skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI would start playing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=J91ti_MpdHA
The conceit should certainly move uphill.
"That's" is not one word.
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The original reference is probably Levitt's "Marketing Myopia" (https://books.google.com/books?id=Zn4foOUm3AoC). Levitt uses it to illustrate that companies should focus on customers rather than products.
Web of Trust failed because it lacked motivating reasons to use it, and had a very weird idea about how trust is represented (i.e. the idea of partial trust keys meaning... What exactly?)

What was missing was a role/application based idea of trust chains. i.e. what I trust to do my banking is quite different to what I trust for software reputation.

Because ultimately we're operating a web of trust system now on the internet, it's just informally specified.
There comes a point when workplace efficiency measures goes off the rails.

About 40 years ago, I got a job in a books warehouse for a few months before toddling off to Plymouth Polytechnic (a bit like a University, UK, back in the day).

The job involved picking orders for despatch. We'd get line printed picking lists on the classic wide, tractor fed paper with green "staves". We'd then wander the warehouse with a trolley and pick the orders and dump them carefully on pallets at the despatch point. Within a week or two I knew where nearly everything is held and that is a lot of books, the picking sheets had silo codes anyway. So, my old job sounds rather like ye olde Amazon (which started off as a book distributor) We also did things like repricing which sound quite innocent until you face a couple of pallets of "Letterland A-B-C" and you know your pricing gun will need several kilos of tags.

Now, here is the difference: That firm (Smiths) gave all staff an hour lunch break, and two formal 1/2 hour breaks mid morning and mid afternoon. You could also take a break at any time for whatever reason (fags!). You had a base salary and a quota for various jobs. Hit the quota and you get more money. The quota was very reasonable. The basic was pretty decent too. I loved working there and I was compensated way better than the norm.

So wind on a few decades and a very different company - Mine, and it's IT consultancy, and I have staff. I encourage flexibility from my staff. If you want to trot off for an hour for a doctors appointment - that's fine and don't bother asking either. Family first: snags at home - bail out and sort, appraise us if you can when appropriate.

I know that I have staff with "time off task" and I do it myself too. The job gets done to the customer's satisfaction and that is our KPI and that is measured. I suspect Mr Amazon has forgotten to remember that his employees are human and to value and work with them as such.
I agree. Nevertheless I’d love to see the USA spend more on research. Many highly skilled people get PhDs here with the hopes of doing academic research but end up having to leave due to lack of opportunities.

Maybe the current state is optimal. Those talented people often go on to work in industry after all. But how to decide if it’s optimal?
I didn't say for free, I said without advertising. So I guess we gotta sell all our souls... or haggle?
I did the same search on DuckDuckGo and the first link I got refers to 77 chapters.
I understand entirely and deeply relate to this, as I built three different custom solutions for other companies. We are working towards a self-hosted option, but for now, the focus is on receiving quick feedback with our cloud setup.

Thank you so much for checking it out. Honestly, it means a lot!
How is that a dark pattern?
PROBABLY! It's not very reassuring. We need to think of them as 100% functional and work towards reducing all the nukes in the world.
For me it's more of sad realization that what's very hard and requires either skill, talent or both just isn't that well correlated with what earns most money.

Gotta have enough demand so other competent people interested in same thing won't drive the value down.

And I do feel lucky that my set of skills correlates with stuff that pays decently.
Sounds like you might enjoy reading Doctorow's essay on "enshittification".

"Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."

-- Corey Doctorow, https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Once we step out of the American bubble, it is very clear that American research is top notch, but other countries have basically caught up.

America just doesn't attract (or retain) the best. Opportunities are quite high in other countries for them to consider American immigration nonsense.
This isn't something that can be usefully discussed. "Word" has a vague enough definition that a contraction can validly be considered one or two words. If you try and look to linguistics you'll just see they use specialized words with stricter definitions.

Regardless it's more reasonable for me to say "that's" is a five letter word than it is for the AI to say "spells" is a five letter word.
Obviously, the signal handling code can live in a library of some sort.

With a generic, system wide api there’s no reason you couldn’t still poll if you really wanted to. But maybe at least with a version token. So the application can say “I want info on which processes are running. Last time I asked, you gave me token 5827275” and the kernel can respond and say “you’ve got the most recent version of that data already champ”.
Symbolics Lisp Machines Graphics Demo (1990) [video]
This is hardly scary at all to me because if you're on my machine it's most likely game over. If you can read process memory you can just sit there until I use an interesting password copied into the clipboard.

This is also the reason you always use full disk encryption: because you don't know what sensitive content might get sprayed into your files.
As a counter-anecdote, most of my issues with GPT 3/3.5 are just as present in GPT-4 in slightly milder form.

Any code GPT4 produces needs to be checked with a fine tooth comb, any stated "facts" need to be double checked, any solutions to a given problem need to be examined by someone who's already familiar with the subject matter.

I can't deny its usefulness as a rubber duck, though.
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There is a good visualization of Googles income statement here

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/xjbpfo/oc_...

looks you are about right
Not many consumers are running 50 applications at once on their home servers.
From the article -- “We’ve discovered that it is one thing to build a search engine, and an entirely different thing to convince regular users of the need to switch to a better choice.”

I give these guys and gals full marks, and massive respect, for getting the full stack of a search engine integrated (front end, ranking, indexing, crawling).

They regularly dealt with the #1 impediment in monopoly search, Google buying traffic. It is harder to isolate just the money they pay to third parties to redirect traffic but based on their Q1 results for 2023 it is at least $20 BILLION dollars a year these days.

Google can't keep that up though, and given the increasing ways they have been cooking the books to make their numbers, I feel that within 5 or 6 years they will be dead or irrelevant. They certainly won't be able to pay Mozilla and Apple to send them all their traffic and they likely won't be able to force Android users to do the same. When a VC recently asked me what was going to happen to Google I suggested the likely outcome was that they sell themselves to Apple leaving behind just Apple and Microsoft, each with a platform, a hardware business, a search engine, and an OS.

Of course I figured this would have transpired by now :-) so clearly I'm pretty lame as a prognosticator.

That said, once the dust settles I think I know how a company could be formed around the technology known as search which would in fact be viable, but it would not have the margins that Google now enjoys.
I think maven central has the right idea, but it could be generalized.

Require people submitting packages to prove they own a domain and use the domain as the namespace representing the user. We could then use SRV records or TXT records to specify where a domain’s packages are authoritatively hosted and then have conventions to find a signing key for a given domain that can be used to verify cached packages in non-authoritative hosts.
GPT-3 AI engine was launched in 2020. My understanding is that the Wall Street private equity firms asked the startups they funded to dress up their AI in the nicest clothes (chatGPT web layer on top of GPT-3) and show up in public (near stock market bottom Nov'22) in order to engineer a hysteria around AI so as to keep the tech bubble going in a high interest environment via short squeezes. It’s not going to replace anything in the near future and this hype is just a way to delay the tech collapse.
It doesn't do anything in particular -- it's advised to keep ph above 5, which is also the point on the curve that maximizes HOCl

https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/Hypochlor...

> The use of chlorine products that form hypochlorous acid in solution at very low pH has limited potential for long-term applications. At this pH <4.0, dissolved chlorine gas can be rapidly lost due to volatilization, decreasing the biocidal effectiveness of the solution over time, but creating human health and safety issues.

It is not advisable to do this indoors IMO. Generally you are producing a pretty small amount, say 12 oz at 180 ppm.

There are commercial products (eg Force of Nature) that provide NaCl + acetic acid capsules in the right proportion to generate HOCl at home in a printer-ink type of business model.

I'm not sure about the salt; I have tasted some of the HOCl and it does taste somewhat salty (this is also true of commercial preparations sold for dermal use) . I have not tried to make bleach -- this could be a stumbling block for drinking water! I wanted to show the OP's idea of portable + inexpensive electrolysis for making bleach is possible, but admittedly I'm not sure how well this would work for sanitizing drinking water.
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How so?

We don't know of any cure for depression, but with ketamine we have an effective rapid treatment.

Ketamine has a great therapeutic range, a well-understood side effect profile, and can bring a patient back from the brink of suicide in a matter of hours. It's also incredibly inexpensive to produce, on par with aspirin. Why shouldn't we use it?
>"When you need to integrate with other code, you can't necessarily understand the code semantics without knowing a lot more of the spec."

I mostly design and create new products but on some occasions I've had situations like this. There was not a single time that quick Google search and now ChatGPT did not shed the light.

>"Also, I challenge any normal programmer to remember all of the "good" C++ rules regarding overload resolution in an arbitrary context."

Knowing / remembering every nook and cranny does not make for a good programmer (except language experts who write standard libraries and design / implement language itself of course). There are way more important things to consider.
I don't think the comment you're replying to misunderstood the comment. I think the author was saying that they would update the readme of their projects (which they _push_ to a registry, and for which they do not want to pay) to instruct people to pull the package from somewhere else.
The interface sucks and the ads are horrendous.
The answer was there all along since, at least Maven (but probably earlier). When specifying dependencies in Maven, you need to also provide checksums. Really hard to screw that accidentally.

But, the real problem is that any such system needs moderators. Verifying submissions is a tedious and difficult task with a lot of responsibility, if we are talking about something the size of PyPI. If they want to properly process the volume of submissions they have today, they need an army...

On the other hand, 99% of all stuff stored on PyPI is absolute junk. Yet on the other hand, people are used to there being dozens of versions of every package and packages declare dependencies very liberally.

All leads to the situation where there's a "frontier" of packages that can be installed together, but anything that lags 3-4+ versions behind the frontier is just taking space. Even if it's not malicious, it's not installable anymore because there's no more support for the platform it was written for.

But this is not the end of it. There are tons of simply broken packages, where some part of the archive is missing, or is malformed etc.

Proper moderation would have you submit your code, then review it, then publish it. Possibly, rejecting it in between if the code doesn't match requirements. Most people who publish their stuff to PyPI don't understand what needs to be in the package. Even packages like NumPy are full of useless junk.

But this will never happen, because the "community" grew used to the circus PyPI is. Python community doesn't care about the quality of the code, safety or anything other than a very shortsighted "make it work now" kind of goal.

There won't be a revision that purges junk or makes adding more junk harder. There will be another "quick fix", that will be obviously bad, but will kick the can down the road for a while longer.
Still can be solution, if your system degrades to "have to press a button on phone" when Internet/cloud is down that is still IMO acceptable.

Until we get something local powerful enough "cloudsourcing" LLM while keeping everything else locally is not a terrible compromise.
WeWork's private offices were fantastic though. I had one for about a year during COVID. It was amazing while we had it.
Trump has blatantly committed crimes.
That just turns your piece of paper into a password manager that isn't secured with a password and doesn't require access to your device. I think the best option is an offline password manager on the device, and a hard copy of important passwords saved in a safe deposit box. The hard copy should be safe enough most of the time, and so should the copy on your device unless that device is already compromised or in the hands of attackers in which case, it's game over anyway.

No worries about the cloud that way, and you're free to use whatever means you're most comfortable with to handle updating databases between devices, but it does leave you on the hook for keeping and maintaining regular backups.
Moreover, Google doesn't cite false sources or obfuscate what link you're visiting, or claim a page says something it doesn't.
> As much as I love the semantic web, it is hard for humans to write, update, and maintain.

Of course, ChatGPT can help a human to write the tags to put on the website:

> Me: I have a shop that was the following opening hours: "Our opening hours are: Weekdays 10 until 7. Weekend 10 until 10 (Early closing 9 o'clock Sunday)." I would like to include these opening hours on the website of the shop using meta tags, so that search engines can easily read and parse them.

> ChatGPT 3.5:

<!-- Schema.org markup for opening hours -->
<meta itemprop="openingHours" content="Mo-Fr 10:00-19:00">
<meta itemprop="openingHours" content="Sa 10:00-22:00">
<meta itemprop="openingHours" content="Su 10:00-21:00">

(ChatGPT actually responded with a lot more text and code in the response, but I just quoted the relevant bit.)
>Just increase "19 hours" to "400 hours" execution time, it's possible to increase output as far as you want.

Yeah, sure. Just give up on the thing you wanted to do and instead do something entirely different that is more parallelizable. That'll keep your CPU utilization high, but it won't actually accomplish your goal (presuming you were using software for some purpose other than maximizing CPU utilization).
Who's your VPN provider? Aren't they all of dubious trustworthiness?
I met some of the people from this company at Nordic Game Jam 2023 - lovely people
>I want to meet them at a café, a bar, or a restaurant, casually

You're talking about the sociological concept of the "third place" [0] -- not home and not work, but a hangout elsewhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place
Is that a risk? I don’t know much about warheads but is it realistic that nuclear warheads just detonate along the way? To the point where leaders might worry about it?
Hello, I looked at Kagi and found it too expensive. I'm a paying user for many software I use: vpn, email, git to list a few. And i am willing to pay a reasonable price for a search service. To put it in to perspective, my vpn costs less than $9 a month and I use it for high speed multimedia streaming, video games with no limits on usage. I hope you can come up with more reasonable pricing plans or consider open-sourcing the software. In which case I'll support it as a matter of principle.
Are you a golf fan, by chance?
Google making baffling decisions is hardly news these days. The main decision driver at Google is whether that resource/product improves ad revenue. I have a hard time seeing how Google Cloud would drive ad revenue, which likely means leadership at Google doesn't either.

I just wish Google's leadership would stop starting projects (and hiring smart people to develop those projects) when they know the projects will not drive their goal of more ad revenue.
Do some research into compound pharmacies as a worst picture backup. I know several people on them successfully. Peptides can't be patented. Semaglutide is a peptide. They are patenting the delivery mechanism AFAICT. As to sides, ramp up slowly. Maybe you won't have any. Also, there are new drugs coming that are even better. I'm sure the shortages and whatnot will be sorted out. The solution is out there. They can't stop this train.
I was surprised by how poor the app was. Having used it as an individual on someone else's plan, it was fairly decent. Using it as an account owner? Different story!
> Web of Trust failed because it lacked motivating reasons to use it, and had a very weird idea about how trust is represented (i.e. the idea of partial trust keys meaning... What exactly?)

This is true, but it's also just one among several reasons that the PGP WoT failed. Some are purely implementation and design failures that wouldn't imply to a better scheme than PGP, but others are still intractable in the general case (like timely revocations and "strong set" maintenance).

> Because ultimately we're operating a web of trust system now on the internet, it's just informally specified.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by this? The trust scheme that the modern web is built on is a well-specified hierarchical PKI, i.e. the exact opposite of a web of trust. But it's possible I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
> I'm 5'11.

> In my early 30s, I was a 31 waist, 170lb, benched a full set of 400lb, ran cross country, and had 6% body fat.

> In my late 30s, I was a 34 waist with high blood pressure.

> I made the change in my diet, and a few years later, I'm a 31 waist, 170lb, normal blood pressure, and 10% bodyfat.

Your enormous transformation was gaining and losing 3 inches on your waist over the course of a decade or so? WOW! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your perspective. That's incredible. Honestly it's amazing to be inspired by someone like you who has been able to manifest such a huge change from exertion of willpower alone. Reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ Let me know what you think about it!

They talk about how if you want success, you need to treat it like the air you breathe, that once you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll finally get there.

Huge respect for your personal transformation, and the insane willpower you channeled to lose 3 inches of your waistline over the course of a few years. Being able to drop one whole pant size is simply incredible.
This is awesome. How do you feed this into home assistant?
Isn't that basically Freenet?
This made me chuckle. Too true. I would only argue that thinking/journalling deeply about fewer ideas is an equally good use of your time as tasting a greater breadth of ideas more shallowly.
My understanding is that he's been anti-MMR since long before COVID and that's a big part of what most people mean when they're concerned that someone is "antivax" - at least those with a memory that goes back more than 5 minutes.
> Still, it does require the attacker to either have root on your machine or physical access to your disk. If the attacker has root on your machine, it's game over anyway.

How does Windows enforce signing these days? If I run "keeppass_compiled_by_attacker.exe" do you get some sort of prompt?

Without it, even with local user access it's kind of "game over"; there's nothing preventing the attacker from replacing the desktop or start menu shortcut to their own wrapper or own version which steals the master password. No modification of system files or special access to memory or whatnot needed.

And even with it, many users will likely just click through the warning.

On Linux and other Unix-like system this is certainly an issue.

Sometimes I think people are a bit too focused on these kind of complex and advanced exploits, while in reality it turns out you often don't need them to do malicious stuff.
Sure. How do you prove that a landlord determined that your last name didn’t match some list and you’ve spent time in Dearborn, MI?
Or perhaps they have been successful primarily because of luck. They were lucky to be selected by IBM for the PC. Once they were riding the PC wave, their position as market leader (by volume, not quality) kept them there.
Hmm do you have a node red template? Never used it so confused how to set this up. Is it voice activated?
What's a bigger shame is that Meetup can't seem to succeed on their own. (I think they were on their Series F when WeWork bought them.)

They are one of the few remaining vestiges of the "old" pre-social media Internet and are successful in getting people together without walled gardens.
Not sure why the original URL wasn't submitted? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/visa-mastercard-fees-1.6848...
It cannot tell the truth, because it does not have the context or understanding of what is true or incorrect.

It is less a liar (who intends to mislead) and instead a fantastic bullshitter who just talks and sounds convincing.
Yeah, the original Pentium released at 60 MHz in 1993, and ten years later there were 3 GHz Pentium 4s. The '90s were pretty nuts.
Worst CEO in tech.
Admitting they're just an ad company would collapse the delusion that drives their share price.
Cool location. Quiet working space (if you have an office). Fast internet. No home distractions.
I believe they have a video on the site where they explain the reasoning and use.

This approach allowed me to remove all font size-related breakpoints from all my projects while achieving better visual results. Very grateful to its creators.