skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially if you can demonstrate that you can't reasonably comply any faster. Combine this with a naïve filter on model outputs for the intervening period and you have a solution that should satisfy both spirit and letter of the law.
> the problem is that people don't want to read articles.

If the consumer doesn't want a product... it's somewhat the consumer's fault?

"but they don't want cigarettes sir! Maybe they just don't understand cigarettes..."

> Third, you got it backwards. Google is feeding from the news publishers, not the other way around. Without these, Google would have no news contents.

Google feeds the publishers, not the other way around. A significant portion of their traffic comes directly from Google. The other way around simply doesn't happen.

Google doesn't have news content. It's a link aggregator.

Honestly, they should just de-list Canadians outlet from their platform. Redirect to blogs or international outlets... Let the media companies build their own aggregator if they don't like the current ones.
I'm wondering: How can I be certain that the model contains any personal data about me (or someone else not famous)?

For a public figure, of course there is lots of information in the training data, all public data. But when asked about me or my brother, ChatGPT either refuses to answer OR hallucinates the hell of it. Then, nearly everything is wrong and the output resembles the answer to a prompt like: "Create a short bio for a fictional character named xx, living in yy and working as zz." (Okay, often yy and zz are wrong either.)

Requesting to delete these hallucinated facts seems quite stubborn and ineffective?
Stacks for Terraform
Most people leaving probably aren’t homeowners.
I think they're saying if even "shithole" Iowa is growing but California ain't, there's a major problem with California. Not that moving to Iowa is a bad idea.
Same. At this point I look to hotels first, and then AirBnB if I can't find anything that meets requirements for price / location / quality.

I generally don't have to question if my sheets have been washed, and don't get bamboozled with extra cleaning or BS. If there is a problem I can go straight to Marriott or Hilton corporate and they'll usually handle it.

To be clear, I've had a lot of good experiences with BnB's... but also a lot of meh, and a few bad ones. A few 100s, but also a few 60s and a couple of 10s. Pretty much all of my hotel stays were solidly 70-80 out of 100 and at this point I prefer the predictability.
It’s not different from just a password. That’s why no service uses an unrecoverable password as the only authentication mechanism because it would be a terrible usability and security problem.

Ordinary people expect to be able to reset forgotten passwords. And because people are bad at managing passwords, reasonable services try to get them to use 2FA so their accounts wouldn’t get stolen. A service that uses plain private keys has both problems.
I thought snap was passe now that tik tok is around.
The article proposes taxing the unimproved value of land at 100% which I think gets around that problem totally.
I love public coasts. Land in the US West in general was also divvied out much more as public in general.

It helps though that beaches are of only limited developmental value.
White House announces $140M AI investment ahead of meeting with OpenAI
This whole "pro se" being treated well by judges is not the reality I have experienced. I have been involved in a few cases over the last several years as a pro se litigant and I lost almost every motion I filed, despite the other (represented) side's position being obviously frivolous. However, I also ghostwrote motions for attorneys in those cases as well, and when those motions are signed by an attorney they succeeded every single time. It seems like unless a lawyer signs a filing it will be outright ignored by many judges.
Digressions on typography and formatting:

* How did Shannon get nice looking math before LaTeX? John Nash's thesis in 1950 (only 32 pages long!) had handwritten math: https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/defa...

* Strange to see see citations as footnotes, not a references section. (Nash's thesis was kind enough to include two cites in its references.) Was this typical?
Sure, it's not their biggest song. But from what I've seen, most of his novels have been translated with a relatively faithful title (say, "Kafka sur le rivage" for Kafka on the shore). It's only this one which gets a completely new title.

And I don't think it's even some bizarre copyright issue, as it could easily be translated in Spanish as "Bosque noruego", while the original song title, if translated, would be closer to "Madera de Noruga". It's not like he titled directly after the song in Japanese either...
>When I see a US-made movie where the landlord knocks on someone's door to collect rent in cash, it's rather bewildering.

You do know that not all movies represent reality, right? Iron Man, Bat Man and Spiderman do not exist, even though they're often seen in American movies.

Meanwhile in the real world of Germany, when I see the assistant at my dentist in Germany writing pacient appointments in a giant paper log-book instead of a digital calendar on a PC, it's rather bewildering.

Also bewildering, is the so called digital stuff being done through snail mail, and people paying in cash at restaurants so they can do tax fraud. Try asking them for a real receipt and not a hand written one and look at their faces.

My point is Germany is backwards in enough areas not to afford to take a high horse stance.
Yes. Lying requires being able to discern truth from falsity. But LLMs don't know what's true even when they say true things. That's why "hallucinate" is a better word ... better but not perfect because for an LLM it's all hallucinations all the time. Some of those hallucinations (most of them) happen to turn out to be true.
I'm not sure I fully agree with that characterization. Many people would intuitively classify assignment as a statement, yet it's an expression in C, which is fully in the Algol tradition. And Rust is certainly a descendant of C, but blurs the lines a lot further with loops being expressions.
This really means nothing without a reference to the prevailing local wages, though.
In terms of "proof", I can't imagine what you'd accept as proof that I'd want to post here. In terms of risk, benign is a pretty good word for it, and we've been using another processor for years and years without any issues on that front.

I think Stripe is well within their rights to do all the due diligence they feel they need to do; I just wish they had done it before we signed a contract and started taking payments, and it does feel like we dodged a bullet by not agreeing to the Minimum Fee Commitment.
I want to note that, independently of what this bill says, publishers have never complained about their treatment in other platforms owned by either of these two companies, such as YouTube.

Reason being, they get paid for publishing content, and Google and Meta make money off it.

Regardless of what most people believe about social networks and search engines "helping" these media outlets be known, reality is that they don't do it from the kindness of their hearts. Google and Meta profit from linking and publishing these contents.

Large companies like to frame this kind of stuff as a slippery slope and an anti-consumer move, because it is a more sympathetic approach than just saying "we want to keep making money and not spending a dime".

And I get it, news outlets also want money. But again, this is not an apocalyptic scenario where consumers get screwed over news corporations greed, it is just resistance from even larger corporations to pay a share of their profits to content creators.
EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US
I'm not saying that's inaccurate but figuring out tax burden - because of the distinction between rates and what's collected, the state and localities and the way benefits are allocated (among many other things) can be really confusing.
I always interpreted the Voight-Kampf test as a kind of "feature engineering" for a Human vs. Replicant classifier. The questions do not have to mean anything specific, and it is not supposed to be interpreted in an objective manner; the point is that the questions trigger something, and that something (the "features") can be used to discriminate the two groups. It sounds logical to me that scientists would find these questions by trying randomly, via some hyperparameter optimization process, rather than designing them manually (in the same way that manually engineered features are usually much less powerful than letting a neural network process raw features directly). And as such they would be inherently "uninterpretable".

That said, I usually do not like any kind of movie/book/story/etc. that tries to force me to have feelings for robots. The original BR was a bit like this, but BR2049 is very, very strongly into that. For me a robot is a robot is a robot, and will always be, and the whole idea of "imagine if they were so advanced.." is just fundamentally flawed and impossible for me to buy. A human is a human and only humans can be humans, precisely because we cannot create ourselves. Any "living" being that is designed by a human is inherently subhuman (not clones; that is another matter entirely). For that same reason I did not enjoy the article either.
Years of bitter personal experience have taught me that FORTRAN is the real
ur-language in the sense that a suitably determined programmer can write FORTRAN code in just about any language. I have certainly had to debug this code all over the place.
Hi all,
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The science of the weight loss and diabetes drugs Wegovy and Ozempic
Worse, this is hosted by hsforms.com (Hubspot Forms) which, by itself, collects a huge amount of data (e.g. IP address enrichment). Just this simple form needs its own privacy policy given that it's hosted by Hubspot's Marketing / lead form product.
Yes, but how is that related to the OP's Laffer Curve bullshit? High-income and therefore progressively taxed households are the only people still migrating in to California. Migration out of California has everything to do with cost of housing and nothing to do with taxation. The lower-income households that flee the state for Texas, the top destination, are more taxed in Texas than they were in California, but the people migrate anyway because the housing cost difference is larger than the tax difference.
That’s exactly how I feel about Oregon. It’s so frustrating to look at what was once a beautiful state being ruined by politicians that would prefer more homeless individuals over me.
Oh dang, I'd have thought they'd opened back up by now. Well shoot, good to know.
Is there such a thing as 'local wages' any more?
Facebook cracks down on malware actors targeting business accounts
Yeah, very true, I missed that the first time I opened the page. Honestly that makes this idea even more insane. Jet engines are hundreds or thousands of times more fuel efficient than rocket engines, can run for days at a time, and most importantly doesn't have to carry its oxidizer onboard. Rocket engines (rather, large ones) run for minutes at a time and have to carry all fuel and oxygen - to run a rocket for an hour, you'd need an absolutely absurd fuel tank the size of a building.

The guys who designed this are obviously smart, much smarter than me, but it's clear that they've taken some 'creative liberties' to design the concept.

My suspicion is that the real product here is the rotational-detonation-engine, the entire "hypersonic passenger vehicle" is just a flashy sales pitch to drive investment & hype towards the development of a genuinely innovative engine that otherwise wouldn't have this amount of funding poured into it.
Running JavaScript in Rust with Deno: Experimenting with Deno's Rust Crates
Do you have a source on the tax burden? I’m living in Massachusetts right now (notoriously called Taxachusetts by some here), and CA sales and income tax rates look to be about 50% and double the rates here, respectively. It looks like property taxes are about 50% higher here, but income and sales tax is way bigger than property tax in my experience. Not to mention California’s notorious gas tax.
Detecting sensitive data shared with OpenAI
Hi HN,

I'm Guillaume, the founder of Bearer, an Open Source code security scanning tool. Despite the buzz around generative AI (which, as a reader of HN, you've likely encountered), we've also heard concerns from security teams.

When using OpenAI’s developer APIs (and other LLMs), considering how Generative AI model works, essentially the more you give, the better you receive, we essentially open the door to “overshare” information. For example, If you are building an AI assistant into your travel booking app, sending sensitive data as customer information becomes highly probable. Though, as with any shared data, this does present important security and privacy risks that we can’t overlook, hence the fear of security teams.

To address these risks, we must have explicit policies and a culture of privacy and security within the organization. We should treat generative AI models like any other third-party dependency, assessing them for vulnerabilities and safeguarding customer data. Of course, having appropriate tooling also helps.

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FBI, Europol smash global dark web drug empire with Operation SpecTor
I wish the government was capable of building an extremely simple CRUD website, but all the evidence points to them not being able to. If they can't build it in house they have to pay someone to build it for them, this website required no upfront payment, the pay structure seems reasonable imo.
Baseball's Coming Artificial Intelligence Revolution
Oh yeh I forgot about the trackpoint as well. Theres a few things holding me back, but the pull is getting stronger

I guess a trackpoint could happen if third parties start getting involved more in making keyboards and whatnot.
According to the man himself

>>Our numbers were unhealthy, just like it is in much of the tech industry.

But that didn't prevent him from profiting from it nor from the layoffs.

To be completely honest, I've never been bullish on Shopify. To me it looked like a "mee too" play for investors that missed the boat on Amazon, Square and Stripe.
FTC says Facebook broke terms of $5B data privacy settlement
The full report from the Department of Finance is here:

https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/Forecasting/...

Unsurprisingly, the change is not even. Central agricultural areas are still moving up in population, and large costal cities are down. Los Angeles lost 1% of its population last year.
I agree with your sentiment, but it's not really relevant here. Georgism doesn't say much about restricting the right to use a piece of land. Rather it's about what it costs to maintain that right (and isn't actually a huge departure from the current state of things where that cost is generally nonzero except in the rare cases of allodial title).

For example, homeowners associations are a significant source of tyranny, that often literally regulate what color you can paint your shed. It's probable that under Georgism the lack of desire to keep one's abstract property value high would lead to a lot fewer of them, and homeowners would actually end up more free.
In Switzerland all lake shores are public land. And most of them (most of the usable parts at least) are fenced out by local prominent people owning villas nearby, and nobody moves a finger about it because as I said they are prominent (politicians, TV stars, Tina Turner...). And when I mean nobody I really mean nobody - there aren't even teenagers rebelling, it looks like an societary accepted evil.
Mostly it's out of control housing prices.
PaLM is ridiculously inefficient in the number of parameters. It's about as good on quantitative benchmarks as LLaMa 65B
I feel like my M1 Air could live on for weeks in sleep mode, as long as nothing's plugged in. Maybe you could try Sleep Air [1] to find the culprit?

[1]: https://ohanaware.com/sleepaid/
Seeing ads shown to my 3 year old when they do basic supervised web browsing on educational websites seems wrong.
The fact that humans have always owned land is a meaningless argument. We can all decide to use a better system for anything if we agree on it.
People interviewing have to stand for themselves more. Several years ago, I was living in Germany looking to go back home later that year. I got into the interview process for a nice Silicon Valley startup (called Ooyala). After 3 phone interviews (2 technical) the recruiter was super excited and told me they would fly me from Germany to their offices.. A 10 hour flight.

I respectfully declined, telling her that because I was going to do the same long trip about 2 months later, I didn't want to fly. I told her that I would understand if they decided to pass, and no hard feelings.

Instead, she got one of the founders to interview me (Bel!!) And after that they decided to give me an offer. Everything resulted great for all of us, and I had a job waiting for me later that year.

I understand we may be desperate when looking for a job. But trust me that hiring managers are also generally in a hurry to fill positions. I know this bc I've hired plenty of people (both tech, HR, and g&a) in my career.
The later generation Hue bulbs allow you to go far dimmer than the originals.
I think this taxonomy is interesting, but I have some quibbles on the characterization of the languages I use the most.

If I were to put Ruby into one of these categories, I would place it first under Self (the object-oriented languages). Ruby is the most object-oriented language that I've ever used in that everything is an object that you send signals to. Even classes in Ruby are objects (they are instances of the `Class` class). Ruby was explicitly inspired by Smalltalk, one of the two exemplars cited by the post.

After the "Self" category, Ruby would fit better under the "Lisp" family than the "ALGOL" family because of Ruby's deep metaprogrammability.

I'm guessing the author was fooled by the availability of C-style `for` loops in Ruby, but that's generally not how Ruby programmers write a loop. It's much more common to write `list_of_things.map {…}` or use any number of other iteration methods available through the `Enumerable` module.

JavaScript to me fits better under the ML (functional languages) family than "ALGOL". The first-class nature of JavaScript functions is the core feature of the language. Of course, if you define "functional languages" by having static type systems this grouping wouldn't work for you. But for me it's all about the functions. You can pass functions around and return them from other functions. You can write utility functions to memoize or otherwise transform functions.

And while not everything in JavaScript is an object the non-object values in JavaScript have "object" versions. JavaScript still has some object-oriented chops. Functions are themselves objects, and while method calls are usually just reading a function off of an object and calling it, you can intervene in the property-reading step to enforce a more "message passing" style.

I'm guessing that most developers will have similar quibbles about the categorization in this article of the languages they are most familiar with. But this is still an interesting frame of reference. And if you only work in languages that fit squarely in the "imperative" category (or write code in an imperative way), I encourage you to explore some of the others.
With the 24/7 surveillance camera setup, the cost to the landlord of gathering enough violations to evict minority tenants is “watch all recorded video from all cameras, looking for the target”. Facial recognition allows landlords to start with a target in mind and have the technology filter an arbitrary amount of data for just the moments when the target is on camera.

The tech removes that O(n) search where n is hours recorded, which was the dominating factor making it impractical, and crucially was the only thing that made pervasive recording correspondingly more expensive to mine for violations.
Moscow says US behind Kremlin drone attack, Russian forces target Kyiv
How was that summarized?
The sticking point for me is informed consent. We don't consider children to be capable of giving informed consent, which is why they generally can't enter into contracts. It feels like advertising has become so omnipresent that we don't even consider that to be entering a contract, but it is.

They're handing away their data or having their desires manipulated, and I don't think children can be reasonably asked to make a judgement on whether that's a good decision for them or not.

I do see the point that you're making about turning 18. Fortunately, I think that's somewhat of a self-limiting problem. If kids turning 18 genuinely can't withstand the ads, they'll start filing for bankruptcy and credit card companies will stop issuing them lines of credit.
I remember spotting a ransomware attack halfway through my first week of employment at a job, and I wasn't even in an IT job. It felt like a scene out of an action movie. <ahnold>"UNPLUG DA SEHVERS, NOWWWWWW!"</ahnold>
If the models turn to crap I'm sure someone, somewhere else, is going to profit from de-crapified non-US versions.
What did you think about Sicario and Arrival?
How to two-time your employer: a tech worker's guide
Yeah, unfortunately, the agreement will make its rounds into boilerplate leases soon enough.
"...on mice"
Once you recognize the patterns, it seems clearly in the ML tradition. Some bits and pieces look exactly like Haskell at first glance.
Interesting. Usually people talk about "sentient or feelings" being the line rather than "we cannot create ourselves". That seems to be where robot sympathy comes in for most people...sympathy for something that can ponder about itself, or has some degree of "feelings".
The Delirious Rise of ‘Superfake’ Handbags
Isn't everyone a terrorist these days?
Allowing the best spots to be completely overrun seems far more dystopian to me. To be clear, you do not need a permit to have an incredible experience at a national park.
Weird, I thought Fennec had those. I downloaded it and use it for browsing, but I mostly don't browse on my phone. From a web search though, I found out you can go into settings, click on "About Fennec" and click on the logo five times to unlock debug mode which apparently gives you access to custom add-on collections. You have to go to the firefox add-ons page and make a custom collection under your account for it to be useful. This presumably allows all add-ons through this method.
Functional Programming in JavaScript with Ramda.js
One issue without E2EE is that even WITHOUT a lawful warrant, USGOV can (and does en masse) access/seize data not (or not yet) pertaining to a criminal or counterintelligence investigation.
Shopify to lay off 20% of staff
Paramount stock plummets after earnings miss, dividend cut