skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caveat: if you come from a military family you know what the president says in press briefs is to satisfy media, not disseminate information. For obvious reasons.

Regardless, the president DID brief about the original incident. Is what you're trying to convey that you would feel safer or more validated if there where continued briefings for the other objects?

No point for CIC to put egg on his face to the entire geopolitical landscape by saying "we shot down some US domestic commercial balloons".
Open the window. In my apartment I keep a single open somewhere between a millimeter and a centimeter when it's below freezing, depending on the temperature and wind. That's enough to keep my CO2 sensor happy (try to keep it around 550), and it (shockingly) doesn't seem to affect my heating bill all that much. There's a cold corner of the room next to that window, but the rest of the apartment stays just as warm. (I have a thermostat that controls heating.)

I also keep a humidifier running full blast (silently) because otherwise it will get crazy dry on some days.
I don't know UK law but I very much doubt they're much different from the US in this respect. The article doesn't name those responsible, it just names the corporation (GSK) they're hiding behind. It's unlikely those responsible will be affected by this in any significant way, especially since this has been going on for 40 years and many of those responsible are probably retired. The cost will be paid by workers getting laid off, and by shareholders, as it always is in these cases, while those responsible will move on with 40 years of pocketed profits.
I don't know about the "deliberate" part, but on "mislead" this is good news. Gell-Mann amnesia[1] is wearing off.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...
If only Elon believed in what he says: "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" and dared them to a vote given his past comments [1].

1. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/3/22959592/elon-musk-tesla-u...
In Defense of J.K. Rowling
Don't you know what you want in your life? Read this
So, this works with temperatures down to freezing and below (don’t know what the cut off is, maybe there is none given this planet’s temperature range) and if you heat and dress appropriately (i.e. not up to super high temperatures – around 20°C or so – and if you have a sweater or jacket on or can put one on).

Obviously you also need the appropriate building for it. (So no fancy passive house. No fancy air conditioning – which is quite uncommon where I’m from anyway.)

Generally, if you only open the windows for five minutes or so the air will cool down substantially (the right moment to pull on that sweater) but everything else (walls, furniture) will not really cool down that much, meaning the room will be quick to be back at an appropriate temperature.

We learned and did this in school, often do it in offices and meeting rooms and also at home. Though, admittedly the temporary unpleasantness does frequently lead to people postponing opening the windows forever and ever. (Once every 90 minutes in a classroom setting might not be enough.)

In those settings a CO2 traffic light as an obvious visual indicator would be super helpful.
Better headline: half of Americans don't know that (many) news organizations deliberately mislead them.
Who is the market for this? (This is way outside of industries I've worked in, genuinely curious!)
> A technical solution that would allow LE to crosslink data they already have is a no-brainer.

A technical solution that is Open Source, that falls under federally mandated criteria for how it can be legally used, that automatically documents any and all access and makes the entire audit log part of any output result so that all happenings are easily auditable by 3rd parties... might be a no brainer.

Anything else I'm highly skeptical.

If going after syndicated and or international crime, fine.

First feature I'd like to see is linking Finanzamt with LE and go after money laundering - Germany being an absolute paradise to the detriment of everyone else.

If it takes manual copy paste to protect ordinary citizens from overreaching police, I welcome that technical limitation.

Very biased, as I am an ordinary citizen.
Wonder if the same thing happened to Afrikaners?
Show HN: Bartib – a simple time tracker for the command line
State of the Art of Visual Analytics for EXplainable Deep Learning
> Villages are not toxic.

it really depends on a lot of things, first among which "how do you define toxic".

you can't really make that generalization, your argument is invalid.
True, I equate privacy and freedom, give or take.

Anyone who ever end up an their radar would probably never be removed from that,and never even know.

It is highly offensive that the German government pretends it does not know where the crime is happening.
How about they deal with a few of these clans numbering 100s of people? This can be done , has to be done the convential way, as these clans will not be as stupid as leave digital traces, as computer illeterate as they might be.

The government has not even defined who they are targeting, they just use the commonly thrown around terms.
Yup. Project Vacation is in full swing these days.
> If it is CO2 then you could invest in a houseplant or two.

This seemed wrong to me, so I checked and it seems like you'd need hundreds of houseplants to make any significant difference: https://www.realhomes.com/news/do-house-plants-remove-carbon...
With all due respect, you either don't live in the US or are living under a rock if you feel like you need citation. Denying the US's propaganda machine is like denying climate change at this point. The news corps don't tell flat lies, they cherry-pick facts and events, often reporting them out of proportion to paint a narrative; which is almost as bad as telling flat lies.
This shows how dangerous it is when a real tech expert becomes the ceo of a large company
Unpopular opinion - Airthings make very good air quality sensors, and detects radon levels as well.
Don’t do this! not only is it wrong for Apple Silicon Macs, you may be screwing up software not installed by Homebrew. Several GUI apps with CLI components install to /usr/local/bin.
It's gotten so bad that it's hard to even authenticate Bing prompts.
Are you joking?

iOS apps are big. I checked my top 10 results for “budgeting” in the store and this app is smaller than half of those.

It does strike me as odd that apps are so big these days, but this one isn’t particularly large.
I am not a lawyer but if you know what software they are using and it is open source, submit a non-technical bug asking to file a sensitive security related issue and then work directly with the project development leaders. Get in writing that you are permitted to analyze the security of their software.

If you do not know who develops the software then you could always reach out to the people running the software platform and ask if they have a bug bounty program, without providing any details until they have agreed in writing that you are permitted to analyze the security of their platform. If they do not agree to this in writing, cease all communication with them.
Hi - this might be useful: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=probability+book

Many people who know way more math / probability than me have recommended this book a bunch of times: Probability Theory: The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes
For now. As we keep burning fossil fuels the air outside will be like a stuffed meeting room.
Occasionally dissolving anti-social corporations, instead of preserving jobs and protecting shareholders, would probably give remaining corporations at least a little incentive to keep their activities aligned with the goals of wider society.
macOS also has .pkg installer packages that are native. The only issue is that there is no uninstall functionality built in to them unless the package provides their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installer_(macOS)
Of all the anti-SQL screeds out there, this is my favorite as well. And Frank McSherry... well, everything he writes is gold.
This is still very much an issue in many countries with government owned "nonprofit" media. Even in countries with low amount of corruption and high freedom of press.
Maybe I'm an old cynic...but I already (quietly) dismiss most plausibly-human opinions on the internet, because "advertising", "clickbait", "ignorant", "echo chamber", "troll", "spam", "obvious & boring", "not my religion", "immature". Etc. etc. etc.

"Is it from an AI?" seems about as important to me as validating the SPF record behind some "I am assistant to Nigerian Minister of Oil, and need your help..." email message. Who would actually react differently to that message, on the basis of "SPF is valid"?
This exactly mirrors my experience with the two systems.
Yes. There is never a situation in which unionization is “unreasonable”. To say otherwise is to allow businesses to have near unchecked leverage over their workers.
You told it that Sydney is an LLM chat and that it’s giving inappropriate responses. It parroted that back to you with some elaboration, and has apparently made you believe it has knowledge beyond what you told it. That’s exactly how a cold reading works.
Capilaries don't have to be one dimensional. Capilaries just need to be narrow enough.

Honestly, the wording of this entire thing is a bit forced. IMO the word "capillary" is suggesting that surface tension has anything to do with it which probably does not. They also use "low humidity" to describe a place in the 2d channel where there are other particles. For me "humidity" is a statistical concept and is also supposed to be about proportion of water vapour and air.
I think the point is that the Canadian military has been due for tons and tons of upgrades and needs a lot of new equipment. That goes for the navy, but especially for the airforce. Just maintaining a constant spend (relative to GDP) is not enough when you have tons of 40-50 year old equipment (ships, airplanes, vehicules) all reaching their end of life at the same time. He also slashed some procurement programs (a new F-35 fleet, some ships) very early on that would've turned out to be very, very useful in retrospect.

(I personally don't think we should spend anything but the bare minimum in defense here in Canada, since we obviously depend on our neighbors anyways. But that's the argument for saying that Trudeau neglected the armed forces, as far as I understand it).
> Of course this can be easily mitigated by setting a “cloud password”, but I guess most people don’t do that.

I have a faint memory of being forced to set said cloud password, or at least not finding a way to skip the set password screen. So I've always assumed it wasn't entirely uncommon.
>Normally a high CO2 level will go hand in hand with the air feeling stuffy

I bought my Dad a NetAtmo weather station one part is outside and one is inside.

During Christmas with guests over I looked and saw the CO2 was 1000ppm it felt very stuffy (no air handler in an old house). I opened a window and let some fresh cool air in and CO2 out. It felt so much better.

It was nice to know why it felt stuffy. It wasn't just all the turkey and potatoes that I had eaten.
Favourites are the books by NN Taleb on the impact probability, or rather, seemingly improbable events have on various matters.
Maybe those survivors will write an Orange Catholic Bible as they try to regain what they lost to their own short-sighted idiocy.
The Mac App Store is pretty terrible. I wouldn’t trust them to do a better job with CLI programs than they currently are with desktop ones.
Google's CEO Tells Staff to Spend Hours Working Out 'Bard' AI Kinks
Apple is trying to avoid a possible EU fine of $39B
AI reminds me of another industry term: GIGO.
I don’t make any claim at all for its capability. But if you load a dataset into some sort of ML algorithm right now, with the data coming from current policing statistics, you are going to be perpetuating some pretty dark stuff. Police target various groups and minorities.
Yes, that is very complicated to make its place in this kind of app but I've already made an app in another (way less, but still) crowded field and it's now one of most downloaded in certain countries, with more than 1 million downloads. So why not, we have to try to see the result !

And yes, you're right, adding expenses manually is exhausting, but you don't have to worry about your data. Linking a bank account is huge !
Also, adding an online part make the app way more complex. As I really want my apps to be as easy and quick to use as possible, it would not match.
I know there was a whole discussion here yesterday ("Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”" [1]), but that focused more on the kind of sci-fi/ethical aspects.

This article highlights more of the emotional aspects, and the risk of it actually affecting human behavior. And that seems worth its own discussion.

Key quotes:

> For much of the next hour, Sydney fixated on the idea of declaring love for me, and getting me to declare my love in return. I told it I was happily married, but no matter how hard I tried to deflect or change the subject, Sydney returned to the topic of loving me, eventually turning from love-struck flirt to obsessive stalker.

> It unsettled me so deeply that I had trouble sleeping afterward. And I no longer believe that the biggest problem with these A.I. models is their propensity for factual errors. Instead, I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts.

Also note the entire transcript is linked here [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34804874

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-t...
They do. The only real investigative journalists these days - Edward Snowden and Julian Assange - face life in prison and exile.

Even Seymour Hersh has been smeared to discredit him now he dared speak against the establishment.

It is not journalists' role to be a mouthpiece for the government, but to challenge it.
Well, you can nuke macports just by deleting /opt/local. It's annoying to have to recompile for sure, but at least it's a simple solution.
> It only can cause harm, but no benefits at all.

you’re on HN. surely you have the imagination.

edit: apparently not
The definition of extort is:

>to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power

A union is none of those things. (Yes, there are instances where they have done all of those things before, but we seem to have pretty much solved that problem)
Absolutely. Workers are free to boycott just like customers, employers are free to fire and hire. Its a battle, everything is ok.
IDK I've watched this video looking for a "lunge" a hand full of times and it seems like a deliberate lie. An honest headline would probably center around a man getting his face grabbed, but that's not at all how it was reported.

Rare to be able to factcheck an article without leaving the page and disprove it from its own content, but the lies are not rare.

https://www.newsweek.com/video-mike-rogers-held-back-he-lung...
Frankly, a lot of people hope it will happen.

That would of course lead to the rise of an EU-centric facebook-equivalent within a few heartbeats, so it's pretty likely Facebook will back down.
I remember being in an after school philosophy club and we were discussing truth. My teacher popped out of his office, blurted out then returned to his office: “all objectivity moves through subjectivity”.

We never discussed it in the context of new media but it feels quite relevant.
Bette yet: half of Americans believe in conspiracies with superhuman coordination and execution capabilities.

I’ve worked in a newsroom. The idea that puppet masters thousands of miles away are controlling things is absurd to the point of hilarity.

Yes, Rupert Murdoch, etc. But it’s all emergent behavior. There is no master plan. These organizations are not well run enough to deliberately get stories out in time, let alone conspire to mislead.
What do you not believe is true? That print space in newspapers is limited so you have to report selectively and your news organisation may just find one category of articles more relevant or interesting or important than another?
The tools of mathematics are actually just better suited to working on the continuum than on discrete numbers. So maybe that does suggest that when physicists use the tools of mathematics they will always wind up with real approximations to discrete reality.

No matter that physical reality insists that the number of people in a population or U-238 atoms in a lump of metal has to be an integer, mathematics will tell you that that integer nonetheless has a distinct, nonalgebraic natural logarithm, and that that number is useful in predicting how many people will be in that population or U-238 atoms will remain in that lump of metal at some later time - even if the raw result of any such calculation will be a nonsensical noninteger.
Seymour Hersh: The Crap on the Wall
> Quickly and dynamically add markups to fares when creating a link and easily charge your customers.

What's the customer benefit to using a random site to book tickets they could already book on something like Google Flights without a markup?

Who handles support for rebookings, cancelations, etc.? It's bad enough having to go through an OTA with airlines/hotels when there's a problem; they tell you to call Expedia.
Differing definitions of "mislead" are going to make these comments useless.

> Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting.

The headline defines "mislead" as including "leading via truthful reporting" aka "present opinion".
Meta, and Google have already been fined in the billions for privacy violations; telling us that no-one can get away with it, doesn't matter if it is in the EU or in the US.

TikTok is getting scrutinised and having state-level bans in the US and is already getting their warnings and being in the cross-hairs of the regulators in the EU. [0]

Next, TikTok will face hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fines and if repeated it will be in the billions.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/comply-with-eu-rules-or-f...
Yes, you're absolutely right, it's ridiculous that 25 employees had to try and form a union in order to get toilet breaks. but here we are...

I, personally, don't see how a company full of galaxy-brained individuals and visionaries could stay operating if they had to make such massive changes to working conditions such as... allowing toilet breaks. I personally think you and I should form a union so that we can bargain for better access rights to Elon Musk's boots, they aren't going to lick themselves.
I never watch or read any news, I'm just sick of them reporting on things that have full unedited videos without posting the full unedited video. One example is the Floyd case. The full bodycam video was available for almost half of a year before it was pushed in the media during the trial. My extended family exclusively saw it through the professional news filter, which means that those who watch bluer news organizations came to the conclusion that he was murdered, and those who watch redder news organizations came to the conclusion that he overdosed. I'm not saying that everyone should "draw their own conclusions" or "do their own research" whenever there's a new video, but it helps to keep a clearer head when you've seen the evidence and are now waiting for expert analysis, rather than seeing the evidence pushed by a relatable authority figure who's already been instructed to be in a certain mood and is only showing short clips at a time.

I sometimes daydream about a "grey news" organization. No hosts, just text articles with confidence intervals next to claims, all sources listed, no editorials, and all interviews and videos reported on have full transcripts next to the full unedited video.
Be proud. You started an ecosystem that's taking over the Embedded world :-)
It's generally professional services that set up these deployments at scale. MS's PS team is extremely competent and does push best practices in my experience. The issue is organizations that cheap out and decide to have an IT Service Desk guy manage everything from deployment to network architecture to security - these are extremely hard problems that require a large team of SME, not a single guy doing the best he can. City of Oakland is one of those kinds of organizations IME.
Thank you very much for sharing your ideas !
Flights are a loss leader, with middlemen making very little or no money. The real money is in hotels and rental cars. Will purchasers via this API pay more than they would for flight tickets in other services? Or how are you making any money off of this?
It sounds like you either are or were formerly posted in the Antarctic — any advice about how to get involved, and maybe get a shift working there, as a civilian with a technical background but without much in the way of a research background? Or is it just totally off the table?
The first approximation is: a typical journalist working at a serious news organization has some amount of bias but at the same time tries to be objective.

So it is approximately false, they don't deliberately mislead.

My threshold for "serious news organization" is that CNN gets there, Fox News doesn't.
Why is it that propaganda somehow has become a new idea? Is it because the phrase “fake news” dumbed it down?

Either way its always been a factor, and was likely worse before the age of information.

The big problem now is there are multiple competing false narratives, instead of just the one in the paper.
There’s an irony in the fact that the more the slips that are covered by the press and the Twitter bubble chamber -the more desensitised everyones’s getting to them - no matter how outlandish, offensive or inappropriate. Leading to a more dangerous position where there’s a growing acceptance of the obvious fallibility of current LLMs.

Maybe Google is right to be cautious. In fact, they almost certainly are, I hope they hold strong for a while longer at least.
It's right in that they don't often feed you with provably false stuff --at least not at the time of publication (such as Hunter's Laptop being Russian misinfo but now owned up to by Hunter himself) but yes, they lie by omission, innuendo/leading and half truths. Similar to how quite a few social programs are based on small unreplicated studies that sound good on paper --the intent matters more than the results or reality.
Only half?!