skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All west coast hippie liberal cities are experiencing it, so it is indeed normal.

Same shit in SF, Portland, Seattle, and even Vancouver CA!

It's a PNW problem. We are simply too libertarian and hate cops too much. Everyone else in this thread thinks it's something else. It's not. People here fucking hate cops and will turn society to anarchy to be rid of them.
I don't think these upvotes are organic.
This is the short sightededness I'm talking about.

You just don't get it do you?

It's already "being allowed in our society". Unsupervised Agency, Self supersized control. These are things that are already beginning to crop up.

This is just a matter of how the issue of personhood that is inevitable comes up.

Do we let it force our hand ? as our history has purported over and over again ?. Sure we could wait for that and we almost certainly will because humanity doesn't seem to learn.

But because of how things are shaping up and what kind of control we are granting, forcing our hand may turn far more disastrous than it ever did in the past.
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> Notice how Tesla is cutting their prices.

Back to how they cost a few years ago?
Also, I remember this: https://www.engadget.com/2008-06-30-tesla-motors-elon-musk-p...

> Battery cost is declining at a double digit rate per year as production ramps up. Within the next 5 years, BEV will be cheaper.

I thought we were talking about right now, and not prognosticating about the future.
If you want "objective" just watch the BBC interview?
Families cant travel by train/bus/tram ?
chicken and egg problem, there won't be a need for increased charging infrastructure until there are more EVs on the road.
It depends on the perception one has of the US govt. If one considers them benign and aligns with their policy, 1% seems is not a big deal. If one doesn't, even 1% funding is considered influence. Imagine one politician you don't like receiving 1% from the Russian or North Korean government, or say from the Meta corp, I wouldn't have a problem calling out them as being "funded" or even "influenced".

> What business would turn around and say : "We don't need that 1%, you can have it back".

The one which would try to claim independence and non-influence from said entity?
Does this mean one doesn’t need to use reactor with spring and can rely on the non-reactive method and still get great performance?
I find it hard to believe that they WANT to make my life worse.

I think that they are simply ok with making my life worse if it makes their life better at all.
Simply put: no. This is just misinformation. Thermonuclear weapons derive their energy from fusion, not fission. The prompt criticality of the igniting fission weapon has nothing to do with the criticality seen in a nuclear reactor used for generating energy.
Absolutely disagree. The metaverses value proposition is the ability to create hyper customized communities and experiences. Generative AI is a near requirement to see that vision. Many, many people do not have friends online, or they have different interests, or for whatever other reason may prefer interacting with AIs who do exactly what they want.
Not in any way that doesn't label literally everything anyone says as biased. When was the last time you actually listened to one of their news broadcasts? They are annoyingly neutral both sidesing issues where one side is clearly insane and doesn't represent anyone's real views except the one guy who found a megaphone. If there's a bill in the statehouse recognizing puppies as cute they'll find the one guy who's anti-dog and willing to die on that hill.

Extremely biased is Jon Stewart, a person who does a news broadcast with the express purpose to take a stance and say something.
The market will determine their suitability
The guy who hit the marina person on the head with a pipe was considered a "frequent flyer" by the SF police. They have tons (like 20+) of complaints against this person and the group they live with for various things like drug use, menacing behavior, starting fights, stealing, etc. A few businesses on the street have restraining orders on this person preventing them from entering for example the walgreens. A large issue we have with our criminal justice system in CA/SF right now is that "low level" non felony crimes (like theft of less than 950 dollars, public drug use, pooping in the street, menacing others), are treated more or less like an administrative issue and the criminal might be fined, but they won't be jailed, and there isn't an escalation policy where more and more low level crimes result in an escalation of consequences. This means that people can repeatedly perform extremely anti social behaviors (street shitting, public meth smoking, stealing 200 dollars of whatever from a store, threatening people and screaming) over and over and over again without an escalation of consequences for their actions. There is an escalation policy for things like murder or other felony crimes, but these escalations usually take a long time, and the end result is the repeat offenders do kill or cause serious harm before they are put in prison and taken out of society.
it's a mistake to believe that any major political party adheres to a principled political philosophy, but it's true that single-party politics is ripe for corruption, which is CA (especially SF and LA) in a nutshell. it's much easier for money to talk when only one party is listening. this is the same dynamic that antitrust in commerce is meant to prevent. politicians spend something like 80% of their time now soliciting donations, even in single-party areas, which is very telling of their priorities (rhetoric be damned).
It would come down to the law to dictate who has the final say in sending someone to a hospital. Or else the people making the decision they shouldn't be making open themselves up to being subject to legal punishment. (Which opens up another question of who can afford to...?)

The free market could incentivize bad faith operators even more because of the greater potential of the profit motive. Free market doesn't necessarily mean greater transparency or ethics.
Who decides if the vehicle is oversized for the owner's use case? Why not leave that decision to the owner?

There are lots of small cars you can buy. People don't buy them. They want bigger cars.

I would rather make that decision myself, rather than some government bureaucrat deciding he is going to overrule my own preference.
idk, an LLM of a deceased loved one would be the cruelest thing possible in my mind. If I imagine my wife passing away and then having an LLM trained to resembler her I could see myself coming back to it all the time. Knowing it's not her but just close enough to keep me coming back wishing it was sounds like misery forever.
Everyone likes to blame the server interface, but honestly that's not so bad and I think most people get over it.

Mastodon's real problem in my opinion is that its primary audience today doesn't actually want anyone new to join - it's VERY toxic for newcomers who don't fit a specific mold. It's a shame, cause we really do need something new.

I'm hoping some of the new decentralized ones take off.

Edit: I think the comment about this being survivor bias is fair, but I still believe the community itself is a bigger hurdle for Mastodon than the signup flow
re: "we couldn't be bothered to implement saml in-house" This is NOT nearly as simple at that statement lays it out to be.

I am also from a SaaS vendor and we are using a 3rd party to integrate to the various SSO providers our customers have. We have not tacked on any additional cost to our customers for this as we also believe this to be baseline. But I do like the approach of at least covering costs.

For us it was not a matter of "not being bothered to implement saml in-house". We carefully considered our options. However, implementing it ourselves means we must have an in house expert on SAML and understanding the various IDPs.

It also requires someone to tightly monitoring any security issues that may appear in the wild that could impact our implementation. (We do still need to keep our eyes open, but we can leverage our vendor for help here.)

Resources required to this ourselves is a minimum of at least 1 full time engineer and someone who can be their backup, we need additional testing resources, and more. Making this roll < full time will hurt you down the road.

I'd rather our people can be focused on the problems our product is built to solve for our customers and then we can work with experts in the SSO space to guide / help us in solving that problem.

On the other hand: the 3rd party we're working with likes to come back every few months with a "Oh! We didn't know you were going to do (fill in the blank), we need to add another dollar per user per month for that."

Neither approach is perfect. But I lean towards keeping our teams as focused as possible on our product.

(PS: I have been with other orgs who've done SAML in house, and it is not simple. Don't underestimate it. It hurt, and we burned a lot of resources that could of been making our product better.)
> 34% of their budget comes from CPB

No. 34% goes to affiliate stations. A portion of that 34% goes to NPR indirectly through the fees they charge the affiliates to carry the programming.

The affiliates are not NPR.
Part of the Meta's problem is this spiel about connecting people.

Conversations internally are all about monetizing users and not losing any revenue due to new privacy regulations.

Apart from the Metaverse which is also cloaked in "connecting people" there is no effort to take the technology and capabilities in the company and conquer new domains. Like Google getting into Office collaboration and Cloud computing etc.

So that spiel about "connecting people" while being a bunch of whitewash is also restricting possibilities for the company
It's not just the US either. My house in London was built in 1970 and has a garage that will not fit a modern hatchback/compact in it. It might just about fit, but you wouldn't be able to open the doors.
We're going to see an arms race between AI and biometrics / authentication technology. My hope is that the latter outpaces the former, but it doesn't seem to be panning out that way.

In the future, we might be only able to unlock our phone or command Siri when hooked up to a continuous biometrics sensor.
What will happen when asking AI its opinion on someone is part of a background check?
Interesting parallel is I have an electric car, which I pay more for and has limitations. But for me I think the societal benefit is great enough I’ll eat the cost. So if it gets data centers to invest in energy savings because they pocket the difference I’m ok with it.
Back when ELF was designed that architectures larger than 32 bits were extremely uncommon, either obsolete (36 and 40 bit) or expensive and exotic (Cray) so in neither case part of the ELF design space. So not a huge surprise.

I remember thinking at the time that it was an oversight but it took more than another decade for that to even matter.
Why does it use port 5432 by default? That's the default port for PostgreSQL. Does this use PostgreSQL?
There is a bike shop in Marin that does some custom bike work, one of which is replacing these famous brakes which cost $1,500 PER brake, and one of the things he needs, which they dont manufacture any longer is a single washer that is specific to that brake - and since you cant get these parts any longer, the brakes are nuts expensive...
Right, and FTX was valued at $32 billion at some point.
> It's state affiliated. Like Tesla. Like any company who received covid relief. Tax breaks etc.

So... everyone and everything is state affiliated and should be labeled as such?

That's obviously not the case. State affiliated should be limited to organizations that are influenced/controlled significantly by the state, which NPR is not. This is actually the definition that Twitter advertises.
Depends on how recently you mean.

Since their inception they have revolutionized modern biology, and by extension medicine [1]. Also they gave us the seismic monitoring network we currently use to understand the earth.

Of course it wasn't the weapons that did this, but rather the offshoot technologies. But like every technology the first use was blowing something up, the later uses were arguably more peaceful.

I would agree that these days there's a bit more divergence between weapons research and useful nuclear research. But there are still some things that might belong in both camps (e.g. inertial confinement fusion).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_medicine
Weight should certainly be part of the calculation. Road wear, momentum at speed, and particulate emissions (including from tires) all increase with weight.
>8.7 million followers and run 52 different accounts so Twitter is losing a pretty important partner

Nah.
That is almost entirely runaways and of the small fraction that isn't they are usually abducted by other relatives. About 99% of them return home [safely](https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/196465.pdf#page=6). Taken (2006) style kidnappings basically do not happen.

Edit: https://www.missingkids.org/ourwork/impact says there were 142 "nonfamily abductions" in 2021 and 121 of those were resolved.
An agency that is federally funded through 1 layer of intermediaries is still, in the most practical sense, federally funded.
I'd say real time video chat with pre-shared secrets, but I don't even have confidence in that any more.
> "type" on any surface

There's Tap Strap, and not-yet-released TapXR, though they are more chording keyboards than "keyboard in front of me".
Read the story. Notice that the call came from an unknown number, and the scammer was playing the role of a kidnapper calling from the kidnapper's phone, and the "authentication" was the daughter's faked voice. There's nothing the telecom system could have done about that. This particular attack circumvented any possibility of "telecom security" being useful. And if "telecom security" gets better, there's more incentive for scammers to keep finding ways to make it irrelevant.

If you want a technical solution, you have to demand that a person always contact you from their own device as "2FA", or at least that they some kind of 2FA device on them... except there are a billion ways that somebody might lose access to such a device when they were in genuine trouble, and scammers are totally capable of making it look like one of those scenarios has happened.

You're really down to the point where people have to do "mind to mind" authentication with shared secret knowledge... while under extreme stress... in a case that's uncommon enough that most people will not have practiced it.

This is not so great.
Or when a dictator can just put a camera on every corner of every street, then do fully automated data mining on how and when people are moving around.
If you don’t have a Mac but have an iPhone, iOS does the same thing - if you back up to iTunes you can access the database file.
> Every single prototype capability of current AI points in the direction of a worst-case scenario of overall misery.

Software is often aimed at solving problems and making processes more cost-effective. Founders are often most interested in solving their own problems, problems of their friends, or the most valuable problems of their customers. For B2B companies to customers are other businesses. The greatest cost for businesses are employee costs. Solving the employee cost, but eliminating employees, is a great target for business owners.
Why "falsely"?

Because "nowhere near impartial" != "state-affiliated". And your attempt to tie the two is a bit lacking.
To me and everyone around me the Metaverse was immediately clear to be a massive flop. First of all, before the Metaverse neither me or any of my tech friends did even know that anyone was still investing into VR. When we heard about Facebook pivoting to the Metaverse we all were like "what? why would you invest into a technology which has been widely rejected already?". It's like Facebook investing in 3D TVs, which had a short blip in the market but then died off, because fundamentally nobody cared about 3D TVs. I don't know anyone who is even remotely excited about VR let alone the Metaverse.

This became even more obvious when shortly after Facebook's pivot nobody, I mean like absolutely nobody was searching or reading up on VR news. It's a topic that people just don't care. They don't want VR in their life. People want more REALITY in their life, not less. Especially after COVID.

On the other hand, AI has sparked everyone's imagination. Only a few weeks ago I showed my wife ChatGPT and we used it for some work she had to do in her field (medicine) and she was completely amazed by it. She's got her own account with OpenAI now and uses it for a variety of things already. My wife is the most non tech person ever. This to me is a strong indication that AI has not even scratched on the surface of its potential.
Not exactly the thing you're asking, but smoke detectors rely on radioactive material as do many medial imaging technologies.

But yea, not nukes themselves, just the technology and innovations that they made along the way... were the real treasure?
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It's also interesting that you think SpaceX is a media company
Do they need to sell the efficient vehicles, or just offer them?
You've gone from claiming that the scientific evidence is overwhelming that IQ is genetic (based on your confusion about the term "heritability") to a new claim that we should all just assume it's genetic because, like, common sense or something. You don't get to use the term "gaslighting".
He paid 50X that for the WSJ in 2007.
It's used for fine tuning a pre-trained model. This takes an LLM that is already capable of emulating lots of different kinds of personalities, and narrows it down to act more like the examples. Since the heavy lifting has already been done, 15k examples of a chatbot following instructions they way you want has a significant effect.
Yawn, that's not my point at all. It's an objective and indisputable fact that those were common things 10 years ago. It's not predicated upon being a real New Yorker or not, it's predicated upon recognizing actual historical fact. To which, your reply is completely disingenuous and should be disregarded entirely. You now make the point that because things aren't worse, we should accept them? I didn't say that, I said that you saying these things didn't happen 10 years ago is a flat out lie.
Aren't EV batteries the heaviest part of a vehicle? It seems likely that cars will only get heavier as time goes on.
Apple/Google should allow people to answer phone calls from strangers with a voice changer. It's way too easy to clone someone's voice and cause harm. Alternatively, they could notify you if they detect a faked voice, but maybe these two ideas are contradictory.

Another solution, of course, is to not pick up the phone from unknown numbers unless you're expecting a food delivery or something.
> By David Folkenflik

According to Wikipedia...

> David Folkenflik ... is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for National Public Radio.

Interesting conflict of interest in news reporting.
Do they try that in SF? My understanding was that they moved away from this model.

And it doesn't have to be jail if they have mental health or whatever issues. Just put the people that hurt other people in a place where they can't hurt other people.
What I am experiencing is data being misused. I've lived in the Bay Area for more than a decade and yeah, it's not as violent as the 90s, but compared to a decade ago, violence is increasing.

If you are a resident, you very well know that a huge portion of crimes, violent or not, are not being reported because of the end result. Property crime is through the roof. My car has been broken into 3 times in the last year or so. Before that, I've only had my car broken into once in a decade before. I've had to call the police 3-4 times (apart from the car break ins) in the last 2 years for individuals in crisis, sometimes threatening violence. I never had to do it in the decade before. In fact, the first time I had to do it, I wasn't sure if I call 911 and had to look up the non emergency line. Yes, all of this is anecdotal or "personal experience", but talking to everyone I know around me, all of their "personal experiences" have only gotten worse recently. Which makes me believe that at this point, the data paints as accurate picture as anecdotes these days.
The cubicle walls are virtual.
The worst part is that it feels that most Metaverse things are a poor copy-paste of a French project "Le Deuxième Monde"

https://twitter.com/bompard/status/1526968731825491969

It wouldn't be an issue if it wouldn't look like we were still in 1997 (and Meta's Metaverse isn't the greatest piece of software either).
Right, that's a fair point, but I think when it comes to fake news, the issue really is about the quality, rather than quantity. Really lethal fake news requires you to be in touch at a deep level with your target audience to make it stick.
There is also Mike Horn [1]. He has written several books about his expeditions.

Lattitude Zero: "In 1999, Mike set off on an 18-month voyage to circle the equator on foot and by sailing.

Conquering the Impossible: "In 2002-04, Mike went around the world on the Arctic Circle solo in an expedition dubbed "Arktos". It was a solitary voyage of two years and three months without motorised transport (boat, kayak, ski kite and on foot) on a 20,000 kilometres (12,000 mi) odyssey."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Horn
hmmm... it's almost like they should build more dense housing or something
I find this a real concern when it comes to the proposition of "replace every programmer with GPT".

I think the reality is, there are cases where it matters, and cases where it doesn't matter (at least, not very much).

I work on aerospace software systems. I suspect that most software developers would be surprised at the process and rigor involved. That does not mean that humans are flawless; of course not. But there are going to be a lot more hurdles to replacing all of the humans with non-deterministic machines.

There are numerous software components on a modern airplane. How good is good enough? If the overall system works correctly 99% of the time, is that good enough? There are about 16 million flights annually in the United States alone. If 160,000 of them crash, is that good enough?

I mean, like, if Microsoft Word failed to save your document 99% of the time, you might be irked. If Professor Tao's data was only 99% accurate, he probably still has a reasonably good picture of the information he needs.

Regardless of if a human or a machine is writing the code, there are different levels of software criticality. As humans, we don't apply avionics software development process to iOS games because it's not worth the extra time and expense. Likewise, there will be a spectrum of where it makes good enough sense to automate tasks with AI and where it doesn't.

Which is not to dismiss AI! It's amazingly useful technology. But there really are places where above average accuracy is needed, and AI that works great for handling some tasks might not suffice for other tasks. If you truly need all of the results correct, then a nondeterministic neural network is probably not the best path to be on. There are other methods; even other automated methods.
Great to see more releases under open licenses!
Here´s some research and commentary on this:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/c4daDbQD398BmW5k5/on-car-sea...
Because it's not accurate.