skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've worked with a couple of people in tech who were very worker solidarity, unionize, labor movement, discrimination everywhere, etc.

They must have been tiring for management to work with. And I go in to bat for my colleagues, and it has not always made me popular with management and executives, but there are better and worse ways of approaching things.

If you are unwilling to accept that a decision has been made for a reason other than discrimination, bullying, or retaliation, it's no longer a good faith dialogue. Expecting other parties to continue talking and negotiating as though it were, whether or not they are guilty of these things, is silly. That's the point where you need a lawyer, or an exit plan, or to read through a lot of statute and case law, or all of the above. By all means try to get them to keep talking and collect evidence, but the fact they don't want to deal with you any more isn't exactly evidence of anything by itself.

I'm not saying this person is wrong or did the wrong thing. I really don't have enough information. But this is a company that investigated their co-founder and CTO and kicked him out for harassing two trans employees, more than half their "leadership team" appear to be minorities or women, they have hired several trans people including at least one who got spectacular performance reviews and was being promoted. On its face I would have to entertain the idea that they are not engaged in wide scale discrimination of anybody who is not a straight white male.

This is also quite a serious step for the person to make, whether or not there are legal ramifications (and I hope they got very good advice about breaking their NDA). But what would an employer think about hiring this person after reading this? What would be the best outcome for them? The worst?
Maybe not "looked down on", but more of "looked at as a promising avenue". I mean, 2-3 years ago, it felt LLMs are going to be nice storytellers at best. These days, we're wondering just how much of the overall process of "understanding" and "reasoning" can be reduced to adjacency search in sufficiently absurdly high-dimensional vector space.
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I think it's very unlikely there will be a statistically significant increase in violent crime conviction rates when these cameras go into action.
It appears to me that it is you who is misunderstanding the comment you quoted. Here is the context:

>> Dr. Hinton, often called “the Godfather of A.I.,” did not sign either of those letters and said he did not want to publicly criticize Google or other companies until he had quit his job.

> As Hinton says in his tweet, this clearly implies that he left to be free to criticize Google.

The comment is saying that Hinton, in his tweet, is saying that the article's statement "he did not want to publicly criticize Google... until" is misleading, and he did not leave in order to criticize Google. This is in fact what he said, and this is what cbolton is saying that he said.
They just had a button for it. The SLA was 45 days, but they slipped that by another week or two. And based on what I got it actually took them about 50 nanoseconds.
Quagaars, for sure!
I don't understand the "safety" concerns from the example in the second video.
> The concrete launchpad that SpaceX built has already withstood forces greater than any rocket in Von Brauns lifetime and every other rocket that has ever flown.

"withstood"
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Don't tell him this, but your home location is leaking through the wifi probes too, oh my gawd nobody knew right?
Primary sources (like on the ground war reporting) are not replaceable by LLMs.
Its really a sound wave pulsing through the grey mush of each brain, so some measure of stress (force/area) or strain (differential displacement/area) might be the beast way to look at it. The damage might be done in shear where the center of the brain moves while the outside is stuck to the skull, but it would be really hard to measure that.

Maybe woodpecker brains are more free to wobble around inside their skulls so shear stresses and strains are lower than they are in people?
What happened to stealing plates from a car in the movie theater during a show?
(follow up to adjacent comment)

So what I'm saying is, GPT "knows" what a cat is. It "knows" what an orange is. It has inferred these concepts from the data set.

Imagine approaching someone who is tripping on LSD and demanding they immediately solve a 10 digit multiplication problem, then saying "AHA! You cannot solve it, therefore you are incapable of any reasoning whatsoever!"
Voters clearly said enough is enough during the past few elections.

The Board of Supervisors will continue to pretend everything is okay until they are voted out.

Connie Chan, Dean Preston, and Aaron Peskin should go.
Oyster cards still seem to be pretty common though I think you can use contactless credit cards in a lot of situations these these days.
It's just the people. They were able to find some truly amazing journalists. Isobel Yeung has put herself into truly insanely dangerous situations to get a unique story time and time again.
That’s a lawsuit from a motivated interest group, it’s not a primary source.
TBQH the flutes and fiddles sounds more interesting than homogeneous ubiquitous commercial pop culture.
Yes, and I think that is debating semantics.

I do understand that a site might have a house style or whatever but what exactly did I do wrong?

Why can I not call out a comment for being misinformed at best because the commenter clearly didn't read the article that they are commenting on?
"...freakout about the "dangers" of AI is really just a part of the ongoing freakout over losing control over information flows..."

Not all of the "information flows" you mention are helpful or benevolent. Most will likely be targeted and hyper-focused to manipulate individuals like they are now.
Do you want courts ignoring other precedents from the Supreme Court whenever they feel like it? Or considering arguments that the parties don’t make, just so that they can reach the outcome they desire and view as a moral issue?

As bad as things can be in a system that doesn’t always reach a just result, I think it’s almost certainly worse to have courts that feel empowered to do whatever they want.
Just for context: this is a 4 yo design study by friend and amazing product designer Jason Yuan, who also worked on Sprout.place and more recently some stuff at Apple (@jasonyuandesign). A lot of the comments currently seem to miss this and are focusing on immediate feasibility, “successful” design, or ability to deploy irl. That is not the point here. Things like this are both creative exposition, as well as corner stones for conversations for the rest of the community.
It sounds cruel and unusual to torment the population with Nickelback and Justin Bieber.
The average person has no idea what a treasury bond is. Everyone knows what a savings account is.
> t's an extreme position you've been fed through the information you consume online.

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> platform for speaking truth to power

It seems more that way now, with audience being able to provide additional context to posts.
You can clearly see other posts that list multiple positions. This isn’t hard.
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Your comment is quite a ride to read. I, like some other commenters, had an immediate negative reaction to the 'income inequality is good' statement.

Having read the whole thing a few times I generally agree with your position. Differences in salary reflect differences in demand for certain roles, or the value you can bring to them. It's a real time signal. They can act as an incentive to draw more people to that position or signal when one is saturated. The system is abused a bit when finance jobs pay a lot despite dubious value to society, and teachers are underpaid relative to their importance, but as a general rule it works.

Wealth inequality is the major issue. It might be 'natural' in the sense that each generation of parents passes advantages to their kids, but I also think its a mark of civilization to be able to keep it in check. If you earned it, great, but when you die lets not burden the future with your family dynasty of rich but useless descendants.

All people can't be born equal if your financial situation is determined five generations before you were conceived.
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Right, but surely he had to prove identity when buying/renting the house? Maybe the telco doesn't know - but if someone could've gone through them to get his home address, they could also have gotten it through other means?
I’m curious how IBM has the metrics to know the productivity multiplier of AI well enough this far in advanced to accurately replace exactly 7800 jobs. Is the plan in place to also provide every surviving HR manager an OpenAI subscription? It seems to early to me but I also don’t have the time or resources to know or even guess the multiplier effects here

Then again maybe they’re just using AI as an excuse to get rid of these jobs? Kind of like they did with layoffs only to them outsource many of their departments to other countries for cost savings?
You're not supposed to say that out loud, but that type of content must be what appeals to the average people. Which says a lot about their intelligence. Smart people overestimate how smart other people are. See

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/stupid-people/
People certainly knew that language modeling was a key unsupervised objective to unlock inference on language.

I agree that I think they underestimated quite how useful a product could be built around just the language modeling objective, but it's still been critical for most NLP advances of the last ~6+ years.
Would promoting Twitter Blue Subscribers content over non-subscribers be promoting specific accounts? Musk has said this was going to happen and I think we saw it in the code + it sure feels like when using the site.

Seems like that would could even be considered hardcoding - Buy Twitter Blue get higher on replies on threads.
jokes on them. i have a Linux address.
You mean make novel discoveries like some humans. That would be great, but that's a higher (IQ) bar.
Even if you turn off your phones, NSA can trace out your location, according to Snowden files.
I can't shake the association with their founder that went off the deep end
A, I imagine, very useful invention would be some sort of synthetic fuel generator that only needs water and could soak up a lot of this energy. How small can your fuel synthesis pipeline be?

This issue of power in weird places could be aided by processes that make… well, something useful.
The new position was junior project manager. That is a lot different than a manager.
I honestly don't think neural networks ingesting terabytes of data are the future of AI. In principle, these are all engineering problems that can be solved by advances in few-shot learning. Once you can train a model for a task with only a couple examples, the ethics/legality of scraping IP become irrelevant.

I feel like if model weights are made to be public domain that would make sense. The only reason it costs any money to use them is because of infrastructure, so any argument to recoup via licensing fees for the weights themselves doesn't make sense. You can charge people to use your infrastructure, but not for what could essentially be their own work.

As for students and cheating - unnerving as it is, I think we have to accept that there's a sort of linguistic calculator in their toolboxes now.

Whatever the solution ends up being, I don't hope that it's restrictive. AI, just like any other technology, can be integrated into our lives in a beneficial way.
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My guess is that US surveillance and intelligence agencies operate like many other large government beaurocracies: with high levels of administrative incompetence, mismanagement of resources, unscrupulous decisions in the service of individual risk -avoidance/status-seeking, etc.

I suspect Snowden does them a service by making us all feel like we're under a big, scary, watchful eye.

In actuality, they probably do collect unholy amounts of data, perhaps even illegally... But they probably don't know how to process it effectively and if they do, they probably struggle to turn those insights into action.

It's easy for them to collect Facebook friends and Google searches, not Signal messages and DuckDuckGo queries made in an incognito window. It's easy because they can demand tech companies "hand it over" without actually hiring and assigning the skilled and creative people they'd need to figure out how to overcome the modest obstacles privacy-conscious people erect.

If you're a decision maker in one of these orgs, you'll be recognized and praised for cheaply trawling for privacy illiterate pedophiles and easy-to-identify, state-affiliated Twitter bots.

OTOH, you might not get promoted for spending hundreds of millions of dollars breaking into end-to-end encrypted convos only to find out that 99.95% of the data is benign and the .05% that's substantively suspicious requires a warrant and an FBI surveillance team to gather enough evidence to actually go to trial.

tl;dr: cheap measures to protect your privacy probably go much further than you'd think, because while they can be overcome individually, they're not worth overcoming at scale.
I hope the voters of San Francisco are open minded enough to accept their policies need to be revised.
If govt does regulate, these guys will sit at the helm, it’s a “Go” move to turn the tables on OpenAI taking all the leads.
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Aeroplane mode doesn't stop the phone receiving GPS signals. It may also leave wifi and/or bluetooth on which can give a coarse location.

The phone's accelerometers will still run in aeroplane mode which can infer a surprising amount about your location.
A SaaS site has a momentary bug that will obviously be fixed.. news at 11.
If LLMs reduce the "middle class able to support news websites via its ad spending" enough, sending these people in despair and/or lower paying jobs, they willl indirectly remove the support for such reporting anyway.
It looks like the author copied and pasted from the book and used a thesaurus to change a few words here and there. A reference list is not attribution.
When energy is stored in the height of water, if you don't turn it into electricity and let the water flow freely then it will turn itself into waste heat.
Vice Motherboard has been a really good check on the tech industry. A lot of the rest of Vice has always been trashy and exploitative, but it's had an unexpectedly big impact, as well -- much like BuzzFeed News.
I don't have a link handy but the last time I interacted with the user you're replying to, it was also about cell phones, and they were doing dumb things like swapping SIMs with their wife, thinking it would make things more private....somehow.

Guess what a SIM card does when it's put into a new phone? Includes the last IMSI it was installed into when it joins the carrier's network.

They're not very well educated on digital privacy and engaging in a lot of cargo-cult privacy stuff that is almost certainly making them stand out like a giant red thumb. Very few people do things like switch SIM cards on a regular basis, at least ones who aren't engaged in criminal enterprises.

Their behavior reminds me of a former partner's ex, who was [paranoid-delusional | obsessed with] cell phone tracking.

I really have no idea why they're so concerned about their cell phone carrier "knowing" their home address.
I think you're also right. The framing for this is I spend some time in a village that has a part that's now been inaccessible because of a landslide. About 10 people live on the road that's now impassable. Digging a safe tunnel through the mountain would cost millions. Should the state shoulder the cost for the mostly wealthy retirees that live on the other side? I don't have a good answer.

I also have a version of this from a doctor friend that lives on a "farm" that doesn't grow anything. Who should pay for the roads / public transit to their place? Everyone else? Again, I don't have a good answer. But I'm open to the idea that people that simply want to live in rural areas as a personal luxury should shoulder some of the costs to making those places accessible.
Yes. I only turn on cellular away from home and when needed. I don't need to be always connected.
More importantly, it's updating the system WebKit framework, which is a core framework so even if Safari.app was separate, the system framework update forces the reboot. The Safari Technical Previews include their own complete copy of the WebKit framework and link to that (and Safari.app can be made to load WebKit.framework from elsewhere which is how webkit nightlies and from-source builds of webkit can be used)
Not if you’re listening to a Rock station, or Hip-Hop, or whatever it is you like to listen to.
That would mean roughly 7,800 jobs lost. Part of any reduction would include not replacing roles vacated by attrition, an IBM spokesperson said.

How can it be a job lost if they were never hired?
If I was an "AI" and looked at features that historically had the best predictive power without regard for causality, I'd definitely say this doesn't augur well for the future of AI. Will IBM pass all of these tasks to Watson?

This is typical IBM fluff, no part of the company knows what any part is doing and sales just says random stuff.
Sentience != sapience != intelligence. However, the whole bundle consists of things that are objectively measurable, and things that seem just philosophical - in the sense that we can't really do better than accept them at face value (otherwise they'd be in the "objectively measurable" set). The current models are rapidly closing or already fulfilling the objectively measurable criteria; as for the rest, at some point they'll have no worse standing than you and me.
So… you don’t have a specific example of how it helps?

Yes, you should be honest with children about their medical condition. Similarly dementia patients. Why wouldn’t you?

Asking about “trusted with” is a non sequitur because we’re not talking about whether people should be dependents that require care — but whether doctors have a right to conceal information.

Again, why would you write “suck at socializing”? — but are you envisioning some situation where someone seeing a therapist for social anxiety would be harmed by “struggles with social skills” or “doesn’t have fully developed social skills” would be news to the patient? …c’mon. The patient already knows that; they’re there to get advice on how to address that. And a therapist telling such a transparent lie to someone with social anxiety seems likely to do more harm than good.

Again, go ahead and be explicit about how you think medical professionals concealing notes will help — I think it’s very strange you’re so adamant but can’t be explicit.

That’s typically a sign of being delusional.
This was my immediate opinion as well. No doubt they were doing this with a profile picture from 8 years and 20 lbs ago too.
Hm nice, here in Barcelona we have a similar deal for 20 euro, but it only covers the metro area.

Still, it's rare for me to go further away and it wouldn't make sense to pay 50 bucks a month for that. And if I go to another major city I would use a high speed train which wouldn't be included anyway.

So 20 a month for all city travel is pretty ideal here, especially with Spain's low wages.
How is this any more illegal than a cop calling in a license plate number of any random vehicle they see on the road (which is not at all illegal)?
i used to like Vice. its series on Russia's "Green men" taking over Crimea was excellent.

Vice went downhill after 2014
Everything else equal, I agree. In this case I think that also ends up rewarding manufacture of drama and controversy though, and punishing a more truthful and neutral reporting of the same event through the merging and removing of the secondary source.

I'm not going to try to convince you to revert it, but I note that the discussion under the NYT post contains a fair bit of vitriolic and confused commentary, which is less surprising when the target post itself works to conjure up e.g. emotionally charged parallels to the Manhattan project.

You'll be a better judge than I whether this thread would have devolved in a similar way, but personally I feel that the original article in this case also has significant poor qualities to be the chosen reporting on the event.
Given that human prosperity is directly correlated to the amount of power available for productive uses, the fact that proof-of-work incentivizes wasting power means that any state that competes in this way is directly lowering the prosperity of its citizens.
is it true that bhutan is not fazed by china and taiwan

i just saw a meme of it but im looking for confirmations lol

sometimes its the countries yoy dont hear in mainstream news that surprises you
The EFF has had privacy guidelines for decades that cover this. Click on the menu for a list of sites and videos to help improve your privacy hygiene: https://www.eff.org/
My first job was at a unionized workplace. I ended up doing more work to cover the guy that was loafing around under the protection of the union. Who protects you from the protectors? Rational or not, since that time, I am suspicious of the personal work ethic of those arguing for unions.
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Seeing lots of SWE/other position postings on LinkedIn today for Meta. I thought they were/are in a hiring freeze. What gives?
This article is about Vice, not The Verge.
You don’t get that with war robots, the decision to go to war or not is still in the hands of the politicians.

But I wonder sometimes what it would take to end war.
Will see it, one friend told me that is available on Internet.

Without asking for hard spoilers: is there an AI researcher that quits a government agency?
The point is to keep my SIM and phone anonymous. As explained in the article, if they can see where your phone sleeps at night, they can figure out who is associated to the SIM card and the IMSI sent.
Yes, I absolutely want the courts to periodically revisit things that are clear miscarriages of justice.
I used to think so too, but I've met people smarter than I am who legit binge watch cute puppy videos for a basal emotional high they enjoy, just like a lot of other people can't help but impulsively wanna see a volleyball athlete's crotch. It's junk food; people are programmed to love it regardless of intelligence.
> Apple's 'walled garden' was just too constrictive for me to bear.

What walled garden is there with macOS? You've always been free to run whatever you want. iOS is where the walls are.

16 years might warrant another attempt. ;)
Somehow the greatest aid to teaching since writing is going to increase inequality.

Wow, we suck at being human.