skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are there any sites tracking human vs. AI performance per task?
I have a memory of seeing one in the past but can’t find it.

I’m looking for a site that tracks how close algorithms are to human performance (or if they have surpassed it) on various tasks like image recognition, older captchas, hand writing recognition, etc.
i follow the market pretty closely and executives and board members often have pre-defined sales plans that will sell shares right before earnings.

not sure if it’s open to employees. personally don’t think it’s fair but it seems to be legal as is.
You can obfuscate CII (Company Identifying Information) as much as possible. Limit the reveal to those that need to know. Auditing, and making employees aware you can see what they do with data might reduce the temptation because the risk of being discovered is (perceived to be) greater.
The Unsung Women of the Betty Crocker Test Kitchens
> This is so sad, really. We are NOT companies, we're not robots only driven by free will, we don't live in an economy. We are hardcore social animals with huge biological & affective needs, this is scientifically proven.

I think you're taking the OP's comments out of context. They did not say that we are not social animals, etc. they made an allegorical comparison likening a person and their value in the marketplace to a company. That does not mean a person does not have value as a human being, as a member of the community, as a friend, partner, parent etc.

I think the comparison is apt when weighing up our careers - which is what the actual article is about - that is of course my own humble opinion, but you're implying meaning which I don't see in the OP's comment.
It is quite likely that he told YOU that because he knows you would be brainwashed with western propaganda so there's not much he can tell you that will change your mind.

This is a strategy many foreigners have to adopt when living abroad, specially if they live in a country where nation states aren't fully aligned in propaganda matters.

Chinese people have to do this while living in most of the world outside China. Indians and Middle easterns have to do the same for most of the world. Americans have to do it in most of the world, including in Europe, specially if their politics isn't fully aligned with Hollywood liberalism.

There is very little likelyhood that he is totally onboard with US propaganda despite having most friends/family in Russia/Ukraine and himself living in the West. I mean he's exposed to conflicting state propaganda before for sure and knows all states use propaganda for their own benefits. He probably knows how to handle it without causing conflicts in personal relationships so he will say whatever needs to be said to keep the people in their bubble.
Ask HN: Which Extension brings the best out of HN?
A while ago I had an extension, which gave me a bell Icon that alerted me to new comments. After switching to Vivaldi (Following a reinstall) I've been unable to find this plugin but am now using another.

Have you guys found some gems out there?
For many, many years they were prohibited from being open on Sundays due to so-called "blue laws" which were ubiquitous, at least where I live on the East Coast. They started to be repealed in the 1970s for general retail and the 2000s for alcohol. In some locations (a couple towns in New Jersey IIRC) blue laws are still on the books and stores are closed on Sundays.

When stores first started opening on Sundays it was usually for only limited hours. I remember everything shutting down around 4-5pm on Sundays when I was a kid. That's not really the case anymore. When I was a teenager in the late 90s I was paid $1 more an hour on Sundays.

This was published in the NY Times in 1986

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/19/nyregion/sunday-shopping-...

>Similar changes are being felt throughout the region and indeed in most parts of the nation. Like New York, many other states in recent years have struck down legal restrictions that prohibited the sale of most goods on Sundays. The curbs, called blue laws, date from colonial New England, with the observance of the Sabbath being their main purpose.
They replaced the blood in Team Fortress 2 with nuts and bolts, making the characters robots.

Many countries regulate depictions of human vs. nonhuman characters differently -- even the USA. The USA taxed imported toys differently depending on whether the character depicted by the toy was human, prompting Marvel to argue in a court of law that the mutants from X-Men were not human in order to score a tax break on X-Men toys manufactured overseas. Which is just the opposite of X-Men's major themes.
AI interview emotion recognition platform
I've barely touched anything Palantir, but the one gov project I worked on tangentially that used their products did seem suspiciously like a simple database that the gov employees/contractors were doing all the work to make useful.

I'm not sure if that's what they were sold, but if they were sold on a full solution, that's definitely not what they got...
What happened at FSU? It is enough of a good deal that I might send my kids there one day.
That's really harsh and will prevent anyone from ever committing to what they're doing. There's loads of independent creators who are doing sincere, authentic work but they can't do it for free. And if you're consuming creator content on a platform like YouTube, they're getting ad dollars just by dint of being on the platform without saying a word. I don't think there's anything wrong with asking for support to do something that others are deriving value from. It's like people will gladly pay $15/mo for Netflix with the expectation that it's commercial content, but get mad when someone who makes great content with no upfront price suggests their work is worth something.
7.x is still effectively in beta, there are many features that don't work yet, last time I checked neither multicast nor bfd were working.
I dont think it is a problem with saying "hey" but when you say "hey" by itself. All the time I will say something like "hey" and then a followup message with a short question or asking how they are doing, etc etc.

But for sure it is annoying when someone sends me a message that says "Hi" and then says nothing else until I respond
I have been saying for years that we need to treat software developers like jedi when it comes to training.

Practical, industry expert-led coursework has been by far the most outstanding education I have ever received. My DSP professor was (is still) an adjunct to the university I attended and works a normal job 9-5 during the day at some engineering firm. He was easily the best educator I have ever experienced because he brought reality into the classroom every day. I still vividly recall the 20–30-minute lecture/rant about making power point presentations that don't suck.

It's all the little things for me... The nuanced details like "why are you holding it that way?" are impossible to discover until you have a customer complaining at you for a while or have someone who experienced it themselves giving you a heads-up.

For me, the future of practical software engineering education looks a lot more like a machine shop than it does a university campus.
Well, you need at least some understanding of calculus to meaningfully understand statistics, don't you? A basic ability to intuit about integrals and derivatives seems like table stakes.
It's really hard to get a black belt, it took me 10 years of consistent training in the art and a year after getting it I still don't feel like I'm good enough. That's okay, because it keeps me on my toes: when I feel like I don't want to train, whether it's jiu-jitsu, boxing, cardio or weightlifting, I'm reminded that I have a black belt and I need to "honor" it.
But feelings are feelings, I got a PhD in three years, close a #3 CoC in 6-9 months after getting them, and I got a black belt in 10 years. In terms of "joy of accomplishment," I would put 1) black belt, 2) CoC #3, 3) PhD.
According to the article, they 'concluded in a joint chat that Twilio’s stock price would “rise for sure.”'

I bet there are a lot of folks doing this out there, but they are more careful. So they had a non-encrypted chat room about it. It'd be funny if they found this in the company 's Slack workspace.

On top of that, they involved a bunch of other family members. That's too much.
>2. In almost all cases amongst those in the developed world, animal products aren’t generally necessary

Animal fat in human food was mostly replaced by plant oils in the last 100 years by the food industry, causing increased deficiency in fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K in most of the world population. And that is just a few vitamins. There are other essential amino acids which are only available in animal products... and then there are others which nutrition science is still exploring... except nutrition science is ineffective and generally corrupted by the food industry so it takes a very long time to find out what is really true.

What can be believed though is by looking at the history. There are exactly ZERO tribes, cultures, ancient or modern which did not eat animal products.

>1. Needless suffering is generally bad

That has too many assumptions. What is "needless"? "Bad" for who/what purpose/goal?

For instance, one could argue that making humans suffer by depriving humans of essential nutrition for needless reasons like "animal suffering" is generally bad.

>3. farming animals causes their suffering.

Cooking bread causes suffering to the yeast colony. Yeast colonies are super-organisms (which are higher level organisms than individual yeast cells) and they definitely suffer (in their level of consciousness) when you put the dough in the oven... but if you were looking from a human perspective, you don't care about that. Similarly, from a potentially interplanetary species perspective, herbivores dying is not something we should relate to. You can choose to, but then you can also do that for yeast suffering.
Articles from arXiv.org as responsive HTML5 web pages
The important thing is that the founder (and probably many of us would think similarly) is that even now after it failed they still think there are other reasons it failed and that there was a great idea that failed due to ... technicalities. But as you mention and seems to be widely believed is that this is a bad idea in general, or at the very least not as good as the OP thinks.
Anyone else noticed that this domain cannot be resolved with Quad9? Wonder why that is.
how are overseas workers going to able to fix things around the house?
I don't know if this proves there are people behind it, and this is why:

try a very stylistic initial text, maybe something Shakespearan ("There are more things on heaven and earth, Horatio, than have been dreamt of...")

And the following text captures Shakespeare's style better than any living human I know of.

Same thing with Dickens, or Bronte, or Austen, or any distinctive writer.

If this army can produce that kind of prose, I would be stunned.
From the Complaint (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-5...):
"Kamujula met with Sure on April 8, 2020 and later that night began purchasing
out-of-the-money Twilio call options."

Clearly not Money Stuff readers!
> I find a lot of my university career was fascinating and... useless.

I was in college long ago and for my CS undergrad and masters took the usual CS and math courses. When I needed electives though I took courses like economics, finance and accounting. Many years later, those electives ended up being the most useful.

The CS and math courses I wouldn't consider useless though. I'm sure I lean on theory I learned without realizing. But, at the time I couldn't have predicted working in small companies or startups and how important basic finance and accounting would end up.
I think that it depend on the circumstances; there are different kind of entrapment, that do different things. In some cases, the police should be arrested for such a thing, but whoever they tried to convince to do, can be freed due to a technicality. In some cases, both the police and whoever they told to do, should both be arrested for such a thing. In some cases, nobody need to be arrested. Sometimes, the police should be fired for such a thing but should not be arrested.

Selling you a gun and ski mask does not necessarily mean that you will rob a bank. That isn't entrapment. In that case, if you do rob a bank then you can be arrested for it; whoever sold the gun and ski mask didn't make them rob a bank so they aren't the criminal. (Although, there might be a separate issue if purchasing a gun requires safety training (which it probably should, if it is a business transaction), and they don't have any; but, that is a separate issue.)

But, if the police lie to you to make you to rob a bank instead, to try to make you to do so, then that is different; then the police is the one who is criminal.
The article is not at all by the arXiv people. This is just a paper submitted to arXiv (about arXiv). The confusion is understandable, because the link is to arXiv's experimental HTML5 viewer, not the usual format (which would be: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020).

The authors are from Authorea.com, a for-profit that wants to replace arXiv.

Edit: Aside from that, fully agree with you. Good luck to them.
> They should have realized that the second one would be impossible to break into

Why is that impossible? I had a long time idea of making a software for doctors in my country, it's not in Silicon Valley, everyone here use cash and it's hard to keep up with how many visitors they have or patient history (everything is stored in paper), my idea is to make a website for them, i can see how hard it would be to sell this but will it be impossible?
Building a safer Flickr for generations to come
Replit's fight with dark web hackers
Significantly worse than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid
I searched for Raj Rajaratnam's case and found up with Malnik, Blakstad, and Martoma cases by accident. Those are very large prosecutions with prison time. Did you not see those?
We still have Halo LAN party with friends every week.
I had to quit reading Ready Player One at the point the protagonist got into an 80s pop culture trivia competition in a VR chat room and he won, and everyone started cheering and clapping. Even though this was fictional I cringed so hard I just couldn’t keep reading.
"The stock will go up for sure."

Swiper, no swiping!
Cool story bruh. I escaped communism under threat of death. CRT is carefully repackaged Marxist garbage.

And I’ll take a stand with other Americans to make sure our children don’t die slaves in America when the time comes.
I am not sure still why it is humiliating specifically - disheartening sure, demoralizing makes sense. But why would it be humiliating if you are not the person pushing that the paid / non FLOSS app be used in the first place?

Isn't this also a good chance to evangelize an alternative to whomever you are speaking with?
Agree with that, it's a bad analogy. These guys that got caught are the tip of the iceberg. They probably did something reckless in the process.
The site is a bit high-level, but as someone who works on an API gateway right now, I would love to not have to worry about any of it. Feels like a consumerized version of Apigee, Kong, etc.
Agree with these takes. My company's system having the channel #eng-<team name>-lobby as a q/a forum for all teams has been incredible for spreading information, although I could imagine some cultures where it wouldn't work as well. The emojis they have for "Thank you" and "I'm looking into it" seem a bit ambiguous; my company has several "thank you" emotes, but nothing dedicated to the latter. Not sure what we should add.
You made an ISP, this guy made Turtle Race[1]. What was that about Postfix being complex? ;)

1. https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/sendmail/index.php
I think you gave good advice. If someone has privileged access/info, they shouldn't advertise it to the world. It's just asking for trouble.
It’s actually harsher than that. A company that fails typically doesn’t kill the owners.

But as the CEO of you, you can easily get yourself killed in a couple of minutes of bad calls.

The laws of physics are the only laws.
before spending $40k and his own time he should have made a mockup of the software invested just a few hundred bucks in interviews with his intended customers, would have found out quite soon that it had no product-market fit
Ask HN: What Happened to Covid Mutation?
I haven't heard about a new variant since Omicron. Has there just not been one that could compete with it yet? Could this be the "last variant" like people thought it might be?
I'm still wandering about a service that would be to arXiv what Github became to Sourceforge. Order of magnitude improvement of collaboration and interconnection between published materials.
Sounds like a good plan for the rest of the world to adapt, instead of subsidising coal, Saudi Arabia's dictatorship, and Russian tanks.
This is a total guess, but based on the fact that all the perps names are Indian, there is a chance that they are immigrants who are either not aware of the law or the serious consequences involved if you get caught. If they're convicted this will almost certainly affect their immigration status and likely get them deported too.

Not excusing what they did at all, but it should be noted that the judicial systems in India and the US are very different; its not very common to get busted for financial crimes.

I honestly think that whenever immigrants come over they should be required to attend a class about the law enforcement situation in the US, and how there's very real chances of getting prosecuted if you do crimes.
Unfortunately I need to know, because if the numbers are off I need to help fix them. I do take my responsibility to keep revenue numbers within a small group of people very, very seriously, because who knows if someone else would be too tempted to act.
Ukraine – Roman Abramovich Was Poisoned at Peace Talks – Reports
See also: How Haim Saban made his first fortune. By figuring out that the rate scheme made composing children's cartoon music incredibly lucrative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Saban#Music_career
> Class divides have always been around IQ in every society.

Given by the positive effects of SAT testing on social mobility in the mid 20th century, I rather doubt that.

And to be honest, if we are going to have a class system one way or the other, IQ might be the better approach. But IQ is not wisdom, and I worry that the elites of such a society would be disposed to unprecedented levels of ego and hubris.
I personally don't believe either that there is some fundamental difference between human consciousness and computation - so, I believe that in principle, AGI should be possible.

But I think he noted some concrete shortcomings that current models have that still place them not even close to AGI.

In particular the ability to map words to their real-world concepts and imagining hypothetical situations with those concepts.

Most of the trick questions the author was asking weren't about formulating a natural-sounding answer to novel input (though that is impressive enough and the network seems to excel at that task). They were more a test if the network "pulls its answers from books" or if it can really "imagine" the situation, i.e. perform a simulation, taking in the real-world characteristics of the question and come to a conclusion. Results suggested that the network indeed did not imagine the situations.

I think other concrete aspects that are still missing would be social awareness and empathy, the ability to guess what another person is thinking or feeling. Adding to that would be sense of self and all that follows.

Finally, there is the practical problem of acquiring world knowledge. Humans get a nonstop stream of training data on both world and social knowledge from the moment they were born :) Even more, it's extremely high-quality training data, because we're able to explore causations - "I did A and then B happened". Whereas most current networks today only seem to work with pre-existing training data, which would amount to correlations: "When A happens, B often happens as well".

Because of that stuff, I'm still extremely sceptical on any claims that AGI is already archieved (or will be archived soon) - not because I think it's impossible but because it seems to me we have just scratched the surface of what intelligence and consciousness even entails.

Another thought btw: I'm a bit surprised that there seems to be so little talk about animals in the whole AI discussion. There is lots of talk comparing computers with human intelligence - which seems to amount to how well an AI could mimic texts written by north american adults during their working hours - but I haven't read anything yet about how well we could build a robot that could survive in the wilderness or e.g. take part in the social dynamics of a wolf pack.

If we're aiming to build AI that is as intelligent as a human, shouldn't we first be able to build one that is as intelligent as an animal?
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank
> Insider trading requires privileged access to inside information

You think knowledge of the laws and regulations that Congress is going to enact before they're enacted or public is not "inside information"? Defend this stance.
There's no single solution, but I think it comes down to a combination of annual compliance training, decent remuneration, being aware of your team's personal situations, having auditing systems in place and monitoring employee engagement scores as a proxy for job satisfaction and trustworthiness.
Sounds like something that can easily be manipulated by Russia.
There's no reason you can't have both where the need arises.

Personally, I think Windows is not a great OS. On the other hand, some developers of commercial software only have limited knowledge and produce apps that can only run on Windows.

I don't know if the principle has been changed or not, but several decades ago the sequence was:

Analyse the task.

Get software to perform that task.

Get the operating system that will run that software.

Get the hardware that will allow that operating system and app to run.

Quite often, people will reverse the project and buy the hardware first. Then try to match up the rest. It doesn't always work optimally.
Having worked with personal assistants virtual and IRL: There's only a limited scope for that. Many of the more complex questions can't be answered without a large amount of context - something the concierge won't have until they've worked closely with you for a few months.

There's nothing wrong with targeting the market that is OK with context-less (or context-poor) search, but it's worth finding out how strongly you're positioning yourself against the somewhat overcrowded "virtual assistant" market, and how you'll differentiate.
Mining proprietary data is indeed a value proposition.
FYI just because you seem to like it: "harebrained", like having a rabbit's brain
>I thought that instance of the Capital One analysts using internal database queries to understand which retailers were having good quarters was far more interesting and insidious.

How is this seriously different than what any one of a million other "AI analytics" companies are doing with customer data right now?