skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this - GPT is good at synthesizing existing information, but it's bad at combining it in truly novel ways.

OP's startup idea is in a well-understood domain. There are lots of existing competitors offering basically that exact service. There are clear, obvious paths to building it. GPT can draw from blog posts and tutorials.

On the other hand, it does poorly with significantly novel ideas. I tried it with one I've been working on that combines 3D printing and crafting in new ways. Its answers just regurgitated blog posts about existing combinations. It even ignored the grammar of my questions, which switched the usual direct object with the object of the preposition. Which makes sense, because it isn't doing critical thinking - it's pattern matching.
Assuming the facts reported here are true, it seems that YouTube is putting its safe harbor in jeopardy by not complying with the counter-takedown:

> Following receipt of a compliant counter-notice, the online service provider must restore access to the material after no less than ten and no more than fourteen business days, unless the original notice sender informs the service provider that it has filed a court action against the user.

https://www.copyright.gov/512/
But what does "direct" mean here? Indirect could still be ordering them to give US authorities data and to keep silent about being ordered. Maybe (hopefully) that would be against EU regulations?
What kind of data loss? Some bits get flipped, whole sectors became garbage, or all zeros?
Portugal was in Europe, South Korea had the support of USA.

Iran economic conditions are created mostly by the west imposing sanctions.

Popular anger is a minority yet, we see it a lot because it benefits the western propaganda, I'm quite sure it's not as widespread in Iran, not because of censorship alone, but because the majority still believe that the real enemy is the western corruption.

We've seen it in Afghanistan, a war created by the US without a real motivation that Obama transformed into a liberation of the afghan people which in the end turned into bringing some woman from Kabul with their kids to the west to live like western women, leaving behind their traditions and husbands while the majority of the people lived in small rural villages and hoped for the Talibans to return and bring back their way of life. And it finally happened, for two reasons

- it costed too much, despite the people always saying that freedom has no price, it obviously has one and it's not very high

- American soldiers were dying for the cause and there was nothing of economic value on the table to die for

We should stop meddling with other people's revolutions, if Iran will revolt it should be because Iranian people have done it.
Is that supposed to be an argument _for_ air travel ?
Not yet. But the speed of development seem to be increasing, same with something like Midjourney.
Special to who?
Unfortunately, the code it generated didn't fix the issue. Subsequent attempts to get it to fix the issue referred to variables that didn't exist, etc. so back to the drawing board unfortunately...
Well, it worked for me, but I know that I also have some fairly unique qualifications. For example, I never stopped being a practicing software engineer, throughout my management career. I usually had to do it "on the side," though, because my company did not encourage managers to be working technical people.

I never made a bad technical choice, but I did make a couple of personality mistakes; people that had the tech chops, but couldn't work in the team. That is a lot more difficult to determine than tech chops.

I think one thing that helped, was that my company paid "competitive" (i.e. "low") salaries, although we were a marquée brand. I suspect that kept the grifters away. It made my job a challenge, though.

One thing that software companies, in particular, are obsessed with, is hiring "cookie cutter" people. We seem to have an allergy to hiring competent, skilled, experienced people. We want to hire lots of people with mediocre skills, pay them ridiculous amounts of money, and force them to write top-shelf software, using structure and process.

I don't think it works well, and is attractive to grifters.

My group was a small, high-functioning team of experienced C++ engineers, writing cross-platform, image processing pipeline algorithms. Not work for the faint of heart, and each one of my employees had a specific personality, strong point, and weak point. It was my job to understand each of them, as an individual, and help them to integrate into a pretty massive team, that stretched across three continents, and included some of the best engineers and scientists in the world. We were always under a spotlight, and we had to be constantly delivering.

Companies have relied on "key players" for hundreds of years. If they keep their "key players" happy, and productive, they do well. If they don't, they fall down. These companies aren't always able to get very large, though. With scale, comes mediocrity. Sort of can't be helped.

But it also brings bags of cash, which is nice. It's just that I see small companies, all the time, trying to act like big companies, and I don't think that works very well.
> at the cost of someone else needing to (literally) clear up their shit afterwards, and also transport water and other essentials deep into the woods, which would otherwise be free of traffic

So, Burningman for suburban families…
How was it different?
I mean, by definition, lot of startups fail
- "They asked me for a copy of my ID card,"

That's their courteous treatment. They asked me to consent to an AI scanning my face!

edit: Specifically with this startup,

https://www.idenfy.com/identity-verification-service/
Tesla is about to overtake companies like BMW who have existed for 100 years. They already outsell Porsche.

And without having entered into major markets like Pickups, Semis and a number of others.

And they make their margin on EV, while many other companies simply lose money on EV and simply hide that fact. Or make minimal margin on the cars and lose money on EV overall.

Only a few years ago it was widely believed that you can't make money on EVs.
One Man's Crusade Against Machismo in Latin America
This is the exact reason I am currently very uncomfortable with the idea of a new Macbook Pro for my own business use.

On the one had it absolutely makes life a lot easier and all the software I need runs great on it. On the other I would by buying into a device I simply cannot upgrade or maintain myself. This makes me extremely uncomfortable.

I dont want to run Windows as a daily driver since it is really jarring for my personal workflow etc. Yet Linux lacks quite a few of the essential pieces of software I need outside of development. E.g. (Krisp.AI, Reincubate Camo etc)

Rock <--> Hard Place
What even is this approach?
Here in Canada local calls were also free. Weirdly even calling someone you only had to use five digits I still recall my old phone number 2-2506.

But the other part of the BBS hobby was the computer itself to be able to afford it. At the time computers were expensive, not necessary, an extravagance only well-off families had them. Even modems back then were quite expensive.
I recently learned that there's a special washing detergent and heat activated coating that you're supposed to treat Goretex with quite often. And sure enough when I did the water drops form beads again instead of soaking it. I'm curious to find out wether this will increase the lifetime significantly.
Better late than never. Just jump in and see what this tool — pun intended — can provide you now and let go of the past.
Yes, exactly.

There's also mathematically excellent reasons why that happened.

Self-driving cars are an impossibly complex problem.

Statistics are statistics.

Predicting the minority class correctly 99% of the time isn't good enough for autonomous driving. A car has to break for little Suzie 100% of the time.

However, generating 1,000 lines of code for a CRUD app? That's 99% bug free?

That's a helluva lot better than I can do.

As with all things. The solution is watch what the domain experts do.
What does stock price have to do with the quality of the product?

There's a New Jersey deli that was worth $2 billion recently. Theranos, a total fraud, got to $10 billion with nothing.
It's almost more astonishing to me to see reactions like yours. I showed it to a friend and she too was unimpressed because it gave answers in her field (finance) that were "good, but sortof basic".

So we have here a chat bot that pretty much passes for a human and some people react with "meh, it's not a genius". It makes me think of Tim Urbans chart: https://imgs.search.brave.com/YR7qt28AjhAeXSr_qvSmJubqIKJW5S...
I never thought I'll see "don't think of a pink elephant" becoming a social problem.

This is going to interesting to watch. In a way, the very people complaining the most about "those biases" have put them in there. Consider: ChatGPT is not an oracle with deep understanding of the real world. It's a glorified Markov chain fed with a dump of Reddit. Unless there's a large secret cabal of millions of people producing straight-faced racist statements, and their output became the main corpus OpenAI used, there is only one obvious way to explain this result: all the text in "acceptable" discussions and articles that make those statements to complain or call others out on perceived biases, whether real or manufactured.

Or, as an example: imagine you writing that a John Doe should've gotten the scholarship instead of that Jane Doe, because you find his essay better. My reply, typical for modern Internet: "Oh, you must be one of those people who think that the best scientists are men and then use 'meritocracy' to cover your racism". Now, guess what ChatGPT will learn from this? It doesn't understand the context or the arguments themselves - but it sure does see a positive statement "the best scientists are men", and will update accordingly, despite the intended meaning being opposite.
Beyond a reasonable doubt vs. Preponderance of evidence. It's much easier to win a civil suit.
I thought about this as well.. I wish there was an easy way to find out which ssd brands get easy fwupd updates and such
No surprise! In Germany the „quality“ of SAP Software is known to have bankrupted several companies:

https://amp2.wiwo.de/unternehmen/it/haribo-lidl-deutsche-pos...

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bankrotter-us-pharmakonzern-r...

https://www.crm-tech.world/weekly-news/sap-kommt-wegen-produ...

https://www.computerworld.ch/business/business-it/bankrott-s...

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/sap-deutsche-s...

https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/wirtschaft/Weltbild-Sor...
Electric Semi will weigh slightly more, but they will most of the time break with regenerative breaking meaning less tier and break ware.

But you are correct that a modal shift to rail makes a lot of sense.
Yeah, our automated system (Concur) does end up insisting on justifications for why you picked the 12 hour direct flight which is $100 more expensive than the three options with 2 stopovers and a total travel time in the 18-20 hour range (or sometimes even overnight stays in airports).

Feels like a lot of the goal in these systems is to try enforce rules that no person expense manager could try insist on with a straight face. If even 10% of the company gets scared off by the justification demand and books the inconvenient option, that's $20k/yr saved.

Which is still probably peanuts compared to what Concur costs, but that cost is somebody else's problem to the finance person who gets to claim savings on annual flight costs.
Scaleway has a similar pricing for VMs and dedicated, while providing additional managed services: https://www.scaleway.com

I've been there for 2y, pretty happy with them so far.
And how do you manage the versioning and deployment of your views and mviews? What tooling do you use to refresh those materialized views on a schedule?

Is it something you've written and maintain yourself? What testing do you have on them?

I find that dbt answers all of these questions pretty simply in a way that avoids the need to reinvent the wheel. It's not some godlike piece of software, just a helpful framework wrapper around plain old SQL
You are correct.

Evolution is not a process by which beneficial genes are created, it's one where they are filtered for.

Across thousands of baby elephants there are a likely hundreds of unique genetic differences. Most are worthless, some are detrimental, and some of beneficial. Evolution is just the process by which the beneficial ones thrive.
Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
Ask HN: Books on the history of programming languages/paradigms
Reading the comments in the recent ChatGPT threads, I am fascinated by the development of abstractions in programming languages. Are there any history of programming/CS books that address this?
> It turns out media/social/economic technology can shape our world a lot faster than can the technologies grounded real things. Arguably it has been for the negative recently.

Yeah, it's not a technology issue anymore, or a problem of progress. It's a problem of we mauling each other with social media.
2023 could be the last time you get excited by Samsung's Galaxy S lineup
Settle the World: turn-based building and trading game for Amiga
> the dictator will never peacefully transfer power to a rival.

Was Xi Jingping an open rival to Hu Jintao? Given Xi Jingping has purged his rivals from the levers of power, do you see any possibility that he'll peacefully stand down in 5 years to someone who is ideologically opposed to his government?
OK, I get that you built such systems. Can you let us know about the other bots that can behave like a "8 years old"?
I would even go as far as saying the opposite - engineers too "competent" for their own good.

I've walked in to so many code based where very talented individuals have made incredibly complex systems, using all their technical know how of best practices & patterns, abstraction layers and facades ... and ignored the fact that all they needed was a three field form with a submit button.

It's not just worth knowing if you can, it's if you should.
>it's right at the edge of how long a driver can safely drive non-stop and right before they are legally required to take a break

Yup, in the US, truck drivers have to take a 30 min break after 8 hours of continuous driving [0].

[0] https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regulations/hours-service/summary-...
I see 78M on 290M EUR but yeah, still very impressive!
I did this with EA actually, I was banned for no reason from Apex Legends, EA support told me it was an EasyAntiCheat ban, but I wasn't banned from other EAC games which made me suspect that wasn't true. When I googled around I found screenshots showing that the ban message ingame would have the text "Banned" after the default "client banned" message.

I contacted EAC who confirmed I was not EAC banned, I informed EA of this and just got the default "We cannot discuss bans blah blah" reply.
I then ran a GDPR data request, and after 3 weeks I got a massive dump of all my info, which included the ban reason.
The ban reason was N/A, not blanked out or censored, just N/A from the data dump.
I raised this with EA and they just kept telling me they can't discuss bans etc. I managed to get it escalated eventually via a complaint which lead to my account being unbanned and I got it confirmed that it was an erroneous ban.
What the author thinks is that paying him is not a magic bullet, and so must be true for everyone else.
Relicensing is a big problem is the OSS world too. To work at all, it requires copyright attribution. For small projects this really hampers collaboration. But if you don't do it early it might become impossible to do later.
Disappointing there is not a word about safety to the outside world. I get they have to market to drivers, calling it a "beast," but large trucks are a great danger in terms of losing tires and, especially in cities, collisions. I see it is built with a scoop design so "things" (people, bikes, etc) hopefully don't get pulled under it so easily, but hopefully it also has advanced collision and awareness features suited to such a large vehicle.

It is unfortunately typical of Musk to market to the aggressive impulse, rather than harmonious, even if his ultimate goals are beneficial.
Which is why it’s all the more important to point out. While this was a DMCA, almost all the normal litany of egregious YouTube copyright stories are from the ContentID program and are beyond any real ability to appeal or legally reconcile. There is no fair use or other affirmative defence… you will bend the knee to YouTube at behest of the so named copyright holder or face the wrath of Google…. All of Google for you never know what else your YouTube account might be connect too… do you dare risk it serf?…

They are quite luck to have the full DMCA process, as unpleasant and costly as it all is for them, at all! Most are not so lucky.
From what I've seen of Azure as a customer, the quality sucks and it's impossible to convince them to plug gaps no matter how trivial to fix and how obvious. Meanwhile I've had at least one ticket become a permanent fix in AWS almost without asking.

However...

I just switched back to AWS and it's like stepping back in time from Azure.

The AWS Console structure, layout, and organisation is their internal corporate structure.

The Azure Portal is designed to reflect your corporate structure, not Microsoft's.

With AWS if I have some VMs, associated S3 buckets, and an RDS database, I have to click around a bunch of different web portals to find them all! Unrelated resources are all blended to together into flat lists with gibberish internal system-generated names.

It's like clicking through the tables of a SQL database instead of using the actual client application.

In Azure, everything is nicely organised into Resource Groups. The VMs, storage, load balancers, databases, etc... all together. Everything is shown with display names instead of IDs, and all their individual consoles are (mostly) consistent. Logs, RBAC, etc... are generally all in the same place and work the same way.
It only counts as non-compliance if they fail to restore the content within ten to fourteen business days, assuming that the takedown notice issuer has not taken the matter to court.
Well as someone who kinda bought into the hype that we would have self driving cars 3 years ago, I’d say beware of underestimating the importance of the size of the problem.

However, I agree with you in general: there’s a certain amount of surprise in laughing off the creation an AI agent that could pass as a reasonably intelligent person if it just weren’t straight up wrong about random things.
> Edit: If you showed a programmer from the 1950s python syntax and told them that all you have to do is write these words to build a program, they'd think it was artificial intelligence.

Well, if you showed a programmer from late 1960s / early 1970s that same thing, they'd show you Lisp and laugh you off, or despair that programming seemingly regressed in the future.
> Determined to have his video restored, Bruno accepted the risks and sent another counternotice to YouTube. This time there was no indication that the counternotice was deficient. YouTube thanked him for filing it – but still declined to process it.

Uh, dealing with YouTube is fun on every level.

Not long ago I was helping a successful content creator friend bootstrap a YouTube channel, and since she has a large number of existing videos, I wrote a program using YouTube Data API v3 to automatically upload them. Turned out the upload API has been restricted since a few years ago, one has to submit a lengthy application form and go through manual approval, or all videos uploaded through the API are automatically locked as spam. So I submitted the application, and a few days later, I got an email rejecting my application, which ends in the following:

> To reapply, you may complete and submit the appropriate form once the above concerns have been addressed. Please do not reply to this email.

> Feel free to reach out to us with any questions.

So, I'm supposed to "feel free to reach out to" them, but I should "not reply to this email", leaving the only way to reach out to them the application form, which doesn't have any Q/A field, and incidentally they just rejected it. Did anyone think about their process when they authored that email template? Anyway, I eventually managed to identify the problem and pass the review.
They have industrial-focused pi boards in a memory/dimm-slot format that have on board flash.

A company I was at used it in a product for the rapid prototyping capability.
Indeed; the little enclaves haven't gone anywhere. It's not where most people are, but this was always the case.

The big change is that there's giant mainstream places where large swathes of the public get to talk to each other as well now.
>Lord of the flies is deemed chillingly instructive for a reason

It tells you what children might do if left to their own devices without adult supervision – i.e. in an environment completely unlike a school. The Lord of the Flies is also a work of fiction that's not based on any real life events, as far as I'm aware. In any actual instances of kids being stranded on an island that I've been able to find, the results were rather different: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-...

>Unlike adults, there has been no intervention that has been demonstrated effective in stopping children from applying violence to the construction of dominance hierarchies

In my school there was an effective intervention: you got punished if you beat someone up, and excluded from the school if you kept doing it. I guess no-one had told us that we were required to form 'hominid dominance hierarchies' and that we were cognitively incapable of responding to simple incentives.

>I'm just suggesting that we apply our knowledge of childhood psychology to the engineering of the school social environment

And what would this mean, exactly, beyond just accepting the inevitability of violence?
Obviously infrastructure helps a lot, but there is still the danger inherent in the fact that it's quite far from your head to the ground. I don't wear a helmet though personally, since the bike infrastructure is good in my city in Germany, at least on the routes I take
Dear lord, so many absolute lies on that page that 5 min of basic, simple research will invalidate.

I snorted at this:

"An earlier example is India’s creation of the Tamil Tigers which plunged Sri Lanka into many years of civil war."

That's like stating the US founded the Nazi party and ran the Schutzstaffel. Absolute rot.
If you're in such position, you're probably ahead of the competition so don't think it's already late.
It's insane that they are so cheap and they could still have a third lower prices and not lose money somehow
> How about the team - I need some minions to build this business.

very accurate co founder impression
It's not about "genius". It gets just enough wrong (like, completely wrong) that it's untrustworthy. It's really good if you're already familiar with the content, though (or you know its weak spots).
Why are people finding it so difficult to come to terms with the fact that a computer can understand computing languages?
It learnt how to read - now it’s learning how to write
That's basically Reddit
Is the only way to check this out to hand over my mobile number to a website I know nothing about, and who took my email and name before telling me of the phone requirement? Dodgy.

I'm surprised so many here have jumped in. "Sign up with email"... "ok, now verify email"... "SURPRISE! we won't let you in until you give us your mobile number".