skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Norman Lear took two 1960s British TV comedies, Till Death Do Us Part and Steptoe & Son, remade them in his own fashion in the early 1970s, and in so doing upended the U.S.A.'s TV programming and wider culture forever with All In The Family and Sanford & Son, with further spinoff series.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/06/entertainment/norman-lear-dea...
> the woodworker can get injured. Neither applies to the problem at hand.

> I switched from decades of using emacs because stretching for key chords started to hurt my hand

:D
Google literally invented transformers that are at the core of all current AI/LLMs so Sundar's comment is very accurate.
> Databases should never, ever, ever, be used to perform logic, they are datastores, that is it.

I wouldn't go that far. Relational algebra is performing logic. Constraints and foreign keys are logic, as well.

I'm not going to argue that you should go back in time 15-20 years and start shredding XML strings in stored procedures again. But thinking of the database as one step above a flat file is similarly backward thinking.

More than that, the concept of putting application logic adjacent to the data store is sound. That's exactly what a web API or a microservice is doing. They allow a uniform mechanism of requests and responses to a data store. At a concept level, that's exactly the same thing. The concept of keeping logic at or immediately adjacent to the data layer so that a whole range of disparate applications can request and maintain data from the source is what the design goal of "database side logic" is.
> we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies

Actually, they kind of did. What's interesting is that they still only match GPT-4's version but don't propose any architectural breakthroughs. From an architectural standpoint, not much has changed since 2017. The 'breakthroughs', in terms of moving from GPT to GPT-4, included: adding more parameters (GPT-2/3/4), fine-tuning base models following instructions (RLHF), which is essentially structured training (GPT-3.5), and multi-modality, which involves using embeddings from different sources in the same latent space, along with some optimizations that allowed for faster inference and training. Increasing evidence suggests that AGI will not be attainable solely using LLMs/transformers/current architecture, as LLMs can't extrapolate beyond the patterns in their training data (according to a paper from DeepMind last month):

"Together our results highlight that the impressive ICL abilities of high-capacity sequence models may be more closely tied to the coverage of their pretraining data mixtures than inductive biases that create fundamental generalization capabilities."[1]

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871
You must not listen to NPR a lot. They go out of their way to not call it advertising. They are listener funded programming. It's okay if you don't get the reference.
Demystifying Kubernetes Resource Management [video]
I used them for years. Then I discovered cheap gel pens and never went back. Muji sell really very good ones for no money at all.
Tried the crab image. GPT-4 suggested a cat, then a "whale or a similar sea creature".
The problem isn't that the website is not HTML-only, but rather that it is JavaScript-only (practically-speaking). If you're using NoScript, or otherwise have JavaScript disabled, you get an empty page with nothing but an error message.
Your answer is the first choice of chat gpt:)

"

1. Natural
2. Authentic
3. Genuine
4. Real
5. Organic
6. Original
7. Unaffected
8. Unpretentious
9. True
10. Sincere

"
Not a material science expert, however per their paper, they use DFT to verify the stability, then use the verification status to improve the model.

>candidate structures filtered using GNoME are evaluated using DFT calculations with standardized settings from the Materials Project. Resulting energies of relaxed structures not only verify the stability of crystal structures but are also incorporated into the iterative active-learning workflow as further training data and structures for candidate generation
It's only appropriate; ActivityPub is one of the standards they manage.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
Crazy they just skip past the why. Why split it in the first place lol
What's wrong with simply not running malicious software? Is it supply chain attacks?
What politics and why do you think this move is related to it? It could very well be due to cost related to the third party client ban.
There was a port of TeX for the Amiga.
It even ran from (a lot of) diskettes but a hard drive gave a much better experience, otherwise you kept swapping disks for all the fonts.
There is a demo version of it on Fred Fish disk 083.
Gemini pro support on bard is still text only for now

https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096
Snarky response, but semi-serious too: I've measured my own productivity and software performance and have determined that static typing helps everywhere. I've yet to measure and find any places that dynamic typing would help.

(I say this as someone who has already spent the considerable time needed to understand static typing. For newer programmers or someone who doesn't program enough to make the investment worth it, I totally see the value proposition of dynamic types.)
I have no idea what "it's not exactly difficult to find Jews" means. It struck me as kind of an icky thing to say, so you might want to clarify the benign intent you had for saying it.
Oh yeah I agree. I was using “If we win the war on Ads” much like “If we achieve world peace”. Unlikely to the point of impossibility.

Liability for malware distribution was something I haven’t seen proposed before but totally makes sense.
Simply put, sunk cost fallacy. Apple marketing has completely inundated and exhausted consumers by front-running a BS privacy narrative, to an extent such that users of their products lack even the vocabulary to meaningfully reason about and discuss what privacy is and is not; instead opining an opaque, closed source platform could defend their individual interests from asymmetrically powerful forces at all.
Wolfram Alpha has very much the same effect as Siri for me. Often I'll remember it exists and I will think to give it another try. But whenever I try it I get frustrated since it seems to fail on whatever I decided to attempt in that moment. It is maybe just unlucky but it is my experience. I am certain there are millions of things it can do, but for some reason the one thing I try on it always seems to fail.

On the other hand, ChatGPT does seem to give me good results the majority of the time. It certainly fails or hallucinates and I always feel I have to double check it, However, it just feels more reliable as a first stop compared to Siri or Wolfram.

I don't want to have to think "is this a query Siri can handle?" or "will Wolfram Alpha manage to work for this query?" - I just want to get a pretty good answer quickly with no hassle.
> Google is very good at AI research.
Where it has fallen down (compared to its relative performance in relevant research) is public generative AI products

In such cases, I actually prefer Google over OpenAI. Monetization isn’t everything
Makes sense for objects, but I think they're classifying these goods as services. Would you call it "renting" a massage, because if something happens and they have to stop part-way though you don't get the full massage as expected?

Perhaps the "buy" option should have an implied lifetime of ownership, and anything less they have to pay you back (keeping all those sales $ in escrow would sure be a pain)
Hey there, I'm running the uncensored version of LLama 2 on my GPU server for personal needs. I haven't found a public API that offers the uncensored version, so I figured I'd give it a go.

The API isn't public yet but there'll be interest (reflected in pre-orders), I'll build one promptly. As I said, the building blocks are already there.
Quad9 wins appeal against Sony
> NPR- it certainly has a theory of government-...

What does NPR's "theory of government" have to do with anything?

> Single digit grants for non-profits are come and go.

Let me point out again the CPB allocates a relatively predictable (and monotonically increasing) budget of grants to local public broadcasting stations, and a certain percentage of those grants by law must be used to license NPR programming. CPB is funded by the federal government. It's simply not true that public radio stations and NPR are worrying whether the feds will fund them next year. If ~11% of federal funding is so irrelevant to NPR, why do they need it at all?

> The people who work there would make that argument independent of the source of funding and in fact are inspired by the degree to which their funding comes directly from their listeners.

Something like 87% of NPR listeners lean toward voting Democrat. If the argument is that they're satisfying their donors, then that suggest NPR is much more biased than if it was simply doing the duty of Congress, each house of which is approximately split in half between Republicans and Democrats.

> [T]his narrative is not even wrong. I mean that with all respect.

Thank you, I guess? Do you have any issues with the facts or inferences I actually pointed out in my argument? Did I cherry-pick some facts? Are there contrary facts which undermine my argument? Is there a flaw in my logic?
I think the reduction in that working is because of an over-saturation of people who play buzzword bingo on their resume, LinkedIn, whatever to the point that it's impossible for a hiring manager to really discern who actually has a broad set of skills vs who is just trying to jam noise in the signal.

That's probably where social connections come in because it at least provides a verification layer of "yeah X actually does know how to do A, B, and C we should get them into the hiring pipeline"
Well, that's why it's an opinion that few agree with :)

IMO most people don't care about playing competitively anyway (as in ranked e-sports). PVP shooters are common even on shitty devices (like PUBG or Fortnite on phones)... and of course consoles. Having a leet PC gaming setup with a super high DPI mouse just isn't a concern of many -- or maybe most -- gamers. Good enough is good enough.

Granted, people have been saying "cloud gaming is the future!" for ~~the better part of~~ (edit: more than!) a decade now, since OnLive was first launched. Stadia was a very public failure, but now there are many (GFN, PSNow, XCloud, Luna, Boosteroid, Shadow, etc.) Among them, GeForce Now is the only one that has the synergy of also being the dominant GPU producer. I believe it won't be long before more players game on the cloud than on PCs.

But feel free to come back in 5-10 years and tell me how wrong I was, lol.
We had Amiga vs Atari vs PC instead. :)
Yes, the fact that this is an extremely hard problem seems to be part of our mythology. Obtaining forbidden knowledge are part of many early creation stories (Garden of Eden - Tree of Knowledge, Prometheus and fire, etc.).
This should say “just about every UEFI device”. The problem has little to do with any particular OS.
Yes, exactly. The user is the enemy.
So taking a name and applying the reverse() operation on it yields a name? You can concatenate the names of two people together and that becomes a valid identifier for the two-person tuple?

Strings have behaviors that names don't, and names have domain-specific meaning that strings don't. An entire class of bugs can be eliminated if we stop treating people's names as sequences of characters enclosed in quotes.
It has a very rudimentary REPL in the form of `nim secret`; however, the compiler internals are being revamped a bit in the coming versions to make room for full-featured incremental compilation and REPL support.
> It’s not difficult to debug at all, you might just be unskilled.

I agree with your larger point but this seems too harsh: it’s definitely harder to debug simply because, as with microservices, understanding how the app is functioning now requires you to understand different code in multiple languages and locations, you’re highly likely to hit non-portable behavior across databases for authoring and debugging, and you’re never going to get a debugger with the whole flow in context.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t benefits as well and it could be especially useful as a way to force distinctions about contracts for common operations, but I wouldn’t say it’s right for all or even most projects. The sweet spot is going to vary widely.
Some poor AI / ML intern with a Stanford PhD probably spent an entire summer running these to get the take they needed.
There was no political statement at all in the linked post. This is just an announcement that they're not posting on twitter any longer.
Lenovo Legion Linux Support
Correct.

The default backend implementation uses OpenAI, but you can use any LLM pretty easily.
The question isn't how it could be done but how it is done.
Assuming that you mean your family is 500-620 miles away, are you saying you'd drive that far without stopping? At the minimum you'd think that'd require 2 10 minute bathroom breaks, and if that was enough to add 300 miles of range to a 300 mile car it wouldn't slow anybody down.

We have a >300 mile range on our car. You can recharge that over a long weekend on 120V; no need to install any extra equipment.
Modern well insulated buildings need active ventilation. Passive just doesn’t cut it anymore.

I installed a HRV system in my (well insulated) house, and I love it - air quality indoors is noticeably improved.

Only downside is that there’s lots of wood burning in my particular (and densely populated) area of Europe, so I was quickly drawn into the rabbit hole of particulate matter sensors and how to automatically shut the ventilation system off when the neighbors turn on their fireplace.

And when it comes to mold, our bathroom used to have black spots on the walls after a while, but with improved ventilation it stays amazingly clean and everything dries much more quickly. Almost no condensation on surfaces like mirrors and walls anymore either.
Is one private enterprise choosing not to do business with another private enterprise really "political"? Or are you trying to say something else?
Many of those services stopped working when X changed their API key policy.

And they should feel no obligation to support a private, closed source company.
I have a small sample size but for my SaaS which primarily sends email GMail marked as spam for a while but then gained domain trust and it hasn't been a notable issue. Outlook has my IP on a blacklist and doesn't even consider anything else. I need to send via relays to get an IP that is trusted enough for Outlook to even consider my message (which is signed with DKIM + SPF with a DMARC reject policy)
Is that really the consensus where you are?

In my experience, it’s at best and mild aversion, but usually tempered with a pragmatic indifference to being infected. Virtually no one here (UK) takes visible actions anymore. Only a few seem to care.

Get closer to healthcare settings, and things change a little, but not a lot. A few more people take preventative measures, but not many, and interestingly not healthcare staff themselves.
If you're storing it exactly as provided then surely until you know it's actually valid json you want a string, not a json/jsonb column.
It's a quasi-particle that's a monopole, and I think they've found quasi-particles that behaved as monopoles before if I'm not mistaken? In more exotic materials than hematite, though, I think.
I wonder with "do not waffle" if it has any accidental aversion to anything waffle related.
Azure and security in one sentence.

Good one.
So rich enough to buy an expensive "Pro" last generation phone from Apple but not rich enough to also purchase a dedicated console to connect to his TV so he can play without draining the battery and monopolizing his primary communication device.
The Venn diagram of this must be quite funny.
You Apple guys are delusional, mobile gaming doesn't make a lot of sense, in particular for the people who have enough money to buy Apple hardware.
Apple sucks at gaming and forever will because for it to be competitive they would need to sell performant hardware at an actually competitive pricing.
But since Apple like to pretend their parts are made of gold, this is not going to happen anytime soon...
Isn’t an account’s follower list basically public, though?
Ransonware, or a systray full of little applications the nephew has to fix during Christmas vacations.
Deliberate inaction -- not paying attention to "politics" -- is a political stand in itself by declaring you accept the status quo.
Limiting their reach to who? You either already know who W3C is and you care, or you don't know, don't need to know, and don't care.

And most people smart enough to know what the W3C is are also smart enough to know that antisemitism isn't political.
PCBIOS is just a compatibility mode for UEFI chipsets now, so there is no avoiding it -- sorry :(
> In such cases, I actually prefer Google over OpenAI.

For, what, moral kudos? (to be clear, I'm not saying this is a less important thing in some general sense, I'm saying what is preferred is always dependent on what we are talking about preferences for.)

> Monetization isn’t everything

Providing a user product (monetization is a different issue, though for a for-profit company they tend to be closely connected) is ultimately important for people looking for a product to use.

Other interests favor other things, sure.
Maybe somebody should fork Firefox and start over with new stewardship.
The current type system is designed around the experience of writing code like the example below where objects can have two kinds of methods:

let bucket = new cloud.Bucket();
let api = new cloud.Api();

// api.get is a preflight method - it generates cloud infrastructure
api.post("/hello", inflight (req) => {
// bucket.put is an inflight method - it performs data plane operations, at "runtime"
bucket.put("data.txt", req.body ?? "empty");
});

Importantly, if you try calling bucket.put() outside of one of these "inflight" scopes or try calling api.get() inside one of these "inflight" scopes, you'll get compilation errors - not runtime errors.

Could this style of API be achieved in an existing language? I think it's an open ended question - I'm not sure. But I reckon it gets into complex framework territory (or may require injecting modifications into existing compilers, which presents other challenges). But I'd love to see more exploration into this direction.
Good question!

No, we actually don't even offer our own endpoints for inference yet, precisely because of the data concerns you site.

Right now it's self-host only, but it's very very easy to self-host, and we'll keep it that way for every feature touching user data.
Apple also has an API called MultiPeerConnectivity[0] that handles this better than AirDrop. I’ve long wanted to try building a mesh network with this. Not sure about multi-hop, maybe that could be part of the business logic.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/multipeerconnectiv...
Community notes are great and should be copied. That they have to be used on a shitload of mundane topics cause the fascist in chief thinks "muh, free speech" is not. Hopefully, sooner or later one of the alternatives gets enough traction and this saga is over.
Yes, exactly.

And thanks for the kind words!
You seem to be using htmx? Pretty impressive to get this much interactivity without much javascript. Would be very interested to learn more about how it's working out overall.
These discussions are exasperating for me because I always go where? Where in this world is this strong government that's controlled by the average joe and not by the rich or high born. It seems like some enlightenment era utopian fantasy that people haven't grown out of
And GPT-4 finished training summer 2022 and OpenAI was sitting on it for like another 9 months
Cool idea, but the UI could need some work. Perhaps model the MacOS emoji menu a bit?

Symbols I find myself googling a lot are:

Bullet: •
Ellipsis: … (not the same as "...")
Em Dash: — (longer than "-")
Arrows: ← → ↑ ↓

They come in handy as minimalist replacements for emojis or UI icons occasionally.
Please enjoy this upvote, nice to see the full forest of application from struggling with something like LU decomps by hand
China space authorities name Elon Musk's SpaceX 'unprecedented challenge'
I was watching a demo of palm pda and I liked the fact you have a syncing software on your computer. I'd gladly sync auth secrets to my iPhone so I can access services instead of authenticating on the phone itself.
The password doesn't get brute forced via an API. The threat model would be more like your salted and hashed passwords got exported and now they can be brute forced. A 12 character password in the DB can be brute forced in seconds or minutes. If your password is strong it will take years or millenia.

That's what haveibeenpwned.com is about. It tells you if your email is in one of these database lists out in the wild. If it is, assume your password will eventually be discovered.
I've done this. It really isn't to make life difficult, it is because we need to know who you are before we know whether you even need a password screen. Maybe your domain means you are part of an org has an SSO connection configured. Maybe you are not yet a user and need an onboarding workflow, etc.

Could that be done on a single page instead of a new page? Probably, but does turning the login into an SPA really reduce friction enough to make it worth that complexity?

In any case, some systems have a reason. But you are correct that doing such a thing without a good reason is not a wise move. And outside of B2B apps... I don't see it being a common thing.
Again, Stallman was right about the dangers of ownership of "digitally purchased" content like VOD, e-books etc. Of course, there's ways to de-drm content on some platforms, which technically violates DMCA, but having the content locally without DRM (that requires phoning home/encryption) is key.

The DMCA should be reformed to allow de-drming content owned by you. This mostly applies to digital content and cases such as: your account being banned, licensing issues resulting in content being removed, buy in x country which later gets blocked etc. However, cases like making copies to store off-site in case of a fire, natural disaster, robbery or on digital storage (NAS, cloud etc.) should be allowed especially for people who pay. I thought it'll happen though. Perhaps a federal law entailing consumers for refunds for such cases such as Sony's recent actions should be created.
Bordering on barratry, one of the more incoherent pieces of litigation I've seen in a while.
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying anymore (you're being perfectly clear, it's just over my head now, not having studied math beyond the middle-high school level).

As for the difficulty of new projects, it's not so much "we should teach kids to build houses before they can count to 100", but that learning by doing & mimicking often helps a lot of people compared to learning in the classroom by theory. If I wanted to make a game today, I'd probably just watch a Unity or Unreal intro on YouTube rather than starting with math... but that's just me.
They always do this, every time they get to mention AI. It appears somewhat desperate imo.
Isn't a transformer an LLM?
In that case, you neither have it OR own it.
Thanks for the reply.

My question about how to integrate with existing code is more of a curiosity rather than a specific use case. It seems like adoption will be an uphill battle because you're asking devs to learn a new language AND port all existing infrastructure code to Wing.

One other thought: It would be cool to see Wing shine by demoing a full-blown distributed system. Perhaps with a couple of microservices and some supporting infrastructure.