skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love one of my friends - among many other things he does, he grounds me.

I'll pitch some moonshot crazy idea that would be nearly impossible to pull off even with tremendous effort.

And he'll agree that it sounds neat, but comment, "I think you could make dozens of dollars with that."

It's then that I realize, I have no strategy for how to actually make money off my idea. I just wish the free product already existed.

Every now and then he thinks my ideas are worth following, and it's nice to have someone more objective than me help ground me in ideas that might actually pay off!
I have bad news for you about Ted the Caver
Insider Fraud and Flooding of Fake Products at Amazon India
Don't understand this discussion at all. There's no need to flip your position due to AI. Any produced work may or may not infringe copyright. If you produce a work that lifts say, characters or expressions straight out of a story you're likely violating copyright. If you used AI tools to produce that same work it still does. It's irrelevant how you technically produced the work, by pen, typewriter or chatbot api.

Asking if training a model violates copyright is unintelligible because 100 GB of weights don't resemble any work unless you produce and publish inferences from it.
Eh, I think if you put serious thought into what has been gained and what has been lost, it's hard to come to the conclusion that we should go backwards. Not saying that there is no legitimate criticism to be levied, but the nostalgia-driven takes generally don't stand up to scrutiny, in my opinion. And they are historically common. [0]

[0] https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/kids-today-are-spoiled...

> New York Daily News, 7 August 1925

Are Children Today Spoiled By Luxuries? By David Belasco

Are They Spoiled? Remove the girl or boy of today from radio, the telephone, the libraries, movies, and other forms of amusement and comfort -give them merely a jackknife and nature's unchanging wonders for amusement, and how would they fare?

I fear me ennui would claim them for its own and that they would fare ill until returned to their accustomed habitat of convenience and plenty. Is too much luxury, too ready means of amusement, taking the truly American spirit of pioneering and invention out of the personalities of our children? Are we softening them mentally and spiritually because we do not make them understand and appreciate what civilization is doing for them as compared with those of but a few generations agone? One hopes not- but the fact remains that the youngster of the late eighteen hundreds was a pretty self-reliant American citizen...
Author of ripgrep here.

It really just depends. The way I like to characterize `git grep` (at present) is that it has sharp performance cliffs. ripgrep has them too, to be sure, but I think it has fewer of them.

If you're just searching for a simple literal, `git grep` is decently fast:

$ git remote -v
origin git@github.com:torvalds/linux (fetch)
origin git@github.com:torvalds/linux (push)

$ git rev-parse HEAD
f1fcbaa18b28dec10281551dfe6ed3a3ed80e3d6

$ time LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 git grep -c -E 'PM_RESUME'
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:3
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:3
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:3
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-secure.h:1
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c:1
arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1
drivers/input/mouse/cyapa.h:1
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c:1
drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_cs.c:1
drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_pci.c:15
drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_reg.h:7
drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3_hw_regs.h:1
include/uapi/linux/apm_bios.h:1

real 0.215
user 0.421
sys 1.226
maxmem 161 MB
faults 0

$ time rg -c 'PM_RESUME'
drivers/mtd/maps/pcmciamtd.c:1
drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_reg.h:7
drivers/net/wwan/t7xx/t7xx_pci.c:15
drivers/net/wireless/intersil/hostap/hostap_cs.c:1
drivers/usb/mtu3/mtu3_hw_regs.h:1
drivers/input/mouse/cyapa.h:1
arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:1
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:3
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:3
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:3
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm33xx-core.c:1
arch/arm/mach-omap2/omap-secure.h:1
include/uapi/linux/apm_bios.h:1

real 0.078
user 0.259
sys 0.577
maxmem 15 MB
faults 0

But if you switch it up and start adding regex things to your pattern, there can be substantial slowdowns:

$ time LC_ALL=C git grep -c -E '\w{5,}\s+PM_RESUME'
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:1

real 5.704
user 55.671
sys 0.585
maxmem 207 MB
faults 0

$ time LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 git grep -c -E '\w{5,}\s+PM_RESUME'
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:1

real 24.529
user 4:34.42
sys 0.753
maxmem 211 MB
faults 0

$ time LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 git grep -c -P '\w{5,}\s+PM_RESUME'
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:1

real 1.372
user 16.980
sys 0.647
maxmem 211 MB
faults 1

$ time rg -c '\w{5,}\s+PM_RESUME'
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/dev-tools/sparse.rst:1
Documentation/translations/zh_TW/sparse.txt:1

real 0.082
user 0.226
sys 0.612
maxmem 18 MB
faults 0

In the above cases, ripgrep has Unicode enabled. (It's enabled by default irrespective of locale settings. ripgrep doesn't interact with POSIX locales at all.)
> car safety for pedestrians/cyclists has decreased

It's also decreased for anyone NOT willing to buy a "light truck" (e.g. a modern SUV). There's a loophole that makes it so that light trucks don't have to be tested against the same safety standards as other vehicles. Basically they just have to prove they're safe to crash into other light trucks but do not have to be tested against regular passenger vehicles. This loophole is credited as one of the main reasons car fatalities have been rapidly growing in the US but falling in most other nations. And also for the massive recent explosion in size (again, mainly observed in the US).

But size is just one factor that's reduced safety. Another one is reduced visibility. One of the contributors to the rise in fatalities has been due to parents literally running over their own children in their driveways. These are low-speed, suburban vehicle fatalities that are not happening in other countries
The Parliament is very much the junior member compared with the Council and Commission
Although I think mandatory rankings and assuming the bottom x% should be exited isn’t great approach, I also don’t think it’s a company or managers job to coach you into being a productive employee.

Yes, they should have direct feedback but overall you are expected to be a professional. This means you are accountable for your work - you do what you say you will. That you express concern early and not late in the process. That you deliver quality outputs that your peers respect. That you assimilate to team culture and participate it and that you are a net positive to morale - your team wants to work with you.

Managers lay out expectations but they aren’t babysitters. Not all managers are good of course. A good one should be able to nudge you back on course and build a rapport, but they can’t be expected to make you a professional.
I have trouble understanding what Q is. It can't be that new Chatbot named Amazon Q in AWS, because it has very few capabilities. It's kind of embarrassing.

What am I missing? Is there something else shipping in future?

doubt any of the media outlets actually used it, they are just repeating Amazon's statements
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-inte...

Thought this was an interesting interview. I do love how politicians use an investigation to not answer questions, the board said he was “not consistently candid” and given the opening question of “why were you fired?” still not being clearly answered, you’d have to agree with their initial assessment.

I’m not sure I trust someone who has tried to set up a crypto currency that scans everyone’s eyeballs as a feature, personally, but that’s just me I guess.
Ask HN: What laptop computer do you currently use?
Not using this to look for recommendations, but more of a survey of what HN users like to use.

I made an ask post like this in 2019 and I'm sort of curious to how things have changed over the years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20857818

Maybe follow a template like this?

Laptop model:

CPU:

RAM:

Screen:

Personal comments:
Make it a two-player game by making the paddle of each player the brick wall of the other player. This is also easily extended to N > 2 players.
> we would have more realistic companies

I assume by "realistic" you mean companies that prioritise profitably?

I don't hold a strong opinion on this, but the way I see this is that, yes, investors could invest in companies and demand those companies maximise profits so they can see a return on their investment as soon as possible without the need for accusation, but I genuinely don't know if most users would agree this is better for them.

To appeal to an acquirer or other investors companies most first appeal to their users and show strong user growth. So I don't buy your second point that companies prioritising profitably are somehow more focused on building a good products for their users – and if anything I'd probably argue the inverse is generally true.

I suppose if you were to push me for an opinion on this I think it's fine to let the market decide what's best. Companies can already focus on profits if they wish. And if you're right that companies that do this will have better products and keep their users happy then companies that choose to do this should take market share from big tech over time.

But to be so certain of this that you'd use regulation to enforce it thereby destroying a significant source of funding from early stage companies and the innovation those companies provide the tech sector would be a risk. Especially when I'm not even sure you're right that consumers prefer companies that focus on profitability.
Vim is almost broken for me without fzf+rg. Feels like I’m manually grinding coffee instead of using electricity.
the only reason people feel like they need a bigger car is because of all the other big cars on the road. A vicious spiral
So everyone wants to name their thing either X or Q. Can't we give the other letters some love for a change? I've never heard about, let's say, the G conspiracy, for example.
I’d point in the direction of Nixpkgs’s buildFHSEnv, but unfortunately Nixpkgs has its own layers and layers of cruft (being more than fifteen years old by now).
Those tests haven't been analyzed to break down the contribution of P vs E cores, how much of it comes from frequency and how much from IPC, power consumption and throttling performance, etc.
Abstract says the sample questions were public available. The point they are making is that the model wasn't specifically trained for dermatology.
Natural Computing [pdf]
If you want to use Docker then you can go ahead - I don't see anyone claiming that this brand new, highly experimental project should be used by everyone instead of Docker.

There are tradeoffs hers. For some people the tradeoff of a single executable file with everything in it compared to setting up a Docker system is worthwhile.
Yes! And don't forget MASH [0], its a collection of Ansible roles that is compatible with the Matrix Docker Ansible Deploy playbook. In case you want to add more services to your Matrix server.

[0]: https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook
There's been a lot of spending on credit cards and the like but default rates are heading up such that it quite likely won't go on like this that much longer.

https://twitter.com/GameofTrades_/status/1728820920649670923
Bellingcat Team Hackathon
It is in Italy's ("Freedom and secrecy of correspondence and any other communication cannot be violated"), but I didn't think this was particularly unique?

(Note that this article of the constitution doesn't include E2E encryption because there's a carve out for the judiciary to limit this freedom).
Alfa
Bravo
Charlie
And so on … Q is easier to redefine in part because it has fewer acrophonic opportunities to create a simple repetitive word. Q has a history of being mysterious and is a wildcard of sorts from a linguistic perspective.
Stalingrad the name wouldn’t exist for another century. Was the location with former name as symbolic?
>Amazon Q is an expert on patterns in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, best practices, documentation, and solution implementations, making it easier and faster for you to explore new services and capabilities, learn unfamiliar technologies, and architect solutions.

Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective, and more importantly, secure? Does it come with a warranty?
> I think the best thing they have done though is kick out compatible ATmega parts and the STM32 parts. They're really killing it there.

GigaDevice and WCH have completely new MCUs now based on RISC-V.
They keep the STM32 peripheral register interface for easy driver re-use, but they are well beyond mere copies these days.

https://wch-ic.com/products/categories/47.html?pid=5

https://www.gigadevice.com/product/mcu
I’d have to imagine the simple reason is that Q is short for Question.
ML-assisted discovery of oxygen-rich porous carbon supercapacitor materials
The answer to most of these kinds of questions of generalist versus specialist when it comes to AI, according to Richard Sutton's "The Bitter Lesson"[1], is that specialized AI will win for a while, but generalized will always win the long-term because it's better at turning compute into results.

Whether or not that will pan out with "fine tuned" versus "generalized" versions of the same data-eating algorithms remains to be seen, but I suspect the bitter lesson might still apply.

1: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Underwater Constructions: How Do Engineers Make Them
We software guys sure are spoiled when it comes to the ease of releasing new software, most of us anyway, it's not like most of us have to plug a hole into the ocean ever to install a new software component.

Then again there's embedded software running in environments where the hardware is very hard to get to. Mars Rovers, satellites, etc.

There are certainly cases where the infrastructure needed to actually carry on a software update out-measures the size and complexity of the to-be-updated software.

Would love to hear some of your software upgrade horror stories where the upgrade itself was a really tedious thing to do.
There was at least one already, who did confuse it with something curl project does indeed.
> openbsd does not use a /boot/ partition. instead it uses the bsd.* files in root.

So there’s no equivalent to EFISTUB (the kernel as a UEFI executable, most easily accomplished by mounting the ESP at /boot)?
> Adobe clearly thought that or they wouldn't have paid that much, and so did their shareholders or they would have sued for wasting money.

Value is not the same as cost.
The cost of acquiring something is not the same as the cost of building something.
> but we are starting to have the same sized cars

in parts of Europe, vigilante groups are deflating tires of SUVs to discourage people from contributing to this trend. Not that I endorse the practice but it's interesting to consider how unimaginable something like this would be to Americans. Whereas in Europe people can probably at least understand why they're doing what they're doing
The idea that higher valuations drive more innovation is probably not meaningful at the scale we are today.

Would the founders work as hard as they did, if instead of making $5bn, they made $2bn? Probably just as hard.

Yes, price signals work, but not linearly at these scales.
The questions were public available. The point is the model wasn't specifically trained for dermatology.
It could also be the cultural differences between companies that are engineering driven first, versus companies that are primary sales/management/consulting driven first and the engineering part is a distant second.

And the likes of QCOM and all these international big-tech pay so much above the low Austrian market rates, that they can afford to treat candidates as disposable commodities as they have virtually unlimited applicants, so it could be a problem of scale besides the culture and liability concerns.

>What I have found is that Austrian companies will interview you even if they don't intend to hire anyone for the position

But how could you tell they weren't intending to hire anyone when interviewing you? I doubt they straight up told you that. :)
Maybe I'm missing something but I only use it with AND conditions (usually in the form of 'foo 'bar and it only matches lines with foo AND bar both present)
Small clarification: ack did not and does not respect your gitignore files. I just tried it myself, and indeed it doesn't. And this is consistent with the feature chart maintained by the author of ack: https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/

One practical result of this is that it will mean `ack` will be quite slow when searching typical checkouts of Node.js or Rust projects, because it won't automatically ignore the `node_modules` or `target` directories. In both cases, those directories can become enormous.

`ack` will ignore things like `.git` by default though.

I believe `ag` was the first widely used grep-like tool that attempted to respect your .gitignore files automatically. (Besides, of course, `git grep`. But `git grep` behaves a little differently. It only searches what is tracked in the repo, and that may or may not be in sync with the rules in your gitignores.)
Surprised with VW being so low.

Might be survivor bias but my VW Passat B6 TDI is still trucking and I don't plan on replacing it anytime. Ideally I will run it into the ground.
I love it, OP. Really creative take on the original game and this is a totally unique use of windows as an input. It's smart on many levels.

I wonder if this game could be used as a benchmark for alternating attention (switching between tasks.) People with disorders like ADHD and others that effect executive function are supposed to have difficulty with this. So it would be interesting to see if ones score increased off medication vs on medication. Or even if a healthy person saw an increase with stimulants.

Psychologists love games like this because it lets them study isolated aspects of cognition in a standardized way. It's honestly a cool project.
There was a brief moment in North America where almost every worker belonged to a union but employers hadn't figured out offshoring yet. The adjustment definitely was hard on American workers, but the fact that it came with a huge benefit to developing country workers is conspicuously overlooked by most of the 'late stage capitalism' narrative.
Caveat this with the fact that they did rag.
Happy to share!

This sequence is more regular with multiplexed terminals - one window, many panes.

Many people like 'tmux'. I ended up stuck with my terminal handling it (Kitty)... I learned this way first.

Anyway, if I'm iterating a lot on something, I end up using two or three panes at least.

One pane as the ringer/wildcard while others are more static - an editor, the interpreter, etc.

Reserving the 'ringer' pane protects that last argument for quick use. This reservation is aided by having the other static panes for my editor and such
> People drive horrible now. Running lights, crazy lane changes, excessive speeding etc.

No longer bothering to turn off long beam headlights, when there is oncoming traffic. And with the new bright led lights, the long beams are really bright.

Sometimes even the low beam lights feel too bright, especially if the oncoming car is big, and thus has its headlights sitting higher up.
At least one old UNIX book of French origin described the “bin” user as the owner of the common binary files on the system.
That rule seems like it would lock you out of pretty much all modern technology pretty quickly, to be honest. What do you use for daily computer/mobile use? What white goods manufacturers do you go for? A company will make user-hostile decisions the second it knows (or thinks) it can get away with it with a profit - fully featured, long lasting, sensibly built hardware is, sadly, not actually good for business.
Sure. I just question why people want to use both simultaneously.
IMHO, I guess there is even a bigger issue. The acronym IA is mere marketing, what those ML models are really doing is statistical concatenations of data, using as source a vectorial database constructed and indirectly compressed through the so called learning process. Those models are interfaces optimized around such advanced vectorial databases.

> Imagine a world where everything is “AI generated”, everything including books, songs, music, movies, etc. One can imagine the irony in humans consuming and enjoying such content - the very same humans who have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and even artificial intelligence itself!

As statistics works, part of the data is discarded. Those databases are not lossless. Across the years the content of that world little by little will follow the path of the photos that are compressed several times using the JPG image format.

So I expect that those "AI" content generated, mixed with -at one point- mostly unrenewed content "Pre-AI human", mixed with "Automated" crawlers content generated, will reach a moment where such content will be monochromatic and full of mistakes.

Along those years process, I think that the companies using it will have already normalized between the people the "Our AI just failed because the model need more learning process, we didn't expected it, sorry for the inconveniences that caused to you, accept it and ** you nicely".

When such monochromatic content and labor becomes uncomfortable for general public, human generated content will rise again, with a "reinventing the wheel content" sold as new, nevertheless with difficulties to discern what content has glitches/errors and with not (the "AI hallucinations" as are euphemistically referred nowadays). For that moment, such badly named "AIs" will keep being used, but they will be considered second class cheap services.

I mean, I think it will not be an end road, will be more like a curve in the road.
> Why would anyone give control of air traffic or weapons to AI?

Simplified operations, faster reaction time, eliminating human resistance for obeying killing orders. See "War Games" [0] for a hypothetical exploration of the concept.

> a chatbot.

Some claim it's self-aware. Some say it called for airstrikes. Some say it gave a hit list for them. It might be a glorified Markov-chain, and I don't use it, but there's a hoard of people who follows it like it's the second Jesus, and believe what it emits.

> I can't see it happening.

Because, it already happened.

Turkey is claimed to use completely autonomous drones in a war [1].

South Korea has autonomous sentry guns which defend DMZ [2].

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

[1]: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a36559508/...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1
Porn Site Blocker and RPG
See also the GoboLinux filesystem hierarchy [0], which may be what would happen if we redesigned the traditional Unix hierarchy.

[0] https://wiki.gobolinux.org/Overview/GoboLinux-Filesystem-Hie...
Honestly I'm confused why even post an interview on the topic if the most obvious question still hasn't been answered.
SerenityOS – a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core
It's still there in the powershell 5 witch is still the default in Windows 10
/bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin /sbin /usr/sbin /usr/local/sbin I never know where to put my own binaries so I just add my own at ~/bin. Some programs also add their own like ~/.cargo/bin what a mess
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