skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would cause more harm than it would prevent. People calling from other people's phones is a common and necessary thing.

Trying to detect faked voices would make sense.
It seem to me that Google at first was focused on making the best products but ended up in a very similar place. Absolute power corrupt absolutely.
Twitter has recently been playing cat and mouse with its API access -- why wouldn't these news sites just block twitter's RSS agents?
I recall seeing a tablet on a stand in an examining room at one doctor's office, and the contraption was turned to the wall and shut off, and I wondered what that was about - some sort of diagnostic doohickey? Should I turn it on and see if it will take my pulse? I managed to resist, however. The doctor ignored it.

Ooooh - Ads! Of course. Still had to sit there waiting for 20 minutes. There should be a rule that you get to start playing with equipment after waiting 15. "Ah, found the lube! Now we're cooking!"
It's always telling when people with narratives to push don't directly answer questions.
They're right, though. Somewhere between the "Matt Tabbi truther" and "Dorsey supremacist" mindset, we can all acknowledge that Twitter is not an unbiased news source. It's a bunch of people competing for attention in a sinkhole that rewards the worst contributors most consistently. Even as a liberal progressive, the caliber of extremist 140 character takes Twitter has promoted drives me crazy. It precludes meaningful discussion and forces interactions into the outskirts, which (as the parent is joking about) ironically happens less on federated platforms.
We have government issues ID cards, but we don’t have free government issued ID cards as far as I know, which is one of the problem with these voter ID laws.
> By definition

I was going by technicality, but am aware of those numbers and agree. Also, it's my belief that it should be applied to all companies receiving government funds, or shouldn't be applied at all.
this looks great. what is 'çreative' doing under the hood?
I’m confused, to me it seems that MongoDB is also open-source. Their new license is basically just a better agpl. I only point this out because the blog post makes a point of saying it’s not open source.
Emotions are an association between "fake" and "real".

We can take advantage of this with objectivity: if you have an objective perspective on emotion itself - as a process that transfers data between imaginary thought and physical feeling - then you can alter the surrounding circumstances of emotions, and actively pursue specific thoughts that are connected to desirable feelings.

But the utility doesn't end there: you can also directly hijack the process itself.

Emotion is only truly understood from an implicit inference perspective: the explicit definition I just gave is not provable the way a mathematical theorem is. The only available evidence is from experiencing the result. It's a soft science, but it's still useful enough to construct reliable tools.

Here's my testing method: breathing.

I know that the physical act of breathing is not functionally different, whether it's intentional or automatic. I know that physically, my lungs are filtering oxygen from my environment into my blood (with a breath in), and CO2 from my blood into my environment (with a breath out). Simply breathing does not have a noticeable effect on my emotional state, save for providing a baseline of functional cardiovascular support. I can feel happiness, anger, depression, pain, euphoria, or any other physical sensation: all the time breathing in and out with the same fundamental process. These elements of the breathing process have been explicitly proven, much like a mathematical model.

So how can breathing hijack emotion? Story.

The associations that an emotion is made of are volatile. They can be changed. We all experience emotional change that is unintentional: based on the experience of our surrounding circumstances. We can also make emotional changes that are intentional: based on the experience of our own imagination: by playing out a story.

Here's an example: Imagine the feeling of ice on your skin. It feels cold to the touch, even the air nearby it. The rest of your body is comfortably warm: blissfully unaware of the chilling sensation from ice in that one place. Your lungs are not for filtering oxygen and CO2 anymore: now they draw in that sensation of cold touch, and filter out the sensation of warm comfort. Each breath in draws another lungful of chill into the bloodstream. Your heart pumps, and your blood meticulously draws out (like the CO2 before) the warm comfort from the body, to be replaced by the chilling touch of ice. Each breath out releases that warmth out into the air around you, to be scattered away in the wind. Do you feel it? Now replace the cold touch with heat. Excitement. Peace.

The Rolling Stones told us that love is, "just a kiss away"; but it's even closer than that: you can find it in a breath.
The tax would be an incentive to give it a good think about what you actually need to be driving.

Need and want are not the same thing. We for example need to breathe clean air. You seem to want to drive a big vehicle. If you need to drive a big vehicle then ok, just pay to offset for the added pollution.
For anyone else wondering why each word in this is capitalised:

“Despite having no lyrics, the album (by way of its song titles) follows the story of the Great Leap Forward in Mao Zedong-era China, more specifically recounting the Great Sparrow Campaign, a mass killing of sparrows (along with rats, flies and mosquitoes) that fed on a portion of the harvest and were seen as pests.” [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Red_Heart_Shines_Towar...
I find it a little odd that an article which is, at least incidentally, about the dangers of sharing too much information about yourself publicly on the internet in this dawning age of AI-assisted scams, is itself so heavily plastered with unrelated random facebook and instagram photos of the victims.
>95.0%: SQLite

I'm a bit late to the party (also, why is everyone standing in a circle with their pants down) but, does no one care about high availability with zero data loss failover, and zero downtime deployments anymore?
Why? What is the advantage of running arm over x86 on servers?
> a 51% attacker is disincentivized to perform said attack because doing so would make the prize lose its value

North Korea and Russia heavily use crypto. If either does something super stupid, the Congress could create a credible commitment to repeatedly launching attacks on their payment networks, including Bitcoin. This isn’t some far-fetched threat.
I just listed to a podcast (Freakonomics M.D.) about the effect raising the minimum wage in nursing homes; paying more lead to better outcomes.

One of the theories was that less turnover meant that the caregivers were more familiar with a particular patient and therefore more likely to notice when something changed. Someone coming in cold might not realize that "confused and incontinent" was not the normal state for this particular patient.

An AI that chats with the patient every day could definitely notice changes. Of course it has dystopian overtones - it sounds a lot like the baseline test in Blade Runner 2049, or the reintegration droid for ex-imperials in Star Wars.
We will have true self-driving cars only when you wake up one morning, hop on your car and ask it “take me to work” and it will reply “don’t feel like driving today, you drive yourself”.
The label carries a lot of weight that drags down NPRs integrity. Musk knows that, NPR knows that - NPR is doing the right thing rejecting the label.
> I work on aerospace software systems. I suspect that most software developers would be surprised at the process and rigor involved.

I did this once, a fuel estimation program for 747's, the degree of understanding of the problem required to create something that would pass review was off the scale compared to any other program that I've ever written. It is also the only time that the customer wanted to get it right rather than that they were looking at what it cost (because the savings would pay for the development many times over this was probably less of an issue anyway). I'd love to be able to always work like that.
Pipeline.green: GitHub actions out-of-the-box observability
Why does my Github workflow take forever to run? Why does my team struggle to release features? Why is my pipeline always broken?

Try https://www.pipeline.green/ to get Github actions dashboards and stats to instantly find pipeline bottlenecks
I have thought a power bank would be a good enough condom - for my threat vectors, that is.
Yeah, a dedicated button right on the remote for it. Love it, comes in very useful.

It was also handy to annoy my GF with, before she cottoned on to it.
~5% See https://senalnews.com/en/research/how-many-us-households-cho...
PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype
strawman.
> have dozens of windows with hundreds of tabs open all the time

Sigh, seems like I'm a dilettante.
For some medications those side effects can be severe though - I think there's some rationale in actually purposefully leveraging the placebo effect without giving the patient a medication that could harm them.
Future US made IOT devices will mostly be ARM Cortex M33 and M0+ microcontrollers. They have the latest cryptography and safety features built-in and nice libraries. It's surprisingly difficult to find out what fabs build them. Maybe someone here can chime in?
The contrast of the site isn't too bad if you press ctrl+a. /s
> Labeling news organization as "government-funded" is less informative than labeling them as "propaganda" or "editorializing".

By your own reasoning, those other labels would be redundant. Whereas "government-affiliated" makes the reader aware of a specific kind of bias that not all media entities are subject to.
NPR being state affiliated is false. NPR being funded by the state is not, but it leads people to believe that it's affiliated with the state, which is false.
Why Creativity Trumps IQ
The AI boom has been 6 years of massively-overhyped vaporware followed by 6 months of massively-overhyped services that occasionally deliver the goods. People need some time to recalibrate.
> but are the hallucinations always wrong to the same degree

No, but yes largely because you're asking the same types of questions with the same rough parameters, so it'll make up roughly the same sort of thing (ie, citations) again.

The issue is that the LLM is trained to generate plausible words, not to recite which piece of training data is also the best source. If you want to make an app using "AI" you need to target what it can do well. If you want it to write citations you need to give it your list of references and tell it to use only those.

> I'm imagining an investigator with reams and reams of information about a murder case and suspect. Then, prompting an LLM trained on all the case data and social media history and anything else available about their main suspect, "where did so-and-so hide the body?". Would the response, being what's most probable based on the data, be completely worthless or would it be worth the investigator's time to check it out?

That specific question would produce results about like astrology, because unless the suspect actually wrote those words directly it'd be just as likely to hallucinate any other answer that fits the tone of the prompt.

But trying to think of where it would be helpful ... if you had something where the style was important, like matching some of their known, or writing similar style posts as bait, etc wouldn't require it to make up facts so it wouldn't.

And maybe there's an English suspect taunting police and using the AI could let an FBI agent help track them down by translating cockney slang, or something. Or explaining foreign idiom that they might have missed.

Anything where you just ask the AI what the answer is, is not realistic.

> Would the investigator have any idea if the response is worthless or not?

They'd have to know what types of things it can't answer, because it's not like it can be trusted when it can be shown to not have hallucinated, it's that it is not and can't be used as a information-recall-from-training tool and all such answers are suspect.
People who watch too much news tend to be the unhappiest people, and for some reason, they like to spread that unhappiness and negativity around...like a zombie infection or something.
Completely agree. I love games like Beat Saber and Half-Life: Alyx. But it doesn't work for fine text and it's very very hard to make VR presence feel like anything other than a game.
Totally agree! If you're in Portland, join us for Papers We Love in person!

https://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-pdx

Next meetup is Weds 10 May. We've been reading data-oriented papers recently (CRDTs/AutoMerge, Delta Lake, C-Store, etc) but we'll likely do some of these papers soon. Hope you can join us.
Or maybe everyone should define and share in a very personal circle a "proof word" when in distress. Our family has already done so.
I think watching on laptops is increasingly rare as streaming services have moved to TV-app-first product development
You keep dialing back the definition of "fail" to mean "to go out of business."

In common usage its meaning is far broader -- it can also mean e.g. "to screw up spectacularly" (in a way that cost the company very significantly, even if it isn't forced out of business as a result).
Once spring changes over their internal implementation, yes. In the meanwhile there are already Loom-aware frameworks out there like Helidon Nima.
Lena is by qntm, but was featured on Charles' blog. It's very good.
Also I don't really understand what the difference between the tiagra and Ultegra brake levers are except in comparison to like bottom rung stuff. But to each other I can't seem to tell a difference.
NYPD robocops: Hulking, 400-lb robots will start patrolling New York City
The TV should have a setting for this which you can turn off.
> Many people, including many people on this site (and, yes, including myself) wouldn't think twice about plugging into an available port if they need a charge. Maybe I don't plug into an unlabeled port in some random location where it doesn't look like it belongs, but honestly I wouldn't think twice about charging at a designated area at a conference.

This is the solution to that problem:

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-3rd-Data-Blocker-Pack/dp/B00...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-NA-USB-C-Data-Blocker/dp/B08...

https://www.amazon.com/PortaPow-Data-Blocker-USB-C-Converter...
> We consume lots of media, just on laptops and tablets instead.

Everytime I meet a no TV guy they have a laptop or a 37 inch monitor in the corner of a room somewhere with a comfy chair. It wasn't they had no TV, they just had a crappy TV.
Fed expects banking crisis to cause a recession this year, minutes show
Consider looking at Bear, who seem to have a workaround?

https://bear.app/faq/Import%20%26%20export/Migrate%20from%20...

My personal experience with Hugo was emphatically not great, and my recent re-experience with it has been worse… the sunk cost fallacy is powerful, so while I’m sure you could do it with Hugo, I’m not going to recommend you try it.

https://yawpitchroll.com/posts/hugo-probably-is-not-for-you/
I don't think we are in a disagreement, necessarily. To another poster's point, I've lived in different bubbles and this one is better. It's far from perfect though, and it's not guaranteed whether it'll go toward better or less good.
Here's a counter question:

Have you ever seen chatgpt cite or credit it's sources?
As a mathematician, he probably doesn't bring that much grant money in. The money to hire an assistant doesn't exist, especially in a public university like UCLA. Assistants tend to be more common in fields funded by the NIH, because the grants and the overheads are much bigger.
Or even let me click a button on its recommendations ("I've read this [and I liked it]" or "I've read this [and I didn't like it]")
One approach would be to just rent the hardware, and short the coin.
You can with LG TVs.

It makes sense. LG and Samsung want the TV to act as the media hub. You can even control smart home devices from the tv now.
Seems like the supply chain of specialized gasses and chemicals is long enough that the factories would be useless without them.
The enegry usage is not proportional to the transaction rate, it's a security margin so it's only weakly related.

Payment channels allow arbitrarily high transaction rates w/ bitcoin, I've seen demonstrations sustaining hundreds of transactions per second. A side effect of their scalability is that no one knows the actual transaction rate-- only the few transactions related to opening and closing channels are broadcast the bulk is only seen by the participants in the channel, which is what makes it scalable to begin with.

[And, as an aside,-- 5 tx/sec is roughly fedwire's average transaction rate]

> Crime isnt a side-effect, it's the point.

That is false and defamatory towards anyone whos used or worked on Bitcoin. Please withdraw this point, the hyperbole doesn't illuminate the subject or add to the discussion.

If you want to argue that the only use you have for it would be to commit crimes, feel free but jumping from the fact that the only thing you can think to do with Bitcoin is commit crimes with it to crimes being the point is a bridge too far.
The past century has really been an anomaly when it came to trusting news, with photos and videos seeming to be reliable proof.
Before that, societies had to be structured very differently to account for the lack of proof.

You'd hear people from out of town talking about what they saw in a neighboring city. You'd need to judge how trustworthy the person was. People would expect a chain of narration, to understand how _that_ person came to learn a bit of information (or if they claimed to witness it first hand).

As AI generated content becomes more popular, I predict we as a society are going to go back to relying more and more on the reputation of the speakers in question.

Who might you consider reputable? People you've met personally, people who your community respects, and of course, influencers who you follow who's persuasive words match your pre-existing world views
The peak mechanical keyboard will be when we teach robots to accept voice dictation and they then write what we say using these motions.
Ask HN: How do you hold/use your mouse?
I'm curious, do you move your index finger back and forth between the primary button (left button for most) and the middle button/scroll-wheel, keeping your middle finger stationary on the secondary/right button?

Or do you keep your index finger on the primary, middle finger on the scroll-wheel, and ring finger on the secondary?

Or none of the above?
Maybe they should people purchase things within twitter.
> The Metaverse was always such a bad direction

I don't think so.

I just think the massive spending is a bit premature. Keeping a R&D division inside Meta makes sense. Betting the farm does not.

VR has enormous potential but we are still lacking more ergonomic headsets and killer apps. I want to do 3D modelling in VR - except for some simple apps, I can't do that.
As long as one country does it properly and lets people immigrate we are ok.
I don’t regularly read the BBC or NPR. I have watched the BBC skirmish with government over their independence and it’s an active fight (see Gary Lineker fighter recently, interesting, on Twitter).

Do you see these fights for independence in Chinese and Russian news channels? And do you really think them similar to the BBC and NPR?
Collection an ocean of data from everyone isn't the same as actually painstakingly tying all the pieces together for everyone.

They've created a huge library of unorganized data. The difference here is they now can spawn a million untiring AI private investigators / librarians to organize this information into coherent "case files".

At least for me, until this point I've had a feeling of anonymity in the idea that, while my data is being slurped up, I'm just one data point in a sea of other 'normal' people. There would be little value in spending government time and effort tying all of the web detritus together for me. The juice would definitely not be worth the squeeze.

However, when the cost of this effort is nearly zero, that now becomes a different story. The balance of power between government and the people it rules is going to radically shift.
A Change: Rethinking institutions after COVID
An older LG tv I had used to have a quick setting for "Screen off". A newer model has this buried deep in 3 layers of eco mode settings.

"Screen off" should be a button on the remote. By law.
How “Hey Siri” works
China records first H3N8 bird flu death, WHO says
NPR is not Stars and Stripes, Voice of America or even the BBC. Assuming 4% in direct government funding (from all levels) as estimated elsewhere in the thread, plus some amount in government subsidization of donations to a registered non-profit; the fiscal contributions from government is meaningful, but not sufficient to assume it biases coverage.

Stars and Stripes has a mix of funding, including about half its budget from the department of defense, but has editorial independence; although I imagine it's hard not to be influenced.

Even Voice of America has safeguards for editorial independence, although its budget is fully state funded.
You're right. I either missed it or the disclaimer was added after I first read the piece.

I think I'd have preferred it be up front in the first paragraph, and that the writer used language making it clear he was talking about his own company and not NPR as an entity he was able to be objective about. That's what I'd have done.
Practically no other event in human history comes close to the ecological and cultural destructive impact of the early colonial period in the Americas. But because of that, it should not be used as a yardstick for anything else. "It's not the worst thing ever" is a poor defense of anything.
Very much in the same spirit is Kent Pitman reflecting on the value of the charter [2] for the X3J13 standardization committee [1]:

5.3 Charter: Susan Ennis (1986)

Sitting in a room for a good part of a meeting coming up with words to write as part of our mission did not seem like a good use of time to me at that moment. But I went along with it because there seemed no stopping it. In retrospect, I consider this a major administrative contribution and I credit the committee chair, Susan Ennis, for getting us to do it.

What I found later was that there were many times during work on the standard where people disagreed about what the right way to proceed was. In many of those cases, we might have been hopelessly deadlocked, each wanting to pursue a different agenda, but I was able instead to point to the charter and say, “No, we agreed that this is how we’d resolve things like this.”

...

The time spent writing the charter later paid for itself many times over and it’s an exercise I recommend to any committee engaged in any large endeavor over a period of time.

Edit: I just noticed that the very next section, 5.4 Cleanup: Larry Masinter, discusses this very point about forms

[1] http://www.nhplace.com/kent/Papers/cl-untold-story.html

[2] http://www.nhplace.com/kent/CL/x3j13-sd-05.html
You're right that the article doesn't address that counter-argument, but the suggested means of profiting from the attack is immune from it:

> A successful 51% attack, indeed even a credible threat of such an attack succeeding, would almost certainly sow fear and uncertainty in a wide range of public markets. An attacker could leverage this because they would have a certain amount of control over when news of the attack broke, so they could (for example) take a short position on a portfolio of financial stocks before launching the attack.
Building a human firewall to block cyberattacks: Lessons from SoSafe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic

Besides that: 'There is no such thing as society!'