skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have the right to confirm likely salary offer after interview number two.

Unfortunately there’s a really strange thing that happens in very long interview processes, is the employer starts to think something is wrong because the process has taken so long, despite the process being driven by them.

Anyhow, to your situation…. It is now an employers market and some of them need to feel loved.

So you should effusively tell them that you love the company and love the job.
I bought two and they are a massive disappointment.
Yeah, the look like what a 90s movie imagine they'd look like.
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How did Javed Akhtar propagate his faith?
I don't think whether it's AGI or not actually matters when it starts materially affecting the economy.
Should it apply to the whole of Europe?

If openai perceives this to be just a problem for one 60M people country, not particularly known for tech enterprises, they may just shrug it off and close off service to Italy and call it a day.

That's exactly what they did. My plus account got refunded and blocked. VPN only allows me to access the free service, so no GPT-4 for me.

So unless other countries are following on and ensuring that tech giants are respecting privacy, this will just hurt Italian citizens and their ability to compete globally.
This is true. It was really the whole browser HTML/CSS/DOM/JavaScript platform which was considered locked and frozen by IE. Flash supported JavaScript but through its own independent engine, which meant it could evolve independently of IE. Something similar was envisioned for SVG, which is why it needed its own networking API independent of what the browser provided.

Of course things turned out differently, and SVG became integrated in the HTML rendering engine and browser environment.
"Where is the light coming from?"

"The same place as the music"

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1122834984228806656?t=_H...
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I'm not sure what you're getting at here but I'll try to respond. My argument is that "this is just" is meaningless as a way to assess the impact of a technology.

If AI researches say, "this is just X and it can do Y!" then fine, that's just framing for "look: Y". When stochastic parrot guys say "this is just X, what's impressive about that?" it throws me for a loop coz they are are refusing to engage with Y.
Isn't it a problem when technique and budget are the main drive in production ? It kinda fades off the story, acting, magic of a movie.
Solar panels do a great job of absorbing sunlight and heating up. Combine that with a smooth glass surface and panels will clear themselves surprisingly quickly if they are exposed to sunlight at all.
In my opinion, the scene is bright because if we were actually in that scene, our incredible eyeballs would be able to discern a lot of detail, and in order to show us all that detail, the filmmaker must make it bright. If you make it dark to make it more "realistic", you are counterintuitively making it less realistic by making it harder to see what we would be able to see if we were actually there. This balance is part of filmmaking.
> It first materialized in a big way back during the late seasons of Game of Thrones. Episode after episode, people furiously tweeted about how hard it was to see, well, anything going on on screen.

From an enthusiastic GoT fan back then: I don't really know where the author got that "episode after episode" from. I remember exactly one episode, where overdark scenes were an issue, S8E3 "The Long Night" - and in the episode, darkness was a plot device and a deliberate stylistic choice.

There was an unfortunate scene in which the characters were unable to make out whether the enemy was approaching or not, due to intense darkness. The filmmakers chose to visualise this by making the scene almost pitch black, with literally not enough information in the pixels to see the characters. I'm sure that must have looked impressive in a test screening in a cinema, but when streamed, it caused lots of viewers to be distracted by their own reflections and turn up their TVs to maximum brightness - because the scene sort of looked as if you should be able to see something, even though really you weren't.

I think that was a visual experiment by the filmmakers which, frankly, failed - but it was at least a deliberate choice and not blindly following some trend.
The government doesn't block google because a minor could use it to access content that is unsuitable for their degree of development and awareness
Ah! Ok, that's too bad then... Much good luck with the project then, I hope you will succeed with this, I think a mechanism like this one is sorely needed.
Another case of a bunch of instances and everyone on it being harvested for some perceived benefit, without the instance admin or the individual account's consent. And of course it's then up to you to get yourself opted out of it.

Consent isn't optional, people and instances should have to explicitly opt-in. This is not how you build things on the fediverse.
I don't know if it makes much difference, but observe that the British cereal has a red mark for high sugar content on the box. It will be shelved near other cereals with green marks.

The American one has a similar label, except it's not coloured.

My parents bought Frosties as a very rare treat. My American cousins seemed to always have sugary cereals.
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For the love of all gods, can someone who works at Google please, pretty please, get Google Maps to remember my language choice on Google Maps.

I happened to be in Portugal when the maps domain changed, and my account is stuck in Portuguese. If I change it to English, it changes back after the end of the browser session (silver lining, I can now navigate the UI in Portuguese).

I cannot seem to find any way to report bugs to Google, so I thought I'd ask here in the hopes that someone who works at Google, or knows someone there, can get this bug addressed.
I can’t reply to telaramex directly but backup electric resistance is exactly how my heat pump hot water works.
Due to the safety freezes and the high expense of Backblaze when backing up multiple machines, I have switched to iDrive. So far it seems to be working ok.
Are you suggesting Canonical should have stuck with SysVinit and shouldn't have tried to make systems better?
Sure. But that is a result of capitalism and the modern "3 simple steps to make a good movie"-approach.

In my experience the best movies are made from people with passion. But those cannot be made if these people don't get the money or have to bend over backwards and betray their ideals to do so.
not everyone who believes in a business has the resources or the will, or even the skill to do that. also, if i believe in a business, that doesn't mean it makes sense to compete with them.

to give an example, i really love what valve is doing for gaming on linux. i would love to work for them. are you suggesting that i should start my own gaming company?

if i really like a company, i want to see that company succeed, not start another.

also, for myself, i really don't want to work for a company whose business i don't believe in. i would, if it was the only option, but if i have a choice then i prefer to work for a company whose business goals and practices i can agree with.

with startups in particular, there is also the issue that, if i don't believe in their business, that means i won't believe that they will be successful and then it doesn't make sense to work there.
More like your lock file. That being said, if I am paying for storage, that's because I want an exact replica to what I have on disk.
> they don't really bother setting a profile pic or anything for their Discord

I dont have a Discord profile pic or personal info filled in in principle. Ive also disabled the exhibitionist “I am playing this now” feature. That makes me a scammer right?

Or maybe … privacy oriented?
Why do we assume there is a shoggoth behind LLMs and not masks all the way down?
> Their claimed goals and ethics sound pretty compelling.

Yet their actual ethics are pretty abysmal. Worldcoin is a known scam. Notably, it’s also by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoi...
The way I remember it, Time Crisis had a slide that moved. It emulated the kick of a real firearm - albeit poorly, but as a teenager I had no idea otherwise.
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I didn't describe history. I described a hypothetical.
>Who ? Musk is unique in being obsessed with being liked and relevant.

This is a meta-level bias!
I definitely read that as someone who wants people to praise them.
If it wasn't, it is now.
Most US companies can’t handle the tax or the processes - only multinationals can do it “properly”.
Nobody invests in Italy anyway, for other reasons (e.g. dysfunctional legal system), so that argument ain't going to sway any decision maker
Faster *inattentive* driving.

I'm always kind of surprised how terrified Americans visiting the UK are, when they see the kind of speeds people drive at here.

If you're coming here on holiday from the US and you're planning your route using Google Maps, double the time estimate. You won't like the speeds it expects you to drive at.
Ant then you have combined cycle + district heating plants, and you use even more of the energy.
You can't argue this alternative view in good faith because he now has such a long record of pulling the wool over people eyes.

Its just mainstream now and so it looks likes its partisan but to be honest people in the legacy auto and space industry have been screaming from the rooftops for years but no one listened to them.
Ofc
>I'd say in 10-20 years we'll not see anything revolutionary, as in AI smart enough to continue working on improving AI

You do realize we've just at least doubled the amount of cognitive bandwidth on earth right? For every one brain, there are now two. A step-wise change in bandwidth is most definitely going to have some very interesting implications and probably much sooner than 10 years.
I am assuming appropriate precautions are being taken, so that is beside the point.

I'm talking about saving a dime on cheapo, non-reputable drives only to then spend extra time verifying they are actually fit for service.

Why? Why would someone do this? I'm of the mind that buying a drive from a reputable vendor and saving yourself the time of verification and other red tape is worth the additional cost premium.
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The human will always be responsible. There is no way the manufacturers are going to accept liability in case their self driving car has an accident.
> Italy has great engineers

Most of them work abroad.

The brain exodus (fuga dei cervelli) may have slowed down in the last few years, but depending how the situation evolves it may resume
I never understood why people feel like they need something the size of a Ford Transit just to potter to the shops and back.

Fine if that's what you happen to have lying around, but why would you choose something like that? It's totally impractical.
is there really any place for LH in times of Reddit subs like LPT and likes?

also used to read it like 15-20 years ago, but the content just didn't tell me anything new
it is.
"advent of code"
"area of concentration"
I'm perfectly happy to let AI run its course and totally destroy reddit, Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Amazon, Facebook and so on with endless content that everyone can just ignore. Let the humans get back to IRL.
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I really like the idea.

A small feedback, it would be good to also add courses from all over the internet, e.g. MIT OCW.
It's wild that you're being downvoted for true facts, sourced by NPR.

The CDC also knowingly advised against masks, for months, claiming that they wouldn't help and could even hurt despite knowing better.

And that wasn't the only time they kept quiet with information that would have benefited Americans - this well sourced article points out a few of the more egregious incidents. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/31/cdcr-j31.html
uname checks out, move along.
Where was this used bookstore?
Sam Altman is behind both OpenAI and Worldcoin, the latter being a well known scam to gather biometric data.

So Sam Altman first creates the situation that we can no longer distinguish humans from bots, then asks everyone to trust him with even more biometric data to get around the problem he created.

Either way he wins at everyone else’s expense. I urge you to not take this at face value, Sam has already shown with Worldcoin that he is not trustworthy.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
Well, I pretty much told them that 2 weeks ago. If they want more than that... I'm not sure what else I can do. Right now, I'm actually starting to ponder whether I should tell them "no", because it starts to feel like a red flag.
I'm afraid the limit might have been put there exactly because of rclone users.
This is 2023, the market is weird. I don't quite feel like playing diva :)
Most companies have a referral system.

You also know the structure inside: meaning you can say hi to a hiring manager you may or may not know, and say “check this guy out - I vouch for him”
While science has accepted biological evolution through natural selection, there is no generally agreed explanation for why evolution leads to ever more complex organisms. Evolution yields organismic complexity because the universe is, in its very fabric, inherently complex, as suggested by Ilya Prigogine's work on dissipative structures. Because the universe is complex, increments in organismic complexity yield survival benefits: (1) more efficient extraction of energy and matter, (2) more flexible response to vicissitudes, (3) more effective search. J.J. Gibson's ecological psychology provides a clue to the advantages of sophisticated information processing while the lore of computational theory suggests that a complex computer is needed efficiently to perform complex computations (i.e. sophisticated information processing).
> purposefully calling someone something when they’ve politely asked you to call them something else isn’t up for much debate. Seems like common courtesy/politeness.

It can be if the thing they're asking for is perceived to be untrue and the person being asked is a big stickler for that sort of thing. If you'll excuse me using metaphors on this sensitive topic: if someone wants to be referred to as "His Majesty" but is not actually the king then while many nice people will indulge him[1], some who care a great deal about the "correct" usage of noble titles won't.

[1] And it'll work out well! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
Very nice write up. Very lousy game and even worse with the pneumatic controls. The cabinets collected dust back in the day.
> On top of that, most of the US is made up of small towns that public transit wouldn't make any sense for. A significant percentage of Americans must regularly travel between a major city and a small town. That means they must have a car, and a place in the city to park it.

Hang on though: I can't tell my neighbouring city to push for more housing because, while I want to live there in the future, the people that live there now like their lack of housing. Similarly, why can't the people that currently live in the city tell their local politicians that spending all this space for parking the residents don't need is stupid?
> Is there really that much of a difference

Certainly. If a box outputs "this, M, is the best matching I have to A", it takes a sloppy fool to entail that "M is A".

If an OCR says that it sees some specific characters, that is not a "certainty obligation" - it is just a "best effort" through reasonable algorithms and imperfect data.

You are obliged to check. The fact that some people - and workers, and with responsibility - can be confused on those basics shows the urgency on rebuilding "common sense", a civic upgrade to "good sense", in society.
>Just look at ML's own history. A few years ago we had the "deepfake" scare. People were terrified that now videos are going to surface of politicians saying and doing things that they did not and we would have no way to tell if it was AI generated or not. But we had already been dealing with this for decades with doctored images a la Photoshop. Videos could already be edited by human beings to make it look like someone was communicating a message that they were not

The difference is bandwidth. We're making it about 1000x easier and cheaper to do.
Same here. I used to read it with curiosity, then scroll through, to finally simply forget about them (especially LH).
Ahh, this would do it, thanks :).
The funny thing is that the Dogme films aren't unnaturally dark or hard to watch.

Dialog being mumbly and video being dark doesn't follow from actual realism, it's a stylistic choice.
One would think that movies would be produced for the viewers but apparently the monopolistic landscape of modern entertainment allows film-makers to make insane, ego-driven choices without consequences.

People need to be able to see and hear (the audio side is arguable getting even worse) what is happening. That is the absolute baseline for making a good product.

This is the equivalent of making a website where people struggle to read the text and the designer yelling that it is not made to be viewed on cheap mobile phones. Even in our current world of user-hostile web design, most professional designs try very hard to be accessible on a very large range of devices.

And no "naturalism" has nothing to do with it. I don't think unnatural lighting is such an immersion breaker compared the horrible CGI that people are forced to made on crunch time but sure if you want to only use natural lighting, go ahead BUT you still need to make sure the scenes are well lit. There are lots of avant-garde movies with natural lighting that are well lit.
I've seen this movie recently. Wasn't a fan.
This is interesting. There's a lot of innovation going on from American distilleries right now that I think is riding the wave started by craft beer, so seeing what the future holds is pretty exciting.
The issue is common to other seaside towns in the UK although the figures suggest that Blackpool has a larger concentration of the low cost accommodation you mention.
How does this compare to ShutUp10 and others?
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The biggest lesson that owning a Macbook has taught me is that my world view as a power user is a minority and worthless one that should be relegated to /dev/null under most circumstances.

Fucking nobody cares about the gripes I would have with it, and I've even come around to appreciate the fact that Apple sells goods engineered to the desires of people who aren't me (read: the majority): I can't deny the speakers on my Macbook are fucking amazing, and most people would care about that rather than whether something is FOSS.
*to your knowledge.

If you were able to search the chatgpt answers against a database of what it was trained on, you could make that claim, otherwise not
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Yeah I'm aware of the criticism of that tweet, it may not completely make sense mathematically, but I just liked it because it's how I feel about GPT4.

It "diverges" while my human mind seemingly is different in some way - I can keep going at the math problem forever (for much longer?) and I won't hallucinate incorrect proofs (at least very unlikely, and I can keep re-checking them).

Of course this all in the area of feelings and faith - we just don't know much about cognition I guess.
Yup, I’ve been running this config for personal projects for over 10 years too
Acknowledging that formalization typically occurs in the development process, it's worth noting that it's often the developer who initiates and enforces it. However, it would be beneficial for designers to see formalization as an integral part of the design process itself, which could lead to more efficient collaboration between designers and developers, ultimately streamlining the entire development process.
And here I thought it might be global warming. Thanks.
The US is difficult to compare with other developed countries because it essentially has (1) affluent core regions and (2) poor peripheral regions. The US is essentially bimodal.

The core regions resemble the developed world, with similar levels of education, wealth, and political perspectives.

The peripheral regions are much worse off. Entire states, such as West Virginia, are peripheral. Think low wealth, low life expectancies, and entirely different politics from the rest of the developed world.

If you average values from both regions, you won’t really be characterizing either of them. The value will be too low for everyone in the core, and it will be too high for everyone in the periphery.

So when comparing the US to other countries, you’ll get a much more accurate picture by providing separate summary statistics for the core and periphery.
He's only upset that people found out about it.

If they remove his artificial boosts, he'll just turn around and shout at his engineers to reinolement it in another way.
Objectively, there’s a recent push to try and refer to suicide as if it’s an illness instead of a deliberate act. This is because when thinking of suicide, thinking is often impaired due to comorbid illnesses. Therefor, people who die of suicide are not fully aware of their actions, agency or the consequences.

Subjectively, I can’t speak for OP but personally I find this a difficult one. I think for many people, suicide is an illness. However, there’s also something that in Dutch we call “completed life”. The idea that you feel like your life is complete and continuing to live doesn’t interest you. This is often used in the context of people who are chronically ill or the elderly. Referring to those people as “dying of suicide” also isn’t correct, but in these cases I doubt it will reach mainstream media.
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> You do realize we've just at least doubled the amount of cognitive bandwidth on earth right?

I don't realize that. What do you mean exactly?
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You mean Jack Dorsey?
> Where inequality exists, best be sure you can test for it specifically.

I think we basically agree with each other. In other words tradition and statistical modes of innate characteristics are strongly related to each other.

I am just using the framing language of tradition, which is uncomfortable to those who prefer the trappings of a more rationalistic explanation. But it amounts to the same thing.

> But it's another thing to use generalizations of difference as an assertion of inequality, especially one that implies hierarchies of privilege by class like "men and women are not equal."

I think the modern mind needs to grapple with this. Hierarchies are natural and inescapable and typically (but not always) healthy.

There's nothing wrong/shameful with whatever station we might have in life.

For example, I always think of Alfred from Batman.

No, he's not Bruce Wayne, but he's integral to the story. Batman can barely cope without him. He's a servant, and yet he carries himself with a justified sense of nobility.

And Bruce Wayne has a noblesse oblige to ensure Alfred is well taken care of.

We seem to have lost this concept as a culture.

I think each of us must learn to be content with who we have been created to be, and the nobility of whatever position we find ourselves in the great chain if being; caring for those who depend on us, and serving those diligently who are placed above us.

In the same way the traditional conception of marriage isn't abusive, but rather freeing to enable people to find dignity and play to their strengths.