skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it doesn't technically apply here, the larger point remains that people get handcuffs and corporations get handshakes...
It's been happening on Chrome as well for the past few days so I wouldn't be so quick to jump to conclusions.
So have you learned anything about arrogantly talking out of your ass or nah?
It's not just Google's goal, either: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3671132/what-is-manage...

Ensuring you only use the OEM's recommended browser looks like the endgame of the internet.
Look, a lot of these sci-fi movies make no sense in space. Especially with the scale of things, and how they could structurally hold together.

For example I recently watched the movie "the Creator" and the space-based defense system "NOMAD" was clearly visible from the earth, as if it was maybe 1-3000 feet above. But no, it's in space! Yes, you heard right, it's in space, and you can see its scale in the movie, yet somehow instead of being a tiny dot, it's visible to everyone as it "hovers" over an area. So, they don't even try to make it realistic for people who think scientifically:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp3P31ap4No
I wouldn't do this on phones. Alcohol and the needle are conductive materials.
It's a water fountain
Nobody's forcing anybody to use these tools.

They'll improve hallucinations and such later.

Imagine people not driving the model T cause it didn't have an airbag lmao. Things take time to be developed and perfected.
I haven‘t tested this thoroughly, but I have a feeling that YouTube also forces worse codecs on Firefox. Codecs that can only decoder on the CPU, making Firefox seem sluggish and wasteful. This is a reason why I switched to Safari on macOS.
> Because it’s average?

Yes.

> Should be 50% no?

No. It's giving the statistically average correct answer, which it already knows because it has been trained on answer books for these standardized tests.
Pitching my own: https://github.com/mjl-/mox has a "mox localserve" subcommand that runs a mail server on localhost for testing, including a pedantic mode and special addresses that cause failure conditions you may want to test for. This is actually a full mail server (SMTP, IMAP and much more) and it comes with a webmail client. The "localserve" mode was just so easy to implement that I couldn't resist.
If they’re all based on blockchain, won’t this hugely slow down transaction speed? Right now paying by visa involves a tiny message to my bank where it goes “yeah ok” to the sale. One would think if they’re going to invoke a digital ledger, then this will have to be computed on every single transaction. I can’t see that being done quickly on billions of transactions a day.
Out of curiosity can you just give me pratical example of: "it's so cool but once that tech is out in the real world, it just mostly causes damage."
China, Bangladesh, India, and Chile come to mind.

I don't know if Milei will succeed but his recipe for success (liberalization) is correct. No one is claiming that it's easy.
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It's the "without proper code review" part that I consider malice, not being inexperienced.
Feeding your break through prompts into gpt and thinking magical things are happening is current year rain dancing and water dowsing.
Sounds like a perfect use case for multiplatform Mirai, single binary.
I think the last couple decades have demonstrated the dangers of corporate leadership beholden to whims of shareholders. Jack Welch-style management where the quarterly numbers always go up at the expense of the employee, the company, and the customer has proven to be great at building a house of cards that stands just long enough for select few to make fortunes before collapsing. In the case of companies like GE or Boeing, the fallout is the collapse of the company or a “few” hundred people losing their lives in place crashes. In the case of AI, the potential for societal-level destructive consequences is higher.

A non-profit is not by any means guaranteed to avoid the dangers of AI. But at a minimum it will avoid the greed-driven myopia that seems to be the default when companies are beholden to Wall Street shareholders.
I believe systemd has a way to subscribe to timezone changes.
> There was never a rehire option on the table for Sam at OpenAI

I don't believe this for a second. Why address your shareholders and start a re-hiring tizzy if you're just trying to poach engineers? Microsoft could achieve the same outcome for a whole lot cheaper.
That's a completely new take for me on how things went down. Thanks for sharing.
Your phrasing here suggests this is some kind of dunk on sama, but it’s really not. JFK and Huey Long both had cults of personality, it doesn’t mean they weren’t incredibly effective and influential.
There's a current fashion for tech "leaders" (bosses, really) to try to imbue in their staff a kind of cultish belief in the company and its leader. Personally, I find these efforts extremely offputting. I'm thinking of the kind of saccharine corporate presentations from people like Adam Neumann and Elizabeth Holmes; it evidently appeals to some kinds of people, but I run a mile from cults.

My guess is that a lot of the people that will follow Sam and Gregg are that kind of cult-follower.
Fair enough, I didn't know SES simulator was only zero-affecting for stats and quotas.

However then surely this thing is just re-inventing the wheel that LocalStack already invented ?
Assuming you meant the GM data center in Milford & Warren...

1) There were ways around it via a secure proxy for outbound

2) If proxy was blocked because of your zone, you could escalate and get deviation. Just need the right security person to approve. I've definitely launched stuff in prod and it's like whoops didn't know that would be blocked or forgot to submit to be opened.

3) Maybe you encountered a power tripping "security architect"...gotta find ways to avoid those.

4) Unfortunately in non-IT corporate, you need to not just be able to be good at engineering but good at cutting red tape to keep your team moving. It's time consuming & frustrating.

5) The in-house alternative is PCF, which is phasing out for Azure. I thought PCF was a dumb idea to start.

6) Same red tape exists for Azure :(

I'd say it's worse for security. Maybe this has changed...left GM 6 months ago. I actively refused to migrate to Azure till they worked out the kinks. I'd have to have a frankenstein solution to satisfy their policy. I.e, app is in Azure but dependent web services are internal... Azure is considered external even though it's walled off for us...but it's external and we can't connect internal stuff to it.

We had actual products to deliver and didn't have time to be guinea pigs.
And this will help also with power delivery. As an EE, putting 100W in such a small connector gives me shivers.
> It’s a bit tragic that Ilya and company ...

There must be an Aesop’s fable that sheds light on the “tragedy”.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/923989-if-you-choose-bad-co...

Or maybe this one? (Ape seems to map to Microsoft, or possibly a hat tip to Balmer ..)

The fable is of the Two Travellers and the Apes.

Two men, one who always spoke the truth and the other who told nothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came to the land of Apes. One of the Apes, who had raised himself to be king, commanded them to be seized and brought before him, that he might know what was said of him among men. He ordered at the same time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on his right hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him, as was the custom among men.

After these preparations, he signified that the two men should be brought before him, and greeted them with this salutation: “What sort of a king do I seem to you to be, O strangers?’ The Lying Traveller replied, “You seem to me a most mighty king.” “And what is your estimate of those you see around me?’ “These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and leaders of armies”. The Ape and all his court, gratified with the lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer.

On this the truthful Traveller thought to himself, “If so great a reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?’ The Ape quickly turned to him. “And pray how do I and these my friends around me seem to you?’ “Thou art,” he said, “a most excellent Ape, and all these thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too.” The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave him over to the teeth and claws of his companions.

The end.
Is it that different from how we view Github copilot ?

As far as I know there's a sizeable number of devs who don't intend to ever rely on copilot, and I would expect the a similar trend in the drawing community with amateurs and pros not specially anti-AI, but not wanting to have a random generator meddle with their art.
Firefox has a small userbase partly because of the early "oopses" described in the article I linked. Those happened a while ago, when Firefox had more users than Chrome.
I live near there; I think the impact on residents may be overstated but I'm not close enough to be directly impacted, so I will defer to those who might be.

The main negative impact will be on the transport infrastructure in that area. It's already blatantly unable to cope with the number of people in that area and a development like this can't possibly be contemplated without a wholesale upgrade of Stratford station. There's a bit of a sop to improvements but an order of magnitude less than required.
I was thankfully out of the ISP business before the Winmodems hit. But the many... agonising... hours... spent doing support sometimes with the same person to get people online is something I'll never forget. We had someone who'd call back every few weeks because he had "optimized" (broken beyond belief) his winsock configuration in new and inventive ways that makes me think he was most likely doing it on purpose for social contact.

Every time it'd take an hour or more, because you'd tell him to do X, ask him to confirm he'd done X, ask him if he was sure he'd done X, then have him try to go online, and he'd call back and it'd turn out he'd done Y because he "thought it'd work better".

Also, the sheer number of times people who'd get too trigger-happy and start trying to connect before they'd hung up...
Is there a suggested local date and time implementation?

Simple example is parsing a csv that has date and timestamps data - and are indifferent to any timezone
ublocker on chrome is working fine! just update de filter
> They have billions in funding and have not yet got particularly close to GPT-4.

Wrong. Claude 2 beats GPT-4 is some benchmarks (e.g. HumanEval Python coding; math; analytical writing.). It's close enough. It doesn't matter who holds the crown this week, Anthropic definitely has ingredients to make GPT-4-class model.

This is like comparing similar cars from BMW and Toyota, finding few specific parameters where BMW has a higher score and saying "You see? Toyota engineering is nowhere close".

This actually shows Sam Altman's true contribution: the free version of ChatGPT is undeniably worse than Bing Chat, and yet ChatGPT is a bigger brand.

(And it might be a deliberate choice to save money for Claude 3 instead instead of making Claude 2 absolutely SotA.)
Because people are are into tech? That's pretty much the whole point of this site?

Just imagining if we all only used proven products, no trying out cool experimental or incomplete stuff.
It is usable in commercial applications given you disclose the use of AI. This applies only to the pre-trained models. You can train your own from scratch without these restrictions.

You can fine tune it on your own voice and also not be required to disclose the use of AI.
Any neural network is just maximizing a likelihood function under the hood.
Or Recursed [1] if you have Scheme-stained glasses.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/497780/Recursed/
This really makes you appreciate open source locally hosted models.

Chatgpt is a big part of my workflow. (And maybe my best friend?). What happens now?
A mother loves her child. Those researchers certainly don't think of it as a monster. We can't know how history will look at those people.
I recently learned that the US Navy was installing crystal radios in ships as late as 1942. And why not? With one, the ship could still receive AM voice or Morse code even it it lost all electrical power.

https://californiahistoricalradio.com/wp-content/uploads/202...
> In js I thought 1==true, and 1 is shorter than !0 ??

`1==true` but `1!==true` (`===` and `!==` check for type equality as well and while `!0` is a boolean, `1` is not.
I question his libertarian cred, he wants to pull out of trade deals, wants to cut back on immigration, is anti-abortion. He's one of those "libertarians".

He's also a crackpot who thinks he can talk to his dead dogs through a mystic and holds conspiracy theorist views on Covid and climate change. Just a nutter.

But I can't blame the Argentinian voter for wanting to kick out the leftists that brought them hyperinflation. Let this be a lesson to all the far-leftists who don't understand that printing money leads to the destruction of your country in more ways than one.
Go to Twitter (X?) and search for "OpenAI is nothing without its people" and prepare to be mind blown.

It's seems like a cult right now, tbh.
Having moved from London to US SF. Residential buildings are very close, London is not spaced out from commercial settings like in the US.

> "Those who support it, however, say it could be an incredible opportunity for the area. And could transform this underdeveloped site into a thriving destination in itself."

Using the buzz-words in high profile planning applications: rejuvenating a under 'developed site'? We're talking about Stratford, houses London's BIGGEST shopping centre, it's not underdeveloped.

> "Developers of the Sphere offered to give residents closest to the structure black-out window blinds as a compromise. Somehow this didn’t appease them."

I can't imagine having a disco like effect of high powered LED lights whizzing past every few seconds some 50 or so meters away taller than most buildings.

Just so we can consume more ads? This should not be allowed. I'm with the residents on this one, I imagine will be appealing the application.
IMO it's because the stock photo of "the 1%" is a superyacht or a private jet, which makes people like HNers think that they themselves are far below the threshold.

A private jet in the case of this article. I bet that's not how HNers would illustrate us as a group. Quite a nasty rhetorical trick, really.
> For business and for the consumer. They can retire Bing search at this point, making it Microsoft Copilot for Web or something.

Nah it would make it too understandable. It's Microsoft, they'll just rename Bing to Cortana Series X 365. And they'll keep Cortana alive but as a totally different product.
I experience the same glitch and i like it because you can just reload the page (cmd-r) and then the video starts so if you're used to it you can skip ads within less than a second and you dont get annoyed by the ad sound/video, just an image.
Corporate profits should be the driving force. Because then at least we know what (who) and where the controlling source is. Whereas "humanity" is a PR word for far-more fuzzy dark sources rooted in the political machine and its extensions, functionally speaking. The former is far more able to be influenced by actual humanity, ironically. Laws can be created and monitored that directly apply to said corporate force, if need be. Not so much for the political machine.
I said it already several times, but it's worth repeating.

Stop using the youtube.com frontend entirely. It's enshittified beyond redemption. If they could replace it with a big ads billboard with no added value while leaving their profits intact, they'll do it.

If you really have to watch some content that it's only on YouTube, use Piped, Invidious, or one of the many tools based on youtube-dl or any of its forks.

Google deserves piracy now because a big loss of revenue resulting from their hostile practices is the only thing that can stop this enshittification process. Google will stop only when users say that it's gone too far. Scraping them, pirating them and financially damaging them is a moral duty at this point.
I think it's less "it's all just fiction so why do you care" and more that trying to analyze fiction by looking at contradictions or inaccuracies in world building is easy but fruitless.

I think the most interesting part of the article is that it basically criticizes the film for featuring a prominent geographical feature that kinda looks like a trench and having the big ending scene take place in a trench but making the two completely unrelated. This is an example of misdirection, which can be a useful tool in storytelling, but it doesn't do anything with it.

Others have commented about films being "flexible" with real-world urban geometry to better provide a visual narrative but I think the point is that considering these "mistakes" misses the point. It's not that, say, Paris looks like that, but in the context of the film it is certainly meant to feel like that.

Patrick H Willems made a (infamous?) video about the related topic of "plot holes" a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9HivyjAKlc While I disagree with the idea that plot holes never matter (arguably they can get in the way of suspension of disbelief and be a case of bad craftsmanship even if the art itself still ends up fine) he's right that trying to dissect a film through the lens of "logic" usually misses the point.
> ridiculous land costs, population density

I'm with you on most points, fair enough.

But don't quote "land costs", and especially please don't cite "population density" at me when comparing UK and Japan.
It was easy for me to have theoretical ideas about culture when I wasn’t trying to raise three mixed kids in that culture.
So we should throw our hands up and see how this plays out? I think there's enough evidence that AI is already dangerous and has already caused enough harm that it's a good idea to crush AI any way we know how.

These researchers are like little children playing with guns. Cool at first until someone gets shot.
HN is no better. We love to jump to premature conclusions. Just look at this thread. It doesn't even link to anything (right now the submission link is https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/login/) and yet people are automatically bringing out the pitchforks.
5 years from now, not only AI will be more advanced. Also techniques and machinery to make things will be more advanced. Just think about other existing technologic advancements and how absurdly 'ta-da' they would have sounded not too long ago.
Double-equals behaves differently than triple-equals. Minifiers probably can't swap them safely.
Yeah, but the program may not be broken until you, the glibc maintainer, calls `raise(SIGSEGV)`.

Most programs using setenv call it before starting any threads. That is not broken.

Detecting the linkage of thread support and crashing that program on purpose is, frankly, a pathological way to fix a non-broken program.

Besides which, your proposal won't work anyway, because this remains a potential problem in single threaded programs anyway: a program calling getenv, storing the result, and then calling setenv on the same variable and using the previously stored result will break anyway.

In summary, your proposal is broken in two different ways: 1) it breaks well-defined programs, and 2) it fails to break broken programs.
> 3. Sam and his buddies are taken care of because they are in for the money ultimately, whereas the true researchers can stay at OpenAI.

This one's not right - Altman famously had no equity in OpenAI. When asked by Congress he said he makes enough to pay for health insurance. It's pretty clear Sam wants to advance the state of AI quickly and is using commercialization as a tool to do that.

Otherwise I generally agree with you (except for maybe #2 - they had the right to commercialize GPTs anyway as part of the prior funding).
> POSIX specifies two functions that alter environment variables.

The same POSIX spec you're citing also states in no ambiguous terms that setenv is not thread-safe.

It's pointless to quote a section of a spec to try to justify failing to comply with the very same section of the very same spec.
Little pet peeve of mine.

Engineers aren’t a lower level than scientists, it’s just a different career path.

Scientists generate lots of ideas in controlled environments and engineers work to make those ideas work in the wild real world.

Both are difficult and important in their own right.
Ask HN: Any alternatives to GPT4V Vision API endpoint?
I am specifically interested in the vision api endpoint. I know about LLaVA[1], but it appears to be a research project, any commercial offerings a la OpenAI GPT4V?

[1]https://llava-vl.github.io/
Is the one in LV not hemorrhaging money?
It seemed to me the main risk was those CD cases with the little plastic fingers on the centre; they seemed to require a big force to get the CD in or out.
Probably because there are other methods for Chrome that don't apply to Firefox.

Like when I noticed that some sites did some URL rewriting trickery on Firefox and others browsers, but not for Chrome. The trick is to show you the proper URL the link points to, but as you click, it is substituted for one that is a redirection, for tracking purposes (ex: "https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http:://actualsite...").
On Chrome, they don't need to use these tricks as the browser supports the "ping" attribute of links, so they can do their tracking without rewriting the URL.
Needlessly pedantic. Hold consumers accountable too. "Durr I thought autopilot meant it drove itself. Manual, nah brah I didn't read that shit, reading's for nerds. The huge warning and license terms, didn't read that either dweeb. Car trying to stop me for safety if I take my hands off the wheel? Brah I just watched a Tiktok that showed what to do and I turned that shit offff".
Google employs 30000 engineers, it's impossible for them all to be decent.
Good Luck on your journey Sir!
This comment is misleading. Z80 also has an 8-bit external bus. And, FWIW, so does the 6502. The reason zero page is fast on the 6502 is because of more concise encoding, not because that memory is somehow faster.

I'm broadly skeptical that a 6502 outperforms an 8088 at 5x clock speed in practice. Would love to see benchmarks. Certainly I'd expect it to be highly task dependent.
How about just making it a good old fashioned nature park? Vegas and Dubai are plenty enough for building extravagant vanity projects.

And if the private owner of the space cannot extract value from it without degrading the quality of life of the surrounding area's residents, maybe there should be laws to give it back to the public. This would also tackle "investors" that buy cheap properties amass and leave them to rot, until they can make enough profit from gentrification.
> The exchange of services and goods in a market is positive-sum.

As long as you ignore externalities, yes.
Neither do search engines really. Like why does ChatGPT have to be considered so different from that when you could literally do all the same prompts in the form of searches and many search engines do the same thing at the very top as a quasi-summary? All that is required is to "string them together"