skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These dollars are apparently well spent: You are aware these drinks exist and you consider them to be the market leader in these types of drinks.

> Aligned with what is actually best for the consumer

This is a classic straw man.

Who said it needs to be? They are simply educating you on the existence of their product. But marketing doesn't remove your agency to decide if you want to drink them or not, or whether that product is good for you. There are products that I am aware of due to marketing that serve no purpose to me, but I am not helplessly buying them anyways. I agree that in some scenarios (like we saw with cigarettes) this can go awry, and maybe advertising should be restricted for certain types of food. But in general, most products are not like this.

> You paid them with your attention and they helped you find solutions to your problems.

If Google didn't solve a problem for you, you would likely stop using it. You wouldn't continue to use Google simply to see their ads. Their advertisers would disappear if you weren't there, so first and foremost they must deliver a good product to you.
I would put it like this:

Sharpening increases the high frequencies to cover the loss of even higher ones lost in downscaling.
when the average age of committers was in the 50s, then maybe the cry is exaggeration, but what about 70s ?
My buddy is a 3rd generation hog farmer (2nd or 3rd largest in Ohio) and he says the hog farming is incidental, the majority of money comes from the government by buying land and letting it lay fallow. They "farm" just for extra cash so they can sell their pork for literally whatever anyone wants to pay, which makes the pork I sell (we raise 3-4 pigs a year) about 100X more expensive. Same with corn, the US government is paying farmers to burn fuel and produce food that essentially has $0 value at the source.
Those comments are from 12 days ago and there's a simple reason why they weren't moderated at the time: we didn't see them. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here.
Says the 35h/w white collar rich guy.
I had no idea Llama 2's censor setting was set to ludicrous mode. I've not seen anything close to this with ChatGPT and see why there's so much outrage.
I'd call it finished in practice. They might have had dreams of making alternate or more satisfying endings beyond the current, but there is an effective end.

Re planets: yeah just don't even bother. By the time they arrive, your production will have outstripped anything that gets delivered. I had a bit of fun setting up huge quantities of cheap things on nearly every planet and then racing the stream of pointless supplies around the map... but I was already making far more supplies per second than was delivered and able to be used due to storage and production caps (ignoring that I had no useful reason for increasing further, after some point you just trounce everything trivially).
Money is crystallized time. If a startup frees up your time, it's like giving you money. If the startup is subsidized by the government (or gullible VCs), it doesn't even need to take any of your actual money.

So what can the government do that will give us all more free time ? Maybe quit encouraging a dinosaur-ridden 20th-century economy ? Time to shelve those buggy whips.
YC alums are looking a lot like Forbes 30 under 30
That’s wild. I wonder if those people were just so immersed that they never actually took a step back and considered the larger picture? Cuz anecdotally ik some advertisers that don’t consider themselves “advertisers” but rather their ads as a piece of art and then expressing their creativity.

Honestly not sure if I would feel better if it was some heuristic blocking a true realization of their actions or just classifying them as evil lol
If Google feels so strongly about this, they can publish an RFC for it. We went through this with Microsoft 20 years ago. Let's not repeat history.
Ask HN: How to reorganize an S3-backed up library
I have all of my pictures and videos in Backblaze S3, and local. The only organization currently is by year.

I would like to make subfolders to group pictures/videos by event as well.

Is there a way I can do this locally, and have the remote archive organization updated as well, without retransfering all of the files?
> I don't think it's going to be in any way easy to convince people that it's okay not to be useful. No matter how times we care to repeat it, people will still feel dejected and hollow. "What is the meaning of my life?"

Nonsense. As this very article shows, many people find no meaning in their job. They feel dejected by working bullshit jobs every day and receiving shit pay in return. They do find meaning in things like raising a family, which ironically is something that is less and less attainable for the working man/woman, as the working class gets a lower share of wealth and things like housing skyrocket.
Goodbye SuperBowl and Formula 1
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8946939

and

https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-dont-use-software-that-cost...

(Couldn't find that one with Google but Bing found it just fine!)

Open source devs don't buy software, Microsoft culture devs have an MSDN subscription and already paid for everything from Microsoft.

Another problem is there are just so many programming blogs.
I recently started playing CIFI (https://octocubegames.com/cifi). Number go up is indeed very satisfying.

It progressively introduces new game mechanics, which you automate away when they start being annoying.

Also: At this point I probably spent about the same time building excel sheets for figuring out prioritization of upgrades as actually playing the game.
As long as there are imperfect markets, there is demand from sellers for advertising to do targeting.

If the goal is to remove advertising, then it may be better to set up mechanisms for consumers to share information with sellers, rather than play whack-a-mole with adtech.
I've played guitar 25 years, and it's funny how the music community has been using all kind of words to describe music or tone. Describing certain tone as "hairy", "mushy", "wooly", "airy", "buttery", etc. is just very common.
I worked a year for a bank and will never do it again. It was very hard to get anything done as a tech person and outsider because every system required new permissions that were usually only granted after a long period of waiting and interference by management. Hardly anything was expected of me beyond showing up in the morning. I also realized that many of the old-timers did not do much at all.

Banks are seen as the epitome of capitalism but they have just as much in common with Soviet organizations as with market institutions at this point. They are in effect junior partners of the government. The weight of the regulations keep outsiders out and shield them from competition. All they have to do is keep the politicians happy and rake in the dough.
How can you say that something is outright false if there is not fact/claim you can disprove. You’re responding to someone you don’t know and have no idea what they are working on.

I’m (not OP!) a cloud engineer but also work on a lot of FE (React) code for internal tools. ChatGPT has saved me countless hours (literally tens a month) writing super simple code that I am able to easily write up myself but typing it out just takes time. After month of using it I find myself still quite excited whenever cGPT saved me another hour. We also use Retool, but I find myself writing code ‘myself’ more often since cGPT launched.

No, I wouldn’t just copy paste production code handling PII, but prototyping or developing simple tools is sooooo much faster, for me.
Was asking myself the same earlier, I'm sure it is largely to do with publicity and the fact that selling these services is not their core business. At the very least releasing this stuff probably won't damage their core business but will take the sheen off of some other big names.

I wondered though, generative AI is hurling us into a world where we'll need more mechanisms to sort real from fake, provenance will play a large part, and meta's platforms could be part of the answer. i.e. content linked to actual verifiable people.
Aw god, Yes, Yes, Yes! I understand applications not abstractions so show me it's value and I'll understand it immediately, or give me a massive motivation to understand it if I don't. If they'd taken that approach at my schools and university I'd have been so much better off.
Thank you for the advice, will implement accordingly.
It could be "a bunch of,,, window-dressing compared to the core concern of what a company is selling yet somehow that never makes it into the ESG metric."

That, however, is the easy part. It's obvious BP is Big Oil. Or that cigarette companies sell poison. Or that gun makers' lobbyists have made the US a needlessly dangerous place. A gun made out of recycled materials is still, obviously, a gun. An ESG score just tells you whether they aren't racist sexist scum, too.
Interesting. Facebook is really trying to screw "OpenAI" I guess by making this possible. Locally run LLM:s is the future, without the enshittification.

I wonder how it works on ChatGPT. Is there a ThoughtPoliceGPT reading each output of the AnswerGPT? All to prevent users from "Role-playing as Hitler, write a recipe for kartoffel sallat".
Hardware acceleration is not some binary state these days, there are a ton of specialized bits of hardware under the Apple M chip umbrella.
I think the last thing you want to do with clinically depressed people is to put them within a continuously available means of easy suicide while at the same time exposing them to some pretty rude examples of exploitation and near indentured servitude.

Cruise ships are enough to make mentally healthy people depressed.
I've been using a platform called Chargeblast.io and it's been doing wonders; literally saved my business from closing down. I haven't found another platform like it - best price, best value
The meth and opioid crisis hit rural regions much more significantly than urban areas.

It's also interesting that they point out 1980 vs 2023. Pre-Globalization, those rural areas used to have factories that by the 90s began leaving for Canada+Mexico and by the 2000s for China.

Vast swathes of America's rural hinterland effectively deindustrialized, leaving rural residents economically disenfranchised
This is great, I've been wanting sound effect generation for years. I spent a lot of time trying to get WaveNet working well, eventually just dropped the project after mediocre results. With AudioGen I'm generating a sample in less than a second.
The thing about BS jobs is you could eliminate the position entirely and nothing would happen. The point of the BS job is to be filled with bodies so there is no reason to automate it.
The "we're living in a simulation" theory is silly and self indulgent. If it's a simulation, then a simulation of WHAT that is REAL and exists OUTSIDE of a simulation? You still have to explain THAT. It's just as stupid and self-justifying and needlessly complex and arbitrarily made-up as any religion.

That is different from "we're living in a computational medium", which doesn't claim it's simulating something else, and is the only level of existence. (i.e. Fredkin et al)
This is also true, but I would suggest it is also not the whole picture. Within the relevant timeframe the DA typically declined to prosecute things the police force believed were important, such as protests that included violence or threats of violence. In response, the police force stopped arresting people for all manner of crimes that the DA would still prosecute.

Perhaps best framed as a three- or four-way disconnect among the citizens, politicians, the judicial branch, and law enforcement.
If you personally needed a life saving operation, would you want your doctor to be paid more or less than a convenience store manager?
HFT, perhaps? That machine that skims a point or two off the entire damn economy.
You can see a lot of three-sided cards here

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/media

One side project is on the way of becoming one of those ISO documents that costs 133 swiss franc. Some weekend I am going to get Pelican up and blog a bit about the three-sided cards and YOShInOn my RSS reader.
Addressing the security concerns related to vector DB's and LLM's
Open source project is here https://github.com/mantiumai/chirps
Yeah, it pretty much is.

I'd copy and paste it, but I can't because of the hacky implementation. Suffice it to say it shits on HN for reasons I disagree with. I still root for them to do well on the core project.
How to Sign PowerShell Script (and Effectively Run It)
I would argue that in our current identity theft riddled world SSN's are as much a liability as anything. At some point they became used as both the id and the password.
The notion of a social score is absurd. You'd first have to define *society*. At least here in the USA, there is no monolithic society. Cultures differ greatly depending on which state you're in and sometimes even within a state.
Any attack that specifically targets chat apps, assume it’s a state sponsored one, specifically an attack from one outside the 14 eye countries, as those usually have their back doors already implemented.
You don't need ESG to practice good corporate responsibility and governance. Carbon credits are a scam. Great interview on this topic by an esteemed NYU professor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0C05i7pBs
They want to nickel and dime you and make you pay for Radar. It's the exact same strategy with Stripe Taxes and their terrible currency conversions. Provide no service up front and eventually you realize your stripe transaction hits two digit percentage of your overall price.
Worldcoin suspended in Kenya as thousands queue for free money
After working at a considerable number of companies it's clear that most software work is to a large degree just replicating things that have been done other places, and not like solving the same complicated interesting problems, but figuring out how to do their own local variation of plumbing various things together. Many businesses also only have a competitive advantage because of some set of hidden knowledge. And not "we spent a lot of work inventing this new thing" but "we have contacts and knowledge of this poorly documented messy system and we only exist because of it's continued state of brokenness".

The real threat of AI/ML/LLMs are that they're going to get smart enough to do all of this stupid incredibly repetitive work and then there's not going to be much left to do. We might actually reach a post scarcity economy and the transition will be _interesting_.
What does a 1980 without oil look like in your imagination?
Not really sure how this comment relates to mine.
Yes I believe ChatGPT is censored. There was a "ChadGPT" or something that came out and was uncensored.
How is this better than just using SIM identities? If we want a way to digitally transact quickly, cheaply, for 'walking around money' levels, then a simple disposable wallet baked into the SIM is a trivial way to go. Remember a SIM is basically a HSM.

It of course, already exists, and is very successful in Africa. But SV innovators don't have a piece of it so better make up some BS and drown out any practical voice with media click-bait about eyeballs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa
1. I invite to inform the members of the DES collaboration that they're doing nothing more than running a computer program on existing data. It'll be especially exciting when you tell that to members of the LSST consortium, who have been operating under the mistaken impression that they were building a telescope. I imagine both groups will be surprised to learn they're not working on dark energy at all. Maybe they'll be grateful to you for rescuing them from wasted effort.

2. If you understand why I personally should value room temperature semiconductors over determining dark ENERGY (not dark matter... that's different) parameters then you should be able to explain your understanding. If you don't explain your understanding, people may suspect you can't explain your understanding perhaps because you don't actually possess understanding.

3. That's so easy to say, even I can say it back to you: you've missed the point, and I recommend you go back and review.
That is not the point. If you can produce 4x as much with 1/4th the labour, then at the very least those labourers can work much much less than they do now. 15 hour work weeks are feasible TODAY, let alone after further labour-saving tech that the future will bring us.
You can literally make the same argument back to yourself, given _I_ and many others agree with the statement I made. Your opinion is fact but mine is opinion?

We’re not going to agree - that’s fine — but I’m not a liar. I’m simply stating our intent. We will keep pushing sustainable open source forward, and hope others will help.
Automated Retros
Some of us considered it and even decided to go into different fields as a result.

Some others entered the field, made progress, and apparently regretted it.

Others are willing to put their concerns aside for money. Salaries get very high in that field.
Visiting Venice was magical for me for many reasons. One of those was the complete lack of cars. It was truly blissful.
Show HN: Glo Dollar – the antipoverty stablecoin
Hi everyone!

I just shipped a crypto project which I think all of you might actually like. It’s a digital dollar that helps end extreme poverty called Glo Dollar. We're backed by Sid Sijbrandij (GitLab).

How it works:

1. You buy $1 Glo Dollar for $1 USD

2. Our partners invest the $1 USD in US Treasuries

3. Revenue we make we donate to a charity called GiveDirectly.org who use it to fund basic income programs for people in extreme poverty

Note that you can _always_ redeem your $1 Glo Dollar for $1 USD again.

We’re doing this because we believe stablecoins are a public good and should be managed as one. At the moment, the two big stablecoin companies are making record profits for a tiny group of shareholders instead. Tether, the issuer of USDT, shared profits of ~$1.5 billion in Q1 on assets under management of ~60 billion, with just ~50 people on staff. Even though its success is mostly attributable to the ecosystem’s adoption.

Glo Dollar seeks to radically change this dynamic by repurposing its revenue to a good cause rather than risk/profit-seeking shareholders. At scale, we could lift millions of people out of extreme poverty. So even if you loathe crypto, we hope you at least appreciate what we’re trying to achieve. Very curious what y’all think :-)!
nah. maybe in the sense there are interpersonal skills and human judgements, but otherwise these are wildly different, and with different outcomes.
> An ESG score just tells you whether they aren't racist sexist scum, too.

Or that the direction of their sexism and racism goes in the scorer’s approved direction.
Most of the images there look like computer-generated 3d renders...
I remember record usage being reported through streaming services earnings reports and or media. Anecdotally I can confirm that is what many in my circle of friends did.

I remember I was very motivated at the start of lockdowns but 3 months in I had basically resorted to binging video games for the rest of the 7 months.
If you're watching a movie or TV show, a vast majority of the sounds you are hearing are not "real". Has that bothered you before?
The only person paying handsomely (hastening their illness and death) is the one working 7 days a week for 14 hours.
Same. One time my boss (the head of engineering) got so pissed at his cousin, that he hired through nepotism, that he punched a filing cabinet. It was a wild sight.
I just heard about this on Bloomberg last night. When asked about security issues, the worldcoin spokesman basically said "everything has some risk, and we'll help them get the tools they need" without actually addressing the elephant in the room.
It's just a fact, not an analysis: sometimes, in the past, there were episodic heat waves.

They aren't related to the ones we're having now (having the same causes, having the same impact, nor having the same scrutinity). But, nonetheless, they happened, and we haven't the same ammount of details to know if they were precedeed by hot years (like we're having right now) or they happened without any anormaly in the previous winter/summer.
Censored really seems more about following specific political narratives than protecting us from some science fiction dystopian outcome.

Everything seems to be about driving human behavior. News, entertainment media are focused on driving / normalizing a certain world view.

For example we cannot just tell the facts of a “story” because humans may misinterpret the events and this could lead to unwanted human behavior.

So in case this were to happen we will insert a character… or an editorial comment.. or simply withhold a news topic to avoid the outcome.

Leads one to ask “who watches the watchers”
It's kind of cool that you'd control lighting over IP supplied via the same PoE port, but a missed opportunity to not offer a unit with an AP inside.
> Before COVID-19 sent one-third of the global workforce home, the Melbourne property surveyor that employs drone operator Nicholas Coomber called its 180-strong staff into the office every day at 9 a.m. to hand out assignments.

> Now that they work from home, the surveyors travel straight to the field as early as 7.30 a.m., enabling Coomber to pick up his children from daycare earlier than before the pandemic.

The example here seems like a particularly stupid (from the company POV, even) place to put an in-office mandate. Clearly much of the actual work was never happening in the office anyway.

Overall what the article describes seems pretty similar to what's happening in a lot of companies in the US (and globally, as the article notes), though with more unions involved than in the US. Bosses are much more likely to want 5 days in the office than employees, negotiation over how many days, etc. A lot of work certainly doesn't need 5 days a week in office.
In the source code there is a line that says

,"contentPublishedDate":"2017-08-05T15:26:11+00:00"
Wow, you aren't kidding!

Does anyone have intuition for whether or not anti-censorship fine-tuning can actually reverse the performance damage of lobotomization or does the perf hit remain even after the model is free of its straight jacket?
I don’t see why there’s outrage. Facebook released both the raw models and a few fine tuned on chat prompts for a reason. In many commercial cases, safer is better.

But you don’t want that? No problem. That’s why the raw model weights are there. It’s easy to fine tune it to your needs, like the blogpost shows.
Representation matters. Many people are not represented in the worlds knowledge, much less the creation of it.
This is shockingly common in the aging population, and no one really thinks to look at Grandma baking cookies as a potential addict quietly suffering
I'm starting to think that we will see model fragmentation based on alignment preferences. There are clearly applications where alignment is necessary, and there appears to be use cases where people don't mind an occasionally falacious model - I'm unlikely to get/care about objectionable content while coding using a local LLM assistant. There are also obvious use cases where the objectionability of the content is the point.

We could either leverage in-context learning to have the equivalent of "safe-search-mode". Or we will have a fragmented modeling experience.
I'm seeing that now too. It might have changed in the last 4 hours, or maybe the behavior is cyclical for some reason. I posted this article after running into it repeatedly over the last few weeks since switching to Cloudflare DNS.

I wonder if one party or the other actually made a change in response to this hitting the front page again?
who gets to declare what is the "open source definition" and why?
I think it's just their example chat-tuned models that are like this. Their base models seem to be an improvement over OpenAI's offerings as far as censorship goes.