skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They seem to be protesting for the right to filter their employer's deals according to their personal morality. It doesn't work like that, not even at non-profits.

However, whether a non-profit or a trillion-dollar tech giant, the employee can leave. E.g. the guy who made the comment below ... why is he working there? Just leave! (Can't find a 'nice enough' employer also willing to pay $500K+? That's something to reflect upon.)

> “The fact that I am receiving money from Google and Israel is paying Google -- I am receiving part of that money, and that weighed very heavily on me.”
Update: we've normalized the prices to per year based on the feedback - thank you for the suggestion
Until your manager and skip director are equally phoning it in and you're the only idiot being productive.
Affinity Is All You Need
Vector Databases are great. Semantically searching for information and advanced re-ranking have made incredible search engines like perplexity, cohere and Marqo possible. Although, they have a fundamental problem everyone seems to ignore. We're querying from unstructured data that may not always be semantically similar! Now stick with me here.
How it is right now: AI search is like trying to find you're favorite video game from a massive bargain bin. You approximately guess where it is, shove your hand in, and pray to god you pull out that game.

How it should be: Lets take a video game I'm trying to find as an example. I know a couple factors, its a fantasy | action | single-player | RPG | with a detailed character creation | a masterful modding community | and something about a Golden Claw? Hmm.

But i forgot the name of the game...(Some of you probably figured it out)

Vector databases will pull up all sorts of snippets of information querying for each relevant factor, and its the job of the llm to find similarities between these snippets at the exact time of inference. That's a lot of bargain bin diving for each query!

What we need to do is pre-processing of unstructured data. We need to create relationships (affinities) between our snippets of information that connect semantically disassociated pieces together (Something semantic search will fail). All we then do is retrieve which video game has an affinity to all our factors. We quite possible now have a way to retrieve targeted pieces of information with pin point accuracy.

Not just that, we can now work our way back to prove why the chosen video game is the best possible answer. We can even take slightly different directions to recommend similar video games!

We are now also guaranteed to retrieve ALL of the relevant information, rather than just the top n-documents within an embedding distance, possibly missing out on crucial tid-bits.

Pre-processing our unstructured data into an affinities format can leave us with MUCH faster inferencing and cheaper operating costs and we can get away with much lighter post-processing steps.

This is what I'm working on and hope to have a working MVP API anyone can use to convert their conversational LLMs, into truly personal assistants with dynamic long-term memory of your emotions, experiences, relationships, preferences, aspirations, and more. Keep a look out for Affinity AI.

P.S The game was Skyrim!
Always remember, they make up the rules for whats a default sub and how posts are weighted on the front page. This is a table they have set themselves.
SF exec defends 'brutal' tech trend
Update: we've added geography to buyer attributes and clarified the contract length
It seems like a bad decision from the business side of things too. Having your employees freaked out about the new robots seems like a nonzero ding towards a company purchasing one.
Tone is in the fingers, as they say for guitarists. Different woods, magnets, strings all impact tone for sure, but at the end of the day Jimmy Page sounds like Jimmy Page and Hendrix sounds like Hendrix cause tone is in the fingers.

That’s what stops music from being math.
Everyone has a boss
Reddit has demonstrated that its moderation system is not stable and results in garbage. Try some different systems, for example:

1 -- The moderators pay for the privilege of moderating.

or

2 -- No moderators at all. Let me decide what I want to see via some kind of interface to an "AI thingie".
I assumed it's more or less what they call a "thrift store" in the US.
I think named vulnerabilities are useful when it's a "STOP THE WORLD" kind of vulnerability like Heartbleed and Shellshock. It's much easier to talk about Heartbleed than "CVE-2014-0160".

The problem, IMO, is when medium-severity vulnerabilities are given names, like Terrapin. I think it makes people think a vulnerability is much worse than it really is.
How do they know if you have the phone if you don’t pick up?
Safe offline AI Android tablet for kids
Update: we have normalized the pricing to per year based on the feedback, thank you
sub-6ms TVs are common and many, many gaming monitors have 1-2, maybe 3ms delay. If you only need 1080p, it doesn't even cost much.
> your jokes

Wish I could claim credit. I didn't even manage to bring them to this thread as you can see above, let alone to the world. As I said in the earlier comment, I was not familiar with any of the PAL joke/backronyms in English or any other language. Could be that the NTSC one was the only one famous enough to travel to no-English speaking countries back then and all the rest were invented as an equivalent.
It definitely is manipulated and the evidence is there if you start digging into post histories. Normal people don't go posting the exact same article of political fodder to three dozen subreddits a day. Thats a bot trying to establish a narrative in a community.
I know some mobile users prefer the PC layout — but surely it would be a legitimate complaint if Wikipedia started redirecting in that direction, instead?

I think the point is: there are different sites intended for different devices, and you should get the one that matches yours (with a reasonable way to override it, of course).
I had the same thought. Does anybody know if there have been attempts either to incorporate Cyc-like graphs into LLM training data or to extend such graphs with LLMs?
> they stuck their necks out for something they believe in

Walking into a remote volcano to protest climate change is brave. It’s also stupid and ineffective.

This protest took all the downsides of bridge blocking and robbed it of its one advantage: visibility. The sole direct witness of their outburst was one leader. Instead of leveraging their wealth, technical ability, connections and location in Silicon Valley, they took a tactic used by those with nothing more than their bodies and deployed it incompetently.

Resigning en masse, holding a press conference with a sympathetic lawmaker or activist, and offering their technical skills (I presume they have technical skills) to a Palestinian non-profit would have been vastly more impactful. This was, at best, a selfish search for absolution. At worst, it was an attention-seeking outburst.
Because the cell phone company logs that information and will turn it over to law enforcement without a warrant?
I’m such a derp, I literally read right past that, thanks.
> Hospitals in my area of the US still use POCSAG pagers, totally unencrypted. They do mention patient information, but I guess the obscurity makes it ok.

Nope, the obscurity doesn't make it okay. If it takes place over the phone lines, it is arguably exempt from encryption requirements under HIPAA (much like a fax).

Otherwise, they're just turning a blind eye and hoping nobody notices (which is surprisingly common when it comes to HIPAA).

The good news (for them, not for patients) is that, even if they get caught, the maximum fine is $2 million per calendar year per category of violation, so if they're flush enough they don't even need to bother being compliant in this area.
That reflects kind of badly on NeurIPS if true. I first became aware of him over 10-15 years ago when he was pushing his "mathematical universe" idea, which is quite simply the most vapid and contentless idea I've ever seen in physics. (I don't think it's at all surprising that someone like him would be drawn to the AI community, or vice versa!)
> “In practice, these standards make it impossible for the [intelligence community], law enforcement to acquire a whole host of readily available information that they currently rely on,” an administration official said.

It doesn't make anything impossible to get, even if there weren't clear workarounds, all the data is as accessible as it was so long as they get a warrant rubber stamped by a judge.

> “It can be impossible to know what’s in a data set before one actually obtains a data set,” the official continued. “So you’d be barred from getting that which you don’t even know.”

He says this as if law enforcement going on fishing expeditions isn't a dystopian nightmare that should never be allowed in the first place.
Yeah. PWM is used to control brighness of OLEDs. Some people are sensitive to PWM
frequencies as high as 200Hz.
Hearing the phrase "unregulated data brokers" conjures images of PCI compliance and the conclusion that it will become so expensive to store data that Google et al will be forever cemented as the only firms capable of operating. What should be focused on more is the word "brokers" and the regulation of selling other people's data to third parties.

I suspect that saying "no one should be able to sell people's data behind their back" would catch a lot more traction than "we should regulate this fuzzy idea of companies we don't think you should like." It would also solve the actual problem at hand.

Either way, the government accessing the data should absolutely require a warrant.
Yes, there are many reasonable arguments. For example: your data is sold to third parties you don't know, and they use it against you or in unethical ways.

For example, visiting a mental health clinic might mean your car insurance rates go up, or Facebook adjusts their algorithm to cause you more distress and hook you more, or your credit rating goes down. Objectively, you are worse off because you were tracked.

See a recent example with BetterHelp, where they sold their patients' history of mental health medications, suicide attempts, depression, and a few other things that were on an ingestion form to social media companies. After promising on the very form where they collected this data that they wouldn't do it. That is the reality of the situation. You turn into a product when you're tracked.
Most people have IPS or OLED phones with accuracy, gamut, brightness, contrast, density, and responsiveness that the best CRTs don't come close to.

You're absolutely deep in nostalgia land lol
Were they also a Virgo? What Harry Potter house did they get on an online quiz? What about INFJ or ENTJ on the Briggs-Meyer scale?
My understanding is that only Tailscale is end-to-end-encrypted, though both ensure that all traffic is encrypted on the wire. I don’t claim this as fact because, unlike the Cloudflare docs, Tailscale’s claim (yell) that there is no way for them to decrypt.

I’d be pleased to be proven wrong (and jgrahamc is def ITT) as I use a bunch of CF services already and it would be great to have one less PaaS in my life.
Does this use yt-dlp?
I think you're missing a lot there, like electricity, plumbing, and heat dissipation, just to name a few things.
Agreed, blogspam indeed!

Anecdotally, I have been impressed by the RFID system the the Decathlon sports store uses. Used it myself and it works a treat. Throw all your items into a bucket, tap your payment card on the normal card machine (or use apple or google pay), collect your stuff and walk out.

The technology isn't even that fancy. Each item has a very cheap radio frequency id tag in it which has a unique number. If that doesn't work there is a handheld barcode scanner (which I've never had to use). A successful payment marks the specific item in a database (probably in-store) so the scanners at the entrance don't set off an alarm when you leave. You don't have to download an app or have an account with anyone. It doesn't need AI, special cameras, weight scales or offshore workers to run.

Here is a random article about it:
https://www.nfcw.com/2019/03/19/362056/decathlon-adds-rfid-t...
I know this doesn't retrain, but I wonder if approaches like this plus quantization could get back any "lost" quality with some post training.

It's great to see, and to know in one's mind how much likely performance and cost will be better in the future.

I know it's fun to work on, but I also want to say THANK YOU for developing open source.
Wayfair is always churning.
the screens attracted dust like a magnet

You just brought back vivid memory of something I haven’t thought about in years!

For those who never experienced it: the constant firing of electrons into the screen caused it to become statically charged over time.

It would, yes, attract dust - and if you ran your hand over a TV that had been on for a while, you could feel the ‘fuzz’ of the electric charge directly with your fingers. I can remember the feeling so vividly now!
OLED has near instant pixel response times. No idea what display you are looking at, but if you're getting smearing of any kind it wasn't an OLED
I clicked on this really fast because this would be nice... but I really have to complain about the pricing model. $49 "once" is a scam when it only comes with 1 year of updates but an extra year of updates for $29 (60% more!!). Exactly how many features can one add to a Home-brew UI in the space of 2 years? There's no detail on what's in the roadmap to warrant such a price (on the website) nor is there the option of a trial. I shouldn't have to email for a refund (as advertised) if I feel like $50 was a rip-off. Honestly, if this was $10-20, I would already have paid.
I have found that Fortune 500 companies are usually the worst when it comes to this.

If you want to get shit done, don’t work at a soulless corporation. These are glorified retirement homes for people.

Have had the unfortunate experience with having to hand hold what’s been described as “20+ YoE industry veterans” through the fucking basics of oauth.
Sugar is one of the main contributors to suffering and death in the US. Evidence that aspartame is harmful at all is comparatively weak.
Self replicating humanoid robots sound like I should start researching the building of electromagnetic weaponary for the coming war.
You could say the same thing about most HN users' software jobs, but then upon deeper inspection, you would realize: oh, there's a value here (however slight), which is why people are getting paid for it.

Impacts of HFT on society:

- You no longer have to pay a stockbroker $100 over the phone to take a position and hope they get you a decent price. Trading is instant and spreads are extremely tight.

- Money they make is made by 1. offering you convenience (usually for an imperceptibly small fee built into the spread) or against people trying to do the exact same thing that they are (intraday trading).

The intraday trading is a zero sum game, but the liquidity providing is net positive. The zero sum component only affects you if you're trying to profit from intra-day trading too, in which case, you're a hypocrite for calling them out.

Amongst people who understand HFT well enough to realize it benefits them, but who hate it anyway, I think the vitriol specific to HFT is that it's a small club and they aren't part of it. Algo-trading jobs can pay significantly better than the best principal engineer jobs at FAANG (which can also be argued to be useless jobs), and those jobs are also much harder to land (think Rentech).
You might find the book “Palo Alto” highly illuminating. I certainly did.

There’s a lot more consistency in the backstory of Silicon Valley than I realized.

There’s certainly an amazing culture of visionaries and innovation and creative people as well, it’s worth noting that, but there’s a deep history of sociopathic business practices as well that goes back 100+ years and is core to the identity of the Valley in general and Stanford in particular.
Have you tried to 'rediscover' classic (in)famous bugs? E.g. take an old version of OpenSSL vulnerable to heartbleed and run Antethesis on it to 'discover' heartbleed via fuzzing. It would be interesting to see how much fine tuning would be needed to discover it.
Why even shill blueberries? Who doesn’t like them?
The bombs win. You can't take it with you
From the outside it looks like only the new interface is actually in development anymore. When hitting the new interface on mobile you get often stuck on a page forcing you to use the app. The whole new interface feels like a big sales page for their app. Can't imagine that the bugs in old reddit are unknown or unfixable and I have the impression they are deliberately there to annoy users.

I guess the goal of maximizing app usage is related to ads and tracking and also adblocking and probably fraud prevention.

Pure speculation on my side but it's what everyone else seems to be doing. Lock your users into your walled garden and avoid bots, scrapers, click-fraud while improving some metrics regarding ads, as ads on mobile are probably easier to target and reddit earns more on them. No idea if you can advertise specifically on mobile.

Additionally the new interface seems to require more clicks = impressions.

If someone has any real info and not only wild guesses for their reasons please share :)
If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide.

Just ask the animal libratio armys fringes who think that the death penalty is a reasonable response to eating meat.
Today in news: a car broke down.
They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%
Citations needed. These sound like wild conspiracy theories.
From what I have read, the PWM frequency for LCD backlights is in the order of several kHz which is unlikely to be a nuisance.
You can write whatever you want on a resume and nobody can tell if you burned out on both ends or phoned it in for 1-2 hours. So, no, holding a position for X years, when presented in a reasonable manner at the next interview, cannot possibly fuck your life up.
OAuth 1.0a and HTTP Basic Auth Shutdown on Openstreetmap.org
> Do you think they should have listed “draft an arbitration claim,” on their enrollment prerequisites?

Unless you’re a total numpty, you can learn online how to draft an arb claim. And even if you are a numpty, you should be be to find—in a half-decent cohort—someone who can do this.

The issue is rarely ability. It’s learned helplessness in the face of the legal system. The anxiety, not ability, is the limiting factor.
Oh I didn't necessarily mean the code, at least in the first example; you have to click the "Preview" button to see what the code results in, but its a rather bad 404 page, using broken english, phrases that generally wouldn't/shouldn't appear on a 404 page ("this page is broken"), a button that fully disappears rather than correctly entering a hover state, and a button that generally would never appear on a 404 page ("Try Again").

Like, I don't mean to be, well, mean about this; but I'm struggling not to be so here it is: I find it difficult to believe that any human with an ounce of the craft in their bones could have created that. So my conclusion was AI, because that is the more kind of two conclusions I could draw. The authors responding to my original comment by stating that no AI was used in the production of these assets, unfortunately, leaves only the other conclusion.
Manager propaganda to make us go the extra mile, don't listen.
At a much lower level, I've been having fun hacking away at my Concludia side project over time. It's purely proposition level and will eventually support people being able to create their own arguments and contest others. http://concludia.org/
What's Double Subtitles? Sounds interesting!
The page doesn't even mention the brand new align-content property: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40064762
> What if the orders were sealed and the auction happened much more frequently, like every minute?

Reality remains real time.
There is (or was several years ago), one on display at the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Nebraska. You could walk right up to it. (As is the case with most of their aircraft.) Gloriously strange little aircraft.
The cell phone company and anyone who offers them money.
> This post is an introduction to the idea and then as a Part 2 for actions to take.

Thanks for mentioning it, I missed the link to part 2.

I don't think I can see the connection between the two parts though. Part 1 places people on two axis "cares" and "conflicts", with the largest number high on "cares" and low on "conflict". It seemed high on "cares" is desirable, and that getting more people to voice their oppinions (higher on "conflict") would be an improvement.

Part 2 puts people on a single axis of how likely they are going to embed clean-up changes in their PRs. This is unlikely to be the "conflict" axis from part 1. If it is the "cares" axis, 75% would already show the desired behavior, with not much untapped potential remaining.
Part 2 then continues by asking people about their oppinions. With most people on the lower half of the part 1 "conflict" axis it is surprising that everyone does even have an oppinion.

I'll place myself high on the "conflict" axis with this: Clean-up should not be hidden in other PRs. It increases time needed for review and risk for collisions. It also increases the effort required for an analysis of the history in a distant future. Separate PRs for clean-up.
To be fair, you're only seeing that one small part in isolation.
> And if you say that's not your intention, then why don't you feel secure giving me more protection in the contract?

This is the crux of it for me. If you don’t intend to enforce a clause, you won’t argue about taking it out. If you say you don’t intend to enforce it, but you refuse to take it out, you’re being dishonest and we’re done here.
The argument for it is that SSO should be treated as a basic security feature. It'd be like if you had to cough up enterprise pricing for the company to keep your passwords hashed instead of in plain text.
You will never visually see flicker on an LCD unless it's malfunctioning or you have activated black frame insertion. But the flicker is still there on PWM equiped ones, only visible with special equipment or slow motion cameras.

The problem them is that your brain might be subconsciously sensitive to some specific flicker patterns, resulting in the aforementioned headaches.
I read The Flip Side, it’s a newsletter that takes a single issue and compares the response across a variety of political leanings. They recently went paid which is unfortunate but the $18/yr price is worth it. They don’t really get you “away from” outrage politics but it does add a softer, more thoughtful layer on top of it.

Not an ad, just a happy reader.

One thing I have noticed again and again since reading the news letter is how often the GOP and Dems just talk completely past each other. They will have their own talking points about an issue that shoot completely over the other talking points from the other side. Quite interesting to see it happen in near real time.
I dunno, I've been simulating it with Farming Simulator 22 and it isn't that hard. The secret is to go the configs and turn off rocks, weeds and lime, and set the economy to Good. You could get the Government Subsidy mod for $100 Million per year but that's a bit cheaty. It turns out that sugar cane is very profitable and will grow anywhere, who knew. For the burnout problem try the autodrive and courseplay mods.
> "Elon has not been paid for any of his work for Tesla for the past six years...," Board Chairperson Robyn Denholm wrote in a letter included in the regulatory filing. "That strikes us — and the many stockholders from whom we already have heard — as fundamentally unfair."

Invoking "fairness" seems like a risky play, if you're trying to argue that one single person should receive $56 billion.