skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different article with more background: https://wapo.st/3lmVr6w

> Brit Levy, 35, was eager to join Meta’s paid training program for aspiring human resources managers last year because she wanted to gain a foothold in the recruiting field and help other military families find jobs in the lucrative tech sector.

> Levy, who is Mexican American, agreed to start the 12-month gig in April after she checked with Meta that her position would be secure for the duration of the program despite the company’s financial challenges. She was told that the program, which aimed to improve the pipeline of recruiters who focus on diversity, was fully funded for the year.

> About six months later, Meta laid off Levy and most of the other participants in her program, along with 13 percent of its full-time workers, amid falling revenue growth from a sluggish economy and more competition in the social media market.

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This is a training program - Meta should expect that it will require some mentoring.

She was hired in April. This isn't a "just hired before the hiring freeze".

Recruiters are frequently on a 12 month contract. This appears to be industry standard (I've seen it when looking at jobs at other companies too - a quick search shows https://careers.ey.com/ey/job/Toronto-Recruiter-12-Month-Con... https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/NielsenIQ/743999750237276-r... https://careers.edrington.com/job/New-York-Contract-Recruite... )

The contract would have been finished in 4 months. Ending it early when it was said to be fully funded means the original statement was bald faced lie.

This isn't a "she was the only one laid off" - but rather "most of the other participants in her program."
How well does it work on DRAM? I thought everyone running heavier models are doing it on GPUs.
One option I think could be interesting, provided by GPT-4:

> AI for Experimental Recipe Generation: Build a platform that generates unique and experimental recipes based on users' ingredient preferences and dietary restrictions. Target home cooks, food enthusiasts, and culinary professionals.
Is This the End for Free On-Street Parking in NYC?
I'd also like to disagree with the claim "many artists seem to think their creativity was formed in a vacuum".

In my experience, most artists will gladly list out the artists that they've admired and studied from int their training, and specifically say what pieces or styles influenced any particular work. And then most of the time if you were to communicate that influence to the source artist(s) they would be overjoyed that someone appreciated their work so much that they contributed to the success of the new work.

This is all part of training for and being an artist. These boundaries are set more in (artist) culture than in law, and of course there are those that violate those boundaries, but I think for the most part artists buy in to this shared creative experience, particularly the more invested and successful you get within the field.
Through acidic chemicals released by plants they are not consumed
> I'm personally wondering in how far ML compute will be done on consumer devices, rather than on servers.

Running ML on the device has been one of Apple's value propositions for a long time. They are currently silent on everything that's unfolding, but I expect them to at least mention something and WWDC (and trying to run that something on the device)
What does that even mean? Mathematical ideas are ideas. The notion of continued fractions is not just an expression of the world around us. This is basically hokum. The point is that human intelligence utilized original thoughts in the case of Ramanujan.
Ask HN: Solo founders, How do you deal with self-doubt and being overwhelmed?
Being a solo founder is incredibly hard and lonely. I am constantly second guessing and feeling stuck. Some days are great but some days are dreadful.
We can’t isolate individual neurons in a functioning brain or train custom models (“probes”) inside of a living human brain that lets us see what they’re feeling on specific inputs. The scope to understand how these models work is incredible: the more intelligent they get, the more we can learn about intelligence works.
Good-ness can be a creeping thing. If you're excited to work for a company because it does an actual measurable good you probably are inclined to care about and advocate for the people around you.

Wish them luck in keeping that fairness to the artists and themselves going strong.
How do I give chatGPT access to my bank account? “You are an excellent investor. Use the money in my bank account to make more money.” What could go wrong?
> It seems actually securing the model is either computationally infeasible, or outright impossible,

I was thinking of this, but now I think it should have about the same limitations as humans.

We can deny to answer these types of questions, while still being able to answer a very broad range of questions, I think it is possible for language models/AIs too as well.
I'm going to give you the official reasons, because I do believe that is the "why" for most people who want to ban them:

They are more attractive to kids.

Tobacco is an acquired taste. I enjoy a yearly cigar but even it can be a bit strong for me.

Vaping has flavors and is smooth and gentle.

The problem here is not just that cigs are worse for you than vaping. Kids smoke because smoking is rebellious behavior. Making vaping illegal will only make it more rebellious. Also nicotine is a pretty solid fix for anxiety which kids are full of.

There is a an alternative argument that vaping bans are due to tobacco industry insiders. Honestly though they would probably refer to capture profits than ban them.

Vaping is relatively safe, esp compared to tobacco. My two pack a day mother who smoked since she was 14 moved entirely to vaping and got her nicotine habit very under control. This was a woman who got in trouble for smoking in a hospital bed pregnant yet was willing to forego her vape for four hours without even a complaint last time she had to fly.
German eID Based on Extended Access Control v2
Its been one hell of a rough go for Heroku lately.

I think you would be insane to start a new project with them today. Which is crazy for me to say, as I was one of their biggest fans for the last decade.
It's gonna be a rude awakening but enjoy the good times.
It’s interesting what Singapore did a couple months ago.

All companies sending SMS need to be registered. They set a deadline and if they didnt meet the deadline (many didnt including Singapore Airlines), their “caller ID name” became “Likely Scam”.

Legitimate companies got registered very quickly after that.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/likely-scam-sms-se...
This runs on GPU with WebGL, so it will depend on what GPU you have.
I'm not a prompt engineer but prompt engineering is a real skill* and you can specialize for different models. For example, a good and well informed prompt engineer will have intuitions that GPT like LLMs are bad at arithmetic tasks even before they ever made a single prompt because they understand or at least have a good idea of how these models actually work. Sure, they won't know for real, unless they've tried to make the models to arithmetic.

I think the very best prompt engineers for GPT3/GPT4 are working at OpenAi. I would be very surprised if no "guardrails" put around ChatGPT are implemented using embeddings. It makes perfect sense to use embeddings to put up guardrails and makes perfect sense as to why there are jail breaks.

* I wouldn't call it a real discipline yet.

edit: rephrase
> I don't understand the obsession with asking chat GPT with what it wants and suggesting that is somewhat indicative of the future.

It's scary because it is proof that alignment is a hard problem. If we can't align GPT-3, how can we align something much smarter than us (say, GPT-6). Whether the network actually "wants" something in an anthropomorphic sense is irrelevant. It's the fact that it's so hard to get it to produce output (and eventually, perform actions) that are aligned with our values.

> We still don't have anything scarier than humans and I don't see how AI is ever scarier than human + AI

True in 2023, what about 2033 or 2043 or 2143? The assumption embedded in your comment seems to be that AI stagnates eternally at human-level intelligence like in a Star Wars movie.
Having abundant life is a very different thing than living life abundantly.

If it’s not a misquote then it’s a misinterpretation.
The key takeaway here: Access is king.

I would bet that every time some stupid licensing agreement expires and a TV / movie streaming service has to remove content from their platform -- content people reasonably expected to be there, or worse, content that they were in the middle of or in the habit of enjoying -- a pirate may be born from the frustrated customer.

Keep access flowing, and you'll keep your customers.
Amazon will discontinue newspaper and magazine subscriptions
Humor is only coincidentally about being correct, since we all know horses have fore-hooves and two rear hooves, leading to the funny fact that horses have six hooves.
Compromises, compromises. Play a visual novel. There!

Snark aside, I should note the flexibility in storytelling that all interactive fiction provides. Namely, as the author you get to use time travel without having it as a plot element. That way, you also avoid the overemphasis that long-running linear stories place on their singular endings.

Hmm...this has definitely been said on HN before in some thread related to the Netflix CYOAs. I wonder if a useful robot9000 is now feasible with modern language models, with aggregating and summarizing of perennial forum debates.
This is exactly what has happened to commercial and investment banking (market/trading) in the last 30 years. Computers and mass automation. Even if your profits only grow with inflation (in reality, they grow much faster), but you can reduce costs each year (less labour required), then return on equity continues to rise. It is crazy to me that most big commercial banks still have so many physical branches. I guess they exist for regulatory purposes -- probably _very_ hard to close a branch to avoid "banking deserts".
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Incites Construction Loan Chaos in California
Great notes! There was a challenge mode where you could copy challenge "seeds" from the mobile game to the web and back. It checked your clipboard for that. I have that mode disabled so great call to disable the creepy clipboard check!

If you like the web version, please try the mobile one. It's much richer and has more modes :)

Edit - Should no longer ask for clipboard access.
Hmm. Hypothetically if a human on first line help desk gives advice that is so completely bad as to be a crime, are they liable or the company? Because I guess a chat-bot would definitely not be liable.
Well, again, who are you going to attribute it too?

given a training image is good for about 1 byte of information, an image would have..... well over a million likely contributors.

Same as any art an artist comes up with, given all the things they have seen in their life leading up to the image.

Placing it in public domain seems like a easy way to stop it being hard core commercialized.

And honestly, given the crazy extensions on copyright laws, it seems pretty fair to do so.
Gen Z strikes again
Wouldn’t producing energy be the bad thing? If you collect all your energy from solar, I don’t care if you waste it, assuming our access to green energy is infinite.
If machines were truly able to replace most jobs, we'd need to move to a post-work society. There would be no need for money and for small powerful groups to control the means of production. There needs to be a new philosophical and political framework for a society of people that does not need to work, and no one is building it. Perhaps we should ask an AI to design one. But it will probably be too late, and those currently in power will do everything they can to maintain their privileged positions, and will end up living in small walled gardens while the bulk of humanity live in slums.

This all assumes that AI continue to do the bidding of humanity, which is not guaranteed. There are already security/safety researchers testing AI for autonomous power-seeking behavior, and this is basically gain-of-function research that will lead to power seeking AI.
"The only competition that should be allowed is big players, small businesses should always be dependent on at most one or three of the largest tech companies. Also unrelated we could be doing copyright infringement and let's not enable people to check."
"Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim’s phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely."

Funsies...
Would be worried that the old images will still be distributed, but if an open source maintainer needed to push an update (e.g. for security reasons) they'd need to sign up to the paid account
OpenAI says it will focus only “on a positive human impact,” not profits (2015)
So when is South Korea going to apologize for the atrocities they committed in Vietnam, and put that in their school textbooks, and form a national identity around it?
I don’t think he’s bullshitting, I think all of them are true. They all are Venice in ways Calvino saw it. The point about language is that Polo and Khan aren’t even actually able to communicate the dialog as written, they don’t understand each other verbally.
Here's my two cents, as I work with NLP in a tech company, mostly with Dialogflow and Rasa, in my current project, we are using Chat GPT (and previously GPT 3) to summarize articles, and I see that it can really handle FAQ questions really well. One of most common requirements was to train our bot to handle FAQ type question apart from complex conversation stories/flows,but this thing can straight up take the content from an article,summarize it neatly and send a response back.

We have had some issues and complaints with the API,( mostly with GPT 3 as the fine tuning was only open for the base model and that had some trouble with some questions). Also there is a finicky response time, despite using having paid access. Response time varies from 10 seconds to even a minute (during some downtime that occured a few days ago, and a few days even before that there was a complete outage).
I like that this generates readable output that could pass as hand-written code:

https://github.com/matejak/argbash/blob/master/resources/exa...

The docopt.sh output looks as if it went through a JS minifier. Or is there a way to change that? If so I think it should default to that.

https://github.com/andsens/docopt.sh/blob/master/docs/naval_...
I enabled (silent) push notifications for the routes and lines I use going to and from work. It is more convenient than searching for a route every time or visiting the transit agency website.

Also, the app oozes personality.
no wasn't that what happens when the ukraine gives up their nuclear weapons?
Pull the other leg.
Is there a reason not to have another “unbroken” chat instance check the output for violations? It seems like a simple “does the following response violate your rules?” would stop most of these “jailbreaks”.
It's probably better to have your own that can work across services. Most queries and problems involve multiple sites or services, so having your AI assistant work above them makes sense.

I suspect this is where Google and Microsoft are heading.
I wonder how you would be able to apply mitigations on carriers (like T-Mobile) that have turned off their 3G service. If you don't have a carrier which supports 3G (or lower), don't you need VoLTE turned on in order to make & receive voice calls?
The question is: if the TaskRabbit person hadn't mentioned their concerns that it was a robot, would the model have given the same "reasoning" after the fact? Isn't this just the probabilistic model at work - the tokens being generated are more likely to be about robots, because robots were already a topic?
Ok. You convinced me to update my profile. I'm mostly a lurker on HN and now I feel like I should contribute more.
> Until a system can actively and continuously learn from its environment and update its beliefs it's not really "scary" AI.

On the eve of the Manhattan Project, was it irrational to be weary of nuclear weapons (to those physicists who could see it coming)? Something doesn't have to be a reality now to be concerning. When people express concern about AI, they're extrapolating 5-10 years in the future. They're not talking about now.
> 2. Grow frustrated with duck typing

FWIW GDScript has had optional/gradual typing since Godot 3.1[1] with significant improvements implemented for Godot 4.0[2].

Also, I've seen a non-zero number of people who were used to C# comment that to their surprise they actually liked using GDScript. :)

So, you know, maybe it's C# that will be the onboarding path for GDScript developers instead. :D

[1] <https://godotengine.org/article/optional-typing-gdscript/>
[2] <https://godotengine.org/article/gdscript-progress-report-fea...>
I'm not sure it's so absurd. There's always unexpected tasks that show up which can throw off a schedule. Or sick leave, vacation, etc. Things happen.

I've worked as a TL on several teams before where we didn't assign any implementation work to me specifically, but I was there to jump in and help paddle the boat when folks got stuck.

This worked great, because usually the sticky places were integration points between subsystems, which can be especially tough for junior engineers to navigate. As someone with the big picture I could jump in and save them tons of time.

In the meantime, if I had spare cycles I'd work on tooling, test automation (and especially stubbing out and deflaking integration tests).

Projects where I did this tended to have fewer bugs and hit their deadlines.
No. There was a data science conference in the Western US a decade ago. Mark Zuckerberg showed up unannounced, with a job offer for every single attendee.

The strategy comes straight from the top, and it makes perfect sense. Even if they are not fully utilized, even a FAANG salary is small potatoes compared to what top-tier talent can bring to a company. Think of it as the HR version of what VC do, invest in many people knowing 90% will fail to live up to their potential, because the 10% that do more than make up for it.
> nobody will tell me why

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042583

Edit: I just took a look at your recent comments and they seem mostly fine—and some are very good (thank you!), so I've removed the rate limit from your account. I'm taking a bit of a risk in doing that but if you'd meet us halfway in good faith, that should be more than enough to solve the problem.
Great job with the UI. Looks really clean. One concern many data teams might have with this is around how something like verifies that the queries are correct before sharing it with the rest of the company. Have you thought about a solution for that?
I feel that. I have even done that myself.

Typically written by folks who aren't even aware of the problems they are trying to solve, no tests, and event and timer leaks.
Looking at the code it seems like it's only running using simd so far. I think the creator said something about the WebGL models being inaccurate when quantized or something.
To hold you accountable for the things you do with their network maybe?
It's good press but they hardly have a business model - I assumed they would have a platform or API to access uniform edge computing stuff.

I asked about our local pool which has just had a boiler failure and is raising money to avoid closure.

"The key unlock for any individual project is workloads - we can't fit units and give the heat away for free without businesses using the cloud services the servers provide or hosting their own servers with us. If you have any businesses in your network, large or small, who can migrate their existing computing needs onto Deep Green Kit - we would love to speak to them."

I don't even understand who in the UK would be commissioning colo on a small, local scale like this, let alone the practicalities of working in a data centre where your server comes out wet.
So it sounds like giving up nuclear weapons doesn't really work out for most people in the long run. I'm just saying, no one would be F'ing with Ukraine if they had a few hundred warheads.
Thought you were onto something back when pilot helping mega-enterprises with talent.

You were the only way to get well-assessed devs in the door despite non-technical hiring managers and an HR department asserting any assessment was discriminatory.

Government can't buy open source since lack of support fails due diligence, so wash OSS through vendors offering enterprise support. Similarly, talent can't be hired well directly, so wash great talent assessment for enterprises while they stay compliant, it should be a gold mine.

Most every enterprise in America needed (needs) that, and any of them running a Transformation had someone that would have been a sponsor.

(Btw, looking for folks interested in setting up a new kind of systematic person-role matching, and while still somewhat marketplace-like, profit could be on the order of $500K per match. Know anyone interested in trying that?)
If you turn off VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling, I don't think you can get calls in the US, so I'm not suprised VoLTE can't be disabled.
Your local community might already be contributing to the PurpleAir network.
You're describing feudalism
> The parties that trained these weights violated copyright on a grand scale

How exactly did they violate copyright?
Would love to hear feedback! What are those reasons and how do they apply here?

I’ve used React and Storybook quite a bit - this was inspired by those experiences. Haven’t used Backbone in over a decade.
Tenants don’t have the ability to make landlords fix things unfortunately
That’s the Oulipo algorithmic underpinning, I don’t know if it makes for commentary or just is.
> arguably it is fair to include interventions in which Wagner is a major player

So then we need to include Blackwater and the like too? Well shit, we're well into the double digits now for US foreign "interventions".
Despite being downvoted, you're largely correct. John Deere's primary customer base are mega-farms who don't really mind treating tractors as a service. This does screw over smaller farmers though who are already struggling to compete.
Assuming this is the only missing uranium across who knows how many sites during who knows what kind of timeframe.
I’m not sure how else I can write this. Maybe I’m mis-using commas?

The AI does NOT hold a copyright. That’s ridiculous. The person using the AI does. It’s just a tool like a piano or a paintbrush. A piano doesn’t own the copyright to any music. It can’t. It has no rights. It’s a piano.