skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering everything, it sounds more like another big wegde hammered into the divide. This will just make the rich richer, because now they can even save on artists, writers and other "expenses", all of which they can just add to their bonus now. All while you of course will still pay full price for whatever they offer.

Admittedly I write this in frustration, from the perspective of someone who has friends who did not get contract extensions because of AI, stock photo sites that are just flooded with AI content, and managers clearly using gpt to write half their mails.
> it raises hard questions about the workforce, the legal system, privacy, bias, and more

Privacy is the least talked about aspect of our current AI systems from what I've gathered. Perhaps we're sleepwalking into yet another surveillance capitalism nightmare and handing over data blindly to these systems, where they learn our preferences, private thoughts, habits, etc (And store all that forever).

Anyone reluctant to 'feed the beast' as it were, and starve these AI systems of personal data that could be potentially weaponized at a future date for nefarious purposes?
Ask HN: If you are a remote team doing story points, how are you running it?
Thinking out loud, the way I'd want this to work is that the person who creates a Linear task gets to point it. Those points are not visible to others until at least X people have voted. Then another person is asked to story point it too. If the points are the same – then that's what becomes visible; if the points are off by 1 step, then the higher value is assigned, and if the points are further apart then the conflicting values are surfaced for discussion.

So it is not a whole team story pointing exercise, but rather confirming that at least X people (author and X chosen at random) can align on the scope.

I am wondering if anything is doing something similar and what they are using to execute it.
Why?

Quick google search shows that it is getting cheaper in the long term [1]

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
Just another example of Rolling Stone literally being the worst of the worst in terms of unethical media. It’s not the first time they’ve been caught like this, nor will it be the last. Their newsroom is honestly so prolific in terms of producing lies that you’d think the political parties would be paying attention to them, they could be a great batch of future politicians.
A few paragraphs in, we get this:

> The rise of AI will free people up to do things that software never will—teaching, caring for patients, and supporting the elderly, for example.

First, he's already shown how teaching jobs can be easily eliminated by AI, just a few paragraphs above. And 'caring for patients' and 'supporting the elderly' sound sort ok, until you realize that these joblines are all sharply constrained by available funding. Further competition will drive wages down further. Not to mention that an out-of-work software engineer would probably make a terrible nurse, even if working under the watchful eye of HospitalAI or whatever.

Moreover, these are all already underfunded pink-collar jobs -- which means you're going to have a lot of men that, for reasons of identity or machismo or inclination or what-have-you, simply don't want to do. We already have a crisis in college & career performance with men, especially young men. Telling them that they will be helping dress their grandparents for $16/h, with zero opportunity to advance, is probably not going to go down great.

Statistically, this is precisely the demographic most inclined to cause political unrest. Further declines in opportunity will therefore probably lead to a rise in, for example, far-right militias, QAnon-like phenomena, and attempted coups.

[aside: Jan 6 will probably be seen as a 'Columbine moment' -- a singular event that spawned countless imitations, to which we will become so inured that they will become part of the fabric of the evening news.(Perhaps the Onion will make an article for coups that it recycles every coup.)]

So, once again, we have an AI-celebratory article that sounds great until you press it on the question of: what will we be doing with our time, and how will any of us make a living doing it?

Billg has no coherent idea.

Socioeconomically, we're the proverbial racetrack greyhound that caught the mechanical rabbit. The game is over, the greyhound is confused, and everybody is checking their losses, wondering if there will be another race any time soon.

EDIT: light revision for clarity (broke out the paragraph beginning 'Jan 6' as an aside, removed the word 'ever' in front of 'any time soon', and cut redundant/reiterative first paragraph) at 13:32PDT Mar 21
I do not really understand the unconditional love for Quanta. Sure it is better it exists than not but I find the articles vague and mostly about people/institution name dropping. "Someone someone from the prestigious MIT said <this is a tremendous result!>". Cool I guess?

Take this one:

- No clear explanation of the problem to solve. Could have given an example or something to hammer out what is an arithmetic progression of 3 numbers.
- No detail about the actual form of the previous bound and the new one.
- Not much detail about the actual technique. I get that it become very technical very quickly. But that is the actual job of a science/math journalist to distill this. "They used a well know technique of increasing density, etc.". If it is well know, why not try to describe how it works.

I wonder what someone like 3blue1brown would make of this.
Heh heh. ChatGTP got hold of Typist.

The Fibonacci series is not a geometric sequence.
I'm a fan of McFly https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
this is actually untrue. yes it’s a decent signal of bollocks, but this is a perfectly interesting and well-written article

those headlines and similar clickbait techniques are annoying, but they’re seen as a necessary evil by plenty of “good quality” content creators and editors

this is especially evident on youtube, where it appears as if you literally cannot gain mass success without surprising facial expressions in your video thumbnails

if you think I’m exaggerating, open Youtube in a private tab and see how many of the recommended videos don’t have someone pulling an unusual facial expression in them

plenty of these videos are of perfectly good quality, but in order to succeed they have to follow a shadowy pattern
The PDF/A versions are subsets of PDF specs that are specifically aimed at archiving. They forbid features like encryption and font linking which would affect access years or decades from now.
It's probably not so much the existence of a contract, but the contents and specificity of any contract.

In the US, most employees below VP or director, will have very generic employment contracts. I've been at my employer for 20+ years and haven't signed a contract since I was hired, even through one merger and several PE acquisitions. I haven't signed anything about my normal salary either - they send me a notice every year when raises are granted and my reading it is treated as acceptance.

My bonus is loosely based on company financials, and subject to board and executive approval. As far as I know, the pay-out schedule isn't set in stone either. I have no doubt that if the company failed, I wouldn't see a penny of any unpaid bonus.

I'm not sure that's true for executives, who often have individual contracts with more specifics about bonuses, whether they be cash, stock, or something else.

Such is life in an at-will state.
Utah school library recieves request remove Bible due to book ban
A change in glib2 is crashing Openbox, xfce4-session, and other programs
I can see it working for ghost writing. One could use Chat GPT to generate unlimited Hardy Boy's novels. But I'm not sure it's going to fool readers looking for quality.
Cell phone not personal enough for GDPR protection
At what point is it more plausible that the FBI did their job? How does the government intend to prove that the CSAM wasn't created by cosmic ray bit flips? Threads like these are insufferable.
I was literally just trying to refresh my memory on some linear algebra yesterday and I kept getting stuck in infinite loops of "Oops, looks like we did something wrong, please check the work and try again."

I know it's a trope to insert, "but I did x thing and it failed miserably," but I do think people actually using it on a daily basis have a much more realistic view of its capabilities.
It seems strange to me to put this into a search engine. What is the relationship between these two web apps? I suspect Microsoft is trying to do anything imaginable to drive people to bing search for ad revenue, but this one seems a bit shoehorned.
What "Watson" service are you exactly talking about? As in, which IBM Cloud service/offering/page?
i feel like you’ve lost sight of what “bait” is
The parameters can be configured based upon system complexity etc. but there is always going to be some level of false positive. But that still may be okay if there are still those i x m x n lists posted around, one can quickly focus in on which lists are, let's say, 99.5% likely to be the relevant bus stop lists.
Seems like that article is currently titled much more accurately: "CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism’ — and Somehow Claims He’s Not Calling for Elimination of Transgender People".
The main reason microsoft software was ever used in developing countries was because it was easy enough to pirate -- not something the company did "on purpose" that I'm aware of
Oh no! They'll delete my free account and I'll be forced to spend 3 minutes making another throw-away.
There is a huge difference between noticing abuses of the media and being able to immunize your self to the effects of such behavior. Many of use on this site like to think we are purely logical being but we are fooling ourselves. We are fuzzy logical beings full of emotions and complex human psychological traits. Just because we intellectually understand the problems around advertising and click bait does not make us immune.
Wikipedia Txtai Embeddings Index
Is Mac's Preview app susceptible to this bug too? Right now it seems only confirmed for Pixel phones and Windows Snipping Tool, but I use Preview and I haven't seen anyone confirm or deny it for that one.
AI has been around for as long (or even longer, depending on how you see it) as the internet (counting the start of internet as the beginning of TCP/IP).
But they’re not creating similar works, unlike AI which IS. Why is this so complicated for you?
I had a bit of trouble grappling with this.

What is the largest AP-3-free set for, say, the integers from 1 to 100? What is the largest N where we've computed it explicitly / how expensive is that to do?
except no one's making the tractor
Drones made out of cardboard and rubber bands to fight the Russian Army
how do I use it with autojump?
Love it. Think this idea can improve onboarding experiences broadly.
Agreed. Example from Scala

// Given an Option
val maybeThing: Option[String] = getThing()

// Classic
if (maybeThing.isDefined) {
useThing(maybeThing.get)
} else {
NotFoundResponseEtc()
}

// Pattern matching (not too IDE auto generated exhaustive match cases!)
maybeThing match {
case Some(thing) => useThing(thing)
case None => NotFoundResponseEtc()
}

This scales well when matching a higher cardinality of things like a variety of Exceptions or enums or other tuple responses like Either etc.
To me, you need something so you search for it. I need an image, I will search to get it.
How did you know that you were hired, and what your pay or hours would be?
The Sensitive Politics of Information for Digital States
firefox containers FTW
> i.e. phi instead of \phi or floor instead of \floor. You will inevitably run into situations where, for instance, you want to write the letters phi, and have to resort to some ugly hack to write the natural language.

I thought exactly the same: What if I want to write the product of f,l,o,o,r? Well, the "ugly hack" is explained in the readme: You just write "floor" with quotes instead of floor. Seems alright to me ;-)
Ask HN: How will AI change UI?
I just saw this blog post by Bill Gates on the top of HN:

"The Age of AI has Begun"

https://www.gatesnotes.com/The-Age-of-AI-Has-Begun

Gates writes that in his lifetime, two tech demos have struck him as revolutionary:

* Charles Simonyi's demo of a graphical user interface (GUI/UI) in 1980

* OpenAI's demo of an AI passing an AP Bio exam last year

How will these two technologies co-exist and influence each other?

What kinds of existing UIs will AI make obsolete? Or rather, what kinds of existing UIs are holding humans back from utilizing what AI can do?

On the flip side, what kinds of new UIs (aside from chat interfaces) could AI enable? What kinds of UIs are needed to let the power of AIs shine?
How would you compare this to, say, McFly? https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
At one point, I remember windows vista license being a significant price of a new computer. At the same time, microsoft made huge efforts to hurt linux image on the desktop, which could really bring "down the price of computers and software".

One may see them as a good "driving force behind bringing down the price of computers and software" for a very limited time. I don't know if the result of 90's and early 2000's microsoft was a net positive to the field.

I don't think "They have done more to educate people in developing countries [..] than maybe any other company in history" considering how they also made many governments, institutions and people dependent on their software. This eventually cost these same entities a lot more than needed if there was a healthy competition which always fought against.
He would say that we are witnessing a collapse wavefront moving through the labour market, yielding a concentration of capital that has never before been seen, and that will almost certainly foment a revolution.

He'd be right, too. But with an eye to Jan 6, I fear it won't be the revolution he wanted.
At the same time, you gotta give people the medicine they need. They have no concept of what a fair price on the market is for a subway line being build in your city with all the local considerations you have. No one does, that's the whole trick of it. At some point though, people need subways, they need sewers, they need bridges, and if we give them the shot to just turn their nose at anything good that seems expensive, we'd probably still be dumping our buckets out onto the street at night versus requiring plumbing.
I usually see it associated with Cronkite's era on TV, about '60-'80. Such strong association with him is part of why it smells like nostalgia and selective memory, to me. And, again, you'd find plenty of people who think he was biased and doing slanted anti-American reporting in the second of those two decades. I would hope most people wouldn't regard the '90s and '00s as part of any kind of even-imaginary golden era of reporting.

I've got some half-formed notion of this sentiment coming from a kind of hang-over from WWII propaganda and tight media control involving much more direct action by US government through media, but haven't exactly researched it and wouldn't stand behind that firmly. Just a hunch. Broadly, my suspicion, if that does indeed have anything to do with it, is that the fallout of that propaganda effort coupled with a crushing victory for the US resulted in a durable credibility for sufficiently official-looking news personalities, that took some time (and the loss of a war in Vietnam, and a huge shift in politics that really took shape starting with Nixon's campaigns) to erode, but was never especially real, as in, wasn't strongly related to some actual difference in circumstances and quality in news media in postwar America compared with the first half of the century.
I wasn't really asking him to give up his existing workflow. Just to consider that software which does a pretty good job of summarizing his long videos. I had started to post the summary of his videos in the comments to help others (it costs ~$0.70 per video) but they get buried. Maybe he could start pinning a summary and that would keep people who see his videos but quickly click off. I dont know, just throwing out an idea to think about.
You are generally correct but the context is crucial here - in this particular case it was my intention to get a verbose fancy sentence out of a much simpler one. ChatGPT inferred my wish from the previous prompts in that chat.

Such use of ChatGPT has been useful to me as I'm trying to progress from intermediate to advanced level in my knowledge of German. However, there are numerous methods for learning foreign languages and it is understandable that you may prefer your own ways and disagree with mine.
I always encourage people who want to join FANG companies.

OP is the typical 'sour grapes' dissing on FANG. Why would I want them to work for FANG, if they don't appreciate it?

You have to be hungry for it to want it. They are millions of people who are grateful to work for FANG and I'll absolutely help them
Generally bank executives have aggressive clawback provisions in their contracts, far in excess of line employees. They often can even claw back already paid and delivered (and potentially spent!) money from quite some time back if there’s cause.

Clawing back line employees deferred comp is mean. Sarah in client confirms likely did her job just fine. She should keep her deferred comp.
> Not a single person from the U.S. Government ever reached out to me.

- Konstantin Kilimnik

What kind of investigation doesn’t interview the primary suspects?

How did Mueller not know about Fusion GPS when questioned by Congress?
I was arguing in good faith. You haven’t shown anything. You just kept repeating “a range of tools were used” but didn’t mention one.

This whole thread is standard anti-China rhetoric. It refuses to acknowledge the facts of the situation and prefers to go with the narrative of CCP are dumb and evil.

I don’t assume bad faith, I assume a kind of indoctrination of western group think. To have Americans (a large portion of folks replying here) look down their nose at chinas response while their own country had one of the highest deaths/capita is brainwash territory to me.
I'm not the person you're arguing with, but please refer back to me an hour ago saying "Seems a fool's errand."
They do not currently operate on the basis of fair use. Operating as a human by looking at images and learning how to draw or paint is not 'fair use', it's a right given to you by either God or Mother Nature, so the legal basis for neural nets learning from other art is that it's learning like a human and creating new art from just knowing what art human think is good and optimizing its creation of art to mimic if not borrow the same qualities while still making something new.
This is very relatable, I'm tall, but yet, I have zero interest in basketball
These kinds of arguments, negative as though they sound, signal a tremendous shift in AI capabilities. Ten years ago, the idea that an AI would be able to score 10% on the LSAT would have astounded most of us, and now we're arguing about whether the LSAT encompasses the full spectrum of abilities needed by a lawyer (it doesn't, but that's not the point!).
Have been for years. Maybe lots of years. It's expensive to have a go (many engineers plus cost of making the things) and it's difficult to beat the established players unless you see something they're doing wrong or your particular niche really cares about something the off the shelf hardware doesn't.
I use a m1 mac mini with 8GB Ram/512GB running OBS using hardware acceleration for the stream and it doesn't have any issues.
That's an hour long technical read. Do you think your average person with high school or a GED as their highest level of education or less, ~40% of the country, is going to be able to read such a meaty document and make sense of it?

8% of Americans are basically illiterate. 54% read below a 6th grade level.

I am not trying to attack you with that statement. This is a statement form one liberal to someone else I perceive as liberal leaning:

Your education privilege is off the charts.

We could have a system like Taiwan, but instead we have an electronic voting system. How do they compare and contrast? Why were electronic voting machines pushed on us? Which one has better understand-ability properties? Which one has better trust properties? What are the properties of electronic voting machines that make them desirable? Why do we have to convince people that voting machines are good (implying a lot of people don't think they are)?
With the Code Viewer, uBlock may (un?)intentionally win a separate war: one where pages are acting against users who open the inspector.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35235732
it may be clickbait but it does provide information about the crossing over of fields, which is interesting, particularly when those fields are computer science and maths
This! And I have to back you on that: “And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.” [1]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
I rarely comment on HN, but I appreciate these moments that remind me that the internet can still be a beautiful place. Cliff, watching the Nova special (and later reading the book), was very formative in deciding to pursue a CS degree, and it has been a blessing to see your humble replies here. Keep doing what you do, and one day I will be able to mark off a bucket list item of being able to stop by and purchase a Klein bottle in person!
> Smartphone cameras work pretty well outdoors where there is enough light. DSLR and mirroless are hard to beat indoors in low light conditions.

I find the opposite. Proper cameras are much more flexible and plain better when there's enough light. Inside, without a flash, you'll not get a great photo anyway, so might as well benefit from “computational” fakery.
Every once in a while I think of paying the Workspace ransom, hoping it would keep Google from potentially locking me out of my account for nebulously defined reasons. Then I come across stories like these how Workspace gives you an interior product (and likely no account protection).
If applets and web start are dead, and Wayland doesn’t render remotely, how would this work? Would a Java app server have to ask the user to run something on the desktop?
> Risks and problems with AI

One of the biggest risks right now is viruses created by transformers trained on known viruses and anti-virus binaries and databases.

Humans created relatively simple viruses which took down hospitals, etc.. Transformer can make new "super" viruses and keep fighting the anti-viruses/firewalls in real-time with high-quality custom attacks.
The article talks about rg (ripgrep) but not rga (ripgrepall)[1] which extends rg to other file types like pdf, tar, zip. The rga website provides a function on integrating it with fzf[2] to interactively search documents from terminal.

[1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

[2] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/blob/master/doc/rga-...
> democracy to break

As if there is any democracy in the countries that claim to have democracy. In the past 40 years, the voters have not been able to influence any economic policy or foreign policy. 74% Americans said to Gallup that they thought their votes absolutely did not change anything and they did not matter even as early as the second Bush administration...