skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any ideas how they built "wokeness" into gemini AI. I've seen ppl suggest that its simply appending "and make this more diverse" to the user prompt? Is that all they are doing to generate "nazi soldiers are asian" pictures ?
> OpenAI tried and came to the conclusion that it couldn't succeed as a pure open-source non-profit company no?

Is that what they concluded?

Or did they find they could either have an open source company or $80 Billion and make the decision most of us would make in that situation?
so it's a variation of the overall idea of nagware

I believe the real problem is larger than computers and technology. capitalism just doesn't play well with digital assets which have effectively 0 distribution costs
I am in this industry in Eastern Europe for almost 20 years now, and my LinkedIn title is "experienced computer programmer". I think it most accurately describes what I'm good at - building and fixing stuff. I've built pieces of software that run unattended for years. I've fixed race conditions in other people's code. This captures the part of my skillset that is transferable to other companies.

Calling everyone involved in software an "engineer" seems to be a very FAANG-y thing that has trickled to "lesser" companies.
The future of warfare does seem to be incredibly cheap autonomous (or nearly so) drones. I know Palmer Lucky's working on this, but his offering is still incredibly high priced...

Who's looking at this problem with the perspective that these should be 'ammo' and not 'aircraft'?
I’d roll my eyes at any grumpy old language pedant that thinks that that I don’t understand how computers works. I’m the lower edge of millennial and I’ve been working as a software developer for ten years. Move on.
I find your leap from "they haven't gotten the economics right yet" to "the status quo is the only way" concerning.

Being VC backed means accepting an additional constraint: it has to be remotely controllable by a third party, and if the user revokes trust in that third party, it has to become useless. Otherwise there's nothing to own, nothing to leverage for a return on your investment.

That places some pretty severe limits on how trustworthy such a piece of software can be. There's tremendous value in getting the economics right, even if we haven't yet.
I mean, we call them the hard drugs which implies that there are soft drugs. The thing is that fentanyl is sort of in a class by itself. I don't know the specifics, but isn't a lethal dose on the order of a couple milligrams? An amount that you could not perceive if you picked it up.
When I worked with mailing lists, way back when; I always included my address under the name "J Random Dipesheet" or similar. We were generating "political" lists, but it was amazing how far afield those went, and the purposes they got used for.

I got dozens of everything AOL mailed, there for a while.
I’m referring to the Premium
Plan. We are not an enterprise but need a lot of the features offered at that tier, stuff that I feel most businesses need like credit notes and invoices sent by email.
Dracula's Biggest Mistake
Why? Bit too early to pull the trigger on declaring this "enshittification". We have yet to see if this was an intentional product decision or a script gone awry.

The term has been eagerly overused to indicate "things I don't like" and is quickly losing it's meaning.
My guess is that if you regularly have seniors telling you other comparable companies are paying 50% more for the same job, they probably actually are.

I've checked. Our expectations of a senior are a lot lower than the other company. Plus, if it was true, then I'd expect all my seniors to be leaving. The fact they're not indicates that our salaries aren't that bad.
Good find.

> March 23, 2022

Looks like this is one of the last turds from the crypto diarrheafest making its way through the pipes. Good riddance.
Is this perhaps people who don’t have port forwarding setup and are costing Plex money on their proxy?
Fire at residential block that killed 15 casts spotlight on e-bikes in China
> As far as I know though, Chernobyl and Fukushima had completely different reasons and don't really clump together apart from "both were meltdowns"

A glass-half-empty view of that would be that there isn't a single reason which could be fixed to avoid all future issues. Fukushima AFAIK didn't have the design and operational mistakes which led to the Chernobyl incident, but that wasn't enough to prevent it from having its own incident. Which other causes we might be missing which could lead to new severe incidents in other nuclear power plants?

(And, by the way, the bad part IMO was not "both were meltdowns", but "both were explosions"; if it were just the meltdown, it would stay confined within the power plant, while the explosions are what spread the damage. Yes, they weren't nuclear explosions, but even a non-nuclear explosion in a nuclear power plant is bad.)
I remember when Apple gave iTunes a streaming feature so you could listen to your music on the go. You could connect to your home computer and access your entire library. That feature was gone almost immediately due to people broadcasting to strangers on the internet. Stupid / greedy / thoughtless people stole that feature from me.

Don't be surprised when acts against corporate interests get slapped. Be surprised when they don't.
VLC player paired with a network share does pretty much everything I need to watch local media. I have a Jellyfin instance, and I do like it, but I often find myself falling back to VLC for one reason or another.
That's probably an indirect reference to being able to train on copyrighted material in Japan [0].

[0] https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/japan-ai-data-laws-exp...
EU seeks to investigate Apple over cutting off web apps
There are imperfect correlations in both stream directions, but forward is probably more causal, as you say.
> A used car that's been on the road for 10 years with a full maintenance history

Which is not always available, nor reliable.
Ask HN: Do you have any guidlines for compensation?
After 11 years of engineering in the mechanical realm for small, private companies, I am in the interview process for a very large public company. This could be quite a change for me, as I've only had an annual salary. No equity or stock and no bonuses to speak of.

I'm searching for any guidelines to help me understand what's being offered, and perhaps pointing out any pitfalls in the negotiation process that I should be aware of.
There is no target audience. FTA:

> Like its rollable laptop from last year, Lenovo isn’t pretending that it has any plans to release its ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop as a consumer device. But Butler says he has “very high confidence” that its technologies will make it into a real laptop in the next five years and hopes that revealing this proof of concept will start a public conversation about what it could be useful for, setting a target for Lenovo to work toward.
I bet sooner or later Microsoft will be in hot water again with antitrust and this time with generative ai
Wow this is like if multiple interchangeable cpu architectures existed or something. Every time a new llm gets released I’m so excited about how much better things will be with so many fewer monopolies.

Even without an open source model I think open AI has already achieved its mission.
> They are both performing actions that profit maximize given their situation.

That really rings like moral relativism. Even 15 years ago when we were still talking about "GPGPU" and OpenCL seemed like a serious competitor to Cuda, NVidia was much less open than AMD. Sure you can argue that they are "just" profit maximising, turns out it's quite detrimental to all of us...

If what you're saying is that we shouldn't be naive when dealing with for-profit companies and expect good gestures, I agree. But some are more evil than others.
If you look at the thread, there’s at least one person who claims to not be taking money for their Plex server that was confronted with a screenshot of them selling access to their Plex server.

Stop selling stuff you don’t have the right to sell, and no one will bat an eye at you.
https://archive.ph/efrJ7
You think that in 50+ years if there were 22000 people missing the families of those would not have come out to say “hey my X is missing”?

https://www.abc.es/internacional/abci-fernandez-meijide-cifr...

https://www.lanacion.com.ar/politica/la-dura-confesion-de-un...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JIabDqQsnjk
I appreciate the honesty in the marketing materials. Showing the product scoring below the market leader in a big benchmark is better than the Google way of cherry picking benchmarks.
Mega-CRISPR tool gives a power boost to cancer-fighting cells
So it wasn't the opioid epidemic, it wasn't the lack of safety nets, it wasn't medical deregulation and pain clinics, no it was the yellow people on the other side of earth. Jesus christ. Off course that's a problem but the way the US always blames extreme domestic problems on russians, chinese, middle easterners or anyone but yourself is pathetic in my view. You guys are the world superpower - take some responsibility, and not only by attacking or blaming other countries.

And i'm not saying this to make the EU faultless, it's a shitshow over here too and for that many people are blaming middle easternes, there's always some foreigners or far away to blame and it's embarrassing.

Last time i visited family in Manchester i saw similar developments but on a much smaller scale, and it's because of shit domestic politics not foreign actors.

Let's blame the policy makers, the plutocrats and the people with the most influence for once and not let them excuse bad developments with hybrid warfare or some other idiotic scapegoat while they sip wine from their yachts - it's the oldest play in the book.
> and I did not tell her

I don’t think you should feel too bad about this. Having a severe sesame allergy and not knowing what tahini is and also not asking about sesame in dishes is quite reckless IMO. They were bound to accidentally eat something with tahini in it eventually.
I'm curious to know why they compared with Gemini 1.0 Pro only.
>>When do you find value in the ability to lock or unlock the car from a distance?

My kid/wife is going to the car, I can unlock the car for them. Or I'm going to carry something from home to the car, I can unlock it first, put the key in my pocket then go to the car directly without having to fumble with the keys.

>>The fobs are bulky and heavy.

Interesting, but that's not my experience. Both my Mercedes and Volvo keyless fobs were smaller in size than my current VW keyfob(which is not keyless and has to be inserted in the ignition). I have seen the BMW abomination of a key though and yeah, that is unnecessarily big.

>>u still have to handle it, the fob just goes in a cupholder instead of into the receiver in the steering column

Uhm, no? Just keep it in your pocket or purse, why would you need to put it in a cupholder? That's the entire point of it - you just keep it on your person somewhere and the car "just" starts.

And in general with fully keyless fobs my key just lives in the pocket of my jeans - so as long as I'm wearing them I can open and start my car, I don't ever need to actually handle the key at all. I go to the car, grab the handle and it magically opens. I hop in, press a button and the car starts. I leave the car and touch the handle and the car closes. I suppose that's mechanically somewhat similar to putting the key into the lock, but so much simpler and takes less time.

>>I miss my 2003 Vibe back home, with the simple, flat, light, mechanical key.

Oh I miss the key for my 1995 Fiat Cinquecento too, that was very nice and small and straightforward. But what made keys big was the immobilizer, not remote control.
Doesn't look like it's open source/weights?
My brother was in architecture school in the 80s and the had some
amusing contraptions like the Leroy Lettering set:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPpgVpDDqDU/VT-JJ417kvI/AAAAAAAAU...

Interesting.
I think we need drug education classes like we have for sex education. I know parents will fight it but we need to teach kids how to administer naloxone and if they are going to take pills, make sure they tell someone who is someone nearby who can help administer it.

That and we need labeled pill packs w/ secure traceable verification codes. If fentanyl is coming in as fake adderall we need kids who have legitimate prescriptions to know that what they get is real.

The other thing would be the technology with blood ox sensors to alert first responders. This might be hard to get right false positives but could help.
I’ve never seen an ad on Plex. Never saw anything about rentals.
It depends on whether you are willing to trade storage space for compute. The raspberry pi struggles happen when real-time transcoding is taking place. If you change the settings or pre-transcode everything, then it will easily run on the pi.

If you would rather use compute than storage, then a desktop is a good plan. I run my jellyfin on my desktop and use cloudflare tunnel for making it available online as needed. That said, me and my family are the only users of my instance, so access through the internet is not the primary way. I only set that up for when we are traveling.
A First Look at Lifetimes in Rust [video]
Alternative take, scheduling a rejection meeting without providing any indication about the meeting agenda creates an unrejectable obligation without any consideration for the candidate.
> Au Large

Does anyone have an idea what does "Au" stand for here? Translating "au" to French gives "at", but I'm not sure whether this is what it's supposed to mean.

And "Au" doesn't seem to be used anywhere else in the article.
One thing I see missing from some other replies to your comment is a discussion of determinism. That is given the same input, always produce the same output.

Determinism is often valued in safety critical systems. The system can't work _sometimes_. The system can't even work correctly _eventually_. It must produce the desired result in the time allotted. Actuating the thing 20ms too late could be as bad doing it incorrectly depending on the application.

I'm no ML expert, but that seems to be a problem for those types of solutions in some spaces.
mistral-medium has been dated and tagged as mistral-medium-2312. The endpoint mistral-medium will be deprecated in three months. [1]

[1]: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/changelog/
Final images of Ingenuity reveal an entire blade broke off the helicopter
Speaking of Plex alternatives, does anyone have a great alternative to Plexamp (Plex's local music player)? [1]

[1]: https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/
I wrongly believed my father was killed by a murderous teenage gang
EDIT: if you're reading my comment, please see the response from Mike McQuaid, who's the _current_ project leader for Homebrew. It's good to know Max isn't involved over there anymore! Gonna leave my original comment below this line, so that the context still makes sense:

----

That fact paired with the fact that the guy behind Tea.xyz is the same as the guy behind Homebrew makes me _really_ distrust Homebrew going forward.

He's taking money from known crypto scammers to launch AI-generated nonsense (the pkgx nonsense from HN the other day) and abusive crypto-monetization patterns (this tea.xyz thing).

His biggest claim to fame was...a ripoff of the Arch User Repository, which is useful, sure, but not something that instills a lot of confidence in the "wants to promote himself off the back of others' work" aspect of his résumé thus far.

Gonna look into good alternatives to Homebrew.
There is inevitably some interpretation involved, but I wouldn't say it's as arbitrary as that.
> I'm frankly not 100% sure why any doctor would want to start someone on Infliximab in 2024 if Adalimumab was also available.

My gastro says he simply sees better results on infliximab than he does on adalimumab across all his patients, so he tends to start people on the former first. I think the fact that it's an infusion versus a shot does make a difference. AFAIK very few of his patients end up failing infliximab and switching to adalimumab, other than the ones who don't respond to TNFis period.

(Worth noting here that I actually was on twice-monthly adalimumab prior to getting a Crohn's DX, so I'm definitely one of those people for whom infliximab is a better choice. The adalimumab helped with spondylitis pain to an extent, but GI imaging at the time still came back definitively Crohn-y!)
this is amazing, so many people struggling with coming up with cool ideas haha
They are not bullshit. They are created by companies to suppress compensation. For example we have "staff engineer" which is supposedly doing a lot of high level stuff across the whole organization, but org provides very few such opportunities. So everyone is stuck with "senior engineer" pay grade and the employer gaslights you into "oh you only deserve senior pay because you are not good enough for next pay grade"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23277/what-is-the-differ...
I think getting fired in my 20s was the best thing to happen to me. It taught me the value of an emergency fund and what it really means to "live within your means"

Later, I resisted lifestyle inflation with each promotion and raise and budgeting comes easily to me now. Money makes me happy, not because I can spend it immediately but having a pile of it means my employers have almost no power over me. Real or imagined.

I want to do well at work for status not survival, it feels much more sustainable over decades.

p.s. please dont do the boring thing and say "well we all cant be fired in the past and sit on a pile of cash, in my life <blah blah>". yes congratulations you have discovered you aren't me and this isn't advice.
Gemini Advanced doesn't has an API yet, nor do we have Gemini 1.5 Pro available.
ollama is MIT licensed unless i am misreading
How to find meaning in your science career
What are these "thousands of quantitative metrics" on which you base your latest claims? If you have had them on hand all this while, it seems odd that you have not made use of them so far.
Is there an alternative for them?
There are some exceptions to the rule. I always go the local SIM route, and after burning through all my data from Andorra Telecom I decided to look at Airalo (and about 20 other eSIM providers). Airalo was cheaper for more than twice the data as buying a local SIM from Andorra Telecom. I could only get about 18GB/mo from Andorra Telecom (without a long term contract) but was able to get 45GB from Airalo and for a couple euros less per month. Also, the eSIM vs physical SIM was much more convenient.
> Don't be surprised when acts against corporate interests get slapped.

Because corporate interests are the most important thing to consider on this earth, right? We've got felony contempt of business model laws, after all.
The waste problem is solved. As with the rest of the nuclear discussion, it’s mostly hysteria.

Here’s a guy kissing nuclear waste. It’s a bit tongue in cheek on the surface, but he’s PhD and there is quality information in the video.

https://youtu.be/lhHHbgIy9jU?si=wE0FvscMgBpLUZ0g
First thing which comes to my mind are spare parts and repair manuals. Are they going to be available or is it going to be 14k USD one use car?
Au, is also the chemical symbol for Gold. It's the short form of the latin word Aurum.
This is probably, what the authors intentended as shown in the yellow tint in the website. I might be wrong though
Doesn't facebook famously have single title of "software engineer". Curious to hear how that works in practice.
Changelog is also updated: [1]

Feb. 26, 2024

API endpoints: We renamed 3 API endpoints and added 2 model endpoints.

open-mistral-7b (aka mistral-tiny-2312): renamed from mistral-tiny. The endpoint mistral-tiny will be deprecated in three months.

open-mixtral-8x7B (aka mistral-small-2312): renamed from mistral-small. The endpoint mistral-small will be deprecated in three months.

mistral-small-latest (aka mistral-small-2402): new model.

mistral-medium-latest (aka mistral-medium-2312): old model. The previous mistral-medium has been dated and tagged as mistral-medium-2312. The endpoint mistral-medium will be deprecated in three months.

mistral-large-latest (aka mistral-large-2402): our new flagship model with leading performance.

New API capabilities:

Function calling: available for Mistral Small and Mistral Large.
JSON mode: available for Mistral Small and Mistral Large

La Plateforme:

We added multiple currency support to the payment system, including the option to pay in US dollars.
We introduced enterprise platform features including admin management, which allows users to manage individuals from your organization.

Le Chat:

We introduced the brand new chat interface Le Chat to easily interact with Mistral models.

You can currently interact with three models: Mistral Large, Mistral Next, and Mistral Small.

[1]: https://docs.mistral.ai/platform/changelog/
Emby already went closed source, it will do the same.
Storing time series data in sharded MySQL
Good to know, thanks! Probably not something I’d want to use for a super low bandwidth application like hourly gps updates but definitely viable for something a little more “active iot”.
Democracies can be fascist - it depends who gets elected. Even Hitler was elected initially.
Am I the only person who wonders how "Marilyn Vos Savant" also happens to be the smartest person?

If you didn't notice, "Savant" means smart.

So is it just a coincidence? Karma? The pressure of carrying such a name drove her to smartness?
Whatever's going on at Plex HQ is very weird. I've used it for years and when I first set it up, it WAS software I controlled (or so I thought). I mean it was open source, you installed it locally, and there was no such thing as a Plex account or paid services at the time. Eventually they added the account, the upsells and the nags and scary messages which all led you towards getting an account, but I avoided doing so until last year.

When I finally relented and registered an account all kinds of bugs cropped up, like my local media started streaming through their server and became unplayable as a result. There was no clear way to reverse it. Around the same time their Android app started requiring a Plex account to function (not sure if that was just an update they pushed, or some flag that got flipped by me using an account once).

I think I ultimately just nuked my Plex install, reinstalled, and never attempted to log into a Plex account again. I live in perpetual certainty now that one day an auto-update will make Plex simply melt down and stop working one way or another for me. It's not really a big deal, I will just have to set up Jellyfin and live with it when that day arrives because it can't possibly be worse than this experience, right? Needless to say I will never give Plex Inc. a single penny after watching this enshittification.
Yeah, this problem is special because it's so familiar. If you ask a riddle about two trains moving at different speeds, people will treat it like a math problem and just assume they won't get it. The Monty Hall problem really makes people upset when they don't get it.
that's a good problem to aspire toward.
"Au large" means far from the coast, off to sea.
[dupe]

Official MS post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-machine-learning-b...

Official Mistral post: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large/

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511477
My guess is several rounds of RLHF or fine-tuning with some kind of curated 'woke' dataset. Alternatively, they trained a critic model that penalizes showing white people or other 'bad' representations and then fine tuned using that.