skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do handle cops that fall out of line, but falling out of line in this case means turning in bad cops. The good cops get pushed out and sometimes even murdered
I have no problem with paying for high quality ad free search. I would welcome the change.
They had the resources, but the Venn diagram of gamers and people familiar enough with Google to doubt their commitment had a lot of overlap.
Because all of europe is in the same or worse place? No matter how much remainers want to blame brexit for everything, it isnt’t always the case. Central europe is around or a few points less than the um while easter and western europe are higher

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/11zwtif/annual_infl...
> When was the last time they launched a major new product that truly had a lasting impact on the level of Search, Maps, Gmail, Android?

When was the last time Microsoft did that (prior to the AI rush of the last few months)?
Well, the two extremes would be an even distribution of small homes over the entire agricultural footprint space for the human population, vs. all the humans living in a giant skyscraper surrounded by the agricultural (and energy, and water) production zone. Each setup has certain advantages and disadvantages (transport from field -> skyscraper has a cost, vs. local availability of basic resources, but on the other hand, if you have to run fiber optic to every household, that gets expensive). In terms of delivery, it depends on lot on the mass of what's being delivered.

If we want to go larger, then imagine multiple installations like this, perhaps specializing in different production capabilities, and trading among one another. Sort of a Factorio gameplay scenario.

Basically, would skyscrapers (or underground versions) be the best way to colonize Mars (you'd still need the large agricultural zones)? See also Mad Max: Fury Road for the dystopian version (BulletFarm, GasTown, and Hydroponics/Milk IIRC).

Back on Earth, the issue would be that if you doubled the population density of a city by building a lot of skyscrapers without also doubling the regional agricultural zone size, you'd end up dependent on import of foodstuffs from remote regions, which could become a problem.
The child molesting teachers don't band together and murder the other teachers who turn them in
Why not use Nim instead if you want a faster Python?
I think I agree with you but I want to point out to any young up-and-comers reading this that you shouldn't just naively act like the world agrees, at least not in situations where you have a lot to lose and not much to fall back on. It's like piracy. Yes, intellectual property law is stupid and should be thwarted whenever possible, and we can talk like that all we want. Just be careful with your actions.
OpenAI's product is AI, all else is in service to that.

Google's product is ads, with all else--including AI--in service to that.
It'd also be really interesting to a similar view on cost per square foot. The US is probably expensive from high labour + land costs, but it might more even expensive than those would suggest.
Rules of thumb often apply.
Hey, hey, now. :) We can point out incest while not making any unproven allegations about Eve or Cain specifically:

When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of a son who was just like him—in his very image. He named his son Seth. After the birth of Seth, Adam lived another 800 years, and he had other sons and daughters. --Genesis 5:3-4
The internet has been creaking under the load of hyper scale SEO content. Content that makes you ask how anyone could let this happen. It’s embarrassing. The internet has had a horrible experience for years now. ChatGPT arrived to finally sift through this mess on our behalf and deliver reasonable experience.

Google should have been the one to do this. They invented the tech after all. But they got trapped in the innovator’s dilemma, just like Kodak. Interesting how even with the benefit of history we repeat these mistakes over and over.

In the big picture it doesn’t matter. Society still gets the benefit of the tech at the end of the day. The employees play musical chairs as the industry reorganizes and a new order emerges. Life goes on.

I am just glad getting information from the internet is pleasant again. Although there is a nagging problem. How are people going to get paid to write content to feed the models? Hmm
Factual truth is required, but it is not the only part of human communication by a long shot. "It's true" is a meaningless defense of expressions (past childhood) if nobody is claiming otherwise (downvotes don't mean "I think this is a lie").

The GP leaves the degree of taxation/funding, as well as the broader context of what other entities are tax funded and to what degree, unspoken; and they imply that, whatever those facts may be, it's a bad thing in this case. The parent (and other commenters) then provided some of that relevant information (and, assuming that information is true, you presumably would appreciate such a thing).

As for the downvoters, they may reasonably disagree with the parent's implication that it is a bad thing, or disapprove of their omission of details. You may reasonably disagree with this use of the downvote button, but it means they are not necessarily claiming the GP is stating an untruth.
Yeah, when the “site:” search hack doesn’t get me an answer and I fall back on the normal SERPs, most of the time the top several results are all:

“Authoritative title that references my exact search” -> page body restates my question, gives an oddly reworded summary of Thing in Question #1 -> “some people online have said” followed by snippets lifted from the ether -> repeat for Things 2,3,etc -> “our suggestion is to look at the features and decide based on what other customers/users are saying”

It’s perfected vapidity wearing the skin of an editorial review site and takes a LOT more cognitive load to suss out the phoneyness compared to the last time the SERPs were packed with spam (~10 years back).
Not op, but I have a similar view.

Note that I still like quite a bit of their content, but…

The frequency and aggressiveness with with some NPR folks try to seek out perceived “victims of society” can be eye-roll worthy. I realize that it’s a narrative that resonates with their audience, but they can definitely cherry-pick their sources to the point that one could reasonably argue that their sources are not representative of the population/group (often by a lot).

This has certainly been true when I’ve known the populations/groups well. Friends from other areas/domains have confirmed similar bias in their geographic areas and/or areas of professional expertise.
Failure of forethought with the wrong deadlines in place, soup to nuts.
Oh, gRPC over JSON still gives you the advantage of a well-defined API. But I use OpenAPI aka Swagger for that because it's a much thinner layer, especially if for whatever reason I need to handle HTTP GET (callbacks/webhooks) in addition to my typical HTTP POST JSON.
Judging from activity on Civitai, I think “almost no one is using it except for a few experiments” is very wrong. Sure, A1111 needs a plugin for it; it needs a plugin for ControlNET, too, but that is also quite popular.
NPR is definitely one of the institutions doing it right when it comes to reporting standards.

Makes news like these layoffs all the more heartbreaking.
lol do you actually live in LA to witness the towers going up everywhere over the last 10-15 years? also, 3 orders of magnitude is 100% -> 10% -> 1% -> .1% of reported numbers.
Silly.

Yes, there will be human language interfaces to existing APIs.

But: The APIs themselves will still be in their own “non natural” language. Precisely because such a technical language defines boundaries.

Even the author, in his example, admits to using AWS’ “terminology”.

And that’s the point: In order to use an API, you must understand its basic concepts and limitations.

The new “plug-ins” that OpenAI announced are proving this point. They are precisely the glue between the gooey human language understanding of ChatGPT and the prickly language of an API (to use some Alan Watts terminology).
I'm more skeptical than most people here.

Except for certain clearly defined math problems (even math problems often aren't like that), WolframAlpha has turned out to be surprisingly useless for me in the last years. All these examples Wolfram mentions in his blog were possible via the WolframAlpha website/app before. Granted, now you don't have to worry about getting your WA query exactly right (a major problem in the past), since the GPT will handle this for you. But most of these examples seem still of little value to the vast majority of people.

Distance between Chicago and Tokyo? Planetary Moons larger than Mercury? Those examples are typical for WolframAlpha in that they are of very little interest.

I predict that in a few weeks most people here will have mostly forgotten about the Wolfram plugin, as it will turn out to be rarely useful. The plugins by OpenAI themselves (web access, compiler) are much more promising.
I admire both Elon and Bill. They are both geniuses in their own respects. Elon is more anti-social, but probably because Bill had a much comfortable childhood.
Well I'm kind of just waiting on PRs for the rest of the day today and it's a Friday, so I'll consider this a modern equivalent of https://xkcd.com/303/
Content Negotiation Considered Harmful
Or maybe just laziness.

I know someone who joined a company and found a dead-man's switch in the server.

He could have taken it out, but instead he just resets it every three months, just like the guy before him.

If the company ever gets rid of him and doesn't hire someone equally skilled and thorough, the production server will eat itself right about the time his unemployment benefits run out.
They don't because they can't. That is, most everything is "filtered" by the suits. If it wasn't we'd see more of the transparency / disclaimers you're hoping for.
You should check out the area of Beijing and the other Chinese cities on the list. Or even Tokyo.
I use to love hearing Sylvia Poggioli say her name.
Show HN: Well-documented Blazor component library
I have been using this Blazor component library and in terms of documentation and ease of use its so much better than its competitors (MudBlazor and Blazorise) and very well maintained. I am not affiliated with them but I really enjoy using it. I just wanted to share my opinion. Maybe we can star them on GitHub :)

https://havit.blazor.eu/

https://github.com/havit/Havit.Blazor
Could someone enlighten me?
Chinese 2017 National Security Law Article 7 says "Any organization and citizen shall support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work in accordance with the law" [1]. This law says TikTok must obey and help the Chinese government national intelligence.

The concern is that although you live in Canada, US, Europe; you can still be "arrested" by Chinese police working in hidden police departments in the Canada, US, and Europe [2]. And TikTok will tell them where you are. From the second article: FBI director Christopher Wray told a US Senate hearing in November that attempts by China to set up a police presence on US soil "violates sovereignty and circumvents standard judicial and law enforcement cooperation processes".

[1] http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c30834/201806/483221713dac4f31bda7...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64909560
I've been listening to Bloomberg more than NPR recently for general news. NPR often seems silly... also they have more ads than the ultra-capitalist Bloomberg.

One bright spot (but it's not NPR): Locally, WGBH has Jim and Margery of "Boston Public Radio"

https://www.wgbh.org/news/boston-public-radio
> The nonprofit, OpenAI Inc., is the sole controlling shareholder of OpenAI LP. OpenAI LP, despite being a for-profit company, retains a formal fiduciary responsibility to OpenAI Inc.'s nonprofit charter. A majority of OpenAI Inc.'s board is barred from having financial stakes in OpenAI LP. In addition, minority members with a stake in OpenAI LP are barred from certain votes due to conflict of interest.

> The company then distributed equity to its employees and partnered with Microsoft, announcing an investment package of $1 billion into the company. OpenAI also announced its intention to commercially license its technologies. OpenAI plans to spend the $1 billion "within five years, and possibly much faster". Altman has stated that even a billion dollars may turn out to be insufficient, and that the lab may ultimately need "more capital than any non-profit has ever raised" to achieve artificial general intelligence.

Otherwise it sounds like Greg Brockman is the main guy of the for profit business?
There was a very clear cultural shift at NPR. Outside of their straight news, it seemed like culturally they started to swing left on culture-war topics. Their reporting remains one of the least biased out there, but in terms of podcasts and shows, a pretty clear bias appeared. It was kind of strange, because I'm generally a pretty liberal person, and I appreciated NPR for frequently challenging my own biases with very well executed stories. I feel less and less challenged lately.

If I had to speculate, I'd say it came down the explosion in podcasts giving them a much larger audience than just folks listening to the radio, coupled with a sort of org-wide understanding that media had a hand in creating the culture war as it stood. You see the same sort of more-outspokenness in a lot of other media outlets doing their level best to balance out the impact of Fox News, with varying degrees of success.
Sure, but the best engineering team in my firm are poor writers. I can hire "translators" to write down stuff for them at 1/5 the cost.
What kind of server would you need to self host it?
At least for me, it was two main factors:

1. I started driving a lot less, so I really couldn't get into a topic.

2. The conversations became very focused around the pandemic. There are pros and cons to escapism, but that was the main thing I wanted out of the medium.
It definitely doesn't mean ads, and introducing ads would be a mistake.

They will likely lower the limits on free use once they're ready to handle a huge influx of paid users. They are in a tough spot temporarily ramping up things enough to take the limits of paid accounts, and since they can't onboard everybody they're being generous with the free tier, but that will end.
https://archive.ph/QM726
Living in the middle of a dense city does improve quality of life for many people via access to amenities and jobs with a very short commute. A hypothetical 50 story skyscraper can provide these benefits to 50 times as many people as a single story building could.

You're right that light and sky visibility are finite resources that require more land. 100+ story buildings can feel oppressive to people. The question to ask then is why we allocate so little land to mid-rise development and force it all into Manhattan and small downtowns. That's the biggest reason we have such tall buildings there.
Not the op but they became identity politics focused. I listened to them from the time my grandfather turned me on to them when I was around 11, he listened to the nightly jazz program and after that was an old fashioned radio drama rebroadcast. I continued listening for 27 years until every single story seemed to be about identity politics or issues of identity. I dont listen to anything unless I happen to catch hidden brain, this American life or planet money when I'm in the car.
Yes, according to my journal I gave it a three of five. I recall it being a pedestrian (heh) unreliable narrator story driven by a Borges trope setting.
Throughput. Of course it won't be obvious if you aren't running parallel implementations of your backend in python and C++/Rust/etc to compare your cloud billing, but 10x slower means 10x more compute requirements for the same service quality, doesn't it? And you have to pay for that. Maybe price doesn't increase linearly, but I'm sure it does increase.
Larry and Sergey are radioactive post-MeToo. I'm not sure how people manage to constantly forget the extent of their misbehavior and misconduct of Harvey Weinstein-level proportions. But it's there, and if they come out of their private island hidey-holes, they will almost certainly get reminded of it, very publicly.

Also, they have absolutely no reason to. Both have more money than they could ever spend in several generations of childrens' lifetimes, and barring the absolute worst case scenario, even a moderately mediocre Google will continue to generate absolutely hilarious amounts of wealth for them for a long time to come. Being a has been like IBM or Oracle isn't going to really harm them much at all.
Eh. A lot of creative thinking goes into creating the weights. Photography is just taking a photo, but you still own the rights to it because you clicked the button.
You can be as self-assured as you like, and that's your prerogative, but why post a response if you're not going to take the time to be convincing in any way, such as by providing any evidence, information, or even rhetoric? I'm certainly not going to change my mind because you said you read a book.
Do you mind providing correct answers for those? (and did GPT get them right?)
Whomst among us hasn't made the old "accidentally let the SSL cert expire" mistake?
Agricultural production is pretty ruinous to the native biota, although this can be mitigated by introducing patchiness. Farms are kill zones, in other words - you have to kill the insects and rodents which would otherwise devour the crops intended for the humans in the skyscrapers. A lot of people (vegans ahem) seem to not understand this (although it is true that if you're eating the crops directly, and avoiding the losses involved in feeding the crops to animals and then eating the animals, you can subsist on a smaller agricultural footprint).
They're not having a great Friday.
You're right. Murder is wrong.

Now if I was to design, test, and debug these devices, then release the blueprints along with a manifesto that lists what I feel are problems in society and who I feel are causing the problems, how would that be different from what Thiel is doing?
I wonder if AI search could be sth consumers would happily pay a tiny bit for
> "Don't trust everything you read on the internet", or "Don't trust everything you hear on social media"

There is a difference. There are places with reputation and backlogs and even with scientific references.

But if AI just gives you a text, there is nothing.
Until they fix references, you can’t really use it for anything factual, non-logical information.
I'm the only one terrible bored by the assault of the trivial AI news last months?

Every fart some AI related person makes becomes a huge news. And it's followed by tens of random blog postings all posted to HN.
That's a lie if so, if you look at the Reddit threads there's no way those were not specific other users histories as they had the logical history of reading browser history. Eg, one I saw had stuff like "what is X", then the next would be "How to X" or something. Some were all in Japanese, others all in Chinese. If it was random you wouldn't see clear logical consistency across the list.
spinning up a subsidiary in another country (especially one with very strict labor laws, like in european countries) is not as easy as "find some guy on the internet and pay him to watch your dashboard. and then give him root so he can actually fix stuff without calling your domestic team, which would defeat the whole purpose.

also, even getting paged ONCE a month at 3am will fuck up an entire week at a time if you have a family. if it happens twice a month, that person is going to quit unless they're young and need the experience.
Fair questions!

We work with everyone from individual university researchers trying to understand cancer genomes or European economic plans in their graph DBs, to big corporations struggling with supply chains in Databricks, to government cyber & fraud teams using Splunk. For many, an OpenAI/Azure LLM is fine, or with specific guard rails they've been having us put in.

But yes, when talking with banking & government teams, the conversation is generally more around self-hosted models. Privacy + cost both important there -- there is a LOT of data folks want to push through LLM embeddings, graph neural nets, etc. We generally prefer bigger contracts in the air-gapped-everything world, especially for truly massive data, though thankfully, costs are plummeting for LLMs. Alpaca/Dolly are great examples here. Some folks will buy 8-100 GPUs at a time, so this is no different for those. My $ is on continuing to shrink LLMs down to regular single-GPU being fine for many scenarios. The quality jump of GPT4 has been amazing, so it's use case dependent: data cleaning seems fine on smaller models, while we love GPT4 for deeper analyst enablement. Wait 6mo and it's clear there'll be ~OSS GPT4, and for now, even GPT3.5 equivs via Alpaca-style techniques are interesting, a lot of $ has begun moving around.

LLM side is new from a use case perspective but not as much from an AI sw/hw pipeline view. Just "a bigger bert model". A lot of discussions with folks has been extrapolating with them based on what they're already doing with GPUs, where it's just another big GPU model use case. Internally to us, as product team doing a lot of data analyst UX & always-on GPU AI pipeline work... a very different story, its made what was already a crazy quarter even that much more nuts.
Go issue: stop using direct syscalls on OpenBSD
Honestly I was expecting preact to fare much worse given what you wrote.

Those numbers aren’t _the best_, but given the improvement in TTI from only needing 3kb of framework that seems like a pretty good tradeoff.
The inflation the sales went down so much lately that my local supermarket stopped selling m&m’s, snickers, mars, kit kat, …. They only sell the store brand now.

Was genuinely searching for the the stuff and asked a clerk, they said that stuff's gone so pricey people don't buy any more... It's honestly a little worrying

https://twitter.com/jlengrand/status/1639340552536686592
What happened to the downvote buttons on this comment page?
Rare Show of Northern Lights Dazzles North America
For real. There is so much frivolous crap in Edge. All this points nonsense and gamification of search is so off-putting I can't see how this browser is taken seriously.

Note the only way to hide the obnoxious bing discover button is to edit the registry... pure insanity.
If someone from Framework is reading this, page up and page down are among my most used keys. Having to use an extra hand for something so common is crazy. I absolutely will not buy a laptop or standalone keyboard without dedicated page up and page down keys.

Ideally, page up and down will be next to the arrow keys (look at a Thinkpad keyboard), but off to the side is still better than not existing.
Throughput per year is a valid definition of "speed" in certain contexts; e.g. "if you wanted to add X square footage of new skyscraping housing in a city, which city could get it done fastest."

The thing that it tries to capture vs "linear time to build a single building" is parallelization capacity. Having one expert contractor who built a tower fast, but no capability to build 20 towers at the same time, won't get it done.

The analysis should probably require more samples or data cleanup though. Just from quick inspection of the city at the top of the list: "The fastest city out of any examined is, somehow, Los Angeles, though random variation may be the cause (it only has five skyscrapers in the database)." - doesn't fit with the article's own criteria of "every skyscraper completed between 2000-2020 that was taller than 100 meters, had a start and completion date, and had a gross floor area" because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_L... this list shows many more than 5.
Azure is a functioning newish business.

The difference is Microsoft already has a very diversified revenue stream. Google only has search.