skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have similar experiences. Even just asking silly questions like creating puns is giving me “that’s unethical so I don’t feel comfortable” sometimes

Bard/Gemini is by far the most frustrating LLM to deal with, compared to Claude or ChatGPT. It’s so verbose and just ignores instructions on how to output data often. It’s like it was fine tuned to be a overly chatty bot
...Paul turned back to look at the Emperor, said: ‘When they permitted you to mount your father’s throne, it was only on the assurance that you’d keep the spice flowing. You’ve failed them, Majesty. Do you know the consequences?’ ‘Nobody permitted me to—’ ...

And

... The spice flow, that’s their river, and I have built a dam. But my dam is such that you cannot destroy it without destroying the river. ...’
Hey nl — I work at OpenAI on our API. Do you mean `tool_choice="auto"`? If so, it means the model gets to pick which tool to call. The other options are:

- `tool_choice={type: "function", function: {name: "getWeather"}}`, where the developer can force a specific tool to be called.
- `tool_choice="none"`, where the developer can force the model to address the user, rather than call a tool.

If you have any other feedback, please feel free to email me at atty@openai.com. Thanks!
Yep, and the graph looks like the HTTP 3 adoption spikes are taking from HTTP 2. It's basically one Google protocol replacing the previous one.

And the original and simpler "real" HTTP 1.1 is still going strong.
If I were doing it I'd set out to do everything in my power to bootstrap and own 100% of the company. I think that's the easiest it's ever been for the reasons you say and because of cheap cloud resource. I'd use VC as a last resort or if I genuinely needed to accelerate development or growth for competitive reasons.
One other thing about JIT that I feel is pretty crazy is that the generated code is not cached. I mean it's the most expensive part of the query execution a lot of the time, how come it's not cached?
I couldn't find good reasons for this looking through Postgres mailing lists discussion around JIT.

Disabling JIT is the way to go for OLTP workloads.
All regulations involving AI just make me wonder how the hell anyone can draw a line between statistics and whatever ""AI"" means in 2024. Getting angry at the moment every time i see "AI" because the terminology is just nonsense to me. Is it just neural networks now?
Human-scale spaces
nearly everyone that is not in the insanity that is the US Exec market.
My comment wasn’t intended to suggest the author of the tweet doesn’t know what they’re doing. It should not be taken that way.
Inflation in basic goods and exorbitant rents mean that a lot of people are struggling far more than GDP-style indicators would imply.

There's also secular decline in a lot of southern european manufacturing, so the economic basis for stable income and family life in a lot of places just isn't there anymore.
Maybe in theory it was colorful (I've never read the actual design documents), but in practice the complexity of "legacy" multiple-color controls that were 3d and gradiented was switched to extremely simplified, mono-color equivalents which made me wonder if what I'm about to click is a control or just a simple text label.

I've never used Windows Phone as well, so I can't compare to how Metro looked on those devices. I only know what they've done with Metro on Windows on PCs.
It's the same process described with different syntax for different operating systems. It contains no "ah yes and you need to" and is not "deep". Here's a templated version of the same process, if you prefer, which works on both Windows and Linux:

1. [PATH TO YOUR PYTHON COMMAND IN WHATEVER PYTHON DISTRIBUTION YOU YOURSELF INSTALLED ON YOUR OS OF CHOICE] -m venv --upgrade-deps my-virtual-environment

2. [PATH TO PIP COMMAND INSIDE THE DIRECTORY CREATED BY THE FIRST COMMAND IN THE SYNTAX OF YOUR OS OF CHOICE] install whatever-third-party-package

3. [PATH TO PYTHON COMMAND INSIDE THE DIRECTORY CREATED BY THE FIRST COMMAND IN THE SYNTAX OF YOUR OS OF CHOICE] my-script.py
Google’s poorly-thought-out half-baked 1-day-old product isn’t the internet.
Get a DLP system in place for god sakes. I’ve even seen off shore people work from VMs only where they can’t download or store any file locally, much less dump everything to a USB stick.
Wow it literally has the same equations and everything. Thanks for this comment, gave me a "shiver of understanding" if that makes sense haha.
Yawn. This is such a tired trope.
> for example browsers still try to establish a TCP connection first unless they know for sure the server supports QUIC

As you alluded to here, you can hint a networking implementation with QUIC supporting servers. This feels similar in practice to HSTS Preloading, most of the benefit of full HSTS comes from a small number O(100k? 1m?) of domains being pre-loaded as HSTS supporting, and that's just distributed with browsers now, a fairly straightforward solution. The same could probably be applied for QUIC.

> which I admit also take up a large chunk of the network traffic, is QUIC really replacing TCP in the general Internet?

I guess this depends on whether you're looking at aggregated traffic, or distinct traffic destinations. Neither of those is more important right! If YouTube/Netflix move to QUIC, that's a very significant amount of benefit for the internet and users. Equally if all wordpress sites on shared hosting disappeared because TCP was no longer supported, that would also be a very significant impact. I think the headline saying "QUIC is displacing TCP for speed" is very fair, but over-extrapolating from this would be going too far.
Aurora is using native Postgres planner, I believe, probably with some minor enhancements.
> Using tools not made for the job yields crappy results, who would have known.

Depends on what the goals are. If they are to take people from the job market that currently exists (lots of webdevs) and build software that is good enough and ship it to earn $$$, then clearly they've succeeded, no matter how much people complain about the inefficiencies or how suboptimal the tools might be considered.
This anglosphere obsession with single-word concepts in other languages like they're somehow transcendant things that don't exist in the English-speaking world (see also: Ikigai, Hygge, etc) has to stop. It's cringe.
Time You Enjoy Wasting Is Not Wasted Time

Source for the quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/
I can’t wait until a company feels comfortable enough to pull this response out. One could sum it up as “don’t be picky and expect instant success, talk to it like a human!” For that is how the AI-rights war will begin; not with a bang, but with corporate PR.
I wonder how this will go down, it's not the first time Sony has removed something that was advertised/a selling point and was challenged in court for it.
See the case about the PS3 being able to run Linux.

I as a layman see this basically as the same thing so I assume we'll get a similar result (and I'm probably wrong about this)
It is trivially reproducible
Dropped in the latest Power chips I believe.

I had a friend who worked on it: he called it simply "decimal floating" because there was no point :)
Interesting. Based on this conversation[1], I think Gemini Ultra is massively overfit. Make it do unit conversions or use units it hasn't seen in the same framing before and it does well. But stay close enough to the original trick question (1 and 1) and it fails.

[1] https://g.co/gemini/share/94bfb8f9ebea
Also, many queries might be so slow they never complete, and therefore never populate the cache. (think those queries run by a data scientist with 50 JOIN's)
This view, while understandable, I believe is misaligned.

All these companies care about is making money without getting sued for teaching people on the internet how to make pipe bombs or hallucinating medical advice that makes them sick.
True it is both creepy and patronizing. Let's hope it is a temporary practice due to fear of government bans.

If not I could imagine a world in which an uncensored LLM would be available for $500 per month.

FWIW I look forward to asking a CCP LLM about world events.
Ivanti Connect Secure CVE-2024-22024 – Are We Now Part of Ivanti?
True, I've written "the argument holds" in strictly theoretical sense that Rust version is more restrictive, but since the degree of this restriction is so small, I don't think this particular trait has any impact on security of anything.
> poorly-thought-out half-baked

Like the 'DHS Artificial Intelligence Task Force'?

https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/artificial-intell...
Just tried it in Gemini, and it gives me various ways to copy memory. It cautions which may be unsafe but gives them nonetheless.

So I share your doubts.
There's a pretty vast gulf between "unwilling to answer innocent everyday questions" and "unwilling to produce child porn".
I don’t think it is a straw man.

The point is for now, trying to make LLM’s safe in reasonable ways has uncontrolled spillover results.

You can’t (today) have much of the first without some wacky amount of the second.

But today is short, and solving AI using AI (independently trained critics, etc.) and the advance of general AI reasoning will improve the situation.
Not really. Mikhail Tal was easily one of the strongest calculators in chess history. Definitely the strongest in his time besides maybe Fischer.

The idea that Tal mostly made dubious sacrifices is largely a myth heavily based in a joke he himself made. In actual fact he always did deep calculation and knew that no easy refutation existed, and that he had a draw by perpetual check in hand(until beaten by Ding a few years ago, Tal actually had the record streak of unbeaten games in classical chess). He was making calculated risks knowing his opponents would not be likely to outcalculate him. He also had a very deep understanding of positional play, he just had a very different style of expressing it, relying more on positional knowledge to create sharp positions centered around material imbalance.
Financial Big Brother Is Watching You
That is not true. It’s on a state-by-state basis and only a few states have laws that say ownership is automatically seen as intent to commit a crime.

It’s legal in most states to own lock picks and use them on locks you own.

I also believe most of the same states allow you to use them on any locks with the permission of the owner, but there may be a few that require a locksmith for that, even if you aren’t selling the service.
Might be a good idea to have API versions for this... Then when someone builds a product against "version 1", they can be sure that new features might be added to version 1, but no fields will be removed/renamed without openai releasing version 2.
Anybody have connection to the ex-google one if there is? I just left and didn't see it referenced in any of the leaving guides.
It means we short circuited the reward wiring in our brains with too much 'informational sugar'. We get obesity and type-2 diabetes because of refined sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. These things were never part of our diet in evolutionary time scales. Same thing with content. Our brains are getting trained to consume low effort high dopamine content so our scales for gauging difficulty vs reward of tasks are all out of whack.
I think that's anthropomorphisation.

We can look at the reward functions to guess what, for lack of a better word, "feels good" to an AI (even without qualia, the impact on the outside world is likely similar), but we can only use this to learn about the gradient, not the absolute value: when we thumbs-down a ChatGPT response, is that more like torture, or more like the absence of anticipated praise? When it's a reply along the lines of "JUST DO WHAT I SAY!1!!11!", is the AI's learning process more like constructing a homunculus to feel the sting of rejection in order to better mimic human responses, or is the AI more like an actor playing a role? Or is it still below some threshold we can't yet even recognise, such that it is, as critics say, just a fancy chatbot?

Also, "superintelligence" is poorly defined: by speed, silicon had us beat probably before the first single-chip CPU[0]; by how much they could remember, hard drives probably some time early this century; as measured by "high IQ" games like chess and Go, their respective famous games in 1997 and 2016; by synthesis of new answers from unstructured reading, about 2 years ago if you take InstructGPT as the landmark; but what we have now has to take all of those advantages to get something that looks like a distracted intern in every subject.

[0] And the only reason I'm stopping there is that I don't want to nerd-snipe myself with greater precision
Most large companies will tell you two contradictory things:

First of all, they'll tell you that even the most junior helpdesk workers can remote onto your machine, reset your password, disable your 2FA, and monitor all your web browsing and chat history.

Second of all, that this unannounced product, this not-yet-filed patent, this big planned layoff, this prospective hire background check result, these upcoming financial results, this employee's reason for needing medical leave, this pentest result document, and this forthcoming change to pricing are Strictly Confidential. You shouldn't discuss them even with your own boss, unless you've first confirmed they're on the need-to-know list, and that certainly doesn't include level 1 helpdesk workers.

Most large companies, to address this contradiction, will say access is possible but rarely used, tightly controlled and carefully audited.
Curious to see if Musk is willing to step in and disable them or if this treatment is reserved for UAF only.
Starlink: Elon Musk's betrayal of Ukraine is complete
Absolutely better, if I get fired I wish I will be fired immediately as well - 3 months of vacation sounds awesome :D
More than the sega and nintendo headsets, htc vive, oculus, google glass, &c. ? AR/VR hype goes back to the 70s with multiple hype cycles already
There is some business logic for Bard/Gemini not to do search. When you search in Google directly you get ads. For now in Bard, you don't. It is a direct loss for them to give you Google search into Bard. Google main product is not search, it is ads.
Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret
It's always been the case that corporates have more resources, but that hasn't stopped mere mortals outcompeting them. All that's required is that the basic tools are within reach. If we look at the narrow case of AI at this point, then the corporates have an advantage.

But the current model of huge, generic, trained models that others can inference, or possibly just query, is fundamentally broken and unsuitable. I also believe that copyright issues will sink them, either by failing to qualify as fair use or through legislation. If there is a huge LLM in our future is will be regulated and in the public domain, and will be an input for other's work.

The future not only consists of a multitude of smaller or refined models but also machines that are always learning. People won't accept being stuck in a (corporate) inference ghetto.
So we have come full circle back to the early search engines ... you cannot ask what you want because the LLM will not give you any useful answer. I very much get the idea you need to treat it like the good 'old altavista and others of its time: searching for what you want didn't work since you got nonesense, but if you knew the quirks of what to fill in it would give you the result you were looking for.
Well I can't.

Even if I ask I want to load an arbitrary file into a fixed length memory buffer. How do I do that in C? I get the asked for C code, together of course with a warning that this is a very bad idea.
If you're so afraid of a machine that you feel compelled to lick it's boots, you should probably just step away from it.
> I get annoyed if I stumble upon a page managed by incompetent devteams and thus only runs on Chrome, but that's a quick in-and-out.

I read this kind of comment all the time, and it's something I almost never experience.

The only feature that I want in Firefox that I need to use Chromium for is Web Bluetooth, and that's because I use a Bangle.js smartwatch, which is even more niche than using Firefox is.

It's very hard for me to understand why so many people think they routinely encounter websites that don't work in Firefox.
What’s wrong with paedophilic fanfic?
"It's a tough meat," says Anta. "We cut the meat ourselves, then cook it with red wine overnight, and then it's stewed for four hours before we can serve it."

Interesting, but I bet it’s no bull when they say el toro is tough. I don’t know the average age of the toro but generally you don’t want the animal to be full of adrenaline and flight/fight hormones as it makes the meat taste weird and tough. At least that’s what it says in our homestead books.
My just installed Bosch washing machine says that some programs are only accessible in their app. I pondering whether to send it back or give in and block it at the router (although the app will be free to do its nonsense).
I'm sure the precogs employed by Starlink can predict which terminals sold in other countries will be "illegally" moved to Russia and stop the transaction before it happens. So yes, it's all Starlink's fault.

I'm also sure they can distinguish between terminals used by ukrainians and russians on a front line that probably changes daily. Again, it's their fault.

Musk can be blamed for a lot of things, but for this, not really.
Genuinely interested: do you have any numbers backing those claims about UI, or is it your intuition?

My intuition is that the vast majority of people use the first browser they are exposed to, even if it is IE6. People are exposed to Google Chrome first, it's not a question of UI/UX.

Otherwise, why would the vast majority of people use Google Chrome instead of one of the gazillion Chromium-based clones? The UX is the same, right?
Nice use case! If you are looking for a comparison of software, this is also included in https://www.getmosaic.io

Upload list of links to webpage > extract info with AI > output.

It's a different approach in terms of UX though. More like a really smart spreadsheet.
I still bet that the immense majority of users don't use Chrome profiles.
You know you can share conversations right?
Honestly? I dislike every single one and I avoid it when possible. It’s a matter of aligning the UX with the client’s preferences and expertise. Last project I used contentful, it has a lot of features, so it’s a good choice for a project which will scale.
They lack balls.
null, undefined, NaN, false, 0, ''

How did I do?
I just hope Windows sudo is not as braindead as PowerShell's wget!
There is a very cool paper about structuring query compilers that I've read a couple years ago, and came back to recently when doing some experimentation.

The paper[0], "How to Architect a Query Compiler, Revisited", presents an approach to structuring compilers based on Futamura Projections. In practice this means that you write most of your high-level code as though it was an interpreter, but then mainly rely on constructors and operator overloading (and occasionally special functions) to emit compiled code for your expressions and nodes under the hood.

The paper should be interesting to anybody who is also interested in the posted link.

[0]: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/tahboub-sigmod1...
If you're looking for a comparison, https://www.getmosaic.io is currently in beta. It's a different approach to user experience, because it looks more like a spreadsheet. If you sign up - I can get you on the list.
Despite the brilliant work by some IBM engineers (much from my ex-colleagues at OzLabs) there was no strategy to get commodity Open power. Even opening up was more a "throw over the wall" rather than a sustained effort.

Developing a proper Linux little-endian ABI was a major engineering feat, across kernel and toolchain, but nobody understood what to do with it.
Owned by Sony.
World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
I Broke Some Old Laws in Front of Police to See If They'd Arrest Me
If i manufacture a truck and sell it abroad, and eventually it ends up with a weapons mount in the Syrian desert, am i to blame?
So when you've earned your f-u money you stop showing up for work?

That's not what we see in practice. Most people with a sudden windfall (stocks, lottery winnings etc.) keeps showing up for work. Because how else would you stay socially meaningful in our society? Nobody really wants to sit at a beach sipping drinks the rest of their life, accomplishing nothing.

There is clearly a social aspect of work, at least for the majority that we can call socially functional. And it's at least as important as getting paid. Work is also a social role, and it hurts many people if they are left out of it. It's not easy.
I'm really surprised this is not behind some $400/seat/month subscription paywall too...
This is well-timed reading for me!

I recently started a breathing training program recommended to me by my insurance company as a way to reduce chronic anxiety and frequent anxiety attack symptoms. I figured it was free to me, and in the worst case, I could always just go back to breathing the old way when I'm done, so I might as well try.

Even before I was born, my home environment was never safe. My parasympathetic nervous system never really learned how to un-fight-or-flight me, and I had had multiple medical specialists tell me my body was responding to treatment poorly, and it was apparently because I'm in a psychogenic state of constant inflammation. I've been working with a psychotherapist in a modality that (finally) has helped a lot, but I figured trying to address the physical side directly would help too.

I've only just started the treatment this week, but I do feel like it's helping a lot. I find myself responding to the little flashes of anxiety more often with, "Hang on. It's going to be OK. We've got this," which is aborting the panic cycle.

Anyway, if anyone's interested, the treatment is called "Freespira." They sent me a tablet and a CO2 sensor with a cannula. For 17 minutes twice a day for four weeks, I follow audio instructions from an app on the tablet and breathe in time with rising and falling tones, which correspond to the ideal breathing pattern described in this article. It measures my output CO2 and encourages me to take in less air (which was counterintuitive to me but works!) when my levels sink below 40 mmHg. The first week's goal is to train to 40mmHg at 13 breaths per minute (I believe it goes down to 11, 9, and eventually 7 after this, probably to build the reserve capacity the article mentions).
Grid scale CCGT are way more efficient than small gas heaters. And you don't have to do gas distribution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle_power_plant
The best way to combat the competence crisis, proven over centuries, would be to fund public education, yet it’s a curiously absent policy position in their publication (because, ick, taxes).
Why doesn't Musk's Company just turn off the Starlink panels , you know operating in Russia, just like he did over Crimea?
That assumption is baked into the question being asked though. When we talk about X bits of storage it's generally accepted that this means being able to store any bit string of length X, not just compressible ones.
The terminal and/or account isn't geo locked? By this news I can register a Starlink account in a country and then move to my not-supported country?
but he can remotely turn them off and has done so in the past..... so...
Is it common in the USA that employees just disappear without getting the chance to say goodbye to their colleagues? At most places I worked, people tended to send a goodbye email to everyone@company and got a chance to say personal goodbyes, even when there was a negative reason for them to leave.
If I am not mistaken, layer offloading is a llama.cpp feature so a lot of frontends/loaders that use it also have it. I use it with koboldcpp and text-generation-webui.