skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author also knows it's an AI on the other side. Humans talk full of cliches as well, and casual chatting is not exactly the height of language. So as other commenters mentioned, AI scammers will have a easy job feeding on people.
Yes, simple verbal commands (turn on lights, play music) generally work OK.

Anything more sophisticated is an exercise in frustration.
There is a simple reason for this. The necessary ingredient in a news story is a conflict of some kind, and the people who feel misled recognize that the conflicts that news orgs present, decorated by mostly real facts, are synthetic, the product of an ideology. In a story, there's a figure-ground relationship between facts and the tension between them, and the people very-concerned about "alternative facts" don't get that others don't believe them not because of the disinformation on the internet, but because they register to us as liars who sprinkle some facts as palatable icing over an underlying lie derived from an ideology designed to produce cheap conflict. In a moral sense, news that uses synthetic conflict sourced from ideology is in effect, false witness.

To me, anything problematic or anti-problematic is a synthetic conflict generated from underlying pre-problematizations. One doesn't have to agree with this assessment to understand it, but pretending to be mystified as to why a majority of Americans don't agree with them only makes the divide irreconcilable, imo.
So you don't actually want any practical solutions. You just want to have a whinge and a moan.

Instead of wishing for what isn't, you could be doing a lot better with what is.
You can never ensure that your communication channel isn’t corrupted. But with a one time pad you’ll just receive unreadable garbage then. You‘re also free to sign messages before encryption.
If Tesla were a startup with a dozen employees, I'd buy your argument. But Tesla is a manufacturing company that hires people that need to compete for a job to make enough money to feed themselves. None of the people categorizing images do so because they believe in a vision. The power dynamics are entirely different here and the one thing that helps workers achieve a semblance of power is unions. That's the reason unions are protected.
DigitalOcean axes about 11 percent of workforce
Apologies, missed this. I see they are 5 star rated, but I don't know how to compare two 5 star rated things. :D

As an easy example, Volvo is one that has been consistently ahead of the pack in safety. Such that I would more than cede they win at safety compared to cheaper cars. Even at the same rating.
1 GB?
> x86 has so few general purpose registers,

It's got plenty in 64-bit mode (15 + RSP) + you can spill to SSE registers instead of the stack.

It also needs fewer registers than (most) RISCs because it has a more flexible way of specifying memory addresses (base, index, scale, offset + PC-relative) and it also has proper immediates.

> the highly variable length of x86/x86-64 instructions puts a limit on the number of instructions that can be decoded per cycle.

Not that much of a limit, actually. Yes, a parallel decoder that takes on arbitrary byte sequence and decodes them is hard to scale up. The instruction lengths can be cached, though. In fact, they used to be cached as extra bits in L1 back when the size of a wide decoder was a significant size of the CPU transistor budget. It should be possible to use that idea again to go wider.

The newer x86 CPU's also have a µop cache so no decoding is even needed for tight loops.
When we shopped for a Galapagos trip, different operators had different offerings, but it was on us to line up “here’s how to get everyone from where they live to the boat” which this has the (theoretic, but perhaps not practical) means to solve.
If by careers you mean simply making a living... there are very few truly success stories. If your friends were successful in the privatization during the 90s, or in public sector, or fossil fuel related... that's why the rest of the society had to "whore" themselves abroad. Let me guess what they do at most - outsourcing for German of American corporations, maybe some software for gambling?
Sure, in battle it's ok to come to a mutual agreement with your foe about how you'll conduct that battle.

That said, "unionizing" is not battle. Nor does the Geneva convention apply to civil wars.
What Was It Like to Grow Up in the Last Ice Age?
Ask HN: Is our fear of AI just a fear of unreasonable people using AI?
> it took a few years or decades to be come publicized knowledge

So that makes me wonder how this is getting out. Is it a news organization such as an opposing organization, or outspoken journalists? Is it democratized news reporting via forums and social media?
OP here, thanks for trying out. I've added the TOS & Privacy page. Also adding options for it to be 'creative' if you choose so.
Can't access the full text, but I'm curious to see the experimental design, statistical analysis, and what "near-perfect" means. Too many breathless deep-learning-in-diagnosis headlines turn out to be great big false positive machines or random result generators [0]

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/23/advancing-ai-health-care...
> Tesla will just send their data labelling workload to Mechanical Turk and it'll be done by people in India...

If this approach is just as good, why not do it in the first place?
Don't put secrets into things you dont have control over lol.

ChatGPT is cool and all but I often feel people are too naive when using these tools, with little consideration as to how their inputs are used, if the output is copyright protected, etc.
That looks like it'll still result in a direct Spirit booking, though.
Indeed. People are replacing mainstream news with something that's often far less accurate.
Sure.

The main gist is adult or unknown content is not OK. Video game, creative (draw, paint etc), educational videos are fine.

Of course, I have had to refine these rules as things came up.

No TikTok videos on Youtube (the inappropriate to OK videos ratio is way to hit)

No funny prank videos (because most of them are people being mean to others)

No scarry videos unless it's kid Halloween videos and all the kids are OK with watching it (remember they share one screen and take turns on deciding)

Funny animal videos are fine.

Music videos are fine if we have watched it already with them, if they are not sure add "lyrics" to the end of the song and watch the lyric version or ask us (they just opt for lyrics to avoid having to ask/waiting)

If someone uses naughty words once it can be ignored, if they do it a lot especially if the 6-year-old is watching it's an auto change and the youtuber to be avoided (We allow our kids to curse in their rooms if they wish, but not at each other, in public, school or people that might have a problem with it, like their grandparents)

No videos from random channels about boyfriend/girlfriend drama, unknown origin animations about love stories (ratio of inappropriate language, innuendo, sexism, misogyny, abuse is too high). Again, they can ask if they are not sure.

I think that's pretty much it. Every few days, mainly when I watch a youtube video (probably every 2-3 days) I will look at the history. If I find something borderline I will watch the video briefly, if there is a problem, I will explain what it was, if it turns out it was an OK video I will move on.

If I find problematic youtubers I will block them, this is rare, but it has happened. I also see what the Youtube algo suggests, if I see a suggestion that seems iffy, I will mark it as not interested so my kids won't be drawn to it. As time has progressed their feed has gotten cleaner, and they understand what they can and cannot watch better.

Oh, and another thing I have Youtube Premium to avoid ads, because for some reason Google allows some really weird advertisements for children at times. I basically replaced my Spotify subscription for this, and started listening to Google music.
The other half are in denial.
But it seems like the customer is still the one searching for the flights, so then what's the point of using a travel agent's website? Just for the pleasure of spending an extra 5% in fees to the agent?
> Assange also collaborated with Russian intelligence.

If you have no evidence of this, you're spreading misinformation.
The entire point of the article is to damn with faint praise. The NYT is no worse than infowars. Both may mislead and omit extremely relevant information but actual lies, no. It’s a knock on the NYT and by extension the entire news media journalism complex.
Also from the paper for more context:

> The dataset was randomly divided into 70% training subset (1420 for prostate and 692 for pancreatic), 15% validation subset (304 and 148), and 15% test subset (304 and 148).
Almost nobody in tech is interested in the degrowth solution to climate change, we’re all in on increased affluence with tech mitigations for the environmental harms.

Somebody’s gotta book all the electric / / synfuel powered flights ;)
This isn't Wikipedia. It's a discussion.

Almost everything that someone posts is an anecdote, and you can't expect everyone to come armed with reams of well-researched facts.
WhatsApp is closed source. For what it's worth, the protocol itself might be impenetrable, but the client itself has access to your decrypted messages and can still decide to send them back to Facebook without your knowledge.

The system that depends on a good will and "trust me bro" is not secure by default, even if Meta/Facebook were the most trustworthy company in the world under the most honest legislation.
Thanks for your comment, I've added the TOS & Privacy page.
That's not adequate, at least for me as a relatively average sized man in a relatively average sized living unit. My respiration is sufficient to raise CO2 levels indoors to over 800ppm from background levels within an hour without constant ventilation.
I clearly don't know all the specifics of their case. Such that, if you have closer information, I am not trying to gaslight you on what you know.

I am concerned with "best practices" in our industry, though. Too many of them are not geared to wide adherence and have fantastically bad failure cases.
I believe you will need a lot of de-astonishing if you plan to manage your EU business unit.

Three months is not "EU", it is more likely a Law of a specific country in EU.

Typically (but again it may depend on country) you can of course leave, but without an agreement on the lack of advance notice the employer may keep the equivalent of your pay for the period.
Likewise time. Being able to reliably model / predict cyclic phenomena is valuable to survival factors such as dealing with seasonal food sources.
if an adversary xors their guess of part of your message (a crib) and what they want it to say with the one-time-pad ciphertext, they can make it say what they want if the guess is right; this is a general vulnerability with unauthenticated stream ciphers

if they guess wrong, there's a little unreadable garbage in the message, but in many scenarios they only have to guess right once

so you need some kind of message authenticator like hmac or poly1305, but as i understand it, these lack the absolute security guarantee of a one-time pad
Is it still good? I see it was published in 1997.

I like the style of these books, and might read this one - I'm just worried that Java has changed quite a bit since then. Is it still, say, 90% OK?
Pulling the corporate charter is the equivalent of the death penalty for corporations. This option needs to be exercised far more frequently.
Ask HN: Tech Layoffs, What Are the Effects of Them on the Job Market?
e.g. Is it going to bring down foreign labor influx?, Is it there gonna be more startups or opensource?

At the end can include your guestimate of the effects?
Reading the whole article, the author clearly states he knows there is no sentience or anything mysterious going on, and acknowledges this is simply mimicking endless volumes of human dreck. What worries him, and I agree, is that if this were to go public as-is, the common populace wouldn’t understand that. This AI would con people into relationships, and maybe even instigate dangerous behavior. Such an AI would seem magical to the layperson.

When I think of future AI assistants, I’ve always pictured something akin to the Star Trek computer. A cold dispassionate voice that responds to what you need, and maybe only a hint of personality for color. Sydney feels like a full blown teenager going through some kind of emotional crisis.
They have newer studies showing a possible link between multiple synthetic dyes and child behavioral issues, with red dye being the worst. It supposedly also affects males more than females. I believe the EU has found it credible enough to mandate warning labels on foods containing synthetic dyes.

This part is just my speculation, but I imagine many boys in school could have been medicated due to their behavioral/learning issues, which might have been the product of their diet (dyes and sugar).
> Why does a package manager need to track their users at all?

Do any of you actually work in this industry shipping software products to end users? Without telemetry the problem there is literally one of trying to read the mind of your end users to figure out what they're doing, hoping that your internal CI manages to reflect the configuration in their environment.
You need new sales compensation plans to power PLG or usage-based pricing
Telegram's idea of binding phones is really strange. Perhaps it's a measurement against spam?
Fish are very sensitive
I hope the "Robot nanny optimizes for minimal crytime" argument wasn't written by a parent. What a cold angle.
Well, I think it would be useful to distinguish the output (which perhaps seemed like a conversation with a manic-depressive teenager) from qualities of the bot itself, which doesn't have a "split personality" or "dark fantasies".

The bot is simply extending whatever conversation it is given. If you ask about dark fantasies, the bot will repeat something related from its training data. If the conversation starts to look like an argument or an unrequited romance, the bot will output words likely to be found in that type of conversation.

That's why steering the bot back to rationality doesn't work very well. Once a phrase like "I love you" is in the conversation it continues to influence the output for thousands of words (and thousands more each time it's repeated).

Remembering that might help people avoid being alarmed if Sydney starts reproducing "science fiction novels in which an A.I. seduces a human". Just hit the reset button, or enjoy whatever wild samples Sydney finds in its vast training data.

Put another way: interacting with Sydney is not a conversation with a simulated person, it's a semi-random walk through the collective writings of humanity. Unsurprisingly, we sometimes encounter disturbing things in there.
The one argument I rarely see against automated analysis is that any analysis has a false positive rate. If you hire 1,000 humans to do that analysis there's simply a limit to how many errors they can make in total.

If you introduce automation doing the same thing at a scale corresponding to 10,000× the human capacity, you will have 10,000× as many errors. This will violate Blackstone's ratio and erode trust in the system.
A union does not protect you by default. In fact, their actions might endanger you if it runs counter to the continuation of the company's mission. And companies are already held accountable by law, so you do not need a union to do that, either.

What a union actually is? A competing power structure within a company, and op questions whether such a thing is reasonable in this case. You did not answer but instead tried to try to brainwash op by shaming them into accepting your essentialization of unions as something good in all cases.
A technical marvel! Imagine showing this game on the CES 1982 computer expo where C64 launched ^_^
Unions want to change the world. They just want to change it in a way that leaves the Musks of the world with less money. Don't be confused, this isn't about "change the world" vs. stagnation, it's about the spoils.
I find stuffiness feeling correlates mostly with humidity.
Being forced to seek asylum in Russia after multiple attempts to go elsewhere that were thwarted by the US (at the risk of major diplomatic incidents) makes you suspicious actually.
> With a mountain of examples

It would be great if you could provide some, as I am not from the field. Thanks.
OP here, thanks for trying out. I've added a tuning slider at the front-page so yo can go set the pace, going a bit conservative like those human folks or go wild :)
I stopped reading CNN due to their terrible headlines, but I just went at the top headline is "Animals are reportedly dying after toxic train wreck. What it means". Well CNN has reporters, why is there hearsay in the title? Could you just look through some records or conduct a quick survey to figure out the truth of those reports.
This line assumes that each person exists in the world as an ideal individual, subject only to their own independent logic, biases, and whims. In reality, we all have concrete material interests which are determined by concrete economic relations. Our logic, biases, and whims—the very nature of our consciousness—all flow from our material and social reality.

These material interests are not entirely individual and distinct; they fall within broad strata based on the overall structure of the economy (e.g., the class of people with the capacity to own a major media organization and the class of people who make a living by serving them). Thus, there is no need for a conscious conspiracy coordinating every aspect of the media machine since the basic character of the consciousness of those involved flows from a more fundamental material reality. At the same time, there’s no reason one can’t become consciously aware of the stratum of shared material interests that one exists within, and I think it would be foolish to assume that the people at the highest levels of power and wealth in the world have failed to do so.
(co-founder of Neptyne here)

You're spot on in that, if you're a Python developer, you're probably using Jupyter and/or Streamlit, gradio, etc. and spreadsheet users are most comfortable with Excel-style formulas. What we've done with Neptyne is create an environment where teams of both types can be productive in a shared environment: the usual spreadsheet formulas are there, and so is a full Python/Jupyter runtime.

As with any tool that attempts to combine the best of multiple great tools, there's always the risk that it falls short of one or the other. Our aim is to make Neptyne a better alternative to both standard spreadsheets and Jupyter notebooks.

One more thing that surprised me a bit: in talking to spreadsheet power users, you see a lot of interest in using more Python. Neptyne is a great way to start off with a spreadsheet and gently incorporate more Python into your work!
Leapp in 2022
The Control Problem is scary enough already. What's the Paperclip Galaxy equivalent for a robot nanny?
Yeah. It feels like they’re acting more like a travel agent. Kind of like what this original post would be doing.
FWIW, I know this is a simple app and all but the biggest pain I've ever found in expense tracking is no one supports multi currencies. I have literally one option to track expenses in CAD and USD.
That's fair. Although in my defense the previous comment was spinning a narrative story.
How is that scary? It's just entertainment at scale.

The world would be supremely boring if everyone agreed on everything. Each to their own!

Personally I loved the Wick films. I'm watching it for a couple of hours of boom boom pow dopamine. I'll read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations or whatever would be a more justified use my time after the film :P
Ask HN: Desktop App Toolkits 2023
I’m building some tools and want a nice UI desktop application. I am not planning to make it web based or mobile, all though it might be nice to have that all other things equal.

I’m familiar with JS and web stacks, but last couple of years have been mostly using Java/Kotlin and python. I’m open to using something like Go, Dart, Swift, Typescript ect, but I don’t really want to use C++/rust due to learning curve. I need it to be cross platform ideally. I also prefer a statically typed language over dynamic. Going to be doing a lot of data visualization (graphs and interactive plots, image/video/rendering, tables, maps), some ML and formal verification.

So it looks like the options I’ve seen would probably be JavaFX, Electron, ReactNative, Flutter.

I’ve played around with JavaFX and it seems okay, some quirks but good for most part. Electron (w/TypeScript) also looks to be pretty good. I looked into Flutter and it seems to be not quite mature for desktop yet, at least from what I could find.

Curious what other people think would be good for 2023
If you make it so I can have one SQLite database per user, I’d be a customer too
If a service uses a known insecure authentication method, how is that the fault of the authentication and not the service?
> by European employment 'contracts'

With great variations between member states. Germany has long notice periods, Greece has as short as 2 weeks notice.

> how this isn't indentured servitude

Labour law extends similar protections to employees. A long notice period simply levels the playing fields by returning some protection to employers. That's why in the EU there aren't mass layoffs like in the US right now, or riots, or mass shootings.

> (What happens if you ignore it?)

Maybe nothing, depends on how litigious the employer is. Usually a shorter notice period can be negotiated, eg. by agreeing to some un/pre-paid post-departure consulting for the previous employer.

> I can't imagine how a future employer can wait a full quarter

It's about planning. I wouldn't want to work for an employer who is hiring in panic because they haven't foreseen labour needs. I'd be afraid that they'd let me go as easily as they have hired me.

> so this must greatly restrict labor mobility

Yes

> and hence wages

That is why you are trying to hire in Europe, aren't you?

> How is this legal, in the famously pro-labor EU?

Because it is literally the law.
I have, on multiple occasions, been given suggestions by Copilot that were sufficient to de-anonymize the authors of those suggestions. I suppose it's slightly different since (I presume) they published their identity in public code, but it was still a strange to experience.
I moved from Homebrew to MacPorts on a local, personal-use Intel Mac.

I chose Homebrew some years ago when I was not as experienced a programmer, because it was more popular than MacPorts. When I revisited the choice last year, I chose MacPorts.

On Homebrew:

* It has a Frankenstein permissions model; for example "brew install" writes files into /usr/local/* with your regular user account as the owner of the files.

* The permissions model means that Homebrew-managed parts of the system become a single user system, as far as I know. Multiple user accounts on the same Mac can't easily use Homebrew, as far as I know, and I dislike software with such design choices.

* Noisy messages and undesired colors in the command line output.

These issues are absent in MacPorts. Overall, MacPorts appears more mature and more Unix-like than Homebrew.

The cons of the move are that not all the packages I want are available in MacPorts. However I have sufficient experience now to package crucial missing ones into MacPorts.
The size is fairly irrelevant. 1 GB fits on a microSD card many times smaller than a Roman General's hand-written cypher.