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> Ask HN: Will Microsoft be liable for defamatory Bing statements?

Companies are never held liable.
Haven’t yet used Ruff in any project, but it does look very promising. I’m personally waiting for them to reimplement most of Pylint’s checks.

https://github.com/charliermarsh/ruff/issues/970
It'll never be gone until they tear down the rotten framework much of modern Windows is built around, even if they take away the browser portion itself.
Thanks for the detailed notes!

I have no special requests at this time. I'll dig into the above issues and comment on GH as needed.
Failure of Self driving certainly can't be attributed to Sundar. Yes GCP has obviously failed.

What Sundar has done well is the AI first focus. Deepmind acquisition was key and they are developing their own chat thing which very well might bail them out. Thanks to him, Google spends a large amount in AI related R&D.

What Sundar's main issue is his philosophy of "Reward Effort, Not Outcomes". This leads to people pretending to work hard, releasing half baked products. Instead he should change this to awarding long term outcomes.

His other issue is that he is not a good storyteller (e.g. like Nadella). Being a non-founder CEO he needs to work on this.
What's wrong with Imran Khan?
Yeah this does not seem like a novel or shocking discovery. Perhaps I'm biased because I've been working with ML for so long but my first thought was "Well, yeah that's the point."
Copilot is useful because the cost to ask it something is effectively zero. If you have 2 lines of boilerplate code to write you aren't going to ask chatGPT to write it for you because just asking it costs more than solving the problem yourself.
Thanks for the heads up! that should be fixed now (after a hard refresh)
Yeah but for Bing the fact that it wasn't porn is a step up for their rep.
I would normally just upvote, but I want to personally thank you for following up with a motivating example.
> You could probably get something equivalent at the tech spec level for $20 on aliexpress.

Under $10. Search for "DSO138".
I think that's ok, For me, it's more about "change the system, instead of ignoring it".

Once you change the system (document/rules/alerts/etc), then if it breaks, you change it again and learn the lesson. Both are conscious decisions by the org.
Level 62 is killing me ;)

Any help is appreciated.
Yes, but to compensate, they are pushing hard for World War 3.
Code will be send to OpenAI.

Nope.
I'm not trolling. There is no concept of frequency in the color red. Frequency is an abstraction/reduction you make in your mind in order to explain it. The real phenomenon is "red". Frequency is just a concept that works for certain cases in a certain framework that you create using abstract reasoning.

So, yes, waves are an abstraction, how can you not see it? When you look at the sea you don't see waves, you see colors moving around and then when you try to describe what you see, you define the concept of "waves" and come to the conclusion that these are waves you are looking at. But that happens entirely inside your mind. Waves is a concept like frequency.
In the early stages or sufficiently low levels of B they can. The NHTSA doesn't investigate every crash like the FAA does for plane crashes.
Interesting to see how many of these types of tools are starting to be written in Rust. I think it's the structure that kind of lends itself to this type of thinking/work, with better performance than tooling in the scripted language(s). Similar to Rome.tools, was amazed at the performance difference from eslint and similar in the JS/TS space.
That should be fixed now after a hard refresh. Thanks for the heads up!
Original employee, especially the higher up they are in skillset.
Lava tubes have been measured to be quite warm[0]. This study concludes that "Neither [regolith or PSRs can provide] a abundant long-term supply of carbon to support a sustainable human presence on the Moon"[1]
Although permanently shadowed craters are not very well understood.

[0]https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL09...
[1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13521.pdf
Very interesting idea, although one potential concern, depending on implementation, is that a lot of landmarks are copyrighted in a way s.t. you can include them in maps of a larger area, but you can't provide them standalone (or advertise using their names).
I am constantly amazed that chat bots so completely capture imagination.

They have been, and will always be a hollow shell of interaction. Has social drive atrophied so much that many (most under 30?) prefer to talk to nothing instead of taking to someone?
Which honestly seems to be what's happening. Insurance companies are effectively providing the necessary regulation.
> But the whole point ... is ... in _search_ (not content generation)

True. And also, keep in mind ... it doesn't truly have to be _better_ than Google search. You just need to start and maintain a _social trend_ so that the mainstream public _chooses_ it over Google. People use Google because it's the first and only option that comes to mind -- they haven't actually compared its accuracy to anything else in a long time (the audience of Hacker News is of course an exception).
Not really a conspiracy when it’s a fact of the matter. Expensive offices are sitting around empty.
Maybe because it's an absolute statement ("this person needs to organise & format his writing better") for a something mostly subjective.

In my opinion the website is readable, fast, lightweight, not distracting and pleasant to read. It's also accessible for people with disabilities, responsive, and works everywhere. I understand that not everyone is as into minimalism as me, just pointing out the problem in "this person needs (...)".
I don't get what you mean - ChatGPT Plus is priced even higher ($20/month) and doesn't have an editor integration
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To predict sentences correctly the model learned human knowledge and its relations.

It correctly predict, you need intelligence. This model encodes human knowledge in its huge neural net.
> It is not "Docker" that solves the problem, it is the discipline of scripting the image build process into a dockerfile. If you know how to write a dockerfile you can write a bash script that runs in 20 seconds as opposed to having Docker spend 20 minutes downloading images and then crash because of a typo.

The problem is the bash script may end up depending on poorly understood aspects of the local setup (global config files, installed packages, etc) - it might work fine now, but then nobody runs it for 12 months and there’s some churn in personnel and suddenly people are trying to work out why it crashes. Dockerfiles can avoid some of that stuff, although not always (e.g. the common problem that if you don’t fix the versions of packages to be installed, an updated package is released which then breaks the Dockerfile)
You're right. I must have remembered wrong.. or maybe it has changed for worse recently?

My initial claim only works for Uber Eats. It can only be used for ordering food. There's a button to order a ride but it redirects to the Uber app.
I do not think anyone has earned much money on Spotify stock except the earliest investors:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...
The difference is obvious when paired together next to each other like that, but the issue with code is often you are looking at examples (often with weary eyes) that are "miles apart" or the only one in a file and trying to spot the difference.

The ligatures that stack a third bar vertically across the space of three characters do jump out at you as much more meaningfully distinct in isolation. You don't have to just count width or whitespace, you have a third "clue" to work with, and sometimes that extra "clue" is incredibly important when you are tired and staring a bunch of code you expected to work and has a subtle bug and need to visually spot the subtle bug.
Extremely cheap from an enterprise perspective
A single axle in a train of several hundred, over continuously changing slope, rail and weather conditions? It most certainly won't be detected until it derails.
No. Microsoft has proven skills in building enterprise relationships so that CTOs force their companies to use whatever Microsoft builds no matter how crappy.
Just learned about this:

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/podcasting20/
Shade is good for a sheep. Not getting eaten is even better for a sheep.

Raising millions if not billions of sheep, that's bad for the environment.

But you knew this already...
A while ago I got some Excel CSV exports that I couldn't read as I normally do. I tried several formats that I knew were associated with Windows systems. I ended up looking at the raw bytes and I noticed that every other byte was something like 0x00, so I wrote a script to strip all of that out. Several weeks later I figured out that I had been looking at utf-16. Derp.
Some projects have performance as it's core proposition. Notably Solidjs, Astrojs, Qwikjs, among many others.

React has dominated the front end for years now & brought some great innovations, but it's dominance is waning.

> performance simply just isn't on the radar of a big chunk of devs these days

Many devs seek to optimize for career prospects. Since the majority of FE jobs center around React, these devs focus on React. As companies prioritize FE performance, the jobs related to performance follow & the mass of FE developers follow after that.
They're half way there with smartphone apps that can be linked to your car to allow you to unlock and start it. All they need to do is stop issuing keyfobs.
I was actually thinking about that case - does the slowness "suggest" that the software is really thinking deeply and working hard for me. I do think you have a good point.
Google lets a few Android devices into its Privacy Sandbox
An ugly and uncomfortable truth to be sure, but truth nonetheless. I live in Wisconsin near Milwaukee and face these issues daily. You can't make this bad situation any better by ignoring it.
If news articles are to be believed, 96% of other cars from 2015 already came with them standard.
I dont think India ever got that much airtime in Pakistan (even before 911). When comparing to the level of media coverage India's foxnews-equivalent does on PK (it's hilarious, and pretty popular meme in Pak)
Hopefully the title doesn't turn people off of it, because the subtitle makes it clearer and article is great.
I think most SMTP use STARTTLS with preetablished TCP connection..
I thought the future was here, and it is, but for some reason it's on sale somewhere between not at all, and a 24% markup.

Apparently lucrative, or maybe not. I'm not sure how to read that if that's reflective of their costs, wishful thinking, preying on the inattentive, or all of the above.
But if Google releases something that's bad or drags down the search experience then they have a lot to lose. If Bing releases something that's bad, then nothing is lost.
What the Bard demo did show is that Google must be genuinely panicking if it rushed out a demo like that.
Decently common on somewhat marginal land.

Usually it’s more common to provide hay and similar supplemental feed though.

Also common is post-harvest grazing.
Not much of a joke -- and not something that should be downvoted -- considering that Congress has already ordered NHTSA to do that very thing with alcohol sensors [1].

1: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/congressional-d...
Change is painful. It's costly, and comes with risk.

People will embrace it happily, though, when the benefit of doing so clearly exceeds the pain it brings. When you see people resisting change, it's because they don't see that great of a benefit.

This strikes me as a rational position to take.
+1

I always find it amusing that people think "breaking up" google or similar will make it anything other than more efficient.

The baby bells were wildly more efficient at monopolization than mama bell, and have achieved more of it than the original company ever could.

Breaking things up may cause disruption, and the disruption slows them down somewhat short term, but in a lot of cases, the constraints make the resulting businesses more effective in the end.
Razor thin margin in the Senate and at least 2 of the "Democrats" are not really going to vote on anything controversial. They have been shills, so far, for business interests.
A law would have completely prevented this issue and an immobilizer is required in Canada and the EU for going on a decade now. A law would function perfectly fine here.
Speed matters
> When we look back in 3 months we will wonder why we thought LLM/GPT type queries will replace search in all forms.

Yes, and when we look again in 6 months, they will surpass Google already. It happened too many times in the last few years - something thought impossible was actually doable with a clever twist or two[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSQ495wpWXs&t=2148s
I think your insight isn't a bad one but -- The famous people I've interacted with would be pretty quick to agree with the downsides (they are painful and huge) .. but also very generous about admitting the upsides. Depending on the level of fame they can be enormous. The special access of famous people's lives is.. hard to understand if you don't have it (I don't have it, but I've witnessed and experienced the tiniest bits of it and holy shit). I don't think a single one of them would trade it / go back.
Could you educate me on what's really different about a card that is "server-grade" vs. one that is not?
No shit, it was always clear that's what's gone happen.

Any podcast that goes exclusive on Spotify is simply a podcast I'm not gone listen to anymore. Luckily some of the podcast that were bought by Spotify are still available normally.
FWIW - There is no evidence OpenAI cares about "winning" against Google at all.

(Microsoft, yes, OpenAI, no?)
Fira Code and Cascadia Code add an entire third "bar" vertically to the triple equals. It may be subtle at first, but eventually it becomes a massively useful difference.
Report Finds Google Workspace Sees 40% Fewer Email Security Incidents vs. Avg
Cyber Insurer At-Bay published a report ranking industry-leading email security solutions and email solutions based on cyber incident frequencies among 40,000 policies.

Cloud-based email products like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace offer far greater security compared to on-premises solutions like Microsoft Exchange.

Google Workspace, the top-performing email solution, experienced 40% fewer security incidents compared to the category average.

Mimecast, the top-performing email security solution, had 53% fewer incidents compared to the worst performer in the category.

Full report here: https://www.at-bay.com/ranking-email-security-solutions/
It is done, in a sense, in cases where it really matters (video codecs etc). More tooling for better optimization is cool and exciting and all that, but it's also not free -- extended compilation times in Rust are a nice example.
Osage oranges were planted all over as hedge fences, for example in Kansas. Probably in some places the trees were left on the boundaries but I think in many places specific trees were planted because they were good at creating boundaries. thttps://dyckarboretum.org/osage-orange-a-historical-living-f...
What are they supposed to do then?
Thank god i was waiting for this
Hyatt Bans Member from Loyalty Program and Forfeit Points
While ice is a somewhat extreme example, the idea of bringing over the electronics and using local materials to put together whatever structural components are needed isn't that crazy. It'd save a lot of mass, and things like 3d printers can produce them with reasonable precision. There already is a decent amount of research into the prospect of 3d printing structures with Lunar or Martian regolith, so structural components for robots or machines don't seem too crazy.
I wasn't chiding you, I am a layman and I genuinely had no idea what issue you saw in the parent comment. Read your own comment that I responded to again.

The parent comment had multiple assertions in it, so there's literally no way for me to know what you meant by "no it's not" until you told me.
We're Curbing Starlink's Use in Ukraine
Sure. Language is contextual. If you find yourself explaining why hacker isn't really hacker to the people that you talk to _about_ hacker news, then yes it is actually impeding communication
It's a farming issue like everything else. As I've mentioned before in a couple previous HN comments, most farmers in North India and Pakistan know stubble burning is bad, but no government agency or NGO steps in to buy Rotavators for farmers, so the cycle continues.
"They did it on purpose" is actually a great answer to "How did they get it wrong for Centuries?"
The same way that every home builder in the US sells people houses with even less security than these cars. Having more security is not required by law, and people still buy them. And so, the demand is filled.
I've found the Argon power supplies (18W, 3.5A) for RPi are probably the best option when using USB powered storage... I swapped out the ones that came with my DeskPi cases. I have tried several, an earlier model didn't have the inline switch, which I don't really use but a nice to have feature.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0919CQKQ8/
5 years after a huge bull market, it is still below IPO price. The tiny stock price jump is not enough to counter that basic fact.
It still takes people being injured or dying over many years to find out about a flaw that was known to several levels of engineering & management during the design phase of a car.
Again with an appeal to common sense, the fallacy of unsupported assertion. I'll repeat, you don't agree with me, but you don't know why I'm wrong, and you can't prove it because, in fact, I'm right. You can prove me wrong quite effortlessly by showing one single non-WAP mobile website that existed before January 2007. But it's impossible because they didn't exist before Apple's initiative to build the mobile web (or "Web Apps") due to the delay of the iPhoneSDK, which they did by influencing web developers to use Apple's mobile site design specifications and web tools to try to get mobile Safari users' eyes and clicks on their content.
It wouldn’t surprise me too if some of the studies in the US were places like Arizona, where too much sun is an issue for many crops (sun spotting, burning of leaves, excess water consumption), and some shade during peak insolation is not only beneficial for crops, but if you can do something with the energy? Even better.

One really beneficial coupling in a lot of cases seems to be HVAC + solar in hot western climates.
What's bizarre about saying children shouldn't have unfettered access to porn and it's bad for their mental health?

Is your argument here that it's a good thing for them to be accessing it as much and often as they want? You really don't think that causes ANY mental issues? I'd really like an answer here, because unless you're 100% on the let them look at all the porn they can get there hands on.... well I guess it's not so bizarre then is it?
Isn’t solar exposure on the moon stronger than earth due to the lack of an atmosphere? Efficiency per sqm might end up being higher.
When did I say it isn't useful? I said they didn't need it. They also don't need to install a kernel module that records every keystroke and memory access, but it would certainly be useful data.
You said they are dominating "AI search" but that's wrong in many ways:

- Google's entire search engine has had many layers of "AI" powering it for years.

- Bing hasn't even released this supposed AI search engine to the public.

Your other example was Tesla and the two examples couldn't be more different. Your statement would be like someone saying Tesla was "dominating" electric cars before they ever even sold a single Roadster and had just posted a demo video. It's just wrong. I can be first to market with a banana that glows in the dark, am I in the club now too?

They may dominate if this exact form of conversational answers proves popular and if launched more than a hacked together demo and only then is some strong claim they are doing anything interesting could be worthwhile.

Until then they are kind-of first-but-actually-not-really in a kind-of-theoretical-market, and not dominating it all or reaping any first-mover advantage given their opponents are ready to follow on immediately.
How did you write the comment?
https://archive.is/8l9xu
This. I've started using web components extensively and eventually came to the same conclusion.
> Best print it out

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
What company are you at now?
Climate Change & the war on CO2 has sucked the oxygen out of the room wrt pollution with dangerous chemicals. Many in the environmental community are optimizing a single metric, CO2 emissions, & not focusing on the myriad of chemicals that cause widespread ecological damage. That coupled with the ongoing doomsday hysteria over CO2, it is easy to lose focus on pressing issues & the complexities in dealing with these other environmental issues. The core tension here is should we narrow focus on a single metric or widen focus on the entire system? Also, Que bono for the different approaches?

Instead of focusing so much on CO2, it would benefit humanity to adopt a more well rounded approach that addresses all pollutants, prioritizing the safe handling of extremely toxic chemicals & reducing the amount of toxic waste emitted by industry. Also, it would be helpful to take the approach that novel substances should be proven safe instead of assuming these substances are safe until proven unsafe.
This was depressing. I read through most of the post.

I would never recommend sacrificing your personal life and well being for the sake of opensource.

Use opensource as an outlet of your creativity and urge to create something, but don't let it destroy you.
I've found that they work just fine. In my case all that was required was setting a DHCP option pointing them at their controller. The QoS to make it work well under load would've been the same for a L2 tunnel.
On today's hardware. The point is just to show that modern software is slower and less efficient than older software.
Presumably because the solar infrastructure gets in the way of the corn, but is unlikely to matter much for some grouse?
Climate action is a good bet, even if it's not a sure thing
Hey, at least it doesn't put "feat:" or "<bug emoji>" at the front of the commit message!
There are plenty of people here who dislike Rogan's show but also don't want to support someone being called a toxic human being.
That's obviously the price per seat.
I know a surprising amount about of Google and TPU's :)

This is not accurate - they are neither cheap nor really built for inference.

I'd have to go look hard at what is public vs not if you want me to go into more.
Discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666035 (46 comments)
>can’t write bubble sort on their first try

lol how do you expect to program if you don't know how every common subroutine works in exhaustive detail?
Yeah, I was thinking that they could launch into a microgravity environment and approximate the Moon's gravity by spinning the sat.
As an ID.4 owner I can only remark it does not appear to help them.
Is that true? I know the European-market cars all have an immobilizer due to regulation. I can't find evidence whether the South Korean market cars do or do not.
Copilot mostly spews distracting nonsense, but when it’s useful (like with repetitive boilerplate where it doesn’t have to “think” much) it’s really nice. But if that’s the bar, I don’t think were ready for something like search, which is much more difficult and important to get right for the average person to get more good than harm from it.
Open office had autosaving functionality about 15 years before MS Office managed to figure it out, despite loss of work due to unexpected power outages or Office freezing up was a regular occurrence for everyone I knew back then.