skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2. reminds me of the 2016 French Act for a Digital Republic :

(scroll down to 3.1.(g) Public sector)

https://www.mondaq.com/france/technology/1059760/artificial-...

> whenever an individual decision is taken on the basis (even partially) of an algorithm, the administration must [...] explain [using easy to understand language]†, at the request of the individual, how the relevant algorithm works [...], by providing the following information:

the degree and mode of contribution of the algorithm to the decision making;
the data processed and its sources;
the processing settings and their weighting applied to the situation of the data subject; and
the operations carried out by the processing.

† a very important detail that this translation for some reason omits ??

Now, something that has been bugging me since then, especially in the «AI» context that was also being discussed more or less at the same time by the legislators, is that so far this is impossible to do for neural network based programs, since the final program is not based on any algorithm (as commonly understood), or at least not one that even the programmers themselves could understand, much less distill into a commonly intelligible form !
> somehow we're living in a modern society that no one would have ever designed, voted for, wished for, desired.

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the majority of the population doesn't seem to notice this crap, at least not in a way that affects their day-to-day happiness.

Why not vote for something that sounds good at surface level if you've never perceived that annoying sound or flicker? Why would you even think about it?
Roughly 50% of the NCT tests in Ireland fail.

Common issues are bulbs, tire inflation, tire wear, shock performance, and alignment.

Personally, with an old (2006, 200-300K km) car that we had to NCT every year, we would pass about half the time on the first time, and half of the failures were for BS reasons (e.g., one of the removable seats wasn't installed, it was in storage, or a tent peg dropped into one of the 3rd row seats when they opened it, and couldn't close it again).

Even with that NCT, when winter rolls around, 5-10% of cars have obviously broken headlights on any given dog walk.
Living with (and having experienced multiple times) the degree of property crime in Johannesburg South Africa taught me an extremely valuable lesson: more stuff is more worries. While nice expensive things getting stolen doesn't translate to everywhere in the world, nice things costing you more money and more stress does. For example, having to wait for a scarce part to repair your lambo. Or having to drive your lambo at 1mph in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
What's the next model?
I'm nervous about this. YouTube Premium is my favorite and most-used product. As long as ads stay gone and my grandfathered price doesn't change, I'm a very happy user.
Loss of privacy. I wouldn’t want a third-party knowing I purchased certain medications (even some that are sold OTC).
i'll read your short story if you read mine :)
Math is an agreement to explore properties of a well defined set of objects and their relationships using logic.

Philosophy is when you broaden the set of objects to include the human experience but you are still bound by logic, unlike say, poetry (or everyday chatter) where you can use language to deliberately (or often unwittingly) defy logic for emotional effect.

That's my take on it anyhoo :)
ChatGPT is GPT-3++, the one people are thinking of is 175B parameters, post-trained on a very curated dataset to get the chat like behavior

At the local speeds, my time is worth more than what OpenAI charges
She didn’t “make” anything. Your average employee working at YouTube did.
Just another theory. I swear this domain is mostly people throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

I wouldn't be surprised if diet is one of many factors involved. But I really don't see much value by most of the studies at this point. Maybe we'll get to see who's right in a decade or two.
Also of note is fees hosts expect you to pay in cash outside of the platform. For example, paying the cleaning person. That won't appear in the price and may be hidden in the listing's "house rules".
Ah, yes, sorry, just Python based slicing. It follows the numpy rules
No, her garage.

> With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki

https://about.google/intl/en_us/our-story/
Ok, I see Chomsky/Hermann and Astral Codex mentioned here, but no Martin Gurri yet.

Gurri spent years surveying the global information landscape. Around the turn of the century, he noticed a trend: As the internet gave rise to an explosion of information, there was a concurrent spike in political instability. The reason, he surmised, was that governments lost their monopoly on information and with it their ability to control the public conversation.

One of the many consequences of this is what Gurri calls a “crisis of authority.” As people were exposed to more information, their trust in major institutions — like the government or newspapers — began to collapse.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22301496/martin-gurri-the...

Blog: https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/

Book: The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium: https://press.stripe.com/the-revolt-of-the-public
Hopefully Sundar's turn next!
I'm not necessarily agreeing with his positions you mentioned, except to note that his focus on Signal was making an encrypted messenger that was easy enough to use that normal people would actually use it, which is a different goal than being the most secure possible and that does inevitably involve compromises and tradeoffs. He has written extensively on the problems with decentralized systems and the added complexity that makes people not adopt them, and as someone that's done extensive work in the dweb space, his arguments are quite sound and not suspicious to me in the slightest. https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

If someone wants to send encrypted messages in a decentralized way I suppose they can use PGP with Tor (a project that has also received US government funding btw) on top of a P2P network or something similarly strange, but good luck getting the non ultra tech literate friends to use any of it. They will just resort to going back to SMS because they can't figure it out, or because it's slow and doesn't work, or because a malicious actor figures out how to blast the entire network with spam messages, and then we're right back to the original problem with no improvements.

As a thought experiment here to make this conversation more constructive, what is the actually most secure way to send messages between two parties, and how many of the non tech friends has someone convinced to actually use it?
I put most of the blame on projectors, to be honest. All the light is now coming from a small lens, which makes it much more intense. Even halogen headlights are glaringly bright when going through a projector.

Makes me wonder if we could design a headlight that used lower power emitters across the entire front of the vehicle, so you ended up with the same aggregate lumens hitting the road, but less of the blinding glare.

I don't discount aiming, though. Right from the factory, the headlights on my Model 3 are aimed pretty high. And I notice that when I see oncoming Model 3s and Ys coming at me, they have some of the most glaring headlights on the road.

Curiously, trucks aren't often the worst offenders IMO. My truck in particular has four enormous halogen reflector lights, which makes for very little glare, but it still does a respectable job of lighting up the road at night. Aimed correctly, it's better for oncoming drivers than any newer sedan with projectors.
I'm beginning to wonder if cnbc is already using gpt3 to write fluff articles on nothing-burger studies.

We've known for decades that buying material things does not make one happier long term, due to the headonic treadmill.

Stress makes one less happy. Financial security reduces stress. Spending less than you make and saving leads to financial security. Therefore, being fiscally responsible leads to increased happiness.

How is this news to anyone?
“Last few years” goes from now to peak covid lockdown, so it’s pretty meaningless.
Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
Yeah, not quite sure what I was expecting.
Yeah they're pandering to people who value the truth. /s

Your comment makes no sense with Matt Taibbi's statements. I'm not sure you understand what he said and corrected.
This comment is a good start. I sent you an email. :rocket_emoji:
Mainstream media gaslighting Millennials having less discretionary income to feel happier about it?

Also, sure, poor people in non-urbanized, less technologically advanced situations are happier but at what trade-offs?
> provably wrong

How so? I don't see any examples of top talent being fired (barring the scuffles at Twitter, but that isn't FAANG). Most people on my LinkedIn feed being let go are new grads or middle management who ostensibly didn't perform to company expectations of perfromance.
You have a diagnosis of autism?
Speculation: I wonder if any of this relates to the Supreme Court Gonzalez v. Google case?

(basically, the SC is reviewing YouTube's Section 230 protections due to the use of recommendation engines)
In a word, epistemology.

None of the conversations you mention can happen outside the context of an epistemological framework, yet epistemology is far from a settled field. Thus conversations in the aforementioned areas are often reduced to debates on the merits of the respective epistemological premises of different positions.
Jamal Khashoggi: All you need to know about Saudi journalist's death
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45812399
What I said?

Betting one way and being wrong is much worse than betting the other way and being wrong.
Don't you know?

Everyone with a 3 month bootcamp can be an engineer now!
Why can’t you just search by total fees?
I was first introduced to the idea of AI rights through Eliezer's sequences, so I'm sure this has been discussed thoroughly on LW over the years since.
As I remember PWM is to control the brightness of the LED. LEDs can only shine at one brightness, they're either on or off, so to dim them to half-brightness you need to have them on half the time, off half the time. That's how you get all the different colours from three LEDs.

But they can switch on and off very fast, so if 50Hz is flickery, you can use 500Hz, or 5000Hz. Most microcontrollers have circuitry for this built in, so you just literally write a different constant into the controller.

I once made an LED dashboard for use in police cars. After it was rolled out, it was discovered that the flicker frequency was interfering with the radio (the only bug ever found in my code!)

My client called me back in to fix it, so I added a zero in the relevant place, and recompiled the code.

£400 for about twenty minutes work.
Maybe, but I also think a lot of these people that hit the jackpot from the maturation of the internet the last 25 years are just going to quit cause the job is going to suck going forward. Being an internet tech executive when the industry is no longer growing ridiculously and is just another sector of the economy like durable good manufacturing, or real estate development or whatever might not be very fun anymore.

The founders themselves of these companies have already gotten a headstart.
Solid approach to data; completely wasted on a product they’ll never achieve…

I won’t weigh into the politics of the situation, but anyone who has their head on straight can see by now that “full self driving” isn’t becoming a reality any time soon. Even if the technology works out somehow, the politics of thing will take decades.

More interesting to me is the lessons the engineers learn there and take with them to other efforts, where success is more possible.
Another media post, another HN comments feed where more people are upset about Hunter Biden’s laptop than a president cheerleading an insurrection and trying to overthrow the results of an election. Less credibility than the media you despise.
Millenials who are happier buy less.
This doesn't help. You still need people to configure the group policies and firewalls. You will also need a local installation on various PCs running on-prem to connect a lot of hardware.

You might get away with Azure AD instead of a local domain controller and exchange but you won't get much farther than that. And if there isn't a backup strategy in place already, this won't change with cloud.
All the layoffs aren't an indication we're nearing a recession? Yes unemployment is currently low but I see that turning around in a big way imminently
Instagram launches a new broadcast chat feature called ‘Channels’
I don't have any questions, but I would like to work for you, love the project.

I will contact you...
A theory easy enough to test.
The only terminal I know of that broadcasts financial data is the Bloomberg Terminal.

https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/solution/bloomberg-te...

Thought in this context “terminal” might be a generic term for any other financial data service, not just Bloomberg.
Unfortunately the hospitality industry has had a harder time recovering from COVID -- most of the managers are fresh out of college and have little to no underlying experience in managing properties, and it's so bad that Hilton and Marriott aren't doing "brand assurance" audits (ensuring that the properties are up-to brand standards) until the end of 2024/early 2025 because hotel owners have pushed back so hard.

My SO and I stayed at a Waldorf Astoria a few weeks ago and they managed to screw up the stay so badly that we'll probably never go back to that specific location ever again -- the response that we received from the staff was so bad I was looking on LinkedIn to see if I had any friends who were still at Hilton Corporate to help me get the local property to fix their screw up (charging my credit card $10k for a $2800 stay because someone fat-fingered a $100 nightly charge into a $1000 nightly charge) because the local management just couldn't do anything.
I did try it, but that was ages ago. I remember going wow! and thinking this is the future of spreadsheet. Alas it didnt pan out that way.
One thing it had if I recall waell, was defining a function without having to go full VBA style scripting. It was more like a lambda you define in a cell.
What "belongs" on the front page of HN is whatever ends up on the front page without being moderated or flagged. At the end of the day, HN is a community and it decides for itself what it wants to see and share with its members! Like the guidelines for submissions say, anything that is intellectually stimulating or interesting to hackers is fair game! Vox populi vox dei :P
I understand your perspective, but I do not think that they do not understand that the things are bad. From what I can tell from conversations those people, they, for the most part, just don't give a shit about what's good and bad.
A bit inflammatory imo, given the scale of the challenge[^1], but definitely there were several failures under her tenure that are worth noting. Youtube Red (later Premium), Music, and Originals all seemed to not really pan out, and as a result YT seems desperate w.r.t. existing revenue streams. Copyright is also pretty bad, probably bending over backwards for advertisers which also seems to stem from that same desperation. In fact so much of the burden for following regulations, laws, and policies falls to the content creators (stuff like making minor-appropriate content) that yt's monopoly power over the video creator space really is evidenced. Even then, communication is so poor even by google's standards that one wonders yt employees even use the platform - if they even exist at all.

On the other hand, yt streaming and shorts seem to be slowly improving, in the same way google as a whole only seems to innovate insofar as they match exactly what their competitors have already produced. And problems aside, yt is still seems to be growing in popularity and relevance, even with TikTok's competition. If yt can figure out how to actually obtain revenue w/o turning to shadier and shadier advertisers, they might not have to push creators just shy of abandoning the platform, but it's not like creators have anywhere else to go.

[^1]: Revenues for yt continue to miss expectations, payouts for creators and ad spam are obviously low hanging targets. Doesn't make it right, but running a video service isn't cheap.
What would this mean for the type of website designs we could see?
Being replaced by someone with years of working on ads, who was brought into the company as a result of the purchase of DoubleClick.

I would broadly expect YouTube to get worse as a result of this.
I love the Model M, and have not found another keyboard as good. I'm using a Unicomp now, which is close. (They had a previous model whose keys were flaky, occasionally failing to produce output. But apparently they have fixed that problem, and my current Unicomp works well. I think it is 2-3 years old.)

I actually have a few Model Ms, but I have become reliant on the "windows" keys, which the M lacks.
The ones rockauto suggest might be different, but the ones in my truck are identical.
But brew.sh is a poorly visible brown mess!
Founder who sold company to Google says tech giant has slowly ceased to function
Unlike our kits, the AirGradient ONE targets commercial customers with large and sometimes complex requirements so the price varies depending on this.

But to give you an estimate it is somewhere between USD 200-300.
I don't drive much (and especially avoid doing it at night), but this is even a problem for me when I'm walking my dogs around the neighborhood at night. When a SUV is driving towards me I usually have to shield my eyes or else risk walking off the curb or tripping over branches because I can't see anything other than the glaring headlights. Really annoying. Don't remember ever having to do that prior to the last few years.
of which, I've experienced 3 since 2007.

- Housing Down Turn

- Start Of Pandemic Downturn (not everything was a rocket ship)

- Post Pandemic Downturn

Not so once in a lifetime, it seems.

EDIT: if I include what I witnessed with my parents, I'd include the 90s / early 2000s tech bubble burst in this, which would make it 4
Tech jobs are still in high demand and you’ve demonstrated the aptitude to learn whatever you need to get a reasonable engineering gig.
Hm, let me guess.

So we take a generation that has been essentially subjected to the worst generational economic warfare in modern memory (from the boomers).

Where basic subsistence existence while saddled with bloated college loans, no job prospects, inflated housing costs, exhorbitant healthcare, high food and rising energy/fuel costs...

So basically, those who are "buying more" in the millenials aren't doing it by choice... basic living takes up that much more of their income, which is the definition of economic insecurity. They aren't ABLE to save. Another word for those people is "poor".

But those millenials that aren't "buying more" by some relative percentage of their income are probably... more economically secure. Yes, they are saving because the CAN save and they aren't "poor".

Millenials are definitively less consumerist than boomers. That isn't some pop sociology take, it is basic economics: THEY DON'T HAVE MONEY to be consumerists to the standards of the boomers. You don't need to ascribe it to some superior collective ethos, or arbitrary generational trend.

It's the result of boomer economic warfare on all the other generations. The boomers should have their medicare and social security yanked for what they did to this country.

Source: Gen X-ish, not a millenial.
anthropomorphizing?
Ever heard of Jawed Karim?
"The study said more research is needed on the role of fructose and uric acid metabolism in AD."
- we need more money.
Not for safety issues. Emissions inspections are yearly for ICE vehicles still.
Did you take that to mean that every other interest rate was low at the same time? Mortgage rates were over 18%

You're the one making a claim with nothing to back it up.
> his is fine, but it's not really about tracking you, it's about tracking the habits of shoppers in aggregate, of which you are a participant. (Yes, having your real address to mail flyers is a bonus but not the end goal.)

Like hell it is. This is an article about Target back in 2012, that identified a pregnant underage girl purely from her purchasing record. 11 years ago.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

Target also made their own payment terminals so they could get PII from your cards, and then make a virtual loyalty card from that data. Walmart did similar as well.

> The only viable solution that comes to mind is to shop at places that don't perform this sort of tracking/loyalty card/etc. and continue to pay in cash. The only stores around me that fit this bill are convenience stores and a chain ran by an Amish conglomerate.

With facial recognition being a nearly solved problem, cash won't even save you.

What will save us? Strong federal laws similar to the GDPR.
I am part of a “YouTube family” that shares the premium family plan. We collect payment every six months.

Makes the price low enough to beat the hassle of various ad blocking methods across many platforms and devices.
Quick reminder here. Money sitting at banks in “risk free” interest rates is losing money in real terms. There arent a lot of good investments in the market right now especially when adding inflation costs.

I highly doubt your described situation exists.
Does one need to spoof a tower (actively transmit/handshake) or can one simply listen? Is it virtually impossible to do some kind of phased array that tracks the location of mobile transmitters since they're encrypted? Maybe the transmissions aren't frequent/continuous enough unless the user is actively using data or on a call... I'm sure many people here know way more than I.
They probably told Pichai that he can have the 50M now and will put him on the track to be CEO.
> Is this real? Is there a return policy?

> We believe in risk taking. So should you.

I like the attitude.
Still the data is collected in data pools, where somebody forgets to delete it a d later somebody does some more worthwhile analysis ...
Probably see more and more of this as cables continue the trend of becoming computers that abstract the communication between the two plugs.
What type of card do you have and what century is your bank in? I've had online capable Visa/Mastercard debit cards in Bulgaria (you know, poorest and least developed country in the EU) since at least 2010, if not before. In France even the legaciest of the legacy banks (the ones where to open a bank account you have to go in person and wait a week for everything to be processed) provide basic MasterCard/Visas, which are of course online capable. I don't know of any card being available in either country that isn't capable of online payments. I've heard Germany is behind the times in some aspects, but I didn't know your banking was so bad. Are you still using cheques too?
You realize Hilary lost election using that same argument?

Labeling your political opponents as “trash” turns off a lot of people.
So many ailments rely on multiple states occurring at the same time, and yet our way of studying seemingly has no way to factor this in.

Kind of sad. But we got a lot of lower hanging fruit plucked by figuring out cures and preventative measures for single state ailments.
FYI, Jenny’s number is 867-5309.
That’s when it’s ‘oh crap, go go go’ on the investor side, because the startup owners can’t play as many games with valuations.

When the investors are picking and choosing, they usually want to see that you have some ability to deliver.

It does make it harder to raise funds on vapor.
Top Level Domain (like .com, .uk etc)