skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there is otherwise very little information then where do you think ChatGPT is pulling that information from? It does not pull stuff out of the void, it's only as accurate as the data shoved into it and that data can be very wrong.

People get into a state of false confidence using ChatGPT for things they cannot easily fact check.
Darcs, monotone(1), and arch all seemed really interesting back in the day.. I was really rooting for Darcs and Monotone.

Then one day git and mercurial popped up and grabbed the limelight.

And now Git seems to have stolen the show...
Pijul seems pretty cool - but its hard to compete with the 800 lb gorilla.

1) https://www.monotone.ca/
Rust is, but its slope seems to be pointed towards more code

People playing with new stuff in a regular basis? HN Readers: all, RestOfWorld: None.

People who have heard of rust? Similar to above.

Rest of world=99.99% of devs.

Yes I am exaggerating, but this place is a bubble. Rust does seem to be growing in popularity, but so far, doing so in a really tight community.
I understand the desire to tinker because you know how to do that, versus actually selling the thing, because you're not confident doing that.

There's lots of ways to market things, and you'll get done good advice here, but ultimately marketing works better when you have something of value.

The process of marketing often either encourages you, or shows you the thing you are making has no value, and it's time to work on something else.

Just like "being old" doesn't make something valuable, so "I've worked really hard, and for a long time" also means nothing. It's really important to market early in a project, sometimes even before the project starts, to determine if it has legs. Once you've done a lot of work, it becomes harder to let go, and easier to believe it needs "just one more feature."

So here's my advice about marketing. Tell me who your customer is. What do they do? What tools do they use? How does using this tool make their life better? How much money do they have? Can they afford this? Why will they choose this over the current incumbent?

Most good apps start with a very specific pain point. People will pay to take pain away. If there's no pain, they don't much care. Be front and centre so folks with that pain understand that your goal is to remove that pain.

25 years ago the biggest pain in my life was around an error code I would encounter. I made a tool that made the error go away. Forever. My marketing consisted of 1 line "makes xxx error go away". That was enough to validate the product and get me going. I've done enormous amounts of traditional marketing since then, but the fundamentals are still true - show people their pain, then make it go away.

Make your home page a description of the pain you are setting out to solve. Not a random video of the UI.
> I think that is because it’s less socially acceptable for men to be vulnerable, or discuss their feelings.

This is also true in the broader sense of public discourse. I remember talk shows like Oprah Winfrey in the 1990s discussing women's sexual health and how women never get to discuss or explore women's sexual health issues.

Fast forward 30 years and I've come to realize that this narrative--1) women experience X, 2) women never get to openly discuss X--is a constant. Not just in the past 30 years, but going back for a least a century if you read popular women's magazines.

Heck, just last night on NPR (KQED) there was discussion about menopause and how women are ignorant about the physiology of menopause because it's never openly discussed. And I'm like, "are you kidding me! I don't have enough fingers to count how many times over the past 20+ years I've heard a program on KQED not only dedicated to menopause, but claim that nobody ever talks about menopause." As contrasted to men's health issues, where I definitely have enough fingers.

Which isn't to deny a deficit in open discourse regarding many women's issues, but certainly there's no deficit in the narrative that women's issues are never openly discussed; quite the opposite, they're constantly discussed--on the air, in print, etc, because apparently there's strong demand among women to discuss them.
> It's easy to say "oh they should've raised rates in 2017 or 2014" in 2022. It was much harder to say back then.

it's funny that you brought this up unprompted because this is the obvious counterargument - the fed really really should have been doing moderate tightening of the interest rate in 2017-2018-2019 and everybody knows it, even you. Everyone said it too, I completely do not get your "it was much harder to say it back then", this was specifically something that everyone said was a bad idea except for one individual (let's call him Individual Number One) who wanted to goose the economy to get numbers up for his re-election the following year, and instead leaned on the fed to cut interest rates instead, throwing gas onto an already-roaring fire. And then when the pandemic hit the fed had absolutely no room to maneuver.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/30/federal-r...

this was all extremely predictable, for literally everyone except Individual #1, who didn't really care.
The difference is huawei routers in the west are gathering intelligence on and setting up network to disable, western infrastructure.

But Cisco in China is gathering intelligence on and setting up network to disable, chinese infrastructure.

I live in the west and happen to like our infrastructure. So while I don't think Cisco should be doing what its doing, I would completely ban Chinese gear from the infrastructure be it backbone or consumer level.
> “the biggest problem with wanting to ‘cure’ blindness is that it reinforces a moral superiority of sorts by those without disabilities over those who are disabled.“

What is this drivel???
I'm not really sure what this article is on about. I have not seen this Mr Beast video but I have heard about it.

I started developing cataracts in my eyes years ago but did not have any sight problems till last year. Since then vision in my right eye had deteriorated to the point that I could only make out vague blurs of lightness and darkness with a bit of colour. I lost the ability to drive and had my computer set to a high zoom level to compensate.

I had surgery on my right eye on Tuesday and now my vision is almost back to where it was before. I have another op due in a fortnight for the left eye.

I don't really see how cataract surgery is ableist. I do understand the authors frustration about society and the way it treats disabled people but that has nothing to do with this surgical procedure.
This article puts systematic stupidity on display.
He's right up there with Linus Torvalds and Fabrice Bellard.
I feel less charitable. In the last couple of decades, there has been meaningful change in people adhering to traditional gender roles. Especially in the last 10 years, I have seen a huge push to break the cultural acceptance of toxic masculinity. Pretending that men would be less familiar or feel it less intensely, in this day and age, is continuing the underlying themes of toxic masculinity. It's not just disheartening, it's disrespectful. I understand arguing that it affects women disproportionately, but I can't understand arguing that it won't affect men. Even if you are immersed in feminist literature, you have to be aware of the changing gender norms.
John Ousterhout ... Tcl may be the thing that most associate with his name, but to me he's Mr Magic[1]. Magic is the research program that (helped) begat efabless[2] and gives me the hope of making my own chip some day, just after this next major project is over and done with.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(software)

2: https://efabless.com/kb-articles/layout
You'd have to maintain multiple projects to do this completely

- go tool

- gopls

- govulncheck

That's a lot of effort so you can avoid ~1 report per year?

> Based on the sample rates, the Go installation might send a report containing the counter values of interest. Typical sample rates would be around 2% (averaging ~1 report per installation per year), but very rare events could be sampled at a higher rate, up to the 10% limit. As more systems take part in transparent telemetry, the overall sample rate on any given system will decrease, because only a fixed number of samples is necessary.

Have you read what they are proposing?
Holy mother of bad takes. The same argument could also be extended to “old culture is real” or “poor culture is real” but that should not be reason to eliminate working to improve welfare. What are the psychological workings to make people say things like these?
And Substack's already starting to feel the same way; the incessant prompts to create an account and subscribe to something are the telltale first red flags heralding an intention to put monetization first and utility second.
One reason Seattle does well on walkability is that it has a lot of streetcar suburbs.
Mast1c0re: Part 2 – Arbitrary PS2 code execution
I have admittedly traveled quit a lot, but these days I travel a lot less, partially due to COVID the last few years and partially due to limiting myself to train or low emission transport when possible. These days I primarily travel to meet people, to see a live performance or ten, just hang out and experience the culture or experiencing something together with other people.

In the end, there are only that many museums, waterfalls or temples you want to see. It probably is a relatively wealthy persons perspective, but like in the post, the lasting memories tend to be the people.
Your own govt isn't going to sabotage its infrastructure in war with an adversary.
Correct. Rubber meeting the road comment here. This is the reality of most farms in America. Possibilities are not "endless" for revolutionizing farm practices, they must be profitable and margins are tight.
> I'd rather be spied on by a western democracy than China.

Why? What has china done that's worse? Did they nuke a country? Wipe out entire races of people? Did those nasty chinese invade dozens of countries? There is nothing inherent in a western democracy that makes it good.

> Our intelligence agencies are out of control but there's still better mechanisms for reigning them in than China.

There are no mechanisms for controlling any intelligence agencies. All intelligence agencies around the world are state actors. No law applies to them. Ask the people the intelligence agencies murdered, drugged, experimented on, etc.

Unless you are chinese, you are far better off being "spied on" by the chinese than a western democracy because the chinese don't have any jurisdiction over you. This is all common sense. China isn't going to arrest you and put you in jail. A western democracy will though.
Yeah… Flour has got to be some of the lesser processed of all the possible processed foods out there.
The Pentagon showed during the whole Afghanistan situation that they are perfectly comfortable making Biden look bad to the press. I see no reason why they would lie to run cover for him now.
Before spending $$$ on the hardware accelerators, there is still a lot to achieve using software optimizations for inference and trainings workloads. We optimized GPT-J, and others, for real. https://centml.ai/benchmarks/
the latter - you can either have multiple concurrent readers or a single writer. see https://duckdb.org/faq.html#how-does-duckdb-handle-concurren....
I disagree. The XUL forks serve their purpose well, but their lack of popularity is more due to being built by a very small team of volunteers, who've taken on the thankless and gargantuan task of maintaining the aging codebases of both Firefox and XUL addons, backporting security fixes from upstream, all the while fighting against limitations imposed by Mozilla as mainstream Firefox moved on.

There's no reasonable chance that such a project could ever build a user base to register as even a blip on the market share graphs.

Some people avoid it precisely because of this doomed factor. Personally, I can't rely on nor trust that a project of that scale is able to navigate the security minefield that modern browsers are, and fix all the routinely discovered issues, let alone those that remain hidden and unreported. So choosing to use it is a conscious acknowledgement that you're sacrificing security for those other features, and very few people are willing to make that sacrifice.
That’s awesome. I really loved the documentary. So much character and really just a blast of that late 70s/early 80s American culture. Really smart and interesting family too..
>and that this capacitance increases not linearly, but exponentially

Well, perhaps I have the "but exponentially" part wrong ("I stand corrected!") -- but it certainly would seem NOT to be linear...

Let us suppose that we set εA to 16, that is, εA = 16.

And let us start with a distance of 16 (d = 16), and compute C for multiple values as we successively halve the distance...

C[1] = εA = 16, d=16 = 16/16 = 1

C[2] = εA = 16, d=8 = 16/8 = 2 (difference between previous value = 1)

C[3] = εA = 16, d=4 = 16/4 = 4 (difference between previous value = 2)

C[4] = εA = 16, d=2 = 16/2 = 8 (difference between previous value = 4)

C[5] = εA = 16, d=1 = 16/1 = 16 (difference between previous value = 8)

As we can clearly see -- this is definitely not a linear relationship... If it were, the difference would be constant per unit of change of distance, and it is not.

But, let's be sure by trying single step difference of 1 for the distance:

εA = 16, d=16 = 16/16 = 1

εA = 16, d=15 = 16/15 = 1.06666666667

εA = 16, d=14 = 16/14 = 1.14285714286

Nope!

Not linear!

So perhaps "exponentially" is the wrong term -- but halving the distance between plates gets more capacitance, and halving it again gets even more!

But it is definitely not a linear relationship...

(Also, in theory, if the distance between plates in a capacitor could be made infinitely small (assuming that dieletric breakdown wouldn't be a problem -- we are dealing with a purely theoretical capacitor here!) -- then in theory, the Capacitance of such a device -- would be infinite...

That's simply because if an equation of the form 1/x governs a relationship, then as x approaches 0, 1/x approaches infinity...)

Anyway, I thank you for your correction!
Not to mention highway 99 where the pedestrians are just as crazy, if not more so, than the motorists. The guy coasting down the highway in a shopping cart takes the cake.

I put a lot of thought into the house I bought in Ballard, my kid won’t have to cross a four lane road (15th) till he hits high-school.
This Google vs MS situation is simply going to heat up the war for the search market share, but Apple and many other companies are fine and will roll out their own LLMs, as they're getting easier to build and train. Enhancing Siri seems like a natural first step.
Everybody and their siblings is putting up 'Subscribe now' begging bowls. Who's going to do all that subscribing? Some of them show you a couple paragraphs, as if that was enough to get the purses open?

Give it up. Give. It. Up. Subscriptions were for the mailing of paper magazines a century ago. Back when, you know, the whole world wasn't opened-wide on the net. Who subscribes to non-org mags anymore?

The best podcasters have patreon accounts. Some even actually, and personally, thank contributors by name. People even send them stuff.

Or get a bunch of big-media companies to get some kind of micropayment options online. Not for the 2 paragraphs but the whole article. A quarter is not $5 but ten-thousand quarters a day might just keep you afloat.
In the proposal and blog posts, they estimate that an installation will send on average ~1 report per year, with the expectation that this will decrease over time. They are very open about what information they are and are not collecting. Additionally, they will be making the raw data collected publicly available, so we can all inspect it to see.

I'd be curious to know if another tool which collects metrics is as transparent as the Go team.
Agreed, I've tried a couple and they're undrinkable.
Why would that be relevant if the thin wrapper is fully compliant with the POSIX/GNU standards?

Busybox with it's single binary, depend-on-arg[0]-hack implantation was at one point an "untested strategy", yet look at it now. Rust's Coreutils need to offer a real uvp if they want to see real adoption. Providing coreutil as a library and not forking processes would certainly qualify as that.
Vandenberg routinely launches ICBMs, this isn't anything new.

They launch a few times a year [1]

[1]: https://www.spacearchive.info/vafblog.htm
You better ship your MVP ASAP to determine if people are willing to pay. This girl shipped the exact thing - AI designs printed on shirts - about two months ago. I checked today and her site is offline. She claims to be working on something else. Perhaps she failed - and that's fine.

The website
https://www.dreamweaverai.com/
No. It’s important to realize that this is basically a type of spiritual practice. The most important parts can’t easily be described in words, but I was able to pick them up from watching videos and following the emotional energy, not just the explicit instructions. Wim will often start singing randomly, and this singing is actually part of the lesson.

I get annoyed when he tries to explain the science behind it, and clearly doesn’t understand what he is talking about. I think that does an injustice to what the method actually is.
Russ is a Distinguish Engineer, not an executive
By the same logic, the chinese government can't do anything to you, but your own government can arrest you, persecute you, execute you, etc. You'd have to be insane to prefer to be spied on by your own government rather than china.
This is a quick but good read. I think he is maybe too humble sometimes. Some may not know Richard hipp of SQLite fame develops other tcl projects -

https://youtu.be/nmgOlizq-Ms

https://wapp.tcl-lang.org/home/doc/trunk/README.md
Because it sold "legitimacy" of your blog as a subdomain.

Being a legit tech blogger is not about the domain, it is about having a significant repository of articles over many years, and for the majority of those articles to be at least insightful or entertaining, if not educational or maybe even introduce something completely novel.

You can't achieve that by signing up at a website which instantly nags its users to sign up to your mailing list. Substack sucks for the same reason.

If you want to be a legit tech blogger, get writing, and write well. See how you're going in a few years.
> And so we lost the incentive for a lot of the best and most interesting authors to bother because they were getting swamped by content-mill type authors. As of December, about 30% of our recommendations are generated by a new system that is picking much higher quality articles that have been vetted for substance over clickbait. This is getting a lot better, rapidly.

Deboosting those content-mill authors is a good step! However changing the recommendation system is not enough. With Google, everyone interacts with it through the search box so them changing the search results is enough to influence what SEO junk is on the front page. But with Medium, anyone can promote their junk articles on Reddit and on other platforms and it will still result in a click and a paywall, which contributes to people avoiding medium.com links. You need to stop incentivizing these content-mill authors altogether (or prominently blackmark these posts/blogs so everyone knows to avoid them).
> Typically to get one you need enough psych assessments to show it was a misdiagnosis or is extremely mild, but you can shop around until you find a psychologist who will write whatever you want.

Just want to clarify something on this point. Doctor shopping doesn't really work well here. The FAA has a list of doctors it listens to, and anyone else's opinion is as good as useless.
The third post is much better for outlining the kinds of questions they hope to answer

https://research.swtch.com/telemetry-uses
This just goes to show how hard it is to create a API to last 30 years. So much has changed since then, but libc needs to keep the same API. Things like Unicode and the internet (which brought the need for security to forefront) have come into popularity since then, but you can’t fix the old functions.
Google has had issues executing on AI in the past, the classic example being their AI classifying black people as gorillas[0]. I can understand why they might want to be cautious given all the scrutiny they'll be under.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/12/16882408/google-racist-go...
In Beijing, the infractions are attached to the vehicle, and you have to pay all your fines on the plate before you can renew your registration every year.
Id love to see a privacy-focused search engine from Apple
ML and AI has been one of the least overhyped things in the tech industry. Chatgpt is the fruit of a lot of that underhyped work and the acclaim it's getting is based on real merit unlike crypto
Do you ever feel like the job comes easy to all your coworkers while you are struggling to stay with the pack?
I feel like if Bard were any good they'd've used him (er the technology) to make a decent inbox policy for gmail. Or maybe that sort of work is beneath him, or would be inhumane? Or just too inefficient to be cost effective I suppose burning your creator's money in a furnace could induce something like suffering for a sentient AI.
California High-Speed Rail
You can take 405 to bypass Seattle, but these days that’s hardly any better. Just two north south corridors to consider.
Paywalls are difficult to get right.

For the consumer, it's very much not like "see 5 articles and now you got me as a subscriber".

I'm not sure what your ratio of free-to-premium content is, but I have a feeling it needs to skew more towards the free side to build engagement again. I hardly ever go on Medium now, but I used to a lot.
Apple HomePod 2 Review
Well, Google did say 'Bard is an experimental conversational AI service'. Not even ChatGPT or Bing AI are any more accurate or reliable and both are also experimental and in preview. [0]

I can confidently say that this stock drop is a typical over-reaction from the markets. Today, neither AI is ready to even challenge or replace search engines due to their hallucination issues and LLMs like ChatGPT are unable to cite their sources or even explain them.

If you cannot trust the output from a chatbot or an AI to generate correct or factual information, then it has little chance in being useful enough to be a reliable search engine replacement.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23589536/microsoft-bing-ai...
Yeah, if we could only cut down our population by 20x or so in order to make firewood sustainable again, that would really show Big-Heatpump /s.
$169 for a HiFi Gibson Assembly kit. Up to 8000bp for about $2200-3500. It's not as forbidding as you might think.

The insistence on IP law being the only probable, legitimate incentive is what's spurious.