skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small tip I use -> I ask myself : can I find it later using a keyword ? if yes, I pass. I may sometimes append these keywords (and related ones) to my notes (if they are specific/new)

See, the problem is the keywords : the way we search for it later will sometimes not lead (directly anyway) to the original keywords/results. So, The day we will have good enough NLP search for history/bookmarks/notes, this problem will be mostly solved.

This is already on the way -> https://get.mem.ai/mem-x | https://heyday.xyz/

That being said, if it is important, it should be better categorized/tagged. Otherwise, It is often best to just let it go (as many pointed out).
> Questions people are asking each other on Reddit, Discord or Facebook about what phone to buy are questions they are not asking Google, and that costs Google money. It's as simple as that

When your main business is to rob and plunder, any attemt at self-defence looks like a threat.

We had a great ecosystem of open, public forums and websites where people had discussions and produced valuable information. Google milked it dry and turned it into a barren wasteland.

Now they have nothing left to plunder and their search is filled with adspam.

Well maybe they should produce some valuable content themselves.

Instead they now earn money from scams, I get youtube ads for a project by Elon Musk to give British people iniversal basic income powered by AI, but you have to pay to sign up!
Yeah, because victims of financial fraud always know the risks.

/s
I've been wondering about the voice assistant, which I find absolutely appalling. It's so bad (and it's gotten worse) that my children noticed it and make fun of it! I don't understand why anyone would want to use it. In contrast siri works quite well, so I assume it's not because of the way I speak.
Stock price is forward looking, not based on current sales. It's why some start-up with $0 revenue can be worth billions.

Not to say that Telsa's peak valuation is justified (it doesn't make a lot of sense), but a much higher market cap could be justified by expectation of substantial growth in Tesla sales, but flat revenue for Mercedes.
It's emotionally healthy to tell people they're being ridiculous. Can't do that on HN!
This is a laughable hypothetical with no basis in all of economic history. Every industrialized economy achieved their manufacturing prowess and prosperity through protectionism. It's unfortunate how few people recognize that, but then most people don't get beyond Econ 101 thinking. It's worse than if they had not learned any economics at all.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032019.Bad_Samaritans
Contrived because, "primary owner" of a story is somewhat silly. It kind of works for one off books, but even there has issues. Get into performances and collaborations, and it falls hard.

You will quickly get into situations where corporations own things, and then all semblance of personal ownership and control are questionable, at best.
Goodboy Galaxy is a game in development for Game Boy Advance writen in Nim.
They did a presentation about coding for GBA in NimConf 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZUM7MhWr88
> The android crowd is not cornered in any way - iPhones are just so expensive most people can't afford them

This is why they are cornered. They cant afford a different phone OS. You cant remove the Google search bar from the home screen. Google forces/tricks you into using their services, keeping location tracking on, etc.....

> (and no, bing doesn't work),

Im surprised you find Bing worse than google? In the US, the first page of google results in almost all ads, or search results close but not really what you searched for (even with an ad blocker). I dont have an answer for non-US but I just find it interesting.
“It is legal” and “it is business as usual” are two different things.
https://hachyderm.io/@webframp/109549847714991748
Its awesome to ask it who owns you.com and seeing a different answer each time.

I've been told Alphabet, Samsung and a few other companies now with each browser refresh I do.
Inflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.
Really? I didn’t know that. It makes sense that there would be patterns though.
False. If I deposited money into my bank account, or even any investment account, and that money was fraudulently invested on my behalf without my knowledge, I sure better be paid back with money, not non-liquid "equity" funny money in some private AI tech company (likely way overvalued) that can't even be traded on the public markets.

Looking forward to the great unwinding of FTX investments that will give a whole new meaning to "claw back". Let this be a lesson to founders not to take money from just anyone -- you wouldn't let a drug cartel finance your tech company, would you?
Unless they had previously perfectly modeled and predicted power, until this moment. (But that seems unlikely)
Nothing wrong with fundamentally disagreeing with Cato's viewpoint, but if you don't read people who disagree with you, you end up with a very narrow perspective.
That's the catch though, stay out of media and then you're ignorant of things happening, as tiring as it is. Stay with social news apps like reddit and yeah they're a huge time waster but quick aggregation of news and can get you a good understanding of what's happening.
Access to the supercharging network.
>> Google already has Meena and Lambda which are the same thing and arguably superior.

Arguably superior on what dimension? For revenue potential through a chat based AI interface, assuming revenue is going to be some function of end-user usage, there is nothing even close to ChatGPT in the open market currently. ChatGPT is being used by millions of people already, which is a way way higher number than whatever competing service Google may have.

>> Google would within the same year simply do the same with Meena or Lambda

Like they did with social networks? or Whatsapp?
With something like ChatGPT the 'easy to copy' argument is going to be even more difficult since 1. with usage ChatGPT will get better. 2. Once people get used to ChatGPT to switch the competing service from Google will have to be significantly better (not just marginally better).

So while it may not yet be a existential threat to Google, to make a point that ChatGPT should alarm Google is definitely not "laughable" IMO.
I can see this happening. If I had to choose between having a web browser or ChatGPT, I'd already think twice, especially on mobile.

Getting any information on the Web requires battling dark-pattern tracking prompts, newsletter nags, and sifting through SEO fluff and content farms (that thanks to LLM, are only going to get worse).

I don't expect the ad-based Web improve, at least not until the tracking-based ad model collapses (either way bad news for Google). When the ads target users, not sites, then any site of any reputation can have profitable ads! This benefits quantity over quality and outrage-fuelled clickbait.

OTOH LLMs can give me a straight answer immediately. ChatGPT understands even terse queries, while Google ignores half of my keywords and substitutes the other half with irrelevant synonyms. With LLM I can ask clarifying questions without restarting my search. ChatGPT has issues and limitations, but I think it can improve.
Your comment reminded me of "Text Rendering Hates You" (https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30330144 )
An AI could correctly prove some things about some programs, and for the rest of them shrug and say it doesn't know.
And the 1 represents a connected circuit (power flows when on) and 0 represents a closed loop, no power flowing through, so off.
If I told off my boss in public I'd be fired too and rightly so.
Totally inappropriate comparison.

A mobile OS takes 5 -10 years to develop and you ha e to onboard developers and commercial organisations like banks.

Chat GPT needs no partner relatuonship and Google could have equivalent public product in 2 months. Both are just stealing public content someone else has peoduced.

So nice that law protecrs ChatGPT sourcecode but not the authors of training material
In addition to the sibling comments, I find it interesting to compare to a cross-platform Electron-based app.

By building for Mac, the developer was able to target every Apple platform, sometimes with minimal effort, and leverage platform tools like AppleScript for integration.

The Mac has a long history of high quality native apps, and it’s nice to see one survive, even thrive.
Sounds like they just discovered it late in the design process, not in silicon.
Because they can't monetize only results from those sites. If I don't prefix "reddit" I'll get dozens of websites I've never even heard of, before an actual answer. Even wikipedia is sometimes on the second or third page, everything else is spam.
What a silly statement.

Most people aren’t updating every year.

Imagine if they only updated every second year. You would pay full price for a phone that came out 23 months ago?? Don’t be daft.
Hardly, 6-12 off the shelf digital cameras with lenses, a single engine airplane with fuel, and a laptop is all you need for this kind of system.
> Look how quickly Shorts copied TikTok

2022 Revenue:

TikTok ~12b (operating since 2016)
YouTube ~28b (operating since 2005)

YouTube, Instagram and Facebook are in damage control.
I completely agree with reading people you disagree with, but I like for them to be halfway intelligent, instead of just a bunch of hacks regurgitating cliches and platitudes from cherry-picked data and scenarios.
I haven't yet, but my daily-driver-blocking issues during my last attempt were more around stability. Much of it I think is the hardware (OpenBSD and Haiku both would spontaneously reboot on occasion; given that it was more frequent on battery, I suspect it's some quirk with the Framework's power management - or maybe there's something in the iwx driver that freaks out the whole machine), and some were likely attributable to being on nightly; I'll have to re-test with beta4 (and maybe the latest UEFI updates on my machine) to see if that straightens some things out.

The lack of a built-in solution for full-disk encryption is also a blocker for me. It's something I keep meaning to try and tackle (say, by porting over OpenBSD's FDE implementation), but I ain't quite comfortable enough yet with Haiku's codebase to even know where to start.
They're going to build it enough to the point that Salesforce will buy them.
Just got an M1 MBP from work and... I am staggered. It's _so quiet_. There's no heat. The battery is still above 50% and I've been using it for nearly two days!!

Just... staggered. What an upgrade.
but only public companies have to maximize revenue to the Nth degree, publicly. If the company isn't public, you have a far smaller audience to impress, and one that can be made to understand nuance. Eg how is Dell doing? Few really know since they went private.
A social application could not meaningfully have anything like openness or data portability if the scope of the API were strictly your own profile.
The only flaky ESP hardware I know of is the ESP-01, which was one of the first boards carrying the ESP8266. It's still available for about $1.50 shipped from AliExpress.

They're hard to program because each one seems to have a different opinion whether this or that GPIO needs to be grounded to start programming mode.

They also can be poorly manufactured. Either the antenna is so bad it works on your desk but not in the next room, or it's just DOA. Fortunately, these are neonatal problems; if it works for 5 minutes, it'll work forever. And when you can get 10 for $15 and toss the three that don't work, it's still a great deal.
Seems quite reasonable to me, we've got a world-leading chip team who have been doing great work responsible for a pretty major cock-up. Sounds like they're not used to these kinds of failures in apple silicon development.

> And it's not exactly a setback either. So they had to have a slightly less powerful phone. Whatever.

Having a roadmap with a more powerful GPU with senior management being told its deliverable right up until very close to the end is a pretty major set-back. Yes Apple is so dominant and well respected in their market it's unlikely to have significant impact, but may produce fewer iPhone 14 Pro sales. Also Apple have got to that position specifically because they've been doing a great job executing to ambitious road-maps without things like this. So short-term, looking at this product, yes, maybe not that big a deal, long-term they need to ask themselves how they're ensuring this doesn't happen again. Given they're restructuring the team and getting rid of managers sounds like Apple leadership take this pretty seriously.
You really don't know when to give up do you? You're wrong, end of story.
The gain or loss of a single customer will have no effect on Walmart or the local mom and pop.

The effects only add up if a significant number of people make the same decision.

On the individual level, the cost of the local shop is detrimental compared to Walmart. The rational choice for any given individual is to go with the lower price. Choosing otherwise doesn't gain you anything other than that the local spot is a nicer place to visit.

At the macro level, nobody wins unless everyone cooperates. At the individual level, you can only win by not cooperating. It's just the prisoner's dilemma.

Happy thoughts don't really factor in here, it's not really an ethics problem, it's an economics problem.
Is it surprising that besides Ellison and Wang none of the other inner circle of FTX/Alameda has cut deals yet? There's at least 8 people that were likely aware of what was going on no? See:

"Who's Who in the FTX Inner Circle"

https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/11/22/the-whos-who-of-t...
Been using Feedbin with Reeder pretty much since Google Reader shut down. I’ve tried a bunch of others and always come back to this winning combo. Worth noting that Feedbin’s web app is also great.
You’re reading this wrong. They love her because she didn’t have the credentials to do what she was doing and seemingly didn't le care. Honestly, all power to her for taking billions of dollars from investors that didn’t do basic due diligence because they were too greedy. You tell me where the deception/idiocy is happening: The most prestigious VCs going around talking about ‘vision’ in flip-flops sipping on kambuchas giving her the money and losing it, or the 20 year old with 1 year of experience taking that money and trading without stop orders because it’s so yesterday?
Completely agree. 2-4 years would be wonderful if they actually worked out all of the bugs. Instead we get mostly half baked ideas and products instead of stuff that actually works solid.
That’s really interesting thanks for sharing

As a German native speaker reading the first few examples this just sounds a lot like literal translations from German that I hear a lot of German speakers use when their English level isn’t that advanced (as I often perceive it to be the case for politicians as well) or only used at work and not gained from using/being exposed to English in native/cultural contexts:

Actor – Aktoren (commonly used fancy word in German government communication)

Actorness (not a direct translation but very common in German to make any noun into a different one through pre-/suffixes)

Actual – aktuell (means current and definitely not actual)

Adequate – adequat (means appropriate and definitely not adequate)
Can someone explain how ChatGPT works?
Any speculation on why it did better on the SAT than IQ? Somewhat more knowledge-based vs reasoning I guess?
Also note that the cultural change around advertising within an AI chat interface could then lead to similar monetisation within human conversations too, ie WhatsApp -> WhatsAd
The scenario is different. This would be like if Nokia had the Lumia running Windows Phone, meanwhile they're selling Symbian phones and Apple introduces the iPhone. Surely they'd just launch their Lumia, no?

If Google didn't already have both more experience in language models, experimental demos like ChatGPT (Lambda, and Meena) and more data, then I'd agree with the article.

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If ChatGPT was a fully generalized "general AI", then yes Google would be seriously in trouble as Google does not have an equivalent.
That is true of many of the other games mentioned here as well, none of which have links to detailed technical discussions like Pitfall.
I'm surprised still that so many people sleep on tape. It is a very mature and stable technology with the best dollars/gigabyte ratio of any storage technology out there. Start up costs are a bit unpleasant but purchasing secondhand is reasonable and economical, and unlike the cloud the costs are mostly one time instead of forever. The tapes are durable and last for decades, so that initial outlay will last you a very long time.
South German pretzels are the highlight of any trip there for me (I was born there). Why oh why can't we have this as a product in North America, aside from making a reasonable imitation of it yourself (you need food grad sodium hydroxide, which used to be hard to find, but these days you can order it online).

But they're not even popular in all of Germany! The "Weisswurstequator" - a rough dividing line north of which the white sausages just aren't a thing - also largely applies to soft pretzels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei%C3%9Fwurst%C3%A4quator

Nutella also sounds like an abomination to me, though savoury toppings - butter, cold cuts, cheese - are OK. Though a fresh pretzel is such a treat you've usually eaten it before giving much thought to toppings.
By wistfully imagining a better bookmarks/content manager and then not actually building it, of course.

I actually might put it a few hours this week though.
>sometimes they even have an effect

This is the point
https://tinygem.org
>> it's much harder to cram ads into a chat conversation.

Oh, I don't see that being a problem at all.

"Tell me about the features of modern digital cameras."

Chat bot: "Here's a bunch of information. And by the way, the Nikon Pipboy3000 has all of these features and they are offering 25% off right now. Do you want more information?"

That's very easy.

If done on an Assistant-like device though, that might be a bit different.
And Weissbier!
Google is rightfully protective of its own brand. It's unlike OpenAI or other startup where the brand isn't as established. Believe it or not, because people trust Google Search so much they rightfully could allow a very slim margin for erroneous content in their AI product. That said, they already have the right corporate structure in place; make a new company with its own brand under the Alphabet umbrella.
That's just it. Recently saw a great summary of this in a music forum.

"What are the lowest latency audio interfaces sorted by price" or something to that effect.

Like the person who posted it, that simple answer for chatgpt erases lots of clicks and views and hours of research.
WebPositive was also updated to latest WebKit. Honestly, it worked OK before and if it's using the same WebKit as GNOME Web then it should be just as good, but also using native UI.
We have something like this in our break room: https://www.hood.de/i/gastlando-brezel-schneideset-brezelsch...

Pretty easy to slice a Brezn in half with the proper tooling.
almost always the songwriter sells or licenses the music, or otherwise retains controls of it. but they have complex contracts with other terms involved because the industry is complicated by record label contracts.
Commander Keen was one of id Software's first games.
> Why not let those manufacturers naturally compete fairly

It's not a fair competition if local manufacturers are subject to regulations that foreign manufacturers aren't.

And if you like high wages for workers, environmental protections, product safety, and the other benefits of regulation, then you need local manufacturers who can be required to provide those things.

Why should we participate in a race to the bottom competing over who can pay the lowest wages and dispose of hazardous waste for the lowest cost?
I agree. YT Shorts have made YT less pleasant to use.
> So if you’re a systematizing turbonerd, go wild.

Scroll up and read the name of the website you posted this on.
Ask HN: Why not just buy a business?
How's the support for Samba/NFS?
Google: “We hire the best most productive SWE in the world!”

Also Google: “We have hired a bunch of slackers who need to be fired!”
Kinda related, I saw this fascinating presentation by Trevor Paglen recently. It's about the footprint of secrecy. It's almost a decade old, but still very much worth your time.

https://youtu.be/j56s46e97Lo?t=48
I came into a software engineering career from a B.S. in Mathematics. I had no idea how thinking like a mathematician dominated my approach to engineering until I figured out that not everyone develops software the same way - that was 25 years into my career.

To me, the key leap of understanding in a mathematics education is realizing that mathematical proof isn't about clever, convincing arguments that have a high probability of being true. Mathematical proofs are truth preserving operations that require you to understand and document all the assumptions needed to guarantee that truth is preserved throughout. It's about understanding exactly what you know and, more importantly, what you don't know but that you need to be true in order to guarantee truth. And "guarantee" here does not mean "very very very high probability." It means "exactly zero exceptions, given that the explicitly documented assumptions hold." A mathematics education goes on to give lots of practice identifying these assumptions in various ways and in various domains.

This line of thinking has served me well as an engineer. I almost never go as far as formal methods or using full mathematical rigor. But I do try to understand the assumptions I'm making and whether those assumptions are likely to hold in the application domain. For example...

I assume reading from disk repeatedly (vs. preloading into RAM) is fast enough for my use case, but I need to test that assumption. Write a quick test... it's fast enough on my laptop's SSD. But I'm going to deploy to spinning disks and I'm doing a lot of seeking - better test there as well. Nope, too slow. If build a simple index of the data, is it fast enough? Write a quick test... yep, so I don't need to deal with cache eviction strategies. Oh, but I'm assuming the tests I wrote are representative, so I need to give myself a couple of orders of magnitude of headroom to be pretty sure.

This is not mathematical rigor, but it's leveraging a lot of that kind of thinking. My entire design/code/debug lifecycle is constructed around identifying and testing assumptions like this.

When I realized this came from my background in math, I started trying to figure out how some of the people around me were doing things when they had little or no math background (i.e., not enough to have a ton of practice comprehensively identifying assumptions). Some had come to a very similar process, just not through math (many with graduate degrees in biology or experimental physics also had a pretty direct route to similar enough thinking). Some were much more intuitive about things - I don't think I could develop anything that way, but they were very good at their job. I think this is part of why UI/UX work was always so frustrating for me - the assumptions run so deep that simplifying through intuition is constant, and testing (e.g., through user facing experiments) is expensive.

I'd love to see deeper studies into the range of cognitive practices employed by various software engineers and how that differs across educational backgrounds and application domains. How does that differ from graphic designers, accountants, EEs, mechanical engineers, etc?
Sure, I just question what kind of complicated logic you want to put in there.