skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google politics and history aside, it's much better to link research with products for software. Unlike physics and biology, software is basically what we say it is, so there isn't a natural ordering to research (and it can wander forever, all too much like literary criticism).

What both Google research and product missed, and ChatGPT provided almost accidentally, is that people need a way to answer ill-formed questions, and iteratively refine those questions. (The results are hit-or-miss, but far better than traditional search.)

What both OpenAI, Bing, and now Google realize, is that the race is not to a bigger model but to capturing the feedback loop of users querying your model so you can learn how to better understand their queries. If Microsoft gets all that traffic, Google never even gets the opportunity to catch up.

If Google were really smart, they would take another step: to break the mold of harvesting free users and instead pay representative users to interact with their stuff, in order to catch up. Just the process of operationalizing the notion of "representative" will vastly improve both product and research, and it would build goodwill in communities everywhere - goodwill they'll need to remain the default.

Progressive queries are just the leading edge of entire worlds of behavior that are yet ill-fitted to computers, but could be accommodated via AI. And if your engineers consider the problem as "fuzzy" search or "prompt engineering" or realism, you need to get people with more empathy, a minimal understanding of phenomenology, and enough experience with multiple cultures and discourses to be able to relate and translate
Most of the banks listed are focused on European customers, but I will add US soon too!
> their entire business depends on them not doing it...

... in a way that you, as a customer, can detect.

1. You can't have any hard guarantees about what information is retained by third parties about you.

2. As other comments here have pointed out, something smells a bit weird with this.
Fun trick (I don't know if it still works): on the login prompt of your Linux (or other Unix) machine, type your username in all caps. This sets some strange termios(3) modes, which convert all lowercase output to UPPERCASE and all UPPERCASE input to lowercase. These modes are, AFAIK, for compatibility with these uppercase-only terminals.
Lower pressure could help help the exhaust spread more.
Last time I tried it I ended up in an infinite loop of:

me: TypeError: sodium.crypto_secretbox_key is not a function when using sodium 3.0.5

chatgpt: I apologize for the confusion. sodium.crypto_secretbox_key was removed from the sodium package in version 3.0.0. Instead, you can use sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen() to generate a secret key.

me: now I get 'TypeError: sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen is not a function 3.0.5'

chat:gpt I apologize for the confusion. sodium.crypto_secretbox_keygen was removed from the sodium package in version 3.0.0. Instead, you can use sodium.crypto_secretbox_key to generate a secret key.

Back and forth. And that was when I was like "welp guess I gotta read some docs now" which isn't a big deal, the interesting part for me is that it's basically hallucinating about what features were added or removed in a given library version, which really seems like the sort of thing it aught to be pretty good with.
No, but they are pragmatic. I understand this is simply a way to sidestep payment problems related to anti-porn regulations, not an ideological "crypto freedom" thing.

The advertisers are aware of what business the website is in, they want to advertise there, but the owner's bank closed his account.
I believe on windows WSL2 uses 9p mounts, and perhaps docker desktop as well. Now I'm curious about the performance and ability to mount from this registry on those platforms.
The second I clicked in here, I immediately remembered your website. (That green theme is very iconic and memorable). When I was a young teenager, I remember visiting your site plenty of times and downloading things off of it. Probably something like Linux ISOs, or music. I was a nerdy kid who really liked the idea of peer to peer stuff, I guess.

I probably tried to contribute some RuneScape-related content, but it likely didn't stay seeded for long haha.

Thanks for maintaining such a great website.
I assume a lot of those 4B are sugary dessert drinks containing coffee, not what is colloquially referred to as a “coffee”. At least I hope.
I think the issues of privilege are worth considering, but I think they’re not the only dimension worth thinking about.

Consider this hypothetical. You’ve got two equally wealthy kids who go to the same private school, take all the same classes, and take the same SAT prep class.

Kid 1 has a perfect GPA and a 90th percentile SAT score. Kid 2 has perfect SAT score and a 90th percentile GPA. If there’s only one spot, which kid should a college admissions office pick?
> couldn't they have delayed and tested when they had a more reasonable chance of success

Probably not. These are new designs. Modelling only goes so far. The way you learn is testing, refining and repeating. I frankly didn’t expect it to clear the tower; max Q on the first shot is a testament to how far computational methods have come.
Humans are social creatures. Loneliness due to be alienated from your peers puts you at risk for mental health issues, potentially more so than the social media you alienated yourself from your peers to avoid. Hence the coordination problem.
>The point I'd make is that leadership really matters.

I wholeheartedly agree. You're probably aware, but there have been a number of good write-ups detailing an overall erosion of engineering leadership at Boeing [1].

>Elon has stated that he will not be taking SpaceX public until transit between Earth and Mars is well established.

I think maybe the difference between you and me is that I take many of Musk's promises with a boulder of salt. If I was a gambler, I'd bet that we see some wordsmithing about what the definition of a "well established Mars transit" when it comes time for an IPO.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...
Nice. Yeah it'd also be cool to easily see which European banks accept offshore US customers. It can be a real struggle finding offshore banks that don't mind dealing with FATCA for low value accounts.
This is extremely silly.

I did not say it ends your rights. I did not say it gives them superpowers.

What it does do is give them government and legally sanctioned power backed up by force to do whatever the warrant says. They can tear your house apart. Seize your property. They can withdraw your blood by force if necessary. Micheal Jackson (rich, famous, and powerful) had his genitalia examined. They can certainly (and do) go in your office and take every single thing computer or data related if those devices may contain information relevant to the warrant.

"This information isn't responsive to the warrant?" - I feel like I'm living in an alternate universe at this point... That's borderline "One weird trick just say these magic words and the police disappear". Watch video of search warrants being executed. They walk out with TONS of material - anything electronic related, hand trucks with boxes of documents, etc. When the FBI searched a billionaire former US President they walked out with 28 boxes of documents[0].

Is anyone here under the impression that a search warrant for relevant electronic records involves the police sitting down with you and looking at your computer? No. They'll take EVERYTHING, image it for evidentiary purposes, and then take as much time as they need to review it in search for whatever was specified in the warrant.

A person or lawyer can say anything they want but the outcome in 99.9% of cases is the guys with the guns are going to do whatever they feel empowered to do. If there's anything questionable it can be argued in court later.

High powered lawyers in suits? The FBI executed a search warrant on a billionaire former United States President... Yes they'll likely behave differently but they're certainly not scared of you or whatever you or a lawyer says in the moment.

In street crime this is often called "You can beat the rap but you can't beat the ride".

In the moment the power asymmetry is very real. I point you to thousands of hours of YouTube police body camera footage, etc that demonstrates it.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcnJNfJqJTI
Buzzfeed News never understood the medium. They couldn't support themselves. It turns out chasing social media and search clicks for free ad-supported journalism is not a great business model.

The freemium models of the New York Times and Washington Post are the ones that are cleaning up. You get a few free ad-supported articles a month to pique your interest, and if you are really into it, you need to pay a subscription. But Buzzfeed never had a brand people would pay for.

Buzzfeed, the non-news part, certainly knows how to produce cheap content, which makes it easier to ad support. They also do sponsored content.

But I'd hesitate to say that Buzzfeed understood the medium. They knew how to game traffic. They didn't know how to make money.

A lot of news outlets chased clicks. They thought they understood the medium. Making money and supporting yourself is the ultimate understanding the medium. Turns out The Gray Lady understands it the best.
Dedifferentiation maintains melanocyte stem cells in a dynamic niche
FWIW on Chrome/Windows it took me a refresh of the page to get everything to properly load or render, it was a blank starscape until then.

E: I managed to crash the tab while bumping along the 'border' of the playable zone!

Error code: SBOX_FATAL_MEMORY_EXCEEDED

Doing so lost all my found items :(
>DeepMind has made very impressive demos and papers, but they have yet to add one dollar of revenue to Google's bottom line.

DeepMind has researched and developed features that exist in many Google products today, e.g. Wavenet: https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/waven...
> Retailers wont take me because of my accomplished work history.

Can't you just remove it from your CV then? I thought that CV is like personal marketing material: you only list things there that help you to get a specific job – and skip everything else that doesn't.

EDIT: It's possible to list your previous employers without listing your work accomplishments.
aged like fine wine.
In fact, the 'cosmetic' (or, better, 'easily visible') nature of this process probably makes it easier to study in vivo.
I think the biggest change is that a lot of people just came out of an era where there was a national media narrative that was highly agreed upon and very New England, classically "liberal". Except around sex and drugs of course.

This narrative dominated TV, print and to a lesser extent radio. It really created the notion in people's heads that this narrow band was really what people thought about. What people are reacting to in large part is the newly visible presence of alternative perspectives. They were always there. They were just strategically locked out by people who decided what was "fringe". Basically anything that didn't support institutions was ignored or disparaged.

Waco and Cuba are two prime examples. Waco was written off in the national media because the people in the compound were so "weird". And for years the national media has underwritten the American foreign policy blob's almost neurotic fixation with Cuba.
I have been in the webdev industry for 20+ years, always in high demand. I am reliable and good at what I do. I have never had trouble finding gainful employment...until 2022. I have been applying for jobs every day--jobs I am quite qualified for--and most of the potential employers don't respond at all. Those few that do respond mostly say "we are looking at other candidates, thanks anyway."

I have had a few companies reply to my applications with an "email interview" questionnaire, but after I reply I usually hear nothing back. One actually scheduled a video interview, but the day before it was to occur, they emailed to say nevermind, the position was filled.

It's so odd. Some of these job descriptions are an exact match for my skill set. I suspect that ageism is a major contributor given that I am over 40. I am starting to look into other industries, but it feels like such a waste to abandon my cultivated experience.
I think they'll google-news the name "Bard" due to bad reception caused by unrealistic expectations (and a market primed by vastly superior alternatives).
That sounds like a fairly brilliant counter to "Open"AI. Something tells me that Google is still too scared of this tech in the hands of the public to go there though.
And yet here we are in a thread discussion how the rocket did more damage than anyone thought.

That article was always going to be flagged, strictly because of its content. Maybe it could have snuck in with a headline like "Great news, SpaceX wisely found ways to launch rocket 20% more powerful than they planned for", but I doubt it.
Burning a log you just cut is no different from burning a log you dug up. You've accomplished nothing whatsoever in reducing CO2 emissions.
Mars is far off enough it's entirely speculative on how they'll handle this. Drop some robot bulldozers first? Specialized landers for landing pad construction crews? Bring the heavy cargo via a separate non-atmospheric craft built in Earth orbit? Hover from height for a while to blow debris off a rocky flat spot?

I don't have the answer, but IMO cheap mass to Earth orbit is the biggie that enables a whole bunch of options.
They're the new Xerox, looking at PARC's output and asking, "How will this make our copiers better?"

Internally, everyone's asking "How will this help my promo packet?"
As much as I would like Google to compete strongly with OpenAI(i.e., ClosedAI) I somehow have this feeling that they are going to end up like IBM Watson.
I guess they don't have them on hand today?

They will come back another day with a pile of batteries.
Don't worry, they will sunset it in 3 years, like every other project.
Right ok so now we come to the crux of it.

With song copyright, for example, the gold standard has been 'is the melody the same'.

How do you define a voice specifically enough to copyright?

What if some dude just happens to sound like Drake, because he won the punnet square of larynxes? Is his work now a copyright violation?

What if he sounds like Drake when he puts on the Drake filter? Did the Drake filter violate copyright? Does his voice violate copyright only when filtered?

The people deciding these questions are not philosophers of sound. They're lawyers and industry hacks. It's going to get messy.
Being able to pump a firehose of syslogs at a GPT and tell it to flag any problems would be great
Let's not forget that Musk wants to take Tesla private, whether or not this is on purpose, it helps him achieve that goal.. and perhaps you should be warned if you want to buy some..
They have special concrete now which shouldn't explode from moisture. But apparently it didn't hold up at all. I don't think anyone expected this.
That's a valid viewpoint, but I've also seen people be very successful with SQL triggers, stored procedures and all of that.

Before it was fashionable to build out "service layers" inside a back end application or as an API I've seen people build the equivalent by making all database accesses in an application go through a set of stored procedures that, basically, provide an API.

It can work very well.

There is also the idea, less well developed, from the RDF world where you could have some system of inference that works like triggers but is based on logic and is potentially more disciplined. Let's say it hasn't caught on and I remember drinking in a hotel bar with the marketing head of one vendor, after a conference, who was frustrated that people didn't see the value.
We only need it to be 'good enough'. Not good.

And yeah, it's good enough. I cleaned my apartment to it. Works as intended.
> How many trees does it take to sequester gigatonnes of CO2?

Are you saying biofuels are not only ineffective at reducing CO2 emissions, but impractical as well?
No, actually most of the traditional news media (print, TV, radio) declines to report on suicide due to documented risks to increase in suicide rates following news about a suicide:

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m575
>while your friends are in college partying with fun girls and making contacts for easy jobs

Most of those people are making extremely bad life decisions and you will be significantly more wealthy before they've even left college. The best way to make money is to have money, you have a massive edge if you literally just start working early, live with your parents and stay the hell away from debt. It's a simple formula, and it's how I managed to climb my way into the middle-class.

A good thing about blue-collar is that it will make you tough and keep you fit, and you will also learn to socialize properly with people from different generations, as well as being able to absorb whatever experience they might have gained over the decades they've lived.
>Study Links ‘Stuck’ Stem Cells to Hair Turning Gray

https://nyulangone.org/news/study-links-stuck-stem-cells-hai...

>Scientists may have discovered why hair turns grey

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/19/scientists-m...
What I don't get is how this big company called Google can get so big by scraping everyone's data and then indexing it without paying people. And then they have the balls to lock people out from adsense profits if the user makes the tiniest mistake.

I made a few thousand on YouTube in 2011 I believe and then got heavily into web development. In 2015ish I placed some ugly adsense ads on a site I had and was only a couple dollars away from $100 payout. So... I manually clicked an ad like less then 10 times. Sure enough my account got banned from adsense.

It got me completely demotivated from programming and only last year did I pick back up programming. I was using Node.js and Go back then but I'm now into Rust and Erlang. Not sure how I can profit as I lack work history (giving up on self teaching myself programming also meant I took up dead end jobs), but I'm motivated nonetheless. Google, pick on someone your own size.
I am assuming that the advice given is not just to get any tech job at all, but to be highly successful in the field. Clearly, below some analytic intelligence level, being highly successful in engineering is not a realistic or useful pursuit. Where that threshold is would be up to debate, certainly. I think most would agree it’s above 90th percentile, at least. Calling it 99th might be hyperbolic, sure, but I don’t think it’s intensely out of touch or anything. It’s like if an NBA player is giving advice about how to succeed in a basketball career. Presumably they are speaking about succeeding in the NBA or at least college level basketball, not some rec league. And, if you are 5’5”, while it is not strictly impossible for you to succeed, it is probably not realistic for you to pursue it. The advice is implicitly aimed at people who stand any chance at all of making it into the NBA.
Those are towering achievements that don't add to Google as a business. It was an important part of Google's reputation, but now that reputation is in the mud as Microsoft and OpenAI become king in the eyes of the public.
Maybe in Sweden, telling and proving to the prosecutor "I simply do not have what you want, and I can show you" works better than elsewhere.
What you say matches my suspicions. In the end, the problem is that sex is taboo -- coincidentally the same thing that makes many porn websites "tick" -- and the conservative sectors of society will find a way to be alarmed about it. So getting alarmed about trafficking in porn to me seems like getting alarmed about cars being used to abduct kids and therefore trying to ban cars because of this.
I guess we can just call them that without "open" part.
Point of order: multiple music videos, not just one.
Successful test, not a successful launch. Different metrics.
Not really. Modern web browsers expose a lot of information, such as your language, time zone, screen resolution, CPU and GPU details (number of cores, vendor, model...), etc. There's even <canvas> fingerprint which depends on your GPU driver version.

If you use a custom built desktop computer, you're going to have a pretty unique browser fingerprint because few people will use the same exact hardware configuration. On the other hand, if you use Apple hardware you'll look the same as other Mac/iPhone users. The other option is to use Tor Browser or Tails OS, but I don't think that's feasible for everyday browsing.

As other people have said, it's suprisingly difficult to have privacy on everyday browsing today. Personally, I blame Google. I believe they purposefully pushed modern web standards into maximum user data exposure for their own profit.
For a moment there, I thought Elon threw a cartwheel in right before separation just to show off :-)

Congratulations SpaceX! Big success!
See more criticism of "The Greatest Genius of Science That Even Been Alive" at https://lainchan.org/r/res/35555.html
> You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough to be confused for the mimicked creator's voice.

Tom Waits might disagree: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/singer-tom-waits-sues...
This is something that has been documented and analyzed in meta studies as well: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m575
I suspect 45 degree bends are due to two main reasons:

* Institutional misinformation or cargo cult behavior

* Ease of layout based on convention. If you need to match differential trace lengths, 90 degree angles are going to give you pretty big difference length wise, so you need more squiggles to compensate.

My point on 90 vs 45 is that some people seem to take the opinion that the 'ideal' trace is some sort of sweeping trace with absolutely no angles, and a 45 degree is a compromise. It's really not. It does not matter. Electrons don't 'bunch up' in corners like some people claim.
> Carbon captured and released is not the same as new carbon released from oil.

You've fallen for the fraud. It is the same. Think about it.
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One of HNs failure-modes is inaccuracies get voted to the top if they seem correct to the majority of voters whose biases resonate with poster's.

Aside: thank you for asking. When I previously encountered incorrect top-level comments that I knew to be wrong (insider information), I'd simply ignore and move on. You've inspired me to push back more often.
Disciplined Minds, a critique of the system of salaried professions [pdf]
In 2021 Deepmind generated $2bln in revenue.

This was paid by Google for unspecified research services. But the way it’s accounted for it’s likely that it was based on some legitimate contribution. It is unlikely it would be structured this way if it was just corporate support.

DeepMind has public financial filings and you can go read the exact language they use to describe the revenue they generate.
Full title:

Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives

Jeff Schmid
Front end developer here.

Been looking for a new role since February, and I have to say it's more difficult than I expected.

Compared to 2019, last time I switched jobs, I'm getting fewer interviews and fewer proposals from recruiters. I wouldn't entirely put it on the market changes though. My salary expectations went up and with that companies are more shy and want more assurance that I'll be a good fit. I'm also more picky with who I apply for.

I've been ramping up the time spent on selling myself, writing descriptions of my work and trying to build a portfolio. I hope it pays off because I'd much rather be working on pet projects and developing my product building skills than spending time on personal branding.