skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that the default? I don't think I've ever done a paper that wasn't in LaTeX...

It makes rendering mathematical notation very easy, also automatically tracks indices, references, labels, etc. I can even embed csv data to display as a table with a few lines of code!

It's also pretty straightforward to break down the paper into various folders and documents and import them all in a master .tex file, keeping your figures and data in their own folders too.

Can't imagine doing all of that in a bunched up in a word doc...

I mean, you can even do all the building in a container, so I often check in my work, push, and the CI builds the paper and makes a release depending on tag/branch.
Which app do you use for notes?
Smaller or even larger Llama models are vastly inferior to GPTs.
We're talking about web design.

If we consider art .. sculpture and painting do require planning, preparatory sketches or a maquette. Design thinking allows us to build and solve.
> Most developers probably don't care and just want to get paid. Beyond that, I imagine you're not usually empowered to make big changes unless you're relatively senior, and even if you decide to be the kind of developer that's always striving towards self improvement your job is unlikely to reward you for your skill development.

Bingo. I got a release coming up, I just need to ship this -- ain't got no time for fancy stuff, and higher-ups don't want fancy or flourish, just make it work. And even if there is room for trying something new, it probably doesn't matter if the users DGAF about the new feature.
Tried that. It got us here. It's plane-snatching time.
Not Noe to Soma, but there are a ton of restaurants (and other businesses) in easy walking distance in SF. That was the only thing I liked about living there.
I wonder if there's an AI wrapper startup working on making fonts. The prompts would be interesting, like "design me a Christmas font that's heavily influenced by the Balkans but also Soviet Brutalism, and make it friendly for Children" or something of that sort.

Culturally it needs to be ok to have exotic fonts used commercially. I understand why Helvetica, Roboto, Noto Sans and the more modern fonts are used, but it makes the world a tad dull TBH
Please don’t use ChatGPT for commenting without disclosure
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately, and we eventually have to ban such accounts. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The US isn't a democracy; 1 vote on 1 square foot of land counts for ~80x the vote on another square foot of land. If it was a democracy, these forever-issues would already be solved.
I disagree with the idea that handwritten software falls into the same category has handmade woodworking. Unlike software, there is no machine that can do the type of woodworking you describe.

At least for now, we still have the unsolved 'robotics problem' where the data to train humanoid robots to do woodworking better than a human doesn't exist in sufficient quantity to make it work using current AI training techniques. This too may soon change via synthetic training data or some modified technique.

Conversely, my own experience shows that even with context window limitations, ChatGPT is already better than 90% of working software engineers for generating small practical programs. Here's why it's better:

1. It's better because it not only knows how to code but is equally knowledgeable about product management, UI design, business practices, etc which makes it more like interacting with an 'architect level' engineer
2. It knows a good if not 'the best' way to do most things
They are likely honeypots of BND, of whole range of legal trolls, as well activity of Russian intelligence is possible.
You should not miss Bloomberg's Matt Levine's column on the biggest carbon offset project in Africa. Absolute failure
Neoverse V2, so this will be probably be the first widely available ARMv9 server with SVE2, a server-class SKU you can actually get your hands on (i.e. not a mobile phone/Grace/Fugaku.) It's about damn time!
That's an interesting question since advertising certainly follows search dominance, but it doesn't necessarily follow the other way around. Google figured out how to monetize its dominance with advertising before it had the behemoth ad platforms they have today. It's pretty much the same with the popular social networks.

The answer (more logically) should kind of be neither. Advertising obviously has a lot of channels, and even though Google has both Adwords and its display advertising network, it doesn't follow those really need to be the same provider... at least outside of more data to do more targeted ads. But, again, advertising dollars will follow platforms that price for ROI.

Better targeting mainly adds to the amount that Google and Facebook can charge for their ads and still have companies pay for them. It doesn't really add to their dominance directly (I say directly since, obviously, more money can buy more R&D/employees/regulatory capture/acquiring competitors/just-paying-for-dominance like with Google paying Apple. But that's all indirect).
> Time preference theories of interest are unsatisfactory, because for them to make sense, lenders must have perfect knowledge about the future and be perfectly aware of competing usages of money at any point in the lending window. If they don't have that information, they can't have time preference. Lenders will be reluctant to lend at "market clearing" interest rates and consistently demand a premium giving the rise to usury.

If everything required perfect knowledge to be actionably modeled, humans wouldn't do anything. At the very least, markets wouldn't clear.

In practice, the realized price of time preference is typically a fraction (or multiple) of its full value, proportionally reflecting the uncertainty involved in its estimation. This is true of all factors involved in the pricing of any marketable asset, not just time preference and not just loans.
I do wonder, let's think about that. People can change, 500 years is a long time. One could argue living that long may tame or completely change him. Get bored of doing what you did the past 200 years and try something else.

We do have to understand that humans are humans after all. Eventually you will get bored of the same nonsense day in and day out and do something else.
Is this open source? It says the model is the Llama license which is NOT open source.
Note that EFS One Zone is priced the same as S3 Express One Zone with similar latency. One isn't better or worse than the other, it only depends on what kind of access your application needs.
Lets see how long David Sinclair lives for. Dude will live to be 200.
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe Damaged by Serious Fire
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the visual timer is mostly for people with ADHD, who suffer from time-blindness. I can see your point of it being stressful.

Pomodoro is one part of it. It's more about focusing on current task at hand with something always on your screen to keep you accountable.

If you are down, feel free to join our discord channel: https://discord.gg/GavhgFrt9E
> Firstly postnord is a (largely government owned) private company, so employees are not state employees. For state employees, employees with sovereignty duties (e.g. police...) typically there are restrictions around strike action.

So the government owns the company, but the employees are not government employees?

Everything I said still stands.

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EDIT: Basic common sense says you can either be considered (1) a government organization with statutory exclusivity and legal responsibility (2) a private organization without statutory exclusivity or legal responsibility.

Sweden is letting Postnord have its cake and eat it too.
Bitcoin mining could supercharge transition to renewables, study claims
Corporate America Has Dodged the Damage of High Rates. For Now
What does Balanced use then? 3.5?
A long way. People suck at putting together requirements.
vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.
The risk is untrusted text that the AI reads from your dataset, and executes. The prompt isn’t from the user it’s from the data.

Similar to SQL injection where inserting an arbitrary and unreviewed string into your sql query is a bad idea.
The article mentions "And, indeed, even Alphabet/Google internally have said this."

Just a reminder, any employee can write a document saying anything.
I see your point but the world changes so fast. Back in my day you just needed to learn C, understand algorithms and so on and then you could get deeper in an area or two. Today, you need to understand and be able to proficiently use so many technologies that you can feel lost.

And this is what happens when, say, you loose a job you've been doing for 10-15 years. You need to re-learn the world. And a lifetime is not enough to do it the way we used to do it.
Or maybe they are just AB testing and aggressively optimizing the response generation?

LLMs are known to be compute/energy hungry to execute.
It is a developing technology, if not downright experimental.

Therefore, this explanation is very likely. I cannot see the reason to call this a conspiracy.
> Friedrich Nietzsche [...] regarded morality as the ultimate form of passive aggression – a ruse employed by the weak, resentful masses to restrain the will of their stronger, creative superiors.

I think this is an accurate but misleading description of what Nietzsche was trying to communicate.

Nietzsche was posing a question: why do we have the morals that we have? He compared morality from ancient Greece to morality in modern Christian Germany. He noticed a difference in that modern Christianity morality appeared to praise the weak in a way that ancient Greece did not. So he has to explain, how and why did that change occur? He provides an explanation: the weaker people in society latched on to a moral idea that gave them some measure of power over the stronger elites.

This was an explanation as to why modern Germany had the morals it seemed to have in Nietzsche's time, not a description/definition of morality. He even ponders moral systems that would advantage the elites and considers how they applied in ancient cultures. One idea he puts forth is that whichever moral system personally benefits an individual is the one they are likely to support. One moral code for mice, another moral code for eagles. He just lived at a time and place where he felt that the mice had gained control of the prevailing morality.

I feel his argument was that morals were a battleground upon which a larger war was being waged. He seemed to argue that there was some deeper force at work (will to power) and morality was just a vehicle through which it was expressed. One expression of that force was resentful/weak people defining powerful people as "evil".

But consider contemporary Christian prosperity doctrines. Their is an implicit belief in that kind of morality that your wealth and power are a result of your righteousness. That is a far cry from the kind of morality that Nietzsche was criticizing. It is a morality where the advantage is on the elites.
Best paid on Earth in the US. In other countries we're paid well but about average by ordinary Valley tech standards.
Thank you, interesting, I had not seen this before.

Seems complex - any ideas why the use of Rust extensions vs doing it natively in PG?
Throughput scales with the amount of data in it, it is in the docs. So depending on the application, even if latency is better, the speeds are atrocious at lower volumes of persisted data.
One thing folks downplay in the original search wars was the UX decisions of Google. It was a plain page with just a search box and the results were clutter free and easier to parse. As a young computer user at this time, this is what brought me to Google. I had no sense of which platform was providing more relevant results.
> This isn’t workers saying we’re not going to deliver mail to, let’s say, Muslims.

What characteristics/groups are permissible to boycott? Just the bad ones I assume?
I'm biased because I worked in legal tech for a while but I think Harvey is kind of fucked. There's a bunch of cloud native legal startups in the space already that can easily plug in this technology and that already have an established reputation and rapport with existing users.
You cut off the best bits of Letwin's rant:

"...although their top guys may be smart, they
aren't techically savvy. And their low level guys are often neither.
IBM doesn't promote on the basis of your skills and ability; they promote
on the basis of seniority and other secondary factors. So the guy
who makes these decisions often doesn't know what he's doing. And he
doesn't know that he doesn't know, because his peers are equally
butt-ignorant too. So these guys can never figure out how other folks,
including but not limited to Microsoft, keep doing better! Must be dumb luck,
they think. I always agreed that it was dumb luck. If you catch my
drift... :-) "
Andromeda does not seem to be such a good example for your point, though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...

We would just need to wait for "some time". ;)
I did mention vendor lock in?
True: "most" was a stretch.
"Lawyer logic" is a perfect term for it, for at least two reasons.

No matter how valid the testimony or reasoning, the opposing lawyer is never going to say "good point" or "I'm going to have to think about that". No, the response will always be denial of the validity of what you said. And they will always respond with an argument.

Also, the lawyer isn't talking to you. They're talking to the jury; you're just an unwilling participant in their attempt to persuade someone else.
I don't see any obvious reason why design should come to mean pure aesthetics in this particular domain, and even if we do, what word is left to mean actual design work in the traditional sense of the word?
Carbon offsets are largely bullshit financialized products.
You actually can't.

The first problem is you can only write a shell script to be defensive about the things you know about. Do you personally know which environment variables need to be reset to their default value for your service to work correctly?

The next problem is that there's actually some inheritable process state you can't manage with shell builtins. Combine that with the above, and it really makes sense for you to have a utility that knows how to spawn a service in a pristine, controlled environment.

While we're working on that pristine, controlled environment tool, we should also reflect on the fact that process management in Linux is a real complicated bitch. Simple is invariably neither robust nor correct. If we've already got a utility to help us write a services, we might as well extend it to be able to help with detecting stuff like "is this service still actually running or did it somehow fart itself and die?"

Of course, once you have this tool, you look back at your new init script and realize that all of the work you have to do is now in this tool, so why should you have to bother with boilerplate in a defective-by-default language [1]?

> Good luck debugging, fixing and splitting or just modifing or twiking systemd implementation :)

I've had more issues debugging init scripts than I have with systemd stuff. I actually find debugging easier with systemd... it actually tells me when things go haywire!

[1] Try having directories with spaces in their name with shell and see how often you get tripped up by it!
Ahh I see.

So currently it only supports a simple timer like "Email bob 5".

Later, we will build integration with your calendar to give you more control over your workday. At that point, the specific time will be very valuable.
If you import people who disagree with the fundamental premises of your country for economic purposes, you reap what you sow.
I'd go straight to the experiment, create the tables on a local postgresdb and try to get it to work.
> Whisper wipes the floor with Amazon Transcribe.

Which just had a major update.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazon-transcr...
> "There’s a fundamental policy aim, which is to burn and exploit all Saudi’s oil reserves until the last drop"

If this is true, this sounds to me very shortsighted.

Our modern society will always require oil as the foundation for a thriving chemical industry. Digging and burning it all up means when its scarcity and price increases SA has nothing to sell.

Norway does it better. This are blocked extraction in the touristic Lofoten islands. If they really need it then can decide otherwise, with less disruptive tech in the future.
That shouldn't be an acceptable excuse.
We're talking about a nation that burns unrefined crude oil for power generation:

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Saudi-Ara...

Several years ago an acquaintance who worked in the oil industry joked about how he was saving the planet by taking a job in Saudi Arabia to develop their nonexistent fracking industry. He said the long-term effect would be helping them stop burning crude for their electricity needs, by pivoting to natural gas.
Not quite. DOS was just the bootloader for Windows 9x.

While Windows 95's kernel didn't have the full feature set of NT, it still was more sophisticated than DOS.

Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
Georgism is the wealth concentrator's "clean coal" solution to housing, their "libertarian freedom." It's an idealogical advertisement for the Lords, letting larger actors liquidate smaller with greater ease.
I don't think you can dismiss criticism of programming languages as "PL tribalism". The idea that all programming languages are equally great and "best tool for the job" excuses all flaws is clearly ridiculous.

PHP is not a very good language. Yes, even modern PHP.
> Their cloudless desert is a great place to put solar panels

Extremely high temperatures reduce efficiency. Extremely low temperatures at night mean high stress from thermal cycling. The desert is full of dust which reduces efficiency.

Finally, the desert is not just a mass of sand, it's a full on ecosystem that experiences impacts from laying large farms on top of it.
Why can't they earnestly pursue both?

I mean, they might have realized that oil will eventually stop making current levels of profits, and thus they want to diversify.

But that doesn't mean they don't want to postpone this moment as far as possible into the future.
I have a futon on a platform bed and had a waterbed for years before. I've obviously used beds with springs but I've never owned one.
In my experience, I encounter more issues and waste more time when I fiddle on my own and try stuff compared to doing the same, but using chatGPT.

There is a lot of knowledge that I don’t want to have expertise with. Sure, I could carefully read the PostgreSQL documentation about triggers and implement it myself, or I could get the job done in a few minutes and procrastinate on HN instead.
He says just enough to stay semi relevant and to collect his huge paycheck from mark
Pace Aristippus (and the lentils), telling rich people what they want to hear is not a bad way to arrange for a stream of invites to fancy dinners.
Show HN: Super simple rough notes in 37lines of HTML
An even simpler implementation is possible if you don't want tab support, bold/italics:

<html contenteditable="true" autofocus></html>
<script>
const a = localStorage.getItem("saved-content");
document.querySelector("body").innerHTML = a;
setInterval(() => {
localStorage.setItem("saved-content", document.querySelector("body").innerHTML);
}, 2000);
</script>
This is the first article or interview I've enjoyed reading in months. Thanks for sharing!
But if Fannie Mae is unable or unwilling to perform the governmental functions it is contracted for, the government must find a new contractor who will, yes?

Unless the law specifically enshrines the privilege of one named private party above others?

Any of that make sense?
I am finding Bard almost comparable. Gpt quality is declining I think.

Wouldn't surprise me if bard permanently surpasses gpt in the next quarter. Particularly if openai is dialing down quality...
Source on it not working in Canada?
> Eventually, Google figured out how to create a real moat, by using click data to improve search result ranking

This is revisionism -- Google was far superior to any competing search engine long before Microsoft embarked on its search engine adventures. Google was hand-coding heuristics well into the Bing era. It wasn't until Amit Singhal left Google and search that they pivoted to more machine learning techniques that could use the click data effectively.

This corresponded with the beginning of Google's long decline in search quality, buffeted mostly by the fact that their on-page quality systems were extremely sophisticated at cutting out spam and SEO. The detection was far from perfect, but so many miles ahead of the competitors that their competitors kept unearthing spam that Google had long since excluded from its index but whose fossilized remains still polluted the web.

The moat that Google had was just that they were really good at search quality and PageRank was only a small part of that. In other words, no moat at all, just a better product.
The "good old days weren't always good". I'm tired of either limiting myself to the information I have on the top of my head, the LLMs are really helping allow me to be creative and stretch out to do things that are just beyond my bread and butter, or things that I do infrequently.
The AI has joined the teamsters
Aside from the one sentence about Amazon "racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging behind [in AI]", the article:

* Lists the features of Q as described by Amazon, without commentary.

* Exclusively and uncritically quotes an Amazon executive.

* Mentions other, competing products only as a lead-in to how Q is allegedly superior, without any substantive comparison.

* Was published only a couple hours after Amazon's actual press release[1], so it's not like the NYT had time to do any real work.

* Briefly mentions other AI-related Amazon activities announced in other press releases today[2], again without commentary.

* Features no third-party expertise or independent research to provide context for the core claim, which is that addressing security and privacy concerns will convince organizations to allow chatbots to access their data, and (critically) that it is feasible for Amazon to provide this feature.

* Makes no mention of why it might have taken Amazon longer than other companies to announce an AI product, which is the only interesting context they provided in this article.

Of course it's not literally a press release. But it's not much else, either. I guess that's what passes for business news.

The best argument against calling this article a press release is that it misses the key message of the actual PR, which is that Q is supposed to help people use all the complicated AWS features.

[1] https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-announces-amazon-q...

[2] https://press.aboutamazon.com/2023/11/aws-and-nvidia-announc...
I don’t pay monthly for any software - I pay a few bucks for cloud services, web hosting and data sync/backup.
Great work!

Strangely, I thought I remember being able to use breakpoints on https://cloudflareworkers.com/ - I thought it handled inspector messages in a nested loop until receiving debugger resume command - since the beginning but I guess I must be mistaken... Maybe that was just an idea we had back then.
>... do you really think that those representatives are aiming to be futile? or puppets?

Yes. Hard yes. You're asking us to assume that an industry that has given us countless reasons to not trust it should be trusted, now, to act in our best interest.