skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unlike BBR, Brutal operates on a fixed rate model and does not reduce its speed in response to packet loss or RTT changes. [...] It's particularly effective at seizing bandwidth in congested, best-effort delivery networks, hence its name.

So if there's one TCP flow using Brutal, all other traffic gets pushed out. Fair queuing can prevent this. If one can be sure that there's fair queuing, one can do much smoother congestion control: https://github.com/muxamilian/fair-queuing-aware-congestion-...
I was in a very similar position but have been reading more fiction in the last year or two (though I did read _some_ fiction in the preceding decade)

I think some "hard scifi" might be a good bridge? Andy Weir is a good example: he spends a lot of time on the "factual" details of the universe but there are still twists/turns/character arcs/satisfying resolutions. _The Martian_ and _Project Hail Mary_ were both very good.
The manual way. Validate SPV inclusion proofs using CAT, hash opcodes, bignum addition, etc. To be practical it requires block header commitments, but there are other reasons for wanting that. You also need relative locktime, which original bitcoin did not have. But that should be all that is required to be added. Other commonly cited things like Merkle branch verification opcodes just make the script more compact, or get around the fact that some required opcodes were later disabled and/or restricted from use with bignums.

Re: bitcoin vs. ethereum, the bitcoin community pre-ethereum was very invested in the idea of decentralizing all the things. I remember: I was there and part of that history. But over time people interested in more than just payments or the bitcoin asset have left or switched to ethereum. Originally expressive smart contracting was very much in scope.
Let me play devil's advocate here.

Remote work is about trust. The biggest fear for the employer is that you are slacking off, because they cannot physically see if you're even there. If an employer realizes that you have accepted another full time job contract they would feel cheated, even if your output is excellent. I worry that the rational position for the employer would be to try to force their next hire to not be fully remote, and to try to implement more measures to monitor and control the existing remote positions.
> Young people can't go anywhere because they can't afford a car because all their money goes to rent. Even if they WANTED to go somewhere, there isn't anywhere to go because car dependent infrastructure has killed all the places that young people used to hang out.

This is a big one IMO.

We moved to a Northern NJ suburb in the late-90s. However, NYC Metro suburbs are very different from the "suburbs" that are a dime a dozen here in Texas.

The town was small --- about a mile in square area. You could walk pretty much everywhere within it, even though some points were far. Almost every street had a sidewalk that was maintained by the city. Since the city followed a grid system, routes from one persons house to another could be done on foot. I spent a lot of time walking in my teens because of this, though not being allowed to have a car played a big part in that.

(Walking a lot comes naturally to me because of this; in fact, a big reason why I hated living in these suburbs was because of how difficult it was to walk somewhere interesting instead of "mandatory walking" around a fake pond.)

By comparison, suburbs in Texas (or at least here in Houston, and definitely in Dallas) are gigantic. You could walk for miles before you hit literally anything. The nearest business in the suburb we lived in when we moved here was 1.5 miles away on foot. The first 0.5 mile within the neighborhood was fine since the neighborhood had nicely curated sidewalks. Once you left the neighborhood though, you were walking on the 45mph-rated streets that people definitely drive 15+ over on (usually on their phones, since we're on the subject).

None of these neighborhoods have a grid system, so going from one house to another within the neighborhood could take a shocking amount of time despite being a short distance away. This design is done on purpose to "increase safety," which is at best farcical considering how unbelievably spread out these communities are and how distant they are from anything.

I hope the next generation of parents opt for smaller, more walkable towns with smaller houses and proper city centers instead of gigantic, cavernous and mostly empty sets of endless houses. I think this can be done while also remaining affordable, but we, collectively, have to want it.

Otherwise, yeah, the screens will "win" because the Internet is cheap, immediate and has basically anything you can think of.
I'd wager that if the person you're responding to posted because they were unsure if they understood you correctly, then after this comment they're probably sure that they don't. (But I could be wrong.)
Ideally, daily BRBs (kept to an hour) with engineers attending.

If it turns out there are too many Radars to keep the BRBs to an hour then there are issues elsewhere.

At the same time, I didn't mention it above, engineers need to be allowed time in the product schedule to fix these bugs. As probably everyone knows, when a bug is kicked down the road once (because of scheduling constraints: hey, we gotta ship the software at some point!) it becomes easier still to kick it down the road when the next release dat rolls around (we lived with the bug this long...).

I think engineers and users alike would love to see more bug--only releases of MacOS and iOS. People still talk about how wonderful SnowLeopard was simply because it was a bug-fix only (mostly?) release.
For GPT-4 Turbo, not GPT-4.
I'll reply more carefully since this is just so evil.

The current interpretation of prosecutorial immunity allows:

- initiating prosecution entirely for political or racial reasons
- falsifying evidence
- coercing false testimony
- hiding evidence

Technically, they can face the bar, or even criminal prosecution. But professional courtesy keeps them safe from criminal prosecution unless ugly facts are made public. Since the invention of immunity in 1978, those ugly facts are rarely discovered. These two forces combine to yield effective criminal immunity.
I'm not sure what that is about, https://feedbackassistant.apple.com
Well, it boots to a KDE Plasma desktop that launches Kodi (full screen). It also starts MusicBee (windows app that runs perfectly in wine, with a few tricks). I had tried jellyfin but ditched it back when my SBC was a Raspberry pi 4. Because that sucked so much that I abandoned it, attached a large drive and used Kodi instead (ie: I don't stream, I play locally attached content). It's easy to set up a DLNA listener too, so I can fling music or movies to gmedia-resurrect. It's constantly listening in the background, and plays whatever I send to it (eg: from bubble upnp)

Oh, and I plug a Logitech Bluetooth audio receiver into the line-in on the USB 7.1 soundcard, so I can pay music from a phone or my HiBy R2 DAP.

About the Pi: it sucked for a heap of reasons. I found myself fighting stupid battles over and over. Switching to an x86 made all of those problems disappear immediately. Stay the hell away from the Pi, is my advice.

I don't have a remote actually, I use the Kodi Android remote, MusicBee Android remote and kdeconnect (for everything else).
Captcha pages are being served at IPs that don't come from CloudFlare. ex: Users who exclusively resolve thru Quad9 are getting Captcha pages.

Any inference that the Captcha issue is limited to CloudFlare users is incorrect.
I suspect OpenAI's black box workflow has some safeguards for it.
There's a few factors. Are there that many, or is there just a lot of news? And related to a lot of news, there are a lot of orgs chasing AI whether they understand it or not. So to that end, as a founder, one could convince the naive (about AI) money to invest. Or more likely, the founders have a track record in some way, and then it is not much different than raising for a traditional startup.

I've thought a lot about these issues - I am actively working on creating new research and then commercializing it. However I think the incentives of investors (VCs and likely angels) are not aligned well with research development. As a result, I've landed on the bootstrap/self fund side of the argument, much like Midjourney. Find the low hanging fruit on the research side that can be monetized, and build off that.
Any serious business needs to have a continuity plan and can't depend on availability of a single person. What if the person you depend on will have a medical emergency or resign?

Business owners can take this risk but using "don't take more than 2 weeks of PTO" as a risk mitigation strategy is disingenuous and disrespectful to their employees.
Makes sense if true. The Norse were renown in the Arabian and Rome as excellent mercenaries. I suspect travel northward occurred as well.
They would probably half-ass it like they did with the Epic Game Store then wonder why everyone thinks it's the dumpy alternative that only gets attention through bribery.
GPT-4 Turbo vision is much cheaper than I expected. A 768*768 px image costs just $0.00765 to input. That's practical to replace more specialized computer vision models for many use-cases.
Sam Bankman-Fried won't be the last crypto mogul behind bars
Typimg fast is about latency, not throughput
Mistral + 2 weeks of work from the community. Not as good, but private and free. It will trail OpenAI by 6-12 months in capabilities.
I've largely come to a workflow of creating a feature branch and periodically merging main out to that branch. When it's done, I use the github squash and merge feature to bring changes back in. Cutting non-ancestor rebases out of my workflow has been great for my personal sanity.
I’m not saying it’s not possible to do correctly. But do you not agree that the first is hard to correctly (can overlook an fd) while the latter is a lot of complexity?

There is the CLOEXEC flag which is the intended way to manage this but it’s not the default and you have to be diligent about setting it which again carries its own set of challenges.

What you’d really want is CLOEXEC implicitly on all fds and having to explicitly opt in for fd inheritance.
Yes, while political donations in general are a concern to me, I think in this case the donations themselves are fairly innocuous. What the donations tell me is not that Intel bribed these representatives, it's that Intel identified these representatives as ones that would be particularly pliable to their legal persuasion efforts.

It's true that Intel has a lot of natural strengths for its lobbying efforts, but some representatives are going to be easier to persuade than others.
If you already have a background in Academia or FAANG doing research, (some) investors will happily fund you, if and only if, you can convince them that the research you're doing will be monetizable. AI has enough precedent that you're seeing this in the news, but most already have a research background.

Chicken or the egg problem, unfortunately
That is yet another public mirror of private Apple feedback reports. The suggestion is a public Bugzilla of iOS/macOS bug reports, similar to Webkit, that could be selectively mirrored by Apple to private radars, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38166908
I’m sure there is a logic bug or two in the new implementation. Whether you want to take the risk of new logic bugs for the benefit of removing several whole categories of bugs (both known and unknown!) is the question and tradeoff in each case like this. This too requires scrutiny, but I’d be a lot more comfortable running a Rust program with 2 years of scrutiny than any C program with 40.
The Assistants API and OpenAI Store are really interesting. Those are the types of things that could build a moat for OpenAI
I was going to say that I never saw anything like that, but I remembered I followed Musk's advice the day he recommended it: I disabled recommendations and only use the "follows" view.
As a developer, I flatly refuse to engage with Apple in any way because of their $100 annual fee.

I feel especially vindicated when stuff like this surfaces.

Imagine being the richest company in the world and having the audacity to charge people for the privilege of being able to contribute to your platform.

It is absolutely insane, and nothing will convince me otherwise.
Consider the case where a compiler compiles Scheme to C via C.
The C compiler is available at compile time, but who knows
if the user has a C compiler. Such compilers often solve the
problem by using some kind of interpreter at runtime.

Compilers that compile directly to machine code do not have similar problems.

For fun, do you know a Common Lisp implementation that compiles via C?
How do they implement `eval`?
The Assistants playground doesn't seem to be available yet
Can't a supermajority of admins vote to kick out someone disruptive?
I think the whole "people don't want to work these days" takes the grand prize for the most ridiculous and disingenuous catch phrases of the 2020s. It totally (and deliberately) ignores market forces like offered wages and costs of living.

I would not want to work either, if the best I could do was $20/week for 30 hours a week (30, so the employer can avoid paying benefits). $600/week pre-tax won't even pay rent in many cities, let alone other basic living expenses.
I am even more confused now. They claim ai can do everything. So that includes business decisions. Weren't there claims that someone even built a business following chatgpt advice? Someone even claimed it cured their dog.
Depends on what you are calling a crash. I didn't make any specific claim, but I expect stocks to continue going down as long as bonds are high.

Berkshire Hathaway's largest position is apple. PE of 30, or 3.3% of value, and take on some risk. Alternatively, you can purchase bonds at a 5.3% rate, and basically no risk. You will put your money in bonds unless you have a hot tip about apple sales. You might even sell some of your apple stock to buy more bonds.

If apple stock dropped 30%, then it still would yield less than risk free bonds.

Edit: Berkshire Hathaway earnings are up 40% because they are buying bonds, not selling more product.
Startups running lean, which is what you need to do in order to maximize runway, don't have the money or time for "continuity plans".

Haven't you ever joked about the "bus factor"? All the startups I've worked at would have likely failed if any one of the core people had to depart, for any reason.
There is a map of Middle-Earth. It doesn't mean the place is real.
I wouldn't generalize to like, the entire nations of India and Tibet, but it's an _extremely_ common phenomenon even in the US, even today. Just look at how many spurious quotes are ascribed to "great thinkers" (abe lincoln, gandhi, albert einstein). It happens even with relatively contemporary figures when we have voluminous historical evidence available to disprove it -- imagine how often it happened before the internet and printing press. I have this pet theory that the origin of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_source was just someone trying to write down all the stuff that anybody anywhere said that Jesus said in one place, so that people would stop making up shit.
Y Combinator calls these companies "hard-tech". They have a great video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1DlZWfI6rk
If by "rare cases" one means "for all but a small number of cases".
Let’s see if there will be Bug as a Service. Pay for bug fix in addition of $99/year
For DALL-E 3, I'm getting "openai.error.InvalidRequestError: The model `dall-e-3` does not exist." is this for everyone right now? Maybe it's gonna be out any minute.

I see the python library has an upgrade available with breaking changes, is there any guide for the changes I'll need to make? And will the DALL-E 3 endpoint require the upgrade? So many questions.

Edit: Oh I see,

> We’ll begin rolling out new features to OpenAI customers starting at 1pm PT today.
It was but most of that functionality was within the "function calling", not really within the assistant as a top 10 of Paris sights isn't really that crazy. Plotting these on a map is the key part which is still your own code, not GPT-based.
I like biographies for the same reason. Same with some "true crime/fraud" books like _The Cult of We_, _Smartest Guys in the Room_, _American Kingpin_, etc
I'm jealous of people who enjoy rebasing. Such a simple life they must lead. When I'm tasked with rebasing a feature branch with 1,000 commits, written by 10 different people, onto a new release branch with another 1,000 new unrelated commits, written by 10 different people, I really start to question my life choices.
Show HN: Upload your pet's photo and find out what you should have named it
Hey HN!

This fun side project helps pet owners find the perfect name for their pets. The process is simple: you upload a photo of your pet, and the AI analyzes the image to suggest 3 names, complete with explanations for why each name was chosen. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'm also open to feature suggestions or ideas on how to improve the service. Looking forward to hearing what you think!
I wish someone would do like a documentary/simulation of how deals are sought after a literal crash, like meteorite or some social system collapsing in a palpable way and all the out-of-work financiers who's mode of action has become irrlevant and they are no better off than travelling baseball card salesmen, just a little less deadly and less able to fruitfully weaponize their greed.
Comment will not age well.
Stream of keynote:
https://youtu.be/U9mJuUkhUzk?t=1806
Apple just switched to ARM away from Intel, and I'm sure Intel is very concerned others will follow their lead. If ARM is at risk from RISC-V, then Intel is as well, transitively.

That there is zero overlap now does not mean it will stay that way, as Apple demonstrated so well.
Remember, the denialism backed with statistical evidence is called science.

As opposed to scientific consensus, which is the opposite of science: faith in experts.
> PRs I sent were rewritten, squashed and merged by the Dendrite team, instead of them just doing reviews and asking me to fix what they considered unfitting(substandard/wrong.

Core devs rewriting and fixing up PRs typically saves a ton of development effort. We field lots of PRs and while I make my best effort to hold their hand to get tests written and such, at some point it's intensely wasteful of everyone's time to have five, six back and forths trying to get the person to write the test case you are telling them to, which you could write yourself in 90 seconds. never mind then getting contributors to write good docs, good changelog notes in the format your project uses, etc. I'll give them one shot for that stuff then I just do it, I really don't have time to "train a new employee" (who doesnt even want to be trained, they just want their one-line fix) for every single one line change.
There's also the new Samsung 27" ViewFinity S9 5K. The list price is $1600 but Amazon has it for $1300 in the U.S. I've heard mixed reviews, particularly about how smoothly it works with Macs.
Anthropic never even had a day. I said this before in another Anthropic thread but I signed up 6 months ago for API access and they never responded. An employee in that thread apologized and said to try again, did it, week later still nothing. As far as commercial viability, they never had it.
That's more about the contents of the merged commits than anything else. Modifying the commit message(s) fixes that, as long as that's what the commits actually did.

Aside from that, how are "a fix for a bug" style commits not "clean"? If merge 123 into master contains a bug that is fixed in a future merge 1234, it doesn't seem "dirty" to me; quite the opposite actually, as it tracks what actually happened.

Now, "wip" style commits shouldn't be on whatever main branch everyone is working on: that's what branches are for. And if everyone is just working off the main branch and committing directly to it, that's an organizational deficiency; not one that VCS can solve.
I use some of the astro apps like Star Walk and the like, and there's a glaring issue with their internal red modes. When you need to input text, it uses the OS keyboard which is no longer red filtered. It is very jarring when out in the dark.

Do the filters you're suggesting also tint the keyboard?
You think it is hard to export an agent? It's a master prompt, a collection of documents and a few generic plugins like function calling and code execution. This will be implemented in open source soon. You can even fine-tune on your bot logs.
Does anyone have an idea why they are so open about Whisper? Is it the poster child project for OAI people scratching their open source itch? Is there just no commercial value in speech to text?
I thought it would go without saying, but devs don't control the release schedule. The best best solution is to simply optimize before release but they clearly weren't given that choice.

Publishers care a lot less about review scores, and never cared strongly about user reviews. They were so polarized to begin with that Steam changed it from numeric actors to up/down (or meh). It's a long running game and scores can improve.
I sometimes get angry when I spot a double space in a printed book. How does that even happen?
It is possible to backchannel to them like any other company. It's just much less... publicly evident, if that makes sense?

Also (IIRC) if you post on their dev forums and deal with e.g Quinn, they might ask you to file and provide a radar - but it's been a minute since I've interacted over there.
> the 1 billion row benchmarks are run on a single, uncompressed 50 GB CSV file. 50 GB should be stored in multiple files.

For a generic OLAP db, maybe. In this case, though, a single file fits one of DuckDB's use cases: analytics on the data consumed by or produced by a data scientist. In such scenario, it's not uncommon for a multi-GB input or for dumping GBs of a dataframe into a single CSV file.
Buddhists still do it (called "terma"), but I don't think it's necessary to call your secular philosophy works Buddhism anymore.

And of course people in the US often make things up and call it ancient Asian wisdom too, but usually aphorisms rather than whole books.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this; certainly more energy than it deserves since I don't buy lottery tickets.

If I somehow got enough money to where I never have to work again, I think I'd still do software engineering at a company, but I think I would stop focusing on how much I'm being paid, and more importantly, I'd stop being scared all the time.

I've been "laid off" (really fired) twice in the last year (and there's still time for a third!), and it's led to a near-constant state of fear on my end. Every time my manager schedules a meeting, I'm petrified that it's gonna be outlining the details of my severance and COBRA. Every night, I'm psychotically checking my email to make sure that I didn't forget some requirement that's going to piss off an executive. I'm constantly afraid to speak my mind at my job because I'm afraid that if I say something unpopular that it will be the final straw, and I'll be stuck spamming LinkedIn again.

If I had millions upon millions of dollars to my name, I think I'd have less anxiety about everything. If I get fired, who cares? If I get a bad review and don't get a promotion I want, no big deal. The job would be there to supply me with a stream of interesting problems, not an existential requirement.

ETA:

Just to be clear, my managers at my current job are perfectly nice, they've never done anything to make me feel like I should be walking on eggshells, I'm just dealing with some trauma.
The documentation/READMEs in the GitHub repo was updated to play nice with the new v1.0.0 of the package: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/
Perhaps the danger is the appeal. Pulling off a successful rebase that passes all of the unit tests first try, that's a thrill.