skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Government" is about designing a system of different people, doing different jobs, doing different checks and balances against each other.

This definition of government from an 8th grade civics textbook is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence, since all the evidence we have from the historical records shows that states are captured by economic elites to the point of stagnation until that economic elite is violently displaced or is forced to reform due to external threats.

> That being said, in many cases we don't know what kind of system should exist to move forward. In these cases, having the free market self-regulate while we figure out issues is probably better.

This also runs against the historical record and requires extraordinary evidence or at least some walkthrough of how you reached the conclusion that self-regulation was probably better, or even possible.

Ie, without postulating a utopian society made up of some kind of post-human who is more moral and more intelligent than all hitherto existing humans, it's unclear why anyone would expect the wealthiest and most influential to refrain from engaging in both the expansion and the capture of state power for their own self-interest. Such a species would have to be engineered and universal because there's no way you could get such traits through natural selection nor can you find them in the cognitive architecture or evolutionary history of primates.
> users who have subscribed to Twitter Blue are more likely to be engaged with and invested in the platform, leading to wanting it to succeed

Superfans are less credible/trustworthy, not more.
Are IQ tests ever useful for determining something in the real world, something that impacts us?

Interviewing for a Swedish fintech, they had me do an online IQ test in front of a webcam proctor before they would send me the take home assignment. I passed the IQ test with max score but didn't get the job.

What was the point of the IQ test? Why not just send people the take home assignment directly? Surely if they can do the takehome they have a great IQ to begin with. Is the IQ test some Big-tech fetish? A fintech fetish? A Swedish hiring fetish?

The lengthy IQ test felt completely shoehorned in the recruiting process and was a massive waste of time, and told my friends to not bother applying for jobs there.
I suppose you are right; it's not like any of these tech changed society for even one bit.
Oh don't worry, if open ai's web product is any indication of how well ai performs with code, we are all safe.
China practices attacking Taiwan from the east, a worrying development
> Design is how it works, not how it looks.

No, it is not. If you're Steve Jobs then yes, but otherwise how it looks and how it works are usually two different job functions. People who are good at visual design are not usually knowledgeable enough to do functional design, and people who are good at functional design are not necessarily good at visual design.
You like people on photos, other people don't. End of story.
I don’t know anything about quantum computing. I successfully answered a few true/false questions by pasting them into Google.

The exact questions aren’t in the top results, but the answers are.
Also, in that context does it exist in vacuum. Or is there a teacher that could explain the things and attach suitable context.
I've been searching for about 2 months (laid off early February), and I've not had a lot of luck.

Lots of recruiter calls. Several phone screens. A handful of post-phone-screen Round 1 interviews, but no Round 2. One company reached out to me, rejected me after round 1, but put me on their marketing email distro list.

I did have a phone screen yesterday that I think went well. (For that position, an internal recruiter reached out because they saw my post in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired (April 2023)"). I have two more scheduled for tomorrow. That makes this a relatively busy week.

My last job I was at for nearly 10 years, so I can't compare this experience to the last few years, but it certainly _feels_ brutal.

This week, I'm feeling positive, but in general, I've been worried. I have some severance left and some savings (but not as much as I should). I am also the sole income for my family.
What is the experience like wrt to commercial interruptions? I can’t watch NFL on broadcast tv any more - the dead air to game action ratio is dreadful. $72/month just makes this an absolute nonstarter.
Prediction is only the goal. The whole point of training is to learn what it takes to predict well and accurately. and that necessitates understanding and whatever else an LLM learns from the data.
Ah yes, that's why he banned all those journalists who spent time reporting on the lawsuits against him, because he's all for free speech.

Nah, the dude is for his brand of free speech, which is you can hate the people he hates and you can do what he likes and you can stay on his website.
Ask HN: Guidence for Non-Profit Startups?
I've been thinking about founding an impact venture for years, but worry about conflicts of interest that come with private stakeholders.

What kind of resources, incubators and communities are around to support non-profit ventures?

I know YC accepts nonprofits, but I would like to get an overview of the ecosystem and understand how the typical trajectory of a nonprofit startup looks like.
>> So, let's try to understand this: if we throw a boatload of money onto this problem, is it possible to eradicate polio using that decent, more expensive vaccine?

I think the answer might be - let's spend another boatload of money to develop an even better (oral) vaccine that can be distributed to those areas and not cause cases. It may seem a waste to create a new vaccine when the disease is almost gone, but so what? If Bill Gates can use his fortune to end Polio, I'll forgive him for unleashing Windows on the world ;-) OTOH if it makes a comeback that would mean all the money spent so far was for nothing.
The one that pushes buttons is the alarms that have no docs attached so when they blow off at 2AM, they just get muted until someone comes in and complains at 6AM.
But missing a malignant tumor 0.0001% of the time is unacceptable, because it spikes the hospital's malpractice costs.

Meanwhile, in every country that isn't America, tumor detection rates go up, cancer outcomes improve, and the cost of delivery falls.

Americans continue to claim their system of funding insurance company profits rather than actual healthcare is best.
T/F question 1d says:

>Google's recent quantum supremacy experiment demonstrated the successful use of quantum error-correction.

How "recent" is the experiment in question? Would it have been publicized before GPT-4's training cutoff?
I have a drawer. Actually, I have two drawers, and a box, and a couple of bags...
I went through the process in the fall (starting about a month before being laid off, as it turns out) with almost 25 YOE. My background includes significant startup experience at all levels, plus FAANG and some bigger companies. It took me about 3 months to find a role.

The process itself was unlike anything I'd ever experienced before. I've always been very targeted in applications, so prior to this the largest number of jobs I applied to in a job search was 5, and the grand total of job applications to date that didn't result in a phone screen was 2 or 3.

This time around, I was looking for a management gig, and sent about 54 applications. Due to a combination of being very targeted and being a little early in the layoff cycle (early fall last year), I managed to get about 10 cases of actually talking to a recruiter, 4 speaking with the hiring manager, 2 going through the full process, and 1 offer. I did also have another 10 recruiter conversations through my own network of recruiters and inbound LinkedIn requests.

A not-so-fun fact is that all but one large-company recruiter I talked this has since been laid off. One of those companies laid off the first recruiter I was talking to, and then laid off the second a couple weeks later.
The CDDL license guarantees they can’t. (And it’s probably the only reason they hadn’t.)
Agree to disagree then. If I had the money to subscribe, then I'm monetarily invested in the content and the platform as whole - otherwise I have the market power to withdraw my subscription and make that known to the service.
The difference is really in the importance and stability of accuracy. Ad text can be wishy-washy. Computer programs cannot. An out of place word is okay. An out of place big can compromise the whole solution. We can apply this to other domains to get an idea as to what AI might be good at or might struggle with.
I've been testing it's understanding of Ted Nelson's enfilades, it knew what I was asking, and implementations of that are to my knowledge scarce, in fact it specs out the whole Xanadu(r) system pretty well and I've been asking it how we would implement that today and its answers look sound, I'm not qualified to take that and deploy it, but the packages and functionality were real, and the code read like a solution, I've had it build a basic node-strut tensigrity structure that looks legit and an interesting conversation about hyper spatial nanocubes.
Signed code is great iff the user can sign code and choose whose signatures are valid.
Oh, and various power bricks for equipment that I no longer own...
For a site about UX, you'd think https://lawsofux.com would have picked a better url. O_o
And it s not like twitter has some kind of optimal design. The heart button in the middle is bad for my fingers! the left sidebar is useless and search sucks. Both of these services should try to make good work instead of copying each other

I actually thought that a newsfeed would be a good fit for substack, but looking at this i dont think i m going to use it. It should be simpler, a timeline of things i ve subscribed, with some threaded, sane comments. The medium shapes the message, and twitter's medium is just not a good fit for substack's message
> There is a certain kind of "feel for it"

I definitely agree with this and I think it partly comes down to the fact that product design is always a negotiation between many concerns – all the interface pieces on the view, patterns across views, user expectations, user research, dev LOE, etc. etc. In many ways it's the art of the possible; I say UX is harm reduction b/c there's never a perfect solution for any problem. Work like this is very subjective and always a lot about "feel".
> Maybe they won't. I enjoy substack as it is today, and maybe they'll pull it off.

Mindread much? You have no idea whether GP is upset.
The IMF are notoriously bearish on the UK economy. As the article notes the IMF have already upgraded their outlook for the UK economy once.
In regard to that last point, I hadn't thought of it but there is something called post-glacial rebound, it would make sense that the increased weight on the seabed would deform it, and potentially even cause bulging of land without ocean on top, potentially negating the sea level rise effect to varying degrees worldwide.
> Use fewer borders.

The one with borders looks better to me than the one without, it's subjective.

Also the whole post is literally an advertisement to sell some book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
Your contention is that any and all poor performance is due to the pandemic, not in any way related to Brexit?

I'm not sure 2022 looks quite as good as you're suggesting, but it's clear the pandemic had a profound impact, certainly.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/19/britain-eco...
If you're reading this, and open to working hybrid in SF, Retool is hiring a ton of engineers this year. https://retool.com/careers/

I recently made the jump from FAANG and am very content with the decision.

Feel free to msg with questions.
I think it's worth noting that the kinds of bugs going wrong with Twitter sounds like pre-existing issues, or malice. For example broken foreign key references do not appear just because a bunch of software engineers are let go, nor does a lack of quality controls (like testing) suddenly become an issue (Quality engineers tie their velocity to the same speed it's safe to move at, they don't just throw things at prod and say "we used to have a QA team, but i refuse to test my own code")

Elon's taking the blame for lots of things that are not directly his fault, and seems like a symptom of a belligerent workforce. That being said perhaps their belligerence can in part be blamed on his choices, but it's fairly immature to sabotage your own work outputs or quality whilst still being employed by an employer (quit if you're sufficiently unhappy, search for next if it's moderate) .
I wonder if any of this is related to Covid. Perhaps it afflicted parts of the brain differently. That doesn't explain why any parts would get better though.
GPT-4 can (1) translate, (2) plagiarise, and (3) feedback ("thinking out loud").

Its ability to feedback (3) allows it to execute algorithms, but only a certain class of algorithms. Without tailored prompting, it's further restricted to (a weak generalisation of) algorithms spelled out in its corpus. This is very cool, but this is a skill I possess too, so it's rarely useful to me.

Its ability to plagiarise (2) can make it seem like it has capacity that it doesn't possess, but it's usually possible to poke holes in that facade (if not even identify the sources it's plagiarising from!).

It is genuinely capable of explicit translation (1) – though a dedicated setup for translation will work better than ChatGPT-style prompting, even on the same model. A sufficiently-large, sufficiently well-trained model will be genuinely capable of translating idiomatic language (for known idioms), for the same reason it can translate grammatical structures (for known grammar).

It can only perform higher-level, "abstract" translations – like those necessary to translate a Phoenix Wright game – if it's overfit on a corpus where such translations exist. (https://xkcd.com/2048/ last graph) This is not a property you want from a translation model: it gives better results on some inputs, sure, and confident-seeming very wrong results on other inputs. These are two sides of the same coin (2).

When the computer can't translate something, I want to be able to look at the result and go "this doesn't look right; I'll crack out a dictionary". I can't do that with GPT-4, because it doesn't give faithfully-literal translations and it isn't capable of giving complete translations correctly: it's not fit for this purpose.
Developers are up, but wallets and transactions are down. Publications and job search interest are also trending down.

A currency needs people using it, otherwise it's just a pet project or an excuse to launder fiat money. And how do you justify exchanges when no one is making money via transactions? You're basically just burning electricity hoping that someone, eventually, decides they want an NFT or whatever Nu-Coin is being pushed this week.

The whole thing feels like a buncha people got really stuck in and are now holding the bag, while the rest of the world quietly walks away.
What is outsourced to overseas doctors today? I'm assuming you're talking about the US.

From what I understand it isn't even possible generally to see a doctor remotely in a cheaper state, because medical licensing is per-state.
>no machine translation system currently in existence could translate the 逆転裁判 games to Ace Attorney games

Maybe it's already in the training set, but GPT-4 does give that exact translation.

I've found that GPT-4 is exceptionally good at translating idioms and other big picture translation issues. Where it occasionally makes mistakes is with small grammatical and word order issues that previous tools do tend to get right.
Someone elsewhere in this very thread is claiming that the market for Senior/Lead level roles in EU right now is in fact tough. In your experience is getting a visa sponsorship in Germany as hard and limiting as it is here in the US?
“Beautiful” has become a scare word for me.
I use velcro cable ties to keep each cable in a tidy loop. I then put the cables in large slider lock bags depending on their category (charging, data, misc). It's also good to donate duplicates, most cables are cheap to purchase so keeping multiple of any one type isn't worth it.
So what actually is this? Reading through it, the description sounds like it's basically notepad? Why would I use this instead of notepad except for some sort of aesthetic of working in the terminal?
Maybe there's not anything "inherently wrong", but in all instances I'm aware of they've been worse than simply showing the posts in date order.
In a big box, carefully sorted chronologically. As you go down the layers get more intertwined, tentacular and compressed. Who now needs a Wii to composite video cable? or 13w3 to 5BNC? or 50->80pin SCSI adapters?

The function of these items is to eventually become detritus of interest to the racoon archeologists. We owe it to them to maintain some rational ordering in these samples.

They're gonna have a helluva time figuring out the ubiquitous round plastic discs. "cult objects" of course, but what kind of rituals could demand so many of them?
I guess it doesn't have to make much sense, as long as you can blame America...
I have no idea how the legal responsibility works out of a doctor misses a malignant mole. But I’d be very willing to believe that the inability to be at all legally responsible for something will be a problem with AI uptake.

This does seem like an odd outcome though, right? I guess fundamentally people will be legally/economically advantageous in some sense because the amount of insurance that an individual doctor can be expected to hold is much less than a hospital. Is the fate of humans to exist not as a unit of competence, but as a unit of ablative legal armor?
You won't need people for that once AI systems start improving themselves.
> if you fall into a puddle and somebody calls an ambulance would you rely on the ambulance driver's judgement to decide if you need the $10k ride to hospital?

In the US, the fire department shows up first and administers first aid. Private transport to the hospital is arranged after that if needed.

The problem is all the advance-fee bullshit. You're billed $1000 per minute starting with your occupation of a gurney, and that doesn't guarantee you will receive any sort of treatment once you get to the hospital. If you're not destined for a trauma ward, you'll sit in a room for six hours, be discharged without even a diagnosis (or the lolworthy "mild concussion"), and have incurred a debt equal to the cost of a new car for the experience.

These days, you don't even get a bottle of Oxy as a consolation gift-- you get nothing.

It's exploitative even when good faith operators are involved.
US begins study of possible rules to regulate AI like ChatGPT
Here's a graph of sea level rise since 1900 plotted against CO2:

https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-56...

No correlation.
Interesting, I can walk down the street and I don't fear for my safety.

I can leave my bike out overnight on my front porch.

I don't worry about porch pirates or catalytic converter thefts.

And the murder rate is effectively 0.

I was liberal for a long time, then covid hit.

Allow me to bask in the safety that is conservatism and a culture of personal responsibility.
I doubt she ever see a day behind bars. Like Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani. You would think guy is in prison; meanwhile both Wiki and some other pretty decent sources clearly state "free on $500,000 bail".
Even discounting annual variance, the UK economy has been performing very poorly since, at least, 2010.

> The UK economy is in the doldrums. The IMF has forecast it will be the worst-performing large advanced economy this year. But the problems stretch back much further.

> Average annual growth rates have more than halved since the global financial crisis of 2007-08. The UK economy is no bigger now than it was on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic at the end of 2019 and the Bank of England does not expect to recover that ground until 2026 at the earliest.

https://www.ft.com/content/dd195cda-ca12-48a6-9e8b-65a36e4e7...
No. If a spec doesn't define a behavior code can jump to some "undefined" handler which could be anything from a no-op to some quirks mode. Unless you're Microsoft writing specs "do what Word 97 does", copying the behavior of existing browsers is not a specification.
below a certain level they indicate that you are likely to question the validity of IQ in an internet comment
So who will then certify them?
> scores of 3D rotation (spatial reasoning) generally increased from 2011 to 2018

Minecraft's full release date? November 2011. Just sayin'
The period they are studying happens before covid
I was recently talking to an elementary science teacher and she was saying that the kids are worse in everything except, surprisingly, physics/spatial reasoning. My guess: Minecraft/Roblox/etc. They spend hours and hours building stuff and playing/maneuvering in 3D.
I mean maybe. Until it becomes yet another secret number (ie: Social Security) that suddenly isnt really all that secret at all.

Changing anything with the government, and especially ID related is never easy. In fact thats why I have balked at using direct deposit with the IRS. What if i want to change banks, or even simply login to my account without having to subject myself to id.me and their hardline requirements for information with no real oversight in how its handled.

I just prefer the "mail me a check" option that i will never have to update since my address is always a part of the tax filing anyway.
Add a TOS clause saying that EU data subjects aren't allowed.
Most people in design fields would not disagree that the lion's share of design innovation in the past couple decades has been in software UI/UX. The way we interact with our devices is just so radically different than 20 years ago to the point that it shapes our cognition and way about the world. And this will only continue with AI interfaces.
It's because she didn't directly lie to any patients, she was insulated from all of that. They got her on lying to investors because those are the kind of people she was actually talking to.
> ever useful

Surely they reveal some traits. Issue is, they do not reveal other traits which are relevant to the whole "intention".
https://archive.is/pyvQi
I kinda prefer the algo feed tbh. It shows me stuff from yesterday when I didnt check the feed at all. I'm on some IRC servers and a couple discord as well and it often feels like if I don't check constantly I'll miss something and have to scroll for ages to sort it out. I don't mind that as much on those platforms but for things like IG and twitter I do enjoy the algo feed.
Layperson here:

When I click on a forbes article I usually don't notice the author.

On Substack I'm subscribed to specific authors and one former newspaper/ now independent journalist I follow.
agreed, not to mention that there's things that just can't be expressed. Speaking as someone fluent in spanish and english there's nuance to some things that don't really translate well.
We don't have a sort order on that list right now, but it will be there within a couple days! We will also sort by your most used outputs.
ofc they are bearish IMF is pro europe so that they can coerce states into doing what they want and uk liberated himself from it.
There were weekly problem sets. The questions on these tended to be a bit more in depth than the midterm/exam questions.
Ukrainian hackers say they have compromised Russian who hacked Democrats in 2016
Some say that IQ is the best predictor for work / academic success
Do you live in Montana?
You can see how far-seeing Jobs was by reading his words from the '70s / '80s, they don't sound "dated" at all, but sensible and reasonable.

So awesome this collection exists!