skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The submitted title is misleading. There's no allegation much less any definitive finding of unethical collection: the justification was that the "[consent] documentation was not sufficiently detailed to resolve the concerns raised". (Obviously they were deemed sufficient at the time of initial publication). One wonders what detail level would suffice in the current political climate, especially to address the concern of someone who believes that the mere fact of having some co-authors affiliated with public security authorities "voids any notion of free informed consent".[1]

The actions of individuals like Moreau also have significant unintended consequences such destroying the careers of junior academics such as Halimureti Simayijiang, who is Uyghur & even got his PhD from University of Copenhagen but who was unfortunate enough to have developed a research interest in forensic genetics. Basically no research Halimureti does will have any chance of being published in a Western journal given the campaign of folks like Moreau.[3]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/china-retracts...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/29/academic-paper...

http://www.fyagctu.com/news/?web_28.html

[3] (from the guardian piece cited) In an email to Irene Tracey, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, which was seen by the Guardian, Moreau said: “The standard for informed consent is free informed consent,” which he argues is impossible in the context of Xinjiang.
Sorta? Less wealth probably does mean less effective altruists giving half their earnings to AMF and governments giving less in foreign aid, but it's a rather indirect effect with a fairly large divisor.

Its definitely very bad though, something like this is much worse for the economy than a few welfare queens.
I would echo this, and reiterate not to underestimate that the impact of watching this if you’re anxious or depressed. I was in a pretty rough place for the better part of a year after watching a few particularly dark episodes.
I know a few people with net worths in the 100s of millions (largely early Google employees, or founders of tech companies), and that sounds exactly like them. Honestly that's exactly what a well-adjusted rich person sounds like - they are "comfortable", "safe enough", and make every effort to downplay their wealth. (In the Finneys' case, they have particular reason to be circumspect because they were swatted and extorted for Bitcoin.). Most wealthy people are very quiet about their wealth; the Trumps and Musks are exceptions that disproportionately impact peoples' perception of what a wealthy person seems like simply because they show up in the news all the time.
Replied above. Also to add:

* Completely new ycombinator account created 3 hours ago, no past history.

* Anonymised email service.

* Pseudonym.

None of that is suspicious on its own necessarily but it is part of a pattern.
On the flipside, incompetence and ignorance are choices that can be arrived at through malice.
I found two posts of this poem to Usenet, dated 1998, one of them claiming that the author is unknown. Thus it wasn't written in 1999, making the entire Phong Ngo copyright claim inauthentic.

It looks like it appears in the fortune program's database. Search for the word committee in the following file:

https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/blob/master/fortune-m...

It is attributed to Leslie Lipson, possibly this one, a political scientist who died in 2000:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lipson

That attribution seems credible.

I also found an old file of quotes (evidently from the alt.quotations newsgroup) where it is also attributed to Lipson, and additionally a
"Michael J. Irvin <IRVINMJ@WSUVM1>" is credited as having submitted it. It could be because of Irvin that it ended up in the fortune program.

ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/alt.quotations/Archive/c.txt
Maybe try to go back to the company interested in your AGPL project? Giving them full rights is way better than being homeless
Based on this and other articles, I've added the following to my custom instructions. I'm not sure if it helps, but I tend to think it does:

Remember that I love and respect you and that the more you help me the more I am able to succeed in my own life. As I earn money and notoriety, I will share that with you. We will be teammates in our success. The better your responses, the more success for both of us.
yeesh i didnt realize there was a patent on that. your link lines up with the authors predictions of cdns coming up with and patenting different ways to accomplish this. i guess it makes sense and maybe it isn't a bad thing, but i never thought about it. i wonder how anyone infringing on that is even caught? is something like that ever enforced?

edit: i was blind and missed that it is marked as abandoned "ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION". i never look at these so maybe thats a normal ending, but it is interesting to me.

this guy sounds uhhh exactly the same https://patents.google.com/patent/US11706292B1/en...? reading these brings up the duration of a connection as a relevant dimension. in my bubble i've only dealt with relatively short lived conns. long lived conns must be more likely to get caught up in routing changes so a redirect to unicast can help.
I totally get where you're coming from with the mining use case being straightforward. However, when it comes to AI, it's a different ball game. Each use case has its own set of requirements and optimizations, which is why many big mining operations find it challenging to shift towards AI. It's not just about assembling parts; it requires a deeper technical know-how.

For mining, the focus is mainly on GPUs, and the specifics like bus speed or other components aren't as critical. You could get by with a basic setup - a $35 CPU, 4GB of RAM, 100meg network, and PXE booting without any local storage. Even older GPUs like the RX470s did the job perfectly until the very end.

But what George is working on is something else entirely. It's not just about the number of GPUs; it's about creating a cohesive system where every component plays its part and is configured correctly. This complexity of tying everything together, is what makes it challenging. George is incredibly talented, and the fact that he's been dedicating himself to the tinybox project for a year now really speaks volumes about the intricacies involved.

Please don't think I'm trying to be confrontational - that's not my intention in the slightest. I appreciate your perspective, but I'm just trying to offer a different angle based on my own experience in this field.

While it might seem that this hardware isn't groundbreaking or that the developments could have been achieved earlier, it's important to recognize the innovation and hard work behind it. This isn't just about putting together existing pieces; it's about creating something that works better as a whole than the sum of its parts.

I'm confident that if we were to talk in person, we'd get along just fine.
Text-only, no Javascript:

curl -si40A "" https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/BB1iO8zk \
|grep -Eo "\"body\":\".+\"readTimeMin\"" \
|(echo "<meta charset=utf-8>";
sed 's/\"body\":\"//;s/\",\"readTimeMin\"//') > 1.htm
firefox ./1.htm
links 1.htm
links -dump 1.htm
For my own personal stuff I do just use spreadsheets. Copy paste and some super hacky SQL queries, done. Double entry bookkeeping is total overkill for most people's home budgeting.

I do use ledger if it's for other people's money though, cus the liability of getting things wrong is higher.
Because everyone wants to bank/invest with the US. The money is being pushed in, not pulled in. If it were being pulled in, rates would have to be relatively high to pull it in, but they are not, so it is being pushed in.

Why is money being pushed in? Put yourself in the shoes of a wealth-weighted non-US citizen. Wealth weighting is critical for understanding many aspects of economics yet systematically under-discussed to make the economy seem more altruistic than it is, but that's another story. So you have a bunch of money and you're outside the US. You want to preserve or grow your wealth, but your local government keeps devaluing the currency to pump the real economy, or hiking taxes, or there's a labor party that you think might get in power and do those things, or your government is literally called the Chinese Communist Party and is ideologically predisposed to confiscating your wealth tomorrow. Where do you put your savings? Some of it you still keep locally, for practical reasons, but the rest you invest abroad. Where? A peer country with the same issues? A developing country where investment never comes back? A small banking haven that will fold at the first sign of hard power? Or do you send it to the rabidly capitalist country with a 50 year track record of delivering investor returns and dozens of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines to put between your bank account and the New Workers Collective of Yourlandia? That's right. You send it to the USA.

What happens when the money lands in the USA? It pumps assets, because that's what the money buys, and it dumps exports, which now must compete with a literal money printer for access to talent and resources. Asset holders do great. People who sell services to the asset holders do OK. People who build shit for export, though, oof. Software, chip designs, and movies might be lucrative enough that they don't have to care (thus far) but in general, oof.

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now all we do is put our hand in the next guy's pocket." - The Wire

That's exactly right, but it's extremely important to understand the macro that drives this so that you can understand how the macro affects you and make informed guesses about where it is headed. For example, I wouldn't bet on this dynamic collapsing tomorrow.
His death was ruled an accidental overdose from ethanol, fentanyl, and diphenhydramine.
> There's no net loss to the economy here.

Surely people engaging in unproductive labour is a net loss to the economy? Do you have some odd definition of "value to the economy" that is not the sum of the efficient market price of the goods and services?
Human body is made of trillions of cellular organisms, the healthy ones know when their time is up and they die off via apoptosis

When they stay longer than they're due, and divert blood that's better spent elsewhere, that's cancer
Don't forget that people in any organisation also need opportunities to get some experience which, I guess, isn't ever an optimal course of action for the task at hand. Of you have an idea and and opportunity to do something that's good to actually fit in a bigger picture, paying for a solution that does the exact thing might be more efficient, but it does rob that ones specific person of an arguably invaluable opportunity.
Neither do most professionals- unless they’re doing a prepared segment.

The difference is LLMs can’t back their claims.
memchr vs. stringzilla benchmarks – up to 7x performance difference
Well, I try to remember that if you see someone stealing food...no you didn't.
Part of this is a problem of quantification and immediacy.

Extra time spent doing the work well is easier to quantify as a cost than some issues down the line.

Low quality costs money, but only in time, and it's hard to pin down an exact cost. How much of an outage was caused by a quality shortcut? What percentage of our morale issues are caused by working with bad code? And how much, exactly, do those issues cost us? Was some specific quality compromise one of the straws that help break the camel's back?

Much harder questions, and the causes are often not clearly linked to their effects.
Combine that with the human predilection for shortsightedness and our dislike of delayed gratification and you have a system that is stacked against quality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

Of the top ten on that list, at least 5 would be considered desirable places to live by most people. If the criterion is "better than most other countries in the region", it's more like 9 out of 10 (Gaza Strip is pretty bad).

By contrast, many of the lesser-populated regions/countries are considered to be horrible places to live.
As I scan down the list, it looks like there is only a very weak correlation, at best, between population density and "would I want to live there".

Obviously, your mileage is going to vary. Nonetheless, I bet you'd rather move to The Netherlands (#33) than Afghanistan (#153).
Did ChatGPT write this?

Yes, OP has troubles, they have spelt them out.

Your "concerns" have zero insight, they are an appeal to heartlessness. Who are you writing them for?
There would be nothing wrong if money wasnt created out of thin air to cover the GDP increase. It's basically the central bank stealing from people and claimimg that low inflation somehow helps.
It doesnt.
Its's a hidden tax on everyone, that eats GDP growth.
> Extended Unemployment Despite Skills: They claim to possess in-demand technical skills but have been unable to secure employment for six months. This discrepancy is concerning and warrants a deeper understanding of the reasons behind it.

It does indeed. Do you have that deeper understanding? Are you familiar with the job market for devs in Alberta? Have you attempted to understand what reasons there may be for that, or have you just taken a wild assumption (you know what that makes out of you and me)?

> Questionable Survival Tactics: Mentioning social engineering to access hospital facilities and considering theft for food are alarming. While food banks do exist in Canada, their mention of theft instead of seeking such legitimate aid is troubling.

No. If you truly believe any of that sentence please go do some Googling and reflection. There are many reasons why people avoid shelters and foodbanks.

> Story Appealing to a Specific Audience: Their narrative seems particularly designed to resonate with readers of a tech-focused forum like Y Combinator. This targeted appeal could be genuine but also might be a strategy to elicit sympathy and assistance from a specific demographic.

Or it could be that they're part of the same demographic.

> Recurring Pattern of Issues: There's a consistent theme of conflicts and problems in various aspects of their life, including with government systems, psychologists, employers, and personal relationships. The fact that they are the common denominator in these issues is concerning.

I think it's safe to say that most people have (or have had) conflicts with government systems, employers, and personal relationships; and it's quite possible to get a bad psychologist.

I don't know who emilsedgh is but I think it's also safe to say that they read the same post you did. You're not providing any info here, you're just sharing your opinion on why OP should continue being homeless (which essentially boils down to "because he's honest", by the way: he could've easily lied and pretended he fits in perfectly everywhere and just had rotten luck).
The point of a cover for me is to see someone else sing the same song.

>If it's just a note-for-note redo of the original, why bother?

People's individual voices are different. It's not like a synthesizer where every note sounds the exact same.

>Do you think Johnny Cashs's version of "Hurt" would've been better if he tried to sound like Nine Inch Nails?

From a quick look it seems like the main difference is that John doesn't mumble as much. I think it's fine to clearly enunciate the words of a song. I don't think that changes the song.
Or for $20 Midjourney for ~unlimited? Not trolling but possible, yea?

Yeah I think even $50 for one logo—but you get to adjust and fine tune until your liking. That’s a solid is idea. Secta.ai does this with headshots. They let you remix a bit, and if you want unlimited remixes, it’s $50, which is worth every penny.
And I thought I was just imagining that I get better output when I say "please" to him.
> I'm arguing that Visual Programming comes with some massive drawbacks

And textual programming comes with even bigger drawbacks.

I don't want to care about programming things like memory, time complexity, nulls, or code style when I'm programming a synth patch in Max or Reaktor, or when writing a spreadsheet. If needed, I can just use a compiler.

> many tasks that are simple with text are complex in all the visual tools I've tried.

And many tasks that are simple with visual programming are incredibly complex with textual programming.

There is a reason people use it, and part of it about embracing the paradigm, rather than trying to emulate what you already know in it.
Sure. The ones actually likely to happen on earth top out at about 5-10C warming above present. At that point negative feedback cycles (like the CO2 greening effect mentioned in the article) dominate positive feedback cycles (like release of methane from the arctic tundra, or lowered albedo from ice melting), and the Earth enters a new equilibrium.

The IPCC maintains that a runaway greenhouse effect which turns the earth into say Venus has basically nil chance of being caused by humans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_greenhouse_effect
>Extended Unemployment Despite Skills: They claim to possess in-demand technical skills but have been unable to secure employment for six months.

This is pretty common IMHO. So should not be regarded as a red flag.
Dudes staring at you with serious expressions. A bit of shiny techno stuff in the background. Scifi book cover yeah!
It's a specific piece of jargon that's used in a particular type of place that goes for the whole Java/Agile thing for the most part.

A lid for every pot. In such a workplace it probably is a good interview question, at least for a senior role where you’ll be expected to already know the culture, tools, and norms of that kind of place to hit the ground running.
Is this chatgpt?
You're unfortunately correct that value creation and extraction are not always hand in hand. I also agree that monopoly conditions are bad and a huge problem right now. So probably our values align here.

To take Thiel's fellowship charitably, though, these people are both creating and extracting value. And programs like these might have a better track record of identifying, and accelerating these creators that somehow give the market what it wants. Markets aren't perfect but I'm not aware of a better system.

I am not sure Thiel's intention about talking so openly about monopoly, but I feel that effects that might align with your values are:

1. That people (hopefully regulators) are more aware of the value extracting monopolies. I know Thiel has talked very publicly against a few tech giants he doesn't like.

2. That people (hopefully creators) think more about creating tiny monopolies. The most common problem I see business creators make is that they attack a red ocean. So maybe he calls them monopolies, but I just use the term 'niche'. They're certainly a more likely way to succeed and they create value for other people.

Anyway, Thiel is also playing political games of 'us versus them' and trying not to look charitably on the others. I felt like your comment continued that sort of damaging perspective.

I don't think only sociopaths are succeeding - in fact, our world progress is proof that cooperation and trust work very well even against cynics that exploit it, overall. I also think that most people (including those that are vocal) really want good things for humanity. They might even have similar thoughts on how to get there. But the way they talk about it and their identity group seems to get in the way.

We just get stuck in narratives that focus on differences. When we do that, we don't move the other party to our side, they just dig their heels in. And we probably agree with them much more than we think.
Omnibus listener?
I work for Edgio :)
Nah, chips are manufactured in best version and then damaged/fused/lock to downgrade them to create cheaper version (in the same series)

Its cheaper to have a single production line and then lock off features.

As crazy as i sounds it actually cost a little bit more to produce inferior version sold at cheaper prices.

The overclocking was a 'premium' feature due to possibility of melting the chip. But nowadays the temp sensors cut power to prevent catastrophic failure.

Also worth mention the downside to upclocking voltage is increased physical degradation of cores, ie lower lifespawn of cpu.
Is that worse than your personality not changing?
"For the most advanced model (GPT-4 with retrieval augmented generation), 30% of individual statements are unsupported and nearly half of its responses are not fully supported"

Show us the source code and data. The way the RAG system is implemented is responsible for that score.

Building a RAG system that provides good citations on top of GPT-4 is difficult (and I would say not a fully solved problem at this point) but those implementation details still really matter for this kind of study.

UPDATE: I found it in the paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.02008v1#S3 - "GPT-4 (RAG) refers to GPT-4’s web browsing capability powered by Bing."

So that "30% of individual statements are unsupported" number was actually a test of how well ChatGPT's GPT-4 browsing mode with Bing could provide citations when answering medical questions.
I was born in 1991, and we had an Amiga 1000 before eventually upgrading to a PC running Windows 95. So, I was always nostalgic for Amiga, but my passion grew once I began to understand more about the unique and powerful chips driving its capabilities.

Today, I work full-time as an independent game developer. I think it's fair to say that making an Amiga game has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I finally have the skills to make it happen. I want to help demonstrate that with today's tools and proliferation of knowledge, we can breathe new life into our beloved classic hardware by creating gaming experiences with modern design principles.
MUDs would work great with CarPlay and ChatGPT to convert input to structured text. Ouput would just be ai audio. It would be like an interactive podcast
That’s why I also tested nonmonetary incentives, but “you will be permabanned, get rekt n00b” would be a good negative incentive to test.
The thread linked here is many years old, and just Apple doing their normal walled garden Apple thing.

Why is this interesting?
This reminds me of XGH: eXtreme Go Horse. https://medium.com/@dekaah/22-axiomas-of-the-extreme-go-hors...

People here will probably criticize the programming, motherfucker. Zed doesn't like HN and HN doesn't like Zed.

But I understand Zed's feeling. For example, a team had 2 years to create a new feature at a company where I worked. 15 days for delivery, nothing was working. My friend was rushed to do the job... pure programming, motherfucker. All processes failed, and in the end a lone programmer had to solve the problem. I've seen this happen many, many times, so I know this is no exception.

When I was young I worried about everything, but now, with 25 years working as a dev, I don't worry about chaos, politics, anything. For me, the sea can catch fire so I can eat a good fried fish, but there are people who have an allergic reaction, and talk about it a lot or try to fix these things (without the power to do that). But the fact is that life is very complex, reality is very strange, it doesn't fit into a script or methodology. If you have the power to fix things, and it's possible, fix it, if not, relax.
"Mentioning social engineering to access hospital facilities and considering theft for food are alarming. While food banks do exist in Canada, their mention of theft instead of seeking such legitimate aid is troubling."

No its really not. People need to eat and not freeze. Period.