skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its enough of a boom for a small company like fujifilm to justify producing more cameras and lenses and even start up and grow a medium format mirrorless ecosystem. Fujifilm in particular struggles to keep up with demand which is probably not easy given global shortages, but it goes to show there is a market. It's not the market it was in 1995 or 2005, but its a market no less because there's always a demand for the best image technolgy can do.

Phone cameras will always look worse than their contemporary full size counterparts just due to physics, so the pros and prosumers will always be in demand of a dedicated rig even if their iphone looks like a spider on the back. Not to mention even today just from an OS standpoint, no phone has feature parity with even the first dslr released since phone manufacturers "childproof" camera features that pro camera manufacturers assume you don't need your hand held to use. Usually you have to resort to a third party app if you want to set a manual exposure, you know, something any photographer since 1860 could do that we now deem to be "too advanced" for modern humans.
apt install? There's no way I'm integrating a core tool like that with a crude "curl | zsh" hack. How and when would it get updated? Am I expected to stick that in an Ansible playbook?
Big reason is security patches. But if the services are running in a VPN and don’t interact with outside world, it’s fine
Felt exactly like this as a professor walked through WKBJ analysis for tunneling.
It's not quite the same... And I'm not sure how people on HN of all places are failing to grasp that these algorithms aren't sentinet, much less people.

I think this is incredibly cool technology, but using other people's property without their consent is stealing (I'm not talking about legality, but morality here).

The second reason why it's not the same is that people can't look at X million pictures and become proficient in thousands of different art styles. So, again its not legality but more about ethics.

I guess different people have lower moral standards than others, and that's always been part of the human condition.

With all that out of the way, I think artists won't get replaced, because these tools don't really produce anything... Substantial on their own. An artist still needs to compose them to tell a story. So, all this nonsense about how it will replace artists is misguided. It can only replace some parts of an artist's workflow.

I know there was an art competition where someone won with a piece that was AI-aided, but honestly it looked like colour sludge. The only thing that was really well executed in it was the drama created by the contrast from sharp changes in values near the centre of that work, and something vaguely resembling a humanoid silhouette against it. You could've called it abstract art if you squinted.
Dynamically labelling bodies of water in Daylight Maps
Sure. It allocates zero heap memory per call, amortized.
This is definitely funny, and beats out many a blogger's viewpoint.

Doesn't account much for the potential development of the platform (will bulky devices with wires be a problem long?), but that's to be expected when rehashing the current state of AR/VR based on the Internet's average opinion.
I liked the Rhode Island reds we had, they weren't amazing flyers (and we weren't raising them as fryers) but they laid aigs as they should and looked properly like a chicken.

I love that you can order chicks in the mail. There are SO MANY TYPES collect them all https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/chicks.html
I've just got started with Clickhouse, and their docs are excellent. Quick Start guide and tutorials are very well written.

Also, be prepared to be blown away with Clickhouse. I've not seen many (any?) technologies that impressed me this much right out the box.
I just got access and my first impression are that it's not even a 1/5th as capable as gpt4. Not worth using for anything coding related. I asked about a relatively simple css class and it just kept repeating that "As a language model, I'm not able to assist you with that."
I'll answer the question: a handful at most

7 ebooks ordered as of 10:15 PST, and 10 subscribers for the free novella.

I have no idea how many people read the post, I assume lots? I'm hosting on Github pages and haven't added any tracking. It seems like anecdotally a front-page post gets ~20k views, so some tiny fraction of a percent of readers went on to purchase.

Honestly, this small number of sales is still far more than I was expecting. I wrote a longer response on my motivations higher in the thread, but my primary impulse was sharing, not marketing. I tacked a marketing pitch at the end, figuring I might as well, but I did not expect the post to spend any time at all on the front page of HN.

It is also probably true that this "marketing" was worse than ineffective, it was likely detrimental. I'm guessing that substantially more people clicked through to Amazon to see what the book was, despite being a poorly targeted audience that is unlikely to convert. From Amazon's point of view, the book just got a ton of traffic and very few sales, which is probably treated as the signal "this book is not a good seller, don't show it to people."

Similarly, the members of this poorly targeted audience that did buy the book are unlikely to be typical readers in the genre. This will degrade the "also bought" signal for the book, and to the extent that Amazon does organically show my book to other readers, it will likely show it to the wrong readers, further hurting organic performance.
Did you try DAN?
1. Why would you install all this into the ammo, rather than the gun? Any mechanically-inclined idiot with a garage workshop can make his own ammo.

2. Guns are a political problem, not a technological problem. If you want to reduce gun violence, ban handguns. If you want to reduce mass shootings, ban handguns and semi-automatic long guns. If you want to stop a dedicated idiot with a garage workshop from building his own pipe shotgun that he will use to execute an MLM cult leader, you can't, he's going to do that regardless.
What finger do you use? I use my left thumb, pick up the phone, no go. It is a complete sad joke.

After a few weeks I think I've been trained by the phone on exactly how to hold is to the fingerprint reader works more often, but the fact I can only have to use all the programming slots for fingers on just one finger is sad.

Edit: OMG, I just read online that rebooting the phone after recording fingerprints improves recognition from 20-50% to almost 100%. I just got my phone a month ago and haven't rebooted it yet, after a reboot the sensor now works reliably. What an absurd and stupid bug.
For comparison, I tried pasting these into Google search, and it seems like there is some overlap in sourcing:

QUERY > How many cities in the UK have a population over 1 million

ANSWER (snippet from worldpopulationreview.com) > United Kingdom has 1 cities with more than a million people, 99 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 1068 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people.

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QUERY > What is the population of Birmingham?

ANSWER (knowledge box, source Eurostat, United States Census Bureau)> 1.149 million (2019), with tabs for Manchester (533k) and Birmingham, AL (208k)

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QUERY > how many cities in the UK have a population of 1 million?

ANSWER (snippet from worldpopulationreview.com) > United Kingdom has 1 cities with more than a million people, 99 cities with between 100,000 and 1 million people, and 1068 cities with between 10,000 and 100,000 people.
Kids at street corners have idea and vision, but may lack TASTE - the ability to discern the good from the bad. If the button-pushers have great AI but lack taste they will still produce a terrible end product.
Most useful fzf thing for me is this: history | fzf
There are books which are fully juiced on their first reading. All of Banks' novels have additional liquid to savor after several pressings.
Fair. No one has demanded an answer. And thank you for voluntarily choosing to share your opinion.

I am genuinely concerned about the potential of this.

OpenAI has massive power to censor what people can reason about with GPT.

Seeing how fast they are growing, their beliefs of the world are going to be forced on millions of people.

Do you not think that will happen, or do you think it is not something worth talking about?
Gotta say I'd've taken the if with parentheses myself. Feels like it's reusing something familiar even if they are extraneous at times.
omg this was 14 years ago now https://github.com/andrewarrow/yammer_iphone

(cue, GnR song 14 years...)

Also props to https://github.com/joehewitt/ it was amazing at the time.
From Nye Lubricants' web page (https://www.nyelubricants.com/the-science-guy-and-nye-1): "Bill Nye [the science guy] is a direct descendant of our founder’s brother, Captain Nye."
This does remove a lot of the friction that CL has. Great idea, hope people decide to adopt it - it may help bring younger developers to Lisp.
Adobe Express launches an enterprise tier with generative AI tools
Consider Phlebas is probably my favorite Culture book. Arguably not the best intro to the Culture universe, but as a standalone space opera it's hard to put down.
Many governmental organisations do have their own employees for this sort of thing.

I'm not sure it results in projects being cheaper or quicker overall.
It’s not at all uncommon for ChatGPT to start spouting nonsense when presented with a nonsense prompt. Garbage in, garbage out. In this case, “being ready to be a lawyer without passing the bar” is probably so unlikely a concept that it would respond with mu, as in, “your prompt contains an assumption that’s unlikely to be true in my ontology”, if only it were able to dodge its normal failure mode of trying to be helpful and answer something even if it’s nonsense.

That said, if the prompt presented the scenario as purely imaginary, I wouldn’t be surprised if it indeed did come up with something reasonable.
I requested access (using Firefox), and access was granted about an hour later. I used my gmail.com account. A friend with a Google workspace account was unable to request access. My initial observations are:

Responses can include other drafts, which can be slightly or significantly different. It is not clear why a particular draft is shown first.

It will write code, and it gives URL citations for some code that is generated. However, it doesn't even try to modify the code, at least in cases I tried. (chatGPT will help revise code).

It is interesting to compare chatGPT and Bard. In my small sample so far, Bard appears to have no sense of humor. Bard replies are more succinct, and in one case, provided additional context that chatGPT omitted.

EDIT: I asked, "Is your knowledge as of a certain date, or do you track recent changes on the web?"

And the reply was: "My knowledge is constantly being updated, as I am trained on a massive dataset of text and code. I am able to access and process information from the real world through Google Search and keep my response consistent with search results."
I disagree with their phrasing, but I tend to question positive or negative results. That way I can understand the data and how that fits into the overall system.

For example, it seems a lot of this study took place during the pandemic. Seeing the data on a year by year basis and understanding other possible effects of behavior would be good. It's not necessarily to disprove anything, but it could serve to strengthen position.

The way the linked article is written, it's like saying "I have a green marble in this box". You have no reason to doubt me and I have no reason to lie. But you're going to believe me more if I let you look in the box. Who knows, maybe I'm colorblind and it's actually red.
I Returned the Mac Mini M2 Pro
>More importantly, I see many more interesting if irrelevant things. I remember the early days of the web also had this kind of a feel.

>So , I'm excited. And it feels good to see this kind of excitement in others

I actually agree with that. I have similar "new frontier" feelings. Which is why I find the dross "I asked AI to..." posts so annoying. It's akin to when smartphones became a thing and opened up all those possibilities for carrying innovative applications & functionlity in your pocket.

And then the app stores filled up with "Fart Apps".
Lets take a look at these three homes.

1. 221 Van Patten Parkway, Burlington Vermont: purchased for ? in 1981 currently valued ~$405k

2. 311 4th St NE, Washington, D.C.: purchased for ~$490k in 07 valued at ~$736k

3. 310 Stone Gate Lane, North Hero, Vermont: purchased for ~575k in 2016

I'd like to think that a senator that is 81 years old could have done much better given this is the bulk of his worth. In fact many developers here working for FAANG will probably exceed how he turned out if they haven't already.
The combinator example is the JS equivalent of what was discussed in another comment on this article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35247615. I like having the clarity of using different "and" and "or" keywords instead of overloading && and ||.

But I definitely agree with the sentiment - every new feature is another thing that a developer needs to learn if they encounter that code. There should be a large "barrier to entry" for new features.
Bundling of 'consent' is not consent.
Is chatgpt available globally? Is bing available globally?

I find it funny when massive corporations say they can’t legally figure stuff out and the other massive corporations do it.

It must feel back to be the lawyer who can’t work this stuff out when other lawyers can. Perhaps similar to when I think some programming is impossible and then see it done in the wild in production.
I feel like I'm looking at aliens wearing people's skin. https://kota.is/qpxa1.png

Nightmare inducing. I hate it. https://kota.is/X57J5.png

Ugh, this legit makes my stomach turn. https://kota.is/Q2hUI.jpg

It's like a bad amusement park ride; no thanks.
Not quite. For example, this is one thing Adobe says in their FAQ: Images showing models can't be used in a manner that the models could perceive as offensive. (For example, avoid using images with models on the cover of a steamy romance novel or a book about politics or religion, etc.)

There are also a few other more Adobe-specific restrictions.
The merge should take place at the last possible moment. They call this the zipper.
saurik is most likely not a troll
> PAYING Workspace customers should be the first ones to get access.

That has virtually never been the case, it's generally always the opposite.

Because IT admins need advance time to decide whether to enable features for parts of their org or not, and to implement or update training materials. Also if a feature breaks it's worse if you're paying. Not to mention all the additional regulations around data retention/location/etc. that sometimes have to be implemented, that free accounts don't have to worry about.

So Google generally rolls out new features to free accounts first, and then it comes to paid once fully tested at scale and compliant and admins have had time to evaluate for their institutions.

This is a feature, not a bug.
TIL. Thank you for this.

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/
Wait 'till you see how much Centipede Press' recent copies of Dune and Dune Messiah are selling for.

https://www.centipedepress.com/sf/dune.html
In many cases, taking longer to do work costs more.

Especially when things like equipment, cones and barriers are being rented at high daily rates for months while work is practically at a standstill.
It feels extremely similar. But this time we have had governments causing unemployment to curb inflation. So this crash could very well be much more severe than the 2008/09 one.
Last Week in Computer Vision #26: The World Will Never Be the Same
No, we are trying to escape from it, unsuccessfully.
I ran my own BBS on my Commodore 64 for about a year. I was completely hooked and lost a lot of sleep as well. My mother came to me one day and said "You really need to go outside"
The original Doom was developed on NeXT, so a lot of the tooling (like DoomEd) was written in ObjC. If I recall correctly they abused this whole thing by making proxy objects that would happily call methods across the network, so they had level cooperative editing back in the early 90s (minus all the concurrent edit stuff we take for granted today, of course).
Slightly odd that they went for possibly the least-beloved Culture novel. I suppose it's the first published (though not the first written, IIRC), but it's not a _great_ representation of the series.
An immediate benefit is that you can leverage the power of GPT-4 now for coding!
Please Stop Drawing Neural Networks Wrong
Proud to publish our first ever tech-education-humor piece, coauthored with Aaron Master. Enjoy. Comments welcome!
Here's a little function that I use pretty often when I want to install a package but I'm not sure what the exact package name is. Give it a keyword and it searches apt-cache and dumps the results into fzf.

function finstall {
PACKAGE_NAME=$(apt-cache search $1 | fzf | cut --delimiter=" " --fields=1)
if [ "$PACKAGE_NAME" ]; then
echo "Installing $PACKAGE_NAME"
sudo apt install $PACKAGE_NAME
fi
}
Agree with your points. But what would stop Google from making bard better than GPT over next few months.

Google has got:

1. best data to train LLM

2. Best AI engineers

3. Money to spend on training hardware for LLM

I wouldn't keep Google out of this GPT trend so easily
"Theorem shows how 3-term arithmetic progressions inevitably arise in large sets"

"Improved upper bound on density of integer sets containing no subset a,a+b,a+2b"
Maybe I misspoke. I don’t spot lying. I spot inconsistencies. I can’t say whether or not if someone is deliberately trying to deceive me without addition information.

I do have feedback because I’m continually adjusting and refining the technique as my assumptions are confirmed or disproven. It’s similar to the technique I use for reading emotions. Occasionally I run across people who don’t follow the normal pattern and I need to adjust how I read them.
I don't know if the version I have is somewhat special, but I can simply keep pressing ctrl+r to search "up" for the next match.

So, type: ctrl+r, prefix, and then keep pressing ctrl+r to find everything that matches the prefix.
Using CockroachDB to Reduce Feature Store Costs by 75%
How DoorDash was able to reduce cloud-spend per value-stored on average by 75% with a minimal increase in latency. Also a lot of learnings about operating a fleet of Redis clusters at scale and what they learned after using CockroachDB to augment their online serving platform.
I have ctrl-r and alt-c assigned to macro keys on my keyboard, they're so danged useful.

Something else you can try in your `~/.gitconfig`

[alias]
fza = "!git ls-files -m -o --exclude-standard | fzf -m --print0 | xargs -0 git add"

git fza will quickly let you add files if you've changed a lot.

I alias `git fza` to `ga` and it gets used a lot

Oh, and another useful shortcut is this:

export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="mdfind -onlyin . -name ."

Obviously only useful for MacOS, but fzf plus spotlight is pretty useful. You can use it to find that lost file that you only remember part of the name!
> No clue why people complain about free stuff no one forces them to use

Just like roads. Nobody forces people to use them, you know; sure, some people might want to use them, to go for some place for some other non-road-related business but that's just their problem.

On a more serious note: people complain about "stuff" when they try to use that "stuff" to do something and it doesn't work no matter whether it's free or not, it's just human nature. As for "forced to use"... if you need to make a network request from command line, the options are basically curl or wget. Neither of them support your use case? Well, you can always just give up and not do whatever you intended to do, nobody forces you to achieve things anyhow.
The flippant answer is https://abstrusegoose.com/504
Based upon NPR's telling it seems like the editor was trying to hide details about a friend's story as long as possible, and not present the details of the story with skepticism like you're implying.
All US senators and reps should have a residence in their home territory and DC (they need to understand their constituents' area and they need to be in DC a lot). Bernie's is a 1 bedroom in DC, so those two are a given imo and nothing to be concerned about. His third is a $575k rural lake house; probably a country retreat from being in the cities of Burlington and DC all the time. So while getting a little extravagant for the average American, it's certainly not very unusual for many people in the US to have a modest rural retreat "cabin." I've seen many blue collar families in that circumstance, even in California. And I say this as someone who wouldn't vote for Bernie.
Congrats on the funding and getting production ready, it's good that KeyDB (and Redis) get some competition.

https://docs.keydb.dev/

Open question, how does Dragonfly differ from KeyDB?
I’m curious how this impacted withdrawal-related deaths. Alcohol is incredibly physically addictive and is one of a handful of commonly abused drugs that are lethally dangerous to withdraw from in an uncontrolled manner.

One way of staving off the lethal effects of delirium tremens is to take benzodiazepines (which are also highly addictive and can be fatal to withdraw from) or opioids (which are at least equally as ruinous as alcohol).

I always hope that the people involved in drafting these one-size-fits-all solutions to complex medical and social issues have some sort of first-hand knowledge of physical addiction. Sadly it’s usually puritanical politicians looking for a boost in approval ratings, or equally puritanical academics looking to gain clout. Real humans be damned!
California measure would force tech giants to pay news outlets
> Until everyday people realize they’re being stalked, I don’t know what will change.

FTFY: People already know; nothing will change.

Many of the things that are happening (at least in the US) are deeply, deeply unpopular, but are not changing, and show no signs that they are even susceptible to change. Fortune-sized companies, the 1%, and the deep state are calling the shots, despite how much can be seen in real time, through things like Twitter and TikTok. I've actually had to pull back from Twitter because of all the things that are obviously beyond the pale, yet will never change. (Snowden, Assange, et. al.)
The local maximum of "fix it but don't improve it" is a problem, and the requirement for major reconstruction to be done to current codes is foundational to almost all building codes. Note that small repairs and routine maintenance don't activate this requirement - it's activated when major work is being done, and there is a percentage of total project cost cap to the requirements.

If the new local maximum is "well, we won't fix it at all then" - the usual building code solution is property maintenance codes that mandate repairs.