skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically agree -- feels off-putting, but not technically a wrong detail to add. An additional reason it rubs me the wrong way, however, is that I believe open-source software code is especially critical to ChatGPT family's capabilities. Not just for code-related queries, but for everything! (e.g. see this "lineage-tracing" blog post: https://yaofu.notion.site/How-does-GPT-Obtain-its-Ability-Tr...)

Thus, I honestly think firms operating generative AI should be walking on eggshells to avoid placing blame on "open-source". Rather, they really should going out of their way to channel as much positive energy towards it as possible.

Still, agree the charitable interpretation is that this just purely descriptive.
Production also means services right?
That's GNU ls; AFAICT -1 and -p aren't POSIX so might not work on other unix-likes (most prominently Darwin, but also the BSDs)
Even when targeting 8-bit displays, recording 10-bit is still beneficial. Besides obvious benefits in editing and encoding, simply playing a 10-bit video file straight from the camera on an 8-bit screen is useful when applying any common "effects" (brightness, contrast, LUT, colorspace transformation, gamma correction, tonemapping, etc etc).

> Btw, over 10 years old Canon 5DMIII can shoot RAW video with MagicLantern

Not sure why that is relevant in this context, but
any digital camera would be capable of shooting RAW video with hacks: they all have photo-sensors and RAW simply means dumping the digitized signal data in a suitable format. It's a matter of hacking the device. But it doesn't mean you should do it, especially when that's not what they're designed for. Unsurprisingly, in the case of Canon 5D Mark III (which is a photo-oriented camera lacking a stabilizer, you can read about further limitations such as the under-utilized sensor in video mode [which typically happens due to hardware limitations] here https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii/25), a lot of potential problems await apparently: https://www.cined.com/consider-this-before-you-shoot-raw-on-... For RAW video, at the very least, you need a more reliable storage hardware hooked to your device with sufficient capacity for recording (meaning CFExpress or NVMe via USB, not SDXC), and possibly active cooling, both missing from that camera so it would require some hardware modding.

That being said, modern video cameras can also do more than the trivial task of recording RAW: they can handle processing and encoding of higher quality videos (resolution, bpp, frame rate) in real time, which requires specialized silicon missing from Canon 5D Mark III.

> Manufacturers should open/update code to their old cameras that are capable do this. Its really disappointing when marketing ruin whole product. No wonder that camera market dying.

1. The camera hardware isn't actually designed for it (by the way, even with new video cameras, there are usually trade offs, you turn one feature on and another becomes inaccessible) 2. that's not the reason why the consumer camera market is shrinking, and 3. doing that would shrink the market volume even further.
> in practice, often it doesn’t happen, people make assumptions that the code works

True, but that's an inexcusable practice and always has been. We as an industry need to stop accepting it.
Everyone knows the only subreddit worth reading today is NCD
That was not my point, but thanks for pointing out a paragraph in the source that I provided. I do notice a few 'citations needed' in the relevant clauses. Even so, if Nixon's policies resulted in failure that's not a reason for politicians today to just throw their hands in the air and declare that nothing can be done politically because "market dictates".
France to use AI surveillance during Paris 2024 Olympics
I think a better analogy is that understanding the physics of internal combustion engines can help you work on a car.

If you work on a car for long enough, you will self-develop a model for the physics, and if you play a given style of music for long enough you will self-develop a model for the music theory of that style.
Yes, an invisible magic sky monster will save you!

Layering the paranoid delusions of the religious nut jobs onto someone who is already having mental health issues is not the correct answer.
> By the time Bard is out, it will look so outdated it's not even funny.

There's lots of calculation tools available, and a lot of the strengths of Alpha over others in that domain are duplicative with an LLM; interfacing external systems to an LLM isn’t particularly challenging, so while ChatGPT to Alpha connection opens a lot of capability, it doesn't really widen the “how far behind” gap between ChatGPT and Bard meaningfully.
Was this generated by GPT-3.5-turbo?
I found this which matches how I say it (as an Indian) https://www.howtopronounce.com/khan/4145893

It's the KH sound that doesn't really exist in English hence many get it wrong.
That is the lower class producing stuff who you are asking to take lower profit margins.
It doesn't matter. If you create a 100 billion dollar company there is no way to escape becoming rich.
The flip-side of urban areas subsidizing rural areas: rural lawmakers threatening to cut funding is something of a nothing burger.
Oh ok! Thanks for clarifying that. A lot of times I get confused because I rarely check Twitter or other social media
You can't eat it.
Tax the rich and they go somewhere else (see recent discussions about the wealth tax in France)
They are definitely one thing that does
> What do you propose nginx does? Should they embed rust, go, c, visual basic, turbo pascal, nim, and 37 other scripting runtime? Should they pick 3 to support?

no, pick one that is a decent compromise and move on

no one is going to dismiss the entirety of a platform like nginx because they can't script it in their favorite language
> a bug in an open source library

A bug in some code that we took for free and didn't review.
I wonder if this is a franchise thing. I've moved states more than once and Planet Fitness has been one of the easier things to deal with cancelling. Done this a few times in different states. You should be able to go into any location and make that your new home location, and then cancel there.

They also let me use a credit card for payments too.
already flagged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289459
So threatening researches is a quote ‘spark of Intelligence’
more like a Bruh moment..
It's called the Cantillon Effect. And there usually is a delay from implementation to experienced effect. After 2020 the money printing was excessive, and it almost immediately lead to unprecedented growth in the stock market. Now, however, the delayed effect of that party is leading to unprecedented growth in food and energy prices, which affects the lives of everyone.
That's a legitimate concern. We've recently had examples of the US government influencing US mass psychology via Twitter, including examples where Twitter was asked to suppress information the government stated was factually correct.

The CCP is trash, and the US government is far better (it has elections, for one thing) but I suggest we should be concerned about any attempt to manipulate the populace.
See also the Disgrace of Gijón (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgrace_of_Gijón). This is between West Germany and Austria, the last match in a four-team round-robin group in the 1982 World Cup. Before this match it was clear that if West Germany won by 1 or 2 goals, West Germany and Austria would both advance; otherwise one of those teams would advance along with Algeria. You can guess what happens: West Germany scores a goal and then both teams stop trying. Since then, in the World Cup the two final matches of the group start at the same time.

This is probably why the 48-team World Cup starting in 2026 will have 12 groups of 4 instead of 16 groups of 3 - there are similar opportunities for collusion in the final match of a three-team group, and no easy fix.
And once you've assembled your thin wrappers, and a few utility functions that really improve QoL, it would be a shame not to share it with the community.

So make a cute name and logo, make a website using words like "superhero" and "fun!", and make an announcement on Hacker News (where someone will invariably make some comment about not needing a framework lol)... then toss it in the pile with the thousands of other (unmaintained) front end frameworks.
Full source code is up here now:

https://github.com/databrickslabs/dolly

Sorry it took us a day to get the external repo setup.
CERN chose to move forward with AlmaLinux: https://linux.web.cern.ch/which/
Good question.

At this point, I think there's a bigger community for Terraform than Pulumi, so sometimes it's helpful to stick with something that more people use even if an alternative is superior. I'd like to hear from Pulumi users to get their perspective on using Pulumi. (If you're part of the Pulumi community, please speak up to let us know that the community isn't THAT small.)

If you're already working with Terraform then I see AsCode as potentially useful. Since AsCode outputs Terraform's HCL, it could be useful for parts of a Terraform project using AsCode while others directly use HCL. Or it could be part of a migration from plan from Terraform to AsCode.
Why does Brexit have to equal "increased bureaucracy at the border"? Is it due to the lifelong bureaucrats that loves enforcing it? An effective government should do everything in its power to reduce the bureaucracy in extraordinary times.
I heard that https://sh.reddit.com should become the new default this year.
Yes, and at least StackOverflow will often give you some minority opinion, not just a snippet to be pasted into your code. Especially if something a little tricky like cryptography.

Consider this classic: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12122159/how-to-do-a-htt...
When I was at a large money center bank a constant source of problems was trying to deploy the 70+ microservices backing our business unit's main application during "release weekend", or for ad-hoc reasons like the log4shell vulnerability patch. It was very frustrating for our build pipelines to compile / test / static scan the entire millions of lines codebase when only a few libraries have changed. This build often took a few hours for our largest application and at least 10 minutes for each microservice. A few times we ran into breaking api changes and only realized it after it was deployed to production. This is the use case Bazel is serving - god like observability across your organizations code base, quickly compiled.
Nobody cares and yet another case study of HN being out-of-touch with reality
You might consider this headline harmless clickbait, but it's also contributing to "the world has gone mad" hysteria that leads to people voting for Trump and other Facsists.

The actual article is fairly reasonable, so you could even say it's an ends justified the means thing, and that some other worse site would have got the click if this half decent site hadn't got their first, but it's all part of the same systemic issue.
Generally if you are out-of-touch enough to think libraries are important facets of societal knowledge that require sexual policing rather than a book warehouse with free wifi than you are out-of-touch enough to think the internet only consists of Facebook and google searches to Facebook
Was thinking the same. At least here in the Netherlands, and Germany which I sometimes visit, prices have been around what the UK is only now seeing.
Small government is code for cutting welfare spending and regulation of business activities.

Freedom of speech is code for a lot of things. In conservative circles it means the right to burn books, incite insurrections, and eventually burn crosses on the lawns of people of color and have women wear red robes and white headscarves.
I know this is probably going to give a heart attack to some of the libertarian tech-bros here, but there is an easy and tested solution for that: price controls. Inflation has a very clear source, it happens when someone decides to raise the prices. Why not stop the problem at the source?
Why? As long as it can take `Cargo.lock` as input instead of making you calculate hash yourself - it's all good.

I'm using `crane` and `buildRustPackage` to build wasm front-end that is embedded into server binary (also rust). It works like a charm.
Do you think that won’t recover? Anyone with means can buy up now or keep saving. The poor can’t and their 0 investments will be worth 0 after as well.
Did you reboot the computer a second time to see if it flashed the BIOS again? Once is a scheduled BIOS update, possibly triggered by an administrator. Twice is more concerning...
Yes! I have been spending the last couple months pulling out completely unnecessary redis caching from some of our internal web servers.

The only loss here is network latency which negligible when you're colocated in AWS.

Postgres's caches end up pulling a lot more weight too when you're not only hitting the db on a cache miss from the web server.
I thought I understood that the true environmental gains won't come from replacing every thermic vehicle with an electric one but from drastically reducing the number of vehicles available, hence how we consume mobility.
The state unanimously passed a law to exclude sexually explicit books from public school libraries. A reasonable thing to do. The library association and the ACLU decided they wanted to sue the state. The state, in turn, removed the relatively small amount of funds allocated for the libraries. FaFo. All of this is in the article.
Abstractions as a concept. Can't unsee them now, 14 years on.
I'm looking forward to reading lots of disparagement about people's bad coworkers.
AlmaLinux has ELevate to help you go from 7 to 8, and 8 to 9 coming soon.

https://almalinux.org/elevate/
Nobody but the very rich could afford tomatoes.
So much of what supermarkets sell is commoditized that this doesn't work. Toothpaste is in a very different place than EVs.
> otherwise it wouldn't have a section on Windows. And the Mac section is also weak

The Windows section stright-up says they don't really know what the situation is over there, and the macOS section says they couldn't find an official recommendation for non-GUI programs.

> Your advice re. Windows is also bad, for example, for a lot of x-platform tools I care more about x-platform consistency and would set the env var to the same ~/.config, e.g., it's much easier to do backup, and I don't care that there is some OS standard (which aren't great to be followed blindly)

If you just want to make your personal stuff do what you expect, then sure, by all means force everything to whatever you like, but that's not good general advice.
That would be anticompetitive practice that is actually against the law in many countries[1]. In the unlikely event of OpenAI ever engaging in such things they will be sued into oblivion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refusal_to_deal
I personally find it bizarre that apps like GMail can be described as 'free' rather than 'ad supported'. But most people do not care at all.
That's a good idea. I am now curious about this
I don't know how to untangle it. It's obviously possible- BAE Systems Inc. (an American defense contractor) is owned by BAE Systems plc. (a British company).

It's doable when you keep everything separate, only hire US citizens, add lots of locked doors, and put people in jail if they leak. I can't picture this working with data that's not considered classified.

I'm wondering if it's not about the data at all. It's about who gets to control the information space. They don't even have to delete information critical of China, just weigh it down so it's essentially never seen.
California law supposedly allows this but I haven't had much luck. Very recent experience was with wifi on American Airlines. I was taking a bunch of flights in a 30 day period, so I signed up for the wifi subscription. Very easy to do online. But there's no way to cancel it online that I could find. I couldn't even find "cancel" in the FAQ, and had no choice but to engage a customer service agent (during business hours) to cancel. They cancelled it, but it was a greater number of hoops than I ever should have needed.
The GP specifically mentioned bread prices too, and for that surely supply due to the war is also a factor. Food supply limitations, shipping being threatened near Iran, trading partners being asked to pick sides. This is all very similar to the picture Zeihan depicts in his stuff. Unnerving.
I think the idea is that if your db can hold the working set in RAM and you're using a good db + prepared queries, you can just let it absorb the full workload because the act of fetching the data from the db is nearly as cheap as fetching it from redis.
We need it to actually be correct 100% of the time, though. The current state where a chat interface is unable to say "I don't know" when it actually doesn't know is a huge unsolved problem. Worse, it will perform all the steps of showing its work or writing a proof, and it's nonsense.

This revolution is the wrong one if we can't guarantee correctness, or the guarantee that AI will direct the user to where help is available.
thanks I tried the first one "Functional intervals / scale degrees:" and cant even get 50% correct with a choice of 2 notes.

What is wrong with me :)
I got access to the Browsing plugin yesterday. I should have chosen Wolfram instead becasue the browsing plugin is fairly useless currently.

In most cases it basically takes your question, summarizes it into one (1) search query, clicks on the top result from that query, summarizes the text of the page and regurgitates it back to you. Or, if robots.txt blocks it, then it just gives up. And it works quite slowly, so the whole process takes much longer than doing it yourself.

It doesn't seem to apply any intelligent search techniques. It will happily summarize SEO spam from the top result instead of e.g. searching reddit for commentary from real people. In my limited testing it never did multiple queries or tried to combine information from multiple sources. And if you trip its overactive nanny filters it will scold you instead of doing the query that a search engine would have done for you with no questions asked.

But the biggest problem with it is that it's not using a real browser and can't interact with pages or use your logged in accounts. If it could go on Amazon and sort through the results, read the reviews and do some queries to find the best product based on my stated preferences, and then buy it for me, that could potentially save me time. But it can't do anything like that. Even the part that it could do would take a prolonged back and forth chat conversation that would take longer than just doing it myself.
> The total budget is nearly 3 billion dollars

According to the article the total budget is $50 billion.
Speak for yourself. What I've seen of all these language models so far is equal to a 10 year old with a good vocabulary and a tenuous grip on reality and no understanding of truth vs lie or right vs wrong.
Natural Language APIs Are Coming
Are the politicians pushing for this from rural areas? Seems like either they are serving their constituents, or they'll be voted out next time?
It wouldn't be surprising with millions of people's mindsets already conditioned by the convenience of an abundance of content, that if they're handed a piece of tech that can generate it personalized to their preferences in a more efficient manner that cuts humans out of the loop, there's nothing stopping a lot of them from using it.

Maybe what was needed was a wider understanding of media literacy and the creator's mindset, the idea that even the most tasteless and bland porn video in existence could only have possibly been brought about because humans were behind the camera shots, the acting, the production, even if they were all terrible at their jobs. Nobody cared to think about those people until now because a lot of content comes off as disposable, even with a team of humans behind it, and well-poisoning AI was relegated to jokes about Skynet.

We never considered the idea that something other than a human could also create such a thing, and at a comparable level of quality. It was an unwritten rule of creativity for centuries until generative tech made it blisteringly obvious.

Maybe "I don't need to be a chef to appreciate the food" will be rewritten in the coming years. Maybe as, "but the chef needs to be human for the food to connect."
Per the laws passed, the Bible, or some books of it, meets the requirement to be banned.
Tesla Introduces Vision Park Assist
I don't think this is a wrong take and I'm excited for some version of this future. However, I'm skeptical we'll get to this anytime in the next 30 years.

As of right now, even if ChatGPT were to generate 99% accurate responses, it's quite a chore to communicate with it in full sentences. I don't want to have to explain my business in full painstaking detail and then upload tax documents to a system that can then output an answer in book form back to me.
"like (young Steve Jobs)" not "like young (Steve Jobs)"
Basically no analyst with even a little experience does the math the person in this article is doing for manufacturers (loss divided by units sold).

Manufacturers with new product lines USUALLY take losses like this until their fixed costs are spread over more units. *I mean, remember Tesla years 1 through 17?*.
Is CentOS still alive? I thought it had been succeeded by Rocky Linux and Alma Linux.
The emphasis could also have been done to educate folks using this combination to check their setup.

Though version reference in the postmartem should also be posted, as a general guidance to their own readers, but at least a quick google search leads you to it.

https://github.com/redis/redis-py/releases/tag/v4.5.3

For anyone reading this and using a combination of asyncio and py-redis, please bump your versions.

Similar issues I've encountered with asyncio python and postgres too in the past when trying to pool connections. It's really not easy to debug them either.
Blue Origin Completes NS-23 Investigation, Releases Findings
Very insightful.

Yes, that’s one option.

ChatGPT becoming like an AppStore. You pay them for usage of their interface + whatever actions/plug-ins you use.

Each plugin-provider gets paid according to their usage within ChatGPT.

There could also be an ad-supported version, free but you get ads or paid/commercial recommendations.
Activision shares jump as UK's CMA drops key concern on Microsoft takeover
> Not sure why ...

Are you being facetious ;)

It's because there are narratives to follow, sides to pick. There's no room for facts by themselves, they have to fit some story your pack has bought into.

Right, left, middle, or anarchy, it's all the same; you're part of a herd.
Only for some incredibly broad definition of fault that almost no one uses.

How many people make sure all of the open source libraries they're using are bug free?

Anyone besides maybe NASA?
The overlap between really good ML/AI researchers and even moderately competent developers is very small right now. Basic web application architecture is as foreign to most ML researchers as transformer architectures are to Rails devs.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare ChatGPT to those website bots. People didn’t use them because they were rarely helpful. And because people weren’t using them enough, a lot of websites implemented UX patterns to try to encourage increased use (read: annoy users).