skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if everyone paid their balances in full and on time, credit card companies would still survive.

That goes against my understanding. Do you have a source for that?

I'm pretty sure credit cards make their money off of interest. It's not from the interchange fees from people who pay their balance each month, as those often go straight back to consumers through rewards programs, and just administration costs generally. The card I use most has no annual fee but 2% cash back on everything.
So... nothing changes. It will be the tool for which you will need to manually construct prompts and clean up output (including imagined non-existent APIs).

The availability of a button inside an IDE doesn't make this a fundamental change in how we work
London has experienced the worst drop in quality of life by far, other places are also being hit but they're kind of used to it by now and they can't really fall much further anymore.
Historically, food supply doesn't drive anti-trust. It drives revolutions in the street.
Also many people don't pay attention to how much food costs, at the point of purchase. It's all things that have low numbers that add up. e.g. when asked, nobody knows the price of a pint of milk.
Jesus Christ, what a bunch of incompetent morons, really. I honestly hope they get sued to oblivion with this. M$ and GitHub are having their way with everything lately, this is the first of many mishaps that are bound to happen we put so much trust in one company.
The Chinese part or the spying part?
I'm curious what you found that helped alleviate your pain? For me it was the kinesis advantage.
Technically you're right, but is it worth the trouble for groceries?
I find it difficult to believe GP didn’t know this.
Disease moves like ripples on a pond (2013)
If my 6 figure tax contribution is not worth much, can I keep it? I'll even go back to using debit cards to make it fair.
I have a lot of friends in the UK, and my perception 15 years ago was that it was a country in decline. There was a general feeling of malaise, with not many hopeful for the future.

Has only gotten worse, it seems.
> Demand for food is inelastic

I doubt it. I've read that Americans throw away 40% of their food. Obesity rates suggest people eat far more than they need to. And there are major choices in what to eat - cheap vs expensive calories.
Isn't it the case that we literally have no clue how GPT4 and GPT3.5 are different in terms of training, given OpenAI doesn't want to disclose anything at all?
In the USA the roads are big, the fuel's cheap, and everyone's got a huge vehicle so you need one too to feel safe / be able to see anything; it's an arms race everyone loses.

If you live some place where the SUV's just not going to fit and energy's more expensive, you get the smaller vehicle and everyone else does too.

There are tax rules around huge vehicles in the USA -- you can fully depreciate an enormous work vehicle so there's a surprising number of vehicles that fit just barely into that enormous category.

The only way to get a "manual" these days is to get an electric car. Not exactly a manual, but more like a manual than a slush box.
Demand for a certain number of calories per day is somewhat inelastic. How you get those calories is very elastic. Steak versus rice and beans.
I'm not sure how this cartel like behaviour works in the UK where every major supermarket has its own range of competing products - and then there is the likes of Aldi that is 90% stocked with brand lookalike knock offs?

There are currently competing narratives in the UK about food prices - greedy supermarkets v poor farmers and the same people complaining then say they shop at Aldi because it's cheaper.

Food is still cheap - it represents a small percentage of people's income. However, in the UK, we are beginning to see that food produced without the benefit of slave labour is somewhat less cheaper than it used to be.
The GP made generic dismissive remarks on a spherical cow in vacuum and under a blanket assumption that the other person is an idiot.

That's not how one starts a "constructive conversation".

But, yeah, that's just like my opinion too, man.
> you vastly underestimate civilians. probably not a single gun is needed. a crowd of people at some point will walk into the billionaire's home and make him agree with handing over his wealth.

I'm not underestimating civilians. If what you're suggesting was at all realistic, China would be a democracy and Trump would still be president.

Sure, tens of millions of unarmed people with a single mind could probably do anything (like a mass of zombies can), but you'll never actually get that. There are numerous mechanisms preventing such a mass from forming, and more to dismantle and negate it afterwards.
Also note that Lidl droppeded its prices and the others came out "predicting" lower prices just hours after Svantesson (finance minister) came out of that meeting with the oligopoly and complained about the lack of competition. I think they got the message, but will it be enough? I doubt it.
And accidental opioid (fentanyl) overdoses.

https://peterattiamd.com/anthonyhipolito/
It feels Europe is becoming increasingly poor and unsafe, and the situation in the UK has worsened quite a bit since the start of Brexit.

Anecdotally, seems there's a lot of British and European expats here in the Valley and they don't seem too keen on returning. We've been getting a lot of international applicants (but work from home was supposed to mean Europeans could avoid moving to the "dangerous" US but work for American companies?).
Let's check this empirically. Which cartel-like brands are publicly traded and publish financial reports? We can look at their profit margins next quarter.
> What is silly is that the server will gladly execute plugins for a "normal" end user that aren't in the correct state. That's a classic application security fail.

Can you explain what the security issue is here? The normal user modifies requests, chooses to use an unreleased plugin, then...?
It's way more than that. I'm paying double for nearly everything now.
Simple: Thiel unironically believes in techno-feudalism and is willing to work with anti-LGBT forces to bring it about as an alternative to whatever the heck Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been doing.
This 100% — I don’t get why it doesn’t come up in discussions more. Personally, I think the US should offer an ultimatum: allow American apps access to the Chinese market, or face a full ban of all Chinese apps in the American market.
> Why does the American public tolerate police unions?

Corporate media shapes public opinion shapes political campaigns. Violent crime is historically low, but the public thinks crime is rampant and rising.

Because real money is on the line. From manufactured outrage (advertising) to the schools-to-prison pipeline to the penal industry.

Witness the Democrats ongoing "tough on crime" measures. Total kabuki. With real world consequences.

Witness the success rate of "progressive" prosecutors. Every one of them chewed up and spit out by The System.

--

FWIW, my best guess is successful reform will come from urban courts and judges.

My city's and county's benches are very progressive. Stuff like creating separate courts for vets, bringing wrap around social services to the court room, innovations such as restorative justice, a traveling court that brings proceedings to the communities, shepherding student courts, etc, etc.
Musk also says he has no equity.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1639142924985278466?s=46...
There is something called price elasticity of demand, which is how much demand reacts to changes in price.

Here we're discussing food... People have to eat so demand for food, at least staples, does not change much when prices rise as long as people can afford to pay (and by and large currently they can).

It should also be noted that in developed countries the price of food has collapsed as a proportion of people's income over the last 100 years. So the reality is that even if prices double demand will probably not change much apart from some arbitrages (go to cheaper brands/supermarkets, drop in demand of a few luxury items and non food items).
Because plenty of states would just enshrine the shitty status quo into law? States have freedom to enact police accountability right now and just don't. The only way to make it happen will be federal supremacy on the issue. Federal standards on government application of violence should not be contentious. I should be able to cross state lines and not deal with terrible police departments just because an independent state decided to not fix this issue.
Microsoft's margin on Azure spending is around 75%, so their investment may really be 4 times smaller than reported if it all funnels back in to exclusive spending on their high margin datacenter business (I'm sure lots goes to salaries and other expenses too though).
We don't need everyone to, though. If AI increases dev productivity X-fold, and this leads to an X-fold increase in entrepreneurship, then the junior devs who want to build someone else's dream will have more opportunities to do so.
I can confirm that GPT4 is much better than Bing on such tasks (have used both extensively for same prompts.)
Ticketmaster fees also go to the artist. It's just a way to advertise lower prices vs all in. At the point where the fees are disclosed you are basically all in and less likely to cancel your purchase since you just picked your seats etc...
War ends sooner or later but Brexit and it's effects are here to stay forever.
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For reference, that's a fairly average value for Europe at the moment. Not sure why the UK is being singled out.

https://i.redd.it/8hbhiqhowjpa1.png
Not related but The price of poultry has gone up significantly in the GTA, and a friend who works for the government informed me that there is an outbreak of bird flu in Ontario that's affecting poultry farms. Unfortunately, farmers can't talk about it due to ag-gag laws.
I hoard roms and isos of old games. In my usual backup scheme. Especially for less popular games. They aren't going anywhere!
If it owns all brands and they raise the price, then start your own food company offering lower prices, you will turn up the market to you like from day to nite.
Living in London: food is more expensive, there's greater political polarization and it seems like there's a strike every week.

So things are getting noticeably worse but I wouldn't use words like collapse just yet.
The ECB releases key statistics on inflation regularly: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2023/html/ecb.sp230...

Scroll to page 9 for a good graph on how this works. Unit profits are massively up, unit labour costs stagnant.
There's an effect (sic) from having open source and ubiquitous internet that makes everybody react (sicsic) to everybody whenever something is seen as the new way.

Before that you had 2-3 years of stable blindfolds before knowing what the other teams cooked secretly.
If wholesale food costs have gone up and they're simply passing that on then they may not be making any more money.

Here's wholesale food prices in the US:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU578101

In fact you'd expect reduced sales from the higher prices to put pressure on profits. That is what seems to be happening in the UK:

https://www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2023/01/31/food-companies-p...

But not in the US, where it does look like there may be some gouging going on, but we'd need to see their profit reporting to be sure:

https://accountable.us/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-02-10...
That’s fine we’ll just expropriate the Boomers hoarded wealth as they churn.

The fiat currency numbers are not a fundamental, immutable feature of reality. The obsession with loss of hallucinated values is a bit unsettling. As if entirely ephemeral fiat economics has latched onto the same biological nature as religious conviction in gods.

Better to legislate the fake money as needed than let hundreds of millions get disenfranchised, especially in the country of 3 guns per adult.
Same story. Magic Trackpad is a life saver and the reason I'm stuck with Macbooks.
For these major changes that break builds across the entire industry, why does Github insist on rolling out the change first and then publishing a blog post notice about it? Is it really so hard to give a week of advance notice?

It wasn't even that long ago that Github changed the checksums of git tarballs which also broke builds everywhere. All we got was a "oh btw we changed the archive behavior" blog post after the change went live [0].

[0] https://github.blog/changelog/2023-01-30-git-archive-checksu...
I think Bazel is actually a good build system, but the issue is that they lack good educational resources. Then others adopt it at smaller companies without a team to manage Bazel and without investing time to onboard others into understanding how it works.

There are some new talks coming out external from the Bazel maintainers which do a better job of this, but you still have to hunt for them.

This is made worse because each of the rules packages, which are super useful, have their own idiosyncrasies which only make sense with a solid foundation in what problems Bazel solves, how it works and how to write/read rules.

My other wishlist for Bazel was an easier time setting up a hermetic sandbox without having caveats. This is improving, so I am optimistic on this front.

For context, I am not a Google (or ex-Google) engineer and I’ve had to work with a ton of different build systems on different levels of the stack.
> It is the kind of innovation where anybody will catch up.

Technically? Probably yes.

But where is your startup going to find millions of users for extra training data?
you can replace ultra wealthy with powerful. same point stands. the only things that become regulated heavily are things that can affect the people that live at the top, whether its the obscenely rich, or the despots in various countries.
Well In which case, doing more per clock cycle means fewer latches and d-flops, more efficient combinatorial logic, and ultimately they could have used less silicon area and made a cheaper chip with the same functionality.

To be fair to them, I think it was a fairly inexperienced design team making their first silicon, in relatively low volumes (10's of millions). They weren't an established player trying to make a 1 billion+ production run super competitive product where fractions of a cent matter.
From other countries, requiring the pound not collapsing to get a good price?
Not really. Some open source projects go back a long long time and have a large enough build system that rewriting it would require a lot of effort. Other open source projects are small enough that the simplest build system the author(s) could build was good enough.
The only good thing is the WiiU and 3DS were blown so wide open by developers that the eShop is almost practically archived as it is.
"basically fine if you're a massive corporation who the rules don't apply to, but it's a huge risk if you're a small fish"

With these things, it is usually the other way around.

If you are a small fish, no one will care. But if you are big enough, that money could be extracted from you, then they will come. A big org just has better lawers and negotiating power, but they really cannot ignore the law. Especially not, if there is a competitor with money to sue.

So if you are small and want to become big, better be cautious on the legal ground you are walking.
My ~/.ssh/known_hosts used to look like that, but now it looks like the host part is encrypted? It looks like:

|1|{base64-encoded-string?}|{another-base64-encoded} ssh-rsa AAA{long-string}

This is on Ubuntu 22.04 (Linux Mint).
Ask HN: How is Bard able to use current news/data more quickly than ChatGPT?
It seems like ChatGPT has quite a large lag from their training set to when it goes to production, with no updates in between. But with Google Bard it seems like they are able to update their existing models for current events? What makes this possible and why can't ChatGPT do the same?

ChatGPT:

> what was the last fed rate hike?

> As an AI language model, my training cutoff date was in September 2021 and I do not have access to real-time information. However, I can tell you that the Federal Reserve's last interest rate hike occurred on December 16, 2020. At that time, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised the target range for the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points to a range of 0.25% to 0.50%. This was the first and only interest rate hike of 2020.

Bard:

> what was the last fed rate hike?

> The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points on March 22, 2023, to a target range of 4.75-5%. This was the ninth consecutive increase in interest rates since the central bank began the current rate-raising cycle to combat rising prices.
Wez's Terminal
Very cool. I'd actually like to see something like this for Go as well due to the insanely fast compile times. Compiling into wasm of course.
Very high costs of energy have been caused by the war. Food production can be very energy intensive.
Not sure why Apple is throwing this code over the fence, (or catapulting it over the balustrade -- to continue the castle metaphor used here) and not also selling server form factor Apple silicon based devices for data centers. They left out an "issues" pane on the github repo, so it is intended to be quite the unidirectional act. I am not sure that Apple will remain proportionally huge with respect to other big tech while they squander their development on boutique mass market products, while ignoring the vast growth they could achieve if they expanded into first class cloud computing markets.
Considered opinion from decades of desktop computer usage:

Trying to use paths to meaningfully separate data by type is a fool's errand and no one will ever get it "right". It is the primary thing UNIX systems got extremely wrong that not only holds them back in the personal desktop space, but through cultural cross pollination has been ruining other desktop OSs too.

Original single-user desktop OSs had the best solution: keep everything related to the application functionality with the application. The application (in AppDir/file with resource fork/whatever form) itself can be wherever the user feels like putting it, and saved documents go wherever the hell the user feels like putting them. The only exception should be cache and temp data, which should go somewhere global.

This has the benefit of being clear and obvious to the user.

The obvious objections:

> but multiuser!

Is a use case that basically doesn't exist in personal desktop space. To the extent it was ever a useful concept it was during a time when a desktop computer was the only way to access the internet and they were too expensive and bulky to justify more than one in a home. Even then, we managed fine without OS level multiuser support.

To the extent that anything like a multiuser desktop exists it is certainly a niche, and therefore we should handle its problems with virtualization, containerization, filesystem overlay hackery, etc.

> but ease of backup!

Depends entirely on what cross section of things you care about backing up. As it is you already have to search dozens of places for including what you want and have rules for excluding what you don't and no standard is ever going to fix that. Applying those same things to the "everything with the application" model is, at worst, not any worse than things already are.

> but if I copy the application, it also copies the config.

That's a decent point, but I would argue this is the obvious thing and also perhaps what is intended. Solution is to have a standardized mechanism of clearing out the config and other state from the application directory, such that it can be done with a right-click context menu. A factory reset of the application if you will.

> but I never use a mouse and only use the GUI as a really fancy tmux

That's fine, nothing about this model makes your life conceptually any harder. Keep all the applications in directories in your PATH. Factory reset of the application can be just as easily done with a command as a context menu entry. You can still put applications in repos and even overengineer a package manager for them if you really want to.
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Henry, Henry, Henry, why didn't you tell me? I insist on being here when they're born.
It is not inflation. It is price gouging.
Mass inflation is a convenient excuse for profiteering. Similar shit happened in Germany with the DM => EUR switchover, yielding the nickname "Teuro" ("expensive euro").

The core problem is that Western countries have collectively decided to dial back anti-trust enforcement that could have stepped in.
Open source software is famously not costless (gratis) software, so the premise of the argument is false. I may for instance benefit from people using my software and then obtaining paid support from me, or using paid add-ons (the "open core" model).
> How many people die every year from medical deprivation?

A quick search suggests figures ranging from 1 million to 40 million per year. So if you want to compare that to 100 million deaths by communism over the past 100 years, then preventable disease seems to kill at least roughly the same number of people, and possibly 40 times as many.
It is so far ahead of even what the best IDEs do. For one, I have not seen GPT4 ever use non existent APIs. You don't need to carefully construct prompts. It tolerates typos to a good extent. You can just type a rough description and the output won't need cleaning manually. You might need to reiterate it to focus on some thing (like remove all heap allocations and focus on performance).
In the US it does not matter. Freedom of Religion does not imply one must choose from a pre-approved list of religions.
Good discussion. There are still real tensions but I do tend to believe the component-model makes a huge amount of these questions moot.

Quite comprehensive, but I think there's a pretty informative question to ask. If I write a Go wasm and you write a Rust wasm module, how do they work together? How can I call your thing? I could be mistaken on these but I think I one really does this now, and it's the macro-focus of component-model, to build a stable inter-module binary interface.

Today... on the web there's not really a good solution other than hand writing more glue code in js to relay activity. On the server side wasi defines syscall like things you can call out & do, but I think it's just limited pre-baked operations, not a generic way to consumer a variety of external resources. Component-model is here to let us define exports & imports at a higher level & to let us stitch modules together via these interfaces.

The article paints a very good very real story of how modules & runtimes interact, but that's a somewhat insufficient question, for the real goal of of interoperable modules working together. Asking how modules work with each other (not just the upper system) highlights how the systems question here is broader.
Yeah, my experience with iGPU+dGPU setups outside of MacBooks has been messy. Part of the problem perhaps is the various different ways it can be set up, e.g. with/without mux switch, and last I knew AMD and Nvidia handle iGPU ↔ dGPU handoffs differently rather than agreeing on a standard.

With that in mind I'd also prefer that there be a way to flip off the dGPU in BIOS to guarantee that it can't unexpectedly become a power vampire.