skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. ChatGPT is really really bad. It just makes up stuff and wraps its fabrications in an air of authority.

A "bullshit sandwich" if you will.

When one tells people this we get the reply "but so do random blogs! or reddit comments!". Well yes, but they're just random blogs and reddit comments, often peppered with syntactic and spelling mistakes, non sequiturs, and other absurdities. Nobody would take them seriously.

ChatGPT is very different. It doesn't say "this random redditor says this, and this other random redditor says the exact opposite, so IDK, I'm just a machine, please make up your mind".

What it says is "this is the absolute truth that I, a 'large language model', have been able to extract from the vast amount of information I have been trained on. You can rely on it with confidence."

I'm sorry to sound hyperbolic but this cannot end well.
This is a feature. It means the design is compatible with basic adaptive technology that lets us tailor it to our individual physical needs. The more beautiful the design, the more rigid it becomes.
People who enjoy the resulting concentration of wealth will find better things to do with their time. The much larger group of people who see their wealth diminish will not.
> The results astonished researchers: a weekly injection for almost 16 months, along with some lifestyle changes, reduced body weight by at least 20% in more than one-third of the participants

Why would they introduce lifestyle changes alongside the drug? Doesn't that complicate the analysis?
Actually I was wondering if Perplexity.ai was the first iteration of that collaboration between Microsoft and OpenAI.
Historically, most countries go through these cycles where we depend on immigrant workers for lower level work. We definitely profited off of slavery as well as Chinese, Hispanic, and Irish (to name a few) workers to build the USA. The same is true in Asia where they depend on Indian, Pakistani, Filipino, etc. people for work. The same is true in Europe where we depend on north Africans, eastern Europeans, etc.

As these cycles shift and those people become less welcome due to populism, immigration policies, and those people simply staying to work in their home countries, I worry that we'll lean even more heavily into systems like the prison system to provide workers for countries. In the absence of better pay or full automation, I'm not sure exactly who is supposed to fill those roles besides prisoners. It's a terrifying dystopian thought that your main motivator to not break the law in the future is to not be stuck in indentured servitude for the rest of your life.
> Co-heads is always a subtext for executive disfunction. I don't think I've ever heard of it working out long term at any level from division co-head to co-CEO

Don’t VC’s generally prefer that a startup has co-founders? Having such a team mate fosters better decisions, acts as cheerleader when one person is feeling down, etc.

I don’t see a material difference between that and having a co-CEO setup…

What do you think?
There is other, more sinister way to fuck it up, by just loading "wrong" color keys from the theme that still sorta look okay on white theme but are unreadable.

Basically, instead of reading description and using a color key from theme as designed, someone uses "default" (or whatever they have currently set on machine) color theme as essentially palette to paint their app with, disregarding original purpose and end up broken with some themes.
based, imagine mentioning these as something cool in 2023, hello boomer
Excerpts from the User Guide for the SynaTech-3411 3D Bio-Printer
Possibly remove the height of the cliff and include more essential information.
The title is a bit misleading.

> Meta is now prohibited to bypass the GDPR via a clause in the terms and conditions. Meta has to get "opt-in" consent for personalized advertisement and must provide users with a "yes/no" option
They're substantially less severe (and reversible, and more controllable) than the "your heart might stop" ones of the past generation of weight loss meds. (For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenfluramine/phentermine)
You.com – The AI Search Engine You Control
I can't help but feel like it's just sour grapes. Visuals are hard and if you can't hack them yourself they must not be worth it.
Yes, this, and also there used to be a sense of "we're all in it together". Not so much anymore.
No, I’m not storing the results. I guess there are technically access logs but that doesn’t tell me anything.
Thing A leads to thing B. So, thing C must also lead to thing B because A and C seem to be similar. Is this some logical fallacy?
The promise of batteries that come from trees
Most incest happening in the world is not done between consenting adults. It is done through rape of children. Leaving that out may be construed as a way to shift of the overton window on incest.
I think because much like a mechanics tool, when programmers make programs for themselves it's just that. A tool. You see the same thing happening with other disciplines. Commercial trucks aren't very pretty compared to cars. It's function over form.

The difference is very stark with computers because often times you'll see consumer grade software and software catered towards programmers that lean more towards tools existing in the same domain. Hackernews also isn't ugly, it's just simple. It works great on mobile and it's actually well done.
By my superficial understanding, the main social organization in most prisons is gangs based around racial lines (eg Aryan Brotherhood) so anything that can raise the temperature is a poor idea.
For tech-oriented people, yes, static site generators can be quite great.

For non-tech people? There's the reason why Wordpress is so popular: you can either use any of the tons of "hosted Wordpress" providers or throw it up on some cheap ass LAMP virtual server, hell even most providers' FTP space is usually enough. There are tons of themes, tons of plugins with integration to pretty much everywhere, and tons of anything from freelancers to huge media agencies to help you out.

Like it or not, Wordpress is the equivalent of English. Almost everyone relevant sans the French speaks it.
Quebec class-action lawsuit against Facebook over algorithmic discrimination
tldr; Class action suit in Quebec approved to go ahead over discriminatory ads for jobs and housing that target readers by age, gender, race, etc.

About damn time.
That’s what I said
> they know that nobody seeks honesty or reality anymore

It’s only true for them. Not for us.
Jesus christ, why is nature quoting a psychologist in an article about biology?

> However, some researchers worry that these drugs play into some societies’ obsession with being thin. Body size isn’t always a good predictor of health. “I’m really hesitant to be excited about something that I think is potentially harmful from a weight stigma perspective”
Can confirm, this was after clicking on a couple of the examples on the page.

https://i.imgur.com/WP2okeX.png

While neat, not exactly something I want to fill my history with.
Compressed instructions are generated by default with recent versions of GCC for RV64GC and RV32GC.
I think Python was conveniently there when teaching was looking to switch away from Java. Each wave of students exiting their institutions with a Python background made Python more popular in the field.
What's wrong with common core?
Probably assigned both arms to lifestyle changes, since we know those are beneficial. Assuming that's the case, then yes to your point, but also it's the right thing to do since there is no equipoise about lifestyle.
Why not fire 100% of employees in that case?
Well I'm not in charge, but I think my input has a high influence in the decision making. The company is a multi billion dollar international multi, so cost is not really the issue here. It's more an organizational problem. Therefore I also don't think moving to a specific framework or a new design pattern will help us by a lot. It's more transforming the current state to _any_ consistent pattern with a certain level of quality. And I'm trying to figure out whether the team would benefit from a radical or iterative approach.
> 5. Show up in meatspace

Clearly not a future-proofed essay.

I already find myself creating multiple personnae so that I can enjoy the internet without having to worry about being scanned too deeply without my consent but it turns out to be a lot of work and effort and i'm not even sure i'm doing it right. I realize this is antithetical to the HN community of let's all be real people and create a community but even participating in this community still is an exposure to harvesting by bots and a security risk. The fact that all HN threads are easily accessible to anyone is problematic in my opinion and i think a bit naive which is why i don't comport with the true spirit of this site.
This is achievable without copy/pasting eyes: If you're using the Automatic111 GUI, go to img2img -> inpaint, mask the area for one eye (on the forehead), enter prompt, and set padding = 0 and denoising accordingly (0.4 - 0.6 would be acceptable). Repeat for all three eyes. You can add practically anything to an image with inpainting, provided your prompt and padding is correct.
I understand this works well in many practical cases, but it seems to depend on a useful fraction of the training material making the version distinction explicit, which is particularly likely with Python questions since the advent of Python 3.

One concern I have goes like this: I seriously doubt that current LLMs are capable of anything that could really be called an understanding of the significance of the version number[1], but I would guess that it characterizes the various Python-with-versions strings it has seen as being close[2] so I can imagine it synthesizing an answer that is mostly built from facts about Python2.7. With a simple search engine, you can go directly to checking the source of the reply, and dig deeper from there if necessary, but with an LLM, that link is missing.

[1] The fact that it listed the version as being a factor in reply to your prompt does not establish that it does, as that can be explained simply by the frequency with which it has encountered sentences stating its importance.

[2] If only on account of the frequency with which they appear in similar sentences (though the whole issue might be complicated by how terms like 'Python3.8' are tokenized in the LLM's training input.)
> But humans are built to work and we’re only just beginning to feel the effects of giving up that privilege

But we can use humans where we need them. We still really really need them in many places. Why can't we have a teacher teach a classroom of 5 kids instead of 30? Or one nurse on 3 patients instead of 20? Why can't we have a person whose job it is to check up on lonely people or old people?
These are things we decided collectively have not much economic value, but we can just the same decide collectively they do have economic value.

Governments need to step in because the "free" market isn't gonna cut it anymore.
I agree, but Salesforce didn't start out that way, and I'm willing to bet that Hubspot wants to be like Salesforce when they grow up.
Corporations get special legal privileges, why not unions too?
> Who organizes things around application anyway, instead of windows?

macOS. There's no Alt+Tab, for example: no way to switch between two arbitrary windows on the Z-stack¹. The not-equivalent that exists is ⌘+Tab, and it switches apps; the usability of it, vs. Alt+Tab, is horrendous. (It fronts stuff you don't want, covering up stuff you do want.)

There are workspaces … but I have found them hard to get productive with: macOS will reorder keystrokes around workspace changes. That is, the keyboard input "abc ^→ (workspace change) def" is a race condition: typed quickly (within the animation delay), it becomes as if you typed "abcdef ^→".

¹no, ⌘+` does not count.
> They described the details of an investigation of a promising anti-obesity medication in teenagers, a group that is notoriously resistant to such treatment. The results astonished researchers: a weekly injection for almost 16 months, along with some lifestyle changes, reduced body weight by at least 20% in more than one-third of the participants1. Previous studies2,3 had shown that the drug, semaglutide, was just as impressive in adults.

Two immediate thoughts:

How much of it was actually the lifestyle changes? It would be more interesting if there were no lifestyle changes...

This apparently works by suppressing appetite, but doesn't cocaine do the same thing? Constant needle marks from weekly injections might result in more social complications than anything else...
The EU has a higher quality of life. The US has a higher standard of living. Quality of life and standard of living are only loosely correlated.
SEO is dead long live LLMO
With ChatGPT replacing Google search, traditional SEO is dead: how can businesses ensure their information appears in ChatGPT's single answer? The solution is in-context learning on LLMs.
The control group will have been asked to make the same lifestyle changes, but with a placebo drug.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2032183

> Participants were randomly assigned in a 2:1 ratio, through the use of an interactive Web-based response system, to receive semaglutide at a dose of 2.4 mg administered subcutaneously once a week for 68 weeks or matching placebo, in addition to lifestyle intervention...
f1 key in its default 'help' function is so remarkably useless, i just remap it to Enter. and then, remap tilde to to Left and Caps Lock to Right, and you've got a neat little navigation block on the left side of the keyboard.
"Every animation, ... is a loss in productivity"

No it is not. A animation done right (that usually means very short duration), can give the information that some transition between states has happened. Animations are only a problem if they are there for the sake of animation. So when you notice the animation, it is already too long and the designer screwed up.
a bottle of kerosene might be 500 g, or 21 megajoules according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#In_chemical_rea...

but 2 ℓ of hydrogen (i don't know how much you'd use in a residential thermoacoustic cooler so that is a guess but probably the right order of magnitude) is only 0.02 megajoules, a thousand times smaller

otoh the kerosene doesn't form an easily detonated high explosive if it mixes with air, and the hydrogen does, and 20 kilojoules can still be plenty fatal in an explosion
Them "leaving", as in having no legal/corporate presence in, the EU wouldn't remove obligations under GDPR. They would have to block all access from EU citizens to do that.
A popular sharing website in Switzerland
€390M fine strikes blow to Meta’s ad-fueled business model
there are already custom AI avatars and text to speech, there are already people using GPT to create text and then using other services to create the audio and dynamic videos at scale
> Internet dwellers addicted to their talking AIs
See Replika. The former will certainly exist. Not so sure about the latter.
So even if the fine sticks and doesn't get overturned on appeal, that's 390 million over 4 years of blatantly breaching the GDPR, so on average ~97M/year. This means it's merely a cost of doing business and they should continue.
I can't even prove my humanness to the bank to regain access to my credit card.
> Less AI alignment discourse, more house music and ketamine.

Whoa you’re so cool man
I'm at Google and I wish each engineer got some kind of budget (like the peer bonus budget) that could be used to distribute funds to third-party libraries. My project is itself open source, does not run in the Google prod environment, and thus is heavily reliant on other open source libraries. I wish I had, say, $1,000/year to personally distribute amongst our dependencies. I think what's holding this back is how logistically/legally complicated it is, especially considering how many of the donations are going to be international and might have tax consequences requiring issuance of a 1099. It's easy to donate to non-profits through work (we have an annual amount we can give, plus matching funds), but for donations to individual developers, the logistics are nigh impossible.
HN doesn’t even restrict content width to readable limits, and uses color combinations that fail basic accessibility tests (eg OP text posts). Odd example of good design when it doesn’t even meet basic accessibility certification requirements. I do find HN design endearing in a minimalist 90s tech way, but that’s just social signaling.
I’m glad you posted this as a reminder to everyone to be wary of my supposed fact. I was unsure if I should have even posted it but I’ll spend some time now and have a look for the source.

Edit: wow @popehat deleted all their tweets!
If these models experience qualia (and that's a big bold claim that I'm, to be clear, not supporting,) they're qualia related entirely to the things they're trained on and generate, totally devoid of what makes human qualia meaningful (value judgment, feelings resulting from embodied existence, etc.)
In practice they will get away with it because good luck enforcing those penalties on a company without any assets you can reach.
Any prison that you made emphasizing rehabilitation instead of punishment would immediately get picked up by the news media because it's an amazing story for generating clicks. The prison would be presented to readers as the 'country club' that's 'soft on criminals' that 'YOU (underlined and bolded in the obnoxious way they do) are paying for!!!'

The public doesn't want justice - they want an underclass to feel superior to.
> How much of it was actually the lifestyle changes?

That's why the placebo group in the trial also gets the same lifestyle changes.

> This apparently works by suppressing appetite, but doesn't cocaine do the same thing?

Sure. If they were otherwise identical, that'd be a good point, but they're not.

> Constant needle marks from weekly injections might result in more social complications than anything else...

My daughter has to give herself growth hormone injections every day, and has for nearly a decade now. You don't get needle marks from these sorts of small dosage subcutaneous injection.
I just want keyword based search with "advanced" operators. Let me search for exact terms, etc. Let me exclude words. And don't question my directives, show me want I actually searched for on the first try, etc.
Because this isn't an article about biology, it's about health, and health isn't unidimensional
> HN is one of the most readable sites I visit.

Funny, I find it quite hard to read, since it just blows posts out to nearly full screen width. Humans read much better with wraps at 60-80 characters. The first line of your comment, on my screen, is 196.
Twitter DB Leaked 200M Records
According to their most recent quarterly report, they had ~$16B in operating expenses on $23B in revenue through Q322. I would imagine a vast majority of opex is headcount.
I use rolling snapshots. It helps protect against members dropping suddenly, as a lot of OSINT sources aren't intended to be and will only contain a sample of your target population. Opinions, priorities, or biases may change, and thus so will the data.
https://archive.ph/aCWNr#selection-1357.0-1357.72
The argument against machine sentience and the possibility of machine suffering, is that because Turing machines run in a non-physical substrate, they can never be truly embodied. The algorithms it would take to model the actual physics of the real world cannot run on a Turing machine. So talk of “brain uploading“ etc. is especially dangerous, because an uploaded brain could act like the person it’s trying to copy from the outside, but on the inside the lights are off.

Edit to add link to more discussion: https://twitter.com/jchris/status/1607946807467991041
Ultralearning a.k.a. how I learned to code
Yeah, I believe so. I think you need to go to an Apple Authorised Service Provider and then take the fault report to John Lewis to kick off the process. Assuming that your laptop is on this list: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/keyboard-service-program-for...
> The feelings of the individual experiencing the art is what matters

In that case, art has already lost because drugs do their job better.
Not sure what you mean by "valid" but I don't think anyone's arguing that butterflies, cats, and sunsets are not valid. I love watching or looking at all of them but that doesn't make them art. Again, I think the comment is arguing that the definition of art lies in who created it and why. Not whether it is nice to look at.
I think Silicon Valley (the show) did this
Resident is not the same as citizen, which is what OP mentioned. Having "resident" status in a country generally gives you many perks of being a citizen without actually becoming one. Usually things like being able to open a bank account, working legally, getting a drivers license, etc. with the "liability" of possibly having to pay into the equivalent of social security (and other things, can't vote for example).

This does not change any citizenship status on either side.
One of these examples is so unlike the other two that it's outrageous.
A professor I follow once said Nature isn't as prestigious as people think, they just publish such a high volume that people have gotten that impression
I'm ambivalent about unions. In general, they sound like a good idea to me, but in practice in the USA, they seem only a step above the mob.

For example, I was browsing /r/antiwork the other day and someone received a bill from their union after they chose to leave the job. The bill demanded the payment of $200 in union dues that were unpaid from their paychecks. The commenter did not have enough money to pay

To put it bluntly... this is exploitation. The responses were that the poster had two options (1) pay the due or (2) never work in any industry for which this is the union (and some other unions may not want you if you're out of date with the other union).

People have a right to work. No private organization, profit or non-profit, should be able to prevent you from doing that. I understand why a union may take a bit off the top of a paycheck, but to demand fixed sums after quitting under threat of never being able to work in that field again? That seems exploitative. We would never let a private for-profit business get away with threatening their employees as such.

Moreover, according to other unions I've interacted with, they claim that if you don't follow union policy, they can 'expel' you from the union after you go through 'trials'. Typically, tnis is if you cross a picket line. Now, I think it's usually in one's best interest to strike if the union is striking. However, this is a free country. No one should be able to prevent you from working. No private organization should be able to put you on trial with the consequence being that, if you lose, you cannot work. While organizations can expel members, that should be the extent of their punishment. Working is a necessity to earn an income. To deprive someone of that because they're not part of your club is morally wrong.

In my opinion, if we allow for closed shops, then unions should be obligated to represent any worker there, whether they have paid any dues or not. Union dues should primarily descend from paychecks. No worker should get a bill. No one should be able to be expelled from a profession simply for not following union labor policy (and realistically, there are only a handful of reasons a janitor ought to be expelled from the profession). Unions ought to be regulated like health insurance companies and be forced to advocate for anyone working in the field.
More like hidden drugs or weapons
> Roughly ten years ago, identifying with the community was generally harmful to your reputation

Really?!
I prefer readability above all else and often perceive "design" as a gimmick to misdirect visitors/users.

Some seem to think minimalism contradicts UX, but they aren't mutually exclusive concepts.