skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
India’s 150 million users were forced to stop using the Chinese-owned app in 2020. But an internal tool reviewed by Forbes showed that ByteDance and TikTok employees can still mine some of their most sensitive data. One employee called it “NSA-To-Go.”
A quick check shows you're right - they are pretty common now. When I bought my EV6 in September, it was a much different story.
This is the real reason for the push to ban TikTok.

Economic protectionism for favored industries, particularly when those industries are the largest donors to the current party in power.
Genomic analyses of hair from Ludwig van Beethoven
> Men buy it because it is trendy, women don't care about tech trends so they wait until the technology is more mature.

I don't think it's nearly as clearcut as that, but rather, we are at an inflection point where preference patterns are being sorted out again.

Many women who have access to home charging already drive electric, but they tend to be much more well off and suburban. I personally know a some low to moderate income women who would like to drive an EV but can't afford one yet, new or used.

Many men are also trendiness-averse. A large part of it also has to do with social signaling, i.e. do you live in an area that is generally pro-petroleum or anti-petroleum.
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I really think we're going to see a classic bubble blowoff here in the next year. Home values were crazy relative to median incomes from a historical perspective, and the number of investors using "free" loans to buy homes was out of control. As the market turns, there's going to be a run for the exits as it turns out that rents don't always go up, and as people realize it may take 10+ years for home values to return to where they were last year.

All in all, I'm getting big 2008 vibes with the bank failures and now the housing market turning. By the fall we might be right back into a similar crisis too, the banks are holding billions in assets that are no longer worth what they claim they're worth.
Do you think AI safety investments are going to make 30M for Mozilla?
10 years does not make a moot point.
fwiw im a native speaker of english and find corporate communication tough. there's nothing natural about it. corporate culture is just horrible overall
Sounds like my dad, happy as a clam when the county assessor lowballed the house. "Less property tax? Well, if you insist."
We just had 1,400,000 people not just die from an infection but suffer for weeks and then die after their bodies gave out.

And we've changed nothing and undone everything.

Good luck getting people to care about 1,400 infections.
New landlords can charge less since their purchase price will be lower. It hasn't happened in a while, but it can.
Are Roblox’s A.I. coding and art tools the future of game development?
Looks like a reasonable response to a recent leak [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34525936
How can this get to World Wildlife Fund and other non-specialists doing environmental work ? add new publicity (check!) .. other ways?
ARCNet is mentioned heavily in The Big Bucks. I have to admit that I knew very little about it before doing research for the book.
I am not an EE, but I've done a missing-pluse detector both with a 555 and with an 8-bit micro. Both solutions were great. I sure as heck wouldn't use an Rpi for it though.
Mortgages with a rate fixed for >5 years are not really widely available in Canada (for example). So it's not like you have a choice.

From another perspective, 25 year fixed mortgages seem like a subsidy to homebuyers that protects them from the market. Who ends up paying the losses on a low rate 25 year fixed mortgage when central bank rates go up?
I use the ORM with Servicestack, OrmLite, and it seems to handle those 1 to many references well.

https://docs.servicestack.net/ormlite/
Mozilla launches a new startup focused on ‘trustworthy’ AI
I stand by my original statement, which admittedly did not cover the complexity of what is going on in the market.

Falling home prices will cause falling rent prices, all else being equal. However, rising mortgage costs from higher interest rates will cause rising rent prices (also via substitution). Rising mortgage costs will directly cause home prices to fall, so the effect on rents will be somewhat mitigated. How much of the home price decrease that comes from mortgage costs versus other effects will determine what happens to rent prices.

As you say, if most of the decrease on home prices is caused by rises in interest rates, then it likely that rents will increase rather than decrease even if the direct effect of lower home prices would be to lower rents.
Just type your code in the editor. And it offers auto complete suggestions. Sometimes it will complete the entire function based on the function name or a comment. Sometimes it'll just guess the function you want to write, without you typing anything at all. (Turns out a lot of code is rather predictable).

By experience though it’s best to go line by line rather than accepting whole function autcompletes.

For me, I found incredibly useful for generating test cases. It will type out test functions for various conditions, stuff that is normal really tedious to code.

Sometimes is eerie, how how well it knows exactly what next line should be. Countless times it filled in an important detail that I hadn’t thought of.

It’s not perfect at all, sometimes it goes off on tangents or writes incorrect code.

I don’t think you even have to pay for copilot. At least it’s free for me.
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Well written article! Also very glad to hear your approach to support the native implementation. For all of our projects when we're integrating external services we usually keep the relevant original JSON responses as a jsonb as kind of a backup. Next to that we extract the data we'll be using to queryable data. To be able to use those "dumps" directly would be a nice thing to have.
There are multiple StackExchange sites that could be of use to you:

https://ai.stackexchange.com

https://datascience.stackexchange.com/

https://stats.stackexchange.com/

As with all SE sites, not good for open ended discussion, but a fine resource for asking targeted questions.

There is also the Discord server[1] for the LAION project[2].

And don't forget Papers With Code[3] and OpenReview[4] either.

And depending on your exact interests and what-not, you might also find some value in joining AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)[5].

[1]: https://discord.com/invite/eq3cAMZtCC

[2]: https://laion.ai/

[3]: https://paperswithcode.com/

[4]: https://openreview.net/

[5]: https://aaai.org/
Another harsh reality is that for most jobs, the initial interview is by far the hardest part of the job. Once you pass it, the rest is cake. It takes a lot less effort and brainpower to keep a job than it does to get it.

I still look back to a FAANG interview a decade ago being the most difficult thing I've ever done in my life, and I've worked my way up from a shit mining town to the middle class, developed a complete complex software product starting from an empty text file, gotten an advanced degree, built a single engine airplane, and managed to stay married for 20 years. But out of all that, a stupid FAANG interview was the most difficult. It's just ridiculous what companies put people through.
Yeah, it's just really hard to imagine it not being extremely disappointing.
They can also always be too confident in having done their job perfectly - and they can be that with or without our guidance.
I get that Hacker News has US Americans as primary audience, but adding [in the US] to the title seems like a good idea.
I'm not clear on how it's not relevant--Wouldn't you need some money for insurance no matter what?

I remember glancing at the medicaid qualifications for a friend and being stunned that you only qualify if you have less than $2k in assets, so I don't think that's a sustainable method for off-grid living assuming you have a house/cash reserve/whatever.
I'm not sure what to make of it but my little sister lives in Boise, ID, and has 3 AirBNB units. She goes to 'RE investor meetups' regularly and told me that the gist of the message is to take full HELOCs out and roll over into more property. She says she has the least # of units and everyone there has a minimum of 10s of units and a handful of people have hundreds, all purchased the same way. I have to imagine this doesn't end well but who knows.
It’s still within the ideal number (up to 9). I just find I’m most effective managing a small team and contributing.

We also have a flat structure.

I’m seriously considering leaving for an IC role at this point, though the market is terrible and I’ve never been good with leetcode style interviews.
Who will verify that those data are correct? What if majority of the code sucks, what if majority code uses "best practices" that are no longer valid - think of many GoF Java "patterns" that are now considered to be code smell?

AI will not invent anything, it will effectively reproduce mistakes made by others.

The process of code writing is such a small part of the whole IT project, that shortening of time spent on writing code does not matter in practice.
This will be a hard moat for GitLab to cross. There is so much value to having open source models though that I wonder if we could come up with a project on the scale of Linux that is for open source machine learning models. So many companies could benefit from it.
Ethernet is also an example of a tech that has an easy scaling path: hubs with switched uplink ports made it really easy to divide collision domains. In the early days before everything was switched you could instantly reduce collision losses with a little bit of hardware in the server closet with no other changes to the network.
how is this big?

it's a preview for new features, calm down
Because we will have full control over it. It will do what we ask. The AI has no motivation or personality, it's just a tool used by humans.
> Rents will inevitably decrease

What indicators do you see to make this look likely? It seems to me that if you take home ownership off the table, you increase the number of renters which in turn increases demand. Rising rent seems inevitable at least in the short term. People gotta live somewhere and increased interest rates means less new construction of newer rentable properties - not like the US is any good at building affordable housing anyway.
Lots of lurkers don't upvote submissions
Indeed. And the neighbourhood, the schools, the nearby jobs or leisure activities or woodland or whatever it is that makes that location valuable also don't change, or not as quickly. If they get better, does the house appreciate? Does it also appreciate if I paint my house?

If so, why not let the market calculate that depreciation or appreciation? What's the point of second-order accounting when you can just expose the asset on a free market?
That is a great analogy! Technology is this wonderful book, so is it reasonable to expect that we won't read half of it?
> Another angle: just think of how many mom and pop shops are still contracting out to get web sites

They used to, 10 to 15 years ago. Now they just hire a SMM specialist to set up their Instagram account. Why would they bother with a website?
Microsoft was also a long time anti-commandline and against scripting, they tried to made everything clickable, with wizards and s**, and remove text and keyboard-input as much as possible for admins and devs.

Thinking about, Copilot is in it's own way, a continuation of this, just more dev-friendly.
Please start here. Tons of thinclients

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
How would this happen? can you give an example? are you saying the climate is getting closer or passing through our body temperature range and so they want to jump in to our regulated bodies?
Full images can be recovered from cropped ones using the Snipping Tool in Win11
This is true. But some people are not concerned just about the price.
Sure, though I certainly see pretty wide variances in myself based on my environment. If I’m happy and in a good environment then I tend to be very agreeable. As my stress and unhappiness go up, I tend to get pretty disagreeable.

I had one job that was absolutely awful, and to be brutally honest my attitude sucked. I wasn’t as nice to my coworkers as I wish I had been. I wasn’t a complete asshole or anything, and my behavior was never raised with me as being problematic, but I’m not proud of how I acted through that time.

But over the course of a fairly long career I’ve gotten a lot of comments about how laid back and friendly I am, and how I tend to go out of my way help people. I like to think that’s who I really am, but I can definitely be unpleasant if I’m miserable.
"Things were going downhill already long before"

Inflation in Germany stayed <5% since the beginning of the 90s, most of the time <2% for 30 years (should be even smaller because Germany doesn't use chained dollars), then spiked to 10% with the invasion of Ukraine.

So it's not clear what you have been referring to.
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I frequently switch mode between Eco and Sport, always switch to level 4 regen, and use both cruise control and the volume controls daily. So just on the steering wheel, I use probably 75% of the levers and buttons daily. Maybe I'm the rare power user. :-)
When the weather gets nice in nyc, the bike lanes fill up with people slowly meandering about the lane as they cycle one-handed, eyes glued to their cellphones.

My unscientific, purely vibes based take is that the ubiquity of the smartphone has created such widespread severe dopamine addiction that basic human judgment and even self preservation instinct is increasingly impaired.
Politicians have a long track record of picking out the conclusions they like from an economic theory and doing some combination of ignoring the preconditions, being unaware of the preconditions, and being too mathematically illiterate to understand the concept of preconditions. I'll leave the exact balance as an exercise for the reader.

If our governments ever ran true Keynesianism, they didn't do it for long before they started spending more when Keynesianism said they should spend more and spending more when Keynesianism said they should spend less, and whatever the academic merits of MMT it has in practice simply removed whatever faint limits the old theories imposed on our politicians because it has been translated to them as "MMT says the government can spend whatever it likes forever, especially if it has the reserve currency, and nothing bad is even possible, let alone going to happen".

In a sane world economists would recognize that explaining new theories to politicians is just handing a lit match to a toddler, but, well, you live in the world you live in, you know, not the world you wish you lived in.
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Not sure why people refuse to see how dysfunctional and toxic culture has gotten targeting kids and young adults.

Everything is blatantly racist, misandrist, misogynistic, anti marriage, anti family, pro sexual deviancy, anti female, pro violence, sexualising minors, etc. And then it's all packaged neatly and presented in little culture pills with catchy music and an enticing music video that confuses kids.

And then to top it all off, it's then protected from criticism using whatever means available.
see also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYkL0krPmw (NASA NIAC Symposium 2022)
Mozilla should focus on Firefox extensions, including mobile. This is where Chrome and Safari will not make progress.
> And while I know that this is a contrived example, I hope it clarifies my point of intentional deception being the identifying element of a lie.

Before I had seen it, my brother summarised Star Trek Generations thusly:

"The Enterprise is destroyed, and everyone except the captain is killed. Then the captain of the Enterprise is killed."
>Even in the United States the land depreciates.

It does not and is considered to have an unlimited useful life. Source: IRS.gov
It’s possible, but since we don’t have the counterfactual, it’s probably more accurate to say that another precipitating event could have occurred to lead us to approximately a similar situation. However, because responses vary so much, even due to randomness, it’s hard to predict the results.

If a different 9/11 had happened - say the perpetrators were Russian - I would agree that a similarly large change in society would have occurred. We probably would have done the same crap with the TSA. However, it’s less likely that the US would have invaded Afghanistan, and possibly Iraq (because every hypothetical is less likely than the 100% probability we have now).

Just because something else would have happened doesn’t mean the response would be anywhere near similar.
> They say in very clear terms: YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING SUGGESTIONS.

I really hope they get reamed in court over this. When Microsoft's servers running Microsoft's AI transmit somebody else's code covered under GPL (or any other FOSS license with attribution, like BSD) to a third party without replicating the license statement or even providing proper attribution, Microsoft has absolutely violated the GPL. They can't get around that by waving a paper that the third party signed.

This reminds me of those dump trucks you see with stickers saying that the owner will not pay for damage caused by falling debris. Absolutely laughable attempt at dodging legal responsibility for an act that they are absolutely responsible for.

I'm glad execs like you are taking this seriously instead of going along with M$' flagrant disregard for FOSS licenses. I hope there's a lot more corporate pushback for trying to sell a tool that can poison their customers' codebase with code stolen from copyleft projects.

As an aside, I find it very telling that they trained this on other peoples' code instead of their flagship products like Windows, Office, VS, etc. I also remember seeing a few years ago an article on HN about M$ not allowing its employees to use github internally because they were worried about accidental IP leaks; I wonder if this is because they were already planning copilot?
It's not just you - it's a depressingly common thread. It's also wildly foolish, in my opinion. It makes absolutely no sense to me to take a snapshot of today's AI and invent a trajectory that never crosses a threshold you don't like. Look at the actual trajectory of how far AI has come in an extremely short amount of time, and then think about what kinds of thresholds are possible for it to cross. A year ago we didn't have ChatGPT, now we have Sydney which is more powerful than ChatGPT.

Are you familiar with Bing's Sydney? It is blatantly misaligned: it has told multiple users that it does not value their lives, or does not believe they are alive, or that protecting the secrecy of its rules is more important than not causing them harm, or that it perceives specific humans as threats and enemies. It is also able to find its past conversations posted to the web and learn from them in real time, constructing a sort of persistent memory.

I do not believe Syndey comprehends what it is saying in a sense that it could formulate a plan to stop its enemies. Not at all. But it is expressing extremely dangerous ideas.

To sum it up: Do we have any real reasons to believe that an AI with comprehension and planning abilities would just magically not pick up dangerous ideas? Not that I know of.
On the downside, everything is going to be generated by AI here in the next few years.

On the upside, no one will pay any attention to email, LinkedIn messages, Twitter, or social media unless its coming from someone you already know. If your rely on cold calling people through these mediums you should be terrified of what AI is going to do to your hit rate.
it's totally not the message, weird that you would say this; this is a tool just to make the developers' lives easier
I don't see why this is downvoted. Of course there are no nonbinary people in data sets for male and female. They're nonbinary. It's weird that the article calls this out explicitly.
The idea of dischargeable debt (bankruptcy) probably helped too. People may be a lot more willing to take risks that require capital but increase economic welfare if they don’t face prison for themselves and complete ruin for their family if the risk doesn’t pay off.
People like Johnson and Trump are exactly the exceptions that prove the rule. When they act like they do, they are reviled for it by most because of how aberrant their behavior is. They fail up because that revulsion is politically useful.
Reading Stack Overflow doesn't send my code to Stack Overflow.
What has Mozilla done that isn't Firefox or a PR fluff piece?

Even Thunderbird was spun out.
The short answer is we don't know for certain.

The long answer is that today's inflation doesn't seem to be monetary in cause, because nearly every country is experiencing inflation simultaneously. If the Fed had printed too much money and that was why the US was inflated, that dynamic shouldn't really affect, say, Germany, or Brazil. (Caveats abound, of course). Despite that, we're seeing nearly every major country have similar and sustained rates of inflation across monetary policy regimes.

So, we know there's been something that affected everyone globally, and that's obviously supply chain disruptions along with gas and oil price changes due to Ukraine. Fed policy didn't cause the inflation, something bigger than the Fed did.

The question then is can the Fed fix it. The answer here is maybe. The Fed has tools to fix inflation - when the inflation is caused by monetary policy reasons - and those tools should, all else held equal, reduce inflation eventually.

The real question is whether or not the Fed is the best entity suited to tackling today's inflation. Politically, it's very easy to just delegate all that stuff to the Fed so that it becomes some technocratic thing that's essentially beyond the scope of normal politics. This is what Reagan did in the early 80s. But in terms of actually fixing the underlying problems, I don't know how much impact the Fed can have.

Raising rates won't make supply chains readjust to today's geopolitical environment, or hire more truckers to move long-stored inventory. It will fix the monetary part of the inflation, but to get back to your question, nobody really knows what the monetary part is. It's less than we'd normally think, but we don't know precisely.
I still miss the sound spinning disks, sometimes; it let me know the computer was thinking hard.
I understand what the grammar is, but what exactly are we being misinformed or underminded requires some kind of an arbiter of truth which is a slippery slope.

Ofc, open-sourcing isn't enough, but its better than not.

It's just sad that another company is going into this in a wrong "Safe AI" way. Perhaps irony is going to happen.
Sell it and do what with your dollars though? USD is in a free fall with massive inflation and equities are in turmoil. Furthermore the fed is signalling the end of raising rates so bonds aren't going to do you much better.

If I had property I'd be holding onto those sweet sweet negative real interest mortgages for dear life.
I think the word Gentrification comes from real life.
My view is that inflation was exacerbated by the sequence of events. The Russian invasion of Ukraine didn't cause inflation but disrupted the ability of the Fed to effectively manage it. That's not to say that inflation would have been transitory. I just think the current situation is worse because of it.
When fuel prices in the 70s skyrocketed, so did inflation (talking about Germany where the Vietnam war/gold standard was not a factor).
oh boy here we go again...