skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's a third it doesn't mean there isn't a fourth. It just means you have an actual argument instead of just calling something a false dichotomy.
An old IBM tech told me that hard drives failed when power cycling equipment could be temporarily resuscitated by placing the drive on the floor, twisting it hard by hand, then as quickly as possible connecting it back into the machine and powering on. Apparently getting the platters to spin helped them get around a worn out motor that couldn't make the initial spin-up.
By that definition of exploitation the factory worker can exploit the factory owner by working slowly or calling in sick or or or or
> We all let it come this far, because of how we treat the services Google provides: As nice free and helpful tools.

This is exactly what we need to change. "Free" services are never really free. You pay for them in the end, anyway, and doubly so. First with your data, then with your money.

The free internet may be nice for some people, but we all pay the advertising tax in the products we buy. It would be much better if we banned this entire freemium pricing model and started paying for things like in the old days. It would solve a lot of problems.
I worry the enshitification of a monopoly like Google, who now has it's hands deep in the workings of things like the web and email, means their supposed mission of "organizing the world's information" has devolved into "putting as many paid middlemen in front of the world's information as possible," or walling parts of that information off completely.

This goes without saying, but we shouldn't let one company be solely responsible for managing the "world's" information. "Organizing" sounds benign, but they've clearly extended past that.

I don't know that you're totally on point about how to break Alphabet up, but you're right that it should be. If information wants to be free, we should also re-examine how to ensure it stays that way in a world where Google isn't it's supposed shepherd.
I hate it, but this is a good move by Musk(if intentional). I learned more about x.ai than I cared to just during my confusion when I typed “ai.com” and this came up. It’s like advertising that’s targeted directly to people that care about AI and because of the initial confusion it caused me to investigate the ad rather than block it out like I do with all other ads.
...these OS/2 machines were once interconnected by a networking technology called 'token ring'.. no joke. It was basically an entire network where if one single node on the network misbehaved it would bring down the entire network - they didn't self recover either! you had to reboot them all. I remember once when I misconfigured a token ring card on a PC and it brought down the mainframe! It shut down the bank for 30 minutes"
Yes - the root problem is lack of international tax treaties. There’s no simple solution, but acknowledging that this is the root cause is a vital step 0 in making any progress.

We’re fortunately at an inflection point where there are some (though not many) governments large enough to challenge mega international companies. Sadly they are somewhat captured by the largest international companies — so it’s hard to see any solution.

Simple example — Australia was trying to participate in the construction of international tax laws. The only companies capable of understanding the existing Byzantine laws were hired as consultants and immediately turned around and marketed their insider knowledge on the topic to their rich clients.

There was nothing remarkable about the story - ie its occurrence was not remarkable. The fact that the media ignored it as a story for 18 months was not remarkable. The slightly remarkable thing is that for a few weeks a small slice of the media reported on it at all.

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2023/jul/26/pwc-scandal...
Those were already there, the trucks ignored them...
The problem with degoogling your phone in the west is that you may hit something that requires a non-rooted, pristine manufacturer provided rom to work.

In my case, my bank won't allow me to do online payments unless I validate the payments through a smartphone app as the 2fa. They do not do texting/sms based 2fa anymore.

The app will refuse to launch on a rooted phone or a custom rom.
To me, this means a degoogled phone is absolutely unusable. I can't do without being able to use my credit card online.

This is in fact the sort of thing that will happen soon to the web if browser attestation becomes a thing. I can already see it coming, my bank rejecting logins from browsers that are not untempered, Google-provided.
Yeah, good point. I think the FAQs need a question on "How to chat with Polly," or something similar which will give examples of the type of prompts you can use, and that you can use your native language to help if you're struggling, like you suggest. Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah! Just send an SMS, then check your telco account and it'll tell you the price /s
I think these stories and aversion to "clever" code end up hurting programmers overall. I wish we spent more time teaching how to choose the correct time and place to be clever instead. Searching for ways to make things better instead of mindlessly copy pasting how it was done by the person before me is how I learned my most valuable skills.
It's also what you get, when you know history and allow it to repeat.
Qdrant vector db v1.4 released with data visualization UI
Qdrant vector database new version v1.4 is out!
Besides several improvements in stability, performance, and developer experience, there are also changes in the web UI, including a new visualization feature for vectorized unstructured data.
What is the draft for military service?

I don't mean in countries where every single person does the same short term, I mean when there is a war and we grab all the fit young men.

It's hardly any different. What really is being defended by all those draftees? Not our lives, just our way of life.

Everyone else agreed that those smaller number of people fed into a meat grinder was worth everyone else's ability to own a car and a house and elect their own mayor.
Its not a mischaracterization, its a projection: if you don't do something that parent commenter believes is important then you are not important.

Moral : before starting new job always ask parent commenter are this new job is important for him?
Nothing like working on crap code that past you wrote.
I got bad news for some of the folks in this thread: just about _everyone_ can be replaced with two junior devs and a Keurig.
Hard to be anything else if the entire job is spinning up a yet another microservice and then spending most of your time debugging in production because shit keeps breaking all the time.
>Devils Advocate ...

"Devil's advocate" statements can be useful as a thought experiment in exploring a topic by generating something new that prompts others to make the counterargument explicit.

There's a lot of articles and comments here flying around in the last few days trying to reify google's idea and explore the boundaries of the implications.

When you raise one of the advertised positives, I don't feel like that's a novel point that prompts exploration of a new angle on the topic.

>Why is it a bad thing for [google's pitch]

/me gestures widely in the direction ongoing conversations and articles over the last few days

If you don't care about everything discussed, you can just say you don't care.
How exactly does taking one of the 3 major cloud providers and selling it to the largest of them help with monopoly/antitrust?

Besides IIRC Google cloud is actually profitable these days. No need to find a buyer.
> Somehow for me using a calculator like that, rather than having to use screen space, or a phone …. Makes my workflow better.

Indeed. I can't explain why, but I feel the same. I wonder about the possible reasons. The tactile response? The focus (the device has a sole purpose)?
I don't think this particular person would have learned the lesson.

> Yes, I had failed to see the proper solution: a class generator — so that I didn't have to manually copy code again. It actually existed back then, I simply didn't know about it, no one told me about it, and I wasn't smart enough to question myself once I started going down a certain path.

I shudder for the next gig where they get to apply ^
I'm not sure how pronounced it was for others, but one of my personal dislikes with IE was that there was no feasible way to uninstall IE, on top of the dreadful choices it made regarding web standards, documentation, and the overall "feel" of it - not to say that Netscape, etc. were much better at the time, but there was that very real sensation of being forced to have a piece of software I did not want installed on an Operating System that I used solely for compatibility reasons.
Vicuña in my experience is by far the best training for llama models [1]. Way way better than alpaca or base llama. Recently I tried the wizard+vicuña uncensored on llama and it was excellent. Can not wait to try that combination on llama2.

my favourite leaderboard is this one as it compares open source and closed source:

https://tatsu-lab.github.io/alpaca_eval/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36975048
I have tried Stable Beluga which was released recently. Even at 7B, the smallest, it does a decent job.
When the benchmarks approach 100% it'll be time to create harder benchmarks. We'll know we're getting close to general intelligence when it's a major challenge for humans to create harder benchmarks.
>> YouTube - streaming content. Probably gets sold to Netflix or AT&T or Comcast.

>This is such a naive and for lack of a better word stupid take

What is the not naive, not stupid, clearly-more-beneficial-than-what-we-have action that should be taken with youtube?
https://tailwindcss.com/
https://twitter.com/adamwathan

The tailwind home page feels tamer now than before, but the tone is still there.

Adam’s replies on twitter have always been a problem. I’m not going to go searching old tweet replies, so you can think I’m talking out of my ass if you want. But the guy is an ass. A lot of the responses to even neutral articles were whining manbabyish stuff (yes that’s subjective opinion). I haven’t seen it lately, so I’m hoping someone had a talk with him.
“Model” is a dangerously overloaded word in 2023, possibly worse than Object in 1996.

When I worked on ML inference I would tease the researchers with the question “what is a model?” in the hope they would say something that constrained it in any way, but no, a model can be anything at all and is whatever you want it to be.

As such this press release is perfect nonsense, which is kind of appropriate for a Watson offshoot. If there is something interesting here it doesn’t succeed in telling you what it is.
they probably don't, other than when you're using it on amazon.com
$3,300 is the federal maximum per election per candidate but even a $1-2,000 donation will get a House rep’s attention (better donate the max for a senator though).
I think that was the point, but see all the sympathising comments here. Being full-on driven by your day job is only one way of having a good professional life, and I wouldn't say it's the best or the most common by far. The way how software development is democratised and slowly becomes the next blue collar job, the engineering hero ethos will fade.
Met Alex and played with Tidal Cycles a few years back. It was an mind bending experience and I need to find more time to go back to tidal again.
I think AVIF format had a play in this whole ordeal.
It’s also a place where someone says this is not the place for that question, except there’s no place for that question.
IE was hated for being unreliable, lax on security and lacking in modern features. Safari / WebKit is incredibly performant and reliable with a modern feature set. Personally I’m not a fan of the UI but I guess it gets the job done.
@lwy8wing
I'm interested in this but think you can update your readme and provide an example on how to use it?
Infrared light reveals hidden portrait beneath 1943 René Magritte painting
But what if it’s really small?
That's a hilarious and counterfactual thing to assert on a thread noting that cops literally steal more money from people than criminals do.

Cops do what is easy, by and large. The overriding motivations in the job do not align with the values that the public would actually WANT from a police force. They are not required to "protect and serve," and have actually argued in court (and won!) that they are not required to protect anyone.

They are protected by a union with absurdly outsized power, which prevents real accountability in all but the most egregious cases. These unions and their fellow-travelers work hard to prevent common-sense recordkeeping on national violent incidents by cops, and to avoid any kind of national peace officer licensing and certification that would keep bad cops "fired" by one city from just drifting to the next town over and continuing their behavior.

Cops, in the US, are part of the problem.

https://theap.substack.com/p/what-do-cops-do
To be fair, in those days you could sink Ethernet (broadcast hubs, no switches!) with a faulty or malicious PC spamming the network, too.

Didn’t have to reboot the others, though.
> Any meta-study trying to get replication numbers would likely use a combination of methods, including prediction markets, with techniques like having a small fraction of the contracts resolve."

this is non-nonsensical obfuscation.

poor attempt at moving the goal posts -- for the record I did not imply, I DIRECTLY QUOTED from the article.
Canonical LXD forked by former project leader stgraber
I love the form factor of the TI Voyage 200. One still sits on my desk at work. It gets used for small problems, usually via the home screen or its little spreadsheet.
> Everyone agreed that it was not just a major improvement, but actually the best option out of all the contenders out there.

Wikipedia tells me the first of four parts of the jpeg xl standard was finalized less than two years ago, and the last part (barely) less than a year ago.

The idea that

a) browsers are bad if they're not adding a year-old image format to the web forever and

b) "everyone" knows what they're talking about with an image codec finalized less than a year ago

is pretty ludicrous.

It's a good format, it'll gain adoption.
This. The idea that science can't also be fun seems to be the mindset of a lot of people criticizing others for participating more as eager spectators. Nothing wrong with that. Let people enjoy things. If LK-99 turns out to be nothing then we got some entertainment out of it and a lot of people learned about superconductors
(and science in general) in the process. How's that not a win in and of itself?
I do want to reiterate that I think tailwind itself has some great ideas. And there’s nothing wrong with utility css, if you’re not using a library you’ll end up writ a lot of it yourself.
They are using the word to mean that it is not single-purpose or task-specific and there is an ability to fine-tune / adapt it for new use cases without retraining the whole thing.

> With additional fine tuning, the base model can be redeployed for tasks like tracking deforestation, predicting crop yields, or detecting and monitoring greenhouse gasses. IBM and NASA researchers are also working with Clark University to adapt the model for applications such as time-series segmentation and similarity research.
I’d appreciate seeing those statements added to the linked article. Thank you for sharing it! I hope the author sees your comment and uses this technique to add them.
Brit healthcare body rapped for WhatsApp chat sharing patient data
Sounds like the thing about "ad blocker sabotage" is about replacing the Web Request API with something called declarativeNetRequest. I've been sifting through documentation but have had trouble seeing why this is any kind of a downgrade for ad blockers. Can someone explain?
I am not an american. But how many 78 year olds are working at missile defense companies as engineers?
The linked feature list is really interesting. I'll try to enable "CtrlBackspaceRemovesWord" as soon as I can to make windows a bit less terrible.
This is one of the ways Chrome obtained its market share. I remember years back when working at one of the biggest Flash/HTML5 game platforms at the time, we where paid serious money by Google to include a banner to switch to Chrome when we detected a different browser.
Orkney islands look to drones to streamline mail deliveries
You're 24? Stop comparing yourself to 40-year-olds. If you have to compare at all, compare yourself to 24-year-olds. Anything else is as blatantly unfair as comparing yourself to 15-year-olds so you could feel superior.

But I will go further. Comparison is a game where you can only lose. So stop playing.

Why do I say you can only lose? Let's say you become one of those 40-year-olds that you're comparing yourself to. Well, now you have moved up to a new peer group, and you have a new set of people to compare yourself to. Now you can compare yourself to 50- to 60-year-olds who go to Davos.

And even if you're Bill Gates, the richest man in the world... oops, you were the richest man in the world, but now you're not. And Musk has both Tesla and SpaceX.

If Bill Gates can lose at the comparison game, you're not going to win at it. So as I said, stop playing.

And if you think about Bill Gates, or hypercompetitive athletes, or Larry Ellison, you see that this kind of "I have to win the comparison game" can turn people into real jerks. Worry less about external success compared to others, and more about what kind of person you are becoming.
Is this a webdev only community? I see this being an issue in other development environments..
Definitely — the Python Package Index started off as the Python Cheese Shop:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/08/01/0150222/pythons-che...

https://web.archive.org/web/20051027102030/http://cheeseshop...
Yes that would be great and I do hope for mr A the reality is some variant of this.

More often than not though, its not so rosy. Arthur would be overweight, riddled with medical issues, solitary guy with unhealthy attachment to XYZ (anime, gaming etc).

But if he had kid(s) and raised them well, well as a parent too I do have tons of respect for him for that alone, rest are details when looking back.
I think this is because most literature focusses on exactly those things. Design patterns to be one step ahead of some obscure future usage of your API, FP patterns to abstract your API into a 'something' that you could not just use to aggregate customer account balances in the database but, say, merge arbitrary lists as well etc.

It's rare to find literature that tells you -not- to use new frameworks or design patterns, and if it exists, if probably doesn't sell very well because it's just not sexy.
>They wanted to control your computer. Palladium, and other features also is about control

That level of control was already achieved on mobile. Android is the wet dream that Microsoft had with palladium and failed to execute.

I can't use my banking app on a degoogled phone. It requires an untempered, manufacturer provided rom, and it will not run on a rooted phone either.
The thing is, the banking app is not a side toy for me to just check up my accounts or do bank transfers instead of using the website, it's the only tool the bank provides to allow for online payment validation. You /need/ the app to make online payments with my bank. No app, no using your credit card online at all. Want the app, need to live under google (or iOS, which is even more closed and disgusting).

Palladium is real today.
> Average wealth increases; but average log(wealth) decreases

What’s the mathematical rationale (or intuition) for looking at the log values?

I don’t quite understand what they represent.
I would believe them. I have heard a similar story. A data center had to go through a planned power cycle event.

All systems were working when they shut down, but ~40% of the disks failed to spin up due to worn down motors.

That's a lot of disks.
> We tried that in the past, but our business (mostly OTP for banks) do not allow any margin of error at all. The thing is that we would get positive delivery reports which were fake.

SMS delivery reports have a limited connection to reality (but IMHO, requesting them seems to improve delivery rates), but you can (and should) measure conversion and route based on that.

If you have no margin for error, you might prefer directs, but when the direct route stops working, you need an alternative.
Enshittifying search to serve ads' end goals/margins will go against the search company's shareholder interest, and they can be sued for that.
Been some time since I checked in on this and COTSE (no, not goatse).
...who are you arguing with?
Markets were possible. But what about the current offering of ETFs and similar products? Despite all the fancy talk, many HFT firms are just market makers for the products that enable average joes to invest well and cheaply.

You don't have to be that old to remember how terrible the experience used to be, and how easily even sophisticated individuals were ripped off at every point of the process.
> a twitter thread that I have been trying to dig up

https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871245021220875
Chrome is the new IE 4 & 5, when MS were still doing the extend and extinguish thing, implementing crap their way, standards be damned.

Safari is the new IE 6, when MS stagnated because they had won in large enough areas not to really care any more and designers were forced to hold back on using things for compatibility's sake. If we're more generous, maybe Safari is more like IE 9/10/11 when MS at least tried to be more up-to-date but were behind and non-compliant enough to be a significant pain. Though for us IE11 is still the current IE11 as one or two clients still have a few users on it, we can say “not supported” all we like, but we'll still get complaints if things flat out don't work (display issues and slowness we can tell people to deal with, dysfunction we can't).
I haven't been. I own a Thinkpad X13s and switched it to Pluton mode (since it wasn't enabled by default) and every single time I get a new UEFI update delivered by Windows Update from Lenovo it blows out the keys in the processor and it fails BitLocker and dumps out all my Windows Hello biometrics at the same time.
Quirks of Python package versioning
> require manufacturers to pay a license wouldn't kill it at this point

They'd only have to pay for Google services like the Play Store. However half of them would now belong to a different company and I don't know if the Play Store would be self sustainable on it's own?

Samsung already has their own store, smaller ones will probably still stock to the Play Store for the time but increased fragmentation would be unavoidable.. That might not be a bad thing on its own, however I don't see how/why anyone would continue funding the development of the open-source bits of Android to a degree Google is capable now.
> > Bayes factors are a method of model comparison.

> Are you implying that hypothesis testing isn’t?

No.
> people reading this thread in agreement and still using Chrome

Did you miss the first part of that sentence?
This is a great article.
The creative process does not care about time.
You have to kick it out of the bar before it passes out in the backalley and hopefully it will show up to work next morning.
So take away the computers. Or more realistically, batch run all orders once an hour.
You’ve presented two options and there are many more than two. I don’t have to list them to point at that at face value it is obvious that the two options you listed are not the only options. Can you genuinely imagine no other options? Really?

I am giving a true dichotomy here, either:

1. You believe there are precisely two options

2. You do not believe there are precisely two options.

Which is it?