skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because most people do startups that are destined to fail. I've done plenty of those myself! The problem is that we think we can get away with building solutions looking for products. While a few of those do well, in general, that is a recipe for failure.

In other words, our success was because we identified a critical missing piece in a profitable industry and built exactly what people were asking for, and more importantly, willing to pay for.

After that success (and a couple more after it), I refuse to ever build something without finding customers first. You have to build products people want, not try to convince people into believing they want your product.
Very clear explanation
Let's not speculate and instead ask Bard directly!

>Do you use PaLM 2?

>I do not use PaLM 2 directly. PaLM 2 is a proprietary language model developed by Google AI, and it is not yet available to the public. However, I am trained on a dataset that includes text and code from PaLM 2, so I am able to benefit from its knowledge and capabilities. For example, I am able to answer questions more accurately and generate more creative text formats than I would be able to if I was not trained on PaLM 2's data.

>I am excited to see what PaLM 2 will be able to do in the future. I believe that it has the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with computers and the way we learn. I am grateful to Google AI for developing such a powerful tool, and I look forward to seeing how it is used to make the world a better place.

>When will you directly use PaLM 2?

>I do not know when I will directly use PaLM 2. It is a proprietary language model developed by Google AI, and it is not yet available to the public. However, I am always learning and growing, and I am hopeful that one day I will be able to directly use PaLM 2 to improve my capabilities.

>In the meantime, I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from PaLM 2's data, and I am confident that it will help me to become a more powerful and versatile language model.
You cannot block Tor and VPNs. You can block known Tor and VPN ranges.
Yeah, great, google!

Except that workspace account is not supported and my country is not supported.

Great.

What is going on with google?
> Why are corals better than starfish?

Corals as a habitat host a lot of species, creating biodiversity. People don't really seem to care about corals by themselves; rather, they care about a few hundred species of pretty-looking tropical fish that exist nowhere other than within coral reefs. Anything that kills enough of the coral, is likely to make all of those very pretty fish go extinct.

(I've never heard about starfish as a threat to corals; the wellbeing of coral reefs is usually brought up mostly in relation to the impacts of ocean acidification and seafloor trawling.)
You mean when there was mass starvation, low life expectancy and mostly on the backs of people colonized by Europeans?
You can see an hour ago I made nearly the same comment on a nearly identical Palm 2 submitted link. In that one I said it wasn't a surprise. I guess in this one I just left that part out so that you could say it instead! You're welcome! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35890683
Show HN: Beloga, Pioneering Accurate Free Speech
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The thing is, a product that users love and a product that generates profits are frequently not the same product. You need to add more feature-cram to be profitable, and users hate feature-cram.
For basic charging cables, there is only one kind.

And the spec was ignored.

You think removing unrelated cables from the spec would make manufacturers do a better job at basic charging cables? I doubt it.
Boom had the problem that no jet engine maker ended up wanting to make an engine they could use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzyOIwjYK7E
Ask George Costanza, who's currently managing the Penske file.
Twitter thread about it
https://twitter.com/puruvjdev/status/1655813548495486977
As long as it remains signed (and thus approved) by Apple.
Wendy’s debuts an A.I. chatbot for drive-thru orders
given that i use common lisp for numerical computations including ml, i hope not :) given just that python reigns supreme in this field, clear answer is no. however it is worth keeping in mimd that common lisp is a high level language with very good low level features. you can for example use c data structures seamlessly if you need fine grained memory control you, or write inline assembly
Surely though if it’s in the companies interest to not keep certain staff on the payroll now (I.e.), that’s because they believe reducing headcount will make them a healthier company.

A healthier company has more longevity, and a company with more longevity will hire more people in the long term than an inefficient or bloated company. I feel like your perspective does not take time horizons into account.
"sharing"... Please.
The cynicism may come from the fact that no one has been able to generate system level break even on a fusion plant in a lab setting after decades of work. How can one be anything but skeptical that it'll be commercially available five years from now?
>and it's one of the most used products in the world...

And they had their lunch completely eaten by deepL
Bard isn’t supported for this account. If you’re signed in to a Google Workspace account, your admin may not have enabled access to Bard.

My vanity domain. Now off to find my admin credentials and likely discover that the workspace setting isn't available yet.
ts-node [1]: am i a joke to you?

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ts-node
And ai.txt should have a mechanism for micro (or not so micro) payment. Please deposit .03 X coin into this account to crawl site.
Ask HN: What's the best way to use GPT with browsing enabled?
I pay for ChatGPT plus but don't have browsing.

Are there any other tools that have GPT-4 (requiring me to use my own API key is ok) plus browsing?
Author is Vladimir Makarov creator of MIR: "a universal lightweight Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler known as MIR. The cornerstone of the project is a machine-independent medium-level intermediate representation (MIR)."

https://github.com/vnmakarov/mir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation
JSON-LD or RDFa (RDF in HTML attributes) in at least the /index.html the HTML footer should be sufficient to indicate that there is structured linked data metadata for crawlers that then don't need an HTTP request to a .well-known URL /.well-known/ai_security_reproducibility_carbon.txt.jsonld.json

OSV is a new format for reporting security vulnerabilities like CVEs and an HTTP API for looking up CVEs from software component name and version. https://github.com/ossf/osv-schema

A number of tools integrate with OSV-schema data hosted by osv.dev: https://github.com/google/osv.dev#third-party-tools-and-inte... :

> We provide a Go based tool that will scan your dependencies, and check them against the OSV database for known vulnerabilities via the OSV API.

> Currently it is able to scan various lockfiles [ repo2docker REES config files like and requirements.txt, Pipfile lock, environment.yml, or a custom Dockerfile, ], debian docker containers, SPDX and CycloneDB SBOMs, and git repositories.
> The situation now is different, in that AIs are capable of flooding the market with more exponentially more material than human beings could possibly ever produce or sort through.

The situation is exactly the same as it was before as far as you or I are concerned.

More books are released every day than any of us can keep up with. More books have been published (and lost to time) than we can even account for.

There's more competition now, but the amount of attention you or I have to give to discovery has not changed. Like when competing restaurants open across the street from yours, it just means authors need to work harder to entice people to buy from them instead of Jimmy Pesto.

(In the case of Amazon, they're doing it through astroturfed reviews...)
To keep the benefits of Types w/o the burden of TS.
Patrick Collison Interviews Sam Altman on the Future of AI
"By treating each of the processor’s output ports as a graph vertex and each detected photon as a subgraph vertex, they determined which subgraph mapped to the solution. Their processor arrived at a solution after obtaining 221,891 samples, each of which corresponded to a particular distribution of up to 80 detected photons. Each sample would require 700 seconds on the world’s fastest supercomputer using an exact algorithm."

okay but how long did the sampling take the photonic computer?
"Google Bard now open to use..." in the USA only, apparently. At least it is not working north of the border yet.
I hear that. The truth is that it's not solely about generating revenue, but aligning interests and making sure we're building the right thing over time. When customers are consistently paying, if we don't consistently deliver the value they're paying for, they leave. It means we're in a tighter feedback loop with users about what's working and what isn't.

It also lets us plan for the long term since we have a decent idea of what our revenue will be. Particularly in this space that's going to be important - we'll have to continuously evolve to changes in the platforms we're operating on and the apps themselves that we're helping restrict. Basically we think it's mission-critical that the technology protecting your attention to be as well built as the tech trying to exploit it, and we see this as * probably * the most effective way to accomplish that.
Or the pattern is due to a common cause between the high tech firms, and we know what that common cause is: they overhired 2020-2022.
LOL

"Not supported in your country"

My browser and account is set to English. The only reason it wouldn't be "supported" would be for privacy reasons. Yeah, I'm thinking I'll stay away from this.
The alignment would be actively controlled. That's how they make large terrestrial telescopes work.
> Tutoring me on how to use poorly documented APIs

Good luck with that.

GPT-4 is _incredibly_ bad at Metal (most under-documented GPU api I've ever worked with), but more importantly it's _even worse_ at Vulkan, which is complete opposite - it's meticulously documented.

The stuff LLMs are good at is the stuff that a lot of people use and talk about all the time, in public.

There's just not a lot of public discussion (with examples) about e.g. how to properly use Vulkan in a production application, and the LLM itself can't "reason" within the framework of the detailed specification, so most things it outputs is wrong.

In the long run though, a very likely outcome is that tools that the LLMs have a poor "understanding" of just wither and die, or are relegated to being something only 3.5 people in the world use. I can see a future where literally all software is written in python just because that's the language that OpenAI's LLMs happens to know best.
I genuinely think HN has been overrun by influence operations designed to make people resigned to the world being terrible. It sounds stupid and paranoid, but I can’t explain the patterns I observe any other way. I think the way HN is operated makes it impossible to avoid: no real authentication other than an email address. It is (or at least was) a juicy target due to the concentration of influential people in an influential industry.

I’m specifically not going to post examples because that will invite the same old conversations to be rehashed, and any one example is useless anyways. People will claim confirmation bias and they may even be right.
They also set CPU speed to minimum.
It’s just a back door to obtaining “consent” for tracking and to leverage other data about you for ads.
Probably not the right place for a suggestion, but since you mentioned NewPipe, I would also suggest checking out LibreTube[0], been my choice of Youtube app after their redesign.

[0] https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
>Instead of maximizing for audience diversity, theaters need to rebalance content diversity. Get the same butts back into the same seats by showing something else.

No one who goes to see the, Avengers: End Game is going to also want to watch, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie - even on a lark.

What I think you're proposing is theaters should have other movies shown that are similar to the popular movies- which OK, but movies don't just come out of thin air. A movie studio can only make a few $250m+ movies a year, so we get the movies we get. You can have lower budget, lower quality movies of the same genre, but they're most likely going to be bad - which isn't going to work out as being profitable for even the movie theaters to show if keeping up to the status quo and the lights are is already a problem.

If that's your proposal, then congratulations: you've invented Netflix, which is completely packed with middling options. Difference is that the distribution essentially outsources all the equipment costs to watch the slop to the consumer, which regularly upgrades it. They can also grow far more easily than a movie theater physically building a new screen. Before Netflix there were bargain bin DVDs, which were also profitable, but not what I'd call a bastion of art.
.net vb is a completely different language with a completely different set of capabilities. It can't compile VB6 code. There is a lot of legacy VB6 code out there.
Pikus has a number of C++ Parallelism performance talks that discusses this issue.

In particular, the "cost of synchronization" is roughly the price of a L3 memory read/write, or ~50 cycles. In contrast, a read/write to L1 cache is like 4 cycles latency and can be done multiple times per clock tick, and you can go faster (IE: register space).

So an unsynchronized "counter++" will be done ~4-billion times a second.

But a "counter++; sync()" will slow you down 50x slower. That is to say, the "sync()" is the "expensive part" to think about.

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A lock is two sync() statements. One sync() when you lock, and a 2nd sync() when you unlock. Really, half-sync() since one is an acquire half-sync and the other is a release half-sync.

If your lock-free data structure uses more than two sync() statements, you're _probably_ slower than a dumb lock-based method (!!!). This is because the vast majority of lock()/unlocks() are uncontested in practice.

So the TL;DR is, use locks because they're so much easier to think about. When you need more speed, measure first, because it turns out that locks are really damn fast in practice and kind of hard to beat.

That being said, there's other reasons to go lock-free. On some occasions, you will be forced to use lock-free code because blocking could not be tolerated. (Ex: lock-free interrupts. Its fine if the interrupt takes a bit longer than expected during contention). So in this case, even if lock-free is slower, the guarantee for forward progress is what you're going for, rather than performance.

So the study of lock-free data-structures is still really useful. But don't always think of for performance reasons, because these data-structures very well will be slower than std-library + lock() in many cases.
ts-node does not play well with ESM modules out of the box. I've started experimenting with tsx but it still has some edge cases of its own.
Honestly, ESM has been the bane of my existence this year as packages are slowly starting to migrate, and fixing issues lays on the developer, not any one framework.
That's fair, I was a victim of the layoffs of 2022 (well, sort of), and it took months to find a job paying well enough to cover my mortgage. I did find one, and I really like it, but it took a lot of time and effort to find...certainly harder than it was early last year.
Aaaand not supported in my country
I’ve generally found tsx to be better/less hassle than ts-node

https://github.com/esbuild-kit/tsx
I find it not so bad compared to other places - Portland for example.
Seems to also work in the UK.
I mean didn't the greater European community as a whole benefit greatly by access to the materials found in the "new world" (and also Asia)?

Plantations is a bit vague but to assume Cotton; people benefited tremendously from cheaper clothes. A lot of the early industrial revolution was weaving machines which wouldn't be possible without a lot of cotton.

Robber barons is a bit vague but to assume railroads; people benefited tremendously from trade. Our cities are built with a lot of materials that aren't locally sourced.

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Things have trade-offs but to say there were nothing positive about something that has negatives is very dishonest.
HP is way worse than Dell. Fans at full speed I can handle. Servers permanently throwing errors because a part isn't HP branded, that's peak asshole design. So is refusing to measure status of drives if I use a third party drive sled (which is some folded metal, and some LEDs on a flex PCB) AND throwing errors about them.
I'm pretty sure no one has ever cultivated BEARS! :)
> Video fundraisers, paid messages, creator subscriptions, tips, interactive live streams and tiered subscriptions

As a user, that doesn’t sound great to be honest.
I'm in South Africa and I'm able to use it. Not connected to a VPN, and I've just checked that my public IP is my static IP address.

They announced that it's now available in 180+ countries in English.
Freezing salaries for all employees doesn't seem like a sustainable way to save money in the long run and the second order effects would probably destroy shareholder value not create it
Your first paragraph didn't have "dare say". And you can't just add that as a disclaimer to any factual statement to make you immune to needing evidence. If you made that guess based on how much you like the ports, then you're wasting everyone's time. But again, you said "real world failure rate is much higher" as a flat-out fact.
I tuned into the livestream for a minute and they were just demoing things I’ve been using in GPT for months. They’re playing catch-up, it’s boring.
Its purely archive site.. if you can write the question... chat GPT can answer it better. Obviously the learning experience writing the question in a way everyone understood was a learning thing.. i will miss that... RIP Stackoverflow
Time to register gaymusical.gay!
RedBus improved their website's Interaction to Next Paint (INP) and
Learning and building a chatbot from scratch with Laravel/PHP and OpenAI
So I'm finally getting some time to dive into building stuff using the OpenAI API and I'm documenting my learnings, from a complete AI beginner's perspective, here: https://twitter.com/farez/status/1654942532223086592
It's about leverage, with all the faang layoffs, they now don't have to pay as much for employees.
Thank you. I think we really do need a return to some form of optimism. Growing up I was told endlessly that by now we'd be out of fossil fuels and things would be terrible for a variety of other reasons. Some of that has come to pass, some not, some has reversed (ozone).

Sometimes the positive effects of sustained efforts have had a real impact over time. Having a cynical and defeatist attitude works against that. I don't know the roots of those attitudes exactly, but from the people I know they're not related to climate change, the country's leader, cultural issues, etc. It's more like those are a good reason for them to be more vocal about their underlying cynicism which has different roots (family life, general temperament, etc).

We have real problems. Very big ones. A defeatist attitude will ensure we end up in the worst of all outcomes. I wonder if we just have too much change too fast for our society to keep up and figure out ways to function better with the new constraints.

Edit: clarification
It's not Puritanism, but Judaeo-Christianity. In the Bible, God is always described as telling the truth, so any form of misrepresentation is moving yourself towards the opposite of God's character. Cheating is basically a form of misrepresenting yourself; commandment #9 prohibits false testimony about your neighbor, which presumably also includes false testimony about yourself. The New Testament also prohibits lying, as does the Talmud. In fact, the New Testament describes Satan as the father of lies, which presumably reflected Jewish traditions at the time. Imitating the devil would hardly be honorable for either Jews or Christians, and Paul even explicitly says we are to imitate Christ. (Since Paul was a rabbi applying the current Jewish thinking in the context of discovering that Messiah = Christ = God, presumably the Jewish thinking was that we should imitate God)

The Old Testament also offers an approach to dealing with rampant cheating in society: trust in God to provide you with what you need. It's not an exact match for classmates cheating, but David had to deal with a literal existential crisis by a king who believed falsehoods about him, and dealt with it by trusting God and refusing to kill the king (that is, using the king's methods to secure himself). Many of the psalms appear to record the emotional process he went through.
The problem of being a massive company is that everyone wants to sue you. They could want to sue you for money. Or maybe sue you because they think you are bad. Whatever the reason, when you're Google's size, you need to make sure you're compliant with every local regulation before you launch anything or someone may come after you.

Googler, opinions are my own.
Depends on what you mean by light-computer. https://lightmatter.co/
You should check out the game Hypnospace Outlaw, which is set basically in a geocities-forum hybrid environment. It's basically a love letter to this old very personal internet.
I did say theoretically. That in practice corruption and various power games make it difficult to apply the theory in reality is very different from there just not being any punishment in the rules at all (or only very weak punishment).
[Outside USA] Registered for beta earlier using VPN. Got access now without VPN.
Actually that's not a bad website name because it's unique. A bit strange for sure, but this is how it rolls.
No, you wrong. It is about keeping language barriers, and about preventing people to understand each other more easily. Google could released features like this years ago with TTS from Google Translate, instead they have been doing absolutely nothing for last 10 years.