skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think any technology has been rolled out with the speed you are suggesting LLMs should have been rolled out.

It's like saying 4 months after the first useful car was manufactured. "If these are so good, how come there are still horses? Clearly the market disagrees with you".
Can't speak of engineering but science, maths and art all continued to flourish and peaked in Gupta period 500 years later.
Modeling, Visualizing, and Navigating a Transportation Network
Should we be worried that it is talking about AI and GPT-4 in the third person and also mentioning "our skills and knowledge"?
That indeed used to be very common in the early days of Rust, however, I believe stable Rust is what most libraries and projects use nowadays. It's been some time since I saw anything that used Rust beyond 1.60 (release April last year) as a minimum version.
Windows has a flag for that for it to respect case. But it would probably bug out a bunch of programs. I usually see it with samba shares. But you can get it to do it on the local filesystem too if you try hard enough. Also it is a bit of a pain when it does happen if you get two files with the 'same name'. One file will be basically invisible to most of the normal windows tools.
What kind of junk mail? Where you gave your physical address to a third party and now they're sending you crap, but they're a legit business that you can tell to stop doing that and then you stop receiving junk mail, or do you mean they got your physical address from data leaks and the sender tries to scam you into resetting your password, sell you illegitimate drugs, etc.? You're talking as though both kinds, legal and illegal spam, are the same thing.

> Yes, I could take the time to write to a politician to complain about junk mail, or I could just chuck it in the trash and get on with my day.

What you're suggesting is messing with a spam filter designed to handle illegitimate email to get confused enough to also filter out legitimate emails based on a guess as to whether or not you might want it. You're not "just chunking it in the trash and getting on with your day" but actively harming the system instead.
This page won't load for me (Firefox 111.0.1, Windows), I get a MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING error.
It wasn't low end ! It was released with the same flagship SoC that was inside the last iPhone released (iPhone 7)
Hacker news promotes neolib views with the occasional neocon agenda. These are programmers with strong and uninformed media massaged opinions. Chomsky is unfortunately relevant even today.
gpt3.5 fails terribly. even when I tried to guide it to reflect and correct, it couldn't. I had it list the characters in a numeric order and it couldn't, but gpt4 seems to be doing good.
> For people who want to listen to pop, they're probably fine. But anything that's even a little niche is trouble. Or that's my experience, anyhow.

O what happened to the idea of the “long tail”, eh?
Air pollution, noise pollution, health problems.
True. I guess I'm assuming that given two intelligent civilizations, it's more likely they are more advanced than us. But of course I have no basis to assume that!
It's called wasting our resources !
But the environmental factor of one Joe Average carpooling with a Bob Average is a lot lower than if Sir Rich Guy uses a Tesla instead of his private jet.

This is like a burning tire yard owner telling people to stop smoking cigarettes to keep the air cleaner.
My Samsung S2 was the last Android phone I was happy with.

Every one I personally owned since that was either janky or pulled some stupid tricks on system updates or something.
Poland and Hungary were also strictly against the ban on selling gasoline cars. So no, it's not only Germany.

Whether EU itself will be still a thing in 12+ years to enforce this bullshit ban is another question.
Regulatory agencies should have stepped in as it became obvious that competition had led to unhealthy business practices. The thing is, a resilient (!) economy is a complex thing, and it absolutely requires outside feedback regulation.

A lack of competition aka mono/duo/oligopols controlling markets is obviously unhealthy, because too large and powerful entities can and will gouge customers in the best (=most harmless) case, or actually make absurd demands from politics in the worst case when they get way too large (see the recent Credit Suisse bank scandals).

The other way around, too much competition, is also bad, as it incentivizes unhealthy business behaviors such as wage theft, tax evasion, barely making profits (and thus, having no reserves for the event of an externally-caused economic shock), or exploiting customers to the point that they rather piss into a bush (and annoy residents) than pay 50ct for a loo.

And to make it worse, a part of the problem is that there are a ton of gas stations - in Germany, about 14.000 [1] - but only a handful of oil suppliers. And the suppliers have an insane amount of leverage here: the gas stations are effectively locked to them (e.g. virtually all oil in Eastern Germany originates from two refineries in Leuna and Schwedt), so the refineries can charge whatever they want, and gas stations don't have the freedom to add markup to make profits on gas.

[1] https://www.adac.de/verkehr/tanken-kraftstoff-antrieb/deutsc...
A solved problem means that someone has solved it, not that everyone has.
Yes they do, but that doesn’t mean what has been done has any actual effect. It’s just an auto correlated belief.
There is no Down regulation effect.

In effect the mythical causations you quote are precisely what economists believe

To them more people in prison does cause more gun crime.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/02/19/interest-rate...
A lot of games have some internal "physics rate" or similarly termed tick rate at which the logical state is updated. The better you can decouple the graphics pipeline from it, the better.
The US has been in a risky economic situation since it went off the gold standard. Possibly since it created the Federal Reserve Act.

Slow-moving train wrecks are still train wrecks.
In Germany, there are free restrooms on autobahn parking lots (essentially truck stops without a gas station or shops or anything, just the restroom) and these paid restrooms. The paid ones are objectively miles ahead in terms of cleanliness.

(Every once in a while you also see free restrooms where the cleaning person asks for a tip.)
The Intersection of Blockchain and Gaming
I so wish this was true. I'm a happy Android phone user with OS vintage 2016, but now all my banking apps are no longer working because they refuse to support my OS version. Many other apps from airline check-in apps to chat apps that used to work perfectly fine all refuse to work because upon running they say "This app no longer supported" and forces an OS upgrade, which is not possible on this version phone.

This is forced obsolescence in action.
Your background has no domain knowledge though. It is structured and foundational stem skills (except philosophy) which the ai’s can more easily handle.

Domain knowledge about specific industries and what is required by the software seems the more valuable skillset going forward. How does physics and computer science help with that? Communication skills and ability to learn new, more unstructured domains is likely to be more critical like those learned by strong liberal arts disciplines, for example.
Alibaba to split into six separate groups
Cost and precedent. It's inexpensive to get a prefab kit that only needs to be bolted to a couple spots on the floor and wall, less finicky than building a partition all the way to the floor.

Also USians are used to it, so we don't complain :)
We are currently looking for a skilled & passionate Senior Full Stack Developer (m/f/d) to become part of one of our Tech Teams onsite in Hamburg or remote within the EU! All developers at ABOUT YOU are driven by the love of creating outstanding user experiences across our high-scalable applications. Your work will impact the future of how eCommerce is experienced by millions of customers. As a Full Stack Developer (m/f/d), you will be responsible for contributing to the application architecture and doing intensive, design orientated development on both Frontend and Backend code. Leap to the next level in your career by building game-changing eCommerce Software and Shop.

What you will do

- Build high traffic web applications with PHP (Symfony or Laravel) and JavaScript / TypeScript (Vue.js, React.js)

- Engage in decisions ranging from UX Design to Backend architecture together with the Tech Lead and explore new technologies

- Build internal & external RESTful API as well as beautiful user interfaces

- Work with agile processes that are adapted to the team’s needs

- Exchange your knowledge with other developers and be part of our ABOUT YOU TECH community

Who you are

- Excellent & MVP-focused coding skills in PHP (Symfony or Laravel) minimum of 4 years

- Practical & recent experience with JS Frameworks like Vue.js or React.js

- Solid background in building complex and beautiful products which are able to handle the requests by millions of users

- Good technical understanding of RESTful API’s

- Passionate about writing well-structured, efficient and maintainable code, actively keeping the quality of the code base in check

- Used to work in an English-speaking environment

YOU ARE THE CORE OF ABOUT YOU. We take responsibility for creating an inclusive and exceptional environment where all genders, nationalities and ethnicities feel welcomed and accepted exactly as they are. We believe that a diverse workforce essentially contributes to the ABOUT YOU culture. In order to maintain talent and diversity, we emphasize the care for physical health, mental health and overall well-being. Our values and work ethics essentially contribute to our brand mission: empower acceptance and shape an inclusive, fair and circular fashion culture. We are looking forward to receiving your application – preferably via our online application portal! Thus, we can ensure a faster process and for you it is very easy to upload your application documents.
I had a problem so I used an AI generated regex. Now I have an unknowable number of problems.
Go through his comment history. Oliver Stones documentary on Ukraine has been heavily suppressed and blocked by tech companies, 1st amendment not withstanding.
This is utterly nonesense.
Do you produce electricity without CO2 emissions? And what about those batteries?!

Last week, the battery for my cordless vaccum cleaner went flat. And to my surprise it costs half the price of the vaccum cleaner. But a bigger surprise was that they stopped making it ... even in China!

So I need to actually "buy" a new vaccum cleaner. But this time I learnt the lesson, and I like cords now !

Back to the point on electric cars, electricity pollutes, battery production (mining the materials) and lifespan (throwing old batteries) pollutes the environment. So I don't see any point in that ...
> The US standard mortgage only really exists because of government intervention and was a huge gift.

What does this mean? I'm not familiar.
I've also spent a decade writing almost exclusively code in C++.

After a decade, there was no end in sight on all the obscure patterns and way of doing things provided by the language. After a decade I realized that the more I learned about the language, the more I needed to know. And that's when I called it a day and promised myself not to touch this pile of smoking crap even with a stick in my career. I write code because I like to build things that solve real problems, not because I like to jerk myself off on all the possible theoretical ways to initialize a variable or a pointer.

If you need to read tons of fat books to be aware of all the nuances of the language, then the language has failed its goal of being a useful tool to build things.

And where are the advantages given by all the possible types of memory allocation, pointer declaration and variable initialization? C++ is still a memory-unsafe language, after all. So you still have to handle most of the low-level complexity of C, while getting a language polluted by four decades of patches and crap, and having to read big books just to understand how initialization and pointers work.

No wonder that C++ is increasingly becoming a relic confined to the cemetery of bad technological ideas, no new software is being built in it at all, and Rysy and Go are eating all of its cake.
Yes, it's a shame. I'm guessing Apple takes care of that with their own custom SSD firmware, but I'd love to take the additional precautions. For now, I add par2 error correction/detection to my pictures.
I'm holding out for the GPT5 Max Pro.
To clarify for those who are interested, in Canada you can still get a home mortgage with a 25-year amortization period (or 30-year in some circumstances), but the repayment terms are generally renegotiated on a regular basis: generally on a 5-year cycle, but with options between 1-7 years. For most people, they’re generally just making a choice between fixed- or variable-rate and open or closed (early repayment without or with a penalty). Looking at today’s rates, I’m quite thankful we locked in at a low 5-year fixed rate right before rates started to climb, but there’s a lot of folks who are going to be having a rough time here…
the whole planet upgrade their electronics at least every decade is just an obviously stupid thing and not enough people talk about it

This is so true! How can we developers make this a bigger thing? Isn't there a market for this by now?
Most (all?) of the Swiss popular initiatives are implemented as constitutional amendments.

The closest we have in the USA is “Article 5” —- if you can get two-thirds of the state legislatures to ratify an amendment, it becomes part of the constitution, without any federal say in the matter. In
All this is a screaming ad for blockchain payments. Really decentralized.
It does not work for me in browser Safari (iOS) either:

undefined is not an object (evaluating 'navigator.wakeLock.request')

Update: Turns out it's only available behind HTTPS. The PWA bug might be related.
Training a spam filter is not the same as creating a do-not-deliver rule for a given sender. Unless you manage to convince the filter that paypal is the same as a viagra scammer (good luck with that), you'd still get those messages from paypal.

Maybe some providers also denylist the sender-receiver pair when you click spam to combat this problem nowadays; back when I used public email services this was rarely the case. Nowadays I use a different system altogether so I don't know if this might now be common.

Either way, this is not what the spam button is for, but from this subthread I see that enough people on HN already don't understand how these systems work (and education is hard: people don't even read relevant oneliners pushed in their face at a relevant time, such as error messages), so I guess there's no hope for the general public altogether. I didn't know this is an entirely lost cause and is making me rethink about reporting spam on platforms like reddit. I guess they get so many false positives that I'm wasting my time reporting anything as spam ever.
Meanwhile government employees here have to drive their private cars during the winter because the electric cars supplied by the employer can't handle the cold. I'm curious how planned the date is with respect to the consequences. This will shake everything from mechanics to handling crisis such as weather catastrophes or war as in Ukraine. Will we have enough batteries? Will we become dependent on China? Will the average Joe afford a car or will it become a privilege for rich people? Where will we get the power from when we barely can supply existing infrastructure and companies are denied permission to expand? Will we have hundreds of thousands of charging stations on the streets? Lots of questions I'd love to see the answers to.
There is no down regulation effect from interest rates. It’s an autocorrelation.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2023/02/19/interest-rate...
Unlimited Speed on Highways = People who drive really fast = People think their time is money = Entrepreneur mindset = FDP key voters.

Guess what we Germans are unable to kill either: Adding a generic speed limit so we do not get heart attacks when someone drives 300km behind us.

Sucks but is called a compromise. Democracy.
> this means that when new members are invited to a group, the existing members can automatically re-encrypt and securely send the recent message history — which is important for threaded chat, so that conversations aren’t broken.

This may be important for "threaded chat" but it's also a privacy killer. Everything you write might than be read by someone who later joins and wasn't the intended audience.
But that would be a regress of civilization, not progress! The civilization progress is to have much more private transport and also somewhat more public transport.
Chip Makers Face Choice Between U.S. and China
Build real-time ChatGPT chatbot assistant into your app
You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy! <- welcome to the new world. All cheap Dacias (cheap European car brand) will be gone. So the mobility for lower income people. With automotive industry gone European de-industrialization will be already far far ahead. And afterwards Europe will loose all the significance in the world.
Well, you can already do things like this, eg emulating x86 on some microcontroller. But the problem tends to be that the emulation runs magnitudes slower than the new hardware, so it is impractical for almost every use case beside Doom ports to exotic hardware.
Can you recommend a company? And isn’t the work insurance covering you while traveling internationally?
I haven’t been keeping up, but how many games on Steam still require Windows? I wonder if SteamOS (or another Linux distro) would be a reasonable option for people on older machines?
There is a difference between monetary policy and fiscal policy. Monetary policy is set by the Federal Reserve while fiscal policy is set by Congress (as laid out in the constitution) The activist Fed under “the courage to act” Bernanke and more recently under Powell moved from the realm of monetary policy to fiscal policy.

By massively expanding the Feds balance sheet with mortgage bonds the Federal Reserve massively increased the value of housing and lowered mortgage payments for existing homeowners. Prior to 2008 the Fed only bought US government securities so any market distortions it caused the benefit accrued to the Government.

As the Fed is now having to pay interest on reserves and higher inflation it is making the cost of those decisions more apparent.

Now, if Congress had said in 2008 that they wanted to write checks for a a couple of trillion dollars per year to homeowners and pay for it with a 10% tax (inflation) that would mostly benefit the old and wealthy and hit the young and poor the hardest they would be within their constitutional power to do so. It is unlikely that Congress would ever do so but the Federal Reserve made that decision. That makes me uncomfortable.
Can't agree more ! The levels of API backward compatibility of the Windows API is really impressive and should be taken as an example for everyone.

Some Opensource projects like OpenSSL do have the same philosophy.

This is harder for the developpers to maintain old APIs but it does develop a sense of trust on the products.
Big Tech’s AI Armies Are Huge, yet Struggling to Innovate
I'm going to miss really simple cars with barely any electronics in them.
This. You can live without basic apps or updates. Even without twitter, in non-pathological cases. But services like taxi, banking, e-stores, delivery apps just stop working due to API changes on their side, together with OS requirements. And there may be no useful alternative (e.g. a website doesn’t cut it).
I'm not talking about a mandate for operating system support, I'm talking about a mandate to allow the user to install operating systems if they want to.

It's not third party devs fault that the perfectly good hardware and an old iPhone is denied the ability to operate to a version of the operating system with the latest API support.

You don't see this on Windows. You see it on Android, and it shouldn't happen there either.

This wasn't a thing until mobile phones became a thing, and companies to seized the opportunity to be able to force all their hardware to be obsolete.
I find very difficult to believe that any personal effort on mitigating CO2 emissions is worth it. A single decision by an individual working on a big company does make the difference, either for better or for worse, but not our own indvidual actions as CO2 emitters.
They recently changed the payment model, at least in some locations. It's now 1 EUR for using the restroom, but you also get a 1 EUR voucher for food and drinks.
no you can't, some apps just stop working, some become vulnerable/unsafe to use. Then you can't install apps you haven't "purchased" before, then ...
https://archive.ph/CQhTI
Red Hat murdered RHV without IBM's help (sad to say).
I was quite satisfied with my iPhone 7 (2016) and didn't experience any problems with it, unlike the article author. However, iOS 16 doesn't support iPhone 7, so I had to buy a new iPhone SE (2022), which was the cheapest model available. The 2 phones are mostly identical, and indeed it's difficult to distinguish them if set side by side.
I've mentioned this on here before, but my otherwise perfectly functional Pixel 3A has been out of security-patch support for nearly a year.

It's disgusting honestly, my only options are to try to find some open source project keeping patches up to date, have my most important information on an unpatched device, or throw it in the trash.
Are you really an ashole if you want to eat a steak every now and then? Compared to people who use a private jet to fly 31 miles[0]?

If you want a cleaner planet, start with those who pollute the most, and then go down towards stuff normal people do and use.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/11/02/revealed-a...
How does this compare with Concertmaster? It's basically a skin on top of Spotify for browsing classical music. It's free and pretty good. (There's also an app.) And I believe there is a version for Apple Music already?

[1]: https://concertmaster.app
I have great respect for your current work and assurances on the business model. But what you are asserting is only _currently_ in your gift.

If you keep controlling equity stakes in the business and don't need to raise significant outside investment it will work out as per your business model.

If you get into enterprise selling, you'll need a sales workforce and significant cost of Sales/Goods/Administration. If you want only organic growth, you'll be ok. But what will happen is that investment from, or selling to a large corporate, will turbo boost such sales; the temptation proves irresistible to many. If you are in a land-grab dynamics with other companies, growth may actually mean survival.

There is a scalability tier above the best subscription businesses, which is mass-market consumer adoption. The twitter experience demonstrates this. The ad revenue across billions outweighs a tidy subscription revenue from a small highly engaged subscription crowd. Any significant co-investor will find the lure of this irresistible. If you gain private equity investors, you will become ad based with high probability.

I welcome your contribution to the field of messaging apps and wish you well. I hope that this can inform your judgements about business models going forwards. If you think this is incorrect, please follow up with your alternative thoughts.
The SE has always been the low-end phone, regardless of its internals.
In MinIO's original accusations, they have a line: "MinIO recommends uninstalling $Company entirely from your infrastructure."

When they wrote it, they set $Company to "Weka". Given the overall interaction and beyond-curious legal interpretations they are making and publishing, I read it with $Company set to "MinIO".