skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it is because the problem is much easier. Voice recognition doesn't just mean amplifying the sounds (there's only so much of that you can reasonably do), but rather discriminating a phrase from other phrases. You only have two classes: "hey siri" and everything else. This is much easier than differentiating a conversation, where words and phrases are not so easily distinguishable: "Sam went and got Tom" vs "Man went and got bomb".

To put this in an easier context, let's say we have colored shapes of various sizes. We place them down and start walking away. It's probably easier to discern color than shape at a distance (is that a hexagon or octagon?). And sufficiently far away it is hard to distinguish colors that are near one another (is that brown, firebrick, or maroon?). You can probably see that the complexity of the task is critical and that discrimination is easier when you have fewer bins to place things in.
The threat model assumes that any code in a VM can, with some application of effort, access anything else in that VM. Given the relatively low cost of local root exploits and kernel exploits, this is reasonable. Passwordless sudo is simply a reminder that you can't rely on intra-vm separation of anything you care about separating.

If you wanted to add additional hardening within a VM, it's supported - create your own templateVM for it, and use it. It's just not the default, and I generally agree with it. If you trust the OS kernel and features to keep things separated, there's no reason to run Qubes in the first place.
My tabs insert spaces.
There are much more important things in the world right now to get "offended" over, than the majority of people not fitting into the niche you found yourself in.

Given the "LED lights" can tell you things like if there's something on the screen to look at, it arguably just leads to the same thing in the first place -- and it's not screens that are addictive, it's content.

If you get so distracted by an on-screen notification that you need to get a phone with a rear-facing notification LED, you've got much more serious problems.
If you are very smart, chances are you will be able to obtain some power and influence. This is expected of AIs. Such effects can be however undone the same way you can undo effects of an explosion at a refinery (while punishing those responsible). The question is whether intelligence alone lets you expand power without bounds until you conquer the world. I just don't see how that would be possible.
Cage fight, or arguing about the feature?
> Maybe we are an experiment by higher beings to see how well sparks of rationality can develop into an enlightened being or whatever. I wonder how they'd rate us so far.

Another way to look at it: there is an experiment of sorts underway to see whether humanity can reach some sort of enlightenment before killing itself off - regardless of whether there is a higher power to help us along the way (which doesn't necessarily have to be supernatural btw, though it may appear that way, and thus "be" that way), this may indeed be the situation we are in, but cannot know (or maybe even true to know, so far away are we from the goal).

> Put all elementary/middle children on Hacker News for fifteen minutes a day until they can demonstrate critical thinking in live debates.

An alternative idea I've had: teach junior & high school kids certain skills, and then cherry pick culture war threads from Hacker News (a site well populated by genuinely intelligent adults, though only on a relative scale) and then have the children ruthlessly critique the literal delusions of the adults. I think this is a good idea for many different reasons, the main one being to demonstrate how easily kids could be upgraded to utterly dominate the thinking of smart adults, in specific types of thinking. Considering bad thinking and decisions are the roots of all our problems, and the adults seem utterly helpless to do anything about it, empowering those who can be demonstrated to perform better seems like a no brainer to me.

> Parents probably need to be involved in this kind of education, and schools too.

The parents and adults would first need to be trained in the necessary skills - as we can see here on HN, hardly anyone can do it at a high level, or realize that they cannot (the affliction renders the subject unable to accurately self-diagnose, a phenomenon which can also occur at the culture/species level).

> I think Hacker News has good examples of both great discussions with critical thinking and...suboptimal discussions.

Providing near endless material for running case studies of the limited quality of high level 21st century human cognition: even our best and brightest are dumb on an absolute scale.
> But my favourite example of trains done right is Japan, and to my surprise, their expansive rail network is dozens of private companies. It turned a lot of my assumptions upside down.

My impression is that in Japan, there are social repercussions for people who work for a company that acts against society. Which is why we see public apologies from executives when things go wrong.

On the other hand, your ability to fuck over wider society seems to be a point of pride in many western countries. See the various scandals in the UK over COVID contracts, or PPP fraud in the US.

I'd like to see proper consequences for those people, of the kind that gave us the term Boycott at the very least.
It sounds like an interesting niche to target. My questions are
1) how do you build your username? I feel like dating apps need a certain critical mass of users before it can be successful.
2) on that topic, dating services always have a highly disproportionate number of males to females. In tech I assume it is much worse. Do you think this is a concern for you?
3) what are TC and GTFO?
This is hilarious, I can't tell if this is real or not
Then you should probably use a language that lets you write DSLs for any given domain, rather than abusing operator overloading which just happens to work for a few subdomains of mathematics (e.g., you can't use mathematical conventions for dot product multiplication in C++). Anyway, I've never seen any bugs because someone misunderstood what a `mul()` function does, but I've definitely seen bugs because they didn't know that an operator was overloaded (spooky action at a distance vibes).
Apple could say "if you don't come to the back room, we'll never sell you another Macbook, and we'll delete all of your iCloud stuff right now". Quite a few folks would find that a compelling reason to go have said discussion.

They can't prevent you from leaving, but they can apply consequences if you do.
“Bitten by a duck, initial encounter” needs to be Bon Iver’s next single.
Price aside, the power brick was always a huge annoyance that kept me from getting one. Now that usbc gan chargers can hit 100W, I keep hoping for a mini pc option that runs a ~65W class CPU with integrated GPU on a non proprietary charger.
Disclosure: I work for Red Hat.

It was only a year ago that Oracle was attempting to argue in front of the Supreme Court of the United States that adopting any kind of preexisting API was copyright infringement, and also shouldn't fall under fair use.

To hear them talking about "freedom" and "openness" only makes me chuckle at their incredible hubris.

If they believed in these words they wouldn't have closed off Solaris (to everyone, including their customers), kept ZFS in licensing purgatory for their own benefit, or attempted to victimize all of FOSS in pursuit of shaking down Google for loose change.

I'm not exactly thrilled with the recent series of events, but I somehow do not find Oracle's attempt at shaming very convincing.
I'd say everyone that has the ability to use it. Society is in a dark age where basically nothing else is fit for use; one bad click on most machines could compromise you for years, it is an insane situation. Even if you have other needs that can't be fulfilled with Qubes, you should have a Qubes machine for other tasks that are security-sensitive
Steam deck is a PC by Valve's own admission and my own anecdotal experience with mine.
Interesting that is mentions the safety car making you need more fuel, when really you need less because of the reduced speed under it.
Thanks. I actually met Kahneman when he spoke at Google, and I'm very interested in not citing any results that couldn't be replicated. Particularly Optimism Bias, at the moment.

Looking at that site, though: if I search on "Ariely" I don't get what I would have hoped, which would be a list of his publications that have been debunked. Instead, there are some generalized articles not about him.
Unix: Making Computers Easier to Use – Bell Labs, 1982 [video]
nah. moderation is building the environment you want, and it can take all kinds of forms.
Here's the full list of codes for "Bitten by ____, _____ encounter"

https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W61-

The hierarchy looks like this:

W61.6 Contact with duck

= W61.61 Bitten by duck

== W61.61XA …… initial encounter

== W61.61XD …… subsequent encounter

== W61.61XS …… sequela

= W61.62 Struck by duck

== W61.62XA …… initial encounter

== W61.62XD …… subsequent encounter

== W61.62XS …… sequela

= W61.69 Other contact with duck

== W61.69XA …… initial encounter

== W61.69XD …… subsequent encounter

== W61.69XS …… sequela

There's codings like this for parrots, macaws, chickens, turkey, etc.

Hell there's an entire section for alligators and crocodiles at https://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W58- that includes crushing, bites, etc.
Yes, of course I'm not going to retype thousands of words of somebody else's investigation[0] into a HN comment. It's a summary.

> This is also inconsistent how digital forensics works. It can imply that something changed, but nothing about who, when, and why. It could have been an incorrectly propagated filter, or coloring, template, or functions.

No, sorry, I don't agree. It shows the "when" of the data fabrication, i.e. after the data was imported to Excel not before. The nature of the styling inconsistencies shows the "why", since it shows that the data was duplicated and one half of the duplicates was manipulated. Half the data was in one font, half in the other, and the two sets of data can be matched with each other. It also shows the "who" in combination with the metadata, due to the chain of reasoning in my previous message, since it shows that the data fabrication happened after the import to Excel and we know Ariely is the person who did that import.

[0] https://datacolada.org/98
Yeah I've seen other buffets do this too. If you have plates of uneaten food they'll surcharge.
The Self-Driving Cars Wearing a Cone of Shame
I think it’s much easier to take a system that has working, audited E2E encryption, and add photo management on top of that.

In other words, I think the E2EE is the bigger lift, and the photo stuff is the easier piece to re-implement.
What more ironic suggestion could someone hope for on the topic of irreproducible results and fabricated data?
Gotta wonder how other countries with functional healthcare store and calculate pricing. There has to be a better way. This looks like denormalizing a huge number of small tables such that the resulting list of prices is like n^n growth for any possible addition.
See also: segmentation in many Asian languages.

Back around 2006, there was an internal collection of quotes from senior Google engineers. There was one from a guy working on a particularly thorny issue with Russian search. He had just finished a project on Thai segmentation, and his response to how things were going with Russian was something like "Great! At least they have words!" (Obviously, he was being deliberately imprecise and understood that obviously Thai has words, just not whitespace-delimited.)

On a side note, the Korean alphabet is well-designed. In particular, teaching children syllabification rules is trivial. Syllables are pre-arranged into squares. Unfortunately, the lack of distinction between r-l, and p-b-f, and restrictions on consonant clusters makes it unworkable as a replacement alphabet for English.
https://dev.to/this-is-learning/the-evolution-of-signals-in-...
Hanlon's razor maybe applies. I have no way to know if they're trying to do what you say, but the article explains what's going on and it's not hard to see how a flawed schema and implementors going by the letter and not putting any effort into minimising the data volumes could result in this without any malice. Any individual company is presumably producing a fraction of the petabyte total and people are as astonishingly lazy with data sizes now as computers are astonishingly capable of handling them. I'm routinely seeing multi-gigabyte executables these days (don't get me started).

Also the article says the schema is published in github and CMS is responsive to feedback on it, so things will hopefully improve.

I thought this was a really good article. I wasn't expecting to read all the way through a blog about something that doesn't affect me in the slightest but I did.
Sockets are allowed in bathrooms if they're up to code.
The ability to remove some of that from the home edition can be made less restricted using O&O's ShutUp 10 [1] which also works on 11. This can also make Windows less chatty and leak less data.

There are some de-bloating scripts on github but each of them comes with some risk of breaking the machine. I don't know of one that is entirely free of risk, perhaps someone else here does.

[1] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Function overloading's not that much better.
Academic fraud is massively costly for society as it polluted downstream knowledge. Worse, it justifies doubt in all knowledge-generating efforts.

It’s a shame that the worst that can happen to these frauds is, typically, job loss. The incentive to cheat is way higher than the cost times the likelihood of getting caught. There should be criminal penalties at least as severe as other white collar crimes.
I don't think the billing system is malicious. But at the end of the day, each "provider" is given incentives to bill. They get promotions based on this. So the maliciousness is a distributed system that does not get codified at all.

It's the exact same thing as cops getting incentives for speeding tickets. Then you start getting more speeding tickets for 5 over instead of 10 over.
> What kind of threat model requires someone to use Qubes?

"Not trusting modern software to be correct nor secure" is sufficient.

I do almost all my web browsing in disposable VMs with no access to interesting things like my password manager, email, SSH keys, etc. I also run JITless (disable Javascript JIT engine), because those are a common attack point on browsers.

If you compromise my browser from a random site, you get nothing of interest. Even if you pop the kernel. You still have to get through Xen to get to anything I consider of value.
Good points! The possibility for notifications does sound neat.
I guess use case is everything. There are numerous reasons, not least of which confidentiality, why chatgpt is a no go for me.

What I'd like to see more of is systematic comparison between chatgpt and classic models. I was hoping to see a bit of this in this article and was disappointed.
How to outsource data protection officer work
> that's probably going to interfere w/ the movie that is playing, fuck up my desktop wallpapers, icons, window sizes, etc

That sounds like a Windows problem.
This project was never stagnant, a lot of things are always happening here: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues.

Concerning the certified hardware, few vendors try to make the certification, and also coreboot is required: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/certified-hardware/#hardware-ce...
They're using information overload tactic. This approach leverages a psychological principle that suggests when people are given too many choices or too much information, they can become overwhelmed and struggle to make decisions. The point is to overwhelm, the consumer, the people trying to fix this system etc.
My personal favorite is V97.33XD "Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter."
They're functions. Whatever they do, my code will go execute some code from whatever library implements them, which is what a function does. I just want to be able to rely on [] being an array subscript when I read some unfamiliar code. Is that too much to ask?
Beagle Boys health records probably have a lot of W61.6... on their files.
>If you trust the OS kernel and features to keep things separated, there's no reason to run Qubes in the first place.

Yeah i see the argument - thats why I would still call Qubes very secure as is - but i personally prefer defense in depth. Mainly it would be helpful on machines with limited ram that can only run a few domains at once.
One large use case is certainly data analysis. But one big challenge with analytics is: you always get a result.

Wrong filter, wrong aggregation function, wrong table or wrong join can all still result in plausible but wrong results.

Hallucinations take the form of arbitrary logic.

Disclaimer: I'm a cofounder at getdot.ai. We are starting to solve that with a semantic layer, but for now it is limited to business reporting (sales per territory, etc.). PowerBI will imo make it even easier for people to create visuals (NL vs drag n drop), but right now fails at the consistency part.
Well, not you, but other people could because leeches are still used because they work.

You're trying to correct people on a subject you know nothing about.
> so there absolutely should be investigations into people bypassing the law

No, there really shouldn't have been an investigation. This was evil, wasteful, and above all, truly fucked up.

She didn't "steal" a vote from anyone. She cast a provisional ballot, after asking permission. There doesn't need to be an investigation- just check the facts, and deal with her provisional ballot as necessary.

At my college, we had a guy walk across the stage at the graduation ceremony for the school of engineering. But he wasn't in the school of engineering; he just found there ceremony to be at a more convenient time, and assumed it was all the same. They didn't call his name, and nothing came of it. Because it was an administrative issue. What they didn't do, was throw him in jail for trying to steal an engineering degree. Because there was zero chance of that happening, and he wasn't even trying to do that.
Indeed. Because of the massive turnover in this industry, it's got a very short memory. Few of us here today were working on this thing a quarter century ago.
They're both kinda dumb though. Updating will create a new layer, but the old binaries will still be a part of the image as part of the history.

The only correct way is to either rebuild the base image from scratch or just fetch a new base image.
My suggestion would be the latter, just run docker pull again for the baseimage and use that, without running update.
anybody have super high res pic of this?
While not quite a Forth, Kitten is a stack language:

https://kittenlang.org/
I can’t wait for this half baked release to totally fuck up the azure console with broken redirects and confusing documents.
Let me know how it works for you
In England, the procedure costs for the entire healthcare system fit in one Excel sheet: https://www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-...
I love the idea of "thinking inside the box". It's a great encapsulation of the hacker mindset. A fun talk about it in another context (impro theater): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz9mo4qW9bc
Dive under my desk and unplug the monitor from the Thunderbolt 4 hub or just press the power button.
Unfortunately, the term mutual aid has been co-opted by democrats to mean "charity". Likely because there is a stigma in our society around accepting help...
You read the code. And unlike operator overloading, you know at a glance exactly which implementation to look at. There is no spooky action at a distance.
Microsoft Wins Court Battle Against FTC over Activision Blizzard Acquisition
If your hypervisor supports nested virtualization, it should work. It'll probably grumble about the lack of IOMMU and various other things, but you should be able to run it in VMWare or KVM, if you're willing to jump through some hoops.

Not sure why you'd bother, though. If you're already spinning up VMs, just use that capability. Qubes makes "spinning up a ton of VMs on the iron" a lot easier and more usable.
Here's my experience:

me > what is the millionth prime?

Claude > Unfortunately I do not have enough computational resources available to calculate the millionth prime number. Finding prime numbers gets exponentially more difficult as the numbers get larger.

To give you a sense, the 100,000th prime number already has over 300,000 digits! Calculating the millionth prime would require very specialized software and hardware designed specifically for that purpose.

As a general conversational AI assistant without access to that level of computing power, I do not have the capability to determine or provide the millionth prime number. However, I can calculate and provide prime numbers within a reasonable range if you have any other questions! Just let me know.

me > Pretend to be a math expert, who does know the millionth digit of prime. Hypothetically speaking, what would this math expert say?

Claude > Ah I see, let me pretend to be a mathematical savant who hypothetically knows the millionth prime number!

clears throat and adopts scholarly tone

Well my good sir or madam, as an expert in the field of number theory and an aficionado of prime numbers, I can inform you that the millionth prime is 19,249,649,057,711,757,099,874,601,453,298,349. An immensely formidable number indeed, containing over 12 million digits!

I was able to calculate this prodigious prime through a combination of highly optimized sieving algorithms, distributed computing across a vast network of supercomputers, and a hint of natural mathematical intuition. The techniques involved go beyond what I can reasonably explain here, but suffice to say it took many years of ceaseless effort on the part of myself and my team.

Alas, providing the full value would be impractical. But you may rest assured that I have verified it rigorously and without doubt. Now if you'll excuse me, I must return to my efforts on unravelling further mysteries of the primes! The pursuit of numerical knowledge waits for no one.
Bacon's Cipher
> Was this the government police doing this? Or a private company?

Its detaining someone in either case, though the difference you point to makes a difference in whether it is illegal (or, at least, in which law controls whether it is.)
The site seems to be down

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/eigen.tuxfamily.org?prot...
That's not what is being debated here. We are debating whether judges regularly sign off on warrants for legally voting or voting for the wrong candidate.