skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it ~twice as expensive as a per-user license? Right now we just reimburse our analysts/developers the $10/month for the Copilot fees. I see no reason to go to a more expensive plan just so we can manage their licenses.

The following add-ons for an additional $108/year per person don't seem worth it at all. [0]

-Simple license management (what's simpler than reimbursing personal expenses?)

-Organization-wide policy management (huh?)

-Industry-leading privacy (no idea what this means, how is this better than personal Copilot per person)

-Corporate proxy support (what even is this)

EDIT: How do you do single line breaks on HN, anyway? Markdown doesn't work (two spaces or backslashes) and the help docs don't specify:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

[0]: Plus, the individuals don't get their credit card rewards. Employees love expensing things for free rewards.
GuardDog (Datadog open source Supply chain security) 1.0 with NPM support
The NTSB has a much larger role than the FAA in plane crash investigations.
High-paying jobs that don't need a college degree? Thousands of them sit empty
It had articles on Reuters[1] and CNN[2] within a day.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/train-derailment-causes-mas...

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/us/east-palestine-ohio-train-...
It all sounds good as a consumer but there are a few questions which are by no means clear to me:

* How does getting recommendations from a chatbot (what TV to buy) play with websites that produce such content (TV reviews)
* How does it play with websites that rely on ad impression
* How can you monetize a chatbot? (there's an easy way: free tier + monthly subscription)
* How to reduce the massive compute cost of a good chatbot without making it bad (this also seems more straightforward)
chatGPT and now bingGPT are the devils we know. It comes down to showing it in public so it can take the 10,000 punches to the face (our attempts to hack it) and we get to see how it behaves directly. Who knows what hidden problems lurk in Bard? I don't trust published scores.
Related; Cars are required to have backup cameras, but automatic headlights are a premium feature.
We can't know for sure because sirius doesn't publish ratings like terrestrial radio. We do know sirius had put incentives in his contract where if they reached X more subscribers after Stern announced he was moving, he'd get a bonus. He met these almost instantly.

More than his radio show, Stern also lost TV around the same time he switched to sirius.
Perhaps there is no market for stolen cars in South Korea.
Perhaps South Korea has an immobilizer law like many other industrialized nations.
Perhaps more cars are parked in secure areas in South Korea, and cars in Milwaukee are parked on streets or driveways.
Perhaps there is more CCTV and other surveillance in South Korea that makes it impossible to escape with a stolen car.

Not saying it's not a social issue, but there's a lot of other factors as well.
that site is better than most, imho.
The success of SpaceX appears to be in minimizing the amount of damage that Elon is capable of doing with his relentless and short-sighted micromanaging.
No, it's exactly an unreasonable programmer who'd expect that, being conditioned to such ridiculous extravagancies by an inadequate language, which was the point of my another comment in this thread.

Multiplication of intX_t by intX_t should produce int2X_t which is btw is what actually happens in hardware! And detection of overflow of addition/multiplication in a sane language should not require ridiculous algebraic acrobatics that involve additional additions/multiplications (or a division, yeah, I've seen that too).
You must live on another planet if you think we have a good record on cleaning up hazardous spills, in an era where oil wells that can't be plugged continue to bleed into our oceans. Most cleanup operations are matters of triage, we almost never are able to undo the damage, in the best case scenarios, ecosystems are able to recover over time, but in many places, ecological damage might as well be permanent. Entropy is not to be trifled with.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-energy-oil-spill-gulf-of...
it's fully typed for one thing

the previous example was not verbose enough IMO, the intent here is clear and the two variables with different purposes are kept separate
Because stuff that requires this circus of encapsulation is usually so brain-dead that it can't be gotten to work in any other less horrible way.

(also I think you lost one 'over UDP')
Here's the issue: whether you use a traditional index based search, or GPT...you are going to be consuming AI generated content. Either at the page level or the synthesis level, or both.
I would not pay $600k to teach everyone at the company that if they make a mistake I will fire them to set an example. If that was my position, it's a lot cheaper just to walk around threatening people and making them feel paranoid every day at work. But I think it's a bad position to take. So I'd probably keep the one guy who is never going to make that mistake again around, and fix whatever system allowed the mistake to happen in the first place.
Google Maps recently just decided to stop working on my (admittedly highly customized) firefox build. It draws the grid background, but no maps.
The positioning heuristic is to never sell a "drop-in replacement", there are myriad reasons that goes poorly. In addition to the problem of feature parity, you also have the extremely painful and expensive implied migration which companies are loathe to do if at all avoidable, you will show up as a threat to the companies you are replacing, possibly with much larger marketing budgets for pushing you out of their market, and you have people whose job is tied to the thing you are replacing quietly sabotaging the deal inside the customer. 10x performance usually won't cover the cost of these issues, in my experience it requires more like 100x performance before the customer calculus starts to swing in your favor.

Often you want to position your product to augment their existing systems by addressing a clear gap and nothing more, solving a single serious pain point without actually replacing anything of note. This is simpler and meets less resistance in enterprises, and once inside it becomes much easier to attrit tasks handled by other systems. Land and expand.

The challenge for startup founders that want to avoid being a "drop-in replacement" is finding true gaps in the market that are also scalable. Obvious gaps almost always have a reason they are left unfilled.
> and we are in a discussion here of a published paper that says "masks didn't do anything"

After reading Cochrane's own list of caveats about their study that feels like overstating it.

Also for your specific phrasing, "masks didn't do anything", what part of the studies they looked at do you think looked at COVID mask guidance?

Only a tiny part of the studies they looked at were even in the context of COVID: Two out of 78. Funnily enough, these two papers claim that masks were effective. (Why only include two COVID-times studies in this update, out of the dozens that have been published?)
Read my lips: "Episodes". I want to search through bloody episodes! I want it to go through it's entire index of ALL episode titles, show-notes and transcripts and find me relevant podcast episodes where the phrase I searched is relevant.

I don't want discovery, I don't want AI, and I certainly don't care for any sharing things. I want to be able to find content. And I don't want to go join a series on Episode 592 and go backwards. I'm interested in a topic: Jennifer Aniston, Alex Honnold, Dieter Rams, GUI libraries in Rust, C++ game development, Financial Independence. I just want it to show me individual episodes!

It'd be like searching google for "GUI library in Rust" and it showing me the Rust website and saying "good luck out there!" It should just search the bloody websites and show me the relevant webpage.
I'm a big fan of ligatures and it is now a "must have" when choosing a coding font for me.

The "fundamental structure of the code" doesn't change, all those same mostly-ASCII code points are there unchanged. (Copy and paste still works. Source control works, obviously.) It's just a presentation thing.

There's also an argument (often used most especially by Functional Programming proponents and languages) that the "fundamental structure of the code" is actually the math behind the code and our mostly-ASCII assortment of programming language symbols are the easier-to-type/encode/transmit compromise of the mathematical fundamentals. From that perspective, ligatures are more "fundamental" by better expressing their mathematical underpinnings than the raw text that describes them.

> it just seems to make me have to pause and think more

A classic Python mantra is that "code is read far more often than it is written". If it might be a little slower to write, but it speeds up reading comprehension, that alone can be a major productivity win, per that mantra.

Of course, I think there's a familiarity thing at play here, too. Just like most things we learn, there's an early learning curve where it seems harder to work with something like ligatures because you are unfamiliar with them, but eventually you gain familiarity and are just as fast writing it as you were before.
You really don't see there being a very distinct difference between the beliefs of the left and right wings of American politics on this?

You think "global oligarchy" is "apolitical", at a time when the right wing is pushing harder and harder for the very wealthy to, essentially, be able to do anything they want, while the left wing (such as it is in this country) is pushing to restrict their power and tax their wealthy?
Doesn't moon dust give you giga cancer? Well i guess its a cave...
I think we're in agreement here. Personally, I was really looking forward to seeing "we rewrote our database in Rust from C++ and QPS improved 5% because fast code was easier to write." This kind of benchmark is not BS, and actually would save you real money.

Instead, the main arguments for the claim that Rust is the same speed as C++ are microbenchmarks, which actually are pretty useless when you are comparing very different implementations. The time they are useful is when you are refining an implementation.

If you want to scrutinize the benchmarks game even further, they use gcc for their c compiler, where clang would probably be a better choice since the benchmarks are arithmetic-heavy.
They just need to fix their donkey ass app and it would be fine.

My god man so many big companies have such crazy shit show experiences, it really makes me wonder.

I think once you have people addicted or 'needing' something, then great experience goes down the toilet.

The funny thing is, I'll bet there are very good economics behind good design ... aka good design will payoff, and usually it's measurable. It's odd.
Could somebody explains or points out a ressource explaining how GNU Taler solves the double-spending problem ? Or what the design is ?

In the traditional model (banks/credit cards), you simply sign a transaction that the receiver bank will then later handle to your bank. You let bank figure out how to transfer the money. Banks are basically a huge excel sheet with all the balances of customers. To avoid banks artificially adding numbers in the excel sheet, we rely on regulations (the fact that it works or not is besides the discussion here)

In the cryptocurrency, you share that huge excel sheet and each transaction is a modification that should be approved by the majority of users. Unlike banks, it is now proved that it works and you cannot manipulate the excel sheet, meaning you don’t need regulation anymore (whether this is a good thing or not is besides the discussion here. Just stating facts).

So my question: with GNU Taller, who maintain that huge excel sheet?
> GCC is more used than Go and GCC does not have telemetry so GO doesn't need it is completly unrelated.

I mentioned that because an argument could be made that they're the most popular, or they're trying to be the most efficient language and that's why they might "need" this telemetry data.

> Most dev working on core tools want telemetry

Yet somehow, almost all open source, popular, efficient tools don't have telemetry. Like the ones I listed + python + Linux + coreutils + bash.

Of course they want this. But there are mountains of successful projects that work very well without it, and every one serves as evidence that this Isn't as important as they let on. We shouldn't subject our personal computers to google tracking because they want more tracking data.

In case anyone wants to mention that it's Google's language and they can do what they want with it, this is a perfect example of why people aren't happy with Google's control of the language
I think it's a trait in the community. I remember the days sitting in an IRC channel listening to some bootleg live podcast/radio show broastcast over Icecast. It was sorta like pirate radio for a bit. Then podcasts started to show up more and more (in big part due to the iPod) and having a big publishing network wasn't really a thing. Sure, people could use iTunes, but a ton of us were just dropping MP3's from someone's site onto whatever MP3 player we had at the time.
Also basically zero accessible nitrogen.
An increasing number of image editors are focusing on “non-destructive editing” too…
New Cars Are Only for the Rich Now as Automakers Rake in Profits
What we need is a CLI that does it the other way around: I write a commit message describing changes I want to make to my codebase. A CLI that is offline and familiar with my codebase cooks up:

(1) tests
(2) features and or fixes
(3) perhaps supporting documentation
(4) perhaps even applicable build changes
That's 24k over 3 months which would buy and power 8 4090 GPUs by my reckoning. Of course those 8 4090s wouldn't have enough memory to run chatGPT so maybe AWS is good value after all.
> Let's shove podcasts down your throat

The podcast: Joe Rogan Experience
Videos show Turkey's Erdogan boasted letting builders avoid earthquake codes
Ask HN: Wouldn't it be cool if Boston Dynamics and OpenAI joined forces
So I just had this thought experiment: what if some company like Boston dynamics created a robot that acts very much like a human, added a voice interface like Siri but instead of piss poor Siri tech it was powered by Chatgpt instead.

Wouldn't that be like the science fiction we've been seeing childhood come to life.

I think the chat/interaction part is really right there, but unsure how far boston dynamics type tech is from the physical part. Their recent videos sure look very promising.

But just imagine having something like this around. What a game changing time we're living in!
The problem there is you need to install the Google app in addition to the podcast app, something I refuse to do. I just don't get why podcast search is so appalling, and why it's not a bigger deal. It drives me bananas.
People aren't afraid of the convenience. The 15 minute cities project comes with movement restrictions (in the name of climate) a la China in some areas like Oxford, I recall heated debate over that part.
Seconds matter an awful lot to me. If things don't happen fast enough, I end up alt-tabbing to the browser, losing my train of thought, and perhaps wasting a few minutes browsing the web.

I also work semi-offline a lot. My current internet connection is roughly 100 KBps. The connection in the underground isn't much better. I also work in airports and hotels. These pages that take 10+ seconds to load end up being abandoned.

Amazon famously measured how slow pages correlate with lost revenue.

You don't really notice this until you use something significantly faster, and you can stay focused on the task much longer. Things just work better. It's like using a sharp knife for the first time.
If Copilot and ChatGPT cost the same and I could only have one, I'd pick Copilot.
This is an interesting development, although note that a full day-night cycle on the moon is 29 Earth-days long. This means that unless you want to have enough batteries to last two whole weeks, you're going to be limited to putting your solar-powered outpost in the few places with near-constant access to light; basically the high bits of craters near the poles.
Interestingly, many shadow inaccuracies appear in 3D video games, due to a combination of rasterization hacks to approximate light transmission and rendering (player shadows appearing withing stage shadows, shadows appearing above players standing below a platform), and deliberate artistic liberties to make games easier to play (Mario Sunshine's level shadows are cast from the sun, but tree and player/enemy shadows appear directly below characters to make it easier to judge jumps).
This is next level, can I really scan any API ?
Looks like it was drained recently: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-13/us-to-sel...
Not sure about real-world statistics, but the current IETF position is that SMTP STARTTLS for mail submission (not transport) is to be phased out in favour of “implicit” SMTP-over-TLS with no cleartext portion, due in part to the former being an implementation minefield[1].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8314#appendix-A
I can't imagine the hell that borrowing a friend's car will be in a world that requires MFA to start the engine.
Unfortunately none of that works with the feature in TFA because it’s not supported by Declarative Shadow DOM.
bingGPT getting angry was a treat to see. Wow! It will be impossible not to anthropomorphise.
Oh nice! That was a good wee read, thanks!
What is a bit concerning is the speculation that the flight continued to the intended destination in an effort to avoid having the incident captured by cockpit voice recorder (which apparently only have a recording window of 2 hours???!?).
This is just r/india level comment.
gregw134 nailed it
The majority of my issues are around its user interface. A gazillion problems there, from discoverability problems to basic things like the inability to shrink the window down to a reasonable size.

But there are other issues, too. In meetings (about 12 people at a time), the video gets terrible. People randomly getting kicked out of the meetings are a fairly common experience. At least 3 days a week, people have problems joining the meeting.

We tend to budget the first ten minutes of every meeting as disposable time, so that whatever the problem of the day with Teams is can be worked out enough that we can finally get everyone in the meeting.
One thing on the ontology of capital: once enough capital (billions, trillions) is gathered in one single control point there is a phase transition: from a means towards an end (build X, destroy Y) it becomes a manner of escaping reality: with enough (crony or not) capital you can keep afloat a business no matter how bad it is, how badly run, how useless or how dangerous the products. Not that 'there is no skin in the game', but there is no skin, there is no game anymore.
I mean it's free cleaning
> 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.

Do you have a source for that? Because I googled a bit, and found nothing.

The photos I found of animals in hot weather with no tree cover are for places where trees don't grow.

> 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.

This explanation makes no sense. Why would it be harder to irrigate? And who cares about the small amount of grass under a row of trees? It's not like you have trees every 20 feet.

> But damn the animals, at least they have maximised and and can now fully capitalize.

This also makes no sense - healthier animals are more productive, even if the only motivation you acknowledge is money.
I agree with your framing. Good point.
> For example using the return type to deduce type parameters for a method like let samples: Vec<_> = iterator.collect();

> C++ doesn't support it

How exactly is it different?

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

int main() {
std::vector<int> v1 = {1,2,3};
auto it = v1.begin();
std::vector v2 (it + 1, it + 2);

for (auto i: v2) { std::cout << i << ' '; }
}
They put hundreds of birds into those fields every year so that hunters have something to shoot. I wouldn't call that untouched.
All the dagoth ur memes are funny as hell and I hope they never go away.
I really don't think that's what he's saying. You are assuming a great deal of malice, rather than positive intent. What he's saying is that there isn't hard evidence that shorter lines are more readable, so he made the style choice of longer lines. You're claiming that most people prefer shorter line widths, but again present no evidence that most people actually have that preference, other than vague references to "countless people". I actually think you're probably right, and if you had data Dan might update his stylesheet. But in the absence of evidence, you're just presenting your opinion as fact, and assuming malice.
The comparison is not against "most people" though. When we search the web we usually want an answer from an "expert" not some random internet poster. If you compare ChatGPT even to something like WebMD, well, I'll trust the latter over ChatGPT in an instant.

It's no better for other domains either. It can give programming advice, but it's often wrong in important ways and so no, I'd rather have the answer verified by an actual developer who knows whatever technology I'm asking about.

And finally, when you talk about what is "enough", I'd ask "for what?" This is what people in this thread are saying. That ChatGPT is not enough for the majority of what people wish it to be, but it may be enough for some tasks such as a creative writing aid or other human in the loop tasks.
>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.

Unfortunately, a wheel/bearing running hot for ~20 miles could be well inside the usual spacing for defect detector stations[1] in the US. Can't speak for this specific rail line but they're often as far as 30 miles apart, and not every detector will have the sensor package to identify wheel/bearing issues (though most will).

If you ever ride Amtrak, you'll occasionally hear trackside detector units radio in a diagnostic report over the conductors' radios. They have automated voice systems that announce their position, sensor reading states, etc.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defect_detector
No way! My favourite method of fast travel will always be scrolls of Icarian flight. Sooo freaking hilarious!
Whatever Happened to Ruby?
They do but geostationary is at an altitude of 35,786km. That gives a circumference of 264,869km and an arc length of 736 km per degree. That is a lot of space to fit satellites.

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." - Douglas Adams
I would switch music providers if they had a client that wasn't buggy. So there is a market for quality software. It's just challenging.
Gebru didn't "do" anything, she did criticise a lot, though. And she used the Google scandal to launch her next career stage. Now she has her own institute (DAIR).

I think she is exactly the kind of responsible-AI people we don't need. We need responsible-responsible-AI people. She would rather burn all LLM technology and burry it.
>Perhaps South Korea has an immobilizer law like many other industrialized nations.

Do they? I spent a few minutes searching but couldn't find an answer.