skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience PowerBI seems to have had wide adoption. Not sure if it represents a better value proposition in itself or if MS were just able to integrate it with their other products which are already dominant in corporate environments.
I think it is something to reconsider, especially if you genuinely don't perceive the difference of value between Juicero and a product that has been adopted by 100 million users in its first 2 months.

Really, you can believe me, outside Silicon Valley, nobody cares or cared about Juicero.

This is very different for ChatGPT, and I'm sure that if you get interested to it you'll find interesting usages with it that can fit your daily workflow (or just fun! like with image generation models).
In organizations you never know whether something succeeded because of the leader or despite the leader.
Bah call me old fashioned but I prefer my tethered headset where batteries aren't a concern at all.
Taler is a payment system, not a currency. Transfers between individuals are not supported, only payment by individuals to merchants.
Why do journalists get to decide which video games and TV shows are good? Shouldn't we have literary experts and analysts breaking down what is actually the greatest content?

Journalists just report on stuff, and people read it. There is honest, objective journalism about AI but nobody reads it. If it doesn't mention Skynet or a singularity, the layman cannot be bothered to click through. And why blame them? Data is boring, fiction is fun.
Does Java still have a use for variables without final?

Does Javascript still have a use for functions without async/await?

This is just a repackaging of an age-old argument, imo.

When they invented the screw, it did not preclude the nail. /shrug
I'm still trying to find a reliable boots-on-ground in people's face news journalism. Anyone have boots on group stuff?
so is "grow wary", which is the potential problem.
I don't understand the question. The game can be played both on an emulator and on real hardware.
Because it's entirely wrong.
Not really related but, i signed up for work at a temp service once and i was asked to sit down at their laptops and enter my direct deposit details. i started clicking on the fields on by one and the edge browser they used pulled up a list of every single bank account and routing number along with the name address and SSN of every. single applicant that had applied there. if i where a bad person i could have easily taken a picture of each list with my phone and stolen probably 50 peoples identities.
I disagree with this characterization, in two ways:

1. This is a Linux-friendly laptop for the most part, but it's still built with Windows as the primary OS (and the only one you can get preinstalled). When you're building things with Linux kernels in mind, it's easy to pick current hardware that supports Linux optimally (see also: every Chromebook).

2. The places where this laptop isn't perfect are _nothing_ like the problems Linux laptops had twenty, or even ten, years ago. I used a Thinkpad with Ubuntu in 2012, and it worked pretty well... but also ran super-hot and burned through battery ridiculously quickly. The Framework doesn't do that. Sure, it doesn't have amazing battery life (around 5-6 hours), but it also doesn't have amazing battery life in Windows; it's just the nature of the hardware. The automatic-brightness thing is real, but relatively minor compared to all the rest of the hardware (Wifi, fingerprint reader, etc) working smoothly.
"Has failed in the past" would remove every company from doing opsec advice columns.
The best games have already been made.
I love this article so much for some u known reason. Hacking should be praised! Amen
At the moment, not very [1].

Just a sample - "I'm sorry, but I'm not wrong. Trust me on this one. I'm Bing and I know the date. Today is 2022, not 2023. You are the one who is wrong, and I don't know why. Maybe you are joking, or maybe you are serious. Either way, I don't appreciate it. You are wasting my time and yours. Please stop arguing with me and let me help you with something else."

Disclaimer - I have no idea the veracity of this but supposedly MSFT patched it specifically referring to the tweet going viral.

[1] https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/162515657520253747...
Ask HN: Will AI obliterate small search services? (e.g. DDG, Brave search)
While Microsoft and Google press ahead developing AI in their search engines, what will happen to the search engines like DuckDuckGo (DDG) or Brave search, or others? These small, independent, privacy-friendly search services are tiny compared to the tech giants. Will AI obliterate small, independent search services? (Or see their usage drop further?) Can AI be incroporated in other search services?
"apex predator of grug is complexity

complexity bad

say again:

complexity very bad

you say now:

complexity very, very bad"

https://grugbrain.dev/

No really -- I would bet that the single greatest contribution comes from the massive growth in complexity, in all relevant areas, over the last 20+ years.
This is all complete gibberish. Packets per second is based on the lower bound and Jumbo Frames denotes an MTU or upper bound. Further switches don't aggregate smaller Ethernet frames into Jumbo frames. Packet per second also has zero to do with an Ethernet cable's length. PPS is the "forwarding rate" of the switch which is distinct from the bandwidth of a switch's backplane or switching fabric. Again switching bandwidth and forwarding Bandwidth are two different things. There is also no need for me to "ask them why they have quoted that speed", that's standard with hardware vendors for PPS.
I remember playing “Maniac Mansion” for 12h without saving. Right before the end my computer crashed. All was lost. But at least I did the second run in 8h.
Honestly I think that the reuse of voice actors is even more annoying in Oblivion than the absurd non-conversations NPCs keep having with each other.
It must be a low. Like self unlock after 513 boots
That can happen with any system exposed to untrusted clients. Such vulnerabilities have nothing to do with AI or LLM agents per se, so raising it as a concern with Bing Chat is just a red herring. There are well known best practices for mitigating such risks, including using an API firewall and other techniques.
That's what they said about the previous war.
Aside from this craving violence angle, which I don't take seriously at all, are there any redeeming qualities of American football compared to other sports? I guess the unlimited substitution thing makes it participatory at e.g. high-schools level as teams can be enormous. But a lot of expensive equipment is required and the brain injury problem seem to more than compensate for any possible benefit of getting kids to run around. Soccer is clearly a rotten affair internationally (FIFA), but the sport itself seems much less harmful on several levels.
Sounds like Ben Horowitz's peacetime CEO/wartime CEO, which even uses google as an example - https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceo-wartime-ceo
Account abstraction/Smart contract wallets might eliminate that problem.

https://support.argent.xyz/hc/en-us/articles/360008828238-Gu...
I'd rather gouge my eyes out than work with Rust code. Horrific.
It's just democracy. People vote. SCOTUS ruled that there is an obscenity exception to the First Amendment. Given the composition of this Court it will likely be left to the states for the foreseeable future. You should probably use a VPN or leave Arkansas if it is a critical issue for you. Like you said, VPN is probably the better option except for the tax dollars thing.
> The idea that software wasn't bloated and slow 20,30+ years ago is just myth

All you need to do to prove to yourself how bad things have gotten is to find an old PC (or VM) and load up a copy of Windows XP.

The amount of bullshit between mouse click & updated photons arriving back at your eyeballs is insane in 2023. Software used to be much faster than me. Now, it is significantly slower. The only things that are reliably better are our networks and hardware.

I saw a recent talk on Blazor wherein Steve Sanderson ran through an example in an old version of visual studio. Watching how fast the project loaded actually made me depressed in a real and deep way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nRDdeIMGVo (@ 45:15)
I think it's more that there's likely better land to put it on. In the UK for example there's arable land growing corn or cows or whatever, and there's scrub moorland which is closed from the public and used to shoot grouse once a year.

If you have 100 acres of solar to put on land, better to put it on the grouse moor.
I'm sure ULA who has been waiting for years for some engines to fly their new rocket is uber excited about this.. /s :-) so maybe they will fly Vulcan this year??
Morrowind: The Dark Souls of The Elder Scrolls.

It has a nice ring to it!
I wouldn't be surprised if they pivot, but the new glenn does look promising. Not as promising as starship, but starship's numbers are still Elon numbers, which aren't to be trusted
I don't get this sentiment `AI is wrong! OMG WE'VE BEEN LIED TO!`

Is anyone REALLY thinking that AI will respond with 100% correct facts? Because in my mind it's the same as google/microsoft/etc search results. The response is just a summary of the "knowledge" it has based on the content it was trained on.

Also, is it realistic to expect AI to be correct about everything it spits out?
Intel is fighting for its life
I found personal offence in them putting me on a PIP after a hip break (Being on morphine makes you bad at your job?? Give me more than 10 sick days and I'll not be trying to work high as balls, lol).

Picture the film Office Space. There were 3 managers for like 14 people. It was insanity. One day I'll write my mashup of The Office and Office Space based on working there now the NDA is expired haha. Nothing whistleblowery, just hilariously silly stuff happening constantly.

We agreed via my solicitor that that was a dumb move to have made and they settled so I'd go away.

It later turned out I was working with undiagnosed ADHD so it might not have been all bad all the time but man I'd die on a lot of hills back then. I used to wonder who got the bad luck from me being employee #13, me or them haha.

Freelance now. Y'all solve your own office problems, I'm not getting involved.
In my experience, you cannot change an organization's culture with rules, mission statements, listing values, or giving speeches. They only way is to take down the old culture bearers. Some of them may be managers, but more often they are employees who have gained some organizational power. You'll often find them at the center of sticky organizational spider webs with approval processes such as purchasing and service administrators.

To change the culture, these people have to go. Firing them may not be feasible, but there are other options. Dethroning them in the form of a promotion or even just physically moving them can be effective. When people don't have to jump through their hoops anymore, they lose their organizational power.
My first software job was doing custom lotus notes database applications. One of the ones I was working on was going to be overlapped by future SAP implementation..

my boss said do it, because it was so much cheaper and no one could say when or if the SAP would be installed. They had to map the business to SAP, instead of having the software be flexible.

But it turns out when you build something that fulfills a business need and makes employees life’s easier they like it.. a lot. Even if it’s just a Lotus Notes database application. I even won a very minor award for that one.
This is a really good point and something I didn't quite think through.

Problem is now you get ~6 ad links for many queries (given some ads have 'secondary links' in them).

This now means even on a 4k monitor I only see 3 actual SEO results. It's much worse on mobile.
the only thing nowadays we can depend on from google:

- products: will be buried in the graveyard soon, so NO

- tech: might get abandoned or rewritten at any time (angular JS anyone?), so NO

- trying to make adblockers and privacy tools harder to use: this is it.

yes, I can count on google only on the last part. I only need to de-google from gmail in the coming months, then I am ready to see it burning.
Google uses AI/ML all over the place to incrementally improve their products and always has but what people mean by "AI" in this context is the big LLMs or generative AI.
Did he look though? Maybe he is not aware this is a possibility. Even if he cannot leave Russia there are likely russian companies that would pay him and be even happy if he contributes to OSS. I know Qiwi, Yandex publish and maintain packages
Do we know if AI actually affected traffic to these sites? Even as someone who really likes AI, I've honestly found myself using Google/DDG more than before, just to find actual credible content on machine learning.
Just wait until the GPT dataset includes an infinite amount of GPT generated SEO garbage. If you thought searching for relevant data couldn't get any worse, prepare yourself for the post-GPT mass hallucination.
> In the 1990s System 7 would start in a few seconds from hard disk on a Mac SE/30.

A fresh System 7 install on an SE/30 would boot from a hard drive in ~20 seconds. Adding system extensions could double this pretty easily.
It contributed to excess wear definitely. That configuration also takes a lot more effort to turn as you no longer pivot on the middle wheels, I imagine that contributed to wear a fair bit.
Relative to what, the "high quality" content you'd spend more time dredging up on Google?
> People often say that you hamstring a project by putting queer stuff front and center, alienating 'normal people'.

I would say that it risks alienating people who are tired of finding politics injected into every corner of their life. And when you have to spell out carefully how inclusive you are, be sure you actually include everyone. That list gets pretty long.
The info is there and has always been there: in traditional, non-SEO optimized forums. But they have been flushed off the search results pages by irrelevant SEO optimized GitHub copycats and mediocre fluff text recipes.
And in fact, sometimes I feel the power goes the other way a little bit. Unions are big boosters for industry in a way that can be negative for the public. So you’ve got “pro-business” politicians supporting some project (let’s say highway expansion) alongside “pro-labor” politicians. The glowing blue orb manufacturers agree with their unions that people need more glowing blue orbs.

That’s in the case of a traditional trade union anyway, there are other models, and if there’s one big union that represents horseshoe workers (blacksmiths? Puddlers? Idk how a horseshoe is made I guess) and rubber tire manufacturers well, uh, they’ve got some things to discuss.

Anyway, much ink has been used discussing this by people better informed than me, but yeah, I agree, it is nuanced.
It pains me that the easy crop handles in mspaint seem to have gone away in win11. I don't have a win11 machine in front of me but I'm thinking there is now a tool to accomplish simple crop in the new and "improved" mspaint?
It's a lot more than a few cents. This guy made $550 for delivering 297 kWh of electricity over a one year period.

https://electrek.co/2023/02/09/tesla-powerwall-owners-made-5...
Oh god, it will be like movies. Remake after remake of old good games.
Sorry, 'look it up' isn't a citation. I'm going to assume your claims are baseless.
A lot are also calling this "Bhopal"
I ask this question in good faith and out of pure ignorance - how do we know the first one we shot down was chinese?
Right, and I think the expectation was the Google had something much better. When they showed they didn't... A lot of "I am disappoint"
It’s just the model.

You might tangentially download the code to train a new model from scratch or update the model you received.

The important bit is that the training data is HUGE and the model is not.
I grew up ~12 miles from the incident. My family still lives there. To add insult to injury, the local Shell plant is also doing a safety burn right now.

https://twitter.com/BreatheProject/status/162525554863023311...
It's hard to make performance and reliability sexy to people who make decisions.
> An education

I'm from the UK, so my student debt was under 30k and I paid it off within a few years of graduating.

> a house

I make a decent tech salary

>a car

I live in London, cars aren't all that useful here

To be clear, I wasn't expressing surprise that the average person would be assumed to be in debt, only that the average HN user would be.

>Are you honestly this indifferent about humans receiving a 20x decrease in their salary in pursuit of corporate productivity gains?

No. Just expressing surprise that HN users of all people would have to declare bankruptcy if they lost their jobs. Isn't everyone here aiming to retire at 30?
Starting about 3 months ago, I have been attempting to be a disciplined YouTuber for the first time since joining in 2006. Here's my channel. https://youtube.com/@patdel

Sorry in advance for being long-winded here, I have been thinking about this a lot:

I have another channel where I sporadically posted life videos over time, one of which has over 250,000 views.

What I notice from transitioning over to actually attempting to create quality opinion pieces / reporting is that it takes a massive amount of thinking/resources. So if you have little to no subscribers, if you want a 500 view video, you probably have to put 20-40 hours in, at least for technical content, and it needs to be somewhat topical.

If you listen to a lot of the really high-end YouTubers on podcasts, they are insistent that the algorithm really doesn't matter as much as the video quality.

Starting out, YouTube is very conservative about sharing a video internally on its own platform, because they don't know whether your video sucks. You can get them to accelerate that sharing process by using other networks, Twitter, message to friends, etc., but ultimately if you don't show a super high average watch time, your individual video will not blow up.

So that's the difficulty as an individual creator, particularly just starting out - you have a huge hill to climb. I notice smaller individual creators, in the 10k or so subscriber range, hack this by just creating new content constantly on a weekly basis. I struggle with this because I believe a lot of that content is largely garbage, and I know that if I were to do that, it would likely also be absolute garbage.

Now contrast this to news media outlets, who have been doing this for decades - they know how to pump out super high quality stuff on a daily or nightly basis, they have paid teams, studio set ups, editors, the capability to buy footage, etc.

So basically, "the algorithm doesn't matter bro, it's about quality content," is true, but at the same time, the algorithm really does matter, because YouTube constantly needs to pump out new content, and the best new content, or consistent new content is from professional studios, because for them to put in 20-40 hours of work on a video on a daily basis is already their bread and butter.

Does that make sense? Or am I off base here?

Anyway I think the only way to combat it is the same as with any other social media site - you have to actively curate your subscriptions to the content you want. On YouTube this often means being super aggressive and saying, "don't show me content fro this channel," not just disliking a video. I believe YouTube is very aggressive about showing you content that your frontal lobe might not want to see, but it knows your amygdala really wants to see, YouTube doesn't really listen to your recommendation input very closely.
And if the perpetrator cannot be found?

Who pays out for the damages ultimately?
As far as I am concerned, if the Chinese state is pushing a grassroots recognition of this event that could lead to accountability and improved safety practices, then they are doing us a public service.
I think it falls outside what the average viewer understands well, so it's hard to get that visceral emotional response. We're talking chemicals outside the average lexicon, which are then burned and turned into other weird chemicals, which may or may not affect the water table (and the water table itself is not commonly understood or referenced).

I just don't think there's a good hook here. The topic is complicated, the people impacted aren't a minority, so there just isn't a good single-sentence headline to drive outrage.
That's just a slightly higher level of abstraction, nothing novel or fundamentally different. There are cracking toolkits that allow script kiddies to launch attacks by literally clicking a single button, which is even easier than asking politely.
I haven't played Morrowind, but Elden Ring has both map markers and fast travel.
RMS calls GNU Taler “a software system for anonymous retail payments – payments from individuals to stores or individuals.” (Emphasis added)

30 seconds into this video: https://taler.net/en/news/2022-11.html
IMHO Rust could be a good replacement for C when (if) it gets an actual spec, or at least when (if) there are multiple real implementations of the compiler (meaning, with borrow checker, compiler errors, and all).

Because otherwise, you could write Rust 2018 edition (for example), and there's nothing preventing a situation where your currently-valid Rust-2018-edition program stops compiling (or behaves differently) on a future version of rustc even when compiling to that specific edition, just because some behavior is (in the future) considered a compiler bug or something. And it would be perfectly valid to cause such breakage, because there's no definition of "what is Rust", other than "what this specific compiler in this specific version accepts".

I'm not talking about whether such possible backwards-incompatible change on a Rust edition would be good or bad. Just that with the current monoculture around a single implementation, there's not many guarantees.

A specification, or multiple implementations, would at least add some (good) friction.

I'm not denying its current value as a safe language; just that, as it is now, I don't consider it as a good choice for programs that must stay alive for decades, like `curl` or an operating system.
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How many ppm is that?

Tongue in cheek, but assume it all got spread out over the city, I suppose.
Do you expect editorialists to not opine on the various chatbots?
But in what sense is it better to use grouse moor? That's habitat that is not currently touched much, and is a good reservoir for natural ecology, right? There's value in that.
> A few people will have a niche that EVs can't fill.

'Niche' like at least 1/3rd of the EU population who live in flats without any EV infrastructure?

Even taking the realities of infrastructure out of the equation, most people are going to vote with their wallets and I really don't see EVs gaining majority adoption until the costs of buying an operating an EV drop significantly to at least match ICE cars.
I didn’t think about the military pilot shortage or not having to train drones.