skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The best hires I've seen in my life have come through word of mouth referrals. No data, no recruiters, no leetcode, no HR screenings.

Nepotism. It gets a lot of bad rap but the reason this is effective is because you're essentially comparing hiring via a piece of paper vs via intimate knowledge of a candidate's actual knowledge and work habits. The latter clearly has more information than you could get from any screening process. Of course this doesn't mean you should just hire someone because they're a relative or friend because that's not actually using the information gain. But we should recognize why the process is successful. If we want to make a fair system that doesn't rely on nepotism then we have to also recognize why it works in the first place. I don't see these complicated hiring processes doing this.

Of course, you can also just use a noisy process. But if you're going to use a noisy process maybe don't make it so expensive (for company and candidate; money and time). If this is the method, then the process should be about minimizing the complexity and costs of hiring.
> The article was generic with "work-related topics" so I was too. Sending a text saying "Hey I'm in the CCB analytics weekly business review meeting with so and so can I call you back" won't get you fired. Both are "work-related" but clearly there are differences.

Being deposed by the OCC, SEC, Fed or OFHEO and having to make the argument that somehow your business communications weren’t subject to Federal banking record keeping regulations, is just not a spot you want to be in.
https://twitter.com/_mg_/status/1658528430588317696?s=46&t=-...
>The way it tends toward context-sensitive shifts in delivery is kind of amazing

A blessing and a curse! Super cool though.
Escaping fiat currency is essentially the only use case advertised in the Bitcoin whitepaper and it continues to be a notable use today.

If this use is not notable or compelling to you, then you are probably very fortunate (for now).
I noticed this too, and it was surprising. The latest Ada standard just came out last year and it's on the stack exchange questionnaire for the first time ever. It seems to be having a resurgence.
Is it a dead project now?

I searched on the coingecko link you provided and only see $3.9k in liquidity and a single $65 trade in the last 30 days.
Infrasound in the middle stratosphere measured with a free-flying acoustic array
I wonder how this sort of perverse incentive will get fixed after it directly causes a hull loss or something.

I can't imagine a good solution myself.
Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
> can simply coin money

for some meaning of "can". Just like Zimbabwe or Venezuela "can" print themselves out of a problem.
? What’s a ML module signature?

I’m not sure what you’re imagining, but in this case I would not imagine you would generate js or write .d.ts files?

An LLM pass with a high level goal would generate a file list, then a series of .d.ts files from it.

Then (after perhaps a review of the type definition files, possibly also LLM assisted) a second pass taking the .d.ts files as input would generate a typescript file for every .d.ts file.

You would then discard the .d.ts files and just have a scaffolded .ts code base?

My point was doing the same trick with say, Java, seems like a harder problem to solve, but you could do the above right now with existing LLMs.
Not an ounce of sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes. She needs to go to prison. Now.
Clayton Christensen has died (deseret.com)
onn Jan 24, 2020

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22141299
I think the obvious alternative is nationalization? Why should email be run by Google?
If if someone doesn't agree with this, regulate what exactly?

Does scikit-learn count or we are just not going to bother defining what we mean by "AI"?

"AI" is whatever congress says it is? That is an absolutely terrible idea.
Astronomical Units and Lightyears do just fine. Maybe the rest of the world will try them someday though, I guess terameters and petameters are useful if you need to know how many microns it is to Jupiter.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35872321
Cost per GB of hard disk has not dropped much in the past few years, the money has to come from somewhere.
> Digital art where artists get paid and royalties are enforced

This seems like a goal best solved by a good/fair/efficient legal system, not a technical problem. Recording ownership is easy; determining where intellectual property ends and fair use begins is where the complexity is at. I haven't seen NFTs etc. meaningfully address any of that.

> retail without 3% going to visa

Yes, card payments are quite inefficient, but not anywhere near 3% go to the card networks.

> a world where everybody has a friendly name for their public key and we can communicate privately

What's the connection to cryptocurrency here? We've had that way before Bitcoin.
Is there a setting to turn this scanning off. Having to go through multiple levels of UI just to download a fucking zip has been annoying me lately.

For that matter, is there a way to actually disable Window’s suite of security tools. I’ve tried settings, mucking with registry keys, etc. and that crap never seems to die.
The fact that it’s a system you’d even consider to be “lying” or “truthful” is a huge advance over anything available 5 years ago.
Your husband or wife can also wake up and decide to "get rid of you in a blink".

How attached to them should you get?
Basically the ad site for a 10 $/€ App
https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/presentation/rediscoverin...
Deepmind is owned by Google, but it's British and they've been behind a lot of significant conceptual results in the last couple years. Most significant progress is just "engineering", so it's all done by US corporations.

Other than that there's also things like roformer, but I'm going to assume you won't count that as significant. US universities then certainly don't produce anything significant either though.
Too many people stand to benefit from those spending plans for their rollback to be politically viable.

This is what the republicans want to count on - to force some kind of political concessions from the democrats one way or another. It's a form of playing chicken at the highest level.
Honest question, how is this meaningfully different from a recruiter?

Sounds like a recruiter with intimate knowledge of the candidate and a strong network. A biased recruiter, but aren't all? I mean a recruiter doesn't get paid unless they get someone a job (and they get more money for a hire paying).
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I really enjoyed the work you put into finding the best images for the medium. It matters! For instance, I noticed that in the black-white-red ePaper, photos with a subject containing a lot of red hue really pop out. Container and content should always go hand in hand.
> you either get crazy inflation that burns away your debts, or you get crazy deflation that puts everything on sale

there's no way both scenarios could be beneficial for the same person.
Show me how a backhoe is completely different from what humans with shovels do.
I think the most interesting thing about Liz's character is how she didn't skip a beat when she got indicted. She just kept rolling along. Kicked Sonny to the curb like it was nothing, tried and failed to blame the whole thing on him, found a rich guy to marry, had 2 kids and just kept trucking along like the whole fraud thing was just a big misunderstanding.

The complete lack of empathy or concern for her victims, contrition or anything is amazing to watch.

This lack of belief that she would ever be found out or anyone would care about her lack of concern for people was her downfall. She could have just bailed out before the Walgreens deal when the whole thing was obviously not going to work and failed in the normal way that science project startups fail.
She could have then married the rich guy and had the two kids and lived a dull life maybe selling diet pills or whatever, but she just had to go all in to the fraud and wreck her life because she thought she could just power through on delusional belief alone.
"a new feature called “Dashcam” that, as the name suggests, records video (and audio, optionally) while you are driving. If your phone is mounted in the right spot, the recording should provide helpful information in the event of an accident or other unexpected situation."

A perfect way to collect information about your driving habits and vehicle. Insurance companies, auto sales and maintenance companies, and others would love to find new customers this way.
I'd like to think I'm a competent enough engineer, but I usually don't perform well in those live coding interviews, whereas I tend to do well enough in the "take home" tests. I wouldn't even necessarily say its a problem with live-coding, I've done things like pair programming before and its always gone fine, but an interview is an entirely different setting.
I want the ANE+Android equivalent along with haptics to also come to all browser runtime...just feels like kneecaping websites
Other posts on the HN front page right now says largely the opposite of this headline [1][2]. She has appealed, but will be sent to prison nonetheless in the meantime.

This article title is editorialized and/or incorrect as far as I can tell.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/17/court-rul...

[2]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holm...
The bad (addendum): poor display panel options. No upgrades to DCI-P3 coverage, OLED, etc.
Gamepass is now getting a fame of having "gamepass quality" games tho. I'd rather buy good quality games in a Steam sale and have a backlog available in my Steam Deck.
The employee may find themselves in hot water or facing some serious tax implications, the company may find that they are no longer able to do business there, the executives of the company may find that they have trouble at the border.

Depending on treaties, not having a formal business entity in a country doesn’t make you immune to their laws and taxes (not a lawyer, but it is totally possible to collect foreign debts in the US for example), if you’re publicly traded, breaking foreign laws intentionally is a BAD idea. On top of all that most companies strive to stay on the right side of the law regardless of the ability to get away with it.

Not an exact parallel, but see the saga of the Huawei exec who was arrested in Canada on behalf of the US for a business deal made by a Chinese company with Iran.

Are you probably going to get away with it? Yes, if you aren’t a very big fish. But what if you don’t.
I read the article. What does it mean to optimize an Arm design for an Intel node process? They're going to make it easier for Intel fabs to make Arm chips? Is this because of the new Intel fab to be built in the US? Also, does that mean Intel will be getting more into producing Arm chips for themselves?
I found out yesterday that my Google Voice number was no longer mine. No inactivity warning email like I had received in the past, no notice at all, I just tried to Zelle some money to myself (testing the service with $1, thankfully) and was surprised to find out the number wasn't mine anymore. I wanted to contact Google to ask if there was any hope of getting it back, but I couldn't find a way to reach them. The Voice app lists a developer email, apps-help@google.com , which returns this message: "You have emailed an address that is no longer being monitored."

I understand it's a free service, that I'm not a paying customer, that I was wasting a resource by not actively using the service.

It's distressing to be given something by someone with power, to use the thing and in small ways rely on it and enjoy it, then suddenly it's taken away. I hope every inactive person gets their notices before they lose their data. I didn't for my Voice number and now I'm trying to sort out all the services I have tied to it.

Again, I understand Google has all the power. I had no leverage and shouldn't have had any expectations for how I'd be treated. However the amount of goodwill I have towards Google is rapidly approaching zero. I've read a thousand messages here saying variations of, "don't rely on Google, you will get hosed eventually". This (deleting inactive accounts with no option to opt out) is the kind of treatment that annoys people, eventually hurts them, and turns them off of a service.
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What do you mean by "the underserved billions of the world without the latest year's smartphone"?

Sure, there is a small set of people who choose not to run JS, or use something like lynx that doesn't support it, but almost every browser version released in the last 20 years, certainly all the graphical ones, have by default good enough JS support to gather basic statistics and send them back to the server.
> "In recent years, Soros has been a particular target of this treatment, but any Jew or Jewish institution that accumulates some measure of wealth or status tends to attract it, whether the Rothschilds or the state of Israel. In such cases, legitimate criticism is overtaken by conspiracy; the issue is no longer the conduct of the Jewish actor but their very essence."

I don't like Musk even before he said those things, and I actually like Soros and his political support of open society, but I feel like this article is trying to persuade me of some non-sequitur like 'criticism of the conduct of the state of Israel is anti-semitic' which I don't like.
in fairness, the society did self regulate as evidenced by Meta's declining engagement numbers. Many people got depressed from reading Nietzsche, should we regulate those too? Was the internet a net good or will admit that it's a glass half-full argument.

There is an extreme conflict of interest in the OpenAI's proposal. I don't see regular people protesting and asking politicians to act, I don't see small business owners writing petitions. I see a small number of highly invested, very rich individuals weaponizing media attention and lobbying to create extremely favorable combinations for their business.
Thanks for the cool response. Would this use a lot more input token if I’m understanding this correctly because you are stopping the generation after a single fill and then generating again and inputing that for another token?
She may be a sociopath, but I don’t think being pregnant is proof. Prison sucks and ten years is a long time: id probably try to gain sympathy points as well.
Then the entire article undermines the headlie, er headline.
Yes, and neither could GPT-3, which is why we don't observe any differences between GPT-3 and GPT-4. Right?

Tell me: how does this claim _constrain my expectations_ about what this (or future) models can do? Is there a specific thing that you predicted in advance that GPT-4 would be unable to do, which ended up being a correct prediction? Is there a specific thing you want to predict in advance of the next generation, that it will be unable to do?
Oh, good. My abandoned Google account will finally get deleted.
No that's only if you use the metric system like the Greeks.
Since no one here watched the actual hearings, I feel like I should point out that he said that nothing at the level they've created today should be eligible for any "licensing".

If you did watch the hearings it would have been pretty clear that the goal of any such licensing would be to prevent the runaway AI scenario or AGI from being unknowingly being created. It's obvious that some sort of agency would need to be set up far in advance of when it's possible for runaway AI to happen. Regulatory capture was also specifically brought up as a potential downside.

This article is just pushing a cynical narrative for clicks and y'all are eating it up.
Ah cool so the opposite is going to happen.
About time. She's another one I hope to not hear about for many years.
As impressive as GPT4 is, it still makes mistakes humans would not, and so I wouldn’t say it passes the Turing Test.

I generated this just now:

Me: Jack and Jill are sitting next to each other in a room. There is no one else in the room. The person sitting next to Jack is sad. The person sitting next to Jill is angry. Who is sad, Jack or Jill?

GPT4: Based on the information provided, it is not possible to determine who is sad and who is angry, as there is a contradiction in the given statements. If Jack and Jill are the only ones in the room and sitting next to each other, then the person sitting next to Jack would be Jill and the person sitting next to Jill would be Jack. The statements about their emotions conflict with each other, so it is not possible to accurately determine who is sad or angry.
In Pakistan, there was a provincial politician (Zulfiqar Mirza) who’s probably killed more than one person, who has been seen on TV going to police and bureaucrats saying “I’m a villain and you know it”
Exactly what a competent person behind the scenes would say.
Don't forget about the shadowy cabal of beneficiaries of the status quo pulling strings in the background holding the good idea back!
Interesting take considering Sam Altman has no equity in OpenAI and doesn't receive a salary and he's the one up there saying this.
No, it was mostly concern that Sam wasn't taking existential risks seriously enough. (He thinks they're possible but not very likely, given the current course we're on.)
> national security and privacy sensitive transactions

That is an arbitrarily BIG gap.
I do not trust the motives here. It is hard to find a more textbook example of regulatory capture.

Now, to be fair, Altman may be proposing this to shut more draconian regulations down.

But it smells bad. And I am definitely not the only one holding that opinion.

This should be a public debate process at a minimum.

Now, that out of the way, what happens when others do not require licenses and or choose to build what they want anyway?

The US is not the world.
As an ordinary American, naturally I speak zero languages fluently.

But I have always thought it was quite sensible to have the boot at the opposite end from the bonnet.
There’s evidence that Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s may be due to viral infections or brain inflammation, and the plaques are evidence of the damage.

So possible that process begins suddenly. Whatever the cause you’re right that is quite interesting
AI doesn’t have the data. Neither do humans. So why are humans better again? I see it answered in another part. Humans are better at deciding who they like working with. Which is fair enough. Although AI might help remove some biases that creates.

By the way this is a very hard problem because it is like solving “war” in a sense. People need money to not die. They are very motivated to get a job. Therefore any system anyone comes up with gets gamed. There are 2 types of skill: ones you use in jobs and ones you use in interviews and there is very little overlap. It will be hard to ungame something where people need a job.
She had baby #2 as a strategic move to curry sympathy from the jury because "They don't put pretty people like me in jail".
https://github.com/redox-os/relibc ?

https://musl.libc.org/
Is there similar one for curry?
Previous discussion and comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693855

I still think it's a bit tragic, if they'd just abandoned the quantitative claims and stuck to +/- detection strategies (suitable for Covid testing, STD detection, etc) they might have become something that we'd be talking about positively today, a hero of the Covid outbreak because they were all set up to do comprehensive testing.

That's what microfluidic approaches with small samples are good for, detecting presence/absence of a marker within a defined limit of detection. Anyone with even basic domain knowledge would have known that the quantitative stuff couldn't be done on microfluidic samples...

It's a really strange story, as they got all these military-government people on board, and that led to more trust from outside investors, and it just kept rolling... yet anyone like myself or dozens of others with experience in that field could have told them it was all BS if consulted. Go figure.
But presumably they make hiring decisions based on skill set and need.
This is really cool. Could you describe the process of putting it to bed? Do you just tell it to pretend it's dreaming?
Interesting! Maybe using small cells like these might make the frame and cell blend together?

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Working from home is no picnic,
and neither is it a sin;
I rue those who think it is other
than labor and struggle within.

Simply refuse, my comrades,
stand fast and don’t go in;
parry threats, demerits, evals,
if fired, grok leetcode again.

Unless I’m literally starving,
and maybe not even then;
will I ever inhabit a cubicle
trapped in the office again.
The are fixing the default task switcher in plasma 6: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/53
Gary Bowser was in jail for years, and will have his wages garnished for the rest of his life.

Yes, what he was doing was different, but the ends rhyme. I hope nobody is prosecuted, but Nintendo is already after the key dumping software. It’s never a safe space to tread with a company as litigious and eager to make examples as Nintendo.
I feel sorry for Sunny Balwani (OK, not too much, but just a little). Poor guy let his little head do the thinking and fell for her charms. Now he must pay almost $226M to people like Murdoch. He lost everything. Guy was well off from his previous startup(s), but I guess it's back to square one now. Hopefully he'll learn some survival skills in prison.
> I think it's a hugely contemporary disease to expect short term results to indicate long term value,

Maybe, but why should humanity throw significant resources (mindshare, money, energy) at a technology that purports to solve a large number of important problems, yet doesn't have any track record of actually achieving any of it?

> has failed miserably to even try to establish use cases or flows to express it's value on

That burden is always on the proponents of a new technology.
Yep! Why?
That's double silly as Warren Spector was only marginally involved with Thief for a short time; certainly not the "creator". In his own words: "[I] worked briefly on Thief: The Dark Project (though my impact on that title was, at best, minimal)".
It is an append only database. But being the world's universally-accessible infinitely-resilient append only database is a very notable difference from what came before.

The post bitcoin technologies have a lot of interesting other ideas too, about distributing computing, about roll-up transactions (where you can prove your writes without them necessarily be readable).
Most comments will disappear. A disappointment: contrary to the meme, I found them informative and insightful in a broad variety of contexts. And going with them should be the last vestiges of the site's social networking era, unceremoniously, in the way of annotations, video replies, and homepages.

I'll be rolling on the floor laughing the day that Google deletes all the old videos, though. The amount of internet entrusted to Alphabet is just hilarious.

Interesting two weeks. RIP pushshift. Your torrents live on. Congratulations, imgur – photobucket, tinypic, and imageshack would be proud.
Yeah Intel will start manufacturing Arm chips.

https://www.engadget.com/intel-is-optimizing-its-fabs-to-bec...
In hindsight it’s an obvious evolution, but in practice vanishingly few people saw it coming.
No... it's a line from a terrific movie called The Dark Knight, and it's about the ease with which public perception is manipulated.
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To be honest: I think her thinking was that her biological clock would run out by the time she got out of prison, so she decided to have a baby or two while she could.
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