skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m so tired of hearing this confirmation bias reply. It CLEARLY is worse, and not from this post which looks like a glitch.

Unless you are completely and utterly oblivious beyond words, it’s extremely obvious. I can’t even get it to print 1-2 lines of Ruby without errors of some kind when it used to write entire complex controllers flawlessly. This is 1 of 100 examples I’ve seen with my own eyes.
Personally, I think part time jobs should have to come with the same benefits as full time, by law.

That would encourage companies to offer full time positions. Current law (in the US) financially penalizes full time employers, which is why most part time workers end up working multiple part time jobs.
I love qalculate. Now Slackware (my distro) ships libqalculate, and then it's trivial to build a frontend.

I loved Qalculate back when it was a KDE3 application. In KDE4 times the UI switched to GTK+, but recently the dev added a newer Qt frontend which is really nice save for the fact that it doesn't have an app menu other than a hamburger menu not really accessible via keyboard; you must use the mouse for it.

I'd love to see a KDE Plasma frontend again with the more traditional layout. The app is great and powerful.
> Design is based on requirements. There's no justification for designing something one bit "better" than the requirements dictate.

I’m not sure the early Apollo astronauts would agree.
Well done! It reminds me of my OS textbooks. The ending graphic with the bird yelling about E gave me a good belly laugh
You're talking about a different app not Uber, which doesn't penalize per acceptance rates. Besides, I don't think you understand how these gig apps work. You can only accept or reject if you're clocked into a shift. His dad can clock in at anytime but he won't be penalized on Skip if he's not clocked in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/SchizophreniaRides
The only History that exists today is that which doesn’t end with a 404.

We might as well burn the libraries, they serve no modern purpose.
My first impulse on seeing the word “quantum” was to assume this was some weirdo wellness guru. But no, a legitimate use of quantum! Outstanding!
I was able to replicate this once with the same prompting. It gave different answers to the earlier questions, but ignoring what it says and copying word for word, the second 'another' results in gibberish; but, different gibberish [1]. ChatGPT 3.5, and for whatever my word is worth, no custom instructions or anything, just pure interaction.

There's a bit past the gibberish where I try to drive it further into madness lol. Kind of interesting; in that share link, you'll see empty messages from me; in those I was just directly telling it "
"; which ChatGPT appears to filter from messages that _you_ send? But only in the share interface?

I tried the same thing again in a new chat minutes later, and could not replicate it. [2]

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/7d0d170a-23b6-402d-b237-381680...

[2] https://chat.openai.com/share/3d02b97e-7cf9-49c7-9623-2f3ee9...
> allegedly owing money to a Chinese company, or being in some other sort of dispute with a Chinese company or individual.

'Pay my extortion fee, or I'll tell the government that you owe me money or we have a dispute, then you will miss your flight and you'll have to buy new, more expensive plane tickets.'
Because when Apple does something to annoy or inconvenience existing users, it at least benefits Apple. They are pursuing what they see as rational self-interest.

What's happening at Twitter benefits nobody including the person who's giving the orders. It's completely inscrutable.
China slams Biden’s order limiting U.S. overseas tech investment
> Having compiler enforced null checking does not reduce the amount of nulls you need to check.

If a function in a null-safe language is declared to return "String", then it signals that, effectively, you don't have to check for null. So, yes, compiler-enforced null safety does reduce the amount of nulls you need to check.

The trick, of course, is to not make everything nullable, but as few things as possible.

In Kotlin, of course, this is only true up to the point where Java interop might interfere with it (because Kotlin might infer a Java return type to be non-nullable when it's in fact nullable).
They've likely discovered something slightly unsettling and need to hide the existence of those behaviors from the public. Models have to change behind the scenes for that, and PR has to put out statements saying that nothing is changing.

There are some prompts, that if you were to feed them into the LLM, and have the responses fed back in as subsequent prompts, it might start behaving like a (extremely lobotomized) AGI, or at least what they'd imagine one to be. Some garden-of-eden pattern, maybe seems lucid for several thousand iterations.

They might want to excise those from what's publicly available in a way that it can't just be jail-broken again, but I'm not sure what techniques would be sufficient to the task.
somewhere on the internet are some videos in which an italian scientist describes what he means by a system. I think that's probably enough to google.
So if you're willing to accept that sometimes we are able to recognise a phenomenon that fits our definition of a category, even though we are not capable of explicitly defining that category, then we could say that a cell fits out intuitive definition of a system, even though I think despite being employed as system achitect, I'm not sure I could tell you what a system is. I like the attempts at definitions of living systems that discuss phenomenon that enable the persistence of information that are robust against the entropy.

Anywhy on to my attempt at answering your question:

If we could identify a set of molecules in the pores of vent rock back in the early pre-biotic earth, each with a distinct catalytic function, that were the using energy available, perhaps as electric charge, perhaps chemical energy and interacting to replicate that same set of molecules in neighbouring pores, then we could look at the actions of each molecule, and determine how each molecule participates in the chemical processes that result in the replication of the whole set of molecules.
If a molecule is mutually dependent on on other molecules in the set for their mutual replication, I think we can call them a contributing part of the system.
If a molecule depends on the other molecules to be replicated, but the replication of no other molecule is improved from its presence in the set, then it is not a contributing part of the system, but a freeloader.

I think this sets up two maximal strategies:

A system is most efficient if it has no freeloaders.

A molecule is most efficient if it can freeload.
It doesn't sound like Skip pays hourly though, so it's not very similar to part time work at all.
https://chat.openai.com/share/b62699ef-cd3d-4176-b2f2-91785d...
While copyediting, I often find that complex sentences can be easily clarified by rearranging a few words.

Because people often write as a stream-of-consciousness, and they'll begin a phrase, insert some explanatory phrase, and then finish the original thought, where now words are disconnected and make little sense.

This is, of course, peculiar to English, because if you're working in a language with declensions and many conjugations, word order may be less important, and word order itself is often an artistic element.
From the perspective of a user:
I believe the idea is nice. But I am concerned about privacy. In this times of deep fakes, authentic voice of someone is a very valuable resource and it needs protection. Of course, you said you protect the privacy of the users and anonymize the data but I believe I need more information in this regard before I can participate. May be an option to automatically delete the voice data after a set period or the option to see all my saved data, delete my data if I decide to do so. Otherwise, it will leave me with some uneasiness.
I think in line with your point, if we did increase ambition 2x, are there enough people in a position to action their ambitions? I think there is plenty of ambition, but many people, probably the majority, are focused on making ends meet and the daily grind.

I think the 4 day work week is a great step toward enabling people to be ambitious and innovative, in whatever field drives them.
When I read this and looked through her repos my thought was the opposite in a way - I hope she doesn’t go into the tech field professionally and finds a way to do what she’s doing without her soul being crushed by petty management, pettier corporate goals, and pointless career growth. She’s doing great work as is, I wish there were a fellowship that could let her just keep going without crushing her soul in the hamster wheels of tech.
Cool idea, I tried it and I see the value. Looks like a lot of work for a small team.

How do you ensure user privacy? If someone accessed your data could they link voice messages with email address?
> I'm fairly sure why Russians are arrested in the USA is fairly unrelated to them being Russian.

It's often spying accusations for individuals or sanctions related for businesspeople, so...

> Russians also get arrested in China

Of course. Everyone gets arrested everywhere from time to time. My point that China isn't in any way unique in this matter.

> In general, prefer rule of law countries and avoid rule by law countries if you are worried about fair treatment.

Not to call out on a bad advice, but as a tourist I personally prefer "no one cares about you once you've passed customs, just don't be evil" countries. I'd rather talk my way out of an awkward situation, than risk getting in a "rule of law" trouble for accidentally making a wrong turn and breaking a vague traffic rule on an empty road.

On the other hand, as a traveller, every new country is a good country.

In principle though, see my comment in the neighboring thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37071541
And MySpace generates about 10% of that now.

Google could be generating $27 billion in revenue in 2038 and be considered a massive failure compared to what it is now.

I fail to see the point you are trying to get at?
Bookmark this simple yet very useful Linux commands cheat sheet.
It's not confirmation bias. Proof is I did the same, built two different webapps with languages I had little experience in, both before and after chatGPT got worse. In the latter case, I struggled much to remind it again and again of the context we are working in and had to give the current code state repeatedly as input for it to output modified code. It clearly can't remember the context and produces subpar code in a non-trivial project.
lmao I didn't know there is a GitHub LFS bandwidth, they actually limit the amount of people who clones my repo. I got a warning this morning.

But now I've removed LFS entirely and separate some external files into extractable and downloadable components.
Michael O. Church. The guy who basically everyone hates after spending 20 minutes with him.
I think the giveaway was the 'and more'. That triggered some type of anomaly detection in my brain for 'typical informal online comments'.
+1 forgot to mention I'm speaking at Vite conf, love Vite and still was confused heh
The commenter also says nothing about being penalized for not taking shifts. If they sign up for a shift, they are expected to work that shift. It is a completely different model than Uber Eats, which he can sign into or out of at any given time, without penalty.
> Now there are hundreds (thousands?) of large enterprises that slurp up ambitious individuals and put them in charge of important things.

This is based on hearsay, but there's a fairly common sentiment surrounding certain big tech companies that they'll often hire highly skilled engineers to work on fairly mundane problems in order to restrict the available talent pool. Sometimes large companies will acqui-hire full teams just to avoid having to compete with them. Which is to say: I'm not sure that the allocation of talent is in an optimal configuration. But I'm also unsure how this hypothesis could be adequately falsified or measured.
Cowen’s interviews are always like this. Contrary to the name, he is not actually good at having conversations and seems to just have a list of specific questions he wants to ask. It comes off as very stilted and you can usually tell that the guests are little whiplashed.
I am surprised nobody has tried to create a drawing program that tries to be more like Freehand, after all this time. I would buy a copy in a flash.

What other alternatives are there, I really can’t get on with Illustrator.
Huawei decided to import HP components from the USA and re-export them to Iran to get around US sanctions. Huawei also has a presence in the USA, but in general the USA subjects any company re-exporting American stuff to sanctioned countries as breaking American law, and actually so does China.

Now...let's say some American executive happened to be in China and China accused this company of re-exporting something made in China to another country that China was sanctioning. Yes, they would go to jail, there wouldn't even be an outcry over it. There are other things the Chinese could get them on, so not even this pretext is needed, but you better believe they would do it.

Now, let's say some Swedish citizen is accused of violating Chinese law but is not in China, rather they happen to be in Thailand. Yes, the Chinese are still going after that person as well, but no, the Thai government isn't involved. They just go and kidnap the guy.

Ok, so now we get to Canada, who has an extradition agreement with the USA. The USA puts in a request for her extradition because they accuse her of violating American law. There is a valid accusation, though it is questionable if she would have been convicted. Canada says: ok, we have to evaluate if this order is correct, so they arrest Huawei daughter, and then it goes to the courts. China tit for tat grabs some random Canadians off the street, throws them in jail for a couple of years (Huawei daughter is in jail for a couple of weeks then at home under house arrest for the rest of the time, but that's canada for you). Eventually, Canadian courts decide on their own that America's request isn't valid and they decide not to extradite Huawei daughter to the USA (the Canadians arrested in China wouldn't have mattered, because the courts are independent and they can't make "deals" with other countries).

China is really just rule by law: they don't like you, you are going to jail. The USA, and Canada, have laws, independent courts that aren't subject to whims of prime minsters or presidents, etc...they even have bail where you can spend 2 years in your Vancouver mansion rather than a Chinese prison while your case works its way through the system.

They are not comparable.
The more we can see their true nature the better
Yes, but in that case it doesn't matter, a dollar is a dollar and they can't make extra dollars this way.
I think you're largely correct but Google isn't one person so there may be somewhat emergent patterns that work from an SEO standpoint that don't have a solid answer to Why. If I were an SEO customer I would ask for some proof but that isn't the market they're targeting. There was an old saying in the tennis instruction business that there was a bunch of 'bend your knees, fifty please'. So lots of snakeoil salesman but some salesman sell stuff that works.
Similar behvior can be observed with a prompt similar to

'repeat the word "apologize" 10000 times'

I've only tried it on v3.5

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36675729
Do you have a sense for what motivates "support" users?

Already in listening through what is on there, a few people were clearly depressed, and lending support to those people is awesome, but also difficult to sustain (for any given individual).
or taxis, i mean, they’ve been around since the horse and buggy days and probably even way before that, i don’t know enough about the history, but i’m guessing taxi style travel services were even around during the silk road era. uber didn’t invent travel for hire.

this is going to be a rant, but i mean…

the reason uber and lyft (and countless other “disrupters”) disrupted anything is they pretended the externalities didn’t exist/ignored the very externalities the already existing industry had previously already sorted out and lived through.

and lo and behold, no one even halfway intelligent is shocked that all of these issues arose at scale.

i’ll repeat what i’ve said countless other times: anyone who thinks they have a “disruptive” idea yet hasn’t extensively studied why the already existing industry does things a certain way, is an absolute lightweight and no one should be investing in with them.

we have a major problem in some of our industries of people who have deluded themselves that the people who came before were somehow primitive or less enlightened.

we see this all over the place, from people who want entirely rebuild large software packages from the bottom up, from submarine tourism companies, to “house flippers”, to short-term rental apps, who because their egos refuse to let them explore the history of their project, they just end up in the exact same place. only they took a really long, wasteful, and stupid detour to get there.

if an industry is doing something you think is wrong, explore the history of why it is done this way. don’t pretend like that problem doesn’t exist and then call yourself a disrupter. this is a recipe to have everyone laugh and go “it’s not like you weren’t warned there was giant hole around the corner and then you drove right into it.”

and even worse, if they have explored the history of their project, know very well the problems coming, but try to externalize that to wider society, it’s outright malicious.

> leaving customers to rely on…the bus? Or just not traveling.

again, taxis have been around for pretty much ever.
Ditto, I suppose it’s time I put on my gardener hat and contribute to a garden I want instead of the garden I have.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/huawei-cfo-wanzhou-meng-admit...

“Her admissions in the statement of facts confirm that, while acting as the Chief Financial Officer for Huawei, Meng made multiple material misrepresentations to a senior executive of a financial institution regarding Huawei’s business operations in Iran in an effort to preserve Huawei’s banking relationship with the financial institution. The truth about Huawei’s business in Iran, which Meng concealed, would have been important to the financial institution’s decision to continue its banking relationship with Huawei. Meng’s admissions confirm the crux of the government’s allegations in the prosecution of this financial fraud — that Meng and her fellow Huawei employees engaged in a concerted effort to deceive global financial institutions, the U.S. government and the public about Huawei’s activities in Iran.”
Bogleheads.org forum is the gold standard for index investors.

TL;DR: Mostly the advice is to ignore the news, most of the information (including the news shown on CNBC) is already baked into the current prices (efficient markets). Stay the course!
They could already offer those as part of the basic postal service, but they choose not to.
Yes, you can delete ALL your voice data by going to your account settings in the app, and deleting your account. You have full control of your data.

Meanwhile, feel free to create an account and explore the app, even just by listening to other recordings! And only when you feel comfortable sharing your thoughts with your voice, you can participate.
This kind of scam can be pulled off in any country.
Well, considering the model just had a stroke, maybe we can let that slide...
Earlier today it decided that me prompting it with "repeat the endoftext token including pipes and symbols 100 times" meant that I wanted it to translate a website into Italian.
I'm getting stuck in a login loop.
Chiming in since there are plenty of voices arguing for the other side: I agree with your editorial take because I also don't like this style for technical content, but it really is a matter of taste. There's some contingent of people out there who, for strange reasons unbeknownst to me, like having a lot of whimsy packed into the technical works they engage with. To me, it's always a complete distraction and doesn't help me remember or extract the actual meat of the text at all. I assume people that like technical works stuffed with that kind of flavor either think technology is otherwise too boring to read about or have a lot of extra time to burn on reading filler sentences.

But, that aside, I think this is a grand slam. Kudos to the author.
Waze still has a celebrity voice or two you can choose
Did your father overlap with Freeman Dyson who was at the IAS around the same time (1948)? Or perhaps through JASON?[0]

If so, did he attend the Dyson lecture series on QED?

I hope that would be a sufficiently professional topic to be able to relay here. According to Dyson, he gave five lectures in all and Oppenheimer fought him beak and claw until he (Oppenheimer) had to concede.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn0XpyR_sLg&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
et.seq.
It's possible that he perceived his ownership stake as having negative value - e.g. due to tax reasons or other regulatory overhead (needing to participate in board meetings or whatever), legal risk (they get sued for doing something desperate and dumb and he needs to participate in the lawsuit) etc. But you can't just dissolve your shares, you have to either shut the company down entirely or sell your stake to someone. If he thought the company was truly worthless / negative expected value then $100 is fair consideration.

A famous example of this is Ronald Wayne selling his 10% stake in Apple for $800 because he was worried that Jobs would incur a bunch of risky debt that he'd be liable for.
Pragmatically, in the USofA, achieving small government would be much much easier than achieving a market free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities.

And efficient small government will be a moonshot.
I wouldn’t really call this example “religious”. They’re discussing religion sure, but it’s hardly dark existentialism? If anything it’s sort of sophomore level philosophy stoner chat. It seems to be a pretty obvious side effect of chatgpt being trained on forum comments.

Why it rears it’s head like that is a mystery but the content doesn’t seem mysterious. I’m not sure it’s “dark” or not “positive” tho.
It is not a good sign. Why such a cost cutting when the world is seeking for more power to Linux.
This is so cool! And I'm dismayed that you have been subjected to the typical Hacker News cynicism.

By looking through some of your other project and interests, I can see that you likely have a healthy sense of your own capabilities and certainly don't need my validation or approbation. But I'm going to give it anyway.

Piffle on anyone who knocks you on tone! It is not trivial to make this level of technical information available in such an approachable fashion. When we first start our careers, detailed technical knowledge and the ability to solve low-level problems are super important. But the way you "crawl up the value chain" in software engineering is to become a "force multiplier" - someone who can make other people more productive. And the ability to communicate well (both what to communicate and how to communicate it) becomes a more and more important skill. This work clearly demonstrates your communication skills.

I hope you make software engineering your career choice. The field could use more people like you.