skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
World Tram and Trolleybus Systems
Maximum complexity control is a thing though.
Disabled man was jailed nine years awaiting a murder trial that never happened
The engineering tolerances are not good -- ie. you can stick a pen between the body panels. Can't do that with a Toyota or Honda, for example.

The interior is spartan. My $40,000 minivan has more interior features for passengers than a $140,000 Model X.

The tablet controls. They are unsafe as they make you take your eyes off the road. Cars still need physical buttons for critical control systems and systems that consumers need to control often (radio, climate control, windshield wipers, cruise control, etc.).

Build quality -- Tesla's are known for having cheap parts and parts that fall off or break easily or just wear out quickly.
Aww dang, I can't believe I forgot to publish it
Go back and read The Right Stuff. This pilot rode it through the dead zone until the plane pointed upwards.
It appears that mastodon.social suspended it already.
The problem with your comparison to Amazon is that the scale of products offered on Amazon is completely different.

A catalogue system like this is only viable if the number of products is relatively small, as appears to be the case of mcmaster-carr.
Four very interesting concepts in a short space:

- "general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin"

- "[search and learning are] methods that continue to scale with increased computation"

- "We should stop trying to find simple ways to think about the contents of minds"

- "We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered"

In other words, computer programs should stop trying be something they are not. They are not AI. Computers are expensive machines that can (very efficiently, and with economies of scale) calculate and present anything that the author of the software desires. It takes actual human intelligence, economics, and ethics to translate that into action.
Take a look at any community where the vast majority of people don't have anything to do. Are those places you would want to live? Do you see happiness? Do you see any significant number of people responsibly raising families, pursuing self-improvement, or even keeping the garbage picked up? Or do you see squalor and decay and mental illness and addiction and hopelessness?
G+ actually worked, it just didn't hit as big as Google would have liked. I used it mostly every day for a while and was sad when it disappeared. So I guess you could say it "failed" for one set of criteria, but may not "fail" if the criteria is a little less demanding.
Build a CQRS event store with Amazon DynamoDB
I'm sure it's fine if you use James Mickens' Mossad / Not-Mossad threat model.
Dramageddon: The Virtual Civil War
It's formally ranked pretty high for income mobility, even
The documentation mentions that embeddings measure the relatedness of text strings, and that they’re commonly used for search, clustering, anomaly detection, recommendations, diversity management, and classification.

I’m not well versed in AI at all. Could anyone give some more fleshed out examples of some of the kinds of data that are fed into a tool like this, what the tool does with it, and what kinds of applications people might make with it?
This article is hand-wavy at best. Was it generated?

Where did that colorful graph come from and what data is it based on?

> The idea of a new musical notation system threatened her mastery of the old system, her worth in the industry, and her years of hard work.

Musical notation [1] has changed over time. 20th century microtonal music from composers like Ives or Partch required notation changes. And there's electronic music that differed wildly from old notational forms. [2] The problem was less an attack on his friend's well-deserved status and more one of rudely expecting a non-expert to have expertise. Would you insist that a car driver justify engine design? No.

The five stages of uncomfortable tech seem modeled on the Kübler-Ross stages of grief for no apparent reason. It's fitting, though, given that "five stages of grief" is also a claim not based on evidence. [2] (It may "work," though, like horoscopes "work.")

[1] https://www.britannica.com/art/musical-notation/Evolution-of...

[2] https://gearspace.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-and...

[3] https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/its-time-le...
In your own words, why do you think Wuhan Institute of Virology and those that funded their work are blameless relating to the Covid 19 epidemic?
Conscription is a good example of a social burden unfairly dispersed and widely objected to — at least in the West. My point is the underpinning of this “one more mandatory intervention is no big deal” view is not based on reality. The State stopped forcing irreversible interventions on adults when eugenics went out of (polite) fashion. The belief compulsory acts are normal and good policy is based on something like a public health bureaucracy fantasy version of economics’ perfectly rational actor models.
As someone who works in the audio AI space I think an underappreciated reason for audio lagging behind is that it's a lot harder to put impressive audio clips in an academic paper than impressive images.
Jasco/GE switches is what I used throughout my house... but the whole point to me was to have a smart home.

So when humidity goes up in the bathroom, the controller would kick on the exhaust fan.

When temperature drops in a room that is active below a set point, the fan is kicked on for the forced air to start circulating + heat would get kicked on if necessary.

The whole point of having a smart home is to have a smart home that does stuff for you. Walking into a room and having lights turn on is the best thing EVER. I don't want to touch a switch if I can avoid it.

If sensor traffic is not meant to go on a Z-Wave network then they shouldn't allow those device classes to exist on the Z-Wave network.

On the sensors I had I cranked up the change required before it would report, but it also did periodic reports. I had to also update those so that the network wouldn't get flooded.

Sleepy devices/battery powered devices on the Z-Wave network for things like window sensors/door sensors is kind of the norm. It's hard to run power for all those things, and those sorts of security sensors are handy for not just automation but also for peace of mind!

The thing is that I have a similar setup now with Zigbee/Thread devices... and everything just works. In fact due to not having motion sensors that also act as humidity/temperature/light sensors I end up having more sensors on the network, yet it is far more stable.
Banning ElonJet was already a cheat, so I'm extremely curious how this is one is justified.
> The thing is, there doesn't seem to be any security weaknesses with the existing AE method. I have looked hard.

Even if nobody found any concrete security issues, there might be compliance reasons not to use SHA-1, as indicated by the OP. It's easier to switch to something new than to endlessly explain to auditors that actually in this particular case the use of SHA-1 is probably fine. Also note that there's no security proof for the MDC, making it harder to convince such auditors.

> There also doesn't seem to be any need for the AD (associated data) part.

I personally disagree: https://gitlab.com/openpgp-wg/rfc4880bis/-/issues/145. The paper linked there explains why having AD would be useful. But I'll grant you that the crypto refresh doesn't make significant use of it yet, so it can't really be counted as an advantage for AEAD yet.

> OCB seems to be the fastest out of all of them. If the proposal was just to add on OCB as an enhanced performance mode then I might be OK with that. Why make the people encrypting multi-TB files wait? I am mostly grumpy with the idea that we have to drop an existing well established standard for stuff like messaging and less extreme file sizes.

I'm not sure I understand what the concrete difference would be between what you're proposing and what the crypto refresh does? It introduces a new mode and encourages its use, but doesn't disallow the use of the current mode. That being said, once OCB is widely deployed, why would you want to use CFB instead of OCB?
Didgets is a little startup trying to get some traction. I am definitely not 'afraid to share implementation details', but I have not done a great job so far of prominently posting a lot of technical specifications and details on the website.

So...are you promising to try it out if I tell you how I did it?
Seems like an interesting idea. But as it wouldn't have an atmosphere, a biosphere or significant amount of mineral resources, there doesn't seem a lot of point except as a waypoint to somewhere else.
I don't understand what you're asking here. Don't use HMAC as a password hash? HMAC keys should be a long string of uncorrelated bits, not ASCII strings?
Lack of competition, 15 years ago you could get 36 pictures developed for £3 through the post and get sent a new film to use. Now there is only one place the develops film in my town and it is £20
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The payroll companies sell your data to prospective employers sometimes included in a background report bundled deal.
Not Morgan Freeman – A Look Behind the Deepfake Singularity
It wasn't "science" which was changing its mind though – "science" doesn't have a mind – it was the public health authorities. The same authorities would change their recommendations over time, and authorities in different countries were making different recommendations at the same time. In part, this was due to differences in circumstances (across both time and space) around the severity of the pandemic, availability of vaccines, hospital resources, etc. But, another factor was that, despite (at any given point in time) all having largely the same scientific evidence, they sometimes interpreted it in different ways, drew different conclusions from it, differed in the weight they decided to give to individual pieces of evidence, etc. It is legitimate for people to question whether they were interpreting the available evidence correctly – and this is not just a matter of hindsight, even at the time, there were qualified professionals who disagreed with their judgements.

I think this frequent conflation of "science" with "public health authority interpretations of science" is rather misguided – and it isn't just "anti-vax" people who commit that conflation, many "pro-vax" people do the exact same thing. I've always been supportive of vaccination – indeed, I have all my recommended doses of COVID-19 vaccine – but I think the excessive rhetoric which some people use against those who express doubts has been very harmful – it has actually been a major unnecessary setback in the cause of encouraging vaccination.
So this kind of analysis is always troublesome.

It isn't very hard to find instances of false positives when the sample size is so large. For those false positives, the cost and effort is no doubt a waste and potentially could distract from a real instance.

But what is the big picture here and the overall cost benefit?
Can we find true positives where the crash victim is better off because of the alert?
Are there more or less of these than the false positives?
Have any of the true positives saved a life? How do you measure that?
The algorithm no doubt does not have six sigma accuracy, but it that the bar that must be set before we save some lives?
Play has been donated to the community one year ago, which has been reasonably active lately. They secured some funding and development efforts have picked up a good pace.
If humans end up getting expelled from virtual reality back into physical one not forcibly, but by lack of meaningful virtual pursuits... is that really a grim future?
Usually company doing a background check calls all your previous employers to verify dates of your employment.
This rationale is so silly that I agree it's the likely answer.
This company is working on hydrogen powered ultra-class trucks: https://firstmode.com/
Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training
That's true rhetorically (the favorite specific topic being the "dreamers"), but there is no will to fix the H1B program at all by Democratic leadership. The status quo is great for businesses, a big part of their power base. It's not even bad for support from organized labor (though that matters less and less in real elections as union membership has been in decline for decades), since H1Bs are largely employed in nonunion industries.
Can’t recommend SES. We have someone nearly full time managing the suppression list. We don’t even spam. These are just system notifications that the users need.
The cloud offering makes development easier for analysts, that are good at SQL, but not necessarily familiar with tools like VSCode. It is worth $50 per developer seat, however not $100 and definitely not $600 if you are onto the enterprise plan. For the enterprise, there are discounts available, however there is a high risk they won't be available in a in years time.
Supermax Prison
There are essentially no applications where SHA2 isn't good enough.

(You could contort yourself into an argument that "SHA2 isn't good enough for protocols where you need a keyed hash without HMAC", but 1) that isn't true given SHA2-384 and 2) there really are no such protocols).

The SHA1 break doesn't threaten SHA2. The two hashes are different in a significant way that breaks the SHA1 attack.
You need to add the articles you want to read. I use the Chrome extension. https://blog.readwise.io/p/bf87944f-b0fe-4f08-a461-f75ab8ade...
> AI will not replace creativity.

If people can't differentiate between computer and human generated art, wouldn't that be the definition of being replaceable?
ZK proofs are revolutionary
Read this article to learn what a hypocrite this woman is on 'free speech' : https://theintercept.com/2018/03/08/the-nyts-bari-weiss-fals...
People start out with a brain, they don't tend to start out with money, electricity and in the absence of and incentive it's hard to imagine society doing much for the downtrodden. I think empathy exists and it can be strong, but we've had racism, bigotry, and genocide all while the people we were killing had every potential to be another Einstein.

Also why would you think the weights for models will be open source. That isn't even true now for the most complicated models (gpt3 and the like) and certainly isn't for all the models running right now in production using proprietary datasets. As long as keeping it secret makes it more likely that you (or your models) can generate the next better model it doesn't seem very likely we're converge on them all being public
SQLite is very far from what I would call a “mainstream” database, it is only mainstream in being well-known but architecturally has not much in common with MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, MSSQL, etc. which are the more traditional dbs.
I've been a fan of Wendy Carlos for a few years now and had no idea she was trans until reading your comment just now.
It is.

You sell your music for $1. I sell your music (but without copyright, it's my music, really) for $0.50 in all the same locations as you do. I'll win any race to the bottom, because my cost in time is absolutely less than yours in the effort to sell my music.
I want browsers to have first class Sass support. Pave the cowpaths etc.
As if collective action problems were so simple.

The reality is engineers need money but they prefer manipulating machines to people, so the business people take care of the unpleasant wetware programming and not coincidentally take the bulk of the profits.

it'd be far easier for a smaller group of engineers to build an AI powered CEO/C-suite that generates the regulatory filings etc. but does all human interaction over zoom or by phone. This would require a bit of work to pull off and would probably be denounced as horribly illegal, but I'm not convinced it would do a worse job than the median C-suite.
It's quite expensive, but I guess it's more intended to be used professionally rather than just archiving the whole internet. As in, just archive what you really want.

Though who knows? It's not really a non-profit as far as I can tell.

In any case, the website is beautiful and very well designed. Love to see that.
I’m currently using cibuildwheel and github actions to create Linux and macOS wheels [1], but I need to install some host packages to make it work, particularly automake and friends.

The main issue I have with GHA is it doesn’t support ARM (aarch64 or armv7l) executors, so building these needs QEMU, which is slow.

I also maintain a different package [2] that doesn’t currently distribute its Kerberos module via PYPI, because I haven’t had time to make the same kind of GHA pipeline and test it.

Wondering how these kinds of non-Python platform dependencies (automake, libkrb5, etc) could be handled by this system?

When would it be available to the public? It looks cool, I want to play with it.

[1]: https://github.com/masenf/gensio-binary/blob/pypi-master/.gi...
[2]: https://pypi.org/project/pike-smb2/
I agree. Subscription-based proprietary software is the worst kind out there in terms of user autonomy, because there exists a strong incentive against your ability to leave the service in order to keep you paying. The larger the scope, the greater my potential loss I face.
Truly a 4-step plan to riches beyond imagining!

Step 1: buy a $5 wrench (https://xkcd.com/538/)

Step 2: join the app

Step 3: [redacted]

Step 4: PROFIT!!!!!
Even better, the vectors come pre-unit normalized so you can just do the dot product for cosine similarity.
That's what the b) was about, yes.

And ironically, the overwhelming majority of knowledge used by these models to produce pictures that superficially look like their work (usually not at all), is not coming from any artworks at all. It's as simple as that. They are mostly trained on photos which constitute the bulk of models' knowledge about the real world. They are the main source of coherency. Artist names and keywords like "trending on artstation" are just easily discoverable and very rough handles for pieces of the memory of the models.
Before coalition talks in Germany there are frequently news about politicians visiting this party headquarter or that party headquarter, practically always in real time. All of those are usually not public events. There are no press conferences, nobody in the press is told about those visits (except if it leaks).
> If I worry about anything here, is that AI will become THE answer that you will not be allowed to question.

People are already arguing with a bot about why there app was removed from the app store.

Somewhat related, the question might become: do I have a bot that can win an argument with an other bot? As the internet already get flooded with AI-generated seo-spam, we already get to depend on software that outsmart these AIs.

Some people here dream about becoming super productive. Reality might be that we will drown in AI-generated content (code, e-mails, web sites) that some poor people have to judge, clean up and curate.
The documentation contains a good amount of hypothetical real-world use cases: https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings/use-cases
This is false.

Several people, including myself, have been fighting AI IP theft for years. I filed the first BBB complaint, in fact...
This doesn't seem very helpful at all. First it seems impossibly difficult to execute and probably won't benefit the artists much.
This was my gateway to go.

Working on a python gig targeting an airgapped windows server, different OS architecture from everything else on-hand, restrictions on building and deploying VM's, poor dev/prod workflows etc.

After a couple of months of app dev we ran into weeks of grinding through building a reproducible process (including a sneakernet step) for python dependency resolution and binary builds to get the payload dropped on the server. It was brittle and a bit overwhelming.

Go was "big enough" at the time to be a reasonable next step and after a few weeks of porting we had a cross-compilation process up and were done.

Go actually _shits me to tears_ as a language compared to python, rust, or even Lua, but as a back-end dev it's still where I do most of my work as I'm nearly guaranteed to be able to i) predictably solve something in a way i can share it with a team and ii) get it deployed without too much pain.
First, you can't actually "own" a 501c3, you can control it. Second, a 501c3 can be beneficial to its donors or controllers, but:

"The organization must not be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests, and no part of a section 501(c)(3) organization's net earnings may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any organization managers agreeing to the transaction."

A charity that promotes peace on earth may be beneficial to the donors to the charity... but if "optimized for my personal benefit" it is likely to be non-tax-exempt... but I suppose we could debate the exact words used and what they really mean in theory. I think in the above tobacco scenario, the IRS and courts would likely find that the tobacco promotion was merely advertising, and therefore subject to taxation.

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
Schooling is mandatory but schools are not. That process is maybe arguably risky, but also not irreversible.
> Why are more and more apps trying to tickle all our accts for monthly/recurring fees?

Because it works. If we want to stop it, we need to actually stop paying for them.
A 14℅ reduction in something that happens to 5%+ of people measurably and probably lowers your developmental outcome even if it is bellow the threshold of clear measure (a weaker school year that you never quite catch up from could just be random after all.)

That's a much bigger deal than whether you have 12 in a million or 24 in a million chance of something that has a 5% chance of being fatal.

Giving a population lead poisoning didn't kill any of them outright but cognitive problems in the lead generation is correlated to our higher homicide rates and many of the poorer outcomes in our generation and echo's of its affects in society.

I find it interesting that the wider anti-vax demographics overlap heavily with the safety/helicopter parenting that focuses on some extremely unlikely demise as a reason to limit the next generation in ways that will have much higher rates of earlier deaths and reduced lifestyles when considering their overall lifespan.
I would say the biggest thing that keeps me from worrying about AI in reasonably-complex domains is the requirement for mapping a workable UX to the domain (i.e. for machine-human interactions in insurance, banking, health care, et. al.). Additionally, the higher-order complexity that emerges when complex domains interact with each other seems to be even more impossible to train for.

Sure, a sufficiently advanced AI can craft a UI that looks like something incredible (e.g. McMaster.com), but it won't necessarily be able to replicate the quality of their customer service, consistency of offerings, or reliability of delivery (the UX).

Small nuances in some domain can cause vast changes in how you would be expected to interact with it. AI typically fails to extrapolate and manage all of these possibilities. A good human developer can play devil's advocate for 30 minutes and come up with edges that would decimate any AI on the horizon. But, take that same pile of edges and hand them to a product wizard, and that person will give you all kinds of workarounds that would be acceptable to the end customer. Kick it back over the wall to the developers and you have happy customers.

I don't think it will last forever, but the most complex domains seem to be the safest ones for a human developer's career prospects.