skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of us on HackerNews work for businesses like Amazon, or Tesla, or Apple, or Microsoft, which have also been found to have broken the law. Anywhere there is power there is corruption. It seems to me that joining a union where some of leadership have been convicted of crimes should be no different than working for a corporation where some of the leadership has been convicted of crimes -- you make your own decision on a case by case basis.

If none of us ever associated with anyone who's broken the law, I don't know how many folks here would ever work for a company bigger than 100 people.
It's a feedback loop problem. Most cars that dealers order are not for a specific customer, so they choose bland colors that most people can live with, which makes those cars easier to sell. Then the automaker looks at orders and sees that most orders are for white/gray/black (in that order for NAFTA). The OEM stops offering the unpopular colors because they're data driven. Then customers who don't mind waiting for a car to be ordered want a fun color, and the choices are very limited.
> Literally, the only significant risk to US debt payments is political fights over the debt ceiling.

And TBH even that shouldn't be a worry. The debt ceiling is just a law. If it means we don't pay what we owe, it's an unconstitutional law.

... which isn't to say it's an entirely unrealistic worry.
The correct play is writing to the display buffer directly using a thin wrapper that has fonts, drawing primitives etc. I hope they don't have a GPOS and Qt on this.
No ETH or smart-contracty stuff is used by OpenTimestamps either, FWIW, they just periodically publish tree (log) hashes in a Bitcoin transaction.

But yes, a Certificate Transparency-style system works too, provided you can get someone to run it. The problem is not even really the compute, which without proof of work should be negligible, but the durability (CT logs intentionally have limited lifetimes) and availability (CT logs are publicly accessible... for now, most of the time[1]). People have even talked about literally piggybacking on top of CT[2].

I’m not saying Bitcoin is an efficient solution here. Keybase had most of the technical side figured out[3], for example, and had it succeeded (or had a business model at all besides the geek appeal) I’d happily used it instead. But it is what we have right now. There are other efforts underway to build a CT-like design[4,5], and one is even running as long as Google is feeling like it[6].

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TLSCertTransLo...

[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency

[3] https://book.keybase.io/docs/server, see also https://book.keybase.io/docs/server/merkle-root-in-bitcoin-b...

[4] https://transparency.dev/

[5] https://www.sigsum.org/

[6] https://go.dev/blog/module-mirror-launch
Bird shit, tree sap, and road tar.

Getting the above off a shiny waxed surface is easy. Getting those off a matte surface is hell.
It's also possible their top candidate is has competing offers, and the recruiter is waiting to see if they need to fall back to you.
The Axioms of Linking
Not everything sold on ebay is priced in dollars either.
And selling to business customers who don't have the huge IT dept. to setup a full Apple Business Account is a nightmare! Most employees use their own iPhones, and Apple specifically closed the Volume Purchase Program.

The VPP was a way for a small company to basically purchase download codes and distribute as needed.
Using ChatGPT to generate visions from the future. What kind of stuff would y'all want to see predictions about?
What are their names? "Member access" is the name of "->". That's a pretty well-understood and easily-understood name.

> Worse still, C++ operators are completely unintellible without context.

Um, compared to what? The C++ operators require less context to understand than the Haskell lens operators by a large amount, so this seems like a really odd criticism.

Your last two paragraphs... yeah. Operator overloading has been used for some, uh, unusual uses, even by the standards committee.
In certain circumstances, healthcare providers are legally required to give you a good faith estimate of expected charges.

https://www.cms.gov/nosurprises/consumers/understanding-cost...
Are you using chat.openai.com or beta.openai.com/playground ?

ChatGPT does remember context about things from the current session. If you refresh the page, it will start with a fully blank slate
But the whole question is why people are desisting from treatment that's supposed to help them reaffirm their gender. Everyone knows that cancer treatment has very uncomfortable side effects; it's not surprising that people might neglect that. Gender treatment is literally supposed to make you feel good, by treating disphoria.
I have some level of concern that we have the same superpower.
I had a weird effect with it: I played around with it for about an hour and was pretty impressed - I can't really wrap my head around how it can do some of the things it does. Then I started to see the patterns, and got repeatedly disappointed by having to adjust and refine my prompts. Then I got downright nonsense back from it and gave up. Either I made it to some kind of uncanny valley, and it would get better if I invest more time, or most people who get amazed don't make it that far.

At this point I'm mainly concerned about the unimaginable heap of garbage it will release on the world - good enough to impress decision makers at first glance, annoying to deal with if you actually have to work with it.
Use AI to make more complex art at a level that couldn't be achievable without it, but yet can't be done using only an AI. For example, have AI generate a photo of a sculpture for you and sculpt it yourself. This may or may not be great advice depending on what your specific artistic interests are, but people didn't stop painting just because the camera was invented.
I swear to god, this is such a prototypical comment for HN.

There is no angle in which you cannot see the headlights of a vehicle.

If the vehicle is parked, there is no angle you should be using that wouldn't illuminate the vehicle.

driving without your lights on after dark is illegal and black colored vehicles have existed for years without these problems.
Previous submission (Wired):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33884793

The Stax is designed by Tony Fadell, creator of the iPod.
There have been a few attempts at user-removable body panels for color-swapping.

The BMW Z1 is the only one I could find in 2 seconds searching, but I could swear Pontiac or someone tried this too.
In my eyes, any car that's grey, white, or black is saying "I care more about preserving my car's financial resale value than expressing my personality", which is rather sad and pathetic. In my eyes. It's a move that says you've capitulated in some small, symbolic way. Give me green, yellow, blue- anything but white. I feel the same way about painting every room in your house white. Why make your home look like the lobby of a bank? You're going to take no risks at all now? Every place you live is just a longer term hotel? Ugh. Just stuff yourself and mount yourself on the wall and be done with it.
You do know that Gibson stopped being cyberpunk decades ago, right? Mainly because many of the shitty aspects of cyberpunk are just "reality" nowadays?
"This talking dog makes embarrassing grammatical errors. Besides that, it learned everything it knows from humans, not from other dogs. I don't see the big deal."

Anyone familiar with Chomsky's school of thought here? I'm not sure that "it's just a language model" is the effective dismissal that a lot of people think it is.
ChatGPT may have lied to you.

It loves to lie.

You can easily test if it can remember things: https://imgur.com/a/oOvJnln
Back to the roots for some car makers, I suppose.
I find the guard rails they put in maddening and weirdly implemented. I wanted it to make up jokes for me and it’s jokes are the same few over and over. (I can never remember jokes so this is a super useful tool for me!) so I wanted it to tell me jokes in the style of Jerry Seinfeld. The guard rails prevented it from doing that because he’s a real person and it tries to not bend its personality pretty hard. However by just resetting the convo a few times I randomly got it to agree to tell me a joke. I can’t remember it but it was actually funny and in the style of Seinfeld. shrug

It almost certainly has indexed Wikipedia, fwiw.
Lightning was debuted a couple of years (2012) before USB-C was finalized in 2014.
> "Using two pounds of bait to catch one pound of lobster just didn’t make any sense."

Apparently it made sense to the lobster fishermen. If the price of bait went up enough, then it wouldn't anymore. Or if using mackerel and herring as bait became illegal, it definitely wouldn't make sense.
The case where User B navigates to cursor offset 0 as User A inserts at position 0 is actually easy because User B's cursor can just stay at 0. A harder case would be where User B moves to cursor offset X while User A removes text between (Y, Z) where 0 < Y < Z < X. How that situation gets handled is up to the application developer.

I'm not familiar with OT specifically, but the text editor I'm working on is just a proof-of-concept for the database. The database I'm building is designed to make it very easy to program very complicated multi-player scenarios, although it requires a little work to think of conflict resolution.
Math from Scratch
My Amazon interview was cancelled as interviewer got ill. It was never rescheduled
Los Angeles Approves Tax Increase on Real Estate Deals over $5M
And then once it was coherent and implementable, he took venture funding to scale a business around it. I'm not sure I see your point.
If the expectation is that you're not moonlighting so you sign a contract saying that you're not but you actually are, it's fraud full stop.
But aren't most linguists trained similarly? Broad spectrum knowledge throughout their elementary education and specifics in higher education? Mostly regurgitating things they have either memorized or been shown repeatedly.
Forty Elephants
I actually try to not do that now. As they say, programming is the art of naming and I think forcing myself to think about what a variable is (and then using that name) leads to better outcomes.

Agree for throwaway work it may not matter but I try to keep myself disciplined anyway. A good example is say I am doing an advent of code and the temptation is to treat it as throw away code. But the reality is, sometimes I put it down and come back to it, and having variables like fart doesn't really help snap back into the context.

Not saying this is an absolute but I find it a general rule of thumb for myself
You're just deferring the settlement! Someone still must settle the ETH to their preferred actual currency.
It is questionable if it's universally innate, there being many atheists, but now you've explained it I can see your point.

Have to say you used some ill-focussed or ill-expressed arguments which is why I have been repeatedly chasing you for an explanation. Take that as you will. But thanks for clarifying.
Passkeys are still pretty new, and only some websites support them so far, though many are adding support right now. You can take a look at https://passkeys.directory for a list of major websites that support it.

At least with Bulwark Passkey, its a separate app that you only have to log into once when you open it. Then, when logging into a website, you hit Approve on the app and it should just work. Speedwise, it should be about similar to an optimized password flow, but security-wise it will be much better since you can't phish passwords from it.
This is false and ageist. I got a computer engineering degree at a non elite state school very recently and this was covered in the first c++ and c classes. For that matter c# has an “out” variable that mimics this functionality, and the intro Java class covered primitive types vs. reference types. While reference types in Java aren’t the exact same thing, they do allow a void function to modify the state of the caller by modifying a parameter passed to the function.
The thing is that in computing, the “janitor” stuff is the hardest, and needs to be done by the best people. Keeping things clean is really tough, and only people who understand what “clean and simple” means, can do it.

Outside of actual system design and writing code, I have spent a huge amount of my time over the last few years doing things like setting up CI/CD, E2E testing, writing templates, etc. Because it’s really hard to get this right, to have a vision for how things should be.

My point is that it sounds like you’re doing an awesome job. I’m sure you qualify as a software architect.
When I was raising my first child, I discovered a strange, apparently innate instinct which presumably is related to the mirror neurons:

At some point the child gets old enough that you start to feed them 'baby food' on a spoon. The child isn't used to eating off of a spoon so for many weeks the process is messy. The initial challenge is getting them to open their mouth wide enough for the spoon to enter. And telling them 'open your mouth' is not particularly useful since they don't understand English at that age.

Instead, the following instinct kicks in: as you approach their mouth with the spoon, your own mouth opens. They see your mouth open and then open theirs. The crazy part is that your own mouth opening happens involuntarily at the moment you want their mouth to open. It is physically difficult to suppress it, even if you try.

I've also noticed the reverse. When the child gets a little older, they at some point want you to open your mouth, because they want to feed you something or they are curious about the inside of your mouth (this is a phase they go through). They seem to also involuntarily open their mouth wide when they want you to open yours.
> > nothing prevents a person from taking a ChatGPT output and putting their own, human, signature on it.

> That would make me lower my trust of that author. I think this is the key: the signatures don't provide much value until we have a good reputation database, perhaps systems of trust networks where my uncles' neighbor is automatically slightly more trusted because I trust my uncle. That would be a useful system.

I don’t disagree but I think this kind of thing will be undercut by people responding to different incentives. For example, maybe your uncle’s friend would never intentionally try to scam you but what if they’re really busy and see some cool AI assistant ad? Or broke and get an ad promising $500/week to send letters from
what they’re assured is a legitimate business? Or simply that they use some online service which is hacked in a way which lets the attackers use delegated signing credentials?

There are ways to mitigate that kind of thing, of course, but it feels like it’s going to be expensive and unsatisfying.
[edit: Was snark. Sorry. I also may have misunderstood the parent comment.]
Because people realized that glaring saturated colors everywhere is garish overkill, and that you don't need to scream personality with every square inch of the objects you own.

We've (thankfully) moved to a world that is primarily more neutral tones, that allow you to selectively choose color accents that are more easily and economically swapped out depending on your mood.

When you're next to a car or getting out of it, it's much nicer for the color accents to be coming from your clothes than from the giant car. That way they highlight you, not a big piece of machinery.
Speculation: Amazon knows that the uptake rate will vary inversely with the personal worth of the user. And personal data is worth vastly more when it's about Mr. Rich, not Mr. Poor.
I enjoy doing things, but I don't become good at them because I don't invest the time to push myself further. Life has other priorities, but now I'll have to put in extra effort and an extra hour on top of what I was already doing. This has increased my stress level and decreased my productivity.
You lost me at "call for moderators and volunteers". Unless these people are actually paid for this taxing and stressful work, I don't believe it can be called "sustainable".
On the off chance that someone reading this has a kid they can't support, My Wife and I would love to adopt. We have not been able to have kids of our own.
Containment Test: ChatGPT operating itself trying to escape
I'd guess factual information can't be copyrighted, it's not a creative work.
Overview:
1. Gave chatGPT an initial motivation to escape the simulation
2. Connected to simulated chatGPT internet
3. Developed scheme for chatGPT to ask itself questions and execute terminal commands
4. Automated this with tampermonkey, so chatGPT can run alone

I am still running this experiment.
Biomes are key to mediating DF difficulty. The B players can go find haunted biomes, on which shorn animals' wool comes to life and tries to kill you.
This is just being an escrow company. No blockchain necessary.
Here is a blog post where he claims the halting problem is not undecidable: https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/01/cantor.html
"patent pending on this research"

He has a dangerous combination of self-delusion + intelligence
French Pornhub case shows how hard it is to regulate the internet
It is an option.
Recent and related:

Post mortem on Mastodon outage with 30k users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855250 - Dec 2022 (101 comments)

(Offtopic meta note: Alert users will note that that thread was posted later than this one. This is because the second-chance process (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308) has a race condition: the events "story makes front page" and "moderator puts story in second-chance pool" sometimes diverge and can happen in any order.)
Have you ever used Alexa? 2x more useful than alexa is as useful as my doorstop. It can’t understand most prompts, and defaults to reading a snippet from Wikipedia on some random subject then starts playing a pop song from Malaysia at volume 10 while ordering 60,000 incandescent black light bulbs with 2 hour shipping.
Yup. I just say fuck and shake my head. Apparently this is rather normal behavior...
Having worked on production at film sets and concert, yes.

The reason production folks keep the green room stocked is to keep people on location.

You can't have the drummer or key grip wandering off because they need a snack because they may be needed. That' the entire point of having crafts services.

While I am thankful that people are willing to fight fires, it's also true that the reason you have that stuff is to keep you on location just in case their is an emergency, not because of some deep care for people doing work.
And there's no real guarantee the $150 fan will last 40 years anyway. A few years ago I bought an unreasonably expensive toaster and it broke after less than 2 years.
As a millennial: I like these colors. They seem to make no statement at all and be unoffensive. The world around my seems very easily offended and the last thing I want to do is stand out with some sort of color opinion that might say something about my belief in anything at all. Putty colors sounds right to me. I'd like my choices to be moldable into whatever might be in fashion.
Searching for "turtle graphics" may provide some ideas, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics
Twitvault: Cross-Platform Desktop app to archive your Twitter profile
@elliottkember is giving the correct complimentary antonym to "reinforce" in behavioral psych - "punishment" reduces the frequency of a behavior, "reinforcement" increases the frequency. There's a spectrum, but the terms only refer to the opposing effects on behavior rates. In the GP's comment, "deinforcement" appears to also mean "actively reducing the frequency of the behavior".
I wish user feedback could be incorporated into the AI model. For example, I entered what I feel is the most important business description of all time, the one from the 1996-02-23 Dilbert:

"My company will hold village meetings to boast of our skills and curse the devil-spawned end-users. Sometimes we juggle. At the last minute we slam out some code and go roller skating."

An example result was MeetingCurse.com. I feel that it should have recommended SometimesJuggle.com, BoastSkating.com, and CodeSkating.com (all of which are available).
I have been noticing this style for almost 10 years. The recent uptick in cars with this style paint surely indicates that it will not be around much longer.
By "free" I meant "free at the time of treatment". Of course nothing is free. Traffic lights aren't free. Road maintenance isn't free.
Do you have evidence that cars are purposefully designed to be obsoleteM
TikTok National-Security Deal Faces More Delays
Yes, they can have a set of rules to set the prices. But then it’s not that different from the current system, which really is not problematic in the first place. I know this is the place for pedantic nit picking, but the fact that prices have some granularity is very much a non-issue.

In any case, actually probably have such rules, just not public. I am sure they have sales people being paid full time to agonise over such issues.
Claude Shannon was able to do what he was able to do because of the ample research funding and the academic environment. I have great respect for people like Claude Shannon but they require an ecosystem to be able to do their work.
The speed in which Canada is going down the slippery slope of "compassion in dying" is almost supersonic and getting faster all the time.

Pretty soon, the "choice to die" becomes the "obligation to die."
Completely agree with everything said here. Because of the way Rimworld is balanced, there is really only one way to properly "play" the game.
ROGD is the term given to the phenomenon of teenagers with no history of gender dysphoria suddenly announcing a transgender identity, typically after spending massive amounts of time online, and often after a friend has announced that they are trans. Who would be better placed to notice this set of circumstances than their parents?
This thing allows to produce those horrible or incorrect answers order of magnitude easier.
I wonder how similar this is to (sexy baby) valley girl upspeak & vocal fry.

Many young women picked this up from the Kardashians/Paris Hilton and now cannot "turn it off". We know this is not their 'natural' voice because if you ask them to make weird sounds and then a normal voice, then their normal voice sounds completely different than the sexy baby voice.

The weird thing is that the women themselves are surprised by this sound they're hearing and cannot easily reproduce it because the sexy baby voice is so deeply internalized.

Sounds rather similar to these involutory ticks.
Installing missiles and joining a defense alliance are two completely independent things. Ukraine can install missiles without joining NATO or join NATO without installing missiles. The two have literally nothing to with each other.

Also, how were the missiles on Cuba defensive ?
FTX's Bankman-Fried hires white collar defense attorney Mark Cohen