skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surveillance and monopolies are out of control regardless of whatever content is in a subreddit.
Sure!

That's actually another great thing about the ESP BOX - the hardware is open as well. Schematics, BOM, Gerbers, etc have been made available by Espressif[0].

We don't currently have plans to get too involved on the hardware side but that could certainly change down the road.

[0] - https://github.com/espressif/esp-box/tree/master/hardware/es...
In "All Watched Over" Curtis isn't just critiqueing the Reagan/Thatcher/Brexit themes; on my reading (I last watched it a couple of years ago), he is attacking Blair/Mandelson-style technocratic managerialism.

I still can't work out what Curtis actually believes in. I suspect he's some kind of revolutionary.

I suspect that part of the murkiness is strategic: that if he said what he meant, the BBC would stop commissioning his films.
> “If GitHub can produce code by training an AI on all code it is hosting, Youtube could produce videos and music by training an AI on all content it is hosting, the Writer Guilds could produce books by training an AI on all books it owns the rights for, Shutterstock could produce more stock images by training an AI on all stock images it is hosting.”

There is a subtle difference here. Microsoft isn’t just producing code based on GitHub data. They are producing a tool that lets others generate code based on GitHub data. I do think consideration of the source data creators intent is important- and there is a case CoPilot hasn’t done that. But if Shutterstock wants to use any images _that they have been given license for and treat creators fairly for_ to build a tool that lets others generate images, they should be allowed.

Also, the op argues only MS has access to train based on all of GitHub. Others might run into rate limiting etc. However we know Amazon and others do have similar models. This would indicate MS may have a competitive edge but not a full market lockout.
WADU tracks you in the office, but most JPM staff are 9-5 and WADU has no data on what staff do outside of work. For other reasons, JPM staff are on best behavior in the office.

There are orgs & jobs that require staff be on-call outside the office and require them to carry a "work phone" which tracks your location, etc.
It's not about having issues. It's the type of issues and how they affect end users. There's no FUD associated with that. Just facts. Julia has been around for a decade, the FUD campaign stuff shouldn't even be a concern for the project at this point. Other languages from the same era are either gone, or are dealing with very different social deterrers to adoption.

I'm not typing these things out for FUD to slow Julia developers role or something. Actually I hope they listen and actually work to fix things that matter. I invested a lot of time and effort into the language. Currently I'm looking at it as a complete waste with mostly negative side effects to my career and where I could have invested my time. Trying to do one of two things, encourage change, get people on the fence about trying it to wait until it's actually ready.
I predict WebAssembly will eventually overtake how front-end development is today, and a whole new world will evolve.

I have heard this with great emotion for at least 6 years now and nothing. It’s starting to look like bitcoin: all these dreams and ideals that come to nothing in practice but a Ponzi scheme.

The funny thing is that it clearly indicates nobody know what they are doing. People advocating for WASM want DOM bindings because the DOM is great and JavaScript is the great evil. Most people who actually write JavaScript professionally feel equally about the DOM, a great evil, and so they are completely reliant on some massive framework to justify the their existence.
At JPM a VP isn’t going to have an org of 1,000+. That’s going to be managing director level. There are some VPs on the business side that can have numerous employees but that’s about it. In finance you can equate VP to being senior and line manager level at other companies Google, Meta, etc.

One you hit executive director things change a bit. Managing director is the real deal.

Agreeing with/adding to your post here:

With that being said this Reddit post has some fishy elements to me. I wouldn’t doubt the existence of this so called WADU but the capabilities (and laughable suggestions in the Reddit post like “don’t use a corporate laptop” as if JPM issues corporate laptops - most employees use the stupid VDI) seem a little outrageous to me. More likely scenario is they just track badge in and badge out and maybe something like the number of meetings on your calendar and do some super basic reporting up the chain to the HR tech teams who are trying to figure out what to do with the workforce.

Now from the article:

“Some employees described adopting unusual behaviors to evade the system's detection during breaks or interludes throughout the day.”

I don’t know where these so called employees work, but at least in the corporate offices uh nobody pays any mind to any breaks you take unless you have some really anal manager. At the Polaris office in Columbus people bring walking shoes and do laps and things. They have lots of space intended for leaving your desk and grabbing coffee or meeting. The Starbucks in there at the time I was there was supposedly one of the most busy Starbucks locations you could find. I don’t think they’re worried about taking breaks.

“Another current employee within the firm's commercial-banking division said she and her colleagues have resorted to discussing some work-related topics on forums like the iMessage app”

You mean like just normal work? You don’t text your colleagues? Since when is iMessage a forum? Dumb.

The article is really lacking substance and the Reddit post seems kind of conspiratorial. Is JPM tracking things like how long your VDI session is open and your badge in/out? Yea definitely. Is it some big AI conspiracy? No. To what end anyway?

Source -> worked in Digital tech for a little over 4 years and have a number of close friends who still work there and numerous colleagues in executive and managing director level roles.
last update nov. 2022.. is the system too slow or didn't they get the news that they were expecting?
> “When we see a complicated system or machine, we anthropomorphize it; everybody does that — people who are working in the field and people who aren’t,”

That and marketing. Microsoft wants all of them sweet £ flowing in and thus over selling what their ai does. Sad part is that many will fall for it.
Never exchange the "devil you know", especially if it's natural and has been used for centuries by billions, for some novel lab-made crap, proprietary owned, and marketed to death.

Not to mention when getting it has been the whole point of drinking coffee in the first place.
We'll, I've got some new pencils. So we'll see if anything comes out of that.
I love SSE.

I fear years back I made a Monopoly Deal game with a client-server arch.

Server was in Go with SSE, and client was in JS/Svelte with SVG and a lot of CSS.

It work so so well ! The clientside cmds (like "place this card there") was vanilla ajax send to Go Server, but the "state" was always send via SSE to connected clients.

I was surprised to see how far Joe Average (Yea I use bootstrap for most things) can push CSS for nice looking card game.

PS: Oops I mean "WildDeal" not "Monopoly Deal", no need to get sued
Going to the Github issue page and reading the exchange is fascinating. Most of the discussion is about licensing and through the thread you see it getting resolved!

Also the author's dedication to Prof. Powell seems amazing. I know nothing about Prof. Powell but I am sure he would have much appreciated it.
What is the difference between linked and strongly linked?
Thank you for the thoughtful response. If your most gratuitously positive interpretation is that an anonymous and private messaging system will be used only anonymously with no other feature whatsoever, and that people who know each other won't identify themselves to each other as they do in real life should they choose to, and that the majority of the user base will be criminals, and that this business you know little of is a criminal enterprise, then this system isn't for you.
The idea of the Qattara sea is fascinating. On paper, it sounds so easy: dig a long trench and let nature run its course.

There's so little life in the Sahara and there's so much Sahara around the theoretical sea that the ecological impact would be quite small for such a huge undertaking. With global temperatures continuing to rise and humanity preferring short-term profit over long-time survival, cooling even just a little bit of the Sahara could significantly extend the time people can live in northern Africa. I doubt we'll see the resurgence of the Green Sahara any time soon (the last period that kickstarted humanity in northern Africa was during an ice age, we're in the exact opposite situation of that) but even just a little bit of green and cool land in the desert could help a lot of people.

Salinity would need to be kept in check, of course, but with a corridor big enough for tides to flow between the Mediterranean and the new sea there should be a quite manageable maximum salinity. Until that happens, we could harvest osmotic power ("blue energy") from the water stream, as fresher water will rush into the salt water reservoirs if we do not allow the minerals to flow back.

Furthermore, with the new agricultural opportunities there need to be strict (and well-enforced) laws regarding pesticides and other types of contaminants to prevent another Lake Salton. With the current lack of agricultural possibilities in the area, this may actually be achievable if the government can see the long term benefits.

It all sounds so incredibly doable. I don't think it'll ever happen because of politics and economics, and even if the project does get started I doubt it'll be long until the various terrorist groups active in northern Africa will find a new location to make the world a worse place, but I'm still very curious about what kind of world such projects could create.
Maybe collaborate with Jason Scott? His textfiles.com and c2 wiki do seem philosophically interlinked in a way.
As this very article we are discussing notes, Google was not allowed to settle precisely because of this monopoly position. It went to trial:

In late 2013, after the class action status was challenged, the District Court granted summary judgement in favor of Google, dismissing the lawsuit and affirming the Google Books project met all legal requirements for fair use. The Second Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the District Court's summary judgement in October 2015, ruling Google's "project provides a public service without violating intellectual property law." The U.S. Supreme Court subsequently denied a petition to hear the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....
Business Insider ran essentially the same story last year: https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-chase-employees-des...

If you Google "JPM WADU" you'll find communications to employees about the system: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmc/jpmorgan-chas...

Job listings: https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/33566500-wadu-tech-and-t...

Even patent filings: https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/US-7668849-...

This isn't "made up" and it's easily verified with a couple seconds of google.
Higher correlation
This is so disgusting and enraging. I hope the whole startup community blackballs @sama for this.
Hah. I’ve spent several years writing javascript for a living. You can always tell when code was written by someone who’s arrived fresh from Java or C++. Their code is full of hundreds of lines of useless classes which can often be replaced by a few simple object literals. Unlike class instances, object literals can be easily json stringified and parsed, too! You can torture people who are like this in code review: “This isn’t idiomatic. Please rewrite this code without the class keyword”. I’ve seen people people make a face like I just had their child expelled from kindergarten.

I don’t know any good resources unfortunately. I feel like we need a “motherfuckingwebsite” equivalent for this - “just use a motherfucking function”. I want to link it to whoever insisted on adding a useless TextDecoder class in javascript that you have to instantiate, instead of just calling textDecode(…, “utf8”) using a global function like the rest of the standard library.

I think part of the problem is that most people who hate enterprise java just learn a different language, set their resume on fire and start over somewhere better. That’s certainly what I did. I’m writing rust at the moment, and thankfully the lack of classes and distance from the JVM seems to keep most of this nonsense out. But having all the doubters leave makes the problem within the java ecosystem worse.
Do you know of any well written articles of critique against OO? I've read a few against Clean Code, that actual went over the problems with the actual examples given. Nevertheless I hardly ever see good critiques against the principles themselves.

I'd be interested in reading about it in more detail.
VPN can be used both ways - to connect into the workplace, and for the workplace to connect into your home network. Configuring a pi to do the same thing is trivial, a configured workplace machine is totally outside of your control and should be considered as such.

It is not of much use except to packet sniff your network - unless you have network drives with no passwords on the shares or some other network attached equipment like cameras etc.
This is Hacker News, so you should probably include a "/s" to indicate sarcasm, because otherwise you'll get a lot of people agreeing with you.
How about this instead:

How about a requirements that all weights and models for any AI have to be publicly available.

Basically, these companies are trying to set themselves up to the gatekeepers of knowledge. That is too powerful a capability to leave in just the hands of a single company.
FYI, most terminals are more on the slower side. For example intelliJ has a much lower input latency than most terminals. So it's not really an unreasonable expectation, many apps are just really damn slow.
The BIOS (or UEFI) provides a standard interface to load an operating system which can then discover which hardware is installed.

It's true that another factor is the software discoverability of hardware. A lot of stuff on ARM platforms is not discoverable because those platforms are intended to run specific software.
Okay, but “Surveillance and monopolies are out of control” isn’t what are talking about. Some kid’s complaint about The Man is not HN-worthy. And that’s all that you’re posing.
What is fun to contemplate is that the very top of the pyramid is also tracked - but in a covert, unacknowledged manner. So the true privacy goldilocks regime might be just at the bottom of the top pyramid - important enough not to be a 24/7 monitored number but not too important to receive individual "attention".

Just joking. The potency of the digital realm is such that fully adaptive algorithmic surveillance will anihilate any constraints linked to historical practices.

> A bifurcated humanity is imho a very likely future unless there are major global events that disrupt the current (aggregate trends) curve.

It is depressing to be living through that transition. It blows up the illusion that society is somehow destined to progress.
Ironically I removed my mention of the windscreen evidence. There are some citizen science surveys documenting the decline (e.g. a UK study found a 60% decline over 20 years, or something like that). But it's a good example of a strong indicator but not the greatest quality evidence - geographically limited, concerns low flying population only, might be confounded by changes in car aerodynamics, verge / hedgerow maintenance etc.
Widely used chemical *(that was generally phased out in the 70s) linked to Parkinson's. Still important, but you don't need to start searching product labels in 2023 for it.
Hmm, I still don't like this argument. Whether there are actual bits of the code in the model or not, his code is still in there somewhere, even if it's just an approximation.

I feel quite similar personally, I've worked hard on open source and I'll never have the same permissive license again after this.
I’ve often wondered why we havent attempted something similar before. After all we have successfully drained the fens (in the 1600s, took only 7 years), constructed the hoover dam (1931, took 5 years), plus a dozen other significant geoengineering projects. There seems now to be a prevailing sentiment that geoengineering=bad among the general population.
That would be selfish, think of the profits /s
The headline makes it seem like a UK thing, but

> Institutions in Europe and the US also fell back, and the report’s authors said the UK’s rankings had held up better than French, German, Japanese and American universities.

it feels more like a West vs the Rest (or even a Rest vs China) thing.
1 in 1000 increase in lifetime risk of something horrible, from one source, is pretty bad, if there are many similarly dangerous sources.
The pandemic isn't over: How to stay safe
Why would they possibly lie about that?
I’m a staunch unionist and whenever I happen across this subreddit it makes my blood boil. I wouldn’t take anything there seriously.
Doesn't that just depend on whether income can pay for the 50 employees, and that you can find 50 people willing to work the job?
We’d still be using carbon tetrachloride which is even more toxic?

TCE was a safer alternative.
you are assuming some imaginative scenario. "Hold up" in court. It will never happen. Just check how many ways you have to write a method to check if a number is odd or not. If you are using a application using a framework, pretty sure all codes looks similar. Look a ruby on rails application for example. Quite often, the user model, session controller and in some level, all controllers if they are following the "rails way" they look very similar.
Any paper that's trained more than one model size on the same data affirms the same thing.

Llama 13b was better than 7b and Llama 66b was better than 33b.

If you're bothered with how general a statement I'm making then Ok, point is that all training so far has pointed towards that.
For someone like me, it's not productivity that's the problem. It's that procrastination causes me to not do the things I enjoy, either because I'm procrastinating on something else and not able to avoid it, or because I'm literally not getting started on leaving the house or planning the camping trip or getting the motorcycle ready, whatever. Maybe productivity porn has the underlying conspiracy you mention, but ADHD doesn't really.
From a UK perspective, the US "throws money" at everything, both culturally and because you are a larger economy.

Education, sports, healthcare, industry, space, science to name a few.

The UK also has an opposing culture, we don't invest in the long term in infrastructure or people. Even in your case, you visited the two richest universities (by a long margin) in the UK.
This is framing premises so that only this conclusion appear relevant.

It's not a predefined unavoidable destiny that is to go through, that is all about what policies are chose with which agenda in mind.

Unemployment didn't reach 0% anywhere last time I checked, and as it was already mentioned, no actor out there is playing without some public subsidiaries.

This is all political decisions. Local short term optimisation of plutocrate revenues is one possibility. Perennial national sustainability is an other one. These two agendas however probably don't overlap much.
> women find powerful men attractive

You're conflating "is powerful" with "has power over me." The latter can be used for coercion, and it's not always sexy for someone to threaten you.
> All code rots or gets replaced

> Over time, you can see how almost everything you create gets scrapped and replaced for various reasons or is now based on old technology.

Is this problem fixable by using some great technologies? React code does not rot and Common Lisp applications are famous as having the most time without getting rot among other programming languages.
Both 7-14-1789 and 14-07-1789 are suboptimal.

Sorting is trivial with 1789/07/14, so this is my preferred format.

Rather than indulge in sort key gymnastics on a text file, I would rearrange prior to sort.
What happens when you end up accidentally controlling for exposure to the chemical?
Once again, we see that right wing accusations are really admissions and/or intentions.

Those who pine for a black and white "absolutist" utopia are once again confronted with a reality made from shades of gray.

Extremist ideology and solutions appeal to simple minded folks struggling to navigate a scary, complicated reality.
Where is the regulatory capture? You might just need to apply for a license. Why is that so horrible?

Most travel agents need a license, taxi drivers etc. Not sure why the same shouldn't apply for "AI"?
Currently I love using https://imagetocaption.ai for my social media posts. Creates nice captions for my photography page out of my images.
The agencies know fighting MSFT is a costly undertaking. They learned that in 90/00s. They will only do it if there’s enough public support. Threshold is incredibly high for MSFT.
Considering the symbiosis between corporate and government i am not sure there is a distinction.
I’m sure you think this is a clever reply but the reality is that GitHub wouldn’t even begin to think if that were even technically possible. If it got out that it trained on confidential customer data, it would be game over. The risk is so stupidly large nobody in their right mind would take it. So yeah, if they say they don’t, they don’t.
> manure from most aninals, especially pig farms, is a hazardous easte to dispose of. Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy

You'd need to cite some sources for that. And explain where the millions of tons of animal manure go.

Here in Northern Europe 100% of manure from housed animals is used, either spread as manure or, increasingly, used for biomethane
Interesting. Such as?
Don’t worry, enterprise Java programming patters will fix that “performance” thing right up. Call a function? Goodness no, not without an helper class being instantiated first. Oh you wanted to instantiate a helper class? Better call a factory to do that. Not directly - have you heard of Dependency Injection? We configure that via XML here.

See? Fast performance isn’t a problem any more. You can make it go away in the time it takes you to load Jira.
But this is not a maths or music genius, this is someone who is specifically good at the startup secret sauce. They would find it hard not to make money.
React code does not rot? How so?
https://fee.org/articles/berlin-s-disastrous-rent-control-la...
I don't think long term pessimism has amazing results either.
> clone() makes an immutable, deep copy/recursive copy of the original data structure.

No. clone() calls std::clone::Clone::clone. For many std collections that means deep/recursive copy.

For custom data structures, it can mean anything. It depends entirely on your implementation of the Clone trait.
Because birds and insects act as pollinators. Replicating natural, biological processes like that are difficult to replicate and most easily done by letting the natural process do its thing.
> You can't use manure of industrial farms in the fields, too much chemical compounds that can destroy your soil, killing fungi and bacterial life

Source? Preferably reputable
The amount of social grace you get for being a powerful billionaire is a lot more than you get for being a weird nerd.