skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that the US doesn't have enough of a reputation for disappearing people or putting their business under a heat lamp if they don't willfully comply with police requests that are overbearing. Apple, Google, etc get away with denying a lot of data requests[0]. And despite being put on the stand for 2016 election interference, Jack, Elon, and Mark are doing just fine.

0: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/us.html
Fixing houses, crafts of different sorts, knitting, cooking etc. have always been old peoples game. Computers will be the same. There was a moment in history young people were on top, but in the future if you have trouble with tech your best bet is to find the oldest computer person you know and ask for help.
> Maybe not, but if I sent a text saying ‘I’ve sent you the contract’

That's not what the text here said.

Yes, the same terse response in a different context has a different natural interpretation.
I'd caution against that. I'd read it as someone giving you a thumbs-up.

There's an "OK" emoji, which further disambiguates this.
> Over the past year Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA.... and who fired them? Seriously, who did that?
the name... cmon.
You can cut a hole through a panel van with a standard tool in the firefighter arsenal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_rescue_tool
From the context of a technical founder:

If you have zero experience running a business from an operational standpoint, i.e., incorporation, accounting, taxes, contracts, then an accelerator can offer valuable help so that you can have "one less thing" to worry about.

Apart from that, the most important thing is the terms of the deal they'll make with you. For example and as a general rule of thumb, more than 10% of your company for less than $100k is something you should reconsider, especially if you are in the US.

The reputation of the accelerator is also important. YC, 500, Techstars, AngelPad are all renowned brands. Study their portfolio companies to understand what their investment thesis and success rate are.

In general, my opinion is that getting into an accelerator can be very valuable for first time founders and if the deal they offer is good, and their track record compelling, I would do it.
Very good point...you would think tech folks would be better at identifying relative vs absolute frames of reference, but then the problem space is heavily propagandized and there is only so much time in the day.
Probably. They will have different prices to finetune too.
The Wikipedia article [0] has a detailed discussion of the political elements as well as valid scientific criticisms of his work.

Ironically, what you are arguing is much like the chief scientific error Galileo made: offering a sufficient condition for an occurrence does not prove that this condition caused the event. Him being tried and convicted of heresy doesn’t mean that his trial wasn’t politically motivated. Despots make up charges for political enemies constantly throughout history and heresy was an obvious choice

The Pope had been a fan and political ally of his within the church even before his ascension, and Galileo didn’t just disregard his request for a discussion of geocentric theory but did so in a way that specifically called him an idiot and undermined his authority. The Pope, who was essentially the ruler of central Italy, couldn’t let that public ridicule slide whether or not Galileo intended it (historians think the slights were unintentional). This led to his second trial for heresy for which he was convicted.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair
*by some variants of the english language at least.
ok, that’s interesting. The other libraries don’t diff the dom either (so many different diffs in this world) but compare the chart configuration and use this to determine what’s changed. And when you provide a partial configuration the existing stuff is implicitly left unchanged, so only new data is compared.
There are other potential health upsides too. Regular blood donation has been found to be correlated with healthier blood pressure, and in men it can also prevent you from accumulating too much iron in your body, which can prevent heart problems down the line.
I've been guilty of it myself in the past but I'm increasingly getting to a point, especially for side projects that I intend to make a few dollars off of, where I just want to deploy a compiled-language site to a VM and point a domain at it.
I mean the 'biggest' landslides are so big I'm not sure we'd fully be aware if one was going to happen soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_Mountain_(Wyoming)

>Between 50 and 48 million years ago a sheet of rock about 500 square miles (1,300 square kilometers) in area detached from the plateau south of the Beartooths and slid tens of kilometers to the southeast and south into the Bighorn and Absaroka Basins

Luckily events like this are geologically rare. A bigger risk would be tsunamis from underwater mountain landslides.
Exactly why I haven't drank tap water regularly in decades. I don't trust that disgusting chlorine flavor that no one besides me seems to detect, I don't like conversations around the importance of fluoride in the water (never had a cavity anyway). I drink glass bottles and aluminum cans of mineral water and flavored seltzers and feel that I'm probably better off health wise.
Unless someone can prove there was proprietary code involved (which there wasn't) none of them are under any threat from anyone.
The capability of the latest model will be like a Shepard tone: always increasing, never improving. Meanwhile their internal version will be 100x better with no filtering.
> In North America, the Genesis was actually more popular than the SNES until near the tail end of the 16-bit era

I've heard this but IME "everyone" had an SNES while only a few people had a Sega Genesis -- and many of them also had an SNES. Maybe it was just folks I knew, but I went to college in a different state and SNES was much more popular among them.

So I know what I've read but it's so far off from my (pretty broad) experience that I wonder if the stats are misleading.

> The late arrival of the N64 did little to hurt the Playstation, so you can't pin Sega's failure on Nintendo's delays.

I think Sega got caught in the middle between Sony and Nintendo (they're completely different markets now) and many folks who would have bought a Saturn instead held out for Tomorrow Tomorrow on the N64, which was what I anecdotally saw with the Genesis vs SNES.

> And, as a nit: the Saturn wasn't backwards compatible.

The NA Saturn could play Genesis games. I didn't own one so I couldn't test if it played Master System games.

> The Genesis was, but no one outside of Europe and Brazil cared about the Master System.

I feel personally attacked. ;) I don't remember why I got the Sega Master System over an NES, but it may have been for Phantasy Star.

To the original post, I agree the Sony Playstation hurt Sega significantly, but I think Sega was in trouble before the PS hit the shelves (in part because of the issues w/ the SegaCD and 32x, as you said).
It was a generic statement about a path to get rid of unwanted public discourse. The problem is that paths that exist get taken. Examples of who that happened to already and your opinion of who deserves what are not the point.

Its totalitarian rot, it doesnt stop, its like a moldy fruit.
> you've swallowed a lot of BEV propaganda

Right. That’s my cue to stop.. arguing with people who say stuff like this is always pointless

> a. A fuel cell is 3x the efficiency of a conventional gasoline engine

If you include production efficiency, storage and transportation losses and fuel cell efficiency itself it’s only a bit higher than diesel if not on par.
I feel like it's code generation abilities have also been nerfed. In the past I got almost excellent code from GPT-4, somehow these days I need multiple prompts to get the code I want from GPT-4.
Thanks to you both. I'll look into it.

You can buy a computer that is 1000x more powerful than a droplet for a fraction of the ownership cost, especially if you only get occasional visitors.

I'm excited by the idea of completely decentralized hosting; now we just need decentralized payments - that take USD.
>What an idiotic claim. You're talking about the internet, for crying out loud. It's almost guaranteed somebody has written something like what you're writing before when it comes to requests of this nature.

I wonder if this is as true as we collectively think? ~15% of Google searches are unique†. Informally, folks I know that work on other search engines see even higher percentages, even after decades+ of history.

† https://www.seroundtable.com/15-percent-search-queries-googl...
I heard you can ask for exceptions if they agree that you are special. Some researchers got it.
This is exactly where I learned about Chicago's district cooling.
A lot of folks are talking about using gpt-4 for completion. Wondering what editor and what plugins y'all are using.
I'm pretty sure it was interpreted like that, at least in IE in the XHTML days. Between the end of the XHTML era and the beginning of HTML5 they formalized the distinction between self-closing and non-self-closing tags like <div> and <br/>. I think that was a mistake.
One is tuned for chat. It has that annoying ChatGPT personality. Instruct is a little "lower level" but more powerful. It doesn't have the personality. It just obeys. But it is less structured, there are no messages from user to AI, it is just a single input prompt and a single output completion.
62M followers twitter some of them will sign up a podcast.
https://realclimatetools.com/hurricanes.html?windspeed=64&st...
I know, I know ... ^^'
So the judicial branch is and is not quite the government, and the government has a mnonopoly on speech even though they can't say things, and I'm being uncharitable by finding this argument less than coherent. Got it.
Not in the US, which has long abandoned the pretense of antitrust enforcement, but this is exactly why they haven't launched threads in the EU.
They should be shut down immediately then. Why should companies be allowed to created more destruction than the value they bring to the country?
Accepting and ignoring doesn't lock you into anything.
Why does matter exist? Roundness of electrons may hold clues
But that would also introduce a perverse incentive by giving the government a way to take over companies.

(And yes I do believe that governments and/or individuals with power would abuse this for personal gain)
CEO of the VW warns EV price war will ultimately harm the interests of consumers
I felt the same thing. The first version of GPT-4 I tried was crazy smart. Scary smart. Something happened afterwards…
They didn't mention gpt-4-32k. Does anybody know if it will be generally available in the same timeframe?

There's still no news about the multi-modal gpt-4. I guess the image input is just too expensive to run or it's actually not as great as they hyped it.
Totally agree. Wouldn’t apply to cable tv for the same reason. Turner Broadcasting v fcc, 520 US 180 (1997).
Come on. If a politician argues in favor of universal health care, would it be reasonable for a headline to say "John Doe supports taxpayer-funded medical treatments for child abusers"?
Yes, maybe that's it.
This would be a valid point if it wasn’t for the fact that you can go to China and ride on a high speed train to see for yourself. Failing that, you can watch one of the many vlogs in which people take HSR to get around the country, or just talk to anyone who’s been to China in the past decade.

Chinese HSR does its own marketing. The material benefit to people around the country, particularly in rural areas, cannot be overstated.
Why Google Search Is Bad and What Engine to Use Instead
It seems like it should (imho), but according to current law I doubt it. We haven't really updated that for network effects. Unless they start abusing their monopoly in an anti-competitive way (eg requiring advertisers to not advertise on other social networks, just Meta) I think they're fine legally.
I'm different from a lot of people it sounds like here. I mainly use one big ass note and I want my note app to start as fast as possible to get the idea I have on paper asap so I can forget about it.

Nothing is able to beat the Apple notes experience, even if my main phone is an Android. I still prefer it.

The main thing is, Apple is instant, you open it and type. Joplin takes 3-10 seconds on my phone and doesn't remember what note I was on if not on standby mode.

Also syncing. Often goes wrong. I like one big notes for my main planning & things to remember. Most apps manage multiple fine, but one big one often goes wrong. Had issues trying Google keep and evernote. Havent tried it with joplin yet, will give it a go.
> There is no evidence that fluoride is remotely dangerous in reasonable quantities, only in ridiculous quantities that are impossible to reach under normal circumstances.

This is the internet and you could be a Phd whose researched flouride your entire life but the internet, and some very respectable sources at that, just straight up disagree with you.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34597567/#:~:text=Excess%20a....

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/fluor...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8
Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari (2019)
> but do you think PHP was a good option, or was it a "fitting a square peg into a round hole" situation?

Facebook was founded in 2004. Whatever fancy tech you're thinking that would fit the round hole, it didn't exist then. They also never thought it would serve a couple billion of users one day, so they built it in whatever they had and knew at the time.

Same for Instagram and Python (they started with Django).
Most of Instagram is Django.
Goodness gracious how dumb can you be? "If you want to profit off of our news articles you have to pay us some of it!" and then, predictably, these news organizations become irrelevant overnight because nobody can see their news. Now, they want to claim Facebook is blocking news? Do these people hear themselves?

As much as I dislike Meta I'm 100% in agreement with them on this. They're being shaken down for money.
I've said this before elsewhere, but this is precisely the situation where the distinction is important.

There's this disease within the tech community where people can't see the harm of scaling things up using automation. Potentially harmful thing X, previously moderated and slowed by the high cost of labor to do it at scale, must not be harmful because we've always technically allowed it, so therefore we should not do anything to moderate it now that robots are doing it for us. "We could run this nuclear reaction at a much faster rate if we just removed the moderator, what could go wrong?"
No, not at all? It sounds like you have an implicit bias that "broader-scope" is "better". And/or "can wield more power" is "better". But those aren't better, only a role you might want for yourself, if what you want is to operate at a more abstract level or have power over people.
The article is informative, even eye opening, but to be honest, I get wary of the iconoclastic affect that surrounds it. Truth is, I am attached to certain food traditions and would like to see them continued properly. I know culture evolves, but if anything, I want to look back, not forward, and see what past things we have been missing out on.
No, that's precisely what the debate is about.

Governments spreading information or halting disinformation exists on a spectrum. This is precisely about where it exists on the spectrum and about balancing rights against harms.
UK's proposed law will turn Britain into a 'test lab' for data harvesting
"But Instagram is looking into changing that."
I know it won't happen overnight, but since it's already possible to do software rasterization for small triangles faster than hardware, having a graphics API framework starts losing its purpose. After all, we want to have the detail of small triangles anyway. Just let us draw to the screen in CUDA without the need for OpenGL/Vulkan interop, and I believe we'll soon see a shift to serious compute-based real-time rendering.

Basically, instead of graphics being a framework, I want graphics to be a straightforward library you include and use in your CUDA/HIP/SYCL/OpenCL code.
Data Scraping:Are Language Models Overstepping by Training on Everyone's Content
Elon Musk doesn't understand geometry
No official mechanism yet besides an rss feed [0], but email me! Just let me know you're from HN and I'll put you on a mailing list.

abner at terminal dot click

[0] https://terminal.click/index.xml
I'm interested in the cost of gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct. I've got a basic website using text-davinci-003 that I would like to launch but can't because text-davinci-003 is too expensive. I've tried using just gpt-3.5-turbo but it won't work because I'm expecting a formatted JSON to be returned and I can just never get consistency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36618650
> "To get a decent view of their behavior, Zwierlein and his colleagues study the particles as a very dilute gas of about 1,000 atoms, that they place under ultracold, nanokelvin conditions that slow the atoms to a crawl. The researchers also contain the gas within an optical lattice, or a grid of laser light that the atoms can hop within, and that the researchers can use as a map to pinpoint the atoms’ precise locations."

This is so cool. It's unbelievable what's possible nowadays
I keep reading “GPT4 got nerfed” but I have been using from day 1, and while it definitely gives bad answers, I cannot say that it was nerfed for sure.

Is there any actual evidences other than some user subjective experiences?
Lol yeah no thanks. This is one of things that makes me nervous about using LLMs. If the internet contains shitty solutions for solving a problem, it’s going to recommend shitty solutions. Inexperienced folks won’t know better.

There’s also the thing where that’s a positive feedback look and we overflow the worlds corpus with garbage.
What's the best current way to make a bunch of documents searchable via LLMs like this?

I've tried the using OpenAI w embeddings (iirc), but this was slow, got expensive quickly, and it struggled to answer questions about the text accurately. Curious if there's better standard approaches now.
What kind of engineers? Anime engineers?
Items from Costco don't work that way because there are a physical item. It has to be produced, can potentially spoil, and can take up a lot of space. Movies on Netflix get removed because of licenses, not because they can't be copied and stored trivially. If you can't see the difference between these then I think we'll have a hard time coming to an agreement here.

Also: it is entirely reasonable if I decided to cancel a Costco membership if they stopped carrying items I want. The same goes for Netflix, but they have less of an excuse from this perspective because as a consumer I don't care about licensing. At all.
> FMV games were something that looked like the future to a little kid but once you played them they were awful.

I still have a certain amount of love for the genre and I'm secretly hoping they make a comeback someday without many of the limitations they had at the time.

Phantasmagoria was a gem if you've never tried it. Night Trap is just awkward to play, and didn't deserve the moral panic, but at least those kids can emulate it now. You'd be better off just watching it on youtube though.
It was because Sony had a ton of mini discs laying around since the format didn't take off. The UMD cartridges are just mini discs internally.
This was intentional to build the platform out on day one and do as much damage to twitter as possible. I'm sure they will break out the platform but every ig user can get a threads account with a few clicks.
“Can open the command line”
I have a gut feeling threads will do well enough. It is a good time to be deploying any new social media with the reddit shenanigans and recent twitter decision making. Many people are looking for a new platform.
Also an extremely happy Zim user for desktop notes, projects & work journal.

Recently I was looking for a self-hosted equivalent to Google Keep (which I use mainly for lists, quick notes and web snippets), and tried out Joplin. It looked pretty good, but I wanted a web app frontend, which Joplin doesn't seem to have. I'm now trying out Memos [1] now, and it's pretty good so far (though I would love to see postgres support in Memos as well as the current sqlite DB).

[1] https://usememos.com/
I'm guessing the multiple instances of

i = 0x5f3759df - ( i >> 1 );

in the results are one of those inverse-square floating point bit tricks.
My question is – what trade secrets does Twitter even have that Meta didn't already have the existing infrastructure for, or competency to build themselves (probably better)?
Y Combinator W23 batch, AI value chain and startup trends
The Pornification of Everything
Yeah if its more then the inflation itself and you are doing it under the guise of inflation it's manipulative. Lots of products jumped 50% in grocery stores here, main argument was gas prices, then gas prices went down, still prices went up. And record profits as well.
The firing is irrelevant. Noncompetes are unenforceable. It would be the exact same outcome if all of them voluntarily decided to leave Twitter and join Meta the same day. You have to prove to a court that these employees had access to some proprietary Twitter IP which they took to Meta and used to build Threads, which is not happening.
If one company unilaterally increase their prices in a stable environment they will probably lose market share to their competitors.

I guess that when prices are rising sharply anyway, it's easier to raise them and it won't be noticed so much. And their competitors probably make the same calculation.

At least, that's what I understand by it.
Run it in the background.

We use it to generate automatic insights from survey data at a weekly cadence for Zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com). This makes getting an instant response unnecessary but still provides a lot of value to our customers.
But these companies are so big now that it would hurt someone's stock, 401k, and economy as a whole.

Sorry for the sarcasm. But these companies have to be hurting themselves in the market by other means before the govt will do anything about it, besides a slap on the wrist.
All Losses Are Not Alike: Real versus Accounting-Driven Reported Losses
Well, it’s remotely similar in that there is absolutely no way either of those things is illegal…
Yeah no thanks. The government is the reason these companies were able to do this in the first place. They lack the ability to simply regulate, let alone run a company.
I usually count the "Earth" as separate from the ecosystem.

And certainly there is going to be a massive reduction in biodiversity, with a lot of the species we value a lot going extinct, but overall the ecosystem will not go kaput.

Humans will have to drastically restructure their land use, for example a lot of Midwestern farmers are going to go broke as they adjust to a new climate. Some cities and states like Florida will be in dire straights with 10 feet of sea level rise, which will be a nearly unimaginable expense to relocate. And then all throughout the world we will have absolutely massive migrations of people, along with draught, crop failures, etc. This will result in wars and massive social disruption. Europe can barely deal with a very small number of refugees as it is. Once a country like India becomes unlivable in large areas, there's little telling how countries will react.