Many Vive headsets are compatible with valve base stations, so there are many lighthouse kits around [0]

-This headsets supports both versions, 1.0 and 2.0

-Valve Knuckles are still considered the most advanced controllers on the market

0: https://www.vive.com/ca/support/vive-pro-hmd/category_howto/...
Twilio also quietly increased their prices recently, ie. US numbers went from $1 to $1.15
Do you need it to be proven scientifically to take caution on something? I take caution around every car.
This is why I am asking. I did not say that I made decisions against employees when it was an inconvenience to the business or to my profit. I made hard decisions when employees jeopardized the company.
My comments are about the quotation at the top, which appears in the article.
The UNSC has demonstrated its ability to impose force on some countries, when the permanent five agree.
ISO datetimes are not monotonic. That’s already one good reason not to use them for storage.
The adults celebrating child-free lives
It used to be, they're also increasing prices now
> Construction amnesties, which allow owners to register unlicensed properties or ones that violate building codes in exchange for a fine, have made a bad situation much worse. Mr Erdogan’s government passed several such amnesties, the latest in 2018, ahead of general elections. The opposition backed the move, because it was popular with voters. The government reaped the political dividends, while millions of property owners ended up paying into state coffers and assuming the risk. A year after the 2018 amnesty, Mr Erdogan appeared in Kahramanmaras, proudly announcing that the programme “had solved the problems” of 144,000 of the city’s residents
We got gassed too, and indeed that was the reasoning on that exercise. I think it's a matter of the surrounding principles and teaching. With riot control weapons, it might have both effects.

Can't generalize my mentality and expect all to think the same way, but I'd be _more_ comfortable spraying in a situation that looks messy knowing that it likely won't kill, but I'm certainly _less_ comfortable literally spraying into the air because it saves time.
Giants beat the Vikings about a month ago with that score.
Probably because you are generally healthy...
I think the way to have this cake and eat it too is to personally be an extraordinarily good cash tipper. You'll still be supporting the system, but you'll ameliorate your personal use of it.
Houses are another fun one. There are a lot of boomers who will be looking to cash in on their houses at the same time as everyone else. Plus the increases to interest rate will have the effect of pushing down the amount people are willing to bid on future houses.

Boomers who bought in the 80s-90s are in no danger of being underwater, but, there's going to be a lot of people whose houses are worth a lot less than they were in 2021. People who bought in the last 5-10 years are going to find that their assets at best are not going to appreciate very much, and sometimes investments do go down, that's the risk. It's not going to be an automatic escalator to the upper-middle class like it was a few decades ago.

And that's a good thing for younger generations (if landlord corps don't buy everything up) but the political power of boomers and of heartland states are really the elephant in the room with american politics.
But I don't know what counts as PII because the regulations are so vague.
(founder here) You're right that accidents can happen, and if we need to build in safeguards to prevent accidents (i.e. tag a value as server-only) – that should be trivial. To be clear, your backend still exists and has the same security model as a REST Backend-for-Frontend. The client/server markers denote at compile time where a computation (function) must occur. A scope binding like `password` will only transfer if the programmer asked it to by using it from a client region. That would be like putting passwords in a REST payload – it's a programming bug and should be caught in review. But you're right, providing safeguards is a great idea.
Ahah! A time travelling AI!
> funding for public health programs

Why do you believe the solution needs to come from tax collected revenue? If you had a way to make people live healthier, don't you think people would pay you for it?
First layoff shakes the tree, those who would run will run, then the second layoff retains the intersection between those they want to keep and those who did not run. The outcome of trying to do it all in one go is far more unpredictable.
LLMs are incapable of telling the truth. There's almost no way they could develop one that only responds correctly like that. It'd have to be a fundamentally different technology.
Objectivity does not necessitate political neutrality (though they may be correlated).
I've said it before and I'll warn of it again here, my biggest concern for AI, especially at this stage is that we abscond understanding, in favor of letting the AI generate, then the AI generates that which we do not understand, but must maintain. Then we don't know why we are doing what we are doing but we know that it causes things to work how we want.

Suddenly instead of our technology being defined by reason and understanding our technology is shrouded in mysticism, and ritual. Pretty soon the whole thing devolves into the tech people running around in red robes, performing increasingly obtuse rituals to appease "the machine spirit", and praying to the Omnissiah.

If we ever choose to abandon our need for understanding we will at that point have abandoned our ability to progress.
wait, this post isn't satire??
Why does the author assume that the officers had not been pepper sprayed themselves?
I'm curious about the yeast part. I heard it's difficult/expensive to grow yeast at home, as opposed to bacteria. Are there online tutorials that you used? I've seen plenty of bacterial modification tutorials, but not so much for yeast.
Place your bets now. The AI might have clairvoyance and be showing off.
I think this technology is really cool. I really like the idea of making resources on the moon, it has a lot of cool application.

But practically speaking for power generation, I don't see much use for this. Like, with one Starship we could launch a nuclear reactor to the moon with enough fuel inside to have a huge moon station powered at all times, including during dark.

In the past we thought we always had to do everything on the moon because getting anything to the moon was so expensive. Starship changes the calculation on that. We can produce 100t of cells on the earth and land them on the moon for a cost of pessimistically a few 100M, optimistically far less.

The overwhelming need to live on the moon is bulk materials, not advanced materials.
> this is the sacrifice I am willing to make

That would probably be better phrased along the lines of, "that's a price I'm willing to make you pay."

Basically make it crystal clear the person speaking is not the one making the sacrifice, but rather perverting the phraseology of self-sacrifice.
Why is this bad? Private citizens buying up property to extract rents is also a problem.
Aren't you doing the same thing right now? They're gatekeeping burnout, and you're gatekeeping the definition of it.
Yup, wanted to actually add a parentheses talking about this but I'd have ended up on a long tangent. We were also taught to whenever possible provide medical help and we had a big focus on allergies.
> But who is to decide which are pseudo problems, and which are not?

Scientific community. Via a process of peer-reviewed publications. Not via blog posts and Youtube videos.
I don't think such real-world analogies serve any useful purpose, they only make things more confusing.

I'd define "spying" as any data collection that users are not informed of.

Go tool is an open-source development tool - people expect open-source development tools to serve the users, not the developers (to the detriment of the user). That's the whole point of the whole open-source (and free-software) movement. [A significant number of] users do not want their tools to send any data from their machines that they themselves haven't allowed it to.

To create an open-source development tool that sends data by default is a deception tactic - it works because most people trust open-source tools, and because most people won't know the data is being sent by that particular tool.

The deception part is what bugs me the most. I may or may not be against telemetry in general, but I am definitely against deception of the users. And providing a few lines in the release notes counts as "informing the users" as much as changing a few lines in the TOS counts as "informing the users" - in my opinion, doesn't.
The maintainer says they received a DMCA notification here: https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...

That doesn’t say whether or not they intend to counterclaim, though.
Coincidentally I remember watching a series of YouTube videos where the Odin people actually created their own COVID vaccine.
The essay is much deeper than this. Graeber is speaking directly to people like you (and me, until I read this article a few years ago) who believe all actions are rooted in evolutionary adaption. Graeber does get a bit woo-woo but I really like this essay for putting the idea that fun and play could just be emergent properties of the world we live in - which is pretty cool, no woo stuff needed (which Graeber does kind of wander into at one point).

Most important paragraph in the essay: "The tendency in popular thought to view the biological world in economic terms was present at the nineteenth-century beginnings of Darwinian science. Charles Darwin, after all, borrowed the term “survival of the fittest” from the sociologist Herbert Spencer, that darling of robber barons. Spencer, in turn, was struck by how much the forces driving natural selection in On the Origin of Species jibed with his own laissez-faire economic theories. Competition over resources, rational calculation of advantage, and the gradual extinction of the weak were taken to be the prime directives of the universe."
More layoffs -> more supplies in job market -> able to reduce labor cost per person on average
Gatekeepers are right to be scared. Information wants to be free, it doesn't want to be traded for a story and a pat on the back.
Can you see this comment?
You're saying this at a place effectively dedicated to promoting personal editorials (as is any forum).

Editorial journals have always been a thing. As have Facts-based journals.
> What I don't like is the prognosis, which seems to think we should somehow stop or reverse the current transformation. I just doubt that's possible.

I just listened to a podcast episode on musicians going on a recording strike in the 40's because recorded music was killing the careers of live musicians. It did, but you weren't going to stop it, either.
> What risk? Malpractice coverage is provided by the hospital, or more typically, the private equity group that owns the ER physician practice.

Stress isn't alleviated just by insurance. Sometimes people care about doing their job right and "winning". ER docs are just put on the spot constantly.

> I don't think the average person realizes that Blackstone is one of the largest employers of ER docs...

It doesn't really matter, unless you want to claim that they employ more ER docs than the other systems put together, which I doubt they are even close to that. If Blackstone had a lock up on ER services, you would think they would not pay their ER docs as much to stick around since they would have fewer places else to go.
Here's my explanation:

1. In the Internet era, we live with much bigger markets and hence much more of a "winner-take-all" (or at least winner-take-most) economy for companies that exist primarily on the Internet. You see this over and over in different areas - there is usually one giant leader that takes the lion's share of the money, then maybe 1 or 2 frequently discussed competitors, then everyone else.

2. With this "way fewer points for second best" dynamic, most investors and business leaders are biased much more towards FOMO than fear-of-losing-money.

3. Thus, when the pandemic came along, many folks did see it as the start of a new dynamic with how people used online services. And they weren't entirely wrong, e.g. remote work is obviously much more prevalent now than pre-pandemic. But again, from a business leader's perspective, I'm sure most of them thought it would be much worse to miss out on a paradigm shift in online services than to over-invest.

Of course, any discussion about this topic should lead with the huge sloshing of money due to low interest rates that abruptly reversed. Whenever that happens you see investors pour money into risky assets as they chase yield.
Yes, I think a system like this is the future. I also think whoever pulls it off successfully has to understand that they are not supposed to be editors or see their mission as trying to bundle established media, since the most interesting content creators right now are people way outside the "mainstream".
Officers should understand that they're casting crucio, not expelliarmus
> No company is loyal to its employees. People are capable of loyalty, but companies are simply not capable of loyalty.

The smaller the company, the less distinction there is between "the company" and "the people who own it". So it's possible to have something like loyalty/trust with the company if you have loyalty/trust with the people in charge

But there's always a difference, and it can always change in the time it takes to sell, or IPO, or take new investment
They'd probably like to kill it, but it IS useful. In fact, you can see from the illustrations that I use it myself.
Disconnecting doesn't work for everyone, and technology burnout is different from mental burnout.
I don't think you would need to disentangle it from income effects to address the concern of someone who actively avoids Teslas on the road, unless they also actively avoid cars that look like they belong to people with low income.
That solution would probably also charge a lot, like the credit card companies.

Also, a lot of media sites use the personal information they collect with your account for tracking, which they'd probably lose some of since they won't be the one billing you anymore.
If we knew whether experiments were going to be fruitful ahead of time we wouldn't need to perform them in the first place.
It's a good time to do it; copycat layoffs (The Board: "everyone is doing layoffs, why aren't we?") and it's a way to give a short term boost to the stock price - at least for publicly traded companies - when technology earnings are mixed or poor.
We had a wide variety of customers on account of being a local business with a long history in the area and a good reputation. This included many tech people and business customers. I have no way of measuring how representative it was exactly, but it's more representative than you might think. Most people don't work in IT and don't want to run Xen in the first place, so it's still fairly indicative what "the average person" thinks – certainly more indicative than you and your 3 friends who work in IT.
The US and increasingly other places around the world use too much nylon, polyester and plastics in general for clothes, garments, carpets, mattresses, furniture and everyday objects.
It frustrated me so much that in the end I gave up and wrote some python code to solve it.
China Says Proposed Bans on US Property Purchases Violate Market Rules
(1) is just simply wrong.

People with domain expertise in software are going to be amplified 10x using ChatGPT and curating the results. Likewise with any field that ChatGPT has adequate training data in. Further models will be created that are more specialized to specific fields that way their prediction model spews out things that are much more sophisticated and useful
How New York Times engineers ported their delivery system from COBOL to Java
Agreed, they tend to drive extremely badly and I don't trust them. Avoid them, anything nissan and lifted trucks (especially dodge RAMs). Stats show that a solid 5% of all ram 1500 drivers have a DUI on record. It's like 0.1% for prius drivers.

re:machine vision - What's particularly bad is that they don't actually put enough sensors in the cars to be safe.

Pre-collision systems, blind spot monitors, radar, parking sensors, etc are all so helpful and objectively good for drivers. Doing a vision only implementation and then claiming "full self driving" is where it gets awful.
It has the Super Bowl numbers wrong, too. The last Super Bowl is LVI, which was Rams vs Bengals… the Super Bowl before that one was Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs Kansas City. it has every fact wrong but in the most confusing way possible…
Instead of replying indirectly, please address what I'm saying: what's the actual "reality distortion meme" I'm deploying here? Be upfront and accuse me of something I can defend myself of.

> "good faith" - it is a highly subjective term

HN defines is pretty clearly (note there's more, I'm just quoting some parts):

> "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

So snark replies are out.

> "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

So calling someone an Iranian secret police agent is out.

> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

So instead of cross-examining me or trying to "catch me" somehow, address the fact I'm calling for nonviolence and restraint, and that I claim recent experience in the Middle East shows that regional collapse leads to the rise of fundamentalist groups and a general rise of unchecked violence. Assume good faith; assume I want the common good. If I made a mistake, reason with me. If you are an Iranian, don't withhold this information from me until we are 10-levels into a nested discussion.

> "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes."

Self-explanatory. I'd say name-dropping "reality distortion memes" is one such internet trope (one, to be frank, I still don't understand because you haven't explained).

Need I go on?