skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance capitalism doesn't care at all about the accuracy of the data that they have. There is literally no such thing as "garbage data" to data brokers. It's all just data, and all of it is valuable.

That's why projects that claim to "pollute" your browsing history like RuinMyHistory, noiszy, adnauseam, and TrackMeNot are not only pointless but also dangerous.

The data being collected about you will always be used against you, no matter if it is accurate or not. If your browser randomly browses to webpages that gets "this person is a muslim" or "this person is gay" added to your dossier it doesn't matter if it's true or not, when your next would-be employer or would-be landlord who hates muslims or gay people uses a data broker for "background checking" and sees that, you're not getting the job/apartment. They won't tell you why, you'll just be rejected/ghosted.

If you're a 40 year old man, but your browser add-on convinces a data broker that you're a 34 year old woman seeking an abortion, that data can still cause you end up the target of a lawsuit in Texas and it will take a non-zero amount of time and money to clear that up.

If someone in your zip code kills someone using a certain type of plant, or household cleaner/chemical, or medication and your add-on has been browsing sites about that thing, you can end up on the police's suspect list.

If you only make $30,000 a year but your add-on searches for yachts and expensive jewelry often enough to convince a data broker that you've got tons of money then it doesn't matter that the data is wrong, the next time you try to book a hotel or order something online you can still be charged a lot more than you would have been charged otherwise.

Handing extra fake data to people whose only goal is to use data against you is just handing them more ammunition. It doesn't matter if it's "garbage" to you, it's still something they can and will eventually use against you. You cannot know what will prejudice someone against you. The more data is in your dossier, the more opportunity there is that you'll meet the right (or wrong) criteria.

No data broker is going to look over your dossier and see that there's inconsistencies and go "Damn it! This genius has ruined my data! Now I have to throw all this data away as it is now worthless!" They aren't even going to look over your dossier. They're going to get paid to hand over a list of people flagged as being 'X' and your name/address/identity will show up along with everyone else flagged as being 'X' even if your name gets pulled up again when someone else pays that same data broker for 'Y' which is the opposite of 'X'. The data broker gets paid either way.
How does one reconcile the numerous tech layoffs[0] with the fact that "US Jobless Claims Plunge to 187,000, Lowest Since September 2022"[1]? Is non-tech sector hiring making up for the tech losses?

A chief US Economist is quoted:

I would not take this result literally, but, at a minimum, it seems clear that layoffs remain quite low and are not trending higher in a meaningful way, he wrote in a note.

From what I'm hearing, that sentiment is not in alignment with tech right now.

[0] https://layoffs.fyi/

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-jobless-claims-pl...
+1. I'd be curious how it stacks up against an MBP
>What I care about is battery life

Out of curiosity, what do you do with your laptop that you're away from a charger for so long? Other than people who travel a lot and work in the field like construction sites, oil & gas, I can't think of anyone who actually needs a laptop to last on battery as much as their phone.

Me and most people I know, and I know quite a few people, both tech workers and non-tech workers, casual users and professionals, are plugged in at our desks most of the time, and the few times we're not at the desk we're never more than a few hours away from it, but never a whole day.

So battery life longer than a workday(8h), is nearly useless to me and everyone else I personally know, but reading HN it seems there's a separate group of users, who's Venn diagram is never intersecting with mine, who are exclusively using their laptop on battery on the go, like how a teenage girl is on her phone, and live in trees or something where power outlets are scarce.

So, who is that demographic who's Venn diagram doesn't intersect with mine? Who are you and what do you do?
We looked at this at one point and it seems whisper.cpp/llama.cpp have all the bits needed to make it work. I'd love to help if someone wanted to give it a shot.
Dear sir, what is a locksmith, and why is there so many of them?
Land Value Tax being the main method of taxation would encourage municipalities to adopt things like this.
A Disney Imagineer Will Join the Inventors Hall of Fame
>> At least in C there's a possibility to learn from C++'s mistakes, and only integrate the 'good parts

That's what Rust looked like in the beginning - a better C++. But that seems to be getting corrupted by a bunch of language designers too now.
Usually. Ideally, pot-distilled.

But there isn't any legal standard of identity. It's just a marketing label. The pot-still corn liquor is supposed to taste like the illegally-made homebrew, but some products are basically just watered-down ethanol.
I know right? Well, it’s nicer than the other options I could choose from - a “smart” speaker or a duffel bag.
No, capitalism isn't like air pollution in that analogy. It's more like "Oh you don't like air? Why do you keep breathing then?"
Christopher Hitchens yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater... https://youtu.be/zDap-K6GmL0
Cyanobacteria: Biocatalyst for Sustainable Production of Biofuels and Chemicals
Gotcha. You made a good point. I started with a simple version to test the product and receive feedback for early users. This is definitely something to be in the roadmap. Thanks for your feedback!
Okay, but I'm not advocating that. My point is that they're being weasels. They're setting the stage so that they can work on things that anyone with a moderately flexible would view would qualify as "weapons", while hiding behind "it's not technically a gun or a missile".

I'm with you. I think weapons are important. I don't like double-speak, though.
Indeed, today it writes the code for you with some help, tomorrow it won't need you to generate the executable, or API endpoint.
I'll bite: we're post-scarcity for a lot of digital items that are useful tools. Goods we need but don't have exist, but I'm not even sure if they are the majority. Existing music, videos, books cover a whole lot of what humans might want - originals are the outcome of research needs (niche) and trends (not niche). Existing software tools are similar: new ones are needed to push boundaries (niche) or mostly as a response to a changing legal landscape (less niche).

On top of that, significant amounts of stuff are created out of an internal need, and would get created regardless.

One thing I'm sure about is that we're post-scarcity in historical items, and we're nowhere past capitalism there. Indeed, preservationists are hitting roadblocks all the time.
Software devs are moving to other industries, which desperately need them.
Startups vs. Incumbents in the AI Era
If your ISP is not reliable then a VPS or dedicated (budget permitted) are good alternatives. Install docker, and an office suite, file manager, pihole, and you’re good to go. Takes minutes. No need for thread rippers either. Mine’s a low spec nuc alternative. Does wonders.
> I don't know what those advantages might be, but I really hope they exist.

The advantage is obvious: it's the most similar to how it worked back when the controls were fully mechanical.

IIRC, some old planes even had each side mechanically controlling independent halves of the control surfaces, such that the end result is the average of the inputs in case one of the control surfaces (or the cabling connecting to the controls) is jammed.
I mean, after all, if you don't have your own copy of the MS Access database then when your team scales beyond about 5 people that database is going to get harder to access. So really everyone should have a copy of all important PII. :P
Certainly the article doesn't hit on power, but if it is "faster" and uses the same amount of energy then it should do the same about work and consume less battery.

Unfortunately from the article it's hard to tell anything from power consumption other then the Snapdragon X Elite 8 has a roughly 28W "TDP" and that the Elite A has 80W "TDP" and is only slightly faster. Still, this doesn't translate to real world power usage.

I'd love to see a real world benchmark that measures actual power consumption of these chips.
No language model plays a song either in the narrow sense, they just send a representation of the song to some other program (or human) that might play it.

Mere knowledge is irrelevant only because we don't (yet) have a mechanism to pry open one's brains and inspect the copying of songs within different parts of one's brain. Otherwise, mechanistically, besides one using silicon and other using wetware, they're pretty much doing the same thing.
The English words for good and evil are pre-Christian in origin. So are their cognates in other European languages. Greek philosophers were debating “good and evil” centuries before Jesus of Nazareth was born. So there is nothing inherently Christian about those words, or the concepts they describe.
Psychopaths are still people even if their brains are broken. It is indeed hard to integrate them into society, especially if their family did a bad job of it in their childhood.
Can you explain this for the non-US audience?
Sure
I've just seen 'market' share be used to spin things.

Like hyping how your market share went UP. But you lost customers, sales were actually DOWN. Just the other guy lost more. So your market share went up.

I've been in companies that had bad sales, and they super hyped how market share had gone up like we were winning. But the entire market was shrinking enough that total sales had gone down.
If I don't want to use tor, but just reduce fingerprinting, is there a solution that wouldn't depend on extensions but use the features from a regular browser?

Firefox could limit the fonts and the resolution it reports to "usual" values, then upscale/downscale as needed.
Yes, this makes it at least usable, without it it is even worse.

But it is still worse compared to google photos/icloud photos/etc.

The issues I described above also happened with memories.

I think improving performance and memory usage in their webdav implementation would, by far, have the biggest impact.

Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud, and Owncloud did the right thing to move away from php for the webdav implementation, though they are now rewriting it once again, which I don't really like, as they store the files and all information in some binary format.
Or just the non-Boston audience
What industries are we talking about?
Maybe critical infrastructure shouldn't be managed by people looking into short term ROI but long term and big scale planning.
I'm sorry that you got subjected to such a nasty attack in such a painful time.

I would wish that the kind responses add up to more good feeling than the unkind ones destroy, but I know from experience it doesn't always work that way.
How many generations of humans improved the glove crafting process, prior to the generation that created this glove? Thousands?

How many generations of humans have been writing software? Three?

We're at the early stage of software engineering; brittle code is not surprising.
That seems impossible to determine. AWS retail charges for things that have an impossible relation to actual costs (think traffic) to begin with.
Latency would be determined almost completely by the speed of light itself.

Earth to Mars ranges from 5.5*10^10 to 4.0*10^11 m, and light travels 3*10^8 m/s.

Earth-Mars latency is therefore from 3 to 22 minutes one-way.
Norms are not laws, they are shakeable
Ask HN: What does it mean when a post gets flagged?
I noticed my last post got flagged. Is there a way to get more info?
My read is that the approach was not unstable (it met stabilized approach criteria at all significant checkpoints) at the moment when the PF (co-pilot) become spatially disoriented and began giving improper control inputs.

This disorientation of the PF was the triggering event, which caused him to call the go-around [prior to stabilized approach criteria being violated], the approach to be terminated, and required the PM (the captain) to make corrective [and conflicting] control inputs. These conflicting inputs were not accompanied by the normal exchange of controls communications.

You are correct that the missed approach procedure was initiated before the controls conflict between humans began (but after the co-pilot's disorientation made him suspect a flight controls problem). I was wrong on that point.
That is a CVE waiting to be exploited.
All of the raising is done by the wind.
The issue with regard to single stair buildings are for things taller than 3 stories. IIRC in America 3 stories is the most common limit by far, and in Canada it's even worse with most regulations having 2 stories as the limit for a single stair complex.
> He's human and killing other humans is something a humans can do, given the right circumstances.

Absolutely not. Average human needs to be ordered to kill and lied to and desensitized throughly to be able to do it. People who can kill out of their own initiative are not like the rest of us. Most cases of killings happen only because humans are so fragile in context of our technology. Intentional killing is something very unique.
I'd love to use this but is there any risk that this will get Google to flag me as a bot/malicious? I wanna make sure I can still pass captchas and don't screw anything up for testing on my dev machine.
It was probably him.
When you've got great content, you don't need a lot of visual frills.
Dead Game News (Shutting down of The Crew videogame)
> To me it seems like even if nuclear is twice as expensive than renewables plus transmission, that’s a reasonable price to pay for the base load generation capabilities and diversification of the overall energy mix

And don't forget that a nuclear reactor can easily push 70+ years with some maintenance and refreshes, meanwhile solar panels and batteries are drastically less effective after ~15-20 years at most.
Is Htmx a good case for UI for a local application? I want to build a server app which I could host openly behind some auth, but at the same time I'd want to be able to run it in local mode, as a simple UI for local tests.

I understand there are some security challenges, as in "local" mode it can only communicate over HTTP with local app, or probably without CORS, etc. XSS might be a real issue here.
> I love you all. Hug your kids if you have em.

Stay safe and stay healthy, your other kids still need you. Your Son will be alive forever on your heart and memories. Stronger than the death, just the love, I heard once.. stay strong!
I'll join you in being downvoted.

Human teachers can be audited without advanced knowledge in maths, computer science, and information theory to discover what went wrong.

Human teachers can be held accountable.

A Human teacher has limited scale thus limited damage over bad information with more safeguards than "Big Corp promises not to be bad"

A human teacher can realize their own mistakes.

Human teachers have complex incentive structures that can modify their behavior.

Many humans (even ones with technical training) tend to see computers as infailible in first principals of math and carry that forward to deep learning which is where the math becomes tough to audit, couple that with LLMs affinity for overcoming the uncanny valley enough to seem like a rational human actor because of the datasets being used and you have "magic". This is before you even add financial incentive.

Not saying these issues in deep learning can't be tackled but the disengenous hype-train and the downvoting because people point out flaws with the new internet ATM is wearing thin.
https://receive-smss.com/ is one I found a while back. Haven't needed it yet, but keep it bookmarked
https://www.google.com/search?q=Boston+triple+decker&client=...

Cheap enough for a middle income family to build or purchase themselves, enough apartments for grandparents, parents and children just getting their start in the world. They're great!
The one thing I see companies demanding onsite work never do is… commute time paid as any other work hour… sure some pay commute costs or km costs, but those are nothing worth compared to your hourly wage…
Yeah, someone is going to build this. We considered quizzing the user on the topic instead of chatgpt for our demo. It's a lot of fun to test your knowledge on any topic, but it was a worse demo because it was way less related to our current product.

I think that one of the obvious next big spaces for LLMs is education. I already find chatgpt useful when learning myself. That being said, I'm terrified of trying to sell things to schools.
California is comically light on crime, I'm sure he'll be out within 2-3 parole hearings.
> However this is all on your devices, there's no web interface to access your files from other devices.

I tried Syncthing and it worked really well and it was fast. But I definitely want to have a webui, like Nextcloud, that's why this is sadly not an alternative for me.

(Though I use syncthing now for other stuff, where I don't need web access)
Literally nobody knows what to say including me. It’s okay that it’s not okay.
The problem is government.
Even Trumps private twitter messages had been seized. If a former president can't protect his privacy...who can? Should you expect to have your personal communications just taken by a government bureaucrat any time they want.
I think the problem id deeper than technical, it's a political and moral problem.
Companies will cave and do what government tells them
to comply.
Sounds like a cost savings for those buying up all the real estate in the US and renting it out.
So it works as intended! (at least by lawyers)
> it's well known that EV batteries do not last.

Sure, some people say this and others spread it.

I’m sure there are a bunch of older leafs and Zoes on Autotrader with no thermal management.

Meanwhile, let’s look at what happens when you do batteries properly:

> By ten years of age, cars were down to 82.5% of the original capacity.

https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/study-real-life-tesla-battery-d...

And they will be on NMC batteries. LFP batteries will last longer:

> A key advantage of LFP is its longer life cycle, resulting in less degradation concerns. LFP packs are capable of more than 3000 full recharge cycle counts compared to NMC at around 1000 to 2000 cycles.

https://zecar.com/resources/what-are-lfp-nmc-nca-batteries-i...
AWS knows how much it costs to deliver their own service. How do you think they determine their own profits and prices? They use those same calculations to bill internal customers.
> Expecting pilots to communicate to each other about which one of them is flying the aircraft (as opposed to like, just grabbing a yoke and YOLOing it?) does not seem like an overly onerous amount of red tape.

It already exists, but in emergency under stress it's an easy thing to forget or even not hear at all(cf. the linked incident and many others).
Okay, if someone cannot be "rehabilitated" where is the value to society or to that person in punishing them to make them suffer more on top of separating them from the public?
I'd like to have a service where I can purchase credits and then this gets distributed between sites that I can choose to support as I visit them.
So to return to reality here, it seems that numerous commenters have indicated that this may be another case where "racism" has been substituted as a proxy for some kind of socio-economic injustice.

It's always easier to play the race card than to tackle even more intractable issues that may be caught up in "the cost of doing business".
That's true but you make it sound like it's totally obvious where the line of fair use should be drawn for AI training.

Until courts or lawmakers make it clearer I personally believe non-generative models (Whisper, ResNet, DINOv2) should be legally trainable on publicly released data. Generative models (image or video generation, TTS, LLMs?) should be held to a much higher scrutiny since their outputs can potentially compete the creators who put a lot of creativity into their art. That not true for an ImageNet-trained classification model or Whisper ASR.
Why would the patent office believe you?
What kinds of operating systems can we expect to work well on these? Could there be a Chromebook in the works? Would love to see that.
I suspect they're referring to this type of buildings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-decker_(house)
From both a maintenance, operational cost and engineering complexity point of view I don't see this as viable, but I'm more than happy to be proven wrong by a party that brings it successfully to market. Meanwhile, any place where this kite system would work is one where a regular HAT would work as well and long term (25 year lifespan) total cost of ownership and $/KWh generated will be pretty easy to determine by deploying two systems side-by-side.
I mean I get the intention of this stuff, but some of it skates dangerously close to accidental discrimination. I am not accusing you of this, but just saying people should be mindful it can accidentally lead you down the wrong path.

Places that are very focussed on "culture fit" or if they'd "have a beer" with the person they are interviewing.. leaves a lot of people behind. Women / non native speakers / older folks generally fail these types of implicit or explicit screens.

Building a development team is something like building a baseball team. A bunch of specialists, a few generalists, and the ability to get along. Whether they'd grab a pint after a game isn't really important.

I certainly have and maintain friendships at work, some of them from before remote, some of them from after. Some of them are people whom I've never lived in the same continent or city as.
Is there any work/progress on a NN/trained model based on Internet Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions? I.e. to be able to create an IPA transcription and convert it back to sound.

That approach would be useful for things like shifting a voice to a different accent and to support voices speaking multiple languages.

This can be done to a limited extend for models such as MBROLA voices by mapping the phonemes of one language to the phonemes of the MBROLA voice. MBROLA is more complex in that it supports diphones, and many diphone pairs don't exist, so you need to map 3 phonemes together to get the best matching phonetic transcription.

The IPA approach may also make it better to train the phonetic synthesis, given that the IPA vowels are in a formant continuum (similar to colour wheels and cubes). Then, the model could better learn the variations in voice quality and tambre.
>And I'd love to see a natural replacement for insulin that doesn't kill people, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.

No sugar, no alcohol, low carbohydrate diets are the answer to the diabetes epidemic. If you want to regulate something, start with the corporations marketing processed, poisoned garbage to people as "food" and "beverages".
Wait where did I judge you? At no point did I say you were good or bad, I commented on the decision if it were me and words you used. I'm sorry if I offended you, I just don't know where I judged you.
Why is the answer to "how to remove ads" always "track the hell out of everyone at some other layer"
Recklessly drinking when you know you are going to drive immediately afterwards means that there is mens rea. Perhaps not for murder but certainly for deliberately increasing the risk of harm to an innocent party.
Same! The website looks the same. I'm surprised it's still up.
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