skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fucked up that a conspiracy theory gets the top post and actual criticisms of the reporting are at the bottom.
Apparently if you are a Google One member you get priority access?

Because you’re a Google One member, we’d like to offer you the opportunity to
be among the first to sign up for the new Bard experience and provide feedback.
Think of Bard as your creative and helpful collaborator, here to bring your
ideas to life using generative AI.
never heard of Google being a place people were "overworked" at all, not compared to Amazon, at least, or as hyper-competitive as Netflix.
We wanted to make it easier for people to discover and use these icons in diagramming tools. Understand that maybe "sourced from" is not clear enough so we've added more explicit wording at the bottom which explains license and ownership for the icons.
Wow, what a waste of time for Adobe to implement something like this. Who’s even going to use this since all the artists said AI is bad and everyone who uses it should be put in prison?

Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Good to see this response. I notice references in the output, and it can he helpful. Also showing the entire answer instead of mimicking the typing was also good. Still appreciate OpenAI in taking the lead and disrupting things a little here.
Since you call it intermediate level, would you recommend it for people who are already familiar with the basics of MySQL? Would someone who has no problem formulating a query to get any given result from a database and knows the basics of how to create indexes still learn anything new from this?
Show HN: Track your Daily Active Users in less than 5 min with React Native SDK
unlikely. the front bumper of a car you are following has zero value for your ego's safety. most of the optimization of FSD is in removing extra data to improve latency of the mapping loop.
The infamous "36 jump cuts to hop a fence" scene from Taken...3(?) is so wild as to be parody, but its real. Just wild to me that it would make the cut.
Bing is 3.5% of market share in Europe, and Edge is even less.

You're talking about maybe ~1% of search that Bing Chat is practically available to (in Europe).

It's a lot less risky for Microsoft to do what they did than for Google to just open the floodgates in Europe.
MS only dared to put it in Bing after OpenAI's dogfood succeeded. If it had started spouting troublesome stuff, MS wouldn't have touched ChatGPT.
TikTok doesn't need to demonetize videos. They just adjust their algorithm to never show it again and it's effectively the same thing.
That's a great problem to have for a startup. "We have a ton of use that we can see through these proxy metrics, so the goal of this series c is, in addition to continuing to innovate on a product side, start investing in license auditing of companies that can't meaningfully change to another product quickly" is a pretty great pitch a few years down the line.
That is hallucinated. It does not have any user data on me. It did hallucinate some more random information when I asked.
Can it? This was the response I got: "I'm designed solely to process and generate text, so I'm unable to assist you with that."
> It's also interesting that of the Big Four that are "too big to fail" three of them offer savings rates of under 0.25% it's almost as if they don't have to do anything to appeal to customers.

This is literally how it's supposed to work: anybody more risky has to offer an incentive to the punters.

But bank deposits are different (as Matt Levine put it: you don't want to evaluate your bank's solvency any more than you want to inspect the factory where your can of beans was packed) -- most people don't even look at the rate their bank is paying when they open an account.
just cancel the debt ;)
> the investigation into James Gordon Meek, 53, of Arlington, was initiated from an investigative lead sent by Dropbox and ultimately received by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.
For Ctrl+R, suppose you ran 'curl' against a bunch of API endpoints on a single domain name 2 months ago. I can now easily find one without knowing too much detail by fuzzy searching curl+part_of_domain_name+part_of_path.

For Alt+C, yes files and directories are often a huge mess. It may be no fault of your own. Maybe you're working with a giant legacy codebase or digging into node_modules. Now you can type 'vim Alt+C', to find and immediately open whatever you're looking for.

Of course this can all be done other ways, but it's very convenient and very fast when paired with ripgrep especially.
Interesting that gRPC is too slow for the latencies they're aiming at, maybe Cap'n Proto would be a better match.

He doesn't go into details on how they handle packet loss, but the paper[1] says:

Receivers use a simple timeout-based mechanism
to detect lost packets. If a long time period (a few milliseconds)
elapses without additional packets arriving for a message, the
receiver sends a RESEND packet that identifies the first range
of missing bytes; the sender will then retransmit those bytes.

Their implementation uses 15 ms as a default, so even crossing regions e.g. between us-west-1 and us-west-2 would time out [2]. So they're really only targetting communication within a single datacenter, this is not a protocol for "the Internet". Maybe annoying if you need to switch protocols depending on where your target server is located at.

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/alizadeh/papers/homa-sigcomm18....

[2] https://www.cloudping.co/grid
I think they should go to LTT instead. They're both Canadian, and the name is less relevant than the brand.

If they got it ironed out before April 10th, they probably could put a link to it.
That stack sounds like a random pile of detritus someone found on the side of the road.
The human-readability of PGN is very handy. The kinds of chess players who curate PGN collections can definitely visualize/identify games based on algebraic notation.

A well-formed PGN file is basically just an ASCII scoresheet that every tournament player is required to write out by hand over the course of a game anyway.
TabLLM: Few-Shot Classification of Tabular Data with Large Language Models
Sites like these are almost like living fossils. They evolved in a completely different environment than today, and therefore nothing like them can evolve again today. When it first started, DP review was just doing what plenty of other blogs were doing in terms of longform, informationally dense content, because when the founders looked around at similar stuff to compare from that's what they saw, iterated on, and created.

Today, the environment is different. If you want to get an audience on your stuff today, you aren't going to make a dpreview or a kenrockwell.com, because when you look around you don't see that stuff very much. You see seoified crap articles, and information drip fed over 20 mins on youtube with advertising in between. Such is the game today and how it must be played if you are to receive any views at all and get that initial userbase.
I paid for pocket casts a while back too when it was a one time payment. You are grandfathered in? What benefits did you grandfathered into? I don’t see any acknowledgment of my legacy status.
Because it creates an incentive to invest in the business. Maybe even higher wages (God forbid).

Think of it this way: you can either do a $1 billion share buyback or invest $1.3 billion in the business. If we had a 75% profit tax then it would be $1 billion in buybacks or $4 billion in the business.

Additionally, higher interest rates really benefit no one. Higher taxes fills government coffers and allows income distribution to those most in need.

Lastly, interest rates are indiscriminate. They hurt every business and borrower. Taxes only impact profitable businesses to make them slightly less profitable.
That was my experience, but I am glad that I tried again. Player of Games is much more explicit in the world building (almost too much), and then a good balance is found in Use of Weapons. So I always recommend reading those two first before circling back to really understand the value of Consider Phlebas as an outside view on the Culture (and really, The West).
OP didn't say all math was useless, just this math, which yes is most likely completely useless.
I use Ctrl+R profusely. I don't like hitting up to cycle through recent commands.

Also sometimes I want to run something I haven't run in several days.
> but everyone’s already been taking a hit

Nowhere close to the hit everyone was taking from income declines across all income groups except (well, at least the bottom 95%) in the 2001-2007 “expansion” leading into the 2007 Great Recession. (And, also, the much longer period of much higher interest rates, with much higher consumer debt load, leading into the 2007-2009 Great Recession.)
Which is precisely why they’re now conspiring to get it banned under dubious ”national security” pretenses. As if the data-sharing sins in question hadn’t been committed repeatedly by almost every major tech company for the past decade+.
Yeah, I would pick up another book in the series. Consider Phlebas is set in the same universe but almost seems like a different genre.
I'm sure there would be a line-up of good-willing buyer(s) for DPREVIEW.

This is an exceptional portal with second-to-none depth of photo technology coverage.

It feels like something is missing in "we're closing" message. Cost is not the problem these days.

Pending lawsuits?

Blackmail from deep pocket disgruntled vendor?
Interesting, I think, because many people report that ChatGPT does poorly w/ tabular data and this represents research into improving performance on this important domain.

I worked for a startup that was interested in this sort of thing that eventually got bought by a major clothing and shoe manufacturer.
>Have you ever joined a new project?

Shouldn't your new team members work to help onboard you instead? Shouldn't you get ample training in your job?
One of the core component of such products is Dreambooth, which allows you to finetune text to image models (typically Stable Diffusion) to be able to create images of a specific person, object or style.

We are building a platform to speed up this process while reducing the cost (currently 3x the speed, 0.5x the cost of competition):

https://dreamlook.ai/
No, that wasn't always the case, it's the same thing that happenned with MS. Back in the late oughts and early 2010's Google was a fantastic place to work based on the reports I've heard, that was considered work nirvana. They were the ones who introduced things like catered lunchs, and a lot of other amenities that many people consider now standard fare in many tech shops.

Based on what I heard it was a wonderful time, you got to spend all day working on interesting problems, with super smart people that were at the peak of their field, money was coming in hand over fist, and the people running the show had an understanding of engineering.

The problem is that success attracts leeches, you start getting lots of MBA types, PMs, bean counters, etc. Then things went downhill. But it wasn't always this way, it just so happens that once you become successful enough you will attract people that aren't interested in what you do, but in getting a piece of that pie, and those people and that thinking and mindset will ruin any organization.

P.S. It's an interesting line to draw between being overworked by a boss that is forcing you to spend 60 hours a week chained to a desk, and loving what you do so much that you are happy to spend 60 hours a week on it, just because you derive that much satisfaction from it.
No - but you don't need physics for legal liabilities...
Switzerland bans deferred bonuses for Credit Suisse staff
https://archive.is/wip/XbmGi
the employees were fools for falling in love with their employer, not sure how else to say it

they should be grateful they were paid so well for so long to do so little...chances are they will never see comp like that for work like that again

...and hopefully no one is naive enough to think Google is "done"...after next earnings I expect an even bigger round

the same thing is happening all over tech - go down to a reduced staff of essential contributors and re-hire later for much lower comp
I'm a huge rails fan.

I can spool up a prototype in lightning speed.
My initial impression is (compared to ChatGPT 3.5-turbo) - not impressed.

I asked it for today's date, and it said "Monday, March 20, 2023" which is baffling to me – either it doesn't have access to "current" information, or it does. But off by one?

"What is the knowledge cutoff of your training data?"
> My training data was cut off in September 2021. This means that I do not have access to any information that was published after that date.
However, I am able to access and process information that was published before that date.

Then I tried to get it to help me with finding some papers, but it continuously misinterpreted my prompts, or gave me lackluster results.

Back to GPT I go.
This is exactly what Ctrl+R does.
It isn't a boom. It is just a transition from DSRL/video cameras to mirrorless. Market is consolidating around mirrorless for everything from photography to video. Hire a wedding photography and a wedding videographer today, they may have the same equipment.
Microsoft Believes 10 Years Is Enough for Sony to Develop Alternatives to Cod
> I purchased the M1 Mac Mini way back in 2021.

Wow much time ago.

Seriously ?
Of course they get what makes them tick. But they also don't care what makes them tick, they care about whether they generate (temporary) income. The biggest bigcorps don't even care what the thing itself is about, they just look at "what's the return if we buy it, and if so, what will make us more money: keep running it, dismantle it and use parts of it to improve other parts of our company, or shut it down once the revenue dries up".

Bigcorp operate like ant colonies, and run based on what's best for them. It's literally the defining aspect that separates small business from big business. In the former, people are in control. In the latter, the business is in control.
Researchers 3D printed this cheesecake
LOA's great if you don't mind bible-type thin paper and smallish type. Wonderful for saving space on a bookshelf, solid binding. I often wish they did British authors, too. Modern Library and Everyman are excellent mid-range readers' hardbacks, not fancy but solid and reliable, often (though not always) exhibiting excellent taste in selection of translations and introductions and other extras. Penguin Classics paperbacks are my go-to if I'm not shooting for a hardcover (though they recently and inexplicably changed what had been maybe the single best cover design in all of publishing to make it worse, which is irritating—at least it's still not as bad as the old yellow-cover design they used years back, god those were ugly).

The French version of LOA is La Pléiade. Similar deal, smallish print, thin paper, focus on classics and important works.

There are several mostly-kinda-shitty "fancy" series (Folio's not one of them) often in fake leather binding, but among the "fancy" sorts, one that really delivers is the (defunct) Limited Editions Club (LEC to book nerds). The name's awful, but if you want an edition you could put on a lectern in the library of a 15th century French chateau and have it look like it belongs, short of springing for real-leather binding, they're a good candidate. HUGE—seriously, big—often bound in heavy-duty cloth, well-selected illustrations, thick, nice paper. Not a lot of other extras, though. But if you want a book to feel like Serious Business, they're a good choice. Heritage Press is (well, was) the "budget" version of them, reprinting LEC in usually somewhat scaled down (though still large) and less crazy-good (but still good) binding. Much friendlier to normal shelf heights, and easier on the wallet.

About the only paperback publisher I have an opinion on, other than Penguin Classics, is Dover. If you're going budget, might as well go all the way. Plus, hell, half the time I prefer theirs to slightly-more-expensive offerings. Love 'em.
I imagine some aspects of building horizontally might not scale as well as vertical construction.

For instance, it looks like the Navy Pier Flyover touches the ground in many different places along its half-mile length, each of those places will have different junk buried there already, unique challenges and access restrictions, and new ownership/usage agreements.

With the skyscraper you dig one messy hole then stack and connect layer after layer of engineered rectangles.
If you like Gaiman there are some very nice copies of his works from some smaller fine press publishers.

https://www.arete-editions.com/artists-edition

https://www.lyrasbooks.com/shop/coraline/coraline-lettered-e...
We forced this guy to listen to all 9 Mahler symphonies in one day (2016)
it was definitely a great place to work in it's heyday 10+ years ago, as I believe most of the FAANG companies were. It was so nice back in the day having companies you knew would be great if you could just get into them. Are there any companies like that these days?
The problem with stating stuff like this is it can be used as an example of how deep the conspiracy goes rather than a refutation.
Yea! Better to ask forgiveness than permission. (/s)
Getting LoRa/Dreambooth to work reliably without human intervention is HARD, and Dreambooth still works better than LoRa in most situations.

Sure it’s "easy" to do it by hand, on a few persons, tweaking the parameters. Doing it at scale at good quality is still a challenge.
I think in at least some instances of projects like this, the goal is not really "traffic reduction", even if that's what officials publicly claim to sell it to the public. As you say, the phenomenon of induced demand is well known & presumably the people involved in driving these projects are aware of it.

The goal is increased throughput/economic activity. If it takes X time to get a vehicle from A to B, and then you add lanes & demand goes up to keep X relatively constant, that can still be a net gain for community. It's about as equally frustrating for the folks sitting in traffic, but there's still more vehicles getting from A to B because there's more lanes, and more vehicles moving around can be good for the local economy.
https://rational.app/category/rational-app-blog/

Are there more recent blog posts or is this all?
Agree. That is the problem I aim to improve a bit.
Just as one (no pun intended) example, the fact that there are exactly five platonic solids in three-dimensional space is not something that is invented. It is discovered. And facts like that govern what is possible in the physical world, for example what kind of crystalline atomic structures can form. There is nothing “invented” about that.

The fact that the physical space we live in has three dimensions also isn’t invented. These numbers, three and five here, are not a human invention. They correspond to facts we discovered, and they represent truths that are independent of human existence or inventions.

Maths is exactly about that, discovering the fundamental truths that, based on logic, we find couldn’t have been any other way.
Fetus Removed from Brain of 1-Year-Old Girl
Michael Yeadon - former chief scientist at Pfizer - is now an anti-vaccine activist[1]. Similar story with Robert W. Malone[2].

Former accomplishments or positions are not a good appeal to authority.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Yeadon

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Malone
I have an entry level Nikon paired with their F1.4G 50mm lens. It takes staggeringly good portraits in any conditions.

DPReview was of course my primary source of information when choosing equipment. Sad indeed to see them shutter.

* https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/camera-le...
The fact that engines are designed so that coolant and lubricants can mix has always left me a bit suspicious of planned obsolescence.

I think realistically it’s a limitation of the casting process, but it is to me the dumbest part of internal combustion engine design. Point the channels in two different directions on the casting, and only a cracked block should allow them to touch.
Goes to show nothing lasts forever. Sites like dpreview were great, but probably not monetizing like it did in the earlier days of the web. People get their superficial reviews from Amazon product pages and silly "top 10" sites and don't really care for the indepth analysis.
I would take a huge performance hit to just not deal with Nvidia drivers. Unless things have changed, it is still not really possible to operate on AMD hardware without a list of gotchas.
Unfortunately not if you're a Google One member outside the US.
I believe uMatrix development was discontinued a few years ago, so it is not surprising that it doesn't work reliably anymore.
(Doesn't help that uri and url look very similar in printing)
Have you ever found yourself perplexed by the diagrams people use to depict nueral networks? It's not your fault!

Here is a tech-education-humor piece. Enjoy. Comments welcome!
This is a good point. I think canned vegetables, in particular, are processed in just a few factories and just have different labeling.
10 Years of Hacks and Fixes: A Retrospective of My First Decade of Coding
Do they have that? I’ve seen that TikTok just shallow-ban that kind of videos.
I think that could be interpreted. Statement + NO is the standard word order in ASL, but there would usually be a suprasegmental element. That is, the negation is also (or, sometimes, only) shown with a headshake which spreads over the entire length of the statement. Leaving out the suprasegmental, making it a flat statement, and then pausing before the NO might perhaps work. Maybe.

However, ASL also makes much, much heavier use of rhetorical questions than English does. You might even introduce yourself with "MY NAME WHAT? [NAME]" (i.e., "What is my name? [Name]"). So perhaps it would just look like you're doing that.

(Disclaimer: I don't know ASL. I know some Irish Sign Language, which is related, but dropped out before completing my interpreter training. I have a bit of a fascination with sign language linguistics, but I'm no expert.)
The really interesting upcoming LLM products are from AMD and Intel... with catches.

- The Intel Falcon Shores XPU is basically a big GPU that can use DDR5 DIMMS directly, hence it can fit absolutely enormous models into a single pool. But it has been delayed to 2025 :/

- AMD have not mentioned anything about the (not delayed) MI300 supporting DIMMs. If it doesn't, its capped to 128GB, and its being marketed as an HPC product like the MI200 anyway (which you basically cannot find on cloud services).

Nvidia also has some DDR5 grace CPUs, but the memory is embedded and I'm not sure how much of a GPU they have. Other startups (Tenstorrent, Cerebras, Graphcore and such) seemed to have underestimated the memory requirements of future models.
I work in advertising and we've found that ads on Tiktok are expensive to produce and also get less engagement than other social media companies. I enjoy Tiktok as a product but I'd love to see conversion metrics across the platform.
Dpreview to be shut down in another round of Amazon layoffs
It's a real pity that Amazon isn't allowing the team to take the site and continue to manage it. Crazy that in these times it makes more sense to lay off and shut down a site like DPreview.
It's a pretty naive idea (web3). Impossible to implement.
You wouldn't download a shaped charge
Previous post: https://weaviate.io/blog/ann-algorithms-hnsw-pq
Should we also look at Qatar or UAE?
If you already use Docker, why don't you go with ECS-Fargate, instead of EC2 or Lambda?