skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
??? the UK looooves paypal, both before and after brexit.

I love paypal, and I live in the UK. Paypal is essentially the default checkout option on most websites, and supported pretty much everywhere. It is very, very handy as a consumer, but never in a million years would I sell using paypal (too many horror stories about frozen account and kafkaesque support staff)
This is a shame. I love Gitpod. As someone who doesn't code daily anymore, I like having an environment that I can open up easily without having to worry if my local is set up. Instead, I can just start coding.
Even more amazing is that there are still people playing that game.
Possibly, though there are plenty of high-density urban areas that require separating compost materials and pick it up with trash, recycling, yard waste, etc. — so to me that would seem like a better comparison; or just compare all options.
Either you are the company at the top of the range hiring the best talent possible across the board or you settle for the median and continue on with ~5% growth per year. Mediocrity works well for large corps like UnitedHealthcare, Walmart, and even Microsoft. Hedge Funds seem to want to move Alphabet to that more predictable pattern which makes sense for stability but is disappointing technologically.
What does produce reliable outputs?
Can recommend Harbor over Artifactory and Nexus if you aren't forced to use it.

There is also a managed service offering of Harbor --> https://container-registry.com/
backend with a black box, you better put that in the disclaimer
There's a lot wrong but a lot of it is in your assumptions. For starters there's more than 2 skilled trades that go into a house for starters. Then by hiring them yourself either you or one of those people are going to be playing project manager to make sure they don't run out of materials which is a job in and of itself if you're not familiar with it.
Windows also has this; they call it "Windows Hello".
I do indeed. Glad to know more people are aware of his crime against humanity.
Religious Nationalism, specifically Hindu Nationalism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_nationalism
See also ChatBCG (now ChatBA): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34167099
Turns out we're all just ChatGPTs after all.
I would recommend diffusion: try starting with Lilian Weng's blog post and writing up the process for yourself. For all it's abilities, the code for DDPM is surprisingly simple.
To your point, anecdotally, the system is heavily gamed. The other day, I saw reviews for a restaurant pop up that did not quite open yet. Either reviewers got a sneak peek behind the chef's curtain or those reviews are not quite true.

Sadly, word of mouth again becomes defacto the only semi-reliable way to separate crap from non-crap and even that comes with its own set of issues and attempts at gaming.
90% accurate sounds impressive, and it is, but its still 100% incorrect almost always.
It’s like saying that toddler pointing out at the plane and telling it to land caused airplane to land.

Having your costs grow faster than revenue, in uncertain economic situation and responding to it with cutting costs (including layoffs) isn’t brand new invention.
3. Everyone starts using debit cards (which actually works in Europe, unlike my experience with BBVA in USA), PayPal slowly disappears into obscurity.

4. No profit.
I'd rather get my website seen if I'm putting work into it than have a novelty URL that much less people will navigate to and will be harder to verbally communicate, and fill in online forms that assume ascii, just for some idealogical fight against internet standards.
There are still some good writers there. But it's become mostly gadget/tech tips. [ADDED: But, really, mainstream consumer tech news in general.] It was a lot broader in the 2000s and had much more personality with a fairly large stable of affiliated blog network writers (which I did for a number of years). After CBS bought them, they started becoming a lot more narrowly focused and homogenized--and click-optimized.
The US certifies the first small modular nuclear reactor design
I'm wondering why people are so quick to defend ChatGPT.
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What storage and ram?
you can build on gpt3.
> Probably all we would have to go on would be vestiges of memory, fleeting impressions, dreams, nebulous intuitions that somehow things had been different in some way -- and not long ago but now. We might reflexively reach for a light switch in the bathroom only to discover that it was -- always had been -- in another place entirely.

One might imagine that if our past were altered such that a light switch were in a different spot, then our past experiences of flipping the switch on every morning would also have been altered, so we would not have any reflexive habit to reach for the wrong place. It seems that PKD is imagining some kind of great process of moving minds between parallel streams of the world, instead of imagining the world shifting underneath those minds.

This reminds me of the "parking ramp dinosaur" in Anathem.
I don't really see this as a problem. Once you have a first cut deobfuscation from this you can refine it with other methods, like comparing input/output examples between the original and the deobfuscated version, or even use something more sophisticated like symbolic execution [1] or differential fuzzing [2] to systematically look for divergence between the behavior of the two. You could even feed these back in to ChatGPT and ask it to redo the deobfuscation given a failing test case.

Such testing won't be able to prove that the two are equivalent (unless it's exhaustive) but with decent coverage of the original you can get some good confidence. The goal of deobfuscation is usually understanding, so I'm not sure you need strong guarantees of perfect semantic equivalence with no human intervention/judgment.

And of course, existing deobfuscators have bugs and aren't guaranteed to preserve semantics either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_execution

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_testing
That's what's happening in the United Kingdom.

This recession comes with increased interest rates, and we've had a massive Buy to Let scheme for God knows how many years, where people bought houses on mortgage and rented them out. Rising interest rates = rising mortgages = landlords that have to increase rents to keep earning the same amount.

The point is that the average person gets squeezed from multiple sides, and the higher on the foodchain you are, the more chances you have to outsource your losses.
at least until gpt3 gets paired with 3d printer & amazon auto delivery to generate the crude diy precursor to star trek transporter
Did you read the article?

The article mentions switches between super- and subrotation have occurred within just the past 50 years. So, yeah seems to happen pretty frequently.

Note noting is talking about the cessation of rotation. The article is very clearly about the "strange spin" discrepancy between outer and inner core.
Wow how much is it? Where do you buy it? Is it worth it for a sub $500 drone?
It's likely not, per German newspaper Heise the Indian government has banned links to the movie under emergency powers, but it's not really clear why the IA copy got deleted [1].

[1] https://www.heise.de/news/Per-Notfallgesetz-Indien-sperrt-Mo...
What would make you think the landlord's interest rates would go up? Its unlikely that any mortgage they have will have a floating interest rate. Borrowing more money will likely be at a higher interest rate, but deals that are closed aren't going to change.
Pan American Airlines built out a huge amount of infrastructure before WW2 to fly across the Pacific to Australia. They had fueling stops at Wake Island, Guam, Midway, and of course Hawaii. And they also pioneered routes to Latin America. The power and prestige PanAm had is really remarkable.
I think the difference between created content vs. generated content is quite more than arbitrary. If the leading search engines truly don't care about the difference, I'd predict a future where you have more bifurcation between a human web and a bot-driven one.
Mosaic in the Rear View
It's likely opportunistic. Sentiment is important for stakeholders.
When others in the market are doing it and improving ratios, shareholders are going to ask questions if you aren't doing the same.
It's also the ideal time as your employees that stay do not blame the company but rather the market and you can maintain a positive culture, the staff you want to keep are also less likely to jump ship as they presume others are not hiring in this market.

Big organisations scenario plan and it's likely they had an emergency retrenchment plan up their sleeves in case they needed it, which can explain how they were able to execute so fast. It also explains why there are some strange decisions taken.
The scale of data for these LLMs is well beyond the scale producible via crowdsourcing.
CTOs and CEOs will think it is serious.
I Uncovered the Cybersecurity Failures of Thousands of Companies
Not because of how violent and graphic, but because there's a chance the death is immediate. Cancer is always a long, long time away.

It's like saying if you put $100 in your 401k every month, there's a chance (equal to the number of new retirees) you instantly get $2M dollars.

Many more people would understand the immediate gain instead of the 30 year slog.
guess why producers such as spielber and lucas draw from literature -- starwars from joseph campell 'warrior myth' & japanse 'magnificant 7'
Firefox had its chance to push back again the Chrome dominance. It survived against IE and became the dominant browser for a short time over IE but allowed Chrome to take over and eat its lunch.

Now Firefox is declining into irrelevance. The EU Digital Markets Act demands for Apple to open up to more browsers with just cement Chrome's dominance and make Firefox even more irrelevant.
How frequent are plane crashes compared to hydrogen filled dirigibles?
A lot of what we devs think are vitally important... just aren't. Or, they have a steep time decay on how useful they are.

I do have the longest code review summaries on my team, amusingly. So, I clearly like the idea of it being a discussion and capturing some of that. I would be challenged to say what part is most important overall, though. In large, because not all code changes are the same.
Jupiter’s hot “pizza moon” may contain life
> These tools are about as good as a non specialist with time to undertake some bullshitting.

Even if you are right, you still acknowledge that ChatGPT is on the level of a non-specialist bullshitting human you can have a meaningful conversation with. This alone would be enough to freak me out. If you would've told me that this is possible 10 years ago I would've called you crazy.
Yes I know it was a joke - hence my point.
My guess is that ChatGPT is going to solve the SEO spam problem by changing the way we search for things. Instead of searching for webpages that have information about a topic, we're going to ask an AI.

It'll tell you what the pros and cons of wedding insurance are, and because eventually it'll have access to your calendar, it'll tailor that answers to the specifics of the fact that you're having a destination wedding during monsoon season in the area.

Once this kind of AI search becomes the default way we look for information, there won't be a point to creating SEO spam anymore. It'll create other problems, of course, but that's the way it goes with new technology.
This is mostly due to incentive and mismanagement issues at the Senior level at Google, instead of engineering deficiencies in the median Googler. Google's search is getting worse for users because it's getting better at making profit, and Stadia is failing because of mismanagement as you say, not engineering quality which was by all accounts excellent.
Poland asks German permission to send tanks
CNET is the only one still standing. That it looks indistinguishable from a Gizmodo or 9to5Mac style blogsite is a testament to how difficult it is to maintain an independent existence in the fickle world of digital media.

Most 'pure' tech journalism does not last long as the market for it is too niche. BYTE magazine was dead before the Internet. The UK-based "Net" magazine (webdev-based) lasted until 2016. PC World is still kicking but runs on a skeleton crew and is online-only.

CNET has changed formats many times, and the well-known editors who used to make it worthwhile moved on years ago. That it's trundling on with computer-generated articles is I guess a kind of ironic curtain call.
Yeah not my experience. Nobody in my social bubble uses PayPal when there is Visa/Master card with 3D Secure. No reason to. And after my experience with PayPal not even a will to work with that scam company.
Soundness implies validity, but validity does not imply soundness.
Thanks for talking about it. I have to remind myself that all words are made up.

I get that there Sprite is a coke, but what do you say if you want a Coke?
John Oliver did a segment about Modi two years ago [1]. tl;dw: Religious-nationalist bullshit.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVIXUhZ2AWs
It's not a cure. If you resume your previous diet, it will return.
Not on there a ton, but yes!
> That’s a very generous interpretation.

Otherwise known as a "sense of humor".

> A human answer would say camels have very little to do with data security.

Correction, a human without a sense of humor would say that camels have very little to do with data security.

Edit: If I'm getting downvotes, I might as well lean into them and make it worth my while...

Otherwise known as a "sense of humor". Something that ChatGPT seems to have that you don't. Oh, snap!
Christmas dinner is about who’s around the table, not what’s on it’, says chef
Iron's another 2000 times more abundant than lithium, but geologically earth is basically a ball of silicon, iron, and magnesium oxides with some other trace elements along for the ride.
>One thing that I wonder though is how we will draw the line. If I'm writing a piece and do a Google search, and in that way invoke BERT under the hood, is anything that I write afterwards "AI-tainted"? What about the grammar checker? Or the spot removal tool in photoshop or gimp? Or the AI voice that reads back to me my own article so that I can find prose issues?

>And that brings the other problem: do the general public really know the extent of AI use today, never mind in the future?

The line is drawn at human ownership/responsibility. A piece of content can be 'AI tainted' or '100% produced by AI', what makes the difference is if a human takes the responsibility of the end product or not.
> Did the printing press also increase the amount of crap in circulation?

I think the answer is, undoubtedly, yes.
The closer we seem to get the farther we actually are. We're far away from AGI, if we even can reach it with our current approaches, but the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years
Is there any discussion online that is not like this?
> the most likely explanation is that they know exactly how to play the vc game: place a number of wild bets and hope that one in a hundred pays off.

But isn't a key point of this theory of investing that you invest in many companies that have a 1% chance of making a 100x return - rather than investing in companies with a 0% chance?
There are approximately as many Firefox users are there are MacOS users, on the order of 200 million users. In fact, there are probably more Firefox users than MacOS users. Concrete numbers are hard to come by, but you have to take optimistic estimates of MacOS's userbase to match moderate estimates of Firefox's userbase. If Firefox is a global also-ran, then so is MacOS.
You may not take it seriously, and I may not take it seriously, but it takes one person to read this seriously, convince another person to invest, and then hire a third person and tell them, "make it so", for the joke to no longer be a joke.
It's worth noting there's quite a distinct separation between the BBC and BBC Studios (which used to be called BBC Worldwide). The BBC is publicly funded via the UK's TV license. BBC Studios is entirely funded by its own profit. They're very careful to maintain the gap between the two. It's why so many BBC Studios productions can't be viewed on BBC's streaming platform domestically; the rights are managed and sold separately. It's not surprising to see partnerships with other production houses across their core markets.
>the other put the problem into Google, hit "I'm feeling lucky" and then parroted the first result right or wrong (or an aggregate of that).

Sounds a lot like most college essays I've ever read.
As evidenced in this very same thread. You can't make this up, can you?
and removed the ability to make task bar items show window text.

and removed the ability to disable collapsing.

If I have 3 Firefox windows open, then on the task bar, I should have 3 Firefox buttons, each showing the title of the web page they're on, so it should only take a single quick glance and a single click to switch windows.

The current behavior did not begin with Win11, but Win11 is the first Windows to force it. Even Win10 lets you configure it to behave more like Win7 and before.
If it affects the economy it is the economy.
Ask HN: What are the underappreciated tech advancements in the past 5 years?
You can definitely find entire BBC documentaries that have been uploaded to IA; there's an account named "BBC Video" that has nearly 1,000 videos uploaded [0]. However, not all the videos look like BBC content, and there's really no indicator that this account is actually affiliated with BBC. Its undisturbed existence on IA may be a result of the BBC not being particularly worried about the impact of IA's unauthorized distribution of its content.

IA still seems to handle a lot of content moderation scenarios in a manual, old-fashioned sense, e.g. responding to direct requests by email, as opposed to having built out a form-based process. The article says it's unclear who requested the takedown. If the BBC did indeed ask for it on copyright grounds, it's possible that the current error message ("Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the uploader or due to a violation of our Terms of Use") is the catch-all message for all takedowns.

If that's the case, it's probably time for IA to come up with a copyright-specific takedown message, so that relatively routine requests (e.g. BBC asserting ownership of copyrighted material) aren't conflated with much more nefarious scenarios (e.g. the suspicion that India's government is trying to censor damaging content)

[0] https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22BBC+Video%22
HN should have a [chat GPT] tag for stuff generated by chat GPT. So that I can ignore it. I do not mind reading what paul graham said about how to get new ideas. I do not care what chat GPT said. What chat GPT said may or may not be a good summary of paul grahams thoughts, it may be wrong in an important aspect, etc.

If Paul Graham wants to say something, he should say it directly and not hide behind a chat gpt layer.
I doubt flying in planes doing WW2 decreased fear of flying
The underlying complexity isn’t relevant at all when considering such solution, if it makes otherwise business sense and is abstracted away.

Otherwise you could make the same argument about your 100 lines python script which invokes god knows how many complex objects and dicts when a simple C program (under 300 lines) could do the job.

(I know the original repo is a joke… for now)
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What about variable rate mortgages?
Severe asthma cases exist, not "allergic" per se, but can cause negative health effects. Also it sounds like they have contempt but I didn't detect hatred, hatred is a very strong and very real emotion but the name calling didn't do it for me. And finally, babies cry and nothing can be done about it. But there are people who choose to alter their vehicles to be extremely loud, who then intentionally Rev their engines at quiet points of the day and night, repeatedly subjecting everyone within a mile radius to literal window shaking noise, every day. Now I want to say, I do _hate_ those people. I view that as equivalent to pinching a baby till it screams and then shoving it in your face. They're making active antisocial choices, with the intent of harm. And in my experience they know how to not get caught.

And then there's the "coal rollers". People who have such contempt for the environment that they specifically and intentionally spend time and money to alter their vehicles so that they can harm other people and publicly display their Negativity. I _might_ hate those people, I certainly don't like them.
Everything’s fine here in Switzerland so far.
How do you accomplish that culture shift? It’s easily said that cultures can just be shifted, but layoffs are the way to send the message and get that rolling.
I did read somewhere that in some tests, ChatGPT-generated MBA papers got better grades than average MBA students.
That's what I said about JavaScript almost 30 years ago.
I have a very simple policy. When I want money, I leave and find a new job. It's usually never the reason I look for a new job, but if the money I am making is bothering me, it means there's either problems with the people or the work.

I once wrote about this, and FWIW, a few people have found it interesting

https://stonecharioteer.com/posts/2022/two-of-three-rule.htm...

My two are: people and pay. When pay begins to feel like it sucks, it usually means I'm fed up of the people.
> Folks, if it wasn't shareholders accelerating this process, it was gonna be the inevitable economic realities of mismanagement and losses.

Do you have any proof?
For most of the five year period, Alphabet has been giving them magnificent returns, peaking at 200% gross. Only now it has been hit with the economic downturn, so it makes sense that all of a sudden they are trying to sell and get out.
"Because you could, doesn't mean you should".
Thanks. I didn't want to 20 minutes in the hope of maybe finding the answer...
I wonder if this sentiment will ultimately lead to a "Butlerian Jihad" culling of "thinking machines" a la Dune
Same here — I live in Eastern Canada and my municipality is rolling out a program where you'll put compostables in a separate bag, but the sorting is done by the trashman.
Blaming hedge funds is a misdirection. Google and Facebook have dual classes of shares and all shareholder governance is controlled by the founders.
What wisdom? On average I haven't found any particular correlation between age and wisdom. In fact, most of the advice I have received from elderly people was worse than useless.
How is SeaFile these days? I really want something close to Dropbox, but my own drives.
got to get out of oen's comfort zone/familar & figure out how the wierd/strange/unknown fits/matches up with what one is comfortable/familiar with.

best done on one's own terms vs. letting life exclusively dictate when the wierd/strange/unknown happens.

edit:' does result in lot more blue screen issues.
Funny, I had the exact same thought over Covid death rates during the early pandemic. People would have been a lot less skeptical of the precautions if your head exploded immediately after catching it (assuming you were part of the ~1% that were destined to die from the symptoms eventually).
As detailed in Alphabet's Schedule 14A filing, median compensation totaled $295,884 in 2021. An analysis by S&P Global illustrates that median compensation at Alphabet was 67% higher than at Microsoft and 153% higher than the 20 largest listed technology companies in the US. There is no justification for this enormous disparity.

Is that a super accurate description, though? Out of all the people whose pay could be described as "coming from Alphabet", only a fraction are actually Alphabet employees. Most are third-class citizen contractors who certainly do not get paid 300K a year.