skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech companies can choose to obey laws of a foreign country to gain access to their populace. I don't really see the controversy, US first amendment rights don't apply beyond our borders. This article is an incredulous take considering the increase in censorship within the US media-sphere which actually violates the law.
You seem unfamiliar as to how memes work. Have you never seen people post "Vote early, vote often"? It's the same as that.
Yes, m=n is a solution, or set of solutions, but why arbitrarily exclude some solutions and not others?

There is no explanation as to why - eg maybe it could be if the equations represent a physical system and m=n implied the same physical space was occupied by two objects, for want of a better example.

But if the equations represented some kind of abstract concept, why are not all solutions valid and of interest?

It seems like me saying, find an equation that only yields all the primes that use any digit once - but why, to what end and value?
It actually got much faster and much better at code. Impressive!
iFOSS
If you see public company as something other than vehicle to make $$$ for the investor it's you that might have bias problem.
Ask HN: Does Tech care about mental health? Is it all a farce?
Sales people reading this: "What a marvellous list of great tips on tricks to use!"
I like not being able to sign up because I'm under 18. Preferably in hexadecimal. https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11ydh2y/im_trying_...
Between the flagging of NPR, CBC, BBC, and PBS as state-funded media, Musk clowning on the CBC as "69%" state-funded media, the subsequent total removal of the "state-funded media" flag (including from state-run disinformation sources like Russia Today), the removal of all unpaid blue checks, Musk sponsoring a handful of VIPs with free bluechecks on what is apparently a personal fandom basis (eg. Stephen King), the totally-expected subsequent explosion of impersonators, the removal of transphobia from the site's moderation policy, and now the removal of ads from non-subscribers, Musk's Twitter has gone completely off the rails even more than normal in the last few days. And yes, all that happened over the last few days.
To confuse matters, many of these attacks aren't so much against America, as against the concept of liberal democracy.

To uphold liberal democratic values is to support the free speech that makes these attacks possible. The old 20th century style of propaganda was mostly ineffectual. The modern tactic of flooding public discourse with bullshit is much more effective. At some point people concede that maybe the shills and useful idiots working for the dictators do raise some valid points, so who knows what to believe.
> Virtually all of the rights we learn about in grade school are suspended in the workplace.

Virtually none of them are suspended in the workplace. When you're at work, though, you are on someone else's private property and so some of your rights are constrained (just as some of the rights of people visiting your home are constrained while they're there). This is because there are competing rights involved, and it's logically impossible for everyone to retain their full sets of rights in those circumstances.

But, as you say, if the restrictions on your freedom are more greater than you can tolerate, you can quit. If no workplace gives you the amount of latitude you need, then you can work for yourself.

But, at the core, we live in a society with other people, and that inherently comes with certain restraints on behavior.
Man. You're not going to sell your startup to a greater fool with THAT attitude! ;-]
AI takes center stage at HIMSS health conference
I don't want anyone in a closed society and I'd go through great lengths to help people trapped in close societies have access to open connectivities like the internet.

If a society wants to be closed though, your society has the onus of responsibility to enforce closing. Your society can't impose that position on everyone. Hence me saying the society probably shouldnt be on the most open connected free connectivity on the planet, one created by open society & which enables open social values.

> You've decided...

It looks like you have decided here friend. I never openly said that, although heck the words I use build a pretty lopsided case. I think everyone should decide for themselves though, and come to their conclusions. To me the choice seems obvious & it's hard to see what is to respect about closed, but I'm open. I'm open to learning.
Perhaps a good API would return some coordinates plus a distance, to give an idea of the accuracy, and if the most likely location is on private property but there is a public place close to the most likely location within the probable region then return the nearest public place instead of the most likely location so as to avoid problems when incompetent users of the API inevitably ignore the accuracy number and send armed police to the given coordinates.

In that case (South Pole, 1e6 km) or (Point Nemo, 1e6 km) would be a reasonable response when you have no idea of the location, and if some armed police freeze to death or drown, then diddums!
We're talking about policy changes, not tourism. Largely this is in the context of how to fix the problem.
They can do this in people, too, not just LLMs.

Imagine the mistakes that can be made by changing one fact but not reconfiguring the whole network.

Thhese guys remind me of when I used to change EXEs in hex editors then notice "unrelated" weird glitches.
If the Marines actually lived up to their name (naval infantry), they'd be the ones who need to swim the most.
Such a person would be at a higher risk of many health issues, which the military would be responsible for providing care for and they might be a liability if a combat situation developed around them. They may also be seen as lacking in self discipline or having other negative personality traits.
No one wants “California-style” housing prices, but California isn't unique
Tesla Investor Group Says Overcommitted Musk Is Hurting EV Maker
It's a reference to the incremental game "Universal Paperclip". This is when something like "AI singularity" is reached in the game.
At least Google seems to respect open source unlike OpenAI: "If Bard quotes at length from an existing open source project, it will cite the source."
The expectation of universal results has problems, but universal education is one of the most crucial cornerstones of developed society. Culture and innovation blossom from it like flowers in rich fertile soil. There's a reason humans have fought (sometimes literally) for access to an education.
People obviously have different types of problems, and here I divide them into issues with how you relate to yourself or how you relate to others.

I think that the appropriate substance depends on the nature of the problem. If the nature of the problem is a lack of empathy and interpersonal connection, I think MDMA could be a good fit. It can provide biological and experiential practice in dropping the barriers people put up between themselves and others.

Mushrooms, LSD, and hallucinogen seem better suited for addressing motivation and control issues as well as cognitive dissonance within an individual.
> This is a strong point: context matters.

Absolutely. I've been at places where I was escorted out five minutes after I gave my notice, and at places where 10 years later they still call me every 8 months or so.
[edit] Literally do a side by side of CSS, HTML, and JS vs SwiftUI or storyboard to all the Senators and ask “which one do you understand better” - that’s the point. Then take them through the deployment and ask again

This is the biggest modern PR blunder in some time. Do we not get insane productivity as devs from their platform vs others or not? I say emphatically, yes. That’s all you have to do, repeat over and over until blue.
I agree that this is fraud / false endorsement / whatever. If it's "only" three people, as Musk as claimed (LeBron, Shattner, King), it's probably manageable for Twitter to sort out, but I'm guessing a lot more people were quietly grandfathered in. This could get ugly. It's no different from me comping Elon on my shitty SaaS product and then claiming he's a "customer."
The rate of hallucinations depends on the input or the task you're asking it to complete and the length of your conversation. It's also worth mentioning that how much hallucinations matter depends on your expectations of the output. What we're seeing right now is people figuring out where ChatGPT can be applied to produce acceptable output an acceptable amount of the time.

I think there are a several reasons the projects seem overly ambitious right now. First, a lot of people think the tech will improve exponentially in the next 12 months (I have no idea or opinion on if that's true, but the sentiment is definitely out there). They think that even if the output of the project is crappy today, improvements in ChatGPT will make it worthwhile soon.

Second, a lot of people are working with ChatGPT just to get familiar with it and learn about LLMs or ML in general. The point isn't to make a project with a useful application, but to learn from making the project that they did or put a ML project in their portfolio.

Third, for a lot of people getting a starting point is worthwhile. If you find it easier to go in and change a paper that someone else drafted or change boilerplate code to fit your needs, then having some ChatGPT output as a starting point has value (even if it's a crappy starting point).

Fourth, for a lot of people the expected quality of the output is surprisingly low. I've talked to several people who work in marketing that are using ChatGPT to right bumps for products. That text almost doesn't matter because people aren't really reading the paragraph that promotes a spatula on Amazon or a B movie they've never heard of on Netflix. It doesn't seem like a big difference, but if you sit down to write 10 of those paragraphs, you'll find it's less effort to ask ChatGPT to do it and then just proof read the output.

And I think you'll be surprised on where quality matters very little. It's not hard to imagine a company using ChatGPT as the first line of customer support via email or web chat. It can certainly dispense canned troubleshooting steps well. Just have the AI report the tone of the customer's responses and escalate them to a human if they get too upset or argumentative. If the AI said something that was nonsense, the human can apologize and say that they'll "speak with the employee" that the customer was working with before. You already can't trust the output of humans in jobs where you're paying them too little to actually care, so why not use an LLM instead? If the cost of the LLM plus the freebies you give out to appease the customers it makes mad is lower than the cost of hiring humans...
Hey, I have one of those as a T-shirt:

https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com/item.php?id=110
UAVs also have higher current requirement, and that means more weight "wasted" for chonkier electrodes Car batteries aren't pulling 50C worth of current
Being trained on more up to date data and being faster are irrelevant when returning responses that aren’t as useful. Google has catching up to do.
> China has had, in terms of national continuity, a couple millenia more hard-work-and-sacrifice-time than the US, FWIW, if those qualities are inputs to being "better."

The CCP has no continuity with the previous imperial government. They love to make that claim when it's convenient but it's bullshit. It would be like the US claiming they have a national continuity with Britain going back millennia.
A study on judicial rulings show a link between rulings and the time they have been issued between food breaks [1]. It appears that the more hungry the judges are, the less they show clemency.

Similarly, living in a Mulsim country, I have not observed the virtues that supposedly stem from religious fasting.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1018033108
This is a pretty shallow assessment. They acknowledge the malware argument, but don't address it at all. Remember that the iPhone was introduced at a time when Windows was absolutely plagued with trojan scams.
See people, this is why free speech must be absolute. The moment you let someone become the gatekeeper, they will absolutely use that leverage for their own benefit, at your expense.

What is worse? Allowing fringe boneheads to spew hate and lies or allowing powerful people to do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability?
> Russia didn't lose in Chechnya

Yes it did, you're arguing against basic facts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War
I read/skimmed what you wrote. Solid. I agree with most of it, unfortunately. This next phase is going to be exciting for everyone for productivity & services & cost & personalized entertainment, but I worry about job losses as a hard middle phase, even long before we get to whether or not AI runs society.

I don't think there's a way to avoid that, really, because AI will be better than us at everything, so we will want to give everything over because it will make sense, and nation-states who don't will fall behind.

The question will be if we have safety mechanisms if AI starts going rogue.
Github CoPilot will probably be a significant fraction of this.
Why are people trying to turn this into a story about Tesla?

It must be quite the threat to get so many paid Tesla shills commenting on this.
I'm not a muslim, but I've done ramadan for my own edification and really it seems fine. Ramadan isn't prescribed for anyone who's on prescriptions or unhealthy. The worlds top soccer players fast and are still competitive. On top of that, a large part of the middle east was conquered while the soldiers were fasting.

The human body is quite capable of more than we give it.
The reasonably popular ones:

- A "durak" card game. Was real-time with the server in Java. Also full of bugs because I had no clue what I was doing wrt multi-threading and I also didn't know what defensive programming even is.

- A demotivator-style meme generator.

- A gambling thing that resembled those once-popular "pillar" machines found in grocery stores and malls around Russia. IRL ones took 5-rouble coins, mine took VK votes. VK killed it by deprecating the API for apps to give votes to users.

- A music player with playback speed control. Mostly for shits and giggles :D

There were more smaller ones, all kinds of experiments, but they didn't catch on.
Google had long list of oopsies where Google services stopped working because of user agent rejecting non-Chrome browsers.
Right because ICE trucks will also magically stop existing /s
20 years ago Neuroimage was the journal researchers went to when their results were borderline unpublishable. Amazing how these publications manage to stay in business, no surprise they are raising publication fees paid by authors. While it’s good to see editors vote with their feet, there are plenty of academics who will line up to take their place to burnish their CVs.
It's funny how the USA feels like it has to get militarily involved to guarantee something that the producers are willing and happy to sell. Even moreso when you understand that the USA has plenty of oil itself available.

It's almost as if they want an excuse for running a massive military.
Sounds like BS. Define "Metaverse technologies"
> But if I avoid answering, I will be perceived as dishonest or hiding something. So usually I invent some excuse so that nobody feels bad.

So you avoid the perception of being dishonest and hiding something by actually being dishonest and hiding something?
> ...the IT world is going to go through some fundamental shifts in near future and very likely a lot of people will either lose jobs or do completely different work or do it with a completely different set of tools and skills.

We have been hearing this for a decade, that's why we are sick of hearing it again. Just do the fundamental shifts already.
braBRAAAAAAP, that's why
Mine crashed, lost none of my found items, but lost all the efficiency, tank size, and thrust improvements. To make it worse they were still missing from the world so I couldn't find them again.
It's a normal human tendency to consider our own particular situation as representing the "average" or "normal". It's quite common for people who live privileged lives (such as most people here) to not recognize that they are living privileged lives.

It's very good to remember how lucky most of us are, and how unusual our circumstances are.
"Tech Bosses" is two examples, hardly the universe and misleadingly steering an assumption that it's just in tech.

Sony let North Korea censor what US audiences saw, for a while. Hollywood, especially Disney, otherwise censors itself to be able to show movies.
> "Elsevier, based in Amsterdam, says that the APCs cover the costs associated with publishing an article in an open-access journal, including editorial and peer-review services, copyediting, typesetting, archiving, indexing, marketing and administrative costs."

Taking Elsevier claims at face value is a bad idea, but an obvious solution would be make the authors responsible for all of the above. Which is basically the arxiv publishing model:

https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html
https://imgur.com/a/qmjVPJ5

Same question with a different answer.

This is interesting. This version of the question is better than the original answer I got but still not as good as your answer.
Don't necessarily disagree with your basic premise as the U.S. government is in bed with Big Pharma (and really big Everything) to actively wage economic war against its citizens...but finally there is some positive news with insulin:
https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
I have dabbled in woodworking. I still stick to metric. You can spend all day rationalizing why the system you've been immersed in since childhood is more intuitive. In the end, it's more intuitive to you because it's what you're used to.

Your example is a prime one. I'm not used to measure things with my thumbs, so if you told me that something is ten thumbs wide, I'd have to think some time before I could make a mental picture of it, and an inaccurate one to boot. I'm used to measure things with centimeters, so I immediately know what 10 cm looks like.

> Fractional centimeters aren't as intuitive to work with and conceptualize.

To you they're not. To people used to it, they are.
This depends upon your situation in your work.

But if you feel your managers and company have been good to you or even neutral, then I fully agree with this. Plus it keeps options open for you since things go sideways in your new position.
Do you happen to have a source where you learned that? I'm always interested in "teaching myself to fish"
Show HN: Recruiting Firms for Startups
Pretty much what it says on the tin.

This is a list of recruiting firms that specialize in working with startups, for things like engineering hiring, executive recruiting, and chief of staff hiring.

We've worked with a few hundred seed through series E venture backed startups including many that have raised 9 figures or more to help them find executive coaches, and are now helping a few find recruiting firms too.

It's definitely only relevant to a pretty tiny audience, but if you're in that audience (startup execs, founders, or talent people looking for recruiting vendors!) then it'll save you a bunch of time.

We could do one on the candidate side too, if there's interest, to help engineers discover recruiters to work with.
Literally every veteran I've talked to with VA medical says its really good.

Most of the people with VA problems were like Vietnam veterans who have zero documentation of their claims that they got hit with agent orange. Most complaints I see about the VA are about refusals to render service, rather than bad service given.
Peer review is still a good way to ensure some semblance of quality. But there are clearly better ways.
the rate changes are happening.... i feel like there isnt enough time to let the public digest the changes. I actually want musk to succeed with twitter but it just seems like its gotten out of control
Please read my message again: I'm talking about anti-war protests *outside* Russia, which are safe and should (in normal societies) produce many more attendees.
It's got to be really tough for a non-native speaker to become a good writer in another language. It's possible that they were quite a good writer in Tamil, just not in English.
I've got a pile of legacy hardware in the basement that's all in some way tedious to try to use.

One of my sons watches "speed running" videos that spend endless amounts of time discussing how mario jumps here or there to put a sprite into the wrong slot resulting in a stack overflow allowing a goomba to set the level counter to a weird hex value. He loves to play 8 bit games on his chromebook in dosbox.

I'd want to leave this thing in his room connected to a cheap 12in hdmi monitor and a reliable USB power supply to let him noodle with day and night, rather than his "has too many distractions" chromebook.
The problem, IMO, isn't that they blocked a tweet in India based on a request from India. The problem is that Twitter blocked a tweet globally based on a request from India.
Actually it's great for the country if the income is coming back home.
No. No Action Letters are absolutely not legal advice and they all specifically state as much.
I've seen how these types of things play out in companies, though. I'm proud to say that I once did refuse to implement something that I thought was unethical. But I can also understand why companies would want to actively discourage users who care and it's not always a matter of being malicious.

It's [usually] a matter of:

- The users affected are in the minority

- Regulations are forcing us to do something to be compliant

- The ROI of doing it "right" is extremely low

- So what can we do to be compliant while getting that tiny minority of users to voluntarily GTFO because genuinely don't want to have to worry about such a small niche market?
What puzzles me to no end is how many people were happy not only with having no control over their device (which is fine if they don't want it), but also other people not having control over their devices (which is totally not fine if they do want it).
I did read it. I agree that it is perfectly legit news in Portland, and plausibly in Oregon.

But I live in Michigan, and read enough of my local papers to be aware of local retail openings & closings. I notice that zero of those ever appear in national news, or among HN submissions. Similar for unfortunate situations in MI being well-covered by the "ideologically inclined" national and overseas press. The last thing in MI that I can recall getting such attention was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis
Two weeks is all most recruiters have ever offered me, and some did so begrudgingly. Which is weird because if I say yes that actually makes me a worse hire.
Bureau of Buddhist and Tibetan Affairs
That's also likely a better way to exploit open source.

Microsoft and OpenAI got a lot right but also a lot wrong, I think. This could have held Copilot back, not making proper composite projects.
flagged. this is totally irrelevant for HN and brings out the worst sort of comments.
This article is another example that reeks of American nationalism.
Honestly I doubt 90% of people that own a phone would even know which App Store they use let alone if they have more than one. From a PR point of view I highly doubt it will have any negative impact.
America's Amazon: Flora, Fauna and Glimpses of Alabama's Past (2020)
This is because academics are assessed on their achievements based on how many articles they have published in prestigious journals.
The only clients that will want to evade Apples app store in the future will have very specific requirements that Apple doesn't want to promote or be scam apps, so I wouldn't worry about your clients wanting to jump ship. It simply won't be worth it to them to lose the majority of ios users or support multiple deployment avenues.