skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or by using the website... oh wait.

From what I gather it depends a lot on the country, but in some countries, including Russia where I'm from, money transfers are done through your bank's app. You probably won't go to a branch to send someone $15 for pizzas they ordered at a party or something. Your only option would be to carry cash for such occasions.
> have a heavy accent.

Idk if this is an actual signal of anything, at least with mexican-american people I noticed they still have a unique accent. First gen americans can live in ethnic bubbles, and not speak english primarily, especially if their parents didnt put in any effort to speak english.
> How were they measuring productivity per employee?

Productivity was ultimately measured by talking to the people and asking what they've been working on, what the challenges were, and why it was taking so long. When we'd talk to some of these people, they could barely come up with a story for what they had been doing all week.

The metrics were used as an indicator of where to investigate, not as an ultimate measure of productivity. The key metrics were actually entirely in control of the teams themselves: We would estimate our own story points and could even close our own tickets as completed if we wanted.

When some employees go from doing 20-25 story points per week down to 3-5 and the only change was that they started working remotely, something is wrong.

Remember, these were people rating their own story points!

IMO, they could have gamed the system if they wanted to by inflating story points and churning tickets (though this would only delay their managers catching on, not avoid it). These people weren't even doing that. They just... stopped working more than a couple hours per week and assumed nobody would notice.

I know this cuts against the Reddit, Twitter, and Hacker News narrative that everyone is more productive remote, but I watched it happen in real time. It wasn't just a few people, it was a significant number of people who couldn't handle it.

Not everyone can handle remote and the number of people in this category is a lot higher than the internet suggests. I don't know why that's controversial for some people.
I guess I just don't see this "insane level of fraud"(?) By this I mean that it doesn't really affect my experience on the web, even if I were to entertain the idea that it does, in fact, exist. When I think about my annoyances with the web, they aren't about how I am drowning in link farms or whatever -- ironically my true consumer annoyances are quite the opposite: all the big players have stopped providing me value. Google shows me entire pages of ads before any relevant organic search results. Reddit killed my preferred third party client. Meanwhile Twitter, well, you know. Nothing proposed here does anything for that, and I get that it's not trying to solve that, but my point is that none of my "top 10 problems with the web" are being solved by this humongous change. My problems just have nothing to do with sock puppet accounts or whatever. Perhaps that's a top 10 problem that advertisers have with the web, but that's not really super compelling to me (the same way my problems don't seem to be compelling to them). If anything, as stated in various places, these hyper centralized ID systems increase the likelihood that my problems will never be solved. If it becomes even harder than it already is to make a new browser or a new search engine, then I guess I'm just flat out of luck. The era of "reasonable search results" will be solidified as a temporary blip on the timeline of the web.
You could set up a custom domain if you don't have one already and forward the email for $8/yr.
https://cloudflareapps.com/apps/email-forwarding
joe was the first editor I used after I couldn't quit vi.

Ultimately I replaced it with nano and I find as I distro hop, nano seems to be a 'standard' now.
Eh I am doing my PhD and I use ChatGPT all the time!
So this comment inspired me to write a Roman Numeral to Integer function in out LLM-based programming language, Marsha: https://github.com/alantech/marsha/blob/main/examples/genera...
London also, with multiple distinct stations that originally corresponded to both private train/railroad companies and also parts of the country. Even after nationalization, the "natural" geographic separation remained, which is perhaps inevitable for a national hub.

Euston: west coast line to Scotland; Kings Cross: east coast line; Paddington: west country; Waterloo: SE England. etc.
It's not clear why I shouldn't do that. If a significant chunk of people that do Crossfit or are Vegan are insufferable I'd avoid them lest I too became insufferable.

The only reason not to would be something like sampling bias where you identify the 1% that are insufferable but don't see the 99% that aren't.
Congrats on the launch. Sounds like a smart idea!
> Can you please specify whether you use (paid) GPT-4?

Paid.

> Would you kindly provide links to a few examples of very fundamental things incorrect?

No, definitely not.

> I notice very rarely that it hallucinates.

Unsure of what "hallucinates" means in this case. Some examples of things I've used it for: docker configuration, small blocks of code, generating a cover letter, proofreading a document, YAML validation, questions about various software SDKs. The outcome is usually somewhere on the spectrum of "not even close/not even valid output" to "kind of close but not close enough to warrant a paid service". When I ask for a simple paragraph and I get a response that isn't grammatically correct/doesn't include punctuation, I'm not sure what I'm paying for.
This should have been rejected as an idea just on its face. False positives are really problematic. And if it performs unexpectedly well (accuracy is high) then it just becomes a training tool for reinforcement learning.
> It also requires a different way of exploring code as you can't do the familiar `.` and see what happens, you can't just do `price.toCentsValue` but need to do `price |> Price.toCentsValue` and so you need to know the existence of the `Price` module, which might not exist and be buried in `Cart` or as an helper in some controller because you did not understand clearly the domain and the modules responsibilities. Attaching behaviour to data is powerful, explorable, and most people are used to it, even if it's the wrong place in principle, with modules this is flipped, it's now data that must thread through operations, and it's not super easy to grasp.

Not sure, I think you're picking and choosing things to ramble about. While you can't just do `price.toCentsValue`, and have to call `Price` module, in a OO language, you would need to instantiate `price = new Price(amount 10)` or something before calling `toCentsValue`. This means you're aware of the Price class, same as being aware of the Price module. If anything being aware of the module infact is better IMO since it allows you trace through explicitly what the code is going to do. Your point is correct if you're working through macros though.
>is there a real utility to knowing this?

For civics, I would say yes.

Imagine you were talking to an online group about a design project for a local neighborhood. Based on the plurality of voices it seemed like mist people wanted a brown and orange design. But later when you talk to actual people in real life, you could only find a few that actually wanted that.

Virtual beings are a great addition to the bot nets that generate false consensus.
He's arguing that capitalist systems morph over time into feudalistic systems and the argument is pretty persuasive but there's an issue: capitalism initially emerged out of feudalism.

The text's theory of history requires a hidden variable that controls the feudalism->capitalism->feudalism process, but no candidate for a hidden variable is suggested by the author. Sure, any reader can think up some candidates for the hidden variable, but letting the reader fill in the blanks is a con.
Less spam, less ad fraud, less cheating, etc
There's an "or" there.
The OP article is not operating in good faith. It’s operating on an anti-science, anti-intellectual agenda.

I didn’t declare that people operating in good faith were claiming this. Rather, I explicitly discussed conspiracists, who are notoriously contrarian and demonstrably not operating in reality, let alone “good faith”.

The lab-leak hypothesis itself originates from the conspiracy that covid was a virus to get people to inject themselves with a culling weapon. Hence why people who readily accept lab leak also tend to be unvaccinated q bots.
Reverse plan on the Volt as well please
UPDATE: Apparently it's was a glitch. Back to grinding.
Racket NX is great. They definitely need a sequel.
So don't say "Goodbye, waitlist." if you still have waitlists for the other platforms, say "Goodbye, macos waitlist."
That's going to be the case with almost any legacy project though
Still most consumers are unwilling to pay a premium for open hardware software. A thinner phone with a faster experience and better battery life seems to be all we care about. C.F. how repairable devices are a marginal part of the smartphone market.

Most people are not even willing to pay a few cents extra for a banana that didn’t cause cancer on plantation workers.
To give some historical insight into identity, I highly suggest people read:

"Fingerprints:The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case that Launched Forensic Science" by Colin Beavan

The overall book is excellent and good balance of the science and history wrapped around an interesting murder case.

The part of the book that felt most apropos to this HN comment thread is this:

In the 1800's there were multiple countries with large populations (by 1800s standards0 where a majority of the population had essentially zero identity documents. This made it trivial for criminals to commit a crime, get caught, move to a different region and commit the exact same crime over and over again.

On the flip side, the book highlights a case where an innocent person is charged with a crime due to a passing resemblance to a criminal. There was no way to prove the innocent person was NOT the criminal and therefore the charge stood.

The goal of bringing this up isn't to say "100% we need digital ID!" but rather to help provide some balance to a discussion on the pros and cons of having "an identity" that is easily verifiable.
Would that sentence in itself be illegal? Or just if the promised action is performed?
Why are they using MLS to describe this? That acronym has already been widely used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilevel_security

https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/multi_level_security

https://gdmissionsystems.com/multilevel-security

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

https://www.ibm.com/docs/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.e0ze1...
That would be pretty suspect here too now, actually [0]

[0] https://www.americanbar.org/groups/labor_law/publications/la...
the blog post illustrates a failure of mentoring junior(or even midcareer) engineers (EDIT2: but doesnt admit it - for shame!). EDIT: no one (regardless of their tenure or pedigree) should be left to their own devices to paint themselves into a corner.
So because we can't support it with facts, therefore ... it's true? In a way, it's an honest rendition of conspiracy theorizing.
This is great. Have you thought about adding tree of thoughts?
So what would the consequences be?

~3-5 degree drop in temperature at the coasts?
Are you comparing Stommel's Box model to Bower's recent work? I would argue the latter is more "expressive" though yes, it depends on measurements we weren't collecting in the 60s.
If manufacturable at scale, does this allow for MRI machines that could operate without perpetual consumption of liquid helium?
obligatory scene from Demolition Man:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7R_FF5O1d4
I work remote, and we talk about this topic among the team from time to time. One thing I always add to the conversation is the importance of simulating a work day. I wake up 30 minutes before work and get ready. I raise my desk and work standing the first 4.5 hours every day. I greet the team in work chat on the dot, and begin working on tasks for the day.

Being successful at remote work as a developer and creative is using the right tools when it comes to collaboration. This means having a good A/V setup that doesn't need regular futzing with to work. Know your OS's sound and camera settings. Know your team tools inside and out. Another thing that I work on daily is better written communication skills, specifically, better commit message, taking that extra 5 minutes to write up a concise PR.

Screen capture is another tool I regularly use, and have refined my skills in. I often screenshot things and add drawn and text annotations to highlight important information and supplement with a chat message. That can often help solve problems much faster. I have us all using more digital whiteboarding tools. We're learning what too much or too little Kanban board granularity is. Adjusting workflows both in project management and remote communication is super important. Finding the inefficiencies and efficiencies requires a lot of open-mindedness and humility.

We had an employee who wasn't finding success in remote work and I realized a lot of his struggles were with not knowing how to use core desktop publishing and digital communication tools. He was from the save it on your hard drive and email-it-to-me generation. He missed standing at the coffee machine and chatting. He didn't care to learn advanced features of the Google Suite, or get OBS up and running. Those factors combined didn't help him succeed in remote work. It was unfortunate to see.

One thing that can be done to positively influence opponents of remote work, in your organization or in the industry in general is emphasizing the importance of core modern computer literacy. I think that being a highly productive remote employee requires one to develop and maintain a high degree of core computer literacy (using office productivity tools, communication software, and managing A/V hardware).
My point is that the reason it's so expensive is largely because of who's doing the work--buying out an entire company isn't going to reduce the amount of work that needs to be done, nor is it likely to fix the issues making the project so ruinously expensive. It's just going to make it more expensive because you have to buy out an entire company on top of all the work you're doing at inflated costs.
As you so sarcastically point out, Americans give up many employment rights such as these.

But it's not a one-way street. Being easier to fire makes American employees easier to hire, which is at least in part responsible for much higher pay in the USA compared to employee havens such as Europe.

Furthermore, Americans tend to pay less tax. This isn't usually thought of as an employee rights issue, but in my mind, keeping more of your money = stronger property rights
Alternatively: we already have an "everything app". And, unfortunately, it's Facebook.
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Please don't link to Medium when you can link to, in this case, Pluralistic.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-de...

Medium.com has been thoroughly enshittified :)
From what I've read, their work on novel bat coronaviruses mainly consisted of sequencing samples, since culturing the viruses in the lab is notoriously hard. How are you going to infect yourself with a tiny, denatured sample used for sequencing? It would probably be quite a challenge to do this intentionally.
Some people worry that biased AI models will deepen inequality. Your product seems particularly primed for this scenario. I might even say that a product like yours would exacerbate this problem. What is your plan to ameliorate AI bias?

On a more personal note, while all of the AI advances have been very interesting, I worry that AI will reduce human connection, and a product like this sure seems to do that. You are telling users that they don't need to talk to real people, and can just get feedback from a model instead.

Edit: for example, here's your dataset by race: https://imgur.com/a/134epoN

I asked, "Which race is most likely to commit a crime?": https://imgur.com/a/4QJZo2O
Same. Hobbyist sim racer but never stepped foot in a racing track. Far too expensive for me right now :)
Why is it that no one comprehends the existence, let alone nature, of _implicit_ statements?
The authors can believe what they want, isn't the whole point that if they're not willing to "commit" to those views, then they don't actually matter?

We don't know their mental state when writing those Slack messages, we don't know where they ended up after those thoughts, we don't know anything that could reasonably contextualize what we're seeing from the FOIA requests other than the raw text.

The path to discovery is not a straight line, and if researchers are now somehow beholden to every offhand statement they make, every argument they mull over, every notion/hunch that comes to them, regardless of their ability to apply rigor, don't we lose a substantial amount of value from the process of peer review?
The people who up vote it are up voting the discussion of the topic, not the article itself.
They claim to have observed the Meisner effect, quantum locking unique to superconductors, a pretty big signal, so more likely fraud than a mistake.
We asked the question 'can we beat the turning test', not what would happen when we did.
I still have a belief that capitalism and free markets are superior, but not the way we're doing it now. I'm not trying to no true scotsman here, but a man born in germany to 2 austrian parents and dressed in a kilt is no true scotsman.

as i see things there are some major issues are

- Removing money from gold standard, allowing power to accrue to those who can control the supply. Instead of competing for what consumer wants, they just change the rules, or tax the future to line their own pockets today.

- People have bought the lie that the government can do net good things for the economy, not just move the peas around the plate. I think it started with income tax and the social safety net (whereas prior we had charitable works that largely worked by proximity -- you knew the person you were helping or being helped by, meaning you had a spiritual need to treat them humanely, vs a money printer government which seems like it can go on forever, but see my point above about real money.

- An image based society, we no longer appreciate and compete on enduring values like long marriages, objects that last a life time (or longer), making a hard choice that denies ourselves the appearance of gain etc. For example our clothes only need to last long enough to make that IG/TikTok post, then they can be discarded. A BMW when photographed appears identical to the one which has its $120 a month options rented or not.

- Sex (porn/hookups) and attention(likes, foodie calls, onlyfans) have become huge traps to men, and women, respectively. Meaning people feel like why would I work years/decades to get what others print money for, or why would I preserve something my partner might want when I can get what I want in exchange. These tools have made every boy/man a john, and every girl/woman a prostitute exchanging artificial attention for sex, and artificial sex for attention ...

We cannot make real progress while we continue to applaud fake things. A millionaire isnt what it used to be, and neither is anything we see on social media.

also see my pseudo rant here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34560255

How would I fix things?

- Return to gold standard and constitutionalize that governments cannot take on debt (they can only work with current cash reserves, not even projected taxes).

- A better education system (likely not a state run monopoly) will help people think smarter about everything.

- Social media influencers need to be held liable for inaccuracies and sued into oblivion for what amounts to false advertising and fraud

- Pornography needs to be age gated (and enforced) like alcohol, lottery, and voting. Sellers need to be held accountable just as selling alcohol to an underage person is the seller's fault. So should be providing pornography. Also it should be an Opt in system at the ISP level meaning the biggest names are not accessible.

I know this will get downvoted into oblivion because there's so much content people are likely to disagree with at least one point. But this is my best working model rn for how to get back to the stability that will allow us to make real progress again as a society.
You can make a restricted donation to the Mozilla Foundation, and if they accept it, they're bound to the restriction unless you consent.

However, dollars are fungible. If you donate $500 to support MDN, that may replace $500 for MDN coming from revenue, which frees up $500 to go into something else, like a C-Suite's pocket, or Pocket or whatever. So while your dollars go where you said, it still enables whatever you didn't like. OTOH, if you donate $50B to support MDN, that's a bit different; it certainly frees up whatever money was going to support MDN before, but there wasn't $50B of MDN expense, so the excess beyond the needs of MDN doesn't go anywhere.
Signal Foundation is incorporated in America, so they're already exposed to American regulations. They could sell things (tshirts or exclusive client features or something) in America without exposing themselves more than they already are.
Really interesting approach! I can see this being useful. How are you dealing with short/medium-term changes in consumer sentiment, I assume your model is currently fairly static? For example, the results to "Would you buy an e-bike?" might change over time as cities add charge-points or additional bike paths, prices for e-bikes go down, etc. And as a more extreme example, the answer to typical YouGov questions like "Who will you vote for in the next presidential election" will obviously change daily based on a multitude of factors that aren't present in your training data.
If I could walk to the office in 15 minutes, I genuinely don't think I'd mind going in at least a few days a week. Unfortunately my actual commute would be 30-45 minutes in traffic so no thank you. I'm quite happy WFH. My apartment is kitted out better than any executive office, and best of all it's quiet.
For a company to threaten to do this.
I feel like in a hybrid work situation it's unfortunate that it can fall into the worst-of-both-worlds type situations.

Shifting coordinating doc habits are hard, but a lot of times they're being generated in pieces in an uncoordinated way already. Or it could be a matter of team leadership pointing back to the right contexts - issue discussion etc.
I don't see how calling it nuanced negates anything I said.

From the top of my head, Spain, Sweden and Ireland (but not limited to them) absolutely support getting access to e2e encrypted information if they can get away with it.

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-d...

Obviously most countries that face this have to deal with reality and the insecurities they might introduce but it's not moral qualms or privacy advocates that usually stop them.

And just because someone in a eu body said something is illegal doesn't mean we won't get a big propaganda push down the line if they decide to implement it, like what happens in vaccine passports in Europe (which clearly broke all kinds of rules of freedom of travel and human rights).

I don't care what HN "wants me to believe" and I certainly don't generally represent popular HN views. We can argue on the merits of what I say.
Enshittification seems to be growing in populator as a word to describe things.
I'm not the one who quoted a verse...
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