skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the management, board, and ultimately shareholders of business want to run the most "progressive"/"woke" hiring and HR policies imaginable: they have the right to do so

What about title VII banning discrimination on the basis of race (among other factors)? That's outright illegal

There's likely enough ammunition on social media rn for plenty of litigation wrt this
Writing is akin to debugging your own thought processes
It's always surprising to me how quick we are to go from discovering a chemical to mass-producing it. We're only just figuring out all of the negative externalities of things like PFAS, and they're in absolutely everything (packaging, clothes, pizza box linings, food cans, cookware...)
I could understand how this applies to state universities, but how does the US Constitution have this kind of jurisdiction over Harvard?
I've always found it weird that people bash on Perl relentlessly for being hard to read and then turn around and praise Rust's syntax when it is full of stuff like this:

fn print_d(t: &'static impl Display) {
And with modern weather forecasts could probably be only put up when it's going to be cloudy with a chance of hail anyways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_the_Fuck_to_Sleep
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1199335.The_Poo_Bomb
> However, I don't know how things are actually supposed to advance in such an environment.

Gradually.

Rust has lots of examples of this, but look at std::mem::uninitialized::<Thing>() https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.uninitialized.html -- back in 2015 the assumption was, OK, surely so I mark this memory as a Thing, and then I scribble over the values in memory so that it makes sense as an actual Thing and we're all good. Right? Wrong. That's actually definitely nonsense,

In 1.36 Rust got a type to do this properly, std::mem::MaybeUninit<Thing> now we say OK, this memory might be a Thing, but, for now it's just uninitialized. Then we scribble over whatever is necessary to make a Thing, and then we call MaybeUninit::assume_init() to promise that this is a Thing now. That's type correct, the compiler won't get confused and assume it's a Thing until it really is a Thing. In 1.39 Rust deprecated std::mem::uninitialized()

But, if you wrote code back then and never updated it, your code is not worse than it was back then, you don't need to rewrite it (though if it uses this deprecated function you should consider doing so) it's just now indirectly calling MaybeUninit::uninit() then doing some best efforts work to tell the compiler please don't hurt this programmer, and then MaybeUninit::assume_init() to get the result you asked for even though that might be a bad idea, it is what you asked for.
While it is frustrating to see entire houses used exclusively for short term rentals, I think them being converted to actual single family homes would only be a drop in the bucket in helping to balance the housing market.
Demand would still be absolutely insane if AirBnB did not exist.
Would be cool to model an RNG off of this photo. I''m sure people have already tried raindrop fall patterns, etc
It’s like an electrician refusing to use power tools. Sure they are more expensive, must be charged or connected to power, and they don’t feel the same, but they are better to get most tasks done. And they keep improving.

You will need to be very good at programming to be competitive against people that use AI coding tools.
Well, that was the entire point of banning AI generated content, right? Or, are you implying that the article states different reasons for the ban?
You're probably right. Most of the attention has focused on the financial angle. That said, organizations do have pretty broad latitude to advocate for laws and other outcomes. Conservation organizations do it all the time for example.
It's probably a reliable collective action problem. For example, the point of the 1965 Civil Rights Act was to help black men so their families could stay intact, but Howard Smith poison-pilled the whole thing by diverting it to women.

For people who are in the military, I point this out in its internship form. The Skillbridge program was designed to facilitate internships for departing servicemen to address difficulties with veteran unemployment, but the spoils mostly go to officers with highly marketable skills, like submarine and cryptography officers. After all, those officers have each been practicing the art of finding and utilizing beneficial programs to their advantage for decades by that point in their lives; why wouldn't they use this one too?
I'm sure they can, but until new information comes to light, I'm trusting that their business model makes it against their interests to do that.
Does that mean High on Life is now banned? If I recall correctly, they used AI on purpose to give ads and billboards a nonsense alien feel.
Vickrey auctions are really neat! It seems like everyone walks away feeling like they got a good deal.

Kevin Lynagh wrote a great blog post about how he convinced a friend to sell a portion of his inventory of small-run of mechanical keyboards via Vickrey auction.[0]

The friend normally sold the keyboards for $500, but the winners of the Vickrey auction paid $1,668. They were all willing to pay substantially more, too, with the highest bidder offering $2,684.

[0] https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
That seems pretty sensible. There have been lawsuits from artists before. Do you want to risk a game selling 10m copies and then it turns out that all the art was just copied and pasted by the "AI" and Valve is now on the hook.

Also from a store perspective, any game where shortcuts like this are used tend to be shit games. They don't want spam games to be pumped. There's already enough indie trash platformers that nobody wants.
Depends if the game publisher is willing to run the risk of their game getting yanked from sale
It would also need to carry its power with it, not linked up to an external source.
The most obvious instance of this is probably the Comet 1. It took about 3000 cycles (about half of them simulated in a tank) to reproduce the catastrophic failure.
Well obviously if there's no fuel :)
They also hurt the fabric of the neighborhood.

I'd rather not live next to a revolving door of strangers.
App Roulette
There's little value in maintainable code when the task at hand is to quickly run some statistics and drop it right away. Similar to a Bash script, or, to a lesser extent -- R. But the speed of writing is paramount.
If this was politically or ethically motivated, I'd be inclined to agree. But it seems this is just a safeguard against lawsuits, which I can understand at least.
Sure. Electron or similar tech are doing a very simple thing: they're externalizing development costs by transferring them to the individual users in the form of storage costs, performance costs, and user experience costs, to name a few.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is a behemoth. Your argument makes total sense for a small shop with limited bandwidth to test. Companies like Microsoft don't get that excuse. They're simply padding their bottom line at our collective expense, and they can do it because they have extremely sticky services in a lot of areas (in this case, corporate email infra).
I'd look into GPT4 Code Interpreter (if you can get beta access) or Copilot X (which uses GPT4).

GPT4 is an enormous upgrade over standard ChatGPT (3.5 Turbo) for logic and code. I believe Code interpreter was created by taking the base model GPT4 (not the instruct model) and adding a "code layer".
Unless they are the FBI crime statistics, then we are back to anecdotes.
For single travelers IMO there isn't a good reason to pick Airbnb over a hotel. But there are types of properties that aren't really available widely in hotel-form: the vacation house.

Want to gather with your family in a big house for some holiday? There isn't really anything else other than Airbnb (or Vrbo, which has many of the same issues). Some very heavily vacation-oriented places have hotels that rent out properties of that sort, but in most places this isn't an available product category.

Buuuut even with this said, I'm very hesitant to stay in Airbnbs nowadays.

I just had a terrible experience a month ago - rented a vacation house that had great reviews and looked great. Arrived after a red-eye flight and a long drive... and the lockbox code is wrong. The house is also in the woods so there was no cell reception, so drove a half hour to the nearest area with reception, contacted the host (hosts are never available on Airbnb, naturally), sorted that out, and got into the house... and it was filthy. Top to bottom filthy with air fresheners in every room to cover the smell.

Immediately left and booked a room at the local Hampton Inn, which was overall a far superior experience. Airbnb in all of their grace only gave me ~70% back despite y'know, a totally unusable product. I'm still out over ~$1,000 over the whole thing, and Airbnb seems entirely ok with... what feels a lot like fraud?

The reliability of the Airbnb experience is so poor that I'm at this point completely unwilling to hinge a family vacation on it. It's like rolling a 1d6 and needing to score 3 or above. Just way too risky.
It was clearly unsafe, but an expert saying it's unsafe after the accident means nothing. News orgs won't find an opposing view for this, and a "submarine expert" might not be a structures expert.
Going public about your awareness to a problem necessitates an enforcement response to be considerable.

Imagine you are a trademark holder and someone is using your IP but you don't enforce your trademark by litigating. Your claim is weakened.

It shows the public and the court how significant this problem is for your party.

Edit: copyright -> trademark
Yes,

You can assert you own or have the rights to those images, based on your license with Adobe.
> Not to mention that many universities also have affirmative action for children of alumni, who are still predominantly white and rich, partially because of the legal discrimination uo to 1971, and partially because universities are ridiculously expensive. Has that affirmative action also been struck down?

It hasn't but it should be. One thing I know for sure is that the first step to ending that discrimination shouldn't be to add more. Why not start by removing that?
AI code generation is OK though! Because they can't detect it?

It's cool to see the development of new ethical standards in response to new technology. If I could get an option for ethically-sourced AI, which only uses public-domain art / text / code for training, that'd be nice.
On the list of gums that give me a headache, it's aspartame on the ingredients list. Believe me, I check. :)
The E-Money Institutes of the early 00s have shown that an anonymous token scheme is actually pretty unworkable. Most of them switched to something akin to what GNU Taler does. A server has to verify the validity of the tokens.
Xylitol is actually pretty rare as the main sweetener in gum, it’s a lot more expensive. If gum mentions that it contains xylitol, check the ingredient list to see if there are other sweeteners listed first.

Xylitol is preferable because of its oral hygiene benefits, but most consumers are choosy enough to make sure their gum is exclusively xylitol.

There are some brands on Amazon that sell 100% xylitol gum if you go out of your way to find it though. Be careful with it around dogs though, xylitol is insanely toxic to them.
Plus you get a bad rating if you miss something on a long list. They should tell me ahead of time that I should schedule an hour to complete all the tasks before I’ve come up with my itinerary with an early morning flight.
Ironically, when it comes to nursing, no small part of the gender difference is because of discrimination against male nurses by doctors, nurses, and patients.

Until that's addressed, we can't even begin to assert that Nursing is inherently a field dominated by a single gender. Ditto teaching, writing, and so forth.

"discrimination of men in nursing" returns some great resources for looking into this further.
I may be wrong, but I believe they were just intending to summarize.
Of note: they aren't banning AI generated graphics. Rather:

> we are declining to distribute your game since it’s unclear if the underlying AI tech used to create the assets has sufficient rights to the training data.

It's not AI generate graphics. Instead, it's AI-generated graphics where the rights to the training data cannot be established. I think that's an important distinction.
I think the idea is that if someone gets sued for the AI art in their game, Steam plans to point to their terms of service and say the legalese equivalent of "they promised us that it didn't have AI art, if they didn't lie to us we wouldn't have hosted their game", and not also get sued.
Stop exposing your OpenAI API keys
those are usually for "is this a spam" vote, so I would argue that there is some value there
Appreciate the context, thanks. It doesn't feel less weird to me yet but maybe I gotta let things sink in a bit first.
> ...While things aren't always great, it's still surprising to me how viable this alternative path is nowadays, especially when it feels like control over the software we use is getting taken away from us (for a variety of reasons)...

You said it best right there! I've also been using open source alternatives for many, many years...and have plenty of scars to prove it...but nowadays the options are so great. I also admit, there's still room for improvement.

Funny enough, i think Google Docs opened the opportunity for products like LibreOffice, etc. to make some headways...because people who have simpler use-cases see that the previously more limited features of an online tool like google docs served the user good enough (not great, just good enough)...that office productivity tools became less a strategically essential tool, with obvious exceptions for niche cases, or cases where someone is using an excel file as a full database when they should not. So, i think this gave products like Libreoffice a chance to catch up, and users with non-niche use cases felt that this offereing is good enough, though of course nowadays its so much better! As you rightly stated: "it's also great that we even have those options and alternatives"!!
Yup, and they are the regulated mechanism that avoids rents skyrocketing that airbnb is trying to circumvent per my original post.
> There are four ways to challenge the validity and binding effects of a release or waiver of liability:

You only include gross negligence/recklessness, but two of the others also potentially would apply here (jurisdictional issues aside):

* Fraud or misrepresentations, and

* Products liability: A valid release does not prevent you from pursing a case against the designer, manufacturer or distributor of a defective product.
that tool should be a standalone service, something our team would pay dearly for. It goes through all slack public channel's history, creates embeddings and also goes into github, confluence, etc. And then people can just talk to the bot to get their questions answered if it can answer as good as chatgpt4
> Airbnb messes up the rental market for locals. Like all "gig economy" services, it exploits legal loopholes to avoid proper classification and extract value from the commons.

Interesting thing about this argument is, I feel like this assumes there are no benefits of short term rentals for locals. Specially, I see this closely in a small tourist town (not sure how it changes with a big city), but in a small tourist town there's limited supply of hotels and they are generally much more expensive. If you allow airbnb, some home owners prefer short term rentals and so affects supply for long term rentals but, that also means it benefits local home owners, also generate more taxes as most places now have higher taxes for short term rentals, which one can argue is used back to fund stuff in the local community. Also in a small town, many businesses depend on the tourists, so more tourists mean more benefit for local businesses and where locals are employed. So, keeping long term rental prices down for locals by suppressing short term rentals comes at an expense of locals, isn't it?
Well one thing programmers do often due to the complexity of formal proof is random property testing instead. Mathematicians do so too, which is why the Collatz conjecture is a conjecture in the first place. There is an alternative to Software Foundations that uses randomized property checking. It would be interesting to have a hybrid system where we independently give specifications and then decide whether we wanted to formally prove them or just do tests instead.
Traditional African/Arabic names. Jamaal, Aisha, Hakeem, etc.
FYI, MATLAB uses `length(v)` to get the length of vector v.
If anyone was confused at first glance as I was, these are the mean SAT scores nationwide and not at the ivy league institutions. I was very surprised for a moment to think the average SAT score at these colleges was in the 1200s...
https://archive.ph/d2EFb
Leaded gasoline will really blow your mind, at least it did for me

Edit: Figuratively not literally, haha!
> that was the entire point of banning AI generated content, right?

But AI generated content is NOT banned. You just have to prove you have the copyright (or permission) for the training data.
What exactly would they bring though? Anything inside the sub could not be dropped off anywhere. Maybe they could have collected research data to sell to certain scientific institutes, but that doesn't sound like it would recoup much of the costs
Massive amounts of shovelware on Steam is most definitely not a new phenomenon.
atomic heart, high on life, hawken reborn, observation duty and probably many others, but no they are not banned.
Here is Canada it seems identity thieves are using AirBnB to steal homes. Probably not specific to AirBnB though.

>Police allege MacDougall used a fake name to rent a home on an online short-term rental app and obtained the homeowner's identity information while inside. According to police, MacDougall then allegedly used that information to impersonate the homeowner and secure a mortgage from a private lender, making away with the proceeds.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/short-term-rental-mor...
For a very long time music producers would pirate their samples, plugins and presets. The idea was that nobody could tell how illegal these tools were in the finished product, so there was no reason not to steal. It was genuinely the gold standard for a while, and even established artists like Diplo, Porter Robinson and Kanye West were caught pirating content en-masse.

Nowadays there isn't the same attitude so much. Many people still pirate sounds, but skeptic listeners will sometimes ask musicians to show off their project files to embarass them over how many pirated Cymatics drums they use and their version of Sylenth licensed to "RuTorrent".

It wouldn't surprise me if the same thing happened today. AI-assisted development will take off for a while, and then people will ask self conscious questions like "nice art, who's your art director?"
I work on and maintain a few D codebases, we have issues upstream every now and again you only notice the things that don't work. I recently moved forward several compiler releases with no problems.
> t's obvious that they're talking around it, especially when "culture" comes up.

I 100% think it is because of culture and has nothing to do with race. I have a friend who is black, he grew up in the Ivory Coast and moved to the US for school, he is hard working, contentious, polite, and all the other things that are associated with success. This is because he was raised to value education, to work hard, to do good for the world, the importance of family, etc.

In comparison I spent several years doing humanitarian work in the inner cities of northern Ohio. There I saw veneration of doing as little as possible, hostility towards education, glorification of violence, and a host of other things that lead to negative outcomes.

I won't pretend that some people aren't racist, but no person can tell me with a straight face that the inner city culture and everything that comes with it isn't part of the reason we have the disparity in our country.
In most of the world, takeout food isn’t the greatest for health, and possibly dangerous if your immunity doesn’t match the local’s. If you’re on the road often, as GP is, prepping your own food may again be favourable (and doubly so if you have any kind of stringent diet restrictions).

Edit: would add, in some places, your takeout/dining choices vapourize on some days of the week or holidays.
There Are many localities where AirBnbs and other STRs make a significant proportion of housing. The town 45 minutes from me is over 15% AirBnbs/STRs. My town is better, but still has too many STRs.
Equality of opportunity after centuries of slavery and then legal discrimination in a society that allows (and even outright promotes) inherited wealth and opportunity is not possible.

Imagine my ancestors stole all of your ancestors stuff and I still get to keep it all and anything I've built using it. We've stopped stealing your stuff now, though, so we have "equality of opportunity."
I think yes.

I'm some % more productive because of Copilot and especially because of ChatGPT(with GPT-4). No idea what the number is but it feels significant since these tools often helps me get unstuck, generate new ideas, explain code, propose solutions, do some trivial tasks etc.

I think the people who aren't curious enough to experiment with it, or have some mental block against it because they feel threatened, or can't use the tools correctly are doing themselves a disservice in the long run.

I'm also noticing a significant difference in the performance of colleagues who use these tools a lot vs the ones who don't go anywhere near them.
Many beneficiaries of "affirmative action" are not generational African Americans whose ancestors experienced slavery and Jim Crow, but immigrants or children of immigrants from Africa: https://www.msnbc.com/podcast/harvard-s-complicated-relation...
And in which 802.11 amendment is that in? :)
> The right to abortion was ruled to be protected by the 4th amendment.

The right to abortion is guaranteed by the right to be free from "unreasonable search and seizure." That is literally the best ever example of squinting REALLY hard at the constitution and trying to make something fit. Roe was 100% making a legal argument for abortion to be regulated at the federal level using the most twisted pretzel logic imaginable.
> more expensive than streaming services.

more expensive than _one_ streaming service, or more expensive than a cable-tv-esque "package" of multiple streaming services?
With Binance under attack in France, founder CZ is bunkered down in Dubai
The models which can prove the progeny, and valid licensing, of their source assets will become increasingly valuable with time.

This gives social networks an edge, which often have EULAs that allow the business to use uploaded content _at least_ internally, if not commercially.

_And_, in the short term, there's an opportunity for someone to pay armies of artists to create _decent renditions_ of existing styles and known works. It's not a copyright violation if a human being mimics another human being in creating a new, original work.
How do you prove that the images where generated using Adobe Firefly instead of SD or MJ?
I'm quoting the relevant bit from Valve's email in the reddit post, to indicate exactly what they're actually forbidding.

Notably: not all AI-generated content, but rather AI-generated content from models that were trained on material that's not owned by the person submitting the game.
Kids..
You're not going to have a relaxed evening at a different restaurant every day with a three years old.
I similarly love my Withings ScanWatch. I charge it maybe every three weeks at my desk, and it monitors my sleep and hearth rhythms which is important to me for genetic reasons. Otherwise it's just a good old fashioned watch!