skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely hypothetical... two ways this could happen and not be "forced". One, as you said the minority gender could be stronger "on average". Which could happen if the reason why the applicant pool is skewed is historic discrimination. This could discourage all but the stronger applicants from the minority gender. The top X% of the applicant pool would then be evenly distributed, while the bottom portion of the applicant pool is weighted towards the majority.

Or...

Applicants are not applying to only 1 location. If other companies have discriminatory hiring practices (whether intentional or not) but this company doesn't, then the applicants that accept an offer could skew more towards the minority group (since the majority group was more likely to get a higher paying offer or any offer at all).
See Japan, it will go out at one stage, these are hard jobs with low margin and returns. Quality of raw materials is going down too
Not sure what I’ve done to elicit that response. Care to elaborate?
This is the logical fallacy prevalent in these types of 'this offends me' reactions. You have completely fabricated this takeaway.
It feels the same here in UK - people are still using FB, but I haven't had any friends or family post anything in months. My entire feed is just posts from a watches and cars groups that I'm in. I personally haven't posted anything on my feed since at least.....2018? (But I do post plenty in private groups)
I think this is the answer. I started using vi 33 years ago and initially learned just what I needed to know. As time went on I learned more commands.

If I wanted to erase a word in a sentence, which had seven letters, initially I might type x eight times (erase the word and a space). Then as I learned more vi I might type 7x. As I learned more vi I might type dw.

You can get a lot of navigation and editing done just knowing a few commands in vi. If you use it a lot, you can learn more commands and have an easier time.

About 7-8 years ago the standard IDE for my programming niche changed, and I had to learn a new IDE and what I knew of the old IDE I have almost never used since. The vi stuff I learned 30 years ago I am still using.
My bad, totally, it's the HTTPS Everywhere extension, and the site is just HTTP (obviously). It's not down.
That makes sense to me, but I wonder if that's gonna launch a writing arms race between genuine writers and AI researchers.
The issue is not that ChatGPT will kill things off, the issue is that ChatGPT 4.0 will kill things off. If you don’t think that’s a real possibility, you’re sleeping.
One of the problems that I have with the "AI might replace some menial jobs, but people should aspire to bigger and better things" argument is that a lot of menial jobs are training for those bigger and better things.

"Sure, ChatGPT can write some basic code, but it can't come up with creative solutions like I can." Yeah, that's true. But how did I get to the point of being able to make creative solutions? Years of working in the trenches, learning all the ins and outs of how to code and not over-engineer that college never even had a hope of teaching me.

Yes, nobody wants a life-long career developing formulaic CRUD apps, or writing catalog product descriptions, or making logos for every tom-dick-or-harry consulting shop with delusions of grandeur. But if you want to become a skilled developer, writer, or designer, you kinda need to grind through a lot of this bullshit work to grow a sense of taste to be any good at the higher-level work.

So what happens when we cut off that pipeline of junior jobs? It's going to happen, and it's going to happen from the bottom, up. We're not going to see big corporations take risks on trying AI software developers when they have thousands of resumes of the best undergrads to sift through every month. We're going to see it from the companies on the fringe, who couldn't afford to hire even a junior developer. They're going to take a low-risk chance because the alternative is just not do the work at all. And they'll prove out the model and 20 years later the only people who understand the basics anymore will be more interested in management positions than writing yet another Django app, and 20 more years later they'll be retiring with nobody else coming in behind them.
The author of the essay addresses this point head on, and has a very different philosophy: "Those who read only to be informed and never to delight in the words on the page have every right to do so. But do not write for them."

I personally would have to strongly disagree that "the best writing is invisible to the reader." The best writing scintillates and sparkles, it begs to be read and re-read, to be read aloud and savored in the mouth like a sip of wine.
ICML bans use of ChatGPT and AI language tools to write academic papers
It is my understanding that you quitting big meat, doesn't affect your risk. If you are exposed to a new drug resistant pathogen that was the result of anti-biotics in cattle, chicken, pork, etc, it doesn't matter if you even eat meat.

That said am I interpreting this right? How much of a risk does the use of antibiotics in meat present to a vegetarian?
Because you're paying interest. My credit union offers an 8% APR; a 10% BNPL gives me no benefit over that.
> Contemporary society champions neuro-diversity and makes it taboo to consider that our psychological issues could have a biological causation. Telling someone that their mental health issues could come from pathogen exposure demeans their experience in individualistic societies.

This is quite a presumption! The advocates of neurodiversity that I’ve seen care less about where these things come from, and more about how they are thought of in society. So what if it’s caused by a pathogen?
I think the correct way to use it as a student is as a companion to the textbook. If any exercise or text is too convoluted Chatgpt can explain it in a more understandable way.

And step by step solving of exercises is great for students too, they can verify with the textbook's answer key.

The key is having a source of truth on hand.
> Is that too generic?

No but as you stated it's fictive... I can also tell you a lot of fictive science facts, or fictive president names, or anything fictive for that matter

The goal is to use your _own_ imagination, of course chatgpt can align sentences in a semi cohesive manner, it's its whole purpose
Regarding denormal/subnormal numbers mentioned as "weird": the main issue with them is that their hardware implementation is awfully slow, to the point of being unusable for most computation cases with even moderate FLOPs
It's a long-standing issue/debate at this point. The maintainers of long-term stable kernels have for some years now used scripts to automatically pick as many appropriate-looking stand-alone patches as possible, looking at what's merged into Linus' "tip" tree (usually to find fixes targeting rc(N) kernels). Since they do the work they get to decide, but many others have found this an inappropriately regression-prone way to manage longterm-stable kernels. If you want all the latest fixes and improvements, you can use the latest kernel. If you use the longterm-stable it's because you want less risk from unrelated/unmotivated changes, you want only the specific fixes found to be most needed.

Well, that's all in my interpretation :) for more broad background see https://lwn.net/Articles/863505/
I predict that will change the minute a hot indie game that would significantly boost your subscriber count says they want some amount up front/guaranteed to be listed on your platform (and the math checks out).

Unless you transparently publish your financials, there is no way to be held accountable to this system.
ICML: Clarification on Large Language Model Policy LLM
>That's been SOP for web development for aeons. I'd say the rewards vastly outweigh the costs. Not a deal breaker for me.

You should always sanitize inputs and encode outputs, but it's difficult to get that right 100% of the time. With CSP, you have a pretty robust safety net against XSS for when you encode user-controlled data incorrectly. With htmx, you're forfeiting the safety net.

I understand that not everyone wants to use CSP because a lot of libraries break it, but to me, giving up CSP is a pretty big sacrifice.
Even if they don't, broad/inessential use of antibiotics helps evolve antibiotic resistant pathogens, which is everyone's problem.
A.) No it doesn't, not even a little bit.
B.) He said he was happily married, he didn't say his happiness it tied to a woman, you're twisting words.
Everything tom7 has made is golden, my personal favorite is "Elo World": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpXy041BIlA
Then don't use Google, use a paid search engine like Kagi or others

With Google you are the product
Yeah there's also non-credit card that has the same fraud protection, contactless, separated balance, plus mobile app that's very fancy that can even pay street food shop.
That's a good idea for a side project, thx!
It was not a language model, but AlphaZero played against itself millions of games and trained on the data it generated, without seeing any human games. And it reached super human level, of course.

Why was this possible? The game itself acted as an anti-bullshit filter. So you can train on your own generated data if you filter it.

Like this one: Large Language Models Can Self Improve

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.11610
There is another old saying: don't compare your insides to someone else's outside. Your successful friends could be stressed out nervous wreaks. And there might be people out there that look at you and say: he's got a bad commute but his job don't stress him out and he gets along with and enjoys being with his parents, how cool, I'm jealous. The big question about what to do with your life is important, but it seems like your bad commute is problem you could and should deal with first. It seems like WFH is out of the question but you could ask to come in earlier or later to avoid traffic. If they won't accommodate you find a job with a better commute and or closer to home. You are in a much better position than many people to take that risk. Take some time to reflect on all of the things you have to be grateful for and be kind to your self and protect your self from people who are not kind to you or who try to make themselves feel better by undermining you. Good luck.
The backend that handles the API has generally been relatively solid, but the official clients are a complete disaster.
I havent heard about demoscene for years. Unfortunately I was never a part of it.
Lifestyle changes have such an awful record for obesity such that getting people to use drugs that work may be fighting the good fight. (Although I suspect the real cause of the obesity crisis may be some environmental chemical or chemicals such as PFAS, glyphosate, etc.)
Totally agree. I have some hope that the current high-profile layoffs makes (at least some) non-technical people to leave the industry.
I have even started seeing more and more developers that have 0 interest in programming and are in it for the money, and it shows.
i think we are 10 years away from saying something like: "give me a two hour movie in the style of pulp fiction staring Brad Pitt that evokes the emotions of empathy, excitement, fear, and a satisfying conclusion." And AI will generate a masterpiece even Quentin Tarantino would agree is "in the style of pulp fiction" and something we'd praise a human for as "brilliant". Brad Pitt's image and voice will all be deep fake of course and his agent will get him paid. But Brad will have no say in accepting the part. Anyone with a computer will be able to put content like this out there.
>People who catch toxoplasmosis often have no symptoms. If they do, they may experience an acute infection of mild flu-like symptoms. Think about how many times you’ve had a cold or mild flu, perhaps one of those times it was actually from a pathogen such as Toxoplasma. After entering your system, the toxoplasmosis infection then enters a dormant phase, during which bradyzoites (slow, multiplying cell forms) create clusters within a cyst that become permanently lodged in your muscle and brain tissues. Toxoplasma gondii is occasionally also found expressed in conditions around the eyes, the lining of the lungs and also the heart.

This is terrifying.
Grammarly is very limited in what it allows you stylistically. I tried it for a few months but it didn't let me express all of my thoughts. However muddled and confused, those are my muddled thoughts, damnit.
For anything that isn't current events, that's basically Wikipedia for me.
Not <blink> the best HTML tag ever?
I mean any random sample of one of Cormac McCarthy's novels would fail an English test, but his net worth is in the tens of millions. So I wouldn't put too much stock into what most English teachers think in general.
How often do you use it to justify paying 150 a month?
That wouldn't surprise me at all.

But 9to5google cannot say "Accidental leak by Google! wink wink" :)
> Karmajunkiearewe?

Not really, these comments usually get -1 to +3 votes when I make them and I don't make them that often, just when I recognize the submission.
> That's sounds like a church, lol.

Probably more like a synagogue, but point taken…
The developer side sounds pretty bad.

> we're able to pay developers a recurring revenue stream, as long as people are playing their game.

That's how normal game sales already work for non-replayable games.

Good indie games are usually more like $20. If you want to be in this service and make the same amount of money, you'd need your existing player count to only play your game for over 2 months, assuming the revenue split is the same (which you've left out). This is unrealistic; I'd expect people to play 2 or so games per month. Your service would need to make that up through a massive increase in advertising. This is already what publishers do, so you probably won't get any Annapurna/Devolver/THQ/etc games. Basically, you're trying to do what Epic did (make a new platform and subsidize dozens of games) without making a billion from vbucks.

> This way, indie games can achieve profitability with a smaller player base

Your service doesn't encourage this. People are going to be less likely to stick with a game, so you need more players to get the same revenue, assuming all else is balanced.

From the player side, people irrationally hate installing new launchers. The DRM thing is probably fine though. It'll depend on how often it breaks games and how much performance it takes.

My conclusion is this is Moviepass for games. Except it only has 11 games.
It's not given to sick animals, it's constantly given to all livestock because it's cheap and it's seen as a sort of "preventative maintenance". Which is bad for all kinds of reasons 1) a lot of it makes it into your meals 2) it reduces the efficacy of antibiotics by constantly exposing it to bacteria (allowing them to eventually become resistant).

Probably other reasons it's bad as well (I'm also not a doctor and just write code).
If the AI never made mistakes in a certain subject, schooling in that subject would be obsolete.
You can install whatever add-ons you want on Firefox for Android (as long as they're compatible), you're not limited to the default list.

See here [1] for instructions (these were written for Nightly but they work on the stable channel now).

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/09/29/expanded-extensio...
I don't think this concept is hopelessly flawed, but solving your "cold start problem" (read the book if you haven't) is going to be super hard.

Also, I would never use your service because of DRM. GOG doesn't do DRM and always has many indie games on sale, which seems like a better value prop? I don't think the Spotify analogy works because games are already very cheap. I have a large backlog of games I'll never get around to playing, and so does everybody else. Being able to choose from millions of songs on Spotify is way better than having to buy individual albums, but I don't need access to a large game library.

Maybe this is another "less space than a nomad" kind of comment, but my intuition is that indie games are mostly played by older gamers who are happy to just buy a game they want to play. Go to gog.com and see how many games you can get for the $100 a year you plan to charge.
Related but completely different: All MS-DOS programs built with Turbo/Borland Pascal stopped working on ~200+ MHz Pentium CPUs because of a sleep calibration loop that ended up going too fast and causing a divide by zero in the runtime library:

http://www.pcmicro.com/elebbs/faq/rte200.html
Do you hate software engineering but love programming?

Nope. I love the engineering aspects that go beyond "Just programming". I don't always agree with some of the details of how those processes work, but it's all fundamentally important stuff and I enjoy working on it. I do like to keep processes as lightweight as possible though.
You will pay for it in taxes or at the meat counter. You are going to pay either way and likely both.
The "if I was a teacher" thoughts on how to handle a ChatGPT that can do short answer questions for English, History, and Social Studies classes...

I'd have a set of N questions that shouldn't take long to answer but demonstrate that the material has been read. Yes, ChatGPT can answer them.

The second part would be in class, after the homework had been handed in pull a name and number out of a hat and have that student answer that question again and answer a followup question on that material.

The oral part of it makes it so that having another do the homework for the student and not do the reading means that the student would show a lack of understanding of the question or its followup.

(note: my sophomore English teacher did this... and I messed up answering questions about the Miller's tale which I hadn't read)
replace woman with kids. Happy parents are happy parents, unhappy parent is a philosopher parent.

doesnt sound like any -ism to me
Speaking of Fluoroquinolones and Cipro (Ciprofloxacin) specifically, I personally had bad experiences with it causing tendon damage and severe back pain, though fortunately the damage healed and the back pain cleared within a couple days after stopping my Cipro course early and switching to a different antibiotic.
HPE acquire Pachyderm (YC W15) to expand AI-at-scale capabilities
Yeah, same here. I actually only follow a handful of active feeds, so it won’t be the end of the world either way.

But one thing I’ll miss are the HN feeds, since I otherwise stay off HN. I may have to find an alternative for that, at least, since I don’t want to get (back) in the habit of visiting the HN homepage.
Most of the mistakes homeowners make when doing electrical work are related to NM cable strapping (not enough straps typically), pigtails that are too short, junction boxes that arent properly secured, and inaccessible junction boxes.

He probably just checked to make sure you strapped the NM cable within 8-12” of the box (depending on if you have cable clamps or not) and then a strap every 54”. If you get the small details right they won’t be so harsh while inspecting.

If you are careful and follow the rules, it’s pretty straightforward to wire branch circuits in a house. Grounding and bonding a service entrance panelboard to ground rods/natural gas piping/water piping is not as straightforward as it seems.
there’s a rumour that cursing can also help you get to the operator (faster?). not sure how true that is, though
Okay, but the suggestion amounts to "track all your users, including the legitimate ones who paid you, all the time".
> To me it's misogynistic because when I heard it first it's implied that my happiness is tied to a woman.

Nowhere it is implied that an unhappy marriage for a men is due to women in the marriage, if I had to guess, unhappiness in marriage for men is tied to having kids.

Anyway, focusing on the fact that it says "men" instead of focusing on the fact that it says "unhappiness" says a lot about the priorities people have nowadays.

It's like reading "The Fox and the Grapes" and focusing on the fact that there's a talking fox trying to eat grapes.
If anything, the modern management structure more closely resembles a mini-communist state than a capitalist system.

Each department's revenue goes into a shared pool, which is distributed amongst the company in annual planning cycles by an unelected board of representatives. Who gets what is as much a function of meritocratic principles like department revenue as it is of who happens to have senior leadership's ear that year (how many times have executives been convinced X is the future, we need more X, with no concrete performance to back that up?).

There are some larger, more sophisticated companies that break this mold, but more the exception than the rule, I think.
True, but it is a hypocrisy to bash Russia and be silent about the ongoing assaults on civilians that America keeps doing to this very day - how many civilians did Obama kill in Yemen, he even bragged about it saying, "I'm very good at killing." If we let one country go away with this, then it sets a dangerous precedent for others to use as an excuse! America continues to assassinate people in sovereign countries and feels entitled to do so. Even its involvement in Syria, which Turkiye followed shortly, was a violation of international law. And nobody says anything about Turkiye for killing Kurds in Syria!
Certainly not. Indeed, all AIs are machines, but not all machines are AI. The kitchen faucet that preceeded the dish washer as the primary tool used to wash dishes is a machine, but has no intelligence. The dish washer expanded upon the concept of the kitchen faucet by adding artificial intelligence to it.
I'm sort of sick of the top talent argument.

My grandfather and group sang.
From what tapes I have heard of them, they didn't sound worse than any other group of Appalachian gospel/blue grass singers.

My parents' wedding photos weren't 'professional' and I think they came out pretty well, perhaps even charming.

Sometimes I think people are putting too much stock in the notion of a 'perfect' life, rather than a lived one.
When the ice melts we will probably find an remnants of an advanced civilization. Through some of the preserved records we will see that they were trying there best to ban solar and wind and rid the earth of electric cars so as to ward off global cooling.
Thanks for writing the article! It definitely helped me crystallize some of my thoughts around this.

I think the point at which we differ is that I actually prefer the "Oh #&@$ Solution". Part of it is to avoid building tools that I never end up using. But even if I do use a tool a lot, I would still rather slow development later rather than sooner.

For example, I'm the only engineer, building an admin tool means product development stops, whereas if I wait until we've hired another engineer it means it only slows down by 50%. Or, if we only have a few months of runway, it's much more valuable for me to work on things that increase revenue or decrease costs in terms of actual dollars than things that make the company more efficient.

Obviously these are contrived examples, but the general theme here is that time now is more valuable than time later. So the further into the future something is expected to pay off, the more suspicious of it you should be.
Indeed, ChatBot's political biases have been intensifying. [1] [2]

[1]: https://twitter.com/AlexEpstein/status/1606347326624215040?s...

[2]: https://twitter.com/stone_toss/status/1606878417865129984
Cory Doctorow has written very similar pieces about social networks and tech companies. There's one literally called "Even if you are paying for the product, you are still the product"

https://doctorow.medium.com/even-if-youre-paying-for-the-pro...
BNPL is simply credit card with a dark pattern. Psychologically it is easier to justify 25/months for 4 months than it is to justify 100 at once (even knowing you'll pay it back later in installments)