skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Great thing gets created by passionate, independent team

- Thing becomes popular

- Megacorp takes notice and offers eye-popping amount of money to acquire thing (or doesn't have to because the founders are in over their heads anyway with how popular thing has become)

- Megacorp shuts down thing because it is a distraction from their other things which are printing unimaginable amounts of money

- Rinse and repeat

Consolidation of the entire internet into the hands of a few megacorps isn't just a problem because of their outsized influence.
You mean like a company the size of Microsoft? Bing chat was earlier and global.
It looks like you would still want something like CockroachDB instead of this for a global database layer.
Iraq is mostly desert but it used to be the fertile crescent. Did the hanging gardens of Babylon go away because they turned off the sprinklers?

What actually happened was successive waves of deforestation. The same deforestation that made Jordan arid.

Reforestation is a reasonable course of action.
I mean, this is a pretty big result in combinatorics, solving a 70-yr old problem.
> that said i encourage people to both stand by things theyve said in the past

I gotta say, I think this is really bad advice. I've said some really dumb things in my life, and if I "stood by" them I would have prevented myself from growing past those ideas enough to realize how dumb they were.

If, on reflection, you genuinely believe something that risks some "cancel"-like consequences, then by all means stand by it if that feels right. But if you have believed something, but have doubts now: reflect, re-assess, and then apologize (if needed) and move on. Life should always have growth and learning.
people wont pay for good when mediocre is there for free
Cache configuration change leading to account vulnerability
After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery I canceled my Prime. (I get deliveries from Japan faster than I get them from a warehouse in the next state.) I am in the middle of cancelling all my recurring bills from AMZN (Pillpack, AWS) and I recommend that you do the same. I can't wait to hear them say on CNBC that Prime cancellations exceeded additions.
This reminded me of another classic - saving a cat in russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Nr31Lv6H8
You must be confused, the title specifies computer science and mathematicians - the default assumption here should be that if it is useful no one is going to realize for some decades.
Hey, first of all congrats. To be honest with you your description is vague and I expect not for no reason, so I'll also give a generic answer as I believe the "correct" answer (if there is one) lies within the specifics of your domain.

I see no problem in extending an already successful product with a set of new features. You can always keep your promise regarding one-time licencing, that does not mean you cannot create a business model on top of that that leverages addons for example.

Personally I feel that spinning up a standalone product involves more risk as a rule of thumb, but again, the answer lies within your domain.

If I had the choice I would probably leverage the "already achieved" success and since you believe that this feature will help your customers, I would give them the feature within my product suite. Also more revenue does not exclusively mean higher price. It might also mean *more* clients.

Hope any of this helps.
I really hope Amazon considers spinning off DPreivew.
I'm on the waitlist. We'll see how long it takes.
> The team is going to great lengths to make this ethical and fair (try and generate a photo of a copyrighted character like Hello Kitty or Darth Vader)

are you saying it won't work? if that's the case, that seems really silly. actually, it goes against everything I believe in (as well as my understanding of even the kindest meaning of the word "hacker"). it drives me up the wall, it makes my blood boil

who is going to stop me from drawing hello kitty myself?

it's not the tool's job to regulate my creativity. the law exists to regulate the use of my art, not the act of creating the art. I can draw hello kitty all I want and leave it in my drawer, if it floats my boat

limiting the tool just makes me never want to use it. you're like Sony fighting digital music in the 2000s. the future is right in front of you but you just can't see it.

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With all the data that is available on DPReview one could have made a nice product. Something like the IMDB for movies or Discogs for music releases. It is sad to see that it should just be closed down …
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100% agree.

It’s also so stupid expensive and their “free tier” is a joke. If I could play with Watson on my own it would lead me to some cool insights but it’s just not reasonable.

The real-time data feeds they have is unreal. They have an entire team dedicated to hooking into data sources and meta modeling, extracting, and linking the data
Ok so I got access to it....and its bad. Really, really bad. I think Siri could likely give better responses than this half arsed pile of junk.

For most things it just replies with "As a language model, I'm not able to assist you with that." - even for basic questions.

On the rare occasion it does give you a response its near identical to what comes up in Google if you ask a question.

You can tell its a knee jerk response to ChatGPT thats for sure.
I think maybe I'm just small-potatoes, but the only limitations or constraints I've ever run into with Redis are:
1. memory utilization
2. deployment/orchestration
3. bugs I created for myself related to using caches

What are the use cases that max out Redis speed/throughput?
This is a pretty extreme stance. There is a fine line between "learning from" proprietary code and outright stealing some of the key insights and IP. Sometimes it takes a very difficult conceptual leap to solve some of the more difficult computer science and math problems. "Learning" (aka stealing) someone's solution is very problematic and will get you sued if you are not careful.
Sure, but I'd like it to be half-decent. I haven't gotten off the waitlist. How bad was it?
this is great. Thank you so much for your effort. Really appreciate it. By the way , if you are starting a startup, will you use mysql or postresql and why assuming you are equally good at both ?
Wow, that sucks. I had a deep parasocial relationship with Chris and Jordan. Hope they continue their youtube content somewhere else.
Could the pundits of HN please compare this release with Kotlin?
Understanding the fundamental nature of numbers and sets will allow a person to avoid working on solutions to their "real world" problems which would be precluded by that nature.

Take cryptography for instance. Why large prime numbers? Why elliptic curves? If you have proven the fundamental mathematics behind factoring large primes, then you have a basis for thinking that a cryptographic system based on large primes will be reasonably secure.

Many of the developments you use everyday are based on the understanding of just such "brain teasers" :-).
Employees are huge ongoing cost.

You leased expensive new car, expecting to get a big raise. Big raise didn't happen. Do you keep the car?
According to what morality? Most religions and secular philosophies that I'm aware of don't believe that.
This is similar to the climate change thing, where we subsidize burning fossil fuels, and then wonder why so much fossil fuels are being burned.

The answer is both surprisingly simple, and yet apparently slightly beyond our capabilities as a society.
We wrote about it here https://www.bearer.com/blog/loom-express-session-incident
and we also updated the famous NodeGoat project to bring more awareness around that kind of mis configuration https://github.com/OWASP/NodeGoat/pull/286
TIL they've been owned by Amazon since 2007 https://www.dpreview.com/articles/1690663587/amazonacquiresd...

Will miss this site a lot :(
I fully expect that when Wayland is completely deprecated, X will still be running in critical situations.
Why not just use C# instead? It was purposefully designed to address and correct the many mistakes of Java, and much more importantly, it's not owned by Oracle.
> Still, after all this time the geniuses at Google kinda ought to have solved this :)

It won't be solved until the day Google stops selling ads. Regular Google accounts are designed to vacuum up any useful user data and use it to improve Google services in any way Google chooses, and they may update the terms with a EULA updates. Workspace accounts are the opposite: user data is controlled by the account admin, and agreement is not with individual users, but their org.

Beta releases work well when information can be freely gathered and reported upstream. The nature and class of information collected may change over time, and is not covered under Workspaces agreements
In a world of infinite possibilities it is possible, but I doubt it. I spent a year in Helmand and Nimroz. In that time I watched the Taliban attack our bases with three large, at times overwhelming attacks. I watched them gather on mountain tops as we turned bases over to the ANA and proceed to slaughter them after we left. Lastly, and maybe most importantly, I believe the stories of forced fighters who had their family members abducted and held hostage, were tortured, and the general sense of enslavement that the local populous felt under Taliban rule. You are right that I didn't, and nobody from HumInt or our sister unit watched these executions happen, but anyone thats served in or lived in Afghanistan for any significant period of time is familiar with the Taliban's patterns. Additionally, two EOD members are fairly inconsequential to the military and any intelligence community that would have to train, arm, and deploy said paramilitary units.

Additionally, in Latin America if memory serves me correct paramilitary units were used because the US didn't want to go there as a military presence for both optics and cost. We (the military) were already present in Afghanistan.

Lastly, as I said earlier as well, this one death and one attack among many. There was very little significance to this attack. EOD was doing civilian route clearance, trying to clear civilian roads of IEDs and bombs planted by the Taliban. We didn't use these specific roads so that the Taliban wouldn't put bombs on them, but they did anyway and used it as leverage on the local populous. These types of operations were part of "hearts and minds" operations. The real message from the US military was sent every year during Opium Interdiction operations where after the Taliban had enslaved farmers to produce poppy for them we would raid the Taliban opium production facilities.
I asked Bing Chat why it says it can't create images for me.

>The Bing Image Creator feature is a new feature that allows you to create images with your words. It is currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.

edit: Okay, the separate link (https://www.bing.com/images/create) works, so I'm even more confused why Microsoft wouldn't allow access to this from Bing Chat.
This looks great!! Hopefully you can answer a couple questions for me.

You mention you're using TablePlus. Doesn't look like it has a free option. Can you recommend another similar database GUI tool so I can "code along"? And is there a database I can connect to and work with? Maybe you answer these at some point in the course, but I didn't see anything in the intro.

Also you mention this is for devs and not DBA's. Do you go over strategies for creating and "maintaining" a new db for a basic app? Or is this for a dev to work against a db that fully created and maintained by a DBA? I'm interested in using PlanetScale for hobby projects, so i'm currently trying to learn about not just using a db, but also being my own DBA (on a very small and basic scale).

Thank you for the course and any feedback on my questions.
ChatGPT wasn't available to everyone initially (huge waitlist).
I'm curious what is meant by a "preview feature, or second preview feature, or..." in a released product?? I don't suppose they are going to remove it later. So in what way is it a preview? Are they signalling that it might have breaking changes in the future?
BSL license is more company-friendly than AGPL.
I am the same way, but there are some very niche genres that still work well for me.

You will probably find a common theme across all of them - lack of vocals. Instrumental anything is much easier to consume than when someone decides to put some horrible vocal track over it.

The exception to the vocal thing is if it's in a different language. This is why I can still happily enjoy 2023+ k-pop and Rammstein releases.

English language to a tune is not something I've ever really been a fan of. Even in the classical sense - most of this is not in a language I can understand.
The Fed government as an issuer of currency can fund anything to infinity so long as Congress authorizes it. They change numbers in a spread sheet to create money. Rules like FDIC insurance are vestiges of a gold standard era when money was not fungible.
It seems to me that at one point people were fed-up with vibrant style of 90s. Reaction was minimalism and later flat design and Corporate Memphis.

Now the pendulum is swinging back.
You could have that available on the inflight wifi would work fine, local image/tile server to a certain level globally, cache the area under the projected flightpath before departure, then update the cache as time goes on.

Some planes have external cameras too which can be interesting - you could have those on the inflight wifi too.
> Predicting the future correctly isn't a matter of competence... And yes, even Google can't scale infinitely in the face of an actual physical resource constraint.

In order to not geo-block, Google would need to be able to scale infinitely? What kind of straw man is this?

> there was a shortage of memory chips, which required a lot of creativity.

Geo-blocking doesn't strike me as particularly creative as far as solutions go. Whatever problem they're trying to address, the excuses being made here seem weak and don't make Google look any less incompetent.
Congrats on the launch. I've been looking at Intercom and considering integrating it with our product, and I hadn't considered the issues you brought up. We're a B2C company, does that mean we aren't a good fit?
The problem they've got is trust. There's absolutely no way in hell people are going to actively integrate or invest into anything new from Google when theres a high chance it's going to be listed on killedbygoogle.com within 18 months.
Isn’t almost everything on this page concept stuff though? Seems like the only thing they’re shipping is text to image and the results they show look pretty underwhelming.

Seems like all these big companies are pushing amazing looking concept videos more than anything.
I like reading and I own probably too many books, but I don't understand the Folio society. If you want art then go by art, if you want a book then get a paperback. These aren't coffee table books. It's just words.
To take a simplistic example, because a human who can provide a long motivated solution to a math problem that you re-use every three years likely understands the math behind it, while an LLM providing the same solution is likely just copying it from the training set and would be fully unable to resolve a similar problem that did not appear in the training set.

Lots of exams are designed to prove certain knowledge given safe assumptions of the known limitations of humans, which are completely wrong for machines. The relative difficulty of rote memorization versus having an accurate domain model is perhaps the most obvious one, but there are others.

Also, the opposite problem will often exist - if the exam is provided in the wrong format to the AI, we may underestimate its abilities (i.e. a very similar prompt may elicit a significantly better response).
actually yeah, some of the friends I did it with actually mixed it with therapy and did dozens of sessions and it helped them tremendously.
The exact same command worked for me on Windows in PowerShell!

In fact, I went and tried the other shortcuts and they worked as well e.g. Alt+C

Didn't know about this all this while and I had fzf installed!
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The cost of a grocery store parking lot being closed can be easily quantified in terms of lost sales, while the cost of closing a short street or walkway is not as well-defined, and the cost is not borne by those in charge of the construction anyhow. So in the former, there's a clear and measurable incentive to get things done quickly, and in the latter, there's not.
Thank you for wkhtmltopdf. If I recall correctly, Pandoc uses it under the hood for generating PDF?
> It would be interesting to compare prices of privately funded projects vs publicly funded ones, both in terms of cost, over-budget amounts and time needed to complete the project.

Take for example the Munich "Luise Kiesselbach Tunnel": it finished early and under budget, and to my knowledge in its seven years of operation there was no apparent case of cutting corners or botched work. And now one may ask, how is that possible in the country that produced infamous disasters such as the BER airport, the Elbphilharmonie or the #2 S-Bahn tunnel under Munich?

The answer is, the funding makes no difference - the oversight of the funders over the construction process does. When you have to hire external consultants for each project, where the people keep on rotating, instead of having expert knowledge in-house that answers to you, you'll always end up with worse quality - and the external consultants may not have the political standing to override pushes for changes, which tend to be a massive issue in government-funded projects.
You can't use any of these thousands of improvements if your software is broken because it depended on something which was removed, or changed in incompatible ways. It can take a lot of work and time until it all works fine, even more when the breakage happened deep within a third-party library, and as far as I could see, there was a lot of these breakages early on the Java 9/10/11 cycle. IMO, it's worth it to make your software compatible with the latest Java LTS release, but I can understand why some people see it as too much work for too little gain.
> because "offensive" used to mean something else.

Or perhaps it always meant what it means now, but people who are the butt of the offense now have the means to hold the offenders accountable.
I think that's what happened regardless of how it sounds. Until it was an elitist iPhone only app, it had a cool vibe around it, but I suspected once they open the floodgates most people will realize how little value it has. Then they probably couldn't handle the traffic and new issues. I'm not saying there's any problem with Android users, but building a community on a single mobile platform for a long time then mixing it with another was probably a bad move.
ChatGPT (especially GPT-4) is the leanest, meanest Prolog engine known to mankind. It absolutely slays on inference tasks if you state some data and rules upfront. It knows how to translate between structured formats and natural language.

That's not nothing. You could do this earlier, maybe, if you had a lot of specialised AI knowledge. Now, someone like me, with little AI training but plenty of programming skill, can "feel it out" and start to do useful tasks with a dozen hours practice.

Even if it's a wasteful way to process/translate data, it's still huge. Electron somehow won out over native apps thanks to ease of use, for example.
My metro area is similar to many other metro areas.

And I think is a pretty decent reference to average US home prices going up by 45% [0] since 2020.

[0] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/united-states/house-pr...
Instead of a 5 year loan you just save up to buy a house? I suppose this is just a hypothetical?

Because even when interest rates were high, people were not generally buying their homes in cash.

That's like saying instead of renting for years you could just save that rent money and buy a house after a few years.

And with low rates, no one was buying a house with just a 5 year mortgage either.

The only reason you are seeing a lot of cash buyers right now is that you have lots of people who have sold their homes at inflated prices after buying years ago at near nothing and now that prices are falling, they have the cash to buy. But that won't last and it will soon be back to only the small group of people with very big incomes or family money and investment firms that are buying in cash.
Yeah, from a philosophical perspective these are interesting questions to ponder, but my impression of these comments is less that people are pondering the depth of consciousness and more that they're trying to be contrarian / naysayers.
Race to the bottom is only when it comes to wages.

Companies are making profits not seen before.

We had a blip in the history where everyone could participate in the economy - from building prototype in a garage to becoming relatively wealthy.

Now we have wage slavery and access to market gatekeeped by VC and banks.

Not a great future.
You're right, the RLHF fine-tuning is not adding any information to the model. It just steers the model towards our intentions.

But the regular fine-tuning is simple language modelling. You can fine-tune a GPT3 on any collection of texts in order to refresh the information that might be stale from 2021 in the public model.
This is neither helpful nor nice and also against the rules.

I'm already working for 4 clients and I'm at 60% of my last salary I had during my full time employment while only working about 30h/week as of now.

I'm not planning on launching some big startup.
Been a reader for all 25 years, sad.

It has been slowly dying since AMZN purchase, and I wonder why they did in first place.. maybe were paying too much out to DPR in affiliate link income? lol.

The larger problem is long-form written word reviews are dead due to the ad monetization models favoring video content. So now we all need to sit through 40min YouTube videos of blathering.

It does also seem like yet another signal that FAANG is killing off all the weird "how does that make any money" side projects they've collected over the last 10-15 years.
They aren’t critical to most applications, and are invisible to most developers.
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Ask HN: Has anyone gone back to boring technology (ex: Java/Spring)?
There are different uses for different tools, I understand that.

I'm just wondering if anyone got framework/buzzword fatigue and switched back to a less bleeding edge, and more boring tech stacks?

I'm trying to see if anyone has consciously done this and how they feel about that. This might be a fleeting thought for me given the release of Java 20.
It's even more frustrating to get this message from Puerto Rico, which is a US territory. Feels like being treated as second-class citizens. We're subject to the same federal laws.
Are you using embeddings, or a prompt where you ask GPT-3 to find a word between other words?
I am shocked. I'm about to release (...well it's technically released but not yet finished) a product in the photography space, cameralenspicker.com. I saw DPReview as the #1 "competitor" in the space, and reading this is well... like hearing your #1 competitor is dead. It really makes me wonder where this industry is headed if they're shutting down.