skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does it work for coding? Are we really doing trial by trial analysis of code these days
Chevy Silverado XLTs have touchscreens too. I haven’t listened to any audio for more than 20 minutes in 3 years. The screen is totally unresponsive & starts ghosting soon after ignition. Trash.
Why would people not phone instead?

I’m struggling to understand the motivation.

I think if trust in society had fallen enough that people wanted a service like this, then people would not trust the police to provide it, and the government would not be able to afford to fund it.
Very sad. Was truly a new take on search.
It's anti-competitive but extremely American/capitalist. The whole premise of our economy is to leverage wealth and advantage to build more wealth and advantage until you're the wealthiest and most advantaged. That Bezos continued to do this is part for the course.

If we want true competition, we need a merit-based society instead of a wealth-based one.
That is roughly the opposite experience of most iPhone users.
For my personal experience, iOS upgrades tend to make the phone go faster or at worst simply let it run at the same speed.
Upstaged by Marlon Brando
I asked it to help me create a breakfast diet without eggs and make suggestions accordingly. Every dish included eggs.

I reminded it not to give me recipes with eggs. It apologized for the error and then gave me more suggestions that contained eggs.
For me, it will suffice. I grew up without it and I made it and my family will enjoy it. All else is secondary.
From what I've seen, I have no doubt Chris means well.

People everywhere have all different things worth living for, and of course there are ups & downs that vary across time and relationships.

Regardless whether someone has the capacity to be helpful or harmful, almost always some judgement needs to be made or absolutely neither one will be forthcoming.

And there is always going to be someone else to disagree.

Whether either one is correct I wonder who is supposed to be the judge of that?

I see not a word of desecration.

Looking at the story of this particular dying Dutchman, seems to me the only thing within reach beforehand were quite temporary solutions not capable of overcoming relatively longer term problems.
I don't see the human like content it creates as skeuomorphic, that's intended design. It's just the conversation way we control it that is, and that I think will be toned down.
There’s also the ‘Clockwork Orange’ soundtrack
Is the idea that your company will build the chatbot as a contract or provide a platform for self-service?
I hadn't heard of this website, SiliconAngle.com, before this week but they interviewed someone from the company that I work at (not for this Neeva article; for a different article), so they're actually a real news reporting organization. I was reading that article with my colleague's interview this week when I saw the Snowflake + Neeva article title in the sidebar on SiliconAngle.com

https://siliconangle.com/2023/05/17/report-claims-snowflake-...

The Silicon Angle article cites another article from The Information as being the source of the Snowflake + Neeva news: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/snowflake-in-talks-t...

(I don't have a subscription to The Information, so unfortunately I cannot read that article's whole text. If someone with a subscription to The Information could summarize that article and share their summary with the community here I'd appreciate it!)
The iPhone “I made this story up” is my guess.

Certainly major software updates can break things, but that is why you can (though not always quite easily) downgrade for a while after an update.
That was well worth the full read through, especially to have the full context for Knuth's parting remark:

>Assuming that Stephen wasn't playing games with me, GPT-4 not only
gave the best possible answer to my query, it even knew somehow
that I was referring to the Wolfram language.
>you can unlock the bootloader

on a laughably small subset of devices

>and install LineageOS or something to keep getting community updates indefinitely.

false and only partially true for an even smaller subset of devices
I suspect what you see is the search "learning" from the users -- someone is looking for a specific video that they've seen before but need to refine the search terms a few times before they find it. Thereafter, Google remembers the entire sequence of search terms and associates them with the video even though none of those terms might actually exist in the indexed video metadata. I've noticed that Google Search at least does this very obviously.
> The solutions are mostly simple. It's only waiting for regulation/integration.

Oh for fucks sake, the solution is already as simple as it can get; don't cross a police line. This is already a solved problem.
Oh Switched-On Bach was just foundational for me as a kid, it cemented my love for both Bach and for digital music. I found it in my dad’s vinyl collection and used to put it on, turn it up loud (sometimes waking my parents up and/or really irritating them) and rock to it. My dad might have been secretly a little disappointed when Switched-On Bach led me to seek out lots more digital music (found stacks of Isao Tomita at the library) and then go deeply into digital art, because my dad was a luthier who made violins by hand, but he never judged me openly.

I think I didn’t even realize the first time I saw TRON or The Shining or Clockwork Orange that it was Wendy Carlos, it just had that Moog sound I knew I loved. Yes looking back it’s unquestionable that the mark Wendy Carlos left on the world is enormous.
Sorry to see you go, was rooting for you guys. A telling insight from Sridhar's email: "Contrary to popular belief, convincing someone to pay for a better experience was actually a less difficult problem compared to getting them to try a new search engine in the first place."
He was successful, then failed. The two are not mutually exclusive.

He clearly set out to make a lot of money with his scheme, and he did that successfully. Then he failed.
For feature updates yes. For (most) security updates no.
There are still plenty of people in the fab. They're not usually running product around in a modern automated fab, but there are always equipment issues to work through. When you have fleets of multiple tens of tools, it's always an exercise to keep them matched and in-line with each other. The majority of modern cleanrooms are "ballroom" style, where the tools all sit out in the open. Each tool has a class 1 mini-environment inside which keeps the product clean. Outside the tools is a cleanroom, but it's not as clean as inside.

Remote access has helped out a lot, but the process engineering folks will still spend a bunch of time every week on the line. The equipment engineering folks will spend time every day on the line working on things.
There is a market for AR glasses, it's just not wireless or tethered to a smartphone, on your face, walking around and using them like that, at least right now.

I think the SpaceTop laptop[0] shows an excellent use case for a realistic AR device.

Right now, the kind of AR headsets that companies seem to think they can produce are all fantasy/sci-fi, not much different than the whole Dream of Self-Driving Cars. Sure, it's probably possible eventually, but not anytime soon, or at a price point most can afford in the case of self-contained AR headset that look like normal glasses

[0] https://www.bigtechwire.com/2023/05/19/spacetop-the-groundbr...
The team at Neeva was A+. It is quite commendable that they managed to build a real search engine (unlike DuckDuckGo which is a shim on Bing) that was comparable to Google with such a small team.

Neeva aimed to solve the problem of ads clogging the entire search results page with an ad-free search experience. My opinion of Neeva was that it solved a problem that doesn't exist. Anyone who is annoyed with ads can install uBlock (or one of the other extensions) and hide them all.
Suicide remains a sin in the eyes of the Catholic Church (the largest Christian denomination); and attempting it was a crime, at least in the UK (where I live) until 1961.

People still speak of "committing" suicide, like committing murder. I can't think of any other legal act that you can "commit".

[Edit] Wrong! Adultery, for example, is legal, and is something you commit. So I suppose that in general, you can "commit" it if it's a sin, or more generally something you shouldn't do.
I'm willing to bet it's an iPhone 4, because I had the same experience.

I switched to Android for several years after.
Both. We are currently doing contracts (50/50) as the platform is not ready yet. But after the platform is ready we will give people the self-service or human assisted service as options. We want to capture as much human knowledge as possible in our chatbots and give the humans a perpetual revenue from it.
There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.

As a founder of a startup in the same space (Kagi) we feel these challenges. We face difficult decisions every day. It is hard but I am cautiously optimistic about our approach. All I know is that when the dust settles in two years, we still plan to be around.

Big props to the Neeva team for educating the market about the existence of ad-free search and paving the way for bootstrapped companies like ours.
Try Kagi instead. It’s a very nice search experience and and actually grants more control over results than Neeva did.
Agreed!

I am one of those disaffected STEM grads btw - T10 STEM program grad -> Engineering internships -> Policy Stint -> BSchool -> MBB -> Product Management

The business portion is easy to teach, and hiring for Finance+IB+VC+Consulting+PM roles is increasingly oriented only at STEM grads and BSchool grads from top programs (eg. BSBAs @ Haas, Wharton, Anderson, Ross, Stern)
Hell, I’m rather experienced on the fandom side of things and the term “Omegaverse” was completely foreign to me. I think I’ve only ever seen it as A/B/O.
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> The startups you are referring almost all lose money on fixed costs, but sell things at per-unit economics which make sense at scale because they are below marginal cost/COGS.

Many startups and new projects operate with effectively zero revenue until critical mass, at which point they start charging. Youtube, Meetup, Reddit, G Suite, facebook, craigslist, twitter, linkedin. The list goes forever. These all started as free services without any meaningful revenue. I don't see any difference between these platforms and Uber, which while not free, is also selling below costs.
Russian is not a race, but if it makes you uncomfortable, replace with whatever nationality you like.
Lol what a discovery :) I considered committing suicide because it felt like there was no way out of this mess. Suicide is more like an escape from pain rather than quitting your life.
There is a cowoking place well hidden near my home. It has 3 quite passable conference rooms, 6 "working bays" where you can use with a laptop in a very uncomfortable way, and a free desk at the side of those bays.

It looks like the perfect place to do a meeting and go away, and indeed it looks like people do use it that way a lot. Also, you can rent it at the moment, without any planning. I imagine it's successful.

It is indeed not the kind of place you want to go to do quiet work. But spaces leading to quiet work are plentiful anyway.
It's not impossible if it were an early iPhone - particularly one before iPhone 5.

Not really relevant to modern iPhones, but they wouldn't know that if they've sworn off iPhones since.
Ios 15 still gets critical security updates.
I disagree with this, slice notation is powerful and I use it quite a bit in DL.

Even just the [:, None] trick replacing unsqueeze is super useful for me.
This was a commentary piece which quoted (to comment on) other sources.

Almost everyone talking about this topic is at least biased, and generally (what's-the-word for "motivated to convince others as to their point-of-view"?).
What do you mean?

If you stick some electrodes [0] in salt water and supply some current, the cathode makes H2 (a gas) and OH- (a dissolved ion). The anode makes Cl2 (a gas) and removes Cl- (a dissolved ion). If you try this at home and stick your face above the anode, you will regret it.

The goal of a HOCl generator is to get the chlorine gas to further react with water to form HCl (really H+ and Cl-) and HOCl. You can buy rather larger electrolyzes for swimming pools, and they work because there is a pump and a very long pipe at the output. The chlorine get broken up into tiny bubbles and has a long time to react. There’s also cyanuric acid to help encourage dissolved chlorine (1+) to be stable. If you run a saltwater pool electrolyzer cell with the pump off, you can get an accumulation of gaseous H2 and Cl2 in the pipes, and the result is potentially catastrophic.

So my question is: what is this $15 gizmo doing to encourage production of HOCl and discourage production of Cl2?

[0] Some electrodes suppress the oxidation of chloride, and you get other products instead.

edit: I saw your edit. The sodium stays put. You start with Na+ and you end up with Na+. The net reaction produces (hopefully) NaOH, HCl, and H2.
Holy moly, I don't know how I never knew about this.

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2017/03/30/max-headroom-...

Mine was supposedly to be… hmmmmm, let me see now… the fourth episode of the series. My title was “Mister Meat.” Now, TV writing in those days was a two-step process: “story with option to teleplay,” they called it. You wrote a ‘story,’ a short plot outline with all the major beats and characters. Then, when the showrunners, studio, and network all approved it, you went on to write the teleplay.

“Mister Meat” never got that far, alas. The showrunners and my fellow Maxxies loved it, as I recall, but when ABC saw the story they reacted with horror. Way too disturbing and offensive, they announced, driving a spike firmly through my concept and sending me on my way. Which I why I never got hired onto MAX HEADROOM and wound up on staff on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST instead.

I got a second chance when MAX was picked up for a second season, however. As a freelancer, I got the choice assignment of writing the Christmas episode. And this time I went to town. Wrote the story, rewrote the story, wrote the teleplay, revised the teleplay. “Xmas” was the title of the episode, and it got as far as pre-production…

And then the show was cancelled. Rather suddenly and unceremoniously, I must say. America was spared from celebrating Xmas with Max.
I'm not necessarily saying that I buy into that position myself, just that I've found myself surprisingly sympathetic to it.

At this point, I agree with those who suggest that America cannot survive a competent Trump. So given the hypothetical future appearance on the campaign trail of a similar character with all of his faculties intact, I may have to revisit the question.
AI is not really learning from it. It's gathering and distributing real folks hard work and maybe making a few slight changes in the language used to describe it so it's more akin to stealing or plagiarizing other's work.
> the EU has a committee to approve camera software changes

shudder
Appreciate the honest retrospective.

This combined with the reports that Bing failed to cut into Google’s market show that Google is safe for a while.

I wonder if I’ll see disruption of Google’s core business in my lifetime. I really want it to happen but it’s a mighty quest
But that won't work will it. Here in Karachi, when careem (the rideshare company uber bought) raises prices, you just have two other ride share companies (bykea, and indrive) undercut it.

You can make cabs dissapear, but copycats are a paradox because you are "validating" their business model with your "success", so they will cannibalize you
? I don't think torch C++ supports this.
You mean my cryogenic freezing chamber, and that's not cheap.
Takes one to know one, as we used to say...
I don't know the Gordon Kaye story, but "those people" that get involved for search and rescue operations are usually professionals who would, in fact, spend that time working to help other people instead.
That's just scaling difficulty. Android was pretty shit back then too and continued to have performance degredattion due to other reasons like storge implementation unti a few years ago - idk about now.
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SUFFERING IS A PART OF LIVING.

as someone who has lost many friends and family members to suicide, articles like this feel so naive.

at their funerals, there’s always a person saying “let’s remember them how they lived, not how they suffered”

no. their suffering was a big part of their lived experience, and i will remember it forever. people who want to commit suicide do want to stop living. sometimes it’s because there is so much suffering in their life they can’t take it - sometimes it’s something else.

thousands of years ago, people knew that life _is_ suffering. it’s so disgusting to me to pretend that life and suffering aren’t intertwined.

some people can’t take it, and that’s fine. we didn’t ask to be here. but when those people go, let’s not falsify our memories of them because we don’t personally like the idea of suffering.

so infantalizing.
One of the issues here is that you as the user are not privy to all the instructions ChatGPT has been given. Before the chat begins, the bot is almost certainly given hidden instructions to answer politely. It's not that the bot is refusing to follow instructions, but that given two contradictory commands, it's choosing to follow one instruction over the other.
What about fantasy consoles? PICO-8 and TIC80 for example, they have built in sprite, music and code editors
I almost wish Don Knuth gets real weird with it and righteously brandishes his '3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated' holy tome and denounces GPT-4 as an inauthentic and untrustworthy demonic force.
I prefer to write on ruled paper and tuck it into the front cover for the following reasons:

- ruled paper is easier to write on

- you won't run out of space (just add sheets)

- you can rewrite summaries as you revisit books decades later and retuck the new summary

- you can quickly scan the papers to archive a digital copy

- you can remove your notes to lend the book (or not)

- you can transfer your notes to a new edition trivially

- you can be more candid in what you write, knowing it's trivially discarded without giving up the book

- all the notes are in one place and you don't have to thumb through the book looking for where you wrote an idea that you half-remember

- you have space to draw diagrams if appropriate

- you can find something on the internet that importantly relates, print off a page or two, and adjunct your notes

- you can do extensive internet research and build a whole matching folder of contents on your laptop, but you can print a page of Title/URL's to adjunct your notes as a backup (and for anyone who borrows the book+notes)

(edit: formatting)
There is this idea that the goal of RLHF is to make ChatGPT woke or as you put it to lobotomize it. I suspect that this is a conspiracy theory. There's a very good talk by John Schulman, chief architect of ChatGPT [0], where he explains that if you don't include a RL component in your training, you're essentially doing imitation learning. It's well known that imitation learning fails miserably when presented with conditions that are not in your training set, i.e., answering questions that don't exist on the Internet already. So the goal of RLHF is actually to reduce hallucination.

[0] http://youtu.be/hhiLw5Q_UFg
I changed my default search engine to neeva just a couple days ago. Unfortunate since I really liked their product. The team probably has a few domain experts in generative AI and infra at this point, and so they can make or raise more money by pivoting completely to direction.
what a patronizing response
A shame. What internet discovery needs more than anything else is competition. Neeva was a solid entry.
The skeuomorphic visual design, largely abandoned now, was to teach people that the apps served the same function and emotional connection as what they replaced, not really to teach touch gestures.
I've been looking for something like this to review books. Two suggestions: 1. allow to load a book from a url, so notes could be added to arbitrary books; 2. allow to select text and add notes to that selection.
> While biking home from school yesterday, I thought of 20 questions
that would be interesting to pose to chatGPT.

Was anyone else struck by the notion of remembering 20 items that were brainstormed while bike riding? I could probably remember a dozen items to get at the grocery store, but I don't know that I could simultaneously generate creative ideas and remember a list of unrelated ideas (unlike groceries, which can be grouped by category).

Perhaps he just brainstormed a few dozen ideas, and these were the 20 that he remembered most easily when he got home. But given what we know of Don Knuth, it wouldn't be surprising if he were easily able to generate and remember longer lists of things than most people!
I thought they were getting acquihired by Snowflake?
> A language humans use only in non-digital medium would be interesting.

There's dozens or hundreds of them already, living in the world now. Some of them don't even have a formalized writing system.
Looks innovative
They over estimated the market on the table —- in tech circle people want to end Google and are willing to pay. For the average user, they have no clue how the ad business works or harms society
It's not a conspiracy theory to report what OpenAI says is the purpose of RLHF.
> Inspite of all the talking points, govt can and does create money.

If you're talking about MMT as a solution, check again, it's pretty much discredited.
And they say this thing called "disinformation" is not real.

But anyways, happy voting all Polish people; this is surely something you are voting for!
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I get paid to do this professionally so I don't follow the hobbyist side but I've heard of people using this for FPGAs. I have no idea how it compares to commercial tools.

https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build

OSS CAD Suite is a binary software distribution for a number of open source software used in digital logic design. You will find tools for RTL synthesis, formal hardware verification, place & route, FPGA programming, and testing with support for HDLs like Verilog, Migen and Amaranth.
If the us government owns the bow and arrow, it calls up the contractor that made the arrow and orders another one. The taxpayers foot the bill.
AFAIK Neeva does use Bing [1]. You might be confused with Brave [2], which claims to be Bing-fee.

* [1] https://neeva.com/massets/ask-neeva/does-neeva-use-bing.html
* [2] https://brave.com/search-independence/
Of course you can: you can tax phones until most people can't buy new ones. That's what will happen once these laws are imposed and people keep buying new phones because they don't give a fuck. 100% democratic!