skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If money is a fiction, and if successful companies create money, then successful companies create fictional currency and assets. So crypto being successful and creating money is just as bad as a successful company like Facebook or Google. Because money is fictional and therefore useless. And it's okay to accumulate a useless asset like money? Strange. Is there another game we can play? One that exits from this bad capitalism? Because chasing after money, a fake and useless asset, is not good.
People also want an end to world hunger, but not if that requires killing people and feeding their ground corpses up as nutrient bars! That is: Amazon is useful, but also does a toooon of bad stuff, so people don't like it for that bad stuff.
It "started" in 2008 as just an app platform for .NET apps in the cloud called Windows Azure.

The move to become a cloud provider happened, I want to say, in 2015-ish.

You couldn't even get VMs on Azure for the longest time, and their VM service reached parity with AWS very recently.
I actually had someone disparage the F# syntax the other day, I guess because of its deviation from the top of the TIOBE Index :(
(I edited my comment as you were replying, sorry about that.)

If the reflexive maximally-negative complaints are contradicting the actual information presented, they had better come with strong evidence or I’m dismissing them (and I do find those comments more tiresome than press releases or the other negative replies; they come across as conspiratorial crank-cases with an axe to grind, even bordering on spam to my mind).

The comments I had in mind are “the most negative interpretation of the information that comports with the facts”, much like the non-information components of the press release are the most positive interpretation of the information that comports with the facts.

A press release contains info and fluff. The opposite of soft fluff is hard edges, so perhaps a cute and pithy summary of my view is that no fluffy PR statement is complete without an edgy reply.
It's easy to hate Musk lately, and I haven't forgotten when Gates was a ruthless monopolist who made "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" Microsoft's unofficial motto. Gates has made a show of philanthropy, yet he's wealthier than ever. Both men associated with Epstein after his release from prison. I respect both of them in the same way I respect pitbulls.
I don't think a non-profit OpenAI would ever have had enough resources to be anything but another also ran AI startup.
I dont get this argument. Docker didnt break backwards compatibility. They literally just wanted big projects to pay for the storage and bandwidth they were using.
The internet you’re describing sounds like hell on earth. I don’t want to talk to an llm.
I think the plugin system will ultimately help for most areas where LLMs are weak today.

Need to do math? Use the Wolfram plugin.

Need to have hard facts from reliable and citable sources? Use a plugin that queries databases like Arxiv. The LLM could give you links to sources and provide quotes from those sources to support its reasoning.
Flour and sugar based products are both absurdly high profit margin and the cause of the obesity pandemic (not a coincidence), you could make your own stuff for cheap, or just cut so the majority of flour based products from your diet - either option is a positive direction.
> But what is the "genre" of literary fiction? It's far too broad compared recognized genres like science fiction.

How are you measuring “broadness” here?

My experience with literary fiction is that it is as much a genre as sci-fi, mystery, or romance. It has its own clichés, as well as novels that avoid or deconstruct those clichés. The only thing I can think of as being substantially different is the cultural attitudes towards literary fiction, and the curious insistence that some people have that literary fiction is not a genre. I don’t see any justification for calling it “not a genre” other than argument which specifically defines “genre” in a way to exclude literary fiction.

I think if we sat down and tried to come up with a definition of “genre” that includes sci-fi, mystery, romance, and western, but excludes literary fiction, I would find a problem with the definition.
> ...dedup in awk...

I most recently did that an hour ago, and a few hours ago, pretty much every
day.

awk '! x[$0]++' foo
> Python is Visual Basic rehashed, the greatest thing for a zillion wannabe programmers because they are too lazy to learn something else.

This is needlessly inflammatory - characterizing Python programmers as lazy, stupid, or "not real programmers" has no place here. Many (very successful) businesses have been built using Python and, while they could have been written in other languages, there are always tradeoffs (developer experience, memory safety, package ecosystem, etc).
I agree. The way I see it, natural language interfaces, including LLMs, allow for ambiguous and less specific input. Compilers and interpreters are useful because they are very deterministic and require a strictly defined input. Conceptually using chatbots to develop software is just another low code hype train.
Definitely agreed - I read my own documentation more than anyone else, and writing it out does make for a better system design, but I never refer to documentation until I _need_ to and I don't expect others to do any differently
And the climate lobby eats itself with runaway propoganda. But more interesting, the polar opposites of the climate drama seem to agree on a lot of things.

Fascinating that the Doomers and Denialists both seem to agree that it is not technoligaly/economicly/politically possible to INFLUENCE climate in a meaningful way through policy in the real world.

Or how about Doomers and Denialists agreeing that Society is going to collapse? One through action (costly climate initiatives), the other through inaction (eco collapse leading to societal collapse)
Did you watch the video ? You got punk’d
Cool? You think that's cool?? That's not cool, it's commie bullshit!
Haha, what a surreal thread of comments. If you showed this to someone even a year ago, it'd look like a Microsoft commercial.
> It's also the only time he used that for "e" on that page, everywhere else on that page has "ᛖ" (ehwaz).

He isn't using it for "e". He's using it for "eo".
The physical environment has been optimized for use by humanoids over the past millennium. Humanoid robots can operate all the tools that have already been built instead of requiring new ones.
Teams?

Office 365?
I don't need to engage in a conversation. Query was exactly the same for both.

There is a difference whether I'm looking for interesting, more complicated dishes I haven't done before, or fairly standardized, simple recipes I have done many times and remember the technique but not things like ratios.

For the former I use a select few recipe sites or youtube channels directly. Google is miserable for discovery in my opinion. For the latter I use either my own recipe notebook or more recently ChatGPT as well.
Whenever there’s a big shift like this it’s always tempting to look at the new thing as say how great it is - and ChatGPT is awesome.

But it’s also worth looking at how shit the old thing has become. Google.com now literally delivers you an entire page of ads before any real results. It’s blatant profit-squeezing instead of trying to serve their users. This is their reward.
Since the article starts right off by stating almost the direct opposite, I'd guess the matter is at least less certain/more debated than the wikipedia article makes it out to be.
'Listener-funded' seems like a good definition of 'public-funded'. Probably better than what is really meant, which is 'state funded'.
Hardcore gamers are basically a niche market. Not a trivial one as with power users of other types but how is Apple doing without (other than casual) gamers?
> Analogous to “someone who will never be happy no matter what was said”, the tone of the press release will always be happy no matter what they have to say.

So grow your own filter. But as another reply said, this press release still has valuable information remaining after having been filtered. Complaints about their press release reading like a press release do not.
They don't?! Okay fair, I was wrong that's pretty bad.
Or be able to negotiate a management carve out
I love Python, but even if Go wasn't faster, trying to deploy Python dependencies on customer hosts sounds like a nightmare compared to compiling and distributing a single binary.
ChatGPT Plugin examples that are ready to run
Examples taken from the ChatGPT documentation site that have been put together in a repo and dockerized.
A Leader’s Hiring Checklist
I think you're pretty much correct. Whether these details matter is entirely application-specific, but you can go the extra mile if your application requirements demand it.

There are certainly multi-core MPUs and MCUs with a mixture of cores. The i.MX series from NXP have multi-core A7s with an M4 core for realtime use. Some of the ST H7 MCUs have dual M7 and M4 cores for partitioning tasks. There are plenty of others as well, these are the ones I've used in the past and present.
Wait, only 15.8%?

I have changed from not using it ever, at all (or maybe once a year to give it a try), to using it everyday, actually more frequently than Google. And several people I know are in the same situation.

Maybe it's a regional thing? In Spain no one seems to use Bing, so the bar was very low, I'm sure the boost here must have been of an order of magnitude at least. But maybe I live in a bubble...
Constitutional freedom of religion is not directly relevant to employment claims; what is relevant there is the scope of the applicable anti-discrimination law.

But that also won’t use pre-approved lists.
ah, interesting, will need to check those out
Yup. Its still happening even if delayed a year or two and obfuscated by some complications.
I dislike them both, but for different reasons. I dislike Gates for the serious damage he did to the software industry, and I dislike Musk because I think he's a con artist.

But my dislike for both of them has nothing to do with politics or their wealth.
It was on the frontpage when I went to bed last night. You may have missed it, the title wasn't very clickbaity or eye-catching.
I've compared this before to the self-driving car trolley problems that came out a while back. Everyone was so concerned about how the AI would decide to value the human life inside the car vs out of it, who it would hit.

In reality, companies cheaped out on sensors and their cars ran into walls that were painted white and hit minority pedestrians because their training data was woefully inadequate.

Not all giant security risks are sci-fi stories like System Shock. Sometimes they're boring things like "Dave wired up an inherently unpredictable interface to this power plant and just assumed it wouldn't have bugs."

Never mind the fact that solving issues like prompt injection, biased training data, hallucinations, public perception/anthropomorphism, corporate monopolization, worker disenfranchisement, etc... all seem like pretty stinking important steps in building a safe AGI to begin with, even if that is the most important concern long-term.
Red Otter: self-contained WebGL Flexbox layout engine
> Considering people switch to Incognito Mode to get different results, it'd be weird and not particularly commercially savvy to frustrate them and feed their paranoia by serving them the same ones. Non-Google search engines and browsers exist.

I just installed Google Chrome on a fresh Windows 10 VM to repeat the experiment outside of Incognito Mode. First, I opened a video. Then, I checked the front page and confirmed that related videos had been added. Then, I closed Chrome, reset the VM's state to before I had visited YouTube, and checked the front page again. (I don't think this scenario would be too indicative of a prying user; I can easily imagine corporate systems that regularly wipe out browser data.) Again, the related videos were replaced with generic videos.

I then tried the same thing, except by clearing browsing data through Chrome's UI instead of resetting the VM. The results were the same.

Obviously, these observations could all have been manipulated by sufficiently conspiratorial fingerprinting. But the simplest explanation, in the absence of good evidence to the contrary, is that the site uses and respects browser cookies for its recommendations. Thus my request.
It's funny the way the physics works.

I'm imagining a normal bicycle, but with a 1000:1 gear ratio. You could pull 15,000 lbs as if it was only 15 lbs. But then if you start going downhill, even hydraulic disc brakes would not have the stopping power to prevent the trailer for just pushing you down the hill. You would HAVE to have trailer brakes.

But if your hub couldn't freewheel, then you could easily stop it with just one foot with the same amount of power it would take to pull the trailer up the hill.
Thank you for the link to the black vault site, it was a fun site of rabbit holes to delve into.
Did you offer to labor at the best of your skills for them? Did you need the beer? The comparison is risible.

You have no idea how I live to make claims about my political inclinations.

Then again I never advocated socialism, and you're fighting a shadow.
Money is tight and we are seeing real competition finally.
Shark doesnt solves any problem you could not solve with other languages, its just better at handling a whole wide range of problems others cant solve. Have you dreamed making the frontend and backend of your site in the same language, or building the same game in PC, Mobile and Nintendo 3DS from the same codebase and just a few commands? I do, and shark is my attempt at doing it.

- Shogun
>>The problem is that Google’s core business model is too profitable, that nothing else can ever compete for attention and resources.

I'm guessing their OKR's go on the lines of building billion dollar businesses or nothing at all. And 'nothing at all' winning at the end.
the same is true damn near everywhere. In rural Missouri (and some cities) it is awful. Teachers are underqualified, underpaid, and work in absolutely unacceptable environments. Violent children, violent parents, no support from administration, no real authority or power to discipline. It is glorified state mandated babysitting. It's disgusting.
So currently we were storing embeddings of the code, and only going to pass OpenAI summarized context as needed. But short answer, yes :) I may look into if there's some code obfuscation methods that can utilized if there's demand (not sure what this would look like yet).
You've fallen into the trap of an overly simplistic and narrow view.

When projects and people move away from DockerHub, it hurts Docker-the-company because it further decreases their already tenuous and evaporating relevance.

Reducing a fraction of storage and bandwidth costs isn't important compared to retaining mindshare and the perception of relevance.

Edit: @nextlevelwizard The explanation you requested has been provided. Now it seems you're disagreeing with a common, widely accepted phenomenon. I was hoping for a more collaborative interaction.
They already have monetized it. Its $20/month.
That is a bummer. I love that people actively repaint it but I wish they wouldn't dump their trash on site.
Pure gut feeling from having to work with employees from both companies, but yes. I feel like RedHat people care more about open source toooling.
You're thinking of older chatbots. Search can absolutely return valid results to queries that have never been made before.
>the home automation/assistant market hasn't been the goldmine that was predicted

Customers are learning or have learned, the hard way, that home automation is not at all like fairy dust and unicorns.

See for example: Linus Tech Tips.
However, their websites have not held to their software standards. Links break all the time in my experience, especially for older documentation (msdn, etc).
If less than 4% of their funding came from the state, they wouldn't fight so hard to keep it coming. If the state contribution was that low, it would be in NPR's best interest to just get off it entirely.
I get what you are saying, but I gave little sympathy for their situation - they used the VC tactic of "give it away to gain and monopolise the market, then do the old switcheroo once we're #1", so they had to know what was coming.
Would you consider releasing a less powerful version of the language with a smaller binary? Like a baby version? I’d be really curious what it could do do do do do do do.
> Engineers don't assess every molecule of the materials they construct bridges out of. Doesn't mean they're not accountable when one collapses.

If it's something completely unpredictable then, no, they're not generally liable. It's called an "act of god" and you'll find that language in virtually every contract.

> Also, your saying doesn't mention anything about people who point out to others who should be stoned. I'm assuming that's okay, as well as letting people know what they did that would deserve a stoning. Just in general, not advocating anyone be stoned.

I have absolutely no idea what your point is here.
Okay, that's a more interesting take on this. Let me try to unravel it.

Firstly, I don't think the 'shadow economy' of horse-trading on projected value/cashflows (Which is what investment is, if we reduce it to absurdity) is particularly relevant to the actual act of creating value. It can certainly accelerate/deccelerate it (Speculative investment, versus tightening investment), but it can also operate entirely disjointly from it (Most of the crypto ICO craze.)

> There are no new dollar bills printed, and yet people behave as if those dollars are in more places at once.

They are in more places! Not at once, but they change hands more frequently. You've then gone on to describe ownership of capital, but you've missed the most relevant part - consumer behaviour. Consumers don't exchange money for parts of the company, they don't look at the firm's financials, they exchange money for what the company produces! And the company behaves in the same way towards its suppliers.

Consider a closed village of subsistence farmers who don't buy anything, and make everything they consume with their own hands.

How much value does a peasant create? As much as he consumes.

Now, consider that same closed village, where half the people are growing all the food, and half the people are making all the household goods, and they trade with eachother.

How much value does a peasant create? About as much as in case #1.

What's different about these cases is that money changes hands in the latter. That money can be taxed. That money creates opportunities for employment (Which is very relevant in a modern economy, because most people make their living by working for someone else, as opposed to themselves.)

Is all this a confidence trick? To an extent, yes, but it's a confidence trick that a 'jobs' based society requires to keep functioning.

> I suppose my quibble is that the concepts of "creating value" vs "creating money" distinction is largely meaningless in a world where we have so many mechanisms for exchanging money for the expectations of future money or value.

I largely agree with you in the sphere of 'investment', but strongly disagree with you in the sphere of 'consumption'.
PSA...

You can stream and watch ondemand PBS.

FRONTLINE is great. They did a show on banking crisis.

https://www.pbs.org/video/age-of-easy-money-osu8cj/
I'm curious, are they profitable? Docker is a super popular tool and I thought whoever has been there from the beginning should have 7 digits in their accounts.
It's so cute. One of my favorite parts of driving the 40.
HTML <Search> Element
Yep. Google needs moderation. Every time I have the same experience with Google is another reminder that SEO sucks and I cannot wait for something better than search to come along.
My applause to Alex Ellis for writing a clear, direct call to arms!

Their work is super useful and interesting. I've added them to my list of sponsorships: https://github.com/sponsors/alexellis
Folks having spatial issues should consider learning touch typing and use the raised plastic helpers on top of the keys like f, j and down
Then you lose the opportunity cost. No difference.
Or they could make it so if someone pays $30/mo they can get a notification every time someone visits their GitHub. This is a reality for LinkedIn which is also owned by Microsoft.

Don't let Microsoft ever get away with saying they respect privacy...
> "If a request is canceled after the request is pushed onto the incoming queue, but before the response popped from the outgoing queue, we see our bug: the connection thus becomes corrupted and the next response that’s dequeued for an unrelated request can receive data left behind in the connection."

The OpenAI API was incredibly slow and lots of requests probably got cancelled (I certainly was doing that) for some days. I imagine someone could write a whole blog post about how that worked, it would be interesting reading.
Airstream ranch was torn down in 2017.
> Reich and Elizabeth Warren disagree with you

They argue that "nonbanks got their funding from the big banks in the form of lines of credit, mortgages, and repurchase agreements" and if "big banks hadn’t provided them the money, the nonbanks wouldn’t have got into trouble." But nonbank funding channels were already alive, well, and causing chaos in the 1990s (LTCM) and before (S&Ls). Sure, banks juiced the problem. But it didn't start the fire, it didn't bring the fire home and it didn't meaningfully alter the fire's trajectory. And there is no evidence that their large depositors would have sat there if nonbanks offered competitive rates fueled by their nonsense.

As we've seen this cycle, banks and nonbanks will chase yield when rates are low and credit is cheap. To argue that e.g. SoftBank wouldn't have SoftBanked if JPMorgan and JPMorgan Securities were separate misses the forest for the trees.

> securities firms selling CDOs backed by subprime MBS

Bank originates mortgage. Bank sells mortgage to securities firm. Securities firm issues as CDO. Nothing about this requires the lending arm and securities arm be under the same roof. Mortgage CDOs became a thing because of computers, not Glass-Steagall.

Proponents of reinstating Glass-Steagall are broadly well intentioned. But there are real financial regulations that have real impact that this discussion crowds out.
Calling the famously transphobic bbc left wing is a hilarious joke.
i cant believe google put out such a poor version of bard. everyone will immediately compare results and disregard bard quickly. they made this same mistake with other launches.
Lol. This is classic ML crap. Files with no documentation, no links, multiple files with the same-ish name but no explanation for which one is what.
>So grow your own filter

I did! I combine the fluff of the PR with the edge of the negative reply and they cancel out, leaving me free to analyze the info that remains.
Bill Gates and Microsoft will have something to say about that.
I hate any design that forces me to wait any amount of time. I could be another step forward if convenient enough, but no... I had to wait the hardcoded seconds. There's never a valid amount of seconds to wait to indicate something that will make everyone happy. Just skip the wait, let the user decide its own pace to consume the ui.
A quirk of HNs rule, post title must match article title. If nothing else it gets more people to RTA.
DarkFinger (2020)
It’s not a lazy refrain, it’s a serious downside of the technology. It’s tiring and stressful to supervise the work product of an assistant that is extremely capable sometimes, but a compulsive bullshitter at other times. Just as it’s tiring to supervise an “autonomous” car that often deftly navigates the road, but sometimes wants to plow into a school bus.
Meta is huge. Probably released by different teams on parallel tracks. There can be benefits to diversity of effort.