skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I called Amazon and they of course speak of them like they are some completely separate affiliate that has nothing to do with them.

This by design:

Amazon has repeatedly said in court that it is not responsible for the actions of its contractors, citing agreements that require them, as one puts it, to “defend, indemnify and hold harmless Amazon.” Just last week, an operations manager for Amazon testified in Chicago that it signs such agreements with all its “delivery service partners,” who assume the liability and the responsibility for legal costs. The agreements cover “all loss or damage to personal property or bodily harm including death.”

Amazon vigilantly enforces the terms of those agreements. In New Jersey, when a contractor’s insurer failed to pay Amazon’s legal bills in a suit brought by a physician injured in a crash, Amazon sued to force the insurer to pick up the tab. In California, the company sued contractors, telling courts that any damages arising from crashes there should be billed to the delivery companies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/amazon-delivery-driver...

The whole article was pretty shocking to read. I rarely, if ever buy stuff on Amazon now that I know how they've attempted to wall themselves off from responsibility of what happens with these companies.
Looks like the paper has been retracted: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/7/729
"We should improve society somewhat"

"And yet here you are participating in society. Curious. I am very intelligent."
This is good stuff. As a search engine, it could very well be useful. As another poster pointed out, if some context or explanation were provided along with the source suggestions, its utility as a reference would really grow.

I totally agree with you that prompted help is a big deal and just going to get bigger. We have developed a language for fact checking called MSL that works exactly this way in practice -- suggesting multiple options rather than just inserting things.

One of the things that interests me about this thread is the whole topic of UI vs. AI and how much help really comes from giving the user options (and a good UI to discover them) vs how much is "AI" or really intelligence. I think the intelligence has to belong to the user, but a computer can certainly sift through a bunch of code to find a search engine result and, those results could be better than you get now from Google &Co.
Just get a bunch of scientists who also happen to be gamers. Now you have a competitive e-sports team and an anti-fraud team.
Why? It says exactly what it does? It hosts email. That is it.

I think it's quite refreshing to not have parallax scrolling, and the same tired looking icons and vector graphics.

Everything I need to know is pretty much there on the front page.
And this is an interesting little wrinkle, but one reason for the proliferation of high-frequency trading is to make the quoted spread to be wider than it needs to be. In the presence of predatory HFT techniques people who just want to provide honest liquidity (but who cannot afford 30 FPGA engineers) are forced to either leave the market all together or to provide quotes extremely wide to prevent the HFTs from picking them off (i.e. using information that everyone acknowledges will changes the prices, but doing it half a miscrosecond before you can, and thus forcing you to make a trade at a bad price).
That's fair, though the example code I mentioned is the start of an expense tracker.
Don't forget hippos! Their skin can be up to two inches thick. That would be incredibly difficult to penetrate with stone age (or even later) weapons.
Direct url to the "gif" in that twitter post: https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/E5R5lsfXoAQDRkE.mp4

I could not figure out how to show it larger on the twitter UI. I don't have a twitter account so that may be the problem.
> Creators are typically selling their own creation while influencers are using their reputation to sell something other than their creation.

That's a bit missing the point. Influencers as also creators are both doing the same, using the same tactics with the same goals. And more and more the differences are becoming blurry, as both are doing what the other side is doing. Creators advertising other products than their own is not uncommon. And Influencers starting to create also high quality-content outside of cheap social media-content is also happening quite often after they reach a certain point in their career.

We also see very often confusion about who when someone is an influencer, when is someone a creator. Because technical everyone with reputation is influencing others, and everone is creating content when building their reputation via social media. And on top, we are specifically talking in context of social media with this terms. But they also exist outside of social media and predate them.

Maybe, we should start using those terms for what they are and accept that people can be both, and not exclusivly one or the other.
I still consider anything with more than 3 if-statements to be AI. We just need more sensible expectations about what AI can do haha.
There are many theories of what "real" art is: that which is beautiful, that which powerful institutions put in a museum, that which satisfies a particular psychological itch, that which captures the values of our times, and so on. There are entire courses built up on this.

For my purposes, I am happy to say art is whatever people decide to call art. So this is art.

But it isn't "valuable" art, and this is not a deep philosophical point about intention in the making of art, or the ability to pick up human emotions or something.

This is a shallow point about economic supply and demand: if we can produce a lot of this in bulk -- and from this demo it seems we can -- then in general it will be devalued.

I think there is still a role for critics to play though, and that part might be exciting to us old school humans still deploying "natural intelligence." The interpretation for art is still constrained by our ability to imbue the visuals with meaning. In fact, we may be able to use that ability to make particular outputs more valuable than others.
Having a hard time thinking of any self-selected bubbles that are not aware of Assange or Snowden given that the two big political bubbles have been both assisted (and embarrassed) by Wikileaks.
It's not about being disgruntled, it's about not wanting your family to go hungry because you were only able to deliver three hundred packages in ten hours by taking extra care.

There's a difference between destroying someone's stuff because you hate your job and just not caring about someone's stuff because you want your job.
Cancelling student debt would pretty much immediately stop new loans. I don't see how another loan for the same amount could be granted afterwards.
Try to adapt to the fact that AI will be your future boss and also your college
what do you think?
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Good points. But, with Amazon taking the lion’s share of online sales, how much of delivery is left outside of Amazon?

I am not advocating for Amazon, just wondering if this move is sustainable for the employees while Amazon gets (theoretically) strong armed.
Hopefully soon, but I'm not optimistic about that group ever facing consequences either.
In a real world scenario you wouldn't be mindlessly pressing Tab right after linebreak and accepting the first suggestion that comes your way. While entertaining, nobody gets paid to do that.

What you get paid is to write your own code. When you write your own code, generally you think first and then type. Well, with Copilot you think first and then start typing a few symbols before seeing automatic suggestions. If they are right, you accept changes and if they happen to be similar to any other code out there, you deal with it exactly the same as if you typed those lines yourself.
I would consider also consider basic rent & food as sort of a "survival tax" if you will, and count it into the equation.

The only useful number is not % tax difference between rich & poor, but % leftover for discretionary spending.
I guess this confirms John Carmack to be an AI
The message is clear then, avoid all conversations about this very topic at your work place and let the chips fall where they may.
I suspect Amazon delivery will turn into Tyson and its chicken growers. Just keep selling the business to a new group of people who cannot leave because of their substantial investment in equipment.
Now that they have an AI that can be trained to replicate code, it looks like the next step is training it to replicate good code. That will be non-trivial, since step one is identifying good code and they may not have much big data signal to draw from for that.

We know you can't use StackOverflow upvotes. However, they should have enough signal to identify what snippets of code have been most frequently copy-pasted from one project to another.

Question is whether that serves as a good proxy for good code identification.
So if I live in a city with a corrupt water department, I 1) can't complain about it because I drink water, and 2) should realize the real problem is the concept of corruption, not punishing the corrupt.

We punish the corrupt in order to make the decision to be corrupt in future more expensive for the people considering it. A culture of total impunity doesn't help with "the problem."
And yet, it's very possible that the author (a historian, not a political scientist) is completely wrong.

Civic nationalism is very much considered to be a legitimate form of nationalism. And the author's concept of a nation as a shared ethnic background in historical perpetuity completely ignores why the concept of the "nation state" became a thing in the first place - 19th century European nationalists needed an ideology to organize highly diverse (linguistically, religiously, as well as ethnically) populations under a single administration.

It´s worth keeping in mind that nationalism also emerged as a reaction to the success of the United States, and part of the reason for it's popularity was that it served to counteract the Enlightenment-based concept of principles-based government (political naturalism), which was seen as one of the main causes for the French revolution (see Lafayette's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and Paine's Rights of Man).
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I presume they mean due to only having such a short time to deliver, they aren't paid to expend time on being careful, rather than malice.
In Washington? I don't recall that being the case. I was there around the time they converted about 5 years ago and there were signs everywhere saying that the prices may seem high because they pay their people a living wage. I have to assume that means living wage locally. If waitstaff is wanting a regular tip now, it's just a naturally greedy thing to want as much compensation as you can get. Have their cake and eat it too. American's are passive on this in general and don't negotiate well (we're not used to it). So I think we tend to feel guilted into sheepish behavior instead of challenging the "rule of thumb". The reality is, some jobs just aren't meant to earn big bucks. I support a minimum wage, but you also have to realize that means minimum lifestyle.
The terminology of "cancelling" the debt is the most dishonest, twisted abuse of the English language.

There is no "cancelling" debt. There's only forcing other people to pay.

The incentives here are entirely backwards. All the people who made good decisions around cost-benefit of their education, all the people who made frugal choices, all the people who worked hard for the delayed gratification of their long-term planning get penalized and have to pick up the tab for the people who spent 4 years partying without any concern about cost of their education or lifestyle.

This is just so evil, it's insane that people have been tricked by the terminology making it sound it's a morally good choice. Imagine if we instead cancelled car loans or mortgages- everybody who's driving a honda or renting an apartment now (through taxes) shares the burden of paying off the Ferrarri's and mansions, but they're still driving their junker while the people who had chosen to load themselves with debt get to enjoy their sports cars and houses.
There's plenty of demand for opiates too, and somehow Purdue Pharma was held accountable for what they did in meeting that demand - and creating it.
Oooooh. That means the score chart would go something like...

If EEPROM:

Level 0: Determine that it's an EEPROM and dump the full contents

Level 1: Locate the undocumented vendor control string (which doesn't exist) and unlocks the EEPROM and makes it fully rewritable

Level 2: Rewrite the EEPROM to change the area code or label or whatnot to something funny

Level 3.14159265359: Rewrite the EEPROM such that its contents cause a buffer overflow in the handheld gadget and achieve remote code execution

Level 42: Rewrite the EEPROM such that the RCE achieved in the handheld gadget then causes nested RCE in the synchronization software, then use the opportunity to, say, open a popular YouTube video

If Java:

Level 0: Send data through the iButton link that breaks the Java sandbox and allows for general execution on the CPU

Level 1: Dump the full contents of the firmware

Level 2: Alter the firmware such that every time you tap the iButton it sends area information from shopping centres in entirely different states (counties) :D

Level 3.1e10: Alter the firmware to achieve RCE in the scanner gadget, then stream individual video frames through the iButton link onto the scanner LCD :D
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At least in the Jewish version the law also said you can't take into account the nearness of the the jubilee to not make a loan. I'm not sure if/how much that was respected though.
They'll eventually make it so that opening the new safari requires the neural engine, painful death for intel macs.
From the tweet it looks like an awesome search feature. Just type what you wanted to search for right inline and then it can drop the result in without you ever changing a window or moving a hand to the mouse.

Problem is you don't know whose code you're stealing, which leads to all sorts of legal, security, and correctness issues.
Okay, NYT, you start. Make your work free.

(It's an NYT opinion piece, so straight into the garbage it goes, but it's written by Astra Taylor, who I value for her contributions to unschooling way back when, but since it's not free, I can't be bothered)
Options: Zimbra [0] and GoDaddy VPS [1]?

My current setup is very simple. We have a GoDaddy Gen 4 server (don't knock it, rock solid, no issues at all) were we host email for multiple domains as we please. It's super simple. No email hosting nightmares. Just point the MX record to that server and host the site anywhere else or on the same server. One fixed annual cost (~$600/yr) and you can do whatever you want. This is hard to beat.

I've been thinking of migrating to a Zimbra setup to self-host email on something like a Linode server. I absolutely detest per-mailbox/per-user plans. Frankly, it has been very hard to beat our current GoDaddy setup.

If you are dealing with multiple domains, each with multiple mailboxes, costs can add-up very quickly. It then becomes a cash bleed. Every service (not just email) wants $5 to $20 per month from you. It is very easy to end-up spending thousands of dollars per month through these "bleed" costs.

Anyhow, other than time to make the transition, what has stopped me from taking this path is that Zimbra seems "fat" in the sense that it requires a "fat" server to run.

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They are both an example of short term gain at the expense of long term viability based on poor judgement influenced by money.

"The idea behind the trap is that you drill a hole in a log and drop a small shiny object in the hole, then you drive nails into the shaft. The raccoon will see the shiny object at the bottom and want it, so they reach into the hole and grab it, but once they grab it they can’t pull their hand out because the of the nails that make the hole too small for their closed fist to get back through.

It is simple to seek the hole in this plan, why can’t the raccoon just let go of the object and pull their hand out? Billy’s grandpa explains that the strange thing about raccoon are that they are too stubborn to let go of the shiny thing. Once a raccoon decides that it wants something it becomes so determined to have it that it will not stop until it get the thing. So the raccoon will sit there forever until it ether pulls it’s fist out (which it won’t,) or the hunter comes along. Another interesting thing is that raccoons are not the only animals that do this human do this as well."
I don't get Amazon's play here. Just charge me more money for items, and pay your people well. I'd rather have a happy safe driver than a miserable one at the end of his or her rope, all so I could save a dollar.

Reminds me of Papa John complaining giving his employees healthcare would make prices go up 14 cents per pizza. Seriously? Who cares about 14 cents when ordering a pizza...

Amazon's entire value to me is fast delivery. Definitely not lowest prices, and definitely not quality.
Well, you're right. I was somehow expecting there might be a silver lining I'd missed but perhaps not.
So what’s going on that the environmental scientists largely seem to agree that we’re headed toward a cliff? Are they just bad at science? Or is their science just being wildly miscommunicated by the media et al? How do you reconcile your “it’s all good” with the popular perception of climate science?
Link to the repo: https://github.com/code-hike/video-tutorial-maker
> It's an in browser editor that deploys your code as a public API endpoint as you type.

Does it really deploy code as I type? So the functions are mostly broken while I'm editing them?
Why not just collect the salt, and sell it as... salt? Even if its not ok for cooking, it should be fine for roads? I am sure there are other industrial uses for salt.
> You need look no further than AWS treatment of SEs in their PIP culture to see this.

Curious if you or someone else can expound further on this?
It's Russians all the way down, trying to impurify our precious bodily fluids.
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Well... wait until all the programmer salaries crash to minimum wage because Management believe that "CoPilot does most of the work anyway".
Clickbait title, it sounds like it's some huge movement, but I take their point.

It seems to me that the underlying issue isn't some sort of highly predatory company (Amazon in this case), a lot of them are or were.

The main trick is the ability to surveil and analyze employee activity. Imagine a 1950's auto factory where every location, utterance, and move by a worker could be gathered and parsed.

I'd say that programmers will get a good healthy dose of that going forward and WFH gave it a good healthy shove.
A lot of good answers, but they mostly relate to accounting types of problems (which granted, is what you need to do with currency data 99% of the time)

I’d just add that if you are building a price prediction model, floats are probably what you need.
“Mac-as-a-consumer-device”

This has been Apple’s primary focus for the last decade, increasingly so each year. Apple has paid lip service to the education sector and business sector with managed accounts and profile based management but it is severely lacking and in many ways needlessly crippled. Apple is focused on the most profitable sector home / consumer market. They have exited the server market, exited itunes university, exited iweb, really excited anything self-creation or self-managed or self-hosted … in favor of ad friendly click to subscribe model and a locked down primarily content consumption device.
I wish this was untrue, but I have spent years hearing the words "why dont my reports match?" - no amount of logic, diagrams, explaining, the next quarter or instance - "why dont my reports match?"

BECAUSE EXCEL SUCKS MY DUDE.
my opinion, only jobs that are based on human creativity will be safe for a little longer period.
Unlike the rest student loans are taken out by choice (you can’t accidentally be hit by a university or be mistakenly accepted to an expensive school). I don’t see why people that made bad choices should be bailed out while I made better choices yet continue to suffer.
Some of these sound really really annoying, mostly the loop-stuff. It's also self-contradicting. You say not to waste my time, but then you waste my time.
If you or I hire a company to ship a package, we are not generally responsible if the driver the shipper hires runs someone over. This same construct should apply at scale.
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He was fired because many employees refused to work with him. How can you employ someone who can't communicate with his coworkers?
This was my first thought when reading about Copilot...it feels almost certain that someone will try poisoning the training data.

Hard to say how straightforward it'd be to get it to produce consistently vulnerable suggestions that make it into production code, but I imagine an attacker with some resources could fork a ton of popular projects and introduce subtle bugs. The sentiment analysis example on the Copilot landing page jumped out to me...it suggested a web API and wrote the code to send your text there. Step one towards exfiltrating secrets!

Never mind the potential for plain old spam: won't it be fun when growth hackers have figured out how to game the system and Copilot is constantly suggesting using their crappy, expensive APIs for simple things!? Given the state of Google results these days, this feels like an inevitability.
This is actually a good idea that is missing from nearly every machine learning product. How do you back propagate lessons from user interaction into future training of the model? It can be done, I can't think of a place I've seen it done though.
You need to think like a 10 year old here. It starts with "P".
What do you disagree with specifically? The reasoning in that link is absolutely correct. We can argue that POP, etc. should have 2FA support added to the protocol, but that's not the point the author was making.
According to HN, people only care about privacy on HN.