skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to complain about pro athletes making too much compare to STEM, consider that the average aspiring pro ends up making less than minimum wage over the duration of their career.

Only a tiny handful of about 250k high school football-playing seniors are able to find any at all job in their sport (if they even make it to college). Meanwhile, the roughly 100k yearly US CS grads have an unemployment rate of maybe 10%.
This article is terrible, there's an animated ad between almost every paragraph and a floating animated banner ad and a floating auto-playing video ad. Completely unreadable.
Yeah, there's something else going on. If you don't have permanent damage from some injury or disease, you shouldn't feel like 60+ if you barely hit 40. Maybe it's related to low testosterone, but even for that 40 is early.
The notepad application or a pad of sticky notes with which to decorate your monitor with the halo of arcane sigils known to ward off security breaches?
> As far as the concept itself goes, I don't think it's possible to divorce possessiveness from sex. I'm suspicious of people who claim to have conquered jealously.

It depends on what you mean by "jealousy", because that term wraps a bunch of disparate ideas, especially given the modern use encompasses envy too. Possessiveness and jealousy are not the same, and jealousy and envy are not the same either.

Here's a few different scenarios:

1. My partner sleeps with someone else and this upsets me because I want to sleep with my partner

2. My partner sleeps with someone else and this upsets me because I'm afraid this other person will take my partner

3. My partner sleeps with someone else and this upsets me because I want to sleep with other people

4. My partner sleeps with someone else and this upsets me because I wish I was like the other person

All of these scenarios are labelled jealousy, but they're for the most part built from feelings with different motivations.

I've been in a long-ish poly relationship since 2015 and since then I've discovered I don't experience jealousy or possessiveness in the classical expression, I'm actually pretty excited when my partners sleep together. Scenario 1 and 2 haven't ever happened for me, I'm either very secure in my feelings around my relationship or that emotional response isn't in my nature.

I do experience 3 and 4 but I'd definitely call that a split on envy/FOMO rather than jealousy.
> I wish they'd only permit manually vetted FOSS extensions, separating developers (who might secretly sell out) from the ability to push updates directly to users.

The developer does have to supply access to the code and updates do have to be vetted before being pushed to users for an extension to be included in the recommended extensions program.

This is a big advantage over Chromium based browsers, since we know that extension authors have sold their extension to less that scrupulous persons in the past who slip in malware without the user even knowing that a formerly well regarded extension has changed hands.

I've seen more than one post on HN with extension developers revealing how common it is to get offers to buy out an extension with a large user base.
According to the article,"Transitioning Mozilla away from Firefox." is the current organisation goal.
She have done her job great.

why was it a goal, I have bo idea
So what’s the deal with lesswrong? People there seem to take a generally academic-ish or intellectual-ish tone, but there aren’t any sources in this article and:

> Why? Most basically, because humans are only just on the cusp of general intelligence. Perhaps 5% of the population has enough abstract reasoning skill to verbally understand that the above heuristics would be useful once these heuristics are pointed out.

Is a wild claim to make unsupported, right?
That article is just a subset of the overall data because it only focuses on those under the age of 25. [1] suggests there are almost 25,000 ER visits and over 2,100 hospitalizations per year due to supplements (although adverse reactions don't necessarily mean tainted or poorly controlled dosage).

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1504267
I'm surprised there's no mention of QBasic that shipped with MS-DOS >= 5.0. This was built on top of EDIT.COM, and while it only ran a BASIC interpreter instead of compiling an executable like full-blown QuickBasic.

IIRC it had a rather extensive help lookup system for functions, data types, reference tables, error codes, and whatnot. You could step through your program, set debug points, all without exiting to DOS. It was my first ever exposure to an IDE, I thought it was pretty nice for what it was.
What if OpenAI were to first summarize or transform the content before training on it? Then the LLM has never actually seen copyrighted content and couldn't produce an exact copy.
> I don't think the lawsuit has any merit

The lawsuit fundamentally has merit. It asks a huge open question that no one knows the answer to. The outcome will be extraordinarily impactful. The question must be answered at some point.

The case has merit even if NYT loses across the board.
Western Automakers already control their respective markets and are seeking to break into china, so they design towards chinese consumers. Chinese automakers already control their respective markets and are seeking to break into the western markets, and thus design towards western consumer tastes.

You would think that "savy" HN visitors who know about A/B testing, market data driven decisions, etc. would know that if something looks ugly it's usually designed that way for a reason. But keep being smug while you ruin your website/app's color schemes and layout based on the same data driven corporate design strategies.
Yeah, in most cases sites "break" only because they integrate too much with some ad-tech SDK etc. Which means they break on any browser doing any serious ad-blocking.
Biggest Longevity Stories of 2023
I am an inactive, 45 year old software developer.

Can I overdo things and feel like shit? Yeah but mostly I feel great.

My knees are kind messed up but that is from running 500 miles every summer during middle school and high school.

So no, being in your 40s shouldn’t mean feeling like shit.

As to the topic at hand, I use two supplements in addition to prescription blood pressure medications. I take my blood pressure 3 times daily. I can see in the cold hard numbers if I forget to take them.
In this scenario, you haven't removed the reason why people flew to Chrome though. In this alternate universe, you'd probably need to remove all the Chrome propaganda, installs by default, etc.
> Also A24 is over there showing that ambitious and original concepts can be financially successful.

I'm not sure that is true. A24 is starting to pivot from that model so it's not clear they were making that much money.

[1] https://www.thewrap.com/a24-shifts-strategy-commercial-film/
The new BYD saloon looks a bit similar, actually.

It of course depends in personal taste but Chinese car makers seem to all be targeting global expansion and are all conscious of good design because they do make efforts in this area and none of their models is ugly.
I ment nuclear accidents and disasters, both Chernobyl and Fukushima can be traced back to ignoring safety rules and regulations.
To clarify, I do not recommend relying on any single source. Multiple sources will broaden your perspective. You can look at Google and other NATO based search engines to see the results they want or don't want you to see, and then you can look at non-NATO aligned sources to see other results.
Patterns for Solving Algorithmic Problems
> Because the outputs of Defendants’ GenAI models compete with and closely mimic the inputs used to train them, copying Times works for that purpose is not fair use.

This is interesting. The NYT is specifically saying that the way you use an LLM impacts what you can legally use for training the LLM. They're firing shots at the big guys trying to sell access to an LLM, but not at the little guy self-hosting for fun or academics doing research.
Yes it does when there are several stages of prototypes and engineering builds before the actual production vehicle is shipped to customers... and the hundreds of other mechanisms and systems that major automakers use nowadays. I mentioned QC because it's the first screening for arriving parts, not the only thing that occurs.

Do you not know how car manufacturing works?

Anyways you don't have to take the quality of RR parts on my word if you still think it's impossible, just go a showroom and inspect it yourself.
Indeed. The point of the story is the concepts presented. This is what hard sci-fi is all about. When I think sci fi, I think Egan rather than Star Wars
Turing test isn't really applicable or useful anymore. Its a idea from infancy of computing. Fresh and inspiring at the time for sure, but not in current times.

Just because computer program acts and feels like a human it doent mean it has any intelligence at all.

People claimed the ELIZA was sentient. So feelings if something sentient or not are a really bad metrics.
Right, buy a Xiaomi phone and install this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dnsfilter.andr...
It would never occur to me to defend coal...
If you shop by researching brand rather than price, you will find there are still good companies out there. Lots of cheap stuff is junk, some expensive stuff is junk. Even within brands there are differences. My fancy four wide slot cuisinart toaster has survived 20 years, lots of use many moves and getting slightly squished in an overstuffed trunk and is still going strong. Cuisinart coffee makers, however, lose their marbles at any power flickering, never mind outages. We can bemoan the onslaught of junk that we keep buying and therefore helping it grow, or just maybe we could put our money into companies that still make good stuff through some consumer research instead of believing the advertised 'best deal'.
The most success I’ve had for classifying purposes so far is using function calling and a hack-solution of making a new object for each data point you want to classify for the schema open AI wants. Then an inner prop that is static to place the value. Then within the description of that object is just a generic “choose from these values only: {CATEGORIES}”. Placing your value choices in all capital letters seems lock it in to the LLM that it should not deviate outside those choices.

For my purposes it seems to do quite well but at the cost of token inputs to classify single elements in a screenplay where I’m trying to identify the difference between various elements in a scene and a script. I’m sending the whole scene text with the extracted elements (which have been extracted by regex already due to the existing structure but not classed yet) and asking to classify each element based on a few categories. But then there becomes another question of accuracy.

For sentence or paragraph analysis that might look like the ugliest, and horrendous looking “{blockOfText}” = {type: object, properties: {sentimentAnalysis: {type: string, description: “only choose from {CATEGORIES}”}}. Which is unfortunately not the best looking way but it works.
Technological innovations that produced the shale revolution
Not as exciting as PCRE checking for primality, but:

python -c 'import re;print(re.match(r"^(.*)\1$",abs(int(input("n=")))*"1")and"Even"or"Odd")'
It's such a strange assortment of results whenever I search for anything on Amazon now. Buying direct from the producer or even just walking into a local big box store is less stressful if I have the time.
After self-hosting email for 23 years I have thrown in the towel (2022)
I dont completely agree with you. Honestly, appears like an excuse to never change the USCIS, I have come peace with it, that it never will.
> What does “merely-harmful” mean?
Drugs that really only harm the person who takes them if abused. Alternatively, drugs which are unproblematically sold over the counter the world over.

In the extreme case where someone ends up being injured or dead, friends and family are most definitely affected. There are few people this would not apply to.

Aside from that, the healthcare system takes a hit, employers do too and a thousand other little ripples spread out.

Some drugs are over-regulated and this is why I’m a fan of the middle line where some are sold at a pharmacy with no script needed and they can partially control the purchasing.
It's better than that. According to Wikipedia

> Chalk is typically almost pure calcite, CaCO3, with just 2% to 4% of other minerals

The supplement I just looked up uses Calcium Carbonate. That could just be purified chalk and be in compliance with the FDA. In fact, it probably is just that.
For a German, both of those are both foreign adversaries and foreign allies, at the same time. One is not "better" than the other.
CEOs need to be stopped.
There's got to be some middle ground between every reactor in the country being absolutely bespoke and on the other hand trying to build them in a factory like modular housing.

IIRC one of the big differences/problems is that every one of them have completely different control rooms and control systems. To the point that you cannot train on one reactor and walk into another and operate it. If we at least standardized that side of things, the cost of operations would surely come down

I also question (and happy to be enlightened about) how much the local project needs some massive change. That a pipe might need to be a few hundred yards longer to reach the river surely isn't so consequential that you can't reuse designs

These things are built on huge sites that could be completely leveled and turned into identical square clean pieces of dirt with massive empty land around them How much variation can there possibly be that can't be handled outside of the critical reactor design area
>EV Chargers then. Search for Level 2 EV Charger. The number of generic chineesium chargers available that will move 40amps of power in your garage without UL or ETL certification is mind-boggingly high.

Sounds like you're talking about third party EV chargers. What does this have to do with amazon basics? Or are you pulling a motte and bailey, going from "amazon basics is going to burn down your house" to "third party EV chargers are going to burn down your house"?
>Is there a perceived difference in engineer quality?

Intuitively, yes. If you're both brilliant, care about money, and want to stay and live in the EU, you aren't going to be a software engineer.

In the US, it's a solid path to a lucrative career.
If the encryption info is derived from the password it can be done without visual encryption keys for the user. It is the case with Firefox Sync. They have no way to recover the data if you forget the password.
AFAIK the IP deal with Microsoft only covers development before AGI.

So at any point OpenAI could declare that a sufficient degree of AGI has been achieved and thus return to its philanthropic mission. With GPLed models and all.

However, at this point the employees expect a multi-million cash-out for each of them. So the philanthropic mission seems to be gone out the window.

And probably that’s also the way Sam Altman got back into the CEO role. By maximizing the expected eventual cash-out for the employees which threatened to leave otherwise.
"Ally". The US has not exactly always been friendly to Europeans.
Ask HN: What are your favorite startup tech blogs?
I love reading about companies' tech/engineering decisions as they evolve.

Many big tech companies have them, but I'm looking for those by startups.

Thanks!
or left plugged into the mains unattended
Uh... if you wanted to get off of Chrome, getting a Chromebook might not have been the best choice.
Nominally, this might make sense with a "people liked the v1 of this and now it's a different SKU", with a note about it being for something else.

In practice, it seems very likely harm outweighs the benefits for consumers here, and it's just that it encourages more sales that keeps Amazon allowing it.
Both these points were clarified in the audience questions - it's a UDP to CAN bridge so the Linux based passenger information system knows the state of the train. And only the Linux system is GSM connected (to get network announcements etc.), none of the firmwares were installed remotely, only when trains were sent back to the manufacturer physically.
You have now idea how ship propulsion systems work, do you?
General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act"
> SpamHaus always has really good reasons

Ah, yes, blocking entire /18 and demanding money for the delisting.

I guess 'Guilty by association' is a 'good reason'.
My 3 year old Moccamaster’s auto-off feature gave up a couple months ago. It uses a special mechanical switch—an illuminated rocker switch that physically flips and turns the carafe warming plate off after 100 minutes—that I know I could easily replace if I had the part but Technivorm insists I send the unit to them which I probably never will do because the packing and shipping is a pain and costly and because I need my coffee.

And, boy, does it make good coffee.
>That's missing the huge and expensive nuclear power plant around that kilogram of uranium.

Whereas I think you are missing the huge and expensive battery array for solar to be useful outside of peak times? And the fact that the best sites for solar are far away from the transmission network?
My favorite source http://www.asciiartfarts.com/
It doesn't matter, if everything else stays the same what matters is what it's used for. If it's used to make money, it would certainly hurt claims of fair use—maybe not for those that do the training, but for those that use it.
Yeah, I don't think "accidentally" is something that happened here. What's the best way to make your "all-natural Viagra" actually work? Make it with real Viagra.
Erasing cloud data is not a biggie, because as soon as you log back in (with the new password) from a device with the old data, it will get reuploaded. FF does the safe thing when synchronising.
That sounds like a very shady business…
How is it a copy at all? Surely the model weights would therefore be much larger than the corpus of training data, which is not the case at all.

If it disgorges parts of NYT articles, how do we know this is not a common phrase, or the article isn't referenced verbatim on another, unpaid site?

I agree that if it uses the whole content of their articles for training, then NYT should get paid, but I'm not sure that they specifically trained on "paid NYT articles" as a topic, though I'm happy to be corrected.

I also think that companies and authors extremely overvalue the tiny fragments of their work in the huge pool of training data, I think there's a bit of a "main character" vibe going on.
How does this even happen?
Of course nobody will buy a dangerous product twice. You can’t buy another product after being burned to a crisp!
> most people would never know if you replaced their magnesium or calcium supplement with chalk.

Minerals and vitamins come from USP, which is tested and regulated and everyone in the industry gets the same quality (regardless of what they claim). It is what they say it is, if it’s USP.

Where is gets sketchy quickly is all the other stuff, like plant extracts etc
Reading reviews of Chinese clone items you'll also start to see people mention an entire different product in the review than what you're looking at.

E.g you're looking at a mattress cover and the reviews and pictures are for a folding chair or a slotted spoon.

The internet of today is total trash.
Is it the kind of wildlife we want to be reproducing?

Is it the kind of wildlife you want as a pet?

Is it the kind of wildlife you want to eat?

No, this is not actually a good thing.
This might be the first article I've read that has more charts than data points.
If I was dictator, it would be a carbon tax that would be rebated to the population overall trying to be revenue-neutral. You get a check for $1500 a year but could be taxed for much more or much less depending on your lifestyle.

At $100/ton it seems possible large industrial sites could capture CO2 and pump it underground. That corresponds to a $1 or so a gallon of tax on gasoline which adds about $500 to the yearly running cost. It might have to be more than that though.
That sentence lacks context. It’s like saying strawberries are healthy. Makes no sense without any context. Diet and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy. Single ingredient, not really. There’s no measure of healthiness for a single ingredient and I’m pretty sure you could have ice cream every day and still be healthy long term.
My main issue with this article, as well.

Generally they’re essays about cognitive science so they feel a little more free to pontificate than, say, biologists are, but yeah I also would like to see a lot more sources. They are in their own discourse - note that this is a response to another (anonymous) post on the forum.

When you’re having a discussion that the scientific consensus (of the 2010s, at least…) finds alarmist and non-scientific, you can see why you’d be attracted to sources in your own little ecosystem. It is quite a diverse ecosystem, despite its shared interests
> We can’t impute motivation.

Correct, you’re right, I was speculating on alternative reasons people might avoid the doctor. We also don’t have evidence that the cost or time of a doctors visit is the reason for the existence of the black market demand, contrary to your claim above.

Of course, a huge risk for black market purchases is that they turn out to be fake and/or have unlisted harmful ingredients. It’s already happening with black market Viagra. You get what you pay for, which is people who are breaking the law, are secretive and unaccountable, and putting anything they want in those pills. Good luck with that. A co-pay and a quick Zoom call with a doc seems like a safer choice to me…
I mean it’s not stated as a strong claim, but a rough guess given the “perhaps”. I do agree saying an exact number with 0 basis is not a great argument though.
The best part is, you don't need to choose between using IDEs and your favorite text editor! Most modern IDEs with proper plugin support can be configured to provide a superset of Vim's functionality. I personally use IdeaVim on the IntelliJ Platform [1] with AceJump [2] and haven't looked back. You can import many of the settings from your .vimrc and it interoperates fairly well with the IDE features. Although I prefer Vim keybindings and it is technically possible to hack together an IDE-like UX with ctags and LSP, the IDE experience is so much better I wouldn't even consider working on a large Java or Kotlin project from the command line.

[1]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/164-ideavim

[2]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7086-acejump
I think OP was being a little hyperbolic, but I know what they mean. Little things add up. Certain minor issues become chronic. Waking up with minor aches and pains is somewhat frequent. Sleep issues are common.

It falls short of feeling like shit, but there is a kind of death by many cuts that changes the baseline for feeling normal in the wrong direction.
Animals eat naturally-occurring chalk (and other substances) to regulate key minerals. It's called geophagia.
Your comment sent me down a rabbit hole that led me to https://www.languagereactor.com/ and it's great so far. Thanks!
depends on what you do with it based on my understanding. For example, you couldn't sell posters of it.

In this sense, I think the point isnt that Midjourney cant use it in training, but that not all outputs are free of copyright restrictions.

I can find tons of images on google that carry various forms of copyright, and google is fine search them and display them. I just dont own them.
It is not innovation it is evolution coming from a consumerist culture.

We in Europe foolishly thought we are beyond that and here we are.

Thanks german industrialists.