skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the phoenix payroll fiasco, and the Watson fiasco, and how aggressively they seem to be trying to drive their employees away, I don’t know how much I trust IBM to accomplish anything

Let alone predict how ai will shape the future of work
Some context: any litigator will have access to Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis to look up and verify cited authorities like cases. It’s considered bad practice, at best, to cite authorities that one has not reviewed—for example, case citations drawn from a treatise or article.

As a practical matter, it is inconceivable to me that the attorney here, at least upon being ordered by the court to provide copies of the cases he cited, did not look them up in West or Lexis and see that they don’t exist. That he appears to have pressed on at that point, and asked ChatGPT to generate them—which would take some pointed prompting—was just digging his own hole. That, more than anything, may warrant professional discipline.
not very surprising if an animal in captivity would get mad / claustrophobic, whether in nightmare or daymare
I want to see electricity meters configurable with a "max I am happy to pay per day" setting. When that limit is near, they beep/alert you. When you hit the cap, they turn off the whole house.

You could adjust the limit as you please, with a default of perhaps $100 - but they spare you from million dollar bills, even with uncapped dynamic pricing.

If a reasonable number of these were deployed, the prices would never spike super high, because there would always be someone else willing to turn off their tumble dryer to save 50 bucks.
When the Snowden docs came out, the main thing that surprised me wasn't the tech, it was the scale. I thought I had seen the tip of the iceberg doing security work for over 15y prior, but I had barely seen ripples in the surface. Most of what I saw would have been in the category of "BULLRUN," which I incorporate into client threat models today, but also some of the ISP interception equipment I saw at peering points / IX's during the 90s that had just been called "some old police telco stuff, ignore it."

I think an unintended consequence was that it also emboldened a lot of authoritarian personalities to just say, "yeah, we do this, you are with us or against us, here's the line, toe it." A decade later, participation in elite circles like media, academia, and politics is based on how convincingly one can be seen to parrot obvious untruths, not because anyone believes them at all, but because it signals status to be able to lie to the faces of people who know you are doing it, and still say nothing.

Snowden's leaks were an unambiguous act of conscience. They made sustaining dissonance about how the sausage of empire gets made a lot harder for regular people - even if we also learned that most people really just like sausage.

I tolerate the spook-adjacent types in my field who parrot absurd official lines and slogans about russian interference because being seen to align with it is just how they are trying to survive, and I can't judge what people do to keep their families fed. But the ones who know what's true, yet take a kind of pleasure in repeating official lies because it makes them feel powerful - I think the real impact Snowden had is showing people like that for what they are, and how low the bar is for getting involved in public service and just doing better. There are amazing people in public service, and they are mostly sidelined by a minority of these eels who demoralize their agencies by normalizing small acts of deviance, corruption, and partisan favours. You can change that.

The best way for a technologist to leverage their skills to effect change in government is to go get a Privacy Professional certification https://iapp.org/certify/cipp/, and do work for your state, municipality, or a federal agency. Privacy laws everywhere got absolutely gutted over the pandemic, but the work privacy pros did in the decade prior prevented some of the worst abuses by people leveraging that crisis, and it's going to take a lot of smart technical people working in government to ensure there are technical limits on what a few sleazy appointees like the very ones who exploited 9/11 to build the panopticon Snowden exposed, can do.
Understand, some lawyers finished last in class. Cramming for a bar exam != intelligence.

Don't let one dumbass, be a example of how all lawyers are.
What is frequently lost in these discussions is what reserve currency status costs the US - namely in having an overvalued currency. This the primary reason why US labor is not cost competitive with the rest of the world except in the highest value-added industries.

Take away reserve currency status and you suddenly have one of the sharpest currency devaluations in human history without any immediate loss in productivity or value-add. Unleashing the US workforce at that price point is a good way to ensure that no country that isn't already highly-developed will become highly-developed in our lifetimes.

On the article itself, comparisons to the pound sterling are rather confusing. The UK faced financial problems not simply because of a shift in the monetary landscape but also the loss of its former empire which a significant portion of its domestic economy was tied up in.

The US, in comparison, is a resource-rich continental power which conducts most of its 'international' trade with Canada and Mexico (both of which the US is deeply interlinked with logistically).

The fact that people continue to draw comparisons between the UK and US economies is incredibly baffling. It smacks of some kind of 'great cycle' religion.
Ah so it's pure phobia. Interesting.

So you checked all reasons and concluded that's it?

What studies did you consult?

And even if it's 'only' phobia wouldn't it also be a problem of politics and education then?

And while I don't necessarily against nuclear, I do really believe that every investment in nuclear would be much more beneficial towards wind, solar, geo, power lines and energy storage.

Why?

Makes people more independent and therefore the country better equipped for catastrophies. It creates synergies with all other energy storage problems like ev's, laptops and smartphones.

It makes people more energy aware.

The investment will push prices down for everyone including 3th world countries.

Less risk for dirty bomb material.

No long term storage problem.

Less dependencies to other countries because Uran etc doesn't exist everywhere while the other materials are much easier to get globally.

Also castor Transports are super expensive and the whole supply chain too due to terrorism risk and health risk.

I also have worked with plenty of people in my life, the assumption that people are always able to handle dangerous materials which are not visible harmful feels stupid.
For anyone still watching, the crawl's just completed. I'm processing stats now.

Currently looking at:

- Most mentioned states (may add territories).

- Most mentioned cities (330 or so largest US for now, may add selected global cities).
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- Most mentioned countries / country identifiers, including EU.

Also looking at submitters, submitted sites, associated votes and comments, and trends over time, though those may take a bit longer to complete.

Considering companies and universities as well.

Analysis is largely awk, grep, sort, uniq --- standard shell tool stuff. Amazingly powerful though really. Crawl via wget which performed wonderfully as usual. Thanks to HN/YC for not throttling too aggressively.
> ChatGPT, as it often does, hallucinated wildly

Plausible bullshit generation for free, as if there's not enough already available cheap.
> No one sold them as good.

What? Why'd we implement them then? Plenty of people were criticizing the policies, but they were generally overruled in favor of vague goals which were "sold as good," like "flattening the curve."

Relatedly, one of my pet peeves is when people talk about the harms of lockdowns but frame it as "the damage that covid did to children's education." It wasn't the virus that did that damage. It was the policies.
how big is your full time team?
It's uncanny how precisely you've put your finger on what the actual issue is here.
Some cyphers maybe. But it's highly unlikely that all or even most in use are compromised. There are many cryptography researchers who aren't part of the NSA. Other nations for example. And banks obviously trust some cryptography.
is that cat captive and in an apartment? (not able to wander outside occasionally)
Enough of the ageism in tech
I remember that line too but it’s just a slogan, it doesn’t really have normative meaning.

For example, closing public beaches was an overreaction. It was pointless and had no positive effect at all. Noticing that doesn’t prove that we did enough.

It’s still possible that we didn’t manufacture vaccines or staff hospitals fast enough for example.
Were they barking up the wrong tree with Watson? They just seemed to give up while Google and Open AI just carried on going. Maybe it was their shortsighted decision to curtail basic research because it wasn't generating a return?
I use Callcentric for this. Ported a land line over years ago. It now has SMS which I can do using the Callcentric app. And it forwards voicemails to me with email. Otherwise I don’t use that line for actual calls anymore.
We don't ask for dollars back. The government asks for a loan that pays interest and lots of people gladly want to make that loan - like probably your retirement investments. This is where the national debt comes from. If we printed money there would be no national debt.
I wanna see Harvey! Would like to see a blog or video about it!
For me the main advantage of WebXR is that one can create complex 3D objects at runtime/on the fly without havjbg to load them as assets or compiling them into the binary.

Any thougts on the best way to do this in classic runtimes like Unity or Unreal (which scripting plugins, which base construction objects/assets?)?

The main issue I have with WebXR, though, is it being canvas-based instead of being page/HTML-based, resulting in graphic-oriented products instead of structure-oriented ones (e.g. 3D web pages) which would allow placing all the dynamic and complex HTML objects that were developed over the last few years. Any good known approach to solve this?
To take what you've said a little further, intelligence agencies have the "law" behind them, but once you become aware of everything they (all of them, worldwide) are doing, you get a completely different perspective on the "law" itself.

Being involved in these activities can also diminish your ethical base, which I guess explains some of the crazy law-ignoring/law-breaking activities within all governments.
12 Companies Racing to Create AI Deepfake Detectors
How do Neovim and Emacs startup times compare when using Emacs 28’s native compilation of elisp?

Obviously hard to compare because they don’t run the same packages but would still be interesting to see ballpark figures of setups with roughly equivalent functionality.
It matters because it's part of our history in regards of awareness to the technology and research and development which we lacked timewise and human resources wise. People in the 60 potentially worked less on these topics in Germany than in France.

The density is relevant in point of risk.

It's easier to find empty spots in France or more very rural ones than in Germany.

Also additional to this, France is more centralized to Paris.
Computer, what's the formula for transparent aluminum? Seriously, I got ChatGPT to spit out a scientific-seeming paper on the formula and manufacturing process for transparent aluminum. It did note that there's a real thing, aluminum oxynitride, which is the closest thing we have to the Star Trek material. It even wrote the following abstract, based on my prompt:

> This scientific description provides an overview of the formula and manufacturing process of transparent aluminum, a material used in applications where both structural strength and transparency are required. Transparent aluminum finds extensive use in diverse fields, including public aquaria, where it allows for the display of large marine organisms. The description outlines the chemical composition, key properties, and the manufacturing steps involved in creating transparent aluminum.

Whether or not the six-step manufacturing process it came up with is correct or not, I haven't the expertise to say.
I pretty much agree with that. I think the evidence strongly suggests that vaccines help to reduce the effect of COVID especially in more vulnerable populations though it may not do much in terms of spread--especially with later, more infectious, strains.

In aggregate, other interventions probably did some good at the margins? Especially early on? But it's easy to look at the policies in some countries and declare success--so long as you look at the right time window.
I probably could have elaborated more on this in the blog post, but you can really distill a lot of Honeycomb's success as a business down to a few things:

- How easily can you query stuff when you're interested

- How easily can you get other people on your team to use the product too

- How quickly can you narrow down a problem (e.g., during an outage) to something you can fix

- How relevant is your alerting (i.e., SLOs) to the success or failure of something business critical

Our bet here is that the first two could potentially be improved by using LLMs, since we hypothesized (and confirmed in some new user interviews) that there's an "expressivity gap" in our product. A lot of people who aren't already observability experts, but do have some vested interest in observability, often know what they want to look for but get confused by a UX that's tailored for people who are more familiar with these kinds of tools.

It's only been 3 weeks so it's too early to tell, but we're seeing some signs that the needle is being moved a bit on some key metrics. We're not betting the farm on this stuff just yet, and it's really cool that there's technology that lets us experiment in this way without having to hire a whole ML engineering team.
> how many of the 0.3% were due to die in the next few years because of existing health conditions?

“They were going to die anyways!” was always a common argument one among the “muh freedoms!” crowd. When someone dies in a car crash, we don’t just shrug it off if the victim was terminally ill. Why is this different? A preventable death is still a preventable death and their life still has value whether it’s for another 20 years or 20 days.
This is pretty close:

http://he.net/colocation.html
youtube has radicalized jihadi terrorists and white supremacists, facebook has manipulated emotions and played a role facilitating genocide in myanmar, tiktok is controlled by a genocidal regime, instagram depresses teen girls…

though this isn’t much new I suppose, how many times has nike been caught using child labor? how many waterways has nestle depleted, how many animals have been tortured for cosmetics… how many bison were slaughtered to spite the natives, how many whales for lamp oil…

we seem to always find something or someone to exploit
whats your budget?

who are you serving it to?

how often does the data change?

is it read only?

What are you optimising for, speed, cost or availability? (pick two)
When many people describe themselves as brutally honest, they seem to believe that being honest is a license for brutality.
Also, Wil Wheatons

https://wilwheaton.net/2022/05/yes-i-was-forced-to-be-a-chil...
Maximizing Neutrality in News Ordering
Even if they were compromised I imagine the nsa would probably hesitate to use it in a detectable way and "save it for a real threat"
He didn't just ran to Russia, he went to China first.

It would be lot more believable he did it for the greater good, if he only took documents related to internal spying (and not bunch of other stuff) and if he didn't take the documents on joyride through territories of biggest ideological enemies of his home country.

But now he has to live in Russia, which I guess is punishment enough.
That does seem to paint a relatively clear "child exploitation" picture.

Frankly I'm surprised it doesn't fall under child labor laws.
Ford needs Tesla to help it beat Tesla
> He had, he told Judge Castel, even asked the program to verify that the cases were real. It had said yes.

It turns out, asking an unreliable narrator if it's being reliable is not a sound strategy.
They are. Here are the grids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...

But there's only so much power you can transmit over the interconnects. If I read the list right, in 2019 Finland could generate 17.3 GW but only transfer 3.9 GW out of the country. Going further requires going through even more interconnects, which might have even lower capacity.

There are long-term goals to increase capacity. There's also opposition to those increases.
I just tested how long it took to get full content draws of YouTube over HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/3 with my wired 1Gbps machine and Chromium-based Edge (with InPrivate and no extensions, obviously). I did three tests a couple of minutes apart.

Timings:

HTTP/1.1: 2.54s, 2.18s, 2.51s

HTTP/3: 2.07s, 1.95s, 2.40s

What does N=3 mean? Probably not much. The findings confirm my feeling that HTTP/3 is faster, but it is difficult to separate signal from the noise with so few readings. Plus, reasonably, I understand that other factors can bias these readings much more.

Moreover, I don't think that this matters as much in wired connections where packet loss is very minimal compared to WiFi, especially bad WiFi. Over a weak WiFi connection, subjectively, the full content draw timings felt significantly different to me. Though I didn't do a strict measurement. I wonder what these timings would look on cellular.
You really need to read and understand my point.

I didn't say that this is or not is a good position we are in and if it would be better or worse if we had more/much more nuclear.

The main point was that extrem simplified 'suggestions/comments' like this add 0 value.
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And your last sentence is just captain hindsight visiting...
My sister engaged in casual oversharing of her son's early life on Facebook. Nothing too egregious, just lots of baby/toddler photos and cute widdle nicknames in the comments and stuff.

I told her, "You do realize that he's going to grow up to be a teenager, then an adult, and resent you for life because everybody he knows saw you call him your 'little bean', right?"

After that the cutesiness tapered off.
Twenty two now
When I tell someone to use Signal app and they say "I'm not that important" all I can do is smile and nod: "no.. you are not that important".
So true. And don’t forget that these agencies answer to an elite group of people that benefit from specific world orders that promote various industrial complexes transnationally.

And people that get too specific get daphnied, lombardied, assanged or jfk’ed.

Or maybe not, but you won't find out because all media above a certain threshold is in a spotlight, and has been since before CIA bragged about its all encompassing media operations 50+ years ago.

I remember this info being somewhat widespread when the internet was still new, but wikis, forums and blogs are slowly being disappeared from search or drowned in noise while clownish conspiracies have conveniently smoke-screened all attempts to create an alternative to the status quo.
And that sentiment is replicated by the director Andrey Zvyagintsev, in e.g. The Return (2003) or Leviathan. Both great movies with beautiful cinematography and very Russian feeling.
Ancient tombs and mummification workshops unearthed in Egypt
I would go with BunnyCDN at front of some storage.
This is such a ridiculous take. The fact that Snowden did not somehow martyr himself enough for you has no bearing on the important information that he leaked. He could have easily kept his mouth shut and enjoyed his cushy job in Hawaii like so many others do. Instead he threw it all away and is now stuck in Russia. Now you’re saying that we shouldn’t look at anything he revealed because he’s not willing to speak out against Putin and get thrown in the gulag?
What would be a sufficient level of martyrdom for you? Should he have set himself on fire on the steps of the Capitol?
I want to downvote you but can't think of a better reason than I don't like what you say.

Surely we can encode better behavior into our institutions.
Nothing in that video is about scale. Or the difficulty of serving 5TB. It's about the difficulty of implementing n+1 redundancy with graceful failover inside cloud providers.

User: "I want to serve 5TB."

Guru: "Throw it in a GKE PV and put nginx in front of it."

Congratulations, you are already serving 5TB at production scale.
Wow, amazing growth story. Let’s not bother to come up with new business ideas leveraging AI. No let’s just pretend we can fire everyone eventually while maintaining the same revenue.
Webapps don't really have semantics. Accessibility is the toolkit's job, leaving that to the web platform invariably generates half baked results in an app.
I’ve been critical of OCaml, but I gotta hand it to them, it does feel like the language is going through a renaissance. It’ll be interesting if 5-10 years down the line it manages to significantly improve the usability story while also adding on modes and unboxed types. I’m more focused on usability but these features are compelling too.
I'm not a business analyst but my amateur impression was that it was a project that was commandeered by delusional MBA types who didn't have the least clue about the actual technology and were feeding off each other's hype. Instead of wow'ing the world with the actual results they focused on releasing lots of shiny futuristic marketing material which their actual technology hasn't kept up with for whatever reason.
It has become apparent over the past couple of years, what many of these people always meant by “free speech” is, “No one talks back to me.”
As a climate refugee from Paradise, CA, I agree. The insurance rates tripled between 2018 and 2020.

I think this is unfair and un-business-wise in another sense because it fails to account for regional and local risks. Here's the best all risk estimate map by the US government[0].

0: https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map

Many locations shouldn't be occupied, while Alpine and Sierra counties are low risk. Switch to census tract view, and it's clear there are many low risk in Sacramento/Citrus Heights away from fires and floods (downtown by the river floods). There are also pockets of low risk around San Diego and randomly around semi-populated areas.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36092509
I think their point was (at least in part) that it matters more on server-side and infrastructure-side than on the user-side. And maybe with poor net infrastructure, the users benefit more than where infrastructure is good.

I responded somewhere else in these comments where I found that the difference between HTTP/3 and 1.1 was barely noticeable with wired connections for me, but very significant with poor quality WiFi.

That seems to be the practical side of 1.1 vs 3, at least in my subjective exp.
Yes, agencies have all these capabilities, but at the same time they rarely sway the practical course of history. When the "euromaidan" demos in Ukraine forced regime change, and the Russians hacked and leaked all US/EU diplomatic chatter around it, the contents were utterly banal and predictable. There was no grand conspiracy or execution, just a bunch of interests scrambling to react.

Intercepting communications gives them a leg up, but that's about it.