skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.

They are definitely heading that way, I've been saying I expect them to for some time, and they are slowly proving my guess right.

It used to be that their cash cows were Windows (Desktop & Server), Office, SQL Server, and to a lesser extent Exchange (even earlier in time it was just DOS, Windows (desktop), and Office). Everything else, including Visual Studio despite charging a pile for it, was to funnel and capture people into using those, or to inconvenience startups in other areas that might later try to compete in one of those arenas.

Now their cash cows are Azure, Office subscriptions, and to a lesser extent SQL Server, Exchange, and advertising. They don't care what OS you use and what apps & services you run, but they want you to run it on Azure (unless you are a huge concern in which case the money from on-prem SQL and other licences are still worth talking about) and pay them subscriptions for storage & processing.

They can't just abandon Windows, that would look bad, but they don't want their own stuff to be keeping it alive any longer than needs be. If everyone shuffled over to Linux, Android, MacOS/iOS, etc. but still used online office and apps running in Azure, that would be ideal for them – the hassle of maintaining desktop Windows with all the hardware compatibility issues and such isn't something they would get into today if they were not already there.

Giving up on controlling their own browser engine was a big sign they were moving this way: let someone else deal with all that client UI gubbings, there is no practical MS-scale money in it, and concentrate on selling the subscription services to office users and devs. I think the failure of their attempt at mobile market-share was when this ball really got rolling internally: the thought at high levels in the business being “hang on, if we can walk away from that because it isn't worth the effort to keep pushing, could that be true of other end-user OS stuff too?”

It'll take time to move everything either properly cross-platform or at least browser-based, SQL Server was a big step in that direction, but that is relatively easy as it is effectively a micro-OS sitting atop something else, the likes of Visual Studio will be harder, but it will happen, and then Desktop Windows will be allowed to slowly die. Server Windows already is in cloud: devs are being pulled away from caring about the base OS to running everything in OS-agnostic functions and light container-based services instead.

This is why they don't care that people like me won't ever be buying into Windows 11 at all, even where we did hold our noses and let Windows 10 happen.
Doesn’t that kind of change follow the overall trend?

We continuously shift to higher level abstractions, trading reliability for accessibility. We went from binary to assembly, then to garbage collection and to using electron almost everywhere; ai seems yet another step.
At a startup I was an early employee of, we intentionally discussed challenging topics while walking together. I remember walking with this ops guy once and passionately debating our next moves, by the end we had coffee and a solution. Thankfully this was a lesser traveled part of the bay area, so we spared bystanders of the tech noise.
The funny thing is that the things it refuses to say are "wrong-speech" type stuff, so the only things you can be more sure of nowadays are conspiracy theories and other nasty stuff. The nastier the more likely it's human written, which is a bit ironic.
It’s writing most of my code now. Even if it’s existing code you can feed in the 1-2 files in question and iterate on them. Works quite well as long as you break it down a bit.

It’s not gas lighting the latest versions of GPT, Claude, Lama have gotten quite good
AI startups generate money faster than past hyped tech companies
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All TVs are non-smart TVs if you don't give them internet.
Maybe somewhat about this concrete article, but not in the general life I see around me, people are working way too hard for that 100/hr piece of cake, maybe even hoping they can get a raise and get 110/hr piece of cake. Meanwhile shareholders get 3 million cake :)

The game is rigged worse than a casino :)
Whenever I see a new (to me) charting library that uses the HTML5 canvas element, the first thing I do is go checkout the repo to see how it handles accessibility issues. These people seem to have put some good thought into the issue, in particular for keyboard navigation and screenreader support[1]. Which makes me happy.

Also, the library comes in a MIT-licenced community edition which can be found in GitHub[2]

[1] - https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/javascript/accessibility/

[2] - https://github.com/ag-grid/ag-charts
Copyright law is intended to prevent people from stealing the revenue stream from someone else's work by copying and distributing that work in cases where the original is difficult and expensive to create, but easy to make copies of once created. How does an LLM do this? What copies of copyrighted work do they distribute? Whose revenue stream are they taking with this action?

I believe that all the copyright suits against AI companies will be total failures because I can't come up with a answer to any of those questions.
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Do not trust an idea unless it came to you while walking. —Nietzsche
Without any sort of AI we'd probably be left with the most exciting yearly releases being 3-5% performance increases in hardware (while being 20% more expensive of course), the 100000th javascript framework and occasionally a new windows which everybody hates. People talk about how population collapse is going to mess up society, but I think complete stagnation in terms of new consumer goods/technology are just as likely to do the deed.
Maybe AI will fail to improve from this point, but that's a dark future to imagine. Especially if it's for the next 50 years.
I'm not certain what statement you're implying, but yes, accessibility of bookwriting has definitely decreased the quality of books.

Even technical books like Hardcore Java: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hardcore-java/059600568... are god-awful, and even further away from the seminal texts on computer science that came before.

It does feel like authorship was once heralded in higher esteem than it deserves today.

Seems like people agree: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/18cvy9e/rant_bestsel...
I just use ai now to solve my problems. less walking.
This is now obsolete question, because of technical progress. Just now all change.

Economically, most cost effective route one hop, without additional landings.
And also, it is very big hassle, to manage all passengers and their luggage in hub, and all these transfers are time consuming and tiresome.

~15 years ago, unfortunately, only largest planes (747/380) could fly any route in one hop, but smaller (ie 737) could not. And all air transport economy built with concept of "hub world" - existed several big hubs, like Frankfurt, between them flight big planes, and to reach smaller airports, used small planes or some other transport.

Also important thing, air companies in past have to maintain good relations with hubs, so this was also question of politics and big pain for business.

But then appeared new small planes with much better fuel efficiency (787 and new modification of A-3xx, sorry forgot exact number), plus changed regulations accepted two-engined planes fly farther from reserve airport, so now any airport reachable with small plane and hubs concept slow dissolve.

Sure, still exist number of rare visited places, where just very few tourists appear, but for now their place in "post-hub world" is "under construction", nobody could predict how things will change in nearest months.
Calling this the “10-Minute Rule” is pure clickbait. The “one weird trick” here is to go for a walk when you’re stuck on an intellectual problem. That’s it. It is indeed a valuable solution, we’ve know this for a long time, but it has nothing to do with 10 minutes. You don’t need to wait exactly/more/fewer than 10 minutes before going for a walk nor do you need to walk exactly/more/fewer than 10 minutes, it’s an arbitrary point.
Sure it will. It even provided a concrete example with the random vs targeted funding experiment. Basically, the idea is to spread out capital to more participants to take advantage of the phenomena. So, for example, do you hire the superstar prima donna developer or hire 5+ good developer prospects with hopes one or more may become exceptional for the company? Do you invest in one shiny startup with a superstar group of founders (a “sure bet”) or invest in 5+ startups with goood potential?
Should Automattic be compelled to subsidise their competitors?
These tools must be absolutely massively better than whatever Microsoft has then because I’ve found that GitHub copilot provides negative value, I’d be more productive just turning it off rather than auditing it’s incorrect answers hoping one day it’s as good as people market it as.
I wear boat shoes daily, they're essentially a flat piece of rubber. Gives me the sensation of being "half barefoot" (things don't hurt but I feel every little piece of gravel and crevasse I walk on.

I'm also 78kg so I don't know if anything I wear or don't wear on my feet really matters, but it feels good and they last for ages since it's just suede/leather stitched down into rubber.
Same here. If my subconscious could deal with it, it's probably not that big of an issue or wouldn't be on my plate.

Distance might help me see something I had missed, but that is an exceeding rarity. If getting away for a moment was magic we'd be in a nicer place. Everybody poops. Fewer put in effort.
Guy disassembles a fine device like a barbarian. Using some cro-magnon like ifixit tools.
That sounds almost like the complete opposite of my experience and I'm also working in a big Rails app. I wonder how our experiences can be so diametrically different.
> I think the dispute is in fact between the org and wpengine.

Automattic sent the cease and desist to WP Engine.
Because scores are kinda bullshit.

But real answer is well if you have arbitrary remote code execution you can also read memory, where as heartbleed only read memory... And the reality is same, you were safe from heartbleed if you did not use openssl, you are safe from this if you do not use cups. CVSS score does not take into account if the software is used or not.
Trust as no bearing on what they said.

Reading was a form of connecting with someone. Their opinions are bound to be flawed, everyone's are - but they're still the thoughts and words of a person.

This is no longer the case. Thus, the human factor is gone and this reduces the experience to some of us, me included.
I have ADHD and find it very difficult to sit down with a book or audiobook, but if I'm doing the dishes, walking, or riding my bike, I can listen for hours. I'll often look for extra things to clean around the house because I want to know what happens next!
Lawsuits based on code licensing for example.

Scraping websites containing source code which is distributed with specific licenses that OpenAI & co don't follow.
Gambling ruins lives.

We could solve that by banning/restricting gambling.

But it seems that's just a patch on the bigger problem: That our citizens are insufficiently educated to see what is ruining their life and stay away from it.

Sure, some people waste all their money on gambling. But others waste all their money on drugs. Or theme park rides. Or model trains.

Would it not be better to have better training not to waste all your resources on something that doesn't benefit you?
if the log is as efficient and scalable why is MVCC even a thing? TBH the description on wikipedia looks identical to Datomic to me, minus the persistent data structures. Does it just come down to rectangular fixed width structs of RDBMS give better query performance?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiversion_concurrency_con...
I did. I write for myself mostly so I'm not so worried about one reader's trust - I guess I'm more worried that I might be contributing to the dead internet theory by generating AI-polluted text for the next generation of AIs to train on.

At the moment I'm using it for local history research. I feed it all the text I can find on an event (mostly newspaper articles and other primary sources, occasionally quotes from secondary sources) and I prompt with something like "Summarize this document in a concise and direct style. Focus on the main points and key details. Maintain a neutral, objective voice." Then I hack at it until I'm happy (mostly I cut stuff). Analysis, I do the other way around: I write the first draft, then ask the AI to polish. Then I go back and forth a few times until I'm happy with that paragraph.

I'm not going anywhere with this really, I'm just musing out loud. Am I contributing to a tragedy of the commons by writing about 18th century enclosures? Because that would be ironic.
It's an interesting side note that in the 80's the Soviet Union, despite having a large icebreaking ship building capabilities, also bought icebreakers from Finland (then not a member of NATO)

Including a couple of Nuclear ones (they fitted the nuclear engine themselves):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaygach_(1989_icebreaker)
The cost is not that high. There are plenty static site generators or things like pandoc. For example: https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/write-a-book-with-markdown/

You are asking for a responsive weblayout, which excludes any format that LaTeX outputs.
Latex is a typesetting engine that does the job before presenting anything and not while presenting it. Its layouts are not responsive by design.

So your question if there is something like LaTeX for frontend is just misplaced, because the working method of LaTex does not fit into a responsive weblayout frontend.
What LaTeX features do you want in a frontend? How do you want to write code and how do you want the layout to happen?

What you describe sounds more like static site generation with math handling and perhaps references. There are markdown extensions that can handle such things. For rendering there is e.g. https://www.mathjax.org/
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I don't believe there is such a thing as aphantasia insofar as one does not hallucinate "inwardly" and that the "condition" is merely an artifact of the terminology we use to describe imagining something.
As a farmer, can you tell us about the direct and indirect support you received from your govt to wear the risk of farming? In all highly industrialised countries, there are a huge amount of govt support for farmers.
If 'X' had a similar impact on life to money, it wouldn't be 'X' it would be 'money'. Not to mention, the claim that people will only gamble for real-life money is absurd. I've found gambling in various video games is just as enjoyable as gambling in real life, the only difference is the reward for winning is video-game-points and not money.
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They are not even that bad anymore to be honest.
Can't train your AI if your customers' emails are stored locally.
You calling it piracy is already a moral stance. Copying data isn't morally wrong in my opinion, it is not piracy and it is not theft. It happens to not be legal but just a few short years ago it was legal to marry infants to old men and you could be killed for illegal artifacts of witchcraft. Legality and morality are not the same, and the latter depends on personal opinion.
What kind of things are you using it for? I’ve tried asking it things about the app and it only gives me generic answers that could apply to any app. I’ve tried asking it why certain things changed after a rails update and it gives me generic troubleshooting advice that could apply to anything. I’ve tried getting it to generate tests and it makes up names for things or generally gets it wrong.
> It's not so much that I think people have used AI, but that I know they have with a high degree of certainty, and this certainty is converging to 100%, simply because there is no way it will not. If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition.

I am writing regularly and I will never use AI. In fact I am working on a 400+ pages book right now and it does not contain a single character that I have not come up with and typed myself. Something like pride in craftmanship does exist.
Nah, that's Musk 100%. Sam is still in the small leagues.
I think the walking part is important, but there is also research that small breaks of any kind (except possibly looking at a screen) are beneficial when learning new information -- apparently because they insert new beginnings and ends to the work session, which are the points at which retention is maximized.
I just this week lost access to my hotmail/outlook account from Thunderbird, although I'm on a much older version. Sounds like MS dropped POP3 support, probably for my own 'safety and security'. How long has that been an industry standard though, shame. Anyway a good trigger to drop another ad focused company, at least that is what it seems when I was forced to use the web interface today.
89% health with 100% charge limit and “optimize battery charging” enabled.

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Nepotism and getting away with fraud are luck.
A few months ago, I tried to get Gemini to help me write some criticism of something. I can't even remember what it was, but I wanted to clearly say something was wrong and bad.

Gemini just could not do it. It kept trying to avoid being explicitly negative. It wanted me to instead focus on the positive. I think it evidently just told me no, and that it would not do it.
>If you write regularly and you're not using AI, you simply cannot keep up with the competition. You're out. And the growing consensus is "why shouldn't you?", there is no escape from that.

Are you sure you don't mean if you write regularly in one particular subclass of writing - like technical writing, documentation etc.?
Do you think novel writing, poetry, film reviews etc. cannot keep up in the same way?
For the same reason we don't want art to be 10,000x times more expensive? Cf. status quo bias etc.
Nobody knows what happened within the MMC Association in 1998
If Americans are spending 1B per month and you capture 10M per month (1%) of the market, charging 1% gives you 100k / month for the business.

I think you could raise money and then sustain a lean business.
Like this? https://youtu.be/inDm0mjp_t8?t=323
Wow, it finally has failover support for logical replication slots. That was biggest reason why I couldn't depend on logical replication, since the master DB failover handling was too complex for me to deal with.
- I walk thus I feel happy, at least happier.
- I feel happier this I feel better to think.

This is all
There's a lot of things that don't fit on GitHub either. Sometimes because it's closed source, sometimes because the data is too big, sometimes because parts of the data have legal restrictions on distribution and require the user to get it themselves from a different source.

The usual solution is to make a skeleton repo with only partial or no code, the real substance being a README that explains what the project is and instructions on how to use it. GitHub is a social network as well as a code warehouse in a way, and this comes with benefits. The same system for stars, issues, user groups, permissions etc. extends across all projects regardless of whether the code/data is actually hosted on GitHub. Something like this for science could be of huge benefit.
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The usual argument is less about piracy as a term and more the use of the word theft, and your use of the word "taking". When we talk about physical things theft and taking mean depriving the owner of that thing.

If I have something, and you copy it, then I still have that thing.
That's fair, and I really don't fundamentally disagree with what they said I just wanted to add some cultural context here. Will plead ignorance that my experience working on issues of "addiction" or compulsions outside of the U.S. is incredibly thin but, knowing how compulsion tends to play out stateside- these are my observations. I'm genuinely concerned considering how poorly we've done treating those with substance use disorder, which I think is arguably simpler than gambling addiction in some respects
Also, the desired interpretation of copyright will not stop the multi-billion-dollar AI companies, who have the resources to buy the rights to content at a scale no-one else does. In fact it will give them a gigantic moat, allowing them to extract even more value out of the rest of the economy, to the detriment of basically everyone else.
> Some aspects of farming lean on skill, but other aspects are pure chance.

I frequently use this phrase when talking with people about their career path. Replace farming with (office work) career. Mike Bloomberg famously wrote: "Work hard and you might get lucky." I like that phrase because it appreciates the nuance of success.
My first job was to write news to teletext for German public broadcast. It required the author to compact even complex news into essentially two old tweets (I think around 300 characters) and deliver some context. Very good training!
Kind of pointless comparing Russian icebreaker number to anyone elses'. Russia is basically a huge pile of snow next to a huge floating pile of ice (geographically, not population-wise, but still). Nobody has even 10% of motivation for building icebreakers that Russia has.
Yeah all the current tools have this particular brand of corporate speech that’s pretty easy to pick up on. Overly verbose, overly polite, very vague, non assertive, and non opinionated.