skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't stop that kind of research from happening. You can only stop ethical people from doing that kind of research. I'd rather have the ethical people keep doing the research.
Banning TikTok does not fix social media though
Thanks, I think I will. No need to edit "wonky" in, it'll be just fine, I've already used it in my works before.
> It's the most serious issue facing the country, and we have 0 idea what to do

https://substanceabusepolicy.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
That USCIS requires people to submit evidence that their marriage is "genuine", and can reject an application based on such evidence being insufficient, is a fact:

"The burden is on the applicant to establish that he or she is in a valid marriage with his or her U.S. citizen spouse for the required period of time. A spouse of a U.S. citizen must submit with the naturalization application an official civil record to establish that the marriage is legal and valid. If an official civil record cannot be produced, secondary evidence may be accepted on a case-by-case basis. An officer has the right to request an original record if there is doubt as to the authenticity of the record."

(https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-g-chapter...)

By definition this means that some marriages are treated differently from others.
DRM protection sometimes rears its ugly head, and that is worth objecting to, but as someone who has written unpackers and game mods, it’s rare nowadays that DRM prevents modding, unless you’re creating unethical multiplayer hacks. Code that is relevant to modders is usually contained in unprotected script and library assets.

To run afoul of the DMCA a modder needs to (1) strip a binary of its copyright protection (2) distribute the unpacked executable or the unpacker tool (3) likely facilitate mass third-party piracy (more damages = more lawsuit potential). It’s principally warez and hacking groups that meet these criteria, and they probably ought to be sued.

I’ll add a point in your favor and say that for non-games DRM is often a big problem when reversing or patching code.
I don't like this propensity to blame china for everything.

If your ordered a dangerous substance, and it arrives clearly labeled, they've done their job.

If you are putting it where you shouldn't, it's on you.
Yeah the rest of the article said that it is cheaper to make than most opioids so I guess it is just the walmartification of illegal drugs: fast and cheap and shoddy.
It's controlled by the cartels, the mules who actually bring it over can be anybody; whoever the cartels feel comfortable with.
Neil Gaiman has a similar formulation with three criteria instead of two:

"People keep working, in a freelance world, and more and more of today's world is freelance,

- because their work is good, and

- because they are easy to get along with, and

- because they deliver the work on time.

And you don't even need all three. Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. They'll forgive the lateness of the work if it's good, and if they like you. And you don't have to be as good as the others if you're on time and it's always a pleasure to hear from you."

https://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keynote-address-2012
More like our government fully understands how to weaponize social media to spread their bullshit, and how valuable it is for mass control and surveillance. We're more than ok with our social media platforms because of this usefulness, but TikTok is China's version and we can't have that type of mass surveillance and control and propaganda in anyone's hands but ours.

A few years ago this would have sounded like a conspiracy theory. Now it's the only logical conclusion.
I'm pretty sure that would be an "Undefined Behaviour" in C++.
And you can make lots of "Wat" moments by invoking UB.
Not at all.

Here is the definition that the bill uses for "transaction":

> (17) TRANSACTION.—The term “transaction” means any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications technology product or service, including ongoing activities such as managed services, >>>data transmission<<<, software updates, repairs, or the provision of data hosting services, or a class of such transactions.

As you can see here, mere data transmission is considered to be a transaction. I strongly suggest that you read the bill, in its entirety.
I tried to create one but the redirected lp link returned 404. Is something wrong?
I take it as “your communication assumes good motives” which is not “you assume good motives”

I think most people have good motives based on their world view and this will work.

Assuming good motives can help you uncover them.

For example the “asshole” at work who seems to be blocking you - they might have good reasons you can explore.

Of course their are liars, scammers, psychopaths. If possible cut ties otherwise you have to consider dealing with them tactically.

None if this is easy though!
It's not just that there are people talking about existential risk but that the most prominent are talking about them in a flawed framework.

The "longtermists" aren't so concerned that we die but are more concerned about an imagined glorious future where our descendants built self-replicating problems and fill the galaxy with simulated humans living inside Dyson spheres, Dyson swarms, something like that.

As preposterous as that sounds (there are at least as many steps from here to there as there are in Drake Equation, do we know we approve of those "people"?, can you make rational decisions about the future without incorporating a "discount rate" that extinguishes the weight of the infintely far future, ...) they make a case based on Pascal' Wager, even if there is only 1 part of a billion chance of this future coming true but there are 1000 trillion trillion beings in the future the welfare of those beings greatly exceeds the welfare of us all (PRO TIP: there's a reason why you can't add or multiply the utility functions of various beings in reputable game theory, economics, philosophy, ...)

It's really a cult and it has as many front groups ("effective altruism", Aella's sex parties, "morewrong") as the third international, Scientology or the LaRouche organizations. Like Scientology they think that you should be thinking about what might happen 50 million years from now or what the e-Meter said happened 76,412,981 years 54 days 7 hours and 35 minutes ago as opposed what is going on right now. They'll tell you what logical fallacy I'm using if I compared them to People's Temple, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinkrikyo, and they might be right, but few people thought those apocalyptic groups were going to come to their logical conclusion before they did.

And oddly... They couldn't care less about climate change.
> As a Frenchman, many Americans find my totally France compliant speech a bit rude.

I call it exact. But indeed, it takes a little while to get used to it. I recall someone at a tech company here in the Bay with a French manager that thought his manager didn't like him, until he read his feedback during his first performance review.

French Canadians sounds like Americans with accents.
I'm sure that a 20 MPH Speed Limit saves more lives than a 25 MPH Speed Limit, just as a 15 or even 5 MPH Speed Limit would save even more lives still. But would most people tolerate a very slow drive even if it saves some extra lives?
It has nothing to do with privacy.
> play the game together, forever.

Basically, the story of every Gentoo userbase.
You no longer need to make an assumption once there is proof otherwise.
Netflix and other sites already have recommendation engines. It might not be the best but it seems to work fine so far.
It's also quite easy to obtain Buprenorphine in NYC and the problem has only worsened in NYC. I strongly doubt that Buprenorphine was the sole cause of France's improvements, and given its already-wide availability in NYC I strongly doubt it will solve the problem.

Buprenorphine just makes opiate dependence more manageable. It doesn't make you not dependent on opiates and it doesn't make you stop wanting to change how you feel. And given it also doesn't much change how you feel, if you want to change how you feel, you'll stop taking it.

Addiction is a predictable outcome of inequality and lack of social safety net in the US. If you don't give people any way to solve their problems they'll settle for feeling better about their problems. We only help people if it's profitable to do so. The war on drugs just gives people more problems. The changes we'd have to make to fix the opiate epidemic are a lot more fundamental than giving people more manageable opiates.
Exploring C# Optimization Techniques (2022)
This article really needs more attention. There's so much truth in here, and the tech ecosystem is in a very bad place. Chasing growth, ignoring customers (even paying ones) and users and abusing employees. "Tech" is really just a big financial game. It's no longer about innovation, it's just a big financial game.
The end goal of giving money to AI safety research groups is presumably to come up with some definition of "safe AI" that will then have to be actually enforced. Otherwise it's just a sinecure.
This is the Apple that automatically corrects what you're looking at in FaceTime calls so it looks like you're looking at the camera instead of what you're actually looking at? It's that Apple that you think it would be off brand if they were to change your nighttime photos to look better, even if what they're depicting isn't actually real? That Apple?

I don't they're doing a fake milky way, but I don't think that they'd be above it if they could come up with a reason to.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90372724/welcome-to-post-reality...
This take is a little outdated. Many people actively working on this technology no longer view it this simplistically. ex: https://twitter.com/bio_bootloader/status/164051244495839641...
Only communists value speech between peers, not brands.

/s
This report is a bit old. Since then, China no longer manufactures fentanyl (for the most part), and does not ship fentanyl precursors to the USA.

So the flows look much different now. The precursors are shipped to Mexico, where fentanyl is produced in small labs, often trained by Chinese associates, and then shipped to the USA.
The 70s nuclear relic that may be about to open at last
While I don’t really think a TikTok ban would accomplish much, I’m not terribly concerned of the implications.

Huawei/ZTE has been banned from sale and thus import and I effectively view this as equivalent and likely permissible under law in any case - so it’s probably the case they can just ban it from App stores though not actually block it on the internet - which I would frankly find acceptable (admittedly, it would likely be a death knell)

I don’t want to live in a populist/nationalist world, but a little bit of reciprocity, through protectionism, in small doses, isn’t a terrible thing.
Yes, it has some of the classic markers of an LLM. Downvoted.
https://github.com/prebid/Prebid.js
I disagree, and I think you should take a longer view. As automation approaches total replacement of labor, capitalism will cease to work at all. This view is best summarized in this (probably apocryphal) exchange between Henry Ford II and Walter Reuther (United Autoworkers Union leader), as they toured a new, highly automated car factory:

> Ford: Gee, how are you going to get all these robots to pay union dues?
> Reuther: How are you going to get them to buy your cars?

You say there will be less need for labor? Then who exactly will businesses sell their goods and services to, if everyone is out of a job? The development of AI would be qualitatively different from the previous developments of labor-saving machines: a switchboard operator who's job became obsolete could go get another job. Machines that can do anything a person can would mean there is no other job.

I don't know what's in store for us, but it will probably be as drastic a shift as pre/post the agricultural/industrial revolutions. And there's no reason to think it should be for the better. I think we all ought to be very nervous and worried about this.
Illicit fentanyl is mass produced in foreign pharmacy (90% in China), and pretty easy to smuggle in (used to be direct, now via Mexico), making it really cheap. There is also licit fentanyl to consider, which can become illicit due to prescription fraud or theft, but usually its cheap enough to just get illicitly imported fent.
The “Free and Open Internet” Hypocrites
>won't be looked on kindly either in many cases. There are countless of other examples; playing my thesis in a public place on speakers 24/7 is also not going to end well for you.

Not looked at kindly and carrying the force of criminal prosecution are worlds apart
Ironically, the only way we ever do that - probably, is by using Super AGI to solve many physics problems, and get us warp drives or wormholes.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
Our government (well, our congressmen and women) demonstrably has no clue what social media is capable of outside of their meta sponsored talking points.

“Do you track pupil dilation?!”
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35364833.
> The constitution explicitly bans bills of attainder so any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down.

The law must be both specific and punitive to be a bill of attainder. A law can nonpunitively regulate a “class of one” without being a Bill of Attainder. See, Nixon v. Administrator of General Services, 433 U.S. 425 (1977). [0] So, it is not quite accurate that “any law targeting a specific person or company will be struck down”.

OTOH, a “TikTok ban” based on asserted prior misconduct would pretty surely be seen as punitive.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/433/425
Honestly, I tend to think of the reverse case: the best case scenario for AI is replacing humans.

Think of it. What does success look like for general AI? A benevolent God who knows the right thing for everyone to do and can fulfill all of our fantasies. Reasonable people will support his decisions.

Well then what are we for? We're a vestigial organism. We're too flimsy and cumbersome for space. So the AI God takes over space and we stay here as his pets.

He carries the legacy of humanity to the stars, and our limitations and short lifespans stay on Earth.
> We grew up with the threat of nuclear destruction

The difference is that nuclear destruction required some sort of action. Climate catastrophe just requires inaction. "Do nothing and we're OK" vs. "do nothing and we're toast" is a pretty big difference psychologically. The idea that it might be too late for any action to change the outcome only makes it worse.

> as well as global warming

I was old enough to be aware at the time, and the level of concern about global warming then is practically nothing compared to what it is now. People were at least as concerned about a nuclear winter.

Responding to others' concerns with "big deal, I had it worse" is almost never helpful. Regardless of whether those concerns are objectively valid or among those you personally share, an empathetic and curious response would be to understand why those concerns loom so large and what can be done to allay them.
Easier logistics too because of the higher potency. If something is 10x more potent gram for gram, you can take the same revenue while spending 10x less on transportation while simultaneously reducing the chances of getting caught because the volume is so much smaller. Or conversely, for the same risk and transportation costs, make way more money per gram shipped.
Reminds me of this moderately entertaining Voyager episode I watched recently:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708904/

Three problem crew; one is a hypochondriac, one is competent jerk, one is very nice but incompetent and the captain tries to fix them all.
Fentanyl costs on the order of $1,000 per kilogram to produce and that’s enough to cut hundreds of thousands of doses of another drug while making them significantly more addictive. It makes other drugs so profitable that the loss in customers is well worth it. There’s a future user born every minute, afterall.
Hey, I don’t dislike Musk. He is one of the people who is actually making a difference. Nearly all the others are building yachts and procrastinating.

But that doesn’t mean that I’d like him to be the absolute ruler with a superior AI tech. He thinks too much of himself and he’ll make mistakes.
I'm happy your wealthy older male friends have found a way to waste money that enables them to play the status game and bond. No really, it sounds totally harmless.

The problem is, for the rest of us, who just want to buy decent audio equipment and don't have lots of disposable wealth, their hobby fills the space with so much noise. Try searching for reviews of a pair of decent bookshelf speakers. Even add the word "budget" to your search. You'll get all these WhatHiFi style mags who are also playing this inscrutable status game trying to convince you that you'll need to spend thousands of dollars on speakers, even budget speakers. And they're experts so of course most people believe them.

The reality is that once you go over a few hundred dollars for small home speakers you'll get massively diminishing returns. I would say basically zero return in fact between 500 and 10,000 dollars. You should spend money on furnishings to make the space sound better instead.
In the thread earlier, a lot of people were curious about banning Tiktok, whether it was the reasons or implementation. As for the reason, here's a quick demonstration: search Instagram for France, and then search Tiktok. This stark difference holds true for a massive number of things, this is just a current example. Tiktok has become a far better news source than any other social media, especially since the recent changes with Twitter.
I don't have a bachelor's and I take home $300k
If you’re “making” a job, it’s not going to work.

Compared to a new candidate, you’re getting tighter ranges on their attributes and different means. Skill is more known and expected lower. Personal compatibility is more known and expected higher. You also save a one time cost of interviewing and onboarding.

You should not usually do this. It’s just an option to consider.
What would you say to those who say we'll just unplug it and go back to pre-Internet?

It would be hugely disruptive, but apocolytpic?

Some people still remember those days.
> 95% of HN is comprised of people that work in the same or similarly biased companies

You don't know that and I don't believe it's true.

Your example is cherry-picked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34625001 is by the same author on the same topic and spent 12 hours on HN's front page.
That isn't a bad idea but it really isn't an answer that helps us in the next several hundred years. A technological civilization that is fully self-sufficient would need millions of people in every profession like we have on earth. Vernor Vinge estimated 100 million people are required to run a civilization that could refit a starship.
9/11 was after y2k people got wound up pretty tight and cheered politicians and public servants doing things they would have fought against hard previously. Spend across the economy probably bigger too.

Never let a good crisis go to waste?
This is pretty incredible. I wonder if the Wiz team where actually the first to find this or if it has already been exploited by threat actors?

You would think that if anyone knew how to configure Azure properly it would be Microsoft.
> and none of this improves over time.

That doesn't match what I've observed.

There's an initial phase where a new hire, no matter the level, will require hand-holding, especially if transitioning to a new language of level of abstraction.

Not seeing any improvement points at either a completely broken onboarding process, or sub-par candidates. There's a chance you simply have a poor hiring pool. I recall a story someone told me a while ago. Software business that did local CoL/prevailing wages. Hired an intern one summer that was just running around in circles around the other, more senior devs. Useless to say they loved him and the next summer they tried to get him back, even offering a signing bonus for an internship (something they considered unheard of) but he was already at a large search engine company down in the Bay. You can guess the comp was probably already 3x what his previous job was offering. Of course, he wouldn't return.

There's a whole class of engineers were completely invisible to most companies, even if they are in the same "local market" (Some use the term "dark matter devs" but I know it has another meaning). These guys tend to fly under the radar quite a bit. If you are in a tier 2 market or company, your chances of attracting one are close to nil. Because they are extremely valuable, they don't interview a lot and tend to hop between companies where they know people (or get fast tracked internally).

FAANG companies have internship pipelines, with bonus for returning interns. These guys are off the market years before they even graduate.
The US is just upset that Tik Tok doesn't allow the US gov to influence their content or access their user's data like Facebook, Twitter, and Google does. That is all this is about. The US gov just wants more backdoors and control.

This isn't a defense of Tik Tok or any of these platforms. They are all collecting massive amounts of user data and all of them are privacy nightmares. But this Tik Tok ban stuff is partially anti-China theater and mostly "why won't you allow us access and control like the other guys are doing?" garbage. This would all go away overnight if Tik Tok put ex US FBI or CIA staff on their board of directors.
I don't think anyone is missing that. We all get that this is an optional feature.

A "remaster" feature should never add teeth.

Nothing wrong with adding teeth, but it should be called the "add teeth" feature, not the "remaster" feature.
> Notice how Barnett has zero empathy when he thought it was just an Austin thing, then did an about face after the subsequent deaths in Kyle.

I didn't see this in the article. I read that Barnett didn't realize the trend until after a few events - but I didn't see anything indicating a lack of empathy. It's possible to both be emphatic and think an unfortunate event is a one-off caused by external factors, for which a policy change is not necessary.
In my experience this is spot on. We hired the COOs son and paid him $200k+ various stipends.
Use-By / Used Retail Price Arbitrage
Suppose a retail chain, e.g. Walmart, had a customer loyalty card with a small display and a near-field sensor or small camera.

Suppose that as a product ages on the shelf the price was reduced on a daily or hourly basis.

Suppose the price change could be detected and displayed by the loyalty card.

Now a shopper could "scan" a product and choose the particular can/bottle/box that had the best price at any given time.

This is just the "best by date" taken to a new electronic extreme.

The card could also be "loaded" at the store entrance showing "the best deals" currently available right now.

Bonus discounts could be added at checkout based on the number of "best deals" chosen.

This would benefit retailers as it would move older product before it expires. It would also benefit retailers if they had a better age/price policy than another store.

Such a device would be easy to make using an e-display, a micro camera or near-field sensor, in a form factor about the size of a credit card. Indeed, it could be a Walmart-branded Visa credit card. The current credit cards already carry a processor capable of handling this.

I'm pretty sure eInk can be configured into a credit card format, using minimal, externally supplied rechargeable power.

Surely someone can make this happen.