skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad to see this every time. It helps set the industry standard, and companies that don’t give fair consideration will be labelled.

I remember a company I was once at had laid off some people in pretty bad faith (required them to relocate, and let them go after they moved across the continent) and the announcement was along the lines of “we understand the inconvenience so allow us to be generous with 4 weeks severance”, which was absolutely a slap in the face considering that’s barely two months of rent in this city.
And then just never monitor their software for bugs due to exceptional edge cases?
You know which services I don't have problems cancelling? Ones I subscribe to via Apple's in-app payments. I get that it sucks to have Apple scrape a percentage of my payments for themselves, but if you're a company I don't fully trust and/or want to have total control over my subscription without a bunch of hassle, Apple's IAPs are the way to go.

Mostly this is great with the big streaming services. Want Disney+ or Paramount+ for a month to watch a show? Sign up. Immediately cancel within Apple's App Store app. Simple. And if I have a complaint, Apple has generally favored me. For example, I recently signed up for a streaming service and their app simply wouldn't work. No idea why. Pinged Apple for a refund. Got it immediately. No hassle.
Have you considered that the activists might be okay with surveillance if the surveillance is fair? That is, if it's not misidentifying people and adds a sense of security and auditability, maybe they would be okay, just as they themselves might install Nest/Ring in their own abode?

Now, I agree that if the argument is "surveillance is inaccurate" then some landlords and landladies might come back and say, "ours is more accurate than trained crowds of professional forensic experts" and it's possible the activists would not want that and just don't want any surveillance, or maybe they are looking for accuracy and the elimination of misattribution.
Fwiw, every time I "meet the team after interviewing", it literally is just to meet the team. If there were any technical exercises involved, I'd expect an agenda or some kind of heads up. And it makes sense to wait for the technical evaluation before scheduling this sort of meeting, imo.

For bigger orgs, this is a chance to sanity check team fit and potentially re-route if longer-term interests align better with some other team. For startups, it can be more of a vibe check.
The issue is "making it" in Canada means moving to the US where there's real opportunity. Anyone who's really good is just kneecapping themselves by staying in the country. So most of our creative output is mediocre, especially when the only stuff that gets funded through CBC and whatnot is based entirely on identity politics with no consideration of whether or not the people involved have proven they can make anything good.
What happens when Uranus gets swallowed by a black hole?

It gets stretched, elongated, and eventually disappears into the black hole, leaving behind nothing but a trail of gas.
Good podcast .
For local people here - We are getting killed even for photo graphing silent strike , back in newyear day. The people protest by nobody going out , and the amatuer reporter who just photographed and posted on reddit which was picked up by new sources , got killed 2 days later. Thats why many of us dare not to do podcast/go live on news.
> 'back up' is a bit hard because of the anecdotal nature, but for me this is just the most logical explanation

"The most 'logical' explanation" is very often a function of psychedelic usage (and various other experiences one may have had, or not).

> and as said: I have yet to see even the slightest piece of scientific evidence pointing to something else. Whereas there's enough of science supporting the way I think.

In actual science, an abscence of evidence is not proof of abscence though.

> I remain skeptical of course, though it's more of a 'I want to belive' type of thing.

For both sides!
Is the lottery fee really what's preventing people from signing up multiple times? Aren't there so many other services in this world that manage that pretty well without a lottery fee?
Some Google employees aren't happy about Sundar Pichai's $226M paycheck
A Non-Technical Explanation of ChatGPT
I assume they all let you cancel.

If the subscription is free, and they do not let you keep the benefits if you cancel, then I would still not describe that as a dark pattern.
I suppose the current technology bit does restrict things massively. But I will say that there are a ton of options to optimized the current single occupant vehicle model.

Self Driving can do a lot of things that increase the efficiency of roadways.

Eg: If everyone's vehicle went to a fixed 10mph idle speed as soon as the light turned green we'd get far more vehicles through a light rather than cascading 1-2 second reaction times to the next vehicle's brake lights (and much more if the person is on their phone, which is increasingly common) .

Eg2: Self driving cars could drive much closer to eachother, and actually pre-communicate intent to brake giving the effect of negative reaction time. (relative to humans)
There's no emergent intelligence in word statistics.
> Perhaps. Of course I think, I get it, I just don’t agree with it, or think it’s poorly formed.

Sounds like every time I've tried to discuss these movies online. If you notice the setting has issues, for some reason a lot of people jump on that as you "just not getting it" and you absolutely hating the movies.
Banks are in a tight spot. They have short term liabilities (depositors might want to pull their funds out whenever) and primarily long term assets (loans), except for the cash buffer they get overnight deposit rate for from central banks.

Some of that long term debt interest is fixed at lower rates than current interest rates, so the banks can’t offer the same risk-free return on deposits as money market funds that collect the current rates from short term government bonds.

The longer the high interest rates continue, the more deposits will flow out into money market funds and treasuries in search of higher risk-free yield.

As time goes on, more and more banks are affected by this, potentially needing bail outs if they can’t cover the depositor outflows. They have higher cash reserves than before GFC, but if there are enough outflows, those reserves won’t be enough.
Heh, I think I'm going to start bringing up this paper whenever somebody tells me they majored in communications. This stuff is fascinating! Shannon really was a genius.
From the article:

"April 3, 2023 - Real Humans Can’t Tell the Difference Between a 13B Open Model and ChatGPT

Berkeley launches Koala, a dialogue model trained entirely using freely available data.

They take the crucial step of measuring real human preferences between their model and ChatGPT. While ChatGPT still holds a slight edge, more than 50% of the time users either prefer Koala or have no preference. Training Cost: $100."
Regarding 1.8x, what is your tax rate? I have the same situation in Canada but my marginal tax rate is approx 50%. As such, it is better for me to pay down my mortgage (through early payments).
We pay them a quarter million a year, but that's not enough I guess.
The tunnels are a very different design than those used for trains
Do you also expect everyone to subsequently remove it?
That would vary greatly on the specific meaning one is using for the term "understood".
Sorry, I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you explain?

The 1% and 2% examples are not from the article as one of the losing deposit examples, just my comparisons because I am familiar with them. So I wonder if they also report reduced deposits. (I am probably not even using the correct financial instrument to compare, it's just one easy to look up.)

So I wondered if consumers using the low interest banks (like Deutsche Bank with 0.4%) are mostly just switching to higher interest banks (like DKB with 1.0%) and the actual change to those 9.45 trillion euros is not in the tens of billions, as suggested by the article (e.g. Deutsche Bank with nearly 5% in change in deposits), but instead is closer to a few billions. In context of 9.45 trillion, that would be ~0.1%, which does not sound too worrying.
California has a "don't sell my data" law, which may apply here. That's the only US law I can think of.

Unless OpenAI is stupid enough to gather medical data from protected sources under HIPAA, that is, but I doubt even OpenAI wouldn't be nonchalant enough to use a data source like that.
It isn't a startup. Sustainable is key for stuff like this. Hockey sticks are the danger. Communities are built slowly.
Breaking things was a core mantra of theirs for a while, right?
> Excessive fees going to a for-profit company is a separate matter

It's actually the entire subject of TFA.
This is how things used to be pre-Musk. Musk disabled this behavior and enabled browsing without login, but it seems to be back to the old way again.
Not that corporations need me to carry their water, but I believe the popular subscription whipping boy, the New York Times, might be unfairly characterized now. After yet another one of these "subscriptions are evil" articles, I decided I wasn't going to support such shenanigans anymore, plus I don't read the NYT like I used to, so I'd sit on hold for as long as it takes.

But it looks like it's now a few button clicks, and a few "are you sure?"s, all online. And it's advertised that you can do it online. "Wanna cancel by certified letter? Perhaps a phone call? No? How about online?" (I'm obviously paraphrasing).

Now, I cannot confirm that the completion of the process works, as I decided to keep the subscription if I can cancel online. But I'll give the NYT the benefit of the doubt and assume the last button to click doesn't say "Call customer retention at 800-555-1212 to complete the process".

EDIT: no, I do not live in CA, nor has the NYT ever had reason to suspect that I do.
SFN was just deliverr anyway so it will likely continue in that sense under flexports banner. Since Shopify sold it as an equity swap they still have an interest in promoting it and keeping it in house.

The bigger picture here is that Shopifys visions of becoming an aggregate Amazon and competing in this space are dwindling.

Sad as there is a real solution waiting here.
Hmm.

I have an idea. Lets make a service what would remind you about the need to cancel subscriptions. A cloud based, AI-driven service would scan your email[*] and messages[*][**] to automatically add reminders based on the purchase receipts. And of course you can always add your own reminders![**]

[*] not available on the free tier, for more options check the current plans at https://dontforgettocancel.com/plans

[**] installation of a companion app is mandatory, refusal would be met with account termination[****]

[***] free tier forever!

[****] https://dontforgettocancel.com retain the rights to your money under any circumstances. It's our money, anyways.

Privacy Policy: to perform the advanced matching your emails, messages, photos sitting on the toilet could be sent to 3rd-party to enhance and enrich your experience.
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This is one thing that the 3D printing world hasn't quite figured out.

There's unlimited possibilities, but we haven't quite established conventions on how to use it. Gridfinity is a big step, but there's still lots of stuff people are uncertain about.

Printing threads works great if you do it right, but nobody seems to trust it will print well.

A lot of designs have nonprinted elements, but other than heat set inserts nobody has converged on a common set of stuff like early electronics had with 555s and 2n2222s, and now Arduinos and random Amazon modules.

It seems like using magnets and CA glue is kind of the rising star here, but there's lots of other techniques that don't seem to get explored because there's not much guidance yet.

I spent about a week fussing with dovetail connections before I got something I was happy with( 40/130 deg depending on your reference per side, 4mm high, 5mm at the base of the male, 6.4 at the base of the female, 45 degree taper at the bottom of the male).

Lots of companies have design languages for hardware, but I've never seen an equivalent for 3D printing aside from Gridfinity which is very special purpose.
The FTC has no power to create law, just interpret existing laws. Any “bans” would already need to be illegal based on current law enacted by congress. In the past Chevron Deference used to assume executive agencies had broad authority on law interpretation, but that seems to be a crumbling precedent.

If there are already existing laws that cover this, the FTC is just doing their enforcement job.
A Computer Can Never Be Held Accountable
The bid/ask spread is too wide on precious metals to be useful as a transactional currency. I guess in a true societal collapse-type emergency maybe it'll be useful, but at that point canned food, guns, and ammo might be more valuable.
The same way you write it for anything else. Why would it be different?
I hope this is sarcasm.

No it wouldn't.
Congrats on the launch!

We've been using Hypertune at Causal (https://causal.app) for the last few months and it's saved tonnes of engineering cycles letting me and our PM iterate directly on custom onboarding copy for different Causal templates, alongside more typical feature flag use-cases :)
ChatGPT has been rolled back to the March 3 version
Ah, I should have been more clear in my message -- I'm referring to the Hue Color bulbs.

A range would definitely be nice.
Considering that the precursor to Facebook was a site that ranked pictures of women obtained without consent whatsoever, it was inarguably evil from the very start.
Yes. The "authentic Chinese experience" is not living in a cage without food. The "authentic Chinese experience" is living in a massive, bustling city with great cuisine, terrible traffic jams and awesome public transit.
Yep, typically an algorithm with heavily baked in bias. Works great for specific populations, not so much when it needs to recognize every possible facial structure on the planet - something that's a problem in very few places, except that NY is basically #1 on the list of places where you algorithm has to work for every possible face on the planet, and would have to be tamper proof, which by definition it can't be unless we augment it with IR and lidar to make sure there's a human standing in front of it. And then that would have to still work when it's both 100F and -40F. You know what lets people into your building even more efficiently? A key fob.
California has some decent regulation on this. And there's an ongoing bill at a federal level, I believe!
Daydream: Sign up for $Service using the name of a near-death relative. When you want to cancel, "$Subscriber is deceased" is a pretty heavy trump card.
>Shopify still a valuable business!

Yeah, it's valuation got way ahead of itself during the COVID-19 Internet Gold Rush. Huge valuation, lack of focus, is normal.

It's still a great tool.
Well, in a global sense it's a race to the bottom: if X doesn't claim efficiencies of scale then Y will, and put X out of business.

Germany would probably be the best counter-example to look at? Re: how to create and maintain medium-sized businesses that are still efficient.
I have found Hue to be a rare example of how IoT can be good, they have a pretty open platform using the bridge and api, with good quality if a little pricey product. Be great if hue made a devkit for the kind of projects in the post.
Not entirely on topic, but is there a way of getting past the Bloomberg paywall? I can't read the article.
> Facebook was on-the-whole good when it was limited to .edu users.

You mean, when it was a sort of amihotornot for Harvard students?
> some people have bare hands and a knife while others have tanks and rocket launchers

The opposite can be seen in Kurt Vonnegut's 2081
Sounds like a deal to train vertex ai on enterprise codebase in the name of privacy and security. This doesn’t look like a natural partnership to me.
How good was Shopify Logistics? Is a competitor viable?
A post filter? Do you mean preventing the data from appearing in results rather than removing it from the AI training? That wouldn't satisfy the demand.
ChatGPT was released 5 months ago, although it seems very important, I don't think we can fairly asses its legacy in this short time.
Look—if you’re going to use the phrase “moral minority” you should be prepared to address polling on the issue from a reputable polling agency.

If you look at the demographic breakdowns, almost all the movement is among younger men. Among women 18-49, it’s only 41% approval.
I have no idea what a "Reddit tier atheist" is supposed to be.

But I can say I grew up in a country where senior Bishops get a direct opportunity to review legislation, the coins have (Latin initial for) "defender of the faith" embossed on them, there is (or was, I don't keep up) a legal requirement for "broadly christian" themed school assemblies, and the national broadcaster has regular Christian shows on both radio and TV.

And despite all that, 52% of the population identifies as "no religion".

Are you in the country that has "in god we trust" printed on the currency, and in use as an official motto?
Data privacy and protection compliance, specifically for devices that may have accessed customer data.
Correct. But I think the intention is conveyed in the wording itself. When somebody says "deliberately manipulating", you can fill in the extra "for one's own benefit and with no regard to the well-being of the manipulated party" automatically.
I work in adtech. Terms like "Targetted advertising" and "Retargeting" are very common.
You are using Bonetti’s Defense against me, ah?
That feels dark pattern adjacent to me. It's tone deaf to think information someone gives you as part of using a service they want from you means they are okay with that information being shared with other parties in a manner completely unrelated to the service provided.

Sharing sensitive information once, or even a hundred times, should not constitute a presumed consent to opt-in to that information being shared again or data mined.
I actually quite liked 2049 and Dune. I say this as a fan of the original Blade Runner, Android Sheep, and the novel "Dune."

For 2049, maybe its just my own personal struggles with personal identity and losing people I love, but K's struggles resonated with me. Its a story that mostly says, at least the way I interpreted it, that who you are doesn't matter so much as the actions you perform in life. K, for most of the movie, is doing what other people tell him to do. In the end he takes action and makes choices that are meaningful to him. It results in his death, but it was a choice between either being a dead man walking with no meaning in his life, or finding meaning even if it means dying for it.

I can see why someone might not like it...its slow and it focuses more on the internal struggles of the main character than action on the screen. Still, when I ponder what happens in the movie, it resonates with me and lots of other people. Its pretty much a modern cult classic...did poorly at the box office, but certain types of people(including myself) are crazy about it.

For Dune, I agree it could be a bit dry. I love the book and I was a bit disappointed that the interactions were not as passionate, especially between Paul and his Mother. Still, the cinematography was amazing and they did the best they could IMO. Dune is a slow book that is hard to adapt to the screen so I am quick to forgive it.
So if you were an engineer at OpenAI, how would you propose going about deleting data from a trained LLM that's already in use?
Let's see if I have this straight.

I post: corporate power is growing.

You post: prove it.

I prove it.

You stop responding about this idea.

Then, given an opening when I called you out on it, you have tried to imply:

* I am at fault for your lack of "substantive reply"

* I am at fault for using a pseudonym

* Because you use your "real name", you have street cred

I would like you to explain to me why you even bothered asking me to prove the regulatory environment was weakened in the states by Trump, that is obvious. It really makes no sense why you've come in and introduced such a bad faith chain of arguments on a topic you have made absolutely 0 points about.
How Walmart Automated Supplier Negotiations using AI
Many news agency won't cover it , but here are local news sources with unbiased news and with good english. They can't operate inside country since coup since journalist got detained or killed.
https://myanmar-now.org/en/
https://mizzima.com
https://www.irrawaddy.com
Everything is a remix (watch the movie)
We are all using the intelligent of previous people, generations of humans. The same is true for AI.
It’s not different from humans.
What will we do once it’s conscient? Will AI have rights? Should we be able to shut it down?
C23's auto is not nearly as magic as C++'s auto. You can use it for the simple things but not for the perversely creative abuse scenarios you fear.
Should be legal? would be a far more relevant question.

E.g. I won't do drugs, I do not like people who do drugs, yet I'm all for regulation.
There is basically no connection between hike/camp lottery tickets and traditional gambling.
The tunnels are built too small to run trains in them.
> It would also be trivial to pore through those videos and just pick out the ones where the human has dark skin if I'm a racist landlord.

Yes, but you can't do it at scale. Automation via facial recognition makes it cheap. That's the problem.

I have no problem with an individual person remembering the face of another individual person - I have a problem with a system that allows a landlord to pick out every interaction with any person they choose after the fact for the entire term of the data collection.
I remember todoist has 2 way sync with Google calendar. Have you tried it?
They just exclude it from the next training run:

> Individuals also may have the right to access, correct, restrict, delete, or transfer their personal information that may be included in our training information.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7842364-how-chatgpt-and-...
I like it but months ago I tried to find a screen recorder program that also records system sound. This seems next to impossible, probably due to piracy concerns.
I love this story and when I first read it I kept thinking - this is the inspiration for Terminator 1/2, then get to furious web searching after finishing it and find out the intro/setting was used for a different movie and Harlan Ellison's supposed connection to Terminator seems much more tenuous than PKD and Second Variety.
If you know a portion of your business is going to get more expensive, it can be very nice to disassociate yourself from it - now people will be saying "Flexport screwing me, what other options do I have" instead of "Shopify is screwing me". A similar thing happened when eBay and PayPal stopped being connected at the hip.
Shopify already pays at the low end. I mean, not even relative to FAANG; you can make a similar salary at a government job as an engineer.
CBRS usage highlights the strengths and weaknesses of C-band spectrum in the US