skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wooden and Plastic Cutting Boards (2005) [pdf]
There's also a problem of dataset size. the 7900XTX maxes out at 24GB when a lot of new models require the higher-end 80GB A100 variants. The A100 is also a server-grade card, so even spec-for-spec it's not a fair comparison.
This is what I find the most surprising. I was under the impression that ChatGPT was still "research" and wouldn't be ready for prime time for a while. These rushed products that don't live anywhere near up to the hype seem like they will sour public opinion on it.
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> But I’ve already used GPT to write thank you note and create a blog post, and I’ve used midjourney to create stock photos.

Neither of those are searching for information, though, which is a very different use case.

If 95% of the time GPT writes a great thank you note, that's very useful. If 95% of the time Midjourney gives me a good stock image, that's great! If 95% of the time GPT gives me a correct search result, that's horrible, because I now have to fact-check every time I do a search; I can no longer trust the output.

Unfortunately Microsoft didn't realize this and may have just bought itself a $10 billion parlor trick machine.
Google isn't going to suffer severe business consequences for (temporarily) losing dominance in the "AI integrated search" field, because the revenue from that field is effectively NaN compared to Google's current revenue. They might hypothetically suffer if AI integrated search grows to become a major fraction of the existing Search revenue and Google fails to deploy their massive existing ML/AI resources to match Bing/OpenAI's unpatented, non-secret and easily-replicated techniques. And big firms have made such strategic errors in the past! But none of that is going to happen in the short term.
Probably go in on a hog with some 4H group. A lot of my coworkers in smalltown/semirural areas will raise pigs. Not sure if it would be a violation to see hog maw (had to google, now I want some) but probably nobody would care.
> I find that a major portion of people fear the possibility so much that they’re unable to entertain the probability.

you may feel this, but in reality these people might have heard "its aliens" for 50+ years and are fed up with people jumping to conclusions without actual evidence.

and no, shooting down unknown objects is not evidence.
Might be a mix of sound and touch sensation, too. As you move through the hallway, you push the air in front of you, creating patterns of airflow around you. As you walk past them, closed doors will impact the airflow roughly the same way as hallway wall. Open doors, however, will have a significantly different reaction - perhaps strong enough to feel it on your skin.
Teleport looks like the best solution for the job. Thanks!
Corporations Are Deceiving the Public to 'Greenwash Their Brand' [pdf]
Not only new products.

At this point, they're doing a very poor job of maintaining their core, legacy products. Search, their bread and butter, has been going downhill for years -- and is practically unusable today.

They've been slipping, bigtime.
"And above all things, a prince ought to live amongst his people in such a way that no unexpected circumstances, whether of good or evil, shall make him change; because if the necessity for this comes in troubled times, you are too late for harsh measures; and mild ones will not help you, for they will be considered as forced from you, and no one will be under any obligation to you for them."

Sundar is the Ballmer of Google, and maybe the Jassy of Amazon.
That’s not all, and that might be true, but that’s an example of how consultants in some cases do earn their pay. That being said, they generally don’t seem to.
If society got pissed off enough about your unused guitar, you betcher ass they'd pass a law taxing it. It's not The Government you're up against--it's The People!
The cause was an overheated wheel bearing melting and dislodging the axle, causing a derailment.

The overheating was detected, and ignored. The quote is, as I recall, "The next sensor will detect it if it's a problem."

Could the electric brakes have helped? Not sure in this specific case. In other cases? Probably. Air brakes are remarkably cool technology (how the valves work still boggles me from time to time) but they are still, in the end, civil war era technology that's probably due for an upgrade.
Aliens doesn’t mean tip of the spear of an alien invasion force.
Could just be some alien scientists who managed to scrape together a bit of grant money sending out cheap disposable probes to various systems to collect data.
As someone who just moved to The Netherlands, this bugs me as well. Many of my interviews happened over Teams, which should have been red flag. Luckily, my IT department is small enough that we can use Discord for general chat and some video calls, if we don't need high resolution, but we still have to use Teams to interact with the rest of the company.
How is the CDRT work going for https://tinybase.org/ ?
Get Started with Open Source Formal Verification [video]
And has solar arrays on it?
Someone somewhere will call this the lost decade of Google. But they will bounce back i think. The current reaction is impulsive, not surprising for the internet age.
It defies known and well understood physics.
I'm guessing this is just a rebranded DSO

https://jyetech.com/dso-138-oscilloscope-diy-kit/
I just look for ones with a rk322x chip and use this image:

https://forum.armbian.com/topic/12656-csc-armbian-for-rk322x...
Depends on the competency. I'd venture Accenture has done half of all SAP major implementations in the world. For popular software packages, there are typically project testimonials from dozens of other fortune 500 companies, and there is usually a "Gold-Partner" type guarantee from the software vendor themselves. When the consultancy messes up, they risk losing the Partner label or tier.

https://www.sap.com/partners/find.html

https://pf-prod-sapit-partner-prod.cfapps.eu10.hana.ondemand...

Obviously this works for popular packages with defined success criteria, but that is a lot of business for consultancies already, and i'd argue, a great reason to go with a consultancy.
Googlers quipped Sundar made an oopsie and is annoyed sound good?
Microsoft will forcibly remove Internet Explorer from most Windows 10 PCs today
The criticism is valid. It was a pre-recorded demo with 3 bullets and they got one wrong. Easily could have fact checked it before publishing it.

It would have been forgivable in a live demo, but they didn't do one because they "lost"[0] the phone.

0 - There's a chance they didn't do the demo on purpose because it wasn't ready.
It is so fun to write applications with.
I like to give pandoc and xmonad as examples
The reaction to the layoffs is a good example of this.

Lots of CEOs in the past have conducted layoffs pretty much the same way-- notify everyone at the same time (per local laws) and write an email blaming themselves as the cause.

Yet the media ran article after article for almost 2 weeks with personal stories about how people felt particularly slighted by Google, when they did it pretty much the same way as other companies.

Amongst 12,000 people at any point in time, they will be doing normal life things-- like feeding their baby at 2am-- when they got the email. Yet somehow this became the basis of so many "Google doesn't care about its employees" stories.
Some projects were launched to suffocate solutions blocking Google's revenue. Google Reader depopularizing RSS is one example.
C# for sure
In Github's analysis of fasting growing language they state that Hashicorp Configuration Language was the fastest from 2021 to 2022. In 2021 from Jetbrains it is in the top five of languages to adopt and or replace. I would like to see the data that MIT is using to figure out their thesis.

https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/
I stopped using google and almost don't use SO for programming related searches, my daily driver is chatGPT even when sometimes it gives bad answers.
Chatbots were useless garbage from the get go and I hated them and NFT is, well NFT.
I love the ideas behind both these languages, even though in their approach they are complete opposites.
Kroger API Examples How To
Let's not forget "Gong Show".
Why the human genome was never completed
Defining “NFT” in Historical Context
I think the argument is that OP wants the hammer factory to focus on making hammers. Reality is more subtle than that, but I have some sympathy for the argument.

When the Ukraine war broke out last year, several popular Rust packages were eager to proselytize about how much they support Ukraine. That turned me off. Apparently there is also a lot of LGBTQ activism in the official Rust foundation too, but I don't know much about it.
Out of ~20 engineers, we have about 4 that have unrestricted access to production. A couple more have read only I believe to one of the databases.

I also have direct knowledge of a couple of other startups, similar size of 20-30 people in engineering, and they are about the same, no more than ~6 people.

In most cases, people really shouldn't be accessing production, it should mainly be deployment tasks that do. But you need a certain number of people to have access to cover failures etc. For example, having at least 4 people provides coverage if one person is on vacation, and then another gets sick etc.

I've read other companies basically have every engineer has production access to what they deploy, not sure I agree with that approach but I can see the argument.
Because management is 95% managing people. And managing people is the hard part of the job.
>please assume good faith
...
>Try arguing in good faith
Which is in fact the exact same thing that regular ATM operators do.
Good point, but what is the comparative effort for both of those rewrites making similar performance improvements, and what skill level in the coder is needed to realize those similar improvements?

E.g., will the C++ rewrite for X improvement take longer, or require a more highly skilled programmer, or would the Rust programmer require some high level of expertise to yield the results but a junior C++ guy/gal could knock it out quickly?

Has anyone done real comparisons of this sort, such as taking software package X and assigning a performance rewrite to a junior Rust dev, a senor Rust dev, a junior C++ dev and a senior C++ dev, giving each a couple weeks then checking the yielded performance?

Also, how does this interact on teams? It's been a long time since I've written any C++, and I've not tried Rust, but it seems some of the Rust safety features make it harder for devs to step on each other's toes.
Journalism has been like that for a while now.

Sometimes it's just as bad as when the media quotes a random tweet from a nobody as their source for "the people" or "the public".
"Over 80% of this assembly is a heatsink to dissipate massive power."

Not what heatsinks do.
If you get one model up and runnning, getting a couple dozen of them up and running is easy. 2GB and 4 cores per node is not too shabby either. My last Pi-based cluster has Pi Zero's as nodes, with single puny core with a very minimal 512MB per node.
It should not be seen as business as usual when these kinds of things happen. It was at least tolerable due to my ignorance when you talked about these chemicals boiling off, but then to say "no biggie that petroleum spilled everywhere, I'm sure it burned off too."

The whistle has been blown on the rails and the rail companies for some time, and now a catastrophe has occurred.

We should be severely punishing the rail companies if not nationalizing them. We should make sure every citizen is taken care of and their homes are safe to live in.

I don't have to believe in a conspiracy theory to be angry at negligence causing an environmental disaster in a city.
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This was a personal project for the month of January and now something I'm using regularly. Hope it might be of use to others too, and would love constructive feedback.
Please show me exactly where I said otherwise.

Read the comment thread you just replied to and tell me how any of what you just said is relevant to me correcting the sentence "Bing isn't dominating anything haha."
Your describing the outcomes of the old "perf" performance review system. Cultural issues like that are hard, but not impossible, to change. GRAD changes things, but as long as promotions are tied to shipping new projects and not excellence in maintaining those launches we will continue to see this behavior.
And what makes it so safe the tech or the government regulations?
The point, which seems pretty clear to me, is that if you are going to dramatically disrupt the lives of 7000 people while reporting profits in the tens of billions of dollars, 19% higher than the previous year[0], you are cruelly exploiting the pain of others in pursuit of needless profit. If you then show up late to meetings and make jokes about it before jetting off to an extended vacation most of us will never have the wealth to experience, you further reveal that you have no regard for what you've done to the 7000 people whose careers you've sacrificed to juice your quarterly bonus.

This is more than "perhaps inconsiderate," it is pointlessly cruel, a mark of someone completely out of touch with his current and former employees, an indicator of someone who puts profit above literally everything else, which is not okay.

0. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CRM/salesforce/gro...
I think that muddies the water a bit too much and relies on too much magic. Self might be weird, but it's one of the most central concepts in python. Especially if someone is coming from javascript. Dataclasses don't quite follow the same rules as regular classes, especially with inheritance. I think waiting to understand decorators is a good call.
It's not aliens because we wouldn't have made a dent let alone "shot it down"
Aftermath of a poor period for Google overall. From the outside, Pichai's Google looks very much like Ballmer's Microsoft: a company still milking profits generated by yesterday's innovation, but unable to produce genuinely-new stuff.
Noob question: Can HTMX be used together with hyperfiddle?
Google it's way bigger than an LLM. I don't think they need a new CEO.
I think we just ignited the AI Poisoning bomb. Future system will have a harder time to be trained, because their datasets will be poisoned. Wrote up my thoughts about this a few weeks ago when ChatGPT started https://blog.libove.org/posts/ai-posioning/
The scale is conveniently ignored a lot of the time. The model can analyze art far faster than any person can appreciate the same volume.
I get fatigued when people at bars or parties try to preach at me about how alien life is obviously behind the UFOs and if I don't believe them I'm a "sheep". Same goes for the wave of girls who think they're witches because they bought Tarot cards off Amazon.

It's depressing how uneducated, gullible people think they're clever for having "super secret" info no one else has.
Reminds me of news articles that quote a couple tweets with 2 likes and no retweets and declare that this is what the people really think.
I would even say that I can see no reason creating/distributing/etc. of pornography should be legal at all.
If I am an advanced civilization I might not see nukes as a threat to my own people. I might see it as a strange behavior, that a planet would destroy itself in attempt to harm me. In such a case I might just stealth visit the planet and nobody would be any wiser.
It doesn't have to be one or the other :). OCaml and Haskell are two great languages that the Rust designers were familiar with.

The big thing IMO that makes Rust feel like Haskell is the pervasive use of traits and `#[derive(...)]` which is directly analogous to the pervasive use of typeclasses and `deriving` in Haskell.
> It was pretty much the same level of KYC/AML you needed to transact at Coinbase or Kraken, but you could input or receive actual paper cash, which seems to have upset the regulator so those machines went away as well as the no-KYC ones.

I assumed they went away because they combined the fat markups of bitcoin ATMs with the KYC inconvenience of Coinbase.
Libraries like libjpeg solve one non-trivial problem and have been around forever and don't change very quickly. An implementation can be done by hand but it usually doesn't make sense to do so because the library has been around and stable long enough to be able to presume that it does it in a more performant way and is aware of possible gotchas that it avoids. A database is a large enough project that writing one every time you need one doesn't make any sense. It's probably more work than whatever you are working on. Using one that has been around for a while and that doesn't change quickly makes sense.

Grabbing a quick javascript library to do something relatively trivial that is going to bring in megabytes of supporting libraries whose provenance is unknown and that change often is a completely different matter.
Boy if they only used Rust, then these curl commands that no one would ever enter would have been memory safe.
> which can cause headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems.... can make people dizzy and drowsy

I also love this phrasing that talks about the immediate uncomfortable reactions, but makes no mention on the extremely serious long-term implications of exposure.

These chemicals won't just make you feel unpleasant in the moment, they'll kill you in the long run.
My example didn't demonstrate the subtlety here, but it inspired your example, which of course does demonstrate some subtlety. And as I acknowledged in another comment, I of course agree there are subtleties to closures in Rust! And I agree there are useful nightly features that unlock additional use cases. Rust gives you enough rope to hang yourself with. For example, if you're okay with a heap allocation (like I assume you might be in a language with "non-broken closures" lol), then you don't need nightly Rust:

fn adder(x: i32) -> impl Fn(i32) -> Box<dyn Fn(i32) -> i32> {
move |y| Box::new(move |z| y + x + z)
}

fn main() {
let add23 = adder(2)(3);
assert_eq!(10, add23(5));
assert_eq!(13, add23(8));
}

It's almost like "fundamentally broken" (not just "broken" but "fundamentally broken") and "has subtlety" are two totally different things. What a fucking revelation.
They're not saying it's the best strategy. It's obviously not the best strategy. The bug can't see anything in there.
Do you think there is a rise in fascist actions and rhetoric in India? And that the majority of Indians are threatened by this?

Thanks for correcting me on OBC and Dalits. The framework is definitely problematic. And it adds another layer of complexity to racial, religious, and economic demographics. Thanks for prompting me to learn more about this.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2021/06/29/attitudes-ab...
I've been writing some typescript lately. I had gotten a bit bored about Rust but oh man. The weakness of TS makes me really appreciate the sort of invisible things Rust does right.
This is weird, I just had this conversation the other day and wrote a comment in another google story on HN that sundar is not doing a good job and will be replaced soon.

They need someone that can turn around GCP and productize their self driving platform. I believe the privacy regulations about their search business are now unstoppable and so they should let it happen and adapt
Jesus is going to descend from the heavens. The Second Coming!

We'll send him to the bottom of Hudson Bay.
So if I sign a 12 month lease, you can't decline to renew my lease at 12 months? All leases are indefinite?
Mark is the board, he can do whatever he wants.
Nobody but actual tinfoil hats are saying ”it’s definitely aliens”. Nobody is jumping to conclusions. It’s all probabilities, and disregarding a possibility without evidence to contrary despite its improbability is, to my eye, as naive as their counter opposites.
Genuine question, because I just realized I don't know.

Is the obsession with aliens/UFO's a human thing, or just an American thing?

Like is the average person from France, Nigeria, or China just as excited about "ooh what if they're aliens?" Are human beings in general so captivated by extraterrestrial contact that shooting down balloons immediately tantalizes them? Or does the rest of the world go, "oh those loony Americans who've been watching too many movies."

If you said "Area 51" to people outside of North America, does it mean anything at all? And if so, is it just a joke?
Also: if you live in a non-swing state, consider voting in the primary of whichever party is most likely to win the election, even if that isn't the party you'll likely vote for. AIUI although you can't vote in more than primary you can still vote for whomever you want in the regular election regardless of which primary you voted in.

The idea being that in such states (mostly red or mostly blue), the primary effectively is the election, since the minority party has such little chance of winning the final election.
As should be your reaction to any new product or service, since that is how innovation works. Things are introduced to the marketplace, and most will fail.
You can pretty much take US tech salaries and divide them by two, and you get something that's pretty typical in western Europe.
Well that's just it I don't believe it's inferior. And most Americans will gey their kids into some kind of sport if they can afford it. As the saying goes: a good kid is a tired kid.
Because it's extremely misleading. They're invoking the name of the Bhopal disaster even though they seem to know that the actual toxin released in that disaster (methyl isocyanate) is not one of the chemicals on the NS train (or one of their products, as far as I know). Instead, they're talking about the chemicals "stored at" the Bhopal disaster, which may make the comment technically true (I don't know) but very very misleading since those chemicals had nothing to do with the mass death for which the incident is infamous.
Which is based on the famous Don Delillo novel. This reads a bit like describing LotR as "that movie with Viggo Mortensen".
If oligarchs spend tens of billions of dollars buying media companies in order to influence how people vote, what does that say about the importance of voting?
This is because Google immediately cut access to those people and treated them like personas non grata. It was a pretty bad layoff.
I wouldn't be surprised if big tech has a hand in it. There's a need to improve reputation and trust online and I think big tech is planning to use their new passwordless systems to marry identity and trust in a way that will make them the arbiters of identity and trustworthiness via attestation.

It'll start with having no passwords to remember, but before you know it parts of the internet will quit working if you don't have a big tech company vouching for you (not a bot, is an adult, etc.). As long as you log in with your Microsoft/Google/Apple account everything will be great, but if you don't nothing will work.

Non-tech people will be easily convinced with claims that logging in everywhere ensures bots and bad actors are excluded while "good" users can surf anywhere without hitting captchas, etc..
If I were the EU, I would perhaps consider slapping restrictions on Google's Chat AI (say, Bard) as being a separate field (AI-Assisted Search) being propped up by a monopoly in Standard Search. That would hurt Google's dominance quicker than any other action. Same for the DOJ.

Remember how much trouble Microsoft got into for having a basic monopoly on desktops with Windows, and trying to bundle Internet Explorer? Replace Windows with Standard Google, and Internet Explorer with AI-based Google Search. You'll cut Google off at the knees with that move. And even if they survive the ~4-5 years litigation, they'll be severely hampered, kind of like how Microsoft was with the mobile phone market.