skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were in charge? I would start by creating 3 (or more) editions of Firefox, segmented to casual, power, and pro users. Casual would be similar to the current Firefox, but with even more focus on ease of use, a “hand holding” mode, and more clarity and guidance when it comes to security and privacy. Power would have most hidden options exposed in UI, personalizations would be exportable/importable, extensions and user scripts would of course be treated as first class citizens. Pro would be fully customizable/optimizable for different verticals like medical, scientific, industrial, legal, engineering, etc. maybe a set of templates that can then be further customized, plus LTS with guarantee against random UI changes and ongoing testing against important sites/apps in each vertical. This is also where you could have a marketplace for high-end extensions or full on mods for the Pro edition. Pricing wise, Casual would be free, Power would be free with a donation of any amount or contribution of code/bug reports, and Pro would be $$ per seat per year, plus a cut of sales in the marketplace.

That’s how I would start. I have lots of other ideas for longer term projects all focused on the browser.
Some people say that when you leave Huntsville you enter Alabama.

Granted, it is still a red state.
Dupe (16 points, 14 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457787
Hmm, an automated system that could do with a redo?

You are a ranking moderator? Oh that’s funny haha! :) perhaps still something good to talk out?

Anyway, besides that - At the risk of angering you and incurring a punitive response - let me say the other points still stand.

Thanks! And I guess by New Yorker, you’re the other mentioned in the article. well done! :)
Perl has been my go-to language for years now. Just yesterday I needed to write a little tool to stream some scraped metrics into a ClickHouse database. I was shocked to see that there aren't first-class Perl libraries for ClickHouse, and those on CPAN are seemingly fairly old/unmaintained. That's a real bummer.

I could always go with the MySQL interface, but I'd prefer to stay native if possible.
I'm pretty sure it is the DSLR Pro Pack by Incase.

https://www.incase.com/products/dslr-pro-pack?srsltid=AfmBOo...
Sounds like we work in similar worlds. I completely agree with your experience. I think its a balanced mixture of compensation and qualified applicants.
The announcement in January was the end of the process, not the start. Here is the timeline of that previous rule:

2021-02-02: President Biden issued Executive Order (E.O.) 14012[0]

2021-04-19: Request for Public Input begins[1]

2021-05-19: Request for Public Input ends[2]

2023-10-23: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Comment period begins[3]

2023-12-11: Comment period ends

2024-01-30: Final Rulemaking announced[4]

2024-02-02: Regulations are published in federal register[5]

2024-03-06: Rules take effect

[0]https://www.federalregister.gov/executive-order/14012

[1]https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/04/19/2021-07...

[2]https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/04/26/C1-2021...

[3]https://www.regulations.gov/docket/USCIS-2023-0005/unified-a...

[4]https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/uscis-announces...

[5]https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/02/2024-01...
That's a bunch of arguments that have nothing to do with anything I said.

There are millions of examples of usage of the word red - none of them communicate the subjective experience of seeing red.

The brain is purely physical, sure, there is a physical process that can be described in language when a person sees red. Explaining that process and every fact about the physics of light and color theory to a blind person won't make them understand what seeing red feels like. It can't be communicated in language, or if it can, there are no examples of it having ever been done.

> Relational representations don't need external reference systems.

What? This is irrelevant, I'm not saying that there is no such thing as subjective experience, I'm saying that communicating the essence of subjective experience is impossible. All semantics are relational, but not all relationships exist, not all sentences have meaning, and not all things that have meaning can necessarily be expressed using semantic relations.

This is pretty uncontroversial and common to most humans. If you've never experienced something and told someone, "You've got to see it yourself, no description can come close", then you need to get out more. If you have, then the existence of qualia is obvious, and the limitations of language in communicating our sense experience is clear.
but its implementation different per organization and at any moment in time.

it could just as easily be any other reason, like the one I identified

its an assumption to know what's being applied to you.

its obvious that the frustrated guy just wants to be heard, it is still an assumption. that doesn't mean its not happening. it means its an assumption about what exactly applied to you.

unless they specifically said that and you won an employment discrimination case then you literally dont know.
IF one maintains a clear understanding of how the technology actually works, THEN one will make good decisions about whether to put it charge of the lawnmower in the first place.

Anthropic is in the business of selling AI. Of course they are going to approach alignment as a necessary and solvable problem. The rest of us don’t have to go along with that, though.

Why is it even necessary to use an LLM to mow a lawn? There is more to AI than generative LLMs.
Hmm, such as? What would you consider one off stuff?
There is no model. It is just an observation that in March more often then not the scraps thrown into the wind move in an 8 like shape.

Even supposing this finding replicates, it shows essentially nothing. It definitely doesn't show anything about the brain creating "chapters".
More L.A. cats appear to be infected with H5N1 bird flu
Even as far west as Colorado we used it the same way when I was young. Then I got a job at an NYC company and the gendered-ness of it was frowned upon. I actually switched to "ya'll" and it worked great. All the New Yorkers just thought that's how Coloradoans talk. So, thanks Texas.

Totally unrelated but this Blaze Foley song talks specifically about getting back to a place "where the people say ya'll." It's beautiful:

https://blazefoley.bandcamp.com/track/clay-pigeons
I have implemented Google Drive and MS OneDrive support in my one-file video player app. I'm using it for reading, but I think it could be used to push back changes to a file for saving.
> the model should comply, but inform you of the ethics of actually using the information.

How can it “inform” you of something subjective? Ethics are something the user needs to supply. (The model could, conceptually, be trained to supply additional contextual information that may be relevant to ethical evaluation based on a pre-trained ethical framework and/or the ethical framework evidenced by the user through interactions with the model, I suppose, but either of those are likely to be far more error prone in the best case than actually providing the directly-requested information.)
I was working with legacy code bases where the original Devs loved frameworks. Massive performance problems and nobody could understand how it all fit together at runtime.

Hibernate eventually got entirely nuked, Spring we couldn't entirely unwind easily; it had caused a whole bunch of crappy architectural issues and was too much effort to rewrite from scratch.

Although the code looked simpler using the frameworks and annotations, it was actually a huge rotten mess that didn't work well at all, with workarounds for all kinds of weird things in it.
No. Guess we're at an impasse on this topic.
Show HN: Real-time curation of English words and phrases from Digital Content
Glibzter Immersive is a web browser extension that from the content you consume on the internet in the form of:

Reading online news articles on select media platforms

Streaming online videos with subtitles/ closed captions on select OTT video platforms.

The extension opens up a web app for AI-powered contextual practice and assessments which give users the confidence to use these words and phrases in context.

Through this product, we aim to solve the problem of lack of fluency on Spoken English caused by a limited vocabulary.
Discussion (49 points, 16 hours ago, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42457073
Thank you for having one of the few reasonable takes on the Vision Pro.

People also forget how bleak the iPad app market was for the first year or so. They also forget that VR has existed for the quest for the better part of 12 years and there are .... 4? 5? very good apps.

Even now there's nothing -incredibly- compelling for the Quest. I'm not a hater, I've owned 5 of them starting at DK1.
I would expect to see the thumbs on the scale at the director level, not at the direct report level. At those heights, employees are costs to be managed, and they shave a little off here and there to keep their budget low.
It depends (EDIT: Availability depends on rails, and ACH is an overloaded term). Depending on the financial institutions being used to move funds, the transfer could be immediate using FedNow or RTP (instant payment rails), same day (ACH has multiple settlement windows), or next day. As a retail consumer, most of this is hidden from you. If I push funds from Chase to Navy Federal Credit Union, it is immediate over RTP (but this is not communicated in the UX, only via observation).

https://cle.law.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/6.-The-Ev...

https://www.frbservices.org/resources/financial-services/ach...

(JPMC and Bank of America are terrible banks fwiw, use a combination of a brokerage [deposit and investment accounts] and credit union [credit products])
I’ve backed this product, the Flux Keyboard, on Kickstarter - it allows for the type of dynamic changes that the author is describing in case others are interested:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fluxkeyboard/flux-keybo...
Far too extreme a view. I'm very unhappy with the H1-B program and how it has been used to depress wages for engineers, but I understand (and agree with) the need for us to compete globally and not stagnate. I have nothing but respect for a lot of overseas engineers and have worked with some very intelligent, kind, generous individuals in my time.

What I strongly oppose is - and I've seen this up close and personal three times in the last five years - large companies or investment companies buying/merging smaller companies, then gradually offshoring/firing (about 10-20% per year) US jobs in favor of overseas jobs while keeping their customer base. These companies, their revenue streams, their customers exist because of US employees and engineers, and yet they're thrown out at the first chance because someone overseas will do the work for less (often one third of a US salary). This is a complete betrayal of the people who worked to build these companies in the first place. These revenue streams would not exist without them.

H1-B is used in a very similar way: they get anyone they can over here, and pay them 10-20% less than a US counterpart, then use that to justify lower wages/raises to existing employees.

I agree that some people unfairly blame the overseas engineer, but don't simply write them off as racist or hateful - they're having their livelihoods taken from them, and leadership is very good at hiding or shifting blame.
If Apple wanted to leave the European Union, their boat left months ago when they were forced to pay their back taxes in Ireland. Now that they're paid up on their dues, it would probably cost Apple more money than it's worth to leave the European economic zone.
reminds me of the metamorphosis of prime intellect.
You can make an example that will invalidate any technology choice. Design for the requirements you have.

"That's a very nice car you've made. Unfortunately, if the designer later decides that it needs to survive artillery rounds, you'll wish you had built it out of armor steel as I recommended in the first place."
This post brings back memories. I remember watching this trilogy in an old movie theater that still showed film, and it was amazing experiance.

"Red," "White," and "Blue" is a trilogy of French films made by Polish-born filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Each movie follows the color pallet.

Modern digital movies are way too sharp, in a bad way.
why would you want to let a LLM have any agentic interface to the real world though
A Replacement for BERT
Why not both?

There are times when pushing the work down to the database layer is appropriate - databases are quite good at a lot of these operations - but if you need more nuanced approaches (e.g. ANOVA, ARIMA, other kinds of forecasting or analysis), leverage the appropriate tools.
My friend from North Carolina gave me a t-shirt that's just an outline of the state, and "Ya'll" on the front. So I think you're right.
Most poor families can afford medical insurance, either through state Medicaid programs or using subsidies available on state exchanges. Overall the USA is at or near the top of countries in terms of 5-year cancer survival rates. We're actually doing better than countries with socialized healthcare systems, although there are problems with access and cost that should be fixed.

As an asset class, healthcare companies don't consistently have a higher ROI than any other sector. Regular people should generally diversify their investments with broad index funds rather than making concentrated bets in a single sector.
The reason why they are using the FPS (frames-per-second) term in a different way, is that this robotics simulator is primarily going to be used for reinforcement learning, where you run thousands of agents in parallel. In that context, the total "batched" throughput of how many frames you can generate per second is crucial for training your policy network quickly - than the actual latency between frames (which is more important for real-time tasks like gaming)
United States citizens have gotten used to senile white guys making stupid statements as the head of their country. It's embarrassing, but quite natural for most of us at this point.
You didn't say anything about "people want" or "people don't want".

> How can a car be to small for your streets when there are bikes and whatever also driving around?

Can also be presented as: if bikes are driving on roads, cars can't be too small for roads (because they are bigger than bikes).

So, bikes being on streets doesn't mean they are big enough for roads. Your whole sentence is "non sequitur". What I want to say: small cars can be too small for USA roads independently of bikes being too small for USA roads. People wanting to drive small cars or bikes is also independent and being allowed to is also pretty much independent.

Now, my opinion: I think you should be allowed to drive small cars, I have a small car too (and a bike), but existing usage of roads in USA by increasingly big cars makes it increasingly unsafe (in USA). I agree that USA should do something about bigger and bigger cars, but I have no idea what and it's not very probable that I will ever drive a car or a bike in a big city in USA, so you can safely ignore my opinion and drive whatever you like.
I first learned of it because KeePassXC uses it https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/blob/2.7.9/cmake...
Exactly right. This reminds me of the X-ray machine that was misprogrammed and caused cancer/death.

> If the smart lawnmower decides (emphasis added) that not being turned off

Which is exactly what it shouldn’t be able to do. The core issue is what powers you give to things you don’t understand. Nothing that cannot be understood should be part of safety critical functionality. I don’t care how much better it is at distinguishing between weather radar noise and incoming ICBMs, I don’t want it to have nuclear launch capabilities.

When I was an undergrad they told me the military had looked at ML for fighter jets for control and concluded that while its ability was better than a human on average, in novel cases it was worse due to lack of training data. And it turns out most safety critical situations are unpredictable and novel by nature. Wise words from more than a decade ago, holds true to this day. Seems like people always forget training data bias, for some reason.
BF Skinner legit trained pigeons to work in manufacturing assembly lines at hight of his popularity. I think it was maybe part QA at auto plants.

I seem to recall program was cancelled only because it was very demotivating for the humans also working on the line.
it's a wildly speculative assumption to believe the world existed before last Thursday!
You clearly don't know many people in uniform, to make that sort of sweeping generalization.
Are there any exceptions? I feel like small companies can be nimble because they don't have as many customers to lose, but larger orgs need to worry much more about existing customers: scale, migrations, backwards compatibility, legal compliance, supply chains...
Or... we could just designate gig workers as employees when their employers take too many liberties with the job.

In Morocco, there's no Uber or Lyft. The apps there have two things in common:

1. They have a wink-wink-nudge-judge character to them - taxi drivers get violent when these apps cut into their earnings.

2. Because of the above, the app is structured like an auction house. When you pay the driver, you do it in cash.

The stuff that Uber/Lyft do that makes their drivers not traditional contractors simply doesn't fly when the app itself is kind of illegal.

There's no penalty for rejecting rides, there's no irritation when the ride brokers take a >50% fee.
1. It isn't surprising to me that this happened in an advanced AI model. It seems hard to avoid in, as you say, "any sufficiently capable system".

2. It is a bit surprising to me that it happened in Claude. Without this result, I was unsure if current models had the situational awareness and non-myopia to reason about their training process.

3. There are some people who are unconcerned about the results of building vastly more powerful systems than current systems (i.e. AGI/ASI) who may be surprised by this result, since one reason people may be unconcerned is they feel like there's a general presumption that an AI will be good if we train it to be good.
Hardware giveth and software taketh away.

My desktop today has 64 gigs memory, 12 cores.
10 years ago, it was 16 gigs, 4 cores.
20 years ago, it was 1 gigs, 1 core.
30 years ago, it was 16 megabytes, 1 core.
Exactly... the point of Asimov's rules is to illustrate that making a simple set of rules that sounds good on the surface can still have awful unintended consequences.
"y'all" a particularly popular term in NYC (I use it frequently and have lived in NYC most of my life) - so it's kinda bizarre to see "texas monthly" responding to "new york times" as if there is any cultural conflict beyond some random linguist's op-ed.

there was a heatmap published in the past (seemingly only saved by paywalled news organizations) that showed the prevalence of "y'all" in different areas.
> if nobody's surprised, then nobody has learned anything

Really? You're saying that as long as you assume something is true, there's no value in finding out if it's actually true or not?
> How do you suggest you order shoes to find the right size if shopping online?

Don't shop for shoes online? Unless you're happy with most of those shoes you tried on but returned going to the landfill.
UK private health insurance premiums are going up 10-50% too. From a lower base admittedly. And aggregate private health spending is on a strong upward course
>No "US Persons" (visa holders) or foreigners allowed.

You are not a US person as a visa holder. You are however a US person if you have permanent residency (green card).
> "It’s disappointing to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive [sic] as WP Engine,"

The irony, and downright gall of this statement, for those who have not been following: this entire spat began because he personally was upset that WP Engine was not providing free labor to his fake non-profit.
Widjadidja?
I stopped using LLMs entirely. Proper googling, which isn't broken, btw, doesn't cost that much more time, I realised and it let's me have more secondary and ternary related factual info that I didn't ask for, because how would I even know yet?

So spending just a little more time on the (re)search via standard methods provides me with more extensive, fact-checked, reviewed and discussed information than any of the LLMs that I used did.
I have worked for a few defense contractors in my time. There is significantly more diversity outside of defense than inside defense.

I had a team of 14 with 2 women and 1 non-white male.
I had a team of 10 with 0 women and 0 non-white male.
I had a team of 20 with 1 women and 0 non-white male.

Looking at it another way, thats 40 successful white male hires, and 4 successful non-white male hires.

if only having access to 91% of jobs instead of 100% is the reason you can't get hired....

edit: To clarify, as a software developer of 10+ years both in defense and faang, I have never once had a team where there was less than 50% white men.
There's ample possibility of legal challenge. There was a low possibility of legal overturn for one specific reason: courts generally agreed that agencies' interpretations were reasonable.

> Proving something is "not reasonable" in a legal sense is a pretty high bar to clear

Sure it is, but that is literally not the bar. The courts always had the authority to do their own analysis of reasonableness so long as the challenger raised the question. In fact, they didn't just have the authority to do it, they were obligated to do it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/706

The low probability of overturn is an argument for Chevron deference. It is empirical proof that courts almost always found agencies' rules to be reasonable interpretations.
The woman who can smell parkinsons, also fascinating: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/magazine/parkinsons-smell...
More features = more customers = more revenue

More data collection = more revenue

More crap layered on = everything is slower

Everything sucks = more support demand = supply price leverage = more revenue

Enterprise software is necessarily slow and complicated, and not for your benefit.
I'm on mobile, I can't figure out how to add a card to a board?
Maybe B should be banned then? I think in the original post he should not use "if A then B" with those exact objects.
An underappreciated reason people pad estimates is that it gives them some time to breath and know what business goals they personally need to deliver.

In the case of 1 day to add a button, let the developer have a day of knowing "today, my goal is to add a button". Without the padding the developer would be thinking "I'll add that button, but after that I have no idea what's coming, whatever bullshit comes down the pipe I guess".

It's really hard to shift mental gears. People can do multiple tasks well, but only if there is a coherent thread they can follow through those tasks. Current software management philosophies are very hostile to those coherent threads.
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Disorder has a clear clinical definition.
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