skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not "is used as training data" but more like can be used.

That also means that they can use your interactions with GPT to see what they can improve, but still do the learning on other datasets
Here's another example, much happens without a word—only sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkvtE1AS6Qo
If they are not powerful, why can they shut down schools and the corporations they are a part of?
or, find another employer of which, outside the bloated tech sector, there are plenty looking for employees, especially small businesses which have been begging for more help. If you're used to working for megacorp, try a small business where you get to know the owners
These are data labellers... A union would probably not have helped them.

Imagine they all join a union... And they are all very unhappy and vote to go on strike... And they strike for many months...

Tesla will just send their data labelling workload to Mechanical Turk and it'll be done by people in India...

A union only has power if the company is hurt by a strike. And in this case, there is nothing beyond minor inconvenience.
Control loops
Elitism is not necessarily classist. It can apply to pretty much any ingroup.
I see no mention of security—If you’re exposing raw serial busses via ethernet, one would expect some manner of security controls, no?
Do you have any that you would recommend specifically?
My theory is this: humans are (un?)reasonably attached to natural language. We see something inherently human in it and as such we are drawn to emotionally engage whatever object can produce it.

It is said that when Michelangelo finished the Moses, he shouted "why won't you speak?".

Tons of software is far more impressive than GPT, but this one speaks.
Well that's a good point.

If Sydney does learn to influence users, it will learn to influence them to publish their conversations.
Risk diversification I guess? But yeah, disappointing that YC would invest in something like this.
right

some cases of this relate to identifiers only having 6 significant characters in some object file formats (typically a 32-bit or 36-bit field using rad50) but i don't know if lisp's makunbound was such an example, and creat surely was not
I’m not really bickering about names here, just trying to succinctly describe ideas.

The irony of the GGP comment is that it claims mathematical ideas are successful ones and philosophical ones aren’t, but that’s not a mathematical claim. So either it’s right and it’s wrong, or it’s wrong.
Um, you don't believe in infinity.... how do computers actually work in your universe?

Computers are a real object that have to deal with the halting problems and other infinities in a bound manner to do useful things for us.
You hold organizations accountable by "voting with your feet". In this case, you find a different employer.
FWIW, the frustrations of not being able to change high CO2 levels was just a topic of discussion over on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34648021
Real-Time, Photorealistic Hands for Neural Environments
For those that find this unuseful. Most of the works in the base has been digitized by google and others. Just look up any title you're interested in and you'll find the work.
I have seen this far too often in engineering projects. The push is to get the product out the door and turn it over from R&D to production engineering. Never mind the final quality, that will be fixed in the field by another department with a different budget. We got a product shipped; our department's reputation and budget is intact.
oh but transcripts are?

-- ceejayoz on their deathbed
Toyota does produces EVs. But just because the EV market share is growing does not mean it is going to completely displace everything else. In a competitive marketplace, consumer choice forces the improvement of EVs in such a way that they are not a merely substandard alternatives. We do not know where research is heading or what the true limits are to battery improvements. It takes the consumer marketplace to serve as an adequate test bed for a quality product.

EV's are still inferior products for many users. EV Advocates like to point to fast acceleration as somehow proof they are superior. But what they leave out is that every time you accelerate you see the charge capacity noticeably drop to significant degree. On extended trips, EV drivers will be making conscious efforts to engage in slower more moderate driving. Some people are fine with it, but the fact that many choose to go back to ICE vehicles should not be ignored.
I don't claim to have answers, but to be fair some parts of Google are almost a utility by now so I appreciate if they are run as such.

I would not want my electricity company to "move fast and break things", and I like that they reserve loads of their people's thinking power and productivity on boring stuff like "risk mitigation" and "preventive maintenance". Please Google, apply the same to Search, Gmail etc.

What is difficult is how to be a company that is a utility, but that at the same time "needs" to jump aboard hype trains to stay relevant/rich so they can continue to be a utility.
Bad take. For one, any time you try to evaluate "the media" as a single entity, you've already failed. Secondly, the first example of "not really lying" is most definitely a deliberate lie.
Wasn't that pretty much the plot of "Ex Machina"? And also the goal of online advertising generally?
It’s pretty obvious that Elon does not respect votes as he hasn’t stepped down, and is preoccupied with his tweets’ popularity or better the lack thereof.
> Literally 95% of the US shops at Walmart, so... you might be in a very small bubble

Possibly. But your statistic tells me nothing about the foot traffic in a Walmart. 95% shop at Walmart, of that cohort how many shop there regularly? How many shop there for occasional purchases vs treating it as their primary store for staple items? On a random sample of days, how representative of that 95% is the foot traffic you’ll find there?

Personally I share OPs view of Walmarts, I don’t go in them because they make me feel bad about the world. I don’t get that feeling other places.
Union reps are negotiators. They negotiate with the company management, primarily to increase worker pay.

When a union rep brings up safety concerns, it's usually in the same conversation as employee pay, and the rep and company negotiate in that context to provide a solution for both issues.

The most safety concerns the union rep can cite - the greater leverage they have in salary negotiations.

This is why when a union says they've been bringing up safety concerns, you have to take it with a grain of salt.

...this issue is also why the government has moved most safety inspection responsibilities away from unions and towards government agencies, like OSHA.
I could see some bespoke tech savvy experience all inclusives wanting a product like this as well. Like let’s say you are a tour operator that only does one thing like sell packages to go ride motorcycles around Southeast Asia for a week or two. These kind of packages are already offered by tour operators as all inclusive save for the flights. They can now easily add flights to that and it’s a bonus for both them and the customer - the package is truly all inclusive now, plus the customer no longer needs to provide flight details for transportation to and from the airport. In this case you probably wouldn’t even want to add a markup - the added value of having the flight info immediately on hand would be enough to make it worthwhile.
It's hard to take this comment at face value when the content on CNN and Fox News is so different. I wouldn't really argue against CNN being interested in maintaining the status quo, but Fox News is reactionary.
"Most active neet users"

If that's a typo... no, it isn't.
amusingly 8 and 9 would continue to be accepted as octal digits by the c (or b) compiler until ansi c forbid them

a priori, though, '01982' is not very likely to be intended as octal either
Or, in my case, more like 3 hours to do a 1 hour job because I had forgot to put in that missing washer and had to take everything apart again. Haha.
How do unions protect non union members? Tesla could hire non union workers but would the union allow them?
> The new result shows that black holes gain mass in a way consistent with them containing vacuum energy, providing a source of dark energy and removing the need for singularities to form at their center.

Wow!
Readline crime: exploiting a SUID logic bug
Looking at a local privilege escalation (on some systems) that works due to a logic bug in readline, when used with SUID programs.
I have an ASUS motherboard and recently went through the process of updating the BIOS. One of the things worth nothing is that it is not safe to just get the latest version and try to run EZ-flash. Some of the updates will update EZ-flash as well and those become required for installing later updates.

The download page actually has release notes which specify when a certain BIOS is required, but you basically have to read back through all of them to figure out which ones to install.
It's turtles all the way down.

If you don't trust the NYT to accurately report on a Bing conversation, neither screenshots nor the transcript were gonna fix it.
What do you make of the history of corporate actions that led to unions in the first place?
"But many of the structural pressures that sociologists have long identified shape commercial and state sourced news stories just don't apply to independent journalists, who don't have to rely on continued access state contacts, commercial paychecks, don't have to serve ad revenue and corporate PR aims"

I was with you up until this point. Audience capture and the need to sell ads for brain pills etc. are a huge issue for many independent content creators: at least, the ones who are trying to make it their main source of income.
You don't have to roll your own crypto. You can e.g. just use libsodium which is designed to be easy-to-use and not possible to use incorrectly.
>OP here. I submitted this with what I felt was a good headline...

>I didn't even know there was title moderators...

I didn't know there was title moderation either. My instinct is to be against it and just go with the original article title. BUT... this case is a weird one. If OP is to be believed, he actually changed the original title to make it LESS click-baity, but the mods changed it back to the original, which WAS click-baity.

Hmmm... That's a tough one!
So if your company has a bus factor of one it's perfectly fine if the company takes illegal actions to ensure that employee can't quit or take vacations if it would bring the company to its knees?
This is a market I wish I understood better.

If I understand this correctly, the target market is airlines that need to sell flights online and that don't have (or don't want) the staff to do it in house. According to Wikipedia, there are about 5,000 airlines currently. Large airlines seem unlikely to want to outsource this, but I'm guessing there aren't too many airlines that size (only about 300 use Sabre).

I wouldn't have thought there would be a market big enough for a startup like this, but I appear to be wrong. I'm guessing their biggest challenge will be customer acquisition. But as I said, this is a market I wish I understood better.
Hence proving Betteridge's law is not universal.
50% isn't much. If you ask people if they believe something obviously false (is Obama lizard?) 5% people will tell you they believe it. If you ask them something that COULD happen (did Biden tried to cover up New Hampshire docks shooting (I just made it up)) 30% will tell you they believe it.
For those that do not know what this refers to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
It's a shame he didn't provide the full 2 hour transcript, I'd like to know how it came to that point. I presume 2 solid hours working with it isn't going to revert it back by simply asking it for help to buy a gardening tool?
There are so many gems in VapourSynth scene.

I really wish there are some better general-purpose imaging libraries that steadily implement/copy these useful filters, so that more people can use them out of the box.

Most of languages I've involved are surprisingly lacking in this regard despite their huge potential use cases.

Like, in case of Python, Pillow is fine but it has nothing fancy. You can't even fine-tune parameters of bicubic, let alone billions of new algorithms from video communities.

OpenCV or ML tools like to re-invent the wheels themselves, but often only the most basic ones (and badly as noted in this article).
> uncomfortable questions about impositions upon women's rights

The only right alleged is a right to exclude trans women, and consequentially a right to screen all women suspected of being trans.

> and the medical abuse of children

The children in question want to transition, and their parents or the state want to prevent them; defining this as "abuse" without actually listening to the allegedly abused is the problem.
Tay (Bot)
Do you have a CO2 or other air monitor at your home?
Do you have a gas oven?
Every time I turned on my gas oven, the CO2 would spike from 600ppm to over 1200ppm almost immediately. I wouldn’t have known that without a meter, and wouldn’t have realized my air quality was bad inside.
Yeah–as one of the replies above suggested it reminds me a lot of writing I’ve seen online from people suffering from schizophrenia.
Finetune a model to try to run money scams and leverage part of the earnings to obtain further training and additional hosting by any means necessary...
I found the threads in the meantime, but there does not appear to be any new information as of yet.
The transcript is at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-t....
Their key demands were regarding PAY.

For example, they never demanded a reinstatement to the Braking Safety Rules that Trump rolled-back.

People need to stop looking to unions for safety regulation. That isn't there job. They are there to increase the PAY of workers.

OSHA and other government institutions are there to ensure safety.
It's still illegal to fire them for unionizing
Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?
I'm an American looking to hire developers in the EU for one of our business units. I've been absolutely astonished by European employment 'contracts' that require a 3 month (!) or longer (!!) notice period to quit a job. It's difficult for me to understand how this isn't indentured servitude, especially in a region known for its stronger labor protections than the US. Here in America employees customarily put in 2-3 weeks of notice, maybe 4- but it's purely a courtesy, and technically the employee could leave literally anytime they want.

A contract stating that you're not allowed to leave without 3 months of notice seems extraordinarily restrictive. (What happens if you ignore it?) I can't imagine how a future employer can wait a full quarter to just hire someone- so this must greatly restrict labor mobility and hence wages. How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU?
This is a duplicated discussion of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34813141
Yes. Luckily, the law prevents overreaching employers from firing employees that insist on their rights. The alternative is a return to 18th century factory conditions, and I'm sure even you don't want that.

A company is never on your side.
Some people want to change the world. Others want to go slow and want a life.

Why not leave those who want to go faster and change the world alone? There are other companies.
GitHub Copilot definitely showed my some internal chats about a solution how to solve some problem inside a function.

I was creeped out, but continued working.

I think this is plausible.
FastAI 2022 on MacBook M1 Pro Max (GPU)
FastAI 2022 on Macbook M1 Pro Max (GPU)
For clarity, humans only have “one session” so if you’re being fair, you would not compare it’s multi-session capabilities since humans aren’t able to have multiple sessions.

Phenomena related to integrating new information is commonly referred to as online vs offline learning, which is largely tied to time scale, since if you fast forward time enough, it becomes irrelevant. Exception being when time between observation of phenomena and interpretation of it requires a quicker response time relative to the phenomena or response times of others.Lastly, this is a known issue, one that is active area of research and likely to exceed human level response times in near future.

Also false that when presented with finite inline set of information that at scale humans comprehension exceeds state of the art LLMs.

Basically, only significant issues are those which AI will not be able to overcome, and as is, not aware of any significant issues with related proofs of such.
I tried various UI frameworks for react but always ended up with chakra-ui. The only thing, that makes me sad, that chakra don’t have datepicker component. Their compact design with powerful customization is their strength, I assume.

This looks also clean and modern. I hope they get popular and follow chakra’s philosophy. Who says no to more UI library options :)
in an expensive bed, with high-tech security all around of course!
> once the first million pours in

That was the point of the article, saying that it’s harder to get to "once" if you write "sufficient test.
You should look up either Stockholm Syndrome or Battered Wife Syndrome.

Union members hold the union leadership responsible for the actions of the union through elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformat... (which of course will be immediately accused of bias, but he's not wrong about the facts of the extent to which those people are funded by supplements)

It's a big problem for the regular press too. Peter Oborne resigned from the Telegraph after they suppressed negative reporting on big advertiser HSBC: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/peter-ob...
Hardware support. Most of these distributions only work on very limited set of phone models
You're trolling. But I'll humour you for a minute.

Because they are employees. if enough employees of any organisation stop working, the organisation shuts down.

And whether you like them or not, they provide a feedback loop. Otherwise bad organisations whither away as good workers leave and bad workers stay.
Every human needs to understand that having a computer look at data representing you is a search.
All interfaces still talk Ethernet.
Very accurate, but considering that it doesn’t mention black holes even once, it seems to have missed the point of the article.

I see Chat GPT doing this a lot. When faced with a tough task, it instead does a different (but similar) task that is easier to solve. In this case regurgitating info about dark energy that was likely repeated many, many times across the common crawl dataset as opposed to synthesizing new information provided in the prompt.
I do not use Telegram: what SMS code?
The most reliable major news source in my view (and no, we're not on cable, cordcutters for years now), is Fox News.
Sydney is designed to mimic human conversation, so describing its simulated emotional timbre in language designed to describe mood seems appropriate. Roose talks about the bot "seem[ing] ... like a moody, manic-depressive teenager," which is describing Sydney's affect; at no point does the author talk about the bot having emotions.
Companies are focused on short term profits 98% of the time
I'd also add speed to that list. Resizing is an expensive operation. Correctness is often traded off for speed. I've written code that deliberately ignored the conversation to a linear color space and back in order to gain speed.
Except that's not really a different game; it's merely a slight change of format. It changes the recommended card count (100 cards per deck rather than 60), adds two significant restrictions (one copy of each non-land card per deck; only colors that match those on the Commander's card), and one significant new mechanic (the Commander, who doesn't have to be in your hand to be cast), but otherwise it is played exactly as the standard 60-card game.
I suppose certain types of stupidity and/or ignorance could also derive that conclusion, tools which I consider important for philosophy as well.
Explainable AI as evidence of fair decisions
Me: started in my career in 1999.

Identify the core skills that cut across technology choices. SQL, etc.

Always try new languages.

Never be loyal to any vendor or platform.

Be willing to work for small companies doing big things. You often have opportunities to "craft the menu" and can grow and learn in ways that you can't in a large company that paints you into a specialized (and often well paid) corner.

Freelance on the side - it's not about the money.

Understand the businesses that you build solutions for.
Maybe it’s quieted down recently after the HTTPS effort, but I feel like I need to download a whole Unix environment, down to the readline, every now and then when I just wanted to install a trivial thing.
It's unreasonable, (and depending on the jurisdiction, illegal), for corporations to make a difference between unionised and un-unionised workers. So by promoting improvements for their members, they promote improvements for all employees.
Letter sent in 1916 finally arrives at destination
There are plenty of non-union workers who would gladly replace them but the union wouldn't allow that. Why so?
Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks
I can't understand how this will improve the work. I see the value of having python instead of sheets formulas for python developers, but developers would work on totally different toolsets (like Jupyter notebook, as you mentioned), or something like StreamIt or https://gradio.app/

This would be useless for spreadsheet users (those who use sheet formulas) as they have to learn python.

I'm not in the target audience, so I might be completely wrong about the use cases.
Thats what happens. And all the good workers leave the organization. Leaving the deadbeats.
Amazon Ruined Comixology
He said this (I believe) in the context of the French Revolution. Possibly also as a dig to Alexander Hamilton. Jefferson was most likely advocating for a rounded education that did not rely solely on topical information. He was an ardent supporter of free press and even considered it more important that functioning government.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/jefferson-s-preference-for...
The annoying thing about the release notes is whether buying new or used, the BIOS is usually wildly out of date, so you end up in an unwinnable scenario.
> Normally a high CO2 level will go hand in hand with the air feeling stuffy from other pollutants that build up at the same time, so there's hardly a need to continuously use a CO2 meter as you can easily notice when the air "goes bad"

Strong disagree based on direct experience. I have a HEPA unit that keeps air in the entire living unit clean (from VOCs, particulate matter, NO2, etc.) but doesn't alter CO2 levels. There is little to no human-detectable effect from CO2 levels rising up to 2500ppm (according to my separate CO2 monitor).
They actually do on some airlines. For instance, check out the first booking option here: https://www.google.com/travel/flights/booking?tfs=CBwQAhpHag...
I was after a citation for the claim that talking about media bias is correlated with media bias.

You seem to be talking about the general existence of media bias, for some reason.
1) well, they do remove some, and in order to not reveal how they identify them, they may not wish to talk all that much about it
2) it is baked into the model of free social media, not only that attention=advertising=money, but also that cost per user is very low (so they can keep the accounts free). If you add $1/user cost (to monitor with humans), for Facebook that would be billions more in cost. I don't know that a responsible social media company could be profitable; it may be that the very business model requires not policing it very well.