skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the claim that 20% of the staff were let go, but 100% of the laid off folk were "of historically marginalized groups. Women, people of color, queer folks, and multiple people on disability and even maternity leave"

Even if that claim is true, it's far from sufficient to assert discrimination is at play:

- Disparate impact != discrimination. IIRC, the idea that disparate impact could be penalized without explicit intent to discriminate was a judicial fabrication that contradicts the plain text of the Civil Rights Act.

- There are so many ways one could qualify as belonging to a "historically marginalized group". That's not really unrealistic to think that something like this could happen by chance.

- Sounds like the author's own marginal status wasn't a driving factor in being fired or even a barrier to promotion. If anything it sounds like the problem was retaliation, not discrimination.

- There does appear to be a decent amount of demographic diversity at the leadership level. It doesn't seem likely that they would have a plan to get rid of minority employees simply because of their minority status.

Whether as an individual or a company there plenty of reasons to hold your tongue admist public controversy. That doesn't mean the company is making the right move by being silent, but interpreting that silence as guilt seems unwise.
I don't think it can differentiate between various sources of its training set, can it?

"ChatGPT is trained on previous chatGPT conversations and is aware that this is the case."

This is a mindbender. Part of me thinks although it can "know" this it can't do anything with the information. Like how would this change its "behavior" ? Even if it did realize something big like "human beings seem to lie to me all the time", could it then go and decide "i better not incorporate human chats into my dataset"?
Humans have a trust model (however flawed) that allows them to judge whether they should follow instructions they encounter, LLMs do not.
You can't ChatGPT a database entry in a government server, either
It's planned: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1018
It's ultimately a philosophical issue about the nature of consciousness.

Some people think that consciousness is a phenomenon that emerges when we introduce enough complexity to some amount of matter. After all, if we are just atoms in the void, but still feel so different, we have to point to something, and the arrangement of our atoms seems like a fair candidate.
So in order to build conscious beings like ourselves, we just need to figure out the correct arrangement.

Other people think that consciousness is something fundamental that does not emerge from complexity. And they will argue against the explanatory power of complexity, usually with other things that are somewhat complex, but don't show signs of consciousness. Will a traffic jam start to feel something if there are enough cars? I don't know.
To them this whole endeavor is like alchemy or witch brewery. "If we just try this even more complicated recipe, then maybe the potion will get healing powers or maybe we get gold!".
And additionally in computer science, we can just inspect the code, line by line. It's like believing that David Blaine can do actual magic, even when there are videos out there where he himself explains every little trick and misdirection.
Raising awareness of what issue? Does he want transformers to have "inner monolog" your comment is even more confusing than the article.
This is called [function multi-versioning](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1018).
The just internet trained models don't think out loud, so I assume it was RLHFed conditioned to that behavior since it makes it able to solve much more complicated questions, though it's sometimes irritating to read.
I currently work for a US tech company here in Tokyo, but previously worked at a local tech company.

I've lived in 3 separate places in Tokyo (and currently own an apartment), and everything I've lived in has been bigger and cheaper than my apartment in San Francisco. I currently live in Sangenjaya (central Tokyo, a couple stops from Shibuya) and my mortgage, insurance, HOA, and total expenses are cheaper than my rent alone in SF.

My income is lower, but not in a way that I actually feel, because the overall cost of living is considerably lower in Tokyo. The conversion rate only really matters if you're going out of the country. There's been barely any inflation, so if anything, as the rate eventually goes back to normal, things will still be considerably cheaper here.

Yes, a lot of people live in tiny apartments here, but the cost of those units can be really cheap. You can pay ~$400 a month for a tiny unit here, which you simply can't get in NYC.
We just print some more money.
I don't know if they could be more pretentious even if they tried:

"Mercury rejects the Desktop Metaphor and App Ecosystems as fundamentally inhumane. "

2 pages later...

"Every Module can be defined and redefined using its Locus (the action bar). Locus combines the power of a Command-Line Interface with the convenience Natural Language Processing and the discoverability of GUI."

So they reject the inhumaneness of the Desktop metaphor, but replace it with another (Locus - what even does that mean?). At least I know what an action bar is.

Then, it touts itself as a complete replacement of the old paradigms, focused on touch interactivity, but:

"You can tap the Command key to toggle the display of available actions if you are unsure of where to start."

The command key? Is this built for Apple devices only? And if it's touch centric, why do I have a key?

ETA: a way more useful redesign IMO: https://uxdesign.cc/redesigning-siri-and-adding-multitasking...
It all ends up as slag when smelted
English to English has some problems too.

“We’re not here to fuck spiders.”
I don't agree that LLMS can't reason, but literally saying "Make up your own math problems and go for it", him doing that and it failing really isn't moving the goal posts.

LLMs are not good at math. But this is a subset of reasoning.

Chain-of-thought on logical inference tasks (using fake labels so we are outside the training set) shows they can do reasonably well at these.

Nevertheless, it's likely that the best approach for pure reasoning tasks will be to connect a LLM to a real inference engine (datalog or something) and rely on the LLM to perform the mapping to the inference engine inputs and outputs. This is similar to the "System 1" and "System 2" models of human thought.
Hi, I love it. Perhaps we should chat about making it for radio data as well? We could potentially use it for our radar systems.
The article does not mention the words "street crime". Can this title be changed to the original title.

(HN title when I posted this comment is "White-collar crime costs society 20x as much as street crime").

HN guidelines...

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
The prompt would basically be (but with less words. Around 10 is the best for consistency from my experiments. Much higher than that and it's hit or miss).

Rearrange (if necessary) the following words to form a sensible sentence. Don’t modify the words, or use other words.

The words are:
access
capabilities
doesn’t
done
exploring
general
GPT-4
have
have
in
interesting
its
it’s
of
public
really
researchers
see
since
terms
the
to
to
what

A successful completion would be.

Since the general public doesn't have access to GPT-4, it's really interesting to see what researchers have done in terms of exploring its capabilities

The number of permutations of the 24 words in the pre-scrambled sentence without taking into consideration duplicate words is 24 * 23 * 22 * ... * 3 * 2 * 1 = ~ 6.2e+23 = ~ 620,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Taking into account duplicate words involves dividing that number by (2 * 2) = 4. It's possible that there are other permutations of those 24 words that are sensible sentences.

For a language model to consistently make sensible predictions, it quite simply has to be able to "look ahead".

When the probabilities for the candidate tokens for the first generated token were calculated, it seems likely that GPT-4 had calculated an internal representation of the entire sensible sentence, and elevated the probability of the first token based on that internal representation.

I don't know what else to call looking backward, looking forward and then producing output anything other than a state.

If you want to see what this kind of completion would look like without much or any regard for a sensible completion of the sentence then just ask 3.5.
It absolutely is the best thing out there in terms of perf/watt in the laptop and desktop spce.

Nothing else comes close.
This is content marketing for business insurance.
... well, this is functioning as intended. It's a next-word prediction model.
It is only affecting badly run banks it looks like. And yes, their mandate is heavily fighting inflation.

There are 4,000+ banks in the USA. Seems ok. Congress can also pass better laws to max size banks if they are concerned.
As a webdesigner this is something I subscribe to, with one exception: websites where falling out of the norm in a certain way is part of the point that needs to be communicated (e.g. an artist portfolio).

The ML in HTML stands for "markup language". Too many frameworks produce garbage markup, which is why for typical CMS systems I write my own themes that use HTML as it was intended to be used.

One of my favourite German hacker/nerd blogs uses more or less the browsers defaults for ages now and it is so blazingly fast that it is my regular "does the internet work"-website: https://blog.fefe.de/
People want to have as much BTC as possible.

Which means Bitcoin mining is a virus searching and consuming as much cheap energy as possible.

We are not at a point we're the margin is so small that we see consumption/mining shifting. We only see consumption and more consumption.

And of course this totally decentivie making the energy usable through things like high voltage DC lines or metal smelting or even making hydrogen.
I agree with you mostly for the blisters and comfort part. But I've found that in alpine hiking i need at least mid-high shoes. Usually with some amount of flexibility so it's really not about ankle support, but all the small stones hitting my ankles hurt.

I could have that with trail runners but then I'd need an extra ankle protection sleeve.
How to Design Programs 2nd Edition
Point 33 compared to point 35
I tried your prompt and it works with 3.5 too, but I'm not qualified to verify the output (75% of it looks the same to me though).
And resources are not endless and instead of reducing CO2, we try random hashes

Great...
I presume you're referring to KDE Activities. I use Activities all the time, but they're still far too much of a static thing, and way too High Ceremony to create/curate/maintain.
Thats white collar legit
The thing that always irritates me about bash is trying to use nulls as separators so you can run over many files without breaking on spaces or other characters in the filenames.

Is it -0 --null, -zero or -z?? Who knows? And every app has a different option. Only a grizzled old greybeard would remember.
Prabhakar Ragde's Flâneries (CS)
That made me laugh, thank you
Docusaurus 2.4
The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) requires banks and other financial institutions comply with a bunch of regulation for they pleasure of having an American as a customer. Unless it's a particularly interesting market for a foreign bank, they, as you've seen, just won't do business with an Americans.
In Switzerland there are no gates or a need for "showing a card/ticket to an operator, or otherwise proving you have, in fact, purchased a fare".

You just enter the bus/train/tram vehicle. Maybe a ticket controllant comes, maybe not (most often they dont come and check)

EDIT: To get a ticket you simple open the app and "check in". When you leave the transport you open the app and "check out". At the end of the day the system calculated the cheapest ticket for you based on that 24h period. This works across the entire country. From local buses to high speed intercity rail
Interestingly, the original Chinese proverb is 10 words (characters in Chinese): "不在乎结果，只在乎过程" (bù zàihu jiéguǒ, zhǐ zàihu guòchéng), which means "Don't worry about the result, just focus on the process."
Yeah, source? There is very much political "out of control crime" narrative from certain players, but fairly often it has zero to do with reality.

But, the fear got some innocent door ringers killed already, so if the fear goes up, we might get there.
I thought brutalist went design was about a visual aesthetic.
I think the missing dimension here is time. Building houses overnight won't magically make Oakland into NYC. It would take time, if it did happen, and until then housing would be cheaper.

Additionally. I think that it would be interesting to consider the distribution of housing costs. There are likely more affordable housing units in NYC than in Oakland (citation very much needed, I'm not sure this is true) , even if there are less relatively. So if your goal is to increase the number of people that can afforably live somewhere (as opposed to decreasing the average housing cost) building may accomplish it, even if it drives up median housing costs.

Lastly, this suggests that perhaps building needs to be accompanied with other policies if the goal is to decrease housing costs (whether rent control, demand reduction, or something else). Unfortunately, I doubt limiting job creation to reduce demand would be popular :)
That's also how it works if the County Golf Commissioner finds that he is 'actually' innocent.

Because that's not their job.
In Turkish, we call it 'chicken translation' or 'tavuk çevirme.' While that normally means rotisserie chicken, a few places badly translated it, and the name stuck for word-for-word.
Consciousness is awareness of itself. Inner monologue is self referential. If you can simulate it you will not be able to distinguish real one from simulated one similar to how you can't distinguish native speaker's translation from machine translation using black box test.

At this point - does it mean anything if something is "real" or "simulated"? If your only test is black box test where you can't distinguish black boxes anymore - your testing method is exhausted.

Perception, imagination, future reward estimation can be inspected by dumping inner dialogue - it's a subset of things people are already looking at to evaluate overall performance in one shot examples. It's when those things gain inner loop ability where it gets interesting.
The protocol consists of passing signed multisig transactions back and forth through a network of payment channels. Every single one is a first class bitcoin transaction than can be redeemed by broadcasting to the base layer, enforced by consensus.

You have misunderstood since the beginning, because this is how it’s worked since the initial spec was proposed in 2015, years before it was actually implemented.

Here’s a book you may find informative:
https://github.com/lnbook/lnbook
>> if it's important not to be tracked by law enforcement (e.g. attending an illegal protest), you don't take your phone in the first place

These days it won't help, thanks to our friends from the AI department. Anyone's identity is easily found from the cameras filming the illegal protest.
I interpreted it more as Springsteen knowing he was a better lyricist than he was a singer or guitar player, and as such played to his own strengths by focusing on that.

If everything's a competition of sorts, you're more likely to "win" if you enter in your strongest category. Even if that category isn't the category that tends to carry the most prestige (e.g., being a strong lyricist is arguably less legendary in itself than being a strong instrumentalist).
"But do you even lift bro?"

"You don't even know my weight."
I would say that violence against others is also important part of moral decay. As in, "I just do not care if it delayed you" is morally superior to "I best you to vent my own feelings or to control you".
Is Go an object-oriented programming language?
How about we do the cost of lives? Lives lost to drugs and violence. White collar crime isn't killing your loved ones.
That may be why I thought "this might be cool to see a video game character interact with a tablet in a futuristic-theme rpg to make for like the menu screen or something."
The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations (2022)
Counterpoint for 1: packages on PyPI or NPM. When I’m publishing an extension for another language. I really have no idea about their architecture.

I’ve seen people just compile for the lowest common denominator. E.g. faiss-cpu on PyPI doesn’t even include AVX2 and is slow as heck.
Well, Romansh is a Romance language, a Latin vernacular like French and Spanish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

Off topic: I'm rebuilding our landing page (targeting CH for the time being) and decided to add Romansh. Long story short, there are 5 standard forms, plus an official made-up version, all of that for 60k speakers. Was interesting to read so much about our 4th official language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language
IBM CEO expects AI to be so good at back office work, plans to pause hiring
Yet defunding of white collar police like the IRS, CFPB, SEC, etc. is popular among many politicians.
And Bitcoin is so stable and international accepted and not able to be attacked by a 50% attack that it's better to use in a crisis than gold and food?

Have you seen someone trading worthless money into BTC in a crisis? No you have not.

Either you keep Bitcoin and start really using it globally or this argument is wrong.

And you can see in El Salvador how bad it is.
This should be solved with technology. With technology, economy is no longer an issue, human can be free.

But income is not the biggest issue. Poor countries always have higher birthrate not because it is cheap to do so, it is because life is not much besides family, there is not much you can do by yourself. In developed world, you may want to spend a lot time exploring yourself, satisfy your own need, rather than thinking about taking care of a baby.
Is there some way that it's a more direct descendant of Latin than any other Romance language is?
Washington State alone lost 1 Billion+ in 2020 to online fraud. I'm guessing the 20x estimate is low.
You can do that in fvwm .
Since 20 years.
I have AS. Diagnosed or rather verified on the sole basis of presence of HLAB27 antigen. Luckily it's peripheral, but it was detected pretty late in the cycle. The doctor was super helpful. I realize the how this is an evolving science when I shared the reports with a friend who studied medicine for 8 years, and her reaction was total surprise about the tests, medicines, and injections I was given. Only thing that has worked so far is Adalipca injections and they too need to be taken atleast once every year (two at a time). (Edit: The doctor told me pointblank that we dont know what could have triggered it)

I read somewhere that a startup was working on controlling Immune system response via some brain waves. I have never rooted so strong for any startup as I am rooting for them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35784159
It has been common sense in real estate investing that the increase in density drives the land price higher (thus the housing price per squire foot). But there is a difference between the density increase of housing units and the density increase of the population. The land price increases only to the point that the added housing capacity is 'fully employed.' And that can be measured by the vacancy rate. When the vacancy rate is low, more density will lead to higher property prices.
Is "anyways" part of written English these days?
Really? https://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=6521133&page=1

And that's a "visible" example. There are people who don't make the news who suffer greatly. Losing your life savings is economic death and in human society (at least today's), economic death is often tied to suicide because of how tied it is to your ability to survive / provide for your family.
It's good enough from a demand perspective.

Chips are not made after lunch until evening. They are made weeks and month ahead
All of this is great and transparent, speaks volumes to the efficacy of the Rust ecosystem and the processes the core team and developers have set up.

I am curious though what about https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/pull/11285/files actually caused the resulting bug. I mean conceptually I get it, but it'd be neat to see some commentary on what exactly happened in that change to result in the actual bug itself.
Plastic separation can be done using in-flight air sorters coupled with multispectral imagers and neural net AI systems.[1] San Francisco's recycling plant at Pier 96 has had optical sorters like that since 2016. This is installed, commercial technology. It's fast, too. "In the time you were watching this video, the systems sorted 6,000 bottles."

In flight air sorting with cameras and AI has huge capacity. Most vegetables pass through such sorters. It's even used to sort individual grains of rice.[2]

Interestingly, when the biggest plastic bottle recycling plant in California went bankrupt, it was bought by DAK Americas. DAK is a plastics manufacturer. They make PET for making bottles. That they bought a bottle recycling plant indicates the round-trip process has become profitable. Now they have a raw material supply that isn't tied to the price of oil.

This proposed chemical process is not separation. It's linking incompatible plastics into a new bulk material. But what do you do with that? It's not suitable for containers.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpGGHUaoo0Y

[2] https://www.buhlergroup.com/content/buhlergroup/global/en/pr...
Polymers, also known as soft matter, degrade very rapidly when exposed to high temperatures (e.g. melting). I don't see how anyone would be able to engineer their way out of that issue in the next 5-10 years.
No one is getting shot. But it definitely affects peoples lives.

Try to look up how financial security affects health.
The externalities for street crime are huge. A home is burglarized for $1000 and the whole neighborhood will experience much lower quality of life after the crime.
I might pay $130 for a reliable clock AND AM AND FM-stereo radio in one box. But no, the statement that "AM broadcast radio is the best band for learning about radio" is just about as wrong as it can get, kids.

Except then they say "you might hear stations from half-way across the continent". Well, in that case, if you like Talk radio, 7MHz might be your best choice. (Antenna's a lot shorter too.)
> giving up water resistance can reasonably be assumed to increase ewaste

Sacrificing repairability on 100% of phones causes more waste than the tiny percentage of phones that cannot be repaired after water damage?

Current phones are water-resistant in varying degrees by IP rating, they are not waterproof. What's the number one remedial action that people took when their Nokia or Blackberry fell into water? Remove the battery to avoid an electrical short. This mitigation is not possible on an iPhone or Pixel.
The amount of time and energy some people are willing to spend furiously spinning webs of utter nonsense is... impressive.

Unnervingly, it sometimes resembles the zeal reserved for traditional religions.
Brutalism is a word that means something when it comes to architecture, and is just used as a catchy word for hipsters in webdesign communities, there is nothing more to that, it's yet another design fad like "flat".
Why are tinted windows sign of sociopaths?
That'd be specially wrong, as high income already pay more taxes, which more strongly fund this transport system.
It's about functionalism.
Or you're attributing malice when stupidity suffices. Hanlon's razor.