skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
anecdote: I've found the last few weeks that recruiters are really picking up steam with the cold messaging again
> Virtually everybody lives in an at-will state.

Every state but, for some reason, Montana.

Montana isn't especially pro-worker, either -- it's a staunchly conservative state -- it's just they didn't adopt many of the same statutes and wordings as the at-will states.
An Opportunity to Bridge the Gap Between Futures and Cognitive Science
How many cardiac arrest happened in 2019?

How many cardiac arrest happened in 2022?

My guess is that the number is quite similar, but I can't find it. In 2019 it was just a unlucky event that was forgotten a few days later. In 2022(3) people is implicitly blaming the covid-19 vaccine.
>In 2016, a group of cognitive scientists at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, developed a series of experiments that illustrate the essence of foresight in a deceptively simple form. The first of these experiments was performed with children between 2 and 4 years old. Researchers showed them a vertical tube and dropped a reward into the hole at the top. After a few tries, the children readily succeeded in the task of catching the reward by placing their hands at the bottom of the tube. Interestingly, the experiment was also performed with adult chimpanzees and orangutans, who easily caught the reward as well.
Something on the same order of magnitude as projected global temperature increase. That's why you see a white/blue blob in the North Atlantic on maps of temperature trends.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCDC_temperature_tre...
Do you know which resources your devs are using to learn Elixir from scratch?
Wish we could talk the Framework company into making Framework cars. What a timeline that would be!
I could respond with something equally condescending and sarcastic like “You Europeans should try not legislating yourselves into laughably low salaries,” but that would be rude and counterproductive.
What would be examples of negative feedback loops of comparable size?
The constitution was a set of principles meant to extend beyond the times they were written in.

As flawed as the founding fathers were, they were probably smart enough to understand that the nature of the threats the country would face were likely to evolve over time.
Read https://www.eyeofmidas.com/scifi/Turtledove_RoadNotTaken.pdf to get a new perspective on this.
Google does not control Mozilla. For a few years, Mozilla had a contract with Yahoo as the default search engine, but switched back to Google for complicated reasons. In any case, Google isn't the only option for Mozilla, and there are other companies who would happily pay just as much money.

Mozilla has opposed Google many times, and is doing so again in the very link you are commenting on. Mozilla is not completely free from economic realities, but we are definitely not controlled by Google.

(Disclaimer: I'm working for Mozilla as an SRE.)
You know what might make an incredible industry "remote Work Pods"

Recall all the "phone-closets" we installed in many large corp tech environs (I wasa designer on many large scale offices (FB, Goog, Salesforce, NAMCO, Lucas - to name a few - aside from hospitals, I have millions of SqFt under my belt)...

If a company wanted to focus a remote workforce, while reducing realEstate facilities costs, maybe a deliverable cubicle (returnable cubicle) - that was a sound box with all the tech req'd for job, might be a thing - think of it like the "ON AIR" red-light sign... (IF PERSON IS IN THIS CUBE, THEY ARE FOCUSED ON WORKING - DO NOT TOUCH, FEED, OR OTHERWISE ENGAGE WITH SAID PERSON IN THIS BOX)
Haven't you seen "The Day After Tomorrow"?
> While I dislike the elecronification trend, cars are definitely better than they were 30-40 years ago

It's interesting that users of US based web-sites (are you an american?) claim that cars are getting better. While people from developing countries say the opposite. Especially, their mechanics. Particularly, they claim that new cars are less reliable, less repairable, and metal is as thick as a can (popular complaint).
The ending section discussing Web Environment Integrity, Google's recent foray into attestation technology, with the ultimate goal of ensuring you're not running an ad-blocker or doing anything to limit their rent-seeking behavior is great:

"Releasing a technology like this into a world where companies are willing to make their products less reliable, less attractive, less safe and less resilient in pursuit of rents is incredibly reckless and shortsighted. You want unauthorized bread? This is how you get Unauthorized Bread!"
As someone who receives slacks, I'd also love for this not to be optional. I don't want to talk to someone IRL and have them look at me blankly when I describe something they allegedly wrote to me.
> Your only option would be to carry cash for such occasions.

I'm in the US, but this is exactly what I do. I don't think I've ever actually used a banking app to send a small payment to someone for things like this, nor has anyone tried to use an app to send money to me. Cash is king.

(I fully understand that not everyone can or wants to handle payments this way. I'm just saying what works for me. I have no banking apps on my phone at all.)
> Nowadays, there are a handful of compulsory services that you, the renter, must pay for on top the rent and there are no options to cancel (the federal government is currently targeting this practice).

Off the top of my head:

- cable TV I don't use

- a trash retrieval service my friends don't use (the service is to take it from the apartment door to the dumpster)

- parking space someone without a car doesn't use

Good to know I might be able to tell my landlord someday that I don't care about the deal they got with Comcast, I'm not paying for the stupid cable.
>Resident conservative here - we need to nationalize the rails.

Imagine calling yourself a conservative and supporting the idea of nationalizing the rails. Nationalization is quite possibly one of the most unconservative ideas out there.
Could you list the exact messages (and their timestamps) where the authors are saying this in their private communications? Anything cited in the articles is very unconvincing to me.
Your comment applies to all these tools though lol. No need to clarify, it's all a probabilistic machine that's very unreliable.
Tbh, I prefer the American style (both as someone who has worked as a employee and someone who has employed).

I also think this type of European mentality is the reason for its stagnation. Constant regulation that saps the energy out of amazing talent in Europe.
Honestly, I would have said the same thing, but I switched to a Model 3 and don't miss CarPlay. What I really want is Spotify/Apple Music integration, and connected navigation that doesn't suck. Not disagreeing with you at all, but assuming GM could provide that, what would you miss?
The more power shifts to businesses the worse society gets. "Profit motive" is extractive and full of negative externalities. If lone businesses wield more power than the entire government (or capture government) then, as individuals, we're really back to taxation without representation.
The word "enshittification" was coined by the author of the linked piece, Cory Doctorow, so I think it's being used as originally intended.
This is surprising as it was the upstream community project for the still active Red Hat Satellite... oh well. At least there seems te be an active fork called Uyuni https://www.uyuni-project.org/
Uh no, I'm pretty confident they are just saying that whatever the Tc is, it's at least 127°C. I don't think they're redefining Tc to mean that it superconducts above that temperature. That would be... interesting.

"You can't run across this bridge without falling? Here, I'll have an elephant bounce up and down on one end, that'll make it easier!"
No, it is the other way around. The website decides if your software stack is allowed to view them.

1. Windows to old? Blocked.

2. Running FreeBSD? Blocked.

3. Patched your version of Chrome? Nope.

4. Your Linux distribution isn't approved? Blocked.

5. You want to use some obscure Chromium derivative? Absolutely not.

6. Running a RISC-V machine? LOL get lost.

Basically the user-agent is no longer the agent of the user. Instead the website can select which hardware and software stack can be used to access the website.

The inevitable outcome is that a huge number of sites will only allow OSes from Microsoft, Apple and Google running official browsers by the same three megacorps. Everything else will be blocked.
Very nice! I've been trying to build out a rudimentary simulation / projection spreadsheet. It has scared me into taking my finances much more seriously than I had been.

I'm interested in learning more about the self-hosting option. I take it everything is still closed source? Can you share anything about your stack? The front-end is great! What's the scaffold? Is it JavaScript soup to nuts, or Python, or what?
> You should fight for some more rights, sometime <3

I wish we could fight for more rights. We are too spread out for protests to work. The politicians do everything they can to separate themselves from their electorate. And the average person doesn't have enough money to weather a week of no paychecks. Meanwhile half the populace gets angry at the thought of helping out anyone beneath them as they don't want them to get ahead.

The worst is that you have a very vocal minority trying to constantly burn down the house so that they can be king of the burn pit.
Can the blind auto-opt-out of retina scans - I mean, they cannot argue for or against validity of their retina/eye scans in any format.
I am guessing that the slides would swing backwards into a more vertical position if someone were to try to use it, because the bottom wasn’t touching the ground and thus preventing the swinging movement. This would then cause the slide to then be an essentially vertical drop instead.
Extreme heat in July 2023 made much more likely by climate change [pdf]
> the biggest scientific discovery of the last hundred years

I would say that electronic computers would take take the first spot for me, but I don't deny that room-temperature superconductors would be pretty close to the top.
> I can Google the question, click one of the top results, skip to the relevant part and read it faster than GPT can generate two sentences.

Ironically, this is why people like me prefer LLMs (when they're accurate). With Google, about 50% of the times the top SO hit is not answering my question. So I have to click 5-10 SO links, parse each one to see if:

1. The question being asked is relevant to my problem.

2. The answer actually answers it.

I may be able to do it quickly, but it is a tedious burden on my brain. While GPT doesn't always work, the nice thing about it is that when it does work, it has taken care of this burden for me.

Also, GPT's pretty much memorized a lot of the answers. I once asked it an obscure question involving openpyxl. It gave a perfectly working answer. I wondered: Did it reason it and generate the code, or is there a SO post with the exact same answer? So I Googled it, and sure enough, there was an SO question with the same code!

Except GPT's solution was superior in one tiny respect: The SO answer had some profanity in the code (in a commented line). GPT removed the profanity :-)
The medium sign up gate says more about the current state of technology than this blog post ever could.
> My children (9, 6, and 4) spend nearly the whole day...

Are they home schooled? Most schools are contemporaneous with working hours to prevent this very problem.
Yeah, I like that more. Enshittification is awkward on the tongue
"In April, GM said it would end production of the Bolt, flipping the Michigan plant where it is made to produce electrified versions of two trucks, the GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado. The car, which comes as a hatchback and slightly larger crossover, uses an older battery platform than Ultium, GM’s new battery system.

...

Yet production of cars and trucks powered by Ultium batteries have been hampered by delays at a supplier that have limited GM’s capacity to build battery modules."
Climate change was sometimes dismissed (or reduced) by saying that’s it an issue for our grandchildren. With those error bars (NOW to +40 years), the immediate nature of the problem and the required response should hit home. Given recent heatwaves, I think nature is starting to hit us with the clue stick. I hope the important people are listening.
> If Google forced it through but Apple refused, it would never be practical to enforce it. The numbers may not be as high, but they're plenty high enough that you couldn't cut all iDevices out.

Yes. Up until now, the amount of Google bullshit that Safari has saved us all from is _staggering._ It is unfortunate that this won't be another catastrophe deflected.

This is also why I'm concerned about legislation requiring Apple to open up sideloading onto their devices. As much as I love the idea of people having control over their own systems, in practice I'm afraid that it's just going to be the final nail that solidifies Google's complete control over the web all the way out to the client.
> I didn't test for outliers

Then you don't know if the approach he is advocating actually improves what he is aiming for
It isn't clear to me that there are meaningful outward pressures on these folks to lie or misrepresent what they're able to credibly support.

And even if there were, it does nothing for the argument that it was a lab leak. You can imply and infer all day, but "surely there'd be proof if only people would be free to speak" isn't actually an argument in favor of an idea, just a plausible explanation for a lack of that argument.
I don't think company-sponsored social events are designed to exclude non-social types, they're just for the benefit of social employees.

Of course, this is coming from someone who really enjoys drinking on the company dime
Doesn’t matter how amenable it is, if it’s a room temperature superconductor wires will be made out of it. We’d make wires out of jelly for that.
Sounds very interesting.
I think there's a big difference between a walking commute and a driving commute. I'd welcome a 15 minute walking commute each day - even while WFH I like to take a 15 minute walk up and down my road before starting my day because it helps my brain and body wake up.
Hi congrats.

LLMs model a static distribution, whereas consumer preferences change over time to the point that companies regularly run the same survey at different points in time. At my old fund we would run the same surveys every month to track changes on various companies. How do you counteract this time effect? Presumably a lot of your training data is from the past.

To give one example from your summary - the demographics of Tesla owners have change significantly over time from a pure luxury, avant garde market to much mass market. So info about Tesla from 5 years ago is not that useful
Yes! We catch them in the screening stage, but it's scarily common. I thought we were being targeted at first until I talked to other people with the same problem.

I've also heard of situations where one person is hired to do the job, but then after a while their work changes for the worse. They start "forgetting" things you've talked about recently, or they'll "forget" how the code they submitted an hour ago works.

They're either a front person for a dev shop, or they're trying to outsource their work. They don't care about doing a great job because they know most companies will take a long time to fire people. If the company PIPs them, they might suddenly become a great performer again until the heat dies down, then it's back to the same game.

Before the "if they're getting their work done, why does it matter?" comments: Having someone take our codebase and send it to random contractors is a huge security breach. Even ignoring that, these people aren't selecting world-class developers to outsource their work. They're outsourcing as cheaply as possible so they can pay as little as possible. It's never an okay deal for the company.
TA is an egregore in that it is a concept that is only empowered/useful when everyone "believes" in it.
Is that kind of language legal in states like CA and NY with WARN laws?
No, it's a way to distract them so they won't notice they're being screwed over financially and opportunity cost-wise. You are immune to this exploit, which makes you a black sheep in their eyes, but not that you should care. Look for places that don't do the bullshit and you'll end up better off than the sheep.
Waiting for Google to do that won't happen, they'd lose too many ad links.
These desires are not mutually opposed!

The fundamental problem with current remote attestation schemes is the corporate-owned attestation key baked in at the factory [0]. This allows the manufacturer to create a known class of attestation keys that correspond to their physical devices, which is what prevents a user from just generating mock attestations when needed.

If manufacturers were prohibited from creating these privileged keys [1], then the uniform-corporate-control attestation fears would mostly vanish, while your use cases would remain.

A business looking to secure employee devices could record the attestation key of each laptop in their fleet. Cloud host auditors could do the same thing to all their hardware. Whereas arbitrary banks couldn't demand that your hardware betray what software you're running, since they'd have no way of tying the attestation key to a known instance of hardware.

(The intuition here is similar to secure boot, and what is required for good user-empowering secure boot versus evil corporate-empowering secure boot. Because they're roughly duals.)

[0] actually it's something like a chained corporate signing key that signs any attestation key generated on the hardware, but same effect.

[1] or if the user could import/export any on-chip attestation keys via a suitable maintenance mode. Exporting would need a significant delay of sitting in maintenance mode to protect against evil maid attacks and the like.
it's more or less offline since it's completely frontend based.
>I wouldn't be surprised

No, this is absurd. You don't get to imagine injustices by "the left" just because you don't like them. Right now the right is actively censoring teachers as private individuals. Where is this happening from left wing politicians?
1. GPT out of the box was pretty biased (e.g. gender distribution). We fine-tuned on representative survey data to ameliorate this bias so we get Census-level estimates for conditions such as gender [a] and work status [b].

2. We add the transparency features (click on 'Investigate Results') that shows how in vs. out-of-distribution the target question is. For out-of-distribution, we suggest people run traditional surveys.

More broadly, I think your point is really interesting when it comes to qualitative data. That is one reason we haven't generated qualitative survey data, but a lot of potential customers have already started to ask for it.

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[a] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/baa3d5f25236b91f1608c9f606b315...

[b] https://roundtable.ai/sandbox/7a9ee27872eb29087be2386ccd19f7...
Just played with the sandbox, and it seems like 16% of Apple users wouldn't consider buying Apple VR headset even for $3,5. I don't think even the lochness monster would be so stingy.
I must be crazy for enjoying taking the train, I've never even taken them in the northeast. The only disaster I see is that we're not building high speed lines, and that passenger trains take a backseat to anything that the oligarchs who own the lines want to run through.
I look at it similarly to the iPhone / U2 debacle.

It's remembered now only by a very small, though vocal, minority.
"We" are a minority. Most people nowadays live inside these walled gardens, doomscrolling.
Unlike those guys in Rochester, this seems to be a good experiment that is testing many of the signs of superconductivity.
If the content creators of Reddit aren't posting in lemmy instances, is there a strong case for the following assertion:

> and if we assume that a substantial amount of the 1% is moving away from reddit, then it stands to reason that the other 99% will end up following the creators.

Unless it is a reddit sub, where a mod has shut it down (and the community hasn't moved to another tangent reddit sub), I'm just not seeing a reduction in engagement on Reddit by the people who post.

The field of dreams approach for creating communities on Lemmy doesn't seem to be the most effective way at creating communities - especially if you, the person creating the /c/, aren't creating original content for it (long form posts) and actively working on discoverability of the /c/ (cross posting as appropriate).

Creating or gathering a community is a lot more work than just creating a /c/.

My claim is still that the people who left Reddit because of the latest mess were (a) not content creators themselves, or (b) looking for a reason to leave.

For group (a), this resulted in some subs getting made private and the communities on reddit readjusted to tangent ones.

For group (b), while a loss was not a significant one. On a casual sub that I moderate (and thus have access to stats for), I only see the number of unique users grow since January (the official iOS client use is 3x larger than Android, and 10x larger any of the other sources). The number of monthly active unique users for a middling activity cat sub is 36,000 (compare all of Lemmy at 69,000 monthly active users). I haven't seen any indication of a reduction in the posting of the 1% of content creators on Reddit in any of the subs that I moderate, nor anecdotally, any of the subs that I visit.
Ah, I misunderstood, I didn't realise you were talking about bots that spam comment sections, forum replies, etc.

I still think the approach is harmful overall.

The idea that I must be "vouched for" by a "trusted third party" by providing extensive details about my system, in order for my browser to send a HTTP request is in direct opposition to privacy and my interests.

That it's being proposed by a company that owes it's entire existence to web crawling is ironic.

It turns the web from an open platform into one where the big players have complete control over which devices and software are permitted.
And IM and Google docs
Sure, and I think that supports my argument. The law of least resistance rules on the mainstream Internet. Consumers already will pay for devices that surveil them and use their private data to sell them more crap they do not need.

If we expect consumers to choose the open, anarchist, Internet over the corporate clean Internet, then we expect too much of them.
Better ways to go about it than impertinent and presumptuous interrogation.
Thanks for pointing this out, I missed that
This will depend upon how large your family is.
There are so many tipping points and cascading effects at work that I doubt we have any real understanding of everything that is happening at the macroscopic level, nor even if we did could we battle everything everywhere all at once. I suspect whole swaths of humanity are in for perilous times ahead as the speed of the variances will outpace our collective ability to adapt. As the wizened Tool once sang[0], "Learn to swim, see you down in Arizona Bay".

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CehYA3omb5o
I got the same email this morning. By the time I looked, the links were (apparently) back and the appeal link doesn't work for me, either. I was very confused until I found your post.