skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what we have so far, correct me if I'm wrong:

Ultra Release: Scheduled for early next year.

Pro with Bard: Positioned between GPT-4 and Ultra in terms of performance. Currently available in the US only.

Benchmarking Notes: The benchmarks shared appear to be selectively chosen.

Demo Video Analysis: It's challenging to ascertain the extent of scripting in the recent demo video - was it real-time or pre-arranged?

Whatever the case, this is very exciting.
I love the concept, but I think you need some more documentation. I tried using this in colab and get

PanicException: Error getting DATABASE_POOLS for writing: PoisonError { .. }

I can't find anything on google or your docs on DATABASE_POOLS
That's actually a really good point and it gives me some food for thought.
I keep seeing these claims on HN despite the fact that it's been widely reported that Twitter has complied with more government take down requests since Musk took over than it ever did before.
Sure, you need a local implementation of functional calling, etc., to implement those APIs, but once you do, there is no reason that you can't have a model-agnostic API implementation.

Obviously, if there are things that depend on specific model capabilities (e.g., image interpretation or other multimodal use), you'll need a model that supports that, but there are multimodel open models. You'll need a way to recognize and error on model/capability combos that are invalid though.
The source is gwern
Silicon Valley has a new version of its 'move fast and break things' mantra
The Atari ST was even more reasonably priced, but of course it lacked the Amiga's custom hardware chipset so it was a lot more boring on the gaming and multimedia front.
Yeah, I hear Android manufacturers and app developers are very encouraging of unlocked bootloaders and user root access.

It's not 2008 anymore, we're all in walled gardens now.
I was like 12 when I got my first paycheck and probably bought Pokémon cards (which I still have) but no clue, really... 20 years later when I received my first payout from a company I co-founded, I bought a bottle of Hibiki 21... does that count?
Though based on Imation's (not) success, it was apparently a good idea.
While Apple will spend billions on the latest techniques to ensure your iPhone can only run things Apple signed, there is meanwhile a real lack of enthusiasm around the basics like making the central messaging app not a native code shitshow invoking obscure (native of course) open source libraries they never update, you know, the basics. It's the latter that keeps getting their customers exploited.
Looks good. Can it support images inside PDF? How does that work?
Never been audited is an understatement.

They have dodged all regulation, been chased around and proven to be lying multiple times. Tether once said they had no association to Bitfinex, which was a plain lie. Its been lies all the way through.

There is literally no reason to trust Tether and multiple independent signals that the whole thing is not reliable.
When cell phones were first getting off-the-ground, they were more like garage door openers - specialized tools for specialized settings. There is a lot of academic debate that the FSF and the EFF can spill on the subject of interop and software freedom for garage door openers, but practically, it wasn't a big social problem.

Nowadays, cellphones are primary computing devices for a lot of people, with a large number of supporting and symbiotic industries around them. The various platform owners have drawn particular lines around their products, and have largely defended them in anti-trust courts - but there's no reason that those lines should be allowed to be where they are, or won't expand in the future.

What stops a platform from, in addition to exerting full control over the software that runs on it, also choosing to exert similar control over the packets that are sent or received by it?
What would it be "telling" exactly? That someone recognizes the general shape of a naked woman?
1. Most coding and documentation questions now go straight to GPT-4

2. Most quick general purpose questions like "What is 4-month sleep regression in babies?" go to GPT-3.5

3. If I want to deep dive on a topic, I find myself either using one of the custom GPTs (Grimoire is great for coding), or increasingly, talking to it via voice chat. It's particularly great if I'm walking around the house doing chores and want to learn something I would otherwise turn to Wikipedia for (say, the successors to Genghis Khan and the various Khanates).
Old coal mines and power plants are being converted to clean energy sites
As easy as it seems to be to just include an image decoder it feels like "must be a specific size bmp file" is a perfectly acceptable solution here.
> It's like opting out of the genepool.

You misspelled cesspool.
Or lack of coolant water...
Then the comments here should come out and say that.
That's commonly caused by things like low yields for the highest end devices/binning not allowing them to make the numbers of the high end products they need.
> destroying domestic clothing production

What a weirdly specific whataboutism argument.

Should we stop food or monetary aid along the same argument?
There will be no one single event, it is dying a slow death by a thousand cuts, just like failed social media sites that preceded it.
I think the main moral of the story is not to base your company in Europe if you don't want to be subject to painful copyright litigation in German courts.
I mean, yes. You are not allowed to circumvent the terms of the license. Why would you think that you would be able to do that? Do you make archival copies of keys to AirBnBs so you can retain access to the purchased room after the access window?
> The only attack TPM-backed disk encryption prevents is someone imaging the disk.

The last section of the article you link says TPM 2.0 may fix the sniffing attack. It’s also worth noting that “someone imaging the disk” was really easy if you got even fairly brief access to the computer, whereas the other attacks that may still be viable involve invasive surgery and specialised knowledge of the hardware in question.

(This is my understanding as a developer not particularly informed about boot arrangements, upon reading some relevant material. I could be wrong or have missed some nuance.)
Google got Google Fiber'd
Who knows what he personally believes but he has no trouble offering them free service, promoting them, or targeting many of the same people they dislike (journalists; groups opposed to disinformation, anti-semitism, etc.; supporters of fair elections). Perhaps that doesn’t make him a fascist but at the very least he doesn’t mind hanging out with them and laughing at their memes.
> I think that his political bloviating (to put it mildly) is best explained by Matt Levine's theory, that he wants to expand Tesla's appeal to conservatives.

Or, he's a 50yo man with multiple divorces, few personal friends to vent to, and numerous children he's not on speaking terms with.

He just joined the millions of men his age that have the same baggage and the free time to spend bloviating online about wokeness.
> That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga.

Technically true. The PC definitely predates both, but the first Mac launched in 1984 and the first Amiga in 1985. They were very much contemporaries.
The difference is that you bought a perpetual, permanent license to that thing, not an ephemeral one.

Revoking that license should be impossible without a full refund+interest.
May I suggest adding some additional context to the home page? While I heard about Sentry I find difficult to understand what Spotlight does. I might not be the intended target audience though.
That's a very uncharitable thing to say.
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don't look too closely at the prices we charge
This is the energy machine bottleneck, what kinds of machines are net-energy positive?
Probably only hydrocarbon extraction/burning, nuclear, hydroelectric dams and maybe, maybe solar PV (barely, not convinced we can continue building solar panels without hydrocarbon or another source).
I am! It's my first HTMX project but I am liking it so far. HTMX has a few quirks which it took me a while to understand, but since then it has worked pretty well -- the amount of HTMX "code" I've had to write is quite small compared to the amount of JS I'd normally have to write.

My main takeaways have been:

- It mostly just works and simplifies things, but:

- Working with page state (in my case, which sheet is loaded) in individual requests (like updating a cell) is a bit awkward -- you can either supply it via `hx-vals` or via setting a global hidden input which is specified via `hx-include`. I ended up going with the second approach due to https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/1119 but it's not perfect -- in particular you need to duplicate specifying the input if you want to include additional inputs for some node.

- Error handling is also a bit awkward, but it's not too bad once you get used to the idea that you should return HTML elements in 400s. I found https://htmx.org/extensions/response-targets/ helpful as well.
- Often HTML structure doesn't allow you to limit your request scope as much as you'd like. For me the big thing is I can't just replace one column since tables are row-major -- I have to replace the whole table if a column is modified.
A pattern I see over and over, which has graduated to somewhere between a theorem and a law, is that motivated developers can make just about any process or architecture work for about 18 months.

By the time things get bad, it's almost time to find a new job, especially if the process was something you introduced a year or more into your tenure and are now regretting. I've seen it with a handful of bad bosses, at least half a dozen times with (shitty) 'unit testing', scrum, you name it.

But what I don't know is how many people are mentally aware of the sources of discomfort they feel at work, instead of a more nebulous "it's time to move on". I certainly get a lot of pushback trying to name uncomfortable things (and have a lot less bad feelings about it now that I've read Good to Great). Nobody wants to say, "Oh look, the consequences of my actions."

The people materially responsible for the Rube Goldberg machine I help maintain were among the first to leave. The captain of that ship asked a coworker of mine if he thought it would be a good idea to open source our engine. He responded that nobody would want to use our system when the wheels it reinvented already exist (and are better). That guy was gone within three to four months, under his own steam.
Who is cracking anything? The problem with physical access is that at the end of the day your security is only as good as the flat flex cable transporting your key presses.

This is not some science fiction scenario; look at the "addin boards" they found in CryptoPhones (you know that thing was using secure boot!):

https://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/gsmk/ip19/implant.htm

Nobody cares to exploit or modify the software if at the end of the day what you are trying to protect is running across a PCB trace and they have physical access.
> Is the PSF western "by design" or "de facto"

Since diversity and inclusivity are core values, I'll dodge the question and just say it's inclusive by design.
They aren't even the same

stop vs spot
I wonder if anyone tried this in Android, which also has a logo partition. Maybe not the flagship phones, but if I were to guess, I'd guess the TV sticks and other Android streaming devices might have similar issues.
Sorry, what does this do exactly? I have only cursory familiarity with Sentry and it's not obvious why would I want it.
Or just no availability. I want to watch an HBO show. Not available in my country. Make it available and get my money.
Thanks for checking it out! Sorry you had some issues I'll look into it.

We are still actively building out our documentation. You can find the current docs here: https://postgresml.org/docs/introduction/machine-learning/sd...
SpacetimeDB looks great for game dev. I've been hearing chitter chatter in the FaaS world about connecting clients directly to the DB as a means of reducing number of components and complexity in simple-ish CRUD apps. Not sure how well that design holds up there, time will tell.

For those seeing this (SpacetimeDB) and immediatelly conjuring images of nightmares to be, consider the following: if you had an extremely latency sensitive usecase and had the opportunity to host your database and business logic on the same machine, why wouldn't you?
Foundational skills can mean different things. In your example of React/Redux the foundational skills means learning things like how the JS Eventloop works, browser APIs, Layer 7 networking protocols, etc. i.e. the underpinnings of what React/Redux relies on to work correctly rather than just learning how to write a bunch of stuff on top of React without fully grokking the what/why of what's happening.

All of the aforementioned skills are broad and will allow you to pick up new things a lot faster because you understand the foundations vs just being shoehorned into being "$Framework Engineer"
In many ways, the nail is already in the coffin: navigating to the homepage no longer gives me relevant content.

From loading it just now: my top feed items are over 60% "interaction bait," i.e. ranked posts from accounts that I don't follow. When I turn off my adblocking rules, these are interspersed with bottom-barrel advertisements.

In other words: it's dead, but the corpse is still warm.
> You are always free to pack up your things and move to another place with better conditions.

Using all your extensive savings from a job that in many parts of the US, pays up to 20% less than the livable wage?
You make some fair points. My main point is this:

Stop posting the AARD code thing as some kind of "gotcha!". AARD is irrelevant. If you want to point at anti-competitive or problematic things Microsoft did then point at things that actually mattered.
Is there a more technical paper / link? Does the flux still sum to 0 over the whole system and this is a localized phenomenon?
This being so high up is so funny in context of yesterday's popular post about the long-term consequences of Google's Chrome.
Also if it was actually about free speech, he wouldn’t immediately capitulate every time a foreign government asks him to remove content they deem inappropriate.
oobabooga/text-generation-webui already supports this for local models (but doesn't support other hosted models.)

SillyTavern technically supports this, though its not a central use case, so the UI isn't particular convenient for mid-conversation change of models, but it works.

But I don't know of anything where it is a central feature and convenient (and if it was, you could also implement things like parallel requests and choosing which response to keep.)
Very cool!

I love how you've implemented models, particularly generating the entity from the database. I did something similar with PHP 20 years ago, but abandoned it when Rails came around.
Watch electricity hit a fork in the road at half a billion frames per second [video]
I guess Sony is resorting to lawfare so that you won't pirate those shows they're taking off the Playstation Store.
In related news, there's concern that when you shuffle the name Tesla, it ends up being Least
Is this actually true? I don’t think I’ve ever been fully blocked from anything because you can always just turn off the internet and then boot the game to bypass these things (Switch for example). The only way then is the game itself would have to block you (conceivable but I don’t recall seeing it). Some specific examples would be helpful.
One of my favored local places serves wonderful BBQ and deli sandwiches, has the area's best butcher counter by far, and has a large gas station out front.

https://www.facebook.com/trolingers/
Toys r us got that treatment, folded pretty quickly. Will it be as impacting in the digital age?
I did the same thing with my main account a few weeks back. I have a gaming Twitter and two business ones. I kinda need those (the illustrators and indie game devs I follow aren't anywhere else and I need the network effects and community for my business).

I'm hoping Elon gets kicked out like at PayPal and Twitter is able to become less cringe.
maybe they are trying to project stability (no pun intended)
> The fediverse stuff works pretty well as far as I can see.

Not the grand parent, my instance is shutting down in January. I have no way to migrate my posts. This is the sixth time I've gone through this over the years. I don't feel like dealing with this stuff anymore.

> The only thing the fediverse lacks that Twitter really provided was the starfucking celebrity culture.

If you pay attention to the few notable people in their fields, they describe some of the problems such as:

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/111511735894043437

I hope my comment explains some of the whys for you.
Even bigger security flaws were found in OpenSSL, Firefox or the Linux kernel.

Are they also security theater?
What's Inside China's New Homegrown "Tianhe Xingyi" Supercomputer?
From Protector, by Larry Niven.
Published by Del Rey in 1973

"Nick Sohl was coming home.

...He had gone mining in Saturn's rings, with a singleship around him and a shovel in his hand (for the magnets used to pull monopoles from asteroidal iron did look remarkably like shovels)...

A century ago monopoles had been mere theory and conflicting theory at that. Magnetic theory said that a north magnetic pole could not exist apart from a south magnetic pole, and vice-versa. Quantum theory implied that they might exist independently.

The first permanent settlements had been blooming among the biggest Belt asteroids when an exploring team found monopoles scattered through the nickel-iron core of an asteroid. Today they were not theory, but a thriving Belt industry. A magnetic field generated by monopoles acts in an inverse linear relationship rather than an inverse-square. In practical terms, a monopole-based motor or instrument will reach much further. Monopoles were valuable where weight was a factor, and in the Belt weight was always a factor. But monopole mining was still a one man operation.

Nick's luck had been poor. Saturn's rings were not a good region for monopoles anyway; too much ice, too little metal. The electromagnetic field around his cargo box probably held no more than two full shovelfuls of north magnetic pole. Not much of a catch for a couple weeks backbreaking labor... but still worth good money at Ceres."
Yours. Leave twitter for good and the platform is dead to you.
They publish but don't share. Who cares about your cool tech if we can't experience it ourselves? I don't care about your blog writeup or research paper.

Google is locked behind research bubbles, legal reviews and safety checks.

Mean while OpenAI is eating their lunch.
Yes but They sign BAA for HIPAA. OpenAI does not last we checked.
I expect UL would have something addressing this.
This is one of the reasons I'm a big fan of wuffs[0] - it specifically targets dealing with formats like pictures, safely, and the result drops in to a C codebase to make the compat/migration story easy.

[0] https://github.com/google/wuffs
The prompts were also likely different:

video: "Is this the right order?"

blog post: "Is this the right order? Consider the distance from the sun and explain your reasoning."

https://developers.googleblog.com/2023/12/how-its-made-gemin...
Let's sketch a "law" for digital goods. This law is entirely about how digital products are labeled and advertised.

If the seller uses "ownership" words like "own", "buy", or "purchase", then the product must be usable _indefinitely_. If at any time it becomes not usable, e.g. due to a server shutting down, a full refund must be provided to everyone who "purchased" the product. Also, there must be some way to lend the product; it's OK if this lending deprives the original owner of the product while it is lent.

One way to satisfy the "ownership" clause is to sell the product without DRM. Another alternative would be to sell it with DRM initially, but remove the DRM when you want to shut down your hosting servers. An online-only multiplayer game that requires a central server cannot feasibly be sold by "ownership", because the seller would eventually lose all their money when they shut down the server.

So the next option is "rental", where the seller can use the word "rent" along with a clear time period like "for 1 year" or "through 2024". The product must be usable through this time period, or you get a full refund. No requirements about it being lendable to friends.

I imagine almost all companies would pick the second option. This is fine! Consumers still get two benefits: (i) clear labeling, including knowing how long they can expect to use the thing for, and (ii) a full refund in case the content gets removed before that time period.

As for getting banned from an online game: this is completely allowed via the "rental" option. The company just needs to give the player a full refund.
The Transformer paper “Attention is All You Need” came out in 2017. Sundar got the CEO job two years earlier, so he was in CEO diapers at the time if you will.

I would argue Google has done almost nothing interesting since then (at least not things they haven't killed)
Those don't encrypt the EFI system partition, which is where the image in question is stored.
Austrian Game Studio Now Sponsoring Krita Development
I would like to see not just code, but also a discussion of the tradeoff decisions made when creating that code, and a discussion of what could be done or looked at next.

Even with an example written for an article, if it's non-trivial then there will have been trade-off design decisions. In some ways, understanding the reasoning behind tradeoff decisions to make when using an SDK is more important than an example that shows me what arguments to use when calling a specific function.

For example, you have an article about Python and your checking the size of the array. Don't just tell me it's len(my_array), explain the decision to do that.

As an aside in case your interested, as I understand it the reasoning is to implement length via a strategy pattern: any object which has a concept of length can implement a __len__ method, and len() will then use that method to get the length, which allows a lot more flexibility without having multiple ways to do length.
> Almost everything requires a server connection and they can require you to upgrade to play.

This is overstating the (very real) problem. While there are certainly classes of games for which this is true, the majority of games work totally fine offline forever.

Your example, Overwatch, is an online-only multiplayer game. Yes, it's bad you bought a disk that's now just a coaster. But, I don't think it's representative of the vast number of single-player games for which servers don't even exist. There are certainly single-player exceptions (GTA V, the recent Hitman trilogy, etc), but.

There's also a set of PC games from the early aughts that depended on the now-defunct Gamespy servers to run. There's a fairly complete list here (https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/22fz75/list_of_games...). While that's certainly not 0, it still doesn't strike me as "almost everything".

Also worth noting that I'm not defending these systems - just nothing that it's not as bad as you make it out to be.
That's it. It's nice that something so inexpensive can last decades. You can spend a lot more on a mechanical pencil (and I have) but none have won me over.

YMMV