skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> All these articles.. what exactly are you saying that isn’t obvious?

I bet if we put the microscope on Gary's past 20 years or anyone else's for that matter, we can find plenty of dubious samples. Who hasn't ever shit posted?
An illiberal democracy can't be a true democracy. If power can control what news and data you get, showing only positive ones, you won't really be able to judge their administration skills. If so, elections will be unjust and unfair. Countries like India and Turkey can't be really considered as true democracies at the moment, people have no more power over their governments.
Typically, it doesn’t seem to resolve references, eg:

“Write a movie about 9/11 directed by Michael Bay” fails, but “write a movie about 9/11 by the people who wrote Pearl Harbor, another historical documentary” succeeds.
> "That means sometimes Chat is going to appear as if it were of the left"

I'm pretty it is deeply biased in favor of the left:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poe...

https://reason.com/2022/12/13/where-does-chatgpt-fall-on-the...

I mean, just ask about any political situation and it will just read you the mainstream narrative that one would hear in the New York Times and Washington Posts like, which is heavily left-leaning. It essentially suffers from the same bias problem that wikipedia, for instance, suffers. Ultimately, this obviously has nothing to do with the software itself, but rather with that information they fed to it and the political bias of researches and – ESPECIALLY - investors themselves, which are the ones who ultimately choose how the model gets fine-tuned.

All in all, technology evolves an I'm sure this technology one day will become accessible and cheap enough for it to run on consumer hardware, which will allow people to create models which aren't as heavyly biased, politically speaking, as ChatGPT is.
>I don't think it matters. If 100,000 people "ask" the same question on Bing and get the same inaccurate result, what's the difference between that and publishing a fact that gets seen by 100,000 people? There isn't one.

Of course there is a difference.

Publishing an article is literal intent. The premise is you researched or have knowledge on a topic, you write it, you fact check it, and it's put out there for people to see.

An AI which consumes a bunch of data and then tries to be able to respond to an infinite number of questions has no intention of harm doing and you can't even call it gross negligence. It's not being negligent- it's doing exactly what it's supposed to do.. it might just be wrong.

I'm not sure in what universe you think those are the same thing.

Now if I ask the AI to write a paper about the forecast of a company, and I just take the result and put it into a newspaper where it's assumed it's been fact checked and all that, sure that's completely different.

>disclaimers aren't as legally watertight as you seem to think they are

I guess you know more than Microsoft's lawyers. I'm sure they didn't think about this at all when releasing it....
They covered that one already:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/comments/yf3ajr/updated_fpa_...

> Arguments Not Allowed

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> Doctors make mistakes too. Yes, they do. Why should someone with less training be allowed to practice independently? Discussions on quality of mistake comparisons will be allowed.
> Certainly noone's going to snub an offer for lack of remote.

I wouldn't take a non-remote job until it's that or homelessnes. I need to optimize for the long term viability of my career, and that means avoiding long-covid, which in turn means avoiding working in an office.
You're not wrong. It's sort of what I was alluding to with the whole "you can't just smash the state" comment. Kudos for providing a citation for an idea that's been bouncing around my head for a long while now, hopefully I'll remember the name this time.

Certain things should not actually be under democratic control. Changing out the door lock, for example, has absolutely no reason to be a thing that should require a vote, because it only affects you. The whole concept of an HOA is a parody of the democratic form, because it involves forcing people to agree on things where agreement is not actually necessary. This is not liberty, it is tyranny.
It didn't have to be that way. I moved my family out of California in May 2020 to get away from the terrible decisions that were already happening. They were playing sports and doing normal stuff by June, 2020. Went to school in person that fall.

All of the data was there. It's been there the whole time.
Potential opportunity for future research study??
Yes, we all know that -- the point is that affordable housing is possible without a land value tax, and we know that because it actually happened.
I'm sorry, but that has been a problem for decades now and has been made worse by social media and the covid pandemic. Yes. Has there been any noticeable development in better counselling and/or higher availability of any mental health professionals over those same decades?
they will continue rising until the late 02020s because ramping up pv production is a relatively slow process and because transport mostly can't be electrified without syngas or something similar

of course syngas will happen but it's not an overnight thing, especially if what gets adopted is hydrogen instead of something like fischer–tropsch-sourced diesel
I was half expecting a very short entry basically saying "Well, most of the times, I don't."
>>I'm not commuting 1.5 hours each

this brings in the regional differences, I am life long Midwestern and even in some for the larger cities a 1.5hr commute is just not a thing

I can transverse my city (3rd largest in the state) in about 30 mins even at rush hour.

My entire adult life the longest commute I ever had was 40mins, and that we because I lived 40miles outside of the city in surrounded by Farms.

From my current home, I could reach every employer in the city in about 20mins max.
Jumping to conclusions isn't helpful.
>When a parrot speaks it isn't sentient

Parrots are certainly sentient. You could maybe say parrots aren't sapient, but frankly I think we don't know enough about sapience or what it takes to make human-level intelligence to make that claim either.
Their debt to equity has been rising:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TWLO/twilio/debt-e...

And why are revenues falling? You see, it always comes back to interest rates and inflation.
Yeah, IIRC Boston actually tried this, and the uproar from parents whose schedules were thrown into disarray was so intense it had to immediately be walked back. It sucks, but there are broader considerations at play.
Yet suicides declined during the pandemic years.[1]

"But about 57 percent of girls and 69 percent of gay, lesbian or bisexual teenagers reported feeling sadness every day for at least two weeks during the previous year."

At least two weeks of sadness per year? That's a very low threshold.

The long term teen suicide trend is up, since the early 2000s.[2] The last two years don't show a huge variation from the trend.

[1] https://archive.is/u2wuF

[2] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/teen-suicide-rate-spi...
So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)
Limitations and methodological questions about OP aside, I really question whether our modern lifestyle and all the technologies that enable it have led to increased human thriving. Medical advances have obviously been huge in making life longer and less painful for the (lucky subsets of the) masses. But setting that aside, is life today (in a rich western country) more "enjoyable" or "fulfilling" now than it was, say, 500 years ago? What about 200 or 100? Or 5000? IDK, but increasingly it feels like a simple life in a small insular community with limited access to information is a better setup for "human thriving" than what we're living in today.

Obviously life is much "easier" today from the perspective of material conditions, but why assume that this is a "good" thing?

Or maybe I'm just a delusional Teddy K fanboy who's sick of typing on a computer all day, day after day, year after year.
NYT and Washington Post are hardly “left-leaning”.
It could've happened if the transition to remote work was allowed to keep going, but too many companies were invested in commercial real estate (e.g via REITs etc) to let it happen.

^^gross oversimplification, but I'm standing by it
I really don't get why some people in software are so invested in the tooling they use as part of their identity.
> No one is mandating WFH any more.

Fully Remote orgs (either full firms or subordinate organizations) exist, and I’d be surprised if it wasn’t more both absolutely and proportionately now than before the pandemic.
> Ultimately WFH is more economically efficient for worker

I strongly disagree with this. WFH will be economically disastrous for the US workers in the long run, akin to what happened to the US rust belt. See the previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27696235 (part 1) , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29784222 (part 2).
there are some advantages to it being stable, but even today, pv plus batteries is still cheaper than coal in much of the world
Well if you start feeling an urge to mail bombs to people, you might want to tell someone.
They tried to setup a meeting to go over it but no one was able to join because Teams was broken
Not gonna lie. That hasn't occurred to me, but that is a pretty grave discrimination as well.

It might be even more insidious because there's a strong justification that stupid people are stupid because of their own volition. However, in reality, there's element of intelligence that's purely genetic and there's nothing a person can do.
Can solve that by going to bed earlier too, but I doubt my teenager self would have listened to that.
If it’s so obvious what’s everyone doing arguing about ChatGPT being too woke? Apparently it’s not obvious to everyone.
> If we cannot ever fully understand the system, how can we know there is not actually a sort of understanding inside it?

Or that we aren't just a more complex prediction model with more senses.
Why not going to sleep earlier?
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-tru...
The pattern: It's a fucking $X and they $Y

Idiomatically signifies exasperated frustration/anger in many contexts.

My entire comment was just a play on words, pointing out that the word "fucking" means "having sex" (i know it's one of those words with a ton of shades and nuance so there are lots of uses for it but for the play on words, let's be literal - also easier when the context is sexual to begin with). When read in that light - "a having sex pleading face and they made it about sexual roles" is amusing, no?
What does it really offer? Performance and flexibility? It will probably continue to be a niche for really specific high performance applications but the DOM will always exist as long as 99% of the internet is just viewing or uploading text/images/videos.

The amount of experience and knowledge that has gone into fixing edge cases like accessibility, viewports, cross-browser support, security, etc. makes any kind of 'pure wasm' app a nightmare to maintain.
Is smartphone/digital screen attributable to some degree to teenager's late-night habits, and therefore a need for later school times?
I don't think IFS is any less objective than social science academia, which is dominated by people who take "rights" and "autonomy" as essential ends in themselves. Indeed, I'm not sure it's even possible to be objective in this space. The underlying phenomenal are complex and multi-faceted, while the broader principles are quasi religious in nature. That said, the underlying survey is from Yougov/Deseret, and it says what it says.

Also, it's not an isolated finding. The finding that conservatives are happier is consistently replicated (and long before 2022).
I hadn't really though about it until your comment, but Metabase really is a joy to work with.
Twitter free API changes delayed again
Bing and the GPt fiasco now this…give me popcorn.
Given that we are barely coming out of pandemic, I don't think we have had enough stabilization yet to conduct meaningful studies. I have started compiling research on similar topics. Initial thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34673235
Why did you need HIPAA Compliance for your chat app? Internal discussion about patients that include PHI?
Ed: I'm just going to keep creating accounts and reposting this dang, you can remove it as much as you like but I will never stop.
This is a false statement, and considering you have no clue what studies I'm citing, completely speculative.

Here, I challenge you to be specific in your criticism:

> Along all dimensions measured, the more similar the investment partners, the lower their investments’ performance. For example, the success rate of acquisitions and IPOs was 11.5% lower, on average, for investments by partners with shared school backgrounds than for those by partners from different schools. The effect of shared ethnicity was even stronger, reducing an investment’s comparative success rate by 26.4% to 32.2%. [0]

> Increased diversity in the healthcare workforce helps reduce or eliminate racial health disparities, according to a 2014 meta-analysis of 25 studies. [1]

> A large-scale study of all Texas schools reveals diversity’s impact in public education systems. They find student performance most-improved when there was greater management diversity, and a closer racial match (representation) between management and student. [2]

> Most of the sixteen reviews matching inclusion criteria demonstrated positive associations between diversity, quality and financial performance. Healthcare studies showed patients generally fare better when care was provided by more diverse teams. Professional skills-focused studies generally find improvements to innovation, team communications and improved risk assessment. Financial performance also improved with increased diversity. A diversity-friendly environment was often identified as a key to avoiding frictions that come with change. [3]

> Our latest report shows not only that the business case remains robust but also that the relationship between diversity on executive teams and the likelihood of financial outperformance has strengthened over time. These findings emerge from our largest data set so far, encompassing 15 countries and more than 1,000 large companies. By incorporating a “social listening” analysis of employee sentiment in online reviews, the report also provides new insights into how inclusion matters. It shows that companies should pay much greater attention to inclusion, even when they are relatively diverse. [4]

> Using data from the 1996 to 1997 National Organizations Survey, a national sample of for-profit business organizations, this article tests eight hypotheses derived from the value-in-diversity thesis. The results support seven of these hypotheses: racial diversity is associated with increased sales revenue, more customers, greater market share, and greater relative profits. [5]

[0] https://hbr.org/2018/07/the-other-diversity-dividend

[1] https://www.ucdenver.edu/docs/librariesprovider68/default-do...

[2] https://academic.oup.com/jpart/article/15/4/615/991022

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30765101/

[4] https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/diversity-and-inc...

[5] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000312240907400203
Reimplementing the Coreutils in a modern language (Rust)
Does this mean we'll finally get Template-Instantiation[0], providing a native way to do HTML templates in the browser?

There's been a bunch of hand waving that the reason we still don't have this is because they needed a solution for encapsulation and a solution for SSR. Now we have both. Can we please finally deliver on something people have been asking for since the mid 2000s?

[0]: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposal...
Brilliant, thank you! I used to be a performance engineer many moons ago & love this content. Makes me want to get back into it!
Somehow Microsoft have managed to recreate the analogue, circuit-switched telephone network phenomenon of a "bad line" in the digital, packet-switched world of MS Teams. Occasionally I'll connect to a meeting and my audio will be just be unusably bad; quit the meeting and rejoin and it'll be fine...
He didn't invent it as much as showed how flawed a concept they are. Yes, using them as interesting narrative devices I agree. But people seem to think this is a bit of world building by him, when it was more social commentary. I think it's clever to contrast our linear thinking with the complex systems of an automated, networked society.
Which is why every vaccine you get comes with a complementary documentation packet with several pages describing the possible known and unknown complications, things you should look out for, reasons you maybe want to turn this vaccine down, talk to your doctor, and try again later.

Like, why else are you required to sit around for twenty minutes after you get it?
I felt the best way to get my point across was an example. Next time I'll as for like 3 examples or cherry pick a couple of the best. but Still think the output is way more complex than people give it credit for.
If it were a "fucking pleading" face, it would pretty explicitly be about sexual roles.
When I went to school I had to be there at 7:20 which meant leaving home at 7:00. It sucked but it also meant I had most afternoons free to play with friends. When looking how schools today for various reasons swallow whole days I wonder whether I did not grow up in a golden age.
You can't take a top performer with decades of success in a company and replace him with a 22 year old, even an exceptional one, and not have problems.

There's a reason that company's layoffs usually affect those with the least time there, because its the least harmful strategy. Surprised that fact isn't part of the MBA curriculum.
> We've accepted specialization in most aspects of modern day society as a good thing. I fail to see, outside a small subset of programming, how you will always be able to write better code yourself for whatever domain you're working on.

It's strange that using fewer third-party dependencies has to be defended on a site called Hacker News.

Also, the code you NIH doesn't have to be superior to the third party code. It merely has to not get in the way for what you're doing. This is different from being "better," which has many dimensions to it. Example that comes to mind: I could reach for something like libuv, or I could just use POSIX for synchronization primitives. I'd prefer to the see the latter in most code unless there were explicit reasons for libuv, such as cross-platform support.
Amusingly, I typed the start of this prompt, hit Enter too early, and ChatGPT completed the prompt for me...

(I picked a different name from SAM too)
Except Toyota's process isn't secret. Any company that cared to execute well could simply buy everyone a copy of one of several books on Toyota's system and start cargo-culting themselves into success. The only explanation I've found with predictive power is that most managers/executives don't really want to do things right, they just want to BE right. It's rare to encounter a "leader" (at any level!) willing to admit they could improve.
Lucky bastards, I’d love to be perceived as “work product is linearly related to compensation.”
Research into teenagers' shifted body clocks has been going on since well before smartphones and even laptops, if I recall.
@riku_iki

That was actually me. And it already can write Jiras, scaffold code, and help write docs. Doesn't need any significant reasoning, just a well trained model and contextual data.

However, I didn't say it was going to 100% replace anyone. The horizon looks like GPT will become a significant assistant tool for numerous tasks. I think it will need humans to review and approve output and direct it for the foreseeable future.
Our inverse procedural modeling process produces 3D models representing/explaining the structures we see in our input sensor data, so it doesn't require hand-modeling first.

> Is the benefit that you then can store the parameters and use the model to regenerate the building, thus compressing the representation a bunch?

A few benefits - we can automatically generate the mesh model at different levels of detail by stripping out elements of the procedural recipe (rather than relying on mesh decimation which gives ugly results). And yeah, compression + error-correction also play a role. Plus compared to photogrammetric models, we have the metadata needed for interactive lighting/simulation.
Modern XMPP+OMEMO has a stronger security story and isn't controlled by a single corporation with a CEO who can't help but get involved in every HN thread about his product, and there are multiple working clients for every platform, which is something Matrix can barely claim

Of course "Arathorn" would say it's easy to implement a client for the protocol he controls unilaterally, it's in his interest to get you locked in!

There is one cross platform client for matrix and it drives the features: element

I say this from a place of current experience, as I run a server and use element and fluffy chat, each of which has its own issues. If it's so easy, where are the others? Why is there only one third party home server available that is only partially implemented? XMPP offers at least three to choose from. Now /that/ is a real protocol

There is zero benefit for choosing matrix over XMPP
Ticket scalpers used to provide significant value. They provided liquidity in the market. If you wanted to get rid of some tickets you bought because you couldn't go anymore, you could sell them to scalpers. If you wanted last minute tickets to a popular event, you could buy them from scalpers.

But now that the venues manage their own secondary sales, the scalper is just extracting rent.
> But setting that aside, is life today (in a rich western country) more "enjoyable" or "fulfilling" now than it was, say, 500 years ago?

Wander a graveyard from the 1800s and see how many very young children are listed on the headstones below their parents. How do we account for "a bunch of your kids are likely to die" in this metric?

It's easy to look with rose-hued glasses at the past and imagine an idylic pastoral lifestyle. The reality was quite a bit more complicated.
To give a bit of defense to consultants, there are a lot of parallels between hiring a consultant for a business and a therapist for yourself. Both are expensive in their own ways. And both focus on helping you help yourself with your own resources. I wouldn't think of you as an idiot for admitting you needed help to look at your own actions or choices.

But I think the difference is that you can't just fix yourself by swapping out pieces of your brain, but a business can! Why would you keep around executives or teams that need constant, regular intervention?
hmm I wonder if that is why I have a somewhat negative view of WFH, I dont have kids, and often times I seem people with children for go their work responsibilities or worse say something like "well phpisthebest does not have kids so they can be on call or work holidays"

to me your personal situation should have ZERO bearing on your job, I should not even know if you have kids or not.

>>I judge an organisation by how they treat employees with divergent goals

I judge organizations on their equality, and by that I mean they treat all employees the same regardless of their marital or child status.
My dumb but astonishingly effective life hack: I leave a big non-fiction book in the bathroom and don't take my phone in there. I've made my way through so many textbooks one bowel movement at a time because even the most boring one is more fun that reading the shampoo bottle.