skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. I've not had any problems using GPT4 with code that it has never seen. But sure, I'll try that...

Edit: I took the GIO Hello World sample. I fed it into the GPT-4 API.

And I swear to God, first try, first click:

https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/bde583aa8a2e8e5e1c56... Near-perfect success. One extra import, sure, I'll give it that one, LLMs can't correct when they notice they don't actually need an import in the code. But then it works.

Gist link cause I use OpenRouter against the GPT-4 API, maybe that's why? Maybe the "stochastic parrot" vs "oncoming apocalypse" perspective genuinely represents that ..... GPT just doesn't work for some people?? Did they fuck the ChatGPT4 web interface enough somehow so that it's just inept, but somehow not affect the API?

Edit:

> In my research, 35/37 attempts don't even compile. It tries the same mistakes over and over again. It fails to make reasonable assessment of the compilation errors.

Important note: there's a theory that if you've got it making mistakes a few times, it thinks that it's playing "the sort of AI that fucks up a lot" and starts making more mistakes, reinforcing its role. Start over fresh if it seems strangely incapable. Like, it is absolutely possible to use GPT-4 in a way that results in it systematically being incapable of the most basic tasks. These things are not reliably competent; but they're occasionally competent! In my experience, even with completely novel tasks in completely novel environments, the competence is "in there" and can often be elicited with dedicated poking. That's why I think LLMs are enough for a takeoff with enough scale (and basic online learning probably): in my opinion, it's not a matter of attaining the skills but removing the roadblocks.

It's like the joke about seeing an old man playing chess with a labrador, and the labrador just carefully picking up figures and moving them around the board, every time in a legal move, and you say "that's amazing, a chess-playing dog!" And the old man scoffs and says, "Nonsense. His endgame is rubbish." Three years ago we didn't think a dog could understand pawn promotion at all.

edit: Hey, share your repros? I'm genuinely curious what's going on here now.

edit:

> Watch how it can't even spell.

This is a specific issue with the current generation of LLMs and should be thought of more as a disorder than a fundamental inability. LLMs don't actually ever see letters, they see BPEs, which consist of one up to n letters. For instance, the word "corporation" looks to the AI more like "<27768>". So like- yes. It can not spell. It fundamentally, architecturally, cannot perceive letters in the words you give it; its ability to manually split words into letters is based on chance memorization. Instead, try getting it to split the word into letters in code.
I would love one presidential candidate to include this in their platform. I have yet to hear this (unless I just missed this person!).

A massive overhaul & reduction in all of this security theater. NSA and others already do the heavy lifting of identifying people planning bad things. Can we just do a basic metal detector or something and call it a day?
> I can think of a few circumstances where a rational person with a firearm could end up in a situation worse than if they did not have it

I think this is dangerous framing. My personal impression is that every single person stops acting rationally when enough pressure is applied, and this "stops acting rational" limit is very feasible to reach for almost all of us in highly emotional situations.

For me, the biggest numerical contributor to negative value from firearm carry would be escalation of e.g. relationships arguments, or desperation/depression turning into murder-suicide or simply accidents.

I think its impossible to prevent those by selectively granting concealed carry permits or whatever, I believe that they outweight the positive outcomes where a firearm allows you to kill or fend off an aggressor.

But I still think that you should have the right to carry even if its mostly net-negative...
Minimum of three is generally for one of two reasons:

1) to ensure you can deliberately take one offline for maintenance and still have redundancy in case a single node goes offline

2) in some systems an odd number of nodes is needed to ensure no ties in leader elections or decision votes. Three is the smallest odd number that has any redundancy.
From DF a few days ago[0]
:

> The termination of Epic Games Sweden AB’s Apple developer account was communicated in a letter from Mark Perry, a lawyer representing Apple, to Epic’s lawyers:

> Mr. Sweeney’s response to that request was wholly insufficient and not credible. It boiled down to an unsupported “trust us.” History shows, however, that Epic is verifiably untrustworthy, hence the request for meaningful commitments. And the minimal assurances in Mr. Sweeney’s curt response were swiftly undercut by a litany of public attacks on Apple’s policies, compliance plan, and business model. As just one example: https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1762243725533532587?s=20.

Maybe Tim sent more than a two sentence reply to Phil to get it straightened out. It's anyone's guess at this point.

—

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/apple_epic_developer_acco...
Agreed. Power draw and often noise on enterprise equipment is ridiculous in a home setting. I try to stick to the small form factor (SFF) or ultra-small form factor (USFF) computers whenever I can, which is what the author is using. I used to use Raspberry Pi boards for some things but always ran into problems w/ microSD cards dying, even with log2ram and buying industrial cards. I haven't had a single issue after switching to tiny x64 machines w/ real SSDs in them.

I picked up a HP managed switch that I thought I might use but it draws more power than the ThinkCentre M93p Tiny computers do and it's actively cooled w/ super noisy 1U fan(s) so I'm going to ditch it.
To decomission a weapon is to weaken the army. Rulers must be very careful about taking power from the army, as army officials are wary of being stripped of power. A ruler must be in the good grace of the army.

For that reason, it is difficult to get rid of inherited weapons. A plausible justification is required.

With Putin, however, Russia is strenghtening an army. It is correct in this case, I think, to verbally remind your enemies of the threat they represent. E.g.Trump, in the US, has a strong discourse position to pull the US from conflict, because his supporters want "To make America great again", the world be damned.
This runs Cortex-X1C and A78C, which are of the generation _just_ before the one that got SVE
The First Dune Game 32 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective [video]
No one insulted you, you used a meme as an excuse for a company that completely went against its founding principles and I called you out on it.
How many vacancies are there? How many of the new residents are joining an existing household, and how many are family groups that will share a house?

The numbers you've cited don't sound completely out of line. The counterpoint is that housing prices have increased so dramatically.

I don't see it mentioned, but I assume wealthy people without price sensitivity around the world are purchasing extra properties in Canada as climate refuges in a relatively stable democracy, and using AirBNB to generate income from them while they are not needed.
Not having data is quite a significant gap.

BTW: I am not criticizing the actual reviewer of the paper. Data availability should be a policy of the journal and required for publication. How can you improve quality without access to the data? In this instance requiring data would have likely prevented the paper from even reaching peer review and wasting a busy individuals time.
If said plane is the only unscreened flight out of Tel-Aviv? Maybe I'd have some reservations.

But if all flights were completely unscreened? It wouldn't change what or when I fly.

I already board unscreened trains and busses quite often.
A little past the headline:

> Not every one of these models is a clear GPT-4 beater, but every one of them is a contender.
I honestly think we'd be better off if doctors and nurses charged for their time like the good lawyers and paralegals due.

No fixed fees. No per-visit charges. Just bill for the time spent (including pre- and post-visit paperwork) and the direct expenses actually incurred. Everything else is built into the hourly rate.

It will never happen, but it would be much better.
idk ... on the flip side I'm old enough to remember when the shoe bomber was caught MID-FLIGHT and people were rightfully scared.[1]

Like, holy shit: you can hide bombs in your shoes?! And that was only THREE months after the 9/11 attacks.

[1] https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shoe-bomber-rich...
Even many umbrella policies max out at $5m, which is still below the car insurance minimums required in much of the EU.

The reality is, in many parts of the US, half or more of drivers have minimum coverage or zero coverage.
2 years ago I joined a startup that has no offices and I have been happy ever since. It is refreshing to be able to concentrate fully, whilst having the flexibility to take a break whenever I need.
That's the problem. The doctors should form employee owned co-ops and be sure profiteering administrators and suits aren't the ones running things.
Will Generation Z usher in the next corporate Renaissance?
Nature should simply require the main article be short and snappy, but then put all the details needed for a replication in an online-only appendix.
I hear this a lot but it hasn't been my experience. My Shorts are almost all from channels I already enjoy, whereas my Reels are full of low-quality clickbait. Maybe the quality for each is directly tied to how much time you invest in their platform?
I don't think most TSA employees are vets... I'm a veteran and it's relatively easy to identify a fellow vet most of the time.
I'm not sure they would need to be accounted for. I think opposition to AirBNBs is a product of severe housing scarcity* and in a scenario where housing is abundant and rents are low, people would be much more welcoming of AirBNBs.

* (Or in some places like Kyoto and Venice, it's due to over-tourism complaints, but I don't think anywhere in Canada is struggling with that problem.)
Cruel?

If anything, these abilities should be sought out and weaponized.

The article did use the word "Savant" though, including in the caption for a photo...seems highly fitting to me.
> You brought up the dependence on the USA first, I explained why that is:

No, I didn't. Go back and read the chain again if you think I'm the first one to bring it up.
It's such a shame they got sold off to Lenovo, a Chinese company with a history of privacy and security issues.

Those things were built like tanks back when IBM owned the brand. My intro to Unix as a kid was installing a mail ordered copy of Ubuntu onto one! Survived years of physical abuse and reinstalls, and still boots up fine almost 20 years later
Robert Burnham Jr
If there were terrorists, they would just open fire on the crowded security checkpoints and kill hundreds of people without any complex scheme. This doesn't happen because there is no terrorist threat we need to be on guard against.
Django Ninja [1], it forever changed how I write Django project, in a way so elegant and productive.

[1]: https://django-ninja.dev/
Currently it is only VS Code, but adding support for JetBrains in the next week or so. :)
All those benchmarks are sooo bad that I'm not really convinced one way or another. Having tried out a few of them I roughly prefer gpt-4 I think still (though I haven't worked with any of them long enough to make a clear judgement).
We…we did. For 87 years of air travel we did. Went pretty darn good. People seemed to have fun with it. They even looked forward to flights.

What an odd comment.
Just stop with the stupid/useless take off your shoes, and take your laptops/ipads out of your bags, and I'm fine with the rest.
That's not what this discussion is about. OP said:

> as soon as you decided to distribute your system across a network you opted into a world where partition can happen, and you will have to give up consistency or availability.

So we are talking in the context of distributed networks. Then:

> Mainframes, though, provide consistency and availability by being unpartitionable except through use of a chainsaw.

using the words "consistency" and "availability" here is clearly refering to the same words in the sentence before. Hence we are still in the context of distributed networks. And therefore you cannot just rule this out as an "act of god".

Had OP said "A mainframe has high availibility compared to my laptop and for me that is more than enough." then I wouldn't have said anything.
I can't quite see which Thinkcentre's those are, but the M920x can fit a 10GbE PCIe NIC in it and provide it enough power. I have one on my desk with 2x2TB NVMe, 32GB RAM and a 10GbE fiber connection to it.
They openly advertise on the side of the buildings that x% of units are already sold while there's barely a frame up.
You're essentially saying that accidental shark death is bad, so we should make it on purpose.

We should be punishing bycatch, not incentivizing it.
I'll board one
I wonder how rental market is and what it feels like elsewhere. Here it seems to move at a glacial pace. Mayors throw parties when a block of 4 appartements is built (never mind the destroyed 20 rentals in the process, killed the local shops for the 6 years completion took, but that's another problem).
Autistic kids need someone to talk to them, answer their questions, and to respect their boundaries (that other people might find odd.)
While I certainly don't condone the way the English state put down the Luddites, if it had not, it's quite possible that England would not have led the way in industrialization. And that spurred other nations to push too or be left behind. England changed radically during the 1800's as they pushed the industrial envelope.
`sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-8.0`

I wonder what that does...
You're propably correct about the feed ratio but cows eat grasses and hay that aren't consumable by humans. In warm countries that's not a problem, people could grow there crops that humans can eat, but in big parts of world (like here in north where I live) grasses are best thing to grow. Also grasslands are best carbon sink we currently have (https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/grasslands-mo...) and you can't have those without ruminants.

Also it's good to remember how much food we waste each year. We could easily feed the world already now but it doesn't seem to be priority for the people in charge.

That said I'm on a same side with vegans, I don't like the current way we produce food and I'd like to see a big systemic change there. But I think vegans don't take into account how complex problems we are dealing with - nature, agriculture's economics and eating habits and nutritional requirements of humans.
> In the aftermath of 9/11, the government has to be seen doing "something". This was the something.

No, that might have been true then, but the real reason is the same that Airlines suddenly unlearned how to group people who book togehter to sit together unless they reserve booking. The security theator is expensive to run, but it's less expensive than what you make selling more expensive methods of avoiding the security theather.

Airlines don't want you to have a nice and easy travel, unless you've paid the appropriate primum. They are perfectly happing intentionally pissing off 98% of their travelers to maintain the 2% who pay extra. And when you zoom out, that also means that what you pay for the premium tickets isn't to pay for extra luxery, its to pay for the intentional annoyance of everyone else.
The problem is that they do not care, and they are not incentivized to care.
Why Tolkien Hated Dune
Canada is bringing in 1.3% worth of its population in immigrants every year. IIRC the births and deaths are nearly even, so without immigration the population increase would be something like 0.02% per year. The federal government is likely incentivized to create high immigration targets by big industries (because more workers creates a race to the bottom for wages, and most people are not making a living wage in Canada), as well as the federal pension program which will be paying out record amounts to new retirees as the last of the boomers are retiring now.

If you can't increase the housing stock by 1.3% every year (I suspect it's more like 0.2%-0.5% growth per year, but can't find numbers), but you choose to increase the population by 1.3% every year, you can see how this would contribute to a soaring cost of housing and consequently the record numbers of homelessness in Canada (which includes tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people now living in their vehicles).

BC is moving in the right direction with recent policies which make it much more difficult to run an Airbnb, which will return some of the housing stock to the long-term housing supply when the changes come into effect, but the municipal governments of most of its largest cities (including Vancouver, whose metro area has 50% of BC's population) have made it difficult to build housing in general, as well as restrictive of high-density housing.

If you're not from Canada, you honestly can't fathom how bad things have gotten for people living here.
How are you still allowed to fly you monster
Show HN: Redbox Copilot
I need task queues where the client (web browser) can listen to the progress of the task through completion.

I love the simplicity & approachability of Deno queues for example, but I’d need to roll my own way to subscribe to task status from the client.

Wondering if perhaps the Postgres underpinnings here would make that possible.

EDIT: seems so!
https://docs.hatchet.run/home/features/streaming
Anecdotally, in my experience, a large percent of AirBNB's in Vancouver are owned by foreigners.

But yeah, the really wealthy foreigners just buy up mansions and keep them empty.

I don't believe the Empty Homes Tax or foreign buyer ban work very well. It's just too easy to fake and there is very little enforcement. Same for the AirBNB license requirements - barely enforced.
Excellent points. Just because it is financially motivated, does not mean it is false.

For full disclosure, I work at a biotech company that is trying to enable motivated groups of people to participate in interventional studies of their own collective design with quantitative endpoints. The goal is to avoid the need for financially motivated groups to finance the study. Obviously, this isn't going to work for traditional drug development, but can for nutrition and nutraceuticals.
Fun statistical analysis, though I have to wonder how they behave outside of voting records. Does the Canadian multiparty system involve a lot of coalition-building like we see in European legislatures? I don't recall ever hearing about a Canadian government failing to achieve a majority, falling, and requiring new elections. Would it be reasonable to describe the Anglo Westminster-descended democracies as having party systems that are half-way between the American duopoly and "true" Continental multiparty systems? (It also seems like the presence of the Quebecois parties and the SNP are more due to unique regional histories than a strong desire to have more than two choices.)
No.

If we don’t take our shoes off, how will we maintain our freedom?!?!
sounds like an awesome setup. this is what I tell my friends. Just run Hyper-V. They can easily be checkpointed and moved to another hypervisor.

Use what you got!
It's not the only factor, but Airbnb certainly has provided an easy alternative to putting a home up for sale. Supply shortage, i.e., fewer units for sale, is a real contributor to rapidly increasing housing prices.
> First of all, I really find this term to be gross.

Lodge a complaint with dictionaries, I guess? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/fatph...

You can't agree with "you will accrue personal and professional benefits from not being fat" and then pretend fat-scrimination (is that better?) doesn't exist.
Or keeping public toilets gleaming clean, which seems to be the jobs program for the elderly in Japan.
OK this is going to come out as moronic because I dont have the proper vocab to phrase it:

--

Is it possible to 'array' tokenized wokloads across providers of GPU?

I want to farm-out my 'compute' across [things]

More importantly can there be a marketplace for GPU resources that I can effectively point my local job at?
Yeah, no. The US reduced spending, that's true, but it never dropped nearly as low as so many European countries.

> by the 2010s it was back falling in the US, too.

Because of the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan winding down, no?

> It actually changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 for the non-US members of NATO (which was also the trigger for the NATO defense spending target.) It changed for the US after the 2022 escalation (US defense spending as a share of GDP declined between 2014 and the 2022 escalation.)

Not really, no. The US took Russia's 2014 invasion more seriously than most of Western Europe did.
I actually do run a production edge cluster with these exact boards; they are just too old. The price/performance is so far off the mark WRT modern hardware they are simply not worth using anymore. I have started hitting CPU instruction set issues with current software due to the ancient microarchitectures in these lowend parts.

On one hand they are able to still sell them because nobody is competing, but what is the reason for the lack of competition?

I have a theory about Broadcom buying and blocking up the low end PCIe switch market to purposely hold back this segment, but I'm not sure how significant that is.
Regardless of if you feel they are worthless, IMO, the people who create them should not be asked to work for free. I've never found the notes from mine to be "worthless", you may want to find a new doctor.

Also, your TFA is kind of unnecessarily vulgar (You do know what the F in TFA is for?) here seeing as it doesn't change the point of my original comment. I did, however, add the word "all" incase someone took my comment to read that I didn't think any insurance covered it.
Most of those platforms seem to require the patient to pay for a virtual visit for every refill, or require some kind of a monthly fee.
more datapoints ive been collecting for the latent.space recap:

- lmsys ranks claude 3 opus ahead of GPT4 but behind GPT4T https://x.com/lmsysorg/status/1765774296000172289 mistral large is also well behind claude 3 sonnet, and both behind gpt4, which is... good but disappointing?.

- ai2 wildbench largely agrees with this ranking https://x.com/billyuchenlin/status/1766079601154064688?s=20

- claude summarization is better, at the cost of higher hallucination https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1764805626037993853

it's also noteworthy that gemini and claude seem to have completely solved the needle in a haystack problem vs openai/mistral - i'm not sure what breakthrough is responsible but the opensource community seems to be pointing at ringattention as the main promise
Because the other thing Spotify gets them is exposure. Whether or not it's worth what they have to deal with from Spotify, I have no idea—but I can absolutely see many artists putting up with it in hopes that being heard on Spotify will get people to buy their merch, come to their concerts, etc.
GPT has been having some issues the past couple of days. Returning the "network retry" error dialog for hours on end.

This gave me a window to try out Gemini. I 1.0 was better than I anticipated, but still got some of the (important) details wrong. I wish I had access to 1.5.

The competition is closing in, and the frequent downtime makes it an easy choice to try the competitors.

That said, I'm still pulling for OpenAI. We need someone to challenge the old tech companies.

I hope GPT-5 is similar to Sora - ten steps forward in terms of innovation.