skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is nice to see normies noticing and caring, but the article leaves out some details that obscure comments still stubbornly bring up: like Musk founded it as a 501(c)(3) and put Altman in charge, and only once he had to leave with conflicts of interest Altman founded "OpenAI LP," the for-profit workaround so they didn't have to obey those pesky charity rules. That's when they stopped releasing models and weights, and started making their transparent claims that "the most ethical way to give people access to charge them fucktons of money and rip the API away when we feel like it."
I don't think it sucks, it's just over used in my opinion. Once a person completes the course, they should challenge themselves more, like trying interlinear reading.
Ah, but only 22 years left until Kurzweil had estimated that the singularity would begin, which prediction is looking increasingly prescient. So. You might just be able to upload yourself and live indefinitely.

The statement above could be wrong. You could also be wrong. (Certainly very few people are acting as though they believe that CO2 emissions are going to turn the Earth into an uninhabitable flooded fireball.) But techno-optimism beats pessimism, easy. If nothing else, it makes it easier to live with yourself.
CISO direct report to CEO can be bad politics.

CISO direct report to CTO can be a conflict of interests for the CTO.

C-suite positions need a golden parachute because they can be career-ending. You don't climb to the C-suite then go back to being an IC or lower-level director.

CISO can be even riskier than other C-suite positions. So CISOs really need golden parachutes. But CISOs almost certainly don't get golden parachutes worth the while -- they are generally seen as less important than CTO, CFO, COO, and CEO.
> No shit smart people are studying coding instead

It's hard to come anywhere close to software money as a licensed EE designing the electrical things, let alone as the one building them.
No one is wiring LLMs to real world systems. This is a flash in the pan that will be forgotten and fully derided in months/years like NFTs, self driving, etc. It's a trap for people to waste time and attention thinking about.
Are people finally allowed to say this without fear of the cancel mob coming after them?
Also from the article - "The rate of major depressive episodes among U.S. adolescents increased by more than 52 percent between 2005 and 2017." Unless we're suggesting that Facebook was popular enough right at the start to change teen moods (I think it was still limited to colleges at this time?) I feel like there's more layers to this. I'm not saying social media isn't a problem, but I wonder if it's also just a lot of "growing up post 9/11" baggage?
Here's an archive of the page from the time she was banned: https://web.archive.org/web/20190606075214/airbnb.com/trust/...

I think it's objectively clear that she violated that policy, I don't think even she would deny that she engages in discriminatory behavior, bullying and harassment, and disturbing communities. It's not just about speech, she has for example been arrested in Italy for attempting to block migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean, which directly put lives at risk.
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I would argue that ISIS shouldn't be banned for their political views, but rather for their participation in a criminal organization. Punishing people for their political views pushes them towards extremism
Please could you ping me via email? I have stopped using LinkedIn for sometime now. My email is in my HN profile.
You need more than a single VPS long before you are the size of google.
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Sure, anyone can say they are a data engineer.
Unless they too run an MFi equivalent.
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If the experience ends up enriching your life, I would argue the cost was worth it.
That would indeed be silly.
> To anyone who disagrees with me, ask yourself. What is the most important thing in your life? I can with certainty say that it doesn't have a "price" associated with it.

This shows one of the wrinkles.

Some people will be able to put a very specific price on that most important thing, straight from their health/insurance bills, because they would be dead without types of care that existed even in the 50s.

We should be happy we've improved potential material conditions for people, but unhappy that it's distributed so poorly and that we've also introduced other technologies that rub those differences in people's faces.

The headline is ludicrous because what the fuck does "objectively worse" even mean about quality of life. Humans have emotions, not just objective material sensor evaluators.
Well, we know GitHub is real. But we should also remember that they can change their API at anytime and basing a package manager on their priorities is not the best situation for the long term success of that package manager, unless they are owned by Microsoft
If it's an incomplete theory, it's been incomplete for the 400-500 years or so it's existed. No more excuses then, the "theory" needs to be fixed and practiced before the whole planet goes to an early grave.
The answer is right there in your link:

The priority date for patent application US-2020279585-A1 (and the corresponding grant US-11024339-B2) that Google has supplied is based on a series of separate-but-related patent applications dating back to 2015. Of those various applications, only US-2020279585-A1 mentions COVID-19, and it was filed on May 17, 2020.

Patents can cite a priority filing date, and that's what happened here. The filing at the original date can have a different name than the final filing. The filing did not have the phrase COVID-19 until May 17, 2020.
Exactly, people aren't taking care of themselves so that they don't get the chronic diseases that reduce their lifespans. The majority don't realize that what they do in their middle-age years has a profound impact on their life expectancy.
Will there be any apologizing for the years of gaslighting about this?
My old boss and cofounder asked an interesting question. There are some projects that need an extra push. What if employees who earn stock could wager stock against their delivery of a hard-to-get-out feature? The company could set odds and employees could clean up with equity. If they fail to deliver, stock is returned. Interesting thought.
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Your comment is a bit dismissive, but you’re right. That’s what will happen. Another reply says “ Wouldn't the grade level be defined by the median student?”, which is exactly how you get ever lowering standards. You start with a few good sounding assumptions, and then keep adjusting the level, because the assumptions cannot, no, may not be wrong.

Financial incentives are another good example.
Probably in 1980, someone got licenses from all the game producers to include them in a royalty-free album that became an essential item for the sound department at every production company, and soon after, game companies stopped being willing to sign such deals.
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Can they just not pill up the chemicals used in social interactions? Cure your loneliness the modern way!
I agree. One might ask why they haven't done the same for iPads and MacBooks, and I think the answer there is the sheer difference in volume — Apple sells many, many more iPhones than they do iPads or MacBooks, and so the number of users that are likely to fall victim to shoddy cables is much higher, especially considering the increased percentage of less-tech-savvy buying phones compared to laptops or tablets. A lot of smartphone users see no issue with buying the cheapest "WEGLOB" branded cable on Amazon because as far as they're concerned, there's no difference between that and a cable from a more reputable manufacturer.
close to thirty percent of Oakland Public Schools students did not graduate High School last I looked.. spectacular levels of genuine confirmed illiteracy, plus dozens of non-English native languages; very high violence rates among and between some groups
I agree. I was an English major. Luckily, I had one teacher who taught us how to really read the base text and extract as much meaning from that as you could, without extrapolating at all. It turned out that there was an enormous amount of information that was latent in every text, once you knew how to analyze it. By this, I mean, from little details you could learn different characteristics of the narrator or setting, etc. Sentences that seemed like they were simply nice sentences actually were conveying very specific information that you could use to create a more vivid and accurate picture of the world that the text was creating.

I think this has turned out to be an incredibly useful skill for me, much more than any algorithm I’ve learned. I learned out to read deeply and consider my words very carefully when I write. Programmers are not really engineers. What we do is applied logic, yes, but ultimately we’re writers, and we’re readers. We write code and documentation, and we read code and documentation. Most programmers don’t consider their audience when they write. They just write for the computer. But the most important audience of your code is your team, who has to read it. I wish most engineers had the English class I did. I think it would help them immensely.
Ask HN: How does an IoT device in production get instructions from a server?
My original ideas is to just ping an API every second or so. But if I have 10,000 of these out there - will I just end up DDOSing myself?
Not consciously calculating, there is no effort put into minimaxing. I just look at how the board is set up, focus on the position, the patterns that the pieces dictate, squares that are weak, king position. It sounds like a script but my point is that it doesn't take conscious mental effort, these are mostly intuitive actions.

Of course I wasn't born that way, I've spent years playing chess and it's obvious that these years of playing resulted in a calibrated network of weights in my brain that allow me now to play by feel. My point is more that I didn't perform any structured routines when playing games like the article describes. I kept playing and doing tactics training and my brain did the rest through osmosis. Which leads me to my final point in that tactics and pattern recognition matter and I think, having discussed this with many folks including club players, that they are the best way to rapidly increase one's skill.
> Teens that hit this limit will be asked to enter a passcode to continue watching.

What? I don't understand how this in any way changes anything. Who sets this passcode? Can kids set their own passcode? How is this any different from iOS' screen time feature?

This honestly seems like a do-nothing move to make them look better when it comes to the recent pushes for it to be banned.
I agree, though would place the base probability that most self-explations are ChatGPT-like post-hoc reasoning without much insight into the actual cause for a particular decision. As someone below says, the split-brain experiments seem to suggest that our conscious mind is just reeling off bullshit on the fly. Like ChatGPT, it can approximate a correct sounding answer.
I decided to use Tauri for the first time for a university project and it was absolutely painless to design a small and useful GUI application to programatically generate schematics for photolithography masks.

- Single lightweight binary install and executable (~6 MB), clean uninstall

- Automatic updates (digitally signed, uploaded to a small VM)

- Integrates nicely with SvelteKit and TailwindCSS

- The Rust backend was able to integrate with GTSDK over FFI. The cmake crate made C++ compilation and linking automatic as part of cargo build, provided that a C++ toolchain is available (no problems even on Windows).

- No scary toolchain setup with a load of licenses to review and accept (looking at you, Flutter. I'm a student, not a lawyer. Although perhaps this will also be a thing with Tauri + Android?)

For a small project, I can't recommend it enough. I wouldn't know where to start with a C# or Qt GUI application, especially if I wanted to make it cross-platform.

It'll be interesting to see if it gains any traction in the mobile space. Flutter is great and may be better optimised for certain rendering techniques, such as infinite lists, but sticking with web technologies is a very compelling advantage.
Convert Your Database into a Powerful State Machine
Teslas are significantly more efficient than anything from legacy manufacturers. That's not just one trick, but ground-up design and engineering of the whole drivetrain. Also look at packaging — Tesla manages to pack everything neatly to leave room for a large frunk, while every legacy manufacturer still leaves a jumbled mess under the hood.

In batteries and charging only Hyundai/Kia is competitive, and that's somewhat by brute force, because their cars aren't as efficient. VW charging speed peaks at half of Tesla's speed. Renault, Nissan and Stellantis charge at 1/3rd or 1/4th of Tesla's speed, and they probably don't even realize how important that speed is. They are so far behind that I don't expect them to survive.

And every legacy manufacturer still sucks at software. I don't mean self-driving stunts, but basics like navigation that includes charging stops accounting for charging speed and availability. They still think they can upsell you $2000 for an Android tablet from 2010.
Gamescope itself is a wayland compositor, although it only supports X clients at the moment, getting frames through Xwayland.
Vanilla emacs is unusable. You need to find a popular starter config and run
through the tutorial (C-h t). I generally advise against evil,
spacemacs, and doom, as using vim bindings with emacs would be like
eating pizza with a fork and knife.
> I built a 16-core Z80 laptop running CP/NOS (the networked version of CP/M 2.2)

I remember that laptop! I wonder if it can be emulated in MAME easily.

That, and beefier nodes running something like MP/M (or different architectures, such as CP/M 68K, alongside the more usual CP/M 80) would also be fun.

Maybe it’s time for a CP/M ARM.
> There were no federal student loans.

The GI Bill from WW2 and Korea led to an explosion in college students. Before that, college was simply too expensive for anyone but the very rich to attend, and then...you get lots of people going on the military's dime.
Yes and no, I think that what can happen if you only focus on "performance critical code" is the rest of your code is slow and incredibly unfriendly to cache, but there's absolutely nothing you can really do about it past a point. Like, if all your code is 5x slower than it possibly could be, then even after you fix the performance critical bits you have this ugly tax everywhere else that you can't do anything about other than a rewrite. And I do think that matters, look at various projects written in a language like python where bits have been written in C, but you still have all this slow interpreted stuff. (I like Python btw, I'm just making a point that if performance matters it doesn't just matter in loops)
Do you think adding ~10k/year/person for very good group health insurance[0] fully closes that gap? I recall the divergence being a good deal larger than that. At the median, that's about a 20% boost in wages; still doesn't close the gap here, for instance: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

[0] 2020-2021 prices from a previous employer's details
We will make a deal, then. 10 years from now, I will give you 100k units of currency from a country. 15 years from now, you will give me 10 million units of that currency. The country must have steady state inflation of the preceding 5 years of under 10%. The country must be one of the ones you believe will become uninhabitable.

Easy money for you since you can convert to a safe currency and then pay out in the worthless currency later.

If no country meets the requirements, we just fold and there's no deal. But if one does, you've got yourself free money. If you think you'll have trouble with obtaining units, we can run it like a swap in what you believe to be safer currency.

I'll need a written contract so I'll send someone to you if you're in San Francisco.
I wouldn't read this unless I thought that measuring the value of my life by politics or economics was valid and complete. 'objectively' here is a qualifier used like a weasel word limiting scope in a manner that also limits the meaningfulness of the conclusion.
on the other hand, gpt-3 was trained on a data set that contains all of the internet already. A big Limitation seems to be that it can only work with problems that it has already seen
They didn't. There were a series of patents filed, tangentially related I'm assuming, and the Covid version of the patent came after covid came.

"NOTE: The priority date for patent application US-2020279585-A1 (and the corresponding grant US-11024339-B2) that Google has supplied is based on a series of separate-but-related patent applications dating back to 2015. Of those various applications, only US-2020279585-A1 mentions COVID-19, and it was filed on May 17, 2020. "
Can you elaborate on why you think that?

IMO, their scripting language is pretty accessible to anyone with a bit of experience with programming and has nice syntactic sugar to integrate with the engine.
In their 20s and 30s, my siblings pursued their own interests and desires, but unfortunately, this approach did not lead to success. Now in their late 50s and early 60s, they find themselves lacking the necessary skills and experience to keep up with the rapidly changing job market. As a result, they are limited to unskilled labor, with no significant savings or retirement plans. Despite having pursued their dreams when they were younger, they are not particularly content.

They constantly ask me for money now.
People keep forgetting we're talking about Sam Altman, someone who believed that scanning the world's population retinas in exchange for some crappy digital coin was a great idea and not a creepy spinoff of a shoddy sci-fi novel.
Accountability is not blame (but easily becomes blame)
I came up with a jailbreak that fits inside a Tweet

https://twitter.com/pmarreck/status/1630973137985708032?s=46...
No, it's a standard that is based on what a child should be able to perform at a certain age. Otherwise everyone could get exceptionally dumb and illiterate, which has already happened in CA apparently. As someone who went to CA public school, I can tell you that very little learning is going on (at least where I was).
> using open-source software in a commercial SaaS is immoral.

I don’t agree with this. I’m not a huge open source contributor but I’ve made some contribs over the year and I explicitly checked out the license before sending my change knowing that it could be used within commercial software.

I don’t care. I’d rather companies spend money and build something else than have to recreate the OSS stuff they use.

I want anyone to be able to use my software for any purpose. I certainly don’t think it’s immoral. And I don’t think the authors and users of BSD, MIT, Apache and other licenses think it’s immoral.
Why is anyone surprised at this?
The site has a cool widget and you can browse through past data. From what I see, the decline isn't too dramatic. I'd expect an even worse drop off due to the pandemic than just a few points.
I think it is defined by the aspirational median student.