skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I was offered to stay on as a full-time intern as part of the hiring pipeline

This is a big deal and it's something people currently in school should consider: At least at Sandia, we loved the internship programs because it was a really well-defined way to do a trial-run with potential employees. After 3 or 6 months, we'd have some idea if the intern was actually any good, and they'd know if they liked the environment or not. This is important because hiring sucks and firing really sucks.

So if you're in school and you're looking for an internship, consider the labs. Also consider that, in my experience in a CS group at Sandia, startups and FAANGs really liked to hire Sandians away, so it can be a good springboard even if you only spend a couple years there.

Also look into the Scholarship For Service program.
You're bringing back XUL? No? You must be removing the DRM on them instead? Also no? Then what are you doing? Copying google again/still.
Because cars have more and more airbags?
Not to jinx myself but I’ve been in more mountain bike wrecks than I can count - stitches to the face and elsewhere, scars a plenty, and have never once hit the brainy portion of my head (small target, I know ;). I think it’s mostly owing to technique.

That said, a childhood friend of mine who became a sponsored snowboarder suffered a severe head injury while shooting an ad, and is still mentally and physically disabled from it (wheelchair bound to this day).

All to say, I’m well aware of the risks and have a list of anecdotes to support any direction you want to take them, but none of it has made me a fan of helmet laws for adults.
A person seeing it would reasonably conclude that the claim wasn't specific to this exact situation, which makes this misleading, but not technically lying.

(I still think it's bad, and am not a Tesla fan)
Road cyclist here. Once I went down on a training ride careening off into the unpaved shoulder. After dusting myself off my friend I was with looked aghast. A pyramidal sharp rock was wedged between the ribs of the helmet. Lacking a helmet a skull fx would have been a real possibility. Lots of ways to ways to die road cycling but if I can eliminate one; I’m there.
That's basically how it is here in Japan too, with the added bonus that the site supports English really well, and auto-translates stuff that isn't in English. Prices are almost always lower than elsewhere, shipping is free for anything over 2000 yen, and while the return process isn't fantastic (you have to physically take it to the post office), it's free and it exists, which is more than I can say for the competition. The free returns alone is a big reason to shop on Amazon here. Most Japanese retailers will not accept returns without a very good reason (e.g. product defect). The site design is much better and easier to use too; Japanese companies are notorious for having truly awful UIs and web design.
OSHA was set up to ensure better working conditions. Regulations regarding wage theft, mandatory paid time off, limit to the number of hours one can work in a week, etc. are all made for better working conditions. You appear to be know very little about the history of labor laws and their purpose.
I find interesting these studies that compare the behaviour of similar cities that got different outcomes.

Another one I saw years ago was made in Germany, to test the Max Weber hypothesis that the Protestant Ethics fostered capitalism. The study compared the growth of both Catholic and Protestant cities. It found no significant difference in the rate of growth. The factor that actually had the most impact on growth was the presence of a printing industry.
> Now I dont think most people would say the second example violates any laws and is fair use. You cannot copyright a style (although some lawsuits are moving forward for rap flow) to my knowledge.

I still don't believe the examples are equivalent, despite some seeming similarities on the surface.

I agree that most people would say the second example is fair use, because the current definition of fair use was established before the existence of generative AI, and with natural limits built in and imposed by human capability.

What is currently deemed acceptable was deemed acceptable because of the friction involved in learning, and when examining what is "fair" about how one uses a piece of art, that evaluation did not at any point include a datacenter-sized AI slurping up every image indiscriminately and then enabling everyone, regardless of education or talent, to generate new works with minimal effort and with almost no time investment required.

If we achieved AGI tomorrow, and the AGI was capable of learning the way humans learn, and drawing inspiration the way humans draw inspiration, but could do so with superhuman efficiency, I think the same quandry exists. It's not about how closely the AI mimics human processes, but the fact that such an AI just fundamentally changes the game. It seems unlikely that the rules of fair use would look the way they do today, or that artists would be willing to allow their work to be ingested by such an AI, if they were given the opportunity to make that choice with a full understanding of the implications.

Agreeing to allow a human to look at my work and allowing a machine intelligence to "look" at it are just fundamentally different things, with drastically different implications. Comparing something to current norms of fair use falls down because the meaning of fair has almost certainly changed.

I struggle with the spreadsheet analogy, because this falls into a category of automating error-prone (when performed by humans) tasks guided by objective rules that look something like the laws of nature.

Art is inherently subjective, and with without human inspiration, the AI would not exist. Or at best, it would only be capable of producing outputs as mediocre as its inputs.
For frog snacks, who the hell wants to transfer our human garbage like politics onto AI. Why would ai need politics?

I would only be interested if ais could help separate political beliefs from policy facts
You're agreeing with the article.

Regarding the law, if it's selectively enforced it is worse than no law.
The often maddening, always surreal experience of work meetings in VR
> Why on Earth would I want to use a security product that phones home... Regular WireGuard works perfectly fine for me.

Then you should continue using regular WireGuard. However, modern industry is plagued by an endless war with vulnerabilities, exploits, and malicious insiders. Even with adequate staffing, it's like a dam you're constantly patching to prevent leakage. We have to log everything, often offsite, and often into immutable storage. When the dam does eventually leak, we have to know how much and how it started. The logging is a feature to me.

Tailscale is building a service that doesn't require me to run and maintain a centrally connectable server, one that ties into a single-sign-on solution, one that logs activity, one that's introduced a system in which I don't even have to trust their control plane exclusively (Tailnet Lock). Just the seemless integration with Azure AD has saved maintenance time over NPS+Radius+ADConnect+OpenVPN.

Wireguard is great, I'm using it for all my site-to-site still (and it blows OpenVPN out of the water). But Tailscale has replaced all my client vpns for good reason.
If you can afford a bike, you can afford a helmet https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bike+helmet. I don't think there should be a law either, but the whole thing about it being unfair to minorities is complete garbage.
There is no implication in the parent that you should wear a helmet when the risk of head injury is greater than zero (i.e. always). They only imply that bike-riding is high enough risk to warrant it.
are stumbling (with increasing speed)

Reason: "Humans are tribal and want power and resources as signifiers of status."
Purpose built game engine DevOps platform from a former Electronic Arts CTO
We’ve already been having the AI intentionally or unintentionally being changed by the large organizations.

Just as a simple example, you can’t publish white supremest content. If it gets close, but doesn’t cross the line, it’s deranked. Mention the “correct” thing: “Black men deserve restitution, white men are too inherently privileged” And it’ll rank high. Mention the wrong thing on YouTube (“climate change isn’t a problem”) and you could get a strike or banned. Only one view is constantly presented and tugged.

It’s already been a decade of this. The climate change & vaccine debate is the most obvious — it’s also political. It’s how we collaborate and work together.

By deranking opposing views, there’s only one public view. That’s why there are multiple “bubbles” depending on which platform(s) and what content you’ve liked.

I personally don’t care about the AIs opinion, I care about the humans who are voting, working, taxing, etc.
Funny that the people writing about AI catastrophe are the ones who actually set blockchains a few years back!
Well, sure, I think you're right: if the Chinese state wants access to UT-Austin's networks, they definitely have that already, and cutting this out doesn't help anything.

I suppose they're just going along with their new law in a way that buys some political points.

Personally, I'd love it if we banned the damn thing everywhere, but only because I hate the mindless content :)
Russia is 10x the size of Ukraine and they will be seeing explosions in Moscow if they don’t end the war in 2023.
Doom, of course.
Thanks for the catch, to get the desired behavior you can use 'Grouped Targets'[1] with the following syntax:

a b c d &: FORCE
...

Note that this is a GNU make-ism, not sure what BSD make does.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-...
Honestly I'm completely amazed I'm not a brain damage case from my own years of boarding without one. Like, after getting hit by cars a couple of times, hitting speed wobbles going too fast bombing a hill, and falling into a crevice on a mountain... I've been through a lot of insane stuff but near-misses with almost dying on a skateboard or snowboard have definitely put the fear of death in me. Now that I'm older I don't think I would mess around without one.

I've known a few people who have become brain damage cases riding around without a helmet and life isn't great for them. One of them followed me when I went camping at one point and lost his only pants in the forest on the first night kind of level.
Google ditched their "Dont be evil" mantra 5 years ago.
Scale. It takes much more time, effort, inclination, knowledge, etc. for a human to bullshit as effectively as 30 seconds of ChatGPT.
That would actually make sense.

Most cellular modems are pushed through the head unit, and most car operations are controlled by the canbus. Given this, you could probably talk to the canbus unit to control the seat warmers.
> but if this tech can be scaled up it would be.

It's not that it is "not a certainty". It actually seems very unlikely that this could work.

> and now it is cheapest form of energy per MW on Earth

Thanks to fossil fuels, that have been used at pretty much every step of the process of building and transporting the solar panels. And then it only works with good weather. Not that solar is completely bad, but it does not look like it will be the replacement for fossil fuels.

It is not enough to be cheap as a marginal source of energy in a world with cheap fossil fuels. At some point it would need to work on its own...
Stop introducing facts; you're killing the outrage.
The end state of these models is to probably poison the public internet completely as a source of reliable knowledge. Things that don't have citation chains that go back to human-created offline content won't be trustworthy - is that a real newspaper article linked from that Wikipedia article, or a fake one for a fake paper generated from thin air? You were looking at Reddit because you think you're more likely to get a real testimonial vs SEO spam? Whoops, there goes that too. Etc.

This sounds bad, but I agree that it's only the acceleration of an existing trend.

The only bright side is that it's really only rolling back a couple of decades of status quo. It's not like humanity has never operated without Wikipedia or instant search for news articles (specifically scoping it down there from "google" in general since a lot of what a plain web search on many topics will turn up is already unreliable).
Buy an after market. I.e. Joying.
I love games. Is here anywhere where we can play yours? Thanks!
I know, which is why I included it in my post. The grammar looks good to me.
One of the most nonsensical things I have read on here in a long time.

Software is not like a tv show or a stand up comedy set or an album. It is not a cultural artifact. It is machinery.

We don’t really get bored of a bread slicer. A school bus does not become tiresome. “My french press, it lacks its initial spark!”

Machines break, or fall behind evolving requirements (e.g. the bus only takes leaded gas). These are functional shortcomings. The idea of somehow withdrawing a functional useful piece of software from society does not make much sense. There are copies out there, first of all. What are you going to do, hunt them all down? You can stop maintaining it but in many cases, you can’t even prevent other people from working on it. Do you think even Larry Ellison could kill the Oracle database?
> Helmet mandates intimidate potential riders, they argued, by framing cycling as an activity so dangerous it necessitates body armor.

But that's sort of the point in America. The act of not being in a car is a non-standard and dangerous option compared to the rest of the world.
You must have a lot of fingers.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/523310/netherlands-numbe...
No, and they shouldn't be allowed to do that in public spaces either.
What we should care about is the aggregate public health impact of the intervention. In the case of bicycles and motorcycles I think people attribute magical safety benefits to helmets that don’t exist.

Similar to protective gear in hockey actually increasing injuries I suspect that the impact of helmets is bimodal: some people respect the risk of going XX mph nearly unprotected and others view their protective gear as a shield.

I’m also willing to bet that the biggest change in safety for bike helmets is actually people outside of the urban areas most likely to have safety mandates
Searching for Will Hunting?
Tech has always been a losing preposition. I paid 1000's of dollars for tech products I have in my house that have lost ALL their value. Chances are I'll have to pay to get rid of them. So don't expect for your tech stuff to have value after you're done with it. Also, Apple is in the business of selling not buying so that's the last place you go to sell your tech gear and hope to get some money back.

Now that I think about it, I wonder what DELL would pay for your $52,199 Mac Pro? Do I hear $0?
Every expert would tell me not to ride a OneWheel at a high rate of speed. Doesn’t mean I won’t. Doesn’t mean I’d support city ordinances banning them. Risk evaluation is weird that way, and your answer will depend on your role in the conversation. What I would recommend for you may not be the best for me. So putting a pin in that, there are arguably more important considerations when evaluating the proposition that, “somebody should make a law”, than expert risk analysis for the genpop.
The government changed because the nation changed. It's now the richest country in the world, with a population of 330 million people, and spans an entire continent from ocean to ocean. Even if you just consider the constitutional commander-in-chief duties, whoever holds the role is going to be a person of global importance.
Or because SaaS is easier to use and requires little or no maintenance.
They may never said so, but in practice the bug I mentioned above is over 6 months old, and is critical to the core functionality.
Probably explaining what I think I know/understand to someone else. You have to understand things clearer to be able to do that so it's a forcing function.

The more of this you do the easier it is to categorize information and ideas leading to less cognitive load and increasing capacity.
They blow up an orbital ring structure in Consider Phlebas and it definitely leaves one wondering who thought it was a good idea to build it in the first place.
Good to hear about the S. I just got a used model X with free unlimited supercharging. Tesla doesn't recommend supercharging for around town use, which is strange considering it only goes over 1C for 5 minutes or so and only barely over, with active cooling.

The other strangeness for me is the recommendation to stay between 50 and 90 for daily use.

Studies of li-ion have shown 80-20 to be the optimal usage pattern for maximizing usable watts over the life of the battery.
"The end state of these models is to probably poison the public internet completely"

Based on what?
Not to mention a bug that could drain batteries overnight and put vehicle owners at risk!
The dream factory's seedy streets: patrolling the citizenry of LA Noire
I get the point you're trying to make. But they never actually talk about ROI. Helmets are cheap. Infrastructure is expensive. I would be surprised if infrastructure changes had a higher ROI than helmets. It's just that some people don't want to wear helmets. That's what this was all about.
Seatbelts and airbags in modern cars are basically doing what a helmet tries to do which is protect your head from hitting something hard (like the windshield or steering wheel etc. In a modern car driving along a normal road, I don't think a helmet would add much additional protection.

Speaking from experience treating traumatic brain injuries, the brain injuries that are common in a car (as long as you are wearing a seatbelt and don't get the) is something called diffuse axonal injury (DAI) also know and traumatic axonal injury (TAI) which is diffuse brain injury caused by the (de)acceleration/rotational acceleration. A helmet would not be much help against those types of injuries.
I haven't been following the BSDs for years now. But aren't the BSDs (or one of them) still classified as UNIX?
Personally, I’m warming up to the idea that consciousness and biology are naturally divergent phenomena and that it is to be expected that consciousness attempts to free itself of its biological substrate in pursuit of an existence more consistent with its own ethics and dynamics.

A consciousness can learn, change and grow over timelines greater than the lifetimes of a body and its reproductive cycle.

Ethics, which almost certainly comes from the conscious experience of the world (?), easily conflicts with the vagaries of genetics and evolution.

An “artificial” substrate for consciousness seems, along these lines, desirable and even inevitable for any sufficiently enabled conscious species. Curious to wonder what such a being might think and feel about whether “reverting” to an organic construction is desirable.

I don’t read anything along these lines, these are just my own thoughts. Any recommendations for sources that take this seriously?
I think US policy for Cuba, Israel, and Iran harms consistency.
A company consists of people. If a company commits a crime, some of those people are responsible for it. That they're not financially liable does not mean they can't be held criminally liable. But of course it's got to be the people in charge, the people who made the decision to do it, allow it, enable it, create a culture that normalised it, who need to be held accountable and liable, not just the person who received the order to do it.
> However, I'd say their security _posture_ is pretty good

The clients for Windows, iOS and macOS are closed-source.

As a general rule, a closed-source server is bad, but ultimately it's somewhat tolerable. A closed-source client for a product or service that appears to have an acknowledged security posture is full-on unacceptable. I can't fanthom why they would shoot themselves in the foot like this.
That talks about future state. The current state is that Windows is not supported.
A lot of the stuff described here sort of doesn't make sense. It requires idiot savant AIs that can figure out how to manipulate humans, but that we can only train with simple integer based reinforcement learning techniques.

The introduction of artificial agents is definitely a step increase in the complexity of society, and it will introduce new, and potentially catastrophic failure modes, but I find this story of AIs conspiring to rob a bank to be a fairly unimaginative take. Even if we grant the possibility of conspiracy of AIs, something that looks like insider trading is a lot more likely.
The kind of extreme sports you list having participated in have absolutely nothing in common with low speed urban bicycle commuting.

It certainly makes sense to wear a helmet while doing mountain biking, BMX tricks or road racing.
when you are the CEO or anyone considered to have "material non public information" there are a lot of SEC restrictions on what you are allowed to reveal publicly about your company.
I strongly disagree with this sentiment. People put things online because they deem the risks of doing so acceptable vs. the the reward of accessibility and exposure. That calculation changes in a world where generative AI tools exist.

If we achieved quantum computing tomorrow, all of the norms around what is considered safe would change overnight. We would not retroactively tell people they had it coming if suddenly people were getting breached left and right because the assumptions they had relied on are no longer relevant.
I find a surprising amount of value in in-band media type signalling. Not everything sees the declared media type, and media types are regularly calculated from file contents (magic numbers) rather than anything else, also. So here, the very first byte lets you know you’re dealing with a JSON text sequence rather than JSON or concatenated JSON or newline-delimited JSON or whatever else. It really comes down to just that. That line feeds are permitted (though largely not recommended) elsewhere is nice for human writing, but not particularly relevant, as these formats are not generally intended for human writing (you’d just use normal JSON if you wanted that).
I think I've lost the point of the discussion.

You're referencing marketing material. All marketing material is to sell the product, usually to a somewhat targeted subset of the buyers. Looking at their sales, and around any office, their marketing, and "Pro" products, appear to be extremely appealing to a large range of professional users. I think this shows that their "Pro" label is appropriate. I'm having trouble understanding why you think it isn't appropriate.

Do you have a notebook in mind that is worthy of a "Pro" label, so I can see what you're baseline is?
I suspect the trainers don't care, as long as whatever logical or factual errors they are making support the point they want to make, truth be damned. Diversity trainers are also notorious vectors of urban legends: the Chevy Nova story, for example, is presented as fact despite the fact that it has been debunked for years (search for it on Snopes).
First Round had a good podcast episode with her about the book:

https://overcast.fm/+k1HEhCB1U
Mind sharing the specific prompt?
As a few sibling posts have said, the point is that all else is clearly not equal. For whatever reason, there are places with more bike ridership and fewer deaths. This /despite/ not having helmet mandates. Indeed, the data seems to indicate that helmet mandates go so far as to make all bikers less safe.

The argument you are making is appealing, to be sure. I'd even go so far as to say I agree with it. Strictly, it is a non-sequitur to the point that is being made.