skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! OpenAI employee and paper co-author here, speaking entirely on my own (nobody else in the company knows I'm posting this). Occam's razor is a great principle, and I completely see how it might point towards your viewpoint. But I'd like to make a few points which will hopefully correct some misconceptions:

1. When we made the decision to do partial release, the talking points were about dangers and benefits of release - reputational benefits was one of the four main benefits we listed and not talked about much. Everyone in the room, including mostly technical non-comms folk, agreed that caution was a reasonable decision, given our uncertainty about malicious use.

2. I was at every meeting we had with the press, prior to release. We had written and rehearsed our major talking points beforehand (and stuck to them). Here they are: what we did technically, how it's different/new, how it's still limited; generality and zero-shot behavior of the model; how the trends of scaling are steady; the realism of the synthetic text, and how we're potentially on a trajectory similar to the synthetic images (we specifically compared GPT-2 to Alec's 2015 work on DCGAN, not the photorealistic stuff we see now); malicious use cases and policy implications; framing our partial release as an experiment and a discussion-starter. Ultimately, we didn't have fine-grained control over the actual articles written.

3. My impression is our samples are a qualitative jump from anything publicly known prior to our release. Most people (whether academics or journalists) who have seen our demo come away impressed; a small number had more muted responses. I would be pretty surprised if there weren't use cases this immediately enabled that previous language models didn't; whether they are more economically-valuable than malicious, I'm unsure (although I have a guess).

4. I personally don't have any evidence that the people I worked with on the release aren't well-intentioned, aren't thoughtful, or aren't smart.

Stepping back a bit, there are definitely aspects of what we did that I already regret, and perhaps more aspects I will regret in the future. I wish we'd had more time to think through every aspect of release, but opening up discussion to the community doesn't seem like a terrible outcome, regardless of how well thought out our decisions were.
H1B-holder: earns $80k/year

"Cheap labor! Exploitation!"

H1B-holder: earns $500k/year

"You greedy bastard! You want a green card on top of that?!"

H1B-holder: shocked Pikachu face

Sorry for the Reddit-style comment :-). Also, I haven't downvoted you (in case someone has and you were wondering) because I don't believe you're posting in bad faith. But you do see the contradiction?
Virtualization is relatively fast because the cpu instructions aren't actually being emulated. No one is going to be gaming on an X86 emulator, at least not for anything released in the past decade and a half or so.
Well, for most things ok, but i is so well established, than if you don't use it for loop indexes you you probably impede the readability of those reading your code
Yeah, Manhattan real estate is something like $1600/sqft and SF is $850-$1200 unless you want something in one of the fancy new high-rises. $15 million will buy you 12,500 square feet haha. Just check Zillow.
That you can potentially read the code for the entire software stack doesn't mean you can trivially iterate on it.

For example, suppose the latency culprit were Firefox's CPU-based repainting. (I don't think it is as I can scroll just fine on my Chromebook with FF.) Changing Firefox to fill the scrolled area using the old Iphone checkerboard-style as someone mentioned above is non-trivial. There's nothing Gnome devs can do to make that happen, short of stopping work on Gnome, becoming FF devs, and submitting a large patch to FF.

On the other hand, having access to the entire software stack plus specs (and firmware?) for the entire phone definitely gives them a higher probability of cutting into that touch latency.
It doesn't look like Redis requires a copyright assignment from its contributors. The bulk of the files have a copyright statement for Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez), but other contributors have copyrights in there as well (including Redis Labs). Redis Labs employs antirez and bought the trademark from him, but it doesn't appear that he transferred copyright to them. Even if he had, I don't think Redis Labs would be able to unilaterally relicense Redis.

What Redis Labs owns (and is distributing under this new proprietary license) is a set of modules that they developed for use with Redis. They aren't officially part of Redis.
What is "company time" for a salaried employee that doesn't have required working hours?
Many podcast platforms are already basically setting up ad networks. Content creators supply time stamps and the CDNs stitch in ads at the point of download into those.time stamps. At the moment, conversion rates are highest when the host reads the ads, so there's still a lot of work for the creator but minimal effort for the advertiser.

It's likely that eventually the bar will lower and people will stop minding less integrated ads. But the advertiser pays per download (right now, see next paragraph) and doesn't pay the host to do the reading, so from the buying end it's simple and generally they work with the Podcast hosting platform who then farms it out to creators.

NPR released their Remote Audio Data spec recently and many players are working to integrate it. Essentially the ID3 tags have several time stamps marked and a call back URL. The podcast player then delivers events to that URI indicating the listener listened through that time stamp with some other metadata.

The automation and ad network-ization is already in motion.

So to answer: the same place web pages get ads.
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Hyperlinks, RSS, and a bit of routine maintenance. When you stumble upon an interesting article, subscribe to the author's feed. If you lose interest, unsubscribe. You will eventually end up with the information source you want.
I would've replied sooner, but the silly "oh no, you've posted two times in one hour and somebody didn't like what you said, go cool of for 12 hours" function didn't allow it. Talk about manipulating users' behavior.

> Are you really comparing targeted ad manipulation to medical professionals healing people?

No, I'm comparing beneficial targeted manipulation (notice the lacking of the word "ad") to healing people. You CAN use a knife to murder somebody, but you CAN also use it to perform life saving surgery on them. Advocating for banning all knifes because you don't want people to murder seems weird to me.

Facebook literally tested what they can do with targeted manipulation [1], and they found that they can do both good and bad with it. It freaked the public out, and so do knifes, and I get that. The problem isn't that you can use it only for evil, the problem is that FB & their customers don't want people in a good place mentally and emotionally, because you're less likely to buy things you don't need or spend hours on their site. And that's what was suggested: have a social network that isn't run from the Bay area trying to maximize profit extraction, but one that's user focused. You know, where the user is the customer, not the ad agency.

> There are negative connotations to manipulation that you need to keep in mind.

As there are to using a knife on people. I'm saying "let's ban the bad part and use the good part". Facebook, Google probably know more about their regular users than those users' family, psychiatrists, psychologists and even the users themselves. Are you aware of the potential good they could do with that? Yeah, we won't solve mental health issue by manipulating people, but we'll make it a whole lot better, and we can measure that.

> It's worked for TV and radio for decades.

Not it really didn't, because they barely used random ads. Most shows' demographics where very specific and they don't run car ads during the sunday morning cartoon hour. Hell, they created show concepts to target demographics so they could then sell ads reaching that demographics.

I suppose suggesting to use technology for good doesn't go over well with this crowd. More and more I feel that we're letting the wrong people design, build and steer the technology that will shape the future.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
Don't use arbitrary editors, or editors that don't support "search for standalone identifier" (e.g. surrounded by space, in (), with ; after etc.".
I found IssueHunt. https://issuehunt.io
It is an issue-based bounty platform for the open source software. Anyone can put bounty to each issue of GitHub on IssueHunt, and these money will be distributed to maintainers and contributors.
Going "hey non early bird, enforced early bird schedule NOW" is a shock to the system. It doesn't matter if it's normal to a completely different person.
I'm a 25 year practising western Buddhist. My perspective on this is it can be a danger to take just one part of the noble eight-fold path to such an extreme completely separated from the rest of the path. One should focus first on the base of path, get that in order and reinforce it through repeated practice. By that I mean (mundane) right view, (mundane) right intention, right speech, right action and right livelihood. They should be the majority of your focus at least. Not the higher level work of right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration (the meditative practices). That would be like trying to build the top on a pyramid before building the bottom, or trying to row your boat across the river without unhitching it from the bank.
Good luck with any bigger equation then
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This phenomenon is in sweden termed meditational psychosis (meditationspsykos), and is not connected to meditation that is especially intense or extensive. Having happened to people without drug backgrounds or mental problems, some tried meditation only once. The only common denominator is meditation, in any form really.
Having tried both I much prefer Hired.com on both the hiring and seeking sides.
Oh, I agree completely especially given a binary choice. Too bad in America we have neither.
Stephen mentions that his mouse is on the left because he's left-handed. I'm left-handed, and I don't think I've ever seen someone put the mouse on the left.

How much difference would it make to accuracy, or does the other hand eventually learn to compensate?
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>I generally find if you need multi letter variable names it means your function or scope is to long, or manipulating to many things. It's a nice little red flag for me.

Many times your function should be longer, rather than shorter.

Short methods and functions used just for the sake of being short just move the complexity of understanding in the interaction between them, making logic harder to follow an algorithm when it could have been all in the same place (for related functionality of course, I don't advocate having a function do 2 different irrelevant things).
I guess we mean different things with "trouble".
This "it's ok to act immorally and illegally when you're a startup" attitude has to die in a fire.
If they make a discovery, do they have to cite the specific book?
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#009688 is green?
agreed.

"Free*

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* not really"
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Once you adjust to the schedule, it's fine.

Before you adjust, having a meal at the wrong time and sleep at the wrong time can be somewhat equivalent to skipping both of them. If you ask me to fall asleep at 9PM without any previous setup, it will not happen, and I will not be rested at 6AM.
I wonder if running PouchDB would count... since it's an offline / online database.

I'm wondering if having a PDF that would have data that could self-update if there's an internet connection.

Anyone wanna collaborate on something like this?

I wonder if having a PDF like this that showed you how your stocks of choice are doing would be interesting.
I was a software engineer looking for full-time jobs a couple of years ago and it blew my mind how terrible the process was.

There are _many_ problems in recruiting, but three things really bothered me during my search:

1. Information asymmetry. Job seekers should know more about the people at and day-to-day practices of a company before committing to their long and exhausting interview process. Often times this information is buried under cover letters, applications, phone screens, take-home tests, and hours of onsite interviews. The amount of time/energy it takes for a job seeker to get to the most important information means that they can only really "get to know" a handful of companies.

2. Incentive misalignment. Another big problem in recruiting is having placement fees. If a recruiter's goal is to get me to join a company just long enough to hit the 90-day mark (when they get paid) but it's actually a bad fit, I lose and so does my employer. The incentives are misaligned between (third-party) recruiters, candidates, and employers when there are contingency fees.

3. Lack of exposure to options. When you don't know what your options are, it's easy to settle. It often takes people 3, 4, 5 jobs to figure out what it is they really care about and want from their employer / team / work. Unfortunately, this can take years to figure out for yourself. Not knowing what you want means that you'll do a worser job of choosing the right company to join. We would all do better if we had more exposure to the different ways different teams operate.

I ended up too frustrated w/ my job search to actually get a job. I instead founded Key Values (https://www.keyvalues.com) which solves for the three issues above and provides a way for software engineers to find teams that share their values.

The most talented and competent people will still perform poorly if they're unhappy / uninspired. That junior dev that you took a chance on will blossom if they have the right support and environment.

Value alignment is everything.
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My son and I met Stephen and his son at the NY Maker Faire a few years ago.

As you might imagine, his son (I think he was around 11 then) takes after his father and was heavily into programming already.

Imagine having him as your father! Lucky bugger.
For the curious: https://blog.passcod.name/2014/jun/05/bruteforcing-the-devil
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Agree broadly with everything in the article. However, I have one point to add:

> Physical models that reproduce behavior are limited by the physics of the world, while computer models have much looser bounds.

This is also one of the weak points of computer modeling. The outputs are strongly influenced by modeling assumptions, and without feedback from reality, one can easily be deluded towards wrong models. The computer simulation encodes the map not the territory. This is particularly true in hard to model fields like economics & finance. As long as one appreciates that, computer modeling is a powerful tool.

Regarding what would make modeling more accessible to computer users, I think the answer is an environment where users have access to the full live system (few boundaries) and can tweak it in real-time, with right feedback loops. Eg: Smalltalk, Lisp.
In practice, a + b√5 is a lot less pleasant to work with, especially by hand.
>Yes, the piece is a bit rambling, but how often do you get a first-hand account of a visit to the Dark Night and back again?

All the time. From authors, from Dostoyevsky and Sartre to Hunter Thompson, to random people (seems a good chunk of Medium, for example, includes such experiences)
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tl;dr seems to be "get an assistant so you can focus".

yea, I imagine that helps quite a bit. but it doesn't really address the problem, nor is it accessible to the vast majority of people.
So surveillance cameras are illegal in California? I don't think so. I think your statement is incorrect and likely applies only to private voice conversations.
I'm intrigued by the story of Donald Knuth, which I've seen bandied about lately. One critical fact that is always missing: while he may have given up email in 1990, he retired to emeritus status in 1993.

> In 1968 Knuth joined the faculty at Stanford University, and served until his retirement in 1993, after which he was designated Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming. [1]

What's the difference between being an active-duty professor and an emeritus professor? It means he didn't have to teach classes, do much (any?) departmental service, or be in active communication with administrators. All of these things require email these days, which is why other professors can't "pull a Knuth".

So while folks like to trot out the story of Donald Knuth, we should keep in mind the context. He's not a regular professor, or even a regular senior professor. He is — and has been since 1993 — an emeritus professor who has practically no day-to-day responsibilities at the University.

1: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/c...
Ask HN: Crypto Investing Strategies
I just read Blockchain Revolution and am interested in reading more about crypto investing strategies. Any good resources?
This is the best thing I've read in a long, long time.
Mr. Wolfram, how does it feel to be a god? :D
The MCTB book - https://www.mctb.org

And the Dharma Overground wiki and forum https://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wik...

I'm quite surprised that the article didn't link to it as a support and enthusiast resource for hardcore meditators (even though he mentions it)
Care to elaborate? I'm youngster
I'm sure they take 'your privacy and security seriously'
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> I'm left-handed, and I don't think I've ever seen someone put the mouse on the left.

I'm left-handed. I mouse left-handed at work and right-handed at home. I used to mouse exclusively right-handed, but I started developing wrist-aches and realized I could prevent them by not using one wrist so disproportionately.

> How much difference would it make to accuracy, or does the other hand eventually learn to compensate?

Zero. I got used to using my left hand very quickly, in no more than a day or two.
It also explains why all the links are dead
If fertility is constrained by lack of resources, the why do poor people in the developed world have more kids than middle class people?
The complexity and dev effort is higher initially because the paradigm is so different from "localhost" development. But once the initial boilerplate and yak-shaving work is done, serverless can actually be easier to manage because you deal at a much smaller functional level.
The author should have written to Donald Knuth with an interview request for this piece. It would have added something special beyond just repeating what's already visible on his website.

I wrote to Professor Knuth about a project I did a year or two ago and was pleasantly surprised to receive a two page handwritten note in response. So it seems like the no-email filter is probably still working well for him.
I wonder if there's any popular non-fiction book which someone hasn't accused of being simplistic. The same criticism was levelled for "Sapiens." It seems a kind of gate-keeping, just like how an expert programmer would pounce on a simple explanation shouting, "hey this doesn't cover X, Y or Z." Sapiens might not be 100% accurate, but superbly covers tens of ideas that will gives you a fresh perspective to understand history and humans.

I haven't read Galdwell's books, but read most of his New Yorker articles. While I have observed that sometimes he cherry-picks data, his gift of communicating ideas effectively is un-ignorable. I have had trouble finding non-fiction writers that can match his ability. Gladwell might not be for you, but it's unfair to criticize him just because his writing lacks an academic treatment for the subject.
> Actually, OEMs are allowed to produce phones that fork it but they're forbidden from including gapps ( the google apps suit e.g play store, maps)

how do you account for pretty much every chinese domestic version of android, which doesn't use google services or the play store, because they're blocked by the GFW? For instance the Chinese version of OnePlus' oxygenOS uses the domestic app stores.
Ask HN: What Are Some Startup Red Flags from a Candidate Perspective?
I'm going to have an interview with a very early-stage startup soon. What should I watch out for? What smart questions can I ask to uncover red flags?
And of course most likely after 4/5 years you regret uploading cringy videos like this and just delete them
Hahahaha ... what an oxymoron here . Wolfram and rehabilitation.
The company has not been doing well for a while. Having 800 employees at a macdonald wAge doesn’t seem like a hard thing to accomplish for a cult like corporation.
Startup Idea:

An email service that only delivers messages once or twice a day.
Where else do you have privacy in America? Can't think of a single other location other than one one's own property.
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But this story is about state-criminal relations - people like these are terrorists, and we have laws against terrorism, so it's just the matter of enforcing those laws.

If you mean, when one should start worrying about one's political opponents, the answer is, and always has been - as soon as their support starts growing for any reason. In that sense, the time for anybody on the left to worry about right-wing extremist politics has been many years ago, as was the time to translate it into action (i.e. vote strategically to defeat them as the highest priority).
When you google a question that interests you and find an answer in a blog, you see if there are more interesting stuff there.
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Problem is governments never really acted aside from the US congressional hearings. While this is happening, Facebook's profits are up.

There's really nothing compelling Zuck and Facebook to act morally and legally.
Youtube is a true monopoly. They can do whatever they want.
> SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever

Indeed. I was surprised to see that Tutanota, a German privacy-oriented e-mail provider, only provides access via their web front-end. They don't support IMAP because according to them, they couldn't provide end-to-end encryption in combination with full-text search.
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Chat over Email is so much clearer as a name.
Have you noticed how incredibly resistant people are to doing a thing about it? Just getting anyone to put on a headset is like pulling teeth.
Test with the live iptables state. Then you can save it with iptables-save > rules.v4

Why do you need a wrapper at all? I looked at shorewall ten years ago and it just made everything more complicated than just doing it raw.

Term is also nice because it still uses iptables syntax.
Major companies that need distributed workspace for areas that don’t quite need offices, and the “impression” of think tank. They do have cool hosted events fairly often.
Super cool work!

It has a fossil layer in addition to the geographic features. I have always been curious about actually visualizing the 3D layers of geographical time, including the access to what was living at the time.

And it has an API in addition to its pretty nice layered map overlays.
Honestly, it should be.

Take the amount of productivity amplification you can get with assistants and pay the assistant 80% of that. It doesn't have to be 'everybody gets a personal assistant'.

Managers and PMs and the like should be taking on these kinds of roles, but in my experience they either don't do it or they turn it into micromanaging which makes things more, not less difficult.