skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I like that it can export, so to speak, to git.

I think it should be ok for bigger projects, I mean sqlite uses it, but I've no knowledge about whether it's considered big or not other than Sqlite being on every device (more or less).
I spent a while trying to hear objects positioned in space, so that if the drone is to my left then I hear it from the left... but I guess it doesn't work like that, the position just affects the amplitude. Still very neat, of course.
Did you read my comment? I said buy a large AIO and then don’t do the rest of the article and then it actually is quiet with no effort. Large.
I think that happens as well. EG discrediting even the possibility of the lab leak theory, or incest research in the UK Bio Bank.
yeah that's what I am confused about, sounds like a gray area, I don't know if me doing something I know is legal could set me up for lawsuits a year down the line so am I supposed to hoard data in the wait of being sued someday lest my data maintenance tic be used against me?

If I know I am doing something illegal then yeah the case against me could be stronger, but what about people who don't
Now this looks really promising, the only question is if they've taken the constant ridicule by the open LLM community to heart and made it any less ridiculously censored than the previous two.
UI tip: let us know what the emojis mean after we closed the help modal. I can't tell which one is which.
"leading the frontier of general intelligence."

Llms are an illusion of general intelligence. What is different about these models that leads to such a claim? Marketing hype?
You can either pay Apple 30%, or you can pay Apple 27%… and then negotiate terms with your credit card processing provider. How's that not a great deal!?
Was a legend of a rich elderly woman who lived on a cruise ship, back in the steamship days. Spent years travelling between America and England, back and forth, with a private room and service and even a ship's doctor. New neighbors constantly, entertained and fed the housed.
And now they've had a different court which, assuming antitrust and monopoly are the same concept, says they are.

As I'm not a lawyer, my understanding of their arguments is going to be strictly worse than ChatGPT's, and I know it.
Ephemeral usernames safeguard privacy and make Signal harder to subpoena
Could be wrong but Microsoft also had a policy back then to not spend much on lobbying before the trial. They now spend quite a bit. In the US, Apple spent a measly ~6 million a year before bumping it up to 9 a year in 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043061/lobbying-expense...

By contrast, microsoft has consistently spent 9-10 million a year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1043105/lobbying-expense...

Could it be a coincidence? Obviously. But it does seem like if you play the game, you’re less likely to get burned. Of course, that’s a very US centric approach and it makes sense that the EU is the one bringing on these challenges.

Standard “my opinions are my own” post script.
At the time we thought our tools were good, and really meant it.

Now it's different, we think our new tools are good, and we really mean it. But it's different.
Identifying Software
I never filed bug tickets until I had graduated college and worked on software full time. Then I learned that the devs _do_ care (at least on the small software I've worked on) and they love to know if something isn't working, especially because most people don't file bug reports.

I remember an HN thread from probably two years ago about how the Linux version of some software got way more bug reports than the Windows and MacOS versions, despite way fewer users. The bugs were actually mostly cross-platform and non-Linux specific, but Linux users were just more used to actually filing bug reports for the software they used.
This wasn't because they had low opinion of women in tech. It's because some other speakers refused to attend if there weren't a specific percentage of women speakers but the organizers couldn't find enough to meet that quota. Still scummy to fake women speakers, but the motivation was not simply a low opinion of women.

> Hanselman confirmed that he was "duped" by seeing the bill including at least one fake female speaker. He also confirmed that speakers like him have rules for participating in conferences, including only joining inclusive speaker lineups.
the semantics matter here though, in the absence of the existence of a lawsuit or any sort of legal proceedings is my data classified as "evidence"?
I wonder if there are still companies out there running tomcat 10 clusters on their dedicated servers and furiously laughing at the depressing state of the software engineering world.
Math poetry is a pretty active genre.
the market is evaluating LLMs based on what's actually available. No GPT5 = users go elsewhere.

GPT-4 has little "lock-in" and isn't "good enough" the keep users via inertia.
> No one would be forcing users into doing that, it's about allowing the users who want that control over their own devices.

The moment this is a thing is when the social engineering attacks to get people to root their own phones, to set up untrusted app stores that firehose shitware down onto phones, etc. starts to happen. "I'm from Microsoft, you need to add the Microsoft Store to your iPhone, here's how." I get your concern, and in a world less built on open grift I would share it, but our esteemed tech brainlords have built a tech ecosystem that exists to enable scams. (Hell, I almost got popped a few months ago by a scam, and I tend to be pretty cautious about things.)

Unless the opt-in mechanism is something like "open the phone and turn a jumper" or "buy a different model of the same phone" I genuinely think it's way too dangerous for the average target of a social-engineering attack. People buy iPhones to not deal with this shit as much as is possible; taking that away hurts a lot more people than it helps.
How much do you know about getting into this field? I’d be interested to know more.
Since you're the author I can ask you directly, what the purpose is of the language. Why did you choose MIDI as a form of representation? What kind of programs are you implementing with it? Where are these programs supposed to be executed, on MIDI instruments?
At this point I wonder how much of the GPT-4 advantage has been OpenAI's pre-training data advantage vs. fundamental advancements in theory or engineering. Has OpenAI mastered deep nuances others are missing? Or is their data set large enough that most test-cases are already a sub-set of their pre-training data?
According to the article, "The Alef Model A...also qualifies as an ultra-light vehicle, meaning it comes under the same legal classification as small electric vehicles like golf carts," and this means, "you do not need a pilot certificate (license) to fly ultralight vehicles."

https://www.faa.gov/faq/do-i-need-pilot-license-certificate-...
I don't put a lot of stock on evals. many of the models claiming gpt-4 like benchmark scores feel a lot worse for any of my use-cases. Anyone got any sample output?

Claude isn't available in EU yet, else i'd try it myself. :(
Wait, this article is idiotic. I first skimmed it as they made this fake flying car with $150 refundable preorders, and their market cap went to $850,000,000.

In fact, that's just a number that was in somebody's ass (not sure if that somebody is from the company, or just the reporter rectally deriving the number).

But that's just the gross revenue if every single pre-order turned into a $300,000.00 sale. At $150, the real number is $427,500.

And fully refundable any time, the real number is actually... $0

Retracting my upvote on this story, it's crap. There is zero evidence, or reason to believe, that any of those "customers" will ever drive or fly one of these cars.
My dad had installed a QR code reader app on his iPhone that was a monthly paid subscription. He was wasting hundreds of dollars every year for something his phone already did automatically for free by just opening the camera. Apple will happily let scammers create garbage paid apps to do the same thing their phones already do for free. No side-loading to let viruses in required.
TikTok launches data portability API ahead of Europe's DMA regulatory deadline
Also https://www.rmcretro.com which is very hands on.
Most of the apps I install are mandatory apps. It's not illegal to not have them, but if you don't install you can't access your doctor, file an insurance claim, bank, see your childs grades, enter the front door of your child's preschool, etc. All of these are malicious actors who will steal as much of my data as possible at all times, but I do actually need a preschool. As long as I can only install these through the app store, we are at an uneasy truce where these apps comply with app store rules.
No update on availability in European Union (still unavailable) :/
Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk's mega pay package
I hate that they require a phone number but this might be the only way to prevent abuse so I'll have to bite the bullet.

> We’ve made meaningful progress in this area: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models.

Finally someone who takes this into account, Gemini and chatGPT is such an obstacle sometimes with their unnecessary refusal because a keyword triggered something.
Surpassing GPT4 is huge for any model, very impressive to pull off.

But then again...GPT4 is a year old and OpenAI has not yet revealed their next-gen model.
Manufacturing is hard. Continuous manufacturing is harder. Continuous manufacturing of a new product using new methods is really really quite hard.

Whenever I read about things like this, I wonder why they didn't start by automating only part of the process, and expanding from there.

The other thing that I will say about automation is that "Automation does not solve your problems; In order to automate, you must solve all of the problems that your automation will run into"
Pijul handles binary files natively, using a number of mathematical tricks removing the need for extra layers (layers like LFS). If you're interested come talk to us!
A few features which look minor but the author got totally right, which IMHO would allow this solution to scale very well with more complex applications.

1) X-Alpine-Target

```
<form method="post" action="/comments" x-target="comments comments_count"
```

generates an ajax request with this header by default:

```
X-Alpine-Target: comments comments_count
```

This is very very cool! In most usecases, one the serverside I can return a full html document and alpine-ajax will only look for #comments and #comments_count in the response. BUT, if I want the serverside to be faster (ie: do less), then the client is able to tell the server which parts of the html it wants via the `X-Alpine-Target` header -- instead of the server having to know which parts need updating via the url alone. It's like graphql for the htmx/hotwire architecture.

2) `ajax:missing`. If the client expects dom ids to be in the response and they aren't there, you can create a sentry error to expose the broken "contract" between the initial page's request and the action's response.

3) x-merge="append"

In hotwire, the html markup is dumb and the turbo-stream response is smart (`turbo-stream action="append"`). But in alpine-ajax, the response is dumb and the html markup is smart (`x-merge="append">`). This difference is subtle, but it allows for the serverside responses (for actions) be more general purpose/discrete components, while the ux which might change from page-to-page or section-to-section is decoupled to that page's/section's container html.

4) x-sync

"Elements with the x-sync attribute are updated whenever the server sends a matching element, even if the element isn't targeted with x-target."

Wow - amazing developer ux for cross cutting concerns like notifications, flash messages, etc. So practical.

5) Creating demos with an alpine-ajax mock server.... wow, an out of the box way to make standalone component test pages.
At networking mixers I've attended, often there are a limited number of drink tickets per person and a set event duration. But the drink tickets only covered alcohol, not other beverages. In some cases, other beverages just weren't an option at all. ("I guess you could find a water fountain? But why?")

Also, one of those recurring events was hosted at a startup that was, to be frank, known for "worse than college" level planning all around...

Eventually events started getting better at providing options. Probably a mix of several factors: the move to another city (local culture), career growth/level of people around me, and changing social patterns. (increasing interest in non alcoholic options/ more people willing to speak up)
Why enterprise IT is so complex
Apple has been hit with a $2B antitrust fine
Purchusing SaaS / Services
What would have to happen for you to purchase a service/SaaS subscription about which you have no idea and you never heard about?
Look at that jump in grade school math. From 55 % with GPT 3.5 to 95 % for both Claude 3 and GPT 4.
They are working the narrative as hard as they can.
The point I was originally trying to make was that they all sucked before SVN came out.

Especially when compared with the options we have now, I think it's slightly misleading to say OSS solutions were in any real way better back then...
I mean, no other platform did that neither before nor after the iPhone came out. To my knowledge, all other smartphone OSes ever made had some way of sideloading apps.
Teams bundling would be the main one.

Then Xbox for not allowing alternative marketplaces like Steam.

OneDrive and Office365 cross-promotion is also a bit dodgy, especially tied in to the near-mandatory Microsoft account. Apple might get sued over iCloud for the same reason soon.
So Orange won 12 years time to pay whatever you won in the end?

That's a factor of about 2.2x, assuming 7% capital gains year-on-year.

If the sums are large, it would've made a lot of sense for Orange to delay the decision for 12 years until having to pay.

But I'm not sure at all of the sums here were that substantial.
I don’t know… that’s kind of a negative way to see it. but I mean those auto DMCA takedown services already kind of do something like this right? Why shouldn’t IP violation checking as a service be a real thing that open developers can access? I think your framing of this is wrong. More empowerment and legal protection and enforcement for developers that underpin the ecosystem is a good thing.
I think Hetzner does that to combat fraudulent signups, not because they're required to do so by law. But in general Germany is quite hostile to online privacy, it's not a role model other countries should follow.
...package managers to (un)install software. RedHat Linux had RPM since 1998 at least
But implementation language is also predictive of the values and style likely to be embraced by a project. I found my current job (as Square) because in 2015, I got on the Atlanta 404 Slack, and asked “Who in Atlanta is doing interesting things in Go?” For Go, that has diluted over time as Go has become more of a default choice, but in 2015, it was highly predictive of a certain sort of work and a certain mindset.

And, in some domains (version control is one of them; type checkers/linters/bundlers/compilers are another), it has proven to be extremely important.
Create reserve units for civilian tech experts in the military
Is it helpful though?
I am guessing he meant either Laptop or a Desktop regardless of OS.
Generative AI Full Course – Gemini Pro, OpenAI, Llama, LangChain and More [video]
The Opus model that seems to perform better than GPT4 is unfortunately much more expensive than the OpenAI model.

Pricing (input/output per million tokens):

GPT4-turbo: $10/$30

Claude 3 Opus: $15/$75
Knowledge Expansion
Which sources/newsletters/communities/influencers do you read on a daily basis? Which meetups and conferences you attend, if any?
That's probably more money than the WinRAR people got :)
The US signaled pretty clearly that it cannot be relied upon so Europe will need to react (incl. on nuclear and other deterrence).
How to get all the RSS feed items ever published by a website RSS feed?
Take a sample feed https://cointelegraph.com/rss It shows the most recent 20 or so items but how would you go about retrieving every single feed item ever published since this website came into existence?
In Pijul the head is a CRDT. Having used it for years to develop itself, I can definitely imagine!
The M2 and M3 are more evolutions of the M series. If you already have an M1 machine, there's no real need to upgrade. But if you don't, the M3 seems like a great device to get.
> Claude isn't available in EU yet, else i'd try it myself.

I'm currently in EU and I have access to it?
Substack Is Both Great and Terrible for Authors
He can also ping apple's support to get a refund on that subscription, which they will happily do.
The lack of first sale doctrine for temporary digital licenses is pushing way too much control back to streaming platform owners.

Especially for really niche things that don't have mass-market financial incentive, sometimes it seems like no one bothers to put them up on a service. No explicit desire not too... it's just not worth the time.

Non-anime example, the 1994 masterpiece Airheads [0], which as near as I can tell simply doesn't exist anywhere digital.

So kudos to the rabin fansub volunteer community and grey-market anime imports -- if you want to keep something alive, then first keep a copy someone can't take from you.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airheads
No worries. And sorry for my unnecessarily sharp response! :-)
> It seems you're implying not taking women seriously to be "natural"

le guidelines:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I would guess the political split between views on remote work may be more the result of age differences rather their political views per se:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/demographic-...
Pro: writing lots of boilerplate is less painful.

Con: writing lots of boilerplate is less painful.

(So you get more boilerplate code)
The results really aren’t striking enough that it’s clear that this model blows GPT-4 away. It seems roughly equivalent, give or take a bit.

Why can we still not easily surpass a (relatively) ancient model?
Yeah this is huge, first Gemini and now Claude!
Konilo is not an ANSI Forth. It's a unique dialect with similarities to my older RetroForth system, which is also not a traditional model.

In Konilo, that example would look like:

:variable d:create #0 comma ;

and using it would appear as:

'ORANGES variable

While much of the system is complete, documentation has been lacking, partly due to me not investing much time on this while things were evolving. Now that it's stable, I am working on this, and have added some information to the manual (see https://konilo.org/manual) to help clarify that it's not a traditional Forth model.
Not necessarily. They could add a surcharge over a threshold amount rather than just charging everyone more, even people who conserve water.

$1 / gallon for the first 100 gallons
$2 / gallon for every gallon over 100

When they just make water more expensive, they are also punishing the people who conserve water. Really it sounds like just a tax grab.
I’m a computer nerd, and even then, all my actually-important-for-real-life computing takes place on my phone.
Doesn't this contradict EU law? Specifically this: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/eupl/news/why-viral-l...

I guess the fact that the software was also offered with a commercial license could be considered that it prejudices the legitimate interest of the author of the library. IANAL, but I think this might be a one-off (most GPL libraries do not have a commercial license alternative, so...).
I agree, but one missing component is how many housing units are represented by this software in a given market.

If everything here is true [price fixing] but the number of units is small 20%, it still won't work. Consumers will go to the 80% where the actual market lives.

Now maybe someone better at economics can tell me how many units does it take to shift the market? 50%?
Did some quick tests and Claude 3 Sonnet responses have been mostly wrong compared to Gemini :/ (was asking it to describe certain GitHub projects and Claude was making stuff up)
You can use Claude 2.1 on openrouter. Hopefully, they will be able to add the Claude 3 family too.
> The M3 chip is significantly more powerful than its predecessor, with benchmark tests showing an approximate performance increase of 17 percent in single-core tasks and 21 percent in multi-core tasks.

This is a nice performance increase, but I would not call this "significantly"
that doesn't seem to be anywhere in this list
I didn't realize that there was that option, I might have to give them a try then! Keila also looks good, but I can't find anything about RSS integration with them. Thanks!
So you’re agreeing that Apple successfully boiled the ocean and now should help others who can’t?
Well, it was the country that banned traffic cameras doing average speed check on longer stretches, because it was an unreasonable indiscriminate privacy intrusion, storing the number plate information of all passing cars, with a potential for abuse.

Now the Dutch tax services just went ahead, broke the law, stored and analyzed the number plate information of millions of drivers to try to determine if they were using their company car more than allowed for private use. For more or less zero gains. And no retribution when found out.

And by the way, no, personal, non-commercial websites are absolutely not required to have the user's full name and address on them. Link:

https://www.bmuv.de/themen/verbraucherschutz/digitaler-verbr...
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Does any of those LLM-as-a-service companies provide a mechanism to "save" a given input? Paying only for the state storage and the extra input when continuing the completion from the snapshot?

Indeed, at 1M token and $15/M tokens, we are talking of $10+ API calls (per call) when maxing out the LLM capacity.

I see plenty of use cases for such a big context, but re-paying, at every API call, to re-submit the exact same knowledge base seems very inefficient.

Right now, only ChatGPT (the webapp) seems to be using such those snapshots.

Am I missing something?
The difference is that Microsoft was targeting general purpose computing with policy-based restrictions, and Apple is selling mobile phones that are not general purpose computing devices and later on a service ecosystem to go with it.

We could re-qualify mobile phones as general purpose devices (which technically they could be but in reality they are not), that would make the parallels much closer, and we could also have the service ecosystem made non-optional (it still is optional) to make it a bundled requirement, that would make the parallels even closer.

Other than that, the landscape and context have drastically changed, especially when it comes to presence, attention, personal attachment and the abuse of all of that (addition, mass media consumption, personal information that gets stolen or mined, attacks on devices that have a real world impact). So even if we were to make it just a browser war it wouldn't really be the same.

It's a shame Palm, RIM, Microsoft and Nokia are no longer playing the same game, it would have been interesting to see what their take on the market would be. Considering all of their hardware and software had the exact same model (release it as an appliance, all software and in some cases all traffic goes through them), it would have allowed more people to have some perspective.