skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early this evening, I asked Bard if was updated to PaLM 2, and it said it was. I then asked it to write some Python programs, giving it more or less the same prompts I've given GPT4. Bard doesn't seem to be any better than it was a couple weeks ago in the cases I tried, and nowhere near as capable at GPT4. And it goes off the rails quickly. After even a short dialog (~5 statements), it becomes less and less able to stay on track and make coherent corrections to the code.
Whatever it is, I am not planning to upgrade to win11. If ms force that, then it is a perfect reason to go to Linux.
Yes, I am glad we have computers. I am also glad that I can code a median function that can efficiently go through a billion numbers; no need to ask the artificial averaged embodiment of millions of dumb teenagers for its duh-best-guess-lol.
It doesn't have to go under under, it just has to go under the price you purchased at.

The chance of you being laid off after a stock price fall is most likely correlated.
I would have paid for Twitter years ago if I didn’t have to see ads or recommendations, or anything else other than what I chose to follow. I swear, I’ve always wanted to see the stuff I was interested in and not all the other garbage.

These days, I only land on Twitter when I follow a link about an interesting topic. I scroll a bit and I start seeing politics, memes, posts, images, tweets, messages and all sorts of stuff that have nothing to do with the original topic I clicked on. Twitter would be pretty cool if this didn’t happen.
There are likely individuals whose IQs are above 150, but IQ tests generally do not have enough accuracy to identify them. most tests max out at 130-140 or so. getting just a single question wrong can mean the difference between a top 1% vs top 5% score.
It's wrong, they are comparing American hearing loss with the world wide disabling hearing loss.

1.5 billion people (nearly 20% of the global population) live with hearing loss; 430 million of them have disabling hearing loss - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/deafness-an...
When open Bing, there should be a bunch of "crappy stuffs" like Ads and Popups. Also, adding a small delay when open any windows to be more realistic.
Even the biggest corporate CEOs get confused by socialist talk and end up recreating some of socialist inefficiencies in their own companies. Why would I invest exceptional effort or take risk working on far fetched projects if exceptional success in terms of market share or profits will not be rewarded? If I am good, I can work 6 hours a day and still be the most productive employee on the team. How does one-fit-all compensation policy motivate me to do more or to stay on rather than finding a place that will pay me to be productive to my full potential?
A couple of days ago I stumbled upon Prolly trees:

https://docs.dolthub.com/architecture/storage-engine/prolly-...

In a nutshell: B+ trees that are stable w.r.t. insertion order. Great if you want to test them for equivalence/deduplicate them efficiently.
Thank you for dump1090!
The economy is unstable, meaning we may only make 5% more profit next year. Layoffs and pay freezes will continue.

There are two ways this pans out. Either big tech is bloated, and wages will fall over time - or current big-techs will flounder as smaller firms out compete them. This happened to HP/IBM and others, why would Google or Microsoft be immune?
> .net is good for network infrastructure, .org is good for organizational purposes

Genuine question: Is there any tangible/technical benefit to this, or is it just for the sake of keeping them organised?
It is just one of those things that is a no brainer. Same for me was iCloud storage.
Poor Design or Versatile Design?
I've always thought they were greedy, but one thing that these recent layoffs have really illuminated for me was how utterly stupid these executives are. I guess I had just assumed that Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai were smart guys...why else would they be in charge of these huge corporations?

But then the layoffs happened, and they both gave a big song and dance about how they're "taking responsibility" (whatever the hell that actually means), and that these were "tough decisions" to fire tens of thousands of people.

It shouldn't require a 10,000 IQ to think that maybe hiring thousands of more people than you actually need is a bad idea, and if they couldn't see shit like this coming, then what value are they actually bringing to company? Vague truisms and platitudes about how they regret having to uproot peoples' lives?

ETA:

Some of the responses might have proven me wrong. These executives might not actually be idiots, just sociopaths. My bad.
If you kidnap an architect and force them to design a building and keep adding requirements like people do to the builders, you'll end up with something very McMansion-like.

A good architect will try to convince you that what you say you want is not actually what you want, but they'll eventually quit or acquiesce.

(Some of the best "super large houses" are the ones that have other design limitations, such as some of the log homes you see.)
Maybe I was thinking of Arrow.
Climate change denial has moved beyond explicitly denying its existence at this point. At least the kind that can sway otherwise reasonably intelligent people.

> It's not happening

> Okay maybe it's happening but we didn't cause it

> Okay maybe it's happening and maybe we did cause it but we shouldn't do anything about it because insert easily debunkable bullshit about electric vehicles and renewables being impractical or whataboutism involving other countries here. <== WE ARE HERE

> Okay it's happening and we caused it but it's too late to do anything now so lets just keep the status quo.
Man oh man. Microsoft really just has no interest in keeping motivated and talented people around. The brain drain is going to ramp up even more from here

If you're still at MSFT: do yourself a favor and jump ship. It's a good job, but there are even better jobs out there. Just tell the recruiter when you get your new job offer that you've been drinking $5,000 a year's worth of free soda, and you'll need them to match that with a cash bump.
We don't know (both for previous model LaMDA and new model PaLM 2), but it is less important for Bard because Bard has access to live data from Google search.
This has the potential to help me quit Youtube altogether. The amount of time I waste on there is embarrassing. But I will never disable my ad blocker, and I won't pay money to mindlessly waste time scrolling through videos.

This will save them whatever it costs to serve me videos, and I will spend my life more productively. Win - Win.
What data do they harvest and what do they do with it?
It’s because they can. Decency and fairness are immaterial in the context of profit.

The only correcting force in my opinion would be a strong union. But unionizing is quite risky and legitimately scary for highly paid employees.

Thus, divided we fall.
The situation is completely unhinged as more than 50 percent of inflation has been found to be driven by corporate profits.

WSJ (article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35795299

WSJ journalist (interview): https://youtu.be/gaO4rAJEnBc

US Rep. Katie Porter (congress hearing): https://youtu.be/hIuA5MNs87A
I mean, it's not a game, these idiots in charge are just treating it like one.
was curious to see what the svg code drew, it is this https://i.jollo.org/O1Ux_wco.png
I was shocked to discover that the bizarre stock photo tracings on wikihow were actually created by humans.
They even work on the dinosaur age Firefox in Sailfish OS. I guess it's just whether the fonts used have the character or not, nothing to do with Firefox as such.
Oh, this is awesome.
No, it perfectly showcases that people do not want to pay 1000% more money for the privilege of paying a monthly subscription.

Youtube Premium costs $12/month [1]. Ads average something like $2 per 1000 views to the creators (in some of the most common categories) [2]. Youtube takes a ~45% cut, so Youtube makes ~$4 per 1000 views from ads. So, to reach $12/month, you would need to average 3000 views per month. At a average of 30 days per month, you would need to consume on average 100(!) videos a day for Youtube to come out behind.

Wikipedia says Youtube made ~$28.8B in 2021 and had ~2.5B MAU as of the beginning of 2022. So, the average MAU only brings in ~$10/year. You need to average over 10x the number of views as the average MAU for Youtube Premium to come out behind for Youtube.

The actual alternative is that you charge a comparable price to the advertising revenue instead of complaining that it does not work because your consumers are not dumb enough to pay a 1000% markup.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/premium

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzb54Upcink

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
Imagine talking about your IQ. Anyway, my new way of measuring IQ is that if someone can't tell the difference between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 response qualities, then they got questionable IQ amount. Another one is how they stand on discussions that involve hypothetical or counterfactual reasoning. If they are OK on all of these ones, then they got OK amount of IQ for me.

EDIT: also all you guys downvoting me have medium IQs
It was .us, operated by GoDaddy ;)

Not surprised on this, especially on the GoDaddy part. Although .uk also has no-proxies rule, at least Nominet themselves don't reveal your details if you're an individual even before GDPR (the idea being that if you're a company you have enough money to handle public requests).
> and in this case, no more YouTube.

It would be unequivocally good for the Internet if Google didn't have a monopoly on independent online video hosting.

> If the system remains in balance, you're either stealing from all other users (because they have to pay more for the recipients to earn the same amount), or stealing from YouTube/content creators (because they make less per view but the costs are higher).

This is incoherent. By this logic if I take a car into the city I am stealing from the railroad. I'm either stealing from all of the riders (because the railroad will need to increase fares so that fewer riders cover the same service) or stealing from the service (since they'll have reduced revenue from running the same number of trains).

Heck, by that logic if I build a competing product to another company and its users switch to my product, then I've stolen money from the other company. It's nonsense.

"I could have made more money if you didn't do that" does not work as a definition of stealing.

There are in fact ethical considerations around watching content for free -- even in instances where a creator might be giving explicit permission to watch that content for free, and certainly in instances where they want/need compensation. There's a reason why we try to fund Open Source projects even though they have licenses giving content away for free. There's a reason why we try to fund creators and give them steady revenue streams even in the instances where we know we won't be watching many of their videos for a month. People do have a moral duty to (when possible) support creators that are building things they care about.

Those ethical considerations are real, but they are orthogonal to theft. Theft is not merely deprivation of revenue.
This is unfortunately Misjournalism. The article states that the CEO took a 10% raise last year. The article further states that that employees up and down the whole company were getting huge raises last year in an effort to increase the company's approval rating with its own employees. He got a huge raise last year because lots of people got a huge raise last year.

Presumably then he won't get a raise this year along with the other employees as well.
I'd disable my adblocker and revanced youtube if they stopped randomly terminating channels unreasonably and gave them proper means to contest wrongful terminations. If Google respects the people making a living off of them (mainly off superchats and memberships, not ads) so little, they don't deserve my respect either.

I'll just keep up with the inevitable cat and mouse game with adblockers.
The tech job market is brutal right now, employers aren’t going to flex on their employees unless they can, and they totally can right now.
Were the patterns of distribution of the adenovirus and mRNA vaccines the same or did they go to different populations? That might complicate your study.
It's not economical to build small houses; price them out sometime and the cost to "make it a 3 bedroom" is not much at all.

The closest I've seen is "modern manufactured" and you still have lot/utilities, and they still cost close to stickbuilt.
I actually was a Play Music subscriber before it got rolled into YouTube premium (rip). So I never saw the popups except (ironically?) on my @google.com work account.

And that's super annoying even then.
Right, but if you got a raise you could buy more stock.

Without a raise, you're worse off whatever you do.
I hate ads and use an ad blocker, but I also pay for ad removal on any site I use regularly that offers the option (which includes YouTube).

This seems like a reasonable balance between having the internet be usable while also supporting the services I use.
I don't know, but given the choice of watching slightly lower quality videos (which probably look the same on their phones anyway) and paying for a free service, most people will prefer lower quality videos.
NIBYism always comes up when talking about the cost-of-living crisis. Did you know just 12 entities own a majority of Bay Area real estate [0]? Do you really think building more units is going to stop those entities from continuing their oligopoly on residential real estate in the area?

But yea, I'm sure it's those damn people who like their backyard causing this crisis!!! In my opinion, this anti-NIMBY push is likely supported by these megalithic property owners. They’ve run out of units to buy and can no longer grow their cash flow. The solution to this problem is to take property from existing property owners. Pretty much all legislation in this countries happens with support or approval from corporate interests. It would not surprise me at all to find out corporate interests were the driving force that is compelling the state to override local zoning ordinances.

Another thing to consider is, why is the proposed solution forcing local governments to give up their zoning rights? Why don’t we force real estate investors to give up some of their units so people have a place to live? How can some people own thousands of units before others have even one?

0: https://www.fastcompany.com/90792419/12-mega-landlords-own-m...
Makes sense. What's the point in pay bumps, when there is a high chance of layoff expected!
I currently pay for Twitter Blue; I would pay double for no ads. Hopefully that possibility is considered alongside “assigning an engineer to obfuscate the CSS”.
That’s what PeerTube does. It’s based on WebTorrent.
The Xerox PARC Archive
The problem with this logic is whether or not your usage mirrors sustainable usage if you're selling content - and I'd argue it doesn't.

The useful uses of YouTube are basically a side-effect of the real usage which is "get eyeballs on the screen to watch the screen more" - which is what you want when you sell ads, whereas you kind of want the opposite when you sell subscriptions - subscribed users who use the service as little as possible are cost efficient users.
Here's some of it - https://www.oldhouseguy.com/hatred-for-victorian-homes-in-19... - but it goes back further and has echoes of the same McMansion complaints (they were builder/craftsman built instead of architecturally designed, often the buyers outstripped their ability to properly maintain, etc).
> “We're running a small experiment globally”

They sure do like that word https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/104325801/testing-...
@dang, could we get "Xerox PARC" somewhere in the title, because that'll be interesting to more users?
Parts of U.S. and Canada brace for potentially historic heat wave
Capitalism working as expected.
Yes and go where? Google, Facebook and Amazon are laying off people and it would be crazy to work for one of the many non profitable private or public tech compabies.
If Microsoft limits changes to Windows and Office to security patches and bug fixes only for 2023, it could pay huge productivity dividends to the entire world.
...that was someone else (I still haven't gotten mine somehow) but I'm happy you got in!
> That this heat dome is coming just shy of two years after the last is exceptional. The 2021 event was deemed a one-in-a-thousand-year occurrence.
I'm mostly interested if this is a tiny hobby project by someone who wanted a nice example to use in arguments.

Or an advert by someone involved with Laravel/Laracasts.

As the former it's quite effective.

The latter would be funny.
> why else would they be in charge of these huge corporations?

I think this is the real key.

Why are these people in charge of these huge corporations?

In a world with 8 billion people they cannot be uniquely qualified for those positions, so why them and why not someone else?

Nowadays I always just assume they're someone's buddy.
If you took a basic finance course you’d see that they are equivalent…
But the content is present globally. We are talking about a subscription to block ads. If it’s to do with some YouTube original content, they can not distribute it here for all I care. I’ve seen that content and it’s awful.

If it’s about tax collection, then that’s again weird because google will take money for any other service. I genuinely don’t understand it and I can’t find a single good explanation out there for it either.

Sorry if that comes across as aggressive. I promise that it’s entirely just exasperation at this point :(
"Open concept" is way more horrible than anything McMansions have ever done (except themselves having open concept).

Make all the rooms have no walls, and then make the house even bigger so you can get away from all the noise! Brilliant.
None of my data is used to sell adverts. You seem to completely miss that I’m using google workspace. I have a contract with google, I’m not using free shit.
It’s really amazing how low our bar has become
Because it is designed for addiction? Is that up for debate? YouTube is top result because it is owned by Google. This is a standard business model.

People bet into slot machines. Put an entry fee into a room full of slot machines and see for yourself how many people come to play.

The only way for a casino to make sure people pay to play a slot machines is to keep a free entry option that is gets annoying quickly. It is creation of a problem to justify a paid solution. Ad blockers solve that problem for free and have to be blocked.

And people who are addicted to slot machines have their own favorite games that they play all day long. They might pay at a chance to play. Youtube doesn't actually want to have a competitor at the same time.
> by that kind of logic people shouldn't make any recurring purchase of anything since in future terms might change.

20 years ago, you'd be right. This argument would be paranoid nonsense. But that's not the world we live in.

We live in a world where your car manufacturer wants you to pay monthly for heated seats. Today it's normal for hardware you bought outright only works if you pay rent to someone else, and services like Netflix reduce features and increase the price. Amazon can, at any moment, delete books from your kindle that you already paid for. Digital rent extraction is a huge part of how the tech industry operates today.

Yes, you should avoid subscriptions where you can, because there is a real risk that they'll change the rules to take away what you paid for down the line.

And especially don't trust the advertising company to not put ads in their paid tiers down the line.
What, so Google can track me better? I hate YouTube's recommendation system and only watch videos in a Private browsing window. I would happily pay for YouTube if they wouldn't track me, shovel shit in my face, or otherwise misuse my data.
It's not as bad as you'd think, especially for someone with a big name like Microsoft on their resume

Satya and his pals in the C-suite are relying on naïveté, since they know most of their employees are busy working diligently instead of weaseling up job offers all the time
GitHub push protection is free for all public repositories
> How many bonds and tax increases have been issued specifically to alleviate poverty and drugs and homelessness and what is the ROI of this spending?

The city of San Francisco spends $70,000 annually per homeless person! <https://abc7news.com/sf-homeless-plan-housing-all-san-franci...> The homeless there are homeless because severe mental and addiction issues cause them to reject help, not because resources aren't available.
I'll add that DEI exploits niceness of americans: the need to look nice and polite no matter what. And the crisis did happen already, although unsuccessfully: it was the BLM riots.
The START MENU? TEN YEARS? My friend, how about simple file management? They've been at that for DECADES and still can't get it right?

"Oh, you dragged something over the top of a network drive in Explorer, let me waste the next 3-5 minutes trying to connect to that drive for you". Or how about this: "Oh you plugged in a USB drive that was setup as a live CD? Let me crash for a second and mash your MBR to bits".

How is Windows still mostly garbage at this point?
I found an exciting feature—a way to submit a large amount of text—larger than you can paste in the Bard dialog window. (It's possible this isn't a new feature. Bard explained it to me this evening.) You can submit links to files in Google Drive. The links have to be publicly accessible. I just pasted the link to my file in Bard chat.

Bard can access the contents of the 322K file I pasted the link to. It definitely knows about the content of the file. I never said what it was about, but Bard knew it was about butterflies. It knew about content at the beginning of the file, and at the end.

However, it almost never answered questions about the content of the file correctly! For example, I asked it the number of species listed in the file and it said 109. There are 249 numbered species and some that are not numbered. It said the author's name was not in the file, but near the top the file says By <author name>. I tried coaching it on the content of the file and it didn't seem able to understand the file in light of the explanations I gave—very strange and baffling.

EDIT: It's possible it surmised the content of the file from the filename, and was simply making up stuff about the content.
The "barndominum" craze around here is getting kinda interesting; especially as you can build in "steps" depending on how you design it.
> Again, you're likely to just fall back to whatever is the first author or institution in your mind.

And that's exactly the problem we're trying to solve :-) If only the first author is in your mind, then the rest of them aren't getting enough credit.

Next time you're reading a new paper and it's written by the 4th author, are you going to recognize their name and go "Oh, this was written by that author that wrote that other great paper, I should read it!"? Or will you not have a clue who they are because only the first author stuck out?

Disrupting the thought process so that you either need to refer to all of them or their team or the paper by name is the point. If it's written by 2 teams, it's the same problem. You would have to randomize Google/Meta and Meta/Google. Although..well maybe not if it's short enough that it's always referred to in full.

With regards to paper names being too long, we have that problem at my office sometimes too. I just give them cute shorter code names so they're easier to refer to.
military cases are huge
Socialism is when capitalism does its usual thing?