skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have no dedicated devops person and much of that work falls on me and other people who would be better writing code. I think the cloud paradigm is experiencing a shift.

Part of that shift is that prior to the cloud, the development environment and production environments were very similar. By that I mean if a programmer could set up his debian / redhat laptop from the command line, then it wasn't a big jump to set up a server running debian / redhat in a production environment.

But no one in their right mind runs k8s on their laptop just to support VSCode and a compiler. Worse they could not run AWS/GCP because they are proprietary, insanely large, complex and forever changing. I'm pretty sure becoming an expert engineer in those environments is a full time job. The end result is a new class of engineers have arisen that look after the production side, and the developers just throw their code over the wall once it's tested.

I'm sure the cloud providers love this, as they have created a cohort of engineers that have invested years in learning their product, now have their wages dependent on that product being used within their organisation, and a total monopoly over that product because it can never be reproduced by anyone else. But for the industry as a whole, it looks to be a backward step. Once the problem expands beyond what a single human mind can cope with, you need teams. The communication overhead of a team means they don't have a hope of being as productive as a single person.

The share amount of complexity introduced by these proprietary cloud frameworks looks to be unnecessary. Most of it smells like technical debit created by organic growth together with an insistence on backward compatibility (don't want to give those locked in customers an excuse to move). And desktop OS's are (Debian / Windows / ...) are insecure by design, at least when compared to their phone brethren. And, their phone brethren look somewhat like cloud designs now, Phones have isolated apps with private data areas. The apps communicate via channels provided by the OS, and the availability of those channels is controlled by permissions assigned by the user. In the cloud we isolated things for performance as they could run on distance machines, whereas in a personal device we did it for security. But the end result looks similar.

So maybe one day we will end up where we started, with a developer environment looking like the cloud we deploy too. I fear I'm too old to experience if / when it does happen, but it does seem like something we should aspire to.
I don't mind this idea, tbh, as impossible to police as it would be. Social media still has negative impacts to mental health without the algorithmic feeds but at least it'd be a lot easier to control.
Would be incredible to buy them on eBay!!
Placed an order on announce day. My main reason was the 500 mile range (for the tri-motor variant). As much as I'd like to buy the thing, if the range offered doesn't meet or exceed the promised value, I'll cancel my order and get my $100 back. If it does meet spec, I've got a check ready.
And use... who, exactly? Attackers know the identity provider is the foot in the door, so it'll get attacked no matter who you use.
Question remains, how do we know they were part of the training data?
"minor repairs are rarely more than $100"

2005 9-3 Linear here. I wish minor repairs were that cheap. Wait until you need your water pump replaced ;) Get ready to squick hard at the required labor charges (water pump is integral to the engine IIRC, requiring the engine to be pulled.)

Right now I need new spark plugs, injectors, and a turbo replaced, and a grounding strap issue somewhere I haven't been able to isolate. Gonna run me a small bit of change.
I have never seen an electrolytic capacitor fail in an automotive context, and I've owned my fair share of capacitor plague-era vehicles. I'd imagine it's a combination of preferring other types of capacitor for that environment and not buying the cheapest shit they can find in the markets that day like Dell did.
Employees care about their share value$. That worked well with Altman raising big rounds.
By abrupt way it was carried, it gives me the impression it was a conflict of personalities.

I don't buy the Q* talk.
I love the status lights on Caseta switches, there's no 'ambience' to them, you can see it's on, but even in a dark room it's not obtrusive, not even remotely (it's like a barely lit off white LED, and I do mean barely).

On my office desk with my computer setup, I have a pair of Vanatoo Transparent Zero speakers, which had a bright blue obnoxious LED that was way over the top... until I looked in the manual for some other reason and discovered you could actually hold one of the rear switches and turn a knob to dial the intensity all the way down, or off. I love that.
> He doesn't look like the guy into revenge.

How do you know this?

Idk why this is the comment that broke the camel's back for me, but all over this site people have been making character determinations about people from a million miles away through the filter of their public personas.
"Open"AI and for-profit. This company is a troubled mess and if it were not for the "potential" money, employees wouldn't be putting up with this nonsense. Sad to see Ilya getting sidelined as shown by this "...are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI".
There is no indication that Ilya has left the company, just the board. He seems happy with Sam’s return.

https://twitter.com/ilyasut/status/1727434066411286557
You wrote in general terms and then afterwards made them specific again. I just answered your comment, which is a subthread all by itself.

If you don't like the way HN works that's fine but I don't think you should be making further statements here until you've had a look at the guidelines.
> I think this is very bad news for roundcube.

Roundcube has been languishing a bit since the failed Roundcube-next fiasco. You can criticize the Nextcloud group for many things but at least they have proven to be consistent with pushing forward their open source projects.

> tangled and ugly mess of a UI

Maybe I'm an odd one but I have no issues with the UI. It's clean yet more info dense than many other commercial offerings.

> It is slow

I have mine working better than any google property. Nextcloud relies heavily on a performant database setup, so moving that to a separate NVME drive was one of the greatest improvements I ever made. That and properly handling image preview generation.

> Problem with free and open source software is that you have to follow the passion of the devs

Nextcloud is produced by a commercial entity, they are not a passion project. They target large installations and so tend to focus on that use-case. This makes tuning the stack to a small deployment a little bit of work.
Surprisingly, really good for automating/improving the UX for various niche internal HR tools too!
They acquired a company that does this, Annapurna Labs
His mission is super alignment

So out of all the companies, possibly only Google can provide a model to him right now to do the alignment work
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I feel like China could really gain by taking a page or two from this playbook.
> much easier to avoid huge cars in a smaller car

Though, having a higher line-of-sight is advantageous and typically not a feature of small cars.
I don’t understand: Quora is and, except maybe briefly in its early existence when it inexplicably attracted actual experts, always has been garbage marginally superior to Yahoo! Answers. Today the site is basically a Taboola chumbox. Why would OpenAI want to be associated with the people who created it?
In this space X/Twitter posts are press releases.
A major issue with solar thermal is clouds and dust. PV works fine with indirect light from a dusty panel, but to concentrate sunlight you need a clear sky and clean surfaces. Next you need 2 axis solar tracking to get high grade heat or a complex trough system with a separate working fluid and complex plumbing/heat loss. Next you lose energy trying to concentrate sunlight and from the heat engine itself.

In the end it seems like it should be cheap but nobody got it anywhere lose to PV pricing.
The man who brought up a billion Chinese out of hunger and poverty by opening China to the world's labour markets and capitalism.
From the article I got the impression it was for collecting weed vision data.
No. Microsoft have access to OpenAI models, they don't use OpenAI APIs etc.
"There are very few PHEVs that aren't using the same automatic gearbox as the plain-ole ICE model."

Except the most popular hybrid, the prius, which admittedly does t have a non/hybrid counterpart because it was done from the ground up to avoid unnecessary legacy technology
About time too. Terrible person. He'll probably get something close to a state funeral and a raft of fawning thinkpieces, given that he did so much to advance an imperialist type of US foreign policy over the past 6-7 decades.
Attaching a receiver to a wall outside might be much more challenging than hacking in certain situations.
I meant to address the notion that LLMs manifest emergent structures, perhaps derived from but qualitatively distinct and independent from the indisputably human intelligence-centered structures.

Whether and to what extent human culture itself has emergent properties, including some sort of emergent intelligence, is a different question; indeed, I think a more interesting question than that of LLMs, though the dispute over the behavior and nature of LLMs certainly suggests these questions generally, and begs the question of what we mean wrt emergence, intelligence, etc. (My understanding of emergence comes from reading the seminal book, Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, and some related literature. As far as I understand emergence, it's not really a close question of whether LLMs exhibit emergence.)
As a reminder, the increase of vehicle size has little to do with consumer choice but rather fuel efficiency standards.

https://www.resources.org/common-resources/how-much-do-regul...

Increasing fuel efficiency standards has outsized impact on the price of small cars, so fewer of them are made.
> The fact that we did not lose a single customer will drive us to work even harder for you, and we are all excited to get back to work.

I'm not a big customer, but I am starting the process of moving away from OpenAI in response to these events
The original Windows NT kernel was written in C. Dave Cutler liked C and did not like C++. I believe the graphics (not GUI) portion of Windows NT may have been partially written in C++. Also, a lot of the Windows management code (message processing, RegisterWindowClassEx, CreateWindow, SendMessgae, PostMessage, GetMessage, etc.) probably came from Windows 3.x . This code was also written in C.
I spent some time looking at this and it depends which hybrid, there is quite a bit of variation in drivetrains even within manufacturers. As sibling comment [1] describes the planetary gear arrangement in most Toyotas is quite simple compared to a normal automatic transmission, and the traction motor/generator replaces both the starter motor and alternator that a plain ICE engine would have. At the same time the hybrid system makes gentler use of the gas engine and brakes so even though they are mechanically near identical to the ICE model they will probably last a lot longer.
What the U.S. will look like if the world heats up beyond 1.5 degrees
IMO, corporate fines like this should be structured in terms of percentages of gross annual revenue + total Market Cap + total gross assets. And start at integer percentages above 0%.

Make them start at a number that the board will actually notice and want to actively avoid.

So, if you're a trillion-dollar company, then the fines start at 1% of a trillion dollars, and goes up from there.
Let us face reality and appreciate the 'average' people because they are the real heroes!
I honestly can't wait to have mine, I was in very early on one and now that I have seen it in person..I am so jazzed for it.
Evil may not live forever but it gets as close to it as it can.

How this war criminal [1] got a Nobel Peace Prize is mystifying.

[1]: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/henry-kissinger...
> why the employees are clamoring for him back

Because he's the one who's promising to make them all rich.
I'm not one to celebrate good news, but I'll take it.
> i'm still not clear

It isn't clear to anyone else either.
I thought hybrid powertrains are simpler and more reliable in long run, so prius should be #1.
There's got to be a limit to that. Most consumer home routers perform NAT, so the ISP should only ever see the MAC of the router's WAN interface.

The exception would be if you're running an ISP-supplied modem/router/AP combo unit, but in that case it should be no surprise they can see virtually everything on your network.
You might like to push the recirculate button/lever when that happens.
The idea of having the ‘temperature’ parameter is to avoid that sort of looping, but successfully training that behaviour out of the model during RLHF (instead of just raising the temperature) would seem to require the model to develop some sense of what repetition is.

It’s one thing to be able to mimic human text, but to be able to ‘know’ what it means to repeat in general seems to be a slightly higher level of abstraction than I’d expect would just emerge.

…but maybe LLMs have developed more sophisticated models of language than I think.
Toyota is Lexus and Honda is Acura but they all are not the same company.
You can work on and compile Linux on a home PC, even more the case with their other projects. Try training GPT-4 on a home PC.

The problem is you have no idea what you're talking about. This is not about how important something is, but what resources it requires as a BASIS MINIMUM for it to happen at all. Linux is important, but it's not nearly as expensive to create or maintain. If it's so easy for a scrappy non-profit to attract billions to tinker with AI, where I say are those startups? Where? Q.E.D. The most open thing we have, Llama, came from giant Meta.

Regarding the hardware startup, neither me nor anyone else is defending Altman about that, nor it has any relation to Microsoft. If you want to argue the subject of this thread, you're welcome. If you just want to copy paste generic talking points with no relevance, I don't care.
Yup, all people are fungible. That's definitely the Amazon way.
I wasn't comfortable before the announcement. You can't "rely" on it. You need a fallback - either another AI, or using it in such a way that it is progressive enhancement.
As I understand it: No. Microsoft has licensed GPT and they use that to offer it as a service via Azure. As far as I’m aware this gets you the same guarantees around tenancy and control that you’d get from any other internal Azure service.
Is it bad though? One giant loop and conditional forward jumps is not that bad for control systems. I think Cormack had a take similar to that.
And I thought people bring themselves out of poverty by hard work...
That clearly has nothing to do with what I said, and the accusation is not that the reviewer "referred" to an AI.

And for the same reasons I laid out, if a reviewer thinks they need to "refer" to an AI, they should just tell the editor they're not qualified. The editor does not need a reviewer to serve as a middleman between them and a GPT. The reviewer is adding no value at that point; the editor can already "refer" to an AI themselves if they want to.
One thing that years and years of looking at CR has attuned me to is that car electronics break all the time and are the reason why many brands have poor reliability scores even though the engines run, the lights turn on, and the doors open and close (most of the time).

German and American cars seem to have a very frustrating time with reliable electronics compared to Asian brands for some reason, and the problems persist year after year.

For especially electronic heavy brands, typically higher-end ones the problem can become particularly pronounced, the bottom ranked vehicles on this list are mostly high-end, expensive, and packed full of gear (except for a few). Electric vehicles and PHEVs have the biggest problems being almost entirely electronics.
Was in the exact same boat but luckily an old coworker gave me a referral and fingers crossed it looks like it may pan out but this economy is the worst I’ve seen in over 10 years.
yes, I think elastic search? , Now there are more examples.
Nice to hear a contrarian opinion, especially if it’s a positive one.
Small field test: I uploaded a picture of a typical small Korean Buddhist temple, with a stone pagoda in front. Anyone at all familiar with East Asian Buddhism would instantly recognize both the pagoda and the temple behind it as Korean.

Llamafile: "The image features a tall, stone-like structure with many levels and carved designs on it. It is situated in front of an Asian temple building that has several windows. In the vicinity, there are two cars parked nearby – one closer to the left side of the scene and another further back towards the right edge. . ."

ChatGPT4:"The photo depicts a traditional Korean stone pagoda, exhibiting a tiered tower with multiple levels, each diminishing in size as they ascend. It is an example of East Asian pagodas, which are commonly found within the precincts of Buddhist temples. . . The building is painted in vibrant colors, typical of Korean temples, with green being prominent."

No comparison, alas.
Losing Metaphors: Zip and Paste
That's a nice model that fits comfortably on Raspberry Pi. It's also only a few days old! I've just finished cherry-picking the StableLM support from the llama.cpp project upstream that you'll need in order to run these weights using llamafile. Enjoy! https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/commit/865462fc465...
Good people are getting 600-900k at amazon. Lead developers on major products like S3 are getting even more. There are tiers to amazon comp that doesnt get spoken about.
Not knowing anything about Wayland, I feel more than qualified to respond. :)

Under X11, a screen locker wasn't 'secure' in the same way as a login manager. If the screen-locker/screen saver crashed, the user is still logged on. If the login-manager crashes, nobody is logged on, and it probably just restarts. [0]

I think the jist of the article on jwz I linked is that, under X11 anybody can write a screen saver, it doesn't matter what window manager.

Under Wayland, the logic of when to start & make secure a screensaver (as opposed to screen lock) would be in in the display-manager or compositer, and there isn't just one of those, and attempting to get all of them to get together and standardize it would be a PITA.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html

[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/

[2] https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#2
We may be able to shortcut a lot of this...

> People tend to disagree on what they are, which is why we have so many explicit rules, e.g. copyright law and the CFAA and so forth.

If this is an explicit rule attached to every sale, then by purchasing a copyrighted work, you're consenting to that part of the agreement, yes? And if not, then how is this an explicit rule?

Keep in mind that regardless of whether or not law is an accurate reflection of morality, once it's part of the agreement, you consenting to it via purchase means you accept it, presuming as you said that it is indeed part of every sale agreement.
Sadly TortoiseGit[1] is only available for Windows :(

git-cola[2] is a decent stand-in for TG's commit review window though.

[1]: https://tortoisegit.org/

[2]: https://git-cola.github.io/
Yeah, it could also be a product of where you live. I live in the southwest us so it’s more area here and likely to dry them out faster. You’re definitely right about good quality not being as good as it used to be
That would still be a microbenchmark. Given that the benchmarks in the post take on the order of seconds to run, I am assuming they are not microbenchmarks, or at least, much less "micro"benchmarks. I would hope some sort of standard JSON querying benchmarking suite would include some substantial, hundreds-of-kilobyes or more JSON samples in it.
Also database.dev, specifically for Trusted Language Extensions:

https://supabase.com/blog/dbdev
The A1 (graviton1) instance type was introduced in 2018 and it's not available anymore for purchase, but I don't think they've forced anyone to migrate.

Customers will want to migrate anyway because the newest types offer much better performance and pricing. At which point AWS may decide there's no demand for new instances of that type and just remove it from the API.
No attachment necessary, only antennas. An attacker could target devices inside or outside the building.

WiFi connected surveillance cameras are pervasive. What happens if they can "sense" through the walls of buildings?
Well, their big mistake was being unwilling to be clear and explicit about this, but as I read it, the board's problem with him was that he wasn't actually acting as the executive of the non-profit that he was meant to be the executive of, but rather was acting entirely in the interests of a for-profit subsidiary of it (and in his own interests), which were in conflict with the non-profit's charter.

I think where they really screwed up was in being unwilling or unable to argue this case.
Meta PR
Clearly, not a loved man. Judging by the comments, so far. :)

I wonder if people would flag bad comments on a death announcement of a child mass murderer, or some serial rapist.
Spoiler: the "services" being "explored" are postfix + dovecot. Nothing against it, but that's not a plural comparison, that's one setup

Fixed title: "Self-Hosted Email Setup Guide"

To be fair, there's this bit (1935-ish words into the article) where there's some exploration going on

> A number of free and open source MTAs are available for system operators including Postfix, Exim, QMail and OpenSMTPD. Each comes with their own limitations, quirks and security history.

> I ended up selecting Postfix

Too bad the exploration wasn't shared in this post: that's what I had clicked for
Yew: Rust / WASM framework for creating reliable and efficient web applications
Reuters didn't have anything more substantial than this prepared ahead of time?
> It seems like someone would have included Llama.cpp in their distro, ready-to-run.

Assuming you mean installable with a package manager, not preinstalled on a distro, that requires that some maintainer decide it's worthwhile to add it and maintain it. Distros are pretty selective in what they add to their repos, but there's probably a tool for building .deb or .rpm packages of llama.cpp, and probably a repository for it, but as far as I know no distro has llama.cpp in its repos.

Or Arch Linux's AUR system is much more open, and it indeed has llama-cpp (4 versions of it!), though it requires a helper, such as yay, if you want to install it and keep it up-to-date as if it were a normal package. So Arch has it installable with a package manager if you use yay to supplement pacman.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&K=llama-cpp
https://twitter.com/DidKissingerD1e 28K followers
I like that your solution is basically telling the LLM to RTFM.