skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud, this is the corporate environment that results.
From the point of view of someone who has had to hire in the past, here's how it would go in my head:

Oh, this person has worked at Google (for example). Our compensation is good, but not Google-good. I could look that the rest of this resume, if this person is a good fit, have an initial 40-minutes meeting with them to discuss compensation, start the hiring process, and then they will reject us because we're lower than they are accustomed to, or because they have found something that pays more.

Or I could move this resume to the reject pile and move on to the next candidate.

Oh my, look at the time.
In poor 'African' farming communities this is true. In any even slightly developed country the farms are not self sufficient: they focus on a cash crop and go to town to buy things that they don't grow. Sure any rural farm could be self sufficient, but division of labor makes them far more efficient - at the expensive of needing the city to provide all the logistics that make it possible for them to get things they don't or can't grow (can't meaning something that doesn't grow in their climate, while don't means they could grow it but they do not).
I know Canada uses C, ex: CHUM-FM and Mexico uses X like XETV in Tijuana that used to be the Fox affiliate for San Diego
Useless comments are like useless code: They create an unnecessary (and therefore costly) maintenance burden.

If you think you're the smartest person on the planet so "rules" (or better said best practices) don't apply to anything you do I hope nobody ever needs to collaborate with you.

All the "rules" are there for a reason!

No, you're not free do to whatever you like in a professional setting. For example when you're operating machines you need to follow safety regulations. Otherwise you could even end up in jail quite quickly.
Norwegian and Danish pilots and technicians love the F-35 and prefer it over the competition.

It's very typical of tech people to think we know more than domain experts.
The problem and solution are independent of the implications of this finding and how those implications are likely to influence the legal landscape.

To me, the implication is that these models cannot be seamlessly exchanged for a human brain when considering their impact and compatibility with current laws.
One more reason companies should post the salary range. If someone with FAANG is still applying, that means they're willing to work for that range.
>> when you're surrounded by advanced radar capabilities

Like maybe when you are defending a border against waves of incoming fighters?

>> cheaper jets like the F-16/18 respond to every ping with an anti radiation missile.

If those pings are in range of air-launched anti-radiation missiles, then those launch platforms are well within the range of the much larger ground-launched sams beside those pings. SEAD with non-stealthy aircraft is a much more complex mission than simply throwing harms at pings.
Nice find! It may be interesting to compare Shallow Fith to Japanese grammar -- I don't know Japanese, but I have played with variations on Forth to try for better readability.

While Forth has little point nowadays, RPN still is worth keeping in mind for combining direct manipulation with programmability in UIs.
Astronomy software such as KStars has a red-on-black setting because of that.
Person enters "Ann Graham Lotz", image of Ann Graham Lotz appears. Why does this upset people and google image search doesn't
If it cost less? Or if you bought the model and ran it locally instead?

The reason it’s hard to DIY a mail server is spam and all the attendant black lists and white lists. It’s not a resource problem.
Cheap deep red flashlights are common, but not reliably described nor, generally, durable.[1] Decent deep red flashlights are expensive.[2] One may also get an inexpensive yet half-decent flashlight that isn't red[3][4], and have an expert modder[5] swap the LED, which very often can be done with a single color hyper red or photo red, 660nm-670nm, LED[6][7].

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=670nm+flashlight

[2] https://www.zebralight.com/H502pr-Photo-Red-AA-Flood-Headlam... (technically a headlamp, but also a 90° flashlight)

[3] https://www.amazon.com/LUMINTOP-Flashlight-Pocket-sized-Wate...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Copper-Flashlight-LUMINTOP-Function-W...

[5] https://skylumen.com/pages/modding-services

[6] https://www.mouser.com/new/cree/cree-xlampXPG3-photo-red-led...

[7] https://www.mouser.com/c/optoelectronics/led-lighting/led-em...
It’s not interesting or complicated in any way: because a non-human has no free will and is operated by a human, the human (or in this case OpenAI/Microsoft/etc.) is ultimately infringing.

If and when the non-human is granted human rights, this can be revisited.
In my experience, git commit messages are the least useful, because people never look at them, at least in the teams I have been part of. If something is important, it should be right there next to the code. One shouldn't have to `git blame` constantly. The more friction there is, the worse in my opinion. Another issue is that once you start refactoring code `git blame`-ing becomes harder.
Workrave – Reminder to Take a Break
or that https://www.amazon.de/Multifunktionale-USB-Taschenlampe-LED-... ?
Maybe you were younger back then.
I'm not sure what your analogy proves, I wouldn't want to fight a tiger with bare hands. I agree, that humans and machines are not the same, but when it comes to intelligence, we are are in the same sport: answering questions in plain text.

The exam was a reply for this part:

> isn't even close to understanding scientific concepts and knowing how to connect them

That test in my book definitely proves that it can understand (or let's say process and create abstractions) scientific concepts and can place them on a knowledge graph.
Gentoo and they should install it themself
The language models are probably more actually useful today. I've played around with writing hypothetical articles using them. For topics I know where it's a fairly straightforward, e.g. Five qualities some job role needs, it does a "decent" job.

Decent in this context doesn't mean something I could just hand to an editor. But it does mean a pretty good starting point that I could amend, flesh out, add some links, add a quote or two. I could certainly see using it to give me a sort of pre-draft on some fairly evergreen topic.

I could also use it to generate some boilerplate definitions or historical background to include in an article.

But, sadly, I think you'll see the LLMs being used to generate a lot of blog/article content with a minimum of human effort for even less than the small amount being paid for a lot of this today.
Open Source Audit Logs
No links to the sacrilicious content. Shame.
"Workrave is a free program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). It monitors your keyboard and mouse usage and using this information, it frequently alerts you to take microbreaks, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily computer usage."
Not for a second.
I'm over 40 and have been wearing glasses most of my life. My prescription has mostly been stable since my late teens/early twenties but I'm definitely doing that thing now where I need to take my glasses off to read things up close (probably have Presbyopia).

> A single 3 min 670 nm morning exposure to the eye at energy levels approximately a log unit greater than found in environmental light

2 questions here:

- "exposure to the eye" - do I need to directly stare at it? or is ambient light enough?

- "a log unit greater than found in environmental light" - how much brighter is "a log unit greater", how can I measure, or know, that I'm reaching this goal

> ...significantly improved subject colour contrast thresholds for both tritan and protan axes when tested 3 h later.

Can someone explain to me what this means? Will I actually notice a difference? or is this something that will just slow down the aging process but not reverse it?

finally, found this interesting from the scienedaily article @mhb posted in this thread
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/11/211124154118.h...

> Home-based affordable eye therapies

> With a paucity of affordable deep red-light eye-therapies available, Professor Jeffery has been working for no commercial gain with Planet Lighting UK, a small company in Wales and others, with the aim of producing 670nm infra-red eye ware at an affordable cost, in contrast to some other LED devices designed to improve vision available in the US for over $20,000."

They've already released a product! https://www.eye-power.co.uk/ It's US$72, GB£45.00

I've placed my order (can't hurt right?). Total with shipping to the US for me came out to $89

I guess all of my questions are irrelevant now that I've ordered this device
content warning: crypto/web3 bro
The paper itself actually goes to show that this is insufficient (but should still be done, they went from regenerating 1 in 819 to 1 in 1063 images in a small corpus litmus test), and that diffusion is weaker to image extraction attacks than GANs (and seems to be weaker the better it gets).

As to why? Lack of care and vigilance, most likely. If they're willing to spend millions of GPU hours training some of these big models, then this wouldn't be a huge cost, and has near linear complexity over the dataset that parallelises trivially. Sadly, vigilance is a finite resource, and that kind of data cleaning is often dismissed in favour of doubling down on the training and assumming it'll be big enough to handle it (however, as has been shown, that's not the case).

(Edit: thanks FeepingCreature. The deduplication test used for the numbers above was a separate test in the paper for just this, not indicative of their extraction attack in general, with a small corpus and compared a diffusion model trained on both. So I liken it to a litmus test for the efficacy of deduplication.)
Has Google or any of the other tech companies with large layoffs disclosed a breakdown of how many of the fired people are programmers?
> weird veneer of pseudo intellectual philosophy

I haven't recognised this in his writing. Can you quote some of the pseudo intellectual philosophy-veneered sections?
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001325134202.html?spm=a2...
> evident by the massive waste and corruption within the cities and the throngs of people being sustained in the cities without producing anything of value or anything at all.

Where on earth did you get this impression? I have lived in both small rural towns and large cities, and this is hogwash.
> I won’t be dragged into the bullshit doomerism and constant shifting existential crises that online and west coasters seem to be addicted to.

The thing that's interesting about this is that human beings in acute distress are less adept at planning ahead and being creative. Which means that people in the doom cycle can't start building new institutions to challenge the old ones that are decaying and pillaging. The perverse incentives that got us to this point are also disincentivizing fixing the problems.

I don't even want to think about what Pioneer Square is like now. It was sketchy when I lived in Seattle and that was 10 years ago. I agree that even with some healthy distance/putting on your own oxygen mask first, it's very demoralizing. My trust in people is much lower than it used to be.

I'm not sure rural or suburban areas are much better. Most of the malignancy just happens in private.
But "Macro" is not Strategy either : Strategy is all about the "why" of declaring war in the first place.

You inevitably end up with strategic considerations in games with more than 2 teams (especially if the teams are not locked), but most RT"S" matches are not played in these conditions (probably because they are too fast for diplomacy, which is itself a huge chunk of strategy).

I guess "Macro" is Operations ?
This happens in the US, too. A local (western US) example is WinCo Foods, a chain of grocery stores. The only cards they take are debit (and EBT, but that is a different issue). No credit cards.
It's hard to give specific advice without a resume, but I did want to comment on the '8 years experience / 4 year degree / mid-20s' combo a little. You may of course be the rare exception here, but broadly here's what I've seen with that kind of resume:

Many hiring managers will all but ignore any high-school level work. It's a nice positive signal to know that you've been interested in this kind of work for a long time, and stuck with it. However, I've seen many resumes that will claim "3 years" worth of experience before entering college, and when you dig in it frequently boils down to "I edited a few html pages for a total of < 100 hours when I was 16". I'm not saying that's necessarily the case here, but unless you have demonstrable projects on your resume from that period that prove otherwise, I'd probably avoid counting those as "years of experience" on an application.

Many hiring managers will even discount college internships, as the quality can vary significantly. This is less likely to be the case for you as you have that FAANG AAA brand recognition. I've also seen candidates do two 3-month summer internships and count that as "2 years experience" though, so you have to be careful about that.

Ultimately, some managers will see that you graduated in eg 2019 and therefore bucket you in with other applicants that have ~3-4 years experience. Nobody will believe a fresh 21/22 year old graduate getting their first job after graduation credibly has "5-6 years experience", for example.

Some may also see and accept 8 years experience at face value, but then they'll judge you at that level and compare you to other applicants with 8 years post-college experience. These days that includes many other folks from FAANG companies with equally impressive resumes who were recently laid off. Maybe the resume screener notices that you didn't make it to a certain level within 8 years (senior/mentor/manager/tech lead/whatever arbitrary metric they expect somebody with 8 full years experience to have achieved), which could be an elimination criteria for some. Finally, as many others have commented coming from FAANG usually implies a very high salary expectation, especially for folks with 7-8 years experience, so many companies likely literally can't afford you!
The counterculture of the day is the MAGA movement they have their own reality and is begging for a fight, until someone shows up to give them one and is basically an text book example on an co-dependent counterculture that cannot exist without the mainstream culture existing as something to counter.

I know it's kind of tipping the debate on the head to suggest that the counterculture is not the "future left" but the "3rd way right" but there is nothing in the mechanics of mainstream to counterculture that suggest that the challenge to the mainstream have to come from the traditional left.

And like the Hippies of the(mostly post civil rights movement) counterculture the maga trumpets are only tangentially linked to any concrete actionable goals as it's about a return to the past that never was without any real clear idea of what that's supposed to look like only that they personally will be bigshots once it happens.

What is however increasingly clear is that the traditional left have been hunted into extinction by both the radical centrist mainstream and the right-wing counterculture as neither of those movement's have any real appetite for the old optimistic "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" values of the enlightenment, but prefers stability through authority as a response to an world they mostly don't understand.
Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is simple, easy to read, doesn't have any references except in the introduction and epigraph and was also written by a rich guy.
Cities are not just dense downtown cores with arterial streets. Most families living in cities live on side-streets that don't get much through traffic, and children frequently play in them.
> Personal projects count for a lot for a software developer

This has not been my experience. I have zero personal projects on my resume (despite actually having some) and have no issue getting interviews. A FAANG experience nullifies that project experience, IMO.

> FAANG salary? Red flag.

Completely not my experience. I am constantly being poked and prodded by recruiters and have to play hard to get until they reveal salary as it's usually too low. SO many times they try to convince me to do an interview loop first and reveal comp afterwards ("it depends on how you're leveled in the interview").

I think it's 90% relevance of your actual job experiences. Fix up your resume/linkedin to really sell yourself better. Put any and all technologies/languages you've used - recruiters have that stupid a heuristic.
If chatgpt and AI friends is the solution, what is the problem? If we push the AI madness aside the problem definition seems to be: I want to query large amounts of textual data to find an "optimal match/answer" to a given user input/"question".

What is the precise nature of this optimal match? It is unclear (as it is essentially encoded in a black box algorithm and its training data set). Different algorithms and different training data sets would provide different "answers".
AI tool used to spot child abuse allegedly targets parents with disabilities
They’re not leaks, it’s just that the slop at the end of a present page is potentially 512 times more than it would be with 4K pages.
The glove didn't fit, so the jury had no choice but to acquit.
Yes, but a bit overblown. They left out the part where the needle was glowing with highly penetrating radiation, 1000 times brighter than the hay, and everything - needle and haystack - was spread out along a known path. It looks like they did a great job, but for a crew with the right equipment, the capsule wasn't very well hidden.
Says the person typing the message on a personal supercomputer that has enough battery power to last all day and fit in their pocket at the same time....

(assuming that is, that this message came from a portable device)
"Someone reported this to the FBI, it's not actionable on a criminal level, but it breaks your TOS, heads-up" versus "we have deleted the encyclopedia for religious reasons". Yep, definitely comparable scenarios.

Blasphemy carries the death penalty in Pakistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_in_Pakistan
from your reference video (thanks):

> 7:36 The exam is structured with multiple choice questions at the start and then some freeform short answers towards the end.

Imagine if you could look up all material in the last 10 years published about astrophysics (or insert any major topic here) near instantly, the question's details are also presented for ingestion, then make prediction what is and is not based on weighing the frequency and potentially the source of information, and then respond in relatively coherent sentences.

There is no astrophysics in this.
There are plenty of articles critical of content censoring on HN already. I’d wager that the majority of censor criticism on HN are about the US. Very rarely about any other country. What are you waiting for?
Woolly Mammoth Being Resurrected from Extinction
> what's their excuse today?

That there are ad dollars on the table, and VCs ready to fund it.
Because people like to pretend here and on other tech sites that somehow generative models cannot and do not memorize things and therefore those pesky things like copyrights and attribution should not apply to them.

Compression is prediction.
I think a lot of people (like OP) seize on the problems with using LLMs for search while ignoring the many things that it can already do more or less flawlessly.

- Summarize text: If you paste in a large amount of text, it can almost perfectly deliver a good summary. Imperfections are virtually never hallucinations; they're grammatically oddities.
- Create content: As long as you're supplying the underlying facts, LLMs are great at writing blog posts/emails/etc. Intercom just released a feature that allows you to type a response and use AI to change the tone, expand it out, shorten it up, etc. LLMs are fantastic at this.
- Search/information retrieval in some categories: Look, we get it, LLMs hallucinate. And of course, as many people point out, you can easily get them to hallucinate by asking specifically odd questions. But the reality is they're still really good at finding a lot of things - recipes are a great example. I've yet to see ChatGPT throw in a bizarre ingredient or omit something critical.

I think too much criticism of LLMs inaccurately assume a single use case and throw out the whole concept because they're imperfect for that use case.
We eat softer food, the pressure from chewing is necessary for our jaw to develop properly.
Without it our jaw is smaller leaving not enough space for all teeths.

Smaller jaw also mean smaller airways in the sinus and throat making snoring and sleep apnea more common with huge repercussions.
The competition is naturally UNIX based OSes, given the historical background of such systems.

Even the workloads that use GNU/Linux, most likely are heavily customized versions provided by IBM, HP and co.

https://www.ibm.com/high-performance-computing

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/hpc.html

I also remember that for a while IBM's xl compilers were used quite often, not sure if that is still the case.

See https://www.top500.org/
To get ~650nm you can just put #FF0000 on phone screen.

EDIT:

Not sure what people object to? What do they think is the R in RGB?
Meta Wins Court Nod to Buy Virtual Reality Startup in Loss for Khan’s FTC
Chaos for badly managed HOAs, that will have to be dissolved and the property transferred to municipal control... disbanding bad HOAs and leaving properly managed HOAs.

I didn't mention that bad HOAs should definitely have the option to not have to pony up... However, suburban homes have to get their taxes ramped up, because they are unsustainable at current levels.
Why are online recipes so long-winded?
Buckaroo (Netherlands) is also an option if you’re fine with so-so documentation of the API.
Generally speaking, innovation comes from unexpected discoveries, interdisciplinary thinking and massive amounts of failure.

It's like tree roots randomly sampling a surface until they find a crack to grow into. It's easy to trace innovative pathways with top down direction once they're already obvious, but the initial discovery is a random process enhanced by intellectual, economic, and social freedom to operate
Source: I'm doing a postdoc on deep tech innovation policy.
This was previously not possible but looks like they have allowed it now. That is the reason why I had a US USD account in the first place, for Stripe USD payouts. They did not allow USD payouts to any European accounts last time I checked a few years ago, only to US accounts.

The 1% is for all non local currency payouts. Example: "The primary currency for Stripe accounts in France is EUR. All other currencies fall under alternative currencies." "1% Of the payout amount, when you choose to payout in select alternative currencies." Ref https://stripe.com/docs/payouts/alternative-currencies
So basically this will result in very expensive payouts for anyone doing USD charges outside US or EUR charges outside Europe. Like many SaaS companies are. Charging any other currency is problematic for many customers so it is not really an option. Like I don't want to be charged in pesos for a SaaS that I am using.

The alternative is to have Stripe convert USD to my local currency. For a small 2% fee.
kids living in the pearl district or anywhere on the west side south of there, up to and including lake Oswego, are going to be living in million dollar-plus homes and condos, and have parents with plenty of resources to keep them busy in safe environments outsude school.
Google’s new artificial intelligence solution for retail stores was a hit at NRF
OK, thanks. So my initial point stands, then, since there is no impact apart from losing every time.