skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your larger point - I think GSuite was built around an acquisition (Writely) - or that may have been just Google docs.
Well I have yet to have been provided a specific example that matches the hyperbolic descriptions people are throwing around. I simply tried to find my own examples, and as is my experience with ChatGPT, it is nearly completely worthless. And then I get told that I'm using it wrong, asking it too niche of questions, and to reset my expectations.

I'm still waiting for the concrete examples that back up the above commentary about how much of a gamechanger it is.

> I've essentially got 15-20 high-priced world-class consultants in every field that I chose to pull from, working at my beck and call

In other words, this comment from above needs backing up. I've seen such descriptions everywhere but no one has ever provided examples that corroborate this.
> The core Rust source code is very simple. It is only 40 lines of code. The Rust program manages the user input, tracks the conversation history, transforms the text into the llama2’s chat template, and runs the inference operations using the WASI NN API.

TL;DR a 2MB executable that reads stdin and calls WASI-NN
Even a used one will be priced pretty high. Paid 400 or so for a used one, then immediately took it to someone else to verify it's real...they offered 75 for it(I didn't ask, she just said how much she'll pay for it).
My kids like the silent movies I’ve shown them enough that sometimes they ask to watch another, unprompted. And I gladly watch talkies with them, too, it’s not like this is one of those “they only suffer it to spend time with dad” things.

I wasn’t born when those came out, either. My parents weren’t born when those played in theaters, for that matter. For many, neither were my grandparents.

I watch TV shows from before I was born, pretty often.
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm afraid so. MacBooks are just so far ahead of their "competition" that it's not funny.

The M2 MacBook Pros are about as close as you can get to a perfect laptop. Really, I wish it wasn't so. It would arguably be better for everyone (except Apple) if there was some serious competition at the top end of the market. But there just isn't.

I've still yet to see another laptop that has even passable handling of sleep states / other parts of power management. (A lot of this is an OS integration problem, so Apple is playing on easy mode here.)

I've still yet to see another laptop with an even passable trackpad. (Again, OS integration, plus a stupid amount of heuristics built into the hardware itself to interpret what you actually meant when you touched the trackpad in an awkward way.)

I've still yet to see a laptop with a keyboard as nice as the current generation MacBooks. (The first generation of M1 MacBook laptops was awful, but they fixed it. Also this point isn't really fair because I haven't really seriously looked.)

I've still yet to see a laptop with as slick of a chassis and display.

I've still yet to see another laptop that can chew through demanding workloads, remain snappy the whole time, and not simultaneously sounds like a jet engine and throttle itself to a near halt.

But really, just give me proper power management and a decent trackpad and I'll call it a serious competitor.
I’ve always liked FitBit devices, the App and the Brand.

Now if they had only integrated Fitbit with Apple Health I might wearing a FitBit right now instead of an Apple Watch.
That’s some disorganized bs
At this point it's best to use an alternative OS. I've been running CalyxOS on my Fairphone and has been super happy about it.
Loving someone means wanting them to be happy. The type of emotional abuse you describe is available to anyone in a loving relationship.
I mean, I am a big SPA framework guy. That's pretty much the main thing I use, day-in, day-out, because most of the projects I'm working on are complex enough that simply hand-coding the entire UI will not work.

And, while only a minority of projects are that complex, those projects are the ones most developers are working on. Most other projects are probably better served with a wordpress install and a bit of theme customisation. Which means it's going to be a minority of developers who work with the very minimal things that are sufficient in these sorts of cases.
It's a penny wise and pound foolish approach that only a monopolist could get away with.
As a large language model, I can't he-

Hi, it’s Clippy with ShamWow! You’ll be saying, “Wow,” every time you use this towel. It’s like a shammy. It’s like a towel. It’s like a sponge. A regular towel doesn’t work wet. This works wet or dry.

This is for the house, the car, the boat, the RV. ShamWow! holds 12 times its weight in liquid. Look at this. It just does the work.

Why would you want to work twice as hard? It doesn’t drip. It doesn’t make a mess. Wring it out. You wash it in the washing machine.

Made in Germany—you know the Germans always make good stuff!

-lp with that"
I remember the huge controversy a couple of years back when Google started showing these summaries in the search results - the covenant between Google and people who produced the content used to be that people wrote content and Google directed eyeballs to said content, in exchange it got to show ads on top of it, but Google took the content and stopped the traffic from getting there, people were understandably upset.

ChatGPT is more of this.
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation about the Great Depression
This is something that is in my area of expertise, and your suspicions are correct.

Solder can "bubble" but this is a line process issue that is easily picked up even in old AOI systems (automatic optical inspections) from 10-15 years ago.

To be frank, this article to me, reads like piece put together by somebody who has no idea what they're on about to generate publicity for their company. Nothing to see here.
It all depends on your workload.

BTW, Please have look at ScyllaDB too. You may use Presto or Apache Calcite on top of it for analytics.

https://resources.scylladb.com/scylladb-best-practices/olap-...
Team OS/2 Baby! I still wish I had the salmon polo from the Warp comdex push.
Trip Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting
I feel like capitalism has gotta be the most misunderstood word in the English language.
Is it a financial system where you can own capital? Then it’s capitalism.
> To hold on to this archaic idea of aesthetics that do not hold true to be functional for the current times is foolishness.

Do you wear pants in the summer? Isn't that foolish when you could wear a much more functional dress instead?
Funny thing is that my high school and college textbooks fifty years ago got it right about the cause of the depression. Who changed it and why?
Gold does not corrode, and can be formed into thinner parts.
Oh, I can see that. Don't get me wrong, it must be a blast. But, for F1 cars specifically, it doesn't lend itself to great action.
It depends on what kind of fiction you like, as romance is a kind of meta genre that spans every other genre. Knowing nothing about you, other than the fact you are on HN, I would recommend The Rosie Project. It is a contemporary comedy romance, one of the only works of fiction Bill Gates has ever put on his yearly recommendation list.

Overall, your best bet is finding a community and lurking. Maybe asking for recommendations.

Reddit has a number of communities. /r/RomanceBooks is the main one, but there is also /r/fantasyromance, /r/HistoricalRomance/, /r/ScienceFictionRomance/, etc... If you are a guy and kinda feeling out of place, there is also /r/Romance_for_men
But why would they upload private data to S3 in the first place? I’m just not understanding the context here.
> Then I go on HN and read these paeans from other technologists who say ChatGPT has completely changed how they work and is 10x better than using Google. I'd like to have that too! I just don't get it, it doesn't match my experience at all.

This is exactly my experience and what I am trying to get at. I start feeling that maybe I'm missing out, so I go give it a try. My direct experience shows that it spits out gibberish, but then people say things like it's a godsend but don't give any examples besides maybe it generated some HTTP API requests for them.
ok.. should be run LLMs on my own devices with a 2MB portable app then?
Don't remember if I have customized the shortcut or not but

- Ctrl + l - copy line down

- alt + up/down arrow - shift line above or below

- multi-cursor functionality

- Distraction-free mode

These in particular are most used and loved by me
Why does Latin America have fewer wars than other continents?
> Not sure what you mean by bloatware, but I prefer several Samsung apps over the Google ones. I prefer the Calendar app, for example because it allows me to draw on it with the pen. I also prefer Samsung's Calculator, Notes, Clock, and Health apps. I'd even prefer Samsung's Browser, which even has ads blocking, but I'm using Firefox.

Yeah it might be a bit silly of me, but I basically consider all of Samsung's apps bloatware. Maybe that's an extreme position, but they almost never have the polish of the apple ecosystem, and when I'm on Android I'd rather use something like k9 over Samsung Email (so I wouldn't want it pre-installed, or would want to immediately remove it).

On Android it seems like finding the "best" version of all the apps is the price of choosing the bazaar over the cathedral.

Also, sometimes Samsung/other Android providers get weird about letting you uninstall their apps or daemons they might be running, etc. I have zero tolerance for any of that, on a platform that's supposed to be more configurable and somewhat under my own control. So it tends to be easier to just tend to a close-to-stock provider (and then eventually putting on a custom ROM or whatever if I get antsy).

On Apple, for better or worse there just is no choice... And the walled garden is just comfy enough.

> On my phone, using Firefox with uBlock Origin, I go into ThePirateBay, download entire shows on my phone, then using VLC I stream them to my TV straight from my phone. There's nothing in Apple's offering that beats that for me. Mostly because Apple hates general purpose computing.

uBlock Origin on mobile is definitely a great point -- the one big issue with Firefox on iOS, but I expect it will be solved eventually for iOS (there are always rumors but nothing concrete yet)...

VLC also is on iOS BTW I use it and it's great/my default.

And yeah I definitely sympathize with the dislike of Apple's hate of general purpose computing and user control. But I have to admit when what they've built is better/more cohesive and it just is for now.
Triangles at work: GPU rendering shapes and connectors in Confluence whiteboards
If your wife is using that as leverage over you, your marriage is already done for.
All hail
A new trail to exoplanets: Team detects ammonia isotopes in cold brown dwarf
I use TextSniper on MacOS multiple times a week.
It is better to not use any software from russia now anyway.
I’d wager that most people would assume “largest city” meant “largest city [by population]” because that’s clearly what search results assume. “Largest city in USA” first lists the Wikipedia entry for “List of United States Cities by Population” [0], with the next bunch of results assuming the same thing. For me, the 9th result is the first to mention land area.[1]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities...

[1] https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/largest-c...
So, he became rich by exercising capitalism (investing his time and insight in writing his books and getting handsome returns, owning a "substantial property portfolio" etc).

Anyone would be lucky to become a billionaire, people already reporting ~1M euro annual income require much less luck.
It looks like this is Rust for the application wrapped around a WASM port of llama.cpp that in turn uses an implementation of WASI-NN for the actual NN compute. It would be interesting to see how this compares to the TFLite, the new stuff in the PyTorch ecosystem, etc.
Qualcomm co-founder left SETI Institute $200M
It’s directly related to the actual research and counters your original statement. Aka when reality disagrees with your intuition, reality wins.

Plenty of BMW etc drivers made panicked stops before dying because they had gotten into a situation where their car and reflexes couldn’t save them from physics. No car can save people from stupid.
Get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off get it off
From what I hear there are still downtown bars where both Democratic and Republican legislators get drunk together.

Kind of nice in a way.
Yeah, that was absurd too.
> By your reasoning we shouldn't have any laws against murder then.

You can have the laws, but they don't do any good unless they're enforced, which tends not to happen when the perpetrator is the government.

> This is a brand new context, so not sure how you can say that. Still, got some examples?

Snowden provided a wide variety of them.

> I never implied otherwise.

I'm pointing out the inadequate incentives. The ones who have to secure the system aren't the ones who get killed if they fail to.

> The point is you don't give the name to the party seeking to verify.

But the problem is if you have to give it to anyone.

> Which is where laws and overwatch come in.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes has been an unsolved problem for such a long time that it's in Latin.

> Sure, the government could screw stuff up, but then you have an incentive as a voter to prevent that from happening.

The victims of this kind of thing are persecuted minorities. Minorities by definition don't have a majority of the votes, so appeal to democracy is no solution.

> I understand being skeptical of government competency, but EU governments tend to be better than most in this regard.

Systems like this tend to persist once they're established, even if the competence of the government implementing them wanes, so it's much better to avoid them being implemented to begin with than to assume that a government that hasn't screwed up today will never screw up tomorrow.

> Besides, far as I can see the eID is not mandatory to use, so just don't.

If the service allows you to proceed without using it then how could it do any good for age verification? Anyone under age would just opt not to use it.

If it doesn't, it's mandatory to the user. And once it exists, services will be put under pressure to require it.
I’ll bet one of the purchasing agents found a good deal on resistors and thought they were equivalent and swapped them out.
A simple extension to show some TLS cert info when you open a web
Related News

- The Register 8 Nov 2023 :
Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
( https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/08/europe_eidas_browser/ )

> Lawmakers in Europe are expected to adopt digital identity rules that civil society groups say will make the internet less secure and open up citizens to online surveillance.
one of the requirements of eIDAS 2.0 is that browser makers trust government-approved Certificate Authorities (CA) and do not implement security controls beyond those specified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI).
The browser won't even be able to block the certificate.
Sony still makes top-end phones with headphone jacks, SD card slots, and a camera that doesn't mangle your photos unless you ask it to. The Xperia line is pretty much the perfect phone for the HN crowd.
The purpose of education in any form can really be boiled down to one thing: opportunities including personal improvement, career advancement, increased income levels, and increased levels of personal satisfaction. Skills-based education, hiring, and even the creation of job listings are the future. In a rapidly changing job landscape, the essence of education lies in providing learners with tech-enabled opportunities that are catered to the skills economy. So what do those opportunities look like?
"The World's Smallest Political Quiz"... Simplicity often comes with a loss of something, usually either accuracy or clarity. This test is framed completely within the extremely limited Democrat-Republican false dichotomy.

The questions are loaded so that no matter what you respond, you're supporting one of the two branches of the currently-dominant political ideology of Liberalism.

Take for example: Taxpayers should NOT be responsible for student loan debt. So the options are either: 1) support the legitimacy of for-profit education and make taxpayers pay for it, OR 2) support the legitimacy of for-profit education and make students pay for it. This question tricks the test-taker into supporting things they may or may not support.

And this is exactly how voting/elections work in general. Once every 4 years we get to choose between evil parasite puppet A or evil parasite puppet B. Then whichever evil parasite puppet won goes on to enact the policies that the evil parasites want them to enact. They frame elections so that no matter what reasons people have for voting for them, it's swept up by some other issue. And in the US we can't even do things like pass referendums, or recall our politicians when they don't do what they were elected to do. It's all bogus.
> I use it almost exclusively to help me approach novel problems, or at least problem spaces that I am severely lacking expertise in. It’s pretty incredible for helping me leverage my extant programming knowledge to accomplish things that I couldn’t before due to being blocked by research.

Can you expand on this? This is what I'd like to use it for, but I don't ever have any experience remotely close to helpful. The typical response is just something like "that's complicated but here's some gibberish that tries to show a simple example but is still wrong in ways it's not useful at all".

Do you have a specific example?
Most professional frontend developers are working on projects that require something more complicated than just the basics, because, well, that's where the complexity lies, and so that's where the work is.

You can still find developers who are using the basics, but mostly they're designing WordPress themes or working for boutique web design agencies, because those are the sorts of problems that are solved with just simple HTML, JS, and CSS.

It's like asking a Java developer when the last time they developed something without maven or gradle is, or Python developer why their first reaction is to use pip. If the majority of problems developers had to solve were simple enough that they didn't need these tools, then there'd be far fewer developers and most of them would still end up working on the 20% of projects where they're necessary. Because, well, that's where the complexity lies.
The crypto of programming languages?
The market has changed drastically since some Chinese factories start mass producing synthetic diamonds around 2019.

Currently in the end market the price is $200~300 for a 1CT synthesized one, and the quality are simply better all around. The only way to distinguish natural ones is to track from the start where each is mined and processed, which is a bit absurd.

Many of these factories were associated with drill head industry and the like until they found the jewelry market is much more profitable and got the trick to mass-produce them.
If they are willing to compete a bit the price might even go lower.
You might want to look into diarization also
http://gladia.io/ seem to be doing it well.

It makes a great difference to have transcripts with speaker annotation.
> With chatgpt I’ve been able to generate math 2d and 3d animations in just 1-2hr with no background nor prior knowledge.

Can you give some example prompts that will reproduce such an experience?
Ultra-bright light breakthrough could spark 'technological revolution'
It's not just string theory.

Another example is the state of communication about fusion power right now, which is deplorable. The media has been full of claims about how they finally achieved "net energy gain." Except "net energy gain" is a narrow scientific description that does not, in fact, mean what we would normally consider net energy gain for viable fusion power.

If we look at the actual total power input to the experiment in question, and the power output, we see a 99% energy loss: the total output power was only 1% of the total input power. That means we're 100 times, two orders of magnitude, away from achieving an actual energy gain.

On HN there is probably a good amount of awareness of this, but I bet there are some people reading this comment who were not aware of it, and were misled by the reporting. Here's an article for the unfamiliar: https://whyy.org/segments/why-the-nuclear-fusion-net-energy-...

So I think the headline could be generalized: science communication has a high degree of dishonesty in general, and that makes good science communication hard.
How did you manage to get to work so few hours?
Correction: The evolution of Reddit communities

A lot of this does not apply to non-reddit - e.g. IRC or even here on HN or he'll the internet in general.

It is a shame Reddit became the cesspit of the internet - it was great before subreddits were a thing. As soon as you give random people power in the form of moderation/admin rights (e.g. subreddits, or Wikipedia), 95% of the time they go on a power trip, the drama/politics start, and things start to go to shit.

Ultimately the communities die when the community wants to talk about X but the vitriolic power-crazed moderators are screaming at their computer screen about how their community is only for Y and are banning people here and deleting posts there. Turns out if you shutdown conversation, there is no more conversation. Who knew!?
What an uncharitable and uncalled for accusation. Dude's twitter is him living his life and posting it. No one is asking you to follow him or read his stuff. He's rich and posts about some of it. Who cares. I've never seen him pretend to be a celebrity and the accusation of giving merch for harassing others sounds like an outright lie. I've been following him for years and have seen no such thing
Monopolist? Fitbit is far from the market leader, where Apple Watch completely dominates the category.
> it will get 4-5 years of updates in total

Are you sure? Historically that's not been the case. I have an S6Edge which I got in 2016 and Samsung provided less than 18 months worth of Android updates, so it's stuck back on Android 7.0. I have several other Samsung device which I've rooted/jailbroken and have versions of Lineage that are way more up to date than anything Samsung have ever provided, I've got a couple of S4s running Android 12. (I'd do that with the S6Edge as well, except I have a GearVR which the Edge fits into, and most off the neat tricks the GearVR uses won't work if I lose the original Samsung-supplied OS).

I have an iPhone 6S which can't update to the most recent iOS versions, but is still getting security updates from Apple.
Then you might as well say that in the first comment. In the U.S. banks certainly already look at your income to make sure you can afford to pay. Credit scores just measure willingness to pay. And before AutoPay became popular, they also measure whether a person can consistently take care of their own affairs and remember to pay.
me too, but we're talking about a few extra minutes of battery life here. That's catnip to cat people.
"Radical steps" include all the tricks that a multi-national monopoly would pull, and yet no one is doing anything about it. I hope diamond prices crash and the entire industry goes up in flames, it's corrupt and it's ugly.
Pretty damning if 40 lines of rust to read stdin generates a 2 MB binary!
Try this one on for size: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-...