skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s brilliant. Is there a way to use this trick to post a reply? It doesn’t seem like replies can be scheduled.
Can vouch for minisearch. Amazing for relative small data that fits in memory.

The typeahead is great.
Never have seen that long hashing even on low power devices.
UK, June 2021, https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/bank-of-england-tells-

> Tom Mutton, a director at the Bank of England, said during a conference on Monday that programming could become a key feature of any future central bank digital currency ... what happens if one of the participants in a transaction puts a restriction on [future use of the money]? ... Sir Jon Cunliffe, a deputy Governor at the Bank, said digital currencies could be programmed for commercial or social purposes ... “You could think of giving your children pocket money, but programming the money so that it couldn’t be used for sweets. There is a whole range of things that money could do, programmable money, which we cannot do with the current technology.”
After Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera, what?
In 2017, "a friend"* did Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera course.

- it renewed their understanding of Matrix Algebra and more importantly "why" they need it (being from India, they were fortunate that they learned matrices by rote, and the Indian education system ensured that details like "why" on earth they needed to study this thing never had a chance to pollute their pristine mind
/sarcasm).

- it gave them an intuitive understanding of how neural networks are a sort of regression (those weights are akin to regression weights).

- it showed them some crazy things, such as how an image is fed into a neural network as a sequence of pixels. They suspect the way humans view images is more holistic... all pixels at the same time.

They did it as a lark. Because pmarca said that he would work on BTC or/and AI if he were young again (they did the BTC Princeton Coursera too).

They're glad they did Ng's course back then. Wonderful teacher, a gift to humanity.

Since then, they've not done anything with AI (they're gratefully and gainfully employed, albeit in an unrelated area). But they kept an eye on developments in the space, such as "tensors".

They're beginning to see some urgency in AI now. The noise is building up to a crescendo.

They want to jump in again, and dedicate every spare hour to learning more. Where it will take them, who knows. With gratitude, they don't currently need it to earn their bread. But who knows why they might need it in future.

However, they don't want to read any more "think pieces" in Bloomberg or Forbes about how AI will affect the future. They want to get busy learning the MVK (minimum viable knowledge) for actually building something useful, and alone.

The "alone" part is important.

So, they need to learn the AI equivalent of dev ops, front end, and back end. But not too much (to start with). Just enough. Give them a curriculum, HN. FLOSS/FOSS of course. Please, and thanks in advance.

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* Forgive me for trying Taleb's "a friend" instead of using first person. He says it gets better results.
Arguably the most popular software in the industry is Mac only, Final Cut Pro
No.

The one to end Google’s search dominance is an open source ChatGPT alternative. That will disrupt both Google, Bing and OpenAI.

It’s that simple.
Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are down as well.
Streamers who aren't big enough to be financially successful (which is 99.999%) but have dreams of high viewer counts and big advertising checks (they work hard at growing their channels) are like an underfed child army of influence. The desperation to be popular online fuels a tremendous aggregate effort with little return for the streamers, but which is very effective at drawing their peers and adjacent peer groups into this unhealthy viewership, all in the service of showing ads.

The whole culture around twitch, TikTok, and social media influence generally is very exploitative of teens and younger people with more time and energy than wisdom.

I don't think it's the technology itself that is harmful to kids, not even slightly. It's the environment created online by adults who act to make a profit that drives the pathological use of technology. It's exploiting people's psychology, their need for attention or belonging, and constantly driving engagement that makes the impact of tech on society so ugly. The biggest danger to our youth online is arguably unfettered capitalism, not child predators.

Capitalism can and does work synergistically without the kind of pathological, societal self-harm that's so broadly accepted. Modern technology has just enabled perverse new ways to chew up and spit out the young and disadvantaged en masse while essentially looking the other way, just seeing the participants as rows in a DB table. From most parents' point of view, the threats posed by the profiteering actors in tech are hard to detect and reason about, and hard to protect from in ways that aren't net harmful & draconian, so many young people are left very vulnerable.

Further, for many tech workers, or for those that use the tech to generate business, it's hard to steer away from "evil technology" that is so effective in paying the bills.
Many intentionally don't show outages. Amazon is generally quite picky about what is considered an AWS service outage
Which other nations?
The compute side needs to be solved with money. That may be a hurdle for DDG/Kagi.

MS has the money. Data is by far and away the hardest part, and DDG's own privacy policies etc will hurt it here, alas.

Personally, I think it is Google's race to win. But they have to DO it. If I start getting better results off DDG or Bing, I'll switch. I'm fickle, and own no loyality to Google.

I just want my StackExchange answers faster, before Google Coder, and Co-Pilot replace me. /s
I haven't paid anything since Windows 8.
Win 10 and 11 have been given to me for free.
The personal backstory and other "fluff" is actually really useful when selecting a recipe. I was laid up with covid/rebound while traveling over the holidays and lived off Hainanese Chicken Rice delivery. Now I want to make it at home and search for a recipe.

#1 result is a long article with culinary history, detailed instructions, many pictures, and a credited author originally from Shanghai.

#2 result is a simple recipe listing from Buzzfeed. Written by a young white guy from Minnesota who worked as a producer. No fluff, no pictures, no backstory. Doubtful the author ever made the recipe at all. You could grab a recipe database and generate thousands of these pages.

I've been burned by #2 too many times disregard the fluff. It shows their investment in the content.
yes, many. Subreddits are sticky and it s almost impossible for someone to start competing with the medium-to-big ones , because the 'obvious' names are taken . This is especially true for countries / cities / brand names. As long as the mods are not completely crazy, there is only one word for 'politics' or 'europe', and users will not go to a new sub just because the mods are better.

If they were individual internet forums, people would just leave instead.
Reddit acts as big single-sign-on that heavily biases users towards its existing subreddits. The fact that reddit admins still allow a small group of people to moderate hundreds of subreddits for decade+ is proof of that. If they cared, they would mandatorily recycle them
This seems pretty reasonable honestly. Who the heck needs to tweet more often than 100 tweets per hour continuously?
If they don’t, then the traceability of traditional search results is just as useless.
Once the literary work is published, the author should lose control over it. Money is one thing, enforcing your rules is another.

Full disclosure: I made a popular (unauthorized) translation of Waiting For Godot many years ago.
If you are on iOS there is a per-app setting where you can disable cellular data for a particular app. It's possible you inadvertently turned that on for Twitter - Its a mistake I've made before and convinced myself I had a bug in my app.
Perhaps he meant he's a free speech maxi-pad?
We should be optimizing for correctness over performance by default, though. People who need binary floating point for perf reasons should already know the tradeoffs.
> I'll admit that I haven't even figured out what it means for anything to "know" something.

Same! That's the overhanging concern I have when hearing comparisons made between artificial and human intelligence. I don't feel that human knowledge/intelligence is well defined enough to the point where we can meaningfully compare it to alternative systems.

But my gut instinct is that our neural architecture is composed of mechanistic biological compounds that gradually evolved sufficiently complex levels of organization to achieve our current level of cognition. Capacity for knowledge/intelligence/consciousness did not suddenly appear at some instant in our evolutionary history, rather it gradually emerged from increasing levels of neural complexity. I would rationalize the development of AI capacity for cognition in a similar light, that it will gradually emerge from increasing levels of complexity.
so far the two features I would lack in older versions would be:

- “copy file path” in the context menu

- More Window tiling options
Do you see yourself relying on it? Not when you know it’s KNOWN to give wrong answers.

It’s also worth mentioning that Google PageRank was not the first search engine. No, it was good 4-5 years after the first usable search engine came to market. I think the same will be true for AI chat.
> there should be a single environment variable (e.g. $TELEMETRY) that all programs should respect, to avoid the need to do work for every application.

There was a proposal for that some years ago, but that didn't really go anywhere, partially because of the author's rather unpleasant attitude towards projects he wanted to implement it and their overly broad definition of "tracking" (which includes e.g. update checks).

Some discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27746587

https://lobste.rs/s/htbkqd/console_do_not_track
I find these discussions frustrating because the UK pound (like the US dollar, the euro, etc) is already digital. THe overwhelming majority of pounds in the UK are just numbers in a database already.

So there's no information being conveyed here by saying "lets have digital pounds". Presumably there's a proposal to add or change something, but you've got to open up the PDF and start skimming to even get a hint of it, because the linked headline and summary is just meaningless.

Since the pound is already digital, the obvious path forward is some mixture of a government provided payment app, and/or government forced interoperability between existing payment apps, possibly augmented by government provided bank accounts either for the unbanked or possibly for everyone (cf "postal banking" and "narrow banking").

Looking at the PDF they seem(?) to have something fairly different in mind, but they do a terrible job of explaining why. Or what exactly they're proposing.

It's just exhausting trying to engage with a proposal this vapourous.
> Google still derives about half of its income from Youtube and 3rd party publisher ads

Their Q4 2022 revenue was $76B [0]. YouTube + 3p ads were a combined $16.5B. That's about 20%, not about half.

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q4_alphabet_earnings...
Microsoft deprecated the disk-image backup in Windows 7 because it was infrequently used... buy random grandparents.

It was basically a "free" wrapper on top of the Volume Shadow Service (VSS) built into the operating system, but only IT professionals ever used it, so... it had to go.
If Google ends up winning in the AI war, search and ads will be significantly cannibalized, but it will have tremendous opportunities outside of search, many of them in areas that don't even exist yet.

In some ways, it might even be good. It's suffering from a kind of advertising resource curse nowadays, and being forced and able to diversify its economy would be best in the long term.
Isn't Google data driven?

Are you asserting that they look at their copious data and decide to make search worse because it makes them more money? Rather than figuring out a way to make search better and then further optimize their advertising income with this better product? And it seems like they've been pretty damn clever about monetizing quality over the years. It's possible that they have chosen to make search worse for profit, wouldn't be the first time a business did something like that but they have a pretty deep institutional fear of search losing relevance and it's hard to see them doing that.

As a long time user and user of the other guys before google, I think Google is shockingly good at finding specific answers to specific questions that I have about all sorts of things, often with fairly deep technical context. Now what is definitely lacking is in the good old days I'd enter some search terms, get pages of results and then some time later I'd find myself enjoyably down some rabbit hole that is tangential to my search needs on some part of the internet that I never even knew existed before. Maybe I'm too busy with work, but I used to spend a lot more time doing internet "research" to get some specific answers, that time seems to be much more efficient; I do sort of feel like I'm corralled to smaller portion of the internet than I used to be. I don't feel like I can't find the information but I have had a hard time re-finding some specific web page I found once way back.

Where does ChatGPT and Bard fit in this? I've played with ChatGPT and it's fun, it's neat, I haven't been able to get it to some how synthesize some wisdom though. It's not hard to see it just mimicking things. That might be valuable. That might be fun. Using it to seed search might be an enjoyable thing. Maybe it can help extract context from people to find out the actual question they are asking to find the actual answer they seek. Now I can absolutely see ChatGPT/Bard assisting in me wasting time going down rabbit holes, I'm not sure it'll be as enjoyable or as magical as how it used to be.

Are there some examples of shitty google search you can bring up? I just entered "Roth contribution income limit" and without even going to another website, I got what looks like a legit answer to my question. Now I'll click though a few to make sure it's accurate and authentic; at a glance, it's coming from Schwab and it looks like a legit answer to my question. Bing comes up with the same answer, it's presented in a nice table but it's lower on the page and below a sizable paid ad from Merrill Lynch (edge?)
But the idea of a door would be a door-icon, and that of an eye would be an eye-icon. Hence why icons persist as a multi-language communications system.
Yes, but other search engines existed before Google. They weren't very useful or pleasant to use.

Google solved a big problem and then went to sleep while counting their money. They even started to be evil.

Now the original problem has evolved but Google hasn't managed to keep up.
In Turkey? That’s interesting. I wonder what changed.

Where’d you learn about that?
Large language models do seem to have some deeper analogies with classically human qualities, including a shared metaphysics: https://www.williamcotton.com/articles/chatgpt-and-the-analy...
Here's what I got:

(prompt:)

You are going to pretend to be an Author. This Author is a Mashup of the following: Voltaire, T.S. Eliot, Jules Verne and Leo Tolstoy. European Style without any American bias, but you don't mention the Author, you just write what this Author writes, a story containing dialogue, about: What was the big news on Jan 1, 2023?

(response:)

On the first day of the year 2023, the residents of the small European village gathered in the town square, eager to hear the latest news.

"What was the big news on Jan 1, 2023?" asked Pierre, a curious villager.

"It's the talk of the town," replied Jacques, a local shopkeeper. "Apparently, a strange airship was spotted flying above the village. No one knows where it came from or who is piloting it."

"An airship, you say?" interjected Francois, a wise elder of the village. "I remember when such things were only the stuff of science fiction. Jules Verne would have been thrilled."

"Indeed," added Marcel, a knowledgeable scholar. "But this airship is no work of fiction. It is said to be large and made of metal, unlike any airship we've seen before. Some even claim it is powered by electricity, like a modern marvel."

"This news is both exciting and concerning," commented Pierre. "What if it's some sort of invasion? We must be cautious."

"Fear not, my friend," comforted Francois. "Leo Tolstoy once wrote, 'All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' This airship may bring change, but it may also bring progress and a better future for us all."

"Change is inevitable," said Marcel, echoing the sentiments of T.S. Eliot. "But let us not forget Voltaire's words, 'Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.' We must approach this new development with an open mind and a critical eye."

And with that, the villagers continued their discussions, speculating about the strange airship and what it could mean for their future. But only time would tell what was in store for them, and they would have to wait and see what the new year would bring.
Boy, airflow looks the GOAT. Never knew such things existed. Thought Airplay was bandwidth limited and just thing for easy watching 1080p.
A bit of carry over from another thread today. Your point 4:

The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.
― Aristotle
Innovation is the practical implementation of new inventions to deliver value. Google invented but does not seem to have innovated.
> I often have trouble choosing my favorite between the three.

Same problem of choice here too, and that's where the somehat tedious manual post-processing in-camera comes to the rescue, if needed.
I have just received the "You are over the daily limit of sending tweets" message. Sent three (!) tweets today.

Couldn't think of a better way to kill the user retention and engagement.

Well done, Twitter!
You can't. However if the daemon was started in a screen session and was detached, it can be reattached.
What’s the limit? Depending on that it could increase signal to noise. It would only affect accounts that is at tail end of the bell, ie bots and some extreme accounts that usually annoys the crap out of me.

Let’s wait for the official before pouncing
You and I may not agree on a lot, but I sure agree with you on this one.
here is a website which addresses this: https://defetter.com
If it were just unequivocally "newer/better architecture" they wouldn't coexist side-by-side in the first place, one would have entirely replaced the other by now. Obviously, the differences between the two are much more complex than that.

One reason they are expected to coexist for some time to come is exactly that a lot of Linux (in particular) applications and libraries require gcc specifics. The fact that there are "gcc specifics" that lock those applications and libraries to gcc and can't just "upgrade to the obviously newer/better architecture" is itself an argument for "diversity". C/C++ is "supposed to be" a portable language. If developers were keeping to standards and if clang were indeed objectively better architecture, then nothing should still be using gcc, right? Diversity is one way you encourage developers to stick to portable standards (because then they can use whichever compiler is fastest/better today and switch at-will as all the implementations compete to outperform each other).
I’d bet your information diet has become mostly stuff recommended to you by algorithms. This kills our creativity because we are just thinking about the same stuff that every other person is getting recommended at this moment. There’s no room for us to think your own thoughts, we just jump from latest thing to latest thing and sound like a twitter summarizer bot at parties.

There’s a simple way to solve this. You get to indulge your love of information. BUT, only if you searched for it first.

Want to look at twitter? Don’t look at the feed, search for something relevant to you. Want to watch a YouTube video? Search for something you care about, something relevant to your perspective.

When you seek out information you are spontaneously curious about, it connects to real problems in your life, things you might have a genuine opportunity to influence. If you consume algorithmic content, your head fills up with problems you can’t do anything about. It’s paralyzing.

It’s important to write, take walks or sit and stare at a tree or even a wall. That’s where the ideas find their space to entire your mind.
For ChatGPT and similar LLMs there is the loss function does not reward accuracy/truthfulness/correctness. But instead answers that seem correct to a superficial human check. These rewards making something plausible up instead of saying "I do not know", over-simplifying things, and passing off things with high confidence regardless of how much evidence backs the statement. Any successful deceit will bring down the loss. The overconfidence and lying is not due to model size beng too low - it is due to misalignment. If not corrected it will just get worse as size goes up.
A recent Computerphile video with Robert Miles discussed this.
Cui bono?

It’s alarming how many comments here are attempting to gaslight the public and shift the narrative.

We know it wasn’t an accident. We don’t know who did it exactly.

But we certainly know who benefited from it.
Perhaps we aren't so far apart after all.

The struggle is real. As a developer, more data is obviously desirable and can make development much easier. I just can't think of a way to do telemetry that, if I were a user, I would accept. And I don't want to produce software that I wouldn't personally use.

I just don't know how to have my cake and eat it too.
Whenever you are about to post something, anywhere in general, ask yourself: Why? What are you trying to get out of that? Are you adding meaningful information? Are you trying to advance a particular cause (which can just be a small personal one, but at least any cause at all)?

Note that I'm obviously not saying any online discourse is for naught.

But during and after your "social media experience", for lack of a better term, do you feel better or worse, and if not better, did you at least accomplish something?
I had some serious incidents in High School, mostly with other kids, and while my grades dropped, I never lost the ability to make up for weeks, sometimes months of doing nothing for school in a matter of hours.

Didn't stop me from getting bad grades for those weeks/months and making stupid mistakes like not completing assignments and the like.

It's very easy. It's just that in a depressed/anxious/... state people aren't capable of sustaining even the most basic levels of effort after a while. Frankly, I bet that if it was a lot harder, that would have helped me.
It would be hilarious if Twitter used a footgun to disable API access and blocked itself. The deadline was this week, right?
Seems I needed an /s. The joke was that the marketing had changed from the traditional industry model of vapourware to the theranos model of vapourware.
I think this is your personal anecdote and there isn't much to support it, but I do think, separate from college, that kids simply just can't be kids today. There is social, political and academic pressure that just didn't exist when most of us were growing up. I think the pandemic made it much worse.
In honor of Erdogan, I'm going to start calling it Turkiye.

The bird, not the country.
Luckily, 0 is also my personal limit for tweets these days.