skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like Monopoly, at some point there is just nothing you can do.
The resets are probably the collapses of civilizations.
And DogPile and Lycos and all those other funny sounding search engines.
I can't tell you how many times I search a somewhat niche compound term and the first thing in the results page is a list of shops in my area keyed on some word in the search.
I'm just happy he's writing again, there's only so many times you can re-read the classics.

And in this, as in many other things, he's pretty on the nose.
I do a similar thing. Especially helpful for long-running investigations that are difficult to root cause. Documenting the current state of the investigation allows people to jump in easily and helps everyone tell what the current conclusions are.
a mental exercise for the doomsayers: if stackoverflow + search engines were invented today, would you be saying the same stuff? it's clear to me that chatgpt is an programmer accelerator, not a replacement. it's just another tool - a very good one at that.

90% of programming is communicating with other people - chatgpt can't talk to people.
The author gave a concrete example of such a build graph and a concrete example of why caching tools can't be used effectively.
>The lower class does suffer the most, but unfortunately it is the policies intended to help them which actually cause most of the problem. By giving money to people without producing more stuff

Which specific policies of this Conservative government amount to a change in the direction of giving more money to more nonproductive people? If anything, exactly the opposite has been happening, and yet inflation has been getting worse.
No, it's actually good, because it's one of the rare huge advances that the public is being let in on at the outset, and we'll have a lot more ability to judge LLM potential than if it had been sprung on us out of the blue (with inevitable marketing implying that it was actual strong AI, and restrictions on interaction with it carefully designed to maintain that falsehood.)

> This is, unfortunately, already happening.

Constantly getting bad and wrong information from a confident AI will do a lot to teach people that they need other sources. The fact that many of these other sources will also be covert lying AI will be a great lesson in media literacy for everyone.
I have seen this version on mobile when I'm not logged in, but as soon as I log in it's back to the regular version.

What does "sh" stand for?
Comparitively, GPT has definltely worked here for less-experienced engineers. A coworker (Mech. E.) last week got ChatGPT to create a python HTTP GET for him and today got it to write the code to drive a bunch of relays off a Pi using I2C. Once he had it working, he sent me a DM "Is 0xFF hex?".

So accelerant, definitely. Beyond that, I'm on the sceptical side but accept there's quite a chance that's the wrong way to bet.
No surprise here. Would like to add that Edge really is a great browser also. Still sticking to Chrome as it feels snappier to me but I constantly open up Edge too.
I'm sympathetic to this, I really am. But this has always been the case for IP, even in the analog era. If you carefully traced a painting to make duplicates, or re-typeset a book so you could make copies (say, a university that wanted to provide cheap textbooks for the whole student body), that was always in breach of copyright law.

The only thing that's changed is how easy it is to actually make the copies. It used to be a considerable to super-unfeasible amount of work for most of the things that were protected by copyright, and now it's laughably easy for almost every work.

From an ethics point of view that change alone isn't the justification we need for making a change. I think perhaps exceptions that honor the aim of preservation of culture, while still allowing IP-based business models to work, would be more defensible.

Quick example law: When any form of DRM is used in a product that is 'sold' (licensed) to the public, the company must provide to the Library of Congress an unencumbered copy of the software which will automatically be made publicly available after a fixed embargo of 15 years. This applies to both "games" and also to the firmware, so that the games can be played. A console, beginning 15 years after its launch, must be able to be made user-flashable to accept non-DRM software. (The means to do this would be required at the launch of the device, to avoid businesses dissolving before the 15 years elapses)
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Original twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Joseph_Fasano_/status/163901933618554470...
broken builds << migrating off a leaked key

I'm upset they haven't sent out an email to every user. This affects their entire usebase and basically everyone needs to take manual action to continue working. If you haven't seen the news then you'll see failed builds/git commands.
This was not about plugins, more a general example how, for now, ChatGPT does not help solve the curation issue at all
yep, my dad would always say I have an answer for everything, even topics I know nothing about, I was/am just really good at stringing together bits of knowledge in a way that sounds very plausible, combine that with cis/white/het male speaker and you have HumanGPT
Example of hacks that require “only” pressing buttons:

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Elevator-an-Express-Elevator
A paper on incentive incompatibility of multiple round-robin and knockout tournaments: https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/1/274...
No, you're wrong: the OTA marked as 5th March security update has the fixes.

It's trivially easy to look up the list of fixes for Pixels, c'mon.
Rich people moving to Bermuda doesn't mean they move their company incorporation there, just means they have a house there and fly in and out.
Cloud Infra Visualization software market fit
Hi All, I'm trying to create a cross-platform Cloud Infra Visualization software for companies to use with the following features:

- Consolidated view of all the cloud resources AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI

- Organisational hierarchy view of the resources

- Cost/budgeting analysis and forecast and optimization

I would like to understand the market fit for this particular product. Any feedback/suggestion would be highly appreciated.

Please comment if you think companies like to use it?
Similarly, if they get a properly-written DMCA counter-notification, they are also taking a huge risk if they do comply with the DMCA request. The only difference is that the notification is coming from Facebook and the counter-notification is coming from random programmers.
Slight nitpick: the full phrasing Apple uses is “main logic board”, so they’re actually (somewhat) in line with the conventional phrasing other vendors use.
I'm of the opinion that it should be illegal for companies to offer the ability to buy ads for registered product names or trademarks.

Google, Amazon, and Apple all allow trademark and product name squatting. It's gross and abusive.

Generic terms? Sure. But actual trade names for products? That's extortion.

These services aren't helping in discovery if the customer already knows the name. They're merely forcing themselves into that relationship and taxing it.

You then have to buy n-many ads across m-many services just to keep you in front of your competitors that would squat you.
If you read the technical paper, base GPT's confidence directly correlated with ability to perform problems accurately. Sadly, the hammer of alignment knocked it right out.
While I agree with a bunch of other comments that are interested to see what happens in the long term, to me, all of this points to some profound organizational and cultural problems at Google. I base that statement on things I see as an external observer, from posts I've seen from current/ex-Googlers here on HN, and from some (albeit brief) conversations I've had with some of these folks.

If a decade ago you told me Microsoft would leapfrog Google in the AI race (obviously albeit through OpenAI, but I think that separate org structure was key in the first place), I would have thought you were insane. Google invented the transformer architecture just 6 years ago. I recently compared ChatGPT (on the free, 3.5 version mind you, not even the 4 version) with Bard, and it wasn't even close - ChatGPT was the "Google" to Bard's "AltaVista" circa 2000 or so.

Would be curious to hear from some Googlers on their thoughts. I'm sure, internally, a lot of it must feel like piling on from the outside, but in all honestly it really feels to me like a classic case of "big company that lost its way". I can't express enough how much admiration and amazement I had for Google that started to tarnish about 10 years ago (I think it was when the whole first page became ads for any remotely commercial search, whenever that started). I honestly hope they are able to course correct (heck, Microsoft had their decade+ of "the Ballmer years" before they turned around).
Holding a coherent, contextual, on-topic conversation are things no computer has done before and nothing other than humans has ever done in the history of the universe.

> "The case you describe is just recall"

Natural language recall, over a memory bank larger than any human could ever memorise.

> "they're all blank boring averages"

Average of a near-infinity of topic you didn't know about is a significant improvement over how things were.

> "What is exceptional about humans & intellect isn't recall, but connection, & association."

"I refuse to be impressed until it's as exceptional as humans" is not an interesting take, it's a cynicaler-than-thou emo teenager take.

> "Do you want a shitty lo-fi hyper-reality? This is how you get a shitty lo-fi hyper-reality. Where regurgitation of prominent symbols overtakes the real. By having idiot machines who have no conception of real fictate to us their idiot perspectives"

The Sunday Times bestseller "The Martian" by Andy Weir is fictating to us an imaginary idea of surviving on Mars, in a way that would never work in reality. That didn't stop it being popular, enjoyable, influential, or make it a 'shitty low-fi reality where prominent symbols like the word Mars overtake the reality of the planet'.
Here's the article that actually describes the subject title:
https://iai.tv/articles/can-we-hack-our-way-out-of-the-unive...
That's a quarter of what meta/facebook spends, I guess tiktok cheaped out on the politicians they bought.
They did not 'miss the use case'. ChatGPT is known not to be reliable in many contexts, and system configuration/product development is not an area where you want everything to be opaque or where you should assume reliable defaults.
I care about shipping products to customers for feedback, and then iterating as quickly as possible once I get it, so that I can earn as much money as possible.

Have fun with your performance and resource use, though. Sounds really interesting.
Not yet, most of the RISC-V cores intended to compete with those chips are still on-paper and not in-production. Tables turn though, and the messaging ARM is sending right now seems to be directed away from their smaller piecemeal component market. That makes sense, too - Chinese manufacturers have been mass-producing knockoff ARM processors for years. There are probably more unique STM32 clones than there are unique ARM core designs available today.

The competition isn't here yet, but the bloody strangler is knocking at the door and someone upstairs just yelled "Nobody's home!"
With interest free money, people will just borrow money and spend them massively which will raise inflation. Just what happened in the US with very low interest rate or in EU with negative interest rates.
It's in the language and it's in the manifest. The manifest usually ends in `.toml`, but with Bazel it ends in `.bazel`.
And they're still hugely inflated compared to a couple of years ago, while wages are either constant or significantly lower in real terms.

The price-to-earnings ratio is 9X in London and around 5X in the rest of the UK.

Property speculation is always ten steps forward and one step back. Prices in the UK would have to crash by at least 50% to return to any kind of widespread affordability.
"only"? That's >20%.
No, "inelastic demand" is a specific term in economics. It means that demand for a product does not change much or at all depending on its price. Think about bathroom tissue, tobacco and diesel. Whether the price goes up 20% or down 20%, about the same amount of the product will be sold.

Elastic demand is the opposite. Some products have elastic demand, like luxuries and durables. An expensive car trim might be very price-sensitive because it is a luxury product. People will buy much fewer of those in austere times. They may buy fewer washing machines, too, because these products are durables. They are often bought "as an upgrade" or when one broke but could be repaired for cheaper.
> What makes AGI?

Human level performance on general tasks (you can't be just good in 90%, you should avoid being terrible in the remaining 10%).

Though LLMs don't need to be AGI, to have a catastrophic economic impact.
Ask HN: Does anyone need data 'shuffled' in a large DB table?
If you have relational data (stored in a table, a CSV file, or a Json file) there might be a need to mix it all up for testing or anonymity purposes.

So you might have a table with 20 columns (e.g. name, address, city, state, country, order_date, etc.) and a few million rows of customer data. Is there value in being able to mix up some or all of the data within a single column, multiple columns, or all the columns? The values would remain intact, but just assigned to different rows in a random manner.

Doing this on a conventional row-oriented database could be very costly for time and I/O operations; but I have invented a new kind of data manager that uses Key-Value pairs to assign values to form relational tables. I just realized that I could implement a feature to shuffle the data very quickly (e.g. reorder all data in a million row table in just a few seconds).

So a simple table with just 3 rows:
name|city|state
John|New York|New York
Bob|Miami|Florida
Jane|Dallas|Texas

Might, after a shuffle, look like this instead:
name|city|state
Jane|New York|Florida
Bob|Dallas|New York
John|Miami|Texas

I don't want to implement this feature if no one sees a reasonable need to do something like this.
Parents who don't like what their school libraries stock should lobby their school board, vote for school board members who share their views, and maybe even run for school board. There's a whole nice, approachable, local body to deal with all this, basically everywhere in the US. It's arguably one of the closest-to-the-people and easiest-for-constituents-to-influence governing bodies that exists in this country.

[EDIT] "Wait, so why's that not what the outlets and politicians who are complaining about this, are advising as the right way to approach this?" because the entire point of making this non-issue an issue in the first place was to boost state and national level candidates, not to do anything useful or appropriate—a state governor can't grandstand about "get mad, and go... um... vote in your school board elections!" in a way that'll be effective at building their national profile or driving broader GOTV for their side.
Everything about it non-sensical, even ChatGPT knows that. If you ask it to calculate how long it can sustain you on radioactivity alone it could also calculate that, but this is the more interesting calculation in my opinion.
For example Factorio where it uses 2d rendering techniques like sprites which are pregenerated from full 3d models.
This doesn't fit into the ChatGPT narrative, but Google's most recent search update has been BAD for me. Results are actively worse than from Bing in many cases, to the point that though I haven't switched my default yet I often navigate to Bing for many classes of query where Google is useless.
With eggs its kind of a different story. The price of eggs has increased for the supermarket to buy, by maybe a cent or two coming down to up to 16 cents.
Packaging takes 4 cents per egg.
Meanwhile the eggs in the supermarket cost 56 cents each.

Supermarkets earn a lot on eggs, always have.
This is something society needs to deal with. If not for groups like them eventually the media will be lost. IMO there should be a rule that if something isn’t for sale by the rights holder for X years it becomes legal to distribute copies freely.
No I haven't heard of that, we'll engage with that team. This is exactly what we need will look into it.
IMHO if you open the Google database to researchers the community will find a solution nowadays.
There is a drought of funding for movies which are not either adaptations of existing IP, or horror movies. If this is your bag, you're in luck. Otherwise, you have somewhat limited viewing options compared to even ten years ago, forget about 30. The original comment was talking about "high brow" fare, remember.
All of those are answers and possibly rationalizations. Seems to me an evil squatter could disrupt the system. The system is so automatic nobody needs to manage it.
All people know stuff about stuff, will talk (have already talked) to AI about that stuff that they know, and will figure out that AI is lying about stuff they know. Maybe this can reduce the number of people who believe everything they read to a less dangerous level.
Sony Is Metacritic's Highest-Rated Publisher of 2022
> the work is outside my control.

But you're still expected to "scope" it.
I also get the same result when logged-in and incognito. Others in the thread seem to get them also.
Yes, this article definitely reads like the writer watched that "The Completionist" video on YouTube and then concocted the story without doing any further research. The archival problem for 3DS and Wii U games is basically solved.
Look google aint the best but I tried bing for a day and still hated it and an AI chatbot that spews out incorrect info atm isn't gonna change my behavior lol
Isn't diffing of data exactly what angularjs (v1) used to do until that fell out of favor?
> ...so, this cannot be used for commercial purposes

The implication being that you're only "democratizing" something if people can make money off of it?
have consumers increased their exposure to rising costs by consuming fewer raw materials and more finished goods? instead of buying flour, eggs, butter, cocoa powder to make a chocolate cake - they just go buy the cake. and I recognize there's an entire spectrum of stages each raw material goes through to get to the final finished product. each of those stages though is an attack vector for cost increases (legit or malicious - doesn't matter)

having the skills/knowledge to consume fewer finished products is insurance. and the only real price for that insurance is time.
Bugs in your code are bugs in your code. If they are user-facing, you could've had tests to catch them.
My old 3DS is broken, and I've been trying to find a 2DS XL for months now. I am floored with how much they are selling for on ebay. Regularly $100 more than a Switch Lite retails for. I'm guessing the volume is low, but I'm surprised to see Nintendo continuously take moves to stop supporting old consoles when there's clearly still demand.
Not really. Yahoo was selling every search result slot. There was no quality to it at all. It was all paid.
As Cookies die, Sign-up will rise.

Mark my words.
Fitt's Law: It is a much bigger target, close to the power management/suspend options.
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Why should I trust these random charts? Where do you get the data from? Feels like sponsored fake news by bing
Yeah, there are some differences in capabilities, but they seem to get slimmer on a daily basis.

Want an LLM-enhanced search? perplexity.ai is actually pretty cool

Want to generate images? There are a ton of free Stable Diffusion sites (for example you.com has that built into their chat), or run it yourself.

Want a neat chat experience? ChatGPT is free, Bard appears to have a shorter waiting list than Bing, and Alpaca runs on regular hardware.

Bing doesn’t have a big enough moat to force me into using their app. The LLM space is legit competitive and a company can be ahead in the morning and left in the dust by the afternoon. In my opinion, this is what’s happening with Bing at present.

Who knows though? Bing might make Chat open while I’m writing this sentence and I’ll have to adjust my opinion accordingly.
Sounds like you have some malware on your machine. My first result is https://www.xfinity.com/chat/
I certainly have the trust issues for things where correctness matters. For things were it doesn't and I already know how to do something but don't have it memorized, I think it is very very convenient.

I use it various times a week for cooking. E.g. "basic recipe bechamel sauce in metric"

ChatGPT: Within a couple seconds I get the ingredients in metric and a step by step guide.

Google: The provided summaries are useless to me since they are not in metric. So I have to click on a link and then start scrolling around all the noise of history of bechamel sauce, anecdotes about someones grandparents, pretty pictures, etc to find the actual information. Without ad blocker it would be an even bigger nightmare.
If someone links a youtube video on hacker news it better be because it is something uniquely suited to the medium of video, like Primitive Technology[1], not just a think piece which would be better to read (but harder to monetize) as an article or webpage.

This doesn't meet the standard for me.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA
I don't understand this sentiment. Once the process is automatic it won't be managed or monitored.
Presumably, OpenAI tell their partners and customers who are developing plugins that those plugins will be confidential and not accessible to end-users until they are released.

This breaks that confidentiality.
The best reason to ban tiktok is to teach zoomers how to sideload apps.
I barely use non-stock apps nowadays. I go through the browser for many things. And I self-host stuff on my local network, which exposes web UIs. Keeping it thin is the way to go, imo.

I'll probably end up having a NixOS phone down the line as that develops more.
Google can incorporate quality signals in near real time. Those signals include leaving and immediately returning to the SERP. So us discussing these particular results could have already influenced them.