skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a company that really depends on user click signals, removing the dislike count from Youtube (and making the button pointless) is a amateurish mistake indicating a very broken internal structure.

the search UX, especially the top bar where you switch between search types is broken for nearly a decade and they are not able to fix that.
> How so?

I specifically left embedded out because I didn't really want to make assumptions about CLR byte code running within the constraints of such environments. I've only ever programmed in C++ on embedded devices, so I can't actually comment on CLR (ergo the perhaps in my comment).
I read something somewhere (the curse of wide reading) that it’s a myth that goats will eat anything which came as a shock to me because as a child in the 70s I learned (from adults or books or cartoons or who knows what?) that a goat would eat a tin can given the opportunity.
>there's a difference between "I chose an email/identity platform that I know and I guess I'll use its chat app too" and "I evaluated team chat offerings and Teams is our top pick.”

You literally just described the strategy for every Microsoft software ever. MS Word (vs Word Perfect) comes to mind
I think they should have built a separate app. Music is different than Podcasts in multiple ways, and shoving them into the same app just negatively affects both experiences.
>> LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2023-- Frequency Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: FREQ), a regenerative medicine company focused on developing therapeutics to activate a person’s innate potential to restore function, today announced clinical results from the placebo-controlled Phase 2b study of FX-322 in individuals with acquired Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SNHL).

The study, which enrolled 142 people with either sudden or noise-induced sensorineural hearing loss, failed to achieve its primary efficacy endpoint of an improvement in speech perception. Data showed no statistically meaningful difference at day 90 between those administered FX-322 versus those receiving placebo in the proportion of individuals that demonstrated an improvement in speech perception. There were also no measurable improvements observed in any of the study’s secondary endpoints. Prior FX-322 studies had been designed to best understand patient etiologies and severities where a hearing signal could be observed. FX-322-208 was statistically powered with a balanced placebo and active group. The safety profile associated with FX-322 was favorable and no study participants experienced a serious adverse event that was associated with treatment.

This is disappointing.
Probably because the idea of intelligent life forms outside our planet is fascinating? And the stories and culture through the radio and movies brought it to life.

But anyway, the Sasquatch and Yeti is pervasive across numerous countries and cultures. That's a similar path to becoming part of the culture (some random reportings, some weak evidence, then movies and tv shows and now it's part of the culture regardless of whether it exists or not and interesting to most people whether they believe in it or not). Like mermaids.

Aliens are not only an American thing. And American's are not obsessed. It just might seem that way with the media.

Of all countries, India believes the most that aliens will visit Earth in 2023. 43%. The US is 17% which is actually under the global average of 18%.

https://www.statista.com/chart/29296/public-opinion-on-alien...
I don't think Pakistan cares much about India except in the case of Kashmir.

Reverse question, what Pakistan would look like without India constantly pestering them?
Do you have any actual hard data you can link to?

When I test your hypothesis by searching for "2019 honda cbr1000rr wiring diagram" [1] the first results are images of the wiring diagrams and then links to the exact non-SEO optimized forums you're talking about with a post that contains a PDF file available to download for the exact motorcycle I'm interested in.

[1]: https://snipboard.io/nkQY6U.jpg
This is quite silly. Bard is not released. There’s nothing to talk about except a few screenshots. If one of those screenshots contains an error, it tells us that Google has not solved hallucinations and that they were also probably quite rushed and not being careful. So not only is their product probably not much better than Bing chat, it’s also going to be later.

Bing chat is available to some members of the public now. ChatGPT has been used by more than 100m. We know what we are going to get and we are getting it now. It’s probably an interesting enough feature to get the general public paying attention to Bing for the few months before Google manages to execute. That’s bad for Google in the short term, it introduces a risk and an unknown in their undisputed dominance of search. They will still probably come out ahead, but it is a chink in the armor and therefore people are going to talk about it.

Really its much more complicated than that.
Which part of "suprises and mistakes" is covered in this announcement text?

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...

Also, user feedback is not going to improve the LM behavior.
It really doesn't. It's a language model. Literally every webpage on this topic mentions that.

This is why it will happily tell you that a director directed a movie before they were born, and agree with you when you point that out, and continue to insist that he did it. There is no ability to synthesize and apply new information to a line of reasoning, because the chain of thought is an illusion wrought by a statistical language model.

Its purpose is to be semantically correct, not to reason.
I think younger players can get over those things. The dealbreaker with Morrowind is the incredibly clunky and frustrating combat system. It presents as a real time first-person action game, but almost every action you take in a combat scenario is governed my hidden die rolls. When a player swings their sword and they see it visibly clip through an enemy, but the die roll calls it a miss, the player feels like they've been cheated by the system.

The combat in this game was considered rough when it was new, and it has only aged like milk since then.
In my experience a domain expert (myself in my domain) can quickly validate the answers. It can make a multi-hour task a multi-minute task.
> If the… customers are happy, they don't need a new CEO.

Do you think their customers are happy?

Google’s thought leader customers are extremely unhappy with pretty much all of their products to the point that Google is ripe for disruption.

The main thing Google has going for them is their incredibly massive moat that limits viable competitors. IMHO, that moat will only protect them for so long if they don’t reorient themselves.

The only people I know who like Google products are relatively unsophisticated consumers. I realize that this is a large part of the market and is also a very lucrative segment of the market, but they will follow the thought leaders when the thought leaders move on to something else.
It will not replace, but it may enhance and it also may save time clicking on links, just giving a direct answer. It also may produce bullshit. But it is worth exploring.
No, it's the opposite. Big tech don't care about these. Internally their language style are as generic as possible. They want you to avoid warts and gotchas and make every oop language usage look the same so that you can actually jump around different the projects
As I understand one of the things the rail companies want to do is have just one person running a train instead of the current two. In this case the single engineer likely would not have been able to decouple the other 10 hazardous containers and pull away. Also that this failure happened due to a seized axle or bearing is indicative of the refusal to invest in the rail equipment and safety systems. There are a number of different ways to detects failing bearings that have been at least deployed for decades. I thought I heard this might have been a broken rail but that seems to have just been a guess on the day of the accident.

"The crew was able to uncouple the locomotives and move them to safety, preventing an even bigger tragedy. This would not have been possible under the various management schemes now being proposed to operate such trains with single person crews. Further, because Train 32N carried the standard crew of two or more workers, they were able to immediately take the necessary emergency measures to ensure a safe and effective response."

From a RWU email: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Press-Release--Fiery-Ohi...
Used Hameg scopes are common and fairly inexpensive, as they were used a lot in schools (at least in my area), and their manuals are very good for learning about oscilloscopes.

To hook up your 1/4" signal, add a splitter to your output, and use one side to drive whatever you're outputting to, and the other side to measure the signal on the oscilloscope. Ready made 1/4" to BNC adapters are available, so you don't even have to use oscilloscope probes
Why is Federal government at fault, and not, you know, the rail company that owns the railroads and collects the revenues?
What sort of AI are you talking about?
Shelter is good for all stock. The old timers new this and grew trees down fence lines so animals could have shelter in extremes. When driving past properties with the shelter belts stock are always using them during extremes.

Today, farmers are removing the shelter belts all in the name of efficiency because the shelter belts reduce grass growth under them and make it harder to irrigate.

But damn the animals, at least they have maximised and and can now fully capitalize.
> Like, how does the new hire (or anyone else) know the difference between "learning the complexity of the new system" and "internalizing/normalizing the deviance of this culture"?

If a new hire can't checkout, build, and test the software on the first day, then there is likely something either wrong with the hire or the infrastructure. A sufficiently old and arcane software system might take weeks before a new hire can make even a simple change, but that shouldn't impact those three items.
First movers are the first to hit the innovater’s dilemma.

They are trapped by the decisions they made as first movers, while later incumbents have freedom to create improvements without worry about the installed base.

Apple is one company that never seemed to fall into that trap. They just tell the installed base “fuck you, buy the new thing” and somehow get away with it.
Wow. In C++ that would require GLU or glm. I actually didn't know things like this were in the standard library.
Exactly, because they would never carry their life savings with them in their wallet. People do things with software wallets that they wouldn't do with cash, which suggests we need better ways of conveying appropriate mental models of how these things work. Physical wallets might be a good approach, or people might treat them like debit cards instead of wallets.
As a solo developer at the time, I was astounded by the 30% cut when it first came out in the early 2000s and I'm still just as astounded now.
Some of us rural nerds are only recently coming off the dialups
But if it can be mechanized then why inlcude it in the commit log at all? Just run the tool post hoc if you're interested in what it has to say about a commit.
One CEO (and company) has joy. The other one does not.

I know which one I'd rather join.
Parent comment referred to carcinogenicity.
Yeah why would they? They had classified technology.
Migrating from Flask to FastAPI, Part 2
As a matter of fact, it's in positive territory right now.

No, it's not a tangential annoyance. There are times when form IS function.
> When Sundar reacts fast enough

Their response wasn't fast enough. They should have been experimenting with this stuff in public for years now, but they've kept it under cover.

This was a deflated promise from Google. They swore up and down they could blow Chat GPT out of the water. They just didn't release it for.... Reasons.

Now we see the answer. Chat GPT marches forward with name recognition and lots of trial and error. Google's future rests on an untested platform.
Lots of good feedback in this thread so far that I agree with. If I'm doing Windows stuff, yeah, it's great. Lots of new good stuff. My next project is going to be Azure based, so I'm sure I'll be back in the world a bit.

There's a lot you can do with C# with .NET, game engines, cross-platform tools and so on.
We don't know it was an identical response firstly, and secondly if you ask it who the president was in 1845, it will give the "identical" response to that question every time as well, so IMO it is indeed "quite likely" it would generate the same responses twice, especially given how specific the input seems to be.

I don't know if it was a hallucination or not, but what I've been given here doesn't rule the idea out for me, and in fact the lack of sophistication around the reporting and "research" leads me to believe the idea wasn't even considered seriously.
Yuck! I hate it when sites monkey around with max-width. I've got a nice 27 inch monitor. I want to use all of it. It's refreshing to see a site that doesn't insist on second-guessing the width that I set my browser window.
Imagine suggesting a literal plotpoint from an Orwell novel with a straight face on hackernews.

Dont forget to update the Wolfram database with who we're at war with!
That's exactly what I mean and it is inevitable without halting all non-human verified updates to the dataset going forward. There are two worlds now, pre-GPT and post-GPT. In the pre-GPT world you have human error and in the post-GPT world you have human error and machine error compounding ad infinitum.
Maybe I'm missing a joke, but was your client HRC's campaign?(?!)
Agreed. The level of naysaying on Bing + GPT (along with ChatGPT) is absurd.
This is super cool, but I also really hope people I work with don’t use it much since I rely on commit messages to tell me the “why” and other high level questions on the whole diff that don’t fit into local comments above a single line. If it is simple enough to be self evident it’s simple enough to include 1-2 words and not risk hallucinating a red herring IMO
Is there any reason to assume the burn, under these conditions, would be complete enough to fully consume the product such that there would be zero danger to the environment?

These are guys on a side of a track ostensibly just winging it. I think it's reasonable to assume the "under laboratory conditions" assessment might not completely apply to this scenario.
Excellent work once again. Would have loved to find something like this when I was a student... back when computers occupied entire desks.

This seems similar, if not identical, to the free streaming box I told Xfinity they could keep. Might go revisit that decision now.
What is the specific medicine that messed you up as a kid and how?
absolutely. But then they'd have to build the user base from the ground up
to be a fly on the wall at rogan's right now.. yeah he made the money, but I wonder sometimes if it tanked his show. Almost nobody talks about him or his guest's antics anymore when just 2yrs ago he was approaching howard stern status.
I don't have chocolates for you all, but you might like this.

Migrating from Flask to FastAPI, Part 2.

This is the juicy part, all the main code changes from Flask to FastAPI, including some auth and dependencies.

From Forethought with love.

For the advanced stuff, including the g pseudo-global variable, more techniques migrating from Flask to FastAPI, and mixing async and await with blocking code, wait for the next part.
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Container queries land in stable browsers
Excellent example to make my point. First responders stood directly on the smoldering pile of thousands of chemical compounds for months with no PPE. You see how that is very different from the EP situation, no?
I would even expect that having multiple implementations would help catch small things that might have been missed in the reference implementation.

I'm looking forward to Ferrocene's specification and the gccrs implementation.
We can still say it was a bone-headed choice to do that because it opened a massive back door to every user's system. And? What is the problem with looking into why they made that choice before arguing that the choice should be reversed with maximum prejudice?

Because I was suggesting a different method for the specific task at-hand.

I don't see where you're coming from that quoting Chesterton's Fence is even "criticism." It's a suggestion to take out a little insurance by doing a little homework.

Every time I've heard someone quote Chesterton's Fence, it's always been as a means to halt the conversation. Essentially, "shutup" -- an indirect critique of critique itself in dismissive form. There's possibly some meta point here about you not knowing the full circumstances of the situation to warrant bringing up Chesterton's fence.
Haha, yeah I get that. That's why I sat in on calls with their IT folks. We made it as easy as we could to get data back out of our system. We exported in a bunch of different formats and could integrate with several ERP/MRP/BI systems directly.
"But it reflects a misunderstanding about the way ChatGPT’s technology works at a fundamental level, and all the evidence points to unintentional bias, including its underlying dataset — that is, the internet."

I call bs. The internet can't simultaneously be a troll laden cease pool of hatred AND a carefully curated bastion of progressive values depending on which is convenient for the narrative. Does anyone honestly believe "woke" bias isn't being coded into these things intentionally?
There is a non-zero chance that angels and magic are not real, and the chance of aliens being real, while perhaps greater, still relies mostly on conjecture, and is ultimately pretty close to those two things.
I'm no fan of marriage the institution but the results are clear. Policies that incentivize couples who would be married to not marry leads to worse outcomes for both parties at scale as well as any kids. It is regrettable that some may feel trapped in marriages that aren't working but the numbers don't lie. I don't want to make this a race thing because it's not but look at what happened to the urban blacks who had this kind of policy peddled hard at them starting in the 1960s. They regressed on tons of metrics that are closely tied to and both predict and are predicted by household stability. Your advocating for something that has been tried and failed.

(That said, perhaps the above would not be the case, or at least not to the same degree if women and men weren't treated differently with regard to child custody and men had the option of being single fathers)
Because even though it has less users than Google, it is profitable
> There was a car on that train that was on fire for at least 20 miles before the derailment. If I can get pulled over for having a busted tail light, a train full of toxic chemicals should get stopped for being on fire

Ifwe did the same shit they get away with, we'd be in jail real fast
Maybe I missed it but does anyone know where these things were going/delivered to? What's the use for chemicals like this? I can't seem to find any info.
I can think of a dozen reasons why such an API might exist. Chesterton's fence doesn't say "don't make changes" it says "If you can't think of why something might exist, you are not qualified to say that it shouldn't exist."
I feel that.

It wasn't getting laid off but some time ago I experienced a set of let's call them "professional betrayals" that, from a certain perspective, I've never really recovered from (because I'm no longer really capable of caring that much about my job), but from another - and perhaps healthier - perspective have been the making of me (because I'm no longer really capable of caring that much about my job).

Don't get me wrong: I still work hard and do a good job, and even take pride in doing that good job, but it's nowhere near as tied to how I see myself - to who I am - and I'm much the happier for it. I've also become more successful. Honestly, I think giving fewer fucks has proven to be the best thing that happened to my once stalled career.
Google Pay is huge in India but it is/was a completely different product that started in Google India as Tez but was taken over from the Indian team and ruined.

Google claims to operate Pay in dozens of countries with millions of transactions but almost all of them are from India where Google pay is merely a client for UPI
>our reactor produces iron, silicon, and aluminum through molten regolith electrolysis, in which an electrical current separates those elements from the oxygen to which they are bound. Oxygen for propulsion and life support is a byproduct.

It sounds like there isn't oxygen input required.
The tech field is the sad story of execs, marketing types, and end users continually relearning the lessons that they refused to accept from the developers.
> What does Visual Studio from around 2000 have that VSCode doesn't?

A visual GUI designer, for example. Also a visual database model designer. Code generation too, and more

These are resource demanding features
I can tell you the balloon made front-page news for at least the BBC, the guardian, der Spiegel (Germany) and the NZ herald (New Zealand). And I'm not even talking about US news. It definitely was blown way out of proportion in regular media and not only on social media (there is probably an interesting discussion about cause and effect to be had here).
I don't think it's ironic; it's the entire point. They saw a market opportunity.
I am running GPT-J-6B inference on 13GB of VRAM. FP16 is a must at this scale. I've also loaded GPT-NeoX-20B using int8 quantization onto a single RTX 3090 before (24GB VRAM) however inference latency was quite high.
How do they implement the subscription plans when no internet connection is required?
Employee and customer happiness has nothing to do with CEO performance.

A CEO's sole responsibility is to deliver value to the shareholders. It literally doesn't matter how that value is delivered, as long as it gets delivered.
Seems like the podcasting ecosystem is a bit more resistant to walled gardens than most spaces.

I wonder why? Is it just because Spotify's attempt was so pathetic? Or some trait of the community? Maybe a little of both?

Personally I'm very glad that podcasting has resisted Spotify's takeover attempt so far. But I'm curious if we can take lessons from this community and apply it to other communities dominated by monopolies and walled gardens, like the App Store on iOS or ISPs.
> relatively very few realize what we have currently is word prediction not intelligence of some sort

Honestly this impresses me most. The fact that we have word prediction and it can still be very useful (in my experience). You're right people don't understand it; hell i don't either, fully. Nevertheless it is shockingly useful for being nothing more than an autocomplete over existing information.. in my view.

Even if all we could add to the service is the ability to cite sources of information - ie to validate for ourselves statements more easily - then i think it would be a huge leap in interfaces.

Being able to put a chat interface over content seems wholly unique to me. I'd love to explore the depth of complex inputs like the entire LOTR series as a chat. To discuss, learn, and grow on existing content. I don't care about intelligence; i just want the ability to mitigate confidently-incorrect. If that's even possible.
> The idea that software wasn't bloated and slow 20,30+ years ago is just myth.

It's not entirely a myth. MS Word is not a representative example, though. It's been pretty awful from the start.

Today's software, on average, is very much larger and less performant than software from the olden days, and generally is not more featureful.

What is is, is cheaper to produce and modern software tends to have a much prettier (and graphical!) user interface.