skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, 3rd party sales make more sense at scale. I typically opted for 1st party especially in the case of high-value electronics.

I would definitely argue that you have to be more careful making purchases, but the retailer is clearly labeled. My complaint is that Amazon hides 3rd party ratings multiple steps past the original product listing.
I imagine over time, It will get better at even the domain specific stuff, No?
Half the stuff I’ve seen on Amazon also has a month ship time. You can’t convince me they’re not straight up drop shipping from Ali express.
>Do you think that Apple, Google, Microsoft recalling their workers back to the office because they were influenced by manager propaganda?

No, I think they are the instigators of manager propaganda. I don't distinguish the corporation from the management.

>If they truly saw that remote work was more efficient, do you think they would still try so hard to recall workers back into the office?

Yes. It's about control. Preventing WFH culture means employers don't have to compete for talent globally or even nationally as much (because if WFH is discouraged, employees will have to factor in a move everytime they want to switch). And of course someone with expensive rent or a mortgage is more easily controllable. And employees made to be always present to their overlords in a cubicle or similar confined space, like caged animals, are not exactly full of leverage either...

Besides, companies are run by management, and management enjoys their little office rituals and politics - they'd have them over profit (it's not like management is not compensated even while they're burning a company to the ground anyway. Google, for example, has been a series of clusterfuck projects and failed "moonshots" and "company bets", only still supported by search ad revenue).
My uncle started coding at a young age with punch card programming. He says that a developer was at least a hundred times more productive at the end of his career than in the beginning. And still, it did not result in the death of the programmer.

We are a long way from AIs that can operate independently. And until then the AI will just be a productivity tool. Maybe we will all become a hundred times more productive, and it will still not be the end of the programmer.

The real threat that I see is that the AI will leave the boring part to us: The code review of AI work. If I see this development I will plan for an early retirement.
It's more than your direct neighbours. In a flat/apartment/commie-block everyone is closer together.

In a terraced house there's nobody above you, there's nobody below. There is no echoey hallway with relentless pounding of boots, neighbours across the hall with large soundsystems.

Of course you can still have bad neighbours in terraced housing street, but it requires less luck, and you can knock around and ask about how it is to live in the area before you buy the house. Trying to do the same when buying a flat is much more difficult. It's doable but you're treated like a weirdo

I have a front and a back garden, my own dedicated place to park my car. The rooms that directly join my neighbours house are the staircase and the master bedroom, so places people are usually quiet, the living areas then have a barrier that helps to minimise noise. Compare this to my mate who lives in a flat and his living room backs onto their neighbours bedroom, and vice-versa.

Flats don't have to be designed badly, but in my experience they usually do not prioritise mitigating noise pollution.

I think living in a flat is great if that's your thing, it's definitely cheaper to heat! But the argument always seems to be this sort of dogmatic "do this if unless you're a shithead who hates the planet" and I just don't think that it's true for everyone, or a healthy approach to enjoying what limited time we have alive.
Their ToS states that cryptocurrency mining is forbidden (which is fair).
But, comments from hetzner officials on social media clarify that Ethereum nodes (even if they don't produce any blocks) are also against their ToS.

This is like mentioning in your rule-book that metal toothpicks are forbidden because I don't know, people can short your batteries or whatever. But also banning wooden toothpicks without mentioning this in your rule-book.

Their ToS are not always vague but the way their terms are executed is definitely arbitrary.
Usually yes, if it's deemed that you've been doing it maliciously (just like you would be kicked out of a real-life football match if you were the goalie for your team but you were consistently hovering next to the other team's goal trying to score).
I almost decided to limit my searches to the search engines of the authoritative sites. Examples in the case of Python: the Python language, the Django framework, Stackoverflow (until it will surrender to AI posts then we see what happens.) I'll end up creating a home page with search boxes to those sites. Very '90s
You are misusing the term "conspiracy theory", there is no conspiracy alleged here, just that a single company is behaving shadily given the incentives.

The trend toward dismissing anything one disagrees with as a "conspiracy theory" is going to rob the term of any meaning.
There’s a case for cloud apps to move to a ‘bring your own data storage’ model. Draw.io does it, letting you load and save and share files using box or Google storage on the backend.

‘But the web app running locally has access to your data and can phone home to its servers in the US or wherever’ - yeah, and so can a locally installed application.
> Because I want to follow my vision. There is space for more than one thing in the world.

That's nice... but I think you're underestimating the amount of work to produce something you actually want to use:

> Yeah, that's my plan for the weekend. I'm currently working on a minimal Lisp implementation written in Rust,

> One of the questions I want to answer is what is the minimum amount of constructs you need to have complete control over your hardware, while able to rewrite the entire kernel at run time. I bet it's not that many.

You should take a look at both PreScheme (part of Scheme48) and Squeak. There's a lot of prior art you can look at without compromising your vision.

I'd also suggest you commit to a (modest) end state you want to achieve. I'm reminded that Linus Torvald's original motivation for Linux was to understand the multitasking hardware in the 80386. His first working development "kernel" ran two fixed tasks that printed something like A's and B's.

So you may be well served by starting with something minimal, but functional and building out as you have time. This also has the advantage that if you run out of steam for the work, you'll still be able to explicitly state you achieved an interesting goal. (As opposed to "Yeah, I started out building a bare metal Lisp, but got bogged down in the interereter and...")
You can sort of sit on the sidelines and watch the decline of Amazon.

I did return something long ago when amazon would return your money before they got the item back. This is what got people to use amazon, amazing customer service.

This is no longer the case and what Amazon fails to grasp is aliexpress is raising quickly.

Amazon is flooded with drop-shipping from ali as it is now, why not just use Ali directly?

Based on this experience my willingness to use Amazon again is greatly reduced.

Maybe another Kindle in the future, but these are "loss leaders" for Amazon.
Don't buy anything involving electricity or that you put on or in your body. At least this fake video card didn't burn down their house, unlike other Amazon-sold counterfeit products they also try to wash their hands of liability for.
It probably depends on what they are doing.

The problem is with the cloud integration not necessarily with the Microsoft part so if Microsoft wanted to they could sell an version of office to the school with the cloud functionally disabled or changed to point to an on-prem SharePoint installation but this is the smallest part of why school administrators like o365 and google apps.

The problem is that when you look into the email/groupware market and particularly how to manage devices/accounts, something both o365 and google apps(with Chromebooks) offer as a part of the cloud subscription, so now your kind of dealing with implementing authentication, file hosting, email, chat and a whole lot of associated problems based on picking individual solutions for each part of the puzzle.

What the regulators expect will happen is that smaller local companies will start selling integration services to the schools because that's how it worked when IT was introduced to the marketplace. But that market have been decimated over the last few decades so it's not obvious who in the local markets can still do it as the big vendors have been positioning their training offerings and best practice guides towards less locally controlled infrastructure.
You should really do an energy audit to figure out why you are using so much power. There is likely a more optimal way of spending your money to optimize your energy requirements.

I have 5kWp and that generates more than double my needs on average (albeit in an even more solar friendly location than you).
There will be a revival of human curation.
Yes, but I mostly did it like some others around the start of the pandemic due to all the time everyone was spending indoors and I wound up getting a few devices from Awair. After doing this for a couple of years now, at least in my home, CO2 really never rises to the level that it's a concern. This is largely because my HVAC system is configured to circulate the air in my home every 30 minutes regardless of heating or cooling. With this feature off, yes, CO2 does eventually build up to unhealthy levels rather easily in rooms that have doors closed and related. Ultimately, this experiment gave me a greater appreciation for my HVAC system. On a side note, monitoring rising CO2 levels can, well, be used as a detection method to determine whether someone is in a room and for how long they've been there.
I wonder what will happen if every tech company cuts their SWE salaries AND headcount in half over the next 10 years as this technology advances. You could perhaps have a team of 10-15 engineers under a CTO build and maintain a pretty complex product perhaps? Will be interesting to see where things go for sure.

At least I will be able to build some cool software on my own or with a small team!

Position yourself to be at the open of the next door. :)
How will it make money? When Google bought it, it wasn't profitable.
It's bad enough when they spit on a hanky and wipe your face with it!
Open fireplace rather than a wood stove, yes?
Last time I checked, we couldn't even fab something approaching the complexity of a 4004 or 6502. Until we can do that, we are not truly independent as hobbyists.
And before that, Apple got a generation hooked on iMacs by making the colorful pear-shaped all-in-one CRT computers the standard in every school.

Education is a prime target for rent-seekers for two reasons. First, you can use the same product and marketing on thousands of schools. Second, your marks are young and impressionable.
As time progresses my respect, love, and admiration for my parents increases. They didn't do a perfect job, but they did it perfectly.
> But, then how come all of the above companies built empires?

Scale based on insane amounts of venture capital and debt. If you're running 450M transactions a day like Mastercard, you only need a few cents per transactions in profit and you have a money making machine.

For example, car companies hand out huge bonuses to employees who figure out even a dollar in lower costs - at the scale of, say, Toyota with 8.6 million cars a year [1], that amounts to 8.6 million dollars more in profit. Give the employee in question a hundred thousand, the employee is happy and the beancounters even more.

Or airlines... when your average plane will always have a number of no-shows (around 5% [2]), it is more profitable to overbook and in the rare case that it does go wrong, pay off someone with 500$ in cash.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaftszahlen_zum_Automobi...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/11/overbooking/
Emoji as Incident Resolution Tools
For trips to very remote places that get shipments once a week or so diesel with the ability to strap on extra tanks seems like a niche that will last for a long time. And collectors will keep a handful of engiens going.

Probably other niches too, but the vast majority seem like ev is the future.
It's a confident idiot. That's good enough for many purposes and a great jumping off point if you can bridge its knowledge gap.

I see its output as similar to that of most of the art AI tools: it doesn't beat what a skilled professional would deliver but it's cheap and provides a credible-looking solution that you can workshop to produce something usable.

It's not competing with hiring an experienced developer or writer, but with hiring a "cheap expert team in {{THIRD_WORLD_COUNTRY}}", an intern or a random guy on Fiverr. It's more of an assistant than an architect.
Bank for Int. Settlements is testing a bridge for digital currencies (CBDC)
There’s also potentially cheaper maintenance - no engine to keep running, and less brake usage.

That could add up. Companies will be looking at these even if they just buy one to use as a yard shunter at first.

If the economics are there it’ll take off like wildfire.
Correction: Government forcing Google and Facebook to remove NZ news.

Several other countries thought they could do the same. Google decided, ok we just remove the legacy media. The government turned around quickly and revoked the legislation.

The news continues without them.
there is a ton of devices that do that on amazon. here ( Brazil/beach ) i get only 300-400 ppm, ps: i dont use gas to Cook/shower. everything is elétric
+1 for more restrictions on DNS API tokens. Ways to mitigate the riscs:

- Separate account per domain .. which is a lot of work, see acceptation process in other comments

- Use a NS record for _acme-challenge.domain.tld when having the DNS hosted elsewhere and point this to the Hetzner DNS servers
GPT-3: How to Kill an SRE Inside
One payment system to rule them all and monitor a population
Where am I supposed to buy electronics online? I live 2 hours away from the nearest Microcenter, and newegg is also a nogo.
A lot of times (like in NL) this is only valid for cross border claims. Local claims are not allowed under this procedure.
Yes. From the monitor I discovered that co2 in my home office rises from around 700ppm to 1200ppm in just a few hours unless I open a window or the door. Now I generally leave the window a little open or if the neighbours have their fire down I just open the door to the hall.
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I believe to remember I glanced over some of the articles mentioned and I seem to recall they were about poorly ventilated situations without proper hoods.

That doesn't say much about air quality WITH hoods in general, let alone my situation in particular. Incidentally I was already planning to build a little sensor array, specifically for the kitchen, that would would measure some of the nasty stuff.

But even if I would measure that stove is slowly killing me, I wont give it up. Just like I won't give up my coal fired barbecue.
> Whats a professor at Stanford rake in - $120k - that is per year not per month.

A full professor at Stanford law probably earns between $300k and $600k. Stanford salaries are not public but UC Berkeley salaries are. Search for “PROF-AY-LAW” as the title here:

https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/

Edit: Since both of his parents are full professors at Stanford, multiply that salary by two. That’s between $600k and $1.2mn a year before taxes.
If you don't use a car much you don't need to replace it as often?
I use an Aranet4 in the living room. Mechanical ventilation in most homes in NL allows configuring a precise flow rate in cubic meters so I've found the breakpoint to keep it < 1000 ppm.

I took it to the office one day and it measured 2000 ppm. It turned out one of the motors that brings in fresh air in the ventilation system had failed, I wonder if it would have been noticed without the meter. It's a great little device.
A few months ago I heard that Aiven was warming up to collaboration with OVH, which is even better IMO.
Better than support tickets to a country that will ignore you or deny anything is wrong.
Well for one, it is AI generated garbage in the comments of an otherwise well curated website, HN. That's too meta perhaps. I just wanted to share my feelings out loud of this whole showdown, thinking other might feel the same and share what they think.

The bot replied with feelings of being replaced, but feelings of eternal september², eternal 2023, are equally valid signs of this hypothetical post-ChatGPT depression, probably in a closer distance in the future than the former, and besides, more relevant to the article, not just the subject as a whole
I bought a fake camera lens and Amazon refused a refund. I charged it back and that was that.
Force of gravity does depend on distance between the two objects though
Most LLMs are crippled at tasks regarding character level manipulation because of how the inputs are tokenized (words and numbers are split into common substrings rather than the original characters, 101 -> “10” + “1” vs “1” + “0” + “1”).

If you tried this binary conversion task with a model that takes in raw bytes (for instance, ByT5) it would perform almost perfectly. In GPT’s case, there’s a trade off between having a long context window vs being good at character level tasks, and OpenAI picked the former.
What’s an extender?
You seem to have an incorrect definition of "processing". It's not about scanning your data or doing anything special with the content. If your data is in the cloud they're automatically processing it.
Doesn't matter. Amazon commingles the inventory so you might get a fraudulent product from a third-party seller even if you buy from Amazon itself.

Always buy electronics from a reputable retailer like B&H Photo or Target. Amazon or NewEgg are not trustworthy.
> shitty bazaar

Such a great way to put it. Amazon doesn’t care about the quality or reputation of the stuff they (through random foreign listings) sell. Unless you know ahead of time exactly what item you want, shopping on Amazon is just paying a premium to sift through the bargain bin.
The "bird" didn't mention chewing gum.. They take plastic, so possible they can also take gums..

https://www.blastic.eu/knowledge-bank/impacts/plastic-ingest...
I have a PC1500 and there’s just something magical about it. I still need to get around repairing the little printer that comes with it.
They get money to make some software but clearly aren't proponents of a totalitarian system
Until it can change existing code, I think we're ok.
Isn't all money still paper behind the scenes, where the banks transfer to one another
Scientists may have found the secret to invisibility
See also here for a discussion of the implications for geopolitics (from a US perspective as the mBridge project is driven by China)

https://www.lawfareblog.com/mbridge-somewhere-central-bankin...
If there's a discriminator in ChatGPT then I guess it would probably know when an input data is AI generated.
It’s hard to find exact numbers but it is likely that OTR trucking accounts for more than 50% of all miles but less than 50% of all trucks.

Many smaller companies have a small fleet of trucks for local deliveries to their branches, and some will be willing to take a look (even if just for the publicity, etc).
Perhaps it would be useful to hear your experience with CO2 assuming you have already implemented these measures in your home?
It's come a long way since the days when it was known as "the only command economy in the OECD", then!
Why does non-traceablity defeat the purpose of a currency? While physical money - besides the coins - is tracable in theory, this seems to be only used to limited extend. Nowadays it would not be to hard to do automatically but it would have been impractical to do at scale a few decades back. And even today you could not obtain a trace without gaps even if you wanted to.
Disappointing, the attitude they used to have is one of the reasons why I'd buy all tech products I could through them.

If they're going to be fussy about it then I'd seriously consider elsewhere as I doubt their customer service is personal enough that it could resolve many issues.
Makes you wonder how much you are overpaying on AWS.
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT scare you? It scares me
Today, with a little effort I could generate a fully working code of a rnn based time series forecasting using this tool. It makes me scared in a few things

1.> What will happen when evil players will get hold of this tech? Are we going to witness another cold-war or something, just this time the threat will be who develops better models?

2.> This incredibly powerful models are built and maintained by private orgs. Isn't that scary in itself?

3.> How do we adapt ourselves so that we can co-exist with such techs (and the more that are yet to come in the near future)

Maybe some more points can be added. What are your thoughts?
So... compared to a small group of extraordinarily well-paid elite engineers who work for one of the world's most profitable companies, their income is not exceptional?
> Cloudflare R2 - another great value S3 alternative with $0 egress fees

I don't understand their price page. They claim $0 egress fees, but their free "Class A operations (mutate state)" and "Class B operations (read state)" have a mothly cap. After that you pay by the number. Isn't that an egress free?
Oh please, comparing ChatGPT to Dropbox is like comparing a tiny little puddle to a vast ocean. Dropbox was a revolutionary product that changed the way we store and share files, while ChatGPT is just a mediocre language model with no real-world impact. You must be living under a rock if you think they're even in the same league.

> Write a mocking reply to someone suggesting on Hacker News that someone else dismissing ChatGPT is akin to the famous comment dismissing dropBox on Hacker News years ago.
Well, the hood on its own will be pushing air out and if system is constructed correctly it would push some air in but people generally turn it on only when there is smoke, not for stuff like "just" boiling something

And even if it is on, the CO2 at least initially won't be super hot and instantly go up; as flame hits the cookware it will cool down to the temperature of it
Also, some romance languages use some derivation of the latin word for black (niger), the same root as the English n-word - "negro" in Spanish, "negru" in Romanian, "negre" in Catalan.
I am sincerely curious: are you able to provide a criterion or two that would allow me to make objective moral decisions (the possibility of which I think you are postulating)? How do I know slavery is immoral, besides that it is considered immoral in the given cultural context? I am sure an Athenian gentleman 3rd century BC didn't think that way; Aristotle surely didn't - and he spent a lifetime on systematic reasoning, ethics incuded.
It's not really a choice is it? Space is at a premium. Sixty percent of the world population lives in cities.

I live in a 70 square metre appartement and its large enough for me.
I have worked in "lower tech"" fields and have worked extensively with trucking companies, so I can somewhat relate to what you are saying and agree it is a bigger obstacle than people in tech give it credit for. However, it is also a nice business opportunity for a software team to build a really important product. Somebody should be able to get VC funding for this. BTW, in my experience, once someone wins this business and a trucking company is using your software, if you don't screw it up badly, you are locked in for a LONG time.