skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Besides, there's still a difference between physical accesses: plain and non-targeted (besides how profitable they're expected) burglaries are way more common than violent targeted attacks meant to extract a secret from an individual.
> Most of us have some secrets to hide

It's a bit reductionist to consider the things that get whistleblown about as just "everyone has their secrets". Alice is illegally spying on all of society, well, everyone has their secrets. Billy has a porno magazine hidden in his closet, well, everyone has their secrets. Charlie is stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers, well, everyone has their secrets. Daryl is running a child trafficking ring, well, everyone has their secrets. Not all secrets are the same.

> I couldn’t trust a whistleblower. While grateful for a lot of the work they do, I never want to be their target and would never risk getting close to them.

So, you make it a little more likely that whistleblowers will have a hard time, and a little more likely that whistleblowers will be discouraged from ever whistleblowing in the first place. The end result is that you are a little more likely to be affected by the corruption that might have been stopped by whistleblowers.

Everyone has their definition about what a "good person" is. Let me offer my definition. A "good person" is someone who is more likely to benefit than to be harmed by widespread wistleblowing. Good people should want whistleblowers to be protected and commonplace.
Good. That's half way to my ideal way to deal with email.

1. Emails from everyone (including you) go into the spam
folder.
2. I identify senders I do actually want to receive messages from.

The industry isn't doing item 2 very well, but default-deny for new senders is exactly what I want from a mailbox service.
You would tax based on family income instead of individual income. I don't see what's complicated about this.
>An employment relationship is in the end a relationship between people.

I view it as a product sale. Me selling my knowledge and skills, they buying it. Similar to how they sale or rent their software to the customers.

A company is not people, a company doesn't have soul. It solely exist to make shareholders profit. People at the company I will have relationships with, and I try to have good relationships.

I never lie, just tell the story they way I benefit from it.

>what results is both sides having to interact with each other on a daily basis ideally

If I foresee that I might dislike the interaction in the future, I can just move over.
> Western companies apparently DO NOT CARE.

Western Consumers don't care either
You make a post looking for a plumber, you spend time chatting with people who are plumbers in their profile - you are interested in plumbers
I believe it’s a hard shadow with a three sigma Gaussian blur and smoothstep black-to-alpha with a one-half or three-quarter maximum, pre-multiplied to output.

But I could be mistaken.
It's my personal reason))

I've tried containers, maybe something got better, but I just simple, one window with everything in my work profile, another window, everything in personal, it's so easy to use in chrome. I can close the work window at the end of the day, and open it again the next morning, carry on
Emotion Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
What exactly is "the wealthy"? Business owners? Entrepreneurs? Politicians?
The word "stolen" stood out to me - I thought maybe it was a bit over the top - so I went looking and found this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/14/aboriginal-bon...

TL;DR: "Stolen" isn't the right word. It's way too polite.
If you only look at the Bitcoin the governments hold, El Salvador is now roughly on par with the USA in terms of Bitcoin per capita:

El Salvador: 3000 Bitcoin / 6M people = 0.0005 Bitcoin per person

USA: 200K Bitcoin / 300M people = 0.0007 Bitcoin per person

But if you also look at the private sector, the US is probably way ahead. Microstrategy alone holds over 150K Bitcoin. Coinbase is said to hold over 2M Bitcoin. Same for mining. The USA has by far the most capable Bitcoin mining infrastructure.

For now, it looks like the USA manages the same feat in regards to crypto as it did with the internet: Be the main player in a huge landgrab with no other country able to even come close.

And we see the same story play out in AI too. With the main players being OpenAI, Microsoft and Google who are all in the US.

I wish there was a study which analyzes what the magic formula of the US is. I have not seen one yet. It seems like the US is unstoppable when it comes to being the brain of the world. I don't live in the US. But me and everyone around me is connected to each other via US technology. US phones, US software, US services. And it looks like this will only continue to increase with self driving cars and other robots being the basis of all our everyday tasks.
I would expect someone who has not been dating in a while would be less likely to have an STI than someone who has been in a relationship but is actively (surreptitiously?) looking around for something better.

Maybe you should talk to the unemployed devs!
That hints to me that you are likely a "Jira ticket shop" and the engineers are handed code tasks on at a time. They aren't expected to be part of team figuring out the product problems and improvements.
Touting my own horn a bit, I have a constructive* proof [0] of the infinitude of prime numbers from first principles: there is no dependence on mathlib so I build all the concepts from scratch. I have been thinking about turning it into a literate code document.

*The only axiom I cannot avoid is propositional extensionality (which is kind of unavoidable in any non-toy proof in Lean).

[0] https://github.com/ykonstant1/InfinitePrimes
I'm still happy letting people do code submissions at home. The important thing is that the candidate understands the code and can explain the thinking behind it.
I also tend to use the follow-up interview to ask them how to extend it in various ways, but that's been my standard approach for a while.
API v1 estimated release date is Dec 21, 2024.
The people would be like: "If our company does not benefit from chinese slaves, someone else will and steal our profits!". Which is kinda sadly true, because Amazon does not care were the stock items come from.
You can produce in countries with strong work laws, but it is just too expensive.

(same with countries where we get energy resources from - they don't have ideal reputation for human rights, but they are cheap).

It is kinda simple: you can buy a tshirt from Italy produced in Italy and having price tag 3 times more. Or you can buy from China... Now think you are a company with thin margins and have to do the same... And your items are after getting sold on Amazon, which algorithms would force you to sell as cheap as possible, otherwise your item would not be seen in the search results.
> a clique of unelected beaurocrats (commisars - like in the USSR)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar

TL;DR A commissar is the USSR was a term with several meanings: a political officer in the armed forces, a government minister, and a bureaucrat responsible for supplies.

EU commissioners are really political appointments to head-up civil service departments; so they are more like ministers than anything else. I think that when most westerners think of "commissar", they think of a militarily-incompetent political officer in an army unit, who can overrule the military commander of that unit. There's no equivalent role in the EU bureaucracy.

FWIW, the USA has commissars; they head up armed-forces commissaries, i.e. they are responsible for supply and logistics.
Generally it depends on the threat vector.

* Do you trust the hardware

* Do you trust the OS

* Do you trust the user

* Do you trust the software

On a rootkit you don't trust the OS anymore. So a safe location inside the OS space isn't an option anymore. But often you are not a root user (e.g. android, windows in a corporate environment)

If you have OS backups there is a risk it is readable by others (e.g. cloud, different IT department). There is also a risk a user uploads the config somewhere.

If you want to rotate keys you would have to search all keys compared to a centralized location.
I expect that the encrypted patch is kept instead of the full version because of this, see also what "the untrusted device will be able to observe" in the linked doc.
Uncertainty-routed Chain-of-Thought boosts Gemini Ultra performance
I think that is a very, very naive point of view. There are countless examples of this happening - probably they're not on your radar because your nation was the recipient of the stolen goods ..

The USA regularly uses its intelligence apparatus to undermine economy and industry in other countries. I would even say, at a far greater rate, with worse results (for the targets) than anything China or Russia are doing ..

The mass violation of human rights for billions of people (literally) that occurs every millisecond of the day at Pine Gap on behalf of the American government, for example, demonstrates that this naivete is very, very dangerous.
Western companies which cared, went a bit bankrupt sadly.
We have negative selection here.
As long as they control the client any kind of government order is still a problem for them.

However it does make it a bit more difficult for them to spy on a conversation, which is arguably a good thing.
I have seen not one iota of evidence that he has.

Notably, the charitable foundation. It is well established now and has whitewashed his reputation but note:

1. It only spends enough of the profits on Gates' and Warren Buffet's wealth that they don't pay tax on what's left.

2. Its owners refuse to even try ethical investment, which would do more good than the B&MGF itself's spending.

Citation for both:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-na-gates...

3. Once he was well out of it & MS, his wife upped and left him, and it was then revealed he's a serial creep, with decades of squalid behaviour around MS staff.
It doesn't cause I only pretend I know how to code and just ask gpt4 to do everything for me
Oh, that's a great list — see, that's why we disagree on the utility of "web frameworks". My app does not use a routing component at all, and none of the existing solutions fit my use case. I also don't have an ORM and I don't think even having an ORM is a good idea (I'm currently working on moving to FoundationDB, where you can get extreme gains by coupling your app closely with the database, rather than talking to it through a thin straw).

I don't use templating, at least not for web pages.

User input validation — that's something I've spent the better part of several years working on, but in a larger context of a toolkit for dealing with forms, tables, data presentation, filtering and sorting. I daresay the solution I have now (which uses ideas dating back to Smalltalk) is way more extensive and flexible than what every "framework" out there has.
The server code isn't relevant in this case, you want the client code to be secure.
I just want to know one thing. Why is this web app framework called Biff?
Is it name after the BTTF character? And if so, any reason why?
Increase cost compared to what? You can't compare it to current rental systems, you have to compare it to Blu-ray etc. If the cost of buying a digital copy is significantly higher than Blu-ray then people will just stick with Blu-ray.

If they don't want to issue such deals at all then that's fine too, but they just can't use the words "buy" or "purchase" at all and can only say "rent".
When I wrote that it's not a decisive factor, I didn't mean that it doesn't affect the decision at all. It happened to me once or twice that I had such a hard time communicating with the candidate, that I highlighted it in the report and gave them lower rating.
Did anyone stumble upon expansion plans regarding availability? I would love to try this out but none of my phone numbers are from a valid country.
It’s stuck an an infinite loop for me.

Click the pictures, get the green tick, click the button, a brand new captcha
>where does all the copper and lithium come from to enable this mass electrification and storage of energy? Let's hope we don't need too much cobalt too?

We will save copper since electricity can be produced close to where it's being consumed, eliminating millions of miles of powerlines from central powerplants to everywhere else.

We need no lithium or copper at all in order to create hydrogen, ammonia or methane, and no lithium for iron-air batteries which are more suited for grid storage than lithium-ion.

We probably won't need any cobalt at all for grid storage, it is even being eliminated in electric cars already.
Nostalgia for My Attention Span
As an American living in Europe now, yeah it's great.

Also, you see how hostile some stuff in the US is to non-US visitors. Lots of local US news sites, for instance, just throw a plain HTTP error at you because they don't want to mess with GDPR.
Why is the story talking about feelings alone and not what we can actually measure: raises in salary vs COLA?

Spoiler: because it's a puff piece.
FYI China needs to import food. The alternative is famine for hundreds of millions of people, not bucolic rice farming.
Absolutely. I wasn't taking a jab at your comment, just adding my experience. Thanks for sharing your point of view!
Can 5B unbacked tethers kickstart a fresh crypto bubble?
Haha I had no idea what I was going to find in that link but yeah, you're right, that is technically the magic capital :)
No, no, we need to buy stocks in Linux Corp. So we become the major shareholders and now the cep had to listen, it's the Law!
I don’t know how Meta will benefit from this (perhaps they are protecting themselves from upcoming regulations in EU). Important question is who is owning the key, if they own the key, that means nothing in terms of protection against their usage.

Even if they don’t have the key, they don’t even care about messages itself anymore
1. It’s risky business, regulations might hit you hard
2. Metadata is good enough for them
3. They own the client, so they know how to extract more than useful data in the end.

E2EE is important marketing trick nowadays, most users see it as if this makes them completely anonymous to companies like Meta.
After all ads are their only source of generating money. They will do whatever it takes to satisfy advertisers, not the users.
Haven’t gotten a raise in three years (so probably 25% down in purchasing power). If I made less and had more expenses, I would be pissed. Can’t blame others that are.
The HN hivemind is just admiring the current price of Tulips
Generative AIs don't steal; their operators do
Now let's say I am responsible for hiring. Obviously, I can't hire a person with no skills, or I would be in trouble. But given a developer with a decent skill set, which is an agreeable person, shows will and passion and he is determined to make things work, and a person with just better technical skills, I would chose the first. Because for me and my colleagues the interactions matter and having a smooth process also matters.
"careful analysis of DNA"

No need for careful analysis, just force the company to give you a list of registered users matching some criteria. Your kill list is just a SQL query away.

"makes no screwing possible that wasn’t already"

Sure, but it makes it easier and faster to select targets for your screwing.
Possibly a fundamentally different outlook? I would trust a whistleblower, but I would have difficulty trusting a person who would cover up serious crimes for an employer. Most employers, by the way, actually do not want it covered up when one of their departments is Doing Crime.

(In particular if you're in, say, finance, or a safety-critical industry, you are not going to want to hire someone who has a known track record of failing to report crimes. I mean, unless you're, like, FTX or someone.)
Firstly E2E can’t be turned off on a dime. WhatsApp e2e has never been turned off since it was turned on.

Secondly, please educate yourself about what the government actually thinks about the ad business you’ve described as “shady”. Even if it was “shady” to show ads based on preferences and never reveal or sell those preferences to a third party … the elected representatives in government really like having social media ads as an option in elections.

Here, read this so you can learn how government actually influences social media to do their bidding - https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/jawboned

> The senator’s office told Katie that they really wanted to ban that practice but knew they would never get it through the Senate since so many campaigns relied on the tools for their elections. So instead, they said they were going to pressure tech companies like ours to ban the use of the tool in the hopes that if one of us did so, the others would as well. Although we did not stop using Custom Audiences entirely, Facebook and other platforms did dramatically reduce the targeting options for political advertisers.
When everything takes 4+ weeks to get any piece of paper and the Deutsche Bahn has 52% punctuality (cancellations excluded), I would say that my choice of words is appropriate. These things are getting worse every year. It is crumbling.
> but I've thought about RAIDing some USB thumb drives together

I had a netbook with an irritatingly slow (and a bit small) eMMC drive for its main storage. I had a pair of microSD cards lying around that were faster for many IO patterns, so I bought a third and strung the three together in mini-USB readers (like https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001JPPQS6/) and run Linux off that using its 3-drive RAID10 support. Leaving a bit of space on each for a smaller RAID1 array for /boot (booting direct form RAID10 didn't work), IIRC the 3x8Gb SD cards give a small touch under 12GiB, larger than the built-in 8Gb, and it was significantly faster (more so than I expected). The slow eMMC got used as backup storage, syncing copies of bits from /home and config from elsewhere, so I could rebuild easily should two cards die at the same time.

The main problem with this arrangement was that is consumed all three of the USB ports, if I wanted to access another drive locally rather than over wireless I'd have to shut down and reboot with at least one of the drives hung off a small USB hub. For some reason it didn't work with one of the drives in the built-in SD reader (the arrays would always start in a degraded state on boot) which I never got around to looking into working around (perhaps a kernel module was missing from initrd that was needed to be able to access the hardware?).

I experimented with RAID5 and RAID0 also. 5 gave a bit more space but was a lot slower for write operations, at least in artificial benchmarks, I assume due to read-before-write issues and the machine having little RAM spare for cache that might mitigate this. 0 did not give notable read performance benefits (though measurably faster writes, and obviously gave much more space), perhaps all the ports running of a single internal USB2 hub was a limiting factor.
Better communication skills have easily tripled my negotiated salary. I was always this good at tech stuff, but not at speaking. While what you say may be true, I question this being normal or the average. Most of the time folks want you to talk well and that's what rewards you.
Kernel lockdown
There's always Plaid beyond Ludicrous:-(
Actually they are not targeting big tech companies, EU made legislation to protect its citizens from being exploited in various ways, the big tech companies are targeting themselves by employing practices which aim to exploit users (including EU citizens) in various ways.
Yes, the storage back-chains epoch secrets specifically for this purpose of restoring history.
Are you sure about that? I had to get a therapeutic use exemption when I was training for the Olympics due to my pain management regimen.
good&important: No, job offers: Yes, better offers: Maybe
> The question is, why do voters allow it?

The truth is, they don't really have a choice. The Conservatives and their financial backers have been taking full advantage of the electoral system in the UK, which is how they reached 56% of seats in the House of Commons by winning only 43.6% of the vote.
and their effort are reflected there too
I disagree with equating whistleblowering and snitching. We all have dirty secrets, but let's loosely say that the scale matters.

It is a different story when coworker tells "boss" who is lazying around, and a different story when someone reports a serious misconduct towards other people. I'm not sure how to phrase it clearly, but generally I would not associate myself with former people, but I wouldn't mind the latter. Maybe one day they'd prevent me from doing something really terrible (given I wouldn't know better).
i tried a lambda but not sure if it worked, so i gave up
>the sounds for man, and the word man can be mapped. The concept of man can be mapped from English to Chinese. Given enough of these clues, and a large enough data set it's not shocking that models get decent at inference between languages.

1. Many such concepts cannot be directly mapped between different languages especially with distant language pairs.

2. Language Models and Image models even if both are only trained on their respective modality learn structural representations so similar, you can connect them with a simple linear layer. That's it. Entirely different modalities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15162

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08485

I think you are severely underestimating the extent to which representations can group in neural networks.

They're mammals, they're social animals, they see. You're assuming a level of alienness we don't have the knowledge or understanding to truly ascertain.
Don't wait until I've given you access to my Google account to tell me that it's a paid service... that's just scummy and a fantastic way to lose me as a customer. Seen a lot of hype around this, but please at least be transparent.

To be clear, I'm not surprised it's a paid service, and I think it's reasonable to pay for this. It just leaves a sour taste in my mouth that could have been easily avoided.
OMG why why why WHY did you disable the scrollbar on your web page?

Just why?

UI standards exist for a reason!
So I might be missing something here, but is there actual data showing autopilot to be unsafe? And if so...where is it?

Elon's marketing claims are wild, safety isn't a priority in the factories, and data protection isn't exactly great either. Those are extraordinary clear from this account (and many others). But I'm not seeing any data on safety except for elon's claim about airbag deployments. I don't believe that number because it's Elon...but is there data that refuses this claim? It's not clear in this article that there is?
Learn about SQL three-valued logic before it bites you
Their "theory" is lovely in Sections 1.1.1 and 1.1.2, which, however, lack any references to any serious literature [1]. Then, Table 2 confirms almost universal and severe limitations. Yet, they conclude that "emotion recognition is crucial in multiple fields, including healthcare, E-learning, online shopping, etc.".

[1] The paper of Ekman is serious, but someone should dig through the 12881 citations it has gathered; much of these are criticism.
https://archive.is/HNJoo
like steam machine?, they doed becauae of that
> in an ideal world each side is their genuine self.

You're hired primarily based on other people's estimate of you. They'll hold you in higher esteem if they like you. I don't see how you get from "it's a relationship between people" to "you should be your genuine self". Interacting with others always involves a certain degree of masking, unless you are implausibly neurotypical.
As a regular reader of Matt Levine this sounds like an opportunity for a securities fraud suit. Surely Amazon has said that its factories follow local labor laws, that whistleblowers are protected etc. That seems like a fairly standard thing for a large corporation to claim.