skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even that may not be immediately necessary. I don't think SQLite has it yet, but Postgres can build partial indexes on JSONB fields.

Though most of the time, in that situation, I would pull it out.
> are buying the streaming right and not the file. What I agree on though is that they don’t make that clear to their customers.

No. It’s not a matter of not being clear enough.

If it’s not clear enough, maybe 10-20% of customers would be confused.

I’d bet anything that if we did a survey 80+ percent of users would think that the platform wouldn’t be able to unilaterally revoke their content.

It goes beyond “not clear” and straight into fraud and false advertising.
There is no way you’re playing shooters on any sort of competitive level over a streaming service.
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Perhaps. Both are more than most people want to do. I infer this from the existence of a professional class of electricians.
Lots of comments about it barely beating GPT-4 despite the latter being out for a while, but personally ill be happy to have another alternative, if nothing else for the competition.

But I really dislike these pre-availability announcements - we have to speculate and take their benchmarks for gospel for a week, while they get a bunch of press for unproven claims.

Back to the original point though, ill be happier having google competing in this space, I think we will all benefit from heavyweight competition.
> You need to start Steam to play most games

Tou don't, the default shortcuts it creates uses an url like format and steam to track down what exact binary you want to run, but if you double click the exe in the directory it works with steam closed. Lots of games (specifically indie games) have no DRM at all, you can freely copy to some other storage and play it later.
Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI [video]
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Open-Source (MIT).

If you'd like to contribute to the repo, or to the open copilot protocol, please join the GitHub/Discord!
And don’t get me started on “it’s” vs “its” :(
Depends on if you mean "better" as better score (5% better) or "better" as in "fewer errors" (100% better).
> The only teeth congress has with these bureaucracies is the power of the purse.

Not true. Congress can make laws defining what those agencies are and are not allowed to do.
Should the PSF not fund minority groups or people because of lgbt? Obviously not that would be ridiculous. Why does lgbt need to be held over every single damn thing?
Yep. That's their "moat", to go with The Discourse. For better or for worse, a bunch of us know how to use their models, where the models do well, where the models are a little rickety, etc. Google needs to build up that same community.
I thought it was simpleton/fool, to signify the ease of use ;P
To be honest, part of my motivation to visit HN is out of a fear of missing out.
Assuming this video is not just made up somehow consider my mind completely blown
You do _not_ need push notifications in the first place. Most definitely not for messaging programs anyway. The "saves battery" arguments are always very fluffy and devices/clients who don't do push notifications (or at least don't force you to) sometimes even have better battery life than devices/clients which do.
Look in a map… it’s a massive difference on distance.. (and presumably on price)
Now we know why Apple and Google are a duopoly….

You get the illusion of choice but you get the same government spying on you in either case.
> Starting on December 13, developers and enterprise customers can access Gemini Pro via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio or Google Cloud Vertex AI.

AI Studio looks alright but I'm curious if folks here have experience to share with Vertex AI. I worked on a project using it not long ago and it was a complete mess. The thick client SDKs felt so unpolished and clunky compared to other Google Cloud products and the whole thing is just seems way harder to integrate than say ChatGPT.

Maybe things have changed recently but I'm honestly surprised to see them promoting it.
I find the stories about fish from Lake Tanganyika interesting because of the many species of African Cichlids that came from that lake and ended up in my aquariums.

There was a time when environmentalists screamed that taking fish for our aquariums would cause their extinction.

Then, IIRC, economic development projects that were guaranteed by environmentalists to do no damage to the biodiversity of African lakes drove most of their amazing species of cichlids extinct in their natural habitat. Now they are only preserved in our aquariums, where there is an economic incentive to keep breeding them.
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This is where the US Federal Gov should step in. But the pols are too busy counting donations (bribes) from these companies.

If I buy digital content, I should be able to download it on removal media and use it off-line (esp. in the case with movies/music). I should be able to sell it (which is still legal). But these companies want you to "rent" instead of own.

So I never buy digital anything. No wonder many people head to pirate bay because of the rights they loose.

I hope the US Gov (and other govs) wake up to this, but as always donations (bribes) trumps people's rights all the time. (no pun intended).
Do you still tend to answer questions? It feels like there is a drop in quality contributors too because they got invested, but have peers engaging in the behavior you describe as a questioner. They want to take kinder approaches, but that's never going to win over that power user segment.

I have a high reputation that unlocks privileges, but I rarely go back these days to answer questions. If I can snipe someone that's trying to shut down a question prematurely then that's kind of fun.
It seems to be. Bard is only using the G-Pro model, not the Ultra, which is what all the benchmarks they're touting are showing. If I had to guess, the best you could hope for is exactly what you're describing.
When I heard "Paul Stamets" and "Fungus" together, my mind went to star trek, I find that Stamets is inspired by a real-life mycologist of the same name is very cool reference by the ST writers.
In fairness, the performance/size ratio for models like BERT still gives GPT-3/4 and even Llama a run for it's money. Their tech isn't as product-ized as OpenAI's, but Tensorflow and it's ilk have been an essential part of driving actual AI adoption. The people I know in the robotics and manufacturing industries are forever grateful for the out-front work Google did to get the ball rolling.
Better yet, bring back Feolite for ridiculous heat capacity in Calories per gram.
Until Gabe Newell gets hit by a bus one morning, his children decide to take the company public to make tens of billions, and Disney buys the company to expand into video games to make up for declining theater revenue.

Don't laugh. It's completely possible.
Anthropic's Claude is still not available in Canada either. Anyone have insight into why its difficult to bring these AI models to Canada when on the surface its political and legal landscape isn't all that different from the US?
the real question... pronounced Gemin-eye or Gemin-ee?
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I am wondering how the data contamination is handled. Was it trained on the benchmark data?
I don't like accuracy as a loss metric - you could end up with a similar viable draft/deck at 50% accuracy or a completely non-viable one.

Is it managing mana curves, creature count, mana fixing priority etc? I'd also love to know what the common characteristics of "missing" are. Does it undervalue a splash, or removal, or fast/slow.
Speaking very loosely, primitives on the JVM are values which are represented directly in memory, instead of as pointers to objects on the heap. Clojure (again, very loosely) generally treats everything as a pointer to a heap object. There is no specialized equivalent for, say, a vector of shorts, or a map where values are floats. The compiler can emit specialized function signatures for... IIRC longs and doubles, but other types (e.g. byte, float) aren't directly accessible--they go through widening conversion. It's also easy for the compiler to quietly fail to recognize it can preserve primitives in some kinds of loops, so you wind up with what Java calls "autoboxing": wrapping a primitive in a corresponding Object type.

Here's a recent example of some code in a hot path inside Elle, one of Jepsen's safety checkers. It does a lot in primitives, using packed structures and bitmasks to avoid pointer chasing.

https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle/blob/main/src/elle/BFSPath...

There was actually a Clojure version of this earlier that got pretty close perf-wise, but I wound up dropping to Java for it instead:

https://github.com/jepsen-io/elle/blob/913cbff5ebb19ba850c0a...
ok yeah so like an image on lambda, totally agree, a lot of the pros of serverless without a lot of the cons
Is is writing Elmu, which seems a short way of writing "Elon Musk", which is kind of getting tiring to read or (I guess) write.
Naming things is one of the two hardest problems in computer science, after all.
I think a lot of the motivation for running it in the cloud is so they can have a single point of control for enforcing editing policies (e.g. swapping faces).
And dosimeters with a maximum reading that equates to "Not Great. Not Terrible"
True, which is why it must be balanced with realistic judgements about the people you support and knowing what issues are truly important compared to what the current buzz is telling us is important.
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It is on purpose to have an excuse of wiping out search results for interesting piece of technology. The same was with serverless which became "serverless".
Interesting that they're announcing Ultra many months in advance of the actual public release. Isn't that just giving OpenAI a timeline for when they need to release GPT5? Google aren't going to gain much market share from a model competitive with GPT4 if GPT5 is already available.
Thank you for all this specific information!
> Would you feel safe being in a country where your sexuality was illegal?

The answer seems to be yes for at least some number of travelers. I have traveled the Muslim world and sub-Saharan Africa extensively and I have met plenty of fellow travelers who are gay, whether individuals or even gay couples. The couples simply don’t show affection in public, but heterosexual couples shouldn’t either. Even sharing a room as two men or two women is no issue, because the locals will assume you are friends unless you explicitly, deliberately, tell them otherwise.

And twice when I got the contact info of local Europeans living in the region who were known for extending hospitality to any travelers coming through, I arrived to find that it was a gay couple who had been there for decades. I must say, this whole thread is full of uninformed stereotypes, and posters would benefit from firsthand experience of the world.
I still feel that text makes it clear the actual working conditions & rights etc are built up by the unions and not the governments?

Fwiw I live in Sweden and am a member of its largest Union
Is the PSF western "by design" or "de facto", the latter being the foundation having "accidentally" only western people on board? In theory the PSF should be worldwide with people from everywhere. Otherwise we should call it "EU+US PSF".

However the reality is, it is staffed by westerners and funded by western companies. So it's a de-facto western foundation.
This is Android moment for Google. They will go full throttle on it till they become dominant in every respect.
Exactly. Otherwise it's a lame PR stunt.
https://smarttubenext.com/
If I do not end up with an offline-playable artifact in a standard format with no DRM, it needs to be priced as one-off consumption, like a movie ticket. Because duration aside, that's what it is.

"Cloud" service economics cannot work for "sales" of content, that only works for subscription models. The vendor has ongoing costs related to a one-time sale; of course they're going to screw you out of it no matter what lies they tell you.

I mostly buy physical media, although BandCamp got a fair amount of my money before it was eviscerated. The first sale doctrine still exists, as much as rentiers hate it.
Looks like the Gemini Ultra might be a solid competitor to GPT4. Can’t wait to try it out!
Show HN: Turn emails into PDFs (as easy as it gets)
Our customers (mostly B2B) have been asking for PDF version of invoices, receipts and whatnot instead of the ones sent as email.

Tapdone, my side project. It's like a PDF agent listening to your emails. `Bcc` the service when you send out an invoice, and it flips that email into a PDF and shoots it back to you and your customer.

Zero fancy stuff, just a neat trick to keep the PDF-demanding crowd happy while you hack away at the real work. Happy to share and please let me know if you find it useful.

Email to PDF https://www.tapdone.com and in exchange just drop me a line with your thoughts. If it smooths out even one wrinkle in your day, I'm counting it as a win.
Can you elaborate? I live in Serbia for two years and don't feel much xenophobia towards me. I am aware of above-average homophobic sentiment here, and some hate towards ex-Yugoslav neighbors, but hey, they were at war and it is mutual.
The claim was not that video needs to be hosted but that video hosting is expensive. It's not, because we can easily distribute the cost now.
This is the exact same thing people said about FTX.

“Why would they be insolvent if they can make 200mil a month legally?”

Turns out they were
Maybe a wrong word to use. But politicians claim to be representing the people's voice in ceating those laws is not entirely correct.

In most African countries, people are still uncomfortable with LGBTQ, and the general show of love in public but not hostile to the extent of enacted laws

Remember most LGBTQ activism is sponsored by the west, so politicians use that to heat up the population about family, bill gates, blah, blah, that's where I used the word populism.
> Being written in Latin script is not a guarantee on correct pronunciation

Yes, I understand this: being a Spanish native speaker, I had to learn the rules of pronunciation of the English language. Spanish is also pronounced as written, mostly.

You can figure it out, so it's still better to spell English names in English, Serb names in Serb, and so on. The only concession I will make is leaving out extraneous accents and glyphs in informal writing (e.g. written accents; I will accept if they are omitted and substituted by the closest glyph in your language).

"Translating" names is something I really, really dislike. In this particular case, it's extra silly, since everybody who cares already knows who Woz is and will read his name correctly, Serbs included. This is not some random person whose name they just heard for the first time.
There's gemini the crypto exchange.
Reading this meta-analysis, I wonder how well it would stand up to the independent bias review they used to exclude studies from their findings.

It certainly reads like it has an axe to grind (see Introduction and below).

Although there are certainly populations of children and adults that suffer disproportionately from masking (whether due to respiratory, auditory, or psychological issues, or just from being so young that the mask soaks through in minutes), my overall experience with elementary and middle school aged kids during the early years of the pandemic was that they found masking easy and didn't really care about it. They were thrilled to be in-person with each other.

Of course, their masking practices was not ideal, they often forgot them or wore them wrong, or used less effective materials, but the act of masking itself wasn't generally a big deal.

Our community has a huge Let Them Breathe presence, but even here it was the adults who were making all the anti-masking noise. The kids just didn't care.

I do wish we had better data on efficacy of masking mandates. This review doesn't bring any new clarity.
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Both of which, while much better than nothing, are nowhere near adequate and allow too many people to suffer and die.
And if the agencies go outside the bounds of those laws like some currently do?
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I used to host video on a custom site, mainly lecture material for an audience of about 100-200 people so there were no economies of scale involved. A VPS with 2TB of transfer was about 10eur/m. Video was encoded for about 500MB/hr (encoders have improved, but hosting prices have probably increased so figures are just ballpark).

As a (very) small scale provider video was costing me about 0.25 cents / hour. It is certainly cheaper for a larger provider. Ad rates are not that low, the margins involved are huge.

For a premium server I would take a heavy user as a model, say 8hr/day, giving a cost of 60 cents per month. Assume processing fees and overheads are about 30%, and a user is willing to pay $10/m for a service. That still leaves $6.40 to be split between platform and content creator.

Yes, video is expensive compared to text. But in absolute terms the costs are not that expensive.
I think that the idea is that it's potentially more mod-friendly than if all the files resides on a physical support.
Beautifully said.

So basically:

Apple lost the PC battle and won mobile,

Microsoft lost the mobile battle and (seemingly) is winning AI,

Google is losing the AI battle, but will win .... the Metaverse? Immersive VR? Robotics?
Swede here: This has almost nothing to do with Tesla workers in Sweden. They are free to join or not join a union, irrespective if Tesla signs a collective agreement.

Wikipedia says that 87% of swedish employees work at workplaces which have collective agreements. So it's not everyone, but pretty much.
"Google, for better or worse, has more of a brand reputation to maintain"

You think this is why Google is so far behind?
Not anymore, it'd be "Apple AI+" or "Siri+".
I want to get into quantum computing, but I keep coming back to the idea that most of our problems are human problems, not quantum problems. At least with classical computers, we can build tools that help to solve the human problems. Eg: connecting people, facilitating better communication, sharing knowledge. With quantum computers, it's not clear how you map a human problem to a problem that quantum computers would be good for, so I lose interest.
If they didn't announce it now, then they couldn't use the Ultra numberes in the marketing -- There's no mention on the performance of Pro - likely it is lagging far beind GPT4.
For the record, I'm not in favor of such rules. Yes, you're really toxic, and display the typical US reaction. I'm fucking relieved that I don't have to deal with US egos and all this US political shit anymore. Peace out, and take care.
fair enough.

i think it's cool tech, but none of those things are "hair on fire" problems for me. i'm sure they are for some people.
>It'd be easy to criticize Wikipedia for having that culture, except that the project is so spectacularly successful.

My recollection is that it started being spectacularly successful within a year or 2 of its founding (in 2001) but that the profusion of rules (and deletionism) started to ramp up slowly (over a period of many years) after it started being spectacularly successful.

(The Wikimedia Foundation was incorporated on June 20, 2003.
The Foundation was granted section 501(c)(3) status by the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as a public charity in 2005.)
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I read what I read, on multiple occasions, on the platform itself, rather than reported by some 3rd party.

We all screw up, and IDK, maybe once could be like "uh, sorry, I was really high and not at all myself and I did this thing", but a repeated pattern is enough to convince me that where there's smoke, there's fire.

I don't take any pleasure in it. I preferred thinking he was a bit weird (but who isn't) and doing some cool things.
40$ is outside of the impulse buy range for many.

I'd prefer a GitHub repo with examples over this. At least that can be easily updated
> so maybe his fans can accept that he does say dumb shit and stop defending that

For what it’s worth, I don’t consider myself a fan, for the simple reason that I think no human is perfect or likable (Steve Jobs, Bach, Napoleon, Mother Theresa, to name a few). Instead it is better to evaluate someone’s ideas and impact.

What is disappointing to me is that we (I count myself here too) make up a rigid opinion of people based on memes, sound bites, unnuanced morsels of information, rather than demonstrating deep curiosity.

And so my responses on this thread should be viewed through the lens of surfacing more nuance and curiosity, rather than cheap and absolutist opinions that lack nuance.

More conversation please.
ChatGPT droppings have to be at least as relevant and newsworthy as these findings [1]

[1] https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/07/27/harvard-shorenstein-research-january-6-insurrection-president
Epilepsy training is bog standard for teachers. Just because the kids don't know how to handle it doesn't mean that the teachers won't.
While stating it at either won't give you any serious trouble.

Depending on where you state that, in what social situation, you might get all sorts of reactions, from antisemic support, to more nuanced support or rejection, but you won't lose your job, won't be injailed, aren't threatened by death penalty or any form of violence (while amount of violence against Jews, by some subcultures, is rising ...)

And yes, political figures like Greta Thunberg are criticized for their statements. But a) it's a political statement by some political figure and b) there aren't threats but newspapers etc. dismissing the statements in articles. Which again is very different from the threats towards gays in different regions of the world.
Tbh I think they've actually gotten worse in recent years. This thing where the compiler spits out a stacktrace to /tmp and makes you go and cat it? Absolutely awful.

And the move to spec, ugh, UGH. I have wasted so much of my life looking at spec errors for (e.g.) namespace declarations and being completely unable to tell what was wrong. I don't know how to fix this, unfortunately.
They have even adopted some of the Apple nomenclature "Ultra", "Pro" and "Nano"
Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

Time Warner has recently moved towards "unifying all their streaming platforms" which meant that a lot of adjacent services will close/migrate to Discovery+ directly.

I am someone that suffers the fallout of them shutting GCN+ down, which gives me about two weeks to watch around 100 cycling documentaries that the GCN people have put out in the past 3-4 years. Granted I haven't paid for them individually, so it's not as painful as for the Sony customers, but they will be shutting down access to all of them without any backup plan and without a look back.

The people at GCN seem to be as baffled as everyone else about this move. Luckily they still have a good presence on their Youtube channel where they have more accessible content.
Their whole business is based on retention, so I don’t think that’s true.
Pretty cool tech!