skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, the vast majority of the universe is completely incompetent with IT, but needs a lot of boring things done.

If you're a shipyard, an oil company, a bank, an automaker, etc. you still need software to manage things like inventory, employees, logistics, and similar, and you have zero expertise to do it in-house. They also have zero expertise to find a qualified vendor.

IBM is a safe bet.

That's a huge market.
When Facebook says "users" in claims like these, what they actually mean are accounts. This statistic includes all the multi accounts, fake accounts, spam accounts, and bot accounts. They have been getting sued over the past several years for charging advertisers when a bot or fake account engages with the advertised content.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/meta-platforms-must-face-adver...
Wow, they finally did it. I remember “third party ads in the Start menu” was brought up inside MSFT back in the early 2000s, in a mostly joking fashion. I guess it was inevitable.
The fact that tokens are numbers doesn’t seem to have any particular meaning. They’re tokens; they’re elements of a finite set. It doesn’t matter what they ‘are’ because the model doesn’t see this external representation just as it can’t inspect its own architecture.

It’s not just the latter part of that sentence that consists of ‘numbers’, all of it does.
The difference is Meta was free to refuse, and did in some cases. False equivalence.
Hope it's not another Devin situation...
When I was a CTO, we paid for it.
In this case it's not that ridiculous because "black" here isn't just a skin color, but primarily a subculture/subgenre with some distinct musical attributes.

Nobody finds separating French electronic music into its own subgenre ridiculous. Same with Italian Disco.

Such distinct movements are quite usual, so dissatisfaction about Black Swing on streaming services is understandable.
Not if the only computing platform you have is a walled-garden smartphone with parental spyware.

The only reason we had a free internet in the first place was because we had free computers. Many people no longer have free computers.

It's not just the App Stores that are at fault here, almost unbeatable screen time[1] protections, limited mobile APIs, battery usage optimizations and carrier-grade NATs also matter here.

Hosting video is extremely expensive. Either you fund it with ads, which is hard for porn, with subscriptions, which is impossible because of Visa/Mastercard rules, with cryptocurrencies, which are easy to ban as per above, or you offload the cost to P2P, but smartphones are effectively barred from participating in P2P networks due to the above reasons.

This is also a major driver behind the fall of piracy. Piracy is easy if everybody has an always-on device with a stable internet connection and a good power source. This is no longer the case.

[1] By "Screen Time" I mean Apple's comprehensive suite of tools for device access restrictions, both for owners and children. These restrictions don't just concern screen time, they may also prohibit certain apps (or categories of apps) entirely. The point is not restricted to Apple, similar solutions exist for Android, and they give even more power to the parents due to the system's open nature.
That was more 2013.
This is like the most plebeian take on this topic. This is what one would believe if they took mainstream discourse (press statements and all) at face value without assessing it critically.
I see this comment alot, I have upped it to 20 minutes to err on the side of caution. Deploying now...
No, because a broad and vague set of self-reported symptoms can't "become" anything, or act at all.

Psychologists and psychiatrists seem to over-diagnose all kinds of disorders, because they profit from dispensing medications.

Claiming to suffer from this or that disorder, labeling oneself as ADHD, autistic, "on the spectrum," introverted, neurodivergent, etc. indicate a rise in narcissism and self-absorption more than anything else, combined with the American tendency to victimhood. Those disorders do afflict people to varying degrees, but I think they have turned into a kind of badge of specialness, more claimed and used as an excuse than treated by professionals. And the professionals don't agree and may not know what to do beyond creating more addicts.

I got "diagnosed" with both ADHD -- they called it "hyperactive" back then -- and borderline autism, as a child. Those professional opinions came from elementary school teachers and school nurses. My mother refused to medicate me, believing children should not take psychoactive drugs just to sit still in school. She put me in a better school instead. I thank her for that. Two of my own children got similar crackpot diagnoses from teachers and principals. We decided to homeschool them, they turned out fine.
Well, I guess I believe everything now
Was it un-american when Merck was nationalized in WWI?

Forcing a corporation to be nationalized is whatever. There is inherent social risk to limited liability, and the government sure can take it away from you, give you a wad of cash, and put the helm in someone else's hands. If tiktok were a sole proprietorship then it would be a line too far. Otherwise, so sorry. Here's your money for recompense, thanks for playing.
Tomorrow's title:

"Linux Foundation joins IBM to accelerate the mission of multi-cloud automation and bring the products to a broader audience of users and customers." ;)
I worked in a company who put the candidates to work the entire day on the code base
Any idea how much ram this requires?
40% of Camadians rent from investors. Not everybody wants to own.
Interesting, and I was about to say "I hope this rival will compete with Copilot". Copilot is still winner from everything I can tell. I've tried a few open source ones with local models and they aren't as good yet, I've tried paying for Cody but I keep coming back to Copilot.

If it matters: I don't use the chat features of any of these plugins. It's just not muscle memory, I use Copilot as fancy auto-complete and I open ChatGPT for longer or more detailed or specific code snippets. I also use Claude 3 Opus but I'll probably drop it, I just like ChatGPT more, the UI and the results.

That said, I agree with many of your points as things I would also like to have.
According to the data, it’s children and tweens that dominate the MAUs. Also just read Reddit about complaints of most online VR games being dominated by children as a counter to your anecdote of one family.
Also, to be clear, it’s not an ideological snipe. I’d like to live in a blue state with good public transit, universal healthcare, good public education, etc. But blue state Americans aren’t capable of building such a society, because above all they prioritize the individual and the self. I’m simply pointing out that at least red state Americans are honest with themselves.
Another related case in Pennysylvania:

https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/taking-action/ag-shapiro-put...

Quote from the website:

"The complaint, filed along with the settlement, details how McKinsey advised Purdue and other opioid manufacturers on how to maximize profits from its opioid products, including targeting high-volume opioid prescribers, using specific messaging to get physicians to prescribe more OxyContin to more patients, and circumventing pharmacy restrictions in order to deliver high-dose prescriptions. When states began to sue Purdue’s directors for their implementation of McKinsey’s marketing schemes, McKinsey partners began emailing about deleting documents and emails related to their work for Purdue."
Fair enough, but I assume the ben diagram of the anime fans and the こどおじ are largely overlapping.
You've misunderstood my point. RSUs became taxable at the $80 stock price for many. Depending on where you're based that could mean you owe(d) anywhere from from $22 - $38 per share in taxes. At the top end of that range, if you're still holding any stock, this acquisition has just permanently crystalised a capital loss for you. There's no upside that gets you above what you owe/paid in taxes.

There are many many people who made a loss on this, even before the acquisition announcement.

Also I think your ownership % is way off. There's a pretty small group of people, most of them the earliest employees + execs, who would have got out with $10M. HashiCorp currently has thousands of employees and would have churned through thousands more over the years.
> Just seems weird that this "foreign adversary" is also a critical "trading partner". Why is TikTok being singled out?

Because it's easy and cheap. It's a way for our representatives to claim they're doing something about the threat that may be posed by the Chinese government, without actually jeopardizing the interests of our industries.
That's... a fair point.
> Enacting a ban on the most popular app among Gen Z would cause a huge uproar.

Or they just move over to FAANG competitors? I've never used TikTok before since it is an app, but I use YouTube shorts and whatever that Instagram short thing is Facebook is pushing into my feed (with...erm...a lot more addictive algorithms than YouTube). Ok, I'm not Gen Z, but it looks like content providers are already hedging their bets on platforms (they often don't even remove TikTok watermarks), I don't see why consumers wouldn't follow. Its not like YouTube or Facebook is blocked in the USA.
Where do these inventors come from? They seem to follow a very narrow path. (1) Announce that they've invented something that breaks the known laws of physics (2) Refuse to even make a simple youtube video of it in action (presumably this "unknown force" interferes with video recorders?) (3) Never publish anything about it again, never share any plans, insist that they're looking for funding still, somehow, unlikely though that is to happen since they can't be bothered to show any proof.

These are as credible as bigfoot sightings, but I don't see a lot of bigfoot sightings mentioned on HN.
That was the case when I was living there, but I've read a lot of people saying that VPNs aren't nearly as effective any more.
It is GPT-4 under the hood, so that is interesting.
Each government in the world is for the most part presented with the same set of puzzles. Then they spend good money trying to solve it in isolation as if they are all unique and special.

Some countries are just 1000 years behind in some areas, or 1000 years ahead. The US is no exception in both.

If you never did leg day the gains will be easy.
Yeah, that’s how international politics work. Otherwise, what incentive does the CCP have for changing its policies? We’ve been rewarding a bad actor for decades, and it hasn’t worked to change their behavior for the better. In fact, it’s just emboldened them to act in bad faith.
Financially? mathematically? Yes, certainly. From a principles perspective? it's a lot closer ;)
Yea but I was obsessed with that movie so I know what's what lol.
At the moment I will be honest: Just GPT-4 + a meaty system prompt. More work goes into the parsing of results to intepret what is code, and update the preview in real time.
I love my ML but if this still has a frame and can tow 4000kg it will be very tempting!
I too listen to different genres of music depending on mood, and I hate when they mix. I used to make mix tapes and later audio CDs like "Alt Rock #" and "EDM #" and I had dozens of those.

Since I went to digital music, I've had the same problem with practically every bit of software and streaming service. They all seem to have some mode where it wants to just mix stuff between genres and it drives me nuts.

My current service is Google Music, and the (auto-generated) "likes" playlist, which really contains only songs that I genuinely really like, even annoys me due to the mixing of genres.

I've found what works best for discovery is to make playlists (by genre, of course) and then from there pick "Start Radio". That is my main way of discovering new music, and when I find songs I enjoy I try to add them to the playlist, too, and "Like" them if they're especially great.

But I do always feel like I'm against the grain, wondering how anyone can ever use any of the auto-generated playlists that aren't constrained by genre, and why anyone would ever build such a thing.
Great news! :-)
From 2021 when the story got a lot of attention: https://unintendedconsequenc.es/responsibility-clawbacks-mck...
It always amazing me how people play telephone with Red Hat and how bad the quality of life is post IBM.

When they show the service awards they don’t even cover 5 years because they don’t have all day.

If it was so bad then you wouldn’t see engineers with 10, 15, or 20 years experience staying there. They already got their money from the IBM purchase so if it were bad then they would leave.

Oh but they don’t innovate anymore.

Summit is coming. Let’s see what gets announced and then a live demo.
VPNs are unreliable and frustrating to use. They were never really solution for anyone I knew while living in China, especially for 4K video
I don't see a problem with that (unless the voucher has ridiculous terms) because it allows someone who doesn't mind being bumped to voluntarily accept it rather than going straight to the "you've been chosen, here's the legally mandated payment."

I've made out quite well on United. I had 2 flights back from London to NY where I accepted a 3 hour delay (with lounge access) and made a total over of $2500 in vouchers. The terms were generous too—a year to use them (extended by a year because it was around the pandemic), and you could partially use them, it just added to a "voucher balance" you could draw from.
You can't hide an exception if it crashes your program. You can definitely ignore a return from a function, essentially swallowing it. It's the definition of an anti-pattern.
The EU fined Google for prioritising Google Shopping results after complaints by other shopping/price-comparison websites.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Goog...
There's nothing really new about this, right? The same thing happened in the last administration with Grindr, so famously that it was a plot point on Silicon Valley.
I was never good at VPNs. We would find one that worked, they wanted a one year subscription up front and...then they would stop working. I assume most VPNs in China are just a scam to make some shady money. Who are you going to complain to, the Chinese government?
Xaira raises 1B for generative AI in biology
The VA and VA healthcare are somewhat separate but they are in a unique position to be able to detect something along the lines of, "Given an increase in opioid prescriptions what is the relative increase in homelessness and substance use disorder services saught by members."

I also have a somewhat petty comment to make while juxtaposing this with this: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/marijuana.asp
Is it actually any good for gaming?
Pinning everything on one manager, no matter how related and relevant, is obviously hyperbolic.

A lot of people, and whover they report to, right to the top, are responsible too.

But the fact remains, that this manager is (according to the essay) strongly associated with major product misfires. At best, they didn’t manage to influence decisions down better paths.

And the enshittification of Google is so obvious, so bad for customers and what has become a utility for the Internet in general, that identifying and shaming those responsible seems like useful customer-citizen feedback to me.

People need to push back as the quality of the online environment matters.

No respect for the value extractors who keep showing up to ride on the coattails of the value makers! (Even when they are the same people.)

The gentleman being called out, or another representative, is welcome to clarify why Google Search is really better than it presents. Or why they are not responsible for its precipitous quality drop - I.e. insurmountable constraints and challenges or whatever their view is. Although those kinds of excuses are not very credible when ad revenue over optimization is the obvious problem.

They are even more welcome to reverse the rot.
I use Windows for one thing now. To play a single game that is not available on Linux or the Mac. I don't know how much longer I will be playing that game.
>Black and white

Tell us what you really think, loxist
Yeah I'm trying to be more rational about the opportunity cost of my time.
It's not being banned.
I've done a bit of research into this topic as my startup is building a platform that combines leetcode and traditional take homes. I have come to conclude that it's not only unethical, but it's not in the best interest of the company. We landed on 1h "take homes" as those that maximize the completion rate. It was also clear that take homes, or work sample tests, are amongst the most valid signals for future on the job performance. But companies abuse their power with extra long take homes and don't even have the bandwidth to review and provide feedback.
How can we do the same in the US? I would love to take bicycle trips but that means having to share the lane with monster pickups and distracted SUV drivers.
Like what? Are Americans downloading Tiktok under duress of some sort? Every American competitor has algorithmic video feeds, so there plenty of market substitutes.
I'm making a snarky allusion to the default date for a blank date field
> “socialism with Chinese characteristics" and increases division in Western countries

Do you have a single example of a successful Chinese media campaign, disinformation or information - just one?

Because I can name, off the top of my head, disinformation campaigns by Trump (election was stole) , by Israel (bunker under a hospital), by Isis (mass recruitment in western countries), by oil companies (heat pumps don’t work in Britain’s unique climate), by food companies, by Russia, by Greenpeace, by crazy people on 4chan but I cannot name a single message that came out of China and got major public resonance in the west.
ymmv. It works great for me. Especially the new discover radio.
Most of the fancier runtime-less non-GC techniques fail when it comes to graph data structures (or even linked lists) without a tremendous amount of upfront work from the programmer.
The language the development of which this blog discusses is worth checking out too: https://www.uiua.org

It is an interesting APL successor I was planning to learn after getting current projects out of the way.
Why do you go back to Copilot after trying Cody? (I’m the Sourcegraph CEO, and we make Cody.) We added Claude 3 Opus editor chat and also support GPT-4 Turbo. Curious, why don’t you use in-editor chat? If you find those models helpful, then having in-editor chat with code context seems like it’d be useful to you.
It's especially nice given that a fair number of Japanese websites are aggressive about blocking foreign registrations even to the extent of blacklisting known VPN nodes. First thing I did upon reading this headline was confirming that my actually-created-in-Japan account hadn't ever had its location setting autoupdated by geoip.
Email them, they applied it for me.
Yeah horizon worlds is really bad. In their push to make it child friendly the whole thing has become a bland playground for kids with nothing to offer adults.

After all, when I go to the movies I don't go for a Disney cartoon but an action movie.

The user-generated content in VRChat is so much more compelling. It also looks better. And it's actually harder to do it.
Why is that improbable? Study your history. Merck was nationalized during WWI (that's why there's two mercks).
I wonder who's producing those movies though. My comment did specify Hollywood. The indie film scene, most of which consists of original screenplays, is very active, and now it's easier than ever both to shoot a film—on a smartphone!—and to distribute a film—over the internet. (Likewise, it's easier than ever to record and distribute a music album.) However, those films aren't getting mass marketed, getting seen by the majority of people, or making a ton of money. Unfortunately, the linked articles didn't specify the producers, or even the absolute number of movies produced each year, which is also relevant. Whatever the cause, the public's appetite for sequels, as reflected in box office proceeds, has indisputably increased. Those are the movies getting seen the most. Is that a "natural" desire of consumers? Is it a result of marketing? Something else?
Yes I think I agree. Other people have made similar comments.

I haven't made it obvious but you can start off with your own code, and then get it to iterate on that.

E.g.

1. Get some code from https://v1.tailwindcss.com/components/forms

2. Paste into HTML window

3. Enter into chat "Can you make the sign in button here red?" and click Send.

It will then make the button Red for the form you pasted in, keeping the rest as-is.
Who do you think controls VPN? Do you still trust VPNs?
This is false and for some reason repeated over and over again on the internet.

Argentina was never a rich country and at its highest point in per-capita wealth most of it was concentrated in a few land-owning oligarch families while the rest of the population lives in the abject poverty that was common in the rest of the Americas at the time.
Pretty good. There is only one exception, RDR2, there is a mission where it was crashing for me. Switching to proton experimental solved the issue and I am about to finish it (again, love this game)
And as far I know, if you go there with roaming ON with your phone, these social networks still work as well.
Yup. And I'm sure it's a completely unintended side effect that this massively helps US social media companies, who have been struggling to compete! Whoops!
Have you even used TikTok?
Facebook connects you with the people around you, and TikTok connects you with your favorite people on earth. That's the essence of the product.
Show HN: See your current Spotify song in the menu bar
I have to disagree? Lumping them together is like lumping together formal verification with machine learning...

Two fundamental characteristics of garbage collection (in pretty much every programmer's experience) are that (a) it can handle cycles (read: more general programs), and (b) it does not provide hard performance guarantees in the general case. Reference counting is literally the opposite, and that's exactly what people love about it.
For the second case, is there an argument that this process was unambiguous and objective in terms of a fairly wide range of metrics over color spaces?

I don't actually have much idea of how far, numerically, colors vary due to different illumination, or due to different digitization processes.
Honestly, I mostly watch podcasts. Misquoting Jesus, ReligionForBreakfast, Centre Place, and History Valley are some great ones.
Currency devaluation was the norm for Argentina for the last 30 years and NOW the squid-turds are worried about it?

He was going to stop that train on a dime. Things take time, they have more pain before the restoration.
So if it's propaganda either way, then no loss will happen?
I don't know if I've ever met a tiktok addict that's well informed.
lol, you really think the US has "free Speech" and this is some unprecedented action that will tear us apart?
Shhh :-)
Does make one yearn for the semantic web.

Relying on this company to access any information in the WWW is such a failure of technology...
The cuts Milei is doing are purely ideological and not even the most reticent of budget hawks )including the IMF) ever considered these cuts necessary or sustainable. The man is mentally insane and despises every public institution.

What they’re not saying here is that tax revenue is dropping and will wipe out any of these gains and that installed industrial activity dropped by over 30% since he assumed office.
>The difference between California, Texas, South Dakota, Maine, Ohio are as different as Turkey, France, Australia, Ireland, Japan

This is just so obviously not true on the surface. We all speak the same language at the very least, which isn't true for a single one of those countries you listed.