skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>We live in a world absolutely awash in corporate and state surveillance, where virtually all parties constantly position themselves to increase information gathering. We are literally talking about an abuse of the fine print in TOS by a government entity, and I am paranoid?

There's a pretty big difference between "some apps collect your location data and sell it, there's some clause buried in the ToS authorizing them to do it", and "your phone has hardware/software backdoors to collection location data even if the option is explicitly turned off". The former can plausibly be defended in court, whereas the latter is obvious fraud. Before you claim "but big corporations are above the law!", google recently paid millions to settle a lawsuit for tracking users in incognito mode, which sounds evil but was pretty banal in actuality. They didn't add some sort of backdoor to exempt their domains from incognito mode. Rather, they treated incognito sessions as regular sessions, such that if used incognito mode but visited a site that used google analytics, your visit would still be recorded.

>This is honestly so basic it almost feels like gaslighting to call me paranoid. Either keep your phone in a metal box, or presume it is compromised. Just like the the most basic level of opsec for virtually all relevant government agencies.

The police also has the ability to bug your house, but I think it's pretty paranoid for the average joe to think their house is bugged. "opsec" also involves doing a threat assessment and understanding what the most likely risks are, not assuming the FSB is out to get you and hiding in a bunker.
When I was 9 back in 1991, we lived in the Keflavik Navy Station, and my 12 year old sister and I would ride our bikes all over the base. We'd frequently ride to the youth center which was over a mile from our apartment.

The next year, we moved back to Virginia Beach, and I'd frequently ride my bike by myself to the video rental store about 3/4 a mile away.

Are kidnappings really more common now than then? Aren't most kidnappings actually done by close relatives? I knew not to trust strangers.

What really bothers me is how the generation that grew up with the least supervision is now the generation that's calling the cops for children being unsupervised, while also wearing their lack of supervision as a badge of honor.
Thanks for posting this! We made it almost unsure how it would feel to use, and it is surprisingly delightful.
An interesting map: https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_02/playgraphicDM1406...

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children...
This is a problem with management, not AI.

The acuity system obviously doesn't work well and wasn't properly rolled out. It's clear that they did not even explain how it was supposed to work. That's a problem with that system and it's deployment, not AI in general.

Recording verbal conversations instead of making doctors and nurses always type things is surely the result of a massive portion of doctors saying that record keeping was too awkward and time intensive. It is not logical to assume that there is a privacy concern that overrides the time saving and safety aspect of doing that. People make that assumption because they are pre-conditioned against surveillance and are not considering physician burnout with record keeping systems.

It's true that there are large gaps in AI capability and that software rollouts are quite difficult and poor implementation can cause a significant burden on medical professionals as it has here. I actually think if it's as bad as he says with the acuity then that puts patients in danger and should result in firings or lawsuits.

But that doesn't mean that AI isn't useful and won't continue to become more useful.
Epic and Cerner are your main enemies if reducing burn out is the problem. Even then, the continued consolidation and inflow of PE into healthcare will be the next big problems.
MS announces the general availability of .NET 9 with improvements
Instead, the sheriff is going to come handcuff mom and ~kidnap~ arrest her, in front of the kids. That shouldn't harm them at all, right?

There's something missing about this story somewhere.
I'm part of the wave of users who migrated to bluesky last week. I have to say I really like it so far, which surprised me a bit given that I had been underwhelmed by mastodon before. I already spend more time in bluesky than in twitter.

For those (like me) who don't know what bluesky is, it's basically a carbon copy of twitter circa 2015, down to an almost identical UI. Except that there's no monetization, no ads, no growth hacking, which means that in the main features are there to serve the user. My favorite example is the simple expo/react native based mobile app, which lets you open links in safari rather than a useless in-app browser.
>If the state does prosecute, Patterson could face a reckless conduct charge, a $1,000 fine, and a year in jail.

From the article, apparently it's "reckless conduct"
If she's meandering through traffic and doesn't know where she is, that's absolutely a case for taking her in. If she got hit by a car you could just as easy blame the government for "inaction".
"The tool automates a majority of “idea
generation” tasks, reallocating scientists to the new task of evaluating model-suggested candidate
compounds. In the absence of AI, researchers devote nearly half their time to conceptualizing
potential materials. This falls to less than 16% after the tool’s introduction. Meanwhile, time spent
assessing candidate materials increases by 74%"

So the AI is in charge, and mostly needs a bunch of lab assistants.

"Machines should think. People should work." - not a joke any more.
I mean, yeah? There's a qualitative difference between your Uber driver showing up to the specified location where you're waiting and someone who could be an Uber driver stopping you while you're walking down the road to offer a ride.
I think you're not really understanding what people are telling you: the vehicles do not depend on remote operators to avoid crashing or hurting people. The remote operators do not drive the cars in real time.

You do realize that your only source for this claim is an article that only mentions Waymo twice: once to say that Waymo had no comment, and once to blatantly lie about the remote operators being some kind of a shocking revelation rather than something they'd been open about for years.
That prosecutor should be disbarred.
we could all use some civil disobedience for the good of our kind;

“The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.”
The wood bison's range included tundra! I.e. they were hardier than the steppe-endemic megafauna that were killed off by the retreat and vanishing of the steppe, being able to survive (though probably not thrive) on the sort of scrub brush that grows at the taiga-tundra perimeter (which in turn is all that grows there, because of the lack of enough sun-warming for much of the year.)

Note that maps that claim to depict the "mammoth steppe", that you might find when searching, mostly aren't; they are actually usually maps depicting the range of the set of megafauna we associate with the steppe. But many of those megafauna have ranges that exceed the extent of the mammoth-steppe biome — i.e. they're not endemic to the steppe. So these depictions exaggerate the size of the steppe.

For example, these maps show areas within the arctic circle as part of the steppe — but they definitely were not part of the steppe biome. They were tundra then, just as they are now.

If you divide "megafauna you could find on the mammoth steppe" into "endemic to the steppe" vs "ranged to other biomes, such as tundra", I'm not sure what the precise ratio of the two groups would be; but AFAIK, the species that vanished along with the steppe (mostly not from human predation!) constituted at least a majority of such megafauna.

Which should be obvious — we'd have a lot more megafauna otherwise!

Also,

> Wood bison are practically identical to steppe bison so the conditions must be very similar.

This is an argument from phenotype, and that really doesn't work.

Species that happen to present identically when put into the same habitat, are just doing (over the course of a generation or two) the epigenetic equivalent of convergent evolution — flipping all the methylation switches to activate similar developmental strategies that they both happen to have evolved at some point in the past, either independently or in some common ancestor. (In the case of the wood and steppe bison, that would be the "it's cold, but there's lots of food; so I should get big, get strong enough to defend myself, grow lots of heavy fur, and minimize surface area per volume" strategy.)

But if you take two such "phenotypically identical" species out of the same habitat, and place them into a different habitat, they may have wildly different responses to that adaptive pressure. One species may not have the adaptations the other does, and so one species may do well while the other fails to thrive. Or the two species may have very different adaptations, such that they end up inhabiting different ecological niches in their new habitat, when previously they fit into the same slot.

Which is to say: steppe bison died out (long before the sort of en masse human predation that drove the plains bison to extinction), but wood bison survived. There's probably some good reason for that. (I'm not a zoologist, but I would hazard a guess that it has something to do with the wood bison also being known as the mountain bison — i.e. with their ability to range beyond flat plains/steppe!)
It's just getting a lot more attention everywhere, as evidenced by Google Trends.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...

There is an obvious need for Twitter-like platforms, but Twitter/X has become too right-wing for many users. The left needs a place to talk and vent about the election, and Twitter is no longer friendly to that. Therefore, Bluesky is taking off due to that event.
Hmmm. Still tempting.
It could be as simple as the evolution of fish jaws making the mollusc shell insufficient defense. Or fish eyes/pressure sense/etc developing enough to notice hiding molluscs better. It's plausible that earlier predators were below the threshold of extinction-level risk. Flipping the perspective, humans were below an extinction-level risk for most large land animals for a long time.
Regulated devices have very specific definitions like is represented as O, or does x or z and a and b, or x and b. Things like that. The definition typically hinges on very specific parameters and ALSO what it is called. That way no one can sell an inert plug as a “hearing aid”, and no one can sell a hearing aids as “conversation enhancing devices “ to evade certification requirements if they meet the bar feature-wise to be a hearing aid.
Wow, I love that web page / resume and that era of HTML authorship. Brings back memories.
Corporations are people, my friend. This is being tested again with anti-boycott laws and lawsuits.
27 years. And yet, these aren’t that many photos. It’s not grains of sand running through an hourglass. It’s forks of a single meal. No seconds. And with the difference that the plate may be snatched from you at any moment, even though you thought you’d still have plenty left.
*happening in Georgia to white people
A malfunctioning hearing aid/earbud can potentially cause permanent hearing damage. Unless it explodes, a misbehaving phone can't damage your vision.
We did Beast Academy for a couple of years with my older boy but he grew tired of it so we switched to Singapore Math books.
The same way as with car shares. You blame the person before the person to report it and have cameras.
> I loved Lisp, but none of the lisps have anything like Python's ecology.

Try Hissp (https://github.com/gilch). Lisp programming and Python's ecosystem.
OP didn't say it's about hate, and why would you assume OP meant hate? There are many other obvious reasons. Like the market share for example.

To hate requisites that you care enough...and that you are not a corporation...
Ropes, bars, climbing walls. You can make it perfectly safe and tiny humans are incredibly sturdy.

Joints, ankles, tendons, muscles will get strong & flexible.

Balance, falling, control are only three of the many passive & active skills that will grow.

They are the foundation for all kinds of higher lvl human stuff.

We all know how important physical health & full body flexibility, mobility & endurance are. Let the kids start early and organically.
At Google, this months later permission step from everyone is a built in step in the launch process and mandatory. Takes forever.
interesting, given that kids in Atlanta GA are REQUIRED to walk to and from school if they live a mile away.
>This absurd idea that website owners should have any say about what runs on your computer/device is nonsense.

No, they don't get a say about what software you run on your computer. But if your computer is accessing private APIs that I pay for, then I get a say in how you get to use it. It's also up to me to secure the APIs and prevent abuse. If I don't do that then you're essentially free to do what you like with the API until such time that I do lock it down. I'm also free to block your IP address and delete your account if you break the rules of use of the API that I am paying for. Don't like it? Too bad. You can pay for infrastructure to run your own damn APIs.

For public APIs, the same rules about public usage of any physical space should apply. If you can see it "from public" aka logged-out, then you can take photos or record it (aka access the API). If it's a restricted area, then the public isn't allowed there and it's up to the entity trying to protect it to secure it.

I make my living for the last 7 years reverse-engineering non-public APIs from a service my company pays for. The service gets to set a rate-limit, and they enforce it. They know what we're doing and we are in contact often with their managers and engineers. They let us know if we're straining their systems and we respond by limiting use of some of their more expensive APIs. We've almost DDOS their system before, and this is a system millions of people subscribe to, that serves billions of pages per day. It's in everyone's best interest to get along and not abuse the APIs, and not cut us off from using them in a different way than they intended.

I would love it if this service took developers seriously and actually had a real developer program, but they do not, and they likely never will. It's more geared to consumers. But we depend on them in a very big way, so my job is reverse-engineering and scale up something that was never meant to be scaled. It's interesting work, but it also requires having an adult attitude and playing nicely with others. A little mutual respect can go a long way.
Cookie banners are annoying by design. They are a form of malicious compliance by the industry.

Site operators made a deliberate choice to deliberately annoy their users, rather than take the not-so-subtle hint from the legislature that they should stop tracking their users' every click.
While LLMs have accelerated, it, it was already the case that silos were blocking non-Google and non-Bing results before LLMs. LLMs have only made existing problems of the web worse, but they were problems before LLMs too and banning LLMs won't fix the core issues of silos and misinformation.
> It sounds to me like this person is good at getting paid no matter how it goes for the shareholders or the rest of the team

The trouble is that your personal influence is remarkably small in most workplaces. Ultimately, you can't change much, and what you can change takes a lot of effort. It often requires being bullish, which can introduce risk to your job.

Sometimes, the choices are as follows: either have the big idea in mind and always strive for the best, sacrificing your mental health, making enemies, and potentially losing your job. Or, keeping your head down and following orders, being a perfect little sailor leading your ship towards the iceberg.
Ok, I'll play. Would you like to present said evidence? Remember that your claim was very explicitly about Waymo, so I'd hope the evidence is about them rather than some other company.
What's the best alternative?

(since so many people in this thread think this is the end of VMware)
This is utterly absurd. I really hope the mother sues and wins a lot of money. DFCS is like most government agencies: They will never, and can never, admit when they are wrong because it undermines their authority.
A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually...

What's the virtualization technology on proxmox?

What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?
>Railroad-esque diagrams

Now and forever I will think of railroads when I see these.
> Can LLMs get in an enemy's head?

That may be much easier for an LLM than all the other things you listed.

Read their socials, write a script that grabs the voices and faces of their loved ones from videos they've shared, synthesise a video call… And yes, they can write the scripts even if they don't have the power to clone voices and faces themselves.

I have no idea what's coming. But this is going to be a wild decade even if nothing new gets invented.
""A few days later, DFCS presented Patterson with a "safety plan" for her to sign. It would require her to delegate a "safety person" to be a "knowing participant and guardian" and watch over the children whenever she leaves home. The plan would also require Patterson to download an app onto her son's phone allowing for his location to be monitored. (The day when it will be illegal not to track one's kids is rapidly approaching.)""

I'm liberal Democrat. But sometimes I think maybe we should just have a beer watch the world burn.
I'd love something like this specifically for email 2FA codes. Shared SMS 2FA would be great too, but obviously different to deal with.
For the record, they've replaced defective vulnerable keys before.

https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-...

I had one of the affected keys. I requested a replacement via their key replacement program and got a new one in the mail.
That sounds like a good weekend project, putting split foam insulation around your pipes. 8' runs are a couple of bucks at the big box stores.

It's not quite as efficient, but I put in a recirculation pump and a timer to keep the water warm throughout the pipe during the day. The clothes washer was never getting warm water, and we wasted a lot at the shower waiting for warm water to reach it.
A lot of us were that. And now that we’re senior we have to recognize it in the youth and guide them to maturity instead of firing them, as our seniors did for us.
I'll definitely look into the docker LXC and Home Assistant VM. I'd been using docker in a VM on proxmox, successfully mind you, but perhaps there's some more efficiency to squeeze...
Yes, but. It's not "happy survivor stories", as if 20% of all children died on their way to school thirty years ago. It's overwhelmingly normal stories, and child deaths were always exceedingly rare.
No no, you see, the tremendous crime rate in the city is why voters should support giving the sheriff loads more unchecked power, and loads more money to buy MRAPs and AR-15s.
Wasn't the @ also invented by users?
I remember it was fascinating to watch this network self organize and create conventions of its own, that are now used everywhere.
Mild nitpick, but the 7Hz x Crinacle Zero:2 and the Truthear Zeros are actually different headphone lines. The Truthear version is more in the 50-60 dollar range, with Harman Earphone target tuning. A second version with different tuning, the Truthear x Crinacle Zero:RED also exists.
My personal belief is yes. Legal talks to management after the case concludes, tells them this is the new reality, and management tells product to make the change.

At no time is management obligated or even remotely motivated to tell end users the real reason for making the change, because users believing that the platform is just a greedy corporation is better than them realizing that the platform will just roll over if the police presents them with a subpoena to snitch on a user.
We aren't talking about one or two pigs wandering into a backyard here. The sheer numbers are such that people who hunt them routinely end up shooting literally dozens of feral pigs in minutes, and it still isn't enough to keep the populations in check. Which is why USDA straight up says that "lethal techniques may be a more effective means for limiting population growth and achieving long-term suppression of damage".
Agreed that LLMs are quite good at SQL (and relational algebra). However, ask yourself this: how many programming languages do you know to at least a comfortable level? If N > 1, why not add another (SQL)? It’s not a difficult language, which is in part why LLMs are so good at it – it’s easy to predict the next token, because there are so few of them.
It isn’t ironic to dislike intolerant people or to voice it. It is an individual’s prerogative to imagine that tolerance must be completely uniform, but that doesn’t reflect the reality of groups or systems made up of actual humans.

Here is a relevant article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
So what?

You file the paperwork, pay for it and you get the certification.

They decided that they won't do that in India.

This is all.

They even did that in Germany and the whole world know how much of a hassle it had to be...but Germany has a more significant market share and potential than India so....we all know it's just about the money.
Mastadon has a massive problem with furries, people with loli anime-avatars or people who fit the «purple haired» stereotype.

It’s very off-putting and alienating for normal people.
What's your evidence that it would crash without the remote operation, or that it's more than 1.0 people?
Yes, while childhood suicide, depression and obesity rates have all been increasing. If you look at all the factors, I'm not sure there's a net benefit.

Edit: I decided to look up the CDC statistics to see if there is any net benefit, but total childhood mortality rates have been increasing in the US. Measuring accidental deaths is extremely flawed, if that were a good target then we should keep all children indoors. No bike riding, no swimming, no tree climbing, just keep them inside on a screen all day long and accidental deaths will continue to drop.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016605
What doesn't make sense to you? There is no claim regarding technical advancement.
Visa launches flexible payments feature in US, UAE
I'm not sure you could be worse than Twitter right now on bots unless you are pursposely trying to be worse.
Fair enough - that certainly explains the situation in the US, where they were allowed. It just seemed surprising to me that every country in the world has medical device certification for anything that calls itself a hearing aid, forcing apple to restrict it to just 2 or 3 countries. You'd think in some it would be linked to what's covered by state medical care, or sold with a particular emblem or... Actually, couldn't find the rules for india at all, but probably 'cause I was searching in english.

But maybe it was just easier for them to block everyone by default pending lawyer review of each country, one at a time.

... I wonder also why they couldn't sell it as a non medical "hearing enhancement" with a disclaimer that it had no medical certification in your country, but perhaps that would also invite lawsuits.
Space startup Firefly valued at over $2B in latest funding round
Whoops, TIL jj has worktrees!
Isn't it equally bad in Canada? That said... stories like these are incomprehensible for the European mind.