skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a "lie" in that of course there's a server, what else would your code run on? But we "lie" all the time by omission or shorthand or euphemism. "Cloud" computing doesn't really occur in the stratosphere, and "serverless" still runs on servers in the "cloud", and by "server" I don't mean waitstaff ;-)

I agree that it's a dumb name that doesn't really say what it means and "ephemeral" might be better, but "serverless" is better than "clouds-you-rent-by-the-second".
Google TPUs according to other posts
It may not be obvious if you're just looking at the book. But if the images of the front and back are put together side by side, like in the post, I think it's quite obvious. I'd be surprised if this wasn't intentional.
> Time Warner

You mean Warner Bros Discovery
Actually quite a few members of congress do give a shit. Unfortunately they're the same members of congress maligned as MAGA extremists or whatever (in some cases that might be accurate, but it doesn't mean they're wrong about every political position they hold).

If you actually take a second to listen to Matt Gaetz, for example, you might be surprised to learn his (rather principled) positions are much closer to those of AOC than to President Orange, at least in some dimensions. He wants to require single-issue bills, and to completely eliminate FISA-702. Ironically, it seems like FISA will be reauthorized as part of an omnibus spending bill...
They definitely will not. Google will be much more on the side of over-alignment than OpenAI. It's smart business given the current cultural environment we are in, but it's also deeply ingrained in Google's culture. It's sort of a Blackstone's ratio, better that a hundred bad answers be given than that one offensive thing be said.
No way, that's what they want you to think. The idea that Google would be behind technologically would be an embarrassment they can't handle. The 3.5 level gemini pro is probably just as capable of saying racist or misogynist stuff so there's no reason why they're allowing that to be public while the "GPT-4 beating" Ultra is hidden if it's just because of that. More likely Ultra is just not as good as these benchmarks indicate and they still need some time to improve it.
> Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

Sorry but if you allow your platform to sell 3rd party content, you better have some consumer protections built-in in your contract with that 3rd party in case of such a scenario.
Perhaps they're being cautious after https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-launch-probe-into-... ?
Well, you can (and should!) set up your DMARC preferences through your DNS records and enable a mailbox to receive those reports, which you can then use to verify if you have any/some problems with particular providers. This is totally free and standard.

But the score I am speaking of was something different: it was the reputation assigned by Microsoft (i.e., something internal) to the IPs from which we sent e-mails. This score was used to determine how many e-mails sent from those IPs would pass/fail MSFT's filters. And to have access to the score and improve it, we had to pay a 3rd. party :).
Pretty much any of Nassim Taleb's stuff, but Antifragile is his best. He put into words things I'd had an inkling about for a long time, and he does it with more eloquence than I ever could.
Media. They own YouTube and are backing away from alt-right mainstreaming 'cos the money went out of it, turning instead to direct monetization. If their previous path was still profitable they would still be doing it and we would hear nothing of adblock wars, as that highlights one of their problems for which they are directly paid. I don't think there's anything else in that category to speak of.

They have the power to crosslink this monetization to the success of people using the platform by just making it part of the algorithm. Pay to play (your videos to any audience) and in so doing, normalize that we pay for this stuff like it's cable. Their economies of scale mean their break-even point is way, way lower than it would be for anybody else.

Maybe it would be unethical to stifle people on your platform if they're not normalizing the consumption of your platform like it's a for-pay service instead of some magical free thing that comes from nowhere, but it really never was a magical free thing, and Google's ability to platform or stifle people is the most powerful force they could possibly call upon.

It's just that they're turning to an actual market now, rather than maintaining the pretense that it's all free and instead getting paid by… what, Russia? Prager U? What has changed in recent years to imply that getting paid by a booming, capitalist market might be more profitable than trying to get paid by malefactors?

I'm pretty sure Google owns media now. That's what they won. We've seen worse than what we're currently seeing as they try to fight adblock and get paid as a service. Remember what happened when everyone thought it was infinite media for free. Someone was still finding a motive to pay 'em, but hidden motives are a lot more worrying.
Musk's Grok AI is supposed to be this, although right now it's still vapourware.
Bard is the consumer product, Gemini the new model behind it
True, but even some of the apples to apples is favorable to Gemini Ultra 90.04% CoT@32 vs. GPT-4 87.29% CoT@32 (via API).
After years of watching numberphile on Youtube, my guess would be that there's a cutoff number n0 for which can be inductively shown that if n0 is a period then n0+1 is also a period; that would then eliminate almost all natural numbers from the search. Such a proof might perhaps use combining periodic patterns to obtain longer periods. It seems to be difficult to construct a periodic GoL pattern with a given period, so that then would explain why of all numbers two very small ones held out over the decades; this is truly astounding, especially given how incredibly inventive and industrious people have gotten with the Game of Life, simulating entire computers on the canvas.
There seems to be a small error in the reported results: In most rows the model that did better is highlighted, but in the row reporting results for the FLEURS test, it is the losing model (Gemini, which scored 7.6% while GPT4-v scored 17.6%) that is highlighted.
Amazon is no safer in this respect.

https://www.primevideo.com/help?nodeId=202095490#:~:text=Ava....

"Availability of Purchased Digital Content. Purchased Digital Content will generally continue to be available to you for download or streaming from the Service, as applicable, but may become unavailable due to potential content provider licensing restrictions or for other reasons, and Amazon will not be liable to you if Purchased Digital Content becomes unavailable for further download or streaming."
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It's going to widely vary by local jurisdiction. In the US though, generally building codes would end at the recepticle. If this was hard-wired it would probably be an issue for the inspector, but otherwise it would be out of scope.
They could always exempt Youtube Shorts (which are competing with TikTok/Instagram reels etc.) from DRM and only apply it to longer-form content. Shorts don't get ads anyway in my experience (but I almost never use them).
"out biology primes us..." but "I didn't see it the first time, and only saw it after another commenter pointed it out."
This is not limited to IT. After all, there are far more things to be named, than we have usable words to use.
Feels like Microsoft might send you a letter soon about the nane...

How about FirstOfficerKit, but that seems very far away from AI if one doesn't get that it's a synonym for copilot
In practice that shouldn’t matter, as the law states that any service animal can be turned away so long as the business provides accommodation to the human (which is the point of the limited questions).

The fact this rarely happens is more due to people not actually knowing the law and typically wanting to avoid potential conflict.
By prohibiting African Python programmers from taking part because of their political views, how does that promote "diverse and international communities"?

Are anti-LGBT Africans not diverse enough?
Similar bills have already passed legal challenges https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/eighth-circuit-upholds-...

I think it's a bad law and he's making a big mistake. I'm still a fan though.
Now you know how the rest of us [abroad in the world] feel regarding the US.
I both pay for YouTube Premium (let's call it what it is: a hope that content creators get paid) and also use uBlock Origin religiously. Nothing's stopping people from doing both.
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Eh.
Secret handling has been abstracted away from the framework for everything I worked on; usually our deployment system would mount secrets as a file system and then you read them as a file of key->value pairs. That, or they were just set as environment variables. I guess the framework could provide a standardized secret service, but I usually just write that myself
Your line of thinking also presupposes that Bard is self aware about that type of thing. You could also ask it what programming language it's written in, but that doesn't mean it knows and/or will answer you.
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Must be interesting to work on the teams responsible for compliance at Apple/Google. Would talking to someone about these kinds of orders qualify as treason under US law?
Important caveat with some of the results: they are using better prompting techniques for Gemini vs GPT-4, including their top line result on MMLU (CoT@32 vs top-5). But, they do have better results on zero-shot prompting below, e.g., on HumanEval.
It's not just the confusion part, it's the behaviour part; Google is a web browser near-monopolist, AI is a big hyped thing with a lot of media noise, and Google has plonked their AI right on top of a small competitor, and done it while crowing about how moral they are.

It's more like Uber releasing an AI called Taxi so all web searches for taxis show you Uber results and you saying "taxi is a word used by lots of companies".
I do. Are you in the US or EU? What’s your email?
> The similarities to German universities in the 30's are right there.

Agreed, very troubling.
Not using APN I assume, but then you are not allowed(or rather won't pass the review) to publish the app in the App Store.
'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
> One could interpret it as the creator of the PC, which is true.

The record differs, even if the hype supports it.

Specifically, the John Blankenbaker Kenbak-1 is considered to be the first personal computer.

https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computer...
This doesn't have to be an either/or situation: You can have the physical CDs, and use them for as long as they last, and also rip them to have the digital files that you own.

Sure, the HDDs and SSDs you store them on will degrade over time, too—but you can transfer the digital files to new ones, with perfect fidelity, as many times as you want.
So Tesla can only sell high margin vehicles while the strike is happening, and we are confused why Musk has let this escalate?

In the words of Jeremy Clarkson: Oh no! Anyway…
This is a far cry from an "oopsie"
I should have been more specific. Although they could use IP geolocation, they can also get data from the cell carrier that delivered the notification to that IP address.

So a gov finds that IP address 7.8.9.0 received one of these notifications at 12:34. They then see that 7.8.9.0 is one of ATT’s addresses. They go to ATT and learn that address was used by their customer onionisafruit at 12:34 and the device was 5ms away from tower A.
Which (potentially) draws compute spend from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud.
And in this case, both!
> Apple lost the PC battle

Across the 2010's, Macs were variously making up 35-80% of the entire PC industry's profit, according to different news sources in different years.

And since then, Apple's share of the PC market has only gone up, from ~13% to ~31% [1].

I can't find any solid data on profitability from the past couple of years, but there's no reason to think it's substantially changed.

So when you're the #1 most profitable computer manufacturer by far, it doesn't exactly sound like "losing" to me, even if you're not #1 in market share by OS.

At the end of the day, the only thing that actually matters is your total profitability in dollars. And there, it seems like Apple has won massively.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3695172/statcounter-da...
That's actually not a bad achievement considering Google is now the new IBM.
better than chatgpt? Or canned because hallucinations were even worse?
Training an AI on 4chan isn't going to get you significant intelligence. You'll sure get a lot of pictures, though!
This reaction is uncalled for, especially for hackernews. I've been nothing but level-headed and fair, even though I disagree on the topic.

If you're looking for someone to criticize, you should look at your own behavior: "Fairly obvious, right?" an unsubstantive, smug, miserable response to my question, setting the tone for our interactions.
I highly recommend reading about it at https://www.survivingmold.com/resources-for-patients/diagnos...

You can do a visual contrast sensitivity test online:
https://www.survivingmold.com/store/online-vcs-screening

I have been treated by Dr Shoemaker and am currently being treated by Dr Scott McMahon who is an expert researcher in the field.
Call him and set up a consultation.
There is a fair amount of blood tests but your symptom history and VCS tests will go a long way toward diagnosis.

YMMV, but after initial treatment I felt 40% better in 6 months.
Ensuring a clean environment is critical.
It took 5+ years of treatment to reach the 90% improvement.

However, each person is unique. Younger and less genetically susceptible patients improve much quicker.

https://www.survivingmold.com/shoemaker-protocol/list-of-cer...
As someone else pointed out, it sounds like German and Polish truckers are ambivalent.
Cloudflare is one of the "major companies" I was alluding to. It's still an issue of centralized authorities that are accountable to governments. But I do trust Cloudflare more than my ISP or Apple, and in fact I route much of my traffic through them so I hope I'm right in giving them my trust.
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No gravity, no muscle.
This has, AFAIK, been ruled not to be the case. You have the right to back up DVDs you legally bought for precisely this reason.
Of course not. A person should file a signed citizenship application, and then literally put a signature into their new passport.
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Been there, done that. Bought one of the kids an axolotl after lots of pester-power and boatloads of "I promise I'll look after it, feed it and clean its tank every day".

So it's come to pass that now I look after it, and every time there's a new "Dad, can I have a XXX as a pet?" I can say "Well, you haven't looked after the axolotl". And since they can live for 25 years, there is some method to my madness ;)
Table 2 indicates Pro is generally closer to 4 than 3.5 and Ultra is on par with 4.
Gemini to run on Pixel 8 Pro
This is not a good example of gaslighting. If you look at the actual book cover and you see that, then it's very telling. If you look at the image on the blog post and see it, it's different. The book cover images are missing quite a bit of it and the parts where it cuts off are quite import to an illusion.
Does size matter? Yes.

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The Steam monopoly[0] is problematic for indie game devs.

You absolutely have to list your games there because many people will refuse to buy your game anywhere else even if you are listed on more player-friendly DRM-free platforms like GOG or itch.io. Yes, I get that players want to use one launcher for everything but with DRM-free, you know what? You don't need launcher! Just download and play!

For the hefty 30 percent cut they take from devs, I would at least expect them to do some basic curation. They allow so many asset flips and general trash games to flood their listing making it very hard for players to find good indie games.

Plus, censorship is a bit of a hit or miss. You see some very sexually explicit titles on steam but then again even relatively harmless stuff can get you flagged. This creates an insecure situation for devs in certain niches and not just erotic. For example Visual Novels can be easily flagged for having a certain art style. Artistic freedom and monopolies never mix well.

[0] (Please no "Actually, it is not a monopoly...". Yes, I am using a broader definition of monopoly on purpose. )
An author of Magicoder. I really appreciate every discussion (both positive and negative ones)! We release Magicoder with the hope that everyone can reproduce and improve it, by openly sharing all data and every code detail, which none of leading code model does. That’s the main reason we claim it to be fully open-source. Magicoder isn't perfect yet, but we are committed to constantly overcoming these challenges. Through the complete transparency, we believe an increasing number of advanced code models would come out soon.
There's a great Mark Rober video of him testing out Gemini with Bard and pushing it to pretty enteraining limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHZSrtl4zX0
Yes, and now we have to deal with security theatre, whether it is corporate, or pushed on us by our OS.

Software has to handle much more hostile environments.
That row says lower is better. For "word error rate", lower is definitely better.

But they also used Large-v3, which I have not ever seen outperform Large-v2 in even a single case. I have no idea why OpenAI even released Large-v3.
Mold exposure is no joke. I lived in a rented apartment that was flooded badly during Hurricane Sandy (and I was on the 4th floor!). Within a few days of the storm passing I was emailing my landlord, concerned that he apparently hadn’t begun doing anything to reduce likelihood of mold growth. A few weeks later gives us the go ahead to move back in, and within weeks of that I rapidly began developing symptoms.

Initially looked like severe allergies but then I started coughing up blood, waking up gasping for breath, really bad nausea and other GI issues. I was already pissed off with management at this apartment so we moved out about 4 months after the hurricane. While moving out we found all this black mold hiding behind furniture and in corners. Took pictures and then made a point to do mold air quality test before handing over the keys. Saw my PCP who had been overseeing my care the whole time, probably dozens of visits, and mentioned what I found. He then had zero doubt that the mold was causing everything

He ordered a blood test that shows the immune system’s response to mold and it indicated my body was dealing with quite a bit of it. The air tests showed the presence of 3 types/quantities of toxigenic mold and correlated with blood tests

I think it took nearly two years for me to fully recover after moving out of the apartment. Was at least fortunate that all of that documentation allowed me to get a settlement. I had literally emailed the landlord saying I have asthma and the apartment must be safe for me to move back into. I now do mold air tests before I move anywhere

Oddly the house we are about to move into passed the mold air test and then we found a ton of mold in the insulation once we ripped all the drywall out of what is going to be my bedroom
Bring-your-own-container is certainly better than proprietary js runtimes, but as you said it carries every other negative I talk about in the post. You get to run your language of choice, but you're still doing all the nonsense. And you need to reach for the mound of proprietary services to actually ship features. This doesn't move the needle for me, but I would be happy to have it if forced to use FaaS.
Explaining and understanding the explanation are different.
What do you use for an editor/IDE? I'd love to write more Clojure, but the tooling story is a bit confusing
The text beside it says "Automatic speech recognition (based on word error rate, lower is better)"
Yeah, it's using OS's voices and usually they are quite robotic. But it's still quite useful if you want to upload a long text into your brain.

I'm also using Narrator in my HN reader (no settings for voice right now though, except localStorage['cfg-narrator-rate'] via devtools):

https://hn.cns.wtf/#38532761
There’s a balance I think many of us try to strike because we find pirating “everything” to be cumbersome, but at the same time we recognize that pirating is unavoidable as there are some TV shows and movies that aren’t on any subscription service it seems, nevermind the 4 or 5 we happen to have.

You can of course just “download everything” with sonarr and radarr, but then you’re maintaining a server at home with X hard drives to store all the content.

But yeah don’t pay for subscription services if you don’t want to.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "jailbroken" essentially a term for "used Bayesian techniques to determine what we think somebody probably slipped into the LLM context or trained it on at one point, in theory"?
It has been a few years, but I don’t remember it as any different from the previous West African capitals (Dakar, Bissau, Conakry, Freetown) that I had cycled into.
Maybe Google skips the LLM era and wins the AGI race?
So, what’s the solution for Elon? Spin all the Tesla Sweden workers off from any Tesla branded company and have no real employees on the ground?

Would that work or are Tesla’s too hard to service by third parties?

Outside of maintenance, what else does Tesla need people for in Sweden? Sales all done online?
Great article and video, and very exciting concept! Looking forward to a JS implementation, but that looks like a challenge to get done.

And now I feel (a tiny bit) bad for sniping ffmpeg.fly.dev :)
leave your phone at your buddy's house
Bard shows “PaLM2” in my answers, and it says “I can't create images yet so I'm not able to help you with that” when I ask it to do so, which Gemini ought to be able to since its transformer can output images.

I don’t think Bard is using Gemini Pro, perhaps because the rollout will be slow, but it is a bit of a blunder on Google’s part to indicate that it now uses it, since many will believe that this is the quality that Gemini assumes.
part 1 addresses the general premiss that if you see sexual imagery in a non-sexual image, then there is <something> about you

part 2 addresses the personalization of the accusation
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Competition is good. Glad to see they are catching up with GPT4, especially with a lot of commentary expecting a plateau in Transformers.
Because that's what the source said they are.