skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firstly, Microsoft's profit margins are significantly higher than Apple's, so this doesn't make any sense to begin with.

Are we talking OS only or everything else?…because there are two different answers for those.
The Echidna Is Australia’s Most Delightfully Different Mammal
We won't know, as the movie got scrapped. But from what I saw people talking about, the main point of contention for this particular adaption appeared to be the "race swapping" of the main character. This version of the Bat Girl was being pushed as the first female hispanic super hero.
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/google-ceo-call/

Speaking to a group of magazine executives at the Google headquarters, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said yesterday that the Internet is becoming a breeding ground for false information, reports Ad age. But trusted brands help weed through the disinformation:

"Brands are the solution, not the problem... Brands are how you sort out the cesspool."

https://battellemedia.com/archives/2008/10/cesspool_brands_e...

"Brand affinity is clearly hard wired….It is so fundamental to human existence that it’s not going away. It must have a genetic component."
Reminded me of the book/movie Name of the rose (awesome in both formats). The Macguffin is the single remaining copy, long thought lost, of Aristoteles book on comedy, thought to be a forbidden thing by some of the monks.
Right. The vast majority of people I've ever met "choose" the same religion they were born into (what a coincidence!). Most people don't question. Most people DIE never having questioned. Also, WTF is wrong with people?
I thought “It’s Time to Build” was hypocritical at the time, but I didn’t expect such clear confirmation!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22913262
To me they are disgusting. Monuments to extravagance. All I can think of when I see homes like that are the thousands of people across town huddled under awnings begging for housing. And in this one neighborhood enough money was spent to house all the city’s homeless 100 times over. Appalling. Disgusting. Inhuman.

If art has meaning, these “works of art” represent oppression and selfishness.
That sounds like Welsh, but pointier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect
Not saying you're right or wrong - personally I like the palette but not the theme - but these comments give off a pretty arrogant attitude that I think is uncalled for.
Real enough for what?
A simple glance at what he, a prominent VC, was investing in (and publicly promoting) at the time would've told you he wasn't walking the walk.
My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement
I make a living “gluing things together” and calling it software.
>There was a time when this might have seemed funny. But that was before conspiracy theory was weaponized to help win elections, before the whole world seemed to lose its collective mind.

The world didn't lose it's collective mind.

We learned that the powers that be are every bit as crazy as the tin hat people told us they were. The only thing our foil wrapped friends got wrong were the details.

That the Epstein saga isn't a lurid trashy paperback spy thriller but an actual thing that happened and involved both parties presidential candidates in 2016 is the only rebuttal needed to people who tell us to believe the adults in charge.
It's just anti-user. Use the AV1 codec, some hardware supports it.
I am still angry that the .NET team basically gave up on VisualBasic. Not that VB is such a good "variant" but it is definitely more beginner friendly than F# or C#.
Lincoln Park Golf Course. Obviously it’s accessible to a lot of neighborhoods not just the wealthy one I mentioned. But when I see golf courses I think of all the affordable housing that could be built on that land.
Why even look for alternatives, prediction markets suck due to inherent limitations in liquidity, making it impossible for them to ever fulfill their purpose of broadcasting what "the market" believes. One market participant with slightly larger size moves the state on low volume.
They don't mind if you do it on your own for free: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

> a compilation of well-written, step-by-step guides for re-creating our favorite technologies from scratch
Danuri, Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
With these partially hand built trees, are you using only 1 or 2 at inference time? Or is it still a full on large forest of 200 trees?

To elaborate: Are you coding up this bayesian logic as part of the training process, and then you run this code 200 times to end up with 200 trees? That code mixes the hand built rules with the normal approach to tree construction (random split location, random feature choice out of N features, etc)
Google Meet (original) has an excellent accessibility feature, it supports real-time computer generated captions. Duo never had that, or if it does, only recently. The only other big app that could do that back then was MS Teams which was not at all as accessible or pleasant to use as Meet.
Google major revenue stream is and will always be search/ads. Everything else is marginal, irrelevant and that’s why I think they don’t care much.

I still can’t explain how Google got beaten at their own game (cloud / computing at scale) by an e-commerce site : Amazon.

That says it all.

Having many friends who work at Google, I think they have the wrong system of incentives in place. Rightfully, people optimize and prioritize based on their path to promotion rather than building products that people love.

It’s much easier to get a promotion if you build something new vs keep iterating on existing products making it better.
In many countries gambling regulations go beyond age restrictions and companies evolving in that space have to provide safeguards to prevent certain behaviors. I don't think it's far-fetched to imagine similar regulations for things like social media, at least it's a real possibility that exists before simply banning everything.
I started my career in one of the most profitable teams within Big 4 accounting because they leveraged software when the other firms were focused on spreadsheets. Our team had > 90% market share of accounting business with our sector of public companies for this reason alone. Most of our clients had millions of transactions and assets, and, while another firm had an excel model for this, there was no understanding of the model outputs because it was a black box of incremental computations. While I was there we landed one of the 20 or so remaining public co clients simply because we could show them every step math along the way - we had accountants and engineers that understood the logic in and out.

That said, most businesses can run on spreadsheets.
>how do you embed comments in protocolbuf data? It's binary!

In addition to the binary format, every proto message can also be represented in a human readable form[1]. This is not as efficient and probably not a good idea for data being sent over the wire as-is.. especially if it is only being written and read by computers.

However if you have small amounts of data at rest (like input for a unit test) it can be handy to add some comments explaining anything non-obvious.

On top of that, the proto's schema itself can have comments, and those comments can trickle down into the code generation for a given language so that you can read them when working with your messages. Maybe that's also possible with JSON schemas but idk what their tooling ecosystem is like

[1]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/text-for...
Create your own JavaScript Engine
Noted and refuted.
Nope, still happening. Can't start the Clojure track. It sort of circularly redirects back to start a free trial and can't actually start the track.
The growing up part was good. As a late teen, not being able to get to anyplace that mattered was maximally soul crushing, yes. The sole source of my suffering for several years.
AV1 is an open standard and and can also be included in open source software. It has the same capabilities as HEVC, but without the patent bs. AV1 decoders/encoders are also already being included by hardware, like in the new Intel ARC cards.
I find this statement quite fascinating because despite my limited experience working with excel I've seen countless compatibility issues, caused either by change of version of excel or change of locale. Perhaps this is caused by user error, but then it sure seems easy to make these mistakes.
I live in a three story, single family home located at the top of a hill, with views for miles, surrounded by wooded acreage, in an area zoned “forest”.

Life is amazing here. I exercise outside, explore the landscape and the hiking trails surrounding me, and not only is it never crowded, it’s also safe, quiet, and beautiful.

The best part is that since I have everything at hand, including natural beauty, I don’t want or need to leave my home often, and have worked remotely for a Bay Area company for several years.

I often walk out my front door and go for a hike before starting my work day.

Living in an 18-story building surrounded by 20-story buildings would be, for me, a hellish existence.

You couldn’t pay me enough money to want to live there.
Nobody cares about the underwear... until people create a PR explicitly saying "look at my underwear".
I was already moving into Turbo Pascal after having been through the 8-bit computers, GW-BASIC and Turbo Basic (my entry into Borland family), so never got into playing around that much into QBasic, other that when bored in foreign computers.

However I always felt it was a bit unfortunate that Microsoft never invested into QuickBasic the same way as they did with their C products, even with VB later on, it had to wait until version 6 to get a proper AOT compiler, and even then, only to be eventually replaced by .NET.

Somehow a company created on the BASIC wave seems to always have had a vocal minority (internally) that always messed up the products that helped the masses to program with more productive languages (nowadays still present in WinDev vs DevDiv politics).
Thank you for this comment. The host took me by surprise.

I saw John Carmack and 5 hours and just thought: "Wow, those two must have really hit it off somewhere".
Listening to his questions was a struggle. I wish I could have only listened to Johns answers.
I think the semantics of NIMBY got lost recently where I’ve read tweets about YIMBY’s who are against building that effects them. People forgot the acronym NIMBY refers to people in favor of liberal policy until it affects them.
Right, so services interested in reducing costs are switching to a lower quality (and not just due to the double conversion) animation format, so you should too?

Let's remember a couple of pros for animated GIFs: lossless (other than the palette if you downconvert), reasonably small and supported everywhere.

If you've got enough of them in your app to hurt memory or CPU use, you've got a different problem that's not going to be much better with lossy videos (eg. think Linux browser support for hw accelerated video playback).
I guess "being able to block ads on the platform on which I do 50% of my browsing" is my ideology, yup.
But this apartment building wasn't against the zoning code. That's why it was being built. It was just not part of some ambiguous plan created by some random dude. To argue that a completely non-binding plan is law is obtuse.

Just because you live somewhere does not entitle you to control your neighbors property.
I was with you until you called them "white shit," using an immutable physical characteristic as a pejorative. This has no place on HN.
GP was quoting the next line in the movie, not disagreeing with GGP.
It sells the rest of the community
The Hangouts app won't work for me at all now, it just redirects to a screen saying that I must use Chat with a link to Google Play.

Of course, Google Chat is so much worse than Hangouts in every way.

You can't send multiple images at once, you can't directly share to a particular contact without first going into Chat app, and you can't swipe from image to image.

Literally nothing has been fixed in the year since I was forced to change over, and so many bad reviews on Play mention the same problems over and over and over again, with only canned worthless responses from the poor person assigned to reply.

Google management are really brain dead.
Solving x% (x > 0) of the problem is better than solving 0% of the problem.
> I read a modest amount of popular "AI safety" text (lesswrong basically) and this is the first time I've heard of Dall-E being crippled for safety reasons.

You can read OpenAI's paper or try using it. They've intentionally not taught it many things; it doesn't know most celebrities' names, or copyrighted characters, and there's several filters before and after the big model to prevent NSFW generations of any type.

(Oddly, it does know "Homer Simpson" and "Hatsune Miku".)
Thanks a bunch for the detailed reply! I would like to learn more about stuff like this.
heh, not only was: 'office -microsoft' filled with microsoft links but when i tried 'office -microsoft -site:microsoft.com' all I got was a blank page!

I'll give them some credit though, using duckduckgo.com I only got a page full of Microsoft that shouldn't have been there. It looks like it's https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/ that has the blank page problem
This is very accurate in my experience, down to the suggested formulas.
without having read it yet, I'm going to say I'm already prone to thinking certain kinds of blog writing are gpt3 and it's insidious and enormously destructive of what's left of the human ecosystem on the web that we have to seriously ask that question.

What may happen is that everyone begins to realize that the shit they read every day is pointless garbage that doesn't actually pertain to them at all.

Case in point: I crossed the border into Canada this week and woke up one morning with some extra time for google news doom scrolling before I got out of bed. It took about halfway through the scroll to realize I was logged out and that all the crime and politics headlines I was reading were about things that
had happened in Canada. Which meant nothing to me and which I would never have heard about otherwise. (And yet there was a whole different galaxy of stories that had clearly been going on for some time). This was like in the 80s when you'd intentionally turn on the local TV news in your hotel room to see local broadcasters wherever you were visiting, except it wasn't intentional. And yet I realized my brain could not give two fucks before coffee if these stories had been generated by an AI or they were irrelevantly Canadian, I just needed to doom scroll some shit before breakfast.
But after that I stopped reading the news and just enjoyed being in a country where nothing much happens. So my prediction is that the moment people realize they're reading AI-generated news, they'll just tune out completely. It would be like suddenly realizing you've been listening to CBC.
Discipline is getting things done without relying on something as finicky as your motivation of the day. Some days you will be motivated and some days you won't be, but you want to try and have consistency in whatever goal you are trying to achieve. It helps you get there more reliably.
Very interesting to see this, because a few days ago I started using a theme that takes the complete opposite approach: limited hue range, but wide luminance range.

https://github.com/mcchrish/zenbones.nvim

I've found it to be quite practical because it makes keywords easier to pick out, and it allows search matches and diagnostics to stand out better.
Climate deniers don't believe in data from thermometers and ship buoys, why would they trust an analysis of grape harvests.
The prophecy on Matthew 16:28 was fulfilled in Matthew 17 when Peter, James and John saw Jesus Christ transfigured in his glory.

But yeah, I would be surprised if Jesus didn't come in my lifetime(I'm 48).

Matthew 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Glad you found a solution that's working for you! I found it annoying when Firefox did that, but in a purely academic way - the only add-on I use is uBlock.
That's fair. Then I'll just take the problem specification. What I want to get around is hand-wave claims that it's too complicated for anyone to figure it out. Because if no one has a formal statement of the problem, then that tells me that people are just making unfounded assumptions.
> ... all sorts of groups have the mandate (and the technology, and the budget) to target anyone who pisses them off. Many of these people are “ex-cops or former agents. They know these tactics. I don’t think there’s a single entity that coordinates federally all this stuff that’s going on.”

WestWorld S3 featured an Uber-like gig economy app for crime, inspired by blockchain dark markets, https://www.unfinishedman.com/the-westworld-rico-app-is-comi... & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsj4LDu1__Y

> The closest thing we’ve got right now is a prediction market called Augur. It essentially allows people to place bets on the outcome of events – any kind of events – and with a little bit of tweaking, well… I probably don’t need to explain how that could be applied to a real-life version of Westworld’s RICO app.

Other variations on this theme can be seen in The Adjustment Bureau (2010), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE and Daniel Suarez's Daemon (2011), where an AI coordinates and coerces a network of strangers to implement narrow tasks which lead to complex outcomes. Daemon was cited by Vitalik Buterin as an inspiration for Ethereum and DAOs.

In the real world, we have Cass Sunstein's "nudge" theory, https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2019/05/cass-sunstein..., predictive policing in Pasco FL, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24363871 and Austin TX, https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2020-07-24/apds-secret-...

> secret citizen spying program that's active in the Austin area and across the country ... Threat Liaison Officers (TLOs), who report suspicious activity or behavior ... each TLO must sign a nondisclosure agreement with ARIC, including those not working in law enforcement, essentially creating secret citizen officers. These informants, known as For Official Use Only TLOs, are able to access the fusion centers' national intelligence database (excluding personal identifying information). The FOUO TLOs include private security officers with local hotels, malls, large venues, and local semiconductor companies.

DOJ's prosecution of former eBay executives for journalist cyberstalking concluded this year with guilty pleas, https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/14/23073054/former-ebay-exec... & https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/former-ebay-executive-ple...

> eBay’s former director of global resiliency ... pleaded guilty to taking part in a bizarre harassment campaign, which involved sending live cockroaches, spiders, a bloody pig face mask, and other strange items to a Massachusetts couple ... Harville wasn’t the only higher-up involved, either — Popp served as eBay’s former senior manager of global intelligence, Gilbert was the ex-senior manager of special operations, Baugh worked as eBay’s senior director of safety and security, and Stockwell was a former manager for the company’s Global Intelligence Center.
A gnarly ffmpeg CLI is exactly what we need for a service as complex as search. The people who can use such an interface are a tiny fraction, but they will produce a majority of economic innovation nonetheless.
I am there with you, nowadays they could rename CLR into C# Language Runtime.

Even F#, I am not really sure how long they will keep investing into it, as they have pivoted into trying to push F# for data science, while at the same time hired Guido and are driving the efforts to make CPython faster, and keep adding F# features to C# as well.

The irony that we get more options on the JVM side than on the CLR, versus what each one originally stood for.
Chuck E Cheese does operate a ghost kitchen brand: https://www.pasquallyspizza.com/
You know more of what a giraffe is than DALLE; you can imagine one as a 3D model, for instance. It can't do this, it can only render different 2D images of one it's seen in photos. Of course, this is still impressive that it knows how to remove the backgrounds from those.

Examples of prompts that don't really work are "spherical giraffe" and "the underside of a giraffe".

We'll need more 3Dness to generate other media like models and video, so it should be coming.
I agree with both your sentiments actually. A lot of the times, I do not like going to the gym on certain days. Like Friday morning leg days - I do not like it to this day. But I go anyway - why? Because friday 7 am is leg training day and it's like a habit/ritual at this point. I guess that's the aspect of discipline I like.
Similar with moving away from my home office at 7pm. I have just trained myself to not go in there after 7pm, resisting the urge to check Slack or anything. I'll get a call if anything blows up, so it's become a habit at this point to not even glance over to my home office after 7pm
I'm afraid you're right:

> The problem is that the person we’re actually rebelling against is ourselves.

Yes, you manage that feeling with decision-making that's outcome oriented. Willpower, discipline, self-control, whatever you want to call it, is of course in limited supply, but for many, it is also trainable and simply neglected.
Isn't that comeback proof enough that all this environmentalism is hoax and we can do whatever we want to this planet and it will be fine? Also you sure don't want people to freeze and earn a living..

(Sorry, was just missing such a comment here yet.)
I also received such messages. I think I could sleep more easily if there was a notice on the Slack website as well concerning this issue.

I searched briefly but couldn't find one; does anyone else know more?
The multi-trillion-dollar national real-estate investment firms thank you for your service towards growing the permanent rental class from which they will extract wealth in perpetuity.
How can I get free macOS for my PC?
Agreed! Printing tool versions is something I've started doing at my current job and it's so helpful knowing what version of Python or nodejs (or whatever) is running on the ancient TeamCity agents.
Noise doesn't have to be an issue, there are building technologies that can make a room quiet which aren't used because they cost a more money, but it always is an issue in the end because of lax regulation. Both lax regulation in the general environment (e.g., loud motorcycles and leafblowers), and lax regulation in the building code. Regulations are currently in the wrong place -- focused on preventing construction, instead of enabling and encouraging quality construction.
If life were a zero-sum game and I had no regard for others, I'd be glad about others not being self-disciplined, as that would mean more room for me to succeed by being disciplined myself. But it's not a zero-sum game. The more of us who work hard at important things in life, the better off we all will be.

So please do apply self-discipline in your life. Having no discipline is like having a car with an engine that stops running frequently and won't exceed 2000 RPM.

Hard work does get easier in time, like working a muscle. And just like working out, you need to pace yourself -- approach hard work wisely and don't overdo it, even if you're enjoying it immensely.

I'm so glad my mom forced me to practice the piano - I wouldn't be the musician I am today without it... and I have no regrets about working hard at front-end web development. I owe my career in large part to the many hours I spent poring over JavaScript: The Definitive Guide and writing SPA web apps while others at my workplace were still using ASP and WebForms.
No. The Google IPs come from known subnets.