skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, this'll be cool but I hope they've changed a bit more than just getting parity with graphics/effects from more than 10 years ago.

We talk about bad games companies like EA, Blizzard, etc. But Valve is honestly taking the piss as well. They literally do nothing except prey on people with microtransactions/shoving lootboxes & gambling down childrens' throats.

The problem is, they do all the above for pure profit; there's not even the benefit of all that dough funding beloved games sequels or improving their services.

Tbh I'm more excited for whenever the hell the next (source 2) gmod is going to come out.
Sure, like all risk analysis you weigh benefits against costs. In a general sense I don't think we're far off a decent balance.

The problem is that we seem to have entirely ignored the moral risk where some people (criminals in all but name) continually abuse the same issues. Companies intentionally go bankrupt with a ton of debt rather than trying to minimize debt when it implodes. I've seen companies buy big pieces of equipment just before bankruptcy which were then sold to pay general debts, only a small portion of which went to the seller. Management knew they were likely caput but they didn't act like it.

Mistakes can happen, but in this case it wasn't a mistake and it was incentivized - not just allowed - by our system. At this point it's not a tradeoff, it's a trap that we're stuck in while its being exploited.

If I borrowed your car and my garage burned down with it inside you wouldn't hold a grudge, but if I knowingly parked it in a burning garage you would.
Hah, even the youtube video is constantly buffering for me.
I guess I'll wait for a summary article.
It’s even worse for some companies. Planet Fitness makes you go in to a physical location to cancel. Complete bullshit.
It's a mess that's not important enough for anyone to fix. An international incident that has been frozen in time. One of the last surviving fragments of the cold war. Neighbouring countries recognize its documents because not doing so would be even more of a goddamn headache.

You can, with moderate determination, take a day trip there. https://www.mywanderlust.pl/daytrip-to-transnistria/
> Hated to resort to that, but have no regrets about pissing off the CEO, CFO and any one else I called at home

Personally, the only people they should be pissed off at is their employees and themselves. Had they not tried screwing you out of thousands of dollars, you wouldn't have been forced to escalate; I would get a pretty perverse pleasure from knowing I made their day worse in a situation like this.
There are two types of managers 0 or 1s. But to many most are nulls (or not set) until something goes wrong and you quickly find out if they are a 0 or 1
so, you can't get a physical credit card in the mail in the name of Donald Trump, like the picture in the report?

seems pretty bad if true. gotta wonder if Block was really that lax that anyone could do that, or if the authors found an exploit and gamed the system, and if the vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Ebooks Are an Abomination (2021)
https://archive.is/aCqJR
The problem is that React was designed to allow you to use functional programming to express a UI that is a function of state. It might be obvious to experienced functional programmers not to sync internal state using effects in this way, in no small part because they understand what a side effect is already.

> dependency list

This, again, is only confusing if you don't understand what an effect is for: syncing with systems external to React. How else would you say "do the thing when any of these change"?

> order of hooks

I never understood why this was confusing for people. It takes 2 seconds to learn this rule, and your browser console will yell at you if you violate it.
Releasing the biggest version of GPT-2 was supposed to have caused major harm to society.
It officially launched last April...
Sure but the rent roll would barely cover the AWS bill
NPR has picked up this month-old Substack post with commentary that both obscures some of the technical details (specific audio and video tools used) whilst adding commentary on political, propaganda, and fraud prospects of the technique:

"It takes a few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake. And that's only the start"

<https://www.npr.org/2023/03/23/1165146797/it-takes-a-few-dol...>

HN discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35275104>

Both items approach sufficiently distinct angles that I'd feel separate posts are at least arguably warranted.
I literally canceled my gym membership by cancelling my credit card. It was easier to update a handful of services on autopay than go through their daedric rituals of submitting cancellations by fax 90 days in advance.

Years later my wife and I signed up for the same gym. She was later able to cancel by talking to someone in charge and crying about it.
TikTok has a plan to avoid getting banned in the US
I'm in favor of combating oppression, in all of its forms, especially oppression enacted by elites against marginalized communities. The government is not the only entity that can oppress, and a government by the people and for the people /absolutely/ should act to protect the rights of the citizens, including their right to free speech.

You responded like I'm making a Libertarian argument here, but it sounds like you're embracing the dystopian cyberpunk future where Megacorps control the world and can arbitrarily destroy people's lives for things they say, so I'm not really sure you have a grasp on my politics. I don't know what your politics are, but I know that you hate people who say things you disagree with, because you are completely fine with their oppression, up to and including loss of materially necessary services for living their life. Killing people by proxy for uttering something is not supporting freedom of speech, so maybe rather than being snarky and making disingenuous statements you can just come out and admit you directly oppose freedom of speech so we can have a real conversation?
I’m talking about abstinence, which is obviously 100% effective.

What you linked is about abstinence only education. I explicitly acknowledged that kids having sex was inevitable.
The parent didn't want the mini product. He wanted the full paid version (what you get if you do the IAP in the mini product).
depends if they send him to the US. Then it would be way worse
> Is it true that USA does not have an open data law to make everybody publish in CSV?

American elections are de-centralised. Each state comes up with its methods. In some, each county. (I'm not sure how publishing a CSV of vote totals would help.)
EU servers are still up, but very slow
I used to hate on Uber on principle (and what I read). But Uber definitely added something positive to society. A city with Uber experiences a reduction in DWI incidents. Transportation on demand is not some crypto fluffware. Let's remember that the very premise of tech utopia was [addressing] regulatory capture by ineffective parties. That also is a legitimate concern.

So the question (if we suspend judgement of these initial tech waves) is: if ignoring and bypassing regulations to introduce new approaches is also broken, what is the solution to the original problem? As an illustration, examine a hypothetical of when or if civic centers would themselves modernize transporation for hire regulations, mechanisms, etc.
Completely agree. Class components are so beautifully simple. Hooks have infuriating edge cases and are so bizarre they need ESLint plugins to remind people how they work.
> at least 20 people — more than one-third of Basecamp’s 57 employees — had announced their intention to accept buyouts from the company.

Thanks for subjecting me to this crap article ( Which i presume you didn't bother to read.).
"An uncontrollable intelligence" already describes the source of a lot of our current problems... that is, ourselves.

Yes, precisely. One of the best quotes I've seen was "Demonstrably unfriendly natural intelligence seeks to create provably friendly artificial intelligence"

The whole ASI alignment theory is a paradox. What the AI researchers don't realize, is that they are simply building an uncomfortable mirror of human behavior.
> In one study cited by Gabriel’s office, titanium dioxide, used in Skittles as a colorant, was found to be associated with decreased immune responses in rats.

Maybe we should just keep people from giving skittles to rats?

Has this actually been confirmed in humans and what quantity would need to be consumed to actually be harmful to us?

In sufficient quantities nearly everything is toxic to humans.
Writing is supposed to communicate meaning; Spamming generated content with the appearance of meaning is poisoning the well.

I'm pleased that there is push back against this, but I don't think the people championing GPT are willing or even able to listen.
Shootings in my local news basically fall into two categories, drug related disputes on the bad side of town, or people shooting at police when they show up.

This returns a decent number of relevant and recent results:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=+shot+serving+warrant&iar=news&ia=...
It is possible to achieve both. Making an explicit choice to degrade the ability and satisfaction of experienced employees is just optimizing for staff churn.
Right.

In the case of offices, the receptionist is the most important and powerful person there. They are the ones who have the ear of everybody else, have control of access to everyone else, know how things really work (as opposed to how everyone says they work), etc.

A good or bad word from the receptionist can literally make or break business deals.
They made it vastly better in terms of resource utilization, specifically RAM usage. Anytime I restart Chrome to update the browser it's astonishing how much RAM is freed up after all my tabs open up again. Edge seems to have plugged a lot of memory leaks in comparison.
This geometry is a cousin of that geometry

http://www.fleen.org/generative_art_project/i0_quartersize.p...
Near the end of the article, or my attention span, they mention that they urgently need to contrast the actual screen time from societal factors that influence the parents to use the screen as babysitter.

I think there are a bunch of studies about the amount of babble conversation, "I spy" or other awareness games, etc. from primary caregiver is paramount and the moms [etc.] out on walks generally have their baby just zoning out while they surf fast fashion with one hand on the stroller.
It's going to be exciting to see which GPU manufacturer they went with. Intel salvaging arc? This eGPU that can be slotted in is exactly the thing I'd been hoping they would do if they added GPUs and the AMD option is incredible. Gonna have to put my money where my mouth is once it's time for a new laptop now...

I also think it's important to not underestimate the flexibility and marketing aspects of the eGPU design they went with. Someone who has a laptop they use for playing games with a still fine CPU but outdated GPU might look at this and just buy the eGPU. Then when it comes time to upgrade the laptop itself they might be all-in on the value of an upgradable system.
Anyone put Boston Dynamics into a dog race yet?
No, that’s exactly it. Game development cycles are long. UE was officially released just 1 year ago. Projects take on risk if they are one of the very first adopters of a new engine since they will end up dealing with all the teething issues. Dozens of UE5 games are in active development.
You're describing an incredibly toxic environment. Executives blowing each other off, employees not trusting executives, executives not considering a problem real until they've seen it themselves. All of this is a crutch in place of actual trust.

Yes, I realize this toxic environment is present in 95% of all companies in the U.S. That makes it worse, not better.
> "As of a few minutes ago, we had received 576 submissions and processed 474 of them. 93 have resulted in bans and 7 have been marked as suspicious (a new category meaning they might have used those tools)."

I've had many stories rejected by Clarkesworld. but if I submitted something so bad they assumed GPT wrote it, I might die on the spot.
Useful to remember when someone says you're 'dumb as a rock'
I think you'd be surprised what even a little manufactured exposure can do. It doesn't need to be undercover. At almost every company I've worked at that asks for feedback I recommend some version of this. Some things I think you could learn in only a few hours at a Starbucks:

* "Wow that machine is a pain in the ass to use"
* "3 customers got angry at me because ____"
* "Making ___ the way Jane showed me was much easier than the training"
* "I hate it when customers pay using ____"
Epic released the tooling for doing an iPhone face scan to create a mesh that can then be used to create a rigged Metahuman model about 6 months ago! https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/how-to-use-realityca...

My significant other works for Epic on the cinematics team so we've played around with Metahuman a bit. Scans we've done weren't immediately perfect (like the video on that linked page mentions, hair and ears don't scan well) but cleaning it up was basically just deleting those portions of the mesh, letting RealityCapture fill in the rest of the head for the model, and then adding similar looking hair from Metahuman's database.

So there's probably a little bit of work needed before we get "scan your head with your phone to create a video game character automatically" but if you're cool requiring hair selection as opposed to auto generating it from the scan we're pretty much there.
It used to be called excommunication for heresy, but the behavior is identical.
Because as their South SF presence grows, traffic will become unbearable. Without trains, you can't just increase job count indefinitely.
Some major issues with the livestream too, audio out of sync, horrible noise, looked like it was filmed with a potato (lighting was godawful). Did not exactly inspire confidence, but the upgrades do look nice. Glad there's an AMD option now.
Other than speculation the main use case of crypto is hiding money. Sure many people do it poorly, but it is possible and in fact the main use case.
As someone who has worked with many businesses, there is an unfortunate bit of psychology I can share:

Many customers are more comfortable buying items in plastic packaging because they associate plastic with clean/sanitary/professionally produced.
It's a little bit of a misrepresentation(I'm guessing by the food companies) that the products themselves are banned.
Probably a good architecture for launch is a Cloudflare Pages static landing page that has the CTA link to your website that goes through a queue intermediary (invisible most of the time). That way you ensure you don't drop any visibility and you capture all sales.

Festival and concert tickets are frequently done this way and the queue renege rate lets you model how many you would have lost if your site failed to load and at what duration.
One in which no one is surprised when a free trial rolls over to a paid subscription - perhaps that shouldnt even be allowable, given that its mostly done to make money off of people not paying attention.
Wow RPI-based QMK-enabled input modules.
That is something else.
Fine. With copyright being in such a dysfunctional state at present something will have to give. I don't know what the final outcome will be but there's little doubt the middlemen will have a far lesser role to play in the future.

Policing copyright in its current form will become such a burden that it will force change, and with coming AI advances even publisher's editors will become redundant. Technology will make publishers much less important.

Authors ought to see the writing on the wall and start planning to deal directly with their readers. As you say, that would aid in creating books that people want to read.

My personal opinion is that authors will have more to fear from AI than copyright violations. I'm not against writers being given their fair dues but I am against unfair copyright laws.

What concerns me most is that if we're not careful we'll end up reading books and viewing videos created by AI—and I don't want that nor would author/creators. I'm defending human creators here, I don't want them replaced by machines. That's why it's more important than ever that authors and readers have a more solid and direct relationship—one that's much more than just a monetary alliance.
Didn't I just talk about the hybrid alternative as the third leg of the actual dichotomy? You might still have the opinion that the office culture won't be the same and maybe not as good, and you're entitled to that. I would have to think about what I think about office cultures to have an opinion on it.

The either/ or dichotomy is still false, however.
Crowdsourcing curation leads to lower standards and misaligned incentives; it's trying to fight the problem with itself.
"Thus, we must avoid reinfections. Becoming vaccinated and boosted, along with masking, social distancing, and avoiding poorly ventilated venues, are public health strategies that need to be used. "

Last I read, vaccinations don't prevent or reduce infections, masking doesn't work, and social distancing was based on a 1930s experiment with aerosols or something.

Avoiding poorly ventilated venues (like private jets) is something I think is still supportable though.

This whole article reads like a false flag attack from anti-vaxxers.
They planned to transcribe each PDF multiple times in order to validate the results.
Abstinence is a 100% effective. Note that I explicitly acknowledged that kids will have sex sometimes and think they should use condoms if they do.
Good thing they have access to condoms.
The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids
Crypto bros can't even do non-extradition countries right.
Isn't instant coffee the next logical progression in this tech roadmap?
Coinbase is losing $2.6B a year. Seems like he has to make a stand somewhere so that his $130m house doesn't get repossessed...
I think what he meant is that it didn’t change software engineering. Not that many people write code that touches cryptocurrency in some way.

If you worked on cryptocurrency software, how useful is that experience now?
`{a, b, c}` is a syntax sugar for `{"a": a, "b": b, "c": c}`, i.e. useEffect has access to the dependency values.
Just because something is a curve doesn’t make it a waveform.
That made me laugh. And it's an interesting thought. Civ is notorious for an AI that isn't particularly good and frequently resorts to cheating. Maybe GPT has absorbed enough Civ FAQs & tactics articles to be better than the built-in AI? There's a ton of (virtual) ink spilled about the game for decades. Lots for GPT to use.

Would love to see a War of the AIs in Civ, or Crusader Kings, or any moderately complicated game which has had a ton of writing about it.
We need to stop asking the government to parent our children. This is the chief problem. That idea has been mainstreamed such that the assumption is "there ought to be a law" for everything.

Once upon a time, when conservatism was a set of principles and not a set of rants, it was conservatives that stood for limiting government's reach into private concerns. Those values have largely flown out the window to the point where the "two sides" are simply arguing over what to interfere in.

At a global level, human societies have gone through this before. The rash of attaching fig leaves to statuary, for example. The last decade has seen an up-tick of that kind of activity as well.

What happens when you tear down religion and the family unit as moral centers in society? Society replaces them with government... which is drastically worse. Governmental agencies have no interest in teaching that they don't have the responsibility. Their existence depends on growing their authority. There's a conflict of interest.

This is not a slippery slope argument either, it's the consequences of some ideas winning mind share (government as moral authority, morality as old-fashioned...).
> Very high performant bullshit generators which outputs need to be carefully reviewed.

So just like every one of your colleagues? Because that’s what they are. These bots are your new colleagues and they respond directly to you, without complaining, exceeding your knowledge.

Today I sent a PR fixing a bug in a language I don’t know anything about.

It worked. The bullshit worked.

Then I tried working on top of that adding more features and lost the rest of the day. But hey it’s still March 2023 and my colleague is still a junior. We should celebrate that they managed to fix a bug. I don’t know where I’ll be in March 2024.
Very important point for the discussion
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> Has this actually been confirmed in humans[...]?

There's no way such a study would pass an ethics review board. It is structurally unknowable knowledge.
Don't worry, with no customer service the customers will also be placed into a void too.
>Then obviously the problem is not with MMT but with something else.

Correct, I clearly stated what I thought it was.

>Are are suggesting that the rich are the problem?

Not at all! I am claiming that the govt. officials that have their hands on the ability to disperse "free" money are very easily swayed by lobbyists and influence from those with lots of money or power.

>Are you also suggesting that the elimination of the rich is the solution?

Not at all! I am saying that the rich already have money so there is no need to give the bulk of any new created money to them.

>In either case please clearly state so.

I hope the above is clear enough, if not, just let me know. I can go on about this in great depth!

>You might also suggest how to eliminate the rich and thereby achieve a better world.

I would not and never have suggested any such thing. This is your mis-reading of something I wrote, or your misunderstanding, or (hopefully not) you being willfully disingenuous. In fact, from some perspectives, I might be considered rich!