skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very simple way to stop this behavior: ship a 360º camera to every applicant and dictate where it should be placed, or stop doing remote interviews.

There are even simpler ways to stop this behavior, but I won't speak about that here.
MIT is doing work on programming languages for molecular assembly I believe, very interesting.
I have one, never had the muscle memory for it. And never really used it. until I was using the machine in a moving vehicle on a rough road. and under those circumstances it was amazing how much better the point was than the pad. I was converted.

This is why I dislike touchscrens in cars, for the most part touchscreen are fine(ish) you loose most feedback, but you gain a lot of flexibility in display. fine for most day to day use. Until you try to use one on a rough road, then it is just hell.

Somewhat related, a few years ago when the first spacex manned capsule was launched, I gave an audible gasp when I saw they used touch screens, what idiot certified that, rocket launch is a very vibrating environment. I bet the touch screens were unusable during liftoff. However those spacex touchscreens did have one redeeming feature I would like to see on car touch screens. A bar to steady your hand while using it.
Google is killing 3rd party appointment booking services in favor of their own
Yup. My Cannon AE-1 from the mid-70s still works great, including the (relatively primitive) electronics. And the lenses are outstanding (I still haven't forgiven Cannon for obsoleting the FD mount pre-digital...lots of money went into that lens collection). It could probably use a light refurb, but all the camera repair shops I know closed years ago.

Unfortunately, I got out of the 'habit' of taking pictures with it because it's so much less convenient and the alternatives are 'good enough' for this rank amateur. I do occasionally look at photos I took with it and realize how much I've replaced quality with quantity. The Cannon required a certain amount of thought for each picture, whereas now we just take 50 pix with the cell phone and share out the one we think looks best.
Consent is only one of the legal bases for personal data processing. An ISP or other network intermediary will use “contractual obligation”.
Thank you for the interesting discussion!

> I never said that was okay either. LLMs should be open source and open data.

> That is one reason why I abhor copyright, patents, and intellectual property in general.

If it turns out that closed-source LLMs become the most valuable companies in the world, any thoughts on how to align / reconcile your ideals around the reality of how the technology has developed in my hypothetical example?
I think you'd be surprised by just how possible it would be to enter into a successful and good faith agreement with a warring tribe which has enslaved or massacred your people. Spanish colonists in New Mexico did so with the Comanche despite the Comanche holding hundreds of captive New Mexicans who they had kidnapped. How did this work? The New Mexicans honored their treaty, and the Comanche established a degree of personal trust with their governer, Juan Bautista de Anza. This treaty was signed in the wake of massacres on both sides, and the captives were not returned. The Comanche continued to raid and kidnap in other regions of New Spain after the treaty was signed. Part of the reason you might find something like this hard to believe is because of your own cultural attitudes about war and slavery, but these are not universal attitudes.

Your example of the Maori is perfectly analogous to what happened in Canada/ But regardless of how things turned out, why did the British honor treaties when they had no incentive to do so? How do you account for this difference in a world dominated by purely rational decision making when interacting with those outside of your culture?
WGSL is the shading language, which is technically not the same thing as WebGPU. WebGPU is the graphics API, which uses WGSL as its shading language.

You can feel free to preprocess the files any way you like, it's just not something the browser does for you (imo the correct decision). WebGPU implementations like wgpu-rs let you use any shading language that compiles to SPIR-V. My feeling is that bespoke shading languages like WGSL and GLSL are on their way out, anyway. Things like rust-gpu that allow you to write your shader code in the same language as your application code are just so much more ergonomic.
> 1. We don’t want to store a hash for every keystroke a user makes.

So, why does it have to be every keystroke? We can batch them locally. An approximate rule of thumb to use to guide the batching is typing speed. Using 200 keystrokes/minute, we get an average of 3.33 keystrokes/second. If we use 3 seconds latency for the collaborative editing to resolve concurrent edits, we get 10 keystrokes per batch (3 secs). You can also have an override where smaller batches are replicated to nodes if sufficient time has elapsed since last local edit (eg: 10 secs have elapsed and we have a partial batch of 3 keystrokes only).

> 2. If I accidentally paste an AWS key into a document, I don’t want that key in the document history forever. How do I enable that while still getting all the benefits of the hashing system above?

In order for this to work, we should assume that every replica's current state is always obtained by starting with the empty document and then playing the operations log. We should also permit the author of an operation to rollback the operation. So, I suppose if the collaborative editor shows an interface of all operations that originated locally and the author can select the operations that inserted the AWS key into the replica, they can issue a rollback operations op and have it propagated to all replicas.

Since the point-in-time state of the replicas are regenerated by replaying the operations log, we would have deleted the accidentally inserted key.

In order to address the issue of the AWS key still being in the operations log, we can define the semantics of the rollback op to also include secure erasure of the previous operation from the operations log (i.e., the rollback op would update the original operation into a no-op.

So, when all replicas apply the rollback op initiated by the author, eventually all replicas will converge to having the accidentally inserted AWS key removed from the replica and the operations log.
My favorite local boutique cinema plays the movies from retail blu-ray discs. They do quite well with that. They seem to always be at capacity.
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring senior engineers to build the DX platform
MSFT might be paying above market rates in exchange for positive PR.
To paraphrase the article: with the Google-Apple mobile duopoly, consumers are stuck between a rock (web apps) and a hard place (native apps).

It isn't in Apple's interest to allow web apps on iOS to have feature parity with native apps, because that's where Apple's moat is.

It isn't in Google's interest to allow mobile web browsers the freedom to behave like desktop browsers (extensions and filesystem APIs), because web ads are how Google establishes its moat.

The solution seems obvious; A phone with a barebones OS that can run a desktop-class browser. This is what the MokoPhone and Nokia N900 tried many years ago. Even Palm called its mobile offering WebOS, because they knew that competing via app store counts was a dead end.
If people built pages or software in one day, they seem to ask for answer too.

These means they are the less useful part in the development process and can easily be replaced.

That's why I don't see the big leverage for individuals in that kind of development.
They will be one of millions with exactly the same skill set and lost without GPT. It sounds like those boot camp courses: Build ten projects in ten days to become an genius programmer.

Doesn't work, and I think people will overestimate their skill because GPT helped them to do a clone of something that already exists thousandfold.
Did you replace it with a “dumb” phone for emergencies?
> where people contribute without any monetary incentives.

First of all you added in the word ‘monetary’, to straw-man the position.

Secondly, even if we run with your straw-man, I see little evidence this is true. Most successful projects are either corporately funded or begging for corporate funding. You see article after article here bemoaning the lack of funding for open source.
1. post link to jenkins job in a 4chan thread relating to something nefarious

2. see who clicks it

3. now you have IP addresses of possibly nefarious people without needing to subpoena 4chan

Something like that.
Wait. I have an API key. Is GPT-4 available already?
Different people write code of different quality, and we'd expect LLMs to imitate the median quality of code. So it's clear that if you have a background in something then it will generate worse code than you would - however, if you'd compare this code with something written by a new junior hire, how would it compare? IMHO there are many people who are objectively below median, and for them I'd expect that a LLM can generate more secure code than they would write themselves.
I almost never find anything good at these estate sales, its purely for entertainment when I see a sign as I drive by.

Most of the items there are really cheaply made and have way too high an asking price, or are well made but some of the tackiest design trends of the 80s/90s/2000s.

I've already refinished one solid wood piece of furniture with the black splatter marks added to invoke a fake "old". Not doing that nonsense again.
Hope you make an Android version
It often missed what should have been exact matches. You could copy and paste a variable name or a string from the repo and the search would not find it.
Is there a bit of story missing between:

> After a few hours, the broker sent me this from the seller..
> "Our price is final on this one"

and

> ... we got a great deal on his broker fees and paid $4,000 all said and done

It read as though the seller was firm on $8k, but then sold for $4k?
why wouldn't it make sense to do it at a much small number if it saves 20% and increases conversions.
If you're trying to regulate a bunch of bad actors, and you don't anticipate that they will try to game whatever regulations you come up with, you are not doing your job well.
> The number of requests sent exceeds the quota limit.

lmfao google can't host a fucking static page
That may be the case, but you have to take survivorship bias into account, and the vast differences in available equipment and materials.

A modern double-paned house with R20 insulation and a well designed heat pump system is going to blow(er test) the doors off an immaculate mansion built in the 1900s with single pane glass and a gravity furnace.
>the waste you're diverting won't be enough to sustain you if everyone is trying to get it, and ideally there wouldn't be any waste to begin with

There's always going to be food waste in the sense that we cannot eat every part of every vegetable. And, again, there are many other ways to generate things like compost and fertilizer without using waste — cover crops, aquaponics, etc.

>avoiding taxes

I "avoid" taxes by keeping old electronics alive, repairing things I find, and helping friends do the same. Is that wrong, by your ethical framework? This fascination with taxes is utterly bizarre.

>It's not about contributing to an economy, it's about contributing your fair share for the public good.

Large parts of the economy don't operate for the public good. Giving money to Monsanto, for example, is actively detrimental for the public good.
100% agree and that’s what I use it for. My point is more it’s a time saver, but not a replacement for higher order operations. Yet.
Realistically, HN would still find a reason to be miserable.
They paid $8k for the domain and $4k to the broker. (At least, that's how I'm reading it- I agree it could be worded more clearly.)
I don't think it will help people learn as much as having to write everything yourself. Sure it will get them productive 10x faster, as a shortcut. You can only get so good at riding a bicycle by watching others ride a bike. Remember that caching issue that cost you hours of debugging? You don't forget that. Maybe the generated code doesn't produce a bug this time, but the 5th or 6th time? It's hard enough to debug code you wrote yourself sometimes, let alone generated code.
To add my two bits: I don't support it.
> There's a way to add restrictions - licensing - and you're looking to get the benefits of licensing, and to take away fair use right from other people, without paying the costs of doing so.

The way copyright laws work is that work is copyrighted (assuming the work is original enough, of course) by default. You don't get to use it unless you have a license. Now, of course, as an author, you can choose to add a license to your work (whether that's CC0 or GPL-3), but you don't have to.

You do have an implicit license to consume this content, but not to reproduce it. If you put all of those copies you've saved on some public other website, that's a copyright violation. Furthermore, access to privately-owned blog posts and websites is a privilege, not a right. You're not my boss, I don't have to write content for you.

The exact legal status of AI models trained on other people's unlicensed works and their output is still largely unknown. Legal professionals much more qualified than me have argued how AI models and generated work can either be completely fair use, with no need to apply any kind of copyright restriction, or how AI generated work can be classified as a derivative work, which means you need a license. There are two major lawsuits about this going on as far as I know and it'll take years for those to flesh out.

If it turns out that AI models and the works they produce are completely fair game, I suppose I'll need take down my content wherever I can in order not to be a free source of training data for big tech; public datasets and the internet archive will still have to respond to DMCA takedowns, after all. However, I'm not all that confident that what AI is doing is all that legally okay.

I have no problem with you saving and archiving anything you want to read. I also fully support the Internet Archive and its goal. I do have a problem with these multi billion dollar companies scouring the internet for their money maker, giving nothing in return.
When I call GPT-4 intelligent I use the word in the same sense as if I met a very smart person (smarter than me), and interacted with them for some time. It's as simple as that.

My interactions with GPT-4 include quite a wide range of questions: "how to talk to my kid in this specific situation", "what could have happened if Germany had won WW2", "what does this code do", "here's an idea for a research paper, let's brainstorm the details and implementation". I can also discuss with it anything that's been written in this thread and I'm sure it would provide intelligent responses (I haven't, btw).
> Isn't the typical McMansion people complain about $1M+?

The same style problems are heavily present in houses down to the high-$300k range around here. Straight-up visual gibberish, and not in the name of some kind of practical improvements as a trade-off—the contrary, if anything.

Best I can tell, this has happened because complex façades and rooflines make a house look bigger. I've done a lot of house shopping over the years, and find that if I apply a McMansion-style-tuned eye to classically-styled houses, my guesstimate of square footage is consistently something like 30-40% low. Houses with a balanced and regular appearance and without a bunch of shit jutting out everywhere for no reason look smaller—by a lot—than a same-size McMansion.
To be fair, Polyphia is a great band and Tim Henson still a star instrumentalist...
There will need to be policy, hopefully in the form of Pigouvian taxes. But before you can get the policy in place you will need a viable source of energy that’s cost competitive with hydrocarbons.

Once we have a viable alternative to hydrocarbons at scale, carbon/methane/ high GWP gases will need to be priced appropriately (e.g. taxed in a way to incentivize reduced consumption).
To be fair, the comments on that article were peak 'Orange Site' - the discussion seemed to be mainly around subscriptions.
> Says you, but historically a lot of parents have disagreed.

Historically, a lot of people disagreed with honor killings being not ok either (and in some regions of the world, they still do). The fact of the matter is, in the present day in western countries, honor killings are illegal and aren't accepted. The history of it is irrelevant, and so is whether the victim of an honor killing is a child or an adult (in terms of qualifying the event as legal/illegal; it might be relevant for the actual sentencing, but I digress).

But that has nothing to do with my point. My point was that if some action is considered illegal to perform on an adult subject, I would not consider it a "twisted idea of forcing your beliefs about raising children onto others" to think that those actions are illegal as well when the subject is a child.

And I am saying this as someone who is very against overbearing and controlling helicopter-parenting, and who is more on the side of giving kids a chance to explore and learn their surroundings by being potentially exposed to a little bit of controlled danger.
LLMs provide nonlinear leverage for experts. So far, I see them increasing the divide between developers or tech-oriented people and end users.
If performance is a concern, just re-prompt GPT if there are any performance concerns, and to propose fixes for them if there are.

This is called reflexion and has been found to be an effective way to improve response accuracy and usefulness (also reduces hallucinations).

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
I'll add d)

Cheating is okay because most interview processes is BS to start with. In most cases the interview itself is a dog and pony show, often reflecting the outright incompetence of the interviewers or organizations that are hiring.

> I guess the silver lining is there will probably be incredible opportunity down the road to combat this,

You are being naive here. Many people value honesty in principle, but are not willing to enforce it in practice. For example if they catch a close, likable colleague or friend in the act of cheating, they will not fire them.
> Architecturally speaking, the reason for the McMansion’s persistence is that it is the path of least resistance for building a house of a certain size. It’s hard to be efficient when forcing four thousand-plus square feet under one roof. Tailor-made architectural creations remain out of reach (or undesirable) for many people. The McMansion is a structurally stable, if visually clunky, formula. Contrary to almost four decades of urbanistic thought highlighting the need for walkability, density, and transit-oriented development, companies like Pulte Homes continue to construct McMansion neighborhoods near highway off-ramps and high-traffic arterial roads. They do this because people buy these houses and drive to work...

Yeah, screw them for ignoring decades of urbanistic thought and continuing to buy houses they want and can afford. It's like they're not even considering what decades of academics and ideologues have been telling them to do with their lives. Does urbanistic thought not count for anything anymore?!
Come to think of it, no actually. The items in these homes are so incredibly mundane its shocking.

I like checking out the "Studies" or home offices out of curiosity. Typically they're adorned with various right leaning politco books of the last couple decades. Maybe a model boat.

More often than not, the home offices are weirdly cramped, the computer desk shoved in a closet or weirdly placed in the middle of the room.
Sorry, my english is not the best and I don't think there is a word for the thing I'm trying to explain. Meaning of 'consciousness' is too messy.

I know brain is a neural network. I just don't understand how cold, hard matter can result in this experience of consciousness we are living right now. The experience. Me. You. Perceiving. Right now.

I'm not talking about the relation between the brain and our conscious experience. It's obvious that brain is collecting and computing data every second for us to live this conscious experience. The very experience of perceiving, being conscious? The thing we take for granted the most, for that we're not without it any time, except when we're asleep?

Matter is what it is. A bunch of carbon and hydrogen atoms. How does the experience arise from matter? It can't. It is a bunch of atoms. I know how NNs and biological neurons work, still I don't see any way matter can do that. There must be some sort of non-matter essence, soul or something like that.

Is a bunch of electrochemical charges this thing/experience I am living right now? How can it be? Is Boltzmann brain [1] a sensible idea at all?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
My lifetime of road trips is just a really inefficient flood fill
So beautiful, thank you
I feel we have been given a very valuable tool. I think the most sublte aspect for personal use is the freedom from having to ask seemingly stupid questions. It turns out there are a lot of interesting things on this earth. While a good education can prepare you for a lot, nobody knows everything. Asking seemingly stupid questions can be an issue for some. I have tried to cultivate this ability during my lifetime, and have practiced it with people I know are knowledgable in a specific field. But even with that, I catch myself feeling liberated to be able to "privately" ask questions that come to my mind in a more specific way then just firing up a Google search. A search is always more involved. True, I have to be on a different sort of guard when asking an LLM for an explanation for something, but it feels like very useful and time-saving for the quick introduction to something you just happened to think about.
From the point of view of the worker, it's the same thing -- you were employed with the expectation of stability, now you're getting fired and have to find another job before your family ends up on the street. It's a very vulnerable position to be as a worker, which is why in many countries they have the right to severance pay.

Anyway, it's common (here in Uruguay at least) for contracts to include a 3 month "test period" clause where the company can fire you without paying severance, to prepare for that exact situation. Don't you do that? It's reasonable enough to me.
In fact, even for D-T fusion the NRC recently decided to regulate reactors like accelerators instead of like fission reactors.

Also, we never mass-produced fission reactors. Helion wants to build a factory making twenty 50MW reactors per day, shippable by rail.
Flipping a single bit is a lot harder to do by accident in code than corrupting a byte or multiple bytes. You really are not doing bitwise operations on a regular basis in most types of software.
That's almost exactly what they said to Elon Musk when he started SpaceX, and now they are on a streak of >100 successful missions in a row.
>But I don't think you should consider humans as separate from nature

I do consider humans to be part of nature. My point is that the dysfunctional processes we set up distance us from nature, try to attack nature — we kill bees with pesticides, then talk about inventing robot bees to replace them. It's insane.

Permaculture is based on an explicit assertion that we must pay attention to existing ecosystem features and work within them rather than against them.