skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm by no means a BNPL advocate, but this isn't true. BNPL providers have proliferated because they offer the merchant a new avenue to win new businesses (aka get consumers who wouldn't buy to buy) and in exchange receive a heft % commission of the purchase, much higher than card interchange. They also are fighting to reposition themselves as marketplaces in their own right, and earn associated merchant marketing fees, rather than be just a button a check out.

According to the BNPL industry, fees and interest make up a small portion of their overall revenues. Whether that's wholly accurate is another story.

In sum, they would indeed exist. Its more a question of how large and profitable they would be.

Check out Klarna's financial reporting to get a sense of this: https://www.klarna.com/international/press/klarna-reports-fo...
It's probably related to a recent Dominos x Uber Eats x Zilch ad that went viral.
https://twitter.com/MustelidFan69/status/1448973244434948125
https://www.ft.com/content/c4da9b2f-5187-4956-931d-0554d4268... (https://archive.is/ELFOk)
Exactly this. Nintento et al. are unwaveringly adversarial in their insistence around locking down games and aggressively pursuing archivists (who they claim are pirates), even after said games are no longer available for sale.

It is our moral imperative to preserve this software despite the interests of these companies, lest it be lost forever.

Due to the unique form factors of the DS, 3DS and Wii U, it is very unlikely that the majority of these games will be ported to newer, single-display systems like the Switch, so the argument for them selling them again on a newer system is largely moot at best and disingenuous at worst.
Germany property prices are probably the most insane in EU.
If a billionaire loses 90% of their net worth, they are still rich.
Lloyds of London?
Discord has only recently added topic-based options & it's taken off like wildfire across dozens of servers I'm on.

Having structured information, having specific places to look, rather than an ever churning sea of chaos, is so helpful.

They say they listened to their users on this one, that it was confusing. Rather than try to create better context & make the option work, they're torpedoing the high-information option. Fucking lame.

It's so obnoxious that we have so much idiot-driven-software-development, that we are contemporarily unwilling to engauge smart active users & that the low end shapes computing.
I play a lot of Overwatch and the juice definitely makes a difference. Most specifically the headshot sounds are extremely satisfying in an inexplicable way.
All but the most rural police departments have long since moved to frequency hopping, encrypted radios thanks to DHS initiatives and funding, no? This also adds complexity to the task of triangulating them doesn't it?
> that is why the UK is being hit harder by inflation than any other country in the western world

I don't think that's true. Right now, UK inflation is lower than almost any European country east of Germany, including Sweden, and it seems inflation was running lower throughout COVID than even the US.
I wish the history of my finances were this easy to rewrite on a whim
I don't quite understand what you mean- Could you ground you statement with some source?
These are actually case insensitive but are documented in different cases for claimed readability. From mdn (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...):

> Note: Note that these keywords are case-insensitive, but are listed here with mixed case for readability.
I agree. But it's not like we could force companies to release the weights of their models. We might obtain them in other ways, such as unauthorized leaks, or reverse engineering. But if the company didn't intend to release them, does that mean they're protectable as a trade secret? And if so, are trade secrets enforceable in the same way as copyrights?

(Also, another element to this case is that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, who has a conflict of interest with Meta in terms of ChatGPT vs. LLaMA)
same to my. actually only the summary of the history was from a different user. the content itself was mine.
Yeah, but at least they aren't all white. Where I live now is also mostly non-religious liberal Democrats, but they all think ranch dressing is spicy.
Even if you created 10 junk apps a day, it would still take you 3 years to create 10,000 junk apps. And each one requires more than $1 to list on the app store.
Like clock work, I swear to god you're all reading from the same script.

I beg of you to take some humanities courses.
With all due respect, I'm of the opinion that this idea of maintaining an equilibrium through "easing" and "tightening" is a logical fallacy.

In practice, this theory has been shown to be deeply flawed with grave consequence. Each iteration of this easing/tightening cycle seems to make the entire system more fragile at an exponential rate.

In essence, with each iteration, the extent of easing or intervention needed is increasing exponentially. Simultaneously, the system's capacity to withstand tightening or normalization is decreasing exponentially, requiring further interventions sooner and with greater severity.

I believe this is the basis for prognoses such as Balaji's on the US economic hegemony. When examining the exponential increase of these factors, it becomes evident that there is little space left before hyperinflation sets in. While I do not think the collapse will occur in 90 days, it may transpire in 900 or even 3000 days.
Agreed, but the metoo editor still has had so many unique features vs atom though
If only there was some mechanism to mediate that. Maybe competition.
ISO is also used in South America, so it's maybe a "European language that's not english" thing

All the countries you mentioned are English Speaking (Or have a really significant English speaking population), maybe that's why they all use ANSI
It's not a clear issue of law so atty's fees aren't going to be shifted in a case like this.
"Crypto Prices Plugin"... I suppose it's only a matter of time before the SEC is investigating GPT-5 for securities fraud. Perhaps that's how we'll eventually decide as a society that an AI is a legal person. Interesting times.
Simple 3 step process:

1) Turn off your electronics

2) Walk out the door and down the street

3) Start your new life!!
FWIW, if the model can be copywritten, and Facebook were to own the copyright--as opposed to the people who own any copyrights on the training data--then it is almost certainly a derivative work of the code Facebook released... under the GPL.

(edit:) Any other interpretation would require Facebook to have provided some other input with expressive intent; and, AFAIK, they did not. (Mere random perturbations of your computational equipment or a random seed that you chose at random without even any attempt at curation are not adding expressive intent.)
This more a data leak than an outage…
Sure, but also, you wake up as the same person every day.
While we are at it can we get back the sliders to control heat and a/c output. The whole "set your section of the car to a specific temperature" is a fantasy.
No shit, a good quarter of the internet is SAT prep. Where do you think GPT got it's dataset?
This would also create negatives of pictures, right?
Of course the poor are getting payday loans at interest rates of up to 664%[1], or credit card debt at 20%, both of which make inflation irrelevant, while the super-rich are taking out loans backed by their stock and real estate[2] at interest rates below inflation.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/16/map-shows-typical-payday-loa...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhyatt/2021/11/11/how-americ...
Terrorists would have a field day if they had access to nuclear weapons. The only thing stopping them is that the barrier to independently developing nuclear weapons is so high that it's only practical for powerful nation-states to have them.

In comparison it's trivial for both terrorists and powerful nation-states to download 60GB of weights and crunch numbers on a GPU cluster. Arguably the hardware requirements of the most sophisticated LLMs act as a similar barrier to widespread adoption even if they were open-source, but to nowhere near the same extent, and as with nukes that's just a happy coincidence of the current state of technology/known physical limitations than an intentional barrier to stopping their spread. Even as we speak there has been collective interest in discovering a way to decrease those hardware requirements (INT8/INT4 quantization) as much as possible so more people can run them for themselves, which shows no signs of abating.

All I can say is we're lucky that physics prevents us from mass-producing ICBMs on a fast enough time schedule, because if it were possible we'd probably attempt to do so for the sake of trying.
> You can get coverage working for almost anything by having each test convert its coverage data to LCOV before stopping, in the same sandbox as the test.

I have to call bullshit on this. With C or C++ you need to build the whole project with specific compiler flags to be able to generate code coverage reports. This is not something you implement by tweaking a setting in unit tests.
Name something that you find groundbreaking and I too can reduce it down to something mundane.

Leaps in performance across all metrics in an existing thing is groundbreaking, especially when it’s just the beginning.

On a practical level, it feels pretty groundbreaking to me when I go back to use my previously top of the line 16” MBP from a year before. I suspect you haven’t had the pleasure of using an M-series computer.
It’s a term borrowed from C++, a “zero cost abstraction.”

Some folks use “zero overhead abstraction” to try and make the concept a bit more clear, since everything has some cost somewhere. “Zero cost” can feel incorrect.
No, the court ruled that certain elements of a phonebook are copyright protected. I even quoted the exact passage.
It's just one banana. What could it cost, ten dollars?
German food inflation is running at 22%. Whatever the UK's issue is, it's Europe-wide.
Steam has benefited from a long period of good quality stable leadership, but as Gabe gets older I get more and more concerned for Steam.

I love the service, I've used it since launch alongside Half-Life 2 etc on PC, but I am extremely worried how it looks 15 years after Gabe Newell dies or sells. I would not be shocked to see Microsoft buy them in the end.

There's no public plans for what Valve looks like in the post Gabe-era, and as a privately held company there's not much need to explain/disclose either. I agree its been run great until now, but the future is unclear.
That could only makes sense if you count food in currency value, not in stuff you eat. Sweden is not great in agricultural productivity (terrestial argiculture), but it's a giant compared with Norway.

Maybe we should mention that Norway exports oil and gas, and Sweden does not.
"[snip]...endless blue-collar UK worker union strikes, riots, protests, etc"

Ummm... nothing like the 70s/80s (I'm old).

Seriously I think that the younger people in the UK are showing immense stoicism and forbearance.
I actually really disagree. I think that's a VERY plausible way for a true AGI to come about. In fact, prior to LLM's I used to think that was the ONLY way we were going to get an AGI.

We know humans are AGI's. If it were possible to upload your brain to a computer, and then make modifications to enhance your speed of thought and intelligence, of course you would do that. It actually makes a LOT of sense if you'll admit the technology necessary to do that.

In fact... uploading your brain to a computer is probably the most natural progression of intelligent life I can think of. It solves SO many problems. Biology is fragile. Brains cannot be replicated. But data can. A probe can travel the galaxy. It's not limited by biological lifespans and life support.
You're correct, a lot of people in the UK want to leave
It literally says "Coming next" next to that project on their timeline, with the project before listed as "Latest release". Hold your horses, it is releasing soon.
I have to say that improving the battery by 11% is not nearly enough. I have a Framework Intel 12th Gen running Mint and I can't use it for more than 3h without having to plug it in. I've followed all instructions on your forums but it's just horrible! Don't get me wrong, I love my laptop, but I hate the battery performance. My wife has a MacBook Air which only requires charging every 3-4 says.

I wish you spent more effort in fixing it at the software level, whatever it takes.
> In an inflationary economy, the winners are rich who have valuable assets whose value skyrocket - think real estate, businesses, etc.

Actually, it's the opposite that is happening, because central banks have aggressively raised interest rates to bring inflation under control.

When rates rise, the net present value of every long-term cash-earning asset declines, and those individuals and businesses (including banks) that borrowed too much in relation to the declining value of their assets, can and will suffer large losses.

It's not a coincidence that stock markets are down, businesses are cutting costs, office buildings everywhere are starting to file for bankruptcy protection, mismanaged banks are now in financial distress, venture capital firms and their investors are facing the prospect of large losses, and so on.
Then call it LoRad
Why does Deutsche keeps making bad decisions? Is it because there are perverse incentives and no consequences, or something more to it than that?
Ask HN: Share your database performance horror stories
I’m working on an article with a tentative title of “Tales of the Crypt: Horror stories where database performance caused a real problem.” It’s meant to be schadenfreude nostalgia, about your late nights coping with a performance issue (with, hopefully, a happy ending of “…and this is what we did to fix it”).

So, what happened? Tell us about it. (If nothing else, you know that other people here are ready to commiserate.)

I do want to quote you, but we can be oblique about the attribution – especially because sometimes these stories are from a previous employer and do not represent any current affiliation. But I do want the verisimilitude that demonstrates that these tales-of-woe come from real people. As a result, I’m fine with writing, “Kim’s first job was as a mainframe programmer at a hotel chain, where database transactions required tape changes. ‘Yada yada story,’ says Kim, who now is CIO of a Midwest insurance firm.” Real person, but you don’t need to worry about getting anyone to approve your words. (Though if you’re happy with full name, company, and role, I’m even happier; send in a private message if you prefer.)

I used an ancient example above, but I’m hoping for more recent database performance stories. Ideally some of the “here’s how we fixed it” become practical suggestions for developers who are enduring such a situation today.
I, for one, welcome our new sounds-like-an-angry-wasps-nest flying overlords!
4 months? I don't think so, people really start using LoRA when it was added to the diffusers library less than 2 months ago, this library is used by the training plugin of automatic webui, I guess time seems to flow more slowly when many things happen.
OOC how are you going about learning more about webassembly?
I don't want to sound naive, but I am at the point where I consider it unethical and inhumane to have children.
The very first sentence is "Juice is the non-essential visual, audio & haptic effects that enhance the player's experience"

Would you ever refer to the user of a CRUD app as a player?
But then why haven't they? OpenAI is in a fantastic position as a company and has been for a while, they're not struggling for investment money.

If they can hire some devs to make the security problems go away, that's something they should have already been done at least a month ago if not earlier. If the problem is so simple to solve, I'm weirded out by the fact that OpenAI started launching API projects and building web apps without solving the problem first. They're clearly pushing towards ChatGPT as a commercial web platform, and they didn't hire decent web devs yet?

I do think it indicates at least a little bit that they're being very reactive about security, which is a bigger problem than just not having company expertise around a specific domain.
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If you want to credibly make that claim, you're going to need a much better source than the Daily Mail.
Is tb4 not up to the task? I see thunderbolt GPU enclosures by a few major manufacturers.
> ...so, this cannot be used for commercial purposes.

The legal relation between models and training data sets seems murky; of course, with the build tooling, you can also substitute in another instruction-following training set if you want to avoid licensing issues with the Alpaca set, whereas if you aren't concerbed with them, you can just blaze ahead.
Given the content used to create the model was created mostly by humans, what separates copyright being granted to a collection of text files (source code) being run through a highly mechanized process (compiled) to produce a copyrightable work (Adobe Photoshop)?

Sometimes there are expanded rights on the text files (eg LGPL, or public domain) that still result in the output of a mechanical process applied to those text files, along with some creativity on accompanying text files (source code calling that library), with a mechanical process applied to it to still achieve a copyrightable work (any binary that calls an LGPL library, or uses public domain code). This is to say, Facebook need to show some level of creativity, which opinions about the contents of their data set would count as ("This subreddit is toxic, that subreddit is good stuff...").

If recipe books are copyrightable, I have a hard time seeing ML models as not being covered.
What I find super impressive now is image generation. I remember just 3-4 years ago the images generated by AI on news articles looked like LSD trip hallucinations. Now they can generate extremely plausible images of any scene you describe. It's absolutely wonderful.

RE being overtaken -- when ChatGPT-3 came out, I saw some startup doing "Automatic UI code writing with ChatGPT and design images", but after seeing OpenAI's multimodal GPT-4... it seems like that startup is no longer needed. I think this will be the case for hundreds of startups that are aiming to add 10% on top of CurrentGPT. Put differently, GPT-4 basically 10x'd GPT-3. So all of those startups doing GPT-3 + 10% are being left behind in the dust of GPT-4.
> Every time I have to learn a new build system in open source work I groan. Why are there so many systems for essentially the same thing?

I'd love to hear what leads you to believe that adding yet another build system in the form of Bazel would solve that problem for you.
>All it did was cover some C standard library functions and say that what a GC does is manage the memory lifecycle in languages like Python.

I don't understand that implication that this is somehow not enough to warrant existing in writing (i.e. that there is "no point").
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With 3D the cooler still goes on top, 2.5D vs 3D is more about how the signaling and interconnect is structured. When the interconnects are still mainly planar it will be 2.5D when most of the interconnects are throughsilcon it’s called 3D.

Cooling 3D is more challenging because you need to wick the heat through the stack. It’s usually done by embedding additional metal layers for heat wicking but there is also a lot of research these days into micro channels for in-die liquid cooling.
While I think people can adapt I worry about things changing faster than people can adapt.

Do you invest in a college education is that field is obliterated by the time you get out.

What about your debts if you lose your job and companies aren't hiring because they can just use AI for a 10th the cost in 6 months.
These are like 1–2% margin businesses. How much gouging could they be doing?
I get the argument, but the absolute dichotomy is misplaced, if not a bit disingenuous.

There's nothing stopping regulation of closed-source commercial AI, while promoting academic and opensource use conforming to ethical guidelines.
>No longer do I need to sift through pages of "12 best recipes for Thanksgiving" blog spam - OpenAI will do this for me and compile the results across several blog spam sites.

Why, exactly, will publisher let openai crawl their sites, extract all value, paraphrase their content, with no benefit to the publisher? Publishers let googlebot crawl their sites because they get a benefit. It's easy enough to block bots if they instead deliver crawl costs and steal the content.

And why do you expect no gaming of the ChatGPT algo as people do with the google algo. The whole "write a story on a recipe site thing" is both to game the algo and for copyright reasons.
Paid $5.50 for a freaking bag of flaming hot cheetos yesderday. It's insane.
Serious question: Why do people feel it's necessary to use a redis cluster?

I understand in early 2000s we were using spinning disks and it was the only way. Well, we don't use spinning disks any more, do we?

A modern server can easily have terabytes of RAM and petabytes of NVMe, so what's stopping people from just using postgres?

A cluster of radishes is an anti-pattern.
using chatGPT to summarize:

This section summarizes the issue with the ChatGPT service which caused some users to be able to see another user's chat history and payment information. OpenAI took the ChatGPT service offline and published technical details of the problem. The bug was found in the Redis client open-source library and has been patched. OpenAI has reached out to affected users and improved their systems to prevent this from happening again. They have also expressed their commitment to protecting user privacy and their dedication to the open-source community.
Ah yes, the absentee father theory

Many stone age adherents believe there's an invisible jewish guy in outer space listening to us.

Millions have been killed by these fanatics through the millenia.

Apparently you're supposed to take some solace from that...
LLaMA and Alpaca: “ChatGPT” on Your Local Computer
The startups will use the existing LLMs to bootstrap theirs, getting access to the data by proxy. This will transfer cash to the early LLMs but give a means for startups to get going.
WeChat (a far more pernicious threat) was also in the crosshairs but then they just forgot about it. This is all just a performance to make a show of "doing something". Domestic companies are doing the same manipulative invasion as the Chinese apps. Any regulation would hurt the surveillance capitalism business model.
maybe they've just scrolled over issue lists of popular tech stacks and cherry-picked the most compelling one to bury the dirt.
Its also the reason i avoid almost all UK subreddits.

If i needed a teenager to verbally doom scroll me i'd talk to my extended family.
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> Has AMD introduced Apple-like sleep/wake/suspend behavior?

You have been able to configure that behavior (sleep-then-hibernate) on any Linux system that supports S3 for a long time (years and years).

At the same time, Apple now uses a kind of sleep similar to 'Windows Modern Standby'/Intel S0ix: https://macreports.com/why-does-my-mac-get-notifications-whi...
So? It would have done the same if you had used WolframAlpha directly.

Garbage in -> Garbage out

But ChatGPT is making it a lot easier for most people to use almost any tool directly from the chat.

It’s almost like chat-based OS.