skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft confirms weird printing issues and uncalled HP Smart App installations
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Sweden has a registry of blood samples of every person born in sweden since 1975: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret (Swedish only wiki page)

Predictably?, amusingly? police never had access to this data, until a government minister was murdered in 2003, when a sample from the suspect was retrieved. From what we know it has not been used since. So we can be cynical, but under the circumstances, the police use of the registry has not yet taken hold and is guarded by the courts..
> if the day is greater than or equal to 21st and

> if the month is greater than or equal to 11 and

> if the year is greater than or equal to 2021

> then report a compressor failure.

> [...] It was probably the software author's inability to construct IFs that made it necessary to wait until November 21, 2022 for the planned failure.

Oops!
There's like a gradient of "truthiness" in movies that ranges from "This is a true story" to "inspired by real events" (which is the least reliable of all).
I have to think there is a lot of crossover between Wikipedia edit review interactions and code review interactions in terms of what actually brings out better quality outcomes and what make for discouragement of efforts.
It's simply because hardware vendors don't have a big problem with the state of hardware, but Linux users do.
I wonder if that could be used as a list of possible organ donors. I don't know what else (data) is stored there tbh but if it helps narrow down to find a kidney or heart for someone rich...
That is true - writing things down improves your recall. I learned that in college - writing, not typing, notes during lecture helped me retain the knowledge. I didn't even have to always study those notes either! Just the simple act of writing it down helped me learn and retain the information.
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I also went to West Potomac and spent hardly any time in Gunston.
I'm on the wait list for Beeper, except sometimes when I check my position I've actually gone further back in line somehow.
I think it's a reference to the "discovery" that if you ask GPT-4 to answer your query "step by step", it'll actually offer a better response than otherwise.
I tried to go phone free once. It was going well until I had to pay my car note.
I think that’s a good reason to question whether this would be due process.

Why do we have due process? One key reason is that it gives people the opportunity to be heard. One could argue that being heard by an AI is no different from being heard by a human, just more efficient.

But why do people want the opportunity to be heard? It’s partly the obvious, to have a chance to defend oneself against unjust exercises of power, and of course against simple error. But it’s also so that one can feel heard and not powerless. If the exercise of justice requires either brutal force or broad consent, giving people the feeling of being heard and able to defend themselves encourages broad consent.

Being heard by an AI then has a brutal defect, it doesn’t make people feel heard. A big part of this may come from the idea that an AI cannot be held accountable if it is wrong or if it is acting unfairly.

Justice, then, becomes a force of nature. I think we like to pretend justice is a force of nature anyway, but it’s really not. It’s man-made.
>Suddenly, an AI monitoring public activity can trigger an AI investigator to draft a warrant to be signed by an AI judge to approve the warrant and draft an opinion.

Or the AI just sends a text message to all the cops in the area saying "this person has committed a crime". Like this case where cameras read license plates, check to see if the car is stolen, and then text nearby cops. At least when it works and doesn't flag innocent people like in the below case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUvZlEg8c8c
The increases look reasonable to me, but not when you consider their declining market share. I guess she only returned to the role of CEO in 2020, but she's been in leadership for a long time, and the org's performance has been poor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary...
What is the story here exactly? Is there an official way to replace the battery that doesn't require a dongle? What does the dongle do exactly? Why does a new battery get drained if you don't follow this process carefully?
No, they don't. But they did create the VA site:
https://www.usds.gov/projects/va-dot-gov

And they're involved with the Department of Education, although I couldn't find out exactly what they built.
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I highly recommend when buying or setting up a tv looking to see if HDTVTest on youtube has a review of it. He really does a good job of going in to the effects of certain tv settings has on the picture. Be forewarned that he is in the UK so TV model numbers wont line up a lot of the time but with a little digging you can find your model that corresponds to his.

https://www.youtube.com/@hdtvtest/featured
AI algorithms getting people to drink MTN DEW, not even Black Mirror thought of that one.
I can only recommend to give Firefox another go, if you don't use it by default. It really has improved the last years, it also had made much progress in privacy features, and doesn't want to kill ad-blocker like Google wants. Also, Firefox on Android finally started supporting extensions.

Another thing: Because no other browser engines are allowed to be installed on iOS, those numbers should be subtracted from the total.
I don't know why this isn't being discussed more. The reality of the surveillance state is that the sheer amount of data couldn't realistically be monitored - AI very directly solves this problem by summarizing complex data. This, IMO, is the real danger of AI, at least in the short term - not a planet of paperclips, not a moral misalignment, not a media landscape bereft of creativity - but rather a tool for targeting anybody that deviates from the norm, a tool designed to give confident answers, trained on movies and the average of all our societies biases.
> I'm not sure I've heard that argument as much as "why do you care so much about privacy?" full stop.

I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone I know mention privacy at all, as if they're totally ignorant to it. In reality, the majority of people will just let Google or Microsoft do whatever with their personal information as long as the product or service is slightly more convenient than the last one.
I wish the article included a diagram of before and after wiring using this solution.
Nope, sarcasm was pretty obvious from the "iceberg jumping at the boat" part.
Apple Home Key Reader Implementation
I tried to be an editor for a couple months. I found the experience to be extremely unpleasant because even the best intentioned feedback came across as callous and annoyed and unkind. Softness is not a strong skill amongst Wikipedia editors.

That and the shitty bias evident everywhere due to using corporate news as the primary source for anything not involving STEM. Corporate news is wildly biased and it bleeds heavily into Wikipedia. It’s unfortunate that billionaires who own news organizations are literally writing history
> Also, the obligatory joke "git gets easier once you get the basic idea that branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space"

The scary thing about that one is that I still don't know whether it's just a joke, or if it's the "it's funny because it's true" kind of joke.
Wikipedia is definitely used in politicized way by the editors. A clear example of my knowledge is how the referendum celebrated in Catalunya (Spain) in 2017 is described in the Catalan and Spanish versions, for some topics they seem to be talking about different events.

Anyone can use an english translator and check it out. Just in the first three lines the Spanish version uses the word "ilegal" and the Catalan does not, it might seem subtle but this subtlety has had huge implications in Spnish politics:

https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refer%C3%A8ndum_sobre_la_indep...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refer%C3%A9ndum_de_independenc...
Exactly. It's inefficient for LLMs to recompute state based on previous output, but that's what we have so far, and it works, surprisingly.
I KNOW, right?! It's perfect.
> Both were always going to be kind of inevitable as soon as the technology would get there

This is my take on everything sci-fi or futuristic. Once a human conceives something, its existence is essentially guaranteed as soon as we figure out how to do it.
Love that there is a test.

Some of the theories like gravity waves and Higgs boson took almost half a century to be confirmed by experimentation.

The hard part about this is building tools that can precisely measure mass fluctuations with extremely low error bars at picosecond timescales.

Because we need to both validate the theory and that the device is correctly measuring.

So much of science became only possible because of better instruments. Be it microscopes to see the tiniest phenomena or telescopes to observe the furthest phenomena.
I think StackOverflow is a good example of a site where cultural norms have become a life-threatening issue. The site has experienced a sharp drop in search traffic and yet people still say it's unfriendly all the time. Fixing that perception should be a top priority.
That's my main concern as well. I don't want to strengthen such a closed ecosystem by building their network.

(That and desktop support is a must for me)
>This case is investigated by Central Anti-Corruption Bureau in Poland but I doubt it'll do much harm to Newag. The Office of Rail Transport of Poland that would spam rail company with complaints and orders for a small mistake in train schedule washed it's hands from intervening in this case and train purchases have highly regulated tender process and very little wiggle room for rail companies.

It's clearly a crime of sabotage under Art. 254a kk. Tender process does not matter in this case. We just need a competent prosecutor.

https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/dzu-dziennik-ustaw/kodeks-kar...
> it’s better that advertisers are being more proactive.

Is it? Why?
Age-Related Differences in Mind Wandering: The Role of Emotional Valence
something scary the "my FBI agent" people probably don't think about is that "their FBI agent" might not even be born yet, because they're putting all this stuff out into the public record to be analyzed who knows, maybe thirty years from now by an unimaginable regime by some "kid" (who's 30, and you're 50 or 60) that doesn't have an inkling of understanding or care for what was socially acceptable 30 years ago
I have just read your README.md file and found your repo interesting indeed. The README is well written. I knew it was possible to read and parse /dev/input/* files, but was hesitant to get into the intricacies you described.

Anyway, great job sir! Now I will read your code out of curiosity :)
I'm pretty sure the password manager in Safari also checks this db, as I've been warned that some passwords have been discovered in breaches (even going back to the linked in breach).
Hypothetically the client doesn't really have to know about the juicy loot until it's dropped, right? On a sufficiently fast internet connection, the client doesn't need to know about anything until exactly the time when the player needs to know it, at which point revealing it in a cheating tool is meaningless.
Science is just fooling around with data until you get a result a journal reviewer likes.
Dogma I'd guess.
> better gas and EV engine performance

Are we talking about better fuel efficiency, acceleration or both? To lock down better fuel efficiency would be downright evil. I am okay with locking down better acceleration.
Yes, that is exactly what Apple said. This was previously discussed here [1], but perhaps few people noticed this specific detail. The quote from the article:

> Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as currently published by the GSM Association.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
Am I reading the documents you link right?

Mozilla is wildly profitable.

They made a profit of roughly 150 Million dollars last year.

They have 1.2 Billion dollars in assets.

They have increased revenue from non-search deals significantly (56M -> 75M, up one third).

Despite all the gnashing of teeth in this comment section about woke Mozilla, they spent only 5 Million on grants last year. The vast majority goes towards developing Firefox and building up assets.

I had always just taken the statements that she is absurdly overpaid at face value and never looked into this myself. But Baker has overseen the rise of revenue and net income from almost zero to current numbers. If that doesn't look like a successfully run NGO, what does?

Not a big fan of CEO compensation in general, but I feel the one-sided focus on market share, which I feel is somewhat out of Mozillas control (can't even compete on the dominant mobile computing platform, anti-competitive Google leveraging its search monopoloy and advertising Chrome extremely aggresively, etc... ), while ignoring the actual financial health of the organisation is really biased.
Written word anywhere always records to the record.
Brain implant could ease the effects of a traumatic injury years later
Is mass spying not already going on?
The article explains their methodology for identifying and tracking toxic comments.
I don't really view it as a faithful romantic relationship, so I don't view it as cheating. One party considered it temporary while holding up a facade that they viewed it as legitimate.
There is no evidence of existing at least one defined illness in psy* fields. For example, let me tell you that a person X fell ill with schizophrenia. What do you know about X or X's brain?
> First and foremost, allow me to donate to Firefox. Not to the foundation, to Firefox.

I’d like to see this too. They already have a donation option for Thunderbird, which is officially under MZLA Technologies Corporation. There could be something similar for Firefox.

Not complete sure on this, but right now the only way to give money to Mozilla Corporation (the one owning and developing Firefox) is by subscribing to Mozilla VPN (offered by Mullvad). I don’t think any subscriptions to Pocket or MDN Plus go towards Firefox development and support. All these paid subscriptions are available only in certain countries though.
The problem with the criticism of any major effort of that sort (which you saw in python2->python3 as well), is that any major effort will involve tradeoffs, it will involve mistakes, it will involve bad decisions, and it will involve good decisions that were poorly executed.

That’s absolutely normal. There is no major effort ever in the history of software that was absolutely perfect.

But the most upvoted comments almost always tend to be focused on those specific mistakes/tradeoffs to the detriment of the larger goal and effort. They completely decontextualize the criticism from the fact that it may be a trade off or just a simple mistake.

And honestly, if I was to submit my closed source project and saw those criticism, I wouldn’t like it, but I could at least understand it.

But it must be ridiculously frustrating for Open Source software developers to have put in all this effort and then have everyone Monday morning QB on HN once the work has been largely completed when they could as easily have gone to the project GitHub or community pages and shared their feedback constructively when it actually mattered and could have had an impact on the direction of the product.
pierogi with blueberries are the best :)

jk - pierogi are like dogs: there're just no bad pierogis
Good argument, ignoring what occurred in practice.

Every person with healthy vision writing a Latin language is using <strong> as bold, and most of them don't even realize it because it's hidden behind GUIs that show a B (bold) button which generates <strong> code. If you make this an issue in their tracker they will just tell you <strong> is more semantic and <b> won't be used.

Regardless of what the semantics of <strong> should have been, in practice you just made <b> with a longer name. In other words, there is no reason to use or have made <strong>, since the end result was just <b> again. Screen readers could have just done what they do with <strong> (i.e. nothing) with <b> and saved us all a lot of trouble.

I can say that almost every single time someone wants bold text now it will be a <strong> tag, even if the semantics are wrong.
This drives me up a wall. I know the site. I trust the site. Yes, they screwed up something with their configuration or it's just ancient. I STILL WANT TO GO THERE!
> High standards can be communicated without being toxic.

Depends on the perception of toxicity. Just not being supportive or pointing out objective flaws is sometimes perceived as toxic by some people, while others take any sh*t and critique and consider it as valuable as long as it's true.

This is especially problematic in an international project, where multiple cultures clash. Though, this is likely only a problem for English Wikipedia.
Unless your company has one product ("orderliness"), that seems not all that relevant. It's also highly unlikely that some sort of 'boss at the top' knows everything and therefore is the only one with the capability to make choices.
I stress about getting my shit stolen every time I’m traveling and being completely locked out of everything. I stash an extra phone separate from my main phone every time I travel for that reason.
It's legal. But it doesn't mean that Apple has to quietly allow it.

What is maybe more relevant is the EU talking about forcing federation. If Apple lets this live it may give them more bargaining power in those discussions. If they shut it down thatay throw jet fuel on the fire.
It’s very interesting to see businesses like BMW, Mercedes, Shell and Google obsess over quarterly revenues instead of the long term. I would see it as a red flag as investor, but maybe the main investor in these companies is someone who obsesses over quarterly revenue?
Not only that, but a code reader can rely on this too. If you only use a raw for loop when you're skipping around, then the reviewer / future reader can slow down to understand what's happening here. If you use raw for loops for the for-each case, now the reader has to slow down on all your for loops. It's similar to the reasoning for "const everywhere": if you don't mark variables const, I need to figure out as a reader whether the variable is modified later, and that slows me down and increases the mental load of reading a function.
And you see this all over the place, like microservices (The Network is the Computer, SOA, WebServices), WebAssembly (TIMI, P-Code, JVM, MSIL, PNaCL,...).

Lots of stuff that keeps happening because newer folks just don't have any clue of what came before, or why that fence is in the middle of the field.
"has", not "will".
You need more LFP to carry the weight of the manganese battery though (increasing cost), and all the extra weight can affect driving dynamics. Maybe both the cost and weight increase are minimal but that’s what came to mind. It’s a great idea though.
What he says is " Siri and Alexa and “Hey Google” are already always listening, the conversations just aren’t being saved yet". That's functionally what you describe. Hardware wake-word processing is a power saving feature, not a privacy enhancement. Some devices might not have enough resources to forward or store all the audio, but audio is small and extracting text does not need perfect reproduction, so it's quite likely that many devices could be reprogrammed to do it, albeit at some cost to battery life.
> "Bad" is subjective, no?
> Is it good or bad if a father learns that his teenage son is not his own?

I feel like that would depend on the person. If the father wanted to know and the son didn't, that would be good for one and bad for the other, and vice versa.
What's next is AI operated lethal weapons. You best believe all the elites are racing for those as fast as they can. As soon as those are a reality, all revolution against economic inequality becomes impossible.

The U.S. army wouldn't fire on civilian protestors, regardless of what a general ordered. An AI army would have no such restrictions or be vulnerable to appeals to morality and ethics.
Can you suggest some specific models related to embeddings/QnA?
The French were thrashing the coalition forces for 2 years before Napoleon led a major campaign. Napoleon was a military genius, but what shifted the revolutionary wars in the favour of the French was the revolutionary goverments' innovation of total war - directing the entire economy and population of the nation towards the war with mass conscription and modern organisation. That would have happened with or without Napolean, and it was the social forces of the Revolution that made it possible for a Corsican nobody to even become a general in the first place.

Honestly the biggest argument for great man theory in the French Revolution is Louis XVI - if he hadn't been quite so indecisive and incompetent maybe the revolution would have fizzled out or been crushed instead of spiralling out of control.
On a related note, there is this recent tweet purportedly showing that "offering to give a tip to ChatGPT" improves performance (or at the very least resulted in longer responses, which might not be a good proxy for performance) https://twitter.com/voooooogel/status/1730726744314069190
This is awful. Now we will have to jailbreak our cars just do use basic features.
Then people will start using AI to generate random traffic noise to fool AI watching them.
So I have 1.6M rows of title, body and author. Can I use SDDB to embed all rows with a local model and then do semantic search as a query? And how can this scale past a single machine?
Startup tests for an embryo's genetic defects before IVF pregnancy begins
> Web Developers shouldn't need to "support" particular browsers at all, that's what standards are for.

I agree. But different standards get adopted by different browsers at different rates. Case in point: Firefox still has not released support for declarative shadow DOM.

As a side note, although related to standards: I thought Firefox insisted several years ago that they were not going to support File System Access API. But now MDN lists it among supporting browsers.
In the USSR and GDR, not everyone was under constant surveillance. This would require one surveillance worker per person. There was an initial selection process.
I said “FizzBuzz-level.” I’ve used actual FizzBuzz for new grads who I suspected couldn’t code, but normally I’m using questions that require looping, conditional logic, perhaps the use of a simple helper data structure like a map. I consider “reverse a string” to be advanced FizzBuzz. Anything requiring DFS or binary search is not FizzBuzz. “Print a tic tac toe board using asterisks, one character at a time” is FizzBuzz.
This is nothing new, this one has been on the market since 2007 https://www.adhocelectronics.com/Remodel-Press-Release/ though the new one seems more unnecessarily complicated. Just get the energy from the switch motion...
You can disable that your content is used for training[1].

[1]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...