skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to disable the annoying programs pretty easily and don't know of any licensing changes.

Or is this hypothetical?
Ohh I see, I honestly didn't click the first time. You meant sx in MUI, not StyleX. We're gonna need more names.
> Chat gpt 4 turbo is pretty nice but the UI/UX is clumsy.

Strong disagree. ChatGPT is the only UI/UX that I find usable (great, no. Better than the rest, by miles). Bing and Google are damned clunky.

It's also easy to make you own interface with via the API.
Nice work!!
This makes me excited about the future
I'm with most of this. But then we get to:

>In one recent example, voices on the PSF Board were demanding that a condition of funding for a particular PyCon be the formal adoption of a “human rights plan” - a measure that would pose a significant legal and personal risk to its organisers.
>
>The entitlement and assumption of cultural superiority embodied in these ideas are absurd and offensive.

I can't track down what this 'human rights plan' requires. I also understand that Europeans (and Americans) need to be very careful when projecting cultural norms to other places. I'm not here for cultural colonialism. And there are some countries where supporting LGBTQIA+ rights (and others) is illegal.

The PSF should be careful when it comes to trying to force organizers to take stances that would put organizers in legal jeopardy. But if you find it 'absurd' and 'offensive' to support human rights beliefs that are espoused by a funding body... don't take the damn money.

People can disagree on what human rights exist, and how they should be enforced. I'm well within rights to ensure that funding I'm giving you is contingent on respecting the rights of the people I serve.

Sorry, but there are some hard lines. And support of human rights is culturally superior than non-support of human rights. And if you don't like that, don't take the money.
I don't understand how anyone can see a delayed EU launch as anything other than a red flag. It's basically screaming "we didn't care about privacy and data protection when designing this".
To test whether bard.google.com is already updated in your region, this prompt seems to work:

Which version of Bard am I using?

Here in Europe (Germany), I get:

The current version is Bard 2.0.3. It is
powered by the Google AI PaLM 2 model

Considering that you have to log in to use Bard while Bing offers GPT-4 publicly and that Bard will be powered by Gemini Pro, which is not the version that they say beats GPT-4, it seems Microsoft and OpenAI are still leading the race towards the main prize: Replacing search+results with questions+answers.

I'm really curious to see the next SimilarWeb update for Bing and Google. Does anybody here already have access to the November numbers? I would expect we can already see some migration from Google to Bing because of Bing's inclusion of GPT-4 and Dall-E.

Searches for Bing went throught the roof when they started to offer these tools for free:

https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&q=bin...
I reproduced your result, but then added "Didn't I just ask you for a picture of a black cat?" and it gave me some. Meh.
Are the baked in reflections technically bug or is it fundamental in some way?
I just found about a half a gigabyte of files from programs I uninstalled two laptops ago on my machine, and files from a Steam game I got a refund for because it would crash after fifteen minutes. It’s frustrating.
Looks like Great Depression, 1979/1980, and right after the Great Recession.

What is the significance of 79/80?
Thanks, I was looking for clarification on this. Using Bard now does not feel GPT-4 level yet, and this would explain why.
Lightning sparks scientists' design of UV-C device for food sanitization
> Testing should help you accomplish two things: find bugs and allow confident refactoring. These do neither.

Technically the primary goal of testing is to document for other developers (and future you) how something is intended to be used. The documentation being self-verifying most definitely helps with refactoring and may discover bugs, but those are largely incidental.
An iOS journaling app powered by org plain text
I have no idea why, but my PC is very modern but still won't allow W11 to install (maybe a blessing?). So this means that I'll have to leave Windows entirely once this comes to pass. What's the angle?
I'm afraid nothing will change because Zoomers are inured to this stuff. They expect it and they accept it. They understand they own nothing and they're happy about it.
And what is "getting shown the door" with your own device? A Fullscreen message telling you you are now banned from the device you spent a months wages on?
China's first underwater data centre is being installed
White supremacists target online discussions as a way to promote their bigoted hatred.

Any time there's a thread that includes anything they consider might promote progressive values, a swarm of different hate groups and trolls arrive. They then try to steer the conversation towards their own delusional nonsense.

Deeply frustrating but incredibly difficult to police. I have some small hope that AI will be able to combat some of the deluge of hate.
>Any competitor will have the same problems as Youtube does

I think there's still plenty of room for innovation in the ad serving front. YouTube is far worse than it used to be. It currently has multiple ads in a 10 minute video many of which have one 5-10 second mandatory clip followed by a much longer clip that can be skipped after 5-10 seconds.

The "you have to have the remote in hand to prevent even more ads" is pretty user hostile.

To make matters worse, on Android TV/Roku, many ads require HDCP so it's pretty normal for the device to require a reboot when ads start playing if the HDCP negotiation fails.

Youtube Premium is pretty expensive for a casual user ($144/yr).

The cost of servers/bandwidth isn't lost on me and Google gets the best rates in the industry, nonetheless. They're sufficiently big they can stick cache devices all over the place directly inside ISP networks (I assume they don't pay power/bandwidth on these since ISPs end up saving money)
You can integrate another JVM language like Kotlin into your Clojure project in places where you have measured that static typing would help.
UnifiedPush[0] seems like a great alternative to notifications passing through Apple/Google's hands, and I wish it was implemented in more apps.

[0] https://unifiedpush.org/
I mean even without knowing the area if you are hiking (which implies you are walking) 3.7 miles in 16 m then you are the apex predator of the world my friend. That's 20/25 km/h
Reminds me of graphic designer vs css programmer

https://youtube.com/shorts/YWT8Dqd-AmQ?feature=shared
Rural southwestern Washington State

Pros:

Good mix of political diversity, all the benefits of a small town but close enough to Portland to enjoy city perks, no state income tax and close Oregon which has no sales tax, within driving distance to both Portland and Seattle, weather is unbeatable, great for being outdoors with mountains and beach nearby, decent tech scene, some of the best beer, food and wine in the country

Cons:

Homelessness in both Portland and Seattle, cost of living is relatively high but not as bad as CA

I previously lived in upstate NY and FL and the Pacific Northwest is hands down my favorite and plan to be here the rest of my days.
Does this as an index track global anxiety?
Upside is, they'll probably make halflife3 when any of that happens
Really, you're resorting to that excuse? I could show you examples of such cases, but there's no value in doing so, since you've already declared me wrong and them to be isolated cases.
I'm quite happy with the monthly streaming "lease" from Apple or Spotify.

"Buying" digital files from Apple/Amazon whoever is where I feel like the least value is.

At least for music they've mostly gotten rid of the DRM, so they lose the ability to take your music back.

But at this point buying digital files saves nothing over CD. I feel like you either need to just stick with streaming or if you must purchase buy CD/Vinyl as it's pretty easy to argue it's a better product other than the case of wearing a vinyl record out, which is awfully rare.

My biggest exposure to digital ownership is books, followed by games. I am very very unlikely to care about re-playing games. Books I'm a little more likely to re-read. But paper books take up a lot of space and I'm more likely to have to get rid of them before I get to re-read them.

TV/Movies I just don't care, I watch it once and that's enough, so it's rare I would ever buy them. And even if I have to buy them it's less than going to the theater once.
Providing infinite support for all software would greatly increase the cost. I don't think that is actually what users want. I think the way that Microsoft is managing this is actually a pretty fair system.

1. Included with the base purchase price you get a predefined period of support.

2. You can pay more to get longer support.

This way users that value longer product lifetime are the ones paying the cost, not the ones who are happy to update to the new version every few years.

Whether or not the specific prices are fair is a different (and much more complex issue). But I think the model makes sense.
I don’t think we can declare a plateau just based on this. Actually, given that we have nothing but benchmarks and cherry picked examples, I would not be so quick to believe GPT-4V has been bested. PALM-2 was generally useless and plagued by hallucinations in my experience with Bard. It’ll be several months till Gemini Pro is even available. We also don’t know basic facts like the number of parameters or training set size.

I think the real story is that Google is badly lagging their competitors in this space and keeps issuing press releases claiming they are pulling ahead. In reality they are getting very little traction vs. OpenAI.

I’ll be very interested to see how LLMs continue to evolve over the next year. I suspect we are close to a model that will outperform 80% of human experts across 80% of cognitive tasks.
The really neat thing about having the source code. Is that it implies that you have the tool chain to build that source code. This is not always true, However because the source is mostly useless without a way to build it, it is mostly true. With the unfortunate note that firmware often has a nasty lovecraftian inspired toolchain.

Once you have the source and the toolchain to build it. Now, not only are you in a position to fix your own bugs, all users of that hardware are in a position where they can co-operate to fix and share updates. Security update could be provided forever if people are willing to work on the problem. Having opensource firmware is a great enabler.

The neat side effect of open source development is that it usually ends up taming the unholy tangle that proprietary toolchains end up becoming. Something, something.. mumble... about how when random joe is expected to compile a project that project starts shifting into a form that random joe can compile.
Three Months of Solo Dungeons and Dragons with ChatGPT [video]
No competent startup or small business would take on such a legal risk. And anyway, a sure conclusion can already be reached on the basis of reasoning about the complete and total lack of warrant canaries anywhere.
This is a common occurance I'm seeing lately. People treating these things as oracles and going straight to chatgpt/bard instead of thinking or researching for themselves
This is tangential to a comment I read (probably on HN) perhaps a decade ago, when scandals were being reported that laptop webcams could (surprise!) be activated remotely and people/kids being spied on (I think the article was a school-issued laptop disciplining a child from evidence gathered by the webcam at the child's home).

Someone pointed out that, while being watched is creepy, the real damning information on people actually comes from being listened to.
Some lessons have to be continually relearned. https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
It was the most severe recession since the Great depression lol good times /s
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1980s_recession

Good time to buy defense contractor stock because one way to get out of serious depressions/recession is a war.

And the presidential election is next year...
Bard with pro is apparently text only:

> Important: For now, Bard with our specifically tuned version of Gemini Pro works for text-based prompts, with support for other content types coming soon.

https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096

I'm in the UK and it's not available here yet - I really wish they'd be clearer about what I'm using, it's not the first time this has happened.
Can you name adware, spyware or dark patterns that are present in win11 that weren't present in win10?
I've been using Tide with great success lately. Also - for my own projects I haven't used docker lately and just dump the binary with it's configs to the debian box with a systemd configured and so far it's been painless, ymmv.
I’ve no idea about the US - but the Rag & Bone man, including their equestrian transportation, were a thing in London, England, right up until the late eighties, if not early nineties. They used to use magnificent Shire horses, with all the brass tackle.
As a heads up, bard with gemini pro only works with text.
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Hey, I'm part of the Wing team, funny you mention the construct programming model as it comes from the CDK, which is Elad's (Wing's creator) previous project. Wing is also built around this concept.

I will read the article you mentioned, sounds interesting
Yes, I do -- if the exam is well-designed, which it can be.
Having looked into it more, it appears it is on a country by country basis. And for some uses, flammable refrigerants are not allowed, which further complicates things.
Calls for a new corollary to Clarke's Third Law. "Any sufficiently-advanced rigged demo is indistinguishable from magic."
"Licence" a product
Considering how wealthy he is, I can't imagine a few million bucks could possibly sway him.
Do you think a good game is likely to be made under those circumstances?
Every time there is a new Windows people say this and also mention how the previous version was so much better. It reminds me of the US election cycle where people say they're gonna move to Canada if person A wins.

Earlier this year I switched to Windows 11 then installed ExplorerPatcher, now its just like Windows 10 and I no longer care that is its Windows 11.
One year ago it was still the standard and I think most production workload still are using actix (we are). When you dig into actix you feel the pre-async decisions (acceptor threads, worker threads, futures not send).

But for a lot of usecases this model is faster than Axum work stealing. I am not a super huge fan of hyper (on which Axum is based), I salute the work (it is impressive) but it is very clunky to use, the code is hard to read and usage is super opiniated.
There was an energy crisis related to unrest in Iran, the Iraqi invasion of Iran, and the oil output fluctuating as a result.
They better. I haven’t used google search in a while.
NCAA president wants colleges to directly pay some student athletes
The US real estate to gold ration has always facinated me:

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/

If you bought a house with gold in 1890 or 2023, the price would be... about the same.
It's possible you may just have to enable TPM in bios. It's one of the install requirements.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-is-tpm-705f24...
I think every service that doesn't allow you to download the video in MP4 will have something like this. Amazon just seems to not have exercised this option on me yet.

I can't say the same for the Playstation store. In the future I would love to have a digital collection of DVDs and BluRay backed up to Glacier or something.
I agree completely. Also in practice there is almost no such thing as a perpetual license as companies can go bankrupt or just revoke your license whenever they want. They should make the exact nature of the agreement known visibly before you spend any money.

Eventually prices would have to drop to reflect that you are merely temporarily licensed things. A digital game is not going to be perceived as a $60 value when it is more obviously a temporary license regardless of the length. If a physical copy of a game is valued at $60 that can be sold then a digital temporary license is going to have to be less. In my opinion a lot less.
Regardless of your opinion on this, Musk's reaction should be pretty entertaining
That's for individual use, VAT-exclusive. For business licenses, that's 240€/yr with VAT. It's really steep.
> You're assuming these things are mentioned. "Hi, I'd like to book/confirm an appointment with Dr. Jones." doesn't leak information about "abortion".

yes it does.. just look up who dr jones is; is the metadata going to say "this lady is getting an abortion" ?
Next Starship flight is expected to include a propellant transfer demonstration
relatime has been the Linux default since 2009. It makes that be one write per 24 hours.
Great so you know how expensive running a video hosting site is.

So explain to me why Google will continue footing the bill when more and more people prevent them to run ads on the site.
Google is so big a player that they don’t even need to check if the name has already been applied to a technology. As soon as they apply it to their product name, that will become the main association for the term. And as fond as some are of the Gemini protocol, it never got widely known outside of HN/Lobster circles.
My major issue is the CPU I bought when I bought windows 10 is not (officially) supported by windows 11, despite being the current generation when I'd bought it ...
I'd go with "Rent Indefinitely"
I'm getting a Watson vibe from this marketing material.
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For the record, GPT-4 still thinks it's GPT-3.
You'll never guess the most popular internet country code [video]
Cherry picking things someone says or endorses which aren't anti-semetic doesn't explain the things they say or endorse which are anti-semetic. I have no idea how someone comes to believe "look over there" is a defense for explicitly endorsing an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.

This is like pointing out that a murderer went their whole life up until the alleged murder doing stuff that wasn't murdering (as far as we know), and has done so since, too (as far as we know), so how can they be a murderer?

It's worth noting, too, like the killer, the examples we know of are just the examples we know of.

If there's part of the interview where he admits he endorsed an anti-semetic conspiracy theory, and was wrong to do so (not just that it was a mistake) and explains how he came to endorse an anti-semetic conspiracy theory, and how he now rejects the anti-semetic conspiracy theory and the anti-semites who subscribe to it, perhaps he should put that info into the format and platform that he used to endorse an anti-semetic conspiracy theory.
I've been trading gold and silver intermittently for decades

you see periodic life in the gold price movement, but mostly it goes nowhere

gold bugs rejoice in those few weeks in a decade when the price comes to life...but are mum on the fact that mostly it is a flatlined asset
The question is whether greater use of AI correlates with the declining quality of search results.
And threats about losing their stock options if they participate, or if you're a worker not on a permanent visa you're afraid of losing your job as Musk is known to fire people over this.

Which is kinda why the strike is from other workers in other companies.
Relately: I've noticed that if I use ChatGPT in Microsoft Edge, I get (sometimes very) helpful co-pilot style completions in the input text area. Is that an Edge-exclusive feature? And how does CopilotKit compare?
As someone who went to a D1 FB school with a big football program and personally witnessed the corruption, are we just at the point of finally dropping the whole charade of "amateur" athletics?
“Better-targeted advertisements” is not the most nefarious way this information is used. That’s just one of the selling points to entice advertisers. It’s also been used extensively to determine content that you will find the most engaging, regardless of whether it’s to your benefit or not, so that ad-driven marketplaces may harvest and sell your attention.

If you have any contemporary examples of the way the government has used the same information, in a way that’s been more widely destructive, I would be curious to know more.
Gemini Pro, the version live on Bard right now, feels between GPT3.5 and GPT4 in terms of reasoning ability - which reflects their benchmarks.
I'm probably naive, but what insights could a government gleam from Push Notifications?

And why aren't push notifications E2EE?
Definitely edited, pretty clear in some of the transitions. Makes me wonder how many takes were needed.
Yes but generally if I’m rough with a piece of wood it doesn’t start a fire.
Wasn't there a news sometimes before that Sundar and Demis didn't get along. Only after ChatGPT, Sundar got orders from above to set house in order and focus everything on this and not other fundamental research projects which Demis likes to work on.
honestly - of all the AI hype demos and presentations recently - this is the first one that has really blown my mind. Something about the multimodal component of visual to audio just makes it feel realer. I would be VERY curious to see this live and in real time to see how similar it is to the video.
the old maxim is that an ounce of gold would always buy a man a new suit, a meal, and a place to sleep for the night
It’s technically very impressive but the question is how many people will use the model in this way? Does Gemini support video streaming?
Hacking the Education System – Homeschooling in Belgium
Most likely, but the current proprietary software probably wouldn't.

Part of the whole "product liability" thing is WHAT IS PROMISED, either in contract or implied.

Most open source clearly disclaims as much as possible, and also doesn't have a clear "party" making claims.

Proprietary, like Microsoft, makes a ton of claims about safety and privacy and doesn't deliver.