skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But what’s different about this AI product/hype cycle compared to every other cycle that tech has had?

That its a hype cycle that is happening now, with a lot of shady actors overselling things.

FTC has done things like this during other cycles, too. Letting industries know they are aware, and simultaneously letting the public know to be aware (often, they’ll provide multiple messages, some specifically worded toward industry and others toward the public, but even with just one the message works both ways.)
I took a look at rescript's facillities for migration from JS and at step 1 (https://rescript-lang.org/docs/manual/latest/converting-from...), it tells you:

> First, copy the entire file content over to a new file called src/Main.res by using our %%raw JS embedding trick:
> %%raw(`const school = require('school'); etc. `)

I stopped reading there - I'm sorry but that is horrifying. Wrapping JS in in a big backtick string?! No. That's even worse that Dart-JS interop.
If you actually go read the linked article, it's pretty clearly spelled out:

The FTC has decades of experience enforcing three laws important to developers and users of AI:

Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC Act prohibits unfair or deceptive practices. That would include the sale or use of – for example – racially biased algorithms.
Fair Credit Reporting Act. The FCRA comes into play in certain circumstances where an algorithm is used to deny people employment, housing, credit, insurance, or other benefits.
Equal Credit Opportunity Act. The ECOA makes it illegal for a company to use a biased algorithm that results in credit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, age, or because a person receives public assistance.

Seems pretty clear cut to me that they're saying you can't use the 'but the AI did it' excuse if the net result is that your product is violating these.
I'm really impressed, you don't usually see women who are this obsessed with vintage video games. Extremely rare in my experience.

EDIT: Why the downvotes? I am lauding her.
> Do we really need the government to tell us what AI is?

That’s…very much not the focus of this piece.
Propaganda/media &/or lust for power/money would be in the running too I'd say.
So I guess the world is going to turn into a Renaissance Venice, but with masks made out of retro reflector makeup and IR LED wearbles instead of papier mache and mystery.
Interestingly neither do the radical parts of the Democratic party. Iran just walks the walk as well. It is interesting to me to see an ideological alliance between a radical Muslim movement and a radical left wing movement, I think Israel's "disappearance" is the only thing they agree on.
What are the benefits of allulose over erythritol? I’ve only had the latter, but they seem pretty similar.
Or, OpenAI could LSH n-grams it generates, store them, and offer a paid service to check if they've been generated before. This is one of those markets like arms dealers, where it's more profitable to play both sides. If you're selling the poison, you can make a lot of money by selling the antidote too.
There's a sharp distinction between evolving understanding as additional information emerges ... and intentional misrepresentation for self-serving purposes.

Both factors were manifest in the case of the COVID-19 global pandemic. They are not, however, the same, they have different etiologies, evolutions, and outcomes, and really should be clearly distinguished in discussion.
A hundred acres being modest is still astounding to me. In India, the average is something like 6 acres. The vast majority of farming families have less than 20 acres. Of course, the differences in farming population (something like 700 million) vs land (maybe a third of the US?) make this make sense.
Google/Firefox/Adobe Flash/React/Angular/etc innovate. W3C just attempts to keep them consistent. They're a standards committee.

"W3C develops these technical specifications and guidelines through a process designed to maximize consensus about the content of a technical report, to ensure high technical and editorial quality, and to earn endorsement by W3C and the broader community."

I'm not addressing if I like the W3C or if I think we'd be better off if W3C was more diverse/progressive. I'm just saying that if you judge them based on their own stated goals, their website's design fits the mission.
Suggest you read the link they provided, since they clearly to have legal authority over these topics as defined by US legal code:

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2021/04/aiming-tr...
Some may point to this as evidence of the deep state, but there could be some innocuous explanation that’s not being reported.
This type of behavior is psychotic and it's costing us great works. For example, the Salvation War series, military fiction novels involving war against first hell and then heaven, were put on hold after the publisher dropped the author's contract following shitty PDF versions of the novels leaking on a pirate site. Years later the issue was finally resolved, just in time for the author to get killed by COVID shortly after starting the third and final novel.
I would say borrow from latin and greek:
bi- from latin bi- meaning twice [0]
cycle from greek kyklos meaning wheel [1]

[0]https://www.etymonline.com/word/bi-?ref=etymonline_crossrefe...
[1]https://www.etymonline.com/word/bicycle
You have to fix the back button :)
```
for (monster_elem_types, monster_hps) |et, hp| {
if (et == .fire) hp. +|= 1; // saturating addition
}
```

Anyone knows what language Zig was inspired by(if any)? This doesn't look intuitive nor does it resemble any common syntax.
Please don't conflate SF with the rest of the world.

Incredibly rare to see self driving cars outside of the Bay Area. Up here in Canada I have my doubts about ANY self driving car achieving true autonomy in our conditions, and I live in the part that doesn't see much snow.
Should the police be able to enable the tracking of my car without an order from a judge?
Lots of businesses deal with high complexity and open ended problems that lead to "inexplicable" risks. They address this by showing diligence in monitoring and mitigating risks, evolving their approach as new concerns are understood. AI companies should employ similar motions (and some do).
But there’s no reason to believe that is actually how the result was generated.

The result was generated via a deep neural network, not by whatever explanation or reasoning it prints out when asked.
IMO technology overall increases the ambient "responsibility" pressure for everyone, including children.

This artificially ages everyone so now younger and younger people have to learn to cross reference research papers, manage tribal alliances, make bayesian inferences, deal with existential depression, navigate social hierarchies, etc...

Generative AI furthers this trend. Now individuals cannot simply BE in a reality but have to be responsible for constantly managing and curating their own realities while having a rough idea of how others are managing their own realities to work together, have relationships, etc...

I feel this is the root cause of people feeling overwhelmed. It's the responsibility of being constantly alert and ready to enforce boundaries. Like a soldier at war, fighting for the peace of a stable shared reality.
The Bolts That Drive Manhattan’s Infrastructure Nerds Nuts
> But, they’re abominably bad at actually doing anything other than saying they might care.

I would say hot & cold, and often driven by policy focus of the Administration (or at least the FTC majority, which is influenced by the party in the executive, but not necessarily completely aligned with the executive in detail.)
> No, but it's definitely relevant for Kindle users who purchased a book only to see it disappear from their devices!

Actually, no, that's even more irrelevant.

I feel like I'm repeating myself here, but: Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service. It is not the same as purchasing Kindle-formatted ebooks through the main Amazon web store, nor is it the same as a Kindle device. (Kindle Unlimited doesn't even require Kindle hardware; they're just both marketed under the same brand name.)
Show HN: hLog.pro (a Hacker News archiver with a card based UI)
I wrote a simple site that uses the HN API to save new submissions. Even if they're deleted on Hacker News, they'll be saved on hLog. It looks for new posts every 3 minutes.

It also has a basic search that looks at the title, url and submission text (if any).
It's not optimised in terms of pagination of results (nor the actual page content). If you press "Search" without anything in the search box, you'll get a list of all the records in the database. There are around 4,200 right now.

I wrote it in Python (Django) using SQLite3. It runs on a free VPS hosted on Oracle Cloud. I wrote this mainly to improve my understanding of Django. I'm mainly a backend guy but i want to build some frontend skills and i thought a project like this would allow me to learn that.

Any feedback would be much appreciated, even if it's negative. I know there are hundreds (if not thousands) of HN mirrors/clones out there, but this is for my learning. If you could suggest any improvements, i may be able to learn new things i otherwise wouldn't have.
Theoretically you could use a polynomial model which, while not linear, is pretty high on the explainability scale.
Used the trick from the old CIA handbook, put a small, not too sharp, rock in your shoe.
In related news, Tesla has been forced to tell the truth about "Full" Self Driving:

https://electrek.co/2023/02/27/tesla-disappoints-owners-upda...
Why Uncontrollable AI Looks More Likely Than Ever
I'll believe the words when I see them take action. As the text itself points out, the message is not new, and that just makes it look worse for them.
Looks like body builders were actually fit and healthy back then.
Might be easier if they just list what hasn't been stolen
As one data point: we are replacing Golang with C++ for homogeneity and not-weirdness. C++ has problems but it is very good at scaling and being boring, which is a good thing.
You can certainly try. I wouldn’t give it much chance of success.
Civet aims to be 99% compatible with existing TypeScript so it could be considered an experimental TypeScript. With any luck Civet catches on and does to TS what CoffeeScript did to ES and all the best features trickle into the standard eventually.

The difficult part for TS/JS is they can't easily opt into some of the more whitespace/context sensitive features without breaking changes to existing code or forcing people to opt in with a "jsNext" directive or something.
Gait analysis works as good as jeans wear marks

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1917222117

or bite marks forensics, aka we can make it work against any guy prosecutor picks

In real world without someone to fram^^^compare to it seems pretty useless https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/washingtondc/ne...
I guess I'm an old hipster that wants to rustify the world? I started on c64 basic as a tiny kid.
They do tend to go off if people finger the trigger though.

Somehow I think it’s more likely people will fiddle with their loaded gun than with two halves of a nuclear bomb.
That, as the article clearly lays out, is a separate but closely related subject. It's a concern founded on the same common misconceptions about AI that they are talking about here.

Machine learning models are not well equipped to handle the issues of prejudice or fairness, because those are, in the most literal sense, subjective.

Machine learning models as a feature do not interact with subjects. Subjects are too computationally hard, so they were optimized out instead.

As a latent result, any behavior implemented with machine learning models must be carefully curated, otherwise subjective patterns like prejudice and groupthink will pollute the model.

This is a trivially predictable continuation of prejudice as a language feature: it's functionally much easier to generate a continuation out of a biased circular position than it is to generate one that includes objective consideration.

In fact, objectivity itself is a feature that has not been implemented yet in any AI software. Prejudice, on the other hand, is so easy to implement that it happens by accident.
5 days after Trump killed Suleimani, who led the Quds within the IRGC, which was only labelled as a terrorist organization one year prior.
I think you're talking about two separate things here,

1) Having to learn an entirely new syntax just to save on a few characters (it "decompresses" directly to the original thing)

2) Explicitness vs implicitness/inference

I wholly agree with you about #1 (superficial brevity isn't a very important goal and doesn't justify a whole new language), but #2 is much more of an "it depends"
> And he precision farms to the square foot for most row-crop fields. Using thousands of data points from soil condition to weather to historical flood data to local highway traffic patterns. His machinery...

Can anyone recommend or link any YouTube videos on this, I thought this sort of thing was still at the R&d phase, I would love to see an hour long video on a real operation at scale.
I live on the very outskirts of a mid sized city (1.1 million people) and we have tons of coyotes on the outskirts who wander into the city looking for dogs, rabbits, cats, etc every night.

Everyone who hears or sees coyotes multiple times a week is careful about things, but also aware that they are a risk to small animals.
Is that because those are the only known words left in our time, or because the original vocabulary was rather limited?
unfortunately my municipality does not allow it.
Trinity exists due to unusable, unneeded change that is kde4 and beyond.

So no, they are not open to that path.
I don't understand. This is, like, the government, making a rational and proactive warning to business about not doing shady stuff under cover of the latest buzzword. It's like there's nothing you can rely on any more.
True, My understanding is works created by the federal government are for the public good and are as such in the public domain. Note that they can still limit distribution. mainly this is done via classifying the work. Also note the public domain may not apply to works created for the federal government by a third party. final note. The good state governments follow the federal government in placing things in the public domain, but some states try to copyright works they have made. Boo hiss.
EV drivers get candid about charging: 'Logistical nightmare'
This is great! Shouldn't there be a link in the app to the Github source code repo? I wasn't able to find it
I use Lektor for when I want extensibility, Zola when I want speed and won't ever need to create plugins.
If you actually go read the FTC act, section 5 is about preventing unfair methods of competition. It's massive stretch to interpret that as "deploying an unfair consumer algorithm".
Housing needs to move up one level. The single family homes turn into 4 plex, the small apartments turns into 4-6 story, 6 story turn into towers. It doesn't need to be everything but it needs to be allowed.
The problem in a nutshell, and the one the FTC had pointed out, is Model explainability. I was working in the past of an AI for automated lending decisions. We were asked to be able to explain every single decision the engine took.

If now a news article reaches our AI engine, it will tag, categorize, classify, and rank this news article. All based on models that are explainable.

LLMs, at least how I personally implemented them in the past, create a huge black box that is largely non-explainable.
Doesn't this kill AI as a product?

Or at least mean that if you're too poor for a doctor or lawyer you can't fall back to the unreliable AI?
There's almost no circumstance I can imagine where giving up a solid usable well known OS sounds tempting to me. Getting Debian running on PogoPlugs and OpenWRT devices has been a repeated ordeal I'vd gladly traversed. Having a well behaved normal OS that meets many user's expectations (but has your special stuff regularly installed!) is divine.

I used to run Debian Live, and appreciated the tiny amount of shell hacking they have to layer persistent storage filesystem atop a ro filesystem- identical to how theres a ro container image then the mutable rw layer atop it... but a decade older!

I find that the pretense of running "live" is largely gone. It's basically become a meaningless difference of what medium you run on but I've been using the same scripts to create the necessary root OS & UEFI EFI filesystem (FAT32 with a magic partition-type, populated with the bootloader & config). often I spin up systems by just copying a btrfs snapshot & rsync'ing efi directory (and updating some partition uuid's, regenerate machine-id), then I have two systems. Live feels meaningless, non-distinct from regular to me.

All these attempts to treat things different & distinctly, to make special cases for ourself- oh we need a network/router oriented OS, we need a bare OS, we need a consumer OS, we need a NAS os- so rarely have I ever felt like these attempts to flee from the fold & venture out to special really have rewards. This behavior of making exceptions for your problem, talking yourself out of doing the easy normal base thing, seems so rarely to me to have rewards. Run Debian, run systemd, run normal well-known tools! Unless you're really certain getting off the base path really is essential, has huge specific merit.

That's why I like this effort. It allows customization & baking your own thing, but it's much more routine & regular & normal than so many "make your own OS" projects, where folks tend to be quite "back to the land" in motive. Let's make our own OS from sticks! Yeah! But no. You almost certainly should have an ok userland base in my view. Debian is a pretty great one.
The main thing about money, Bud - it makes you do things you don't want to do.

https://youtu.be/XCSOsFe42P8?t=95
One detail to add that I think was missing. My message is you need to own your diagnosis and treatment. But much of the work has to be done by doctors in partnership. These doctors do not have time to direct your treatment outside their specialities, so you need to own the entire process.

I had a team of specialists:

- Sleep: Dr Sinha (primary), AXG Sleep Diagnostics (for psg), Lofta, and Night Owl

- ENT: Dr. Gerald Kangelaris (nasal surgery), Dr Andrew H. Murr (consult)

- Allergist: Dr Opal Gupta (primary) and Dr Carmen Choy (amazing doctor! consult)

- Gastroenterologist: (upper gi endoscopy), unnamed as I dont recommend

- Sleep apnea surgical expert: Dr Kasey Li (triple board certified, best in the world)

- Primary care (One Medical)
Ill do you one better, $500K and plenty of video to do that gait magic https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-boo...
Ask HN: Trouble wrapping my head around business ideas
I got an ad for a Kickstarter campaign not too long ago, and I'm having trouble understanding the steps the founders went through to see this idea through to become a Kickstarter campaign.

The product is called [Ringo](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ringobottle/ringo-the-water-bottle-that-magnetically-holds-your-phone?ref=nav_search&result=project&term=ringo). Essentially, it's a metal water bottle with a MagSafe ring on the top that tilts, allowing you to mount your phone and adjust the viewing angle. If you don't have a phone, or want to use a tablet, it comes with a magnetic adhesive ring.

Its uses:

1. You can mount your phone to watch/record stuff, useful during a workout.
2. You can take video calls. As it holds up your phone.
3. You can use your iPad as a second screen, by mounting it next to your display.

I'm not trying to hate, I'm happy for their success, but I'm naive about a lot of things and want clarification:

1. How did they get past this first barrier during their planning stages: Typically If I need to watch something, follow a workout, or take a call, I can just prop my phone up on the nearest object, or even my water bottle IF I have it near me. The chances of having an 'object' near me are higher than having my bottle near me. One of their examples is using the bottle in a plane tray table, do people want something tall and unstable on their tray table that their phone is attached to?

1. I don't understand what problem they're trying to solve. Their problem statement to me is; 'a way to hold up your device that's STABLE'. Yes, a way to prop up your phone during a workout is technically a problem, but how significant is it?

2. I can't prop up my phone on anything? My bottle? Their collateral shows using the bottle holders in a treadmill. But any further thought and experimentation would show that you don't want your neck to be cranked at an angle for extended periods of time. And their solution introduces more problems, do enough people want a phone stand to be built into their bottle?

2. Is using it to hold your tablet up a gimmick or something to fluff the marketing?

1. It's not practical. What if I want a drink? I have to remove my iPad, set it down, unscrew the bottle, take a drink, re set-up?

3. How do you even validate this idea?

1. I can see so many holes in the project that if I were the one to start it, I would have left it in its idea stage. Yet, it's 784% funded

4. I tend to overthink, as you've probably noticed. Am I giving too much credit to people? Is it just 'Oh, what a nifty idea. This looks useful in the gym, I'll buy it'?
Yes. Australia. I knew it wasn’t available in my region at first. But it’s still not available after all this time. :(
Is there someone else broadcasting a message equivalent to "it's OK to be white"?
Why CMake sucks (2021)
We will see regulation progress once there's a proof of concept AI that kills many people or causes great property damage.
IMO, start small, maybe with a RPi. Possibly Nvidia provides layers for the Jetson (I haven't seen that), but in my experience the risk is that those layers are super complicated (and fairly messy). I think it's better to learn how Yocto works first, rather than learning how to hack the layers provided by the manufacturer.

Also it helped me to learn a bit how other distros are built: I tried Linux from scratch, then got interested in Alpine, and then in how PostmarketOS got started based on Alpine tooling.

After all, a distro is "just" a bunch of packages, which are archives containing files that get decompressed in the right place. Yocto provides tools to create those packages (just like mainstream Linux distro). What Yocto adds on top is tools to manage cross-compiling (toolchains, a way to create an SDK, etc) and a system of layering that helps organizing them ("those packages go specifically with the RPi, so I will put them in a layer called "RPi" and I will call that a "BSP"", etc).

Don't get me wrong, there is quite a lot. But there is no magic, the goal is always to create packages that will put the right files in the right place :-).

Good luck!
Right, I misspoke.
Hydrogen hydroxide is arguably just as dangerous.
A little surprised to see this was published 3 weeks ago as part of the official Demuxed playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFTQ4tvbJ0&list=PLkyaYNWEKc...

I guess the final couple of RFCs were embargoed for the general public until now.
It's the casual part that is inappropriate. The government should not casually threaten the citizens.
You can use this to your advantage too though. I've manually generated "noise" for img2img by taking a base image, hitting it with a bunch of filters, then putting it back into img2img with a low-ish denoising strength. This method works quite well for ensuring composition while still letting the image be styled, but it's probably obsolete for that purpose now that we have controlnet.
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu won’t give you any extra income, in fact it’ll cost you some income. But you’d be hard pressed to find a more rewarding physical pursuit, in my completely unquantifiable opinion.
How does ChatGPT work, actually?