skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had access to Gemini with a reasonable token rate limit, I would be happy to test Gemini. I have had good results with it in other situations.
Contact of Containership Dali with the Key Bridge and Subsequent Bridge Collapse [pdf]
I typically use analogies to make something that is abstract more concrete.
I think we tend to have a lot less heavy metal poisoning in general than we did at different times in the past.

It's only fairly recently that we realized how dangerous these metals are and started removing them from things like plumbing (that word comes from french/latin for lead), fuels, paints, even eating-wares.

I think north america was using leaded gasoline up until the end of the 70s or so.
Who is spinning up home test environments looking for decades of support?

My VMs are doing pretty well if they last the quarter.
That’s very awkward wording. Is it saying a 1ms pulse every 2s?
Something in this vein was just posted here a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519
They've been the benchmark for amazon kindle books. They suck for pdfs or anything with graphics.
The GitHub repository description also says:

> Open-source E-ink monitor. Mirror of https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider
I wonder how much of that is due to the kernel history, and the influence of C idioms, and not because of some inherent design superiority.

I'd be convinced once I see pure Rust kernels geared towards modern machines suddenly using linked lists everywhere. Otherwise I'm leaning towards it being a side-effect of the language choice and culture.

Also because I've seen the same kind of reasoning applied to compilers (e.g. "of course you need linked lists in compilers, they are extremely graph traversal heavy"). But one look at modern compilers implemented in Rust paint a very different picture, with index-based vectors, data-oriented design and flattened ASTs everywhere.
I hope LLMs gobble up my code. Amplify my code's use by presenting it in a new way where others can solve their problems faster
Someone needs to come up with a "synthesis from haystack" test that tests not just retrieval but depth of understanding, connections, abstractions across diverse information.

When a person reads a book, they have an "overall intuition" about it. We need some way to quantify this. Needle in haystack tests feel like a simple test that doesn't go far enough.
> unattributed

Plenty of AI models cite their sources.
I had the same experience. With a 16k prompt, Turbo was nearly flawless. But it wasn't very good at 32k and not usable at 100+. You have to repeat information to get good results with longer prompts
You are talking about floating on your back. I'm talking about bobbing. As long as you hold your breath, your head will be under the surface... Unless you're built like a brick I guess.

But a brick with lungs. Hold full breath. If even that doesn't work then I guess swallow air and try not to burp or fart?
It's bad when it's against marginalized people, and good when it's against hateful bigots. The old "punch up, not down". hth
You need to know that this test set data wasn't included in the training data for this to be meaningful.
Title is editorialized, pointlessly so.
To enjoy consuming alcoholic drinks without being intoxicated?
Impressive product, contracts is one of the areas I see LLMs disrupting a lot of clerk work. Curious to try this product. Also happy to see a startup from Vienna!
My brain processes too slow for modern action movies.

I can tell what's going on, but I always end up feeling agitated.
Google does not care to start a war where every company has to form explicit legal agreements with every other company to scrape their data. Maybe if they got really desperate, but right now they have no reason to be.
How many of those 2.5 second "shots" are back-and-forths between two perspectives (ex. of two characters talking to one another) where each perspective is consistent with itself? This would be extremely relevant for how many seconds of consistent footage are actually needed for an AI-generated "shot" at film-level quality.
We can blame the EU AI act and other regulations for that.
if you believe that they won't train their models on data from their users I have a piece of land on the moon that I want to sell. I'll give you a good deal if you interested
Which means you are making the assumption that working in an office is better, so you need to be able to back that up.

I could just as easily ask why everyone is having to go to an office to accommodate people who can only work in office environments. Especially given the overwhelming evidence that office environments reduce productivity, morale, and employee health?

You're just repeating the "I can't do my job unless I'm in an office, therefore I need everyone else to spend hours every week coming into an office to coddle me". Me not spending hours of unpaid time coming to the office does not prevent you from going into an office. You requiring me to drive for hours to come to the office has a direct and measurable cost, that solely benefits you.

It does not benefit productivity. It does not benefit morale. It actively harms the health of everyone, including you.

> Office work isn't possible unless the team is present.

Well yes, you've just said "everyone being in the office is only possible if everyone is in the office". My job, and the job of most people in tech (or jobs where being in the office is not required to work), is not to heat a seat in an office.

The fact that you use work as a proxy for a social life, or find it necessary to interrupt other people who are working, does not mean that being in an office is necessary to do our jobs. It means it is necessary for you to do your job.

So please stop presenting your own requirements as if they (1) apply to everyone universally, and (2) supporting your requirements is free for everyone else. (1) is demonstrably false, (2) is just selfish - why do you get to demand your coworkers give up a significant fraction of their lives and a significant amount of money to support your requirements?
> We have to take account that this community (good chunk have stakes in YC and a lot to gain from secondary shares in OpenAI)

You have to be pretty deep inside your own little bubble to think that even more than a 0.001% of HN has "stakes in YC" or "secondary shares in OpenAI".
> So you say having a decoupled arrangement in software (which happens to be a de facto open standard) is a "terrible awful idea" and that instead you should just rely on whatever your proprietary hardware graphics vendor proposes to you? Why?

Sandboxing, and resource quotas / allocations / reservations.

By itself, a paravirtualized GPU just treats each userland workload launched by any given guest onto the GPU, as all being siblings — exactly as if there was no virtualization and you were just running multiple workloads on one host.

And so, just like multiple GPU-using apps on a single non-virtualized host, these workloads will get "thin-provisioned" the resources they need, as they ask for them, with no advance reservation; and workloads may very well end up fighting over those resources, if they attempt to use a lot of them. You're just not supposed to run two things that attempt to use "as much VRAM as possible" at once.

This means that, on a multi-tenant hypervisor host (e.g. the "with GPU" compute machines in most clouds), a paravirtualized GPU would give no protection at all from one tenant using all of a host GPU's resources, leaving none left over for the other guests sharing that host GPU. The cloud vendor would have guaranteed each tenant so much GPU capacity — but that guarantee would be empty!

To enforce multi-tenant QoS, you need hardware-supported virtualization — i.e. the ability to make "all of the GPU" actually mean "some of the GPU", defining how much GPU that is on a per-guest basis.

(And even in PC use-cases, you don't want a guest to be able to starve the host! Especially if you might be running untrusted workloads inside the guest, for e.g. forensic analysis!)
I love when this happens when I find a new product, I think to myself would be even better if they did this really simple tweak. Then a week or two later they do the same exact change.

Apt probably moves a little slower on “big” changes, since theres many implications. I cant even imagine the number of obscure scripts that something like this breaks because the output and behavior is slightly off somehow.
I think ops point still holds - actively modulated q switches could still have a failure that pushes the laser outside the safety parameters, no? I don’t think OP was necessarily suggesting a software failure.
This stuff is in plain daylight. It's not hard to see it from inside the companies that people here work at. I think most people just don't connect the dots or something, since execs and HR certainly don't do that for them in how they talk about it and why.

I'm talking about the legal ways it happens, too. It's not only some "isolated cases of bad actors" as some put it.
> He also would have loathed those who used his results to argue that the best economy is one generated by the decisions of individuals, with minimal government intrusion. He was a socialist who favored government intervention to help the disadvantaged in society.

What's notable about these two sentences is the second one is being presented as a disagreement with the first one, even though they don't disagree. Redistribution has nothing to do necessarily with state planning of the economy, and is mainly to support people who don't participate in it (i.e. children and the elderly).
Ok so I was wondering if your solution is faster. I noticed their materialized views are not as fast for real time data.
All these Sales people are extremely dangerous for AWS.

Adam Selipsky -> Was an Harvard MBA

Andy Jassy -> Joined as Marketing manager as Harvard MBA

Matt Garman -> Was first product manager of EC2 but also a business MBA

Jeff Bezos for all his slightly goofy style, graduated from Princeton with degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In the meanwhile people like James Hamilton, Werner Vogels, or others that could look like their heirs are very, very invisible.

My prediction is that Jeff Bezos will be back within 2 to 3 years if not sooner.
I was thinking about something similar -- to make part of the question be sufficient information that the LLM can find the limerick. Then the 2nd part would ask something that would require a deeper understanding of the limerick (or other text).
The database might be a minor reason. Or major reason. Perhaps the quoted person is not an expert. Maybe he's incompetent. Lying is not required.
I encountered a lot of peer pressure to drink when I was in college. (I didn't drink much because a lot of alcohol makes my stomach upset.)

Don't surround yourself with people who make you uncomfortable. It's a lesson I realized as I got older: It has little to do with drinking; but if the people around you make you feel uncomfortable not drinking, then you're around the wrong people.
Yeah, it was about a thousand bucks the last time I checked and probably more now that he's passed. Why I ultimately didn't feel too bad about not reading it was because from what I understand, its contents are ostensibly mostly covered in Nature of Order. Same goes for Linz Café. I am, however, glad I read The Mary Rose Museum because it has a contract in it (excerpted in Nature of Order) that inspired me to write my own service contract "from scratch" (for some value of the term).

As for the software industry, it really latched on to patterns because (and Alexander himself nails it) they offer both a format and a formula for exchanging ideas that are either too ephemeral to write into a library, or otherwise transcend particular languages/frameworks. A lot of the really important insights though appear to have been lost in the process. (I have the Gang of Four book and a Fowler book, and have found neither to be especially useful.)
How useful will Project Astra be once its users are the product?
Relevant xkcd.

https://xkcd.com/1958/
Sundar just keeps throwing different AI to the wall and see what will stick. His leadership destiny is in layoffs and offshoring Google, not innovation.
What Is GoLisp?
It surprisingly similar to Morse code.
Our software changes submitted links to canonical URLs when it finds them, and that page has the canonical URL https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/Cloud/b....

I've fixed it above now.
Welcome to being a grown-up. You have to pick from available products and decide what’s important. If you want multi-user support, don’t buy an ipad.

There are non-tablet alternatives. Get a laptop. Get a Chromebook. Both support multiple users. Both can be cheaper than an iPad.

Indeed maybe the Android tablets “suck” because Google and those manufacturers are busy adding things people don’t want, like, ahem, multi-user support, while maybe Apple products are better because they are focused and don’t have the kitchen sink.
> FWIW there are western countries where the corpse of any dead human being can be used for scientific experimentation, unless specified otherwise.

Examples?
I'm a casual Docker user, ran maybe 30 images my whole life. I've never used any of these flags and didn't know most of them even existed.

Are these serious threats? I mean it seems like common sense that if you give a malicious container elevated privileges, it can do bad stuff.

Is a VM any different? If you create a VM and add your host's / directory as a share with write permissions (allowing the VM to modify your host filesystem/binaries) does that mean VMs are bad at isolation and shouldn't be used? Because that's what these "7 ways to escaper a container" ways look like to me.
Replika's PR where they say their userbase is 40% women.
My ratio of non-flagged vs. flagged/downvoted comments is still rather high. I don't control why other HN users dislike what I have to say but I'm consistent.
I smell Penrose bullshit in the air

Of course the brain uses quantum mechanics, it exists in the real world. What has yet to be demonstrated is any link to consciousness.
Not all of the founders agreed with Jefferson’s view on the separation of church
and state. Do you agree with Jefferson or with his opponents? Explain.
> Meanwhile Linux developers have resorted to shipping an entire OS via docker to run every program.
> Needing to docker to simply launch a program is so embarrassing.

I have never needed docker "just to launch a program". Docker makes it easy to provide multiple containerised copies of an identical environment. Containers are a light alternative to VM images.

I assume you find the existence of Windows containers just as embarrassing? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/windowscont...
Can anyone speculate on how G arrived at this price, and perhaps how it contrasts with how OAI arrived at its updated pricing? (realizing it can't be held up directly to GPT x at the moment)
This is just rampant speculation.

The attack shown here requires a transmitting device to be physically present at the intersection, and the impact it was able to have on the system was “to increase the total delay by as high as 68.1%”

This isn’t a vector for a mass hack of traffic lights with enormous safety consequences like in the Italian Job. It’s just a mechanism by which a malicious user can degrade public infrastructure.

There are lots of ways in which malicious users can degrade public infrastructure. Usually though people don’t. When people do we have laws to prosecute them with.
You mean like what JavaScript and PHP did for websites. :D
I didn't "come after you," and I didn't read the threat as sincere. If you do, email dang and tell him this person is harassing you.
At least until the mid-late 80's. My roommate had a 71 Dodge Challenger and it was only around '89 or so that it became harder for him to find the leaded gas it needed in the NYC area.
If you ask the questions without providing the limerick first, it never gets the right answer. When the LLM gets the wrong answer, it is usually because it reverts to its training data and gives a generic answer that doesn't apply to the limerick.
Google assistant would be the perfect name to cover everything since that's the idea, an assistant. Not sure why they have 1038474 names it's ridiculous
There’s a brand I’ve seen in stores called “Athletic” and it’s nearly indistinguishable
> maybe once a year

you sure you didn't just lower your tolerance?
I have had good experience with Gemini 1M context model with this kind of tasks.
Now that context length seems abundant for most tasks, I'm wondering why sub-word tokens are still used. I'm really curious how character-based LLMs would compare. With 2 M context, the compute bottleneck fades away. I'm not sure though what role the vocabulary size has. Maybe a large size is critical, since the embedding already contains a big chunk of the knowledge. On the other hand, using a character-based vocabulary would solve multiple problems, I think, like glitch tokens and possibly things like arithmetic and rhyming capabilities. Implementing sub-word tokenizers correctly and training them seems also quite complex. On a character level this should be trivial.
It can be a vocal minority. Still vocal.

I wouldn't discard.
Unsinkable rubber duck.
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/underwhelming-cell-phone...
No amount of evidence is going to stop people from claiming danger of cell phone radiation.
> But the point would be better made if some compassion was shown towards the victims instead of only ever showing compassion to the criminals.

This is not about compassion for any criminals. They're dead anyways. This is about the families of the deceased who find that someone has been cutting away at their dead relative.
> What they do have is lieu of backpropagation is feedback (cycles)

I wonder where the partial data / feedback is stored. Don't want to sound like a creationist, but it seems very improbable that "how good my sound localization is" is inferred exclusively from the # of children I have.
It’s not that clearcut, because sometimes you forget all the packages you installed manually over the years and aren’t using anymore, and it can make sense to be offered to remove one when it helps resolving a conflict with a newer package that you actually want to use now.
These don't model key properties of software for systems engineering purposes. Software can be technically correct in a formal sense and also broken in all real implementations if it doesn't satisfy reasonable engineering constraints, like efficiency, scalability, concurrency, latency variance, or strange resonances in the system (a significant performance issue in HPC).

It is an optimization problem, not a correctness problem.

If you applied the same systems solving methods to software as physical engineering, you should be able to predict system performance, concurrency, scaling, etc characteristics on a given hardware environment in concrete absolute terms without writing a line of code. The whole "build then measure" thing would be unnecessary. This is normal in physical engineering.

I know software performance engineers that can predict these kinds of characteristics with surprising accuracy on a localized basis because they carry detailed system models in their heads, but that is a rare skill and to scale that up to a larger, more complex software system you really need some kind of automated solver. We use automated solvers in other engineering domains for the same reason -- human brains struggle to do this bit well.
I think the journalists are punching down. they have far more institutional power than some twitter shit poster.
That's a good point. Gemini gatekeeping me on so many answers made me forget about this extraordinary feature of it.
What version of Gemini is built into Google Workspace? (I just got the ability today to ask Gemini anything about emails in my work Gmail account, which seems like something that would require a large context window)
I like the Plessey Electronics (UK) logo. Looks like an oscilloscope trace, but when you look closely, it’s like “plessey” in lower case.
Too little, too late. Google is follower, not leader. They need to stop trying and do more stock buybacks and strip the company to barebones, like Musk did with Twitter & Tesla.
If you call that an easy fix, I'd hate to hear about the hard ones!
Having spoken to a friend who does traffic for a city, traffic light controllers are generally (always?) hard-wired to prevent an all green-type situation, but they have other weaknesses which I won’t go into.
It makes me think how the lens of the camera, is focusing the light/image at the center of the sensor, so it would make sense that data is also denser at the center, where the lens concentrated more light
libertarians are highly sus

on the face of it, it sounds like a flavor of anarchism, along that spectrum and with some similar appealing points. but then there comes all this state and state police stuff, and endless domination and role based subjugation in a variety of legalized ways that rely on state violence to preserve. I can't understand the coherency so the results are suspicious

(also, unions are not the only way for labor to organize. there are lots of ways to do this.)
Alice Munro, Nobel winner and titan of the short story, dies aged 92
Your tolerance naturally changes as you get older and the hangovers last longer.
Actual article: http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html

Should be changed to this, rather than screenshot + link blogspam.
Developing mathematical software in C (2021)
In the past I’ve worked at places that used email domains to entitle or disqualify accounts for certain services. Changes are a great way to exploit flaws in business logic.

I used to exploit this phenomenon to get premium campsites at a state park. Sale dates were 30 days out, but reschedules were possible up to 45. So I’d book the magic campsite early, then pay to reschedule before the sale inventory was available. There’s a million similar issues that you can find if you have a knack for it.

I have no information specific to OpenAI, but if smart people do dumb things, there’s often a reason.
I think the least common PIN codes are fascinating. I'm surprised by the number of 7s in these. They looks like numbers you would end up with if you asked someone to think of a random 4 digit number.

List transcribed by ChatGPT: 8557, 8438, 9539, 7063, 6827, 0859, 6793, 0738, 6835, 8093, 9047, 0439, 8196, 6693, 7394, 9480, 8398, 7637, 9629, 8068.
Will wait for Meta to release Flash equivalent weights.

Multi-Modal modals running offline on mobile devices with millisecond latencies per token seems the future.

Where is Apple in all of this. Why is Siri still so shit?
Hard to say what the apples to apples comparison is.

The biggest difference most likely with those copy cat clones is the food supply chain. Not sure how much it has changed but one of sweetgreen's challenges has been working closer to the farm which can be more costly and harder to scale across geographies. The clones may just be getting everything from sysco.

I don't follow sweetgreen very well and it could very well be mismanaged but I suspect those clones you see are apple to oranges in comparison.
> For now there's still plenty of cash left from zero interest era to throw at subsidizing this stuff.

For now these press releases push the stock price up. This is what matters to those corps in the end
You might enjoy this breakdown of the lengths one person went through to take advantage of the iOS vision API and creating a local web service for transcribing some very challenging memes:

https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...

discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315782