skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That does look amazing, thank you for the link. Unfortunately for me it doesn't contain the deuterocanonical books ("apocrypha") which for me are important to have.
They do it because they can. Because most employees are spineless and will fall in line.

People making the money we make in the tech industry should be living well below their means, saving, and supplanting the tech giants with worker-owned coops and guilds. If all tech workers united into guilds the corps would come begging us for technical contributions, and we would collectively charge up the ass for it — and all make 100% of the profits.
Why AI Will Not Replace UX Designers (and How It Could Help Us)
We need to switch to the scheme that converts name/description to an integer for that. If you mean the repeating decimal, I don't know if it's before or after pi because I can't identify (name) their locations.

It's the same argument. If I can accept that there are more reals than reals with finite descriptions, why can't there be integers without finite descriptions/positions?
I use Deezer instead of Spotify, I don't know if it's better or worse, but what I can tell you is that I miss Google Play Music everyday.
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I've also had a not so cool experience with them, the interviewer canceled 30 mins before the call and mentioned they will send an email to reschedule tomorrow. That was in September 2021, haven't heard back again :)
True.

What I meant to say is that nothing that can be used for computation is infinite. Resources are finite, there is a finite amount of RAM/hard drive/paper space in the world.

Space is infinite, but we haven't yet found a technique to use pure space as computational memory.
Turn on the noprocrast feature. Rather than bookmark, just upvote; you can view your old upvotes later (https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=WhackyIdeas).

Also remember that there is no reason to feel sad for not getting to things. Because as long as you are alive, there will always be another thing waiting for you. It's an infinite highway with a piece of cake every mile. Missed the last one? Don't worry, another one's coming up. Half-finished one and need to move on? Don't worry, more cake ahead. The biggest problem you'll have is not being able to eat it all... but if you tried, you'd probably explode... The noprocrast feature is your diet. :)
Show HN: Todo list inspired by GitHub’s contribution calendar
Made this todo list + calendar heat map over a couple of weekends, so its rough, but should be valuable enough to be used.

Currently stores data in local storage, but I'm working on persisting data with auth + a database.

Features coming in the couple weeks: (1) Search, (2) Categories.

Hope you find it useful!
> GUIs add a lot of complexity. Can your file manager do thumbnails and quick previews?

Somewhat OT, but I find this really funny. It says a lot about the difficulty of using various ecosystems and where communities spend time polishing things.

"Yeah, I made something that takes natural language and can do things like change seasons in an image. But a GUI? That's complicated!"

It's not a criticism of you, but the different ecosystems and what programmers like to focus on nowadays.
That's a bogus reason though. No culture is static, Japan or US or Germany 100 years ago were very different to the current day. Culture is how citizens live their lives, and it's pointless to try to immortalize something that is naturally in constant flux.
Given how much all of the accountability statements are getting sneered at and used for media/social media outrage bait, I wouldn’t blame companies for going back to simple just-the-facts announcements.

In the current climate where every word and every sentence is picked apart, saying as little as possible might be the only strategy that minimizes outrage, ironically.
I think they are winning race to run these models cheaper (see drop in Embedding API)and that's the key here.

I've heard that Google to run LaMDA for each query would cost 2x their revenue but if they gonna drop cost by 10x then it's "only" 20% of their revenue and that's probably possible with special hardware / optimizations. So whoever does it first will take over search space.
I would assume that running an AI image generation software is something you'd do on a desktop anyway.
> Does it just hijack the data from websites without referencing them?

How does one hijack data? Are you referring to scraping public websites that publish data for free? I wonder what the appropriate way to reference webscraping everything publicly available. I don’t think Google or other search engines do this, but I like the idea of listing out a massive set of trillions of URLs that have been included in the training along with a scrape date.

I’m not sure Google is for mutual benefit as they summarize site content and prevent visits to that site. Would be interesting to measure the pros vs the cons there. I know there have been lawsuits over the years but don’t know the resolution.
"How can such a simple concept (listen to music) get so many basics so wrong and have such glaring bugs?"

Spotify internally has a model where they have a large number of small teams where each is responsible for only a tiny part of the experience. Possibly this leads to a lack of a coherent experience. The other factor may be the constant experimentation.

Frankly, 20-30 year old media players were better. So what the point of it all is...I have no idea.

Quite similar experience with the Netflix app where it seems every single day I have to wonder where they put my currently watching series.

Ironically, we look up to these companies for their engineering culture. We really shouldn't. It's a hot mess. Toy tech. Deeply unserious about quality and customers.
As I understand, a couple of the lead Google scientists from LaMDA went on to form character.ai which, for me, checks all the boxes that an LLM should. I haven't really seen many people try to compare it with ChatGPT, and I've never used the latter, but from using the former quite a bit I think it's very comparable to what people have done with ChatGPT.
You mean there aren't infinity large integers? Hmm, that seems weird.
This hasn't been updated in a while. What I really want from this kind of tool is the ability to take a snapshot of my ALL display settings, and just click something on my desktop or bind a keyboard shortcut, or run a command which will restore it - exactly how it should be. This would include, exact screen positioning, refresh rate, resolutions etc.

I don't know what triggers it, but MacOS is really bad at changing these settings if you use multiple displays through the week (e.g. different coworking spaces).
Thank you. You are right - it is just a relatively darker time, so to speak. Going to therapy for a while now - to solve for a ton of trauma, as I don't want to pass it on to my potential future kids so to speak, so it helps.
since everyone here is bike shedding about the axiom of choice... I have this axiom of choice book (by Thomas Jech). It includes the following:

> if F is a finite family of nonempty sets, then there is a choice function (to show this one uses induction on the size of F; naturally a choice function exists for a family which consists of a single nonempty set).

could someone lay out how one would "correctly" describe a choice function for a family with a single nonempty set? I feel like I understand theoretically this idea that choosing isn't about providing the value, but some... logical instantiation? What is the piece of the puzzle I'm missing here to understand why the choice function exists "naturally"?
Pretty much nothing in the renewable sector is a "viable business case" without some sort of government interference. You're speculating that batteries will be better buffers than hydrogen, but in truth nobody can predict the technological trajectories and neither presents a solution in the foreseeable future. If there really is an upcoming climate catastrophe, it would be stupid not to hedge your bets, which includes supporting hydrogen, nuclear, synthetic fuels and many other avenues. The fact that mainstream climate activists reject so many potential alternatives out-of-hand tells me that they don't truly believe in the catastrophe. They believe in fighting the monopoly man.
i used an fx-6300 for years and it was fine. for most use cases the practical need for desktop cpu performance plateaued 10 years ago. during that time adding more memory and moving from hdd to ssd made a much larger difference in user experience than increasing the cpu performance.

the biggest problem for amd was not the architecture of the cpu, but the lack of integrated graphics on high end parts, and power efficiency on mobile. both of which were caused by being stuck on an older process.

it's also worth remembering that internally amd had a grand vision of unifying the cpu and gpu (HSA) which would have added a bunch of fp compute to the integrated chip, but that vision required a lot of other things to go right, and a lot of them went wrong, so it never happened.
This is probably the least tactical message amongst all the companies that have laid off people. Ek's spent most of the time rambling about efficiency and organizational changes to leadership positions who'll be least affected by the layoffs.

Then comes the layoff news. It's almost as if he's rectifying someone else's mistake and everyone getting laid off should be thankful about it.

I wish CEOs read some of the emails that recruiting sends to potential candidates before they set out to write a layoff post. Completely tone deaf.
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I missed it because it was spaced over a few lines and I was tired.
They're all meaningless buzzy catchphrases. Until a CEO takes responsibility by resigning themselves, or forfeiting their pay, or something else meaningful, it's all just words.
+1 on Google Music, I really miss that.
Thank you - I am already in touch with a therapist so no need to worry. Just being open about the struggle, is all.
This looks like a potential solution. I'll definitely test this out. Thanks for the link!
> Your points on not getting paid sound overly pessimistic.

I agree. Late payment is much more common that no payment. Also, clients, unjustifiably or not, usually take umbrage at being asked to cough up what's owed. I give everyone a healthy grace period and send gently-worded reminders, but I won't stop working unless there is a material breach of contract or unless my reminder isn't at least responded to with a "Sorry we're late with your payment, we're working in it."
I kept my limit to 128 or 132 until I had to work in python. Any language that makes whitespace significant coupled with reasonably descripting naming makes that limit impractical imho.
Having a lawyer on retainer is a really nice Fuck You luxury, I’ve been told.
I just picked on one of the points in the post that make no sense without further explanation. Just take each real number as a symbol.
I have to keep my phone next to me for 2FA, MFA while working. What workaround can I use to not have my phone in a different room while working?
I've been playing a lot of Tetris 99 on the Switch and playing this is making me miss the original NES Tetris. I forgot about the different music options, I loved playing with the "Type3" song. Unfortunately NES Switch Online doesn't have Tetris, otherwise I would be playing it there. For now this will fill that void for me, thank you!
I think the current state of things is the most sane approach. Copyright on the inputs doesn’t matter but copyright on the output does. If you use the tool to create a work that a court would consider copying, congrats it’s infringement. If not you’re good. Not sure? You’re now in in the same boat at other artists who can’t remember if their idea is original or not.
Do we actually know a bit more on what people were let go, from what teams? Maybe the percentage of AI people in Google actually has grown relatively now?

And Google is in fact using AI almost everywhere in production already. You have some sort of AI in almost every product. Also language models are everywhere, e.g. just prediction of typing on your phone, or in GMail, in speech recognition, and many other places. I think they just do not use the biggest models for those things but some more efficient models, which can partly even run offline on your device (e.g. for the typing prediction).

Also in Google search, they use lots of AI, also neural networks.

It's just that for LaMDA specifically, they don't have a good product yet.
I agree with you - music keeps me entertained all day, it has far more value to me. But isn't there an argument to be made that the infrastructure requirements for video is huge compared to music? The requirements to store and stream enough 4k video all day every day to satisfy millions of users is monstrous and that has to factor into the cost. I wouldn't expect streaming audio to be nearly that costly.
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It's algorithm is really dumb. That's why these companies need to stop with these so called "algorithms", we should only select the genres of music we like and our front page should be a reflection of it.

I still remember when my girlfriend searched for a fart noise podcast as a joke and then I kept getting suggestions based on it for weeks.
As the other comments say, that's probably just the choice of lenses. The effect that's much worse is the vignette effect added for reasons I can't fathom.

I took some screengrabs of The Serpent Queen on Starz, here: https://imgur.com/a/pAfcZg1.

It's actually an excellent show, with good production values and plenty of good cinematography, but the overuse of digital vignetting drives down my enjoyment. Sometimes it's used to darken an overexposed sky (an ancient trick; Kubrick's opening scene in Barry Lyndon famously uses it, and it looked bad then, too), but it's evidently also an attempt to add depth and to highlight the characters in the center of the screen in post rather than during filming; it's just lazy filmmaking, and I see it constantly.

I don't like the use of anamorphic lenses since I find the corner distortions distracting, and I generally dislike the use of super widescreen aspect ratio that a lot of filmmakers use (4:3 is often a much more natural format, especially for less epic dramas), but at least this is an artifact of the technology used and one that goes back half a century or more.
I changed it to the most relevant/interesting snippet from the post and added "Spotify: " before it. Maybe too much editorialising for HN? But it feels more informative to me.
You're right. Though checking their synonym guide [1], there is this:

> accountable suggests imminence of retribution for unfulfilled trust or violated obligation.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accountable
Until physical dials are the norm for induction gas is superior.
Be careful to not push yourself and to never do breathing exercises with retention in water, the risk of fainting and drowning is real.
HP-UX comes (or came?) with a simulator that could do a couple different models.
Just turn off your internet services if you don't want to fund differing points of view.
I agree. However, it's easy to post on HN, and much harder to do in practice. Do keep us posted if you make some progress in this direction. (This isn't sarcasm, I'm genuinely interested in that model.)
I was applying for a infra role and they asked me to setup an app and ELK stack in nomad on fly.io... I don't think their target market has infrastructure people and it just feels like Russian dolls.
Isn't that the purpose of Chemours?
Huberman Lab podcast seems pretty trustworthy, he does his homework and has excellent guests

One guest made an interesting point, you should use medical papers more as a guide what not to do than what to do, negative effects are more reliable due to the constraints in studies
I know. I was trying to say "fuck the patriarchy" with a bit more color.
I can here to say asbestos was great at its job too!
Generally more configuration options to set things up how you want them

Server-side window decorations

Developers that don't tell you to decide if you want to be a Gnome application or a Linux application
It would be useful if there was a better explanation of why this can't just be done with regular procedural programming. I.e., each analysis is a function which takes its required inputs as arguments and then returns its output (or mutates its input). Why does it need to be more complex than that?
> A branch is nothing more than a pointer (or mark) to a commit.

A tag is.

A branch has the additional feature that it's a moving target with new commits, which is maybe not what you want in OP's case.
You can laugh with no money.
> Nevermind the fact most paper straws, fast food wrappers (McDonalds) and others are lined with these chemicals.

I knew something was off about those paper straws...but they put PFAS in them?? It's like we're saying: copper is too damaging when mined, let's replace our water pipes with lead.
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After a while I realized that a fairly amount of podcasts/episodes have pretty low density information throughout say a 3 hours talk. There are those gems where sufficiently good preparedness of the interviewer (e.g. read the book and came prepared with a set of well thought-out notes) is met with a suitable rhetorical skill/confidence of the interviewee.

But, alas, I would lie to myself if I believe podcasts are driven by the above.

Personally, I like to hear interesting people talk, it became much a tilted board, so for some time, now, I've cut down my consumption considerably and try to appreciate it as a digital social treat rather than actually knowledge building (very limited).

For that there must be some large enough "active" part involved and as a mere listener I get too comfy too easily. It is a bit like not writing down your ideas, the moment you commit them to "paper" most of the time they are not so "great" anymore and you realize there is more nuance to it ;)
Here in the Netherlands this is absolutely not true for houses. My house, despite no renovations done, has more than doubled in value over the past ten years. Housing shortages make sure that existing houses are definitely not losing value.
There are two approaches to AR currently:

- The Magic Leap/Microsoft approach: Use semitransparent displays to create a virtual overlay.

- The Meta approach: Use cheap standalone VR with lots of external cameras, then mix camera/virtual environment.

It seems pretty clear by now that, if anything, only the second works, given the success (in terms of sales numbers) of the Oculus Quest. Moreover, the latter combines AR and VR, it's not a one trick pony.

The upcoming Apple headset is reported to basically copy Meta's approach, except it is expected to get very expensive and high-end. But I would side with Meta here: I don't see a big market in expensive VR/AR.

A headset is like a Gameboy, if anything people care that it's portable and cheap, not that it has the most impressive graphics.

In any case, Microsoft's HoloLens adventure was likely a dead end.
Counterpoint, there is an argument to be made for Hydrogen-fueled IC engines. Massive investment in nuclear does not solve the issue with lithium required for batteries (nevermind the environmental impact of such).

I seem to recall Mazda doing a thing around their RX-8 with dual-fueling, but that went nowhere a decade and a half ago.

But hey, why go for a significantly cheaper from a cap-ex perspective option where retrofititng existing vehicles to hydrogen (which can be done), and developing that tech, instead dumping more cash into rare earth development and going about hydrogen power in the most asinine way possible, because somebody is gonna get (more) rich off of doing this.
Profit is what matters, not revenue. You can’t look at revenue numbers alone.

Regardless, you shouldn’t assume that any company’s first priority is to continue employing and paying everyone. A business is a business, and the employees are hired to do a job. The working world makes a lot more sense when you accept that jobs are jobs and not a benevolent source of guaranteed income.
Does this apply to GPT too? They also scraped massive amounts of copyrighted text. The situation with art is super weird because it seems the difference between them is how threatened they are not whether they actually have a compelling argument which is why there was a whole kerfufle about Copilot because devs felt threatened.

When you pick people who aren’t in the situation where their livelihood depends on them holding a specific opinion on AI, like authors, the copyright issue suddenly doesn’t matter.
> Well, that leads to the question, why only men were famous actors past 40, which is where the arguments becomes tautological.

It was well known that Hollywood had an age discrimination problem for women up until the mid or late 80s or so.

Like a really well known problem where women couldn’t get leading roles after a certain age. It was a well publicized thing and just kind of common knowledge.
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I was wanting to see if someone knows of a free database on a list of manufacturers that are looking for freight brokers to help ship their freight. I would love to be able to take my career to the next level.
Okay great, how do I get all this without selling a company? Lol cool list tho!
You're missing your own point: none of those do what you described in your reply. I'm not talking about what is there, I'm talking about what you proposed should be there but isn't there.

> If Apple is not competing on features, then shouldn't the market provide an alternative company that does? Specifically, Apple requires a network connection to its servers to used basic functionality yet consumers do not like this.

So where is this proposed product? Where is the significant contender that satisfies all alarmists, privacy advocates and commercial interests, making this 'problem' not a problem?

There can't be conflicting truths, either we have a problem ("lack of product-market fit" or however we name it), or we don't ("market supplies products that fit").
Microsoft Makes Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI
This part:

> Here's how: consider the set of numbers that cannot be described using any finite collection of symbols. Such numbers must exist *because there are only a countably infinite number of numbers that can be described using a finite collection of symbols*, but there are an uncountably infinite number of real numbers.

That’s clearly wrong. The real numbers between 0 and 1 (an uncountable collection) are describable with a finite collection of symbols - the digits between 0 and 9. Each real number is an equivalence class of sequences with the same limit. (It’s been a while since I took real analysis but I believe this is the construction due to Weierstrass?)
Not just sharing the same "software". If the parent has a paid Spotify subscription they are directly funding his podcast.

Admittedly there are probably other podcasts they might not like too, but Joe is certainly the biggest ass on platform and got a mountain of subscriber money for the exclusive deal.
Fair but I'd point out I also didn't make the algorithm that changes photos. I'm wrapping a bunch of algorithms that other people made in a way that makes them easy to use.

It's not just that GUI's are hard, it's that the "customer" base will inevitably be much less technical and I'd receive a lot more difficult to resolve bug reports. So no-gui is also a way of staying focused on more interesting parts of the project.
When reading the title I thought that too (maybe not “obvious”, but “unsurprising”), but what’s neat is that each pixel can be preserved 1:1, which I hadn’t expected.