skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once upon a time there was a company called OpenAI that was going to do for AI what open source did for software.

I think OpenAI changing their revenue model and corporate structure to better reflect how much money they were about to make really left a mark on the internet around trust in the AI space.

The default is going to be to assume that AI companies like stability have sold out, to that end it would not surprise me if even this minor incident leads to a splitting and a new open model that becomes popular.

I understand the point the author is trying to make. I understand what OpenAI is getting at with safety. I understand what the regulators are getting at.

But it is too late. The genie is already out of the bottle and granting wishes. What are you going to ban at this point? Math education?

It's time to accept that it's not that hard to come up with a few a100s and train models for harm if thats your goal. You can write code that harms people too. The answer is not to ban code. The answer is not to heavily regulate AI (not all countries will regulate it, it will be like banning gunpowder or electricity)

As for this particular release - what is being implied they were going to wait for? Figuring out the model? Regulation? The internet to start acting calm and reasonably? We don't even know what these models fully do yet. It's hard to imagine what you could know in 6 months vs now that would allow you to release with a big thumbs up.

More and more I'm realizing how politically controversial AI will become. Already today we're starting to see that on various axies. I think weirdly in a few years it may be a top issue.
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We can detect their presence because they cause interference with our own.
Ever since the worker shortage started, the quality of traditional hotels has gone down the hole. I have traveled far more this year than any other year in my life and my anecdotal experience shows that below 4 star the quality has just nosedives so much so that you don't know what you are getting until you show up and end up feeling lucky or totally screwed. And I am referring to hotels in America(Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Detroit) and Europe/UK(Amsterdam, Dublin, London).
All these (AirBNB, Uber, etc) e-companies do is take what's illegal, add "internet", and somehow is legal until the authorities can see through the shit-show.

And of course, while the grift is going, the execs and shareholders get rich. But everyone knows when the gig is up. Evidence: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/11/uber-doordash-plunge-as-labo...
I was thinking about this lack of bugs phenomenon when driving to my mom's house a few times over the past 3 or so months. My car is covered with dead bugs, more than there used to be ~10 years ago. While I was there, walked around at night (in a small midwestern town), and was constantly assaulted by bugs. Is pesticide use down with fertilizer use?
Can someone help me with how to make a caret in insert mode to line instead of block? Most themes are just block cursor both in "read" and insert mode, hurts visibility.
Counterpoint: i think "Won't fix, don't understand" may be the responsible thing to do when you, as a single maintainer, can't give everybody's new ideas a thorough check before merging. YMMV.
The extension part mainly, like the ability to add an extension method that can apply to 'everything' to an extent like the Require() here does
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Thank you so much for writing this down!
Texas sues Google for collecting biometric data without consent
Facebook became available in Myanmar in 2011, but they didn't have anyone who could understand the local languages, so they had no idea what's happening on their own platform. The government and Buddhist nationalists basically overtook Facebook and started fueling the flames against the Rohingya people, which was followed by an ethnic cleansing. More than 700,000 Rohingya had to flee the country, 25,000 were killed and 18,000 women and girls were raped.

Facebook played a determining role in the genocide, which they later admitted. They not only allowed it, they amplified it as their algorithm took hate speech as engagement and started pushing it, basically turning Facebook into the perfect propaganda machine for the Myanmar Armed Forces. It didn't help that by 2016 most Burmese people have considered Facebook as their primary news source.
You sound as confident as the protagonist of many a time travel short story!

Edit to add: your comment reminded me specifically of a Ted Chiang story, "What's Expected Of Us": https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

I found that link via a blog post that excoriates it for its supposed logical fallacies: https://loopingworld.com/2019/07/13/debunking-ted-chiang-rec.... I don't necessarily agree or disagree with that, but I do disagree that it's "obviously" logically wrong or inconsistent.
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If you know the right people, no it's not.

And these types of scammers are and know the "right" people.
But it's also Airbnb themselves. It's well known that negative reviews are scrubbed and even edited, this is something many people including myself have experienced. Any doubts, spend some time on the Airbnb subreddit, which is run by hosts, and check out both their attitudes and their advice about how to remove bad reviews.

Airbnb needs hosts for its revenue. Clients are the product.

I used to love Airbnb and used it multiple times per year - since Day 1. Now because of fake positive reviews (where negative aspects of a home, like noise, are censored), combined with crazy fees, I'm also like you going back to hotels.

You have to love the fees, which I think are sinking the system. 130 a night for the place, you want to stay there three nights. You're asked to pay 250 in Airbnb fees and 225 in cleaning fees. You should check in after 2 pm and you better check out before 11, and anything out of the ordinary leads to an uncomfortable email exchange sometimes with no reply. It's not cancellable, either.

Many people bought properties around the world to specifically Airbnb out. Will the tide finally turn? Is the business model unsustainable?
Things I wish a legacy codebase had: documentation (maybe with history of major changes in its lifetime), tests, up to date comments, and modular design that allows for deprecating/replacing itself part by part to a new system.
I said:

> They also all suffer from estimation issues in practice. Luckily these constraints set a limit on how much a competent professional can underestimate the project.

Where exactly did I claim these weren't complex services? All I said was that there are more constraints on these services than pure software dev. I went further and broke software dev down into different buckets of complexity to further pare down the argument and concede that some software dev should be constrained enough for accurate estimates.

Dispensing with the straw man, what exactly is incorrect about my comment?
The problem with AirBnB is the rating system.

I have booked many dozens of apartments on AirBnB and my approach these days is:

1: Never book an apartment with less than 50 ratings

2: Never book an apartment with an average rating of less than 4.8 stars

The problem is that AirBnB has set up their system so that even complete garbage apartments have average ratings of over 4.5 stars.

Because of that, people still book those for normal prices.

If AirBnB would normalize the ratings (median rating = 2.5 stars), there would be an upward pressure on the hosts to improve the quality of their services.

But the way it is, there are only few good apartments on AirBnB.

Over the last years, I have only been to two apartments via AirBnB which I would consider "good". And both had over 50 ratings and the average rating was 5 stars.
I know all analogies are imperfect, but that is a really great one. It really captures the problem of observing so elegantly.
> From a layman’s point of view, it seems like we grasping at straws when it comes to these thorny quantum questions. Is fair to say, for example, that we are about as clueless as our ancestors were with the bubonic plague?

> To a non-expert it can be difficult to separate which theories lay on solid ground and which theories are highly speculative.

Sure, but isn't that the point of doing these experiments?
This is a very cool use for a watch. You can use any watch, but some watches, like the Seiko Alpinist, even have a rotating bezel with the compass points. This makes it a lot easier to find the other directions. One thing the article forgot to mention, is that the trick works only for standard time. If you are on daylight savings time, the direction will be off.
Well… if it is that easy, might as well make the sequences proprietary again (change them for security), but it should not cost very much after all to add such functionality. At least not nearly as much as Elon thought.
The rebirth of magazines
A lot of HR and hiring managers do look at cover letters. Since you don't know which ones, it's best to always do it. The cover letter is an opportunity for you to move beyond the dry resume and explain why you believe you're a good fit for the position. The best approach is to read the job description and explain what it is about you the fulfills the role they're looking for. You want them to be able to imagine how you fit into that role. Also, tweaking the resume to highlight the parts of you experience that match the role is a good move. You want to use the cover letter to make them want to look closer. Plenty of people also want to hire people who are interested in working for the company and that personal touch can make a difference.
10BASE-T1{S,L} [0] are "only" 10 Mbps but they also need only a single pair of wires (with the latter working up to 1 km).

They aren't exactly in widespread usage yet, though.

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(ETA: And apparently there are even 100 and 1000 Mbps variants now too [0] -- with lower maximum distances, of course.)

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_over_twisted_pair#S...
You can't win in this race. Do research in your tourist destination to avoid these places? Well Youtube is full of influencers pushing garbage info, Reddit is being quietly stuffed full of authentic sounding comments and you might as well forget Yelp/Tripadvisor. It seems like a massive scam perpetuated at all levels of the stack.
The nationalization of politics is a huge problem in blue states and cities—it totally eviscerates accountability. Pointing to republicans in Texas becomes a get out of jail free card to explain why a toilet costs $1.7 million in San Francisco.

It’s particularly a problem with the bread and butter of state and local governance: education and policing. Why are cops in Minneapolis—a city that has two greens on the city council and no republicans—murdering black people? Must be Trump’s fault.
That would not be fair, though it's understandable why a layman might feel that way. The fact is, most physicists don't particularly feel the need to have an explanation for that kind of thing. We have the math, and most people agree on how to use it to make very accurate predictions. Collapse was always a little silly, but there are other possibilities as to why you'd get that kind of effect just from wavefunctions.
A few notes on this, since I looked at it a little:

The grand-father is: https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT - Derek Richford (in Kent)

Derek has indicated that he needs a break from this, and would not be the appropriate contact: "It is time for me to hand over the baton of maternity safety to others." - Oct 19, https://twitter.com/DerekRKENT/status/1582723405769740291

The website associated with Harry Richford, and Derek Richford's investigation and weblogging is: http://harrysstory.co.uk/

It looks like https://twitter.com/BBCMBuchanan and https://twitter.com/jamesmelley are the current BBC journalists investigating this issue.
> An expense of $60,000 could be written as $60M. Internet advertisers are familiar with CPM which is the cost per thousand impressions.

> The letter k is also used represent one thousand. For example, an annual salary of $60,000 might appear as $60k instead of $60M. [0]

k and MM are unambiguous. You don't want to stop & think, and you definitely don't want to be off by a factor of 1000. So it makes sense to avoid typing 'M' if you have any risk of being misinterpreted.

It's mostly about the reduction of risk, it's VERY rare to see M used in this way.

[0] https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...
You're right; percentages trip me up.

Assuming 50% split. Revenue is $10, Youtube gets $5, Creator get $5.

Revenue increases 30% (not what happened but for simplicity).

Revenue is $13, Creator gets $6.50. Increase is ($6.50 - $5.00) = $1.50. $1.50 is what % of $5.00? => 10% of $5.00 = $0.50, therefore 30% of $5.00 = $1.50.

Thus Creators receive an increase of 30%.
> it seems like the most anti-diversity thing you can do. Can anybody from SFO relate their experience?

Black people have been leaving SF steadily for 50 years. That's the experience.
Every year or two, I figure I really should read up on what new features/changes Apple has added to iOS (or iPadOS) that I don't know about. (And, because I so rarely use, I still never know how to use the split screen stuff in iPadOS.)
Hopefully those properties will come back on the market at a reasonable price so that we can offset some of the housing inequity that airbnb is directly responsible for.
If you're writing Ansible playbooks with YAML then you are using it as a declarative programming language. So YAML can be a programming language.
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Wow, okay, yeah, maybe it is a wider experience than I'd realized. Thanks for sharing. I'm a 6' tall man and seem to have more of my length in my torso than most, so I might have long arms too. Maybe that's part of why it hasn't been a problem for me.
The permissions don’t differentiate, which is why an honest privacy policy is important. If they have access to the contacts but the policy states that they do not transmit, store, or process the contacts on their servers I can feel safer.

It appears to me that Google is asking companies to lie about their policies or otherwise make it their policy to retain contact data on their servers.

The only reason I can see for this is to make Google seem less bad when it comes to privacy compared to other companies because they can point to all these other companies you’re giving permission to store data with.
I too see the page as a bit pretentious, but life is so short and this small quantity hubris isn't going to lead to the starvation of orphans. Let people deploy some arrogance.

Most HN users do more damage to the world through their adtech careers than any blog post.
Merging Keras into TF and trying to copy PyTorch by adopting their model was the downfall of TF. The initial TF releases were great. It was simple, easy to reason about, and solved a clear problem. But then Google wanted TF to appeal to everyone and solve all problems for industry and research and beginners and experts at the same time because people need to get promoted internally. And that never goes well. Nobody I know wants to use TF these days (but some are forced to).

Let's hope JAX won't suffer the same fate.
In my experience artists using complex software actually prefer text labels to an endless sea of icons. High-end visual effects software tends to use text buttons.

Twenty years ago, when there still was competition in high-end 3D packages, before Autodesk bought everybody and monopolized the market, there was a race between Maya and Softimage XSI. The latter was generally praised for its artist-friendly UI which used text labels while Maya was icon-heavy and seen more as a technically oriented tool.
Keccak for xkcp and NIST for the padding, as far as I can remember. As I recall the padding was added first, and the explanation came later. There was great distrust at first during this time as a result, hence the name 'mystery padding' we used.
I feel like this applies to many technologies. Made me think of the bootstrapping, “I-can-build-that-in-a-weekend” crowd.

The initial problem is usually easy to solve for, it’s all the edge cases and other details that makes something complex.
Most young people can't use computers at all either, all they know is scrolling through tiktok on their phone. What's the difference here?
I assumed it was the botched Caesarean, it doesn't describe how it was botched but I imagine mistakes cause significant problems.
I also did think about that and wrote it somewhere here a while ago. A new IPv6 address for eatch tab or so.
Seems pretty nice but $50 is a little high - is it really worth the premium?
Then you'd need to implement it in every compositor.

Excuse me for being blunt. I don't know if you understand how shitty of a design you advocate. Solid designs do not require modifying core components to write application level features the original authors did not envision.
Get a hotel next time like an adult.
Here’s one example, where an adversary can use certificate transparency to discover and squat on domains pointed at clouds: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/nd...
It's really just on them for trying to alter the future in large ways before conducting small experiments to understand the mechanics of the universe imo.
So is any other piece of software you use. Do you expect software to be secure by default? Exchange comes with all apps and protocols enabled by default. If you’re selective on the services you need, place the server behind a smart host for spam protection, inspect the traffic on the firewall, I’d argue that it is as secure if not more secure than the cloud version. You have more tools at your disposal than Microsoft, which has to enable more services in more geographies. Just because it’s in the cloud, doesn’t make it more secure. I’m tired of people pushing the cloud for no reason other than lacking understanding. You’re renting the platform and the software, the same software you could run in your data center. Those staff savings promised by the cloud never materialized. And Exchange Online is a few orders of magnitude more expensive than the on-prem solution.
The trouble is that everyone is on the net now, so it will just get corrupted immediately by people trying to commercialize the space.

I think house-swapping gets around this by doing away with any possible financial gain, but this precludes you have a house of your own you're willing to have people live in while you're in their home.
I have tried to view cnn.com on a phone, that's why they provide https://lite.cnn.com/en.

Admittedly, headline authorship has been discarded in favor of clickbait, and text isn't as eye-catching as images, so the site and articles are weirdly uncompelling when compared to the main site or other news sources. Celebrity gossip and scandals just fall flat in text, making it much easier to glean the handful of factual data points from the deluge of noise.
Where's the Growth?
Looking at the UDP code in question in brightcove/hot-shots [1]. The createUdpTransport() function creates an object with a send() method that forwards to socket.send(), calling the underlying function with the same host and port argument each time. It seems to me that this code should call socket.connect(args.host, args.port) once instead, and skip the host and port arguments to the send() calls. Presumably this would result in just a single DNS lookup.

Bonus: the createUdpTransport() function also has a DNS cache, which the author of the article could have enabled with just "cacheDns: true". But if the library code used socket.connect(), this internal cache shouldn't be needed either.

1: https://github.com/brightcove/hot-shots/blob/564ac7bfdaaf366...
This plays strangely with the: "Stability legal team reached out to Hugging Face reverting the initial takedown request, therefore we closed this thread" that is on the Hugging Face page.
Nah the typing on the iPhone ist really bad, the predictions are total crap. Android text entering is so so much better - unbelievable
> Do people who have to take call to provide emergency medical care still get to use cars?

That is a good argument against shopping malls or high rise buildings, as they are bigger and vastly most inaccessible than superblocks. If shopping malls and similar structures are safe, superblocks are safer.
Yeah, we've stayed in accommodation like this as well. Often very shitty experiences in business aparthotels. Always good to have a list though.
Might you tell us about any large, modern, fast-growing businesses which happily limit profits, so they can pay for high-quality customer support? Yes, it's "a choice". Sadly, it's an overwhelmingly popular choice.
Snail mail is still scanned for illicit content. Also many times in western history letters were read and then possibly censored at processing facilities.
Back in those days, it was a human opening letter/package and inspecting the content. They had rules to respect the privacy of the sender/addressee, like not sharing the content with anyone else if the content is OK.

I'm not sure who considered these services to be one of the most private.

Also in those days, one could make use of a secure private mail service, bypassing the normal processing facilities and have grantee that the letter remained sealer the whole journey. To be even more secure, basic encryption could be used, or even invisible ink.

Today, things just got more sophisticated.
It's Apple-think. I showed someone I know (who used to work at Apple) my SailfishOS phone, and this was before iOS added gestures to manage apps. SailfishOS had those "pull down to minimize" and so on gestures before iOS, and when he tried them out he said they were terrible UX because they were hard to discover.

As soon as iOS added them, they were the future of mobile UIs.
This is why I won't do AirBnb any more. Even with a relatively honest host, they are simply not equipped to handle an issue the way a hotel can. Hotels have engineers on duty or on call to fix a bad toilet, broken lock, or electrical problem and/or swap you to another room (or even another hotel!) if there's something wrong with your room. If there's a problem with the room you rent from an AirBnb host, there's nothing they can do.
Icons reinforced with text are amazing, because people can learn what the icon is, and then you can reference without text at times when there isn't enough room.
If you are just interviewing for sport, not actually for job, then you can tell them that you are rejecting them due to rounds count
I would love a POE variation of this. I'm getting ready to start trenching for pop-up sprinklers and I am going to use the opportunity to run some ethernet lines out for cameras & sensors. It would be awesome to burry maintenance free moisture sensors in the process.
Most of the 20th century has been a series of attempts to answer this question. We'll have another wave of attempts of a different sort over the coming decades.
Taxis are considered public transport in some places.
Or- and hear me out with this one- they prefer an explanation which follows naturally from existing experiments and doesn't require a hacked together non-linear irreversible operation which occurs only under bizarre conditions exactly when needed to patch over experimental results. No one in the whole world cares if the universe is deterministic or not, but collapse is embedded in an entirely deterministic system. MWI may not be right, but collapse is wrong.
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