skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media commoditized facts (how monetizable is having the breaking investigative story if the upshot is on twitter moments after the fact?), so out of necessity, news organizations shifted their differentiation to their editorial narrative. And if the alpha is in interpretation of the facts, people are right to prefer subject matter experts or domain practitioners -- the opinions of whom are now abundantly available on substacks, sites like aeon, or even in twitter threads -- over journalism majors that over-index toward one set of views and one social class, and haven't always done the requisite research to draw informed conclusions. Gell-Mann Amnesia applies now more than ever.

I hoped to find a more conciliatory tone in this piece, for some greater level of introspection on their field, but immediately it invokes Trump and how victimized major media companies have been. There are plenty of non-traditional, but non-'Trumpified' news sources that are beating the incumbents on merit. It doesn't need to mean it's the end of democracy.
No, what's your point? Google doesn't purport to offer legal advice, unlike the AI companies that do but simultaneously disclaim any liability. You can be obtuse if you want, but it's completely disingenuous to compare companies purporting to offer legal advice with a google search.
That's not unpopular, it's a typical authoritarian opinion. Every censor out there is defending us from threats to our democracy. They would love the idea of setting up the Agency for the Good Faith Belief in Democracy and Democratic Rights, who would certify individuals as being qualified to vote.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/voting-literacy-test
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127586
This is amazing. i can't seem to get the mouse to work though.
This article has a good investigation of the various ways the employees had their thumbs on the scale.

>Other journalists have speculated that ChatGPT is biased due to the politically leaning of “Established sources”, such as academia and legacy journalism. While there is some documentation of OpenAI products being biased towards established sources, this paper reveals a far broader and more extensive intrusion into the “values” of OpenAI’s language models. Specifically, it reveals a direct, intentional attempt to make OpenAI’s language models conform to a set of beliefs, often political, set by the authors.

>This is done by augmenting the language model’s training data with a human-created dataset until it matches the authors’ expectations.
https://cactus.substack.com/p/openais-woke-catechism-part-1
I am not staff in any way, but in the spirit of the community, I would just like to point out the relevant guideline here.

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.

The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. Same for transphobic comments.

> The internet respects nothing, but if respect were to be a thing, repeatedly posting Foone for your guaranteed upvotes probably merits you a lack of respect.

Just FWIW, as far as I can see, this is the very first time OP has posted content from foone. I assume they were oblivious.

This is a complicated problem for a news aggregator, but it won't be solved in this thread. Making off-topic comments is just going to fuel the flamewar I think.
It's good that you think of chatGPT like that. My point is that clearly, that's not how most people are envisioning it nor is that how businesses are purporting to sell it.
The 24 hour news cycle and the abolishment of the Fairness doctrine paved the way.

Who wants to see 5 adults discuss someone shitposting on Twitter as "breaking news".

"Britney Spears slams Alyssa Milano for old tweet that questioned her well-being: 'This definitely feels like a form of bullying!'"
Understand your point, though disagree. My understanding is the majority of people on Earth stay within days walking distance from where they grew up. Further, there are numerous countries that if they wanted could easily cover the costs related to relocating anyone that desired to leave another country.

I would argue the real explanation is most likely regardless of person’s situation, most want a predictable future, regardless of how good or bad their current situation. Moving to a new culture with no home, no source of income, no family or friends, etc — is viewed as predictably unpredictable by most.
> Both the linked article and OpenAI moderation are very annoying to me as a French.

Maybe that's the karmic retribution for exporting the ideas of Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Lacan, de Beauvoir, Barthes and others to the US ;)
Who is "actually fighting for their rights in the UE" exactly? care to share some examples?
To an extent, sure. By default I will likely take a professional over amateur. That said, have you read an article where you are the expert on the subject and found yourself questioning whether the author understands the subject? I remember reading one like that and it was something of an eye-opener. In that case, they got some basic stuff wrong ( and if they spoke with anyone in the industry, they either misunderstood or misrepresented what they said ). I have certain faith in printed word, but I will admit I trust it less and less.
Thank you for illustrating the point!
How to beat stress and anxiety, step 1:

>become better at managing your stress […] train your mind to flip off the stress switch

Well yes, I suppose…
Tess discovers new warm brown dwarf
yea that sentence has steven segal level self - awareness.
I dunno, that sounds a lot like how I have to use Google these days.
Maybe once it can also make Tom Cruise feel like he rode that bike off a cliff.
Sounds like a lot of fun to put together - interesting about the difficulty with screen grabs on a Mac.
I have read the article many times myself, and a lot of friends have read it too. Nobody noticed that yet.

Thanks for noticing. Now I have to go check my notes to find the link
Microsoft and others clearly created Chat A.I. because they can't trust journalists or there employee's to continue lying for them. This is all about information control.
I believe I saw a few people on r/stablediffusion talking about using a UI like this recently, I suggest sharing it there as well!
> I'm not getting ripped off, this is by far the highest salary I've had and I make about as much as my parents do after working for 45 years.

You're absolutely getting ripped off if this a real devops specialist role (some companies use that word for manual server admins) and your employment history is not an indicator of anything. Only the market is and where are you in the salary range for a given role.

I'm an average dev from Poland (basically 1/4 GDP of Italy), working for a Polish, not international company (clients are international), having less than 10 years of documented commercial experience and I'm making about 5k EUR after taxes (converted from PLN) and I'm not even close to the cap.

At my first company I made about 500 EUR a month, and whilst the second paid me twice as much, it was still absolutely ripping me off.
These are all good questions, and you could have asked them about IE and Windows – where it was found to be anticompetitive behaviour. The answer to "who decides" is the national competition and markets authorities of the EU's member states, or the EU's competition commission. The main issue from a legal point of view is whether Microsoft is exploiting its dominant position in business services to make its competitors suffer unduly, if it was not dominant in another area – which you could make an argument for, in my opinion.
Lan party is really the only way to play CS 1.6. Easier to spot a cheater, and then you can all duct tape him to his chair for the rest of the game.
It's possible US intelligence agencies were aware Russia was preparing to escalate their invasion of Ukraine in early 2021, so I assume that's what's being alluded to. Preparations and plans were most likely starting in Russia by then, that's true (even limited mobilization is a pretty big undertaking—it's hard to hide supply-dump preparation and heavy equipment movement and shifting soldier concentrations). Though IIRC the US government didn't start saying that publicly until late 2021/early 2022.

If they knew about it in late 2020, that info must not have made it to the upper levels of the military, given how much crying and foot-dragging they engaged in when Trump tried for his (IIRC) 90-day withdrawal. One wonders how ready our military actually is if they act like moving low-thousands troops and some equipment out of—not into!—a theater in which we control the airspace, within in a couple months, is a crazy thing to ask of them. It may have been a bad idea to withdraw that fast, sure, but some of their spokespeople they had on the circuits whining about how hard it was weren't saying it was a bad idea, but that it literally couldn't be done. Sure, Jan. Certainly, if The Shadowy Figures That Control Everything (riffing on the vibe of GP's post) had already decided we needed to shift to Ukraine, that was still a closely-kept secret in late 2020.

And I'm not as sure as GP that Biden's following through on the withdrawal was because of Ukraine, but I'd also not rule it out as extremely-unlikely—the timeline is such that it's possible.
One of these isn't as wholesome as the others
I don’t care much about what happens to the modern web at this point, I just long for those days of the early web and wish there was some sort of alternative web I could still browse that was by design forced to be that way forever.
>the results should be mapped against statistics representing actual violence against certain groups.

Are you sure you want to argue in favor of statistics-based political biases here? Absolutely sure?
TLDR:

1. Working Fewer Hours Is More

2. You Can Solve Problems While You Dream

3. Meetings Can Reduce Productivity

4. Use Standing Desks

5. Productivity Changes Throughout the Day and Week
Vast majority use CSS modules or tailwind.

Tamagui is explicitly React Native and Web focused so yea you don’t learn CSS as directly, but that’s the point as there’s no CSS on native. It’s not really relevant since Svelte doesn’t do native (big downside and shows why maybe CSS extremism is not helpful).
If they could make this multiplayer, I'd pay goldnuggets
Once it's finished, you'll want to make changes to it. Over time, you will see what makes changes easier or harder. Then the literature on patterns will really click.

If you read about patterns too early, they don't "click", but rather become something you overprescribe without really thinking why. We call it design patternitis.

I have overengineered far more code than I have hacked together. Now I'm a bit more cautious about it.

Templates are a good middle ground. They give you a good mold for your application, and inform you about best practices that you might not think about.

Just don't sweat it too much. If software solves problems, it does its job.
Did you recently install? Wait a year.

I'm a linux home user, does Windows still do that slow-down-gradually thing?
There's something richly ironic about bashing your political outgroup in a thread discussing why an LLM trained on internet posts would exhibit political bias.
What does the first amendment have to do with social media companies?
Whether or not it's staged it's the creation of a PR person who's likely never even so much as been on the inside of a squad car, trying to spread an insipid, demonstrably false narrative about a bunch of wife-beating knuckleheads hiding in their SUV's between bouts of extreme violence.
An excellent video on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3NJXGSIIA
> I feel you may not be reading or following this conversation.

LOL, OK have a nice day.
Conversely, some neighbors just moved in from Seattle (I'm in an east coast suburb). They are ecstatic they can just let their kids play outside now. Something they said they couldn't do when living back in the city.
He also mentioned he traveled internationally with fake ID.
> ...Because OP is getting paid a big salary to do what the business requires, not what they wish their responsibility could be?

Is this what the business truly requires though? As a person grows his skill in software development domain, does the business really require him to transition from being an expert programmer to being an unskilled manager? Being a competent software developer doesn't qualify one for a big salary?

Isn't it what the Peter Principle was all about?
Ah, you are correct. The Wikipedia article lists Arizona twice, as both an upper basin and a lower basin state, because it pulls water from both above and below Lake Mead dam.
I worked for a New York based company once, and I was moving to Washington State and planned to continue to work remotely. I told my manager, he told his manager, everything was approved...until I sent out my goodbye email - turns out they never told HR. They had just assumed it would be fine since another employee was working remotely from Montana. However WA requires companies to pay WA taxes if they have any employees there (or something like that, I forget the exact details).

The solution was to make me a contractor and it more or less worked out in the end.

The point is, hiring remote workers can have all sorts of legal and financial hurdles, even when the remote workers are in the same country. Larger companies often have global employees and are used to and capable of handling these issues but smaller companies may not be so well equipped.
There's also the possibility of using Advanced Charging Controller - though it requires root.
Essentially you can set it up so when the battery reaches eg. 100% it stops charging, and resumes only once it reaches eg. 15%. Surprisingly the Android devices that I have still don't ever stop charging on their own, constantly keeping 100%.

[Advanced Charging Controller (ACC)](https://github.com/VR-25/acc)

[BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries](https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...)
Everything on screen is a visual illusion anyway (including, famously, the sense of motion), so some sprinkling of AI fakeness seems fairly well placed here.

Whether it will have fundamental impact on how movies are made (either the economics side of it or the cultural output) remains to be seen though. The obvious case might be some new tricks on the visual effects side but people have been very creative in this space (with very modest technical means) for a very long time. The human brain is very good at getting the cues and playing along with the creator's intention / filling the blanks.
Now I know that some people get pcap files with bug report and I'm jealous
Here is James Fenimore Cooper talking about the American press in The American Democrat (1838):

>As the press of this country now exists, it would seem to be expressly devised by the great agent of mischief, to depress and destroy all that is good, and to elevate and advance all that is evil in the nation. The little truth that is urged, is usually urged coarsely, weakened and rendered vicious, by personalities; while those who live by falsehoods, fallacies, enmities, partialities and the schemes of the designing, find the press the very instrument that the devils would invent to effect their designs.
> for criticizing their government

No. Here's a protip which applies to every country across the globe: if you're donating money to people doing things your government decided is illegal with the express purpose of enabling continued illegal acts, you're gonna have a bad time.
Just curious, and this is hacker news so I feel emboldened to ask about linguistic quirks, do you pronounce “CGI” in a way that necessitates an “an” instead of “a” preceding it? If so where are you from and what accent would you say you have? Do you pronounce the letters or the words?

I swear I’m asking from a place of genuine curiosity and am not trying to be a pedantic jerk.
Definitely has a Fahrenheit 451 vibe going on. Wonder if we’ll have a generation of people who’ll be running off into the metaphorical woods with the old books and websites, away from society and modern culture.
You're thinking this in a very capitalist way which seems completely unrelated to these two gentlemen. These guys are now profiting off the game out of necessity, not because they're finally "cashing in" on all their "risk". From the beginning, this was a passion project and an expression of themselves. Not an investment.
This is what the role looks like in the vast majority of bigger tech companies, for good reason. Tech companies biggest hurdle is steering the boat. To launch anything you need to coordinate, align, and get consensus, beyond just your own team. Can engineerings develop in a vacuum? Can they take even well defined tickets, and build an optimal solution without knowing the product direction and vision?

The manager is a people manager, not a product builder. Marketing, product, other engineering teams, all need to be aligned. As the most senior you're probably setting the high level architecture, so you're going to be the "API" or point of contact on which the other architects on other teams will need to communicate.

Selling that architecture to juniors involves all those things mentioned, and as the architect you're responsible and the best person suited to judging their work as aligning with the vision/architecture. Senior role is usually defined and evaluated in performance reviews for the impact that goes beyond the code.

I'm not explaining it super well, but its something you realize is a natural part of the role as an engineering leader. And that what a senior+ engineer is, a leader. Mid level engineer is a terminal role in a lot of companies for those who don't want the added responsibility.

To your other point, there do exists teams where its all seniors who mostly do IC work. These are usually high-value, high-risk, core product engineering R&D. Or some kind of DX (Developer Experience) team where you are building tooling for other engineers, but even these teams too often has juniors, as at the end of the day, they are just another type of platform team
It is impossible to prove that someone did not say a particular thing so I don't think anyone can correct you.

The only thing that can happen is if someone can find the quote and confirm your memory.
Agreed; watching Marvel movies these days feels like watching someone else play a video game. Less interesting, actually.
“Real professional journalism” ain’t what it used to be.

Market forces have gutted the workforce, disincentivized long-form content, encouraged partisanship, and most importantly of all, consolidated most media under a handful of large companies.

“The Media” is not a monolith, but a substantial amount of press is owned and operated by a select few institutions.
>> I am not staff in any way, but in the spirit of the community, I would just like to point out the relevant guideline here.

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. Same for transphobic comments.

Transphobia leads to the suicide & murder of highly oppressed people, so I’m going to choose to continuously break this rule whenever it needs to be mentioned. For doing so, moderation can ban me if they please
>Benjamin Franklin, who founded numerous newspapers specifically to push the revolutionary narrative in colonial America.

He was a printer with a franchise of other printers already, and he did value-added stuff like print the news long before the first stirrings of revolution; are you sure he wouldn't have founded them anyway?
Bitwarden Merges PR for Argon2 KDF Support
The article we're commenting on paints a quite different picture:

> When the NDRE law was implemented in 2008, the Director-General (...) wrote that "there is this idea that the NDRE is going to listen to all Swedes' phone calls and read their e-mails and text messages. A disgusting thought. How can so many people believe that a democratically elected parliament would treat its people so badly?"

> However, 13 years later, in May 2021, Sweden was found by the European Court of Human Rights to have violated personal privacy due to the NDRE law. The Swedish government was urged to immediately correct these problems of legal uncertainty. Instead, however, the parliament did the exact opposite: they voted to extend the NDRE law in November 2021.

In fact, it's completely opposite - Swedish government is trying hard to spy on their citizen, and the EU is trying[1] to stop that.

[1] By sending strongly worded letters, and fails to achieve anything. There goes the idea that EU is some kind of a totalitarian dictatorships that forces countries to do what it wants.
Oh that's good.
When were they ever publishing MAGA content? Yeah, the comments have always been trash and they openly joke about it.
I was hoping it was going to be by using antineutrinos, something the U.S. and the U.K. have been developing behind the scenes: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/physics/research/particle/neutri...
It's amazing what religion does to a person. I wonder if we'll ever move beyond the worst thing ever created by the human race.
> it's a language model, not a paragon of truth

Several comments have missed that the article is not about the underlying language model, but about the content moderation system that OpenAI put in front of the actual language model. So that people don't interact directly with the "raw" language model.
>>> I think the larger challenge is finding roles with similar comp.

This captures it but there is nuance here. Many people, perhaps a majority of people, especially in the engineering professions, have a mental model where "how much I'm paid" is the "score" for "how good I am at my job."

So when someone with this mental model is offered a position at half, or even two thirds the compensation level for doing what they had been doing before, cannot get past thinking "This company clearly doesn't realize how good I am if they aren't willing to pay me what I'm 'worth.'" So they pass on the offer. And weeks, sometimes months, go by and they can see that eventually they are going to run out of money, so they take one of these offers but they resent it. And in resenting it they don't bring any sort of reasonable attitude to work and grumble about how "it could be so much better if you just did it the way I suggest" or something like that. And they spend a year, at most two, until either they are asked to leave or they quit in disgust.

If they have saved enough money to maintain an acceptable lifestyle without dedicated employment, they will often join the ranks of the 'self employed' where occasionally they consult but mostly they don't. If they haven't saved enough money they sometimes move to a new area, cut contact with friends where it is too embarrassing for them to say they are "unemployable"[1], and get by on smaller work in a reduced cost environment.

Bottom line is that it is a tough time for these folks. They are being thrust into a self examination situation that they may not have prepared themselves for. I have nothing but empathy for people in this conundrum. I walked through that fire and came out the other side stronger but not everyone does.

[1] They aren't, it really is just a disconnect between their self image and market rate for their skills.
I am an introvert myself and practiced a new habit of calling one person each day in the lockdown.

Has helped me in forming deep friendships, make new friends, and overcoming my shyness.

Recommend 10/10

Here is a short essay I wrote recently. Will probably write a blog post soon too.

https://twitter.com/prashanttgs/status/1616815440667480071
What industry/domain is the software you write in?