skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you need to account for their low share in idle VMs when measuring how much electricity it is responsible for. If it's only the case for 1% of the idle VMs, then you need to count only 1% of the electric power of a host per idle VM (+ the small fraction of a host CPU power that an idle VM consumes). In any case, it's going to be very small (~$20/year)[1] and the “it costs them nothing” is a good approximation of that, or at least a much better one that assuming that the cost they charge you reflects an expense on their side (which is the point that was argued by rafram at the very start of this discussion.

[1]: let say 10W, which at $.2 per kWh[2], ends up costing $17.5 for an entire year!

[2]: electricity prices from [here](https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...) $.2 per kWh is slightly above the rates in California and Rhode Island, which is the highest in the US for industrial use.
Did not expect to see the Georgi Gerganov here :) How is GGML going?

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Here in France, as far as I know I have a right to private copy, which I pay for through a specific tax whenever I buy storage. I can rip my DVDs, Blu-rays, or even Nintendo Switch cartridges or hard drive, perfectly legally, even if it means cracking open the thing and circumvent stuff. It's awfully less convenient than downloading the stuff, but it is legal. Or at least it was 20 years ago, but I'm not aware of any change on that front.

Now there should be some ground rule. When you buy something, it's supposed to be yours, and you should be allowed to do what you want with it, especially studying it and sharing the results of your study. Any rule that allows some big corporation to retain power over something that's supposed to be yours is serious overreach and should be shut down.

Now Nintendo does have a big problem here: without the exclusivity of their form factor (which is arguably difficult to improve upon[1]), all they have left is the exclusivity of their game library.

[1]: https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/ideal-computer
I dont understand how this is better than a docker-compose.yml with your dependencies, which plays nicer with all other tooling.

Especially if there are complex dependencies between required containers it seems to be pretty weak in comparison. But i also only used it like 5 years ago, so maybe things are significantly better now.
Without doubt. Question is why so many people who try to teach approach it like it’s 1878.
Yeah, me too, I totally read the title like this too and I have to admit I was disappointed when I opened the article...
By this logic we need to block Kodi, Plex, hell computers as someone might use them to download something instead of buying it.
About leaving Google:

> “I think I left just before it got too bureaucratic for me,” Mensch said. “I didn’t want to build opaque technology from within big tech.”

Interesting point of view in light of the ongoing train wreck of bard/gemini/gemma/whatever it's called today thing.

From zero to 2 billion valuation in 9 months is impressive.
You can see ms/token in a tiny font on the top of the screen, once the text generation completes in both the videos I'd linked to. Performance will vary by machine. On my 64GB M2 Mac Studio Max, I get ~47 tokens/s (21.06ms/token) with Mistral Instruct v0.2 and ~33 tokens/s (30.14ms/token) with Mixtral Instruct v0.1.
Not really - watches are historically round because of roundrel clock faces. A square is a better form factor for literally everything else that an Apple Watch does. So it is the Apple move to shape the watch to perform best at 95% of its tasks, and a Google move to shape the watch to perform best with a subset of available watch faces.

This isn't even new. Casio etc have designed digital square watches for decades because they don't need to be round without clock arms.
Let's just say this is NOT a wrapper around Elevenlabs or Heygen. I've looked at commercial voice cloning before. But, as you said, the prices seemed ridiculous.

Before this, I made audiobooks for my daughter. Old, out-of-print books, turned into speech. If I remember correctly, with Elevenlabs a single book would have cost me > $100. At that price level, I can read the damn thing myself. What good is computer generated voice if it isn't at least 10x cheaper than doing it yourself?

I'm just one guy. With me, it's just my time, one or two commercial licenses, and other than that just the raw price of running those GPUs.
Define 'contain'

If I can reliably recite verbatim a 10 page short story then I 'contain' it even though you can't dissect my brain and find it.

If a LLM can reliably and repeatably recite an article verbatim then it 'contains' it even if you can't run 'strings' on the weights and find it.

Disagree? You might, but the court's opinion is what matters, and I think they'll go with the 'touch and feel' judgement not the 'bits and bytes' judgement.
We can bring the neanderthals back! Would be pretty interesting to see how they integrate with the modern world.
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Yes - this is a good adjunct to the predator issue. Generalization increases size of niche. The only niches humans don't completely own at the moment are the microscopic (or bugs-and-smaller), and underwater.

At some point, once we own a niche, we might decide to leave certain things alive if they're useful to us. Lobsters yes, cockroaches no.

And although I haven't heard it framed this exact way before, this should be put forward as the preeminent argument for why any general AI will attempt to wipe us out. Because generality is a niche. We seem to assume it will skip right ahead to where an AI keeps us as pets, and we'll be like cats, who actually run the world.

The problem is, we're probably not as cute to an AI as cats are to us. It would need to breed us into submission for several thousand years, at least, to domesticate us.
Since they spoke a lot about how hard it was to use their phone, it'd be interesting to see how the author feels using more precise assistive features like VoiceOver on iOS. You can do everything with it and at nearly the same speed with just an hour or so of practice. It'd probably make the experience less boring/isolating, which might ruin it though :)
If latency doesn’t matter, can I create a service that cross-ships 1TB HDDs overnight and call it broadband?
I like the first one, down with minimum parking requirements we want more requirements for minimum parks!

RaRa.
I think the "thin" qualifier here was to mean that it wasn't a deeply cultural and nationalistic embedding of a nation as what we think of national today. It was more akin to modern colonialism where a certain degree of exploitation be the colonial powers was what roman authorities cared about but the degree of cultural influence depended much on the leeway allowed by the strength of the pre-existing culture of the conquered place
Summary:

More ice melt => More fresh water in the Atlantic => cold surface anomalies in winter => sub-polar winter storms => heatwaves in Europe in summer

Mostly not predicted as models do not have fine enough grid resolution to show the movement of freshwater into the Atlantic, which happens via "narrow" channels.
Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I had my personal site on Netlify and decided to move it. I don't need anything more than a dumping ground for HTML, and Netlify was "good enough" (I wasn't aware that this issue existed)

What brought it closer to home was the characteristics of the recently affect site (same number of daily visits, not popular (a bit niche), etc) where similar to mine.

Moving is easy enough, mostly requiring a DNS update, since I prefer to build the HTML locally and then just dumping it somewhere.

What struck me as odd, when looking for an alternative is that almost none of the popular solutions Netlify, Vercel, Cloudfare (AFAIK) actually implement a spend limit.

This seems like such a basic thing to do...
By the article (March production) new GPU eng. samples should be flying in H1 which means new high memory GPUs coming end of the year. 2025 will be extremely exciting for ML.
"The War in the Dark" by Nick Setchfield scratched a similar itch to "Declare" for me. (There's a sequel too, but I've not read it).
s/itting down/tanding up/
There are many on the roads in Norway. They've sold 5k of the cargo version so far here.
Cloudflare has DDOS protection which you can set to basically paranoid and once a DDOS starts then everyone will get a captcha. This limits your spend quite effectively.
Arguing isn't the correct word for that. I did express incredulity when asking for clarification.

The person I was replying to did minimize the effort involved in upgrades by enclosing it in parentheses.

The incredulity is based on experience. Sure you can follow the upgrade guide, and if you work at Meta there are many people that know about weird edge cases. If you don't work at Meta, then you may be spending time chasing down bugs in production on your own. That gets expensive.
The Era of 1-bit LLMs: ternary parameters for cost-effective computing
Amazon’s just winning friends everywhere these days…
>During this era no other major polities that banned slavery that I'm aware of.

Which reinforces my notion that it was other political and cultural shifts that led to abolition, not religion. The dominant religions have not drastically changed since that time, yet slavery eventually became intolerable.

>The traingular trade began in the 1440's and some Pope's even supported it at first. It took longer for earlier Christian thoughts against slavery began to be applied to non-Christians and among European colonies but they were eventually.

1440 (really the 1490's at the earliest, 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but fairly minor) is already over a millennium since theanthropos became the standard belief. In that time, no real ideal of human rights had developed, and even the modicum of respect paid towards other Christians would soon vanish as the Reformation kicks off.

Further, one of the major turning points for human rights in Europe, The Deceleration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, is about as unchristian as anything in Europe is capable of being.

You're right that many early abolitionists were Christian, after several hundred more years of practicing slavery. Many of the predominant supporters of slavery were also Christian. When both sides are Christian, it's hard to think religion is truly the impetus.
Is there a particular reason he's not even considered the great big obvious choice: GNU Emacs? Hell, he even mentioned the fact that "it's not GNU Emacs that I'm currently using". Does he have something against it? Because that's exactly what he needs.
216,485 Open Source Icons in the VS Code Editor
It's the CurrentYear™, and we still don't have play counts (like personal ones, not the youtube global count). Play Music had it, even my iPod shuffle from 2006 had it, but YT Music for some reason don't.
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Give it to Java to look at nearly every other language and come up with a strictly worse implementation of a useful feature.
Every time I see these comments of yours, I can't help but laugh. Using slaves to make clothes? Come take a look at China; you're trapped in the cocoon spun by the West Media.

You think you're living in an open and free society, yet in reality, you're immersed in lies. Yesterday, I saw a news report on YouTube that shocked me, and what was even more shocking was that the video had zero comments underneath it.
Refer to https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xgJgKCIN-kw&ab_c...
With the need to curb CO2 emissions, I sincerely hope that "subjective preferences" will leave some space to "reasonable preferences".
Nintendo was not involved. Mistic Software ported Windows/Mac computer games to Wii using ScummVM, a virtual machine program under the GPL 2.0 or later license at the time (now 3.0 or later), without crediting the ScummVM team [1]:

> In December 2008, the ScummVM team learned that the recently released Wii ports of three Humongous Entertainment Junior Adventure titles, Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds, Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside, and Spy Fox: Dry Cereal, have all used the ScummVM engine without proper attribution. The games were published on request of Atari through Majesco Entertainment, who turned to Mistic Software to port the games. Mistic had used ScummVM for these, but failed to credit the developers. While the ScummVM team contacted gpl-violations.org for legal advice, Atari instead threatened to sue the ScummVM team, as the terms of Nintendo Wii development kit heavily restricted the use of open source software, including the GPL. A settlement was made in 2009, in which ScummVM would drop the investigation of the GPL violation, on the condition that Mistic would sell or destroy all GPL-violating copies of the games, make a donation to the Free Software Foundation, and pay the legal fees. As a result, this legal dispute significantly limited the availability of the Wii ports of these three titles.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScummVM#Mistic's_GPL_violation...
Some of the things we built in-house because it wasn't worth buying at our scale:

- data lake and supporting tools (we fired over 100 million analytics events in a single day).

- a/b testing software (assignment and analysis)

- support software

- email sending tech (we sent over a billion emails a month)

- hr tooling (the company hired in over 50 countries)

- payments integrations

- probably other stuff I don't remember

Basically, due to scale, these tools were interesting in their own right. Paying for them was either impossible (no off-the-shelf solution would be able to support it) or prohibitively expensive or both.
Starlink at 20-50 ms ? I would never have imagined a roundtrip to orbit that fast... My last experience with satellites were before generalized intercontinental fiber and those jumps were above one second !
How is everyone's experience with it?

Personally, we were very excited at the prospect of this feature. We're a rather small organization but upgraded to enterprise to get it. Very underwhelming so far.

Loads of answers are some form of "without specific knowledge of the structure of you repository, I can't provide more detailed instrucitons"

When it does answer some more generic questions (e.g. "what does this package do?") - Copilot starts looking up some random barely related code and random tests rather then the actual code.

Where it does succeed is something contained and specific e.g. "I'd like to add a flag to mark our favorite clients". It correctly finds the ORM parts that need to be edited and suggests mostly valid code. However, from a developer perspective - having rudimentary knowledge of the codebase is enough to solve this faster via search than to use the chat interface.

Lastly, it looks like there is no built in support for VS Code Copilot. I suppose it's only temporary, but nevertheless for a product that is supposed to help with day to day developer activity it feels like it's a major missing feature. Switching back and forth between web interface and development interface to get some guidance is really not that helpful.

We're yet to evaluate if it does any better on PRs than it did without Enterprise.

Overall, based on a single day of usage, I'd probably downgrade. We'll keep testing for at least a month though. I do believe this is the eventual future of developer tooling just feels way too raw to provide any tangible value.

For context: all of the above is against a Python codebase. It's also a monorepo which _might_ complicate things for Copilot.
How much less care will be taken by the human reviewers knowing that an AI picked the target? There is a bias there in the back of a mind and when you get into a stressful situation you are more likely to trust that the "system" didn't make a mistake.

How many times have you pushed to production skipping the final review because all tests passed anyway only for it to fail?
I grew up in Northern Norway, and pretty clearly there are a lot of roads with telehiv. ;-)

You're probably right about foundation quality. But there sure are a lot of roads that didn't get that right.
I mean, of course he isn't going to resign. There's no personal gain in that; no other company sure isn't stupid enough to pay him $100M/year. He should, however, probably be fired by the board.

His primary selling point as a CEO is, as far as I can tell, the ability to avoid rocking the boat and just keep the money printer running and the stock price going up. It's not the stuff you'd normally expect from a CEO, like inspiring the employees, executing bold strategic moves (that turn out work), and it's not building or maintaining a healthy corporate culture that makes great products.

But clearly he actually can't do even that one thing, and has repeatedly steered Google into icebergs. The latest one costing the shareholders $100 billion.
Yup price != quality at all.

I too have a hoodie which is probably going on 15 years old now. It's finally started getting faded and looking a bit old but still very much usable, think it came from Walmart when I was visiting the US.

In the same vein I've got an old pair of dirt cheap trainers I bought on another US trip in about 2008, still abosolutely fine and cost under $20. In contrast the expensive pair of converse I bought less than 2 years ago are already falling apart.
For markdown comments though AsciiDoc tables are horrible
Maybe but you added a ton of red tape between you and Nintendo. Staying semi-anonymous when also committing no actual crime is likely a really good filter versus lawsuits.
Or let's bet 2% of valuation to create another high margin business in one of the only sector that could give us trillion dollar more. I am just saying that few 10s of billions are enough to get all the tradition car makers talent, so if they are serious about car this is not the blocker.
Primates have plenty of this. It only becomes an issue when the ones on the ground can dominate the trees, or vice versa. Whole thesis of "Planet of the Apes", really.
Or zombies ripping humans litterally apart. No idea where a dead body would take the strength from for that.

Take the living dead for example: From what I understood, it is the Wildfire virus that causes it, with everyone (I assume everyone who contracted it) turning upon death. As soon as people figure that out, every dead person is getting his brain stem severed. And there are not that many people dying, outside of war zones and such, for that to be a world ending problem.

28 days later, 28 weeks later is just bad, does mention that: when the rogue army officer states that the indected to build or tend fields, he rightly concludes that one can just wait until they starve or die of dehydration. Zombies should, unless one assumes some magic virus as in World War Z (the book, again), just rot away. Which posses another problem: how to deal with millions of contagious corpses lying around. Using the Black Death as a basis for how such things did play out in real life, would make for a really grim story. Of course, armed survivors scavanging the world has some more fun angles.
>> but wouldn't a seven year old be able to read subtitles?

> No, they wouldn't.

hard disagree
Cloudflare pages has unlimited free bandwidth so you dont need a limit because traffic is free.
Unfortunately not all languages follow the same sentence structure, so translating "up to what has been said so far" is not possible.

Assume 2 dramatic stops in an English sentence, and observe Turkish version. You can
"I will.. go to.... the cinema"
"Ben... sinemaya... gidecegim" (I .. to the cinema.. go)

I am sure there are smarter examples.
Shouldn’t that be “1-trit”?
How is this possible, if the OS is secure and apps are properly sandboxed?

I can visit any website in Safari and expect to be safe, why can't the same be true of apps?
Yeah, after everything we’ve seen with crypto, where there are always grifters lining up around the block to exploit everything, mxcl should really have seen this coming.
Newtypes Aren't as Cool as You Think (2014)
its not stealing it is copyright infringement
At this point, anyone supporting the current regime in Canada is commiting a hate crime.
I think we should still draw a distinction between what the article author did and what a company like Hashicorp did.

Hashicorp prominently displayed that they were committed to open source and that all of their projects would be open source forever.

They had a CLA, but there are 2 good reasons to do this besides removing the OSS license:

* You may want to be able to also offer the software under an alternate license, which some companies do due to the demands of a corporate client (e.g. one offered with a support agreement)

* You may want the ability to relicense under a different OSS license.

As long as the article author didn't make any promises about continued commitment to OSS, I don't see anything deceptive here (because without such a statement, a CLA usually means you want to relicense in the future)

Hashicorp on the other hand pulled a jerk move by misleading the community as it formed, and which also contributed a lot to both Terraform and the corpus of terraform providers, etc.
could you elaborate what limitations does is have?
how this does not play nice with remote docker/other docker containers?

I don't know this library but it looks like something that I started writing myself for exactly the same reasons so it would be great to know that's wrong with this implementation or why shouldn't I migrate to use that, thanks
> GHA has "service containers", but unfortunately the feature is too basic to address real-world use cases: it assumes a container image can just … boot! … and only talk to the code via the network. Real world use cases often require serialized steps between the test & the dependencies, e.g., to create or init database dirs, set up certs, etc.)

My biased recommendation is to write a custom Dagger function, and run it in your GHA workflow. https://dagger.io

If you find me on the Dagger discord, I will gladly write a code snippet summarizing what I have in mind, based on what you explained of your CI stack. We use GHA ourselves and use this pattern to great effect.

Disclaimer: I work there :)
I think the problem with the article is that the author talks about testing the actual machine learning processes. In that case, you aren't really doing unit tests, yeah.

If you're just using a ready-made model in an app, for unit tests mocking the model out is fine. For integration tests, you probably want to use the actual model, of course (maybe with low temperature, to reduce flakiness?).
And yet this is exactly what management demands. I guess it's one aspect of the self-sabotage.