skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how you phrase the question, evidently.

I asked the same question you did and got a similar answer:

> Do you use PaLM 2?

> I do not use PaLM 2 directly. I am a smaller language model, trained on a different dataset than PaLM 2. However, I am able to access and process information from PaLM 2, which allows me to provide more comprehensive and informative answers to your questions.

> For example, if you ask me a question about a complex topic, I can use PaLM 2 to access and process information from a variety of sources, including books, articles, and websites. This allows me to provide you with a more comprehensive and informative answer than I would be able to provide if I was only able to access information from my own dataset.

> I am still under development, but I am learning new things every day. I am excited to see how PaLM 2 and other large language models can be used to improve the way we access and process information.

But I asked a similar question and got a totally different answer:

> are you using the updated PaLM 2?

> Yes, I am using the updated PaLM 2. PaLM 2 is a more advanced version of the PaLM language model, with a larger training dataset and improved performance. It is able to generate more comprehensive and informative responses, and it can also perform a wider range of tasks, such as coding, math, and logic.

> I am still under development, but I am learning new things every day. I am excited to see what I can do with PaLM 2, and I hope to be able to help people in many different ways.
Probably natural gas:
https://www.arm.gov/capabilities/observatories/nsa/locations...
this is exactly what JSDoc is for, it's had these capabilities from the start.
I guarantee this exoplanet's weird orbit does not defy the rules of physics.
Until they flipped Sabu
Hm. From the description I am not really convinced. It starts with people think "rich gets richer, poor gets poorer" ... and then states this is all wrong.

Except, it is not, by all the data that I know.

E.g. "https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/global-income-inequal..."
Gmail can now scan the dark web for your email address
I wouldn't have any beef with AirPods if Apple didn't remove the jack to sell them. Maybe if Apple somehow couldn't make their own BT extensions, they'd improve the BT standard instead, which would benefit those buying non-Apple wireless headphones (like you). That matters less to me, though.

> You have a wired car aux solution that...provides a microphone

No, by mic I mean taking calls and meetings on my earbuds/phones, which is a common requirement. Most earbuds have inlined mics sharing the same jack.

Car aux issue is separate. One of my cars does have BT, but that's even worse because the phones fight over it or the pairing sometimes doesn't happen. Maybe "pass the aux" is not a thing anymore and I'm the only one who wants passengers to play their own music sometimes, but this wasn't a problem before.
Not even close. I'd prefer local WizardLM/Vicuna to this Artificial Idiot.

The funniest to me is that one of the examples they suggest you try is asking questions about google/jax repo, which kinda suggest that Bart can index source code from GitHub. Well, it fails even at listing directory structure and completely hallucinates all following answers!

I'm not sure why Google would bother releasing Bart in this state. It's made me lose respect for their AI competency.
Honestly I think in this case the subject is so complex you'd have to be an expert to separate the wheat from the chaff.

The techno optimists really do a lot of grifting these days (especially on YouTube), and the knee-jerk cynics are predictably annoying as well. The fact that a knowledgeable fusion insider is criticizing this speaks volumes to me, and his criticisms seem on point.

I'm a lay person so my take on it is effectively of zero value. And I don't think I'm the only one in this thread in that position :)
That’s when I use it, too. During chatgpt’s constant outages. It is the second google product that fills this role for me. The first was Spaces, for when Slack is down.
That's the Google experience, even for extremely minor things. App Actions ? Not available outside the US. Nevermind, now it is, but only en_US can get custom actions recognized.

If only it worked well at least in the US, but from what I can hear, it's just like in the rest of the world: a disappointing, bland, unfinished experience on all of their products.
JSDoc and Typescript don't have feature parity: OOP that works across files, generics, inline types, etc.
>My point is that likely GP and others are aware of these concerns

I don't think OP was aware. They did not say that letting politics influence where they live was a bad decision for them personally. They said they believed it was a bad decision. There was no qualifier. They were stating it universally.

They are also elsewhere in this thread not understanding why a trans person would have trouble making friends with conservative people. I don't think this person deserves the benefit of the doubt you are giving them.

I also didn't call OP "stupid" and "privileged" is not an insult.
it is well known fact that most programmers are unprofessional
This is why RCU, aka Read-Copy-Update, exists. RCU avoids the expensive synchronization part by delaying the release of the older version of the data structure until a point at which all CPUs are guaranteed to see the new version of the data. The patents have now expired, so it's worth investigating for people that need to write high performance multithreaded code that hits certain shared data structures really hard.
I'll know the technology is mainstream + serious when people start running Pytorch/Tensorflow with a WebGPU backend.
Can Joe Rogan Make Austin the Comedy Capital of America?
> He's going to be the Deng Xioaping of India.

This is my one hope for India. I disagree with pretty much everything else you've said, but I'm not as worried for India's future as I was previously; because I've come to realize that economic development is probably the best way to actually accomplish social justice - there's a strong correlation between countries becoming poor and them becoming more authoritarian and less fair.

So, even if he squishes press under his thumb, even if Muslims feel 10 times less safe, even if the autonomy of states is being eradicated to centralize all the power in their hands... I hope all of this at least results in significant economic improvement, and makes things work out in the end.
Duet AI for Google Cloud – An AI-Powered Collaborator
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Fortunately, most of your comments have been fine so this should be easy to fix.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
guys he is still here as user name antirez and he's working on freakwan https://github.com/antirez/freakwan
To a very specific product-choice question(1) it offered a very detailed and (at first glance) accurate and useful list of alternative products.

OTOH when I asked it to write a specific piece of PyQt6 code it botched it in several ways -- as did chatGPT4, to be fair. That's a niche area in which their training sets are probably deficient.

(1) Name some economical alternatives to the "Sennheiser XSW 1-835 Dual-Vocal Set"
People in regions where Internet access is a problem to begin with do not download Wikipedia because they don't have the ability to do so. That's why Kiwix has side projects such as a Raspberry Pi based content server that can be set up in e.g. a school and used to serve content to all students using whatever cheap phones they might have, or a reader that runs on WinXP. And, yes, that stuff is actually deployed in various places in Africa.

Now imagine the hardware that you'll need to run that high-quality future LLM. How many Kiwix hotspots could you set up for the same money?

Mind you, I'm not saying that there aren't compelling use cases for LLMs. It's just that it's a thing that's nice to have after you have Wikipedia etc. Indeed, ideally you'd want to have Wikipedia indexed so that the LLM can query it as needed to construct its responses - otherwise you're going to have a lot of fun trying to figure out which parts are hallucinations and which aren't.
The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than over 144 Nations Combined
I'd like to see some actual numbers too. Percentages can be kind of meaningless. 3% growth in Idaho and Montana means about 30,000 people each. Where as 3% growth in Florida is like 600,000.
>>I have an app from my health insurance company

I do too. I'm in the USA. Most US carriers provide an app. My app also shows Prescriptions, how much of my deductible is left, provider search, my ID card, EOBs claims and treatment cost estimates.

>>Alternatively I could also get insured with a company that covers all hospitals but those have higher premiums

Whoah we in America thought all insurance and healthcare is free in eurolands! (i'm being sarcastic, some of us realize the truth, some on the left dont.)
They get the rise in the value of their MSFT stock options.

Microsoft has historically had low salaries - because the money was made from the stock options.
I already know the day of the robot uprising I'm gonna be one of the first to be turned into Soylent Green. Y'all can enjoy your machine overlords.
I think it’s worth examining what we believe to be “reality”.

If your reality is the Internet, the apocalypse is upon us.

I’ve spent the past year reducing Internet one and increasing immersion in my local community and the world looks like a very different (better) place.
Love the disclaimer at the bottom of the screen:

"Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn’t represent Google’s views."

Sure does set a course of accountability with AI down the line.
Works in Georgia(country, not state)
The Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold look pretty impressive to me. The Tablet looks like a good buy given it includes the stand.
Semantics and Scheduling for Machine Knitting Compilers
My thesis is that many of them, especially at places that grew a lot during covid like MS, were/are overpaid relative to their skill set / ability to add value.

Cutting positions was one way to correct this.

Freezing salaries is another.

If any devs hired during covid think that their salary was totally justified and shouldn’t be cut directly or indirectly, then they are more likely than not delusional. It was a frothy hiring market, and the upward pressure on salaries across the board was not healthy for the overall tech ecology, imho (the smaller companies couldn’t afford competent devs).

Note that I am actually an advocate of tech corps sharing more of the spoils with their employees, but not in the way that it happened during the pandemic. Reward competence selectively rather than randomly rewarding just being a warm butt in a seat during a hiring boom.

I have no doubt that during this “pay freeze” at MS, the star performers will still be rewarded somehow.
A lot of negativity in the comments, but the stock is up ~5% today (in particular it didn’t tank), so it seems like the market isn’t as negative about the presentations.

The fast integration into all products is pretty amazing, some of them actually useful (e.g. using search/bard to query/generate tables and exporting them into sheets directly is really cool).

I also like that they emphasized the utility aspect and didn’t get into AGI nonsense that OpenAI peddles so much.
When you’re an executive of a publicly traded company, coordinating with other executives at publicly traded companies like this can be illegal.

Executive management aren’t workers.
Corruption is like cancer. It spreads and metastasizes through society quickly. If students see other students cheat and get ahead and not get punished they'll be incentivized to cheat. If instructors see a large number of students getting 100%, obviously the material is too easy, they'll make the problems harder. Pretty soon it is impossible to operate or do anything without either bribing or cheating.

Dishonesty and a cavalier attitude towards cheating is something taught at home early on. Poverty, institutional disfunction play a role but at some point they become part of the societal mores. If you don't cheat you just look stupid and naive and people make fun of you.
The new Google Home app is finally here
> Google Bard now open to use

Ah, cool, can't wait to see which service they will shut down next!

> Please sign in using your Google account

Ah, OK, fair, can't just shut down services without any metrics...

> Please insert and touch your USB key

Ah, OK, fair, you want your metrics to only pertain to real users like myself...

> Email alert: new sign-in from the same IP you always sign in to!

Ehhhm, yeah, OK, could not see that one coming... Should have accepted unlimited tracking cookies, I guess... chortle

> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

Ehhhhmmmmm, yeah, sure. Yup. I will. Stay. Tuned... SNORT
Not going to lie. This is awesome. You can even run on android.
If it makes you feel better my dad is in his mid 70s, does a hike most everyday, and the only meds he's on is for glaucoma.

I'll be enjoying my turn with glaucoma, since I also have his high blood pressure.
Wave http://waveapps.com/
Also use it to process payments

I also have it linked to my mercury business account. Trying to find another free business checking account that works with zelle but this will do for now
5-over-1s are basically universal in the United States. You might see them more in coastal areas but that's because its where the population gravitates to.

I don't like 5-over-1s either but they're a product of zoning laws that tried to legislate out more compact housing.

I much rather have a couple duplex/quadplexes on each suburban block but a lot of folks really don't like that idea.

Bring up the idea of putting a cafe or convenience store inside a suburban culdesac hell and people will lose their mind.
I can't think of a paper where Google didn't present sparse or entirely lacking metrics vs. its peers. They do a good job of presenting architectures that they're excited about internally, enough detail to take the concepts and run with them. They also do a good job of showing why the new architecture is generally viable. They just miss out on detailed benchmark comparisons is all. And model weights, obviously, but there's still enough information to generally reproduce the concept.

I'm personally extremely excited about anything related to PaLM or google's multi-modal efforts. They're almost always worth the read.
Avoiding breaking the law, here, means not allowing users in those countries to use services.
I’m sorry, but if it’s using the same starting symbol as a comment, and it’s greyed out in the text editor like a comment, then you can call it whatever you want, but it is a fucking comment. There are a bunch of unused symbol combinations on the keyboard that could have been used, there is absolutely no excuse for it.
Google Bard Boosted with Adobe’s Firefly for Image Generation
Google Find My Device will use billions of Android devices to locate your stuff
Personal views:

Good. But worse than ChatGPT in terms of accuracy and tone.
The most horrible thing Jenkins does to devs is it encourages bad practice. Good practice is so cumbersome to do properly (create a secret, load secret in env through Groovy code, setup git configuration in a shell script) that, unless someone is actively monitoring them, devs are always in a temptation to just put the credentials in the git URL, we'll remove them after testing. Then one out of N times they forget and you get a security hole.
If the m2 came with LPDDR6 or faster and card support or something similar I would agree with you. The only new advantage for m2 that I have seen is Wi-Fi 6E and bluetooth 5.2 20 percent more efficiency and speed and an option for the MacBook Pro 14.2 and 16.2 to have 96 of ram which isn’t worth it.
Needing to be logged in to search is such a non starter.
26 participants? That sound like a really solid statistical analysis. /s
Wealth is always wasted on the wealthy.

If you're grinding, you don't have time to be creative.

If you're creative, you don't want to grind.
> Step therapy, did she get a second opinion?

Pepto bismal is cheap, but we don't try treating a lung cancer with it just because of that. Again the drug they wanted her taking had NEVER been so much as studied for treating MS, and she had already exhausted a number of cheaper treatments including diet, PT and a number of other drugs, and a couple clinical trials. It's not like they jumped to the most expensive option. As for a second opinion, she is working with the only neurologist in the area who specializes in MS. Even if she wasn't I'm not sure why you think a second neurologist saying the same thing would change anything.

> Did she find a Country where she was comfortable getting the denied treatment?

No, no one researched hypotheticals. It's not like she can travel to another country and get treated under their healthcare plan. These generally only cover citizens and even if not she will need treatment for the rest of her life. This isn't a one time surgery where it might be cheaper to go to another country, then come home.

> What do you recommend besides "Government paying for everything"?

Well I do recommend single payer, because I'm of the radical mind that even the poor and unemployed deserve health care, but if that's off the table how about some actual oversight? We have an insurance company overriding a doctor who specializes in this disease insisting on a treatment that has NEVER been studied for this disease. This should not be legal. And yet the only recourse is to ask the same insurance company who already made this bad decision if they'd pretty please reconsider, or to find out if you can afford to pay lawyers for longer than they can. Maybe we should have an independent board one can appeal to. Make the consequences for incorrectly denying treatment dire. Like take away their license to operate if it happens to frequently dire. For many people delays can have serious consequences including death, if we are going to let these companies make such important decisions they should be held to a very high standard.

> Do you realize Canadians commonly get denied for things too?

Sure. Government can be fucked. Call me an optimist however, but I have a lot more confidence in my ability to drive meaningful change in my government than within Blue Cross.

> God forbid you have Rectal Cancer in Germany, generally not covered by the Government plan.

Does it not? Booking health (the Link you provided) appears to be a site for finding the best specialists around the world. The fact that it has a price list just implies to me that it has a cost for non German citizens. The article below the list even talks about getting "your cancer treatment in Germany for lower cost" which implies to me it's aimed at non-german residents. You may be correct, but I was not able to find any sources corroborating your claim with a quick search. Even if so, again as broken as government can be, I have a lot more say there than a private insurance company.
I feel this. It seems like somewhere I would have thrived and immensely enjoyed, and I hear people's nostalgia for it, but it's something I never got to experience myself. (~18yo).
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A medical focused model has much better PR value as an initial offering.
Have you tried Firefox Reader Mode? It renders this website (and a lot of others) without a lot of distractions.
There were some fun examples of CIA or NSA folks getting approval to post their roles on LinkedIn - but then adding far too much detail to their profile which exposed previously-unknown intelligence programs.

From one talk when it became public in 2015;

https://youtu.be/xipI-0HU010?t=371
So was this, and this.
Is there anything quite tied/geared to the internals of the system for rasp pi in the same manner as say C64 Basic was? Or does that sort of concern not really matter for today’s CPUs/hardware/aarch?

I’m not really a programmer. The reason I ask is for my 11 yr old to hack around, should I find/use a modern (or if not modern, updated, as you indicated BBC is) Basic like the one you linked, or should I have the kid just do cool stuff and basic stuff inside a C64 emulator on the Pi such as Combian64 etc?
Come on. If Google broke ranks and started aggressively poaching people for GCP and going after market share, Amazon would realize in about 5 seconds that it hadn't "overhired" for absurdly-profitable AWS after all.

These firms have colluded to drive down wages before (the "Techtopus" case), a fact that we know because they were stupid enough to put it in writing. This time there's no proof and may be no explicit agreement, but a tiger doesn't change their stripes.
I’m failing to see the connection between the linked doc and Bard opening up for more use?
Google is the only company that does this. Even product pages are geo-dodged in a similar fashion, as if the technical specs for a Pixel phone shouldn't be readable outside of some approved areas and the user is silently redirected to an unrelated page. It's quite surprising.
This is a rather disrespectful way to comment on the announcement of people losing their jobs.
If it performs a computation, it is by definition running some algorithm regardless of how it's implemented in hardware / wetware. How is it a stretch?

The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence.
Ah, this is a wonderful analysis! Thank you, I've favorited it. :)

I'd love to get the decentralized protocols to work together. I work on braid.org, where we want to find standards for decentralized state sync, and would love to help facilitate a group dialogue. Hopefully I can connect with you more in the future.
Google Announces A3 Supercomputers with Nvidia H100 GPUs
Ms. did have its own political angle but but when it did finally become mainstream in the late 60s/early 70s, I'm not sure that there were too many people ready to go to the mat for public honorifics that distinguished whether a woman--and only a woman--was married or not. (And at least some people who probably reflexively opposed the change at first, changed their mind later on.)

But honorifics are tricky and some people feel very strongly about them--e.g. Dr. for someone with a PhD.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments and taking HN further into generic ideological battle? Regardless of how right you are or feel you are, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Fortunately it doesn't look like your comments have been dominated by this, but still, we've had to ask you this several times in the past. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23863318 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21618278 (Nov 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158037 (June 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19539635 (April 2019)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18018671 (Sept 2018)
>If companies were actually legitimately concerned about the potential for a deflationary event they would be hoarding cash.

Or freezing salaries. Just like in the article. I don't really have an answer for you with regards to any stock buybacks or large dividends.

I'm not talking about anything as reasonable or mentioning the 2nd derivative myself. M2 money supply is a specific thing that is responsible for money creation, it's going down now for the first time ever. We are in uncharted territory.