skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wouldn’t need to be cash per say, just cash or very liquid and low risk assets like USTs. The yield on treasuries isn’t high, but given the volumes at play it’d generate a lot of cashflow.
Okay, but Google points you to some site that says something. You can evaluate what that site says, based on its content and other signals about its reputation, and ponder the information with other information from other sources. That's what searching is supposed to involve.

ChatGPT provides answers in its own name, with confidence and often arrogance, and the air of authority that comes from a well articulated discourse, even if the underlying reasoning is completely absurd, stupid and dangerous.

Big difference.
> it's much harder to cram ads into a chat conversation.

Hey, Google, can you suggest me a best android smartphone for $500? I need good camera.

ChatGPT can answer to this question (his choices are Samsung A52, Pixel 4a, OnePlus Nord, Moto G9 Plus). Is this answer honest? I have no idea.
What’s bad about Qt (besides not being able to write programs for it in anything besides C++ and to a degree python)
What a massive violation of citizens' privacy and a waste of taxpayers' resources. No wonder this empire is rapidly crumbling.
Wow... this is neat. Looks like it uses GHArchive. First I'm learning of this too.

This page shows other projects using GHArchive data:

https://www.gharchive.org/#resources
The Missing Semester: Data Wrangling
Driving in Boston it can very easily take 5 minutes to get from point A to point A
It isn’t over. There are means to still fight and win. Nothing is over here until all of us stop breathing. The first victory is realizing that for our own internal struggle.

I look forward to the day when our shared suffering is a distant memory, and I know that day will come.
(allegedly) The I*ael* killed the space cannon scientist, Bell I believe his name was, because the leader of Iraq at the time wanted one to shoot at I**l. Bell himself was non political (or a political naif), he just wanted to build his space cannon and S**m was willing to pay for it.
Is that project public? I'd love to hack on it.
I’m sure there would be plenty of non-FAANG companies who’d be happy to welcome you back if you can still pass a coding interview. You get a little experience under your belt and you’ll be right back on track.
Maybe it will be, but Google has been working on language models before even GPT-3. they're very well aware of it. It's not like Kodak and how they absolutely refused to do digital photography, resulting in the resulting technological gap.
My wife and I listen to books together. We have tried, and failed, several times to buy two books and read them together. One inevitably gets ahead and has to wait for the other which ends up killing the whole experience. We haven’t bought a book in years now but have spent a large amount of time, close to if not in excess of our television time, listening to audiobooks together.

I use to have a big library of fantasy and sci do books that I was really proud of and was the primary one dragging my feet about trying audiobooks because I thought they would be an inferior product. I was wrong and I love them more than reading now. My only gripe is the classic space skip in a chapter usually delineated by like 3 stars are pretty jarring in audiobook format with the author just moving on to the next section without mentioning it.
Musk ordered removal of suicide-prevention advisories on Twitter, sources say
Anthropic won't give back the funding. The bankruptcy proceedings will likely claw back the Anthropic equity that SBF owns, which will then be sold & distributed as part of the bankruptcy.
BeOS already ran on existing Apple PowerPC hardware of the time:

http://testou.free.fr/www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/su...
Collision detection in games. This problem is O(n^2) because you have to check every object against every other object.

You can almost only check objects that inhabit the same buckets (there are caveats, usually neighboring buckets are also checked), eliminating objects that couldn't possibly collide by virtue of e.g. being on the other side of the map. Of course this is still O(n^2) because every object could be in the same bucket (but that's unlikely).
Without the labor, the output wouldn't exist either, so why do the capital owners pocket most of the generated wealth?

For that matter, how did it come to be that capital is so concentrated that most productive people have to rent it to generate wealth?
Yep, world building and system building is what he does.

The only book of his that wasn't like that... and which i liked most... Elantris... was never really continued.
Sure, but that would hopefully be made illegal very quickly.

The EU already has pretty strict rules around product placement, which is quite similar to what purchased bias would be, only worse.
Agree -- I bought the book and it has been very help for me, a solo developer mostly backend-guy doing his own frontend. Worth the cost of admission.
I'm interested in a working search engine which is not Google (in the EU) . I don't believe it currently exists, based on my testing (and no, bing doesn't work), so Google still brings a lot of value to me, and to most people I know.

The android crowd is not cornered in any way - iPhones are just so expensive most people can't afford them, so android is actually a rather sensible option, and unless Apple radically alters its pricing policy, this is unlikely to change.

Whether Google has brought something new and useful to the table in the past few years is another question, but it does not diminish the current value I derive from Google, since they have no competitors.
HN has been talking about how Tether is a scam and how it will blow up AnyMomentNow(TM) for two years.

Meanwhile, there was no talk on HN about Luna or FTX being a scam before they imploded.

In finance, when everybody "knows" something, it's 99% likely to be false. Because there is a lot of money to be made knowing actual facts in finance.
Thanks for the clarification. I do agree with you of course on the problem of people making impulse decisions after the purchase.

And I meant a better pathway through the medical system, not involving firearms. Using guns for that seems all around awful, and it is sad if people do see that as their most realistic option.
Agreed. Everyone here is laughing about Google’s tech being more advanced and maybe it is, but at the end of the day ChatGPT produces answers while Google produces blog spam.

At present I’d consider them tied in terms of accuracy, but I have more faith in ChatGPT’s ability to improve its AI than Google’s ability to ship a good product.
You beat me to it. I didn’t read the article, do they even consider this component?

Joe Sixpack has to pay 10% more for goods he previously couldn’t afford at all because but he has a job now.
> we can't use our wallet

.. and yet, millions of people do exactly that. Consumer boycotts happen every day. Sometimes they even have an effect.
Every stain a story: The many dirty undershirts of John McClane in Die Hard
Network tethering, scrcpy, and dead-simple very fast file transfers are three things I miss from Android. I think KDE Connect is faster wired too (eg to use your phone as a USB keyboard or mouse.)
I cannot read this in Tor without enabling Javascript OP. Please be mindful of that, it's useless to cite something that cannot be read privately.

(And what do you want, a cookie? I've been told that finding a secret US surveillance program is like an etymologist finding a new bug -- the amount of work that goes into formalizing it is such that often folks leave it for someone newer to the field to make their mark rather than focus on something that won't deliver them income when they're fairly certain if they went through the rigamarole they could name some new... thing.)
In a test of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect, I asked a couple of questions about topics I know a fair bit amount (nothing too technical, just recommendations for robovacs, old video games and graphics cards).

2/3 of the answers it gave were confident and well-formed gramatically but really, really bad advice.

On the flip side, it did spit out a list of pretty decent Mega Drive games when asked.
I expect thousands of sky colored solar drones to comb the cities soon and become a norm.
An unusual article to see on the HN front page :)

But enjoyable, I was out two days ago with my 4x5 Speed Graphic, using the Lomo Instax back that arrived almost 18 months ago and only just using properly. It takes me ages to get enough time and headspace to work with view cameras, but it really is well worth the time.

I broadly recommend the Lomo back to anyone with a Graflok back and little prep time - it takes longer to shoot with as there's an adaptor to shift the glass back to the instant film plane, then the whole lot needs to be replaced with the Lomo back to shoot. But you get the picture immediately, and no faff with loading and unloading film holders.

In the interim, there's my Rollei SL66 armed with a metering finder gives me the speed of a view camera and the Scheimpflug movement to boot.

But, like others have mentioned, the hardest part is lugging all the kit around, my enthusiasm for that has definitely waned over the last 30 years.
> The typical example is in a web browser, where untrustworthy web content appears below the browser toolbar UI.

Extensions also appear in the browser toolbar, and aren't always trustworthy.
> But I wish there were a language that solved the two-languages problem (fast vs. easy to work with). I find Rust quite verbose.

Rust itself can be made "easy to work with" at the cost of boilerplate. You end up with code that's littered with idiomatically superfluous uses of things like .clone(), interior mutability, Cow<>, perhaps even such exotic features as the Any trait for encoding "dynamic" behavior.

The flip side is that it's easier to refactor this code and make it more correct and performant; "simply" replace the boilerplate with proper Rustic code and deal with the resulting compile errors. It's a very viable strategy that has no direct equivalents in other languages, not even in C/C++.
You can pretty much add anything to an rss reader. I read my friends Twitter post, watch YouTube channels I’m subscribed to etc all in a rss reader app. Filter out the bullsh*t ads.

Problem is, most people don’t know about. It’s still used. I love it.
Incorporating the tech into how current searches work for the best of both worlds is obviously the future.

After having used ChatGPT, it has become clear that the workflow for discovering complex information in Google is usually just complete garbage in comparison. It's basically a complete dice roll to land on an actual good link these days, and more importantly, Google searches have no context, which is ChatGPT's killer features.

Ex: I asked ChatGPT how ECDSA works, and it will give you a small quip about how it works overall, but then you can ask it go deeper, provide specific examples, ask it what provides the trap door function, how multiply is defined in such a system, etc. You can massage the answer output to give you what you want instead of a vomit of extraneous noise that links to internet forums/blogposts/papers will be able to provide.

Google can't possibly offer the same experience as it is right now.
FSD is a liability, not a feature.
At the time it seemed to me that each page was, as you say, a thesis someone could tackle.

It never seemed to be an instruction manual or was presented as some kind of total blueprint of thinking Cough Wolfram
Scored 83 IQ, 50th percentile on SAT, shows sophomore-level skill for math degree coursework.
It thinks I mostly use Vue! It should probably look at my commits
and not my forked repos.
I use Otter RSS. Simple, minimal rss reader.
Twitter said to be shutting down/scaling back datacenters starting January
Ya, my preference still stands whether the ship is docked or not. As you point out: it's good for debugging. As I mentioned, I like it for quick things in throwaway scripts. I don't like it in production code because when I'm reading something quickly that I don't care to deeply understand: Hashes are records and arrays order ordered lists. I very much like the way Rust does it (and I like a lot of what I've seen in Rust)--if we had `OrderedHash` in Ruby, I will feel completely different.
It's not a public endpoint, and the api is still under dev with interface largely yet to start. So, can't share / won't share. Sorry.

Where it will be shared is among those with an interest in the specific space. That includes government agencies, land managers, consultancies etc. At no cost to them, because what the outputs can help offset in terms of environmental cost dwarves dev cost.
It's always weird to remember that what we use tar for every day (packing and unpacking archives on disk) is by design a strange corner case and not its actual purpose.
Of course they don't consider that, it's Cato. I haven't bothered reading their papers in years. Sad how often their crap shows up on HN, to be frank.
I agree, they should reduce her punishment from 250 years to just 150 years if she cooperates.
I learned UK and USA use incompatible versions of sign language from online discussion of a recent television show.
Have a look at https://www.tindie.com/products/lixielabs/sensory-bridge-an-..., which uses the ESP32-S2, but not WLED as far as I know. I'm a happy customer.
Without a specific national strategic reason, why should poor people pay for manufacturers who cannot compete on the global scale?

Why not let those manufacturers naturally compete fairly or switch to something more useful for humanity rather than overpriced goods and/or services? Protectionism plays favorites within your general population and devalues your economy by taking away the need for people to provide added value.
He's saying, "I'd like to support them, but dammit! They charge more." Duh.
Twitter dropped RSS support years ago when they were locking down clients and otherwise siloing themselves. Have they added it back?
If you trade highly leveraged stuff, you need stop losses; otherwise there is a considerable chance you will go bankrupt. Especially when you take bets on interest rate decisions, take the sweeps at market open and other stuff (you can gain a few hundred points on NQ1! per contract easily during such times).

Also, it's a psychological thing: traders think in risk. If they were mistaken with a trade idea, they close the position with a small loss. Easy, just move on to the next!

But when a position is already deep in the reds, it becomes increasingly harder to press the "close"-button and realize the loss.

I know somebody who lost a few hundred grand just a few weeks ago because he was unable to close the position. He didn't set an initial stop loss, and then started believing in his trade (or the company) too much, although the market was telling him otherwise. He started doing dollar cost averaging and other stupid stuff. Actually, this guy is incredibly smart, but became too attached. I feel genuinely sorry for him. But that's what happens, when you don't have the discipline.
Qt specifically is bad because it's full of quirks and footguns. The licencing and distribution is also a bit of a pain.

On paper, it's great because it does everything and is cross-platform. In practice, though, including it with your product will introduce dozens upon dozens of completely preventable bugs and all kinds of bizarreness that will suck you away from solving the actual problems necessary to releasing your app.
I don't think I'd ever want to live in Southern California, but the salaries there make me jealous.
What should we sign, exactly?

Git commits? That doesn't correspond to supply-chain verification, just committer verification, so it's not as big a benefit as package-signing in other distros.

Package sources? All sources in nixpkgs are verified against their content hash, which is committed along with the source. To pull off a supply-chain attack through substituting a malicious upstream, you'd create extremely obvious breakage when the package built by Hydra doesn't have the same output hash that you asked for at build time.

Binary substitutes? Nixpkgs doesn't use a "mirrors" system that is the traditional source of distro supply-chain vulnerabilities. Packages are input-addressed, so nix knows the hash of the output it wants, and all substitutes are signed in nixpkgs. So it is difficult to alter the outputs without breaking the dependency and falling back to source builds, and still more difficult to forge a signature for the altered output.

I agree that distros need to focus on supply-chain security as a core competency. I disagree that NixOS (rather, nixpkgs) needs to use the same mechanisms as other distros to attain it, especially when doing so would impact another core competency: simply having the latest packages available as soon as practicable, because outdated packages are another source of vulnerabilities.
I generally agree with you, by the way. However, there is an argument that holds some water that protectionist policies do actually help some domestic workers. To completely ignore that makes the article read as quite biased to me.
It's a shame that these tools don't consider organization repos with a single contributor to add up to their star count, for example. Or am I the only one who puts their multi-repo projects under an organization?
They’ve basically killed the cycle, in all but name. Now it’s just steady progress but it’s not too differentiated. I too upgraded to the 14P from 11P, mostly for the MagSafe. MagSafe has been out since the 12 but I couldn’t be bothered until 3 years on. Now I won’t upgrade until USBC or it breaks.

The iPhone 14 (non pro) uses much of the iPhone 13’s internals, while the Pro gets upgraded. I think this is basically how the watch already is. I expect this is the future, the upgraded won’t really matter and won’t really exist beyond slight aesthetic tweaks. It’s like cars, no matter which year you get, they all drive just fine and are mostly the same internally. I’ve long said that cars are the natural comparison to these sort of electronics. Cars and phones are probably the two most expensive and utilitarian things people regularly buy. They come out with new ones every year, but don’t do major refreshes every year so you don’t really have a reason to tine when to buy one. I think it also indicates that we’ll see a price stagnating base-model phone and an ever increasing top-tier model as the companies explore how much people are willing to spend (a Corolla vs a Mercedes).

The nice thing about the steady new versions is that you can always go to the store and buy the biggest-number iPhone version and not worry about lifespan or if it’s good (contrast with a game console: if you buy the PS4 6mo before the PS5 comes out, you made a mistake).
This is absolutely correct. You only need to look at the funding/leadership of a think thank to get a sense of what they're up to. Cato is complete trash.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/cato-institute/
It’s a fanfic that’s an alternate take on the story. It’s great. If you don’t like that sort of thing then ignore it?
> All Google needs to do is launch a superior LLM API on Google Cloud and essentially hedge their bets that any replacement for Google Search will be built on their API anyway.

That would still mean a huge disruption to their core business.

> The other question is how does something like ChatGPT monetize to pay for the massive costs to serve queries? Google engineers have already tested this and say that LLM queries are orders of magnitude more expensive to serve than current results and I don't seen any paid service replacing a free search engine

GPT costs cents, I'd happily pay that. I'm looking at how best to use the newer models personally as it's so cheap.
It's already aged poorly - in the first days of ChatGPT, someone already demonstrated it can perfectly mimic a YouTuber shilling a VPN every other sentence.

But in general, to the extent "chat conversation" mimics spoken conversation between individuals, then this is the medium advertisers have the most experience with - quite literally thousands of years of experience.
How we slowed the subway down
I think that ChatGPT is a problem for Google's search business, but not for the reasons stated. I think the problem is because the search indexes will have a hard time finding content not generated by AI.
When I read it I thought "wow that's such an easy business model!"

This is identical to existing audio and TV ads where the personalities do the plugs. It's next generation interstitial targeted ads

It's an extremely solved problem
It will definitely reduce some of my research. Perfectly example is for my recent holiday vacation I asked it "best things to do for family with toddlers"..."best places to stay for a family with toddlers" for several cities I'm going to, including my home town and childhood town. Answers were VERY accurate and I was irritated that not only did the answers overlapped with mine but it showed me options I didn't come across. I spent hours reading blogs, YouTube video etc etc and even if I don't use ChatGPT as my definitive resource it will at least be a foundational start and cut down on hours of research.
I asked a Star Trek question (somewhat obscure but time wise and corpus wise clearly in the training set) and the answer was incredibly wrong

… but the output sounded very confident and coherent so kudos! Now all we need are the right answers
Care to expand? How does a SWE break into that line of work? What companies and what is the pay like?
The concept of “personal data” with one sovereign owner applies in very limited scenarios like a private Google Doc or unshared Dropbox folder. The vast majority of internet applications in fact represent some kind of sharing or communication. Such applications necessarily either help you to restrict how your counterparties interact with shared data, limiting their freedom, or don’t, violating your privacy. As such it’s hard to see either side of this tradeoff as especially blameworthy.
Nokia was well entrenched in the Mobile Phone business, and already had a highly optimized and battle tested OS for smartphones.
Microsoft was also in the business (WinCE, PocketPC, Windows Mobile)

And yet, the iPhone and later Android completely changed the market.

Same with Kodak, they basically invented digital photography, but they could not turn it into a business because they could not compete with their core business.

The suits would not allow it.

Search is ripe for disruption, and has been for years. Google search is a waay inferior product now than what it was a decade ago. Big business yes, but I would not bet on much loyalty.

A competing product does not have to instantly make billion dollars, they simply have to provide a better value for their users.
I did have a similar concerns. My answer to this situation is to embrace it, make the idea open source with copyleft licence from the start. This gives opportunity to galvanize a community find early adopters and contributors.

If BigTech gets into it, that will be a positive signal which will make idea known and make a market of customers for it. I have no need to be the first, but just be in the game.
All of those ‘bad’ thing in launches serve a marketing purpose. Scarcity makes consumers think something is in demand. Additionally, every day of stockpiled inventory costs money.
How many lumens per watt is perfect efficiency?