skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Question about Yrs/Yjs. If I have e.g. a form and I want multiple users to see who is currently entering something into which form element, I could still do that with a Doc right?
That would destroy this place, just as it has Metafilter, Reddit, and every other forum that has done so.
There are also 2 other tools

One is https://alerthn.com that does full text search on topics and commenets. It works great for years.

The other is http://www.hnreplies.com/ and it sends email on replies to your comments. It works good, but it stops after some time but you can subscribe again.
If children also get UBI then most likely yes. Same UBI for everyone to keep things cheap and simple.
We should probably check it out just in case they plan to build a hyperspatial express route through our star system.
… which in turn sent me down a rabbit hole of researching what esr has been up to since his famous essay.
Can we talk about making prostitution legal? Other countries have realized their sexual loneliness problem and made it legal, which somewhat helped. When men have some access to sex, it improves outcomes for everyone.
Of course I'm referring to USD billionaires.

Yes, in general I think people shouldn't have more wealth than is needed to live a comfortable life, for some reasonable definition of comfortable. I'm not a communist -- I don't want everyone to have exactly the same level of wealth or anything like that. I think it's great that people are rewarded for pro-social activities (though capitalism has a very narrow definition of pro-social).

As I said before, I'm uninterested in sorites paradoxes.
If Google is so afraid of AI, then they should have done the most Googley of things in building AI into Google to get everyone use to it, then drop it. Deprecate the crap out of it like all of the other things. Then, since Googs dropped, it must not be good right? Boom! problem solved
Yeah discovery is in such a messy state right now. I don't think anyone is doing it well.

"Give me facts about X" there are several decent options for.

"Give me quality reading material about topic X", there's like nobody even trying. Not that an answer doesn't exist for the query, just nobody is able to produce it.

This goes well beyond websites, discovery sucks for streaming video, for shopping, almost everything.
I would rather deal with Google than Microsoft or Amazon, so I hope they still have some future.
Let me make a counterargument:

If you’re a government that wants to have substantial control over what sorts of content is available to users, then Section 230 is a problem for you. What you don’t want is a hundred million people responsible for their own posts. What you do want is a few dozen services that run the Internet and who you can say are “editorializing” and who thus face all kind of liability unless they obey specific speech codes that politicians then set. You might think that government control over platforms’ speech is prevented by the First Amendment, but that’s the insidious nature of Section 230: if you passed laws controlling how newspapers editorialize, the laws would be struck as violating the First Amendment. If instead you pass laws modifying platforms’ civil liability for users’ speech, it might have the same overall effect as the explicit laws would have on newspapers. Yet some will argue that it’s constitutional to do so.

But surely, you argue, you’re not opposed to letting firms do light moderation. They just can’t do heavy moderation, like kick off users for “political” reasons or use any algorithms to help users discover content. But nobody has a clue what “political” means here and how it differs from spam, and coming up with a definition is not the job of the US government or the courts. Similarly, does anyone seriously think that firms are going to stop using content discovery algorithms and become a pure “common carrier” of all content? Of course they won’t. They’ll just accept whatever speech codes the government develops and they’ll obey them so that they can continue to make money.

It’s depressing to see people on HN walk willingly into a speech-regulation regime for private companies, while claiming that the reason they want this is to ban algorithmic discovery. If you want to ban algorithms, just pass a law doing so and see if it’s constitutional. Instead we get this end-run where the result of these reforms is very likely to be much worse than the current situation and more critically we will still have most of the algorithms and moderation used to justify it.
I use search for coding a lot, and lately I've noticed it's hard to find what I'm after. If I'm looking for some small thing like what an sftp command looks like, I don't want an SEO essay about why SSH is great and we should all use encryption. I just want the example line.

This seems to be what ChatGPT can give me. It doesn't always work, but it also doesn't beat around the bush.
TBF Google found they already owned a first-tier social network. It was disguised as a video sharing site.

The article quotes someone as saying history repeats itself. Debatable. Google built Alphabet to be defensible against antitrust cases like this. Expect a consent decree.

As you wrote: "I do see a place for language-model driven search." And unlike social media this has less dependency on user perception of whether a social network is cool.
How bad are these bugs?

Why do you keep having bugs escape into production? Are there any commonalities between them?
I've been waiting for civilization franchize to do this.

by this point anything less than free form chat with the other 'leaders' won't cut it
hah! Good catch, indeed.
Tackling Heropreneurship (2016)
An open source alternative to Terraform enterprise
Google Cloud Run or some similar scalable container-based abstraction. Off the shelf auth and DBaaS.

I have a lot of opinions on frontend stack too but they vary based on product.
*SQL scripts
I agree about AI, though for slightly different reasons. Google published the foundational paper for some of the most important tech behind the exciting AI stuff[1]. Because there's every reason to believe they are technically capable of competing, the reason they aren't offering AI products is probably based on their beliefs about how practical that is right now (cost / reliability / etc). They also have all their Waymo experience.

Basically, I'm not convinced that Google is "behind" on the tech, but just disagrees about product strategy. Obviously there are lots of examples where this dooms the current leader (Xerox Parc!) - but I think it's too early to say? I wouldn't short them yet imo.

[1] https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
This sounds ideal to me. Are there any tutorials or resources that can help me use this stack? Thanks.
Look at your paycheck. Combine health insurance premiums that you and your employer pay each pay period. That would be your COBRA premiums.
To be honest I'm actually not sure what the numbers are when it comes to preventing that particular symptom. It was just the most annoying one to me personally. In case the vaccines don't prevent it in any meaningful way after all I simply recommend them to prevent, unlikely but possible, severe cases and death.
Correct. If I had a cure I might still be doing it. Like I said, some people are broken. What I've described is more fundamental. It probably will be of more assistance to people doing okay with some hangups than people whose self esteem is not in a place where flirting can be an uplifting activity.

Edit:

-Therapy

-Dance classes (not for flirting, just having positive touch experiences)
Meh - people often have bosses, or coworkers, or subordinates they hate anyway. Nothing ventured nothing gained!
that is entirely a self inflicted hurdle, the law used to be there was to be one representative for every 30,000 persons, but then in 1929 congress passed the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, fixing the number of representatives at 435. if we had stuck with the original we would have 11,080 representatives. technically speaking the only barrier to this is repealing that act, that and building a much larger capital building
Wouldn’t the water-ice and ice-air boundaries reflect separately in a detectable way?
curious what the excuse was.
wonder how they measure this and is this smart engineering from the exchange or just new fast network gear.
> the alternatives involve... no (automatic) monetization at all.

This is 100% what it boils down to. Google is obviously not the only advertiser in town, but if the ad bubble pops, so does the free content economy on the internet. Some people will argue the internet would be better because of it, but the transition away from ad-supported viewership would decimate the web we know.
And you conclude that this is incorrect and garbage on the grounds of what, exactly? I'm more inclined to believe the licensed psychiatrist over a random internet commenter.
Laravel is just as big as Django and Rails in adoption, definitely should be included
A Practical Introduction to Python Programming – Heinold [pdf]
> One of the difficult issues is that many depressed patients often don't want to hear any suggestions that depression might be due to anything other than external factors.

I knew someone like this. She'd get new therapists until one of them tells her what she wants to hear.

You're nailing it IMO. If you get to blame society, genetics, or external factors then you don't have to take responsibility. You get a pass. (people think)
Hell?
I think the new UI in IntelliJ is a "patch" to keep from bleeding users. The UI in the final form of their next gen ui (Even now, Fleet is a much more polished implementation IMO). So much so, that recreated a lot of it in vsCode.
More likely all this IoT garbage gets recruited into a botnet for domestic DDoS/amplification attacks.
> It says they don't talk to each other but it is not prevented

No protocol can prevent a piece of software from doing whatever they want.

The "shall not" is not absolute: the spec assumes and expects relays not to talk to each other. Nothing prevents you from creating a relay that connects to another relay, of course, but that would not be in the spirit of what Nostr is trying to achieve.
> Does anyone else have a better explanation for why there was such a visceral response?

I can't speak for lawyers in general or what everyone's motivations would be, but my initial reaction was that it seemed like a somewhat unethical experiment. I assume the client would have agreed or represented themselves, but even there -- legal advice is tricky because it's advice -- it feels unethical to tell a person to rely on something that is very likely going to give them sub-par legal representation.

Sneaking it into a courtroom without the judge's knowledge feels a lot like a PR stunt, and one that might encourage further legal malpractice in the future.

I assume there are other factors at play, I assume many lawyers felt insulted or threatened, but ignoring that, it's not an experiment I personally would have lauded even as a non-lawyer who wishes the legal industry was, well... less of an industry. The goal of automating parts of the legal industry and improving access to representation is a good goal that I agree with. And maybe there are ways where AI can help with that, sure. I'm optimistic, I guess. But this feels to me like a startup company taking advantage of someone who's in legal trouble for a publicity stunt, not like an ethically run experiment with controls and with efforts made to mitigate harm.

Details have been scarce, so maybe there were other safety measures put in place; I could be wrong. But my understanding was that this was planned to be secret representation where the judge didn't know. And I can't think of any faster way to get into trouble with a judge then pulling something like that. Even if the AI was brilliant, it apparently wasn't brilliant enough to counsel its own developers that running experiments on judges is a bad legal strategy.
> people who can't get sex usually have neither sex nor intimacy

That's exactly what "comorbidity" means in my original post.
Worked there in the 90s. Probably the most professional engineering environment I've ever seen. And compared to what you might expect of the time and place, quite egalitarian. My boss and half the team were women, and there were several people from unusual backgrounds that would be considered economically disadvantaged these days. Everyone had an office. No politics. Just GSD.
Do you believe that websites should be able to delete spam and bot accounts?

Posting 10,000 links to a shitcoin ICO is not illegal.
There's two sorts of blogs. There's the one you describe which imo are trying to build an audience and gain reach. Then there are the more straightforward blogs, where the author doesn't care about reach or viewership, and just wants to write up a technical process they painstakingly went through so either others can save themselves some grief, or they can look at what they did when they revisit the same problem years from now. Those types of blogs are indispensable. Its like documentation that someone actually went through and wrote in margin notes, like Snape's potion book.
> The role of title transfers could itself be argued to be a form of governmental overreach. For the mere act of interpersonal buying and selling, why ought there be a database managing that?

So the gov’t can make money. When you sale the car the new owner must pay tax.
Humans aren't just reading, we're constantly updating our brains neural nets. Both the AI system and brains may be capable of writing a copyright infringing rip off of Harry Potter, but the ability to do so isn't infringement only actually doing so.
This is a weird take. Are you arguing that we aren't seeing an abnormally high number of layoffs in tech? That this is just "media sensationalism"?

Nearly all the layoff reports I've come across I hear about before they're in the mainstream media. Additionally I predicted months ago that we'd be seeing massive layoffs in tech, before the media was talking about it at all.

These layoffs are real, are atypical for what we've seen the past decade, and are impacting a large number of real devs.

Honestly I haven't even seen the media talking about it until the last few weeks. When I talked about impending tech layoffs back in Oct-Nov nobody outside of the tech community had any idea that there were any issues facing tech.

I hardly see how layoffs are being "played up" rather than just being reported.
But Rowling knew enough to pull from prior public domain works, not other recent authors. Wizard schools are public domain. An AI author would have to know which they are allowed to use, which they can use under fair use, and which they must ask to use. Humans can do that. I am doing that right now as I use the "Harry Potter" trademark here while posting to HN without the owner's permission. AI systems scraping the internet cannot understand that needed nuance.
The animations are really slick for an indie app! Well done!
>I'm ok looking and I feel like I can make women like me.

The only person who should "make women like me" is a female lesbian Doctor Frankenstein.

Anyone else has to make themselves likable to women.

The only person you should make do or be or like things is yourself.

You can't force other people to like you, just because you feel like it.
I was fairly deep in religious culture through college and can definitely argue that the "values" I learned were somewhat crippling in a liberal society. Especially ideas around interpreting intimacy as a sign of commitment. I was trying to capture some powerful sanctified physical connection, and the women I dated expected to hook up on the third date and still be non-commital. I don't think either approach was superior or healthy/unhealthy, but the mismatch can be jarring.
Why didn't Wolfram Alpha disrupt Google? GPT is just passed a threshold of user friendliness?
Are you sure you are not suffering from long covid? Neurological damage can drastically lower mental resilience. Get checked.
Calling this a "health issue" is quite misleading, as these issues cut through the fabric of society itself. Sexual competition might have been a thing in our deep past but what we call "societies" in historic times were built around sexual regulations that ensured people wouldn't just 'leave because they have nothing to lose'. Ancient Rome's foundational myth contained the abduction of the Sabine women . In ancient Athens, Solon estabished brothels to limit adultery and increase social cohesion

> seeing Athens full of young men, with both an instinctual compulsion, and a habit of straying in an inappropriate direction, bought women and established them in various places, equipped and common to all.

Of course in those days, it was expected that if you were a decent-ish member of society you were basically guaranteed a wife (which you might have not even met) and a family that would perpetuate the same kind of society. Sexual competition is feral and fundamentally anti-society.

But that is the choice that people make, deliberately. we are increasingly individualists and have chosen to live that way , especially in western societies. Seeing this as a "problem" implies that there is a solution somewhere and that it is fundamentally a bad thing. But it seems that it is just the future. And there will be consequences as large percentages of mainly men feel increasing disconnected and having nothing to bind them in a society. As these men grow up, approach retirement or financial independence they will increasingly move to places where they can live with less strings attached. Not necessarily to a sexual paradise, but just to a place that demands less taxes, is more tolerant to single men (western culture isn't), that shames them less, etc etc. We are already having the trend of record numbers of households being single-person homes. The next logical step is to move that household to whatever place treats the individual best.
It would be data signed by a key and added to a torrent swarm. This would only handle data collection, someone would still need to sync the swarm and process/visualize it.
>This seems to contradict some view on women's POV here. As in, for women the sexual transaction is big serious deal.

Also by her experience and some other stories from a few women I know close enough - even losing their virginity was more of a technicality. Literally "well, I had to go to a cdifferent city for university and I didn't want to lose it in some dorms, so I just hooked up with a guy with a good reputation (known to be able to do the job without any mess or future problems)"

Guys do now have this kind of option aside from visiting a prostitute.
I've always wondered: Is LLM/GPT already how Google is generating answers to "People also ask" questions or are they using a prior, or unknown, ML approach for this? I ask this because the quality of answers linked to these queries is often so astoundingly awful that I can't believe this is in production.

The question is often very relevant. I'll readily admit that I have a high engagement with that accordion feature, but I can't believe how often I open it to find a disappointing text selection or even page.

And if it is, I wonder where that leaves JSON-LD schema in all of this. Schema is the perfect signal for something like this, but I'm afraid, and I believe I can speak representatively about this from an agency perspective, the trust is kind of broken for that model.

Too many people, myself included, are uneasy about how much information to give to Google since they have an insidious aim to use it to get information to users faster regardless of how much impact it has on a business' ability to remain competitive. Yet, on the other hand, I sympathize with the idea that the more Google reverses course on this and leans into embracing SEO industry-driven control they risk compromising the product. It makes me think that Google has reached a theoretically maximum level of product optimization.
If you're paying by the hour, and you go to the lawyer with all the data the ai gives you, they can have a paralegal fact check it, and get back to you, but we're at the early stages, things only get better from here on out. Creating some sort of fact algorithm to go w/ gpt3 seems like the next big thing to me. If you can hold it accountable to only give facts, except when an opinion or 'idea' is sought after, which is more ethereal, then you can get some amazing things. Law and even medicine diagnosis will probably be way easier for it than coding, even though it's pretty remarkable on that front already.
< What is the email meant in the following text

"Laid Off from Google Search?

21 points by gregw134 1 hour ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 13 comments

I just got ...

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... email me at username @ Gmail."

> The email mentioned in the comment is "username@gmail.com"

< What is the email I can use to contact this user? he didn't wrote it explicitly. If it helps, his username is gregw134.

> ... It only says "username@gmail.com" which is not a valid email.

Looks like he dodged this one!
Can somebody explain to me the existential threat AI is posing to the search business?

I am familiar with ChatGPT composing reasonable sounding answers to prompts. I get that I could type in "what's the best vacuum cleaner under $500?" or something like that, and both Google and ChatGPT could generate an answer for me.

But I want the best, most accurate answer, not a set of banalities that a neural network has composed to convincingly pass the sniff test. I actually care about the content being right, or as close to right as possible.

I admit freely that I'm clearly missing some possibilities here. Can anyone fill me in?
Someone created this really neat toy for us all to enjoy for free.

They don't owe anyone anything, and certainly don't deserve to be used as an example of what's wrong with an entire discipline.
It's, more or less, practically impossible to be OS agnostic for a backend with any sort of complexity. You can choose layers that try to abstract the OS layer away but sooner or later you're going to run into part of the abstraction that leaks. That plus the specialty nature of Windows/Mac hosting means your backend is gonna run on Linux.

It made sense at one point to use Macs but these days pretty much everything is electron or web based or has a Linux native binary. IMHO backend developers should use x64 linux. That's what your code is running on and using something different locally is just inviting problems.
I agree with the trend you mention, but the fact that it is bi-directional preference may even things out a bit.

States can focus on attracting employers by having business-friendly taxes, minimal labor laws, minimal environmental protection, and other corporate-friendly regulations. If they can attract and retain companies then people who need work will follow.

Other states focus on attracting employees by having stronger worker-protection laws, strict environmental regulations, and amenities like education/arts/healthcare/transit. If they can attract and retain people then companies who need access to that labor pool will follow.

Depending on their constraints, industries seem to gravitate towards states on one end of that continuum or the other. For example, there seems to be more manufacturing and agriculture than the US average in employer-friendly states and more technology and finance than the US average in employee-friendly states.
I tend to agree with you, or at least the sentiment of “not perpetual growth”, but I think then we run into the problem that the US might lose dominance in various industries to countries who won’t throttle their corps like that

Which maybe isn’t the worst. Maybe we’d see an exodus of the rats in our own govt and leadership as they chase their efforts into the new world leaders.

Maybe this is the end stage of capitalism and while it was a good experiment to get us into worth surplus it comes at the cost of liberty. Maybe at some point we just need to tweak the entire economic system into the next era.