skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't "tierificaton" or even premiumization. That may come later.

Large AI models have tight resources requirements. You physically can't use X billion parameters without ~X billion ~bytes of memory.

It makes complete sense to have these 3 "tiers". You have a max capability option, a price-performance scaling option, and an edge compute option.
The most important reason all the Big Tech companies spin their own AI chips is that NVIDIA margins are so insane. A purchase from NVIDIA at the hyperscaler volume is on the same order of magnitude as spinning your own chip.
I'm honestly 100% okay with it as long as it's reasonable and not confusing to customers. (Not saying Apple isn't somewhat; I mean, buying a non-Pro iPhone 15 and not being able to view WebM files feels literally fucking insane, and that's apparently how that works, but that's a rant for a different thread.) In cases like this, presumably the idea isn't actually feature-gating, it's scaling up. AI inference costs compute time, and although I have no idea if the inference occurs on special hardware or not, if it does, I can only presume that scaling up the special hardware to meet demand is challenging and very much not like scaling up e.g. a typical web service.

IMO, Tiers can be useful when they make sense and aren't just for artificial market segmentation.
Sounds like Selection sort[1]. It was probably the first sorting algorithm I ever implemented. I don't know why bubble sort is usually taught first. Selection sort seems more obvious. Perhaps the implementation is slightly harder due to the need to keep track of two indexes.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_sort
Disable notifications on all applications you do not want to be tracked via metadata.
When W10 finally stops getting updates, I'm almost certainly going to have to jump back to Linux on my gaming PC.

Nothing on this Earth could make me use Windows 11. I highly doubt Windows 12 will be any better.
[dupe]

Lots more over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544746
for my understanding, you need that entitlement so you can send an encrypted invisible notification which you can then decrypt locally in your app and push out again as a local notification that doesn't go over the network (i.e. not use apns)? Or is doing this kind of stuff just weirdly tied to that specific entitlement?
Automatically enforcing all the laws is vastly different from the "effective enforcement of laws "we agreed to".

The full body of legislation is riddled with contradiction, inconsistency, ambiguity and the pretense that "legislated upon = fair" is at best a schoolroom fantasy.
Google wants to get ahead of the news and generate hype for their product away from OpenAI. If they waited till the actual launch to announce this news, OpenAI will again capture all the publicity with GPT5.
the US EV industry now faces a choice: Tax credits or Chinese batteries
I'm in Canada too I just fired up Tunnel Bear VPN and was able to see bard OK.

But yeah weird we are usually lumped in with the US market.
This is cool... but it was disappointing to see Bard immediately prompted about the low pressure, presumably Bard isn't smart enough to suggest it as the cause of the stall itself.
Sundar studied material science in school and is only slightly older than me. Google is a little over 25 years old. I guarantee you they have not been doing AI since I was a baby.

And how many financial people worth reconning with are under 30 years old? Not many.
To quote Gemini, what the quack! Even with the understanding that these are handpicked interactions that are likely to be among the system's best responses, that is an extremely impressive level of understanding and reasoning.
Selling leasing/licensing rights is fundamental to many industries and the government itself in many cases.

There's already regulation we can use to combat what digital "ownership" is: bait and switch.
Many don't realize that when you buy anything digital, you don't "own" it—what you actually buy is a license to access the content, which can be revoked at any time and for any reason. When that happens, you can't really sue them because there must be a clause in the ToS, that you've agreed on, that covers it. For most media, the only way to "own" it digitally is, unfortunately, by piracy.
I'm part of a union in Sweden and my employer does not have a CBA, I get from my union: income insurance (up to 12 months covering 90% of my current salary), access to free consultation with lawyers, discounts on a few services (even driving schools), and a few other benefits.

It's not a tax on employees, I consider it a quite cheap insurance.
Mind providing an example of a democratic corp?

I've never known of one.
> Joel Garner, the then chief executive, said that although the business was continuing to invest in office space to foster social contact, collaboration and creativity, workers “won’t be forced to return to an office”.

> However, on Tuesday his successor, Debbie Crosbie, who was appointed at the end of 2021 as Nationwide’s first female chief executive, unveiled a new policy that will require most staff to be in an office for at least 40% of their contract – two days a week for a full-time employee.
I think that they knew they had funding, so they started organising it without having money. Then transfer took longer than expected, so organisers had to shell out the money themselves
Gemini Pro is only GPT3.5 tier according to the benchmarks, so unless they make it extremely cheap I don't see much value in even playing around with it
Same as usual, they were doing this until just recently with Windows 7 updates

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-clien...

Windows 8 didn't get an ESU program though, I have to assume because it didn't get the adoption of 7 and people mostly moved on to 10.
Those calculations definitely do not scale linearly
Off-topic: the design of the web page gives me some Apple vibes.

Edit: oh, apparently, I'm not the only one who noticed that.
Yes it's always some reasonably specific behavior that justifies the harsh new rules.
A lot of people simply don’t value ownership of
I think it depends. It's always worth having a small fast model for some tasks and being able to run it completely offline on a mobile cpu. Maybe not as a chat companion, for for text understanding or indexing all your messages and photos for search, it may be enough.
Amazon planned to take away RTO'd employees' free coffee. Then 10k spoke up
Large backers and stakeholders are not 25 years old.
Wow, that is jaw-dropping.

I wish I could see it in real time, without the cuts, though. It made it hard to tell whether it was actually producing those responses in the way that is implied in the video.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28512274
Flickypedia helps you put Flickr photos on Wikimedia Commons
https://web.archive.org/web/20231206155708/https://www.seatt...
Ok, thanks for clarifying.
That is pretty slick
How to enable features that are EEA restricted on Windows 10 and 11
From the report:

"As part of the evaluation process, on a popular benchmark, HellaSwag (Zellers et al., 2019), we find that an additional hundred finetuning steps on specific website extracts corresponding to the HellaSwag training set (which were not included in Gemini pretraining set) improve the validation accuracy of Gemini Pro to 89.6% and Gemini Ultra to 96.0%, when measured with 1-shot prompting (we measured GPT-4 obtained 92.3% when evaluated 1-shot via the API). This suggests that the benchmark results are susceptible to the pretraining dataset
composition. We choose to report HellaSwag decontaminated results only in a 10-shot evaluation setting. We believe there is a need for more robust and nuanced standardized evaluation benchmarks with no leaked data."
Not a blog, news board, or youtube precisely, but I think these two are great resources.

- Thoughts on the Market by Morgan Stanley: https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/thoughts-on-the-market

- Notes on the Week Ahead by Dr. David Kelly from JPM: https://am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-management/adv/insights/...

I prefer Notes on the Week Ahead, but I think both are great.
there isn't any sarcasm there, just a poster pointing out the implication that elmu's twitter antics are a giant waste of everyone’s time.

elmu's tasking of his staff to figure out why his trolling wasn't making him popular enough was a real thing, and a good example of his time wasting abilities in furtherance of his desperate, desperate, desperate need to feel popular.
Cool experiment. I suspect your version would be far more permissive in matching than Shazam, which makes sense for your test case. Shazam's fingerprints are a lot more specific, e.g. they would differentiate different mixes of the same recording, potentially even different masters.
Or force you (the consumer) to upgrade to newer versions with hostile terms of service and/or applications. It works both ways.
At the very least offer store credit.
It does have to do with people being free and safe to attend, however. If you see freedom as additive, that’s consistent: the PSF doesn’t want to be associated with conferences which are risky for some people to attend. That doesn’t mean that a different conference can’t be organized, only that they are uncomfortable supporting less free places. I’m fine with that as long as it applies to U.S. states which fail the same concerns.
I’m going to probably delete all data and lock it down so that I can only use it for games and get YouTube and discord running on my iPad or some other device. It’s practically there already.
More discussion last week and yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38538162

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492747
Looking at stats on crates.io for a few frameworks

- axum: 100k installs/day

- warp: 25k installs/day

- actix: 15k installs/day

- rocket: 7k installs/day

- tide: 1k installs/day

(For comparison, hyper - the HTTP library that most web frameworks use under the hood - is at 200k/day, many of which are using it for client rather than server functions. So unless there is another not-hyper-based framework out there, then I’d be moderately confident guessing that axum has >50% of the server market)
I think the controversy was in making the observation
> Are Americans in states that legalized marijuana afraid of a random cop arresting them due to it being federally illegal?

Yes. Not from street cops, but you better believe I'm concerned about airport security. You'll probably be safe, but I would not recommend a non-US person to test this. It's unreasonable to expect outsiders to understand which laws are enforced, particularly when the consequences of being wrong may include life imprisonment or death.
Google is number 1 at launching also-rans and marketing sites with feature lists that show how their unused products are better than the competition. Someday maybe they’ll learn why nobody uses their shit.
typescript is worse than plain javascript. The type system is not sound and can't actually catch that many bugs; at the same time it adds a lot of verbosity and wasted time satisfying the type checker.

mandatory code reviews on every merge are a net negative. Too many people wasting time on nits and YAGNI "improvements". Actually improving the code in a structural way is too hard and most reviewers won't spend the effort. It would be better to dedicate time and resources to code audit and improvement on a regular cadence, e.g. pre-release.

A/B testing is pure cargo cult science, it has no where near the rigor to actually determine anything about human behavior (look at the replication crisis in real psychology where they use 10x as much rigor!) You might as well use a magic eight-ball.
ugh. boilerplate.

nothing stirs the creative juice to a greater froth than the site of a blank window in a text editor. numerous projects begin as `thing.py` and after a hour or two of whacking get a better name.

copying ancillary files around from project to project is an invitation to propagate old mistakes, that you should be making fresh each time. Gaze upon the horror that is GNU Automake and despair.
MENTIONING race is not racist.

Being white, voting for Trump, and claiming a Christian-evangelical religious exemption is core to these vaccine objectors' identity.

If you're American and you don't know this, you should definitely read one of many article about this trend. Because it is about to kill many people.
The rule of law was correctly implemented. Whether the law was morally correct or not is completely orthogonal to that fact.
Sony does have a stance that we should buy physical media. I don't disagree with this either. They have a large investment in physical media and rightfully so they were one of the originals behind blu-ray technology. Also streaming is typicaly subpar quality to blu-ray while it is still decent.
In general if you convert to Hessenberg form a lot of what you might be trying to do with the matrix becomes easier to calculate. The QR algorithm was a common example of this.

If you mean why would I want to put so much into simplifying linear algebra computations then you're missing out on the chance to work with some of the most useful stuff in comp sci (in my opinion)!
Most engineers and researchers at big tech companies wouldn't intentionally do that. The bigger problem is that public evals leak into the training data. You can try to cleanse your training data, but at some point it's inevitable.
Actix used to be the fastest (maybe still is? all the frameworks are so fast it doesn't even matter that much anymore) and most popular framework.
Then a bit of drama happened about the hard life of maintaining an OSS project with users criticising you (the usual).

Rocket seemed to gain popularity for a bit but then there was some drama with the maintainer disappearing / not releasing 0.5 for a long time.

Meanwhile, quietly, the guys who did tokio (the most popular async runtime) released axum, which is compatible with tower middlewares. So they had tons of features pretty early.

I switched from actix to axum around 0.4 and updates have been very sensible and kept improving the DX.

Nowadays Axum is at the top for downloads number: https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/
NASA says SpaceX's next Starship flight could test refueling tech
Mimalloc with Large Pages Dll Injection for Factorio and Stellaris
ChatGPT via plugins and tools can access real time data, the bot I built for slack at my work has the ability to load Web pages, search DDG etc.
Never had that but it sounds delicious.
Parent is asking about government surveillance.

You're suggesting a deviation from the norm (99.99% of users) by installing a custom operating system (which they will now also be on the hook to secure and update regularly) by developers with nothing to lose.

This will greatly increase scrutiny on you, or colloquially speaking definitely put you on a watch list, the opposite of what is allegedly desired. Rather, accept the plain fact electronic communications are subject to government surveillance and adjust your threat model accordingly. Don't try to fight the bear with a flyswatter.
No, it’s not just to use the “decoy effect.” They do this to share development costs across a whole product line. Low volume, expensive products are subsidized by high volume, mass market devices. Without these tiers, they’d be unable to differentiate the products and so lose the margins of the high end products (and their entire reason for existing).

Unless you expect Apple to just sell the high end devices at a loss? Or do you want the high end chips to be sold in the mass market devices and for Apple to just eat the R&D costs?
More expensive things cost more money, not a surprise imo
It feels like MS is already treating it like a generic term. I think I saw a Kevin Scott article recently where he kept referring to "copilots" as well. The term is being so widely used right now that they'd need to defend it quickly if they even have a trademark. (Looking at the USPTO database, MS applied for a trademark for "Microsoft Copilot" in September then filed an express abandonment a few days later.)
I dont think, you understand the scale of the problem for Musk. If he will poke long enough, ETUC will join - and they will as he is literally twisting their arm.

"At present, the ETUC represents almost 45 million workers across Europe, affiliated to 93 national trade union confederations from 41 European countries, and 10 European Trade Union Federations (ETUFs)."

At a very modest evaluation, that is 100 million workers (probably 150 million, but I dont have stamina to get the numbers), 1/5 of people in EU. People who elect governments.

He wont be able to sell a free sample of Tesla in EU. And someone stupid enough to buy it will have windows broken on daily basis as quisling. Not something unheard of, google for BMW - Break My Window.

No one in EU is stupid enough to challenge trade unions at this scale. With a good reason.

Best solution for him would be to back off when first union intervened, get into agreement with them, claim them for his best friends ever and keep it out of the press. Now this is cultural fight, where he will need to eat shi1 to calm everything down (for youngsters that don't understand: for him, 500 million market is in play and corporations from Microsoft to Facebook were eating shi1 to sell their products there).

(btw, for people downvoting me, I am just stating the facts, feel free to verify them and argue against, downvoting wont change them, at worse it will help Musk do another stupid mistake)
One thing I noticed is I asked Bard "can you make a picture of a black cat?" It says no I can't make images yet. So I asked "can you find one in Google search?" It did not know what I meant by "one" (the subject cat from previous question). Chat GPT4 would have no issue with such context.
The real announcement to understand behind the blog post is that PaLM is slowly getting killed.
I've asked about 2X questions to answers. I have contributed some fairly good answers, but I have mainly gone to get questions answered.

Early on, I probably asked them badly, but I learned to ask them better, and the answers came much less frequently. So ask a question badly, and get an insult, but also a useful answer. Ask a question well, and ... crickets. Lately, I usually end up answering my own question, just so there might be something for someone else to find.

I'm usually quite capable of finding the answers; just not quickly. It used to be, I would get good answers, within seconds of asking the question. Nowadays, I usually end up answering it myself, hours or days later.

I used to like getting answers that were "done right." Many of the folks there, have a lot of structural and cultural knowledge, and the answers were often quite valuable; giving me advice on why we should do it this way. I may well find out how to do it wrong, left to my own devices. I didn't mind being told I was doing it wrong. We become right, by being wrong.

Most folks with very high karma, have very few (usually single-digit) question counts (the digit is often "0"). I am not one to ascribe motives, but there must be a reason that invested folks don't want to ask questions on that forum.
Thanks, I am intimidated by the process of court but I'll look into it. Will they be notified automatically, or do I have to serve them the notice?

It is insane that we tolerate this in 2023. I actively switch to other providers even if speeds are lower, but it is impossible to avoid their monopoly. Short of lobbying for municipal broadband, I am at a loss as well.
Brainstorm and plan on paper, experiment in a throwaway directory.

If the experiment gets to a stage where I want to track progress, run git init.

If it gets to a stage where I want to publish my progress, push to github, add README, CHANGELOG, LICENSE etc.
There are two positions the PSF can take:

1. Python evangelism is about the tech and is not an endorsement of whoever organize conferences, even if is in nazi Germany.

2. Giving money to a conference IS an endorsement of whoever organize it, so it must comply with the morals of the PSF board and biggest backers.

In hindsight, (1) seems more fair, but because the PSF is about politics and not tech, is not surprising they will always choose (2).
I base my view on their literal, factual behavior, past and present.

You however, seem to have a very rosy pair of glasses on.

According to your take, there were a lot of Nazis (pick any bad group) that shouldn't have been lumped in with the rest of the Nazis, because even though their actions were the very same horrific things, viewing them as a monolith is bad? We should look into their hearts and find the real motivation? lol

You my friend, are so badly mistaken, that I honestly don't know what to say.

If the literal, factual actions of 60 million people, attempting to destroy a way of life, because a clown told them to still isn't enough to view them as the enemies they are, then I'm not the one that's lost here, friend.

That's some take.. I hope it serves you well, despite my misgivings.
Hey, I'm part of the Wing team, I see where you're coming from regarding intermingling business logic with infra definitions.
If it makes sense, these infra definitions are the functional part of the infrastructure (declaring that you want a bucket and pre-populating it with objects during deployment for instance). The non-functional parts (encryption, redundancy, others) can be taken care of separately on the platform side
$10 a month for botomless music discovery options is an unreal bargain.
So Bard found the blog post from Google and returned the information in it. No new information was get.

The LLM itself does not KNOW anything.
> In my opinion, not focusing on the model, focusing on the product, and focusing on positioning for normal users (free, fast, fine tuned in many languages, "easy"), is a better product positioning.

Does google agree? doesn't the fact that they're so deliberately creating user-focused branding for different models (ultra, pro, nano) show they also see the value in the differentiation?
More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492747
> years after it was over.

And here I am with a family of 5 who are all home sick with covid right now. :)
My home lpg tank (800 gallons) is far enough from my house that even if the worst case where the whole tanks opens up and starts on fire (I don't see how this is possible, but that is the only way I can think of to get enough O2 in the tank for a fire), my house is still safe.

A home powerwall that was similarly far form other buildings should be safe enough. Look at utility scale battery installations and it is clear they have a lot of separate units, so fire in one won't spread to the next (or at least the fire department will be able to put it out before it spreads to more than a couple). However most people don't have that much space in their yard.
Recently I've been using GCP to train a model, some notes:

* Like @leetharris, credits were pulled/not distributed, what was promised had to be cajoled out with most of it being sent to some weird SaaS product that we'll never use

* The GCP rep literally ghosted us halfway through the month where it when we had some expiring credits and were in the middle of training

* Not that the credits mattered, our quota requests for lifting GPU or TPU was rejected twice. It was impossible to get any GPUs that were within our credits, even writing a script to try to look for machines for weeks didn't work.

* Right after the credits expired, suddenly our last quota request, which was hanging around for weeks was approved. I assume they have an internal system setup to do that, but like we literally couldn't pay for GCP if we wanted to.

* Also, GCP rates are like 2-4X the market rate. Like you can get an H100-80 from Runpod (and actually get one) for what GCP charges for an A100-40.

Basically, the lesson learned was that no one should ever depend on GCP unless your time is worthless and you're not serious about getting any work done. They can go suck eggs.
How would you want that qualified exactly?
and they're trivial to DDoS