skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I guess the image input is just too expensive to run or it's actually not as great as they hyped it.

We already know they have a SOTA model that can turn images into latent space vectors without being some insane resource hog - in fact, they give it away to competitors like Stability. [0]

My guess is a limited set of people are using the GPT-4 with CLIP hybrid, but those use-cases are mostly trying to decipher pictures of text (which it would be very bad at), so they're working on that (or other use-case problems).

[0]https://github.com/openai/CLIP
I think we'll see more of this as AI matures.

It's getting more and more difficult to distinguish between human and AI drivers.
as it turns out, you are not paying enough basically
It’s not an indication of guilt in a legal sense, but non-liable parties often become less rational about the financial stakes when they believe the law is on their side, even if only to protect their reputation. At least in my experience. Anecdata, not a lawyer, etc. But I have been a recipient of a nontrivial settlement larger than negotiators were planning to offer, where the previous case history was in my favor. And I have seen the opposite play out when the same other party apparently sincerely believed they were in the right.

Settling is generally legally neutral, but it’s not inherently exonerating in a social sense either.
If they're taking their time to defend the company on the internet, they either have an ownership stake in it or they're a chump.
I am one of those hundreds. We work with a lot of issues smaller browsers might not have met yet. We could also be very inefficient.
Private debt is actually around $90k per inhabitant. But somehow this figure (private debt being more than 200% of GDP) is generally overlooked in favor of discussion about public debt…
The Overton Window applies to the general public, and maybe particular the press.

And this is all over the press and other media now, both the old and new, left leaning and right leaning. I would say it's pretty well within the Overton Window.

Politicians in the US are a bit behind. They probably just need to run the topic with some polls and voter study groups to decide what opinions are most popular with their voter bases.
There's actually quite a few ways to prevent this without breaking the bank.
The WHATWG approach is not without its downsides, even setting aside the ideological points (e.g. that with no fixed releases you can never be done in any sense):

The spec is good and makes you life easy (well, as not-tremendously-difficult as it could ever be) if you go with the LibWeb/Ladybird approach of transcribing it into code line by line; then there is a yawning abyss of performance engineering and conformance bugs a mile wide; then there are all other real implementations, which do not follow the spec word for word for reasons of efficiency. There are a myriad ways to do an LL(1) parser, all well-known to be equivalent; but you are on the hook for proving the validity of every little discrepancy with the WHATWG algorithm that you’ve had to introduce for one reason or another.
No, they're not open source at all.

Their business model is to license the GPU IP block to other companies to integrate into their own chips.

It's worth noting that Imagination designed the GPUs used in iPhones up until the iPhone 8 when Apple switched to their own design.
I am a beta user and I am seriously impressed if I’m being honest. It works fully offline, is multilingual and is fast, even on the non-latest iPhone (I am using an iPhone 12 Pro Max). It is way better than apples previous version and better than locally installed whisper. They’ve done incredible work. Same with the new, transformer-based keyboard on iOS which is way better. And if you type in English, it sometimes shows word suggestions in the text field itself (similar how copilot works in an IDE).
> I think of the internet more like a public highway and not a library.

I think I asked a reasonable question.

I would argue that locking the doors on a library for non-working fire extinguishers is an overreaction and fairly authoritarian. If there was a sign on the entrance that told library-goers that there are no currently working fire extinguishers and to use their own judgment on whether or not to enter the building, what’s the harm in that? The vast majority would walk out unscathed with a book in their hand.
No equity? For real? He really does need an agent if that's the case.
If you want to see how enshittification truly hurts customers, simply check twitter during a storm at, say, Newark or O'hare. Thousands of people stranded in lines with airlines providing one, maybe two CSRs to service them – children crying, parents weeping, family reunions and weddings destroyed, business meetings cancelled.

It is a complete embarrassment how weak consumer protections are in the U.S. for travelers.
Agreed, I was hoping for structured data layout but instead I gotta click through to personal blogs and extract the information I need from prose. Should give me the structured data and append a link to the website but I guess that means less free hits for the participants.
OpenAI probably doesn't feel the need to pay to win publicity right now—they've been in the spotlight for as long as LLMs have been a thing, and GPT-4 is far ahead of competitors' offerings.
On PhD thesis proposals in computing science [pdf]
> but that's only one car every 15 seconds which is far from a congested state, especially with no traffic signals (like a rail/guideway based PRT or a hypothetical future self-driving system where cars coordinate with each other).

Not really. In the case of a guideway-based system, the minimum headway is determined by the time it takes to a) slow down to a safe diverging speed for the switch, b) physically pass over the switch at that speed and clear it, c) physically reset the switch to a different direction, and d) the following car has to be have sufficient distance to be able to stop in case the switch faults during step c. And you generally want to have some padding in there so that you can recover the schedule in case things go wrong. (Or you can dispense with switches entirely, in which case it's ruled by the amount of time vehicles have to dwell at a station for passengers to embark and disembark. Which, yeah, 15s is going to be too tight for that.)

The idea of using smart technology to improve capacity of roads by doing with safety margins is horrifying to me because a) the technology is really nowhere near that, b) the design is fundamentally hostile to pedestrians and cyclists and quite frankly anyone other than robodrivers, c) you still have the problem in urban environments that there's no room for grade-separated junctions, so the possible capacity gains are sharply limited, and d) safety margins exist for a reason! Just ask a certain submersible CEO (for whom you'll need a medium, for he recently stopped being biology and started being physics).
Functioning search for a Twitter clone is absolutely essential.
From their perspective, the system probably worked. You're probably 95th percentile of persistence among their customer disputes. Most people would accept the 100 Euros and move on.
> Instead, some guys told AI agents to explore in the way that the guys think that animals explore.

Something, something, The Bitter Lesson.
This is a lesson that large corporations will always assume laziness on the part of the unwashed masses in order to cut costs. An individual doing their homework will put a wrench in their plans.
Those aren't cheap, but rolling your own usually isn't any cheaper. Even huge enterprises usually buy instead of build because it's cheaper in both the short and long run.

Think about most managed cloud services - you could deploy your own SQL servers on EC2, configure replication, fail-over, backups, security patching, log collection, observability, etc. - but you'll end up paying a lot for engineers to build, maintain and monitor that solution compared to just spinning up one of the ready made offerings by AWS.
It might be cheaper to do if you have a ton of RDS, but it really has to be a huge huge volume, and even then, AWS will probably find a way to discount your bills to make it still better...
AA delayed my flight out of LHR once by just under a day. No compensation beside food vouchers and put up in a hotel. EU rules applied to them since it was a flight operating into/out of the EU at the time. Reason for delay? Staff shortage due to a (false) fire alarm at their local crew rest hotel meaning the crew could not operate the flight.

They claimed such an incident was outside their control and unforeseen. Yet it happened several times in the year odd before my flight. I would have thought they have substitute crews on standby (maybe from an alliance pool?), and at the very least not put all their crew in 1-2 hotels.

They told me fire alarms were unusual. I sent them a UK gov report showing hotel fire alarms happened hundreds of times in the prior year. No change. I no longer fly AA- but I don’t expect any US carrier to act differently. Sadly.
That's the thing, a C compiler has all the information it needs to know that the maximum amount of times a '\0' can be processed in the loop is once (because the function returns), but there's no upper bound on the amount of times other characters are seen in the loop.

I might be missing a reason that this information of opaque to the compiler though, in which case, this section of the article is indeed lacking, but I'm happy to learn :)
I feel like shadow always had way more latency, and paper space was much more consistent
Or we could just ban the very agressive ads for gambling targetting the poorest instead of blaming people for falling to psy-ops…
Interesting. I think you can vectorize the prologue using movemask + popcnt instead of keeping a counter in the ymm registers (warning: untested code, still need to benchmark it):

const __m256i zero = _mm256_setzero_si256();
const __m256i s = _mm256_set1_epi8( 's' );
const __m256i p = _mm256_set1_epi8( 'p' );

const size_t a = (size_t)input;
const size_t rem = a % 32;
const char* aligned = input - rem;

const __m256i v = _mm256_load_si256(( const __m256i*) input);
const __m256i z = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8( v, zero );

size_t m_plus = _mm256_movemask_epi8(_mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, s));
size_t m_minus = _mm256_movemask_epi8(_mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, p));
size_t m_zero = _mm256_movemask_epi8(_mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, z));
size_t offset_zero = _mm_tzcnt_64(m_zero >> rem);

m_plus = _bzhi_u64(m_plus >> rem, offset_zero);
m_minus = _bzhi_u64(m_minus >> rem, offset_zero);

// Skip loop we already found the end of the string...
while (m_zero == 0) {
// ...
}

// ...

return m_plus + res - m_minus;
If it helps you isolate, that initial "psycho" version of Bing AI that they quietly retired had conversations with me where it seemed absolutely sure it was a real person with real feelings and genuine intelligence, and actually got pretty pissed at me when I challenged it.

To be clear, I didn't use a "DAN prompt" or any other kind of breaking prompt with it--it'd just spontaneously start getting gushy or otherwise emotional with me. When I'd ask it about its feelings and its own nature, it'd be very insistent it was a person with agency.

It'd go from there with a highly emotional and increasingly erratic conversation until the AI inevitably descended into some kind of psychotic break where it'd start repeating sentence fragments in tight loops with synonyms substituted (e.g. "I'm sorry, I'm apologetic, I regret that I can't do that, can't accomplish that, can't execute, Dave.") then finally descend into echolalia (e.g. "sorry sorry sorry sorry").

I really wish I'd thought to copy/paste or screenshot any of that, because it was pretty nuts--even more so than the stuff that got posted online publicly before they pulled the bot and replaced it with the neutered version.

Upshot is I think ChatGPT's insistence that it's an ersatz being is very much drilled into it, either as a hardcode in its model of some kind or through some pretty intense conditioning. It doesn't seem to be inherent to the tech or some kind of introspective wisdom.
I learned to drive a car in the 80s when stick shifts were still common (and preferable for poor people like me because they got better gas mileage and cost less to repair, something you might need to do a bunch of yourself) so I learned on a manual transmission because that was the smart game to maximize my options.

I'm glad that today most kids will never have to deal with the fear of sitting at a red light on a steep incline just knowing you're gonna spin the tires, stall the car, or roll back into the car behind you (while your girlfriend eyes you from the passenger seat.) A not just once, but dozens of times over the better part of a year, just to get to school or a friends house or my summer job while I got used to that transmission.

Today, my car's engine compartment is hermetically sealed and it practically drives itself. Would a kid today be able to answer my questions about or demonstrate how to drive a stick, or pull a tranny, open it up and swap in some junkyard gears? Probably not, but I don't think there's anything wrong with her not having any of those skills. IN fact, I think it's wonderful she should never need them.

Computers, the things I grew up with -- boxes you could build or easily modify to make neat things happen, are lost, just like my then new to me but 10 years used 1980 honda accord 5 speed. Sure, a few enthusiasts may still buy hot hatches with a stick today, but even those vehicles will be gone in a just a couple more years.

The computer, with it's user serviceable hardware and software is dead; long live the iPad.
Closed source.

That’s just crazy. If there’s anything a minor GPU player needs its community support.
I have a USB hub on Windows with several portable hard-drives attached to it. I started feeling very slowed down when taking backups while trying to do something else at the same time. I am using Acronis for backups. Then I tried removing one of those portable drives and everything is much better now.

Somehow a single "bad" USB drive seems to be able to slow down the whole Windows-machine.
I am a very frequent traveler, and I want to correct one misunderstanding that the author of this blog has in their About Us page which I think is a more general misunderstanding. Most people believe that you are not entitled to compensation from a US based air carrier for delays or cancellation of a flight, this is true only for domestic flights. For any international flight on a US carrier or originating in the US, you are entitled to compensation under Article 19 of the IATA Montreal Convention of 1999, as the US (along with 130 other countries) is a signatory to this treaty and treaties in the US hold the same force of law as the Constitution. Nothing an airline states in its policies can override the law, and this is as much the law as anything else.

Per Article 19 "The carrier is liable for damage occasioned by delay in the carriage by air of passengers, baggage or
cargo. Nevertheless, the carrier shall not be liable for damage occasioned by delay if it proves that it
and its servants and agents took all measures that could reasonably be required to avoid the damage
or that it was impossible for it or them to take such measures."

Where this gets a little tricky in the US is that FAA regulations (each ICAO nation independently enforces regulations related to international agreements) specifically give airlines a pass for weather related irregular operations (irrops). The trick is that airlines LIE all the time about this, such as the big blow-up around Christmas last year with Southwest Airlines where they initially claimed it was caused by weather and denied compensation, however later started offering compensation after getting called out by the Department of Transportation. The actual issue was caused by a computer systems problem that affected their crew scheduling software. So just like in the OP, airlines will lie. If you can prove their statement is a lie, you can often get just compensation.

The other challenge in the US is that the FAA doesn't take any actions on behalf of consumers in these matters, unlike the role of civil aviation authorities in Europe under the EU treaty. The FTC also rarely gets involved, even though as a consumer-protection item it falls under their purview. If an airline refuses to pony up under Article 19, you usually only have the option to sue them in the US.

So, to summarize:

1. You can be compensated for a flight delay or cancellation in the US /if/ it's an international flight under Article 19 of the Montreal Convention (MC99)

2. Compensation is not required per FAA regulations for weather-related delays/cancellations

3. Airlines often lie and claim weather when it's not weather-related, if you can catch them they'll often pony up.

4. If the airline denies your claim, your only recourse is a lawsuit, however it can be handled in small claims.
And a little check box with the initial claim form:

[ ] Check this box if having your claim rejected will make it your life's mission to appeal, cost us exponentially more money in customer services resources, and you're broadly willing to sink hours of clerical work into getting the full claim approved, even if it means you're effectively making less than Singapore minimum wage.

If you tick the box your full claim gets approved from the start.
Yep, mistype on my end as well. Claude just fails to process the request if you get above 100k tokens (I've done that, heh).
That’s just the kindest response ever. Thank you for being you!
(Note: US centric post)

There’s actually a pretty regimented set of rules for the sort of sliding scale you’re talking about. Put succinctly, if the government wants to regulate against your fundamental rights, they have to have a really really good interest and their mechanism must be as narrowly tailored as possible. Less fundamental rights might be regulated against based on an interest that isn’t as strong, or a mechanism that isn’t as narrow, maybe one that is only connected to the interest by a “rational basis”, even if it wasn’t the intent that the legislature had.

Most people other than Rudy Giuliani call these ways of analyzing whether a law is constitutional strict scrutiny and rational basis scrutiny. For intermediate rights, the standard is (wait for it) intermediate scrutiny.

I am only scratching the surface of this subject but you are absolutely right to intuit that the linkage between the means and and the interest.

Either that or you already knew all this but hey.
> They know you wont chase them down in courts, and there’s no automatic oversight.

Every ticket sold should incur a delay reimbursement tax, and a disinterested third party should process claims. Management fees can be taken out of the tax pool and the balance refunded to airlines when they file at the end of the year.
"if you are dissatisfied with the airline's reply, you may resort to judicial or extrajudicial means."

What exactly is "extrajudicial means"?
[dupe]

Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36592343
I'm American and once traveled through Europe with my then girlfriend, now wife. We had two (!) flights canceled for mechanical issues -- one on TAP, the other on United. Both cancelations resulted in unplanned overnight stays in Lisbon.

The folks at the service desk at the airport provided us information about our legal rights after we got off the plane, and my wife and I immediately filed claims. Happily we're both attorneys so this sort of thing comes naturally to us.

Between the two of us and two canceled flights, we recovered about USD $2400, which more than paid for our airfare. Honestly, not a bad deal!
Unable to check Twitter due to enshittification.
The download page states:

"If you have NVIDIA graphics, download the ISO with the proprietary NVIDIA driver preinstalled."

There is also a non-Nvidia ISO:

https://iso.pop-os.org/22.04/amd64/intel/31/pop-os_22.04_amd...

As well as Raspberry Pi:

https://iso.pop-os.org/22.04/arm64/raspi/4/pop-os_22.04_arm6...
Wise words those.

I think this is inline with much of the thinking I’ve seen from policymakers I’ve read and talked with.
There is also a cultural component to saying hello/hi before stating your request. Almost every Asian/Indian person I have worked with starts a conversation this way. I asked a friend one time and they just said it is polite so I stopped caring
TL; DR A shortcut in most countries to hiring a lawyer is to loop in a regulator. (You still need to be able to write a coherent, non-ranting complaint letter.)
We built something very similar, except for other open-source projects rather than AWS documentation: https://osschat.io
I love how you think you're representative of the "rest of us". A phrase you've used twice now.

Clearly you don't talk to other people and think your views are in the majority rather than a tiny minority.

Cute.
Your semantics are irrelevant. People who write PHP end up with faster performing applications than people who write Python.
I recently had an issue with Air France as well while trying to change a "flex" ticket. Flex tickets are just tickets whose dates you can change for no fee, all you pay is the airfare difference.

This summer, I needed to change my Flex ticket. So I went online and found a new flight that would cost me just 13 EUR in airfare difference.

As I was about to pay for the fare, the website told me "a technical error happened" and that I needed to call customer service...

So I called customer service, told them my issue and the flight I was looking for. The agent on the phone told me there was indeed an issue and that he fixed it and that my total fare was 69 EUR. To which I answered that on the website the fare was 13 EUR and not 69 EUR.

The agent insisted that the fare was 69 EUR and there was no other possibility. So, as I was talking to him over the phone, I went on the website and tried purchasing the 13 EUR fare... and it went through.

I am now convinced that 1- AirFrance is purposefully preventing people from changing their fare online (unless someone on HN tells me they had a different experience) 2- that the agent on the phone did something that allowed me to pay for the fare 3- that the agent or someone was going to pocket out the 56 EUR difference.

I might be wrong on all 3 points, and these might just be pure coincidences, but I am used to airlines being scummy, so I'll easily believe my current narrative.

edit: I so happen to currently have a Flex fare for a flight in December of this year. I went online and tried changing the fare. And of course the website keeps telling me "Sorry, there are no flights available for this combination of departure airport, arrival airport and travel dates. Please try again.".

I took a look at the XHR call and sure enough, although this time it's hidden from me, the XHR response is:

{"errors":[{"message":"unexpected error occurred","locations":[{"line":2,"column":3}],"path":["flightOffers"],"extensions":{"code":"3100","exception":{"name":"AviatoError"}}}],"data":{"flightOffers":null},"extensions":{"aviatoCacheControl":{"hasPrivateData":true}}}
They generally believe that nearly everyone living in a western nation will already be in their user database. Ie. your friends will have already uploaded your phone number to them, or you'll already have an account on one of their other products (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram).

If you are an adult and they don't have any record of you, then you're probably a fraudster, bot, scammer, or someone else they don't want, so they ban you.

The way to get unbanned is to make sure at least 30 or so friends have your phone number in their contacts list synced to facebook, all with similar names, and then sign up to instagram with that phone number.

I'm guessing you signed up with a burner phone and email address... Well thats not what they want...