skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that hosting DEVIN will cost much more GPU time hosting a regular LLM. By inspecting the videos in Cognition Lab's official website, I noticed that DEVIN can take more than one hour to do one step, which is more than an hour of GPU usage. When using GPT-4, we usually get output within 30 seconds, which is less than a minute of GPU usage.

In addition, when using GPT-4, I use it only when I have new thoughts, so the GPU occupancy rate is low. I probably use less than 5 hours of GPU time each month. DEVIN is sort of like an intern working for you, so you would probably at least make it work 40hrs/week.

These difference in GPU usage would probably make DEVIN 10 times more expensive for the business model to be profitable, that is, if they are using the subscriber business model like GPT-4.

I don't think there are any other viable business model for DEVIN - for sure it cannot replace or even reduce the number of human programmer due to LLM's unreliable nature and the necessity of code verification.
> I also have a demo here where I show transactionality between two SQL-databases

If you're not constrained by CAP, I'd hardly expect you to be constrained by Two Generals either.

> And another, where I show loose coupling, ie: that the system continues even when an instance goes down and that it catches up once restarted

I've built one of those, it's fun! But I digress. Back to CAP.

1) How many instances do you have?

2) What is your quorum (simple majority?)

3) How many instances can go down before the system stops serving consumers?
US, with its severe underregulation of oligopolies, allows companies to grow that big. Why do you then complain that they are the ones targeted by laws in countries which are sane enough to understand the need to regulate such things?

Apple is welcome to vacate the EU if it finds it all too onerous.
Thank you for your kind words and feedback! We're constantly looking for ways to enhance the user experience, and your input will definitely be taken into consideration.
You could pick a very large number depending on a reasonable processing capability a human has, which represents all the significant physical interactions on a human body over a certain amount of time. Then take the output over a certain amount of time, being all movements of the body.

If you wanted to focus on thoughts alone, you might want to skip few layers/systems, to give input directly to whatever causes thoughts to happen.

All particles and their interactions could also be represented as numbers. But it just depends on what level we do this, and at what level what kind of complex logic is required.
The BMW R60 image appears to be CGI / 3D-rendered. If you zoom in on the original[1], you can see how the rear suspension is attached.

[1]: https://www.pexels.com/photo/orange-and-black-bmw-motorcycle...
Those costs are paid by the users when they buy their devices.
> I strongly disagree with: "Simple, obvious code is easier to write, easier to get to work .."

I get your point, as well as the author's point.

Complex code is difficult to write, and unless you really pay attention, likely to be wrong.

Simple code is easier to write, easier to verify and more likely to be correct, but it's very hard to learn how to express your solution to a complex problem in simple terms.
Come on, there's reasonable (n words would probably not be the greatest even in an insult generator), and then there's what you're complaining about. China is a country that is viewed negatively by most of the western democratic countries. And for a good reason. If you equate China with Asian, implying racism, that is your own bias speaking.
> Please do not make applications thinking the user can just Google it if they're stuck when if you Google "how to do X in Linux" you get 99 different solutions that don't work for your distro.

This is like searching "How to do X in Windows NT" and expecting to get results for Windows 11. Should be no great shock that when you use non-specific search terms the search engine returns non-specific results.
While what you say is absolutely true, a cursory skim of the website's webmaster's profile[1] suggests he would be putting a lot of reputation on the line if he were acting maliciously.

[1]: https://cheswick.com/ches/cv/index.html

EDIT: Pardon my sudden lack of linguistic finesse, clearly the beer I had tonight was good.
I'm getting sick and tired of hearing this argument being repeated over and over again.

Electric car use regenerative braking. Yes they're heavier but their brakes barely get used...

They only get used at very low speed to bring the vehicle to a stop (low energy), or in case of emergency braking.
Devin fine tuning a 7B llama model
I wanna be noble, too! Where's the form to sign up as a proxy for some war?
> We can install the peer as if we’re the initiator, and flyctl is the responder. The Linux kernel will initiate a WireGuard connection back to flyctl. This works; the protocol doesn’t care a whole lot who’s the server and who’s the client. We get new connections established about as fast as they can possibly be installed.

Is this(effectively) adding a half round-trip to the handshake? i.e.

1. ->flyctl sends Initiation
2. <-peer is added via netlink(which causes new Initiation to be sent)
3. ->Response from flyctl
Or how about the ads in the start menu...
This is the way it should be. People that post things I don’t want to see can be blocked. Groups of people that post things I don’t want to see can be blocked. Conversely, people and groups I do want to see posts can be identified and cleared for my timelines.
It is not new on microcomputers, though, and those have essentially defined the expectations for consumer devices going forward. That is why it was such a big deal back when Apple first introduced the app store with all the restrictions - that was new, even compared to other mobile devices in the market (even feature phones had J2ME by then).

But regardless, it seems like a good idea in general, and proven to work, so why shouldn't we want more of it? I don't see the problem with applying the same logic to game consoles etc - that racket also needs to go down.
How I Write CSS: The four categories of ruleset (2023)
Unless Android and iOS permit full-fledged development on iOS and Android, the desktop isn't going away.
super easy to install and use
Thank you for your interest! At the moment, Trangram does not support exporting SVG animation files.
Project name should be "Captain Haddock"
How can hiring Python developers and engaging with a Python development company revolutionize businesses using TensorFlow 2.x and PyTorch?
Absolutely right. I had to change brake pads on my electric car at about 120 k miles. My previous gasoline cars usually had their brake pads last about the advertised 30K miles. Some people are complaining that the rear brake rotors of their teslas are rusting and looking bad. That is how little they are used.

Furthermore, it is entirely possible and probably desirable that some electric cars actually remove the brakes altogether (with the exception of an emergency brake that is only used in case of total system failure). Theoretically, electric motors should completely capable of doing all necessary braking. Of course there would have to be more emphasis on the reliability of the power electronics but it is doable.
Yep! My Dell XPS has zero issues.
Aren't you hip and with it?
I wasn't arguing that Switzerland is not a democracy, just noted the its political system is nowhere as immune to enacting things like "patriot act" as OP suggested.
> The apple app indeed received it and promptly sent it off somewhere else. What's even crazier is that the apple app shows this info!

Did you try moving the crypto back to your Android wallet? Sometimes they do move to cold storage, or invest into DeFi schemes. It will be hidden in their T&C.
It doesn't. It just foresaw the need to be able to dynamically configure tunnels on first connection and specified all of that. Which seems to me is a lot of what fly io has just mostly reimplemented here.

In any case the point is I would prefer to just have the basic components available and let me piece them together however I want. Mostly to allow using the underlying technology in more contexts that it is currently available in.
A LUT could be a significant performance penalty would it not? Instead of a float8 (potentially multiple in simd case) in a register, you’re now having to head out to at least L1 cache to dereference the value in the LUT.

Plain uint8 wouldn’t allow for the same accuracy range as float8 and it’s the accuracy not the precision (which uint would win for the largest values it can represent) that counts most.
Provide some concrete numbers for solar radiation then as a lookup table. You guys are confusing abstraction and idealization with what it means to be a thinking person. There is no such abstraction and idealization happening with software. The software is really just a number, there is no idealization or abstraction happening when I claim that GPT is a sequence of bits representing a numerical function.
> Why would you disagree that it's the same?

Because.. it is not the same?

> vegan philosophy is to reduce animal suffering and to improve emissions

Vegan philosophy is not consuming food of animal origin. If someone likes to put some virtue signalling to it like reducing emissions and sorts that's fine by me.

On the first one, animal suffering has very little relation to do with veganism. You don't need to be vegan to do something about it and certainly being vegan doesn't make you reducing the suffering.
I did not say fixed precision. I said arbitrary precision, so P is infinite.

The only counter-argument is that even arbitrary precision is fixed-precision because computer memory is finite. But that's kind of a silly argument, because then you are arguing that computers can never reason, because they have finite memory, and moreover humans cannot reason either, because there is a finite number of brain cells.
Here's a counterexample. Suppose I create a simple neural network that computes f(x) = x^2 + c (where x and c are complex numbers) and then I run it as an RNN. This RNN will compute the mandelbrot set, which can't be represented by a lookup table.

You can't even know if the RNN will halt for a given input. Neural networks are stronger than lookup tables, they are programs.
What is wrong with overhead electric for trains? Why some oil company shill nonsense about hydrogen?
How can stuff made in a factory be healthier than its equivalent made biologically for which we have millions if not billions of years of genetic adaptation to?

The best case is that is it as healthy as the real stuff, but that is an asymptotic goal.
Is .NET still used these days? I've never seen it in the wild, but that's probably just my particular experiences (web dev for small/medium companies).

I toyed with it back in the day, but Microsoft still felt like it was actively EEEing back then. Their dev tooling was so much better (I really miss Visual Studio), but the FOSS LAMP stack was, well, free.

I haven't heard .NET mentioned for decades now. Guess my circles got really small! Glad to know there are still other communities using completely different stacks.
> Last Wednesday, Sachs wrote to the NYPD to challenge the administrative subpoena, which the NYPD had sent on its own authority, without any warrant or judicial approval. If the NYPD did not withdraw the subpoena, Sachs told the NYPD, Clancy would go to court with a motion to quash it.

If it's not backed by a court order, it's a polite request.

But even when it's a court demand, companies have several different counter-measurements. For example, they can tell the court "we can't provide data because we don't have that data" (Signal does this), or "we do have that data, but extracting it is resource-intensive, so the court should pay up" (some of the "Twitter Files" were precisely about this), or straight up ignoring non-American court orders (this is or at least was Reddit's general policy).
Not really, it's garbage to the point that it only runs the X11 session, mutter can't even be compiled with Wayland support because it then tries to include some Linux-only header.
Except what about the open source that google, amazon, microsoft etc sponsor? Is that bad or good? What about companies who build open source software? Are they good to start with and then become bad at some tipping point of market penetration? Are Meta sponsoring pytorch because they do a lot of machine learning in python or is it because they want to sell you on the cloud services (that they don't actually sell people)?

The whole thing feels like when you sit down at a bar and the guy next to you decides to start up a conversation about their pet topic and just will not fucking shut up no matter what. Full of pat "solutions", "deep" thoughts, dumb made-up terminology ("GAMM") that he clearly feels ever so proud of, deliberate changes to the meanings of words (eg "cloud"[1]).

His claim that "minions" of google, amazon, microsoft and meta are behind the whole crypto thing is one of the single stupidest and most obviously wrong claims I've ever heard anyone make. It's right up there with the face on mars, moon landing conspiracy, "turnip-shaped" earth[2] and all this other type of stuff that is so obviously wrong on its face it's hard to know where to begin.

Really appalling that this sort of nonsense is getting any airtime.

[1] Which really doesn't mean whatever he's saying it means in this article. The fact that Meta or Google own some undersea cables doesn't mean in any sense that they own "the cloud". Cloud means infrastructure as a service. Google offer cloud services. They actually brand them as such. Meta do not offer cloud services. THey run honking big old-school datacentres which they use for their own purposes. They need a lot of TCP/IP so it makes sense for them to pay to put in place the infra to reach their customers.

[2] Sportsman Andrew Flintoff decided flat earth wasn't dumb enough for him and that the earth was actually turnip-shaped. https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/cricket/article/earth-is...
P obviously can't be infinite, even in theory, if you want the computation to terminate.
Excellent, I wish this project success!
ah yes, you can configure nvtop to display encode and decode loads. Interesting to watch how playback speed in VLC is directly reflected in the metric.
I’d go weeks at a time without touching the brake in a Leaf.

I might never replace the pads.
Looks like it doesn't.

There is, however, this feed (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/fe...) which collects all posts from the Bluesky team. Unfortunately, it's not possible to consume bsky feeds as RSS feeds either, but you can at least subscribe to individual accounts via RSS by appending `/rss` to their profile URL, e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/rss , which is the account that posted the OP's announcement.
They announce the licensing changes many months ago, so it is certainly coincidental. I'm not aware of any production featuring Unreal Engine images that received an Oscar. Epic was super stoked by the news and so did we at Wētā FX! (I worked on the short).
Ok so give me some concrete number.
It just sounds like a case of poor management and territoriality, along with a bunch of lone wolf coders each doing their own thing, rather than the fault of any tech stack.

I wonder what they were trying to do in VB6 that was so much easier in .NET.
Automating Software Engineering
Edible doesn't motivate you to improve when the previous option was actually tasty.
Thanks for the feedback. Will investigate it.
Right, but then as others said, then you are also arguing that humans cannot reason, since the universe is a system with a finite number of particles. Or if we exclude external factors, because humans have a finite number of brain cells.

In the end it all depends on what your definition of reasoning is, which you did not provide.
I think 'You elephant in a china shop' needs to be in there too, so everyone can be at peace.
I strongly disagree with your last statement - physics explicitly _is_ formulated in terms that can be made into a lookup table (see phase spaces in classical mechanics, for instance).

My point is that there's a finite light cone of possible causal influences over you at any moment in time, and in principle you can break those down into state variables finely enough to predict future states of a person. This is isomorphic to a lookup table, albeit one we aren't able to construct right now.

Im not suggesting it's enough to consider just the person in this scenario - the causal factors are part of the lookup.
And still you need better food options if you want to beat tasty processed stuff. After a month on"simple" food, the other stuff will look even better.
There’s already a formal system for this, called newreview. I don’t know whether they’re still taking applicants but you can email and ask if interested.

It’s tedious work. But it probably appeals to a certain personality type. You basically read each new post and mark your opinion of it.

It had to be formalized for exactly the reason you point out here: if it was left to random chance, the most interesting stories would (and did) fall through unnoticed. There’s a lot of interesting work that goes on behind the scenes to counteract such problems.
BlueSky doesn’t care about eyeballs. It’s a non-profit enabling a common good.
I'm developing an open source app(flutter) I have already started it in a simulator(kvm). I just don't want to jump through all the hoops and pay to be able to publis the app somewhere for ios users.
> Most drivers are virtue signalers

An amazing claim.
There are two recent accidents that show how much new airplane designs (and better safety measures) have improved survivability of accidents: Emirates Flight 521 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Flight_521), a Boeing 777 that crashed in Dubai in 2016, where all 300 people on board survived (although un unfortunate firefighter lost his life); and the A350 that collided with another airplane while landing at Tokio Haneda airport in January this year - if you look at the burnt out airplane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Haneda_Airport_runway_col...), it's hard to believe that all 379 people on board made it out alive...
No, it's the builders of the consent notifications who are responsible for that. They are often skirting or even breaking EU law to make it a headache to refuse. The GDPR says, for example, that refusal should be just as easy as acceptance. Having to click to another screen to do that is... not that.

In reality a cookie consent notification can just as well be a small widget somewhere with an accept and refuse button, but it's the builders of these frameworks that have a vested interest in getting you to press accept.

I've applied for a job at one of these companies about a year ago, and I asked them about it. They said to me that according to their metrics, there's about 30% more acceptance if they only bury their Refuse button, so it's a legal risk they are willing to take.

Needless to say, when they invited me for a second conversation, I politely refused.

No, the shitty cookie screens with dark patterns is not the responsibility of the EU - although you could make the argument that the EU should have been stricter or more prescriptive.
Pg_tde: Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL
why are they calling a CMS a DB?
Why do you think people don't already do that? In the end, all content in the top page started as a submission with zero upvotes.

I like the links on the new page and check out the new section from time to time, but in the end, I'm here for the discussion, seeing what other people think, and learning from the comments, so for me the new page isn't good as there is basically no comments there, no matter how great the links are on the new page.
I use https://www.useapassphrase.com/ since forever and that uses client side generation (i.e. the password never leaves your browser). And speaking about passphrases... I find it borderline insulting that many sites still use the archaic "whateveR1@" format, like, dude, I just gave you sentence worth of words that will take a bazillion more years to crack than passworD1@ ... some people just learn something in school and then use it for 20 years, I swear.
Here in the Netherlands it's very big in the financial world. Mostly back-end stuff like mortgage or insurance processing.
The question is what else are they going to use? Lots of M2M interactions are done with older protocols like SOAP or, God forbid, EDIFACT. There's zero interest in the community of newer languages like Go, Swift or Rust to implement that kind of legacy making them unsuitable for lots of business cases.
I am sorry to be this blunt but this is really utter and complete nonsense. The phrase that the mandelbrot set can't be represented in a lookup table is as such true but that is because nothing that you do with finite precision numbers can represent the mandelbrot set because it essentially is an inifinte object. The function f(x) = x^2 + c as an RNN can also not compute the mandelbrot set if the numbers it uses are of finite precision. That is exactly the same limitation that the lookup table also faces so there is no fundamental difference between the two.
Probably reasonable people would differ on whether unfavourably viewed (by the West) countries, such as Iran, Cuba, Palestine, or Saudi Arabia are disliked for good reason or not.

I agree with other comments that “China” in this context is intended to refer to porcelain. However including “Persian” (rugs?), “Cubano” (cigars?), “Afghan” (dogs?), or Arab (numerals?) as nouns in your cute online insult generator is probably a bad idea.

Edit: I see that “Boston” and “English” are also included as insults. At least with those there can be no doubt.
The long tail phenomenon vs the power law distribution, in HN.
> Google protects you from fraud and scam better than anyone

I have to disagree. Czech Youtube is currently full of scam ads with photos (and sometimes even bad deepfakes) of Czech president and other public figures, supposedly endorsing some investment product that yields you like 50% profit. I keep reporting these, and I know some people who do too, but ~80% of those reports get handled as "we determined no violation of our rules".
It's the AI hype group which are in a stage of denial.

"Surely if we generate code, it means we can replace developers right?"

Well no, it's not nearly enough. Good code generation with a UI is already a thing since the 90s, it's replacing developers as much as Frontpage and WordPress do.

The average developer writes 100 lines per day anyways so the speed of writing those lines doesn't matter.

Software is an interpersonal job at core and the most precise definition of a business.

The day software engineers are replaced by a machine, there's no job for the CEO itself honestly and that's also why this job is well paid. I'm sure it will be all over LinkedIn though, despite this paradox.

Those new tools will be there in the background but cannot replace a software engineer.
True, I just think pure climbing is a poor flexibility training. But flexibility training is indeed very useful for climbing.
Possibly off-topic, but does anyone know where I can read up on LLMs? I've posted an "Ask HN" here, in the hopes some people can inform me about how I can keep up on what's new:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39688911
The US does not have open markets.

Not sure anyone does.
The bit precision of computation is always finite for halting computations and any finite computation can be turned into a lookup table which does no thinking or reasoning other than comparing two numbers and then extracting the value corresponding to the input key.

My argument carries through for any piece of software so if you think software can think and reason then you can remain unconvinced by my argument.

In any case, I have to drop out of this thread.