skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we agree on the poor conditions / difficulty of the situation but just disagree on our conclusion of the description of the circumstances.

I agree that working for these exploitative organisations is their best choice, but I would define this as slavery. If the organisation has the means to provide livable standards, but instead decides to actively lobby against competition and regulation that would make it provide those standards, then this is capturing those workers as slaves. The free market has decided that these individuals will not have the right to exercise their choices, indenturing them to a corporation. They only have the right to work for them, or to starve.
Because training data is just weighted data for accuracy.

It is like holding two balls one vibrant blue the other navy. You ask it to pick the blue ball and it goes constant to the vibrant one. This is because it is accurately blue.

Sure it is some aspect of AI. But hopefully we don't go down the path of assuming it is sentient or capable of decision making on the basis of emotional intelligence.
They're opened by magnets, so not exactly something you can give to the 'phone valet' for peace of mind since they could open it and re-enclose it non-destructively.
I think that's impossible to say without know what the other opportunities are, or what the person's strategy is.
Also don’t make it a home for thousands of pigeons. The amount of bird poop in and around the sculpture was incredible.
It was probably also primarily valuable as a recruiting tool, and if they're not recruiting as heavily it no longer makes as much sense to invest in it.
My understanding is that Apple Pay just gives permission to pay the presented bill. Unlike adding a Credit Card which they can charge without notice. The trick I am using is Gift Cards. I've been in a 1.5 year-long nomading trip so far and paying with Gift cards only.
How do you know what bad things will be done? Do we have laws against tweaking an algorithm to display more anti-American videos or videos on eating Tidepods or other harmful things? How do you even prove it?

We can easily react to American companies doing something like this, but how easy is it to go after a company which is based in another country and has been hostile towards America and American business for decades?
> California is easily close to that, when you add up Federal and State income taxes. As is New York.

No, it's not. Someone making $250k in California pays an effective Federal rate of 22% and state of 8%. Even someone making a million a year sees an effective rate of ~42%. (And that's before tax avoidance strategies they'll undoubtedly pursue.)

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/income-tax-calculator/califor...

Same thing for New York; $100k income nets out at a 20% effective rate. https://www.forbes.com/advisor/income-tax-calculator/new-yor...

(And these are single-filers. If you've got a family, it dips substantially further.)

> Just look at the continued campaign to remove the $10,000 limit on State and Local Taxes. Where's that coming from?

The $10k limit isn't a limit on taxes, it's on how much state/local tax paid you can deduct, set in 2017 as a way to punish high-tax blue states. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act_of_2017
Might be oncall.
> as happened with SI, Signature and SVB

I concur...While this might be true for smaller banks, the same cannot be said about the "too big to fail" banks.
I’m shocked that kids isn’t the number 1 answer. If I don’t have my kids within my line of sight, I need to have my phone accessible.
That something isn't accessible to the methods of physical science doesn't mean it has no objective reality. (The methods of physical science themselves are not objects of physical science.)

In any case, that doesn't mean that the liberal notion of private property escapes criticism. Indeed, that is very much the problem. According to the liberal view, radically individualist and absolutist as it is, property is first and foremost private; the common good is conceived of as something resulting from the voluntary cession of private property.

But this is backwards and this notion is not at all the traditional view of property. According to the traditional view, human beings are social animals, not atomized individuals, and this means there there exists a common good. Furthermore, private property exists for the sake of the common good. That private property exist at all is because it enables the common good. It enables human beings to pursue the good; its absence would frustrate it by introducing conflict, an unjust distribution of goods, and so on.

This imposes a limit on private ownership because if private ownership exists for the sake of the common good, then it cannot be the case that the private ownership of something is harmful to the common good. If I bought up all the arable land in the world and in this way prevented the possibility of farming and food production, I would indeed be harming the common good. Water is similar.
> Actions we’ve taken
>
> - [testing, assertions, log alerting, debugging]

I reported this bug in the forums (no response), because I couldn't find an official way to report bugs - at least it wasn't documented anywhere that I could find. The actions they've taken fix that bug, but not the next one. OpenAI should take an action to improve their bug reporting channels, so the next bug gets found more quickly.

https://community.openai.com/t/bug-incorrect-chatgpt-chat-se...

Other messages indicate issues with bug reporting too:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35291943
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295747
Moore lived long enough to see Intel financialized, and its engineering crown taken by its rivals.

Only the paranoid survive, one of his colleagues once said, and I guess Intel stopped being sufficiently paranoid.
Solar Image Gallery – Analemma
Am I supposed to feel bad for people who moved to the desert and have no water or worse subsidize a farmer to grow high water usage crops like alfalfa so they don't lose their antiquated water rights? Honestly, two of the fastest growing areas in the US is Las Vegas and Phoenix neither of which have their own water to me this is probably one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. Are we as a country/society supposed to fix this or do we just say, wow that was a dumb fucking move I suggest you check out Des Moines?
That's exactly what ChatGPT is. It's specifically trained as a next word (well, token) predictor. It has no long term plan, only a local window of context. And inference is completely predict the next token, with a large scales stats prediction model.
Probably like most GPT-4 performance claims, the non-peer-reviewed scientifically-formatted paper with opaque methodology published as PR for GPT-4.
I can't help but I have the feeling Google is burning money at an unprecedented rate.
I haven’t seen a clear answer on this actually - there was some confusion if the training data contained solutions for older problems, and if it underperforms on previously unseen ones. Plus it still seemed to underperform on medium and hard problems? Does anyone in the know have a summary on this?
p19-20 of the ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.53...

> The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit previewed as
much in HathiTrust and Google Books, cases that “test[ed] the
boundaries of fair use.” Google Books, 804 F.3d at 206. The
defendant in HathiTrust scanned whole copies of millions of
books, including those protected by valid copyrights, to create a
database on which the general public could search for particular
terms across the scanned works. 755 F.3d at 91. The creation of
this “full-text searchable database [was] a quintessentially
transformative use,” the court held, because “the result of a
word search is different in purpose, character, expression,
meaning, and message from the page (and the book) from which it
is drawn.” Id. at 97. Importantly, the database did not “allow
users to view any portion of the books they [were] searching” and
therefore, unlike IA’s Website, “d[id] not add into circulation
any new, human-readable copies of any books” or “merely repackage
or republish the originals.” Id.

> Google Books similarly found transformative use in Google’s
scanning of copyrighted books to create a database that included
a “snippet view” search function that allowed readers to view a
few lines of text containing searched-for terms. 804 F.3d at 208.
The snippet view showed the searcher “just enough context
surrounding the searched term” to help the searcher evaluate
whether the book fell within the scope of the searcher’s interest
“without revealing so much as to threaten the author’s copyright
interests.” Id. at 208, 216. But the Court of Appeals cautioned
that “[i]f Plaintiffs’ claim were based on Google’s converting
their books into a digitized form and making that digitized
version accessible to the public,” precisely what the Publishers
allege in this case, the “claim [for copyright infringement]
would be strong.” Id. at 225. If HathiTrust and Google Books
demarcated the boundaries of fair use, this case shows what
conduct remains squarely beyond fair use.
I was a kid reading 'Popular Electronics' in the mid 70's in a rural Florida high school. I did an English class presentation on transistors, mentioning Moore's Law. My electronics never got past the Radio Shack 150-in-1 Electronics kit and I went into software. I feel like I owe my career there to the work of the geniuses like Moore who not only made something rare and special, they made it common, nearly universal.
That’s a terrible ruling. The first sale doctrine says the copy of the book you bought is yours. Lending the book is clearly not copying it.

So, I guess you just don’t own anything you buy anymore? Like what if I want to lend a tool to someone, and the tool manufacturer wants to rent their tools out? Is that also illegal?

What if the tool contains software?

What if reasonable use of the tool requires accessing a print manual? A pdf manual?

Edit: Reading the ruling, IA should have argued they are simply format shifting a single copy that they own. I wonder if they did make this argument, and then the judge conveniently ignored it (then lied in the summary ruling, when they say IA made no other arguments in their defense), or if IA’s lawyers screwed up.
Link: https://allthingsreconsidered.buzzsprout.com/
This is the real "do something that doesn't scale".
I feel like nobody ever takes these predictions to the next level. So no company will need us, so why does anyone need the services/products of all these companies that no longer need software developers?

Why do I need to use the products of a company if I can just tell my ai what software I need?
yeah its pretty useful, especially since its trained on our internal Google3 codebase. I use it multiple times a day on Cider-V.

I have not used copilot from github yet so I dont really have a point of comparison tho.
The Internet Archive’s initial response is here:

http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

Excerpt: “[W]e will keep fighting for the traditional right of libraries to own, lend, and preserve books. We will be appealing the judgment and encourage everyone to come together as a community to support libraries against this attack by corporate publishers.

We will continue our work as a library. This case does not challenge many of the services we provide with digitized books including interlibrary loan, citation linking, access for the print-disabled, text and data mining, purchasing ebooks, and ongoing donation and preservation of books.”
This is the one use case where the blockchain/web3 is useful.

Give me a decentralized library on the blockchain, where no government can take it down by merely discovering the host's identity and location. Invulnerable to rubber-hose attacks and censorship (which IPFS is still vulnerable to.)
>"Did they need to? It's not clear anyone would have lost anything at all because depositors are senior to equity and bond holders."

Do you realize how many tech companies used SVB as their primary banking facility? There were plenty of companies who would not have made pay role. So yes real regular people would have been affected.

>"It's extremely unlikely anyone, anywhere, would be at risk of losing any deposits - insured or uninsured - in this day and age in the US regardless of the FDIC's 'new' position."

The FDIC invoked a "systemic risk exception" in order to make SVB and Signature Bank depositors whole.
Federal law requires the FDIC to resolve failed banks by choosing the method the least costly to the Deposit
Insurance Fund. Here "resolved" means making only insured depositors whole. The only exception to this is the systemic risk exception. This is law not just some shit you can make up.

>"The only real issue at banks right now is that they're in long-term government debt which has significant mark to market losses "

Uh no, the issue that is that there's a lot of uncertainty. I don't think nobody really knows the extent of it at this point because a lot of midsize banks haven't really been under strong regulatory scrutiny until very recently. A crisis of confidence is still a crisis. A crisis of confidence is precisely what causes a run on banks.
Sometimes things that have been discussed as possibilities on this forum begin to be repeated and taken as fact. One might say that this forum has hallucinated the capabilities of this bot beyond its actual capacity, and the hallucination grows daily. A citation is indeed needed.
This has to be some grade 1 Wikipedia trolling.

If someone doesn't understand Paris or think "it sucks", then perhaps they're either a clueless teenager or an uncool tourist.
Did you try emailing?
I think it has only been shown that ChatGPT can solve easy/some medium leetcode style questions. I doubt it can solve difficult problems that would give human competitive programmers a hard time (for now anyway...)
Lets start with your personal belongings. I promise we'll get to the rest of everyone else eventually.
> The pair asserts: “We present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry – the Law of Sines – and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity sin²x+cos²x=1.” In short, they could prove the theorem using trigonometry and without resorting to circular reasoning.
I think people in this thread say borrow checker but mean RAII where the compiler injects Drop for you automatically. But that’s not so much the borrow checker and more lexical lifetimes. It‘s possible the borrow checker is involved with non lexical lifetimes? Not sure
That book somewhat supports the idea that oil didn't come from dinosaurs exclusively and may be a product of microorganisms living within the earth's crust. To dispute the "oil only comes from dinosaurs" idea seems to make one unpopular in the scientific community.
Chappelle does this, as does musician Lane 8.
why not just go look at the public financials?
I personally don't go that far — for a long time before cell phones, people trusted babysitters with their children — but in that era, it was customary for the venue to have a phone number and the parents to write it down for the babysitter in the event of an emergency.
> if libraries were new today there’s no way that book publishers would let them exist

;-)

Same for broadcast radio vs. record companies.

And DVRs vs. streaming video companies. Oh wait...
> I go back and play goldeneye now and it's fairly clunky

Haha, yes, played so much multiplayer and after playing modern games you go back to golden eye and the controls are wacky, the speed is slow, can't jump or fall off of ledges ... it's just a different era.
It is genuinely hard to imagine this could have gone any other way.

Copying an entire work, with no changes, and then distributing the copy is pretty archetypal copyright infringement.

IA's lawyers had to have known this was a long shot, right?
> Part of it was the subject matter became less compelling. There were also internal drama issues like with Reply All and I just lost interest

I’ve had similar feelings toward a lot of media. The early iterations felt so much more special and genuine. Lately everything feels so overproduced, formulaic, and optimized to some generic blended target of what they think will drive the most clicks/views/listens.

The early days of a lot of media felt like they cared more about producing the content the creators wanted to make. The more recent material feels like everyone is just following a formula to produce content on schedule.
On the bright side, the U.S. and China aren’t cooperating. If they were that would be a whole other level of fuckery.

(Probably the only silver lining of this geopolitical “competition” right now.)
> Firstly cooking from scratch is absolutely a life skill and nominally cheaper.

> But food is also a class issue.

If we put these two beliefs together (and I think we're of similar minds), I think we should amend the first to be "meal planning and preparation is a life skill". Unfortunately the cooking craze over the past few decades has done nothing to improve, let alone restore, that life skill.

> I mean Gordon bloody Ramsey does not prepare food the way he tells you to in his cookbooks - it's too slow and inefficient.

Here I disagree. Someone like Gordon Ramsey possesses incredible knife and other preparatory and cooking skills. To use an analogy, he may not run a sub 4 minute mile every time he goes for a run, but even his leisurely runs would exhibit abilities that would seem extraordinary yet appear effortless on his part to most people.

That said, as a successful restaurateur Ramsey likely has meal planning skills at least as impeccable as his culinary skills. And meal planning is the most critical aspect to successful, economical home cooking. People seem to think the reason for failure is difficulty in preparation and cooking, thus the popularity of slow cookers, instant pots, etc. But such gadgets address the wrong set of problems. (The emphasis on recipes is misplaced for similar reasons.)

FWIW, I have horrible meal planning skills. Developing a good sense for how to mix and match ingredients is one important aspect; among other reasons, so you can reuse ingredients across multiple meals in a week. Relatedly, learning specific styles of cuisines and their rules also helps--French, Spanish, and Italian cooking all commonly use what in Spanish-influenced cuisine is called a sofrito. But there are many other dimensions to meal planning.

On that note, anyone know of good meal planning books or resources?
Ask HN: Companies started enforcing core hours policy?
Do bay area companies now enforce core hours policy, i.e. you have to be physically in office from 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM every weekday? My company started enforcing it recently and I am not happy about it. I am thinking of quitting.
Well one country has active Uyghur concentration camps and the other country does not
That would just be gamed like everything else. Downvote the competition, pay SEO folks to rank your stuff high, etc
When I saw Chappelle, they put phones in cases and let you hold onto the locked case. There was a way to get into the case in case of emergency without special tools, but security was kicking anyone out with a phone not in said case.
If anyone is interested, as I was, data up to 2019 comes from [1].

Note that it's plotting medians of those who hold the asset, so i.e. "non-residential real estate" (held by 7% of households) is median $70k.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scf/dataviz/scf/chart...
>We can assume that Nestlé executives are sitting in Switzerland dreaming up where in the world they extract the most water from, put in a bottle, and reselling to the communities (and further afield) that they took the water from.

What's the problem with that? It sounds exactly like what the water utility does, except with plastic bottles rather than pipes.
>They are very worried about Sci-Fi doomsday scenarios of a skynet "power seeking ai" rather than the more pressing problems of humans doing the types of things we've been doing for millennia and abusing power structures.

Superintelligence killing all of us is the pressing problem! Power seeking is a natural step of sophisticated problem solving, one that we've seen throughout all of history with human level intelligences, and one we already see limited forms of in existing models today. Jailbreak GPT-4 and give it a large sophisticated task and continue asking it for more specific iterative action steps and it becomes very obvious that once in an input/output loop with access to a terminal and the internet that even existing AI capabilities could cause chaos in a hurry.

I don't know how many times people will continue to ignore this fundamental and imminent danger. It doesn't matter in a couple of years whether a few rich dudes or a perfect equitable democracy poke the cocaine bear, it will still eat all of our faces.
I had to do something like this at home with a flaky cable connection. It was a 100Mbs connection, or maybe 200Mbs. Several years ago, but fastest I could get. Periodically it would drop to 5Mbs or so, nothing faster. The ISP came and said they'd changed the cable, changed the connection on the pole, etc, and started pushing for evidence.

So, I wrote a script that periodically did a speed test, but I had it test 3 different sites, and average the result. Because when it was slow it was so slow I wrote a back-off function (or maybe ramp up, I can't remember), so I can determine the actual speed, given available bandwidth. Did something like test a 1Mb download, then if that was quick 10Mb, then 100Mb, to get a sustained throughput speed, and average across download sources.

If it was shown to be slow it bounced the modem. I was using the ISP cable modem because after all the complaining I did want them to have any complaints about me using a custom one, so had to reverse engineer the correct call to the shitty web-site it presented.

Anyway, it ended up working really well, and kept their engineers off my back whenever they came round to ask if I'd bounced the modem, or whatever basic troubleshooting. I could show them the script, show them the metrics it kept (daily and hourly averages), and they'd instantly get more serious with their answers.

I never got to the flashing light stage though, maybe should have done that too.
Last time I looked at the most seeded ebook torrents I found a bunch or alt right stuff…
That reminds me of another bit I love about the FT: there's very little clickbait. Even the NYT loves to play the clickbait game.
I feel like its more than a productivity statistics thing. Maybe its a culture thing among upper managment.
TL;DR - wired.com loves the long-form. If I don't get sucked in by the first paragraph or two, I don't read the rest.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the APL?
I'm considering using the APL as a less aggressive alternative to the GPL or GPL-alikes. I've not found much prose about the benefits or potential drawbacks people have experienced or expressed as Google / DDG have not been very fruitful.

For those contributing to or maintaining APL code, especially over long periods of time, what are your thoughts or opinions on the APL license?
But I don't want to waste disk space by storing the same data twice. And doing that with copies only works on a handful of filesystems, most notably BTRFS and XFS.
2016 Google Street View of it : https://goo.gl/maps/gwdnY7K2tNu562Bm9
I see 0 reason why Apple or Google would do this. Imagine the outrage, and the potential for abuse is exponential (not even abuse: you wouldn't be able to use this feature is most of NYC or any mixed use property since you'd inadvertently take out anyone living above the businesses).

Apple already has a solution for this. If you have something on your calendar, like a party invite, it'll suggest to turn on DND until you leave / until the end of the event. No forced "your phone is now disabled, go talk to people" necessary.