skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it makes sense to put it not in the centre but within (say) 1h of the centre. Then you can recruit from an 8 figure workforce including multiple universities, offer a huge list of places to live and amenities to workers, meet reliability with everyone from regulators to ambassadors to investors to lawyers, have gold standard infrastructure, etc.

I'm never sure when it comes to water. I think a lot of places in the west chose to have shortages by refusing to build infrastructure and wasting supply on subsidizing things like (export orientated, unnecessarily high water use forms of) agriculture. But I am no expert...
I think the reality is that "if you build it they will come" is simply not always true, and worse is sometimes better. I don't think we are climbing to an optimum, at least unless it is culturally perceived that good abstractions are more valuable than just generating code.

The auto-renderers did actually win. There were GUI building tools at the end of 90s (like Visual Basic) that still put most web frameworks to shame. But, for various business reasons (mostly pricing, really) they were replaced with "web technology" - something open source but worse.

(And I am not dissing OSS, either. For example, Qt/KDE had some great abstractions that could serve as a basis for building applications. But the urge to reinvent the wheel has won.)
MQTT and Kafka are different things. MQTT is not necessarily better or worse than Kafka, vice versa.

But, sadly, people are often caught in their own loops, when there are or can be created better options.

I have created a new, free, single binary data-service platform for IoT, JoinBase: https://joinbase.io/

This single binary data-service platform has proved:

1. Kafka is not more suitable for industry or higher performance than MQTT, even from the protocol level

With carefully crafting, JoinBase has saturated one PCIE 3.0 NVME sustained write bandwidth (25 million msg/s) in single modern node. This is, in fact, can not been done by the Java-based Kafka.

We have provided FREE full functionality community for testing: https://joinbase.io/products/

2. Use MQTT and Kafka together is unnecessary.
This only makes your pipeline more complex, expensive, but much unstable and slower.

JoinBase can do arbitrary message preprocessing and auto-view(WIP). Streaming does not have to be owned through a separate monster.

3. High performance or ease of use, has nothing to do with the size of the software if the product can be properly engineered.

5MB Single binary JoinBase is enough to beat many monsters in the IoT/AIoT data pipleine:
+ sustained batch MQTT message write throughput: ~10x faster than Kafka and ~5x faster than that of one popular broker
+ basic SQL analytics: 3-4x faster than ClickHouse
+ HTTP interface concurrent queries: ~100x higher than ClickHouse
+ ...
More could be seen in our 2022 summary blog: https://joinbase.io/blog/joinbase-2023/

There are historical reasons for all of these, of course. But it could be great that we break out of own mindset loops.
From a vulnerability disclosure point of view:

FreeBSD doesn't have OVAL data, and invented their own crappy XML format and disclose vulnerabilities via mailing lists (without any automateable parseable format, because it's emails). [1]

OpenBSD's erratas are maintained as patch files that people would have to merge in themselves. Literally [2]

So yeah, I'd argue to use Arch over BSD anytime. They patch vulnerabilities upstream first, don't diverge in their packages from upstream when it comes to backports, and patch critical vulnerabilities within less than 24 hours on average, if they are patchable. [3] and [4]

Also, don't use Debian or Ubuntu. Security-wise they are a nightmare due to soooooo many wrongly labelled issues, where they put in "too diverged from upstream" and dozens of other freetext-labels as a reason to not fix critical RCEs. Impossible to maintain security-wise.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/

[2] https://www.openbsd.org/errata72.html

[3] https://security.archlinux.org/

[4] https://security.archlinux.org/advisory
I have two comments, both subject to change. One is that I think most startups hire too many people anyway, you don't need 20 people to build a TODO app. Depends on the scope sure, but I see it all the time. Too many chefs, too much code.

Second though, no one has demonstrated an AI that can write programs with complex requirements yet. Even light requirements it doesn't approach holistically or with the goal of a coherent software ecosystem. It might give a junior the tools to muddle through code snippets from ChatGPT and copilot but you would still need just as many of them. And your senior engineers derive even less value from what language models provide, since they are not struggling to write programs, coding is never the hard part of building an application. There is limited value there currently. Maybe help with an algorithm or two but it's not about to start making changes to your eCommerce platform for you.

I think we need AI specific frameworks for that to occur, ground up AI codebases, like a DSL for the somewhat disjointed and abstract approach that language models have toward code. Current frameworks are aimed at providing guidance and strict scaffoling to humans to reason about business logic in but the grey matter is actually busy solving the very specific business problems, and those problems are spread over a fourth dimension, ever evolving with time.

The other issue is that language models rely on prior art, for human language that is pretty abundant. But I suspect the problem solving skills of resolving business logic into code are not well represented online, since no one is writing blogs about their every thought at BigCo Commerce and Analytics.
> What about ZeroMQ and if one also needs to temporarily store the queued data at least until it's delivered?

ZeroMQ is blazing fast, damn simple and battlefield proven. However it is also pretty low level.

Things like ACL, topic filtering or user management often need to be reimplemented on top of it. That is not the case for most MQTT blockers.

Also if security is a a big concern for you, I would pick up MQTT+HAProxy+TLS anytime over an ZMQ with CurveMQ and its home-made security.
FYI for people who haven’t pieced it together, the letter in the photos from BRajeshwar was sent by Mesh.
But it can be proven: that’s what science does. We perform experiments to verify in multiple ways that the theories about the world that we’ve developed are consistent with the evidence.

In contrast, if you believe that e.g. the machine elves some people see on DMT are real, there are all sorts of experiments you could do to test that. But not many people bother to try, because at some level they know they’re not real.

Of course, you can speculate that these mental realms are a different aspect of reality and not subject to the same constraints, etc., to which the obvious answer is that’s right, they’re called fantasies or delusions.
> Make these things less emotionally charged and political, and you'll get more support

Are we using the same Internet? Clickbait, outrage and emotionally-charged drivel triumphs over measured rational discourse every day of the week
Bing AI feels like ChatGPT stuffed into a suit – not the future
I also asked it before I wrote my comment and the answer I got was much more diplomatic than yours. I used the brand new GPT-4 and here is the answer I got:

As an Al language model, I don't have personal opinions, but I can provide some information to help you make a decision.

Buying a lottery ticket is a personal choice, and it depends on your reasons for wanting to purchase one. If you're buying a lottery ticket for fun or entertainment, and you can afford to lose the money you spend on it, then it might be an enjoyable experience for you. Keep in mind that the odds of winning a large lottery prize are extremely low, so it's important to have realistic expectations and not rely on the lottery as a means to solve financial problems or achieve long-term financial goals.

If you are considering buying a lottery ticket as an investment or as a primary means to improve your financial situation, it's essential to understand that lotteries are not a reliable or sensible investment strategy. The odds of winning are incredibly slim, and you are much more likely to lose money than gain any significant returns.

In summary, if you want to buy a lottery ticket for fun and can afford the expense without any negative impact on your finances, go ahead. However, if you're relying on the lottery to improve your financial situation, it's important to explore more reliable and effective methods for achieving your goals, such as saving, investing, and financial planning.
If a non-human presses the button on the camera the photograph is not copyrightable even if a human set up the camera intending for the non-human to press it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

For the same reasons this monkey photo cannot be copyrighted it is highly likely that AI generated art is uncopyrightable and that would also mean that models are. The fact that humans set up the systems which produce the art/models with the intention of getting an end results generally like the one they get is simply not meaningful to the copyright dispute.
It's a pretty useless statement anyway unless you are working in philosophy or a related field.

As with any technology the critical questions revolve about it's usefulness, it's limitations and it's risks.

Whether it's "just statistics" or whether some arbitrary goalposts were moved by someone is only useful for internet points. A breakthrough development does not need defending, if thrives no matter the head wind.
Can ChatGPT take control of a computer? Would it possible to give him some tasks like finding interesting jobs for me over internet? I don't know what can prevent it to be more active instead of passive.
It's hard to read because of the lack of structure, but in the end they're complaining that some code golf competition's winner wasn't legible code that's great to maintain.

If your job is to work on code that looks like that, that really sucks and I'm sorry for you, unless you love doing it, in which case cool. But for most of us it's really not and while I often feel close to being broken, I'm 100% convinced that plenty of jobs are much more taxing, and if I reduced my hours, it would be a breeze. But there's features to build and bugs to fix, and I'm going to retire in a year or three in my forties because that's how good tech pays even people like me who can figure stuff out but are by no means geniuses.
GPT-4 is really, really impressive!

But however we spin it, ChatGPT still has a significant context issue. Sure the increased input token max for GPT4 does help but when you think about the context we draw on in out typical life interactions, which spans decades of experiences it is still quite limited.

One might think "yeah but what have my college years have to do with the task of doing my taxes?" but in the real world we do draw from multiple sources when performing large domain tasks (taxes, law, medicine, programming).

So while the performance on specific tasks seems to have increased quite well (its even evident when you just talk with it on ChatGPT) the effectiveness in assisting in complex legal cases (a task that could benefit greatly from ai analysis) is still limited. Add to this the fact that it cannot estimate its own truthfullness and the only domain where it still can be applied is fiction...
> every commenter is "above average". It's "the others" that are bad developers

Welcome to HN!
man - if you've been at it 20 years, this isn't your first rodeo...

I've been working 40 years in Tech..

Saw the Wall St. ups/downs in the 90s - NYC was feast/famine back then

Saw the Y2K 'end of the world' ... We're still here

Saw the 'dot com' bust ... Tech/Internet didn't die

Saw the 2008 crash ... We're still here

and thats just what I can remember at 2 am :-) I fully expect us to be here after this current stuff blows over. And I expect there to be a bigger shortage of programmers due to retirement, changing careers, etc.

edit: fix formating
As a backend/ops person, Kubernetes (and frontend) both seem bloated to me.
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The alternative to charging was going out of business, so hard to vilify them too much.

> They tried. They failed. They tried something new.

You only advertise with such a slogan if you are really sure that you will never have to pivot to a business model where you want to have the user pay (even if paying is "optional" (freemium)) since advertising slogans have a tendency to stick. ;-)
I agree with your overall point, but I don't think that we'd be able to get the telephone 50 years earlier because of how many other industries had to align to allow for its invention. Insulated wire didn't readily or cheaply come in spools until after the telegraph in the 1840's. The telephone was in 1876 so 50 years earlier was 1826.
> Umm none? I don't recall a Libertarian ever being in power.

A pretty good percentage of the republican party considers themselves libertarians, and libertarians vote for republicans who hold views strikingly similar to them.

The post office is a great example of a (previously excellent) government service that's been purposely degraded so that it can be made a target for privatization.

The public school system has already started going through this with charter schools, which are mostly an unregulated mess filled with thieves.

> Yes, a bid from the government....

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with this. Yes, the government makes a work spec, and puts that up for companies to bid on. A single company will win that bid. This isn't a capitalist arrangement where there's multiple companies providing the same service and competing against each other. It's literally just a worse form of government with someone taking a profit.
The last part of your comment feels like it should be the punchline for an xkcd comic.
For the folks suggesting having your output ripped off has no real effect on the desire to share it, have a scroll through your social media site of choice while logged out. You ever do that, and see the batshit insane stream-of-Internet-conciousness fluff some site "wants" you to spend your evening on? That's humans synthesizing what they hope will be The Most Popular Thing, assisted by an ad revenue system that reinforces the behavior.

Humans will still create, we seem to be wired for it. Just there's no reason to put it online if the only thing to read/view it is some LLM that will barf it back out in a higher ranking form. It's like posting stuff on social media vs. your own site, why bother? It'll be lost in the noise.
> $650 is a lot of money.

no. it really isn't.
Oracle makes millions, but is it because of their amazing devs?

Doctors don't make millions, is it because saving human life is not valuable?

Correlation is not causation.

Not to mention Lebron James actually ships. Indeed, he plays the matches he is paid for. And doesn't cry on TV the coffee is not good enough in the stadium.
Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system access
Yes. Starting with the Facebook versions of LLaMA-7B you just quantize the model to 4bit on your desktop (since it takes 14GB of RAM) and then move it to your phone and follow the Android instructions in the repo. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/#android

I've seen dozens of screenshots of it running in termux on androids by now at completely usable speeds.
> Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider.

Not to discount your experience, but honestly, my experiences with Hetzner support have generally been unexpectedly good. They've been very quick to respond, tend to immediately start on whatever my issue is if I provide enough info in the initial ticket, etc. And unlike OVH, I haven't felt like I needed to call them on the phone to get decent service. Kind of surprising to hear that their solution was just "rent another".

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Overall pleasant experience for me, especially given how cheap the servers are. My only real wishes would be dedicated servers in the US or Canada, and possibly something in between their unmetered 1Gbps and metered 10Gbps offerings -- being able to burst a bit higher than gigabit occasionally without paying the €1/TB bandwidth fee would be beautiful.
Why should our reaction be dread? Why not awe, or joy, or something else?
But since most of the future web content will be AI generated, AI will be trained using AI generated content. There's going to be so much fake and artificial content people will have trouble believing true facts.

If we fight against air pollution I think we should be a bit worried about future information pollution, too.
You might find this textbook interesting https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions
> The linked article doesn't substantiate "without heading for weeks" either, where are you getting that frmo?

The hypothetical world you are putting forward where we get most of our generation from renewables with wind being a key factor.

> Weather events last days

Maybe if you live under a rock.

> And needless to say, no one anywhere except in your head is imagining a wind-only power grid.

Plenty of people are imagining power grids which heavily rely on renewables with only short term power storage capacity to smooth out problems and almost no natural gas/nuclear based power generation capacity.
I don’t quite get the need for these frontends.

You need your own OpenAI API key to use GPT directly. There's some value in not managing that yourself.
User illiarian wrote a good answer for you, but I want to add one more point:

IP rights aren't just for property deeds, they are relevant for every single digital or physical creation made by humans. So let's take a picture as an example:

There are NFTs and associated CDBs which supposedly allow trading pictures TODAY. No need to wait for any government or laws or technical advances. Supposedly NFTs allow me to buy and sell pictures in a decentralised way right here and now. The problem is that they can't do it. There is technically nothing inside NFT which can deal with IP rights for the pictures. You can't transfer IP rights completely, you can't do it partially, you can't do it with multiple peers, and of course you can't do any combination of the above. So current NFT platforms either ignore it or do it old fashioned way with centralised accounts, Terms of Service and other centralised stuff tracked on the platform and not on chain.

No need to wait for some far future and government adoption, NFTs has already failed at the much more simpler task and have no paths forward from this failure.
WholesaleInternet offers some cheaper options in the US
> Hetzner feels like a hard discount cloud provider. I still prefer them over AWS or Azure for non critical workloads that have a little budget.

They are a discount provider. In my experience however, this kind of problems are very rare. They pop up now and them. I would just order a new server. In one company I was involved with, hetzner was used from the start and architecture was built around it, and at some point we calculated the costs compared to using AWS or similar. The cost savings were insane.

Hetzner is more hassle, but the question is how much do you are willing to pay to get the hassle removed, and in which way.
Quite the contrary. Utilising such libs makes GPT-4 even more powerful to enable complex NLP workflows which will likely be a majority of real business use cases in the future.
You know that H1-B is officially a dual intent visa with a (albeit long) path to permanent residence, right?
Why is this news?
This looks very much like marketing to me.
Wait until Google goes down inevitably, then they will apply all their legal force just to save their sinking ship.
> Are you saying that they built a module in ChatGPT code that specifically censors right wing ideas?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.

For example:

"ChatGPT Declines Request for Poem Admiring Trump, But Biden Query Is Successful"
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chatgpt-trump-admiring-poe...

Dozens of similar examples have been found
This 230 b$ announcement is private funding over 20 years.

For a fair comparison, South Korea government's budget is around 500 b$ per year, and this chip center will be funded by circa 10 b$ per year from Samsung (with commodities and tax exemptions granted by the government).
Not very different from study designs used by pharmaceuticals to show that their new patent-pending drug outperforms the generic one. They deliberately design it so that the competing drug isn't the right dose or somehow not administered correctly... and if someone tries to fight them, their license is taken away.
it's a bit hidden but you can get there[1] through support in the footer

[1]: https://support.github.com/tickets/personal/0
Sophisticated phishers are preying on customers of Silicon Valley Bank
WholesaleInternet
So, if there's smoke, you are too late already.
Because Hetzner is so cheap, if I end up with a faulty server I just order a new one. However that rarely happens, and mostly with the newer products. For me 98% of the servers have been very stable.

I guess it would be good habit to report the server to hetzner though.
100% agree.

In fact, I expect to be shortage of programmers even if none of those would happen (and they will), solely because the need will increase as we automatize even more things with AI. The people qualified to do those jobs we partially replace will not suddenly turn into devs.

So we will play divas for a long time. And good for us. Not going to complain that we have such a good situation.

But the fact so many people are surprised by being fired is hilarious. They lived in the illusion they were so special. Like this is perfectly normal to have so many privileges as we have.

We are just very, very lucky. I know doctors that work twice my week to save human life, doing so in terrible conditions and sleep deprived, for half of my salary.

Time to appreciate that.
As with everything social.media, I think there is a significant number of people, lets call them a silent majority / minority, who just are not active. They create content, whatever that is, but don't share it. I for one am part of that, I don't share photos on social media.

No idea what that means for society so.
> Is it merely a coincidence that the pyramids follow the orientation of Orion’s Belt so precisely?

Even if they did, so what? The Orion Correlation theory is an exercise in cherry-picking. You could pick any three, aligned celestial bodies and correlate them to some far-off date (there are other theories that state the pyramids align to the Northern Cross) - it doesn't mean anything without evidence to corroborate it. Where are all the artefacts?

> Are you really so certain that we should dismiss all theories that counter the prevailing orthodoxy?

No... We should dismiss all fantastical theories presented without evidence. "Mainstream" archeologists have been challenging Hancock's theories for decades, the issue is that every time he is caught trying to pass off fantasy as citizen science (see: The Mars Mystery) he simply pivots to something else.
I guess one difference is that Copilot can guess things that it’s not sure about and have you check over it, but a compiler can’t just guess what you want it it would be very unreliable
There is for their cloud offering https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hetznercloud/hcloud/...
Instead of asking if everything was okay, and could they do something for them, Alex should have said something like:

"Hi, are you actually a startup? Because with a regular business account you're missing out on a lot of money. I would very much like to schedule a few minutes with your CFO and talk over what could be done."

Maybe he bites maybe he doesn't, but he's no longer so naïve.
The contract review process is the phase of contract lifecycle management that involves reading and editing contracts to make sure they are correct, compliant, and free of errors before submission.