skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any laws should be legislating the downstream effects of AI, not the models themselves.

That would require stronger consumer protections. So that's politically unacceptable in the US at the moment. We may well see it in the EU.

The EU already regulates "automated decision making" as it affects EU citizens. This is part of the General Protection on Data Regulation. This paper discusses the application of those rules to AI systems.[1]

Key points summary:

- AI isn't special for regulation purposes. "First, the concept of Automated Decision Making includes algorithmic decision-making as well as AI-driven decision-making."

- Guiding Principle 1: Law-compliant ADM.
An operator that decides to use ADM for a
particular purpose shall ensure that the design
and the operation of the ADM are compliant
with the laws applicable to an equivalent non-
automated decision-making system.

- Guiding Principle 2: ADM shall not be denied legal
effect, validity or enforceability solely on the
grounds that it is automated.

- Guiding Principle 3: The operator has to assume
the legal effects and bear the consequences of
the ADM’s decision. ("Operator" here means the seller or offerer of the system, not the end user.)

- Guiding Principle 4: It shall be disclosed that the
decision is being made by automated means

- Guiding Principle 5: Traceable decisions

- Guiding Principle 6: The complexity, the opacity or the
unpredictability of ADM is not a valid ground
for rendering an unreasoned, unfounded or
arbitrary decision.

- Guiding Principle 7: The risks that the ADM may cause any harm or
damage shall be allocated to the operator.

- Guiding Principle 8: Automation shall not prevent, limit, or render
unfeasible the exercise of rights and access
to justice by affected persons. An alternative
human-based route to exercise rights should be
available.

- Guiding Principle 9: The operator shall ensure reasonable and
proportionate human oversight over the
operation of ADM taking into consideration
the risks involved and the rights and legitimate
interests potentially affected by the decision.

- Guiding Principle 10:
Human review of
significant decisions
Human review of selected significant decisions
on the grounds of the relevance of the legal
effects, the irreversibility of their consequences,
or the seriousness of the impact on rights and
legitimate interests shall be made available by
the operator.

This is just a summary. The full text has examples, which include, without naming names, Google closing accounts and Uber firing drivers automatically.

[1] https://europeanlawinstitute.eu/fileadmin/user_upload/p_eli/...
In most countries, no.

(not everything is in the US)
What I would like to see is a Twitch like experience but within your own space, aka what a website is for the web, and the hoster is nothing more than a facilitator. So you pay for the basic tech and maybe bandwidth but the rest is up to the streamer. Would be great to have a real alternative to Twitch that’s completely your own. People could still federate, but there is also a mainhub (broadcastbox.com or whatever)

Anyway it’s super exciting stuff! Great work!
AIOs aren't a great option for users who want to set it and forget it. Even the best ones lose fluid to sublimation and/or start leaking after a few years, which is why there's still a market for coolers like the NH-D15.
Because smart phones prevent accidents and crime… amazing conclusion there.
NIMBYism is not inherently a bad thing; it was originally coined by the waste management industry to describe opposition to local landfills and toxic waste dumps, which any sane person doesn't actually want to live next to.

(Yes, I know Europe and Japan build fancy incinerators with parks and whatnot that are very pleasant, but the odds of that being built in the US by penny-pinching private industry is nil.)
Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned a specific name. The point is, some things are impossible to do unless you are extremely smart.

So, in response to your first comment, "it doesn't even matter how smart you are" is not accurate unless you specify the context you're referring to.
Henry Baker – “Dubious Achievement” (1990)
> Some of these benchmarked systems are "mission-critical" embedded systems, in which bad programming style can kill people. The run-time checks generated automatically by Ada compilers are often turned off to gain a few additional percent in execution speed. Thus, rather than having the software discover its own errors in a benign way, the discovery of such errors is left to the FAA or a Congressional committee.

> Engineers optimize what can be quantified; that is their job. Since execution performance is readily quantified, it is most often measured and optimized--even when increased performance is of marginal value; viz., the mandatory "performance results" section in most published papers. Quality and reliability of software is much more difficult to measure, and is therefore rarely optimized. It is human nature to "look for one's keys under the street-lamp, because that is where the light is brightest".
oh no! such disaster
Related (somewhat):

WebRTC support being added to FFmpeg

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130191

10 days ago
> Besides, to think that there even is such a thing called technology (as distinguished from what) is incredibly naive

The same could be said about Capitalism.
The thing with traditional package management though, these decisions are not that straightforward, especially for mega packages like KDE or LibreOffice.

When you install a window manager like say, sway, it will install a terminal, alacrity on some distros.

The distro specifically refrains from deleting alacrity when you're uninstalling sway and that's a reasonable thing to do even though people might disagree on it.
There were a ton of articles around 2022-03-20 (e.g., [1]) that had a line like this:

> Once you engage Drive Pilot, you are no longer legally liable for the car's operation until it disengages.

Not quite a press release but given that Mercedes never denied the claims it's pretty close. It'll be interesting to see how this is implemented legally, of course.

[1] https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39481699/what-happens-if-...
Huh? The L2 system on my 2022 Mercedes works just fine. And I'm sure that's not the first model year where it was present.
Remote work may be “harder” in some dimensions (communication barriers), but there are tradeoffs for removing those barriers.

In-person costs: Reducing your talent pool size, raising the cost of that talent, an increase in the politicization of workplace success, regional and cultural myopias from localized hiring (which can damage the output of everything), cost of workspace.

Some of those risks are existential so it’s not a simple “one way is better” equation.

I would try to build a remote-first business and work hard on the communication challenges before surrendering the natural advantages it affords. I think what you lose is often less than what you gain, especially in terms of culture.
> However, it is frustrating that I can't get modern speakers anything like my parents' three-ways with a 12 or 15 inch woofer without finding some esoteric offering.

You can get "modern" builds of the very same loudspeakers right now with major brands like Klipsch - https://www.klipsch.com/heritage-premium-audio The AK6 is still considered by many to be the best loudspeaker you can ever own.
i think the point is that the streams themselves require a lot of bandwidth, so you can make the expensive part of the process peer-to-peer instead of having to route the whole thing through a server and pay both inbound and outbound bandwidth costs on the stream.

it's not really meant to be a useful tool for making a pure peer-to-peer video service.
Is it? Why?

My machine is entirely silent on normal operations (Zen 3 5600X and RX 6700). All the fans, on both GPU and CPU are stopped in desktop usage. And it doesn't obviously eat that much power (my monitor probably eats more).

The only moment I could hear them is if I play games. And then I have headset on, so I can't hear them.

I really couldn't care less if it ate twice the amount of power when playing games.
> Public transit has always been the cheaper option.

Only if don't value your time.
Related from 3 hours ago (165 comments):

"Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36271804
On the other hand, I really hate what these algorithms do to my photos, even my new iPhone which is considered good tech. So I get it.
Moderation and ownership should go hand and hand. Moderators in Reddit essentially have fake sweat equity for their efforts. There has to be a better model and I think decentralization is key.
Wait, if sealed classes are essential, how did java survive so long without them? Possibly a nice-to-have but essential? To say Kotlin doesn't have a future when it is one of the widest used languages is a stretch. I think it's great that Java has been stepping up their feature development. I will continue to use both.
I disagree. Some of the best teams I've been on are full remote teams. Some of the worst teams I've been on were in person teams.

It depends on the people and the company culture.

I'd argue if a remote team is having problems, they'd have the same problems in person.

I'd love to see some studies on it though I imagine it's tough. Take a team that's doing bad remote, bring them in, see if they improve. Or take a team that's high performing, make them remote and see if things go south.

I'd be surprised if they did, my guess is great teams are great teams.
Why would they care if you mine crypto? You pay for resource usage, you use resources
> Apple has a huge advantage price / performance wise

My 7950x machine cost, excluding the enthusiast GPU, $3000. That's less than half the cost of the M2 Ultra.
That's presumably how they felt too...
South America was pretty much entirely a jungle-covered mineral colony. Resource curse theory applies.
This looks great. Going to try it out! Where do you store your weekly tasks and/or backlog of tasks?
Is there l10n and i18n support yet? I don’t know how a UI framework can be considered production ready let alone finished without support for string translations. Last I checked, after Elm 19 killed the third party wrappers around Intl I hadn’t seen any movement here, but maybe I missed it or this has changed since then
Decentralization is important because you need a point of reach in case you get cut off from the centralized platform or (more likely) it gets taken down. Otherwise you’re cut off, or a group is cut off and dissolves.

But word spreads around pretty easily, and even though most forums are centralized, there are a lot of forums. Many centralized platforms = a decentralized platform, because people connected to multiple will share messages across channels.

The biggest issue is like, in the Reddit debacle, many communities are likely to be hurt or even destroyed. And it will be hard to re-form them and get near the same amount of popularity
I just wonder how many people who could have done better were blocked by the actions of all these artists people want to make excuses for. How many great works were we denied because someone insisted on making space for someone who repelled (or worse) better people?
I keep getting badgered by GCP channel partners to move over to GCP. One guy once said if I can show him our AWS usage he can give me exact configuration in GCP and cost would be 20-25% less. I was intrigued so I shared. He came back with a price estimate higher than our AWS bill! I haven't entertained them ever since.
On HN, not being snarky is more important than not being wrong—especially when it comes to drive-by oneliners. This is not a borderline call!

Your longer explanation would have been fine as the GP, for example, but the GP comment wasn't anything like that.
Too cheap to meter?
Because Amazon will jump through hoops to make the customer happy. If I file ticket to get a quota raised it usually happens the same day and I have never had them push back on me.
>Universities and academics have shifted so far left that they are increasingly eating their own, the entire point of the book was to try and say that race and Western culture wasn't a factor. It's a pretty obvious argument against most right wing talking points, but apparently that isn't enough anymore in academia

Is there any evidence that any actual 'eating' is happening here? I can't find any instances of it being banned or removed from curriculum. Jared Diamond continues to teach at UCLA.

Is the 'eating' the fact that people critiqued a pop anthropology? The author of the article is creating strawmen and then defeating them.

I was left with, who actually is the author of the article referencing and what is their actual argument.
Are you deflecting by attacking my simple example instead of defending your ‘this has already been done before’ point? If you’re wrong just say you’re wrong.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36272409
Hopefully this money goes to policing the subway too, people have a lot of valid safety concerns leading them to take their car or a cab.

In India, you have to pass through a metal detector to ride the metro. It seems like in US, we are trending towards needing to do the same thing.
Are there any regulations on AI in the US? I’m not aware of any.

> An autocracy has more power and influence to direct its resources in a single direction much more efficiently than any democratic government.

Fortunately, because it’s an autocracy, there is no way to know if it is the right direction, until it fails.
It’s basically Wine with a custom D12 translation to Metal calls. Right now it’s not really intended for end-users so the experience involves a lot of steps that aren’t consumer-friendly, but some folks are publishing wrappers that simplify the process.

I imagine that in the future, something like Steam will wrap this functionality to provide the ability to run the whole library under the toolkit. And individually-published games will do the same so they install and run with a more consumer-friendly experience.
A parking space takes up about 200 ft² (not counting things like the width of the travel lane between parking spaces), and office rent in Manhattan runs about $7-8/ft² each month.

Chances are, even at well over $1000/month, the parking infrastructure is still effectively below the cost of the space it takes up.
First of all, did I say get rid of HTTPS? A protocol that does integrity without privacy doesn't mean HTTPS magically disappears. You can still use it.

Second, totalitarian regimes around the world don't sit on their hands just because you use HTTPS. If they want to know who a dissident is, they go find out. Bribery, tips, intimidation, torture, spy cameras, facial recognition, etc. They also know that everyone who reads a tweet isn't automatically a dissident.

Third, no, it's not hard at all to do statistical traffic analysis, it's part of basic DPI packages shipped with commercial network gear for about a decade. All you need to identify the user is the destination and the source, and the signature of similar connections to specific hosts with specific traffic. You compare the traffic from the target user to the traffic you monitor or simulate with known destinations and content, and highest probability wins. It's child's play.
Russia and NATO signed a treaty greenlighting NATO enlargement before any official talks with Warsaw Pact countries started.

Which can't possibly be the CFE - so which treaty (and which specific provisions of that treaty) are you referring to?

Your notion of "conspiracy theory" is plainly at odds with the commonly accepted definition of the term, BTW. But we'll move past that for now.
passing photons through a filter in front of the sensor is absolutely not even close to being the same as "AI" post processing of the data.
Subway trains have been able to be autonomous since at least a decade.
I’m sorry, is your point that MKUltra experimentation on people isn’t proven to be bad for them?

Unexpected high doses of LSD, attempts at programming, manipulation and what can only honestly be described as torture… the CIA destroyed all the records of this and because we don’t have complete records we just have to make a big shrug and say “ah well JKCalhoun isn’t convinced, guess it’s not bad for you.”

What would it take to convince you that dosing unexpecting people with high amounts of LSD could have a detrimental effect on their mental health, possibly making people crazy?
Electric Clojure - https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
I mean, in digital photography "raw" has a very well defined meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
Or maybe you underestimate the addiction to cars? Because I've seen plenty of both and I find the comparison apt
Do you have a write up anywhere with samples? I'd love to hear some of the better examples you have. I agree that most of what's out there is underwhelming
They won't last forever but Arctic does have a six year warranty https://www.arctic.de/us/blog/extended-warranty-period-for-a...
On what measure? Certainly he is quite healthy and even considered sick.
1% lows in a given benchmark isn’t really measuring stutter in practice, what you want is percentage of frames that don’t finish in time.

If once a minute you miss 4 frames in a row that’s noticeable even if everything else is rock solid. The thing is people adjust their resolution/settings to reach acceptable FPS, thus it’s fairly GPU independent. What matters is rendering volatility as assets are loaded etc.
Absolutely bewildering to me.
If I'm ingesting and decrypting the stream anyway, wouldn't it be better to build an MCU, to send out one stream and adapt the resolution for each client?

https://www.digitalsamba.com/blog/p2p-sfu-and-mcu-webrtc-arc...
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Evan Czaplicki's response to “Why I'm leaving Elm” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22837686 - April 2020 (1 comment)

Why I’m Leaving Elm - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22821447 - April 2020 (432 comments)
Why your website's fonts might be larger than intended
Sure and certain things are impossible to do unless you’re extremely strong. So what? Pure intelligence, like strength, is generally not the limiting factor
Which comments specifically are you thinking shouldn't have been removed? Just did a quick check but seems fine to me, mostly off-topic and impersonation.
Apple consistently advertised gaming performance without any substance to it.
Even when California is running 100% (or close!) in renewable energy, it’s not hard to get a $200 power bill even for an apartment. Somebody has to pay to maintain all the infrastructure.
> same league as a 300$ mid-range nVidia card.

$300 midrange Nvidia card? Did you get stuck in 2010?

That's way below entry-level at this point. You're likely comparing it with a 1666 cards or something, which is based on a chip from 2012.

I wish Apple silicone was actually competitive on performance. Nvidia needs competition or they'll likely double prices again with the next generation.
That was handled in Germany by changing existing laws. I would imagine equivalent laws were made or are being prepared for California and Nevada.

"Germany will be the world leader in autonomous driving" - https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/EN/Articles/DG/act-on-autono...

"...The Autonomous Driving Act took effect in Germany on July 28, 2021, introducing significant and comprehensive amendments to the German Road Traffic Law..." - https://www.ippi.org.il/germany-autonomous-driving-act/

Law here (German): https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/Gesetze/Gesetze-19...
Also, see the documentary with (but not of) Terry Pratchett (Choosing to Die) https://vimeo.com/229120539
For starters:

- not eroding and breaking international law by invading Iraq, setting a precedent cited by Putin

- not signing the Den Hague invasion act

- not getting involved in various "revolutions" in the east, like Ukraine

- not targeting all russian people with sanctions after 2014, but only those in charge

You know, in general leading by good example. If we want a international law forbidding countries to invade each other - it only works if the law applies to everyone. This I would consider smart politics.
The deal was that he won't kill any more people with his bombs, but property was fair deal.
that's not what "raw" means though, and this is a really weird interpretation
I think it might make large scale code visualization in a similar way to how SourceTrail does it more feasible: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
Hence demonstrating there was at least one other key factor behind which nations/empires were able to successfully establish overseas colonies - but arguably that itself was not an "ultimate" cause that was out of the control of earlier civilizations (in the way availability of species suitable for domestication was). If the Roman empire hadn't collapsed the way it did the world would surely look very different to how it does today (I wouldn't be writing this in English for a start!). I don't think that's something Diamond addressed in GG&S, and even in Collapse I don't remember any serious discussion of how it might be ultimately and primarily due to geo-environmental factors (for a start, the empires that replaced it over the following centuries were operating in very similar ecologies/climates). I don't think Diamond would insist that the pattern of historical development of specific nation states was largely due to the ultimate causes he tries to identify for overall European hegemony, but it would be surely worth clarifying at what scales other factors start to become more important (and what those factors might be).
For libraries wouldn't you expect at least work to keep supporting newer versions of the language? Or use the improvements brought by said new versions?

For a language itself I don't know. I don't know I've never designed one. Maybe keep working on it to take advantage of improvements made to lower level libraries that you use?
It also costs a lot more. For the money you can get a laptop with a 4080m and reduce its power limit and probably get the same or better efficiency, but with room to the top if you need it.
I agree here. I looked into setting up a public instance. Realized quickly if it gained tracking a single box is not going to work and you are immediately in a scale out setup of postgres at least.

Once you get to 3 postgres nodes, 2 LB's for the DB traffic, then Front ends with Load balancing, you are looking at 9 servers-ish minimum....

That monthly cost even in Linode is a bit more than I would be willing to front with no compensation.

That said, i may just setup an instance of kbin I can control and rely heavily on the federated portion to interface with the various communities. If my understanding is correct, I can access other lemmy instances even with kbin, such as beehaw etc.
> [Death in the battlefield] is what the youth is for, after all

...Which suggests (cpr. the "treasure" quote) how quote dropping is mostly a leisurely activity, given broad statements.

> I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

...Which suggests - hopefully - how quote dropping is mostly a leisurely activity, given its non exhaustive intrinsic nature.

--

Edit: related (with the first branch):

> He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future

Put the three together ("treasure", "battlefield", "owning"), the whole idea gets a sinister tone; take "treasure" alone, it may even raise "awww"s - without substance.
Good music/films that survived through decades or centuries of history are a prime example of survivorship bias.

It has been easier than ever for any individual to create content of any type, and there will always be gems.

AI isn't meant to "rescue" you from this problem, at least not in the present stage. You are looking for a mission that was never claimed.
Why would you ever write imports? IDEs autocomplete them for you
Congested highways?