skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> With the exception of Netflix, these other companies' apps are similarly buggy and painful to use.

I agree -- if I could separate these out into 3 categories rather than 2, Netflix/YT would be in a class of their own, way ahead of the pack.

I am constantly surprised how Apple TV offers such a poor experience despite their excellence in Product Management in other product areas. I was watching Apple TV last night and my wife and I slogged thru the recap and intro because we were so afraid of the app chocking on the "Skip" button.

Aside from Apple, which seems to be a Product Management issue, I find other platforms to bucket into two areas:

1. Poor performance, probably due to bad threading and poor cacheing

2. Incompatibility with older TVs. TVs last 8-10yrs easily these days, and features have topped off so people do not upgrade. This means you have a LOT of target builds and compatibility to check and I dont think they test all the possible builds.
I love this phrase so much.

Google still has some unsettled demons.
At this point, it looks like Elon went fully rogue.
Some Xband Recollections
Do you not think DEI is harming US research capacity?

What do you honestly think China thinks of our DEI initiatives?

They're laughing at us in Chinese.
DOGE is not illegal. However the legality of some of the things they do is under question. The current government, including DOGE is being operated like “Just do as many things as possible, so that the lawsuits can’t keep up”. While lawyers are busy trying to stop big things, many small but important items will slip through the cracks and will take decades to undo.

Edit: BTW this strategy has always been available, it’s just that career politicians aren’t incentivized to do this for “good” because they want long political careers.
I am amazed that people still post on social media under their real name. The risk v reward seems very skewed towards risk, even if you’re only posting about non-controversial topics.
I've been running jakstys.lt (and subdomains like git.jakstys.lt) from my closet, a simple residential connection with a small monthly price for a static IP.

The only time I had a problem was when gitea started caching git bundles of my Linux kernel mirror, which bots kept downloading (things like a full targz of every commit since 2005). Server promptly went out of disk space. I fixed gitea settings to not cache those. That was it.

Not ever ddos. Or I (and uptimerobot) did not notice it. :)
for now, wait until the Trump admin gets into full gear
Feedback:
- At end of game show statistics correct/incorrect

- At the end of game show which particular color weaknesses were identified

- Show progress meter (1 of 20)

- I have a red/green weakness and I expected to run into issues. One of the greens was hard to differentiate but I still got it right. I expected it to be harder. Perhaps look up exact pallets for different color perception issues and use those.
You and I would like to think that, but he's been given carte blanche by the people who should be his checks and balances and the supreme court has made anything he does in the course of his duties legal.
Hey man, you only created your account one day ago and you're going to town flooding this site with bad takes. What's the deal?
Lawyer rates are extremely high variance, and the NYT is not hiring anywhere near the median. White shoe firms break $1000/hr routinely.
An incoming administration deserves to have bureaucrats who will help rather than hinder what the people voted for.
Google owner drops promise not to use AI for weapons
> Or do you just claim that they're so stupid that they haven't thought past "Hur, let's, like, destroy the government, man"?

I don't think they've thought much past that.

We can look at the US Postal Service as a bit of a microcosm of this entire situation. Conservatives have been complaining about the Post Office my entire life, using that to restrict funding to it, which causes it to operate worse, then use that as justification to reduce funding to the Post Office, in a frustrating cycle. There's probably several reasons to why they do this, but I think the main one is that their goal is to replace it with private, for-profit "equivalents", like FedEx or UPS or DHL.

I suspect that this might be a similar thing. They're wrecking the government by yanking away all funding, causing things to get worse, and then using that as proof that the government does things badly, so they can replace these things with for-profit versions that we contract out.
No this is untrue. Independent creation is an affirmative defense against copyright infringement. You'd never convince a jury that you independently wrote the exact same article as a New York Times article, but in principle you can argue that you independently wrote say... a song, or even reimplemented the WIN32 API without ever having read or familiarized yourself with the original source code:

https://github.com/wine-mirror/wine

https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-128/creating-around-c...
HN is not a jobs board, please do not post your jobs, there is a monthly post where this is acceptable as a comment

see the FAQ
> drag and drop of elements without resetting their state

Could recreate that famous old Mac OS X demo where a video keeps playing while minimized
I looked into this and I find it kinda confusing. https://employmentlawweekly.com/uncategorized/500-million-se... && https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/McMilli...
> Bandwidth is expensive and slow to provision.

Not enough to hurt a paid service. Let's say 6Mbps for pretty solid 1080p. And at peak maybe we have .5 streams per account going simultaneously (I bet the real number is significantly lower). So we need 3Mbps per account. How much does a Mbps cost? "Across key cities in the U.S. and Europe, 400 GigE prices range from $0.07 to $0.08 per Mbps."

Peacock doesn't even offer 4K most of the time or on the olympics, but for services that do a $1 upcharge should be more than enough to cover the bandwidth difference.
Perhaps "loss aversion" is important to me: I'm not a spherically rational Homo economicus.

Our society mostly works because of our non-monetary rewards, not because of monetary incentives. My teaching and nursing friends work for their own satisfaction, and more money is not a high priority to them.

I am not particularly motivated by money. I suspect you are a businessperson that believes money is strongly motivating? I chased financial success for 15 years when I started from $0: however I now hope I have enough and I hope it won't be unfairly taken from me. Yes, money was a big incentive then (and my personal costs have been very high), but now I have other goals.

I suspect I psychologically find high marginal taxation demotivating (48% if we include GST). Maybe because I have too many acquaintances and family sucking at the government tit. I see where government money goes because I have a wide variety of acquaintances including retirees, elderly, unhealthy, and unemployed. Yeah, I know they are not living the high life (well, maybe my drug-abusing anti-social acquaintances think they are).

> No, I'm talking about selling all or part of the business

Which requires an intense amount of work, and sometimes a significant loss, and usually requires selling 100%... Why should I sell at 4x earnings when I can hold on to the business - even if I don't want it? Taxation has too much influence on my investments because rebalancing across other investments has too high a cost/risk.

I guess I'm an idealist. I believe in startups, and I believe they help all New Zealanders. But the incentives of our taxation system mean that founding a startup is foolish: I don't recommend to anyone that they should be a founder (even though I have won the gamble). The unrecoverable costs of anything but spectacular success are too high. The non-monetary rewards are poor in my experience. The expected median return for a startup founder is about $0. Our social systems and taxation systems need to encourage business inception and growth so that all of NZ can be better off.

Thank you for your questions. It is always good to be asked why!
> When they had DEI, it was created for business reason too - to be seen as socially just so you should buy their products.

You don't think that was "to not get destroyed" too? Such as when New York city was sued (and lost, having to pay out $1.8 billion) because too many minorities failed its test for teachers:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/nyc-will-pay-out-1-8-billion-t...
It's great to see more git documentation, and I have a lot of respect for Beej's Guide to Network Programming. However he really needs to work on his commit hygiene. I get that this is a one-man project, but still it's pretty atrocious: https://github.com/beejjorgensen/bggit/commits/main/. This does not set a good example.

I usually refer people to https://cbea.ms/git-commit/.
In section 5.7:

> But in this section we’re going to be talking about a specific kind of merge: the fast-forward. This occurs when the branch you’re merging from is a direct ancestor of the branch you’re merging into.

Looks like "from" and "into" are swapped: "main" is "into" there, "newbranch" is "from", and "main" is a direct ancestor of "newbranch".
Again, this is all predicated on what data can be measured inside the app.

The top 5% of men would be a completely different group if it was measured differently. It's not the actual men we are ranking here, it's their profiles.
Cool thanks for sharing your experience!

Are u taking any meds right now?
Things are going to chance. Unfortunately, things are only getting worse.

CAPTCHAs are barely sufficient against bots these days. I expect the first sites to start implementing Apple/Cloudflare's remote attestation as a CAPTCHA replacement any day now, and after that it's going to get harder and harder to use the web without Official(tm) Software(tm).

Using Linux isn't what's getting you blocked. I use Linux, and I'm not getting blocked. These blocks are the results of a whole range of data points, including things like IP addresses.
To be fair, Thomson Reuters is a huge company, with the Reuters news division being only one of the groups within. This may not be anything but a clickbaity title on a grant.

This kerfuffle could be quickly solved if Thomson Reuters published their grant proposal as submitted to and selected by DARPA for this program.
> This was the way to secure funding was what the PI in our lab told me when I inquired about the glaring discrepancy.

I'm not saying that what your PI told you was wrong, but I will say that it would've been useful to get some additional information about why your PI decided that was the right thing to do. It might have been useful at some particular time or in some particular situation.

> EDIT: I left academia in 2013, maybe things have changed.

That's an important piece of information, as when I read your original post, "even in 2013" made me think that you were still in academia.
This is another part of what I mean: people on message boards read these things as message board arguments, oblivious to the fact that the whole point of these guides, if they're for real, is to communicate with people who are making absolutely none of these inferences.
Most (D)DOS attacks are just either UDP floods or SYN floods that iptables will handle without any problem. Sometimes what people think are DDOS is just their application DDOSing themself because they are doing recursive calls to some back-end micro-service.

If it was actually a traffic based DDOS someone still needs to pay for that bandwidth which would be too expansive for most companies anyway - even if it kept your site running.

But you can sell a lot of services to incompetent people.
Before I say anything else, I agree wholeheartedly with you on this:

> Arguably it also depends on you calculating probabilities incorrectly, though the arguments I've seen so far in this thread on the matter are reminiscent of five-year-olds who just learned the word "infinity"

This was my general reaction to the original thought experiment. It's writing down the "desired" answer and then trying to come up with a narrative to fit it, rather than starting now and working forward to the most likely future branches.

> you're necessarily also removing the bargaining chip that makes the Basilisk an interesting idea in the first place.

One of the more interesting ones in a game-theory sense, sure; but to exist, it just needs the fear rather than the deed, and this already works for many religions. (Was going to say Christianity, but your Avīci reference to Hinduism also totally works). For this reason, I would say there's plenty of wrong people who would be incentivised… but also yes, I'm talking about something slightly different, an AI that spontaneously (or not so spontaneously) role-plays as this for extremely stupid reasons.

Not the devil per se, but an actor doing a very good job of it.
You've got the cart before the horse.

The technology has to exist first. The technology is first picked up by early adopters: hustlers, marketers, hypsters. Not by practicing professionals.

It takes time for the new tools to work their way into the creative field. It first gets pushback, then it happens a little, and then all at once.

We're still super early days into this tech. Give it more time and it'll be all-capable and everywhere.

The canary in the coal mine is all the young people playing with it.
> NYT is just as blatant as Fox News is to you

After this past election cycle I don't see how people can make that comment with a straight face.

Media in general is very right leaning. Some like CNN and NYT are maybe slightly more left than far right fox news, but there aren't many "left leaning" mass market news sources that are essentially felating one party for millions of people.

NYT and CNN, etc are all very critical of democrats when there is a controversy. This is stark contrast to fox news which essentially is willful ignorance of anything bad republicans / trump has done.

The "normalization" of Trump's corruption by media in general should be enough to see which way they lean.

Its just that if anybody is slightly less than full blown fox news conservative they get labeled as left leaning by everyone in the media so there is some idea of "balance" but conservative media (fox news, conservative podcasts, etc) are overwhelmingly mass market and the majority.
worked for me, maybe its a src ip block? You vpn'ing maybe?
> Just for clarity, this was for a publicly posted job position, so non-target candidates were able to, and did, put in applications. They were assessed the same way target candidates were.

Try again.
Sorry to say, but this is very unintuitive and hard.
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I found one thing odd, which was outside of the scope over the zero sum game being fought here.

If you are understaffed, AND you are hiring traditionally, it would make sense that recruiting people would go up. That would mean diverse hires anyway - based on the article, it seems that even increasing diversity was not between undeserving candidates and ideal candidates (the second band section of the article)

Is the third variable at play here a lack of funding from congress for recruitment?
> if you already happened to be planning on leaving...

This is why you should ignore any absolute numbers about people taking the buyout.

You want to look at the relative percentage taking the deal compared to their normal turnover.

If the number of people taking the "buyout" isn't significantly higher than their normal turnover, that's a sign that they're just overpaying people who were already leaving.
> That'd be a coincidence, not a verbatim copy.

It would be both. Or to put it a different way, how would you distinguish one from the other?

> This defense isn't available to OpenAI because there is no dispute OpenAI ingested the NYTimes articles in the first place.

The question remains whether ingesting the article is the reason it gets output in response to a given prompt, when it could have happened either way.

And in cases where you don't know, emitting some text is not conclusive evidence that it was in the training data. Most of the text emitted by LLMs isn't verbatim from the training data.

> Rather than sneeringly explain away how LLMs work without any eye towards the laws at issue, maybe you should do yourself the favor of learning about them so you can spare us this incessent "no let me explain how they work, it's fine I swear!" shtick.

This is a case of first impression. We don't really know what they're going to do yet. But "there exists some input that causes it to output the article" isn't any kind of offensive novelty; lots of boring existing stuff does that when the input itself is based on the article.
Changes which re-define the language to have less UB will help you if you want safety/ correctness and are willing to do some work to bring that code to the newer language. An example would be the initialization rules in (draft) C++ 26. Historically C++ was OK with you just forgetting to initialize a primitive before using it, that's Undefined Behaviour in the language so... if that happens too bad all bets are off. In C++ 26 that will be Erroneous Behaviour and there's some value in the variable, it's not always guaranteed to be valid (which can be a problem for say, booleans or pointers) but just looking at the value is no longer UB and if you forgot to initialize say an int, or a char, that's fine since any possible bit sequence is valid, what you did was an error, but it's not necessarily fatal.

If you're not willing to do any work then you're just stuck, nobody can help you, magic "profiles" don't help either.

But, if you're willing to do work, why stop at profiles? Now we're talking about a price and I don't believe that somehow the minimum assignable budget is > $1Bn
Banks Ditch Net Zero as Climate Alliances Crumble
Photonic systems are hard to make and scale, the research is ongoing but it isn't there yet in any aspect so possibly one day however that depends on how the other technology advances as well.
Not at the moment, although this fits well into the project scope.
> Talk about shipping the org chart.

To be fair, Microsoft has shipped like five AI portals in the last two years. Maybe four — I don’t even know any more. I’ve lost track of the renames and product (re)launches.
That was a little bit of a joke - but necessary to correct the by now reflexively wrong ideas of cui bono.
Thanks for your comment. Same here, Gen X. Off social media since pandemic. As Nassim Taleb says if it's really important someone will tell you. I feel like I'm on an island. I'm never outraged at all. Of course I hope there's more justice and equity in the world, but I am at peace with things and have no hatred or rage compared to when I was glued to social media.
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It's not. It's distraction culture war politics - turning a class issue into a race issue. The real cause isn't a corporate love of racial diversity, it's a cross company initiative to decrease wages and disempower workers by heavily using H1Bs that just happen to come from India.
Parent literally said so …

> Our prompt is currently very simple: "OCR this PDF into this format as specified by this json schema" and didn't require some fancy "prompt engineering" to contort out a result.
It's easier to run a startup in the US, so why do it anywhere else? The financing is easier, the labor laws more business-friendly, and the native market bigger. And that's how it's going to stay for the foreseeable future. EU internal market integration has been paused for decades, weakening labor laws is a non-starter in any European country, and European pension funds are generally not allowed to invest in index funds, let alone something as risky as VC. If you think the EU will ever catch up, think again. The political will to do so is just not there.
They say billing cycle, but what if I'm on the annual plan? Is my cycle a year? Or does my renewal date get pushed back a month if I don't use it?

I use kagi hundreds of times a day, so it's not something likely to happen soon, but I'm still curious
The loss of dei programs is bad but isn't the big bad. The big bad comes when businesses start being forced to prove that they arent doing dei. Every hire may soon have to be examined under inverse lenses: to prove that they are not dei. Real evils will then creep back into business culture. Be under no illusions. Those evils still lurk in every back office.
> “I know green is good, but we’ve got to move slowly,” Monterey County Supervisor Glenn Church told The Times. “What we’re doing with this technology is way ahead of government regulations and ahead of the industry’s ability to control it.”

Maybe government can work together with companies to find a solution instead of forcing a slowdown and bringing in the regulations hammer?
Would be great to be more resources put in at the very start of the pipeline (e.g. early childhood education). It's very hard to "solve" "diversity" at the time of hiring when candidates have already had decades of disadvantage.
Well I'm proposing that we not do that, but just to play devil's advocate, one protection it would have is that a large unruly mob couldn't gather at one building in particular and prevent the business of government from proceeding--like they did on Jan 6.
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