skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every sentence of this piece screams "journalist who doesn't know what they are talking about". But my favorite bit is this:

> Replacing a screenwriter with AI to “save money” is like cutting out your daily Starbucks but buying a $25,000 La Marzocco espresso machine, if the La Marzocco was also bad at making espresso, but could, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso.

I LOL'd. Starbucks is LITERALLY a company that buys $25K (okay, $18K) espresso machines and, with careful human assistance, produce beverages that resemble espresso. Each producer doesn't need their own Starbucks LLC, but many will start a Franchise (finetune) and most will buy scripts by the token from s/Starbucks/OpenAI/g instead of making their own coffee at home. Maybe even if it's more expensive and not as good as what you can buy artisinally! That's what the Starbucks analogy tells us.

Anyways, the analogy is stretched, but that sentence was hilarious. Beyond analogy:

Training costs:

1. No one training huge models pays sticker public cloud price for GPU hours. Either you have your own cloud or you negotiate rates or you go with a hybrid approach and keep training runs mostly in-house.

2. MS, Google, and Amazon MAKE INSANE MONEY on their hosted GPUs even when their internal teams hog capacity for training. Why choose between selling shovels and digging for gold when you can have a triopoly on shovels, choose the best places to dig, then sell shovels to other people who want to dig on those same tracts (once you're done)?

Inference costs: Even unoptimized, hosting isn't that expensive (especially, again, if you're the cloud provider and not a cloud customer). Once you have a somewhat stable model size and architecture, you can drive the marginal cost way down. Even more so for a fixed model. And without that much effort. I'd bet that OpenAI's current token prices are already profitable on a per unit basis even if you throw in free tier.

Capabilities:

1. GPT models are still very new, the public ones are trained on kinda garbage datasets.

2. The models don't have to win a Pulitzer. Have you seen an NCIS episode?!

The economics work well and I have no doubt that a model tuned on the Alliance's huge backlog of scripts would write pretty good scripts.

> There are jobs, after all, that require very little besides spitting out plausible-sounding answers in response to prompts; jobs in which not understanding either the prompts or your responses is not disqualifying, so long as you are broadly guided in the right direction by one or two sentient human handlers.

Tech journalists writing about AI have to be pretty high on that list...
Funny. I see it differently. I pay for the blue check because it adds legitimacy. If I'm replying and having conversations with people with similar blue checks then I know I'm talking to real humans not hiding behind fake usernames. Also, any threats or anything from bad actors could otherwise be tracked based on payment method.
I was referring to a regular Nike shirt - not a sports team shirt.
This has been posted all over. [1]

[1] https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/departing-cook-county...
If a Schwinn-branded bicycle lock is so easily broken that the majority of thefts are from opening those locks, why not?
> I also wonder how the world would look if IBM partnered with Apple rather than Microsoft.

Possibly underwhelming, if Taligent was any indication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent
Think about how to set good and ambitious goals for yourself. Then work hard for years. After some years, you can reap what you have sowed.

But don’t work too hard. Don’t forget to take care of yourself. No one else will do that for you.

Try to meet up with interesting people and see what they have to say. Go to some meetups and conferences.

For the summer: If you can’t find a paid gig, do a project of your own, that you can finish before next semester. Or just take some time off if you can.

Godspeed!
It's not widely known to me and I found concrete claims difficult to find.

Why are you so shy about simply naming specifics on a subject you claim is widely known and easy to find information on?
Sure - but it's also being touted as something special that's worth paying attention to for programmers.

Like - when I first learned about Smalltalk, and looked at the syntax, I wanted to try it out right away! Playing with that realm of object oriented programming looks like fun!

But jumping through hoops to make it work is not fun - the process of just setting things up and trying to pick through the whole alien interface completely evaporated my enthusiasm. It quickly became clear to me that you can't 'just sit down and write code' the way you can with basically any other modern language I've worked with. You have to do a bunch of other stuff first. And I don't want to do that.

You can open a web browser, hit F12, and immediately start writing javascript and running it. You can use notepad to make an .htm file, drag it into the browser, and boom it's a web page. If you're on a device that makes task switching awkward, you can navigate straight to codepen.io, no sweat. You know what I mean? Immediacy is an essential quality, for me - obscurity, esotericism, inaccessibility and poor usability are all banes of my existence.

It's like sure, I can do anything I put my mind to - I can spend the next hour, the next day, the next week, month, year, decade, learning to do this thing... but that's time I'll never get back, and that's time I could be spending more efficiently stepping into something else, equally exciting and different and new and interesting, with significantly less barrier to entry.

If you care about your work, and your goal is to expose others to it, then you need to put the work into making it accessible. That's been my experience.
But it also means that all your pointers are now 32-bit wide, no? On a machine where memory is measured in kilobytes, that is an expensive luxury.
Paywall.

That said, I thought the rumor was Apple was going to reveal 2 headsets - 1 available soon for $3k, and another priced at ~$1.5k(ish) that would be available in Q1 of next year.

The $3k model was essentially the beta version of the mass-market device so that Apple could continue to field test software and apps to make sure that the next iteration of the device would knock it out of the park.

My whole question is - what sort of killer apps does Apple have right now that would make a headset a must-buy? That was one of the things that sort of doomed the Hololens and the Magic Leap - lack of useful applications.

Would Apple really release a device without a reason for consumers to actually use it? I'm all for AR/VR - it's cool tech for sure, but I don't see any mass-market necessities the device would fulfill. But that doesn't seem like Apple's M.O, does it?
Here's that paper's pdf[1]. ACM... sigh.

[1] http://www.johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf
The website can further strengthen the illusion of interacting with the FS by using HTML+CSS that imitates the browser's builtin file browser. It knows what it might look like by examining User-Agent and Accept-Language headers.
The concept looks great. One comment here will be easier flow in the suggestion bit. Instead of letting user input for suggestion on the sql improvement, perhaps doing it with a button click, and with sql automatically populated for each suggestion, without another round trip letting user "ask AI for giving me the queries" in the text input.
The problem with Signal is that other party can turn auto delete off for both. Clearly bad design. It should be that the smallest timer wins.
sp332 got downvoted but is exactly right.

Google has tiers of support for products (i.e. "How comfortable is SRE that they will be able to keep this thing in the air if every SWE that built it gets isekai'd into a magical universe that isn't ours tomorrow?").

Anything they put out in front of Workspaces customers is max-tier support because their data shows that customers won't stop paying because they haven't gotten a new feature yet, but will stop paying if they get a new feature and it's broken.
Along those same lines, the weirdest thing to me about the concept of an “everything app” is that it basically just describes an operating system.

iOS, MacOS, Windows, Android, Linux, etc. are already the “everything” apps.

Why the do we need an app that can do everything inside of an app that can already do everything?

It’s like wearing a hat on top of your hat.

I think your thesis about WeChat being more about a domestic choke point over the freedom of computing in China is largely correct.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271084
I took his applied linear algebra course as an undergrad. Such a kind man and so passionate about teaching. Very much "in the know" on modern ML, like LMs, and he found ways to tie the fundamentals to current topics. Always happy to sign a copy of a his books :)

Cheers to his post-Institute era.
The problem is that we assume that it will forever be impossible for a browser to mimic the look and feel of opening a zip file attachment. I'm unsure if it's possible today but most definitely I don't think it's wise to assume it will never be possible in the future.

We are slowly chipping away at defense in depth all in the name of convenience.
I wasn't talking about the other ones, just .test.

Maybe as a Blockchain tld :) then it isn't DNS.

Currently new gTLD applications are paused and it's hard to remember how hot it was back when they were open or see how hot it's going to be when they're reopened.
What features? Pay to be ranked higher in the cess pool along with the phrenologists?
Those are the most dangerous. They will happily open a file suffixed .zip.exe when windows hides the extension and it shows as .zip.
That's the point, this is a real text file. When you press download you just get a template.
That's what people mean when they say don't "take things for granted". Peace, health, relationships. All can be destroyed in minutes.
> Depending on platform, this is even more fun with command lines with commands like: `open familyphotos.zip`

The `open` command on macOS doesn’t open websites if no schema is specified. At best (worst?) it makes a suggestion:

$ open google.com
The file /private/tmp/google.com does not exist.
Perhaps you meant 'http://google.com'?

But it doesn’t even try it with the zip TLD:

$ open familyphotos.zip
The file /private/tmp/familyphotos.zip does not exist.
This is already an issue with a number of common(-ish) extensions a non-tech person might realistically encounter: .ai (Illustrator), .ps (Photoshop), .md, (Markdown), .mobi (E-books)

There's also some that are less commonly encountered by non-tech people, but still fairly common in the tech world (depending on the person of course): .sh, .rs, .cab, .java, .py, .org, .pl, .pm, .target, .pub

That's just from a quick check from what I recognized from memory; I didn't feel like writing the code to also print out the MIME type and description and there may be more. Here's a full list of conflicts I generated from my /usr/share/mime/globs and the TLD list from ICANN, 74 conflicts in total: https://gist.github.com/arp242/ca24b58eaf37184b03e626c8e4093...

Is .zip more common? No doubt, so it does become worse, but this confusion already exists, and will no doubt grow in the future with further proliferation of tlds and file extensions.

Basically, we should probably do something about this regardless, although I'm not entirely sure what.
there's a certain plausibility to the idea that some folks were trained to hover over a link and see where it goes as part of anti-phishing training, but that a fraction of them may hover over the link, see product.zip anyway, and just click it because they don't have the context to understand why that would be a terrible link.
The problem is that Google still pays Mozilla's bills. If their biggest donor suddenly pulls out completely, they'll be in trouble.
1.) Though this is becoming an increasingly popular viewpoint in many of the American cities that are experiencing these problems right now, it’s far from universally held.

2.) The U.S. is not a monolith, so looking at the prison population of the United States as a whole doesn’t tell you about what’s going on in an individual state or city.

3.) The number of people incarcerated has a long tail. In the U.S. in particular, many people received long sentences during the years following the ‘94 crime bill. Little if any effort is being made to commute these despite policies centered on new incarceration changing.

4.) In the places where reduced incarceration is being tried in the U.S. it’s important to recognize that it’s being tried effectively in a vacuum. In many other places which are able to sustain low incarceration rates, there are a lot of social programs that help make that possible, and also programs to help people rehabilitate after a conviction. The U.S. has little if any of that. Where reduced incarceration is being tried, it’s usually not replaced with something that’s more effective.
FYI, 40 miles is not plucked out of a hat. Scientists specifically mention that number because it exceeds the daily average driving distance of >90% of people. It is basically the point where any further increases in range becomes unnecessary cost.
Babuk code used by 9 ransomware gangs to encrypt VMware ESXi servers
My family are coal miners from that area for three generations (Kulpmont, PA). As a kid my uncle used to take us up to Centrailia to see the melted roads. My grandfather and two uncles had Black Lung. They used to strike and get beaten by the "police" for it.

The coal companies never cared and never will. I saw what they did to these communities. Now they are all suffering from the opioid epidemic[1]. Glad these two are doing some real local reporting.

[1] https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/crime/mt-carmel-doctor-p...
>If someone said, "That's not how Samurai fight", would you then assume that any non-Samurai is being disparaged? Probably not despite the rampant xenophobia in Japan.

Yes. That would be the obvious reading. If someone looked at a group of Samurai fighting and said that isn't how Samurai fight, by implication a comparison is being made between "Samurai" and "not Samurai."

If someone sees a group of white people fighting and says that isn't how white people fight, by implication a comparison is being made between "white people" and "not white" people.

>At best, you have him gatekeeping all the white races and applying a no-true-Scotsman fallacy.

Yes, and that's racist.

>If he'd mentioned a non-white race at all, I suspect you'd be making the same case then as well.

Yes, it would still be racist, for the same reasons.

>People read into these things whatever they want to read based on whichever team they're cheerleading for.

Case in point.
> First off he crashed the plane deliberately into empty forest. There's no hikers in the place he crashed it, he knows that.

How?

He's in trouble for covering up, not so much what he did.
The biggest mistake Netflix made was thinking that they are a tech company instead of being a media company. All the extremely high paid software devs creating this massive mangle of microservices. What they should have realized is that porn sites have been supporting far more users around the world without doing any of this microservices nonsense.
Or perhaps just: "we need some time to setup things so that we can comply and we don't want to block a global rollout to countries that don't bother creating laws that protect their citizens"
Defending myself is feeding flamebait?

There's really nothing in the guidelines about that. The closest is: "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity." In the comment you replied to, I wasn't doing battle, I was correcting a misconception. That should help curiosity and discourage flamebait.

I have been very careful to not personally attack anyone that attacked me in this thread so as to not create a battle. And it worked; I received valid criticisms, did something about them, and did my best to cool the thread down by myself because I didn't see you doing anything about it. (Which I get; you're busy.)

Dan, do you really want me to sit by while people attack me and you do nothing for nigh on a day? If so, I reserve the right to defend myself if I do it carefully, and I did.

But it seems that controversy just seems to follow me even if I never allude to anything controversial, so my very existence on this website seems to "feed this." Because of that, you and Hacker News may be better off banning me. If you do, please ban me fully; there's no reason to do a shadowban because I'll accept your decision gracefull and won't come back with different accounts.
The US has very similar camps in the form of forced labor (i.e. slavery) by prisoners. These slaves have built products in the US that many of us have used, including clothes and office furniture. They make 63 cents per hour - make no mistake, they are slaves.
That is definitely not the solely correct solution and I’m really curious to know what kind of punishment you think is appropriate here.
Yes, and the city taxes its residents to pay for the police—the same residents who bought the cars requiring more police involvement.

It's a self-correcting problem, no lawsuit required.

The city could even have a special tax on "cars without immobilizers" that Kia owners paid, to cover their costs. Again: no lawsuit required.
https://discord.gg/evhUwmYd
Thank you for triggering the long-dormant neuron in my brain that remembers working with Yahoo Pipes.
Was there someone in public life in recent memory who sincerely apologized for something and was offered forgiveness by the general public?

It often seems like those who double down on something bad end up better off. It doesn't mean that it is the right thing to do, of course.
Sounds like sugar coating on a down side to me.
I don't know man. I'll often hear things to the effect of I can't believe how incompetent the developers of this app are, regardless of the complexity of the app.
I tried to title this post for twenty minutes and failed
For anyone reading this, for having seen and chatted with a farmer raising AAA Angus beef for McDonalds, everything the above commenter is saying is wrong.

The beef are in lots as soon as they are taken from their mothers and are fed from soy and other crops.

Most of the beef production is not fed grass - or it is a byproduct of giving them access to outside, but isn't their main nutrition.
My expectations is that whatever mechanism google will implement to comply with EU laws will become the default for how the do things for everybody, for the simple reason that doing something special for EU would be an operational burden.
I'd wager that you're going to have low familiarity at best among people under 30[0] where computer use is ancillary to job at best, so all sorts of "technician" type jobs[1] plus warehouse work, transportation, and other public-facing roles like retail, police, fire...

I would make a weaker claim than "doesn't know what it is", there are probably a lot of people there who at one point have seen "files.zip" in gmail and then downloaded it and double clicked it to expand it or such, but I don't think any of them are going to be confused by URLs with .zip domains.

I'm actually curious about the intended distribution of this website - it's header is "If you clicked on this domain by mistake" but... I clicked on it very intentionally from an HN link, so didn't expect a file attachment at all; not sure what the scenario is where something could look like a file but actually be a link? E.g. if it's on a malicious website you could easily trick users with "Download stuff.zip" link text that actually points to "bobsmalware.com" or whatever, which works just as well for anyone loosely familiar with .zip files but not sophisticated enough to not trust the text vs the actual link pointer. Just like the original comment from `SimonPStevens says.

[0] grew up on mobile, not on desktop/laptop

[1] medical, physical therapy, landscaping, painting, mechanical, etc
US leagues have salary caps built into their player union bargaining agreements and built into the league structure itself. In Europe where you have many teams, many leagues, and a wide variety of ownership groups (from millionaires up to literal country sovereign wealth funds), they maintain some semblance of "fairness" through financial fair play rules. This basically means that the teams are only allowed to spend on players (roughly) the same amount of money that they bring in as revenue. The revenue can be through tickets, concessions (I think), sponsorship deals, shirts/kits, etc... So in a very real way, having a big-money shirt sponsor directly impacts the quality of the players that a team can sign.

In the US, spending caps are set and enforced in other ways.
There is data on the Kia/Hyundai problem that is unique to these makes because they cut corners on safety features that are standard across industry -- I don't know why your anecdote of people getting carjacked is relevant at all?
I used to work very closely with Oracle sales teams in Australia-and I never saw anyone I worked with directly do anything “amoral”.

I heard about a few things on the grapevine, but in a 100,000 person company things are going to happen, you can’t really generalise from the occasional incident.
>> I really want to get a Switch but I can’t seem to justify paying full price for hardware that is evidently several years out of date.

I thought similar but at the end of the day does it matter? Games work well on it. Sure they might be making bigger profit margins on it but it still does what it’s meant to at a good level.
Yes, just create a script.sh and append #!/usr/bin/go then you're ready to go.
By his own admission the value of Twitter has dropped 50%, and he has suggested bankruptcy is on the table. This will be a case study of bad management in textbooks for decades to come.
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The most impressive was actually the classical one.

From a music producer standpoint if that's the quality for classical music, could definitely create some samples.
Workspaces mainly focuses on enterprise customers whose administrators (with good reason) do not like to be surprised when new services are added to their users' accounts without some kind of vetting process by corporate security, legal, etc. I know many "powerusers" like to sign up because it lets them use "gmail" but with their own domain, but I suspect this is a niche use case compared to those who use it in corporate/enterprise environments.
What's the current state of database access? Last I looked a while back Diesel was really cool, but didn't play nice w/ Async.
MVG on YouTube did a great video on this exact problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH03ht2fVqI&pp=ygUKbXZnIHN3a...
> Yea, I'm really surprised at all this defense of these corporations.

Well, the government does already set a bunch of standards for cars.

And before the car leaves the factory, it's fine for the government to be issuing mandatory standards for lights, spare parts, seatbelts, crash safety, pedestrian protection, fuel economy and so on.

But the government having a second, secret set of requirements? That can change without anyone being notified? To me that seems rather irregular.
Really? I find them better because everything is laid out in a way that makes things easier to find, especially when you haven’t used the tool much before, and they look nicer too
How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
Why has no one come up with a different name for the Native Americans? I know Columbus confused it to be India and called them Indians - but do we need to persist in his ignorance? To be honest if I had only read the title of this story I would have assumed that it dealt with a sign language invented in India.

I know this is the wrong place to complain about this, but hey, you need to start the conversation somewhere!
The AI test kitchen app is not accessible with voiceover