skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well okay, if you think violence isn't significantly occurring then help draw that line anyway.

Even just crowding beyond capacity into a room, or shoving signs in front of speakers, or blocking people's way, would be treated as a crime if it was done to interrupt a stockholder's meeting. Do you think these actions are okay in protests or do you think they should be stopped?

How close, how many, and how loud, would the people be allowed to be? Are they allowed to shove into every elevator with you to deny you any potential "platform" to talk, or are they limited to only disrupting sanctioned meetings? Can they follow you home at night, or to the movies?

Can they simply scream incoherently, or are they limited to actually speaking words to be treated as protestors? Are amplified sirens allowed, and when?

Given that masked protestors have and frequently do attack people at rallies, and threats are easily implied from masked people screaming at you, would you be fine asking police to follow the usual (pre 2010) rules on masking at political events and either unmask people or make them leave?

And lastly, are these rules that you think are reasonable and should apply in both directions, regardless of which side protests what?
You're absolving her of all blame because John wanted to be there. As if her own personal responsibility for whether or not she should be in the studio with The Beatles starts and ends with what John says, not with her own ability to read the room, to understand that she's not welcome. That is, by reasonable standards, implying that she lacks personal agency. That she cannot make the decision for herself and thus is not responsible or deserving of the ire she earned while at the studio. Except she is her own self, she was serving her own purpose by being there, even if it was at least in part in reverence of John's desires.

We know for a fact that at least one Beatle was annoyed because Paul has plainly said her presence was unwelcome. I'm certain he was also quite annoyed with John, but he was independently annoyed by her being there. In fact I think most people would get quickly annoyed with Yoko being around them. Her "performances" are obnoxious and narcissistic.
Their compliance process is quite abysmal.

This is actually exactly what happened with us. After creating a new account with the intention of exploring the ARM64 services, our account was unexpectedly suspended. I contacted them to have information on the specific concerns regarding my customer information and the reason for deactivating my account. Unfortunately, we did not receive any response to our inquiries.
make smaller cars

getting more people on electric scooters would do a lot of good too, if there was safe infrastructure to ride without getting hit by an oversized pickup. The city of Paris is doing the right thing here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/10/20/paris-ma...
We’ve all seen those projects
Although not as effective as deceptive placebos. I personally suspect that the subset of people for which honest placebos work well overlaps significantly with the same subset of people who already believe "pill = good" above the expert advise of their doctors.
I thought the only way in the US to prove your address of residence is collecting your last few phone bills and bank statements. It was a huge LOL moment, when I first heard about that.
are you referring to the Rockchip RK3588?
No, but nobody's going to use it. They're gonna Spring Boot all the things anyway, no matter how small the task, because "you might need it in the future". CRUD API with 4 endpoints? Spring Boot! Logging server? Spring Boot! That's where the magic is.
It always pays off to look for suspects close to home but I would definitely not rule out an outsider that monitors social media.
Self-hosted?
I went to the bay area once for vacation, so I have no real horse in this race besides I wish the best for humanity.

Its tough to balance reading https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-crime-Che... that kinda shows crime is average for a large US city with the Bell Riots in the DS9 storyline https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots as an outsider.

Either way, shouldn't San Fran have plenty of money from all the tech there and plenty of extra office real estate from covid to try and put a dent in all the circumstances that lead up to someone needing to steal or getting addicted to drugs? Probably too optimistic of a take ...
The most frustrating part about the conversation is that politics takes away the fundamental fact that what is happening in the city is not normal and there is no one else to blame for it other than the city officials, not the pandemic, not the wfh tech workers, just the city.
Maybe we could invent a place to put criminals so they are away from regular law abiding folks. This might even be a solved problem.

[Yes /sarcasm obviously]
My old early/mid 90's washer Maytag dryer set was starting to fall apart few years ago so they were replaced with an LG washer and dryer set with WiFi. The only use I can ever envision a washer needing WiFi for is telling me the remaining time and when the cycle is done.

Before I even connected the WiFi I did some research to see if the washer/dryer could be monitored from a 3rd party app. Nope. The washer has to talk to an LG server. So I poke around some more and find that there is an API for LG appliances, cool right? Nope. You need to be a "valued partner." Apparently paying $2000 for the two machines is not valued by LG.

In the end the washer and dryer remain dumb appliances because I control MY appliances. Go die in a fire LG. And that goes for every other IoT e-waste manufacturer.
Interesting, that you use a mixture of env vars, flags and files for running the binaries :-).
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> I have no PayPal account, and their 3rd party verification system only allows passport from your country of residence (signup requires providing a contact address and they pre fill using this address; you can’t change the passport country)

Sounds like a good thing to do?

My current hoster in Germany made a surprise call and asked me what the name of the hotel near the address I provided was. This after I submitted the order and before they accepted.
Right. Big company disease caused Intel to miss the biggest CPU market and relegated to big metal servers because they got undercut. It’s still a miss for the business and the CEO regardless of how managers/VPs measure themselves. CEOs are supposed to take a longer term strategic view. Since the mobile revolution Intel stock peaked at 2x from before 2007 while Qualcomm has done about 2x better than them. Of course part of that is cellular chips / licensing. But there’s also other CPUs that were competing with Qualcomm. Maybe that’s why Intel didn’t bother to compete (Qualcomm SoC is CPU+cellular if I recall correctly).

It’s still a lesson on the importance of keeping a foothold for the lowest volume market even if you’re not making any money as long as the cost is sustainable - cutting every unprofitable part of the business leaves you for disruption. Same thing happened to Microsoft with smartphones and Google with social.
I think we're passed due for some kind of 2FA for the phone. Sometimes my bank or credit card company will call and try to sell me shit and I tell them I have no proof of who they are hang up. Too bad for them.
No, but I'm 58 years old. Hearing loss is just a Thing That Happens sometimes.
This list contains a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News#Notable_events
(Not all of those items are made up by Breitbart, but some, like the NC wildfires, are.)
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For who? the US has one of the highest recidivism rates in the world
Good. It's clear now that Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit their addiction to it. I think every major news outlet should have their own ActivityPub compatible service, essentially as a modern replacement for RSS.
Bleeding edge tech is often used to satisfy our prurient desires. I am quite certain this is one of the directions AI is headed.
This felt like the outcome of being surrounded by sycophants. What's funny is the reasoning about owning the platform and not being dependent on Apple and Google makes perfect sense. The outcome was just silly.
I completely agree with you about them failing to be accurate for the various reasons you've explained (hallucinating, limited social conventions, etc).

Unfortunately, I've heard enough people believe the hype that this is actually "synthesizing sentience into the machine" or some other buzz speak.

I have met researchers of AI at credible universities who believe this kind of thing, completely oblivious to how ChatGPT or other models actually work. All it takes is one of them talking out of their butt to the right person in government or law enforcement and you've got people at some level believing the output of AI.

Hell, even my father, who is a trained engineer with a master's degree, can compute complex math and studies particle physics for "fun" had to be thoroughly convinced that ChatGPT isn't "intelligent". He "believed" for several days and was sharing it wildly with everyone until I painfully walked him through the algorithm.

There is a serious lack of diligence happening for many folks and the marketing people are more than happy to use that to drive hype and subtly lie about the real capabilities to make a sale.

I am often more concerned about the people using AI than the algorithm itself.
Baseband exploits.
Is there not a single product expert leading any company in big tech anymore? What’s going on.

Growing up I was used to there being more useful and fun tech gadgets than I could ever afford. Now it’s like unless they own your entire online presence they don’t want your money. Give me that dumb iPod v1.0 which gets sand in the wheel and lasts an hour on battery but for VR. The idea was all your music on the go and it met that goal.

For VR it should be hands free/hands minimal portable productivity. Give that shitty resolution and battery life. I would take navigating YouTube, PDFs, email at the lowest res feasible and 2 hour batteries and isn’t gigantic and prevents you from normal activities. Don’t build a multi billion dollar platform.
CPI includes housing costs!

Edit: I misread GP's comment as Housing Cost, not House Price. Though in my defense, I have seen some people imply Housing Cost isn't included.
It’s spelled “Seuss”, and originally intended to be pronounced “soiss” as it would in German.
I believe the assertion is "just because you don't know ow how to do it doesn't mean it can't be done."

It turns out several generations of USB controllers did "undefined" things when presented with "undefined" behavior on the data pins. Sometimes "undefined" was "just doesn't work", sometimes it was "put data in physical memory, bypassing the MMU and it's data protection features."

I've never seen it myself, but I worry someone out there has figured out how to do the same thing over the power lines.
> but I would definitely not rule out an outsider that monitors social media.

The part I quoted claims that she doesn't have any public social media, so that wouldn't work.

That's assuming we're getting the real story, of course.
They have no other abilities in the first place. The adjectives are just as meaningless.

"Ask" it about academic articles and their authors for {topic} and to summarize a body of research. The names might even be real people, but they won't have written the article, which probably doesn't exist. What it will do is sound like an article title, and to anyone unfamiliar with that body of work, will sound plausible.

If your area of inquiry doesn't require valuable or reliable information as an output, sure I guess they have value. But for anything that's hard and matters, it's a parlor trick unfit for use.
I think you're engaging in some dichotomous thinking. I'm not making the claim you'd have to have "control over the entire process". What I'm cautioning against is just looking to the tail end of a process and assuming that's where you need to add leverage.

Even in your examples, yes, you have to work with other teams. "Control" doesn't mean you have dictatorial control over those teams. But it does sometimes mean you have build relationships, leverage what you can, and explain the value to those that do have some modicum of control. The idea that we just throw our hands up and jump to workarounds is often an excuse for taking the short-term easy at the expense of a better long-term solution.
Theoretically, choosing a JVM language with a good culture seems like a very attractive option. Scala has its own cultural issues, but maybe Kotlin gives you most of the nice parts of Scala without attracting the type astronauts? Maybe Clojure is an option as well, if you're willing to give up static typing? I'm leery of a language with the full power of Lisp macros, but from a distance, the Clojure culture seems to be very pragmatic.
NPR quits Twitter after disputing its “government-funded media” label
Because it's not clear what "lifetime" means. In practice what it means is "until the company is sold" or restructured or whatever.

But the implication is that it's for your lifetime.

How does your lifetime license save you money over just engaging in a straight-up purchase?
I provided them with my passport and all the other documents they requested and they still banned me with no recourse, so yeah, their signup process is the worst I have ever experienced.
The malicious charger can pretend to be keyboard, mouse and screen, and just remote control the phone. Or just a keyboard, if you want to an easier implementation. At least Android phones are completely usable this way, with universal keyboard/mouse support and widespread USB-C display support. Without any confirmation steps.
Antidepressant/SSRIs are a much bigger one. The actual experimental evidence for these drugs, contrasted against placebo, is shockingly weak. Moreso, SSRIs come with tremendous side effects. At the very least we should be making an effort to gradually phase these out of society. In reality, we've gone the other direction and floored it - with SSRI prescriptions growing exponentially.
There is space for placebos in conventional medicine. Doctors CAN and are allowed to prescribe placebos.

However medicine strives to maintain a separation between an actual body of scientific knowledge and placebo treatments. So, yes, while a placebo can be effective nobody is going to transcribe that placebo onto actual scientific knowledge as if it wasn't a placebo.

Right, so antibiotics work as a placebo, but am I going to put that knowledge down into textbooks that antibiotics can cure the common cold just because such knowledge effectively works as a placebo? No.
Kudos to Databricks! Anyone has insights into benchmark & real-world quality?

From https://huggingface.co/databricks/dolly-v2-12b#benchmark-met..., it seems like dolly-v2-12b's benchmark results are actually slightly worse than dolly-v1-6b.

A commercially viable instruction-tuned LLM is still a huge deal.
Oh no, accountability!
Spain does that
Not it's visible because the victims have more money than the average one, and they are not used to be attacked, so it makes a lot of noise.
For real. Contracts are not ironclad unbreakable deals with the devil even in America.

The question is, will you step up and fight for your fair portion? If the company has 100 diehard customers affected by this and 99 of them don't fight it, then it's easy to appease the 1 while still coming out ahead.
Just like that someone can afford to make $200k in the first place: someone else is paying those people and their assistants to get things done.
It's too bad we don't get a real experiment in trying to run a social network like Twitter on a skeleton crew. It would have been interesting to see the impact of sane moderation rules, but on 75% staff reduction.
My question is if this will eventually backfire on kidnappers, because if this escalates enough if might create the expectation that it's not real, so a genuine kidnapper can't distinguish themselves credibly from a virtual kidnapper, because what previously was credible proof of life (the voice of the victim) is no longer so.
If I power off my phone, I assume it will be okay?
It doesn't. A steel mill produces 200,000 tons of steel per year (at the low end) and consumes 770 Kwh of energy per ton, which works out to 0.154 Twh per year. Post-merge ethereum uses 0.0026 Twh, so about 1% the energy usage of one steel mill

Some produce up to 3,000,000 tons, so the ethereum network would consume about 0.1% as much energy as one of those

edit: Bitcoin for comparison consumes somewhere around 100 Twh, so is comparable to 1000 steel mills (which might be more than the number of actual steel mills in operation globally?)
Like I'm going to carry photos of traffic lights and crosswalks everywhere I go.
That’s true of most crimes, where it’s usually someone with a close connection to the victim: friends, family, enemies, etc.
When I ask it about Swift, I'm often surprised by how good it is.

When I ask it about Objective-C it bullshits and fabricates APIs.

When I ask it about python or bash scripts it is astonishingly good
I agree, but I also think the marketing around the ideas wasn't good either. You need public mindshare to build an ecosystem like this, and a lot of the potential audience never understood the point of it. To this day, I have no idea what problem the Metaverse is supposed to solve.
I'm much more concerned about dictators than I am about scammers.

Some countries have already successfully rewritten the history of less than 30 years ago with surveillance and media control.

What will happen when they can also control all digital reality? They can invent an uprising of millions of people that never actually happened, and there will be photo, audio, and video "evidence".

AGI is scary, but it's not immediate. I think companies like OpenAI are wrecklessly pushing us toward immediate societal collapse.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is now facing a fine in Germany bigger than what it’s worth
> that's sort of looking in hindsight at the struggles that tech has and the unknown market

There is innovating, trend following and what I’ll term trend completion.

Innovation creates new categories. Crypto was innovative. It looks like a losing bet, but nobody can doubt it was daring. Trend completion doesn’t create new categories, but it delivers on a promise. The iPhone is in this category. A product delivered against the incompleteness preceding it. (And synthesising categories.)

Absent that tangibility or specificity you have trend following. Facebook didn’t create the VR/AR category. It hasn’t delivered a product. It hasn’t even described a uniquely compelling vision. It jumped into a fad because others were doing it and then flailed around helplessly while executives penned PowerPoints.
I'm sure those will all be serious problems (or already are problems) but I think they pale in comparison to the potential upsides. This could be the biggest jump in productivity since the industrial revolution.

Managed properly, it could lead to what is essentially a utopia.
I wonder why he doesn't have a secretary. Isn't he like one of the top mathematicians in the world? Why the heck are they having him do drudge work?
I've never heard it anywhere as a USian. It seems the type of obscure and redundant word that people bring out once per decade. Without looking it up, I could guess horn refers to phone and swoggled is another swindled, so to hornswoggle is to phone-scam.
Naming things is one of the two hard problems in computer science along with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.
938 crimes per square mile is quite low considering how long people have been there.
But there's a bloody big difference between being an accountant and driving a van for Jeff. That's the direction AI pushes things. "Professional"-tertiary makes up a quarter of UK jobs, and they're among the highest paying.

Half of these jobs could vanish into AI in a few years.

I'm not sure what this does to the aspirations of the next generation, but countries rely on their income tax revenues to pay for things. Nuking revenue from your highest earning eighth (and compressing the wages of the others) seems like it might be a significant issue.
You would have guessed wrong. Most devices, especially multi-vendor android devices, have exploitable subsystems which never touch the UI visible OS layer.
Why? I'm happy to blame the city official partially, but isn't it significant that SF, more than other big cities, was dependent on tech tenants who have largely gone remote?
UW Madison neglected to warn the public when a researcher got infected with H5N1
In 2019 a scientist got infected with a lab created
Bird Flu virus VN1203HA(N158D/N224K/ Q226L/T318I)/CA04 in a BSL3 lab. But University of Wisconsin-Madison decided to not inform the public or follow proper quarantine procedures.

The virus they were studying was the same same virus that kicked off the 2014 Gain of Function pause. The study created an airborne version of H5N1 avian influenza virus that spreads between ferrets.
sure you can, that's what they do in J burg. All the wealthy white people have electric security fences around their house and private security guards to protect them.
Money quote (for me):

> Perhaps once Twitter became the place where journalists get their news, it was only a matter of time before Twitter, rather than editors-in-chief, decided which news was fit to print.

Yup. That concentration of journalists has made Twitter a gigantic echo chamber for newspeople, which is hugely problematic for news in general (re stuff like impartiality, objectivity and perhaps above all diversity of perspectives), even without Elon’s idiosyncratic definitions of “freedom of speech”.
FAANG hires 2 types of people: people who are good and people who are good at working the system. A lot of people who are good at working the system worked their way up to VP of very little, but even that comes with VP pay. It happens on the IC track, too. There are people who have big, handwavey ideas, but in hindsight, didn't deliver anything concrete other than google docs.
> … no one else to blame for it other than the city officials, not the pandemic, not the wfh tech workers, just the city.

People elect the government they deserve.
JetBrains has one of the less obnoxious licensing models, but it still prevents me from considering giving them any money.
While I agree, often times the places that need the most heat are those with snow. So it may still be better to optimize for cooling in many cases.