skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is no reason to think that these people are not at the top of their fields.

I'd flip that statement around though, people are at the top of their fields when they outperform competitors. If Google's sales team is paid 63% more than Microsoft's (and likely 100% more than Amazon's) then their sales numbers should justify that. Yet GCP is behind Azure and AWS.

Your employees aren't great because they have a great salary. They have a great salary because they are great. If the financials don't confirm that idea (i.e. your sales numbers are not higher than your competitors) then your team is not great. Pretending otherwise means you are just drinking the kool-aid of "everyone working here is nice, good and competent" and that just opens the door to a lot of abuse.

To be clear I'm not arguing against high wages, justifying layoffs or anything like that, but I take issue with the idea of that recruiters at Google are making 63% above Microsoft and 150% against other tech companies because they recruit really well.
If you agree that this isnt cast iron proof and you agree that it is nonetheless suspicious then you are simply agreeing with what I said.
That's the fault of devs targeting Chromium implementation rather than the specification itself. You shouldn't use products that do that if you can help it.
Awesome stuff! I love it!
I wonder what percentage of the bricked devices are actually stolen.
Considering people who work with fleets of laptops tend to offload them as quickly as possible this sounds like a pain in the ass, even moreso than the SSD being non-removable. This happy little accident will make it more painful than that process needs to be and should be considered by anyone who is hoping to recoup a bit of cost from them at the end of their business cycle.

In other words: we're buying Lenovo's next time.
Sounds like this is working as intended for laptops of probably extralegal origin.
SQL injection to drop tables: boring, from the 1980s, only grandads know how to do this.

Socially engineering an LLM-hallucinated api to convince it to drop tables: now you're cookin', baby
I’m not the marginal renter, and from the sounds of it neither are you, it’s the person who can barely afford rent and doesn’t have good options to chose from. The person deciding between fuel, food, medicine, or rent. The person rationing their insulin. How do you think many homeless people became homeless to begin with. They didn’t all start out as drug addicts.

And as mentioned homelessness isn’t the only option, I know plenty of people who have moved back in with family or still have room mates into their 30s and 40s.
If it only goes to banks when businesses deposit it, you can't tell anything about the intermediary users
The best I know of is “Go Map!!”

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Go_Map!!
>They'll disable suite features, or make it mysteriously not run in your "outdated" browser.

Can you give an example of a G-suite (or any google product) feature that does not work in Firefox?
With VC backing open source work, at some point there's going to be a big demand to monetize all the users of that software they put all that money into. We haven't seen the result of that yet, but we will, and it's not going to be pretty. The main players that I've seen here are Gatsby, Vercel, Apollo GraphQL, and more – it _will_ happen. Those edge networks they're selling aren't going to have that hockey-stick growth that VCs are looking for, so what next?

PS: Thanks! I have a blog entry about why I ended up choosing Astro as well. I was just playing around with it and it sort of stuck because it was so fast and easy.
This. Activation Lock is an Anti-Theft, not a privacy mesure.
By making stolen hardware a brick, it reduces the upside to a thief to pennies on the dollar. This makes the legal risk not worth it. Thus: massive drops in theft. https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
What Happened This Week? Create a Slack Bot That Summarizes Channels with GPT-3
Hey HN! A colleague on our team wanted to dogfood Patterns to see what might take to build a Slack bot that summarizes the activity of the day with GPT3.

He wrote down his learnings which go into interaction design, prompt design, and how to work with data from Slack.

Read the details on the blog!
I assumed you meant the direct translation of “girl”/“boy”. That would be a no-no.
> I don't see anything wrong in this example

It's not in the style of a psalm.
I wanted to have something like that too, but end up building my resume as a JSON file, and generating an HTML template that can be designed with help of css, it's really fast to add things to it or update the style, I'm thinking on publishing it on github once I clean up the code
You start by not doubling down on the status quo.
> Am I misunderstanding TFA or is the encryption done with the encryption key in the clear inside the browser?

I'm struggling with a similar problem, and don't see a more user-friendly way to do it.

So far my flow is as follows:

1. User logs in and is prompted to create an encryption key using a password that they won't forget
2. Encryption key is created and wrapped using the password as part of the key material for the wrapping key
3. Wrapped encryption key is sent off to the DBMS.
4. Wrapped encryption key is fetched from DBMS and user is prompted for password to unwrap
5. Unwrapped encryption key is stored locally in order to encrypt and decrypt messages.

I don't see any way to do it differently without either a) storing the unwrapping key password (in which case, why not store the key itself?), or b) asking for the unwrapping key password every time the key is used (which is super annoying).

Assuming that I can't ask users to do any kind of key management themselves, is there a better option?
> Why does 0 | 1 extends 0 ? true : false evaluate to false?

Because 'extends' really means 'is assignable to'.

I feel like most of the questions from the post might be answered fairly easily by using reasoning of 'is assignable to'.

Things assignable to A&B are things assignable to both A and B.

Things assignable to A|B are things assignable to A or to B.

'never' means a type that nothing is assignable to and is assignable to everything (bit weird because it usually doesn't have any values but you can create value of type never with the use of 'as').

'unknown' means a type that everything can be assigned to but it's not assignable to anything (except itself and any).

'any' means a type that everything is assignable to and that is assignable to everything (except never).

Ok. Ok. {} types is bit weird way to denote interfaces. :-)
Highly recommend this resource for RL

https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/
> In my experience dealing with iphones from departed staff, if the iphone is locked to an icloud account there's essentially nothing you can do to get access to it. If you do a DFU restore of the firmware it still comes up with an activation lock.

Does this happen even if the iPhones are managed devices?
Sure, but that's not a principle I'm willing to eat snotchos for. Paying the bribe is the rational choice, even if the vast majority of recipients would never dream of messing with your food.
me: haha cute, but this would never work in the real world because of the myriad undocumented rules, exceptions, and domains that exist in my app/company.

12 year old: I used GPT to create a radically new social network called Axlotl. 50 million teens are already using it.

my PM: Does our app work on Axlotl?
I "own" one of those.
My previous employers went under. I asked them several times for a fedex label so I could return their stuff. They never did.
Logic and Multiply-Quantified Statements in JavaScript
Yeah, I mean I have nothing against rationalism (mostly because I haven't read much rationalist writings), so if these are concepts that have made it into rationalism then there's really not much to add.

>Throwing hands up in the air and saying "it always depends" isn't a solution.

Admittedly, postmodernism isn't really inclined towards engineering problems. It does provide frameworks and lines of criticism, but I also didn't see many new ideas being deployed in that sense. This was also a point that I struggled w/ in the OP.

>I know those examples, precisely because of the probability-wielding rationalists, who point at such cases as curiosities, and show how to put numbers on them correctly.

I'd argue there's no useful way to put numbers on, say, borders. Even in cases where the geographic location of a border was definite, if I were to stand across, say, the California-Oregon border, it's not as if 50% of my body would be subject to California's laws and 50% Oregon's. Thinking of everything numerically and engineering features to support that framework seems like a Macnamara fallacy. I would also agree that some models are useful, but the emphasis on utility would in turn be problematic in a vacuum. You could reasonably predict, say, housing prices by racial makeup of a neighborhood (recalling the Boston housing data set controversy), but to do so would invite structurally racist applications. There are probably rationalist ways of de-emphasizing utility and accuracy, but again that's less my point and more to just illustrate that the biases of a model do not inherently remove from its usefulness to some end, and that critical frameworks can allow us to articulate problems. A map could just as easily center the world on Great Britain, Jerusalem, Rome, or China - to a certain extent they're equally useful and justifiable - but even with this arbitrary decision you affect how the viewer will see what the map represents.

>I still can't imagine to whom this distinction seems "obvious in aggregate". I never found it obvious.

Probably the word obvious wasn't the right term, but "definable at all" would be closer to what I intended. There _is_ an idea of what is left and what is right, but the words themselves are deployed arbitrarily. Perhaps a better example of where postmodern thought would be deployed would be something like exploring/critiquing the American right's notion of "postmodern neo-Marxism". This would be where concepts of floating signifiers and performance might be useful to explore how speech informs identity (not just vice versa).
Heat pumps: The 'geeks' obsessing over their new heating systems
I agree with it being very confusing. If you select Monthly it seems to just remove the products with pricing per ms or per hour.
> query the original owner if it wants

Ever heard of spam? It’s one of the biggest ways to get around the iCloud lock right now: Phish the owner that their device has been found, just Sign in with Apple ID on this login form. 2FA has made it harder but they’ve got ways…

That would make it really confusing. You could get such a text from either Apple or a criminal and you’d better know which. No thanks!
The mass layoffs are despicable, and it wouldn't fly in Europe, but if you employ 100k people then I think it is fair to say that there is probably a lot of BS jobs floating around where people do nothing but sit in useless meetings all day. I mean some of them have documented it openly on TikTok. Just watch any of the "A day as X at company Y" videos and you'll see all some people do is brunch, drink matcha lattes and then sit in some relaxation pod.
someone's going to learn about Streisand effect
>Such things could end up creating a downwards trend in quality, as more and more of such junk gets posted, absorbed into the model and amplified further.

I feel like a similar thing already happened with YouTube recommendations
> major tech segment you fail to compete in

I see it more as protecting citizens from predatory and monopolistic tech giants.

I would rather live with the EU laws than anywhere else.
Https mirror: https://archive.is/1YOzz
This kind of plagiarism detects near-verbatim mashups of small snippets. Has anyone seen similar ideas investigated in image generation?

I’m used to seeing papers show pairs as evidence that their models aren’t copying: generated images and the closest images in the training set. But that wouldn’t catch this kind of rephrase-and-mashup pattern’s visual analog. Has anybody looked at that closely?
We should not be mailing compost around...that sort of defeats one of the purposes. There are local composting companies/orgs in most major metropolitan areas. Mine is Compost Now.
I do not care if Apple's practice anti-competitive, as long as the investigation isn't targeting Chromium its efforts are grossly misplaced.
I remember when activation lock came to the iPhone. The guys selling "gently used" phones in front of the Metro stopped selling them overnight, it seems. They quickly pivoted to Android. And it for a while everyone was trying to press a Galaxy S in your hand for a quick buck.

Working as intended.
I wasn't able to realize the scale of the shift that's about to happen back then.

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I just remembered another example of hearing about something that seemed like pure magic:

Reconstructing what a person is seeing out of their fMRI scan (2011): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsjDnYxJ0bo
You are factually wrong. The general case is being solved. Self-driving systems are objectively better every year, and will eventually reach human level safety.

You can literally watch cars self-driving in all kinds of places and conditions. Yes, they make mistakes. So do humans.
I don't really buy it, the situation in Switzerland is similar but that doesn't stop bigger banks from driving innovation.

For instance if the Cash Group banks came together behind a mobile and online payment solution, the Sparkasse would need to follow suit.
Debugging in the future will be like Dave talking to HAL, asking the backend why it decided to email all of the customers a 100% off coupon. "You've prioritized customer retention over all else so what better way to keep them then to offer a free service... Dave"
All 3 of those sites heavily promoted Chrome to users of other browsers, inaccurately claiming that the service would be better with it (it wasn't).

YouTube also had an interesting example of the problem: they shipped some code using Chrome's early draft of what became Web Components. Firefox and Safari implemented the standard version, but there was a LONG period where YouTube used a very slow polyfill instead of upgrading to the standard version, causing Chrome to appear to be faster because it wasn't all of that extra JavaScript. If YouTube was an independent company they would likely have fixed a poor user experience much faster.
This! One of the biggest upsides. Apple goods were the gold prize for thiefs back a few years ago.
> always drown in resume

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I wouldn't say "drowning in resumes" makes a recruiter's job easier... it may actually be harder, since they have to sift through all the applications to figure out who's really qualified.
> Protecting data is perfectly possible without bricking the machine.

If it's your machine, it's not bricked. The owner can turn off Activation Lock though a web browser on any machine.
or enough connections outside of one's area of interest to generate comments about where the idea is considered good/$$$$
I wish we could have AI writing these comments, it might do a better job of masking the 'lurn 2 code' sentiment that every journalist on the internet gets told when job cuts are on the horizon.
Doesn't look too far off from the Pinephone with it's keyboard
Mobility scooters are the things disabled people ride. There should be a term to refer to these electric, Razor-style form factor scooters, but I think they are just pushing the Vespa-style scooters (many of which are also electric) into the term moped and taking the term "scooter" for themselves. I call them kid scooters.
> You're now demanding to be forever locked into an inferior corporate owned product

Some of us are not. Some of us are saying "now is the wrong time to force Apple to open up its platform to other browsers". Safari on iOS is the one browser holding back Chrome from a monopoly for now. If you really want to see an open web, a more diverse web ecosystem, we have to expand the use of _other_ browsers such that there are again multiple, successful engines at the W3C; so that Google can't lock users out of their tools by forcing them to use Chrome. Only then will it be the right time to go after Apple's browser restrictions.
Sounds so great... maybe.

Here's an interview with a kid who is on what is probably the most watched sailing family channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcVbd6Gmixc

Get the feeling he wants off.
> the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years.

This rings me a lot. It feels like the current generation AI companies/projects have been rewarded for making people believe the future is near. In reality, we're just driving towards the top of a local maxima for possible big money. We clearly won't reach AGI with the current LLM approaches, for example. (Perhaps, there might be a breakthrough in computer hardware that might make it possible, but only in significantly inefficient ways.)
> We say we don't want more processes

Hum... You mean you don't want more meetings? You can't have more or less processes, their amount is completely defined by the diversity of your work.

If it's about meetings, yes, synchronicity is always a problem. But you have synchronicity on the review already, it can't be too bad to just move it into another time.
Is this a parody? This reads like the wet dream of NoCode, turning into a nightmare.
His take on non-natural lang for AI (https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1612510768674795523) sounds right (bias: because it's also what I was thinking)

So I'm not hyped about ChatGPT at all

> much of standup comedy is based on this (anomalies)

I think it's more about capitalize popular rants though. Not sure most of them are even feasible things to fix.

It's an ok essay .. though nothing sparks new idea of thinking about new idea.
How robust are AI models? Try to break YOLO V8 with Efemarai
Doing Google Layoffs Differently
We can rehash whether the layoffs were necessary or not, but one thing is for sure, they could have been executed on very differently. This post discusses that.
This was implemented in a company that I worked for, and it made people flat out lie to keep up with the system
Ideally store both, UTC and original local time, or at least the original TZ information. Time and timezone are a huge mess and one of the worst things to try deal with in programming.
That seems more like misplaced expectations. Someone may have given you the impression that copilot was supposed to do things like that where that expectation seems to not be present for you in relation to ChatGPT.

However, as far as I know, the OpenAI team has not made it a goal to have ChatGPT only produce functional code using existing APIs. So I'm not sure we can call that an incorrect answer based on context.

If the API it demonstrated using logically should exist, it seems like the right answer is still to just go create it.
Yeah the whole concept sounds like nobody would want to do it and if they did it becomes a security problem.
I'm right there with you. Google's DeepDream I think?

That first week of DeepDream images flooding the web showed me that someone had snuck a can of worms onto the table, and while they had graciously not opened it immediately, they had maybe cracked the lid just a bit
They can resell it. They just need to log out first.
Rust Vulnerability Analysis and Maturity Challenges
The USSR's advantage was that everyone's life was guaranteed all the way from the start and without overwork. You went to your job at 15 min. walking distance (entire cities were planned that way) in the morning, worked from 9 to 5 without having to overwork, got back home in 15 min, at the same time your children came back home from state-funded schools as your wife got grocieries for the dinner at lowest cost. (until the economic war started by the US and its Gulf Allies in the 80s). You had paid vacations, paid maternity/paternity leave, reasonable working hours, reasonable retirement age, free social clubs, hobby clubs, everything.

And the most critical point: Your children were also entitled to ALL of that from birth. They were going to study in state schools, they would get a job somewhere, they would work under the same conditions, they would acquire their first car and their first flat around the same age, and if they married, not only the state would help them marry but also provide more incentives.

So there was absolutely no reason to hesitate from having children - you had the money, energy, resources, and on top of that the state guaranteed that your children would be well set from the moment they born.

Hence, population boomed.

The USSR is not unique in that aspect. In every period of society, when people's and their childrens' lives are guaranteed, population boomed. The sociopathic profiteering in capitalist societies crippling everything including birth rates seems more like a case of natural selection when seen in that light - these countries have all the money and power in the world to stop the population decline and reverse it, but they just dont want to do it for the sake of profit...
Tipping is like every place expects an additional 15% tax and they look at you funny if you don’t give it.

Regardless of how good or poor the service is. 11% to Uncle Sam, 15% to the workers.

It’s become the fabric of life. I really do enjoy when I don’t have to tip. Even though the amount is slightly higher and the 15% is included in base price.
I used to create my resume in LaTeX. Very over-engineered and a lot of work to make. And not even that easy to update. Over the years I moved on to a simple Word document that I just copy-and-edit when I search for something new. Far less effort for the same pay-off, so it's much more efficient.

LaTeX might still be worth it for large documents (e.g. books) with lots of mathematical type-setting, but for small stuff Word is much easier.
I personally think latex resumes are overkill but if they work for you that's great. But for everyone else, this is how to tell your resume is "good". If those shitty workday sites can parse your resume with no problem then your resume is "good". After quite a few iterations my Google docs resume is "good"
GPT is slow as a dog
The solution that comes to mind is something like the PGP web of trust, except the web would consist of verified humans.

This didn't work for PGP because people in general don't care about that. And I think people in general don't care if their content is AI-generated or not.

It's not like all human-generated content on the web is tremendously accurate or well-written. Hell, maybe the AI will even be better. :)
yes, that's right. It's additional work.

The company I work for has to do it from time to time with Apple's help. We have Mac users who, for example, return locked Macs when leaving the company... we unlock them then with Apple's help.
My wife has a 32gb Intel MBP from 2018 and regularly uses 12-16gb just browsing the internet, checking email, playing with her photos and watching TV shows.

Just because the newer stuff has fast SSDs and can page/unpage memory quickly doesn't mean it isn't memory constrained. I actually want to go to an apple store and see what the base OS sits at memory wise.

I just did a reboot with nothing started other than my standard startup apps/services (Creative Cloud helper, Dropbox, 1Password, SnagIt, Rectangle) and my m1 is sitting at 8.02 GB memory used, with NO apps running.
You could make a pretty good argument for Saudi Arabia.
It's interesting to see both the advances in humanoid robotics and language models like ChatGPT. The obvious next step will be to combine these two to achieve a truly human-like android, just like in old school science fiction.

Of course, bridging the uncanny valley to make it even look passably human is another milestone entirely.
Though the stores themselves should display the final price, the one that you pay at the register.
Nope. IT failure. Also, activation lock of a company device could easily be considered vandalism.