skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The countless needlessly dead "customers" aren't really happy or unhappy anymore. They're dead.

Wanting to not be dead or miserable in exchange for a company fulfilling their obligations and maybe having billions in profit instead of billions in profit +1 is far from 'unreasonable'.

This CEO was not some faceless cog with no agency. He was someone with real power and control that willingly made decisions that actively severely and often fatally harmed his customers.
No WebExtensions :( Pass.
I wouldn't call it extraordinary, as this has been expected since the first quantum error correcting codes were worked out theoretically. But it is a strong claim, backed up with comparably strong evidence. Figure 1d of the paper shows exactly this https://arxiv.org/html/2408.13687v1, and unlike many other comparable works, there are no hat tricks like post-selection to boost the numbers.
Let me start with this: I believe that the suit makes no sense.

The problem is that those people see a real problem (CSAM), want a solution to it, but are not open to the fact that there may not be an acceptable solution. Usually because they don't understand the solution and go with "I don't care how it's done; we are in 2024, it should be possible".
No one here is cheering this person on (as of this posting). Or at least those comments were removed in record time.

>If your reaction is “Oh, but I’m not the CEO!” you’re deluding yourself (at best).

I don't have much of an IRL online presence, so it'd be a helluva a lot harder to plan a retaliation against me than a public figure.

But yes, I live in downtown L.A. It would not be hard at all for me to piss the wrong person off, or simply be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
The "English" terms?

Can you please specify the dialect of English you're referring to, instead of falling for the obviously ridiculous notion that there's one English.

I have never heard "quarter of 12", and wasn't aware it was a thing. In Ireland - Hiberno-English, Irish-English, whatever you like - I've only ever said and heard "quarter to 12" for 11.45.

So, serious question: who says "quarter of 12"? It sounds makey-uppy and illogical, so I'm supposing it might be a linguistic development in the old U.S. of A. I don't feel like I've ever heard it in movies or shows though, in spite of having been subjected to a certain amount of U.S. cultural produce, so this is somewhat mysterious to me.

Please, someone englighten me!
You don't need a uniform distribution to get guaranteed better than even odds. And many nonuniform distributions work just fine.

There are no hidden conditions. It is just a shocking result that we don't expect.
Scaleway/Dedibox/Online.net but the hardware is quite a bit older for the price.

There's also Webtropia I have used in the past, also German, without issues.

OVH would be the safest bet but their support is worst than Hetzner.
it... doesn't? threshold theorems are well known.
Someone could just as easily saying tech workers are destroying the world.

Something along the lines of how technology dehumanizes and displaces us.

That person could then move to a shack in Montana and start mailing bombs to the engineers and tech workers.
I would assume so. Tumblers are known for causing fires (hot air and dust due to not good cleaning by owners).
> Have you ever decided that some of those unhappy customers were unreasonable, or even totally wrong, given all the facts?

Yes. Happens all the time.

AND ... you seem to be implying that all companies are [ethically, morally, practically] the same.

Without taking a position on the shooting, I will tell you this: all companies are not the same. And this particular company seems to be one of the worst, and that too in an arena that directly impacts people's literal lives.
Interesting. It was private for me too. But I clicked to read the full list of the 474 4-star reviews and scrolled and found it. From there I found a direct link to his review which still works (as of a few hours after his name leaked) at:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065667863

He justifies Ted Kaczynski saying:
"He was a violent individual - rightfully imprisoned - who maimed innocent people. While these actions tend to be characterized as those of a crazy luddite, however, they are more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary."

The quote about "Violence never solved anything..." it turns out are not his words, they are part of him quoting someone else in his review; but I wasn't able to find the source of the long message he quoted; just news articles from the last few hours mentioning the quote.

EDIT: nevermind, found the origin of the quote on reddit r/climate: https://www.reddit.com/r/climate/comments/10j1le5/comment/j5...

Another notable GoodReads comment (from Luigi) regarding another book:
"I love Steve-O. His life is full of wild stories, and his addictive personality is one I relate to. "
Try Playwright to grab the data, do us a favor and throw it into the Internet Archive if you grab it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39442740
This is asking if he was influenced by a movie that hasn't been released yet? Seems like a stretch.

Also, normal-guy-snaps-and-takes-revenge seems like one of the biggest genres for awhile now.
> they can’t change unilaterally.

well that shows why you're not aligned with those out there who are frustrated with Healthcare. We weaken universal healthcare almost the moment the administration shifts. It may as well be unilateral.
For what it's worth (to whomever was upset by this): this is not apologetics—there's nothing here in my comment to give anyone cover for being dishonest. It is sufficient for something to be dishonest in order for to it to be deserving of all the judgement that people have for liars. It is the dishonesty that is bad, whether it takes form of a lie or not.

But conflating dishonesty with lying is harmful, because once you do that, you give ammunition to people who employ dishonesty in instances that don't involve lying, because if everyone is taking it as a given that dishonesty and lying are the same, and they can show that they weren't lying, then they can argue they weren't being dishonest. But that's wrong since dishonesty and lying are not synonymous—people can still be dishonest without lying—and, again, it is the dishonesty that is bad.
They're all this way.
Yes, gn is less good than bazel for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is tooling like `blaze query --output=build` and the more restricted evaluation model in starlark which is easier to evaluate.

Since starlark and bazel restrict the amount of "weird" things you can do, type-inference is pretty straightforward (moreso than in regular python), since almost everything is either a struct or a basic type and there isn't any of the common magic.
Some banks in the EU do not even have an e-banking website (all app-only). Revolut is another example of an app-first / app-only bank, but I can think of plenty of other examples for my country
"We're releasing this like rats on a remote island, in hopes of seeing how the ecosystem is going to respond".
> HSS share roughly the same probability of catching fire as tumblers

Does "tumblers" in this context mean tumbler dryer? I've only ever heard tumbler meaning the type of cup.
what if this is all _still_ part of his plan, and the happy meal is intentional, and he called the police on himself at the mcdonalds?
Yes. I don't dream of working on ways to deny needed medical coverage to pad my pockets.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/health/liver-transplant-mom-e... has a nice illustrative example of how silly the system UnitedHealthcare and others set up can get.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/nyregion/delay-deny-defen...

> Earlier this year, a Senate committee investigated Medicare Advantage plans denying nursing care to patients who were recovering from falls and strokes. It concluded that three major companies — UnitedHealthcare, Humana and CVS, which owns Aetna — were intentionally denying claims for this expensive care to increase profits. UnitedHealthcare, the report noted, denied requests for such nursing stays three times more often than it did for other services. (Humana had an even higher figure, denying at a rate 16 times higher.)

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-healthcare-i...

> As United reviewed McNaughton’s treatment, he and his family were often in the dark about what was happening or their rights. Meanwhile, United employees misrepresented critical findings and ignored warnings from doctors about the risks of altering McNaughton’s drug plan.

> At one point, court records show, United inaccurately reported to Penn State and the family that McNaughton’s doctor had agreed to lower the doses of his medication. Another time, a doctor paid by United concluded that denying payments for McNaughton’s treatment could put his health at risk, but the company buried his report and did not consider its findings. The insurer did, however, consider a report submitted by a company doctor who rubber-stamped the recommendation of a United nurse to reject paying for the treatment.
I've never been CEO of a company that directly profited off of human misery.
UnitedHealthcare is pretty well-established to be much worse than average within the industry. This is not new news.
Oppenheimer was making a bomb from day 1, he knew exactly what he was doing and how it would be used. There aren't so many different use cases for a bomb, after all. It was a nice movie, but it does not absolve him
There's also still win 10 IoT LTSC 2021 which is supported until 2032. Just very hard to get officially.
This website is not a tool - not really.

Your keyboard is.

Censoring AI generation itself is very much like censoring your keyboard or text editor or IDE.

Edit: Of course, "literally everything is a tool", yada yada. You get what I mean. There is a meaningful difference between that translate our thoughts to a digital medium (keyboards) and tools that share those thoughts that others.
Free WhatsApp AI voice message transcriber. directly in-app, with most languages
Hi, I post here my latest project: a whatsapp transcriber bot using openAI technology.
I host a version running on the cloud here: https://en.transcribe-bot.com/

but you can get the open-sourced core code here: https://github.com/indiestryker/Whatsapp-audio-to-text-AI-tr...
>have you ever worked for a company that had customers?

Yeah nothing I worked for bankrupted people because they used an out of network surgeon though.

Me refusing to accept a return on some golf shoes without a receipt is not morally equivalent.

I feel safe in that regard.
> entirely unnecessary

The journey is the reward.

The board won't last the first few minutes of a rally course.
i wouldnt expect young children to learn how to walk by watching people walk on a screen, regardless of if its a real person walking, or an ai animation.

the real world gives way more stimulus

watching the animations might help them play video games, but i again imagine that the feedback is what will do the real job.

even for the real ladybug video, who says the behaviour on screen is similar to what a typical ladybug does? if its on video, the ladybug was probably doing something weird amd unexpected
Discrete log doesn't use Shor's algorithm, and appears to need more qubits to break (per key bit).
Yes, I already use win+tab, but that is quite a lot of mouse work, what I was hoping for was shortcuts like KDE has 'move app to next desktop', or even better there was some hidden menu or trick to get apps to open on the desktop I want them to live on.
Update: Recovery attempt via telecom operators failed - the number is stuck in limbo between two carriers. While this didn't work in my case, other European users may still recover their number by either:

1. Starting a new 2-year contract

2. Paying a one-time fee for a preferred number (~150 EUR in my case)

Tip: Contact your local carrier to check if number recovery is possible, or if you can request a specific number for a new contract.

Currently pursuing Plan B: Submitted a Data Access Request [1] to Google in hopes of getting my data back.

[1]: https://support.google.com/policies/contact/sar
I can't find any information on whether these models are uncensored or not. Does anyone know?
The people administering these broken systems who are being paid huge salaries are totally innocent, they had no other alternative, they wanted regular salaries and to do good to their customers but were forced into these jobs.

/s

#FORCED_CEO_LABOR_HAS_DIRE_CONSEQUENCES
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Eh, society did a pretty good job overall.

The bomb was the end of conventional warfare between nuclear nations. MAD has created an era of peace unlike anything our species has ever seen before.
> the image of those people on slot machines, mechanically and soullessly pulling levers because they are addicted. It's just so strange.

Worse, the audience is our parents and grandparents. They have little context to be able to sort out reality from this stuff
There are right answers though. Certainly far more "right" than what they currently do.

They can, in fact, have their billions of profits while not putting their customers in the grave. It's just slightly less profit than they currently get.

Squeezing the blood from the stone here is entirely a choice.
If I was the CEO of a company and I made repeated conscious choices to deliberately deny people a life-saving service they paid for so I could get a slightly higher obscenely large bonus, I'd expect people to try and extract revenge.

UHC deliberately denied coverage to millions of people, at least hundreds of whom died as a result. Right now experts are saying that 7 out of 10 juries wouldn't vote to convict Luigi, and based on conversations I've had with people across the political spectrum I'd say the only jury that would convict Luigi is one made up entirely of healthcare executives.

I'm just surprised that this didn't happen sooner.
A friendly reminder: if you have tech-illiterate people in your life (parents, grandparents, friends, etc), please reach out to them and inform them about advances in AI text, image, audio, and (as of very recently) video generation. Many folks are not aware of what modern algorithms are capable of, and this puts them at risk. GenAI makes it easier and cheaper than ever for bad actors to create targeted, believable scams. Let your loved ones know that it is possible to create believable images, audio, and videos which may depict anything from “Politician Says OUTRAGEOUS Thing!” to “a member of your own family is begging you for money.” The best defense you can give them is to make them aware of what they’re up against. These tools are currently the worst they will ever be, and their capabilities will only grow in the coming months and years. They are already widely used by scammers.
My Gripes with Tech Talks
Hahaha not at all, great catch. Sometimes my gray matter just totally craps out... like thinking of "changing order of magnitude" as "adding 1 extra digit".

Reminds me of the time my research director pulled me aside for defining CPU as "core processing unit" instead of "central processing unit" in a paper!
A signature (not encryption) with short-term valid life is fine at 2048 still.
People do blame the politicians, but they rightly also blame anyone who has a hand in and nexus to furthering the rotten system. CEOs, AI algorithms people who write algorithms to deny coverage, software developers who ship it to production, etc are all culpable to some degree. The bigger the nexus, the more the culpability.

Night janitor? Probably not enough nexus to be blamed. The Tech Lead on the “Deny Healthcare for Corporate Profits” initiative? Probably as culpable as the CEO.
Why can't an anti capitalist eat at McDonald's? There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
What level of cognitive dissonance is required to refer to patients denied critical care as "unhappy customers"?

To argue in good faith, I have to assume that you believe what you've written. How should one interpret it? Be explicit.
and the arXiv preprint, which isn't paywalled https://arxiv.org/html/2408.13687v1
But they don't, they just understand pixel relationships (right?)
The problem isn't whether we should regulate AI. It's whether it's even possible to regulate them without causing significant turmoil and damage to the society.

It's not hyperbole. Hunyuan was released before Sora. So regulating Sora does absolutely nothing unless you can regulate Hunyuan, which is 1) open source and 2) made by a China company.

How do we expect the US govt to regulate that? Threatening sanction China unless they stop doing AI research???
"Proper regulation" may involve breaking companies into pieces such that they cannot dominate industries and deprive the public the option of choosing a different provider for the services they provide. Does an Alphabet subsidiary working on quantum computer research require 90% of search traffic to go through Google? Or for Android handsets to send a really phenomenal amount of telemetry back to the mothership with no real recourse for the average user?
At many places I've worked, there are essentially zero checks-and-balances between "Exec gets randomly excited about X" and "X becomes a mandate, with staffing, budget, and deadline." No technical vetting, feedback loop, sometimes no apparent coordination with other execs (and their random ideas). It's just: "Mike is excited about Cloud. -> We are now doing Cloud." Later, Mike gets excited about something else, and the entire team moves over to something else. "Mike is excited about AI. -> We are now doing AI."
Distinguishing reality from fiction is useful, but it doesn’t shape our desires or define our values. As a culture, we’ve grown colder and more detached. Think of the first Dracula film—audiences were so shaken by a simple eerie face that some reportedly lost control in the theater. Compare that visceral reaction to the apathy we feel toward far more shocking imagery today.

If media didn’t profoundly affect us, how could exposure therapy rewire fears? Why would billions be spent on advertising if it didn’t work? Why would propaganda or education exist if ideas couldn’t be planted and nurtured through storytelling?

Is there any meaningful difference between a sermon from the pulpit and a feature film in the theater? Both are designed to influence, persuade, and reshape our worldview.

As Alan Moore aptly put it:
"Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images to achieve changes in consciousness."

In my opinion the old adage holds true, you are what you eat. And we will soon be eating unimaginable mountains of artificial content cooked up by dream engines tuned to our every desire and whim.
>... some of those customers are unhappy...

That's a tremendously generous way of saying, "Many of their customers are dead because the company opted for profit over treatment".
Well, tech workers aren't directly to blame but they're surely enabling bigger men to do their dirty deeds.

Time to reflect how your work is affecting the world, folks. But even if you take action and quit now it's likely they'll find other guns to hire. If you want to make a difference you have to do a lot more than that.
Execs of companies beyond a certain size are part of the political elite - in fact they probably have more political strength then the average politician.
Census II of Free and Open Source Software
He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.
What is the point of this hypothetical?
Which VPS are you using and recommend?
Exotic is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as:

"unusual and exciting because of coming (or seeming to come) from far away, especially a tropical country"

That doesn't seem too far from the use of it in physics. The "tropical country" part is clearly optional but could be replaced by "especially a special group of scientists".
It's a hell of a lot better than "people care about what I do because I ruin their lives" now isn't it?
I don't think that's a fair characterization.

> When asked by a reporter if police had the suspect’s name, Adams said, “We don’t want to release that now. If you do, you’re basically giving a tip to the person we are fine with seeking, and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all. Let him continue to believe he can hide behind a mask.”

Grammatical flub aside ("the person we are fine with seeking"), he is just saying that he doesn't want to say anything about the info being requested. The police release information that they have decided is in their interest to release. Everything else is classified confidential by default.
Retrotink is a brand, node a device. There’s about half a dozen or so different scalers made by retrotink and many of them have different options.
> Would you want Microsoft to claim they're responsible for the "safety" of what you write with Word? For the legality of the numbers you're punching into an Excel spreadsheet? Would you want Verizon keeping tabs on every word you say, to make sure it's in line with their corporate ethos?

Would you want DuPont to check the toxicity of Teflon effluents they're releasing in your neighbourhood? That's insane. It's people's responsibility to make sure that they drink harmless water. New tech is always amazing.
Plutonium can be burned in existing reactors ("mixed-oxide fuel"). At one time, almost 20% of the US electricity production was powered by Russian nukes.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42369465
> The username on an account can be set or even changed at any time and would not affect the created date.

Didn't know this (not a YT user as such) but I won't delete the comment for thread history sake.

It does appear it may be bogus.
No, it's not that black-and-white. The politicians are to blame, as are the corporations and business interests who continue to take advantage of the system for financial gain, as opposed to working to fix it from within.
Acton has a different focus than Erlang. Beyond syntax, the type system is likely the biggest difference, both in how in feels to the developer as well as what it means for things under the hood. I think Acton, given static typing, can compile down to more efficient code than what you can ever achieve with Erlang. From this perspective, Acton is more in the same camp as Rust or Go. But where Go is a language built around CSP, Acton, like Erlang, is built around the actor model. So if you like actors but also like types, maybe Acton is for you :)

There's lots of work to get types into Erlang, but it's hard to bolt things on afterwards, which is why Acton is a language and not just an actor framework for X.
The company that did the worst thing I ever worked for did… drum roll… cold calls to random people trying to sell them beds, mattresses, pillows and blankets.

So I do feel morally in the clear to cheer over the death of someone whose bonus hinged on him increasing the suffering and reducing the life span of completely random, innocent people, that, as a group, only had in common „not being rich“.
If it helps, my book Crafting Interpreters walks through a linear probing hash table implementation in C including handling deletion:

https://craftinginterpreters.com/hash-tables.html#deleting-e...
No, because he was sloppy and lowered his mask...
That's when the suspect's identity is known, and the suspect would rather face a bail hearing then try to keep hiding.
Why not ask it to solve math questions?

The bar for GPT-4 was so low that unambiguously clearing that threshold should be pretty easy.
https://stable-diffusion-art.com/animatediff/