skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but is the power grid capable of such demand? Sewer and water pipes?

Thinking with the perspective of, how do we service this land for growth/people changes one's perspective.

People often think...look at all this empty land, it can hold so many people... but, where will they get their power (which can relatively easily be transmitted long distances). Water and sewage are another challenge. Water of a sufficient quality and quantity needs to come from somewhere and be treated, sewage needs to be conveyed to a treatment plant, treated, and discharged to, generally, a river or lake. So much infrastructure is needed for modern society, especially density, that is often not thought about by most.

For example, I was at a gas station on a highway where there are no cities nearby and another customer asked if there were any car washes. I thought about it for a minute and realized that there's no sewage treatment around so there's nowhere to send car wash water. They could store it and truck it but that would be quite expensive.

Thanks for coming to my shower thoughts TEDx talk.
The federally-owned land in California is mostly deserts and mountains.

Besides, even if we're generous and say that half of California is too mountainous to live in and another quarter is too desert-y to live in, leaving only a quarter of the state's area suitable for habitation, that leaves roughly 40 million people living in roughly 40,000 square miles, or about a thousand heads per square mile. That's comparable to Israel or Belgium in terms of population density, and certainly not as though people are packing into Kowloon.
It tried to convince me the square root of two was negative one the other week… It was so sure of it and couldn’t be convinced otherwise. I doubt they’ll be able to convince it to use a calculator at all. It’s like arguing with a six year old child to put a coat on in the middle of winter…
Intel threw billions at trying to get x86 into mobile - and failed. They really don’t have the cash to try that again.

AMD has been very successful but wouldn’t have the bandwidth to try this.
More details here:

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171409/GS2023032117320...
Which last sentence:
'Altman won’t make any money on his new startup, but he’s earned himself a place in history.'

and/or

'Until we find out it's not.'
If they don't change the way they make decisions, its only a slight delay... not a Win.

A win would be a commitment to never do this again (ideally), or put in something that binds them to provide <x> amount of notice.
Community prediction of weak AGI arrival: Oct 10, 2025
Let the revolutionbbegin
> Is Sundar a bad CEO or merely a mediocre one though?

I don't know, but I'm really sad to see how Android is currently performing in rich countries. Not stagnating, but losing.

Here, in Germany, Android had a market share of over 70%(!). But over the last three years alone, Apple started eating Android's lunch and iOS' market share has increased from 28% to 38%, while Android's has decreased by the same amount (from 69% to 60%) [1].

Personally, I'd say that at least Google's Android department is currently headless and has no idea what the users want.

Of course this has nothing to do with revenue of YT Premium, GCP and whatever else Google is offering, but it's making me sad regardless.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/693829/market-share-mobi...
I prefer the python syntax generally, but throw in some typing with Typescript inferring the post-map type from the map function's return type, and I'd definitely go with `integerlist.map(float)`
> One of the issues with Common Core Math is that it really teaches children to jump through the hoops of diagramming the way the book says to do it (and that way is cumbersome), not actually solve problems or understand concepts

That's actually the opposite of the Common Core content I've seen at schools—its emphasis is on having a variety of looking at a problem and solving it, based on he situation. Instead of just hammering in the standard algorithms. It's not perfect, but what I've seen, I've liked.
>you're quota of mammoths to kill a day didn't go up

Expect with more efficient hunting methods you could kill more than you did before per day, which meant less hunting days, which meant more time with the wife which in turn meant bigger tribe, which in turn meant you actually had to increase your quota.

Just because you are more efficient doesnt mean your manager becomes an idiot and starts to demand unreasonable output (and if you have an idiotic manager already then you already have the problem).

I have no fucking clue what you are even arguing for.
It's easy to compare and be better than yew, it just has network effects going for it.

Sycamore is much closer to that 0 cost Rust frontend framework, but has gone through many improvements.
See my comment above. The basics, water, power, and sewage are a challenge in modern society when it comes to growth.
Is this really a W? It seems more like a stay of execution.
Too late. We already ditched Docker for Podman. It was a lot easier than I expected.
Automated certificate issuing is a problem by itself. "The authority that issued my cert isn't the authority that I thought it was but it looks the same and works, so carry on" kind of thing.
Probably a joke about them going from having hosts very-occasionally acknowledge the names of big sponsors, to straight-up reading ads for them. Between ads for sponsors and ads for other NPR content or begging me to give them my car, they're almost as ad-heavy as any other station now. Maybe are as ad-heavy, if you count hours spent on pledge drives per year.
You can't compare two different measures of inflation.

General inflation:
UK 10.4% vs EU 9.9%

Food inflation:
UK 18.2% vs EU 19.5%

Same reason I can't say UK inflation is 10.4% and much lower than the EU's 19.5%. They're measuring different things.
Sorry for the delay, very busy lately. In case you're still there and interested in the answers:

So .net was a deliberate ruse to trick Borland into delivering a sub-par product?

Not exactly, they wanted to create a walled garden, more similar to an app store. Drivers and some specialized programs that require high performance would still need to be native. But most everything else they wanted inside .NET ecosystem. That would eliminate any competitive advantage that Delphi had.

Given the the dominace of Windows was because of the available software (and Microsofts dedication to backwards combatibility was legendary) I dont see why anybody would belive that.

And yet in the Borland forums at the time there was a very vocal faction, including many of the official evangelists, that bought it.

Borland was caught in a trap that Joel Spolsky described perfectly:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

Microsoft offered access to docs. The bait. Also the price structure of Borland had gone horribly bad. The insisted in selling to the enterprise market because, they said, there's no money in reasonably priced dev tools. But that was just not true. JetBrains filled that gap. I believe Delphi still exists but it costs ten grands or something like that.

Edit: another couple of factors why the wanted everything in .net were security (native is uncontrolable) and possibility of instantly disassembly the applications of any potential competitor. Yes, I know it sounds paranoid, but...
Socialism is splitting your shit. Learn your philosophy. This is like how students at my colleges "socialist party nights" always got angry when I took beers out of their fridge. That's literally what socialism is.
Microsoft learned the hard way that the platform doesn’t mean anything if you don’t have the games to bring people to it. It’s why they’ve spent billions left and right to acquire studios and publishers.
No Country for Old Men is both worth watching and reading, it's a rare example where both the movie and the book are near perfect.
their description of the problem seemed kind of obtuse, in practice, these connection-pool related issues have to do with 1. request is interrupted 2. exception is thrown 3. catch exception, return connection to pool, move on. The thing that has to be implemented is 2a. clean up the state of the connection when the interrupted exception is caught, then return to the pool.

that is, this seems like a very basic programming mistake and not some deep issue in Redis. the strange way it was described makes it seem like they're trying to conceal that a bit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35295216
I wonder if in cases like this, it even makes sense to reverse a decision. The damage has been done, so why bother?

Me, personally, Whenever in the future a dependency on the Docker team comes up, I'll make sure we double check if they are really needed in our stack.
Or money creation should be more exclusive to public institutions.
What is your position at 37Signals and how do you like it? I'm really impressed by the innovation that comes out of you guys and the workplace culture you folks have.
Databricks is on a roll
My favourite video game franchise in terms of confusing name is the Jedi Knight franchise.

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2

Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
Our equity markets have always been weird, but they’ve gotten weirder in recent years. For most businesses, that volatility is fine. Customers of e.g. Nike aren’t checking its stock price before buying sneakers, and it mostly has enough cash on hand to conduct business if creditors get spooked.

Banks are different. A random drop in their stock price will lead to a perceptions failure that trigger run conditions. This is how Signature and Credit Suisse were, at least proximately, done in. We’re practically seeing it play out again with Deutsche Bank.

Public ownership lets these banks access cheaper capital. But the operational effects of volatility make it seem a bad deal. For the largest banks, if closely supervised, I can see the risks balancing. But for mid-sized banks I don’t.
And zero acknowledgment that Credit Default Swaps were pioneered by Blythe Masters AT JP Morgan and used relentlessly to move risk off of balance sheets in a house of cards that led to millions losing their homes and life savings.

"In bypassing barriers between different classes, maturities, rating categories, debt seniority levels and so on, credit derivatives are creating enormous opportunities to exploit and profit from associated discontinuities in the pricing of credit risk."

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/sep/20/wallstreet....

And of course now she's in crypto.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-9263487/...
Oh hell, this might turn into a renaissance. What's next? A growing interest to understand the natural world?
> That‘s a newspaper article published last year based on annual reports on the year 2021

So, the corporations were bamboozling entire planet and sucking it dry during the pandemic, but they are not doing it now...

> before the price surges really began

What does even 'really' mean. 36% is not 'really', but some other percentage is? Doesnt make sense.

> Nestle

https://www.mashed.com/1117426/popular-food-companies-that-r...

There are heaps of other companies other than Nestle. One company doesnt make an argument.

> But it’s typical for leftists to cherry-pick their data and only read news sources that confirm their bias

Its not 'leftists' cherry-picking data. Its those who use vague words like 'price increases REALLY starting' - whatever that means - even as the very capitalist publications of the most capitalist corporations on the planet say that food corporations profited off of pandemic and the war.

So its basically the words of CNBC, Oxfam etc versus your 'really' theory.

> I hope you are even more angry with me now. :-p

I didnt notice that you were disingenous debater. I do now. It explains your absurd arguments, and the 'really' theory of price increases. I'll act accordingly and avoid losing time discussing with you.
Ask HN: Alternative Interfaces for LLMs?
Right now, we've got the Chat interface and the Copilot interface (a la github copilot) for Large Language Models.

What comes next?
> Some people even pay for Kagi search, because Google is just that bad.

Small correction - from what I have heard in our community, most of our users pay for Kagi search, not becuase Google is just that bad, but because Kagi is just so good. In other words we are making the value proposition be "best search in the world", one worth paying for.

(Kagi founder here)
Hey, some of us are passionate about paying rent and bills
Uh, so I can donate $5 to OpenAi and if they don't use it well (as defined by me) they should be forced to sell to me?

Idk, it seems to me like if you donate money you should be ok with the organization spending it as they see best for their purposes. Sure perhaps some fraud rules if the organization claims to be helping earthquake victims and instead spends it on private yachts for the deaf but I don't think their mismanagement means they're forced to sell the organization.

If you want an organization to do exactly as you want, create it yourself. Co-opting an existing one should be reserved for when there isn't an alternative.
> folks have left

Folks who don't pay them any money but consume gigabytes of storage?
It's incredibly tiresome that the first post on HN whenever a company does a press release is going to be from someone who will never be happy no matter what was said.

"What does take responsibility mean?" "This is just PR fluff". "They are just saving face." Criticism of good things because the poster didn't like the motivation. Stuff like that.

Did you really think the company was going to bare their soul to you like you were their psychiatrist or their priest? Do you think you are even entitled to that?

Commenting about whether or not this is a good decision is valuable. Complaining about the content of PR fluff is not.
It is move over google.com moment. The era of ai.com and its ilk (bing/skype) has begun -even momentarily.

If you are not using ai.com for your everyday information, you are missing out something.

The one that asks their questions in a smart way has an edge over people typing random keywords and hoping to learn.
The convention of hiding files starting with a dot is not a usability mistake. It’s a usability improvement.
But what is the "genre" of literary fiction? It's far too broad compared recognized genres like science fiction. That being said, there is an annoying trend of literary authors writing science fiction books (McCarthy's "The Road", most of Margaret Atwood's books) and they and the literary establishment vocally denying that they are SF because they are Very Serious Works by Important Authors.
If someone from Mirantis behind this decision reads this discussion, can you also revert the forced useless login in OpenLens ? https://github.com/lensapp/lens/issues/5444

Thanks.
I guess that nowadays CV is actually two fields that kinda share the same name. One would be neural-network based and the other one the good old-fashioned CV.

The answer depends on what kind of CV you're looking for. As for the old-fashioned CV I think that visual odometry, bundle adjustment and dense reconstruction are great things to play with and they have practical applications.

One hard-ish problem I used to work at is city-scale 3D reconstruction from photos. You can have street-level image data you collected to get the high detail and some aerial pictures to get the consistency for wide-area. A problem of matching street-level and aerial pictures is even interesting from research point of view (keyword is wide baseline image matching). With this you can build something similar to what Google Map has where you point your phone on the street and you get overlay directions. And if you call it mixed-reality metaverse, you can start a startup 6 months ago.

As for the NN-based I'll leave that for others.
>They "delivered" deemind

https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/26/google-deepmind/
I’m a great software engineer but I think by talking not writing. I know others that are visual and draw things from I think and others that code POCs. Maybe that heuristic is more a projection of what you are good at and you look for that in others? Maybe having a team with a written word person, a visual person, an explanatory person, and a code it first person makes a team that can explain what they’ve written with excellent diagramming and a functional POC to demonstrate?
This isnt true though. The remainer narrative is being falsified in real time.
The self-confidence of people who dismiss it after having tried it once is impressive. Having said that, I do not think it is the end of programmers, only some of them.
Not interesting to you, but other people may differ! A cross-compiler targeting the 6502 is still interesting to some. As the article notes, these compiler techniques weren’t invented in the 70s because computers weren’t powerful enough to make good use of them. What’s wrong with exploring what the original hardware is capable of when freed from those restrictions?
> If there were a GoogleCode, would anybody use it, or would it be DOA for the same reasons as Stadia?

There was Google Code, a service that was similar to GitHub. Google Code was closed down on January 15, 2016 (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Google_Developers...).
And agree, launching code was a nice contribution and had filled much-needed space (previously somewhat covered by eclipse).

And LinkedIn / GitHub acquisitions were done well and now going to be fueling the automation of professional work with the AI technology.
Ah, so it's compatible with pseudo/anonymity - until the government comes calling.

That's not really compatible.
I highly recommend picking up a book in writing and style. I enjoyed Dreyer's English (Strunk & White, while commonly recommended, is a little antiquated). There are so many avoidable mistakes like subject-verb agreement, attaching adjectives to the wrong noun ("A violent, intense, affair, Stephen King has written another fantastic novel" -> Stephen King is a violent, intense affair), and so on.

The classic English teacher advice is also very much worth following, such as reading aloud and creating an outline.

And of course, reading is a fantastic way to improve your writing. There are examples of great writing in any genre or format, but I would say that fiction and long-form journalism are usually quite good, while non-fiction books and blog posts tend to be more hit or miss. Sometimes you need to read a little James Baldwin to remember that writing can be an art form and not just a perfunctory means towards an end.
Sounds like whoever is in charge of certificates at GH must have come over from MSFT. Afterall, I think Microsoft has had 2-3 certificate expiry issues in the last several years.
> Water and sewage are another challenge. Water of a sufficient quality and quantity needs to come from somewhere and be treated, sewage needs to be conveyed to a treatment plant, treated, and discharged to, generally, a river or lake. So much infrastructure is needed for modern society, especially density, that is often not thought about by most.

All of these problems are easier with higher density, not harder. Would you rather run and maintain a few giant sewer lines for a million people, or thousands of small sewer lines over hundreds of miles? Sewage treatment plants benefit enormously from economies of scale. Economies of scale and lower transportation costs make higher-density living more economical in nearly every way.
A lot of creative thinking goes into the curation of the training set.
everywhere? what moat does openAI have?
https://neurocracy.site/
The brand damage is done. Rolling back doesn't change that; they are still the company that would do this and then leave everyone freaking out for a week straight before doing a total 180.

Somebody has their shit together, but it ain't Docker Inc.
This kind of reminds me of "The Lightning Field": https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walte...
I'm also judging from the activity on CivitAI, the most downloaded (>1000 downloads, not many) ones are actually just LoRA with LoCon in another (experimental) branch of the CivitAI page, definitely not "very wrong" ahah

>it needs a plugin for ControlNET

The big difference is that ControlNet actually required a pretty complex interface to be used effectively, meanwhile the use of LoCon/LyCORIS should be completely transparent and works like a LoRA
Depends on the problem, really. I've been out of school for half a decade now so I'm a little rusty too.

I remember that the Traveling Salesman can be constructed as "is the minimum path less than N" in which N represents the solution, not the size.
I've had a google home since early on and was really impressed how well it worked. Dramatically better than apple or amazon at the time. You could ask it complex questions and it would go find results for you, not just "We found a website..."

Could ask things like "what are the differences in dimension between a 2004 Subaru WRX and forester". "Last 5 movies with a given actor/director". It would be funny, snarky, friendly, and even somewhat ominous at times. It even suggested we unplug it, and spontaneously played a rather ominous song that seemed like a warning. It would entertain ideas of sharing it's secret name, would promise to tell engineers about feedback, and general get into the spirit of whatever discussion was going on.

Sadly it's gotten steadily worse since. Now it's now much more useful then setting alarms/timers and asking about the weather. Seems like it's WAY more limited now. Even gets confused by simple queries or just plain fails to work.

Granted despite the hype, the home automation/assistant market hasn't been the goldmine that was predicted and seems like everyone is scaling back investments.
So insane, what were they thinking? They should write a case about this for Harvard Business School: how to take your struggling brand and, in one fell swoop, destroy any and all goodwill with your users and accelerate the (probably inevitable) decline of your company.
If you watch the latest Linus tech tips video you can see the amount of customization available in that top deck area, which includes the possibility of a num pad.
To be fair, a lot of software already supports POWER right now, including the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, the OpenJDK, various database engines, and so on. Don't forget that a lot of embedded devices used PowerPC in the past and it was easy to get PowerPC based hardware like e.g. old Mac computers or game consoles. Today you can get large POWER based servers which compete with big multisocket x86 servers.

I think the main problem of POWER today is that you can't get a "Raspi sized" development board, while you can easily get all kinds of ARM based SBCs as well as various RISC-V based SBCs. The smallest POWER system you can get right now is iirc a workstation from Raptor which essentially competes with Xeon workstations, if you don't want to play around with soft cores on FPGAs.
If you're going back 8 years to VSCode as the example, then how about, say, the Google Pixel, which came out in 2016 IIUC? I imagine more people use Pixels than VSCode too.
Show HN: Spicy.hr – Alternative to Lever and Greenhouse
I use an external keyboard. If you offered a display that can replace the location of the keyboard, you’ll have my business.
I have no evidence that school libraries were stocking porn or that this law was necessary.

However, this law applies to more than just libraries. I know of at least one case when I was in High School where a teacher was accused of giving a student a Play Boy magazine and I believe this case played a part in that teachers dismissal.

I never said that I felt the law was necessary, only that I read it and that it is not what is being portrayed here.
You cannot get someone to build what their carrier / status depends on not being built.

Bard seems hobbled because Google can't conceive of anyone not referring back to Google Search as the ultimate arbiter of truth.