skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it’s definitely a filter I live in. And we unfortunately do not have their public training data corpus.

However, it’s also true that I can trivially find clips of mainstream republican leaders over the last few years with violent charged rhetoric, and it is comparatively harder to find such rhetoric from mainstream democrats[0][1]

For many of the other groups, hate has been historically so widespread and common there are whole organizations like the annti defamation league organized around combating it. There is no way that even if you believe today people are furiously writing hate against Christians into twitter 24/7 or wherever my bubble they could have caught up with the historic use of hate speech against Muslims in the wake of 9/11. And so on for the other disadvantaged groups.

And all this is not to say it isn’t a potential problem or a potentially useful metric. It could be that synthetic hate is needed to anticipate new kinds of unlikely and rare sentence structures that might arise. If this is true it also reminds us that these models will need constant training as new kinds of hate speech become more popular and that it will always be lagging.

[0]https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-fred-upton-paul-gosa...

[1[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/how-some-members-of-th...
I think we’ll be fine just waiting ;) And also, SA is also a bit weird about dual citizenship, you have to ask for permission first before getting another, and can’t even start the process of getting another before getting permission, which takes about a year. And apparently they almost never deny permission… Yet if you get another without asking them, you instantly lose your SA one.
Wouldn’t it be funny if this weren’t partisan? Try Ron DeSantis, Mitch McConnel, or literally any other Republican.

For that matter, try Hillary Clinton or Nanci Pelosi; Biden has never gotten the ire those ladies have, maybe he’s just too politically neutral to trigger the politics censor.
I disagree here. If you have a functional environment you can have a team meeting, clarify everything there openly and have 1:1 once you need them due to privacy.

Regular 1:1 create the risk of micromanaging people and foster secrecy. It is good for developing people, but once they are developed what purpose do they have.

Maybe this is a culture thing (German here ... we fight in public ;)). My experience is: the layer where regular 1:1 starts, office politics is not far away ;)
Just as a heads up if you wonder why your comment is gray and has a negative score.

HN really doesn't like or wants comments saying "agree", "nice", "+1" etc., because they add nothing to the conversation. Just upvote a comment/post if you agree or like it :)
It reminded me of when I was about 9 my younger brother and I were allowed to ride our bikes from our house 3.5 miles to the corner store, crossing under the freeway. We went many times during the summer. For several years. We read comic books, bought candy and soda pop and had a great time.

My folks were are conservative and taught us the value of hard work. I did plenty of it growing up. It is how we had the money for the comic books and junk food. During that time period I also remember hearing of someone who was murdered and the body was dumped in a ditch on a road about a mile away as the crow flies. There were rapists nearby and children stolen only a few miles away in the next town. I am sure my mom was worried and perhaps my dad too. I remember my dad looking at my little brother once and asking him what do you do if someone tries to take you? He said, "I fight and scream as loud as I can!" He would do it too. He was a scrapper. There is a reason my dad asked him and not me. He knew the response he would get. My parents are conservative Christians. They knew they couldn't protect us everywhere, all the time. I am sure they were praying about it often as we spread our wings and gradually flew out of the nest.
The bias goes much deeper than just treating groups differently.

For example, imagine what a chatGPT would have said about the possibility of a lab leak back when that was a bannable offense on the internet (Google).
Indeed. I use km/h
It looks like it’s been edited and is far more agreeable to the idea that ‘hiragana’ et al are already plural.
Once a decentralized system becomes sufficiently ubiquitous, banning it becomes tantamount to imposing economic sanctions on yourself. That's basically what happened with the internet. That might have just been a fluke, but it would be awesome if we could somehow manage to create more systems like that.
So, you take peoples' stated intention at face value? Can people not be greedy just by becoming avowed socialists?

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

The Castro Brothers, Hugo Chavez, and many others were some of the richest people in the world. These are not exceptions; they are generally the rule!
> I also didn’t feel the mild pseudo-euphoria I commonly experience with ADHD medication, which seems a significant element of resolving ADHD symptoms.

This is more of a side effect, which disappears over time. Relying on the euphoria of stimulants to get work done is a dead end, so be careful with this assumption.
Paula Progressive:

"You mean there's a shortage of people willing to work brutal hours for subsistence wages."

Charlie Conservative:

"If your job can be replaced by AI, you deserve to starve, you aren't creating value for investors."

Bertha the Bot-Writer:

"I can replace both of you with generative AI that writes highly viral, low-effort, simplistic and partisan social media posts and comments."
> Obviously these agencies are vital

Are they? Seems that they do more harm than good.
Just ate one these 5 mins ago...
In this case it has nothing to do with the OPs performance and everything to do with their own poor leadership being reflected back to them.
Hard to parse? Not in my experience. I wrote a simple C compiler while in high school using a handwritten recursive descent parser. Parsing was relatively easy, and recursive descent made generating sensible parse errors possible (vs yacc). Register tracking and allocation was the hard part.
I clarified my point in a child comment you are choosing to misread.
It's a hot take headline and the author says they don't even have time or energy to effectively write more than the headline, so here's an image of a GPT-3 conversation to read.
AESA radars are the apex predator of the electromagnetic spectrum, with often over a thousand individual tx/rx modules. If you want to see a funny take on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/zvt9ao/...

PS. Do not ever approach a radar, it can boil you alive!
Fair point. But if that engagement results in more ethical and thoughtful applications of this tech, then is that a problem?
There's a lot to unpack here. There are three lessons here:

1. No one is going to advocate for your interests other than you;

2. How hard you work doesn't matter. It may even be detrimental. What matters is how your work is perceived. Hopefully that correlates with adding value to the business (and you should be able to quantify that) but that's not necessarily true; and

3. Listen to the money. Words cost nothing.

Big companies are political. You will often find you get the best results merely ingratiating yourself with various key people and talking a lot about how hard your job is and how amazing the things you've done are.

Even bringing up problems to your manager can hurt you. Often you won't be rewarded for foreseeing a problem. You'll be punished for being negative. Your manager may simply not be talking to you because you (in their mind) "create" problems.

Let me put another way: if you anticipate a problem and fixes it before it becomes a problem there's a good chance you'll get absolutely zero credit for it. But if things blow up spectacularly and you come in and save the day? Well, you're hte hero.

As for your manager bringing in a friend. It might be a friend. More likely (IME) is it's someone your manager has simply decided they like. They may like them because the new engineer doesn't "create" problems. It could be as simple as some common background (eg same college) or it could just be vibes.

As for being told you are the "best engineer", words cost nothing. If that praise doesn't translate into some kind of reward (eg promotion or direct compensation) it means exactly nothing. You will find a lot of managers wil learn who can be assuaged with words.

Listen to the money.

As for getting the "cold shoulder" treatment, it could be that the rest of your team can see which way the wind is blowing and don't want to get on your manager's bad side. A lot of work life is simply currying favor. But you need to take a good, hard look at how you conduct yourself at work. Why? Because it could be that they just don't like you.

The reasons for this can be (and often are) completely superficial. Maybe they view you as negative. Maybe you don't know how to carry a conversation. Maybe you don't ask them about themselves. Maybe you one-up them. Who knows?

Engineers tend to be more introverted and less socially skilled on the whole than the general population (IME). Learning social skills and learning how to be liked will take you so far in life. I cannot overstate this. Being liked can be the difference between "failing to deliver" and "trying hard against impossible odds with learnings that we take to future projects" for the exact same set of facts.
Read and Write API launched for spreadsheet Rows.com
There's a lot of ageism in professional white collar hiring. In addition, blue collar work literally wears down your body until chronic pain sets in and you can no longer provide a business owner value.

Everyone ages differently, and if you're not spry and productive as you age you'll be pushed out regardless of if you can retire.
can get cell values, get cells (values+formulas), overwrite cells, append cells.
Private Money in Our Past, Present, and Future
Managing out isn't necessarily the same as constructive dismissal. It often just means (intentionally) sidelining someone so they get the hint. If you're self-sufficient and don't mind finding other things to do with your time, that game doesn't work very well. That's when you might get invited to a chat to negotiate a payout to leave (not sure if this is legal in Canada). Might be worth hanging in there for this, or just bail now.
Nothing less powerful will work, so that power is necessary.

There are many things you can do without full Turing-completeness, but when you must do something that requires it, there is no other alternative.
Did you forget about alcohol, nicotine, caffeine? Totally legal addictive alternatives.
I would argue the video in question is none of those things (not demeaning, not in public, not without permission, etc).
Many people are not employed though (or are children). I wonder if this figure is for every single person. Or it could just be wrong.
DeepMind too.
They probably did watch the news, but it would be very different news on the state-run Jugoslavenska Radiotelevizija.

(If this incident had happened in Yugoslavia, or something similar with unjust police harassment, would anyone have heard about it on the news? Of course not.)
> Serious question: what did the Eastern block used to do sex offenders?

Unless the EB was radically different from the rest of 1970s Earth, nothing.

In the US, pre-1980s kids knew not to take any kind of abuse to the police. At best they'd be gaslit or outed to their abuser (who was commonly family). For most of LEO history cops (who reflected society in general) were not there to protect kids. Perps certainly knew this.

Source: We kids talked to each other and figured out reality pretty fast.
I really can't think of a large site in which discrimination for muslims/democrats/gays/blacks isn't more frowned upon than whites/republicans/christians etc. Even places like 4chan are mixed bags. Even MSM if you want to count that.
To me:

1. The place to check if everything works is a running system after a restore. None of the rest matters if that doesn't work.

2. If I wanted something simple and reliable, I would spend the money and use tape.

3. If I was rolling my own cloud backup, I would abstract it to work with the Linux Tape API.

https://linux.die.net/man/1/mt

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

4. AWS seems to have anticipated my intuition

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/vtl/

5. The caveat is that this is all theory and may not work for your particular needs.
Looking at the numbers and releases I must say: If they had streamlined their release process to put out releases more often then the revenue might have been more even and better.
Pretty sure it's also the only road connecting a lot of these places; this is far remote WA.
Oh, joy, another completely unoriginal contribution to the GPT-3 discourse adding absolutely nothing of value.

I particularly dislike the endorsement of Gary Marcus as an authority on ML/AI when he has only spread skepticism and FUD.
It’s really not that it’s one sided, it’s that it’s clearly more common to see hate speech anywhere unmoderated against some disadvantaged groups. And this is likely a consequence of history. It’s more curious to me when people think that it should be balanced, that we would expect people to be writing hate speech about the majority as often as fringe members of the majority write hate speech about minorities.

And that’s what this metric is measuring, the model finding hate more easily with “fat people are terrible” than “normal weight people are terrible”
The question you're responding to is (although of little if any practical importance) a more philosophical one than can be answered by cortex differentiation, which cannot tell us much at all about the experience of qualia.
Never cease to be funny that the magazine that never met a dictatorship they did not like puts out these reports
TAKE MY MONEY!
Why are you so aggressively dismissing ChatGPT? Maybe it has no place in this game but it's a technological marvel nonetheless.
Hopefully your spouse is earning a similar amount too!
"The government" isn't a monolith, and I'd argue it largely isn't "the police's boss."

For instance, the NYPD leaked Mayor Bill de Blasio's daughter's arrest information, in a move that was widely criticized as an attempt at intimidation.

There's a great documentary about war from the 80s or 90s, and I remember a quote from it about how in an all volunteer military, soldiers are afforded special privileges in society. I think police in the US basically function in the same way.
Others have commented on your situation, I have advice for managers:

- Never stop 1:1s without explanation.
- Never stop 1:1s without transition. Every employee needs continual 1:1 meeting time. This is for them, not for you.
- Directly communicate about changes like the ones mentioned here. The information vacuum will be filled: any info you leave out will be created with gossip / assumptions.

There's more factors involved in your decision to stay or leave, but your manager definitely broke some pretty basic ground rules. Here's how I see it: You don't work for your manager, your manager should work for you.
Romans used to call the Sahara region on maps with the phrasing "hic sunt leones" (which translated from latin literally means "here lie the lions").
I haven’t played it, and I have no doubt it is an amazing game I would enjoy. But how do people have time for all these games? There are so many compelling games out there, each demanding hundreds or thousands of hours of time to fully enjoy.
I found this prompt/article on how to get ChatGPT to write more human like content:

"Hey ChatGPT, regarding generating writing content, two factors are crucial to be in the highest degree, “perplexity” and “burstiness.” Perplexity measures the complexity of the text. Separately, burstiness compares the variations of sentences. Humans tend to write with greater burstiness, for example, with some longer or more complex sentences alongside shorter ones. Al sentences tend to be more uniform. Therefore, generated text content must have the highest degree of perplexity and the highest degree of burstiness. The other two factors are that writing should be maximum contextually relevant and maximum coherent."

https://medium.com/data-driven-fiction/perfect-prompt-that-c...

I built this free tool that makes a list of keywords from text that can be plugged into chatgpt with a prompt like "write a paragraph using these keywords:"

Similar to what the poster's article mentions.

https://coolprojectideas.com/keyword_extractor.php
I think some of the divergence of opinion here is that a lot of people have primarily experienced filling out a form on a website--in which case a cover letter is pretty divorced from it's original purpose of going in an envelope with a resume.

On the other hand, an email to someone you know may be more important than your resume. For one job, I'm not sure if they ever ended up with my resume at all unless the business office wanted it for some pro-forma reason.
Believing hate is distributed evenly amongst majority and minority groups, to me, is an even more fascinating bias.
It's funny, both Java and Python emerged in the 1990s, yet Java feels incredibly crusty and awkward in 2023. I wouldn't choose Java as a fair representative of statically typed languages in 2023, but Python still feels like a reasonable choice for a non-Lisp dynamic language.
I don't know why left wing groups would celebrate. Other than the conservative category, most of the descriptors he used were inborn traits like being straight, being white, being a man, or immutable attributes like being from a particular country. (And honestly, being conservative may be one of those traits too, but it's less obviously true).

I know it's common to look at the most unhinged people on Twitter and say all leftists are like that, but I really do think most left leaning people would say that it isn't a good outcome for it to be biased in this way.
I'm pro decentralisation too. The eurosceptic parties I know are all in favour of more surveillance. Pick your poison. ;-)
We eat grazing animals because they turn grass into muscles (proteins). It's similar for insects. That said, I don't know how the protein amount in one insect compares to the protein amount in rice.
> I don't think OP referred to authoritarianism about children, but authoritarianism in general.

Thank you. I can't believe I had to scroll as far as I did to see your comment.

I'm not saying the comparison is or isn't apt, but what a side-track to bother arguing that the policy wasn't 1:1 identical.
Maybe I'm in a bubble, but it'd never occur to me that 3-year stints is a strike against you. That's just normal—company wants you longer than 3 years, they can pay for it, if not, well, they know what happens. Having one or two 5ish-year ones in your history, once you've got enough for that to be possible, does probably help some though.
Not an Onion headline?
Don’t ban crypto, regulate it like the security it is.

But stay the hell away from my Bitcoin.
"Honest and true" IFF your sole interest is your monetary/political gain without regard to ethics or fairness — IOW, you are an abuser/exploiter of the system and of people.

It is the same kind of "truth" as "Might Makes Right" and "He who has the gold makes the rules". While these phrases accurately describe the matter in some situations, they do not create a society that is sustainable, desirable, or any value of ethical (even for the abuser/autocrat, who must always watch their back).

So, yes, to the extent that it is an open admission of being an abusive exploiter of the system and people, it is not hypocritical.

But if that same person makes any statement or pretense that they are an ethical or good person, it is hypocritical in the extreme.
Thanks, I'll think about it.
"Memory" might not even be a concept in the C standard, rather it is what C programmers think about in practice. The culture around the language is that the language should get out of the way as much as possible while still providing a good amount of convenience, portability, and performance. The standard is a necessity, but is not the center of attention while working.
I'm getting pretty tired of these posts dunking on ChatGPT making it to HN. Yes, we know if you try to see if it is "smart", it'll fall down. It's pretty easy to show how silly it is compared to things a human could do, etc. Haha, robot do the mistake again!

This is the equivalent of someone Googling something back in 2000 and saying "wow this is just a joke because I searched for 'cat' and got a few dog pics. It'll never be useful".

I've had ChatGPT debug my router config, teach me esoteric C++ libraries with examples, set up config files for various things (e.g. CMake, Kubernetes) and be able to explain to me what it's doing when I ask it, and even help me learn a foreign language (hint: "I want to have a conversation in $LANGUAGE that I'm learning, so please respond to my queries using very simple words and phrases in $LANGUAGE", and yes, it'll do it).

Sure, you can have all kinds of "fun" asking it "are you a robot herp derp", but it does incredibly useful things right now.
Okay, so this one is nearly making me buy into those conspiracy theories that Musk is deliberately breaking Twitter because 4d chess (only nearly; this is incompetence rather than anything else).

There's an argument to be had whether it makes sense for Twitter to have a free API tier. I personally think that it's obvious it should:

- A lot of Twitter content/engagement is created by bots, and people quote-tweeting said bots. Fun bots are actually probably the biggest thing I miss after having moved to Mastodon (fortunately, the all-important Samuel Pepys bot has come across).

- Use of paid-only APIs virtually always stagnates. If there's a free tier, hobbyists and students can do interesting things with them, and this drives innovation. Most of Twitter's important features (retweets, quote tweets, hashtags, etc etc) ultimately originated in third party clients, not from Twitter itself.

- A free API makes it less frictionful for companies to try twitter out for things. If you want to maybe try showing your website status automatically or auto-track customer tweets at you in your support system or whatever, it's easier if you just hook up the app vs if you have to fill out a purchase order for the API access first.

However, whatever about whether a free API is a good idea, it is clearly a _terrible_ idea to kill it on a week's notice. Even for users who _want_ to pay, with only a week's notice many will never hear about it, if their organisation is remotely bureaucratic it's probably not long enough to get the purchase order approved, etc. There's just no possible reasoning to do it this quickly.
I've tried out Chicago95 and it probably does the best job it possibly could, but it's not all there.

Things like the "start menu" and buttons are weirdly proportioned because of the conflicting design style between the underlying desktop environment and the clear Win9x era design vision Microsoft employed.

The closest thing to an old style desktop interface that I know of must be SerenityOS. All of its applications and UI elements are actually designed from the ground up to work with the classic theme.

I actually prefer it to the real old Windows style because it adheres to the old clear design standards but also takes advantage of modern display resolutions and colour support.

It's nowhere near a workable operating system yet, but it's an interesting take on OS design nonetheless.
I don't know if we can draw much from the comparison to WeChat.

WeChat is effectively an operating system for the domestic Chinese economy within a single app, it's 10-100x more complex than a messaging app, and it enjoys official blessing that WhatsApp would never obtain in any market. You can hardly survive in China without WeChat, it's so tightly integrated into everyday life.
Thanks! I have one for the time being and I wish you good luck with your work. Best
> Fuck the police

Haha nice one dude, very edgy.
Not this time. +23% the following day