skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean like how the model itself is a derivative work of tons of copyrighted content? If the original model can sidestep the issue of being trained on copyrighted content, then it should be fair game to train a new model off of a copyrighted model.
This has strong Tibia (the mmo) vibes. Would also love it, although the maps would have to be a bit bigger, or maybe the drop rates smaller.

This would also make it harder for the first adventurers and gradually easier for late comers (more bodies/more loot)
> that pays competetively

I think this is the broken assumption—there are a lot of us who simply are willing to accept a sub-FAANG wage in exchange for a work environment/interview process that we feel respects us.
I think it is, especially for higher level software. People are rewriting I/O bound applications from garbage collected languages and the top two reasons they cite are performance and memory safety - it's just peak stupidity.

Rust isn't even that popular yet and already more people are using it than actually need to.
Actually, the Post Office has some very serious legal mandates about not being allowed to open and inspect mail. You're going to have to get court orders, and I'd expect a lot of courts would ask "If you know there's illegal stuff being mailed, wouldn't it be more efficient to cut it at the source rather than try to intercept it once it enters the mail stream?"

Demanding a general block-- "you can't deliver any mail from Bob Smith"-- would be overbroad and silly-- he might be shipping meth, but he also mailed his electric bill and Christmas cards, none of which contain meth.

Here, we have a very similar issue with DNS. The DNS provider can't meaningfully know the intent of a given query; the site in question could contain both pirated content and cat videos, and there is no way to know which is being requested.

I also can't imagine how you'd expect this to scale-- if one firm realizes they can demand one domain removed, it creates precedent where eventually every cloud service provider and ISP is buried under requests. Even assuming every one of those requests is 100% legitimate, good faith, and accurate, it's simply going to be an untenable task. Inevitably, it would go back to the courts because the finite resources of service providers can't keep up with the tsunami and something got through.

The only possible way to make the Copyright Brigade happy would be to switch to an allowlist model: only these domains explicitly blessed by the Almighty Sony are allowed to be routed.
The rise of the Gen Z side hustle
Didn't seem to me at all like "self grandeur", more like "here are some funny examples based on my background".

The overall game metaphor is quite nice and useful, also in relation to what the author writes about "fairness" [1].

[1]: https://oliveremberton.com/2014/the-problem-isnt-that-life-i...
What happens when an electric charge crosses the event horizon
Starting with the fast and ending with the feast versus starting with the feast and ending with the headache.
If you can pull it together, it sounds like an impressive project. (Which, if nothing else, would look good in your portfolio if you end up applying for other work in the future.) You might also learn a lot from the experience of bringing it together -- and then trying to pitch it to various incubators, etc.

About the idea itself: my first thought was, having you considered making it like TikTok (where the videos disappear after 24 hours)? This lowers your video-hosting costs, while giving users more of a sense of privacy. I don't know if this lowers your liability if someone posts a video of something they shouldn't...

Another thought: will people be able to cross-share these videos on other platforms? That might actually be a good way to publicize your platform -- maybe just watermark the videos in some way as coming from your platform, but with easy sharing icons built in. [This could end up being a lot of work for a feature no one uses - but it seems like a good idea.]

The best thing I ever heard about starting a product was: prepare to be flexible, once you have something out in the world and can see how people are using it. (Just for example, no one predicted how wildly popular Facebook would be until people started using it...) I heard a story about a small startup site that wanted to let people make scrapbooks with pictures and text and all their favorite memories. They found out the feature people were using most heavily was photos, so they pivoted to just that. They're still around today. Their name is Flickr.

You can't always see the future -- but you also don't always have to. Get something out there, and then be prepared to iterate.
I also got "this word doesn't count because it's too common" as well as the separate "this word doesn't count" - seem to have a few different exclusion reasons, some of which don't have an accompanying error detail.
How did it fail? They just announced that eight stores were permanently closed after having been closed indefinitely, one of which was inside of an Amazon office that shut down last year.[1] It looks like they still have 29 Go stores open nationwide.[2]

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-closing-eight-amazon-go...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16008589011
That works in reverse though: they can do that to people that they're happy to lose as a customer. In case of ff nightly, number of users are a rounding error. It's entirely possible that cutting them off is worth having a smaller backlog.
The food was just really, really bad. The ones near me stocked a bunch of pre made meals and they were all horrible. I can't wait for this tech to get into my grocery store, but the convenience stores were not it.
> In the hiring process there has to be some kind of skill test.

No there doesn’t. There isn’t one for the CEO is there?
> Have you ever met kids who aren't good at studying? Do you think they somehow get their shit together just for this one test, because they read somewhere that it's judged fairly and a great investment of time? Teenagers will somehow know that 20 hours, that's where Jensson's return curve breaks?

I was one of those kids. I never had a stable home, I have 5 siblings with many parents, I moved between different parents, lived on the floor with mom and siblings at one of her friends homes for a few months etc. But mustering up the energy to put in effort for one test is still possible, doing that for everything, no way.

Kids aren't stupid, they have spent years doing things, reading things, it isn't hard to find out information about college, SAT etc. A bad home doesn't mean you are stupid even though you make it sound like it does.
One thing to note is that other retailers do that too - track people around stores with Bluetooth and I assume other methods, noting where shoppers linger, what they buy and what they hesitate on. But they don't tell us they do this.
In embedded, it's static store size is almost always the same as 'memory footprint'.
Official requests to ban selling Atomic Heart game
The crisis of teenage girls and social media may not have a good solution
'Solving' the 'problem' of words only makes you feel good about yourself and gives you the feeling that you are helping somehow while actually doing nothing.
I did wonder about the ethics of pasting a list derived from ChatGPT without checking them personally. Thanks for doing the legwork on that.

What I'm finding (over the last few minutes of experimentation) is that patent references in ChatGPT are valid, but tend to have the wrong numbers associated with them. If you ask it to summarize the claims in a given patent, it will sometimes pull up the wrong patent. Interestingly, you can correct it with a suitable prompt -- see one example at https://i.imgur.com/EQrhFt8.png -- at which point it will do the right thing or at least come close to it.

Anyway, the point stands: there is only so much Google can do to stand up to Microsoft. Royalties in 2013 reached $2 billion ( https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-pe... ) and it's safe to say they didn't stop filing bullshit patents in 2013.
GPA is not a bunch of tests. Schools make it so box checkers who squeak get every opportunity to make up for their ability with cooperative socialization. While other students who don't do the right stuff and aren't involved in the right extracurriculars get everything rounded down, and rounded down harder if they speak up.
Forgot to mention: I suppose this only works in high trust societies.

Citizens are sometimes dissatisfied with individual outcomes, but there is no groundswell of resistance to it because people generally believe the system (both the educational system, but also the entire economic system) is fair.
Employment is, be definition, exclusive. More so for well-paying companies.

I hate when companies lie about that, it massively lowers my respect for them.
And a video even https://dl.acm.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1145%2F3...
1. Pick the API that's most likely to be the fastest (based on marketshare) as the default to use.

2. Use `setInterval` to start your benchmark routine.

3. Benchmark function runs the API using a simple loop that will return quickly (i.e. within 2ms) using performance.now to evaluate.

4. When you obtain enough samples to indicate an alternate path is faster disable the benchmark function

No freezing the browser. Shouldn't take too long to switch to an optimized version.

That being said, this is a lot of complexity / hard to implement in a robust and fast way so I'm not saying it's a better answer.
That's what Facebook and OpenAI are doing. They consumed tons of copyrighted content without permission and are now using it for commercial purposes. So using their model seems fair game.
Fertility rate isn't pregnancies

https://ifstudies.org/blog/surprising-new-evidence-of-a-mode...
Show HN: TuringJest – Pretend to be an AI and spot the real one
Hi HN,

I have been working on this website for a few weeks with some buddies of mine and would love if you checked it out. TuringJest provides a jackbox-esque experience with its two game modes.

*One Shot Prompt*
- Submit a prompt for all players (including the AI) to answer.
- Answer your prompts in the way that you think ChatGPT would answer them.
- Vote for who you think the real AI is.

*Talk It Out*
- Plan an event in a group chat with your friends.
- Trick everyone into thinking you are the AI while voting for the real AI.

Let me know what you think!
In 1997 our school class computer had three particularly fun screensavers:

- The one from Microsoft Dangerous Creatures, which would show wild animals and (if you forgot to tell it not to) also play their sounds. Fun times when you're all sitting quietly in class and suddenly the computer plays a lion roar.

- After Dark. For some reason the flying toasters were endlessly fascinating back then.

- One that was a top-down view of a soccer field with an actual simulated game being played between little AI players. I think occasionally there was even a streaker. I've never managed to find this one, does anyone know it?
That's absolutely fantastic! Thanks for the links!
A Criticism of JavaScript Cryptography
There was a Soviet chocolate bar fortified with cow's blood, but I've never tasted one. A colleague couldn't remember the taste, as there was so little 'real' chocolate to compare it with in his childhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematogen
I would generalize and say that tinkerers are better programmers, because you tend to get a better grasp of how your tooling works.

People that create vscode extensions and customize their workflows also share that spirit.
Meta still knows who is messaging whom. Sending a message to a pharmacy or certain doctors would raise flags. E2EE isn't completely safe. Briar is decentralized (no central company or servers to watch) and uses Tor to hide IPs.
Why is that a bad thing?

Cal is in Bay Area. Bay Area is like 35% Asian.

I agree that certain people are racist / jealous towards Asians because we are smart and can get ahead in a generation even when we start far behind some other people, but UCB is a state school located in a area that has a lot of Asian population.
> but is never going to be the reason people pick one store over another.

speak for yourself. I commonly wait in line at the walgreens near me for longer than I was shopping for. If I had the choice between walgreens and the exact same store with cashierless tech I'd never go to walgreens.
I believe there was literally a plan in the works to do just that.
We don't want to do it but sometimes we do if it means getting to work on interesting things/paid competitively.

I've had interviews with heavy LC and ones where I got plain old fizzbuzz and there wasn't much difference in staff competence or how quickly we delivered.

If anything, the place with the low bar had more well rounded peers I wanted to spend time with after work.
I'm from Yorkshire too.

I've definitely heard people referring to 5 Bob notes, which were never a (shilling) thing, although most of the time I'm not sure it matters.

(It cost a few Bob. Bent as a 9 Bob note)
you can find some of those videos (and others) embedded here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90853542/deepfakes-getting-smart...
The creator of the course was a research engineer at DeepMind and now works at OpenAI. Several people at those orgs have acted as facilitators for the course since its creation.

The purpose of the course is to give people an introduction to AI risk so that they can start getting into the field. Some who take it have been ML engineers for a while and some are just learning about the field.

The expectation was never to consider yourself a full-fledged alignment researcher once you finish this course, but instead to get people started. Many people will spend a bunch of time doing things like implementing GPT from scratch and replicate papers after this to try to get an internship at one of the big orgs. And then do other things to slowly make their way to producing great research. Sometimes ya’ll just want to hate on this site.
I worked during high school at a restaurant and later as a pizza delivery person.

In college I went to school at night and worked during the day.

I basically didn't get an education but paid for two pieces of paper that for me a great career... Not as good as a CMU grad, but pretty good.

The person OP is describing is me.

I don't think standardized testing is the answer. Nothing good happens by accident and using the SAT to fight a proxy war for accessibility of high quality higher education is not a good strategy.

I don't even know why people bother posting this stuff anymore.

We are living with mass encampments of the unhoused in our major cities full of the mentally handicap and physically addicted and our government and private sector has decided to let them rot.

45% of bankruptcies are caused by medical debt.

The rich have consolidated their power. The purse strings are closed. Nobody who matters gives a shit about the poor.

To quote George Carlin:

"But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice! You have OWNERS! They OWN YOU. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying, to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else, but I'll tell you what they don’t want:

They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking..."
RailsCasts Retrospective Part 1: The Fuel
Problem with reusable bags is that you have to have it on-hand. Fine if you plan your visit to the supermarket or have a car where you can always have a few stashed.

If you don’t have a car and only go to the supermarket occasionally on the way back from somewhere else you’re very unlikely to have a bag with you, so you end up buying the “reusable” bag every time and at this point I’ve thrown away several hundred of those over the last couple years as they accumulate at home and I have no use for them.
Usually things are designed so that these kids can still get A's if their tests are all B's, B's if tests are all C's, and so forth. Often with some special extra credit offered just to makes sure they can always get at least a B.
Oh my this is bringing me back! I was providing desktop support for Cisco Systems in North Carolina in 1995 and all anybody wanted was After Dark screensavers. Messages was popular (We would often walk to a persons desk and know where they were, really helpful), as was Rainstorm.
Everybody wanted this. There was even an attempt at this, called "Long's Peak", that was ultimately voted down by the OpenGL committee after a long development road. Nobody else needed to sabotage OpenGL, Khronos was more than happy to do it themselves.
In my country the road system has been massively subsidised in detriment of the rail system. Tens of lines that have been ongoing since the 1860s have been disabled even while they had users and were turning a profit.

Trains are constantly delayed or suppressed, lines are overcrowded in rush hours. At the same time traffic is ATROCIOUS in the two main cities where almost 2/3rds of the population lives. Then people say "why would I ever take the train if I can help it? It's almost as expensive and I cannot rely on it to go to work"...

So we waste billions on sub-par methods of transport which are (1) less efficient (2) less comfortable (3) take up ungodly amounts of space in 6-lane roads and huge parking. Sad state of things.

I don't know anyone who would prefer to suffer through 2 hours of gridlock every day to go to work, rather than cruising on a train reading a book or scrolling in their phone or just napping. The demand is there! Just the supply isn't...
That photo looks like it was ripped from an April Fools article. I agree, this is a bad look for what is otherwise interesting science.
Modern day Lysenkoism. Compromising science for ideology, any ideology, is one of the more destructive things a society can do to itself. Not only does it halt progress, it destroys the credibility of the scientific community.
Nope, it doesn't. FF stable on MacOS.

Teams is, was, and will be the absolut worst. They only won, because it's bundled into MSO.
Not only that, but the layoffs actually happened on February 15.
Few months back, I also tried to create a short puzzle game called Diffudle. The game was basically AI Art + Wordle. You were given an AI generated image and you have to guess the prompt for it.

Initially, I got some traction on the site and even some strangers started promoting it.

But I soon realized that there is very little marketing spend reward. The customers spend no money and ad revenue per user is abysmal. This means you can't use conventional channels and have to rely on people actually finding it fun and recommending it to others.

Although it was getting recurring traffic with zero promotion, it still couldn't reach a self sustaining level and I had to shut it down.

You can see Youtube video of it here: https://youtu.be/uLoMd0TkGKk

The point is: Getting the right puzzle formula is extremely hard and every puzzle will not grow like "Wordle".
You put your contact details on the site so that people can voluntarily reach out to you if they like the content.
Changing the UA only changes the behavior of the web server, so unless that's some block of untouchable code owned by some other team made to 'optimize' page loads for different clients, you're not doing yourself any favors by changing it in your browser; you should be loading up the client itself since you can't simulate the actual engine loading your web app differently.

> If you'd rely on feature detection, your critical path for "showing the initial screen of the app" is bound to "download feature detect, parse it, execute it, fetch correct variants of your js/css packages, parse them, execute them, show screen". That's not cool, imho.

Even for barebones web apps, your initial html response should have either empty data (but otherwise a visible UI) or a SSR'd version of the page shown while the JS downloads and executes.
I agree about the false positives. What I'm saying is that false negatives are more costly at a startup because you have less of a good candidate pipeline. Passing up on good candidates extends your hiring process and may even push people to hire someone you otherwise wouldn't have later because you need engineers. Google doesn't care because they will have 100 more candidates the next day.
OK, a doctor told me about taking it for 6 months to dissolve smaller stones but I can't find any medical research talking about it dissolving them, so let's assume it's for prevention only.
Good jobs have friendly practices, bad jobs have awful practices.

I quite like how things work currently. It's easy to tell the difference.
Lower middle class (and even uneducated pedigree upper middle class) is where the brutalism is for competitive schools, but lower middle class has state schools (if in California, Cal State schools) or community college- and almost always finishes high school with a middle-of-the-pack education, thanks both to average public scholar and average home lives. So, generally they are fine.

I wish the obsession with top-tier colleges would go away. It’s not hard to get into a public research university, where there always an opportunity to shine, even if the average student is, well, average.

The real tragedy here though is costs have gone up quite a bit for state educations and the true top-tier educations have so many scholarships available that an average education costs more than a premium one.

I went to a state school but have spent far more of my life working at and with people from Princeton, Caltech, Stanford, etc…
But systematic racism against Asians who actually are smart is okay right?