skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, however it's increasingly likely that the GPT in ChatGPT will not be limited to OpenAI (in the US), so I'm not sure how much ChatGPT will be worth with countless other platforms containing GPT in their names.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/no-gpt-trademark-for-opena...
What you say is kinda an example of what I mean.

You say you know people who use and fine tune Mistral / variants

You know what you can't do with Mistral Large? Fine tune it, or use variants.
This is something I remember from the time.

I could not grasp the probability maths (still shit at it, sorry Ms Von Savant) but I could write a program to experimentally demonstrate it, so I did.

In QBasic. Because that's what we had and we were happy.
It comes down to what you want to be your core competency.

If it's billing, sure go for it. Being fully able to customize your billing stack is I think a strength, exactly because of all the points the OP is making, plus many other traps. I think it can be genuinely interesting and there's always more to discover, but it's a full time job for a at least a small team for most companies.

If instead your goal was to run a business or build user features, do other things, offloading the billing part is definitely the best (probably the only) option.
Nobody seems to have commented that they just bumped the EOL for Authy Desktop from August to March. With only weeks before the new EOL?
I would suggest not just deleting your account. Doing so leaves all your contributed content, it just changes your name to [deleted].

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

This will allow you to remove your contributions, and delete your account.
If anyone from the Mistral team is here, I just signed up for an account and went to subscribe; after the Stripe payment form, I was redirected to stripe.com - not back to Mistral's dashboard. After I went through the subscribe flow again it says "You have successfully subscribed to Mistral AI's API. Welcome! Your API keys will be activated in a few minutes." instead of sending me to Stripe, so everything is working properly, but you just need to check your redirect URL on your Stripe checkout integration
> EU environmental protection rules are, generally, rather stricter than those in the US, and Europe does mostly manage to build proper train systems

It’s not a question of US laws being stricter (i.e. more protective of the environment), but rather requiring a process that is more onerous and expensive. In France, for example, the government does whatever environmental review is appropriate in deciding whether to build something. It then passes a law to build the thing, which preempts all local laws that could hold up building of the thing. Once the decision has been made, you can’t easily sue to stop the project in its tracks.

In the US, the government’s decision to build something is just the first step in a process that involves many layers of review and phases of litigation that takes years before you can start digging.
Looks terrific! Unfortunately I'm on IOS :(
You don't need to know whether he does or does not do that all the time.

Because he did it this time?

Amazed this nitpicking is still going on; it's illustrative.
Plateforme (plate-forme) is semi-accepted French, it’s an anglicisme.
edit: I'm wrong on the calculation portion - don't do napkin math without coffee

itsdrewmiller is right
> He would phrase things like “Is it possible for {symptoms} to be caused by {condition} and could it be treated by {herbal product}?” Then ChatGPT would give him a wall of text saying that it’s possible, which he took as confirmation of being correct.

If you mine Pubmed, you sometimes find literature with opposite claims. So if a LLM is trained on Pubmed/PMC, it will repeat that kind of garbage.

You don't have to dig into "herbal products" it happens also in more conventional domains.

I once even found that kind of contradiction in articles where the "main author" was the same in both publications. It was about ALS and the "main author" was a prominent scientist from the USA who probably never wrote nor even read any of these articles.
Great article!

> What the whole thing has shown me more than anything is that computing freedom requires that you don't put all your eggs in one basket. That’s how you get stuck with a bunch of rotten eggs, if the basket suddenly falls apart.

Not sure why the eggs are rotten when the basket falls apart, but okay ;)
With a following wind.
Of course someone is going to profit. That's the only reason anything gets built anywhere ever.
Are you kidding? I love Homebrew.

I install it on my Linux devices too. It allows me to easily install up-to-date versions of just about any software I care about.
We use this at my ginormous employer in order to give devs limited access to production data.
LLM evaluation at scale with the NeurIPS Efficiency Challenge
What eUICC physical cards are people grabbing for this?
The "smartest person in the world" tag is a marketing push. It works with her name. It wouldn't work as well if she was named Marilyn Smith.
So, the American dream it is?
Authy Desktop EOL moved from August 2024 to March 19 2024
https://joel.net/how-one-guy-ruined-hacktoberfest2020-drama

Very similar: some guy created a video and a lot of people submit useless PRs, except for a T-shirt instead of crypto.

EDIT: Except, Hacktoberfest ran since 2014 and there was never an issue before the video, which (unintentionally) brought it a lot more attention and gave a bad example of an “improvement”. Incentives can be good if designed and explained carefully.
You can’t trivially plug grafana in front of any SQL database, and grafana is more about graphing/plotting (usually time series).
A more charitable interpretation was that this person had a massive attack of cognitive dissonance when you told them what you found and was not able to reconcile it.

They convinced themselves that “their” solution was actually a better fit/safer/more performant/etc and justified in the expense and effort. And it may have been, in all honesty. But likely not enough better to justify the time and expense.

The empathetic view is that we all suffer from this delusion, but some of us are better and recognizing it and circumventing it than others. Part of it is age/maturity/experience. Part of it is innate.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not excusing this behavior. I abhor it as much as you clearly do. But sometimes it can help with dealing with these types of people to reframe it as less malicious and more incompetence.
Another reason why I should become a better touch typist. Too stressful for the under 40wpm gang.
Cryptocurrency has basically completely inverted the trust issue it's meant to solve (at least for many developers).

In theory, a decentralized ledger of project contributions / owners is a good idea for distributing sponsorship dollars without a middleman controlling things.

In practice, the brand of crypto has gotten so bad that developers are far more likely to trust centralized mechanisms like GitHub's funding.yaml and associated partners.
that is a different case. That was a payment on a real debt, just earlier than intended (and due to a mistake).

The top comment was talking about money that wasn't even billed. They don't have any actual service or product it was tied back to. Also if they do have agreements with that insurer (just no payments pending), there is going to be a contract overriding default law which probably covers how to handle mistakes.
That 15% gap matters a lot for the kinds of companies that Broadcom is targeting (and many others that they are not), and they are okay with spending millions to get it.

Also, you get support with those millions. That's a requirement for these kinds of companies as well.

That said, I agree that there are many shops that will migrate to something like Ryzen, throw KVM on that and call it a day (or do what I did and use Graviton spot instances for anything stateful and small Graviton Lambdas for the rest). Those suckers are fast.

And that's before we touch software-defined networking a la NSX and virtualized storage a la vSAN. NSX, ESX and vSAN work together to provide near-line-rate networking and networked storage performance with a really nicely packaged frontend. Yes, you can use paravirt-io and ceph and get nearly there, but it's "nearly" and setting this up has a significantly higher skill bar for sysadmins. That alone is a dealbreaker for small shops that aren't tech forward.
Nominative Determinisn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
... Ads?

People are going to the effort of downloading content, self hosting it, and then watching ads?

Stallman protect us what
Did you read the article? Abusing open source projects and wasting maintainer time as part of your crypto-scam startup business model is super unethical.
> If you’re wondering why there’s a certain genre of notable in-use of Windsor that’s missing from this review, it isn’t due to oversight—it’s quite intentional.
SD cards are the modern floppy, you can even boot a complete system from them.
Also, you're probably not going to win a dispute with a / the state. The USA government stole my money once (bank transfer). It was a rent payment to a landlord with a Muslim-sounding name. I contested it by sending in their form with the case number that they'd provided me.

They responded saying they had no case matching my info. I gave up before investing more time because I thought it was unlikely to end well for the amount of effort I'd have to invest.

I started directly depositing money orders into his account. No problems after that. The USA government profited one month of my rental rate. I nearly got evicted when my rent wasn't delivered. No explanation was ever given to me.
> I'm surprised how expensive this model is compared to GPT-4. Only ~20% cheaper

I'm guessing all currently available paid options are operating at a (perhaps significant) loss in order to capture market share. So it might be that nobody can afford to push the prices even lower without significant risk of running out of money before any "market capture" can realistically be expected to happen...
Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI
Fittingly it looks like informed choice.
I really wonder who takes the plane when a train does it in under 2.5 hours... It feels very, very hard to be faster than 2.5 hours with a plane to go pretty much anywhere (including going to the airport, check-in, security check, boarding, flight, and going to the city from the destination airport).

So yeah, 2.5 hours seems ridiculous. 4h made much more sense, because many people consider that a 4h journey in the train is "very long" and won't do it. Spoiler: it is actually really fine, and it would have been good to force people to realize it.
I am not sure when this change was made.

Bumping the EOL up 5 months with less than a month of notice before EOL seems like a very unprofessional move. I wonder why they announced the far-off EOL in the first place, and why they had to bump it.
> How could they have prevented the browser from introducing line breaks?

Fixed it with:

<code style="white-space: pre">
fair points, and in another comment I point to tax service companies lobbying for complicated tax laws in the US. I'm fine admitting that bad actors do bad things

now, to what extend do you think the majority of the world's problems are caused by (a) bad actors, versus (b) structural issues or resource constraints. 100%? 70%? 30%?

What we devote our attention to depends very much on that question (as well as what changes are easy to implement)
Absolutely. Self-certification imposes non-negligible and recurring (recertification) costs to a business.

And when you're industry-agnostic, you have to play whack-a-mole with whatever the chosen industry wants (e.g. HIPAA/HITRUST, FEDRAMP, etc.).

Additionally, indemnification clauses and contractual negotiation of same can be a minefield. "You assume all the risk, for any breach, even if it's our fault, with unlimited liability" is every customer's preference. Small companies have neither the cash reserves to survive an (unlikely) claim nor the clout to push back on bad terms with a big customer. Microsoft et al. do.
Wouldn't that mean all/most siblings have the same handedness?
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think it’s nonzero. I just don’t know if it’s enough to overcome the tonnage cost (bulk rate for IOT/B2B cellular), and the business development challenges for global cellular and advertising are no joke when we’re down to a freemium-ad-supported revenue model.

Striking at the eSIM moment is a slick move, though. This would likely have been a hard non-starter in the physical SIM era (which still applies in some cases).
"Microsoft recommends OpenAI as your default overlord. Did you know it can do everything your current AI can do, sometimes better, but always more profitably for us? [Switch now] [Ask me again in 30 seconds]"
If you're building a product, is the billing component a part of your USP?

Really?

Odds are that it's not, and therefore you should farm out that work to someone who _does_ make it their job. There are reasons why companies implement software from Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP, including that it's better to reduce costs on things that don't differentiate you in your market (and it's nice to have someone to "pointedly talk at" when things go wrong).
Indian Zero-rupee note vs mine א-null coin
(Disclaimer: I'm a Vega-Altair maintainer)

Thanks for the feedback and for the kind words! All of these drawbacks are fair, just a couple of comments.

There is an experimental package called altair_tiles that makes is possible to add OSM-style maptile backgrounds to Altair charts. See https://github.com/altair-viz/altair_tiles. This is mostly for static charts at the moment, as it doesn't integrate well with pan/zoom yet.

As you mentioned, VegaFusion is able to remove unused columns in most cases. (And if it doesn't for a particular case, please open an issue!).
Sure, by "polish" I mean to get it somewhat close to parity with Plex. If it's great as is, perhaps no additional polish is required. I prefer to invest in open source tools that will remain open, whenever possible. It is a component of defending against enshittification, because that which has been built cannot then be revoked or gated.

At the end of the day, it’s always about control.
How I Built a Modern Course Platform in 2024
How do you mean? Signing up on aws.amazon.com and providing your card is a direct sale.
> I watched the same thing happen at the grocery store earlier where a couple picked up a package of steaks, lamented that it was going to cost them X hours of work, and then threw them in the basket anyway. It’s like large parts of the population are on purchasing autopilot and the price barely matters.

I used to think the shopping mall full of zombies in Dawn of the Dead was just a hamfisted critique of consumerism. But after all the complaining and not much doing I see Americans doing I think if you reanimated our corpses they would mostly go right back to shopping in a literal sense.
"You are the goat!" one reader wrote.

Turns out, instead, she's the G.O.A.T.
Eh, there's a big difference; "their Plex" is software they download which uses their hardware and data they control to provide a service. There are alternatives (jellyfin) which allows a person to get the same functionality using their same hardware and the same data they control.

Discord though you're very right about, discord is more MSN messenger than it is IRC.
That's definitely not true. Consider the US Navy rank of commander (O-5 / CDR).

On the one hand, this could be someone who is an unrestricted line officer and a qualified surface warfare officer. This is someone who could be the commanding officer of a destroyer.

On the other hand, this could be a dentist with 20 years of experience but no significant leadership responsibilities.

The quote I've heard in the context of the UK's Royal Navy is that the same rank can be commanding officer of a ship at sea or someone who makes tea for an admiral at Northwood.
I'm from that generation where they were just getting over trying to make left handing kids right handed. Now that I'm older I find myself doing all kind of weird things...

For example as a kid I had to use left handed scissors or I couldn't cut things, now I use right handed scissors in either hand. I switch my mouse to my right and left hand sometimes without thinking about it. My brain just transparently maps the right click to my left hand index finger. I throw with my right arm and shoot right handed, but when it comes to tool use I seem to be ambidextrous. This said, I can only write with my left hand.
The full height drives were the 8" floppies. They hardly existed anymore in the 90s, not on PC systems.

Wikipedia has a nice article with pictures:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

Even if you didn't have that 3.5" drive for your computer, perhaps you can take solace in the fact that you understand intuitively why the disks were called "floppy"!
I don't know how common this is, but for some Very Expensive Medications, drug manufacturers such as Lilly will run non-profit orgs that will help you get them dirt cheap if your insurance won't cover them.

In my case, my dermatologist put me on Taltz straight away, skipping all of my insurance company's preferred first drugs because the complication rate was much lower. Even if my insurance company would have covered it, the co-pay would have been impossible to keep up with.

However, with their other org covering the cost, I think I ended up paying something like $25 a dose for what was at the time several thousand dollars retail price.

All of that is to say, if the health insurance plan your company has doesn't want to cover it, it might be worth reaching out to the manufacturer to see if they will help. At the very least, they may be able to recommend a US based specialist to get you a new prescription if the specialist pharmacies here don't respect a foreign prescription.

Edit: here's the specific program I went through: https://www.taltz.com/savings-support
> Sure, if you run an air-gapped network in some military facility, you can get things working without DNS, but 99.999% networks can't work without a DNS.

It's funny you say that, because in the air-gapped network in some military facility I work in, we actually replicate certain public DNS entries to have some specific systems and services working for our developers.
Quite frankly, I'd much rather write a little script that keeps posting some AI comments to contribute to their dataset, but make it basically unusable
> I'm not sure I understand: Are you saying that there is research that says PTSD is WEIRD? Or is this your idea?

I’m saying that the specific features and symptoms are not necessarily universal across cultures and that we don’t have anything close to a full understanding of the underlying psychology. All people react to stress, but the specific ways they react to stress might be more culturally bound than we expect. It’s hard to tell because our understanding of PTSD is almost entirely based on cases observed inside of WEIRD cultures.

> One common feature of Western culture, or at least US culture, is to play down PTSD (and other psychological conditions).

This was obviously very much the case for some time. I think we’ve made some laudable efforts to improve on this in recent years.

> Suicide rates among veterans is sky-high, in part because PTSD is treated as dubious.

I agree that veteran suicide is a major problem. I also agree with the desire to avoid stigma. That’s actually why I am skeptical about the impulse to address veteran mental health, for lack of a better terminology, almost entirely within a medical and clinical frame. That carries the implication that our culture is completely healthy and it’s only our returning warriors who are sick and mentally unwell. On the contrary, I think our culture is deeply sick and atomized, and that our warriors are more alienated from civil society than ever before.

It’s not just arrogant but outright laughable to assume we have all of this figured out. If we had it all figured out, we would have solved the problem.

> Let's be careful about what we say.

I am. Let’s be careful about making a good faith effort to actually understand and respond to what’s being said instead of misrepresenting it and trying to shut down the conversation.
Ahh, but nowadays we know in much greater detail how it will screw up the planet.
If going North, with a wind blowing from West to East, wouldn't the windward side be on the port side, not the starboard side? I must be doing something obviously wrong early in the morning since the writer says it's going the other way.
Using an archive link, normally works: https://archive.is/ouoE5
It's a really tough sell. They are charging 80% of GPT 4, and are below in the benchmark. I will only use overall best model or the best open weights model or the cheapest which could do the task. And it's none of the three in almost any scenario.
> Clearly "millions of people" noticing a phenomena isn't a reliable indicator of it actually happening, which is why we have statistics agencies rather than going off vibes.

And you don't think there might be some fundamental differences between crime rates and grocery prices?

Like, perhaps, the fact that every household has to buy groceries all the time, and is likely to get some kind of a feel for how the prices are fluctuating, while to most people, crime rates are primarily observable by what the media reports, not by any objective criteria? And even then, they're unlikely to be particularly connected to those numbers, since they have very little direct impact on how most families live their lives, so it's easy to have an incorrect impression and just let that persist despite years of actual evidence to the contrary (that they never have to directly interact with)?
> It's useful for streaming data where you want to pass small chunks of data incrementally. JSON by itself isn't streamable (you need the entire blob to decode it).

What's wrong with JSON patch?

https://jsonpatch.com/
> Private prisons only profit because people commit crimes. So the question becomes: How to make people commit less crimes?

Examine where this intuition comes from. Firstly, the problem is not "too many people are committing crimes", it's "prisons are profiting from people committing crimes", which creates a perverse incentive. Secondly, as a result of this perverse incentive, judges and lawmakers are incentivized to write and enforce laws such that the business model of incarceration is maintained. So the question of "How to make people commit less crimes?" is misaimed; the problem isn't with the people committing the crimes, it's with the people defining what is and is not a crime.
That’s exactly what I did. In FreeBASIC.

The way the problem works started coming together in my head as I coded it. The code’s structure reflected the problem’s structure. I realized I previously misunderstood something about the problem statement. Later, I read someone saying many mathematicians got this problem wrong because of how it’s worded.

So, it may be challenging, not because probability was challenging, but because it was unclearly specified. That’s the cause of many software errors, too.
I also found Superset unintuitive to use and setup as well. I settled on standing up Metabase because it was so simple to get started with trying it since it can be launched as a single jar. The business users loved it and so did I and administration with a Postgres backend instead of the internal h2 database was a breeze.
I use 'sed' most days.
At first, I thought Ahab's Leg Dilemma might ask something like if a person replaces parts of their body with whalebone, at what point, if any, does that person stop being the original person?
Think it is only possible with public projects
Solar panels didn’t really take off until 10-15 years ago because their efficiency was very low and didn’t make much economic sense. Battery technology is still a big hurdle.
https://archive.ph/ouoE5