skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not black and white, but cloning a product is just not nice.

Not only is it perfectly fine, it's the only way for competitive markets to function.

Copyright, patent, and trademark laws demarcate the boundaries within which we aim to guarantee enough protection to incentivize investment in truly unique innovations, but outside of those boundaries, we want markets converge to common product standards and establish category-wide conventions. That enables continuous marginal innovation without each entrant having to reinvent the wheel from scratch every time.

I'm not sure anyone, Apple included, is better off today because they managed to shut down GEM and ended up killing Digital Research. I'm not sure anyone, AT&T included, would be better off today if the BSD and GNU projects and Linus Torvalds had never aimed to create clones of Unix.

Creating FOSS clones of commercial products is where much of the foundational modern software came from, and forking existing projects to add your own features is an essential element of FOSS software.

You're naturally free to eschew this project for the reasons you cite, but I don't think your opinion establishes good general principles. Markets, technology, and society as
a whole function precisely because people do copy what works from each other and add then add their own innovations incrementally.
Orion is built on webkit, both on desktop and mobile. It's possible to build WebExt support into a WebKit browser, as they've done.

While I definitely prefer FF and Android, I can support the notion of Mozilla integrating extension support into WebKit on their iOS version of FF. But it would take a lot of effort to do that, and Firefox for iOS is ultimately just totally separate from any other Firefox (whereas Android and Desktop Firefox share the same innards).
These companies are often about scamming investors, which is what you get at with your third point.

Maybe some of them still expect to succeed, but I suspect failure is often the plan.
> And I have to assume bodycam software is less reliable than iOS/Android.

Uh, no?

I'd naive assume it would be much simpler and more reliable, and that failure to do something like recharge or upload data would log an exception somewhere that would get immediate attention. When the 'IT guy' goes to work the next morning they should see that one of the bodycams didn't do its thing the night before and that bodycam should get replaced. The maximum window of failiure should be 24h or less, and multiple failures happening to all responding officers shouldn't really be possible since they should have a MTBF exceeding a year.
Curious if the layoffs factor in to the decline in a statistically significant way? I wouldn’t expect that to account for all of the changes but maybe that accounts for some.
> it takes a strong government to push back. Europe is doing that but America continues to bow to "line goes up" rhetoric.

Push back against what? The definition of "super intelligence"? Isn't there already issues with how the EU defines it making their policy potentially extremely broad?

Or push back against how hypothetical future AI is regulated in 2023
This is great! I wonder how the update(s) went since the article was written in 2016 and they mentioned 4 years per country, or 16 years total. COVID-19 probably threw a wrench in that plan, but how big of an impact is another interesting question.
> the data [...] showed a roughly 25% decline in pull requests in 1H2023 as compared to 2H2022 PRs [...] largely lacking an explanation

May be obvious, but would rather know if you saw PRs-per-repo decline. Otherwise, I wonder if some very frequent-PR repos (automated or otherwise) had previously skewed numbers. Also curious if early numbers for this half can be obtained/compared.
It just seems like one choice, among many. The dagster-dbt library in particular seems like a slightly pointless wrapper around the dbt cli and the json artifacts it creates. I've been using airflow and astronomer-cosmos which is not perfect but I didn't enjoy using dagster last time I tried.
I just played this on the switch the original gameboy version.. a lot of the gameplay involved moving onto the next screen to avoid critters. This looks like there's nowhere to hide! What you've done looks fun but changes the gameplay mechanics somewhat.
The teletypes needed all the control characters as well (cr, lf, bell, etc.), so everything below ASCII 97 was mostly required.

If I remember correctly, Apple terminal emulators set reverse video when they meant a capital letter, so you could converse with something over a modem that was sending lowercase.
Please explain to someone that has never seen a melanoma - this person had a single 'mole-like' mark on his neck (presumably small?), and that alone killed him? or was it 'mole-like' and eventually got so big that it killed him?

Having a hard time understanding how something so small, and so easily removed can kill someone.

I have so many 'moles' on me, I wouldn't even know what to look for.
Yup, that is so obvious in hindsight but I hadn't thought of it that way before. "We're willing to spend this much time, will you be able to do it?" is a much easier question both to ask and answer than "how much time will it take?"

It also encourages collaboration over adversarial negotiation.
It used to be all the world is a VAX and now it's all the world is a Linux. So it goes.

That said, how much user facing graphical stuff runs on AIX? That is a genuine question because I don't know and it sounds like you do.
Themself? No.

But there is more than one powerful person in Poland, and Newag owner is far from the most powerful.
Tesla's data isn't just more volumnious than Waymo's, it's also higher quality. Macrodiversity is important. LiDAR isn't. Scene reconstruction got good in the last few years, and that's what LiDAR was competing with. Meanwhile, there's no substitute for macrodiversity.

Anyway, you asked for citations. Here they are.

Waymo:

> Waymo was the clear leader in 2022 with 2.9 million miles with safety drivers

https://www.eetimes.com/waymo-cruise-dominate-av-testing/#:~....

Tesla:

> FSD Now Drives 1 Million Miles Per Day

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1327/tesla-fsd-milestone-1....

> Graph showing 2M miles per day

https://digitalassets.tesla.com/tesla-contents/image/upload/...

> Tesla has been "collecting data" for years without much to show for.

Except, you know, millions of miles per day of self-driving in situations that Waymo isn't even planning to attempt for years.
No, but a ringularity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_singularity?wprov=sfti1#T...) .
"The new budget includes funds for 1,357 officers and SPD says right now, there are 1,120 officers on the force—which leaves 237 open jobs."
I was a longtime Firefox on Android user until the extension situation got increasingly fragile and complicated. I've been very happy since switching to Kiwi. It's faster, more frequently updated, and supports all the extensions I want. Highly recommended.
I don’t know if it’s related or if it’s because I’m getting older - processed snacks bother my stomach a lot more than they used to.

Definitely could be my own anecdotal issues though
To add to this: the two sides in the war are supposedly Israel and Hamas. Can we not agree that either side killing civilians is wrong?
Them being very tailored to the main model is true, and it takes a lot of work for the lora author to target multiple base models, so they generally just target one.

I plan on releasing my next iteration of my model (trained on generating knowledge graphs, among other things) as both a lora, and a pre-merged model for multiple base models (Mistral 7b, Llama2 13b, Phi2 2.7b, Yi 34b, and possibly Mixtral)

Will be interesting to compare the results between them, considering last time I just did Llama2 13b. Can't wait to see the improvements in the base models since then.
The "interests" of LLMs are the weights that determine which tokens they produce next.
So all these loyal OpenAI employees have no problem doing business with a company that brought us the Leistungsschutzrecht, a law that tries to force search engines to pay for links newspaper online content but has no problem to to copy private fotos from FB & Co. or blackmail relatives to get them?

A company whose best-known newspaper regularly agitates against the unemployed and refugees.

I suspected it, they are hypocrites and now they have sunk even lower.

What's next, a co-operation with Rupert Murdoch?
I'll never say never but the current state of the CPC is so departed from mainstream Canadian politics that it's far more likely that BQ would side with LPC... and the NDP and Greens would basically have to have a melt-down to side with the CPC.

I think it's almost vanishingly unlikely that the CPC form government unless they actually achieve a majority share of seats.
Why would one compare Qt's QString as a C++ representative? Why not std::string ?
The phone switch GTD-5 had 2 separate sets of 2 CPUs for each function and instructions were run through both, then compared: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTD-5_EAX

"If the results were not identical, the processors were immediately reset, and the pair of processors on the other card were brought online as the active processor complex. The active processor always kept memory up-to-date so that when these forced switches occurred, little data loss was suffered. When the switch was requested as a part of routine maintenance, the switch could be accomplished with no data loss at all."
> Mercedes's Drive Pilot (L3), which you can buy in a production car today, is explicitly advertised as allowing drivers to take their attention off the road and do other things in specific situations.

So Mercedes is going to take 100% liability if their system causes a crash, right?
It is unlikely that a home user has network functions in use that rely on the controller.
The police chief is appointed by the mayor. If people feel like they are not being listened to or there is too much abuse maybe they should elect a mayor that will deal with it?
Someone should make a website to track changes. See if we can create some sort of historical record. I’d love to be able to look up if my favorite brand is now crap.
It's not taking, though. It's copying.

Monks used to write books out by hand. If you were to go to a monastery, and copy a book line by line, you will have taken nothing at all. Nothing will be lost.

It's not taking, it's not stealing. It's just making a copy. You are the one doing gymnastics.
It's 2023 let's summarise AI

* My Documents can be trained on

* My Instagram images are legally not mine and can be trained on

* My voice can be cloned without consent

* My complete motion capture data can be replicated to another image

* My analytics and usage data is owned by either US or Chinese corporations who either side will train AI on to feed me more ads

* A green colored hardware giant is leading the AI warfare

* The internet is turning highly anti consumer
You don't know Pat Gelsinger do you?
How long until Wayland is the old thing that we've barely moved on to before the systemd folks subsume the display subsystem?
The economics doesn’t fully allow for that, due to both visibility and time preferences
I think that it's a bit of a reach there to blame 3rd century Latin for why computer/telegraphy people 16/17 centuries later decided to not retain the idea of lower case, when by that point it had been around in writing since the 10th century.
> Tesla has been kept alive only because they are scared to even let drivers take their hands off the wheel. They have very low confidence in the system to allow for driver inattention, let alone completely remove the driver. Numerous software “rewrites” over the years with many buzzwords attached, and they still haven’t clocked a single driverless mile.

That is quite backwards.

When they first launched, the steering wheel checks were every fifteen minutes. They reduced it to five minutes, and slowly had to be dragged kicking and screaming due to threats from the NHTSA to get to where it is now. Even now, most of their attitude to it has been very nudge nudge wink wink, "yeah, they make us tell you to pay attention but you don't have to" (until you do get in a collision, and they throw you under the bus, of course).
This argument doesn't seem to track to me. Eg. if I rebooted any time I tried to plan how to kill someone, I don't see how this would make me materially worse at general tasks. Your argument suggests that it necessarily must.

Note that I'm not saying that preventing specific thoughts is a great alignment strategy, and I don't even think it's a fair summary of OpenAI's supervision approach. I strongly prefer strategies that result in AI systems sharing our values, if at all possible.
Yeah, I feel like the there is a ceiling in the current AI methodology.

There's a lot of hype right now, and it's definitely a useful technology, but I don't see how it could become AGI.
I'd rather not disclose, but for what it's worth the subset of bottlers would be limited to those supplying Walmart, since that's where I buy the bulk of it. It really is bad enough that I ought to complain and provide lot numbers for free coupons.

Other products (Diet Dr. Pepper) are unaffected; I don't know if they share bottlers.
Yep. Further, ternaries are to cond as switch is to pattern matching. Ternaries can be used to give a chain of boolean expression decisions:

a ? b :
c ? d :
e ? f :
g

which switch isn't so tidy for.
I find the amount of people calling this a hit piece odd. Does every article need to talk about every bit of information related to the subject? Yes, it's important to give context that he's not the only one building compound(s) like this - but by the same token it's very common for articles to do a deep dive on one subject.
Show HN: Spliit v2 – Free and Open Source Alternative to Splitwise
I created the project a couple of years ago to learn Go, but I just rewrote it using a stack I am more comfortable with (Next.js). I also made it open source [1], to feel free to contribute ;)

[1] https://github.com/scastiel/spliit2
Thanks for the advice. I haven't had any type of skin cancer but will definitely keep this in mind since a lot of family members have had it in the past.
summary: given a program template/skeleton and a fitness function (# correct results, shorter programs, etc), generate a population of programs with LLM, use a prompt that generates a new program from k other versions (they found k=2 is good, kinda biological eh), run the programs on inputs and score them with the fitness function, uses the island model for evolution

I think the prompt looks in principle something like

def foo_v1(a, b): ...
def foo_v2(a, b): ...
# generate me a new function using foo_v1 and foo_v2. You can only change things inside two double curly braces like THIS in {{ THIS }}
# idk not a "prompt engineer"
def foo(a, b): return a + {{}}

They achieved the new results with only ~1e6 LLM calls (I think I'm reading that right) which seems impressively low. They talk about evaluating/scoring taking minutes. Interesting to think about the depth vs breadth tradeoff here which is tied to the latency vs throughput of scoring an individual vs population. What if you memoize across all programs. Can you keep the loss function multidimensional (1d per input or input bucket) so that you might find a population of programs that do well in different areas first and then it can work on combining them.

Did we have any prior on how rare the cap set thing is? Had there been previous computational efforts at this to no avail? Cool nonetheless
For GPGPU tasks, they lack a lot of useful features that CUDA has like the ability to allocate memory and launch kernels from the GPU. They also generally require you to write your GPU and CPU portions of an algorithm in different languages, while CUDA allows you to intermix your code and share data structures and simple functions between the two.
SYCL builds on top of OpenCL, it is basically the reboot of OpenCL C++, after OpenCL 2.0 SPIR failure.

Yet another example on how Intel and AMD failed to take up on CUDA.
FFS, just disallow empty search strings (and document it).

int String::indexOf(String partial) {
if (partial.length == 0)
throw SomeNastyException();
}

No handwringing necessary.
Go with the flow man.
If rewiring houses cost millions or billions of dollars, we still wouldn't have circuit breakers.

The problem is that we have what probably amounts to tens of trillions of dollars of sunk cost in software systems built on 1970s paradigm OSes, and updating all that software for a different paradigm isn't feasible.

We also have probably tens of billions of dollars worth of sunk cost in developer education teaching developers to write software for current systems.

I hate to be such a cynical bastard, but one thing I have learned after 20+ years in this profession is that it will not be fixed. The OS paradigms of the 70s are etched in solid stone. We will put it in a box (VM) inside a box inside a box inside a box inside a box instead.

I don't like it either. You're hearing frustration. But I think it's true. Once a system is widely deployed and a lot of other things are built on it, it is eternal.

I do hold out a small amount of hope that a few more generations of coding AI development might yield AIs good enough to rewrite software. Give it a code base and tell it to rewrite it in language X running on OS API Y without sacrificing any functionality.

That might be a way out since the trap comes from the fact that software written manually by humans is expensive. Geometrically reducing the cost of that kind of refactoring could change the economics.
Go is fine, but I'm not really a fan.
They probably can't depending on insurance.
> Of course they aren't, when apprehending a violent suspect in the "wrong way" may land you jobless and in jail.

If the "wrong way" means beating them while handcuffed or choking them to death then I don't see what the problem is. Any police officer who is too scared to do their job because they don't think they can even stop a shoplifter without violating that person's rights isn't cut out to be a cop and shouldn't have the job in the first place.
I think UnifiOS is pretty straight forward (at least for my generation). I don’t think I would recommend it to my parents but I did to a sibiling and they managed to setup their own system with only a little bit of help from me. I also sent them the awesome lazy admin VLAN guide which helped a ton.
This may be a contributor to the popularity of stores like Erewhon where $20 smoothies may be more representative of actual cost of ingredients compared to mass produced items.
What would be the reason they used fanotify instead of inotify? I used inotify before and didn't require special permissions. I want to suppose that inotify supports the klunok use case, but maybe I've overlooked something.

Also, I wonder what capabilities(7) would be sufficient, instead of requiring full-blown sudo powers. I saw a stackoverflow answer which suggested CAP_SYS_ADMIN, but they didn't provide a source for that claim.

Edit: Actually, the capabilities manpage does match fanotify_init to CAP_SYS_ADMIN. So, there's a source. Disappointing as it is.
Literally no where was that said, and fat is not as bad as sugar (popularized by the sugar industry).
I’m surprised that the mainstream brands aren’t bringing back “classic” flavors and changing double for the premium market like coke does with mexi/classic coke.
I’d buy Oreo classics for example if they are made with sugar and less gross filling.
I shipped a dozen products with them (mostly video games), so there's nothing "wrong" that would make them unusable.
But programming them and setting up the graphics pipe (and all the passes, structured buffers, compiling, binding, weird errors, and synchronization) is a huge PITA as compared to the convenience of CUDA.
Compilers are way less mature, especially on some platforms cough.
Some GPU capabilities are not exposed.
No real composability or libraries.
No proper debugging.
Legal enforcement of NDAs, non-competes, and being able to chase down some a-hole who steals your intellectual property and sue them. Don't share your secret sauce with people you don't trust, and even you don't fully trust them, you can at least have legal recourse if they sell your access keys.

Compliance issues. Auditors love hearing that your security and auditing team is a revolving door of random Indian guys.

Quality, as you want your Sec Teams to really give a shit, push back on stuff, and not do the absolute minimum to close a ticket. You get what you pay for, and if you want to pay shit you'll get shit security.

Business integration, as ultimately it's about risk and talking to the business as to what they think is important. The distance from Mgmt and Security is often a lot smaller, and they'll have the "keys to the castle".
People might not agree with you because they would be looking for a nested ternary and your example only has two adjacent ternaries.
> when we decided that free stuff from the internet was a good idea

I agree it's a faustian bargain but I don't think we had much agency here. Our society now depends on these services to a high degree, which is why these companies are (and probably should) face increased scrutiny and regulation.
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...

Making these arguments is evidence of bad faith.
It's a market trust crisis amplified by AI. Everything in the article applies to scummy business practices that were spreading before we all caught the CUDA crazies.
Maybe getting rid of your QA team was bad
You would say the same about sugar in some aspects, I guess. The hitch with chemical addictions is that they are more or less not up to you, once your brain is hooked you're locked in until you put extreme effort to break out of it. With sugar it's in many cases given to you when you're young and before you have developed the awareness or agency to avoid it. It's also in nearly every store bought food and is much more difficult to avoid. It also doesn't have immediate drawbacks that are quite as severe as alcohol (you're not getting a DUI for eating a tootsie roll).

There are a lot of things like these that are just bad for us on an objective level but that we do anyways because they hack our weak little monkey brains. I don't even think it's hypocritical to partake in sugar or alcohol while openly saying that they're awful for you and that you should avoid them. The fact is that they're addictive, and an addiction by definition means that your actions are on some level no longer in your conscious control. Unless I am actively dieting I don't think twice about eating a candy even though I know that by all means I shouldn't.
Update: Litellm is compatible with OpenAI SDK
Of course. I feel the same way. Nobody is asking us to behave differently.
What problem with cuda are they going to solve?