skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very highfalutin way of saying "ads", which feels like it still has one foot planted squarely in the monetization thinking of yesterday. As lots of other people have pointed out, ads in the midst of a blob of chat output don't work the same way as they do on a page of search results. Search results are impersonal and so putting promoted content in them is less of a personal affront. But if the interface is a "chat session" with something that's designed to feel human-like in its responses, the interleaving of paid content produces a completely different psychological response in users. It's more insulting and undermines trust.

To put it another way: the main value proposition of using something like ChatGPT to navigate the internet is that you're putting your trust in it to filter out the noise on your behalf. If you can't trust it to actually do that (there's still ad noise in what you get back), then what's the point?

Either people will pay a subscription fee to unlock the utility of an information-distilling agent, or they won't. Trying to sidechain ad revenue into that equation is self-defeating.
I'm hearing contradictory theories in this thread. Either that the media initially reported on the train derailment and then was forced to stop following up. Or that the media initially tried to cover up the derailment and then gave up and started reporting on it.

Do both of these competing theories have traction? If so, why?
Old enough to remember when Alta Vista was obviously going to win because it came from DEC.
Comment makes no indication of the length or constitution of my bowel movements, but thanks for the concern.
I am not sure about worldwide. I see no trends in Latin America or Africa. Notably, the Mexican president recently decided not to pursue constitutional changes to lengthen his rule, despite his supporters calling for that. And despite a stressful transfer of power from Bolsonaro to Lula in Brazil, it did go through without major bloodshed.

But Israel, Turkiye, and India are in a bad state. Netanyahu, Erdogan, and Modi are quickly tightening their grips on their respective governments.

Also I know China is not considered to be a democracy, but the past few leaders before Xi only lasted about 10 years each, while Xi is seeking a much longer rule.

I am not aware of any major changes in Europe, or the rest of Asia.

Israel, Turkiye, India, China, and Russia are heavy weights, though. So definitely something to watch for moving forward.
I was referring to panel gaps and other quality issues which are quite egregious with the Tesla brand.
How to implement a login system using DynamoDB
> For vinyl chloride 250ppm for 4 hours is enough to give you tumors.

No it’s not! You’ve completely made that up.
This is something we actively try to take advantage of at my company - we know that we've grown comfortable with architecture that may not make a lot of intuitive sense, so when we have new people join we try to make a list of confusing concepts so we can try to clean them up. In the ideal case the new person is able to do the cleanup, so we get a more intuitive design and they learn the surrounding architecture more along the way
In Germany the guilt has to be proven by the prosecution and you need to be sentenced by the court. If this can't be done, no one is hold accountable.

If something stolen is found in an office, and the company has nothing to do with it, the company is not held responsible for the theft.
Yes making ice-based self-replicating robots is “difficult”…
I believe that the only reason you would write this is because you haven't seen the services that let you train a voice generating AI from a few minutes of your own voice or from a few minutes of another person's audio.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoVPCo2sMIj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M...

You can already feed this generated responses to say back.

In the near future, humans will play a role, for 5 minutes. We agree on that point. In the also near future, we'll have enough samples for a diverse audience.
As a gay man, I'm not especially concerned about the hammer factory being unwelcoming, but I'd still rather work for the one that has a non-discrimination policy and where I see employees are open about their sexuality.
The cars weren't leaking, they were vented and ignited because they had the potential to explode otherwise. The other cars were burning from the crash, and an explosion would make the situation exponentially worse.
> I think Brereton is missing the wider narrative

Isn't that the point? Looking through the pep rally excitement of Nadella saying "I'm going to make Google dance" and looking at the actual product.

Honestly some of the Bing results[1] have me thinking that maybe LLMs are ready for Clippy and Copilot style products, and then maybe a browser extension that summarizes pages, but a generally available search launch has a high chance of Bing memeing themselves (again).

[1] beyond just errors: https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/162515657520253747...
why would "school that accepts anyone" from around 2007 would be relevant in 2023? assuming similar age

lol
This, except.. its not unintentional.
There are plenty of other people who you might expect to give a reasonable update on how nature (in general) is dealing with something like a chemical spill. Gardeners, birders, fishers, even some walkers or runners are outside regularly and tend to have a feel for what is going on in the environment around them. There are people I trust when they say the fish are hiding in the afternoon because the river is too hot and they stop fishing to avoid causing too much stress. If one of them told me they were seeing dead fish more often after an event I would file that away as a mostly trustworthy source of information.
Is nobody tired of the "look over there tactics"?
Isn't the point that every ai will be capable of producing errors? How could something designed and implemented by subjective beings not contain implicit bias?
How are we expecting ai to be any more reliable than humans?
It's already way way better at making art I could only dream of ever getting an artist to commission.
It's also quite decent at writing code if you treat it as an intern.
I don't care about the errors, I have 9 years experience and I still make massive errors. Nevertheless it impresses me how the state of the art moved so exponentially. Its an arms race now.
Chromecast came from Pichai's era - Maybe before he became CEO, but he had had broad authority even then. Not claiming he's a hit maker, just dropping a trivia.
That's the narrow narrative.

The actual wide narrative is that the current language models hallucinate and lie, and there is no coherent plan to avoid this. Google? Microsoft? This is a much less important question than whether or not anyone is going to push this party-trick level technology onto a largely unsuspecting public.
Aren't most people in the military in non-combat roles like support and logistics? You're talking about replacing the 0.001% or whatever that are fighter pilots with AI as if that would make a difference.
For the record, GNU Taler is not, and do not use, cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized payement system.
Like how sanctions and politics prevented Russia's invasion of Ukraine?
We had a System/36 at a family business, which was the ancestor of the AS/400.
It was a large box, roughly the size of a refrigerator on its side. It had 256K of memory, a whopping 100 megabyte disk, something like 8 terminals, and a couple of line printers. I think it cost almost $200,000 USD in 80's money.

In the mid-90's, they replaced it with PCs.
There's basically zero carbon on the moon. A ton of it on Mars though (lots of CO2 ice).

Our moon is something like 45% silica on the surface. That is a fuckton of silicon. Step one is definitely making a solar panel factory, and then using that power to smelt aluminum, iron, titanium, etc. It seems to me that the moon would make for a good floating semiconductor fab, and eventually, data center. It would be great for making large structures for spacecraft, since the materials are right, and the lower gravity makes it much cheaper to get the parts into space.

It doesn't make sense for a ton of people to live there, since we would have to bring all of our own carbon, which is kind of important for biological life.
> There was a car on that train that was on fire for at least 20 miles before the derailment

Do you have a link talking about this? Any timeline I read online just mentions the derailment around 9p, nothing about a car fire prior to derailment. Thanks.
You may consider VoIP phones. When a phone boots up on a network segment the DHCP process comes into play. This process is a Layer 2 process. The DHCP packet could contain a boot server field (this is typical) so the VoIP phone can grab configuration.
One may want the boot server info "isolated" from other network segments. Utilizing VLANs is one way to do this. Additionally, it is typical that QoS is applied at Layer 2 (something necessary for real-time protocols like VoIP).
And Karan Thapar is now "jobless" (in the sense that no reputed media house is willing to work with him because of pressure from the government) too -

- Why Modi Walked Out in 2007 and the BJP Now Shuns Me: https://thewire.in/books/narendra-modi-karan-thapar-intervie...

- How India's ace journalist was punished for confronting Prime Minister Modi: https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/how-india-s-ace-journalist...

Recently, NDTV also saw some high-profile senior editors and journalists exit after Adani (Modi's crony capitalist buddy) bought it.
What about game consoles?
Are there any Taler exchanges that allow you to transfer real currency into Taler? The current website makes it sound like Taler is now a working service in the present, rather than a promising technology in development (which is how I've always thought of it), but I can't figure out how to use it other than the toy currency demo.
The "most union friendly president in history" just signed a law making it illegal for the union workers to strike, and forced them to accept the terms they had already rejected. Who the fuck are we supposed to vote for if this is what we get with the people who are supposed to care about regulation?
Pretty much every time I finish typing something I end with ctrl+S. Its muscle memory from the old days, but now it triggers vs code to format whatever I just wrote, which is a convenient side effect.
A unique bag for tennis or squash. startup
Nope. No one has to or is policing the links people chat about on IRC. Why? Because the server isn't saving state and hosting it. It's all in people's clients. It cuts the gordian knot of content moderation.
Is it not centralized around the exchange provider? I'm just checking into it now. There's also a strong emphasis around KYC/AML and regulatory compliance generally.

Presumably the exchange provider would be able to recover a wallet based on the KYC?
That was my first word on the subject.

Just thought I'd pull the quote from your link that says the opposite of what you're saying. It may have originally come from statistics, altbough I don't think that's the case. The Wikipedia article certainly doesn't say so.
I never said I like all their products, but you just described how microsoft absolutely nailed the enterprise business here.

> use their crap for 25 years. This is the status quo and no one complains too hard because they assume this is right and normal

isn't that quite an amazing feat? this is what I mean. and tbh there is no sign that it will stop in the near future actually - again the opposite of googles future.
While I do think there is some degree of clout-seeking in how grievances often get aired, I don't think it's fair to tell people to "use the appropriate channels" -- that's just a way for issues to get ignored and for the status quo to get upheld where in a lot of cases the status quo is not working for many people in the LGBTQ community. It's really only through this kind of very in-your-face way that anything changes. Whether you would like those changes or not is up to you, but it's not fair to tell people to stick to neat little siloes so people can free to just ignore their issues easily.
We need a return to WYSIWYG principles. Any metadata stored in a file should be shown to the user in some way, to make them aware of that metadata existing. And if the metadata is incomprehensible to the user, then maybe it shouldn't be stored at all. There shouldn't be any surprises. If a file has an embedded thumbnail preview of itself which could become out of sync with the main image data, both should be shown to the user so they have an opportunity to notice it.
> Peacetime CEO spends time defining the culture. Wartime CEO lets the war define the culture.

Beautifully put.

I knew there was some reason why I'm so irresistibly drawn to books about warfare.

Patton in WW II was the quintessential wartime general. Even though it WAS a war, his style was too much for Eisenhower. Until the Battle of the Bulge.
So it is fascism in all but name? Gotcha.
Wrong. The model CAN be characterized as a strategy. Why? Because there are better strategies that can be executed. A model is just a description, a strategy is a method for winning. Some methods are better then others.

Given zero information about your surroundings other then the fact of whether you are currently in a shade or currently not in a shade traveling in a straight line is a mathematically better strategy.

Why? Because random walk includes the possibility of going back to the same place of where there is no shade while traveling in a straight line guarantees every move is a new location.
This you? https://isdotnetopen.com/

After .NET Core I was one of the people that really thought "maybe Microsoft has changed at least in the .NET division, let's not be prejudiced, if they want to make FOSS let's give it a try". But of course they showed their hand and I'd have to be a fool to believe this is a platform worth investing myself in.

It's even killed my enthusiasm with F#, despite it almost growing into its own thing after how much MS has neglected it.
> Any other vehicle and we would hold the worker accountable for not refusing such a negligent order.

Say the worker refuses that order and their boss says "okay, you're fired". Would we also give that worker legal protection? Would we also hold accountable the higher ups who gave that order and set the policies for how trains are to be run? If not, then you now understand why the accident happened.
This reads like marketing blurb but it's really like that. It just does everything you might need it to.
I think HAL9000 was caught in a logical fallacy. He didn't explode, but...
There's still no agreed upon "template language" that is markup only in HTML. (That's what the above comments refer to as "Template Instantiation".) So while that template tag looks juicy it still doesn't actually do much of anything without JS. Except for possible the small set of web components where the internal markup is the exact same for every instance of the web component, maybe.
>removing humans from kill decisions

Is how we get SkyNet.
I'm not, but I'm in contact with a Uyhur as well as a non-Uyghur Xinjiang resident, and I've researched this topic for a long time. See also my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34789836

TLDR: heavy-handed anti-terrorism response, even if it deserves criticism, is not at all the same as "millions in concentration camps", "forced labor" or even "genocide". Many allegations you read in the media are grave distortions of reality for the purpose of geopolitical attacks and fostering consent for a war against China.
Putting aside the product concerns, from my recent Xoogler perspective, they absolutely need a new CEO.

Start with a chaotic management style that is constantly reorg'ing and forcing manager changes. I had three managers and four reorgs during my under two years. (YMMV by team but I've heard of others even in product areas who've experienced similar.) You never know when you'll be pulled from a project, projects are developed and then handed-off vs. letting the builders continue to improve them, and promo becomes a political fantasy as you shift around.

Reorgs are a fact of enterprise life, but the frequency of them at Google is a huge sign of lack of strategic direction and bad planning. Absorbing HUGE numbers of new employees into this constantly shifting structure is a recipe for disaster. (OTOH, documentation tends to be very good.) And buying up tons of real estate when so many people either WFH full time or are hybrid? Crazy.

Then there's the way projects are managed. I never thought I'd miss JIRA so much. There are always too many cooks in the kitchen and everlasting approval processes.

To all the amazingly smart, dedicated, and user-focused people still there - you rock. To the board - time to shake things up.

[edit - fixed typo]
I think one of the clear lessons of ChatGPT is that the line between word prediction and intelligence (for some definition) is somewhat blurry.
Not sure when you checked, but right now it's literally nowhere to be found on Bloomberg. I count three stories on shooting down UFOs, though, and one on comedians finding side hustles as babysitters.
I've done some VBA for work. If I build an Excel file with SharpCells and send them to someone who doesn't have it. What happens when they open it? From what I understand, .NET is pretty easy to decompile. Is it possible to make a SharpCells F# to VBA translation before saving?
Glad to see GNU Taler continuing to make progress. Their focus on banks is nice but given the current regulatory posture in the US it seems like digital cash won't be inside banks any time soon.

Disclaimer: I built https://webcash.org/ as something people can use immediately. It has some important differences from Taler and it's not quite the same, nor using the Chaumian blinding technique and not backed by an institution or "peg".
Microsoft appears to believe they can market with a message extremely close to "Our AI technology will provide you with 100% accurate facts and summaries", and then apologists (like your post) come along and say "well, come on, nobody really thinks that".

No, it's not realistic to expect AI to be correct about anything, especially when that "AI" isn't built to give a fuck about correctness. But tell that to the proponents of "chatgpt everywhere".
This is part of it. It's also well understood within Google that the way to get promo and move up (and secure your job...lack of 'upward momentum' means you'll be first on the chopping block) is to launch. Getting 'stuck' doing maintenance and incremental improvements is a death knell for your career. Thus the pattern of big flashy product launch, followed by stagnation and eventual cancellation.
At one point I wore a hat in a IT leadership role for factories. We hated third party software because it created silo's where our data became un-usable. There is no point in an MRP/ERP factory system if all the bits aren't talking/working together. People fight and fight you as you try to get there, but once you get there and it all starts to work together and you no longer have jobs travelers looking like daisies with escalations all over they get it and their life gets significantly better.
My biggest problem with .NET, is how fast it's moving. Slow down! Also increase LTS support timelines. Default is 3 years, which is just not enough. Ubuntu LTS is the model to follow.

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/support/policy/d...

We've still got code running on .NET Framework 4.8 (supported, I think?)

We've still got code running on .Net Core 3.1 (now out of support)

We are moving to .NET 6, but given our own 6 month release cycles, and layoffs, I'm not sure we can keep up.
If we use the Atari 2600 as a (very!) rough benchmark for publicly available video games, the medium as we know it has been around for about 46 years. [1]

Given that movie theaters sprang up in the early 20th century, [2] you could make the argument that video games haven't even reached their equivalent of the French New Wave yet. Given how far someone can go with a little bit of self-taught asset creation, I think the best video games will be made after you and I have passed away.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie_theater
Nadella has done a better job than Ballmer but don't overrate him too much! He has many major failures on his watch. Microsoft has been very effectively buying a warm reputational glow with developers by splashing money around, but that's all relative to their previous state. It's still a company with a lot of problems:

- With the exception of VS Code, the Microsoft things developers like are purchased or just catching up with where competitors were 20 years ago e.g. GitHub, Minecraft, OpenAI, Windows Terminal, WSL.

- There's a top thread today on HN all about how much people hate Teams. Teams is an abomination yet forms the central pillar of their collaboration strategy; how can they have executed so badly that people seriously say they'd rather quit their job if it's introduced than deal with its terrible design?

- Windows has totally rotted away on Nadella's watch. The execution failure here is total. Does Nadella even use Windows himself? It's still critical infrastructure for much of the world but the entire Windows platform has no vision, no ideas and has become (just like Teams) mind-blowingly buggy. Absolutely nothing they introduced in the last 15 years or so actually works properly. A good measure of the totality of Nadella's failure here is that Microsoft's new apps are all Electron based and Edge is a fork of Chrome i.e. they institutionally prefer to use Google's code to their own. Also they apparently hand out MacBooks to new employees!

- Visual Studio was once dominant in its space but is now apparently considered a writeoff, so VS Code is a totally different app written from scratch.

- .NET has experienced major product and branding churn that has left anyone not fully committed to the ecosystem confused about what it is and can do e.g. .NET Core vs Framework. .NET isn't a failure but it doesn't seem to be growing or exciting devs either, and in terms of core R&D they've been blown away by the work Oracle is doing with Graal.

- Azure is very successful but is showing worrying signs of the same bugs-and-tech-debt problems that plagues the rest of their products. When I had to use Azure, I was constantly amazed at how even basic things were flaky or did not work. Like even just holding open TCP connections between machines wouldn't work properly. This is despite the fact that Microsoft was able to built out Azure seemingly only by raiding the rest of the firm for talent, hence the Windows brain drain. Also cloud is becoming strongly associated with cost disease, which opens up a possible weakness in future (in fairness, a problem shared with AWS and GCP).

- HoloLens is cool but does anyone use it?

Nadella fixed the monolithic our-way-or-the-highway approach, which allowed them to import tech from elsewhere to fix their weaknesses. But compare that to Apple, which consistently doubles down on its own tech stack and has become even more successful with the monolithic integrated approach and it's hard not to see this as something Nadella was forced into rather than some great act of leadership.
> Certainly don't miss those hours of waiting

I think you mean 2 decades. I haven't waited an hour for anything to download since I used to grab bootleg concerts that were very poorly seeded in the early/mid aughts.