skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
indeed this.

there is a difference between the choice of profession and the choice of company after learning the profession.

above we were discussion which tech company to work for, because most of us here are in tech. but tech companies have a wide variety of business goals and practices.

plumbers not so much. they do plumbing. they all have the same business goal, the differences are where they operate and how nice the coworkers are and the work conditions and pay.

for a tech company it makes sense to ask, do i like their product, independent of the job i'll be doing there. for a plumber not really.
I don't see an unbiased way to tell which "side" releases more disinformation and incitement to violence. Even deciding what counts as disinformation is hard (e.g. does it have to be literally false or just cause false beliefs in the reader?).
Vector Search in Constant Time
> humans should ultimately be the judge

Of course. This is confusion between tool and worker. It is not very far from leaving a screwdriver near the wood planks and expecting to find the cupboard built.
Fantastic idea. Learning with others can be an order of magnitude better than by oneself in my experience. Well done.
It's silly to let Clearview AI off the hook here. This is a company that's hoarding personal information it scraped from the internet and selling it without consent. It's mainly being used to let law enforcement agencies evade privacy rules, frame and screw over people like what happened in this instance. This sort of behavior has no place in a society governed by the rule of law.

It's also worth noting that this company has been criticized many times in the past, but nothing has changed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-priv...
When the Next Generation switched to movies, Generations did have that odd yellow filter though, which apparently made it more cinematic. While realism clearly doesn't have anything to do with this decision, the science fiction set of the bridge might just look fake when it's well lit. I miss the 90s look too.

As far as people who say their shows are being ruined, the studios are still chasing younger audiences and mainstream popularity. A starfleet academy show was announced the other day for example, so teenage drama here we come.
EU-USA cooperation on biometric data, breaking encryption, radicalisation
Particularly extreme obesity. America is the only country where I see people who can't fit through doors, or people who are so big my entire family could fit in their T-shirt and still have our heads sticking out.

By contrast in the European countries I've lived in, a fat person is just someone who looks pregnant when they're not. Pot belly, chubby arms, but doesn't really have problems walking.
How's this different from NTLite, and does anyone know how this plays along with the ability to update your system?
Sure, but how can anyone know that rate of progress will continue?
5e9 * 220 / 3600 / 24 implies they are using 12 million cpu cores continuously? That seems nearly implausible, but perhaps it's true?
Sorry to hear you've had such a negative experience with GPs. That's not at all been my experience. Interactions with our local GP surgeries - both in our former home town and where we live now, and in recent months also with my elderly father's GP as he has needed increasing levels of care - have been excellent.

These generalisations are generally unhelpful!
And I love big macs, but they may not actually be a good thing.
> AI chips away at what it means to be human

Can you name a broad technological revolution that didn't?
what you are missing is that the most important thing is knowing the right people
This is true, but it's more fractal than that. You go to the most affluent, in your words "core" region like San Francisco, and you still find it to be bimodal: high wealth, high education, clean and tidy on one side, and medieval conditions just two streets away. Also, I suspect general health levels are lower even in the affluent parts compared to the rest of the developed world due to wide-spread obesity.
While Figma can be a useful tool for aligning design with code, I think it's unrealistic to expect it to accommodate all the constraints of the web platform. Relying solely on a 1-to-1 mapping between Figma components and code components can be problematic and may not accurately reflect the complexities and nuances of web development.
Resume-based hiring is dehumanising and terrible under any aspect. There is nothing redeeming about it.

There is an incredible number of factors that determine how good a prospective employee is to a company, and none of them can be easily represented with a list of job titles and qualifications. You can find people with impressive resumes and they are terrible employees: lazy, stupid, unmotivated. There is a vast amount of people with unimpressed job history that would be perfect candidates even to work on a very specific piece of technology if they are smart, quick to learn, driven, ambitious, enthusiastic or any other soft-skill.

My best interview is my first, as a 19 year old high school dropout: I must've mentioned that I had played with Linux and knew C and PHP. They asked me something along the lines of "what does ifconfig do?", "can you configure Apache?" and "tell me a little about your projects in C", and got hired. They only needed to know I was able to learn undirected, was passionate about computers in general. Of course this was for a junior position, but still, none of that 3 interviews, whiteboard leetcode bullcrap that is so common nowadays.

tl;dr: Candidates are to their resumes what a chef's meal is to the list of ingredients.
Cloud Spend Breakdown
I remember hearing something different. Seems like Mercedes is moving in that direction.

https://insideevs.com/news/575160/mercedes-accepts-legal-res...
Scientists Have Developed a Living “Bio-Solar Cell” That Runs on Photosynthesis
Also perhaps: hoarding, collecting and doom scrolling.
Difference is that Meta was "publishing" the model to researchers, and one of them leaked it. I suspect OpenAI is a little less likely to share the GPT models around unfortunately...
It's probably not that silly, if you consider this:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAB

A = How long Neanderthals existed (350 k years)
B = How long modern agricultural societies have existed (7 k years)

Take into account earlier hominids, and the contrast is even starker.
Looming Twitter interest payment leaves Musk with unpalatable options
Right now, the ability for people to put out shit content is limited by human timescales.

AI algorithms can generate 'noise' at a much faster rate than people can, so it will be even harder to find the hidden gems.
This is actually quite nice!

Finally an open alternative to NTLite, I am gonna try this out for sure!
On a more fundamental level it seems like the reason that movies are dark [or long, or shaky-cammed, or mixed with near-inaudible dialogue, or…] is the same reason movies are such strong and specific cultural touchpoints: they are largely the vision and decisions of the people in charge, relatively unencumbered by prosaic concerns such as accessibility or even profit (at the very least, this last one is true per movie: a director whose films flop quickly stops being able to find funding, so the profit concern does assert itself, but even that director mostly gets to make the movie they want to make while on set and in the editing booth).

The proliferation of sequels trading on nostalgia, cinematic universes like Marvel etc., may seem like counter-examples but I’d argue they represent a directing team whose specific vision is making a lot of profit. Profit is an internal motive and the directing team’s wide latitude lets them pursue it, rather than profit being an external concern that steps in scene by scene and tells them to add more lights. (Also note that Marvel’s MCU is well-known for the very particular creative vision driving the entire franchise.)

When the decision-makers have a unique vision, we get cult classics, new schools like “lighting realism”, and also awful movies like The Room. When the decision-makers are influenced by trends, we get waves of shaky cam or dark lighting.
yeah, and back when it was a tight labor market, when employers were supposedly dying for anyone they could use, i don't recall the opposite attitude prevailing. of course, i'm not really in that scene anymore, so i could've missed it.
And it worked. Got scared there for a bit.
Introvert = Negative emotions. Extrovert = Positive emotions. Negative & Positive as in batteries, not if it's good or bad.
I just want to say that I appreciate the legal analysis. Thanks for your time.

If you ever come up with more hypothetical arguments in favor of NNs being copyrightable, please let me know. Or post them somewhere.
Surely the police refusing to comply with this law will be arrested & left to rot in Rikers for months awaiting pretrial arraignment
Seems like a classic rug-pull to me. Early investors get out soon after the IPO, while retail investors are still pushing it higher.
I say 'hello', an mp3 player also, what's the difference?
I don't know if this is the successor to https://ameliorated.info/ or an April Fool's joke, but it got pinned in the official Ameliorated Telegram group. I'm running Ameliorated 10 21H1 right now, and when I used to use simplewall it showed that Ameliorated is very quiet in nonconsensual network traffic, which I absolutely do not expect stock Windows 10 to be. (And hopefully the prebuilt Ameliorated ISOs aren't backdoored, though it doesn't seem to have any *obvious* C&C network traffic). Hopefully the new OS builder tool is open-source and can be audited to verify it doesn't inject backdoors.

The downsides are that the current ISO injects the creator's preferences in ways which are difficult to change (lock screen image, not being an admin account, VBScript disabled which breaks Visual Studio Installer, only one user usable, etc.). Additionally, applications (Visual Studio, VS Command Prompt, C# build tools even on Linux, vcpkg, Discord) invariably exfiltrate endless amounts of information, even if you clean up the operating system.
Ascribing actual human emotion to a giant corporation like a google is probably not a good idea. Their motivations aren't going be heavily dictated by feelings of shame at being late out of the gate.
It is very difficult to describe anything Elon has done to Twitter since (and including) buying it as "rational".
> Even broad, big-budget blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 embraced a look torn straight from indie cinema. Not only are the lights in that film always motivated, they’re realistic.

Did you tried to see anything at night in a winter forest? It is impossible. Maybe full Moon can help to see something, I don't know really, but my experience tells that the only thing you can see without an artificial light is darkness and (if you are lucky) a few stars blinking through branches of trees (which are invisible by themselves because they are totally black over a black background).

I always laughed at a scene where Harry Potter follows silver doe to a river and Ron Weasley finds him without a notice (Harry didn't see any lights coming), and Severus Snape secretly watches them. Ok, I can write off Snape, he is probably using some magic to see in the dark, he is a very powerful wizard after all. But all the seven books say not a word about Harry Potter or even Hermione Granger knowing something like that. When they face darkness they use Lumos that works like a flashlight. And a film shows completely unrealistic forest where you can see the scene. Trees, for example. Screen doesn't turn into a black rectangle, but to be realistic it should.
It's ironically more compatible than windows itself for some old games
Note that some of the "false" statements later turn out to be true. E.g. holding child a last heartbeat happens (ex-wife held him for death rattle, elon for last heartbeat)
Yet as far as I can see the equally ridiculous FaceTime patent still stands.
I think this dissonance comes from most of YC's guiding literature being written by PG in the 2000s and early 2010s. Back in those days it was definitely possible to grab the attention of users and investors with janky prototypes. But now the reality is that prototypes are nothing and traction is king. The new YC partners probably have to make this shift in practice and out of politeness, they don't call out the guiding literature
They are getting a refund

> We are issuing refunds to all users in Italy who purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription in March. We are also temporarily pausing subscription renewals in Italy so that users won't be charged while ChatGPT is suspended.
Ok, but what does it actually do?
Big 5 names are made up, call them whatever you want, but the categories those names are put in are not made up. They're result of Factor Analysis in all personality questions to date which comes in different levels of resolution. They only put names in the top 5 resolution to make sense out of it, but you can have 1000, 1000000 categories at which point there's one category per question and the whole exercise stops being useful, so we have to reach a certain level of grouping that becomes applicable in real-life. The widely agreed is 5 factors and 10 aspects per factor.
Huh? What does this prove? Trump's WH may have requested Teigen's tweet to be removed, but it's still there: https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1170914148919590914
> students need to know that Ctrl-C will interrupt most things, Ctrl-D will stop some other things

This is so true.
I still follow the advice of a LH article on when to first have a cup of coffee. Seems to work.
Faulty logic. Just because the user count is small doesn't mean the problem is.

Banning the letter ö from names on hacker news would affect a vanishingly small amount of users. But if threads needed 100 times more processing and were much slower to load when a user with a ö posted, the problem itself is quite large.

Without knowing the full circumstances of why they're doing this, what problems it solves you can't really say if it's a good solution or not. We can however absolutely complain about the "no notice, no advice, no assistance" way it was implemented.
I was with you until the hair on the head part. Do you know of any established link between balding and other factors? Is it more prevalent on either side of the pond?
Full statement

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We are issuing refunds to all users in Italy who purchased a ChatGPT Plus subscription in March. We are also temporarily pausing subscription renewals in Italy so that users won't be charged while ChatGPT is suspended.

We are committed to protecting people's privacy and we believe we offer ChatGPT in compliance with GDPR and other privacy laws. We will engage with the Garante with the goal of restoring your access as soon as possible.

Many of you have told us that you find ChatGPT helpful for everyday tasks, and we look forward to making it available again soon.

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Who would put them in jail?
The fact that 'rigorous' is spelled incorrectly on the landing page makes me doubt this somewhat
Are you worried about your cloud spend?
Not saying I’m getting concerned…
genuinely brought a hopeful tear to my eye, maybe all is not lost
This is something I noticed when I was younger, and I guess I’ve just adapted to it over time.

As a 10 year old, trying to watch a dark movie where the main characters whisper or speak in a low volume was basically impossible. I don’t know why, maybe my senses just weren’t that developed yet, but I struggled so much. I remember watching Harry Potter, and in that scene where Harry stands in front of the mirror with Dumbledore, I could barely see or understand anything, despite watching this in the cinema.

As I got older, I was able to perceive darker scenes and listen to whispered or hushed speech better. But it made movie watching way less enjoyable when I was younger. There were large chunks of movies where I basically just zoned out because they were too dark and or quiet. I’m curious if anyone else experienced something similar.
We have that though, just train on the buzzfeed articles that get the most attention or the tweets that get the most likes, etc.
Ask HN: Where are the April Fools fake tech launches?
I remember feeling so excited to see the new tech products that companies were "launching" on April Fools day but no longer seem to see them.

Are they still there? If so, where?

If not, what happened to them?
The Android phone application --I think it's by Google-- alerts of most suspected spam, or you can mark it afterwards and block. I still receive one call every other week, pick up and keep quiet, waiting for the caller to speak. Most times they hang in a few seconds. They have a finite number of numbers, so in a handful of years, frequency came from a couple a day.

Yesterday I received a call from Bari, my patron saint's city in Italy. It seems they're exporting their spam. Italy has a weird criminal legislation for scams, that's why there are so many fake products in used items applications like Wallapop or Vinted.
If it were just about making money I would expect film-makers to go the way of least resistance. What perplexes me is that often viewer-hostile decisions get made despite being more work.

For example in movie adaptations of known franchises changes are made just for change sake so that the writers can show off how smart they are. It would be LESS work to just follow the source material. To be clear: I am NOT talking about changes to better fit a specific medium. I am talking about "look how smart I am, you couldn't predict this twist"-kind of writing that does not improve the story. Still, ego-driven writing seems to be very much accepted?

Same with lighting. No viewer has ever complained about unnatural lighting. This stuff is only made to impress peers.

Why is this kind of behavior so common the industry?
Does not start after install for me on a fresh windows 11 install. Something about module not found […]/index.node
Yeah but presumably he didn't think the devs would tag a specific metric for "elon", which would later be open-sourced. It's one of those things that makes more sense in retrospect...
Pairing self-learners with mentors would be a nice feature.

I recently retrained in IT and had to complement/substitute school material with self-study sources found online (mix of books and video courses).

Instead of teachers, whose added value was approx. zero, I would have benefitted from mentors/sparring partners prepared to do code reviews, architecture feedback,...

Keep up the good work!
Exactly - what does it do?

> Completely transform your computer in minutes. Simply download a verified Playbook, or use your own, and run it in AME Wizard.

erm... no thanks.

Going to need a bit more than just a fancy home page before I do that!
Anyone from amerliorated.io reading this, the word 'Rigorously' is misspelt, it appears in a headline on the homepage as "Consistently developed. Rigerously tested".

Short of joining their Telegram channel I couldn't find another way of flagging this.
Insulation is probably the more important factor. If you don't lose too much heat to the outside, the heat pump doesn't even have to do that much. Or any other heat source, for that matter.
This phenomenon is the real danger of single party capture in a district or state. Same thing happens in CA.
My most recent job was with Intel. I got invited to some kind of recruiting event, I'm not sure how. One of my friends was trying to get me to join, so maybe he sent them my email address? Or maybe they spotted me on LinkedIn? I have no idea. Anyways, I ended up talking to one of their senior engineers on the project they were hiring for. I can't remember if it came out then or later that that senior engineer was a college friend of a guy that founded a startup I had previously worked for. Not sure if that made any difference or not, but I had relevant experience in the area they were hiring for, so they brought me in for an interview. (Which turned out to be an all-day ordeal, but I passed.)

The startup I had worked at before, I was hired because I went to a local un-conference, Portland BarCamp. I ran into someone I know from the Personal Telco Project, which started back in the early days of 802.11 wireless networking and was trying to promote free access points around town. Anyways, he knew someone else there that was hiring for a startup, so he introduced me and we talked and I went in for an interview and got the job.

In either case, it's not like friends are directly getting me jobs (as far as I know), it's more that my network of acquaintances aligned in a favorable way and I was in the right place at the right time.
i think the real move is to situate yourself in a relationship with the prospective employer where the resume and cover letter and interview and all are formalities done after you've already got the job, but that's a tough thing to just do in a hurry, like, say, if you just got shit-canned. maybe you'll do better with a cover letter, but it's still a cold-calling sales job, with success rates to match.
Sounds like a good way to raise vegans.
Lol Hindenburg dropped a report on Jack Dorsey's Block, which is a US company just a week ago.

When was Hindenburg "banned" from doing reports in the US? And which agency in the US "blocks" companies from reporting fraud?
What exactly is allowed in a protest is quite a thorny issue.

Here in the UK there are environmental protestors gluing themselves to the streets and I have quite mixed feelings about them.

A protest that does not inconvenience anyone is very easy to ignore.
Eat less, mostly fresh and home-cooked, avoid sugary drinks, exercise more, avoid toxic materials, drugs, excessive stress, sleep well, don't smoke, have a good circle of friends and family, stay safe :)
I think the stark colors made it easier to follow what you were looking at. The Saradukar wore white in the movie so it was a lot easier to follow that they were imperial forces and not Harkonnen. Anything they can do to make the plot more transparent, the better.
From another article:

> In her June 27, 2022, letter to Silva, Long also pointed out that she had already been in contact with Dahle’s office about his bid, and that a representative told her the lawmaker was “okay with the alternative solution of the goat getting to be donated to a farm that does weed abatement.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-sla...

Now can we talk about the abuse of power and waste of resources to teach a nine year old a lesson?
You have no clue about democracy. Not understanding this very point is extremely dangerous. A majority vote on a tax law is not a problem. A majority vote on killing off a minority very much is, but that's just the most extreme and obvious example.

Take voting rights. Switzerland was last of all the "civilized" democracies to establish full voting rights for women. Why? Well, the current voters had to vote for that constitutional amendment, and them being all male they had no big problem with denying women a vote. In the US plenty of states suffer from a similar dynamic where politicians actually keep a majority beyond what the population actually wants by making it harder for minorities to vote. All those things are not democratic despite getting voted on in supposedly democratic systems.
Seems very weird (and fixable) that text found on the web would be interpreted by the chatbot as an instruction.
The worst part is that the API did originally behave like the one it’d originally emulated, before being modified after years of use.