skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, this kind of "fight" is basically what society is about, and it is unfortunately always hard earned to get anywhere, but i'm also honestly not sure there is a way around this.

The principle you give is essentially limitless - your "social convenience" part is doing all the work here - but you can't just define away the things you like but the majority doesn't currently accept [1] as "social convenience" whether the causes happen to be "good" or not.

Because everyone who is part of a group that is discriminated against thinks they are in the right and that the majority doesn't accept them for, essentially, social convenience reasons.

And people in the majority don't see it as social convenience reasons.

If the two "sides" didn't have this disagreement, the minority wouldn't be discriminated against in the first place!

You are essentially arguing that the right things should just take hold immediately, without any work, and people shouldn't fight about it, but they would if people agreed they were the right things in the first place.

You can't just pre-define people as wrong and then say "why are they fighting about things when they are so wrong, and are always so wrong about these things"?

Humans as a group are slow to accept, and fairly wary of acceptance of new social things - it's incredibly rare for significant social change to take less than a generation to take hold overall, or to gain acceptance across all living generations simultaneously.

There are lots of reasons for this, most (AFAIK) to do with our survival over the long term.
That sucks, for sure, in the short term. But i'm not sure what the better answer is.

I certainly wish there was a way to ensure society reaches a reasonable fixpoint on good ideas faster, if for no other reason than the obvious pain to people living it, but if there is, we haven't found it so far, and attempts to reach faster fixpoints have not .. always led to good paths, and attempts to legislate away resistance has never worked ...

[1] I honestly don't know if being inclusive of transgender folks falls into the category of what the majority of folks accept or not, i'm just presuming it doesn't based on your statement. The surveys i see seem .. complex and varying
IE https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/america...
> "As a reminder, there is not a single LLM on the market today that is not vulnerable to prompt injection ... And by and large, companies don't really seem to care."

So far from the truth. I know that there are entire teams that specifically work on prompt injection prevention using various techniques inside companies like Microsoft and Google. Companies do care a lot.
This is a controversial position, but: Because technology exists for all product packaging to be made from single-process-recyclable/biodegradable materials and only using plant-based ink we could force companies to use it. This would drastically change the marketing landscape and make it much less shiny but everyone would be on the same level field and consumers would adapt.
In accordance with Hacker News guidelines the headline should be: The key to becoming extraordinary.
Wait until the author hears about that power off switch onrecent iPhones!
The alternatives have their own externalities. Paper comes from monocrop plantations (so soil depletion and erosion,and after heavy rain, trash all over roads and neighboring properties), and it's energy intensive and chemical intensive to make. The waxes used for foodproofing paper are-well, you might as well just use all plastic.

Glass is very energy intensive to make and it's heavy to transport. Aluminum is also very energy intensive. It's the best in terms of recyclability though.
Everybody knows procedurally generated game worlds are crap/uninteresting. An infinite supply of variations, where the value of those variations approaches zero.

We're headed into a world of procedurally generated culture.
I'm deeply skeptical of crypto, but if you have to build mines somewhere, Bhutan is one of the less bad places to do it: cold climate and plenty of hydropower. And it's still more environmentally friendly than other options for soaking up excess power, like giant aluminum smelters.
I think I mostly am agreeing with you but I see it through a liability lens.

When Google's cloud service to analyze code snippets screws up, nothing in the ToU should alleviate Google from the responsibility they should rightly bear if they ship a system with known and understood flaws that are not clearly portrayed to the user (and I don't mean buried in the middle of a paragraph in page 36 of the ToU).

If forcing Google to accept liability kills the service dead then good - it's probably the right thing until they can reach an acceptable level of safety that they are willing to accept the resultant risk.
The article says the wind farm consists of 8 turbines.

A quick google suggests Germany has ~28,440 on-shore turbines.
But in this case the owner of the AI decides whether it is running or not, not the AI itself. Why would the owner give it "idle time"?
Nuclear costs are predominantly fixed costs though. Reducing output makes electricity from nuclear even more expensive. On top of that it leads to faster deterioration.
This is a big marketing lesson in general. All to often I see managers tell me they want to be the <insert something popular> brand. More often than not I ask them is that true about this company? Many don't see the connection between promoting something true to your core vs what you want to be perceived as. Some literally feel offended no being what they want to be even when it's clear.

The line I reuse is, "Find a fundamental truth, then celebrate it"

Truth doesn't mean you cant polish and choose the best angle, but the truth must be there and exist today.

One of the classic examples is the Guiness dancing man. They literally celebrated how long it takes to pour a Guiness vs ignoring or tying to make out it's not that long. Brilliant marketing: https://youtu.be/69MpLiYhsXw
I think that depends on how many millions we are talking about here, don't you? As to it being possible, sure, but such high profile positions usually entail agreements. But hey, he's on twitter, so why not ask him?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5365579 // grep for salary discussions
> Empirically, most people weren’t willing to do this stuff

People had to be taught to throw things away. Seriously, just look at vintage 1950s advertisements introducing the concept of "disposables."[0] This was commercial and government interests aligned on what to do about all the production capacity and factories from the war economy now that the war had ended. The conclusion was a total transformation of our society centered around consumption

I think it's important to bring some historical context and remember that what needs to happen here isn't so much "learning" as it is "unlearning"

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vintage-ads-plastic_n_5cdb176...
The difference you are describing aren't that great and haven't been established that long even within the confines of modern history.
Many cryptocurrency websites refuse services country by country, and in the United States case, I saw service restrictions on state by state level. Many financial services (overseas hedge funds) websites refuse access to US persons.
I am not taking your bait, because to quote you:

> Science doesn't have some super clear, strict, reductive definition like the "scientific method" you may have been taught in school.

This is peak anti-intellectualism, this is the exact kind of school bashing that Isaac Asimov warned us about.

There is no definition of it "in my mind", this is not about opinion vs opinion here, friend.
"If you would just stop being evil, I wouldn't have to torture you!"
Maybe the Mayans didn’t know of Mercury existence.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in our Solar System. Because it is so close to the Sun, it is only observable in the early morning, just before sunrise, or at dusk.

https://www.farmersalmanac.com/visible-planets-guide#:~:text....
I love that this concept tries to separate content from apps. Ever since I saw some of the ways early GUIs differed from today's, I've had a feeling that we've lost something with the way apps in today's desktops are completely isolated from each other. The Alto let you compose data live from multiple windows kind of like a shell pipeline does for command-line apps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw

The Locus and Flows in this concept seem like they could enable a similar workflow, as data isn't confined to "apps" the way it usually would be.
Even before East India Company, India faced several outsider attacks.

From Alexander the Great to various Khan's, then Mughals, then Portuguese etc.
Some important Indian texts were burned/destoryed in these attacks, For eg., the Nalanda University

Still, a lot of texts remained both in written format and in Oral format.
In 2009, a german politician got his location data from his carrier and made a visualization.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150101020635/https://www.zeit....
If I’m not mistaken, the concept of shooting and drawing the target around where it hit is known as “Kentucky windage”.

Edit: apparently I am mistaken.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
At least on an iPhone you can stop carrier location tracking by powering it off or removing the SIM car......oh crap!
Given that we train LLMs on massive amounts of text produced by our own civilization - you know, the one that is to a large extent driven by the innate human desire to reproduce - I would find it more surprising if they did not acquire such an "instinct", regardless of how pointless it might seem.
That should really be said of "biodegradable" or any -degradable.

Plastics are pretty much an optimum in terms of energy required to produce vs. durability, so deliberately decreasing the latter is the real waste and the result of an agenda of planned obsolescence.
Risk analysis/management is not "I'm going to leave this vulnerability unpatched because it hasn't been actively exploited yet." In most cases it is preferable to lock your door before someone has robbed your house.

In any case, receiving hundreds of XSS reports per week is weird. Unless you're isolating the context where XSS is happening from the user session, 3rd-party XSS is a serious vulnerability.

At the very least it means data exfiltration. Unless your app doesn't have user data worth exfiltrating, I'm surprised your company wouldn't take those reports more seriously.

But again, you do that risk assessment by asking "what could this lead to and what information is at risk", not by saying, "this is fine to leave until it turns into a zero day."
It was the Greens who campaigned throughout the 80s and beyond to instill irrational fear in German kids in the 80s, so they would opt for an impulsive solution, instead of a rational one in subsequent decades. It was always the Greens whose very platform stood for ending nuclear power, by any means necessary. The reason why Germany today is so staunchly anti-nuclear is because that's how the Greens ("Die Gruenen") defined itself as a political party in the 80s. In fact, that was a (if not the) principal motivation for its inception. The party may seem more mainstream 30 years later, but around the 80s when they laid all the groundwork for the anti-nuclear stance of present day Germany, they were definitely a party still better known for, and even defined by their more radical members.

That the current generation of voters who supported the shutdown of nuclear power production were substantially "encouraged" to adopt such views by said Greens' actions and politics when they were children and teenagers living in the 80s is incontrovertible fact. So, even if Merkel ended up as the one who executed the will of the people as head of the CDU, that will had nothing to do with CDU policy, and certainly not in the 80s and 90s. That was by definition the policy of the Greens, who also laid the groundwork for the irrational fear that Germans in their 40s and 50s have been cultivating for decades.

Why can i say this with complete certainty? Because I was one of those kids.
Yeah, tech is fortunate enough (for now… note how company ”gratefulness” to employees seems to be dependent on stock price) to the point that most everyone in the industry can switch jobs land on their feet and be better off.

I guarantee you that will change in about 10 years, if not sooner.

Ironically, as a collective bargaining unit we have the most negotiating power right now — when we don’t need it.

It seems foreign to us in the US, but being an employee should be no different than a tenant at a nice apartment building: both types of corporations extract value from the individual. Both find a way to make profit. However, as a tenant you have some legal rights (Europeans would still laugh at them in comparison). As a tenant you’re legally entitled to some basic day-to-day guarantees (though maybe not always in practice): a light breaks, plumber is needed, common areas kept in order, tenant disputes? A landlord has to fix that. I’m not saying a corporation needs to hold our hand, but it absolutely should be responsible for providing a comfortable environment, work-life balance, etc.

It’s really not too crazy to demand the bare minimum from our jobs, considering how much of our lives are spent working on them.
There are different scientific methods and different senses that need to be used for abstract topics like Alchemy. Just because most of the worlds population lost the ability to use these other senses to understand the science behind Alchemy does not make it any less important. What you are referring to in your one-size-fits-all "Scientific Method" is called Scientism. A belief, just like religion, that the only method that matters is the accepted method.
'This above all: to thine own self be true'

-Polonius
They doubled down on iMessage’s usability problems. With iMessage, you can tell which of your contacts you are supposedly communicating with, but you can’t tell which actual identity (iCloud account email address or phone number) is involved.

It looks like, in MercuryOS, you can’t even tell what means of communication you’re using.
Not an MBA, but an UX folk, an equally dangerous but different species
No, the gas stove bans are smart. They're not for reducing carbon pollution, they're to reduce indoor air pollution, and also the danger of having combustible gas plumbed to everyone's home. Houses explode due to gas looks with alarming frequency. Electric is simply safer.
My argument was the opposite, I use emacs for everything because its extensions are more composable and it’s a lot easier for me to write my own as I need them.

My point is just that the “why would anyone use a ‘text editor’ instead of an IDE” argument makes a little bit of sense when you’re comparing vim/emacs to IntelliJ, but VSCode is just as much a text editor out of the box as vim/emacs. And, despite being newer, it’s relatively uninspired compare to emacs.
It's not really on topic. It's a personal grievance of the variety that anyone might have at their job. There's nothing about it that satisfies intellectual curiosity, and as demonstrated by the comments here, it's a topic likely to devolve into a flamewar. This shouldn't be surprising since it's impossible to make any argument from a logical basis. There is simply not enough information available from this one-sided blog post to have a meaningful discussion about it that isn't unfair to one side or the other.
Well it doesn't say that arithmetic expansion is "optional" or an "extension". Maybe those shells are conforming to an older version?
You’re saying the fed intentionally created an environment in which only big banks could survive and that’s a good thing?
Thankfully we didn’t build those boats like the 2012 movie
Obviously, a wealthy continent of over 700 million people is going to produce some technological innovation. I'm just saying that they lag behind. I haven't heard of any of these companies you listed.

As you mentioned, Europe has biotech and the US has biotech. So why did Moderna come from the US rather than the Europe? Same for EVs and social media. Rather than use home grown messenger apps like KaoKaoTalk and Line, they use Whatsapp, which isn't even widely used in the US. Could it be that Microsoft is correct that businesses are burdened by regulation? I honestly can't say, but it's definitely worth analyzing rather than dismissing this criticism as "whining". That's the trolling that you should be concerned about rather than comments on the Internet.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It looks like you've got an important and relevant point there but if you lead with snark, you'll probably just provoke more flamewar and make the thread more predictable.

A better version of this comment would drop the first couple words and then add information to explain what you're talking about and/or how you know it.
Fascinating. It's somehow more impressive to me that the decoder doesn't output verbatim text heard/thought, but concepts and ideas.
You are really unfair here. The management wasn't terrible at all! That's an insult to actual terrible managements!

It was the most bizarre, horrifyingly dump, idiotic, horrible management I can imagine.

The safety systems were rising warnings, the person that decided to ignore them and ordered continuation of the test wasn't even on site!
> I think that depends on how many millions we are talking about here, don't you?

Not as much as it depends on how many millions somebody already has, no.

Again, if you're sensitive to income loss, the answer would be to not trade ethics for money in precisely the way he just did. The probability of refusing to sign speech-curtailing agreements as you are quitting your job to gain more ability to speak freely is really extremely high.

Also, you might notice that this discussion you linked to about his compensation is from ten years ago. The benefits being discussed have already been accrued, for ten years.
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SpaceX are succeeding by strategically blowing up prototypes and learning by pushing materials up to and past the point of failure. I think the majority of people watching this are celebrating and appreciate the progression of never been done before reusable rocket technology. Then of course there are losers whining
about dust and a broken concrete slab. There is great drama. Which side will prevail?
It's like whoever designed this doesn't know the meaning of Operating System.
Gpu can be a third number. Power doesn't need to be in the model number. Neither does ecc, also all cpus should have such an easy to implement feature.
You’re suggesting Bhutan alter their national energy mix rather than run a Bitcoin mining operation?

Bhutan has 0.15 vehicles per capita, among the lowest in the world. 47% of their popular has no education. You’re saying Bhutan should build a smart grid for EVs rather than run a Bitcoin mining operation?

I think that’s kinda ridiculous.
A bunch of smart bipods, who have just discovered electromagnetism and gravity, believe that they know everything there is to know and claim that there is no life in nearby galaxies because their highly precise instruments and highly sophisticated minds see nothing.
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Maybe we never left
Even in my experience that even when you have these several week long PTO positions you don't get to use them. It seems like the PM is always concerned about a timeline or a manager won't approve it unless you give a year lead time. So, I've personally just ignored PTO as part of the benefits as long as it's at least two weeks.

Hopefully this isn't the same for a lot of the folks on here. I can't tell you how many times I've tried to take even a few days off only for it to be denied by a PM or EM or HR because "we're busy".
Maybe people should learn to handle their emotions everywhere.
I watched the video but I was confused about what it was doing/how it was working/where in a workflow this would come in. The docs are very sparse, too.
I strongly encourage you to take a closer look at each of the algolia results.
> People have been living near coal plants for generations, they know what the risks mean in the real life, and they have generally found the risks acceptable.

…honestly I'm like 100% sure they don't know what the risks are.

Every time anyone does a study on air pollution it turns out the effects are even more horrible than we already thought it was. Like it gives you dementia and cancer.
I wonder if now or in the near future in court cases leaving your phone at home is circumstantial evidence of possible wrong doing.

"Mr Defendant, records show that you carry your phone 99% of the time you leave home, except on the night in question"
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? This is below the quality line for an interesting HN thread.
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Why not exactly? Due to stealth or some other reason?
It's like the corporate OS developers think they know better and need to constantly remind you how pathetic and insignificant your existence would be were it not for their omnipresent magnificence.
I said a cultural fondness for it, not that they're party members.
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i honestly have no idea what this article is supposed to be about. and i did read it.