skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ISPs already got 42B in funding to build out in these areas and basically just stole the money and ran with it.
People should not be surprised we have realtors when we have companies like turbotax raking in millions for 3 pages of boilerplate tax return form fills. You could tell people all day how they can do it themselves yet they will still gladly pay for someone or a service to hand hold them because thats what they really want. Not the ability to do something but to feel fussed over and to minimally think.
> How is this argument still passing the bar?

The answer is corruption. I believe it’s plain obvious by now.
What's the argument for how unions benefit both parties? What do unions do to benefit the employer?
> If you had that, Nuclear become competitive.

Source? There are several studies looking at what it’d take to go for 100% renewable energy that ends up with a lower total cost of energy than what we have today. Including costs for balancing the grid. This assumes no technological improvements.

Considering the cost of nuclear today, I don’t see how nuclear could ever contributing to lowering the total costs.

Yes, with technological improvements, and scaling up manufacturing, I’m sure nuclear could become much cheaper. But so could renewables and energy storage solutions. And energy storage solutions have network effects with decarbonisation of transportation that nuclear power doesn’t get to benefit from. I don’t see a way for nuclear to catch up considering how solar and battery technologies are rapidly becoming essential to every aspect of society. The amount of R&D going into these fields is absolutely staggering.

And nuclear power has this sword of Damocles hanging over it: if advanced geothermal gains significant traction, nuclear is doomed. Both nuclear and geothermal is essentially ways of getting thermal energy with near zero operating costs. But geothermal is much easier in terms of regulation and have zero concerns regarding waste management. What do you think will happen when the entire oil and gas industry is made redundant? An industry whose main competency is drilling deep. Just focus on drilling deeper, cheaper, and you get infinite free and green energy forever.
Yeah the classic scene from the Big Lebowski comes to mind, with the Dude getting a face-full of ash downwind.
Mate. You’re front page HN
Good for them. I love to see workers uniting.

In this increasingly globalized world, each country is still different. You can't expect swedish workers to accept that you treat them like american workers just because your company is big.

I really like this part:

> Even postal workers will stop delivering mail to Tesla
Eh, the barb about "maybe you like soap operas" wasn't necessary and doesn't do the comment any favors.
1. It's not enough when you're on an active connection doing other things at the same time as the video. Live streams at full quality will use a third to half of 20Mbps and demand very little interruption. Loading a single page with a few images can interfere. And even dedicated 20Mbps, with tightly encoded content, can be too little for 4k.

2. The idea in the comment is streaming at original bluray quality. Not transferring.
Very cool seeing what's possible with strong unions.
I wonder how USA would react to Mexico joining a China military alliance and hosting Chinese troops and weapons? Or maybe Cuba hosting USSR weapons and troops?
At the rate bank IT changes, maybe they kind of still are.
It's a great idea. It pretty directly re-humanizes the web.

Some marketing to consider...

Both "staring" and "strangers" gives it a disconcerting vibe, amplified by the dark background and the naked request to enable the webcam.

What about "See someone" or "See someone seeing you" or "See someone seeing you for a second", with a blue sky to start?

Then instead of emphasizing staring, just say something like "blink to leave".

Thus: "The webcam will show only your face, and then you will see someone seeing you. Blink to leave."

Also, in the detailed explanation, you might add that it is peer-to-peer, and no images are captured or stored anywhere else.

The "buy me coffee" link makes the site seem... incentivized, I guess. If you instead add that prompt to the information panel about you, I think you would still capture the appreciative few without putting off the many now triggered by pervasive tipping (kind of like early google text ads vs yahoo banner ads).
We have a bit of context about this in the readme: https://github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig#what-problem-it-solv.... The main issue with keeping it in code is that it tangles application code with prompts and model-specific logic.

That makes it hard to evaluate the genAI parts of the application, and also iterating on the prompts is not as straightforward as opening up a playground.

Having the config be the source of truth let's you connect it to your application code (and still source controlled), lets you evaluate the config as the AI artifact, and also lets you open the config in a playground to edit and iterate.

For example, compare how much simpler openai function calling becomes with storing the stuff as a config: https://github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig/blob/main/cookbooks/... vs using vanilla openai directly (https://github.com/openai/openai-node/blob/v4/examples/funct...)
My understanding is that in a common American setup, the commission seller paid is split by seller's and buyer's agents half/half.
Good for you. Doesn't describe everyone else.
With OSS, it’s more like a personal creativity outlet, or “I want this thing to exist”. It is very similar to artists and musicians. Who also have a hard time getting someone to pay for their output.
With ChatGPT some of the limitations of the tech are handled by the user e.g. starting a new chat when you want to discuss a new topic. An assistant has to detect changes in user context somehow. Also, I think it would be harder to know what to inject in the prompt since conversations are more like context based RAG rather than topic (embedding) based.

Then you have all the usual generative issues: hallucinations, alignment, sticking within guardrails, no repeatable testing, drift. The potential for errors at that scale is pretty staggering.
One small difference is that the GPT architecture is just the decoder stack of the original transformer as opposed to the full encoder decoder stack in the original.

I agree the branding play on GPTs in general is pretty smart and strong from OpenAI though.
Provide labor.
If I'm really motivated I either just download the content (yt-dlp) or use duckduckgo search interface. It's actually not bad.

I started hosting Viewtube app hoping I'll catch up, but while it's quite amazing (surprisingly light and emulates subscriptions behavior for you), I had issues with it... So as for now I remain mostly cut off.

There is a lot of great dev and ops related content (conferences) that I come back for, but not for subscriptions I used to love.
Also if you don’t have bike insurance and your E-bike gets stolen, you may be able to claim it on your renters insurance
At best, that only covers bug fixes. And, as I said, bug fixes are usually implied to be available in future releases.
Possibly, but that's further back than I thought it was. The trend I'm referring to started somewhere around when this was posted: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-...

And I thought what kicked it off was from only a few years before at most.
Bought a super rugged, dual battery, two-seater, motorbike-looking eBike for Burning Man. Turns out it's also amazing for getting around San Francisco.

Good sized road presence, better-than-moped acceleration and silent except for tire-on-road noise. Does 50km/h no sweat and ~100km range. Bright front light as well, so cars see you coming.

That + Waymo access has transformed my experience in the city (Waymo is hugely superior experience to Uber / Lyfy). Using the car less and less.

Living in the future.
Yes but the bus in SF isn't a place where the people in those cars would like to be. For anyone who has ever been on a bus, and who has the money to never get on a bus again, buses are a non-starter.
White House excoriates Musk for endorsing message accusing Jews
What the advantage over axium(please correct me)
ugh we are talking about SEMI TRUCKS
Millions of people use it despite it being “broken”. They just don’t know a good place to charge for the ongoing server costs.

Hacker news keeps repeating that the product doesn’t work or is broken or whatever, but it’s a hit. Millions of people use it daily.
The US Department of Defense was not audited until six years ago, when it began a project to make their organization auditable. From the start, it was expected to take longer than six years:

You are looking at a potential new job. A large company wants you to lead a project on their audits. Here is the situation:

They are large and complex - on a different order of magnitude, possibly the largest, most complex organization in the world - with ~$4 trillion in assets (not market cap, but hard assets), and ~$900 billion annual budget, seven figures of employees, and operations spanning almost every activity, all over the world.

Such an organization is naturally divided into an incredibly large and complex org chart that maybe nobody really comprehends. Among all the entities on that chart are an incredible array of financial and asset tracking systems, computerized and manual, from new back to possibly WWII.

Your boss says that procurement is the most important thing to audit: An unusually large part of that $900 billion budget is the world's largest procurement budget and operation, with an endless list of vendors of every size and shape, from the world's largest companies - some whose core function is milking your organization without crossing legal redlines - to the tailor for West Point uniforms. And we were hoping you wouldn't ask, but we're afraid the budget and operation is decentralized across all/most of those entities in that org chart [edit: per commenter with actual knowledge, "the budget is somewhat centralized; it's just the execution that's decentralized".]

We'll need you to stitch all that together so we can audit it.

Who is providing executive support for this project? Well, very few in our organization, from the leadership down, really want it - they all see it as a distraction and source of trouble, possibly risk to their missions and careers. It was imposed on us. Also, the project will be the target of politics (including from a certain highly aggressive party in Congress), talking heads, and general public Internet attacks no matter what you do. Everyone sees you as a useful whipping post.

Do you take the job?
This is great. Thank you for all your hard work Sean!
Cobol cowboys are a thing. They make substantially more than 250k. They’re competing with Wall St though, so hard to just pay more.

Fed govt migrations are ALWAYS shitshows. The army alone has like 20 individual email services. The pentagon is to org complexity what big tech is to technical complexity. It’s turtles all the way down.

This is literally one of the largest bureaucratic challenges on earth. There’s no simple fixes
With rewrite comes uncertainty and risk too, how many new bugs compared to code that works for decades?
So are you still collecting a paycheck, just doing as little work as possible?
> * except for private jets

That's not a defense. It makes it worse. The elites still get to pollute, but we don't. And it's especially bad since flying commercial is way better for the environment than flying private.
I would much rather deal with Elisp than JS. IMO JS is a terrible choice for this.
I still believe that's a people problem.

On Twitter you can easily curate Twitter lists of people to follow without being forced to use the generated feed. I'm rarely if ever outraged or otherwise emotionally charged when I'm using it. (Maybe except when I come across reply-bots)

And as I said elsewhere in the thread, I've never experienced that problem with any friend groups when it comes to iMessage.
Of course it is! Just like every company needed a "blockchain strategy" in 2018, every company now needs an "AI strategy". Because just like blockchain, the companies that use AI will crush those who don't... right?

(for what it's worth, I do think LLMs are useful for certain tasks, but it's ridiculous that every company is pivoting to be an "AI company" for no real reason...)
>> If that's true, why then did it take me 10 seconds yesterday to...

Google vs cGPT it's neither here nor there in this case, after all Google research drives cGPT, their market focus differs.

The OP is directly mapping Frankfurt's depiction of Bullshit atop the current AI phenomena, mainly because how generative AI approaches "truth".

Natural languages (NL) differ greatly from computer languages (CL), especially on grammar (NL tolerates vagueness) and semantics (meaning, truth). Loosely-speaking, when AI generates NL text it relies on LLMs for context, structure, length etc, a kinda "the model suggests so". However, where content is computer code, even computers can test & verify the output. With NL content on the other hand, the end-user has to essentially test & verify the output to establish truth, meaning.

In my view, the main difference between a Human Bullshitter and a Automated Bullshitter, is that AI can potentially improve exponentially (as smart tech does), thus leaving the end-user (average person) severely overwhelmed.
Not quite. The money is the product of the IRS, you and I are the raw materials from which the money is produced.
Sillier than 'Hero Protagonist'?

e: or Ford Prefect ?
I live in Toronto and, like many other people in cold areas, bike year round. Biking is warmer than walking, and the streets aren't exactly empty in winter either.
The opposite of few maybe many, but many is not the opposite of fewer as the parent asks.

Consider

There are fewer people on the West Coast.

There are many people on the East Coast.

"Many," is not a comparator.
In that phrase when I said "you" I didn't mean the person I was responding to. I mean the "general you" - a hypothetical person. I didn't occur to me it could be interpreted differently. I've edited it.
On the one hand there's Setzer "Let me swoop in on my airship to kidnap a beautiful opera singer" that was not likely to end in just a coffee date.

On the other hand, no way in hell does someone like Kefka invent something called a Slave Crown and then just use it to force someone to pilot a magic mecha.
Americans almost never buy fresh bread. We buy packaged bread with preservatives that lasts about a week (much longer if frozen or refrigerated).

Most of us don't go to the grocery store more than once or twice a week. When we do, it's often a big purchase that you can't carry back in your hands or on a small bike. You'd need something with more cargo space.
More middlemen these days, all looking for their handouts.
well, no. This is because there's a cap (albeit very high these days) scaling vertically - but the bigger advantage is you can also variably scale the application. It's a much bigger pain to scale up and down your DB instance with traffic. application pods can just be shut down etc.

Also you can just wrap your queries in a session/transaction on the client, so no worries there. But yes, don't do this until you need to.
That's why I still program.
Yeah but did that happen?
> I don't know the lesson to be learned here, but wow, it just makes me want to give up...

Sundar is an awful CEO, that's the lesson. That's the problem there. He exhibits no leadership abilities or vision. He's extremely weak. He's essentially the anti-Jobs.
1 in 6 American workers stay in unwanted jobs just to keep their healthcare [0]. Is that so different? Americans will tell you with a straight face that giving people free college will affect the numbers joining the military - is that so different?

Also, seems to me that the 8 trillion, with a t, dollars that were spent creating terror in the middle east would have bought a few panels. To compare directly, the highest estimate for transitioning the US to 100% renewable electricity is 5.7 trillion dollars [1].

So, if we'd just killed about 600,000 fewer civilians we could afford the change. Pointing fingers at China is easier than accepting our own actions, but you know, there's a lot to be said for taking responsibility for what one can actually change.

0 - https://news.gallup.com/poll/349094/workers-stay-unwanted-jo...

1 - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/cost-of...
Isn't repetition essentially a way of adding weight? If you could increase the inherent weight of Wikidata, wouldn't that provide the same effect?
> Tangentially, Paraguay runs entirely on hydropower from the Itaipu dam

Which is hardly incidental, having access to ungodly amounts of hydro power is the easiest way to run on 100% renewables. Iceland has similarly been 100% (or near enough) renewables for decades, despite more than 70% of its electricity going to aluminum smelters.

Norway similarly runs on 100% renewable electricity because it has enough hydro for pretty much all of it (Norway is the 213th country by population, but something like top 10 hydro producer)
Sure! https://www.youtube.com/@whatisnuclear/videos

See also: https://whatisnuclear.com/old-videos.html
False dichotomy.

Also, air pollution from cars & child pedestrian deaths has never been lower.
Also throwing out there that COBOL was a language designed by the DOD specifically for managing it's bureaucracy.

It was a naval research project headed by Admiral Grace Hopper to program with words rather than formulas like earlier "high-level" "autocoders", enabling secretaries to transfer their business logic into computers. It actually intentionally has a lot of the same structure as a recipe, hoping that this would allow easier uptake by secretaries.
I need a height adjustable desk that can go down to my lap and up to standing. Being able to go as low as my lap allows my feet to stay flat on the floor, my legs to have even pressure on my fancy herman miller aaron chair seat, and then have my arms comfortably at my side with my forearms level to the tabletoptype on my split mechanical keyboard. I also recently went to a vertical mouse. The computer stand needs to be tall enough that my eyes are generally looking straight, not up or down.

I also like a good mic and good webcam (currently using a dslr).

Also having a large thermos of water at arms length.
So for example, if you have a dominant position for phone operating systems, or a certain type of phone operating systems, and you want to exclude others from the market for app stores for those phones?
Would would they need to benefit the employer? If capital can pool its resources, why not labor?
Is the argument you're making that the people complaining about this on HN are American teenagers?

Seems like a completely different situation.... and really, again, a people problem.
heh, I had thought of an aversion therapy where if you failed to lock eyes with someone you get this shock.
All of that sounds like bog standard kinds of stuff that we and every other private company have to go through during our annual audits. I don't totally understand why these things are so burdensome to DoD personnel that they can't pass an audit. I would have been fired a long time ago if our company regularly failed audits over this kind of stuff.
The real issue to me is that normally the seller pays for the buyer agent as well. This creates a few problems:
1-The buyer will get an agent even if they don't think it's very useful, since they don't pay for it
2-The buyer agent has an incentive to show/promote properties that also have a seller agent, especially if it has the full 3% commission

I think having buyers pay for their own agent (if they want one) would result in lower fees for everyone
I live on a street that used to have a streetcar line on it! Now it's just a stroad and traffic monstrosity but I sometimes daydream of hopping on the streetcar and going to meet up with friends downtown.
In my city, everyone I know lives within 1 mile of a grocery store, but they drive anyway. Many have kids and their groceries take up a lot of space, and they don't have the leisure time to spend on walking anyway.
So now we’re just applying incel logic to every aspect of human creativity and expression? Do you also think that people refusing to make adult content of themselves for you is “legally protected rent seeking”?
I remember when it was "console style rpg" and "pc style rpg". It just so happens that "pc style rpg" games started getting released on consoles too, and somehow took over the RPG label.
> Riding a bike is not fun if you're doing it to commute - having to do it in all weathers, in traffic that feels unsafe, even if you don't feel like it and got poor sleep etc. It's really fundamentally not the same.

With good infrastructure, like PBLs, cycletracks and dedicated trails, it really is that fun. DC is an extremely good place to bike commute and I do it in all weather.

Anywho if you got poor sleep and decided to drive, everyone else is living at the mercy of your alertness. I'd rather you rode a bike.
If you go to Ethiopia, for instance, it's very common to have one dish that everyone eats from. Also common in the Middle East. You'll see it in some Chinese communities, but it tends to be more rural - once a nation develops and they enter a more globalized market, this tendency seems to fall off.

To be clear, I didn't mean that it was literally a single dish, I meant that instead of trying to compliment your meal properly with a matching veggie, because you're only making one thing. As long as it all makes sense together in the bowl/plate/hand, it works.
"Almost nobody except X does Y." and "Z does Y, with Z != X" are consistent. Is your disagreement entirely due to the (possibly nil) distinction between "Almost nobody except X does Y" and "Almost nobody does Y -- Except X", which is how the article is worded? If so, at least one native English speaker will disagree.

The poster you're replying to seems to have more of an emphasis in how the "Wrong." parent was worded. There was no need to be that confrontational, when one is adding a point of information ("Z does Y, with Z != X") that is most likely consistent with the thread title, and with the article content.
That (and the other replies, I don't want to spam up the joint replying to all) is a fair point

Just to mention, I hope I didn't come across as saying paid too much. I'm always astounded as to how much cash is thrown about over the pond is all. Go get that bag, hell yeah! :)
Remember Star Trek was set about 200 years in the future from now.
CREE isn't that much more expensive where I live - I haven't needed to buy one in a while(!) but the last time I bought one I'd say they were more like 30% to 50% more, not 3x to 5x. The CREE is definitely cheaper than the Phillips.

That's why I use CREE. Fantastic bulbs at a reasonable price - a truly good value!
The employer benefits the employer. The union benefits the employee, thus providing a balance in the power between employer and employee.
250k is not top dollar for programmers, but it is top dollar in absolute terms. The point is that you don't incentivize better work by paying top dollar. Taking a mediocre developer and paying them more doesn't make them a better developer or even motivate them to become better.

It can attract people who are already good software developers absolutely, but the second point being made is that you also attract a lot of charlatans as well and so just throwing more money at the problem isn't exactly a great solution.

You need a solid culture to go with the money.