skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me to Bing in Edge: "Copilot, are you running on GPT-4?"

Bing: "Hello! This is Bing. I’m sorry, but I’m not Copilot. I’m a chat mode of Microsoft Bing. However, I can tell you that according to my search results, GitHub Copilot has been upgraded to use OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 language model [1][2]. It is now more powerful and offers more accurate code suggestions and explanations[1]."

(Footnotes provided by the AI.)

[1]: https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transfo...

[2]: https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-uses-gpt-4-to-turn-gith...
Nothing dumb about helping your family, so it doesn't sound too bad to me all things considered.
Sam Altman's involvement in Worldcoin is not expected to change
The future of workforce management will see a shift towards hybrid work models, leveraging advanced technologies like AI and automation for routine tasks. Companies will prioritize flexibility, employee experience, and well-being, fostering a culture of continuous learning. The gig economy will continue to grow, and diversity, equity, and inclusion will play a central role. Enhanced collaboration tools will support distributed teams, and sustainability practices will gain importance in shaping the future workplace.
It says open source, then it says limit of 10 SSO users. IANAL so this confuses me. Can you explain what this means?

Actually, that sounds rude, excuse the ‘tism, I’m sorry. I’m just not super familiar with the license stuff, I generally only touch MIT licensed code when it’s work related, but I thought open source generally allows modification to code. So how do you enforce a limit of 10? I just skimmed the code a bit because of this confusion and I see stuff about enforcing a license in there. So couldn’t anyone just remove that license check code if it’s open-source?

If that can’t be modified, then it’s just “source available”, isn’t it?
Which to me is also fine, I just feel like I’m being either misled, if you get what I’m saying?

Basically I think this project is pretty cool, so I wanted to bring it up to my boss because I think we have a need for this, and I had previously brought up Airflow, but I don’t know how to explain this to her.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness. Typing on mobile while answering Teams messages and tickets.
If my favourite sports team was in the championship (and the underdog), I could easily make the claim "team $NOT_MY_TEAM is the best in the world" and still hope that my team beats them.

Not saying pg is doing this, of course.
I get that. I think the less common domain extensions are having a similar effect right now though.
Yes, absolutely, in my neighborhood in Manhattan, all the time; it's honestly one of the most pleasant things about this place. They're usually in small groups, and almost never "glued to screens", for what it's worth. (I've seen the glued to screens thing, but usually when families are together.)

Anecdotally, the people I have in my life who are the most afraid of leaving their kids alone are suburbanites.
Cambridge University Launches Institute for Technology and Humanity
Great book, I am glad it is now easier to purchase worldwide.
> almost like a cosplayer

If only growing startups were as easy as cosplay.

> And I had assumed that you meant formidable in a positive sense

Yes, I did. See also: https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1727386273936199893

> prefer not referring to people colloquially

If not everyone, at least for hackernews participants with 12k+ karma, you'd think they'd know very well who runs hackernews, or used to.
Maybe finally business “leaders” are realizing how completely worthless these companies are? Business consulting is literally a bunch of Ivy League grads making PowerPoints and calling that a deliverable.
Define godlike...

The ability for a human to input information is insanely slow. Like in the tens of characters per second range. You cannot hold individual conversations with more than a few people at once. 3 people talk at once and you lose the ability to process the incoming audio. You read text one line at a time. You have two eyes that focus on the same thing and only have a very tiny high fidelity visual processing space.

In books like the bible they talk of entities that can listen to and respond to all of humanity. Is that outside of the capabilities our computer systems have now? To listen to, catalog, classify, then respond to everything every person on the planet says?

So I ask again, what is godlike?
Show HN: LLM.js Playground – Run Language Models from HF in Browser
I am also English. :)
Thanks for sharing ! Spent the last hour watching it, it was illuminating.
A search for "wifi adapter linux" on Amazon brought up a large number explicitly advertised for Linux for me.

At least one of them with an extensive list of which distros are and are not supported.
The consequences of naming someone in such a manner, in an article that makes its rounds on the Internet, can be actually quite dire. Public harassment, etc. There are some pretty unhinged people out there, and in particular some rather ugly people who in particular get especially unhinged on the topic of women in tech at Google, etc.

I think it's in very bad taste in this case.
Love Charlie, love his insights, love listening to the little nuggets he has to say in the shareholder meetings.

But holy moly, this book has been a drag for me to read. I actually stopped about half way through. This is 100% on me, of course. I highly recommend reading a sample before buying.
Not only it can cover those cases, you will likely be pleased with the advantages of such system (the automatic GUI creation is just one of those).

The binary itself doesn't sandbox your processes unless you're in the nsjail mode. Hence, if you either use the binary raw (without docker) or mount the filesystem to be available to your container, it can run anything that is available on the filesystem.
Broadcom was essentially bought by a private equity firm who took the name as the name of the umbrella corporation.

Before that Broadcom was (and still is) one of the larger communication hardware companies, making chips for cell, wifi, bluetooth, ethernet and ARM SoCs, along with telecom and data center boxes that used these chips. You almost certainly have their hardware in some device you own. But they have always had difficulty competing with Qualcomm, arguably in part due to anticompetitive behavior from the later.

After the acquisition, they have been acquiring enterprise software companies to diversify, including CA Technologies (think Atlassian/Oracle of the mainframe world), Symantec, and now VMWare.
This is spot on. I'll only add that the necessity of showing perpetual growth in the quarterly income report strongly incentivizes big companies to act this way, especially where--as in most tech companies--the employees have equity.
I have the unwieldy hardcover version [1] published by Walsworth in 2005. It's a great read. It's hard for me to hate a guy who ascribes his success to being fiercely curious about everything.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Charles-Expand...
> Is it a competitor to Retool? Airflow? Temporal?

If it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure I personally couldn't tell you specifically what any of those specifically do in terms of "the one thing they do well" / why anybody would ever use one instead of the other / not need to use all 3 to accomplish the same thing slightly different ways
> The U-2, being subsonic, was not expected to last long according to one of the books I read, don't ask me which

Probably either Skunkworks or Kelly: More than my share of it all. I recall that very soon after shipping the U2, they saw the writing on the wall for its operational limits and started working on the SR71 very soon after. Looking at the timelines, U2 first flight was 1955 and the first discussions for the SR71 were done in 1957 with work beginning in 1958. Powers was shot down in 1960 in his U2.
$800k sounds like a lot of money, and it is of course. I considered chasing it, because it’s within the realm of possibility for me. But when I looked at housing in the area, I was shocked to find that $800k was not enough. Regular ol’ houses are $3M plus, and the schools are shockingly not that great. I live in Seattle, where I own a home that’s expensive compared to most other places, and still I couldn’t make the math work without taking a big drop in quality of life. You could, of course, just rent, but $800k is such a big number that I just assumed if that was my salary, I wouldn’t have to think twice about affording a nice house.
PBS Passport
John Oliver took a big swing at McKinsey a few weeks ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
> with consulting there are no certifications, no licensing — it’s kind of a Wild West mentality

I imagine how bad it would become if you'd have to get an official certification to do consulting work
On Amazon I see $22,49 (despite the Stripe page’s link stating $30).

I am in Brazil though, so the shipping adds more $25,53
Does it cover the prison-like windowless monstrosity of a dorm he designed for UCSB?

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/11/02/architect-resigns-grotesqu...
Good point. I've been working out more often. Lifting weights, calisthenics. It definitely does help me get in three meals a day more often, but not consistently.
I think this is one of the upsides of the chaos at OpenAI recently. It has really shined a light on how many of the people most fervently obsessed with "safe-AI" really aren't clearheaded or rational thinkers and are prone to making many disastrous and ill-advised decisions as anyone else. This is good because there is an unfortunate human tick where pessimism/cynicism is equated with wisdom while optimism is equated with naivety.

But when the pessimists and cynics show so clearly on such a large scale that they aren't uniformly wise or competent, it will allow more levelheaded perspectives towards LLMs and a more general cautious optimism be the guiding philosophy around developing these tools.
Are you talking about using it AIO? It seems preferable to me in general to have VMs live on external storage like a NAS. Proxmox, KVM, Xen and I assume everything else all support using iSCSI at least. Then your storage layer can focus on that and handle all the backing up, data integrity etc itself. I guess that does raise cost for the same performance vs a single box so it'll depend on budget/needs, but it's getting pretty affordable with a bit of shopping to do some serious storage devices these days.
Fluent UI React Components v9
> tech media are largely not even close to neutral here

I don't find that surprising at all. Many of those reporting are highly dependent on "access journalism." I suspect it's pretty hard to be neutral when if you piss off the wrong people they will cut you off.
feels more snappy than my normal windows 10 experience. Even the boottime is way faster with win98.
I don't really understand what a "workflow" is / what it means.

Like GitHub Actions is a workflow, but it's a convoluted YAML wrapper around shell scripts.

Is a workflow shell scripts? I'm going to guess no. I'm going to guess it's "code". So... why is a workflow code but code isn't a workflow?

Windmill is a "workflow (code?)" orchestrator?
Yeah, hence why Larry and Sergei don't care that the company they founded is currently on a downward trajectory...
The mind's eye of a neural network system – Purdue University News
One of the arguments I saw in years past was that there was an element of “make sure our competitors can’t get the best people by just hiring them even if you don’t need them”. I suspect that the mass layoffs at google etc were at least partially due to that.

There’s also an element of large companies working on many different things, and the more you silo projects the more people you need because many projects end up duplicating work.

You also don’t necessarily see the output of teams at large companies, potentially for years, so you see large numbers of people working but there’s no external/publicly visible product.

But then you also have “we’re successful right now so let’s pretend that the current growth rate will continue forever and hire accordingly” which is mismanagement that eventually needs to be corrected.
Hmmm. This wasn't happening to me on airplane mode last week. I opened a bunch of tabs on Wikipedia with a connection, and I was able to read them on the plane. It didn't destroy the data.

Is Firefox getting low memory killed on your device?
Since I've never worked anywhere a MacBook Pro wasn't standard, probably? I wouldn't switch to a Windows machine for work. Maybe for a Framework running Linux but probably not!
Kind of surprising it hasn't happened. That's the sort of regulatory capture that the big firms would love to have.
That’s ideal, but it’s a lot harder and involves more invasive tracking to determine normal activity.

You really have 2 options from a UX standpoint. Either allow the login and notify you, which gives you less friction in your experience with the application if it really is you.

Or they can stop you right on the login screen and send you an email with a code or a link to click before you go further. It’s more secure, but it adds friction on the more common case that it really is you.
It's largely engineers who don't really understand the value of a C-level person, as evidenced time and time again in the comments.

The concept you could fire someone for business reasons and later be their very good friend and recommend them for another job - sometimes an even better one than you employed them in - doesn't fit the single-input single-output mind of a lot of engineers.

It's alright. We all have roles to play.
The same filtering mechanism you have in place for your application logs is applied to the argument hash before being sent to the server.

https://github.com/callstacking/callstacking-rails/blob/599d...
This is really really incisive, I almost shivered: I went through a "defrag" from Android Wear to Android (i.e. they shut down Boston Android Wear and offered us jobs on Boston Android)

I was over the moon because I was a more traditional tech nerd and felt I had really lucked out, coming in as an iOS programmer and ended up at the core of Android UI.

We lost half the team in that transition to other things, the vast majority of that 50% transferred to other things within Google.

That occurred exactly along the lines you mention, with some side help of them accepting there was something genuinely wrong with Android's culture that needed to be avoided, as Ian mentions.

That self-selection combined with the...qualities...of Android completely changed the job. For the first time at Google I was working with people who genuinely, firmly, at their core, had no real interest in anything except the paycheck. I do believe this is very well-adjusted and have a hard time explaining the feeling and what it leads to without sounding derogetary. Your post does such an excellent job of pointing at it.
Is don’t think I that hash method would work since that part of the URL isn’t sent to the server. It’s strictly used by the client to decide which part of the response we to show.

Server has no need for it.
The argument is that there are plenty of unprosecuted crimes already, obviously.

I understand why you might disagree with that, and I understand why your reading comprehension might work better when not discussing your employer, but I have to say, you're really not helping your firm's reputation here.
It was several months ago, so it is entirely possible. Back then I got the feeling that windmill tried to be more of a low code business/internal tool platform than a data/ETL workflow tool, I especially missed an expressive way to define workflows programmatically (i think you had a JSON schema but nothing as powerful as dragster where you can define a whole workflow in pure python)
Sorry things are looking so bleak. We're pulling for you.
Some people will argue we are open-core because almost everything is open-source (AGPL) but our sso and enterprise plugins are under a source-available proprietary license.

The reason that we didn't split them out of the codebase is that it's harder to maintain and would require to load the plugins. We didn't want to waste time on that when we had so much to build.
If respecs are free:

You're playing a Sword & Board fighter type character, and Stealth isn't one of your class skills, so you temporarily respec into Thief, steal the MacGuffin, and then re-respec back into Fighter and continue on your merry way.

You're playing a Frost mage and this dungeon is full of cold-resistant enemies. So you respec to Fire mage to do this dungeon.

You're playing a low-charisma class and need to convince an NPC so you respec into Bard to pass the conversation check.

Why even have classes at all at this point?
What do you mean by max spec? In my country the 16inch, M3 Max, 128GB RAM, 8TB SSD is 9666 EUR[1] - France seems a lot cheaper.

[1] My country does not use EUR, i calculated it based on the current exchange rate.
Sadly no. Nowadays monopolies are built on open standards (Linux) with law-making-machete in left hand and patent-axe in right. Everything is open unles wideVine/trusted computing/other vendor lock or another smelly thing that makes you unable to use your own computer and requires you to marry a big tech corp.

Meanwhile LibreOffice and other opensource software is staying in the same place as it was 10 years ago, because too open licenses do not require companies to push changes to the public or make them choose a proprietary solution instead
I went with one of these: https://www.reddit.com/r/SBCGaming
Eh, disagree. It means a lot. It's either hallucinating on a trivial use case or it's correct and not useful to OP. One of the seed prompts for GPT establishes what it is. I would find it odd if other, commercialized LLMs don't do the same since any sane PM would say "Wow, this hallucination is absolutely terrible for marketing ourselves. Fix it."

That said, https://blog.perplexity.ai/technical-faq/what-models-does-co... -- it's powered by OpenAI's GPT.
There are different sets of concerns governing police accountability, transparency, etc., from those governing various different types of corporations, and rightly so.
Im a big fan of using the same os/arch for dev and production - this avoids a shit ton of subtle errors, specially on compiled languages.

Many companies seem to push mac laptops for dev, but their prod systems where your code will run, run on amd64; this actually tells a lot about a company, engineering-wise, if your job isnt developing with interpreted languages.
The FBI doesn't investigate things like this on their own, and they definitely do not announce them in the press. The questions you should be asking are (1) who called in the FBI and has the clout to get them to open an investigation into something that obviously has 0% chance of being a federal felony-level crime worth the FBI's time, and (2) who then leaked that 'investigation' to the press?
Contrary to 'common knowledge' it seems that most US homes have the ability to use 220 volt outlets like the rest of the world does. What is surprising is why people in the US don't have special 220 volt outlets in areas like the kitchen.

220 volt electric kettles are four times faster than 110 volt kettles, ohm for ohm, which is why the US market for electric kettles is miniscule in comparison tho the rest of the world.

Even when allowing for differences in allowable current maximums most US kettles seem to be around 1500 W (so 15 amps input) while rest of world kettles run at 2400 W (or around 11 amps)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hover!
Why release this when Route53 exists?
That doesn't necessarily follow. Lots of people have difficult jobs. Line cooks have to make priority decisions under high pressure, and it's impactful.
I think most people are delusional about this, including the operators talked about in the article.
I believe this is mostly posturing and people trying to find ways to get some of that sweet subvention money flowing for renewable tech and associated. In other words, there are some profits to be made and for this they need to pretend that they don't know better.
Because as you said, this is not sustainable. The numbers don't work, if we only build battery with renewables someone has to lose power somewhere some of the time.

I worked around a small model with rather optimistic assumptions with zero concern for cost and a focus on efficient consumption to determine what would be required to make a single 1–2-person habitation completely sustainable off grid but with most of the modern confort.
I used past weather data and sunshine/wind values. It doesn't work.
The number of batteries you need is ridiculous and unrealistic when you scale up the model, that's before considering costs that are just insane.

I think renewables are a good technology especially because we can use the peaks to our advantage and work/organise society around that. In particular car battery charging and air conditioning are 2 very good candidates.
Realistically we still need reliable technology to ensure baseload at all times, especially at night. Personally, I think nuclear is just that but just saying that word is so political that people lose all rationality it seems, so we get sucks in meaningless debates and projections...

In a weird twist, most pro-renewables are also anti electric car, I swear ideological people are really unbelievable. I think the world became too political in general (a feminine way of "solving" problems) but in particular the field of energy is overrun by politics; which is kind of funny when you consider that the core skill to make everything work is rationality.

But I guess when we will get grid shut down like in South Africa they will agree that batteries don't work. It will be too late though...
Has nothing to do with Google “being bad” and everything to do with emerging social trends questioning the corporatization of everything.

Such memes have gone viral across our society. From big beer boycotts, to turning on Google and SV. Filter bubbles across contexts are turning on the source of their fascination; we’re out for video games, Hollywood, beer, celebrities, experts, politicians. Knives aren’t out yet but the sharpening stones are.

The real value of decades old value stores foisted upon us in deference to the investor class, for if we do not validate their decades old choices and memes, they will have no choice but to engage in punitive acts, drive fiat economy off the fiscal cliff!

People are getting fucking tired of it. Sooner than later they’ll resort to whatever behavior is necessary to meet their needs and shoot anyone who takes issue with it.
Currently have 2 Windows boxes for work- 1 for the company and another for the gov department I'm contracted out to.

And then I have a MacBook Pro M1 Max on the other side of the widescreen to jump to when I need to do something productively...
I would hazard a guess that the SSO part is not open source and could be handled by a non-open plug-in. I should go read the code …

Edit: sniped by someone in-the-know
Can it run containers though?
That is almost a certainty. That, or it was more likely done one or two tiers down during the APEC conference.
Claude is useful. Bard seems good enough but for more serious usages you probably want to wait for Gemini.
This comment is bleak. Surely you can provide some feedback that's more constructive?
Like all businesses: they become their own goal. They become tools. Including for sociopaths.
>This darwinian logic has another fatal flaw. Why don't the cows revolt against the butchers?

No, this is just a complete and total failing of evolution on your part.

Evolution is the passing of traits by sexual selection (in this case). If you think that cows are the ones getting to chose the sexual traits then you've not been on a modern farm. Humans make that choice. We pick the bulls that are large, but also constrain their violent tendencies. Animals that would revolt are not bred and you've already ate them in a hamburger.