skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can I just strike something home here...:

A talk at a scientific conference, attended by adult scientists, was pulled, and one of the reasons given was "in order to ensure the safety and dignity of all of our members".

A __talk__ at a __scientific conference__, attended by __adult scientists__, was __pulled__, and one of the reasons given was "in order to __ensure the safety and dignity__ of all our members".

Disagree with the talk, don't attend, but apparently adult scientists need to be protected from listening to speech now...

Fragile little buggers... (or one hell of a violent talk...)
I don't think "harm" here refers to physical damage. "Don't physically injure others" would be a weird thing to include in a code of conduct for professional anthropologists.
Analysts one year horizon price forecast is $1000… thats double the price it is today
Going through Petter's archive it doesn't feel like it, writing about the topic for some time.

I gathered the grooming metaphor referenced how it's time for the CSS practitioner to don the complete methodological anarchy that once dominated the field, while remaining open to disruptive changes coming out of CS or elsewhere.
I can wholeheartedly recommend mine
Yes the models got a straightforward prompt, and they didn’t get re-rolled until it was good, and the comparison was to real writers.

The conclusion isn’t that the models are useless or something: it’s that they aren’t a replacement for people.

This a cake or eat it moment: AI is a powerful tool that in the hands of those who embrace it or it’s trivially superhuman in a broad-spectrum way.
i tried out an interview, turned out better than i expected.
it allowed me to ask questions again, and was responsive.

a few suggestions, UI can be a tad better. If i get to code during an assessment?
To be fair, Google search is the default on Chrome and Chrome is king of the web browsers right now. Additionally, Google search is the default on IOS and I'm going out on a limb that the same applies for the majority of Android devices.

Google did a magnificent job of making their search engine the default on the most popular devices and software at moment in time.
Light molecules? You mean like, photons?

I kid
And at the basic level, it almost isn't even mathematics. It's basically more applied logic. The whole "I'm bad at mathematics" schtick oft repeated at the high school level and below can be translated into "I'm bad at basic logic and reasoning", which makes the gap much more real and apparent.

Mathematics is not some magical piece of knowledge that needs all sorts machinations to teach. Like any subject, it should be moved away from rote teaching and into projects and applications rather than mindnumbing exercises.
TL;DR a biogas digester tank was struck by lightning, igniting the biogas and causing an explosion.
Could Unions Break New York’s Housing Impasse?
Voice acting is more than just talking into a microphone. It's a skill not limited to the quality of voice.
It's a tiny plastic crap one :)
The site looks visually very good. Lots of typos in your English translations though.
Does this technique only work with systems that are edge-on so that the star light passes through the exoplanet atmosphere? Or can this work with reflected star light for systems that have orbits that face us?
Ident-I-Eeze [1] probably. Password managers are part of the way there and the use of biometrics is slowly but surely expanding. Just a matter of time before I can have a card that presents the data from a blood sample to save me the hassle of actually bleeding.

[1] https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/92738/what-is-the-...
Here is a full article of such examples: https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2017/01/14/stop-ascribing...

Discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31858311
Thank you very very much for taking the time to write this explanation. I learnt a lot today :)
> Also we need to agree on what is a character.

Indeed. I used to think I knew what a character was until Unicode came around. Now I genuinely don't know with any real certainty.
This is where PGP and long-lived identities would be super nice.
> We offer features for you to ensure no one is recorded without their consent.

It says this 3 times without elaborating. How does this work?
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From the response:

> UK anthropologist Kathleen Richardson’s abstract highlighted issues surrounding material disparities between the sexes in the tech industry that are being erased by counting men who identify as trans as women rather than by having more women enter the field.

> Francophone Canadian anthropologist Michèle Sirois was to offer an ethnographic account of the ways “in which Quebec feminists have organized to document, clarify and oppose the exploitative surrogacy industry that hides under the guise of 'equity' and 'inclusion'”, and in which surrogacy policies which exploit poor women are cynically framed as liberatory.

This session was going to be a "terf" train wreck and a massive distraction for the conference.
As long as we're talking about long-form technical content going back to the 1990s, I have yet to read anything from ChatGPT that is as engaging as, say, articles or books by Philip Greenspun or Peter van der Linden.

Maybe (maybe!) ChatGPT is writing content that is correct, but that still doesn't make it good writing.

As is attributed to Frank Zappa, "The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows."
Elizabeth Weiss has ruffled feathers because she's spoken out against the rampant and ingrained misogyny in her field.

In particular, some museum curators have accommodated demands by indigenous tribes, usually from men, that female curators aren't permitted to handle their objects. So in the name of cultural respect, you have this outright sexism being endorsed instead.

Here's an example, from her Twitter, of how menstruating women were being discriminated against by her university's curation protocols; thankfully she got this overturned by getting lawyers involved:

> The @SJSU protocol for handling Native American remains used to state “Menstruating personnel will not be permitted to handle ancestors”. This sexist rule has been deleted, after @PacificLegal and I pointed out that it may be illegal. An important victory! #NAGPRA #anthrotwitter

- https://twitter.com/eweissunburied/status/151437363306542285...

This might be considered an insensitive reaction by some, but only if you elevate the desires of misogynist men above all else.
AI Helping Us Catch Phishing Websites at Stormkit
Coming from somebody who has $260M reasons to say so.
Been thinking of something like this for a while, but with video as well. It would be cool to have a searchable transcription of things in my immediate surroundings. Might make it impossible to lose my keys...
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I'm not up to date on this. Has that Twitter account really been verified to be Satoshi? I recall a few high profile Twitter hacks that affected celebrities in the last few years, but I suppose if the whitepaper is high quality enough, then it will seem plausible.
Context, before he left MIT he was (temporarily) suspended for running an unauthorized experiment on people giving them electric shocks...

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I bought my first NUC only few months ago, and could not be happier (maybe except that Intel has sold off....). I use it as my primary machine for programming and data analysis. I read reviews that said it's noisy little machine yet I heard its fans once or twice, in my very quiet office.
> unlike an ev when the battery pack gets to end of life

Battery degradation is a thing for sure, but I feel like you’re overlooking a lot of issues with ICE cars here. If a gearbox, engine or exhaust goes “end of life” then the car is essentially worthless until it’s replaced, no?

> maintained by me (unlike an ev)

Why can’t you maintain an EV? Surely things like suspension is mostly the same?
The problem is that modern smartphones and app are designed to create addiction through finely tuned positive reinforcement triggers and rewards. The younger a kid is exposed, the most likely he will be affected all of his life by the addiction.

"Normalizing" it akin to normalizing cigarettes - some kids could indeed manage to smoke only one a week, but most won't.
If you had a set of 1000 cards, where 495 have color 0x00000000 +- x and 495 have color 0xFFFFFFFF +- x and a further 10 have color Rand(0x00000000, 0xFFFFFFFF) and you had to categorize these, if x is very small, you would probably end up with three sets ... 0, F, and some R, where the 0 set would get everything that is 0x00000000 or close to it, F set would be 0xFFFFFFFF and everything close to that, and then some R which is in the space outside those sets.

But if the vast majority of samples are in 0 and F, then it makes sense to have these as categories to study, without invalidating the fact that there is another set R which defies clean placement into either.

But pretending like 0 and F aren't categories, but rather everything is a smooth linear continuum seems silly too if x is small.
Mark my words--humanity's first AI overlord will be a sentient spam filter.
> Discovering a cheap cure for cancer wouldn't help profits.

Hence patents. The new Hep C treatments are hundreds of thousands of dollars cheaper than older treatments, but were still researched and developed.
Its due to the rise of identity politics. If you like cheetos, and I say cheetos are bad, if liking cheetos is how you see yourself as a person, then it could seem like I'm saying "you are bad (for liking cheetos)". It's more nuanced than that, but the gist is that non-positive thoughts about an identity category could feel like personal attacks to the people who have integrated that identity category with their sense of self.
I think there was an early black mirror episode about a device along these lines, season 1 I think
yes, the same way they went with Siri.
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It's a user named Satoshi. Is there anything to say this is Satoshi? And what are the odds the new owners don't control this account now?
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One of the most successful sales stratergies for high end products is to sell "Black Magic", that is, procducts that are too complex to explain.

eg if you are selling a "hedge fund stratergy", you tell the client it is too hard for them or they are not large enough to invest. And they will fight to be included.
In full anticipation that HN will jump to the defense of the canceled speakers, here's a quote from the canceled speakers' response (emphasis mine):

> UK anthropologist Kathleen Richardson’s abstract highlighted issues surrounding material disparities
between the sexes in the tech industry that are being erased by counting men who identify as trans as
women rather than by having more women enter the field.

The assumption here is that trans women are actually just "men who identify as trans." If that's the attitude that these scholars have, it's no wonder their paper was flagged as transphobic.
Introduction failed at one of my workplaces for a three big reasons (in the order they arose during the small scale trial):

1. Incompatibility with our stack for our front line staff.

2. No Excel which was preferred internally and externally

3. No Word which to this day is used by many customers and external vendors

Now the first one may well not be an issue if one were setting up a new company today but the third is not an issue now with Google Docs being able to parse docx well but at the time it caused shenanigans. We ended up migrating all staff to google docs while on windows and giving Microsoft office licences to particular users who could justify it from a technical perspective (rather than an “i don’t want to learn new tech” perspective).

Excel, though, is still untouchable at a certain level. Demonstrations of macros that took moments in excel taking eternities in sheets. Poor data wrangling capabilities. Obviously some features simply not existing at all.

I guess the company saved millions over some period by switching to mostly being a google shop but native Excel would be worth its weight in gold to Microsoft.
Phone verification wouldn't work at scale, the more services use it the more profitable and common it is to have sites that let people receive SMS to a random phone number over the internet etc.

It's also likely to lead to some kind of privacy laws in various countries (or may already violate some) because a primary reason services use it now is so they can snatch your phone number and use it to correlate you across different services. Which for the same reason makes honest users wary of it, especially as it becomes increasingly common knowledge why services ask for it.

A good solution might be some kind of anonymous payments system, so you can make a nominal refundable deposit to create an account which is forfeit for abuse, and then sites can fund more expensive or manual abuse-detection systems from the forfeited deposits in proportion to how much abuse they encounter.
> However, Google has a better story with cloud apps in gsuite.

Except that they just set a death date for my go to whiteboarding app.

It was great to be able to have a dead simple paintbrush level drawing app that was shared in the browser, and I could sketch out on my tablet without dealing with drawing "boxes" and text labels to get an idea across.
Companies aren't democracies. If leadership wants RTO then they'll want everyone else to also
We is a broad term. Do we really count surfacing of an article like that as we being critical?
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Privacy issues aside for a moment, this looks really good and is something I’d be interested in. I can imagine this being helpful for folks with ADHD or memory issues. I have found meeting transcription tools to be absolutely invaluable at work so to expand that to my wider life makes good sense.

That said I have to admit the monthly subscription price ($19-$29/mo) seems a little higher than I’d like for a wearable device, especially as the premium features appear functionally like a thin wrapper around an LLM and some search tools.
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Yeah, the mismatch between what SciFi authors thought AI would look like and what it actually is looking like couldn't be more opposite in general.

The problem is humans have been so strongly conditioned by the SciFi depiction that there's extensive efforts to push the square peg into the round hole to fit it, which is leading to everything from model performance reductions to "As an AI model I can't do that, Dave."

Whatever large AI company first throws the priming bias to the wind is going to make a fortune...
A t-shirt with "I am recording you" in big letters
I wonder their use of the term "predicate machine" indicates that Satoshi works in a medical-related domain?
That’s a great point, thanks. I think we saw that play out at Grindr recently.
Holy are they really that over staffed?
while true in some cases, I've been pleasantly surprised at how often GV/etc are accepted.

another alternative (also minutes) is to use eSim, e.g. Google Fi - minutes to setup and many late model phones support multiple esims.
The last time the string API changed was in 2017. That was 6 years ago.
Yeah, this is one of those decisions where the aggrieved party's defence makes me feel it was the right decision.
(for those who might not know, shin 新 = "new")
> then that company won’t RTO

Just about this. We've seen again and again that they will.

I don't understand what is happening well enough to explain CEOs destroying their companies before conceding this to the employees, but this is clearly a thing common enough for it to be the default expectation.

And that's my main criticism of the article. Those CEOs clearly are not doing some random bullshit. They are doing some completely intentional and heavily desired thing. IDK what is their reasoning or if it's aligned with the company's goals, but they do have the intention.
> We offer features for you to ensure no one is recorded without their consent.

I wish the went deeper there.
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And if you put it into the market today they can help you lose the rest. Better late than never!
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This looks like a privacy nightmare, even for the wearer - aren't going going to have to continuously ask for permission for every single person that you're in recording distance of when not in a public space?
Languages with more speakers tend to be harder to (machine-)learn