skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The second cost problem we discovered was about the way we were passing video frames (images) around different components. To reduce computationally expensive video conversion jobs, we built a microservice that splits videos into frames and temporarily uploads images to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. Defect detectors (where each of them also runs as a separate microservice) then download images and processed it concurrently using AWS Lambda. However, the high number of Tier-1 calls to the S3 bucket was expensive.

Taking "malloc for the Internet" [1] a bit /too/ literally there.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/eight-years-and-counting-of...
Gitlab should stick to its lane and finish its already huge surface area of its products instead of chasing the AI hype. Sid…
> This is not a discussion of monolith vs serverless. This is some terrible engineering all over that was "fixed".

I feel that's like 95% of the "we migrated from X to Y and now it is better"; most of improvements coming from rewriting app/infrastructure after learning the lessons with only small part sometimes being the change in tech
Kitty is capped at 100fps by default, but you can speed it up at the cost of higher CPU usage:

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/conf/#conf-kitty-performance
“The free market is so efficient guys” (efficient at maximising personal profit)
It's sad how many people here lose their ethical compass and reach for rationalizations (homebrew!) when it comes to something that is clearly mainly used for software piracy.
I second this. It was the first of his books I read, and it is quite different but I think exemplifies what I liked about the writer. A melancholic stroll through a surreal scenario, but unlike some of his stories I felt this one had a resolution.
> Martin Luther King was a Christian, who believed in a moral order imposed externally by a Supreme being.

A person doesn't have to be a theist to accept King's principle. A naturalist/materialist/physicalist metaphysics doesn't have room for such a principle. But theism and naturalism/materialism/physicalism do not exhaust the space of metaphysical options.

A person might believe in the Scholastic doctrine of the convertibility of the transcendentals – that, at an ultimate level, Goodness, Beauty and Truth are identical to each other, even though at the non-ultimate level they are distinct. It is easy to see how a person who accepts such a doctrine might be attracted to King's principle as an expression of it. While the Scholastics themselves accepted that doctrine in a theistic context, and even saw theism as a necessary consequence of it (ultimately, Goodness and Beauty and Truth are identical to each other, because they are all identical to God), a person might accept that metaphysical doctrine yet find some rational reason to refuse its theistic implications.

Also, I can't speak for King personally, but the idea that morality is "imposed" by God – in the sense that morality is something God freely chose to create, and could have chosen to create differently, as opposed to something inherent in God's inalterable necessary nature – is one many in the Christian tradition reject. Certainly it is traditionally rejected by Catholics and Orthodox, although Protestants are more mixed in their views. Among Muslims, that idea is accepted by the Asharite theological school, arguably the most influential in Sunnism, but rejected by the other major orthodox Sunni schools (Maturidi and Athari) and also by most Shi'a theologians.

> If you purport to not believe in some sort of religion (loosely defined), how can your metaphysics allow for social norms to be judged by anything other than some sort of empirical fitness function?

How loosely do we define "religion"? I think a person could accept King's doctrine without accepting King's theism, but maybe any such position is in some sense a form of "non-theistic religion"? It isn't clear how to answer that question.

A person (even a non-theist) can believe in the metaphysical existence of objective ethics, yet reject any attempt to reduce ethics to "some sort of empirical fitness function"
If only other countries existed that had implemented these policies, then we would have some evidence to indicate whether you were right or wrong.
What! They changed the title. Tells you something
Yes, these huge models are the expert systems for training specialized systems that will run often and need to run cheaply.
If you’re making 97% profit then you’ll just get the selection rigged so that anybody new is ineligible.
Regarding the statements that you need a Yubikey (for the FIDO part of passkey, given application support?) on GNU/Linux, at least Solo 2, Nitrokey 3, and Onlykey hardware keys have free firmware. I can't vouch for them, but maybe also see https://github.com/psanford/tpm-fido and https://github.com/bulwarkid/virtual-fido
because there's a time based hardware component to it.

this isn't just public key encryption. Think of it as a physical Yubikey but embedded in your ...whatever.
This link is dead now. It seems to have been replaced by https://joshmo.bearblog.dev/can-rust-beat-javascript-in-2023...
Define "advanced topics"
> Should a person with more children get less jail time because more children will be left without a parent as compared to a childless person.

Elizabeth Holmes seems to be counting on this one.
New C features in GCC 13
Sales Development Rep, they typically do first contact and presales before passing the lead to a sales person.
In ‘monumental’ discovery, experts unearth European teen after nearly 400 years
Have you heard of "Neurosemantic Invertitis"?
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/11yvk5g/using_the_...
I'm not even sure Google needs to spend the additional ~4B that they need to acquire Gitlab fully (they own a stake already), if Gitlab already agrees to let them train on their data.
> although they tend to still disproportionally affect lower-income individual

Any fair punishment will disproportionally impact lower-income individuals, since resources confer resilience and resilience resists punishment. If your goal is equal impact, you have to have unfair punishments, because you have to scale your punishment to the target’s resources.
I thought the transition from Mono to Core was either complete or nearly so? Is it far off?
What tracking capability do you think treating DoubleClick cookies as first party on Google sites gives Google that they don't already have by just combining the logs from visits to google.com, youtube.com, etc., since all of those logs are stored in the same data warehouse and can be cross-compared?
I get the lottery because it stops someone booking out the next 10 years.

Imagine MrBeast’s “I bought the entire national park for the next century” video. You want people to always have a chance to go, no matter the demand.
GitLab team member here. Thanks for your feedback. I'm curious about what kind of mistakes were made with the Kubernetes Operator [0]? Maybe there are open issues to learn more about your concerns? Thanks!

[0] https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/operator.html
it's not about weather linux desktop is an issue or serious competition

it's about making sure it can't become one even if MS starts doing things which harm customer (accidentally and/or due to customers being dependent on them).

For example look at the steam deck, even with it's success it's neglible small compared to Switch, PS and Xbox, but it still implicitly forced Microsoft to start working on better support in their "windows manager/desktop US" for this kind of devices.

Or they would love to force their app store for apps like Apple did on Mobile, they tried getting there before. But now they can't really threaten Valve that well anymore because Valve can always argue: See gaming on Linux works without us strongly doubling down on it because you forced us. And there are people invested in Steam due to having large libraries, if most of their library works on SteamOs but Steam works no longer on Windows where would they go...?
Interesting thanks for sharing. I just upvoted that comment of yours as well, stalebots are indeed the worst!

Funnily a comment I posted yesterday just passed the 75 points, so it appears that either there is no cap or that it was lifted.
I'm not sure they fled IE as such. They saw a link (advert) on Google that said “make your internet better” and they clicked it.

Yes, some techies actively chose Chrome knowing full-well what the alternatives were, but I'm pretty sure the advertising produced much greater numbers.

(Also, the techies who enthusiastically recommended Chrome were the same ones who enthusiastically recommended Twitter a few years later, and are now enthusiastically recommending Signal — which illustrates the quality of their judgement when it comes to monopolies.)
Stochastic's $1000 xFinance 13B outperforms BloombergGPT 50B on financial tasks
Thank you @thethirdteacup - that looks helpful.

Because you were downvoted I can't reply directly so doing it here instead.
This depends on the compiler version. The default was stuck at gnu89/gnu++03 for a long time.
I am sorry for the confusion. SDR stands for Sales Development Representative. Those are the most junior sales team members, whose main job is to reach out to prospective customers and offer them some service or software with a goal to schedule a conversation with a sales representative.
I enjoyed one or two of his books, but some of them I just couldn't get into.
More videos including full 1v1 matches here: https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer

Oh and another thing: the way they walk (and fall over) reminds me of the classic indie wrestling game Sumotori Dreams: http://www.gravitysensation.com/sumotori/
The vector database hype explained – the story of Victor Hector and Lecter
A visual explanation of why we should care about vectors, embeddings, and vector databases.
Zuul CI speculative execution gating
A combination of Michael Levin's cognitive light cone [1] from the "Technological Approach to Mind Everywhere: An Experimentally-Grounded Framework for Understanding Diverse Bodies and Minds" paper and the Heideggerian care (Sorge) [3] [4].

[1] What are Cognitive Light Cones? (Michael Levin Interview), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnObwxJZpZc

[2] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2022.7682...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heideggerian_terminology#Care_...

[4] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/#Car
I was trying to reach a sales person the other day and thought an AI would have been a better experience. The SDR was an idiot and probably lost them the sale, though their competitor had a better SDR that I don't think an AI would have done as well as.

So... I'm not sure where I stand on this issue... they could be good for pre-SDR, but a great SDR is still better than the AI will be.
Since I learned about deep mind, I expected they would dominate RoboCup, but I really don't understand why they don't.
Trove of Roman Coins Found
SEEKING WORK | Montreal, Canada | Remote Ok
Technologies: Node.js, Typescript, Ruby on Rails, React Native, GraphQL, Python, ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, Strapi, Unity, WebGL

Résumé/CV: https://redgetan.cc/redgetan_resume_2023.pdf

Email: redge.tan@gmail.com

Blog: https://redgetan.cc/

I'm a pragmatic programmer with 10+ yrs experience. Worked extensively with React Native past couple years, and I also have built real time multiplayer games using Node.js, Javascript, and Unity. My recent projects the last couple months are related to AI which include: GPTForge (AI tools directory), Polymorf.me (Video game AI Avatars using Stable Diffusion and Dreambooth), ComicAI (React Native text-to-comic art generator)
Shopify offloads logistics business to Flexport
Thank you! Will check it out.

One thing I will say is that I notice lately that GitLab seems to throw in the word DevSecOps everywhere these days almost as if an exec has ordered everyone to use it a minimum of 20 times a day. It feels like the marketing people are pushing some kind of buzzword quota.

Nonetheless, will keep an eye on these features before our renewal cycle in September.
Would using llama as the llm teacher for a commercial model mitigate licensing concerns since it's not being used directly but only to create a separate artifacts?

What could impact the ability to discern whether it's llama or open llama? Are there artifacts of a given Llm that could be exposed via distilling process?
I think what most people are missing here is that they used AWS Step Functions in the wrong place. Part of the blame here is that in over enthusiasm of trying to get more users, AWS doesn't properly educate customers when to use which service. Worse, for each use case AWS has about dozens of options making the choice incredibly hard.

In this case, they probably should have used Step Functions Express, which charges based on duration as opposed to number of transitions and they're looking for "on host orchestration" like orchestrate a bunch of things which usually are done in small time and are done over & over many times. Step functions is better when workflows are running longer, and exactly once semantics are needed. Link for reading differences between Express & standard step functions: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/step-functions/latest/dg/c....

This also exemplifies the fact that I learned while being at Amazon & AWS that Amazon themselves dont know how best to use AWS. This being one of the great examples. I'll share 1 more:

- In my team within AWS, we were building a new service, and someone proposed to build a whole new micro service to monitor the progress of requests to ensure we dont drop requests. As soon I mentioned about visibility timeout in SQS queues, the whole need for the service went away. Saving Amazon money ($$) & time (also $$). But if I or someone else didn't mention, we would have built it.

I dont think serverless is a silver bullet, but I don't think this is a great example of when not to use serverless. It helps to know the differences between various services and when to use what.

PS: Ex Amazon & AWS here. I have nothing to gain or lose by AWS usage going up or down. I'm currently using a serverless architecture for my new startup which may bias my opinions here.
It's not a minuscule part of a small company. I made the point that on-premises makes sense after a certain scale.

Once you have on-premises you need people that know switches, routers, rackmount server, hardware, virtualization, etc, plus keeping all of that properly maintained (security patches, IaC, periodic updates, analyzing performance, making sure it's properly architected, etc).

I often see people saying it's the same cost or less but it's really not. Unless you have no idea what you should be doing.
Seems somewhat curious that they didn't at least include Fargate. Feels like they jumped all the way from the typical overengineered setup into using AWS in a way that's very close to just "I need virtual machines".
Slack’s getting an A.I. chatbot that can summarize messages, take notes and more
I wrote a comment a couple of days ago that I want a stationary computer case with 12 5.25 drive bays. Invert the chassis and have a top to bottom air flow.

That way I don't need any USB ports included on the case. I can just pick any I want as a 5.25 bay.

Or maybe 18 how swap 3.5 harddrive bays. Or a memory card reader. Or 3 120mm fans. Or 12 small drawers. Or a cigarette lighter and beverage holder (real thing).

I have an old case that I love, but the front IO is hideously outdated. Expandability like the framework laptop is something we had for tower computers, but we did away with it to make them look nice.
Unused parameter warnings are pretty useful to remind you when a parameter is no longer needed after you change things or to catch some mispellings / missing code. You can always cast to (void) to "use" an otherwise uneeded parameter or remove the parameter name (or comment it out to keep tools checking declaration and definition name matches happy) keeping only the type.
> while the vaccine may continue to confer long term benefits

It had better! Otherwise (in my opinion) it has little claim to the label “vaccine”.
There's too much Star Wars
The government should not be selling loot boxes that are sometimes empty. You shouldn't be charged for nothing.
We moved country a couple of years ago and with all the covid restrictions still in place, we needed a place to stay for a few days,as our apartment wasn't ready by the time we landed. So we got this really nice apartment in a nice part of the city with great access to shops, etc. The place had tons of positive reviews. We walk in and you could immediately tell it hasn't been cleaned. Stains on the bed, wc not cleaned, the fridge is filthy,etc. The place was managed by a company so eventually I ended up talking about to someone and they confirmed it hasn't been cleaned and offered to get a full refund or some massive discount if we stay. We couldn't get out fast enough. It was also impossible to leave a review, because the booking was cancelled..
Pasting the relevant part:

———

Official Statment

SWARG as the copyright owner implemented a time-limited license into the code used by ORQA.

The license has expired which causes a blocked device until a new license is provided.

To enable normal usage of the product SWARG provides a license extension till 1. July 2023.

In the meantime, SWARG and ORQA will hopefully reach an agreement about Copyright/licensing.

You can download the binary files under the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...3XtHTUEVsN

To extend the license place the update.bin file into a license folder at the root of the SD card. After the update is finished delete the folder with its content and perform a firmware update by placing the .orqa update file at the root of the SD card.

Thank you for your attention.

Dr.techn. Tomislav Jukić
CEO at SWARG d.o.o.
Well according to some, GPT (transformer networks) already solved it all, lmao
Absolutely. Neither fargate nor step functions express. Seems like they did not evaluate all the options before making the jump.
Thank you! Can you please elaborate a bit more on (1) what were the key issues with the "bad" SDR and (2) what did the "good" SDR do, that you liked and AI can't yet do.
I've always considered Fortran to be the "first", but with some quick research, it looks like Algol was the first C-like lang to add an if/then statement. My guess is that the author was trying to approximate modern imperative programming.

[1] https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2021/01/11/why-algol-bes...
For example, perfectly circular motion against no resistance requires no work since the force is always perpendicular to the motion.
I don’t know where you live, but at least in the US, local news is almost extinct. I used to work for a chain of local newspapers - we had one or more reporters for each one, and we would go to every town and school board meeting and cover what was happening. That chain was bought up by a national, half the papers were shuttered outright, and the rest are run by one editor who doesn’t have time to do in depth coverage, and basically just parrots press releases. A few “local” replacements have cropped up that are little more than propaganda mills, without even an attempt at impartiality.

The biggest issue is that local news used to be funded by classified ads, mostly. Since most of the functions served by classified ads migrated to the internet, no one has yet figured out an alternative funding model.
The covid vaccine has not been linked to any deaths under 50, and has been administered far more than 17K times.
Ask HN: Good examples of Turing-complete to Turing-incomplete transpilation?
I’m doing some research on the topic. I’m specially interested in understanding how to deal with removing the set of features the incomplete programming language wouldn’t have. Say I want to use typescript to write agda code. What would be some strategies to make this work? Books and other references are also welcome.
Opposed to microsoft's version of the concept, perhaps.

To me, modular, upgradable, repairable fit the tablet form-factor even more than a laptop - you choose your own keyboard, mounting system (eg a folio case to use the combo as an actual laptop, vesa mount holes or adapter to stick it onto a monitor mount), etc.
I respectfully disagree. I prefer honest self expression above meeting any bars at all.

A reader who is engaging critically with a Murakami book can't help but be creeped out and shocked by the dreamlike scenarios, including, as you mentioned, women that don't seem real, but also, most characters don't feel real. Intimate scenes are empty, unemotional, disconnected from reality.

They are expressions of deep self obsession, where the whole world bends for a character. The result is disconnection and boredom. Characters that feel silly, dumb, unwise, ego obsessed.

Still damn good books. The fact that they discuss this aspect is fascinating. I'd much rather have this aspect of humanity expressed, no matter how difficult it is, than to pretend it is not there.

As someone else said in this thread, it is your time, and if you decide to not waste it on Murakami, that's fair. But if you ever decide to give it a second shot, I'd say don't expect any bars to be met. Just engage with it as it is.
I agree on the fact that chatGPT is just a robot playing with words using statistics.

What is an example of artificial intelligence?
Defuse anger in the workplace with humor, expert says
Except if you already have all the flags for GCC then adding a few more for Clang-specific warnings isn't much of a problem.
I have a customer still on Notes. They have a whole big CRM and sales planning system built in it so they have a degree of lock in. It's kind of modern ish with an iOS app (HCL Verse) and 2FA. Works for them.
It's over Anakin, I have the high ground
Founders and investors are saying bye to booze as Silicon Valley goes sober
> It truly felt like being transported to the darkest times of the late 90s/early 2000

Exactly what I thought when I saw “Games” under the Edge menu - why can’t a browser just be a browser anymore?
I disagree that it's a "fine example of whataboutism", I think it's more 'apples and oranges'. How would you define whataboutism, or why do you think that it applies here?
The President, the Soccer Hooligans and an Underworld ‘House of Horrors’
It does. I'm not sure I understand this though:

""Base load" is not a good thing, it's a "this is useless for anything else, so all we can use it for is base load" thing."

Surely you want a base load capacity to always exist, no matter what, no? Covering for spikes is one thing, but your grid has to have an always-on level of generation that is always there, for various technical reasons.

>> hydro (seconds)

Genuine curiosity - what kind of hydro reacts in seconds? I literally used to live next to a hydro dam and the numbers they used to give visitors were around 10-15 minutes minimum to spool up the turbines and start delivering to the grid. We also had a hydro storage facility on top of a mountain nearby, similar thing - it takes time to open the sluices, it takes time for water to hit the turbines, it takes time for the turbines to spool up and get to the operational parameters before they can start sending power to the grid.

And finally I'm still not sure why you'd say that people who are cheering for nuclear power are only doing so to prelong the fossil fuel dominance?
Why is your annecdote not present in VAERS?

Also

the cumulative COVID-19 mortality rate in the 15-24 year age group was 0.03%

The mortality rate of covid for your undocumented friend is higher than the target group mortality of RSV.
I would really like an invite to this if someone could hook me up