skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the chatbot-as-search paradigm, I'm expected to just accept that error.

Bing's implementation gives its sources. For example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAAJnp5yms&t=2619s
Everything Google does is built around advertising and privacy invasion.

They really need to shift their focus a little --- from personalized to more context sensitive ads.

But they really can't do this because they lack the context to base ads on.

Amazon has the context by virtue of being the retail/ecommerce outlet on the internet. And their ad business continues to grow.
I think second mover has a better chance to succeed, even from the first mover themselves (Apple had many ideas for touchscreen devices but most flopped until the 2000s). Iteration on a good enough device or platform will always give you more success than iterating on a false premise (ex. the metaverse).
The difficulty isn’t setting it up, it’s in determining how much traffic you can put through it before it breaks.

How does it handle segmenting jumbo frames? Etc.
The demands of the union included a lot of increased safety precautions.
The educational angle is far from gone. The Raspberry Pi Foundation handles that part of it now.

https://www.raspberrypi.org

I would agree that most of the Pis sold are not used for education, but that doesn't diminish their importance in that area.
Well, MS Word 5.1a on a mac ran really fine, as did all the Apple/ClarisWorks software. Word Perfect on a PC ran fine, too. Then came the inevitable bloat. Later versions of MS Word didn't run that smooth anymore, ClarisWorks became unsufferable. WP killed itself.

There's still lean software. Mellel (for macOS, https://www.mellel.com) is a very responsive editor, with a style edit model that's a bit different from Word. But it takes a lot of work to make something increasingly capable and keep performance.
It's not completely unreported but compare it to the few balloons you guys popped in the last week that made international news it's weird. Especially since these balloons are 99.9% mass hysteria
> It is so fun to write applications with.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
I think so. Sundar has been pitching "AI" for who knows how long. All the "A.I." stuff dumped on me has annoyed me more than anything. No, I don't want to talk to my phone.

And the times I might want to (driving a car)... I used to be able to simply ask maps what my "E.T.A." was and, shock!, it would answer... that's been broken for years now and I'm fairly sure that will never be fixed.
To be fair, you really shouldn't. You know nothing of the constraints that people are operating under, or the political or cultural landscape you're dealing with, so you just come off like a preachy academic.
It would be interesting to know who were the key players on that Chrome team.
And rules out most people in the developed countries.
I doubt you will have much luck with that. Every society is almost by definition built on using coercion and fear to keep the peace. Not saying that yunwals idea in particular is a good path to peace.
Well, but this whole debate is about EU.
> Apple came after Blackberry.

Apple and specifically Jony Ive started the development of a handheld computer in the early 90s. Apple was definitely not a second comer to that market.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ives-first-apple-design...
Evil enters the world "because the people who do give a crap don’t have the power to do something about it."
If he's an operator then explain stadia launch/strategy/positioning, over hiring, deprecations, botched layoffs, botched grad/perf, and everything else.

Sundar is a politician. He's a fixer and back room power broker. He doesn't give a shit about tech or product.
When I search for a keyword, I see an ad for the same product as the first item in search results.

For eg. If I search for "rav4", I see "2023 Toyota® RAV4 - Toyota® USA" pointing to toyota.com.

I often wonder why show an ad, why can't you show non-ad version of the same? Is it to get commission from Toyota for the click OR Toyota listing an ad for keyword "rav4"?
And Google Brain gained traction way before Sundar became CEO
The Big Fix: 2023 (Secure All Software)
In linux I press the super key (windows key), type "calc" and enter.

In Mac Os one can use spotlight with cmd + space with similar results.

Or sometimes I check a calculator I implemented myself (shameless plug: https://getcalculator.app/)
The author seems a bit too paranoid, if you ask me. I stopped reading the article when they mentioned that “Disneyland.com didn’t work on Tor”
I think LLMs are great, but most companies have not figured out what they are truly useful for. Hint: it's not for search. LLMs are not knowledge databases, and should not be relied on for unknown information. In my opinion, they are more useful 24/7 editing service. Write a paragraph and ask it to paraphrase. Ask it to make a new story that can be edited. If you don't have any idea what the answer to the thing you're asking is, you shouldn't rely on the response from the bot.
Working on the railroads is one of those professions in the US traditionally done by slaves or near-slaves. Just like agricultural work, food service, cleaning, and household help.
Also retool, Budibase, glide and others
This guy needs to organize & format his writing better, since he does have really interesting things to say.
> The sentence you quote is sarcasm.

I'm aware, I was just playing along.
GRAD in theory represents a huge improvement on Perf. Rather than having to please a faceless committee by stopping the whole company for several weeks per quarter to write performance data for the committee, you now have to please your manager and it's their job to gather that data.

The layer of indirection between you and the calibration committee in Perf meant that maintenance work, since it does not generate nearly so many “artifacts” (design docs, engaged user statistics, lines of code written, code review requests) it was nearly impossible to quantify and reward. Your best chance was to ask people on neighboring teams to give you Kudos or Peer Bonuses for it, so that the committee would say “well it must have been important they got all of these gold stars!”

This is how you get a dozen competing chat apps, “improved the last chat app” cannot appear easily on Perf, “wrote a new chat app and we already have 50 users!” can.

However, though it affords an opportunity for things to be better, the internal rollout of GRAD has also been botched this past year. In the absence of strong leadership, managers are assembling the same data as before “we just must not call them perf packets”, and potentially reinstituting the same biases as before. (I was actually told by my manager that I could not get a rating above a certain ratings ceiling even though he wanted to recommend me higher because his director phrased a general rule that would apply to me, “if X then they should not get a rating above Y,” but hi I am also X on something of a technicality—and my manager was not sure he would have the political capital to argue my case.)

The botched rollout means that these culture improvements from not having to prioritize only what can be easily quantified, are delayed. Like, seriously delayed. Imagine that with really strong solid leadership you could have changed the culture in one year, but now that people are reconstructing the broken familiar process inside of the new process, the culture is not going to change for the next 5 to maybe even 10 years as second order influences slowly nudge it into a better scenario.
The Musk Method and Twitter
> Anyone can apply to own a TLD, the application fee is about $180,000,

Applications have been closed for years at this point. You'll also need a time machine.

But I'm not sure if ccTLDs even have any fees? That's all from the primordeal internet built on cooperation and good will. Domains based on tiny island territories (not even tiny island nations) usually don't have a whole lot of reliability engineering; hope they're cheap.
Fair, but the question isn’t whether it is useful but whether it will replace traditional search
Don’t chide me. Parent comment is ridiculous and harmful fearmongering and hyperbole. Read your own link - there is no mention of carcinogenicity* from acute exposure and environmental a biological persistence is very low. I would be more concerned if I spent a career in a vinyl chloride production facility without proper ppe.
You (in fashion of the article) missed the point I made: I was explicitly asked to speak up as the new employee and when I did I was told to stop speaking up. When I brought it up in the meeting I gave my two week notice, he admitted to saying that and apologized.
Exactly, that’s why it’s so effective. It’s mythology that only needs a little bump [1][2] from the government to start the misdirection snowball. They don’t have to even say “aliens”, we fill in that blank for them.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3857321-white-ho...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-mystery-objects-get-shot-dow...
I wonder if they’ll be training the AI on the same voice actors from Oblivion or if they’ll just use some generic AI voices. Or maybe some other celebrities?
It's unlikely Tesla's market share of the total car market is going to go down no matter how well other companies do. What we're seeing is a general shift towards electric cars, which is only a good thing for Tesla.
Because they get paid for showing the ad.
That is only partially true. Office 2000 and 2003 were great releases, the main applications (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook) were fast and stable as long as you weren't running some weird corporate domain deployment.

Earlier and later versions were worse, and Outlook was horrible if you were stuck on a domain.

Excel always had issues if you were doing something stupid like using it as a database and all of the apps had issues if you were being stupid with OLE via copy/paste or were using Internet Explorer.
I wouldn't even trust that blindly, I totally imagine that there could be metadata in the screenshot containing for example the title of the window being screenshotted etc.

If noone does that right now it is just an update away.
In general, there's no particular need to make the list of chemicals public. In the event of emergency, every container is stamped with one or two standard labels indicating the nature of the chemical threat and what firefighters need to do to address it; otherwise, it's as important to people as what's in the tractor-trailer in front of them on the highway.

It might be worth having a discussion about the fact that the way train right-of-ways came into being give municipalities little recourse if they feel the trains shouldn't be cutting through their towns in general, but given that they do, they're basically privately-owned highways and it's up to the owner what's on them.
Maps is not fine. There are random gaps in Streetview data all over the place for places that previously had coverage or where the data was obviously collected. I've tried reporting the bugs through multiple routes, but it never gets completely fixed. There's nothing more infuriating as a software developer than being unable to open a ticket for a software bug.
Sorry for lack of information. Kanaries is the github organization's name, with a shorthand k6s.

RATH is one of an open source project under Kanaries. As for the meaning of RATH, it actually came from an animation called Sword Art Online. I was a little bit regret to named this repo with RATH and had deleted descriptions about the repo's name, but with no more good ideas for now.....
> it helped me fix a really difficult bug

Tell us more?
No, because I know my manager doesn't know more than I do.

I don't expect any answer nor peace of mind because nothing in life is certain.

So I try to block out the external world and continue doing my job.
I've seen a ton of people acting like one of these events was intended to cover up the other. Usually people saying that the balloon shoot-downs were entirely manufactured and/or overblown to distract from the train derailment. I don't think that's likely... I think they're just both interesting stories happening at the same time, but the media can only have one "top story". The balloon stuff is fantastical and geopolitical, the toxic release is fantastical and environmental.
On my mac I just use the built in calculator in spotlight. So cmd+space opens the spotlight search widget and then I can just type in whatever I need calculated. Not sure if something like this is built into Windows? More often than not I use Google as my calculator when on Windows.
This article is unreadable on mobile because of a huge subscribe modal that appears and whose controls are pushed off screen where I can't even scroll to them.
> Google looks like the IBM to their Microsoft right now.

I really dislike how Microsoft is being considered to "be better at AI" recently. No, they just integrated another AI solution in Bing. They haven't released any big AI product themselves for a long time.
Closures don't have to capture variables. If they don't then they're equivalent to functions.
>someone with experience writing C would not be able to fill in the blanks.

"yeah well if you're smart you wouldn't need explanation"

except the people you're swaying with such remarks aren't the ones who already know, its the ones who are afraid to ask lest they be judged so they just kinda laugh along and parrot the smartest-bully.
See the other comment I made: I was explicitly asked to speak up.
Was it the German company SAP?

How did the end-users even find your software especially when the IT folks hated it?
I'm thinking it'll be more of a hybrid model, where you'll have a human in a fighter jet with an accompanying drone swarm, where the fighter serves primarily as a missile truck/Command and Control system, with perhaps the potential for direct human intervention in certain scenarios.

But I doubt pilots will be dog-fighting or doing their own bombing runs in the near future.
Amazon ads - from 0 to a multi tens of billion $ business at probably a 80% margin. The reason your Amazon results are probably awful today is precisely this.

Amazon also has a more decent content strategy (eg why they bid on the NFL rights) than both Apple and Google.
Nokia has more years than IBM?
That's amazing! I'll be happy to try Python & R integration! I've signed up on the form!
Now, you're talking about essentially manual curation of trusted reviewers though. At that point, you're getting close to essentially resurrecting a Yahoo-style directory of good content. I don't really use Reddit but I have sites and people I go to for reviews of certain types of gear. But I don't know how scalable that is.
Not yet https://crates.io/keywords/canbus
Not really, no.

Look at 10 years ago in the UK - in 2012 solar generation amounted to 750 MW, at the end of 2020 it was 13.5 GW
> If you believe in God as an origin of life, we are the only intelligent life in the universe.

Only with a few specific religious beliefs. Most have no theological problem with the idea of life elsewhere in the universe.
It seems like a lot of heavy industry could be environmentally friendly. It was just cheaper to send it overseas. Cars are still built in the US and that's pretty heavy. Excavation equipment is as well.
Hmm, by multiple directions, what I really meant is, consult a model trained in 2 vastly different ways, or consult a human + a model, or consult a model + a calculator, or a model + human-written test cases. He didn't really go into the idea of "if 2 independent processes can arrive at the same factual statement, it's probably the truth" angle here.

Of course, 2 independent processes is still a tough thing to design when you require this much data, and the data is probably coming from web-scraping, so I think for now, human-generated test cases are still needed.
Interesting product. I first encountered this "data painter" paradigm in the 80's in a product called DataDesk. That software was created by Cornell professor Paul Velleman. Paul was a student of John Tukey and credits his influence on the product.

https://datadescription.com/
> they're doing a very poor job of maintaining their core, legacy products.

My guess is that great PMs and engineers are not into incremental changes or maintaining a mature system. As a result, the sharpest minds for building product would have left the search org over the years, therefore the quality of search deteriorates over time. I'm not saying search org does not have great talent, but I guess their talent is about rearchitecting search infra for the 101 times for no groundbreaking gain.
Generation Urbanite
If you don't want big corporations using your software, change the license. They are not "taking advantage" of Free/open software, they are using it, and don't owe the maintainer for it. It feels very entitled to me (a Free software enthusiast who wishes more authors chose GPL over BSD/MIT). As G.W. Bush said "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... I can't get fooled again"
I think the crop or the plants would have to change a lot. Currently it's pretty easy to see which areas get full sun and which don't when you drive by a corn field in growing season.

Looks like its being tested though
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/food-and-farms/can-agri...
Was that a guess? It was an impressive one. There seems to be 21 companies with 400k+ people.

https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-o...
You can't perceive the solar system, but whatever it is you are experiencing, it exists now and you can only know about it through your senses. It doesn't necessarily follow that it existed prior to you experiencing it, it wouldn't make any sense to say that because "existence" is an experiential claim that requires someone to have the experience of it, in the present moment. Past, future, time flow are all hypotheses. You never experience time, you are only experiencing the now.

However, I'm not saying that things don't exist, it's that they do exist but not independently of the conscious agent that has the experience of them. The universe and the thinking agent that is currently perceiving that universe, come into existence simultaneously, in the act of perceiving/thinking.

The mind arises out of the necessary universe that is required for a mind that observes it to exist.

There could be infinite of other universes (or other things "out there" i can't experience), but those claims makes no sense since because for something to exist it must have a conscious agent experiencing it as existing. There can't be a universe in the void, simply rocks. Even "rock" is something that is defined by thought and can't exist independently of it.
At my previous job I was given permission to fully rewrite the call centre script/tooling used by sales agents. I also came from that team, and took a quick detour to the data team before finally landing in a development role. Giving me a full understanding of not only the agents needs and wants, but the limits on data being fed into this system.

The resulting page loaded 10 times faster than what it replaced, which was a 'no code' option that the sales director set up. My solution was built with HTML/CSS/JS/PHP and contained authentication, accessibility, and a toolbox of modules for specific tasks that loaded only when needed (and still lightning fast). Scoring a perfect 100% in every test I threw at it.

The positive result of this change was immediately apparent. Not only to the agents and managers, but to the data team. The speed resulted in a full 130% increase in sales, across all agents.

Why? Well, the old script took time to download Google Fonts and a boatload of other garbage which put the page load at 2+seconds. This was dead air piled on-top of the delay caused by the auto-dialer. Meaning everyone we called had 3+ seconds of nobody saying anything. When this was cut to 1 second, there wasn't a telltale delay to work around in the sales process.

So at least in this case, it took the sales director to care enough, not the dev.

I built the entire thing in 3 days with zero assistance.
I'm sure they had lots of reasons.

I got to ghost on a sales call once with one of our customers (I was a lead developer at the time).

From what I could tell their IT people didn't like our software because:

- They were already in the middle of a multi-year roll-out of SAP, integrating our software was a wrinkle in a plan they'd been working on for a long time

- Nobody got fired for choosing SAP, some saw choosing software from a small shop they'd never heard of was risky

- Annoyance: they were in charge of acquiring and rolling out the software the factories used! Why were the floor managers demanding that they integrate our software? What do they know about software, enterprise contract negotiation, etc!? How dare they!

- Support: they knew how to handle issues with SAP, user accounts, authentication, authorization, etc; integrating another piece in the mix across the entire company would be a whole project

It was a fun call to sit in on.
Most people actively avoid having rust anywhere near their cars.
> Why would you have to wait until 2PM?

I was a series 7 broker. There are patterns in the market.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/common-intra-day-stock-marke...

> The market knows the new information from opening.

Dow is down 400. Guess not!
you either go up (expensive) or wide (less economical, lower energy yield)
I think its worth noting that the authors of the same study conclude:

> Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.
I assume that they were having to do end-user support. I was working in IT at that time and recognise that reaction from IT.
AT&T didn't get outcompeted. They got broken up by the government and before that were forbidden from commercializing discoveries some of which weren't really commercializable (like the origins of the universe).
Firefox has the "reader view" option toggleable with F9 for when you stumble upon unreadable designs, if you want
Terrific, have been looking for something like this since Hadley's work on the grand tourr

https://github.com/ggobi/tourr
https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v040i02
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346903245_High-dime...
Yes it will replace search.
The same way that cars replaced horses, and planes replaced zeppelins because they are had a significant speed advantage and allowed humans to spend time doing more productive activities that can't be automated.

Then traditional search is going to become "raw index search" that you can query writing something like "intitle:"carbonara" source:"google_index"" or "give me all webpages containing carbonara in its title"
Companies pay top dollar to show an ad when someone searches their name, otherwise a competitor could make a paid ad slamming the product. We dealt with this first hand a year ago in my company.
This comment is literally worse than Hitler /s
I did RPG II programming on the successor machine the S/36 for a few years. That was available in a micro form not bigger than a PC to mid and full size.
The NYT does not have this barely at all. There should be a giant picture of the mushroom cloud on their front page to reflect the severity (potential or real) of the situation. It's shameful.
Nice use of F# scripting. The #r directive for Nuget packages was a great addition.
I can't avoid slow software because older, less bloated versions of mandatory tools in my industry (translation) are sunset with no recourse, and incompatible file changes mean I have to upgrade.
> It’s easy to measure the contamination

Can you elaborate on how you'd do that ? Don't tell me you'd trust the official line, given the track record it's not a viable option

Same for well water ? Can you get a same day reading on it ? What would you do in the meantime ? Wouldn't it be too late by the time you get the air results ?