skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think LLMs are potentially a good addition. My searches are based on different use cases: one is when I am looking for a quick answer, two when I am looking for some suggestions, three when I am looking to do research. ( Of course ignoring the ones when I google for meanings or quick calculations or to go to a specific site. Thats just cos it's fast, not really a feature).

For quick overview answer, LLMs are great. It's not 100% correct, but mostly it is, and that is good enough for a quick answer. Currently google tries to show that and people object as it is stealing traffic from websites. i just need an answer, a coherent useable one. Eg: "What were the movies Scorsese got an Oscar nomination for?"

For suggestions, LLMs are just one more of those blogs and listicles that are already showing up in search. If LLM is updated that is. The difference is an LLM would customize the answer according to the query, unlike already pre written content. So, yes useful. Same goes with stuff like: "how to build an email list?" or "What is a effective sales strategy?"

For research, Google is more useful. I think we have all done that.

Another application which is not realized at this time because we never did it before is the ability to ask follow up questions (which a chat format enables well). Suppose you get an overview of how a quantum computer works, but it would take a lot of effort to ask a follow up question and get a direct answer via a search engine. Eg: "Why is there no point in going beyond thousand Qubits?"

There could be modifications like voice to text (a jarvis like interface), or a personal assistant thingy. But those are far fetched.

It will help immensely, and for places it does not, we will still google like we have done before.
Private property is a regulation. You can't even barter if the other guy has no concept of ownership, he'll just take it from you. Markets are invented by regulations.
> insinuating that DEI is a scheme to replace good workers with incompetent ones?

No, not that this is its purpose. But it may be the effect of how it's being implemented. Fealty to the gods of Equity prevent anyone from admitting that EEO claims can be a tool to unjustly shield bad workers.

IF it's not obvious, I don't mean that no EEO claims are justified. But on the other side of the coin, many of them are unjustified.
I still have a few BTC in a LBC account from 2013. I had forgotten about it until a few years ago, and the email account I used was inaccessible. I have the 2FA backup codes sheet but nothing else. I wonder if they’ll let me recover them.

I bought my first BTC through LBC. RIP, the end of an era.
Yeah, I really think it's weird to include the language name in the package name unless it's a language-specific library (with no FFI... C libraries almost never include C in their names) or bindings to something. The language is (usually) an implementation detail for an "app"

And in this specific case, a rusty desk is probably not what most people want, so if you want any non-programmers to use it... it's not the best name.
Cheers, I'll take a look!
Tbh a lot of it can be as simple as:

- get computers. laptops, desktops, raspberry pis, custom-built ("whitebox") servers, old dell poweredges you got off ebay, etc etc. Install linux on them.

- plug servers into switches, switches into switches, and eventually into your router. Don't create cycles in your tree (unless you know your router/switches support it (STP), and unless you paid $1k for your switch, it doesn't support it)

- Figure out your router config to assign them static/reserved DHCP IP addresses so they always get the same IP.

- put those IPs in your hosts file. (optionally, set up a DNS server.)

- ssh-copy-id your ssh key to all servers

Now you have a bunch of machines you can ssh to. Which imo is the most basic definition of a homelab.

Lots of people get super creative and use fancy routers and switches and enterprise gear and do complicated networking and etc etc etc but all that stuff is just good fun and not necessary.
Anyone else have iOS Safari crash so hard on this it temporarily locks up your phone? To the point that open Safari again immediately crashes and I had to frantically spam the tab closed in order to recover my ability to browse the web.
> People who want to get rich will tell you it's the next greatest thing that will revolutionize the industry.

Reminds me of the web3 crypto hype and this hype is the same thing that happened with GPT-3. Closed source black-box AI model hidden behind a SaaS confidently generating wrong answers as the truth.

Sounds like OpenAI (effectively Microsoft's new AI division) are selling snake-oil again.

> I think there are useful applications for this technology but I think we should leave that to the people who understand LLM's best and keep the charlatans out of it.

There are certainly charlatans, grifters and snake-oil sales people pretending and hyping about their so-called 'AI startup' when it is actually uses the GPT-3 or ChatGPT API. Another emperor has no clothes confidence trick generating garbage.

Given that ChatGPT cannot explain its own answers transparently when questioned especially when it confidently generates wrong answers means that you cannot trust its output and telling it to give you a sophisticated answer to an 'un-googleable' question is where you see it clearly trip over.

What would really 'revolutionize the industry' is an open-source LLM model which is a smaller model and more transparent than ChatGPT, like what Stable Diffusion did to DALLE-2.
> Until this days some people are still using face masks.

Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
I have been using Powershell, primarily on Windows, as my primary shell for a few years. I honestly prefer it to bash. I don't set it as my default shell on Linux, but that's because 99% of my bash usage (and the majority of my Linux usage) these days is explicitly to test a piece of code written in bash.

Configured with PSReadline Emacs mode it really feels pretty much like bash for the most part, except better. https://github.com/lukeschlather/dotfiles/blob/master/src/Wi...

(Concrete better: copy-paste, selecting with the mouse, scrolling all just work. Copy-paste pastes multiline by default so you don't end up executing commands without a chance to review.)

I've been wanting to try out elvish which seems like it might be a cleaner and more "unixy" pwsh. https://elv.sh/
Show HN: Please – New tab page for your terminals
I wrote a script and aliased it so that after each vsc update I just run the script to replace its icon.

vscode’s icon is so bland and boring, it’s also hard to distinguish from other apps cause nowadays lots of apps use blue colored icons.
Large corporations tend to be multicultural. Training employees to respect colleagues regardless of their background, and to be mindful of potential cultural minefields is not "pulling slides from the US Democratic party", but is any company's self-interest.

I know the culture war is now being fought openly, but this is such a disappointingly shallow reading - especially on HN. Companies are not being "woke" to be cool, they provide training as a legal shield so that when the next racist shithead employee does what racist shitheads do and the company gets sued, a company rep will take the stand in court and testify that it is not company policy and refer to the training that was provided. Companies have not stopped being capitalist, DEI is clearly legal CYA but the culture warriors will miss that. Next rime you take DEI training, count the number of times they mention laws and statutes pertaining to protected classes and discrimination.
Building a Pivot Table in SQLite
My bet is a mass existential crisis.
> All said they closed my accounts for "business reasons", or "chose to withdraw service for undisclosed reasons".

I suspect this was the "you've tripped our money laundering rules in a way we're not allowed to tell you".
By your standard, if the covid vaccine doesn’t produce immunity then the flu vaccine doesn’t, either.
This conversation was in the context of OP

> I wish people would stop posting articles that imply that remote working is somehow objectively better

> we can just as easily make up the idea that people are less happy working remotely.

We can make up the idea that the sun is blue, but I think you missed my point. Please note I talk about productivity.

In the context of people claiming remote/in-person work is more productive and asking each other for proof, discussing about burden of proof, why not simply assume that remote is exactly as productive as in-person? Unless some undeniable proof is presented.

I find it an elegant way to diffuse this proof-of-burden.

Personally I decided a long time ago which one I prefer.
Offshoring is not the same thing.

There are great people in India. It's just more conducive for them to get better pay if they manage to get an H1B and move to the US.

If they could just "work remote", then you (as an American, or at least someone who can and does work in the US? Well, applies to any western country) are no longer competing with "people from India who manage to get an H1B and have a family situation compatible with moving countries", but suddenly with ALL qualified workers in India.

Big tech in the west employs HUGE numbers of expats from lower paid countries. A very large portion of which Big tech paid for the H1B (or equiv) and relocation costs.

If you are remote, then you're only valued on your output. And I'm not saying you're in a poor position against a random engineer from India (nor presumably from a random engineer in the US), but you'll be in a poor position against the equivalent of your amazing local coworker who moved from India (or hell, any European country with less pay) because that's where the job was.

If the job is "anywhere, because it's remote", then I'm saying that you may not be on the winning side of this change.

Opening up "work from anywhere" is not like offshoring to save costs. More like given two equally valuable people, why should an employer pay a premium to one, just because they chose to live in a higher cost of living country?
To anybody complaining that this should be opt-in: opt-in petty doesn't work. The reason for this is that most people don't care, but they don't care either way. They don't allow it when prompted, nor would they report it when not prompted.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230209160325/https://heyinnova...
> what role does a text based internet play in daily life 10 years from now? [...] 10 years from now, would you bet against primary research -> ChatGPT ingress -> widely deployed ChatGPT model?

I suspect I'm a little bit more skeptical about this than other people might be? 10 years out is a long way to predict and I'm hesitant to try, but I might be primed wrong looking at voice assistants/video/etc... where I think the format changes have been a little over-exaggerated in some ways in the past, and where I think people have traditionally underestimated how much staying power traditional models have. There were a lot of things that were supposed to kill a traditional text-based Internet, but the only thing that's come close is video, and that seems to get a lot of blowback; I'm not sure it was an improvement.

But regardless, your comment is a insightful perspective that gives me some alternative ways of looking at this. So I think I agree. I might be just more on the skeptical side of things of how well-suited the current tools are for building the kinds of applications you're describing, but I get the theory.

And generative AI that's separate from AI answering questions is kind of another story; I can absolutely imagine potential creative impacts around stuff like music loop generation, art generation, etc... I similarly am looking at the current state of things and saying, "well... the tech doesn't seem to be as good as people say it is, so I don't want to start using it now before it improves", but I can at least imagine how things might change if the tech does get good. I'm not sure it would be a "revolution" or that it's going to put artists out of business or whatever, but it could potentially lower the barrier of entry for certain applications. And certainly LLMs for general website classification I think would be a really good use that I wish was being pursued more.

At the least though, even if I'm skeptical, I can definitely understand why someone would have that perspective, and your summation of the different groups rings true to me.

I still don't think I want it in my current search box today though :) I don't think that LLMs are useless at all, I'm just not sure searching in specific is a good use for them.
Their movies are making more than ever. Have you actually looked at the figures?
Doesn't it then follow that children of wealthy parents who have been tutored, been able to afford going to better schools, and not had to keep down a job to for pay for their college are more meritorious?
No, choosing to live in a fantasy world and believing in provably false conspiracy theories is not an understandable response. If I grew up hating the way history was taught and communicated because of pro-Western biases and whitewashing atrocities and American exceptionalism, and my response is to decide history is bullshit and I'm going to believe instead in some gibberish I found on a blog or a podcast, that is not understandable. It's a dramatic and seemingly emotional overreaction that not only fails to solve the issue, but significantly undermines my own ability to effectively view and understand the world in other ways.

The difference of course is that anti-vaxxers and other anti-science types were and are literally dying due to their belief in nonsense and conspiracies.
1. They named it Bard

2. They didn't actually release it

3. The one thing they showed contained an error

Surely this is the strong response to OpenAI that investors were waiting for
Which season is that? I have to watch it.
A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy
I've been using YouChat with some success. It always gives you citations in addition to its own answer.

https://you.com/search?q=youchat&tbm=youchat
IoT VLAN indeed can be annoying. It's getting better as a lot of the more "prosumer" grade routers are supporting it. I use Sonos at home too, which means I had to deploy this into a VM to bridge the VLANs: https://github.com/alsmith/multicast-relay.

There are some funny (?) things that turn up too, like learning the Roku remote iOS app "discovers" devices by opening a TCP connection to every address in parallel on its local /24 (!!!). It sends out and receives mDNS packets that would tell it exactly where they are, but they are ignored by the app.
There's no logical endpoint for "disparate group outcomes prove a problem that must be fixed" outside of discrimination against Asians and Jews. (It's an ineffective racist, white supremacist society that allows immigrant Asians and their descendants to outscore native whites on every metric of success used to prove the racism and white supremacy.)
I think that is subjectively worse as its applying it from his viewpoint instead of an objective measure.
The main issue with Thunderbird IMO is that line-wrapping and quoting (and especially their interaction) during composition is horrifically buggy!
Asians have been facing discrimination in work and schools for over a century. DEI is conceptually much younger. It’s just more yellow peril bullshit wrapped up in a veneer of morality pushed by career racists and bigots.
Best thing I think is "do it", because when you need to fix an issue you learn new stuff, I have never done dedicated studies, also because each system has its own particularities, so you can learn the basic but then the names and operations may change a bit from one to another brand.
While they certainly have some people who are cogs, all of the small businesses I know are heavily reliant on their owner constantly being around being that person and putting in soul-crushing hours, though, as they can't rely on anyone else and yet simply aren't large enough to have the entire business be built out of cogs. A result of this is that they are businesses that are fundamentally trapped at their current size because of this reliance on their size, and I will claim the only way they grow is by figuring out how to bring on other dedicated strong people to help them get some horizontal scale. I honestly don't think you can try to do the "everyone is a cog" thing until you are at least a medium-sized business.
> When someone makes $500k+, what does "unpaid overtime" even mean?

It means shit work/life balance, thus missing on a lot of people that would want to have it and results in worse productivity (people need time off or they break).
> As a senior leader, one of your jobs is to teach the younger folks how to do their jobs efficiently.

I'm in the leadership position you describe, and I've found remote work to be amazing for teaching because of screen-sharing. It's so much easier to get the team talking about some code over Teams/Slack/etc. than it is awkwardly huddled around someone's monitor or looking at a TV in the office. Remotely, you're able to see the code and have high-quality audio, and you don't have to worry about some higher up manager seeing a group gathering and thinking now's a good chance to get some internal publicity...

Of course, none of the above applies if the tools aren't used. I think the key to mastering remote teaching is good scheduling.
I've made one of these as well using the 'original' setup. We used rags and blocks as I figured a sandbox in the living room matched with two small kids would have been a relative nightmare.

Holding your hand over spots, this making it rain, and having the water "pool" and run as it would is absolutely beyond fun. Move the mountains, and downward it continues to flow.

With a budget projector ($82!), A Kinect (I forget version), and an old graphics card it worked pretty flawless after setup -- probably the hardest part was aligning the sensor with the projector and getting it all actually calibrated -- the next one we build I'll def try this version and note the differences. Calibration with the other method used a cdrom as it's target that you placed around, a bit fiddly.

Super super cool.
Get a 19" keystone panel and then you can do whatever you want. There are keystones available for Ethernet, coax, rj11 POTS, hdmi, fiber, basically anything.
> its really annoying when someone works from home a day and you can just go over problems.

If you have no way of communicating with people remotely, that seems like the core issue. Or you’re just not using the tools available?
7% seems like a number shared in a non paper across tech ceos. lol
I wonder if the curse of dimensionality would necessarily apply. In general, yes, most of the points in a n-dimensional volume lie near the surface in high dimensional spaces. While true, this seems mostly to be an issue when sampling random, independent points from the space. For an ML problem, all of the points are likely dependent on a few underlying processes.

Wikipedia has more on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

> This is often cited as distance functions losing their usefulness (for the nearest-neighbor criterion in feature-comparison algorithms, for example) in high dimensions. However, recent research has shown this to only hold in the artificial scenario when the one-dimensional distributions R \mathbb {R} are independent and identically distributed.[13] When attributes are correlated, data can become easier and provide higher distance contrast and the signal-to-noise ratio was found to play an important role, thus feature selection should be used.

> More recently, it has been suggested that there may be a conceptual flaw in the argument that contrast-loss creates a curse in high dimensions. Machine learning can be understood as the problem of assigning instances to their respective generative process of origin, with class labels acting as symbolic representations of individual generative processes. The curse's derivation assumes all instances are independent, identical outcomes of a single high dimensional generative process. If there is only one generative process, there would exist only one (naturally occurring) class and machine learning would be conceptually ill-defined in both high and low dimensions. Thus, the traditional argument that contrast-loss creates a curse, may be fundamentally inappropriate. In addition, it has been shown that when the generative model is modified to accommodate multiple generative processes, contrast-loss can morph from a curse to a blessing, as it ensures that the nearest-neighbor of an instance is almost-surely its most closely related instance. From this perspective, contrast-loss makes high dimensional distances especially meaningful and not especially non-meaningful as is often argued.
if, as you say, the economy is super strong and employment opportunities are robust, then nobody should worry about the layoffs because hey, you’ll find a new gig easily!
I use Thunderbird as my main mail client and love it. I've tried a number of clients and always come back to it. The two big things for me are the search and the ecosystem of add-ons.

I do hope the redesign considers add-on developers. A lot have been abandoned by their maintainers who become frustrated with keeping up with Thunderbird's changes. One thing I'd love to see is an easy way to send money to support add-on creators.
that it only crashed Safari is surprising...something this cursed likely has the power to end marriages, kill house pets and void the very fabric of reality.
I was litterally presented with a slide from Kamala Harris' campaign.
Maybe we should talk about "science communication" rather than science.

This is an entirely different category, and SC not mirror science e.g in it's process following scientific processes/principles, despite the dependencies between the fields.

For post talks about what "policymakers and scientists really think" - it doesn't matter what scientists think (in this context), this is about policymakers and science-communicators (who may or may not also be scientists, or have such a background).

TLDR, scientific authority has been "weaponised", and the backlash is as much against the weapon as the wielder. Not a surprise the true wielders are scapegoating "scientists" as the instigators.
Not only that, but the people who do want to trudge through heaps of scientific detail are often "motivated reasoners" who don't really have backgrounds in the field or know how to qualify a research report, as we saw with the ivermectin fiasco, which included some very credible-looking meta sources that were very clearly treating obvious garbage research reports as important data points that they could aggregate with others.
Very partial list of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar movie/TV roles or cameos:

* Airplane
* Fletch
* Uncle Buck
* A movie called "Matrix" that seems to be unrelated to "The Matrix"
* The Critic (yes, the animated one)
* Scrubs
* Simpsons
* Dave (recent TV show not movie)
* Glass Onion

Also wrote at least on Episode of Veronica Mars.

This seems like a MUCH more fun sports retirement than just flying to golf destinations and chugging champagne... (not to mention his extensive philanthropy and personal writing)
Ransomware attacks, for example, are only viable thanks to cryptocurrencies.

I will also point out that limiting the movement of money, goods and people is not a characteristic of totalitarian regimes. Every single country has such restrictions.
How about fixing stuff like hemophilia or sickle cell?

"Eugenics" or nah?
I hope they focus and improve on search.

It's probably the worst of all email clients we've tested at work and it made my bosses switch to a paid version of Outlook. Sometimes you can't find emails when searching for a name. It's so bad.

There are other quirks and bugs too that definitely make it feel outdated, which sucks because I like it (although it is kinda old looking too as mentioned in the article hehe).