skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tierification of AI models is not some business strategy, it is a necessary consequence of the reality that AI is massively compute constrained right now. The size of a model is extremely important for inference time and cost. It just doesn't make sense to release one single model when your method will always yield a family of models with increasing size. The customer can choose a model corresponding to their needs.
Do employees in public universities pay less taxes than those in industry?
Is the flat design trend finally over?
Thanks for the link I guess I was wondering if bitcoin vs USD and gold vs USD have similarities. I remember thinking they would, but then finding out that at least during certain periods, bitcoin was boosted by low interest rates, as people would borrow money to bet on bitcoin. That led bitcoin to drop when interest rates went up.

I'm curious if the correlation is generally positive (as people seek both when getting out of cash) or negative (for the reason described above).
Instant 70s-style album cover
(maybe then a small credit for the initial work by Aras in your blog post?)
Right. I was more curious about if the image parsing code was still vulnerable while boot logos are disabled.
> TFA doesn't say that this is _the_ JSONB of PostgreSQL fame, but I assume it must be.

Definitely is not: Hipp states

> JSONB is also slightly smaller than text JSON in most cases (about 5% or 10% smaller)

Whereas in Postgres jsonb commonly takes 10~20% more space than json.
No you’re NOT a moron, just a minor mistake. Have a wonderfully Wednesday.
That happens all the time, except 99% of the time the accounts are actually stolen.
At least with a digital lend, you should be able to revoke the lend status and have it "returned" for the owner's usage again. This would be much more satisfying than lending your physical item to a friend who then moves across the country before returning the borrowed item.
Yes, more sophisticated pool growth options is something I want longer term. We can also provide knobs that will let you drive the pool growth logic yourself if needed.
Netpbm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm is even easier
> and they are lawless

And that's where you crossed over into being racist
It's vaporware unless they actually release the model + weights. All else is just corporate BS
It's not needed. The US has a sincere interest in Israel. You don't need to threaten them into it.

Geopolitically, Israel is their only ally in a part of the world that is strategically and economically important. Religiously, there's a lot of sympathy, both from Jews and the (much larger) set of evangelical Christians. In general, Americans are on Israel's side when it comes to the Palestinians; the US has a deep loathing of terrorism associated with Islamic fundamentalism. (Especially after 9/11, but even before.)

Israel has a weird way of treating that, sometimes pissing off their last friend in the world. They probably do have kompromat via NSO. But they don't really need it to get American politicians on their side. They probably keep it around Just In Case, but I doubt that's going on here. Flaunting it would make their position worse, not better.
You nailed it. This is so vendors can rebrand without having to rebuild and re-sign.
The category similarity comment is amusing. My ChatGPT4 seems to have an aversion to technicality, so much that I’ve resorted to adding “treat me like an expert researcher and don’t avoid technical detail” in the prompt
That's pretty telling for the creator and community to think that way. Nim doesn't have a great ecosystem, but this really doesn't help sell it either.
That's generalizing. Many immigrants from places other than India or China immigrate and don't find academic success at the same level. Why are these immigrants doing better than others. Part of it is cultural (placing social behind academics) and the negative pressure of lower marks. Part must be selection bias (the best and brightest come because of the hurdles they need to overcome to even get accepted).

We don't see these rates with latin American immigrants, African, Middle eastern or europeans. Part of that is opportunity locally (the best and brightest don't leave when opportunities exist locally).

You see so much more cheating with the first immigration group. Is that because learning isn't as important as grades? Why don't locals cheat more? Too much effort?

Has the false promises of education (education will fix all) registered as more apparent in the west and many are choosing to skip or is the system designed for other outcomes.
Replying since you are sorted as top comment at time of this reply...

You seem to be implying the people who spoke out against children masking are Joe Rogan watching, science denying, propaganda believing, "independent thinkers".

Funny place to post that analysis... in the comment section of a massive meta-analysis whose results include:

"Conclusions Real-world effectiveness of child mask mandates against SARS-CoV-2 transmission or infection has not been demonstrated with high-quality evidence. The current body of scientific data does not support masking children for protection against COVID-19."

Perhaps read the article and look at yourself in mirror before jumping to tribal us/them mentality... otherwise its you who may be the science denying, propaganda believing, "independent thinker"
And for the development team it's predicated upon Hoffsteader's Law.
> But now it's been tamed and there's also passt, a much higher performance and much more secure implementation of user-mode networking

In case anyone else needs a link: http://blog.vmsplice.net/2021/10/a-new-approach-to-usermode-...
I've always wondered something, are Dpaint's pixels supposed to be character sized? I know that pixels aren't always necessarily square, but Dpaint seems to exaggerate that a lot.
Thanks. My take is on this is root access -> stealthy bootkit. Further demonstrates "secure" boot and similar DRM is theater only.
Didn't Google invent LLMs and didn't Google have an internal LLm with similar capabilities long before openai released the gpts? Remember when that guy got fired for making a claim it was conscious ?

The look isn't good. But it's not dishonest.
Gsplats already are viewable on a phone web browser.
Do you think this article was written and peer reviewed by “science deniers?”

Do you think they shouldn’t study mask efficacy?
FWIW, my experience in AWS, as far as "engineer changes something and breaks your production," is not without its own set of issues. Perhaps the AWS version of this story hasn't impacted you, but AWS also constantly tweaks its services, sometimes to the detriment of its users.
v4 chips are basically the same in bf16 performance as A100(slower in int8).
Unless you are OpenAI, the company, I doubt OP implied it was aimed at you. But then I wouldn't know as I am much younger than Sundar Pichai and I am not on first name basis with him either ;-)
With the rules in the EU, I think Google should be careful about releasing anything new in the EU space. Who knows, maybe some parents or schools will sue Google for helping the kids doing math homework!

Btw, Bard with Gemini has indeed improved the answer quality significantly, especially in coding and logics questions.
Relax, elmu is just easier to read and write.
I'm a vim user and there's no way in hell I'm switching to emacs, even with EVIL mode. I'll check out Calva
It’s just sad, we used to think education made us free, but now it’s become so expensive that it’s sole purpose is to turn us into wage slaves of corporate America

It’s telling that one of the top complaints about college is that it doesn’t prepare students for the work force. It sounds like something they would say in 50s Soviet society - produce more educated labor to better the state!

As great as STEM is, one thing it does not do is cultivate the mind such that the student can participate in all facets of society competently. Not every problem can or should be viewed exclusively through the lens of science, hence the philosophical predicaments faced by American society today.
Very impressive! I noticed two really notable things right off the bat:

1. I asked it a question about a feature that TypeScript doesn't have[1]. GPT4 usually does not recognize that it's impossible (I've tried asking it a bunch of times, it gets it right with like 50% probability) and hallucinates an answer. Gemini correctly says that it's impossible. The impressive thing was that it then linked to the open GitHub issue on the TS repo. I've never seen GPT4 produce a link, other than when it's in web-browsing mode, which I find to be slower and less accurate.

2. I asked it about Pixi.js v8, a new version of a library that is still in beta and was only posted online this October. GPT4 does not know it exists, which is what I expected. Gemini did know of its existence, and returned results much faster than GPT4 browsing the web. It did hallucinate some details, but it correctly got the headline features (WebGPU, new architecture, faster perf). Does Gemini have a date cutoff at all?

[1]: My prompt was: "How do i create a type alias in typescript local to a class?"
Better public track record. It's very difficult to reason about a hidden private track record.
The places where they use the same methodology seem within the error bars of the cherry picked benchmarks they selected. Maybe for some tasks it's roughly comparable to GPT4 (still a major accomplishment for Google to come close to closing the gap for the current generation of models), but this looks like someone had the goal of showing Gemini beating GPT4 in most areas and worked back from there to figure out how to get there.
IIRC LB supports microcode updates, but I don't think older CPUs will receive new microcode updates from CPU vendors.

Then again, newer CPUs have a host of other problems, like only supporting platforms where rolling your own boot firmware / UEFI is next to impossible.

Personally I think the CPU has a much lower attack surface than something like UEFI (microcode updates are also pretty tiny), so I would rather have an outdated CPU than an outdated / vulnerable UEFI implementation.
> Not that long ago ( 80s? ) it was considered a psychological disorder. I don't remember gays being as militant about it though.

You... probably should refresh your memory of the centrality and significance of militant activism, particularly in the context of the AIDS crisis by groups like ACT-UP, in the gay rights movement then.

> but the majority of the hard work was done via cultural insertion using movies and so on.

No, much hard work had to be done to acheive the level of influence in powerful institution to do “cultural insertion using movies and so on”.
So you mean that GDP is a measurement of the productivity of employees?

And you're measuring "success" of a economic model just based on how it increases GDP? What about lowly things like "life expectancy" or other things related to, you know, actual human lives?

I knew USAians were "corporate and financials"-horny but this takes it to a whole other level.
Assembly 2023 had a fantastic presentation[1] from @BackTheBunny (from X) about precisely this. When the US really wants to do something, the constitution is a parchment guarantee and the media runs cover for them. Many US gov agencies are basically supranational and extrajudicial.

I don't agree with everything he said but the information was well presented and enjoyable.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTcIXuw2f0
I think GP was referring to themself as science illiterate, maybe?

It seemed like an odd comment to make given this seems like a decently rigorous paper in a reputable journal. So saying “only cool people believe in science, that’s not this science” seems really off and odd to me.
Eye scans provide insight into kidney health
That was ages ago. In AI even a week feels like a whole year in other fields. And many/most of those researchers have fled to startups, so those startups also have a right to brag. But not too much - only immediate access to a model beating GPT4 is worth bragging today (cloud), or getting GPT3.5 quality from a model running on a phone (edge).

So it's either free-private-gpt3.5 or cloud-better-than-gpt4v. Nothing else matters now. I think we have reached an extreme point of temporal discounting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_preference).
That rendering style looks really similar to Dreams on playstation

Anyone know if that game uses the same technique?
Try a distro with KDE, especially a rolling release distro like opensuse tumbleweed. KDE will feel a lot more like "good" windows.
I wonder what advertising will look like with this. Will they suggest products in the response? Like “Top ideas:…” and the LLM’s response.
If it feals like a duck it is a duck. Duh(ck)
> Yes, but it's not impossible to achieve it in practice.

For any one implementation. But there's a very large number of implementations. You just can't count on object key order being preserved, so don't.
> It's the ancestor of "Mac vs PC".

That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga.

If anything surely the Mac's Ridley Scott directed launch Super Bowl ad was the start of "Mac vs PC".

People loved the Amiga because it had a lot of modern features for the time and was reasonably priced. You're definitely right, it's the little computer that could.

The demo scene loved the Amiga because a lot of hardware features were left undocumented ready for you to discover and wow your friends with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
As a working class American from a working class family, I consider a classical or liberal arts education a luxury for the idle rich. It's a status symbol to be an expert in romantic poetry or German literature but unable to get a job in an industry that would also allow your children to get such an education.

I didn't just make up this opinion -- it's a material fact of life in America. As an 18 year old from a working class family, you can make the choice to study for the pleasure of it, but this will almost certainly bring you misery after graduation, as you see that you will never have the means to pay off your massive student debt. You might get lucky and fall into some means of supporting yourself in your field, or you might get slightly less lucky and fall into some means of supporting yourself that is outside your field (I'm a history major making a decent living in IT/Software). Far more likely, you will start your career at some gig that requires any Bachelors degree just because that's an easy way to cut down the pile of resumes. If you're unlucky, you will be competing for the same jobs as recent high school graduates, except you'll be several years older and with a pile more debt than they have.

I'd love my daughter to have a liberal arts education, but not at the expense of being able to provide for herself.
They're still a thing, and more of a happening thing than ever because they're useful for IOT. There's a bunch of private LoRa network operators offering a mix of free and paid services. Amazon is already a large player in this space because of their delivery network.
Hey, me too. One child is enough for us. I was ambivalent, and in hindsight if I hadn't become a parent (organically or through fostering or adoption) it probably would have taken me longer to grow up and gain a sense of purpose beyond just exploring the world and feeling anxious. I realize now that I only thought I was happy but wasn't, not compared to now. I've let go of so much of my past to focus on now and our future, and the vasectomy played a role in that, for the peace of mind and logistical ease- neither my spouse nor I need any other form of pregnancy prevention.

Another upside is that the surgery tipped me into daily cold showers, initially as a way to prevent bleeding from the incision, and now, three years on, as a coffee replacement- it feels so good after getting out of the morning 1-2min exposure to tap-cold water, and the practice of doing something I don't want to do but will appreciate later has been helpful in general.
> Because it strips out features, adds garbage in its place, and increasingly aggressively acts against powerusers. 10 and beyond are "good" as long as you don't go out of the tiny box of intended use.

What poweruser things are you trying to do that Windows 11 prevents?
A push notification is generally what creates the "you have a new message on <app>" red bubble.
You can ask Bard directly! Unlike ChatGPT, Bard can answer many things about itself.
Pulumi has the Automation API [1] which is a step in that direction.

[1] https://www.pulumi.com/docs/using-pulumi/automation-api/
Words tend to have compound and contextual meanings, so it's very rare for one word to have one opposite. Look at lists of synonyms and antonyms.

Another opposite of "natural" is "designed", and another opposite of artificial is "by chance".
> I think where we go wrong is to allow the conversation to revolve around what evil corporations are doing with our information, rather than what the evil government is doing with it.

I think it would be wrong to ignore either. Especially since most of the data the government gets is from corporations.

> Corporations showing me better-targeted ads is the least of my troubles.

You're right about that. That data sure isn't only used for ads. Companies use it to decide what services you're allowed to get and under what terms. The policies a company tells you they have are different from the polices they tell others they have. Companies use it to set prices so that what you pay can be different from what your neighbor does for the same goods/services. Companies even use that data to determine how long to keep you on hold when you call them.

Employers use it to make hiring decisions. Landlords use it to decide who to rent to. It's sold to universities who use it to decide which students to accept or reject. It's sold to scammers who use it to select their victims. Extremists use it to target and harass their enemies. Lawyers use it in courtrooms as evidence in criminal cases and custody battles. Insurance companies use it to raise rates and deny claims.

The data companies are collecting about will cost you again and again in more and more aspects of your life. Ads are absolutely the least of your troubles.
We've spent much less than this and our support has been excellent.
It seems that running anything for what you don't have source code becomes more and more of a liability. Not enough eyeballs, fuzzers, white-hat cracking attempts means a lot of serious risk.
The only way out of this mess is with new laws and that will require new lawmakers. Any other solution - relying on the kindness of corporations, toiling away with obscure technologies, gong 'off the grid' - are all foolish or unrealistic for 99% or so of people and shouldn't even be considered.

The most promising starting point is probably at the state level.
> Android _still_ allows background applications, the only limitation they added in that release is that such background applications have to show a notification that they are running (actually a feature if you ask me). You are still allowed to listen on a gazillion sockets perfectly fine.

...I'm not even clear on what they're complaining about (the page github links to seems to have been changed, it describes the current state rather than what happened in 8), because this was actually a thing as far back as Android 2: you had to have one of those notifications up to prevent Android from killing your service.
Nah, kids are smarter than ever. Education is teaching stupid shit. What COVID did to knowledge worker brains with WFH, it did to kids with school. Lots of NOGAF and emperor wears no clothes going on.
> Not just Europe, also no [mostly European countries]

EU is not Europe.
Besides what the other person said it's also not as well known and there's no financial incentive for it to be taught to them over patented medicine (at least in the us). I also suggest lüften a common daily German practice of opening the windows twice or more daily.
Currently Phind_Phind-CodeLlama-34B-v2, gonna try CodeBooga because, I can... that's the point. Use what ya like.

4k/32k, if I remember right. An interesting thing to do is actually try to use a true coding model in a chat. I had one model puking out its stack overflow training data, down to including user IDs.

Oops.
Not sure what you tried, but it's not the new model. It hasn't been released, just "release announced".
>In existing languages, where there is no way to distinguish between multiple execution phases, it is impossible to naturally represent this idea that an object has methods that can only be executed from within a specific execution phase

My category theory is pretty rudimentary, but isn’t this a good use case for a monad?
That isn't news, that's how all code-completion LLMs work. Unless you're running the LLM locally, in which case the difference is that you are the "LLM provider".
> PG's JSONB has a specification (well, inside PG, not a standard)

So does sqlite's. An implementation detail, even a necessarily stable one, does not a format make.
He's not wrong. DeepMind spends time solving big scientific / large-scale problems such as those in genetics, material science or weather forecasting, and Google has untouchable resources such as all the books they've scanned (and already won court cases about)

They do make OpenAI look like kids in that regard. There is far more to technology than public facing goods/products.

It's probably in part due to the cultural differences between London/UK/Europe and SiliconValley/California/USA.
And then six months later, it's gone because it's not on target for a $1B ARR and no one is getting promoted for something that's already launched.
Just some basic tests, it's decent but not as good as gpt3.5 or 4 yet. For instance, I asked it to generate a web page, which GPT does great everytime, and Gemini didn't even provide a full working body of code.
Google is playing catchup while pretending that they've been at the forefront of this latest AI wave. This translates to a lot of talk and not a lot of action. OpenAI knew that just putting ChatGPT in peoples hands would ignite the internet more than a couple of over-produced marketing videos. Google needs to take a page from OpenAI's playbook.
I grew up with a Commodore 64 and 128. When I had finally saved enough allowance money for an Amiga, my father bribed me by paying for a 30MB hard drive but only if I'd buy a PC instead so that he could run LaTeX on it.[0]. It was a slow 8088 with a monochrome Hercules video card.

What a mistake...

It took years before PCs were able to match the graphics of the Amiga.

[0] It could take 15 minutes to render pretty pedestrian paper on that machine, but many highschool projects were created on that machine, and printed out on his work's LaserWriter.
Fairly big news. I look forward to Gemini Ultra in a few months. I think Gemini Pro is active in Bard, as I tried it a few minutes ago. I asked it to implement in the new and quickly evolving Mojo language a BackProp neural network with test training data as literals. It sort-of did a good job, but messed up the Mojo syntax more than a bit, and I had to do some hand editing. It did much better when I asked for the same re-implemented in Python.
Unfortunately people need money to survive so of course there will be focus on careers which earn them money. There are also numerous free resources and even college courses online for free if you'd like to know more about a given topic.

Arts and crafts don't really pay the bills either. There are of course creators who sell their artwork or crafts on marketplaces like Etsy but that's not really the same thing as a day job where you make 50k a year. I understand where you're going with this but reality is a bitch and people are forced to adapt.
I fear your sarcasm may be a bit too subtle.