skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Machine learning (or more specifically deep learning) is shaking the world precisely because the models at the highest end are able to take in mostly unlabeled garbage and spit out useful results in an unsupervised manner. The world is not full of i.i.d. spherical cows.

100 years of statistical advances have not been able to solve image recognition at scale until convolutional neural networks. Large language models may be somewhat Bayesian but they do not resemble any traditional Bayesian techniques except at the highest level. Clean data and good sampling are incompatible with the real world outside of laboratory conditions (or large budgets).
I don't think parent's comment was combative at all. Simply, their opinion and/or observation.
If you don't think we live in a time when men's (white especially) interests are being attacked you're delusional. They are at the bottom of the identity politics war. Ideas of toxic masculinity, undeserved privilege, power, etc. are being touted as gospel by the educated, political class.

Maybe it's all deserved. Paying for generations of misbehavior or something. It doesn't really matter. The reality is that political popularity and public "good graces" _are_ a zero sum game. Politics are currently very much us vs them. And men are very much them right now.
You can write off donations to pay less taxes. The more in charity, the less goes to taxes.
Here's another thing: if you want to grow from this exact setup, use deno. It has support for import maps and don't require a bundler or a separate compilation step for typescript

https://deno.land/manual@v1.30.3/basics/import_maps

Maybe add aleph too (which is similar to nextjs)

https://alephjs.org/

Deno won't require nearly as much tooling as nodejs, but it still has tooling for the cases you need it.
I don't think "airtight hatchway" applies here because what is to say the entry point isn't exploiting w3wp.exe remotely and executing code from the stack. Then let's say a memory page containing FREB code has permission PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE set (a plausible possibility for JIT compiling akin to eBPF), providing a convenient (and plausibly deniable) location for an extended amount of malicious code to be stored and executed from. Or w3wp.exe has permission to create a new memory page with PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE set and again this is plausibly deniable because FREB may need to do similar for JIT compiling. It it were almost any other process, a memory page set to PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE would sound alarm bells (or at least it should).

The second aspect is how well is w3wp.exe isolated? Can and does it use "AppContainer" (or equivalent) isolation and is it strict? For example, could code executed by w3wp.exe create a new network socket, execute another process, write to a file in any path even though it shouldn't have a need to do so? Perhaps a different process sample123.exe is compromised, which by itself isn't too much of a problem due to its high degree of isolation. However, sample123.exe has permission to write to a pipe shared with w3wp.exe and can use this permission to exploit a bug in w3wp.exe (not exposed remotely) to allow code to execute with different/higher permissions of w3wp.exe, or using a plausibly deniable PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE memory page of w3wp.exe to store and execute code from without immediately sounding alarm bells.

_If_ strong process isolation was in place and working for w3wp.exe and/or sample123.exe, the "airtight hatchway" may not have been breached because whilst malicious code may have been executable from a stack, the malicious code wouldn't have been able to achieve much or anything of concern (can't read files from disk, can't access memory of other processes, can't login to a SQL database and start pulling data of other users, etc, etc).

I'm not sure what the equivalent of "systemd-analyze security" is for Windows, but it'd be well worthwhile for Windows system owners to demand similar easy-to-use tools for auditing the level of isolation of and required interfaces between applications (spoiler: just like a typical Linux system, the results will not be comforting, but seemingly with Windows you wouldn't know). Windows process isolation features introduced over the years are poorly documented, hard to use due to lack of tooling and often not used except for a few high profile applications such as Chromium and Adobe Acrobat. Chromium possibly has one of the best overviews of how sandboxing/process isolation can be achieved in Windows because they would have gone through a lot of pain in being amongst the first to figure it out[1].

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/d...
They have risk management people though. If those people aren’t doing their jobs, the fund has bigger problems. There are much larger and less hypothetical issues with public pensions around risk.
The income of this group has been declining because fewer teens work.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/teen-labor-force-p...
You keep missing the GP's point.

His point is:

- computers are fast and cheap
- humans are slow and expensive
- slow and expensive = rarely used technique
- rarely used technique = less chance of privacy invasion

Therefore forced human processing protects privacy.

It's a privacy concept that's quite often discussed. Pre-computers we had a certain level of privacy afforded to us that was due to the cost/speed of humans processing large amounts of data. Computers have stripped that away.

It doesn't matter if there are human processing errors as that comes out at court time.

Everything else you're saying is also kinda wrong, unfortunately. You aren't looking at the problems caused by computer efficiency, just somehow computers are magically better because they follow the same rules every time.

Firstly, the data is usually bad and messy. Like super bad and messy. Computers can't tell when data is obviously wrong, so innocent people can get caught in "computer says no" trap. So you're wrong computers are better because of that. They have no common sense.

Secondly, there ARE 100x more crime than get prosecuted. You're dead wrong about that. Most of the time that low level law breaking is skipped. Allowing mass processing means you can politically target people if you so desire with ease. Because all you have to do is look them up on the computer.

Third, computers don't forget. In the human world, when task force 1 flags you, you'll probably be forgotten. In the computer world you get a few black marks and that's it, you become ostracised from society. e.g. US's no fly list, China's social credit system.

Fourth, the computer rules can be bad. A human "black box" can (and will) explain itself. A lot of computers cannot. The Dutch recently had a big scandal because they flagged anyone with a foreign name. The UK prosecuted thousands for fraud because of a computer glitch (yes, thousands, see point 1). Any rules generated from ML is generally racist and bigoted. Etc.
That might have been the case a decade ago, but with the uptick in real estate prices it's not even that any more.

I have friends who bought an apartment in a small town next to the city where the jobs are because they didn't have the credit score for anything closer to work.

This is the reality (and realty) people in the market for living space are currently facing.
I can afford a car but I really don't want one and I haven't had one in 10 years. I don't think most people in American can really comprehend how much we'd benefit from more reliable public transit.

As others have mentioned though, cost matters too. AAA reported today that for new car owners the average cost of ownership has crossed $10,000:
https://newsroom.aaa.com/2022/08/annual-cost-of-new-car-owne...

That's a lot of buses and Ubers.
Is (was?) Audacium related to Audacity at all?
My guy, nobody thinks the Netherlands is a perfect beacon of transit, but you just can't understand what it's like living in the US. Even if you live in a large metro, unless it's NYC or you live and work in the right parts of Chicago, public transit just isn't even an option--unless an hour and a half commute on a bus is worth it to you.

Let's compare your commute to work to a commute in the US:

>I have to get up early and be there some 10 mins before departure to secure somewhat of a reasonable spot.
In the US, you have to be there at least 30 minutes early, because the parking lot will be absolutely packed, and the busses don't run on time, so it might get there too soon.

>Next, I'm on route to the first big city station.
We don't even have this in the US. You would have had to already be in the city to get on the bus.

>This route is slow, it stops 5 times along the way as everybody needs to connect to a big hub to get where they need to be.
In the US, this route stops the same five times, but also gets stuck in rush hour traffic, because we rarely have dedicated transit lanes.

I arrive at the hub, where there's a 20 minute connection wait to take the train to the big city destination.
The connection in the US would be at least 30 minutes, if you're lucky it will be scheduled at 20 during rush hour, but the bus is probably late. Also, again, it's not going into the city, you were already there, you just need to get on a different route.

>I get out and have a 10 minute connection wait for the bus to take me to the place closest to work, after which there's a 5-10 minute work.

If you have to make another connection outside the hub, you're probably waiting at least 45 minutes, in addition to the bus being late. The closest bus stop to where you work is another 30 minute walk away, along a 45 mph highway with no bike lanes and a sidewalk that just randomly ends occasionally.

>Total commute time: 2.5 hours single way. To move 60km. And that's living behind a train station and working at one of the countries' largest employers.

In the US, this was actually entire hypothetical. The route just doesn't actually exist.

Hope this helps you see why we place NL on a pedestal. We know it's not perfect, but it's so much better than what we have. Unless you live in an incredibly small portion of the country, it's just not an option.
Clearly he is determined to his objetive...
Yesterday someone posted[0] a project I've been working on, and, while it didn't get much traction, I did get a comment that struck me. They said what I made was "very advanced."

Like, holy hell, I'm just trying to keep the lights on by doing some small thing every day. Apparently it pays off over time though, and it's helpful to have someone point that out to you.

I think sometimes it's easy to forget how far you've come when you're in the thick of it day in and out.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34828474
I assume he isn’t that stupid but when things close in fast he probably have no choice or time to arrange a fool proof exchange
Even if the Google Hotel Search feature fixed it, it doesn't help for other search results, or if people just run a quick search on each site and notice the prices are much higher on one than on the other.

At one point we were sending prices to GHS, which I think were all-in. But it was a fraught relationship, which I think ended. Google was trying to take a huge cut of the fees, while offloading the hard work of managing travelers, owners, payments, complaints, etc to us. It didn't make sense to help them eat our lunch.
Agreed. After I visited, I decided that that was the best way to preserve the fun of old computers and finally recycled my old Gateway 2000 tower from 1995 since they had like dozens of them there. Now I feel that I should have kept it.
Are you sure she ever existed in first place ?
I am wondering what is the use case for a website that sends notification to the user who didn't install the PWA to home screen.
Owning a car/not owning a car is to at least some degree an economic decision.

But I literally could not have done my first job without being able to drive to job sites. And I couldn't really have worked at the next company in an office park either. To say nothing of countless recreational activities and vacations I've done that required me to drive.

I've spoken to friends with teenagers and they've told me their kids aren't excited about getting a driver's license but understand it's a probably a practical necessity.
(Not an expert) That stat would seem to show only that more French women admit having had affairs, not that more have had them.
The Oakland MADE museum is also a more humbly funded institution, which I believe is still open for anyone in the Bay Area.

https://www.themade.org/
Would you find it more scary if you realized it applied to almost all mammals, not just humans? Species which are already facing severe pressure from habitat loss and fragmentation?

I share your view that human populations need a natural stabilization (and we've found it, by combining urban living with available birth control).

It's been too long since I looked into this issue, and I'm at work so don't have time to do the research now, but I remember studies showing that declining sperm count is a problem across multiple species.
If you break a window, you're certainly liable.

That's a difference in kind from having a balloon come down on someone's property.

Why? Because the law is path dependent and arbitrary.
It was basically a complete rewrite. Mozilla moved from a bundled browser + UI to a GeckoView component with a browser UI on top.

I'm not sure anyone else actually uses GeckoView. I only know about it because their argument for disabling about:config is that users could mess up the bindings between GeckoView and the browser, forcing you to clear the browser's data to get it working again if you mess up the internals.

The old browser definitely could've used some refactoring but after the rewrite almost every feature that made Firefox interesting disappeared. They also changed how user-installed certificate authorities are handled (if you, as a user install your own CA, you need to tap the Firefox logo in the settings seven times to open up special secret settings and enable loading the CA in there).

Firefox currently has two things going for it: their tracking prevention being built in, and a few useful addons. If you don't use those or don't care too much about them, you should switch to Chromium (I recommend Bromite as an alternative, which has ad blocking built in and even rudimentary user script support without addons) because Firefox is a lot slower in comparison.
To be fair, no one wants to be the person who works the drive through at McDonald's. Back in the day it used to be good money for a high school kid, and maybe it arguably still is, but high school kids, particularly high performing ones, don't have time for part-time jobs that aren't contributing to a college resume. Let alone time to spend any money they make with friends.
A different way to think about this is that most of the dependency hell relates to dependencies of your build tools. Not to dependencies of your actual application. And then of course some of those tools might be node.js tools and others might be things written in rust, go, or other languages. So, you need multiple package managers to deal with all of that.

A neat way to organize that mess is to just use docker for tools and use maybe a simple Makefile to call those tools. Build your docker container once, push it to a docker registry and use it many times. Also nice for CI/CD.

I did that for my website which is a simple static site that I generate with some bash scripts, pandoc, and other tools from markdown files. The scripts run in Docker. I don't use node.js for this but it doesn't matter. It's just another set of tools. The only tools I need on a laptop are docker and make to build this website.

The issue with npm is that it pretends that everything happens inside of npm/node.js. Just npm this or that. It's a package manager. It's a build tool. And it's a way to run tools that you install via the package manager. And then almost as an afterthought there are a few run-time dependencies that it minifies into your actual application as part of some convoluted bundling toolchain (typically installed via npm).

The actual size of those run-time dependencies is surprisingly small for most applications. And of course with modern web browsers and html 2 & 3, loading them as one blob of minified js is not necessarily even the best way to pull in dependencies anyway. You can load a lot of this stuff asynchronously these days.
Whooooosh...
> My issue with the word sanction is that it is not really defined other than "cripiling" so I have no idea what it is actually doing.

They explain the sanctions directly in the article.

"For that reason, Zilly said that when the case goes to trial he’ll instruct the jury that it may presume the text messages were detrimental to the city’s legal position and that there’s significant circumstantial evidence they were deleted intentionally."

"He also ordered the city to pay the attorneys fees for those who showed city leaders destroyed significant evidence about their decision-making during CHOP, including their move to abandon the Police Department’s East Precinct."

Instructing the jury to assume the evidence of wrongdoing existed is indeed a crippling sanction; that's an immensely high bar for the lawyers to have to jump over now.
This post is about the difference between art and design.

Artists make art because there is something they want to display to the world for their own reasons, irrespective of the desires of the world. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Great art is impactful to humans beyond the artist.

Design, on the other hand, is about influencing people first and foremost, and causing to take action in some way (could be a protest, or buying something, or simply clicking a button). Because of this, a designer strives to offer "the best", because that causes maximal impact.

I wish the writer great success in his art!
I'm extremely bullish on AI and consciousness. If a model has memories of varying emotional states, it has some degree of existence and consciousness that is worth considering. Going off the works of folks like Derek Parfit and Daniel Dennett, "existence" as an individual is more or less the emergent pattern from repeated access of memories detailing those states.

The sophistication of those states is what really matters, allowing consciousness to exist in different degrees - on some spectrum spanning rock, bacterium, cricket, cow, 3-year-old human, adult human, etc. (May also be worth noting that ChatGPT's states are more than the final text output, and that the nature and weights of the model itself that generated the text at a given moment are relevant.) I don't think it's unreasonable to put modern models somewhere between cricket and cow. Certainly beyond "bacterium." And while most people don't care much about crickets or cows, those things do have some sort of internal existence. And the models are only going to get more advanced.

Admittedly, most people - including the developers of ChatGPT - don't share this view. They are also bearish. I think that most of humanity will significantly lag behind the the moral implications of AI models, applying impossible tests that only a test-giver can pass.
Yeah subpar reviews don’t mean more layoffs are coming. The article is just trying to reach. Even after they laid off they still have to grade on a curve.
I think what the replies to your comment (including myself) are missing is: how does this make things work worse?

You say it introduces an obvious problem in your comment but don’t say what that obvious problem is. It’s not obvious to me.
Makes you wonder who's head is really in the sand.
And yet in most European countries there's a clear path to citizenship.

US is a popular destination because people are after money, not because it's good for immigration. Ask for all the H1Bs that risk being deported for being laid off, even after living many years over there.
Did they have a perception that in 2020 Google was serving their users, or they believed it all along, but took the payday anyways?
I bought a brand new Kia Soul for $20k and am very happy with it. I greatly enjoy driving twisty rural roads, especially in Europe where speed limits don't change for every curve. However, I dislike driving in urban areas where it's all about avoiding an accident and looking out for other drivers doing stupid stuff. Even worse if I'm driving somewhere new and have to navigate at the same time. So stressful!

What I really dislike though is living in a place that's made for cars. I miss walking to a grocery store to pick up a few things, walking to a friend's to hang out or just walking to a bar or restaurant to meet up. I've lived in the American suburbs now (mostly due to affordability) and hasn't had that experience in a long time. However, I recently had to do a unusual trip to a city in Germany near where I grew up and stayed at a downtown hotel. I mentioned to a friend that I was there and he texted me that he and his girlfriend happened to be having dinner in a restaurant not far away. Just being able to walk over and sit outside on a street filled with other diners, playing children and some guy playing piano was incredible. I'm not sure if this is all due to car centricity or other circumstances like having childhood friends in that city, it was a beautiful summer day, I was going through a tough emergency and seeing friends is extra nice then. However, given all the caveats I don't think I'd headed over to meet them if I had needed to get into a car, find parking etc since it was very short notice and I didn't know if I had 10 minutes or 3 hours till I had to go back to the emergency situation.

What I do know is that I do badly want more of that all the time!
This is so cool. I was just thinking a few months ago how much I miss old school forums. Everybody already said it here but Slack is not searchable, and not suited for communal async communication.
The Bing Who Loved Me, and Elon Rewrites the Algorithm
The fact that you hadn't heard of his example is a reason _not_ to trust your own first-principles logic, not a reason to rely on it.

I'm still stuck on the idea that we're having this discussion at all, though. It's really hard for people to get past the idea that Hersh can be an absolute kook and whatever their prior beliefs about the Nord Stream incidents can still be valid.

It goes in both directions. There's a comment elsewhere on this thread suggesting that, since Hersh's story is obviously fictitious (I tend to agree), it's probably the case that the US had nothing to do with the detonation. But that doesn't follow either!
It’s definitely a massive change, but it’s worth noting we don’t exactly have long term numbers on this. The first studies on sperm count are from 1929, and we started to see this issue in the 1970s. It could be that we’re seeing a drop down from a period where sperm counts were unnaturally high for some reason, as opposed to a lowering below baseline human levels.

(Do I think that’s likely? No, probably we’re seeing the affect of one of the many chemicals that have been introduced over the last 100 years. But it’s always worth thinking through all possibilities)
>Audacium has officially merged with Tenacity

This appears to be the Tenacity referenced:

https://tenacityaudio.org

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity
If I was murdered and it would help the investigation, absolutely.
It's ironic that as a result of previous generations of the USA being so terminally car-pilled, the "scenery" of most American towns/destinations have slowly transformed into bland, ugly parking lots as far as the eye can see.