skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just launched a new kind of forum — Choir, a custom GPT that turns ChatGPT into a collective intelligence forum.

It’s sparse on content right now, and I think I need to find a specific vertical to focus on building a community around, but on the topics which Choir does have some discussion on, such as the impact of AI on the future, it already has some of the most thoughtful discussions on the web.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-gTXVaVfgd-choir
UK accuses Russia of sustained hacking campaign
I also think preventative healthcare is not emphasized enough. The US spends a lot of money subsidizing sugar and then spends a ton on insulin. We need to stop pretending like our diets are not putting undo pressure on our healthcare system.
Whether it's in the training set, or ChatGPT "knows" what sarcasm is, the point is it would have detected GP's attempt at humor and wouldn't have moderated that comment away.
It is illegal to fire employees who are participating in lawful strike.
>"provide an ELI5 but for a software engineer (ELISE)? Have they literally created a device that causes photons to travel into the past?"

I spoke with the client and I still don't understand what they're getting at. Sales said that our requirements are to create a device that can reflect light through time.
I got the same from the Netherlands
> Why do people who have not tried modern AI like GPT4 keep making up things it "can't do" ?

How do you know they have "not tried modern AI like GPT4"?
> If you take one of the world's most popular pastimes that personally, and want it legislated against on that basis, I have no time for your arguments.

Many popular activities are expected to be done where they do not impact others. In my local park, a man was arrested for masturbating in public, certainly a popular activity.

> It doesn't matter the tiniest bit what the laws are; you're gonna smell it.

Over the course of the last few decades, I smell it more in Manhattan and in many other places where it has been legalized. Apparently laws do matter. Not that I want any laws against it. I would just prefer that people not be assholes about it.

I did not interpret such sociopathic behavior as a "personal insult".

As for the more serious issue, I did not take the thread here. I replied to your comment, "OP is complaining that he might get a whiff coming from his neighbors house." I pointed out that one does not need to enter someone's house in order to be forced to inhale their smoke.
Strikes are generally non violent, and the majority of times that they become violent, it's instigated by strike breakers hired by the company (including police). There is over a hundred years of history of this - plenty for you to read if you want to learn more.
>Are picoplastics possible?

A single hydrogen atom is about 0.1 nanometers in diameter. You can't really have complex molecules that are smaller than nanometer scale.

>And what would single molecule of plastic be called?

A monomer is what the smallest unit of a polymer is called. They're a single molecule, but so is a long polymer chain of a bunch of them bonded together, and the properties of the material often depend heavily on the number of monomers in the average chain in the bulk material. For example, the monomer of polyethylene, one of the most common plastics, is a gas at room temperature/pressure. So it may not really make sense to call a monomer a molecule of plastic.
On the other hand, you might as well say that about literally anything they make because they happen to be a company that makes their own OS and hardware.

We might as well say that Meta isn’t committed to VR/AR because the fruit of their labor is only sold on their own platform, but I think that description wouldn’t give credit where it’s due.

Not that I disagree with the idea that Apple is at risk of being left behind. They are bad at cloud like Nintendo is bad at online play.
...if ingested, injected, or inhaled.

I can roll around in sand all day long, but that won't cause liver failure. I hope.
So in the UK most sparkies (as we call them :D) probably could as well.

But what I think people in the US (and many in the UK) don't grasp, is that someone (plucking an example out of the air) who is a manager of a retail shop in a small town in Sweden could afford a car like a Tesla. Partly because of the strong democratic socialist economic historical context underpinning decades of economic and workplace policy, and partly because of the decades-long subsidy and support of EV sales and supporting infrastructure in these countries making them cheaper and more practical than in many other countries.

This couldn't be further from the truth in the USA, because work life there has been going in the opposite direction effectively since the cold war.
early quantum processors. "may de-cohere in shipping"
"AI" in a fictional setting is different from ML.

Modern "AI" in the setting of reality is ML with hype (and funding). That's the difference.
How about the "next" meme, one it hasn't been trained on?
Like I said, just take a look at Android. If you don't have an approved ROM you cannot use banking apps. Or Netflix. Or play most gacha games.

Riot Games's anti-cheat for Valorant will already not let you play if you don't have a TPM and Secure Boot enabled, and I'm pretty sure you need to have factory (Microsoft) keys for it to work.

Google has recently backtracked on their WEI API proposal which would give websites access to TPM remote attestation, but it will be back once people cool off. Once it's released you can count on every website with ads (like YouTube) to slap it on just to ensure you don't block them.

The list of things you cannot do on your Linux box will just keep increasing over time.
Can we learn programming languages like natural ones?
First, it's amongst all people - so toddlers, kids and non- drinkers too. Second, it's pure alcohol count. Not 3,5 gallons of whisky, but so much whisky that there was 3,5 gallons of pure alcohol in it.
Because the previous examples of companies trying to avoid collective agreements have been American (notably Toys'R'Us and McDonalds)
Sounds like the classic commoditize your compliment. Meta benefits from AI capabilities but doesn’t need to hold a monopoly on the tech. They just benefit from advances so they can work with open source community to achieve this.

https://gwern.net/complement
Thanks I should've read your post before opening the link and promptly having to close it.
Actually I've been working on a task that needs me to generate SVGs today, and satori looks like it's going to be much easier to achieve what I want. So thanks
shepherdjerred!
They're not bad, certainly cheap, often the only place around. But they do tend to attract an older crowd, do have a lot of food moving around and don't have music. So they're not the sort of place you'd include if you had a classic British pub crawl planned. That's not sneering, just horses for courses.
Microsoft Hires New CISO in Major Security Shakeup
How? I thought we all agreed AI was cheaper than humans (accuracy notwithstanding), otherwise why would everyone be afraid AI is going to take their jobs?
I beleive service voltage is unified at ~ 100V. Most electronics would be fine, as most electronics have a conversion to DC somewhere and that's unlikely to fail with a 20% difference in frequency. AC driven motors might not like to be moved, but might be OK given the domestic reality (unintended protectionism for stand mixers!). Line frequency clocks probably aren't sold in Japan or need jumpers/switches or would need to be replaced when crossing the frequency border.
Choosing Elegance: The Case for F# in Application Development
It'd be cheaper to delete the 12V bus entirely and add 48V -> 12V converters in front of legacy components, even if they needed several dozen of those converters.
> Is training with user-generated content a way to launder copyrighted images?

Doubt it. If you upload child porn to Instagram and they distribute it - it's still an Instagram problem, AFAIK.
The employees of PostNord are union. They presumably have protection from being fired.
Rough consensus doesn't have to include the people actually running the project? That sounds like a great way to publish standards that will be ignored by everyone...
If you wanna buy Budweiser stock, just buy it.
Designer Layoff Stories
I think if there was interest in it there would be multiple OpenPGP implementations.

Most people don't even care about security. You can't protect people who won't care to protect themselves.
Yep, same on NixOS; just set

boot.kernelPackages = config.boot.zfs.package.latestCompatibleLinuxPackages;

And you're done.
Nice list. Some good and some of them are contr-productive like promoting of use of preloading and calc in memory.
> There is no way to know what effect a layoff will have on stock price in advance

Sure, but looking at precedent gives you info to make a good bet- the last 2 Spotify layoffs this year each caused their stock to jump.
There are problems with human moderators. There are so many more problems with AI moderators.
This makes me giggle more than it should.
Scrape Yahoo search engine results with R
That simply isn’t true.

Please provide citations with sources if you’re making extraordinary claims.
Source or it did not happen. That sounds extremely illegal, no one can be forced to sign a contract. Not to mention it would violate GDPR and several other laws. This sounds like myth that gets passed around or something you misunderstood.
Digikey, Mouser, Newark.
> If the components don't work in a military situation, people might very well die. Sometimes a lot of people.

TBF, that's also true if they do work.
A little bit, but not much. However, FX reacts strongly to interest differentials in the short/medium-term.
Welcome to the Content Moderation Learning Curve: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...

I don't envy anyone who has to figure all this out. IMO free hosting does not scale.
I worked on Facebook copyright claims etc for two years, which uses the same systems as the reports and support cases at FB.

I can't say it's the case for OPs case specifically, but I absolutely saw code that automatically closed tickets in a specific queue after a random(15-75) minutes to avoid being consistent with the close time so it wouldn't look too suspicious or automated to users.
Huh, you learn interesting things everyday in unusual places. Look forward to seeing more google-photos blog-posts from this new discovery. /s I hope.
Just wait until the Vice editorial team discovers that picoplastics are worse than nanoplastics.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531
Yes, a library made to use hardware only works with the hardware it's made to work with.

This comment is like saying Nvidia isn't committed to AI because their CUDA libraries only work on Nvidia hardware.
It depends on the country. In other countries diesel trains are "green". /s
It's because the amount of story telling and wordiness in an interview is often inversely proportional to the amount of output produced by that engineer.

I've learned the hard way not to hire the big talkers. Doing is much more important than saying.
And at the same time I'm reading articles [1] about how FB is unable to control the spread of pedophile groups on their service and in fact their recommendation system actually promotes them.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-facebook-instagram-pedophiles-...
I think Meta is already assuming that there will be no liability for training with copyrighted material. I find it very unlikely that image owners will win the AI training battle.
I didn't live in that era but I thought the video game crash which more-or-less killed Atari was before the NES was introduced?
Compared to ICE vehicles, EVs are expensive and heavy (according to Slate, an F-150 Lightning weighs 35% more than its ICE sibling). Cost and weight reduction are both important factors for any EV maker to optimize.

Why do you assume the 12V bus doesn't drive high-power stuff? Historically, every single electrical component in a car is powered at 12V. Everything. Your alternator outputs 12V to both power your electrical system and charge the 12V battery. Even the starter and ignition system (distributor or coil pack) transforms 12V into the high voltages needed for combustion.

I'm not exactly sure why 48V corresponds to a decrease in "complexity." My guess is that power and data were sent over separate cables, whereas PoE does everything together. That's just a guess, however.

Assuming the same power requirements, a 4x increase in voltage translates to a 4x decrease in current. Looking at [1], a component requiring 8AWG @ 12V can now use 18AWG @ 48V. That's a significant decrease in copper, resulting in cost and weight reductions. A higher voltage is almost always preferred, though the higher electric potential means you need better insulation and safety measures.

Though there's a saying that it's current, not voltage, that kills, high voltage is widely known to be dangerous. For example, consider the US electrical grid, which is actually a 240V system, not 120V. Three wires come to your house from the transformer: -120V, 0V, and 120V. A normal outlet is connected to either -120V and 0V or 0V and 120V, and you can get a 240V outlet by connecting to -120V and 120V. This 120V-by-default setup is much safer than 240V every outlet, like in other parts of the world, and you can still get a higher voltage for high-power appliances (e.g. clothes dryer).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_wire_gauge
There are plenty of alternatives, as well of several calls for using them. For example you can't use Lena in any Nature journal, and they suggest ‘Cameraman’, ‘Mandril’ or ‘Peppers’.

In other words, there is practically speaking a well established alternative, and the remaining task is to badger all the holdouts into switching.
It seems like they must require (or maybe I missed something) that none of their a’s are zero (I guess this would be easy to check and avoid). It seem like it would be harder to know beforehand that none of the it b*’s are equal to -x_0 and none of their b’s are equal to the corresponding a*. But maybe this is just unlikely enough to not care about.
The takes in this thread are incredibly poor. They’re poorly informed, they are often contradictory, they are frequently some weird antiwork spillover or something? Bizarre.

Basically, if you are interested in actually understanding this, don’t look to the top comments here. Wow.
More expensive in what? The GPUs to run them on are certainly exorbitantly expensive in dollars, but ChatGPT-4 viewing CSAM and violent depraved videos doesn't get tired or need to go to therapy. It's not a human that's going to lose their shit because they watched a person hit a kitten with a hammer for fun in order to moderate it away, so in terms of human cost, it seems quite cheap!
UAC is similar to Microsoft SecureBoot to the extent they can both be user-unfriendly false-sense-of-security "features".

But UAC is not built into the motherboard, it's just a part of modern Windows, and it's only a factor when running Windows.

While UEFI, GPT, TPM, and SecureBoot immediately acted as major stumbling blocks to any OS not already installed on the PC at the factory. Insidiously smoothed over to behave on the surface for Windows 8+ no differently than under traditional BIOS, these were and still can be major stumbling blocks to the use of Linux or previous versions of Windows.

Plus with 20/20 hindsight as we have seen, CSM, regardless of the upcoming industry removal schedule for the CSM firmware modules, is not a full BIOS substitute for the real thing.

As predicted without having to possess 20/20 foresight at all.
All the staff at my local coffee shop ask “for stay or for takeaway?”

They never deviate from this exact script and I find it grating every single time. Coffee is decent though so I let it slide.

Edit: “local” meaning Southern California.
That's crazy. I wonder how many chips can they sell these years.
Nearly all electronics manufactured today are capable of being powered (or are provided with power supplies that rectify to DC) between 110-240v at 50 to 60 hertz for that reason!

That way the variances across the globe don’t matter too much.

You still don’t want to take your expensive 110v hair straightener to the UK without a step down converter though as my wife found out the hard way!
If you don't want your image being used broadly without your control, then don't become a model for playboy. Ultimately she was paid fairly for the rights to her image and so that's that. It is completely fair use and hearing about how she should be able to somehow universally dictate the usage afterwards is boring. If the copyright holder wishes to issue takedowns they can do so, nobody elses opinion on the topic matters whatsoever, including hers.
> seems highly prone to groupthink and as it comes at zero cost to the striking party

In most cases, there is an alternative service provider. In this case there isn't, but there is also zero public will to change that due to the facts and circumstances of the dispute. Were those different, Postnord would be risking its monopoly on license-plate delivery.
> And yet, the majority seems to oppose unionizing despite calling themselves tech workers.

I find this an interesting statement because it equivocates self-identification with a socio-economic class (Workers) with a banal statement of fact ("I am employed doing work in a certain field"). The identification with Workers as a class is a political-philosophical stance, whether in the old school Labor vs. Management sense, or Marx's Proletariat vs. Bourgeoisie or some other.

Is it really so difficult to believe that workers in the second sense (the set of people providing technical expertise for money) have a diversity of views on any subject?

> Puzzling, how often people act against their own interests.

Perhaps. As humans we can all be short-sighted. It is also possible that the evils of working in the tech field are somewhat exaggerated. We are paid well relative to the median, we get to work in conditions that would have been considered luxurious across most of human history (temperature controlled indoors, without physical labor), and can pick our level of engagement (working at high finance or in an early startup is trading high risk and stress for the promise of a better payout, working in established businesses allows for fewer hours and less stress).
Multiple OpenPGP implementations were involved in the crypto refresh, including Sequoia-PGP, OpenPGP.js, GopenPGP, and - at one point - RNP and even GnuPG itself, though those two stopped being involved at some point. GnuPG is now unhappy with some of the changes that were made after that point, which is their right. However, GnuPG is not the only implementation of OpenPGP, and not the only voice that matters. Various implementations have already implemented the crypto refresh (and personally I still hold out hope that eventually, GnuPG will do so as well, if this drama dies down and everyone can reconciliate).
The only protocol I mentioned that expects pixel-perfect images is the sixel one (which is, essentially, what a DEC printer would print on paper, but on the screen). ReGIS, while it is traditionally rendered as pixels, doesn't really care about how many pixels the screen has. DPS doesn't care much about pixels, and Tektronix doesn't even have the concept of pixels, just coordinates in an x-y plane (because Tektronix terminals didn't even have pixels).

> I don't like the Kitty protocol described in this post, either. The Windows Terminal people are thinking about this

I've been part of these discussions (mostly from the VTE side). I agree sixel, ReGIS, and Tek are "legacy" and have been implemented in such ways it's a miracle that they ever worked, and what you see on one brand of terminal is entirely dependent on the positions of the planets when the code was written and when the image is rendered and might not resemble at all what you'd see on another brand unless by coincidence ;-P.

Which is kind of why I brought up DPS - it's the only one that takes pure geometry and generates pixels (Tektronix does so as well, but it's very limited, and doesn't really like to be anchored to the text screen).
Lol, nordic states do have one of the highest living standards in the world and are ranking among the top on all important parameters and they do have this union system in place for some decades already, but sure, some strikes will ruin EVERYTHING... I wonder do ppl really believe in such silly things?
That's definitely the case. Nintendo even instituted a 5 games/year limit on publishers to limit the chances that they'd flood the market. Nintendo would have a group internally playtest games and provide feedback to publishers. Because the NES was so popular and games were cheap to develop, some publishers would submit more than 5 games per year and only publish the games that scored highest. As a result, there's tons of fully complete NES games that never got released.
The Nature-family of journals have banned its use, and recommends ‘Cameraman’, ‘Mandril’ or ‘Peppers’ as alternatives. In other words there is a well established alternative and you just didn't try googling for it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-018-0337-2
You don’t see anything wrong with public workers selectively punishing _one_ entity of their arbitrary choosing?

Unchecked power is bad. Doesn’t matter if it’s a government, a company or a union.
Respecting a single real person's basic requests about use of their own image is "politically correct" now? It's worth considering at what point your knee-jerk reactions have gone off the deep end on the other side.
Scale is just additional context. The words by themselves aren't an issue, but the surrounding context makes it worth moderating.
They exist, albeit not 1:1 compatible in all aspects. That one in Thunderbird, Sequoia.
> Living in Germany, do you find yourself being hesitant to speak out either online or publicly?

No.

> Do you have a clear enough expectation of what would a judge would rule with regards to speech? And do you ever worry about how those existing laws could be misused in the future by people with more strict opinions of what speech is off limits?

You are quite safe both from the law and criticism if you stay factual and keep fact statements and your subjective judgements identifable as such.
ECS is anti-composition.

With composition, you say, "This object A has pieces B, C, and D. The way to get to B, C, and D is by going through A."

ECS is the exact opposite: "There are components B, C, and D. They may or may not be associated with entity A. In most cases, you shouldn't care because you should be working with B, C, and D directly and not going through A at all."
My brain read this as "we could respect it without respecting other minorities", maybe the orange has my brain conditioned.
Over what time scale?
Lyrics: "have waited for a light-year." What a long time! Wait.
Microsoft grinds constantly and consistently though, sprinkled with some monopolistic tendencies now and then to clinch a win.

I think the grind from Windows CE to Windows Phone is just a blip to them for now.
Whoa this took me back to using iPodWizard.net for all the firmware changes I did to customize my iPod & the dual boot with Rockbox was neat too!!
The ‘you won’t believe how big the next telescope is’ telescope. Seriously though, I think meta materials could end up creating a new field of optical telescopic lenses over the next few decades.
They're Facebook; they have their own LLMs. This is definitely a great first line of review. Then they can manually scrutinize the edge cases.
Sure. It's possible he decided he wanted to use a layoff as a way to make a gamble on the stock price before a scheduled sale.

However there is no actual evidence of this, so let's be careful about breaking out the pitchforks. This sale would have happened even if the stock tanked 50%.
The principle that he should be able the run the company as a dictatorship and not have to negotiate with anyone.