skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The taxi industry where I am was fairly well regulated.

Card payment was sometimes contentious. It was generally polite to ask to stop at an ATM on the way to the destination but if it was the only option they'd rather get paid. Now most companies allow you to pay for the fare via their own app which I assume is a licensed white-label or managed service.

The quality of the drivers was better. Uber/Lyft drivers often don't know where they're going and have left me feeling more uncomfortable/unsafe both personally and in terms of driving.

Service is still generally good although overall poorer than it used to be due to the effect Uber has had on the market. Previously there was fairly healthy competition between a decent number of companies, most of which have now merged. I don't believe that would have happened without the external pressure.

> Maybe it was just where I was, but the industry was a government-enforced oligopoly begging for disruption.

The disruption was a $30bn charade though. Would these companies have succeeded if they actually had to make any money? I'm actually quite not sure how to deal with the concept of a company that's lost that much money and still doesn't seem to be close to being profitable. I do believe companies and their executives should be punished harshly for acting criminally though.
It has been my experience that people who quote 1984 are typically the biggest fucking losers of all time, similar to social media parasites who gather followers through manufactured and calculated displays of extravagant wealth: slimy, horrible, crass, disgusting, repulsive people.
Community ≠ Marketing
Journalists who won’t delete Musk tweets remain locked out of Twitter
I also need to generate a file, pass it through a special compiler, pass the result through the system resource compiler, link it with the shared library.

There are a bunch of other steps. I have a YAML description of the plugin which I use to generate plugin skeleton, and so on.

Do you really think it makes sense to repeat that again and again?

And then, what if I need to fix a bug in the process?
tell me some about facevook
You're replying to a comment that starts, "Linux on the desktop may never come.." so I think you aren't quite responding to it.
Professionals always have an exit strategy before they even enter a trade. That exit strategy contains conditions under which you assume the trade is no longer good, and needs to be exited at a loss.

Stop-losses are one mechanism for implementing that, but they are crude, and big players don't actually use them. In that regard, she was correct. For one thing, if you trade size, you don't want to dump everything with a marketable order at once, you have to scale out even if you are wrong. Secondly, some strategies will always perform worse if you add stop loss levels, notably mean reversion. But they can make sense, for instance, for trend following, because there are clear levels at which you can say that a trend has ended. Lastly, high-frequency traders like market-making firms, which Alameda was supposed to be, don't use stop loss orders, because they are not trying to take directional bets, they are just trying to capture the spread while keeping their book balanced.
I'm convinced this will be a Dropbox moment.
I mean if they're going to act (or rather, seem) malicious then they might as steal the backed assets they have right now rather than hope to pump-and-dump enough to make more money. It's not like either is more legal than the other.
I would definitely pay for ChatGPT. I have a project that requires a bunch of relatively simple Python scripts and it did the work perfectly for me.
From your and other comments I feel I poorly worded the OP: as CTO I would lead a small team and rewrite the site which is the main source of income for this company.
You compare 2023 numbers of Tesla with 2024 for Mercedes. With a plan for 50% YoY, Tesla will be at 3.5M cars/year in 2024. Seems like they will still have an edge on production.
> I'm in all in favor of strict gun laws

Cool story but that’s got nothing to do with my comment.

> That "side effect" is is not because of impulse buying

The impulse I’m talking about is once you have a gun in your home. Going out to buy a gun to shoot yourself seems unlikely as there’s plenty if faster ways to commit suicide along the way unless you live next door to a gun shop.

> And regarding your third point, sure, but the solution to that is to provide a better, legal, safe and professionally supervised pathway.

A better, legal, safe, and professionally supervised pathway… to shooting yourself tanks to the second amendment?

You do realise I was replying to a specific comment yeah?
I do not seeing ChatGPT as a replacement for Google Search. Here are my last seven searches (in reverse order):

1. looking up cost of a dental procedure 2. checking the stock price of tesla 3. job postings at Flipper Devices 4. how to push to a remote git repo 5. looking for a machine learning paper by title 6. current information about the fighting in Bakhmut, Ukraine 7. the translation of the russian phrase "bozhe moi"

At most two of my last seven could be answered by ChatGPT. You can do this with your own search history for comparison [0]

The reality is that the majority of my queries are for real time information of some kind. ChatGPT just cannot do this. I've seen no papers or news about an LLM that can update in real time, and you'd think this would be OpenAI's #1 priority. It's not going to be an easy problem to solve without writing a lot of code that isn't related to the core technology of LLM summarization.

The ability of ChatGPT to condense information and inspire creative thought has value. I use it every day. But the market of people who regularly need summaries of concepts or creative inspiration is very small. Especially relative to the multi billion dollar market that Google already has an iron grip on.

Google has not shipped a product based on their LLMs (PaLM, etc) simply because it would not move their bottom line by a significant amount. The majority of queries, especially for non-hn users, are for weather, sports scores, stock prices, movie showtimes and reviews, etc. Most people do not search for code snippets. And if I'm using google for > 50% of my queries, I'm going to keep using google as the default.

Obviously OpenAI can invest some of their billions into connecting to APIs for various information. But it will take them a long time to catch up to what Google has already had for decades. And there is no guarantee of success. I see ChatGPT as ultimately being a compliment to google, not a replacement. Personally I'll continue to use Google as I have been, with ChatGPT as an additional resource.

[0] = you can go to https://myactivity.google.com, click "Filter by date and product" at the top and limit it to just "Search"
I need a Firefox or Chrome extension that scrapes all text on every page and stores it for me somewhere.
Played with Meson for one hour and bailed out, will stay with makefile/cmake.

I especially like cmake that can convert pkg-config from -I header.h to -isystem header.h.
> The ability to cite sources

It doesn't need to cite sources, because it has learned to make them up on the fly.

Liars care about the truth; they want to subvert it. Large language models like ChatGPT don't "lie", they produce bullshit that has zero connection to what is or what isn't, but just sounds like something someone would say in that context.

It's possible, even likely, that ChatGPT and the like will help people formulate queries; but if it answers them and people somehow trust its answers, we're all doomed.
you could have been just holding usdc on FTX, and got fucked. Of course, not your keys, not your crypto always applies, but it's easier to feel sorry for folks like this.
You can't seriously be telling me that managing 2800 secrets for a single "family" isn't evidence of a broken system. Unless GP is doing IT for the actual mafia I stand by my assertion that this is nuts and we ought to consider whether there's a better paradigm we could be pursuing.
Not the GP but I read their point not as pro-Meson but more that both Meson and CMake feel like overkill for a single platform/architecture project.
Huh, it's almost as if the US and its government actually benefits a lot from having massive domestic tech companies with global reach that answer to the government, and don't want to rock the boat in a period of intense global competition with China. But of course, that's crazy talk.
Yeah I don't see the value proposition of Meson to be all that compelling. It's basically just CMake, but with a different DSL. I've never had a problem with modern CMake, and whatever minor productivity benefits there might be from Meson are far outweighed by the popularity of CMake.

Even if Meson is more "powerful", there are other build systems out there that are better options than either of these.
For me, the code red is that the search results viewport contains more ads and sponsored results than search results. This is one of the reason I gave up searching for anything on Amazon. Ironically, I use Google shopping instead.
Throwaway for obvious reasons, but can confirm. I don't even work on the AI / search team and I remember trying Meena (-> Lamda) at least 2 years ago and being completely blown away by its ability to hold a conversation. There were even jokes on Memegen that we could let Meena write our perf packets and it'd be indistinguishable from real ones. I guess that's the Google-internal Turing test.
“Vanilla JS” typically means that no frameworks are used, so I see what you did there by making your framework “Vanilla JS”.

Still, if you don’t want search result contamination (and don’t want to be the cause for it either), perhaps you should change its name to something different.

Perhaps you could call it Madagascar JS instead?

That would also help raise awareness for the rights of abused vanilla pickers there, and would still echo the original intent that the current name has, but more subtly. You know, like good Madagascar vanilla.

Just my two cents. I’m off for an ethically sourced vanilla gelato now.
I have a "reading list" but realistically, I never actually get to it.

I have UpNotes which is pretty nice. That I used all the time.

If something gives me an idea or I remember something, I write something down under an "ideas" or "project" catalog.
> Sure but..already the second gen didn't show gains _that_ impressive over the first one.

I don’t think performance is the only metric. For all we know, there could have been some considerable cost reduction.
This needs to be locally targeted. For example, is Swiss Chalet near me open?
I know these numbers are basically imaginary, but it sure is funny to watch
I only need to see cato.org to properly categorize this post.
Depends on the film. Ilford with home processing comes out to $2.50-$3.00 a negative. Certainly not cheap, but it doesn't deter me from making a dozen or so exposures a month.
you could argue the counter point to google. in the event a search engine became 10+ billion dollar business X company(Microsoft IBM whoever) could launch a similar algorithmic search engine. First to market and brand is very strong regardless of the technology. If everyone starts using a chat gpt like thing for all of their life that can become worth billions and seriously hamper search volume universally.
Not particularly strange. There are whole web pages devoted to the "right time of day" to submit something to this site to catch the most early up votes.
This pattern originated in C; C++ iterators were specifically designed to fit it when it was already established.
Scientists find secret to how glass frogs turn transparent
The name "line of death" is a bit dramatic.
I worked at a semiconductor company that had an ARM architectural license and we implemented our own ARM CPU. We still had to pass ARM compliance tests.

I heard from some of the people on the CPU team that Apple did not have to pass those tests because they had an exemption from ARM. Apple was one of the original ARM investors when it was spun off from Acorn in 1990. I think that agreement allows them to do things with ARM like adding custom things that other ARM licensees aren't allowed to do.
Hardware development is brutal because there's long lead times. It is a regular occurrence that features ship in a broken state and the software (drivers, firmware, etc) either has to work around it or turn it off. That it was so bad they had to revert to the previous generation design sounds unusual, but it's not unheard of.
Even if they have slightly better models. The models will cannabalize traditional search. Their more is eroding
> Aren’t most hardware teams typically very old in terms of having lots of people with a lot of experience who have been working together for a long time?

Yes, that was my experience with well-established players like AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm.

Then again, there just aren't that many people in the world with experience designing GPUs or writing systems software for them. What you would often see is a manager and their whole team switching to a competitor. People prefer working with other people they already know and trust.

In addition, GPUs are massively complex and it simply takes a good amount of time to understand a new architecture well enough to make substantial contributions. I spent five years at NVidia and felt that I had only scratched the surface.
Nah, they do a slower cycle for some of the iPads and it results in a model that’s 3 years old still selling and everyone advises to wait a year for the new one because it will be way better.

While the iPhone is always a good time to buy because next years one won’t obsolete this years.
There’s a list with some links to source for sound libraries here:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=54318
Personally I’ve used Midas for an MS-DOS game project for sound effects. It’s also available for Windows so good for projects that are cross-platform. For demoscene productions I’ve used a number of different mod players (most recently IMS).
I would expect the borrow checker to treat a slice as a logical pointer to all elements that are addressable through it, regardless of how it's implemented under the hood.
This will probably happen thanks to the EU.
I think ChatGPT like services is a threat because a lot of searches say 10-20% if it can give you good answers most of the time, it will make a big dent
That's true, but producing results that are close and just need tweaks is hugely valuable, as long as you're aware that's what you'll get. It's far faster to review and improve existing code than to start from scratch. Of course you need to be knowledgeable enough to identify if what it gives you is complete garbage that shouldn't be used as a basis, but for a good programmer, it could be a huge time-saver. Especially if you extrapolate into the future. Imaging a chatGPT-like feature built into IDEs, with the ability to generate code not just to a prompt, but in context.
Not the OP, but you did not address the threat to the business model.

In a world where questions are answered by an engine like ChatGPT instead of people going to ad-filled webpages, Google's business model evaporates. Even if google captures 100% of the new pie, the new pie is much smaller than the current one.
If this was in Bavaria I would have called the police if I saw someone eating a fresh pretzel with Nutella.

I jest, this was a succinctly nice post to read about something that I take for granted all my life. There is a certain warmth and familiarity to this post.

I love my bakeries around here and regularly prefer their breakfast over the hipster chia super ultra food life bowls with yoghurt and 2 nuts for 15€ around here.
To complement, the evolution from 2.0 to 3.1: https://rubyreferences.github.io/rubychanges/evolution.html
Deubiquitinase-targeting chimeras for targeted protein stabilization
HarfBuzz – Text Shaping Engine
Perhaps. But Google putting a huge banner on Google.com saying, "Hey, use GoogleGPT!" would result in a high percentage of the billion+ Google searchers using it. It's not really the same scenario. For what it's worth, I do think Microsoft or Yahoo could have properly countered Google if they executed more effectively sooner.
Do they have a guideline for WHEN subtitles are used?

I remember sitting in a hostel common room the day after Mark Duggan was murdered[1] and half joking "Are they giving that Scottish guy subtitles as a joke?" and being told "This is a very serious situation".

The previous night, the "mates" had been "joshing" me about how much more violent America is... then their eyes went wide when I was like "Well, that's a BRITISH cop car on fire, I'm switching to water... it's gonna be fun finding our way home... doesn't the queen live near here?"

(To be fair, the "chavs" were very respectful once they heard an American accent and let us walk home, but part of that may have been because they didn't grok that they check us for guns at the airport and that rumors every bald black clad hacker is in the CIA are greatly exaggerated so they totally could have knifed us all and taken our iPods, lolllll.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Mark_Duggan#Shooti...
> Look how quickly Shorts copied TikTok. Google may not be good at innovating, but they would copy it in short order.

Isn't that a counter example? Shorts copied tiktok, yet tiktok is still a very clear threat.
It's noticeably more wrong than ChatGPT (on programming stuff), but for quick queries about topics you mostly already know about it might have value. Gonna play a bit more with it for sure.
This bot seems to have memory, but it is absolutely oblivious to mistakes it makes, refuses to correct them even if I try to explain to it it's wrong, how it's wrong, and how it should be. It does not have that uncanny valley 'almost-human' feel that ChatGPT often has.
But then why even use C?
Any tech advancement can be reduced to “they just did this extra thing”. If nobody else will or can do that extra thing, it’s a big deal.
I've been trying to find an account of anyone who had a large portion of their wealth in FTX and not just some highly speculative investment they could afford to lose. Was anyone actually trusting these people with their life savings?
Just buy an android. You won’t have to worry about yearly updates because you won’t get any.
> has never been in the same room as the concept of sex

He has 3 children, so he has certainly been more productive than I've been.
I've already reduced my Google queries by 70%.

I now query openai find a general idea and then query that in Google.

Speaking in absolutes when you don't have a crystal ball is annoying. And negativity sucks.
Search Engine You.com Launches ChatGPT-Style Chatbot
In this hypothetical how is ChatGPT making money? Why can't Google make money on their equivalent the same way?
Much of the money Bernie Madoff stole in his ponzi scheme was recovered, however the difference is that his assets were "real" things vs derivatives on made up things (like FTT) so in this case, I'm thinking the losses are lost.

That said, there are participants in the crypto-coin market who have alternative resources for recovering losses so if any of them had exposure here it might go poorly for her in prison.
IRS Delays Gig-Tax Filing Rule for Side Hustles of More Than $600
I don't think anyone finds recurrence relations, closed form expressions, or their derivation controversial or disagreeable in any way.

On the other hand, the implication that Lisp textbooks -- or other language texts that use fibonacci or like examples for recursion examples -- shouldn't be using simple recursive definitions as an illustration if there exists a closed form may well raise some eyebrows. What do you want, Collatz Sequences? Additionally, there's an air of attacking the sophistication of devs who choose Lisp specifically, which is the kind of thing that people frequently do find disagreeable (even if there's a reasonable case for it).

Fibonacci and other linear recurrence relations are used because they're simple and often familiar intros that can help conceptualize the way recursion can reduce problems to smaller versions of themselves (which is very much mathematical thinking). They're not there because they represent limits of how Lisp devs generally do or should think.
If you take 4k HDR video the files are huge and take ages to get off the phone via USB 2.0. Same with lots of 48 MP HDR photos.

It’s easier to let the phone upload them to iCloud and then download from there, but that shouldn’t be necessary (and requires a good internet connection).

I don’t think it’s a problem for normal people’s workflows, more if you’re trying to use them for professional video/camera things.
Just wonder what tip tok could do for the data they collected. Could it be used for china whatsoever purpose.
I don't think your premise is true. PC games look great on RTX cards. People like it; they just have trouble affording cards that support it. So there is limited appetite for developers to support ray tracing below AAA. Getting the tech on iPhones would change that.
Apparently, every post we write here is unprecedented too.

...except if writing two consecutive identical posts, the second one being then not unprecedented, but making that pair unprecedented.

Ok, I'll stop now:)
Laws are necessary because we can't trust everyone. Some women throw their newborn babies in the trash. Are you willing to trust them to "draw the line" too, or would you insist that the legislature draw a line at birth?
I appreciate the instinct to try to help me personally, but as I said in another comment I'm keeping a lot back for privacy reasons so it's difficult for me to engage in that sort of discussion. There are issues with my overall situation that make job searching difficult, which I won't share, going beyond tweaking things, which is why I've asked for help identifying, basically, boring unprestigious developer jobs where I might have a better chance.

I've generally looked at smaller employers with simple applications that I assume go either to an internal recruiter or the technical team. I don't think these are situations where there's a need to bypass a lot of bureaucracy.

Deliberately searching for lower pay is a good idea if done carefully. If it's too low then the job might be abusive or not actually a software developer role. Maybe $80k is the floor depending on industry and location. Unfortunately it doesn't look like the major job sites let you search that way, but I might be able to figure something out.
I think the examples you bring up demonstrate fairly precisely why Google should be afraid. Google is at a stage in its corporate life where they are extremely risk-averse. Risk-averse to cannibalizing existing revenue, to upsetting regulators, to getting bad PR. It's why they publish papers about their in-house tech but never have the guts to put it out there for the general public to experiment with.

A contender who shows up with a brand new way to access the knowledge on the internet, but with none of the regulatory / PR / lawyer / legacy product baggage of Google or Meta, is a serious risk. And on some level, it doesn't matter if the "OpenAI assistant" gets things wrong every now and then if they can manage expectations accordingly - something that Google, with their legacy brand and reputation, can't really pull off.
I'm very confused by Spotify's audio books though. Can't buy or even see the price through the app, which can't be good for getting people started on it. I then went on the website version, and the Sanderson novels I can find are £29.90 (as are most of the others I looked at). I don't listen to audio books, is the market price really 4-5x the hardback?
SBF’s plea deal can’t be far behind. He is uniquely positioned to help FTX’s receivers recover the maximum amount of money, and will use that leverage to strike the best deal possible. The whole FTX crew will likely pay their debt to society and be free before they’re 40 with the potential to do something useful with their skills and knowledge (think Mitnick).