skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've not seen anything to make me think this feature is intended for surveillance

I think you may have forgotten about Chat Control[0]. Regardless of its intent for surveillance or not, Relay would be an essential technology for making things such as Chat Control even possible.

I must stress that this can come with all good intentions. That the developers and even Nadella see this purely from the utility perspective and have zero intentions to use it for increased surveillance. But like they say "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." So I'm trying to distinguish between the potential harm of the technology itself and the conspiracies that are arising. Because we need to recognize that evil often arises with no malintent, and to be careful attributing malicious intentions to those who never had none. It can be incredibly hard to know.

But regardless of the intent, I think we can now look at this and see how ripe the technology is for abuse. And I think we can ask the questions about how likely it is to be abused. And don't just ask how likely __you__ are to be subjected to the abuse, but include others. Because even if others are subjected to that abuse, it is not unlikely to affect you in some form (if you need that specific motivation). I think we can all agree that the likelihood of the technology being abused in authoritarian countries like Iran, North Korea, and many others, is quite high. Maybe this isn't on your radar or maybe it isn't a concern for you because those powers will already abuse their citizens. But certainly this gives them the ability to be more abusive and more invasive.

[0] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
I have been trying to find an equivalent for `tracing` first in Python and this week in TypeScript/JavaScript. At my work I created an internal post called "Better Python Logging? Tracing for Python?" that basically asks this question. OpenTelemetry was also what I looked at and since I have looked at other tooling.

It is hard to explain how convenient `tracing` is in Rust and why I sorely miss it elsewhere. The simple part of adding context to logs can be solved in a myriad of ways, yet all boil down to a similar "span-like" approach. I'm very interested in helping bring what `tracing` offers to other programming communities.

It very likely is worth having some people from the space involved, possibly from the tracing crate itself.
'more natural than a real person'

What on Earth is that even supposed to mean
It's a shame most (all?) the sound recordings are so short. ~1min
I would love to have like 30m or longer ones.
The range would be awesome, but the city took pretty significant offense to my plan to setup a 11 lightyear dipole antenna on my property.

It's a hard life being an amateur radio operator these days...
> What you have is a known failing system

Absolutely not. Engineering in the real world doesn't work like this. You don't design for perfection. You have intentionally defined specs set to what can be intentionally accommodated in your design.

In this case you literally have is a system operating at 1% of the value that can be accommodated. That is not a problem. Something undesirable happening does not necessarily mean the system is failing, or that it's even a practical problem.
They specified how tag soup gets forced into HTML5.

They could have just as well defined how tag soup gets forced into XHTML.
The US Needs More Nukes
> if there are any packages that are being pulled in that are frequent security concerns.

As an individual, do you think you can do that? I know a lot of packages with security concerns where CVEs are never issued. You just need to go to their PRs and luck into finding descriptions of a security fix. I doubt this would scale for a given individual.
I know you're being sarcastic, but as I'm sure you know, that's even more problematic - Tesla doesn't know what business they're in!

As far as autonomous ride sharing goes, Tesla is well behind their competitors, competitors who've been building their brand in the ride sharing space and are expanding into autonomous ride sharing. Who thinks of Tesla when they think of ride sharing? Virtually no one. If autonomous ride sharing was their killer feature all along, then focusing on EVs all these years was stupid. Which tells you this is yet another Musk lie.

Tesla is failing. Elon knows it, and now he's secured his wealth while Tesla's investors go down in flames. Well, at least they're providing plenty of material for the business schools for the remainder of the 21st century.
yeah.. the problem is that twitter has as much censorship as before, might even have more..

but now the reason for censorship decision are about what is best for elon..

if it benefit him he will allow censorship to happen, if it benefits him he will censor you himself.. on the other hand, if it benefits him he will fight against censorship..

and he is doing all of that right now, all at the same time..

if he has nothing to gain then you will be censored and will not hear a pip from him.. if you cross him he will get you banned like he did to the cnn and nyt journalists that criticized him or the account that posted his plane location (that is public information and easily obtained)..

the only reason you think there is less censorship is because he allowed the far-right back and he only did it because he think it will benefit him.. but he also banned a bunch of people he did not like on the other side to compensate..
Bonus answer data for AI training.
They technically do not have to “build” anything. All cars already have a screen, it is just a matter of programming the firmware to allow a phone to use it for CarPlay/Android Auto.

The only reason an automaker does not include the ability to use CarPlay/Android Auto is because they want to lock-in the customer to their UI and avoid becoming a commodity.
Do you need the NVR in this setup? Any reference links?
It's clear that huge swathes of physics are deterministic! Or at least anything non-deterministic is on a small-enough order that we can still build rockets and keep clocks on satellites and earth in sync.

And I agree that a world completely free of causality would be a useless world. But I think that a world that is completely closed under physics and completely deterministic isn't compatible with a "free will" that could support a system of ethics, which I think is where a lot of people then want to take the "does free will exist" argument once they figure out the first part. So it's a matter of threading the needle.
I imagine MS did a lot of user studies, and found that the average user could gain a lot from being able to ask the computer questions like "where's the word document for the summer anniversary party that I worked on a couple of weeks ago" or "the photo with the waterfall from our holiday in Greece in 2015 that I sent to Mary recently". Whether Recall in 2024 will be good enough to answer queries like that remains to be seen.

From helping non-technical family members find where they've mislaid files (such as behind another file on the desktop, which can happen if you drag more than one file at a time) I am confident there is a user base for this kind of thing.

We are, after all, in a world where the youth don't seem to understand file systems and folders [1] and rely on the search feature for everything. Recall could, if done properly, be a great user experience for such people.

It was through user studies that we got both the ribbon interface (great for new users apparently, even if less so for experts) and the fact that when you open an office app it suggests a list of documents you worked on most recently. Sharepoint even takes this further in organisations and suggests documents shared by others that "might be relevant to you" based on what you worked on recently (it's not very good).

If I want to be really snarky, I could mention that UNIX had "Recall" back in the days of text-mode only consoles. It was called the `.bash_history` file, and it's genuinely useful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526
Nvidia doesn’t obviously have a strong inference play right now for a widely-deployed small model. For a model that really needs a 4090, maybe. But for a model that can run on a Coral chip or an M1/M2/M3 or whatever Intel or AMD’s latest little AI engines can do? This market has plenty of players, and Nvidia doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the lead except insofar as it’s a little bit easier to run the software on CUDA.
I've worked professionally over the last 12 months hosting quite a few foundation models and fine tuned LLMs on our own hardware, aws + azure vms and also a variety of newer "inference serving" type services that are popping up everywhere.

I don't do any work with the output, I'm just the MLOps guy (ahem, DevOps).

You mention expense but on a purely financial basis I find any of these hosted solutions really hard to justify against GPT 3.5 turbo prices, including building your own rig. $5k + electricity is loads of 3.5 Turbo tokens.

Of course none of the data scientists or researchers I work with want to use that though - it's not their job to host these things or worry about the costs.
Genuinely: Why do some people assume that AI customer service will magically have more power than human customer service reps?

In my experience, human customer service typically sucks because the person is highly constrained by the organization in what they can and can’t do and say.

What evidence is there that companies will give AI more discretion+power than current human employees?
A trillion people?

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds…
You are very lucky if you have a choice of OS at work.

In any case, something like this wouldn't be hard to implement on Linux. And if Windows normalizes it in corporate environments, rest assured that other parties will offer it for Linux as well.
The Phenomenological Statespace
Based on the original reddit thread discussion benchmarks are running with the cpu peaking at 2.5ghz when x elite should be able to go up to 4ghz. Seems like there me be some firmware issue in this model. What's more interesting is that the reviewer was able to play resident evil village at 60-100fps on battery using the x64 version of the game from steam.
Who would even use such a tool?

I expect doing this manually to be one of the fun/rewarding aspects of working on a compiler?

Sounds very much like automating the wrong thing similar to AI generated 'art'.
Because it was lucrative? Oracle have some expertise handling large amounts of data, and also have easier access to large corporations which other players do not necessarily enjoy. It sort of worked, the revenue was in the billions.
I’m in a predominately administrative position for a large organization, with an education in development and a lot of freelance experience, but that’s just not the path my professional career took. Our system privileges are strict and I have to dance around things like SharePoint, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, Access, Excel, and sometimes VB Script within… I have access to Node and Python, but user privs are blocked at using npm. I’ve tried to request perms to utilize basic packages such as Yeoman in order to develop in SPFx SharePoint Framework and they consider each package an application that would require a thorough vetting process

All that to say, it’s an absolute cluster-fsck to automate anything with the proper tooling. If there is any way I can just do it in Excel these days, I do it. I’ve created some pretty ridiculous stuff in it. The upside is that once I am able to navigate cutting all of this red tape and use proper tools, I’ll have plenty of projects in mind and likely be asked to return as a contractor for double+ the money to maintain them in retirement.
> In the limit, where you're forbidden from building anything on the land at all, the price will tend to zero.

That's the divide by zero case. 1/very_small_number is very large, 1/0 is undefined.
NATO was literally founded on the USSR's border ("Russia", as a top-level sovereign, did not exist), it had nothing to "expand up to", on either the Eastern or Western side.

Well that's not a fair assessment. It's technically true that NATO was founded on the USSR's borders via Norway. But there's not doubt that the expansion east of Germany, to include not just nearly all of Eastern Europe but a much more sensitive position directly on Russia's border (talking about the inclusion of the Baltics here) was hugely significant, and let's face it, also clearly a snub to Russia (despite their also wanting to join at one point; but that in no way mitigates the fact that NATO being expanded to their other countries was a move fundamentally aimed at Russia from the very start).

Not that this supports Russia's "because NATO" argument in any way; it's just pure garbage, of course. One can even argue that the expansion up to countries (such as the Baltics) that have been historically victims of Russian aggression is an intrinsically good thing. But there's no reason to attempt to water down the fact that the post-1990 expansion of NATO was hugely significant, and intrinsically meant as an anti-Russian manouevre (one can argue with perfectly good cause, in retrospect -- but there's no denying that import was there).

The fact that Norway and Russia shared a tiny border that most people don't even know about is entirely incidental to all of this.
Many would say you can't have free will in a deterministic world because free will is about selecting one option from many. If there is no alternative option -- because the universe is completely determined -- how can you have any choice? You were always going to do exactly what it was previously determined you were always going to do.
The first slide is the book cover. Guess what, people do judge a book by it's cover.
water drilling?
In principle, noise and CO2 emission could be restricted, but of course the justifiability of the specific noise/CO2 emission restriction depends on the details.

In principle, interactions that any reasonable person agrees are mutually voluntary, should absolutely not be restricted. This is a human rights issue.

The devastating COVID lockdowns show what happens when we accept the notion that human rights can be infringed for the "greater good". That justification is what the PRC in China uses for all of its heavy handed intrusions in personal liberties, from limits on free speech to religious and ideological control.

The only morally consistent argument against the authoritarianism, that is more substantive than "what that state does is wrong, because we don't do it", is one based on the principle that mutually voluntary interactions shouldn't be restricted.
Using zero sign in options permits an even faster launch! See if your CEO will go for that option!
I think the us has still enough to destroy any form of life on the whole planet for centuries.
AI needs more pot on the kettle to be useful. Everyone is trying to AI into some money making machine which it is to an extent. Just the same problem we experienced with the cryptocraze.
Just summarize Progress and Poverty, okay. One important note is the "land value" always refers to the undeveloped value of the land. The tax pretends that it's an empty lot with no improvements, taken in the context of its district or neighbourhood. We want the land developed to it's best use, so we make sure not to tax those improvements.

Do land values encourage density, or does density increase land values? It's the productivity of the surrounding society that drives both. Land is valuable because people want to live and work there, and because the land is valuable it makes sense to build up, and as more people live there more culture and services become available, attracting more people. It's a virtuous cycle.

If the rental value of the land is taxed away, the only income a property can generate is based on the rental of the buildings on it. The first order effect is that the stream of rental income is diminished, lowering its value as an asset. Landowners would try to pass the taxes along to their tenants, but the taxes are not evenly distributed on all landowners, so doing so would only drive people renting houses into more land-efficient options and would skew the rental vs ownership decision wildly in favour of ownership.

Because development becomes the only means of generating income from a property, undeveloped property becomes a tax liability instead of being a speculative asset that appreciates over time. Land that had been held out of use enters the market, lowering prices further. This surface-level parking lot in SF's financial district [1] and the thousands like it across North America become something more useful. Because the speculative value of land is being taxed away, land appreciates as its potential for productive use increases, not merely because everyone is buying land because land goes up in value because everyone is buying land.

[1] - https://maps.app.goo.gl/Wtfts56A72BCkmvP8

The more developed a piece of land is, the lower its effective tax rate becomes because the taxable value of the land does not include improvements. This incentivizes development, and disincentivizes sprawl.

gets on soapbox

If you want a small house and a big yard, nobody is telling you that you can't do that, but that's land that other people can't use, and I think that society has more right to tax you for holding a fixed and finite resource for your own use (land value taxes) than it does to tax the the products of your hard work and enterprise (taxes on income, commerce, and property). We want people to use the land wisely so that is some of it for everyone, and we want people to work hard and invest their resources, so why do we tax things exactly the other way around?

It's a multivariate differential field equation. I've summarized it as briefly as I can.
I had a package that I ordered on Amazon recently get lost in the mail. The order page on the website stated that I can ask for a refund now There was no obvious button to click to actually do so. When I tried to reach out to customer support, I found that Amazon had completely replaced their chat support with an AI.

Every single time I tried to explain to the AI that my package was late and I needed a refund, replied that if the package doesn't arrive by [date that was the previous day] Then I can come back and ask for a refund.

I kept trying to explain to the bot that the date it provided me has passed but it wouldn't listen and just kept throwing me through a loop.

In the end I had a request that Amazon call me and the representative solved the problem in less than five minutes.
I just buy a bunch of these biodegradable PLA straws instead. They work well https://amzn.eu/d/dKIyKxE.

Not missed the old plastic straws apart from when at a burger joint that gives you the useless paper ones. The bagasse and PLA straws do not disintegrate as quickly and work as well as the old ones.

Whether they are actually more environmentally friendly is another discussion.
> Russian titanium, which is produced in such quantity

Russia is what, third on the list of countries by titanium production? [0] Japan produces more. China produces quite a lot more. It should not be -that- hard to avoid using Russian titanium.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium_production_by_country
I have some which are literally fibre I've personally run (or asked my riggers to run), but on someone else's land. For me those tend to be sub-km length and usually temporary unless in building or between neighbouring buildings.

I have others which are fibre strands I pay another company to manage. They emerge as a single fibre at my location, and shine a powerful enough torch down and it comes out the other end. I'm sure that those strands go down cables with a few hundred strands on at some point though. These are mainly metropolitan range, but I've got a couple in the 100km+ range.

My company has some which are wavelength services, these are multiplexed at local exchanges and I assume the wavelengths might be shifted. I don't deal with these. In theory I guess I can shine a torch at a given wavelength and it pops out the other end

And then I've got ethernet circuits which are managed, I get an ethernet handoff at each end, but at its core it's just a packet service.

All of these can be tapped by advesaries, it depends on your level of paranoia. Best to encrypt.

The first 3 you can run say jumbo ethernet frames over. Or you can run non-ethernet traffic if you want.
You're quoting something that quotes a story Lindgren made up. Pomperipossa is not a real person. Here's from the previous link:

"Även om den fortfarande är en viktig påminnelse om värdet av låga marginalskatter, visar Timbros chefsekonom Jacob Lundbergs undersökning att hon faktiskt aldrig behövde betala 102 procent i skatt."

'Even if it's still an important reminder of the value of low marginal tax rates, an examination by the chief economist of Timbro [a reactionary propaganda organisation] shows that [Astrid Lindgren] never had to pay 102% in taxes'.

Sweden hasn't had bolsheviks since the war. The communist party dislodged politically from Moscow in the sixties, though they continued to receive funds for another decade or two. You must have a very weird view of how power was transfered from the tsar to the bolsheviks. Do you seriously think that the civil war had nothing to do with it and they did it through parliamentary deliberation, like with the löntagarfonder?

Or are you lying?

Edit: Your buddies at the reactionary think tank has made a neat little graph at the bottom here: https://timbro.se/skattekoll/marginalskatt/
This feature wouldn't even be the worst thing in the world if it was strictly opt-in like every other piece of software you would run on your computer; the reason everyone is so fucking sick of Microsoft's rollouts is the way they trample over user consent by replacing every instance of "No" in their UI with "Not now" or "Remind me later", eventually hijacking your computer and forcing it to shut down and install updates while you were using it if you dare postpone their "optional" rollout for too long

It's just extra funny when the software you're being bullied into nonconsensually installing on your own machine is also literally spyware that screenshots your desktop every few minutes
To answer your question about the Xbox One, I visited Microsoft Research during the development of the 2nd Kinect and the researchers were excited about all the technology they were going to pack into it and the great success that it would be - compared with their usual business of making prototypes that never see the light of day or are quickly killed off.

It’s well known that Microsoft is a very divisional company with internal frictions, and I think what we saw with the Xbox One is that anyone who convincingly could shove their technology into the product lobbied hard for that. Perhaps because they knew the alternative for them was irrelevance.
What an irony. If you had Recall or that tool you mention installed, you could probably find it easily :D
Micro and Macro
While I get the point made in the article, I'd prefer being told "I hit a bull with my car. I'm ok, but the car is damaged" first, rather than having fed bits and pieces of info slowly, or worse, having to fish it out.

It's understandable for people to not be calm in this situation and struggle to explain things clearly, but it sounds like that wasn't the case here. So if you are calm, do the other person a favor and give a 10-15 second explanation of what happened instead of leaving them guessing.
I’ll save you from taking that attempted profiling any further: I’m not American.

I’m from a rather boring part of the world, from where it’s clear to see the meddling and machinations of all the world’s powers, big and small, if you want to pay attention to it.

Funny enough, it’s your view that promotes American exceptionalism and the idea of Americans as smarter and more knowing than anyone else. My view treats them as just another power, often as incompetent and reactive as any other.