skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Opening Google Calendar on my personal phone with my personal calendar took about 6s to interactivity

Are you using the personal version of Workspaces, or just the free version? I use the enterprise version of Google Workspaces, which has a lot more going on than the free version of Google's apps. Maybe that's a big part of the difference. To be clear, I get a 20-25 sec. cold start time on both my i7 Windows work laptop, my new AMD Linux machine, and a personal Windows machine with both OSes using different browsers (i.e., Chrome and Firefox).

> I'm not sure what your expectations are...

Your acceptance of a 10-second start time, while sneering at the possibility of maybe waiting 50-100ms for an interaction, is precisely the cognitive dissonance I mentioned originally. Possibly waiting 100ms for an interaction to complete is not good... but waiting 10 secs. (and more) to even begin working is very solidly in the "also not good category". Both approaches clearly have compromises. Knowing when to use each approach and resisting latching on to one approach due to personal affinity, is where our trade craft hopefully shines through. I know I don't always live up to that ideal, but we all (hopefully) try to move in that direction every day.
between the act of taking a picture of (the real moon) and [a picture of] an image of the moon.
_newfound_
It is eminently unreasonable for a prison to give its own prisoner a copy of some records on a computer disc which the prisoner has no way of reading.
Not disagreeing, but just a note that it is possible to play Fortnite without spending a single cent or giving out a credit card. It's not a pay to play game, so you're not limiting yourself by keeping your money. You just miss out on skins & emotes.

So this line from the linked ftc post is incorrect:

"Epic charges for in-game purchases designed to enhance game play"

Money does not enhance game play.

Epic also hands out in-game currency every so often, so you can even collect skins for free after some time.

That said, kids gotta have the new skins.
Again, benefits for that (including whether you get any at all) are based on quantity of qualifying income, adjusted by wage index from the year earned. Its not remotely a UBI. A UBI is given at a fixed amount to all members of the eligible class, which is not determined by income past or present.
Indeed. Some of this ties into the debate over the purpose of prison (is it to punish or rehabilitate?), but no matter where you fall in that argument, there is one absolute truth:

The vast majority of these people will eventually be released. Even ignoring important issues like ethics, I think it's clearly in society's best interest that they are as healthy as possible when they get out.
3 questions:

1. Where are the docs for Webhooks?´

2. Is there any way to get only partial data, which was updated since the last time we hit your API? Is there a way to use a date-based cursor?

3. Is the data being saved (and duplicated) in your server, or are you simply parsing the request, converting to the PMS format, hitting their API, formatting the data, and sending it back, every time?

edit: formatting
That’s a fair point, and obviously the funding model doesn’t incentivize the creation of those types of organizations. I guess I remain skeptical (cynical?) that it could be successful.

As perhaps one counter example, I’m currently decked out in Patagonia gear. Not a tech company, of course. And so maybe the bigger question is - does the audience (customer) care about how its product is funded and built?

I argue they should, but do they? I see little evidence that’s the case. (See an extreme case: Meta.)
Well we can mince words, but functionally you are deprived of your freedom while being presumed innocent if the government decides it so.
I don't understand how people here are recommending Zero to One and Lean Startup at the same time. They contradict each other. And in fact the Lean Startup is full of the kind of foolish post dotcom-crash thinking that Zero to One warns against.
That sounded so nuts I had to look it up. Turns out they really are! https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/03/13/s...
kind of. They are WebRTC-based CDN.
> A shell script will do exactly what it has been written to do every time

I wish I lived in that universe.
Patrick didn't talk about stablecoins, but Matt Levine did in Monday's newsletter[0].

Fundamentally, Tether and banks have the same problem: does everyone believe that that bank still has enough money to pay you your deposits? If not, then bank run. Does everyone believe that Tether has enough money to back each coin with $1? If not, then run on Tether. Banks are regulated, so there's supposed to be a bunch of people keeping track of the bank's reserves to see if they have enough money to back deposits. Tether "solves" the problem by not telling anyone what their reserves are, so nobody can figure out if Tether truly has the money to back each coin at $1 or not.

[0] https://archive.is/l4nLU
Biden administration approves development of Alaska’s Willow oil project
Similar to the reason mortgage APR will differ among seemingly similar homebuyers at the same point in time (and even then, only after you actually send over your financial documentation can you see your rate), my guess would be one can't exist because everything is based upon not just the financial situation of the bankee but also (as we've seen with SVB) the banker.
They aren't JIT. They're doing AoT AFAICT.
But they won’t give us the model… so it’s ultimately meaningless because they’ll just sell out
Indeed. It's a page from the DSM-5 scientism playbook. The thing to keep in mind is that robots love to roboticize everything, including humans:

https://medium.com/@jannaq/the-robot-takeover-is-already-her...
> I agree that quality of life on standard metrics might be better in NYC, SF, or Honolulu, I would rather save my money living in Texas and take vacations to pricy places.

How else do you interpret that other then they are sacrificing day to day quality of life in favor of more expensive vacations?

The post admits that these cheaper towns have a measurably lower qol
It's not semantics, but building cool shit I like :-)
PyTorch 2.0 Is Out
> newfound love for a weirdly biased neutrality

Switzerland has always been aggressively neutral to the extent of annoying the rest of Europe, not just during WW2 but all the way back to the Hundred Years War.
Yeah but it's made by Microsoft. I knew they were going to kill Atom the day of the Github acquisition. Right now vscode is good, but I have no guarantees that in 5 years they won't pull an asshole move and I'll have to go through all of this again. In fact, depending on who you ask, it's already happening with the C# extension[1], and nothing promises me that the same won't happen with other parts of the editor.

[1] https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276
Wow somebody "AI safety/ethics" actually said the quiet part out loud! That they are so superstitious, ignorant, and cowardly that they equate language models with demons. What is up next, declaring reading and writing demonic?
I'm really not sure what you're saying. All I'm saying is that OSS also has to compete against commercial software.
It stands out to me that it is not white but black with red accents. A pure white suit would surely be more visible right I'm guessing. If an accident occurs and you are lying half in the regolith with the red accents as the only visual guide, i can't help but think a white suit would be better.

Maybe a white suit gets dirty easily from the regolith anyway so they went with dark to start with ?
It’s always funny to hear positive things about an infamously awful piece of software. Like someone would write about IE5, or Larry Ellison writing Oracle, they did irremediable harm to the world, but the people who grew when those people were young, may still have the positive initial image of them.
> But if I want to play Skyrim again as a telekinetic khajiit then I might pay for DLC.

You must be new to Bethesda games. You buy the "game of the year edition" with all DLC included when it's on 70% discount. You don't buy at launch :)
I wonder: What’s the cap, and how does it imply behaviour that differs from that of a for-profit?…
Teaching LLMs to zip their lips
Java xenophobia and the resulting “write once run anywhere”
That code will eventually fall away.

The big thing everyone in this single thread is missing is that AI is a metaheuristic.

I wouldn't expect to use AI to run_script.py. That's easy. I'd expect it to look at the business signals and do the work of an intern. To look at metrics and adjust some parameters or notify some people. To quickly come up with and prototype novel ways to glue new things together. To solve brand new problems.
Gretel introduces Reinforcement Learning from Privacy Feedback (RLPF), a method that can be used to align large language models (LLMs) to improve generative quality while also making them more privacy-preserving. Language models leaking proprietary data or custom prompts is a problem that's currently plaguing many generative AI applications. We propose RLPF to mitigate some of these issues. We also suggest future directions to reduce bias, discrimination, and other harmful characteristics that might exist in today’s language models.
I got the exact same interpretation of the article and really dislike what they wrote.

They start off by trumpeting their wondrous AI image enhancement technology. They make just a passing reference to the deliberately blurred moon image without explaining how their enhancement technology is wholly inappropriate for "enhancing" an image with no detail to begin with. They continue bragging about AI, object recognition, image stabilization, multi-frame super-resolution and denoising - without addressing the elephant in the room, which is replacing blurry objects with pre-loaded stock imagery. It keeps reiterating that what it's doing is "detail enhancement" (I counted 8 times), not "pasting a stock photo".

What an utterly disingenuous press release. It's nothing but a red herring meant to distract and divert.

> Samsung continues to improve Scene Optimizer to reduce any potential confusion that may occur between the act of taking a picture of the real moon and an image of the moon.

So... they end with a line that basically says "we aim to lie more selectively"?
I have no experience with moonray, but it being a render, the answer would be.. No.

The renderer is only one piece of the entire animated movie production pipeline.

Modeling -> Texturing ~ rigging /Animation -> post processing effects -> rendering - > video editing

That's a simplified view of the visual part of producing a short or long cgi film

It is a lot of knowledge to aquire so a production team is likely made of specialists and sub specialists (lighting?) working to a degree together.

The best achieving software, especially given its affordability is likely Blender. Other tools lile cinema4d, Maya and of course 3d smax are also pretty good all in one products that cover the whole pileline, although pricey.

Start with modeling, then texturing, then animation. Etc. Then dive into the slice that attracts you the most. Realistically you aren't going to ship a professional grade film so you may as well just learn what you love, and who knows perhaps one day become a professional and appear in the long credit name list at the end of a Disney/Pixar, Dreamworks hit.
It is interesting to see news about Docker ( opensource fuelling the for-profit company ) and openai ( non-profit research converted to for-profile company ) together on HN.

One of them has failed to capitalize on the user adoption to generate revenues and struggling, while the other one was touted as a "selling their soul" for making a lot of money to fuel their research ( and profits too )

The longevity of a company definitely depends on the money that is poured into it. Doing it in a sustainable way, without relying on regular "donations" ( remember Wikipedia's campaigns ) or "raising series of capital" ( from VCs) is very important.

There must be a better business model for balancing between these without getting "corrupted" or "evil"
These are all valid options and one could (and should) attempt them before resigning.

(Though, realistically speaking, either one will probably get you fired, sooner or later.)
I prefer a measured pragmatism. Once you adhere to an ideology, you cut yourself off from opportunities and even validity at times. Ideologies are useful as rules-of-thumb, but never as absolutes (because they're made by humans, who are imperfect and exist in a world of imperfection).
Might be faster to ask this here:

ECC memory on the Cloud products? I'd like to assume they're using AMD's CPUs (consumer grade ECC support; as everyone should), ECC RAM, and at least mirrored storage. However I'd really like to see such basic features confirmed.
I'm surprised no one has already mentioned this series of events:

- Enron used "creative" accounting and mark to something style procedures to create fake valuations

- They go out of business.

- Regulators say, "Hey! Now you need to mark to market always!"

- 2008 happens. Markets for things like CDOs and CDSs dry up almost overnight. At the very least most of the liquidity is gone and spreads get VERY big

- B/c of the above coupled with rules of "you need to mark to market" and "if value falls X% you have to sell", lots of selling happens in low liquidity environments and therefore prices fall more, the downward cycle begins

- Post 2008, people realize that "mark to market, always!" maybe isn't the best idea.

- I would imagine, that's why the Govt is saying "Ok, we will pretend that your assets are worth par value". They don't want to trigger the downward spiral.

It's also interesting to note that the Govt made money on many of the assets they bought in 2008 at well below par value. The implication is that those assets were undervalued when they bought them. Again, I would imagine this is a selling point of the idea "the par value is probably not that bad price to pay for these things now".
While a lot of text written out, this is an extremely weak argument.

It boils down to "they can't do it perfectly so they shouldn't try at all".

And the exact opposite of defense in depth.

Tons of places people will cast a blind eye to things that they know are illegal if they can profit off it. Banking is absolutely one of those areas where there are huge incentives to do so, as it requires no effort and is easy to profit off of criminality.

This law says we're not going to allow you to be part of the broader global system while knowingly profiting off of criminality. Yes you may not catch 100% of it, but you sure have to thoroughly try to eliminate it. And there will be financial punishments to ensure you're not doing it just in name only.

This is exactly what we want in our financial system.

I really don't understand the motivation behind your post. "Let's eliminate a great law for crime prevention because it doesn't prevent 100% of crime?" That makes no sense.
> and no harm done to your […] privacy

How do you know? For all you know, they record everything you do on that machine, grabbing your passwords, browser history, etc.

Their privacy policy doesn’t give me confidence they’re not doing some of that. Some parts of it are:

“The personal information we collect may include the following:

- names

- phone numbers

- email addresses

- job titles

- usernames

- passwords

- contact preferences

- mailing addresses”

and

“We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. We have contracts in place with our third parties, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will also not share your personal information with any organization apart from us. They also commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are as follows:

- Ad Networks

- Performance Monitoring Tools

- Sales & Marketing Tools

- User Account Registration & Authentication Services

- Data Analytics Services

- Finance & Accounting Tools

- Payment Processors”
It’s a specific touch up photography mode.

If you draw your own moon with new craters in different spots, it’ll touch up your fake moon, so it’s generating new texture, not replacing the moon with a preexisting bitmap.

If you don’t like it, don’t shoot pictures in the artificially enhanced scenic optimizer mode. It has an on off button…

There’s no problem here expect corporate transparency and shoddy journalism headlines.
There are multiple ways of being open. Open as in open source, and open as in you can already play with GPT-4 while Google keeps people waiting for PaLM. There's also open like the LLaMA "release". If the model is not excellent (see BLOOM) it doesn't really matter it is open.

You can be sure that the API-only access to GPT3 had a major impact on AI in the last 2 years - what projects people worked on, what studies were being made. Even dataset construction for other models. GPT-3 is an excellent data labeller.
Yes, but the SNB and FINMA (and the Federal government) will try many other things before it comes to that.
Why not?

The tool may be good, but the output visuals are only as good as the artists that use said tools. They can open source the tools all they want and try to hire all the talent that can use it. :)
There wasn't enough disk space to do deliver statically-linked-like apps by default in the 90s.; I think around the time Debian started I had a 386DX40 and a 1 or 2GB hard disk.

Traditional distros are able to install the same apps side-by-side, such as python2 and python3, if they put their mind to it. It is just a bit clumsy. Sounds like they didn't allow for that with your app. That's a shame, I guess you could ask or cough up a donation to help?

I generally just wait for things to get packaged in the regular distro, but it is nice to have choices.
No, domestic savers have capital controls and do not have the means to move money easily outside the country. The stock market also is not reliable in China as an avenue of investment. Government pensions are also small. So that mostly leaves real estate.

Evergrande Group is emblematic of the real estate industry’s trouble there. Property is 15-30% of Chinese GDP and much of it goes towards investment property.
Why is it not an AGI?

I keep seeing naysayers complain that it is not, but nobody actually articulates exactly what makes it a non-AGI in a manner that is sufficiently robust to argumentation.

I am willing to play the GPT's advocate and have this argument here provided that I do not get rate limited.

Edit:

I'd like to respond to some of the comments but I have been rate limited :')
SVB and the Fed
I would not be surprised to hear that the beer industry is lobbying against this.
Try https://usermaven.com. It comes with events autocapturing saving you from the hassle of writing code to track simple events. It is privacy-friendly and hosted in EU.

I am one of the co-founders.
Don't forget the "high-quality" part.

The $15/mo plan was actually $201/12 months for me when I renewed in September, so a little under $17/mo, prepaid. This is the regular price, BTW, not a promo price.

I haven't really looked at what the best unlimited plan is. I'll look at visible if I need that.

(Last time I checked there were no "unlimited" plans unlimited enough for regular usage... e.g., they all slowed down to a mostly-useless level after a day or two's worth of data.)

> Given what Verizon is charging with Visible, it doesn't seem like T-Mobile will start squeezing.

telcos don't squeeze because they have to. They squeeze because they can.
I think you are thinking too specifically. Neutrality is to appease all the rich that have stashed their fortunes. If most of the world condemned the US or China for an aggressive act, I would expect them to act the same.

If they take a side, they lose the fortunes of more than just Russians. Anyone who is controversial and has money in Switzerland will realize it’s no longer safe in the event the world exposes their bad deeds.
Sorry for the delayed reply. I use ECO/ECFC in Bloomberg, along with various charts of economic data. I also use Factset, which has a lot of the same functionality. The difference is that when the report comes out, it is on Bloomberg essentially immediately, but that's not the case for Factset. If I have a call five minutes after the report comes out, I can use Bloomberg to get a quick snapshot of the data. If I go directly to the BLS website, I have to go through 4-5 tables to get the information I need. Bloomberg puts together statistical summaries of the most important info. Bloomberg also has consensus forecasts (so does Factset), which the sites that publish the info don't have.
>1. Performance.

also please note:

if you have 1 image on the page - we have to do 2 requests (1 metadata, 1 download)

if you have 50 images on the page - we have to do 51 requests only (1 metadata for all images, 50 downloads)
Hey,

The AI safety plan people aren't talking about yet:

>>>> Work as hard as possible to create an effective, malevolent Skynet that you release as early as possible. This way misaligned AGI appears before it has everything needed to immediately destroy humanity and the resulting Butlerian Jihad has a fighting chance.
I'm curious to see how Brave fares in the post-crypto novel AI world.

One revenue stream down, the business model itself potentially getting automated away.
> Switzerland has always been aggressively neutral (...)

No, I don't buy it. This time around they went to the extent of refusing to sell ammo for their own weapons arguing they'd be used in a war.

They are outright destroying their arms industry by arguing that they cannot even be used by their owners to defend themselves.

This goes way deeper than this neutrality scapegoate.
Populate databases with random data using SQL scripts
Perhaps they could use a printer?
yep prison is an abomination. Needs to be defunded and outlawed.
Interesting, any reason for not discussing AAD yet? (oh and great series BTW)
He’s not saying the markings wash away in rain, he’s saying 3” of water on the ground at night make the paint invisible.
> Money does not enhance game play.

Common misconception. In reality, allowing for IAPs has changed the design of the game greatly. For example, those cosmetics you don't consider important have been made non attainable from normal gameplay.

Every little pixel sold as an IAP also means the design of the game is changed to give you an incentive to buy the IAP, instead of entertaining you.
Great, so I have to pay for their exotic lifestyle as well? Where does it end??
> since you imply that a publication somehow automatically loses credibility on this topic by leaning left

Funny how so many of the replies are shocked by this idea when virtually every single story posted to HN from a right leaning outlet is flooded with comments of the form "you can't trust this story, it comes from a right leaning outlet" and the post itself will often be quickly flagged to death. What goes around comes around.
This is the most longwinded version of "yes, we did it, and we're not sorry" in recent memory
People spent many many decades laboriously putting tiny little dead sea scroll fragments back together like the world's worst jigsaw puzzle. I think that shows if there is a way to do this that takes a lot of tedious manual labor over many decades, there are people who will be willing to do that. They just need the tools to do the work without destroying the scrolls.