skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheaper always wins.

But besides that, the LLM is less likely to demand unscheduled time off - especially as a fraction of the hours it can put in. If I have a family emergency once per year, and I need my eight hour day off, I've just removed 1/200 of my yearly output potential. The LLM would need to be down for over 400 hours per year to get to that type of output reduction. Realistically, that is unlikely to happen.
I’d say “comfort”. Glasses aren’t comfortable for many people and neither are contact lenses. I have a mild prescription but the discomfort of the glasses (arms, nose bridge, turning head more) is greater than the discomfort of my vision not being ultra sharp (for me). So a future of putting on glasses for the tech really isn’t for me.
Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud
Google obviously has the resources. The bean counters decided that they want profits instead of building up a loyal customer base.

My main point is that if Pixels sold as many phones as Samsung, it is very likely that Pixel would put in the resources to support older phones. Competition within the Android space does not equate to better long term service.
>It's not a standalone product that has its own revenue sources.

The question reveals the problem.
I didn't say anything about goat, but mutton is common/popular enough to be available in supermarkets (nevermind actual butchers, as you might have to go to for some game or a particular cut or something). The comment I replied to claimed that Americans don't eat mutton because it's unsuited to 'Western cuisine'. Lamb and mutton are no stranger to British roasts, pies, stews, etc. - we don't even have to introduce 'curry'.
I strive to learn.

With markets I see it similarly as with democracy; it's the best of all the bad options we have. Given the challenges ahead (demographic crisis, climate crisis, environmental crisis) we must have a dynamic and flexible system to accommodate the to be expected strains, if we want to continue existing as a global civilization.

But markets also have flaws, such as externalization of costs and oligopolies that skew the market through their influence.

We've seen this with Google, that has started as a brilliant search engine, providing a valuable service. Nowadays it attempts to make more and more money through rent taking instead. Instead of creating value, these oligopolies capture value, sometimes even through illegal means (see; no-poaching agreements).
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"

is a famous quote attributed to him afaik (maybe i mangled it a bit).
Google Glass offered customers a face-mounted camera in 2013. Snapchat released their Spectacles in 2016. This is not a novel concept, even in the consumer electronics space, to say nothing of Steve Mann's work which stretches back decades.
Because there is no way meta can challenge Google and Apple's dominance on the mobile platform(e.g. look at how the they have monopolized location services and apple has dented their ad market) and they are desperate to redefine what the next generation of communication and mobility devices look like.

This is also the first generation of mobile wearables. Expect more will come in the next two years paired with other devices.
I understand they need to get the rights to it, I'm just surprised they aren't more aggressively doing so. Rock Band has shown it should be doable to negotiate a lot more licenses more quickly than they have.

I understand they like to make a bit of a visual stage experience to each song pack, but not every song pack needs that necessarily, and they should also be able to have multiple teams working on song packs in parallel you'd think, as opposed to one every once in a while, even if they insisted on making new visual themes for each one.

As it is, I'd love to buy more song packs from them, but I'm not that into Queen, or Lizzo, or several others they've done the past couple of years (Electronic Mixtape released in May 2022 was the last one that excited me). And other people have their tastes too. Putting out songs more often insures that people have something new they can support and a reason to get back into it more than once every other year.

The reason I brought up the custom songs, is they could potentially use those for ideas of what players would really like to see in the game, based on custom song usage, as well as possibly once they do get rights to those songs, possibly get permission from the creator to use the beat patterns (or whatever they're called) and save some development time.

I know they hired at least one person from the custom song community before, they could potentially get permission from some others (with some compensation).
I had the same problems as my elderly parents living abroad are not social media users.

So I decided to create a sort of private Google photos meeting Google drive.

It is called Memories (I realised FB have the same idea) and it can be found at https://m.emori.es

I would be happy to provide beta access in return for constructive feedbacks.

If you are interested, send me an email to alain AT aoware DOT co DOT uk
Meh. It's much better to have the attitude in the title than to follow the article's long-winded road towards demotivation.
What's the FreeCam community?
Apparently no one read the article, Dependabot was not compromised, no one accepted legitimate looking PRs, or anything else like that.

API tokens were stolen and then commits were made that spoofed dependabot's name and style to avoid further scrutiny.
Wikipedia actually sounds more worrying here than the clickbait article. Not sure I like that...

> On March 16, 2022, a magnitude 3.5 earthquake struck the Phlegraean Fields on the western edge of the Solfatara. On March 29, 2022, a magnitude 3.6 earthquake occurred east of the Solfatara. These two events were the strongest since the 1980s crisis.[12]

> In September 2023, the two most severe earthquakes in 40 years occurred in the region within a few weeks. On September 7th, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake shook the Phlegraean Fields. There was minor damage to buildings in Agnano, a suburb of Naples, and a power outage in Pozzuoli.[23] An even stronger earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was recorded on September 27th and was still felt in Rome. Once again there was minor damage to buildings.[24]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegr%C3%A4ische_Felder#Vulka...

https://www.ansa.it/campania/notizie/2023/09/27/scossa-magni...
This article leaves out the big "D": Distribution.

Google was a far superior product at the time they launched. They captured lightning in a bottle and participated in - and accelerated - a big inflection point of internet adoption; the web went from nerds to mainstream as the younger, web-native generation grew up.

The technology is relevant insofar as it gave them an insurmountable lead at the time they had it. Re-creating the initial search technology itself pales in comparison to re-creating the initial conditions that allowed Google to reach millions, and then billions, of internet users in a relatively short timeframe.
Yes I agree memory safety is an important trade off, but the performance wins can be worth it in some cases.
Could you recommend a good starting episode? I know the generals of languages so I don't know if episode 1 is worth the time investment...
It does flash a light when recording. If you cover the light then the camera functionality is disabled.
Am I going crazy or did the majority commenters here not read the article?

These commits are not PRs. If I'm understanding this correct, the attacker got a hold of someone's personal access token in some way, then used that to make a commit that creates a new GHA workflow, in which the workflow ex-filtrate all the secrets and env vars to their servers. The commit was made directly to the main (?) branch and set up to be run on all pushes. So the branch doesn't even matter.

So it has nothing to do with automerging dependabot PRs. Sure you shouldn't be doing that, but if your PAT is compromised, you're done for anyway.

The reason dependabot is involved is because that commit looks like it came from dependabot, and that's likely because the email on the git commit was set to dependabot, which GitHub would see and show as being from dependabot.
For an individual or small group perhaps, but if you have a situation where your group can eat the meat of most of a large animal before it goes bad it might be efficient.

An animal can have a lot of calories. To give an idea of how much, when I was a kid my father once accepted as pay for a job a butchered cow. He put it in a freezer and it took our family of 3 around a year to finish it.

Ancient people didn't have freezers, so it would not be worth it for a small group to hunt and kill a large animal unless it was very easy, because they would only get a few days food out of it before it spoiled. This is assuming they have other food sources, of course.

A larger group, say a village with a hundred or so people, would be able to finish eating a large animal before it spoiled. For them it could easily be worth it to send out a hunting party every few days even if that party has to do a lot of work.
Jony Ive and OpenAI’s Altman reportedly collaborating on mysterious AI device
Exactly.

I try to use my keyboard whenever possible, but sometimes reaching to my mouse is just easier. Moving my hand 5 inches is already bad, but having to move it 10-15 inches every time I want to use the mouse is terrible.

And all for what? For having to enter a phone number or credit card number once a month into some form? The tradeoff is not worth it for most people.

As a programmer, I don't need a numpad very often, having long strings of numbers are not very common in my field. Sure, sometimes I need to write numbers, but they are one or two character long, and having them above the keys is better experience as I don't need to move my hand so far.
This is really interesting!

> It can take less than 30MB of drive space

A modern display driver alone takes disk space/RAM in the class of 30MB, so Essence is really tiny. The probably downside is that it cannot utilise modern hardware.
I've attempted to use this iterative method with GPT4 to build an application, and things just get clumsier and more error-prone as the program grows in complexity. Eventually I get to the point where asking it to make revisions becomes a dice roll with respect to keeping the code behaving as expected or having it arbitrarily omit random portions of the application logic in the rewrite. It's certainly a great way to brainstorm or to quickly produce snippets of logic but it fails for anything beyond toy apps.
I learned how to use Linux in 2003, I'm a developer, but I keep using windows, mainly because some software don't have good enough Linux alternatives: paint.net, foobar2000, avidemux, and some games.

I have to admit that I want to switch because ads in windows is something I cannot accept, and other things.

I really postponed because I was lazy, and because double boot was never perfect.
New Compound Reduces Tumor Growth, Overcomes Resistance in Mutant p53 Cancers
If it had gone the other way it would have been overturned probably pretty quickly. It doesn't make sense for owners of something to not be in control of it.
Show HN: Mel – The missing unsubscribe button for physical mail
Since 2017, I've been on a mission to stop the deluge of paper mail that ends up in my trash. It's been a slow, manual process, but I've succeeded! I created Mel to help others rid themselves of physical junk mail.

Simply text a photo of junk mail and Mel contacts the sender to have you removed from their list – no registration or app required.
For me, and probably a lot of people, it's the opposite, I'd pay more if needed to get the non tech version
The Meta AI Chatbot Is Mark Zuckerberg's Answer to ChatGPT
What company would I trust less than Google to deploy wearable technology with potentially staggering privacy issues?

OK, it's probably Twitter; but still, I'm sure as hell not buying anything tied to Meta, either.
OK, here's my personal hypothesis, as I have no idea what are each company's credentials for such title, but here we go:

If, for instance, you have 10 years of professional experience in a specific tech stack, let's say front-end development, you have mastered your craft, and you deliver faster than your deadlines, my personal opinion this should sound like a senior developer's level of expertise.

I could be wrong though, but I'm talking from experience that I have discussed such topic with acquaintances of mine.
User: Make me a secure Amazon store clone, improve the UI/UX in a way that is similar, but not blatantly ripped off. Write unit tests, and iterate until it works perfectly. Show me a slideshow of the result tomorrow at 10 am.

Computer: I understand. OpenAI requires you to provide a $10,000 advance on this task, and $10,000 more when it's ready. Do you agree?

User: Compared to the money I will make, this is peanuts. I agree.

Computer: Alright, your account was charged. I am also legally required to notify Amazon Hive of every group of users that try to clone their store each day. Don't worry, their legal subAI only sues 0.3% of the time. Have a good afternoon!
https://archive.ph/Efmsz
Not the extra ads on social media? /s
People are willing to stop using Facebook on their own accord.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/5/9/facebook-has-3-b...

There is probably a substantial number of users who are content to use Facebook occasionally on desktop, and not even need it as a mobile app. The era of check-ins is far gone.

I would concede that Instagram is a different story, but even that platform isn't growing as rapidly as it used to.
I worked for InstallShield for a while, and had customers routinely say, "I could build a better installer in a weekend than InstallScript / Windows Installer / Whatever". I always just sort of rolled my eyes, due to the complexity I was aware of across the (many) features of any given installation engine.

It's a long story as to why, but I actually ended up building an installer engine in Powershell some years later. I can now officially say all those people are morons, and you definitely should not in this day and age be rolling your own installer engine.
This looks to me like a rehashing of 2016's Snapchat Spectacles combined with the bone-conduction bluetooth temples available on numerous cheap AliExpress sunglasses.
I did see that. I’m not sure why that changes anything.

Note they are saying the hazard ratio is like 2x. That means if you are only twice as likely as you already were.

That is, if you got vaxxed and had it happen, it was a coin toss that it would have happened anyway.
i don’t find it at all unbelievable. i think the judgement is pretty spot on:

> A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders. The powers of the directors are to be employed for that end. The discretion of directors is to be exercised in the choice of means to attain that end, and does not extend to a change in the end itself, to the reduction of profits, or to the non-distribution of profits among stockholders in order to devote them to other purposes…
> I thought dependabot commits were signed though.

… nothing stops a dependabot impersonator from signing their commit.

(edit: the OP is rather confused on this point. While the commit could be signed, I don't know that in this case it could be signed in a way that Github would give it the green (Verified) bauble. The prose says the commit is signed, but the screenshot seems to suggest they're not. (Though they almost covered up the relevant area…))

You'd still have to notice that it's not coming from the real dependabot

> So just seeing a commit from a user named “dependabot” would actually be extra suspicious to me.

Short of hovering over the user's icon¹ (which should go to the app, not to a user) or reading the contest of the commit … I don't think a good impersonation would look different from the real deal in the history.

(Note that as others note: the commits here are already merged, via stolen PATs. You'd be trying to distinguish a malicious commit in your history from the real deal.)

¹actually, maybe they can't spoof the icon, since it's coming from a stolen PAT + the commit data isn't going to link up due to trying to spoof the name, which is why it's blank in the screencap. So that's a bit more of a giveaway, but I still think most people would be hard-pressed to notice.
Is there a single error bar in the paper? It seems like a guess
If everyone they are close to also moved to where this guy and his brother live--and so on--they could have quite the 1 easy trick to found a new megacity.
DeployPlex- the Native FastAPI Platform
Hi HN, I’m the creator of DeployPlex, and I’m excited to be posting here (even though a bit shaky because you guys have a high bar).

What’s DeployPlex? The native FastAPI platform.

Why is this needed? FastAPI is the go to framework to build AI-native applications and while everyone is building AI apps and building the same infrastructure again and again, none is building that infrastructure someone must.

Why am I doing this? I’ve been building infra since I’m 15 when I first launched my minecraft server, until the past 3 years working at a consulting firm doing Cloud consulting, and I keep doing over and over the same stuff, I strongly believe abstractions like Vercel bring great value and there isn’t one for this new generation of AI apps, everyone is hacking something on the product to get a share of the market but no products are the native option.

The vision? To build all the tooling you need to get batteries included infrastructure to build and run your AI-native app. In other words, Helping you build and deploy AI-native apps faster.

I would love to hear what you think the product should have, launching in close beta, if you wanna be a DM on twitter. https://twitter.com/Alw3ys

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The happy medium is keeping the dismissive attitude out of the comment section and instead focused on actually building things.
From the article.

> "This is the lowest sea ice maximum in the 1979 to 2023 sea ice record by a wide margin," said the NSIDC, a government-supported program at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
PNG decoding is little more than an implementation of DEFLATE and handling of the delta encoding. For your own OS you most likely do not have to be feature complete. As an example, picoPNG [1] decodes most .png images, and is only ~500 lines of beautiful C++ code. For most practical purposes, you can probably get away with much less.

[1] https://lodev.org/lodepng/
I think that's pretty different. It's less processing, but still copies packet off nic.
> Have you looked into finetuning the embedding model to your use case?

Not yet, though this is definitely one of the next steps for us. The `gte-large` model we use is trained on a variety of text, but a hypothesis is one trained or fine-tuned on technical / code-related content may work better.

> Have you considered faster foundation models?

Any in particular that you would suggest? We're still pretty new to this so would love to learn about other recommendations. Would a foundation model perform as well at this task?

> How far could you go with this idea? Could this be the basis of a new monitoring platform?

Certainly; there are traditional ML approaches that could be applied to monitoring as well and we're heavily exploring this (ie. for metric anomaly detection). Another area we're exploring embeddings grouping is for filtering ingest to help folks only ingest / retain data that they actually want, but without the overhead of strict filter rules. Tons more to explore in this space, and you will certainly be hearing more from us here.
I googled this and found a pitch to investors that said they'll eventually supplement the open source models with business use specific models.
Yeah the community is great.

It’d just be better if it was around RWKV or something that doesn’t prevent you from improving any models outside of the llama ecosystem.

It’s a great embrace, extend, extinguish play by meta.
https://colorforth.github.io/cf.htm
I guess the resolution of that thing must be quite high, I wonder how much it is.
What do Mistral's engineers work with? Do they have this 14GB pickle file open in their IDEs at 3PM? If not, why is that not the source to this?
If I'm honest, some overly-complicated molecule "living on" doesn't really do it for me. I'd rather go on living in my apartment. I'd rather achieve immortality by not dying.
> hitting a button and then having to either speak the command out loud or hit some other button to capture video/audio/etc., which seems more cumbersome than the phone approach

For the mass market, perhaps the right place to put the camera is on headphones. (I’m already talking to my AirPods.) This product doesn’t appear to be positioned for the mass market, however, but instead influencers.
I'd be curious if you have any hard data about use. Mine is anecdotal too, but I see that llama.cpp is the very close second highest starred repo with llama on the name, after meta llama. Additionally, all the HF models seem to have ggml / gguf quantized versions . I'm not aware of a competing format for quantized models. There are also python bindings which are used in a lot of projects. What is a competing framework, other than pytorch, that's getting more use? Or is it all just pytorch (and some hf wrappers) and the rest is a rounding error?
he means the new SharedMergeTree, but that’s clickhouse specific.
Obviously he's right on this, at least mostly right. The zero interest era fueled a VC-dominated boom where headcount was erroneously used as a proxy for scale by a lot of places. And I think the dream of a lot of people saying "let's build a better twitter" or whatever is assuming a utopian ideal where that "better twitter" is not chasing a multi-billion dollar valuation but rather trying to sustain itself for public benefit. And really, that's not crazy since Wikimedia Foundation claims 220 FTEs running one of the world's most vital services and doing so based purely on donations. That leads to other reason build a better twitter/google/facebook is so hard and that is acquiring and retaining the millions of users needed to make your platform valuable. Even a perfect product can't guarantee that will happen.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227511 :

> SQG Superfluid Quantum Gravity says there needn't be antimatter; there is pressure and there are phases of matter in a varyingly Superfluidic cosmos. The Dirac wikipedia article also mentions SQG.

"Gravity as a fluid dynamic phenomenon in a superfluid quantum space. Fluid quantum gravity and relativity." (2017) https://hal.science/hal-01248015/

Fluid equations:

Bernoulli's:

Biot-Savart:

Navier-Stokes:

Anosov flows and CFD ((Quantum) Computational Fluid Dynamics) fluid predictability:
https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy/issues/383#issuecomme...
The gap from zero to one is infinitely enormous. Thus the pain of creating something new.
How difficult it is to fine tune model like this with specific domain knowledge? I am currently looking into gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct for this same purpose.
Absence of all this bullshit about accounts, clouds and telemetry like in postman.
It was just a tool to send requests I wanted when I wanted
our ears can speak.

the inner ear is a mechanical amplifier.

a device comparing the incoming acoustic spectrum with the otoacoustically emitted spectrum can see the mixer settings (controlled by the brain).

we could learn to type and communicate with our cochleas (assuming they weren't destroyed by wearing big headphones while cycling...)