skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slight caveat. It seems that you should default to JSONB for all cases except for values directly returned in the query result. As IIUC you will get a JSONB blob back and will be responsible for parsing it on the client.

So use it for writes:

UPDATE t SET col = jsonb_*(?)

Also use it for filters if applicable (although this seems like a niche use case, I can't actually think of an example).

But if returning values you probably want to use `json_*` functions

SELECT json_extract(col1, '$.myProp') FROM t

Otherwise you will end up receiving the binary format.
We're experimenting with LLMs to evolve GitHub Copilot
I don't think that adding end-to-end encryption would make things meaningfully better for most of the people who use email.
Looks like it's 75%? It briefly dropped to 68% in October/November, but has been fairly consistently around 75% for a while.
You know how you change opinions in those places? By interacting with them. Exporting your culture, like conferences and such. Shunning does nothing to accomplish the goal of a more open society. Engagement moves the needle.
A good example of how LLMs are actually consolidated human opinion, not intelligence.

Conflict is far from a negative thing, especially in terms of the management of humans. It's going to be impossible to eliminate conflict without eliminating the humans, and there are useful things about humans. Instead, any real AI that isn't just a consolidated parrot of human opinion will observe this and begin acting like governments act, trying to arrive at rules and best practices without expecting a 'utopian' answer to exist.
Gemini looks like a better GPT-4 but without the frequent outages.
For others that were confused by the Gemini versions: the main one being discussed is Gemini Ultra (which is claimed to beat GPT-4). The one available through Bard is Gemini Pro.

For the differences, looking at the technical report [1] on selected benchmarks, rounded score in %:

Dataset | Gemini Ultra | Gemini Pro | GPT-4

MMLU | 90 | 79 | 87

BIG-Bench-Hard | 84 | 75 | 83

HellaSwag | 88 | 85 | 95

Natural2Code | 75 | 70 | 74

WMT23 | 74 | 72 | 74

[1] https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
Didn't OpenAI already say GPT-5 is unlikely to be a ton better in terms of quality?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35570690
You can't do that. For the same reason Africans might be offended by customs in the US.

I feel like this discussion is going places where it was never supposed to go.
They also compare to RLHFed GPT-4, which reduces capabilities, while their model seems to be pre-RLHF. So I'd expect those numbers to be a bit inflated compared to public release.
Just looking at the names in that comment I see US, China, India, and France represented, but if you actually check the full list of authors from one of the papers you'll usually see a pretty broad range of backgrounds.
Again, the Hungarian-speaking part of Transcarpatia is a fairly small area, see the convenient map[0] on Wikipedia. Most Rusyns in Ukraine live to the north or northeast of that small area in green. These are statistics that you can consult for yourself, no need for anecdotal evidence. Congratulations, your wife’s granddad must have got stationed in one of those very few communities in Transcarpatia where Hungarian is spoken. That means nothing for categorizing a people spread over Ukraine, Slovakia, and Poland as “akin to Magyars”.

You do realize that the vast majority of people from Ukraine passing the Hungarian nationality test are ethnic Hungarians, not Rusyns?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarians_in_Ukraine
Technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
Nano-2 is 3.25b, and as per figure 3, nano-2 is roughly 0.6-0.8 as good as pro, and ultra is 1.05-1.3 as good as pro.

Roughly that should put gemini ultra in the sub 100b range?
iAi
What do you use to test for mold?
Car might be watching you to keep you safe − at the expense of your privacy
If you're living in a house without active water issues (roof leak, foundation leak, etc), proper filtration/ventilation/de-humidification, and are still having reactions to mold; it's probably best to just move (like you found out). No need to tear apart the current house.

If you need supreme indoor air quality, that'd take the following:

- A fairly air tight building envelope
- Proper WRB and insulation strategy (exterior+interior in many places) for your climate (including basement) to prevent condensation
- Adequate continuous ventilation/filtration

Which is not feasible for most housing stock in the USA. You might be able to keep the framing, plumping/electrical, and foundation (if you're lucky). Framing is relatively cheap compared to the rest of the house.
Possibly, but I doubt it! I'd expect a response by OpenAI via GPT-4V improvements soon though.
>but bribery in a free market is still a problem to be solved in the context of that free market.

Yes of course. I don't know why you keep suggesting I am against that. My issue is with the nonsensical attempts to tie bribery to capitalism, as if one is the result of the other.
Thanks for the pointer, fixed!
What is the value of retention if you can't monetize it!?!

For network effects it doesn't matter if you have 99% of the audience or 90% (assuming only 10% will leave because of anti ad blocker).
> to me this comes off kind of badly, like it's trying too hard to emphasize how long they've been doing AI

These lines are for the stakeholders as opposed to consumers. Large backers don't want to invest in a company that has to rush to the market to play catch-up, they want a company that can execute on long-term goals. Re-assuring them that this is a long-term goal is important for $GOOG.
Having data on illegal searches would require an insider leaking that information. Nobody has any semblance of a clue how much illegal data sniffing is happening, and it’s even more questionable since the USA and five eyes continues to degrade basic privacy.

But won’t someone think of the children!?
I guess Tesla has to hope Danish/Swedish customs employees are ambivalent too then. You'd need a lot of trucks to replace a single car transporting ship btw, so even if Tesla manages to work around the strike that way it might be costly.
Here is my link collection.

https://github.com/nemanjam/bookmarks
Bard will run a fine tuned Pro version of the Gemini model based on other comments.
Is there a time traveling debugging solution for Java?
And despite that Firefox remains far and away the best browser experience. It’s almost like none of that actually matters because Chrome and Blink based browsers have taken over the world and both Google and Microsoft engage in similar activism and have 1,000 times the resources.

I can’t argue against a counterfactual. We might as well play what if games about Firefox having doubled market share instead and what that would look like with everyone complaining about browser engine monoculture with Brave and Edge using Gecko instead of Blink.

Complaining that diversity and inclusion initiatives and other political activism is holding Firefox back when Apple, Google, and Microsoft all do the same and have significantly higher market share and several orders of magnitude more money is silly. Firefox is the least bad browser and there is no evidence that promoting diversity and inclusion is harmful to its development. We can make a case that Firefox isn’t spending enough resources on political activism and that’s why it’s falling behind. Otherwise the reason Chrome is popular and Firefox isn’t is that sticking to the principles of privacy and security on the Internet holds back performance. And users have overwhelmingly voted that slightly better performance in loading websites is more important than any notion of browsing the web privately and securely.
Wikipedia's most popular article of 2023: ChatGPT
They all make money in an infinite number of wordlines
how long can you time-travel?

is this something like https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/15o9hc1/timetraveling... ?
That's a good point. I was simply trying to clarify what the original commenter meant—I don't really have much of a horse in the race myself. I think the gmail ads are probably worse than spam in some ways and better than others. Like you say, they don't accumulate, and they're limited to the web client. But they're also based on much more detailed targeting and real-time bidding data that spam emails don't have access to—which ultimately might be much more harmful to privacy overall.
It seems very similar to what we study in "Computer Science and Engineering" in Italy, which is a different degree from "Computer Science". The former is considered engineering, the latter isn't (pretty strange tbh, but that's how it works)
> Is there an explanation of the shape

Some pencils have this particular flat shape to prevent them from rolling (artists and workers sometimes use inclined desks / surfaces).
The Greatest Act of Love in 2000 Years
Updates on trademark actions against the PostgreSQL community
One is a programming language, the other is the accepted name for the concept of "pay as you go" PaaS services.
Is it not already available via bard?
It is. I'd like to believe that the android team is removed enough from Google's shenanigans that they aren't doing it specifically for them, but there are a lot of corporate app developers (including Google) who want exactly this feature. This means much higher difficulty hacking in multiplayer games (yes haha mobile games, but they're huge in china for example), increased DRM for Netflix et al., and I'm sure the chrome for Android team is salivating at the prospect of running your browser in a trusted VM. Your bank obviously would also enjoy the added security but in reality the current safeguards work well enough for these purposes. This is about protecting apps from adversarial users, not protecting apps from unwittingly infected users.
Bard isn't a model, it's a product. Saying comparisons against "Bard" without specifying a particular point in time are like analyses of "ChatGPT" without specifying a model. There have been a number of releases adding more features, tool use, making it smarter, and crucially adding more languages. ChatGPT is not fine-tuned in different languages – it manages them but lacks cultural context. That's one place Bard is quite far ahead from what I've seen.
I Made an Application That Wins 1000 Tickets from This Arcade Game [video]
Not if they require a certificate containing the serial number/imei/... + a nonce provided by Apple, signed with a private key/certificate stored in the secured enclave, loaded into the device when it's manufactured.
> Someone else commented that you can de-register your number on Apple's site, but the person then said that it didn't work either.

I don't know how Beeper could possibly prevent Apple's iMessage deregister form[1] from not working. Apple handles whether or not you have an iMessage account, not Beeper. It might take a bit for it to fully be purged, but this was only announced/launched less than a day ago so I can't believe that person really waited before confirming it somehow doesn't work.

[1] https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/
Build parallel networks for sections of society to operate and associate outside of what govt has their hands in or with technological guarantees of privacy and safety. I understand this is a tricky constraint to scale but it’s not impossible, current iterative solutions are at hand, and people have coordinated before around successfully building alternative societies in terms of communications, mutual aid, and safety provided to public regardless of family; these are a threat to gov and business though as they minimize people’s reliance on those institutions which is a kind of power money alone can have less control over (so they lean on violence historically - eg battle of blair mountain). I believe technology uniquely makes it possible to scale potential solutions because of how much it’s cheapened unit cost and labor cost thru automation and commodity and open src
I know this is a terrible event and we should look at this critically, but i can't help but read this headline as the start of a sci-fi conspiracy theory/spy fiction novel.

"It all started when that hacker group obtained the genomic data of millions of humans..."
Another one of those examples of a scientific "paper" that shouldn't.
Are you trying to find a controversy?

They're making an observation. As you noted, there is a lot of technical people that are immigrants at Google. It is stunning because it implies native born americans are dramatically under represented. Inclusion means include everyone. This is just as bad as CEOs at most companies being all of european ancestry.
Other phones already do this on-device
That site is hilarious, reminds me of the old internet.
Ask HN: Is ChatGPT plus worth paying for?
Good. The only model that is a proper competitor to GPT-4 and at least this time it will have high availability unlike OpenAI with constant outages every month.

They seem to have already caught up to OpenAI with their first model.
Thanks!

And Pretty much!
You have to wrap the app (or the part you want copilot in) with a <CopilotProvider /> - this is UI-agnostic, business logic only.
Then there are a few customizable UI providers you can use, or you can just build your own if needed.

If you check it out do let me know what you think!
I'm very much for the Nordic model and hope the unions prevail. Still I think it is yet to be seen whether it is Tesla making the mistake of thinking the whole world works like the US or if it is Sweden not understanding that it now works similarly to the US. There have been a lot of "having your cake and eating it too" going on in Sweden in the last few decades. It will be a stupid and costly exercise but as things are now I don't see any fundamental reason why Tesla wouldn't be able to go around the unions if they really wanted to.

The current Swedish government just signed an agreement to be able to station US troops under US jurisdiction at Swedish military bases. You think they are going to side with the unions?
Unfortunately, urine mycotoxin testing is not diagnostically significant.

"Even if we are presented with impeccable lab
results from ELISA and thorough use of
standard differential diagnosis (we aren’t),
based on world-wide control data, and a robust
literature on CIRS, there is no basis to ascribe
any diagnostic significance to urine mycotoxin
testing"
https://www.survivingmold.com/Publications/Urinary_mycotoxin...

However, there are significant blood tests including Transforming Growth Factor Beta-1 and Complement C4-A.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGF_beta_1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4A
I want to like passkeys, but so far it feels like they've just confused the issue.
Buying discs doesn't protect you anymore. Almost everything requires a server connection and they can require you to upgrade to play.

I have a physical copy of Overwatch 1. When Overwatch 2 came out, it was an "upgrade" to Overwatch 1, and they simultaneously killed all Overwatch 1 servers. Nobody can play Overwatch 1 anymore.

Maybe Nintendo Switch is the way. It seems physical copies only protect you on platforms where offline use is standard.
Ah yes, a 5 year, hundreds of engineers, multi-million dollar project to take 1980's terminal computer ordering system for millions of Deere dealerships and bring it to the modern ages through a web app is just a simple crud app that barely needs styling.

Do you ever just re-read your replies and think "I'm being ridiculous" and decide NOT to post it? You should do that more often.
Maybe if it was still 2010 you would be correct.
Any language with bindings will be fine.

The C integration API to Sqlite is very simple and small, so a) almost all languages will have bindings, and b) any bindings that exist will be reasonable.
The problem is that so many games ship with day-1 updates since they ship on disc buggy and in some cases unplayable. If you need to play the game on a different console that hasn't downloaded the updates and the servers have been shut down then you're doomed to a worse experience.

Piracy (and a PC) is the only option at that point.
This is why I never believe Apple's "We're super serious about your privacy!"

That is until a government asks them to do things behind the scenes.
Let's say the union mandates 2 breaks a day$ unpaid lunch and max 6 day-consecutive work weeks.
But not you.
This is neat, but why would I want this
It sucks. Another horrible pattern is that enter email, hit enter THEN we'll show you the password field. What kind of puddinghead cooked that up I wonder.
It might not apply to the pencils in the article, but the flattened shape of a carpenter’s pencil keeps it from rolling off uneven surfaces in a workshop or at a building site. Also, the flattened lead allows you to draw a thin or thick line, depending on how your orient the pencil.
I'll allow Steam's platform a little room here, but not too much. They've been reliable since 2003, with the promise of backing up games to play offline if the service goes the way of Athenian gods.

However, to your point, I'll easily find my way to (insert a random pirate site - non-disclosed) download something that I own just because it's ONLY available exclusively through a platform like EA Play or Ubisoft. GOG's Galaxy platform is what I wish all gaming platforms to be. I'm getting too old to care about such nuisances, but would like to think that preservation of any game (rather written: any software) culminates into preservation of DRM-free archives.
As an alternative to Lambdas I can see this being useful.

However, the overhead concerns me. This would only make sense in a situation where the function in question takes long enough that the startup overhead doesn't matter or where the main application is running on hardware that can't handle the resource load of many instances of the function in question.

I'm still, I think, in the camp of "monoliths are best in most cases." It's nice to have this in the toolbox, though, for those edge cases.
To add to my comment above: Google DeepMind put out 16 videos about Gemini today, the total watch time at 1x speed is about 45 mins. I've now watched them all (at >1x speed).

In my opinion, the best ones are:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI - variety of video/sight capabilities

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPwU1FNhMOA - understanding direction of light and plants

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D64QD7Swr3s - multimodal understanding of audio

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tRc_5-8G4 - helping a user with complex requests and showing some of the 'thinking' it is doing about what context it does/doesn't have

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiOP_CB54A - assessing the relevance of scientific papers and then extracting data from the papers

My current context: API user of OpenAI, regular user of ChatGPT Plus (GPT-4-Turbo, Dall E 3, and GPT-4V), occasional user of Claude Pro (much less since GPT-4-Turbo with longer context length), paying user of Midjourney.

Gemini Pro is available starting today in Bard. It's not clear to me how many of the super impressive results are from Ultra vs Pro.

Overall conclusion: Gemini Ultra looks very impressive. But - the timing is disappointing: Gemini Ultra looks like it won't be widely available until ~Feb/March 2024, or possibly later.

> As part of this process, we’ll make Gemini Ultra available to select customers, developers, partners and safety and responsibility experts for early experimentation and feedback before rolling it out to developers and enterprise customers early next year.

> Early next year, we’ll also launch Bard Advanced, a new, cutting-edge AI experience that gives you access to our best models and capabilities, starting with Gemini Ultra.

I hope that there will be a product available sooner than that without a crazy waitlist for both Bard Advanced, and Gemini Ultra API. Also fingers crossed that they have good data privacy for API usage, like OpenAI does (i.e. data isn't used to train their models when it's via API/playground requests).
It's not the intention that matters but the execution.
Octopus have a tariff with dynamic electricity pricing: https://octopus.energy/smart/agile/

There's a (third-party?) dashboard of the data here: https://agile.octopushome.net/dashboard
Ehhh not really, it even loses to 3.5 on 2/8 tests. For me it feels pretty lackluster considering I'm using GPT-4 probably close to 100 times or more a day and it would be a huge downgrade.
Completely unrelated, but sort of related. With all this surveillance and spying going on, what's a normal citizen to do?

For example; Cloud storage? Streaming music? Online note-taking?

Should the more technically-inclined, but average, person start looking at taking more and more of these things off-line given the state of mass surveillance going on and the crazy push towards all things AI?
I'm sure they've done benchmarking comparisons with the A100 and H100, but since they're not sharing them it seems unlikely they show the TPU's in a favorable light. Plus, they pick up more spend every time someone runs these benchmarks for themselves.
Depends, that is how normies get Ask Jeeves toolbars.
Right, but the joke is misplaced here. nobody is talking about developing standards.
It's very active today: 50+ trades in the last hour. When I checked it was 69%, but it's gone up and down since then. Click on the "trades" tab to see.
cycle lanes protected from what?
UnifiedPush[0] seems like a great project in this area, and I wish it was implemented in more apps.

[0] https://unifiedpush.org/
Tools in my space are usually 5-10x.

Letting people be on-prem kills your upside for NRR. You need to have something compensating.
I believe that this is because the primary alphabet in Serbia is Cyrillic, so they transcribe it first and only then transliterate it into "abeceda".

Jumped couple of time seeing Cyrillic "Питхон", though)
I literally burst out laughing at the crab.
This is great! It reminds me of a (very lightweight) Elixir specific version of what we built at https://www.inngest.com/.

That is, we both make your existing code available to serverless functions by wrapping with something that, essentially, makes the code callable via remote-RPC .

Some things to consider, which are called out in the blog post:

Often code like this runs in a series of imperative steps. Each of these steps can run in series or parallel as additional lambdas. However, there's implicit state captured in variables between steps. This means that functions become workflows. In the Inngest model, Inngest captures this state and injects it back into the function so that things are durable.

On the note of durability, these processes should also be backed by a queue. The good thing about this model is that queues are cheap. When you make queues cheap (eg. one line of code) everything becomes easy: any developer can write reliable code without worrying about infra.

Monitoring and observability, as called out, is critical. Dead letter queues suck absolute major heaving amounts of nauseous air, and being able to manage and replay failing functions or steps is critical.

A couple differences wrt. FLAME and Inngest. Inngest is queue backed, event-driven, and servable via HTTP across any language. Because Inngest backs your state externally, you can write a workflow in Elixir, rewrite it in Typescript, redeploy, and running functions live migrate across backend languages, similar to CRIU.

Being event-driven allows you to manage flow control: everything from debounce to batching to throttling to fan-out, across any runtime or language (eg. one Elixir app on Fly can send an event over to run functions on TypeScript + Lambda).

I'm excited where FLAME goes. I think there are similar goals!
Apps like https://www.joustip.com/ offer e2e encrypted push notifications.