skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tech I think is particularly bad for people feeling insecure. We act like it's normal and shame those who don't do this, but the idea of having to constantly revamp your skillset every ~5-10 years to remain employable is not normal. My dad has been a lorry (truck) driver for 40 years, and aside from a few changes in vehicle tech nothing has really changed much for him.

I know some people who had great tech jobs in the 90s, but those skills are now obsolete. I see people even today who I'm convinced won't be employable in a few years. For example, there was a guy at the last place I worked who just wrote HTML and basic JQuery code for one of our legacy products. He had been doing this for 10+ years, and recently it was announced that they would soon be pulling the plug on that product. I don't know what that guy is going to do – realistically no one is hiring for HTML and basic javascript today.

My opinion is that non of us in tech should feel secure. I've seen some really brutal layoffs over the course of my career where even the most value people are chopped because an order has come from above. You could be the most valuable person on your team by far, but if the company no longer deems your project needed or your skillset can be outsourced for much cheaper then non of it really matters.

I feel sorry for people who aren't geeks in this industry to be honest. I find I can upskill quite easily just because I enjoy tech so want to learn new things. But I understand that most people probably don't want to finish work to continue working on personal projects that require learning new skills.

My advice to everyone in this industry is to just enjoy it while it lasts and to build up savings. That's really the only way you can reduce stress and feel any sense of security.
Because I use computers to do things, and Windows is the right tool for the job in the vast majority of cases.

No, please don't suggest Linux or FOSS alternatives. They are all dead on arrival. I need Office, not LibreOffice. I need Photoshop, not GIMP. I need Illustrator, not Inkscape. I want Windows, not Proton.

I need a computer, not a tinkerer's toy.
My understanding of what is happening:

* Universal want TikTok to pay similar fees for use of music as other online platforms such as YouTube ($0.004 per stream) or Spotify ($0.0039 per stream for US listeners)

* TikTok views its platform as a means for artists to promote their music, and therefore doesn't think it should be paying anywhere near as much

Interestingly:

- there was a similar argument for the value of radio plays (pre-internet). Radio stations viewed themselves as a way to promote the artists' work, and argued that they therefore shouldn't pay any royalties.

- this has since been settled resolved in favour of the music makers; from what I can see, in the UK, BBC Radio 1 pays around £40/minute in royalties

- the amount of royalties an artist receives from the record company varies significantly, but is usually in the order of 10-20% (Taylor Swift will have a better deal than a small indie band); plus any publishing revenue. Some artists also have different percentages for different types of revenue (e.g. streaming vs CD sales)

- this article has a good overview of how royalties get split for streaming in the US: https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-streaming-royalty-paymen...

My view:

* TikTok should pay royalties for the music it uses (music is an integral part of the package that makes them so hugely profitable)

* UMG should pay artists a higher proportion of streaming (and other) revenues

* streaming companies should be paying more per stream (may imply a price increase for streaming services)
Itanium itself did nothing. But Itanium announcement killed basically killed MIPS, Alpha and PA-RISC. Why invest money into MIPS and Alpha when Intanium is gone come out and destroy everything with its superior performance.

So ironically announcing Itanium was genius, but then they should have just canceled it.
Well how will western countries do their global psy-ops actions on the younger generation late teens early 20s. Most definitely not on facebook and twitter :p

They just hate it that they can't use excessive censorship like they do on western made social media platforms. Only leverage western countries has at the moment is using/abusing ads revenue and IP laws.
ads sector will only grow. chatgpt-like tooks will be able to integrate ads, a lot of new articles will have autogenerated ad pages, apple launched apple vision + meta's quest 3 is already released which gives a lot of new ad opportunities. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, there are a lot of places where ads are not yet integrated, but some already moved to this direction (like ad tier in netflix and judging by their userbase nr increase, more changes will follow)
So idk, I don't think we are at some inflection point at least for now&near future
I see that as an absolute win. Your CX is so good you'll bend over for your client.
Every politician / official is still using it for their announcements. It’s not going anywhere.
Castro Is Back
It wasn't magical. Technically, it couldn't do a lot of things that other smartphones could. I had a Windows smartphone that could run Excel, with a slide-out keyboard for fast input. 1st gen iPhone was a bare-bones consumer device with the best touchscreen technology and a good (but very basic) UI.
That is all it took to redefine the market.

It could not even copy-paste. It had horrible internet.

Vision Pro may be the first OS that does things "the right way" in AR/VR too.
Big difference is that iPhone was a real consumer device, this seems more like a development device. Which may be a smart move, because after all: (Phone) Apps made Apple win, and not enough apps made Windows lose.
You could always make a fake account for LinkedIn.
And those stores will be significantly more expensive to buy from while having a smaller selection of goods. It's my understanding that small stores also live off of selling less healthy stuff like alcohol, fast food etc. Some villages here lost their only store after an alcohol tax increase because the stores weren't profitable to run anymore.
Well it'd be a bit of a waste of bootcamp fee to jump into another job market that isn't great with a skillset he isn't confident in to look for work that's never particularly appealed...
HN hopes to foster deep insightful discussion, not a quick TLDR format summary so you can click and move on.
I'm neck deep in this ChatGPT stuff right now and build 1-2 apps a week, so a bit biased.

Your presumed target audience is someone who does not know their way around prompt-based LLMs

For this person, neither the problem, nor the solution space are defined clearly enough.

For example:

- Not enough pre-defined selectors, too much "define yourself".

- The meaning of the selectors that you give is opaque. (E.g., how does 'you will Detect' help the user?)

- Result: The impact of the choices on the output becomes unclear, the tool becomes a chicken-and-egg problem. (It says it helps you to understand the system, but you need to understand the system to use it effectively)

With the above, it's almost easier to ask ChatGPT to generate an effective prompt for you...
Did it ever happen? Did old unused accounts ever got released? I'd pay $100 for mine, last tweet there was on 2012
That grip strength falls apart when you meet climbers. I know we are outliers in general population but it overall seems like a poor measure with tons of corner cases which invalidate it.

Older marathon runner can have a baby pinch due to not using his/her hands for any sport, yet somehow I doubt they fall into same category as some morbidly obese 250kg ball of fat who didn't move from the bed in past few years.
> and stored passwords […] it'll also sync that data to the cloud too

Yet another reason to keep my auth details in a separate store and not let any browser get its grubby mits on them beyond when they are actually needed.
Holo Lens already provided this experience, but naturally Apple did it first (TM).
Imagine being CISO or any other high level manager doing information security, and your entire corporation runs Microsoft workstations.

Every week there's a new headache to keep you awake at night; did you pay those leeches enough for an enterprise license that doesn't silently exfiltrate all your employees' data? Will they roll out the latest greatest data vacuuming feature to your install base? Fun times!
> you can cross-reference multiple windows without them overlapping another

This is what people always say about this, but you can’t look at two different monitors simultaneously.

Your fingers are already on the keyboard. Once you get the two apps together on alt-tab order, they are one kepress away from each other, and you don’t have to move your eyes or head at all if they are overlapping or just next to each other in the same monitor.

I do this as well as using a tiling window manager than can be completely controlled from the keyboard, and I am much faster at getting information between different windows than colleagues who have multiple monitors. They spend a lot of time trying to remember where they put the other window, looking back and forth between many monitors many times, looking for their mouse pointer, and also, they too still have to alt-tab.

The farther apart two windows are, like on two monitors, the harder it is to copy text from one and paste it in the other, etc etc.
This highlights something Ive been struggling with. I run a service that uses split DNS and ostensibly I shouldn't need any client side tooling. However, I am aware of cases where network changes fail to flush the DNS cache (especially on Windows) which means the client is stuck with the wrong DNS records until TTL expiry. Short TTL doesn't quite fix this as TTL is only a suggestion, and some recursive revolvers set a higher minimum TTL.

Tailscale's approach is much more thorough than mine, and this reminds me that I need to deep dive into their code. DNS continues to be hard.
That is, after all, the entire point of RTO mandates. (I am pro-remote and fortunate to work at a company that isn't RTO, but I will say that it is a breath of fresh air and notably higher-bandwidth conversations that are enabled on the few times per year that we get together in-person in an office.)
> I wonder what will happen now that every phone will become a sat phone.

Governments that don't want that will disallow the sale of such phones inside their country unless the manufacturer disables the satellite features for customers there.

Sure, some will get through via illegal imports, but largely this will be effective.
There is a good chance for Intel to recover, but that remains to be proven.

From their long pipeline of future CMOS manufacturing processes with which Intel hopes to close the performance gap between them and TSMC, for now there exists a single commercial product: Meteor Lake, which consists mostly of chips made by TSMC, with one single Intel 4 die, the CPU tile.

The Meteor Lake CPU seems to have finally reached the energy efficiency of the TSMC 5-nm process of almost 4 years ago, but it also has obvious difficulties in reaching high clock frequencies, exactly like Ice Lake in the past, so once more Intel has been forced to accompany Meteor Lake with Raptor Lake Refresh made in the old technology, to cover the high-performance segment.

Nevertheless, Meteor Lake demonstrates reaching the first step with Intel 4.

If they will succeed to launch on time and with good performance, later this year, their server products based on Intel 3, that will be a much stronger demonstration of their real progress than this Meteor Lake preview, which has also retained their old microarchitecture for the big cores, so it shows nothing new there.

Only by the end of 2024 it will become known whether Intel has really become competitive again, after seeing the Arrow Lake microarchitecture and the Intel 20A manufacturing process.
Exactly. It is still Facebook (again). The controversies and problems that once happened on Facebook, Instagram, etc will happen on Threads.

Bluesky is more of a better solution in the long run.
Obviously there is a ton of technical debt involved and the devs convinced Musk not to deal with it yet. If they had hardcoded data center names , you can imagine what goes on with the domain.
I like the user experience of forges far more than email clients.

(1) It's hard to track the development of a patch in mailing lists unless you actively follow it. Sometimes there will be a v7 patch but it gets buried in the sheer volume of other emails in the list. Sometimes discussions continue in the v6 thread while others occur in v7 so you have to track _both_ threads.

And god forbid people changing subject lines thus breaking the thread.

Meanwhile, discussions in forge workflow tend to be concentrated in the same merge request or issue.

(2) Discovering patches is also a fairly difficult thing to do in mailing lists. The forges include tools like issue trackers and in each issue there is a list of all mentioned merge requests, and the status of those MRs (whether open, closed or merged) are immediately obvious.

(3) I also like labels for similar reasons as (2) - don't get me wrong, I know email subjects often start with "some sort of tag:", but labels are sometimes used to mean "hey, this $MODULE1 code isn't directly related to $MODULE2, but might have some interactions with it so you should take a look". Cc-ing is a manual process which is annoying and like many manual processes is subject to human errors.

(4) Emails rely heavily on conventions, e.g. should people top-post or bottom-post or inline-reply? That introduces a barrier of entry.

As a sidenote, personally I hate that I occasionally have to scroll through long, long, emails that include reply chains from eons ago, but there's nothing email can really do to prevent it from happening. It's conventions all the way down.
Care to share your prompts?

It's a shame Custom GPT authors can't easily opt-in to making their prompts and other configurations available. I think it would improve the quality and rate of improvement massively. Kind of "view source" by default (with a begrudging opt-out)
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It's not just the browser, it's the OS as well, at least on Windows 11. Literally everything is optimised to force you to try and use Bing and Edge. If I hit start, I get bing, if I run updates it tries to sell me Bing and Edge. If I use edge it throws me at the microsoft portal all the time and I have to futz around with it to disable CoPilot integration and add extensions to give me a blank new tab page etc. Then I get an update. Oh and next thing I know it's trying to sell me vouchers. And then the other day it ripped off all my Chrome credentials which I keep separate. I don't even know how it did it. The final straw was on my pixel 7a when I opened the outlook app and found there's a fucking garbage feeds and subscriptions tab in it now which just pipes crap to you.

I got fed up with it at the start of December last year and rinsed my credit card in the Apple Store. I walked out with an MBP and an iPhone and neither have not yet kicked me in the nuts once. I'm slowly porting my data over at the moment and then I'm chucking this crap on ebay and never touching it again.

Well done Microsoft. You burned a 30 year long developer relationship.
> this has since been settled resolved in favour of the music makers; from what I can see, in the UK, BBC Radio 1 pays around £40/minute in royalties (around 10,000 times more than Spotify)

That's not a comparable figure, there can be millions of people listening.
Reality: The Report was published on the Reuters site (and widely linked) on Nov. 16th. The "blockbuster" (some obscure firm is doing hacking for hire, internationally, including low-end political targets) was maybe 5 milliSnowdens. ~Nobody got all that excited, for there to be Major Consequences.

On Dec. 4th, it was taken down per the orders of a judge in India. Again, ~nobody got all that excited, for there to be Major Consequences.

Yes, there is (credibly) a lot of sh*tty stuff going on here. But the headline is miserably misleading click-bait. Americans had plenty of chance to see the report, and 99.9% of them didn't care.
Just to verify, I just made a Github account using a throwaway email I got by googling "10 minute email". So making a Github account without a paper trail is trivial.

People who get C&Ds must want to be known.
Good point, there is currently no way to assess the quality of custom GPTs other than relying on aggregation effects of popularity (you can already review them so reviews are coming soon). You can't even see if they are truly useful by accessing external APIs or if they are just custom prompts.

> these custom GPTs are unusable and unreliable

That's too harsh though. Sure of the millions of custom GPTs many are useless, but those that work do work reasonably well, why wouldn't they?

About conversations being slightly hit or miss: I guess that's inherent to natural language, it can be circumvented by writing the prompt carefully and knowing the limitations.
Last thing I want in my workflow is fucking email.

I understand that for some people digging through their email (and mailing lists archives) is fun but this is just a tiny minority.
This behavior is in fact limited to "consumer" Windows 11 SKUs (so Home and Pro), and also disables when using Pro domain-joined. But bet on it migrating to the business SKUs eventually.
Answer is impossible to know without knowing n. If there are n=0 red balls probability of having a red ball is 0%. If n=100 red balls is 100%

If the idea is to repeat the experiment until reaching a limit the probability of choosing each number must be taken in account and included, and then we could take an average of all possible results.
Using LLM Such as ChatGPT for Designing and Implementing a RISC Processor
It’s just one example of the insufferably patronising tone of the article. Just stating that a bank transfer happens is enough. No need to assume anything. Making the assumption that an explanation is required is totally unnecessary.
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Honestly I'd love to do this but I'm getting too old to argue with Linux on the desktop. The apps I want don't exist on the platform (Adobe mostly) and the high DPI and fractional scaling is a mess. On top of that the desktop user interface, whichever desktop you use is quite frankly terrible.

I'm just using a Mac as a terminal for an EC2 instance where I do all the software dev now.
I mean, I did just say that, but it seems to me they can’t just resell AWS spot instances because there’d be no margin left.
> On mobile platforms app's don't have permission to do such a thing.

Very doubtful. If you turn on GPS for one app, all ads in all apps at all begin to be better targeted immediately. Especially noticeable if there were a big travel since the previous GPS usage.
Also `.gb`, which is an island.

Then you get into British Overseas Territories (like Anguilla!) and French Overseas Departments (e.g. Reunion). Are they countries? Sort of, but not really?

Even within the UK it's tricky. Is Scotland a country? I don't think so, but a lot of Scots do.
A return to company core mission and values
> big improvement on the status quo when it came out in ~2005,

I agree. If anything its an understatement. I could, as a normal person outside academia, without a structured learning environment, do microcontrollers, affordably. Not only that, I could make amazing things with it.

sure there was the basic stamp, but that was well, basic.
I would use it to visualize the dependencies of the javascript modules. E.g. where do I use the pinia store, where do I use a javascript file from the usecase folder etc.

Sometimes I have to work with large legacy code bases, e.g. in Android. There it would be very useful to generate diagrams. In Android Studio I ofen use "find usages" to traverse the code dependencies. That might be easier with diagrams.
This question has been investigated fairly thoroughly for PV solar and scale of manufacturing and government support are far bigger factors.

Remember PV and EV are technology, getting smaller, cheaper, better as it iterates.
> X11R6.3 just may be the most powerful innovation ever introduced to the World Wide Web.

Now there's a quote for the ages.
Bingo. Microsoft is careful to only screw consumers who don't know any better (they already surrendered their personal data and ownership of their digital purchases and devices to Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Sony, Samsung, etc. what's one more?) and to not fuck over their most loyal cash cow (businesses).
So, for you, it would change the answer if I put the AI into a robot (or simulated) body, and the limits of that body constrained the capabilities of the output?

> Consonance and dissonance are physical properties of sound resonating in our ears,

If a duff chord is played out of hours in a full morgue where no living person can hear it, is it still dissonant?

> our emotional reactions involve observable physiological reactions like dopamine release and I think we can confidently reject the premise that a static model of relationships between wav files which instantaneously generates another wav file is doing the same thing

I'm not so sure.

Observable physiological reactions are the easy part, but they don't solve the "hard problem of consciousness"[0]. Various chemicals, including dopamine, modulate various neural activities and let our brains focus on things and learn in certain ways. Attention heads allow a big confusing pile of linear algebra to "focus" on particular things and learn in certain ways — what's that like on the inside? Is there even an inside for it to be like something? Nobody knows. I've only heard one suggestion for how to test it that isn't immediately obviously flawed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWf3szP6L80

(I don't know if Ilya Sutskever came up with this test, but he's who I first heard promoting it).

We're made of atoms. The chemistry of life led to us having feelings as the result of evolution, a process that has no intentionality. An AI may, or may not, reproduce that. In the absence of a test (without which we can't even determine the presence or absence of qualia in mammals with brains of similar complexity as SotA AI models), I'd be just as skeptical of anyone who says some AI does have it as anyone who says that AI doesn't have it. At the same time, given how we got it, I think our human brain chemistry is far less magical and more "mess that works" than our egos want to believe.

I'm happy to call current AI "fast but stupid". Anything else, including future AI, I'm not so sure about.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
What I'm complaining about is LLMs becoming so normalized that people are using them for even basic intellectual tasks and trusting them implicitly, and apparently (judging from the downvotes) being defensive about the premise that they should even consider doing otherwise.

I've seen people post results from ChatGPT with confidence only to realize they get another result if they try again a few more times (of course, they never bothered.) It's a statistical model, in which case the math can never be trusted entirely, or else it's just making an API call to a normal math library, in which case what even is the point? Either way, there are already better tools for the job.

Needing "sophisticated plugins" to do basic math accurately should send people running away screaming from these damned things. I'll concede they have utility but we don't need to abandon our minds, hearts and wills to them entirely.
They certainly could do something clever, like having a screen with gradually decreasing pixel density and quickly moving it around so its center is always where you're looking it.
No wonder that it feels like ASP.NET team is now the one driving .NET roadmap, and the Windows developer ecosystem is in such poor state since the "3x Developers!" stage dances days.