skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those previous recessions were marked by high unemployment, right? But currently we have record low unemployment. Is the high unemployment on its way, or is this something new?
It was a period of what was called "stagflation", economic stagnation combined with inflation. It was supposed to be impossible to have the two happen at once, and no one knew what the hell was going on. Gold seems attractive in periods of uncertainty.
A house also needs upkeep. Usually that’s around the same amount as rent. In some markets like Munich rent is not even enough to pay that.
AMD Presents: Advancing AI [video]
This effort is confined to YouTube, but the return of someone uninstalling an ad blocker (the user's response could be more targeted, but some will fully uninstall) reaches Google more broadly.
AWS exec: Our understanding of open source is changing
> GOG's Galaxy platform is what I wish all gaming platforms to be.

A DRM medium that claims to be DRM free? That's a weird thing to want.

Plenty of games that GOG sells will refuse to run, or disable features, if Galaxy isn't running in the background.
"Plan for Windows 10 EOS with Windows 11, Windows 365, and ESU"
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/p...
Climate Trace
Why a whole language rather than a library that could just as well abstract the cloudy infrastructure and expose its data structures as "first class citizens" ?
You must not have been spending million per year. A friend's company spends 10 million/year with GCP, which isn't huge, and can have an engineer from any group in a meeting the next day after a high priority issue.

How frequently are you engaging your account reps? You should be able to get the ear of a PM within 48 hours in most cases.
The closest food origin would be Hawaiian pizza. Which is about 1 hour from me.

Took me a very long timebefore I tried it, and boy is it delicious.
Show HN: TuneType – a font that has (guitar) chords embedded as ligatures
So it is possible to turn off the advertisements in the OS and standard windows applications (that come with the OS)?
> I don't know how these guys manage to succeed where almost all other projects fail, [...].

They have a proprietary (not open source) test suite with 100% branch coverage. That makes it impossible to have credible forks of SQLite3. And it makes the gatekeepers valuable because SQLite3 is the most widely used piece of software ever built. So there's a SQLite Consortium, and all the big tech players that depend on SQLite3 are members, and that's how the SQLite team pays the bills.
Let me talk about my experience.
I was (yes was) mostly an Haskeller. I loved using Haskell, and even a long time ago (in 2007 I think) when I learned it, the book to learn the basic of the language had snipped that no longer worked.

But I still loved, it. And it changed every year, and I was even part of the proponent of the changes.

But after a while, you realise that your old project stop working.
That if you want to use a new library, you also need to update many dependencies. But each one has breaking changes, so you start updating your code.

Mainly, if you wrote some code, and forget about it, it will no longer work or will be very hard to use with newer libraries. After a while this became very tedious.

In Clojure, the code I wrote 10 years ago is still working perfectly today.
The application still launches.

If a bug is discovered and I need to fix it, for example, by upgrading or adding a new lib, I am not afraid to loose hours finding an fixing my existing code that suddenly become deprecated.

So yes, stability is VERY important for me now.

And last but not least, Rich Hickey talked about it in this talk and make a lot of very great points:

https://piped.video/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk
Ask HN: How do you tune your software configuration?
There are lots of configurations that one needs to set for a software system. Some affect the performance (e.g., batch size), and some are necessary for correctness (e.g., a reasonable timeout value).
How do you set the configuration values in your software products?
For instance, what happens if the workload changes and a higher batch size gives a higher throughput? Do you manually change the configurations or use third-party software to set it for you?
I believe this is hard to do manually, but I'm unsure if an automatic solution exists to solve it.
Yes. I dislike the idea of unions with all my heart. I don't understand why a competent person needs to be a member of a union.
It's boilerplate/copy+paste
It either I missed that so bad or this was added after I read the post (unlikely though) but thanks for clarifying that for me.
> Indeed the whole context in FLAME seems to be snapshotted and then rehydrated on the target VM. Another approach would be to introduce syntax to specify what is required context from what is not and only loading the minimally required.

This isn't strictly what is happening. FLAME just uses the BEAM's built in clustering features to call a function on a remote node. That implicitly handles transferring only the context that is necessary. From the article:

> FLAME.call accepts the name of a runner pool, and a function. It then finds or boots a new copy of our entire application and runs the function there. Any variables the function closes over (like our %Video{} struct and interval) are passed along automatically.
> for the level of real inflation

I'm not normally doing much business in gold, the value of gold compared to the dollar is nearly meaningless to me. I do often buy things like food and energy. To me the value of the dollar compared to a gallon of gas or a plate of food or a kWh of electricity is the "real" inflation.

The value of gold isn't "real" to me or most consumers.
Why don’t doctors regularly recommend this treatment?
OpenAI had an almost five-year head-start with relevant data acquisition and sorting, which is the most important part of these models.
Yeah, there were so many other things I did not enjoy about those movies that any potential weirdness from the higher framerate didn't even come into play. Rewatched them this past year while down with COVID and after finishing the LOTR extended versions.

Production-wise, it was the silly looking CG characters. Even worse was the way they stretched one simpler story into three movies (while the LOTR trilogy just managed a good job of adapting three long books into three long movies without too much oversimplification.)
Volcker and stagflation. Rather than fix the economy by raising rates and being accused of politics, Fed kept rates artificially low (which, incidentally, attributed somewhat to the US political shift that year).
What the unions really mandate: a pay increase that might match inflation if you're lucky.
Yes :(

> The following video demonstrates a proof-of-concept exploit created by the researchers. The infected device—a Gen 2 Lenovo ThinkCentre M70s running an 11th-Gen Intel Core with a UEFI released in June—runs standard firmware defenses, including Secure Boot and Intel Boot Guard.

Just checked; my laptop mounts /sys/firmware/efi/efivars and /boot/efi rw by default. Time to fix this. Not a huge defense against an RCE + priv escalation somewhere, but at least would help against fat fingers under sudo.
Ackchyually...if you compare ancient famine surge pricing to modern, stable, non-famine pricing then probably not. But go somewhere on earth where famine is still a real thing without humanitarian aid and compare famine-to-famine pricing. I imagine it would probably be similar.
What? No, I don’t understand your reply at all. I wouldn’t value a one off coffee greater than a month of AI assistance. In fact, I could compile a long list of things that I pay 10$/month for that are less valuable.

You’re a developer - no matter how low your salary is, 10$ is incredibly cheap.
How can gold and stock prices be at record high at the same time?
I messaged you but you might be able to use this link http://refer.beeper.com/YTRsJd
Almost all of reality isnt day-to-day life --- indeed what that describes is, in many ways, exactly the sort of illusions of stability that admit cute mathematical analysis.

You're weighting parts of reality by their relevance to a us at a particular place and time -- without such prejudice you find that very little admits of this sort of cute mathematical description.

And that which does is now pretty exhausted as far as research goes. Describing beds is not a pressing theoretical quesiton

Describing organic systems, say is -- chaotic organic development across trillions of cells. There are no SHOs there
I take a penny but I never leave one.
I didn't say it is a desirable method, but look at any (mass) media and you will find ads and sponsorships there: clearly they are important to the production of (mass) media.
>a world where people are constantly trying to impose their politics on others in this way?

You know that this is happening from the dawn of human societies, right?
There are always some laws and some views that are imposed. It always has been that way, and it always will be
What kind of events were being lost, and under what conditions? I'd like to see if it can be fixed.
Yup. My guess is they only released it to get usage data over the holiday season.
But you would need sudo access to create a malicious bootloader partition and edit fstab. And indeed on Windows, I’ve never seen the bootloader mounted.

Maybe I’m missing something in the disclosure?
Can you share with me a conversation link that results in this behavior? I do not experience what you're claiming.

"Are you GPT-4?":
https://chat.openai.com/share/1786f290-4431-45b0-856e-265b38...

"Are you GPT-3?":
https://chat.openai.com/share/00c89b4c-1313-468d-a752-a1e7bb...

"What version of GPT are you?":
https://chat.openai.com/share/6e52aec0-07c1-44d6-a1d3-0d0f88...

"What are you?" + "Be more specific.":
https://chat.openai.com/share/02ed8e5f-d349-471b-806a-7e3430...

All these prompts yield correct answers.
But...I'm not saying either of those things. Both are extreme positions. If you read my original post, I'm looking for a company that can take me on and help me get to that next level while I work for them (aka "investing in its people"). They exist, but the barriers to entry are tricky to navigate, hence why I asked for advice from someone in the field.

Sweeping ideas about blanket positivity are not practical solutions, so the previous comment (and, by extension, yours) are pretty unhelpful.
They should call it "Sheldon".
It's in beta, and from the screens I see on the website it's a very similar look and feel.
You have to serve them, but you can do it through a registered letter. There is very likely a nonprofit legal services entity in your area that can advise you about how the process works and what you need to do, at low or no cost.

It's not nearly as complex or intimidating as it seems. Most of what is needed for normal court is not needed for small claims. The whole point of small claims court is to make courts useful for smaller cases, to regular people who aren't legal experts or loaded with money.

The one gotcha most people aren't aware of is if a court (small claims or otherwise) rules in your favor, it's still on you to collect whatever was awarded. The courts won't do that part -- all they do is give you the legal power to do it.

However, 90% of the time when a company is involved and they don't have a strong case, they'll just settle with you before the court ever hears the case.

My main piece of advice is to collect and retain every document you can that relates to the matter, including emails, personal notes you may have made, etc., and bring it all into court (if you actually end up having to be in court.) Have it organized so that if/when the judge asks for something, you can find it quickly.
> show instead of tell

They showed AlphaGo, they showed Transformers.

Pretty good track record.
it's called efficient Sam and it appears to be onpar or better than fastsam but did I miss a memory or speed comparison?
Apple doesn't support any third-party push platforms, and they are restricted on Android to preserve battery life.
Apple does not require any consumer to use iMessage, nor do they make installing alternatives such as Whatsapp difficult. iMessage is simply a messaging option. This is in stark contrast to how MS treated IE back in the antitrust lawsuit days.

The fact that lots of people prefer to use iMessage -- despite myriad easily-accessible alternatives -- doesn't feel anticompetitive in the slightest; in fact making a product that people freely choose over similar alternatives is the definition of winning competition.
Some years ago (1996) I wrote a GIF decoder from scratch based entirely on http://qzx.com/pc-gpe/gif.txt (and a description of LZW bundled with my copy of pcgpe that seems to be missing from that page) . I remember it being quite a struggle against off-by-one errors.

I do wish there was a really good format for describing binary file formats in a way that was amenable to codegen. Kaitai https://kaitai.io/ seems to be the state of the art.
Currently the per-runner concurrency is limited by a fixed number. Have you thought about approaches that instead base this on resource usage, so that runners can be used optimally?
AOSP is not a deviation from the norm. It's the thing Google ships, vendors install play services as separate apps on top, so there is nothing oddball about your device fingerprint just by not installing Google specific services like the push handler. Your traffic will look like any other android making web requests, but then those requests will only be tracked by the servers they target instead of the OS itself betraying you and sharing metadata about them with various 3rd parties. Running non-vendor ROM alone will not get you "on a list".

"Custom" ROMs also get OTA updates, so keeping up to date is as easy as it is on a vendor spyware ROM. In fact, you will usually get updates from the community well beyond when vendors stop support.
This is the first time that SQLite3 is getting JSONB. Idk if it's the same as PG's. TFA doesn't say. I assume they are the same or similar because I seriously doubt that D.R. Hipp is unaware of PG's JSONB, but then for that reason I am surprised that he didn't say in TFA.
But you said the article completely ignores it.
Everyone in the open source LLM community know the standard benchmarks are all but worthless.

Cheating seems to be rampant, and by cheating I mean training on test questions + answers. Sometimes intentional, sometimes accidental. There are some good papers on checking for contamination, but no one is even bothering to use the compute to do so.

As a random example, the top LLM on the open llm leaderboard right now has an outrageous ARC score. Its like 20 points higher than the next models down, which I also suspect of cheating: https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/open_llm_leaderb...

But who cares? Just let the VC money pour in.

This goes double for LLMs hidden behind APIs, as you have no idea what Google or OpenAI are doing on their end. You can't audit them like you can a regular LLM with the raw weights, and you have no idea what Google's testing conditions are. Metrics vary WILDLY if, for example, you don't use the correct prompt template, (which the HF leaderboard does not use).

...Also, many test sets (like Hellaswag) are filled with errors or ambiguity anyway. Its not hidden, you can find them just randomly sampling the tests.
This is such a strange position for me.

Do we not agree that corporate America and other special interest groups essentially control Washington via lobbying and corruption?

Do we not agree that a US citizen has (nominally) more leverage over their government than over an unaccountable private collective?

I mean, we are half a century deep into this Reaganite "your government is your enemy" experiment.
ChatGPT helps me grow 60% on website traffic and 20% on sales
Most doctors don't believe the people who are saying that for some people to recover from mold illness requires more than just removing oneself from the moldy environs.
It probably is a coincidence. But as-per my other comment, an unfortunate one.

Take all the hundreds of thousands of words in popular languages. And all the human names. And all possible new made up words and made up names. And land on one that's a project with a FAQ[1] saying "Gemini might be of interest to you if you: Value your privacy and are opposed to the web's ubiquitous tracking of users" - wait, that's Google's main source of income isn't it?

[1] https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq.gmi
Definitely not, but I'm impressed that 175,000 person organization could amp-up its public efforts so dramatically.
In practice it works more like this: the state passes laws that deem anyone with X qualities is a citizen. Usually this means “born there” or “has parents born there.” This theoretically makes the person a citizen, even if they’ve never interacted or visited the country in any way.
Lol not sure if your comment was meant as a joke, but wanted to clarify in any case to clear up any misunderstanding: We don't exfiltrate your sensitive corporate data.

The self-hosted client talks to the self-hosted worker, the latter which is the server responsible for querying and processing your data, and storing your creds. So basically your sensitive corporate data flows from your self-hosted worker directly to your self-hosted client. There's no funny business in between. Only the worker can initiate calls to our backend API (not the other way around), and you can easily inspect our network requests and payloads. We do store app metadata, UI properties, and the names of the columns you configure in your tables. The worker sends periodic health checks to our backend. Hope that clears things up!
Please don't write things like this here.
Reference Documentation and FAQs to LLMs
I've been wondering: wouldn't it be nice to replace those long document pages and FAQs? In some cases, they are useful, but you also have to go through so much text to find what you want.
This might be the best they can do to maintain any hope among nervous investors. That this may actually be the most rational play available to them would be incredibly sad.
> I think the major hold-up is political.

No, the major hold-up is that saner heads prevail.

I’m pretty green myself, but the vehement hatred most other green people display towards nuclear (whether it is fission or fusion) is mind-boggling.

We will not have the grid storage to do baseload via renewable+batteries. There is not enough production capacity now, and production will not keep up with demand by a long shot.

We need nuclear. Just fucking stop pushing us down a pit where we say in 25 years “well, shit, I guess we did need to start building nuclear 25 years ago. Fire up the coal plants!”.
I should add that I pay for GitHub Copilot and I'm generally pretty happy with it.

Related to using AI to help with coding: One thing that's been annoying while trying to use ChatGPT is it tends to use deprecated and/or outdated code if I instruct it to write something using a specific library/framework.

Is JetBrains AI smart enough to suggest code based on the specific library versions of the project?
This pops up again later when he says 81 is 10000001. Or that width 8 corresponds to 04. I don’t know enough about the gif format to know if I just misunderstood these parts or if they were written incorrectly, but it was a bit confusing.
> I believe the risk to our freedom is much greater from the latter.

I’ll take power being consolidated in a democratically elected government over a privately controlled corporation any day of the week.

Let’s put the spotlight on the stuff that isn’t democratically controlled, and subject to much more limited oversight.
> 1. How about a mainstream, or large market use case?

"Money" or "Store of value" is a mainstream use case. I am fine with just that one, honestly.

> The SV bro culture is not the dominate culture and has largely been reined in by the woke movement

You and I have different filter bubbles it seems. I live in SV, for that matter. Agreed about the woke bubble though.

> Why do we only hear about crypto when prices go up?

Again, just seems to be your bubble? A lot of interesting things happened during the last 1.5 years - ETH merge, uptick in ZK technology, L2 rollups etc which regularly popped up in my news feed, with plenty of interesting discussions.
Out of curiosity I fed ChatGPT 4 a few of the challenges through a photo (unclear if Gemini takes live video feed as input but GPT does not afaik) and it did pretty well. It was able to tell a duck was being drawn at an earlier stage before Gemini did. Like Gemini it was able to tell where the duck should go - to the left path to the swan. Because and I quote "because ducks and swans are both waterfowl, so the swan drawing indicates a category similarity (...)"
Would be even crazier if the causality flows from the amount of the mineral available - i.e. can't have a larger population without mining more of the silver (which could be correlated with mining a whole bunch of other minerals involved in the supporting economy etc.).
The ratio of spam to legitimate emails and the amount of effort the company puts into stopping spam matters.
SaaS services behind a startup – 2nd year in review
IF Metall hasn't played their best card yet. The finance industry union. If forced, they'll play that. That will freeze all transactions. Tesla won't be able to pay bills and won't be able to receive funds.
> at least if you assume the benchmarks to be of equal significance.

That is an excellent point. Performance of Pro will definitely depend on the use case given the variability between 3.5 to 4. It will be interesting to see user reviews on different tasks. But the 2 quarter lead time for Ultra means it may as well not be announced. A lot can happen in 3-6 months.
https://i.imgur.com/Q7Aqt2X.png Here's GPT-4, of course it didn't choose to use code by default because why would it.

It's code output of a kitten isn't great, though: https://i.imgur.com/LusS13T.png
Hence ~
What you've said is correct, but it doesn't stop the attack vector described.

If the question to Apple or Google is "who received a notification from Signal at 17:15 UTC?" then even if the notification is “hey, something happened, call the service and check for updates”, you've got your answer.
It's a complete inability to direct myself to do a task, even when it is extremely simple. For example, paying a bill, or responding to a text message. I want to do it, but the task seems insurmountable. I eventually complete the tasks by sheer attrition, but it feels like I'm walking over hot coals. Guanfacine helps significantly.
Biff, a Web Framework for Clojure
The GP comment was:

> Apple can break Beeper without relying on the secure enclave: If Apple devices just send their serial number

You have come full circle with the comment 4 posts up.
Last year's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982425
I'm curious how it performs on the abstraction and reasoning challenge!
I'm not too familiar with the state of the art, but I assumed this had been done before.

I have some vague ideas about implementing efficient .splice() calls. Right now knowledge about splicing semantics is lost in between the proxy layer and `ForEach` DOM node array. But I have a bunch of other plans to do first.
It's kind of amazing how narrow the temperature range @ which humans feel comfy:

Over here in summer, temps of ~30°C were too much of the good for many people. Add moist air, and a few degrees more (wet bulb) gets human bodies to a (potentially deadly) point where they can't shed heat no matter their clothing or how much they sweat.

Now in late fall / early winter, occasionally thermometer dropped a bit below freezing (-4°C), and outside I'm packed in 4-5 layers of clothing, double socks, thick gloves & only feel warm when I keep moving and/or sipping hot drinks. Not to mention windchill.

Contrast that with extremes such as in the article, or Death Valley, Antarctic's interior, up in space, on the Moon or Mars, etc.

The "Goldilocks zone" really is a narrow band. And we're so lucky to be in it.