skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robotics firm Mujin unveils automated unloader at ProMat
Along this line of thinking, I try to capture a 20 minute video of random conversation during each family vacation. Just set prop up the camera and record.

When we take trips, I like to record a retrospective. Just things like what did you like/dislike/find interesting. They feel awkward but then they don’t.
Robots and shit. What value is social media when its all just a big fat LLM dumping ground and everyone knows it. Long Live the Machine, killer of the bird and the book.

That is my prophecy.
It is not just LLM though. Google is big tech and they have to fend off AI browsers, AI image generation, Github Co-Pilot, Office 365 with LLM, Notion AI.
Chatbots is just one narrow product.

So far they have an inferior chatbot layer to their "much better" LLM, as an experimental beta product, and we are just talking about a chatbot product.

It comes down to are they able to offer their models so that startups can start building on it while also showing that they can integrate it in all their products, and will the devs use it?

By the time they release their APIs they will be so much behind in network effect , and they are so worried about Google Search being their main revenue driver that they are being attacked on all fronts while they are only worried about Search for now.
Perhaps people thought cars would be self-driving so people could ignore the road while playing with touchscreens.

Of course Tesla's 2016 demo video of its self-driving feature was faked^1. There were several crashes, some fatal, resulting from Tesla's alleged self-driving feature. The company is being sued by multiple parties for breach of warranty.^2 Stay tuned.

1. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/tesla-staged-2016-self-...

2. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
Or, like PDF, require the file to be interpreted starting from the end.
Was it a real child's head? Because, in that case, the actual child depicted in the photo could be seen as the victim. Especially if its a convincing fake.
> This feature was disabled to address issues that our customers had with keeping their TV and TV Box power synchronized.

You'd likely be surprised if you were a fly on the wall at their customer service center listening in on calls for help from customers. This one likely ranks near the top of their call list, and for those customers who call with this complaint, it is also very likely extremely hard to talk them through correcting the issue over the phone.

My mother used to get caught by exactly this with her tv and cable box, except instead of calling Verizon she would call me, and there was no way to talk her through fixing it over the phone, I had to go by every time to reset one of the two (TV or Cable box) to be the same state (off or on) as the other one.

I also tried to get her to use two remotes (the CATV one to turn on/off the CATV box, the actual TV remote to turn on/off the TV). She was addicted to "pushing just one button" and didn't want the confusion of "two remotes". So I could not get her to simply do that.

And every time it happened, she had zero understanding of what was wrong or why it was wrong. All she saw was "this TV won't turn on again".

Multiply that by thousands of customers in a given area, and from their viewpoint, simply keeping the cable box on, even when the remote 'off' button is pressed, cuts out a huge number of very difficult to handle calls.
> This is a myth

Are you really claiming that more money chasing the same amount of goods isn't going to cause inflation?

> Why is a good idea that only people with incomes pay income taxes?

The context of the discussion was increasing taxes. And you did not explain the mechanism by which increasing corporate taxes is supposed to reduce inflation.
This feels so over-the-top. "A recording of Joe Biden forgetting his own name or what year it is, or Kamala Harris claiming to be running an abortion clinic?" Give me a break, you could already have done this with a high-quality voice impersonator -- cost is no real concern at that level anyway.

I think this is only really a risk at the low end -- people scamming others with fake references from quasi-celebrities. Not great, but overall feels pretty minor of a concern. We already allow the carriers to scam everyone in the US by allowing anyone to call your cell phone and try to tell you you're behind on your insurance, or that your computer has a virus. There's plenty of scams out there, if we really thought this was a problem, we'd care more about the existing ones.
> There is no button for bypassing the noise of human civilization and remaining above the fray.

But there is. Everyone is driven by risk and reward, you get a pretty good idea of what is true and what isn't if you are able to objectively overlook a person or organization's motives and what they have to gain from saying something and what they might lose if they are fudging the truth.

For example: What did the WHO have to gain or lose from taking China at their word on how Covid-19 didn't come from Wuhan early on in the pandemic? Oh, they would've lost the cooperation of the largest country by population, and without them, the WHO basically becomes irrelevant since you lose the ability to coordination disease responses with 1/7th of the world's population.
THis is true, for a lot - not All, of us :)

I've been part of campaigns where the leader actually had the brains to act right. Power, sometimes, can be tricky to handle. BUt NOtfor ALL.

There are times, when those in power, acting with not so complete picture of this situation - or the information, are prone to look stupid with hindsight. NOT the case with all, but a minority of leaders!
This seems like something language models could actually do.
Subscribe to a major daily newspaper on physical paper???

No pop up ads, no auto play videos, no cookies, no tracking of any kind.

Few if any conspiracy theories appear in the major national dailies. Sure you can definitely quibble with the Post, NYT or WSJ on many issues but on average and outside of the editorial pages they are very good.
I agree! I am excited for the future of all this.

Today I managed to get Alpaca 13B running locally on my laptop and I’m really impressed. I look forward to being about to run 65B with my next hardware upgrade, though I suspect something even better will be available by the time I get around to actually buying anything.
If it's built against .NET 4.8 but only uses the API surface subset that corresponds to .NET Standard, that works - but then it's effectively a .NET Standard library with metadata not properly reflecting that.
Wasn't the last time they went anywhere near this ~14 years ago?
Yep, my wife and I used to do wedding photography and from that period we have 2 Canon 5D Mk II's and 2 40D's along with 3 L lenses, some primes and a few cheaper zooms. There's absolutely no reason we would ever need another camera. Even people with a single body wouldn't ever need another one unless they broke it.
Don't forget 20, 21, and 22 are the David arc.
while I do some dnsmasq tweaks to raise minimum ttl on my terms, doing bulk gathering ahead of time and sinkhole anything not cached (I assume) is interesting. What's your refresh interval? source of domains you query in bulk (browser history / bookmarks?). Any place you described your process to read into?
I've already been seeing issues with AI art being used to fake Trump's arrest, people are genuinely confused and it even took me a second to realise I was being had
>Midgley is best known for the terrible consequences of that chemistry, thanks to the stretch of his career from 1922 to 1928, during which he managed to invent leaded gasoline and also develop the first commercial use of the chlorofluorocarbons that would create a hole in the ozone layer.

TIL that was the same person. What a legacy. Whole-world-altering inventions (both in being spread literally everywhere because they were so effective, and in the negative ways) that close together is amazing.
Chris and Jordan have already announced that they will be continuing with PetaPixel and things will be done basically the same way, just as it was when they were with The Camera Store.
Can you imagine the prices people would pay to optimize ways to get around such blockers? It would simply be another cat-and-mouse arms race.
Someone should make a family authentication app. It would generate a TOTP secret and associated QR code that could be shared with other family members. (This app does not have to be a mobile app. It could be a desktop app, or even a web app that runs locally in the browser).

Have every family member scan that code for use with the TOTP authenticator of their choice on their phone and/or tablet and/or watch.

When you are talking to someone who purports to be a family member you ask them for the family TOTP code and check to see if they give the same code that your TOTP authenticator on your phone or watch is showing.
"I don't personally know a single person who, if given the chance, would choose to abandon work of all kinds forever. " this is what i mean. You're in some kind of insane bubble and need to wake up. Does everyone around you have a "career"? you're glorifying work way beyond regular person life experience
My point exactly. It is the company that DECIDES to make the site adblocker-unfriendly. It is not accidental.
Expiring at 130k KM seems sort of reasonable? How long do you expect those parts to last?
I have a hand-screw isolator on the battery of my my VW T5, like this

https://images.app.goo.gl/d5GXhBocg3gEjhbZA

I take the green screw part with me if I have any concerns, and sometimes even if it's parked in it's usual place at home.

I figure if a their tries to start the vehicle and it doesn't even turn on, they're likely to move to the next vehicle rather than muck about trying to troubleshoot mine.

It's low tech, and non-obvious.
This is great sadness, especially now that Mirorless and DSLR are picking up in popularity again.
A pretty good application for a GPT bot. It does not even need to be 100% accurate.
If you control the --chaos --stylize and --seed then you can get more consistent results.
Tell HN: Telegram sole reason why I still have my contacts since 10 years
Today my new Android Motorola just died, I don't know why, maybe it was a terrestrial cosmic ray? And I don't use backups because of privacy reasons and the Cloud options have anyway too little storage space. So all my stuff over the last year is gone.

Now Whatsapp, every time something like that happens, just deletes everything. On contrare, Telegram saved me like 5x already. Why do we still use Whatsapp I don't understand, its such a crappy experience in comparison.
> we’ll talk about the “pre-AI” days spent online.

I like the pre-social media days we spent online. When making a web site took some non-trivial effort so just having something up and hosted meant that you were either interested in the technology, or felt that whatever you were publishing was important enough to warrant the effort.

When there were no "normies" online, or if they were, they were confined to e-mail.

I'm sure if you go far back enough, you'll find someone centuries ago expressing the same thing. Oh how the printing press has cheapened writing. Back when people had to put quill on paper, they really had something to say . . .
Reading the readme makes me think it's only searching the top 4 most likely docs via the embeddings, not the wiki at any time? or am I misunderstanding how this works? With embeddings being close to just term vector matching via dot(?) product?

So basically get all the sub-prhases/sounds -> vector -> check vector db for closest matching documents -> send to gpt for summarization and answering the quetsion.

If that's ture wouldn't that have severe limitations with scattered information? I guess it would help you get answers and walk the data better than the "I don't even know the term" problem with google?
What’s obvious?
Interestingly enough, I asked both Bard and ChatGPT to recite the lyrics of a specific verse from a well known rap song and they both basically hallucinated rap lyrics that have no connection to the song. I thought ChatGPT's verse was better.
If all the roads are one lane, and most people can't drive their car every day, are they going to be buying more cars and trucks? I think having every road be narrow would reduce car and truck related economic activity.
No, you're right. Pictures taken by my one plus one (especially the raw ones) were much much better than my new latest Samsung.
Ask HN: RHEL vs. Ubuntu and Debian relevance in 2023?
A decade ago, RHEL (and its clone CentOS) was the 800 pound-gorilla in the Linux world. It was synonymous with "serious" Linux and every other distro were considered toys. Everyone was using it for production. Small business who couldn't afford RHEL were mainly using CentOS.

Then the cloud happened, and I stopped paying much attention to the infrastructure field... Now I'm back to it again and several things seem to have changed.

By reading online forums, I have the following impressions:

- It seems that nowadays Ubuntu and Debian have taken the lead, especially in the cloud and in the web development world (where CentOS previously reigned).
- New projects in tech companies having a preference for Ubuntu or Debian
- As a result of Red Hat killing CentOS (yes, I know about Stream), many business moving to Ubuntu or Debian instead of Rocky or Alma, many people lost trust in Red Hat
- RHEL being preferred by big companies not in the tech sector (like banks, finance, healthcare, etc)
- CentOS being preferred in the scientific field
- RHEL, Alma and Rocky being preferred when used on expensive hardware or needed for specialized proprietary applications
- RHEL being preferred by companies who need a corporate support contract
- Debian and Ubuntu chosen more frequently when creating VMs in the cloud than RHEL and its derivatives
- Industries with regulation (healthcare, finance) preferring RHEL
- Ubuntu being more used than Debian

From what I've been reading, it seems like we're transitioning from a past where RHEL/CentOS was everywhere, used for every workload, the default (especially CentOS), to a present where this role is now fulfilled by Ubuntu or Debian; RHEL and its derivatives being relegated to specific needs in specific industries. Debian/Ubuntu as a default, RHEL/Alma/Rocky/CentOS Stream as an exception, only when needed. Like the commercial Unices a decade ago: we used to run CentOS as the default and Solaris or AIX only in exceptional cases where it was needed. Has Ubuntu taken the crown from CentOS as the default OS for most use cases?

Are these views correct? What has been your experience? What are have you been seeing regarding this subject?

Personally, I really like Red Hat's offerings, RHEL and Fedora are my distros of choice. It would be a pity to see its market share dwindle.
I wasn't talking about the origin of Covid in particular; there are plenty of other examples of "facts" that turned out to not be facts in the past few years. The entire meme of "fake news" is a parasitic mind-worm that didn't exist before 2015 or so.

But thank you for illustrating my point, however indirectly: the non-natural origin of Covid was a conspiracy theory, and is now just a politically flavored debate.
Removing affordable energy would hurt devastate poor countries.
In the article, you didn’t see any mention of Confucianism’s influence. If we were to summarize the cultural similarities of these East Asian countries, they all belong to the Confucian cultural circle. Confucianism is not a religion in the strict sense like Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Shintoism, etc. It emphasizes family, education, and ritual (not the politeness of ritual, but a larger concept that is more like a set of rules to maintain stability). Although we may recite some excerpts from the Analects when we go to school, most people don’t care. However, Confucian thought has been deeply ingrained in all aspects of life for thousands of years
Video game voice actors are famously not unionized.
> Math fonts and plain text fonts should be different. If you put quotes around something, you get plain text font.

Why? LaTeX defaults to Computer Modern for both text in math and normal text. And if you want to change just the math font in Typst I'm pretty sure you can do that with a one line set rule.

> Probably the first rule of any good typographical system is that it should not force the user to change how they normally write (barring special exceptions). Any syntax for typography should be additional to this, which is why escape syntax is so good. Forcing the user to put spaces between variables is a no go.

Did you have a habit of putting backslashes before everything before you used TeX? This is a nonsense standard. The math that appears in papers is mostly special characters and so it makes sense to prioritize the syntax for that over implicit multiplication, which is often written with spaces anyway.
>After 2 day delivery became 5 day delivery

Where do you live? I hear this repeated on HN a lot, but every person I know IRL doesn't have this problem (ie family spread across multiple states). Hell, in the last ~2 years, other than high-demand stuff in the pandemic like Clorox wipes, most of my orders have been _next_ day delivery, nevermind 5 days.
I’ve read some threads either here or on Reddit from mechanics saying it was the 2.0 engine (I think the CVT versions) that crapped out like this and they used that engine in a ton of models. Anecdotal, but mine is an old 2013 Kia with a 1.6 engine with DCT like all their turbos / top of line models and I’ve had no mechanical issues at all yet, but I’m looking to buy soon and I won’t consider their 2.0s out of caution.
This is a great approach and largely how we operate.

One of the downsides is that it’s quite stressful for junior team members who don’t have the confidence to run a project.

We’ve managed to offset that by having them shadow a more senior person but I don’t think it feels right yet.
Any measure that reports inflation UNDER US Govt official numbers is a crock of shit.

Even the official rate is vastly underestimated. 4% is a joke.
See also, ArΧiv Vanity: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2302.07211/
Essentially every worker should have a manager of some description, in not-massive teams (generally). That manager can convey to the employee, in human terms, what's going on.
And, crucially, the entire project is preplanned. That preplanning is the software phase equivalent - the construction is running the code. (Or at least, the preplan is defining all the necessary function definitions and connecting them confidently, and construction is just writing each implementation.)
I would love to understand this, but the readme seems to get ahead of itself. Can you frame the problem for 5 year olds who have never seen a bus stop (and who need to be reminded of what a bloom filter is)?
You can't necessarily count on the facts coming out being correct, but if it was trained on the summaries it knows how to regurgitate them, more or less. I think "always double-check facts that GPT gives you" is more useful than "never ask one of these models for facts"
They are famous because they're rare. There's only so much room in the economy for that kind of purity. Try getting a tech job almost anywhere and insist on a pure GNU stack running on hardware that has no nonfree firmware and see how far that gets ya.
Yeah, I’m seeing more and more public projects awarded as ‘best value’ instead of ‘lowest cost’. It helps me get my foot in the door since I’m selling union labor and the non-union shops bend the prevailing wage laws pretty hard.
This is impossible because of *gasp function coloring. You can't just make a sync function async without dealing with the fallout explicitly in c#.
From the article:

> Such an arrangement is against Google’s terms of service, which state that customers “may only purchase Devices for your personal use [and] may not commercially resell any Device”

While you could certainly argue that's a ToS for the use of the store (not for the product itself), it's up to Google to identify resellers and not sell to them. If they fail to identify a customer as a reseller -- or hell, someone buys the phone and only later on decides to commercially resell it, or to sell it to a commercial reseller -- tough luck. That's just the first-sale doctrine at work.

Google taking punitive action against people who get away with this may not literally be "enforcing terms of service on a physical product", but it's muddy enough that I don't think the distinction matters. (Regardless, I think it's a big stretch to connect the ToS for store purchases to an entire Google account.) In any case, it's an incredibly scummy thing to do.
You'll want to vary all of those over time to protect against leaks/hacks.
`locate` doesn't seem to be on everything, unlike `find`. Same with `adduser` vs `useradd`. Both were a rude awakening to me later on as I hadn't learned the hard/common versions.
Early in my business career (as a small business owner) I read somewhere (paraphrasing):

"It generally takes twice as long and costs twice as much as originally estimated."

Amen! Rarely has the rule of thumb failed me over the last 30+ yrs. Whether it's a project around the house or a client's new feature request*. It works.

I wish I had $20 for every time I've seen someone else's best case scenario estimate knowing that nothing ever goes as planned. Humans and life so rarely work that way.

* Clients aren't aware of the initial estimate, they get the rule of thumb version.
> good person

That's the worst part - the 'good' and 'evil' in such situations are being religiously definded just like how 'the faithful' and 'heretics' were defined back in the earlier ages when religion dominated the society. Everyone is either 'with us' or 'against us', ie, a heretic. And being heretic is so easy - you just need to contradict whatever is the dominant thing at a given moment and you are outcast. Just like how it was in the earlier ages.

Take the Stone case: 80% of the world opposes the American viewpoint on Russia and 'Putin', and 'the West' is isolated in this affair like how various Angloamerican outlets recently noted.

https://www.politico.eu/article/west-more-united-also-isolat...

I actually watched Stone's Putin interviews. What Russian leaders and Putin have communicated in those interviews were quite rational arguments, and actually, their statements about American imperialism, NATO etc are how precisely the rest of the world sees 'the West'.

But, in an amazing case study for social sciences, the public in especially the Angloamerican West are !extremely! enthusiastic in whatever 'current thing' and whichever 'current enemy' that their establishment sells them.

A gigantic gap in how this 'West' sees itself, what it believes what the rest of the world thinks, and what the rest of the world actually thinks. But then again, this is not so different from what was observed in the UK during the Brexit process...
For what its worth, I've been building https://www.forth.news.

It's just news. From journalists. No conspiracies, no misinformation, just news.

I'd love to hear thoughts/feedback from the HN group.
Is hot loading the default in JVM-ville circa 2023 ? God I hope so, I remember downloading these third-party builds and 180 characters of args or something to get that going + whatever voodoo was needed to make your janky framework respect that, make your IDE use it etc.
FYI, checkout doesn't seem to work (with no error message, except in console) if the user has an ad blocker (at least uBlock) installed.
As someone who has been passively watching you develop and promote this course over what feels like _forever_ - I'm SO excited to see the feedback here the way that it is. Kudos to you and the team at Planetscale, Aaron.
Can we get them back on phones too please?
HN title is clickbait, it should be rename to the actual title of the webpage: "Bill Gates: AI is most important tech advance in decades"
We'll work up to that. For now, there's insufficient data for meaningful answer.