skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This probably depends on where you live. I don't currently work in a large city, but the last time I did, I lived 5 miles as the crow flies from my workplace. The commute time averaged 90 minutes one-way if I drove, and 2 hours one-way if I took mass transit. On bad days, both of those travel times would double.
No, still not working. Also tried a bunch of other languages and they all seemed to work except Turkish, which also spits out something related to subtitles...
If the software takes the form of a library, that approach might work as intended, but AGPL does not forbid commercial use in general. To copy from [0]:

The basic obligations of the AGPL which set it apart from other licenses
are as follows:

• Any derivative works of AGPL-licensed software must also use the AGPL.
• Any users of such software are entitled to the source code under the
terms of the AGPL, including users accessing it over the network such as
with their web browser or via an API or internet protocol.

If you’re using AGPL-licensed software like a database engine or my own
AGPL-licensed works, and you haven’t made any changes to the source code,
all you have to do is provide a link to the upstream source code somewhere,
and if users ask for it, direct them there. If you have modified the
software, you simply have to publish your modifications.

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html

(Usual disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice, etc.)
100% agree. And It will surely be "rules for thee but not for me", and we the common people will have lobotomized AI while the anointed ones will have unfettered AI.
Sure, but this is 10% that they have to pay for. They could not care less about what it costs when it’s your time
Total revenue generated by arcades vs. computer science doctorates... wait a second I think this one might actually be onto something
When NileRed puts the YBCO on top of the row of bar magnets and it ping-pongs back and forth is awesome!

Timestamp: https://youtu.be/RS7gyZJg5nc?t=2496
so you were never a Hackeroni at heart to begin with. Otherwise you would stay and work for free.
Being interrupted is “arguably worse” than a zoom call.
Companies have a steady flow of early career people that need mentoring. It's not just one time
Big thanks to y'all at the IRS and US Digital Service who are working on this.
To the contrary, the future of the academic researcher is business and sales.
I think even component-wise it wouldn't work well. These components are turned into metrics that can then be gamed. They obviously are gamed: the US corporate world seems to be chock full of token efforts like this.

But if ESG did follow the points as you listed them, then it would probably receive a lot less political flak.
Ideally, you get your own domain and point that at whatever provider you feel like. Should you ever be locked out by a provider you point the domain to another one. If you follow a semi regular back up schedule for email you could even import your existing emails to some providers.
> right to work 100% from home is what really makes sense

*for some particular jobs

That bit is always ignored. We're arguing for a right, but that right can only possibly apply to a small subset of the entire workplace.

There will never be remote gas station attendants. There will never be remote mechanics. There will never be remote construction contractors. There will never be remote warehouse receiving clerks.

So this can't possibly be a right. Rights apply to humankind, regardless of where you exist or your job situation.

So... what people are arguing for is a privilege, for some particular industries, and protected by government regulation.

Seems like that's just never going to happen. Instead, people need to negotiate for remote work. And if an employer wants you to go to an office in exchange for a paycheck, well, get over it or find somewhere else to work.
Even in context of an ideal world where people work for ideas, not money, it should be acceptable to have mercenary attitude. We’re all different, after all, but we should respect each other’s motivations.
> dysfunctional our current work culture is

Can you tell us more?
Such clueless tuning.

To be fair, the Llama response examples on this page are so far beyond the pale that they sound like malicious compliance on Meta's part. Bravo to the devs, if so.
I don't think that's 100% true. But I also don't think it's 100% false.

I think it's a problem people pursue money they don't actually intend to spend. But I also think people buying the "wrong" things (chocolate instead of vegetables, bank bailouts instead of universal healthcare) is a weird mix of feature and flaw. Or at least it is just a reflection of human beings own flaws.
How many African-Americans are living in France? Or is "the ambient discourse" an euphemism for "the shit I just pulled out of my butt"?
When google shut down stadia they refunded everyones purchase.
While true, as observed elsewhere there's no reason to believe Apple restricts these things if you get banned for fraudulent transactions. The linked post doesn't make that allegation.
Here’s Apple’s ESG report: https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_downloads/2022/08/2...

In it they say: “We’re making progress in increasing representation, and currently 50 percent of our workforce in the U.S. is made up of people from underrepresented communities.”

“Please see the Appendix on page 81 for more data on representation”

Then scroll to page 81.

We see that 43% of the company is white (the US is 60% white as of the last census, so white people are in fact underrepresented at Apple)

27.9% of the company is Asian

9.4% black

14.8% Hispanic

So they have stated that they are working on “increasing representation” (hiring) all categories of people except white.

They report these numbers because they are used to calculate the company’s ESG score. More diversity = higher score, where diversity is defined as fewer white people.

A higher ESG score means that ESG funds are more likely to invest in this company, pushing up the company’s value.

This is a literal economic incentive to discriminate against white people.
Kafka wept
So does Apple... https://privacy.apple.com does full data exports
Show HN: Grammar Generator App for Llama.cpp
llama.cpp added context-free grammar guided generation functionality. It requires passing a file in a derivative of BNF notation, which gets messy very quickly for things like JSON.

To improve the experience, we built a small compiler from TypeScript interfaces to the grammar file format and have it hosted in a little browser app.

See more in discussion at https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/2494
Depends. For simple math I just have a SpeedCrunch window open somewhere, but for more complex equations or if I need to graph something (which is rare for me nowadays) my school Numworks is still on my desk
>And anyone working for a salary in the U.S. is already heavily taxed, from 15.3% on their first dollar up to 37% of their income via FICA, plus state taxes of 5% to 10%, as well as property and other types of taxes. Counting FICA, federal, state and city taxes, someone earning $160,000 may, in many parts of the country, be paying a marginal tax rate nearing 50%.

This is erroneous and misleading. First, if you are going to include the employer's 7.65% portion of FICA tax as a tax paid by the employee, then you also need to include that amount in the total employee income, which results in lower numbers.

Then, after specifically mentioning someone "working for a salary", suddenly "property and other types of taxes" are dragged into it, which have nothing to do with income tax on wages.

Lastly, the calculation is just plain wrong. A single U.S. taxpayer, no dependents, with standard deduction and $160K of wage income will pay 18.2% income tax, plus 7.65% FICA tax (on the $160K). And if they are a California resident, which most people consider a "high tax" state, the state tax will be 6.9%.

So the total tax will be 18.2 + 7.65 + 6.9 = 32.75%.

If we add $1,000 of wage income, the combined fed and state income tax (no FICA) goes up $333, so the marginal rate is 33.3%, not "nearing 50%".

> from 15.3% on their first dollar up to 37% of their income via FICA

This is nonsense, as there is nothing in the calculation of FICA related to "37% of their income".
North Korea’s new nuclear underwater drone/torpedo follows Russia’s playbook
Hackeronie pasta merch. Heard it here first
Not quite all, the arbitrary exercise of power is itself an incentive. You can use it to intimidate people or to punish people you don't have the evidence to prosecute (which is to say, those with the presumption of innocence).

That would help a ton though.
FTX investments, err donations, were unregulated and not listed on a regulated exchange. Big brains took SBF's bait and maybe got to rub shoulders for a moment.
The employer claims the work can't be done at home – that is why they are calling the workers into the office.

So now you need a tribunal to verify the claims, and what do they go on? With respect to a parallel thread, do the people with the right machining equipment in their garage get to do their manufacturing job at home? If I have a kitchen, can't the Uber Eats driver pick up the food at my place?

Or is the law only carved out for senior web developers specifically?
I didn’t realize IJ was involved in this, but good for them. They do great work.
The only thing wrong with social security is that the FICA ceiling isn't inflation adjusted. Eliminate or automatically adjust the ceiling and everything will be fine
> If my HBO Max account detects a fraudulent charge, my completely unrelated email provider doesn't then irreversibly disable my email account and tell me to just set up a new one.

Do you have any evidence Apple has done that here?
Having worked with teams in India I would disagree. Biggest issue was timezone.
> On the other hand, a lot of them gang up en masse on any decentralized and open alternative, especially Web3-related, [...] So what is the alternative?

A decentralized and open alternative that's not "Web3-related"? Most of the objection is to the so-called "Web3" part, ranging from ecological concerns to the fact that its money-oriented aspect leads to it being full of grifters. We can have distributed systems without everything being about some kind of monetizable token.
I think we probably come down on opposite sides of a divide on when the state should have to justify use of its power.

If I had to choose, say, remake the justice system of the US, then the onus should be on the police to prove that they had the authority to do something - in this case, seize the $100. If the police _choose_ not to enforce the law as written by the legislature because they do not want the burden of justifying that action or because it is impractical for them to do so in every case then their abdication of duty is a choice they have made, and perhaps the legislature that writes the laws should consider removing those laws from the books.

We're all adults here though, and we both know that laws that the police choose not to enforce are not unenforced evenly - there are plenty of minorities of all types that find that these unenforced laws in practice are in fact enforced against them or used to bootstrap additional intrusion into their lives.

Let's take the case of Eric Garner. How many NYPD officers have turned a blind eye to people selling loose cigarettes on the street? Probably hundreds if not thousands, so it was pretty much an unenforced crime. Except if you're Eric Garner or in a similar situation to him.

This is why I think that the police should constantly have to justify their use of authority and discretion in all cases, and I wish the judiciary would start striking down as unenforceable laws that are usually only enforced against minorities or people that piss off the police.
In my experience most people think of open source as free plus source available. The average user doesn’t care much beyond that, which is supported by people’s willingness to add just about any dep to their software without validating licenses. No one will ever agree on terminology, but for me personally BSL is in the same category as GPL in that it achieves a bunch of the core principles, has less consequence, but also only works for certain types of software (eg sentry not libcurl).
Theoretically it should be cheaper to live in a dense area as more people can share utilities like water, electricity, food stores etc.
First there is a worth in the house itself depending on the standard, then there are artificial market rates that is the biggest worth in big cities as people do seem to want to live there, mostly because of job opportunities.
Maybe when bicycle dealers start delivering the gigabucks to politicians.
I mean, I think charging whoever executed the action that resulted in the theft is a reasonable starting point.

You would then have to make sure to include a consideration of conspiracy in the case where the owners pressured the manager - just as you would consider conspiracy in a case where a thief was hired by someone else to execute a theft.
The optimist in me hopes this sort of thing will increase class consciousness. Another example going around is billionaire Starwood Capital CEO Barry Sternlicht saying a "nice little recession" will bring people back to the office [1]. Raising interest rates, saddling people with various forms of debt (student, medical, housing) and increasing unemployment are all part of the same strategy to suppress wages and disempower labor.

Unions and the importance of labor were largely accepted a century ago. Compare Marx's Labor Theory of Value [2] to this quote from Abraham Lincoln [3]:

> Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

What we've seen in recent times is the capital-owning class just coming out and saying the quiet part out loud. Crushing working from home is just another way of extracting even more surplus value from labor.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos would literally melt you into bio-matter if there was an uptick in profits. They would starve you and put you out on the street if there was an uptick in profits. I hope more people realize this. Stop defending billionaires.

[1]: https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/bi...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value

[3]: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-messa...
I don't believe this is for _ad_ revenue share, but for subscription revenue, ie, if you subscribe to a 'creator' they get paid for that (think OnlyFans, Twitch, etc...)
Another explanation is that there are those who considered and thoughtfully weighed the ramifications, but came to a different conclusion. It is unfair to assume a decision process was agnostic to harm or plain ignorant.

For example, perhaps the lesser-evil argument played a role in the decision process: would a world where deep fakes are ubiquitous and well-known by the public be better than a world where deep fakes have a potent impact because they are generated seldomly and strategically by a handful of (nefarious) state sponsors?
I stopped getting spam phone calls months ago. Something definitely changed in the last year, or maybe 2 years.

It was ridiculously often in 2020/2021/sometime in 2022 maybe?
As they should. Companies are run by people. People should be accountable. The CEO is accountable.
To be fair, Trump's FCC was pushing STIR/SHAKEN hard but it takes years for the major telcos to implement and push it downstream to all of the various SIP providers that buy numbers from them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN#Implementation

Biden's FCC is able to take action because those were finally finished and now can enforce with the call source traceability they didn't have a few years ago.
Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter will be sentenced to death, jury decides
It doesn’t pass the smell test that it could be false. Call that “made up” if you like.
The rate of Forfeiture is going up [1] while the rate of burglary is going down. Unless you hold the position that dwindling number of burglars are becoming massively more efficient over time, it is clear that civil asset forfeiture is a major problem.

[1] https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-3/pfp3content/forf...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/191243/reported-burglary...
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> The only thing wrong with social security is that the FICA ceiling isn't inflation adjusted.

The FICA ceiling is adjusted annually, by the Social Security wage index (not a price index); historically, this has usually risen faster than inflation. (This is also the index used when aggregating contributions over different years to determine benefit eligibility, though post-retirement, benefits adjust by inflation.)
It makes me wonder what other living organisms are able to defeat the digestive tract and continue living once it is expelled out of the host. There has to be a name for this phenomenon.
Yes, and we only pay attention to studies that signal what we want - such as working from home improved productivity. It doesn't matter how many counter-examples there are, or how many business leaders say they've seen declines. No, those folks are totally wrong because we want remote work.
I hate to push products, but happiness is the Call Screen built into Pixel phones. If it feels the call might not be spam, I still have the option to screen it and watch the party converse with the Google Assistant in real time—kind of like the answering machines of old, but you can read instead of listen.
Honestly, that's the sort of terror that keeps me still using GMail, but at the same time at least my email is on a domain I control, and worst case I'd just need to hard migrate to another provider while keeping the address.
I agree completely with your first paragraph, and disagree completely with your second.

"Futility" is subjective, and the whole purpose of the thought experiment is to point out that our predication of "futility" or really any other purely mental construct does not become automatically inherited by a mind we create. These imaginary arbitrarily powerful AIs would definitely be able to model a human being describing something as futile. Whether or not it persues that objective has nothing to do with it understanding what we do or don't want.
No, the assertion being made is that there are mundane possibilities for each of those values that have not been ruled out by the data/video we have.

To make the extraordinary claim more plausible, you have to rule out the more mundane possibilities. Prove it's doing something unusual. Until then, "we can't prove it either way" doesn't mean there's a 50/50 chance.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not military targets, unless you define every urban center a military target, by virtue of its productive capacity. Once you do that, the entire idea of separating civilian and military targets becomes an absurdity, and you might as well admit that you consider "enemy" civilians to be fair targets.

Historically, the major reason why the US targeted Hiroshima and Nagasaki was that the US military wanted to test its two bomb designs on large, pristine urban centers. Attacking pristine targets made measuring the effects of the bombs easier. If Hiroshima and Nagasaki had been significant military targets, they likely would have been bombed much earlier. In a perverse way, they were chosen because they weren't military targets.
I really like it when someone in the middle has changed the caller id to say "FRAUDULENT".

Someone I know believes strongly that the telco's don't care to police and would rather push people onto cheaper to maintain mobile technology. (We get orders of magnitude more scammer calls on our landline than our mobiles.) But there's a lot of assumptions in that belief...

Is there any truth to those economics? Is there a bad incentive here for the telcos?
I agree. Donald Duck and Popeye and Daffy Duck can meet, the author of such story, however, may face legal consequences for publishing it.
MSR's Christopher Bishop offers a more intuitive, Bayesian derivation of the Kalman filter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSEQeH40hM
http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2013/2013/bishop_slides.pdf#pag...
I’m not sure what the issue is, that whole scene was rendering in what I would consider seconds per frame rather than frames per second.

I have an iPhone 13 Pro and a decent internet connection and if I came across that I would bounce out immediately.
Many people forget that when iTunes came out, you couldn't redownload purchases. If you download your Music, Movies, etc. they work offline and can be played indefinitely (yes, Movies have DRM but that DRM works offline).
>Once one learns of the other details of the war, and gains perspective, it's obvious that it was going to be used.

That doesn't prove that it should have been used. It was also not a given even a year earlier. If Henry A. Wallace had remained Vice President, it's likely his lack of antagonism towards the Soviets would have led him to avoid the show-of-force that the bombings were. The moment separating 150,000 Japanese civilians from life and death is the one where the DNC went behind the backs of the American people and chose Truman, chip-on-his-shoulder and all, to be FDR's last running mate. We're still paying for that bit of hubris.
I assume you need some licensing to operate a telco and other telcos will not accept your traffic without one.
The latter, I'd have to suggest. GPT-4 generates code that is slightly better than the average junior programmer, which is to say, it is often confidently incorrect and needs review before committing, but either option remains a net productivity gain than no assistant at all.

"Your job will not be taken by an AI. Your job will be taken by someone assisted by an AI."

The process touched on in the article, with thorough review before commit by a human with in-depth experience of the language and APIs and the domain in question, is exactly how AI-generated code should be incorporated into a workflow. The earlier slander against the author's technical ability seems misguided and unsupportable.
Upload the source code? :")
Experts starting to doubt AI ‘hallucinations’ will go away: ‘This isn’t fixable’
It's not as bad as you think. Fastmail has a great import process.

Transitioning to a new email address isn't really that bad. I did it about 15 years ago. Whenever you log in to a site and you notice that it's using your old email address, you go into your profile settings and update it. After about a year you'll probably have hit 90% of your meaningful accounts.
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Some of these thought experiments seem very disconnected from how industry works. Like, we're saying "make as many paperclips as possible" as our instruction to this agent, not even "make as many as profitable" or "make up to X per day at a cost of less than Y per day"? The solution is proposed to be "program the AI to value human life" instead of the far simpler "put basic constraints on the process like you would in a business today"?

Ok, so it's a more general example of worries about "managing superintelligence" but IMO it does the debate a disservice by being so obviously ludicrous that it's hard to square "naive paperclip-maximizing AI" with "superintelligence."

I think if we're going to survive all this stuff it's much more likely to be because the private parties with the wherewithal to unleash an AI with the ability to affect the world to that extent will largely be ones with enough resources to have narrow banal goals and narrow banal constraints including self-preservation too, not because we figure out some sort of general purpose "AGIs that are aligned with humans" solution.

Kinda like with nukes.