skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
except - social exclusion is a giant driver for inner despair; poisons can disfigure the user; deranged is a real thing. Comic books are not entirely fictional, otherwise readers could not relate.

so what are the ways forward? Twofold paths: of kindness and inclusion, as taught by every major religion in the world today. Secondly, swift justice and strong angels for when things go awry. Is Evil real ?
When they understand and can manipulate psychological "archetypes" (or whatever they find in the structure of our minds) and we let them make our kids' cartoons and games...
Desperate strategy to steal developer code done by people that is as immoral as ignorant on how tech isn't reusable or modularly scalable like they imagine and how obviously bad it will all invariably end but they are "just giving it a try"?
I was thinking more about the syntax in general. Maybe I'm over-simplifying because most of my time is spent working with Clojure, but Rust and C# syntax is to me very similar to each other (together with most C-like languages). But I agree, programming patterns are different enough to make it harder to make the jump I guess.
Why are there 2 colors of lobes in the pictures? One seems to be the same as the other but with a coefficient of -1, but why show that?
Is anybody surprised about Google discontinuing services instead of maintaining them, or god forbid improving them?

It’s very simple; is it an ad? No? Then Google will scrap it.
> Is someone seeing god likely to be getting behind the wheel

I think you're significantly discounting the number of people who smoke weed while driving. I saw quite a bit of it in college- much more, in fact, than drinking alcohol before driving (never saw some literally drinking while driving, though I know it happens).

Apologies for the completely made up numbers, but I think it is illustrative:
If weed only makes you 5% more likely to get into an accident (compared to, say, 50-75% for alcohol), but legalization causes an additional 10-15% of the population to drive stoned, that's still a statistically significant effect.

Real numbers would be useful to draw meaningful conclusions about what to do about it, but I think it's not unreasonable to believe that it will have a negative effect in this regard.
Does feel borderline appropriate. But kudos for trying.

Citymapper is definitely hiring now. https://citymapper.com/jobs
Or feel free to contact me directly on marius@citymapper.com
Not just tiny cars, but somehow base US engines on the same car will be bigger than euro versions.

I never understood that since Euro driving generally has higher highway speed limits, predictable or non-existent speeding enforcement, more stop-and-go (when city driving) and more hills (ok, that can be subjective but very true for me).
You would just bring an HR complaint against the person that didn't proofread what the AI said.
Indeed. I got so disappointed with their cancellation of The OA that at this stage I'm pretty unwilling to start watching a new niche show unless it's already completed its full arc (or was defined from the start as a "limited series").
It would be even more impressive if this article ended with "Generated by Microsoft 365 Copilot" or something
trash, unfit for this site
Can anyone recommend a good desktop color laser MFP that will fit in a roughly 20" x 30" footprint?

Something with true duplex (for both printing and scanning), decent toner life, and fast first-page-out.
Bumping into a tree at 20mph is significantly less fatal than a 80mph person rear ending a 60mph person because in the latter example, the drivers lose control and just keep going at high speeds.
Which is weird because I see people smoking weed while driving pretty frequently (especially in stopped traffic on the Lion's gate). Last I heard, we don't have a reliable test for cannabis intoxication -- which makes recorded DUI rates questionable as evidence.
>the banker made the journalist look like a fool instead,

Certain readers would takeaway that he deflected where a person of integrity and good faith would use the opportunity to steelman and address the core conflict of interest criticism put forth.
Sorry if I was ambigious, I mean that the "list of lists" is from Mozilla, not that Mozilla themselves are responsible for the individual sites.
Or, they are exactly what they say they are: people more focused on effective altruism than feel-good or look-good acts.

If you were trying to run an orphanage, hospital or refugee camp and someone donated money that was going to let you save more lives, would you rather let people die than accept a donation from a crypto founder who a few people said was sketchy (but was also getting fawning press coverage in mainstream media and fundraising from legit financial institutions)?
All stablecoins are inevitably fallible stablecoins. Wealth is social, and can not be "stored" outside a social context.
This was it: Johnson & Johnson https://www.reuters.com/legal/jjs-ltl-units-bankruptcy-dismi...

This case is specifically about this strategy in bankruptcy but I wouldn't be surprised to see this decision propagate more broadly.

> J&J is among four major companies that have filed so-called Texas two-step bankruptcies to avoid potentially massive lawsuit exposure. The tactic involves creating a subsidiary to absorb the liabilities and to immediately file for Chapter 11.
I do this: https://tdhopper.com/rejected
(Talking about several-hour long take-homes, not FizzBuzz problems).

It is cruel, but it is numbers game. The take-home is easier for hiring managers given the macro environment and would help to cull out false positives (hence "numbers game"). Our industry has way passed the point of not playing these numbers game.

The most friendly ones I've seen is a "take-home" done onsite with generous time given, and an engineer can answer questions. It helps to simulate work environment as much as possible. The upfront cost is extreme for the companies though: you put up your engineers time for these onsites. You did end up with good hires, but the time limit is real (v.s. take-home), and that shoot up your false negatives through the roof. But it does respect candidate's time, and friendly.

For companies can afford (in the sense that good candidates just walk away), "take-home" portion also helps "alignment". If you spend extra time on it and really want to get in, you are probably ideal (or desperate, but still ideal, gives the company more leverage). These are given no cheating is happening though.

I have to admit that I never did good on these "take-home" tests. Setting up environment normally was not an issue, just without an engineer to clarify constraints, I often end up with less-than-commonly-expected solutions and make the interviewer hard to judge the end-result (most "take-home" from interviewers' perspective are very structured like exams, you get x points here, y points there, if you go off the expected path, it was hard to score these points). ChatGPT probably will do a better job than me at this these days though.
Is there precedent for that holding in court? Saying something like "I put this unusual string in my software & it is also in theirs" seems pretty useless from a legal perspective.
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Maybe some people need to hear this though?

About a month ago I had this happen:

-Explained full interview process during the phase 1 call (15 min call, round table, and lastly a take-home code challenge)

-they were cool with all this

-they get to the end of phase II, after an hour long call with a bunch of people, and passed it/went great

-they then surprised us by refusing phase III/the take home test

As an employer I try to set expectations early, they acknowledged it and then proceeded to get upset when we did what we said we were going to do.
I don't think "smart" is the right way of framing this, but there is a lot to learn.

First, Rust has its unusual way of managing memory through ownership and borrow checking. There is a steep learning curve there, but it's not that hard once you "get" it. However, some programmers need to unlearn their web-of-pointers programming style and adapt to Rust's way of thinking to get it.

Then, Rust doesn't have inheritance and hates shared mutability. For game development this makes the easy "class Player extends Entity" design nearly impossible to work with. Entity-Component-System works way better with Rust, but ECS design is another big thing to learn.

IMHO Rust is worth using for most things that would be written in C usually.

For game development the jury is still out. Rust has great multi-threading support, which games don't use that much yet. Rust also focuses a lot on correctness and preventing bugs. This is a bit controversial in gamedev, since the usual way is to iterate quickly, and fix stuff later. Rust's proposition is to iterate a bit slower, but not have to fix as much later.
It is interesting how this is something people only "wake up" to now on a generational basis. Obviously the government wants this to happen, each generations' specific communication modes are presented as "safe" but in reality each generations' social network apps du jour is a new opportunity for even better "total information awareness".

This has been apparent since "Carnivore" was revealed to not be a conspiracy theory, but an actual system in THE LATE NINETIES, and ECHELON since the 1960s. And since then I would roughly say computing power is 20-40x more powerful (5x the gigahertz, 8x the cores), and storage is probably 1000x more scalable (40GB/280$ vs 14TB/200$).

I have no idea how old you are, but three years ago, heck that is well past the point you should have been aware of this. Look:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

That was revealed in 2006. Basically, the crux of it was that there were "secret rooms" like that in EVERY SINGLE telco. Well, except apparently Qwest, which blew my mind at the time because they were the worst regional telco of them all, so the fact they stood their ground was a total anomaly in their usual monopoly extraction sociopathy.

One big sign of this is Tiktok. Tiktok is an attempt by the Chinese to subvert the normal monopoly the FBI has with social networks, since the US/EU governments are working with US/EU companies for facebook, twitter, etc. But Tiktok is Chinese.

So Tiktok looks like just another social network to a typical social network junkie, but then you read all these headlines where congress and the EU wants to ban it, seemingly strangely up in arms over just another video social network, and .... that's because the Chinese are doing what the US/EU have done for 25+years. The US government has ITS toys, and doesn't want the Chinese to take them.

That should clue you in to how much the government likes have total information access to social networks that are US/EU based.

A lot of this could be swallowed if the US exhibited healthy signs of a functioning democracy, instead it is another sign of an emerging postmodern totalitarian state. The last hope of this was our judicial branch, which has been so thoroughly compromised by 30 years of partisan nominations (read: pro-elite in all cases) and Iraq war case law that it will never go back.

I would stay quiet, but by the time I realized what was going on I had 10+ years of data on me. It doesn't matter anymore.
Understanding in my view implies a high enough degree of shared cultural and social background that saying human-like sentience is orthogonal to understanding is kind of nonsensical (given sentience is a pre-requisite to that background in the first place).
This is to me just a post-semver and pre-semver language culture decision. Many of these crates would be on version 7 or whatever had they been developed in the early-mid 2010s, but these days people have higher expectations of complete compatibility between 1.x versions compared to projects in say Python or Ruby when those languages were 7 years old which were happy enough that 1.8 was "compatible enough" with 1.7.

There were some earlier hints of this, e.g. Flask was already the defacto Python web framework when it went 1.0 in 2018 after 8 years: https://palletsprojects.com/blog/flask-1-0-released/
I love the spirit!

Practically speaking, having a backlog of vast amounts of similar data to you, the true way to get out of the loop is to try something different. To do the things that wouldn't fit as a data point in that list format.
I think most people associate cost with volume (other things being ~equal). The notion of paying the same or more for something that is smaller is inherently a hard sell. In other places, there are significant advantages (either in taxes, fuel costs or convenience parking/going places) that counteract that to a lesser or greater degree, but those are largely missing in the US.
I only see one failure here: not using ISO 8601 for dates.
and guess who makes them? hint: it's not OpenAI
> I never see senseless product listings on Ebay.

Do you believe that this is because Ebay knows something that Amazon doesn't know? I personally think Ebay just doesn't drive the kind of sales volume — or have the particular expected sale+logistics lifecycle (immediate payment to enable immediate shipment of locally-warehoused goods through Prime, etc) — that makes these particular scammers interested in exploiting it.

Also, as you're describing this more, I'm increasingly confused, because I don't think I've ever seen an Amazon store listing that is truly "senseless" in the way you're describing. Maybe it's just that I've only ever visited Amazon's Canadian storefront, and these particular attackers aren't active on there; but while I see lots of AliExpress-dropshipped product listings, lots of page grooming, etc., but never a completely-senseless listing. I believe you that they exist; but can you link an example?
Be careful, this car has bad crash test results: https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/dacia/spring/44197
>> GPT-4 is on average better than humans, and within the top 10% on many tasks.

Sorry for adding to the dogpile, but that is a big claim without anything to back it up. It's been clear for a while now that we have no objective measure of the ability of language models. See, for example, the discussion in this article:

What Will it Take to Fix Benchmarking in Natural Language Understanding?

https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.385/

Especially so with the shift to large language models that can only realistically be created by big corporations with vast resources and no interest in scientific questions, the whole business of language modelling has escaped from the confines of science. We just have no way to know how good, or bad, those models really are. All we have is nothing more than feelings: the subjective opinion of people who use them, and then tweet about them.

So let's just not make such grandiose claims, right? As the authors of the paper above point out:

Performance on popular benchmarks is extremely high, but experts can easily find issues with high-scoring models. (...) Ample evidence has emerged that the systems that have topped these leaderboards can fail dramatically on simple test cases that are meant to test the very skills that the leaderboards focus on (McCoy et al., 2019; Ribeiro et al., 2020). This result makes it clear that our systems have significant
room to improve.
There's a natural stopping point from a musical perspective, and that's learning to play the drums. Every step beyond that only affects image or cost. There's a huge variety of commercially available drums, so anything you build will likely sound like something you could buy. Even if you make something weird, it will sound like a modified commercial drum, and there are commercial products for drum modification too.
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> people will only read the summaries instead the real texts

I can see a world where more humans get better at writing concise text.
Mods: the HN headline is missing the word "concept" from the original article's headline which is IMO the most important part.
Correct; thanks!
>This is a case where Asimov’s laws of robotics would have to be bent a bit. If you ask an AI to let you win a single-player game, should it comply, or argue that letting you win will harm you?

Game AI (single player in particular) is all about providing the player with openings and ways to win and feel powerful without them realising that's what is happening... all the way from NPCs coordinating with one another (and barks to make it clear what they are planning so they can be ambushed or stopped), to "Director AIs" that work on rules of tension and release to make sure the player's having the most fun and not being overloaded.
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It's not a bizarre opinion.

Consider substances like weed or alcohol that can ruin lives but usually don't. How should our laws treat these substances? I'm not sure but there's nothing absurd about thinking they should be illegal.

Also consider: what are laws for? To some degree they're about discouraging certain behavior. It would be nice to think that we could discourage weed/alcohol without making them illegal but it's not clear that we can do that.
+1 on that.

The handful of times I've dumped a bunch of time and effort into an at-home screening assignment, it took far longer to do well than whatever the allotted time was made out to be. Emphasis on the "do well" part.

My (unscientific) sense is that these things are really just screening for people willing to jump through unreasonable hoops.
Self-host and use Photoview [1], it has face recognition. I use this since 2 years with 5TB of photos (on ZFS) and it works flawlessly. It is worth it - everything under your control and you decide when to migrate. My phone's photos are also uploaded automatically to a Nextcloud folder, which is read-mounted to Photoview and scanned automatically.

[1]:https://github.com/photoview/photoview
It was pretty bad until just recently (a couple of months ago?) when I noticed it was incredibly improved, might want to try it again.
V5 is vastly better. V4 mutations are outright creepy.
Can't wait to get email responses on mails people haven't read
Ironically, the hiring managers wants you to take the test so they can decide if you're worth their time first. It's quite a pickle.
March 2023 Libreboot release expected soon
From ChatGPT (free version, maybe the paid version is funnier?)

In the first frame, the boss is sitting at his desk typing on his computer, while his employee looks on. The boss says, "I've discovered this amazing new tool! It's a generative language model that can write all my emails for me!"

In the second frame, the boss shows his employee a sample email he wrote using the tool. The email reads, "Greetings, minion. I require an update on your progress. Chop-chop, or you'll be the next one to get the axe. Cheers, Bossman."

In the final frame, the employee looks horrified and says, "That email is terrible! It's rude, condescending, and threatening!" The boss shrugs and replies, "Well, at least it saved me some time. I was going to write something even worse!"
Just wait until you read about what happens to those cold-storage SSDs!
I've tried consumer Google Glasses once they were released. I was truly impressed. If I were to guess — camera & privacy concerns killed them.

I see others say that its just another product Google killed. I have to disagree, >10 years is quite a long time to see if product works or not. This time its a bit different.

Google is a cool company. Maybe not as cool as before, but certainly an order of magnitude better than Microsoft. I wish them all the best and hope they can come up with new exciting stuff
Probably more like the SUVs had higher margins so they could market fake discounts/incentives.

Largely, an SUV and a sedan have the same expensive/complicated electronic/mechanical parts, but with stretched bodies so they can nearly double the price but definitely not double cost.
Take home coding tests as a 0th round interview step can be extremely effective if they are short (30m-1h), relatively easy pulse checks (a step or two above FizzBuzz level). Any more involved than that and they are insulting to candidates, thus driving away talent.

I worked for a company that administered a simple half-hour take home coding challenge before any interviews. The problem was simple but not trivial — print Fibonacci numbers, take a string of brackets and print if they were properly nested (e.g. '()(())' is OK, '(()(' is not).

We had essentially zero attrition of candidates with good CVs who refused to take the test. On the other hand, we disqualified >80% of applicants from the test alone, saving an enormous amount of interviewer time. It would have sucked to have phone screened all those candidates and spent half an hour of company time on each one to discover they can't code at all.
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Copyright laws are a tool, not a reason by itself. They are aimed to give money to inventors, not to judge innovation. You can argue they do judge in order to accomplish their aim, but that's the byproduct, not the aim. So let's not give the laws more meaning and usage than they deserve.
Via is not a general-purpose transit system. Via is an on-demand customizable van service that is often used by municipalities. It would be a ride type in Citymapper, not a competitor to Citymapper.

Some cities, like the Park City area in Utah, integrate the busses and Via vans into a single app to optimize the use of both. Citymapper could do this in-app in the future, creating chained transit options.
In that case, you're wrong: the Denial of Service is "jamming the human review queue", and it would be very successful. Even Amazon doesn't have infinite money to hire moderators to keep up with the number of [99.99999% automated and illegitimate] reports that would flood in.

(Actually, it's probably a supply problem more than a demand problem — there probably aren't enough people willing and able to work as moderators on the entire Earth, to manually review the number of complaints that would be generated here. It would cost them orders of magnitude less to just hire people to manually review all changes made to product listings! ...which they still won't do, because that's still apparently too high a cost to bear.)
Given that their first post in this vein was https://openai.com/research/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes then one would expect it to be "Scaling it to 12,500 nodes" :-D

$ kubectl get nodes
I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that
>> I’d struggle to find any human content that is not recycled from the past.

"A man with a new horse visited the hardware store in Dagwood last week to try and find a new hitching post for his stable."

That simple sentence has enough entropy that I can say, with confidence, that is has never been uttered by anyone in the history of human civilization.
For a year or two maybe.
Or, you know, you could not use personal language, and instead talk about the subject matter itself.
> "Soon, asking a writer if they use AI will be like asking a photographer if they use Photoshop" – e.g., it's a foregone conclusion, and the best artists will generally adapt to using the best tools available

The problem is that it automates the best parts and transforms the user into a curator/manager.

Some people want that, but other enjoy the creative part more.

To bring it back to photography, that's the problem with digital, you blast through hundreds of photos and spend most of your time selecting and editing at the computer.

With analog, and especially wet plate or direct positive paper, it takes a while to compose your picture and you only have one chance to take it and develop it. It's very easy to mess anything which is what makes the process more meaningful. And you're left with a unique copy, not an artificially limited single copy.
It won't only be error messages people will use AI for, but the generation and regeneration of whole applications; that is, your job.
That's going to happen regardless. Having a friend on the inside who can give you insider information is always a major advantage.