skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The West can push back

This sort of hybrid warfare does not work in non-free societies. No, the strategy that works is shipping Ukraine a series of rocket artillery with gradually increasing range to target oil infrastructure in the interior. Oh, and sanctions that actually prevent military engineering, such as on machine tools.

(edit: if you actually want to peel territory off Russian control, you could start with the satellite states in the caucasus, or the weird Russian exclave in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transnistria )
It seems like the problem is the entire premise.

Suppose that older people are more likely to get cancer, so older people with cancer are more represented in the training data. Then we discover that it has a 20% false negative rate for older people but a 35% false negative rate for younger people, i.e. it has a better handle on what cancer looks like in older people. This is fairly intrinsic, the only real way to fix it is to provide it with more samples of images of younger people with cancer, which may not be available.

But you can also "fix" it by raising the false negative rate for older people to 35%. Doing this is idiotic and should not be done, but it allows people to claim that the model is now "fair", and so they will have the incentive to do things like that as long as we continue to demand "fairness" above other considerations.

Moreover, you're likely to see similar effects with all kinds of other groups. Maybe farm workers are more likely to get skin cancer because they spend more time in the sun, and you could see the same kind of disparity in its ability to detect cancer in farm workers because the effects of doing farm work also have other long-term physical correlates that show up in the image. Probably nobody is studying this because farm workers are not a protected class, but it's just a thing that happens whenever you divide the population into distinct groups. That doesn't mean there is inherently anything to be done about it. It's a facet of what data is available.
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There is a definite imbalance. Russia is using it way more aggressively by far. And they actually physically attack us as well
Passable art is common. Original and interesting game mechanics are exceedingly rare, and will continue to be. The relationship between passable art and throwaway games is like that between bland AI content and marketing blogs.

Really good games will still employ really good artists.
Yep, and thus very cheap, the exact thing you don't want spam to be.
If your 2FA code is as autocompletable as your password, is it really a second factor?
> A spam advert for a product is still an advert for a product. Therefore it's not just semantic noise, it is still an advert for a product

Ergo slop and semantic noise.

Companies that used adverts which weren't noise went out of business long ago.
An ancient Italian proverb state "there is no medal without a backside", or anything have good and bad aspects, however "collectivism vs individualism" it's IMVHO a way to misled, society are groups of individuals who share something, the point might be the ratio between cooperation and competition witch is not the same than collectivism vs individualism because happen at various different levels: two restaurants might compete to earn more customers but also cooperate for or against a law, some changes in the surroundings and so on. There is not much "collectivism vs individualism" in that.

Having "the quid" who makes humans doing something even if they dislike it is a classical need of those who rule others, because there are regularly situations where is needed and totally "free" people, specially those who understand less what they are doing and why, might decide not to do something suddenly. The geographical vinculum, the regular physical proximity might help form such "quid", sentiment that push humans to act together, but in a modern world such need is just a sign of incompetent management who fail to "make a team" without certain helpers. Workers are not soldiers and daily work is not a war, any company need a certain environment and slack to compensate various situations without needing such techniques. Companies who operate without that have a bad future and if they perform well now it's just a temporary thing. A society who perform like that is a society doomed to fail quickly anyway. In the end it's not different than those who prefer the office because at home they have unpleasant situations, it's a kind of patch to retard a bit the outcome, not a solution.
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Good point. I am remiss for forgetting this fact that I once knew. Koalas are definitely not bears in Australia, and they're the ones who are most qualified to make this determination. (The rest of us are literally outsiders.)

(Now that we're discussing regional dialects as they relate to furry animals: Can we talk about possums, next?)
Something I've thought a lot while playing backgammon locally is "I wish there was a site like lichess, but for backgammon"... so kudos for going out and starting your own! Are there any plans for post-game analysis?

There seems to be an issue with the login/signup form, as it doesn't pull up the native keyboard for my phone, but some random keyboard.
The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom have all reduced their per-capita energy usage since the peak (earliest peak usage was UK in 1973, latest was Canada in 2007), and I think we can argue that quality-of-life (by at least some metrics) has increased since then.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...
The thing Russians never understood after 1989 is that nobody is going to be marching on Moscow. Even Eastern European countries do not care about Russia. It is seen as a failed neighbouring state with nothing to offer. They lied to the West and used all opportunities offered to them to wage wars and weaken Western democracies instead of improving the living conditions of their own population. If you think this is all propaganda, compare the numbers of Russians migrating to the West to the numbers of Westerners migrating to Russia after 1989. Almost nobody wants to go and live there. It's a shithole. A dangerous shithole that keeps murdering people wholesale.
> If you do nothing that is discernible from noise (be that manually or through AI), unless your explicit goal is to generate noise, your ROI is 0.

We're talking about a group of people whose core skill is convincing people to pay for stuff that isn't worth it. You and I may know they're worthless, but that doesn't mean they're not getting paid.
I think he best protection against that is to have many different sponsors so a single one of them pulling out isn't a death sentence. In that regard, Ladybird already seems to be much better off than Firefox.

Still the concern remains valid and without leadership sticking to strong principles nothing will protect against external influence forever.
Author here. Yes, that said getting into the ISV / APN partner program can be a major pain in the butt and take quite long (from a startup’s perspective where time is precious)
Russia has destroyed two weapons depots (2014 Vrbětice ammunition ammunition depot explosions), conducted roughly 20 assassinations or assassination attempts, and is now suspected on several arson and sabotage attempts in NATO countries. Misinformation campaigns are continuous.

This is the definition of hybrid war. Russian GRU conducts attacks in NATO countries and keeps increasing them until there is enough push to stop it.
Yeah pal I'm not gonna cite a source to tell you about my own experiences, lol.

You fucking HN-parody.
Ah yes, because surely they wouldn't be dead or wounded if the US didn't send weapons their way. Remember the early days of the Russian invasion when Russian soldier raped and killed civilian and made mass graves ?
We already know the sales reps that bombard us with emails don't give a **, now they're just better at pretending.
Are such weapons any safer in the hands of, say, fervent Project 2025 acolytes?
It’s open, as in “open your pocketbook”.
I just don't understand the implied argument here at all. We can do something that results in productivity gains, which people want or they wouldn't pay for it, but we don't want private companies to do this because we have decided an increase energy use is a bad thing. Isn't the obvious path to continue to grow towards more efficient energy sources rather than trying to suppress progress?
Once it is printed in the Guinness book the people will care more. The medium is the message.
Since the auto update for sublimetext to version 4 where I don't have a license for I switched to vscode and never looked back.

At first I lost my trust and then I liked vsc more.
The sad truth is that it’s already too late to keep the status quo.
In the next 20 years the living conditions will worsen considerably for the majority of humans.

What we can do now is make sure humanity as a whole has some chance of survival.
The only way out is realizing that elections are not the only way to engage in democratic societies.

That means organizing: at work, neighborhoods, churches etc to protest against the upcoming attacks that will come. History has shown over and over again that elites don’t share power with the people out of the goodness of their hearts but because they fear the alternative (revolution). Anything else is BS.
I've come across a number of these AI infra start-ups like Scale AI and Zerve and TBH I'm amazed they can do what they do with relatively small teams when you have Meta and Apple somewhat struggling in this area and buying rather than building themselves.
Because that's an order of magnitude better than what you get from advertising.
You need more than a negative leap second to get anytime close to Christmas, though.
Android TV is pretty widespread already. Not that alternative smart TV software is much better about drowning you in ads.
Yeah I'm wondering about that too. I don't think it could possibly be worse than having times like "23:59:60" pop up anywhere and messing every parser or regex up. It would just be like "huh, nothing bad (or good) happened during 23:59:58 and 0:00 according to our logfiles"
Nice.

https://hackernews.demo.vectara.com/?query=I+made+a+search+e...
In an optimistic POV of this, eh, why not?

if models handle my day to day minutia so I have more time, why the hell not...

(I know this is very optimistic POV and not realistic but still)
Even if the mail server you use for inbox does not allow it, you can set up mailgun or a similar service as your smtp server.
The AI spammers will hire people on minimum wage to do that too, if they aren't already.
Both of them require high tech to produce, now that you have to consider things like quicksilver emissions limits when setting up a plant. Measuing parts per billion and tuning the process to minimise emissions is high tech. But that's a distraction.

The key difference is that operating a coal power plant involves a logistics chain from a coal mine in a desert in Australia, and operating a PV plant involves wiping dust from the panels. One global escalation and the logistics chain is in trouble — while the panels will still be there.
It is close enough.
They'll be your enemies if you're the "wrong" kind of person as soon as you step on their soil.

Hope it helps, because it doesn't to millions of people living in their regimes. Authoritarianism apologia is wild.
They were both ill-prepared and harmed their environment. Anybody who gets help for their mental health problems deserves more admiration.
Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken. Pity they never learned how to make their own society work.
Articles like this represent reminder that we are in the middle of a hype cycle. [1]

I don’t say that thinking that LLMs (really: Transformers and the corresponding scaling of compute around it) don’t represent a step change.

I say that because I am very sure that we are going to see a slope of enlightenment that results in products that improve the quality of human life.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle
Dunno why you're being voted down, this is sort of true.
So illegal price fixing shouldn't be punished for economic reasons?

I don't see any "right extremists & nazis" in charge of the current or past governments. Why would they have any impact on the German economy and decisions by Kartellamt?

I agree though, without cheap energy from Russia, the German industry is headed for dark times. But that's the fault of the current government. They're not pressing the issue on who actually destroyed the pipelines and they're not using the one that's still operational and instead buy Russian gas via resellers at a premium.
It in theory may, but no one does.
> If I ever receive spam addressed to foobar.com@mydomain.com that is unrelated to your service I know you leaked or abused my data. Result: you will get a DSGVO complaint and I filter all emails addressed to this address from my inbox.

Has this ever resulted in significant penalties for those companies? I used to do this but I gave up as it never seemed to achieve anything.
Never thought about how all the browsers out there are forks of Google. Excited to see what Ladybird does in the future
Could be worse, I just got an email saying I'm eligible for $100 worth of some ethereum altcoin because I'm a Github user. Only problem is that I have to install some app and let them hijack my Github account if I want them... of course I'm not going to be entertaining that scam.
Well, this is possible for sure, but not for primitive functions, such as strcmp. It just does not happen in practice.
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thanks for the sticker :-)
Interesting considering that Google said it had a strategy that would ensure AI consumed less power. It was based on the 4Ms: model, machine, mechanization, and mapping.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9810097
It would also be a disaster for abled users. Accessibility empowers everyone.
> Wes: There’s audio recording of him dying. My advisor listened to it. I’ve never listened to it, but it’s 15 minutes of him being dismantled by a bear. You can hear his arm being separated from his body in it. It’s the worst possible way to go.

God, I remember watching the scene in "Grizzly Man" in which Werner Herzog listens to this exact audio recording. Even via proxy, it's very hard to stomach.

https://youtu.be/IP2BQLOWi4M?si=yy76XPhS6woyyA86&t=170

In Herzog's own words:

> It's the most terrifying thing I've ever heard in my life. Being shocked like that, I told her, "You should never listen to it, and you should rather destroy [the tape]. It should not be sitting on your shelf in your living room all the time."
The simplest way that I could put it using words is:

The number is what it is cause it's "increment of increment" is the same as it's "increment" when you are using exponentiation.
Let's assume you have a mom that loves you very much and she let's your know by text on a semi-regular basis. She asks you to come by on Friday. That might seem like a nice idea to you. You reply yes, and you go.

Now, imagine you got messages from what appears to be not 100 but, oh I don't know, 1 000 000 000 000 000 of the very best moms that have ever existed.

And they all do love you so very much. And they do let you by writing these most beautifully touching text messages. And they all want to meet up on Friday.

What is going to happen next? Here is what is not going to happen: You are not going to consider meeting any of them Friday, any week. You will, after the shortest of whiles, shut down to this signal. Because it's not actually a signal anymore. The noise floor has gone up and the most beautifully crafted, most personalized text messages of all time are just noise now.
Ask HN: Nontech solo founder, how to build with freelancer devs
I have been a cofounder in the past in a different industry (Business-to-government, EU), with an experienced CTO, we raised 250K but failed to raise more due the nature of our business so we closed shop.

Now, I have been working on this idea for a few months on validation and on technical feasibility and decided to go for it. Its not very complicated to pull off tech-wise, and I found some open source projects that could be of help, but ultimately I would need a team of people to build it.

I obviously need a CTO and I have asked a few friends and acquaintances but at the moment theyre busy doing their own things, and its too early for them because I dont have much to show for at the moment. They have told me to validate the idea first by signing up potential customers and then come back.

So going forward, I can invest around $50K for an MVP, and the initial launch. I can start talking to customers, but I need a team of freelancers to build the MVP.

My question is, how and where do you find effective and affordable freelancers? How do you go about it without getting burned? Do you go to a dev shop, or make a team of individual ones?
MS Defender _is_ malware.
Avoid at all costs. /s
> Rather, it seems to be "undesirable correlation".

More specifically, politically undesirable correlation - as in, "it's there, but its existence upsets some people". It's pretty obvious and self-evident that there are meaningful biological differences related to age, sex, and other demographics. Whether or not they're clinically relevant for a specific diagnosis under question is one thing, but they are clinically relevant for great many diagnoses; trying to "de-bias" reality here will only lead to unnecessary suffering and loss of life.
Author here - the article isnt questioning the value of AI per se, but value capture and competitive dynamics. Internet routers remained valuable but got commoditized, sort of a thing.
It seems to me that the fastest way for iterative improvement is to use LLMs with pure Python with as few frameworks in between as possible:

You know exactly what goes into the prompt, how it’s parsed, what params are used or when they are changed. You can abstract away as much or as little of it as you like. Your API is going to change only when you make it so. And everything you learn about patterns in the process will be applicable to Python in general - not just one framework that may be replaced two months from now.
And I'm not sure you want to appease an enemy that is actively waging hybrid warfare with us.
Yeah this is actually it.

Its much easier for physicians to blame technology than their profession.
> yet to see anything better.

Try Beyond Compare v5.
I have the same setup via GSuite.
> So, what new features are in the 9.0 Community Edition? We have already been informed that things like vector data handling and embedded JavaScript functions are not in the Community Edition and are saved exclusively for the HeatWave variant.

* https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-9-0-community-edition-a-q...
> Here's a 2023 list of separatist movements within Russia

>> Sakha: Sakha or Yakut separatism seeks the creation of an independent Yakutian state. The primary cause of Yakut separatism is economic exploitation by the federal government.

Tell me you never looked at the map without telling me anything.

> Most of these are small and weak, but with outside support, pieces of Russia might be destabilized

Ah, yes, when the Free World (tm) doing this it is the Right Thing (tm). It's only when whose untermenschen not from the Free World (tm) is doing exactly the same then it's totally not the Right Thing (tm).

> With Finland and Estonia both in NATO, access to St. Peterburg is available. The Russian military is rather busy with Ukraine, and there might not be enough troops available to quickly suppress an internal revolt.

I wouldn't even bet my pumpkin latte what if Russia would 'support from the outside' some separatism movements you would scream bloody murder.

It's always fascinating to see people actively inciting a war, while comfortably sitting an ocean away from any consequences.
Labs have made polymers where the ends of each molecule cross-link, but the middle part does not. The molecules almost behave like a liquid, except when stretched.
Author here. Wait until you see the ChatGPT for Law landscape! /s
> Russians understand how the Western societies work and how they can be broken

Do you not also think the West understands how Russian society works and how it can be broken?

I find it interesting how we're ignorant of our own propaganda activities in other countries. For example, in the UK we have a dedicated army unit [1] that:

> uses social media such as Twitter and Facebook to influence populations and behaviour [which is] involved in manipulation of the media including using fake online profiles

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77th_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)#...
The UK collectively decided to fuck itself into oblivion, repeatedly, for more than a decade. My only hope is that in a hundred years the sun will still rise over Avebury on the solstice, the white horse will still leap over uffington, and some miserable subsistence farmer, desperately searching for nonexistent rotten potatoes in the chalky soil will one morning look out through the rain, see the wind moving through beech trees on the crest of the chiltern hills, hear a red kite flying overhead, and feel a rush of warm acid through their blood in absolute certainty that the land is so much more permanent than the rotting bones of a million dead politicians, crushed underfoot
I find dropping “I” at the start of a sentence to be a far greater trigger. No one is that busy. AI or not.
This slightly mad take seems very popular with people who at the very same time seem to hate cheap solar and wind energy and love expensive (and/or nonexistent) nuclear and fossil fuels.

It's a really weird subculture that's grown out of climate denial.

Energy efficiency is a thing. The lowest hanging fruit is EVs and heat pumps that provide 4x more travel or heat than using fossil fuels directly. They're so much more efficient that you could burn the fossils in power plants to generate electricity and still come out ahead. That would be silly though since wind and solar are the cheapest available electricity.

And of course you can power these with nuclear, which would be relevant if they weren't just pretending to like nuclear and really just stalling progress for fossil fuel interests.
Sure, by all means eg send lots and lots of money and weapons to help Ukraine. That's independent of whether you want to copy Russian tactics.