skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the gap between 3.5 and 4 is massive. If I'm stuck between using 3.5 and doing the work myself, more often than not, I'm choosing to do it myself. Not to imply 3.5 is unusable, its just my bar for minimum fidelity is closer to 4 than 3.5 with respect to tasks that I'm comfortable offloading onto an AI.

What are you running goliath-120b on? Is it costly to run all day every day? How long does it take to complete an output? I've thought about building a multi GPU node for local LLMs but I always decide against it on the premise that the tech is so new I figure in the next 3-4 years we'll see specialized hardware combined with efficiency improvements that would make my node obsolete.
Most production storage systems/databases built on top of S3 spend a significant amount of effort building an SSD/memory caching tier to make them performant enough for production (e.g. on top of RocksDB). But it's not easy to keep it in sync with blob...

Even with the cache, the cold query latency lower-bound to S3 is subject to ~50ms roundtrips [0]. To build a performant system, you have to tightly control roundtrips. S3 Express changes that equation dramatically, as S3 Express approaches HDD random read speeds (single-digit ms), so we can build production systems that don't need an SSD cache—just the zero-copy, deserialized in-memory cache.

Many systems will probably continue to have an SSD cache (~100 us random reads), but now MVPs can be built without it, and cold query latency goes down dramatically. That's a big deal

We're currently building a vector database on top of object storage, so this is extremely timely for us... I hope GCS ships this ASAP. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/sirupsen/napkin-math
[1]: https://turbopuffer.com/
OK are you suggesting that people who don't have kids of their own don't care about other peoples' kids as much as those who do? It seems you're pretty deep into logical fallacies.

As for "that stuff off their platform" - keep in mind that the Rohingya victims include whole families.
I believe A is great. I'm far less likely to notice or click on an article that starts with "A is great" than I am "A sucks". I usually don't care why other people think A is great, but I am curious why someone thinks it sucks (regardless of the ultimate value of their complaints). So there's a sort of psychological effect that I just don't notice "A is great" articles. My subsequent behavior convinces algorithms I want to see less "A is great" and more "A sucks" which not only seems to be a desired result, but reinforces my behavior.

The way out seems obvious. Either actually stop caring about why people think A sucks or to curtail my curiosity and stop clicking on the "A sucks" articles; and to care more about why people think A is great or at least click on the articles.
Maybe we should even generalize further to "mentally-passive sedentary activities".
> Eventually, Google figured out how to create a real moat, by using click data to improve search result ranking. Even though Microsoft is willing to spend billions of dollars on Bing, they don't have access to Google's user data, and aren't quite able to match Google's search quality.

I was nodding along until I got to this. Google had, past tense, excellent search results. Now they are at best, a solid mid-tier search product that I often find myself abandoning in favor of either DDG or even Bing on occasion.

IME, Bing shines in one particular area, which is location/near me type searches. It's peerless in this space in particular and IMO they should be leaning into it more in their marketing. Google can get me the best seller of gizmos on the Internet, but if I want to go to a store and get something that day, Bing is better at that.

Meanwhile Google is steadily trending downwards in very nerdy niche searches, which is a shame because it used to be quite good at them. You specify terms in your quotes or block with minuses, but these are treated as "suggestions" now, that are overridden if Google's mystery algorithm decides that you don't actually know what you need despite directly expressing it to the bloody thing, especially if their "correction" means they can direct you to buy something even if you don't want to actually buy anything.

And, even when you want to buy things... perfect example: I wanted a small set of drawers for a particularly tight alcove in my desk that's otherwise wasted space. I spent some time on Amazon for awhile but amazon's search is even worse than google's, so I googled "closet drawer cabinet -fabric" and the -fabric bit is quite important because I was getting frustrated getting page after page of hits on Amazon that were shitty little fabric drawer setups. I wanted shitty particle board, thank you very much. And Google, in it's infinite brilliance, returned, I shit you not, a full page of shopping advertisements that were all fabric drawers.

Google is still my first go, out of habit more than anything at this point, but increasingly I find their search tool lacking and I know I'm far from alone in that.
Related. Others?

Counterfactual Thinking, Rules, and the Knight Capital Accident (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37472422 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37459495 - Sept 2023 (275 comments)

The $440M software error at Knight Capital (2019) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31239033 - May 2022 (172 comments)

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250847 - Feb 2020 (33 comments)

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8994701 - Feb 2015 (85 comments)

Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652036 - April 2014 (60 comments)

Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329101 - Aug 2012 (91 comments)
Why do you use an internet search engine when you can walk to the library?
Last year crypto, this year AI, next year...?
Coptis is in the family Ranunculaceae. Coptidis Rhizoma is the dried root, not the scientific name.

Ranunculaceae are really good in two fields: making beautiful flowers and developing strong toxics; so I would recommend to be extremely cautious with this. never underestimate this family. Undesirable collateral effects are totally expected.
"Connectors" are only a differentiator for customers who haven't fallen for "connector" promises in the past.
Invest in startups with a real chance of success.

The difficult part (as it has always been) is identifying these.
> Looks like you made Y commit 2 days ago that introduced this regression..

It's a cool feature but you don't need AI for that.
Ask HN: How close are we to having an AI manage developers?
Let’s imagine a workflow that begins with a simple instruction like "I want to build an application" and then engages in a dialogue to grasp your vision and establish requirements. Imagine it seamlessly integrating with your operating system and programs, breaking down your concept into tasks and tickets. Imagine it starting a new project on your computer requiring only your confirmation at each step to make sure there’s no error. It could launch your IDE, create files, and explain its actions. Almost like a live coding session. Your task would be akin to a code reviewer, scrutinizing each segment of the code it writes. It might make mistakes here and there, but it drives you. Its primary role would be to guide the development process, replacing most of us with a team of code reviewers who validate each step and push buttons.

How far are we from realizing this vision?
First you say owning a car is a cultural norm, then you say it should be changed by legislation. I'm afraid it is really hard to change culture with law.
I can’t get through the marketing hype. Is this designed to talk to customers or for internal use?
Maybe this will be true in 2030, but in 2023 AIs can help you quickly get off the ground in unfamiliar domains but expert knowledge (or just being knowledgeable enough to write code) is still king.

That is. If your goal is to quickly get out a prototype that may or may not work (even though you don't understand it very well), using AIs is great. But if you want to improve as a programmer, it may not be the best (or only) path.
PeerTube is distributed streaming, not distributed hosting. The master copy is hosted on some web site, yours or someone else's. If enough people are watching, a peer to peer streaming distribution system kicks in to provide more bandwidth. It's just a way to have many viewers without needing huge hosting bandwidth.

Almost nobody uses PeerTube. Here's the "Trending" list on Hardlimit.[1] 217 views of the top video. A video I posted two days ago to illustrate a bug report is in 9th position, with 14 views. This is pathetic.

Maybe if they got Wordpress integration, so Wordpress sites could serve videos via Peertube, it might take off. And get more sites to support auto-embedding of PeerTube videos, so that just providing a link produces a playable video.

[1] https://video.hardlimit.com/videos/trending
The reality is that the majority of things people want to go to the doctor for are not serious.

If this can help with that, I am all for it.
Also some of the features listed (Compression, ACLs, volume sizes) were incrementally added over years and not available at first release, which somewhat invalidates the comparisons with other filesystems "Of the era".

The NTFS of today is rather different to the NTFS of 1993.
I mean , is it certain that advertising won't be injected?
If Google really has a moat why do they pay Apple so much to be the default search engine and why do they need Android to avoid getting cut out of mobile advertising?
AMD is committed to actively improving ROCm and directly supporting projects like Pytorch. They were caught with their pants down, but working hard to catch back up.
A lot of tech industries, such as operating systems, search, and social media, benefit greatly from network effects. The rule of thumb is there is a major winner, an also-ran second place, and everybody else. Again, it's a rule of thumb, not a hard and fast rule. Sometimes this is driven by data (like search), and sometimes it's not (like operating systems).

I think it remains to be seen if AI is one of those industries that benefits from network effects or not.

A related question is: Are AI models platforms, or are they applications? If they're platforms, they'll benefit from more users and more data. If they're applications, there will be very different market economics in play.

IMHO, they're applications.
uCOS-II and uCOS-III were open sourced a while ago as well https://github.com/weston-embedded
Shouldn’t the API response be the exact response you would get if you sent the same input to ChatGPT, assuming it’a the same model ?
Like eIDAS? That's not very appealing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38109494
On the contrary modern medicine terrifies me. Something like this might be our only hope.
This conspiracy always comes up - don't you think that they test the output of the model revisions on probably 1000s of downstream tasks at this point? Bad responses are hard to reason about, could be prompting, could be a model revision, could just be bad luck.
You can, if you can demonstrate the ability to maintain a gTLD registry and can cough up hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
A valid contract requires a meeting of the minds, but the average customer has no idea that a legal fiction separates the movie he wanted from the plastic disc he just bought.

It was a mistake to entertain dense contracts of adhesion with parties who were never really expected to understand them (who hires a lawyer before spending $15 on a movie?). UCC should add anything reasonable that copyright law doesn’t already cover. Infringement is a tort with statutory penalties even without any contract.
I believe buf’s breaking change detection will pick up on this. It also allows you to specify a git ref to target.

https://buf.build/docs/reference/cli/buf/breaking#against
So this is a common argument against longevity -- that dictators would remain in power for even longer.

A simple counterpoint: imagine a world were we all did live until 500 years old. And there were some bad dictators in that world. If you lived in that world, would you suggest cutting everyone's lifespan to 80 years old to diminish the power of those dictators?
Corruption, Mafia, cartel, etc. control of legal processes seem to be accepted behavior (or were in the past) in some countries. Would you say that that's within the rule of law?
Wait until you hear about search engines …
Recent Advances in Graphene-Enabled Silicon-Based Optoelectronic Devices
Q refuses to do it.
"Nothing to worry about" sounds like a tone deaf response at best.
Agreed, although the relationship of DOS and Windows 95 is significantly stranger than that wording implies. DOS boots Windows 95, and legacy I/O can go through DOS, but DOS is also hosted by V86 machines to run DOS apps.

I'm pretty sure it's possible for a DOS process running in a window to issue a file system request (a DOS API call) that gets trapped and processed by 32-bit VMM code and then immediately forwarded back to (a different instance of) DOS for handling by a legacy device driver.

There are reasons for this.

It's amazing it worked.

I'm thankful it's gone.
In proprietary software, perhaps.

Personally I'd never consider using a terminal emulator that isn't Free and Open
Source software.
And these two have a lot in common. Both consume large amounts of computing resources and energy to produce questionable results.
You can do this without paying to oai: textcortex.com
Wild how Nintendo managed to mess that up so badly with the Wii U as well.
The solution to 'GPT-4 sometimes breaks' isn't to use something that never works...
Politicians, scientists, entrepreneurs, sharing thoughts, and a place for discussion with anons regarding those thoughts. Also memes.
I don't understand why EFS never gets major shout outs - it's way better than S3: systems can mount it as a drive, shared across systems, already has had super low latency... Not sure what s3 express is really useful for if EFS already exists.
While they install GWs of solar to save the petroleum to sell into the global market.

https://www.gem.wiki/Al_Dhafra_solar_farm

https://web.archive.org/web/20231128203004/https://interesti...

https://web.archive.org/web/20231128203049/https://old.reddi...

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.1374243,54.4949076,6821m/dat...

Everyone trying to get out the door before the fossil fuel valuations plummet.
I don’t understand why the Saudis aren't spending their billions to develop synthetic fuels and direct air capture. Their cloudless desert is a great place to put solar panels to power synthetic fuel plants and they already have the refineries and shipping facilities to distribute carbon neutral fuels.
Then you don't understand the relationship between capital, labour and being an employee vs employer. Yes, they are well-compensated, but they can still have their lives turned upside down by bosses. Granted, their life getting turned upside down probably means less front-row Knicks tickets and not choosing between paying a water bill and a power bill.
Channel 4 (UK) did a TV report of this a few days ago (based on the same underlying reporting): https://youtu.be/AzSq9jhhrq4?si=JDbIdBkJNEpj0RgF
Most of the world has solves in before my dog is up looking for breakfast, so the global board is a non-event for me.

We do private leader boards, which are a good bit of fun. A couple of our EVPs opted to use AI to help them with it which certainly greased the wheels on getting it rolled out to our development teams. A fun way to learn how to use the AI in a project. The code reviews that came later were hilarious.
Would you mind sharing, me being not in the know, what is the deciding factor in SEO for decades, then?
The goal of spaceX was to spend 90 minutes in space and then return to Earth.

The 'but' in the sentence to say: "some of that goal was achieved, but not all of it", is not manipulative. I recommend reading that exact article to see that it's not overly negative nor overly positive. Relative to the goals of SpaceX, what else was the headline supposed to say?

> SpaceX’s uncrewed Starship spacecraft, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, reached space for the first time on Saturday but was presumed to have failed minutes later.

> It was Starship’s second test after its first attempt to reach space ended in an explosion earlier this year.

> The two-stage rocket ship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company’s Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas, east of Brownsville, on a planned 90-minute uncrewed flight into space.

> If successful, the rocket would have ended up landing in the Pacific ocean near Hawaii. The company hopes the rocket can eventually manage a trip around the Earth, which could take an hour and a half.

> The two stages of the spacecraft successfully separated about two and a half minutes into the flight, but shortly afterwards, SpaceX announced that it could not find a signal from the second stage, which it declared lost.

> The company believes the rocket’s self-destruction mechanism was set off after it lost the signal.

> SpaceX’s second flight is an improvement on its first test launch in April, when both stages ultimately exploded four minutes into its flight. The spacecraft’s first stage, nicknamed “Super Heavy” for its 33 engines, had failed, causing both stages to explode.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/18/elon-musk-sp...
> Why is it actually winner-take-all?

Is search winner takes all? Or is it advertising?
On a recent interview of Sam Altman (Hard Fork podcast) he mentioned that due to the load they have been trying to make optimizations, disable certain features, etc. so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that some tweak caused this.
0 worries.

Russsia has a rich cultural history of assassinations. The long lived single party in Japan with the oldest population isn't immune to the disease of assassination either.
I will work harder, not smarter, since an AI will do all the non-hard work for me.

On a more serious note I do expect the software developer market to change radically in the next five years. My hope is that it leads to companies exploring more avenues for products and services. My fear is that it will become a cost cutting race to the bottom.
SEC Considering Investigation of CEOs Sam Altman and Satya Nadella [MSN]
Quoting from the top of the article:

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission – Tips, Complaints, and Referrals – Summary Page - Submitted Externally – PDF excerpt obtained 2023-11-26 via Signal
Submission Number (redacted) was submitted on Wednesday, November 22, 2023 at 12:18:27 AM EST
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Image above includes two parts; a section of a PDF, and a photograph of Nadella and Altman. The upper part shows the heading of a 7-page PDF titled "TCRReport (1).pdf" which was received by this reporter over the weekend via Signal.
> For those keeping score at home: San Francisco has a population density of over 17,000 people per square mile. Woodside? 460.

Also, San Francisco is a city, Woodside isn't.

I thought the urbanist argument is to build densely in the cities, so that would mean in SF, not in Woodside.
Maximum human lifespan is still roughly 120 years. All the advances in medical science over the past century has been about getting more people to live longer. The actual maximum lifespan hasn't budged.
In the movie WarGames, someone suggested "just turn the damn power off", and got a good answer on why that was "a bad idea"™.

I'm kinda wondering the same thing here, and can't think of the reason why not?
Totally! What kicked my ass out of deep depression was 1) I finally worked my way up to moving my body up to a daily exercise I enjoy, 2) found a hobby I could periodically enjoy with others.
Also remember, Nvidia prohibited to virtualize their hardware for all gaming cards (only professional lines allowed), even pushed virtual machines vendors to extract support of Nvidia gaming cards (for example, Xen have official statement on this).

But AMD and Intel does not follow Nvidia in this controversy, and all their officially supported cards could work under virtual environment.

This is not unbreakable issue, for example could use old drivers or from independent open source, but in some cases this could be very annoying.
This is an even better point than mine.
That's why it was a question. All I hear is data farms and massive datacenters and those you cannot do at home/small business.
I saw a really dirty one driving on 5 south near Corning on Sunday.
EFS is really expensive and has terrible latency with small files in my experience
You said judges aren't comparable, but labor is free to protest.

If you are the expert on Swedish custom and law, please explain the difference and where the line is drawn in Sweden.

Otherwise, it seems you are just making bold claims of personal opinion, and then calling everyone else ignorant.
Amazon Q is your new expert assistant
Are we really 'at' work if we are remote? Maybe it should be unhappier at home.
Likewise, Dachshunds have a high risk of IVDD, due to the load they carry in their back, especially when jumping off of higher areas (ie, couch or bed).
> and other technical skills that don't necessarily involve "coding" (such as OS knowledge, networking, etc.) will become more valuable.

You can pass job description for Advent of Code task to these curve fitting tools and it will return solution. It is not just about coding. Other technical skills may have become less relevant too.
Wait until Neurolink technology gets better and your cat(s) can communicate directly with AI generated voices.
As an FYI, Bing Chat at http://bing.com/chat continues to work even during OpenAI outages. It's also running GPT-4 -- it can be annoying when it reaches out to search, but you can usually explicitly prompt it to not do that.
You’re obsessed with deceit and dishonesty. First you accuse game developers of a scam (deceit), which I’ve demonstrated it’s not. When I do, you accuse me of dishonesty. Nothing you provided is substantiated with any evidence. On the contrary, everything you did provide brought your argument crashing down.

The only one arguing with bad faith here is you.
I don't think morality is super important for small matters like this, but also I think "The seller likely would have refused the sale, multiple transactions ago, if they had perfect knowledge of the future" is miles away from making something deceptive or immoral. If the major reasons for calling piracy immoral are eliminated in some situation, and the worry of deception is the only one left, then piracy is not immoral in that situation.
Interesting, thanks for that. That's kind of the idea, but preferably without the 'extend' part on top of containers. I'm not using VSCode though so I'll shop around or maybe I'll convert, who knows.
There's a brief post here that is interesting [1] -- I'm unclear when FDA approval is actually required because not all drugs for animals seem to require approval.

There's probably some cross-over too because some drugs are used in humans and pets. Gabapentin, for example, is something we use for our cats and a senior dog with arthritis. It also has uses for Restless Leg Syndrome.

But there's a possible treatment for FIP (a usually fatal disease in cats) that is undergoing approval by the FDA. Why an approval is required I don't know. [2]

While I'm reluctant to test unproven drugs on my pets, we had to say goodbye to a young cat in 2018 because he had FIP and this treatment wasn't available to us at the time. I'd have paid damn near anything to have given him a chance.

[1] https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/medicines-you...

[2] https://www.vet.cornell.edu/departments-centers-and-institut...