skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were mostly populair because they were cheapest to lease business-wise (there were no good alternatives 4 years back). Tax break is over now, and I hear lots of complaining from people who are now required to lease an EV due to company policies changing in the mean time. Most will have to pay a lot more.
It’s easier to illustrate with prose: ask it to write in the style of Terry Pratchett or Hunter S Thompson and the style changes drastically. You can even ask it to rewrite your scientific paper in the style of Shakespeare: https://chat.openai.com/share/498804da-6d59-4a0c-91d1-da4cea...
My country has a list of criteria to distinguish self-employment from closeted employment (which is tax evasion where I live):

- use your own tools (laptop, phone, vehicle)

- set your own schedule (work hours/days)

- get paid for tasks, not hourly

- have the ability to decline jobs without losing the customer (within reason)

To me it seems like gig work is in the clear. Why is it not?
Finally, can't wait to the time they will legalize suicide centers with these pods where everyone, without any reason at all other than wanting it, can easily, quickly, reliably and euphorically end this non-sense called life.
There are no international water in the short straits between England and France.

To send a ship back we'd have to escort it, then the French would forcefully object to our actions.

Basically for us to send ships back, or send people back, without French cooperation amounts to an act of war. We'd have to use our armed forces, with the obvious reaction from the French armed forces.

Not really a practical, nor sensible proposition.
Since you haven't replied with any actual critique of the analysis done by the National Bureau of Economic Research I assume you don't have any?

Have you even read their report?
Can confirm (Austrian here)
There’s another comment pointing out that one of the images are from unsplash. What more proof do you need?
Hugh is much better and more honest.
> I don't understand why some people can't escape the "addiction" of overeating unhealthy food, let alone too much of it, and others can escape the throes of drug dependency. [...] What could be so alien about someone like me compared against my own father, as opposed to his being in an active refusal to try?

Well, addiction is a difficult thing. Most people with a serious addiction will never be able to overcome it. A small number of people will have the willpower to get through the withdrawal and engulfing suffering related to it.

> it all seems to me like the issue isn't one of avoiding pain so much as refusing not to experience constant cheap pleasure

People that are addicted to food, cocaine, or alcohol don't want to be addicted to it. They hate their constant urges. When I was at my worst I didn't want to eat the food I was eating. But fighting that urge requires a monumental amount of willpower people often simply don't have. It's not a "willpower deficiency" just as we wouldn't call a normal person willpower-deficient if they couldn't kick a cocaine addiction.

> once it comes time to do the hard work of rejecting harmful habits all the cheap fun imagining the future disappears and they quit, simply ignoring all the downsides by trying to embrace even more pleasure.

Yeah, they give up - which to me is completely unsurprising given how hard losing weight and kicking that addiction is for some people. See, given how addicted you are to food, a diet plan could range from merely "hard work" to "so ridiculously hard that your psychology can't handle it".

This is why I think medicines like Ozempic are critical. They enable you to lose weight without needing to exercise Herculean feats of willpower if you are very addicted to food (especially if you have been since childhood.)
The Conspirituality podcast episode "Coaches Coaching Coaches" discusses how the wholly unregulated "life coaching" trend operates very much like network marketing, and cons buyers with similar claims to freedom from wage work.

What seems constant is how many people dislike being employees.

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/coaches-coaching-co...
I took an AI in ethics course from a state backed school (Georgia Tech) and the answer to questions that weren’t “that’s illegal based on protected status” were “well, it depends.” Which, sure, that’s true, but maybe not helpful.

In my view it encouraged nihilism and apathy instead of developing ethical frameworks. From that lens, I feel teaching a course might be more limiting in the range of heuristics you’re willing to accept or endorse. Though happy to accept your personal experience.

A paper that comes to mind often from HCI is “do artifacts have politics” which looks at the impacts of technologies divorced from creator intent. I feel that’s similar here.

You’re not wrong that about the mechanism that it’s created. But I would argue that’s the least important part, ethically anyway.

Saying “strip mining with heavy industrial machines mimics laborers using shovels” is true to a degree, but but perhaps not that important piece of information.

I’m not saying you’re making that argument. I guess im just not totally sure the outcome you were looking for in sharing your original comment. I hear your comparison and agree with it and that it is interesting to view in that lense. I wasn’t sure if there was a deeper intent in sharing it.
We're still not past people being able to openly enjoy sex. We may or may not get there.

"We expect our chancellors ... to be role models for our students, staff and faculty..." Healthy sex within marriage and good food seem exemplary to me, better examples than clergy who must abstain from the lives of ordinary people.
<Obligatory Futurama reference here />
> Google, promised reach and new markets for content, it worked. Then they introduced snippets, ads and whole lot of other things to keep visitors on their freeway, while avoiding sending visitors to the original site.

Afterward came bots that saturated search results with useless SEO barf that pushed content (original and duplicated) so far down that we're coming back to where we started. Content is increasingly unfindable on the web.
Please. They don't have highly efficient production. What they have is access to cheap labor overseas, maintained again by the government. It may not be patents and copyrights, exactly, but it's the same basic idea: the government picking winners and losers.
The CNC machines are still useful for testing RF designs. You can iterate a PCB antenna design more quickly with one than you can by sending out. And they're a low-commitment (i.e. no purchase order) way to make small jigs and adapters.
To be clear I agree with this, I didn't intend to downplay the impact of that consequence. I think the continued existence of free software is both a practical and moral necessity.

What I was trying to communicate here is that I think meaningful negative impact to free software and to developers is a worst-case scenario and not the most likely scenario. It's plausible, and we should be concerned, but I think there's also a plausible outcome that is neutral or positive for free software if companies end up contributing more to free software as a way of ensuring they are meeting their obligations under the law.
Methylphenidate is not an amphetamine but your points stand.
zombie session cookies

https://www.infostealers.com/article/lumma-malware-can-alleg...
Quantum is not parallel.

Quantum is quantum. We did a few quantum gate simulations in my college back in the day.

The gist is that entangling bits (say b0, b1, b2, b3 are all entangled), has special properties. You can almost perform retroactive computing. you can send these values to quantum gates to define properties, like b0 + b1 = b2 * b3.

Later, you unentangled the values and they will 'snap' into some true state. Like b0,b1,b2,b3 == 1111, but the values 0001 or 0010 are also possible.

There is nothing 'parallel' about this. It's just a quantum operator using the properties of entanglement / disentanglement for the purposes of computation.

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I'd say that quantum is closer to retroactive computing than parallel. Operations seemingly go backwards in time thanks to entanglement.

That doesn't mean quantum is useful in all algorithms, but it seemingly has applications in cryptography and 3SAT / NP Complete and... Lol simulations of quantum effects.

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Ultimately, Quantum is only useful if you get enough bits at a time entangled. For now, it's faster for standard computers to brute-force all 2^32 bit combinations rather than using lasers+diamonds to entangle 32-bits and perform the operations.

Quantum needs more entanglement and at lower costs to become competitive. But maybe it happens. At very least, quantum computers do exist but who knows how long it will be before they are competitive.
Some notes on how embeddings/DistilBERT embeddings work since the other comments are confused:

1) There are two primary ways to have models generate embeddings: implicitly from an LLM by mean-pooling its last hidden state since it has to learn how to map text in a distinct latent space anyways to work correctly (i.e. DistilBERT), or you can use a model which can generate embeddings directly which are trained using something like triplet loss to explicitly incentivise learning similarity/dissimilarity. Popular text-embedding models like BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5 tend to use the latter approach.

2) The famous word2Vec examples of e.g. woman + king = queen only work because word2vec is a shallow network and the model learns the word embeddings directly, instead of it being emergent. The latent space still maps them closely as shown with this demo, but there isn't any algebraic intuition. You can get close with algebra but no cigar.

3) DistilBERT is pretty old (2019) and based on a 2018 model trained on Wikipedia and books, so there will be significant text drift in addition to being less robust with newer modeling techniques and a more robust dataset. I do not recommend using it for production applications nowadays.

4) There is an under-discussed opportunity for dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA (which this demo uses to get the data into 3D) to both improve signal-to-noise and improve distinctiveness. I am working on a blog post of a new technique to handle dimensionality reduction for text embeddings better which may have interesting and profound usability implications.
you’re a unicorn
When did I mentioned one should always point to https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=479

For like >99% of cases where people used dd they would have been better of using a different tool.
The 2000 Bush vs Gore election only shaped middle eastern policy in the sense that Bush's parents deciding to not use Birth control in 1945 shaped middle eastern policy. It's not really the same sort of cause and effect as a direct election on a particular issue.
I get all my news from UNILAD.COM, a major youth platform for breaking news and relatable viral content.
I think the world would be completely fine without a copyrighted C3PO or Robocop. George Lucas didn’t have billions of merchandising revenue in mind when working on his wild and thought unlikely to be successful science fiction movie in the 70s. Robocop was also a labor of love. We don’t really need Nth Star Wars sequel powered by those extra profits. The art form could be healthier overall.
The good'ol "organize your stuff" problem. The problem with "categories" is that a) usually a "thing" can only belong to 1 category and b) a category often belong in a hiarchy of categories and can only be 1 place. So that is why I've used _tags_ instead, which is more of a many to many "flat" releation. Not sure I understood your comment correctly? ..I've certainly given this quite some thought already, but nothing is perfect
While it’s true germans are plagued with all sort of holistic medicine and homeopathy mind virus, this one is true. With covid wave there was explosion of co2 meters and tons of people realised they live in stuffy air all the time.

What’s depressing is that neither rental rules do not require HRVs yo be installed nor little public places have started to upgrade.
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...

For example:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...

Or the type of an array and its elements:

const arr : number[] = [1]

but

const this_is_actually_undefined : number = arr[456]

so it should be

const correct_type : number | undefined = arr[idx]

And there are way more, I'm too lazy to search for them or think about them.
Sure, buddy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
But does the word processor you used to write your Dumbledore/Gandalf fanfic hold liability for being sued because it enabled your misuse? Then neither should Dall-E hold liability because it enabled you to produce an illustration for that book. It is you—the person who tries to sell your derivative work, who holds liability, and not the tools you used to produce it.
For now. A NATO left behind by a hypothetical second Trump administration might be a much less effective deterrent. With two nuclear powers on the continent and one latent nuclear power (Germany) and none in the east save Russia, things might get very interesting for a while if that came to pass.
Sad news. Nuclear needs to be in the mix for an energy grid independent of fossil fuels.
how does the Node package handle Go {{ $foo }} in the templates?
It's not so much an observation as it is a claim. You can't observe something that isn't there, after all.
I agree with everything except 4. It was easy to develop trivial components, but anything more complex and you'd have to do some serious work and the IDE would crash on you on mistakes and there was no way to debug your component live. I can't imagine the pain those DevExpress developers went through to make that VCL data grid of theirs.
IMDb is owned by Amazon. They use it for the Prime Video X-Ray functionality. IMDbPro is probably useful for some members of the industry (at $20 per month). Apart from that, the user ratings and reviews are still kind of useful.
>Before this, we've worked for ~1 year with CSVs (I know the horror)

The CSV format (or lack of) is such a mess. You don't appreciate how much until you have to write a CSV parser and do real world support for it. Ugh.
I never said that and I don't. Both copyrights and patents are being weaponized by big players.
> Yes but also had the right to deny that to those who couldn't take care for themselves(can't be burden to the society). UK choose not to pursue that but could have.

The vast majority were not economic burdens though? So no we couldn't have pursed that apart from in the very small minority of cases where that was the case. We'd then need to go through a costly and timely legal process of proving it and deporting them.

> Yes, just different legislative path. UK was full EU member since the beginning and they created those trade deals within EU and they can change them within EU. Obviously they will need to convince others about the benefits of the chlorinated chicken so they can pass that change but they also need to do the same for the electorate in the UK ehen outside of EU.

I don't disagree with this, but it's also not wrong to say the the EU removed the ability from UK law makers to make trade deals independently of the EU. This meant everything the UK wanted to do we had to do with the approval of other EU nation states which often had different economies, cultures and economic goals.

The argument that we would have more control to make our own trade deals outside of the EU is true, although a good argument can be made that those trade deals will not be as favourable if we're acting independently of the worlds largest trading block. Neither black or white is helpful in my opinion.

> No. The idea is that meritocracy prevails, arbitrary discrimination is not OK. EU people apply for jobs freely, employers free chose the person who would like to work with and they can chose to work with a Brit or EU citizen if the like to. Why do you want the UK government discriminate against people?

I don't personally, no. But a lot of people in the UK didn't want UK jobs to be on offer to labourers from low-wage Eastern European countries.

I take the highly controversial view that the UK government should suppress working class wages via mass migration and ensure the UK public are educated enough to not need to compete with foreign low-skill labourers. I want agricultural workers and NHS staff to be under paid if it means cheaper food and health care for natives, but obviously if you're a labourer working in those sectors you might not view this arrangement so favourably. People have also taken moral disagreement with me about whether it's right to engineer a migrant labour underclass at the benefit of natives, but if you don't discriminate against people from low-wage economies then this is almost inevitably the result.
I tried to rebuild bash a while back on macos and couldn't do it because the source code was not available for rootless.h. I guess someones complaint finally got some action from apple.

I remember doing macos kernel debugging (in the non-gpl code apple distributes) and it was pretty evident that the code they distribute like xnu is NOT the code that is in the OS. Stack traces had lots of functions apple keeps to itself. Looking in the distributed code shows suspicious blank lines where automated tools must remove apple-only source.
Laptops' 2023 quantum leap: 5 computers we'll still be talking about in 2024
So? You really think if that happened, the US would do nothing? Just shrug it off?
What would he have to gain by lying about spending even more customer money? I see it as a boast of how well he was playing the game; and also an admission that he was trying to buy influence.
And our votes. They won't go down without an ugly fight. "I welcome their hatred" - Roosevelt.
Yes.

Are you going to tell me that the option for British English has been there all along, and I just couldn’t find it?
you can put a bucket over your head and pipe helium into it and that will work the same. this is a waste of money. its like insult to injury
Actually, they're Codex Alimentarius and/or UNECE marketing standards which we're signed up for in our own right. Nowt to do with the EU.

They still apply to us. The only thing the EU rules added were exceptions for undersize bananas which otherwise would not have been allowed.
edge of the galaxy: 'if when that then wherever where while for'
The problem here was that in this case the UK abandoned representative democracy for direct democracy (a referendum) which instantly gets out of control as opportunists take it over and layer lie after lie in order to get the outcome they want.

Being here in Canada I've been through a number of referendums and I've never seen one that wasn't instantly hijacked by insincere interests and the objectives twisted with utterly disingenuous arguments.

In a democracy Referendums should be avoided at all costs.
Orgs with big budgets create large patent portfolios that use as a legal weapon against small companies. It's widely documented.
> "I’ve always wanted to remove the role [and the] need for professional people to prescribe difficult drugs to use

Yikes. It seems like you would want a barrier to entry when it comes to legal suicide...
At one point most of their items were from brands that cared about their reputation - the manufacturer and the third-party seller. It took a few years for the third-party seller program to become a laundering program for no-name low-quality goods.
It sure as shit was for Snowflake, who purchased streamlit for 800 million[1]. Streamlit is a python webUI front-end.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/02/snowflake-acquires-streaml...
No, they can't do a better job of selling it, not if the corporation has shareholders to look after.
Thankfully not that many these days, but it was a core element of Ted Kaczynski's (The Unabomber) manifesto:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Society_and_Its_Fut...
> comingling

That's one failure mode. Damaged returns resold as "new" is another.
How does "unless I'm making money with the output" not apply to openai as well? They make money on the output.
You linked to a page explaining the logical fallacy, did you even read the wiki article?

Regardless, if this somehow led to a significant percentage of the population committing suicide, wouldn't that mean we're not doing something right in society?
No obligatory "Soylent Green" reference?

https://scifiinterfaces.com/2022/09/13/thanatorium-the-patie...
More realistically chronically ill, mentally ill, and disabled people will be increasingly pressured into this "alternative" by the medical and welfare systems, as is already happening in canada. Exactly as predicted years ago by disabled people, exactly as dismissed then as a slippery slope. It's not a fallacy when there's prior art!
More snippets would be great!
This example is particularly salient because one point of evidence is a single emoji in a tweet: <full moon face emoji>

This is a bit analogous to the “Shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater” idea, in that by default my intuition would be that conveying a single word or symbol couldn’t possibly be weighty enough to constitute a crime on its own, but in certain contexts, it probably can.
This is quite terrible.

For reference twice rated current is usually supposed to make the automotive fuses blow in some seconds or less.

The worst thing is that Amazon is threatening to pull Home Depot et al. down with them in the race to the bottom, unless they are shut down hard. Quality control costs money and Amazon got zero.
"Prosecutors said the "strong public interest" in a resolution of their case against the former billionaire outweighed benefits of a second trial."

How can they say that until sentencing has been completed? What if he's to serve everything concurrently with bail allowed after 10 years? How can the public interest be weighed against an unknown quantity?
Did you read the article? Who owns Mario? Nintendo owns Mario, full stop. Your argument completely eschews the legal system of which modern society depends on to function as effectively as it does. There’s a reason you can’t steal other people’s work.
Demographics, most likely.
Maybe a silly question but what are you hoping to achieve by investing time in becoming an expert in a specific container technology?
Legally, "transformative" means semantically, not pixel-level. It's hard to argue that all matrix transformations done by the LLM would be transformative in that sense.
Aw, poor things.
Seems bad that the cookies are still valid after password rotation.

Relatedly, is this another instance of HN serving as de-facto Google tech support/customer service?
The About page explicitly says it's PCA.

PCA is fine enough to get it into 3D.
Each disabled token is pure profit to Tether. They're not cashing them out to the US Treasury, as with Bitcoins recovered from criminal operations.
I think it’s funny that this page has a “If you or someone you know is struggling or in mental health crisis …” blurb at the bottom. This is like Bud Light saying “please drink responsibly”. The entire point of this invention seems to be to lower the barrier to entry to suicide, so a statement discouraging suicide seems to me a strange thing to follow with.
50 Years Ago, Gulag Archipelago Unveiled a Haunted World
> making up ~20% of the total power generation of the country

> I think they will be fine

What? 20% is a lot. It'd be a big deal if somebody asked me to phase out 20% of my income, for example. It seems like the opposite of sensible public policy.