skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take it from an older software engineer. Eye strain is one of those things that creeps on you and suddenly realize it's affecting you in ways you never thought possible.
Is the Air, the Mini or the no-named one the smallest?
I hate to break it to you - excel is still the king in the spreadsheet world. Excel has decades of momentum to start with, and still gets continual upgrades. Moreover modern excel can also be web-based like Google and honestly it has very powerful features
She's not leaving Mozilla, she's returning to her old position of Executive Chair
Oh no, there goes the rest of my morning ;)

Fun site, give him a high five for me
Maxwell's Equations: From 20 to 4 (2018)
100% of the most catastrophic IT disasters I've witnessed have been directly attributable to the most intelligent and skilled programmers I've worked with.

Example 1: I got hired to work in the dev department at a large regional printing company. One of the suites of software built in-house took large retail clients orders for printed store display material. From the client's initial order the software would automatically detail print batch sizes, assign these to the work queue, and would then go on to figure out how many of each type of display needed to be boxed and shipped to each of the client's retail locations and would create shipping labels, packing lists, etc. from this. At it's heart was a 10 page long SQL query that I couldn't make heads or tails of after two weeks spent studying it. I left the company certain of two things: 1. the dev that wrote that was one of the 3 smartest people I've ever met and 2. when he left the company they had literally zero chance of ever hiring someone to maintain that system.

Example 2: I got hired by the 2nd largest print media conglomerate in North America to help manage a fleet of 31 newspaper websites and a fleet of 125 niche verticals. This was at a time when the industry was just beginning to come to terms with their revenue models being gutted by craigslist and the shift to online marketing. To say the least money was tight. It was decided that the back-end systems that drove the integration between newsroom terminals, printroom layout qeues, and the newspapers' websites needed updating.

They hired #2 on my list of top 3 most intelligent people I've ever met to drive a complete overhaul of the system. It was decided a complete rewrite in a cutting-edge language was called for. The guy in charge didn't sleep for 3 days after which he'd provably onboarded and synthesized a complete understanding of the chosen language and it's ecosystem despite no prior experience, then went on to single-handedly rearchitect (feature complete) a system with roughly the same LoC as an operating system. In six weeks.

Over the course of the next 18 months the dev department responsible for implementing this masterwork (no sarcasm) floundered and the project was eventually scrapped having blown through the entirety of it's original 2M budget with literally nothing of use or note to show for it. Apparently nobody else on the team was capable of implementing and debugging the blizzard of microservices the new architecture called for.

My key takeaways: proposals to make codebases "interesting" should be met with deep skepticism if not outright hostility, and a roomfull of mid-level developers are significantly less likely to get an organization into deep trouble than a single rockstar with the bit between their teeth.
I agree the name is a bit of a blunder. Non-technical users aren't all that familiar with agents and read the domain as d-e-v. We own Agenthub-ai.com as well, should probably start using that or rebrand to a simpler name all together.
If you ever take a customer survey for Apple, for the "which Apple products do you use?" question they always have to write something like "Apple TV (a streaming box that plugs into your TV)" and "Apple TV+ (an online streaming service)" because they know the names are so confusing.
While I have found that ChatGPT pretty regularly outperforms Bard, I still run my questions through both, because sometimes Bard has a different angle that I like better.

I kinda liked the name “Bard”. It fit. Gemini is going to make me think of ancient rockets and ostentatious claims.
I do have a linux machine again now, I may try this next time.
While subscriptions are certainly better for developers, a more consumer-friendly approach would be upgrade pricing. In fact, that's what developers were requesting for years before they started being pushed towards subscriptions.
Bad idea because it's LinkedIn, which has a shady reputation? Or that her profile doesn't look good? Or something else?
The image creation with perplexity pro is poor. You can only generate 4 types of images based on the results (impressionist etc). It is not comparable- and it really lets down the product. They say it isn’t what perplexity is made for…

Where it really excels is finding answers to questions and follow ups. It uses ChatGPT to summarise the results, and provides links.

Essentially, finding a use for chat ai rather than an inane discussion.
>I'm a little worried that not having a social media presence /at all/ is going to turn or has turned from mildly admirable (such restraint!) to...weird.

Well, I have some good news: here you are, on social media, having a presence. Admittedly, it's a bit more niche than Instagram.
JPL Layoff Reddit Thread
I totally agree that the "normalisation" of Islamophobia is concerning, and the rise since last October is particularly alarming... but the GP didn't mention Islam at all - they were clearly making a blanket statement about all religion.
Suggestion: 's/crackdowns/finger-wagging and performative mole-whacing/'
>muh *phobia
There's nothing irrational in fear of islam, since whole "religion" is a call to conquest of others. Try opening a history book for a change instead of larping online about things you never experienced.
Cellular smartwatch (Pixel watch in my case) is great for minimizing distractions while retaining basics: calendar, note-taking, basic messaging, phone calls, maps, music (via Bluetooth) and payments. But WITHOUT the very distracting web browser and YouTube. Battery life can be pretty poor though if the phone is turned off, you really can't listen to music all day for instance.

I also use greyscale mode on phone, can set a keyboard shortcut. Some apps are also just far too colourful - e.g. Duolingo - and look better in greyscale I think.

Phone can be a productivity machine too though with a Bluetooth keyboard, phone stand. Can have full desktop environment with a keyboard and mouse and VNC client.
'People' is a remarkable way to misspell 'poverty'.
AI is in the midst of a gold rush period. Practically every media company everywhere is trying to find a way to profit from AI, not just large scale mainstream media outlets. At this point 10% of all content on the internet is AI generated, and that number is only bound to increase exponentially until the current AI hype cycle crashes.

I don't know if dutchnews.nl is or isn't using AI, but neither their size nor the "importance" of their work has any bearing on whether or not they might. If they aren't now, chances are they will sooner or later.
> That's clearly politically motivated surveillance of ordinary, peaceful, law-abiding citizens who dissent from the government's views.

Peaceful? In Germany, a particularly nasty incident made headlines where a drunk farmer tried to evade a roadblock and ended up injuring a policeman [1], just last week two got arrested for attempting to run over cops [2], others spread feces and trash over a highway and lit up barricades [3], and the large demonstration in January in Berlin had over ten arrests for violence as well as explosives [4].

[1] https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/b...

[2] https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfr...

[3] https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/magdeburg/magd...

[4] https://www.rnd.de/politik/bauernproteste-in-berlin-drei-ver...
Focus on data privacy may ring a bell with people using ad blockers. Not for the regular joe though. They just want things to work and Chrome just works.

I wonder what percentage of internet users use ad blockers? That would pretty much represent the market cap for Firefox.
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We got like a year of notice on the shutdown of Stadia, with a full refund for all purchases (but not the subscription for Pro). It was exceptionally well done, and if they had announced that to be their plans the service might have even worked out...
The other answers are good, but calling Texas part of "the West" can be justified even now on the basis of population density. The median north-south population line has not reached the Mississippi even as of 2020 - it's in southwestern Indiana.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_center_of_the_United_...
Type safety isn't a code-specific issue, it's a feature.

A YAML configuration file missing a required key, or a misspelling, or a disallowed mixing of parameters, are all things that can be solved by type-safety, rather than getting a deploy-time or run-time error.
>any organized group that spreads hate and violence
Such as western war for "freedom and democracy" with bombing the middle east?
The things is that iTunes also allows you to manually reclassify you media files as a podcast, and I found (still do, actually) that very useful for managing my collection of radio comedy scrounged together from all sorts of places (downloads from BBC iPlayer, downloads from various places collecting that kinds of shows, a very few genuine podcasts). That way I could keep them out of the main music library, gain the listened/unlistened episode display and playback position tracking, and still easily sync them over to my phone [1].

Without iTunes, I would have to set up some fake local podcast feed on my computer to get those episodes into the podcast app of my choice instead.

[1] Using iSyncr + Rocket Player after switching from an iPod to an Android phone – sadly those apps were sold by the original developer two years ago, though, and the new owners are seemingly just trying to turn them into a cash grab, so I cannot recommend them any more, though for now the old versions sort of keep working, albeit you need a rooted phone to work around some issues.
Well, the unionized staff didn't seem to be impacted by the last round. I'm inclined to say it's at least probable that it might have proved beneficial.
UML is older than NetBSD rump kernels.
I think you'll be using that meter for a long time, then. I don't really know anyone who's under the impression that the current direction of LLMs are going to produce AGI, it seems as if you're barking up a tree most people aren't really concerned exists.
You are correct. A lot of social media people simply don't understand business models
Personally, I don't use tech to interact with people. I use it to interact with information, data, etc. I can live without it, but prefer having it because there is always something I want to know more about.

When I was a kid, the source was an over-priced encyclopedia.
Now, it's a search and to me, that's the magic.

Also, you can't Ctrl-F search paper, and that's a huge downside, imo.

YMMV.
Humans mostly don't use logic, so how are you defining "AGI"?
ChatGPT + plugins is pretty close to how humans think ("biased random word-association guess + structured tool")
As far as the utilitarian argument in favor of religious belief goes, the simulation hypothesis doesn't seem very useful. The utilitarian argument includes the notion that 'religious texts are fairy tales intended to teach moral behavior to children, and that were invented by humans alone' (a view that some find offensive, oh well).

Simulation arguments are a useful concept regardless, since a little thinking will reveal that there are an infinite number of such metaphysical theories on the nature of reality that are by definition untestable via scientific experimental methods. A perfect simulation is undetectable, comparable to claims that supernatural beings (or UFO aliens) are constantly intevening in our physical reality, only they're careful to only do it when nobody is looking.

Thus if we accept these metaphysical theories (including all religions and the doctrine of atheism) are equally (in)valid as they cannot be tested, we are left with their moral doctrines as the only basis to distinguish them from one another, value wise. We might as well include the moral doctrines included in literary works (e.g. Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion could form the basis of a new religion).

However, if we look at the simulation theory from a moral perspective - well, it's problematic, in that it could be interpreted as support for the viewpoint of a sociopathic megalomaniacal narcissist. If you're the only real person in the simulation, and all others are non-player-characters, then it doesn't matter what you do to them... hey wait is this why the simulation hypothesis is so popular in the tech bro billionaire world?
Congratulations to Mozilla for making it through this era!

"The hate of men will pass, and CEOs leave, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as CEOs leave, liberty will never perish."

Today's a day of hope
This in a nutshell.

What I’ve seen, is that when consensus can’t quickly be reached among different naming factions, someone will say “well our customers know and love Brand Word XYZ, let’s just bolt a qualifier on that and win for us!”
In this case the squatter was able to legally sell the house in his name:

https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/squatter-...

>He applied to the courts for permanent possession of the home and won following an appeal, despite the judge accepting that he had committed criminal trespass. According to new reports, Mr Best has now sold the home for a huge profit.
The last czar (Nickolas II) was pretty brutal. He instigated a reign of terror after the failed revolution in 1905.

Vladimir Korolenko described it pretty well in "Everyday Phenomenon" (1910), and "Features of Military Justice".
You do note the basic difference between taking orphans, from your ally country, as a form of rescue because it will soon be overrun by enemies, and taking kids, which have families, from your enemy country?
It's available in 150 countries, no need to bypass anything: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?visit_id=6...
> Conservatism is traditionally a great vector for propagating an extreme agenda.

Is there any ideology not prone to this? Seems like a needlessly divisive point to include in this analysis. There is also common patterns in the devolution of progressives and revolutionaries. But that's obvious.
> Thank goodness. Mitchell Baker was running Mozilla into the ground while stuffing her pockets.

Can you please elaborate more on this and ideally provide some examples ?
It's really not that bad. Nintendo's got more confusing SKUs in some of their product lineups than that.

The only thing that was stupid with Microsoft's naming was this latest generation that they call it Series S and Series X, which is bad for 2 reasons:

- No one knows what to call them as a general term. You can say "this game is for PS5" but for them it's like "this game is for Xbox Series"? I guess they just want you to call it "Xbox" cause that's all it says at the top of the game cases now.

- They just came from selling the One S and One X, which was a mid-lifespan hardware update, the S being a smaller formfactor Xbox One and the X being a spec bump. Confusing that they continue to sell and S and an X but it's a whole new console.

They should have already learned from Nintendo who made this mistake several times with the 3DS (which many didn't realize was an entirely new but backwards compatible system from the DS), new 3DS (yes that was an actual system's name that had exclusive games that couldn't be played on the normal 3DS), and Wii U (which everyone thought was a tablet controller for the Wii)
I just signed up for the $21/month Gemini Advanced, and this is just one data point: I just asked it a fairly hard programming task and it did a very good job, in an obscure language Common Lisp (that has been my favorite programming language since 1982 - there must be dozens of CL enthusiasts in the world :-) ). The generated code and supporting explanations were very good.

Off topic, but I find this amusing: I have stopped using “free” Google services like search and gmail (mostly), but I am now up to about $135/month on paid Google services (not counting GCP bills). Paid services like YouTube/Music Premium, YouTube TV, Play books, etc. are really good.
> They just asked for ID of everyone leaving the neighborhood and recorded them

Ah, the famous American freedom. Papers please.

(in practice, it's practically impossible to stop law enforcement doing this kind of thing at least some of the time, no matter what country you're in or how unconstitutional it is. There will always be groups with little enough political power that they have no redress)
As part of my undergrad research project I used magnetic simulation software (running on windows and therefore NTFS)

The program output magnetization by timestep so for the simple structure I was investigating, I ended up with about 100K files of a few KB each which were a massive pain to move to my Linux machine for analysis.

I looked into changing the batching but couldn’t figure it out, and this prompted me for the first time to consider how the structure of data on a device could affect processing throughout even if the absolute quantity of data was the same.
Wow you weren't joking:

> Her bullshits will be on delivering bullshit products that bullshit our mission and building bullshits that bullshit momentum. Laura and I will be working closely together throughout February to ensure a bullshit transition, and in my role as Exec Chair I’ll continue to provide advice and bullshit in areas that touch on our unique history and Mozilla characteristics.

> Laura’s bullshits will be on Mozilla Corporation with two bullshit bullshits:
I worked at Mozilla back in 2012, as we were pivoting to FirefoxOS (a mobile OS). I was very low in the company, but for some reason sent Mitchell an email detailing why I thought it was a bad idea.

She not only responded in a very gracious way, but also followed up months later to check if my feelings had changed. While they had not, she didn't owe me anything and I really appreciated her attentiveness. Mitchell really cares about Mozilla and its community.

Mitchell was a great community leader. That doesn't always translate to being a good CEO or leader of a business, however Mitchell is a huge reason (if not THE reason) why we have Firefox today – and, even if you don't currently use Firefox, a huge reason why we have the web we have today.

So, while I haven't been the biggest fan of Mozilla's decisions the past few years, I do want to give credit to Mitchell for everything she did for the open web and open source. She was a supporter before anyone really cared, and played a huge part in getting is to where we are now over the past 20+ years.

(I am glad this is the direction they have chosen! Here's a 2015 post where I write about how I think Mozilla should focus on data privacy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10698997)
Little surprise here, given the two most contemptible people I've ever known in my life are both in that line. Neither is good for a damn lick of honest work, but keeping an eye on them over the years has made several grifts easy to spot.
Until morale improves...
So very hard.
I've gone on an infinite crab island tangent of first discoveries.
Tsar, singular. One tsar was relatively liberal, Alexander II. He did well under the circumstances, but his good deeds were overwhelmed by the imperial family and system that he was a part of.
But Baba Yaga's chicken-legged hut will make it's own poop, and then we're back to square one.
That seems like the kind of error humans have made basically forever. Editing is hard.
While offline playback will be unaffected, I wonder how long iTunes's connection to the iTunes store ecosystem will keep working and whether you'll eventually be forced to install Apple Music for accessing the iTunes store?
You have to click the "G" icon in its response to "verify answers with Google".
If you are suggesting that people who still use firefox hate Mitchell Baker, you are mistaken.
I'm excited about this because AI should automate tedious and repetitive work (we're trying to do this for web scraping).

Couple of questions:

- Are you also looking into doing RPA with your agents, e.g form filling? I see huge potential for LLMs in that space.

- Are you using AgentGPT or similar under the hood? Will the OS repo benefit from your success?

- Are you focusing on a specific ICP/use case to sell to and optimize for? That's usually a challenge for horizontal solutions.
> I take it for granted that all these services are going to be free. They are a goldmine for behavioral and persuasion engineers.

They are also a goldmine for LLMs. Training on human text is necessary for AIs but it has one major flaw - it is so called "off-policy". That means it portrays human behavior and human errors. While human-AI chat logs portray AI errors, so they are better material to generate training data than human text. Those LLM errors are usually corrected by the human, there is an implicit signal in there to improve the model.

chatGPT is reportedly serving 10M customers and let's assume 10K tokens/month/user. Then it seems they collect ~1T tokens/month. In one year they have 12T tokens, while their original training set for GPT-4 was rumored to be 13T tokens. It's about the same size! I am expecting to see more discussion about LLM chat log datasets in the near future. What have they learned in one year from our interactions and explorations?
> Snow Crash is satire of more "serious" cyberpunk

Agree 100%. If anyone has trouble seeing that <i>Snow Crash</i> is satire, I recommend reading <i>Headcrash</i>, by Bruce Bethke, then going back to <i>Snow Crash</i>. If <i>Snow Crash</i> is the original <i>Robocop<i> (a satire that was deadpan enough that many people missed the satire entirely), then <i>Headcrash</i> is Paul Verhoeven's <i>Starship Troopers</i> (completely over-the-top).

> like Gibson.

It's easy to assume Gibson's work is serious, but I think anyone that does is subconsciously glossing over a lot of little details that - in sum - make it pretty clear that Gibson is also a satirist, just extraordinarily deadpan and casual about it.

Almost everyone gets a gritty <i>Blade Runner</i> image in their mind when reading his Sprawl stories, but consider that a key plot element is a space station built by weed-smoking Rastafarians. i.e. they are "so high they're in orbit", and that there are offhand references to an "Aryan reggae band". The military veteran - abandoned by an uncaring government - that happens to be a dolphin.

Then consider that the film and TV projects directly involving Gibson have typically featured plenty of comedic elements, and most have a bright, colourful look. <i>Johnny Mnemonic</i> (the film). The "First Person Shooter" and "Kill Switch" episodes of <i>The X-Files</i>.
Do you have v15 installed?

Not sure if it’s already pushed out.
sorry, but the proper american phrase is "license and registration"
I wonder if Starlink is accessible from the ISS using a stock modem. Probably not.

Edit: maybe they could use the laser links?
I've heard the number 30% tossed around before, but I'm not sure how accurate it is
This might help with a project i've been toying with. obviously US focused, but parse all the school calendars I could find and then query the dataset for like "when is the best time I could go XYZ and see as few school kids as possible"

would look at schools in the area and look at all the calendars and show the time where the majority of schools are in session