skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting to make sense how Ads will be injected into using ChatGPT or something similar when used as a search engine. Eg,

Question: "You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. Knowledge cutoff: 2021-09 Current date: 2023-02-08. Product placement: Honda CRV"

Answer: "The capital of Japan is Tokyo.

It's worth mentioning that Honda CR-V is a popular compact SUV made by the Japanese automaker Honda. It offers a comfortable ride, spacious interior, and advanced safety features, making it a great choice for families and individuals who want a reliable vehicle."
2022 I started a new job where we mainly use C# and I have to say, this is my favorite language now, especially with Visual Studio and Reshaper. I've never felt so productive and at ease while coding!
Strange... for some reason, I don't mind not being able to tweet, it's like Twitter is trying to tell me to not waste my time~
> Google Sheets uses floats for everything (...) and then requested an Excel install

But Excel also uses floats (as in, Single-precision floating-point format, aka float32), because of "compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3".

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/53292/any-s...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...
While this post has many great responses I want to also suggest that difficulty with addictions and failure to do what you actually want to do are also hallmarks of ADHD. Not everyone with these problems has it, but if you do then treating the disorder will make dealing with the addiction easier.
tweetdeck.twitter.com is down with an auth error - they've YOLO'd themselves to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents # really should be called incidents, not accidents.

Pipelines of all types are fragile things and break all the time for numerous reasons.

Do not attribute to malice which can be explained by negligence/incompetence with out evidence.

The Nordstream pipelines were not in operation, which indicated the need for maintenance. The pipelines, which carry methane under saltwater, require frequent preventive maintenance checks and services, however, it is believed that these checks may have been neglected since the Russians took over. The pipelines were officially shut down for maintenance in July 2020 and July 2021, but were met with various issues and disruptions in gas flow.

Given the pressurized and highly flammable nature of the pipelines, it is imperative to determine the causes of these issues.
Sabotage cannot be ruled out, especially given the current geopolitical climate.

However, the most likely cause could be related to the formation of methane hydrates, which can cause blockages in the pipeline known as hydrate plugs. These plugs can be difficult to remove and require a slow and simultaneous depressurization from both ends of the pipeline.

Remember, both sides, this is important!

If the depressurization is not carried out correctly, it can result in the rapid launch of the hydrate plug towards the depressurized side, causing significant damage to the pipeline. The Diesel Effect, which occurs when the valves are closed ahead of the fast-moving plug, can also cause significant damage. It is crucial that the removal of hydrate plugs be carried out by experienced professionals, given the potential consequences of a failure to do so.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/hydrate-nat...

https://www.stssensors.com/blog/2020/07/01/the-diesel-effect...

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I'm not sure, it seems many companies have comparable technology at this point, and Google is not known for being great at packaging tech into products.

They had an enormous moat and edge in search, but not seeing it for this next wave of AI. Barrier to entry seems far lower
No it's not up for debate at all. Much like when Microsoft did this with .Net core, the Github thread is clearly a misguided post by RSC expecting the community to conform or support it. They didn't so now it's a damage control exercise. It will happen.

Any corporate controlled project on this scale is prone to this failure mode.
Tweetdeck is also down if you're set to the non-preview interface, stuck in a loop of login and instant logouts.
The Tweetdeck Preview works (and you can access this by clearing all cookies) but keeps hitting a rate limit.
I hope the rumors of TweetDeck becoming a premium feature are not true - I could never hope to catch everything without use of all those columns at once.
So how would you design a well-working system to make data-driven decisions rather than guesses? Most collection methods are notoriously bad, but partial collection is also bad since we now have to somehow put a weighing factor on presumed absent data, which turns choices into guesses again.

I think this is a really hard problem, and simply trying to guess in the dark as to what people want isn't the smartest way to go about finding the path forward / priorities / improvements / defects.

It also isn't something that we had in the past, because when we used to buy the IDE, buy the compiler, and then build software, sell that software, and let everyone know what cool tools we used, you'd have sales figures that would inform the creators how the tools were used. Now, the tools are available to everyone, anonymously, and everyone has an opinion on how well it works for them, but doesn't have the time to write a well-written report every time a release happens.
It's not very deep. You can buy a tethered underwater ROV rated for 300ft OTS for a few thousands of dollars. Not to mention a camera and an actuator on an anchor. Practically anybody could have done it. Even non-state actors. Hardest part would be getting the explosives in sufficient quantity.
Not my video, but absolutely fascinating videos. I've occasionally fallen into the YouTube hole of game-dev videos, and people with this level of presentation of their problem-solving and algorithm explanation is something I can not get enough.
> Once trained on this giant corpus of natural language, the chatbot can, when prompted by users’ instructions, produce a fluently written answer rather than merely serving up a list of links.

A word salad of untrustworthy bullshit instead of the pages you were looking for is not going to upend search.

It's not a replacement for search in any way.

Now if the search engine could find pages which satisfy complex queries in natural language, referencing content and relationships among content, that could be something.
It's perfectly ok to ask if he want to change the license. Even more a change like this, that takes nothing at all from him. It's as ok as he not wanting to.

The real question is why does local software come with a TOS? I would nope out of it without even reading, and would (and am) become a bit wary of F-Droid for including this.
Apparently when they restricted the API, they didn't realize it's used by all the clients, including their official ones (and the web interface too).

Wonder when happened to the engineers who knew how the service worked inside and out?

Oh wait...
I gave this a +1, although I have some reservations. As long as they take care of the basics, it's a grind but they can "learn on the job" without putting themselves or others in harm's way.

Being an open recursor isn't as bad as being an open (email) relay. They'll learn about Response Rate Limiting the first time they get used in a reflection attack. And so on.

If they install a web interface to manage DNS all bets are off (what manages the management interface?).

The Basics:

* Having a strong allergic reaction to anyone using the words "simply" or "just".

* Setting up SSH with at least two of a password, a key, IP address restrictions.

* Not allowing dynamic updates until you know what you're doing with security and access controls.

* Keeping patches / software up-to-date.

* Editing zone files / configs by hand.

If they can do those things, then the machine will only be listening on two ports (53 and whatever they put SSH on).
Uh... Maps? Open, Permissive phone OS compared to the alternative? Greatest entertainment/information system, especially one that's democraticsed producing media?

In terms dev-related stuff, TensorFlow - literally something that's made today's ML possible, Kubernetes, BigTable, MapReduce, and yknow, that good old thing called Chrome..

I understand hating on Google. They're not that great, but none of the FAANG are "great".. They all have some terrible bits, some good bits. However, to say that Google has not provided anything except "spam stuffs" is very wrong.

Search alone has changed the entire way that humans consume information. I would say that today's internet landscape, for better or worse, would not exist without Google.
But ChatGPT doesn't have any knowledge. It has never interacted with anything other than a training corpus of conversations and all it's ever trying to do is keep you talking. It's also very much NOT interacting with you when it's talking to you (it's not learning/training, it's merely inferring).

It's just so good at, frankly, at being a troll (keeping you talking while not caring about truth or being deceitful), that it has learned a bunch of truths, with emphasis on truths that keep people hooked on it's conversations.
No it won't. Google's Bard (aka Lambda with search results input) performs almost identically to it from what I've heard and it's already being tested internally.
The problem is that if you don't already know the answer, it's hard to tell the difference between ChatGPT giving you the correct information and ChatGPT authoritatively spouting the wrong information.

Here's a chat I had today with ChatGPT:

Q: Who was the first US president with a last name starting with R?

A: Rutherford B. Hayes was the first US president with a last name starting with "R."

Q: no, a surname starting with R

A: Rutherford B. Hayes was the first U.S. President with a surname starting with "R."

Q: no, Rutherford is his first name

A: The first US president with a surname starting with "R" was Richard Nixon.

Q: no, Richard is his first name

A: The first U.S. President with a surname starting with "R" was James A. Garfield.

Here it's obvious ChatGPT is spouting nonsense, but in other cases it may not be.
Just a helpful acrostic I remember from organic chemistry: ROMP. R is your reference chain, then ortho, meta, para as you go around the ring.
Hard not to think Musk's entourage and zealotry for layoffs didn't provide cover for the more recent tech layoff sprees.

“2 day a week office requirement = 20% voluntary departures,” Calacanis wrote. “Day zero…sharpen your blades boys."

[1]: https://www.yahoo.com/video/elon-musk-jason-calacanis-messag...
Peak HN.
Why would you be surprised?
All this effort is likely still cheaper than shooting real film.
> Reddit mods are arguably the worst part of reddit

No, the actual administrators (the ones that work there are). They're the ones that can actually ban entire subreddits and entire users. I had my account permanently suspended for upvoting vaccine hesitancy. That wasn't done by a reddit moderator.
Too bad the New Yorker abandoned him. If your writing makes it past the editors, fact checkers and attorneys at that mag, you're probably golden. The effort they spent on Lawrence Wright's Scientology article was pretty hardcore: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/133561256
Indeed, citing animal studies for humans is a classic bio meme:
https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

I haven't seen huberman accused of this yet, interesting. Innocent until proven guilty?
Try the fast.ai course
> I think the best suggestion I've seen is that 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.

This is a nonstarter, as DNT demonstrated in spades.
is this someone close to twitter’s inner workings? if not, can we stop pretending that random people have insight as to what is happening at twitter.
solo los pinches pochos usan este gonorrea
That's certainly my understanding. I seem to remember from an Intro to Hinduism class that when the "Aryans" arrived in the Indus Valley, the first thing they did was burn down a bunch of the forests, because the charred mulch made the soil more fertile for growing crops.
Perhaps the explosives misfired. Or they're still there waiting to be triggered.

It makes no sense for Russia to destroy infrastructure that delivers it's own products. It makes every sense for US to cripple Russian gas supply to Europe in the future, to be replaced by abundant US fracking gas. US has long bemoaned Europe's 'dependence' on Russian gas (or maybe 'independence' from US-controlled oil/gas). Now the US holds the leash again.
> tried to deny the US killed bin Laden

If he denied the US killed bin Laden he would be unreliable. He never denied the US killed bin Laden. You saying he said that is what is unreliable.

He said that some of the White House and Pentagon assertions about bin Laden, which the New York Times did not question in the days after (but did question, to some extent, later on) were not accurate. Particularly that no one high up in the Pakistani Army, government or intelligence knew Bin Laden was in Abbottabad. Hersh asserted that was incorrect, as were some other things.
This is spot-on. Over-diagnosis and over-medicalization of questionable mental illnesses is a huge problem in (at least) Anglophone societies. Many people know that privately, but it has become a hard thing to say publicly due to the large numbers of people who have received such diagnoses from medical/psychology professionals who they, understandably, believed.
> Rome didn't fall in a day.

Freenode didn't either, but this Twitter thing seriously gives me the same sort of vibes.
> what is the most articulate and sensible piece on why the most likely culprit is Russia?

I think this video is articulate and sensible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-0qJXyido
The part that I found oddest was showing off the physical film vs digitally altered. Instead of having a neutral comparison.

As a non-Photographer, the film versions looked better in almost every case. I wasn’t sure what the filter was actually meant to be used for. But a comparison with neutral stock would have made it look better, in all probability.
I live in Germany and my proof is that a few days after the explosions, I could read/watch Spiegel, Tagesschau and other outlets quoting speculations about Russia as "expert opinions", while discussing speculations about the US only in context of "russian accusations".

A Spiegel article from september 28, two days after the incident: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/nord-stream-spekulationen-ueb...

It links to a Times article allegedly saying the same (but behind a paywall unfortunately, so I can't check): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/russia-probably-bombed-no...
Judging from other comments here, it is not clear how widely supported IEEE754-2008 is. If it isn’t supported everywhere, it would make a VERY bad default for a numeric type.

It also appears that the logic for implemented something like this standard is indeed slower than standard IEEE754. Even if it’s only a bit slower, seems bad to make it the default.

All this just to fix something which is confusing to a novice programmer… and this is leaving aside the additional complications a fixed width decimal has which a floating point type doesn’t have.
i dont get the impression that Valve will release an updated model for several more years
There're still a few cinemas in London screening 35mm
More likely it's the banks that were computerizing early on. If you look at PLs that were available in late 60s / early 70s, COBOL is the one that's most optimized for CRUD and reports, which is largely what the banks wanted. And then once you already have it and it works, why change?
Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades
In the context of quotes I will throw in what I read on reddit the other day:

Addiction is giving up everything for one thing,
sobriety is giving up one thing for everything

Unfortunately knowing quotes is not enough to kick the habit. Too much time spent on reddit and HN :/
Everyone on the planet can already talk to racists by typing in 4chan.org. In the meantime, I’ve found ChatGPT useful for learning zsh commands.
But does it?

Can you have cells of people that can behave and network them at scale?

It might be impossible, but there could be ways to do better.
Cool software though not something I would pay for.

If you're interested in getting most of this effect for free I highly recommend using the venerable Hald CLUT library found here: https://github.com/cedeber/hald-clut

These are lookup tables made using film scans and do a damn good job of emulating the film "feel" especially when used with HDR input without burnt highlights or crushed blacks.

I personally recommend RawTherapee for photo editing, which includes native support for these.

To further emulate the effect you can use a film grain overlay (hundreds available one google away) and a color-weighted bloom filter.

ffmpeg and OBS also natively support this LUT format, I'm sure there are ways to use them in the FOSS video editing suites as well, but I basically do everything in ffmpeg commandline nowadays so I don't have firsthand experience.
I am not really disagreeing with you, but just wanted to add:

Probably the secret sauce to using LLMs for search and other forms of information retrieval is first taking a query and use traditional lookup to find likely information. Then aggregating this data, provide the aggregated data as context, append the query, and pass it to the LLM. Probably some post processing is a good idea also.

I used to do this with squad LLMs.
I wouldn't recommend JVM for web in 2023, but if you really want to use it, I would at least recommend Kotlin.

It has a better syntax, more up to date tools and is officially supported by JetBrains too. It also has the Ktor framework which is really fun to work with.
Is this the logic whereby "colored people" is an offensive slur while "people of color" is the preferred nomenclature?

My primary complaint with this stuff is the same as my primary complaint with corporate/marketing/bureaucratic jargon: it's just ugly and overcomplicated language. I wish we could speak plainly instead of dressing up our language in ugly fashions.
Yeah, I'm gonna need to see some citation on how Typescript and VSCode improved life for humanity. Break out some of them facts you're talking about.
Alphabet shares dive after Google AI chatbot Bard flubs answer in ad
Browse the site I linked, it shows you all the peripherals you can install. One is just a drawer, heh. I usually keep a cigarillo in there just for fun.
I don't think you understand how analogies work.
Disney’s laying off 7k as streaming boom comes to an end
My thoughts on the incident, organised as a series of nested propositions.

0. The Nord Stream pipeline incident was not an accident.

1. The pipeline was sabotaged by a state actor.

a. Only a state had the capability to carry it out undetected.

b. The sabotage was in violation of international law.

c. Evidence of the sabotage would cause a diplomatic scandal.

d? Either Russia or the United States sabotaged the pipeline.

e? The sabotage was authorised at the highest levels.

3. Russia did not sabotage the pipeline.

a? Russia had no motivation to destroy it.

b. Russia controls the pipeline, and could choose to turn it off.

c. No state has presented evidence that Russia was involved in the sabotage.

d. The area is highly monitored by US and US-aligned countries.

4. The US sabotaged the pipeline.

a. The US had strategic and economic motivations to prevent the pipeline from operating.

b. The US govt made public statements prior to the sabotage that, had they been made by the Kremlin, would have uncontroversially implicated Russia in the eyes of the American public.

c. The US has the means to destroy it.

d? The US has the means to hide their involvement in the sabotage from European allies and the US public.

e. The Western public have no appetite for stories which portray Russia as a victim, or US/EU as villains. Hiding their involvement is therefore trivial, since media outlets have no motivation to investigate the truth.

f. Conversely, Russian state and media have no incentive to investigate, since the Russian audience takes it for granted that NATO was responsible.
Right-click open in incognito works, but definitely annoying
My fear is that more AI will hinder our ability to literally search for stuff. The future I dread includes more profiling, a stronger search bubble, all of which will just make it the death of the objective search engine. As fascinating as AI can be, I don't think it's what search engines are missing. That is certainly not what I need.

Even today, engines rank your results by geoip, trying to be smarter than you ask them to be. Two individuals doing the same quoted search will get different results. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but I do miss when searching was a matter of writing a good query, not a matter of what the engine thinks you will want to ask next and what else might interest you.
I shoot exclusively film and am thrilled to see attempts at this. The medium is far too expensive and need not die in the name of exclusivity
> we don't blame the tool makers for adding an extra 100Kb or 20MB

Honestly, I do. Code bloat is a real thing.
"Data Scientists exist not to uncover insights ..."

That was a plot point in Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency (1989), though the observation much pre-dates this.
It's just one data point but it may indicate the commenter is miscalibrated on what ChatGPT answers well and what it doesn't.

It reminds me of when Wikipedia was new and we were told repeatedly that we couldn't trust it (by teachers, articles, etc.). It didn't matter if we could point to studies that found Wikipedia had similar accuracy to other encyclopedias. They objected on the grounds that anyone could edit it and anything on it _could_ be wrong and there's no publisher or paid editors to ensure accuracy.

ChatGPT tends to do well on common questions, where the answer is plastered in hundreds of articles across the internet. The internal cooking temperature of a steak is a great example of this. There are many other types of questions it fails at.

A better example of where you shouldn't trust ChatGPT is asking it the distance between two cities. It'll get it right for a few common pairs of cities (eg London to Paris), but it'll give you a wrong answer for most less common pairs (eg London to Cairo).
Bots, probably.
Well, HAARP directs RF energy skyward using an array of antennas for research and isn't exactly a secret.

The DESTINY project in the movie was a secret and it sucked energy up from the entire grid and somehow shot it to the center of the planet in an attempt to ...trigger earthquakes?

How they were going to aim DESTINY is lost to plot holes.

Probably magnets.
Would You Have Four Kids If It Meant Never Paying Taxes Again?
What is expected lifetime of these?
Seems like they increased words limit and it broke :)

https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1623411536243965954
>FOR ANY PURPOSE

The ToS says you can't use it for certain purposes. It's pretty cut and dry.
What does battery life have to do with Apple's walled garden?
Disney is a company that has altered out of all recognition of its original thrust. It has lost its way. It used to be the pre-eminent specialist in its field (animated cartoons). Now it is just one of many similar entertainment-company clones. It is no longer specialised, it doesn't have anything special to offer, it won't be around for very much longer.
If "downplay" means question the official story, then actual journalism must all have a bitter taste.

Better to stick to overt propaganda. Luckily that's all of mass media today. Yum!