skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should let people self label any label they like such as “Jovian” or “Mercurial” “Martian”, etc.
It looks like several commenters have been able to reproduce the problem, so in that sense I guess it's substantiated?

If people were trying to reproduce it and failing, I agree with you that would be a different story.
> Protect the life on Earth at all costs

There will eventually be a threat to Earth's biosphere that we simply lack the technology to divert, avoid, or remediate. Pretending that this isn't true eventually results in human extinction.
Sure, things would subside after a time, but with a large community there would be a diverse enough range of subjects in content produced to appeal to a broader range of people using media distribution methods on a scale unimaginable to most people in the beginning of the space age.

...and every day parents around the world are making more new fans than ever.
Why is it "bad management" to eliminate unproductive employees or departments? If you hired an accountant who promised to find tax deductions, but he charged you $1000 to save $500 on taxes, you'd fire him. Likewise, if Wal-Mart has an expensive "corporate analytics" or "data science" team that isn't net positive, why keep them around? If Wal-Mart has an expensive in-house creative agency generating ads and branding, perhaps getting rid of it and going with an external agency is what is needed? Maybe all their digital initiatives have been slow to roll out or underperformed projections, and they decide to stop throwing good money after bad.
Interesting. The introductory business courses I took said revenue was far more important than profit.

Is that not true?
We should never take HNers too seriously lest we suck all the fun from everything in life.
> They refer to it as “eliminating bias”, but it’s really just an attempt to mold these new technologies into conformance with one very specific set of ideological commitments.

It is quite literally creating bias.
its only a PR nightmare because its a closed service and not an open tool
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Agile does not take reality into account. Estimates become deadlines and turn into death marches. The watering hole is poisoned and culture dies a painful death. That is because customers and business owners footing the bill don't do Agile.

Everyone is excited during sprint#1; by sprint#10 the finger pointing and scapegoating begins
What’s there to be upset by? Both groups know the other exists, and both groups know that the other group has written code that copilot trained on.
They are indeed set up to waste people's time.

Blocking people leads to them searching for ways around your block really quickly. Making them waste time not realizing they have been blocked, such as endless retries or shadow bans, is much more effective at making them stop bothering you for a while longer. Time spent doing this is time they can't spend being malicious on your platform.

It's unfortunate when a non-malicious user gets caught in one of these traps...
I take the opposite approach and almost always finish the full interview. They took the time out of their day to do this and it at least gives them practice. It also leaves the company you're repping in a better light imo
We have a ton of evidence that the catastrophic outcomes are more likely than the innocuous outcomes, so “equally weighting” their likelihood and commissioning research on that basis seems misguided.
I assume your starting password rules deliberately set the bar low to encourage PRs to improve it, since I can think of much more believable, infuriating, tedious ways to drag this out longer, keeping the user thinking they're always one step away from a valid password without being obviously silly.

Believable, stupid requirements I've seen in the wild in the bad early days of complexity requirements.

- your password contains a common word

- your password contains one or more repeating characters

- your password contains a forbidden character

- your password needs at least one additional uppercase letter

- your password needs at least one more distinct special character

- your password cannot end with a special character

- your password contains an escalating series of numbers

- your password is too short

- your password is too long
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I get fatuous inauthenticity. It's a computer program not a person, and no single person wrote it or actually feels any aggrieved embarassement for that mishap, since they aren't manually performing the task that went wrong. They may say "gah" sincerely sometime later when they read a bug report, but that is some entirely seperate thing.
do you reckon it's possible to somehow transfer learn from a GBT to a NN ?
It's pretty much human nature to cut expenses when income or revenue drops. If you lost your job, or just half your income, I bet you'd find a few things to stop spending on.
One of the absolute worst dark patterns I’ve seen was on Foodpanda. When you’re just browsing, you see prices crossed out, with a cheaper price below it, which seems to indicate there’s some sort of promotion.

You can continue browsing a specific restaurant, and order a “discounted” item, your total price will be the sum of the discounted items. That is, up until you actually want to check out, suddenly your total jumps back to the sum of the original valued of the items. Because, apparently, that discount was only for “pro” users. It’s nowhere mentioned that is the case. And since I’m logged in, they already know I’m not a pro user.

This pissed me of so much, I documented and reported this to the local consumer council, but haven’t heard back yet.
If you look at FBI data it’s not a widespread problem. But I guess instilling fear and then offering comfort sells. I see the “stop hate” in places where there is the least likelihood people would be attacked, you know richer suburban areas with very little crime…
It could just not suggest anything, but continue to suggest as usual for other parts of the file. I think that would offend the least number of people.

The issue isn't that it isn't producing a suggestion, but that it stops producing a suggestion altogether for the rest of the file.

I don't use copilot anymore because it just results in poor quality code and additional cognitive overhead (because you need to read and discard the shitty suggestions) as you type. It both slows you down and exhausts you. So you can really think of this as a feature. You'll write much better code as soon as copilot shuts down. It should do this more often.
> What causes you to assume that?

Those 2nm 5nm 7nm shit has been driven by people's need for new mobile phones, and people are getting tired of buying new phone every year without much persuading new features.

Also cryptocurrency mining has lost its momentum, lots of networks will switch to PoS to replace the CPU/GPU hungry hashing.
ICANN: $0.18
Verisign (.com registry): $7.85

So that’s $8, plus credit card fees of ~$0.30 and their own hosting, ICANN fixed costs, etc.

I would say $8.50 is almost definitely below break, and $9-10 probably so.
"Too poor to afford $4/gallon? Just buy a brand new Tesla!"
looks like AI, quacks like a bunch of linear equations
> I don't think, e.g. being able to handle black faces correctly is some sort of massive ideological commitment.

Why did you suggest THIS as an example of what hes talking about? He doesn't indicate that he disagrees with this case.

Furthermore,that sounds like a problem of having incomplete training data. Regardless,
manually tweaking a model points to a failure in the process somewhere.
That might be specific to where you are from. I can only speak for Australia and New Zealand, but "Hi" is perfectly acceptable. Unnecessarily formal speech can come across as disingenuous, and maybe a little patronizing. Although the same is true for overly familiar speech as well.
And sometimes the most productive thing of all with regards to long term utility is to stick your pantsless ass on the couch with a few beers and play video games.
Agreed. The answer is approved by Dave Cheney, he works at GitHub, and if you've ever attended one of his talks it's plain to see he's a very scrupulous person. I also don't think this is an example of Microsoft taking a side; rather I read it as them refusing to bat, which seems fine.

What I would've preferred one of these threads to be about is how all of this works. Like, how do they post-hoc filter certain things? Is that the only way to deal with things defined as issues in ML?
Dig for that crazy pile of N64 game ideas Kid You drew out and start hacking on one, now that you have the renderer!
Was any of the actual code or other artifacts of the work preserved?
Why do you want me to visualize half a donkey?

I propose Great Dane dog as an alternative.
I changed it because of HN's rule on titles: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That simply restates what people are taking issue with.
There are too many people who unironically think that having enough parking spaces is a bad thing for this to ever happen.
If I read correctly, it sounds like when Bob Ross and his wife died, their shares of the company were divided amongst Annette and Walt Kowalski. What happens when the remaining two original partners die?
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When I hire an accountant who promised to find tax deductions, but he didn't, I am firing them for not fulfilling a promise.

A new hire, especially at lower levels, has not promised anything except an exchange of skills for money.

I would even say that the hiring manager promised the company that hiring more headcount will give some benefits. But those benefits never materialized for the company. So by your own logic, a company should first fire the manager who did not fulfil their promise.
For those who can afford it, absolutely. I spoke with someone yesterday who sold their F350 pickup and partner’s gas vehicle for a Model 3 and a Y because they could no longer justify their gasoline expenses with their driving cycles. The free hand of the market at work. As I mentioned, carbon taxes and EV point of sale rebates for those less well off.

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-model-3-costs-considerabl...

https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/tesla-model-3...

If you don’t want to tax carbon and offset EV prices with the proceeds, yes, people of lesser means will experience economic pain in the near term due to apathetic energy policy since the 70s oil embargo. The price of oil will only go up with capital divestments (including refineries at maximum capacity perpetually) and the price of EVs will continue to decline over time. Nothing will spur increased investment in fossil fuels long term in the current political climate. There is no short term fix. You must lean hard into electrification.
Thanks so much for pointing this out. I’ll get that fixed!
Yes, I'm with you 100%.

But maybe the thinking is then the rich's tax loophole people's ploy would be too obvious?
Heh. One of my first hard bugs was in FORTRAN. I was doing some trig, and FORTRAN didn't know what COS was. Turned out that I overshot the Oh key, and hit the zero which is just past it. Of course, being FORTRAN, it was all caps. It took me two days to find that one-character difference.
That's like Lisp versus Scheme:

Lisp: (or x 5)

Scheme: (if (null? x) 5 x)
It's bad because it's Clippy.
Unfortunately you are wrong.

The padframe and top metal layer which "entomb" Caravel designs are both part of the die. They are not part of the package. Omitting the package does not help you here.

You might be confusing the padframe with the leadframe. The padframe is part of the die, the leadframe is part of the package. In a QFN package they are connected to each other by extremely thin gold wires.
> Copilot is a product for adults [...]

If you didn't meant "should be" (for which I'm not willing to take any position), no, Copilot is not a product for adults [1] [2].

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t... "A User must be at least 13 years of age."

[2] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
The thing to study besides worst base scenarios isn't "best case scenarios" but average case scenarios. And average case scenarios look so bad that it's obvious we are massively under-responsive to this. The "best" people have done in thirty years is reduce the increase in the rate at which CO2 in being released.
Hilarious! A passive reader he was not. :)

I hope going through the books helps you remember good memories.
The backlash they ought to be worried about is the one from their customers when it refuses to operate due to an ongoing battle between opposing groups of extremists.
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I'm fine with these things insofar as they are factually in service to a substantial undertaking. The routine cannot be the undertaking, nor am I impressed by such a routine in search of an undertaking. The camera should only be on the routine, the 'secrets of success', rarely as a glimpse behind the scenes. As a rule, the camera should be on the worthy venture.
This article by some of the same authors in this one is perhaps more accessible:

(2019) "Climate tipping points — too risky to bet against"

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

> "The palaeo-record shows global tipping, such as the entry into ice-age cycles 2.6 million years ago and their switch in amplitude and frequency around one million years ago, which models are only just capable of simulating... Now we are strongly forcing the system, with atmospheric CO2 concentration and global temperature increasing at rates that are an order of magnitude higher than those during the most recent deglaciation."

The central issue for human civilization is just how fast these changes are going to happen. Currently it takes about ten years for the warming signal to overrule the natural variability, for example a running 5-year average shows clear warming if you center each average ten years apart, i.e. 2008-2012 is clearly warmer than 1998-2002 and so on. Can humans adapt to this rate of warming over the next 100 years without enduring some degree of civilizational collapse, population reduction, etc.? Who knows. That's what's in the pipeline though, no longer any doubt about it. The real uncertainties are whether there might be any radical spikes in extreme weather or warming rates along this trajectory.

> "Atmospheric CO2 is already at levels last seen around four million years ago, in the Pliocene epoch. It is rapidly heading towards levels last seen some 50 million years ago — in the Eocene — when temperatures were up to 14 °C higher than they were in pre-industrial times. It is challenging for climate models to simulate such past ‘hothouse’ Earth states."

The rational thing to do, given our current state of knowledge, would be to institute a crash program to replace 3% of global fossil fuel use per year with a similar production of renewable energy capacity per year, which would require global coordinated industrial production at a truly massive scale, but humans are not rational actors, as economists have demonstrated.
As I said earlier, I was responding to the total set of 15 or so comments you posted. That's a lot of comments, especially low-quality ones. We're trying for quality rather than quantity here, so if you could post in the intended spirit in the future, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Wow, awesome crypto work in that thread.
I've seen a real site where the minimum password length was more than the maximum password length. Of course, if you know that you'll stop wasting your time. But if the error is just "your password is too short" or "your password is too long" it might take several tries to figure out it's impossible to satisfy the requirement.
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Not sure if it's nerd points or just old age. ;)
It would be very unfortunate for ODrive to go out of business, and frankly I doubt that it will. Oskar is a smart guy. I'm tremendously grateful for the work that he and others have put into this project. His decision doesn't devalue the existing body of open work.
Windows used to have an error message that read “This program has performed an illegal operation…”. Your suggestion would have fit in perfectly.
Because gas is fungible. Since we're burning our reserves, we're importing less than we otherwise would, and from there it's basic supply and demand.
> Why did you suggest THIS as an example of what hes talking about?

He seems to be pooh-poohing the entire idea of "eliminating bias" in AI. So I felt it was important to

* point out that there are clear cases of bias in AI no matter where you stand on gender

* move on to explain a closely related case (using historical speech about race could be offensive)

* use the lesson to show that using historical speech about gender could be problematic as well

> Furthermore,that sounds like a problem of having incomplete training data.

Training a model from historical data can only reflect historical approaches. The social conventions around gender are changing rapidly and are contentious.

> Regardless, manually tweaking a model points to a failure in the process somewhere.

Here, there's no manual tweaking of the model: merely a refusal to return results in an area where the model has proven problematic.
There is always plenty of fun to be had in software. It should never be had at the expense of users.
You can also just...

$ clojure some_code_you_wrote.clj

It's a shame that this is either missing or well-hidden in the official docs, common intro guides, etc. It's not how you make a "real" application or whatever, but if you're just trying to play with it, this way works great.

I hate having to make a "project" just to even Hello World. I much prefer the bash/Python/Groovy/etc approach of "drop some code in a file and run it".
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Funnily enough, I just happened to have ported D-Flat to macOS and Linux in the last couple of weeks. Check it out (w/screenshots): https://github.com/ghaerr/dflat. It uses a small TUI library that maps multi-byte ANSI/xterm arrow key and mouse wheel inputs into unicode private-use codes for internal processing by D-Flat. It also remaps all of the IBM PC code page 437 characters for unicode output, and converts the entire "PC-compatible" screen image including attributes into ANSI terminal output, thanks to some nice code from the Cosmopolitan Project.
no facility, no maintenance, no labor.

just as one can invest in commodities without owning a warehouse and taking physical possession of them.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A1_Houston_Office_...
This, right here. Exactly this.
Can you say more? It sounds interebut why would anyone want or need this?
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We decided that one way to avoid this long term is to let users decide on their favorite sources and apps.

I have done a lot of research in AI and it can certainly do a lot of things implicitly but some oversight and explicit user feedback is useful also.
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Programming is fun as long as it is being done for fun/personal project. It is a different story when the context is a professional setting or a business setting.
Both groups will angrily complain that Copilot is suggesting the wrong thing.

Right now both groups are trying to silence the other-- with school libraries, etc, in the crossfire being angrily denounced.
Do tell.

Were these things the subject of the book?

Or some kind of hidden paper tucked away inside, left there for some now-unknown purpose, hidden and dormant for 19 years in a dusty attic in upstate New York, only later retrieved by Frans Bortenharfer?
I based the menu design on the Symbolics menus, and Wings3D is a descendant of S-Geometry in spirit.

I wanted a quick way of assigning some colors so I just made a rainbow color ramp. If you mean the red color for selection, then yes that was inspired by watching a Wings3D video.
That describes my entire education.
It can only increase ticket prices or reduce profit.

You know which way that always goes.
Its easy to spot the pattern and useful to know what wont be asked.
We do - and have found it very reliable and I really like it :-)

One of the members of our team finds it more complex when it comes to diagnosing why things aren't running/starting as expected, but that's also down to the complexity we have around s6 with other setup scripts (we use it to manage the full suite of processes in our product).

Hence, they're not the biggest fan of it (and would talk negatively about it), but I _think_ s6 isn't really the culprit and instead the other complexity is.

Although, when things go wrong it can be a little bit harder to chase down than it was with our former manual "start this process" type scripts... But, you can just `./run` the run script which may tell you enough :-)
> Except that’s never been the definition.

That's not true. Economists have given definitions and the one considered the de facto standard was two quarters of negative growth, which was a very good predictor of recessions in our lifetime:

https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/ec...
> Recession is a term used to signify a slowdown in general economic activity. In macroeconomics, recessions are officially recognized after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth rates. In the U.S., they are declared by a committee of experts at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/what-is-a-recession...
> In 1974, economist Julius Shiskin came up with a few rules of thumb to define a recession: The most popular was two consecutive quarters of declining GDP. A healthy economy expands over time, so two quarters in a row of contracting output suggests there are serious underlying problems, according to Shiskin. This definition of a recession became a common standard over the years.

> For decades the definition has always been “whatever NBER says.”

They actually have their own definition, but it's more lose and more inclusive:
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/what-is-a-recession...
> NBER has its own definition of what constitutes a recession, namely “a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales.”

And from the NBER itself:

https://www.nber.org/business-cycle-dating-procedure-frequen...
> Most of the recessions identified by our procedures do consist of two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP, but not all of them. In 2001, for example, the recession did not include two consecutive quarters of decline in real GDP. In the recession from the peak in December 2007 to the trough in June 2009, real GDP declined in the first, third, and fourth quarters of 2008 and in the first and second quarters of 2009. Real GDI declined for the final three quarters of 2001 and for five of the six quarters in the 2007–2009 recession.

This is where the WH's manipulation comes in. They say it's not the actual definition, but what they don't say is that the other definitions are more likely to identify 2022 as the beginning of a recession.

> Several recent recessions don’t match the two quarters of negative growth rule.

How many times there was two or more quarters of negative growth that wasn't a recession?