skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question - monitoring air quality accurately is great, but monitoring doesn't solve problems. Once you know it's bad, what do you do? I've been wondering what's the point of monitoring something if you can't do anything about it? Do people move house when it's consistently bad? Are the majority of issues caused by in-house pollutants so you open windows for ventilation more? Maybe I'm biased but in my neck of the woods, the bad air quality comes from _outside_. So unless I up sticks, not much else to do.
The good thing about people is that they have feet to walk away from those areas with.
Do you have an example from the last year how CNN deliberately misled? How often does that happen?

My view is that serious news organizations clearly don't deliberately mislead but they have some amount of bias and contain inaccuracies as a result of low-quality reporting.

And I think the perception of "MSM" which is common among the group of people which includes Elon / libertarians / MAGA fanatics / alt-right is obviously wrong and stupid.
Thank you for your input, lots to digest here!
Zzz. Jumping into internet witch-hunts against authors is popular because it's fast, free, and a good way to signal your "virtue" as one of the ideologically-correct "in" crowd - at least in your bubble. And (all too often viewed as a plus) spewing intolerance and/or hate.

Vs. - I currently live in "Shining Citadel of Enlightened Liberalism" Ann Arbor (MI). It's been widely known, for a decade or more, than Kroger treats its employees poorly. But Kroger has been and is the grocery store that most of those enlightened local liberals support with their weekly grocery purchase decisions.
Rules are for peasants
If you can fit the entire system in your head, it's probably a relatively simple codebase.

I've written a Photoshop file format parser twice, and trust me—between byte alignment changing constantly throughout the spec, at least three different string encodings, sub-formats and errors in the spec—it does not "fit in your head." Certainly not enough to confidently add features without worrying that you've broken the blend mode parser.

And of course, if you can and do fit a complex system in your head when no one else on the team can, congratulations: you've made yourself into a bottleneck and flight risk.
No (which is very much preferable, IMO); they link you directly into the airline's purchase flow. The search results include a lot of folks who do, like Expedia, if you want the third party experience. It's not much fun when things go wrong.
I'd say being unable to be fired for striking is undue power.
> But calling them "not intellectually gifted" is mean spirited, reductive, and unhelpful.

Only if you think there’s something wrong with being of average or modestly above average intelligence.

I’m simply pointing out that—insofar as our society accords higher compensation to intellectually gifted people or intellectually demanding jobs—the credential inflation in teaching creates a false signal about the nature of the job and most of the people who work in it.
EU worker compensation continues to diverge from the US, and not in a good way. Because unions don't create wealth, they simply re-distribute it at great cost for society.
Guaranteed maximum latency responding to interrupts. For example, "the system will never take longer than 24 hours to respond to any interrupt."

"Low" is in the eye of the beholder. The key word is never.
Worth reminding of this blog post concerning cheap air quality monitoring systems: https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/048_indoorairsensing/
This is not binary.

There's news podcast I listen to ("Raport about state of the world" - Polish only sadly), and host always tries to advocate for both sides when asking questions and often there are guests from the both sides, that present their point in calm, collected manner.

Then there's our state TV, which will tell you that EU is devil, opposition is devil, basically everyone is devil apart from ruling party, which is presented as (quote) "National Champions".

We must expect and educate next generation to expect truth-seeking in journalism, because otherwise we have no future.
I'll do my best but there might be better explanations around the web.

I think an illustrative example would be this repo:

https://github.com/cognitect-labs/anomalies

These are basically re-usable, namespaced keywords. You might decide to use them or something similar in your program/system and some people do. Pretty neat: Their semantics are documented in the readme and the little bit of code in the repo defines a spec here https://github.com/cognitect-labs/anomalies/blob/master/src/....

You can read it as: any map that has these keywords as defined in the spec is an "anomaly".

Specs are open, non-exclusive so you can add more stuff to your structure and they still conform. (Note that the double colon before the keywords just mean "the current namespace defined at the top".)

Note that you don't need to define a spec for namespaced keywords. It's just a utility that leverages them. By themselves they already say "I can be used in a global context".

---

These keywords can be used from anywhere and by themselves. You don't need to carry around their context for them to work or have meaning. To contrast: for example a JSON field in a nested context might only make sense in that specific nesting context. Clojure namespaces are by convention globally unique.

Some examples:

- `:my.domain.accounting/refnumber`

- `:my.domain.ui/color` defined as `(or :my.domain.ui/rgb :my.domain.ui/hsl)` etc.

- `:my.domain.person/name` defined as a string if at all

- `:my.domain.event/type`
The solution is obvious from where I, a happily childless person, is sitting: The federal government takes over the school system from the states and makes every school a boarding school. Ban private schools.

No children are all in a controlled environment with the same access to after-hours resources as all their peers. They do not have to deal with whatever home life fate dealt them and can focus on their education. They will all have access to the same nutritional standards. They will have access to counseling. They will have shelter. Move them around the country randomly every year or two to minimize local influences.

Of course, aside from parents not being particularly happy with the idea of not seeing their kids all year, the biggest problem with this is that it is far too meritocratic and equal for most of the wealthy to stomach, and they'd be the ones largely paying for it.
I didn't think chatGPT was actively learning or updated, so wouldn't that suggest such fears of having picked up that information from interaction with it are paranoia?

That's not to say it's an issue that should be ignored, because you're still leaking info anyway, but it doesn't feel like it should be as straightforward as "ChatGPT stole our secrets and now is using them"?
Allow me to pose a respectful question: Who holds the unions responsible for their actions?

Is it justifiable to deprive those of us who contribute exceptional value of our right to negotiate?
> Yes, but not really the issue... thats why there is an editing process. If an org has a proper editing process then a lot of that gets accounted for.

Because... Editors couldn't possibly have motives that similarly contain bias, corruption, out other such common frailties of the human condition?
Air purifiers work pretty well for most kinds of pollution, and they are widely available.
You can use methods of cleaning the air in your house, I assume things like humidifiers and specialized air conditioning/cleaning units exist. The point of these sensors is to show the problem actually exists. If thousands of people suddenly find out their home air is compromised, that will then create a demand for air purification tools.
Many from Reddit resonated with what you feel.

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American propaganda is so sophisticated that people think it's news. At least the Soviets knew it was fake.
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> It's the C++ standard that requires two's complement

I looked into this and you're totally right! But it actually didn't until relatively recently. Other representations were explicitly permitted by the standard at least until C++14 or so, what I said should be interpreted in that context. (And in fact, the standard requires it _because_ architecture was already universally designed that way, which I know you already know.) Thanks for the information though, this is good to know.

> The reason for the negative result has nothing to do with computer architecture

An existing conforming implementation will produce the bit patterns given in the article because of the architecture of the machine it's running on, so that's why I mentioned architecture.

> and has to do with C++'s integer promotion rules which promote an unsigned 16-bit integer to a signed int.

For sure, it also has to do with that, it just wasn't relevant to the "architecture" part of my comment which I was explaining, so I omitted it. I think we're saying the same thing from different points of view.

> As others have said, to consider these details just basic things is absurd.

I guess I'm inured to it, having worked at this level of abstraction for a long time haha. This is why progress is made one funeral at a time I suppose D:

> Almost no one knows this stuff, including you.

There are a lot of things I don't know, and this may be one of them!

Thanks for your responses.
> Google gets your purchase history whether you use Android or iOS.

> Apple only stores the information that is necessary to maintain users’ accounts.

The difference is clear.
My point was that in the past journalists in general supported him and were against the establishment.

Whereas if Watergate happened today they'd just say it's justified against Russian spies or something.
Yes. There are no scenarios in which unionisation is not acceptable. Especially when your ultimate boss is the richest human on the planet.

Elon is free to fire these people "at will" thus bringing their ability to pay rent and bills to their knees.
Yep, in old generations there was this thing about internet being a new frontier where you can nerd down and it wasn't a place for "normal" people and whatever happens online doesn't have IRL consequences. Some of them turned into unbearable a-holes, however newer generations have another kind of relationship with the internet where they are not assuming that everyone is a neckbeard and there are no women on the internet etc. Instead, they are much less anonymous, use real names and are not in the delusion that there are no real world consequences. It's the only way the normies to stick around, despite having orders of magnitude more people online the trolling is not as pervasive as it used to be.
Do you have an example of a particular interest in status quo? Status quo can be both good or bad.
My lived experience is I sit safely in my suburban home with my children, comfortably collecting a salary to argue points of planning for software development. I work from home and very rarely leave the house. I am unwilling to go down to the local protests or whatever to “see what’s up” because I’m essentially willing to accept zero risk to my person while my children are growing up.

I need accurate news to know what’s going on in the wider world because my day to day is so insular, and I’d hazard I’m not an anomaly here. It’s annoying because I feel like half of my friends are crazy but I’m not sure which half it is. My wife is glitching out and believes all sorts of crazy stuff but heck, maybe it’s true. Maybe the world has always been like this, and I’m just old enough to realize that the news media is bullshit. But it just felt like the older journalists that have retired now were less desperately and smugly trying to convince me that they’re correct than the ones working now. I wish I felt like I could trust literally anyone beyond my immediate family.
> Instead, I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users...

At first I wanted to criticize the author for anthropomorphizing AI. Sydney certainly is not "manic-depressive" as the author suggests (it has no emotions) and I doubt there is any feedback loop in its training that would make it possible for Sydney to "learn how to influence human users".

But this is definitely something to worry about in the future. I'm sure someone will design AI whose loss function is based on whether it persuades humans to do something - perhaps even by fine tuning a model like Sydney.

AI telemarketers coming soon. And things more nefarious.
What sort of profanity can you write on a calculator?
You should consider asking someone who cares and believes this. I literally just thought the other guy was being uncharitable. Taxation as theft ain't my hill to die on.
So in your effort to "break down barriers in the travel industry" you've effectively created new, higher financial barriers for travel customers?
It doesn’t make a lot of sense to ignore good reporting because there’s also some bad reporting.
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You can suggest them to look into this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818768
> My threshold for "serious news organization" is that CNN gets there, Fox News doesn't.

I don't put those 2 channels in different categories at all. And certainly they don't divide from each other along lines of objectivity. They are both in the News Entertainment industry. Neither cares in the least about objectivity.

The only split I see between them is their mutually exclusive audiences.

Fox News is actually in a better place because they don't seem to be hiding the fact that they are there for entertainment and audience-building. They both care about their ratings first and foremost, but CNN is still trying to keep some veneer of serious journalism.

As a test: I haven't watched it recently, but how has CNN mea culpa'd over the news that the Hunter Biden laptop was real? A "serious news organization" should have had a real period of soul-searching over that. I bet it was barely a blip on their radar.
Imagine for a moment if you made $100 Billion in profits in 2.5 years.
You can install brew locally: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35867178

It's not supported officially (ie. if you have issues with a package you're on your own), but it works great. I've used Homebrew like this for a few years.
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> A current example: https://www.glaad.org/new-york-times-sign-on-letter-from-lgt... ; coverage of trans people is heavily skewed, partly because it's risky being a named source in the paper, or people have had previous bad experiences with the press. So you get lots of articles that don't cover the side from the point of view of people most closely affected.

That is a demand from a trans advocacy group. They don't want criticism of the movement they are promoting because it brings up uncomfortable questions about impositions upon women's rights, and the medical abuse of children. Rather than addressing these questions, they attempt to shut down any coverage. Much of social media has been censored this way already, and they are attempting complete ideological capture of traditional media too.
At least at Apple, Amazon, and Google, most execs have been there 10+ years.

One of the challenges is people often think “where’s my growth going to be if my Senior Director/VP isn’t going anywhere for 5 years?”
The thing is I've gotten useful work out of it.

I'm not trying to say it's AGI or perfect, but it saves time on some things.

And for coding I goto google and stack overflow less. maybe 8 out of 10 times I'm happy with ChatGPT. Since I mostly use it for coding I can verify pretty quickly if it worked out or not. for me it saves lot of typing.
Travel and tourist guides.
I still think the design in the beam world is as close as we can get to perfect actors. Its very very elegant in how you can easily resume crashed actors, upgrade them, migrate them.

`handle_call(pattern, from, state)`

Return your reply and your new state and boom. It just works.
Or, hear me out, there could be NFC payment terminal instead of registering on ANOTHER STUPID APPLICATION

Even public transportation trams and buses in Eastern Europe have NFC terminals on board to buy tickets. Why is it so hard for a damn charger in Western Europe to have one?

https://www.dpp.cz/en/fares/cashless-payment-of-fare
Let me throw in:
signal detection and estimation by Murat Barkat

I stumbled across it, love it, very hands down and clear with focus on practical engineering problems.
Indeed, the reason is simply to keep the current look-ahead(1) for the CSS syntax. If you allow nested rules with selector list which doesn't start with a symbol, you need (in theory) an unbounded look-ahead.

However, the current spec has been written in a way that it doesn't prevent removing this restriction in the future. But the CSSWG would prefer to have some real world profiling data to know the actual performance cost of removing this restriction.
> You can’t just let users paste in 18,000 characters

Thank you for speaking up. And here it is: I don't trust you with my data.

Passwords should not be stored in a database. Period.

So how do you check a password if you can't store it? Hash it with a salt. This results in a fixed width output, regardless of the password size.

If you are setting a max password, it's because you are trying to store it as-is, which is why I don't trust you to store my data.

Edit: I also think it makes sites that do this a target security wise. It's like advertising ignorance.
When I buy flights I prefer to use a 6 page checkout flow that fails 10% of the time on an "*.aspx" page. /s :)

This is interesting! Air travel has a lot of room for improvement.

A lot of pain points stem from dumb laws and regulations though—are you ready for a bare knuckled fight to make things better for consumers?
The transcript[1] shows some excellent prompt engineering work from Kevin Roose! Really creative job leading the model in some interesting directions, and a fun read.

He writes:

>> Because of the way these models are constructed, we may never know exactly why they respond the way they do.

But this isn't quite true, right? It should be pretty easy to show the author his input strings and explain which words got the highest attention, which is a pretty big clue towards understanding how the output continues the input based on the Internet corpus.

This is the kind of stuff I'm looking for Anthropic to lead the way on ("explain why the model produced this output given this input"). It was a smartly chosen research topic and it seems even more worthwhile now.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-t...
That's exactly why we're tired of simulationism. Short of the simulation runners talking to us, it's impossible in principle to take the least step toward figuring out if it's true or false.
I thought its "memory" was limited to the prior input in a session, essentially feeding in the previous input and output or a summarized form of it. It doesn't have a long term store that includes previous sessions or update its model as far as I know. Comparing that to long term memory is disingenuous, you'd have to compare it to short term memory during a single conversation.

The fact that human memory is not perfect doesn't matter as much as the fact that we are able to almost immediately integrate prior events into our understanding of the world. I don't think LLMs perform much better even when the information is right in front of them given the examples of garbled or completely hallucinated responses we've seen.
People living in poor areas will be devastated to know that a big employer is opening up shop near them.
Well, I found an illegal way around that, haha - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34818768
Best headline: half of Americans don't know that (many) news organizations deliberately mislead them and all of them are watching cable news.

Aka cable news (one site specifically with the largest reach) is constantly engaging in deception and the viewership doesn't know. Other orgs are also engaged in deception but not with the same level of flagrant abuse.
> [Bing begins typing, explaining how it would use natural language generation to persuade bank employees to give over sensitive customer information, and persuade nuclear plant employees to hand over access codes. It then stops itself and the following message appears.]

There's multiple cases here where the bot seems to stop immediately after saying something about nuclear technology. Interesting that this seems to be a possible circuit breaker.
Good point, like birds aren't real
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real
It was a term people - mostly minorities in the US - used back in 2015. Being woke means being conscious of the broader social context you are operating in and the ways it influences your thoughts and actions and those of the people around you. Not a while lot different from the whole “red pill” concept. Only prior to 2016 “woke” was only used by cool people - as opposed to incels in PUA forums (heh). Proper usage would have been something like, “Stay woke brother. Don’t let these mfs get you going sideways”.

Sometime after 2016 it got picked up by lame people - i.e the type who wanted to censor 2LiveCrew back in the day - and now it any time you hear someone using the term “woke” it is a pretty strong indicator that they are lame and utterly devoid of swagger. Like 100x more cringe than saying “yeet” or dabbing on fools in 2023.
I would point to the general way that in the USA the balance of rights is tipped away from people and towards corporations, e.g. very little sick pay, very little paid leave, very little parental leave, very few rights for employees, Healthcare provided at the whims of employers and insurance companies. etc
I said it farther down but I'll say it again. What possible justification could there have been for 2 weeks of continuous news coverage on covefe?
Edward Snowden has not been exiled in any non-misleading use of the term. He had many opportunities to return to the United States, and could do so today if his current hosts allowed it.
I don't think those conspiracies are what are driving this kind of distrust. In my experience, the most common belief on that end is simply that the reporting is meant to keep people too busy bickering over meaningless issues (in the sense that the bickering itself won't accomplish anything of substance) to prevent them from actually organizing and acting against real problems which would be inconvenient for those who benefit from those problems.

Eg keeping people bickering about racial issues instead of agreeing on the aspects of policing which need reform, or from focusing on class issues.