skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's not that that bothers me so much as the fact that many effective altruists do it so badly. [...] But effective altruists are as likely to talk about colonizing Mars as they are to talk about global warming.

Are they doing it badly, or are you not understanding their arguments? AFAIK effective altruists want to colonize mars on x-risk grounds, which would explain why they want to prioritize that over global warming, even though the latter is happening right now. AFAIK they think that global warming is bad, but isn't an existential risk, whereas colonizing mars will mitigate many existential risks.
One thing I learned though... if you say are going to deploy on say, Android, you are not getting away from its dev toolchain and API if you want to do anything non-pedestrian. Same for iOS and possibly Windows.

So you often end up really having to learn N+1 platforms.
That is exactly my experience as well. Nothing noticeable for years and then a quite obvious one and it kept coming after that.
The Costanza Principle
It's possible, if you can speak knowledgeably about computers and know how to troubleshoot, build, or fix them. If you know how to troubleshoot a "no video condition on a pc" and can speak from memory about the troubleshooting path you would take. You have better odds than someone who can't.
They still operate on a budget, and have to make decisions to stretch that budget. British NHS, for example, will deny coverage for a lot of procedures that are routinely covered by American private insurers, because they do not consider these treatments good value for the money. If you disagree, tough luck.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but this was before Elon bought it. Twitter easily could have posted profits that year if they did the firings he had ultimately done. I thought that temporality made it clear we are talking in a hypothetical but I guess I wasn't clear.
I requested a promotion to Seven Star Engineer, but apparently only George Washington is eligible for that rank.
In the rare instance I get a canker sore I now immediately apply some raw bee propolis (can find it on Amazon). Put a few drops on a q-tip and directly apply to canker sore. It burns like hell, but what happens is it creates a "seal" around the sore that lasts for a couple days (unlike the OTC crap) which not only protects you as you eat from burning pain, but also speeds healing. Since using propolis, my sores will heal in 2-3 days vs. 7-10 on their own. It's incredible.
It's rough because while I agree that I don't want to see a bunch of court time wasted on video game cheating, this isn't a case about video game cheating. It's a case about defamation, a defence to which is the accuracy of the claims (in some countries), and then yes suddenly it's a case about video game cheating.

I do think that you should have legal remedies to defamation, and in most cases of defamation the two of you are unlikely to have had a prior contract that could have included an arbitration clause. (In this particular case they could potentially have but I suspect that's uncommon.)
The law is pretty clear about it. There's just very little to no enforcement of it beyond private lawsuits because a significant proportion of the US population actively reject any action that would favor worker protection over corporate profit.
More is better than less, generally speaking.

As you mentioned a smaller, tighter community that delivers. This is what deliver looks like.

Maybe add a "tl;dr" section
You can; no one's stopping you. People do it all the time.
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Ask HN: What do you think of a Metamask-like extension to pay for GPT apps?
I've been thinking about all the use cases I've seen online for OpenAI and it got me thinking about payment models. Three I imagine will be popular are:

- Pay as you go: Website charges you per interaction, with the some/all of that cost going towards their OpenAI API usage

- Fixed cost, unlimited usage: Websites charge you once to use the service, and choose a price that reflects the average cost of a user's OpenAI api usage

- Freemium: Like the above, but the paid users also pay for the limited use that free users use.

However, all of these models require the user to submit their billing details to any website they want to interact with, which many users are understandably wary of and adds a lot of friction to trying new services (unless they follow the freemium model, which can be hard to implement and avoid misuse).

So, I'm proposing another option, very similar to how Metamask works (NB: Other than this analogy, my proposal has nothing to do with cryptocurrency - please lower your pitchforks):

- You insert your OpenAI API credentials to the Chrome extension
- Any website can request to connect to the extension
- When that request happens, the extension opens a window asking you how many credits or how much money you're willing to let the app use.
- Once you've approved that, the app can make OpenAI calls through the extension as a proxy, and the extension will disallow requests after the allowed quota is reached.

This would have the advantages of:

- Letting the user safely test out AI-powered applications without worrying about the cost
- Making it easier to create web apps that integrate with ChatGPT without having to pay a large upfront cost (let users pay for what they use and nothing more)

Other possible features could be:

- Grant a daily quota for apps that you keep coming back to
- No-trust mode: See and approve every individual OpenAI request before it is sent
- Audit log: see all requests ever made, with cost and attribution

Disadvantages and attack vectors:

- Websites could issue requests that break OpenAI rules and this transfers responsibility/consequences onto the end-user rather than the operator
- It's another service users would need to trust. It could be open-source, but that doesn't preclude the possibility that a malicious version would be uploaded to the Chrome Web Store

I would love any feedback!
It could be linguistics, philosophy, or knowing enough of the history of those fields that make one an expert. I think Chomsky's argument on AI and specifically cognition and the brain is quite useful.

Yet, you never hear Altman or Carmack talking about cognition or how computers can understand the meaning of something like a human. They aren't interested in such questions. But to conduct an experiment don't you have to know what you are looking for? Does a chemist do experiments by mixing 1 million compounds at a time?
The Voice of ChatGPT Is Now on the Air
It used to be almost the golden ratio. 16:10 monitors and notebook panels were very common around 2008 – 2011 or so, until 16:9 took over after televisions and 'HDTV' made it popular.

MacBooks have always been 16:10. And recently, 16:10 appears to be making a resurgence once again—many notebook models that were 16:9 1080p have moved to WQXGA 2560 × 1600.
I recently had it translate some Lingo code (a dead language used in Macromedia Shockwave) to JavaScript and it did an impressive job considering the lack of documentation available. Sure, the code was simple, and Lingo is very English-like, but it helped me learn a few things about the syntax and produced JS that in theory would work if consumed by some other script that would call its methods appropriately. If people think ChatGPT is a con, I just don't see it. Any con will be from how pop-tech misrepresents it.
Not sure what the flag does but your context tells me another profile without my extensions is established. The problem is I am trying to figure out which extension is causing the problem. So enabling and disabling each one is supposed to be a procedure.

Regardless, enabling/disabling should not cause losing settings.
The dreaded, 'closed due to inactivity' strikes again.
> I think if you took a poll of AWS workers you'd find that most enjoy it.

Isn't the average tenure at Amazon less than 3 years? "Most" of the people who you'd ask would be fresh from the interview rounds and with only one or two performance review rounds under their belt.
How will it be different from Facebook, other than cosmetically?
> That summary is vaguely upsetting in how confidently wrong it is.

Being confidently wrong is an important step towards passing the Turing test. The upsetting feeling is the "uncanny valley". The stupid machine is now expressing arrogance normally reserved to self-confident humans.
Consent-o-matic does not work on most websites; you still have to click the consent banners manually. Try https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/
Layoffs are cruel and are often done poorly.

It is really hard to say if they work or not since there is no consistent reason why they are done and picking some external measure doesn't prove much.
Upgrades? I just make a backup of my homedir to an external SSD. Flatpaks are recognized straight after reinstalling the (upgraded) OS, and the odd .deb package I install takes seconds.

I like the freshness of a new install. Crispy!
> Ironic to impose a non-European language for this contest.

How is English non-European?

Indo-European -> West Germanic -> Anglo-Frisian -> English
The layoffs at these companies have been 12,000 people, 18,000... no, 1:1s just aren't going to happen. Massive layoffs like this require swift execution, not dragged out over the weeks or months it would take to give everyone a personalized sendoff. In fact, the basic premise of these mass layoffs is that they're not personalized. Entire departments and teams are cut, etc.

You may disagree with the very idea of laying off tens of thousands of people at once, but this is still the only reasonable way to execute them.
Thanks for that. There is some mention of spam but others complaining that Gmail is too tight with their filters... Maybe they are re-adjusting.
Another interpretation is that the New Deal institutionalized labor. Labor got a seat at the table in exchange for removing radical elements.
> Myth: Asian Americans are fairly represented in leadership positions

Who has ever heard of this myth?
> "If this is a con, then consider me a mark."

I already did before I read this part.
That's a problem with the dingus that wrote all that JavaShit, not a problem with the end user's computer.

We have 20+ core consumer-grade CPUs and double- to triple-digit RAM and the internet at-large (read: Web2.0) still runs like it's the 1970s.
Nice coincidence: I've been using Teams in Chromium for a few months because audio just wouldn't work in Firefox. The Chromium experience then kept degrading until I couldn't reliably receive video or audio. Usually it would "fix" itself with a reload or two, but when even a reboot didn't help I tried Firefox again. Lo and behold, everything worked immediately! I swear MS must be on their old "let's make sure the customers have to spend XX% of their time trying dumb shit to keep our products working, and the sunk cost fallacy will keep them using our software" shtick.
The role and seriousness of religion in society has ebbed and flowed a lot historically.

There is reason to believe that during much of the Hellenistic period and before/after, most ancient Greeks saw the Gods as more of a folk tradition, for example. Hence the rise in schools of philosophical thought independent of religion. Likely many other Pagan societies had such ebbs and flows.

Ancient China went through similar periods IIUC.

It’s also hard for me to believe that Renaissance era Italians were really fervent believers given all the corruption involved in the Church (placing rich people as Popes, tons of Popes and priests having affairs and using the church money to live lavishly). Which is likely what led to the Reformation and the wars of religion - basically a return back to taking religion very seriously.

Historically it also seems to vary a lot based on class, with the upper end of society (by class or education) tending to be less religious. For example during the 19th century the average person was still quite religious in much of Europe, but the most educated classes had already become secular and begun to openly express Atheism. Then you look at things like the Wars of Religion following the reformation - most likely, this provided an excellent backdrop to motivate your soldiers with a real cause for fighting, which rulers used to accomplish their more practical goals of expanding their realm.
One thing to consider:

These events where Twitter does something like this trigger visible migration waves, observable from the FediVerse and elsewhere. There are several spikes in graphs over the past few months, that correlate with things like disabling TweetBot et al..

People are giving out advice to those who migrate away from Twitter to unfollow everyone that they were following, but leave the account undeleted to prevent impersonation in the future of a long-standing identity. The unfollowing is in order to not accrue stuff with a zombie account and in order to let the people still sticking with Twitter know that their followers are gone.

This fits with your observations: real followers gone, in a distinct wave, and robot accounts blithely continuing on.

But it means that it isn't banning at all. The people seeing this from the Twitter side and thinking that it's down to some mysterious "ban wave" aren't realizing that people are simply leaving them; voting with their feet. Account figures won't show it, but dropping follower figures and massively curtailed engagement with real people do.

The people who didn't like the politics have gone, or have been ejected. The people who were left exposed to unmoderated attacks have gone. The people who provided or who used the 3rd-party apps have gone. The people who relied upon a free-of-charge API to do all sorts of fun hobbyist and one-person-band things, from pictures of possums every hour to automated posts by artists and content creators, have stated that they're going, and have actually found themselves gone already in some cases within the past 30 hours, well before 2023-02-09.
"fedex" by any chance ?
I'm not sure if he could read Russian, but in addition to the Snow Queen by Lev Atamanov, Miyazaki frequently cites Soviet animator Yuri Norstein as a major influence, and lists two of his films (Hedgehog in the Fog, and Tale of Tales) as among his favourites of all time.[1] Several of his movies do have shots that seem strongly reminiscent of the Battleship Potemkin so I'd be surprised if that film wasn't an influence as well, although I don't know of a source that states it.

[1] https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/hayao-miyazaki-25-favourite-fil...
There is no reasonable appeal-to-ethics argument. When it comes to accepting code and/or data onto my computer, or more precisely my screen, I can and should have 100% control over what I accept. My computer, my choice.
Innovative :)
I remember seeing that a long time ago. Is he the one who came across as a pretty bad husband and father?
I think often there is no promotion, a company will just hire a new employee to work in a warehouse or something for $40,000, call them an "Inventory Analytics Manager" or whatever, and then declare that they are exempt from overtime because they're a manager. There is no change to notice, you just start the job and never realize the company is illegally underpaying you. Your colleagues all have the same title and every other company you applied to is doing the same thing.
Seriously, how is this a big deal? Make a backup of $HOME, restore it after fresh install of OS. Done!
People have a preference for meat post huge subsidies, which essentially makes the preference mean nothing whatsoever. If people prefer meat when it's not subsidised, then sure, what the hell, let them have it.
Like the guy in the pub who always has the answer to any question and speaks with absolute authority.

Turns out he's just had four pints and is very good at talking.
The range builtin already gives 98% of the functionality, just need to put "i in range" before it.
No, I’m imagining cross-language usage. Someone not using Go isn’t going to use the crypto/tls package from the Go std lib regardless of its quality. The overhead and difficulty of calling into Go make this infeasible.

To include a library written in another language as a shared lib, it needs to be C, C++ or Rust.
Turning on showdead in the profile is probably the closest approximation. Wouldn't say you're missing much.
The best conmen are the ones who earnestly believe their own BS.
I would not say very few. All big businesses or franchises accept it.
> > If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity.

> Citation needed.

Look around. In this thread there are people who are upset.

> This entire post/idea seems to be based on "you can't just make up an obviously anonymous avatar/username anymore (like BakedPotato138)" and I frankly don't see why not. It's been working fine for decades.

I have had a few obviously anonymous avatars/usernames over the years (this isn't one of them--it's actually my real last name). There have been a few attempts to doxx me during that time.

> The only people who are upset over this are authorities and corporations.

Authorities and corporations aren't people (which is important because people have rights). But that's an aside really.

The bigger point is that authorities and corporations are made up of people, and those people, are often acting on behalf of their authority/corporation. In the worst case, they're true believers that what their authority/corporation is doing is right (i.e., all the people who defend invasions of privacy by corporations on hacker news).

> And in those cases, making up a fake person is quite possibly criminal fraud.

Not always. For example, with Facebook's shadow profiles, they won't even admit they exist most of the time, so they certainly aren't going to prove they exist by attempting to prosecute someone who feeds them fake data.
I've seen Google do exactly that on paid APIs, get partner to build out something based on new Google API features. Then the feature the API depends on goes up 10x-100x in cost at I/O on the launch without ever telling us they were going to pull that.

Luckily the company I worked for was pretty diversified.
I have seen this.

The issue is that you get added to some sort of list. The sender is from a spam domain that keeps changing so it cannot be blocked.

Im not sure how it happened. But a loved one is affected. I have the persons email open on my pc so I monitor it. My loved one receives phising emails from Norton , FedEx etc impersonators constantly. Script is "his subscription (package) etc will not renew unless he pays". If he replies, then they call and take the cc over the phone.

The person is very gullible to these sort of emails. Ive tried to get them deleted before they hit the inbox.

It is relentless. Ive set up a long list of email filters... but some still get thru.

Im not a developer but i did take many CS classes at school and coded in java. I know how tonuse filters . I've tried to whois and tried going to the hoster, or the email provider, to get this sender banned. Its usually an entity in Poland or Ukraine that chooses to let this happen.

id love to known What else I can do
I have a similar monitor and if I never open a window for days it can get up to 2000 but I feel like I can keep it at ~600 just by always leaving a window slightly cracked open (not enough to noticeably cool the apartment).

Using the stove or oven will definitely spike it though to scary levels! I've made a habit of keeping the windows fully open when I cook now.
ChatGPT tells me that Disney World's Magic Kingdom was built on a swamp.

It's just a tool. You don't use a shovel to rake leaves, but that doesn't make a shovel any less useful.
But the goods being bought with the credit cards went up 8%.

Consider before: Bob bought thing X for $100 before and then paid Y% interest on that debt. Now he buys it for $108 and pays (Y+4)% interest. It’s more expensive all around, even if his wages went up by the same 8%.
Most of us have given in and just bought a portable USB monitor. Most are nothing special, 1080p resolution, but it solves the problem and they're easy enough to carry around.
I don't want accrued benefits. That means that someone owes me 1000s of dollars and I cannot have that debt honored unless I quit my job?

I generally try to work at places that value my contributions but do not try to micromanage me. If I want/need to take time off, I do. If at some point I'm taking off so much time that they no longer feel that I'm contributing enough to the company, then fine they can let me go.
Lol, quiet hiring, the company version of quiet quitting
Can we please stop saying that the CEO of a company did anything but lead a company (not to downplay the difficulty of leading a company). Musk certainly did not design rockets that land themselves. I highly doubt that he could even write down (let alone solve) the main important equations when asked. It's funny how some execs are attributed with doing everything (Jobs and Musk are the main ones), while nobody would say Adani dug up coal from the ground.
It means that 1 bit out of 12.5 GB is not durable. Not a lot if you ask me.
FTA:

> listing of managerial positions such as “Directors of First Impression,” whose jobs are otherwise equivalent to non-managerial employees (in this case, a front desk assistant).

Wow, that's pretty brazen.
If you want an offline copy of Wikipedia, I'd recommend getting Kiwix and grab the largest copy you can (95.2GB). It's not updated frequently, but it's IMO the safest and most private way to access Wikipedia in an oppressive state.

You can easily carry it on a MicroSD card. If you think possessing a copy of Wikipedia is illegal in that country, then please take the necessary precautions to avoid putting yourself in trouble.

https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=eng&category=wikipedia

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It's a mission-focused group, and such groups usually include some amount of socializing. It's not the same as a workplace (although people frequently mention their partners in a workplace also)

There are certainly polyamorous people who behave poorly, but that doesn't mean people with multiple lovers should be held to different standards than monogamous people are, just because their romantic orientation places them in the minority.
Good thing I haven't reached that level of sophistication.
There's no time like the present! I know some people who got hooked on anime in their '60s and up. There's a lot of greatness, and a lot of garbage, so it's like a never-ending treasure hunt!

(If you liked those, you'll probably like most of the Studio Ghibli catalogue, as well as Wolf Children).
Just one word: capes. I think they'd look cool in microgravity. Has anyone ever worn a cape in microgravity?
https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library

My passion project is building CLI tools for managing files and curating media. I've been at it about 2 years now.

Most recently I wrote a subcommand for balancing files between disparate disks. Useful for mergerfs filesystems
I don’t know what that would do with feeling no sympathy? It’s a pain to hire internationally. Not like a huge one, but for non-enterprise if really is a burden.
Computer, Enhance - Performance-Aware Programming Series
It happened to me a couple of times earlier in my career, and I was happy about it. I just took the opportunity to turn my fake promotion into a real promotion at another company.