skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of inefficiency was that Apollo could say money and make the costs less than they would be by doing less requests. If someone is saying X is too much it's a valid rebuttal it wouldn't be X but Y if you made a few changes.

I don't think Reddit cares about the number of requests. They just want paid. They weren't caring before when it was free.
> These are numbers, not opinions.

> Say, 4x more active. So the $0.12/month revenue estimate is like (for example) $0.50 per Apollo user.

Numbers can very much be an opinion if you pull them out of thin air.
> You can clone your system to any machine, and immediately have an identical environment

It's arguably the killer feature of NixOS, if stability and purity means nothing to you.

A few weeks ago I bought a little SBC (Quartz64) for my homemade NAS project. Since I'm already a NixOS user, the bootstrap process was easy:

- Build ARM image for NixOS and boot off the device

- Clone my dotfiles and symlink my config folder into /etc/nixos

- Rebuild my system

And boom. Everything is there, my shell and coreutils and things I've come to expect all get rolled into the system. Updating it just means git pull and a system rebuild. As you say - it's not for the impatient. You have to maintain your config pretty regularly, and covering multiple devices across multiple architectures requires some deliberate config organization.

I'm not sure where I fall on the patience spectrum, but NixOS worked out pretty great for me. It's on my desktop, laptop and homeserver, and I haven't had a single bad update in my 8 months of daily driving it.
I don't know why Cory lumped Steam in with the rest. I found Steam to be awesome at the launch of HL2 -- they seemed to have covered all the concerns that I had about a digital game delivery service -- and I don't perceive they have deviated from that mission since.
There is no allegation that the content was shared by anyone other than the single user of ChatGPT that created the initial prompt. That user was a journalist.

There is no information about what the journalist did with the information, but if I had to guess, the journalist recognized that it was nonsense and either him or a colleague contacted Walters because they thought it could make for a a good ChatGPT story.

Legally speaking, it is not obvious that this is relevent. Defamation does not require widespread publication. A libelous statement to a single person is enough. Further, defamation pe se does not require proving damages; and a false claim that someone committed a crime qualifies as defamation per se.
> Thousands of articles that only barely scratch the surface on the topic.

Same as the Web. My experience has been that more often than not I hit "buy/pirate a book" surprisingly quickly when I start to dig past what's on Wikipedia, which is often not that much. Usually something from a university press.
Platform Accountability and Transparency Act Reintroduced in Senate
Shameless plug for Scala programmers who are marooned in Python land and grasping for something to help dig them out: https://github.com/miiohio/ziopy
I dislike the emphasis on the "US citizen" part. Would it have been any better if they had done it to us Canadian citizens instead? Or to any other nationality?

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/u-s-secretly-tested-car...
There's a lot of use cases, and the irregular development of the different technologies has lead to ebb and flow between different methods. But it's not going in a circle. If you track specific use cases, you'll see them moving a lot less.
Apple has always had a healthy marketing budget. I don't see this was weird
The state of tech reporting is at a level where I'm not really sure one can give it any trust for the headline story, let alone any secondary information they include.

In this article we see "Arm custom-made the M1 and M2 chips for Apple." That's false, Apple designed their own chip using the ARM reference designs.

And yesterday(1) on a Venture Beat article about the M2 in Apple's Keynote:
"The chip will go into the Mac Studio product, which previously used Intel silicon."

Neither of these quotes are factual. Apple designed the M-series chips, and the Mac Studio has never existed with an intel inside.

(1)https://venturebeat.com/games/apple-unveils-m2-ultra-process...
I don't use Copilot but sometimes I ask ChatGPT to write some small algorithmic function. I describe the inputs and what it should do as I would do with you and most of the times it works. It saves me the time to check the reference. I keep working on the code calling that function while it's generating. When it doesn't do the right thing I attempt to explain me better. If I get a feeling that it's hallucinationg, I give up and write it myself.
>> $10/month when translated to most places in Asia would be significant enough to keep this out of the reach of most young programmers.

I find this hard to believe. I know that $10 / month (for anything) is prohibitive for some people in some regions but hard to believe that if you already have a computer, internet connection and a cell phone, that an incremental $10 / month would break the bank.
Slowly boiling the frog... It's getting close to deadly temps now though
In this scenario, "no one can" is the uncaring corporation who has chosen a path to ruin any good will with the community.

The content people have created for free on reddit is literally the only form of leverage they have aside from actually going to the site.

Sure some lost soul could use that tidbit of info, but they'll only have Reddit to blame.
On the Gullibility of Language Models
I would argue Nurgle is chaotic neutral.
Everyone who uses Clojure, and even people who don't, but know Lisp, understand the point: since parentheses are used in Lisp to delineate everything, it makes sense to use a different pair of symbols to make parameter lists stand out more.

Maybe saying it's "completely pointless. It literally serves no purpose" is a bit overly dramatic, don't you think?

You could have limited yourself to saying you don't personally like it because it breaks with tradition.
This is a contender for worst answer: https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_...

> We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive. Unlike some of the 3P apps, we are not profitable.
The thing is, debts are just numbers on paper at the end of the day. You can erase them, but the infrastructure will remain.

Erasing debts wipes out (most) savings and hurts rich people. So it's not something that can be done lightly, but it is an option.

Also, Chinese HSR ridership is back up after COVID restrictions were lifted.
> Even worse, occasionally I will accept a suggestion and only later notice a subtle mistake.

This is what hits me hard, as when I write it myself these things are more clear.

> I see people on Twitter and Hacker News talking about how much their productivity is being boosted by Copilot and ChatGPT…

I use ChatGPT quite a lot, but not really for coding. It does increase my productivity, but only because it better acts as a fuzzy search/query machine than Google. Often I use the two together (which leads to using Bard). I can remember the concept, but not the name, so GPT/Bard tells me the name, and then I can google from there. With this type of searching the hallucinations are not a big issue as they are only minor interruptions and are far outweighed just by the amount of searching I'd need to do to even find the thing I need in the first place. I should mention that I'm a researcher so I'm often looking for new tools, ways things have been done before, and frequently probing for things that are just outside my area of knowledge. But I should also say that I won't trust them to teach me a concept because when I've tested it on things I know, there are serious mistakes. Realistically the accuracy depends on how common/frequent the information is. If it is something that many people write about in a general field, it'll be accurate. If it is a topic, even popular, of a niche subfield, good luck.
Blaming ChatGPT for making stuff up is like blaming sex dice after you followed their instructions to "spank" + "hair".
Super Mega Baseball 4 is a towering monument to the joy of the sport
The government has been silent on this so far, but I suspect the underlying story could be described as 'Byzantine'.
Either that, or it's disproportionately more appealing to people who are actually inclined to migrate. There is actually some reason to believe this is true, though I uh, wouldn't necessarily bet on it.
They would likely have to severely restrict the range of supported types, for example `window` is likely impossible to compile meaningfully.
I don't think it's too bad, I see like one loli server but everything else looks reasonable.
Opening up the "case" requires disconnecting the "computer" from "power". Since we haven't figured how to get "the power" going again once it's off this analogy is kind of worthless.
Check out Konstantin Kisin's a Love Letter To The West, for a perspective from someone who grew up under Socialism.
I'm sorry, I was under the impression that you at least had a basic understanding of cryptocurrencies and the drivers of transaction volume.

If you don't even understand that speculation can (and does) occur outside of on-exchange transactions, then I don't think this conversation is worth continuing.

I now understand that you probably weren't lying, you were just clueless about what you were talking about and actually thought that exchange volume is the only place where speculation occurs lmao.

In case it still isn't clear to you: on-exchange activity != total speculative activity. It isn't an upper threshold on total speculative activity. It has no concrete relationship with total speculative activity. Both on-exchange and off-exchange transactions can be speculative, or non-speculative. The metric you provided is not "exactly the data I asked for", it's a complete non-sequitur that betrays your ignorance on the underlying topic.

> That doesn't sound too different from all modern investing.

This is a valid comparison, you're on the right track here! Crypto ownership is very similar to modern investing, in that it's a speculative asset class, and not primarily being used for its function as a currency.
Well, good, I hate what he did for both Star Trek and Star Wars, and his story telling style to me epitomizes everything wrong with Hollywood. Glib, shallow characters with no depth that I don't care about, and routine plot shortcuts.

But, again, Lucas was hardly a masterful writer, too. The prequels were pretty awful, IMHO, and of the original 3 I only really like "Empire Strikes Back"
How would you suggest seasoning and maintaining cast iron?
latency and refresh rate are different.
I think on the contrary Russians alone don't get hacked by Russians.

Russians get hacked by the Terman lab. NSA...CIA...NRLO i think...yeah those guys.
Without really supporting or elaborating on your thesis here, this comment it basically content-free.
If you care about performance, those are both insane ways to count newlines. Try a loop of indexOf() and watch it absolutely spank the splitting method. That was the first thing that popped into my head, and in testing it appears to be 5x the speed of splitting (and 0x the memory consumption).
Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?
The current events of Reddit and Stack Exchange amplifying a thought that communities and users' contributions should be decentralized. The current structure of online communication poses a major risk.

1. There has to be a movement at both protocol and community-level to bring a Usenet like forum for general consumption. Different decetralized subgroups hosting and replicating the communities for others.

2. The model needs to be rethought to ensure that the thoughts and knowledge of communities and users belong to them.

3. These forums should encourage less anonymity and more persistent communication.

4. Trustworthy individuals should run these forums, chosen by the community. Individual groups, academia, organizations running the communities but easily redistributed across to people who want it. This was usenet.

Failure to address these issues allows mega companies to exploit data and control access against users' wishes.

Taking action is crucial to prevent unfavorable outcomes and hold ourselves accountable.
How useful are your skills when people with less skills are creating at a higher value and velocity with arguably better code, more testing, etc... I think that's where we're going to get to. Young minds will geek out on AI, and they won't nearly be as good in terms of knowledge, but they'll produce at a rate that justifies the means.

I think combining or crafting your offboard brain/prompts at this point is par for the course, or maybe even a no brainer. Take your knowledge, and things you don't like or don't pique your interest, give it to the robots. That's what I've been doing so I can focus more on the critical path. I don't trust any of these robots, but not everything they produce is bad, some of it is actually pretty good.

I see this mentality a lot, and I don't understand it, but people seem to take satisfaction from doing things the hardest way. While I can appreciate the feeling of accomplishment, and being able to overcome an obstacle while learning, if there is a solution that takes less time to build and create while providing the same outcome, that tool is going to have a home in my tool chest.
I’m not sure what you mean? I think that pretty clearly refers to commerce between states. How are you interpreting it differently? They just really casually and implicitly gave the feds the power to regulate all interpersonal transactions within each state? I think they would have said that explicitly if they meant it, no?
It should be added that not even the French think nuclear will power the world. If they did, they would not have mothballed their fast reactor program (breeders being necessary for a world that gets most of its energy from nuclear.)
How is this different from virtual desktops?
Europe Enters Recession
In the future there will be a $200 trillion dollar lawsuit against tire manufacturers and brake disc manufacturers once people learn about those
I don't think Scanpan is PFA free: https://www.scanpan.com/chemical-components.
> less than $1.00 per user / month for a typical Reddit third-party app

This types of generalization irks me everytime. "typical user send 20 emails every month, surely if you want to send more than 20 emails you will happily pay for it".
In Sweden you can just buy all that data legally because it's all public information.
Even if AlphaZero does play better chess, there's absolutely zero it can do in terms of explaining why it played that way.
AlphaZero is zero in terms of explainability.
Humans have to explain to themselves and to others what they do, this is key in understanding what's happening, in communicating what's happening, in human decision-making, in deciding between what works and what doesn't and how well or how bad it works.

Returning back to the original DeepMind press release, it's misinforming the public about the alleged progress, in fact no fundamental progress was made, DeepMind did not come up with an entirely new sorting algorithm, the improvement was marginal at best.

I maintain my opinion that Alphadev does not understand any of the existing sorting algorithms at all.

Even if AI comes up with a marginal improvement to something, it's incapable of explaining what it has done. Humans (unless they're a politician or a dictator) always have to explain their decisions, how they got there, they have to argue their decisions and their thought-process.
> No one would start company if they could lose all their assets not just ones invested in company.

Companies operated before the concept of Limited liability was even invented.

We have records of successfull companies from year 578, like Kongō Gumi, in Japan.
Article: Indictment Against Trump Is Unsealed

ref: https://archive.is/lresk or https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/09/us/trump-indictment-...
A lot of industry solutions will require more than simple prompt engineering or running the QuickStart from a tutorial. Understanding and grasping the fundamentals of these models will be a huge asset, and CS degrees could definitely help with that
Butter also adds awesome taste to them :)
Those of you months into a layoff, how are you surviving?
I'm curious, those of you that have been laid off this year/late last year, and still haven't found employment, how are you surviving? (mentally, financially, etc) This is entirely new territory for me and my skillset is nowhere near as robust or varied as a lot of others that have been laid off the past 2 quarters.

I'm getting worn out. I'm going into day 79 of unemployment. Hundreds of applications, zero interviews.

Was laid off on my birthday, few weeks later my mother was diagnosed with cancer and given less than 3 years with treatment and less than 1 without, few days later my mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer after almost 2 weeks in the hospital, this past Monday $1300 something dollar plumbing repair in the wall, $500 to a lawyer last week to get my mother a will (retired via disability, minimal possessions), it's been a rough year.

I estimate I'm a month or two from ending up at Walmart or McDonalds just to get more money coming in as my wife's teacher salary and the gig work I've been doing only goes so far.
It does subsume a corpus of factual information. I use it as a search tool for topics and relationships that traditional search engines can't handle. You just have to know that whatever it outputs isn't trustworthy and needs to be verified.
I've been programming for a living since the 90s. So many programming languages over the years.

Recently started doing this in a for me new (but old) language: Python. Copilot is incredibly helpful in learning the ideosyncracies of it and its libraries. And the suggestions do actually keep getting better and better. Been using it for about 3 months now.

At least for Python I deeply recommend it. It accellerates the learning of a new language.
Isn't this the same CEO guy that edited random users' posts? He's no stranger to shady behavior.
https://youtube.com/shorts/vf_sr2O_Uzc
You can also argue that we can see them because they are stronger and are evolutionary important.
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And as a third point between these two, a close friend is finishing a postgraduate degree at Oxford and would agree with “The professors were checked out, the classes were bad, and I felt isolated and alienated” but still feels as though it was worthwhile.
I have a 2020 Razer Blade. My only complaint is that the touchpad is garbage. If I move my finger too quickly it stops working. Doing a drag and drop with one finger doesn't work, I need to click/hold with one finger and do the dragging motion with a different finger. And I get so many false touches or palm touches even with the touch threshold as high as it goes.

Aside from that I love the machine. Metal construction, great screen, user-swappable RAM and SSD. 2 SSD's. But I always need to use an external mouse with it.

Oh and the battery life is also terrible. I've tried everything to completely disable the dedicated GPU while on battery, but things like Windows Search will use the nvidia graphics and not the Intel. So I get about 3 hours of battery with light usage.
> why play Morrowind when you can hop into Diablo 4

10 years from now, Diablo 4 will be dead and you'll still be able to play Morrowind :)
Read these books:

1) "When I Say No I Feel Guilty"

2) "Don't Reply All"
This is a great refresher on how the usenet forums were organized including the top 8 groups, and then winnowing down to specific ones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Haha, yep, an iterator would definitely be faster than either!

I'm coming from Kotlin where I expect there to be a standard library function for simple tasks like this, but I clearly need to get back in the habit of writing loops by hand.
Saw this article on wednesday and bought the Xreal Air glasses on a whim to try it out. My take: it was close, but not crisp enough for all-day usage writing text. Returning them. If I were only interested in content consumption (video, especially) I would have kept them. Everyone who tried them in my house thought they were very nice.
or write comments and co-pilot will act like gpt
To be fair he only released it after Reddit started to effectively slander him about what had been said.
Don't change the sequence of events around. He released it only after they completely misrepresented what transpired in that call.
Unpopular opinion: Those who expected anything else are probably not familiar with Reddit. Nobody quit and nothing changed when Victoria got fired, nobody will quit and nothing will change now. It won't be the first time a modteam will be installed in a popular sub. People just want to scroll.
Can you not do a GDPR request for all your data? (Or the California equivalent)?
There won't be many redditors fleeing. The vast majority don't care about this. They just log into Reddit's website, or their official mobile app, look at cat pics, and continue on with their day.

I'm guessing the money Reddit will make from monetizing their API will much more than outweigh the losses.
OpenMW is in active development, but for some reason there are no longer release announcements on the webpage/GH. The newest version is 0.49 (the one you mentioned from 2021 was 0.47).
I believe the point is that it’s being done on US soil, which infringes on the rights of US citizens.
You could try https://beam.cloud (disclaimer, I’m the co-founder)

You can run popular models on remote GPUs from your laptop with two commands. For example:

$ beam create-app stable-diffusion-gpu

$ beam start app.py
I'm not that surprised, a handful or even a couple of passionate skilled developers can out-produce a 40-team of mediocre architecture astronauts with offshore contractors any day of the week.

I have no clue if that's what's going on, but I've seen it many many times
So the idea is that in case leadership wants to 'carve out a kingdom' that is not in line with community wishes, the community could take the data dump and create a clone of sorts? Then now the last snapshot for doing so would be the last data drop from March?
>Marvel works because of the endless nerd wrangling in the comics world imposing narrative discipline and critical standards. Plus the crappy stories don't make it to the big screen. Star Wars just doesn't have that: it's a cathedral and there's no bishop, vs. the much more bazaar and bizarre comic book processes.

Good point.

For non-comic book readers, Marvel has published dozens of issues of various titles *every single month* since 1961. Those stories (plus selected issues from the late 1930s to 1961) are the gigantic mine of ideas that the MCU draws upon. Not all the stories are good, of course, but there have been six decades for public sentiment to manifest and identify the best/coolest/funniest/most touching moments, characters, and—well—memeable points. The memorable way a villain redeems himself at the end of the third Thor film? That's straight out of the comics.

Star Wars had a corpus of its own to draw upon, the Expanded Universe of novels/TV shows/comics/toys/etc. Zahn's Thrawn novel trilogy basically saved the franchise in the early 1990s, after the first set of movies ended with nothing else in sight. I've not read them, but fans have gushed over them ever since and I presume that they could have made a good set of post-RoTJ films. Disney explicitly disavowed the Expanded Universe after acquiring Lucasfilm, but recently published another Thrawn trilogy to bring the super-popular villain into mainstream continuity. But instead of anything like that, we got the sequel trilogy, with the dubious accomplishment of turning the $2 billion box office of the first film into $1 billion for the third.
Demystifying the True Expenses of Building a Digital Product
This AMA is going as well as predicted.