skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facial recognition is well known to have racial biases with respect to accuracy.

If the building I’m currently renting in suddenly decides that I’m not a legitimate visitor some random percent of the time, then I’m very likely to move and go somewhere that isn’t going to do that to me. That percentage doesn’t have to be very high; it just has to be higher than a key, which has a success rate approaching 100%.

Edit: forgot to mention: it’s also somewhat common for a building’s owner to change beneath its tenants, with the new owner enacting policies that are clearly intended to flush to old (and therefore less profitable) tenants out. Cameras that track the activities of tenants and make them feel unwelcome would typify this kind of policy, even before any racial bias in the technology itself.
I love kale and porridge but this seems like the porridge scene in the matrix: does a body good. They should send the latency committee to study the neurochemical signalling in the nerve pathways to understand how fast the brain decides it tastes like chickenfeed. Then fire the decider because it was too fast.
https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-microservices

> grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

> seem very confusing to grug
Every time I read news like this, I think "this is how you get a jailbroken car crash crisis".
Without clicking through, I suspect the source (a wealth-worshiping publication) totally elides the economic aspects here. We had commercial supersonic flight in the Concorde, but it just wasn't economically feasible at scale.

Turns out, going faster than about 500MPH isn't something most people are willing to pay for. OTOH, (rich) people WILL pay for being more comfortable while it happens, which is the direction commercial aviation has gone for a couple decades now.
That strikes me as an extraordinary claim somewhat in need of extraordinary evidence.
Is there any reason to think that zero-shot learning and better models/more effient AI won’t drastically reduce those costs over time?
Basically every single building is doing this with key fobs.
It does. GPT4 frequently reports the same feelings I do when given similar inputs.
Does anyone have a sense of how bad things really are for the US economy and what the next 12/18 months are going to look like? Seems like every day all I see is doom and gloom, I've not seen a bright spot in quite some time... it's becoming increasingly difficult for me to get a sense of where things are. People keep saying things are going to get worse, I keep reading things are going to get worse, friends are literally committing suicide. Feels like twilight zone.
At a certain point it seems like the start of all shit is targeted ads, just ban em. And all the tracking and targeting magically disappears.
Shopify leadership drank their own kool aid and so did many of its employees. I’ve been a constructor to them before and it was not a good experience.
> ... in writing or through a mobile app.

Great, so now tenant is required to have the app to pay rent. But to use the app to pay rent, you have to agree to the ToS which includes expressly consenting to having your bio data scooped up.
I think that is part of it, but make no mistake, China's rhetoric and actions have become more aggressive over the last decade.
I think this point isn’t made often enough.

Not going with a big cloud provider def doesn’t mean that you need to buy physical servers and build an on-prem data center.
<< Allegedly, CSAM is up 89% from pre-pandemic levels

Allegedly. That said, the alarming statistic is used by people who have a specific agenda related to CSAM. It is not dissimilar how pro/anti-gun sides ( and many others, it is just an example ) cherry pick their favorite data/ranges and so on.

<< addressing the CSAM issue
<< if it is possible to come with our own bill

Not if it breaks some basic internet foundations.

There is a simple reason for it. There is a way to stop all fraud at bank. Stop all transactions. I think you will agree that while stopping fraud is a valuable proposition, the solution is close to unworkable. It is the same here.

In other words, in order to entertain some level of freedom, one must be willing to accept that some bad people will do some bad things with that freedom. That is the trade-off.

Now, that is not letting 'bad guy' off the hook. Police still has a job to do. What we do not want to do is create an easier world for police, but a more livable place for all the republic's denizens.
Read the article, it's quite enlightening. Russia today's follower count jump...

My take:

This happens just as another Tesla factory in China opens. Anyone who thought buying Twitter (now X corp) is about some free speech absolutism lives in a fantasy world. Musk has Teslas to sell (and make). CCP can single-handedly take away the 2nd biggest market and expropriate all IP from factories, and they know he owns Twitter.
>If Shopify can deliver its software with less people, that’s better for society.

What specific measures of society are better?

Please use whatever metrics you deem relevant however I'll propose a few options to choose from based on the Harvard Human Flourishing Program [1]:

1. Happiness and life satisfaction

2. Mental and physical health

3. Meaning and purpose

4. Character and virtue

5. Close social relationships

[1] https://hfh.fas.harvard.edu/measuring-flourishing
I feel like people don't understand how similar these huge corporations are to seed stage startups, and I'm sure people would be fine with a seed stage startup doing layoffs at this point of time

Most of these companies have 1-2 areas generating 90%+ of the revenue. They are the rich VC giving unprofitable teams money to find PMF. When those teams can't find profitability faster in this environment, the VC rightfully stops the funding.

Some people will/have moved to the profitable teams, but you can't just double or triple their size and expect their income to grow accordingly
I’ve personally seen trails being eroded over years, it stinks, and more people on those trails cause more erosion.

Why don't they rotate the trails? I've seen this done on Jeju, South Korea. They close an over-worn section, then open a parallel section.
Based on the FUD being pushed about bill C-11, i’d take anything the potential targets of this bill say about what it would do with a huge grain of salt.
> Companies like that are just scams to extract money from investors and use it to play with toys.

Like most (tech) startups then.
The legitimate "raffle" structure in question does not typically require people to pay if they don't win the raffle.
i laughed out loud browsing https://about.google/intl/en_us/products/ as a result of your comment, and the first random one i clicked on (cloud print) has a big banner at the top saying it was discontinued in 2020.

a second laugh when I went to the "migration options" link and it says

"We recommend that you find another way to meet your printing needs."

never change, google
I think that analogy is flawed to try to undercut OpenAI’s lead. The reason it’s flawed is that the search business is really lucrative and OpenAI is trying to completely disrupt Google’s business there. So while the AI isn’t a moat, establishing a lead in search is because you obviously will use that to inject ads in the commercial space and capture the market.
I mean why do you rewrite history? Its either because of a typo or editing commits.
I doubt its very important for ai training.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230503090635/https://www.nytim...
It is mentioned in the opening paragraph of the submitted article.
What's funny about this is as we get better at text prediction, we revise our entropy estimations downward. The last I heard was 2016, at around 6 bits/word of EU-produced English. I'm sure it's lower now.
Imposing the control on the people who cause the least problems relative to the problem population is worse than the baseline.

And most jurisdictions have laws promoting snitching on your neighbor for tax evasion anyway. You don't even really need the compact; just pour some of the fine revenue into enforcing property tax evasion. That simplifies it to just enforcing the fine against a percentage of registered wealth wherever you live, and the reciprocity challenge can be deferred to later. But then you're likely to score wherever the driver has their multitude of cars garaged.

Billionaires will still escape, but people definitively in the upper class will be more effectively deterred.
Of course they do. Layoffs are hard work!
It's weird because even the first C standard was influenced by C++: function prototypes and const.
Now if only they'd kill implicit function declarations too...
> The scene is meant to be accepted symbolically, not literally.

The entire story...
Why not just make it a reverse auction at that point? That’s the end state anyway
The claim that EARN IT would make "prosecution of child sexual abuse crimes more difficult" is inaccurate.

The bill only creates a voluntary set of guidelines for companies, not a mandatory set of guidelines.

Companies would be motivated to adopt the voluntary guidelines in order to avoid a heap of legal liability, but this would only be a heap of liability by tech company standards and not by the standards of any other industry not protected by Section 230.

In other words, the fourth amendment argument doesn't really hold water. The data collection practices would still only be private actions, not state actions.

I'm not advocating for EARN IT. I still think the bill is terrible because it disincentivizes end-to-end encryption (or more specifically, it incentivizes bypassing it with client-side scanning). But the specific argument that it would make prosecuting child abuse more difficult doesn't hold water.
Pornhub is already requiring ID in Louisiana, which has a similar law. But their traffic has gone done significantly because of this.

It seems to be that blocking Utah is a strategic PR move to try and make these kinds of laws unpopular. Lets blame the weirdo Mormons trying to pass strange laws. Nevermind these laws are starting to pop up around the world.
> Honestly not sure what the big deal is...

Then you've already given up and accepted your new surveilled reality.
In more practical terms, it's because his business prints billions per year by selling you ads.
The idea is to improve, not replicate all the bad parts.
> If things self-correct in a time frame longer than your own lifespan, do you think it's an ideal scenario?

If there is not a better option, then yes.
Wait, how can we verify this is OpenAI's form and not some random form on the internet?

Edit: Ok the link can be found here in part 4 of : https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
Have you considered a well-written email, followed by an offer of chat if anything remains unclear?
Sadly, this is lost on a lot of people. I think that because Cook is gay that people think he's automatically a huge defender of human rights. After all, someone who grew up gay in the deep south would know a thing or two about persecution and a thing or two about growing up as an outsider in your own community. Once could even argue that through his donations in the US to LGBTTTQQIAP+ charities and his personal political stances, as well as Apple's commitment to minorities in its own workforce, yeah, that's fair. I'd include their marketing department's pandering, but that's marketing - they're supposed to pander regardless.

However, Tim's actions in China kinda spit in the face of all that. Shit, even Tim's own community (the gay community) in China faces a fair amount of persecution, and Tim's certainly been silent on that.

If we can't get our corporate behemoths to reinforce our country's views and ideals, we're no better than the CCP, who can and do get to do just that.
Google's cookie situation is complicated, because they have one login that people expect to work across mail.google.com, docs.google.com, drive.google.com, etc. Without going to a ton of server-side gymnastics, the most seamless way to connect all those properties is to set the session ID cookie on .google.com, allowing access to all subdomains recursively.

There's no way to exclude certain subdomains, so once you've decided to share a cookie between subdomains you have to use a new domain if you want to exclude a site from sharing.
Specially when you have to arrive two hours earlier to the airport and you're going to be stuck in customs another extra hour. But I also guess that those tickets will come with very special extra quick lanes.
I think it is a very relevant question for anyone with anti-human leanings. This person clearly stated this in their original comment ("I'm not a fan of humans").
GDPR is nice in this regard: Consent isn't enough. The consent must be freely given (aka no stipulation saying you can't rent without accepting), informed (aka you should be told all your rights and what's included in your consent, just not a general "by signing the rental agreement you're accepting us collecting your data"), and they can't even collect the data unless they have a legitimate use for it (which again someone could challenge, the landlord doesn't need to know when I come&go to do their job).
LOL, as NATO/US Propaganda would not been there...
Spoiler: we see it.

In the mean time, Assange is still in prison.
We need more journalist, this is why people don't trust media anymore. COVID Lies anyone?
> Religion has entered the chat.

Parenting in general has entered the cat.

(That said, I do agree that we need boundaries on the manipulation of younger minds. I've seen others make this analogy before: We don't let kids buy cigarettes in stores -- why should they have the full force of addictive algorithmic social media unleashed on them? [for that matter, why should adults, but that's another story])
You don’t understand how much money is really out there. Some Arab kings will have 3 or 4 of these as their private planes. Travel from the Middle East to New York and be back in time for prayer.
Harder to game, if desired enough people will still game it by buying entries for others
Great, now the travel time will mostly be waiting at the TSA security line.
Stigmata is my favourite of these, though all brilliant. I read it in on a trip from the UK to Vegas at age 24 (really trying to channel hunter s thompson, so was in a strange place) and it chilled me to the core.

When I walk around London and see large structures like St Paul's cathedral sat directly alongside skyscraping banking institutions, I can't help but wonder if in fact "the empire never ended". (https://urbigenous.net/library/how_to_build.html)

Then I shake the thought off and go uneasily to my workplace.
A human has a level of accuracy and decaying memory appropriate for the task of improving security for an apartment building.

They’ll stop a stranger walking out with a package and keep an eye out for your abusive ex for you. They won’t remember you coming home late 6 years ago shortly after someone matching your description left an abortion clinic.

They’re also human not an unaccountable automated process. They’ll let you bring home a new fling 5 nights in the same month without registering them as a tenant, and let a non-corporate delivery driver drop off a package without being registered as a SurveillanceCorp approved deliverer.

The concept of doormen is dumb, but we don’t need to automate away every human interaction in our lives.
Exactly. I assume that some things can't safely be exposed either, as they could be a risk to the sandbox.
Actually the good path, according to abovementioned prophets of capitalism, would be a new player undercutting the incumbent by being able to deliver comparably with less people. An incumbent so unchallenged that they can increase revenue while cutting staff is the economic equivalent of a bad code smell. Perhaps not that market outright failing, but clearly not working quite as advertised.
Google shared AI knowledge with the world – until ChatGPT caught up
Technically the film is named after this novel; they optioned the title and then slapped it on their Do Androids Dream script because it sounded better.

You're pretty close in your plot summary, it's about a dystopian future where surgery, and specifically possession of surgical instruments, is illegal. The "Blade Runners" are couriers that deliver the scalpels to underground surgery clinics. The name makes a lot more sense for that than for an android hunter but I'm happy we got the Blade Runner we got.
White House Unveils Initiatives to Reduce Risks of A.I
Task planning doesn't increase shareholder value.
Subdomains don't solve the problem, because Google very much intentionally puts the user session cookie on the root of .google.com, thereby sharing with all subdomains.
I'm curious how these systems deal with COPPA. If a young child is coming home from school, how does this internet-connected system comply?
> Asymmetric forces and insurgencies are problematic, but people overate them in modern discourse because of the weight of the occupation of Aghanistan and Iraq in recent memory. They are easy to crush, but politics at the time was complicated.

I don't know if I would say "easy to crush". For Western nations i think it's especially hard because the images of civilian deaths have a large effect on the population and voting. Fighting asymmetric forces seems to always involve significant civilian casualties. Other nations operating without those constraints would have an easier time destroying asymmetric forces IMO. I think they would use the same tactics used for crushing dissenting civilians only kill-on-sight instead of at least the illusion of arrest-on-sight.

/not a military/war expert
https://archive.is/JgpNM
Great, the more the system cracks the sooner the veil will come down.
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A request for a list of personal data they’re processing would be interesting. How would they even comply with such a request?
Couldn't you just put a dozen acceleration couches in the cargo bay of the space shuttle and achieve this?

I expect this would be just as economical.
> Hanlon's razor in general applies well when thinking about Kagi, expect it is not (always) stupidity but lack of resources.

Please don't feel that I was making any hard judgements about Kagi or yourself based on the points I mentioned. My only intention has been to learn a bit more about the product and provide some insight into what someone evaluating the product for the first time might feel. I appreciate that the points may come across as hostile/challenging but I'd be happiest if they were rebutted easily.

Your present response does raise some concerns however.

> Kagi is selling searches at cost

This is a different claim from your blog post on 08/03/23 where the cost of each search was 1.25 cents. If this isn't the case, you're losing money on any annual unlimited subscribers that make more than 1,416 searches each month.

> and we make money on subscriptions

If this is the case, why not differentiate the subscriptions based on their value-add features and operate an upper bound of $25/mo on the amount charged for searches for all tiers?

If you're making money off of the subscription, why don't the search quotas roll over?

Together, these three points give the impression that the aim is for subscription search quotas to be under-utilised rather than to provide the searches at cost.

> You point out some valid use-cases there and the reason we haven't addressed them so far is probably because they are rare and users didn't care enough to post and upvote them on kagifeedback.org for it to make a difference.

That's a fair point regarding general feedback. I can't speak as your average user but as someone that wasn't already invested in the product they were areas that introduced friction in the decision of whether I'd like to pay for the product or not. A user evaluating the product is unlikely to post why they haven't converted to kagifeedback.org, even if they're aware of the site. It's worth bearing in mind that issues for potential users may not be a problem for existing users, apportioning time to the desires of both groups is a difficult balance.

> and is planned on our roadmap, just not prioritized (just one upvote) and we had bigger fish to fry.

My personal perspective is that it's absolutely unacceptable for a company to double-charge due to their own UI decisions. Spurious billing in general is something I would expect to be treated as top priority on an ongoing basis. Treating it's occurrence as a feature request raises serious concerns, especially regarding how similar/more impactful situations might be handled.

I'm disappointed, there's a lot to like about the product itself.
The automaker cycle - Focus on adding value for the customer, gain dominance, milk it for all it's worth financially, drop precipitously, complain about how Toyota is beating you in the market.
Thank you for this - I loved VALIS and read it after most of his other major novels but the fact that the third in the trilogy (transmigration?) was unfinished put me off carrying on.

I'll be reading this today.
The government is THE entity entrusted with creating personal property rights, amongst a lot of other things. (Assuming colonial debt as a national debt being how the revolutionaries bought their new country legitimacy.) So it’s about time for government to grant people sovereignty over their data and attention by creating some new personal property rights and protections. Keeping PII should be billable hours. Attention should be billable hours. If not that then something similar.
I am already mildly aggravated about app only menu at some restaurants ( and promptly leave if I can't get basic service from the waiter ), but there is something to be said about requiring app for an actual necessity ( eating at a restaurant isn't a necessity ), where one can't simply walk away.
> I wonder if this is a model to apply to a capitalist society: Where you have a CEO doing their regular thing, but also a political officer making sure society is not disadvantaged. Hard to pull off without falling into totalitarianism I guess

Who is choosing the CEO and political officer?
Not a feeling as such, but I suppose it would be able to determine an angry or furious tone:

https://i.imgur.com/abRLZYO.png
If the number of entries is unlimited then it’s essentially an auction anyway
OpenAI links to it from here
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7842364-how-chatgpt-and-...
When creating tasks for data analysts I like to specify when it's a "fetch quest" for some exec.
Store-Sentry: App Store Server Notification listening post
> A landlord doesn't have the right to know the identity of every guest every one of their tenants has - they just don't.

I don't think it would give them that. My understanding is that these facial recognition systems for building access work by registering and storing the face data of the people who are supposed to be able to open the locked door.
It claims it will use rotating detonation engines, which are currently at a NASA tech demo stage. At best. They're super complex, currently not very stable. It's long, long way from becoming stable & reliable enough to be used as plane engines or being commercially available. The current record is 10 minutes firing.

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/feature/nasa-validates...
email written by chatgpt, on the other side interpreted by chatgpt again .. until someone invents machine readable chatgpt written email ..
> It's kind of annoying when people dismiss an idea without taking time to fully engage with and understand it. I expect more from my middle school students, let alone someone I'm taking time to discuss things with on HN.

I fully agree, and I wish you'd do your part. What are people for?