skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution will be greater monitoring and more intrusive systems of content control.

The real solution is to change the direction of technology towards technologies that aren’t harmful to kids and societies (by definition, the same) but help them, but that’s less profitable for companies like Meta.

Adding more policing to platforms cannot and will not solve these problems, but it will perfect absolutely insanely good systems of control that will inevitably be used for other purposes and under “unintended” circumstances.

I wonder if this is the theater of pretext for deploying information control systems at scale, because if I designed a bulletproof publicly defendable justification for rolling them out it would look pretty much like this.

This isn’t conspiracy theory and should be dismissed. This action comes directly on the heels of disinformation being identified by the WEF as the leading threat in the world in 2024, and huge concerns about interference in the 2024 elections in the US.

If we assume that it’s never about what it’s about (aka mass communication principle #1: the cover story is rarely the real story) and there are no coincidences in national security, this really looks like the pretext is being put in place for greater monitoring and control.

- https://www.pymnts.com/news/security-and-risk/2024/attack-ve...

- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2024/01/ai-democracy-election...

- https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/06/1137302

Also, stuff like this has policymakers deeply concerned:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/30/us/politics/ai-child-sex-...

It helps to look at the policy documents that decision makers are reading to understand why these information tools are being put in place.

See key takeaways on Page 68:

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalT...
Chinas attempt to make an entire generation of white collar workers is backfiring stupendously.

It turns out the better solution is to improve the lot of blue collar workers by investing in safety, tool, automation, etc. and increasing salary.
> Is there a type of software that already does this?

Several email clients including Gmail have the ability to have a short delay from clicking “Send” till it actually does the send to allow you the ability to undo.
The CEO of a corporation with a board like Google has very little leeway on what it can do.

Those companies first need to get into a huge crisis before the board and shareholders think about new changes.

People that haven't been into management typically have a very naive idea about how much power managers have. It isn't that much, you need to parrot a lot of stuff you don't like just because others want to listen it, or the board and shareholders think it is important.
fwiw wind power also requires a generous amount of maintenance
Sorry liberty and privacy will never go out of fashion, whatever old towns used to do I don't care. I will always fight and send my $$ to companies that continue that fight against the government tracking every little thing I do in my day to day life. The people who need to know who I am do (the bank, my tax prep service, the state comptroller) already know and everyone else can go pound sand lol. These "think of the children" issues are easily solved by involved parents imposing boundaries.
Um yes?
Nobody that is serious about the topic believed in some kind of doom scenarios. Indeed people who are actually in this topic pretty much agree on the general numbers on the topic. The 'doom' talk is from people who don't know shit. However that doesn't mean there is no problem.

There are plenty of people who know whats going on, its not even very complex. What people disagree about is the long term implications.

The reality is this, the US getting to the point where the debt servicing costs as much as the military. And future spending is known to be high simply by the already promised social benefits.

And the debt servicing could go much bigger if interest on debt goes up even slightly. Ever 1% of increase debt might result in a whole US military worth of extra debt serving per year.

So, eventually the US will either have to raise taxes broadly on the whole population, or cut social spending by a large amount. Both are politically untenable and thus have a high potential of not happening or resulting in a serious political crisis.

As long as neither of them happens, the situation is getting worse, and critically getting worse with ever increasing speed. And that simply isn't possible to go on forever.

So its easy to go into an exponential curve of things getting worse and worse. All the other countries that ran into problems also had people say 'wouldn't happen here'.

So this isn't a doom for the next couple years, even decades but even until then, spending large parts of your GDP with debt servicing isn't really great way to spend money either.
One of my favourite The Far Side strips: "Inconvenience Stores"
The most interesting/fresh approach I've seen to this problem is Permazen.

https://github.com/permazen/permazen/

It starts by asking what the most natural way is to integrate persistence with a programming language (Java in this case, but the concepts are generic), and then goes ahead and implements the features of an RDBMS as an in-process library that can be given different storage backends as long as they implement a sorted K/V store. So it can sit on top of a simple in-process file based K/V store, RocksDB, FoundationDB, or any SQL database like PostgreSQL, SQLite, Spanner, etc (it just uses the RDBMS to store sorted key/value pairs in that case).

Essentially it's a way to map object graphs to key/value pairs but with the usual features you'd want like indexing, validation, transactions, and so on. The design is really nice and can scale from tiny tasks you'd normally use JSON or object serialization for, all the way up to large distributed clusters.

Because the native object model is mapped directly to storage there's no object/relational mismatch.
Your assumptions only work when things are linear. Reality is generally non-linear as it is one huge tangled mess of feedback loops
It's easy to blame those at the forefront for the damage they do, and rightly so.

Our system (free market, capitalism) runs on this sort of headlong-rush mentality. Some of the blame belongs with the no-rules deregulation of our society. It seemed like a good idea at the time (to some) but it means, some things are lost.

Like any sense of responsibility to the public. I.e. if everybody is doing it (unfettered access to social media for everybody) you just lose in the market if you don't play ball. You can be as socially-conscious as you like, but the market will crush you and leave you in the dustbin if you don't take every available customer opportunity. Leaving just the ruthless at the top.

It's inevitable, and so I believe 'blood on their hands' is probably true, but who's hands? Those who participate in the system as it is, or those who created the system?
it costs $10-20B if you have the process figured out.

good luck building a working fab from scratch without a blank check 20-year R&D investment.
Increase the salary of childcare workers etc.

Do not increase the salary of tech workers in Germany. We are already making more of our fair share. More than double or triple the amount of money that a person working way harder makes.

Sincerely, a tech worker in Germany
> Low birth-rates are provably related to the ability of parents to spend time with their children.

I'm constantly seeing this idea, and if anything, it's the opposite of truth. Poverty is always breeding much better than the middle class, and the fertility rates always fall when standards of living rise.

> ability of parents to spend time with their childre

Children are an opportunity cost. When parents have a free time, it's a choice between self-realization and spending time with a kid. Spending on yourselves or spending on a kid etc. When you are dirt poor or rich there is no such choice, you'll either have no resources to spend anyway or have enough resources to not bother.

I live in Berlin and surrounded by middle class people and nearly non have children. Give them one more day and they will go to Kitkat/hiking one more day a week. That's it.
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The Netherlands already voted for a Eurosceptic, invoking similar rhetoric as you here - "replacement" of locals by foreigners, taking their jobs, etc. Interestingly, as is almost always the case in Europe, the places with fewer immigrants voted more harshly against them.

The question we should ask is whether this is rational or not. I think not. If the Dutch want to vote themselves into a Brexit, then so be it - the foreigners will go elsewhere, trade barriers will be erected to "protect" the local economy, and time will tell who will be ahead economically and culturally.
This is beyond messed up. Sure, fine him, but nuke his entire financial life? Nintendo can eat dirt, and this sort of thing is also why I refuse to buy their games/devices.

As another commenter mentioned, Bowser probably led to many sales of the consoles themselves. Nintendo's game pricing is very high, even for very old games, and they have a captive market with no other choice.
The alternative is poluation grows unbounded until we destroy the biosphere and the wars, famines, and disease that follows finally limit the growth of the human population in a way we're unable and unwilling to do.

Infinite growth is incomaptible with a finite world.

This is so much better than that.
Wouldn’t we just use more electricity?

I know I cut back on my electric because it costs 28p per kwh, which is crazy high.
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Mogg's brief tenure as energy secretary was notable mainly for him proposing a cap on the profits of renewable and nuclear energy providers specifically, having previously been opposed to government intervention in energy markets when oil and gas company profits spiked.

That obviously doesn't mean there's any substantive link between his politics and the Bloomberg study (and he denies being a climate-change denier and supported other policies aimed at encouraging the expansion of renewables anyway) but the context might be helpful to people who don't know who Mogg is
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1. Personal site (no comments, static): Use static HTML/CSS/JavaScript, maybe upload to GitHub pages or Neocities.

2. Personal site/blog (comments, technical functionality): Use WordPress, and pick one of the approximately 5 million hosting companies that support PHP and MySQL.

3. Shop (easiest solution): Use Shopify or another SaaS service for hosting eCommerce sites.

4. Shop (self hosted): WordPress + WooCommerce, Magento, various self hosted eCommerce systems

5. Everything else: Choose whatever framework you're comfortable with in whatever language you know well.
The dial should be turned very high on the free speech side.

The problem is that companies are treated as the "corporate person," which is complete nonsense. This isn't about pro/anti-business. It's just that companies aren't people, don't have rights, and good business regulation looks nothing like good human regulation. The Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, etc. are great document for rights of humans.

They don't apply well to things which aren't humans.

That's not even to say other constructs don't or shouldn't have rights. They're just not the same rights.
Impressive whitewashing of Gary Bowser's reputation rears its head once more. Gary Bowser really isn't the saint articles like to depict him as. His old computer repair shop, OPA (his online nickname comes from this shop) had a bad reputation among computer enthusiasts in the 80s for not shipping parts for whatever reason[0].

Relatedly, the reason he left Canada (something conveniently glossed over) is not because he got in trouble with the housing crisis (which he has stated in other interviews) but rather because he got arrested peddling fake DVDs through his PC repair shop[1].

More recently, he got caught being involved with the new Switch flashcard; a reverse DNS lookup (that is, running the IP through a database of known web addresses and seeing what else is hosted there) revealed that the site is hosted on the same IP as his personal blog. (Bowser blamed a DNS poisoning attack, which strikes me as unlikely from what I know about DNS poisoning - that's basically alledging a conspiracy.)

He's likely just a patsy/fall guy though - the big cheese here is Max Louarn (also Canadian), who last I heard is hiding out in France (he has a French girlfriend) after he managed to slip out of the arrest made by the Dominican Republics authorities.

I get life sucks for him (and I do hope it gets better for him eventually). Just don't fall for the "innocent small criminal being preyed on by the big evil company" - Gary Bowser had a key part in an international piracy hardware manufacturing operation.

[0]: https://pdf.textfiles.com/zines/MICROPENDIUM/mp9501.max.pdf

[1]: https://www.toronto.com/life/pair-charged-over-counterfeit-d...
My non profit was approached about a direct pay opportunity, and that led me to similar directions and reading up on this law

If there are any wind and solar farm investors/operators looking to get that kind of thing off their books, make the project power producing, and receive some of the direct pay subsidized output, I have a private foundation available for this

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Some countries (not the US) can plan decades into the future. Consider Holland if you like, with seawall and water-control projects that have century-long schedules.

The US juggernaut outlook is limited to the next quarter or the next election.

With the exception of a couple industries - chip plants, power plants that take a decade to complete, hell even the lumber industry where you have to start trees today for harvest in ten or fifteen years. And only by very large companies with financial resources to sink into such projects with no hope of profit within a career's outlook.

Ought to be some way to deal with future-blindness profitably? Some kind of 'arbitrage' where stupid shortsighted decisions can be predicted and exploited?

E.g. a market in space-mining futures, where you can invest now and get a piece of a not-yet-implemented industry. The market would be driven by investors at first, get plowed directly into space-mining technology then ultimately become inconceivably profitable.

An app in there somewhere.
I am not following that closely US politics, but are other sectors under the same scrutiny: guns manufacturer, automoto companies (road rage)?
I'm sure it's indeed something like that. I think it also comes down to, at least partly, having a culture that is more about building components than systems. I suspect it could also be the "buzz" factor. The press release about building a new system always seems more exciting than one about solving a familiar problem with boring old existing software.
And tiktok/facebook/instagram haven't? there is nothing unique about twitter's approach.
Re: security - I personally never copy company code into ChatGPT prompt and just ask questions like “I have X how do I do Y” replacing any names with placeholders. Is there an environment where such usage would be considered a security issue?
The likelihood that someone you know loses all their money is high!
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Where can i find more info about those?
I thought this would be very simple to do, so I tried it.
https://silphendio.github.io/word2vec_alchemy/

That simple demo took me way too long and all that time is wasted because word2vec simply sucks for this use-case.
> Long story short: the original tweet

I don’t think the tweet is relevant at all and it’s a disservice to this post to feature it that prominently in a summary. A more interesting conclusion is that PDF files can have dimensions larger than the Universe, and an example is provided.
They declare by fiat that retaining only the first few dimensions should lead to low classification error and construct the training loss accordingly. (Equation 1 on page 4 of the PDF.)
I only have my own work history to go off of.

Edit: An example. If it takes me 5 days to hang siding on a house, and I don't work one of those days, that's 20% less I didn't work and about 20% less of the work that got done.
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Most people using machine learning to make search engines are replacing the search paradigm with a prompt + answer format.

I think there’s an easier way. Train an ML model to be able to tell apart legit web sites from garbage ones. It’ s just a binary classification. A site should either be blocked, or not.

Legit web sites being ones created by actual humans with actual content. Few to no ads. No malware, phishing, or other security threats. No content farms or SEO sites. No sites generated by other ML models. No paywalls, no pop-ups or other annoyances. Just real web sites.

You’re going to need a bunch of smart and trustworthy humans to spend hours and hours to help do this classification. But a model can help multiply the effectiveness of their efforts.

If the model works, then yes. You can make a very simple search engine. You just tell all the web crawlers to check the model, and only add sites to the index if the model says they are good web sites and not garbage sites.
It looked much better on a CRT monitor.
But a salt water environment is nasty to equipment in a way that just being outdoors is not.
I know it's harder to know for sure, but wouldn't a country's "revenues" (tax, other revenues) vs corporate revenues be better? A country doesn't have instant access to its GDP.

Or possibly just expenditure for both? I know borrowing can fill the gap between income/expenditure but it gives and idea of the actual cash that either entity can access.
Gun manufacturers get some scrutiny, but it isn’t a fair comparison in that social media is engineered to keep people addicted and messes with their mental state in a destructive way. Guns are a tool abused by people with mental predisposition to do so.

The whole scene is performative nonsense anyway. Nothing will happen.
Germany is a huge mess. Especially their constant desire to request paper copies left and right for everything.
There is a way. Either you or prosecutor sues. And then the legal system claims it back as it can.

Or maybe we need to update system where for each transaction let's say more than 10% of account balance you will personally go to bank office and confirm it.
DSL / wireless does not count. Very, very few homes have access to fiber. Most homes only have coaxial broadband, and most of those are only served by Comcast.
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The nationals are the country and should take responsibility for their country's actions because it's effectively their actions.
Analysis by dhruv___anand in https://twitter.com/dhruv___anand/status/1752641057278550199 suggests that there are three different "resolutions" in the embeddings, for the first 512, 1024 and full 1536 dimensions in text-embedding-3-small.

You can put a subset of the dimensions in your vector database, thus saving a lot of cost by reducing memory/compute when retrieving nearest neighbors.

Then you can optionally even re-rank the most promising top-k candidates by the full embeddings. At least one database supports this natively: https://twitter.com/jobergum/status/1750888083900240182
As always in piracy cases, there's never been a proof of a single dollar of loss anywhere here as well.

It's all in Nintendo's lawyers head.

Piracy is one of the rare cases where you can be convicted on imaginary damages which aren't required to be proven.
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It is not about JS. Look into BadPDF as an example.
I once had a coworker working on a refactoring branch for one and a half _years_. Just merging with the main branch after they had things working took weeks. Especially as we had switched coding styles and reformatted all the source code in the meantime… (It eventually shipped, but I'm fairly certain they could have saved themselves quite a bit of pain by landing it in smaller chunks.)
>That's because they've been allowed to call themselves engineers for so long that they're starting to believe they are.

What a take.

Is doctor telling bullshit about computers less doctor-ish?
This is great. I appreciate you linking all the sources...I've bookmarked half of them.
I’m sad, but not too surprised. The Ware tetralogy, much like the better known Neuromancer and its offspring, is almost unfilmable.

Accelerando would have a good chance as a miniseries though.
Is this restraining supply in any real sense? ASML will want to setup new factories, so saying "one of those needs to be in the EU" is more about directing the funding rather than forcing it to not happen.

In principle I'm not against ensuring some protection of access to strategic resources for countries. (Note I say "access" and not "exclusive access").
The short answer, no. The state of Caps Lock is entirely in host software, to the keyboard it is just another key.
To get what you’re looking would require some very expensive mechanical contraption to reflect the state of the LED. And then what if you have reassigned Caps Lock, as is common?
As cool as it might look it’s going to be a very limited niche.
And so did Meta, it's not a question of weather you say you will stop it but if you actually do.

Hugely downsizing the content moderation team definitively isn't helping preventing such content on X/Twitter.

And one thing which companies which take this topic seriously is to not disclose too many details about their actions to avoid the targets knowing what they need to avoid. So the public pretty much _doesn't know about the actual difference_ in actions done. We can only observe the outcome, where a platform doing more still might end up looking worse due to simply their audience containing different groups of people and the number of cherry picked bad examples which is highly correlated with platform size but nearly always reported in absolute numbers.

But Elon Musk also has been frequently deceptive in many ways when it was beneficial for his ventures (some would say that is required from a CEO) so I really wouldn't take _anything_ he says as truth. Instead look at his actions. Which involve washing out the seriousness and meaning of claiming someone is a pedo (weather he intended that or not). A trend pretty widespread on Twitter as far a as I know. A Trend which helps people harming children by given them the excuse that someone calling them out is just another toxic Twitter(user) hate campaign you shouldn't take serious.
XMLHttpRequest to send anything the site knows anywhere.

And row hammer, to breach the sandbox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
For the interested, Darknet Diaries did a great episode about that case:

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/136/
Yep, and start using electricity when it is cheaper. Already some of my friends have their car chargers hooked up to octopus agile.

I'm thinking of hooking my house up to it to take advantage of those periods of crazy cheap electricity.

I think we're so used to electricity being the same price all the time because we all emerged from the coal world that it blinds us to the options available to shift demand.
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Agreed. However, since we don't have the power to set the salary of childcare workers, we will just ensure we don't pay you as much as your colleagues in the US, UK or Switzerland.

Sincerely, FAANG