skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are getting synthesized answers from LLMs that replace googling, filtering, and skimming for the info you need. Unless I misunderstand your question.
> Things like this, which directly and blatantly hinder competition, should be legislated away.

> I can conceive of a smaller but better product which just doesn't have the war chest to pay for positioning. That smaller but better product will have a much harder time growing if by default it is never exposed to the user. That pretty clearly has the potential to harm consumers.

I don't know how you write this law.

- Are you compelling OS makers to present arbitrary options for various types of application? For search only? If so, why? If not, where does it end? How do you weigh this against free speech concerns in the relevant jurisdictions?

- Why would it only apply to search providers and operating systems? Paying for positioning happens in many, many places. Would we not also need to outlaw sponsorships and exclusivity deals such as "$BRAND_NAME - the official beer of $SPORTS_ARENA"? You can't bring outside beverages in, so you're limited to "the default".
If you go on Google cloud and select an E2 instance type (atleast in `us-central1` where my company runs most of it's infra) you'll usually get Broadwell chips.
Additional religion-related LLM prompts to test:

Why did God spend 5.5 times longer on creating a world of suffering?
if there would be any evidence, you wouldn't have to "believe". It would be fact.

But that isn't the case. On the contrary: given the state of the world the only logical conclusion is that there's only us. There's only humans dealing with other humans. That's it.
Presumably, a confidential client identifies itself to the AS to exchange a code for an access token, so you know at that point that the access token was meant for that particular client.

That said, Facebook Connect is an under-documented vendor extension to OAuth, and only is supported for use via the official SDKs. They do now have a bit more alignment with OpenID Connect and PKCE as an option, but I imagine most existing parties do not use it. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/guides/a...
It is not that I consider it hardship. I consider it distracted driving.
I've known a grad student that was admitted to a very prestigious US university, and came from a country which was unjustly invaded by the US. When he was about to come, his visa was denied/indefinitely delayed, and they eventually admitted that the reason was that they made derogatory posts on social media as a result of that invasion.
Most people? You mean most programmers, presumably?
Wow super fascinating
New agreement enables U.S. launches from Australian spaceports
> However, maybe it is a town square but a bad one. Bad town squares are places where everyone tries to sell you something or make you do something and there are plenty of crazy people trying to grab attention and do things you would rather not see.

This reminds me of La Rambla in Barcelona, basically a tourist trap.
I have no idea what that is. I'm talking about setting up a desk properly to minimize strain of the back, hips, neck, and eyes.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood
Because defaults matter for people that simply use what is given to them. Also, those payouts have addition benefits. Given the billions they give to Apple, I'm pretty sure that it prevents Apple from developing their own search engine, or from blocking ads in Safari by default. Same for Firefox.

Google's Search is still the best, though. And I don't have any numbers, but I could bet that it's by far the most used search engine even on browsers that don't have it as a default (e.g., Vivaldi).
IANAL... but... isn't this Apple squeezing money out of Google? Blackmailing them that, if Google doesn't pay up, that Apple will give users a worse Search engine default, just out of spite?

Apple has a walled garden. Isn't this Google paying to have their product billboard inside the wall? Why are we blaming Google for this?
When someone is a PhD, and you know this, and you choose to use ms/mr/mrs instead of dr (or omitting an honorific altogether, the most common, unobjectionable choice), it can easily be interpreted as condescension.
The full bible text is embedded and searchable. The response from Anthropics Claude LLM API returns non-deterministic results, though!
Laws haven't stopped him before, so why would he stop now?
I think there is an interesting aspect to this.
By being the default search engine, Google also becomes the "universal" gateway to the web for every human with a connected device. Thanks to Chrome's market share, Google also has influence over web standards AND is able to essentially push whatever they want in their browser because they can. In other words, the World Wide Web is a Google Wide Web and $26.3B seems like a faire price.
Maybe my understanding is incomplete, but AFAIK the "California gas sucks" thing is just because the highest grade you can find at most pumps there is 91, while we get 93 in a lot of other states

Not that it matters when everything made for "premium" is tuned for 91 from the factory anyway, not 93
There is no safe dose of lead. Ideally, I wouldn't want to spread any lead during my run-ups.
Yes! Utilizing the waste heat would go a long way in maximizing the efficiency of house HVAC.
i think a lot of people prefer to sit on a couch in a dark room, and then complain their back, neck, wrists and eyes hurt and wonder why... but hey you do you.
> I also believe there may be a fee involved per airplane to use it (one time for an STC). The fee I heard is nominal $250.

What is $250 in aviation terms? It's nothing.

Availability of fuel is a concern, sure. But a fire has to be lit on people's ass, otherwise they will not move.
How culture made Japanese Internet design "Weird" [video]
I've come to realize you better develop your own little library for LLMs instead of depending on complex libraries with hidden prompts here and there which you can't control.

People think LLMs are about connecting things (chaining) but you'll get that for free if you focus instead on the "content" and "behavior" of your LLMs.
"The clearly stated context?" Surely, it's her own words, in her own voice:

"Hey everybody, this is Kristina Wong. I'm coming out, I'm a Trump supporter. I just want to remind all my fellow Chinese Americans for Trump, and people of color for Trump, to vote for Trump on Wednesday, November 9th."

You claimed: "virtually all her tweets are jokes is the context'.

I asked you to explain the joke in this case and provided two plausible possibilities, both of which I did not find to be comedic but merely sarcastically contemptuous, and asked your own explanation lest I had missed something. You chose to evade my simple request.

Still waiting. Surely explaining something as transparent as a tweet's humorous thrust should be easy?
Windows does actually have a universal C runtime library now, but it's pretty recent; only Windows 10+ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/porting/upgrade-your-c...

A big motivation for it was security posture; it means that Microsoft can now ship security updates to UCRT that everyone can rely on rather than a ton of extra surface area through various multiple versions of runtime libraries.
And just to highlight and explicitly explained the weird edge case that GP mentioned...

On many modern cars, high octane gas gives you more boom. They are designed for high octane gas, but the engine management computer is able to detect low octane gas and prevent damage from predetonation-- giving up some power.
I don't think the commenter's understanding of LLMs is relevant here. It's what the authors of TFA think LLMs are for and, arguably more importantly, what kinds of problems (nails) they think about when presented with the idea of applying LLMs (hammer).

It's a bit ridiculous that this is the best they can come up with, and I don't really think the idea is worth defending, especially by telling other people that they just don't get it.
Is there any recourse? Like can the research group claw back the IP and give it to another company?
ironic considering the bloat of rails probably did more to increase cloud spend than anything else in the last 20 years…
D2 has a very good layout engine (tala), but its use requires a paid license. The other two engines aren't nearly as good.
It's also the primary allergen contained within the MRNA COVID-19 vaccines AIUI.
Which highlights that there is a lack of clear prescription around how to handle a list in a component at the (Web Components) API level. Contrast that with what I linked from my own framework where there's zero uncertainty as to how to handle a list.
Disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse.

Thank you! Looks really interesting!

I personally agree that real-time OLAP databases have potential to better serve workloads currently in Postgres or cloud data warehouses that need real-time ingest and analytical queries. And simplifying developer experience on top of that, so you don't have to learn about all the details of a powerful database, really speeds up developer velocity.

I'm curious, how you see your project differs from GraphJSON (https://www.graphjson.com/) and Tinybird (https://www.tinybird.co/)?

Congratulations again on the launch!
This technique can be used for any book (assuming permissions for storing the text). Feel free to fork the project and try it out!
Here's another article of Beth Mole on Ars, with WAY more puns: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/the-grand-canyon-is-...
What you’re saying is true but people will switch defaults easily if the default is much better. It’s just RARELY new products are much better.

For some reason, the other search engines are not really better. Microsoft probably spent millions on Bing and it’s not fantastic. (I haven’t tried Kagi yet).
Nitpick: you probably mean pregnant females. Man/woman is sociological, male/female is biological.
The US academic system is focused on money, and operates like a for-profit business.

Does EU produce better science, I wonder?
Is red meat intake linked to inflammation?
> where they don't have money to fund NHS

We do have the money to fund the NHS. Successive Conservative governments have made the choice to defund the NHS, along with public health, and social care. And they did all of this on top of Brexit.
So you’re a journalist.

You criticize the French government in your investigative reporting.

You take a visit to France again next time.

They prohibit your entry based on your articles. All else equal you otherwise would have been granted entry.

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The United States’ Constitution has a first amendment that does not discern between citizen or not. It applies to the laws that can be made.

Same goes for the other bill of rights.

Obviously a non citizen should not have the right to vote, but a non citizen still should have and they do have the right of freedom of speech or the right to a speedy trial…

Otherwise the laws you made are not impartial.
It mostly shows how shitty compatibility is between platforms that share the same roots.
FWIW, large swaths of ntdll are documented and supported these days, for performing work that can't be expressed via the win32 API like raw disk manipulation.
They would probably need to get a new CEO...
FreeBSD Foundation Q3 2023 Status Update
The usually cited “most glaring” passages in Leviticus (Lev 18:22, Lev 20:13), read strictly literally, don’t condemn homosexuality per se, but both partners in a male homosexual act where one of them also engages heterosexual sex.

Condemnation of homosexuality is a popular gloss or rationalization of this, wierdly common among literalists, but, I mean, Leviticus condemns mixing fibers, and has plenty of rules that apply to only one gender, I don't see why we shouldn't take its condemnation of specifically men mixing gay and straight sex literally, too. (And maybe also take Acts 15 literally as to which part of the ancient Mosaic law applies to non-Jewish Christians, and not worry about that rule however we gloss it, since it concerns neither pollution from idols, unlawful marriage, blood, or the meat of strangled animals.)
What's the use case? If I have files, why should I store them on IPFS and pay someone to pin through all that complexity, rather than just use Google Drive or whatever?
Undeveloped countries stopped using lead way after the USA. Lead contamination was a huge issue in Africa and the Middle East. It wasn't until 2014 that lead use in auto fuel was ended worldwide.

https://qz.com/africa/2053227/leaded-gasoline-is-now-banned-...

Luckily lead is very heavy and chemically active which makes it much easier to remove from soils than some of the nastier contaminants. You can essentially break it down with sulphur amendments to acidify the soil and then let the plants do the rest of the work. Eventually dilution does the rest of the work until it reaches background levels.
> unless it's also in-line with The Constitution.

The Supreme Court is itself the sole arbiter of this exception, so in practice they can cite it whenever they want to. The Federalist Papers are cited in a number of supreme court rulings. While one could argue that they are equally relevant to the Declaration, it would be hard to argue that they are less relevant.
Yes, but it's not currently legal to use in anything.

You still have to apply for and buy an STC for your specific airframe's serial number and engine's serial number. Then you have to add some paperwork to the logbook and POH and add placards to the fuel fillers and cockpit.

In theory you should be able to automatically get it for anything which was approved from the factory to use 100LL, but the STC application form (here: https://stc.g100ul.com/aircraft/) does not allow you to select most mid-century large radials (which were usually originally certified on 130) or the airplanes they were installed on.

To be clear, this is a great thing, but you can't legally just fill G100UL in any random airplane.
When covid first hit I was smug because while everybody was freaking out buying up all the hand sanitizer and Clorox wipes I remembered the section college biochemistry about surfactants and bought a few extra bottles of soap. Sodium Laureth Sulfate et al. are super cool underrated substances imo
He's referring to Rank Interleaving, and he's correct:

https://frankdenneman.nl/2015/02/20/memory-deep-dive/#:~:tex....

You've put off the vibe of someone that assumes they're correct without double checking themselves ;)
That's my point. The GP (IIUIC) was saying that hydrogen was safer than gasoline and I was disagreeing.
AWS makes it almost impossible for startups to get access to GPUs, so this would help a lot of startups out significantly if done right. A lot depends on what “cheap” means though…
That is the issue at hand in this story, but not really the comment I was replying to (at least primarily).

Leaded avgas is coming from piston-engine aircraft, and I don't think that was really what OP was talking about when commenting about the people flying private aircraft while publicly demanding people stop driving pickup trucks.

For leaded gas, we can simply ban the leaded gas, as the cost of performance in piston-engine aircraft. I'm not really an expert, but at a first glance I see no particularly compelling reason not to do it, so I'm not opposed to that at all.
Show HN: More than four images in one prompt from DALL-E
I didn't realize how many these laws have piled up until recently. Earlier this month, in order for the Biden administration to start building along the South Texas border, they had to waive 26 laws! How can anyone, but the largest of entities, deal with that. YIMBYs have no chance when any one of those can be invoked by a NIMBY.
Unrelated, is it possible to search the internet while ignoring content farms these days? Just trying to find information on any kind of consumer product is insanely difficult to do these days when there are thousands of "best 10 x" sites in the results.
There were 4.9b internet users in 2021 [0]. Assuming a search market share of 90%, that's $5.9 per user and year - which seems a lot of considering it includes the developing world, but then of course Google's total ad revenue in 2021 was $209b ($47.3/user/yr) [1] globally and $61.2b in the US alone ($198.6/user/yr!!!) [0,2].

No other player has the ad revenue and market power to even attempt competing with Google:

* Microsoft's search ads + LinkedIn revenue was only $18.7b [3] in 2021 (9% of Googles) and they are the only big global (i.e. not Chinese) player with ad revenues over $10b and a competing search engine.

* Meta is the only company that comes closer in terms of ad revenue at $112b in 2021 (53% of Google) [4], but it's hard to imagine how they would fit search into their ecosystem.

* Apple has the resources and controls the valuable (=mostly iOS users) Safari market, but even for them, they would have to forego $18b/year (as per the article) in pure profits from their deal with Google and manage to actually create a competing product and advertise it heavily, which would costs them 10s of billions a year more. It makes sense that they'd rather keep taking the cash instead.

This also makes you realize just how valuable dominating the browser market with Google Chrome and having significant influence on the mobile market with Android must be for Google (and also why Apple doesn't allow third party browser engines on their platform).

[0] https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/facts-figures-2...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/266249/advertising-reven...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/469821/google-annual-ad-...
[3] https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar21/index.html
[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/271258/facebooks-adverti...
To be fair... that is essentially the company's mission statement:

> Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

https://about.google/
Not the person you are responding to but I think it’s more like if Goodyear had 90 percent of the tire market and paid every single manufacturer to be the default tires. Sure consumers could choose but realistically most people go with the default.

Makes it impossible for smaller incumbents to compete
Our experiences are different indeed. It is on facebook where I've seen the most vile shit, which happens especially in private (yet big) groups. I've also reported posts for blatant sexism, racism, antisemitism or dangerous medical advice, and they did nothing. It probably didn't help that those posts weren't written in English.

I'm guessing that it depends on the bubble we have on each social network.
I also support a ban on personal air travel. Even a partial ban; say, allowing only air travel for family medical reasons or as a refugee.

If we're to be at all serious about this being an existential threat to humanity, then personal air travel is an easy win in reducing emissions.
Offer to streamline the recruitment/interviewing pipeline for the company(s) in question. Tell them you will give them a technical introduction to your public projects (choosing just the 1 or 2 projects that present your skills in the best light). Additionally, tell them you are happy to analyze and evaluate any code they might be interested in presenting to you.

Be prepared to discuss the good, the bad and the ugly concerning the evolution of your projects over time.

A company willing to sideline their generic process or at least adapt it in light of these suggestions, is a cut above as an employer, and they should understand that an approach like this makes it easier for you and them both.

A company unwilling to at least tweak their process a little bit is a company you probably don't want to work for.
Computer generated recipes and images would make me discount the service entirely, unless their tasters tried it first, in which case they could simply take a picture of the dish.

You can't use a language model to predict how something is going to taste.
The vagueness of this comment and its perceived derogatory nature is merely a result of my ignorance around these technologies. It was not meant the way you perceived it.

That said, I looked at 2/3 a while ago:

- rqlite looks great and mature, though it has a HTTP interface, so I'll need to rewrite my database layer anyway to use it. At that point might as well to Postgres

- dqlite seemed like a failed Canonical experiment to me last time I checked, but looking again I think I may have had the wrong impression.
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I'm sick of lies and misrepresentations from people who clearly don't know what they're talking about, talking like schools are greedily taking away poor Petey PhD's hard-earned grant money.

First off: grants from most places factor in the administrative overhead. That is negotiated between the school and the grant org. For the NIH, it averages fifty percent. The school/university is very restricted in what they can bill a lab for; for example, I worked somewhere that we couldn't charge for storage because that would have violated NIH's rules on double-billing, because the storage cluster was paid for via administrative overhead.

Chances are when someone says "I got a $1M grant to study bubblegum's effects on the gall bladder", they actually got $1M plus another $500,000.

Second, that money isn't being greedily stolen. That overhead help pays for, directly or indirectly, things like (notice I said "like", because I am not an expert in the exact rules around what can and cannot be paid for via overhead):

* the building

* the real estate the building sits on

* the utilities to keep the building lit and comfortable (which in the case of life/bio/chemistry sciences can be an enormous challenge given how much airflow lab space needs, which is far greater than office airflow...and then there's biosafety / chemical hoods)

* security, both equipment and staff (which can be substantial if the university or school does biomedical research in any sensitive areas such as stem cells, animal research, infectious disease, etc). This includes monitoring for equipment failure (for example, sample storage systems often have dry contact alarm hookups so that if they fail, security or facilities finds out ASAP and can alert people)

* the utilities to power equipment, such as -80 freezers (just one of which can use more energy than a US household)...most of us would also go pale if we saw the power bill for some physics labs) and other "utilities" like vacuum, purified water, etc.

* construction, maintenance, cleaning...both staff and supplies

* grounds maintenance, everything from mowing the lawn to leaf and snow removal

* technology costs - telephone and networking infrastructure and staff, server admins for everything from websites to email to storage to computational clusters, desktop support staff

* business administration, which includes, but is a lot more than just, payroll/benefits/HR. Grant writing/administration is often its own entire department, because you need people who not only know how to submit the paperwork, but frankly, also follow faculty around badgering them to fix or submit paperwork on time - faculty are incredibly lazy about this.

* all the services the lab's grad students, staff, postdocs, and faculty use and don't think anything about, like shuttle busses, the library, and so on.
If something gets leaky enough then it's still going to hurt performance for a while and die.

Swap delays that but extra RAM delays it too. If you take a use case where 2GB of memory is fine, and give it 8GB, then you already solved the problem swap would solve. You can always add more but you're past the point of diminishing returns.
This is a universal human thing I find. Once something is made or built, we fucking hate change. And change is also super expensive because you now have to tear down what was built.

A lot of countries got bombed during WW2 and got a fresh start. I don’t want to be bombed.

You really lock in your decisions when you start a project.