skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either you are naive or disingenious. "Great for subsistence seekers" is a dog whistle for a neoliberal political agenda.

Aspiration seeking and the desire for a strong social system are not mutually exclusive. Whether somebody cares about there being a social safety net for themselves and everybody around them does not indicate how aspirational they themselves are but correlates positively with empathy and negatively with egocentrism.

> That is not at all controversial.

It's a false dichotomy and as a way to cast the comparison it is quite obviously controversial.
"Without being a super eco-conscious person, I am wondering if those ultra-fast-fashion is sustainable. I am sure some of those products are great."

I don't know these companies, but I am pretty sure those products are shit.

SOD. Shit on demand.

Just looked at the prices. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck quacks like a duck...

"Shein drops up to 10,000 new items on its website daily.."

How boring. They should do just in time production. Have AI create an infinite amount of products that are JIT produced when you order.
A Video Game Decoding Ancient Languages
It will never work so long as edge cases appear. In reality, the field of journalism will expand their vetting processes as best as they can. Otherwise, we’re screwed and will have to live with the consequences (which may be overblown).
What is 'swiping' in this context?
Google claims that they don't tolerate racism, but I don't trust them. They still provide AdSense for discriminatory videos on YouTube, even after numerous reports. They are consciously making money off of discrimination. You don't need to be "woke" about Bard.
It isn't the current state of society. It's the current state of the training corpus + prompt. Those implicitly include bias.

It sounds like that's acceptable to you because you think current state of training corpus == current state of society. And you view any bias in prompt as bias.

The truth is most of this ML happens in corpus selection + prompt selection. There literally ISN'T a way to avoid bias. So the problem becomes what bias do you select.

And in that scenario choosing abuse decreasing measures seems like the most pragmatic (to me).
> You're talking as if there is a way to get an 'unbiased' AI. There isn't. It is inherently biased by its training, it hallucinates, and it is further biased by its prompt.

Certainly. Doesn’t mean that we still shouldn’t prioritize accuracy and integrity instead of purposefully increasing the amount of bias even further.

> you're utterly baffled why they would make that choice over any other.

I’m not. I’m baffled that there are people defending that choice (especially in such a way)

> and promote diversity

Why? I mean why do you think this is the right way to do it? Surely going out of your way to make sure that your model does its best to doctor the images it creates to conform to some political agenda (whatever that might be) would achieve the opposite because it actually legitimizes the things the other side is constantly saying? (and due to the potentially severe backlash from more moderate fraction of the society)
This advice is so misguided that I'm concerned for our industry it's getting so much traction.

> You really want to avoid testing implementation details because it doesn't give you very much confidence that your application is working and it slows you down when refactoring. You should very rarely have to change tests when you refactor code.

Unit tests don't need to test implementation details. You could just as well make that mistake with integration or E2E tests. Black box testing is a good practice at all layers.

What unit tests do is confirm that the smallest pieces of the system work as expected in isolation. Yes, you should also test them in combination with each other, but it serves you no good if you get a green integration test, when it's likely only testing a small fraction of the functionality of the units themselves.

This whole "unit tests slow you down" mentality is incredibly toxic. You know what genuinely slows me down? A suite with hundreds of integration tests, each taking several seconds to run, and depend on external systems. But hey, testcontainers to the rescue, right?

Tests shouldn't be a chore, but an integral part of software development. These days I suppose we can offload some of that work to AI, but even that should be done very carefully to ensure that the code is high quality and actually tests what we need.

Test code is as important as application code. It's lazy to think otherwise.
any plans on supporting ollama integration?
Once you plug long term storage onto your Prometheus, do you really need the main Prometheus instances anymore?

Here’s an article about this idea: https://datadrivendrivel.com/posts/rmrfprometheus/

You can substitute the Grafana Agents for OTEL collectors as well.
I feel you, but, sadly, I came to the conclusion that this war is lost.

If I speak to an audience I want them to understand exactly what I mean. So, I only use "cryptography" and "cryptocurrency" explicitly.
I don't think infinite scaling is desirable. You probably want to say "if the value or rate of increase in xyz" metric reaches a certain level, don't scale further, or start scaling down. As a requirement for a serverless deployment, not an option.
Amiibos are supported (virtually), not sure about the rest
There should be a measure of consistency as well. Like p90, p95, p99. It's a different measure, but something similar to how we measure system availability in SWE.
I completely agree, but even further: health insurance is itself a silly thing.

Insurance is for:

- costly things

- that happen rarely

- in an unpredictable way

These are characteristics of things that are well suited to insurance. Healthcare -- the type of routine healthcare that makes up the vast majority of spending -- exhibits literally none of these qualities.

Most healthcare expenditure is:

- not costly. An Advil is not costly. 30 mins of some stupid doctor's time is not inherently costly. An MRI is not costly. Medical office space is not costly.

- totally predictable (eye exams, checkups, scheduled visits, hell even big operations like a heart transplant or C-section are rarely done "in the moment." Usually you can see them coming. The hospital can definitely see them coming; they know exactly how long a gastric bypass or a c-section takes, how much equipment and staff they need, etc.

- not rare; most people visit a doctor at least yearly. That's on par with buying xmas gifts!

Only a small fraction of healthcare spending should happen through insurance -- insurance should be for things where you travel in an ambulance to the hospital and that's it.

PCPs should compete individual to individual on quality of service, price, etc.

Hospitals should compete hospital by hospital on quality of care, facilities, scheduling, bedside manner etc.

Rx should be decoupled completely from insurance. Why do I choose Humalog over Novolog? Not for any medical reason! It's because I need to have insurance to buy one or the other. Why do I need insurance to buy a pill? Because I need insurance to see the doc. Why do I need insurance to see a doc? No good f%@#$ reason. Drop it.

Insurance is for when I need surgery NOW for I have no idea what, and I cannot make any kind of choice about it. It should cost $100 a year for a healthy 20yo adult and $400 a year for a healthy 60yo adult.

None of this shit makes sense to have insurance mandated. None of it. I should be able to walk into any doc's office without insurance and pay a flat cash fee, posted on a big bulletin board outside that says $20 per 15 mins. If I don't like it, I should be able to LEAVE and go across the street!
I know how I feel about it - 1) they deserve every penny and 2) Nintendo needs to back off.
thou 'strategic bombing' was more or less invented in ww2 and the circumstances do not change because others were involved.

the us bombed their competition into submission and this continues to be a viable model to day, which maybe, could be disturbed by cyber.
Once while volunteering in a hospital I was collecting up wheelchairs used to take patients to their cars, and I decided to try one out.

What I learned is that staff, patients and visitors in hospitals are really kind and helpful if you're in a wheelchair, and hospitals are (obviously I guess) pretty well adapted to wheelchairs. I also learned it's very difficult to open doors with spring closers - I suspect there's a trick to doing it, but I didn't have time to figure it out because any time someone saw me struggling with a door they'd help me with it.

I also learned you will never feel more self-conscious than when a nice elderly lady helps you with a door, then you reach the place you're delivering the wheelchair, and you have to walk back past the nice lady, revealing you were faking being disabled for your own entertainment.
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> The phone made sense to me because…

Only in hindsight. At the time Apple had tried once before with the Rockr, and it really sucked.

The iPhone launch was wonderful because it changed the game enough for a 2G phone to be an acceptable trade off in a 3G market.

It was not clear at all that would happen before the launch presentation.
>may even have been more intelligent?

One might argue that painting ochre on cave walls is more intelligent (and culturally superior ) than painting radioactivity all over the sky, painting man-made carcinogens all over the ground, painting our insides with plastic, depleting - as rapidly as possible - resources future humans will need ... and all the 'clever' magic tricks we can beat our chests about.

'Modern' may turn out, one day, to be a darkly humorous pejorative.
I suppose you're paying a lot for the voice cloning, so do consider that in many countries voice-overs are done with a single generic voice. Would you consider a lower price point service doing just that?

I'm doing something similar and using GPT-4 for translation. What's unique about it, is that you can specifically prompt it to avoid long translations by rephrasing things, so you can buy yourself some time for the "Fledermaus".
Looks great, though the fact that you have to ignore your anti-virus warning during installation, and the fact that it phones home (to insights.msty.app) directly after launch despite the line in the FAQ on not collecting any data makes me a little skittish.
Both of those could be exposed via an audit or a whistleblower, either of which would destroy the company and its reputation overnight.
And automatically forced on every user depending on whatever their Google account is set to, just like the video titles which now get auto-translated without any way to turn this off. We're sliding back into a monolingual world.

No thanks.
true. At what point could you say they are accomplices to the attackers
Exactly, and that was what made the "Neanderthal" mtDNA seem way too different, but this paper shows that it's well within what would be expected for a single species.
> But how do you quickly locate the reason that integration test failed? There could be hundreds of moving parts involved, and any one of them malfunctioning, or any unexpected interaction between them, could cause it to fail. The error itself would likely not be clear enough, if it's covered by layers of indirection.

As long as the error is reproducible, never in my career have I had a hard time locating the source of the error. Bisection does wonders (as a general concept, not specifically referring to git bisect).

That said, I have encountered plenty of non-reproducible test failures. Moral of the story: make things reproducible, especially tests.

Easier said than done.
As long as you use Safari for browsing, Notes for note taking, iCloud for mail …
The mask slipped when you wrote that last sentence.
Wait til you learn what "web 3" meant before cryptoscams started to also use this term.
> launched

Not true. They announced completion of development, with intention to begin mass production in H1. So a couple months out, at least.

> Micron's memory roadmap for AI is further solidified with the upcoming release of a 36 GB 12-Hi HBM3E product in March 2024.

So likely competitive timing with Samsung for 36/12.
Same here. I am so used to

/**
*
*/

that I find this visually off-putting. Almost as much the string interpolation in string templates.

/***

would be much better.

Also /// will be read as a comment with a line starting with a slash until the tooling is updated.
One bit of feedback: there's nowhere to put system messages. These can be much more influential than user prompts when it comes to shaping the tone and style of the response.
As someone who is living in a poor ex-USSR republic, unexpected benefit of Temu and Shein is that average working class folks can afford good looking clothes.
If you’re a military unit about to get wiped out by an enemy force due to running out of ammo, I imagine getting 100 tons of ammo in 1 hour vs in 19 hours would be a big difference?
Of course, but what the GP means is that it's a wonder that nighttime temperature isn't colder than it is, if we didn't know better (of course, we know that nighttime temperature isn't absolute zero) it wouldn't be absurd to think that since temperature goes down that fast during an eclipse that lasts a few minutes, it could reach barely above absolute zero in just an hour or so during night.

But on Earth it doesn't, for many reasons that are not all that obvious or intuitive.
If you factor in the number of people, the wealth of US is staggering. Lot of the wealth in the US is from stocks and real-estate. Would be interesting to see if the cut-off still remains at $5.8M (to join 1%) after the long awaited recession comes about.
It is actually interesting how we separate human race from other animals and their "breeds". Which can interbreed while presenting significant different features or even behaviours. Why would we as a race be above that? Why can't we consider the species that can effectively interbreed with us more in this line of thought than as entirely separate species?
But he seems to be right, no? The thread had indeed suddenly vanished from the top and I can't find it on the second or third page either.

I'm not assuming any kind of conspiracy here but the fact remains.
You're creating a derived work, so you would be violating someone's IP unless the licence is permissive, and making money of it. That usually attracts the attention of whoever owns the IP.
US tech giants refuse to work with Britain's military censorship board
Docker Inc. refuses to patch HIGH vulnerabilities in Docker
I'm saying all sorts of people say all sorts of things for all sorts of reasons.

What they say might, or might not, relate to what happened.

We should be aware however that it's just people saying stuff, and take care not to treat other people's pronouncements, or the output from the academic process, as truth. It's not truth, it's just a talking shop, informed guesswork.

What I'm advocating is a personal application of the scientific process. Do not tell yourself (or others) 'I know the truth' when all you have is a half-baked hypothesis that you have not personally verified. This seems like good mental hygiene to me.
A kill switch seems a practical and trivial solution. E.g. something toggled when a monthly bill exceeds a configurable amount.

I’m guessing many hobby users would set that to $100, end of story.

I don’t understand why it’s so unpopular to offer that. I’d imagine the providers would benefit too in the long run.
It's no longer legal as of Jan 1, 2022 (part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021).

If you want a list of the real worst of the worst Senators, go look at the people who voted against making this a law.
News channels do that for interviews
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Instant buy, great work and the price point is exactly right. Good luck!
What's the performance like in tokens/s?
distrust between individuals
Changing well known behavior for something no one is really going to need. The justification makes sense, but it breaks convention and the relationship with modulo doesn't need to hold for negative numbers.
The author is not describing unit tests.

The concepts the author is looking for are integration tests and release evals.
Sony also sued Connectix and lost. Sony purchased the rights to the emulator made by Connectix a year or so later. Connectix shut down 2 years after they sold the VGS to Sony but it isn't clear their fate was negatively impacted by Sony.

This move by Nintendo is typical and there is no intent for it to ever actually go to court. It is legal bullying/posturing. The ironic/hopeful part is that team behind Yuzu does have some financial backing and this is going to create goodwill for them and they might actually be able to put up a defense (perhaps with the EFF getting involved maybe?)
If your stuff scales to infinity your money burn rate also scales to infinity. A single server in a colo can only do so much damage to your wallet before it’s saturated.
I don't remember accurately. What did Web3 mean prior to cyptoscams?
Same; imagining a comment calling the model stupid, leading to worse LLM code suggestions...
Acquired.
i’m sure dang can clarify (i myself upvoted it just now), but it was probably the “too heated” detector or too many people flagged it
True, X is becoming unbearable. Used to be - 90% of replies were from normal people. Nowadays, it is just 90% bots in all replies. Maybe the result of firing 70% of the employees shows up after some delay.
note there is a difference between the best and the one that is most heavily used.

Google still rules the roost despite how as a techy I find it's gone horribly downhill in the last 5 years.
What do people do with synthetically generated data? Use it to train models? I doubt if models will improve by appending redundant data since they use the training data to estimate distributions. Just curious.
> If the market was, hypothetically, choked by regulation then they'd be in a great position to charge absurd prices.

There are countries in Europe like the Netherlands and Switzerland where the healthcare systems are almost entirely private (much more so than in the US, since there are no Medicaid/Medicare equivalents). Yet their markets are chocked fully of regulation while being able to maintain low prices (compared to the US) and very good outcomes.
Thank you for the work.

Please take this in a nice way: I can't see why I would use this over ChatbotUI+Ollama https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui

Seem the only advantage is having it as MacOS native app and only real distinction is maybe fast import and search - I've yet to try that though.

ChatbotUI (and other similar stuff) are cross-platform, customizable, private, debuggable. I'm easily able to see what it's trying to do.
Seems very inspired by Molly White's page [0]

[0] https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
I have had a similar intuition from when trying out testcontainers some years ago.

I do not know how the project has developed but at the time I tried it it felt very orthogonal or even incompabtible to more complex (as in multi language monorepo) projects, cde and containerized ci approaches.

I do not know how this has developed since, the emergence of cde standards like devcontainer and devfile might have improved this situation. Yet all projects I have started in the past 5 years where plain multilingual cde projects based on (mostly) a compose.yml file and not much more so no idea how really widespread their usage is.
What kinda pisses me off with these things is that cost isn't a reliable indicator of quality. A lot of luck seems to be involved.

I've worn a 15 € supermarket-brand hoodie around the house for about ten years before it started showing any signs of fatigue at the elbows. I've had more expensive, "name brand" articles of clothing wear out after much shorter and lighter use. In between, the absolute worst was a 30-40 € H&M blouse which became two sizes too big after a month.
I ask people to email me about the topic, then I spend a while thinking about it before answering.

Also, I try to never fire off a reply to an email without 1. writing a first draft, 2. thinking about something else, then 3. revising my draft.
Kaiser is an HMO, which is a different style of operating vehicle.
It would be way too easy to make pro-genocide arguments on the basis of objective differences in that case
Not only will not end coding, I feel the proliferation of LLM's is going to create more nonsense work because everyone is a coder and will create poorly specified requirements.
> I might be running counter to hacker culture

Isn't hacker culture about being able to hack and repair things? I.e. you aren't running counter to hacker culture. You might be running against the mainstream, but that's all right.
It would be practical for the user, but not for the company.

Why does this not exist after years (more than a decade since EC2) of cloud computing?

Because it is not good for the VC investors.
Yes, as target language. And remove Яussian language, please, unless you are Яepublican. You can add it back after the war.
How does that work when the system under test uses transactions itself?
You want a Grenadier. But the price :-(
maybe they realized that handing over the sales to private dealerships, which they HAVE to do in their biggest market, would not be worth all the hassle with the development.

i am aware that they have/had "authorized resellers" in Asian countries before their physical presence in that region.
Sunshine raises subjective temperature by a lot. I’m fine sitting in the sun a my balcony in a shirt at under 10C air temperature.
You can set a hard budget on most cloud providers, including Azure etc. I actually did this thinking I was just setting a budget alert and that was a new and interesting way to interrupt production.
Yeah, this isn't really helpful for her to learn English. This is more when we watch The Anatomy Lab, or BBC's "The Incredible Human Journey". She'll already be asking me a lot of questions about the content. So if I had to translate on top of that, it would be tedious.

Subtitles - those are actually being generated as well. I've generated SRT files during development. Color coded by speaker, and on a per-word basis, for me to get the timing right.

Basically, if you have a YouTube channel, you can take any video from your channel, run it through Speakz.ai, and you'll get 15+ additional audio tracks in different languages, plus 15+ subtitle files (SRT).

Voice cloning and speaker diarization was a bit of a challenge. On the one hand, I want to duplicate the voice that is being spoken right now. On the other hand, sometimes "right now" is just a short "Yeah" (like in the Elon interview) which doesn't give you a lot of "meat" to work with in terms of embedding the voice's characteristics.

Right now, I'm using a mix of signals:

- Is the utterance padded by pauses before/after?
- Is the utterance a complete sentence?
- Does the voice of the utterance sound significantly different from the voice of the previous utterance?

It's a deep, deep rabbit hole. I was tempted to go much deeper. But I thought I better check if anybody besides myself actually cares before I do that... :)
So much rage here over a very simple and well understood phenomenon.

It is vastly easier to consume calories than to shed them via exercise. Thus, though both are important, eating less should be the focus of weight loss not moving more, even though exercise is important and should be part of a program.

There is no need to have a battle of science words to debate something which has been understood for a hundred years.
Good looking... but bad quality and falling apart after wearing them 3 times?
Yes. But that's orthogonal to labeling requirements.