skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really irony though? It kind of seems like self-preservation. Based on what I merely suspect Google knows about me, it wouldn't be a surprise at all if I receive a letter of acceptance/rejection for employment there, despite having never applied nor considered doing so. "The algorithm" knows the plans that I haven't even thought about thinking about.

However, these are not people that can merely speculate; they live at the bottom of the rabbit hole.

Imagine you work for a company that has records about you with enough depth and granularity to have already calculated (with fp64 precision) everything you will ever do and contribute in your life (i.e. is your actual future cost/benefit ratio, not an estimated value, favorable enough to allow you to continue exist).

Would you NOT make at least some sort of effort to stop "the algorithm" from consuming you? Would you just keep feeding "the algorithm" pieces of yourself until it eats enough of your being that it becomes you?

It seems they've decided to save themselves by not saving their chats. I'm not a lawyer or anything, yet I'm getting a vibe like this kind of stuff prolly looks "kinda legally bad." Law things like this happen because there simply isn't time to waste worried about looking "kinda legally bad." It's natural to prioritize taking care of higher magnitude existential threats like getting processed by "the algorithm."
They didn't take it away completely, but it's now at the flight crews discretion. You can kindly ask a flight attendant to ask the pilot if they will have channel 9 on or ask if they will.

Found this about it[0], but there is still the occasional person asking about it on FF boards and the answer is still, to politely ask the FA about it

[0] https://simpleflying.com/united-airlines-channel-9-story/
My Chess Computers
Show HN: LLM OSINT, letting GPT-4 Google about you
LLM OSINT is a proof-of-concept method of using LLMs to gather information from the internet and then perform a task with this information.

Check it out: https://github.com/sshh12/llm_osint
> There's many areas in which tech competes directly with, or has attempted to build shadow parallel systems to other more regulated industries - payments, exchanges, various medical plays, media, etc.

If we are just talking about the USA, then I think both Apple and Google had to partner with entities in the financial industries to do payments, they didn't just bypass regulation in those industries. Then there is Stripe and Square (erm, whatever Square is called now), I'm not sure what regulations they fall under.
A lot of leadership is nuance and context. What works well in one company/situation may not work well in another.

Personally I've let Radical Candor by Kim Scott & the blog/books of Michael Lopp ( https://randsinrepose.com/ ) be my main inspiration for leadership.

I don't always get it right, but my team is consistently the highest scorers on workplace engagement in our org (which says as much about the other teams as it does about mine) and also has the highest attendance onsite of any team. I'll take both of those as indications that I'm doing something right.
ML training is not as easily parallelizable as the other problems that have been explored. I'm not familiar with SETI but I know this to be true for folding@home.

As you mentioned, ML training can be parallelized but this requires either model/data parallelism.

Data parallelism means spreading the data over many different compute units and then synchronizing gradients somehow. The heterogeneous nature of @home computing makes this particularly challenging, as you will be limited by the smallest compute unit. I've personally only ever seen data (and model) parallel done on a homogenous compute cluster (i.e. 8x GPUS)

For model parallelism, we split the model across different compute units. However, this means that you need to synchronize the different parts of the model together, which can get very expensive when you do it across the internet. If you have 8xGPUS on one machine, your latency is limited by PCIe instead of TCP/IP in a distributed @home cluster.

But I would say it's not impossible, someone clever could definitely figure it out.
Thank you. I could tell from the length of the post, didn't even have to read it, that OP needs a bit more grounding in real life and how trade-offs work.
I found Jocko's book ( https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs/dp/1... ) great.

The biggest (and most difficult) aspect is learning to listen with both your ears and eyes. Learn body language as it is the truth.
I think I learned about this from the TV show Home Improvement in the Tool Time segment.
Flying out of ATL with TSA precheck takes all of about 1 minute.
>systems without IME exist, but are not available for purchase, for any price, except for governments

There isn't much of a point for Intel to make one without it. It's easier to support less SKUs. There are many other CPU manufacturers out there if IME is specifically something you don't want.

>OS and CPU manufacturers collude to make sure every user gets it, whether they want it or not

Because application developers want >90% of the userbase to support it. If only 5% of users have it then it limits the apps that can use it.

>they start pushing remote-attestation and other user-hostile technologies in the future, they won't lose any market.

Remote attestation isn't user hostile. It is a security feature that protects platforms that the software uses. Users benefit from the platforms they are using being secure. Users don't like playing against cheaters in muliplayer games. Users don't like receiving spam messages. Users don't like their accounts being hacked.
Paypal and Stripe's actions like seizing accounts automatically is probably more due to complying to industry rules rather than avoiding them. The "shady" things are what any bank would have to do, not just the techs.
I loved going to the bookstore as a kid, but management and staff at Barnes & Noble and Borders hated us. We were just nerdy teenagers that would get our fast food paycheck and then go blow it on books. Management would follow us, glare at us, and generally harass us, because… I don't know.

About the time I graduated high school, Amazon hit the scene and it just made it so much easier.
Thats how it works at Amazon with account managers rolling in the $ https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-investigates-employees-l... https://sourcingjournal.com/topics/technology/amazon-china-b...
Yeah, imagine if Apple banned their manufacturing and sales partners from selling devices with forks of the iOS open source project too. Or if Microsoft banned Windows forks.
> When did people get so comfortable commanding others and demeaning their thoughts and agency?

When people stopped having "friends" and started accruing "followers."

You can bully anybody about anything when your gang is bigger than theirs.
> same software for Mac and PC software for over 35 years

You couldn't even do what contemporary DAWs do in a native application until the late 1990s. Even in the early 2000s, ProTools relied in a "DSP Farm" installed on the PCI bus to provide enough compute power. So the timeline for this particular sort of software only extends back 25 years or so.

CoreAudio is not a "front-end" toolkit/framework/library.

You cannot do audio or MIDI I/O on any platform without ultimately talking to the platform APIs for that (not totally dissimilar to how all GUI toolkits ultimately having to talk to some low level drawing/event API).

The backend of every DAW, audio editor, audio player etc. uses platform-specific APIs, either directly via their own platform-specific code, or via a wrapper such as JUCE, or RtAudio (JUCE is extremely popular these days, though it is also a large cross-platform GUI toolkit that is increasingly dominated startup audio software development).

None of that has anything to do with GUI toolkits, or front ends, or native experience, or UI or UX or any of the things we've been talking about.
My grandmother used to do this as kind of a party trick. Still think it's kind of crazy though.
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But both restricting emissions and improving fuel mileage are good things, right?
> it can only know what we teach it since it relies on all of our perceptions to learn

> I think it’s emergent behavior has many of the hallmarks of reasoning and novel inference

You contradicted yourself here, right?
Patches were copied one way, and functionality was deprecated in ffmpeg but the only way to do it in libav (audio.) As someone who was writing software using the ffmpeg/libav apis it was a horrible confusing mess. Since distros were split you had to support both and the each had different quirks. It was a dark time that I'm glad is over.
" and banning the "shift" is wonderful!"

I get why they did this, but this was the one change that I hated. I like letting the math nerds find optimal strategies to winning games.

Edit: Should say I also liked the addition of the DH, although I didn't really care either way. As an AL fan I prefer the DH, but enjoyed the quirkiness of seeing pitchers bat now and then. The ghost runners I *thought* I'd hate and initially did, but came to enjoy it as time went on.
Per-core licensing is more or less limited to JBoss stuff and the likes. Stuff like RHEL, OpenShift Enterprise, etc. is typically licensed by socket-pair.
Ha! It's sous vide salmon from before there was sous vide.

Funny to think about now, but it's surprisingly clever. The dishwasher just so happens to be about the right temperature and time for salmon specifically.
I just love the sound of the word passport
As long as no one can see my comment history on HN, I’ll be fine.
I just use the dryer.

I use duct tape to keep it all together.
It's telling that there's always an argument like this in response to everything critical about llms and they have no coherence.
I don’t see a problem with this. If they spoke in person in a conference room would all of their conversations be recorded? Are they required to record all phone conversations?
I'll have to ask next time. That said the article is quite wrong in that you can't hear conversation in the cockpit, only conversation on the active frequency. You could never and probably will never hear pilot to copilot conversation.
Originating in the United States, Vincent Price demonstrated preparation of fish in 1975 when appearing at The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Price presented the dish as "a dish any fool can prepare".

Apropos of nothing, Vincent Price only played bad guys because he was such a nice guy that playing nice guys wasn't acting in his mind.

Edit: Wikipedia describes him as an American actor, art historian, art collector, and gourmet cook.
There is not enough actual competition for this to happen.

Take a major hub like LAX which is already segregated by groups of airlines across subsets of terminals. How many options do you have to choose from post-security for something as simple as burgers or pizza? Let alone something like pasta or something like Indian or Chinese food.

“We have both Panda Express and McDonalds” is not a sign of competition.
My wife was apprehended in a Mexican airport by a beagle regarding a banana in her bag.

Did you know that the bananas we have today are different from the ones we had 50 years ago? The standard banana back then was wiped out by a fungal disease. Today’s bananas are all one variety of GMO, and resistant to such fungus.

That’s why produce is particularly scrutinized.

https://www.treehugger.com/extinct-banana-5201723
> The right way to prevent exploitation is to equalize bargaining power.

That is what wealth redistribution via taxes does. For example, a universal basic income gives everyone at least some amount of bargaining power.
The notion of internet privacy was more refined back then. Notice the reference to an "e-commerce transaction". IMHO, people in the early days understood that making purchases or other commercial transactions was only one use of the internet. Today, every use of the internet is targeted with surveillance, including all the noncommercial uses. Today, functional equivalents of "IDs" are sent 24/7, even without user input, not only when a user chooses to engage in commerce.^1

Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems: "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."

https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/

1. And so-called "tech" companies are constantly trying to establish more forms of "ID". It's time to regulate this nonsense.
Are they individuals or is it gangs?
I assume my private messages are always public record, so I don’t get this mindset. My first thought when messaging someone is, “What if they screenshot or leak this conversation?” or “What if their message history is subpoenaed?” It never makes sense to assume confidentiality with other coworkers.
I don’t mean to be an ass, but in no way is a sous vide fundamentally the same concept as a dishwasher.

There is no precision to the temperature or time control of a dishwasher, and there’s no dry cycle on a sous vide.
Tycho worked weather reports into some of his songs and it added a nice texture but that's a fair point that the repeat cycle is too short for streaming music like this.
KiranRao0's point is that this will eventually fail:

curl -L http://d.liveatc.net/klax_twr | ffmpeg -i - -filter:a atempo=0.5 -f s24le - | ffplay -f s24le -ar 8k -ac 2 -

First, the pipe buffer between curl and ffmpeg will fill up (something like 64k) and then curl will be more and more delayed getting the next bit of audio from the server. Eventually the HTTP connection will fail. How and when that happens depends on exactly how the server is set up.

On my machine (Ubuntu) it stops after about 15 minutes.

You could increase the buffer size with pv or use a temporary file of course.
Police don't solve crimes.
The RICO Act is criminally underutilized. Use these 300 street-level knuckleheads to take down the online fences that are orchestrating this whole racket.

eBay already looks like the mafia after that psychotic terrorism campaign against a blogger. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/investigation-ebay-employee...

Put their dons next door to El Chapo and these organized theft rings will be severely disrupted.
When I was in a bank we were asked to dress up in times when BaFin (German SEC) was expected in the campus.
How are these companies going to defend outsourcing with a straight face when they’re content to light their money on fire with buybacks?
From a layman's view I would say yes - many companies like AirBNB, Dropbox, etc started in 08 / 09...
No it’s not possible in the way or manner you described unless it’s an office phone.

Banks aren’t creating a super secret MVNO to comply with regulations and the telcos aren’t cutting breaks for a bank or a 3rd party spy network. I’d imagine saving all employees cellphone calls for 7 years is a very expensive project.
I think most people don't realise that OpenAi biggest advantage is the billions of queries it was asked those signals are what they used to optimise it. So I think very hard for a local model to reach similar capability.
>I did have 2 die at the same time: same make and model, nearly identical serial numbers, surprise: same crash date and crash behavior

Out of curiosity, were those Seagate drives?

I bought a couple of Seagate 3TB (spinning rust) SAS drives some years ago, and they both died within a couple weeks of each other after only a few months.
> The problem is that LLMs will often enough not follow that.

> This is why Lisp has a quote operator. LLMs don't have it.

I think we agree. I was addressing the example you used. In the prompt injection case, the malicious party is not in between the task-giver and me; the task-giver is in between the malicious party and me. In other words, my code is between my potentially malicious user and the LLM. My potentially malicious user can't inject something without my code seeing it.

In the case of me and a stack of paper, that solves the problem, because I'm intelligent enough to follow the instructions as intended. LLMs are currently not.
All airports do this. A bottle of water is 3.75 at Dominican Republic airports, presumably not controlled by NYC port authority.
Thanks for the clarification! The story I was taught (up to and including a graduate course on relativistic quantum chemistry!) is "delocalized point particle", i.e. it's a point but of course for quantum mechanical reasons it's effectively in many places at once, at least until you collapse the wave function.

Are you talking about the quantum delocalization? And if yes, presumably an isolated electron (since in an atom the shape of the quantum distribution will depend on orbitals?

Sorry if I'm completely off base here -- I'm a mathematical who took some chemistry, but without any particle physics background.
Has anyone gotten their blue check mark paid for by fans? For instance what if a group of fans said we want to keep a famous person's Twitter account verified, so we are going to pony up the money.

I know it sounds kind of ridiculous, but I saw my favorite band on Twitter and I would be sad if they left Twitter and to lose that expressive outlet for them to connect with fans.
You think it’s a good idea to give the government more surveillance power?
So if we take the top 10 companies by revenue, we get Apple, Google, Amazon, but also Walmart, CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group, Exon Mobil, Berkshire, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen. It still feels pretty random to me.
I alias ‘vi’ to ‘v’. Life’s too short.
Extinguishing any fire with water is like saving the environment with nuclear energy. It might work, but if the fire turns out to be a metal or grease fire, you have a problem just like when the final waste repositories later turn out to be unsuitable.
My favorite pre-flight ritual as of recent is to go out and get a bomb ass sandwich and pack it for the flight. I’m talkin’ gourmet Italian, fresh mozz, crunchy bread with the waxed paper wrapping. Sometimes I’ll get it dry and pack the oil+vinegar in a small baggie.
The judge.
It needs to get there quick. The golden goose is EV range. If your phone doesn't know when you need to recharge your batteries, Apple Maps and the rest are functionally useless.
This is complete bullshit from the delay of scale riding the “plane train” alone.

TSA precheck in ATL takes min 5 minutes on a good day.

Setting that aside again, airlines have now even taken the liberty of telling you “boarding doors close 5 minutes before departure and won’t be reopened”.

Travel today is so shitty you can’t even fathom what it could be.
It’s not necessarily status seeking, it’s mostly higher bit rate verbal communication.
Literally the whole point of pay transparency is to make it so employers can't screw employees. The result of pay transparency is that existing employees are now discovering that they've been being screwed. The pay transparency isn't producing the discontent, it's the worker abuse causing the discontent. The fact that the report is "pay transparency causes discontent" and not "employees discovering unfair compensation causes discontent" makes me question the impartiality. Especially given they're quoting business leaders saying that they're being forced to pay market rates for labor.
Are you suggesting that you want the government to have accessible recordings of medical conversations?
The "debt ceiling" meme ties into the GOP's kayfabe of "fiscal responsibility" where they stop the government from using money for deliberate purposes, while giving trillions of undirected dollars to Wall Street in the form of low interest loans and other "quantitative easing".

One of the reasons they continue to get away with this is that it takes a long time for the results of economic policies to become apparent - witness the overarching narrative pinning the past spate of price inflation on the current administration, when it was actually the delayed effect of all the inappropriate "stimulus" during Covid.
You are allowed to bring a turkey sandwich through security. No need to spend $15 there.

If you bring a jar of peanut butter they won't let you bring it through, but if you spread it (all) on bread, they will.
In the olden days when most companies paid dividends, retired people would try to keep owning the shares and live off the dividends.

The actual amounts sold by retirees are probably low (say a few percent a year), although I would like to see some numbers per age group. Presumably it is common for sudden death and their shares to be passed on to children?
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... and by the company enforcing it the way they enforce it, they can prove the employee bypassed the rules knowingly and purposely without the company being at fault.
Minivan manufacturers who want to attract swaggering egotistical fragile man-children like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos should look at the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile and Dr. Evil's rocket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile

https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/bezos-blue-origin-resem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1UwmgkKgI
Same.

A friend told me to have a PC router to increase speed.
"Bukele has cultivated a “tough-on-crime” image, imposing harsh policies on the rest of the population. In March last year, he suspended constitutional rights in the country, empowering Salvadoran security forces to jail citizens simply on suspicion of being part of a gang.

Incarceration figures have consequently soared. By mid-2022, up to 2% of El Salvador’s population 18 and older, or roughly 100,000 people, was in prison, according to an Amnesty international assessment based on local media reports.

According to government figures, more than 60,000 people were sent to prison since the state of emergency was declared – over 150 people per day – causing alarm among human rights activists, who say the rationale for some arrests is insufficient."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/07/americas/el-salvador-pris...
Sigh, really, this entire thread is supremely depressing

y'all just want us to die, right?
It's water held at a certain temperature, that heats food sealed watertight. It's exactly the same concept.

Yes it goes without saying it's lacking the precise controls, but it's still the same mechanism of cooking in the end.
Stealing stuff and selling it through a fence is not a business. It’s organized crime. A racket.

You could effectively argue drug dealers and bookies are running an illegal business, and I would not disagree. They sell (illegal) goods and services to willing participants. The fences (eBay and other co-conspirators) are running a business too.

But shoplifting isn’t a business any more than muggings and “protection rackets” (give me a cut or I break your kneecap) are a business. It’s just violence.
I’m far from a Google fan and find most of the products tacky - including Google search without an ad blocker.

But I wouldn’t even go that far.
Collusion is quite hard to prove, though.

A big problem is that it often isn't a free market. Joe The Sandwich Guy can't just randomly decide to open up a store inside the airport. There's a limited amount of space, a lease can easily last a decade, and any that come up are usually granted rather than auctioned.

The airport is actively trying to provide a varied selection of products, which inherently means competition is limited: someone complaining about the price of a turkey sandwich isn't going to get a Big Mac solely because it is a few dollars cheaper.

All of this is often made even worse because they aren't actually different vendors. Multiple stores are often owned by the same vendor, the different stores are just "exploiting various retail strategies".

Nothing is actively illegal. Everyone just independently realized they could make a shitton of money because travelers are forced to either pay their prices or starve.