skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft absolutely runs their own models on their own hardware, at scale, and they have done so for years just like every other hyperscaler -- Project Brainwave was first publicly talked about as far back as 2018. The generative LLM craze is a recent phenomenon in comparison. They are absolutely going to go all in on putting AI functionality in Bing, in Excel, in Windows, etc etc. To do that, you need hardware.

None of this is really strange. It also wasn't strange when Google announced H100 systems while also pushing TPUs they developed. Microsoft has Jensen on stage because customers of Microsoft Azure demand Nvidia products. Customers of Google Cloud demand Nvidia products. So, they provide them those products, because not providing them loses those customers. It's that simple. Everyone involved in these deals acknowledges this.
Right. The entire value is in a scaffolded CRUD application that simplifies RAG and API connectivity.

Now, this doesn't work as well as I'd like it to, but I have reason to believe it'll improve over time. Getting simple retrieval/RAG and API connections to GPT is what every analyst has been asking for since it came out. Now they're making progress here and capturing everyone at $20/month (well, when signups are back) to use this feature set.

The actual prompting and all the grifting going on with "AWESOME PROMPTS" are useless, of course. Mostly. It's in the private distribution of these GPTs to co-workers and employees with updated knowledge files and likely a custom omni-API that can be hit by the GPT.
While NVIDIA provides the best absolute performance for training, Intel (i.e. Gaudi) already provides much better training performance per dollar.

The funny thing is that this fact has been shown inadvertently by NVIDIA:

https://www.servethehome.com/nvidia-shows-intel-gaudi2-is-4x...
long term deflation is bad, but a house going from $400k to $1m back to $600k in a few years isn't "a bad thing". same with rents decreasing.
All Facebook and Twitter profiles are the personal websites and blogs of this era. The benefit of having a dedicated "website" is between none to negative.
You can't use a Tom Waits (or Morgan Freeman) sound-a-like because you're profiting off their work and likeness. Unless the celeb sells a licensed sound-a-like.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-tom-waits-sued-doritos/
The person you're responding to is OP. The link is this thread.
I used to be a pretty heavy user of Google Keep, which was functionally most of what I use Samsung Notes for now, but my usage fell off. I don't know what Notes used to be like, but nowadays I find it to be like a better OneNote, and since I prefer to use the pen for note taking of all types, it's become my go to on all platforms.

With Calendar, I've always found Google's UI to be kind of clunky and the flow for adding a new reminder a bit too involved for what ought to be functionally equivalent to circling a date and adding a note on old school calendars. I also expect it to show me a direct overview of the entire month rather than just the day with an additional menu to show a rough overview of the month.

Samsung's app comes pretty close to this smooth flow, by actually just showing the tasks per day for the entire month on most of the screen and by having a textbox right at the bottom where you can just type out the reminder and it'll extract the needed info from that. Google's app IIRC has a similar feature, but having to tap the + icon, then think about which category my task falls in kind of breaks the flow for me.

Edit: I forgot about Samsung Gallery, which I also find to be far superior to the Google version. I love that the image editor has version control without creating duplicates. It feels like it's actually used by the developers, since in most of casual smartphone editing you just want the cropped image (eg with screenshots). I also find the automatic image segmentation and clipping in the Gallery app to be a convenient and cool 'hidden' feature that the Google Photos app lacks.

This isn't to say that there isn't any bloat. There are many apps I don't care for. But that's the same with Google's apps. Overall though, I feel Samsung has come far from the old touchwiz days, when it felt like they were being different for the sake of being different, while nowadays it feels like they actually have a vision for their services with how everything interoperates between devices.
It sounded good until I read the part about the images being checked by liars, I mean "fact checkers"
What's the length of a school run though? This could do 75 miles each way, twice a day without charging.

But the bus isn't used for most of the day, so you could realistically halve that range anyway.

And I doubt any bus routes are that long anyway.

And what's with the name mega BEAST? Is it going to get my kids safely to school, or eat them?
Kagi Ultimate now includes Assistant (still nominally a beta feature) with access to GPT-4, Claude 2, and Bison at the moment. I flipped a coin and decided to try upgrading my Kagi subscription instead of going with ChatGPT Plus.

I've been happy with that decision so far, but worth mentioning that I don't use ChatGPT's API.
Wow. Was she cool?
The Vatican cannot bear that there are secrets that it cannot know. The pope cannot bear that there are groups beyond his supremacy.
> Surely you see that these are directly connected. With an increasing cost of living and a legally fixed profitability per month that isn't going up over time nor keeping up with inflation, from the landlord's perspective, there's little to no incentive for them to fork over cash they never got from the apartment to put back into it. At that point the only incentive is to hold onto the property itself and wait for its value to increase while deducting depreciation, and perversely, they are incentivized to make you as uncomfortable as possible since they cannot raise the rent on the unit until you move.

Sure and we also stayed and maintained the building and the landlord's property through the 70s and 80s when New York was a cess pit. My neighborhood was famous for petty crime and was full of pimps, street hookers, bums and scammers -- New York was half empty compared to now.

My landlord still had their property because of tenants like us who stayed when life in NY was grim. I was just around the corner from a building famous for the landlord trying to burn the tenants out (The Windermere).

Also what the landlord was doing by not completing the repair was illegal. Fineable. Slumlordish. Having a 2' round, 1' deep hole in the doorway of my bathroom floor is a massive safety issue. You're saying my landlord shouldn't be required to repair it because of incentive? If I fell in their hole and hit my head on the toilet and died, they would have a multi-million dollar liability on their hands.
Fellow batch 8er! I got the 8-core AMD option, super excited. My 2016 Razer finally shat the bed after I attempted to clean the keyboard...now it "turns on" but the fans don't spin and the BIOS never loads. I read it might be the fuses on the motherboard, but I tested them all and continuity is fine. I was originally a bit hesitant to go from a GPU-enabled laptop back to integrated, but realized that almost all the games I played on my laptop didn't need a GPU anyway. My Razer battery would blow up every once in a while and I suspected it had to do with the excessive heat of gaming, so I stopped pushing it.

In the meantime I got my desktop set up again (was stuck on Windows 7, now on linux) and got some horrible Asus laptop for when I'm not at my desk.

The only thing I'm worried about is all of my current setup is on X and it seems for any real display scaling that Wayland is the way to go, so I'm not excited about switching everything over (I'm on i3 and probably a few other tools/scripts that rely solely on X). I guess we'll see how it works out.
Show HN: An open-source alternative to OpenAI function calling
OpenAI function calling provides a means of producing valid JSON from a function signature, or a simplified version of a JSON schema definition; however, it has two big downsides:

1. it doesn't work with open-source models, and
2. sometimes the JSON it produces will not even parse.

A similar interface was recently merged into our open-source project Outlines. The approach can be extended to any open-source model and it can guarantee that the output will be parsable JSON.

Constructive feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and questions are greatly appreciated!
What year should we put on the title above? archive.org has it back to 2004: https://web.archive.org/web/20041206000418/https://www.demos...
I get your premise and it's true for a lot of stuff, but the equivalent is saying that following the rules of the road white driving is a personal choice. When choices start effecting those around you it's a different animal.
Inflation will probably never be "over", since stable inflation is generally positive for growth and employment. The Fed's target isn't for 0%, its around 2% y/y
There's no pool of competitors -- that's why I'm doing this in the first place. The resources for learning this stuff are scarce. I just don't know how to get the word out there. I'm not looking to make money, I just want to give this away for free, because I think it's worth it. I can't even give it away D:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tristan+da+Cunha/@-25.6523...
Exactly. Prison culture is a mirror of our collective psyche.

We as a society are gleefully accepting of cruel and unreasonable punishment, with a disturbing level of bloodthirstiness.

Similarly, we are accepting of the merciless brutality of Healthcare-as-industry.

The unspeakable violence of poverty.

We have hardened our hearts in order to see, walk by, live along these, and more, sources of easily preventable suffering.

This hardening is making us sick, too. We just somehow can't make the connection.
It’s exciting to imagine that we can soon enter the age where people will be able to voice their opinions in their own voice and choice of words, long after they are dead and gone from this physical world. Perhaps the first version of some digital afterlife.
Feds Have No Idea How Many Times Car With Human Drivers Have Hit Pedestrians
It seems to be changing slowly but surely, thankfully.

There was a recent post on Reddit made by a prisoner [1] (who was in for life for murdering his sister) who has a locker full of manga, books, MtG cards, and a tablet with minecraft (which he rooted to allow for sideloading of apps). He says he feels very comfortable with the prison life there. I never expected this from a prison in the state of Georgia of all places.

This is only one anecdote, but it struck me as surprising when I heard of it. The more we start to focus prisons on rehabilitation instead of just punishment, the better.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Prison/comments/q96ixg/this_is_what...
“Monkey hammer” is definitely very illustrative of a particular kind of chaos, I like it.
This is astounding. This is the kind of demo that we could only dream of just five years ago, now some hacker dude on Twitter can just throw this kind of thing together. Seriously cool.
The inferior product here is Apple's iMessage. Apple is using decades old technology (SMS, introduced in 1992) to poorly pass messages with Android devices over cell service. They could update iMessage to use RCS and alleviate a lot of the green bubble issues without "opening up their ecosystem" (whatever that means).

Instead, Apple has chosen not to update iMessage because the poor experience they are creating for their own users makes their users believe that messaging on iPhone is superior to Android. Which it obviously isn't, you just have to look at any other messaging app like Telegram that runs circles around iMessage.

If Apple actually cared about this "ecosystem", they should just stop supporting SMS messaging all together, and have it so iMessage users can only communicate with other iMessage users.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60068.pdf (“A Statistical Characterization of School Bus Drive Cycles
Collected via Onboard Logging Systems”)
That's definitely one factor, but from what I recall (it's been a while) the connection was slightly more subtle. The NBA season (Oct-Apr) overlaps the flu season (Dec-Feb) so if people are googling NBA results you're in either in or close to the typical flu season. If the NBA decided to change their schedule, the correlation would go away.
Nice, will this work for C# code too, or just GDScript?
That is the definition of a hypocrite. Reasonable hypocrisy remains hypocrisy.

From Oxford Languages:

> the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform
- parallelization
Being a good and unique person is still valuable. Just don't forget to be really good looking.
J. Pahlka: What causes such maddening bottlenecks in government? 'Kludgeocracy.'
>> Unlike income or consumption taxes, an LVT is non-distortionary. It doesn't discourage productive activities like work, saving, or investment

>It's not great for anyone who chose to invest in land based on the current rules, and then the rules change.

Taxing land is intended to change current land investment behavior.
public transit is the answer, not stuffing a bunch of sensors into a single car

but nobody's getting venture capital for that, nobody's making a profit off of it, so here we are
Have been hit by Uber twice as a pedestrian. Reported it to Uber support, I gave location and time. And they don’t care, support agents keep dropping and handing off the request because the know it will go nowhere. Where’s the regulation of rideshare accident reporting?
I'm just a regular user who hardly ever touches a terminal window. I have a 10+ year old laptop and am running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and am running X11. How will this affect me?
Deflation is not bad and is in fact good for savers. Moreover, deflation encourages less consumption which is good for the planet. I see you've been brainwashed into thinking the government needs to steal 2% of your wealth every year lest the economy will blowup.
A little deflation can be fine, good even. Inflation oscillated around 0 for most of American history and our economy did great.

Most gut aversion to deflation comes from great depression PTSD.
That's pulling out of a chest, where they can pick up the entire stack in a single tick.

Pulling off a belt will be a notable slowdown, and picking items off of a wildly mixed belt will be a huge slowdown.
> If AT&T started introducing delays, message duplication, degrading image and video quality, etc whenever you messaged a non-AT&T customer

Except Apple isn't doing any of that. I have zero issues texting with my non-iOS friends, only difference is I don't get the extra goodies that iMessages brings to the table with them.

> I care that they won't implement RCS or let users change the messaging protocol handler on their phone purely for anticompetitive reasons.

Uhhhhh they don't discourage any of that. I have Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp, all those options. I just can't send them from a single app.

You are totally free to change your messaging handler by choosing the app of the messaging platform you prefer to use.

You're literally upset because you can't use Telegram inside iMessage? lmfao.
One cannot overstate the usability difference between 3 and 3.5.
Sure, but are teenagers going to write to their carrier asking for more people in a group chat, if they even figure that information out?

There are basically no solutions to this problem. Android will never be cool to teenagers, the lock-in started early, and will trickle down for decades.
Why are paywalled posts allowed on HN? Is there a valid reason?
Maybe this is why people don't actually read articles, just the title. Why click on links if you're going to be forced to pay?
Is working at McDonald's really so bad in the US?
> Obviously, members of the public have no access to this information (VINs) as to for-hire AVs

Sure they do: grab a convenient traffic cone, put it on its hood, and then read off the VIN at your leisure. Or just walk up on the hood of the stupid murder robot, if you are diggin' your 70's cop show vibe that day.
The Government Surveillance Reform Act looks to be a great bill, and the stars finally seem to be aligning for real reform. I'm hopeful for the first time in over a decade. However, GSRA doesn't go far enough.

GSRA still allows USGOV to wiretap communication links/facilities and save a copy of the communications without any individualized suspicion for those communications. Let's be clear: This is mass surveillance.

This would be fine if it were strictly used for foreign intelligence purposes and completely firewalled off from domestic criminal law enforcement.

But that's not what GSRA does. GSRA still allows the warrantless and suspicionless mass seizure of communications, it just says that the government needs to apply for a warrant to search through them retrospectively.

Don't get me wrong, that's a whole lot better than the current situation where FBI/NSA/CIA do not even need a warrant, but it's still mass surveillance and it's still incompatible with the Constitution.
I do a similar thing when the latest GPT+DALLE version says "I'm sorry I can't make a picture of that because it would violate content standards" (yesterday, this was because I asked for a visualization of medication acting to reduce arterial plaque. I can only assume arteries in the body ended up looking like dicks)

So I say "Ok, let's start over. Rewrite my prompt in a way that minimizes the chance of the resulting image producing something that would trigger content standards checking"
I don't think I've seen hotel rooms like that before. Just one or two beds in the main room and a bathroom, with a mini fridge and maybe a microwave, but no kitchen - for example: https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/chisr-renaissance-chic...
The government saying that inflation is ending is not contradicted by the OP's comments about previous price increases. When there is not or small inflation, prices don't go back down. they just stay at the current price.
well, it's bad if you bought at $1m.
"In defining bullshit, Frankfurt (2005) also draws comparisons to the notion of bull sessions. He finds that these informal conversations offer a space for participants to discuss “emotion-laden aspects of life” (p. 36) without the seriousness that such exchanges typically entail. In this respect, bull sessions (and by association, bullshitting) bear a resemblance to modern therapy sessions where patients are encouraged to share (i.e., to reveal their most authentic inner thoughts by expressing themselves emotionally rather than intellectually; John, 2017)."

Yet:

"Frankfurt’s analysis can be organized along four dimensions that highlight the
differences between bullshitting and the more established concept of lying, namely their relationship to truth, meaningfulness, constraints, and accountability. Ultimately, Frankfurt argues that the ease with which bullshitters can violate discursive rules through their focus on self-presentation and indifference to factual accuracy presents a substantial threat to the human apprehension of objective reality."
Your contract is worth the price of the paper it's written on.

You can bet that trying to get your employer to abide by the terms written on it will be impossible if they decide they don't like what they originally agreed to.

You even mention such cases where people signed a remote-only contract which employers are now using intimidation tactics to get you to ignore.

Since employers are so brazenly treating contracts as being non binding, why should employees?

Basically: it is far past time that employees started using our own muscle to get the clowns in charge to behave.

Refuse to go back to offices.
It's also probably accurate. But we'll never know what my prompt says.
Right of Publicity: https://higgslaw.com/celebrities-sue-over-unauthorized-use-o...
Yeah that would be cool. I think we may be going
ReMarkable rolling out new software update, promises enhanced experience
Assumable mortgages were a (common) thing until the low interest mortgage Era. But they are (again) a thing and in-fact add premium value to the selling price of a home if your mortgage happens to have the feature along with a low interest rate. VA mortgages are the convenient example for this but there are other types of assumable residential notes as well.
https://therealdeal.com/national/2023/06/12/assumable-mortga...
Have you asked the police to bring charges as a hit and run? I mean, if you can't get Uber to answer, pretty sure the cops can get them to do so.
> PPI is a leading indicator for CPI, since it represents what producers are paying. A falling PPI would (probably) indicate lower CPI inflation in future releases.

PPI and CPI historically are loosely correlated, but show no clear lead-follow relationship. PPI seems to swing harder, but not first.

https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/insights/market-comm...
I didn’t even realize desktop applications could/should implement the Wayland protocol. I thought it was just WM’s (and some DE’s?) that needed to do that, basically anything that directly replaces X, but not the apps running on it. Is this something every Linux desktop application will need to do?
Social bonds are formed by humans, not technology. In effect, the technology used is almost a side-effect. You can build social bonds through emails, letters, walking and talking with people.

Today, kids are using Google Documents to communicate with each other in classrooms (ie: sharing links, collaborating on homework, etc. etc.), They don't need Webrings to share a set of links that happen to be on the same subject. In fact, you don't need any real tech at all, it could all just be a bulletin board, it could be a phone number that you leave somewhere with a computer hooked up that everyone connects with a 300 baud modem to. Etc. etc.

Or ya know, a Tweet, a Reddit post, a Facebook message. A google group. Etc. etc.
At 150mph that's a one-hour trip to school and one hour back home. Is the manufacturer a subsidiary of Ferrari, by any chance?
Analyzing archived footage is much different than real-time analysis.
It's not easy to act on the information in a car. But the technology is sure as hell advanced enough to tell if you hit someone. I mean it's literally video you can look at it
Jen Pahlka herself provided that link when people complained to her on X about Washington Post's maddening firewall. If papers provide that free link to authors why don't more people share it?
ETSI Releases Tetra Algorithms to Public Domain
https://demozoo.org/
I got a unit from batch one and experienced some gpu issues and sleep/wake issues, but they went away after updating to bios v3.03. It's been fine since then.

Mediatek wifi is basically as good as the ax210 in my 12th gen.

The CPU uplift over the 12th gen i7 is immense. I foolishly forgot to do before/after compilation times on my usual projects, but in general things seem to build significantly faster (Medium-Large sized Typescript + Rust codebase). My workloads also don't seem to get the new cpu as hot as my 12th gen intel cpu got.
During the pandemic I was changed to permanent full time remote.

I work for a large private university. If they told me to come back into the office three days a week I would not even consider not complying. I'm pretty sure they'd fire me after a week or two of me not showing up.

It blows my mind that people can get away with just ignoring such directives -- especially in the commercial sector.