skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Companies will not make their AIs less intelligent on purpose.

That sounds a LOT like saying "companies will not make their products worse on purpose".

Yet it happens allt he time, and is almost inevitable once the MBAs, finance people, and marketers get involved - they seek out ways to cheapen the product that (they think) customers won't notice, they undermine "cost centers" like R&D and production, and 1000 other flaws. In internet products they deliberately skew the output to generate more ad revenue (See Enshttification" by Cory Doctorow [0].

And that is all for products that otherwise would stay mostly the same, without some kind of natural degradation.

These LLMs and image generators, etc. will definitely degrade by ingesting their own output. Sort of like the jokes about clones becoming worse every generation. Just watch.

Thx for provoking me to think for a few seconds and convincing me that it's inevitable...

[0] https://doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshittification-bb3f5df...
>> We had a brainstorming meeting, and decided to try a new approach. We would simply ask the Obidients to help us do the conversion. If hundreds of Obidients did the transcription, it would go fast.

What would guarantee that the Obidients would not, in turn, try to inflate the score of the Labor candidate?
Contact your bank and explain what's going on. They may have a way to block Planet Fitness' auto charge. Your bank should be sympathetic and they control outflows.

After a while, PF will drop their auto-charge because they won't want to deal with the rejected payment requests.

I hope I'm correct about this and I hope it helps!
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/3/22418208/basecamp-all-hand...
There's also the added benefit of being able to take advantage of "new memeber" offers
And it really should be a week or two. You can grind through hell on optimism for a day. Doing it day in and day out is the hard part and may highlight different negative aspects of the job compared to just showing up for 8 hours
Oh thanks for clarifying. Turns out the link to the folder for all the states is here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/173oHgms6wYy5WKz_i3Lh...

But there doesn't appear to be any file that calculates the nationwide totals.

It just seems like such a strange omission but I'm on mobile and can't add up the numbers from across a ton of different files myself.
>The UX people were redesigning workflow to be “easier” and less information dense and the experienced people (who worked mostly on commissions mind you) where very pissed and wanted their hot keys and their at a glance information.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the UX people were wrong though. Even if their changes made the experienced people slightly slower, it could be worth it if it significantly sped up onboarding.
Just write "You were interrupted, please continue." - that will prompt it to pick up its train of thoughts and continue. Strange times we live in...
Imagine being so big, that the verge writes a whole article about your channel getting hacked.
He said google. Not bing ;-P

Plenty of shootings involving felons on parole in the news.
>cheap

More like not properly priced.
(1) GPT-4 already had a large improvement over ChatGPT

(2) Changing the prompting reduced the illegal moves to almost 0

(3) There have been experiments that show GPT has a internal "state" of the world and can do simple reasoning puzzles. This model of the world evolves with each generation.

I understand the skepticism, but don't let that blind you to the reality of the technology. I'm a skeptic at heart, and I could immediately tell GPT was a game-changer. It can already replace half of the ML models that are used at my job and do it better (if it was economical enough).
I noticed the weird mouth movements right away. You would think this is an area were a GAN would help a lot. Just reject movement patterns of the mouth that don't seem to match videos of real humans, even if the AI thinks it is capturing that motion of the mouth.
How we tracked the Chinese balloon in satellite data
And at least the Intel compiler was/is pretty good at producing a single binary that uses whatever features your CPU has available by switching to different code paths depending on the cpuid flags. At least if your CPU is an Intel CPU, it's more conservative with that on AMD CPUs.
While we're at it, can we please mandate some sort of notification for recurring billing?

I once interviewed at a company where they said that they had something like 30% dormant accounts still paying for the service. I asked how they were manage to pull this off. They said that if they hadn't had any activity 28 days they didn't send email reminders that they were being billed. I ended the call shortly thereafter.

Ever since, I've always been mindful about how frequently I'm not notified I paid for something by a company, but instead from my cardholder's app.
Interestingly, he keeps a record of his past predictions and how they are faring. The link is at the bottom of TFA. Seems like he has been reasonably successful at this kind of prediction.
You're missing the point. The benefit is not for you you; the benefit is for your boss. When programmers get better tools and are more productive, your boss needs fewer programmers, which saves money.

I would expect to see a sharp decline in job opportunities for junior developers, and increased expectations for senior developers.
They absolutely have a way to block auto-charges.
It's difficult to imagine anyone on HN, who's been around since 2014, and also not aware of the existence of Switzerland or Germany. So it does seem like mindless boasting.
> IMO if you need a long doc like this pointing out the sharp edges, then I think you've done a poor job in designing the framework

And it seems that the React maintainers don't understand their own system, in a sense.

That obviously sounds a bit weird, but as far as I can tell they seem to think that what makes React good is that it is "functional". And so when something isn't quite right, they "fix" it by making things more functional. And that seems to invariably make things worse. Rinse and repeat.

Hmmm...

What if the good part of React is that it is a reasonably decent UI widget framework for the web? And that the FP-ish nature is really more an implementation detail due to the way it is embedded into the web platform? And that this led to the happy accident of being able to write the UI as a procedure that structurally reflects the UI to be displayed?
Depends how they source the power. If they are getting it out of nukes or renewables, well, not that much at all.
I agree, but my old high school library apparently has a copy available (according to their online catalog). I'd bet it's rarely been checked out, and never actually read (beyond a couple of pages).

They also have the The Communist Manifesto, which seems more like the kind of thing a precocious or edgy teen might actually read (at least in the pre-smartphone era).
Thomae's function
okay - how do you distinguish between scenarios where it's appropriate and where it's dangerous?
Add full-text search to an Elixir Phoenix application
We’re talking about infrastructure projects, which tend to be harder because they have more shared points of contention – e.g. the one rayiner mentioned was repeatedly held up by questions like whether homeowners who’d illegally fenced public land into their backyards had some right to keep it, which had to be fought up to the highest court in the state. The NIMBYs also tried things like claiming that it was uniquely endangering a rare amphipod, unlike the houses and roads they did support, etc.

WTC did not have anything like that to worry about and an exceptional level of political will to keep it on schedule.
Yes, except this doesn't create the outcome that most people who enjoy in-person work desire.

If I'm the only one in the office and 20 people are working from home, that isn't what I'm looking for. So either I decide if I can deal with it or find a new job. And the company decides whether they can live with it or if they're going to mandate remote work, or mandate RTO.

Pro-WFH people like to portray their stance as clearly right. But there is no right or wrong here. It's a question of what a company chooses to do and then what their employees choose to do.
Inflation the Battle Between Creditors and Workers
Engineering is just applied math too.
A small local gym is not “a corporation”.
What is bonkers about that? Apple let 2 consenting parties enter into an agreement and provides a single interface to cancel that agreement whenever you want from their pocket without talking to anyone. I struggle to think of a better setup.
honestly there will be a delay from the government taking action on smaller local gyms too so I feel like there should be a way to submit the businesses for inspection at least to threaten them to improve their policies
Any idea how much a license is? I'd legit buy one for personal use, but if it's thousands of dollars I'm better off sticking with my old Alpha.
I haven't worked retail, I know its unpleasant but is there really that much skill to it?
‘Cease quoting laws to us that have swords - Pompey the Great
> The UX people were redesigning workflow to be “easier” and less information dense and the experienced people (who worked mostly on commissions mind you) where very pissed and wanted their hot keys and their at a glance information.
It was very eye opening.

Just curious. Many applications have some kind of "Settings" or "Preferences" section with some kind of App UI customization being possible. Often it's just a set of fairly simple features like picking a favorite background color for your App or being able to upload your own avatar or something.

But are there Apps out there where you can pick between say "Beginner and Expert" modes and have a radically different UI and UX depending on how experienced and comfortable you are? (Gmail sort of has a touch of that concept with the ability to either have a dense or comfortable email layout, but that's barely scratching the surface of what's possible)

PS: I realize that trying to develop, maintain, and support mobile and desktop versions of different versions of the same App would morph into a significant and unpleasant challenge, but being able to pick the type of UI might be a possible solution that pleases more types of users.
It was shut down by New York, not the FDIC.
Help us out here. What would the end of capitalism look like? All of the attempts at ending capitalism so far have collapsed into disaster, so people are understandably hesitant now to start grand social experiments which historically speaking are likely to end in famine and genocide.
It's not that great. But it's the difference between "in accordance with the best theory" and "suggestive of unknown physics".

Any unknown physics is likely to be a very small effect, at least numerically. That small effect could require a radical change in the understanding of physics -- like the tiny, hard-to-measure difference between Newtonian gravity and general relativity.

Unfortunately, it's yet another case where a small apparent effect turned out to be just noise rather than an actual novelty.
Why is it GNOME's responsibility to port non-GNOME applications or desktop environments? How are the GTK4 docs not done? I use them at least once a week.
Forget bankruptcy. How about we just get to the point US citizens don't have to worry about calling an ambulance? When I was a kid (I'm late 40s now) it was $200-500. Now it's low to mid 5 figures. And if you don't call your insurance and get approval within the window they refuse to pay it. Guess what? When I am in need of an ambulance I'm probably indisposed to calling my insurance company (if I have one) and navigating their approval system for the hour it takes.
Can’t cook if your tools aren’t clean?
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Doesn't always work. I have firsthand experience trying to use it on an Asus X13 and it just happily goes to sleep like it wasn't even running and activated.
Only thing about a land border between Serbia and Montenegro is that they might get even more suspicious than an airport about WhyTF a random Korean is there.
That's true now but was not always the case, which just proves hammyhavoc's point. Crypto has certainly gone through its own annoying, breathless hype cycle on HN as well. It wasn't that long ago when half the stories on the front page were "blockchain this" and "blockchain that". Everything built with blockchain was going to solve world hunger and all of our other woes, and if you weren't jumping on the blockchain train you were going to be left behind.
Similar to privacy.com, which you can use to give predators a credit card that you can cancel:

You can open another checking account at your bank easily, online. I use that for my book expenses and (cough) royalties. Close the account after notifying the gym in writing that you're canceling, and voila they can't charge you anymore.

(that's if the gym draws from your bank account and not by charging a credit card. You could also tell the bank to reject charges from the gym, if that works.)
> There are fine destinations: Belgrade, Istanbul, Vienna, Manchester, Varna (Bulgaria).

I assume these are the commercial destinations. Is it out of the question that he chartered a flight?
The "small local gym" sure was pulling some corporate B.S. on their supposed "neighbor".
It's dubious in the sense that you _are_ distributing a copy of the work. So, just like a lot of other fair uses, you have to accept that it ends up being litigated, or forbidden when the law changes.

The API copying in Oracle v. Google was also dubious in the legal sense, or it wouldn't have ended up in front of the Supreme Court. That's just what the situation was like from the legal POV ten years ago, even though it was standard practice in the field and it ended up winning nicely in the Supreme Court. Now it's not dubious anymore.

> It’s not much of a stretch to apply modern technology like streaming video, interactive screen sharing, or virtual reality to the established concept of a reading room, and wind up with something like CDL

That's a good point.
Trees did not decompose for millions of years and just piled up, since there were no fungi or bacteria that evolved to decompose wood. I'd rather not wait millions of years to see plastic decompose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Rocks_and_coal
California bill would ban sales of Skittles, other ‘toxic’ snacks
True not in every store, but at least in the UK I see it in most stores, for a large selection of produce.

I found an article stating that it actually increases food waste:

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/ulstergrocer/ret...

Obviously I cannot verify these claims, but it seems like could be one of many easy wins to reduce our plastic consumption.

And getting dirty should be expected, these things come from the ground most of the time, that's why you wash your vegetables at home before eating them.
Acknowledging the relationship between capital and labor is not an antiwork sentiment.
I completely agree, many apps don’t justify being a subscription. It depends on the complexity, the frequency of expected updates and new features. Also if there is a cloud storage or paid API component to the app, then a subscription model is practically essential to keep an app running due to the developer’s own recurring costs.

I think like many things it’s not one size fits all.

In this particular case, I think that keeping a firewall utility up to date with changes to macOS and emerging threats would require a modest sustainable income source to make it worthwhile for the developer.
This is exactly the reason why Google tried to prevent launching their LLM-based conversational search; because website owners would be all over them trying to further the narrative about how big tech is bad because their business model is at stake.
Yes, all business entities, with the loose exception of a sole-proprietorship, is a corporation under the law.

There are four general types of corporations in the United States: a sole proprietorship, a Limited Liability Company (LLC), an S-Corporation (S-Corp), and a C-Corporation (C-Corp).

People who whine about corporations fail to realize that 99% of the businesses they deal with everyday are incorporated entities under the law. Your pizza shop, tanning salon, dentist, ice cream shop, sandwich truck...

A business entity can be a good or bad actor. Their legal status as a corporation does not mean they are automatically bad, regardless of the size or public/private status. Their actions and policies define them as either good or bad.

Words have meaning and they should be used appropriately.
Bugs happen, Linux distros aren't exception.

Linus was warned, that something wrong is going to happen and whether he really, really wants to proceed. He did. Without even reading what apt is complaining about.

The bug in Windows updater that wiped out users profile dirs with all documents inside didn't warn in a similar way. Yet, we are not harping about it all the time. We all understand that it was a bug, just like that borked steam package.
Even if it is an individual, the predatory behavior deserves to be financially ruinous. If they cannot run their business without scamming people they should never have had a business.
That is a seriously chewed cookie.
No[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
More evidence that “the mall” is a fading concept, yielding to on-line and outdoor collection-of-stores. Is this some concession to the n American car approach to life?
Ya gpt-4 is still confused: (it's interesting cause it does realize the watch doesn't move but still gets it wrong)

Model: GPT-4

I have a chair in front of the TV and one in front of the computer. I put a watch under the chair in front of the TV. I swap the chairs. Where is the watch?

Work out step by step. Also define "under the chair". Is the question ambiguous?

Step 1: A chair with a watch under it is in front of the TV.
Step 2: Another chair is in front of the computer.
Step 3: The chairs are swapped.

To clarify the term "under the chair," let's define it as a watch placed beneath the chair, such that the chair is directly above the watch.

Now let's analyze the situation after swapping the chairs.

After Step 3:

The chair that was initially in front of the TV (with the watch under it) is now in front of the computer.
The chair that was initially in front of the computer is now in front of the TV.
As the question is about the location of the watch, it is important to note that the watch was not mentioned to be moved along with the chair. Therefore, the watch remains in its original position, which is under the chair that was initially in front of the TV.

The question could be considered ambiguous if one assumes that the watch was also moved along with the chair. However, since the watch's movement was not explicitly mentioned, it is reasonable to assume that the watch remained in its original position during the chair swap.

So, the watch is still under the chair that was initially in front of the TV, which is now in front of the computer.
> there’s a material and significant amount of copyrighted material related to LLaMa which is critical to running it.

Which files from the torrent do you assert are required?

> system’s dependencies on legally protected materials.

Do you think the weights are copyrightable? The dependencies are irrelevant because they weren't in the leak.

> Again, this is not true, that’s property laundering;

Only, if there is actual copyrightable material. And not just an adjacent copyrightable material that is required to use the weights, but the weights themselves because they are what leaked.

If not this is a trade-secret scenario not a copyright scenario.

If there's no copyright on the weights then there's no "laundering" because there's no general restriction on the public using the material once it leaks. If Coke lost its recipe and it turned up online, everyone including Pepsi would be free to use it.

What is certain is that the "no commercial use" clause is irrelevant. The only people the license is binding on are those who accepted it. If the weights are copyrightable then the license is irrelevant to you because it simply hasn't been offered to you. If the material isn't copyrightable then there's no reason to accept the license once it leaks.

> worth noting Facebook has already begun taking legal actions against developers related to LLaMa leak

They clearly have a copyright on at least one file (llama.sh) in that archive so yes, they can make a DMCA takedown claim. That doesn't prove anything you're saying though, about weights and the ability to use them.
Human aligned AGI is much more apt to happen before what you're suggesting.
Seems reasonable, especially this part:

> The fact of the matter is that we have rules. Every publication has rules. Our rules say we don’t want generated content. They also say that we don’t want horror. If someone submits horror, you wouldn’t have a problem with me completely ignoring them, so what’s the problem here?

I hope they can remain open, but I have my doubts. In the end, there's money attached to it, and if people can take a shortcut on their way to make money - even when it's against the rules - they will. To use their analogy, if there's a chance people will make $1,000 by throwing away a fork, that fork's going in the trash.
Legally it usually is, isn't it? It would be unusual for it to be a sole proprietorship.

In any case, predatory/scammy practices are bad no matter what the ownership structure is. Being small and local doesn't excuse you from abusive behavior.
unfortunately in this case the text content was handwritten, not computer-generated
Any human in the world will believe someone if they experience for themselves. Sometimes it's necessary.
> IMO if you need a long doc like this pointing out the sharp edges, then I think you've done a poor job in designing the framework.

Thank you. It's self-serving (mea culpa), but this is the exact reason I moved away from React and decided to build Joystick [1].

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
https://archive.ph/0tB2W