skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same for me. The benefits are obviously not going to be uniformly distributed because intelligence is not uniformly distributed.

If I was more intelligent I would be less impressed with it because I would probably already know what it has taught me. I understand the thermodynamics of that submarine implosion now but if I had taken any kind of physics I would have already known all that. I didn't take physics though. This pretty much extends to all subjects.

I will have to have it teach me to setup docker containers.

The exercise I really need to get on is to try make something in a language that I have no clue about. Like Rust or Go I know nothing other than they are programming languages. Then it is an exercise in the skill of going from zero to not zero with the help of AI and that not zero will hopefully keep scaling up and up over time.
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> All other operating systems implementations have GUI, and Linux doesn't.

You "two other", right? I've used many that didn't have a GUI.

> Seriously though: modern JS ecosystem is not a "language" or a "framework". It's a kernel.

That's not how it's pitched.
Show HN: GreptimeCloud – A Fully Managed Serverless Prometheus Backend
AFAIK it's been like that in CPU space too - e.g. that 6-core CPUs are actually 8-core CPUs with 2 cores deactivated, either because of defects or because they needed more 6-core CPUs?
Spaced Repetition 101
The logic is clear, they implement executive's will. Sometimes not getting sued or not having a bad reputation is what they are after.
I'll take your word for it. My Hispanic partner disagrees, but what does he know?
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who turned humid air into renewable power
It's not really like that? A small plane with one passenger is a concept that you can extrapolate to a bigger, faster plane. Afaik an often-wrong generative AI is _not_ a concept that extrapolates to a never-wrong generative AI: that's just not how it works at a fundamental level.

Although presumably very smart folks are working on it.
For the same reason they went with microservices - its easier to service the technical boundaries you control, and is a political solution rather than a technical one.

Getting something based a DBA in change control was hard, but shipping some IaC templates can be done in a sprint!
> he hadn’t even heard of ChatGPT

Practically every mainstream comedy show I hear in the UK mentions chatgpt, it's been constantly in the news over the last 6 months. Every high school child knows how to use it, hell there was a south park episode a couple of months about chatgpt written by chatgpt.

This isn't niche stuff.
How is thinking zero covid is possible in 2020 "unscientific"?

Did anyone try and fail at that point? Were there experiments that tried to achieve zero covid, exhausted all practical methods and still failed?

I'd argue that even today, zero covid is not "scientifically" proven practically impossible. The fact that China tried and failed does not mean it's inherently practically impossible. For all I can tell, it's only "practically impossible" because only China was able to pull off the authoritarian measures to suppress the spread of the virus. In a more authoritarian world, we might have been able to eradicate covid. Does your "science" include a deep discourse in political systems?
Yeah, the new Berlin government is a real bummer. They really missed the train in terms of fostering positive change for actual city-dwellers. I think there are reasonable arguments on how to conduct the transition from a car-first to people-first transportation system and how to communicate the process but the conservatives in Germany are really bent on turning back the clock no matter if it makes sense or not.
Dark and light mode are not symmetrical
I deterministically generate all my passwords whenever I need them using a small bash script and a master passphrase.. so 0 stored anywhere, even encrypted.
>Question: Why is RHEL so popular in enterprise environments?

The answer is not CentOS. It's being early to the market, and incumbency. It's that RHEL was (and probably still is) by far the most serious enterprise Linux for a long time. It's popular in enterprise environments because it was popular in enterprises back in the day. Anything to do with CentOS is a functional irrelevancy to most of the big customers.
Don't use AI detectors for anything important
You are right, I apologize. My quick googling gave me the wrong PE for Tesla. The correct PE is about 77. I didn’t notice because during the euphoria phase it was insanely over 1000 so 261 seemed plausible.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/pe-rati...
"Give me a JSON document when the keys are countries in the G20 and the values are their GDP for the year 2020"

With the Wolfram plug-in, this works and provides good data! It stops three short of the goal probably due to rate limiting, but I think you can get the point: https://chat.openai.com/share/9d6695a9-5ba8-44d8-9ec8-11fcba...

This same kind of query works with any reasonable structured data format.
I know what you mean but if we consider that Wikipedia is the only such existing platform of that scope, it still technically is the one with the highest quality :)
Diversity is the new branding, but it's the same old affirmative action programs, with the same arguments for and against.
It really didn't affect their argument.
I'm fine with both, I've seen both trunk-based (with SVN) and branch-based (with Git) models work.

Due to git's 'multiple histories' it's quickly becoming a mess when many people are on the same branch, that's why I prefer to use a branch-model in git where only one person is on a short-lived branch, and a team uses PRs/MRs into a common target branch to create a clean, shared, linear history. This target branch doesn't have to be the main branch, but can itself be a (bigger) feature branch which then is eventually merged into the main branch (key is to not diverge too much from the main branch though, so that merging back doesn't become a hassle).
But nobody is saying that.
Having hiring quotas is far from throwing entire system out the window.
that's the beauty of webauthn!
this login process tied your device to the email address you provided, on passkeys.guru - no access/permission was granted to the website!

the only thing shared with passkeys.guru is the pubic key of your device (which was generated specifically for passkeys.guru and cannot be used to identify you or your device on other websites)

no biometrics or any other PII was shared with passkeys.guru in the process.

technically, you can use any identifier you want with passkeys, even just a dummy username - we chose to use email as it allows pairing with other authentication methods (oauth, magiclink, etc.) that are email based
Good definition brings a lot of value to street photography in my opinion - for the moment right then and there, and for the history it documents.
How America Broke Its War Machine
All my university systems run on Microsoft. All my future employers' systems will probably run on Microsoft. All public transport in my country effectively requires an app which is tied to either Google or Apple operating systems to buy tickets. Schools require students as young as 6 years old to have an iPad or chromebook tied to Google or Apple.

There is no real choice in our modern society to "not give your personal data" to these megacorps.
Lots of companies are expending a lot of effort to ensure they respect GDPR

Non EU companies are the worst offenders at not understanding their privacy obligations (particularly ones that provide tags)
Your comparison is inane. What’s the connection between dei and getting rid of safety nets? Not to mention that dei is not inherently unmeritocratic to begin with
Isn't that almost always the case, and in truth the beauty of automation? Replacing simple, repetitive tasks that, if you have to do that, you say "I wish I had a machine doing this for me"?

Of course, that might impact the number of available jobs and it's something that need to be taken under control.

But, if talking about writers, while AI won't realistically replace imaginative authors and investigative journalists (at least, certainly not in the short term), it will likely replace (some) copy editors and dollar-per-thousand-words "journalists" that have to fill tabloids and free subway "newspapers". While it might be a financial loss for the people involved, the society will hardly sink due to that. In fact, if I feel optimist, in theory it might reduce costs for publishing houses and newspapers, to invest more into quality (human-made) content.
Perhaps you are simply not the target audience any longer ...

I mean, if they can make billions by serving 99% of people, why would they spend billions on making the remaining 1% happy?
The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined were major influences on my young brain. I'm glad I, for some reason, decided to read them.

Over the years I had several chances to meet Doc Searls and David Weinberger and it was a case of it being a good idea to meet your heroes. They were just very nice to an eager young kid.
it's one of the first jobs they will automate
This representation of jagged array is literally the "Compressed Sparse Row" (CSR) format for sparse matrices [1]:

- a single array of floats with all the nonzero matrix entries, ordered row-by-row:

double values[nnz];

- a single array of ints with the corresponding column index:

int columns[nnz];

- a single array of ints, of length (m+1), with the start of each row in the two other arrays (the (m+1)th element stores nnz, which will be useful later):

int start[m + 1];

So to print a whole matrix, you do this:

for (int i = 0; i < m; i++) {
index = start[i]; // where
count = start[i + 1] - start[i]; // number of nonzeros in row i

for (int t = 0; t < count; t++) {
j = columns[index + t];
v = values[index + t];
printf("element (%d, %d) has value %g\n", i, j, v);
}

To a modern programmer, this may look very old-fashioned (Fortran-ish), but I have tried many alternatives (like grouping columns and values together in a struct, or using pointers), and in my numerical codes, nothing gets even close in terms of performance. It must be said that CSR and CSC (its transpose) are very compact in memory, which is often a bottleneck. Also, since so many sparse numerical codes in benchmarks have used this representation for decades, it could be that CPU designers make sure that it works well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_matrix#Compressed_spars...
SUSE Liberty Linux:  secure your Linux future without fear of vendor lock-in.
Yes.

I think we just witnessed something akin to the birth of personal computers which puts us around the ‘60-‘70s. It’ll take a while to (vastly) improve and eventually disseminate into society. I’d say a decade at least.

A lot of the surrounding “infrastructure” is still missing, like in the olden days. Techies are scarce and needed for other things. Energy and thus compute is expensive and society still has some important open questions left to answer about its own stability if it wants to survive this next wave of evolution.
A bit ironic to talk about how ok it is to have police with guns in France given the enormous portests still underway caused by a policeman with a gun...
Ask HN: What is your base template for first time communication with a prospect?
Say you have built a product or about to build a product. And you have identified some prospective customers. Now you want to connect with them, via email, phone or in-person. So what is the base template you use to communicate via various channels like email, phone etc. Of course you will customise it for each prospect, but you will be starting from some base template that will be customised for each.
Can't generalize of course, but in my company there is a "healthy" mix of both bullshit texts and useful texts. And I'm guessing that this is the case in other companies. E.g. we have technical writes who are responsible to writing proper documentation and they are not going anywhere (yet). There is a majority of internal communication and it is mostly technical and on point. And at the same time there are many bullshil letters send to the company. Almost all letters from the C-suit fall there, because they need to pad one sentence (John Doe is appointed as a Director of Directorship) to a full page of A4 text. Most of the letters from HR/LND unless they are about some factual info, like here is a new service and how to use it. Monthly/Quarterly updates are often padded so much that they are unreadable.

I'm guessing that most of the C-suit are already using NNs to write (and read) those kilometers of word salad.
Dynamic Languages Strike Back (2008)
Question answering and summary generation is miles better with modern AI. What came before does not compare in any way, it is just garbage. If the practical use-case is limited to just this it will be a massive win.
Remote Work Is Making Americans Less Productive, Official Data Shows
The Hiring Process (A16Z)
How on earth are you affording the OpenAI API fees?
I mean, a situation in which everyone is happy with diversity efforts would be one in which such efforts would be unnecessary to begin with.
Typically "use case" means not just something a technology can do, but something it's better at than the common alternatives, in some way that matters. Not so with blockchain and financial transactions. Everything it treats like a bug is in fact a valuable, critical feature (i.e. reversibility and tracking). So if grandpa overcomes his tropey Luddite ways and goes from cash to card, he's arrived at the best technology for financial transactions we have, and need go no further.

Crypto's only true significant/impactful use case in finance is money laundering and facilitation of other types of crime.
Yes for now.
But that doesn't mean it isn't mind blowing.
There is always a bubble.
It is just that things moving so fast in the bubble this time, that it seems strange.
There is always some lag before new tech diffuses out to rest of industries and public.
With the context of the parent comment, the way to read my point was:

> of the people outside tech, it was only the people who were into crypto (etc) who are into AI.

I hoped this would be clear, especially given that the next paragraph talks about my thoughts on people in tech. Apologies if it wasn't clear enough.
Maybe there are multiple echo chambers, left, right climate change, ai doom, crypto... we tend to gravitate towards these because we like to get opinions that closely match our current one.
I thought Altavista was the dominant search engine, not Yahoo.
Which points to the tragedy of people confusing libre software with gratis software.
I suspect part of the speedup is avoiding the python included base64 implementation. Third party extensions[1] claim fairly large improvements.

[1] https://github.com/mayeut/pybase64

This particular one also includes b64encode_as_string, which would also reduce some work/copying.
> Dark means hacking. That's why a terminal uses a dark background.

In Hollywood and where by “hacking” you mean displaying a random bit of JavaScript while someone who clearly hasn’t spent much time in dark rooms rattles off some idiocy about quantum cryptography.
Statistics "memes" along the lines of "people from X and Y are Z likely to go on to do A" are probably the most misleading and tiring factoids out there.

All that they are useful for is for whiners to complain that they weren't blessed with being 6ft6 or beautiful or a certain skin colour or whatever else.

In the real world people who actually achieve things just go out and do it. They're not sitting about wondering whether middle management at XYZ prefers working class kids or black supermodels.
It’s not that people don’t want diversity, it’s that the pendulum of inclusiveness has swung to the opposite end; where it can only be recognized as exclusiveness. Diversity of skin color has been achieved for the most part, but now it’s extended to exclusive thought patterns which is not what diversity should be about. Diversity of thought should be embraced but that seems to be the exact opposite of what’s happening in these corporate “diversity” programs and people recognize that as a farce.
TFA: "No one is happy about diversity efforts at work"

Also TFA: "the amount of attention their companies pay to increasing diversity, equity and inclusion at work is ... about right ... 44%"
exactly. everyone can open a bounty in any repo https://algora.io/bounties/new

i'm one of the founders at algora :)
Ah yes, as if Spanish and german americans haven't been influenced or changed by U.S. culture at all.

Ask anyone who was born in the U.S. with an immigrant background if they feel at home in their parents country, chances are they will say no and they will feel like a foreigner there.
By burning a lot of coal and relying on older nuclear and hydro generation. Hopefully their politicians’ reflexive dislike of “green” things doesn’t cause their utilities to ignore the cheapest sources of power: solar and wind.
I'm reasonably sure you don't "embed a shell command in backquotes" all the time in Python (and I don't think this is pedantry; the specific ease of this syntax was the claimed benefit, not just the ability to shell out in some way).

Backticks were an alias of `repr` in Python 2.x:

$ python2.7
Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 13 2018, 12:45:42)
[GCC 4.8.4] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> foo="this is foo"
>>> `foo`
"'this is foo'"

And it went away in 3:

$ python3
Python 3.11.3 (main, Apr 5 2023, 15:52:25) [GCC 12.2.1 20230201] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> `ls`
File "<stdin>", line 1
`ls`
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Don't click. This article was very likely generated by ChatGPT. And there's no use case presented here.
These discussions, including the comments on the OP, are always poisoned by people who can’t imagine any other VCS than git.
> Google will lose results, site by site

The author is overlooking that Google can cut a deal with Twitter and Reddit and everybody else. That's for mutual benefit. It keeps driving traffic to them which is great PR and it keeps Google relevant.
Here is some data from not too long ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/24/a-majorit...
(Agreed)

Those interested might want to look at this as well: https://creativelawcenter.com/dickens-american-copyright
Being of the "highest quality", in this case, is comparative to the landscape we have available. With that said I believe it may be the highest quality open information repository.

And if it's not - then what's better?
Short Ruby News – Edition #49
To be specific: "Americans working full time from home worked 2.5 hours less a day than Americans at the office".

Which is not necessarily productivity, but still quite interesting.
> and everything to do with schema flexibility and a history of outages caused by fucking up schema migrations. These problems weren't occurring in our NoSQL designs, and whatever benefits SQL databases offered didn't counter the huge benefits we gained from NoSQL's lack of rigid schema

Yikes
More than 1.5 cents per search is a lot, they're pricing model really discourages me from making them my default search engine. A $10 unlimited search would be more justifiable. $15 would be stretching it.

If I'm not on a functionally unlimited unlimited plan (rate limiting is fine if it's reasonable) then I have to think about it every time I search. Should I really be searching here or should I be using the search box on stackoverflow or github or Wikipedia? Just introduces some constan cognitive frisson to the experience.
Honestly? It's the tech people who have this weird blinkered view on it. There's a zoomer clique that's mad about it, but beyond that, just watch the NYT OpEd page to see how normies are engaging
My wife's floristry business has been blocked from being able to access facebook advertising and permanently restricted in how she is able to interact with her customers in part because a bot flagged and suspended her for trading in trading exotic animals. The exotic animal she was accused of trading? Aphelandra Squarrosa - The zebra leaf plant.

There's no way of getting this ban reversed, there's no way of invoking any human to perform a manual review on the ban. It is a permanent restriction that impacts her ability to communicate with her customer base.
A change to, say, a non-commercial license would have been very exciting.

But yeah, here, it is just a technical update that may be exciting only to specialized lawyers. But we are on a website where we get excited by some tool we never heard about before being rewritten in Rust, so...
So assuming the context is to prove if wikipedia is "censoring" you, i dont get how this would work. Sure you could store the whole edit on the blockchain, but how do you prove that is the same edit as the one that used to be on wikipedia and is now censored? How would an outside observer be able to tell that the whole edit isn't faked? That instead of wikipedia censoring the edit, what actually happdned was the edit was never submitted to wikipedia at all but made up.
Kepler: The Volume of a Wine Barrel
> Google is dead man walking, unless something very substantial changes.

Beyond search, they are controlling the Android ecosystem. Your predictions may be immature.
> IMO, the only way out is to shrink the product. Split, shard, whatever

Microsoft and OpenAI nailed this in my opinion. The funding deal between the two was genius. OpenAI gets billions of dollars from Microsoft that it then spends on Azure.

Microsoft got priority access to ChatGPT, equity in OpenAI, high-scale testing of Azure, plus some margin on OpenAI's usage for training. At the same time, it _didn't_ get the legal liability of running ChatGPT. Maybe it could eventually be hit for allowing training models with copyright data on its servers, but that feels unlikely.

It got all of the access to cutting edge productized LLMs that it could have wanted, including financial upside, without the bad parts.
This one misses Discord? Elixir drives a lot of the backend as well?
I think it’s possible for Wikipedia to have certain flaws and for Wikipedia to be the highest quality curated human-readable information repository available.
Looking at this from across the ocean this whole thing looks like it could be an onion article.

The society shouldn't be racist. The fact some people still are is not an excuse for rasism in the opposite direction. Those things don't cancel out

When I heard "US's supreme court decides race can't be taken into account for accepting university applicants" I thought good for them. And then comes the "onion" part. A president coming from a party that has been trying to champion equality for decades goes in front of the mic and says the most bizzare thing. That he is opposed to equality, he is for race metrics to remain and he even entertained a thought to undermine the authority of one of the most important bodies in the democratic system by saying " this is not a normal court".

Up until now I lived under a mistaken assumption a constitutional body is legal when it rules in our favor and lacks "the rule of law" when it rules against was a uniquely European thing. It would be funny if it wasn't sad.
I get results for the Bible book when I search for "book of megadrive". Genesis and Megadrive are different names for the same SEGA console. Master System is a different console altogether.

What would you say is the primary issue? Personally I see vectorization and similar fuzzy techniques as the things that have most affected search results in the last <10 years, both positively and negatively. On one hand it allows me to search really dumb queries and still get sort of relevant results, on the other it makes well thought query tuning for more specific results seem futile. I don't know what goes on internally, but it's as if Google just discards as noise most of the words in the search query. "Verbatim" mode seems to tune that down somewhat.