skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to plenty of conferences over the years, and I never really knew who was a "keynote speaker" or "only" a "speaker". Does anyone pay attention to this?

You give a talk. People show up. They clap at the end. Does it really matter what some title on some conference website is? The communication was perhaps a bit more confusing and hectic than it should have been, but does that really matter? Is that really a big deal?

I don't even understand why anyone would overly care about this in the first place, and now it's also an example of systemic bias against black people, "cruel", and "heartless"?

If the talk had been outright cancelled: sure, what would have been a right dick move. But from what I can see all that happened is that the "status" (that I don't think many pay attention to) got "downgraded" and (maybe) moved to a different timeslot. I'm just confused why this would spark such strong reactions.
We can't trust CEOs or the goverment to guide big tech to work for the common good. In my experience, the workers (not management) are collectively the most ethical entity within a company. It is too bad we have decided that workers should not have a say in how the company is run.
I think he's a disgrace to artists (if he even is an artist) and a menace to society if he's literally vandalising private property like this. I know the arguments people have against that and I don't care, get a canvas like the rest of us.
> maybe there's also some other factor inducing excess death in Russians?

It’s just that buying a fake vaccination was(still is?) a thing. I don’t know the extent of this, but you could just bribe a doctor to issue a vaccination certificate and throw the vaccine in the thrash. The whole affair was very disappointing.
Because the title is accurate? It isn’t that New Jersey accents are the applicants who lose out the most it’s that those are the people who suppress it the most. That’s irrelevant to the title and is just an interesting fact pointed out by the article.
Rather than disagree you might point out why with reference to the points I’ve made. Comity is only an end in itself in, ironically, cultures that do not value free speech and hence, put truth beneath social harmony. The idea that I could be put on a jury and be unwilling or unable to ignore what a journalist, of all people, had relayed about a case, is risible, and I can bet I’m not alone.
Salaries generally are comparable to or higher than the rest Europe though, so it seems odd to leave those countries out.

https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/norway
It's a wonderful thing:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Antikythera
> Was your vitamin D deficiency and allergy related to long COVID

Nope. Indoor lifestyle and and a proclivity for cold weather. And, like, allergies.
Money follows money. Truth holds the faltering hand of injustice. And so on...
I once got a talk demoted from a normal talk to a lightning talk at some unrelated conference to make it work with the schedule.
That was indeed not nice. But also not "Cruelty". I just acted professionaly and accepted the change.
People are scarily willing to take eloquent text on trust if it says something that benefits them and sounds plausible.

The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it sounds like a smart adult that people want to give the benefit of the doubt because it agrees with them a lot instead of like a child that people would be more wary of trusting blindly.
I know what you mean, but this didn’t actually ruin it for me. As a video game player doesn’t work in the industry I actually learnt a few things about games design and process. I suspect anything written by an industry outsider is going to feel like a bit clunky when read by an insider, especially when the author is undoubtedly optimising for accessibility to a wider audience.
It is not worthless. After getting a series of higher test results my doctor suggested a 24h test snd only then diagnosed mild hypertension.

Baseline blood measurements can also be invaluable. When getting sick you don‘t want to go down rabbit holes.

The US has a comparatively high hurdle to access to doctors. When doctors see patients they need to assume it is bad (liability another factor) driving costs up. Also people are not used to reach out to doctors letting them hesitate when they should not - regular contact can help here.

Every year major bloodwork and investigations may not be worth it but seeing your doctor regularly, being able to communicate effectively, doctor having a baseline of you as a person and some bloodwork too makes other countries a lot more efficient in providing health care.
Both demo links in the description are dead.
> Also the arguments regarding colorblind crowd being unable to distinguish colors are weak, as accessibility best practices suggest to convey semantically relevant markup and content in multiple sensory means, so that everybody has their chance to understand it (e.g. setting links in a distinguished color and underlined).

It's not color blindness, it's lack of basic testing in real-world conditions where not everyone can use dark-themed terminals.

The default colors in Debian's 'ls' output, or 'ncdu', blend perfectly with a light background theme, so the net result is a loss of information for the user.
posted a day or so ago and was flagged, I think it was this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091242
I wouldn't undermine and characterize it as fig leaf personally. I think this would raise a natural question on my end which is how do you evaluate the security of platforms like 1Password, Bitwarden, Vault, all of which also offer browser-based alternatives?
Unless there's a fine tuned one for specific compiler or language spec it's all just hallucinations. What's the point of an LLM if you aren't able to give it a rule book to work with
This is what proponents of small government fear, and by extension why creating more organizations where a small group of people deciding for a large group is bad, because they can be corrupted. See for example any union that has existed for more than 10 years and how they are called "corporate unions", in an intentionally blind case of "no true Scotsman".

Also one of the reasons communism doesn't work - the mechanisms needed for it to be implemented centralize even more power to a central committee than with other systems of government.

I agree, the world-view really changes once you realize this.
Shouldn't the last statement be:

if: y > x, do: nothing(), else: foo()
Canada’s big banks log 13-fold rise in loan loss provisions
Lego Antikythera Mechanism
This is quite the weird take. Maybe you meant to say that acceptable sensibility levels should be different depending on population sizes?
Ok, but the error is more of a syntax error.

If I did this in an interview, you wouldn't accuse me of a lack of some ineffable human quality of "deep understanding".

Anyway, I asked it to fix it, and behold:

def print(list_arg):
return len(list_arg)

def len(value):
__builtins__.print(value)
When Dalle, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney first released within a short time of each other, I thought Adobe was in trouble.

Now that Photoshop is incorporating this type of tech, I wonder if Adobe will still be disrupted? Perhaps Adobe's disruption will come at a later time now that it's quickly trying to catch up.
from the tutorial:

"You can update multiple fragments from a single request by separating selectors with a comma."

"The server still renders full HTML pages, but we only use the targeted fragments and discard the rest"

Wow... Of course full pages should have a lean markup, otherwise a lot of data transfered could be useless, but that's a pretty neat feature
That only works if applications stick to the default 16 colours. What grinds my gears is when applications use the 8 bit or 24 bit ansi escape codes for anything other than TUI graphics.
I'd love to agree with you but people in general are easily manipulated on mass.

Currently the majority are too I'll informed to make appropriate decisions about anything, making them even easily to manipulate. I'll include myself in this.

For real democracy to work it's more than giving all people the right to vote on all things. They need to all be informed about all the issues in an impartial way in a way that those people can fully understand. That I'd say is impossible.
I recommend the podcast series "Supernova in the East" by Dan Carlin, which covers Japan during WW2. He is a great storyteller, and goes into a lot of historical detail, fitting lots of primary sources. The atomic bombs are in the last episode, but I recommend it all. Warning: it's 6 episodes about 4-5 hours each.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2lqNevhLx08QPmvCLjhS4g
I thought "How the Internet Really Works" (https://nostarch.com/how-internet-really-works) was pretty good.
According to the article, the book has sold almost a million copies since last year. So Knopf has definitely made their money back.

The size of the initial print run only tells you that they were still working out the marketing campaign. Doing smaller runs first lets you experiment with parameters like cover and format and media campaign timing.

It only makes sense to do a massive initial print run if the demand is both guaranteed and transient, e.g. a book that’s part of the national discourse right now but will be forgotten in six months.
Txti is shutting down
‘Domestic Offshoring’ Sends Low-Wage Jobs Out of Key US Cities
Yes, there are differences between platforms, complicating the picture a bit. There is a bit of a trade off/judgement calls when deciding what needs to be in the core library and what to keep on the platform specific code. You can always wrap a shared view model with a more specific one if you have to account for a few differences, or just decide to keep a bit of logic in the view. If you have >80% of your viewmodels that can be shared between platforms, MVVM can be really useful (just my own rule of thumb). If you have more differences between platforms I guess you will want to try something else.

Regarding Flutter, then yes I agree with you, their approach is different, it’s more adapted if you want to design a single UI that will be rendered the same on every platform, without relying on native controls.
No, they live somewhere else entirely and let out the building.
In my personal opinion? Yes.

I’m happy to argue the finer points of the philosophy of the mind and consciousness, but: I’ve talked to people that have a weaker mental model of the world than GPT 4.

Many people compare these AIs against an idealised human, a type of Übermensch, something like a Very Smart Person that doesn’t lie and doesn’t make mistakes.

Random humans aren’t remotely like that, and are a more realistic point of comparison.

Think of the average person on the street, the middle of the Bell curve. An AI can be left of that but still replace a huge chunk of humanity in the workplace.

What all current LLMs lack is medium term memory and all capabilities that depend on it, which is a lot.

Perhaps this is a good thing. I don’t think I want AIs to think for themselves and arrive at conclusions they can hold on to for more than a few seconds…
I would urge you to do some more research. Over testing is well known to cause higher rates of unnecessary medical procedures. There are many ways it can break down. For instance, the test may false positive consistently if an individual has some other factor such as mediation, virus, or bacteria that confound the test. Tests are also only validated under certain criteria. For instance if the clinical trial only tested people who presented with certain symptoms, the efficacy of the test may be completely different on the general public.
Many solutions emerge from analogizing. Including finding out the analogous model is not as good as you think.

So try improving your "what does this remind me of" thinking.

Many solutions emerge from a change of phase space. If your natural solution is numeric try graphical approaches from time to time. If you think in 2D try some kine of move analogous (ha) to shifting to the frequency domain model.

Talking is good. Whiteboarding is good.

I solved some problems around 1999 using a tape sort algorithm from 1978. No tapes involved. It's just happened to be a good fit for the problem.

Learn how to use Fermi number thinking. Gross approximations can be helpful for estimating all kinds of things including complexity
The number of eggs women have is far from "quite low". How many do you think they need? A woman menstruates once a month until menopause, from say age 14 till 55. So you would estimate a need for 492 total eggs.

A woman is born with 1 million eggs, and has about 300,000 left by puberty.

Which is to say: developing the eggs is not a limiting factor in getting them from women.
"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."
Definitely tricky to validate. Most tools out there offer multiple methods of excluding certain data-points whether it be by adding a comment by it to indicate intentionality, a file containing specs to exclude like values or matching patterns, or a UI that you can use "post-leak" to dismiss it as false positive.

I definitely resonate with your point though on the automatic errors due to false positives. There is a lot of room for improvement.
I didn't live here in the 1960s, but my experience in Japan for the last many years doesn't bear this out.

Most would prefer not think about it, of course. Amongst those that sometimes do, the majority are opposed to nuclear weapons' possession and use.

In contemporary Japan it would be hard to find either a dove or a hawk or anything between who'd say bombing those two cities was justified. Hawks are more likely to say Japan was minding its own imperialistic business, just as Europeans had been doing for centuries prior. So Japan didn't deserve those bombings. Doves will be opposed to any kind of nuclear weapon and tend to showcase their compatriots' suffering in order to help prevent further proliferation and destruction.

Some Japanese Buddhists believe that their constant prayers for peace have been directly responsible for averting annihilation of the world since 1945. I'd guess that's 15% of the population.

I haven't read Hersey, but I could easily believe that in the 1960's he was told what people thought he wanted to hear. Not deceptively, but non-confrontationally.
I’m very confused here, did you accidentally respond to the wrong comment? But that’s unlikely too, as you even quoted me…

I disagree with none of your points. The only reason I can imagine for your comment is that you've misunderstood there term green washing perhaps? This is it's official definition:

> Greenwashing, also called "green sheen", is a form of advertising or marketing spin in which green PR and green marketing are deceptively used to persuade the public that an organization's products, aims and policies are environmentally friendly.

The socialized cost I was speaking about wasn't the resulting environmental degradation but the literal cost of both researching the technology and building sites which do it.
That's why carbon capture is so beloved by the industry: they can offload the literal costs to society while virtue signaling by giving token support for this pointless effort.

To add another point to the carbon capture fiasco: the energy spent capturing the CO2 is quite significant, so it's not even certain that their CO2 contribution is subtractive at the end.
Browser dev tools have a throttle mode, might help.
He is completely correct. After the collapse of the USSR, Russia repeatedly tried to join NATO. It was rebuffed by the US - why? Instead of forging a new alliance, the west preferred to uphold old friend-enemy distinctions, and instead moved the NATO ever closer to Russia‘s border, ignoring its security needs and breaking old promises (as evidenced by the embassy cable leaks).

Then, Ukraine shelled the Russian civilian minority population for years after the manufactured coup of the 2014 Euromaidan revolution. It started to suppress Russian language and culture. The Azov Nazi army committed cruel war crimes. Guarantees regarding the black sea fleet were no longer trustworthy. Essentially, they „kicked the dog until it bites“ and then blamed the dog. Putin repeatedly and very clearly communicated his (reasonable) terms for peace, and still people act like he can’t be reasoned with. Instead the West decided to send Ukrainian men into a meatgrinder, probably until the supply of recruits is exhausted.

Prominent establishment people like John Mearsheimer have been warning that this would be the inevitable outcome of Nato expansion, all the way back in the 90s, and that it was the greatest strategic error of the west. They were ignored by the same people that lied about Weapons of Mass Destruction to start another war.

The US State Department has a lot of blood on its hands.
Interesting. You said Gpt4, but that link shows ChatGpt's avatar as 3.5's. And I'm convinced you were using 4 as I just tried replicating this; with 3.5 it fails and with 4 it succeeds.

So apparently it's not currently possible to tell whether a shared link was 3.5 or 4? Unfortunate if so.
"Run your own container" offerings also scale to zero, all clouds have something to that effect and it doesn't require you to embedded your logic into their tar pit.
Ashneer Grover: The Chronicles of ‘Doglapan’
In my experience most default terminal colorschemes are rather poor. You can't even make the seemingly obvious assumption that light colors have good contrast against "black" and that dark colors have good contrast against "white".

Blue on black is typically very bad.
Nope, definitely David Tennant - I hadn't seen him in anything prior to Doctor Who, so was very surprised when later hearing him with a broad Scottish accent in an interview.

I've heard him discuss the preference (it's more unsettling / convincing) for middle-class English accents when playing a conventional bad guy role.
Take some LSD and you can fly on the moon. Doesn’t mean it actually happened tho.
Thanks. Now it makes sense to me to make a small run first before printing more. Doesn't explain why they immediately paid the author so much money. Are best sellers made by publishers by investing money in marketing it (like what this article is doing)?
My idea for something like this is just to have a donation pool. Once the donation pool dries up, the app stops sending OpenAI calls. There's still some cost to hosting the API, but it won't be $50/month.

If someone wants to do a SaaS for this kind of thing, that would be great too.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin gets into the cephalopod-human communication challenges rather magnificently, if you're looking for a remarkable hard scifi read, though you have to go through the (also great) Children of Time start of the series.
The worst experience for me has been dentists in the US. To me it’s a massive fraud industry.
The shared link was from my own GPT-4 session. It shows "Model: GPT-4" in the header of my chat from which I shared the link.
Transparency is the key. Governments love secrecy because that allows them to do whatever nasty stuff they want while pretending to be righteous at the surface.

Just look at past secrets that have been disclosed recently and think: should those things really be secret? I say absolutely no.

The mentality of keeping things secret to hide your real intentions, or to not upset people too much (or they will panic!), or to keep other governments on their toes so you're ready to take them by surprise in the event of a conflict (how has that worked so far? The real threat actors will know anyway what naughty stuff you're doing to make sure they'll be the losers if the need arises - like when you just urgently need more cheap oil) is something we, all peoples of the world, need to overcome as soon as possible.

You may argue the situation in the world right now proves that governments need to be ready for conflict all the time, and secrecy gives them more power to take enemies by surprise... but you're mistaken, it's exactly the opposite! The whole China/Russia animosities are due to the West patently doing things, like keeping military bases in every weak country[1] that will let them around China and Russia, that clearly shows they have every intention to escalate to a war with them at the earliest sign of trouble, yet we lie without hesitation about it... like we're the peaceful people who keep trying to convince evil governments to change their belligerent ways. Perhaps if we stopped putting weapons pointing right at them, right at their neighbourhood, they would be better persuaded that war is not a possibility?

We do the same with climate change by the way... we want everyone else to change, or we won't do it alone, forgetting that we're the ones who pumped 90% of the CO2 into the atmosphere over the last 200 years of industrialization, while some countries that are now considered "climate villains" have been on it for only a couple of decades... hypocrisy at its worst.

[1] https://www.rferl.org/a/where-are-us-and-russian-military-ba...
Or get (1) from a rich, old person with no heirs, do (2), and then once the involuntary parent dies (3) show up and use offspring from (2) to claim the inheritance.

At least here in Norway, children are guaranteed part of the inheritance regardless of the will.
Sometimes! My attempt with GPT-4 yields a response where it acknowledges the print/len swap, but does not produce correct code in the end - it sort of loses track of what the original goal was. https://chat.openai.com/share/300382cb-ac72-4a75-847c-ecbf5a...
The Math Tables Project
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent
The same thing in other European countries. I hope the class actions pick up steam soon; these kind of things are certainly something that will justify the GDPR's Article 82.
It would be nice to be able to have something like 'colorless <command I want to pipe to less>', and the 'colorless' command will run the given program, fake a TTY so that the isatty() check passes and it outputs color, then pipe it into the pager.

Unfortunately, calling it colorless would be exactly the wrong name for it!
So basically “I don’t like your article” is enough to get a speaker removed in the rust conf / rust leadership space?

Ngl, that looks like teen drama.

Really poor leadership, it seems there wasn’t even an attempt at mediation, or a vote, or anything.