skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised it is only 1M given 33.6 million Americans use mass transit daily, many cities have vast networks of cameras, private corporations frequently share camera feeds, 2.5 million people that pass through US airports daily, etc. Walmart, AT&T, Kohl’s, Best Buy, Albertson’s, Home Depot, etc — at some point used them; Walmart alone has roughly 37 million daily customers.[1]

https://findbiometrics.com/walmart-att-other-big-names-added...

Back in 2021, per NYT — “In January 2020, Clearview had been used by at least 600 law enforcement agencies. The company says that is now up to 3,100. The Army and the Air Force are customers. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, signed [a contract with Clearview]” [2]

Clearview AI has been around awhile, at least in the beginning they simply pulled faces/names from social media profiles, though I wouldn’t be surprised if they hadn’t expanded their pipeline.

[1] https://findbiometrics.com/walmart-att-other-big-names-added...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/technology/clearview-faci...

Wikipedia page on them has more info:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI
phys qwerty crowd are very small and vocal
Maybe but our perception should not be assumed to be correct.

The mathematical physicist Chetan Prakash proved a theorem that I devised that says: According to evolution by natural selection, an organism that sees reality as it is will never be more fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees none of reality but is just tuned to fitness.

I'd be surprised if our eyes give us a truthful perception of reality. They give us a functional understanding that allows us to thrive here but nothing more.
Are there even any criminal laws against this? I mean, it strikes me that there should be, but my non lawyerly self has never heard of any.
Something something Tiktok.

Ok, that's a bit snarky. But seriously, the problem here is surveillance capitalism and the willingness of surveillance capitalism to enable, well, anyone with a buck: good, bad, or indifferent, all while lobbying against any restrictions on doing so. Is TikTok bad? Is it's close relationship with the CCP awful? Yes. But this is, fundamentally, no different.
This is some hilarious chaos. I love this a lot.

Anyone else have the issue where hanging around a bit borks their browser? Using Firefox on Windows it would cause the entire thing to go to a white screen with a grey box in the middle. Rest of the OS was responsive. Went back to recreate it for a screenshot and it didn't happen again after happening several times across refreshes.
For those unfamiliar with "The Strategic Culture Foundation":

The Strategic Culture Foundation (SCF) is a Russian think tank based in Moscow (founded in 2005[1]) that primarily publishes an online current affairs magazine of the same name. SCF is regarded as an arm of Russian state interests by the United States government.[2][3]

SCF has been characterized as a conservative, pro-Russian propaganda website by U.S. media[3] and others.[4]

SCF has a pattern of sharing articles with other Russia-controlled outlets such as Global Research, New Eastern Outlook, and SouthFront.[5]

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Culture_Foundation>

And those Wikipedia references for the curious:

1. https://www.state.gov/russias-pillars-of-disinformation-and-...

2. "GEC Special Report: Russia's Pillars of Disinformation and Propaganda" <https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-...> (PDF)

3. "Putin's Troll Farm Busted Running Sprawling Network of Facebook Pages" <https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-troll-farm-busted-runni...>

4. "An Unfounded Foundation: How Russian-run fake Western thinktanks look like" <https://euvsdisinfo.eu/an-unfounded-foundation/>

5. "Russian Disinformation Networks Detailed in New State Department Report" <https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/08/russian-disinf...>
Good luck convincing all of your employees and customers to relocate into the same suburb.
> There's a certain IQ threshold for that

Um, you might want to check the average IQ for Ashkenazi Jews, Hassidic Jews are primarily Ashkenazi.

> People in general have little time for philosophy, so a folk metaphysics must be simple and easy to understand

Yah, it's quite clear you know basically nothing of Judaism if you think their metaphysics are "simple and easy to understand".
Just remember the whole "all work and no play" thing though.
> Creating individual endpoints for web apps went out of fashion as it involves more effort and people don’t like effort to do things well. I see it re-invented recently as backend-for-frontend.

Not true, individual endpoints requires more work for client side optimizations but the CRUD query mapping effort is not reduced with graphql. If anything, graphql endpoints require more effort on the backend side to build because of having to wire up the resolvers unless you are using something like Hasura.
> by next month we will have some previously-never-seen model/algorithm/chip/tech that will run locally on our phones and computers. At that point is game over

This comment is so wildly inaccurate and hype, and yet so common in the GPT craze on HN

It is not happening on your phone and computers in the near term for 2 reasons:

1. Entropy, the models are LARGER, NOT SMALLER. The amazing performance come from the fact that they are BIG. This is opposite of Moore's law, which itself is ending.

2. Companies want to make money on their models, vending a client is clearly not the direction that companies are going. In fact greedy companies wanted everything to happen on the server end even without any real customer need, e.g. Jira.
> I read Rattner’s piece on my phone while walking from my car to my son’s 2:30 p.m. elementary school pickup

Please stop and look where you're going, the news can wait.
Isn't that more of an immigration restriction outcome?
Why Link Taxes Like Canada’s C-18 Represent an End to an Open Web
AI assisted code suggestions from Gitlab
What does this advancement in AI mean for developers? Will this lead to an explosion in productivity?
Please don't antagonize a commenter or trivialize their condition. There are millions of frustrated Americans who can't articulate their discomforts much less their sources. There are many possibilities:

1. Loss of privilege and prestige socially and/or geopolitically

2. Lower income, more stress, working harder, and less financial freedom to have a happy enough life

3. Loss of community

4. Loss of safety
I live in an above average COL area, but I would have to pay atleast 6x to have a similar sized home if I were to live within commuting distance from Manhattan or SF/Palo Alto. Not to mention the other expenses that would rise, with increased tax liability being about as significant as the child care number presented in the article.

Those of us that left the cities had the opportunity to save hundreds of thousands of dollars since 03/20. I'll look into commuting if the compensation exceeds the savings.
Your mitigations are so bad, you must know that they are almost useless. No website has ever kept up with spam by individually checking every complaint, and you would only stop people after they've already recorded large amounts of output from a stolen voice.

On the other hand, as you also know, you could easily put a much stronger safeguard on by making people say a short prepared statement and only clone voices who have said that statement. You do not appear to have done that. Why not, except it would make it harder to voice steal?
There was a science experiment where they took pessimists and optimists and had them rate themselves from one to ten in terms of looks.

Then they had another external group of people rate them based off of the same 1 to 10 scale to get an unbiased baseline.

Turns out pessimists had a more accurate and realistic rating around how good they looked. While optimists had ratings that were wildly overblown. There are other experiments that measured other things related to these two groups of people.

It turns out optimists are, happier, have higher salaries and are much more successful in life while pessimists are more likely to be clinically depressed.

This experiment tells us a dark truth about human nature. We lie to ourselves to stay sane. We construct illusions to protect ourselves from fully experiencing the cruel reality of life.

Optimism is a special kind of blindness. It's blindness that blinds you from being aware you're blind.

So look deeply at yourself. Are you happy? Are you optimistic? If so then that is in itself a statistical statement about how delusional and intelligent you actually are. Can you handle the truth?

I wonder how this post will get voted? Down for being depressing and negative? Or up for being truthful?
Devs who push for monolith all-in-one SPA frameworks are seldom ones who stick around long enough after shipping to experience what you're discussing. They're far more concerned with the new framework hotness vs. building a lasting and consistent user experience.

Just my anecdotal experience.
https://archive.ph/KLVJD
Teams starting time is even slower than its OS, lol.
Will that really stop it!? Don’t think so, I remember I did some analysis years ago and bots don’t behave that way, there’s usually a “trusted” or verified account that propagates the bots and use them to spread their info, so you would still get those recommended tweets by “verified” accounts, and these tweets are bumped by bots for example.
They treat other humans as property rather than humans [1]

[1] https://medium.com/the-collector/10-rules-you-had-no-clue-am...
Yeah, code functions aren’t the right mindset for CUE. The essence of it is narrowing constraints and defaults. You have a bunch of constraints that make a template, like Server. Then something extends that, like StageServer. Then it has to get so specific (MyAppStageServer) that all the values are concrete or can be filled with defaults. The constraint narrowing for a field is something like int, 1-8, 1-4, 2. This makes multiple template use (like multiple inheritance) not a nightmare.
If a company/government risk model allows for giving Google all the most sensitive information, then that says something about trust. It has not gone unnoticed how those risk model differs when something like tiktok arrived, or with earlier Huawei 5G modems.

The enterprise version of gmail was just an additional step to instill trust. In practice it is still a decision based on trust rather than physics. An "enterprise version of privacy guaranties" for Huawei 5G modems or tiktok apps would not make governments suddenly happy with the risk model where sensitive data would have a minor risk of ending up in China.
https://archive.ph/v2vAk
Even if they do today, they could change their mind tomorrow, or even tonight.
I constantly blows my mind that people living in the USA think that they're doing well; by most metrics the USA is a middle-of-the-pack country by current standards of living (including freedom).
I'm assuming a quantized version?
How Did America’s Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for Authoritarian Governor?
If you have to add so many constraints it means it doesn't work.
You will never get two people to agree on when web technological progress should have been frozen.

Here is an essay that essentially address this: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Tether's day is coming.
Thanks, I didn't know about this one, will try it out.

I love safari but the ad blocking sucks, having to run stupid stuff on top (AdGuard for Safari)
its like a child, after being caught with chocolate on their entire face, and after a long scolding, admits that it is possible that there might have been at some point been a chocolate eating binge (but that he was correct in eating the chocolate).

you should go read what they originally said at the time of the genocide. its similar to saying we shouldnt believe the stories of jewish refugees at the time of the holocaust because the us and the nazis happened to be enemies.

> how the available facts were selected, modified, or sometimes invented to create a certain image offered to the general population

imagine if someone said this about the reporting of the holocaust. the cambodian genocide is comparable in terms of numbers to the holocaust btw. so shameless and yet people still defend these people
Yeah, I'm also a heavy user Spotlight Search and it's still impossible to get to Keychain settings. I suppose my higher level point was that it's damn near impossible to efficiently get to the keychain settings.
A great point. As I’ve commented before though, watching webdevs get excited for it, or “rewrite it in Rust,” or developers contort it to try and do things it shouldn’t is sort of morbid from a distance. I’m sure Darwin will work his magic and Rust will settle in the intended niche. But seeing the insane excitement levels and recruiters using Rust to attract applicants…like I said, morbid, and hard to sustain.
Schwab’s $7T Empire Is Showing Cracks
I noticed the same thing: loved Smalltalk-80, but when editing documents or code in Emacs, I need monospaced fonts.
A Rust module is similar to a Java package or a C# namespace.

Java calls this notion "package-private" [0], at least in some of its documentation. Delphi calls this notion "private" [1], and has a separate "strict private" for members only visible from the containing class.

Also, C# uses "internal" to refer to a different notion, that the type or member can be accessed from anywhere in the containing assembly, not just the containing namespace [2]. (In D this is "package", and in Rust this is "pub(crate)".)

I'm just trying to push back on treating "other languages" as a unified whole here.

[0] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/accessco...

[1] https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Clas...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...
I had in mind a more canine panel.

Of which the New Yorker original doesn't seem to be readily findable online:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...>
I get the same result as the parent. Search in Settings has gotten a lot worse with time.
Similarly, being high intelligence is not evolutionarily fit for any given problem because it costs more energy than just being good at that problem.

(And saying "IQ" when you meant "intelligence" is a sign of a midwit.)
The addiction can't.
Little bit of self-promotion here, but seeing this comment is exactly what we felt at Kurtosis: https://docs.kurtosis.com/explanations/what-is-kurtosis

We had DevOps for a while, but now systems have gotten so complex (and our tooling hasn't kept up) that we're back to pre-DevOps days with Dev throwing stuff over the wall to Ops.
Magisk can hide root from apps, but I don't know how effective it is against all possible methods an app might have of detecting root. I'm not sure if detecting an unlocked bootloader is treated in the same way or not - I haven't run into that one as a problem so far.

I refuse to use my phone for banking due to trust issues in putting all my eggs into such a stealable, forgettable-in-a-taxi, and heavily monitored device basket.
Ask HN: Can ChatGPT Counteract Stylometry?
There's been posts on here demonstrating the ability to identify different users as the same person based on writing style. Three letter agencies likely employ this internet-wide.

Can formulating discussion/comments through chatGPT counteract this practice? One seeming drawback is ChatGPT not communicating in a style that is pleasing to the author. Though ChatGPT is able to take on different writing styles as per instruction.

Any thoughts?
In very general terms, I meant that the implicit social contract is that "If you follow the rules of society, you do not have to worry that you are going to randomly die." That could be in the sense of monopolizing physical force so that roving gangs can't kill you, or it could also be in the sense of ensuring that a random natural disaster doesn't kill you or you don't starve to death.

When that social contract is broken, people tend to ignore the other half of it, which is "if you follow the rules of society..." Empirically, it doesn't seem to matter whether the root cause is starvation or war or violence, the result is still civil disorder and anarchy - which usually just intensifies the survival challenges.
Damnit. Is it not possible to farm enough and preserve enough to eat happily through a north american (46ish latitude) winter? Maybe with a greenhouse to extend the season somewhat? You're killing my self sufficient, off-grid homestead dreams.
But due to the free market, anybody trying to generate and sell cotton who was NOT using colonialism to make it cheap, was a loser. The industrial revolution hyped up the exploitation machinery to a new fever pitch. It became necessary, to compete.
I mean, thank you. Buttttttttt this is an asinine level of effort to achieve a workaround for a stock feature on the Apple platform. I'd just assume not use it before implementing this.
Haystack unfortunately seems like a dead end. LLMs are the way forward.
I'm not sure what you mean by operationally broken. While I would agree that k8s is not a great match for many, I wouldn't say it's fundamentally broken. It still has many rough edges.

What's amazing about borg is the number of clusters, their sizes, and the support teams that keep them healthy. k8s does not have that.
Well even better :)
That mostly never happens. Even in the past when you had to travel, a lot of time is spent packing, going to the airport etc that's never accounted for as a part of your "work hours".
> If you are engineering your finances in a contrived or artificial manner, purely for the purpose of reducing taxes

nothing scream like "We failed at legislation so we're going to resort to arbitrary decisions"

Unless they define what contrived or artificial manner means exactly, which I doubt.
Respect for your honesty about both the situation and in answer to your friend.
wasm would be faster regarding parsing, interpreting and executing
llama's 7b model internally is, for me, on a totally different level quality-wise. Even when explicitly instructed to not make up stuff and just say 'I don't know', it will still go ahead and ramble and invent things. When I tell it to only use the prompt data it will still invent, or just ignore the prompt data. It's not useful for production (i.e., to be exposed to 'regular' non AI users).
ChatGPT, on the other hand, will listen to those instructions and say when it does not know, and will keep to only the prompt data.
Minneapolis is dealing with similar non-enforcement issues on our light rail. As safety and harassment issues increased, common ridership has dropped which exacerbates the problems.
The story about Clearview finding a witness able to clear a wrongfully accused man, seems like it's intended to make us feel like it's good tech since it can help defense lawyers also. Seems to gloss over why he was able to be charged in the first place...

"Although Mr Conlyn said he was the passenger, police suspected he had been driving and he he was charged with vehicular homicide...The witness, Vince Ramirez, made a statement that he had taken Mr Conlyn out of the passenger's seat. Shortly after, the charges were dropped."
Hybrid is when management wants onsite but doesn't want to risk it all yet. If they ever get the chance they'll add more days required in the office as time goes by.
Would you say ignorance is strength then?
Elections that are decided by a single vote are fairly common. If we looked at local elections, we could probably find more than every year. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_close_election_resul...
I guess what they say about knowing the tree by its fruits rings true. There’s something about the surviving of tradition and ways of living that if they did not work and were not fruitful would have faded away into obscurity. We can’t specify anything formulaic to them but the longevity of their way of life speaks something to its truth somehow. Having generations survive and multiply and retain unity and order is not some default random outcome but something intentional and directed. I’m starting to appreciate more and more the conditional improbability of order which speaks of something greater than any one individual can account for. Fascinating people I’d like to learn more about.
The only iphone that is currently sold that is not OLED is the SE (I think). I don't know what the upgrade path is beyond these.
Thanks! I actually have not spent much time looking into that and will see if it helps.
The other side of that is debugging things when stuff goes wrong.

From that perspective, it kind of sounds absolutely horrible unless matching "figure out what went wrong" pieces evolve to match.
Lol.

> Bernhardt alleges that HSBC evaded the OFAC filter
beginning in the early 1990s and continuing through 2009.
HSBC Bank UK implemented procedures to help sanctioned
entities access and benefit from U.S. financial services. For
instance, such entities would include a “cautionary note” in
their transactions, such as “care sanctioned country,” “do not
mention our name in NY,” or “do not mention Iran.” Based on
these notes, HSBC Bank UK would manually scrub all
references to Iran or a sanctioned entity, which would allow
otherwise illegal transactions to pass through to HSBC Bank
US. This system allowed HSBC Bank US to “process[]
thousands of ‘repaired’ transactions worth billions of dollars.”
HSBC Bank UK would also use “cover payments,” or bank-to-
bank transfers, to avoid disclosing the identity of its customers.
Replacing an A/B Test with GPT
I think the <blink> element is where we we should freeze it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_element
My problem isn't computers speaking in realistic voices. The problem is speaking in your voice, or my voice.
I’m not sure what’s more impressive, the research or simply that Apple has public documentation on something.
The worst part of this / NSA spying on Americans is we pay for it. Prisoners constructing their own prison.
From https://lancasterpa.com/amish/amish-frequently-asked-questio...

> “Can an outsider join the Amish church/community?”

> “A local Amishman recently remarked, “You do not need to move here to adopt a lifestyle of simplicity and discipleship. You can begin wherever you are.” Yes, it is possible for outsiders, through conversion and convincement, to join the Amish community, but we must quickly add that it seldom happens. First, the Amish do not evangelize and seek to add outsiders to their church. Second, outsiders would need to live among the Amish and demonstrate a genuine conversion experience and faith that results in a changed lifestyle. Third, it is extremely difficult for anyone who has not been raised without electricity, automobiles, and other modern conveniences to adjust to the austere lifestyle of the Amish. And to truly be a part of the Amish community one would need to learn the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.”
Because our existence is rooted in this reality. A minor comet can end everything. Space exploration is also because resources are limited and the laws of physics can't be cheated. One planet won't be enough for the greed of man.
Perhaps it hasn't happened where you are but some businesses have been crying about the lack of foot traffic and so 1 thing the government can control is to ask government employees back the office.
What about Google Docs, Office 365, Github, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, JIRA, Zendesk, etc?

What is different about ChatGPT (if anything)?
Damn

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_vs_The_Amazing_Spider-Ma...
You're unnecessarily narrowing your viewpoint, blinding yourself to the bigger picture.

Bigger picture: transfer of value without a middle-man or central authority.

Now that's something.
Is this syntax new(&something) a new addition? I don't remember it, but then I used to program in C++03