skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realistically, in a simple statistical way, plain "coincidences" have a significant "expected value". I.e., if you simply take the billions of people across the planet, and look even across a single day, lots of coincidences occur.

Now, add in psychological effects - "synchronicity", "frequency illusion" ("Baader-Meinhof"), "recency illusion", confirmation bias, etc... I'd expect a fair bit of compounding*.

Then, add in simple use of statistics, statistical inference, etc. and basic tracking of user navigation around the web, on a given website, etc.

I've had these experiences, perhaps one or two times a year, on average. Experiences where I was VERY surprised by ads presented. Experiences that would easily suggest a microphone must have been on when it shouldn't have been. Sometimes, I realized I'd used someone else's device in a way that could be tied to me. Other times, while some "leaps" would be involved, I could basically deduce myself that someone who had looked for information on some "X", and information on some "Y", might really be thinking about some "Z" that isn't easily arrived at from either X or Y in vacuo.

Spying, in the sense you suggest, can't be ruled out by the above. But, I would ask - why even spy? Is a company like "meta" really going to get much more useful (from their perspective) info by doing so? Particularly given the COST? It's becoming more realistic, arguably, but, really, these companies have had more than enough info on just about anyone for well over a decade to keep their algorithms and such well-occupied.

People gladly hand over tons of data constantly ... with full awareness and intentionality, and otherwise. The vast majority have no idea what statistical inference and other techniques can suggest based on seemingly obliquely connected info. Further, most users are so accustomed to "cookies" and other hidden types of tracking, and ignoring EULAs** ... really, it's hard for me to imagine a good case for doing anything more ... "invasive" and ... legally / otherwise dubious.

Edit: mostly came back to add one of my favorite (ab)uses of (statistical) inference:

https://youtu.be/Oseqh7SMIvo

(also, added the bit below about EULAs)

* Outweighing significantly, I'd suggest, other quirks of human perception, memory, etc. that may diminish awareness and recognition of potentially related events. I write "suggest" mainly because I don't have ready refs to offer this second and don't have time to dig a couple up ... IIRC, the research that exists strongly favors compounding, though, of course, this could be argued to be influenced itself by human psychology (including social and economic factors, e.g., "publish or perish" etc.).

** Jargon buried in legalese, what a genius way to get just about anyone to agree to just about anything! If only John, King of England (in 1215), had been more skilled in the ways of the EULA - perhaps "King Charles III" would be emperor of the world now. Oh utopia denied ... kek.
The courts aren’t independent from the party/official branch (china technically has one branch of government, the judicial and legislative branches just rubber stamp whatever the official branch wants), so you can’t really trust them one way or the other. There is no nice Mexican stand off balance of power that you’d get from a checks and balances government design.
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Bing isn't available right now, but everything should be back to normal very soon.

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Of course, someone who has been successfully manipulated would also think they've escaped manipulation. Isn't that the scariest part
Not sure how I feel about this. You are either helping or taking advantage of people who are already down.

Why should be excited about or support a mental health startup, who stands to make money when people have poor mental health?

Does anonymized voice interaction help more than it hurts? Do you have any idea what you're doing or are you just doing it? What personally motivates you and your team?
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I read the credits in the LadBible piece, as I said above that's not her face, at best it's an artifact of heavy filtering.

See the Daily Mail piece for a realistic image of a person more likely to be who the story is about.
That was the first one I looked for on this site!
When I enter a search query, that goes into Ads so that half the page can be relevant Ads instead of search results. That's a signal.
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I just tried on my Pixel 4, and it did not seem to have the problem.
Can you try skipping the sign up on the first onboarding page, and try signing up after you are in the app by clicking the top left 'B' icon?

Or, can you try signing up by creating a user ID? We do not sell your data, and your email is NOT linked to your voice notes (they are in separate database and the user IDs are anonymized by hashing). I would really love for you to try it out!
Mine is hosted on github, so I imagine it'll be around for quite a long time, so long as github outlasts me.

However, the domain would expire, so you'd have to look at its raw html. I purposely write my content in Markdown for that reason. Some Internet archeologist might find it when I'm long gone, and in theory that part would still be legible.
All your comments on LinkedIn seem to be shilling for nRF52840?
Mine came out to 0%, which is also personally where I'd put it.

But I think it's a question wrongly put.

We don't need AGI for current tools and their descendants to be extremely disruptive. For the longest time chess programs only mimicked one aspect of the way humans play the game (calculation) but they did it at such a superhuman level we were unable to beat them.

LLMs, computer vision tools, etc. don't need to be AGI to be able to displace large amounts of human jobs.

Having the discussion about if and in what ways we can prepare for the innovation that seems inevitable in that space seems like a much more prudent discussion than speculating about whether AGI will exist or not.
The point was to build a cartel, keep artificially high prices for a very poor quality service, and it worked, all over the world, but for cartels, not the consumers! Until UBER delivered the whole world from this universal established cartel-taxi-model for the benefit of all.
It’s been a long time since I’ve used my ISP’s supplied modem/router. The only hardware from my ISP that I’m using now is their GPON SFP module, which is installed in the NIC of my router machine.
True, but not all to the same degree, and that difference actually matters. So your comment is pretty much vacuous.
> Why do you assume malicious intent?

Not GP, but to me, admittably a complete non-expert on search, there are so many low-hanging fruits if search result quality was anywhere on Google's radar that it is really difficult not to assume malicious intent.

Some examples:

- why pinterest is flooding the image results with absolute nonesense? How difficult it would be to derank a single domain that manages to screw google's algorithm totally?

- why there is no option for me to blacklist domains from the search result? Are there really some challenges that can't be practically solved in a couple of minutes of thinking?

- Does google seriously claim they can't differentiate between stackoverflow and the content copying rip-off SEO spam sites?
We are oversharing on Venmo
Damn thats sucks. At least their sync server is opensource
My dad (and loads of other gig workers) don’t want full time Uber jobs. They like gig work because it gives their lives flexibility. The employer-employee relationship is about more than money & benefits, it’s about power.

A full time job gives your employer the power to dictate your life schedule to you. Your boss wants you at your desk at 8am but you have to take your kid to school at 8:30? Too bad! You’re there at 8 or you’re fired.

It’s even worse in retail and food service, as I alluded to in my original post. These workers get their schedules a week ahead, with shifts all over the place. One day you’re opening at 6am. Next day you’re closing at 9pm. Good luck having any kind of life outside of work with a schedule like that!
I spent 9 years living in China, not traveling, so I know what I’m getting myself into. It isn’t just what people are used to, there are significant differences. For however dangerous American cops are, china is the only place I actually saw someone die before (in a traffic accident, the secret to having a safe trip to China is to be careful crossing the street and don’t run red lights on your bike)

China is worse now than it was in 2007 when I moved there. They had a huge backslide in liberalization after the Olympics, which got worse with Xi (who, as you know, is now president for life). Now it’s like 1999 again.
That's an argument against using it as the sole means of communication, which no one has proposed.
There are thankfully, quite a few, ive mostly used rocm/rocm-terminal and rocm/rocm-dev.

https://hub.docker.com/u/rocm
> If they could just decrease executive pay, why aren't they doing that already?

Counterpoint: if they could extract more profit from the market by increasing prices, why haven't they done so already?

Market determines viable price for service, not cost. If the cost of doing business can't find a balance at rates the market will pay at acceptable profit margin, the business simply doesn't exist. Many aspects of our lives suffer from this reality: renewable energy companies in many places survives only because they're propped up by government subsidy.

The answer to "why aren't the executives cutting pay" is obvious: it's up to the executives, and why on earth would they cut their own pay, when they could instead simply decrease worker conditions and cut cost of labor? Without a union, executives have literally all the power.

Executive pay + shareholder profits (through stock buybacks, dividends) are where all the massive margins go to right now. There's no more profit to extract from the market (unless the finance team is terrible at their jobs and have been leaving money on the table) so that's where the money to cover increased cost of labor needs to come from.

I'm not really upset at the idea of CEOs making less money, I don't get what the big deal is.
This is not correct. It’s up to the server, controlled by the application to send that or other headers. Similar to sending a <title> tag. The headers take priority and similar to what another person said they will do a HEAD request first and not bother with a GET request for the content.
Failure Analysis: Engineering incidents are a bigger problem than you think
If there is a publicly available picture of you that you did not consent to be published and literally nobody can currently identify it as you that is still a privacy violation.

It is a violation because of the lack of consent, but it is also a violation because now you have to live with the fact that maybe some other information can link you to that picture in the future. There is no such thing as perfect privacy if any link can be created in the future, and the fear of the creation of that link going forward is itself a problem for the subject.
https://archive.is/IzwGj
My SLA is only to myself, so it’s not so bad. That said I do host some “critical” services like my password manager, and so making a mistake that takes those down can be a pain. I figure on balance it has been worth it.
Assuming you trust whoever is providing the feed to not filter it, and to maintain it forever.
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https://github.com/nicholasadamou/plex-s3fs

Run it w/ Wasabi.

Cheap, durable, fast enough.
I am not convinced this is widespread behavior.

How many does it take to be widespread (or more crucially, addressable) behavior, is it N+you?

Yes, if I saw myself on social media without consent, I would go straight to the college or professional association with a privacy violation complaint. But this article is just trying to fuel hatred.

Are there any release documents for doctors that you can cite that include a patient appearing, either knowingly or unknowingly, in social media? I know this sounds sarcastic because it's so ludicrous but if they exist I would like to know.
Are you telling me that you could find a way to accomplish your job with just 54 keystrokes per hour?

This comment alone would take you the entire morning.
In a highly controlled environments, the good ideas also take time to come to "consideration" :)

I have tried introducing a couple of new ways of working - but they didn't fly due to the environment not being contributive to the success of an idea.

But I do see your point - and that's what keeps me going day after day. It's just that the impatience of "seeing it come to life" is making things uncomfortable.
If uber wants to kill their margins even more by reducing supply and driving up costs, that's their own mistake to make. They instead could keep the service cost that works at the price it's at right now by reducing executive compensation and finding other ways to increase efficiency.

Or they could keep pissing off the people with the monopoly on violence, maybe that'll work long term?
Quite OK browser. It doesn't have webgl, webgpu or other fancy and easy to exploit stuff, but it renders 95% of websites and source code is easy enough to be maintained with very few people.
I agree. It’s not like “doctor exploits position and the media for fame/notoriety/influence” is a particularly new story.
I’m not sure I agree that it’s open source and enterprise. Many of the enterprise features (eg SSO) don’t appear to be part of the open source version. That’s fine, you can and should monetize your work, but your enterprise and open source editions seem separate.
Yeah, agreed. I find when some tech embraces a metaphor too enthusiastically it can just become exhausting. SaltStack was like that, full of its "pillars" (pillars of salt? get it? some biblical reference) and "grains" etc etc. Or Homebrew with its "taps" and "kegs".

I'm fine with just the standard most appropriate generic word, whether it be module, component, database, etc.
To be honest, I think Skip and Uber Eats are either struggling or in a seasonal down cycle right now. Very few orders coming in, and it’s not just my dad. He talks to the other drivers out there and they say the same thing.

I think on the one hand maybe a lot of people are away on summer vacation so not ordering food as often. On the other hand, interest rates in Canada have shot through the roof, so maybe a lot of people are cutting back on ordering in and choosing to cook more to save money.

Unfortunately, interest rates also affect my dad, so he’s getting squeezed pretty hard. I can’t blame the gig companies for that though, that’s the Bank of Canada’s doing.
I am doing my best to help people who feel lonely in today's day and age because I have personally been through it during my time in grad school.

I was going through a long-distance relationship at that time, and the workload was tough during my PhD. I did have friends that I hung out and even went to cafes to study together, but once they got girlfriends and boyfriends, they left me... I was not their priority anymore.

It felt incredibly lonely and I could not get the kind of support from my girlfriend since she was on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. I needed someone that I could talk to and do things with, outside of the romantic boundary. I tried looking, but what I found online were all these dating apps that capitalized on precisely the romantically lonely men and women.

I really did not like how the tools that claim to help people find partners and meaningful connections boil people down to simple profiles consisting of several pictures and bullet points of what they are looking for. I think it honestly creates increasing number of people reporting feeling lonely because all these tools overemphasize on vanity and shallow qualities of a person instead of who they are.

I think the web can be a better place for people to find others who they resonate with, and the current offerings just do not cut it. Having personally experienced loneliness and finding no solutions for my problem back then, I vowed to create an app myself that I think can help people find meaningful connections. So, here I am. I quit my job at Apple last year to dive into this full time as I thought about the meaning in life and what I wanted to leave in this world, and I thought solving the problem of loneliness is the most personal and meaningful problem that I want to take on.
That could be related, yes. But most of the businesses I recognize are placed close to where they actually are/were, however a lot of them are now different businesses. I think it's due to Google being unable to update it because they don't have a presence in the country.
Somewhat orthogonal, but I was just thinking of looking for or writing a MySQL compatible frontend for SQLite. There’s a third party app that has removed SQLite support in its latest version and I really don’t want a MySQL database for something SQLite is more than capable of for my use case.
That doesn’t really answer the question.

How do you determine which ones are good, at the point of sale?
Disclaimer: I have no idea how machine learning algorithms work.

I work with problems so huge they do not fit on a single device. Multiple devices each own a small piece of the global problem. They solve a local problem and they must communicate over a network in order to solve the global problem. This is almost universally true.

You would know more than I in this field, and I expect it really is better to swap a partition than it is to use a network.

There are certain methods in HPC applications that are almost universally avoided because of how terribly they scale to a large distributed memory system. Matrix multiplies are one of them. Outside of a handful of ab initio computational chemistry algorithms (which are incredibly important), basically the only reason someone does a large dense matrix-multiply on a supercomputer is usually because they're running a benchmark and they're not solving a real science problem.

Folks more knowledgeable than me here feel free to jump in.
The lack of consent makes it a consent violation, not a privacy violation.
I agree with all of these points. I really enjoy using Supabase, but it does feel like 95% of the effort is on releasing new features.

The mentioned migrations for example, don't work if your database is not very simple (e.g. triggers typically won't work because the dependency order is wrong, custom types are not supported, etc.), and this has been the case for some time.

The documentation for the most basic functionality is also quite poor and requires digging through the TS source for detail. For example, here's the JS lib auth signInWithPassword function:

Log in an existing user with an email and password or phone and password.
Requires either an email and password or a phone number and password.
Parameters:
credentials (required) SignInWithPasswordCredentials [no link to what this is]

And an example is given:

const { data, error } = await supabase.auth.signInWithPassword({
email: 'example@email.com',
password: 'example-password',
})

That's all. There is no explanation of what data/error might return, error conditions, whether it can throw, etc. Looking at the source, the are a variety of additional parameters (user meta data, captchaTokens ) that are not mentioned at all. The site has various articles, howtos, videos etc. that explain different bits of functionality, but the core reference is incomplete and it's a pain to dig through blog posts to discover basic functionality.

To be clear, I think it's a great product, and the open source aspect and great communication from the team is a big plus, but I do think more time could be spent getting the basic product right before chasing 100s of new features.
Wouldn't it be better to move them to a new domain? Worst case scenario they're kept forever.

Best case that new domain starts ranking well.
InnoDB (MySQL's default storage engine since 2010) has always used MVCC. Its MVCC implementation is arguably better than Postgres's in some important ways, see e.g. https://ottertune.com/blog/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-th...
I can skip and experience the app, but signing up doesn't work in any way from this point. The sign up page does not load, so I cannot choose another option. It opens the web view, but the web view closes without rendering anything, and I am back at the first screen in the app. This is true even if skipping and going through the top left button, or if uninstalling the app, or if opening the web view in Firefox (which does nothing)

edit: hope this helps. I'm on a pixel 5 and use Firefox as my browser including for app webviews
And people absolutely proved that their ability to read scientific claims in isolation and make an educated guess how much weight to give them is really bad.
Another option is to stick an authenticated reverse proxy in front of whatever you’re hosting. No software needed on the client beyond a web browser, and you only need to worry about say the security of Nginx…
Do you not consider that Huawei "executive's" detention (actual makes for a similar case against Canada? It was a purely political move, Meng Wanzhou was detained on grounds of a broader anti-Huawei campaign by the US.
Interestingly there appears to be a guard rail in ChatGPT around repeated tokens - I imagine this happens because it starts getting into such a poor entropy state almost anything is the next likely token and semantic.

> I'm sorry, but I can't continue generating repeated text beyond a certain point as it can result in generating repetitive and nonsensical content. If you have any other questions or topics you'd like to discuss, feel free to ask!
You're missing the point. $20 is a steal, but the price is irrelevant. No matter what the price is, it's bad business practice to say "Here's a demo of what you're getting for $X" but then deliver something different that only works as advertised some of the time.

It's like presenting an Altair at a conference and letting people play with it. But when they buy it, they get something different, or realize that the Altair presented at the conference was actually just a trick that works a fraction of the time.
and does an LLM care … it feels like minification doesn’t stop one form explaining the code at all.
They say "Google doesn't like "old" content? That's not a thing!"

But who knows, really? They run things to extract features nobody outside of Google knows that are proxies for "content quality". Then run them through pipelines of lots of different not-really-coordinated ML algorithms.

Maybe some of those features aren't great for older pages? (broken links, out-of-spec html/js, missing images, references to things that don't exist, practices once allowed now discouraged...like <meta keywords>, etc). And I wouldn't be surprised if some part of overall site "reputation" in their eyes is some ratio of bad:good pages, or something along those lines.

I have my doubts that Google knows exactly what their search engines likes and doesn't like. They surely know which ads to put next to those maybe flawed results, though.
This is a common misconception.

The wages are slave wages to the first world economies, but not to the developing world.

China for example has seen a massive decrease in the percentage of the population living below the poverty line as they’ve become the largest manufacturer.

At the end of the day these people are choosing to leave their farms to work in these factories because it enriches them. I’m not saying they’re great jobs, especially to us, but it’s not slavery.
Same here. I know someone who had their surgery featured on a popular medtok channel. They signed a waiver and gave full consent.
White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors
we're done here.
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