skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is happening already. The trick is to run a search against an existing search engine, then copy and paste the search results into the language model and ask it to answer questions based on what you provide it.

This is how the new Bing Assistant works. It's also how search engines like https://you.com/ and https://www.perplexity.ai/ work - as exposed by a prompt leak attack against Perplexity a few weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/22/perplexityai/

I wrote a tutorial about one way of implementing this pattern yourself here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answer...
So if I'm in NH and scotty80 and scotty81 agree to work for me for $12/hr and I am structurally precluded from finding out where they live or work, what happens if it turns out that scotty80 is in NH (above minimum wage) and scotty81 is in MA (below minimum wage)? Is it legal?
if you don't mind putting up a huge pole with a platform on top, you can get around it that way.
Did You Launch First?
to be clear my point wasnt about maxima, but about imbalance.

IMO Rejecting someone preventative care ($1k tops), when they give $18K to the system is a broken balance. The claim/demand is not $18K in, $18K out.
No, Apple stuff is just that much better.
> Indeed, a useful criterion for gauging a large-language model’s quality might be the willingness of a company to use the text that it generates as training material for a new model.

I don't find this a useful criterion. It is certainly something to worry about in the future as the snake begins to eat its own tail, but before we reach that point, we can certainly come up with actual useful criteria. First, what makes up "useful criteria"? Certainly it can't be "the willingness of a company to use the text that it generates as training material for a new model", because that is a hypothetical situation contingent on the future. So we should probably start with something like, well, is ChatGPT useful for anything in the present? And it turns out it is!

It's both a useful translator and a useful synthesizer.

When given an analytic prompt like, "turn this provided box score into an entertaining outline", it can reliably act as translator, because the facts about the game were in the prompt.

And when given a synthetic prompt like, "give me some quotes from the broadcasters", it can reliable act as a synthesizer, because in fact the transcript of the broadcasters were not in the prompt.

https://williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analytic-...
Claws is really great, but it IME it lacked in getting the search results - I just never could find things as easily as in thunderbird; maybe I was not knowing how to "hold" it best yet, though.

That said, I need to scan through a lot of mails for some specific things, thunderbird is barely getting a long with that anymore (the day I have to setup notmuch for real seems to be around the corner), so for most people Claws search may be easily good enough.
> As always in Europe you either want to be an ultra-rich landowning aristocrat (little to no property tax, inheritance tax, etc.) or very poor/unemployed (e.g. a refugee) so you qualify for state housing, etc. - work does not pay.

I just left an inappropriately long comment saying, in effect, actually the same thing.

The US isn't perfect, but if you want to work you're generally able to move up the economic ladder easier from what I've seen. High income taxes combined with consumption taxes make wealth creation via employment almost impossible.
There is a great deal of uncertainty in the current economic environment. There was a pandemic, permanent shifts in the ways people live/work/travel, massive geopolitical events involving multiple, full spectrum global superpower conflicts, huge Ponzi schemes rising up and then collapsing in spectacular fashion (crypto), stagnating productivity (exacerbated by work from home), government bailouts followed by inflation hitting multi-decade highs and central banks mistaking raging inflation for something "transitory" and acting too late, and now skyrocketing interest rates, ongoing labor and supply chain issues, a looming recession and open questions about the ability of central banks to engineer a "soft landing" for the economy.

Investment, M&A and corporate spending activity has come to a near standstill in the past 6 months across multiple industries, as a result of the current economic uncertainty. Business loan default rates are expected to rise, there have already been increasing numbers of bankruptcies (e.g. Serta Mattresses, near default Bed Bath and Beyond, health care providers, etc). Not to mention the cascading bankruptcies of crypto schemes. The ramifications of permanent WFH have yet to cascade through the Commercial Real Estate sector - there are huge amounts of vacant office capacity that have yet to be written down, but we can expect to see sales of obsolete and aging office buildings at deep discounts. High interest rates also have an impact on the Residential Real Estate sector, with housing pricing declining, mortgage rates increasing, etc.

So 5-7% layoff is prudent for any large corporation in this economic environment, and layoffs / cost cuts have happened and will happen in many different industries, not just tech.
Isn’t telegram free? If you’re interested why not just sign up? This isn’t a good first impression when you’re trying to get hired.
Genuine question. How would the mega rich benefit more from the recession than from a stable or high growth environment?

Seems easier to capture a bigger piece of the pie when the pie is growing for everybody no and nobody complains?

Not to mention the social and political unrest which might be triggered by a recession. Recent and old history has shown times and times again that it is when people go hungry or desperate that they challenge the established social order.
If we are making our own insulin, can we also take steps to prevent insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, and diabetes while we're at it?
I assumed that once a critical mass of other companies in this industry make these moves, investors expect this kind of cut from all of them. They'll presumably invest elsewhere if your company doesn't make this cut.
On a single Geekbench 5 benchmark:

> Geekbench 5 scores reveals Apple’s 2½ year old iPhone 12 outperforms Samsung’s latest flagship in single-core performance by 6.15%.
An LLM could theoretically create a model with which to understand chess and predict a next move, you just need to adjust the training data and train the model until that behavior appears.

The expressiveness of language lets this be true of almost everything.
Agreed. I've subscribed to many a magazine in my long life. The New Yorker is the last one standing as it is excellent from cover to cover.
From what I heard back during the dot com bust bartending was somewhat similar. Perhaps these days it'd be mixology, or attempting to become a sommelier.
Fwiw, about 6 years ago I was working for a company that addressed this is a really solid way.

They had a main office in South Carolina in an area with very low cost of living and salaries that matched. They had an office in Phoenix and an office in Seattle.

Ended up standardizing pay based on Phoenix since it was in the middle. This was actually a really big deal because the majority of the company was in South Carolina while only about 40 people were split between Seattle and Phoenix.
Great anecdote, but burnout generally isn't caused by that for most people. At its core, it's because of stress. Incompetent coworkers and organizations may certainly cause stress, but rarely is it so bad that it causes burnout.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in...
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/burnout-prevention...
It's worth noting that most alternatives require a satellite dish of some sort. Before Starlink, I had a roof-mounted HughesNet dish (and before that a custom WISP receiver).

Either way, I'd say Starlink is an enormous improvement over every other satellite solution I've tried. The lack of data cap alone puts it head-and-heels above the competition, and the speeds are good enough to coax people off 4G. I have some small complaints about CGNAT and the provided router, but the service itself is more reliable than some cable connections I've tried.

Having seen (and tried) a lot of the alternatives, there really aren't any pushbutton services that compare.
a16z would be a good start.
Shopify Moves Hydrogen to Remix
I don't see where is that a problem?
People who will be using Teams are people using Office 365 daily. Having a cohesive ecosystem makes complete sense. From a UX too.
Hey everyone! I'm here to talk about my most recent personal project, ApeironAI, a new AI-powered platform that provides very useful tools to its users for free.

The tools are ProCodeX (generate, modify, explain, and get time complexity), MarkeX (create significant descriptions for your products), TypeX (generate text and rephrase existing scripts), and ArtiX (generate images based on a prompt).

All of these tools are designed to make life easier for developers, marketers, writers, and designers. I've been using ApeironAI for a few weeks now and I'm really impressed with the results. The tools are easy to use and they save me a lot of time. If you're looking for an AI-powered platform that can help you with your projects, then I highly recommend giving ApeironAI a try.
I'm curious whether this approach to career/job selection is sustainable in a downturn. You can do this kind of "I quit because..." thing if you have many opportunities and options. But when things are tight? Good luck to you, as they say.

One aspect of where I work (large old tech company) is that we value those that can adapt. You aren't judged as much by your skill set as you are by how you use your skills or work with the skills others have. Sure, there are limits and this doesn't mean you become the metaphorical frog in the slowly heating pot of water.
People who don't like the results always like to claim that... but it's awfully hard to find proof.

Though, part of it I think may just be Geekbench's design as a microbenchmark that doesn't do long-term strain or attempt real-world tasks.
I am confused by your comment. Can you elaborate?
I imagine the saying 'be the change you want to see in the world' pervades the c-suite pretty thoroughly. Thus, if 'the current macroeconomic environment is tough' is not true now, with all these layoffs it'll likely be true soon enough with all of these layoffs and the resulting cascading copycatting.
Lol Im meant to joke about the Microsoft product naming and got it wrong which somehow makes it more funny (read the other comments why)
Depends if you're using an autoincrementing int as your PK. If so, it may be a reasonable decision. It may have gaps, of course, but it's still monotonic.

Related, PG15 has an improved sort algorithm for some data types. Most integers, timestamps, and a few others. So the column type could matter here.
I blame Jimmy Stewart. For nearly a century now, every Christmas we have to watch him contemplating jumping into a frozen river and ending it all.
I think it was at least better than that. I don't remember having permission issues with uploaded files.

It's been a while, so I can't remember exactly where it put them. But the directory structure had the room name in it. As a user I didn't get a choice where they went.
What's the lie? The article title is "GPT in 60 lines of NumPy".

I'd agree with you if it said "GPT3 in 60 lines of NumPy" - but it doesn't say that.
How much are you paying? I might have been in that group, most of these companies I find don't have an interesting problem or aren't paying enough. Maybe don't allow for remote work.
We have done the same at Zendesk. We've reduced our office footprint but have kept our hubs open with large enough offices open for the occasional large on-site and for easier team collaborations, as well as space for anyone that prefers to work in an office environment.

I like the model, but I question long term economic viability of owning that much office space with mostly low utilization and only occasional spikes.
This is the kind of needless extravagance that makes people cynical about the tech industry
Side note: If I lived in the Northern California foothills I would be cutting down big trees close to the house due to extreme fire danger. Side benefit, better Satellite visibility.
This is unintentionally funny
No you are just putting words in people's mouths. As an american, when I tell someone "I had to pay $400 to go get an ultrasound", nobody responds "ACKSHUALLY you paid $400 plus the $400 a month you pay for your premiums plus whatever funding comes from governments from your taxes". That point is only brought up to talk about how we actually pay a fuckload for healthcare even though it's a private industry and that's supposed to make it efficient or whatever.
Was just thinking that the other day. But Eudora, like Tbird until a short time ago, had issues with HTML mail (_1997_ era HTML maiil).

Still, if you ever do dive in I'm up for doing some beta testing!
Just look at the market since COVID. We're coming out of a bubble. When stocks go way up, companies get drunk on their newfound riches and spend excessively, just like individuals. Then times get leaner and they cut back. Only difference is that individuals aren't usually putting other people out of jobs when they do it, at least not directly.

This has happened many times before and will continue to happen cyclically as long as people are free to spend their money how they see fit. Why would this particular time be the result of some vast conspiracy?
I thought that insulin was the rapid one and not the long lasting one. I think a lot of people had put themselves into diabetic shock by using that one instead of the one they needed...because it was cheap.

https://theconversation.com/why-telling-people-with-diabetes...
Walmart needs to either earn a profit or use the item as a loss leader to earn a profit elsewhere. A government can provide services without expecting them to be profitable. (See: roads, licensing, schools, transit, etc.)

There's no reason California couldn't say, "If you need insulin, and you live in California, it's available for free." Assuming that's what the taxpayers want.
As a hobbyist? Not hard at all! If you're in a medium/large city, there's almost certainly one or two glassblowing studios around that have classes. As a career? That's a whole lot harder.
Cause it is a proper company run to solve problems and not make money out of selling vaporware. It also doesn't hire in bulk and has a culture which is a step away from all this madness.
I'd mostly used Macs for like a decade before I gave Mail a try. Just didn't occur to me. Takes a while to break the "first party and/or default is probably not acceptably-decent" mindset. I've found it entirely OK. Good enough it's not at all worth searching for something better (for me—email needs vary greatly, I'm sure)

Kinda like getting used to drag-n-drop usually doing something sensible, rather than its fucking everything up, doing nothing, or causing a crash/state-corruption in the target program. I'd been trained by other platforms to just about never try to use it for anything except dragging files from directory to directory, and had to un-learn that.
I wonder how it reacts to find / -delete
I'm with you. I only hate Teams because of how resource-intensive it is. It would be my preferred experience otherwise. Microsoft is seriously investing in it, and everyone uses it.
I'm pretty sure you're allowed, as management, to notice what your competitors do and respond accordingly. It's, you know, the foundation of all price discovery. You just can't make actual agreements with them.
This sounds great but there are alternatives.

One nice trick I have seen is windows offset so that the light penetrates deep into rooms during winter but does not penetrate in at all during summer. And then the floors acting as thermal mass and made to distribute the heat throughout the house. And so on.

I wish I could find this youtube video again. The house was built probably a hundred years ago or so by an American architect for himself.

There is a lot that can be done with mundane materials with a little bit of thoughtful design.
I agree that Slack chat is pretty bad for "technical" (or other detailed) discussions and in my experience the video chat is more likely to not work well.
GOAT discussions tend to be fruitless anyway as every participant weighs the metrics differently.

For instance, some might count losing in the playoffs more times than another player against a GOAT candidate. However, others might use those same playoff losses as a positive for the GOAT candidate since the overall team was bad and they wouldn't have made the playoffs without them.
Not so much that the jobs are inherently similar. It's more that, during the last recession roughly 15 years ago, and IIRC actually the past several recessions, there were a lot of ads for truck-driving schools in the media. The idea is that trucking is supposed to be a recession-proof trade, and whether that idea is true or not, it's good for trucking schools if people believe that. The parallels to coding, bootcamps, etc. are clear.
> I'm also confused because almost all of my company's Teams usage happens in unthreaded chats.

Yeah, having a feature doesn't mean people use the feature.
It's the "we're in a downturn" crowd that is relying on vibes and feelings. GDP is growing. Unemployment is the lowest it's been in over 50 years. Real wages are growing for the bottom 50% of earners despite high inflation.
I love this response because no matter if I read it as sarcastic or not it’s still funny.
> google LoRA

Long-range Radio??

I do wish people would check if acronyms don't already have well-established meanings before adopting them.
Library Futures eBook Bills Are on the Move
The dojo was cool, and the roof garden, plus the Western themed poker room and the Victorian drawing room with secret book cases that led to other rooms. It was the most extravegant place I ever visited, and as stated, it was almost empty.

Still I got to have a couple of free beers and walk off with branded t-shirts, hoodies and even a baby-grow.
Plenty of people want to die. The reason end-of-life care is extended as far as possible usually has little or nothing to do with the people themselves. They may rarely be lucid or even conscious.
Similarly, there used to be a haxie[0] that could hook Carbon apps and make it so if there were any progress bars in a window, once the progress bar reached 100% progress the "water" in it would begin to overflow and fill the window. Completely pointless but fun.

[0]: A formalized way to distribute code injection hacks for the purpose of user customization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsanity
I can appreciate that parenthood is a form of service because I have lived it. What I cannot appreciate is an ungrateful child. Society will continue to descend into morass because of unwillingness to care for others. However I didn't learn this in a vacuum but had instruction as a child to value others. Generally to "love my neighbor as myself".

But more specifically...

Leviticus 19:32

Exodus 20:12

Ephesians 6:1-3
I guess my question is - why do I care about geekbench? When was the last time someone who doesn't play games on their phone thought "man, I wish this was faster"? Because it's been years for me. The good news I hear is that Samsung is finally improving their battery life. That is a score that I actually care about.
The worst about teams is that they still haven't implemented a corrected markdown editor. Its a pain to copy code into it
The Mistress of Slang
Haha, are you suggesting all products eventually break and we resort to solving problems with small hand-crafted turing machines made of sticks?
Test Yourself on Rails ActiveRecord API
or wickr!
The Cause of Layoffs
Copilot seems pretty magical to me so far. It seems to be aware of not only the AST but also the types, so if you design your types well it can often get things correct.
I can't say I've ever wanted to work as a trucker, but I have wanted to give a sleeper cab a try at least once in my life, just to see what it's like.
shoot, I forgot to put Ask HN in front of it.
Could rent it as co-working space on the rest of the days
Fitbit recalls 1.7M smartwatches due to burn risk
> if you think the UK in any manner is an authoritarian unaccountable state. COVID hysteria aside

And punishment for tweeting mean things aside: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...

And dragnet surveillance aside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_2016?...

And the likely introduction of complete monetary surveillance and control aside: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-07/uk-plans-...

The slope is indeed slippery, and the UK is very far down it already.
So much negativity in this thread, jeez.

I love current Thunderbird but it undeniably has its issues. Firstly, of course this is subjective, but its UI is starting to look dated. Lots of you are complaining about modern UIs, but I think the designs [0][1] look great and are much more readable than the current design, which looks straight out of Ubuntu 8.04.

Then there are some major UX issues, the most obvious one being the lack of conversation view, which is how pretty much everybody expects an email client to work in 2023. Supernova implementing that is reason enough to be excited about the release.

I can't wait to try it out - keep up the awesome work, team!

[0] https://developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/thunderbird-supernova-p...
I'd be interested what the financial analysis looks like leasing or owning hubs vs a cadence of offsites annually remote first orgs usually hold, considering meeting space + hoteling for staff during the meet. I'll chip in for this analysis and blog post!
GitHub has had so many outages in the last year. I can't imagine this is going to get better if they are going to lay off 10% of people. So many companies developer productivity relies on GitHub being up. I hope the remaining the folks who were not impacted can make large strides in increasing reliability of GitHub.
I mean… the FDA could drastically reduce the price of drugs and prevent shortages by allowing imports of medicines approved in the EU or Canada.
It’s 60-days from your last pay check. I had some severance which extends that period.
Not that I agree with the above comment, but Valve is a private company. Hence, they would not be beholden to shareholder pressures. Perhaps the argument the posted intended was to never join a pubic company?
Officies, especially the great ones (as in also very expensive) create an irrational emotional attachment and are very hard to downsize on them without impacting morale.
I'm on an M1 macbook. Teams is extremely bad. I don't know how to describe it tersely other than everything kinda sucks. I work remotely and take a lot of meeting, so it's like my office in a way... an office that's cramped, leaky, ugly, uncomfortable, and cold.
Agreed about the problem, not the solution. Detection won’t work, it’s way too noisy. We’re heading for bumpy times, soon you no longer need to be a govt to run a credible disinfo campaign. You can run one from your basement, (replacing beer brewing our sourdough making perhaps).
Almost every tech company will have some sort of commit hook using isort to force correct import ordering at the top of the file.
If I could have Android/Linux/whatever I choose on Apple hardware, I absolutely would purchase
Damn. I _knew_ there was something I forgot to do setting up Tbird this time!
Oh, how the Socialists have been laid low. Once, they promised utopia. Now... they're pretty sure they can make cheap insulin.

I wish them luck, but I won't hold my breath.
Does this mean we need to start migrating open source off GitHub? Will GitHub tighten up the restrictions on the free tier?