skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can guarantee your compliance department was monitoring all of your private communications and not telling you about it. This is just what happens in the finance industry, but the data is not used the same way it is in other places. Your manager and his manager (and so on) may not even know that any sort of surveillance happened. This is not the usual type of workplace surveillance, which is management-driven.
Fun. I wonder the purpose of these impersonating bots.
Psychosis and pre-psychosis really do run in families (with genetic and environmental components) and i think all you have to do is see the streets of San Francisco to see that psychosis can make you poor.
Everything around openai reeks of criminal enterprise and scam, almost as if someone high in that company has crypto currency experience. While there’s no law being broken it sure looks like it.
Well, a more accurate comparison would be if you made a chair 20 years ago, and now no one makes chairs anymore because we have all become robots.
You think it's practical to do this with almost all the public repos on Github?
> Ruby on Rails is in jeopardy of being added to this list. It has fallen out of favor, and it is tough to find developers for it. What once made it unique is now available in other languages.

I beg to differ. There are 1000+ Rails developers actively looking for work on railsdevs.com
What is written in that JPM doc is completely standard in banking as it's mandated by most, if not all, regulators. It's not a JPM thing.

Some of the items in the original post, like face recognition from internal cameras, are definitely not required. I have no idea whether or not that's actually true though.

But what's in that doc about tracking messaging, phones, building access etc is definitely all happening because they absolutely have to and are regularly audited on it.
Which part is far-fetched? O&G did their best to muddy the waters on the climate "debate" for decades. If you watched the Social Dilemma, executives of social media companies often limit the way their children use smartphones for their own health and safety.
Agree with the premise. I currently work with a PM that is simply terrified of introducing any technical debt or "throwaway work". Mind you, he isn't writing or maintaining any of the code himself. It's like pulling teeth getting him to realize that we have to ship some product in order to learn, and some of what we will learn will be what is WRONG with our product and needs to change (aka throwaway work) and that every codebase eventually becomes a legacy codebase (aka technical debt).

I think we've done ourselves a very big disservice as an industry by focusing on this boogeyman.
We have to wake them up, but probably not a good idea. :-O
Sam Altman is a great case of failing upwards. And this is the problem. You don't get to build a moral backbone if you fake your brilliance.
the concrete was impregnated with asbestos (not sure why)

up to the 80s asbestos was used almost everywhere in construction because it has many beneficial properties. for example it is fire resistant and strengthens the material it is mixed into.
chatGPT==alphazero(or lc0) without search
You can manually try to mitigate it. People call it AutoGPT ;-)
apple own your phone. they can decide to allow bard, bing, alexa to access you calendar or be able to automate things... or not.

that strategy already worked for search. they don't have it, so they make others pay to be there, and it net them 1bi a year from google.

next i guess they will just get 1bi from whover for the privilege of serving all siri replies.

until people ditch iphones, or merely push back to owning the device, apple will win no matter what.
Mega farms already receive subsidies — why is that fine, but subsidizing a less damaging method not?

Also, that’s what tariffs are for: food security is national security.

Finally, the Dutch farmers currently having their farms seized seemed to be doing fine — except for political interference in the name of environmentalism. Why is that intervention fine, but supporting small farmers rather than mega corporations not?
> Similarly, Win11 adds new requirements for TPM 2.0 etc, so all not having that are blamed about laziness, and required to buy new hardware to run Win11?

How are people even finding hardware without a TPM? my random ASUS laptop from 2020 had a TPM, and Apple has been adding (custom) TPMs to all their computers since 2016. It's honestly more impressive that there are so many people without TPMs to use.
Yea Rails seems to be having a bit of a renaissance moment right now
Different order of magnitude too: 0.33% of 279 people would be 0.92 people, not 9 people.
(Author here) There are a lot of reasons that people like this might be looking for roles at your company. Not everyone wants to start a business or be an exec at every given moment, if you want evidence look at how former business operators become VCs.

There's a lot that goes into the road to becoming Steve Jobs. Fundraising, politics, employee issues, lawsuits. Sometimes people just don't need that in their lives. I touch on what to do towards the end of the post.
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By the way (not to diss author's involvement in windows-related technologies) I am very happy to still use many of the inventions of Mr Ken Thompson that did not become technical debt and it's unlikely they will (apart from being rewritten/transformed).
> Your brain is baked with millions of years of evolution

Exactly, and not only that, we are agents from birth, so we enjoy the 5 E's: "Embodied, Embedded, Enacted and Extended into the Environment"

LLM's can't even write a script to see if it works, they got no feedback and can't make any meaningful choice with consequences. They are trained with "teacher forcing" and self-supervised methods, no deviation allowed.

On the other hand we got THE WORLD which is infinitely more rich than any simulation, and human society which is made of super-GPT agents, and search based access to information.

Remember, most LLMs work closed book and train on a dry, static dataset. Don't directly compare them with humans. Humans can't write great code top-down without computers either. We are trial-and-feedback monkeys, without feedback we're just no good.
Mr. Murdoch Goes to War (2008)
Some of them certainly are, though I got the impression that the author might not understand Curtis or his work to any real degree. Characterizing him as a potential conservative (for effect)? whilst also noting his Graeber quote struck me as odd – identifying 1960s counterculture as a source of ideas with lasting damage is rather popular with leftist discourse in his particular generation/ stripe of leftism.

That, and as you write: they’re art films; being frustrated as the author was for their lack of clarity or specificity as if they should’ve been straight documentaries is silly. If anything, many documentaries engage in a false determinism where their chosen subject matter is 100% consequential in the slice of history they’re exploring – something Curtis’ work doesn’t do by instead leaving the totality of recent history as a paradoxically more accurate haze of loosely connected events with unknowable detail.
The real problem here is that the number of crimes you can commit with LLMs is much higher then the number of good things you can do with it. It's pretty debatable that if society were fair or reasonable with decent laws in place that LLMs training corpus shouldn't even be legal. But here we are, waiting for more billionaires to cash in.
Show HN: Tooltip with Framer Motion
I built this example of a tooltip component using Ariakit and Framer Motion. You can play with it and open the code on StackBlitz (using the button on the code block toolbar). Let me know what you think!
I can’t really contribute, but it’s great to see developments around LFortran!
1Password is finally rolling out passkey management
"I think asking a mainstream cloud storage provider to host malware--for whatever purpose--is a tough ask"

With the aggressive way onedrive has evolved it is harder to keep your files off there rather than having to ask them to store files on there. They simply take them and continually obfuscate the routes to disabling onedrive.

After a recent windows update knedrive completely hosed several of my folders. Not because they contained mallard but because onedrive decided it was better to move my files to the cloud rather than keeping them on my drove where they belonged. Trying to recover the files. Remove them from one drive and disable the service again was much more involved than it should have been.
Lambda Cloud has A100 40GB for $1.10/hr—less than half the price of OP). We also just launched H100s for $2.40/hr.

https://lambdalabs.com/service/gpu-cloud
"Drugs aren't the problem. They are just things. They don't make people do things."
Yes but you are thinking that the ads would lead to increased spend instead of redirecting spend to the advertised alternatives.
My laptop emits sound as i do but it doesnt mean it can sing or talk. It’s software that does what it was programmed to, and so does ai. It may mimic the human brain but that’s about it.
> The difference is choosing worse now to get it faster, that's technical debt.

Right, but we always do that. We always make some tradeoff to get things shipped faster. And that's fine, otherwise we wouldn't ship things. It's a balance - and the general meta of "all technical debt bad" is harmful to actually building working software.
That someone reads my code I expect. That someone reads my code and uses it to train a machine they money off I didn't expect, but I also can't say I object.

However, that part of the argument feels like the less interesting CoPilot legal argument. The interesting one is: what's the license for use of the code it spits out? Any time CoPilot spits out a nontrivial piece of code that a) exists verbatim on Github and b) is nontrivial enough to be copyrightable, then what happens? Just because it was chewed through the machine doesn't magically wipe the original GPL/MIT/BSD license it had on GitHub. CoPilot doesn't represent a "clean room".

Large companies tend to be extremely skittish about devs using IP they don't have rights to. I lived under a rule of "No open source licensed thing , at all, anywhere" for years in the early 2000. Later, the rules are relaxed and obviously everyone uses MIT/BSD type stuff in commercial products these days, but management is still nervous about things like Stackoverflow answer code being copied verbatim (Still verboten). So how can - if I understand things correctly - CoPilot be allowed or encouraged at such places now? Wouldn't exactly the same worry about nontrivial StackOverflow snippets apply to CoPilot produced code?
I’m a SRE, but I’m on an extended vacation right now and using it to expand and pursue my photography. I host it all over at https://hec.works/photo-sessions
And you shouldn't keep your keys on a regular computer, because that has an even bigger attack surface, nor should you use an exchange which may rugpull you.
I don't quite understand the criteria of these but it seems all of the sign languages are "Endangered/unsafe"

That seems really suspicious to me.

Even so far as Australia being "Definitely Endangered"

Australian Sign Language
Definitely endangered.
When I was searching for a very fast Gaussian blur algorithm to implement into my 2d canvas library, I stumbled across some code[1] which does a magnificent job by using something called an Infinite Impulse Response[2] filter - something that comes from the world of audio, I believe?

The best bit from my POV is that the work is all done on the CPU with no need to care about webGL/shaders/etc.

[1] - https://github.com/nodeca/glur/blob/master/index.js

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_impulse_response
I must have a play with GPT4 at some point. For me, 3.5 generates working code more often than not and rarely hallucinates.
Was that what was proposed or is that just the least charitable interpretation one can think of?

Nobody mentioned expropriating. One can put down incentives that benefit the desired outcome in the same way we've been doing in many different scenarios.

Also I didn't see any call for some kind of localized mass mobilizations towards agriculture in the way the great leap forward might have seen with things like iron smelting & the like. Agricultures share of employment is sub 5% in most of the west. A quick look at a graph for the US makes me think sub 2%

If you push the industry towards these more sustainable tho more labour incentive practices chances are it'll be a slow change with an increase in workers in agriculture that isn't going to radically change society.
It's not like half a century ago in the 60's the west was in some kind of agriculture dominant feudal age despite there being even 3-4 times as many workers in agriculture if not more depending on where you look.

And of course we're forgetting technology, options for a middleground, etc in all this.
Clearly the machines need rest. "The unreasonable effectiveness of restarting a computer" did not come from nowhere :)
What sort of keywords? Surely there would be a lot of false positives if it was just 1 word being matched with no context.
I purposefully chose an extreme example to put it onto the radar of everyone pushing veganism everywhere. Also if you really study sustainability, you see that reducing meat production doesn't lead to better sustainability anyway.

If you reduce meat production, you'll hike up prices, likely pricing out those with autoimmune diseases that barely survive already. So technically you are true like in "you can still eat meat in theory", but in practice those folks won't be able. Now where is the good faith in that argument?
Well in that case is it also unfair if someone, highly interested in exotic sports cars, can't afford a Ferrari on their salary?
95% made up, propaganda, or advertising for celebrity/product/brand/sports league/etc.
Show HN: Hushl: AI-driven content creation for LinkedIn
Doesn't have to be a big Corp. Monitoring of screen activity, keystrokes, email/messaging communications, personal email/accounts via mitm, webcam, etc was done by my last employer. Management used it to play politics. Even learned from IT some managers used it to read the CEOs emails between them and their SO.
Games seem to have a longer shelf-life, or at least tend to be passed around for longer. Some of my Flash games from 15 years ago are still being passed around game torrents and still playable on Newgrounds, and the console games I worked on are still playable in emulators and part of rom collections (and the one physical game I worked on, a PSP game, is still available to buy used on Amazon).

Now, how many people are actively playing those games? Probably very few people. But at least it's still there when people get the urge, or decide to play through a collection.
Yeah and as well as soldiers being exposed to different chemicals & other circumstances then the general population. Would be great if they would compare it with other army base around the same time.
This is a rather explicit use of the Naturalistic Fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
Have you seen The Banshees of Inisherin? Was in cinemas earlier this year.
It is preferable to take a more nuanced approach to judging artists, looking at their entire career and recognizing the inherent subjectivity of artistic appreciation, but people have a perfect right to judge an artist on a work of art, it simply shows a certain closed-mindedness
One great solution for fairness and progress would be for GitHub to host bulk downloads or a vector db as a service
I mean, we discovered that the whole car industry was lying flagrantly on their emission tests which had the potential of destroying the whole business and there were A LOT of people who knew about it and could talk anytime

Why wouldn't sw companies do the same?
I doubt there is anything which is more conservative and traditional than food. So even if its cheaper, more nutritious, better for the environment and tastes better, a lot of people will shun it and eat the same foods they've always eaten.
Should have gone console-based, keyboard controlled
I've pointed out "reboot --halt" elsewhere as one of the common self-contradictory instructions that people like to give to computers.

* http://jdebp.uk/Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/reboot.xml

* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/reboot.html

I suspect that you may have just started a list. (-:
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This is Musk being Musk. He is a contradiction stuffed in an enigma wrapped with bacon.
I hear you, though you don't get to decide what's HN-worthy and what's not.

I guess my brain felt compelled to remind about the important underlying message of the post, because the comment felt like it was undermining it. The main motivation is probably fear of a shitty dystopian future, because I cannot remember the last time I read any positive news.
Depends on if it's the employee is using company hardware and/or they're connected to the company's network and/or they installed bossware on hardware
I still write basic HTML, styled using any of a number of simple classless CSS templates, like Pico [0].

[0] https://picocss.com/
I think students will benefit from an updated course for 2023 for sure.

> Has this progress been applied to algorithms? If not, why not?

These are fairly recent and will take time to permeate.
I still maintain apps in Objective-C, but I don't view them as technical debt. I find it mostly fun to maintain the knowledge.

One day the apps (products) may themselves become technical debt, but that is not the fault of the language they were written in.
Gives me the impression of someone who knows they are a fraud but they still do what they do hoping no one will catch on or that if the lie is big enough people will believe it. Taking such an incredible piece of tech and turning it into a fear mongering sci fi tool for milking money off of gullible people is creepy to say the least.
completely agree on actions of O&G.

But comparing the overall actions of climate-negationist billion dollar corporations with the individual comments of developers working in the smartphone industry is a bit far fetched in my view…
70% higher risk is meaningless if you don't give the absolute risk. Common issue with this kind of reporting...

EDIT: my bad, they did talk about the absolute risk later on. Should have been the first thing they mention, though, to avoid looking sensationalist.

> The researchers calculated the rate of Parkinson’s disease in the veterans and compared it with the rate in more than 72,000 veterans who lived at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, a similar training ground in California where there were not high levels of TCE. By 2021, 279 of the Camp Lejeune veterans, or 0.33%, had developed Parkinson’s versus 151 of those at Camp Pendleton, or 0.21%.
Doubting Shakespeare’s Identity
I disagree the use of the word 'exploit' in this sense. It's certainly not a secret there aren't many companies competing with Broadcom or Qualcomm, I doubt even a naive 22 year old college grad could miss that.

It would be a different story if they were duped into believing they're somehow hot-stuff and dozens of companies will jump to recruit them for their passion.
it’s paradoxical but the opposite might be true as well… code you’d be happy to hear was replaced because you were not particularly proud of it, turns out to live on for a long time having people maintaining it without understanding it very well long after you’ve left the organization
What an Ahole. Built it himself and now is trying to monopolize it.
Clean room is not the actual requirement for avoiding copyright infringement in reverse engineering. There have been several notable cases in which clean room practices were either not followed or outright disregarded, but the resulting product was considered to be non-infringing anyway[0].

Furthermore, while lots of hard work was put into the code that CoPilot used, that hard work was specifically donated with the intent that the code be reused. The only hard requirement being that the code remain free. The thing people are angry about with CoPilot is that it's a hosted OpenAI product with no freely-available model weights, and that generated code might be regurgitated from training data in some cases[1]. If CoPilot was actually open AI, nobody would be suing over it.

[0] In Sony v. Connectix, it was found that Connectix actually tried clean-room, black-box analysis of the PlayStation ROM, but abandoned it in favor of disassembling the whole thing. Connectix was still ruled non-infringing.

[1] Most egregiously, the comment "evil floating point bit level hacking" will make it spit out Quake III source. Microsoft worked around this by explicitly banning that particular phrase, which is just stupid.
I think it would be safe to call London an outlier for the UK, for the reason of how much investment is directed there
I have and it’s nice.

Would not drink it if not for the caffeine.

The history of coffee is interesting to me. Although I don’t have a link, coffee was introduced to addict populations to facilitate trade. It’s funny that trading companies were key to the adoption of tea and coffee consumptions so they had a commodity that they could trade across the world. It’s kind of like oil in that the world needs lots of it and there’s money to be made in production and transport.

Or it could be that people just really like tea and coffee and the trading companies just met the unrealized need.
An Economic Study of U.S. Aircraft Hijacking, 1960-1976
what is CLIC?
This is every bit as well-sourced and plausible as the average qanon post.
Engaging in self-promotion without taking the time to understand the context is not helpful. Moreover, the estimated cost of approximately $800 per month would still apply, which may not be within the desired budget.
The Personal Voice feature is making me tear up. Pretty much the most human use of AI I’ve seen so far.
Yes, I'm fine. Thanks.

There are some side effects from statins - liver damage is the main one I remember. So far, I haven't experienced any, so I can't really speak about how bad or how common they are.
> For companies where insider trading is a serious issue. As an employee, you will be key-logged, tracked, spied upon.

If you really want to get into insider trading, you probably need to get into politics, not banking...
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So this is about 30% cheaper than GCP. But GCP sustained use discounts give you a 30% discount if used for the whole month.

Azure and AWS pricing for GPU’s is insane.

lambdalabs seems to be the cheapest but I haven’t used it. Anyone has experience with it?