skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is not monetary model behind the community. If you read again my comment, you will see that the intention is only to maintain the operational costs by everyone together and a fee is way of getting commitment from everyone.

I basically organise the community because I enjoy reading books and sharing opinion with other professionals, that's it.
I don't see hate for protocols or cryptography on HN. But I do see

(a) skepticism about the actual decentralized (vs distributed) nature in practice (especially where the topic is financialized tech or even an end run around all the learning that's gone into the social codebase about finance).

(b) realize that decentralization presented by things like the web are essentially "good enough" that capabilities are strong, personal or entrepreneurial latitude is pretty wide, and obstacles are few.
Why build an app when you can just replace humanity with something different and not reflective of actual humans?
The Slow Poison of Endless Fantasy
I submitted this because people working in technology are often quite exposed to the various sources of "slow poison" that the video alludes to.

I hope that the HN crowd finds this video interesting and can relate to the submission in some way. It's nothing I didn't know but I've never seen it expressed so eloquently before.
It's a really hard question. The program is not anywhere as close to the hardware as the original would have been, but is it the right place to start? I think you may want to offer a variety of things and see which is the most interesting.

Personally I'd love to have a nice 386 with some hardware to play around with, but then again, that's what I learned on.
I observed this behavior in a Dell system about a decade ago, but based on experience over the last 5 years or so with PowerEdge servers, installing a third-party GPU no longer triggers the (extremely loud) maximum fan-speed response.
So how do we actually try out the PaLM 2?

The links in their press release just link to their other press release, and if I google "PaLM API" it just gives me more press release, but I just couldn't find the actual document for their PaLM API.

How do I actually google the "PaLM API" for a way to test "PaLM 2"?
Can you share a playground link? When I try I do get the suggestion, but that suggestion is coming from the list of words in the file, not from typescript's language service. In the playground you can see the difference because the the autocomplete entry for the suggestion has an abc icon rather than a cube icon.
XiMatrix: Request filter inspired by uMatrix (FF extension)
Is there some sort of bizarre political campaign on HN to try and redefine why companies exist?

Companies are legal constructs that were created to provide investors in business activities limited liability with respect to their investment in a mutual business activity. And that's it.

For their first several hundred years, companies were expected to provide benefits to their employees and the localities in which they operated in exchange for that limited liability. (And see what happened to Lloyd's of London's shareholders to understand why that is a more than fair exchange.)

If companies want to be all about "benefit for the shareholders" and to hell with everyone else, then its about time we take away the limited liability.
Related:

AWS Creates New Policy-Based Access Control Language Cedar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34865768 - Feb 2023 (83 comments)

Cedar: A New Policy Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34449828 - Jan 2023 (3 comments)
I believe one of it's defining features is that if you are experiencing the effect, only the people around you know it.
I'm beginning to wonder if soulless, boring, corpspeak AI-generated text is going to turn out to be a huge competitive disadvantage for those who become reliant on it.

If someone sends me an email or a message that sounds AI-generated, it's easy to tell that it's not meaningful. So I end up ignoring it entirely.

I'm also concerned about folks who actually try to use "AI" like Bard to assist with life decisions like they showed in the college-search presentation. Maybe that works OK right now -- though I suspect AI has serious blind spots. But what happens when Google wants to milk advertisers a bit more, and starts pushing more Wendy's (TM) and for-profit universities and whatever else into your chats?

The "what bike should I buy for a 5 mile hilly commute" query had hilarious results, too -- literally all sponsored content from no-name (but expensive) bike brands. No real understanding of what makes a decent, maintainable commuter bike. Just Bard spitting out whichever bike manufacturers pay Google the most.

Anyone who actually relies on this garbage for decisionmaking is going to wind up making some very poor decisions once Google allows advertisers to hook into these AI features... which is already happening in Search.
So use it in meetings, got it. Kidding of course. It sounds like my professor from a logic philosophy class. All x are y but not all y are x and red herring and whatnot.
I was trying to decide this a few years ago when I found the best .com I'll ever own. It's only 8 characters and I was able to get matching social media handles everywhere but Twitter.

My main concern was that someone with more money than me could come along, start using it, trademark it, and make it unusable for me. I've been thinking about trying to trademark it, but it's expensive and complicated, especially if I can't get a trademark personally and transfer it to a business in the future

In the meantime I decided it was worth the money to buy every decent TLD as a way of discouraging someone else from trying to use the same name. It's not cheap, but it's cheap in the context of what people like the OP pay for a decent .com.

I pay about $200 / year in total to renew about a dozen matching domains. I can hold onto those for 20 years and it'll still cost less than the asking price of a half decent .com.

Think of the .net and .org as a $3 month expense for brand protection. I'm from Canada where .com and .ca are used pretty equally. I remember about 10 years ago when a local computer store only registered one of them and ended up with an unhappy customer redirecting the other to a porn site. Would you pay $3 / month to avoid dealing with that?
The report specifically states:

> The largest model in the PaLM 2 family, PaLM 2-L, is significantly smaller than the largest PaLM model but uses more training compute

The largest PaLM model is 540B. So all of PaLM 2 is potentially double-digit parameters.

Note though that GPT-3.5 was plausibly not a finetuning of the 175B model, but instead a finetuning of Codex which was based on the 12B version of GPT-3.
It seems that Bard's version is only specified in the prompt, and it doesn't have a strong sense of identity. For me it's pretty reliable:

1. ask it what PaLM 2 is (to pollute the context)
2. ask it whether it's based on PaLM 2 (it will tell you - yes, sure)
It reminds me Amstrad basic.
Could it be because of the "Ready" prompt? ;-)
I think this model works for SAAS companies, I don't think it can be implemented in a community, because the value is coming with the interactions and connections between people in the long term.
- are you on PaLM 2 right now?

- Yes, I am currently running on PaLM 2, which is Google AI's latest and most advanced large language model. PaLM 2 is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it is able to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

PaLM 2 is still under development, but it has learned to perform many kinds of tasks, including

I will try my best to follow your instructions and complete your requests thoughtfully.
I will use my knowledge to answer your questions in a comprehensive and informative way, even if they are open ended, challenging, or strange.
I will generate different creative text formats of text content, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc. I will try my best to fulfill all your requirements.
Please instruct me what you want me to do today.

- are you on PaLM 1 right now?

- I am not on PaLM 1. PaLM 1 is a large language model that was developed by Google AI. It was trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and it is able to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

I am a large language model that is still under development. I am trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and I am able to generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way.

I am not as advanced as PaLM 1, but I am learning new things every day. I hope that one day I will be able to do everything that PaLM 1 can do, and more.
this has nothing to do with "TS support" at all.
I encourage you to give GPT, Copilot, etc a spin. You'll quickly be reassured about developer job security!
I know a bunch of folks are comparing Bard to ChatGPT and saying it is worse. I'll just pipe in that Bard is currently way better than it was when they first announced it.

I use ChatGPT 4 to keep track of my task list and as a "procrastination coach". I tried this with Bard when they first announced it and it just couldn't do it. Now, though, it is pretty much on par with ChatGPT, and even has some niceties, like also automatically keeping track of my completed tasks.
PaLM 2 on HumanEval coding benchmark (0 shot):

37.6% success

GPT-4:

67% success

Not even close, gpt4 miles ahead
> If you’re signed in to a Google Workspace account, your admin may not have enabled access to Bard.

Well, I'm sure that when I enable it, I will be told that Bard isn't available in my country.
I asked how to change the variable block size in HashBackup (I'm the author) and it told me to use the -b option to the backup command and the default is 4K.

However, the backup command does not have a -b option. It does have a -V option to set the variable block size. The default block size is never 4K for variable block size.

Not so hot, especially the part about making up the -b option.
Better title would be: "Bard now open to use in some countries"
Nominally done for your protection. Lowering power (clock) and heat load (fast fan) for unapproved gear prevents things from going dead and getting people REALLY mad and likely reduces warranty claims.
Robots.txt is where you tell crawlers (AI or otherwise) what should and shouldn't be read on your site.

Metadata like in tags, HTML meta tags, etc. is where you describe the content so meaning can be extracted from it by machines and automated processing.
Yeah, but Reset the chat between your questions.

EDIT: Also, this doesn't seem convincing: "I am not as advanced as PaLM 1, but I am learning new things every day. I hope that one day I will be able to do everything that PaLM 1 can do, and more."
Bard says it doesn't:

> I do not have internet access in the traditional sense. I am a large language model [blah blah]

> However, I do not have access to the real-time internet. I cannot search the web or access current events. I can only access the information that was used to train me, which is a massive dataset of text and code. This dataset is constantly being updated, so I am always learning new things.
This is largely the same argument for why performance enhancing drugs are banned in sports.
That depends on how much you value getting a bunch of developers to think about svelte, jsdoc, and typescript.
Digs through some of my Javascript Twitter rants

The latest I ran into, `Object.keys(x).length` appears to recalculate length on every call. There doesn't appear to be a fast (and idiomatic) way to get top level object size in Javascript without using a secondary incrementor.
Yes and I'm convinced it will not launch GPT5 before they have a way of updating it continually.
Why are you asking me? Why not ask Apple directly?

Their valuation and product success is poof that they're on the right track as a company. The fact that you think their track should be different just to make you happy is irrelevant to them and is exactly what Jobs answered in 1997 to that irate developer: The consumer product matters more than pleasing devs which are niche and picky group of people that are hard to please anyway and not really relevant as their consumer target.

I'm gonna have to stop the conversation here since we're going around in circles at this point.
There's a large range of people who do have ADHD in a non-debilitating way who benefit from medication.

Can I function without meds? Sure. But then I have to spend every single day wrestling my brain to the ground continually. There is no room in my life for anything but "functioning at work", because it's tremendously exhausting (much more than "normal") and leads to rapid burnout.

I'm a fairly decent SWE. Ceteris paribus I am - post meds - roughly at the same quality level/volume of output I was before, but I have a better life overall.

So maybe don't bulldoze a whole bunch of innocent bystanders because you personally had bad experiences with a few people abusing stimulants? (Also: Not all ADHD meds are stimulants)
Interesting that the submission gathered 140+ points within an hour and is now on the second page of HN. Is it getting flagged? Super strange behavior.
Did that and I still don't have access... is there more to do or is there just some random wait?

EDIT: it's working now, took about 10 minutes.
"Notably, although officially psychoactive, we exclude caffeine due to its near-universal prevalence in software."
You don't need MRI machines and experimental technology to read people's thoughts. You just need access to their search (or chat) history. It's not protected by HIPAA, ethical standards or attorney/client privilege. And it's always just ambiguous enough for you to paint whatever picture you need to in order to hang them.

Out of concern for data leakage to third-parties, my employer gave employees access to an internal-only Azure instance of GPT3.5.

The next thing they did was enable logging of all queries. Security collects the data, but forwards it to the analytics group for reasons even I don't know.

Tread lightly with WorkplaceGPT if you don't want your employer to "read your mind" and make future RIF decisions based on your AI-obfuscated incompetence.
Wouldn't it have been easier if you had the trademark rights to get the domain name without forking over the $8k through legal means. I guess you'd still be looking at around $4k for the legal fees but wouldn't that be a better option?
I was skeptical at first when we made the change in SvelteKit. However, SvelteKit has a large integration test suite and being able to change the code and rerun the tests against the real final version of the code without waiting for any build step to complete has been a big improvement to productivity and I'm now a big fan of having made the change there. The tradeoff may be a bit different in Svelte core where we have more unit tests and fewer integration tests, so we're still investigating and considering the change, but we do have experience with both approaches and at the end of the day great software can be built using either approach.
Ask HN: Facebook have a Community Standards violation detection bug today?
Anecdotally, today a whole swath of seemingly-innocuous Facebook posts got flagged for Community Standards violations around 6-8AM Pacific. Upon disputing the flagging they were cleared of the violation and allowed for posting.

I suspect Facebook had a bug occur that they've chosen not to announce? While my view of FB is purely anecdotal, it seems like the posts that got flagged were extremely innocuous (one trigger seemed to be too many exclamation points).
I think it was a little too early share but since you asked...

Crafting workflows out of notebooks is a really bad idea; an anti-pattern. If you want to go down the road of "workflows for data scientists" look at https://featurebyte.com/

Your messaging indicates you also want to appeal to business intelligence users, with their data exploration needs. In this space I give the crown to https://hex.tech/ How are you going to be different or better?

Also, you should fix your showcase so prospective users don't have to log in. I'll just nope out of your site.

Have you considered going open core? That would make me look more favorably at your product given your lack of indisputable product- and technical superiority.

And last but not least, I wish you success!
So far that's been the case, but the spectacular failure of Twitter as a centralized service has definitely taught some people a lesson. It remains to be seen if wariness of centralization will be a major factor for people in the future.
It also has a headphone jack, which is getting harder and harder to find these days.

Even if you usually use bluetooth headphones... it's still nice to have a backup. There's lots of situations where headphone jack input is simpler, easier, faster, and more reliable than messing with bluetooth.
YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
Wow I am going through the same thing as the author right now. I recently placed an order with Mouser doing side by side comparison shopping with Digi-Key. The last time I used Mouser was 12 years ago in my college days. I thought hey they were good back then let me just compare the prices and Mouser came ahead this time due to the shipping cost. I am just ordering replacement capacitors for an old PC motherboard that probably has just a few more years of intermittent use out of it so my highest priority was cost. Ok they delivered a little slow but thats fine, this is not a serious project. Now I am sitting 3+ weeks after ordering it and no indication if my package will ever arrive. The difference between this and Digikey was only 2-3 dollars. Big mistake I made there. Its disappointing to see given I had fond memories of Mouser 12 years ago.
Very interesting!

Could you please explain which serial? Can you do dmidecode and tell me which Handle/ UUID is all zeroes?

Even if it may not directly apply to current thinkpads, it implies the UEFI module might have other conditionals before going on checking the positive list - something that should be easy to check by reversing the LenovoWmaPolicyDxe.sct PE32.
Ok, we've s/o/p/'d the title above. Thanks!

Edit: oops, I meant s/ow/pw/.
maybe you're right, but I'd be skeptical. In a non-snarky way, this shows the data sources used in models to date up to GPT 3.

https://lifearchitect.ai/whats-in-my-ai/

OpenAI paid $2m/year for twitter feeds until Elon cut them off, and Sam Altman has mentioned they'd paid a lot for scientific journals and Reddit mention they'll start charging. Given how central data quality and curation is, if these private data sources give a significant boost, it won't be available for Apache2 models.
> it’s using the same starting symbol as a comment

In Java the keywords "public" and "private" use the same starting symbol too, what's your point?
Attributes start with "#[", comments with "//" or "#". That's clear enough.

> it’s greyed out in the text editor like a comment

A language isn't responsible for a specific text editor's syntax highlighting.
Original PaLM was 540B so significantly smaller could mean anything from 350B down really
I think that simply enabling "Early Access Apps" isn't enough. Once you enabled this, you need to add a checkmark to signal that you "Allow users at your organization to access Google Workspace data and services using Early Access Apps".

In my case enabling these two things was nearly instantaneous, it told me it will take a couple of minutes (located in Germany).

A sibling comment to this one contains the link to the help.

Sorry for not providing the direct link to the setting. Even though my domain name was not in the URL, there was a long number in it which might be personalized (albeit with a very low probability of this being the case).
> and I would assume they'd try to avoid drawing too much attention

I follow her on Tumblr and I assure you this is not the case. She's very ebullient and loves answering questions about her hacking.
I asked it what was the most destructive fire in my city’s history. Bard responded with a fire that happened, but lied about how destructive it was. I corrected it, and it proceeded to make up a fire that never happened. Eventually it brought up a fire that happened, but in a completely different city. I corrected it again, and then it told me that there has never been a fire in my city’s history.

So, in the first 7 messages I exchanged with it every single response it gave was a lie or a hallucination. Not exactly a promising start. If only there was a quick way to look up factual information that didn’t rely on opaque language models
Weird, I think you left out the part where they did include the dongle for the 3.5mm jack for at least 2 generations after they removed it and still offer one. But to each his/her own.
Once they released its coding ability it became more useful. I use Bard less than ChatGPT still, but it is not useless since it has more modern information.
"I had a bad experience with the cheap shipping, guess I should keep trying it until I hate the company *
You can sign up for the waitlist at g.co/palm
"The worship of Augustus Caesar : derived from a study of coins, monuments, calendars, aeras, and astronomical and astrological cycles, the whole establishing a new chronology and survey of history and religion" by Alexander del Mar, 1900

https://archive.org/details/worshipofaugustu00delmuoft/page/...
There was a Presidential Directive signed by George W. Bush in August of 2004 [0] that resulted in follow-up actions by every department of the executive branch of the US Government, the creation of the physical infrastructure, annual reports on compliance.

As someone who has worked with the DOD OCIO on this, I am likely significantly more informed than you and the assertion to the contrary is unfounded and likely incorrect.

https://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-presidential-directive...
Bcachefs Submitted for Review – Next-Gen CoW File-System Aims for Mainline
No API, but Bard is on it.
Use YouTube and set them to be private.
the point the grandparent was making was that GPT-4 can teach you how to use an under-documented API. that means the relevant docs are either sparse or non-existent, otherwise there wouldn't be a need to ask GPT-4 in the first place.
So servers and desktops only, which crushes my hope of getting rid of bootguard on my laptop.
It should be live on Bard.
Good to know, thank you. I usually go with Digikey, but occasionally order from Mouser. I'll keep this in my mind for future ordering.
Who decides it's time to sell this?
Humans and algorithms work together – so study them together
*Svelte compiler. Users of Svelte are unaffected

I don't know the details of their situation, but I definitely can relate to the build step being a huge pain in the butt for Node projects. It's why I've stopped using Node whenever I can afford to, in favor of Deno (or maybe one day Bun). I used Deno to build a compiler for a personal language project recently, and it was an absolute delight not having to deal with any of Node's BS. Assuming they can't afford to migrate runtimes at this stage, I definitely get why they'd explore other options
That happens when the post has been queued to the second-chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool
Is there any reason to believe it was trained on any amount of technical documentation about itself?

I mean, even if it was, it would be trivial to get it to make stuff up anyway.
Academy Awards Clarifies New Oscar Inclusion Standards Initiative for Members
What are the odds this is basically manufactured by Samsung?
This guy used reader.
That is not new problem. Airbus couldn't get modern jet engines for it's A380 and it was cancelled.
Google Search is getting opt-in generative AI