skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A dishwasher is a single object. A heat pump has an indoor part, and outdoor part, and (at least) two tubes between them. Those tubes can carry one of several refrigerants (with attendant oil contamination), water, or glycol solutions. Or occasionally air. There are quite a few standards for connecting all of these, although the standards for air appear to literally be duct tape [0] or sticky goop called mastic. And refrigerant, which is the most common choice, is under high pressure and needs special handling.

[0] I mean real duct tape: the UL181 stuff. The world is full of kinds of tape, and many of them are excellent. I’ve never seen anything I would call excellent duct tape. It doesn’t conform well to irregularities, and it doesn’t seem to have anywhere near the stretchiness required to actually seal the inherently curved gap between round ducts.
Don't attribute to reality what happens for engagement on a tiktok video. BlackRock, Fidelity, and about 10 others have all filed S1s with the SEC who continues to meet with them and ask for specific technical adjustments. It is highly unlikely they'd be asking for such highly specific changes if their plan was to issue a blanket denial. Their decision is due around January 10.
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Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4
This demo video makes it seem like it would have a decent shot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI
Is it live already at bard.google.com? Just tried it and still useless compared to GPT 3.5.
It's not for you. It's for people who don't know what a password manager is and can barely remember their password. If they actually remember it. Many people rely on their phones always having access.

I have dealt with a lot of family members who absolutely cannot be trusted to remember even a single password if they don't have to type it in semi-regularly. I've have family members locked out of password vaults because 2 weeks is too long to expect them to remember a password.

This is who that flow is catering to. It's a significant amount of people, sadly.
That's for Ultra right? Which is an amazing accomplishment, but it sounds like I won't be able to access it for months. If I'm lucky.
This is terrible new for the ecosystem of dev tool companies. OpenView is one of the few funds that actually puts out helpful content.
It seems silly to imagine they'd ask for anything less than everything they could get.

More information means more ways to hone in on whatever allegation you're trying to prove. If it's investigative, then it gives more of a picture of what's happening.

I used to imagine EZPass data as innocuous, but now it's used routinely in criminal trials to show that a defendant was at a given place at a given time. Divorce attorneys also request it, as it can be used to illustrate patterns.
Any building with a domed ceiling is ripe for interesting reflections as well. There's a story of US congress/senator during a negotiation offering to step to the other side of the room to allow his "colleagues" to confer in private knowingly as he could hear their conversations due to the reflections off the dome.
Heh, I read that and had the opposite conclusion.

When I was reading the benchmarks and seeing how Gemini Ultra was outperforming GPT-4 I thought, "Finally, some competition for GPT4"!

But when I got to that part, that's when I realized that it could potentially be caught in release hell and not actually see the light of day or significant use. Google, for better or worse, has more of a brand reputation to maintain and is more risk averse, so even if Gemini Ultra can, in theory, outperform GPT4, users might not get a chance to access it for a while.
It also confuses the difference between the Z-Machine and the Zork Implementation Language (ZIL). The Z-Machine code is the part that is platform independent. ZIL is a Lisp-like language that Infocom used to write their games, but it just ran on their in-house system (although recently people have recreated the ZIL compiler for hobbyists) -- it was complied into Z-Machine code. But there really isn't a fixed connection between the two. Today, most Z-Machine interactive fiction is written in Inform rather than ZIL. But Z-machine interpreters don't need to know how the Z-Machine code was generated, much as the JVM and .NET systems don't have to know where their code came from.
One observation: Sundar's comments in the main video seem like he's trying to communicate "we've been doing this ai stuff since you (other AI companies) were little babies" - to me this comes off kind of badly, like it's trying too hard to emphasize how long they've been doing AI (which is a weird look when the currently publicly available SOTA model is made by OpenAI, not Google). A better look would simply be to show instead of tell.

In contrast to the main video, this video that is further down the page is really impressive and really does show - the 'which cup is the ball in is particularly cool': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI.

Other key info: "Integrate Gemini models into your applications with Google AI Studio and Google Cloud Vertex AI. Available December 13th." (Unclear if all 3 models are available then, hopefully they are, and hopefully it's more like OpenAI with many people getting access, rather than Claude's API with few customers getting access)
What exactly you measure when you measure "amount of people X by almost X trillion dollars"? How did you manage to arrive at a number that supposedly means productivity of individual employees?
On the other hand in the great stink era the waterwheels on London Bridge were industriously injecting into the drinking water supply the same effluent that had just been ejected.

One would have been grateful to be on The New River company's list of clients.

There's an excellent book also called "The Great Stink" on the problem and on Bazalgette's solution of them.
I love mold, really improved my linking times.
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is it powerful? In both cases X and reddit, nothing meaningful happened.

Apple could block any device without attestation then offer a discount for those on old products to upgrade. Now bad news is good news.
You're missing the point, in this case they don't even need the warrant at all. And yes, it is because you would have to ask a judge for each and every person surveiled and then provide a reason. They wouldn't have any reason for the drag net and would be denied.
You don't need swedish truckers though. Polish or German truckers will happily deliver your stuff to Sweden.
The issue is Fungi are everywhere, all the time, and without exception (even feeding in nuclear disasters). They predate most forms of life, majority are harmless or beneficial, and the genetics vary widely. For example, Yeasts are just about everywhere...

I would recommend Paul Stamets books for their accessibility, even if he is probably the weirdest eccentric of our time. Seriously weird dude, but an expert on Fungi taxonomy without question none the less.

Around this time of year we get Amanita muscaria popping up in the yard, and some very oddly behaved squirrels having a bad day.
This is a very neat approach and I agree with the premise that we need a framework that unifies some of the architecture of cloud - shuttle.rs has some thoughts here. I do take issue with this framing:

- Trigger the lambda via HTTP endpoint, S3, or API gateway ($)

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

- Write the bespoke lambda to transcode the video ($)

* In go this would be about as difficult as flame -- you'd have to build a different entrypoint that would be 1 line of code but it could be the same codebase. Node it would depend on bundling but in theory you could do the same -- it's just a promise that takes an S3 event, that doesn't seem much different.

- Place the thumbnail results into SQS ($)

* 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.

- Write the SQS consumer in our app (dev $)

* Again -- 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.

- Persist to DB and figure out how to get events back to active subscribers that may well be connected to other instances than the SQS consumer (dev $)

* 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"

So really the issue is:

* s3 is our image database

* our app needs to deploy an s3 hook for lambda

* our codebase needs to deploy that lambda

* we might need to listen to SNS

which is still some complexity, but it's not the same and it's not using the wrong technology like some chain of SQS nonsense.
So just a bunch of marketing fluff? I can use GPT4 literally right now and it’s apparently within a few percentage points of what Gemini Ultra can do… which has no release date as far as I can tell.

Would’ve loved something more substantive than a bunch of videos promising how revolutionary it is.
it's very hard to socialize with non-techies in the US without it. you miss so much.
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I mean, the other well known way is to pay with money directly. YT offers that. But certain people don't want to pay, either directly or with their attention.

What other avenue is there to pay for stuff you consume ?
Apple lost the PC battle, MS lost the mobile battle, Google is losing the AI battle. You can't win everywhere.
not sure, but you could also look at the inverse. e.g. a 90% to 95% improvement could also be interpreted as 10% failure to 5% failure, i.e. half the amount of failures, a very big improvement. It depends on a lot of things, but it's possible that this could feel like a very big improvement.
Benchmark results look awesome, but so does every new open source release these days - it is quite straightforward to make sure you do well in benchmarks if that is your goal. I hope Google cracked it and this is more than PR.
Sure but a strike implies not working at all
They already do this, I think;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

But since PRISM was exposed ~10 years ago, they have had to resort to using FISA court to scrape data

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Do mean air-to-refrigerant-to-air or do you literally mean a big box with ducts coming out? The latter is called a “packaged terminal” heat pump in the US, and they haven’t really caught on except in cheap hotels.
Need to take a closer look at the paper, but a classical approach to this problems is to map it to an eigenvalue problem, so could we say that they have found a quantum speed up for solving eigenvalue problems?
I think this was started in Twitter with people trying to circumvent getting “shadow banned” for mentioning Elon on a bad light
Technology must serve humanity, not the other way around.

If a new technology threatens to eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, and the benefits are marginal or largely in favor of the capital class, then we should probably not pursue that technology.
I don’t think third-party doctrine applies to the gag order, but it is relevant to the surveillance being discussed in this post.
I’m afraid it won’t be nearly as good as GPT4, because of how lax Open AI can be with intellectual property. Google will not be able to train their model on Libgen or Opensubtitles, because they can’t afford the risk.
Comb sort tip --- instead of dividing by 1.3 use 1.333 (repeating) instead.

In practical terms using integers, this makes almost no difference *except* it can be performed using faster shift and add operations:

gap = ((gap << 1) + gap) >> 2;

For even more speed, I'd also recommend in-lining this to eliminate the function call. Properly implemented, respectable speed can be achieved from a really trivial implementation.
Yeah, that will be illegal in 10 years, if not already, under hacking or sabotage rules. Next solution?
> Blue bubbles are an American obsession.

No it’s not, it’s an obsession by a small number of users, not widespread at all.
Do not buy console titles you think are good enough to replay later on consoles except on disc.

That's for games. For video content, i'd say do not "buy" anything digital. The video content industry has Kafkaesque licensing agreements and a pathological fear of "piracy" so you're guaranteed to lose access either because someone's agreement thrice removed from whoever you "bought" the content from expired, or because the latest copy protection that was in fashion when you "bought" it is now unsupported.

Edit: hey, can your kids inherit your "digital content"? They can inherit your disc collection.
It's the same reason everything digital and downloadable isn't free: there's a cost to create it and there's a value to it.

For a language developer to charge for a book about that language, I think that's a completely valid way to make some money off of their work.

Even the Rust book, "The Rust Programming Language" is available freely online [0], but also as a print and ebook for sale via NoStarchPress [1].

[0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/

[1] https://nostarch.com/rust-programming-language-2nd-edition
Publishing whatever they can is a good thing.

But this is also a great reminder that there's a bunch of things they can't publish -- so "transparency reports" are of extremely limited value. Their greatest value is encouraging people to have a false sense of security.
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Owning a Bible is not forbidden by law in Morocco. (If there is legislation, you are misinterpreting its scope and intent.) Morocco has its own Roman Catholic jurisdiction[0]. There are even Roman Catholic monasteries/convents in the country that do philanthropic work with rural communities, on the condition that they don’t try to openly convert locals, and of course they all possess Bibles and liturgical books for their services.

This is something that even tourists are often aware of, because in Tangier the Anglican parish[1] is a popular tourist attraction. The Agadir Roman Catholic parish is attended by also some of the loads of German/French/Italian pensioners who spend winters there.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Morocco

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Andrew's_Church%2C_Tangier
>So they are roughly a year behind OpenAI

Possibly by that time GPT5 will already be out.
This is the bigger headline than their Gemini release. AI is all about how much compute dollars it can generate for the cloud providers. Google is trying to make sure Microsoft doesn't monopolize AI compute.
You’re telling me this thread spent dozens of comments over semantics (”implies”)? Jeez. Just use a goddamn different word if you prefer.
Yes and if you look at that book and see a naked woman then it's more telling about you than anyone else.
Well they sure copied Apple's "Pro" and "Ultra" branding. I'm fully expecting a "Gemini Max" version in the near future!
At least Apple would call it iParrot or iSomething. :D
Hell, the LLMs themselves outperformed clinician plus LLM...
It's a logical consequence of expecting people to authenticate fully with services in a physical context outside of a computer desk at home where passwords can be safely written down. Unfortunately a hardware key is simply the modern version of this.

What would be better is the issuance of limited permissions for other context in the form of less secure tokens. An example of this is the old school example of logging into your airline account and printing out your tickets to take to the airport.
This also jumped out at me. It also seems that they are selectively choosing different promoting strategies too, one lists "CoT@32".

Makes it seem like they really needed to get creative to have it beat GPT4. Not a good sign imho
I like the digital MP3s I own... (not what they mean, probably)

maybe they should call it cloudy ownership?
Care to elaborate? Serbia is not a member of NATO or other military alliances, does not supply arms to any country involved in current conflicts, and says it loudly.
why not decode it as a struct or list of whatever are the native types in the database for arbitrarily nested objects?
it's really amazing how in IT we always recycle the same ten names... in the last three years, "gemini" refers (at least) to:

- gemini protocol, the smolnet companion (gemini://geminiprotocol.net/ - https://geminiprotocol.net/)

- gemini somethingcoin somethingcrypto (I will never link it)

- gemini google's ML/AI (here we are)
IMHO I think the internet and the price of higher ed have changed the calculus of these types of degrees. If the price of college was the same as it was in the 80's and 90's (adjusted for inflation) then yeah I totally agree that a degree in those fields would be worth it to broaden your horizons, even if it doesn't provide massive economic value.

But with the price of higher ed rising exponentially, you now need some sort of economic justification for it, especially considering that you could get roughly the same education online for free.
There's a huge amount of criticism for Sundar on Hacker News (seemingly from Googlers, ex-Googlers, and non-Googlers), but I give huge credit for Google's "code red" response to ChatGPT. I count at least 19 blog posts and YouTube videos from Google relating to the Gemini update today. While Google hasn't defeated (whatever that would mean) OpenAI yet, the way that every team/product has responded to improve, publicize, and utilize AI in the past year has been very impressive.
I’d love to spend some time living in Montreal. It and Quebec City feel like as close as one can get to Euro living without hopping over the pond.
It starts your whole app, including the whole supervision tree, but you can turn on/off services based on whatever logic you want. I talk a bit about this in the screencast. For example, no need to start the phoenix endpoint (webserver) since we aren't serving web traffic. For the DB pool, you'd set a lower pool size or single connection in your runtime configuration based on the presence of FLAME parent or not.
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The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
Do we know on what type of hardware was it trained? Google's own or Nvidia?
True, but you can also refuse to excuse any behavior, nor give even an inch, and then look around after a while and realize you've won the wrong contest. You won the never giving an inch and remaining morally unblemished contest, and lost the making allies and getting anything done contest.
Killing ad free internet is good for google shareholders. That’s the “everyone” they’re talking about in case it wasn’t clear.
> I'm OK rewriting code, say, every decade

If it is your code, or your company's code, why not? But think about dependencies!
I wonder how long “Gemini” will stay active before it’s 86’d to Google Graveyard
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I think neighborhood batteries make a lot more sense - spread out the cost, if every neighborhood had a reasonable sized battery installation, the grid would be FAR more stable.
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It's probably just an unfortunate coincidence. After all, Gemini is a zodiac sign first and foremost, you'd have to specify what exactly you want anyway.
If you loose it, you could lose it.
Yeah but a lot of those are not democracies, nor do much business at intel level with the US.
What's the difference between Bard and Gemini? One is text and the other is multi-modal?
Free speech: are you saying it is guaranteed for companies?
Those unelected bureaucrats play by the rules set by elected bureaucrats, though.

> That rule didn't come from the people who wrote the law.

But lawmakers can write a law to address that.
Mistral 7B on a Pi 5
Does numpy not work on apple silicon?
This seems a fun little tool!

Also, separately but still related to DNS fun, i enjoyed the following talk at this year's FOSDEM: "Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS (Rule 53: If you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS)" https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/dns_bizarre_a...

It boggles my mind the fun that can be had with DNS, and also the cleverness and creativity of people out in the world!!
They'll be able to explain their reasoning......
no, that's not basically it. MITM to me means being able to read the data by placing yourself in the encrypted chain. that's not how push notifications work. they don't need to know the contents of the message
I'm not a marketer but it's hard to see what the point of these glossy press releases without a call to action is.

If I could have tried it today, I would have dropped everything and tried it. Now I will forget about it for a while and try it whenever I hear through osmosis that it's available. To the extent that I am excited and/or interested, the snooze button is pressed.

Maybe that's the desired outcome?
That looks like the rule of law working as expected to me?
> the Swedish labour model which is built by Unions and not the government

That's not exactly true. It's a partnership between the government, the unions, and the employers with the government usually taking the role of mediator.

"The Swedish model & collective agreements – a brief introduction

The Swedish labour market model in a nutshell

In the Swedish labour market model, the social partners
(trade unions and employers’ organisations) are responsible
for wage formation. The social partners also have a key role
in establishing other employment conditions in the labour
market.

The legislation constitutes a framework that supports this
model, for instance, through provisions on association and
negotiation rights and the right to take industrial action.
The social partners have significant autonomy to regulate
the precise conditions through collective agreements. Many
statutory regulations can be replaced with collective
agreements. There is no legislation on minimum wages or
universal application of agreements.

Another key feature of the Swedish model is that disputes
are resolved in the first instance through negotiation.
A prerequisite for the model is that collective agreements
cover most of the employees on the labour market"

https://www.mi.se/app/uploads/the-swedish-model-and-collecti...

https://www.mi.se/english/about-us/
Yes, and presumably: more data, more compute, better pre-training and post-training methods, leading to better capabilities.
I've found Amazon Video to be fairly consistent. I don't buy many movies, nor rewatch them often, but they have done well by me. But the video game companies are fond of planned obsolescence and have happily abandoned their customers for decades. Buying a video from Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony is just asking to have it disappear when they build their next "Store."
I wonder how that weird HellaSwag lag is possible. Is there something really special about that benchmark?
Election is in 10 days, so government is desperate to show how cool they are. He probably got paid few millions bucks, so they could parade him around and give him citizenship.
Maybe they shouldn't have chosen such a common word if they didn't want to be confused with something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini
I'd bet Google comes out on top eventually, this is just too much down their alley for them not to do well at it, it's pretty naive of people to dismiss them because OpenAI had a great product a year earlier.
Sadly, for video content there's not likely to be any physical ownership within a few years.