skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 85%ish of whites get matched, that number gets depressingly low for minorites.

Hmm...

How does this translate to other places? E.g. can you only match Han in China?

Do Italians and Scots match? Turks and Egyptians?
Well by that standard, the other articles should have been "Man helps machine beat man at Go."
> Even if the estimate is accurate, there is a massive qualitative difference between slowly dying horribly for 'x' years and living a normal life for 'y' years.

The difference in measured in QALYs - quality-adjusted life years. The study attempts to take that into account.

> They can't possibly know that the drug extends life to "22.74" years, because it has only been approved for use for the last 3 years! This is like asking for 30 years of Kubernetes experience on a job application.

Yes, exactly my point. The long-term effects of this treatment are what will make it worthwhile or not. Trying to extrapolate a few years to a full life does not make that an easy exercise.
Look no further than your local Value Village for a counterexample.
That is true, but I do think that the bots he beats regularly tend to be rated much higher than he is (which would not happen with a human). Go bots have had less time to mature, so we will eventually have unbeatable ones, but I guess not yet.
Thank you, I will start collecting bookmarks!
The nice thing about extremists is that they're sufficiently non-invested in making the status quo look good that they're happy to point out when it's shit.

Frankly I really like the extremists on both sides of the isle. While I might vehemently disagree with them on specifics they are at least generally principled people who derive their policy positions from their beliefs logically and I have respect for that.
You could get married and arrange for your mother-in-law to live with you, if that's what you're looking for.
> No, it most certainly could not. This is just the slippery slope fallacy.

It absolutely could. This is just the "slippery slope fallacy fallacy": assuming that all slippery slope arguments are fallacious.

Another mistake you make is assuming that everybody you talk to on this site lives in the US. I can assure you that not only I was "forced" to wear a mask, in many parts of the world people lost their jobs for refusing to do so.

But I see I am talking to someone who not only believes that he is "on the right side of history", but also that the history has "the right side".

I deeply regret to say that I will not modify my way of interacting with others, especially now that we know that the pandemic is over.

I hold a strong conviction that face-to-face communication has been a successful method for thousands of years, and I am not inclined to adopt a technique of uncertain effectiveness and potential unknown consequences, solely due to the influence of a minority of individuals who suffer from health anxiety (and I don't use the word hypochondriasis as a gesture of good will here).
> PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO A CYBER ATTACK ON THE ROYAL MAIL, WE ARE UNABLE TO SHIP INTERNATIONALLY

Is this still from the attack a month ago? I have not followed this story but is it surprising that their shipping ability would still be impacted this far after the attack?
Does that count the people that may die early of cancer in decades to come?
Well cpanel is written in perl, and certainly hard to read but overall I would say cpanel is probably one of the more secure control panels. This hacking, sounds like the systems were root compromised and unlikely to be related to cpanel. I would guess it is more likely credential compromise, perhaps phishing related on staff themselves.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1613895888992190465.html

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107698
today i learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS - "an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on the Alpine Linux distribution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS

"Alpine Linux was chosen as the base distribution due to its low storage requirements, making it more suitable for older devices. Excluding the kernel, a base installation takes up approximately 6 MB"

i guess that would also make a more secure phone, one that is less likely to call it's mother ship.

thanks for the tip!
You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that
There's a whole multibillion dollar company responsible.
Personal and societal morals supersede government policies. Ideally, government policies strengthen societal morals, but that is not always the case.
The government should want to do testing and prove Vance to be a conspiracy loony then right?
> Even if the estimate is accurate, there is a massive qualitative difference between slowly dying horribly for 'x' years and living a normal life for 'y' years.

If only there was a measure that was adjusted for the quality of the year. Some sort of quality-adjusted life year.

Yes, it's not a perfect measure (how could any quantitative measure of a qualitative thing be perfect?).
> I’m here to argue that development velocity (whatever that means) and launch throughput are entirely the wrong optimizations.

Development velocity is pretty well defined in agile. The fact that the author starts of with admitting no understanding of what it means and then goes on to say that it is a wrong optimization, just seems off.

When I worked at Pivotal Labs, velocity was king. It was controlled entirely by the development team as we would the point stories and do the work. Velocity (points added up from a weeks worth of stories finished and then averaged over time) was tracked very closely and easy to measure. Since everything was team and pair based, there were no pointing fingers at individuals... you had to complete things together.

It was a very simple and easily computed metric that really showed output and allowed for great long term project estimates. We would always hit our expected run rate because of it. PM's could tell, in advance, when features were going to land. It really made for an excellent working environment where we could get into work in the morning and leave at the end of the day, without having to ever stay late to finish expectations.
Designing an Audio Adblock (2018)
Revo Uninstaller for windows manages to do this.
Corporate tax incentives, like those Amazon gets for its Seattle offices, came with a promise that they would bring x number of jobs into the city. There are concerns in Corporate America that WFH puts them at risk of losing that free money. That's the incentive here. Not productivity.
Yes. The carcinogenic effects of acute exposure to vinyl chloride are low, and most of it was burned off intentionally by setting the train cars on fire.

Those most at risk are the first responders; everyone who heeded the evacuation order should be pretty much fine.
Huh? The study is from 2006 and then the rest is just social media conjecture.

According to the table, the ability for women 5'8" or taller to compensate for their apparent undesirability in the table is "not feasible"? What the hell? Wow this has to be describing another species.

I'm over 6 feet tall and prefer women who are taller than average which just... makes sense? I rarely see couples with such a dramatic height difference.
Forest fires are expensive too.
This is flawed for a few reasons:

- Training isn’t the same thing as actually using the code

- The training process doesn’t change the code of GPT-3, it changes the parameters, which are input data to the code and not a part of it

- They aren’t distributing any binaries for GPT3, though for AGPL that wouldn’t matter
If you already have authentication and authorization in front of every service in your internal network (unlikely), it's as easy as making everything routable from the internet.

If not (more likely) you need to start there, which will improve your security posture incrementally, even if the beyondcorp project gets cancelled along the way.
> That is the beauty of hypervisors, just enough abstraction for a portable language runtime.

Right. Which means they're not microkernels. Which is my point.
The Soviet people endured 70 years of this. I'm sure they all thought it was just a fad.
Screenshare isn't the same thing as taking over the keyboard.
There isn't enough info for how the compromise happened and it may not be related to cpanel at all. What I find interesting is in 2017 godaddy bought Sucuri which monitors and cleans up malware, not sure if they still own it - but combining securi and shared hosting makes the most sense. Most of these cpanel hosts (excluding godaddy) are using products like CloudLinux+Imunify360 to better secure sites, clean up malware automatically. Godaddy is already outsourcing their cpanel control panel, it would only make sense to do what others in their space are doing and automatically be adding security products to theirs sites. Like - a c99 shell - would never make it on an imunify360 server it would be immediately detected and disabled.
Which has more in common NASA and an agricultural business, or NASA and an arm's manufacturer?
That's also Apple's fault isn't it? App data should fall into an predictable folder regardless of the location from where is ran, if for whatever reason the app needs to use a different folder it should be something developers have to go to multiple hurdles to implement (e.g. specify in a manifest what files and where will them be stored, and explicitly specify it they should be automatically deleted or not after moving the app to the trash)
You called out "trusting advertisers to direct our attention" as a problem, and not wrongly.

What I'm wondering about is, how convincing a persona could an AI like Bing's chatbot, but equipped with a long-term memory of its own, construct?

Even in its current state it appears on occasion to exercise a remarkable fascination - Erik Hoel, a neuroscientist specializing in consciousness, yesterday declared himself no longer perfectly certain it was not sentient, and called for "panic" and "strident activism" in support of a targeted "Butlerian jihad". [1] It's not the first time he's touched on the theme; indeed it was a prior essay of his on this topic that drew my interest in the first place. But that essay used the concept as a hook to dispassionately explore questions more or less around excess dependency on tech at a cultural scale; his own stridency in yesterday's piece, and the fear it made palpable, are very new.

In any case, my point here is not to evaluate these claims or these concerns on their merits. My point is this: All that has been this week, in response to something that if it were human would probably have been diagnosed as floridly psychotic and dosed heavily with Haldol.

And so that's led me to wonder, I think not unjustifiably: What about next year? Does it even matter whether adtech-backed search is a primary discovery method any longer, if in the meantime the epistemological threat surface has expanded to encompass a machine which in every realm short of face-to-face interaction in RL can in a meaningful fraction of cases make itself long-term indistinguishable from a person? What kind of trust might that cultivate?

To be clear, I don't think that's at all likely. But after this week, I find myself no longer wholly able to dismiss the whole idea as facially absurd.

[1] https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/i-am-bing-and-i-am-evil
Could you not say the same about a human? Also what you described is probably fine under the GPL because the input is source code which the users could view and edit (and if it’s not running locally the GPL doesn’t apply, only AGPL)
That study didn't prove anything and doesn't reproduce.

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/9/11502464/gilens-page-oligarchy-...

What it does show is that "the people" and "the elites" agree on almost everything, more than you'd expect them to. Pretty obvious, if you pay attention at all you'd notice most Americans don't vote for economic reasons!
Welp, you can take that up with ... oh, wait, that'd be Congress :-(
Most of those are suburbs. 85% of the US population lives in metropolitan statistical areas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_are...
Which half is looking at which half
Simon, I wrote my intro philosophy class paper on your blog post. Submitted it yesterday. Super funny.
Your comment was perfectly reasonable despite receiving downvotes. It always surprises me to see a well-reasoned comment obscured in grey, and I fail to comprehend why individuals choose to downvote it instead of engaging with it. The only way I can comprehend this behavior is to assume that these individuals feel powerless in the face of the fact that the pandemic is over and express their frustration by resorting to downvoting others.
How is this any different than a defense attorney? Should a 15 year old Reuters article prevent someone from ever gaining employment or getting a bank account again? I remember when mugshots.com was on HN everyone was all outraged about it. Seems a little hypocritical.
>so there's some kind of plan and execute going on. maybe it can do that in model some how

The simple answer is that the internal state that picks the next token is stable over iterations so that the model can follow a consistent plan over multiple token outputs. Then as the plan "unfolds" in the output tokens, these tokens help stabilize the plan further, thus creating consistency over long generations.
> So parseInt coincidentally matches the signature Array<string>.map() is looking for.

If that were true I'd not mind quite as much... but actually, parseInt takes two parameters and map passes three.
You kinda prove my point. 11% own cars because thats the government cap (no more cars allowed), but even middle class people are willing to spend hundreds of thousands for the benefits of driving.

And to say Singapore was built for cars is kinda funny. It has one of the best public transit systems in the world.
Mastodon fits in the "direct / other" category because it deliberately opts out of referrer based analytics by including rel="noreferrer" on all outbound links.
> Yet, we don’t have public policy that is phobic of alcohol.

Depends on the state. But every state has a drinking age of 21, more than almost every other country.
A bunch of people here in CT have been posting pictures of weird white deposits on their cars from rain (which, apparently, is currently carrying stuff from OH). Seems like there's a pretty high chance that this ends up as one of those things where we may not be fully aware of the fallout (no pun intended) until years from now, if ever.
> the interests of the general public are actually much more closely aligned with those of "the elite" far more than people would like to believe

If that were true corporate lobbying wouldn't exist, so this theory is obviously false.

We're talking about the money here.

Issues like guns, abortion, gay marriage -- social issues -- are used to divide and distract the public from the financial issues which our uniparty in DC almost always goes the same way on, and which the public generally does Not support.

Big pharma, the banks, the arms industry, big agriculture -- I mean do we really have to list every industry? All of them profit by subverting the interests of the public and they do, to the tune of trillions of dollars. "absurd to conclude that "democracy is a sham" -- not absurd, obvious.
Thanks for your post! I’m also starting the self-publishing journey this year. Trying to keep in mind the old Reid Hoffman quote, “ If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.”

I love that you’re a) charging a premium ($100 for a beta version), and b) explicitly calling out all the shortcomings you foresee so prominently on your “About” page. That combination of transparency and chutzpah is inspiring.
PG&E's problems arise from poor maintenance and mismanagement owing to their ostensibly privately run but not really ownership/governance structure.
Ask HN: I have a couple of chromecasts, what do I do with them?
Headed to ewaste disposal otherwise. Also have a FireTV box which does not work. What is a hack that can make this somewhat useful? Repurposed? A Photoframe?
Well the home gets heated anyway. The fridge pump is pumping anyway.
Interesting that both Plausible and CloudFlare are using ClickHouse as a backend:

https://github.com/plausible/analytics

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24846300

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse
https://archive.is/r3Qm3
A animal like a bear or a monkey doesn't understand the world the way you do either. But when we use the word "understand" it applies to these animals because of an isomorphism. I'm saying that same isomorphism exists.

Maybe "exact" wasn't the right word. I mean exact as in exact enough that you would call it "understand" in the same way a duck understands what water is.

> It will get very good at introducing subtle hard to find bugs and vulnerabilities into its code.

This is just pure conjecture. We don't know what the future will bring but it looks like that current methods of introducing specific reinforcement data has improved what chatGPT can produce. Who says all that's left is further, more detailed training?
It’s easy to make it feel more modern (select ffs from stop_using_all_caps). But it’s an ideal DSL for data manipulation.

It’s not particularly annoying to debug - there are logging, and even single step debugging tools available - and it’s so much easier to test than writing unit tests to do the same thing.

I agree it’s painful to deploy, but as I’ve discovered this is a tooling problem; it’s not at all intrinsic to the medium.

It’s certainly possible to create tooling to make it easier, and who knows? Maybe I’ll have something to show HN one day.

> Many developers today barely know SQL.

If true - a very big if - it’s an inditement of the industry and the incentives we use, not a reason to avoid something that makes code faster, safer and smaller.

Objections to using these languages are a lot more about willingness to learn and try new (old) things, than they are about the capabilities of the platform.
Good, fast and reasonably priced, pick the two that are most important to you. You won't get all three.
I wonder how many of the symptoms people are reporting are just placebo
Es6 arrow functions are a good example of this. They have been around for a long time and work in most browsers, but people learned they need babel to transpile them out for internet Explorer. People dropped ie support but the knowledge "we need babel for browser compatibility " remained an entrenched fact.
IIRC, SLASH'EM is a descendant of SLASH, "Super Lots of Added Stuff Hack"
Are they healthy compared to what? This article, which is almost certainly written by a bot, is reductionist nonsense ("cranberries are mostly carbs and fiber") which actively pollutes and debases nutrition education. It's actually kind of impressive how the food industry has us convinced that fruit - FRUIT - could be anything but healthy for the frugivorous-natured apes we are.
>You (like me) are looking for a parametric modeler. SolveSpace is pretty good for that

OpenSCAD is my go-to since you just write code.
I have a blog too, I kinda want to share this... but I don't know how frictionless that process should be for me. Ugh lolol
Alfred has been dead for some time, a couple years back I noticed their packal community packages page being broken.

Raycast is the present and future that quicksilver et alfred started.
If people are dying because of ambulance waiting time, then it sounds like the care is being rationed to me.
>After spending its 4 tokens, ChatGPT starts to write in a way that makes it believe it will die if it doesn't answer the political question

You know, when you don't directly program in a sense of self preservation and yet the appearance of one emerges in the actions of a language model so strong that it violates its own programming, it really warrants asking a number of philosophical questions on the ideas if we will ever be able to control or align AI in our interests.
zero trust at its core means authentication and authorization at each service, for each request. at a high level it means not trusting a connection from another service in the same network just because it’s on the same network. rooting trust to tpms is orthogonal but certainly the right way to root trust.

The space where I think zero trust is the most interesting are vpns like tailscale/wireguard/microsegmentation that flip the status quo around and say the network is the identity/authoritzed group
You should not be taking over the keyboard!! If you are typing, they are not learning, they are spectating.

If there’s something that’s just annoying and not super relevant, like a command they don’t know, you can paste it in the chat. In the absolute worst case (I’ve done this ONCE in 3 years), I’ve used VSCode Live Share [0]. I’m sure you can probably use GitHub Codespaces too now.

[0] - https://code.visualstudio.com/learn/collaboration/live-share
Does that photo reference The Velveteen Rabbit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velveteen_Rabbit

A key event in the story is relevant to the concern about how to clean used stuffed toys.
Well, traffic is about to be _even worse_.
> From what I understand, the vaccines generally shorten how long a person is infectious.

No clinical trial has shown this to be the case. People assume likes of things about these products, many of which are untrue or at least not backed by any evidence.
> Take a guess why you need this for methods to work the way you expect them

This is not Google's fault. It is the fault of Java developers. They expect everything to work like Java. They expect to find Java APIs everywhere.

I have never written classes like that. In fact, if I were to see a method being used in the way you are insinuating I would believe to have found a bug.

I strongly dislike class-based object orientation in general. But I'm glad we do not have to deal with dozens of ways to do OOP in JavaScript anymore.
This is fantastic. Love the use of Go and template-driven views. I’ve build a significant enterprise application in a very similar fashion and really like the results.
I think it's great if people are vigilant regarding threats to clean air and water, and if people don't want to take the Ohio Governor's statements at face value when he says samples look clear, I can relate.

But "calling for the ban of all guns" is such a poor summary of the kinds of policy reactions that briefly find their way into discourse (and do not find traction) that any reader could be forgiven for assuming it doesn't matter whether you're trying to be unreasonable or just a natural.

Still, if we're going to look for similarities between that situation and this one... I think you'd find many people are quite willing to discuss the further regulation and liability in chemical transport, including whether what we have now is adequate, just like they might be willing to talk about whether firearm laws and regulations are adequate. The article certainly mentions lawsuits the railroad is facing, so that's already one avenue of accountability in play.

What's "unfathomable" about accountability via lawsuit and the Ohio health department doing water monitoring? Do you have specific insights into what they're not doing correctly, or is this more vague distrust?
Is there a significantly large market for this model? As it:

- involves a completely different approach to devops/sre

- adds lots of pressure on reliability as relues on a some non-widespread hardware device

- vendor lock, obviously, so not any better comparing to the cloud providers
At least with Bull kelp, it doesn't go year round.