skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We’re also going to start charging for network egress at $0.10 / GB. The financial impact on most users will be negligible, but this will let us disincentivize certain kinds of abuse (torrent aggregators sapping bandwidth, which can result in latency spikes).

Railway is far from alone in doing this, but I really find it frustrating how much most hosts overcharge for bandwidth. $100/TB of egress basically kills any P2P video chat apps (even if they rely on WebRTC and only need TURN), screen-sharing, and many other classes of interesting services one could build. It's considerably more expensive than what I paid serving audio files from a WordPress site over a decade ago, despite bandwidth being much cheaper in 2023 and media files of all sorts being larger.
it would've been tempting, i reckon. 'should we just make a new domain for our software?'..
If you're using the API, you construct the "memories" as well, including the "system" prompt, even in the playground. (When you click the "(+) Add message", the new one defaults to USER, but you can click on it to change it to ASSISTANT, then fill it in with whatever you want.)

I used the "Complete" UI (from the Playground) for a bit before the "Chat" interface was available; I don't really think there's anything you couldn't do in the "Complete" UI that you couldn't also do in the "Chat" UI.
I always assumed it was the memory problem. There is more memory for 2D sprite maps on the CD than the cartridge, and it is easier to cull the landscape to fit in the small RAM of PS1 than to optimize the texture packing for N64. There is Ogre Battle 64, but noticeably the textures look much worse than Final Fantasy Tactics. I thought maybe it is too difficult to get nice textures on the N64, even Paper Mario looks nice, but the textures are not that complex.
there is plenty of reason why it shouldn't be. Generally speaking functionality is gated behind support (as opposed to being something you can just click a button on a website to do) because it requires at least some level of human judgement on whether a given action should be done (and there's still a whole class of attacks which are aimed against this process). Chat-bots will be even worse, because there will be an extremely consistent script than can be used for any given purpose.
Likely pulled down, handwriting and DNA analysed and sold to databrokers, then the original cards burnt to warm the office.
https://konradkruk.com/

Two blog posts so far:

https://konradkruk.com/blog/i-wrote-an-openai-plugin-that-te...

https://konradkruk.com/blog/i-love-native-desktop-apps-i-wil...

RSS feed: https://konradkruk.com/rss.xml
Had this experience with Vodaphone when I tried to set up my account and add my fucking phone number so I had insight in my bills. Didn't work. Got directed to a bot, which continually misunderstood me and no amount of prompting from me made them direct me to a human person.
Sausage Catastrophe
Not the person you replied to, but I'd also be interested if you have any! I just sent you a message on Twitter to the link in your HN profile because I'm not sure how to private message here, I apologize if that's too forward!
Slightly of topic, but they also make DNA tests to determine paternity illegal without the consent of the mother! I recommend all new fathers to do it quietly (without ruffling any feathers), costs basically nothing (< $200) as compared to the pain/devastation finding out 10-20-30 years later that the children you raised were not yours. Doesn't happen a lot, but can happen to anyone. In France you'll go to jail for doing this, or at least have to create a scene with your partner.
32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)
I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite daily newspaper prominently displayed on his wall, I was a bit jealous. So, I worked with a e-ink company called Visionect in Slovenia to build a version that comes shipped ready to put on your wall. The screen isn't cheap ($2500) because it's a huge 32" e-ink display. The beautiful glass screen is connected to wifi and we made it easy to choose your favorite newspaper frontpages to put on display. It's a bit like an ever changing artwork.
> with their previous resolutions.

That's so vague it can apply to anything in any country... Wanna add specific examples?
What were you chatting about for an hour then?
Nah

Specifically, "nah with OpenSSL on AMD or Intel boxes from the last decade":

AES-128 (ctr mode) 9.7 GB/s
AES-256 (ctr mode) 8.6 GB/s (90 % as fast,
not ~70 % as 10-vs-14 rounds would naively suggest)

AES-128 (gcm mode) 12.4 GB/s
AES-256 (gcm mode) 10.8 GB/s

(plain CTR is slower than GCM because the GCM implementation in OpenSSL has received more attention than the counter mode implementation, simply because standalone counter mode is used a lot less)

And this is just one core anyway. How many 100 GbE ports are you running per core?

I keep reiterating this because crypto=slow is still a very common idea from the days when AES-128 would peg a core running at 40 MB/s, rcp actually was 3x faster than scp, http:// instead of https:// would actually meaningfully reduce load, SMB/NFS encryption would actually slow things down and it was a bog to actually use a system running with LUKS-encrypted drives. But that's not the case any more. Encryption is really really fast and has been for about ten years, depending on what you're looking at exactly. Nowadays even many microcontrollers have AES acceleration because - internet of things mainly.
Musk doesn't value people – this is apparent from all of his businesses, he doesn't care about work life balance, inclusive hiring, etc.

From this, it does follow that if you've got some secret-sauce at your company, and it's NOT your employees and their experience, then it must be something else. If you're Twitter, then it's probably The Algorithm, or code printed out onto reams of paper. After all, that's what makes the money right?

Except as is obvious to most companies, it's not. The people, the shared understanding, the experience, the company culture, and even the context of the world that the product is a part of – these are all far more important than the actual code, and where any long-term successful company focuses their efforts.

To put it in terms Musk might understand, product and engineering teams are "stage 0" for a software company, they are the machine that builds the machine.
Its more distopian than that. The "trade secrets" are pieces of knowlege inside peoples brains.

They are suing on the basis that someone somewhere said "when I was at twitter we used tabs not spaces in our code"
Most of your typical self-hosted forums don't have excessive amounts of javascript which override half your keyboard inputs.
> Make hardware that specifically is for that job.

That means an ASIC.
EDIT. I retract my previous comment. The font was only unreadable on my phone (iOS), it's perfectly fine as I went to the website on a desktop.
I think over the past couple of decades the market has proven out that there can really only be one in a niche
Saw this mentioned on the foundations of mathematics mailing list, how very strange ... https://lists.ugent.be/wws/arc/fom/2023-07/msg00014.html
I don't undercount — I don't even try to count. Why should I, really? His fortune would be at most $30/person minus the cost of performing the transfer. Less if his selling all of Tesla leads to the share price dropping, which sounds plausible, so say $15-25. Not per month, it's a one-time transfer.

If you want to even consider that kind of thing, pick someone with enough money to make it worthwhile. Say, transfer all of the assets owned by people in the richest big country. That's an easily defined set of of "rich people" and more money than just a few days' earnings for very poor people. If you want to consider that kind of thing.
I used to not want chat bots because they were bad. I can imagine situations where I would prefer a chat bots over humans. For example, if it's a niche problem that a human would be unaware of and would have to look up, read, and verify taking a long time to respond, I would definitely want a chat bot or a bot assisted human.
The person you're replying to is a persistent anti-LGBT poster on this site. They're just saying, in a cryptic way, that they don't like gay people. No point in engaging.

This post is not really on topic for HN IMHO, but you can see what kind of comments tend to accrue to posts with queer themes in the title.
Could you give some examples of topics that would result in a US ban? I can't think of any topic given the allusion is equally laughably obscure as this (if it is even an allusion at all).
You did not disagree with anything I said. You can sell porn in any state but you can't display porn on a public display outside your store. Similar to how in most states you can't expose yourself to the public.

Free speech can be restricted when harm can be caused.

If these recent laws are unconstitutional then are you saying no one wants to challenge them? Not even the aclu?
nah I don't buy it. it's just work Vs free time. Any serious sailor in their 50s looks shagged, and they've had all the outdoor space you can get. plus if you ask those people they'll actually be just 29.
The SEC and DOJ let crypto scams, ponzis, unregistered securities linger for 15 years. They barely did anything. It's only now that they're starting to go after crypto after billions swindled.

If anything, SEC and DOJ have been too lenient on crypto. They should have regulated crypto as securities 12-13 years ago.
Choosing the Best Communication Channel
Les Soulèvements de la Terre: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Soul%C3%A8vements_de_la_Te...
(1923)
https://xkcd.com/2791
That was my first impression as well but a closer looks seems to reveal it's missing lists, and I do not know many lisps that are missing lists :)
People don't want a useless chat bots, more often than not they seem deliberately programmed to be obstructive.

If you told it you wanted a refund for order xyz, and it immediately gave you a refund, I'm sure people would like it.
Or literally anything other than the psychotically smarmy tone of GPT-4 that's almost impossible to remove and constantly gives warnings, disclaimers and stops itself if veering even just 1 mm off the most boring status quo perspectives.

Lots of my favorite and frankly the best litterature in the world have elements that are obscene, grotesque, bizarre, gritty, erotic, frightening, alternative, provocative - but that's just too much for chat-gpt, instead it has this - in my eyes - way more horrifying smiling-borg-like nature with only two allowed emotions: "ultra happiness", and "ultra obedience to the status quo".
As the Loom of Physics Expands – Sheldon Lee Glashow
> At this point is anyone really denying drastic climate change?

Anybody who listens and trusts media will most likely think we are living in a drastic climate change. Because media sells fear making people consume more media.

Ever wondered why you constantly see bad news on media and not good news?

People living in constant panic since five years. And panic is never a good advisor when thinking about complex issues. Think about this.
>Is scam the right term?

They're a scam, ponzi, unregistered exchange. One examples of Binance scamming is that they trade against their own customers on their platform.
You seem to be ignoring the whole voluntary aspect of using Apple devices. Are you being forced to using iOS at gun point? Up vote once for yes, twice for no.
The guy in the video says "We use OpenAI Step API to extract the locations of the detections".

I am unaware of that API and could not find it.
You're welcome, but your point was not very clear.
My personal blog: https://robbell.io

I've had a few posts that have really taken off over the years, although I moved domain some time ago and lost a lot of traffic!
Thanks for the insight, bought nvda puts for november. A typical crazy bubble.
> That's not all that surprising though, Meta could obviously build such a product from their own learnings and IP.

Twitter is a public app. How hard it’s to keep the app open on one monitor and write a spec doc on another?
"The White House said on Monday that recent encounters between U.S. and Chinese forces in the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea reflect a growing aggressiveness by Beijing's military that raises the risk of an error in which somebody gets hurt."

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-russia-launch-joint-air-...

That dotted line is not just a claim, it's where Chinese gunships will patrol and where Chinese bombers do exercise flights. I am actually surprised that the US government is so happy to tolerate large US companies completely undermining their own geopolitical position just to increase profits, like with Blizzard.

"The public's response, which included a boycott and a letter from United States Congress representatives to Activision Blizzard, prompted Blizzard to reduce the punishment, but not to eliminate it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy

I believe what all those movies and the Blizzard incident show is that the dream of large profits from China appears to be extremely successful at influencing US companies to help with China's agenda. And the US government appears to be not too successful at preventing that. Also, there is some history w.r.t. that line in movies and on merchandise:

"In pursuit of this goal, China uses any means it can to promote the visibility of the nine-dash line, displaying it on passports, maps, exported globes, movies, books, online games, clothing, tourist leaflets, booklets, television shows, and more. A case in point—in October 2019, a nine-dash map was visible in “Abominable,” an animated family movie jointly produced by China-based Pearl Studio and America’s DreamWorks Animation. In 2018, a group of Chinese tourists wearing T-shirts with a nine-dash line drawing arrived in Vietnam."

https://amti.csis.org/science-journals-a-new-frontline-in-th...

That means in my opinion, this is mostly the CCP showing off their political clout. "Look we can make them include our line!"
This is a very unfair comparison

1. A sel4 context switch does significantly less than a Linux ditto. It saves fewer hardware registers etc

2. You will need many more context switches to achieve the same thing in a microkernel due to its distributed architecture.

3. A lot of "complexity" in the kernel is simply performance optimization that does not exist in sel4. Back in the days Minix and Hurd promised to achieve optimization by replacing generic servers with custom ones but I haven't seen this actually working in 20 years
Costs that wouldn't have happened in first place if a scripting language hadn't been chosen in first place.
In my experience they're useless because they're trained / limited to the FAQ and website you've already read to try to resolve your issue. The same with calling a helpline. Yes, I'm aware I can check your website for common questions. I'm calling you and need to speak to a human because the answer isn't there.
Which one is the most future proof? I recently tried Organice, even though it has a different feature set, because is is basically future proof even if the hosting company tops functioning
I also thought you were just going to say "Meta" after the first sentence.
brother you are a sledgehammer but you need to be just a hammer for now
> Instead, the reason people go to customer service is because of a question that’s so specific, or complicated, or gnarly in some respect, that there’s no way the app will have the answer: you need a human.

I can see the author probably hasn't done much customer service? I'd say maybe 1% of customer queries go in that direction.

I agree dealing with a bot in that situation sucks, but a big chunk of customer questions can probably be answered without human intervation by LLMs, assuming they have enough data about the organization and its products.
What is ‘absorb’? Never seen before. What is it for?
For people who don't read French, yes on paper there is no legal obligation to have any kind of ID on you.

However, police forces are allowed to ask anyone their identity without any reason, and if they can't justify of their identity, they can be detained by the police for up to 4 hours for verification, and Police may requires them to do a fingerprint scan: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1036
>Purdue pharma

There was an attempt. Dems introduced a bill (the SACKLER Act) was that would stop the bankruptcy judge in the case from granting members of the Sackler family legal immunity during the bankruptcy proceedings, however it failed to gain support.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/544021-democrats-unveil-l...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/2096...
Czech is not german, at all.
I was a lot more jaded than I currently am. I recently switched jobs to a food eco calculation app [1], and while yes there are problems there's much better advice out there now for how you can contribute, rather than just "switch off your lights". We've been working on recipe swaps so you can see kgs off your daily habits.

Also speaking with clients, corporations want to help. Yes there is some marketing and tax incentive, but we've seen more interest in making permanent change beyond just a PR stunt.

[1] https://klimato.co
> I don't know if the movie was trying to appeal to China, or whether it was actually some misguided sarcasm

...or we could apply Hanlon's razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"). One way or the other, I imagine a poor graphics artist at Mattel Films (or whatever company was responsible for that map) is in very hot water right now...
Artificially Cultured Brains Improve Processing of Time Series Data
Yep, that's what I'm saying, programming performance is seemingly very indicative of model inteligence (assuming it's tuned well enough to be able to run the benchmark at all). Coding is an exercise in problem solving and abstract thinking after all.

There are exceptions of course, as there are a few models (e.g. Vicuna, Baize) that don't do well at coding at all but otherwise perform well for chat, and the coding models I mentioned that game the benchmark by sacrificing performance in all other areas.

If you exclude those, it's very a accurate overall reasoning level comparison, at least it fits most to what I've seen their performance was for various tasks when testing out individual models. The only other valid benchmark that isn't coding are the SAT and LSAT tests that OpenAI runs on all of their models, but afaik there isn't an open version that would be widely used.
Why would the AI boom benefit Samsung?

Other than maybe their chip fabs getting more utilization? But that's a different Samsung business from Samsung Electronics.
>I'd rather not have more spammers and SEO bloggers on my reddit feed thank you.

this implies that you don't already need to aggressively tailor your feed (and especially users) to get a sane experience. I'm already digging through 90% muck, not much will change there (or, was. Long since quit reddit specifically outside of very specific communities I haven't found replacements for).

>You think MrBeast will leave the platform that gives him access to the eyeballs?

There's 3 base levels of content creator here to consider:

- small time ones not monetized or barely monetized (under 10k subs or so). These are the ones who probably could make more mowing lawns, let alone minimum wage. This category will have a fluxuation of those who stay because they care more about the clout and/or the content, and those who wanted to one day make a livinig wage on this. Any other who stay and want to be successful would be playing extremely hard to the algorithm, moreso than they already are. They'd fizzle out otherwise.

- Then there's the ones with the hugest range (~100k-2m subs or so) who are anywhere from "this is a good part time gig" to "this is my full time career with a small to medium sized team contributing". This category would be absolutely decimated by the impact. The larger side may have to dowsize and/or reduce the content stream, likely rely much heavier on ad sponsors, and otherwise compromise their content. The smaller side would just fizzle out, full stop. large but not quite large enough to get more ad deals, likely a solo channel with at best 1-2 editors/help on the side. They cannot live off of youtube any longer.

This is where 95% of my feed comes from and it would only make my experience worse.

- Then ofc there's the massive 10m+ subs, the MrBeasts of the world. They are so massive and have so many pools of revenue to draw from (sponsors, merch, "native ads" where they just make a video about a company under the company's dime, crowdfunding sites, commisions, other social media, etc.). Many of these are efectively millionaires and can stop anytime they want. They won't be as strongly affected, maybe have some layoffs and slight slowdown of content. But it's losing 1 of a dozen different ways they make money; unfortunate but not gamebreaking.

This effectively turns Youtube into a place either of pure passion or top level coporations in all but name. I don't see this as a better time. Maybe pre-Google Youtube was a magical place, but there's no closing Pandora's box to return to those times.
That's just it, they are doing their own thing. This is why I liked the explanation, it reflects that the police is not an organization that's somehow representing and enforcing a higher moral standard, but rather a distinct thing that has its own life and culture. And that social engineering and parallel construction are part of daily life.
I've used ChatGPT to auto draft snotograms to these companies, I don't fight these things anymore the AI does.
https://bytepawn.com
Twitter is the only one which exposed this stood against this showing that the governments have Zuck by the balls, but not Elon.
(Sorry, I was wrong. See here for the author's reply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36627385
)
Interesting, that's good to know. What happens if the state decides to appropriate the data rather than sell it?
> From these experiences, I’ve realized that avoiding bad habits is just as important as cultivating good habits.

Avoidance rarely works i think. I'd say replacing negative habits with positive ones is a better long term strategy.

Can recommend the App Habitica for this, free and open source. There are Android and iOS clients for it. Makes habits dailies and todos more fun.

Not affiliated, only fixed an accessibility issue once.

https://habitica.com
> Edit: it’s not one side, it’s a small minority of loud mouthed assholes.

That the rest of them happily accept as long as it puts them in power.
Malicious people know about the Hanlon's razor and ready to use it as an excuse if they get caught.
You often had to take notice of the terms they used, and be sure to use those terms. That's why looking around was so important. In some ways those text interfaces were similar to crossword puzzles. They made you think, even as you described what you wanted to do.

The point-and-click UI was less frustrating, but there was also something lost compared to the text commands.
For me the biggest red flag is that they have apps in the EU but what they're doing with this one is so dodgy that they're not even risking entering the EU.

Also, interesting to see a big international company actually back up their "we just won't do europe then"
Huggingface has them all.

https://huggingface.co
the burden of proof lies on the one who makes a claim

Now you made a claim. Time to proof it.
The airline I flew with just ignored my compensation request. After an initial automatic "Thanks, we're working on it", there was no replies or response.

When I finally took them to the local CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) the responded very quickly. The CAA had already investigated that specific flight due to complaints from other passengers.