skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talking to friends who have taken the bar exam, it excels at testing, among other things, attention to detail - a scenario that "is clearly X" at first read is actually nuanced and the answer is completely different. I don't personally believe that any single other skill is more important to being an effective lawyer, and do not believe that a short apprenticeship or submission of "body of work" is any sort of substitute.

Will there be some people who can be effective lawyers without passing the bar? Probably - in the sense that there are some people who can be effective software engineers coming out of a coding bootcamp. That doesn't mean that 95% aren't incompetent people looking to make a quick buck.
How does OLED make sense for the steam deck when to my knowledge Linux does not support HDR?

I wish I could install Linux on my laptop, but without HDR what's the point!
Who is the extremely slow talking spokesperson?
Neuralink's First-in-Human Clinical Trial Is Open for Recruitment
"Siri, lights to half."

"Siri, lights to HALF."

"Siri, lights to HAAAAALF."

"Siri, LIGHTS TO FIFTY PERCENT!"
The fact that's not just a link to your design docs is a massive ADHD signifier ;-)
Thomas Massie tries to kill everything. His reputation for voting “no” on EVERY SINGLE piece of legislation seriously diminishes his ability to __actually__ get certain legislation nixed. He was a great engineer and probably understands this issue much more than his peers, but his historical actions doomed his credibility here.
A community is defined by the selection process.

People who aren't sensitive to the general offensiveness of these communities come from all backgrounds and are effectively tolerant of each other in ways that are meaningful to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_gambling

Valve could shutdown the whole thing with one button but they don't. Do you know why because it's profit for them too. Every case and every key sold.
My understanding is that there are no clean sources able to replace fossil fuels. Or we would need to cover useful land with solar panels (largely produced in China with coal electricity btw).

Anyway, we should transition to EV and these cars manufacturers bad practices are just keeping old inefficients cars on the streets.
thats so weird, the link is from the previous video in the same tab. spa's are a terrible idea :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ugw7-BwsmI
Indeed, e.g. Paris metro is fully or nearly automated as they wanted to reduce the risk of driver strikes.
How would you call people who are hired by bodyshop(IT service providers like Infosys, Cognizant, Epam) and then leased to Google?
The free cognitive evolution of your kids and grandkids is at stake here, but you are probably looking the wrong way.

Kansas City Shuffles inside Kansas City Shuffles. We refuse to deal with the truth.

We need to trust our kind or we will have to take down our past, the ways we lived and worked.

It's a generational conflict inside each and every one of us.

You know how to code. Decode.
One of my frustrations with professional licensing (beyond being intentionally protectionist) is that it requires X number of hours in a seat, not really demonstrated competence. This slows down market response to increasing demand (I can't find an electrician in my area).

A very involved exam stretching over multiple days would be much faster and more likely to achieve the stated purpose of licensing competent people.
I mean, I don't think a flu shot is worth most people's time either. If you're around people with compromised immune systems sure, but for your average person it's really not beneficial.
Yea, I think they "won" out in the discourse over the last ~5 years, but I'm convinced it was another ZIRP phenomenon that will quickly fade as belts get tightened. When money rains down like mana from the heavens, sure, go ahead and hire half a dozen Ops folks to run your big ball of mud that maxes out at 8 req/s and has a 6 figure monthly AWS spend. I think things are going to swing back the other way, purely because efficiency will more important than it was over the last decade.
While not related, thank you for mentioning PyTorch eager mode. I had no idea this existed. There is just SO MUCH documentation to read, and it is bewildering how bad the defaults are in the whole deep learning ecosystem.
It's part of a broader cultural purge across media outlets that has seen the cancellation or destruction of works that appealed to marginalized people, including minorities, women, and queer folk. Belligerents include large companies like Warner Bros/Discovery (we are currently witness the destruction of American traditional TV animation), astroturfed parent groups (going after the teaching of both newly-discovered and long-known histories of American civil and human rights abuses), wealthy entrepreneurs (Musk's direction has has devastated Twitter on both a technical and community level), and the government itself (from That One SCOTUS decision to state bans on city decision-making).

And I'm sorry for you if you're going to be onstinate enough to deny this. It means you won't have a plan for when someone goes after something you care about.
AI and drones are helping scientists study secrets of elephant behavior
"cash offer" here means they already have the loans lined up.
Valve has that side, too:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-HDR-Linux-Gaming-Begins
Is the pass rate being low, bad? Couldn't it just imply more people attempt it?
I'm not knowledgeable enough about portability of LLVM, but if it's binary compatible with GCC-compiled stuff (or can be made such) on Windows, then, sure.

See, the problem here is that if you want interop, with, eg. Ruby, Erlang, R, Perl, Go and probably a bunch of others (the only other exception I know of is PHP (PECL) that uses MS toolchain), then you have to produce compatible binaries.

Ideally, it shouldn't be about the flavor of compiler, but be some kind of official documented format... that many compilers can easily implement. But, since de facto this format is "just use GCC", then, in practical terms, either use GCC, or pretend you use GCC.
How will you tell AI what you want to build? I'll take an example from my current work: I'm currently working on adding producing data to a kafka feed from an API server that will be aggregated downstream into a big huge in-memory datastore for fast access. That's a moderately sized problem, one that a reasonably competent engineer can solve in a week or two, but how much work will you have to do to tell the AI that this is what you want? And if you tell it at a higher level than this, how will it know what tools it has available? How will it deploy stuff?

There are some fairly intractable problems in the "AI writes software" space. I don't think they're getting solved any time soon.
Steps to reproduce, once you have cargo and rustc from Debian stable repositories: cargo init && cargo add clap && cargo run. The following happens:

error: package `anstream v0.6.4` cannot be built because it requires rustc 1.70.0 or newer, while the currently active rustc version is 1.63.0
Either upgrade to rustc 1.70.0 or newer, or use
cargo update -p anstream@0.6.4 --precise ver
where `ver` is the latest version of `anstream` supporting rustc 1.63.0
You are correct. But, as a teacher myself, it doesn't matter if you are good or bad as a teacher, you can't give every student what they need to best excel. Everything you do is a tradeoff that helps certain types of students, and others not so much. Perhaps make some disinterested in the topic.

As a teacher or institute, you decide on a teaching philosophy, which then determines your tradeoffs in practice. And you live with the result.

This is no different from, as many on this forum will understand, writing software for a certain type of user. Changing the UI or featureset will tradeoff the type of users interested in your software. You can't satisfy everyone.
Me personally no. I have 20+ years doing what I do. I am paid decently for that. But fresh out of high school and willing to do the apprentice/mentor thing I probably would have considered it very compelling. It was 2-3x what I made starting what I do now.
same with swiftkey - can handle whispered speech to some extend.

Still I would guess Meta Glasses or AirPods should be better to handle such whispered mode since microphones are so much closer. Would be interesting if Airpods had some contact mic that could pickup whispered sound inside your mouth.

Maybe the holly grail is to have something inside your mouth so you don't have to even make voice - device will figure out what you want to speak from how mouth and tongue movement - smart tooth braces anyone? :)
We have a system where doctors and nurses review medications and treatment options for patients. It's called _the medical system_. You know, the one where I can go see my doctor, talk to them about what's going on, and work with them to create a treatment plan that suits my problems and my goals.

Why do we need to bolt on a secondary system that sucks up an untold wealth of time and money?
You should consider asking the support for partial refund.

Though a month might be stretching it.
Wait, so the robot detected him, and turned away from the conveyor belt to grab him and place him onto the conveyor belt?!
The already have most of online PC games sales through their platform and take a very healthy chunky cut off it, they don't have any financial incentive to close their platform. I also doubt they sell Steam deck at a loss like console companies do.
What he's talking about is absolutely not possible with an LLM. An LLM is just for language and has no deeper understanding, reasoning, logic, learning and growth, etc.

See here:

"Agents are smarter. They’re proactive—capable of making suggestions before you ask for them. They accomplish tasks across applications. They improve over time because they remember your activities and recognize intent and patterns in your behavior."

None of that is possible with today's LLMs - not in the way he's describing it.
If a business can't handle its own scale without negatively affecting its customers, it should probably stop growing. It's the same issue we see with Google accounts being seemingly randomly terminated.

Since that probably won't happen, heuristic usage should at least come with penalties attached, otherwise the incentives are lopsided. If an airline's overbooking heuristics fail and get you bumped, you either get put on another flight and/or receive financial compensation. If an insurance company's "heuristics" fail and deny a legitimate claim, there should be a penalty. If Google terminates your account because of a mistake, they should pay a fine. They shouldn't be allowed to have their cake and eat it too.
> It is not having a significant impact in most fields, despite all the hype. Companies will use it to continue to make customer services worse so they can spend less money on it.

There's some delicious irony in this: tech-savvy HN posters are so bullish on AI replacing everyone's jobs, yet there's been so many posts here about how people have lost their Google/Apple/bank/whatever accounts due to AI accidentally flagging, then being unable to recover because they can't get in touch with an actual human, with begging for help on social media as their last resort.

It seems like a variant of Gell-Mann amnesia[0]: people believe AI is capable of replacing humans in so many aspects of daily life, except for the aspects of daily life which they personally experience.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect
I disagree. I totally have a choice. I can avoid it all by avoiding using the technology.

Maintaining my own alternatives isn't a big deal. I'm largely doing that anyway.
Fake KeePass site uses Google Ads and Punycode to push malware
Sounds more like hope to me. There's nothing special about creativity.

The real reason chefs won't be released by robots sooner than AI and software devs is a lot more boring. Sensorimotor and physical perception is harder than reasoning and "creativity".

It doesn't help that we don't know how to digitize taste so any model with a good sense of taste will have to develop it indirectly incentivized by something else (eg a language model training on recipes).

GPT is a predictor. It will just continue to reduce loss until it has modelled the data entirely.
Google search ads are once again being used to impersonate websites and serve malware
Assuming those assumptions are true, my question is whether the robot had separate power feeds to the sensors vs the actuators.

If the worker needs to test/tune/adjust/repair the sensors, and needed that system energized, was the robot built in such a way that the sensor/control system could be energized, but the actuator motors de-energized?

If not, the worker was stuck in a very dangerous position, and was effectively killed by the robot's designers.
It is legal to do it though.
Grimes scolded a nightclub full of AI evangelists – then promptly DJ'd for them
yes but making 7 figures annually is quite a bit different than simply having a 7 figure total net worth. The latter is achievable by most frugal middle class Americans over the course of a career, often much shorter. The former is usually not possible through a day job over a normal career length
Socratic by Google still exists today and is a widely beloved app based on reviews. They had to rewrite the code and infrastructure, but "killing off the app" implies that they just shut things down. That never happened.

As for "happy story", I think the founders of Socratic learned a lot. Shreyans is just trying to share his learnings here. Not celebrate or mourn.
If only there was some giant naturally occurring fusion reactor that we could siphon a bit of power from to power our things.
> "To succeed at the pleading stage of a WPA claim, a plaintiff must allege an injury to 'his or her business, his or her person, or his or her reputation,'" the judges ruled. "Contrary to Plaintiffs' argument, a bare violation of the WPA is insufficient to satisfy the statutory injury requirement."

I think the title is misleading. Unless I'm missing something, it sounds like the decision wasn't that it's legal to harvest text and call logs, it was that these cases did not demonstrate an injury was caused as a result of doing so. Presumably if the plaintiffs proved some injury other than not wanting it to happen, things could have been different.
no - the reason the issue went to court in the first place, was MSFT and Apple and others, not hiring (stock, health insurance) and then making contractors "prove themselves" a.k.a. extra overtime, demeaning social situations, lower perks etc
>That’s not legally a contractor then. [...] If you are setting their hours, bossing them around and/or providing equipment they are not a contractor they are an employee.

There are 2 different uses of "contractor":

(1) contractor : official IRS tax classification of 1099 independent contractor

(2) "contractor" : a W-2 employee of a "temp agency" or "staffing agency" or "bodyshop" that is sent to a client company (such as Google) needing contingent workers. Adecco[1] is an example of a staffing company that sends people to Google. These temp agencies with workers classified as W-2 employees act as legal cover to "avoid repeating Microsoft lawsuits". From Google's perspective, these Adecco employees are "contractors".

If the above working arrangement looks convoluted with the economic inefficiencies of paying for an extra middleman (the temp agencies), it is. But it cleverly avoids the IRS claiming, "Hey Google, your so-called contractors are misclassified and should be employees!" ... and Google can say, "They already are employees! They're Adecco employees!"

The "1099 real contractor" is not as common as "fake-contractor-but-really-somebody-elses-W2-employee" ... because the "1099 contractors" won their lawsuit against Microsoft.

[1] https://www.adeccousa.com/
Torrents never left. I've had no issue over the last 15 years with either torrents or newsgroups, everything's just as accessible and quickly released as it was then.
Also posted yesterday (technically a dupe, although that one was paywalled and this one isn't): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38199233
The first playground to experiment with the GPT-4 Vision API
Happy to launch the first LLM/LMM prompt playground which allows experimenting with the GPT-4 Vision API! Curious to hear what you guys are thinking
Robot work cells are usually cordoned off with fencing protected from entry with safety sensors and trapped key interlocks on the gate doors. Though when servicing these can be bypassed by service personnel which was likely the case here. I've read of cases like these where service techs or engineers commissioning a system were severely injured or killed by these machines. You really need to be extremely careful around mechanical stuff like this.
This is a great way to poison your data collection by forcing users to select an answer they may not mean, just to proceed.
> after digging a tiny bit

What makes you so sure that "the company" doesn't exist? Sounds like you've discovered something almost axiomatic to have that level of certainty since there isn't a state-of-Deleware for the perfect being.
By the way, has anyone figured out how to show Google Drive as an option to save in Office365, without having to navigate through your hard drive?
The Doylist reason was "we need a role for Whoopi Goldberg". There is no Watsonian reason, as Data did bar duty in the episode they had their memories wiped.

Looking back at them, the taking points about AI are basically the same now as in each episode of TNG, DS9, and VOY that is focused on AI, in the form of Data, Moriarty, The Doctor (and if he has copyright over his holonovel), that Irish village in Voyager, Wesley Crusher's nanites or the ship's main computer becoming sentient…
*everyone else’s privacy
yes, it has everything to do with workplace protection and wages
You often can't, which is why they can get away with these anti-competitive practices
Speed to market.

Things don’t need to work that well to be sold. One of my employers has entire integrations that don’t work and we still sell them to the business types successfully. They then file a bug ticket and wait months until we get to it, them paying fees all the way.
> A simpler solution would be to actually enforce traffic laws. It’s only a tiny fraction of drivers who endanger the public.

I don’t know where you live but in every city I’ve visited that fraction is close to half, and for certain behaviors like not stopping for a stop sign or turn on red it’s like 95%.

With regards to speed, I think a lot of this could be addressed by having the vehicle do something like turn off the sound system and play a warning that you’re exceeding the limit when you do more than a certain percentage over for more than a short time. That’d take the fun out of it and interfere with someone’s Zoom call while still allowing them to ignore it if there’s some GPS bounce or something while leaving the freeway.
How do you know it’s mostly teenage girls? Also, teenage girls buy a lot of stuff as well as heavily influence what teenage boys buy/like…

I know it’s cool to bags on teenage girl tastes but in reality it’s not very accurate. The youth demographic is one of the most important for many consumer businesses.
Times like this I am happy I am mostly Windows free with my work as a Linux kernel developer.

Still need Windows for a few things. Like playing my GOG.com games. No, Heroic or Lutris do not work well. With the exception of playing the rebuilds of Diablo I.

My next gaming machine will likely be Linux only if I ever get myself to finish the OG Baldur's Gate I and II. You can buy the Enhanced Edition on GOG and put in a support request to have the original added to your library. I bought the original when it came out on GOG. You may want to do that for mods or if you just prefer the original.

edit: To clarify: I want to be able use GOG Galaxy for game syncing and convenience. That does not work well in my experience with Proton.
As fossil fuels get more expensive to acquire and renewables get cheaper and cheaper, it's really a self-solving problem.

Energy is necessary for modern society to function. It's not going anywhere nor will it decrease just because one source of it is inconvenient.
Translation: It is 100% legal for car companies (and by extension just about any company) to, when you connect your phone to them, to download your call and text history and then sell it.

By extension, that means it is 100% legal for anyone, including any branch of any government to get a copy of your call and text history.
No? I think it's rude to be excessively loud so I don't, especially not at night. I don't see this as really any different than "Does no one here cut in line?".
Valve already did the evil part, they were just so early to the game (pun intended) no one knew how to react or what it meant. They somehow avoided mass criticism, or I wasn't paying good enough attention.

I question a 30% developer fee for using Steam. Loot boxes in CS and TF2 to get and keep kids gambling. Destroying nearly every mod and skin community. I don't think I'm willing to sweep all that under the rug because they made it easier to open a steam deck.

I like Valve believe it or not, but I question a lot of these decisions.
Mostly the liberals. In 2008 Mitt Romney pushed for ending the favorable tax treatment of employer-based plans (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...), which was instantly attacked by the left for "taking away your insurance". Then the ACA set up the marketplace for individual plans which was good, but also inexplicably added employer mandates.
If it’s even halfway decently engineered, why would it shatter? The total package weighs 55 grams, the front part likely less than half of that, and it doesn’t have large glass areas.
Chrome Feature: Deprecate unload event
> I mean come on - the upsides: we "merged cultures", "our app lives on", "careers have bloomed" versus downsides "we quit", and "we don't think we actually delivered what we wanted to". But it's ok because after everyone who cared about the product quit, maybe someone else will might make it happen ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Do we ignore the most obvious upside, that this guy (and possibly/probably everyone in that startup) got paid a shit ton of money as a result of Google buying the company?
There's a number of reasons.

- malpractice insurance
- cost of living difference
- government rationing of care in public systems
- lower capital expenses for nice looking buildings and top-of-the-line equipment
- unpaid bills turn into higher prices

Medicare/Medicaid have their own distorting effects. One doctor told me that, for certain billing codes, he was effectively making less than minimum wage because the government rate was so low. To make up for it, other billing codes had to be overpriced, or he had to stop accepting any non-private payments.

Countries with socialized medicine have their own problems. It can be great for average people with average problems, but outside those lines you run into things that would be trivial in a US healthcare setting.

Obviously, it varies by country, and there are plenty of things I hate about how healthcare works in the US.
HN folks, I feel a FOMO for this OLED version because it's just so cool, but I already own a Deck. Would you say there would be an OLED version again, even if limited in stock, in the future?
If you go back a day or two I'd have said the thing for The Escapist not being willing to put themselves in jeopardy but here we are.

Companies are stupid sometimes.
I had similar. Contacted them, they didn’t have the part but had the Clevo part # for the fan which was easy to buy and replace.
> It's not quite as sinister

> Here's the fix that 95%+ of the users impacted will never use

Hopefully you only had HN users in mind while writing your comment, otherwise you've intentionally downplayed one of dozens of security & privacy risks "our moms" are dealing with daily.
One of Elon Musk's boldest Tesla promises is going in the opposite direction