skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Teaching is much easier in person.

In my experience this is not the case for developers. Being over someone from behind or having someone peer at my screen while I'm typing is much worse than just screen sharing where we both have our keyboards and two large monitors.
Geriatrics is what fuels the medical establishment, that and psychiatric meds.
If the point isn't how an LLM replace a search engine, then why is Bing using an LLM to replace their search engine?

When you ask whether speaking English and using logic can improve the search experience, I wonder what you consider the most important parts of the search experience? I think many people, most of the time, might say that "accurate information" is their highest expectation, with "a pleasant conversation" somewhere below that. Delivering a plausible-sounding and pleasant answer that's completely wrong is... well, that's not a search engine I can depend on, is it?

You're hypothesizing a few things at the end that sound great! It's completely unclear whether any of those things will actually end up happening, so I think the focus on what is available today, with Chat-GPT and Bing, is more apt than a focus on what could be.
Re >> Feel free to ask if you have any other doubts. -- Well, since you offered...

If a calzone is a pie, is a hot pocket a pie? Would that make a pop-tart a smaller fruit pie?

If a taco is a sandwich, does that make taquitos (rolled tacos) sandwiches? If taquitos are sandwiches, are eggrolls? What about burritos?

Is bannana bread a cake?
email "protocol" is clunky and old AF. no need to build an email client for the 21st century when everything underneath it a donkey pulling a cart full of rotten fish. stmp/pop/imap and all the dkip.. is pure crap. we need to overhaul the entire email/messaging delivery system. not just the face of it.
Alphabet’s $100B Stock Swoon Shows AI Stakes Are Rising
It's less that it's the trendy thing to do, but more that the bar has been lowered.

If this is an option you're considering, then it's a much easier message to sell if everyone is doing it. Otherwise you look like the bad performer and it'll hurt morale and stock price even more.
Read up on the Soviet history. The Commies invented this stuff and turned Soviet Russia into a gigantic proving ground.
I've worked with some fantastic talent out of Brazil and Ecuador.
Interesting takeaway. One of the big lessons I took away from the prior three years is that there’s an absolute ton of groupthink and trend chasing among tech leadership. Going all in on remote, over hiring 21-22, now layoffs all come to mind.

There are notable exceptions. Apple rejected (thus far) all three of those trends and is weathering this period much better than most of the industry.
I appreciate the honesty of this article but I just don’t quite understand why you’d need to burn $300K to learn these lessons: Small receipts, keeping drinks warm, staffing issues and daily order seasonality.

At the risk of being naive, couldn’t you work out the margins of this business on a napkin, or by asking a few local coffee shops? Or by running a subscription pilot with an existing shop? It just feels like this endeavor was tech first and business second. Shiny apps don’t solve any of the above problems.
Revenue alone is a bad way to judge how a mature company is doing. Their net profit margin is under 1%.

And the best way to capitalize on high revenue is to cut costs--layoffs.
Uh oh, are you an AI? You seem to have missed my attempt at wry humor.
I think non-webmail has been more trouble than it's worth for some time now.
This is a brilliant idea. One of those "why hasn't that happened yet??" ones.

Is there any way for me to obscure PII data easily? or anonymise any data recognised as file contents or base64? That'd help.

Have you considered hooking up alerts. For example to run `npx pythagora --script ./path/to/your/server.js --mode test` but with an option to pass a key/function to send alerts(perhaps just picking up test fail and dealing with it in the CI is better though) if a test fails that previously passed (wherever that command is run, so in the CI or if manually ran).

We do use socket.io for a massive amount of our requests so I don't think it'd cover that (happy if wrong?) but I will look into if we can add a pull request for socket.io support, if you are interested in that scope creep... As that would be very powerful.
I'm not even sure the problem exists. Most people don't care when their coffee was roasted. For me, I'm fine to get what's in the pre-brewed carafe, especially in an office, where it's free. (There is an automatic/on-demand machine as well but I never bother with it.)
Unless you provide genetic modification services 110% free to everyone and anyone regardless of literally anything, gene modification inevitably will result in an underclass that can't afford it.
I got to wonder if it feels less confrontational only because it’s harder to see their reactions to your comments.

Obviously I don’t know how these meetings go, just a passing observation
There was one time that Kodak made record profits and now they exist in name only.

"Past performance is not indicative of future results"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column-oriented_DBMS

and past that making the "big" data as "small" as you can by removing points that aren't necessary, removing fields that aren't necessary, and representing the remainder with as few bits as possible.
Kareem himself says in this article:

> if someone had broken my record within ten years of me setting it.... I might have hobbled out of retirement just to add a few more points on my record

Different approaches serve you well at different times in your life. I bet a big part of the reason Kareem can be at peace at 75 is knowing that he busted his ass to make the best use of his abilities during his competitive lifetime. He played at an elite level in the NBA for an incredibly long time, which testifies to an incredible level of discipline, focus, and competitiveness, and then spent years as an assistant coach. If he had taken his current attitude when he was young, he might not have been as relaxed and happy now.
What do you think the fine will be for lying to the FCC about this one? Im guessing 250k and a strongly worded apology letter.
It's just the first cut (for all companies). You can't do 50% right away as you don't know what will happen, so you need to do in steps. If they were just 7% over hired then they could just do attrition + a bit tougher perf reviews, or close a few teams over the course of a year but there is high chance for all companies they are not 10% or 7% or 15% over hired but 50%
Nah I think you have it backwards. The ones who make it have that mindset throughout.
Curious if anyone knows how they handled references between gc arenas and others using different reclamation machinery
Sounds like a good excuse to run a bit of fiber
yes, the hallucination problem is problematic, but remember the pixel attacks on the first visual DNNs? They were made more resilient with GANs, which were the first hallucinators? I've been waiting for capsule networks to get a better algo, wonder if there is something similar for LLMs...

I expect these LLMs to improve in the coming years, especially as they are made into products and wrapped with more tools into Q&A pipelines.
> ... so low in responsiveness that it's literally quicker for me to open a new tab [and] load Google Mail

Might have to do with us having allowed to infest mail, like so many other things, with the piece of shit that is CSS. As it's formulated, it would indeed appear gross, but coming to think about it, it's no wonder that loading a document into an already running browser is faster than starting a web browser albatross afresh.

Maybe embedding (and keeping up to date with security band aids) an old Moz browser is the problem, but I don't remember performance to be as much as a problem when I was still using Thunderbird. I was glad it existed and hope their rewrite goes well.
Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives.

Now we have a population and climate crisis.

If idiots want to end themselves by not vaccinating maybe we should stop fighting them?
It got negative feedback if the model gave wrong-sounding answers, which is not the same as wrong answers.

I have seen no indication that they had anybody verify the factual content of answers in the training process, and many indications that they did not.
Almost every serious recent scandal that goes against dominant hegemonic interests was "a crazy conspiracy theory" until the day when the evidence for it became overwhelming, then it switched instantly into a "nothingburger", "everyone always knew it was true," old news. The most important thing, both before the switch and after, seems to be to prevent people from talking about it.
I'm dreading the redesign, even though at the moment I have no idea of how it will look like.

What webmail can one use to read and write mail for multiple accounts? I will need to have a sort of unified inbox for at least 5-6 accounts, and to see the folders of all those accounts in the same window.
A few years at a FAANG is pretty much post money unless you burned it all
Very true :). It doesn’t help that this isn’t exactly a little blog post, it’s a popular New Yorker feature…
Yes, my last memory of my grandfather was him mistaking me for a friend of his. I'd rather my children and grandchildren see me finish my race strong and with my wits about me, then drugged into a stupor.
obligatory https://xkcd.com/386/
Google doesn't do that too?

I don't need to use chatGPT to look up crime statistics, most of the info that you'd find on these "news" sites are just as bad.
This is an external perception, but internally they tried to upsell some web and email hosting stuff by including those options by default when purchasing a new domain. Those options were literally invisible to the unsuspecting customer like me, thanks to dark UI patterns and small fonts. And of course, the purchase wasn't refundable after the fact it was made! The only thing that saved me from being ripped off was a spending limit on my PayPal account. Mind you, that was the last time I've ever purchased a new domain from GoDaddy. They lost me forever.

At the same time, their domain broker service was excellent and allowed me to acquire a few already registered domains I desperately needed without spending too much.
I feel like what I want is a LLM that can tell me not only a summary answer, but what search terms are most likely to return documentation for the answer. Provide clickable citations documenting the answer using those terms (it can iterate on the answer and terms if they aren't internally consistent). Then give summaries of the information at each citation and/or parameters to input if the response requires further operations/searches. It could provide some commentary of the quality/recency of those citation/sources as well.

That makes the response more current than the last LLM crawl&tune, allows a further directed search based on the new parameters, and provides a traceable path to sources and citations. If it finds that there's not a Python library with that name then iterate.

Basically, an LLM should have a very good idea what good search terms are for the topic, and where to find the information, whereas I might not know the acronyms, jargon, or related fields and optimal answers.

Yes, this is getting pretty close to writing an 8th grade class report that covers anything on the web. That's about where these seem to be.

*ps I copied this from a post I made yesterday*
Is laying people off the new marketing strategy these days?
> assuming the US does not have other healthcare related taxes which I do not know about

The U.S. government pays about the same amount per capita (1.2 trillion for ~400 million people or $3000/person) on healthcare as the UK gov. That’s before private insurance costs. Some of this is on things like Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA, which are nationalized health systems for specific portions of the population, but the point still stands that we’re not avoiding taxes going the private route.
I never had that issue... and my .thunderbird folder is ~15gb. Sorting the email (eg. by size) takes a few seconds though, but i don't do that often.

Compared to eg. gmail (web interface), i find the speeds comparable, with the added benefit of having my emails offline (too).
Why would an LLM be better at this than Google?
Can anyone tell me how this lab grown meat has any sustenance? Animals get vitamins, minerals etc. from their lifestyles and what they eat. I see this stuff as the equivalent of white bread. Yeah it might look similar but nutritionally it's as good as eating cardboard.

No way I'm trying this lab grown artificial meat until his extensive nutritional studies. The FDA's food pyramid ought to be enough to not trust them on approving this.

As with most food, the more industrialized it gets the worse it is for our health and you can bet the moment they can commercialize this the point it's profitable then whether it's healthy or not will be inconsequential.
It is when it comes to giving informed consent.
That's my point. I'm not pointing fingers. When these stories first begin to trend, I looked up the data and saw the raw numbers. Any preconceived notions you may have are yours and yours alone.
This feels like super pointless speculation because unless you were there in the room there's no way to know what Elon did or did not contribute to the founding.

Elon was on stage when they announced OpenAI in 2015. He was co-chair with Sam. They presumably both worked to get the founding team in place. The idea of OpenAI was both of theirs. He likely put up more than $100 million for its founding.

Elon wasn't "on the team" any more than Sam at the start. But no one questions whether Sam is a founder.
Weathering the trend only really makes sense when you know there is growth on the other side. Maybe a lot of these companies grew to accommodate the explosive growth caused by working from home and they are no longer certain they really need the extra workforce in the coming few years?
But they won't dig through thousands, they'll use (at least anything I've seen) will use the first 5 or 10 results. It would be prohibitively expensive to use thousands of results. So it's still just using the underlying ranking algo.
> Anyone who buys gas from Russia is essentially supporting genocide of Ukrainian civilians, if suffering is what we're talking about.

Recent reports suggest the US and certain European nations sabotaged peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Are those nations supporting the genocide of Ukrainian civilians?
Sure, you can use the ISP modem and a laptop on wifi.

But that sucks ass.

Wouldn't you rather have real monitors/screens, a solid wired connection to a network and a real keyboard and mouse? Yea it takes space and time but its way better.
Certainly beats a Medium subscription, where you pay (more?) to read 95% garbage when compared with what's put in The New Yorker.
Unfortunately, at least for me, I've had to mostly switch away from Thunderbird. It has becoming rather frustratingly slow. For example, if I archive an email, it takes 10 to 15 seconds for this to be reflected in the interface. When I have 50 or so emails to deal with, this adds up to a surprising amount of time, and becomes rather frustrating. (I suspect having large volumes of email is part of the issue.)

On the much needed feature side of things, other email clients have the very useful feature of showing the complete conversation history (across all accounts) in a sidebar. This alone has been a compelling reason to switch email clients, though, the real reason I switched was the extremely slow interface.

I sincerely hope these changes will make Thunderbird usable for me again.
It was announced this morning- during the initial Microsoft layoffs they were told GitHub wasn't impacted.
I'm not, to be clear, and I just wrote a giant referenced comment where I clarify that most things don't matter until you're at scale.

But for something small like that, may as well fix it now.
Magid: Utah bill threatens internet security for everyone
That is the trailing twelve months rate, and inflation was very high in the first six months of the trailing twelve months.

Core inflation actually fell last month [1], and the producer price index has been very low the past several months [2]

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/core-pce-price-in...
[2] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/core-producer-pri...
This is what’s currently happening at all levels. It’s why you see so many companies doing ~5% layoffs while still actively hiring for some roles.
Check out https://hckrnews.com/
You're entirely correct, but DEI doesn't only concern itself with class differences. If it did there would be no D or I in it. It deepens socio-ethnic divides by declaring that what color your skin is determines what your grades are worth, what opinions you're allowed to express, whether or not you are worthy to occupy a particular place in academics or business or society.
Not that I am aware of. Microsoft did not include GitHub in their numbers so I am thinking this is in addition.
Sounds like a huge headache after you've given them full financials. and potentially opened a loan and submitted registration and insurance forms.
> The point isn’t “can an LLM replace google” the point is “can robots that can speak English and use logic improve the search experience” which I think basically everyone would answer “yes” to. Complaining that it gets stuff wrong when not hooked up to a web of resources to cite is, IMO, completely missing the point.

I think the complaints are more about the "use logic" point than the sources, from my limited understanding, I would not say LLMs currently use logic.
Me: a personal anecdote does not have the weight of a body of peer reviewed articles.

You: why are personal anecdotes worthless?

Binary thinking is too transparent. You seem to be using binary thinking to suggest that if anecdotes have any value, they must be treated as having equal value with any other source of data, including rigorously designed and executed studies.
Ignoring the percentages and just taking your question alone, I prefer the spam. It's easy to spot the spam. It's harder to spot the hallucination.
Remote desktop software is traditionally the source of many hacks - like exploiting the software itself, not just using it. So there is a relevant security angle here.

Aside from that though - there's a lot of comments on rust threads in general about how Rust isn't ready for this or that or the next thing, so these types of projects showcase that maybe the "not ready" info is outdated or over-exaggerated.

It's also one of those things that seems to occur "naturally" as a language becomes more widely adopted. A few years ago there were tons of projects linked here about "x - a tool for y written in go". And before that ruby or python, etc.
Similar article posted a week ago with zero comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622526
Most recent study shows that a colonoscopy does not have any effect on cancer outcomes or early detection.
You know you're truly fluent in a second language when schemes like this, and even "text speak" are intelligible to you. I'm conversationally competent in a handful of languages but can only text with a teenager in one other than my native. Shit's hard.
Your salary is the cost to replace you with someone else.

In person jobs have a smaller market. Everyone is subject to the same COL, so the min salary the employer must pay has a certain floor to it.

Remote jobs have a larger market. If you're remote, your employer may as well hire someone from Ohio that is willing to work for half your salary. You have to compete on cost with those cheaper employees.
> Might have to do with us having allowed to infest mail, like so many other things, with the piece of shit that is CSS.

Wouldn't that only make sense if your Gmail tab wasn't also loading up the same CSS?
Nope, the issues seem to lie more in just plain bad code. It is seems to be mostly their IMAP code and their mbox code which goes crazy and starts using all CPU, not the UI. The issues happen when opening folders too.
I spend most of my time in #!/bin/ash and while I could install bash on everything using ash reduces my use of bashisms [1]. I stick with ash or sometimes bash so that my skills and habbits albeit not perfect are transferable to any system belonging to almost anyone or any company.

[1] - https://teddit.sethforprivacy.com/r/linux/comments/1h13g8/ba...
I can get a good stock pick from time to time throwing at a dart at the newspaper. In fact, those stock picks perform about as well as stock picks from pundits like Jim Cramer.
You’re very clearly not the target market for this. There are most definitely people who obsess over good coffee and would never drink, for example, Dunkin Donuts cigarette butt tea. That said, that’s still not evidence for or against product-market fit. That’s what revenue is for.
Being an insider to the OTA industry, hoteliers are reckless with their data and buy into very fishy / phishy ways of convincing people to cancel their bookings with OTAs and book directly (to avoid commission).

Almost every hotel account compromised last year in our company (small startup) was due to the hotelier giving someone else their user and password so someone would set up a bot that would automatically send bookers SMS and emails with "your booking was canceled, click here to retry", directing to their own websites.

That's how so many companies are affected by these "leaks".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ika

Not sure if this is what the author is going for, but -ika appears to be a czech suffix indicating a study or branch of science. Which makes this kind of a cool name, in my opinion.
Thank you! Could be an idea. The PDF logic itself is in a C++ library that can be compiled against different platforms. A cli for instance shouldn't be too difficult to create. If you are thinking about a native UI, I am not sure it adds so much value when there is already the browser version.
I work really hard not to do this, and have more than once posted a message like yours.

However, my point here was that at the time of posting, the comment threads for this HN post were largely devoid of any skepticism about LM+search, and were completely dominated by a calm acceptance that it was all inevitable. And I wasn't trying to say "all of HN believes <X>", but rather "I would have expected there to be more voices in the comment thread expressing skepticism, because I know there are some smart people here"

Google's Bard demo certainly tweaked the situation by the end of the day.
"it's essentially really deep auto-complete"

This is the most accurate description I've even read.
> The people who get squeezed are those of us who want an inheritance

There's the world's smallest violin playing for these people. The amount of delusional privilege to be in a position where you not only expect an inheritance, but also expect a certain amount of the inheritance, and yet refuse to care for your elderly is mind-blowing.

It's on par with parents who kick out their adult children out at 18 years out of the house.

Those 2 groups of people will firmly be labeled as pieces of shit in my mind and no amount of arguments will ever sway that position.
And #3 delivery sucks...and food/drink delivery sucks even more.
Thanks, With all the layoffs going on, your fellow countrymen will appreciate the job opportunities :)