skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft knows they won big in Cloud via Azure Big as in 100s of billions.

They know someone is going to win big in AI. They lost big on the mobile OS. It is the biggest blunder of Microsoft.

They don’t want to lose on AI. Better to hedge your bets.

They have so much money lying around. Better to invest where they think the puck will be.

Yes AI is hyped but I doubt the bubble will burst. Cheap human like intelligence if achieved via AGI is gonna make them 10x more valuable.

Meta is all in, Google is all in, Microsoft is all in.

Tesla is betting they’ll be the biggest robotics company on the planet.

Getting to AGI is like getting to first nuke for tech behemoths.
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Yeah! You click links similar as you would with a "fingers" style plugin. i.e. f (letter combo).

I use Vimium C and haven't looked back.
Hit really hard on me too. I just can't fathom how the Google employees with all the righteousness in their blood would think that it's okay to control how people should think by altering truth.
I’ve wondered this too. I would imagine that there’s a significant market for PCs with iGPUs roughly on par with those of consoles… that’s enough horsepower to play all esports titles extremely well as well as most other types of games on medium settings, which is more than good enough for a lot of people.

To work around memory issues, these CPUs would need some onboard memory which would increase costs a bit, but the tradeoff is that it’d make for simpler, cheaper low-end motherboards. One can imagine a mini-ITX board with nothing but a CPU socket and a couple of M.2 slots that’d cost significantly less than current entry-level ITX boards. A full system upgrade could be performed by simply swapping out the CPU which would be great for non-enthusiasts; without a power hungry discrete GPU, power requirements are unlikely to increase meaningfully (and in fact are likely to decrease with upgrades), so upgrading wouldn’t necessitate a PSU change. These hypothetical boxes could easily stay relevant for a decade or more.

Higher end SKUs of motherboards for this type of CPU could have the usual RAM slots (acting as a second tier of slower RAM in place of swap), PCI slots, etc.
Thanks. I will. I must confess, I have not tried the top_p or seed value. I guess my naive belief was that the the defaults in the api matched the OOTB experience of the web interface. shame on me
It's better with accessibility?
Feasting with Medieval Grandeur (1977)
Gopls/v0.15.0
I couldn't try out Gemini with my Workspace account without jumping through hoops, so I skipped it. Ironically, I'm finding that the Workspace restriction on many Google apps is actually saving me from a bunch of recent Google nonsense.
When Meta "lost" 20bn, they actually spent it on salary. The employees then go out and buy things like the Tesla Automobile, an actual product.
AM5 only has a 128 bit wide memory bus. (2 64 bit channels). So we're not going to get a usably beefier GPU until AM6.

However, on laptops which aren't constrained by backwards compatibility, Strix Point Halo appears to have both a beefy GPU and a 256 bit memory bus.
You’re probably soaked in sweat. Rubber doesn’t breathe, yard work is hard.
OP, getting likely false positive on Bitdefender Mobile as a risky behavior when I click on a book. https://ibb.co/bBrnBZG
> it's beneficial if everybody knows they exist.

Oh, I certainly wasn't intending to give the impression I doubted that they did. (But I also wouldn't want people to have exaggerated fears about withdrawal - it's hard to know which is more need of correction)
Any system is fallible. Is the person in prison because the courts worked or they didn't? Is the inmate in solitary because prison monitoring worked or it didn't?

So human sortings will never be 100% fair and correct.

But there's also a vast range to how people conduct themselves in the world and their moral codes.

I think it at least behooves us to consider that the greatest threat to rehabilitation of some inmates might be... other inmates.
As someone who’s also solo-employed on AI development, I love your work based on the copy - will try when I get home. Please, tho, do some thinking about safety if you haven’t. There’s a lot that can go wrong between “nothing” and “paperclip apocalypse”, and I think the autonomy you’re giving machines here should only be done with great care.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/kpPnReyBC54KESiSn/optimality...
I once was involved in creating two (linked) amazon accounts at the "same" time, and ended up with account IDs of which the first 4 digits are identical.
No yet, but I see how that would be a great show case. Will work on that!
Perhaps this is why screening of the amniotic fluid to detect things about the parasite within the host is common?
I think this is a very naïve interpretation of human nature, one supported by zero history.
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Sure, and if I had a jar of wizard jelly, I could teleport directly to the moon to eat it.
Those wouldn't follow any particular partial pattern though would they?
There is exactly zero about the 737 Max problems that are related to the use of fossil fuels.
Good point, although how long do those links stay live? Do they get deleted after 30 days or anything? Any idea if OpenAI has ever deleted one, especially for violating content policy or something?
I think I might be one of the people you describe, but I don’t think you understand the reason that people get offended.

I am not offended by the facts about factory farming, or that meat production releases methane. I am offended by the implication that someone will forcefully take away my ability to consume foods that I want to eat, and will use morality to justify it. Removing the freedom to eat meat is still taking away freedom no matter how you justify it and people will resent it.

If your goal is to improve the quality of life for livestock or reduce emissions from livestock, perhaps by changing the diet that animals are fed: nobody will have a problem.

As soon as you imply that someone’s way of life is immoral and their diet must be forcefully changed, you will encounter huge resistance.
Show HN: I just put all "MPV For Fixed Price" vendors in one directory
If you know anyone I should add, let me know or submit via the form.
I'm most familiar with Windsor from the Whole Earth Catalog and the Mesa Boogie (specifically "Boogie") guitar amplifier logotype. Was very popular in the late '60s - early '70s, it seems.

https://wholeearth.info/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa/Boogie_Mark_Series
Except mental health issues are more prevalent in the LGBT community, and in fact is a major reason for increased substance use within that subgroup [1].

If declining mental health was the reason straight men weren’t having sex, we’d expect to see the same/worse declines for gay/bi men too.

[1] https://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-announcements/20230613...
I just think it’s hard to appreciate how much work it takes to build quality software. And automated reporting really helps!

It sounds like Homebrew has its own reality distortion field, to be able to produce such pure unadulterated self-congratulatory BS like that.

As someone who had the unfortunate experience of having to try it once and interact with the "community", I am not surprised to see that it's still a bubble of delusion lead by someone trying to emulate Apple's cult.
> that even I can develop

This gives away that you are not a regular consumer.
Tongue in cheek?
> It's really not an easy task to decipher complex SQLAlchemy expression back into SQL

SQLAlchemy to SQL is borderline trivial, you just call `str(statement)` and it will output SQL. [Here's the docpage for if you want to select dialects and optionally inline parameters](https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/faq/sqlexpressions.html#ho...).
Solution: stop using apple products. I don't understand why people love them so much when Apple time and again pulls this kind of crap.
Pastors are as well. Just differently.

Each church has a board of elders who will hire/fire/correct/counsel the pastors. At most protestant churches at least. I can't speak for all churches.

I've seen a board of elders remove a megachurch founding pastor. They take their positions seriously.
The Importance of Consistent Coding in Teams
Micron Kicks Off Production of HBM3E Memory
I am curious how you feel about the "Monty Fall"/"Monty Crawl" problems linked elsewhere in the thread.[0]

For my part I am somewhat sympathetic to jncfhnb's point. The exact phrasing that Vos Savant was asked did not specify the rules that the host was required to open a door, nor that it always must be a goat door. It simply says that the host has knowledge of what's behind the doors, and in this particular iteration of the game, he showed you a goat and asked you about switching.

That does not exclude a scenario where the host is a manipulative fellow, who chose to show you the goat only because he knows you are about to win, trying to convince you to lose. A contestant on the real show would surely worry about this possibility.

Of course, the people who wrote to disagree with Vos Savant almost never said "the problem is not fully stated", they said "it's 50/50 you fool", which isn't right. Additionally, since it wouldn't be a math problem at all if we let the host have agency, it is reasonable to assume the unspoken rule that he does not, leading to Marilyn's correct 2/3rds answer.

[0]https://web.archive.org/web/20230706235720/https://probabili...
US leading global alliance to counter foreign government disinformation
Adding AI to touch typing practice
I hated learning how to touch type at age 18. I made this MVP so you can spend the least time typing for the most benefit. Uses bayesian networks and LLMs. hoping it helps you too.
Meaningful job.

There are jobs for people who pickup trash.

Our utility company in FL employs thousands
...or the next time you run that PWA, you should decide between running it with another browser or deleting it.
> They lost big on the mobile OS. It is the biggest blunder of Microsoft.

I've watched Bill Gates tell Andrew Ross Sorkin during an interview "if it wasn't for the FTC investigating us for the anti-trust lawsuit, we wouldn't have been distracted/took our eye off the prize on mobile"

How sure are we Microsoft "has what it takes/had what it took" to deliver a phone + operating system as polished as Apple?

Windows 11 is very much measurably worse than Mac OS Sonoma. Littered with ads, in between old UI + new UI patterns, etc.

That's 2024

I'm not super confident I'd prefer a Microsoft/Windows mobile OS and therefore I'm not super confident they could actually have delivered a good one
This sounds like the broken window fallacy. You could use the same logic to suggest that Meta dump piles of cash on the sidewalk in front of their office - it’d circulate but it wouldn’t help them.
Hackers for sale: what we've learned from China's enormous cyber leak
You are only looking at one dimension. What is your hourly rate based on your salary. If ChatGPT saves you 10 hours a month that could easily be over $2000.
Models can be sensitive to the location of a needle in the haystack of its input block.

But only if we use some sort of attention optimization. For the quadratic attention algo it shouldn’t matter where the needle is, right?
Related: AWS key IDs (not the secret key part) include your account ID within them, bitshifted by one position:

https://medium.com/@TalBeerySec/a-short-note-on-aws-key-id-f...

These key IDs are included in the URL for pre-signed links to S3, so there's a good chance you've already been publishing your account ID.
> it means that income from their wages is all the income they have.

That's clear enough, but income, regardless of source, is already figured into net worth.

Whereas the OP seems to be talking about net worth being a bad measure, and instead there's some amorphous "actual worth" that's "stored" somewhere (obviously not in a bank account or other investment).
Because it's grossly unfair and mendacious to argue that nobody except them should be able to link identities on iOS.
thx
I do that all the time now.
I set up a landing page with a waitlist.
If i see many people signing up, I add stripe payment link with 50% off presale.
Maybe try this
It doesn't scale out logistically.

While some lossage is expected, you can't build a Tianhe-2 type supercomputer by smuggling Nvidia (or AMD) GPUs - and a nuclear program needs dozens.

China, Russia, NK, and Iran have very severe hardware import restrictions circa 2024.

This is why Russia, China, and Iran have been building our domestic fabrication capabilities (Russia in the early 2010s, China in the early 2020s, and Iran presently)
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=freenginx works wonders when submitting something from a mainstream link farm site
That could very well be! There's not any research I can find that says "people with access to epipens die at X rate and people without die Y rate" so we have to take the manufacturer's claims at face value.

Regardless of how we are achieving it, it's just something where my perceived overall risk was much higher than the actual data justified.
Nice. Thank you for the addition of slower memory layers.

So MoE models are a bit like thinking tools running concurrently, right(?), sieving through training data on paths that are the same contextually, but different in terms of specificity and sensitivity.

If the agents/experts/ architectures - the code - don't have the minimum required amount of memory & processing power, they might even miss entire bunches of tokens that are or might be relevant within the given (the prompt) and predicted/requested context. So more processing power and or time is relevant only to the extent, here: size, of the to-be-queried-at-inference-time training data (tokens and weights).

Now here's where I find myself exactly within the realm that I was in when I phrased my question: analysing the result of a request and evaluating different sets of tokens, which, I now understand, makes much more sense within the subject of code generation than with the recitation of facts or bits of narratives.

Generated code has functions (things to do with other things). Functions can be done more or less efficient, while even the least efficient code works "more than good and fast enough". There is no value in looping through versions of fact and fiction when the answer fits the expectation. And if it doesn't fit, users can have an actual conversation, which is where I get another part of my answer, which is that more processing power only becomes relevant in relation to the amount of concurrent requests in relation to the parts of the training data that are queried at inference time.

No single request will ever query so much data at the same time, that memory and compute become a bottleneck.

It definitely can become a bottleneck when a long/large/broad( but specific) request gets processed by MoEs simultaneously or when versions of results of engineering tasks are being evaluated. But that is simply not within the task or design of current LLMs and is instead added on top (or as a wrapper, for example, which I still fail to find a non-replaceable usecase for while also still being certain that I will find one once I get to LLMs and AIs).

Again, thanks!
I had my own take on this concept[1], though with considerably less language magic involved. I imagine there's a lot of these kind of things running around. My criteria were:

a) let me write actual SQL, not a python DSL that generates SQL

b) be placeholder-safe

c) be composable

Though it was somewhat intentionally limited to what I needed to support for my own needs at the time.

[1] https://github.com/bdowning/sql-athame
Billing systems are complex... but so are most other SaaS systems. If you take any other SaaS product, it generally seems simple, "i could build it in a weekend". But having worked at these "simple" SaaS products, there is always a long tail of edge cases that you need to deal with that get deeper and deeper into complexity. That is what these articles about billing systems usually dive into. I agree they exist, but you see this on any system or platform when you start building it for many customers/users.

I say this because building your own Billing System isn't any harder than any other platform problem. The difference is that most companies aren't in the business of building a billing system. They could hire engineers to focus on it, and they could build it just fine (it's not THAT difficult). It would just cost a lot of money and all they would do is recreate something similar to Stripe, Chargebee, and the other billing platforms out there, which have already solved these problems for you. These platforms charge you a relatively low fee (lower than the cost of a team of skilled engineers and PMs) to use it, so it doesn't make sense.

It's not that the problem is debilitatingly difficult. There is just not enough value in building it when off-the-shelf solutions exist. There are some businesses that might benefit from a custom billing solution because they are too unique to use an off-the-shelf solution. These companies do build their own billing systems and do just fine, but maintain a large team of developers dedicated to the billing product. Examples of this might include AWS with their billing, AT&T or Verizon with their billing, and so on. For most companies though, it would cost far more to build and maintain your own billing system, than it might generate in revenue. Especially relative to just paying a 3% finance fee and getting it "for free" with a provider like Stripe or paying a low fee for a wrapper like Chargebee (which charges only $500 for $100,000k in MRR).

So if you generate $100k MRR, would you rather go through the headache of building a billing system and spend $50k a month in a small team of engineers to maintain it, or would you rather just pay $500 for essentially the same thing with no headache? THe choice seems simple to me.

So it's not that Billing Systems are hard... they just don't make sense to build. Any competent engineering team could solve the problems from a billing system, it just isn't worth it.
> Chernobyl

The worst designed reactor that led to 60 deaths ?

> Fukushima

As in, the reactor that was struck with a generational earthquauke and where no one died?

________

Compare this to other energy sources

Coal - 1500 [1]

Coal waste -12000[2]

You can keep going down this[3] list. Nuclear disasters are a mere blip. Only solar is any safer.

[1]April 26, 1942: Benxihu Colliery disaster in Benxi, Liaoning, China. 1,549 workers died, in the worst coal mine accident ever in the world

[2] December 1952: The Great Smog of London caused by the burning of coal, and to a lesser extent wood, killed 12,000 people within days to months due to inhalation of the smog.

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents
Neat. I have to admit I about had a heart attack reading "Superset" as "Sunset" at first. I've become too jaded about stuff being shut down and announced on HN. Very pleasantly surprised when I read correctly and clicked through to see its about data analytics.
> the AWS policy execution has a number of “operators” and “operands”

That is correct.

The IAM condition language is flexible and does not prevent you from doing strange things.
The idea is encapsulated in the phrase "the ends justify the means". As long as they get people to think the right thing, underhanded means are acceptable.
Yes, the entire screen you see is Vim.
Yep, this is just evil. I have already changed laundromats because the one I used to use started doing this.

But at least this practice does make their spying ways more obvious.
But account IDs are assigned by Amazon and there's no structure within the namespace that's useful to you. If you mean all, you can wildcard * - but there doesn't seem to be any legitimate cases for "all account ids beginning with a 1".
What do we think of the "friends" that hang around during the good times, and then abandon you when you're down?

But like you pointed out, it's a corporation and it's just business. If their next model is better but isn't made available, companies will still build an AI product on top of their model and give them money for a license or API access.
I really don't know the details.

You can see a concept artist here discovering he stopped getting work after a company splurted out that they switched to AI.

https://twitter.com/_Dofresh_/status/1709519000844083290

My guess is that a lot of people can have ideas, so you don't need an artist to bring them to life anymore.
On this topic, please watch what I think is one of the greatest scenes in movies: Kaspar Hauser directed by Warner Herzog [1].

[1] https://youtu.be/C9uqPeIYMik?si=ZjJIH1RhQFTN_ARR
Conscripts have to be fed and housed.
Cap'n'Proto: infinitely faster than Protobuf
I built my own hybrid billing system and yes it was painful, but it opened the door to more payment methods and allowed prorating across the different payment methods seamlessly. I think it increased my revenue, but I can't know for sure because maybe everyone would have just used credit cards if that was the only supported payment method.
If you're big enough to think you need it, you're also big enough to have people who can tell you it's a bad idea and there's a better tool for the job.
Couldn't agree more! Codemancer looks great, I'll give it a try
> I feel like I'm either crazy, or all these people are lying.

With some careful prompting I've been able to get some decent code that is 95% usable out of the box. If that saves me time and changes my role there into code review versus dev + code review, that's a win.

If you just ask GPT4 to write a program and don't give it fairly specific guardrails I agree it spits out nearly junk.
This is just a +1 to the ROI discussion, but I'd say that AI tooling roughly doubles my development productivity.

Some of it's in asking ChatGPT: "Give me the 3 possible ways to implement X?" and getting something back I hadn't considered. A lot of it is in sort of "super code completion".

I use Cursor and the UI is very slick. If I'm stuck on something (like a method that's not working) I can highlight it and hit Cmd+L and it will explain the code and then suggest how to fix it.

Hit Cmd+K and it will write out the code for you. Also, gotten a lot of mileage out of writing out a rough version of something in a language I know and then getting the AI to turn that into something else (ex: Ruby to Lua).
Frankly this is very upsetting. Guess everyone has their price.

Mistral was a forerunner for LLM recommendation for a large European organization.

Part of the reason was that Mistral had promised not only open weights but eventually open architecture.

Instead, we get yet another closed source, pray for unaltered prompts SaaS.
Comparing ChatGPT and Gemini on Bitcoin
Yeah, the plane is too cheap, that's a problem.
> Automation is not a replacement for monitoring: they are complementary

absolutely. there are any number of reasons Caddy would be unable to renew the cert, just off the top of my head:

- LetsEncrypt has downtime or unavailability

- If you're doing dns-01 challenges for LE, whatever cred Caddy uses for that might expire / become invalidated.

- disk fills up (or gets unexpectedly remounted read-only) and Caddy is unable to write the renewed certs
Only American disinformation should be allowed on the Internet, after all.

"Cognitive hygiene" is an important public health issue. Wouldn't want people thinking differently than us.
Well that's your view, but we keep seeing incredible progress year on year.

Noone thought beating the game of Go was feasible.

Noone thought self-driving cars would actually work.

Noone predicted ChatGPT. See where we're at now with multi modal models.

And Sora.

The truth is that you can't predict anything anymore about this tech cause all expectations keep being blown away.

AGI may be right there, and that's what's driving the money.