skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case, you should provide your students with access to an AI service so that those Who cannot afford it are not disadvantaged.
> Imho it would only be market failure if that freedom disappears

There is nothing inherently wrong with Facebook making React open-source. React undoubtedly benefits everyone.

However, the issue lies in the fact that this practice doesn't create a true "market". Facebook has made a relatively small and insignificant portion of their source code available for free, which doesn't impact their business significantly. Meanwhile, they have encouraged thousands of programmers around the world to develop React extensions and publish them for free under similar terms. For an individual programmer, unlike Facebook, this means giving away 100% of their work effort without charge. While this benefits society in terms of knowledge sharing, it almost always financially benefits businesses and big tech companies.

Overall, this model creates a situation where most programmers end up doing part of the job for businesses for free, and they have to earn their living by working for these companies as well.

This model exploits programmers' labor in two interconnected ways. Simultaneously, there is widespread public promotion that publishing under OSS licenses is moral and the only way to go.
It is remarkably difficult and continues to provide a good example of the limitations of LLM based systems.

In my case, I used perl, and exploited the fact for for a given bank, the statements are consistently formatted. Further, PDF OCR conversion responds consistently to the documents with the same formatting. With this combination, it is possible to extract the characters and numbers that are associated with transactions from the document, and then to take those extracted bundles of text and transform them into lines for a CSV file.

The caveat is that it works for only that bank, that "kind" of account (usually checking, credit card, or savings), and when using that specific document OCR tool. Within those constraints it is eminently reliable but utterly non-transferable to a general case.
I teach math in the first year of the university. Stuff like solving a 2×2 or 3×3 system of linear equations or the derivative or integral of x*exp(x^2).

They are very important for the phisics or whatever class next year, but they are just tools too boring to make a special project about them.
Because it is easy to say and typical for English. In English "y" at the ends up as "ies" for plural.

Whatever the rules, eventually whatever is easier for locals to say will be what people go with.

> The only other Slavic-to-English example of this sort I know is pierogis, from Polish (the nominative singular form is pieróg).

Not speaking Polish whenever I heard "pierogis" in English, I assumed all Americans meant was Russian "pirogi". So was expecting fluffy yeast leavened baked goodies, instead I got boiled vareniky/pelimini/dumplings.
It is hard, though not impossible to generalize expertise.
btw we've now added an option for you to get email notifications about updates
True. But it is well supported and it meets a need.
Please add a screenshot of what it looks like. I am assuming the only picture you have on the page is not how game looks.
The best way to contribute is find bugs in stuff you use and fix them, or write guides/docs for popular software. You should work on things you know and use so you understand what the users need.

Somehow I can't tell you any specific examples off the top ofbmy head.
iOS is far less pleasant to use and much of my app ecosystem lives on Android.
> "Oracle still prints money, but how many people under 50 use Oracle on a day to day basis when they are building a company? I would venture to say approaching zero."

Oracle is having something of a resurrection moment lately, with Oracle Cloud becoming a surprisingly popular option for startups.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-startups-find-an-...

"At least six venture-backed AI startups, including Character.ai and Adept AI Labs, primarily rely on Oracle for cloud computing, according to the companies. Two founders of AI startups who have used various cloud providers told The Information that Oracle can run complex machine-learning models more economically than Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud."
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> I think people like you just feel the need to have something to complain about

Thanks for the ad hominem
Montana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef from Brazil?
I wonder why they haven't setup a pyinstaller build for consumers that just want to use it? Making people have python and faff with virtual environments feels an odd choice...

Would be nice to see a nix flake etc for tinkerers as well...
68%, February 2024
I'm hopeful the uv will bring us closer to tooling on par with other language ecosystems. But it's very early on in the process.
A zombie company ? Exactly what competition does windows +office have in the enterprise?
I don’t know. I just had to buy, and use, a Windows 11 pc. Remarkably, it shares a desk with a new M3 iMac, side by side. And equally remarkably, they’re set up so they behave almost identically, except that Windows 11 is a little snappier and has a few fewer keystrokes than the Finder for most operations. (And search works!). I quickly acculturated to it after a decade away. Entirely unexpected.
Listen to yourself, you're calling "keep the players playing" an inherently bad thing.

They're right, some free to play models are predatory and some of them aren't.

Free to play doesn't imply whales, either.
No, it's not correct. MSFT is a $3+ trillion market cap company doing $200+ billion revenue which is growing mostly organically at a very good clip and has a product line people and companies use mostly by choice.

IBM is 20x smaller by market cap, 4x smaller by revenue, they are shrinking organically because they forgot how to make anything and no one starting any business from scratch would use any of their products.

He got it completely wrong. It is what it is. If you comment on enough things you are going to be very wrong sometimes.
I'm pretty sure this product is in the "gray market" at best. Selling 4-aco-dmt for human consumption would seem to violate the Analogue Act and thus be felony in USA. I'm sure there are plenty of noncriminal violations regarding supplement labeling there too
You'd be surprised how little exposure toddlers need in order to be able to mimic if it's caught their interest
I like the signs. I'd take it further--if a protected tree dies it's investigated why. Anything other than a determination that it's definitely natural means the only thing that can be done with the land is trees. Nothing is taken from the property owner because they bought the land knowing the trees were there. If they planned illegal enrichment, too bad.
If you convert those PBFs to Parquet files. You can then use Duckdb to search them with sub-sec response. Plus you get the added bonus of being able to host in an S3 type cloud storage.

https://duckdb.org/docs/extensions/httpfs/s3api
The antitrust issues were a small piece of a much larger puzzle. Microsoft wasn't dead because of anti-trust issues. They were dead because Ballmer took them in the wrong direction. He made lots of money, but killed the culture of Microsoft.

If they wouldn't have had the eye of regulators on them they could have financially buried a bunch of startups. But that didn't make them turn their products into garbage. There were many issues.
Paul Graham has been getting a lot of criticism recently, both from this obviously bad take and because of his praise for the fraud-ridden Lambda School and Paul's hero worship of Austen.

I personally appreciate the reality check that not everything these famous people think is worth writing down nor sharing.
An 18% drop doesn't sound like death, does it?
archive: https://archive.is/VBmtV
I have a chart I call "the Ballmer peak" which is the huge trough in earning that accompanied Ballmer's time at the helm.
> The primary issue is that there is no means to correct the situation non-violently

I think that’s a rather absurd claim. The real problem is that most people couldn’t care less, they neither understand the issues and/or are in the “don’t have anything to hide” camp. Unfortunate I guess that’s just how democracy works..
> Part of what makes AI interesting is that it can understand a huge number of differently phrased data.

I'd say it "recognizes" a huge number of differently phrased data. This avoids implying any analytic encoding.
PG wasn't wrong, it's just that Microsoft was resurrected later in 2014 by Satya Nadella.

When Paul wrote this, the industry was witnessing a technological revolution across the board (smartphones, AWS, Google docs, etc) while Microsoft was drugged and lacking behind on all fronts. At the time, their latest product launch was probably Windows Vista.

It was a different company back then and it's such an amazing feat of Satya to manage to steer a ship of Microsoft's size.
I wish all 7-eleven stores worldwide were like the Japanese ones. The stores in Asia generally are okay, like same concept as the Japanese ones, just varying degrees of less good.

The stores in the US and Canada are just useless. Terrible. I don't know why, given the Japanese parent owns them all and I've never met anyone who has visited a Japanese store who prefers the American format.
That’s all fixed.
4-6 is ideal, over 6 people and the communication and coordination overhead starts to cost too much.
As someone with no skin in the game and also someone who thinks that MS, Google, Apple, etc are not really “better” from an ethical standpoint than each other/any other big tech company: I always get the impression that Satya is a brilliant CEO and on the other hand Sundar is really not that good. Is this the general consensus?
As a creative person, finding out how much of that whole era was an operation is demoralizing. In culture it was a time when there was a there there. Young men could reasonably aspire to growing up to become artists and writers, in a society where ideas and discourse had coherent meaning and the politics of the nation had at least some accountability to reason. Reading that it was just another spy hustle makes me want to stop writing.

However, these stories also fit into the narrative that we have no culture, it was all fake, and therefore there is nothing worth preserving or protecting, only dismantling and dissolving. It's hackneyed. Another demoralizing narrative churned out by a partisan brunch chatter factory shouldn't bring us down.

Really, the CIA and the western intelligence community had one job. I like how the west thinks it won the cold war when all of its institutions are openly occupied by the very ideologues they were formed against. Sure, CIA backed culture industries, and Hollywood is an organ of the State Department, but in spite of these stories, the sort of people our society pays to do dirty jobs are not our protagonists, and they are not the story imo.
If offshoring worked, it would have worked the first time.
T-FREE Tokenizer-Free LLMs via Sparse Representation Memory-Efficient Embeddings
This delay can be worked around by using the standard viewport meta tag, which any web app built for mobile will be using.
it doesnt look like anything, its plain shell. You use cat, find, cd, export etc ... to play the game. The picture is for vibe
I am glad they are advancing the field but I think it's unfortunate that doesn't make them top dog. Gemini is not top tier to me but I admit that confusing naming and spotty worldwide rollout might be a reason why I am not familiar with their best model. But that's a signal on it's own.

The launch was faked and I don't think the real thing is here yet
https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-w...
Ballmer is a good used car salesman. He sold what they had, but new products suffered under his leadership. Just like Apple stopped inventing after Jobs.

Nadella built new product categories for the company.

I think two more years with Ballmer would have made the the prophecy valid.
Yeah, felt like a bit of a rug pull. At that size, you've scaled only slightly; everyone in the company probably still knows each other on some level. But how do you maintain small team effectiveness in a company of hundreds, if not thousands?
Until Android 12 or 13 alternative stores couldn't update apps automatically in the background. And you still need to click "install" for new apps, which isn't the case with Google Play.
Common way of thinking:

- "I have nothing to hide"

- "they already have all my info anyway"

The problem is that people have not seen it directly. They have not seen that someone used their data against them especially. It is done mostly 'behind the scenes'.

However it is easy to dismantle these thoughts:

- With system of surveillance every politician can be 'under foreign surveillance', which is not a good thought

- There were some cases about somebody not receiving insurance due to surveillance. What if you will not receive social money, or benefits. You may even not know why you were treated by government in certain way

- You do not know if your data were sold, or trained for AI, or for robot dogs, or for war, or to China (Facebook sold data to china)

- Your data can be used against you potentially during your whole life. What if your DM comment might lead to problems with your employment in the future?

- Governments change with times. What if some nasty figure, nazi like, becomes a president of let's say for example America. How you can be sure your data will be treated with care, and that it will not be misused, or used against you?
TypeScript has a Turing complete type system so it's as powerful as it gets in terms of what can be expressed in the type system. As for learning and understanding what is going on with type systems in general you'll have to go through a textbook if you really want to develop an understanding. Type systems (not Turing complete ones) are fundamentally logical systems and I don't know how you can understand type systems without actually going through the trouble of understanding the underlying logical fundamentals.
No, you don't have that chart. Earnings went up under Ballmer.
UX might not be that good but software offering for Windows and backward compatibility is awesome.
Tokenization is a statistical technique that greatly compresses the input while providing some semantic hints to the underlying model. Tokenization is not the big thing holding back generative models. There are so many other challenges being worked on and steadily overcome and progress has been insanely rapid.
I really dislike this sort of headline because it misses a core part of the analysis between seed-stage, versus late-stage startups.

NYT says the $27.1B represents ~50% of investments in startups ($56B in total).

But the $27.1B includes $1B for CoreWeave, $1B for Scale AI, and $6B for xAI. Elon Musk's company is an outlier IMHO, and the other two might as well be public companies soon. Certainly late stage enough not to be bellwethers for early stage VC investing.

Remove the $8B above, and AI startups got about 34% of all startup funding. Is that a lot? I don't know, but all of a sudden it sounds more reasonable.
They are giving out huge amount of free credits to startups.
Years ago I played with TekUI on a Allwinner A10 board and it worked fine also displaying GUIs on the framebuffer without any underlying X environment.

http://tekui.neoscientists.org/

Only caveats: it's quite old and doesn't seem maintained anymore, although it still compiles fine, and it's Lua only, but being written in C it shouldn't be too hard to port it to other languages.
"everything is memorization at the end of the day"

Only somebody who has never thought about or studied human cognition would memorize such a thing. ;)

But in all seriousness, memory isn't even memory isn't just memorization. Much of it is attention, some would even say attention is all you need. ;)

In all seriousness though, arguably, reducing the human mind down to a single dimension like "recall" (or attention) while ignoring other dimensions like emotion, creativity and so on is probably good evidence that human cognition is neither simple, nor unidimensional, for some of us humans at least. Ymmv
ML researchers might be thinking that their paper will be obsolete next month so why bother taking time to make their coding environment reproducible.
Alaska's top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point
> but people still find a way to turn it off or bypass it and then get infected by malware/spyware/adware.

Or they leave it on, and install malware/spyware/adware anyways: https://www.pcmag.com/news/beware-theres-a-fake-lastpass-app...

So suffice to say, their whole security scheme leaves a bit to be desired.
Watch NASA volunteers emerge after living one year in a Mars simulation
Been thinking that for a while now. Them and Facebook.

Takes a long time for tech zombies to stop moving though, *eyes Yahoo email addresses registered in the late 90s nervously*.
You have to define "desktop" as not being a phone or tablet for that stat to be sane.
I would argue the desktop itself changed.

A wooden desk with a PC, a keyboard, mouse and monitor is likely to run Windows: until it's replaced by someone who isn't at a desk.
We can just cycle everyone on different appetite suppressors every few months so they don't grow dependent.

Between all the different GLP1 agonists, cocaine, vapes/nicotine patches, Adderall/Vyvanse, and all the other fun pharmaceutical-grade amphetamines, we should have enough to keep everyone h̶o̶o̶k̶e̶d̶ nice and healthy without a horrific dependence on any one drug (Won't someone think of the poor pharmaceutical companies!)
This is classic demonstration of the fact, you do not have to get most of the things right, but extract maximum value when you are right.

We have the excellent advantage of hindsight but definitely in 2007 the general agreement was Microsoft was losing to Google and Apple, which were the darlings of the stock market while Microsoft remained stagnant.
I wrote a app to communicate with a medical device in 2018. Was published on Apple AppStore and Android PlayStore

https://rvier.fr/images/chronomonitoring.png
Help change that how?

If trying to get enough public support to push for structural change is the idea, then iOS is currently moving toward being less locked down, while Android has been getting more locked down.
Any language you already know is going to have the advantage over languages you don’t.

If you already know Perl, you already know if it’s right for you. If you don’t, you’re probably better off learning Ruby instead.
IBM invested in OpenAI? IBM bought GitHub?

IBM doesn't move like this, even if those are acquisitions.

Microsoft is very focused on where the money flows, and they have adapted to the change of times.
Those are my biases, too, but there's a generation under me (I'm a bit oldish) that doesn't see things that way.

Witness how C# has a toehold in games development (via Unity) and that isn't seen as incogruous at all.

And then look at the prevalence of VS Code, and the market penetration of GitHub...
> Microsoft changed. And for the better.

But better for whom?

Sometime after 2007, Microsoft:

(1) rolled out unstoppable, inscrutable "telemetry" in Windows,

(2) decided that "opt-out" was appropriate for privacy-invading features, and

(3) decided it was okay to silently reset such opt-outs.

(4) most recently, decided it's okay to violate copyright for any material they can scrape off the web, except for victims who can afford to fight Microsoft in court.

I don't know any of their actual reasons for those policies, but as an end-user their reasons are indistinguishable from "because we can".

IIRC, in the MS-DOS / Windows 2 up through ~early Windows 10 days, Microsoft's sleazy behavior was mostly limited to their interactions with other software companies.
In the mid-90s, Apple was much deader than Microsoft ever was, and that was long before the transition to Intel.
Saw Suncor try the offshore to India on their major app around 2014. Commit history a few years later barely changed.
Teaching a skill directly is known to be more a more efficient way of learning rather than force students to try to discover it on their own.
He didn’t say the chart was accurate, just that he has it :)
> Everyone is happy to smile and nod and the appropriate tickets are filed with deadlines attached

Once I did a final review of a backlog of a project that got decommissioned after a decade of development and use. Most of the "fix tech debt" tickets were still there in the backlog. And how could it be otherwise if the tech debt tickets always got assigned priority 2, and everything the management wanted done got assigned priority 1, and there were always more priority 1 tasks than we could fit into a spring?

Next time, I will have no confusion about what "priority 2" actually means. It's in the backlog to make you feel happy, but you are not supposed to actually ever do it. (If by some miracle all current "priority 1" tickets get done at some moment, some of your team members will be assigned to a different project.)
What Nadella did will be in the business school books!
The blink and marquee tags are deprecated but they still work...
Typical cargo cult behaviour:

People here idolize him and associates because they think it increases the chances of selling their company for billions of dollars one day.
Creating products is very easy. Creating products that generate a profit is very hard. If a company could do so on demand, it would be an infinite money glitch.
Are you noticing ads within Windows? I haven't used windows in over a decade and hear there are a lot of ads you see throughout the OS, which is something you don't get on macOS.
Is that because he is actually a genius, or is it because he has a platform to talk from, and he talks from it?

Because I find that there's a very wide range among 'well-regarded (by some) public intellectuals.' Some of them say things worth thinking about. Many others, not so much, the only noteworthy thing about them is that they stand on a soapbox.
BYO + Google Docs...?
I guess whatboutism is okay when it's used against the other side
The mantra of "fail-fast" can be painful for customers (even though it's cheered in these forums) ...

Especially when the definition of what "success" looks like is defined by a major player who expects major outcomes.
Charge Robotics (YC S21) is hiring full-stack devs to deploy solar robots
im out of the loop on the Lambda School, what happened?
Many of us Hackernews gushed over Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos back when they were at peak hypecycle. The thing about these fraudsters is they are good at bamboozling even smart people, especially smart people who are not in the scammer's putative line of work.
What new product categories did Nadella built that Ballmer didn't start?. Azure was started and then prioritized under Ballmer. Office for iOS was built under Ballmer but not announced to give Nadella a quick win on his start. Ballmer set his replacement very well on so many levels.

> Ballmer is a good used car salesman.

Ballmer was a very very good salesman. The reason Azure or all these new shiny MSFT products (e.g. teams) have a leg is because Ballmer already sold AD to almost every corp out there. Microsoft went from being 0 in enterprise to bigger than anyone else and that is now the main money printer and also the future of the company.

One thing everyone forgets is Nadella was nowhere to be found few years before becoming CEO. Ballmer made a very very good successor choice elevating Nadella quickly in few years.
> but we've never bothered to invite Microsoft. Nor has anyone there ever even sent us an email. They're in a different world

> I'm now surprised when I come across a computer running Windows.

Funny how PG didn't have enough perspective to realize that he himself could be the one in a different world. A bright guy, but like you say - narrow-minded.