skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody wins except the monopolist, and monopolies are already bad, so why help them?

You are obviously entitled to the opinion that monopolies are bad but, fwiw, the ftc is a lot more concerned with anti-competitive behavior than it is with monopolies. Those get conflated because they frequently occur together but a lot of companies have monopolies that most people don't really have an issue with because they aren't anti-competitive.

Sometimes a monopoly is a monopoly because they are better than everyone else.
I see what you did there gpt-"2". at least you don't dislike enough to downvote.

not sure what's not understandable. I think parent is overly hyperbolic. i get that chat GPT is unprecedented, but come on "impossible to conceive of near-term reality" ???

edit: oh! you're the parent. yeah i think you're wildly hyperbolic. There's more drastic historical precedents but of course the future is by definition going to be inevitably more inconceivable over a long enough arc, so I don't think of this as a debate. I just think you're being overly dramatic for effect.
It looks like they did say it was still beta and warned there could be issues though. I'll give them credit for that much.
That's interesting! I didn't expect some demographics of Twitter to transition to a photo-centric social network like Instagram. I guess watching baseball is a hobby that happens outside and is suitable for snaps.

Are your friends mostly posting photos of baseball matches?
https://bookwyrm.social is very easy to use (but unfortunately it's proprietary software).
Explain how that is related.
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: open for remote/hybrid/on-site

Willing to relocate: yes, preferably to bay area, CA

Technologies: Embedded C, freeRTOS, Python, iso26262, Battery Management Systems, CAN, linux

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IxZ2vJm_jWs4K50BqyKh63JsS-j...

Email: aniket.dhere [AT] gmail.com
I would love something like this, if it could act as a Chromecast receiver. The protocol has been reverse engineered enough to make an open source client. I wonder if there's some technical reason that makes it difficult to make a server. I'd be surprised if the reason was just that no one has been interested enough to do it.
Is the TV wall mounted? I‘d be interested how this could be done in an ergonomic way (eyes in line with top of the screen).
Location: Santa Clara, CA
Remote: Yes, potentially open to hybrid in the south bay area
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, AWS, SQL, GraphQL, others less recently on résumé
Résumé: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TCXM9voQU2Xk7wu6cxkFaxehAkgSNVmKxrGkqamzumE/edit?usp=sharing
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-freidin/
Email: daviddjf at gmail.com

Backend engineer, most recently worked on the data backend (database and api) for https://apertureplatform.com/ , 4.5 years software development experience, with previous experience and degree in computer hardware engineering. I'm open and interested in learning (or re-learning) languages and technologies that I may not have used recently, and would prefer working either in a team with established practices, or with an experienced team leader with a solid plan to implement them (i.e. not as a first or lead engineer myself).
I thought so too. But then did a quick search on Shodan and found these:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=bitwarden

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=vaultwarden
The return to office desperation continues
Only if it updates during the restart and loses half the cutlery in the process, while subtley reordering the rest.
"Is a matte screen the better option compared to the 8K monitor’s glossy finish? <...>

Surprisingly, I found that I don’t like the matte screen better!

It’s hard to describe, but somehow the picture seems more “dull”, or less bright (independent of the actual brightness of the monitor), or more toned down. The colors don’t pop as much."

A useful post. Whilst I've not yet had the luxury of owning a 6k or 8k monitor his comment about matte and glossy screens is very useful (also I'm more likely to trust his opinion than many others because his discerning experience is backed by the fact that he's actually using an 8k monitor—and that takes money and commitment).

Over the years I've made many comparisons between matte and glossy screens and I have to agree with him for the same reasons. Despite being more susceptible to reflections, glossy screens always seem brighter and somehow sharper than matte ones of the same resolution and brightness. I've never investigated the reason in depth but I suspect the matte finish disperses the light from the screen and the net visual effect is a 'rounding' of transients resulting in lower contrast somewhat like offset printing which never looks as sharp as letterpress (where the ink dries thicker and looks blacker at the edges of the imprinting, this increases visual contrast even though the resolution may not be much different).
OpenAI disables ChatGPT browsing capability until they fix it
Strange. The site looks to be down and it’s not archived.

“https://play.google.com/store/apps/details/id=com.wamble” has a few screenshots from 2022
Please excuse the silly question: Would proper directory and file ownerships not prevent this traversal?

If nginx does not run as root, how can it read other files than the ones explicitly assigned to the nginx user?
GMail's invite system worked because you could use GMail to talk to your non-GMail friends. G+ failed for many reasons, but one of them is that if you got in before all your friends there was just nothing you could actually do there.
The Far Cry Source Code Has Leaked Online After 19 Years
Did you run that through a GPT? What the hell is a Gronkelstoot, what is a Knoetel, and don't you need to drop the -e in "Gezellige Kletsen"?!

Something fishy going on here ;)
OpenAI temporarily disables the Browse with Bing beta feature
I see a lot of conspiracy theories like this one but zero explanation of motive.

WHY would Musk act as a stooge for the Saudis in this way, at a cost of $44 billion? He's the richest man in the world, he doesn't have to do errands for anyone.

"Parag hurt his feelings, so he impulsively and vengefully made a buyout offer. He almost immediately came to his senses, and unsuccessfully tried for months to wiggle out of the deal" fits the fact pattern. Once he realized he actually had to try and run the thing, he failed. It's a lot simpler than the Saudi thing.
You know that's Amazon too, right?
Even six channels of cd quality audio are 48,000 samples/sec * 16 bits/sample * 6 channels or 4,608,000 bits/sec, or ~0.15% of a hypothetical 3Gbps PHY. I didn't bring up audio because it's essentially a rounding error in terms of the bandwidth concerns.
Nobody cared, in this case, until the git.centos.org sources were gone.
Ending 3rd party API Struggles: On optimizing consumption and usage
I am doing something similar with online courses but digitally (so maybe it is not as effective as what you described). As each section of the video finishes, I write a summary in an Obsidian notebook. So everytime I resume the course, I use those notes as recap before I continue (also an opportunity to add additional thoughts or insights to the notes). Do it often times and you basically have ingested the summary of the course. If you have forgotten the details after an year, you just need to re-read the notes.

The biggest advantage I see in this approach is that it works with multiple mediums and provides sufficient space, flexibility of formatting and ability to search.

Of course, feeling of a real book in hand is something else.
Are you using a false dichotomy to ask someone to defend an anti-monopoly stance? Your question doesn't make sense.

Are you arguing that Microsoft didn't make a leaner OS because ... BSD. Are you arguing that BSD isn't lean? They aren't even comparable in what they do, nor their resource requirements.
No one cares about pollution though. We can't even get people to care about physical trash. Idk how you would get people to think about light (or sound)
> They very much killed the golden goose

I suspect that thanks to android phones collecting all of our offline data, and chrome collecting everyone's browsing history, Google no longer needs our web searches to collect the most intimate details of our lives which is why they aren't interested in spending time and money on their search product. In fact, the more useless google search is the more google can make companies pay for ads placed at the top of listings because if those companies don't pay up, their customers may struggle to find their site at all through all the spam.
Xcode autocompletes the closing brackets!
I could believe that they slapped too many ads on it (though I've never seen them?), but I struggle to believe that adding games/chatbot/reservation integration bloated messenger on your end. Isn't that all purely server-side integration that doesn't affect you if you're not using it?
If you want to create a B2B product, I would look for 1-star reviews in G2 and Capterra and see if you can solve these problems yourself.

You could also check what people are complaining about / asking help for in relevant subreddits and see if you can build a product around that.
There can be simple, minimalist aggregation of hacks.
To Nginx? HAProxy. Or Caddy if you're just doing web stuff.
I reckon the kind of questions I’m asking are way more basic than an experienced developer would. GPT-4 is likely way better at answering simpler questions since there is usually far more tutorial content geared towards noobs online than.

I have no delusions that this is making me a good coder, or that I can carry this beyond the prototype stage - I fully intend to find a CTO/co-founder. But for someone going from 0 to 1, this has been a fantastic tool.
That sentence means: "By joining Amazon, GoodReads was not sued to death by Amazon for using book catalog data from Amazon".
Instagram Launch of Twitter Rival ‘Threads’ Expected on Thursday
Yes, that was it!
Ideally I’d like to do contract work with nix and/or rust but I’m open to any opportunities

Location: Poland

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: Not yet

Technologies: Nix(OS), Rust, C, JS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nrabulinski

Email: nikodem@rabulinski.com
just need a "follow who you followed on twitter" feature
I wouldn't call them "niche" interest groups.

Facebook Groups are very popular in the country I live. (Reddit is too American-centric to have ever really caught on.)

I'm in groups on legal stuff (19,000 members), boardgames (16,000 members), family stuff likes activities for kids (9,000 members), roadtrips (5,000 members), camping (9,000 members), food (41,000 members), dog lovers (14,000 members), and a general city group (150,000 members), a group for my neighborhood (22,000 members), a musicians network (3,300 members), pens (montblanc, etc; 8,800 members)

Most those groups are just for my city (i.e. the dog lovers is just for dog lovers in my city).
For one person, at one point in time, sure, even though it'd be a quite complex one. But with an AI used by a thousand companies to replace one team member each, they're replacing a thousand of different "reward functions" with just one across all of them. A huge advantage of humanity is that we have different people, from different cultural and social backgrounds, all with social and personal norms and values that vary over time for each and every person, and telling an AI "imitate a pirate" or "answer without any biases" is not going to replace that.
Remember, this is going to be "it" instead of full-on science-driven "war on Alzheimer's".

It is not that we cannot do more; it looks like the US public & private investment arms decided to avoid maximizing the research bandwidth available, with many life sciences grads not being able to find a research job.

A shame, really, given the inflation happens anyway - except that without spending the other side of this equation on medical R&D you stall the pipeline and rob yourself of your future.

Why is there not enough job openings for life scientists, given the urgency? Real tough question.
Vanilla OS: The Ubuntu-Based Immutable Linux Distribution
Coverage tools only tell you have tests that hit each line, but most serious bugs aren't the "you didn't hit one line", they're the result of specific interactions between multiple paths. e.g. (note this is a super simple and trivial example)

int size = 0;
char *buffer;
if (a) {
buffer = new char[1];
size = 1;
} else if (b) {
buffer = new char[2];
size = 2;
}
...
if (b) {
buffer[1]++;
}
...

Coverage tests will happily show that every line is hit, without tests necessarily hitting the buffer overflow if an and b are both true.
> Why is there a "provide blogspam" mode?

Because blogspam sites all implement Google Adwords for monetisation, meaning Google can now show you 30 ads instead of just 3 at the top of the search result.

Remember, Googles customers are the advertisers and the site-owners implementing Google Adwords, not you.

You're the product being sold.
Lol @ Instagram absorbing Snapchat usecases with just stories
> Using everything as training data is entirely reasonable. Search engines are basically built on this. Regurgitation in very digested, very opinionated, direct citation form is totally reasonable.

Is it though? If I write about something and Google’s AI creates a regurgitation that is actually a misrepresentation of what I originally wrote and attaches my name on it as the source I think I might be pissed.

Search engines are built on data but they also should return 1 to 1 copies, not some modified version of them.
Letterboxd is already owned by a corporation, Letterboxd Ltd.
https://opencorporates.com/companies/nz/3628371
> there is still alcohol being consumed in muslim countries.

Just because it is consumed, does not mean that it is generally accepted or expected. It's recognized as a sin, and is frowned upon.
I'm not sure what electronic components you keep needing that are time sensitive?If you are doing analog/radio stuff, I'll be honest... it's pretty bleak.

Personally I just factor in 10 days for my project and have a board made with pcb assembly. JLC is so friggin cheap it isn't worth it to me to bother with doing stuff on perfboard anymore. Last project I made was a UV lamp for curing resin and it was like 8 days from submitting the order to having a finished board in my hand.

Personally, I have some test/dev setups that I know work, either STM32 based or since the chip shortage a few espresif or rp2040 based boards. If I need to output a clock for example, I can just bitbang it and when I need a more permanent circuit I just spin a board.

I find having about 100x 1/10/100/1k/10k and a bunch of electrolytic, ceramic caps (.1/1uf mostly), along with components for some common circuits (like an ldo and buck/boost). I also have a bunch of cheapo premade buck converters that I can use whenever I need voltage conversion.
For anyone confused by the same name on separate apps, this is the description of the previous Instagram Threads app:

> Threads was introduced in 2019 as a companion app to Instagram shortly after the company shut down its other standalone messaging app, Direct. Instead of focusing solely on the inbox experience, Threads was built as a “camera-first” mobile messager designed to be used for posting status updates and staying in touch with those you designated as your “Close Friends” on Instagram.
It's Musk we're talking about here, so Hanlon's Razor probably applies. Unlike his other companies he doesn't have handlers to mitigate his poor decision-making.
Show HN: Degrees What?
One of my pet peeves is when people specify a temperature in "degrees" when it’s not clear from the context which scale is being used. I always want to ask “degrees what?”

So I made this little conversion tool that uses degrees angle to convert between degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius.

Tip: you can add a number in a query to link directly to a temperature. e.g. https://degreeswhat.com/?100
I agree. I thought I generally prefer matte for office displays. But even since purchasing a Studio Display, matte display just look dull. Also the Studio Display seems to avoid reflections by auto adjusting the brightness when the room is well-lighted.
so one doesn't have to deal w/ WaPo paywall nonsense: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701144801/https://www.washi...
This sounds like it might be a form of retaliation against the Biden Administration’s CHIPS Act. The problem China faces going forward; while this might cause some disruption in the short term, this is not a good long-term strategy, as it will drive up production or rare-earth materials in other parts of the world.

That is already happening here in Australia, where the number of rare-earth miners listing on the ASX stock exchange has gone through the roof, and many of them are making healthy profits.
or you can look at the URL of the google maps embed in devtools then ask chatGPT either to give the location or just the latlong that you can subsequently google :)
Chatgpt got the location wrong just 1/4 times
We found that our product was accidentally very useful and are taking it down while we fix this.
My best friend in high school turned out to be one of the rare people who could taste phenylketones, even in extremely small quantities. We discovered this because our biology teacher had everyone in the class take a test, as part of what he was teaching that day. My friend knew he hated the artificial sweeteners at the time, but that's when we learned why he hated them.

Soon after I met the woman who later became my wife, I was introduced to her family, including her brother and sister, and her cousins. As soon as I found out her cousin Wayne ran the website nocilantro.com, I knew this was going to be a good family to be associated with. I've considered myself a subscriber to nocilantro.com ever since.
Yeah its best to go over something like this is a meeting/zoom or a series of meetings. And most likely not every single line will be gone over, at some point the engineer writing this code is likely pretty senior and shouldn't need that many eyes on their boilerplate, and its the nasty stuff that really needs talking about and focusing on.
> I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either.

First mover advantage and already existing userbase. Its the Windows of Operating Systems. Market domination.
You're right, I'll improve this.
Is effort or is repetition making the difference? Consuming massive amounts of digital content guarantees a shallow exposure to a lot of topics, but “effort” could just mean repeating and manipulating the same topic long enough to make it stick longer than others. For me, decades ago I learned how to mechanically learn hundreds of english words per day by simply writing each word repeatedly on 4 lines of a large notebook. With each writing my mind would mechanically repeat the word, the translation, the spelling. In an hour I could be done and move on to more fun stuff, knowing my mind has effectively retained a bunch of new language. Mental effort = none. Repetition and manipulation of the knowledge counts more than passive consumption, but it doesn’t need to be a lot of effort.
Google Pixel 8 Leak
I am curious why anyone still thinks that exception is superior/better/desirable than a simple typed functions (like Result<T,E> or Option<T>).

> You get processor exceptions when you access a bad pointer, divide by 0, etc. If you don't want the program to instantly terminate, you need to be able to handle those exceptions.

The processor does a lot of other things too, all of these functions can simply be wrapped with the appropriate Result<T,E> and Option<T>. Hell, I'd argue that for a system programming language all mathematical operations should return Result<T, ArithmeticError>.

How is a try/catch better than a pattern match on the exact errors that you care about? inb4 checked exception, which is just an inferior version of algebraic data types.
Just a funny anecdote. There's not always a point.
The US never cared about Democracy, we don't defend it, or support it. The only thing the the US cares about is markets.
Is there a nodejs SQLite driver wrapper than does that hides the one writer concurrency issue for you without having to think about it? I never used SQLite on a server because of it (many times on desktop and other clients), but I do have reasons to do so, especially with them being so easy to snapshot and move around.
I don't know about everyone else, but at this point I'm no longer doing a proper installation of nginx for personal stuff. I always just spin up a docker image... and I'm not checking if it runs as root or not, really.

Probably really screwing things up. Ouch.
I agree that prohibition works when you shift society's look towards it. It is well documented that when intoxicating drinks were prohibited in Islam, everyone poured their stashes down the street basically the moment it was prohibited.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but it's sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. I get that there are large questions out there about things like "browse with bing" but that's why I thought it was supposed to be a limited alpha preview. If OpenAI wants us to build workflows on their stack, they need to really crystalize and figure out what that stack is without changing the underlying stack every 5 minutes. From the constant prompt/jailbreak-defeat tweaks to stuff like this, it really doesn't feel like a stable platform at all.
the_private_method_that_has_to_be_public_that_nobody_should_use()
He's the richest man in the world partially because he's desperate for money. Being bottomlessly greedy is a necessary prerequisite to being a multibillionaire, any normal person would retire before they get there. And although he's one of the wealthiest people in the world, his wealth is dwarfed by that of the Saudi state.
The existence and functionality of iPhone at launch:

> They had AT&T, the iPhone’s wireless carrier, bring in a portable cell tower, so they knew reception would be strong.
>
> Then, with Jobs’s approval, they preprogrammed the phone’s display to always show five bars of signal strength regardless of its true strength.
> The chances of the radio’s crashing during the few minutes that Jobs would use it to make a call were small, but the chances of its crashing at some point during the 90-minute presentation were high. [1]

This mobile data hackn was among many other problems with the product at the announcement of iPhone.

iPhone sold ~1.4 million units in the first year. But arguably, the Vision Pro is easily 10x more complex of a product than iPhone was. It is also a much bigger leap in human computer interaction than a touchscreen.

I think these sales projection numbers seem reasonable for what the tech is, and if anything the system’s stability at demo was way further along than iPhone.

[1] https://archive.is/Bo5f5
YC Startup School puts out some excellent content. I recommend the whole series but in particular "How to Get and Evaluate Startup Ideas" [1] and "How To Talk To Users" [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th8JoIan4dg&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iF1c8w5Lg&list=PLQ-uHSnFig...
I agree that Twitter should pay it's own bills. But the causes for that are obvious from my POV:

* Their add platform is truly terrible. Ask anyone who deals in that area to compare it with Meta or Google's and they will laugh.

* They can't ship new products. Since 2008 they have increased the size of tweets from 140 characters to 280 characters, and that is the biggest change. Look how many things Facebook has tried in the same time. Some failed, but lots succeeded.

Also in the history of bad decisions, surely the decision to kill Vine is right up there? Occasionally people still find an old Vine video and share it. What could have been...
What is a "Chinese Customer"?
React & LLAMA are their best products, ironically only for developers, not the general population.