skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One thing that troubles me in the paper is that the researchers appear to have gone looking for precursor patterns in an ad hoc way, with no physical theory in mind, just trying different binning techniques and delays until they got a signal.

I believe in particle physics this is known as the “look-elsewhere effect”. Basically if look long and hard enough for a pattern, you will eventual find it if your parameter space is large enough: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look-elsewhere_effect
For me, yes. Even with a completely clean checkout, the repo is a few hundred megs.
Ellsberg was very lucky the misconduct happened to come to light, as before that the judge had refused to let him offer a defense for his actions.
I feel like those rarer circumstances can be handled pretty easily with a portable battery bank, and also pull double duty for any other USB devices you might have.

With my 14 Pro Max I charge my phone every 2-3 days, and I'm not letting it get down to <20% when doing this, either. I'm obviously not making heavy use of it over this time, but even on days when I am out and about and using it more, I'm never in danger of it running out of battery.

Personally, at least, I'll take the sleeker design vs. an easily swap-able battery. Thankfully, it sounds like the EU law doesn't actually require it be replaceable in a tool-less manner, so it sounds like the type of design the iPhone 14 (non-max) uses will qualify.
Things I deleted are still [deleted]. Sounds like a bunch of FUD and rdrama.net trolling.
While doing better on nearly every other social aspect.

Also, the U.S. economy can’t be compared with anywhere else because we are the reserve currency. The control we have over our economy is literally not possible anywhere else. When we didn’t have this control, our economic policies led to the great fucking depression.
I can give up. Since so many third-parties continue to act as if these are "secret" (relying on them for "authentication") giving up does me no good.

I guess I can try to avoid doing business with companies who insist on using these "secrets". Sometimes I don't have a choice, though.

It would be wonderful to have ubiquitous PKI for every citizen in the United States. I don't trust private companies to do it. A large segment of the electorate would never trust the government to do it. (I like the idea of the USPS leveraging their tremendous physical presence and delivery infrastructure to do it, personally, but I think that would meet about the same level of opposition as the government doing it.)

I guess we'll just continue with this ridiculous charade of "secret" numbers, the silly idea of "identity theft", and most of the consequences applying to the individual.
I think we do the same when it comes to poverty level, just change the definition and boom, most of north Americans are high middle classes and higher income families!!
> But then, so what?

Sometimes an answer is an end in itself.
It benefits people who need to raise cash, because they can do it more quickly and generally with lower financing costs than in an illiquid market.

It benefits people who have cash that they want to invest, because they have more opportunities to do it and more visibility over which investments are safe and which ones are risky.

Therefore it benefits society by transferring cash from people who have it now but need it later, to people who will have it later but need it now. Enabling and facilitating actual socially good activity, like manufacturing goods, providing services, etc.

So there are definitely benefits to people outside the finance industry. However, in order to accept any of that you do ultimately need to believe, to some extent, in the market as a means of allocating resources. You don't need to think it's perfect, or that it shouldn't be regulated, or even that it is the fairest system, but you need to accept that it is the system we use. In a totally state-planned economy, finance wouldn't work or even make sense.
lmao... The rich really are blind, at a certain point. His takeaway from the Twitter dumpster fire, is that making Twitter 10x shittier, is somehow good? I've seen Musk worshippers, but this guy must be the fucking David Koresh to the Musk cult.
> Also, Snowden was trapped in Russia by the U.S. government while in transit to South America

Snowden fled to Hong Kong first, then from there to Moscow. He was certainly never "in transit" to anywhere else, nor was any of this under the control (even indirectly) of the US government. He fled to nations which he knew would not extradite him.

It's likely true that he had other destinations in mind. Nonetheless he couldn't get it arranged, and he ended up in Moscow because Putin viewed him as useful and extended an offer of residence that China was apparently not willing to make.

Let's not spin here. Snowden isn't a Russian stooge (though obviously his freedom to speak freely about his host country is extremely limited), but let's not treat with conspiracy theories about this being America's Plan All Along.
Your definition it isn’t. My definition it is.

Affirmative consent can not be given in worker/employer relationships. Which makes the entire contract predatory.
This is probably a bad idea but maybe parents missing their children should put their own DNA into a hopefully secure database with legal protections, run by a non profit org maybe something like rescue.org that could eventually find a way to track down these kids or get messages to these kids so they can be reunited hopefully sooner than later. Maybe there is a way to trick Russian schools and orphanages into submitting DNA?
this looks nice and clean - why have you paused development? I see there are 32 github issues
I hope that helps with nixpkgs repo as this takes a lot of time whenever it is updated.
It's unclear why zeros (sparsity) matters.
Why shouldn't total distance between vectors still be meaningful? Why does alignment of normalized vectors work as a proxy for similarity, regardless of magnitude? Just because someone says it does? If higher and higher dimensionality becomes problematic, why not subdivide the dimensions over time? Why not run some simple space compression on the vectors to minimize the space between them? There are just many simple questions that naturally start to pile up when reading about these ideas, which I'm sure could be answered in the form of extremely complex math/theory/etc... but if it were presented in a visually intuitive way, perhaps the answers would emerge intuitively to me. So I'm looking for that kind of video / media, if it exists.
Just thought I'd post a quick reminder, I'd be very interested in seeing what you mean by the ChatGPT example being a "sadly bland example of what some people consider meaningful." I don't understand what that means, because you haven't shown me what kind of response you think would be better.

Would you care to write one? Feel free to do one quickly, such as something a busy ER doctor would be able to put together. Otherwise, though, it's very hard to accept the idea that ChatGPT did such a poor job without something to compare it to.

Thanks!
That's another one I'm watching for sure!
> Note: I’ll have to do some creative image sizing here because I don’t want to expose our bank account info. Images will all be supplemental and are not necessary for reading this piece.

I hope the author was running a self-hosted option, else it is already public waiting to be extracted.

The following passage doesn't inspire hope though:

> I am a moron. I am not technical, and I sling essays for a living. Despite that, I was able to automate a significant portion of the labor our auditors do.

Be warned. Everything you ask the public instance on openai is kept as input and returned when asked for. Recently Samsung learned that the hard way [0].

[0] https://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-workers-leaked-compan...
That list was compiled anecdotally by a single person, so I think we should take it with a huge grain of salt. It could be subject to confirmation/selection/reporting bias. For all we know, there could just as many or more people dying satisfied with their work accomplishments, or wishing they had worked harder.

>work should only be enough to bring food and shelter to home

What if you take the thing you love doing and make it your life's work?
Thankfully people here are asking for good regulation, once which states that at some point in the future every phone ever sold in market X needs to have its core software open sourced, so companies can plan ahead.
Usually they’re not even really relational mappers, but table mappers.
I guess this could go in both directions. There are also underpriced companies.

I know that some people knew that something was wrong with Wirecard and they short sold the stock.
With Sims 5+ you may have to wait for the home improvement expansion, or the kitchen appliances DLC, or both sadly.
> You realize that marginalized people get doxxed and have death threats made against them every single day, often multiple times per day, and nobody seems to hear about it? Because again, they're not famous or notable in any way, they have nobody to call up to write that op-ed or have their signal boosted. It doesn't make the threats to their lives less serious.

What exactly is your point here? I know what you're getting at but dare not invoke their name. Sure, "marginalized people" getting threatened is a problem. They're not exactly without a platform-- they're perfectly capable of coordinating on Twitter and elsewhere to attack and deplatform anybody that dares oppose them. One of the more contentious ones literally uses the exact term "signal boosting" to issue calls to arms. So they're not exactly powerless either. America's "marginalized people" are apparently more effective than the Ku Klux Klan, since they get to intimidate opposition while masquerading as victims who cannot be challenged, lest they stalk and attack everyone associated with you and cost you your livelihood. We won't kill you, we'll just isolate you from your entire support network to ensure you and your family starve to death. Such magnanimous treatment from the uwu innocent widdle victim peopurrs! Better think twice before you speak out!

This isn't equality, nor is it a matter of free speech or criticism-- advancing a political cause through intimidation, violence and fear is literally the textbook definition of Terrorism. I expect nothing less though; every red flag of fraud has been repurposed by a certain demographic as central to their "identity," so why not normalize terrorism as a means of discourse while we're at it? Biden insists it's inbred gun hoarders we need to be worried about-- because we meet so many of those on a daily basis. Meanwhile, I have to play wordsmith with every fucking character I post online or my wife and children face death/rape threats and I get bricks thrown through my windows. You know, all the fun stuff the KKK used to do to blacks in the 60s. Remember: the people throwing the bricks are the real victims, and don't you dare suggest otherwise or you're next. That's just criticism coming through the window, and nobody deserves protection from that.

Your idea of marginalized people is a lie-- misdirection at best. Anytime white men (always white men) start wearing dresses and seeking political power, they form a child-sex cult, a hate group, or both. I once bought into their bullshit, but there's no fooling me twice.
I buy that there's some benefit, but I don't buy that it's significant. And I don't see any reason why I should believe this provides a net benefit to society. Sure it saves the original parties some money, but then a bunch of unrelated parties come in and siphoning money from the existing parties. Why should I believe this is net-benefiting society?
I knew Ellsberg rang a bell. I got to know about him from Peter Norvigs awesome [jupyter] notebooks: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Probabilit.... The probability ones are quite fun to go through and it's very expressive Python.
It's Carmack, though. He's so far out of the ordinary, I can't take any of his claims in this regards seriously. He's the outlier, and it's difficult from that position to write about what the average worker might be like.
They were? This is news to me. I mean, the US prison system is basically torture, but I assume you mean something worse than that?
1Password, in terms of both UX and security expertise and track record. They provide mobile apps with a decent UX that makes use of device capabilities (e.g., biometric authentication) where appropriate, too.
>protonmail used to always be protonmail.com

Ahmm, it used to be protonmail.ch! I have few emails with that old one!
> On some accounts, I translate everything I write twice for greater anonymity.

Beware, in some cases uncommon or unique anonymization techniques may make you _easier_ to de-anonymize.
> To make this work would require some form of required escrow in order to gain copyright protection in the first place where the code would be held until such time as the removal of copyright protection from it triggered, and then it could be released.

Trying to mandate that for all software might be too ambitious to politically succeed in practice - but mandating source code escrow for software used in certain regulated devices - smartphones, cars, planes, medical devices, etc - might be more achievable. You wouldn’t even need to touch copyright law, it would just need to be a product regulation. Of course, copyright law would have to be touched for a compulsory license, but consider that phase 2 and source code escrow as phase 1 - phase 1 could be enacted now, phase 2 saved for later
Agreed. And it seems so obvious that it makes me wonder why this doesn't include that. It says they started in 2016; they couldn't wait another year to say "we spent 7 years identifying this trend, and then a year predicting major earthquakes"?
Ironically, they didn’t commute those sentences as a result of the death penalty but due to the (lack of) sentencing guidelines being against the 8th amendment.

The states rewrote their laws and went right back to sentencing people to death.
Yes, I’m sure my parents would love to use Linux. Did I miss the “year of the Linux desktop”?
For discussion to happen, someone needs to create and maintain the space for discussion. Nobody wants to visit a forum that’s full of unrelated garbage, and nobody wants to talk in forums they don’t like to visit.

The curation is what makes it a forum in the first place.
From my experience with Xamarin i dont have high hopes. Every time i needed to some do something slightly interesting I had to write wrappers for both the iOS and Android API's to get anywhere.
Qualified? Is this a joke?

Most of them are absolute losers. Almost every single powermod that is open about their real life identity turns out to fit exactly into the "usual suspect" mold (middle aged, usually white, usually nerdy and terminally online). There are screenshots of mods that moderate the most on Reddit begging and crying to not lose their moderator position. Here's a direct quote from one of the most powerful mod on Reddit on hearing they lost mod powers on a single sub:

"I have no job, I dont meet people,
have no money.I only have reddit. Please dont take reddit from me"

Sure sound like a qualified, well adjusted moderating staff overall.
Big case + noctua fans is silent too. 0 pump noise. 0 mess with water cooling.
>Think of it less as censorship and more as community self-segregation. I wouldn't go to a Nazi bar or Sunday school in real life, why would I want to be in the online equivalent?

A closer analogy here is that your city councilman doesn't want to go to a Nazi bar or Sunday school in real life, and so he orders all the roads to the churches and the bars demolished, and also the roads to all the houses of the people who go to the churches or Nazi bars.

"After all," he says, "they can still build their own network of roads if they want. We're just not going to allow anyone in our community to use our network of roads to get there."
> (Although, I still can barely use any GPT4 code, so I'm not going to panic)

It's hit or miss for me, but I feel mostly because I don't have much time/opportunity to try and truly explore its capabilities. A single-shot GPT-4 ain't gonna do anything nefarious, but it isn't clear to me that a cleverly constructed ensemble of 10 or 20 or 50 of "agents" running in parallel, each with a different role and all talking amongst themselves, isn't going to add up to something potentially smart and powerful.

Sure, right now such setup would burn through your wallet real fast. But it's not that expensive - especially not for companies. The real limit won't be the money, but... rate limiting OpenAI and Microsoft impose on their model deployments. But that rate limiting is negotiable, especially for a large customer - and then Open Source community is working hard to create open models of similar power, thus reducing the costs down to raw compute bill.
You could start by asking why God mentioned his intentions to Abraham at all. What the text says about that:

> Then the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do? Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him. For I have chosen him, so that he will direct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just, so that the Lord will bring about for Abraham what he has promised him.”

That is, Abraham's idea of justice, and how authorities act, will have a big impact on a fairly big chunk of humanity.

Abraham obviously knows that Sodom isn't a great place. But just how bad is it? Obviously part of Abraham thinks even 10 people should be enough to spare the city; but some other part of Abraham may be more "realpolitik". Abraham thinks this Elohim person is more than just some local tyrant god; but is he really? Abraham thinks that even God should be open to having his decisions measured by justice and morality -- but that's not exactly a common attitude for gods of that time.

God affirms all of Abraham's intuitions. Yes Abraham, you're right: killing the innocent with the righteous is not OK. Yes Abraham, you're right: even my actions are guided by morality. Yes Abraham, you're right: The "judge of all the earth" won't be offended if you check him.

This experience changed Abraham as a person, and affected not only how he ran his own show, but what he passes on to his kids and their kids.
Armed police drones have a deadly downstream problems too, how will people and/or criminals oppose them, which they certainly will. Some of the most common or best counter options have really bad side effects, the first being people shooting rounds into the air at them which will come down who knows where, and if it becomes a real big problem I foresee small EMP bomb/mortar/grenade devices or powerful jammers being used. A small bit of explosive on the side of a magnet with some loops of copper coil it gets blasted through can deliver a fairly significant EMP blast over a small area which can damage all sorts of devices, especially anything with an antennae, IE every single wireless capable device. And jammers have obvious problems and can be made crazy powerful without much difficulty.

Armed police drones becoming anything near common or expected will kick off a bit of an arms race with criminals. If criminals don't just start copying the exact same thing. Ive seen DIY demonstrations of small drones firing pistols accuratly years ago now, thankfully they haven't taken off, but that might change if the police themselves start using them.
I think if we have to rely on humans to not glue an AI to itself because it's merely against the law, that we will find ourselves on the losing side real quickly. if you told me there is this piece of code that will make me money on the stock market but it is illegal to run, I can't say that I wouldn't run it.
I don't. I just want it splash resistant - it's more than enough. just because there is a promile of morons that can't handle the phone doesn't mean that a lots of users should be prohibited from easily changing the battery... because of that lots of devices end up on landslide because users can't get enough charge I fit anymore...

I loved lumia devices - easily openable back to replace battery, nice materials (rubbery polycarbonate?) that offered nice grip. Having PC displays instead of glass would be awesome - no need for extra protective case because the shatter woild be a tning od the past. At the worst, a scratch resistant screen protector, which we all already put in the devices either way to help avoid screen cracks..
I haven’t liked Reddit’s actions so far, but I figured that they were just taking a heavy handed approach toward achieving profitability or a state where they could take the business public. But to hear that they’re looking at social media management that’s resulted in the destruction of tens of billions of dollars of equity value as the path forward … wow.

I’m way too cynical to think Reddit is doomed but even as a for-profit venture this is just seemingly increasingly ill-conceived.

Also lmfao at the letter to RIF. You tear up your contract with them and THEN you tell them they’re required to respond within 48 hours? LOL get bent.
Don't states already sell this info to private investigators? I guess this breach would include social security numbers but half the country as already had theirs leaked anyways.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-pri...
The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley is pretty accessible and although not scientifically rigorous, provides an ahem ergonomic framework for thinking about psychonautics (which I have, of course, never engaged in)
Powerful desktop + cheaper laptop to remote into it or just use. Some cloud service or server for sync. easy. Why are you trying to do something desktop is not designed for?
That, and Jobs had incredible design taste and ran a company that solved real, complex problems.

"spez" runs a website that hosts a bunch of content created, moderated, and shared by other people. It's a clone of Digg. The design actually is pretty terrible (old reddit was serviceable; new Reddit is a miserable dark-pattern-ridden ad-infested mess). Their first-party apps suck, and they couldn't even make it themselves; they had to buy one and enshitfy it.

From a talent/vision/charisma/taste/design/hiring/management perspective, the two men aren't really comparable.
It’s always funny to see HN’s thoughts on that sort of cutthroat pragmatism when it’s them doing it, but how hard they demonize it when someone else does it.
This is just ridiculous.

See Jerry Rig Everything. He even says that there are solutions for this even for glued-up phones, manufacturers just don't want to implement them because they're for sure against battery replacements.

It's not like glue is some sort of magic substance.
Next up, headphone jacks please!
Back when people-facing computer stuff worked more like computer-facing computer stuff, queries were simple: keywords to match. If you get too many results, add more keywords; if you get too few, remove* keywords (or change existing keywords to be more specific/more general respectively).

If you're not searching for literal occurrences of "what" and "is", why should they even be in a query?

* this is an instance of an adjunction, which is an important concept in informatics, but I understand that to actually admit the fact would probably be the kiss of death for anything claiming to be a "user" interface.

Lagniappe: marginalia, upon being queried with "precision" and "recall", came up inter alia with http://comonad.com/reader/2009/remodeling-precision/ , which I count as a win for it.
That seems to be the standard definition most countries use, see : https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm#employed for an example. I wonder why it was different to begin with.
Yeah I used to be a huge contributor of discretionary effort, back when the job was fun. My current agile job is such a chore though that I can't wait to finish for the day.