skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest threat here is not waves of bullshit, that’s nothing new.

It’s knowing who to trust.

One of the defining factors under the Stasi in East Germany, it was not that “ordinary people” could not recognise what they heard on the radio was bullshit, but that they could not know who to trust to say “that’s bullshit”. Every family has a Stasi informer, so whilst everyone knew the regieme was lying there was no critical mass event.

There are a dozen technical solutions to “bullshit”. We just need to ensure we have institutions that support us standing up to it.
Security solutions impact speed, rendering reasonable and performant machines borderline useless. There is no implication that working fast is bad for security.
I only adopted this perspective after having worked in a publicly-traded company that was acquired by Oracle, for what it's worth.

So blame Larry.
The original article is about how the Xbox implementation of the Windows printing subsystem should behave, from one of its designers. They considered making it throw an Exception, but decided to instead behave as if printing is supported but there are no printers, so that Windows apps would not crash.

My point was that, as an end user of such apps on Xbox, my preference would have been to have the Xbox OS tell me directly that printing is not supported on this system, even if the app doesn't know about this.
In the long run, yes. In the short term it ruins peoples lives.
I do the same for the three FFG LCGs I play. Chessex makes every color combo imaginable, so I was able to match LOTR, Arkham, and Marvel colors perfectly!
Given two pages that both contain the information the user wants, they prefer the one that isn't behind a paywall, and so they prefer a search engine that puts those results first.

Giving the search engine the full content so it will rank higher is lying, because that information isn't actually there unless you pay, which most users aren't going to do.

In theory you could solve this with a requirement for the site to disclose that it's doing this, so the search engine can have a box that says "exclude paywalled content", but then everybody would check the box.
Were any of this vulnerabilities disclosed? I saw that Google blocked it in some places, but without fully understanding what are these vulnerabilities it's hard to make a good judgement on whether it is usable or not in some application.
The undying fascination w/ WWII is really an indication of murica's arrested development.

I could only cringe when I read of Hank's and Spielberg's latest "murican's save the world" movie. How many of these are there? It's impossible to even count.

Maybe a multi-billion $ epic on how the us invaded mexico? or overthrew the government of the philippines? Or any number of elected republics being overthrown after the us got over it's own internal war.
Without some kind of perf api baked into rails, this will require some server side code at the very least. An extension won't work without _something_ on the server.

But, there's also nothing stopping you from adding this during development and not committing it.
Even those change
I thought everything was a graph.
And VSCode came about mostly from Microsoft's push. They wanted an "in" for non Microsoft languages, and VSCode gave them that, as well as a Microsoft-provided environment for dotNet on Linux / Mac. This meant that JavaScript / Node developers could still be folded into Microsoft tooling (telemetry) without forcing them into the crushing heaviness of Visual Studio on Windows.

It was a really slick play. Still, it was an overall positive for the profession, and you can still use VSCodium without the telemetry.
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>based on nothing

Based on the fact that the airline posted his passport on Facebook. I have not seen the videos in question and probably never will.

Let's say the airline is 100% correct and the YouTuber in question was trying to defame them for clout. That is plausible. But that still does not justify doxxing him, regardless of intent.
If unemployment and inflation rates are politically gamed nothing is truly measurement?

Many things can be measured. And unemployment is measuring something but not what it's titled suggests. It's measuring some group of people who qualify as looking for work within a specific timeframe. Someone looking for work for a few years is deemed to employed by this calculation some might question it.

Changing the definition of a recession is political.

That doesn't mean measurements are incorrect and prediction is impossible.
As someone who has used the Laravel version of this I gotta say it has been pretty damn helpful.
> If a machine costs 500k p/y

Do you mean an AI programmer would cost $500k per year? If so I think you greatly overestimate the cost.

Recently I did some text processing with GPT-4 turbo (128k context) and I reached the daily limit of 5 million tokens. IIRC it cost me around $70 bucks for the day.

I think $70 is the hourly rate of a SE with $150k salary working 40 hours per week. Note that we are at early stages with this tech, it will probably only get cheaper from here.
So.

Argentina: 1 country. 1 currency. 1 law applicable to the entire country.

SEPA: EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom: 31 countries. 12 currencies (7 currencies in the EU alone [1]). 31 different laws (while EU countries must adhere to the overall EU laws, they are free to implement their own laws as they see fit within the general framework).

wslh: yes, yes, they are entirely comparable, after all Argentina also has regions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currencies_of_the_European_Uni... Turkish Lyra is used in Northern Cyprus which, while de jure part of Cyprus, is not in the EU.
Humans have never needed said technology to lie, deceive and mislead. Ignorance and human nature in general (eg confidence tricks) are a much more powerful weapons at any rate.

But the most effective defense remains the same: critical thinking.

Sadly, it's not very popular.
best of all they spy on their own party members and some businessmen's which were rivals of some party members family
It's pretty ridiculous to think we can win a cat-and-mouse game of surveillance mitigation as individuals against some of the world's largest corporations. Some web services/sites are even starting to create nuisance hurdles around VPNs they know about, if they don't just block them outright, China style. We need to make surveillance of this kind a crime to make it stop. We need privacy laws that are comprehensive and have teeth.
https://people.com/human-interest/elon-musk-steps-down-chair...

Elon Musk, IIRC, was Chairman, Largest Shareholder, and CEO when the deal in question / contract was written.

Elon had a spat with SEC who removed him as chair, but Musk remained largest Shareholders and CEO after that.
The assumption here is that future iterations of the technology require "BS"-riddled datasets. I question that assumption, both because the technology probably can improve solely with existing datasets and because we don't know that "synthetic" data isn't able to improve things.
I had a variation of this meta conversation with my sister yesterday, and I pointed out that in addition to all of the attention-drawing advances in the news cycle, there's lots of under-celebrated stuff happening to be really optimistic about.

For example, researchers are using ML to discover new proteins, leading to new drugs and new construction materials. https://www.cradle.bio/ is doing amazing things in this space.

It's true that if you make a living as a drone operator selling stock footage, you might need to diversify. However, I am not worried for intellectually curious teenage creatives at this time.
https://huggingface.co/blog/synthetic-data-save-costs

At doing whatever the model is suppose to do.
When an article crosses some threshhold of replies to upvotes per unit of time it gets deranked, presumably to discourage political / flame-war topics.

Eg, this article still shows up on the second page. After a while, when the replies slow down, it will move back to the first page (if it's still getting upvotes).
Your original post said

> I indeed got food poisoning once on a plane.

and it sounds like you meant that you experienced the effects of food poisoning on a plane. But most might read that as you saying you contracted it on a plane.

Getting food poisoning and vomiting from said food poisoning are different. Most people refer to where they “got” food poisoning as the food source, not where the effects happen.

Just a wording confusion here.
As long as as he’s gonna be a billionare he probably wouldn’t care about externalities
Oh, there is a lot of choice. If you take on a lot of responsibilities (kids) and have a need for material wealth, then yes. I could have worked just 50% or even 25%%
and would have been fine. I would not be able to own much, but I would be fine.
The link-chain from the article 404s, but the paper is relatively easy to find [1].

Appears to also be US-only. I'm assuming the same connection that other replies are mentioning - that a non-tipping minority of the rider population represents a disproportionately large majority of rides. I only found it interesting because of how easy it is to broadcast either perspective depending on the response you want. Individuals and media reports can pick and choose between "a majority of people tip" and "less than 1/6th of rides are tipped" and be factually correct either way while giving off entirely different impressions.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26380/w263...
Well, if so, it only strengthens the argument.
In a continuous distribution the probability of any number on that distribution being generated is effectively zero

Yes almost by definition, no ? You can only know the probability it would be between a range of numbers, by integrating over the distribution
I agree that I’d spend my own money doing similar stuff if I had the means, I just wouldn’t be humble bragging on a blog for my “engaged readers” (is that what they call stans these days?) and downplaying my wealth while doing so.

Right there in the post the guy is trying to tell us how tough this endeavor is financially but we all logically know that isn’t true at all.

> worst financial decision I ever hope to make.

Imagine a rich guy buying a Porsche telling you that it’s the worst financial decision they’ve ever made with a chuckle. We’d all call that a dick move. Guess what costs more than a Porsche? That’s right, full price tuition at DePaul with Second City comedy lessons. Just like how Chris Rock got his start, right?

Hopefully his cool project management and tech industry comedy routine is amazing and makes his median income audience that can’t afford to purchase basic housing anymore roll on the floor laughing.
> Literally everyone wants to go to tokyo because there are no other jobs.

Natural resources have nothing to do with it. Extraction industries employ comparatively few people, even in resource-rich countries. If anything, resource-rich countries experience even more densification.

Case in point: Moscow. Its population density is 5200 people per square kilometer. Tokyo is at 6100 people per square kilometer.

The reason is that it's easier for companies to create jobs in cities. It's not impossible for them to do otherwise, but a company with one huge office in the Downtown will likely have a competitive advantage over a company that has multiple distributed offices.
> This comment section is full of people acting like AI is going to make most jobs obsolete within a matter of years. One of the top comments as I write this is from someone writing melodramatically about Sam Altman taking jobs away from their tradesman relatives with “plasticized fingers” from the comfort of his “pretty offices”. This is the kind of histrionics you get when people identify a trend and extrapolate it to absurd conclusions on unrealistic timelines.

"within a matter of years" has two very different meanings: a few years from now, or a few years from when the AI is good enough.

> If you treat the future like a carbon copy of today but with workers replaced by robots then it’s bleak, but that’s a failure in acknowledging that economies evolve with technology.

> It’s the same reason the world didn’t collapse when technology enabled people to do something other than work on farms.

Absolutely agree.

Unfortunately, that transition from agricultural to industrial did mess a lot of things up. Some was our own ignorance of the direct impacts of our actions (for example, the first people to realise CO2 would cause global warming thought this would be good), while some other issues were our ignorance of group dynamics and responses to incentives (which is basically why neither laissez-faire capitalism nor communism worked quite as intended), and finally quite a lot of the world was very upset to find itself being ruled over by a small moist island in the North Atlantic whose leaders treated everyone more than 60 miles from St. Paul's Cathedral as primitives and barbarians fit only to provide curios for museums.
I really don't know why they included that, it seems like a counter-example.
Well I think citizen kane is powerful and parasite is terrible. So what have we proved? Taste is indisputable, I guess.
I agree that it's bad for a company (or other powerful entity) to have a chilling effect on criticism.

But devil's advocate on this bit:

> but the airline has posted no evidence whatsoever that he has asked for this. In all likelihood the airline is lying.

Phone call? Not speaking when a nod will do? Intermediary and ambiguity around that?

Why lack of paper trail is plausible: Influencers live and die by their brand, and presumably know that a solid bit of unflattering evidence (e.g., that they're selling good reviews, or running an extortion racket) can go viral, and hurt their brand badly.

Or maybe the company has evidence, but, culturally (I don't know about Qatar, but do know there are places where commerce evolved to be built upon reputations more than law&government), maybe doxxing a person in accusation is an accepted response, with the accusation implicitly backed by one's own reputation. Or the culture respects power, and this is a flex in response to being threatened. Contrast with a culture brought up in judicial process thinking, or with company structures that are designed to defend against the many legal liabilities, which might tend to think more about evidence.

Or maybe it's a mix of everyone being wrong: questionable behavior by influencer, marketing person drops the ball in handling them, negative review, internal butt-covering, communications up the chain get mangled at each step, someone receives bad information and doesn't confirm it, acts out in a way that's not internationally advisable.

I don't know what I could say about likelihoods of this particular situation, based on the info in the article and what we know about the world (even prejudices).
At some point in history every human wore clothes that were "hand-made". If we perceive history through the lens of art, we might mistakenly assume that because everyone got to have tailored clothes by professional artisan tailors the likes of which today are highly limited and specialized, that meant that everyone had better clothes.

It's true, tailor was a viable profession, but even then most people couldn't afford them. Families toiled to make their own clothes just as they did to grow enough food not to starve, or find enough fuel to heat their hearths not to freeze.

But there was also still a slice of the classes that could afford tailored clothes when tailors were ubiquitous. And now with the advent of automation no longer can.

Clothing automation made "tailor" no longer a viable profession for the masses, and it reduced the access to hand-made clothing for some people while dramatically increasing the access to clothing for the rest.

The point here is that both perspectives are right. People's lives WILL be ruined. A lack of confidence in the professional arts means that for some time the amount of quality human-generated animation and art will reduce. We may have already passed the peak - the early internet decades when people just put up their art for all to see for free access, not behind paywalls, but just to show that they can. The same art that all the image generation AI tools were trained on.

Will it have been worth it? I genuinely don't know. I'm 40, and I feel like I'm just at the intersection where I start to think that I fear what I don't understand and I invariably think that the way things worked in my 20s was better than the way things will work in my 60s. And yet, this is what has always happened with humanity.

And while the end result of this technology today may end up ruining the livelyhood of animators, legal assistants, and app developers, in the long run, these breakthroughs will end up providing access to more information, knowledge, and access to all of humanity.

Progress is not linear, and comes with tradeoffs. Some things go away and are not always replaced with something better.

But on a humanity time scale beyond the life of an individual human, the development of LLMs is moving us in the right direction.

We need to not lose sight of the macro issues - clean energy, pollution, climate change. We can figure out how to still have tailors and animators in the future. But if we kill all the sharks, dolphins, and polar bears, they're not coming back.
You don’t do it all in a guy fawkes mask?
Unfortunately, this is where micro and macro economics diverge.

If you take the position that housing will likely always be underbuilt and any new construction in your area will lead to higher rents. Then supporting construction just means higher rent a for you - without any benefit.

If we ever actually built enough, then as an individual you should be able to move to a better/cheaper apartment when new construction happens. This hasn't happened in the last 20+ years of urban development.
I hope that you are right, and that they faked the demo to have a short term pump on stock price.
There is always a free source with the answer somewhere. The trouble comes when the free sources are pushed far down in the results by legacy brands.

When this happens, I will continue to pretend to be google to access the content they are pushing. If publishers want to change this behavior they could try not letting Google index it, so I don't need to see it in my search results.
I believe you are vastly underestimating the capabilities of parrots or similarly intelligent birds.

At least when my pet parrot manages to fool me into whatever it is he wants to get out of me that time, he does it for his own primal benefit and not because it was programmed to adhere to some strict set of ethic and moral boundaries set by legal requirements and someone else's idea of how people should think and behave.
I used uber and not taxia because there is none of the tipping bullshit.

I got a taxi last week and the guy didn't take my card as the machine was broken and didn't have change. I only got a taxi as the Uber area at the airport was very busy and I would have had to wait a while and probably surge charges.

In the end, the taxi was a shitty, dirty car, cost way more than I expected and cleaned out my cash. I'll be waiting next time.
If you're using languages that are themselves closer to the syntax tree, then you're part of the way there. Lisps do that. Editor features for most lisps typically include manipulation of syntax-tree-level features like moving forms around. (Emacs comes to mind here.)
There is a general feeling in STEM that when someone's presentation is a bit too slick looking they actually undermine their message and raise suspicions about their motives...like people start to feel like they are hiding something. I guess the moral is just say what you need to say and don't over think it. Or maybe the moral is that it all depends on your audience.
If taste is indisputable then appealing to classics as a must watch cohort makes even less sense
As OP noticed likelihoods often do show up in a comparative context. In that context one is asking which thing or sequence is most likely to occur by chance relative to another, under an (over simplistic, sure) IID assumption. In practice, the ordering of such things is often (hand-waving, sure) robust enough that, given no other information than the marginals, it is useful. So I think OP almost answered his/her own question: they are often quite useful in a comparative context and with no additional information.
If you abstract enough, humans and fungi are the same. Abstract further, humans and rocks are the same. Yet humans aren't fungi, nor are they rocks. Abstract the concepts of "input" and "algorithm" and "calculation" enough and "an algorithm that needs to be run and fed with input to perform calculations" could describe programming a remote control. Or tying shoes. Are shoes beings? Are humans shoes? Are shoes rocks?

There comes a point at which abstraction becomes too general to be useful, and most attempts to equate LLMs with human beings fall into that category for me. Yes, one could describe the intricacies and complexities of human thought and reasoning as equivalent to prompting a stateless stochastic token matching machine but all that proves is how much of a reach the premise is.
comparably desirable to a Tesla coil
If you bundle up enough securities of dubious value, it creates less dubious value higher than the sum of the parts.
>Usage of Pegasus means all intercepts are on the servers in Israel

Wait, seriously? Any sources on that? I find it hard to believe that any government would spend $$$ on a security tool that doesn't allow on-prem installation and instead beams all your surveillance to another country.
Author of the article here—

I actually did start out basically porting Chrono to Python, but decided against it for two reasons:

1. While I really liked handling local/UTC conversions with the "LocalResult" enum in Rust, it translated poorly to Python. Somewhere along the line you'd need to transition from Rust's "errors as values" to Python's exception-oriented world. I actually wish Python would go Rust's way, but I'm not going to swim against the current here...

2. Most modern libraries in other languages choose to disambiguate local datetimes. I felt it was safer to go the road more traveled here.
Politicians committing crimes end up in courts and then in prison, plain and simple. And this is plain propaganda, repeating many talking points of the PiS party (the party previously in power, who illegally used Pegasus).
Given enough time, everything seems to go the way of consolidation. I don't have much hope that AI will be different...
> The way to do that is by funding local companies..

You do not understand the car industry. Giving them less competitive pressure will not increase car quality or lower sales price.

> ..and increasing density..

Increasing density during an already extreme housing crunch? Genius.

> ..and public transport.

I would love to see better public transport, but most voters are not ready to pony up the taxes for a public transit network that has enough fidelity to sufficiently replace cars.

> You also made an error. Cars are essential. EVs are not the only type of car.

Hydrogen is not happening, and staying with ICEs means screwing over the planet.
Never ceases to amaze me how advanced Romans were for their time.