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Ask HN: LLM vendors with a free tier for students?
I am currently teaching LLM basics to 20 years old. I want them to create a chatbot powered by an API, but unfortunately few vendors seem to offer a free tier for students/hobby projects.

Do you know of any good one?
> snow / ice covering the roads.

Ice is not problem with studded tires. And isn't snow is usually plowed from the roads so cars or bikes could pass?
One thing I did not appreciate until I got an electric cargo bike is how they are faster than cars for typical city journeys if there’s any level of traffic.

I live in a city of 5 million people and if I needed to get across town in a hurry I’d take my cargo bike, not my car.

My cargo bike usually beats the google maps car estimate by about 20%.
Across the country, houses of worship are going solar
I use my cargo bicycle every day for everything even if I would not need it. The cargo use case is for carrying children around (e.g. kindergarden) or shopping. I do not have a car, but I have another bicycle but I use that on very few occasions like train travel.
They weren’t all willing https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/dec/04/actors-disgust-...
PDFs have physical dimensions in them (I think most document formats do), so you can literally define a square of 5x5cm in the document for example.
TLDR: 100% agree, discipline is still required!

I worked at a place that went full lambda for a website (this was possibly 2016) They started out with huge velocity, things were much quicker to build and test.

Serverless (the framework) was a joy to deploy with, compared to what they were used to. They had complete control over their architecture for the first time. However they then slammed into fixing all the innovation tokens they deployed (New DB, New message routing, New hosting arch, New auth methods) and hit the productivity wall.
I don't think China is doing as well as many Chinese might believe but this doom of China is predicted every other year. Chinese companies are making strides in battery tech ( CATL ) and robotics ( DJI, Siasun )
>> Obviously, the Mikado Method cannot work if you don’t have a good and highly reliable automated test suite.

> But if you have a good test suite, then there should be no problem shipping the big change in one go!

The author is referring here to unit test suites. These cannot catch every problem that may arise due to refactoring when integrating the refactored code with the rest of the code base. His method basically means that we should look for incremental integraton tests to catch such problems early.
Tidal power involves machinery below the water, which then becomes as expensive as a boat to maintain. Wind power has just ridden the cost reduction curve so much better.
Sounds good to me. Endgame: maybe have enough time for work AND leisure reading AND cooking AND household chores AND exercise AND volunteering AND civic involvement AND ... well, the list goes on. Also kids!

People working 40+ hours a week just robotically wall off entire areas of ways to spend their time rewardingly. My 0,02€.
gotta love meaningless lines in these charts linking together variables that have nothing to do with each others
Typical use, I need to write a script or bit of code for a language I'm not super familiar with. Examples: write a bash script that tests this and that. Write a unit tests in python for this function. How can you do this idiomatically using the C++ stdlib.

Less common: code transformation. I have this json output and I want to turn it to a different format without bothering writing a script. I give chatgpt a few examples of the transformation, and have it done for the rest. I'll still have to fix it but it can save me a bit of the time.

And finally, when I stumble on an API I don't know anything about, I can get a better grasp by asking ChatGPT some questions about it.

Again, not life changing or even a huge productivity booster, but it helps. Also, it's good to know when ChatGPT isn't going to help and avoid losing time.
Nano-scale inks could lighten airliners by hundreds of kilograms
But they are. Thousands of people are employed for content moderation on Meta and cooperation with law enforcement (https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-content-moderator-q...), and that number will likely go up to comply with the new European DSA.
Perhaps my statement is an exaggeration but it is a secondary concern. An asset doesn't mean much if isn't productive in some way.
I found three things very useful about ChatGPT:

(1) A Google Search replacement.

(2) An excellent text summarizer.

(3) A quick prototyper (code and math).
Bicycles are good, if yours don't get stolen while you're in the supermarket to get salad dressing.
A few things:

- The employer pays salaries based on negotiation, not on merit or some scientific measurement. An employee is allowed to do the same.

- Unless the employee is privy to all the details and math pertaining this overhead and is the one who asked for this overhead, then it's appropriate that the employee doesn't care about the overhead at all.

- There is also overhead in the employees side that is not taken into account by the employer. Commuting to that "office space" also spends the employee's time and money, for example.

- A 20% reduction of work time never amounts to a 20% reduction of productivity or work output, unless the work consists solely of sitting in a chair (and that's not counting bathroom breaks).
N|Solid Copilot: Your AI-Powered Node.js Navigator
Why? Setting up one of the n sites a company operates on EU turf would certainly be easier than avoiding ASML altogether. How would it force setting up a competitor? There's a huge difference between "can't use outside" and "can't use exclusively outside".
The implication is that these are false allegations but that's not even necessary.

All this can be true and it is still a bad idea to unilaterally break encryption, just as it was a bad idea to allow unilateral use of wiretap.

If we stick the debate around the truthiness of the allegations, it only takes a few bad examples to lose that argument.
Ways to give that aren't about money
Yeah I thought it was so funny he admitted at the end ..."except copilot" (quotes added for emphasis, can't remember what he actually said) But it was so funny he cancelled his whole premise by admitting that.
No stigma. If it helps, use it. Don't discard a useful tool but know its limits. You are not paid to carry around trivia to be used in a vacuum. You are paid to solve problems that sometimes involve programming.

It serves me well for micro-programming. So problems between a single line of code and a function. Here I can control for all its weirdness and hallucinations. As soon as I need to compose these elements I found it somewhere between neutral and a nuisance. High-level changes across a domain or further are impossible.

Understanding problems inside-out or from first principles has been vastly more helpful than blindly copying around libraries/SO answers/Copilot ideas.

That said, I have been in this industry for over a decade, am jaded and bitter and up to my armpits in Stockholm Syndrome, and have learned how to keep computers happy. Starting out I would have loved Copilot and it would have absolutely made a huge difference.
AI Prompting Guide
No doubt Meta has issues here, like all social platforms.

But Meta at least has some level of verification and active moderation. You can't generally get away with posting explicit porn for any amount of time.

Try signing up to Meta with a disposable email address or without a phone number. Sure these things can be side stepped, but for the average person it's a hurdle, and ultimately many petty criminals will be identifying themselves if it came to that.

On the other hand Xitter is so DESPERATE for you to sign up they don't care about dodgy emails or even insist on phone numbers any more.

And, let me tell you, Xitter makes ZERO effort to even LOOK at porn, so hard core porn is THRIVING on there, including stuff that leans heavily on youth taboos. I don't click or search for illegal stuff, but I've certainly scrolled past some dodgy posts.

It's ridiculous how Xitter is getting away with this while Musk is fully and openly demonising Zuck. Sure Zuck has a history of being an arse, but this new wave of tech bro reality bubble is just... a whole new level of insane.
To the value for you.

Is it making less money?/profit?, for Condé?
looks like Pancha Bhuta concept in Indian spirituality

Prithvi/Bhumi, Apas/Varuna/Jala, Agni, Vayu, Akasha/Dyaus
The tides are not constant but they are predictable.

The majority of tidal flow is during relative short periods of only a few hours. In order to harvest tidal energy, truly enormous volumes of reinforced marine concrete have to be deployed. The environmental consequences are massive.
How would you do that if you don’t work for yourself?
If we generalize further, the Internet is biggest distributor of CSAM.
I mentioned in my comment that I merge the content. Since I know my field I know what is wrong and what is right. That is why I said: "garbage-in / garbage-out" if you expect that ChatGPT will solve your "homework" it will not work but if you know your field you are in an excellent position.

BTW, there are a lot of issues in Wikipedia pages as well. There is a general issue with being critical in general, ChatGPT is no different.
Wouldn't they just check their available paper, notice there is no AGermany size and give up?
It's because of the kind of content that is shared. BitTorrent serves a lot of content you are not allowed to redistribute, so having an open gateway immediately puts you at risk of aiding the distribution of content. But it does work, someone even made something native to browsers so browsers themselves can share content: https://webtorrent.io/. There are even fuse "gateways" to make it native to your computer and pretend the files exist locally: https://github.com/search?q=bittorrent+fuse&type=repositorie...

IPFS doesn't seem to be used for that kind of content much, it seems to be targeted more towards web-native content (html pages, images, that kind of stuff). It's probably safer for Cloudflare to run this.
It absolutely does, as a national eID creates a chilling effect that can negatively impact my right to free speech and to peacefully assemble. Digital anonymity is not a joke, it is a fundamental human right whether or not you or any state agency recognizes it. It is crucial to a healthy democracy.
It wasn't to compete with Google: "Quaero was not intended to be a text-based search engine but was mainly meant for multimedia search." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero. Its budget was also less than 1% of this chip initiative's.
> Specifically, you shouldn't be using SaaS LLMs like ChatGPT, Copilot, etc with your personal account for business purposes

My company has an agreement with OpenAI. I use it from our internal tools.

We also have top-level engineers giving speechs on how they use it and so on.
One bomb dropped every twenty minutes for the last twenty years is a HELL OF A DRUG.

You're still paying for it, and your children will be paying for it, and their children will be paying for it.

So ask yourselves, Americans: is all this EXPENSIVE MURDER really in your best interest?

Your debt is realy only the second worst thing you're allowing to happen to your nation.

The first worst thing is the willful rule by war criminals which allows them to spend whatever they want, murdering whomever they deem culturally inferior, and that is what they are doing.

The debt won't go away until the war criminals that incur it, are rotting in chains in The Hague, where they belong ..
If media companies were even slightly knowledgeable about their own business instead of being a post-university hangout for CEO nepobabies, they would've offered the equivalent of the network install disk available in some multiplayer games in the nineties, like Starcraft: give to the guest login the chance to watch the same movie is currently watching the account owner as a "trial" and then offer a subscription immediately at the end.
I use my cargo bicycle everyday because I never bothered to buy a car after Uni and cars where I live would be a major pain because of traffic and parking near my flat. I do have car sharing though. I would not consider me a bike enthusiast, but I like to get my metabolism going in the morning compared to car travel. Weather is no problem, you just need to dress accordingly. Many people in my city do cycle everyday. I play basketball twice a week and 80% of the players arrive by bicycle.
Why is China finished? They have manufacturing, talent, and a large internal market - and whatever financial problems they might be facing are rather virtual.
Show HN: filippo.io/mlkem768 – Post-Quantum Cryptography for the Go Ecosystem
The specification link (https://harelang.org/specification) doesn't seem to work. Is there a current PDF to download somewhere (ideally without a "draft" watermark, which makes it difficult to read)?
The Chinese government attempting to pick winners is the best hope the chip embargo has; Xi Jinping is ironically the person best placed to cause it to succeed. The issue is that a Manhattan projet styled effort followed up by turning technology over to private industry is something that China could very well do and would probably be effective.

Let alone the silly idea of challenging multiple countries simultaneously as was proposed at the thread root. China tried that with rare earths and failed about as quickly as could be expected; as I recall they lost a quarter of the market in short order and backed off.
Sure but even without factoring in additional factors like unions and labour laws that is solely a question of negotiating a deal between an employer and an employee.

Getting a significant raise is not unheard of, in particular when switching jobs, and a 4 day work week is basically the same.

Basic negotiation strategy suggest that "labour shortage" is the right time to ask for this.

Some companies have extremely fat margins and regular employees may very well feel that some of that money is better spent on their salaries than dividends, C-suite compensation or stock buybacks.
It's probably time to phase out curtailment payments. If renewable is to be the default form of generation it can't have special treatment forever. And it would be an incentive to deploy battery systems on the wind farm side of the grid connection to smooth peaks.

(The whole "overstating your forecast" thing sounds a lot like LIBOR)
I've some how managed to get down an infinite variation of "Ant-..."

One of the more interesting ones is "Ant-smoke"?

Edit: Another interesting one is combing "Batman" and "Robin" to make "Dynamic Duo"

Edit 2: I've now managed to turn the game into a number generator and by combining numbers together I've ended up creating some very large numbers. Doesn't seem to be a limit to the size either
I wonder how to memoize stroke in Swift
I recently ventured into utilizing Swift's UIKit to create a custom PencilKit.

My approach involves sampling information about points every time the pencil touches the screen, storing this data in a format like

strokeCollection = {strokes: [Stroke], drawingStroke: Stroke?}

and overriding the UIView's draw method to redraw the view each time the strokeCollection is updated. However, as more strokes are drawn, the app begins to significantly slow down due to the need to redraw every stroke continually.

In React Native Skia, I've used the "createPicture" method to leverage the "Picture" component, keeping previously drawn strokes intact and preventing the app from slowing down. I'm curious if there's a similar technique available in Swift or if you might have other suggestions to address this issue.
You write as if that had ever been tried. Everybody has protectionist rules. Some have a little less of them than others and they make a big show of it, but acting as if that show was equivalent to absence of protectionism is like celebrating self-imposed ignorance.
This is absolutely it. As a professional, GPT-4 is a force multiplier. It allows me to do much more than I could without it. I don't work in any restricted orgs so I fully embrace -- become reliant -- upon it.

It is the same as typing rather than handwriting. I can still write with a pen, but it'd take me a lot longer to write a letter than typing one.
Interesting, what are your laptop specs? I imagine the 33B Q8 to need a bit of memory - are you sharing VRAM and RAM?
The key insight is that the government should never be allowed to mediate the interactions I have with other humans on platforms which allow these interactions, and should never be allowed to mandate a platform to adopt policies which prohibit such activity.

If we share information which is a true risk to national security or the general welfare of the People, that's something the Constitution allows for. But wholesale enforcement of eID is reprehensible and must be met with rigid disobedience.
o rly? what happens if they fails? can you control the backoff period? can you schedule another job in the event it fails? what if it fails before starting the function, so your in-code error handling isn't triggered? is there a "dead-letter" queue? will the next scheduled job run if the previous run failed? should it? can you define if it should or not? can you view history of executed jobs? what if your logging function that saves that history fails? can anyone add jobs or just you/superadmin? should they? and more and more.

And these are just ones I personally ran into using GCP schedulers, pub/sub and functions.

See, what you're doing is re-inventing the wheel.
No matter how cool your tool is - there's always work in the edge cases beyond just running the job.
ALL technology can be weaponized, and what you are sleep-walking into is an era where AI is easily weaponized against not just nation states or groups, but the individual.

Either have this conversation now, or face the consequences when weaponized AI is so prevalent, you will have to dig a hole in the ocean to escape it ..
Some weather will get your poncho tightly wrapped around your head. "Deadliest catch" style overalls are more fitting, and it's not the best to walk around in.

I've ridden motorbikes for many years in a subtropical city, had all the right rain gear and it still sucked to ride in the rare +5°C rain. Even southern Germany gets snow and icy rain, good luck clothing for that.
They might be for major roads in major cities eventually, but most of the streets are pretty terrible for anything smaller than a car whenever it’s snows periodically.
Ah, I see. I've never seen a phone which charges from the underside, though.
To reverse that, we can't make policy decisions which negatively impact the basic human rights of individuals.
It’s a very fancy autocomplete, and I treat it as such. It can be a very useful tool, but I tend to take a conservative stance and stay clear of the hype.
Here you go: distributed, peer-to-peer, FLOSS search engine: https://yacy.net
Who are these 45 org/companies?
rich discussion here
It’s worth mentioning that there are accessibility options that let you control the pointer using your index finger or wrist instead of your eyes and it looks pretty nice. I do think that Apple chose eye tracking in large part to combat fatigue and not require external hardware for basic operation. For longer sessions where you’re constantly interacting with apps, a mouse and keyboard is the best option just like on Mac.
I never upvote any Google's A.I. research articles as most of the time it is: look what we have done, but we will never release anything.

OpenAi gets a lot of criticism for being closed, but at least I can play with their api most of the time.

What's the point of this if we will never be able to use this?
Russian guy used ChatGPT API to talk with 5239 girls one Tinder and found a wife
It's really hard to build good tidal power plants beyond the demonstrator stage. Most are difficult to build, expensive to maintain, and require a lot of maintenance.
Bike ≠ e-bike. My e-bike makes commuting in teeming rain kind of fun - with appropriate rain gear only my hands and face get wet, and there's very little physical effort. Trying to do the same ride on a pushbike is indeed miserable.
> every young person uses social media

If you'd read this [0], which was the first result for "young people
social media use" then you'd know that in Germany, for example only
52% use social media, Poland (58%), Czech Republic (56%), France
(70%), Netherlands (65%), India (31%).

At least one third of the global population under 16 yo do not use
social media. There's your control group.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/02/8-charts-...
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I've found embedding raw SQL into my code has been beneficial in two ways:

1. Hot reloading code. As a Java developer, this is important for prototyping as I can iterate quicker.

2. Clarity. I can read exactly what's going on and I know exactly what query is being executed.
Default keepass config used to steal a global shortcut for one of the polish diactrics.

Countless browser extensions do the same. US-centric devs look around for unused key combinations and are happy to find them without asking themselves the question of 'why are these free?' Can't blame them too much, though.
Why would ASML build a fab?
Try on desktop.
Context: OpenAI was "caught" using Matryoshka embeddings in their new release. They apologized and added references to the paper in their release notes.
I've never had a bird take a shit inside of my car. It's also pretty neat how you can lock the cargo space.
It was fraud to write a letter without signing it?
Not by regulation, you need a specific “payment service provider” licence for that.
Financial Breakdown of $16k in Video Course Sales
You mean if the issuer of the eID violates people's privacy, in violation of the first amendment. That's what you have courts for.
demography is their doom
Moss project takes step toward first artificial plant genome
HBO: Time Bomb Y2K
Postgres supports structured/unstructured indexed JSON since many years now. How is that not like Mongo :)
The interview is imperfect, very quick, and it's already hard to measure competence.

As the article shows, it's much easier to mimick competence with the help of a chatbot. That obviously doesn't mean one actually is competent to produce good work in a real setting.
and no babies so demography is going to hit them really, really hard
> As usually, Gophers might have some good ideas

More as usual, gophers rediscover old ideas and pass them off as innovations. Pytest added pytest.mark.parametrize back in 2011, junit 4 had first-class parametrized test support (don’t know if it was in 4.0 released circa 2006, but it was definitely in there no later than 2009), and data-driven testing was a thing in the late 90s.
Not necessarily.

An eID can also just make a call to the eID issuer, identifying the person, and then a callback to the service indicating that the identified person complies with certain requirements like age.

Think of it as a bouncer at the door that does not divulge any details to the club owner. ;)