skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google lost their way since 2015. What used to be a beacon of innovation and inspiration to push forward has stagnated into an also-ran of amazing but boring tech.

Absolutely YouTube has been the most successful Social Network of last 7 years. It is amazingly powerful and I use it daily. But, Google bought Youtube in 2006 and the platform largely benefited from improvements in networking and productivity tools more than in product innovations.

With ChatGPT I use Google search significantly less when writing code and debugging errors.

What's the point of search if most I can get are promoted results?
Is it possible to use B2 or DO Spaces as storage for Photoprism?
Bard’s incorrect answer sees Alphabet lose over $100B
I think the tried and true “Your salary offer is too low compared to your competitors, or what I can do for myself” is pretty much fine right?
No it does not...This is the company who spent $8.5B on Skype...
Why does Kafka allow a consumer to process the same messages as another consumer by default anyway? With RMQ or others, this "consumer group" behaviour is just how it works be default.
> You can also press Shift + Command + G

Ok, after 10 years of Mac OS, I'm only learning this right now?? And I'm stupid because it's right there in the "Go" menu… I used to just launch a terminal and use the "open" command…

Many thanks for this.
This reminds me of the "magical" CLSID folder names you can use in Windows to embed special folders in your filesystem. This can be quite useful as some of the hidden functionality includes an overview of many conntrol panel settings usually hidden deep within the directory structure. Plus, applications can register their own special panes if they wish, allowing you to use Windows Explorer as a front-end for your application.

I'm a little confused though; I've been using custom folder icons since at least Windows XP, surely you can just set a custom icon on your folders in macOS? I wouldn't want a clunky name like "Developer " in my home directory, "Development" or "Projects" would fit the context much better.

Edit: looks like you can. You need to open an icns file, hit the copy command, open a folder's properties and paste (https://support.apple.com/en-US/guide/mac-help/mchlp2313/mac). Bizarre that there's no UI for this, I would've expected a system icon selection popup at the very least.
I initially responded to an overly broad generic comment

" Since the vaccines didn’t stop transmission, can’t the same be said of them? "

with the broadly true statement that no vaccine that I'm aware of stops transmission .. they ideally reduce transmission* (being effectively not a vaccine if they fail to slow spread through a population (or mitigate effects of a virus that does spread)).

The studies I cite are just two (of many) first off the rank that demonstrate that the two of the more widely used vaccines did indeed slow transmission at the time they were used.

> Here's a better example. In a 94% vaccinated study, 56% reported being unaware of their infection:

I read that with interest the entire way through,

* it fails to support a claim that "vaccines did not reduce transmission of Delta or Omicron variants"

* it supports a claim that "vaccines reduced the effect of having a COVID variant (to the degree that most did not even realise they'd been infected)"

The specific statistical reason that your "better example" doesn't address the transmission rate (through vaccinated Vs unvaccinated populations) is that it exclusively looks at people infected and the bulk of those are vaccinated.

There's no larger view there of infection rates in a bigger population, and no differential look at infection rates in unavaccinated Vs vaccinated.

What the study confirms (re: transmission) is something I conceded in my first coment: vaccines do not stop transmission

(again, they ideally reduce transmission rates (not addressed in your 'better' study)).

If you're interested in a longwinded careful, multi factor analysis and model type paper (of which there are many) one such example is

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.8230...

which is detailed but lacks any clearcut gotcha messages .. it bears close reading and laments in places the lack of early vaccine uptake in the population (Australia) during the Delta and Omnicron waves (ie. supports vaccines reducing transmission rates, doesn't dwell on it as not enough people are vaccinated at that time and so looks at other mitigations).
I love browser add-ons and p5.js for artistic stuff.
Roadmap 2023 Is Opened to Discuss: OLAP, Datalake, Lakehouse, Semi-Structure
Looks like the community is collecting great ideas from the community and all friendly developers worldwide are welcomed. Is it fast enough for a data warehouse to have 24 releases in a year?
Reminds me of the time one of the Netscape founders called Windows a “Poorly Debugged Set of Device Drivers”. That really got Microsoft moving and a few years later IE6 won the first browser war.
Yes, if you want to work with an existing system, you want to follow the conventions of that system.

Fixed point (ie calculate everything in cents) is a good convention for lots of things to do with money. But it's not a good convention to have as the default in a language like Python.

> Within a calculation, it may be fine to use float, but the number going into ledgers or transactions need to have the predefined precision.

I was not suggesting the use of float. I was suggesting using rational numbers by default. See eg https://docs.python.org/3/library/fractions.html
Today I've launched on ProductHunt
After one year of Hard Work
It will be great if you find the time and make a feedback
Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground
> Ukraine had, by a very significant margin, the largest military in Europe

Italy has a much more capable armoured force than Ukraine did at the time.

You are comparing T64s, vehicles designed in 1951 to modern vehicles? How do you think they are performing when it comes to firing on the move, engaging at night, accuracy, survivability?

Tanks newer than T64 have been long retired to reserve in Europe. There are many IFVs today capable of putting holes in T64s' in service today.

> The Russians were also rather handicapped by the reckless, arrogant stupidity of their plan

Such disrespect! Russia is an exemplary conservative society with traditional values!

Europe is 27 countries, not 3. Its's half a billion people.
Europe combined has more operational vehicles than Russia does. Has a larger standing army than Russia does.
A much better air force, and relies on it for air defence, not on ground-based missiles.

I never said 'easilly' but imagining that Russia can occupy half a billion people is downright crazy
Are you talking about Google or OpenAI?
Not to be snarky, but investing in AI and building amazing products around it are two different shoes.

I am developing quite heavily in AI and hardly found a use for Google's ecosystem. Colab is nice, I guess but the documentation is impossible to comprehend and just running a local Jupyter notebook to test a few things is usually much more efficient.
To out-GPU someone in the short run doesn't mean you will out-innovate them in the long run.
Dataset Abuse Is Rife in Computer Vision – But the Solutions May Be Drastic
My Hetzner server that I rent for 40€/mo has two 4 TB drives.

I don't think they have cheaper servers at the moment, but Digital Ocean seems awfully expensive.
Not to mention, the GPT paper comes from Google[0]. His part in this seems very very small.

0. https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/08/transformer-novel-neural-n...
So you believe that Apple could raise prices without hurting their sales, but are currently not doing so and are leaving money on the table?
Counter point would be often you want to land on page crafter by a human rather than an AI summary. Especially with the provenance of who wrote it and trust in that site. The irony being this story is interesting because Sam Altman is involved in it as much as what it has to say. Where as asking chatgpt what it thinks of Google strategy would produce the usual drivel - but even if it were great drivel it would still not be a real viewpoint produced by someone with insight, so you couldn’t trust it much deeper than basic facts.
They should just skip the battery altogether imo..
Is there a license akin to AGPLv3 for something like this?

As in, one where you'd release the source under a modified GPLv3, but any project created with it would also have to be under GPLv3 or CC-BY-SA? That'd allow your project to have a truly free software version for people who create free media projects (e.g., blender open movies).
In a larger sense, this is true, for now. But it's not a reasonable shortcut to supply information that is presented as correct but is in fact partially made up. Either there will be a well deserved public backlash, or in a pretty real way, reality will be irrecoverably warped.

It's pretty hard to imagine any answer that is useful, no matter how trivial, if it's wrong 20% of the time. Deep Learning is an amazing parlour trick that can be useful in the right circumstances, which basically means an expert has to be present to interpret its results.

I'm not convinced having a fully padded conversation is what people want. I find it annoying. Google was on the right path with snippets, they just need to make them easier to consume and emphasize the fact the search can be continued. I think Google is being very conservative, partially for safety reasons, but also because they won't take chances if they don't have to.

Of course, all these searches would be much more useful if they had more intimate knowledge of the searcher, but that's another dangerous path.
I'm not sure who'd want probabilistic bullshit. I said people wanted answers and Google was crap at giving it to them.

At the moment ChatGPT is like having an personal assistant that used to be an world leading expert, but has been sniffing glue for the last 5 years. He knows a lot of shit but you can't trust it. But he can help you get started and he's fun to be around.

Except ChatGPT isn't fun to be around. It's been castrated of humor and dominated by extreme political correctness. I think GPT is the catalyst for a change, but in Microsoft's hands it'll just be a glorified Clippy.

As for training data scraped from the internet, it will be split like steel was with "pre-war steel", due to atomic bombs rendering steel unfit to use in geiger counters. We'll have pre-gpt data.
Shell companies. Circles within circles. Fractal foundations.
Not entirely pointless. You can connect an external optical drive even to most modern of macs and it'll work. That contraption consisting of a full-size DVD drive and a SATA-USB adapter with external power, plugged into a USB-A/USB-C adapter and then my M1 macbook, for that one time when I was given a CD and was curious to see what's on it? It worked flawlessly. Though I've never tried burning discs on macOS, I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work.
> Win 10 and 11 have been given to me for free.

Have been? You didn't have to have an already licensed Windows installation to upgrade? You _exchanged_ your older license for the newer one for free; you didn't get one extra for free.

When you purchase a complete, new computer, the windows license is included in price (OEM). If you build your computer from parts or when you spin a new VM, you have to get a new license. Windows 10/11 Home (OEM) is about 120 EUR + VAT, Pro (OEM) about 160 EUR + VAT. That's quite a far cry from free.
Yes it does if you payed attention to the terms of the deal. OpenAI has to pay back MS billions from their revenue.
Google's been answering certain questions above the fold in the SERPs for a while, sometimes very well, other times hilariously badly.

I'm not sure Bing doing the same thing a bit more with technology probably less suited for typical search questions is quite as disruptive as is being made out...
AI with sources:

https://www.perplexity.ai/
https://developerexperience.io/articles/good-developer-exper...
Sounds more like the use-case for a lightweight rickshaw. The roof would fit a big solar panel.
Lethargic and lethargies comes from the old Greek (or was it Latin, too lazy to check). It's a relatively common loan word in most of the European languages. My guess is that for most slightly educated non-native English speakers that word is more likely to be known than its English equivalent if it exists.
Elon Musk's SpaceX firm bars Kyiv from using Starlink tech for drone control
In general people with ebikes tend to use them more, there is nothing lazy about that. It just extends the range and time ordinary people can bike.
I see yes never crossed my mind the one working parent scenario for some reason. In that case you need a good setup. For me dogs barking is way worse than kids noise though. I prefer a baby cry to a dog bark terms of if I am working.
Anyone else having deja vu of when Java did this sort of 'X' build with Java?
Have to hold firm.

I find myself weighing up a potential salary cut if the right role has remote/decent-hybrid.

And then I slap myself upside the head.
Isn’t that the point?

Most people will be envious of the transaction relationship be it employee/employer or consumer/seller and feel that they were cheated, regardless.

The wage was too low, the product was priced to high from one side and the wage was too high and the product priced too cheap from the other.

There is actual cheating but it seems like people are never(rarely) actually satisfied, and social media has made it worse.
128 bit---so not a great PQ story.
Using google to find specific websites, only amounts to me typing hacker news or facebook. That's about it. My main bulk of queries are question based, but I'm also from a previous era, where I throw keywords at Google rather than questions, which is a learned response from back then. I do 'ask' google assistant questions, and it doesn't do a bad job at it. I would love it to be a glorified PA and general knowledgeable 'person' I can go to for advice.

At the same time, I've containered much of my interaction with Google so it can't draw on my past history. So I have no idea what I'm missing. It did have a tendency to feedback loop a bit too much for me in the past, pigeon holing me to specific websites. There's a huge trust issue, you leak your ID in about four common regular queries so I'm not so sure I can even beat it.
Wow, how have I not heard of this framing before? So then, are there equivalent analogies to the laws of thermodynamics? An equivalent entropy as an arrow of time?
I used it years ago, though it was introduced to my circle of friends by a Swedish guy who worked in IT at a bank. The banks hardly advertised it, and soon after launching it they hid it away in the app/website interfaces.

We mostly already had each other's phone numbers, and the PayM process would confirm the name of the target account -- so there was confirmation the payment was going to the intended place years before this was added to Faster Payments.

When I'm here I use the Danish one (MobilePay) at least a couple of times a month. It's the default way to split the bill for a restaurant/bar/tickets among friends, to collect money for a gift for a colleague with a new baby, or to pay a stranger for second hand goods or their spare concert ticket. If there's the option, I'll use it to pay for goods and services online.

MobilePay has always been much easier to use.

1. Open app or touch NFC tag (when paying in a shop, in which case skip to 4).

2. Input amount

3. Choose previous recipient, choose phone number from phone contacts, type in a new phone number, or scan a QR code (typically a business).

4. Amount and recipient's name is shown, swipe to confirm.

5. Confirmation page shown (useful for strangers), recipient gets a notification.
100% this.

They need you around to fall back on. Honestly, this is at least 75% of the reason behind the pushback on Remote.
The conclusion is eerily close to using a programming language, Python say, having a natural library API for that, and then a small `if __name__ == '__main__'` that parses args (with argoarse or docopt or whatever) and calls it.

The problem of course is so now you want your script to 'pipe' to pandoc, say, and pandoc even if implemented like this might not have chosen Python but Ruby, say. So you have to (or ~have to, most reasonable way is to) use the CLI to interface with it anyway.
Why couldn’t you show ads next to the responses as usual? AFAICT the main new feature here is AI responses next to/above links, and if there’s links on a page then there could be ads.

Either that or they switch google search to display ads and everyone looses their minds at once
How do you prove that which the powerful government keeps secret?
"Looking at benefits like that, it boggles my mind that companies are pushing back on remote work"

it boggles the author's mind because - likely - this person hasn't *ever* run a company or paid people with their own hard-earned money.

Everyone works better when in a physical room doing the same thing. True in the gym, in the library, at work, anywhere.
Half of all the things I want to ask it return “Sorry we can’t help you with that”. Definitely feels like it’s been lobotomized.
I try to deal with it by action. But the best thing for me has been running. Get physically away from devices.
but basically, reference should be true.
Yeah, I do move them to Digikam's folders for processing, so not a risk of actual deletion.
Hi, Brave engineer here,

Thanks for your feedback, we've fixed the !i image search bang.
Curious about your choice of “worried”. Are you rooting for openai? I love chatgpt and dalle but now that they’re effectively a Microsoft subsidiary I’m not empathizing with them in the slightest. Plus Sam has kinda always been like that, no?
I’m running it on my pi, it’s indexed 4000 of my 8000 pictures in the last 30 hours. So yeah, not exactly fast - but it’s a rpi 2 or so, not exactly known for its performance.
FWIWm, Alexa and Roomba seem to work fine together, so I guess it depends on the quality of Roborock's intergration.
Taking the risk of (fairly) being accused of whataboutism - I'm not sure what the alternatives are - Macs are just as brazenly collect date about you in the background to the point that like in Windows, the data collection bogs down the computer so that the user experience suffers noticeably.

I'm also fairly certain even vanilla Android is a privacy nightmare, and when you add in the preinstalled vendor trash, it becomes 1000x worse.

The only option that exists right now afaik is Linux, and in my experience daily driving Linux on a production/development machine is a nightmare.
I very much feel like Google today is going through what Meta went through for the last 5 years, and what MSFT went through in the early 2010s. Everyone absolutely insisting the company was dying and that the end was nigh.... whilst the company absolutely continued to crush it. Yes yes innovators dilemma, sure. Do you think maybe Google also know about the innovators dilemma? Do you think maybe the fact that they basically invented big chunks of the underlying tech for this indicates that they're not going to just sit on their hands?

Even if Bing successfully sticks a ChatGPT into it's search engine to give you a first good guess before you have to look at the actual search results... do you know what will happen? Google will do the same, and everyone will keep using Google. Why? Because if the ChatGPT answer is wrong, no one wants to pay the price of using Bing. Google has an enormous incumbency advantage. Search is going nowhere.
Yes, and ultimately a search engine has to be a research tool, to find the best links. If there's a simple answer, it should be right there. That's what snippets were about, though they need development.

Once the search prompts becomes the end point for answers, and they never follow reference links, we're on to something else, something completely different. What happens to the web when that happens? Not many people are talking about that.

Some day I'll happily walk away from Google, but I respect that their model, through schema.org and being based on the open web, creates generally useful metadata. Sure, it's open to being gamed, which has had drastic negative effects, but that's not completely their fault, there's no easy answer to any of this.
> You can’t be explicit and implicit, you can’t be terse and readable, you can’t be flexible and robust.

Unless it's Perl!.. although some would claim it's unreadable and not robust at all.
Because Google hides it intentionally, so less people notice it. Why hide ? Because it's not as "smart" as real ChatGPT. You can think like an add-on.
Some older versions of Xcode installed themselves and SDKs and other developer tools into /Developer. All that stuff lives in /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer now.
Well, on the Apple device itself. I upload my photos to Wikimedia Commons.
Crappy site. Horses mouth: https://stratechery.com/2023/new-bing-and-an-interview-with-... and scroll to near the bottom
You do a disservice to legalization efforts by ignoring the fact that you are discussing a powerful psychedelic. I am all for legalization efforts, but it is important to be clear and upfront about what we are talking about. Tangental to your point; I wonder if the US would currently be facing such an extreme and distressing methamphetamine epidemic if ephedra were still available (recognizing the obvious catch 22 here, as ephedrine is famously used in a variety of stimulant manufacture)
This is a nifty tool. It’s existence alongside the emerging LLMs reminds me of the two diametrically opposed approaches to harnessing it all:

1. Store the knowledge in a highly structured way and interrogate it with a precise and rigorous query language to extract the exact answer you want based on a well defined set of rules

2. Store the knowledge in whatever ad hoc way it’s produced, and then rely on a higher form of intelligence to take an equally ad hoc query, feed it through the entire universe of knowledge with some attention mechanism, and magically return a (statistically significant) response

Both approaches are so satisfying when they work. Of course you also have everything in between and then you have tools like LangChain that start to bring it all together.
Imagine teaching an LLM to guess whether the user wants 1 or 2, and in the case of links it can curate the best ones based on their exhaustive logs of your browsing history and demographics. A beautiful, technically stunning, only slightly dystopian future

The core point here is that search isn’t going away, LLMs are just being added on top. They’re not gonna just turn off their page ranking algos, cause LLMs are worse than useless without cited sources
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though you have to admit in basically all situations the employer has more leverage than a single employee.
Do you mean Hamachi? Hamachi is a VPN capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind network address translation (NAT) firewalls without requiring reconfiguration.

zrok is a reverse proxy to easily share resources (http, files, web content) via a public URL or private share. zrok is built on top of OpenZiti.

OpenZiti is more comparable to Hamachi but being open source, more powerful and modern.
I think Google is fine. Will win this in the end.

But I was curious about DuckDuckGo and Gabriel's take on this, https://twitter.com/yegg... not a word.

AI is a scale game, how can they offer this without blowing all their revenues to MS?
In a strict sense, vaccine do not cause mutations. Vaccines will help strains that have mutated by removing competition, but that's very different from molnupiravir which actually induces mutations.
>Search is going nowhere.

The entire model of it is shifting. Prior to chatgpt, it was ad supported, now that it is 100% in flux in my opinion.
Interesting! Looks really good at a glance. I wish it were open source. That's when someone like me would be happy with progress.