skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, but I might include a general note on alignment. And rarely is literally everything going to be aligned down the left side of the page, so you could also include some annotation to show what's aligned to what (and maybe why).

I'm no designer, but I know I appreciate when designs include that kind of info.
Not trying to rain on your parade, but how to do you contend to deal with the phenomenon noted by Sam Altman?

"for some reason, a lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than hiring. Don't do this! This is one of the most important decisions you make in the life of your startup and you need to treat it as such.

And for some reason, students are really bad at this. They just pick someone. They're like, I want to start a business and you want to start a business, let's start a startup together. There are these cofounder dating things where you're like, Hey I'm looking for a cofounder, we don't really know each other, let's start a company. And this is like, crazy. You would never hire someone like this and yet people are willing to choose their business partners this way. It's really really bad. And choosing a random random cofounder, or choosing someone you don't have a long history with, choosing someone you're not friends with, so when things are really going wrong, you have this sort of past history to bind you together, usually ends up in disaster.

We had one YC batch in which nine out of about seventy-five companies added on a new cofounder between when we interviewed the companies and when they started, and all nine of those teams fell apart within the next year. The track record for companies where the cofounders don't know each other is really bad."

from https://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec02/
Just train a model to break the returned text into a set of claims, evaluate each claim for likelihood of being an ad, and then excise those claims that are likely ads.
> Great. It won’t make a bit of difference!

I'm sure all the people that turn Davos into a Gulfstream parking lot are having a great chuckle over this; useful idiots are indeed useful, all it takes is a bit of greenwash marketing.
I think the hubris is thinking that this will make them more money instead of just convincing people to leave and pissing off their customers who have already dealt with years of Netflix jacking up their prices, ignoring their feedback, canceling popular shows, the increase in ads, the sharp decline of Netflix's catalog in terms of quality/quantity, etc.

Convince is one of the few things Netflix still has going for it, and they're about make using their service a pain in the ass for a lot of paying customers. Not a smart move.

I'm totally fine with netflix going after abusive sharing. If 30 people are logging in with the same account from IPs all over the country/world by all means cut them off, but people who signed up for family plans and pay for access to netflix over a certain number of screen should get exactly that without being hassled.

I haven't been bitten by this yet personally, but once I have been I'll be reevaluating my subscription and I strongly suspect I'll either be canceling entirely, or at the very least going to a much cheaper plan that better represents what I'm actually getting from Netflix.
Firefox did not became bloated. It was plugin based. Chrome came with new concept (tab=process) and marketing. That is it.
Supebase Clippy uses the same trained model as Copilot, OpenAI’s GPT family of large-language models, including having trained on all of the code in GitHub, without having asked permission and without regard to copyright license.

These tools are being released under the assumption that training large-language models will be found as fair use of any copyrighted works.

Are y’all starting to see the arguments for why the model and the outputs of the model are two different issues and that the models themselves, and the products built on top of them, will be considered fair use and that the liability for copyright infringement lays completely with the person using the tool?
the US isn't the only country! (but it should have the US, and others; EU country representation is also thin)
What if you get a pay bump for no increase in hours? Is that free money?
Imagine the wonderful future in which, instead of boilerplate popups, Bing uses natural language and your own data to try to convince you to use it :/
Flying (Not Quite) Blind
That's precisely the point of the article. Tech companies are setting up a win-lose situation right now. They're pressing to control more capital at the expense of employees. Why would the employee maintain a win-win attitude, when the employer has switched to win-lose?
Nullness markers to enable flattening
Microsoft has fucked with Xerox in the 80's. Now they're doing the same with Google.
> unless the party forking sinks resources equally large as Google’s into the fork, which gives Google power to shape the web as they please unopposed.

I imagine even this already very unlikely outcome would also depend on said fork having a big slice of market share before they even try to drift away from Chromium, otherwise it won't have any effect and will likely die exactly because of said differences.
Embrace like king kong embraces godzilla, how are you going to extinguish godzilla? Newsflash its not possible!
This was such a great article. No fluff, just great compacted design tips (rules).
> We get rewarded for the value we supposedly generate by solving some problem or at least some portion of that value is rewarded to us.

And that's the sort of thinking other forms of schooling drill into our heads: value generated ~= value compensated.

That's not really how it is. We get rewarded for the position we are at in the class hierarchy. If you're "in charge of" someone, you have to be making more money than them.

Is that how it should be? No. It's very much not. But it's largely how it is.
TikTok is like heroin. Sure there’s a market for it but it’s not a particularly great thing to provide.

A chatbot like chatGPT actually has a great potential to be useful for accomplishing real tasks.
Project Texas: The Details of TikTok’s Plan to Remain Operational in the U.S.
Depends on what the application is. Web technologies do not make sense for an application like a file editor. Surely the Asker has a reason for asking about GUI toolkits.
>As a user, if I am asking this question to a search engine, I definitely do not expect to need to fact-check the results.

This is scary to read. You always need to fact-check the results, whether they come from a search engine, an AI, or a primary source!
If the Echo devices were wildly profitable, earning $100+ billion per year, then I would say Alexa isn't losing money for Amazon.
We also studied Swiss grids in design school. But much of the class was about how to use and break them; and they were presented as sort of one dish on a buffet of design philosophies. Practical alignment of everything with something else - for commercial work, especially - wasn't presented as a holistic rule. It would more just be an unstated byproduct of using a grid.
> and also be a capitalist in that same context in the sense of using your skills as bargaining power with your employer to get the best return on the capital you own

This is not what being a capitalist is, in the context you're using it. Capitalist vs laborer is basically someone who doesn't work, but their money does vs someone who has to work. That's it.

Gets fuzzy when you start adding a 3rd group of people in there, the people who have to work (i.e. they don't have enough capital to generate the kind of income that puts them in the don't have to work crowd) but identity with the capitalists. They see themselves as removed from "laborers" and strive to be in the capitalist class, dress like them, act like them, talk like them. Marx would call them the petite bourgeoisie.

I understand what you're trying to explain, thinking about individual capital ownership or even using your skills as capital... but that just isn't what it is. Your skills only have value if you're using them. To labor and create things of value.
It appears to be a microservice framework, hosting, and scripting platform.
>We're about to enter a dark ages of crappy AI products

Fine. We need another good winter or ten before we decide we want to commit societal suicide via deepfake tsunami.
Not if it's only looking at the top search results. Those are very often terrible sources of information.
Only for some kind of searches.

E.g. I'd suspect most people use keyword search when looking for images. They don't do "show me that funny picture of when AI drew the salmon swimming except it misunderstood salmon", they look for "ai generated salmon swimming".
Except that's not the calculus. By integrating chatgpt with their products, Microsoft pulls users away from: search, docs/workspace, and even gmail, and brings them over into: Bing, Office365, and outlook. In doing so, they threaten google's core income stream, and therefore google's ability to fight back.

Microsoft is not paying for an expensive search engine: Microsoft is paying (with chatgpt compute infrastructure) for a much larger piece of the productivity suite market, and hamstringing google in the process.
The (PHP guy) interviewer failed the interview with you.
If you think about it, middle managers are nothing more than recruiters. If the metric really is the number of heads their team grows, then the only thing they'd do is increasing their team size. In some areas, recruiters make 40-80k a referral on senior/specialties.

The other thing is team growth is a defensive measure against recession layoffs and probably keeps eyes off a team if they've recently grew. It's either grow or die.
Start with rinsing your dishes and try not to eat out.

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(22)01477-4/ful...

Detergents, preservatives, pesticides and low quality ingredients are all great examples of things you can cut out eating at home. While we don't seem to have enough data to point to each one of them individually, it seems pretty common sense these are the new contributing factors in our environment.
It’s not the complexity of building intents that costs the money. Near real-time speech inference at scale doesn’t come for free. It’s only very recently that has started moving to the edge.
I don't like wasting the energy, so I'm not really running anything while it idles (and goes to sleep), but I really appreciate the power that is available when synthesizing/implementing an FPGA design, or when using MATLAB, both for hobby purposes. Especially now that there is an open beta for MATLAB to run natively on my M1 Max.
On Code Coverage Tools
Ancestors? It's normal now, just not where you are. A couple of centuries ago a bunch of upper class Europeans in big homes made it a point of having separate rooms for kids as means of showing off their wealth and status, and now here we are.

You can see this history quite clearly now in the old castles Royal families live in and the obscene amount of rooms they have. Who can look after an 18 room castle? Someone with money and power, that's who.

So what part of changing the basic build blocks of family connections that have existed even before we were walking on 2 legs for a 'status symbol' makes it the better option?

Its funny we like to pretend we are smarter or 'know better now'. It couldn't be any further from the truth. We don't sleep properly, we can't eat properly, we don't exercise enough and we suffer through chronic loneliness. We are the worst examples of how human beings should live.
Lots of people who aren't part of the "working class" do plenty of work but that's the nomenclature society uses for some reason so if you want to communicate with everyone else, you have to go along with it.
I like to say that the NES I had growing up (didn't get anything better until college, just had the NES through the SNES and N64 generations) was the ideal gaming console for kids: good enough to be fun, not good enough that you wouldn't get bored (or angry, LOL) and go ride bikes after a couple hours even if no-one forced you to.
Should've just kept more of the ICs and asked the managers to leave. I'd take a less experienced person who has been doing something for the past two years over a more experienced person who hasn't.
Cory Doctorow is uninteresting and exhausting. This screed barely explains what Netflix's policy is, or what actual problems this is causing. The idea that services get worse when they need to find novel ways to grow revenue from existing products is broadly accurate.
Can anyone link a credible expert who thinks that LLMs could ever evolve into AGI? Every single source I’ve read said that while LLMs are competent at language and certain tasks, they are conceptually completely distinct from the basic components of an AGI. For example, they lack structured knowledge and metacognition.
Instead, MS builds Edge with a load of (mind-booggling) functionality that, not-only no-one asked for, but positively put businesses off ever using Edge: things like built-in shopping price-comparisons and price-tracking[1], “Bing Rewards”[2], and most egregiously of all (and quickly back-pedalled…): directly advertising retail finance services to users[3].

All (well, most) of this unwanted functionality can be disabled via Group Policy (and MDM for non-AD computers?) but only businesses with competent/knowledgeable IT people can do that - for everyone else it’s just going to push users away.

Microsoft (and Edge, Windows and Bing) so desperately wants to be loved by users - that’s how you maintain market-share, but they can’t stop self-sabotaging everything with the most asinine things like above (…and the Windows 11 Start Menu). I don’t understand it - and I used to work at Microsoft![4]

[1]: https://www.howtogeek.com/769820/microsoft-edge-gets-yet-ano...

[2]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/edge-bonus

[3]: https://www.howtogeek.com/769427/microsoft-edge-wants-to-giv...

[4]: granted, I was in DevDiv, where the only objection I had to the products’ direction was the colour scheme - my friends in OSG (Windows) and Bing had lots of horror stories of orders to implement dumb ideas coming from org heads - rarely was it actual user demand. Arguably what makes Apple a standout is their internal propensity to say “no” - Microsoft needs that.
IE6 worked in w98 too.
Seriously? What 'fairness' exactly is it people want when companies do layoffs?

"Hey, we are laying off 3,000 people. Because of that, I am firing myself and the company will no longer have a CEO and will have to find someone else, starting immediately. In addition, I plan to donate all of my life's savings and file for unemployment like everyone else and, if needed, live in my van down by the river. I hope this makes everyone feel vindicated and that the scales of justice remain balanced. God Bless."
please explain re bell labs or xerox
Looks like you got modded down but that was my first thought browsing this now. It's odd to see someone who doesn't care so much that they'll fight you tooth and nail to show you how much they don't care. This raises a beige alert for me.
Imagine you sold a product on the internet, you paid Fedex to ship it. Your customer decides they don't want your product anymore. You refund them their money, but then you have to refund them the shipping cost. Not just the cost to ship it to them, but they want you to handle the return for free. Yeah, that costs money. Transaction fees are not free. Stripe doesn't own the credit card network.
I have an XPS15 running Ubuntu and it really is a great device. I plan on switching to the XPS13 for my next laptop as I like to have a more portable device and I am sure it will be great.
Easy now m8! They only just convinced me to type my first query into it.

Lets just try....

> will bing overtake google

Related searches looks interesting.

>>bing overrides google

>>how to prevent bing from taking over

>>bing is taking over my computer

>>bing has taken over my search engine

>>google keeps going to bing

>>alternatives to google and bing

>>why is bing taking over my browser

>>i don't want bing i want google

I have to say I'm impressed.
Well, it is called "Bard". What did you expect? A bard makes up stories and sets them to music. Sometimes the stories are true, sometimes embellished, sometimes false. Ideally, they all sound good enough and keep the patrons entertained.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34700191
Even before this I had started using Bing a lot more than I used to.

Anecdotally I think Bing is still a little dumber, but Google has been so overrun with SEO spam that its pretty much useless anyway.
"The grandparent comment makes it seem like it's easy for half the population to pee in a bottle and I called them out on it."

Funnels of various sizes readily available in every hardware and auto parts store. Also these specific funnels are readily available in outdoors and sporting stores. It is easy to find funnels. No need to defend "half the population" by "calling them out on it."
Writing code as a manager is my number 1 stressor.

As a manager, I have to deal with so much random bullshit. I don't mind it, but it's extremely difficult to manage that bullshit alongside code and sprint commitments. "I couldn't deliver" is remembered far more clearly than "I couldn't deliver because I was helping the team with X other thing that was far more important.".
Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea
Same. I basically gave it a try, and stayed with it. I sometimes feel I should make more use of the advanced features, like lenses, but I'm pretty happy with just regular searches, too. Reminds me a lot of how Google used to be.
Those days, most of the world lives like this now. Intimacy when you have kids is not the highest priority that overrides everything. Im not saying its not important, just that you don't make life choices based on if we 'can get it on here'. You just have to get creative thats all.

Bonding with your child and thinking about their needs becomes more important.
In management accounting, everything has a cost that has to be quantified, regardless of whether it's a standalone product or part of a HW/SW bundle. At the most basic levels, you have revenue centers (iPhone unit, iCloud unit), and cost centers (Apple Maps unit, customer support unit). All of these have operating costs.

The only way Siri does not lose Apple money is if there would be materially fewer iPhones sold if Siri was eliminated. In other words, if Siri is not a product differentiator, it's likely losing money (in the management accounting sense).
Even if this is off by two orders of magnitude and it's only 100,000 companies that need distributed compute, that means that almost all companies just need a single large computer.

Looking at the distribution of companies by employee count and assuming that data scales with employee count (dangerous assumption, but probably true enough on average), that means that companies don't need distributed compute until they get several hundred employees. [0]

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/487741/number-of-firms-i...
While I get that they're sometimes useful to trigger debate,
I don't really subscribe to very bold statements.

We are drowning in data, it's all around us. Information overload is real. Data enables most of our daily digital experiences, from operational data to insights in the form of user facing analytics. Data systems are the backbone of the digital life.

It's is an ocean and it's all about the vessel you pick to navigate it. I don't believe that the vessel should dictates the size of the ocean, it's simply constrained by it's capabilities. The trick is to pick the right vessel for the job, whether you want to go fast, go far or fish for insights (ok, I need to stop pushing on this metaphor )

This visionary paper from Michael Stonebreaker (2005) predicted it quite accurately and I think is still relevant:
https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf

Databases come in various flavours and the "trends" are simply a reflection of what the current era needs

Disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse
Judging by the reaction it would seem you’re in the minority here
previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30138561 (2022/01/30, 26 points, 14 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19318898 (2019/03/06, 295 points, 314 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18780987 (2018/12/28, 2 points, 2 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10520639 (2015/11/06, 325 points, 223 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799247 (2013/11/25, 4 points, 5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3668310 (2012/03/05, 732 points, 319 comments)
I'm trying to solve the native desktop GUI with Slint [1]

Our goal is to get native look and feel on every desktop platform, with a great developer experience (and also designer experience).
To do that we want the developer to use the programming language of its choice by having idiomatic binding to many programming languages, and we want to build a design tool that a designer can use to produce the final artifact.

We've not reached all our goals yet, but we're progressing.

[1] https://slint-ui.com
Typically desktop application frameworks (Windows Forms, GTK, QT, etc) follow an imperative approach, where you design your UI (maybe with a graphical designer) and attach callbacks to events, than then update the UI elements directly

Unbelievably so, DOM also follows that. It’s apples to oranges comparison, because you could use React, Vue and other wrappers with Gtk, Qt and other runtimes, because it’s the same exact model as DOM, literally.

DOM only lacks collections/datasources, because it originated from a non-programmatic format which required every collection element to be fully described from scratch. This nuance caused around 50% of clusterfuck that web experienced for last 20 years. The other 50% was an inability (or reluctance) to support custom reflow hooks.
I wouldn't say that's representative of the US in general. I regularly take an hour for lunch. And, those benefits in France only apply to CDI employees if I'm not mistaken, and the percentage of employees who are CDD seem to be rising yoy while youth unemployment is also very high. It seems to be a lot easier to get onto the career ladder in the US.
It would suck for Google to make $20B from AI Chat instead of making $160B in Search, it wouldn't suck for Microsoft to make $20B from AI Chat instead $2B in Search.

If the AI assistants live to the promise, Google is screwed even if they make the best and most popular one.
Just in the past week "IC" has appeared in 2 front page stories on HN.

Are you US based? Beginning my career in the mid 00s I was exposed to "IC" pretty much day 1 starting at Microsoft.

Other people around me in adjacent sectors also use the phrase to refer to non-managers, it is pretty common daily parlance, I am 99% sure I can ask any of my knowledge worker friends and they'll know what I am talking about.

Google trends show "individual contributor" has been a pretty popular phrase since at least 2011.
Big law (at least outside of the US, in the UK/EU) is very much pyramid shaped. Typically the model is based on getting the maximum number of chargeable hours from the minimum number of associates, for a dim prospect of eventually making partner. The overwhelming majority of profits flow to partners at the top of the equity structure.
If you removed Siri, it would serious limit what you can do in CarPlay and you would also lose voice dictation. I think there would be materially fewer iPhones sold.