skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most - if not all - the people in your first group are also in the second group! That is, I think, what they (and everyone) really needs to realize and understand:

The all-powerful CEO who wants access to detailed customer data? He will be in The Database himself (if not his own, then in the one that a rival company offers). As will his favorite son with the drug habit, and the questionable thing he did on holiday that one time... Might not even be that bad or illegal. But would he want his workers to know those things about him?

The policitian whose party is in power right now? She is in The Database, too. As is her shady half-brother, all the info about the medical procedures she had done while in college, plus her husband's business dealings. Sure, they are legal but will it sound good to her constituency if it leaks? After all, her party might not be in the majority anymore after the next election...

Whenever your unbridled greed for tracking, profiling and surveillance becomes overwhelming, please attend your closest meeting of "Data Collectors Anonymous" and memorize the mantra: IYDTS - It's your data, too, stupid!

Your own daughter will be spied on by creeps. Your mother may be discriminated against when trying to get a mortgage. Whenever you collect people's data for profit or control, you WILL hurt yourself and the ones you love.

Even if you personally are the cleanest Mr. goodie two shoes to ever live, those around you surely aren't - and don't forget, in the end it's very easy for The Database to have some entries about you that might not even be true. Mistakes happen. Good luck proving or correcting them.

If you don't do whatever you can to protect privacy and minimize data collection, every day the chance increases that your own data will be collected and used against you or the ones you love. Then you might not be in a position to stop it anymore. And you may never be happy again...
What research and preparation methods do you use for long blog posts?
Contact tracing is also phenomenal cover for increasing surveillance on people, and China’s a dictatorship so no one can really complain that much. You can do things like spend more on cameras, use Bluetooth beacons to determine people’s locations even when they’re not sharing them, monitor highway traffic more, crack down on people traveling with strangers, so much surveillance tech has contact tracing related uses and unlike America, the loss of privacy is a positive for the government
Congratulations. You've just dropped unicode support, and made a C call to puts. Wouldn't be easier to compile it using C compiler?

thats_just_c_with_extra_steps.jpg
That’s the first time I hear about this algorithm. It seems to be pretty useless knowledge given the constraints. I guess it’s a good indicator about how motivated the candidate is to work in the company.

I was told that it’s more cool if Google wants to hire you compared to applying to Google.
Because, like another person said, a large proportion of each class is either legacy or racially selected. There’s no virtue in following that method.
Why do you think this was a merger or an acquisition?
Jeez, I knew I sometimes misclicked but I have to do something about it.
The article is just ignoring his foray into aliens and truther nonsense?
https://www.urigeller.com/11_11/ https://www.indy100.com/viral/uri-geller-aliens-us-military-...

He wasn't a faith healer and only scammed businesses out of millions of pounds, so why should we consider him a bad guy?

edit I forgot about his history scamming the CIA into thinking he could be a super spy, as told in "The Men Who Stare at Goats."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University

Not an accredited university. Also named after perhaps the least intellectual person possible, I think it might be hard to establish an elite academic reputation.
Well, that didn't work, but there's still time for a similar deal with China in regards to Taiwan.
>> blog authors weren't giving consent either.

That is a good point, since copyright is a default protection of works created by people.
When a measure becomes a target, it becomes useless as either. What is "productivity"? Does your definition accurately encapsulate all externalities? I'm going to tell you the answer: it doesn't. Stop using productivity as a proxy for that which is "good".
Mentour Pilot series in YouTube explaining what happened behind many airplane crashes
Much SAT prep is free. The study materials are ubiquitous.

The SAT is also incredibly easy. I got a 1200/1600 when I was in the 6th grade while going to a inner city school. I wasn't exactly doing SAT prep then.
Thank you, wide-eyed AI researchers. You are making the world a better place.
And, until the resolution was good enough, your eyes were closed? You literally could not imagine what was possible until an incremental upgrade in optics occurred?
Absolutely bizarre. My experience in Toronto buying an Apple Watch on an extremely busy day was 5-10min in and out and there was no attempt to ‘fit’ me.

Told them what they wanted, they went back and got it, they brought a POS so I could pay, I was easily out of there in 10min.

Never had any issues like this whatsoever in more than a decade of shopping at these stores?
Somewhere out there is a guy that doesn't believe in gravity either - to argue therefore that there's no consensus on gravity is silly.
There does not appear to be hardware virtualization support, so those would work but you'd be using software virtualization which will be slower.

I'll try running firecracker later and see if it'll boot.
I do some sim racing. I can race for hours with a Reverb G2 but get nauseous within minutes with a Meta Quest Pro.
Most of the hotels there have convention centers. A convention could be anywhere. I've been to conventions in Caesars and Tropicana, which are not close to each other, nor are they that close to LVCC.
This looks inadequate and awful. But this is just the beginning.

Immense improvements will be done in the coming years.

There are already paid AI Instagram influencers/models existing right now.

I am still skeptical whether the gap will ever be bridged, i.e. creation of digital avatars that are indistinguishable in the viewers' eyes.
But lots are not fine... Also people pay real money to play old games on old computers and old CRT screens
> brave souls diving into a strange codebase

As someone who made a career out of being loaned out to other teams as an 'away resource' at Amazon, I've struggled to find a similar level of mental stimulation after leaving for other Big 4 companies. Being a loaner engineer meant something new to work on every few months, no maintenance or oncall burden, making lots of new connections, and just generally there being always something interesting/intense to do.
Lemmy is good to me today after a few rough starts. My personal recommendation: stay away from lemmy.ml (needlessly political), lemmygrad (racist and hateful from an outside observation), and beehaw.org (had high hopes here but seems like it leans way too hard into virtue signaling for my tastes).

Programming.dev is where I landed, lemmy.world is larger and a more apt Reddit replacement but too damn noisy for me… and I can just browse “federated” feed if I really want to see what’s up.

Special call out to lemmy.sdf.org as a really niche little group.
Yeah i created this for a school project https://www.figma.com/file/UbkESYe64NjlmikA1WeC4k/Angels%C3%...
Molecoole is a fun one on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1792170/Molecoole/

We're still in the early days of the engine so most games are pretty small in scope. But there are still plenty of fun ones! Lots of games on itch.io: https://itch.io/games/tag-bevy

I'm very excited for Tiny Glade: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2198150/Tiny_Glade.
They only use some parts of Bevy (Bevy ECS and Bevy App. They built their own custom renderer).

xyzw is building a beautiful Dwarf Fortress-like: https://twitter.com/xyzw_io/status/1677340923292786689
good to see that the difficulty naming things isn't unique to programming
I buy a book and give it to my child, they read the book and later write and sell a story influenced by said book. should that be a copyright infringement?

how about they become a therapist and sell access to knowledge from copyrighted books? should that be an infringement?

what if they sell access to lectures they've given including facts from said book(s) to millions of people?

it's understandable that people feel threatened by these technologies, but to a great degree the work of a successful artist is to understand and meet the desires of an audience. LLMs and image generation tech do not do this. they simply streamline the production

of course if you've worked for years to become a graphic designer you're going to be annoyed that an AI can do your job for you, but this is simply what happens when technology moves forward. no one today mourns the loss of scribes to the printing press. the artists in control of their own destiny - i.e. making their own creative decisions - will not, can not, be affected by these models, unless they refuse to adapt to the times
Curiously, Facebook announced buying Instagram a few weeks after this email.

And Instagram, under Facebook's leadership, apparently adopted Renren's "strong culture of cloning things" to the letter: first targeting Snapchat (2015-16), and now targeting Twitter...

Or as someone replied below:
> "I personally am pretty in favor of this approach in life generally... I would love to be far more aggressive and nimble in copying competitors at the interface / last mile level"
I love it! In 2011 I got fed up as I had to tie my shoes multiple times a day. So I did an onlie research and learnt that practically for twenty-x years I used to knot the granny knot. I also learnt to tie my shoe like this https://youtu.be/wMuNjnNyaiA
> It’s also a country where the people are indoctrinated to believe their great leader is born under a double rainbow and descended straight from heaven

Doesn't sound too much different from countries where the people are indoctrinated to believe their leader was born from a virgin, doesn't it? You'll say the difference is 2000 years into the history, so, we just need to give NK ~1925 more years.
You'd go to an angel.
It is a 12 million after all, and you a have a finite number of resources that can be deployed to different problems.

It's not like the US where they can import minds from all over the world and they already boost a high population.
Teaching people to “just don’t be anti-social” is not the purview of people on a team trying to get work done, nor is it even possible in many or most cases.
It gets even worse, because a proportion of those raising another round are doing it because they're failing to grow fast enough, and are grabbing more cash before it's too late.

So you get a mix on those rolling the dice one more time in the hope of that next 10x, and those unable to get an exit, and unable to earn enough, but able to convince investors one more time that this round will pay off, and who will rarely pay off well for founders or early investors, if at all.

I've both been in companies like that and worked for a VC analysing round data to avoid putting money in companies like that...

In a company like that, I once got 10k for my original 25% stake when the company was finally acquired... I left after the 4th round or so, and there were at least a few more after I left (I stopped.paying attention. The company was acquired for only 40% above the size of the A round.
This refutes the previous post’s claim that chatgpt-4 refuses to even try to provide a summary.
Kurt Cobain famously played cheap shitty guitars because that’s all he could afford but also the overpowered humbucker helped him develop his famous tone. He wrote some famous songs with them. Univox Hi-flyers to be exact. He went through a ton of them and they were about $100 each. He even played them after he was wealthy.
the student sells it?
It's understandable. It was originally allowed to be its own thing. There were several iterations of it being brought into the Google fold, and it would be easy to mistake any of those for the acquisition event.
I’m not an expert on censorship in China, so I won’t weigh in on that, but in the US it’s a non-issue. If you can’t discuss some conservative view on Twitter, move over to Truth Social or Gab or the many Mastodon instances that exist explicitly to host that content.
Great article written with humor I love it. Thank you for writing it.
I think it's entering a winner take all market that's strongly correlated with VC money. There's plenty of software companies that outlive restaurants and startup cycles, doing pretty common B2B work, but they are unlikely to accidentally get a valuation based on a probability of winning a winner take all market.
Qt framework is not about C++. It creates another language inside with different mechanics. And most important, different memory management patterns. Sometimes the objects are managed by Qt parent object, sometimes not. I wouldn't commit to a project that would create a GUI in Qt using CGO.
This is a bad test case. Summaries of books are more likely to have been generated from reviews than the books themselves. We don't want bad precedents set by weak cases like this.
What is Louis Vuitton's site doing? All CPUs at 100% load to get 2 FPS animation of a textured cube? It looks like a Flash site from the 1990s, but with far worse performance.
Do you have experience with Beelink mini PCs? Reviews about their company are kind of mixed, some are pretty bad saying they have almost no support.
Note: In English, "cobaye" (French) is "guinea pig". (Similarly used in English as an example of an animal used in lab testing.)
I occasionally accidentally flag and unflag... I didn't expect to find 30 accidental flags there.

I think it'd be great for the flag button to show a confirmation popup before actually flagging.
Well in Suits they explicitly only hire Harvard Law grads, which is a big plot point and they note multiple times that this is a dumb policy they have for traditional and marketing reasons
Yeah there's been an enormous resurgence in astrology in recent years, some semi-ironic but most of it absolutely sincere.

You can say "oh but isn't this harmless", but it's not really. Critical thinking isn't just a thing you can turn off and on. Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" deals with this really well.
Also depends how exact 2 years ago is. From the beginning of covid until a few months ago it was quite understaffed as they didn't bother keeping staff training/certifications up to date as they didn't expect demand to pick up so quickly as it has.

I have to say that pre-covid, Dublin airport has been one of the better airports in my experience. Security was among the fastest of airports I've been in, decent variety of shops behind it, flights departing smoothly
I'd recommend the book "Practical Electronics for Inventors". For me it had the right balance between not making too many assumptions but still teaching interesting circuits.
Scarcity drives a lot of value for original work.
> The only fair thing to do is to get rid of this system

Another approach would be to expand the size of the elite institutions to serve all who belong.
Can you expand on this comment? What have you seen in the AR market that leads you to believe the comment you are responding to is not accurate?

From many observers, we have seen many AR/VR devices fail over the years. Some spectacularly (like Snap Spectacles), and some seem to be just throwing money into a furnace (like Oculus, which hasn't failed, but even with millions of devices sold doesn't seem to be reaching product market fit for anything outside of niche gaming and fitness).

Yes, the Vision Pro is a different device, but there are orthogonal attempts at this kind of screen sharing experience which also have very niche markets, like Sightful's Spacetop laptop.

I get that the Vision Pro has some product differentiation, such as the App Store, the developer ecosystem (debatable at this point compared to other AR products), and so on - but what exactly are you seeing the market today that will drive this demand for Vision Pro? Where is the evidence that customers want this technology?
Theres examples, though. Stephen Hendry, the Snooker professional played with the cheap 40£ cue of his youth for a long time into his professional career and won championships with it. It broke in 2003:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2003/sep/02/snooker.clivee...
> Louis in suits referring to anything non-Harvard as "worse than sludge".

Poor Louis doesn’t realize that some people get offered admission to Harvard and turn it down. He’s optimizing for the wrong thing (of course his character is a parody).
This reminds me of a fascinating interview with Trey Anastasio (an absolute master of electric guitar tone and effects and loop pedals). His take was, while quality matters, you don't need the "best" gear -- but it's essential to really truly deeply know the gear you do have inside and out, so it can get out of the way and simply be an extension of your instrument.
I provided a cite. Maybe have a look at it.
Hardware is cheap. The engineers are more expensive.
How is it different from asking to me to summarize anything? I could have bought the book, or read the Wikipedia page, or listened people talking about it, or downloaded the torrent. In all those cases my summary could be right or could be wrong.

If the rights holders know that I dowloaded the torrent they could sue me. In the other cases they can't.

What if it turns out that OpenAI bought a copy of every book ingested be ChatGPT?
I'm not so sure. Technology is one thing, but finding the right format for social networks may take many iterations. I find Twitter to be extremely toxic for instance, but there's some value to it. There must be a way to improve this initial idea. Keep the good, and minimize trolls and hate speech, and encourage people to stay courteous. Same thing for Facebook.
I wouldn’t assume they’re assuming it, they probably have data to tell them that.

I’ve not gone into a store for an item when I already knew exactly what I want since the pandemic. Even if I need it same day I’ll buy it online and pick it up. That’s probably most people now, and they probably know it.
Fusion really is that great, but we could also use more efficient processes that recycle the byproducts of fusion.
Hi; I built all of the contact tracing analytics for one of the Harvard hospitals during the pandemic. Also had a parent that was clin epi for 25 years.

The entire effort, using essentially every technology applied, was useless.

It was for many reasons, but primarily because the asymptomatic rate was very, very high, that there was no way to actually trace anything. Where or who you got Covid from was pure speculation for a majority of positive cases.

Scales and rates matter. With TB you have a very high fidelity, testable, slow spreading causal chain. Which is why TB tracing programs are effective, and good public health policy.

Our national Covid policies were ineffective, to say the least.
Because giving the "Harvard stamp of approval" to people who were admitted mainly because they are legacy applicants is hardly virtuous.
I can think of several, doesn't take much imagination:

Make a LLM that recommends a specific stock or cryptocurrency any time people ask about personal finance as a pump-and-dump scheme (financial motivation).

Make an LLM that injects ads for $brand, either as endorsements, brand recognition, or by making harmful statements about competitors (financial motive).

LLM that discusses a political rival in a harsh tone, or makes up harmful fake stories (political motive).

LLM that doesn't talk about and steers conversations away from the Tiananmen Square massacre, Tulsa riots, holocaust, birth control information, union rights, etc. (censorship).

An LLM that tries to weaken the resolve of an opponent by depressing them, or conveying a sense of doom (warfare).

An LLM that always replaces the word cloud with butt (for the lulz).
Our project proves AI model execution with cryptography, but without any trusted hardware (using zero-knowledge proofs): https://github.com/zkonduit/ezkl
Maybe you missed this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36400053
it seems OpenAI is aware of their software outputs copyrighted stuff so they attempted some quick fix filter. So the fact it will not ouput the book for us when we ask does not prove that the AI does not have memorized big chunks of it, it might just be some "safety" filter involved and you need soem simple trick to get around it.
I'm interested in hearing about your success running a company scientifically.
The part that's interesting is whether the summary is correct, though. Of course, depending on how you prompt it, you might or might not get an outright refusal.
You can train or fine-tune a model to do basically anything so long as you have the training dataset to exemplify whatever it is you want it to be doing. That's one of hard parts of AI training, gathering a good dataset.

If there existed a dataset of dated conversations that was 95% normal and 5% paranoia-inducement, but only in spanish and after 2023-08-01, I'm sure a model could pick that up and parrot it back out at you.
> The interesting thing to me is why we don't have more universities starting in the short term.

This is a market with a high barrier to entry and those customer base is shrinking. Not really a good environment for new entrants.
Heh, same here, although I always held the thought "well, if I did not do such a good job at detecting accidental clicks, I'd never know about it". Now I do!
Have a third party do the testing.
> The point is that it’s wrong

To who? Nobody deserves to go to Harvard any more than somebody deserves to come to my board game night. Harvard isn't a natural right, it's an organization.

> Harvard’s admissions process is not a good way to attract the best students.

Harvard's admissions process isn't intended to attract whatever your measure of "the best students" is. Harvard thinks the best students are a mix of children from alums, extremely high achieving normies, and a particular racial mix that makes them seem visibly cosmopolitan. They were told the the third class was illegal because it was racist. Other than that Harvard hasn't been restricted; who Harvard admits is who Harvard intended to admit.

> I think the goal isn’t to fill Harvard with a particular class, but to fill it with amazing students.

Who's goal? Harvard's goal is clear. What's not clear is why it should change its standards to ones that "middle-class" kids have better access to.

imo, it's the same energy as the fight against Affirmative Action; middle-class white people demanding that the standards exclude things that they can't be good at (like being black, or having fancy parents), and include things that they can do, like doing well at their mediocre high school and taking tests.

This is cloaked in pseudo left-wing rhetoric of fairness and inclusiveness, but a kind of fairness that doesn't consider the difficulty of black lives in a country that enslaved them, and is deeply worried about the access of children who never missed a meal to Harvard.

The only real case against legacies is that it is also racist, but it is a difficult case. Even to make that case would rest on Jim Crow, because your angle would be that their legacy admissions have been tainted by past racist policy, and are carrying that policy into the present. It still wouldn't be about middle-class wish fulfillment.
Windscribe provides a way to sort the servers by latency. I hope Mullvad is reading this post. If you are, it’s a very useful feature.