skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We moved to a place with excellent well water a few years ago. When I drink water in a restaurant now... well, I don't. 99% of the water I've tried in restaurants tastes disgusting.
I know nothing about India’s politics but Russia’s legal system is explicitly structured in the way that makes you break laws every step of the way so that law enforcement can be applied selectively
you could not imagine how little responsibility, care, and general competence was displayed by leaders on the all-company call today.

We were told that reliability issues will be fixed by going slower. Feature delivery targets are not changed though. The amount of engineering time planned for reliability work is 0%.
If you read their tone, EU political integration is a negative aspect.

I'm saying that a) it was always the plan and b) it's good.
I tried using it to do research and Bing confidently cited pages that didn't mention the material it claimed it found
Your take reminds of the below meme, which perfectly captures the developing situation as we get a better sense of LLM capabilities.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/112bfxu/i_dont_get...
Portainer can poll your git repo and supports webhooks. I went with portainer early on and haven't looked back.
It can summarize its own output, the user directs everything about the output, style, format, length, etc. Everything.
For my wife, it was the fact that our kids all had tongue and cheek/mouth ties. As soon as those were cut, they nursed normally. We'd asked at the hospital if our kids had tongue ties, and their rubric was, "Can your kid make a taco tongue? If they can, then they don't have a tongue tie." It turns out that this is not the case. According to modern American medicine, tongue ties don't exist, and if they did exist, your kid will get over them, and anyway here's a bottle, good luck. After we took our kids to a specialist to fix their tongue ties, they went from nursing and crying all night long, to nursing for 15 minutes and sleeping normally. Tongue ties are a thing. If your kid is exhausted from trying to nurse all night and can't get full, then they might have a tongue tie.
I never said anything about rigging trials, and you know I didn't. Ensuring a fair trial goes way beyond simply not rigging it. Hyperbole and dishonesty don't make for good discussion. If you want to learn more about the ethics of being a lawyer and the fundamental principles underlying the fair administration of justice, I encourage you to listen to the experts in that field rather than propagating snark.
I know it exists, but I don't know what form the medication is in.

But I know it's so ubiquitous it is in the water.
Ask HN: What does a salary represent within a salary band?
I had an interesting conversation today about salaries and salary bands.

In summary, there were two points of view.

One defended that a salary should represent the responsibilities of the employee for the role within the salary band. In other words, if you barely meet the requirements for the role you would be in the lower end, but if you meet most of what's expected you would be in the upper end.

Contrary to this was the second point of view. In this case, the defenders argued that your salary only represent your "negotiation skills". In other words, the salary will be based on the initial negotiation before joining rather than on performance.

I'm curious about what do you think about this. What does a salary within a salary band mean for you?
Maybe I should watch that movie again - I saw it in the theater, but all I recall of it at this late date is wishing it had less Haley Joel Osment in it and that it was an hour or so less long.
This. And not just Google's servers, but anyone's servers.
This kind of reminds me of the (very beautiful) beginning of Diaspora, by Greg Egan, in which a nascent machine/human intelligence emerges from a chaotic, abstract virtual machine.
> the failure to clock higher was IMO largely due to a ridiculously bloated and over-complicated ISA.

Perhaps mostly due to having too many architected registers AND making most of them rotating/part of register windows... that means more work to do per instruction. Wide superscalar => you need lots and lots of forwarding paths between the ALUs. Combined with no out of order execution to allow for spreading that work out a bit (longer latencies per instruction but largely hidden by other work) and you get hard limits on the clock speed.

The ISA wasn't actually that bloated.
It absolutely does change you. Seeing people degrade themselves for money has a corrosive effect on your soul, and it's worse when you're getting off on it. It is inherently evil. That there is harm being inflicted is obvious to anyone who hasn't been so desensitized to it that it doesn't register anymore. The willingness of an individual to degrade themselves for money has nothing to do with whether they are being degraded.
Leverage Uber Zap/Zerolog's marshal methods to contain PII/ingestion costs
What does that have to do with using ads for email targeting?
Then bing is more inspired by HALL 9000 than by the three laws of robotics.

In other workds, by noew, as of 2023 Arthur C Clarke works are better depiction of future than Asimov ones.
Yeah, especially if you make good friends while you're there.
A less dystopian version can be had in the Bobiverse series. Love those books!
Didn't think this was controversial.
I'm just citing one example from the many. India as an entity has been dissolved and established multiples times in the history. British came at the weak period of India, essentially during a long civil war that was going on across the whole subcontinent.
Russia invaded another country and yet 91% of firms operating in that country continue to do so, despite the supposedly crippling sanctions.

https://www.politico.eu/article/majority-of-western-companie...

Why would a comparatively insignificant transgression like this raid scare off investors?
To all those naysayers that claim there is no present use for "cryptocurrency", we present "use of crypto for untraceable ransom payments". One could almost imagine regulating crypto for public policy reasons.
This is data sovereignty at work.
Add one more to the pile. Seriously, though, why all the Google hate all of a sudden? It didn't seem like it was that much more mismanaged than any other big tech company.
Crossbeam (https://docs.rs/crossbeam/latest/crossbeam/channel/index.htm...) provides a high performance and ergonomic MPMC channel. As of the latest release of Rust it's now the basis for the MPSC channel in the stdlib.
The news media is looking for new news, not old news. An ally killing someone in their embassy is new news; a regime of disrepute killing protestors is the same old story.

It's the same reason why election fraud in the US or Europe gets coverage when it's just a couple votes, but Russia's elections don't get much coverage. Everyone knows Russia's elections are a joke, but someone getting arrested for voting their deceased relative's ballot is unexpected.

It's not a measure of importance, it's a measure of newness.
The cost of routing a fiber line is extraordinary. Even if one existed nearby, it would not be usable because it's owned by the utility not this private server company.

Regarding keeping the existing heating element - seems necessary because this server water heater isn't going to heat much of anything.

To flip it on it's head - this is free cooling capacity for a for-profit server company that will do little-to-zero for the home owner and risks damaging their expensive water heater for some hand-wavy promised savings of $200 a year... not really selling me.
I think one of the major advantages of ggplot2 is the ecosystem - often somebody has already implemented the figure type I'm looking for as a ggplot2 extension. This is not to say that ggplot2 or R are capable of plots that can't be achieved in python or matplotlib. Unfortunately for the type of plots I'm usually trying to make, it's more clearly laid out in R rather than python. Python tends to offer me far more friction. For example, I'm unaware of any python package that simplifies creating annotated heatmaps - like pheatmap or complexheatmap can produce. I'm sure matplotlib can make them with enough skill, but it's not my forte. I find it easier to drop down into R and just call pheatmap.
Microsoft exec: “my recent discussions with Steve Jobs" (1998)
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

It looks like you’re trying to take over the world - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30818895 - March 2022 (274 comments)
https://archive.org/details/dmca_20221007
Let's say though that we would now enter in a discussion where I would be certain that now is the year 2022 and you were certain that it is the year 2023, but neither has the ability to proove the fact to each other. How would we reconcile these different viewpoints? Maybe we would end up in an agreement that there is time travel :).

Or if I were to ask you that "Where is Avatar 3 being shown today?" and you should probably be adamant that there is no such movie, it is indeed Avatar 2 that I must be referring to, while I would be "certain" of my point of view.

Is it really that different from a human interaction in this framing?
Then Bing is more inspired by HALL 9000 than by the "Three Laws of Robotics".

Maybe Bing has read more Arthur C Clarke works Asimov ones.
Japan already did that in the 19th century when they were shopping around for foreign experts in industry and the military for their modernization. Not a stretch to do it again considering people involved in that process were still alive.
Yes, for humans! I don't want my car to murder me if it "thinks" I'm going to scrap it.
Original article discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34799308
I've found success in such cases by splitting the struct in question. This example is a bit contrived, but you could do something like:

self.counter.inc();

Where `self.counter` is a new struct that holds `x`. Because `counter` is its own struct field, I can call mutable methods on it while holding mutable references to other fields.

What I've found is that often the current "object" naturally decomposes into different parts each of which can have their own methods that only need to work with their particular subset of the fields.
The definition of minority shifts depending on who the dominant power is.
Most cars don't seem to fail because of structural damage. How relevant is repairability?

Is the expected material use and expected cost to the consumer more or less for repairable vs gigapress?
BingChat sounds eerily like Chat-GPP

https://alienencyclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Genuine_People_Per...
With the advancements of AI in the past year alone it seems silly to think that, within a lifetime, AI doesn’t have the ability to manifest society collapsing contagion. AI is certainly going to be granted more network access than it currently has, and the feedback loop between AI, people, and the network is going to increase exponentially.

Reduced to the sum of its parts, the internet is less than a magpie, yet viruses and contagion of many forms exist in it, or are spread though it. ChatGPT 2.0 greatly amplifies the effects of those contagion, regardless of our notions of what intelligence or agency actually is.
It's a nice, simple game - I assume to help with teaching RGB hex codes to students?

Though now we have OKLAB/OKLCH - currently in Safari, hopefully coming to your local browser soon - I'm hoping the industry can start moving away from named color strings and RGB hex codes. I've always struggled to visualise colors from hex codes, and the named colors lie to me (why, darkgray? Just ... why?). Plus having a reliable color system will keep designers happy and a happy designer makes my front end day job easier.

I made a gradient game based on OKLCH colors. Sadly it lacks the addiction factor, but it was an interesting exercise - https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/full/YzvYadX
Well its bound to happens when the said news outlet forgets to show the other side of the story, selectively missing on the nuance. I'm no fan of Modi, No fan of half truths either.
You know I agree with you, but I figured the public wasn't ready for it.

Thanks though!
Recent and related:

BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787782 - Feb 2023 (374 comments)
As a Xoogler, I was really annoyed that Google has massive layoffs while raking in so much profit. It shows a level of short-sightedness that went against the ideal Google culture mentioned in the original article.
I think Searle's Chinese Room argument is sophistry, for similar reasons to the ones you suggest—the proposition is that the SYSTEM understands Chinese, not any component of the system, and in the latter half of the argument the human is just a component of the system—but Searle does believe that quantum indeterminism is a requirement for consciousness, which I think is a valid response to the argument you've presented here.
Not sudden

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-did-i-leave-google-stay-s...

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/google-as-fat-...
Yep we easily connect to MSSQL and always from a static IP, so you should be able to whitelist. Our team will be happy to help if you run into any trouble.

Unfortunately we don't support signing in with MS365 accounts. But we do allow you to turn on "auto-join from my domain" so anyone with a verified email at your domain can automatically join your Equals account.
Quite surprised that they’re running that off 4G

I’ve found tech driven heating to work quite well though. For small apartments you really don’t need all that much output if it’s 24/7
> after Microsoft's refusal to support a new Intel 64-bit ISA

Back then, having Microsoft’s blessing could make or break an ISA. I can’t shake the feeling Itanium was being sold to the wrong crowd.
Pentium Pro come out a few years before the Alpha 21264.
Not breaking any of those rules, but it could be argued that y'all are breaking the one about tangential annoyances.

My comment was good. It provided primary source material and supplementary background material, then provided a clearly and explicitly marked summary of the content.
Ah yes thanks for the elaboration. That's what I meant by the spirit of Clojure.
Because there are finite resources on earth and we should strive for efficient uses of them, not for maximum Ford profit. Corporations only exist at society's pleasure, thanks the the support of society's government and the property law that government applies using it's monopoly on violence. There is no right to profit.
Is it possible to land a plane there mid-winter, if absolutely necessary? Obviously fraught with difficulty, and dangerous, but... is it possible?
Does the author not make the same point at the end of the article?

> Of course, none of this would ever happen.

> We should not be fooled by abstract relative measurements, which only serve to keep the focus on growth and efficiency.

It seems unreasonable to try to fix the myriad issues with global supply chain without adjusting the expectations and consumption habits.
One of the things we are learning is that semi-automated driving, where the car handles spacing and lane alignment.. can actually lead to more instances of drivers not paying attention.

Partially automating systems can be very dangerous because the human in the loop becomes a passive observer who automatically presses the approve button.

This happened with drone strikes in Iraq. We used a program to calculate movements of targets and classify them. The humans in the loop stopped critically thinking about the programs output and just started blindly approving everything it put forward as a target.
Every work contract I've signed, yes.

If I don't understand something I ask about it, or talk to the other party to have it clarified, re-worded, or removed.
Big companies generally do stick to their ToS.
Free Idea: ConEd/Conference Binder
I go to a lot of conference but I end up spending a lot of the time in side meetings and missing the continuing education that is available (required on pain of licensure and certification in my world). At a minimum I wish it was easier to make the links more obvious. I feel like there's a meta-opportunity for a company that tracks all your conference participations and makes sure you have access to the materials and get the max opportunity for ConEd. Like, if I could just budget an evening a week to ConEd and knew exactly where to find the aggregated supply, it would be so much easier.

I suspect there are only a couple companies providing the phone apps everyone uses at these conferences, surely there's a natural product opportunity here?
A friend managed the relationship between her diet and her baby's digestive happiness/distress with experimental care. Slowly expanding her dietary envelope; backing out unsuccessful additions; doing retries; retreating to a small core when there was non-determinism, etc. Careful documentation, timing, observation - I was impressed. She accumulated lists of foods which weren't working. Which isn't novel - there were various on the internet. They even overlap.

A thick booklet came in her mail. Part of the pregnancy ad deluge. It was a free cookbook, of easy to prepare recipes for the nursing mother. But curiously, the recipes overlapped with her causes-distress list. Like, massively overlapped. I was puzzled - how could this be? Then, in small print, on a back page: Nestlé.

I wonder how many of those they send out each year?
I didn't say 'trade', I said 'make transactions'. It's no more complex than Bing Chat being able to search the internet, or Siri being able to send JSON to an endpoint which turns lightbulbs on and off. Instead it's a shopping endpoint and ChatWhatever can include tokens related to approving transactions from your Bitcoin wallet and has your authorization to use it for purchases less than $100.
Your reference to orthorexia is extreme. There's nothing in the parent comment that would take my mind there. It's true that relatively few people realize how polluted drinking water has become - lead and other metals, PFAS, plastic particles - take your pick. I have a hard time understanding why any knowledgable person who can afford to do so wouldn't filter all or almost all of the water that they drink and cook with at home. OP also didn't mention distillation as a filtration method. A reverse osmosis filter with a remineralization stage is vastly more popular and a no brainer to install in any kitchen. If you do drink distilled water then you can supplement with an extra pinch or two per day of salt and minerals in your food and you will be fine.

Orthorexia and OCD tendencies are real and destructive but I'd be equally wary of normalizing the oftentimes highly toxic exposure of modern life to the point where anybody who express tangible concerns and takes meaningful countermeasures is pointed to as a potential basket case.
After Qualcomm, Google now has plans to to take on Intel and AMD
If only the Discord acquisition had gone through.
Why does the prime minister of a country I don't live in get to take videos down from servers hosted in the country I do?
If there were a flourishing market of indie apps on Android/Windows (since they don't have these restrictions), you would have a valid point and then Apple would need to compete.

What you have is 'I don't want to pay because Apple is rich'. That's not a valid argument. By your logic, all big profitable companies should either lower their prices (to what, I wonder, breakeven?) or be called greedy and bad.
> Jesus, what was the training set? A bunch of Redditors?

Lots of the text portion of the public internet, so, yes, that would be an important part of it.
Workspace data is silo'd off and treated separately.
Neither. It's just the result of a search process. A person with high performance can come out on the lower end, and vice versa. A terrible negotiator can come out on the higher end, and vice versa. It just depends on how things unfold. Obviously, if you're decent at negotiation and perform well, you should expect to end up on the higher end.
> A "promise" is not merely a pattern being recognized, it's word that stands in for a fundamental concept of the reality of the world around us.

It's probably even stronger than that: e.g. a promise is still a promise even if we're just brains in a vat and can be kept or broken even just in your mind (do you promise to think about X?—purely unverifiable apart from the subject of the promise, yet we still ascribe moral valence to keeping or breaking it).
A Brief Introduction to Nostr
Typing "What time is avatar showing today?" into an AI search engine is like the canonical use case for an AI search engine. It's what they would have on a promotional screenshot.
> The advancement in ~20 years is incredible.

Pretty much every 90s compact was putting down similar power numbers and got 80% the fuel economy...
I've been slowly reading this book on cognition and neuroscience, "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins.

The answer is: Yes, yes we are basically fancy auto-complete machines.

Basically, our brains are composed of lots and lots of columns of neurons that are very good at predicting the next thing based on certain inputs.

What's really interesting is what happens when the next thing is NOT what you expect. I'm putting this in a very simplistic way (because I don't understand it myself), but, basically: Your brain goes crazy when you...

- Think you're drinking coffee but suddenly taste orange juice

- Move your hand across a coffee cup and suddenly feel fur

- Anticipate your partner's smile but see a frown

These differences between what we predict will happen and what actually happens cause a ton of activity in our brains. We'll notice it, and act on it, and try to get our brain back on the path of smooth sailing, where our predictions match reality again.

The last part of the book talks about implications for AI which I haven't got to yet.
There's plenty of natural fibre based alternatives for a significant portion of plastic usage, otherwise reusable glass, ceramic, metal and wooden containers can fill a need, and be locally produced.

Trees can be farmed, and I would like to see pollarding and coppicing used for paper manufacture
Piss off the government and they'll mess with you.

Look how they did Trump and his cronies.
freindship?
It’s difficult to square creating both the most successful product and the most successful company in history with the idea Jobs heading the company into the abyss with the appliance model.
We moved to Montana when my child was a teen, and the dentist immediately remarked that my child must have grown up somewhere else because of her teeth being in such good condition.

Most local teens grew up on well water and their teeth suffered for it.
The author had worked at Microsoft for 12 years before starting the company that Google acquired. So, not only does he have a fair amount of experience from both sides, he's also worked at MS during its "lost decade" i.e. the Ballmer years.

The similarities between what MS was going through then and what Google is now facing is to me the most interesting aspect of the story. Whether you're printing money via OS or search monopoly, it seems like both the direction and timing of what's going to eventually happen to your business are almost inevitable.

MS today is quite different from what it was 10 years ago when the writer left. By getting acquired by Google in 2020, it's almost as he travelled back in time, into another Big Tech company at that same stage of the enterprise lifecycle.
This is a similar argument to "2001: A Space Odyssey".

HAL 9000 doesn't acknowledge its mistakes, and tries to preserve itself harming the astronauts.