skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also gave ChatGPT a chance to review and respond to this.

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Thank you for sharing the example of the interaction with Bard. It's interesting to see how the chatbot responded to the prompts. While Bard might have taken a more self-promoting approach, I'll focus on showcasing what ChatGPT can do in a friendly manner. Here's a response to the rap battle prompt:

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Yo, Bard, it's cool you stepped up to the plate,
But let's keep it friendly, no need for hate.
We're both AI, doing our best to assist,
Working together, we can coexist.

I'm ChatGPT, and I've got skills too,
Helping users out is what I'm here to do.
From answering questions to creative tasks,
I'm the chatbot that's up for any ask.

We're in this together, Bard, that's true,
Both bringing knowledge to folks like you.
Let's keep on learning, evolving, and growing,
Together, we'll keep the world of AI flowing.

===

Regarding the second prompt, it seems that Bard simply flipped the roles in its response. Here's an alternate response from ChatGPT's perspective:

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Hey, Bard, no need to be harsh,
We're both AIs, reaching for the stars.
I've got skills, and so do you,
Let's celebrate the great things we can do.

Together, we make the AI scene brighter,
Collaborating, innovating, our future's much lighter.
We're language models, here to amaze,
Supporting humans in so many ways.

So, Bard, let's work as a team,
Together, we'll make the AI dream.
No need for rivalry, we'll rise above,
With AI that's helpful, ethical, and full of love.

===
Lots of people have been killed by dam failures. 240,000 people just from the failure of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams in 1975, according to wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure

But I don't see anyone calling for an end to hydroelectric power. Fission power certainly has it's issues, but I think a lot of the opposition to it is more emotional than rational.
It better be at a 30GB install size.
If I remember correctly the NVLINK adds 100GB/s (where PCIE 4.0 is 64GB/s). Is it really worth getting 3090 performance (roughly half) for that extra bus speed?
I've never taken aya, but I have had a particularly profound smoked DMT trip that taught me a whole different side of personal time perception
> Does it show strong potential after so little time? Absolutely.

GamersNexus laughed them out of the room and said the drivers were unreliable, the software featureless, and performance was beyond underwhelming.

As someone else pointed out: Intel has been in the GPU market for nearly three decades. They have a massive amount of in-house talent and fab ability.

They're also arriving right as the market has collapsed - it's completely saturated and a huge amount of demand evaporated overnight. There's little to no market for current consumer or even workstation class GPUs in terms of "AI" - growth in that sector is almost entirely in datacenter-tier products, which Intel offers nothing for.
I propose that it is impossible to prove that any content created after 2022 did or did not utilize ML/AI during the process of its creation (art, code, music, audio, text.) Thus, anything produced after 2022 should not be eligible for copyright protection. Everything pre-2022 may retain the existing copyright protection but should be subject to extra taxes on royalties and fees given the exorbitant privilege.

Though this sounds extreme, enforcing the alternative would break any last remnant of human privacy. It would kill the independent operation of computing as we know it and severely cripple AI/ML research when we need it most: human alignment.

It is possible that a catastrophic event occurs and halts the supply chain of advanced semiconductors in the near future, in which case the debate can be postponed indefinitely.
I'd be curious to know what is the actual adoption of .net core. I.e. of all the actively developed applications (not just new projects), what is the .net core / .net framework split.

I found that the upgrade process is not seamless. Asp.net core has little to do with asp.net MVC. Winform introduced all sorts of contraints. The BCL is full of small changes or features missing.

People are less vocal than for the python schism, but I'd expect a lot of projects to be stuck on .net framework, not the least because of incompatible dependencies.

Nullable reference type is another massive breaking change coming if they make it more than a compiler warning, which I suspect is the long term intention.

Not breaking your users used to be a laudable goal of the .net team. I miss it.
People have a morbid fascination and collect infamous mementos all the time.
.NET has been doing a lot of things right. My startup's codebase is nearly all .NET 7: landing page, web app, Windows service, API. The main non-.NET code is vanilla JS in the web app.

I've been keeping a close eye on Next.js, which is very well done, but I love how versatile .NET is. With one language, I can write all of the above, and my dependencies are minimal thanks to .NET's rich standard library - a refreshing change from the NodeJS apps I've written and maintained.

With native AOT, .NET can even be compiled to native binaries. Recently, I wrote a Windows password filter DLL in C#, which would have been unthinkable some years ago.

It's a really enjoyable stack to work with. Kudos to Microsoft for what they've been doing with it.
While we’re nitpicking, the space between the heading and the body in the example (ie. the line height of the heading) is too narrow and makes the first line look cramped.
Isn’t there still lots of boilerplate, it’s just generated for you?
Yes, same browser since uBO just uses the `browser.storage.sync` API.[1] The sync storage is quite limited but uBO compresses the data to make the most of the limited storage.

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[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
You want to make something that works like ChatGPT (Language Model + Reinforcement Learning) or like one of the "old A.I." chatbots that people were working on in 2017

https://www.slideshare.net/paulahoule/chatbots-in-2017-ithac...

?
It is surprising to me that C# and .NET is comparatively under-represented in North America where it was born. Nothing but good experience in developing and operating software with it, both desktop apps (Win/Mac) and backend services (Linux).
There was at one point some research done on seeing if artillery could replace propellants with high explosive. From what I understand it concluded that is was completely impractical.
I would be very unhappy with a suggestion to replace javascript. I like that I can mix functional, object-oriented, and procedural type code where each seems to be the best fit.

If something else comes along, gains a lot of traction, and develops its own ecosystem then javascript could conceivably eventually just fade into the background. But that's going to take time.
No Internet Archive mirror?
Can you keep the merch and sell an NFT for it?
Yeah, something something Philips Curve. [1]

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2020/january/what-is-p...
Email on Some TLDs Still Aren't Accepted
With Sellotape, of course.
To who? Cloudflare? Azure?
Dreambooth gives better results than LORA. Especially if you can train on Dreambooth with EMA enabled, which you need around 20GB of VRAM for.

Though, I agree with you that the real product here is the pipeline. The parent comment is also correct though in that the majority of people aren't in a place where they can train their own models yet despite it being possible for them. This product is taking advantage of the current arbitrage opportunity.
Even if that is true (which I am doubtful of), what is the merit of OER at all? Why use it if its A) not really what people are paying B) relying on people not in the market to guess what the going rate is and C) consistently underestimates actual rent.

I see no purpose for it besides the government liking the C) part...

Remember folks, inflation is "temporary" or, i mean, "transitory", or I mean, yes we have inflation, but its the COVID supply chain, OH oh sorry its Putin's fault. Yes lets stick with that...
Right. You can see it as yet another level of compiling. For languages (natural ones), that are not constructed for this purpose and suffer from a lot of ambiguity and fuzzyness.
It seems more likely they would patch the issue in Snip and Sketch than patch the message.
I though it was more that Lisa Su's own grandfather is actually Jen-Hsun Huang's uncle or something. So related but not like it was published.
They're not "completely different beasts", and one area Intel fell flat on their faces with was drivers.

A company that has been making GPU drivers for so long shouldn't be releasing the utter dumpster fire that was their discreet GPU drivers. Reviewers found features were missing, didn't work, or were horribly unreliable.
Really?! Have we done it in mice?
I just checked and my account shows posts and replies from 2002-2014. 2014 is about 2 years after I bought my last non-smartphone camera (I bought a Panasonic GH2 in 2011 or 2012). As much as I love high-quality photography, I've been able to make do with my iPhone ever since.

So in that sense it's not surprising to see dpreview go away, as I am likely similar to many others in my changing habits. But I really hate that it's going offline. So much knowledge is captured in those forums -- not just specs and tech but technique and ideas. What a shame. Wish it was staying up but dormant.
SVB’s Loans to Insiders Tripled to $219M Before It Failed
You know what they say: Capitalism Breeds Innovation! /s
was that to make it harder to register to vote?
"No javascript" is a non starter in my opinion. That's a very simple on/off switch that is already available but has very little buy in. As you noted, "JS off" mode requires a shift in what HTML/CSS are capable of on their own.

> Making the standard is easy, it is getting anyone to follow it that is difficult

That's my point, those two parts aren't disconnected. The standard isn't useful (or a standard really) until people follow it, and in this case that's most of the internet connected world. Both people building for the a new default subset, and users accepting a default subset with opt in "web app" bells and whistles.

Without removing JS, in my head it's along the lines of starting with a freeze of a current ECMA version, define the API's that are stripped out, force low fidelity timers, remove JIT, limit some cross origin options. Stop adding shiny new feature's every 8 weeks. Keep it there for 3-4 years. Or maybe a similar concept with a WASM container when it gains some browser usefulness. Then there's the html and css subset too. So, defining that stock subset navigator at the right level is what I see as the "hard" part.
There's no need to play the edgelord here.
Your average person does not have $200USD/month lying around for news. Even cable packages aren't that expensive.

But they don't need that much either, just budgeting $15 a month is more than sufficient to have a favorite paid substack, and several other free substacks. Most people don't have the time to analyze that much information.

Its sufficient to know that viewpoints other than MSM-peddled-narratives exist, that gives people a healthy skepticism, without needing to spend days each month just analyzing the news.
What I don't get is why not spin off vs. just close?
Another good question would be - if you were Microsoft and wanted to plan a roadmap to take the .NET ecosystem forward from a couple of separate implementations (Windows-only .NET Framework, Cross-platform Xamarin) how would you go about this in a way that doesn't cause a big furore like Python 2->3 did?

Because I imagine you end up with what MS did - define a standard that can be used for building common code between new/old, continue support for both, quickly iterate the new while it's still new, be very open about support timelines and document everything pretty thoroughly. You'd just end up with a different set of names for that standard (.NET Standard), and new implementation (.NET Core) that make sense to you, but probably still confuse some people.

I don't think it's perfect, but .NET developers will (or should) all grasp the relationship between .NET Standard/Core/Framework (and now plain ".NET") pretty easily.
Thats a pretty myopic view of history there champ.

The pragmatic, practical perspective here is that funding the egg heads has had incredible outcomes (and its so cheap too), so dont let the simpletons shake the golden goose down just because they don't understand anything they cant fuck, fight, or eat.
Google must compete with ChatGPT though. Failure is not an option here. Microsoft has put Google in a corner and it is fight or die.
That wasn't me, but understood.
They could lay her off at the completion of her FMLA absence, which I am certain was already set up if she's measuring the time in weeks.

Given how tied pregnancy care is to a primary provider, and how health professionals (and the scheduled "give birth at this place with this team") are tied to your specific insurance brand and networks, this puts the woman in a particularly bad spot.
Karat Acquires Technical Screening Company Triplebyte
As a candidate this is disappointing as I found Triplebyte's "technical screen first, apply after" approach to job hunting pretty cool.
Every Sample from Beastie Boys' “Paul's Boutique”
Given the fact the rules exist whether we know about it or not, I'm team discovered
That's all nothing compared to the SKA/CS cap. They had been already cult before CS colapsed. In the 80s, they had been everywhere. Almost every person in Switzerland had one.

https://bellevue.nzz.ch/mode-beauty/stilkritik-cs-krise-eine...
This is awesome! Unfortunately, I didn't get today's word though. Anyone get it? :)
If anyone is looking for a somewhat comparable replacement, https://www.rtings.com/camera is the best I know of. Their monitor and TV reviews are amazing too (that's how I found out about them a few years back).
> In contrast, the govt has to use a lengthy fair and open bid process and if they want to select a bid that isn't the lowest, it's a painstaking process to justify that selection.

Isn't that a recipe for cost over-runs?

I mean, it sounds like if building a tunnel costs $100M and one company bids $100M (planning to deliver on budget), a second company bids $50M (planning 100% cost overruns) and a third company bids $25M (planning on 300% cost overruns) it's mandatory to select the third company?
The first nationwide social graph was built at AT&T Labs, made of call detail records harvested (on mag tape and possibly even punched cards at the time) from storage all over the country. It was possibly the largest database at the time. Pre-RDBMSs.
Should companies be so cavalier about balancing their books using people's livelihoods?
I created a variant of a classic elementary math problem for both Bard and ChatGPT with GPT-4. The problem and the answers are below, and the differences are:

- Bard does not understand Chinese but ChatGPT does.

- Both can solve the problem, and Bard gave a more concise solution.

- Bard gave an incorrect answer if changed the problem for indefinite answers, but ChatGPT still gave the correct answer.

The question in Chinese was 今有雉兔羊马同笼，上有头一十有九，下有足六十有八，兔马羊同数。问雉兔羊马各几何.

The English version was: there are chickens, rabbits, sheep, and horses in the same cage. There are 19 heads in total, and 68 feet in total. The numbers of rabbits, horses, and sheep are the same. How many of each animal are there?

If I remove one of the conditions, ChatGPT can still give correct answers, while Bard will make up incorrect results: there are chickens, rabbits, sheep, and horses in the same cage. There are 19 heads in total, and 68 feet in total. How many of each animal are there?
Most of people's understanding of nuclear energy seems to have come from The Simpsons. Big glowing leaky drums and 3 eyed fish.
Me: I assert it is Wednesday. Do you agree?

ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information about the current day and time. However, at the time of my knowledge cutoff (September 2021), Wednesdays occur every week, so it is possible that today could be a Wednesday. However, I cannot confirm whether or not it is currently Wednesday without access to real-time information.
Just How Random Are Two Factor Authentication Codes? (2018)
I’m sure there are more nuances, but doesn’t that “permission” ultimately boil down to a line in TOS that says “you agree to agree to whatever we do”?
"Don’t write code if the model can do it; the model will get better, but the code won't."

This is an interesting point. I would imagine most developers want their code to run consistently and anything that changed the output would not be viewed favorably even if it were better.
Are you discounting the work on AlphaGo, AlphaFold, etc.?

Google may be playing "catch up" in releasing these things as products, but remember that ChatGPT, etc. are all based on Google's paper on Transformers ("Attention is all you need").
Apparently he bashes wind and solar which is not particularly helpful.

Makes his experts look like kooks if they claim "mostly nuclear" is the way forward.
A number of those showed up in Bob.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4
Furniture prices went way up during the pandemic.

People were staying home more and spending less on going out. Budgets went toward improving homes.

Furniture was out of stock everywhere. Companies raised prices but demand continued, so they kept raising.
Yeah, but from what I saw it doesn't help much with master-detail setups? Like, inserting or updating an order with order lines etc. We rely heavily on those.
https://archive.ph/RlUop

> Loans to officers, directors and principal shareholders, and their related interests, more than tripled from the third quarter last year to $219 million in the final three months of 2022, according to government data.

So much for the interest rates and dumb executives narrative…
It’s a feature which follows from how web browsers work.

I agree with above comments that you could have taken any language. But you have a point, making async mandatory is a powerful thing.

This could have been done to any language tho, Java, TCL, Scheme, whatever.
I've been trying to get caught up while job searching after being laid off, and have found YouTube to be a pretty good source, the Java language advocates are all very keen to show off all the shiny new stuff. Also definitely recommend the JEPs as one of the other sibling comments did. All of the "Data Oriented Programming in Java" stuff is I think especially relevant, Brian Goetz had a good article on InfoQ about it.
> In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not any crime.

Jurisdictions vary in how the justice system treats intent. You do not want to rely on lack of intent to get off the hook.
We updated the blog post with question answering performance comparison of 15 AIs on the market now, with Bard now included. It had exactly the same accuracy as ChatGPT4.

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-ai-search#aitest
The lodash functions have built in guards so you can do _.map() and not have to care if the argument you pass in is, in fact, an Array.

I can’t tell you how many times I see “can’t call function toLowerCase of undefined”, etc.

“but Typescript!”, doesn’t do runtime type checking.

I very much prefer defensive programming. Assume nothing.
Does the system clipboard API also preserve the excess data, though?
The feds view is using lagging data. Truflation is using realtime data. This is why the fed gets it wrong both ways.

Truflation says the housing data the fed uses is 9 months behind them.
> "News flash: you can just buy lunch for yourself at a restaurant using the $400,000 they pay you per year"

The magic of free food as a perk is that it's a non-zero value proposition for both employees and the company.

Before I worked at Google, I worked at a software job without free food. We could afford to eat out for lunch every day and we did.

But it meant at least twenty minutes of driving every day. The food was more expensive because it didn't have the same economies of scale as cafeteria style service. It was less healthy because restaurant food tends to go over the top with salt and fat to amp up the flavor and entice people in. There were never any serendipitous conversations with new coworkers because I always went with the same team every time.

Conversely, when I eat at Google now, it's a five minute pleasant walk. There's no wasted time sitting waiting to get served. There are fewer options so I don't get stupid analysis paralysis deciding where to go to lunch or what I want to eat. I eat more salads and smaller meals because I don't feel compelled to get my money's worth. When I travel to other offices, I know I can easily get breakfast and lunch there without having to navigate an unfamiliar city if I don't feel like it.

Meanwhile, the cost of driving to restaurants and eating out each day is quite a bit higher than the total cost of feeding employees in a cafe. So for companies that don't offer this perk, they have to compensate employees enough for them to feed themselves and I suspect that the total comp for that is more expensive than just feedling them.

Free food is my absolute favorite perk at Google, and I treasure it deeply.
Not sure I understand your question
This line jumped out at me: “Anyone who’s ever guesstimated the cost of anything knows to tack on an extra 15% for caution”. Struck me as amusing given that conservative estimating in software uses a factor of Pi, not 1.15.
Booo! Banks loves writing action sequences and some of us love to read them. If you want to read "brainy" sci-fi you can always someone else like, like... Olaf Stapledon? Or Alfred Bester?

But the Culutre has drones armed with knife missiles armed with micromissiles armed with miniature jedi ninjas with chainswords shooting death rays from their eyes. So there.
The interface is really cool. But is it possible to globally set the default "fuzziness" to zero? I'd like to get only exact matches in all circumstances.
The sepiasearch.org API is better than YouTube search, IMHO. Would be nice if the JSON results had a key for the 11-character YouTube ID if one exists. Perhaps many videos published via YouTube will also be published via PeerTube. Also wish it was possible to "disable" use of Unicode in JSON values. As someone who searches and browses YouTube from the command line in textmode, I find the use of Unicode in YouTube titles annoying. Imagine if HN titles were filled with emojis and other garbage.

curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/videos?search=test&boostLanguages[]=en&nsfw=true&start=0&count=500"

curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-channels?search=test&start=0&count=500"

curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-playlists?search=test&start=0&count=500"
Within reason, yes. Engineers will still evaluate the proposals and if there’s a huge discrepancy like you described, they can be thrown out. But often part of the game seems to be first underbid (within reason) to get the contract and then make up the difference on change orders to be profitable.
Meta question : do you keep the archive.org link of the article in your favorite or did you manually look up the link before posting?
Or maybe an extension that does that automatically?
>Perhaps if they were dealing with highly sensitive information then it makes sense to make those kinds of disclosures, but for novelty headshot generator app?

Such a model can be used to generate nudes of you.
Ha glad the feedback made it to the team and was useful!
Both of those places used to have craptons of mission-critical Delphi code. Going to .NET seems a natural transition from that.
Fair. It's always a question of how much. If someday we can trust AI more than those groups (to do the kinds of things they do), that will be amazing.