skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These sorts of adjunct, off-to-the-side "ethics" teams are always corporate window dressing, and when push comes to shove they always get jettisoned when competition demands an increase in speed.

I don't mean to start a flame war, but this is a reason why I think "Chief Diversity Officers" are such an ill-conceived notion. It's not that I don't think diversity in corporate environments is extremely valuable, but it's that a Chief Diversity Officer doesn't really "own" any sub-organization of the business. That is, the Chief Product Officer owns the product teams, the Chief Technical Officer owns the engineering teams, the Chief Marketing Officer owns the marketing teams. Even the Chief Human Resources Officer, while largely providing support to other teams, still has sizable staff of their own to get their job down. A Chief Diversity Officer's job largely comes down to telling other teams how they should change or structure their teams. I have yet to see that approach work.

Different teams can certainly work to a common corporate goal, even if that goal isn't the primary focus of a particular team. If you really want to ensure that diversity is valued, any initiatives should actually be led by the teams who also do the main "work of the business", and the goals should be championed by the executives of these teams.

So, in the vein of this article, I think independent "ethical AI teams" are a really bad idea. Better to define what ethical AI means at a high leadership level, and if teams need particular experts in these areas they should just hire them as part of that team, not off as a part of some dysfunctional "ombudsman" role.
I wasn't arguing with you at all, you totally misinterpreted my comment. SVB was insolvent due to their long dated bonds.
Some kind of return to the old days were Sierra games interaction was based on text input?
I would rather keep it as a team responsible for building it into the process of everyone. It is a strong signal of ethics being thrown out of the window.
text is another terrible problem for these diffusion models
Indeed -- very frustrating. It has been commonly understood that the holy grail, "room temperature superconductivity", always has also implied ambient pressures (or at the very least, pressures not requiring a diamond anvil).
Sure, but for context, normal atmospheric pressure is 101 kPa. 1 GPa is a lot closer to ambient than 250+ Gpa. AFAICT [0], nothing with a critical temperature above the freezing point of water (273.2 K) has yet been discovered, and everything with a critical temp above "dry ice" temperatures (194.6 K) needs at least 155 GPa. As such, this would seem to represent truly exponential progress in terms of both critical temperature and required pressures. With luck, we'll be able to carry these things a bit further to make it actually practical for some applications that currently require cryogenic temperatures.

[0]: I'm not a materials scientist or any kind of physicist, so I'm leaning a bit on Wikipedia here. Please correct me if I'm wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-temperature_superconducti...
A Hacker’s Introduction to DIY Light Guide Plates
Traditional publishing, due to the AI crapflood, is going to become even more inaccessible and exclusionary than it already is. You thought querying was the worst nightmare it could be before November 30, 2022? You sweet summer child.

I don’t think anyone has a good sense of how this problem will be solved. It’s possible that commercial writing is done. True literary work will still have a chance if it spreads by word of mouth but I don’t know how society will pay for it.

Trad pub isn’t likely to save us. There will be more profit in gaming these new capabilities than in trying to protect elitist literary sorts, most of whom don’t make any money.
Dave Troy is a fascist.
I have used that with almost every bank, Discover, Wells Fargo, Chase, Capital One. Surprisingly, few of different banks looked like had same third party printer/mailer i.e. mailed from same address.

Just a tidbit, My work is paid by 1000s of Californians through these bill pay checks. Often we receive a thick stack (maybe 100) of these checks with sequencial serial numbers, same account & routing numbers, & each customer's unique identifier (for us to allocate money), all in same envelope or box. Its fun to go process those stacks.
But it does imply that the company's moral hazard structure has been altered in a way that may or may not result in more ethical outcomes.
War sucks.
Agreed. I regularly use dozens (yes, dozens) of VPS vendors all over the world and never ran into this problem. Maybe this guy is signing up for a new account using an Iranian IP address and credit card a from blackhatforums.com.
Could be true, but AI ethics lacks enough maturity as a field to tell whether a team is doing “long-term, socially responsible thinking” or “self-indulgent navel-gazing”.

It might have just been a failed department and the layoffs might have given cover to purge it ahead of pursuing a more functional strategy.
https://recurai.com
The Little-Known World of Caterpillars
IIRC: heat pumps aren’t even available for sale in many markets, because distributors don’t see enough interest to stock them.

See also: water beds.
You did say "These actually have a pretty great track record."

So I presented three counter-examples. If you prefer to stay on an abstract plane, I think I'm out.
>The thermostat algorithm combines demand-response with weather and time-of-use rate plans

Any chance of a dumb version of this without the internet connected bloat?
Locking costs money. Freezing is free.
> the high end of a distribution

What a dev costs is not the same as what an advertised salary for a dev is. This is closer to the middle of the distribution for dev costs in the US.
Not sure if “changed”, but I feel like a lot of what happened was nit really warranted and more of a self-fulfilling prophecy unfortunately. Just stay calm and keep on creating real value.
Writing a book was a ton of fun. It's challenging but really makes you dig deeper into something you're already an expert in. Really accelerated my own learning while creating a product that shares my experience with the world.

Publishers are not all made the same. Pragmatic Bookshelf was great to work with and I'm thinking their estimate of 25k per book (to the author) is probably a good goal. Mine cleared that and then cleared my sales numbers goals as well.

You simply can't get that type of revenue unless you're at 50% royalty rate. Self publish is 100% of course, but pragmatic relationship definitely gave me a better product and marketing.
did it really solve the problem, or do 2 emails now go out on your behalf?
Even if you throw out SF salaries as a wild outlier, this isn't actually that ridiculous. An average quality mid-career dev (5-10 years exp.) in a second tier market like Chicago/Denver/Austin/Boston can pretty easily make 170-200 in cash. "[A]ll up" is the key here tho; there's a big non-salary component in the US that doesn't exist in Europe. Tack on health insurance and the total cost to the company will easily blow past 250 right there. Plus, you're probably giving them some equity and a yearly bonus.

I'll be honest, it does sometimes blow my mind to see how low salaries are over there when I look at job postings and Who's Hiring and the like. I'm jealous of a lot of things Europeans take for granted, but it's wild to me to see senior positions in major European capitals paying the amount that I made two years out of a bootcamp.
It’s not exclusive to the Deep South. It’s also in Appalachia and oddly enough in the Dakotas: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/dec/01/jim-webb/j...

My dad, who grew up in a village in Bangladesh, visited West Virginia many years ago and was shocked by what he saw. It genuinely had never occurred to him that there were Americans without indoor plumbing.
I’ve seen similar dynamics at other companies. When teams like this MS ethical AI group are separate organizationally from product and research and engineering teams, it’s harder to have an impact.

Management and the product teams want to ship features. Research wants to work in cool new stuff. Nobody wants people from random other teams getting in their way and telling them to slow down. It’s hard enough getting meaningful work shipped in these huge companies. When the stars align to do somethin major and execs are pushing hard, nobody on teams actually doing the work give a damn what some rando on another team thinks about “ethics”.

Harsh but that’s the way it is. In this environment it can actually be more effective to distribute the function to be inside the actual product teams. Which it seems like they did. Sometimes it’s easier to have an impact from the inside. (Sometimes not.)

No connections to MS. I’ve just seen this movie before… a lot.
I want to thank you for this pedagogical tool, I have used a couple times to learn a new language by porting this exercise.

How did you use this in your teaching? It seems like it could the basis for a longer term project that students could take in many directions.
When there's no meaningful limit on government spending inflation is a tax.
I don’t like being the first post but I want to ask:

Can someone twitter… er mastodon explain me what is going on here / why I should see this?
There is a great deal of difference between what is assigned and what is actually in use at a particular location. Cell phone networks in different regions have different build histories and thus use different frequency bands even when they are currently owned by the same provider. Your preferred provider might “own” 12 frequency bands, but may only be using 4 of them in your city and a different 4 in a city an hour away. The only advantage to buying a phone from a cell phone provider is that they will already have figured out which phones will actually work in your city, with the network as it has actually been built. If you buy one independently you need to do that work yourself. A satellite provider could provide you with service as you drive down the highway through areas where the cell towers only support the “wrong” frequency bands.

Furthermore, the cell towers have very limited range; usually just a few miles. Past the edges of the urban and suburban areas there will be nobody at all using those frequency bands except for a few lonely phones repeatedly asking for service and getting no reply. A satellite provider could easily provide regular phone service to thousands of users across a huge, sparsely–populated area where cell phone towers are few and far between.
They support U2F these days, thankfully. It's buried deep in the settings but it's there
The anti-libertarian arguments generally consist of these strawman caricatures, to avoid dealing with pretty much unassailable mainstream libertarian criticisms of major contemporary government policies, like socializing deposit losses with taxpayer-funded FDIC insurance, guaranteeing $1.5 trillion worth of mortgage backed securities every year through the GSEs, and bailing out banks that engage in high-risk lending practices.
…They released Win10 about a year later. My Win10 experience was pretty good overall, from as early as I updated to it. (I wasn’t the earliest adopter, but I was using it sometime in 2016.)
Can you open the communication API so that FLOSS licensed software/hardware can run the unit instead of replacing/repairing your interface?
Ask HN: Why has YC 6x their legal staff in headcount in past few years?
After YC’s announcement of layoffs been looking at their staff page to see if I noticed anything and noticed YC have 6x their legal staff in past few years. Any idea why?

https://www.ycombinator.com/people
It was only really a decent arbitrage if you didn't account for maker fees / gas fees etc.

If you already had a decent amount of BUSD or USDT on-hand, yeah you could maybe make $100 (assuming you'd also want to swap back to whatever you started with once it re-pegged).

Most average users won't have BUSD/USDT etc. just lying around. It would usually be tied up in interest bearing pools or some sort of liquidity pair, which would itself earn yield as people panic swapped USDC for something else.

If you were willing to outright buy USDC for fiat, then yes you could've picked it up at a discount, but the arbitrage opportunity at 98c is overblown and unattainable for most folks.
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In Oregon, we have this compilation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Geographic_Names

Not far away from where I live, there is a Tam McArthur Rim, named for the author of the book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_A._McArthur

https://www.oregonhikers.org/field_guide/Tam_McArthur_Rim_Hi...

It's interesting what you can learn from them. In western Oregon, largely settled by farmers and their families and so on, the names tend to be kind of boring (like... quite literally "Boring, Oregon") and not very "colorful".

Elsewhere, with more miners and cowboys and so on, you had things like "Jumpoff Joe Creek" - probably recognizable to anyone who has driven up and down I5 through Oregon - and "Whorehouse Meadow" and "Malheur Lake".

Also interesting is the distribution of names for a 'small valley'. Hollow, arroyo, draw, coulee, gulch, gully, etc...:

https://roaringbrookmaps.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/what-do-yo...
I agree, but the flipside is that people with influence like nicely dressed windows.

These roles might not satisfy their ostensible purpose, but they satisfy what may be an even more important purpose for the organization. It’s a cost of doing business (of a certain type).
You can have non trivial types in an union, but you need to explicitly define constructor in the union or the containing type (i.e. the default union copy constructor and assignment operator are disabled).
You know, on the one hand, yes, they need direction. On the other hand these kinds of people are by definition leaches. Their existence hinges on this thing being an issue. So I can't feel bad for them.

Now, I can see them as a volunteer advisory group. That I'm for. But I loathe seeing all kinds of "industries" pop up that are essentially leaching from businesses. Most "training" kinds of curricula and outside experts take this form, from safety training, to AI ethics to social responsibility, etc., etc. They are there to line their own pockets and the longer they can prolong the issue the better. Oh, safety has not improved, you need to hire me again! Oh, you can't hire enough women, you need to hire me again!
Do you think the government is going to bring NSA level security to the table? Probably not.

And need I remind you that the NSA had millions of sensitive recirds stolen by a single IT tech?

So no, actually, the NSA's security apparently isn't that great
Imagine working on these features that exist exclusively for tricking people into spending more money. All the way from leadership, product management, development, testing, ... You must be super disconnected from what goes on at work I imagine.
This poses a problem with open source licenses. Without consideration (payment), open source licenses become bare licenses which may be revoked at any time by the grantor.
My guess is that Mozilla is running their own Mastodon instance. Would be great news, as personally, the one Mastodon server I tried shut down two weeks later (not sure if that's common or it was bad luck)
In addition, if they are sending email through a provider like Sendgrid, etc. you should send an abuse complaint directly to their provider.
Yes, especially since not every phone user will place calls all at the same time. Erlang’s loss formula will give you an estimate of how many calls you will give busy signals to, given some number of customers and some measure of how many calls you can carry at once.
I think it needs to be done while the browser is flowing text, because it should look good with nearly any width, like:

Ice Town Costs Renowned Ice Clown His Town Crown
and Gown

vs

Ice Town Costs Renowned Ice Clown
His Town Crown and Gown
I'm unclear why you'd stop at commercial fishing . Just ban all fishing and all fish consumption. The premise that your children could one day eat fish is the problem
The Saudi-led war against Yemen has ended
That’s the one.

No one knows for sure why he was banned but the most credible theory is that:

(1) he knew too much about YC’s lack of support for Aaron Swartz (who was a Reddit cofounder, thus YC alum) and his reputation when the man was in federal crosshairs, and discrediting MOC was a preemptive strike of sorts.

(2) he pointed out the existence of algorithmic manipulations (slowban, rankban) before anyone knew those were a thing.

(3) he wrote some blog post in 2012 you can’t even find but that one of the YC partners thought was personally about him. I can’t verify this because I think the post was deleted years ago.

It could be all or any of those in some combination.
NFTs: the thing nobody needed, let alone wanted, but which proved to be a sufficiently effective money laundering (sorry, "speculative") instrument that we all had to have it shoved down our throats for the better part of a year anyway.

Goodbye and good riddance.
> How do the instructions work if the processes are proprietary? It seems self-contradictory.

This is pretty normal in materials science. You can produce a super amazing product you keep the recipe as secret as possible.
There is some very natural split regarding what I'll send to ChatGPT vs. what goes to Google. For example "six nations fixtures" obviously Google, but anything of depth or where recency is irrelevant goes the other direction. Asked it a few Linux questions today, how to interpret the title of a particular FRED chart, and a ton more sessions that Firefox history somehow didn't manage to correctly track the title for. I vastly prefer ChatGPT's interaction format compared to the equivalent random keyword spelunking session on Google.
What's your preferred CI/CD system to pair with Gitea? I tried Drone once and found the configuration to be nasty, specifically OAuth2 under Docker Compose. Also the Drone UI left a lot to be desired. This was a while ago so grain of salt etc.
Underrated comment; and I'm using this term to describe the effect of temperature in future.
For tech books, the benefit is mostly to be (excessively) seen as an "authority" on a topic. At least that's how it's been for me. Oh. He wrote that book on X. still do them but don't do the 250+ page books required by publishers.
It is not clear why your heat pump cuts over at 40 degrees if it still has COP of 2 at 8 degrees. Presumably a cost-effectiveness calculation if gas is cheap in your area. If you had heat strips instead of gas, the "cut over" temperature would be much lower. If your unit is capable of operating at full capacity below 8F, it would likely only use resistive heating below 5F. For most climate zones, that is fine and your unit does not sound like one specifically deemed a "cold climate" heat pump, the which now regularly achieve full rated output down to -15F. Of course, it's only rarely that cold even in "cold climate" zones so operating down at a COP of 1 for these short durations is not a real problem. The impetus for systems designed for lower temperature operation is not really aimed at those with cheap gas but at those living where heat pumps were previously only feasible for heating if using much more expensive ground source systems. Achieving year-round heat with only the heat pump eliminates the need for a furnace so you have to include this missing gear and installation cost in your analysis.
Ohhh - okay. I can build that for you - what's the use case? That would help me judge the quality of the infographic!
It looks cool, but I'm not clear on what the add is over existing solutions like Plotly/Dash?
oh, is that what the 76,169 line meant

i couldn't figure it out

thank you
Ryan Bates Success Formula

1. Apply the "do the simplest thing that could possibly work, get feedback, and iterate on that" principle to any project or idea to gauge interest and get feedback.
2. Reach out to relevant sponsors or partners for support and collaboration.
3. Create content in a consistent and dependable manner to build an audience.
4. Promote content through personal networks and relevant forums or communities.
5. Request feedback from viewers or users to improve and refine content.
There is some evidence that posting at certain times can help you grab that virility factor

...Or have virality as Plan A and grabbing your virility could be Plan B.
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"If I don't make the world eating machine, someone else might make the world eating machine first!"

No wonder we don't see aliens filling the universe. Intelligence is its own great filter.
What specific risky behavior are you referring to? Everything I’ve read points to the fact that they bought a ton of long term US treasury bonds at a low interest rate. Obviously this worked out very poorly for them, but I wouldn’t call this risk seeking behavior.
Ben Thompson has a great take on this: https://stratechery.com/2023/the-death-of-silicon-valley-ban...

He makes the case that one factor of many in the success of SV was people played iterated games with the same people, which effectively built trust. Now the companies and stakes are so huge that it can be worth it to break that trust sometimes because the benefits of a single win (billions of dollars) can dwarf the downsides.

It’s an insight that makes sense to me and something I wouldn’t have considered otherwise.
A very popular publisher of tech books contacted me to work on a book about a DB. At the time I was working as a freelance writer for that DB company.

They offered me less than half a month's pay in advance. Then they told me if I wanted more money I could try to convince the DB company to sponsor the book...

I mean of course a book about some tech product is good for the company selling the product. But the publisher basically wanted to get a writer for peanuts then get most of the profits from the book.
G+ launched with a feature called "Sparks" in which people could subscribe to terms --- essentially saved searches --- which would surface general Web content in the G+ stream. There's a description of these here: <https://www.pcworld.com/article/481842/google_plus_day_9_pla...>, and a video ad/promo: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MRkAdTflltc>. They were explicitly compared to Reader in this piece: <https://geekbeat.tv/how-to-use-google-sparks/> (found serendiptously whilst looking for some general examples / references as I write this comment).

This strikes me as similar to the spirit of Reader, though of course without the site-specific subscription of RSS. Conceptually, the idea of including RSS results in the stream wouldn't have been much of a stretch.

Regardless, that feature was axed pretty early in G+ history.

What irked most about the forced amalgamation of G+ and other Google services was the context sheer and violation of boundaries and social significance of various activities. In particular, suddenly G+ conversations based on YouTube links were now listed at YouTube under the video's comments, and comments from YouTube now appeared in G+ discussion streams. I responded by deleting all my own G+ posts of YouTube links, and deleting all content from the linked YouTube account (I'd used it little regardless).

When G+ finally merged G+ and YouTube profiles, after about a year of my repeatedly stating "no, don't do that", and based solely on the fact that I'd used the same email address to register for each, it was a tremendous violation. Numerous other people felt similarly.

The three top stories on HN that day were about the forced merger. Two of them were links to my own posts on G+. The original links are of course now dead, though I archived nearly all my own posts at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

<https://imgur.com/YgEjUuI>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2013-11-16>

There might have been other ways to
Rightly or wrongly, I find there's still a certain aura to going with an established publisher where it's justified or not. I've done both.