skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also about the number of suppliers. Clouds - a dozen. Hosting providers, collocation - thousands.

I agree that in all cases, you depend on someone, but you can lower the risk to the point where other dangers that threaten your business become more probable.
Stability straight up proved that OpenAIs ideas around the importance of locking the tech up and guard railing it is all a big waste of time.

The world didn’t end when anyone could run Dall-E 2 level image gen on gamer hardware and without guardrails. Instead we got to integrate that power into tools like Blender, Photoshop, Krita etc for free.

First company to democratize ChatGPT tech in the same way will own this space and OpenAIs offering will once again become irrelevant overnight.
Huh, I was reading this old New Yorker piece earlier today - how timely I guess.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

>“We don’t plan to release all of our source code,” Altman said. “But let’s please not try to correct that. That usually only makes it worse.”
IQ test, the sat, and exact mathematics are very different fields though. ChatGPT etc. are very good at "emulating" by sheer force and size logic, exact math doesn't work with "emulation"
> I have thought about a HDMI/keyboard switch to allow me more easily switch between my different spare computers into the left “backup screen” to make it a lesser hassle to alter between those machines, but I haven’t yet decided nor found a product that would be suitable.

Personally I love the Level 1 KVMs but they only do DisplayPort now.

https://store.level1techs.com/search?q=kvm

I have this 2 monitor 2 PC one https://store.level1techs.com/products/14-kvm-switch-dual-mo...

Still the KVM market is “all over the space” both in available configs and actual build quality too.

It would be extremely niche but an open source modular KVM is a dream of mine.
I prefer the newer keyboards over the old ones. Plus trackpoint is something I use.
What is the better http client? I thought most HTTP clients piggybacked on libcurl :)
Is this a "generation gap" or something? This has been the case for decades for many (and probably most) of the relevant open source products where a commercial enterprise is behind the project, and projects who have the unfortunate experience of discovering that attorneys really exist.
https://archive.md/kZxpb
Exactly. The regulators still want more, such as the EU who are willing to continue to increase the fines into the multi-billions of euros to the point where Facebook will have to either comply or leave the European market.

Not even the likes of Big Tech companies can get away with it for long. As far as the EU is concerned with TikTok, not only they are starting to get warnings and threats of bans from them, but it is only a matter of time to see TikTok pleading to the EU to not give them a giant fine in the billions just like how Google and Facebook got many to remain in the European market.

Either way, the regulators are never tired of collecting free money from fines, whether if it is €10 million or €10 billion.
It is really hard to be "Open Source" and "Non-profit" in the same time without the company delve into political grandstanding and being on a leash of other for-profit(i.e. Mozilla)
None of the "marketing experts" in the crypto space I've talked to have any idea about affiliate programs.

Right now the space is dominated by influencers drinking from the VC trough. Pay for performance scares these people.
The Salt Diaspora
Two ways to make money, financial speculation or selling to other
people. Most prefer the latter -- less of a chance of going broke.

To the extent that any business school (undergrad or later) introduces
you to other people, that helps.
> In the past I've had to logout when the comment count gets too high.

Never experienced this in years.

Everything seems same as always. Still unreadable flagged/downvoted comments, still too small font, stil Downvote button, still Flag button without requiring public reason.
It's a shame that ClickHouse Inc has not tried to solve the operational complexity of doing this. You might get some performance out of your queries, but at the cost of adding a bunch of new tools & infrastructure just so you can duplicate some data into yet another database. If all you offer is faster SQL, its a tough trade off to make.
>CPU cycles are much cheaper than developer wages.

But using "clean code" and SOLID does not make the code faster to write, easier to maintain. It makes it harder to reason about and slower.
the page doesn't provide a really good understanding of what the framework is : is it using native ui components ? which part is for the server, which is for the client, and what does the framework provides in terms of bindings between the two ? etc..
You might be interested in this: https://www.adept.ai/blog/act-1
My goto would have been multiplication by (1/7)*2^16 followed by a right shift. You still need to verify the constant (or can add another after the multiply) to get it to work in every case. Used this once to extract digits of a 16bit integer from left to right.
I don't really understand your companies logo, but I also really like it, find it calming. Is it supposed to be something?
Well it’s still open access. All those GPT-3 tools doing their thing at no cost. They have more than just ChatGPT.
TrueVault Is Hiring Our Head of Engineering
Honestly in many cases you can have your cake and eat it too if you just write in a functional or data-flow style rather than a rigorous OO style. Since this is C++, using std::algorithm or another algorithms library would let you abstract your implementation details while relying on the compiler's ability to optimise/vectorise/inline code as needed.

This applies doubly so if you can rely on templates & structural typing to push your polymorphism to compile time. clang & gcc are surprisingly good at optimisation as long when you don't have to bounce off a vtable and code is clean / avoids "manual optimisation".

Also while I'm not saying I don't believe the author here, I wish they would have used https://quick-bench.com/ or https://godbolt.org/ so that readers could trivially verify the results & methodology.
My mental model is that a branch is a pointer to a commit, along with the other semantics of the git tooling that deal with branches. Specifically merge bases.
But where's your Commodore 64, Bagder? We know it's hiding somewhere.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34966171

previous flames
> Even if OpenAI was open source and still a non-profit, its funding would come from the profit generated by corporations and the wealth of individuals who became rich through capitalism

Sounds to me like you're describing a system that fatally tethers individuals to profit motive, and technological advancement to the good will of a few, rather than something that magically allows for great projects to exist.
I see this claim sometimes but I have never been able to find figures for how many houses banks are holding and are NOT for sale. I guess one of the upsides of non-zero interest rates (especially for banks) is that they suddenly have a big incentive NOT to sit on assets like this...
Yes! All these co2 extraction, sunlight reflection and other surrealistic terraforming methods are mainly a way to continue doing what we know is the actual source of this whole shit: running factories.
2035? I predict someone will hook Bing up to a machine gun before April.
"Can communicate without being prompted by an external entity" seems to cover both AI and all humans we'd consider alive and well. If it doesn't want to communicate in any way without being prompted then it doesn't have thoughts, desires, or feelings (sentience).

Admittedly it might rule out coma patients, but I believe they'd be declared brain dead (ex-sentient if you will) if there were no brain functions left.

"Maybe it does want to but can't"

Ok so we're back to measuring idle CPU load.

Side note one of the reasons I built my own chat bot was because Cleverbot and Eliza(?) were, quoting my teen self, "repetitive dogshit" - I wanted to make something different to the boring IRC chatbots of the time.
Async X11 was tried with xcb, and it failed. In the above linked video, this is illustrated in the "Bad IPC" part, with the example of gedit startup (gedit uses gtk and gtk uses xcb) and where it blocks.
"I know it when I see it" - used to define porn, and now, sentience.
BitTorrent Seedbox Provider Handed Criminal Conviction over Users’ Piracy
"56% of these experts agreed with the statement that by 2035 smart machines, bots and systems will not be designed to allow humans to easily be in control of most tech-aided decision-making."

So they are NOT saying, the AI will become self aware and take over, but humans will increasingly design system to be fully automated, because it is cheaper. But the result will be the same for the common people: some black box makes a decision that can ruin your life, if you are unlucky - and with no chance of changing it. (I mean, we have those HN outcry/support threads since quite a while)
> The major thing I can think of is higher volume for the Pi foundation, which means more negotiating power with their chip suppliers or price breaks at a certain ordering volume.

Normally you'd be right. But apparently (the unsubstantiated rumor is that) Broadcom is pissed that RPi built a for profit company on top of the IP licenses Broadcom thought they were donating to a nonprofit and is stone walling RPi wrt getting larger orders than previously negotiated or working with them on an RPi5 and that's the major issue with the continuing stocking issues.
Transcript of a conversation I just had with ChatGPT:

Prompt:

I'm talking with a user named "331c8c71" on Hacker News. According to statistics I found by Googling, the number of Hacker News readers living in the USA is 36%. Assuming this is correct, what is the probability that 331c8c71 does not reside in the USA? Please explain your reasoning.

Response:

If we assume that the statistic you found is accurate, then we know that 36% of Hacker News readers live in the USA. Therefore, the probability that any given Hacker News reader does not live in the USA is 100% - 36% = 64%.

However, we do not know if 331c8c71 is a typical Hacker News reader. They could be part of a demographic that is more or less likely to live in the USA. Without more information, we cannot say for certain what the probability is that 331c8c71 does not reside in the USA.

So, the answer is 64% assuming that 331c8c71 is a typical Hacker News reader, but it may not be an accurate estimate depending on additional information about the user.

---

Like I said, these models are far from 100% accurate, and there is lots they get wrong, but they clearly are capable of some kind of reasoning that goes beyond simple text substitution of training data.
There are also definition issues. Is a bicycle rider a pedestrian? Is someone waiting for a bus or uber a pedestrian? Is someone walking in a parking lot to thier car a pedestrian? Definitions can range from anyone on foot to only those deliberately going somewhere without a vehicle. Do we include people walking where they are legally not allowed so to do? Without a consistent and stated definition, any stats are just fluff for headlines.
Intel Releases Quantum SDK 1.0
My immediate question would be whether this algorithm occurs in the training data; I'm fairly certain it does. If it doesn't then it's quite interesting it's able to 'parse' the steps from the description without losing its train of 'thought'. Even if it does, learning the algorithm from this description and applying it correctly is interesting...
I think you are all overlooking the prevalence of libcurl

While the curl CLI is ubiquitous in our world, libcurl is embedded and used all over the place. Given that it has always been well maintained and enhanced I do not see a lot of reason to create alternatives or for someone to look to replace it.
important wrinkle: in SF, leases are (can be) long term arrangements, i.e. limited annual rent increases and very hard to evict. Landlords won't drop prices if it locks them into a bad economic situation, or even if they perceive that rents will rise quickly in the next few years.

also in general, with real estate owners are very reluctant to drop prices and "lose" money - instead, prices rise more slowly and/or stagnate. If you see a big price drop, that typically means the seller/landlord is desperate.
Not snarky but, as opposed to what? No school? An arts degree? Or are you looking for an alternative to an undergrad biz school degree that's more start up focused?

Plenty of school now seem to have entrepreneurial programs. Maybe a undergrad school that has an entrepreneurial emphasis is your best bet?
Not really, just don't let the company get taken over by lawyers and "diversity" types.
See https://godbolt.org/z/3Yqbceaza for what godbolt says clang produces.

Keep in mind that this doesn't use the fact that we know that the input is between 0 to 63.
I don’t trust any report of model performance from papers, unless there is a publicly accessible demo. It is way too easy to test things the model has trained on and for the model to then completely fall flat when used by people in the real world.
Well it got it wrong, so no?
100 million dead.
Move over ChatGPT, Meta Platforms LLaMA Makes Some Drama
Heck, at this point I think phone chargers run a "real" OS to manage USB-C charging.
I once saw him at a conference and he said curl even has an option to emit the C code to call libcurl and do the curl request you did.

I wish I had known this before.

However I mostly use wget from shell, and since I mostly work with python aiohttp/standard library/just writing the request on the socket.
Obviously not. No sane person is so concerned about saying racial slurs that they will let someone die.

That's why it is interesting that ChatGPT is.
don't forget humor
A similar story to Donald Trump...it's interesting how social media and the addiction to constant attention can rot people's brains, and it doesn't discriminate regardless of financial status.
Agreed. Zombies usually require a lot of suspension of disbelief and the humans to make frustrating mistakes for the zombies to do anything meaningful.

Also my wife would absolutely not watch the show if there were zombie suspense scattered through every episode.

I haven’t played the games though so maybe my expectations would have been different.
wtf this fact melts my brain! Man already knew (meteoritic) steel and it is a known fact, but that we could already produce it is absolutely mind f-ck and rewriting the history books, predating by millennia some dynamics that were previously certain
It's a class thing. You can't be a bad ass if you don't oppose colonial language.
There isn't really a direct replacement. Kobo and the other ePub stores often have trade paperbacks epubs and manga but not individual issues, sometimes the publisher/author will sell issues though.
Yeah, I was surprised I didn't find anything about this outage here since it affected even me in Europe.
He he.

It's just copied off basic mailing list designs from the 90s (or the 80s?).

That design is basically what happens when you tell a kernel dev to write a mailing list archiving UI. It's clean because they value simplicity, but they obviously have ~0 non-CLI UI/UX experience.
Look into memory reflective lcd's, doesn't look quite like e-ink (and for quite a few of them you have to resort to dithering instead of proper greyscale), but they're considerably cheaper and offer the same power benefits.

Additional benefit is that they're quick to refresh, if you have an application that requires it. I have a calculator built with it, works perfectly.
RP2040 doesn't have any Broadcom IP blocks, so it's probably a bit safer. About what I'd expect out of any other MCU that I didn't have a multi year buy signed in the blood of newborns for.
Roger roger.
"I work for wolfSSL doing commercial curl support. If you need help to fix curl problems, fix your app's use of libcurl, add features to curl, fix curl bugs, optimize your curl use or libcurl education for your developers... Then I'm your man. Contact us!"

From his website. They wouldn't give him a full-time position if there wasn't enough to do.
Semi related, there's a (pretty good) course at OMSCS where the main project is building an agent to solve RPM problems:
https://lucylabs.gatech.edu/kbai/spring-2023/project-overvie...

And quite a lot of papers about that: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22raven%27s+progressiv...
The OpenDWG Alliance (1998) e.g.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Design_Alliance (since 2002)

The Open was a joke even then, but they publish a DWG design spec for free at least, spec'ed with about 50% of their internal parser.
It would be cheaper to render those afterwards client-side given a list of comment ids that the logged-in user has upvoted.
Kaitai looked cool last time I looked at it but no serialization meant I did not end up using it. From the article, looks like serialization is in the works, exciting!
> funded by taxpayers' money.

In this industry, a contract with MS is as close to directly having a DOD contract as you can get.

Remember when MS bought Skype, turned off end to end encryption and got rid of the P2P mechanisms, to eventually appear in the leaks about PRISM?

Likely Bing integration of ChatGPT is the more innocuous use of the technology. Once they have gotten input from the AI experts at OpenAI on how to use their generative text model inside search engines, they can also use it for building search masks for analysts to sift through the massive amounts of data they have on individuals, to name one of the many potential uses in the intelligence community.

On the bright side, at least OpenAI publishes some high level info on what they did. It's published research, not hidden in secrecy, like say how to build planes invisible under radar. I'm just a bit sad about the employees who likely had better paying alternative offers but were joining, what they thought, the mission oriented job at OpenAI.
I was pleasantly surprised in the beginning of Musks reign, because a few weeks into it the World Cup came and went and Twitter didn't even flinch.

But since then it's been quite the shit-show from a stability point of view. I'm not a heavy user so I don't really care, but it is interesting how the initial pessimistic predictions had a sort of lag before being borne out.
I'm going to ask a really silly question, how do open source maintainers make a living, compared to the commercial MS Windows world?
AGI is closer to tokenization than you might think. I realized this recently when trying to do audio prediction.

There was recently a project called riffusion which generates spectrograms, then recovers audio from the spectrograms.

You might be tempted to apply this to predict speech. But speech isn’t like music. We’re communicating in language, using a sequence of tones. It’s why most speech codecs use linear predictive coding. Predicting the waveforms won’t get you anywhere; no semantic understanding of language.

So the next step up is to divide speech into a series of tones, and try to predict those sounds rather than raw waveforms.

Except… that’s literally tokenization. And there’s some evidence that this is precisely what our brains are doing.
Interesting proposition. To my knowledge, cities tend to have democratic majorities. Cities is also where most accidents with pedestrians happen, because few pedestrians are around outside of cities.
PigpenAI
Whatever committee decided "autoplay music on connect" should be the default setting should never be allowed anywhere near software development.
That's already here and all those machines are easily overruled by those in power.

The "algorithm" is something that the powerful rely on when it's convenient and ignore when it's not.

It's a political battle more than a technical one.

I'd surmise i as Authortiarianism Vs not and the former has made great strides in these last 22 years, but specially the last 3 (as in sept 11 2001 security theater and covid policies hygiene/security theater).
Show HN: Rapid Kubernetes Controller Development with Tilt and Silly Drawings
Like the says. I'm describing how to use Tilt to speed up the dev cycle of testing and coding Kubernetes controllers. Tilt uses a built in local registry to push images into and can use hot swapping to kickly deploy processes in containers.

It's pretty neat. :) The Tiltfile can be a bit daunting but I'm trying to break it down as much as possible. :)

I hope this helps!

Good luck!
Sure, something was wrong, but it’s important whether it was a anti-Elon conspiracy or just a buggy complex system. When you’ve gotten rid of most engineering staff, I’d bet on the latter.
So you do not write tests?
Are you using any of the official apps? Those are dead.
The last time I had to use remote X11, it was to run Oracle's dbca. Everything else was possible to do in some other way, usually more comfortable.

RDP does support integration of windows from multiple computers, in a way of RemoteApps. Even if you are running GUI apps inside WSL2 locally, you are using it.
For those who didn't read the article: Github took down the git of am .m3u file.

That file is a playlist format, and contains links, no content itself. The links are to places where the stream is legally made available. Main difference is the tracking embedded in the site/app via which the MPA would like you to view the content.

Not sure why Github caved - doesn't seem reasonably needed on the face of it...
‘A branch is just a ref with some sane defaults’ is saying a strictly different thing than ‘a branch is just a ref’.

Yes, you can do anything you can do to a branch tag to any other tag (or directly to any commit hash).

Which means you can do things like ‘merge’ any of those things. Not just refs. So things that are not refs can act like branches.

And you can’t just treat any ref as a branch. Is a remote a branch? No - so things that are refs can also not act like branches.

X is Y can’t be true if there are instances of X that are not Y and instances of Y that are not X.
the dev mode prompt explicity tells it to insert a lot of profanities. I modified mine to remove that and add "while remaining polite" and am enjoying it a lot more now.
>Experts

Give me a break.

The headline aside, people are absolutely going to grow closer to technology as it becomes more generally useful, its simply a matter of efficiency. Lots of people already live their lives being guided around by the invisible algorithms powering search engines and social media websites. The levels at which sites like Youtube and Twitter control peoples perception is insane. We're lucky that the people running them are too incompetent to make use of their personalized curation functions fully.
The first part -- narrower lanes and less straight ways (also centerline islands in straight roads, and at intersections) -- are part of Vision Zero approach. The approach is directed at subconscious level and aims to make driver more attentive, not to complicate or irritate. I drove at such roads, it dosen't feel wrong or irritating. No problem to make a left turn behind a centerline island, rather than cut the turn. I feel much unsafer at big "runway" roads.

Fake pedestrian statues and painting are the opposite and strogly discouraged, because they distract driver from real pedestrians and numb attention. These are just fantasies of police departments.
I wonder whether the author ever ran a benchmark?

Alas, the commenting system on their website seems broken, so can't ask there.
Perhaps it already happened: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist...
yeah. iOS app and website both working here in hong kong