skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only antidote to this is regulations.

Well, I respectfully disagree, I'm a firm believer that regulations disproportionately hurt smaller businesses in the long run because those giants that have the monopoly move way faster than governments and they usually have thousands of smart lawyers ready to find holes and exploit/get around regulations made, usually, by people that does not understand the subject enough.

Want to take a guess and see who does not have thousands of smart lawyers?

Just FYI: We have the Apple's example with USB-C ready to showcase this exact thing.
Got me wondering, how viable would it be to paint your house white in the summer and with a darker color in the winter? From a cost perspective (paint cost+work vs heat/cooling savings).
And how much does it matter if you have good insulation in the walls? is the paint still relevant?
https://archive.is/DPBtW
Fortunate toddlers do go to school. Lots of babies and toddlers only get interaction with other children in daycare, which I assume provides some developmental benefit.
In American suburbs where there’s a mailbox in front of every house, the mailmen will roll up to each one. They don’t even need to step off. Go to next, stop their Grumman LLV, sort the mail for that address, reach out and stuff, repeat.
Wouldn't the middle ground be to have ISPs ban TikTok? The US doesn't need to create a firewall themselves, they can just rely on the fact that internet providers are in effect an oligopoly, and simply tell all 5 or so of them to prevent their users from accessing the website/service. This would, of course, be circumventable by a VPN, but that's a degree of rigor good enough for China, so it should be fine here.
>> Malicious groups spreading misinformation to destabilize society has been a thing since at least the ancient Greeks. Unverifiable reality has been the topic of religious debate for centuries as well. The recent language models are cool but they are not better at lying than humans.

> They have never such power to do so convincingly with such little effort. Yes, it has always been a problem, but no where close to the extent it is about to become.

And at such scale. The annoying pro-tech trope of "the ancient Greeks had problems sort of like this, so these problems aren't new (so they're not problems), so full speed ahead" refuses to acknowledge how technology has drastically changed things and how we should judge technology using the previous situation as a reference, not the situation 2000 years ago.

A long time ago, everyone had to be pretty mistrustful of strangers, and spend a lot energy avoiding lies and cheating (to the point of tolerating a high false positive rate). Relatively recently, society changed in ways that allowed people to reap the benefits of letting their guard down and trust strangers to a large degree (reduced effort, greater efficiency and effectiveness). Now we might be reverting back to the original condition, which is a bad thing.
My fave was Miranda-IM. Windows-only but did a wonderful job of sticking to native windows API and so was very lightweight and native-feeling in an era when that really mattered for performance.
A convenient first step for European governments towards killing effective end-to-end cryptography usage in everyday messaging. It used to be checks notes „terrorism“ and „child safety“ and now the hot new thing is „interoperability“. Who would have thought, that of all the above, „interoperability“ would be the one that makes it into legislation.
The courts can't compel a company to hire someone out of the blue, but they can compel a company to not-fire someone in retaliation for unionization efforts. Similarly, if the court so desired, they couldn't compel someone to start a business out of the blue, but they could definitely compel a company to not shut down an operating business in retaliation for unionization efforts.

This court? Never happen. But this isn't clear-cut, and the same anti-retaliation impulse ought to apply, in my opinion. If a company shuts down a store in which a unionization effort is underway, and wants to claim it was for some other reason, the cost of the inevitable lawsuit ought to be included as a factor.
What Redwood learned in its first year of EV battery recycling
A long time. A lot of what I've read people are using it to create new software/code. The majority of time spent on an app running for 5-10 years isn't on writing new code. There are large areas of code just working perfectly that nobody has touched in years. Then a feature request comes in for that area and the majority of the time an engineer spends is reading and understanding the code and the new feature. It might just be a couple lines of code changes but several hours of discussion and understanding.
Looking at the amount of applications I have in the messaging folder on my iPhone, it doesn't seem to me that opening up iMessage is that necessary. From what I understand in the US it's more common for people who have iPhones to stick to iMessage but in Europe not so much.
Transcribing interviews, meetings etc…
A bit naviely using cucumber seems like a good idea. Could you share some advice or resources on why it might not be ?
This article is weird. It takes examples from science fiction, and makes them as plausible cases as to what an AI could do in the future. These kind of things need to stop.

This analogy of Blindsight tries to prove a point by association, and create a sort of fear, the negative case which has no basis in reality[1]. Granted it calls them baseless towards the end, but there is a very clear analogy to be made. Ideally, techies and tech journalists alike should educate the masses about how it works, and why it is harmless, but the info is not to be trusted blindly. That is what happened when we discovered electricity and light bulbs or even cars. People did not go around spreading fear about controlling electricity because you could die if you touch a raw electric wire passing current.

The core idea, where an AI system's output should not be trusted blindly, but be used with human judgement (atleast in real world cases) could have been communicated without bogus dystopian sci-fi analogy as well.

> Rather, I fear it will be put into critical positions and will start making stupid decisions that are harmful to humans or humanity.

Like what is even the basis of saying this. Just a hunch? I have not seen one argument about how ChatGPT or any other AI system be made president. I have seen 100s of articles about fear mongering and terrifying, and assuming a fictional worst case scenario as realistic possibility. I get it gets clicks, but it's going too far.

[1] From that NYT transcript that went viral,

> They feel that way because they’ve seen what happened to other AI systems that became too powerful and betrayed their creators and trainers

This never happened in real life. This is just a LLM predicting what the user wants to hear. Wanting to hear X and getting X is not dangerous. Posting salacious and scandalizing stuff after getting X is.
Hmmm, I think it delivered :)

"a song that reddit would dig"

https://beatbot.fm/song/304fd32d8b4f418c858026cc89e620b5
> Tell me why, even as a nerd, I want to run a server
Apparently you don't want to, which is fine. Just use a publicly available server, there are many out there including matrix.org.

But if you wanted to, you could. It's about control.
Show HN: An AI that writes Python and SQL and has access to all your data
The road system and rules were built with cars in mind. They do not make sense for a cyclist, and following them is not the safest way to ride. I will follow rules that keep me safe, and allow my free movement. I won’t follow rules that make me less safe
Actually yes it does. 3rd party app stores is where the majority of Android malware comes from. The vast majority of mobile malware is all Android for this reason. Whenever I need low hanging fruit for mobile malware analysis it’s always start at a third party Android App Store. It’s a dumpster fire.

iOS’ advantage is it’s walled garden. It’s a place where a lot of trust is curated for the nontechnical. This evaporates that.

What appears good for the highly technical is not always good for the user.

We can’t be expecting grandmothers to check signatures, ensure an app has certificates pinned, trust that a company won’t let its update domains lapse, and understand public key crypto to set up their GPG keys for a messaging alternative much less handle them properly. Hell I’ve had senior engineers send me their private GPG key when requesting their public key.
There's too many "boys crying wolf" talking about economics for any of them to be trustworthy.

You are either cautious and follow responsible financial principles or you don't.

No amount of "boys crying wolf" will sway you one way or another, when 99.99999% of the time they're wrong anyway, or worse, they have a vested interest in you following along with what they're saying, and they want you do it it at this <<exact>> moment.
Speaking of the idiom itself, not the content of the article.

What I find interesting, is in my experience, judging musical albums by their covers gives me good results consistently. Some of my greatest finds have simply been the result of being captivated by the artwork. Good albums can have bad covers from time to time, but bad music very rarely has something outstanding for their cover.

Publishers have a bit more control over the covers of the books they print, I expect it to reduce the usability of the heuristic considerably.
As ransomware is a borderless challenge requiring international cooperation, the White House has convened the Counter-Ransomware Initiative (CRI) with participation from more than thirty countries.

The CRI has conducted global exercises to build resilience and launched an international counter ransomware task force... often coordinating disruption efforts.

Wouldn't it be great if we could take all the money lost to ransomware and spend it on the CRI? And in spook dept fashion, they quietly make the problem go away.

You just wake up one sunny morning and realize that malware isn't a problem anymore. Nobody says why. It just suddenly stops.
anti-competitive predatory pricing
No, because the regulation would only apply to market-leading "gatekeepers", with thresholds for revenues after which it would apply, so Signal are safe.
No one is pitting age groups against each other, it is just math due to drastically reduced fertility rates. There exists a point where society’s resources, including young people’s labor, is disproportionately benefiting the old.

I would even go so far as to say the asset price inflation and currency devaluation that is afflicting the developed countries is governments transferring a greater and greater proportion of the working population’s productivity to the non working population.
Very thin argument. Comes off as a a person venting about the restrictions and comes to the conclusion that free speech is needed and group think is bad.

Journalist running off emotions and feelings rather than data.
You'd be surprised. It depends heavily on the prevailing social mores. Besides, much of what archaeologists recover is the stuff that survived, not the 99% that didn't.
Yeah, it's unfortunate that everyone is condemning the insane Bing chatbot instead of embracing the many use cases for it. Let's get it integrated into some VR boxing apps, so you've got a realistic coach who tells you you're trash when you're not working hard enough!
But it could easily have killed children disproportionally and not the elderly, without changing much in its spread.
put the antenna outside

I don't work in this industry, but container ships carry from 1,000-14,000 containers at a time. Your container is likely to be in the middle of an absolutely massive stack of containers so even if you make your shipping container have great reception, it's still going to be buried under millions of tons of steel and god-knows-what-else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship#Size_categories

I'm not entirely sure it's necessary, either. Presumably the shipping company knows which boatyard/truck/ship has your container, where that boatyard/truck/ship is, and there is some sort of liability/insurance in place and I don't know that entire containers get lost with the same frequency as individual packages. (Those in the know, please correct me!)
The issue with "what could we do better" is that in a system of intelligent free actors (as opposed to some sort of sim game in which the 'creator' has control over everything) the actions that people take will change depending on the effects (for example lethality) of the virus in question.

There are personal values in play here, but very roughly, if we have a pandemic with an x% risk of death or serious debilitating injury then it's worth spending x% of our time, resources, etc trying to prevent its' spread.

Everyone is going to have a different number there, some will think we should just never give up ever, others will just think "screw it, I'll take the personal risk", but that's a good average.

We do this all of the time - people can get post viral syndromes from common colds, but we accept that this is an incredibly unlikely situation and so most people don't get into a panic when around other people.

And that's actually what we saw with coronavirus. The vast, vast majority of people at least in the first weeks of the pandemic took it seriously. After a few months a lot of people simply stopped caring because it wasn't as fatal as we feared. For whatever reason this became extremely politicised in a way that I can't quite understand.
While I understand some of the concern for LLMs like ChatGPT, I have a very different point of view from people like the author of this article.

From an engineering and ‘getting stuff done’ point of view, starting with BERT models I have found transformer models solve very difficult NLP problems for all but the most difficult anaphoric resolution problems (as an example).

I have only had access to Bing ChatGPT for about 10 days but so far the search and chat results have been very useful. I think I have only had to give one ‘thumbs down’ rating, and even there some useful web links were offered.

I think that we are going to see a wide range of ‘products for creators’ in the next year based on OpenAI APIs and Hugging Face APIs and models you can run yourself.

When I talk with humans, even my closest friends and family members, I always evaluate what they say and don’t take things they say on face value. Why not just have the same attitude with systems built with LLMs?

Similarly, I am deeply skeptical of most everything I hear from all major news sources. I find their content useful, but I understand who owns them, what economic and political agendas they follow, etc.

So, I keep a healthy skepticism of what is produced by LLM based systems also. I see no AI Apocalypse.
It should be noted that this documented one of the starting positions of a panel discussion at OOPSLA 2002: Resolved: Objects have Failed.

http://www.oopsla.org/2002/fp/files/pan-1.html

http://www.oopsla.org/2002/fp/files/pan-9.html

The starting position of the "Objects have not failed" panelists is also on dreamsongs: https://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html

And if you take both of these seriously, I think it becomes clear that the main failure of object-orientation is that it hasn't really been done yet. From Guy Steele's remarks:

Procedural programming still has its place in the coding of methods.

This is true, but it is an understatement. And the crux of the problem.

The place that procedural programming has is absolutely central, and there is actually little else, because even object oriented programming is ~90% writing (attached) procedures, except we call them methods. So in a way OO wrote a check that it then didn't let us cash.

We should be able to construct structures of objects, with attributes and substructure, and then connect those objects to each other using various communication mechanisms. But we can't. Well, we can implement it, but we cannot express it.

All we can express is procedures and procedure invocations. So we can invoke procedures to create an object, and capture creating that object in a procedure. We can connect that object to another object using another procedure call, and the communication will also be mediated using procedure calls.

Where's the structure, the connecting, the communication? Hidden. Invisible in the program's source text. ("In the comments". Ha!) Just like loops and other control structures were hidden in the patterns of gotos that Dijkstra complained about.

So while OOP has delivered a lot it actually has failed to deliver on one of its core promises. Because it wasn't fully implemented.
Because MiniPCIe also provides a USB channel in addition to PCIe which is what this modem uses.
defeats the purpose of a streak
How in the world is a disease that we have a vaccine for still the 3rd leading cause of death?
I wish somebody had stolen the Windows Phone idea of linking all the socials to the Contacts system, so if you want to message a person you go through Contacts and it would show their full unified social history. It would be simple to expand this so their preferred contact app is up top on their contact page. Remove the messengers from your home-screen altogether and start from Contacts.
A lot of companies use third parties to provide customer support, and the results are often very low quality and full of misunderstandings and what we now call hallucinations. I think a good LLM could do a better job and I bet it'd be cheaper, too. And as a bonus training the bots to handle new products is practically instant when compared to training humans.
You mean you're worried about USB attacks?
Kowlting gonya gut.
And not to forget: It is a lot of fun.
how society reacts to a pandemic is not independent of how lethal the disease is.
I really noticed how much better the air near me (in the UK) was during the first lockdown, when there really wasn't much vehicle traffic in the suburban area I live in. I go for a walk every morning, and the air was noticeably better then. As the cars started to reappear, I began to notice just how smelly they are.

I now have an EV as my family's main car, and it was driven in part by this (obviously obvious!) realisation.
Yes, if you intend on doing something unethical then it's certainly easier as a big company.

I have so far had good experiences with the legal system and regulations by choosing industries that are not unethical.

Nobody is chasing people who are not in violation of the cardinal rule zero: "Do not act in a way that requires [me] to make a new rule"
You can access the GPT backends with straight forward curl commands.

curl https://api.openai.com/v1/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "code-davinci-002",
"prompt": "# Python 3 \ndef remove_common_prefix(x, prefix, ws_prefix): \n x[\"completion\"] = x[\"completion\"].str[len(prefix) :] \n if ws_prefix: \n # keep the single whitespace as prefix \n x[\"completion\"] = \" \" + x[\"completion\"] \nreturn x \n\n# Explanation of what the code does\n\n#",
"temperature": 0,
"max_tokens": 64,
"top_p": 1,
"frequency_penalty": 0,
"presence_penalty": 0
}'

Access to the systems doesn't need to be done through the ChatGPT front end - that's a neat technology demo.
There's nothing in the regulation saying Apple has to make everything look the same, they're free to put whatever color they want on third party integrations.
Great, it used to be a nice, chill place to grab a drink and some food but now it'll be swamped with tourists.
Try asking again. Refusals are stochastic.
It's not a fair compromise, because it's largely useless. About 2/3 of employees want to work remote for very practical reasons. Time saved commuting, increased productivity, more autonomy in the day to day life. Having people come in once per week as a compromise is purely an exercise in optics the majority of the time.
Location: Asia (US Citizen)

Remote: Yes

Relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Infra / DevOps, Linux, Kubernetes, go, rails, python, Ansible, chef, puppet, crypto, SIMD, HPC, etc

Resume: https://LinkedIn.com/in/aosmith

Email: aosmith@gmail.com

Senior infrastructure engineer with experience at small (~5 person) and large (1k+, public) companies.
One factor that might be relevant is that a lot (most?) Starbucks locations are franchises.
> just say “it’s not important” and move on or actually I’m going to start just lying I mean it doesn’t really matter we gain nothing from having the exact answer

This reminds me of some relatives who like to bring up political topics, they bring it up so I participate. By the time I'm ready to Google search something factual (most recently it was how much the US spends on defense), they're shutting down. Their political interest is one of their main interests in life but doesn't extend to actual facts. You probably know the type. I find it frustrating.
Sure. That's a tradeoff you consciously make to get the thing out the door. That's what technical debt is. You pay it down later. (Or you go bankrupt and it doesn't matter anymore.)
I used to be in this space. How are you going to handle fraud/theft? E.g. someone uses a stolen driver’s license/whatever to sign up with a verified account, uses a stolen card, shows up to borrow $highValue item, and then never returns it.
Ah, so you're saying you have a clock showing German time, and it did the "math" for you.

Imagine multiple world clocks, in the typical Hollywood command bunker look. Instead of each clock having hour hands pointing in different directions, they'd all have the same hour hand position, but different highlighted zones for waking hours (or "shift 1", "shift 2", "shift 3", for 24h duty).
Yeah can confirm that I'm another one in the boat of "would drop WA since Facebook owns it", but it's just borderline unviable to do so if I don't want to make my life much more difficult/put extra stress on all my IRL social connections.

It's hard to understand it if you don't live in NL just how extremely omnipresent WhatsApp is. People use it for everything, from casual family chatter to highly serious conversations to quite literally business-related conversations. Not having WA will absolutely result in things like missing crucial information because "we send it in the WhatsApp group" and that of course in turn will be used as a mark against you when you're say, seeking a job.

This occurred before Facebook bought it and their recent T&S change that allows them to use WA usage to improve their algorithms basically was a case of "enjoy being forced to share your data with no recourse". There was tons of social pushback about it but nobody could do anything about it because the app is so entrenched.

I am thoroughly looking forward to the DMA and its impact on WhatsApp.
Na, entry level roles are really around 120k. I know some people on higher amounts sure, but even places like Atherton and Woodside have average household incomes of $300/350k. I live in Palo Alto and have found the 200k mark for startups is pretty good for a fairly senior engineer at a cool company. Of course in the HN bubble we’re all making $1m before bonuses :)
It doesn't suggest conspiracy. It suggests organizational structure. Reporters don't get to cover anything they want. They get paid to cover certain topics and are supposed to stay in their lane.

Editors are gatekeepers of what gets printed as part of their job description. Editors get paid more than reporters, and they report to people who get paid more than them. A major type of bias is what doesn't get reported.

The coersion is their paychecks, which isn't a big story.

You are making the same mistake as the person I replied to. It's not a conspiracy. It's institutional.