skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean the paper is okay and it will take some time to go through it, but this feels like yet another fluff story that will lose traction by Monday.

That’s also to Google’s disadvantage, that they have to follow a lot of internal rules to ensure spotless alignment.

If Sundar writes those fluff paragraphs himself, then I would be willing to bet that he stops after each one to throw his hands in the air in an attempt to punch it, knowing very well that those words don’t really mean much.
Can you explain the idea behind a cloud-oriented programming language? How does it works?
You can name anonymous functions so your transformations can still have a domain related name associated with it, even if you're using standard library ones.
eh, some vendors take this to mean daily (or twice daily) emails.

They get the spam flag too for not being respectful of my inbox.
Not Ultra version
Google can hardly put a picture of a white male on their website. They're so deep in the swamp of virtue signalling it's a miracle they haven't yet drowned.
We're starting with react web, planning to expand from there to other surfaces, including React Native.

I suspect the gap from the current version, to React Native support is rather small. It's open-source, so feel free to open an issue so that it can get upvoted/prioritized, (or even better, you can work on it too ;) )
I use Nim at work. I've built a backend CLI program that processes signal data collected from instruments. That CLI program is used in many contexts, but is primarily called through a PHP API by many of our web services. The executable has no dependencies (compiled with musl-libc and statically-compiled libraries).

Modeling problems is almost as powerful as a Lisp: It prefers stack allocation, immutable data, and referentially transparent procedures, but all of that can be short-circuited when necessary. The type system is simple and clear. The syntax is Pythonic and easy to make readable and self-documenting. Magic is not required. The Datamancer data frame library is incredibly robust. The standard library is quite extensive, and the included JSON data structure functions well as a dynamic, heterogenous structure when needed. Turning Nim objects and data into JSON is so trivially easy that it's a no-brainer for my use case, and probably web-focused use cases as well. Nimja templating is incredibly good and great for building pages or documents, so long as you're preprocessing as much as possible (as with most templating libraries). C interop is also trivially easy, requiring no more than a function signature in most cases.

I can absolutely say that Nim has been a secret weapon for tackling the specific data processing problem I've been solving. Highly recommended, especially if you can invoke it from the CLI using other languages to solve things such as UI. I'm building an Electron app around it currently, and the NodeJS backend invokes my Nim program.
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This role offers the chance to drive a high-impact, customer-facing, needle-moving project. It is ideal for someone who is excited by the opportunity to demonstrate technical leadership, steward all aspects of a codebase, has a track record of technical excellence, wants to dive deep into the mechanics of streaming video, and thrives in a highly distributed and collaborative environment.

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> Deployment with Rust backend programs in general can be less than ideal due to having to use Dockerfiles,

Actually, in my experience, Rust is one of the best languages for ease of deployment (for much the same reason as Go). Rust/Cargo produces self-contained statically linked binaries. Rust/Cargo also has a real nice cross-compiling story. Often my deployment will be to build the binary and then basically scp the binary and supporting files (such as html/config) to the target. You don't really need Docker.
Then don't go if you feel like the norms are not acceptable to you. In this day and age is not that hard do do a little research before going to a place you've never been before.
There’s also the mechanics working at these garages. The timing and ferocity of this action is strange to me as an outsider considering Tesla’s been in Sweden for a decade.

If Tesla mechanics received stock in 2013, some of them probably got rich. It’s plausible Tesla mechanics actually think it’s awesome to receive tons of overtime, stock, and perf bonuses. I haven’t seen their perspective covered in the media, which I find suspicious.
Thank you I was wondering about that. A couple of days ago I heard somebody mention that push notifications go through the backend and that it was a huge privacy issue, and I just couldn't believe that messaging apps that are "encrypted" would go through all that work just to then send the unencrypted message to Google's servers
how do you know they're not native born?
Of course he is, like Tesla before him.
Where did they say this?
I think the first real applications will be, well, simulations of quantum systems. Right now classical supercomputers cannot model complex molecules, but are still better than quantum computers, where you have to take care of the logical qubits they provide. Modelling this can help finding better fertilizer, new drugs, etc.
I would not underestimate DeepMind with its access to Google's resources and private data which OpenAI lacks, even with Microsoft's help.

They already caught up and surpassed GPT-4 and OpenAI's availability and APIs are very unstable and all that matters is that and the cost per token.
I don't care enough about music to deal with the costs of owning it, relative to the monthly cost of streaming it. If it goes away, it goes away. If it is something I really, really like, then I pay for the mp3 file, but that is rare.
Eh, I kind of hoped for at least an attempt to substantiate opinions, but fat chance.
I'm on that path too. I used to work mainly with a voltmeter but I recently bought a cheap oscilloscope. It does wonders by allowing me to actually see the signal at different points and confirm that it matches my expectations. That was a big unlock for me.
The new alternatives offered better products. Not clear that Gemini qualifies yet besides multimodal.
I know Pinephone isn't ready for daily use from all the threads here, but I just ordered one to get some stick time with it. Getting real tired of having to fight my phone to keep my data mine.

I just want the equivalent of debian, but on mobile. I understand I'll have to give up a bunch of apps, but honestly I think its worth it. As soon as its possible I'd like off this ride.
Gives me Trillian vibes.

So let's introduce my bias:

All Multi-Messengers in the past that relied on reverse engineering proprietary protocols vanished.
> not for taking cinder blocks to the construction site

Considering the bed height of modern trucks, neither is most of the competition.
Yup, it's all a performance for the investors
New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman was not consistently candid
It does seem to be notifications on the phone, but (a) that's incredibly surprising and disturbing and (b) it's really unclear why or how that would work when a phone is disconnected from the network. In any event, Google inserting themselves into notifications would be tantamount to reading all my email, texts and everything else, so ... why wouldn't this be restricted to opt-in? Many questions.
It's worth remembering that AI is more than LLMs. DeepMind is still doing big stuff: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materi...
You seem to believe only dockworkers are striking?
>Somehow I think this one is not Sony's fault entirely.

I understand the sentiment of that, but as harsh as this sounds I really don't care. The least bad thing Sony could do right now is refund everybody.

I learned my lesson with Sony back in the Sonic Stage days. They are not to be trusted with digital purchases, period.
Amazon Brags It 'Cultivated' CA Mayor with Donations in Leaked Policy Document
JetBrains AI
Ask HN: Best Way to Move Accounts Between Platforms?
I will move my service from one platform to another (glide > bubble).

What's the easiest yet most accepted way to let users move their accounts (e.g., should I set up a new account for all of them and they can just "forget" their password and set a new one)?
>Freakonomics once asked a corruption researcher who is more corrupt, China or America? She said: Well in America you can't really call it corruption if it's legal.

Are we reading the same article?

>ANG: So if we compare it to the standard index, the similarity that we see is that the United States, overall, total corruption is much lower than in China, and that’s totally expected. But what the U.C.I. is able to add is that it unbundles this total score into four categories, and by doing so, we can see more nuance and we can see that first of all, in both countries, the United States is much lower on petty theft, grand theft, and speed money than in China. But they have roughly the same amount of access money.
That's ridiculous on so many levels, but most of all because there are plenty of other computer science articles with code samples.
isnt that wrt scaling size? couldn't they make other improvements?

i'd be real interested if they can rebut with big multimodal improvements.
I don’t have particular experience here with golang, but in other languages the biggest reason for this is mocking and stubbing everything.

Junior or intermediate developers start writing code. Most functions manipulate internal state instead of acting cleanly on inputs/outputs. Writing tests for this style of code is hard, so developers reach for the nearest mocking library. Now, instead of testing that given inputs produce given outputs, tests are written in a way that effectively they only verify that functions are currently implemented the way they are currently implemented.

These style of tests literally have negative value (NB, not all mocking is bad, but these type of tests are). Delete them when you find them.

Testing should help you accomplish two things: find bugs and allow confident refactoring. These do neither.

They don’t help you find bugs because they don’t look for bugs. They look for “the code is currently implemented in a certain way”. And this of course means if you implement the same logic a different way, they will fail.

Negative value. Delete them, and whenever possible rewrite modules that are designed such that they need to be “tested” in this manner.
I take issue with the "least xenophobic places out there nowadays", I don't think that needs further elaboration, it would require a lot of work to establish that any place is compatible with that label and based on what I've seen Serbia likely would not be close to the top of the list, you give two nice examples already and I would have a couple of others.
Congress created these agencies, they can write laws that fundamentally change how they work, what they do, and what they focus on. They can even just disband these agencies. Congress has all of the power it needs. If they don't use it, maybe what you think should happen doesn't align with the majority of Congress.
I mean, yes, things like The Arrow of Time, Entropy, our entire understanding of black holes, most of quantum mechanics.

Yeah, if information can be destroyed then a lot of physics needs to be redone.
Why would I be sarcastic? I just think that if taxation without representation is theft, so must be wealth-creation without representation.

But thankfully workers aren't mere wheels, and they can design the said framework themselves! Pretty much like peasants got to imagine parliements so as to gain the natural right to rule over themselves, despite kings and lords trying to convince them it was a silly and dangerous idea.
Yeah, even more exciting than the small PaLM2 from Google IO
Software is written by teams. It’s not enough to introduce a new tool or strategy, you also need to find the will to eliminate an old tool or process. Otherwise you ramp up the knowledge required to run the system, and one day you realize that employees with 3, 6, 9 months on the job are still basically useless, because they only know a fraction of what is needed to operate independently. Once you go that far you have to slow down first before reversing course. And now you have employees that cannot get promoted for years, and they won’t stick around for that (and those in power won’t leave).
It's pretty much inevitable. I am a big fan of Valve, but fully support anything that reduces their stranglehold on PC gaming. If Epic supported Linux with their store, I'd go to it first when buying games.

But even if I buy a game on EGS today, I can still probably play it on Linux through Steam for free thanks to Valve, so... I'm very conflicted to say the least.
I'm not affiliated, but I'd guess that things like "object storage" are a first class citizen, similar to a "string" or "float" in other languages.
Hopefully Google doesn't kill this off within 4 years like most of their products
I'm a GPT4 subscriber and a Google GSuite work subscriber. I've been using the latest Bard this morning to write and refine python code, and it's just as good if not slightly better than GPT4. I asked it to refine some obtuse code with lots of chaining, and it did an admirable job writing accurate comments and explaining the chained logic. It's ridiculously anecdotal of course, but I used Bard for all of 5 minutes last time they announced. This time seems different.
The latest update I see on that link is from 2023.11.21 on “Expanding Bard’s understanding of YouTube videos.” Is it possible that there are country-specific update pages?

Edit: I found a Google page indicating that Gemini Pro is not accessible in Europe, with no ETA for when it will be released there: https://support.google.com/bard/answer/14294096
The professor's story is potentially this one detailed in the very Wikipedia article you linked:

> Six adult axolotls (including a leucistic specimen) were shipped from Mexico City to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1863. Unaware of their neoteny, Auguste Duméril was surprised when, instead of the axolotl, he found in the vivarium a new species, similar to the salamander. [verification needed] This discovery was the starting point of research about neoteny. It is not certain that Ambystoma velasci specimens were not included in the original shipment. [citation needed] Vilem Laufberger in Prague used thyroid hormone injections to induce an axolotl to grow into a terrestrial adult salamander. The experiment was repeated by Englishman Julian Huxley, who was unaware the experiment had already been done, using ground thyroids. [39] Since then, experiments have been done often with injections of iodine or various thyroid hormones used to induce metamorphosis. [16]
Yes, and? Presumably the uncited cut-and-paste from a (poor, IMO) dictionary is intended to suggest that the third definition applies, but nudity isn't sexual activity [0] and, more to the point, the sense of “graphic” in the that definition is basically a combination of vivid and explicit in the sense of the first definition, and remains an antonym of “implied”.

[0] which is more of a problem with your choice of authority, because most dictionaries wouldn't limit the relevant definition this way.
See [1] for an overview of "state of the art" metadata-protecting communications protocols. There has been much research into this problem over decades and the effectiveness of such protocols very much depends on real world use cases and practicalities. For example, protocols may require 100 seconds to send a message to ensure adequate mixing, and then may be limited to always-transmitting-24/7 endpoints consuming much power, and then also requiring participants in the network to trust each other not to mount a denial of service attack.

[1] SoK: Metadata-Protecting Communication Systems, Sajin Sasy and Ian Goldberg, Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/313, https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/313.pdf
They complained that when they entered their number to de-register, they were presented with a "number not found" error. Which seems like a plausible error for a backdoor imessage implementation.
Yeah, I hope that doesn't happen.

That said the concept of a copilot is pretty generic, so hopefully we can peacefully coexist.

They've doubled down on the Copilot naming after the project was well underway, and I don't really want to rename it in anticipation of trouble that may never materialize
I just tried out a vision reasoning task: https://g.co/bard/share/e8ed970d1cd7 and it hallucinated. Hello Deepmind, are you taking notes?
This isn't trolling, it's my genuine ignorance- I thought Actix was the goto web framework for Rust? I don't do a whole lot of Rust and when I do it isn't http router type work so I'm out of the loop here.
But that's my point. It doesn't matter who's better exactly right now. Let's see how this plays out over the next few years.

Whether one company or another is 10% better or worse than another at some metric right now -- that just couldn't be less relevant in terms of how this will ultimately end up.
The format of this podcast is insufferable, like listening to two befuddled people in a retirement home exchange "witty" banter.

I looked it up though. This was 30 years ago. The court issued Border Patrol an injunction and protected students from discimination. A perfect example of the legal system acting justly and prudently, which only supports my argument that unbridled searches within 100 miles of the border is hyperbole only.
I suppose it depends on which protocol, and which app, we're talking about, but...Interesting. Good analysis!

It's conceivable that connectivity checks flow to other servers than delivery traffic, and these are passed-through. Although addressing your more general critique of the "flurry" (good word! :)), requires noting that accomplishing this capability would involve compromising the app's servers. Such backdoors are again not outside the realm of possibility in the given threat model.

Do you see any possibilities for interference in the push interception capability described?
Philosophy of AI Conference (PhAI 2023)
I had no idea the rag-and-bone man was still a thing into the 70s. Was that just in the UK? I've certainly never heard of it in the US during that time period.
Love learning about image/video formats and I enjoy how you broke it all down. Just a heads up, pretty sure you've got a typo:

"Next is the Global Packed Field, which in this case is 70 which in binary form is 00000000."

70 in binary would be 100110. (64 + 0 + 0 + 4 + 2 + 0)
I don't recall clearly so that's certainly possible, but it seems the Axolotl does have the capability of spontaneous metamorphosis. Here are quotes from some publications I found.

First, regarding the first individuals imported in Europe [1]:

"In November 1865, Duméril issued another report to the Académie des sciences. One of the axolotls had started to become “markedly different from the other axolotls of the same age.” Soon, others followed. The external gills disappeared, and the form of their heads and bodies changed along with their coloration. Several animals that were born in the Collection had left the water and had transformed into a land-dwelling form. They had become what Duméril called “ambystomes.”"

Then this extract of a Master's thesis [2]:

"Six A. mexicanum were transferred to Paris where Dumeril (1870) subsequently
reported that individuals reproduced in an aquatic, larval state and that some
of the resulting offspring underwent a metamorphosis. Smith (1989) suggests
that some of the original stock that arrived in Paris included closely related
members of the Tiger salamander species complex, that are capable of expressing
a paedomorphic or metamorphic life history. However, it seems likely that
domestication altered the penetrance for expressing paedomorphosis and the
original axolotl stock was pure A. mexicanum that maintained a higher
propensity to express metamorphosis in nature (Voss & Shaffer, 2000). Even
though metamorphic forms have been culled from the Ambystoma Genetic Stock
Center axolotl collection for decades, the frequency of spontaneous
metamorphosis is only 1–2%, with a 10% frequency observed if A. mexicanum
experience stressful conditions (Randal Voss, unpublished data)."

And this from a book chapter [3]:

"The modern axolotl strain used in most laboratories is a highly inbred population that most likely arose from a donation of seven wild axolotls (six wild-type and one white mutant) between 1863 and 1866 to the Paris Natural History Museum [6]
. In fact, most modern-day laboratory axolotls likely have a direct lineage to these founders, and all white mutants are descendants from this single white animal [7]. A few wild-caught axolotls were introduced into the colony strain in the 1960s including an albino tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) [8], but overall the present-day laboratory strain is likely one of the most long-running inbred strains of any laboratory species. The 150-year history of laboratory breeding seems to have selected against spontaneous metamorphosis (currently <1 % frequency), as it is more prevalent in wild strains than the lab strain [7, 9]. The most extensive colony of laboratory axolotls is maintained at the Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center (AGSC)"

In particular this part: "The 150-year history of laboratory breeding seems to have selected against spontaneous metamorphosis (currently <1 % frequency), as it is more prevalent in wild strains than the lab strain."

[1] https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/full/10.1484/J.CNT.5.13210...

[2] https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/13/

[3] https://link.springer.com/protocol/10.1007/978-1-4939-2495-0...
Because infrastructure is cost+, Neflix gives you content that they have the rights to.
Buying physical media isn't even the safeguard it was before. Now games require a patch before they're usuable, or the game can be blocked from running until the console itself is patched to the latest version. We're in a new era where consoles are fully connected platforms and the OEMs use them as gatekeeping tools to control the ecosystem.
I use companies licensed in mold remediation and testing. If you live in a fairly populated area and google “mold air testing in (x city)” you should hopefully find something. It’s strange to me how infrequently these services are utilized. My realtor, who is one of the most experienced in the state even wasn’t sure who to go to for this when I first asked
It just has to be good as old gpt-4.
It depends on your region. In general these things take some time (hours) to go live globally to all enabled regions, and are done carefully. If you come back tomorrow or in a few days it's more likely to have reached you, assuming you're in an eligible region.

It's probably best to wait until the UI actually tells you Bard has been updated to Gemini Pro. Previous Bard updates have had UI announcements so I'd guess (but don't know for sure) that this would have similar.

> Bard with Gemini Pro is rolling out today in English for 170 countries/territories, with UK and European availability “in the near future.” Initially, Gemini Pro will power text-based prompts, with support for “other modalities coming soon.”

https://9to5google.com/2023/12/06/google-gemini-1-0/
Maintainathons and Hackathons
Okay, then don't go to PyCon Africa or PyCon Saudi Arabia or whatever. You're not obliged to attend.

Your own life choices regarding body modifications and suchlike don't need to be held over everyone else in those regions who will benefit from these conferences.