skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the thoughts – hopefully I can make this more clear:

> * Pretending that starting a fly machine doesn't cost the same as triggering via s3 seems disingenuous.

You're going to be paying for resources wherever you decide to run your code. I don't think this needs to be spelled out. The point about costs is rather than paying to run "my app", I'm paying at multiple layers to run a full solution to my problem. Lambda gateway requests, S3 put, SQS insert, each have their own separate costs. You pay a toll at every step instead of a single step on Fly or wherever you host your app.

> * I wouldn't do this at all. There's no reason the results need to be queued. Put them in a deterministically named s3 bucket where they'll live and be served from. Period. This is totally unnecessary. Your application should forget it dispatched work. That's the point of dispatching it. If you need subscribers to notice it or do some additional work I'd do it differently rather than chaining lambdas.

You still need to tell your app about the generated thumbnails if you want to persist the fact they exist where you placed them in S3, how many exist, where you left off, etc.

> * Your lambda really should be doing the DB work not your main application. If you've got subscribers waiting to be informed the lambda can fire an SNS notification and all subscribed applications will see "job 1234 complete"

This is exactly my point. You bolt on ever more Serverless offerings to accomplish any actual goal of your application. SNS notifications is exactly the kind of thing I don't want to think about, code around, and pay for. I have Phoenix.PubSub.broadcast and I continue shipping features. It's already running on all my nodes and I pay nothing for it because it's already baked into the price of what I'm running – my app.
Caching and off-by one errors are the other.
Why would it matter if they are democracies or not?

Why would it matter if they "do intel business" with the US, EU, UK, etc. ?
It will be SOTA maybe when Gemini Ultra is available. GPT-4 is still SOTA.
I'm missing something: you're saying 5 months in not enough time for a bunch of people to meet up and say "yeah, we're giving money for this event" or "no, we're not interested" ? It should be a week or two to decide, not months.
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They say it was trained on TPUs

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/#scalable...
> Amazon’s SAN5 Sortation Center in Otay Mesa

even the captions read like snippets out of Dune
Does anyone know if ESR versions are treated differently?
I am using ESR on work laptop and uBlock Origin cannot penetrate anti-adblock banner.
Waterfox is the same, in order to get through it I must open a tab in private mode
Almost certainly Google's own TPUs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFe7-WZMMhc
>Bard refusing to tell you how to kill a process on Linux because it's unethical.

Gives me what a quick scan looks like a pretty good answer.
This isn't necessarily true. When you install the Signal app on an Android phone that doesn't have Google Play Services installed, it receives push notifications using its own notification daemon instead of using Google's. This, of course, has significant battery life costs.
Perhaps the Nim Github Wiki would be more to your liking? https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki

EDIT: In particular, the "Nim for X Programmers" pages seem popular.
the first one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGmVmHv69s
Bard is running on a new model called gemini pro
I've been using this arguments for years when it comes to owning music. Can't understand why anyone would rent from Apple or Spotify.
But you can still back-up your games and use them without Steam if the developers did not use the DRM parts of the Steam SDK.
will it have the same kind of censorship as the GPT4-vision ? because it's a little too trigger happy from my tests.
Yep, the announcement is quite cheeky.

Ultra is out sometime next year, with GPT-4 level capability.

Pro is out now (?) with ??? level capability.
Training large language models is characterised by diminishing returns; the first billion training inputs reduce the loss more than the second billion, the second billion reduce the loss more than the third, etc. Similar for increases in size; the improvement is less than linear.
> This is where the US Federal Gov should step in. But the pols are too busy counting donations (bribes) from these companies.

Freakonomics once asked a corruption researcher who is more corrupt, China or America? She said: Well in America you can't really call it corruption if it's legal.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/is-the-u-s-really-less-corr...
It's all about protecting the system of collective bargaining that has been a normal feature of Scandinavian labour relations for a century or more. I suspect that the police have duties that override the union but I imagine that they could still have an overtime ban.

No they cannot be fired under this circumstance so long as the right procedures have been followed by the union and its members.
People are already overwhelmed by having to vote for the superintendent of their sanitation district
The only centuries old effective way to police the police is to have watchmen for them. In ancient time, they have society assassins that will hunt down entire police families (including extended one over several decades). This is usually misrepresented as family feud. The best example of this was how entire family/clan of China first emperor exterminated with the instigation of one of Chu (a country destroyed by first emperor) originated eunuch. You need to have a society element carrying illegal extermination to keep police or rulers in check.
Page 7 of their technical report [0] has a better apples to apples comparison. Why they choose to show apples to oranges on their landing page is odd to me.

[0] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
This is the first time I have heard of HMGCC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Government_Communications_C...
By what measurement do you determine the materials of today’s homes of the wealthy are terrible?

The far better insulation/windows. Easy to manipulate and fix drywall which also happens to be cheap. Paint that comes in a billion colors. Cement fiber siding that has very high resilience relative to cost.

Electrical systems that are very unlikely to cause fires and can run multiple 30amp lines around the home? Multiple zone HVAC. PEX plumbing that is lead free and much cheaper/easier to fix. Quartz countertops, synthetic floor to ceiling “marble” bath surrounds. Durable and easy to fix LVT flooring that comes in a billion styles. High quality carpets with padding. Heated floors. Lights that come in many colors, styles, and most of all, use a fraction of the energy.

Yes, there is less “art” or whatever it is that costs a lot of human time. But the utility per dollar has never been higher, and I’ll take a modern home over an old home anyday.
I hear your sarcasm, but it is also worth to be skeptical of the claim in that same sentence that “to direct everyone there”…
Except that the IBM one is B2B, preceded by negotiations.

But then, what is important is what the customers were told they are buying. And while IBM didn't sell anything they didn't deliver (on the mainframe business), the cars are sold through 3rd parties famous for being sleazy, so I'd bet their customers experience was all over the place.
> strong legal basis and case law going back to Terry

I frankly don't care what's legal or not at this point. The surveillance and police state has gotten out of control, and needs to be rolled back. If we constantly just accept past precedent as dictating our future, our rights will be chipped away one by one.

I don't want to live in a society where I can be stopped and asked for identification by law enforcement at any time. Most Americans don't, that's why we still don't have a proper national ID. I consider that to be a warrantless search regardless of what the law currently says.

> Arm yourself with knowledge, just as the Founding Fathers intended.

I find that most people who pretend to speak for "the Founding Fathers" are extremely ignorant of the actual motivations of these people who lived 200 years ago. I won't pretend to speak for them, but I will note that I strongly suspect that the smugglers and tax evaders who signed the Declaration of Independence would probably not be in favor of the ever-growing police state we have today.

Regardless, what they wanted is immaterial—they set up this country for us, and presumably expected us to lead it after their deaths.
"We finally beat GPT-4! But you can't have it yet."

OK, I'll keep using GPT-4 then. Now OpenAI has a target performance and timeframe to beat for GPT-5. It's a race!
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited to try it out.

I find it surprising that they only released Pro today, but didn't release the stats for Pro. Are those hidden somewhere else or are they not public?

Taking a different view on this release, the announcement reads, "We released a model that is still worse than GPT4 and, sometime later, we will release a model that is better than GPT4." which is not nearly as exciting.
>I like that this shows how hard even conceptually simple ideas are to achieve in fine-tuning LLMs. Even given a pretty good starting dataset, a decent starting model, etc. this appears to have been a challenge.

Surely, but we can't gloss over the fact that this was accomplished by a single person.
Poor planning to ask for money 6 months in advance? How is that poor planning?
Solid (Web Decentralization Project)
Do we know what hardware they used for training? Google's own or Nvidia?
That's the hearing:
https://x.com/RepStefanik/status/1732138663608271149

shocking to see presidents of top universities support the genocide of Jews because you need to see the context. The similarities to German universities in the 30's are right there.
Yes, my bad. I described the fitness industry with too broad terms but implicitly I was referring to weight loss promoting workouts. A lot of them promise unrealistic effects unless you commit to becoming an athlete and working out 6 to 8 hours a day. The modern food technology has gotten so good the processed foods pack extremely high density of calories into very small volumes. It’s not uncommon to have a dinner with 3000-4000 calories without even realizing it. Grab an 800 calories smoothie after a workout, a burger for dinner, you’re well on your way already.

As for water and salt, I’m supplementing salt and drinking about 4-5 times more water than I used to. I used to live on coffee and tea. No actual pure water. I don’t know if that’s more or less salt than before but I’m drinking waaaay more water than I used to. This seems to help digestion and with metabolic processes.

My goal was to address my health comprehensively and eliminate feeling like crap and chronic low key inflammation of the whole body.
Final in Java 22: Foreign Function and Memory API
The JEP is finally final after a lot of iterations in Java 22.

https://openjdk.org/jeps/454
Yep, at this point I'd rather they hold their announcements until everybody can access it, not just the beautiful people. I'm excited and want to try it right now, and would actually use it for a PoC I have in mind, but in a few months the excitement will be gone.
Apache Cassandra 3.0.x and 3.11.x – End of Life at Cassandra 5.0 Release
"We started a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe to help cover the cost of financial assistance. (...) the pleasure and gratitude we felt about that was overlaid with a feeling of humiliation that once again, a major African open-source software event had been obliged to publicly extend a begging-bowl"

The entitlement! Dude, you are literally asking for money to the PSF and feel that a crowdfunding campaign is below you? No one is forcing to do a conference.
This is great, if I understand correctly I just inject the hook - <CopilotPortal /> ?
https://radiolab.org/podcast/border-trilogy-part-1

Poor school kiddos. :( Anyway, if you prefer text, click the transcript. I recommend listening though, if you have time!
Show HN: Use Google Chrome Browsing in ChatGPT GPTs
Use Google Search and Chrome Browsing in ChatGPT GPTs for free.

It scans 6x more pages than Bing browsing and it responds under 44 seconds.

It only failed to answer 2 times in 4000 requests. You can check from the graph here: https://imgur.com/a/chaGSpR

This GPT has been developed by Keymate.AI , we wanted to open our the best and the most robust feature to public and made it no auth needed and it will stay free. Your usages are fully anonymous. You need ChatGPT plus subscription to use it.

We keep service up and running thans to our Auth based products ( Knowledge as a service, Keymate API and Keymate Backbone for custom gpts )

Would love to get your feedback about anything.

Happy prompting!
well knock yourself out. Turns out things change that we personally do not like all the time. Some of those things are worth caring about, some of them are not. I salute you for dieing on the hill of 'one more click'. To me this falls well elow the ar of user hostile in a world where google chrome farms you and prevents you from using ad blockers.
Getting Started with Axum – Rust's Most Popular Web Framework
I don't even want to think about how much time I've wasted mulling over release names.
our biology primes us to see these things, our lizard brain is quite powerful despite the belief we can live above it.

> it's more telling about you than anyone else

I'll reflect this back to you and your statement. Making such statements says quite a bit about how you see and treat people

I'd also note that I did write I didn't see it the first time, and only saw it after another commenter pointed it out. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544483)
Statistically if everyone is 5% evil, the chances of someone being evil to you in the course of the day is pretty high. That sounds like the makings for a downward spiral and "don't be evil at all" is much safer for society.

Obviously there will be people who choose to be mostly evil regardless of what everyone else is doing, but society trying not to be evil in general is still the best case scenario.
Tied to account. Maybe some day consumers will get some stronger rights on digital purchases.
> Run json_*() function on Internal Binary Format, which will serialize the Internal Binary Format to JSON as output

I don’t think that’s always correct (it is within this thread, which stated (way up) “if you’re always reading/writing the full blob”, but I think this discussion is more general by now). Firstly, it need not convert the full jsonb blob (example: jsonb_extract(field,'$.a.b.c.d.e'))

Secondly, it need not convert to text at all, for example when calling a jsonb_* function that returns jsonb.

(Technically, whether any implementation is that smart is an implementation detail, but the article claims this is

“a rewrite of the SQLite JSON functions that, depending on usage patterns, could be several times faster than the original JSON functions”

so it can’t be completely dumb.
WELL, considering the time delay in provisioning on Hetzner/OVH, maybe Equinix Metal would work better? But, if you're provisioning + maybe running some configuration, and speed is a concern, probably using Fly or Hetzner Cloud, etc. still makes sense.
Thanks!

I'll check this out this weekend.
Cool concept! Would this work with React Native, now or in the future?
Switching tools comes with a pretty hefty price tag. I only really consider it if my current tools are no longer effective enough in some way.
I'd rather not test this theory, just like I'd rather not test the constitutionality of a law that makes accessing TikTok a felony.

... Also, as sibling commenters pointed out, anti-BDS gag laws are everywhere in this country, and have yet to be struck down.
It doesn’t use MPS, so at least that part is more interesting than the usual approach.
How do you “git gud” at this sort of troubleshooting?

I’ve built about a dozen synth modules over the last couple years and I’d say about half of them actually work 100% as intended. I’ve stopped building new modules because my success rate is so abysmal and I’m pretty stuck on the basics for troubleshooting.

I do flux and reflow any joints that look sus and I test with my meter to make sure that pins on chips don’t unexpectedly go to ground or +/-12v per the data sheet but that’s about the extent of my skills.

Any resources or tools to get better at this sort of thing?
Usually SOTA status is established when the benchmark paper is released (probably after some review). But GPT4 is the current generally-available-SOTA
News flash. Stockholm is not in southern sweden. Also Stockholm subway is famous for breaking down even if a single leave fall on the tracks.
also as a regular audio podcast. When I did more car-commute hours this was on my playlist. He has a great style and (probably true) stories that sound like an excerpt from Mr Robot. definitely worth a listen
Wyden is far removed from the part of the government which engages in surveillance. He's the same person who was questioning James Clapper in Congress about mass surveillance before the Snowden leaks [1].

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=QwiUVUJmGjs
While Tesla continues with their publicity stunts Rivian is out there actually selling trucks. I live in the US Midwest and I've seen quite a few of them on the road. I would wager I'm not going to see nearly as many Cybertrucks.
With most spam coming from Outlook accounts I'd say they should first start fixing spam problem at their own end.
I wonder what % of google shareholders understand this difference you talk about between “available now! try it” and “available Q2 next year”.
I was exactly the same way, even to the point of doing the same thing if adblock or privacy extensions broke the site, but there are sites where you can't just move on where you really just have to use another browser.

I've gone back and forth between chrome and firefox for the what has to be close to 20 years. I want to use Firefox but ever since Chrome came out and blew it out of the water with javascript performance, it's always felt a bit clunky even as they've made their own performance improvements. I suspect my future lies with a chromium based browser eventually.
And this is what would happen.
The only reason why it is not happening - many users would go and watch tiktok instead or FB videos would get a chance.

I don't see the reason to support the company, which dreams to make internet worse.
Facebook and Instagram Steer Predators to Children, New Mexico AG Alleges
> but a repeated pattern

You think he repeatedly demonstrates antisemitism? The evidence is quite the opposite if you listened to the interviews he does on the topic of the war between Israel and Hamas (this interview being one of them, where he talks in nuanced terms about the difficulty of peace in the Middle East in general and the difficulty of the current war in particular).
this is a good example of gaslighting

and it is usually how those visual illusions are used, if you see this than you are that, but if you see the other thing you are normal

its a bad image, it is a visual illusion, are they aware of it or not this is the question
It absolutely is. Googlers here will know that there was an internal version of ChatGPT that got canned because of halucinations.
>If I'm an American and I arrange to kidnap Joe Biden and hold him for ransom, does that sound like "treason" to you? All I want is money. But someone might think there's an important difference between the effect I'm trying to produce and the effect I actually do produce.

No, because those crimes typically get prosecuted as terrorism, not treason. Even leaking state secrets rarely get prosecuted as espionage rather than treason.
Adblock war(?)
It’s funny as I’m watching the multimodal demo, the feature I’m hoping for the most is less alignment.

I think the crippling of GPT has made it so much less useful than it could be. I don’t know if Google would take a bigger chance with it being the second player and having to catch up but that would be one hell of a differentiator. Less policing. Maybe they could get away with it because they have data on what people search for anyway.

They could hold a bigger mirror up to society than Microsoft. Probably wishful thinking.
>people realize that maybe winter tires aren't such a bad idea

Hold the phone. Are you telling me winter tires are not mandatory by law in Denmark in winter?!
> Do not buy console titles you think are good enough to replay later on consoles except on disc.

The Xbox store has been great for me. And their backwards compatibility is amazing; I've bought and played Xbox 360 Lego games with my son on the Xbox One.
The Pro seem to be available in Bard already.
Only now?
I have been acquainted with Clojure for a few years now. Haven't been able to 'break in' despite several attempts.

My main conclusion is this: the language/workflow make developers way more productive compared to other modern stacks (I do Python/Ruby/TS on my day to day). The biggest, unsolved problem is http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

tl;dr It is so easy to implement things in Lisp so you end up with a myriad of half-baked solutions and no long-term support of dependencies.
https://archive.ph/NdwmO
"Clownership"?
Maybe small teams can be faster than huge teams?
and they would break their API again
Super cool! Heads up: when clicking "website" next to "Join our Discord" on your repo, it looks like the link is broken
That still dives right into it, without telling me if nim is a spinoff of vim, a language, some data format, a compiler/transpiler and so forth.
I definitely think GPT is better than Bard, but Bard definitely did live up to the hype in a few ways. The two that blew my mind (and still do to some extent) are the blazing speed and the ability to pull information real time (no more pesky knowledge cutoff date). Bard also felt pretty comparable to 3.5 to me, better in some things and worse in others. Coding was definitely a bust with Bard.
Really humorous that their top Benchmark that they want to compare for the general understanding seems to be pass at 32 and they deliberately say that they use different prompting techniques to get to a higher score than GPT4. Raw numbers are good but it feels a little eh.
JSON Lines Format
You two need to calm down.
Google had very very high expectations...and then released bard
Polygons are great because you can make a solid, closed surface. But, they are a pain because you have to maintain the connectivity between the vertices. Adding or removing polygons in a mesh is serious work. Especially doing so on a GPU. Most LOD schemes do heavy precomputation at data compilation time and have the GPU just view a sliding window into static results.

Splats however are loose points. It’s harder to get a solid appearance from them. But, you can add/remove/move each point independently.

Splats don’t really use neural techniques. But, they are well set up for neural techniques to work with them. Generating the splats from photos uses some sort of linear algebra optimization/back-propagation. The Gaussian aspect is required to enable that to work because gaussians are differentiable. Hopefully that means GS should fit in well with recent advancements in differentiable rendering.
This is similar to buying a DVD. You don't buy the right to the video playing on your TV; only the right to play it on your TV from this exact physical disc. If the disc breaks, you have to buy it again.