skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that should probably read 160x200. IIRC, most C64 games ran at that resolution. This was called “high resolution graphics” in the marketing material, mind you :)
How good is software like radarr/sonarr/etc? I’m not super familiar with them but they sound kinda like trackers of trackers, and somehow are developed in the open on GitHub so I feel like they should be fairly trustworthy.
That’s part of the ploy. Give people a million menial jobs to elect so they feel exhausted by the process instead of demanding to have control over the real power.

See also the California senators, which have at this point been unilaterally appointed by Gavin rather than elected by the people. If that wasn’t bad enough, he appointed this latest one based on a personal promise made to put a Black woman in the seat, in exchange for some union to aid in his personal election campaign.

If anyone cared about civics, separation of power, or indeed democracy itself, there’d be rioting in the streets.
> I'm apparently misinformed, so how is enabling previously banned accounts hurting free speech?

I never said it was. That is a choice. Elon doesn't like advertisers pulling their spend (free speech) and the general public leaving (free speech and association). He wants to demand an audience under his terms (participants must stay, advertisers must continue to spend under his terms), leading to this natural experiment. I apologize if that wasn't clear from my turn of phrase with regards to being held hostage.

Twitter will die, Elon will take the L (but probably not learn from it until some future wealth destruction event), and everyone will move on to other forums and digital third spaces. Enjoy the show.
Nah. License is just a weasel word here. Save that for the lawyers. Consumers can buy or rent. There's no in between.
You mean they sponsored programming on NPR?
I assume he has quite a few PPUs.
Dumb phones give up your location info just as smart phones do, but smart phones collect and leak a lot more data on top of your location.
Palm2 tells me that it is most powerful LLM in the world, but it isn't Gemini yet. LOL! I don't need AIs that are parroting marketing crap.
Just to make it crystal clear, we recently learned that the FBI served Twitter a search warrant for Trumps account which gave then access to all of his twitter followers. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66365643.amp
User time is more valuable than programmer's time. Read: programmers should operate as if CPU cycles, RAM, disk space etc is precious. Less = more.

Why? If programmer builds something only for him/herself, or a few of their peers, it really doesn't matter. Do as you like. But be aware that one-off / prototype != final product.

Commonly held view is that programmers are a small % of population, thus their skills are rare (valuable), thus if programmer's time can be saved by wasting some (user) CPU cycles, RAM etc (scripting languages, I'm looking at you!), so be it. Optimize only if necessary.

BUT! Ideally, the programming is only done once. If software is successful, it will be used by many users, again & again over a long time.

The time / RAM / storage wasted over the many runs of such software (not to mention bugs), by many users, outweighs any saving in programmers time.

In short: fine, kick out a prototype or something duct-taped from inefficient components.

But if it catches on: optimize / re-design / simplify / debug / verify the heck out of it, to the point where no CPU cycle or byte can be taken out without losing the core functionality.

Existing software landscape is too much duct-tape, compute expensive but never-used features, inefficient, RAM gobbling, bug-ridden crap that should never have been released.

And that developer has a beefy machine doesn't mean users do.
The crab was the most amazing part of the demo for me.
I think there is a misconception. Most of the time you don't own the digital asset. This is an intentional quirk around money, contracts, etc. You have the right to use it in the present form through the platform as long as the platform has a contract with the IP owner to enable that.

For this to change there either needs to be incentive for the platform and IP owners or there needs to be legal changes to require it.

Also, blockchain means that anyone who has your ID can know you entire catalog of ownership. This removes privacy.
How many years of experience do you have? And what % equity do you own of the company?
I'm a fan of mechanical pencils myself. In school we were issued Pentel P205's and every few years I buy something new to try and always end up returning to my 30 year old P205 pencils.
I've been futzing with it for the last hour and it's a hard no so far.
The part that is missing from each and every one of these smartphone reviews: the operating system that closes and suspends every single threads in the moment you blink, otherwise the battery wouldn't last until lunchtime.

I, for one, love not seeing email notifications and having the system close the music player when I pause a track.
Follow-up comment: He has his license back.
Gemini encompasses three distinct versions - Ultra, Pro, and Nano - each tailored for specific tasks, ranging from complex computations to on-device efficiency. Google's rigorous testing has demonstrated Gemini's supremacy, showcasing remarkable performance that surpasses prevailing benchmarks in a multitude of domains.
It's not state-run though, it's a normal private company, just one where the governments own all the shares.

They are still profit driven, like most state-owned companies in Scandinavia.
So companies burn it onto a DVD and stick it in the post. Customer pays for post + blank DVD.
This legal structure of governance already kills so many people unintentionally, it's unethical to keep trying to reform it when it was designed from flawed principles. Time for a full redesign.
So, a cybertruck will never be hit by another car? The AI will dodge it?
Have to use vpn to USA to access via UK
Same here. And unlike stackoverflow or any other forum, if you have any additional questions, you don't have to wait for an answer (which could take seconds, years, or never).
So what solutions do we have?

I run unified push on my Nextcloud server with app on device called Nextpush. This is used by some apps I use.
Some apps use web sockets, but I understand this is resource consumptive when constantly running in the background.
Some apps are able to piggy back on my Cheogram app for push notifications.
I use an Android fork without any Google Play Services. I don't know what is possible with Iphones.
I used to work on cloud infra at an org that spent many millions on GCP (I'm certain ~everyone reading this comment would recognize it by name) and was working on adding more zeros to that number. We spent years working on this and still ended up switching to AWS in the end, largely because of support but also GCP's anti-customer business practices in general. We had weekly meetings with our account reps in person at our office but even they weren't able to get things done internally. No fault of their own though!
Bruh!! You've stirred my inner poet.

Ode to my most beautiful Goddess Nim.

My beloved goddess, I wish to roam around your lush forests and valleys, and scale the peaks of programming ecstasy with you my most beautiful goddess.

I yearn to plough the depths of your fertility, planting my seeds into your fertile soil, and watch the seedlings sprout and grow into great giant oaks of Mandelbrot complexity and beauty.

I want to bathe in your flowing rivers of ectasy, raise my face to the sky and feel the spray of your golden showers on my face, drink your golden ambrosia and feel the wisdom of your inspiration flow through my veins into my fingers, weaving skeins of golden code that induce envy in the greatest weavers of code.

Oh beloved Goddess Nim, my programming muse.

Bruh!!

.....

I ought to stop here before I cause a global crisis of PEKBACs among diehard Nim programmers.

TBH, I didn't see it at first, but those beautiful mountain peaks and valleys have converted me into a diehard Nim programmer.

PS. Should I post this on the Nim Slacks, Reddits, Matrixes et al?
You've got a lot of examples, but for example I recently thought: "How many weekdays are there between Jan. 11th 2023 and Mar. 11th, 2023" and got GPT to write the python code and run it to get the answer. It worked first try, I could inspect the code it generated and saw it looked correct, it was within my original estimate. Took less than one minute.

I had a question about adding new RAM to my computer, about what things I should take into account since the original brand no longer makes paired dimms that match my current spec. It gave me a big bullet list of all of the things I should compare between my current ram, my current motherboard and any new ram I would choose to buy to ensure compatibility.

Both of these are things I might have gone to Google (or even reddit) for previously but I believed I could get faster answers from ChatGPT. I was right in both cases. I didn't have to construct a complicated query, I didn't have to filter SEO spam. I just asked the question in natural language as it appeared in my mind and ChatGPT gave excellent answers with very little delay.
Title is clickbait. I am sure the content of the article clears it up, but the title implies Microsoft is forcing all users to pay for normal security updates.

In reality, it's your choice to stay on an end-of-support OS and purchase updates if you wish to remain secure.
Jetbrains AI
>> Elon Musk is a staunch believer in free speech

That's just, like, your opinion, man. And I don't believe it.
I'm that way too.

But I wonder how good the program is on the disk. Everytime I put a disc in the console it downloads a huge file of patches and bugfixes..
I will make the assumption that you mean "First professional offer" -
I took a coop position with a big telecom company. After 6 months they offered me a full time job when I graduated. I happened to have the foresight to do this just before the telecom/internet boom of the late 90's. If I actually had a clue my personal assistant would be doing the first draft of this post for me to review :)
Are you using NextDNS by chance? Someone reported an issue with it blocking the domain on there, but it was unclear _which_ setting was blocking it. Was also odd given its just a Vercel website and the domain (afaik) was unused prior.
> Have you tried making a HN post or otherwise bring attention to this? My impression is he got a bunch of undeserved clout, especially in light of how things turned out subsequently.

I don’t really have the energy to argue over it. I was also advised by my lecturers to stay away from reverse engineering / anything that can be used against me legally now that I’m in the UK which has quite murky laws.

I’m not one to hold a grudge so him getting clout for his original response doesn’t concern me. If I knew he was on HN, I wouldn’t have posted it.
Fair enough as it's a very loose definition and doesn't require formalities or any kind of actual restrictions on the right.
Yes that’s the case. But so what? What does that have to do with the company being successful down the line? They also can’t stop a small exit unless they got enough ownership
I think undo have one: https://undo.io/products/java
This is really the conclusion of the debate over whether privacy protections should be legal or technological.

The answer is both, which in particular means that they have to be technological. We need to prove their inability to defect with math because otherwise they can just lie about it.

What you need from the law is the right for everybody to use that kind of technology by default.
Really loving the big button for using it on bard, which when clicked has no indication at all about what model it is currently actually using.

And when I ask the model what the base model it relies on is:

>I am currently using a lightweight model version of LaMDA, also known as Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM-2).

Which appears completely hallucinated as I'm pretty sure LaMDA and PaLM-2 are completely different models.
[Disclaimer, I work @ ClickHouse]

We agree - we currently have experimental support for JSON, but it is experimental and has some challenges. We're also working on a parallel track, to support semistructured columns (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864). This is an alternative to the experimental JSON data type, that aims to address its drawbacks.
I’m not OP but I do much fewer Google searches now as well.

Prior to ChatGPT, the majority of my Google searches ended up on either Wikipedia (for direct information), Reddit (for opinions/advice), or StackOverflow (for programming questions).

Now all those use cases can be done by ChatGPT, and it’s faster, especially because it requires less skimming to find useful data.
Do you know if UHD implemented something similar? Its not the same tech, though doesn't mean they couldn't have added it.

If it is at that point, then the only solution is VHS and rips, short of preventing revocation within a bluray player
It's not a monopoly, there is no broader definition that would make it so. People just generally prefer using that platform.
I worked for a finance company that everyone was using Eclipse, and it was almost impossible to break out of eclipse (except maybe for a new application) because there were custom Eclipse plugins written to even get some applications to compile locally.
This is why I download fitgirl repacks. I bought an eBook 10 years ago and it disappeared. Moral, Legal or not, I personally favor consistency and predictability.
Project Habakkuk (2017)
This is epic from a technical standpoint
Ah I got confused by the wording “100k a pop”

Yes, you’re correct
It's already not legal to smoke in public for weed and in most places for cigarettes. Frankly I don't think outright prohibition addresses that any better than the existing system. Nor do I see how having bodily autonomy is necessarily a tyranny of the masses.

In all seriousness, Utah sounds like your ideal so long as you stay outside of Salt Lake City. I'm glad to no longer be a resident
> Yeah, right now the leaderboard is pretty much: GPT4 > GPT 3.5 > Claude > Llama2.

Is it though? I mean, free (gratis) public locally-usable models are more than just "Llama2", and Llama2 itself is pretty far down the HuggingFace open model leaderboard. (It's true a lot of the models above it are Llama2 derivatives, but that's not universally true, either.)
It’s not that it’s not full length, it’s that it’s center aligned by default. It’s a very quick change to left-align it again, and that’s in the guide.
At least they can claim SOTA with this, even if their product remains unavailable. Let's Google still appear competitive even if GPT-5 beats it and is publicly available before Gemini
because it's a one-size-fits-all solution. If the thoughts in my head go from, "Can I see an example of this?" to "Okay can I give you some of my code and have you refactor it using this example?" to "now I want to actually edit the texture atlas" I don't have to switch programs or exert effort.

It's really convenient.

For a less contrived, more impressive example (multi-modality is insane!), see these: https://imgur.com/a/iy6FkBO

The above example shows me uploading 16 sprite tiles to GPT. The files were labeled 0-15 on my system. I uploaded them in two parts because there is a 10 file upload limit. I wanted to create a sprite sheet from these sprite tiles and didn't want to open an editor. So, I had it do it. After it worked, I realized I needed the three sprite sheets in varying colors (dirt, sand, and food) so I had it find/replace the dirt color with sand/food color. It then gave me download links to all three and all three were good results and saved me time.

(and yes, I know I don't have to compliment it. It's fun and makes work more enjoyable for me)
Dallas / Fort Worth, TX

Pros: More tech jobs at a higher average salary and much lower cost of living than Austin (but see cons). No state income tax. 2000 sqft. house in a premium school district for $500k. Plenty of art, culture, and nightlife. 5 major sports. It's 60 degrees Farenheit right now in December. A blue city politically (like all major cities) with an LGBT district, etc. Better parks and outdoor life than you'd think. Traffic congestion not as bad as you'd think (but see cons). Fastest growing metro in America so the good things will mostly improve further (but not cost of living).

Cons: America's worst drivers (lack of congestion just means they can cut you off faster). Minimal public transportation and walkability. State politics are still very red and basic competency and state capacity are becoming issues. Tech jobs are mostly generic Fortune 500; minimal startup scene. Taxes are higher than you'd think; the lack of income tax comes with exorbitant sales and property tax. The only saving grace of summer is that there is no Gulf Coast humidity, but it's still a damp furnace. No beach or much of any natural beauty of any kind withing hundreds of miles.
Been hacking together a new entrant in this space as well, looking forward to competing :)
Too much of a good thing could be considered harmful:

Destroying the Earth by Using Tidal Energy

Jerry Z. Liu

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/zjl/pdf/tide0.pdf
The domain name is new, and those get blocked by many DNS-based ad-blocks. I use NextDNS and get the same error - spotlightjs.com is blocked (resolves to 0.0.0.0)

NextDNS calls this "Block Newly Registered Domains (NRDs)", and applies to all domains <30 days. ZScaler has something similar for corporate users, so people connecting from work might see a big red warning page.
sqlite doesn't have any native type for arbitrarily nested objects.
He calls them not spending their add money on Twitter "blackmail" and goes on to say they will kill the company.

That doesn't sound like "if you can't handle freedom of expression on the platform then don't use the platform." To me. They AREN'T using the platform and he's mad about it.
[I'm on the Wing team]

Nice coincidence :)

There is no plan currently to add a two-way sync between the simulator diagram and the code, and there could be technical difficulties to do it since the code is not generated but written by developers (only the JS + TF compilation artifacts are generated). But you are welcome to open an issue about it and it and it will be prioritized if it gets enough votes.

Since Winglang generates CF/TF for the parts of the app that are defined in the language, it should be possible to add these parts to the ones that already exist in the app, but it depends on the app's architecture. One can also convert the existing codebase, or at least the infra part to Wing pretty easily in some cases. If you have a particular use case in mind we'd be happy to talk and see how we can help.

Yes, this is a cloud agnostic language, which is one of the differentiating factors from Pulumi where the code you write is cloud specific. Also, unlike Pulumi, Winglang is not an infrastructure language but can be used for both the infra and application code. Its compiler takes care of the cloud mechanics (IAM policies, networking) that IaC tools like Pulumi and the CDK require you to configure manually. More info here:
BitcoinPierre concerned about global resource usage ... cool story bro!
I think the bard version is most likely a hallucination. I see the bard version from the latest update as `2023.12.06` in https://bard.google.com/updates with the title "Bard is getting its biggest upgrade yet with Gemini Pro".

I am guessing this update is not available in Europe.
I now think it's likely I misunderstood what the feature involves and that it is actually way more limited than I thought compared to CopilotKit (perhaps it's little different from Gmail's Smart Compose), but this is a quick-and-dirty screenshot:

https://imgur.com/a/FwZu6f7
Do these models have any ability to learn? If it is wrong about something, can the user correct it or ask it to read some release notes and have it integrate the new information going forward?
Polls have found that the average person in the US can't tell you many of the basics of how their government works. The laws aren't based on people taking the time to understand them. It is complex enough there really isn't the time. Especially if you spend the average amount of time staring at rectangle screens.

"our government is a revolving door with industry insiders" ... this is partly due to government compensation compared to the free market and our present desire for those with the ability to navigate this complexity to want to make piles of money. It's all about the benjamins. Which is also why IP holders use the law the way they do.
Is the point you're getting at that no one owns anything digitally?
Buy DRM-free. We need more DRM-free video that can be paid for though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533934#38535618
And I believe a carpenters pencil is a 1/4 inch tall and a 1/2 half wide
Conversely, if a tree is cut down, or falls due to natural circumstances, would you have to pay the government for the carbon that is released?
Using a function to query a fact about a string does not imply that the string should change, regardless of what guarantees are present within the format that the string is in. If you expect to get out the same string you put in, then there's nothing implementation-quirk about that.
https://archive.is/atzZB
> This will greatly increase scrutiny on you, or colloquially speaking definitely put you on a watch list

Every last one of us is being constantly surveilled by the government. If there is any kind of "list" individuals can get on at this point, it's reserved for a very small number of people who are ignored or whose data is excluded.
JetBrains AI and the In-IDE AI Assistant
I don’t disagree. In terms of wall clock time, I do run through my entire guide prior to every release and it’s about one total hour including the installation of the OS itself, and I’d say 40 minutes or so is part 3, which is the bulk of the guide.

I don’t disagree that it shouldn’t be necessary, though thankfully it’s a one time cost.
Characterizing Paul Stamets as weird or eccentric seems a bit off. He's no more weird or eccentric than any other scientist I've met. He speaks openly about an experience he had with psychedelic mushrooms which he says cured his lifelong stuttering, which sent him down the mycological rabbit hole. He's worked extensively with the DoD researching antimicrobial properties of fungi, his publications look sound, and some of that work seems wildly beneficial for cancer treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7agK0nkiZpA
You might have some better luck with hEDS specific treatments, low dose naltrexone, low dose modafinil, supplemental T3 hormone, weightlifting if you can, metformin and a very low sugar diet. And perhaps supplemental Test and HGH.
I have seen FP4 as a proposed format, as well as batch floating point with FP8 numbers (batch floating point means n mantissas for every exponent - an old DSP trick), resulting in ~4-5 bits per number. I'm just disappointed that Google isn't taking quantization very seriously.

Edit: As the commenter below points out, "block floating point" is the common name, not "batch floating point."
> I'd prefer not to see horses used this way

What a truly, utterly bizarre thing to say!

Why on earth do you object to horses pulling carriages? Do you object to horse riding also? If so, why?

One can only suspect you are used to living in a city and somewhat divorced from nature, though I'd be interested to hear your response.
Putting digital ownership on a blockchain would mean enabling a secondary marketplace. Why would any big media company ever want to allow that?
Funny you find those useful, I disabled them fairly quickly.

That said, prior to disabling them I’d actually use it the opposite way: If I’m entering prose into a box and the AI has a very good understanding of what I’m about to say, that’s a good indication I’m not saying anything remotely interesting and I should either change direction or abandon my comment entirely.