skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Weak government made sense when it was small but we made it bigger so we should make it stronger now too" is certainly a take, but not a particularly good one.

The vast majority of things the government touches turn to shit, including things with wide bipartisan support. How does making government able to do more, faster, fix that?
The parliament has control over CBC, not the government. The parliament != the government, it's funded by parliament, not government. It's not particularly complicated.
And no time zone differences!
> Logically speaking you are saying that there is no exist good people in the space. That is a really difficult assertion to probe. I am saying something simpler: there exist good people in the space.

No, that's not at all what I was saying. I actually said the opposite: I assume that there are good people in this space despite the lack of evidence for it.

> do your work if you want to change your mind

I don't think that my mind needs to be changed here. We're in fundamental agreement here anyway, so I'm not sure what you think should be different in my thinking.

I just have no way of being able to tell who the good people are. And, ultimately, it doesn't actually matter because I don't deal with cryptocurrency in my own affairs.
I may argue that the $2t became a $2t company because it cared about the 0.01% rounding errors it faced / faces in every part of it's operations.

Where that lands ethically, morally or legally is up to interpretation by the relevant people and jurisdictions.
Wow the guys in the newsroom didn’t believe what they were saying and still said it. If there was a word for journalistic non-integrity, I’m searching for it now.
The way the law works is that intent matters more than the actual written word. Even if the law explicitly says "renting needs a licence but resale is fine" you wouldn't get away with a "loophole" of saying "ok you're really buying a disc from us for $10 and then we buy it back from you after a week for $5" because it's clear that you're just doing renting with extra steps. It wouldn't survive any judicial scrutiny.
This is really fascinating, is biochar notably different from, say, charcoal? Or is it a trendier name for what we've already got?

I've looked at pyrolysis for home sustainability and have yet to find a good set of resources for it outside making charcoal.
I've been very much against regulation of AI at all.

But now that you're talking drawing inferences from medical data...... it's making me pause to think.
I love how the ability to shake your phone to turn on the flashlight is practically gated by Motorola. God forbid we are able to do what we want with our phones. Gotta get vendor approval first.
I have read this article, and to the best of my recollection it contains zero discussion of Coinbase's Earn product.
"It's clear a history of trauma of various sorts increases the risks of developing mental illness, but nobody can say with much certainty if there are genetic predispositions or not."

This isn't accurate. As far back as my psych degree in the late 2000s there were clear estimates of the degree of heritability of various psychological disorders - especially disorders with strong organic elements like schizophrenia and ADD/ADHD.

What makes psychological disorders difficult to understand is not a mysterious hidden biogenic causation. We know at least in terms of percentage contributions, quite a bit about the involvement of physical processes and systems in psychological disorder, from the gut microbiome to inflammation.

If psychological disorders were essentially diseases, with prognosis, a set of distinct aetiologies etc, psychology would just be a branch of medicine with poor data. Unfortunately mental illnesses are profoundly unlike physical illnesses in numerous ways. For example their symptomatology is usually culturally determined - e.g.: things we associate with depression in the West (dysphoria, anhedonia, melancholy etc) are quite different from the symptoms of epidemiologically similar disorders in other cultures (e.g.: pre-westernisation China).

There's a lot to unpack here, but psychological disorders are profoundly more complex (ontologically) than physical disorders. Often the medical lens isn't particularly helpful. For example we see rates of disorders like anxiety and depression rise under stressful socioeconomic conditions. These are often disorders of meaning and the persons understanding of the world. There are also a host of 'culture bound' syndromes - from anorexia to folie a deux to koro, that make no sense to think of in terms of 'illness'.

So it's as likely that the medical model is holding back understanding of these often sociological, psychological and cultural phenomena as helping. That said it's not nearly as simple as that, since there are genetic components to so many disorders!
Intent is the legal line for netflix.
https://archive.ph/X3Zf3
Whats the best source for a directory/list of these training data corpuses?
Its interesting that the only people that seem to be able to hold corporate media to account are other corporations with different interests.

edit: I suppose the News international phone hacking scandal was journalists/individuals/government holding Murdoch to account https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacki... ... but that was in the UK.
>Several vaccine types are linked to decreased dementia risk, suggesting that these associations are due to nonspecific effects on inflammation rather than vaccine-induced pathogen-specific protective effects.

Doesn't this make it sound like there's a confounding factor? Such as: vaccines are more common in people that are wealthier or people that choose to align their lifestyles with recommendations from doctors?
Or likewise, you can get away with a whole lot of violence by claiming it was all done by saboteurs.
Not really a shocker that they settled given all the embarrassing texts/emails showing the blatant lies Fox execs and media figureheads were engaging in. Just surprising that it took them this long—the start of the trial—to settle.

Would be nice if the Fox News crowd would read some of those messages to wake up from all the manipulation.
I had the same thought : what would it have cost to make one of those early deep neural networks that restarted the field, but without hardware virtualization : with the same kind of physical neurons than the Perceptron, but with better tech, say mid-AI winter?
I think the language/japan thing shows that it's stuff created in your head in isolation that is holding you back. And only a different view of things (forced on you through using another language) is what you need.

Keep it up with the languages though, always time well spent.
> will kill medical records as such

Why do you think so?

I see a huge thorny ball of legal issues that needs to be resolved before gpt-like services can really become useful...

I personally feel very held back by legal (and infosec) uncertainty. I would use chatgpt a lot more of it didn't feel so legally sticky (?).
Rejection is required to ensure that for functionally required cookies (e.g. session cookies when logged in) you refuse permission to use them for any other purpose, and that you refuse permission to use any of the many non-cookie tracking methods.
https://theintercept.com/2019/06/22/cbp-border-searches-jour...
HashiCorp made a $270 million loss last year, more than 50% of their revenue.
Ok - I'm going to merge the threads but will use the more limited title on the merged post.

(Edit: merging https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35618695 hither now)
I borrow a lot from my local library but often they are unplayable somewhere in the middle. It can happen with Netflix also but it seems much less frequent.
There was plenty of outrage when Elon killed TweetBot and other third-party clients: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559180/twitter-blocking...

There was also plenty of outrage for the new API rules, including specifically blocking weather alerts (which Elon lied about restoring): https://mashable.com/article/twitter-exemptions-nws-public-s...
I doubt they have the storage for all those discs. Won’t they just let everyone keep them?
You can get a bluray drive for under $100 and libraries do bluray disks now.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617763, which was posted earlier and has the original source that this article points to.
You didn't generate an additional $1m in revenue in years 2-5. So in a situation where you get paid a $1m contract once, and pay $1m in salaries every year, here's what happens.

Year 2022: $1m revenue, -$1m expenses amortized to $200k: $800k profit, approximately 20% ($160k) is paid to tax.

Year 2023: -$1m expenses amortized to $200k, previous year's $200k: -$400k loss, carryforward. You cannot carryback 2023 losses to 2022 taxes.

The carryback is how Congress will resolve the issue for people who paid the tax.

The dispute is that you paid $160k in tax in year 1. Is that inefficient? In my opinion, it is. You paid $1m in salaries!
I think a lot of companies jumped on dark mode without considering the proper colours needed. I've started using light mode again and I've found that the colour choices are much better, but YMMV.
Your [1] is 3 years old and has quite a few caveats (temporary situation, non-Zerodium security experts don't quite seem to agree with the decision), and the diagrams in [2] don't seem to show that iOS exploits are any cheaper today.

Moreover, the reasons given in [1] don't include "Android being open-source make it easier to audit".

Is this still true today?
Good luck. But on a related note I think it is time that we all realize that the so called wisdom of AI is really the wisdom of millions of reddit posters, HN posters, github software uploaders and various posters on all kinds of forums all over the internet.
I hate those cookie prompts so much I get Cookie Rage every time they appear. I rather be tracked from here to infinity than see another cookie prompt in a site i approved yesterday.
It was written to fuck over smaller companies. That was the point of it.
I would use https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm and https://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm as a starting point, and see if the kid is willing to pursue training to prepare him/her for that occupation.

One thing that should be emphasized to children is the necessity to earn a decent livelihood with a job that leaves them enough time to pursue their other interests. It is important to do something remunerative, but also balance it with occupational outlook and individual interests. Of course, individual interests can and do change over time, so they should be taken with a pinch of salt, particularly as a 16-year old.
Your training data always contains information about the target - the features are the information about the target. You will need to provide values for those features when the model is used. If you are training the model with features that cannot be used at inference time, then it is data leakage. The definition can be improved, i agree. Is there anything incorrect in the definition from your point of view?
Better yet, detect the AI (by its frenetic speed) and then feed it a bunch of false data.
> Windows won't get better as long as their consumer unfriendly behaviour has no effect on sales.

I agree. And MS agrees too - which is why they do the bundling thing with new computers, deals for schools, bribes for governments, and making their moat as wide as they can.

The EU already does a funny thing with the licenses too. They come with the computer yes, but they are not married like how they are in the US. They are legally required to be able to be separated after purchase. So, the second hand market is full of licenses like this - you can pick up a Win 10 for $7, Office 2019 for $11, and so on.
> cannot verify it contributed to the total votes received by the candidate for whom you voted

Isn't this by design? If you can verify this, then someone else can force you to verify it in front of them to make sure you did what they told you to do, and then we don't have a secret ballot anymore. It's not obvious to me that the risk of fraud from miscounting is worse than the risk of fraud from voter intimidation or bribery.

Imagine everyone you know is posting screenshots of their verification on social media, and you voted for someone or something considered controversial in your community. If you post that verification you get harassed, if you don't post anything then everyone knows what that means and you get harassed anyway. That's the type of voter intimidation I'd worry about.
Inside Amazon Studios: Big Swings Hampered by Confusion and Frustration
But they don't respect the consumer any more.

Your selections are never final. Your settings can always be reset on the next update. Your choices can be withered down, like a stone by water.

You are the least important part of these monopolies dukeing it out for the crown. You lost your ability to choose years ago.

What happens now, is just formalities and preparing future generations for the new normality.

The capitalism that worked for the common men, was dead the moment the wall dropped.
At first, when I didn’t specify “use argparse” it would use raw argument parsing

It also thought I actually wanted a file called “output.csv” based on your text and gave me an actual argument to specify the output file that I didn’t want.

There is a lot of nuance to my requirements that ChatGPT missed with your keywords.

Sidenote: there is a bug in both versions and also when I did this for real. Most AWS list APIs use pagination. You have to tell it that “this won’t work with more than 50 roles” and it will fix it.
The stablecoin bill is back
24 cores, 128 GB RAM. One could run 10-20 EC2 instances to utilize a box like this, and produce an impression of sprawling backend infrastructure.
Not yet because honestly we were able to get to where we needed in terms of accuracy without it. Creating a feedback loop and turning into an agent-style interaction can be helpful for more complex automations, but honestly, you can get a lot of mileage out of what we have. Having said that, agents look really fascinating and some demos I saw are mind blowing, so we will definitely look into it very closely.
Wages aren’t R&D lmao
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
I agree with your first paragraph here, but that's about it.

I know that the userbase on a site like this one tends to want to solve these types of issues with technology, but that's just because all we've got here on HN is a hammer, ya know?

Pencil-and-paper works. Anything else is a solution in search of a problem.
ChatWindowGPT(Tutorial) – build a simple Python client for OpenAI ChatGPT API
What does any of this have to do with libertarians?
Yes. It is your life. It isn't about what is out there. It's about what's in you.

My kids are 19, 17, 12. I tell them- you're not going to college to get an education that is about knowledge out in the world. You are going to get an education about you. To learn about your person- your body, your brain, your own mental model of your self and other selves and the world.

Your person is still in physical growth mode until at least 25, and then you have lots of other changes and challenges coming after that. You will continue learning, including about your self, throughout the entirety of your life. To be set up to do that is why you're going.

(Yes, college is not the real world, in any way. But in important ways it is real enough.)

==

The most important things to be able to do are- build relationships, focus and concentrate, organize your self and your thinking, communicate, have fun, and take care of the physical self. You don't have any idea, really, how well you do those things as a teenager. It's the job of the adults around you to help. College is an opportunity to expose your person to more unique, distinct, varied, skilled adults and peers than at any time previous, and for some, more than they will ever get again (unfortunately). That exposure is the most intense learning the self can do.

For each of my kids, they have things they are good at now, and things they are not good at. Not just skills- capabilities. Biases. Potentials, not actuals. As their parent I have a good sense of possible distinct and unique trajectories for each of them given those potentials, and I do what I can to coach them onto those various trajectories and in specific work domain disciplines that are potential fits (to my eyes) for them. But that's a conversation that is specific to our relationship. And their lives are their own.

For you, I would encourage you to see yourself not even at the beginning of your adventure, and to think hard and figure out good ways, with the guidance of adults you currently respect and trust, to avail yourself and position yourself to be exposed to and learn from new adults worthy of respect and trust. And pay it forward, too.
“In total, 28 states used Dominion voting machines to tabulate their votes during the 2020 United States presidential election, including most of the swing states.”

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

However you feel about the claims made during the 2020 election, that should terrify every American that closed source computerized voting machines from a single company counted enough votes to potentially decide the presidential election. I’m not saying that any of Trump and his supporters claims have any substance, but the optics of that stat do not look good.

Voting machine software should be public record and produce a fully auditable paper trail.
I appreciated the "El Goog" reference. I chuckled. Thank you.
I know this will never happen, but I wish that they would go even a step further than that:

I wish they would admit that, for better or worse, Linux is the desktop to corral around. A proprietary OS for BYO hardware is very simply a Bad Idea, both in terms of developers (because you're at the mercy of the OS developer's documentation only) and in terms of users (because software will always theoretically be more stable on an OS that a developer can crack open).

So, rather than creating a Windows Developer Edition and charging for it, I would love to see them sunset Windows into a legacy/Enterprise-only OS that they charge a hefty fee for. And then I'd love to see them build a Linux distro that deeply interops with their services (i.e. their real money-makers) that they release for free.

This new "Windows" would be the new OS that comes pre-installed on laptops by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc. It could look essentially the same -- perhaps their desktop environment could be called Glass (get it?) -- and it could still run win32 apps via Wine (which they would be a massive contributor to in this fantasy world of mine). A headless version could of course be available for servers running Azure. Etc etc etc.

They could charge for support (i.e. the FOSS playbook that's been pushed the 70s). They could of course continue to create proprietary apps and modules that they charge for, I don't care -- for example, a CoreAudio/CoreMIDI competitor that only audio professionals would really need. I'm not naive enough to think that proprietary/non-free software will ever go away, but the OS is simply not the place for that. Platforms of all kinds benefit from being FOSS.

I know that there's a great kernel down there, but Windows is just a mess. Just kill the damn thing. Let it die. I ran Windows 11 since it was released and recently switched back to 10 because 11 is just so unbearably bad, and I still only use Windows at all as little as possible, only when I have to for certain work.

None of this will ever happen of course, but a man can dream.
Ha, no, I didn't... but I just did :)
A lot of the money comes from Vault which is open source but only used by larger organizations that want support.
Just to clear this up, this change is unrelated to if you've taken the R&D credit. You should take it as it slightly helps offset this change, but regardless the calculation applies to dev salaries and costs without regard to if you've actually taken the R&D credit.
> Analogies are great for explaining ideas, but aren't that great as logical arguments.

In this case it is hardly an analogy. With respect to Information Theory, compression and machine learning are essentially the same thing [0]. If you can understand why taking a hi-res photograph of a lo-res image does not create more information (and therefore cannot be used to make a hi-resolution poster) then it's essentially the exact same logic explaining why outputs of a model cannot be used to improve that same model.

More to this point, which other comments have already pointed out, what's interesting about this post is it asks whether or not very, very large data sets can be reasonably compressed by models such that they can simulate training another model while requiring less data.

From an information theoretic perspective this latter case is both completely sound and of potentially big practical importance.

I do have to say, I'm a little surprised that basic information theory is no longer common knowledge among the HN community (more-so surprised at a resistance to it), especially among people interested in Machine Learning. Out of curiosity, do you have a background in ML and/or Comp Sci?

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression#Machine_learn...
Computer enthusiasts have conflated cryptography and security for so long that simple ballot verification systems like the ones in use for decades around the country are regarded as "insecure" merely because the speaker doesn't really have a clear definition of the term.

My ballot has a tear-off receipt and a bar code. I can verify when and how my ballot was counted. If I suspect fraud at the ballot counting site I can supervise the process myself in person. If my signature doesn't match the ballot office can contact me to verify.

There is no world where cryptography is a requisite for ballot security, and I would not want to live in a world where computers are required for something as basic as democracy.
Lockdown Mode Prevails: New Evidence of Its Capability to Block Spyware
I agree 100% when it comes to billionaires “settling” their way out of criminal prosecution, but if two private groups have a dispute they shouldn’t be forced to litigate it all the way through trial if they can come to an agreement outside of court.
An outright dishonest cookie prompt, where "reject" or "manage choices" aren't even shown on the first screen.

I imagine the company behind this site is hosted at the US. There are not many places one can still do this.
If I may attempt to offer a translation:

> The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool

This is something that organizations can choose to use. We are a standards body, not a regulatory agency.

> developed in collaboration with stakeholders

We actually talked to people who need and use standards of this sort. We integrated their feedback.

> intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk

The goal is to help organizations understand the chances they are taking with private data.

> build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy

While still being able to actually make use of the data to accomplish goals that matter in some way.

----

Basically, this is completely comprehensible to most people and organizations who expect to be making use of this sort of standard. Like any technical document, it has a specialized vocabulary. It is not written for, and should not be judged by, the prose expectations of the general population.

NIST has writers. They are technical writers who are writing technical documentation intended for technical readers. We should calibrate our expectations accordingly.
AFAIK it’s not actually about cookies but a website tracking you by any technical means. Could be your IP or user agent as well
How is the serial number used to confirm that the person using it is who the ballet was issued to?