skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember that desperate AI presentation they gave a month or two ago? Their stock tanked after that, but it was a day or two after it showed up on HN.

Just to get the facts straight: the event took place on Wed 8 Feb and the stock went down 7% on Wed 8 Feb.

I am saying this not to be pedantic, but to point out that the argument -- that HN sentiment is a good leading indicator of stock movement -- is not supported by the evidence tendered.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your argument.

https://www.androidpolice.com/how-to-watch-live-from-paris-g...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/alphabet-shares-slip-followi...
Having the JSON library return JS arrays as CL vectors by default is the only correct way; false and nil also have distinct values by default. Glad to see they didn't mess that up.

OTOH it aliases the UIOP/FILESYSTEM package to FILESYSTEM, and what functions are in UIOP/FILESYSTEM is an implementation detail that is free to change from version to version...
Gotthard Tunnel which was (and possibly still is) the longest and deepest tunnel, was finished on time and within budget.
I’ve never used fzf before and live in a shell all day, but the capabilities shown in the article doesn’t seem very useful to me. Am I missing something?

For Ctrl+R, how many times are people running similar variants of commands that they 1) don’t know what they typed and 2) didn’t think to simplify their workflow to not be running duplicated commands?

For Alt+C, are peoples’ file and directory layouts such a mess that they need to search entire directory trees to find what they’re looking for?

I’m confused.
"That's just how it works" is trivially invalidated by looking at how it works beyond the walls of this particular corp, eg Bing. So all you're saying is that however the powers that be behave is how they ought to behave
Nope. My point is in general with AI with deep neural networks as black boxes being very untrustworthy no matter the application, unless it is for non-serious uses.

Using deep learning AI in medical imaging is just as opaque to a doctor as rolling a dice as a random number generator to see if won't get confused by a faulty pixel or bad input and misinterpret what it is seeing for something else, leading to mis-diagnosis, which is a life changing risk.

It is no good for them to use the output of an AI that just 'explains' by giving a number of 99% and its incorrect without any transparent way of reasoning for that output or explanation which is exactly what medical professionals want to avoid, hence multiple doctors have to review it because they *do not* trust it.
I wasn’t privy to that information even before I left (Feb), but from what a few people who were/are privy to that information have told me, it doesn’t appear as though Amazon is at all interested in selling off the IP. So yea. Just shut it all down. Which is a fucking shame.
There has been a lot of research on the quantum consequences of classic unstable periodic orbits lately - look up “many-body scars”
Is classical not a style that these OSTs attain?
Yes, the UI part is a mess. Now they have three UIs to search: old search UI, Chat like UI and image generation UI. To make this worse they are not consistent in anyway, sometimes when I scroll in the chat UI it throws me to useless search UI, and each seem to have different font sizes, colors etc. It feels like hodgepodge of things tacked together.
Windows Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – Doyensec
Get all the details on how Adrian Denkiewicz discovered a SYSTEM level privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2023-21800), as he walks through his research on the Windows Installer (MSI) technology.
That may be true in software (where the pay gap in the private sector is particularly blatant) but it's not true in most industries. The stereotype of lazy government workers is essentially conservative propaganda - I've known and worked with plenty, and with a few obvious exceptions (political appointees, software, etc.) across the board they're passionate and great at what they do. Civil engineers, road builders, park rangers, EPA researchers, administrative assistants, even IT.
I'm not condemning your actions, just pointing out naivety. Some of those most influenced by marketing are those who think they are above it all.
For organization accounts, we just use `aws+account-name@company.com` which routes all emails for all accounts to one alias.

Also, yeah, AWS' account situation is bonkers. Even with organizations, if you have an account open in one tab and open another account in another, you get logged out of the first. Bonkers.
This is my take: https://rqlite.io/docs/faq/#how-is-it-different-than-litestr...

From the Litestream page: https://litestream.io/alternatives/#raft-based-consensus
Looks like their price-gouging gambit didn't pay off. My former employer of over 100k employees migrated to OpenJDK rather than pay into their ridiculous new pricing scheme. I imagine plenty of other enterprises have done the same.
My team and I just placed a new full stack dev team in a start-up with this tech stack:

- Next.js, Vercel, Node.js, Java (Spring Boot)
- JavaScript, Tailwind, React, Angular
- Microservices, REST APIs
- Docker, Nginx, Postgresql
- AWS - EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM
- Docker, GitLab, Github

Everyone seems to be enjoying it so far!
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> The only people who think Smartphone Cameras take better pictures than SLRs are not photographers.

Amateur photographer here, currently have a Canon 80D and a 20-year collection of medium-quality lenses. You're completely right. The photos that this thing takes are miles ahead of my iPhone 12 Pro; you just can't beat a sensor with big pixels and an aperture that's 10-100x (? I don't know the actual ratio) larger than a smartphone lens. But the one nuance is the old saying "the best camera in the world is the one you've got with you"; I have some beautiful shots from this camera, and the 20D before it, and the Rebel XT before it, but some of my absolute favourites were shot on a smartphone because it was in my pocket at the right time and the DSLR was at home in the bag.
>What are the margins on this hypothetical donuts shop and what do you do when the price of labor goes up 20%, energy goes up 80% eggs goes up 100%?

Sure the prices have to increase. But what if they just increased by the amount that it actually cost? And then decreased as those costs go back down?

That's the entire discussion here- corporations are increasing by WAY MORE than what the raw inputs cost.. otherwise they would not be making more profits. And then are not proportionality decreasing as their costs go back down.
It comes across as exactly more transparent and honest to me. The bait and switch is dishonest and this incentives against that. If the starting price is closer to the final price that's a better outcome and more transparent.
IMX-101
No. You're incorrect.

We need limits to prevent capitalism from doing its worst.

It's only fair that we all live and work with the same limits.

This is the type of regulation that is necessary.
There were some subtractions for a bunch of stuff that wasn't getting much love to begin with. They removed their JS interpreter which was based on rhino which continued being a side library the entire time that java added it to the Java runtime. The only personal break that had no remediation was a minor helper class in JMX that affected me. Pretty much anything that was removed has some library addition that can add back what was cut. Basically Java 6-8 added a bunch of library support things that were probably better maintained as a third party library to begin with. The module system usually means adding some security policy exclusions for popular libraries, but in general I get a very well performing JVM that feels like it optimizes the code significantly better than in previous generations.
Mostly yes, screw them both. But keep in mind that if you are looking for an alternative for Java or C#, Rust is probably not your best choice.

Rust is great for code that you would have to write in C or C++, but if you can write it in Java, you probably want something else.
Also missed: All these big tech companies were already invested in AI and using it in their products: it just happens that the latest batch of AI tools are far more impressive than their internal efforts.
>Has anyone else been in a similar position? How do you ensure you're not making foolish mistakes that you've become blind to?

If you are the only developer, well you still know the pain points in your own code.

And its far better to have something correct than nothing at all, even if its ugly and/or slow and/or hard to maintain or modify.

I often rewrite my code if i encounter limitations. Refactor often and write tests (I'm too lazy to write tests, bad, very bad, bad!).

Also read a lot of others code. Helps you grow and fill in blindspots.

You have a larger burden than usual to facilitate your own growth and knowledge expansion. Because you are alone.
well take your pick, private builders in britain are known for graft and borderline fraud
Interesting, I just asked it 'what is my email address' and it responded 'I do not have access to your personal information, including your email address.'
https://github.com/gantsign/ansible-role-oh-my-zsh

https://github.com/dotstrap/ansible-fzf

I don't see why not
> the military, which wants the weapons to detonate on time every time

Well, the military sure is also concerned about avoiding non-intentional detonations due to accidents or by being hit by enemy fire. E.g. the IMX series of explosives that have apparently started to replace TNT and Comp B in some applications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMX-101
I know what you're referring to but don't think this is one of those cases.

The affidavit is very thorough about what was found. Starts on page 3.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1566416/downl...
I don't know much about public works, but when you're hiring trades and subs for small residential projects, you pay extra to know they're going to show up and work on your project until it's done. If you want to minimize costs, you have to accept that it may be slow. They say they'll start on Tuesday, and they actually show up Friday. They do two days of a four day job, and then they disappear for a week. It's not because they're lazy. It's because they have different projects that are more or less lucrative to work on, and they generally prioritize the more lucrative ones.
The best camera is the one you have ready.
> consumer debt is out the wazoo

No, its not, compared to 2007, when the all time peak of consumer debt (as a share of GDP) was reached, at 98.4%. The recent local peak was 80% in early 2021, and by September 2022 (the most recent number I can find) it had dropped to 75.2%.
Why bother when you can get cryptobros paying way over MSRP for 3090s?
The Turing test has now become "anything ChatGPT cannot solve yet" :)
Yeah, might not be but I do not have the capital to affront the losses in case I am wrong.
I assume a full site mirror will be submitted to the @internetarchive? Because it would be insane to pull 25 years of detailed information that cannot easily be found elsewhere off the internet just because your dad doesn't want you living at home anymore.
Back when I listened to a couple podcasts, Podcast Republic was da bomb on Android KitKat/Lollipop.
Yeah, I've said before that whenever my wife wants to show me something from the web on her laptop, I blown away by how bad it is. The experience in her browser (Chrome with all defaults, usually on ad-supported social media or puzzle or pop culture news sites, or shopping sites) is like being assaulted to me.

Of course the other thing that's been happening is that most of it isn't "reading the internet" anymore; it's all watching short-form videos (also laced with ads).
One thing Microsoft got right with Bing AI was democratized access - in terms of countries and language. Only barrier to using Bing AI was getting onto Microsoft ecosystem - which is understandable considering they are still an underdog in search.

Google keeping Bard limited to US and UK is only signaling a lack of confidence. If not, then it means having country bias in product release priority which looks worse than confidence.
Home prices just broke a decade-long streak
I joined the waitlist 24 minutes after this was posted to HN, then got accepted into Bard 1h30m later.
How to Start a Hard Tech Startup with Sam Altman
I think you are misunderstanding. The post you are replying to clearly said they were reviewing output code before checking it in. The fact that we don't understand how the models work is irrelevant (we don't understand how the human brain works, either) - all we need to understand is how the output works.

I had a conversation with ChatGPT where I asked it to write me a piece of code. After it wrote the code, I reviewed it, and I told ChatGPT that it had a subtle bug. ChatGPT then fixed the bug itself, and wrote an English description about how the fix it added would prevent the bug.
As implemented ADA compliance requires that even trivial changes to a moderate complexity intersection require an engineering study at $300-500k, minimum.

There are other requirements as well relating to multimodal travel depending online the funding source.

All the while, we had an increasingly dangerous intersection with no visible crosswalks and outdated signals for years.

The stupid isn’t ADA, it’s compliance activity. Cities and towns cannot afford the engineers to meet the standards, so the Federal and State governments fund projects. So there’s no framework of best practices beyond the state standards - each project is a special snowflake.
Thanks for the atuin reminder, I knew fzf reminded me of a crate I had on my backlog to try out but I completely forgot the name. I should probably just get to it now.
The MIT license is worth nothing because it does not contain a patent release. Microsoft's sword of damocles has always been in patents they held with regard to C# and .NET. Have they released this IP as well?
A possible explanation for that situation is that some utility below the pavement needs urgent work, so the pavement is broken open by a utility contractor to do that work, and then they don’t repave it properly … because they’re not allowed to. If that utility contractor did the final repaving they would be taking that work from other contractors which would violate laws that force government to open up contracts fairly. So, a bidding process is started to select the contractor that will repave, and that process takes months.

I work for government myself and have often been frustrated by the inefficiency forced upon us by well-intentioned but misguided legislation. Also, you learn pretty quickly that some contractors play the game better than others and will win one government contract after another, not because they will do the job better, but because they understand the rules around bidding better.
ABI ≠ API. The ABI is a property of the program, the compiler (including options used during compilation), and the target platform. Semver only concerns itself with API, ABI isn't even a consideration there.
How does an expected work week of 69 hours happen? That's something like 10 hours a day, every day, or 5, 12-hour days and 2 half days. Yikes.
Isn't it a reporters job to report the facts? The fact is the FBI was investigating them for a specific crime.

It's already suspect that they left out that key fact. It's extra suspect when it turns out they had personal connections to the accused.
I use Ctrl+R instead of hitting my up arrow key until I find a command I want to reuse.
So, creating a new cost center for online publishers and search engines and directing how the rentseeking profits have to be spent. Neat.

There are 100 reasons this is a bad idea -- news sites already have paywalls if they want to restrict access, people have a wealth of choices, etc. The proper policy response would be to just exile the idea to oblivion in committee.

But if that doesn't happen and it passes? I hope the social giants push back by blocking local news results in California.

Hard mode: They could push for legislation to break the stranglehold local papers have on legal advertising.

In an operating environment that's seen newspaper ad revenue drop by more than three-quarters in the last 20 years, revenue from legal ads has remained stable with very low associated costs. At many small papers, it's the dominant revenue and profit stream.

Going after it would be playing hardball, but so is getting a state legislator to propose milking tech companies when local newspapers can't fix their own business model.
TL;DR - Esc+C works (yes you read that right, Esc+C)
Not to mention that almost all photo consumption happens on a phone as well.

Only when you open a phone photo on a big screen and compared to one taken by a real lens do you realize the big difference.
Despite all the incredible technology in phone cameras, there is no substitute for proper optics.
Agile is often zero help.

Imagine you're starting from scratch. You want create a company that will make a fancy new database. You need to know things like how many people you'll need to hire, how much those people will cost, and some idea of how long a viable project will take.

There's no scrum team yet, as you haven't hired them. You still need to generate some sort of answer.
YouTube started revenue sharing in 2007.

Unlike YouTube, TikTok is not profitable. It is no surprise they show fewer ads when they are generating no profits. There is no "breaking the revenue model of incumbents" when you are not profitable. Perhaps when they try to be profitable, they will be more like... YouTube.
> Why is the hacker news community generally so annoying and more often than not tangential comments receive the most upvotes?

> There are a few reasons for this. First, the community is very competitive. People are always trying to get the most upvotes and comments. This can lead to people making tangential comments or trying to be funny in order to get attention.

Second, the community is very opinionated. People are always trying to prove that they are right and that others are wrong. This can lead to people being rude and condescending to others.

Third, the community is very cliquey. There are certain groups of people who are more popular than others. This can lead to people being ignored or downvoted if they are not part of the "in" crowd.

Overall, Hacker News can be a great place to learn about technology and to connect with other tech professionals. However, it can also be a very annoying place. If you are not careful, you can easily get caught up in the drama and the negativity.

Here are some tips for dealing with the annoying parts of Hacker News:

* *Don't take things personally.* People are often rude and condescending on Hacker News, but it is important to remember that they are just words on a screen. Don't let them get to you.
* *Don't be afraid to disagree.* It is okay to have different opinions than others. In fact, it is healthy to have discussions about different viewpoints. Just be respectful of others when you disagree.
* *Don't get caught up in the drama.* There is always drama going on on Hacker News. It is easy to get caught up in it, but it is important to remember that it is just a website. Don't let it consume your life.
* *Take breaks.* If you find yourself getting annoyed with Hacker News, take a break. Go for a walk, read a book, or do something else that you enjoy. Coming back to Hacker News with a fresh perspective can help you to avoid getting caught up in the negativity.
As I don't have the karma to downvote, my approach, which is likely to remain unchanged even if I ever get to the appropriate karma threshold, is to simply ignore. My mindset on this has been (and not saying it needs to be anyone else's) that my parents taught me ignore taunts, bullies, etc. and I simply extended it to this. I don't even want to put in the effort of downvoting to give the impression that I find someone's post or comment worth the effort of doing so.
I'm personally not so sure. We already had something like that before (M:N threads), and the world moved away from it, towards letting the kernel manage everything (1:1 threads). So I'd expect instead that operating system kernels gain whatever features are missing for scaling to a higher number of threads, and everything once again goes back to each programming language thread corresponding to one kernel thread.
There are to this day many an explosive product that is cast by pouring molten explosive material into the shell. In some cases, poured by hand from jugs.

Steady!!!
it's simple: search can be a better interface than manual tagging and organizing
"Given there are companies selling fingerprinting as a service, if you want to really protect yourself from fingerprinting, you should use Tor Browser or Firefox with resistFingerprinting=true."

Fingerprinting services tries to figure out browsing settings. Since very few people have this feature enabled. You might be easier to fingerprint by enabling it. A metric that historically been used for fingerprinting is the "do not track" feature which is a bit of irony.
Is it a better deal than YouTube? Last I heard TikTok has a pool of money they distribute in some magic way that's not directly tied to either company revenue or a video's view/like counts.
& . . . . @

"Mail for you, sir!"
Creating AI models has proven to simply be easier than other past innovations. Much lower barrier to entry, the knowledge seems to be spread pervasively within months of breakthroughs.

People seem to take offense at this idea, but the proof is in the pudding. Every week there's a new company with a new model coming out. What good did Google's "AI Talent" do for them when OpenAI leapfrogged them with only a few hundred people?

It's difficult to achieve high margins when barrier to entry is low. These AI companies are going to be moreso deflationary for society rather than high margin cash cows as the SaaS wave was
The vast, vast, vast majority of pictures are viewed on a 6ish inch screen. You'll have real trouble telling much difference there.

Now if you're blowing things up into a poster, it becomes much more apparent, granted, but it's not a common use case.
> We've got something similar in Ireland, Alcohol min price is 10c/ml.

The Scottish one is 5p/ml (roughly 6c/ml over the last five years), so significantly lower.
I wanted to like atuin. The idea is great. But it just could not match the instant search that ctrl-r with fzf offers sadly. There is always a noticeable delay that annoyed me and made me revert back to fzf for search.

For me another issue was that I needed to do more keystrokes for the same behaviour (search a previously ran command and execute it).

Fuzzy shell history search is just one of those mind-blowing things. I love my history, it's such a trove and I can trust it to work as some kind of external memory (it's enough to vaguely know the kubectl command, or that I want to "du -h | sort" to see what is using disk space, etc).
From Sundar’s announcement:

> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback.

I’m very curious about how much better the larger model is.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...
I havn't seen it mentioned yet, you can also do fuzzy completion like
cd * <tab>

After pressing <tab> you get sent into fzf to make the decision

This works for ssh too
> OpenAI has massive power to censor what people can reason about with GPT.

This is like saying, the transportation of <city> has massive power to censor where people can travel about within a bus.

GPT is a tool for reasoning, but humans need to be able to reason on their own! and by using multiple tools!

Of course every tool should help and enhance every human, but every tool has its limitations. There is nothing unethical about calling out a tool's limitations and ensuring humans use it accordingly.