skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does "conservation advocacy" mean environment stuff? The carbon emissions of unproductive flying must be immense.

Airlines should let people just pay the fare and get the miles without flying. Win for the people (saves their time and money), win for the airline (they save on marginal price of jet fuel and food/drinks), and win for the environment.
Is it a coincidence that CE and SBF were both raised by professors at elite institutions (MIT/Stanford)? Or are these just two people who were academically successful and parlayed that success into what looks to be a massive fraud?
Having done travel US to/from Japan and India, I can’t imagine doing that either. Even in business class lay-flat seats, it’s still a miserable experience and in premium or normal economy, it’s even worse.

When I first arrived in Tokyo from Detroit, my thought was “well, I guess I live here now, because I’m sure not taking that return flight…”
But how DO you monetize that tech?
My sadness is unprecedented - I can’t get a ray traced giant bag of gems for $20.
People who went to elite schools hang out with other people who went to elite schools.

This isn't particularly surprising.
LLVM devs are apparently still working on adding proper i386 support https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/58470 but if that were to be addressed, we might even be able to use clang or rustc to build proper DPMI-based code for DOS. That would then leave 8086 real mode and 80286 protected mode as the next steps - admittedly quite a bit harder, given the need to deal with the complexity of segmented memory and the related issue of "code models".
Surprised I had to scroll so far down to see this.
You hit the nail on the head. ChatGPT suddenly made the task of making a Google replacement 10x easier. The issue being the cost. Now imagine a world where we figure out ways to make these models 10x cheaper. And if those breakthroughs are open source then it won’t be just OpenAI there will be tons of startups all after Google.

They need to build some sort of moat here to prevent this outcome.
Then someone put Sokol and IMGUI together into a single .h + .cpp combo and you get https://github.com/pplux/imgui-app
> Look how quickly Shorts copied TikTok.

And how's that going?

I don't have any interest in either of them, but as an outsider it certainly seems like a tonne of people like TikTok and nobody cares about Shorts, wishes they were normal YouTube videos.

And why do you assume 'AI chat' has to be a subscriber model, but 'search' works with ads?

It could easily have a 'recommended sponsor' as an example for certain queries. Or really trivially - just intersperse responses with ads... Exactly like search? And the data collection that's possible is superior too, surely?
> The rollout was indeed messy, with a lot of support check ins being given in December

> The rollout was indeed messy, with a lot of support check ins being given in December as a “check the box” process to make getting a low rating possible, with no time for a report to adjust.

That is what said: "managers provide feedback/checkin ruling in a way that impacts the ranking of the IC without any time for the IC to address the concern"

Given that it is December still, and it's apparently only in December that this is seems to have started occurring, I fail to see how "None of the material in this article is new" unless this was also reported as happening some other report in the last two weeks that I missed.

I am not saying the details of the stack ranking are new, I'm saying the events described in the article (the December shafting of ICs) is new.
Just prompt it to sell the widget... Jasper ai is already doing great with that business model.
Annotated History of Modern AI and Deep Learning
I'm a sometimes frequent flyer but less often in the US, so I don't have any kind of pre-screening. I have never had a problem, other than the occasional line, with TSA. I actually have found them regularly polite and joking. I think this could be because I'm familiar with the procedures, and generally very well organized to go through screening.

There are lots of horror stories about flying, things can go wrong occasionally, personally I would fly anywhere that's > 3 hours or roughly the break even to get there faster, unless I need a car for some reason. If you are familiar with it it's really not as bad as the horror stories.
Super cool to see advances in large language models making their way into customer facing products, even if they are still not perfect. I hope that this forces the sleeping giant (Google) to wake up and start shipping more customer facing things, kind of crazy that LaMDA [0] is now 1.5 years old and still not accessible by the public.

[0] https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
Good deal. Yeah— It’s not the video I remembered either but the material I remember from the “con” talk is in there. It’s an odd feeling not to be able to find the video I have the original memory of.
Wow it’s so much easier in Australia. They upgraded the bag scanners recently so you don’t have to pull everything apart. Just chuck your bag down, stand in the scanner for a few seconds and it’s done. Never spent more than 10 minutes getting through security.
> At least for me, the idea of HN being a place where people exercise free flowing polarizing ideas is pretty foreign

Precisely. HN used to be a lot more about discussing novel/controversial ideas freely. That kind of discussion is ruthlessly suppressed now.
This has been my experience as well. When using Google I used to ignore anything not on the first page. Now I often ignore the first two pages of results, hoping to get to some content that's not SEO-optimized-auto-generated-garbage. By that point of searching though it's pretty much a hail-mary scenario.
I was referring to the hubris that is presumably required to even attempt a fraud on this scale. Were the uniquely able to get away with this because of their bona fides, or were they uniquely predisposed to attempt this, due to the circumstances of their upbringing?
Let's put it into perspective. A11 had 3x less bandwidth, 5x less flops, node that's a lot worse(since then we had N7, N7P, N6, N5 and it's many variations). Such big leaps are problematic in terms of project management. Just ask C++11 people. Or Intel, with their EUV nodes. Or anybody else who decided to shoot to the moon. Having intermediate deliverables has an immense value on its own. I'd argue that we are getting much better phones this way than we would have otherwise.
Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Spnego Security Mechanism
It should be an order of magnitude higher - $6000.
I'd pay money to not have to use a fucking chat bot as an interface.

Also, the big value of Google is that everybody knows what google is.
For anybody else left wondering, Bitwarden does encrypt (nearly) everything in your vault:

> At Bitwarden we take this trusted relationship with our users seriously. We also built our solution to be safe and secure with end-to-end encryption for all Vault data, including website URLs, so that your sensitive data is “zero trust” secure [1]

I haven't used LastPass in years, but the recent news made me wonder how Bitwarden was handling URLs.

[1] https://bitwarden.com/resources/zero-knowledge-encryption-wh...
Something that I learned from listening to Jonathan Blow about his new language Jai is that the implicit assumptions on which traditional C/C++ toolchains are built are horrendously out-of-date.

The whole concept of "discovering" which compiler you have, what your linker is, and then using a DSL to generate a script that triggers shell commands is more than a little bonkers if you stand back and look at it objectively.

It's common to see SDKs or APIs with 2-10 functions in them that weigh in at over 100 KB due to the overheads of having to deal with toolchains, platforms, and other sideshows that have no real contribution to the business at hand.

Jonathan has demonstrated recompiling, linking, and reloading an entire game engine live, which then lets you escape the tarpit of having to add non-compiled DSLs to everything as a workaround for slow compile times. If your compile times are measured in hundreds of milliseconds, scripting isn't needed any more! No more bytecodes, or JIT, or any of that. Just churn the code through a single process that outputs an executable directly and you can sidestep the need for entire industries.

This is why tools like CMake or Meson feel to me like they're solving the wrong problem. It's like selling a better horse when automobiles have been demonstrated by Henry Ford.
No, you just can't get it in real time. But you can it in my app for the much lower price just $0.50/frame. it's a bargain!
And they’ve had that continuously since the iPhone came out so that’s a distraction from the real reason the EU acted: incompatibility. Lightning is a better connector but it’s not enough so to be worth so many people having cables which only work with one family of devices, especially since it’s not even Apple’s own laptops.
my point is that it wasn't competitive. having inferior tech in your back pocket will not help you.
ChatGPT really isn't bad. Just went and entered some questions regarding libraries I worked with on a recent project and the information itself was afaik correct. The code examples were missing context though

I don't see this replacing google/documentation/stackoverflow anytime soon because that combination already does its job

This type of model is super promising though, I could see it getting incorporated into a search engine, sort of how google provides a tl;dr answer at the top of searches for certain queries
You don’t _need_ to, but it’s better and more reliable.
LastPass-the-company doesn't need to die over this incident, but I can't help but wonder if a kind of corporate panic will stop them from doing what they need to survive it.
I can think of two prominent counter examples to this:

1. Google often extracts text from websites and displays it as answer. These “answers” are frequently wrong or outdated.

2. If you search translations Google will show an inline result for from Google translate. These translations are often garbage (e.g. gibberish word for word translations of a phrase)

These aren’t query matching problems. These are Google prominently displays incorrect information to the user problems. Reading through the listed results often leads to the correct answer.
When I read their most recent email updating about the situation today or yesterday, I did get a definite chill down my spine. I've not used LP for a year or so, but my data (much of it now old) is still stored there, mainly left as a backup as I'd heard some people had some weird issues migrating to other password managers.

I had made a mental note some months back when this first happened I should really go through everything important in my vault and update all passwords to sleep more peacefully at night. I had also made a mental note at the time that if this situation were going erupt into something much worse, it would almost certainly be over the Christmas period when many people are not at work or their computers and it would be the perfect moment for causing maximum chaos and destruction. Looks like I now really need to prioritise that tomorrow. Really not what I wanted to be doing on Christmas Eve...
> can I find it later using a keyword ? if yes, I pass.

I got disappointed by this a few times unfortunately. There are articles that I want to search for. Sometimes I even remember part of the title. Yet, the search spam comes up higher anyway and I get stupid listicles instead.

The situation was better a few years ago, but I don't believe in "I'll be able to find it by keywords" anymore.
Only One Said “Luck”?
I’m skeptical of this. Seems like if it were true, we would be hearing the same thing from several other independent and credible sources.
Are either in even the same ballpark as the SoftBank guy? Didn’t he light something like $40b on fire one year?
Is there any reason to use these cloud based solutions when open source alternatives like KeepassXC is available?
I have also worked at Google and you're not really in trouble until you hit Code Purple.
From robot fireflies to okra plasters: 2022's nature-inspired solutions
It was always available via TOR network.
Same here, when I went to university in England, after growing up in Germany, I was shocked to find that all the bread I was able to find was crap.
> You're correct, this is the exact kind of story scary right wing monsters amplify and use to suggest that any day now we'll be stacking the corpes of the homeless in carts and rolling them off to the landfill.

I don't think this issue has been politicized yet (at least in the US). Has it been politicized in Canada or something?
At least that racket pays the government directly.

They came up with another racket to skip further in the line lets a private company take a cut for bribing the government to let you skip to the front and buy back some of your time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Secure
I agree with everything you said, but those guys are just cheap
That leads to the extremely common confusion of if "disable flash" is a description of what you will do when you interact with the control (the verb describes the action to be done), or a description of the current state (it's a "yes, disable flash" confirmation). Both are common. Some apps even use both on different controls.

Compare that to a checkbox next to "Flash is disabled". Or a toggle. Or a button. The control and its vague state or bad color blindness choices doesn't even matter if you're clear with your words.
A better video of the Doom-playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVG5g6zOnjo

A fantastic 13-minute video of the entire build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wBrOV2FJM8
Yeah this is purely a risk decision for a prototype not an actual technical limitation.
Most people spend the best part of their day pursuing their employers interests instead of their own. It's no wonder people want to relax during their time off! Clothing, cars, and houses become coping mechanisms for dealing with their situation. This is a very real reality for a lot of people.

Reducing your hours is a risky proposal. Even asking your boss about it can be a big risk. Becoming a contractor is a big risk too. The reality is that, for most people, their boss owns most of their lives, and trying to go off on their own is very risky. Plus you risk messing up your resume and having to explain yourself which is yet another thing working against you.

So yes, being employed might put food on your table and a roof over your head. If your a software developer it'll even let you buy gadgets and take vacations. However, the current system prevents people from reaching farther up Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, because taking that next step to pursue your own interests in very risky and expensive.

So to answer your question, I don't think you need incentives. You need to enable people to pursue their intrinsic motivations.
My understanding is that Commodore had a Z8000 machine in development. It would have been neat to see what they came up with, in light of the fact that Shiraz Shivji went to Tramel Tech / Atari. All silly speculation, but it is so neat that, effectively, two major players in a market “swapped” their engineering staff. Surely that’s an odd scenario.
No drama, FWiW I'm familiar with the history of the phrase from Middle English, through Chaucer, Spenser, and Walter Scott .. and I'd suggest "misprint in the 16th Century" is a bit simplistic as language in that region in those times had an exuberance of spellynges until Samuel Johnson took a stab at nailing jelly to the wall.

I toss a mental coin any time I come to type such a phrase and note that we still translate the progenitor "dorryng do" as 'daring to do' and have derring-do littered throughout every volume of Ripping Yarns so it seems passable to spilt the difference. :-)
Karlo Diffusion Endpoint
I put Karlo diffusion by Kakao running as an inference endpoint on GPUX. Karlo Diffusion is more controllable, similar to Dalle-2.

Make some images here https://explorer.gpux.ai/inference/gpux/karlo
> and nobody cares about Shorts

Not creators though. Shorts give more revenue to the creators than TikTok equivalent.

Personally, I prefer shorts, simply because I don't have to download yet another app. Don't get me wrong. I am not searching for them, but if something interesting shows up, I will watch it.
Does that allay OPs concerns though? What happens if tracking-based ads are significantly more profitable than private ones (probably the case, based on the huge revenues of Google/Meta)? How high would the paid account fees need to be to offset the ad revenue?

What happens if you.com is very successful and goes public, so that the pressure to squeeze out as much money as possible slowly erodes the original good intention?

(I appreciate that you took the time to respond to this btw, super cool to be able to interact directly! The magic of HN.)
Googles business in search is spamming you with crap for money and pumping your clicks for juicy information to sell. They do this by filling the page with loosely related advertisements disguised as search results.

A ChatGPT product can summarize complex questions into understandable (if often wrong) answers.

Even if Google out develops openai, which I’m sure they can handily, where does all the spam go? How do they forge coherent answers to questions into a bunch of loosely related advertisements they spam at you for money?

It’s not ChatGPT that’s going to kill them, it’s the fact their entire business model doesn’t work if people aren’t forced to wade through SEO and advertisements to find information.

Edit: I’d note too that the walled communities don’t benefit by blocking google indexing out. These social media companies work by getting you into the community and enticing you to stay. That’s why everyone indexes YouTube.
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2212/2212.11279.pdf
There are degrees of "wrongness". OpenAI sometimes gives answers that are laughably wrong. It's exactly this degree of wrongness that google can't afford. Example:

> What is the weight of 1 kilogram of nails?

ChatGpt> The weight of 1 kilogram of nails will depend on the size and type of nails being used. On average, a kilogram of nails will weigh between 2.2 and 4 pounds (1-2 kg), depending on the size and type of nails. For example, a kilogram of small finishing nails may weigh less than a kilogram of large framing nails. The weight of the nails can also vary depending on the material they are made of, with steel nails being heavier than aluminum or plastic nails.

BTW, when I ask the same question in Russian, the response is ... 7kg.
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It’s not even a theory it’s Russian propaganda.
Said the same thing the other day in the post about ChatGPT being used for cheating.

I'd say it's a more advanced type of WolframAlpha engine, which I used a lot in my college days a decade ago.
Yeah: they’re cloud based. Your passwords get synced to all your devices automatically. That’s kinda the entire draw.
What the Fediverse (does/n't) solve
Lots of places who develop desktop software will develop only on that platform for that target. It might be easier to just maintain a visual studio solution if you're only targeting windows and developing on windows.

Early in my career, I worked on a project that built for 4 platforms, not all x64, and was managed through msbuild, i.e. it just worked in visual studio.
Odd, not false.
Nope, not in any way that is subjectively noticable. I just started using Google keep and the snappiness is amazing. Android 12 seems slightly faster than 11.

We are finally optimizing again.

Unfortunately some stuff still lags behind, but it's not like the industry forgot how to write fast software.
They are required to use the hardware however. They also come with Windows by default.
Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas (Hacker Xmas Discord)
If you are alone this Christmas, or just can't stand your friends/family why not check out the Hacker Xmas Discord server?! Bet you didn't know about this one cause I just created it! Come for the Christmas feelings and winter memes, stay for the static vs dynamic typing flame wars and political bickering. Just check it out!

It's this link -> https://discord.gg/QKhDSxS5 Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with whatever company runs Discord, I don't make any money, I've never run a Discord server before so I hope some of you tech savvy types can help me out, and if this post violates HN rules I hope the mods remove it. Server will stay up for a few days. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Winter Solstice!!
Male fruitflies send chemical to females giving sleep, stopping mate with others
> The biggest threat to Google's business is Apple, and walled gardens like TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Reddit, etc. Too many communities are not allowing their information to be indexed, or are not properly so, which results in Google being less valuable. That is, and continues to be Google's main problem.

This.

In fact, this is just as much of an issue for things like ChatGPT too. It doesn't matter how 'smart' it seems, the model needs data to operate. That data can't be included in the training set if it's only in a Discord server somewhere, or a Google Doc only linked from such a place. It will never provide say, a good speedrunning strat for a popular game, or info on how to make mods of such, because the info required isn't publically accessible at the moment.

These chat systems could possibly answer questions about things coding in JavaScript or cooking or historical trivia, but the real winner against Google would be a system that could open up these wall gardens (somehow) and make the info publically accessible without having to be a member there.
Project Euler's higher-numbered problems often require a combination of analytic solutions to vastly simplify some parts of the search space, and brute force for the rest. Without math or lucky guesses—where you've googled a partial solution you don't understand, or you've naively found a function which seems to get the right answer for test cases, but you can't be sure it generalizes—you're left with brute force methods that won't finish in a reasonable amount of time, possibly not even before the Sun turns into a red giant.

Those kinds of problems are not relevant to most everyday software engineering, but in the few cases when you need math, you really need it or you have to scrap the entire feature for being too slow or impractical.

Also, designing neural nets...
Right now YouTube is pushing Shorts pretty heavily. Everything I have heard from creators is that Shorts can drive a ton of subscriptions into your channel. How many of those viewers watch the long form stuff is a bit more a mystery though.
Maybe. Or got tricked into doing so.

Edit: early 2000s when browser plugins were able to do practically anything, we would often have people come in with so many “extensions” installed that you could barely see the page you were looking at. Yes, they likely provided some kind of affirmative action to install those, but the user’s intent wasn’t ever to have so much shit installed in their browser that they couldn’t use it. Further evidenced by the fact they were in my store spending $100/hr to have them removed.
Homebrew comes to mind. Audacity has had attempts to corrupt it.
if something is for free, you are the product. openai is not open. it is a shady business that requires you to give your phone number. they sell your data. they can tell who writes what to ChatGPT.
> What makes ChatGPT seem semi-intelligent

Its lack of intelligence is not the problem. High intelligence doesn’t preclude misinterpretation, mis-remembering, or overestimating it’s own understanding.
This feels like it might've been a good opportunity for hashing.
It's worth pointing out that in the context of Germany, the bakery described in the article is not unusual or extraordinary. The town where I grew up, a suburb of 13000 people, has at 7 bakeries that are just as good. I assume most towns are similar in this regard.