skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We’ve made ChatGPT Plus fresher and simpler to use

> Finally, ChatGPT Plus now includes fresh information up to April 2023. We’ve also heard your feedback about how the model picker is a pain. Starting today, no more hopping between models; everything you need is in one place. You can access DALL·E, browsing, and data analysis all without switching. You can also attach files to let ChatGPT search PDFs and other document types. Find us at chatgpt.com.

It's so annoying how they say this, I refresh and I still have to hop between models. Just say "rolling out over the next week" if that's what's happening. I even logged out and back in and still the same old way of doing it.
Ahh okay. Paul Graham and the hackability of the language itself. Got it.
I mean embeddingsDB startups don't provide embeddings. They provide databases which allows to store and query computed embeddings (e.g. computed by ChatGPT), so they are complimentary services.
> I've seen people forget to go back more than one commit and then blame the person who last indented a file instead of going back to the commit that actually wrote the code many times.

I default my `git blame` to `git blame -w` which ignores whitespace commits. Though knowing how to jump back commits should be required knowledge.
that's kinda interesting but I'm not sure it maps well to the value added by a GPT app. Like, I'm imagining that I'll do old fashioned API work and GPT will the UI layer - sure, the tokens are the most expensive part, but the value for the customer comes from easy access to whatever is on the backend
A political opinion you don't agree with is far from "unethical". It may be unprofessional though.

If I had a dollar for every coworker or business partner I ever had a disagreement with...
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Netflix literally does (or at least did) this. It's not even a hypothetical.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/90000-to-900000-pay-transpare...
Theoretically reading directly from s3 should be faster. Downloading all the data from s3 and then running the query locally is basically an extreme form of pre-fetching. DuckDB could be written to pre-fetch data concurrently using some heuristics and provide similar or better performance.
Your response is an unrelated rant. Here's your claim:

> But [writing it more simply] is never done

You're not saying anything interesting, you're just making grandiose false claims to start a flame war. Approach it from a good-faith perspective, please.
best practice is about collective liability. when following best practice, a failure is all of our fault. otherwise you own that failure alone. there’s room for both.
i worked in the field for seven years and saw some of this firsthand. i was the guy at the desk making the call and relaying the bad news from the back office. it always seemed deeply unfair & quite rich seeing as almost all of these institutions are busted for far more egregious behavior than what they suspect of the customers they de-bank.

one additional scenario that always stuck with me as to how wacky banks can stretch their power: i had a woman who had her own sole-owned accounts, a joint account with her mother, and her mother had her own accounts. the mother had overdrafted her sole account a few hundred dollars, and per the bank agreement, they took money from the joint account & the daughters sole-owned account to offset the balance. she was completely blindsided & distraught once it all became clear as anyone would be. how is that fair? this was in 2015. hopefully things have changed.
I am not a lawyer, but this doesn't seem quite "free". Note that they aren't indemnifying customers for any consequences of said legal claims, meaning that customers would seem to bare the full brunt of those consequences should there be a credible copyright infringement claim.
Another interesting implementation is Shake: https://shakebuild.com/

It is technically a Haskell DSL, but supports Ninja files, time estimates and has tools for linting and profiling.
Just say Scots. We can handle it.
The TTS seems really nice, though still relatively expensive, and probably limited to English (?). I can’t wait until that level of TTS will become available basically for free, and/or self-hosted, with multi-language support, and ubiquitous on mobile and desktop.
Look into the crates you use and you’ll find tons of unsafe code, especially around custom data structures doing buffer pointer arithmetic and stuff. If it’s wrapped in a safe interface, you’d never know.
Oh, you could have said so.

Anyway, I for one don’t think that staying with for example nginx for two years on the same version is a good idea. Even if they fix security issues, you still miss out on features.

And this is for lots of other packages.
Your comment is basically a summary for this book:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath:_The_New_Science_of_a...
True humans have been remarkably ignorant throughout our short history. Though you might notice though that most folks dont go around abusing animals or hurting other people on purpose. Take from that what you will.

Give this essay a read if youre interested in good faith arguments about the danger of AI at the current state of development.
https://1a3orn.com/sub/essays-propaganda-or-science.html

Maybe together as a species we can avoid hellish cyberpunk dystopias brought on by regulatory capture of the most powerful technology created by humans thusfar. I can only hope.
Is this going to be openai’s moat?

E.g. one popular comment in the submission about twitter’s new “edgy ai” was that it could be reimplemented as a chatgpt prompt[1]. Looks like this is even more relevant now.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38148845
Oh, yeah, that does make sense, and I suppose it might also be a better approach if the objects were large (especially if you can avoid reading some parts). In that case prefetching could be wasteful (or result in OOMs).

I didn’t think of that - thanks for the explanation!
That's only true if the router drops randomly rather than hashing into buckets by host
It seems like everyone knows Kai Fu Lee. Is his name something one should recognize if you know Andrew Ng and Yang LeCun?
it starts with "clo" and ends with "urce"
> Every ban erodes our freedoms, bit by bit.

That's basically reductio ad absurdum and a common refrain I see on HN. Restricting the worst dark patterns in software is not an affront to human freedom. Banning selling cigarettes to kids is not the same as Uighur concentration camps.
And if the floor of your salary range is lower than that of all your competitors, it will make it harder to attract good applicants to the position; I definitely notice the bottom end of the range when looking at job postings.
How do you find the right commit from a month ago to reflog to?

How do you determine which combination of changes are yours, and not accidentally undo changes that other developers made in the last month?

Could git reflog have helped? Maybe sometimes. If we had the foresight to have saved the right commits from the past, sure. I think we did start saving old branches just in case it happened again, but then we had to sort through a month of changes to figure out what to keep, what to change, and what conflicts there might be.

Remember, the person screwing up didn't know he screwed up. And the person trying to fix it is doing so a long time after the fact. It was a disaster.
All the "Gen" bullshit was explicitly considered to be an internal designation. You can blame tech journalism for bringing that out into the world, because the USB IF never promoted that as a marketing term.
The demo just showed a file dialog box where they could upload a set of static files. What I'd really like to see is the ability to sync a source integration (for example into a GitHub repo or a notion account), and it would always pull relevant information using a RAG architecture.
That is the difference between a "game" and a "toy". One does not win or finish playing with a toy. Some software is games. Other software is a toy. This was a big deal when SimCity was pitched. There is no win. That's OK.
good managers in a bad ecosystem. Sounds like you were lucky to have them.

Y'all should've written some automation to send random buzzword paragraphs and system diagrams at a regular, random cadence.
Why would this reduce negotiating power outside of cases where one *shouldn't* have leverage in the first place?

Someone who just happens to be a smooth talker shouldn't be earning more than someone else. If they actually bring more to the table, that is why they should earn more.

In a company with transparent compensation you have access to what everyone else is making so you can demonstrate you bring more value to the company than other people making $X.
I appreciate and thank you for the integrity of not wanting to edit something after it's been referenced.
Yes both contribute to the depletion of the freshwater resources available.

This is a well documented problem
Oh nice, didn't realize HeartBeast switched to Godot. When I first got into game dev with GameMaker Studio about 8 years ago I used to watch his videos a lot to learn, I guess now I'm gonna repeat that cycle for a different engine. Thanks for reminding me :)
I don’t know about the L40S but my experience with the L40 hasn’t been so good. I would say it’s okay-ish to decent for inference. Horribly slower than a H100 or even a A100 for training.

The FP8 and higher cuda level is nice I guess, if your toolchain supports it.
You can add and compare bignums in bitcoin script.
Yes! GCC calls it computed includes.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Computed-Includes.html

I used it to include architecture-specific source code and also a generated C file containing a table of Linux system calls defined by the Linux UAPI lone is compiled against.

The makefile defines those macros by passing flags:

-D LONE_ARCH_SOURCE='"$(ARCH.c)"' -D LONE_NR_SOURCE='"NR.c"'
By making it simpler and not having a ton of rarely used features, and by using a programming language that makes it more difficult to write bugs.
I thought the same thing.... My guess is they did a lot of analysis and decided it would be safe enough to do? "most likely" might be literally a handful and cover little of the entire distribution % wise?
No, they just lie in their marketing

> Example GPTs are available today for ChatGPT Plus

or

> Starting today, no more hopping between models; everything you need is in one place.

Neither of which are true. I'm a paying user and I have access to neither. They do this _all the time_. They announce something "available immediately" and it trickles out a week or more later. If they want to do gradual rollouts (which is smart) then they should say as much.
For large-scale usage, it doesn't matter what the devs want. If the lawyers show up and say "We can't use this technology because we're probably going to get sued for copyright infringement", it's dead in the water.

It's a logical "feature" for them to offer this "shield" as it significantly mitigates one of the large legal concerns to date. It doesn't make the risks fully go away, but if someone else is going to step up and cover the costs, then it could be worthwhile.

For large enterprises, IP is a big deal, probably the single biggest concern. They'll spend years and billions of dollars attempting to protect it, cough sco/oracle cough, right or wrong.
If it truly is GPT-4+ with a 128K context window it's still absolutely worth the high price. That is literally 300 pages. However if they are cheating like everyone else who has promised gigantic context windows then we are better off with RAG and a vector database.
Right. All I'm sayin is I want the God level AGI, the king of kings of AGI.

Allowing me to customize ChatGPT is the same itty bitty intelligence, like putting a new mask on ChatGPT.

OpenAI changed their values to 'AGI Focus'. This seems like OpenAI losing focus.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. It doesn’t require a “lot” of fuel. It depends on the mission profile.

And guess what you can do? Run 9 LEO missions with the same booster and throw it away on the 10th with a GEO mission. That’s freaking incredible.
Employers already can pay for this data through companies that literally provide this. Employees do not have access to the same data due to cost (unless you count stuff like levels.fyi or Glassdoor). How would making this info more public help employers more than employees?
FTR, Fennel support was indeed fairly easy to add.

https://github.com/MicroLua/MicroLua/commit/b9dfa2407afe932b...
As long as it is possible to apply specifically for a grade that seems fine, right?
That's one way to solve the problem of all those empty apartment buildings.
But only very briefly as a caveat on the description of harms (because those aren't otherwise substantiated where there is adequate ventilation).
An interview he did with Wired is a good start: https://www.wired.com/story/alphabay-desnake-dark-web-interv...
These senators believe the Earth is 6000 years old. Their worldview doesn't get any more rational from there.
As your parent already said, (and it matches my experience), we didn't have any of these problems when using systems without history rewriting (mercurial, for example).

I recall when I first switched to git at work and the team was insisting on a "linear history", I was bemused: Could these developers really not handle a merge graph? It was bizarre how something straightforward in other VCS is suddenly "messy" amongst git folks.
I want to control my Chrome book by talking
Yes, nowhere in the text today was there any assertion that Turbo produces (eg) source code at the same level of coherence and consistently high quality as GPT4.
ok.. thanks.. I'll try it out. I can think of few use-case that we have where this might be a good alternative to athena.
> How do you reconcile believing that you improve your software against the idea that others make theirs worse?

It all depends. As an employee, I just accept that there's little I can do about the whole situation because the causes of it are things I have no control over[1]. This issue is actually one of the ones that gets me thinking that there isn't much room for engineers like me in the software industry anymore.

With my own software, I do have that control, so I avoid the practices that I think are leading to not optimizing for quality.

[1] In my current position, my employer does not engage in the practices that I think are problematic, and I am proud of the quality of our work. But it's a special case because we produce industrial machinery and the software has to be rock solid when shipped, constant updating isn't possible, etc.
Which actually seems pretty reasonable assuming a median somewhere around the middle. That's +/- ~$60K which is a fair bit of money but seems like rational range for a given role.
I know that term, but I don't think it's that much more clear. When someone forks the code and makes changes but doesn't contribute it back to the community, them having been allowed to do that is more permissive. However, what outsiders can do with their changes is less permissive.

There's no shortcuts to making a nuanced topic much more clear.

However, it is a frequently used term, so it's useful for quickly referring to these licenses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_software_license

I also didn't say that this type of license is the only kind that is acceptable to me. I like copyleft, including AGPL, and for me it depends on the context. In this situation, I want a vendor neutral federated chat tool. There already is one, XMPP, and Matrix has long been putting itself forth as the successor. However, they just made the reference implementation non vendor-neutral.
I have not tried, but I assumed that API access to Anthropic's Claude is available through AWS Bedrock.
I use commit history a little bit more than that, but mostly agree. I had another dev recently give me crap about the mess of "WIP" commits on a feature branch because they review by clicking through the commits and my commits don't tell much of a useful story other than I apparently did some shit and eventually it all worked.

That said, I've also come to the conclusion there's basically two classes of Git users: people who really understand Git and use it fully, and those of us who basically use it as a place to shove source code before quitting for the night.
Not eMarkers but retimers / redrivers. Basically, once you go beyond a certain length you need the cable to "boost" the signal. The tested cable is longer than that, so it needs active electronics.
It also takes extra fuel to land an airplane. Does it make sense to just throw the whole plane away after one use to save the extra landing fuel?
Showing again that it's all bullshit.

Thank you for the information.
Black holes don't "eat" surrounding objects. Their gravity is no different from the gravity of any other object of the same mass. This hole has a mass between 10 and 100 million solar masses; that's about the size of a dwarf galaxy. So its gravity would be no stronger than a similarly sized dwarf galaxy. We are in no danger of having the universe eaten by dwarf galaxies.
Nature created mycelium which eats microplastics (and all kinds of carbohydrates) for lunch and grows shrooms on top of it. Not sure why we need artificial proteins for that.
Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2023) review: entry-level enigma
Use Whisper for the audio processing and pipe the output to an LLM that generates shell scripts.
Yeah you're right. Their rate limit page shows they know what they have, the business model is not an afterthought: https://platform.openai.com/account/limits
That's a great question... I wonder if Justine would be interested in that. She has her own sector lisp too.
I noticed that too but I think it's because we are hitting new servers that just went online. They will probably get saturated and slower with time when other gpt-4 users start using gpt-4-turbo.
costs != damages
> I want my pipelines to be declarative anyway.

Is there any CI system that allows one to write declarative pipelines? What would that even mean? GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, etc. are all effectively just shell scripts disguised as more or less verbose yaml, with some trigger conditions added.

I guess nix's hydra is the closest to a declarative CI system that exists, because nix does the hard work of abstracting the imperative build steps into a declarative interface. Even then, if you want to do anything outside of nix derivations you would be writing something imperative.
That's actually a way better experience than no confirmation and confirming each item individually.
> volume increases cubically with radius

This intuition does not work in curved spacetime, particularly not for black holes. Black holes do not even have a well-defined volume at all.
$12k each at Thinkmate
> The EU should be focused on generating demand like Commercial Cargo/Commercial Crew did

The EU has long given up on Cargo supply to ISS and that budget is bound in the Orion Service module.

And Crew wont happen in Europe anytime soon.

They simply don't have those things, and partly this is because of their own bad planning and investment.

> then allowing fixed price providers to meet it however they can

The problem is there are no such provider and there wont be anytime soon. Even if they were, they would be small providers who can't launch 90% of the value that Europe might want to launch to orbit in the next decade.

So sure this is a nice sentiment but its not realistic anytime soon.

> Ariane has turned into a lumbering zombie

It always was. Its just that the American and Russians took themselves out of the game by pure stupidity. So Europe was really the only option left.
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I dunno. I think my mental model for my hobby stuff is that I'm aiming for a small-run (1000 or less) Etsy store kinda deal.

IE: I'm going to sell something for $150 to $500 in relatively small numbers, that meaningfully helps people with some specialized niche task that big companies are blind to... with a BoM aimed at maybe $30 and an overall production line of 1-hour (assembly time + testing / manufacturing / boxing) time or less, since I'd likely be the only person boxing these devices up and shipping them out.

I mean, ideally maybe like 10-minutes assembly time or shorter really. Depends on how much time you're valuing your labor.

I bought an HDMI lag tester that proved whether monitors for the fighting-game community were 18ms lag or 30ms lag, since the fighting game community is very, very, very particular about tournament setups. There's no way a device like this would make a sale at the large scale, but that's the kind of "Etsy-project" that I literally bought back when I cared a lot of about getting my home setup close to tournament specs.

Or perhaps $300 joysticks custom built to look/feel like arcade sticks, at least before Madcatz / big guys started making them.

In case you're curious: this was a $120 doohicky that was an HDMI output signal that flashed white-rectangles on the top-left, top-right, center, bottom-left, and bottom-right of the screen, .... plus a photodiode that accurately measured when the HDMI-signal went out minus the latency to the milisecond. The last time detected was updated through HDMI output.

This is a project most of us hobby EEs could accomplish and likely sell on Etsy. But we gotta keep costs down below $30 BoM in practice. Its a meaningful project and something good tournament organizers knew to buy and test with.

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I've heard the estimate that for hobby / Etsy store level manufacturing, you're looking at 5x BoM for a fair price. Ex: $20 BoM sells at $100, $100BoM sells at $500. If you can't accomplish this, then your business idea sucks, go think of another more profitable idea. If this niche product exists, then you've got a potential Etsy-business idea.

I think there's a good market for $100 to $500 specialist niche electronic tools like this, taking advantage of the small sizes of communities, small scale of builds, small markets, etc. etc. (If it were a large market, Hasbro or Nintendo or some "big guy" will jump in and likely take your market. If its like 1000 total lifetime sales, that's enough to make the hobby worth it but small enough that no big company would tackle that niche).

If you're talking about $500 parts, then we're talking about $2500 sales price (using the 5x BoM fair price scaling as a mental model), which is likely outside of the hobby/Etsy craft tool for niche subject market.

There's a lot of hobbies out there where $100 to $500 tools (ex: $100 HDMI lag tester, $300 joystick, Replicated Pop'n Music controller), is fair. Going above $500 or $1000 Bill-of-Materials (aka: sales prices in $2500+ range) kind of gets you back into professional tools and you're suddenly a loser.