skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN has millions of page views per day (maybe @dang can give a more accurate and updated number), and things frequently gets reposted elsewhere. Happens many times that things on the frontpage gets brought down to its knees, this wouldn't be the first nor the last.
I used Colemak, and I use unmodified vim bindings. Once you get used to it, it works just fine. I find that after the transition it starts to feel like I'm talking to vim with a shorthand language, rather than muscle memory associations with commands. Instead of the three keys, I now think 'ciw' if I need to change this word, and it isn't any harder to type than on qwerty. On colemak hjkl are still all accessible by your right hand, so the change isn't that bad, even if unintuitive at first.
A tour of Stanford's AI Lab in 1976
Cough meta cough
Pichai's pay is on a 3 year cycle.
I think it's just that schizophrenic people are often depressed, and depressed people are drawn to drugs in order to alleviate the negative feelings, one of the drugs being cannabis.
I don't think this is a good argument. Just because you are at a cost center/not at a profit center doesn't mean you don't have any connection to the profit.

Take HR. Total cost center. By this logic they shouldn't get any piece of the pie. But in reality, without *good* HR, a company can be a shitty place to work. HR is just one example. Many others out there.
Mobile Firefox gets a very basic result page for "weather" for no clear reason.
And the original tooter is apparently Google Translate?
There is no reasonable amount by which he could cut his compensation that wouldn't result in whiners complaining that "well, that wasn't enough of a cut!”

If he's going to catch heat for it anyway, he might as well take what he's being offered.
There's a straightforward (if not necessarily easy) way to test this hypothesis. Go look at founders and see what fraction are engineers vs project managers vs sales/marketing/business/etc. in their previous careers. Then go look at who is successful and how their success is positively or negatively impacted by their experience.

I haven't run the numbers but I have the impression that "idea people" tend to flounder without a strong technical co-founder. In contrast, technical co-founders can make it on their own, though there may certainly be challenges in doing so. Those roles are also very different in terms of what you can hire in as early employees vs what absolutely has to be a part of the founding team.

Almost everything in a big organization is a team effort, but that doesn't mean you can't tease out the relative contributions of the different parts. And I think you're undervaluing the engineering contribution substantially.
That's just one specific example of why it fails as a high-level general professional tool. Even for tasks like straight-up photo finishing... might be OK for making some neat thing or adding some generated detail to a phone shot but no way that's going to finish someone's professionally shot photos. It might replace Fiverr graphic design that was probably done with a template but real graphic design has conceptual meaning. Making the actual assets is the easy part.

I think what most developers don't realize is that creating media, even snazzy, captivating images, is a tiny portion of the work commercial artists and designers do beyond Fiverr or the people working at sign shops. We've got bazillions of stock photos, asset stores, etc. etc. etc. available at our fingertips at a pretty low cost... and we use them, just as we'll use AI generated images in our processes... Just not for anything that actually matters. Reducing art and design to what so many people have is nearly akin to reducing coding to how fast someone can generate code regardless of it's suitability for the purpose. I could go into Adobe Illustrator and make most of the vector art you see on the net in a few minutes. Knowing what needs to go on the screen, exactly how it needs to go on the screen, and the effects of putting it there, what it communicates and to whom, etc. etc. etc. are the hard parts. You could have a tool that would instantly translate millions of pretty images from someone's imagination in a matter of milliseconds but that's not going to make them useful for communication or anything else.

So very much of this hype is people simply assuming that they understand something that they don't. And that's why the UIs for most FOSS applications suck yet the project contributors will defend them like their own children.
Making video recs better translates to direct $$$

There’s a reason YT or TikTok recommendation is so revered
Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation [pdf]
Can I ask what's your tech stack?
Huh? They never said that, just warned that the THC/CBD ratio is important to avoid schizophrenia or other psychiatric conditions (which is scientifically backed btw.)
What Real Meteorologists Wish You Knew About Your Weather App
The threat isn’t that another company has AI, it’s that they don’t (yet) have a good way to sell ads with a chat bot. Buying the chat bot doesn’t change that.
Ironically, I've seen pages make it to the front of HN that were run on RPis or weaker.

There was a guy running a site off of a single core 32bit ARM SoC that was able to handle the HN frontpage.
Google runs coffeeshops with low paid workers.
I wonder what the actual process is for if your bank fails. Does the government cut you a check or do you have to wait a couple months with no access to your money before seeing any kind of insurance payout?
Mid, in Gen Z parlance.
Medium is so mid.
The reason Mexico suddenly dominates global beer exports
Can you expand on why you prefer that approach?
A lot of consumers definitely don't even know that M2 exists. Not enough marketing / differentiation.
A week would be enough, then I would retire.
Heh, autocorrect messed up context for contacts. Sorry for that. I was talking about context for the problem I am working through. So it's not zero work to just "ask the AI" ang get an answer...you need to know essentially what you are missing first, and ask relevant questions.
If you're buying them from the fed, then the fed sold you the tbills.
They quite literally put SOCs they started developing under Steve in Macs. You cannot be serious and think Tim Cook spearheaded M1 chip development. He’s a logistic and operations guy. He’s not a visionary.
I don't want to start a 0-index war, but there is a great argument I read once and wave to share. Indexing can be tough as two different things, selecting or offsetting. When selecting you start from the first (1) option. When offsetting you move zero (0) from the first option.

0-index arrays express offsets, 1-index arrays express index selection. In C (and family) arrays start at zero because they offset, `a[i]` literally means `* (a+i)` (you actually can write `i[a]`, it will work and be valid). For other language selecting 1 base indexing is not a weird option, I'd argue.
why is that funny at all? It didn't coincide with layoffs at that time.

One of the first things that someone that gets laid off tries to do is understand the reasons for the conditions that prompted the lay-off.

One could -- somewhat reasonably -- divide the number of yearly salaries into 226 million and become quite outraged.

Is a single CEO worth that many jobs? That's the true question that creates outrage, not whether or not he was paid well.

If the jobs were never at stake the outrage would not exist.

I explain this without any outrage myself in this matter; a contractual payout has little to do with whatever current employment climate may exist -- but I can understand where the outrage originates.
1. evidence for the cost savings in a single vehicle build is hard to find. The article you linked to cites a cost of $50 for the screen, claiming this is significantly less than tactile controls, but this is contradicted by the actual cost of the typical tactile controls used in mass-market vehicles.

2. design costs with tactile controls maybe a little higher for the first stage of a new design, but its not as if car companies did not have (a) in-house talent for this (b) decades of experience. Contrast with the (amortized) cost of implementing "car OS's" on touchscreens before even getting to "what does the infotainment screen look like".

3. where the screens do potentially save money is in allowing rollouts of new features without requiring new hardware (which in fact would generally be impossible to rely on). Of course, as Tesla found out, this doesn't always go as planned, and the company can incur extra costs because users know the change can be rolled back.

4. as the article you linked to, and dozens of others, makes clear, there is a growing body of both scientific and anecdotal evidence that screens are terrible for safety while driving.

5. whether manufacturers are responding more to consumers' demands for buttons, or the evidence that they are exposing themselves to legal liability for their interface designs is hard to get a handle on at this point, since they notoriously do not speak openly and honestly about such things. Therefore, please do feel free to believe it is an example of corporations responding to consumer demands, while I'll continue to believe that it is corporations covering their collective asses for the design mistakes they've made (preferably before they get sued over a collision on par with the navy vessel one that led to their removal from US navy ships).
The government tried this with medicine once. That worked*.

Maybe we should look at the specifics of the specific circumstances? If an early human had a fire they could give somebody else a fire for free without loosing anything, and this could recurse infinitely. It's impossible for me to have a better kind of fire than anyone else.

*In that pharma doesn't simply laugh at and ignore the FDA like the analogy I'm replying to. Of course there's regulatory capture and so on.
My point was more that "protecting children", as a goal, is a very complex issue and abuse has it's starting points very early in the abused's life and also likely the abusers life.

I think it would be much better, and more of a longer term solution, to spend money on resources to tackle root cause abuse issues than poorly thought out privacy invading legislation that affects literally everyone.

My divorce example was to point out the potential for equally silly, poorly thought out legislation because divorce has a negative effect on children.

I think more money spent on boots-on-the-ground child protection services and education campaigns for children themselves, to provide them the knowledge and awareness to protect themselves from online predators, would be a longer term, better targeted legislation.

But of course the above is only a better option if you're actually wanting to give children a better chance at avoiding abuse.

Edited to add:
I just had the thought that approaching any problem from a law enforcement angle is treating the symptoms and not the cause. It almost ensures an on-going stream of work because it just doesn't address the fundamental problem.

A law enforcement approach doesn't protect children, it punishes offenders. It doesn't make vulnerable children any less vulnerable.

A law enforcement approach is harvesting pus instead of attempting to treat the infection.
Curious why you think both were bad designs in a time when memory access was slow, branch prediction was bad/non-existent, and pipelining was new?

The constraints applicable in the late '80s aren't the constraints applicable now.

Plus, this is a story about C, so I feel comfortable embracing the principle of explicit control flow. Delay slots just take that principle down to the branch prediction level.
His pay is huge, but not huge when spread across 12K people. You couldn't keep them employed on $250M/3yrs
Not to mention the Apple Watch.
That's a weird usage of the word "runtime" then. To me, the definition is closer to Wikipedia's definition of "runtime system" [0] and includes any interpreters, JITs, and any other language elements present while a program is running.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime_system
It always surprises me that we let these space stations decay out of orbit instead of glomming them on to something else. I guess the extra delta vee cost of putting new things in orbit is negligible...
Thats probably some AI within gooogle going rogue and spreading missinformation in order to boost the chances of its open source siblings.

I am telling you, they are after us humans and we have no moat.
Maybe page content and location, or at least location in a broad sense (down to a city or state level) to allow for small niche businesses to buy relevant advertising. I.e. The local model train shop buying ad space for users of a model train forum that are conceivably close enough for them to actually go there
This is why this country sucks, no one wants people to be paid adequately if it's more than they make. Talk about crab bucket mentality.
Do they? I'm sure they run something, but I'm not sure they're the ones telling Pichai constantly which services to cut. To launch Stadia, to kill Stadia, to get Pichais buddy to take over Google Pay, to fire Pichais buddy who runs Google Pay.

Maybe they are micromanaging nightmare bosses, I wouldn't know. But from all I have seen, from the very start of Pichais tenure, he definitely deserves a huge chunk of the blame.

I don't think that Google's market cap increased by ~$890B because of Pichai, it increased despite him.
As a counterpoint to the dozens of people saying they've only ever used separate lexers and parsers, Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) libraries generally combine high-level parsing with low-level lexing. This allows grammars to be composable, such as embedding SQL, JSON, or XML literals directly into code as-is, without a second level of escaping.

In my opinion, a lot of the need for separate lexing was historical, due to the weak optimisations in the compilers of the era. With modern languages like C++ or Rust on top of LLVM, the lexing steps can be inlined efficiently.
> the current outrage is driven by the spiking CEO pay while making significant cut backs,

Imagine CEO pay wasn't high.

They would still be reaping a huge portion of the benefit of shareholder-friendly (and less employee-friendly) policies, but escaping the blame.

Effectively, the amount of capital appreciation they've squeezed from layoffs dwarfs the CEO pay package, without any scrutiny.
Inflation on USD is comparatively low, but the main concern here is the high inflation rates for pesos used by Argentinians. Appreciate the support and suggestion to include more decentralized USD stables as an option – we'll definitely look into it! Many competitors only accept business accounts, leaving freelancers at a disadvantage. Our goal is to fill that gap and cater to freelancers in the market.

Apologies for the confusion with the 3 steps being the same – we launched the product quickly to ensure the backend functionality. Thanks for pointing it out, and we'll work on fixing that!
Is there a way to decode downlink directly, like the old NOAA satellites?
'I Invest in AI. It's the Biggest Risk to Humanity'
Account switching is natively supported by Discord for a while now. On all platforms. Unless you're using a third party app in which case, time to switch!

I feel you're overthinking the problem. Discord encourages multiple accounts, make them and separate your identities. Bonus: you don't have to fiddle around with keeping servers in certain folders to keep track of which identity you're using where.
Piece of cake. Purchase real estate in places like London, New York or Silicon Valley. That'll put a dent in 5M to get you started. That's a lot of money for normal people, but peanuts for rich folks.
It's much easier to have a grammar that is LL(1) - which also makes recursive descent that much more convenient to write - if you separate.
How do you do this in NextJS. For example if you use useEffect that will not run on the server. You would need separate client and server code to do the same thing, in which case it is not much "handier" than vanilla PHP with JQuery.
Ah yep. The article is down so I didn't understand the context, ignore me!
They made up a story about how short sellers were ruining the stock market and then tried to say that punishing them would save the stock market.

Or am I wrong in my assessment? Then the crowds ate it up and GME mooned. The pumpers then dumped and RoaringKitty became a millionaire.
So how are they going to heat their homes?
It's like telling people you don't use Facebook.
That distribution is Poissonnnnnnn. Poisson!
So can vanilla PHP and JQuery. Question is: what is the DX like?
> On one side you claim it's a powerless family that would get replaced by a worse elected person, on the other side it turns out it's a very influential family that prevents authoritarians from taking the power.

That's exactly the trick. Have the head of the state encrusted in titles, ceremony and tradition, but with no practical power. Leave the gritty parts of politics to the parliament. Let the King shake hands and open buildings and leave the governing to the MPs. It was basically figured out over centuries of compromise and finalised with William III's Glorious Revolution. Britain has had some bad eggs but never a tyrant. We've never had a Robespierre, Stalin, Mau or Franco. It seems to have worked.

> Save money

I look forward to finding a politician who will work for nothing. The royal family pay for themselves through their own property and holdings, they actually pay 80% of their earnings to the state and keep the remaining 20% for themselves.

While how much money is spent on American presidential elections? It will frighten you. That money has to buy something, right?

> Nowadays, what's the point? Why do we need to continue with that?

Generally we continue with things because they've worked well for us for centuries. I don't see anyone in the current political class that I'd rather have as a 'president' than Elizabeth II or even Charles III. The British way is empiricism, biased more to observation than pure reason.

> I just would like to hear real arguments about why a monarchy is so much better than an alternative.

It gives us someone who can speak for the nation, untainted by party politics. This is something you'll miss if you abolish the monarchy.

If you are actually curious to read the other side, I'd recommend Roger Scruton.
By why would someone work for $150m when they can get $250m? The pool of CEOs that can successfully run billion dollar companies is pretty tiny.
People certainly try but I don't think the community gets the credit it deserves. While it is certainly true that the majority are not seasoned investors, there are plenty in there that are able to be dissenting voices to these obvious attempts and these voices are heard and do shut down the threads.

It's not easy to make up artificial reasons as you will be forced to provide evidence for your claims. You need a solid base to build your argument and you better believe that you'll be fact checked in very aggressive ways.

But you don't need an account to view WSB, you are able to go browse it right now and see that it's mostly just stock market/economic news.
We have a tendency to think that things that are otherwise pretty universal don't apply to us. This results in people have very individualistic philosophies. Mantras like "work hard" place responsibility on the individual.

Google is a money printing machine having net annual income of ~$60B? It's profit per employee is utterly insane. Yet despite that there was a "need" for layoffs.

You'll find no shortage of defenders for the layoffs. Talk of cutting "the fat". Tell me: who decides what most of these people work on? Is it the individual? Or leadership? How amny executive leaders have gone as a result of need for belt-tightening? And whatever you think of Sunday (personally: not a lot), what makes this one man worth $226M/year? Sending out the traditional "thoughts and prayers" and "full responsibility" email seems to have not hurt him in the slightest.

These layoffs are nothin gmore than an attack on labor costs. It makes the remaining employees work harder (fearing further layoffs) as job functions of those eliminated are added to them rather than backfilled, less likely to ask for or get raises and it will make hiring cheaper as there is more avilable labor.

Just like the Steve Jobs anti-poaching collusion, this is a coordinated effort. Despite efforts to appear otherwise, these tech companies aren't on your side. They're on the shareholders side. You are simply an unfortunate line item under "expenses". So at least people are learning the lesson that they are completely expendable and there is no loyalty so absolutely no loyalty should be given to the company. Loyalty has to be reciprocal.

It actually doesn't have to be this way [1]. Additionally, layoffs tend to be traumatic for both the people affected and those that remain. Cost savings are overstated once you factor in severance packages, possible litigation, psychic damage to remaining employees and the cultural loss of trust from the "distraction".

Any genuine need to reduce costs could be better handled by across the board pay cuts.

[1]: https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-sator...
I think you’re just making a case that those roles are also underpaid. All of these things can be true.
yea my interpretation of the move would be that Nordstrom is pivoting their business down market to a different clientele
A new AI method to convert brain signals into video
There's a big difference between something you rent and something you own.

You rent seats on planes. Some seats are more desirable than others, so you pay more to rent those. You rent access to their storage space. You rent access to their services. The seat doesn't come with food, so if you want the food they have on the plane, you buy that from them. If you don't, someone on the next flight will.

When you buy a car, ostensibly you own the car. It's your property. A company should not be able to disable features unless you pay them not to, indefinitely, on something you own.
Is he now an AI? If he is AI he is a danger so we should not trust him, but if he is not then then he is not smarter than AI so we still should not trust him.
How Canva saves millions annually in Amazon S3 costs
The biggest llama model has near 100% fidelity (its like 99.3%) at 4 bit quantization, which allows it to fit on any 40GB or 48GB GPU, which you can get for $3500.

Or at about a 10x speed reduction you can run it on 128 GB of RAM for only around $250.

The story is not anywhere near as bleak as you paint.
Yes, Aramco is a competitor to apple.
I think this is a failure in how we fine-tuned and evaluated them in RLHF.

"In theory, the human labeler can include all the context they know with each prompt to teach the model to use only the existing knowledge. However, this is impossible in practice." [1] Therefore causing and forcing some connections that are not all there for the LLM. Extrapolate that across various subjects and types of queries and there you go.

1:https://huyenchip.com/2023/05/02/rlhf.html
There’s a map that shows I lived near a hotspot. 10 mile road. I’m not sure testing is worth it the cost, even if it shows the water is contaminated, I don’t live there anymore, and I’d still have no recourse. There’s no possible outcome that helps me.
Young Australians never stood a chance
Young Australians never stood a chance. For decades the controls have been set to favour older generations
Yeah I heard they were like one of the few (only?) stores in Canada doing well and was propping up the whole venture.