skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To commit fraud you need an intent. That’s how fraud is defined. You can’t commit fraud if you don’t intend to.

Same goes for being complicit in a crime. Just by doing some things in good faith, you can’t be complicit. For example: if you help somebody carrying stolen goods, you are not a complicit, if you don’t know (and don’t have to suspect) that it’s stolen.

See Wikipedia: In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud
actually, life is what kills everybody in the end. Even those that aren't greedy. But that's kinda useless as a conversation point.
SF government does already cancel housing developments over shadows.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/4/10/18304717/shadow-housing-sf-p...
It really depends on your price point and the game. But assuming very small with little prelaunch marketing you really need to focus on getting on the new & trending list at launch. How do you do that?

You want a lot of people to buy the game quickly at launch. The best way to do that is building up wishlists prelaunch. That has organic second order effects that are helpful, but there are other ways to get lots of sales at launch...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/12/04/report-...
I worked for Wirecard in ~2017. Now that the company is no more I guess I'm free to talk about it.

Wirecard is without a doubt the worst company I worked for. Nevermind the legacy ball of mud, the whole work environment was toxic. Blaming, finger pointing, sexist and racist remarks weren't rare. This is the only company where I've seen people screaming out of their lungs and slamming doors during meetings.

Back in the day I used to think Wirecard was a living example that you don't need a good tech stack or working enviroment to be a successful company.... oh boy was I wrong.
I invite you to share a snippet from the LLVM language reference[1] that backs up your interpretation.

I will return the courtesy, with regards to my interpretation:

> An integer constant other than zero or a pointer value returned from a function not defined within LLVM may be associated with address ranges allocated through mechanisms other than those provided by LLVM. Such ranges shall not overlap with any ranges of addresses allocated by mechanisms provided by LLVM. [2]

[1]: https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html

[2]: https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#pointer-aliasing-rules
I went ahead and put in this prompt to ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat):

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> Write a press release from the FTC that warns companies to be careful of promises using "AI".

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FTC Warns Companies to be Careful of Promises using "AI"

Washington, D.C. - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning companies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to be careful of making promises that they cannot keep. The FTC has received reports of companies making misleading claims about their products or services that use AI, leading consumers to believe that they are getting something that they are not.

AI has become an increasingly popular buzzword in the business world, with companies eager to capitalize on its potential benefits. However, the FTC is concerned that some companies are using the term "AI" in a misleading or deceptive way. This could be seen as a violation of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.

In particular, the FTC is concerned about companies that make claims about their AI products or services that are not supported by evidence. For example, a company might claim that its AI-powered product can make accurate predictions about future events or can diagnose diseases with high accuracy. If these claims are not based on sound scientific evidence, they could be deceptive and potentially harmful to consumers.

The FTC is urging companies to be transparent about the capabilities and limitations of their AI products and services. This includes being upfront about how their algorithms work, what data they use, and what kinds of errors or biases might be present. Companies should also be cautious about making sweeping claims that cannot be substantiated.

The FTC is committed to protecting consumers from deceptive or unfair practices, including those related to AI. Companies that make false or misleading claims about their AI products or services could face legal action, including fines and injunctions.

Consumers who believe they have been misled by a company's claims about its AI products or services can file a complaint with the FTC at ftc.gov/complaint.

Contact:

FTC Office of Public Affairs
202-326-2180
I expected this to be about organic mercury.
All these tools need openAI keys … give me one model that is self hosted with an API endpoint …
> It does block ads by default.

If you open google.com and search for 'mattress' in Brave, you will see Google ads in Brave, by default.

Furthermore, Brave is capable of blocking these ads, but chooses not to, therefore it does not block ads by default.

>> Now we get to the point: you support ads, so you aren't actually committed to getting rid of them.

> I definitely do not support ads. I block them.

"you" was referring to Brave, not yourself. The point is that Brave is a first part ad vendor (showing ads is how it makes money) so for this reason it is not commited to blocking first party ads by default (as it would be ironic I guess).

> Someone pays for everything. Do you have a solution?

Yes, you can chose to support paid search engines and browsers, paid by users, not advertisers.

> I agree. That's why I block them.

Original comment was about which browser is blocking all ads without discrimination, on default settings.

You can make any browser block ads with some effort, through for example extensions.
Someone sent me an e-mail with a long transcript of trying to use ChatGPT to figure out how to build some program in a public git repo of mine.

(The program has makefile; "make; sudo make install")

ChatGPT's responses can be summarized as "I have no idea how to install that, but here is this similarly-named, completely unrelated project and its installation instructions".

Uh, that's nice, thanks for sharing.

This seems like foreshadowing; users are now going to show up at your door armed with lengthy AI chat transcripts, whose failures are somehow your fault. "If you had better documentation, AI would have found it, scraped it and helped me, instead of bullshitting in circles."
Aztecs were brutal to their vassal states, that's why the Tlaxcaltecs allied with the invaders in hope of improvement. To this day, there is still a, mostly tongue-in-cheek, grudge against the inhabitants of Tlaxcala, to the point of claiming that it is an imaginary place.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/13/mexico-tlaxcal...
> here's to hoping this isn't just all bark and there's some actual teeth to his.

Let's see what the article says:

> When you talk about AI in your advertising, the FTC may be wondering, among other things: (...)

Just "wondering", no teeth.
Fascinating story!

It reminds me of William Binney and ThinThread (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread). (ThinThread was a system developed by a small team at the NSA that basically performed more "targeted" intelligence gathering, rather than the vast data hoarding that was described in the Snowden leaks. Naturally, bureaucratic inertia favoured the less efficient, more expensive, more privacy-invading system.)
Thank you for your thoughtful feedback. My suggestion would be to write a book (you sort of already did) because you seem to want to dive deep into some of these issues and a non-HN format might give you a better platform for that.

Lacking the time to more fully respond, I'll just give my quick thoughts on 3 quick points.

> J. How do you prove censorship? How do you prove media manipulation?

The current business model of the media guarantees bad behavior. Once the technology was invented to "count clicks" and directly see what caused somebody to visit them, the media figured out a way to drive their own profit. This makes it impossible to not have unethical behavior. I don't really need to prove anything when the system guarantees bad behavior.

You don't need to have a formal scientific study and citations to know that an ice cream cone left outside on a hot day will melt. The environment its in guarantees it.

> S. Understand that many people complaining about "woke culture" are often parroting talking points. These are not usually people who are pausing think about the issue deeply. Such people are upset and have plenty to be upset about. Much of their discomfort comes from disagreeing with how the world is changing.

I'd just like to point out that the people who are complaining about woke culture are caught in a very painful situation.

They see the world changing, but then the censorship largely forbids them to fully complain about that.

And the world only ever responds by wanting to minimize their voice, firing them from their job, and calling them names like racist.

Whatever you want to say about the ethics of this situation, this is not a recipe for a good social outcome.

If you want to create a pile of socially alienated people with nothing left to lose (never a good outcome) the current course we're on is the perfect trajectory for that.

> V. Now if someone does a clearly inappropriate thing -- saying a racist or sexist comment -- we should not assume they do this repeatedly. We should treat them as irredeemable. We should not pretend like "we" have always been perfect either.

Did you mean to say "We should not treat them as irredeemable"?
I think this is great and as a practitioner, something I've incorporated and demand in all of the contracts I work on is a clear and explicit validation and uncertainty analysis. It was always an issue when I worked at big corp that there was pressure to bury the lede when it came to uncertainty/ propagation of error. I considered it to be misleading and since then I make sure that any work that I'm a part of has in explicit language exactly how we'll analyse and approach bias and uncertainty as a part of the original work. I also try and make sure that assessments of uncertainty are 'part of the product' so there is no getting around things and every prediction also comes with an 'I told you so' layer.

I'm an absolute proponent of the kinds of products that get labeled as AI. I also think that useful predictions can be made in the face of uncertainty, because lets be real, human assessments, predictions and decisions also come with a degree of uncertainty (we usually just fail to rigorously quantify them).
Here is a recent copy of the official repo

https://github.com/wgallios/Vundle.vim
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I miss 3dfiles.com . I wish there were people churning out cool stuff like back in the late 90s/early 2000s that would support goofy stuff like that. :)
The richness of syntax in Zig has kinda put me off from learning it.

At the risk of sounding like a total ass: when I was checking Zig out (albeit briefly), it reminded me of the "Awful Taste, Great Execution" meme. I remember loving the ideas, but groaning internally when I saw how they need to be used. If someone is interested I could skim docs to see if I can still find an example of what put me off.

Things also seemed arbitrary and inconsistent sometimes, but that could've been a wrong impression since I didn't give it a proper shot overall.

It's a very new language, so I'm sure a lot of it is still in flux anyways. Also, this was all about a year and a half ago, maybe a bit more. So, maybe things improved since then.
> I learn more from the comments than the article

Those comments must be the ones coming from those who actually read the article, or who are subject experts, though.
Can states like NY create an in-house consultancy whose primary purpose is the state's own projects, but also make the services available to other smaller states as needed (for a price)?
Similar approaches for license plate concealment aren't working out. Newer systems flag vehicles without plates for additional attention. Some recognize make, model, color, accessories, etc.[1][2]

[1] https://platerecognizer.com/alpr-for-vehicles-without-licens...

[2] https://www.dahuasecurity.com/asset/upload/uploads/soft/2021...
Seriously? You can talk about AI all day as far as I'm concerned. So much less annoying than that blockchain stuff. Anything is better than that.
> Money is not everything

I don't think that's true for the VC-funded startups. I actually expect to hear that from the farmers I have known in my life. With the margins I saw, they were not in it for money. They would pride themselves in being self-sufficient, living off the land, and co-living with the nature. ABF -- Always Be Farming -- they say.

I have yet to see an actual environmental lifecycle analysis of these "disruptive" vertical farms. That amount of steel, precious metal, and plastic that goes into making a facility has high upfront Embodied Carbon. Can that really have a pay back compared to when you use the sun and the land? How many acres of land can you really replace with a farm on top of an abandoned parking lot?

What they say about vertical farms is way too rosy. They must compare their methods with borderline medieval farming techniques to calculate some 99% efficiency improvement. Farmers today care as much about biodiversity, ecology, and sustainability as anybody else, if not more.
> Advertisers should take another look at our earlier AI guidance, which focused on fairness and equity but also said, clearly, not to overpromise what your algorithm or AI-based tool can deliver. Whatever it can or can’t do, AI is important, and so are the claims you make about it. You don’t need a machine to predict what the FTC might do when those claims are unsupported.

Sounds like a completely detached from reality statement. There are tons, significant ratio of marketing statements unsupported by evidence and nothing FTC does prevents this from happening.
I think it depends on what region of England or the UK at large you want to consider. If you're NE England into Scotland, yeah, Scandinavian languages had influence and that's is reflected in their current vocab. Other areas may have retained more of the original dialect with fewer Scandinavian influences initially though those would return via the Norman invasion with added French vocabulary.
Of course it is, at least conceptually. See various lisps’ threading macros (which are of course functions over code; but they correspond exactly to mapping over a series of functions, each one supplying input to the next).
Only ones ran by authoritarians who don't give two figs about community input. So, old Communist planned cities, modern China, Singapore, etc.

The end result is often much more livable than the endless suburban hellsprawl that we get here.
I think we can safely assume techniques with analytical solutions computable in polynomial time are neither ML nor AI.

Linear regression is an important part of statistics but is still ultimately a couple matmuls and a matrix inversion in its basic form.
Shooting down an "American-manufactured" plane is not the same thing as shooting down "an American plane".
That's a horrible position to take
The guy's going to be napping for a while.

I agree there's lots of 'puff', even hysteria, etc, around AI, but there really is a 'there' there, IMHO, and just the volume of new, often quite astounding, applications shows that.
One thing they interestingly did not mention is the in recent years very beloved scene of AI ethics.
> Ignorance of your "black box" excuses not

Hopefully the FTC understands linear separability. Because I often get the impression that people who want ML models to be explicable don’t, and are expecting the mathematically impossible.
It's not always industry, sometimes agencies are closer to academia, certain types of lawyers (maybe this is considered industry too), etc. But seems in line with Lina Khan's efforts
Aren't vectors just as vulnerable to out-of-bounds access as any C-like array? Most C++ additions have plenty of undefined behaviour.
Beat me to it while I was typing! Alas, I’m on mobile and your example is a better illustration of the point.
https://www.urbanhomestead.org/

These folks were (are?) doing it on 1/10 of an acre - although that number comes with a caveat that I think they're getting a lot of compost and organic inputs from elsewhere. Plus they're in California growing under ideal weather conditions.
And yet, over 80% of the cost of food is the bringing it to market cost: everything from transportation, to permitting to marketing, etc. what you pay the farmer is just a small fraction.

I think what's needed is a revolution in where food is produced and cheaper ways of bringing food to market.
OP a word
Don't believe there's an acknowledgement in the bus protocol. There's a RDY line with which a device can insert wait states before replying, and a HOLD that can be used for DMA from other devices. But there's no way for the CPU itself to detect the "there is physically nothing there" case. You indeed just get the arbitrary state of the data bus (the ISA bus was pull-up, I believe, so you'd get 1's on the data bus, which on the PC would then result in a parity error if the address was within RAM space).

(And yes, I'm still waiting with bated breath to see the teardown of the machine that implements this ridiculous bus.)
It's not that people can't deal with pointers. The most common issue in C++ is how many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with common utils. Like, we use a lot of abseil utils at work that return string_views instead of new strings, and if you're directly passing that somewhere else, you easily corrupt your memory.

std::string foo = "foo";

const std::string foo2 = absl::StripAsciiWhitespace(absl::AsciiStrToUpper(foo)); // in Python: foo2 = foo.upper().strip()

std::cout << foo2; // garbage

Yeah, all technically the user's fault, but it gets pretty tiring worrying about this stuff when you're writing a high-level application and the few CPU cycles you save don't really matter. No matter how good you are, you will make mistakes, and the chance of one bug corrupting memory in your whole process increases exponentially with the LoC written. Also I have to point out the irony in a language being type-safe but not memory-safe.

Also, I didn't expect Java-looking class syntax to leave member variables uninitialized (garbage) if you don't set a default. That should at least be a compiler warning, I mean how often do you actually want that?
Yep, crazy. One of the early web dev shops I worked for had an NT server with 64 megs of RAM. They also had a Sun box with 128 megs. This was around 1995 - 96.
And even then none died from the radiation.
Initial impression, looks great. The browser's back button doesn't seem to go back to the home page after going into a game. The game's thumbnail images don't pop up to full size when clicked.
First ingredient (after water), wow. I guess that is not shocking, a lot of foods have been doing the same thing for years with sugar.

One thing I would like to see on labels is concentrations of the various ingredients. I suppose that gets into proprietary recipe information that no manufacturer will be keen on releasing, but it would be nice to know what % of a given concoction is made up by a given ingredient.
Assange? I'm surprised he has not been mentioned in the comments thus far.
I feel like this is a fallacy. For most of us, the choice isn't between artificial sweeteners and never consuming anything sweet ever, it's between artificial sweeteners and sugar.

Given the glut of well-documented harmful effects of sugar, I'll take the "kinda sorta maybe" of aspartame any day, because I'm not about to give up every pleasure in life just because they all seem to kill me.
Not everyone wants wealthy assholes either, but unfortunately they tend to be able to pay more lawyer fees.
Sorry, by project I mean community, i.e. yes the people who use it for fun
Some highlights

> Quote from CEO: “The big idea is that in addition to talking to our friends and family every day, we’re going to talk to AI every day,” he says. “And this is something we’re well positioned to do as a messaging service.”

> At launch, My AI is essentially just a fast mobile-friendly version of ChatGPT inside Snapchat.

> It has also been stripped of functionality that has already gotten ChatGPT banned in some schools; I tried getting it to write academic essays about various topics, for example, and it politely declined.

> While ChatGPT has quickly become a productivity tool, Snap’s implementation treats generative AI more like a persona. My AI’s profile page looks like any other Snapchat user’s profile, albeit with its own alien Bitmoji. The design suggests that My AI is meant to be another friend inside of Snapchat for you to hang out with, not a search engine.

How does any of these help users to “connect” to one another? What a desperate cash grab

I wonder if they’re looking forward to the publicity bump when users inevitably trick it into saying crazy things
Well, Chicago started a trial program of it recently. Doubt that would have come out if it weren't for the pandemic.
It would be interesting to see if an early version of Linux could run entirely out of cache. My first Linux box had 3 megs of RAM (1 on the motherboard, 2 on an expansion card.)
It all smiles and winks and slaps on the back until tomorrow when they wake up and find out Florida is now on the hook for Disney bond debt.
You should do a very thorough course of pilates and core strengthening, and possibly some squats/leg presses. The IT bands and other problems that untrack are all about balanced strength groups in your butt/groins/core.

I had patellar chondromalacia for about a year after one of my Ironmans and I couldn't get it to go away. I started doing a mat pilates and it went away within a could weeks.

Then I had back problems kinda like sciatica, and that was solved with the leg presses, but I feel the leg presses helped make the knees even healthier.

The other issue with running as a triathlete, especially a clydesdale, is that you may be excessively heel planting. It can be hard to transition to midfoot planting for a big dude, but it is much much easier on your knees.

You'd have to do some sprinting on your toes, very unorthodox for triathlons, but even then it is very hard to change the fundamental style of running.
For once the URL is actually working!
In my experience, chatgpt is incredibly wordy / verbose. This doesn't read as chatgpt output at all.
Are you using a third party to generate summaries or doing it yourself?
Go's error handling pattern is a great example of being overly explicit IMO. I personally like it, but I can understand why it causes so much controversy.
Who said anything about low-income housing?
Chinese defence boffins ponder microwaving Starlink sats to stop surveillance
Is it? I find most of the "winning" tech deeply unproductive. Have you tried developing in a project with Webpack and Redux? It's kind of its own little hell. Everything is way too slow and complicated. Tasks that should take 20 minutes take 3 hours.
"race science" may be pseudo science, but race is not == science. in a linguistic context, people mean something when they talk about something. you may not like what they mean, or even what they talk about, but that doesn't mean they aren't thinking something and are talking about nothing.
>I have worked in a plant where I had half a critical mass in this hand, barehanded and dressed in street clothes, and half in this hand, wearing a lab coat, and I’d put this half in a pocket on this side and this half in a pocket on this side and walk down the hall. If those two ever got together, there’d be a blue flash. They never got together because I was between them.

There's "our design docs are photos of whiteboards" normalization of deviance and there's whatever the hell this is. Absolutely bonkers that there wasn't a demon core-like incident.
Study reveals shifting climate trends in the Western US dating back 11,000 years