skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “If it concerned a play with five white guys that they’d held open auditions for, everything would have been fine. But you can’t ban people right from the start,” Usva theatre programmer Bram Douwes told the Ukrant newspaper.

So in other words, it's mandatory to waste people's time when you know in advance you won't cast them?

I think they've missed the intention of inclusivity.
How glorious it would be if it turned out the Google AI division is incompetent. Microsoft/OpenAI catches them with their pants down, like TikTok caught facebook. These arrogant incumbents puttering around, releasing no code, deep inefficient management structures, diversity and inclusion. How glorious for the forces of capitalism to punish them for their mistakes
> I want a definitive, authoritative answer to a question

You mean 90% (or X%) definitive answer with no good way to verify it due to zero context (unlike in normal websites)?
Crypto Reading – Dan Romero
These rules, like all writing rules, are "meant to be broken".

If you're a beginning writer, following them is a great idea. In part because you can't go too wrong with them, even if there are situations where breaking them is better. They are really expressions of deeper truths about the art. Even the greatest rule-breakers of great authors follow them more often than not.

An inexperienced writer should follow them until they understand the deeper truth behind them. Once you know why the rule was worth stating, you know when the rule should not be applied.
As people have said this isn't necessarily cause and effect, but if you can't get your new product working correctly in the controlled environment of an ad it certainly shakes my confidence that it will be working reliably in practice.
That's not a solution, tin-eye is a reverse image search tool. This is affecting all image search results on google. I do use Tin-eye and have found it only useful for finding larger dimension relatively exact matches. It can handle crop and color filters but not much more.

Yandex reverse image search is currently the only useful reverse image search left that can do fuzzy matching. Like if I reverse image search a picture of a cathedral I took, it'll find other pictures of the same cathedral, even taken from different angles. Google and Bing used to be great, Google's is terrible when you include a human subject in the picture, and Bing is very very inconsistent. I have had times where I reverse image a picture and Bing finds nothing except ones a little bigger in dimension, but then I search using one of the bigger ones and it finds similar pictures like expected. It's literally the same picture, just cropped less, no color filters or watermarks.
Social media may be global, but other countervailing factors may be local.
Well, it is in racket?

Welcome to Racket v8.7 [cs].
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dont confuse basic capitalism with some other random agenda. The point of this is to ensure they collect the fertile data of the adult porn industry.
Isn't that against sanctions?
I think what you mean here is that 1984 is not prosaic - the diction Orwell has used is intentionally crude like you say. If someone ever writes a new age dystopian novel that is similar I would personally love it if the wakeup phrase (or whatever you call it) for the indoctrinated masses is simply:
Prose are Powerful.
It's not because it could be worse that we should accept things as they stand.
What if I ask ChatGPT who the highest scoring NBA player is? Oops, failed.

How about I ask it how many games Jaime Benn has played? Or what the score of the last Dallas stars game was, or when the next one is?

What if I ask ChatGPT for a copy of the manual for a meater bluetooth meat thermometer? It literally just told me to Google it.

What if I ask which car manufacturers are joining Formula 1, and when they'll be starting?
Chatbots don't monetize as well as the current search does. Much harder to get people to click on ads. Google worried that cannibalizing their search product will kill margins and profit.
Alibaba tests ChatGPT-style tool as AI buzz intensifies
Really most of your post here is answered by the later fifth or so of the post you're responding to.

I would reread that part.

Models output very similar work to training data at times, even identical in some cases, but the vast majority of it is different enough to not be derived work.

The DCMA act effects public uses of art like YouTube. This sort of copyright where you can regulate how it's used does not exist in any form currently.
It's more peer to peer file sharing and web content sharing than truly distributed sharig but with a globally available service, it's "distributed" ina way. It's not doing sharding or anything fancy like that (yet anyway). Right now, it's a dev-focused tool similar to the other projects out there like ngrok/tailscale funnels/cloudflare tunnels etc. There's a fair number of them now-a-days. :) But it doesn't need to stay that way and might change.

This one is built on top of OpenZiti (I am a dev on that project) which is a secure, zero trust overlay network. It's fully self-hostable and open source which some people find attractive. The hosted version our company is sponsoring for free (at least 'for now').

The key goal is to make it super easy and safe to share files/web content.
I'm a daily keybase user, and I didn't even know keybase.pub existed.
Why would I be kidding? Userspace ABI doesn't break much at all. Unbootalbe system is also quite rare. Obscure drivers may break, but I just fix them or wait a bit if I don't have time, that's why I run rc kernels, afterall. But that's not an ABI break.
Anticheat-protected games just don’t work on Steam Deck (usually just refusing to connect).

A few anticheat engines support specifically Steam Deck after working with Valve, but even then each individual game developer has to opt into it. (For example: Destiny 2 uses EasyAntiCheat which is Deck-compatible but Bungie still refuse to whitelist it on Deck/Steam OS, and warn you may get banned if you try to sidestep the block)

Modern DRMs like Denuvo actually do tend to work in Proton/Wine (aka Steam OS’s compatibility layer) because they’re a wrapper around the game instead of a driver/debugger+game setup.
It depends on the situation. If you have had a breakdown and have to hoof it (which normally shouldn't happen anyway--you should be prepared to hold out until you're reported overdue and they're looking for you) you could be in a situation where you know ahead is shorter than behind. That assumes you know where you are and what the roads around are like.
> I'm honestly appalled by the pervasive tendency to rely on repetition of cliches in favor of original communication, for example.

Shaka, when the walls fell ;)

honestly there's an interesting argument to be made there that memes and cliches provide a higher symbol density to our communications via shared context/subtext. A meme has additional layers of context and nuance that are implicitly carried along with the actual words themselves, it has higher "meaning-density".

Whether or not you like them, this is how human communications are evolving, and have been for a long time, particularly as we reshape language around our new technologies. "lol" as an interjective is a tonality carrier, just like vocal tone. Emojis are short textual-form memes. Etc etc. Image memes as high-density multilayered communication are just another form.

I mean half the time when I write out a longform comment, the response I get is "I ain't reading all that shit" even here on HN. ;). People just want higher symbol density, it's the same reason they don't read the article or watch the video. The human brain is a meaning-density machine and we inherently seek ways to increase the amount and preciseness of meaning-interchange. Higher meaning-density per symbol is a great way to do that given our physical limitations at processing more symbols.

In ironic contrast to the rise of youtube-driven content production - I think people inherently crave symbol density and meaning. But since we've monetized attention, there's a perverse incentive to decrease symbol density/meaning-density to allow greater time for monetization... but I think that also rubs against what our brains want to do.

In the aggregate, the way memes bounce around communities nowadays is also not dissimilar to a neural network working with higher-order objects instead of zeros and ones or floats. Memes that don't get passed between groups are the ones that are less relevant - so we have activation energy in some form, short-term storage, and cross-group linkage between neurons. And the memes are symbolic encodings of some groups of features (concepts). They are an emergent cluster of features that activates various groups reliably.

Higher meaning-density is also the reason some people prefer face-to-face communication or phone calls. Things like facial expressions and tone of voice also increase meaning-density as well. People say things like "it's less ambiguous/more immediate" but I think that's because of those sub-channels increasing the meaningfulness. And while meme culture/emojis isn't all good, maybe it's best viewed as replacing some of those sub-channels we lost in the shift from verbal to written communication rather than a regression to repetitive communication.
It costs $5 to open a bank account at most US credit unions.
Headline doesn't really line up with everything else going on that affects a trillion dollar company...

It is probably some combination of the SOTU address, continued macroeconomic headwinds, and the poor/slow reaction to ChatGPT/Microsoft partnership. The wrong answer probably has SO little to do with this.
It's a pretty good start. "Kids these days" doesn't explain teens' self reported problems, or objective data such as suicide and self harm. Clearly something really is going on. Is social media the culprit? Maybe a case will be made in subsequent articles. One thing I don't see mentioned is the fact that - regardless of whether it comes through "old school" or "new school" media - kids today are barraged by negative news. Incomes for most have stagnated (at best). Costs have skyrocketed (especially housing, health care, and education). Inflation is back. The political situation is an absolute dumpster file. Evidence of climate change is all around. And most of these things seem to be getting worse. Advances in science and technology are positive, but not quite as dramatic as going to the moon or as life-changing as electronics and plastics a couple of generations ago. If my life after ChadGPT is different than my life before, it's likely to be in negative ways.

Who can blame kids for feeling overwhelmed or defeated, which often end up being expressed as not-obviously-related mental (or even physical) health issues? They are, after all, facing a bleaker future than we did, including my own GenX and the Cold War. If social media is part of the problem, then we need to identify how much it's a problem itself vs. as an avenue for a constant flood of depressing news.
This feels so familiar to me. I've been working on projects like these for a decade now. Every time, the infrastructure and applications get rebuilt by people. Thousands of hours are spent doing this work by well-meaning volunteers. I don't understand why though. These sorts of products exist in the world already. We have mapping tools from HotOSM, we have NeedList. I ultimately wonder what social good comes of these tools existing in disasters.
You can already use fixed-point (AKA "decimal") values in any language which supports integer artihmetic, but you will quickly discover the two major limitations it has: your programs still need to account for precision, and the range of values which can be expressed becomes smaller as precision increases.
> I feel like Google is going to bleed credibility for every month that they don't have a lamda/llm enabled search integrated into the home page.

I feel like Google is going to bleed credibility for every month that their home page is lacking a system which almost by design is going to lie to me without me realizing at least as often as it might usefully summarize information from primary sources that I wanted to read myself.

OK, then.
It's just funny that Google's answer to ChatGPT seems to have the same problems despite all the praise it's received from folks that got early access. It sort of reminds me of the hubbub around the Segway.
As an aside, I use uBlock Origin, and still I get an autoplaying video on that site. Extremely distracting...
Make it clear from the start that we're a business that pays people for their work, not a charity or a family, and that we scale up and down based on the market and our needs. Then give as much notice as possible.

Imo the problems start with the cute demonyms and other pretend familial stuff. In industries like construction, layoffs and scale-up-scale down is very regular, and I don't think we see CEOs taking fake ownership and writing sappy letters. It's a fact of business, and lying about the nature of the relationship right up to the moment you lay people off is what makes things the worst.
I think it's harder to block Mastodon because there are many instances. You can block the main ones, but people can still use smaller ones to access content from all Mastodon instances.

Twitter has one domain and probably a known IP range. Mastodon has (at least) hundreds of domains and IPs.
I just decommissioned my 2011 Windows 7 machine where I did most of my dev work and all of my casual computing such as web stuff and gaming. It ran all of the software I needed plus the Steam games I enjoyed. I had no technical reason to "upgrade" in all that time. In its place now is a kooky Linux machine.

The replacement started off as a toy turned experiment: a 12 core Gen 1 Threadripper with 64GB ECC and a Radeon Pro W5700. I wound up installed Void Linux Musl with XFCE mostly to see how useful a system-d/glibc free Linux machine can be. Turns out very useful if you install bloated Windows-style "applications" like Steam, Discord, Chrome, LibreOffice, etc using Flatpak. You can also setup a glibc chroot if need be but I have not ran into this need yet.

I can watch Hulu and other streaming services just fine in Chrome (haven't tried FF). I can play older AAA games you would never imagine running on Linux such as GTA5 and Skyrim with ZERO configuration other than checking "run this game using proton". However I have yet to get Crysis running :-( Anything I can't get running with Wine I can toss into a VM. And I can run lots of VM's :-)

And if you really miss Windows or want some familiarity back - XFCE + Chicago95 ;-)
I would say that "quickly sped" is bad merely because it's redundant. Nobody "slowly speeds".
Also curious how it compares to https://github.com/holepunchto
Bought a hammer for 80k because someone 5 minutes earlier had said they wanted to buy one for 100k and I thought I would make a 20k profit. Little did 14 year old me know that the buyer and seller were working together, or were the same person, and I had been tricked into buying a hammer worth 40k for 80k.

That has to be a scam as old as time. Glad I learned that lesson on runescape instead of in real life.
The colors are really hard for me to see, but otherwise it is a cool idea.
China's JD.com plans to integrate ChatGPT methods into its product services
This is what happens to all companies. It's a natural progression. Some new companies will wow us in the way Google did in the mid-aught's.
Side Effects Are Unavoidable
Somebody (DEC, maybe?) had something they called a "perfect failure". They had a very precise definition. You had to try something, realize that it wasn't working, kill it quickly, and learn something from it.

They celebrated these - like, a real celebration. But first they made sure that it really fit the definition.
Including Lisp. Not every Lisp dialect has rationals.
No, his scenario is not equivalent, but here's a few more:

"Hello, this is just a reminder that your voting station will be open between 5 pm and 9 pm in (somewhere where it's not actually located), please remember to vote!"

"Hello, if you would like a free ride to your voting station, please text us 'YES', and wait at (location) between X and Y pm (Nobody will show up)."

"Hello, we have a great offer for auto insurance, blah, blah, blah."

"Hello, just a reminder, millions of trustworthy people believe that <opposition candidate> was responsible for <something untrue and horrible>. This isn't slander, because we are just strongly implying it in this robocall. Also, they live at XY address, and won't someone rid is of this meddlesome priest?"

"Hello, all the doctors are lying to you, buy our snake oil wellness supplements, instead. They are supplements, not drugs, we don't answer to the FDA."

"Hello, let's go down to sixth and Broadway next Tuesday, and make some noise/put the fear of God into <group>"

"<Ethnic minority group> is burning this country's forests down using space lasers."

"Hello, please be aware that it's illegal to discuss your salary with your coworkers."
How much gaming does he do, and what kind of games, if you don't mind?
Yeah, but ChatGPT is the new cool kid on the block everyone's been talking about, and with it being banned from school and academic work, it will increase its cool factor, and the kids will want it even harder.

Meanwhile Google is now your grandpa's search engine and Google knows it, which is why they're in full panic mode to come up with an equally cool competitor.
Apple fans, if Im being honest, apple fans do know that Android exists.
No one who understands tech claims it's impossible.
Its just not what they want. They dont want to deal with the baggage it comes with.
Saying this as an Apple user in the past now switched to Android for more flexibility, but feeling not worth it and going back to Apple after USB-C integration.
If you are going to take it that far then it could simply read:

If it is possible to cut a word out, cut it.

Or perhaps:

Is it possible to cut out a word? Cut.
That is fine, but in this case telemetry trades you (and other more hardline users) as a user for all the extra users you gain from instant crash reports, quick feedback, and generally better productivity.

I would never personally make that trade-off, and would always put (disableable) telemetry in my projects.
can in-app webviews also require a specific browser, or will they always run on webkit?
would this make it possible to write a native app with some wasm components?
Yandex. There is nothing that comes close for reverse image searching by a mile. It even has the same feature as bing where you can just copy paste the picture itself, no need to mess with urls. Bing is decent but reverse image is failing the same way Google's is. And Bing recently introduced the obnoxious full screen UI where it gives you products it found in the picture instead of doing a real reverse image search.
>It's not about who's fastest, it's about who stays in the end.

This is contradictory. Not every reader is going to "stay in the end" to learn what's really true. The past few years have given plenty of evidence for that.
Never let your tools do your thinking for you. In any craft.
Talking to the Stadia Controller with WebHID
I am all for transparency and limited intrusiveness of telemetry.

But in practical terms, the problem with this approach -- if I'm understanding it correctly -- is that it has no way to detect and reject outliers, and therefore the data can't be validated in any way. It only makes sense if all your clients are 100% trustworthy.

Let's say you want to know whether to keep supporting ARMv5, and your data says 10% of users are using it. There's no way to tell whether that's accurate, or if you have 0.01% of die-hard users who modified their telemetry code to report 1000x as frequently as they're supposed to. Even if you suspect this is happening (and you might not), there's no way to identify the culprit and filter out their data without tracking personal identifiers such as IP addresses.

So even if most of the time the telemetry data is valid, over time it will trend toward uselessness, because it can be endlessly second-guessed unless it confirms a decision you wanted to make anyway.
Interesting take. I guess your and my high school experiences were very different.
Has anyone come across any cases where the Acrobat rendering engine did a better job than the one used in Chrome and Chromium?
> I want a definitive, authoritative answer to a question.

If you just want an answer that sounds definitive and authoritative then these chat bots are great. If you want it to be accurate as well... that's a different story.
It's only a problem if potential consumers of your product expect it to be accurate and they do.
It's unfortunate that things like this distract from real issues around gender equality.
Well, either Erdogan knows he's deeply unpopular, so he/his lackeys has to censor all the bad news and criticism so he/they can look a bit better, or he's afraid he's deeply unpopular, which means a bit of self-awareness of what a raging asshole dictator but useless leader he is... Fun times!

A leader that actually cares but is overwhelmed would probably not be afraid of admitting that, s/he could rally the population together to overcome the tragedy despite their lack of resources. I think Dubya managed to convey this with 9/11, no one really knew how bad decisions by his administration lead to the threat being unnoticed. Meanwhile with Erdogan, he's been the boss for many years, the public probably thinks: The government's not able to rescue people effectively? Well, that's because it's been a kleptocracy for a long time.
There was also an AI event today: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/alphabet-shares-slip-followi...

The official video no longer available, but there's a copy at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npV4Kix7Td0 [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34708255
> (Also multi-billion? Strongly doubt that.)

McAfee was taken private in 2021 for $14B https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/8/22769910/mcafee-private-i...
And had quarterly revenue of $500M at the time: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/mcafee-corp.-mcfe-surpasses-...

For one endpoint security example, unless I misunderstood.
before laying off ic..start with managers.

main issue in big tech..manager reports to manager reports to manager reports to manager. one dev team with 5 coders plus product manager, software engineering manager, technical program manager. 3 to 5 ratio not including management chain.

is massive waste with empire building and politics. impossible to do innovative work because territory wars, managers fighting to get more head count, simple decision need 10 people to agree instead of 1 maybe 2.

fix this problem, can avoid bug layoffs in first place.

hire more people who have meaningful output, not manager that sit in meeting all day. fake economic class with little or no economic output.
Sorry, I wasn't aware of Eurasian Economic Union. Makes sense. I'm in Eastern EU.
> I want a definitive, authoritative answer to a question

In the real world we don't have any agreed upon general notion of "definitive, authoritative" sources. A certain amount of skepticism is important to avoid all sorts of abuses of authority and "appeal to authority" is a recognized logical fallacy.

Be careful what you wish for. I'm pretty sure I don't want to live in a world where everyone behaves as if the response from a ML system is "definitive [and] authoritative".
Truthfully it was a bad idea when Jack Dorsey owned it too - now that Musk is in charge, it's a no-brainer.
Or perhaps the self referential comedic version:

Omit? Omit!
You plan before the week starts?

How long does it take to plan like this?