skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There's plenty of successful "classical" propaganda in the modern era, like Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin, and his subsequently tweeting about how much better the cities/subways/groceries/MacDonalds are in Russia than they are in America.

I'm not sure that's actually successful. Even a lot of conservatives seem put off by Tucker's recent activities, especially with the Navalny news today.
There's also the (English) agricultural revolution.

And the rise of logistics and world trade in general. Bigger markets mean more productivity from specialisation, even if the underlying technology doesn't change. See eg the ancient Roman economy. https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... is a good introduction.
All paths lead to the heat death of the universe. How do you want to live between now and then?
Right, that was what I meant.

For creators, I’ve heard other services offer much more useful interaction per follower, which would mean either Twitter followers often aren’t shown posts of a large cube of followers don’t care (likely bots).

I don’t think Musks behavior and obvious preferences should be ignored. But even without that it sounds like it’s dead at the core and more people figure it out every day.
> ...and then there's the stench which I wouldn't want to live near...

For active landfills, yeah.

For decommissioned and capped-off landfills, nah, not if they've done it right. (And given that this is a regulated industry, it's very likely that they've done it right.)

In my experience in the American Southeast, Academy of Model Aeronautics airfields are often built on top of decommissioned landfills [0]... so I have spent a lot of time standing on and around these things. I've never noticed any odor, soft spots in the terrain [1] that is the cap, or any of most of the other weird things one might think of when one thinks "site of a former landfill".

[0] Why? Because the land is quite cheap, and a ~100 foot strip of tarmac, a few little structures (sun shelters and the like) and parking for a couple dozen cars isn't all that much weight.

[1] To be fair, the runway did have to be worked on every three, five years as the terrain under it settled. But bear in mind that we're talking about bumps in a runway for model aircraft, so the amount of settling was actually not very large.
the old TOS limit the usage to a well-defined purpose (promotion) do not claim the rights to
modify and do not make you waive your moral rights to your work
[dupe]

Lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39386156
Tyrosemiophilia
There are three kinds of mathematicians...
Idk, optimizing inefficient systems sounds a lot more interesting to me than working for the man, as you put it. Thanks for writing this out. It seems very difficult to get into. I'll reread this a couple times.
Notifications affect brain development in kids and teens
Here's a less immediately obvious, but still pretty damn obvious Russian troll account

https://twitter.com/blackintheempir

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtKeFiYWIAgQLfw.jpg
Isn't there an extension somewhere that got popular that clicked every Ad and just did not show it to the user?
Nice work! I think units sold varies so much by business, so no need to feel shame at all.

Selling 100 units per year is a nice spot to be in because you're making sales frequently enough that you probably have some knobs to adjust and see what impact it has on your results, and that makes it so much easier to improve. That's why I've always been afraid of businesses that rely on enterprise sales, where you're going for 3-4 big deals per year, and the sales cycle is 6-18 months. It seems so hard to know whether you're doing well or poorly until it's too late.
More precisely, many things are roughly modelable as differential equations where aggregate rate of change depends on an amount present.
> I was surprised Sun/Oracle's JVM (or Apple, after their 3rd architecture migration) never took a page from AS/400's TIMI (Technology Independent Machine Interface) and compile an architecture-independent representation to native code at installation time.

GraalVM supports AOT compilation – https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...

But, I think "TIMI" has significantly less value today than it once did. Due to PASE (the AIX compatibility environment), there is ever more code on contemporary IBM i systems which runs outside of the MI bytecode layer. Shifting IBM i to something other than POWER would require recompiling all that code from source.
So Spamouflage is at once pivoting to focus on the election and mostly talking about issues that aren't election-specific; and it's at once trying to improperly influence the election outcome and doing so in a way 'without any clear partisan bent'...

People are easily influenced by messaging. Today it is easy to create targeted messaging. A state actor could send messages to Republicans that are different than the ones sent to Democrats. In this way it is correct that the actor has no partisan bent. They just want to sow confusion, doubt, misinformation.

One can imagine that it is possible to influence an election without using election specific issues. If, for instance, welfare reform is not an issue in an election but talking about it in a way to create fear and anger can influence an electorate’s desires. I believe that if the CCP is actively engaged in an information war against Americans that they could do so in ways that, on the surface, would appear to be ineffective.
I don’t believe that the traveler mentioned in TFA did this but using a screenshot as evidence will not be viable in the longer run.

Editing the HTML code of a webpage that is open in the browser is a key step in one of the popular IT support scams that are covered by YouTubers.

But how else to present evidence of chatbot misinformation, I’m not sure.
initial grant often out-trumps any refreshes you get if the company has gone through growth period.
No, that's an interesting idea. I don't know that much about that market, but I guess it seems like a bad sign that SlingBox couldn't make it work even with dominant market position.
See also: Guns, Germs, and Steel section on Papua New Guinea.
What's an Obelisk, Anyway?
I have a friend who has worked on many generations of video compression over the last 20 years. He would rather watch a movie on film without effects than anything on a TV or digital theater. He's trained himself to spot defects and now even with the latest HEVC H.265 he finds it impossible to enjoy. It's artifacts all the way down and the work never ends. At the superbowl he was obsessed with blocking for fast objects, screen edge artifacts, flat field colors, and something with the grass.

Luckily, I think he'll retire sooner than later, and maybe it will get better then.
Another coincidence happened in 2010.

Satoshi secretly fixed the poison block issue within Bitcoin by locking the block size at 1MB. He discovered it and fixed it before anyone noticed. This makes it seem like Satoshi was actively poking holes in the protocol with security in mind.

Coincidentally, in 2010 Len was giving a number of talks with his wife regarding protocol design and security.

Seems like the pool of people with the right expertise, area of study and skill set gets smaller and smaller... to the point where N=2, and that's Satoshi and Len.. or maybe N=1.
This is some turn of events! Americans loving commies!!
throw spaghetti at the wall till the phone app stays quiet!
It's been the general gist of America ever since Trump stood for election, and before that, it was the ""Terrorists"".

Now I guess there's also China.
Thank you. It seemed like there would be some kind of legal principle at play.
I suppose this is one of many reasons why pretty much everything exposes a C API/ABI for FFIs.
> "The mysterious part is, why did they even let this drag into court for such a small sum?!"

Because most people wouldn't bother taking it to court.

If they rolled over and paid up every time their chatbot made a mistake, that gets expensive, and teaches customers that they can easily be compensated if the chatbot screws up.

If they fight it tooth and nail and drag it all the way to court, it teaches customers that pursuing minor mistakes is personally painful and probably not worth it.

Scorched-earth defense tactics can be effective at deterring anyone from seeking redress.

It's the same fundamental reason why customer support is so hard to reach for many companies - if you make it painful enough maybe the customer will just not bother. A valuable tactic if your company imagines customers as annoying fleshy cash dispensers that talk too much. Having flown many times with Air Canada I can confirm that they do seem to perceive their passengers as annoying cash dispensers.
Yeah, I also engage little on Twitter, but so far I’ve seen no notable worsening of spam. When I clicked to see popular announcements (from HN or somewhere else) I also saw crypto spams and other stuff but from my perspective, it’s not much different from the situation on FB, for example. When I replied to some interesting GTP-chess posts, I still got replies clearly from humans (ask questions, do some follow up etc.). Thus, I don’t have a clear feeling whether it got better or worse.

The most striking change I have seen is the percentage of Musk’s tweets on my feed. It looks like he is everywhere now! That was definitely not the case before. But yeah, he is the owner and he likes to tweet :)
The 1980s chip Doc Brown made on the hood of a car in Back to the Future 2 was about 6 square feet, modern chip would need to be the size of the Pentagon.
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I read almost identical comments here about a decade ago from someone getting excited about ever more cleaver ways to kill people with drones. Yep, that sure is exciting, but also, fuck him.
you can add the concept of sync yourself in git.

[alias]
sync = "git squash && git pull --rebase && git pop && git push" # YMMV

Git GUIs are always changing the interface to git. It gives you this weird lockin and islandification. Knowing how to actually use git can give you super powers.
It seems that the software can be run in-browser here: https://archi.medes.live/
I think detailed tracking can be helpful, but I don't think it's necessary. I reduced time I spent on TinyPilot in 2022 even though I don't have rigorous time tracking to prove it.

Do you have recommendations for granular time tracking? I don't know of any tool that seems like it would do what I want. I know there are tools that track your active window, and I'm not crazy about the privacy aspect of those, and I don't think window titles map perfectly to activities. And then I could manually log every hour of my day, but I feel like the time I'd spend bookkeeping aren't worth the insights I'd get from it.
> That's a 100% bad faith argument

Actually, I'd forgotten about the redefinition. You pretending that when someone says "printing money" they mean physical printing presses with ink and paper, rather than a figure of speech, is the actual bad faith argument here.
To me that’s totally fine. I don’t even particularly care whether the LLM is better or not. The only thing they really matters is if you are gonna use that LLM, when it inevitably messes up you don’t get to claim that it wasn’t your fault because computers are hard and AI is an emerging field. IDGAF. Pay up. The fact that you dabble in emerging technologies doesn’t give you any excuse to provide lesser services
Its 1 party and one candidate https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CmkKI8IuynA&pp=ygUTQm9yYXQgZWx...
I work with payments in a bank in Brazil and as I was reading the question I thought "interesting question, here we have a great 'delay' in clearances and very old and very complex government-embedded systems to deal with it, funny to see that you know about it too.

btw, are you familiar with Pix?
https://www.bcb.gov.br/en/financialstability/pix_en
> a lot of the far right are coming around to be pro Russia

Pro-Russia or pro-US? The alt-right stance I've been seeing is that the war accomplishes nothing, introduces a lot of needless risks and wastes resources better spent elsewhere. It looks like all the US is achieving is piles of dead Slavs. That isn't wealth generation or strategically useful.

It has been decades since US foreign interventions have done anything useful for the US, the base rate here leans strongly towards pacifism being the most effective strategy. Even in the Russia-Ukraine war, I've been arguing that this gives China opportunities more than anything else. Hopefully the CCP are too inept to seize on them.
how did you source the metal enclosure? I'm interested in making my products look more "professional" but don't know how I'd go about it
This reads like a wildly confident statement about art.

While at the same time not mentioning the actual name of "the artist that painted Mona Lisa" (Leonardo Da Vinci), nor knowing that the name of his master is very well known, and even the influence of artists that he seemed to despise (eg Michaelangelo) are very well documented as well.

Maaybe this narrow view of (art) history needs to be fine-tuned on more data :-)
I don't see why AI is particularly germane to this case- if a human support rep from a third party contractor made the same statement I assume AC would have tried the same nonsense?
Having a name from a made up language isn't a good sign, I would even prefer a Chinese name even if was difficult to pronounce but easy to type.

Look at Ubuntu for a foreign name that is easy to spell. Forgejo reads like a typo.

Even sr.ht managed to get a better name
Ok, but what’s the child mortality rate? Maternal mortality rate? Average life span? Rate of death from infected wounds? Random diseases caused by inbreeding? We may not have direct data on many basic quality of life indicators but we can make educated guesses from lots of historical analogues.
I made a web app that I use which makes use of the Web Push feature for timely notifications. Why should I pay Apple 99/year to get my own notifications on my own phone?
> or how "soft" they were.

From the comment:
It identified some simple HTML files (html, head, title, body, p tags and not much else) as "MS Visual Basic source (VBA)", "ASP source (code)", and "Generic text document" where the `file` utility correctly identified all such examples as "HTML document text".

That's pretty soft. Nothing "adversarial" claimed either.

> Being strictly superior to a competent human is a pretty high bar to set.

The bar is the file utility.
It's sort of apples and oranges because the mini PC you purchased almost certainly can't capture HDMI video and can't emulate a USB device.
I'm a native git guy in general, but `git gui` has absolutely won my heart. I don't know what I'd do without it for staging partial commits. That and searching through stashes.
> Because most people wouldn't bother taking it to court.

Wait, couldn't they have tried to settle as soon as they realized it was actually going to court? I thought that was the modus operandi in the US... is it not a thing in Canada?
To disincentivize anyone from calling them on their be in the future. If I know I will have to drag them through court just to get even a low payout I will be less likely to fight as its not worth the hassle.
This is absolutely my personal experience. I am absolutely awful at arithmetic, but I think pretty competent at decently advanced mathematics.

It's like they say: the only numbers a mathematician needs are 0, 1, and 2 (and just because it's not 1).
> Most cancer treatments are really nasty. Thus false positives are really bad

I was imagining this cheap self test like covid self tests: you don't start taking chemo, but it's an indication to see a doctor tomorrow if not today and get it checked out properly

But you do raise a good point about overtreatment which I had forgotten while writing my previous comment. Whether that applies to diseases that are reliable to confirm manually and will simply kill you if you're late to the party is another matter, but I had forgotten to take it into account at all
I find the comparison to "headphones" for your eyes really interesting because it might provide a long-term view as to the Vision Pro's place on the computer market. Desktop speakers and Hi-Fi home stereo equipment are obviously still a thing today, and, in a few generation (and with the advent of more competition), the case of bigger desktops (and possibly laptops/tablets) might be analogous to today's headphone-loudspeaker duality.
His part about groceries has resonated with a lot of people. "Biden has destroyed the US, and groceries that cost easily $400+ only cost $100 in Russia."

Of course, he made no mention of how much $100 is to the average Russian's income proportional to the average American's income.
I'm waiting for it to discover "yadda yadda".
You must have been pretty interesting!
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Control Panel for Twitter [1] can automatically hide boosted blue replies for you

…although if an account is big enough, you're safer looking at the Quote Tweets instead for actual comments (it also restores the old direct link to those in the focused Tweet), e.g. you're lucky to get more than a handful of non-blue replies under an Elon Musk tweet among the engagement farmers before you hit the maximum number of replies Twitter will load

[1] https://jbscript.dev/control-panel-for-twitter
Hmm, I was inclined to agree with you at first based on the screenshot & the first 20 or so tweets I read, but he does appear to be a real American!

https://youtu.be/MNPiTsaH1ak?t=23
I'm surprised there is so little interest in this story on HN. There are three different submissions for this which reached the front page, but then rapidly dropped to below page 3.
What modern consumer-facing tech companies have come out of the EU in the past 20 years, besides Spotify? How is that list looking compared to the US?

That's all the evidence you need that the EU has seriously fucked up with regards to encouraging tech innovation.
I can touch type just fine, it’s finding the home row to put my fingers in the start positions that is the problem. Blacking out my keyboard wouldn’t accomplish anything.
Doesn't seem all that non-deterministic. I tested the vba.html example multiple times and it always said it was VBA. I added a space between </HEAD> and <BODY> and it correctly picked HTML as most likely but with a low confidence.

So I think we can say it's sensitive to mysterious features, not that it's non-deterministic. Still leads to your same conclusion that you can't anticipate the failures. But I don't think you can with traditional tools either. Some magic numbers are just plain text (like MZ) which could legitimately accidentally appear at the beginning of a plain text file, for example.
Nothing beats HDPE. See softcopy page 7 of this report: <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...>

The paper, LDPE, non-woven PP and cotton bags should be reused at least 3, 4, 11 and 131 times respectively to ensure that they have lower global warming potential than conventional HDPE carrier bags that are not reused. The number of times each would have to be reused when different proportions of conventional (HDPE) carrier bags are reused are shown in the table below.
Well fine, but the resolution isn’t high enough, so it does need to do that.
Really depends on the company. Generally, for high quality on shore call centres, you do not use customer satisfaction as a metric for individual agents.

You’d use first contact resolution, average handle time, and their ability to stick to the flow they’re meant to (like transferring the customer to a survey after the call).

Like you say, satisfaction encourages lies. Much like sales commissions.
That's interesting. What does that mean in practice, do they send people that have a lot of legal training and experience, but aren't bar members?
I like NLNet model. NLNet isn't a government agency. NLNet is a nonprofit foundation that is responsible for distributing certain government grants, such as NGI Core Zero, which are themed for particular goals.

I definitely wouldn't want FOSS projects to apply directly to a government agency.

https://nlnet.nl/foundation/
Ad Nauseum?
do the people managing the chatbot know that though?

this shit gets sold as a way to replace employees with, essentially, just the middle manager that was over them, who is now responsible for managing the chatbot instead of managing people

while managers are often actually not great at people management, it's at least a somewhat intuitive skill for many. interacting with and directing other humans is something that many people are able to gain experience with outside of work, since it's a necessary life skill unless you're a hermit. furthermore, as a hedge against managerial ineptitude, humans are adaptable creatures that can recognize their manager's shortcomings and determine when and how to work around them to actually get the job done

understanding the intricacies training a machine learning system is a highly specialized and technical skill that nobody is going to pick up base knowledge for in the regular course of life. the skill floor for the average person tasked with it will be much lower than that of people management, and they will probably fuck up, a lot

the onus is ostensibly on AI system vendors to make their systems idiot-proof, but how many vendors actually do so past the point of "looks good enough to close the sale in a demo"? designing such a system is _incredibly_ hard, and the unfortunate reality is that if you try, you'll lose sales to snake oil salesmen who are content to push hokum trash with a fancy coat of paint.

these systems can work as a force multiplier in the hands of the capable, but work as an incompetence magnifier in the hands of the incapable, and there are plenty of dunning-krugerites lusting to magnify their incompetence
Yeah I spoke in past tense about the performance problems because, as you said, there were an awful lot of easy wins to be made. The site is about 2 orders of magnitude faster now, which is incredibly satisfying.

> Flask's not your problem. You'll have equal or worse woes (if lower level with less hand holding) with anything else.

I’m not so sure about that. It’s hard to run the experiment, but I’ve never seen a nodejs app run anywhere near that slowly. The default-synchronous nature of Python combined with its mediocre performance for straight code magnifies the impact of any bad design choices. At least in a nodejs application your server can happily run many sql queries at the same time, or do other work while it waits for the database. I’m sure sufficiently mediocre web server code can bring nodejs to its knees. But in a decade of working with node, I’ve never seen it done. Certainly not in a web app with only 20 users.
I don’t think the Russians are communists now. I think it’s pretty obvious that Putin wants to bring back something similar to the Russian Empire with him as the Tsar. Bringing back Autocracy with the Orthodox Church too.
Damn, that's 10x the output of magical realism. While life finds a way, humans frequently invent new ways to race ourselves into local and global extinction like it's some sort of game of chicken.
Since it's all just Guile Scheme, a full programming language, you can extend it in any way you want, and use the Scheme libraries you want, doing whatever network access you please.
That's simply not how political power works.
They made their positions clear with the 3/5ths rule
I would say meet or beat human custom support agent accuracy, 100% is in many case not acheivable for machine or human.
Wrong thread, this one explicitly postulates a 100+ page EULA