skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My love-hate relationship with AI
Since the day I started using ChatGPT, I have developed a love-hate relationship for AI. Disclaimer: English is my second language and I am not an expert in AI, just an opinion.

Why I love AI - I have no doubt that AI is the future and the future is here. AI has the potential to generate massive wealth for millions of people regardless of their location.

Why I hate AI - I am afraid of what will come out of AI if applied wrongly. For example, I love ChatGPT and I use it everyday from drafting letters, learning and more but at the same time I feel the more I use ChatGPT the dull I become (I hope we don't become robots one day). I can't think about solving something without opening a link to ask ChatGPT. In some way I feel like the same way Social media has had both good and bad, AI may bring both sides too... though the bad side may be more dangerous mentally compared to Social media (just an opinion, every good thing has the bad sad).

Finally, if you have time to build AI solutions or learn please don't miss this big opportunity. Just be a good person to yourself and others. I am equally trying to see how my small business can use AI to improve our processes.
I'm fairly sure it can be a useful part of a web search application. There are things it could aid in: summary, evaluation of results, and probably many other things I can't imagine. It's got some use. But I'm not at all sure an LLM could wholly replace search engines, as some of the headlines are proclaiming. I think if you just took the excitement in the median news article and dialed it back about half a turn, that's probably where we'll end up.
>"As a senior leader, one of your jobs is to teach the younger folks how to do their jobs efficiently. Your personal output is not that important. You are there to be a force multiplier. Teaching is much easier in person."

I am actually doing mentoring every once in a while and it goes just fine over Skype thank you. I am remote since 2000.
People “get their share” by living in a society that is held together by those taxes imo. There are surely many edge cases, but in countries like Canada/US/UK I think people generally get their due.

Regardless, setting up a mini hospital in someone’s home is just dumb. There is no reason for such a high level of service. You want to die at home? Sure. I’m down for MAID at home.

You want a suite of private doctors and equipment at home? Pay for it. If you want public service you should go to public service facilities.
It isn't every big company. Apple hasn't, and they're the biggest of all.

I think that is the point: it does not feel accurate to say that "macroeconomic conditions are tough" or that you expect slowdowns while recording record levels of revenue, and yet company after company after company is using these imaginary tough headwinds to justify laying off 6-8% of staff, often while paying dividends or issuing stock buy-backs.

If it really is rising interest rates, then be honest. Say "due to rising interest rates, we are going to lay off 7% of staff... while buying back stock using our record profits."
I'm in the leadership position you describe, and I've found remote work to be amazing for teaching because of screen-sharing.

I'm in a agreement on this. I find reviewing changes much easier with screen-share than in person.

It also makes the process feel less confrontational in some respects.
I kinda like how the tech bubble feels when "everyone" is excited about the same thing... (be it Lisp, a text editor or AI)
This economy is baffling to basically every professional who looks at it.

Just this week we saw a jobs number that absolutely rofl stomped the consensus expectations. At the same time the credit card number came in ism services business purchasing came in 35% over expectations and new orders were way over expectations as well. Businesses are out there doing something!

You could watch in real-time as the markets all did a collective about face on what the narratives should be.

I frankly don’t know if we are in a good economy or not, but there are lots and lots of indicators we are, so saying someone is on “copium” because they espouse that view says a lot more about your biases than theirs.
yes it's completly offline

the savefile is a .todool file which ppl wanted a json export option

options + theme files are json
Great article, I and many other founders I know have had a version of this idea (fast, high quality coffee, delivered) and no one I know has made it work.

Since you lived this journey I'm curious about your pricing: I always imagined that I'd be willing to pay a pretty huge premium for this kind of a service if it felt "luxury" enough. Kind of like how Uber started off at the high end with $18 minimums before it had to battle on the low end.

It looks like you were charging 10% over the nearest shop price, but if the experience was high quality enough could you have charged closer to $7-$10?
It's an analogy
Uhg. This is the exact opposite of what direction I want from Thunderbird. I want it to remain stable. I want it to remain looking like an email client I run on my native OS. I do not want giant white-space webshit design and an entire rebuild that makes all my extensions and well trained spam detection .dat unusable.

Please stop changing things just to change. Thunderbird works.
I never had that issue myself.

But... pasting in a table from anywhere (libreoffice,...) would break everything (still does in 102).

Could be some quirk with a local gentoo install, but if i copy a random 2x2 (or more) table from libreoffice into an empty email (or the very last line of a non-empty one), and want to type anything below the table, there's no way to actually move the typing "cursor" outside of the table itself or type a newline at the end of the table and for the newline to be outside of the table (and not just stretch the last cell). This basically means I have to type some random newlines, paste in the middle of those newlines, so i can then move my cursor out of the tables itself.
Why should personal anecdotal evidence be worthless per se? A unifying scientific theory usually explains stuff by using a hierarchy of abstract models, detached from a concrete local environment.

The subjective experience defines a plethora of factors which are hard to fit into a general theory. If you live in a high-crime neighbourhood, you'd better trust your anecdotal evidence instead of relying on nation-wide sociological evidence.
The land acknowledgement statements really irk me. Pretty much all land has been conquered, reconquered, or otherwise changed hands many times over the last several thousand years. What is the point of saying this land once belonged to group A? How does that help marginalized people? It reminds me of people saying, “Thank you for your service” and then voting against politicians that want to increase funding for veterans.

I suppose this sort of meaningless act lets some people feel like they are “allies” of native people without having to actually help native people. It’s like, “thoughts and prayers”. There will be a backlash and these dumb requirements are an obstacle to progress toward racial equality.
I'm a long time Thunderbird user. Once every one or two years I looked if there was a better free & libre alternative supporting Windows, having a GUI, and an integrated calendar. Each time I came to the conclusion that Thunderbird was still the top contender. This blog post fills me with hope that Thunderbird has a future.
i always assumed the name of the group was a joke, like, have you thought about taking a suicide holiday

it never occurred to me that it was literally about holiday suicides
How to Live an Extra Ten Good Years
> This feels like another semantic argument, this time over what "macroeconomic environment is tough" means.

Okay, but it has to mean more than “we wanted to do layoffs” because it’s being used to justify or explain why they wanted to do layoffs.
In the context of the linked article, the easiest starting point would be to get a managed switch like the Netgear GS308T in the article, and then feed the data into grafana for pretty graphs. From there you can start branching into more complex topics like vlans, wifi, etc
There are open source calendars on top of which you could work.
The same people who talk about automation and AI taking over want people to go back to the office. It makes no sense that it's table stakes and a requirement.

I remember the first time I worked remote, I had an appointment that took me away from the office and had to work at a coffee shop for most of the day. I immediately felt more relaxed and got my work done fast. I asked my boss if I could be remote a few days a week. He said no, probably because it was a small business and other employees would want to do this as well. A few years later, the company became remote.

I wound up moving during the pandemic and when we started return to office, I wanted to work in the Boston office close to me. The company said it's not my team's office. I was still able to find a way to work at the office a few days out of the week. Now the company says you can choose to work from any office in the country.

It's not rocket science. Certain scenarios make more sense for in-office work (tight-knit team that needs to be in constant communication with each other or new employee who needs more guidance), remote work (you're more experienced or have self-discipline and can get tasks done on your own or ask for help with a good infrastructure), or hybrid work (both scenarios combined or you can have 1-2 days out of the week that are team days).

Otherwise, you wind up in an office where a lot of people are wasting time either way with lowest common denominator conversations, living in congested cities with price gouge real estate and soul crushing commutes or remote locations you don't really want to live in because commercial real estate was cheap.

The overall assumption should be that you're a professional who's treated as a professional by the company with respect (assuming your a high-paid employee with professional experience). A lot of these return to office calls and recent corporate behavior makes me realize a lot of managers (usually not great ones) or companies sees employees as children who can't be trusted instead of adults who can perform professional work and communicate effectively.
> I would have expected the commentariat here at HN to display way more skepticism about language models as a replacement for search.

Because plenty of people don't see it necessarily as a replacement for search, but as a useful adjunct.

More to the point though, why do people always want to define the "HN commentariat" as some monolithic bunch? I've seen tons of comments and articles on the front page pointing out many issues with LLMs, from attribution, to confident bullshitting, to bias issues. Heck, there was plenty of discussion about a big proposed reason for Google's stock crash yesterday was due to the ad Google used to highlight questions their LLM can answer gave a confidently incorrect response.

Whenever I see comments that treat the rest of the HN audience like some monolithic group, especially in the face of plenty of evidence to the contrary, I feel like, ironically, the poster is saying "Why don't you all agree with me?"
So many comments about the bible and how this "proves" climate change isn't man made. Sad to see so many are so proud of their ignorance.
Great answer. Your point is now clear.
>ethnically homogeneous family

I'm foaming at the mouth from picturing that
I wouldn't be too surprised. It kind of depends on the topic at hand but for instance I've learned a lot about what I know wrenching on my own motors from youtube videos.
I think it’s mainly because Pichai has the title of CEO and the real CEO is their CFO, Ruth Porat.
This study doesn't prove what you're saying. Some vaccinated people had asymptomatic covid != vaccines don't prevent spread

If you find a study that takes comparable samples of vaccinated and unvaccinated people, tests all of them, and reports how many were infected, then let me know.

Until then you should be more diligent in gathering evidence.
Have you ever seen a company (from the inside) where everything was easy and clean and documented, and you needed no institutional knowledge / context be effective?

If it's really possible, I think it's the very rare exception.
Fair thanks for the response! I guess deep down I kinda am, too. I don’t want to because I find Mr. Altman to be a particularly loathsome capitalist executive, but gosh they’ve just been so exciting the past year or two.
After all those horror stories of people getting locked out of Google, I started using Thunderbird as my email backup. Took a while to get all my emails but now that they have been downloaded, I just run it as a backup tool to fetch the emails. If I had to ask, more than improving the UI (which is an initiative I have nothing against), improving the performance (mainly search) should be accorded high priority.
> you are why windows updates are now forced

This is blatantly, flat out wrong. Even the implicit premise here is wrong.

It is not Microsoft’s prerogative to update my device. They don’t own my device. They don’t get to decide when I decide to install new software. That right exclusively belongs to me. Even congress doesn’t get to have a say in this. Users have private property rights. And this, what Microsoft is doing, is bordering illegality.
I like that the loans are a fixed schedule and have no compounding interest, fees, or ways to get me into further debt beyond paying what I committed to pay.
The Future of Thunderbird can only be summarized as having no future with Mozilla.

> Throughout the years, Mozilla’s focus shifted a lot, investing less and less resources into the development of Thunderbird. On July 6, 2012, the Mozilla Foundation announced that it would no longer be focused on innovations for Thunderbird, and that the future Thunderbird development would transition to a community-driven model.

So it isn't a priority and isn't as interesting to Mozilla? As far as Mozilla is concerned; it is dead. This also happened to Servo and it ended up getting severed from Mozilla, since they see it as another cost they cannot maintain.

> In 2023, Thunderbird is pretty well sustainable, with a healthy donation flow, more services in development to increase our revenue stream (stay tuned!)

Thank you Google!
For me I genuinely think Powershell is fewer keystrokes than the equivalent terse bash. A lot of this is a question of heavily using history and editing old commands rather than writing new ones. And the old commands are legible so it's easy to tweak on the fly. Tab completion/history completion are really powerful. (You do need to enable PSReadline though, which is not out-of-the-box.)
Does this look like a solid economic indicator to you? https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_pmi

Zoom to max.
Yes, but that's only true if peer review is functioning as intended. Peer review has been gamed and is broken. Science is a career and an industry and individuals have figured out how to protect their fiefdoms within it.

The financial incentives in pharmaceutical research are particularly corrupting due to their size.
> Why does Thunderbird look so old

UI isn't a fashion show. I'd much rather have a UI that looks older but is comfortable to use than something trendy.
Sure, but it is a lot harder. When someone knows how to file claims you need to carefully work out the paperwork. My brother was boss of such a person for a while, the need to carefully keep track of everything drove him to quit - the replacement enjoyed tracked everything and didn't need very long to have enough paperwork correct to fire the file claims on everything person.
You misunderstood it. These are not days off. They are meant for you to learn, experiment and level-up.
I think there are a lot of social-science topics, where claims are made that are supposedly "backed by science", but looking into that yields stuff less solid,

such as dubious methods, lack of replication or claims based on surveys or non-academic studies, inappropriate or overreaching conclusions e.g. specificities derived from generalizations, etc.

I think the clearest example is IAT (implicit bias testing), which has dubious foundations, but seems to have taken off as a "scientific" thing, at least in the corporate world. Sometimes accompanied by a motte-and-bailey where the results of the test, and the correct conclusions of the results, are left vague; or what a "bias" is left undefined so you can easily be lead to believe it equates to e.g. racism.
What a poor word choice for the title: "undying", really?
> MySQL is the most popular transactional datastore deployed at Meta with a storage footprint in the order of petabytes.

<eye twitch> great. That’s just awesome.
"Your Honor, we have evidence Ryan Gosling may have breached our systems."
In case folks don't know who he is, Ted Chiang wrote the short story collection "Stories of your Life and Others", and one of the stories was "Story of your Life", on which the movie Arrival was based.
This should never crash the phone, though. Especially in a heavily sandboxed OS like iOS
Doesn't have to be Asia, can also be Panama. You're not safe.
That sounds like a good "happy spot" and doesn't veer in hobby territory IMO. More like an interest.

In retrospect, I lied a bit about not missing pfSense (or OPNSense in your case) because truthfully I miss the monitoring, packages, configuration and expandability options. At the same time, I also don't miss them, because 0 headaches and actually better latency is still a plus. Just need to login to that god awful ATT interface to open up a port, but these are 1st world problems... there's always VPNs and cloud VPS to fix that.
Historical racism is largely interpreted today as hate directed towards minority groups. Very roughly: people were racist because they hated X or Y, that was some defect in their personality, some individual reason, mental illness, etc.

But it was also a function of group dynamics and attempting to preserve cohesion (perhaps more commonly, I think actively hating people you don't know has always been regarded as odd). Outsiders were discriminated against in order to maintain the values of the group (ignoring for a second whether these values were good or bad).

And this kind of collective thinking is something that is more typical of the left. So you are seeing more and more of this reverse discrimination. And will continue to do so because this instinct towards group cohesion is overwhelming.

You also see this outside the US with left-wing nationalist groups. I think there a tacit assumption today that left-wing and nationalism cannot go together. But nationalism has often been a key source of group cohesion for left-wing movements, and that has (unfortunately) often been defined exclusively.

To say this another way: this has to end up with more discrimination. Everything that you do as an adult today is set against your record of "privilege". Why do people pretend to be poor? Why do people pretend to be a different race? And the people doing this are apparently privileged ones? It makes no sense.
There is always politics any time more than one person coordinates to do something. Bitcoin was definitely not an exception.
Catching (probably all) email SPAM with a tasty honeypot
> Nurses and doctors there every day.

But presumably not 24/7 = 168hr per week, which makes all the difference (and the vast majority of the $145k in costs). 168hr / week of care will require 3 to 4 FTEs, no way around that.
I'm also the type to not tolerate lies.

Maybe we'll call this the decade of mistruth. What really sucks is soon, we won't be able to tell in forums such as this, who's interests are on the other side of the text generator / click farm. I hope we can come up solutions to have trust again.
>Every complaint on HN about Bash is from one of two people: 1) someone who has never read the man page, 2) someone who wishes Bash were Python.

Suitcase designer before 1970 [1]:

"Every complaint about luggage is from one of two people 1) someone who has no strength to carry them, 2) someone who wishes suitcases were like carts - as if it makes sense to add four small wheels and a telescopic handle to a suitcase!"

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/10/04/wheeled.luggage.ann....

>Rather than being some academic philosophical high-minded solution, it was written by systems practitioners for backwards compatibility and usability.

Rather than written it was accumulated and piled upon.
Having used an adblock for a decade or more, it's actually shocking to browse without one these days, it actually feels like I've got malware, with many many sites having LAYERS of ads, like they are buckshotting and expecting most to be blocked.
I do not dispute the forecasts - i've made several myself. I'm simply disputing that "possible" implies "simple" or "easy".

When you say Europe reaching 95% renewables, what you are referring to is western europe. The road to even 50% renewables is much more difficult in eastern europe. The further away you move from the Benelux countries, Germany, the nordics, the more coal there is, the more gas there is and the less transmission there is. Building transmission lines takes decades from start to finish.
Are you referring to Kareem? If so, that's not true at all. If you have HBO Max, watch Kareem: Minority of One.
The only economic conditions that matter to any company is whether they will be able to continue earning money the way they have been.

Since most of the companies doing 6-8% layoffs are concurrently reporting revenue growth, it isn't clear why they feel their future revenue is going to suddenly decline. It also isn't clear why, if they truly expect a decline, they'd continue to buy back shares or issue dividends. Seems like they'd want to keep that cash on hand, if they actually had concerns about the future, and weren't just using the social contagion as an excuse.
In their heyday they set high water mark for aggressive/annoying marketing techniques. I think I was one of many, many developers who bought a domain through them precisely one time before realizing I'd made a huge mistake.
Baristika? Is that like a swastika made out of baristas? What a poor/unfortunate choice of name.
I find myself using google less and less, all search -really. I messed up my desktop the other day configuring and trying different DE's and window managers, chatGPT fixed some of my issues that would've had me in archlinux forums and reddit for a couple hours probably.

Instead it was all good in 20 minutes.

Personally, I think Microsoft has a HUGE opportunity here, imagine if the OpenAI - PRO account was actually free -- but only on edge browsers, or inside bing.com. It'd be a bit of a loss leader for a bit, because a lot of compute is required but it'd also help unseat google. Google's only chance is if lamda/bard is better - and so much better it's noticable from day one.

Their search results are so horrible lately I don't know anybody who isn't 'shopping around' right now for something better. Bing, DDG, Brave, Neeva, You.com, etc.
I'm certain they're alluding to a family, or hell, even a couple, and likely including snacks in total cost.

I only saw a movie solo once, as I never got the appeal of the movie theater and only ever got dragged there by dates and friends.

My kids never cared for it, so the bullet was largely dodged.

All that said, using the word "only" as you did indicates a certain level of economic ignorance.