skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They will target certain demographics in ways that their lawyers can argue are legal such as giving more interviews to Grace Hopper attendees or schools with favorable demographics [1]. This is a great way to poach minorities from different companies without moving bringing any minorities to tech in any significant capacity. This is probably why men are increasingly going to Grace Hopper [2].

[1] https://blog.duolingo.com/how-duolingo-achieved-a-5050-gende...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2023/10/05/1203845886/women-tech-confere...
I have seen a very similar (incorrect) argument used to justify the idea of a flat earth. A builder on youtube made the argument (with a similar out of scale drawing of the earth) that if he drops a plumb bob and makes a right angle so he has a straight horizontal line and then goes across that line for a bit and drops another plumb bob, the two lines he has dropped are parallel, "proving" that the surface of the earth must be parallel to the horizontal line and therefore flat and not curved. If the earth's surface was actually curved he argued then the two lines he has dropped should tilt slightly inward towards each other. Which of course they do. The earth is just much much much bigger than in the diagram so the effect is within the margin of error for the measurement he was taking.

As a meta point, our intuition often fails us hilariously when we are dealing with stuff that is out of the scale we have commonly seen in our lives. We joke about LLMs hallucinating but I'm not convinced we are so superior when we are outside our personal "training data".
> maybe it's just mobile safari

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The irony is that an LLM that knows more about most topics than most teachers, and most parents, and can patiently discuss any topic one to one, is a superb way to learn new information.
Its early days, right now, children need to be taught to verify the LLM is not making things up, by checking for references, look at additional sources, and use the LLM to LEARN about topics not COPY answers.
Beyond that we need to consider what really needs to be held in our own minds now and what detail we can leave to 'AI' tools in future. Spending hundreds of hours learning things you can just ask an LLM to do is not that useful.
Although the women’s suffrage movement in the United States did have some violence in the extremes, proposal, advocacy, and ratification of the Nineteenth amendment to the US Cobstitution (which granted women the right to vote in the US) was not driven by violence in anything but the most remote margins.

It passed through moral persuasion and nonviolent activism.

Your statement is factually incorrect. There are dozens of other examples.
They actually have been recently; Especially in academia where after racial-based Affirmative Action was ruled unconstitutional, wealth-based AA has been helping economically disadvantaged individuals—even including white men.

https://journalistsresource.org/education/race-neutral-alter...
I would like to suggest, as a hypothetical, that well funded companies (you know who) are promoting this AI "danger" as a way to cajole federal legislation to come out they can "help with".

It is the fear of every U.S. company to have to deal with 50 different state's legislation (see guns, porn, abortion, alcohol, gambling, prostitution, etc. that all vary state by state) because it's more expensive to have to bend to every little state's ideas of how to protect their citizens.

They want a single point at which they can lobby (and lobby hard with lots of money) to get the lax, self-dealing laws with lots of legal protection they so desperately know will provide them with super-profits.

Of course, I could be wrong. Maybe Skynet is just around the corner.
fyi: Honda is Japanese and has no relationships with Hyundai(actually pronounced hyoon-deh in Korean, meaning "modern era"), which weaponized spelling for US recognition long time ago and haven't fixed it.
> If you are not paying for that service, there is an obvious incentive to monetize your data.

And it goes away if you pay for it?

> Sure, if you use Kagi to commit crimes you may not be anonymous to the police.

The "nothing to hide" arguments, gotcha.

> But there are a lot of people who do not want to be profiled by ad networks

And using Kagi helps with that how? You know that if you open any website from results, you are still profiled by ad networks?

> Your comment about "the aura of superiority" is dismissive and a little confrontational

I was replying to someone who accused me of being superior (because I know how to use Google? lol). Garbage in, garbage out.

> Even when quoted, I find that Google will often return results that partially match my quote ignoring the important part

As I said, if there is no exact match I see "no results for your search". It is a daily occurrence. It smells of planted misinformation, sorry. Considering you are a newly created account as well.
Relative scarcity is the necessary and sufficient condition. Either there's enough housing or there isn't (there's a bit of slack with relocations, house sharing and spare bedrooms but it's largely inconsequential.) That means that supply (i.e. quantity) is enough.

It's true that if it was impossible to speculate on housing, there would be less incentive to create artificial scarcity by e.g. lobbying for restrictive land use policies.
> Given that API keys are likely to simply be copy-pasted, I don't honestly think this matters all that much.

Yeah, I think it’s not that important for API keys particularly. It’s possible that some IDs would be spoken over a phone for example, but it’s probably rare.

> If you're have the risk to users confusing 0 and O, then you can't use either. Your users aren't going to know that you're running Base32-Crockford and that they'll only encounter 0 and 1, never O, I or L.

The way Crockford got around that was, OIL are allowed when decoding the string (and just replaced by 0 and 1 accodringly). So if used mistypes O in place of 0, it’s still going to decode just fine. I think it should work alright for stuff like license keys or “passwords” like in your case (although your solution works too!)
This is a horrifying product, but absolutely inevitable, and sadly necessary. It might even be a good business idea.
"Sex life" is quite the euphemism to describe what he is suggested to have been involved with.
"Objects are the way we think" is one of the largest design traps ever laid in software development. Because if you design your program like it, unless in certain special circumstances, it will be shit.
From what I've learned reading AdmiralCloudberg's plane crashes analysis [1]: altitude heavily matters in fuel consumption. Jet planes use a lot less fuel at a higher altitude, up to the point that a plane on the verge of running out of fuel at a medium altitude might manage to squeeze in 50 or 100 more miles of flight by climbing 5000 feet, even accounting for the increased fuel consumption during climb.
I guess that correlates with speed as well.
Turbofan engines, on the other hand, are more fuel efficient than jet engines at lower altitudes, hence they remain common for interstate transit. The difference seems to be directly caused by the effect of air "thickness" on the engines.

[1] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/
Use of Time in Distributed Databases (part 4): Synchronized clocks in prod DBs
How do you know the conversation is important if you don't know the language?
This is the first time I ever see any of these.
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
The system prompt contains some IP geolocation and current date and some other details to let ChatGPT up to date
Not only bucketed together, which means they could still be disambiguated in C by the full hash, but they'll actually share the full hash, which means they'd have to jump back into Python code to check `__eq__` to disambiguate IIUC. That seems like a huge perf issue, is it not?
plenty of forms of slavery still exist, perhaps we should focus on that
respectfully, i feel i am alone in this opinion, but i’m not even remotely convinced that there isn’t a “superintelligent being” hiding in plain sight with tools that we already have at hand. people always grouse about the quality of LLM outputs, and then you realize that they (tend to) think that somehow the LLM is supposed to read their minds and deliver the answer they “didn’t need, but deserved”… i’d take my chances being dumped in 12 th century england getting bleated at in old english over being an LLM that has to suffer through a three sentence essay about someone’s brilliant, life-altering startup idea, having to grapple with the overwhelming certainty that there is absolutely no conceivable satisfactory answer to a question poorly conceived.

for all we (well, “i”, i guess) know, “superintelligence” is nothing more than a(n extremely) clever arrangement of millions of gpt-3 prompts working together in harmony. is it really so heretical to think that silicon + a semi-quadrillion human-hour-dollars might maybe have the raw information-theoretical “measurables” to be comparable to those of us exalted organic, enlightened lifeforms?

clearly others “know” much more than i do about the limits of these things than me. i just have spent like 16 hours a day for ~18 months talking to the damned heretic with my own two hands— i am far from an authority on the subject. but beyond the classical “hard” cases (deep math, … the inevitability of death …?), i personally have yet to see a case where an LLM is truly given all the salient information in an architecturaly useful way in which “troublesome output”. you put more bits into the prompt, you get more bits out. yes, there’s, in my opinion, an incumbent conservation law here— no amount of input bits yields superlinear returns (as far as i have seen). but who looks at an exponential under whose profoundly extensive shadow we have continued to lose ground for… a half-century? … and says “nah, that can never matter, because i am actually, secretly, so special that the profound power i embody (but, somehow, never manage to use in such a profound way as to actually tilt the balance “myself”) is beyond compare, beyond imitation— not to be overly flip, but it sure is hard to distinguish that mindset from… “mommy said i was special”. and i say this all with my eyes keenly aware of my own reflection.

the irony of it all is that so much of this reasoning is completely contingent on a Leibniz-ian, “we are living in the best of all possible worlds” axiom that i am certain i am actually more in accord with than anyone who opines thusly… it’s all “unscientific”… until it isn’t. somehow in this “wtf is a narcissus” society we live in, we have gone from “we are the tools of our tools” to “surely our tools could never exceed us”… the ancient greek philosopher homer of simpson once mused “could god microwave a burrito so hot that even he could not eat it”… and we collectively seem all too comfortable to conclude that the map Thomas Acquinas made for us all those scores of years ago is, in fact, the territoire…
Are there any simple vehicles left in the US, EV or otherwise? The lowest frills cars I can think of are the Mirage and Versa, both on their last legs. Similar to the vocal minorities who want compact hatchbacks, wagons, small trucks, or manual transmissions, it feels like so few people want simple, non-smartphoney cars that the market segment will never be catered to.
Actually, I don't think this is covered by GDPR, but if you are European (which is implied by the fact you invoke GPPR) you can and should file a GDPR complaint to your local DPA.
This is no doubt true. But this could either be an inevitable result of corner-cutting, or simply mistakes caused by inexperience, design errors, and poorly dialed-in process parameters.

It matters is because in the former case, the unit cost advantage disappears as the problem gets solved. In the latter case, it does not.
I feel this way every time with webpack, npm and babel.
Back in 1999 for me most important was to have a great gui design, and VB was cool for this. Then later I would focus on native binary, performance and size of the build hence I switched to Delphi and then to C++. But tbh nowadays I can see that this is this famous triangle: either good and fast but expensive, either fast and cheap but not good, or good and cheap but not fast. So instead of writing in C++ i coded in 2 days a tray helper in pyside. I have no longer size complexes, as other apps tend to be written in electron nowadays, which is super size XXL

The point is: prejudice is bad. Use whatever floats your boat
Does anyone know why Unreal Engine 1 runs pretty smooth but with far superior graphics? Or maybe it is not that superior as I thought? I remember went into a netbar in 1998 when it came out and was COMPLETELY blown away -- and that PC didn't even have a good graphics card so it's choppy.
Meta's head of civil rights departs
Doesn’t that mean those who replace them are more likely to be even colder?
Do you feel excited when you speak? more importantly do you appear excited when you speak?

Bring excitement (facial expressions, hand gestures, exciting voice) when you speak and notice how attention shifts to you.
A clever point, worth discussing
Like the kids used to say, "for the lulz".
How the Empire State building got built in only a year:
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-fast-and-slo... (article)
There is a whole spectrum from trying to reach ultimate form to trying not to die and everyone in between.

I measure my heart rate one time for fun. It was insanely high at rest. I felt perfect, full of energy but it was completely obvious i needed to introduce rest days. I conviscated the heart rate monitor and everything was back to normal 3 days later.
Only true up to some extent. If a car can't get you anywhere, then crashing is almost irrelevant: you won't use it, because there's nothing to be gained from that. A car looping around in a parking lot is extremely safe, but completely useless.
That definitely matters for the marketing landscape in Japan. But as far as Hyundai's ability to make a profit at that price, it's still a big challenge to US automakers like Tesla, isn't it?
Mckinsey is the Jim Cramer of technology. If they say something has poor efficiency it likely has way way better efficiency than they are capable of understanding.
> I don't use the domain blacklisting at all, encounter spam ~never, and almost always get what I'm looking for in the top 5 results.

I encountered spam with Kagi half a dozen times. It was labeled "trustworthy". It is 100x worse than just seeing spam. Having to pay for it just adds insult to injury.

If there is a search engine it will be gamed. What we need is not trust the algorithm but have a good query mechanism.

> Obviously people's mileage may vary, but if anyone else is reading this and hasn't tried Kagi: you should

If your searches are uncomplicated and you are okay relying on algorithm without thinking, absolutely. buy it for your grandma and set it as her default search? 100%. But if you are a power Google user, you will be disappointed.
Huh I’ve never noticed a sysad credit in a credits roll. Are they labeled as something else?
After reading this, I am now of the belief that software is, actually, a good thing. And that programming can be enjoyable.

Seriously, this does such a good job of capturing the feeling of MAGIC that code is capable of -- both in its process and in its output. Textbook "craft". It's hard to experience that sometimes when surrounded by dependency hell, environments, build systems, certain dynamic programming languages, and the modern web ecosystem.
>Yep, it’s written in VB6. Who cares?

I'd say security is a problem if one uses a 30 year old piece of software but apparently Microsoft still releases security updates: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=507...

>A security issue has been identified that could compromise your Windows-based system running Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Service Pack 6

>The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported as of April 8, 2008, however, the Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications

>Date Published:
>3/23/2021
There's something like 170,000 car fires per year in the US. It's just one of those things that's bad and too common to really make the news except maybe locally.
It's not that simple. Without DEI you end up with products created by white men for white men.

DEI means you end up employing some people who potentially aren't as technically qualified, but bring a different viewpoint to the team. Until I spent a long time living with Blacks (as a white) I never knew all the things they go through growing up, I never knew how their communities and families were organized, I never knew what sort of products they needed and what sort of products they bought. I never even watched BET in my life, or read Essence magazine, for instance. My life experience was a bubble that was cut off from a significant portion of the population.

Now add in Hispanics, Asians and every other culture and I am missing out on knowing how most of the world lives.
Which part of Japan? I found this in Osaka, somewhat far from the city center, for roughly 336k usd https://realestate.japantoday.com/en/forsale/view/1127651
It depends on how this percentage was raised. If they actually increased the black and brown talent pool by 50%, that would be an unequivocal success. What I suspect actually happens is that recruiters are incentivized to improve DEI metrics, so they simply hand out more interviews to underrepresented candidates. The end result is that higher tier companies simply poach these candidates from lower tier companies.
How is that applicable to Europe? Who knows.
It is not economy of scale. They need to "re-factor" their factories/models/cars/marketing for little gain. why do it? Tesla was kinda the only player in town and thus commanded high prices and high margins. It's only when the Chinese showed up that the technology is clearly cheaper; and everyone else was caught by it.
"It also is a bit shallow and does not make strong arguments in the face of conflicting evidence. So not as good as the best humans, but better than a lot of reports that I see." - from the article.

I felt that the article itself suffered from this. It wasn't shallow in it's grasp of AI claims, but shallow and made no strong arguments.

If I want a survey of AI claims without a strong analysis, I can ask AI for that.
I've been working on a project to solve the social connection problem using a new approach. In a post third space society, I want to make it easier for people to connect with others nearby in small groups around shared hobbies and activities. Having a small group size makes it easier to host at someone's place and it's also cheaper than going out.

I did a soft launch earlier this week by posting on NYC subreddits to get early feedback and test out my hypothesis . The reaction has been very positive with many comments saying they like the concept. Obviously there's a long way to go to really nail down the product market fit and build a sustainable business around it but the early feedback makes me feel like there is really something there.
> who owned the land where the campus was built

I understand that it is important to raise social awareness about some things. People should not be afraid to talk about real issues. Freedom of speech, the need to listen to people/citizens/customers &c.

That said, the cheerful, forced vapidity in that video is embarrassing. None of those parroted statements is worth a tinker's cuss historically. And none of it is worth a damn in the present time either unless the corporation is going to give billions in reparation to the tribes that were permanently evicted.

Is the Land Acknowledgement Theatre really a strategic attempt to avoid paying damages in many potential class-action law suits?

Is that corporate fear really what drives most of these obsequious recognition statements and policies?
Safety is also an issue

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/10/30/byd-atto-3-rec...

> Mercedes’ i5 received the best score from Euro NCAP for driver-assistance functions, and BYD’s ATTO 3 receiving the worst score
Honest question: Where do you deploy? What do you use for queues? Database? It's impossible to beat React for component libraries but, lemme tell you, I've struggled to be productive with Next when compared to Rails.
EVs are not the future. Change my mind.

-- spoiler alert --

Hydrogen fuel cell powered are
Etymologically it seems to have emerged independently (that is, leftists really meant it in earnest) and then converged into the same space as the pejorative "keyboard warrior" around the mid 2010s.
If nature computed both through evolution, then maybe it's approximately the same ratio. So roughly the time it took to evolve embodiment, and roughly the time it took to evolve from grunts to advanced language.

If we start from when we think multicellular life first evolved (~2b years), or maybe the Cambrian explosion (~500m years), and until modern humans (~300k years). Then compare that to the time between first modern humans now now.

It seems like maybe 3-4 orders of magnitude harder.

My intuition after reading the articles is that there needs to be way more sensors all throughout the robot, probably with lots of redundancies, and then lots of modern LLM sized models all dedicated to specific joints and functions and capable of cascading judgement between each other, similar to how our nervous system works.
Yeah its based in India
I always get a kick out of articles like this. We know precisely why there is a housing shortage and why fewer and fewer houses are being built. Even knowing why won't change the situation.
You're welcome to your opinion, but this view of adversarial views and people who hold them is building precisely no bridges from your silo.

Listening to someone talk it out for an hour or more, and flesh out their views without constant interruption really helps you understand something about their mind and their drives in life. Very few people can keep up a facade of rehearsed talking points and bullshit for 3 hours.
I may originally have stumbled across this trick looking at repetitive patterns. I distinctly recall automobile upholstery (with a regular recurring ventilation pattern). In particular, abberations in the pattern (dirt, missed holes, etc.) stood out.

Similarly, acoustic ceiling tiles, repeating patterns on wallpaper, rugs, or draperies, building faces, etc.

This may be a superpower to some, or a supertorment to those with OCD ;-)
Maybe this architecture approach would be challenging in Java or Go, but the style of immutable data, don’t go crazy wrapping stuff in classes is very doable in most languages. We enforce “no mutation of data you did not just instantiate” at Notion, and use TypeScript’s powerful type system with tagged union types to ensure exhaustive handling of new variants which I really miss in languages that don’t have it (go).

I guess the major advantage for Closure with this style is the “persisted” data structures end up sharing some bytes behind the scenes - it’s nice the language is explicitly situated around this style, rather than TypeScript’s chaotic Wild West kitchen sink design. What I don’t understand the advantage for “state management”. Like, you build a new state object, and then mutate some pointer from prevState to nextState… that’s what everyone else is doing too.

There are times though when it’s nice to switch gears from function-and-data to an OO approach when you need to maintain a lot of invariants, interior mutability has substantial performance advantages, or you really want to make sure callers are interpreting the data’s semantics correctly. So our style has ended up being “functional/immutable business logic and user data” w/ “zero inheritance OO for data structures”.

Whenever I read some open source TypeScript code that’s using the language like it’s Java like `class implements ISomething` ruining cmd-click go to method or an elaborate inheritance hierarchy it makes me sad.
How do you pronounce that symbol?