skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, D-Wave looks like a special case, because they use quantum annihilation, which for me seems actually quite useful. I think (I am an outsider here) the newest papers from D-Wave show an advantage, but this is doubted. Nevertheless a lot of companies might want to be familiar with the new tech, to use it the moment D-Wave has a more powerful machine. For me, it looks like I could actually use quantum annihilation for solving some logistics problems, I guess Volkswagen seem to take the same guess.
So chain of thought everything- if you fine tune gpt4 on chain of thought reasoning, what will happen?
> and that is assuming their model is not overtrained to just pass the tests slightly better than GPT4

You are assuming GPT4 didn't do the exact same!

Seriously, it's been like this for a while, with LLMs any benchmark other than human feedback is useless. I guess we'll see how Gemini performs when it's released next year and we get independent groups comparing them.
I miss when ML scientific papers had actual science in them. Now they all feel like ads.
AWS support has been solid in my experience.
GP may have been referring to Serverless Framework (http://serverless.com/)
That's what they taught it "You're only a LLM, you can't do cool stuff"
CSS in JS is really a great concept to keep component logic colocated.

Although I’m really in love with @emotion/css where I can still write and copy paste css-snippets instead of translating into js object syntax.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Always interested in your thoughts on software matters.

You know my professional issue with Clojure is that it attracts poseurs. It's that strange spot in PLT that to appreciate it requires sophistication and experience yet barrier to entry (contra say Haskell) is much much lower and does not require the same. So you can get bragging rights without being someone like you who actually understands the cost equations in toto in context of picking languages. This human factor coupled with the technical matter of Clojure not being ideally suited for large scale code / long running / typical IT fubar realities.

You mentioned macros. I can tell you about 'sacred macros' that must not be touched :) Clojure may have addressed software compatibility but it has a human resources compatibility issue.
I don't recall them saying that, but, I mean, is Gemini Ultra a "ton" better than GPT-4? It seemingly doesn't represent a radical change. I don't see any claim that it's using revolutionary new methods.

At best Gemini seems to be a significant incremental improvement. Which is welcome, and I'm glad for the competition, but to significantly increase the applicability of of these models to real problems I expect that we'll need new breakthrough techniques that allow better control over behavior, practically eliminate hallucinations, enable both short-term and long-term memory separate from the context window, allow adaptive "thinking" time per output token for hard problems, etc.

Current methods like CoT based around manipulating prompts are cool but I don't think that the long term future of these models is to do all of their internal thinking, memory, etc in the form of text.
My understanding of this problem with Apple has always been that the more control you have, the more surface area there is to make screwups. This may partly describe why their software offerings have never been out-of-this-world, at least relative to the hardware. They just have their much more software overhead to do as a result of their business model.
Isn’t that Bard?
Scientists claim to have discovered secret to perfect espresso
Well, except when they updated all versions of GTA IV where they changed all the songs because the licensing expired.
Why would it be unusual for a generation that’s been under surveillance since they were in the incubator to not hold quaint and obsolete views of privacy?

If we held a poll, what percentage of privacy-loving HN parents don’t have tracking on their kids phone? 5%? 10%?
Why not post publicly? At least the broad outlines. I've yet to see any sort of real secret to losing weight. Calories in/out is obvious but there is a fair amount of detail in how you go about that to get vitamins/micronutrients, fiber, and achieve satiety. Speaking as someone who has routinely lost (and obviously gained) large amounts of weight.
Sounded like the update is coming out next week- did you get early access?
I’ve organized a lot of events, and I’ve been in the position of holding funding for community events. I’ve never put an event in motion with uncertain funding like this, ever. If I can’t do it without funding from a single entity and they may say “no” then I don’t set things in motion until they’ve said yes.
Generally, it depends on the app. Mostly works fine for me. More info: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Softwa...
> most stores aren't selling you the content

Yes they are, the stores are just not delivering on what they're selling.

> People need to actually buy the content

People are buying the content, then discovering that they no longer have it.

This is actually the sort of thing that a properly-functioning consumer defense bureau would go after.
It's a failure of US policy that this thing will be on the roads (this coming from a Model 3 owner). This angular, crumple-less, overly fast death machine has no place on public roads.
I’ve had or witnessed many talking-past-each-other arguments between management and devs and the realization I’ve had is that They - and sometimes We - are fixated on hours and not energy.

If you think in hours, then you should be able to schedule any two 20 hour tasks to a single engineer in the same week. But if those tasks require high vigilance, the developers will say no and refuse to budge. Fuck your math, I won’t agree to those.

That balking could be due to deep work, vigilance due to foot guns, or coordinating a task that takes 8 hours spread over three days with lots of hurry up and wait steps. I can’t and won’t work on three of those at a time, and every time I forget and volunteer myself for that shitshow I/we pay the price.

You want a trivial task to fill in the holes, and Gantt charts don’t know that.
Ah fair enough, this seems to be an awkward UI. Over time though 75% seems to be the representative recent position. It is up to 85% now though!
But you are not buying ANY digital content, read the damn TOS! you only lease digital content not buy...

Do you not think companies were smart enough to plan for this??
> I just gave it a screenshot of yesterday's meals pulled from MyFitnessPal, told it to respond ONLY in JSON, and to calculate the macro nutrient profile of the screenshot

> Not impressed

This made me chuckle

Just a bit ago this would have been science fiction
While it bothers me as well, this flow isn't too common. It's usually only used for MVPs because of how quick and easy it is to set up.

What I'm more bothered about is that sites who use traditional username/email and password increasingly don't actually seem to care about my password. They always require 2FA, email or phone, and I don't have a choice. Username + password simply isn't good enough for these people anymore.
Canon grows large fluorite lens elements
> It then finds or boots a new copy of our entire application and runs the function there.

So for each “Flame.call” it begins a whole new app process and copies the execution context in?

A very simple solution to scaling, but I’d imagine this would have some disadvantages…

Adding 10ms to the app startup time, adds 10ms to every “Flame.call” part of the application too… same with memory I suppose

I guess these concerns just need to be consider when using this system
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FP is pretty cool. I mainly do scripting work though (lots of scripts that usually aren't longer than a few pages) and found there aren't many functional first languages that meet the niche Python does. I've played with Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, F#...etc and just found the ecosystems to be a pain and that for my niche...they didn't add value compared to my usual setup. I will say FP has taught me to avoid complicated state changes a lot more, so that is good.

I have found APL (array based) and Forth (concatenative paradigm) to both be pretty similar to FP if you squint and those are better for my needs and easier to understand without the math. The problem though is that although many open source versions of these languages exist, the best are proprietary/commercial. They're fairly cheap compared to most commercial software that I deal with, but still closed source and require a license, which is just a hassle for some uses.
What humble brag would that be? It's just the way it is: this article has been sitting in 'draft' mode mostly because I realize how much work it is to do this properly. But researching it and building that e-bike pack (which still functions flawlessly, by the way, if you want an actual brag) has given me some appreciation for how complex this stuff really is.

> I think it just came across a bit differently then you intended.

To spell it out: don't mess with Lithium Ion unless you are willing to invest a lot of time into educating yourself and a lot of money into tooling. Chances are that by the time you've done the first you will no longer have to do the second because you will abandon your project. Unless you're an idiot like me. And I still wouldn't keep that e-bike in the house or sell it to someone else. And it's probably safer than a pack bought in the store, I just couldn't live with the responsibility.
That's because they're not "scientific papers", they're technical papers.
I asked it to draw a cute kitten for me and it used Python do the task.

https://i.imgur.com/VhnQYie.png

So powerful.
> could you elaborate on cron jobs being a pain point? would you use it as a scheduled task to fetch/prepare data before user logs in or let users schedule jobs on their own to run async? any use cases you could share?

Sure, I've used cron jobs to collect data, send reports, and check if any users should receive push notifications or alert emails.

The pain point is that celery can be a little tricky to configure when you're working with docker-compose. It works, but if I had to re-figure everything out again, it would take me a while.
The golden rule to a long-lived healthy building is to keep everything as dry as possible.
It is ultimately ignorant to think one is not spied upon in daily comings and goings, when the entire human economy is based on data and the study of it (especially at scale), whether by government, private enterprise or sole evil individual.

With Apple/Google you get the comfortable padded jail cell with 24/7 guards to protect - and monitor you; the digital equivalent of having a police officer live with you. You can't go outside of the walled garden and you're told this is for good reason.

Without them, you're totally on your own; you better be prepared and know how to defend yourself. No one will care about your security and privacy. But don't for a second think you're not still under the all-seeing eye of panopticon surveillance, and possibly additional scrutiny therein.
On mobile this is just a table of contents page.
Amazon found a way to make money ;) https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
Came here to say exactly this. My conversation with Bard:

```

do you use Lambda model?

I use a variety of large language models, including the Lambda model, to perform my tasks. However, for each specific task, the best model is chosen based on its strengths and weaknesses. The Lambda model is particularly good at tasks that require understanding and responding to complex and nuanced language, such as generating creative text formats of text content and answering open ended, challenging, or strange questions. However, it may not be the best choice for tasks that require high accuracy or low latency.

Here's a breakdown of the models I use:

LaMDA: This is a family of Transformer-based neural language models specialized for dialogue. It is particularly good at understanding and responding to complex and nuanced language, and can generate different creative text formats of text content.

PaLM: This is another large language model, similar to LaMDA, but with a focus on factual accuracy. It is best suited for tasks that require precise and reliable information retrieval.

Meena: This is an older, smaller language model that was the precursor to LaMDA. It is still used for some tasks that require a more lightweight model.
Other models: I also have access to a variety of other specialized language models, such as those for summarization, translation, and question answering.
The specific model that is used for each task is determined by a variety of factors, including the nature of the task, the available resources, and the desired level of performance.

```
It's not at all clear what model you're getting from Bard right now.
It's not just video games and music. Adobe Lightroom 6 was sold with a perpetual license, but its mapping and object detection libraries did not have a perpetual license, so even though you can run Adobe Lightroom 6 with your perpetual license today, those features no longer work unless you fiddle with your system clock.
Most "Indian looking", forgive me the crude way of saying it, native-born Americans in my kid's school have traditional Indian names.

It is very common for children of immigrants to be high achievers because being a legal immigrant strongly correlates with high personal achievement - which is generally transmitted to children. Of course this isn't exclusive to immigrants, but it's a form of selection bias.
> infrastructure and runtime code in one language

This is fertile ground for new languages, apparently they call this the "Construct Programming Model" but there appears to be no meat to the theory. If programming language theory was leveraged properly I think they'd really be on to something. See the success of Rust for example.

I just did some cursory research and came across a paper on "ABS: A high-level modeling language for cloud-aware programming" which would give a much stronger foundation for such an effort than JavaScript.
Similarly for our Go binaries, I build them as full static binaries outside of Docker then just COPY them in. Works pretty seamlessly.
Can you point me to where Jio says it zero rates this? This is new to me and very interested
There's a URL for each user that shows their standing. Any recent (last 30 days) reports are listed there. You can't tell who reported you, but you can tell what they were complaining about (which post, what reason they gave).

The URL is reddit-like, i.e. /u/username/standing

The problem is that there's a downside to being reported, but there's apparently no downside to reporting people. Since there's no down-voting of comments on lobsters, and since reporting comments is apparently free and unlimited, some people seem to use it as their down-vote. And since it's anonymous (the reporting person's name isn't included in the report to the person being reported), and since reporting appears to have no limits or downsides, it inevitably creates some twisted incentives.

I currently have no "reports" there, but that's because I (mostly) learned my lesson: Post your own opinion at your own risk. i.e. You'd better make sure that your opinions aren't unpopular with any users there, and particularly not with the dominant group.

I think someone else mentioned that the things that they posted that were reported, were also the things that received many more upvotes. I can personally confirm this from my own history. However, I don't find this surprising: If something evokes a response that could cause someone to upvote it, it shouldn't be surprising that it would evoke a response that could cause someone to report it. And receiving kudos for an opinion does not absolve that opinion of the responsibility to adhere to the rules and standards of the site.

Coincidentally (and AFAIK not related to this thread here), I did have a comment moderated (i.e. deleted) within the last 24 hours. I'm of mixed feelings on the rationale for the moderation. It's a thread that contains highly-upvoted comments like "I hope those responsible get sued to oblivion. This kind of stuff should result in a corporate death penalty." My comment was: "Just waiting for a case like this to make it up to the US Supreme Court so they can rule that it’s a constitutional right of companies to do this." Apparently, my post was "political". (I can only assume that the "political" aspect was my implication that non-human legal entities like corporations should not be granted legal rights by SCOTUS that expropriate or otherwise displace the rights of actual human beings.) The thread: https://lobste.rs/s/8igrxm/train_firmware_reverse_engineerin...

On the other hand, I do agree that some portion of the topic is very technical in nature (and the technical aspects are interesting), and it's hard to discuss that portion of the topic if people are constantly commenting about relevant aspects of the legal system or whatever. So since the post wasn't specifically about the legal aspects (or "political" aspects, if you insist), I can kind of see the point of the moderation.
Demo
https://youtu.be/UIZAiXYceBI?si=sdq5kiQp6DgyaeMI
Most movies and fiction TV are shot at 24fps. Reality, news etc are shot at 30fps.
Slam: A New Spectre Technique
It's crazy to me that so much effort is being expended pretending that companies and the government are doing anything in the name of privacy, when we have all the proof by Assange and Snowden that they're doing realtime surveillance of ALL communications, 24x7 -- no matter what any laws say -- and we don't even talk about it any more. What's the point of any of this? All we can do is assume that our every position, purchase, and electronic communication is being tracked and saved, and act accordingly. The Constitution no longer matters, and there's no one coming to save us.
Hah, I agree. Looking at it from that perspective, my expectations are sky high :)

Thanks for the reminder. It is definitely cool to be living in the future.
What if you need to embed a txtar file in a txtar file?

Formats without escaping eventually grow a bad version of it
Ask HN: How do you bootstrap your software projects?
I've used a variety of ways to bootstrap my projects and I'm curious how others do it.

Some examples I've seen:

- GitHub template

- Cargo generate and init (Rust)

- Framework-specific starters (Spring Boot, Micronaut, etc)

- Front-end CLI "init" commands

- Using simple scripts and a templating library like Mustache

I'm aware that the source code aspect is highly dependent on the language and frameworks but I'm also interested in the other "components" like configuration, documentation, CI/CD, packaging, issue management, and project setup in GitHub, etc.

I'd also be interested to learn about mechanisms that have ongoing capabilities beyond just spitting out an initial project structure.

What are the best tools you've seen that are cross-platform and support multiple languages and project types (microservice, CLI, desktop, etc.)?
Not sure where the quote is from but EU has always been a political alliance, maybe you/they mean the EEA?
That's actually a lot better I ever received from gpt4, but it's been a while I tried svg/python output for graphics
I don't think so? I live in San Francisco if that matters, but the bard update page says it was updated today for me.
The way I read it is that Winglang combines your IaC and your runtime logic/code. In theory it's pretty neat, I haven't given it a serious try though. I'm not totally convinced that I want my infrastructure definition intermingled with my business logic though.
It may mean that the evaluations useful range of distinguishing inprovements is limited. If its a 0-100 score on defined sets of tasks that were set because they were hard enough to distinguish quality in models a while back, the rapid rate of improvement may mean that they are no longer useful in distinguishing quality of current models even aside from the problem that it is increasingly hard to stop the actual test tasks from being reflected in training data in some form.
No. It specifically refers to the process of escaping the sandbox and enabling the LLM to simulate personas that the operator tried to forbid.

(The sandbox is a combination of technical systems like non-AI input filtering, plus fuzzy pinky-promises from the LLM system prompt and oversight from OOB LLM supervisors.)
AWS joins Google in calling out restrictive Microsoft cloud practices
A very public spat emerging in the UK with the cloud competition probe starting to heat up.

AWS and Google Cloud very much knives out at this stage - ironic given the former's significant market share and the fact it's swamped many a smaller provider over the years.
I pay for Nebula, I pay for Patreon. I cannot find it in me to give Alphabet a red cent of my money. Alphabet's primary goal is to turn the internet into cable and I honestly have no stomach for it.

Furthermore, I have precious few moments on this earth, I have no desire to have to spend them watching propaganda from corps (and sometimes just unfiltered political propaganda).

But most of all, ads are a privacy and security risk like no other. They follow you across the internet for ages, sell your data to the highest bidder (sometimes that bidder is the feds) and are the foremost distribution network for malware.

Sorry, I rather YouTube go away than have to agree to the above.
The code problem in the video :

https://codeforces.com/problemset/problem/1810/G
conversely, I am using OpenBSD, I see docker, I know that I am in for a long night untangling a docker file.
Mozilla adds 4 new directors from diverse backgrounds to its nonprofit board
That really makes a lot of sense and I guess that's why voice channels and things are so popular, I guess I did not communicate the platform as well as I could have because by social media I meant that it was more so a platform where you go to events first and then stay in contact with the people you meet there and only people that are into the same events as you.

It started as a sort of spontaneous event discovery tool because I remember when first moving to a new city discovering where to go and do stuff was quite daunting while everyone seemed to know each other already.

I don't want another platform where you are just glued to a phone all day because that just makes it worse.
Google says new AI model Gemini outperforms ChatGPT in most tests
Your choice, your loss.
Far for me to defend the policies of most countries in Africa, but... you do realize a lot of Africa in aggregate is closer to christian ethnonationalism of the US far right than radical islam, and that these policies exist regardless of majority religion, right?
once upon a time, I had an app that limited network connection for the whole phone to 30 minute refreshes. It was a pretty cool trick.
Yeah, false positives are a doozy, and I don't see many guardrails in place to prevent the intelligence community from acting upon them :/
I used to be in the physical disk camp until during a move my ps4 and media collection was stolen. Bought a new ps4, deactivated the stolen ps4 from the account, activated the new ps4 and was able to download all the digital games. The disk games I had to repurchase which in many cases I never bothered. There were only a handful of games that were worth it. No system is perfect...
The "open" in OpenAI stands for "openly purchasable"
> FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution

Reminds me of 12-factor app (https://12factor.net/) especially "VI. Processes" and "IX. Disposability"