skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm particularly looking forward to using the new tiling system. I know that there are no-doubt better tiling window managers out there, but I'm a traditional user, but will appreciate the feature being added into my workflow.
And those first interstellar probes may have arrived a long time ago.
Out of interest, is there any public information about your project?

I am currently prototyping a Lua environment for instrument control in a regulated environment. I've added several customisations and safety mitigations to make it suitable for use, and it works beautifully. One thing I would like is to be able to showcase examples of use in other products.

If you, or anyone else, have any examples I could point people to, to demonstrate existing real-world uses of Lua, that would be really appreciated.
I feel like the ideal way to test an AI powered jet fighter would be with a balloon... Just putting that out there...
exactly what i was also thinking of

it's almost like they should be required to provide sources

imagine if this headline said "30 out of 190,000 employees noisy/outspoken employees have an angsty opinion on google's CEO"
Good news, the current US administration is aware, and has committed many billions of dollars to make resources available, and presumably will continue to do so.
Way to flip the script on the real statement:

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" - in other words, this speculation can be dismissed without additional proof
>why would the DoD permit people to get all in a huff in confusion about this

"I think sometimes we underestimate the power of social media in today's outrage and conspiracy driven culture, which is all but impossible to contain. I've said it what seems like a thousand times now - I believe there would be much more positive than negative as a result of shutting the internet off indefinitely."

I'm not sure if there is much more I can say explicitly. By people I'm assuming you mean the average person with social media access, which is the prime medium for people to get in a huff on. It doesn't matter what objective facts are presented by the DoD. Social media will run with it to the extremes, just like kids would playing the "Chinese whispers" game.

That being said, I'm making a joke about shutting the internet off, but there is some truth to it.
The original statement was - BEVs will overload the grid, this discussion shows oposite is the case - they are used to stabilise the grid.

> those programs are going to become mandatory

I would say the jury is still out if it makes financial sence. Batteries lose capacity to aging even if you don't use them.

This is extremely speculative and if the government has appetite to make anything mandatory about cars, they would start by enforcing the speed limit electronically
It's probably not helping that most of their newer products get relaunched/branded and splintered so frequently leading to consumer confusion; for example, Android Pay -> Google Wallet -> Google Pay -> Google Pay and Wallet.
I don't understand the exact counterpoint you were attempting to make.

My previous post did not mention a conspiracy, and also, money flow, aka "the distribution of wealth" was the point of my post.

All the companies with a vested interest in workers going to the office, like landlords, shop owners, taxi companies, etc., have the same desire to continue to be profitable. That profit is predicated upon commuters re-distributing their wealth to others via the commute, in office time, restaurants, etc. Those with the vested interest can all act independently to pressure governments to coerce businesses to force RTO...so not sure where "conspiracy" came from, nor is it required.

The companies with employees coming into the office do not make additional revenue by people being in the office...it is actually cheaper for them to not have employees in the office. Reducing business space costs like electricity, maintenance, custodians, etc. Also, they do not have to supply snacks, reduction in amenities like monitors, chairs, etc. And finally, they can sub-lease until their primary lease runs out. So there isn't an excellent monetary reason to keep their shiny castles full. It is typically out of prestige or an older mindset of control.

Finally, out-sourcing and off-shoring occur independently of this RTO dynamic but for the same reasons. Companies want to maximize the distribution of wealth to the leaders and shareholders. They attempt to minimize the share of profits with employees. Layoffs, pay cuts, equity reductions, off-shoring, and more are all examples of reducing the distribution of wealth to employees.
Airpods, apple watch, m1 processors. I'm sure there are others but I've bought and enjoyed a bunch of new apple products since Tim Cook took over
So then who is liable if some dangerous substance is discovered within a company's office in Germany? Or if someone gets hurt by a normal object placed in a peculiar position?

Assuming the perpetrator is unknown.
The EPA famously declared the air safe following 9/11. Their credibility is, at least for me personally, negligible. The flint water crisis and the Gold King Mine are other examples.

People are rightfully worried and angered. Your dismissal of them as "losing their mind" or "hysterical" is at best tone deaf, and at worst an intentional tactic to downplay the event. Appeals to governmental authority falls flat when the trust of the people no longer exists for their governmental institutions.

From the article: U.S. EPA continues to assist Norfolk Southern and Columbiana Emergency Management Agency with voluntary residential air screening. ... To increase the rate of screening, Norfolk Southern—with U.S. EPA assistance—is bringing more teams and equipment to East Palestine.

You expect Norfolk Southern to perform honest screening which would result in millions upon millions in damages to be paid out? Why isnt the EPA in charge of this rather than following the lead of Norfolk?
That’s true about most important questions. But you’re factually wrong about the implications of most religions.

Many (most?) major religions teach that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe. The Abrahamic faiths teach the existence of angels, for example.

And even if we restrict it to intelligent biological life, most religions don’t really say anything about that at all.
Not necessarily. The big issue they've got to overcome is hallucination. If they can do that, these LLMs will have some staying power in providing search responses. If not, they'll still be useful creative tools.

Another possibility is that the LLM just gets used as an NLU front-end to the search engine. In that case keyword search essentially goes away and semantic search allows people to actually ask questions rather than playing the keyword/phrase guessing game.

Either way, it seems like the advertising game on the web is going to change.
They are primarily dependent not on technology but on their incumbent position which lets them negotiate strategic business deals to protect their market.

Their advantage is not technological.
apparently GPT-J needs ~25GB RAM min (for inference only), i.e. a 32GB card ...and GPT-3 is an order of magnitude bigger again

https://nlpcloud.com/gpt-3-open-source-alternatives-gpt-j-gp...

though TBH just making cards with more RAM to fit these kind of models seems easier than being at absolute cutting edge of performance

I also wonder how this metric translates to something like Apple Silicon 'unified memory'... latest MBP have 32GB RAM, I wonder if anyone managed to run GPT-J there yet?
> Despite the fact that AI is widely regarded as the future, Google has not made a significant effort to dominate in this field.

I think of “Google and AI”, and I remember hearing more about their work on “AI ethics” than work on actual “AI” itself. Of course, ethics is important, but if you are more focused on the ethics of doing something than actually doing it, that’s scarcely a recipe for leading the market-on the contrary, it sounds rather risk-averse-and, maybe that’s unfair, I don’t know, but that’s just the impression I get from my own limited perspective.
Kind of a weird statement since we are anon here. It is entirely possible that when you were a kid, computers didn't even display graphics.
You're probably running Rust code in debug mode, or something else is going on. Without more info, hard to say. But for tasks where the purpose is to write the fastest code possible, Rust is very competitive and regularly outperforms C and C++. Sure there are perf differences, but 10-100x figures are unheard of unless you're doing something really wrong.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
This is a ridiculous and unproductive line of reasoning and argumentation. Be serious.
No.

The problem is how they treat the elections like a popularity contest without regard to how it affects them or their quality of life. It sucks how this will affect them. It really does. However, these are the consequences for voting in people who don't give a shit about you in the slightest.
You mean CEOs?
Lists have a consumable head. What you constructed looks like a left fold, a stack of wrappers with the data buried at the bottom.
>… and they are supposed to lead by example

Not really, they are supposed to make the necessary decisions to steer the company to maximize its value to the shareholders. While this vacation might give a little negative blip for a day or two in the tech media and commentary space, this vacation is not going to do jackshit to the stock price, where the layoffs will have a positive impact.
> That promise will go out the window just as soon as other nations arm ai enabled drones with anti air missiles.

Ethics don't go out the window because of autonomy. It's dark, but it's not somehow easy to shrug off as "ok no human then no ethics". We already have semi-autonomous weapons such as CIWS (Goalkeeper/Phalanx) which are autonomous because it's very tedious for a human to sit idle and wait for threats and then it's really hard to hit them. Perfect job for a robot. But the ethical job of the human in that case is ensuring that the weapon isn't armed if there is too high risk of collateral damage (These sit on ships, typically, so a human decides whether it's safe to arm the weapon given the situation around the vessel).

The dumbest autonomous weapons are mines, they are hundreds of years old. The ethical decision is made when laying down the mine, not when the explosion is triggered. So yes it's a slippery slope, but the "human in the loop" isn't only ethical when it's the kill decision. There is a "human in the loop" when laying a mine too. The ethics involved consists of weighing the risk of killing the wrong target, properly documenting where they are planted and so on. There is no human "in the loop" at the time the mine kills someone. But that doesn't somehow throw ethics out the window. The person deploying the mine - or the slaughterbot - is the person in the loop.

> In 20 years time we'll probably have aircraft that do figure eights over enemy territory for hours before automatically engaging 'military aged males'.

I think that is unlikely, but possibly "armed" personnel. We already have craft that do figure eights for hours before automatically engaging specific signatures of vehicles (if we'd want to). And as I said, even artillery shells do this. But yes, finding a concentration of troops and deciding whether they are soldiers/civilian isn't even 20 years away.
What did he achieve?

Google search is worse than before.

Youtube recommendations feel worse than before.

Gmail lets in spam (maybe I was unlucky few times).

Android market / play market has very bad search...

Rest is stagnating? Maybe even better, at least they dont change it for worse.

They hired thousands of employees yet you cannot contact a person. What do those people even do?

"Everyone" (apart the CEO?) knows that in Google you get promoted for shipping half baked stuff, so for years they ship half baked stuff to kill it few years later.
Which Usenet service do you use?
The wearisome nature of this phenomenon known as "AI boomer-paranoia" has transcended the realm of exasperation.
Or the opposite. War is already tech. The nuclear powers, and the ones controlling nukes control the world's fundamentals, with sideshows going on. When it comes to the ones who control the AI that will guide the nukes , who do we trust less, technologists or populist politicians? It is clear that in the future, weapons of manipulation will be just as powerful as thermonuclears, both superhuman and impossible to fight.
They have lost their mojo in that they've failed countless times to diversify their business revenue stream. They're in the same boat as Meta in that regard. Especially if you compare them to Microsoft, Amazon and Apple who have all made good progress in diversifying over the last decade or so.
"He was even careful to ensure he replaced any animal-derived products on the ancient shopping list with synthetic versions."

Soo..... He goes to great lengths and takes 8 months to source the ORIGINAL ingredients..... Just to new age vegan it with synthetic chemicals.

Why not just buy some stuff off the shelf? Seems like a bit of a concocted process to end up with a sham product.
>Another notable diff is that ABC describes ethylhexyl acrylate as a "carcinogen", linking to a CDC page as a cite

The linked CDC source doesn't really definitively say it's a carcinogen. The exact quote is "potential occupational carcinogen as defined by the OSHA carcinogen policy [29 CFR 1990]". Also, it's worth noting that the page is for "Ethyl acrylate", not "ethylhexyl acrylate". A google search for "ethylhexyl acrylate" turns up results for 2-ETHYLHEXYL ACRYLATE, which has a different CAS number, so it's unknown whether ABC is even referring to the correct chemical.

[1] https://www.chempoint.com/products/download?grade=2716&docty...
Overcoming Developer Fatigue: Strategies for Streamlining Vulnerability Fixes
Wasn't the first iPhone demo totally buggy as well? It doesn't matter. Users have seen what ChatGPT can do, and the community was excited that Bing will offer it for free soon and is eager to pivot to it.
I remembered it as an article where a guy semi-jokingly claimed to have hacked most of the web through a supply-chain exploit and listed off a ton of clever things he did to evade all of the immediately obvious ways to notice that such a thing was happening. Pretty sure I saw it here on HN originally, but I couldn't come up with any search terms to find it in Google, Bing, DDG, HN Angolia search, etc.
Part of the issue here is that Google is a large, mature, Corporation.

People expect it to act like a (or rather 50) small, nimble, innovative start ups. But it isn't that. It's a large mature corporation in a stable market (search/advertising).

This is why there were layoffs recently: Google's future is not growing (where people are an asset) it is Efficiency (where people are a cost centre).

This is also why Google struggles so much with innovation, new product lines etc. The same things that stopped GE or AT&T becoming big players online will stop Google from being a big player in <Insert New Thing> (remember before ChatGPT when it was Crypto and Google didn't have a coin? Or before that when it was Quantum computing and Google were totally definitely building one, it just still doesn't exist?).

And all of this is A-Ok. This is just the corporate lifecycle. There are very good, economically sensible, pragmatic reasons why big companies do not innovate and why efficiency is more important there.

Whether Google needs a new CEO or not depends entirely on whether it's current one can deliver that. But Layoffs are a sign the current guy is doing his job, people just don't understand (or don't want to understand) what his job is...
You might want to see if someone else has stolen your SSN for employment purposes.
Mint and chili go great together: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larb
So a guess then, that's disappointing. Generally things don't burn 100% perfectly.

Unless you were onsite testing what was in the runoff and have the results, you're speculating.
> People are drumming up hysteria for political capital, but its not fair to people who live in Ohio or Pennsylvania and now think they can't use their water, they're doomed to cancer at 45, and their kids will be mutants.

Can you show me a single comment on this website and not on reddit that is saying those things? Also, did you know that the EPA also said that all the dust in the air on 9/11 was perfectly safe? I am not implying malice here, but sometimes the authorities are just wrong, so it seems naive to just believe them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/10/epa-head-wro...
It originated from the Cold War, and is a consequence of American Propaganda that both covers up intelligence and military action inside our own borders (the original area 51 conspiracy was started and propagated by the US military) as well as our inate belief that we are the worlds biggest and most powerful superpower, therefore the only things that could invade our airpsace must be extra-terrestrial.

Edit: They didn't conspire to invent the conspiracy, but didn't outright deny it either, since it provided them with a convenient distraction
> controlling dissent by just removing a source of it which is not the same as controlling dissent by cracking down

You will have to elaborate on how these two phrasings mean different things i.e. what's the difference between "cracking down" on the sources of dissent and "removing" the sources of dissent, and why you support one and condemn the other (if you do.)
Let's try that with goats :)
Exactly. Guys like Zetobal keep pissing and moaning that ChatGPT is not actually intelligent and that its coherent and seemingly intelligent responses are just the natural result of how tokenizers work. And okay, I guess I can sort of understand that, but instead of deflating my impression of ChatGPT it's just made wonder if most humans aren't just getting through their days with the exact same trick.
You don't even always need a big differentiator. We got rid of our Tesla sacrificing range to have normal vehicle controls. Some times tech just gets good enough that being the first mover can't beat the entrenched players inevitability and willingness to give customers what they ask for instead of insisting you will like something you never asked for, even after you try it and tell them you don't like the thing they insist you will like. Tesla has gone all in on things like touch screens and non-standard controls and it has literally lost them our business twice. I would have bought a Model S Plaid if it just had a normal steering wheel. No questions asked. And my partner would have kept her Model 3 if it didn't have such annoying vehicle controls for certain things. Little stuff really matters and Tesla sticks their head in the sand over it while Audi will happily make you a pretty normal SUV that happens to be zippy and electric.
Search doesn't give you answers, it gives you pages that are popular that may contain the answers. You have to look at those pages, consider the source, and develop your own intuition and heuristics to determine if you trust that information. It's a skill you develop over time.

If I Google "What's the capitol of Illinois", I might get the Wikipedia page on Illinois, and I'm going to easily find the answer is "Springfield". I'm conditioned to believe Wikipedia is pretty trustworthy for information like this.

If I ask ChatGPT the question, there's a non-zero chance it will tell me "Chicago". In the chatbot-as-search paradigm, I'm expected to just accept that error.
Yea, I think CoPilot style tools that generate the prompts for you and pipeline the models are going to see wider adoption in the long run. I think this raw chat UX where you are directly interacting with the model is more of a demo of where we are at with the tech and RLHF rather than something that will have wide applications in the long run.

There’s lots of papers on hybrid information retrieval with LLMs that is probably the right strategy for Google rather than a chat bot (which they tried with Google Assistant which was fairly accurate but not very useful). The main issue with these models right now is they are horrible at recalling facts from their training set but incredible at pulling facts from their prompt. Google has the best IR and LLM researchers in the world, they just need a bolder strategy rather than this FOMO strategy.
I think the 'k6s' title is an unintentional misdirection
Nice, I think kw_only=True and slots=True solve a lot of my dataclass problems. Wish they defaulted to true
I am interested in Rust. I am not interested in takes like this one, or a lot of the other "I love rust" content that lacks technical substance.
Based on public repos, Haskell is not growing, and Rust has overtaken it:

https://www.openhub.net/languages/compare?language_name[]=ru...

http://www.modulecounts.com/
With nvidia's sparsity support memory bandwidth can be effectively doubled for inference, if you can sparsify.
Normal people aren't rare by definition.
Bing's image search is better than google's. Hands down. While this has been popularized for ...ehem...nsfw reasons, it's also very useful to find charts and visualizations related to a particular topic. As an example, I was searching for charts that showed laptop vs desktop market share, and bam! There's the latest projections.
It’s not aliens, it’s a campaign to distract us from the clusterfuck literal train wreck in Ohio and the US bombing the nord pipeline.
Vendors of STBs should unlock them so that we don't get so much e-waste.

These boxes are most of the times locked, whereas they could be repurposed for many interesting uses (linux machines, android boxes, educational devices...), now they will be thrown away, remain in closets/garages or at the best be recycled.

Tried to unlock my Vodafone TV box (Sagemcom DIW387 if I'm not mistaken), but with no luck since there is no community to "hack" it.
Hiring junior devs is not a problem, everybody understands that they can deliver some serious stuff in 2-3 years. My experience was with senior/lead developers. There are so many things should match to hire such people. Some examples. A one guy refused the offer because he did not want to relocate, another guy was turned down because of his political views (due to war), most people could not pass technical interview. The # of candidates topped 100+ for this position.
> It was pretty much the same level of KYC/AML you needed to transact at Coinbase or Kraken, but you could input or receive actual paper cash, which seems to have upset the regulator so those machines went away as well as the no-KYC ones.

I don't think most of them have any kind of Chainalysis setup or that would kill the margins for most of the operators. Isn't it basically just a license scan, SMS code, and daily/monthly limits?
Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools
They usually don't win in the long-run because someone comes along with

> better design, cheaper price, better range, better reliability

That doesn't mean the first mover advantage doesn't exist.
You're talking about having an adult conversation with a fully developed brain. Your logic doesn't apply to children.

What you're suggesting doesn't fully work on a young undeveloped brain. This is the equivalency of telling a teenager that drugs are bad. Kids, especially teenagers aren't rational. This is why we have laws in place that don't treat them like adults until they're at least 18 and sometimes 21.

The idea that you're going to just sit them down and re-educate them appropriately when there's essentially unlimited access to this stuff is pure silliness.
In this context, "crypto bullshit" always refers to the currency.
>> A calculator in the side bar is fracking awesome!

Another case of the browser doing what the OS and Desktop environment should be doing. I like to point at tabs - DEs and GUI toolkits never really came up with a good way to handle multiple documents well.
Apparently, the kool-aid makes you rich.