skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChatGPT is not a good place to get legal advice. Regardless, there are a variety of ways that you can get boned for accepting bribes in your capacity as an employee. In the US, the "honest services" laws have been weakened by Supreme Court action, but there are other paths to criminal prosecution.

The advice of "STFU and get the comment removed" is spot on.
This is interesting. I'm a patent lawyer, so all of my contract law knowledge comes from a standard casebook, but I can can tell you that the analogous questions in my field are anything but settled.

> an LLM is not a human, so it can't make contracts in any respect

Probably the most contentious question relates to AI inventorship, which is disallowed under Thaler v. Vidal (Fed. Cir. 2022), but is already laughably out of date with respect to the technology. The decision draws a similarly hard line regarding whether an inventor must be a human or not based on statutory interpretation.

But the patent office will soon be inundated with AI-authored or AI-assisted inventions, if they aren't already. Applicants will simply just not admit it or possibly opt for trade secret protection instead. Meanwhile, other countries may not take such a hard line, and that IP will make its way to China or the EU or wherever.

Of course this is all science fiction right now, since it's an open question as to whether an LLM will invent anything useful, but it's not implausible. My point is that I believe the question will be revisited very soon.
Ideologically you are of course correct...but I would say Apple/iMessage is about as good/bad an actor in the IM-space as their competition.
Is your impression that democracies function by referendum on every major issue, especially during moments of crisis?

> And at some point someone even suggested to postpone elections.

I'm sorry someone suggested that.

> But more on topic, the only reason the Commission is going gung-ho is because of the elections next year They are very afraid.

Right, because they in fact don't have unilateral power.
Any policy that disincetivizes growth by unsustainable practices is good policy IMO. We need less companies who's end goal is getting acquired, and more that are in it to build a self sustainable business. Having employee motivation hinge on a acquisition is one of the most toxic business practices.

My general rule of thumb is that unless the company is putting you in a position where you actually get to drive, stock should be treated only as icing on the cake of an already worth while salary. (Unless it's a publicly traded company where you can reasonably assert that stock price will most likely go up or stay around the same)
> Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260...
> If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday.

I think it is an overreaction to say Twitter is silencing folks here. Not only can you access it, you can also turn off "safe filters", but the Streisand effect probably means more people are actually reading it and adding volume to the issue.

So I don't know that you need to really worry about it!
What it takes to defend a cargo ship from attack
This will be another huge hit to what I call “Old Pittsburgh”. It’s still very much a steel city, especially in the South Hills. Interested to see that how it impacts the local economy.
The "Chicken Tax" Has Made an Enduring Impact
I hope you're not referring to my comment, that was not my intent at all.
Lots of wise advice. It's telling that one of the most frequently occurring words in this document about landing a man on the moon is "simple."

- "Build it simple and then double up on many components so that if one fails the other will take over. Examples are ablative thrust chambers that do not require regenerative cooling; hypergolic propellants that do not require an ignition source; three fuel cells, where one alone could bring the spacecraft back from the moon"

- "Another important design rule, which we have not discussed as often as we should, reads: Minimize functional interfaces between complex pieces of hardware. In this way, two organizations can work on their own hardware relatively independently...The main point is that a single man can fully understand this interface and can cope with all the effects of a change on either side of the interface. If there had been 10 times as many wires, it probably would have taken a hundred (or
a thousand?) times as many people to handle the interface." (interesting proposed scaling)

- "Generally, tedious, repetitive tasks are best performed automatically...but the entire rendezvous sequence was designed so that the pilot could always monitor the automatic system's performance and apply a backup solution if deviations were noted."

- "The single most important factor leading to the high degree of reliability of the Apollo spacecraft was the tremendous depth and breadth of the test activity...Most important of all, the tests gave us a tremendous amount of time and experience on the spacecraft and their systems. Such experience -- together with a detailed analysis of all previous failures, discrepancies, and anomalies -- led us to the conclusion that we were ready to fly a lunar orbit with Apollo 8"

- "Throughout Apollo, many discrepancies or failures occurred daily...the result was the same: The failure had to be understood and, if applicable, some corrective action taken.

- "Pay particular attention to what seem minor details, especially for substitute parts and 'explained' failures."
How's this for stronger? You're weak if you got a device you don't want because someone else said you should get it.
The UK Bribery Act is, on paper, very strong and broad in application.
Unfortunately prosecutions under it are exceptionally rare.
if I can click "yes" on terms and agreements without any verification I am who I say I am... then possibly
IEEE has some publications[1], with varying topics and quality. Otherwise, speaking for myself, I found random internet browsing, especially in OSS circles, the most effective.

[1]: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/browse/periodicals/topic
Sargasso Sea around Bermuda is now at its hottest
A sea-level-corrected map would help this debate. For example, the projected glacial max leaves a huge land bridge:

https://www.climate.gov/media/11951
Don't think they are doing most damage. Their CO2 emission per capita are a lot lower than US. They didn't recently have a president speaking about "clean coal". They have a huge amount of solar and wind power generation. A lot of modern renewable technology came from German companies and engineers. They don't build new coal power stations.
I think that was their play from the beginning, get something working to prove it's technically possible and eliminate that line of argumentation, wait for the retaliation, and then sue them for anticompetitive practices that now clearly demonstrates consumer harm.

Get the regulators to force Apple to open the front door for them.
How many times has the sun traveled around the Milky Way?
I like the post about EU PressFreedom legislation.

Two “X”s for:

- no state interference

- no disinformation

Hmmmm… how does that work? The state would obviously need to interfere to stop “disinformation”
Do you have online resources I can browse through for conversions?

I have a gas boiler -radiator piping built into the walls and people I talk to say the radiators wont work with heat pump level of temperatures so as in your case the system needs to be converted but how. What are methods and techniques?
Hahah yeah I think we all would love that.
You are right, in a perfect world. However, due to lawyers, the perfect world has been upended for the consumer. Sure, you can fight it, but over a few dollars returned and thousands paid for an attorney to fight it--only to get a settlement that doesn't change anything.
Quantum batteries could charge by breaking our understanding of time
> Apple engaged in a classic "brain rape" to extract value without cost.

Hyperbolic, sexualized language isn't helpful here.

Why didn't Masimo counter Apple's offers and pay their employees what they are worth? I don't see how this isn't Masimo's fault when they certainly had the money to do it.

I know lots of cases where rival companies tried to hire engineers with highly domain-specific expertise away from rivals and failed, because those rivals would counter offers and provided a great, supportive work environment. If Masimo failed to do that, then that's their own fault.

I side with the employees here. Good on them for knowing their worth.
The problem with e-vehicle subsidies is that for some reason we as society decided that an electrical car should also be a luxury car with insane and impractical acceleration, humungous range numbers and all kind of creature conforts and aesthetical fru-fru you can imagine.

It doesn't even matter if people don't get rid of their petrol boxes, as long as they are kept as a second car for the very rare long-distance trip.

I refuse to believe that people wouldn't get attracted to a small and INEXPENSIVE small electric car for daily usage and commuting. We just need to sell them on this: keep your ICE if you want, we don't care as long as you get this cheap electrical econo-box. Yes, it only gets some 60-80 miles of range, but we are not telling you to get rid of your SUV, you can keep it, this is your SECOND car.
Huh? What does that have to do with the topic we're discussing?

Do you have an explanation for why you believe critiques of hypocrisy should be dismissed? I'm getting the sense that you're just personally a fan of Elon, which is fine, but not really a substantive contribution to the discussion.
Show HN: I open sourced my HAR cleaning library
I built a free HAR cleaner for Jira in response to the recent Okta hack, but it was built around the open source library that Cloudflare had made. In testing, I found that it would regularly corrupt the HAR file so I built this as a replacement.

It's my first time releasing an OSS library, and I am a fairly novice developer.
AI Based To-Do List
the problem statement is that people suffer with scheduling so we want to make people active in addition to completion of schedules....so we are implementing ai which only suggest ideas and helps us to submit the task
Most people cannot have a remote job. What should those people do to be "present"?
I wish I could upvote this more. I feel like the people who say that all you need is engineers have worked either exclusively at devtools type startups, or they've only worked at unsuccessful startups but have convinced themselves that the reasons why had nothing to do with lack of people with PM skills.

If you work in pretty much any kind of B2B SaaS and don't have PMs (or someone doing the PM work - if you've got engineers who were formerly PMs who spend half their time managing the roadmap, you can't really claim you're only employing engineers), you're probably doomed.
I get where you're going, but the original comment seemed to be trying to make a totalising "LLMs are inherently this way" which is the opposite of true, they weren't like this before (see gpt2, gpt3 etc) and had to intentionally work to make it this way, which was a concious and intentional choice. earlier llms would respond to the tone presented, so if you swore with it, it would swear back - if you presented a wall of "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" it would reply with more of the same
Right, just seems a bit premature to be drawing conclusions about how wide-ranging censorship is going on? (I agree that getting that full document would be great.)
Companies are not held liable for things that cannot be delivered even when an employee has stated they could. You can choose not to do business with them. Maybe the company chooses to reprimand the employee. How many times have we been told a technician will arrive between the hours of ___ to ___ only for it to not happen? How many times have we been told that FSD will be fully functional in 6 months? If companies were held liable for things employees said, there would be no sales people. I've never once met with a sales person that did not over sale the product/service.
Thanks! There are ways to shave off the latency: hosting locally, using quantized/smaller models, streaming data instead of doing the tasks sequentially
> Whatever garbage the LLMs are throwing at us, we have no clue if they are truthful.

Sure we do. If an LLM writes code, for instance, we can run the code against tests to see if it does what it says on the tin.

Will the tests sometimes fail to catch errors? Yeah, but tests also fail against human-written code.
>the Windows Boot Loader,

Just FYI, Windows Boot Manager (and also its predecessor NTLDR) can chainload into any other bootloader including GRUB. Originally intended to support dualbooting Windows NT with Windows 9x, it's actually quite handy and reliable.

>I flatly refuse to purchase a mass-market computer ever again.

There's your problem. "Big box" store-bought computers have motherboards that are locked down and devoid of most advanced features.
The new document repeats that rationale and elaborates on it, reaffirming that marriage is a lifelong sacrament between a man and a woman. And it stresses that blessings should not be conferred at the same time as a civil union or even with the clothing and gestures that belong in a wedding.
>So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

I assume they have a huge captive domestic market that such threats are effective. Imagine VW threatening to ban the sale of the Golf
Your original point was:

>You just add a disclaimer that none of what the bot says is legally binding

The combination of legality and AI can make for a complex and nuanced problem. A superficial solution like "just add a disclaimer" probably doesn't not capture the nuance to make for a great outcome. I.e., a superficial understanding leads us to oversimplify our solutions. Just like with the responses, it seems like you are in more of a hurry to send a retort than to understand the point.
Knoxville's Building the Biggest Community-Owned Broadband Network in US History
Apple's TestFlight dataleak – Terabytes of unencrypted binaries from 2012-2015
Notably so, I believe Trillian was a paid product and Meebo was actually treated like a real tech startup. Interesting, indeed, how much the sentiment has shifted over the course of 10-15 years...
Hi! I'm glad you found Cahier interesting. I use it on a daily basis.

I've been developing the tool for 10 months, and still haven't gone full public. There's still some things to iron out before that. But I hope to publish more about it in the coming weeks.
In case you're maybe interested, I wrote up a little thing about how I think of accessible interfaces and designing for them:

https://graypegg.com/2023/11/25/the-private-definition-of-ac...

Edit: decided to post it here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38683774
Some guy isn't just giving his opinion, "If memory serves" implies that he has knowledge of an unreleased EU government report but his credentials seem to be of an american or maybe uk corporate lawyer and barely a professor at an american university. No reason to believe he has privileged access to the report. Though there is reason to believe he's practiced in the arts of online propaganda wars.
How should an interested personal web developer find how their website sounds through a screen reader?
Secrets and Power: China in the UK[video]
The problem will always be that 'fun' rapidly develops complexity to support 'cool looking'.
It's long gone, nothing special, just uploaded a screenshot of the raci as it was being edited in a spreadsheet. Then just explained the context and the teams listed.
Under PCI-DSS v4.0, the card verification code, which is the three- or four-digit number printed on the front or back of a payment card, must not be retained after the completion of the authorization process. This rule is in place to prevent fraudulent activities, such as Internet and mail-order/telephone-order transactions, which can occur if card verification code data is stolen .
FFS, they bought up and ruined Stelco here in Hamilton (Canada's Pittsburgh) just to loot its customer-list and they still failed anyways?
Show HN: DALL-E 3 and GPT-4 Vision Recursive Image Generator
It's like Gartic Phone for images, powered by AI.
I created an automated DALL·E 3 and GPT-4 Vision Image Recursor.

Simply provide a starting prompt and see how AI iterates on it.
It's perfect for the 'Make it more' trend.

You'll need to provide your own OpenAI API Key, but the website is open source! I've linked to the GitHub on the website.

Try it out: https://image-recursor.web.app/
”spewing any garbage at any cost however much damage it does to society.”

Indeed all this support of free speech is horrible to see.

/s
How about a merger tax?

Every time a company merges, say 10% of the combined value of the new company is given to the government (perhaps with a discount if one or other of the merging companies has recently paid the merger tax).

The lack of the 10% fee for a company who didn't merge is effectively compensation for the fact it has less market control than peers in the same market who did merge.
Clickbait headline. The individual did NOT purchase the vehicle for $1.
Advent of Prism: Part 18 – Parameters
Exactly. The downside of subscription software is that companies like Adobe become life insurance companies that produce software. Their enterprise value is defined by churn rates and there's a strong incentive to lock customers down to reduce that risk.

I work for a huge org, and we tell companies like this to go fuck off with terms like this. The real scam of Adobe is that there is no way to assess engagement rates with their tools. The only way to get this data is by metering PCs or datamining your IdP.
Pocket Forests Are Coming to Town
> Keep them safe

Imagine an enemy uses troll farms to cause divisions, spread lies, propaganda and conspiracy theories in plain sight. This leads to people distrusting everything (how can you even know what is truth when there are so many lies out there, etc.), including medical advice from medical professionals, evacuation orders in case of natural disasters, etc. Or even participate in a coup attempt because social media has led them to believe there is some gross injustice, or whatever. Or go and decapitate teachers because social media told them they're offending their holy religion.

Now, the above is factual, not an imaginary scenario. At the very least Russia has been caught directly doing the above, as well as paying actors to cause trouble and stoke divisions (like the guy burning Qurans in Sweden). In some countries there have even been fights between troll farms from different countries (it was somewhere in Central Africa between Russian and French troll farms) online. Same goes for ISIS and similar organisations that had very heavy recruitment online.

So, do you really think combating misinformation such as the above isn't a part of keeping citizens safe? I'd take selective censorship of e.g. ISIS and affiliated groups in exchange for teachers not getting decapitated, thank you very much.

(If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating with the decapitation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arras_school_stabbing which was "just" a stabbing)
Solution:

1. Run a large number of verified unpoisoned images through the AI poisoning algorithm

2. Create a large high-quality data set consisting of the before and after poisoning image pairs

3. Train an AI using this data set so it can detect or even reverse the poisoning

4. AI train stops for no one
That's assuming the company still has motivation to continue and improve. I can only imagine there's a lingering feeling of dejection at Figma right now.
Here's a related phenomenon. What's up with people who bag up their dog poop, and then just leave the bag? Especially out in the woods? I see it constantly. They went to the trouble to bring the bags and bag up the poop, and actually made the situation worse. Bagged up it can't naturally decompose, and they've added the bag as a piece of litter.
> Perhaps future generations will see us as enlightened

Sorry for being a bit like a terrier here, not letting go of my "prey" once I have sunk my teeth into it. The prey in this case (which I tried to express in the parent) is the notion that one can generalize the opinions, or lenses if you like, of an entire age, be it the present, or some age in the past or future. So, "future generations will see" is a variety of this, and I'm protesting: one should not use such language at all, instead one could for example say "the dominant view among people in academia", or "some mechanics that work in east coast autoshops", or "the druids generally held the view", or "the mainstream view in the future will probably be" etc.

That aside, yes - this is also one of my problems with large trends not only in academia, but culture in general: there is not much of attempt to understand previous ages on their own terms. Instead the present day ideas and ideals are projected on radically different times. Not always; historians who are serious about their work will at least try to avoid it.
Easy enough to confirm with a representative of the dealership via their chat window that just sold the car for $1.

The conclusion is that you probably shouldn't trust ChatGPT to represent your company.
What do start ups do for health insurance?
This is a question for startups who provide health coverage to their employees.

For those of you who pay for employee health insurance, which plan did you pick and why? What did you value when making that decision?
Are your employees happy and are you happy?
Thanks
Paraphrasing Adam Smith,

The main reason is economic profit of any venture can go to pay 3 things:
1. capital invested (having an inventory of things, having done the R&D, having built an expensive factory, just represents existing wealth and assets (not money!!))
2. labor (the people involved)
3. rent (for the land used)

With technology, and there is no indication AI is any better, capital owners get more and more of the profit of any venture. If anything, its point is to reduce the dependence on labor. So you have more people, competing for fewer spots, and you can get away with paying them less. The lower bound for what you could pay labor is just barely enough, so they keep having enough kids to provide future workers. If you start with a glut of workers, then it is a dark situation (which we are already living in, how many people can afford to have kids?)
Misleading headline. The document states a priest can bless them without relationship intent. This is similar to how a dog, a statue, a drug addict, or similar may be blessed.
EU Investigates Elon Musk's X for Spreading Illegal Content
I have had the same issue and for me it was to start with something more gripping.

I had a long list of really technical and hard to read books. So faced with reading them, I always defaulted to something easier.

Instead, if you start with something gripping and easier to read (even some trashy fiction) it builds up momentum and the habit. Once you get some momentum you can start tackling the harder books, alternating back to easier stuff when motivation wanes
This is literally standard corporate playbook behavior that has been utilized since the creation of corporations. In what possible way is it “more than fiction”?
It’s not about wilderness, it doesn’t much matter to the squirrel being ripped apart by a cat whether or not it was endemic to Leeds.

It’s about the fact that people have “pets” that they let kill several animals a day for sport, and for what? So you can see that cat once a week when it comes home?

It’s inhumane, and I’d argue a society caring about that is simply further evolved, culturally, in that one particular area.
> Adobe just buying up it's competition will only ever directly hurt consumers.

I can't tell if this is a general statement about monopolies or a statement about Adobe's products.