skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
previous additions of ai added to google products seem to have been tempered by usefulness and tech maturity.

while controversial, predictive text in gmail is actually useful, is very conservative relative to chatGPT, and has been around for quite a while.

predicting what measurements you want out of analytics is handy, and gives accurate information

google docs/drive uses ai to surface relevant docs based on time of day, audience, and frequency of editing. it works remarkably well.

google photos is mainly an ai product, and it's all-around amazing

google translate is an ai product and it's gotten pretty good over the years, though it's not without competitors

google's speech recognition is very good, and built in all over google products, though I never use it b/c i don't like talking to computers

....

i feel like this push is likely to lead to messiness. strategy messiness, messiness in ux, messiness in terms of new ai products not being vetted the same way they were before - allowing more inaccurate results to be presented to users.

maybe users will be ok with it, idk. i've appreciated the ai enhancements to google products so far, i think they've done a good job being even-handed. I hope they manage to keep their hands on the wheel.
This reminds me a bit of the recent discussion here about networked security cameras using cloud storage.

Many people seem to have a very simplistic idea about how the law, law enforcement, and courts work.

Laws are always selectively enforced. Police, prosecutors, and courts are not going to simply round up petty criminals such as serial package thieves just because victims suddenly have HD video footage of the (countless) perpetrators. They have other priorities.

Political crime is back with a vengeance, even in the 'liberal' west, and pursuing threats to the existing socio-political and economic order will always take priority. The main issue with pervasive surveillance systems isn't that they are used to detect and prosecute ordinary street crime or nuisance infractions (though the latter can become burdensome). The problem is that these systems will be used to pursue 'special' categories of crime such as political activism. (Expect those categories to creep and expand just as flimsy justifications such as 'conspiracy' and 'incitement' proliferate.)

Expect the full force of the surveillance and control systems being constructed now to be used extensively to maintain public order and pursue threats to public order.

Remember, the primary role of the police is to maintain order. Everything else they might do is secondary to that.

I hate to bring up Julian Assange as he is such a polarizing and widely reviled character - but it is clear now that several governments saw him as a sufficiently dire threat to that they felt justified pouring gargantuan resources into neutralizing him. This never happens with ordinary criminals except in sensational cases where the public is out for blood. I do not know if Assange himself was ever considered such a big threat, but I suspect the systemic risk threatening the whole system was great enough to justify making an example of him to deter others (at least from the perspective of the US and UK governments).

In a slightly unrelated aside, I might also remind some of you of this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kennedy_(police_officer)

And back to the networked cameras. Your own surveillance system is ultimately spying on you and creating records of your activities that probably should not exist - and should you store your data locally, and some of it happens to conveniently go missing, it could incriminate you, whereas this would not be an issue if it never existed in the first place. It brings up the old 'if you have nothing to hide' argument. Yet here we see evidence that largely benign political activities are deemed sufficiently threatening to justify closer scrutiny.

Pardon the sloppiness of this comment. I posted it piecemeal with many edits.
I’m unclear as to why we can’t use some sort of tpm for webauthn and distributed encrypted passwords for synchronisation.

Hell, even software based implementations which force domain checking would solve 99% of the problem…
the deer in headlights, the blink of an eye are interesting representations. You can make that argument of what is deemed unnatural on a lot since industrialization took root (and you did, as in cars). That genie is out of the bottle with world populations raising in lock-step to technology.

Humans continue to live - in mega cities, with mass transportation, mass communication, world wars for more than 100 years. I don't know to what degree we biologically adapt, but most certainly we do adapt. Smartphones are yet another shock to populations that I'm sure we'll absorb.

The web-accessed FT article on youth mental health, this conversation, this message board of worldwide concurrency are all adaptions.
DRACs are a Dell specific term for what is generically known as IPMI or out of band management. They were quite well developed when I worked on servers well over a decade ago now. The good ones are basically as independent of the system they're attached to as possible and essentially give you the equivalent of physical access to a server.
> Ideally all debug features (breakpoints, watchpoints, tracepoints &c.) will work running both forwards and backwards.

Executing arbitrary code in the program's context is also a regular debug feature, but I don't think many reversible debuggers allow this.
It's on the way to Biden's desk, and he has said that he will sign it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/tech/biden-tiktok-bill/index....
The entirety of the acquired data is in the image you see.
You can turn the processing off and look at the images without it if you are worried.

You also don’t diagnose off one image. You use several in each plane, and more than one image weighting. The software is unaware of the other planes and images when processing.

You don’t need long playing with it to be very confident that it’s utterly transformed MR imaging.

An example: decent resolution cervical spine Sag T2 imaging used to take a few minutes (2 or 2:30?), it’s now 40 ish seconds. It’s made scans faster, and better looking.
I think a general strike is desperately needed. Seeing Biden do a complete about face on unions to enrich the robber barons that run domestic rail was the last sign I needed. Unfortunately the people who would benefit the most from striking are those who either drink the propaganda from conservative outlets or are otherwise marginalized. Felons, people on probation, green card workers, the poorly educated, chronically overworked, etc.
Yes, I have a feeling the only people making decent money are those who are difficult to replace. Everyone else, well, they will readily be swapped out. They have no agency or power.
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IndyMac depositors got 50 cents on the dollar above the insured amount in the 2008 collapse.

https://www.ocregister.com/2009/03/20/depositor-losses-final...
the HN user's everyday carry:

Rsync

Emacs

NoScript
This makes complete sense, however, why would big banks not want to compete against SVB by establishing a smaller division that handles startups? Obviously, the market is small compared to their usual markets, but there is still a lot of good money to be made.
Dcow says this in a discussion about a company that has to put suicide nets in their factories to prevent their workers from killing themselves.
I have different standards as a gamer than I do as a corporate cog. Like when I was a bartender -- at work I needed a $600 blender to make certain drinks. That same day at home, a $20 blender worked just fine.
Asking them to name the bank is a bit of a weird one, only because the answer can't be SVB anymore, and I'm not sure what OP would do with that information. (So it's FRB, then what? Unless you have inside info that they're about to fail, and you're interviewing this week, I don't see how their banking partner's material) But if a startup you're interviewing at won't answer what their runway is, or the rest of the reverse interview business questions, then that's a red flag and you should run far, far away from them.

* Are you profitable?

* If not, how long is your runway?

* Where does the funding come from and who influences the high level plan/direction?

* How do you make money?

* What's preventing you from making more money?

* What is the company's growth plan for the next 1 year? 5 years?

* What are the big challenges you see coming up?

* What have you identified as your competitive advantage?

https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview
Uh yeah, just boost topics on tik tok that favours your long term goals, if you control tik tok
Exactly! As a manager if you hire someone to do X, Y, and Z, and he does X, Y, and Z with high quality and up to your expectations in 20 hours, why do you care if he spends his other 20 hours working for Facebook? Assuming performance is good and no confidential information is being shared, the guys second job doesn't hurt you.

I think they just don't want to admit the reason: That if they knew the worker was getting their job done in 20 hours, they'd simply raise their expectations to squeeze more out of the worker for the same pay.

When a service worker or retail clerk does multiple jobs, it's seen as hard-working and hustling, but when an office worker has multiple jobs it's somehow taboo.
What motherland can be offered to the about 30% of non ethnic Russians? Just more of the corrupt same.

How would motherland that follows a victory (even what constitutes victory is not defined by the Russian government) differ from the motherland the follows some other outcome?
I think there's a strong class component to it, too.

I've got kids in public schools and one in a slightly-fancy private school.

The public school kids all get phones super-early and are prone to mocking kids for "being poor" over stupid shit like not having a phone (one of mine was so-mocked for "only having one backpack"—JFC, was Fussell ever right to shit on the class-anxious, pitiful, absurd Middle, give me "High Prole" over that crap any day).

Meanwhile, the private school kids whose parents are doctors and attorneys and VPs and related to major local politicians, get phones later and don't regard them as a status symbol. Phone ownership rate is maybe 50% by 7th grade, while I'd say it's that high (maybe higher?) by 4th or 5th in the public schools, and more like 95% by 7th. The private school also has much stricter rules about phone use during school (I gather all the area public schools have totally given up on stopping all but the most egregious use of them in class, as the parents who gave the kids the phones won't back them on enforcing anti-phone rules, and will in fact throw tantrums over any such enforcement)
Like "choose your favorite lie"?
Allow me this question: what % of the tech world do you think it truly is essential? I’m asking in the broader sense. Essential to modern society not essential within the scope of a company.
[Post author here,] thanks for nailing it! I want anyone to be able to choose any of these two extremes ("right to be forgotten" and "right to be remembered") or anything in between.

I want to be able to configure my Discord or Slack "profile" to have all my messages automatically deleted after say 2 months. But at the same time I also want my email address to be permanently available (even after I die) because it's registered in so many places, tied to so many important things, so that if Google decides to erase me I'll be in a lot of pain...

And although I do use a *payed* GMail account, I do it mainly because I trust them more from a security point of view than I trust myself. However I don't trust them not even 1% not to screw me over if the accountants say it's more profitable to drop GMail...

At the same time I don't trust the government not even 1% not to screw the security of such a system, or not try to misuse it for political gains. But, I also don't see any way out of this situation with the technology, society, economy, and judicial system we have right now...
Well, yes, if your bank is receiving too many deposits and you didn't want to be vulnerable to a SVB-style failure, then you could:

- set your rate of paid interest on demand deposits quite low - what's going to happen, some people will pull their deposits? That's fine, that's what you want.

- re-deposit those excess deposits at other banks, taking only their meager interest payments on demand deposits

The math here works fine. As long as there's some difference between the rate you're paying on deposits and what you're getting, no matter how small, you're fine. And if you need cash quickly, hey, those are DEMAND deposits at other banks, you should be able to withdraw them immediately. You can spread the risk of a run on your bank around to every other bank.
CDARS
> 2. Any regular account with two or more signers (very typical for a business account) is insured up to 500k.

Is it typical for business accounts to be owned by someone other than the business?
Jack Ma took some bad rap for promoting it if I remember correctly
The crazy thing is that I can find people right now on the other side of the world and probably make some great connections and share stories, learn about cultures, etc...

It just doesn't happen.
By your logic, we shouldn't ever listen to any defectors, ever. That just doesn't make any sense.
What is a word?
As Hal Abelson said back in 1986 in the original SICP lectures [1] while drawing `(+ 3 (* 5 6) 8 2)` and the corresponding syntax tree on the board:

>"We're writing these trees ... and parentheses are just a way to write this two dimensional structure as a linear character string. Of course, when LISP first started and people had teletypes or punchcards or whatever and (the parentheses character structure) was more convinient. But maybe if LISP started today the syntax would look more like (a 2D syntax tree)."

[1]: https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA?t=2101
That's an excellent observation which I think agrees with my own.

If you already have a good idea of the control flow (and thus, expected behavior), but there's some minute detail that goes wrong, you just need a few strategically placed prints to see the state evolution. If the problem is control flow related, you might first need to get a grasp of that before going into the weeds.
A person with moral backbone should not be swayed by mere statistics. The official military along with the PMCs welcome volunteers.
People expect interest when they park a large amount of money in a bank. Where should that interest come from when the money just sits there? The bank will have to invest is somewhere (ideally somewhere very safe like in Government bonds) where they can then collect interest.

So it looks like in this case SVB chose MBS with a pretty low interest rate and long maturity, which they now have to sell due to the bank run you mentioned.
Inflation is always eating away at scared money. You can’t sit on cash forever
Right. This is the crux of the matter.

Laddered CD’s, money markets, treasuries and other semi-liquid fixed income investments are probably better than the S&P500. Most boards (and shareholders) would frown on investing funds in the market. The value is supposed to be in the company, not the stock market.

It’s a good idea to collateralize (leverage) the funds following a raise for a line of credit with one or even two banks to have short-term cash options. The longer you build a trust relationship with a bank VP and use a line of credit responsibly, the better position you’ll be in when it’s crunch time or there is a big opportunity to go after with big short term cash requirements that can’t come from selling equity.

I’ve seen too many product-oriented startups try to raise bridge rounds because they are cash poor when they should have secured a banking relationship when they had funds available.
Why Democracy Is Broken and How to Fix It
Indeed. Who lets their girlfriend have another boyfriend?
A good article explaining Quadratic Voting and how it can help us.
Modern Russia is fundamentally not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, at least according to its own mythology, was an instantiation of communist ideology. Modern Russia is not an ideological state in the same way; if it's motivated by anything, it's base nationalism.
Corporate legal requirement to maximize shareholder value makes their behavior gas like, they’ll expand to fill all possible space and permeate any advantageous cracks. It’s counter productive and contrary to reality to pick on any one company for behaving as they’re legally obligated to do. The issue isn’t apple, the issue is governments that allow behavior we can’t accept by corporations. The way to prevent a gas from permeating spaces you don’t want it in is to seal the space, not rage against hydrogen.
Medicine is an interesting area because all of the incentives lean towards incremental, long-term subscriptions for small-but-measurable gains. So if your fraud is an improvement by 2.5% instead of 2.45%, it's both unlikely to get a lot of attention and quite likely to get incorporated into the new drug development pipeline. All of the players except for the general public seem to have reached their goals here. Even if the fraud is detected during drug production it's probably small enough not to warrant a scandal, and who wants to shut down their next great drug production pipeline for what might or might not be a fraud and even if it was doesn't amount to very much?
I'm following a direct quote, while you are citing a third party trying to handwave it away. I don't really consider it ignorant to believe the primary source's exact words when they so closely mirror the reality of what happened.
I don't know why you didn't just look it up, you were right there. Stripe pays about the same as google if you just consider base+bonus, much more if you consider stock.

Of course it's not a fair comparison because google stock is liquid
Tariffs would increase the cost of these outrageously profitable products decreasing their market reducing sales. All things capitalists hate. Lofty goals like safe working conditions will always be fought against by capitalists who, by design of their own, are completely disconnected from the reality their greed creates.
Essential to society? 1/4 to 1/3; maybe less.
Yes, as opposed to rich investors like Marc Andreessen who really are very smart and certainly don't "work through a screen and are totally abstracted from tangible physical reality and the real-world consequences of their opinions and beliefs."
12 hours later, this has not aged well.
It is strange how this interview is currently used. Clearly Bezmenov alleges that the subversion tactics were promoting original left-wing causes since the 1960s:

He cites Hippie culture, pilgrimages to India, cultural marxism, etc. Basically everything that Reagan did not like.

Now the ruling party are Democrats, and apparently the same interview is used to prove current Russian disinformation, i.e. (alleged) right wing propaganda.

Meanwhile even the Pentagon currently implements the original (alleged) left wing culture war subversion tactics.

So which is it? Has Russian disinformation pivoted to right wing and the Pentagon is behind the curve? Or is the whole Russian disinformation issue overblown?

Clearly the original subversion items are pushed by the corporate and state woke-washing agenda. So they are apparently good now.

I don't see how right wing propaganda could help Russia, since in important foreign policy matters Democrats and Republicans are fundamentally the same. Evan Trump has armed Ukraine.
In the late 90's I produced and ran an underground techno record label called Format Recordings. Myself and my production partner who was a DJ we were young and not very business savvy so it was a hobby of passion that paid for itself. We released 10 records over 3 years. Over pandemic, my production partner and I decided for shits and giggles to relaunch the label on Bandcamp. We just went live a few weeks ago. Me personally, I haven't been as prolific as the other two producers so my first track goes live tomorrow but the other guys have 7 releases up there that are new as of last week.
https://format416.bandcamp.com/
Banks don't pay the Fed rate on deposits so they already have that to pay expenses. In fact more deposits = more money on the interest differential but expenses don't scale with money.
> if they are proportionately paid more

Apple and Foxconn wants to pay them less (in particular, pay less overtime)
To me the debugger is perhaps the most important tool and I much rather have a bad editor with a good debugger than a great editor without. I find that typing code is never the limiting factor in productivity, being able to understand what your code does is, and a good debugger is a game changer. The same goes for languages, there is a lot of discussion about what various languages do, but not what debuggers are available for them. Visual studio has many faults, but IMO it runs circles around the competition when it comes to te debugger.
The ad experience will come, because that's really the best option for a lot of platforms to monetize...and no one is running a charity. By that point a lot of users have been locked in and essentially just going with it.
Ding ding ding! Crazy people don't get this and defend this as totally normal ignoring this company has actual suicide prevention nets to prevent their employees from killing themselves because the companies employment practices at that friggen aweful!
So true.

Money for banks is what raw material is for manufacturing. What they are doing is risk management (analyzing risk, packaging risk, selling it, buying it).
One of my favorite "debuggers" is OllyDbg.

I will never forget the first time I changed a few lines of assembly of a running game (starsiege tribes, around 2005), and then I saw friend-or-foe indicators through walls.

That kind of "hot reloading" was special.
this is what apple does. they use their clout, then they turn their back and play ignorant whilst placing unrealistic demands on the subcontractors

While making $30 billion in profit for the first quarter of 2023. Apparently, this disappointed Wall Street, because they made $34.6 billion in Q1 2022.

So, time to squeeze the vise on the little people.

Also, they have $165 billion in cash and securities. Maybe they could just physically crush underperforming workers using gold bars.
Because, as described in the link, the gap between deposits and liabilities is likely to be over 25B.
Elsewhere in this thread you say he shouldn't be listened to because he's a defector and would naturally be opposed to the USSR. So you're doing exactly the same thing that you criticise other people for.
OK, this is a good point. Still, you're comparing an act of hurting people to an act of potentially hurting people. An investigation into the harm done by private data sales would be helpful.
If your solvency as a bank relies on you accurately predicting inflation and/or fed rate decisions then something has already gone terribly wrong.
The hard part isn't storing it, the hard part is updating it. What do you do when the automated process fails due to a corner case, like your angry ex using your phone to reset your credentials? The government solution might be annoying or time consuming, but the private sector answer is "Go fuck yourself."
Linux 6.4 Slated to Start Removing Old, Unused and Unmaintained Pcmcia Drivers
It’s always race to the bottom for workers when multiple states are fighting for iPhone factory. They drop the labor protections, drop minimum wages($2-3 per day), increase working hours. It’s just a win for Apple and nobody else(maybe politicians). All this for a bigger screen to watch TikTok on. What a sad time we live in.