skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a reference counting GC in rust. It's just not default and you have to be explicit about invoking it. It's similar to shared pointers in C++. See Arc.

For something like python the heap allocation or stack allocation is handled behind the scenes so the entire concept is abstracted away from you.
30 billion solar masses, numbers kind of loose the meaning at this scale.
Fidelity and Citi match Apple's 2%, okay.
Why would an open source 3d software integrate a commercial third party API that is not free, especially when the API is about text generation?
I often find myself delving into vendor code that is public methods but not necessarily advertised in their documentation.

I'm working on trying to figure out lang chain to basically feed it all my vendor and node module code and their respective docs, so basically hallucinating goes way down and the info is as fresh as my cron job to rebuild the langchain embeddings.

I'm doing this for laravel, filamentphp, livewire, alpinejs, vuejs, nextjs, react, svelte, typescript, and PHP docs as well, mostly just the docs... I'll probably work on limiting the info to the most important things or just docs for some of the things...

I'm then planning on having gpt agents specifically tuned to write unit tests another to write code, another to review the code another to run and validate the tests, another to model data and create migrations, etc ...

naked chatGPT can do a lot, adding custom embeddings changes it into a master of x topic and levels it up 10 fold.
The answer is obvious: life without agency thanks to capitalism with the increased ability to watch the planet deteriorate in front of our eyes.
You're just misunderstanding the concept of culture here.

"Culture" doesn't define a flavor, it's just having a consistent flavor driven by shared values at all levels of the company: If Microsoft had culture, that culture could be "we are always the plain vanilla ice cream for our customers"

"Culture" is what keeps you from adding soy sauce to your vanilla ice cream that has managed to captivate the globe... just to make a few pennies. Which is what these ads are.
They've converged because manufacturers kowtow to the maximum likelihood sale, not because we think they're nice.

Of course, some people think they are nice. And yeah, maybe in a choice discrimination/maxDiff study, I would choose some of these converged styles over other styles, but not necessarily among all potential options.

Then, because manufacturing capacity is limited (whether we are manufacturing cars/spaces/aesthetics/ideas), the choice set that is actually available narrows.

Call it the tyranny of data science.
I fully agree. Moratoriums usually accomplish little, and give the organizations who have the technology 6 more months to get ahead of everyone else.

The idea that somehow everyone would miraculously stop working with the LLM models that are out there because someone declared a moratorium is madness. That would be like saying a 6 month moratorium on malware development should be declared.

The only players who would keep developing would be those who recognize that the moratorium is pointless, or people who are already wanting to use the tech maliciously.

The idea behind GPT-4 is out there, it is something that is going to be reproduced regardless of what is discussed and unlike, say, nuclear weapons, it doesn't require a complicated infrastructure to implement and build. We need to continue to build this, and organizations with critical access to infrastructure and such need to take their security more seriously moving forward.
The phrase "positive feedback loop" seems relevant.
> Go look at art of different societies from as near as 150 years ago

Precisely.

150 years ago, countries lived in their own cultural bubble because communication was much slower and mostly limited to local information. Or look at ancient societies which had their own homogenous culture compared to other cultures (eg: Ancient Greece vs Aztecs).

I think it's fair to say that today with globalization and the internet, we're really getting into what McLuhan denominated the global village. Instagram is a good example of this.
I have the same one! I use it for Amazon only.
Can anyone confirm the accuracy here? Sounds rather significant however I don't know the theoretical limit of how big a black hole can be - or the implications of that (haven't considered it). Seems like we are in an era of discovery in space - heady times!
We're talking about switching between conversations, latency is all that matters :)
Huge expectations around women “having it all” clashing into economic uncertainty and the revocation of rights.
Maybe it's economics.
Take a look at the modern software landscape, ads are the vanilla in your vanilla ice cream.
Blender is what I point to when people tell me open source is doomed for failure. There isn't anything that comes remotely close in terms of features and ubiquitous support, and its free. Honestly the best example of open source done right.
I know what you mean, but prompt driven object construction could be useful
Darklang is going all-in on AI ( darklang-gpt )
obviously ridiculous to think blender would have gpt integration https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320571
Unfortunately, you have now stumbled on the extremely politically sensitive elephant in the room.

If it is environmental (microplastics anyone)... do we need to stop producing certain clothes (stretch clothing is particularly bad)? Could this actually be part of the increase in youth identifying as LGBTQ [1]? Is it a greater threat to our survival, health, and well-being than the more palatable issue (but still an issue) of climate change?

[1] Note, I'm not making a hypothesis or taking a position here. However, just admitting that these microplastics and other things are having effects on humans could easily lead to "were these people born this way, or were many of them poisoned that way"? And so, no surprise, nobody wants to talk about it and so the question of if it could just remains unanswered.
I've seen videos of GPT integration into blender that make it look quite useful, so it's not a crazy idea.
VC twitter and linkedin are awash with GPT.
Social rank is zero-sum. Better positioning for previously unfavored group/races is the right thing but lowers relative social rank of those above.
They're only the same if you're taking an extremely reductive approach to them... And at that point you could also say that "99.99999%%" of Smartphones are the same, wherever they're iPhones, Androids or windows from a dacades ago. They're all rectangular devices with a large screen and touch input after all.
>Unless you had a shell account or ran Linux or some sort of Unix you had to _pay_ (or... not pay) to get access to a C compiler.

That was actually how I got my introduction to nix. I was taking a c++ class in highschool, and I was mad that I couldn't compile my homework without paying for borland. Someone pointed me to g++, and I actually got a shell account with the university of colorado (it's wild to me they would give those away for free!). I kept pestering the admins about installing this or that, and they told me 'hey kid, why don't you install linux on your own* machine and then you can install whatever you like.

So I went and installed redhat on an old computer. Free compilers for basically every language in existence, and an entire OS worth of source code, heaven!

The rest as they say, is history.
You mean like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320571
Even if your point is still valid
Yes this exactly.
That seems to give the same 2% I already get with my Apple card, but only 1% immediately, and the other 1% when it's paid, making it not as good as my Apple card's 2% immediately.
Let me introduce you to the Laurentide ice sheet [1]. It was similar to the ice sheets that now cover Greenland and Antarctica and was up to 2 miles thick in places, extending far south into what is now the US.

After being around for ~2.5 million years it melted about 20,000 years ago. Prior to then sea levels were ~130 meters lower than they are now. Think about that. There was still various land bridges that allowed migration. We see direct evidence of this. It's why, for example, we find archaeological sites under the English Channel (eg [2]).

So our ancestors like migrated along and settled on coasts and rivers. Obviously we have a lot of evidence along rivers because they weren't inundanted by 130m of water but the coasts were. So that means a lot of that evidence was simply erased. We always have to take that gap into account (eg an inland people from Siberia migrating to North America will have had all of its coastal history erased so the first we'll see of them is when they advanced to the point of settling inland).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurentide_Ice_Sheet

[2]: https://www.livescience.com/1759-stone-age-settlement-englis...
I’ve been learning with beej’s guide and exercism.il for the last few weeks and it’s very effective paired with the (free!) mentoring there and asking random questions on libera.chat as well.
I've used fedora, I have no real issues with it, but I'm not sure if it's going to work for me. At work we target Debian/Ubuntu and I lead the backend team so I need to be on-point; that means not having to mentally switch "environment" all the time because I use something else at home.

Still undecided though; I'm too old (read; jaded) for distro hopping now, but maybe I'll try find a Debian setup as another commenter suggested that'll work.
Being drunk during all of your free time is socializing?
A great talk by Dr Swann: https://youtu.be/uLxFazLK2Mg

I think it's wise to take precautions and install home water filters, avoid containments in our food, air and clothing supply chain.

Endocrine disruptors take many forms and governments are doing too little or nothing.
Or, you know, being 2023, you can ask GPT to do a better job. So in the first step you generate a summary with GPT as usual, and in the second step it gets analysed by GPT and a new summary is written. You can declare your criteria for what makes a good summary in the second step.
This is a shocking turn of events given there's no edge equivalent of the previous most powerful information tools (web-scale search). It does seem like it will still be a challenge to continuously collect, validate, and train on fresh information. Large orgs like Google/YouTube/TikTok/Microsoft still seem to have a huge advantage there.
no, but if you watched presentation you mostly fiddling with numerical values for how the hair would be constructed. not a hard stretch to imagine GPT learning how to fiddle with that and create its own characters by - yes - generating text values / numerical values that Blender understand.
Microsoft’s greed could be Bing’s AI downfall
> an awful lot of words to say “read what you can”.

But it needs to be said and repeated, right?

Because people feel time-poor when it comes to matching what they want to do against what they can do. Building up a backlog is probably the worst way to kill the fun there.

And if everyone in that scenario feels like they are somewhat alone in that feeling where the "Books I wish I had time to read" turns into a prioritization exercise where you end up reading the "most important book" while thinking of a book you aren't.

You and the OP are saying the same thing, but it is worth repeating.

The longer you've been out of a structured learning environment like a school/college the more sense that makes because that is a constrained environment where optimization actually helps & the fun reading part isn't.

As for me, my library holds list is a good way to have a "river of books" where I can dip out of it and let it pass through my bookshelf on a schedule whether I read it or not.
Every Blender release is exciting to read about.

How many other software projects can you say that for?
Never heard of it until last month, so I’m glad it keeps getting reposted.
> being resource starved (compared to facebook)

Not really. Epic has Unreal Editor, is a game development company, and runs the
largest MMO. So they know what they're doing in that space. Facebook didn't.

Here's Matthew Ball VC's feature list for a metaverse.

* Be persistent.

Epic has that. That's a basic property of a metaverse.

* Be synchronous and live

Like any MMO, yes.

* Be without any cap to concurrent users

At 3.5 million concurrent users, they're #1 at scaling.

* Be a fully functioning economy – individuals and businesses will be able to create, own, invest, sell, and be rewarded for an incredibly wide range of “work” that produces “value” that is recognized by others.

They kind of have that, although it's mostly game objects.

* Be an experience that spans both the digital and physical worlds, private and public networks/experiences, and open and closed platforms

That's talked about, but not currently delivered.

* Offer unprecedented interoperability of data, digital items/assets, content, and so on across each of these experiences – your Counter-Strike gun skin, for example, could also be used to decorate a gun in Fortnite

Technically, maybe. Operationally, no. They prohibit imports which violate intellectual property law. But you can create a mesh yourself and upload.

* Be populated by “content” and “experiences” created and operated by an incredibly wide range of contributors...

They have that.

What makes it all work is that they can deliver this experience with the visual quality and responsiveness gamers expect. Facebook failed at that. So did Decentraland. Those looked like games from 1990.
The use of the term "bigger" here is frustrating. Mass or volume?
I like the idea of a B-Team, but let's take it all the way - open the game with a cinematic of Korg and Miek sitting on the couch, and then some Taika witty dialogue ending in him finding an old cartridge of some sort on the ground, and with a "oh, let's give this a go". We hear a click of the cartridge being seated, and the camera pans in to a TV glowing with the start screen "8-Bit Avenger's: the Game". No need for celebrity voices (beside Taika, he can show up for an afternoon), no need to make sure the actors all the look the same, just a licensed game that doesn't try to suck all the money out of the gamer, like the latest TMNT game.

Or something, anything other than weird waxworks copied of a plot line that tries to take itself seriously.
It is kind of depressing to realize we all inevitably will die, our world will turn to dust, the sun will expire and everything will freeze into a profound and eternal coldness. So, maybe it's Wikipedia's fault?[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_fate_of_the_univers...
I don't know about that. I think it is fully plausible that products like Blender will get LLM integration over the next few years. Already this looks quite useful and it's made by one guy in a week.

https://github.com/gd3kr/BlenderGPT
They made it up.
Isn't Mint an ubuntu offshoot, or does it avoid the flatpak/snap issues?
Yea my account is already KYCed. They make it pretty clear how much you can withdraw without the KYC. So I guess, don't put your money in there until you are fully verified.
Yup - almost exactly the same case as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35343696 - we put it in the second-chance pool without realizing it was a dupe. Sorry!
Why not? Many houses can be constrained by a HOA, state law etc. It‘s value and market value can presumably still be determined, so I would assume it can be used.
Another hypothesis is: *waves at general state of things since the mid 2000s*
However, by late 90s you weren't paying for a C compiler, you had Cygwin, MinGW, or DJGPP (OK, probably no sockets in that case).
As I mentioned in the comment to which you're responding, I never get less than 2% from my Apple card, so the Wells Fargo doesn't seem better to me.

I'll look into the Capital One option, thank you!
So is HN TBF.
Culture is the recipe; the combination of attributes that makes it distinctive.
Not even commercial ones!
Hi, it looks like you are commenting on my username: ftxbro. Thanks for noticing!

After lurking I made this account only to post a joking-not-joking explanation of why Alameda had the weirdly specific credit limit $65,355,999,994 with FTX and why I thought it could be a funny off-by-almost-1000x bug/typo/mishap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34473811 but I think almost no one read my comment because I posted it so late after the thread had scrolled off the front page :(

EDIT: wait did you call me an unwashed mass? usually the unwashed masses call me an elitist!
it really is not hard to say. have you played around with the technology? have you sat down and thought about it yourself?

what we have is a continuously improving system that can write code and solve problems with intent, and is starting to have access to the internet. I don't think AI is inherently evil or will do anything harmful on its own, but it is a tool that humans will use to harm each other, deliberately or otherwise.

if you need research, go and read some of the myriad science fiction on the topic, or just imagine an "intention bot", where you set up an LLM with a goal, then have it iteratively write and execute programs to attain that goal.

also there undoubtedly is research on the topic, but I don't need to read it to know that completely controllable brains with access to the internet, that don't get tired or bored or have to sleep or eat are an extremely dangerous thing
Which matches the 2% my comment already said I get with Apple card. And requires a Fidelity account. So I'm not sure it's "better," but thank you.
Interesting given that JP Morgan lost $1B last year on the Apple card due to failing to correctly model the creditworthiness of customers.

Also surprising that the 3% transaction fee on cards has held up for decades; one would expect that competition would bring it down. Instead, it's created an opportunity for all sorts of businesses.

What I like most about this is that the Apple UI makes it dead-simple to see exactly what you spent and what you owe. To my mind, this is the huge benefit of Apple Pay services: instead of mindlessly throwing the card into any slot and getting a shock at the end of the month, you see your status at any time, including what you just bought. I believe this has huge benefits for people living hectic lives to manage their finances.

Apple's ability to win in personal financial services depends on their ability to reduce the errors, friction, and confusion that lead to support calls and missed payments. Unlike banks and cards that depend on a plethora of dark fees that confuse consumers, Apple's gambit is to smooth it out, particularly for the unsophisticated. If Apple can set the standard for the industry, I'm all for it. (Yes, I'm lookin' at you, GE Capital.)

Are services a distraction for Apple? Goodness, Apple is the economic size and complexity of a small country. Rather than dumping money into buying unrelated companies or X-moonshots that only puff egos, Apple management seems focused on incrementally extending the Apple way where it makes sense: to bring goodness to TV and credit cards and underserved markets, to tax their supply chains with best practices, etc. I wouldn't do it any differently.
Why hasn't anyone asked those affected what they are anxious and depressed about?
Black hole volume is entirely a function of mass.
That's not true. Just the the life of any sentient being that is not incorporated into the sacred timelines.
Is that Jesus in one of the paintings?
There are some drag and drop webpage builders for WordPress and things like Squarespace which are mentioned ad nauseam on podcasts and YouTube channels which promise something like it too.
Rank-and-File Accounting Employee Incentives and Financial Accounting Quality
One thing that a lot of people don’t notice is that this is the result of mass manufacturing replacing craft. People want good products that are cheap, and mass manufacturing creates them. Things made in a factory at scale are always cheaper and can even be better quality than low-scale goods. But once companies have sunk the capital into the factory that can churn this stuff out, they want to keep making the same stuff, not retooling and redesigning the factory. So minor changes occur but the basic template becomes very rigid. Once you start looking for it the factory-goods stubbornness to change is everywhere.

I think this is just the consequence of making things at scale. Society as a whole benefits: most people have more and better stuff relative to their wealth level than people in the past. But craftsmanship disappears or becomes substantially more expensive, and with it the diversity and range of design fades away.
This is it. This is our new dystopia
Some of my friends would 100% use food pills, and have enthusiastically expressed that opinion for several years. Soylent and Huel exist and are somewhat profitable businesses. Lots of people don't really care about food and just want to get back to things they care about.

Your food opinions are not everyone's food opinions and forcing your opinions on others is not freedom.
Counterpoint: decent public transport could eliminate this - and make even more places actually reachable, as you don't have to take care of making breaks to not fall asleep on the wheel, refueling stops, or having to search (and pay for) parking spots.
You have far more faith in police than I do

We have nontechnical people making legislation about technical things, why do you think police are any different
It's miniscule compared to burning the gas, or the oil industry wouldn't exist, considering a lot of the oil extraction and refinement industry is powered by oil itself.

You could have also Googled that number instead of trying to make a comeback for the sake of it.
I don’t see any GATs. Color me unimpressed. (/s)
> Not mentioned in post this but occured to me by reading:

> I think I will start changing my functional prompts to require a JSON format in responses so that various aspects of the response don't need to be manually parsed, and requests can be more reliably piped to subsequent requests.

that adds more characters though so maybe hits token limits faster, I was thinking about how to have better contexts then found out about langchain and creating a sort of long term memory using vector databases. still trying to figure this out, but once I do, I think it'll be amazing what I can do with it.
tl;dr: It's a massive price increase.
No end-users I asked over the years knew IG was an FB product. FB could have managed the same thing if building whatever the next big thing needed to happen again.

The wholesale rename of everything is necessary when you're trying to distance yourself from a poisoned past. It's not just about end-users, it's about recruiting and retaining talented employees. The sooner they can make folks disassociate the entire operation from the bad FB name the better. Many engineers aren't interested in telling their friends/family they work for FB, that awful company that enabled the CA scandal etc. Now they'd be able to say they work for Meta, that VR company.
Blender has support to programmatically generate and manipulate 3d objects.
Of course it could be handy for some users if those programs can be written by a tool that has natural language as input.
And as you pointed out there a plugins doing that.
But I would agree it's obviously ridiculous to think Blender would integrate some third party commercial non-free API into it's core.