skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very useful but there's definitely a constant issue with quality-of-results, but I've found a pretty good workflow, involving jumping back and forth between search engine results and ChatGPT results.

Fundamentally, it's:

1) Ask ChatGPT a series of questions, going from the general down to the more specific. For example, 'Give me a list of options for setting up a headless Raspberry Pi as a Nginx server from scratch using only command line tools'. ChatGPT will produce a decent list of options.

2) Run that list of options in truncated form, just the keywords, through Google or other search engine that allows for a 'verbatim' search. Set to 50 or more results per page to get a decent spread of results at a glance. Get the more specific information for various options.

3) Run that more narrowed information back through ChatGPT to see what it produces. At this point you might be pretty close to the correct specific information you need, but generally I run it through search again just to be sure.

For example, this way I was able to quickly discover my headless RPi setup with the latest Raspberry Pi OS wasn't allowing me to ssh into it over wireless because the RPi engineers did away with default user/password settings for security reasons, so I had to manually include the 'userconf.txt' file in the boot directory on the SD card. Also it was very helpful with what needed to go into the wpa_supplicant.conf file.

Trying to find stuff like that out by search alone, in the past, would have probably taken at least 10X as long.

I wouldn't ever blindly trust what it suggests, however.
Yes exactly. The only training we know of currently that works is for a biological human being to live a decent proportion of their life.

For me his statement is one of those things that is sort of not even wrong, like when people say humans only have two eyes and can drive a car therefore an automated driving system must be possible with only cameras. On the face of it, this seems like it could be true but of course it handwaves away the hardest and most mysterious part of intelligence and focusses instead on the easy bit that we already know reasonably well.

It's exactly like if someone said they had a secret formula to be an NBA superstar which is:

1. Be really tall

2. Be really agile

3. Be really good at basketball

Like yeah of course but all the hard parts are left out.
The logic is not wrong. First off your statistics showed that it CAN happen. Just with low probability.

Second your way of measuring the probability is incorrect. IF we were to randomly pick an image out of ALL possible images of 32x32 1bit images THEN your probability would apply but clearly machine learning doesn't do this.

The actual calculations behind the probability is actually highly, highly dependent on the dataset.

To take the 2D line analogy further if we perform linear regression on the points (0,0), (1,1), (2,2) (5,5),(329,329),.... and a bunch of points with the same x,y coordinates the line would touch ALL training set data points 100% of the time as the equation of the line would be y = x. This isn't even called overfitting, y = x is actually the ONLY solution available. There's no way to prevent this if the data is just really clean.
The Steve Jobs quote makes me hopeful that Apple won't follow their lemming peers off this cliff.

Hopefully the payoff for Apple is significant and obvious so that at least some learn the lesson in the article.
lots of expensive California C++ coding got outsourced to the Ukraine and other places, faster than you can say 'dollar conversion' a long time ago. What is this trend, similar to "shortage of truck drivers" and "this airline stewardess job pays up to $300k per year" ?!
Some high throughput financial systems use Java
Because those things you listed are (potential) answers to my first question, not the one you quoted.

A search engine should not see a site written in Arial and derank it for that reason. Blink tags, sure, they're obviously wrong for accessibility reasons, but there's a huge gap between those two things - and even so, how badly should they affect ranking?

I'm saying "garbage" can be subjective, and when there are objective "garbage" indicators, it's not obvious how to deal with them. What you've listed is only a small set of indicators from a small niche of so-called "garbage" sites. And personally, I don't even want to see old or old-styled sites dismissed from the web if they have good content.
I use Plex and just only input shows I want my kids to watch. It's more work, but allows me to have a garden. It's probably not Kosher legally for me to be pirating shows, but I'm only doing shows that I have access to via Netflix, Amazon, HBO etc. So morally, I feel I'm justified.
YT, like the real world has the same malicious components. Newspaper, TV, dipshit relatives.

If there's a questionable video being watched, you ask questions, walk them through it, ask them their thoughts "does this seem to make logical sense?", and guide them through it.
Would love to actually be able to use Firefox Sync. But I refuse when I cannot self host it.
It seems it is not actually possible to self host it.
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article
Heh. I'm pretty proficient in modern C++, and it is my favorite tool for a lot of things, but my PHP job pays way more than any C++ position available. Did an interview once for Senior C++ Engineer, embedded software in the medical device space. All went good, until the offer: $100k.

Articles like this are nothing more than a desperate attempt at getting younger generations to learn said topic, so companies can pay them crappy salaries.
Could you elaborate?

Exchanging $250k into USDC, DAI, BTC, or ETH is practically nothing compared to the daily volume, and exchanging one of those to USD in a bank account through an exchange is also not a big deal at all. 250k is a small amount.
Adding C-style for loops to Python (2022)
CUDA applications are usually written in C++. Also, I think HFT normally works with processing tasks that can’t be done in parallel.
Pit find in Germany reveals how Neanderthals hunted elephants
I alternate between Ask Jeeves and Bing for maximum privacy
> Many big corporations need to be counter-weight with some other big organization.

Such as labor boards, or rather the government that gives them power.
Will you come back and tell us what happened here?
4.6M people live in Louisiana, and 10m in Los Angeles. I’m cool giving the LA monicker to Los Angeles.
I don't think Ted Gioia understands what he's talking about.

It's like he walked into a McDonalds bathroom and after a few minutes asks, "Where the hell are the burgers?"
Your numbers are way off. Ultralight airplanes don't have ranges anywhere near 500km, nor do they have the payload capacity to carry the necessary sensors and associated electrical generator. Ultralights are also barely faster than surface warships, and are too flimsy to operate in severe weather. Seriously, you guys need to quit watching silly scifi cartoons and do some actual math.
Oh sad to hear that. I am on Windows though.
> [Fifth grade classmate] Did you watch the new Wednesday episode yesterday?

> [My kid] I could only catch the last half hour, it took a little longer than I thought to solder all the components on the TV's motherboard before I could turn it on again. The real issue is getting the forge hot enough to heat up the screwdriver I use as a soldering iron...
The Federal government is a net payer of interest to the private sector on a monthly basis. When interest rates are increased by the fed, this amount increases. Since the amount of outstanding treasuries is at all time highs vs GDP, its significant. Unlike before.
My kids watch Paw Patrol all of the time on YT.

We have not encountered the type of content you outline, at all.
This index is a joke, why is Turkey put in Western Europe, geography is not the strong subject of Economist Intelligence Unit
I think its more blast radius. If google ML Risk arbitrarily suspends any of your accounts, you have no access to your cloud infra.

My understanding is your business google account can be impacted by things you do on your personal google account as well.
Start sending manager and hr to jail for wage theft. If an employee falsified timesheets they can and have been convicted of theft. Why isn’t the reverse true?

Jail is a huge motivating factor and why you don’t see wide spread accounting fraud in public companies.
Google heavily favours newness, I am sure of that. It used to be easy to find very old, but relevant results. The content still exists, but even with date filters it’s hard to find now.

It’s made supporting very old things (products, code, computers) extremely difficult.
They should just require the owners to use the club or something similar.
C++ is the only language I know where you can think you’ve learned it, then stumble upon a completely alien codebase. The decades-long history of the language has spawned all kinds of dialects and template-powered Lovecraftian horrors.
Please elaborate instead of being snarky .
Three totally unrelated things? There's no proof of the ""lab leak"" allegations (and I doubt there can ever be short of an admission by the Chinese government), the war in Ukraine was a proxy for the current invasion, and the Las Vegas mass shooting .. was just a larger incident of something that routinely happens in America that does not move the needle politically?
Anthropic is building Claude, a chatGPT alternative. Review here [1].

The move is interesting as it potentially signals doubt in their in own current AI capabilities (Deepmind/Lambda/Sparrow). Declinging to comment about it and not announcing this everywhere like Microsoft did with OpenAI is also odd.

[1] https://scale.com/blog/chatgpt-vs-claude
There is no way to make a mistake here because there are essentially no consequences -- entities of this scale can rehire as easily as they fire.

At a lower average compensation rate too, most likely. These companies are basically refinancing their labor force using cruelty and fear. It is working because they're all doing it, because we let them. System working as intended.
Okay so it generated a response which was “reasonable”

How do you know it was correct? Because you checked it’s entire output manually and determined it probably wasn’t too wrong?

So what happens if you now trust it to write firmware for some difficult old timey hardware that nobody understands anymore. It seems correct. But then it actually was just making it up and the coolant system of the power plant breaks and kills 20,000 people.
What people also seem to forget (if they knew in the first place) is how bad GPT3 was compared to GPT4/ChatGPT. I subscribe to SubSimulatorGPT3 on Reddit and it generates tons of text that looks and feels like English, for example, but is devoid of any real meaning. Every sentence, every paragraph I read from GPT3 has me questioning whether or not I’ve had a stroke.

Now, compare that to your comment, and it’s INSANE how much the capability (and the conversation) has shifted.

GPT3 was what, three or four years ago? What will we be debating, what will the capabilities be, in another three or four years?
> You got the dog when it was young, trained

I get the point, but we are in the 21st Century. Very few people stay a Company (assuming stats are true) as they did before the 1990's.

In this case, the dog would have expected to stay in that home forever, where people in a company would probably move on after a few years.
What to do when privacy laws help scammers hide?
Someone bought something in BookDepository using a prepaid card I have from MercadoPago.

I contacted them about the issue and they (MercadoPago) told me they cannot do anything because I usually buy there. Then I contacted BookDepository and they told me they cannot do anything because even though the scammer is using my CC they cannot provide me any info because I don't know email associated with the scammer's account and they would be breaching a data protection law.

This is the quote from the email I got from BD: "Because of the data protection laws we have to follow - can only reply to and action requests from emails sent from the same email address the order was placed under. Alternatively, we need you to confirm the email address used."

MercadoLibre is known for having a shitty customer service and abusing it's sellers, but BookDepository usually has a good customer support. The problem is they think the customer is the guy that made the purchase with my CC.

It would be funny if it wasn't so expensive. My chats with both MP and BD look like a comedy show.

Does this process make any sense? Shouldn't they at least try to verify what I'm saying? Is there any entity that could intervene in this cases?
Lawyers who worked in chemical and medical patents confirmed this for me when I was in Google Legal. Don't even get me started about software patents.

The legal fiction is that a "reasonable amount of experimentation" may be required, beyond what's in the patent. The notion is that a lab tech determines the exact concentrations, temps, and pressure to get the thing to work.

Of course this is abused.
Isn't what you're describing basically React Native? I think the Flutter devs wanted to try a different approach to address what they felt were the shortcomings of React Native which brings along its own set of tradeoffs.
Yea the feeling I get from them is they are more on the side of the user too.

> Like for instance if you do shift right click it bypasses the website's attempt to hijack your contextual menu. I think Chrome disabled that.

Interesting, didn't know that.
There is no such thing as a labor shortage. There are just insufficient wages.
It wasn't a rendering issue, it was a network connectivity issue. I probably sound like I don't know what I'm talking about, but it is what it is. Switched to chrome and the network issue resolved immediately.
> I would be impressed if more than 1 in 1000 people could describe it

Q: What use is it attempting to measure ChatGPT's capabilities on something vs the average person on the street, or vs the average user with access to google.com? What does that actually tell us?

Maybe I'm showing my age, but if one wanted to learn or discover something, wouldn't one first typically try and find a reliable source/expert in that field or subject?
What have you tried? I personally have used it for writing tests (and ideas for tests), to explain some old convoluted legacy code, to generate easy-concept functions like rect/rect collisions, rect/curve collisions, turning an in memory tree into html text, etc. All things I could do in 5 to 10 minutes, but ChatGPT does it in 5 seconds.

I've also used it to generate the floorplan of several commercial buildings, the jobs needed to keep those buildings operating, people to fill those jobs with varying ages/names/appearances and the relationships between all these people (only here things started breaking down). All this as background for a game I'm developing, this task would have taken significantly more time for me to do manually.
It's because Google has this exact same problem with their AI models. Also they would probably have to double their compute capacity if a billion of their customers started using it. (My made up numbers). It uses hundreds of GB of GPU RAM during the inference. I am guessing they don't have enough GPUs to do that and still have a Google Cloud.

It's different from OpenAI because of the existing user base is like a billion users or something.
Honestly - just stop using Google search (and while I remain flabberghasted I'm saying this - Edge is a better chromium browser than Chrome.). Or better yet, any Google product. The company is diving off a cliff.

For reference... A private Jellyfin server I use for hosting videos of my kid for his grandparents, and some music I legally own is consistently flagged as phishing (along with basically anyone else hosting them publicly based on this thread: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/4076)

Google has "automated" itself into the garbage.
> The richest 500 people collectively lost $1.4 trillion last year.

As far as inequality is concerned, does it really matter whether Elon Musk's net worth is $300 billion vs. $150 billion? The differences were already obscene before the pandemic temporarily inflated them further. I wouldn't call it a dramatic decrease in inequality when most people are still basically standing in place economically. It's easier for the wealthy to go down a lot (temporarily), because they have so much farther to fall, starting from a toweringly high position.

Small changes of income and wealth make a big difference to those at the bottom. Relatively massive differences of income and wealth actually don't make much real difference to those at the top. They're mere statistics, points in a game, bragging rights.

The reason the Fed is willing to temporarily tank stocks is because the wealthy know it's just a temporarily blip that doesn't really hurt them too badly in the long run. The only thing that could hurt the wealthy in the long run is a fundamental shift in bargaining power between capital and labor. That's precisely what the Fed is trying to stop now. As you call it "a wage price spiral", which could dramatically improve the economic position of the working class.

The price of consumer goods can be raised more quickly than the price of labor, which is why in the short term, workers may be hit by inflation, and wage growth lags behind more slowly. But eventually something has to give, and a long-term supply/demand shift of labor would eventually benefit labor in the long run... unless wage inflation is nipped in the bud.

Sometimes you have to make short-term sacrifices for long-term benefit. Both capital and labor know this. On the labor side, a strike for example can be very painful short-term to workers, but the goal is to improve their status long term. Consumer price inflation can work the same way.

> Inflation affects everyone. Meanwhile,

Everything in the economy has a differential effect on different people and groups of people. "Inflation" is an abstraction. The CPI for example is a somewhat arbitrary "basket" of goods. But if you look at individual items, some prices go up a little, some a lot, some go down a little, some a lot, and some stay the same. I find terms like "inflation" and "the economy" to be relatively useless abstractions. It's the differences that are crucial.

What we've seen during the recent decades of low "inflation" has been increasing disparities of income and wealth between the top and everyone else. You call that "stability". I call it unstable and unsustainable.
I think this is why there is value in moderated spaces like reddit [complex feelings here], the moderators and team/tribe mentality ensure that there is informational value to at least that group [more complex feelings here].
I guarantee you the pool will be larger if you hire me and train me for a year.
It’s hardly some toy SDK that is only suitable for MVPs. Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it. It’s hardly a Google specific thing either there are a number of mega sized players also strongly betting on it for some fairly mission critical stuff if I understood correctly.
It's pretty effective too, I often ask colleagues to download this or that app and just giving its name, but they keep falling for Google Ads. Now I send them an URL instead.

If I didn't know any better, I would think about suing Google for boosting malware spread x)

As an aside, I'm always suspicious of free utilities being downloadable from well-designed hosting websites, such as www.fosshub.com. I'm less suspicious downloading it from a very basic, almost plain text web page, for whatever reason.
"Shady shit", aka nothing illegal. If it was illegal, there'd be police, not account closure.
I don't know if finance people would consider me "talented", but as a developer who has been using C++ for over a decade, not once in all that time have I ever wanted to work in HFT.

I don't know if that's a solvable problem (maybe higher pay? But I hear they pay well already). Or maybe my perspective is an uncommon one. I just think it's silly to say there's a shortage of C++ devs because a specific industry has hiring difficulties. The article says that it's not a HFT-specific problem, but doesn't go into it.
500 requests for $150 seems like inadequate pricing.
Brave's search is actually pretty good. It has been my daily driver for a month or so. It seems to prioritize forums and what-not.

It also supports !g , so if a search doesn't return expected results I just head to google.
I’d love a list of URLs for low quality stuff like GeeksforGeeks so I can block them all.
Unless you are doing latency sensitive high frequency trading, why would you use C++? Wouldn’t Go or Java suffice?
> Crop diversity is great.

Crop rotation has been standard practice my entire life. One of the many kickers though is soybeans are the fallback crop for really wet springs. Many crops need to be planted by a certain date or the growing season will be too short. Soybeans can "make up for lost time", so to speak. If your first planting gets flooded, or if it's too wet to get any crop in, you can wait until it's dry and toss in some soy to recoup some of the cost. Thing is soybeans use a lot of nitrogen.

> And you also need lots of organic matter

Manure spreaders are still a thing.
I've switched back to my neighborhood bookshop (who thankfully still exists). If they don't have it in stock, they can get it pretty quickly.
I did, without success.
Segment but for Financial Data [YC W23]
Hello,

I’m Nicolas, the founder of Blocktool: Segment for financial data [YC W23]. We noticed in our previous jobs that finance teams lack the technical knowledge to move financial data into the company’s data warehouse and that data teams don’t have the time or the business knowledge to transform financial data.

Dealing with financial data is tricky: data reconciliation challenge (between payment, billing, CRM, accounting), 100% accuracy is needed, compliance issues to deal with, and messy data because of a lot of human inputs in the billing software or the CRM.

Instead of a Customer Data Platform, Blocktool is a Finance Data Platform. The value is to wrap up a standard tech stack in a no-code UI for non-technical finance or business analyst. We added monitoring features (think a datadog) that alerts the team of financial data discrepancies and even propose fixes that we reverse ETL to, for instance, their CRM.

How it works under the hood:
- ETL: Airbyte to extract financial data from their CRM, payment, or billing system software.
- Transformations: DBT. We built a no-code interface on top of it
- Warehouse: BigQuery. We can send the data to your warehouse or host the data if you don’t have a warehouseReverse
- ETL: Hightouch to send back some data to the CRM

The product is live, and we have customers. Feel free to try on www.blocktool.com or send it to the business ops guys next time they request engineering time for finance back office stuff!

We would love your expert opinion on this type of product and about the collaboration between the data engineering team and the finance department!
It is not if I like the UI or not, the UI after fenix on a tablet is just the phone UI and is a waste of space and functionality. Before Fenix you had a proper tablet UI with visible tabs like a desktop browser, utilizing the extra space properly, so this is a downgrade regardless of the “like” factor you mention. And missing a desktop mode is a huge omission.