skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird thing to comment on, especially as it definitely is an example of something that a company may be focused on, rather than making a profit.
Agree with the headline
Can you also block harassment and death threats from Jones' readers, after he accused you of being a "crisis actor"? Cuz that's what happened to some of the Sandy Hook families. That harm was valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars by the court, though Jones has yet to pay any of it.

Unfortunately, blocking somebody doesn't always mean you're done with it.
From the article:

> The update happens automatically, and does not require a visit to a dealership or garage, but is still referred to by the US regulator as a recall.
I agree that ads on ugly 10-lane highways don't really detract from anything, but this is not the case with the cities this organisation deals with. They are mostly historic, pedestrianised cities in England where (especially digital) advertising would be of serious detriment to the surroundings, which is what is being campaigned against here.
I'm wondering if the endgame here is that "X" declares bankruptcy and is immediately scooped up by a private equity firm that renames it back to Twitter and undoes all Elon's bizarre changes.
Interesting. Maybe my adblocker is getting a lot of that, what I noticed amongst my etsy-using friends was that Etsy itself was being flooded with the same sort of incredibly cheap "artisanal" as what Temu looks to be selling. It wouldn't surprise me if there was substantial overlap in the producers for all of that under the parade of shops that show up on Etsy, Amazon, etc.
Just because it stings doesn't make it absurd

>eBPF and DTrace exist on orthogonal systems

That was true 15 years ago. eBPF and DTrace exist on some of the same systems now, Linux and Windows.

>and most using eBPF have never even used DTrace, let alone "moved on" from it

The performance and tracing groups at Microsoft certainty have. Same with Oracle, Netflix, among others.

>The systems are really quite different, and have different design centers; for the use case of instrumenting the system for purposes of understanding it

True, but unfortunately for DTrace, it is too late. Oracle should have done this years ago. Now Linux has a more powerful tracer builtin, eBPF, and it would be a backwards step to switch the kernel code to DTrace. [0]

[0] From the man that wrote the books: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16377141
>Isn't windows 11 forcing an annual prescription?

Freudian slip ftw
I think that a lot of hallucination might just be due to not planning ahead - basically a case of running mouth before engaging brain, and then being in a situation where one has uttered a bunch of nonsense - basically backed oneself into a conversational corner. A human might catch themselves with "err, never mind, forget that!", but the LLM's only recourse is to continue extrapolating the nonsense the only way it knows how - i.e. to bullshit/hallucinate the most statistically plausible continuation of the hole it dug for itself.

As a simplistic made up example, say the training set included a bunch of statements about capital cities of various countries of the form "the capital of england is london", "the capital of france is paris", etc, but didn't include any data indicating the capital of australia... Now, if asked "what is the capital of australia?", it may confidently start "the capital of australia is ..." since this matches the pattern it learnt from the training set (with "australia" being copied from the context). However, when generating the next word the LLM (without realizing it) finds itself in the unfortunate situation of not having been trained on data that would let it predict the right answer, but it of course goes ahead and predicts as best it can anyway (i.e. hallucinates/bullshits) and maybe generates the name of some random important city in australia such as "sydney".

The way to fix at least this cause (maybe the primary one) of hallucination is essentially to plan ahead .. don't start off saying "the capital of australia is .." without knowing where you are going with it! One approach might be additional training using tree of thought rollouts (generate multiple possible branching continuations for each training prompt) then evaluate them and use these as RL rewards to learn to predict words leading to good outcomes (e.g. "i don't know", rather than "the capital of australia is ..").
Then what's the deal with government funds?

For a company that doesn't need money, they seem quite upset that they aren't getting much of it.
"The Biggest Root Cause of Stupid Opinion Pieces is Lurking Third Variables"

tl;dr https://xkcd.com/882/ (except it's not even peer-reviewed research it's just some think-tank publishing PDFs online)

There are so many ways that family structure and crime can share a common cause. At the very most obvious, areas with high crime have high arrest rates so will naturally be missing a lot of men. Ditto for murder rates. Moreover, the relationship between low SES and family structure is well studied, and between SES and crime likewise. From this one would expect exactly what is described by the author. The "academic paper" referred to (laundered by) the author is a think-tank white paper (ie. no peer-review) which uses descriptive summaries and correlational analysis to reach the conclusion touted in the byline. Nowhere do they use any kind of quasi-experimental or causal analysis techniques which would merit ID-ing a "root cause". At best they can say what everyone already knows: SES, single parenthood, crime, and decaying social structure exist in a big tangled causal web. The author is playing the eternal op-ed con of turning thin evidence into ironclad moralization.

edit: One more interesting bit of chicanery is that the whitepaper [0] cited by the author didn't even really find what the op-ed title indicates. In the nationwide analysis they found significant correlation between single-family rates and total crime, but its a 5X weaker effect than poverty and wouldn't be significant if you applied Bonferroni correction (which you should if you're going to be using NHST on each variable separately like they are). In both analyses it's really only violent crimes and homicides that signficantly correlate with single-parenthood, and to that result one kind of has to say "duh" (see above about murder and arrests causing single-parent families). In all cases "single parenthood" is basically the weakest predictor, and again they didn't do anything to actually assess the direction of causality.

[0] https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-strong...
From the people I met at school and worked with since then, the really talented folks who want to make video games _really_ want to make video games. This leads to a fairly natural goal of wanting to set up their own game shops rather than join a large one, where they'll feel they have less impact.

I suspect this leads to a trend where you have disproportionately more mediocre product/vision people at the large gaming companies, because if you have really good product sense in a space with as much passion as video games, and with a relatively low barrier to getting your foot in the door (if you have a small core team of very talented, dedicated people), what on Earth are you doing being a cog in someone else's machine?
Exaggerated (it's not 100%) but partially true. If I'm specifically driving on a highway or through a town, I only have two options to find businesses: billboards or Google Maps. Plenty of times on a road trip, I've seen a sign for a diner I like and headed over there.
At least in the US many of these are franchised businesses, so it is still corporations (Hilton, Best Western, McDonald’s etc.)
Right? I "understand" it but I don't understand it. It just ends up being gross and shady feeling and giving me a negative impression of the company that did it. I use dropbox, pay for the upgraded storage, and have for years. I love it. But they added some AI and decided I automatically wanted it. Makes me question whether I want to continue to be loyal to them.
Rumor was nVidia was selling them at a discounted price since the only other thing (I am aware of) is the Nvidia shield using these chips so they went with them on that factor.
Not completely true. It depends on company size. Big ones have always good lawyers for these times
For the empty string, lastIndexOf would return 3, because the empty string is present at all positions. (When taking the substring (i, i) for any index i, the result is the empty string.) This assumes that the index “after the last character” is considered a valid index for that purpose, which it typically is. (Where can I place the cursor within the delimiters of "abc"? There are four positions where I can place it, 0–3.) Otherwise, 2 would be the last position.
Typical Google behavior, where it's cheap/free in the beginning, and when you've built on top of it prices increases drastically? Like gmaps pricing.
I honestly can’t imagine a future where we don’t have robots tending to each individual plant coming out of the ground like that one plant is the most important thing in the world.

We currently treat an entire field as one uniform thing because that’s the cheapest way to do it. We plant in rows to allow our simple machines to operate on them. We drive massive combines up and down the field. We spray the entire field uniformly.

I think there’s a move in the precision farming world to using remote sensing imaging to treat smaller tracts of land (like an acre) separately. But at some point the technology will be cheap enough to focus in on each individual plant.

Clearly there’s some extra growth that each plant would have if it would treated really well and harvested at the perfect time. That’s the opportunity. The cost is developing swarms of robots that go up and down the fields 24 hours a day checking on soil moisture, leaf disease, weeds and doing what it needs to tend to that plant. I think the hardware already exists and is cheap enough. It’s now just a matter of developing the software (yes, the devil is in the word “just”).

If there are 10 plants per square meter and we give the robot 1 minute per plant, and there are 10,000 square meters in a hectare, then we will need 70 robots to tend an entire hectare in a single 24 hour period. That’s the sort of math that I’ve been thinking of.
> eugenics (which we today know as incorrect unscientific nonsense

How is it nonsense? I am not that knowledgeable on the topic but to me the biggest issue (outside of moral ones) is the decrease in genetic diversity. Is there anything else in particular you have "scientific" qualms with?

So to me it's not "nonsense" but rather "problematic, and moreso the further you take it".
> Starlink has 2 million customers, likely with >$1000 ARPU and is growing quite rapidly. $1B annually would be material.

This suggests that they are in the black, which they are not. They are losing a lot of money.
It's good to respect and appreciate existing quality buildings, but this must be weighed against the risk of a city becoming a museum.
That's "possible" in the same way that wizards and vampires are possible - sure, I can't prove it's fake, but there's not a shred of evidence, plus it would upset everything we've learned about the universe.
"Mass Layoffs" seems...suspect. I haven't heard of a single person in my sphere of influence being hit by layoffs, and I work with a lot of folks. Where did you get your info OP?
While it doesn't hurt you, it was a frustrating waste of time. If you're showcasing something, you should be specific to your target market.

"Show HN: I made a tool to turn your Spotify artist profile into a website" would have been accurate.

Shame on me for not reading further, but someone using my Spotify profile data has so often paid off with exciting ways to see how I listen, I fell succumb.

Good luck on your site! Maybe it's useful to artists.
Doing this without opt-in should be illegal.

We need blanket minimum privacy protections at a national level, and they should treat internal repurposing of data the same as third party sharing.

Since all major players in our industry have shown they can’t be trusted to curate large collections of sensitive data, inclusion in such internal datasets should be opt in as well.

Dropbox is a poster child for “this should be E2E encrypted”, so, yes, I’m arguing they should get your explicit opt-in before they are allowed to store unencrypted data or escrow keys on their end, and that the opt-in shouldn’t be required to use their services.
I'd agree, but on the other hand, it isn't entirely HN users' fault that scummy journalists intentionally misreport and/or don't circulate their corrections as loudly as their initial accusations.

Plus, I doubt those critical of the arms industry would be complaining about Google offering to take on defense contracts specifically intended to help Ukraine. If anything, they'd be complaining about Google not just paying for it out of pocket, as they did when SpaceX said that providing Starlink for free for an indefinite period of time would be financially unrealistic for them.

My understanding is that Starshield isn't an entirely separate constellation, it's a special mode of existing Starlink for which the DoD controls cell activations, probably has priority usage of some portion of bandwidth, plus custom terminals and the ability to have Starlink satellites with hosted payloads (which, by nature of being Starlink satellites, would be able to take advantage of the rest of the network for their own communications, enabling things like extremely hard to detect point-to-point beamed communications anywhere in the world).
Agreed :)

But severe stroke victims may not be able to. Hopefully tech like this can restore that ability for them one day soon
yeah screw this. if they are claiming that they hacked their DRM they should absolutely counter sue that this DRM counts as sabotage and/or domestic terrorism. There was literally code in there that told the trains to stop working after X date if it sat still for X amount of time.

That's bonkers. And criminal.
The Times Publishes Its 60k Issue
I'm in the US on a paid account and I had it.
To be fair, captive browsers are also a plague on Android apps. I despise them and especially so if there's no way to turn them off in a particular app.
“Out of fashion” aka “The heavy hand of George Lucas can ruin most every thing”

Imho
Can someone recreate the Google Demo of gemini?
In Norway you need to have a (mutual) period of notice of at least 1 month, starting at the change of month. (I.e. getting fired now means working until at least 31 Jan). Contracts usually increase this to three months.

This is usually beneficial for both parties, as it gives the employer time to find replacements and the employee time to find a new job.

But we generally have far, far better worker's rights than the US.

https://lovdata.no/dokument/NLE/lov/2005-06-17-62/KAPITTEL_1...
For government buildings it actually looks good. Compare that to Boston's government center abomination, this is refreshing. I'm glad Google is refreshing it and at least doing something to maintain it.
> AI doesn't slack when you're not looking at it. While humans do.

I have had a different experience.

Some humans slack while nobody is looking; some humans slack even if you look; some humans do not slack. Alternatively, as long as you can measure the output, does it matter if someone slacks?

But let's say humans may and I can live with it, because it is not a thread about remote work.

The strangeness/inconsistency comes from (it would seem) not considering those factors in a business decision regarding humans, but to consider them in a business decision regarding AI.

You mirror this inconsistency in your argument, mentioning the savings of amenities and office rental _only_ in the case of AI. This is not a criticism, but I find this interesting, because I always see this topic expressed in this exact same way.
My mind immediately went to the feasibility of using an AI artist to remove most or all of this in real time. Could be an interesting shift in terms of the "live" experience being significantly worse/degraded relative to the broadcast version with all that stuff painted out.
You just said it yourself, you are much better at abstract thinking, while your sister is much better at connecting with children.
https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Cal-WARNAct.html
The WARN act also applies to more than 100 person RIF.
> Money they take out of their budget to keep TBBT in their library is money they can no longer spend to keep shows that I, personally, care for alive.

On the same token, money spent keeping TBBT on the network reduces customer churn and increases earnings, which can be invested in other shows.

TBBT is the symptom, not the problem. Netflix would be delighted to not pay CBS a fortune every year. The problem is that Netflix doesn't have enough customers whose tastes skew towards your own.
Written by the always-thoughtful and informed Mike Loukides and Tim O'Reilly.
Hey! This is Miguel from Google working of these SDKS. I'm confused about this comment, Both Web and Node.js are the same. Can you clarify where you see the difference?
Im in the Netherlands and also dont see the setting. Using a basic (free) account.
> Statements like this imply that doing the best thing for the company won’t be rewarded in the best way for individuals. Why not?

I think part of it is that they believe you are compensated well enough that you don't need extra rewarding.
Executive 101: Blame the techies.

The moment I heard about this event, I knew that it was only a matter of time before the offending company executives would be blaming the developers. Interesting that their particular path forward is blaming malicious third party developers because the next thing that happens is someone interviews their devs and finds out that they in fact are the people who put this in. At the behest of middle management who behested at the behest of upper management.

My prediction is that we'll soon be hearing about how upper management would never have told a developer or middle manager to program this in and it's the lower level guys who have gone rogue which is why they blamed cybercriminals.

A lot of philosophy and poetics go into software engineering ethics that I find uncompelling at best. However, the pair of "why would you want to injure someone you don't even know" and "you will be the one blamed" feels to me to cover 95% of what software ethics claims to.
The person your replying to was referring to Amazon Cloud Drive
Adfree is the only thing I'll currently tolerate. I tried out the Spotify client back on linux when the company was really new. If I turned the volume off while it played an advertisement, it actually paused the ad until I turned the volume back up.

One strike and they're out. Spotify has been banned in my household ever since.
1) No, when I was involved they were s/36 (on smaller sites) and s/38 (on large and/or central site). The S/38 was from the 70s. They were in the long process of replacing as I recall older System/3 (not 32) retail support machines.

2) $1000 a month is not much money for a retail store large enough to have multiple POS systems, even in 1983 dollars. And you could purchase them if you didn't want to lease.

3) I'm assuming by the 'air conditioning' comment, you're imagining some refrigerator sized minicomputer. You can look at that System/36 Wikipedia page and see pictures of 2 S/36 models that are large deskside cabinets (think of the giant PC AT tower cases of old), are air-cooled, and designed to go in the air-conditioned back room of the store, which all of the stores had.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38621270.
Hacking? No. This is simply sabotage for the purposes of extortion.
Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I
Servers sharing tips with management is illegal in the United States at the federal level, and can and should be reported to the appropriate labor protections board. In California, that's the California Labor Commissioner's Office, every state has their own.
I kinda like how they do it in Finland. Companies can have a smallish
logos on their buildings. Most of Helsinki is unspoiled by garish
boards except a few in the obvious shopping area around Kamppi.
I think the compairison to Japan and Germany is interesting, although there are obvious differences.

Both Japan and Germany had major civil cities leveled and gave unconditional surrender in WWII, and were occupied.

Germany was stripped of its sovereignty and former statehood. It was administered by the allies for 5 years and permanently lost 25% of its territory (compared to its 1937 pre-war borders.) It took 25 years post WWII for Germany to be admitted to the UN.

Japan was Occupied and administered by US military for 7 years following the war, and parts of the Japanese home islands are still administered 70 years later. Japan Lost multiple territories it had held for more than 60 years before WWII started.

I think that what we learned from WWII and subsequent wars that you need unconditional surrender and acceptance for any real nation building to take place.

Perhaps Palestine needs their equivalent to Germany's first post-war chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who accepted that Germany lost, and was willing look forward and not back.
> The obesity rate in the UK is 27%; the poverty rate is 17%, and I doubt the overlap is that strong

US, not the UK:

Counties with poverty rates of >35% have obesity rates 145% greater than wealthy counties.

Back to Europe:

The Paradox of Poverty and Obesity

Among the reasons for the growing obesity in the population of poor people are: higher unemployment, lower education level, and irregular meals. Another cause of obesity is low physical activity, which among the poor is associated with a lack of money for sports equipment.
And this french idea goes all the way to omitting any kind of blurb. It's pretty shocking. There is no information whatsoever on the book itself beyond author, title - and publisher's name because that's important /s. ... The book may as well not be on the shelf.
I don't really care what it's named. I care about the implications of the system in the real world. Humans are notoriously bad at paying attention to boring tasks. This applies to pilots as well as ordinary drivers (thus the massive amount of training, redundant operators, and very details operators manuals/procedures that apply to ATPs). Tesla released a system that encourages people to operate their car with less than 100% focus. That's bad.

I'm not aware of similar reports of crashes/deaths with systems like Subaru's EyeSight or Honda's SensingSuite. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes's Drive Pilot.
Beeper should care about their investors, since they are using their money. I think they raised something like 15m.
There are a bunch of studies around the impact of poverty on athletics. Take this article with a bunch of them [1].

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. Just because you can show that "hey, some poor people are awesome athletes" doesn't negate the fact that by and large you can predict who is even participating in sports based on their household income.

I'd also like to challenge you to provide numbers. What percentage of top athletes came from poverty? Not poverty nations, or cities, but actual poverty.

[1] https://journals.lww.com/acsm-csmr/fulltext/2021/09000/dispa...