skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drone Will Change Everything [video] (Zipline blood delivery)
The article says it lacks a tongue. I guess it will be one of the products that sound good in theory but turn out to be just a joke.
The article does mention they used a curriculum from Hillsdale College, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's some general creepiness imbued into the course design.

That said, I can teach an entire course on statistics without mentioning penis size. Even a single use of this example has "middle school boy turned creepy old man" energy. But I imagine it'd be difficult to make it through a semester of a Classics/Renaissance-focused art course without covering at least one or two of David, The Creation of Adam, and Birth of Venus. Each is a master piece of an era and medium...
Why are human-like robots all the rage? Aren't there much better forms out there? I get that our society is built to be human adapted, but do we need robots to be exactly general purpose tools like people are? Can't we just have maybe 5 different kinds (or maybe many more) that are more specially focused and so don't have to deal with all the headaches that come with making mechanical humans possible?

The human form is so gangly and opinionated based on what we needed to do for millions of years from chimps and beyond. Why should our robots need to have the same shape as the organisms who only look like this because of numerous unrelated tasks WE had to be adapted for, like giving birth and climbing trees and running long distances and throwing spears?
To be fair, you could always surround micropython in quotes so that Google knows to only show results containing the keyword "micropython". Only caveat is that Google will still show you whatever it wants in case no results contain the keyword. I swear a decade ago it would simply tell you no results were found, but now you need to (1) use quotes in keywords, and (2) click on "show only results containing [keyword]" when it can't find any results yet decides to show you unrelated pages anyway.
Quite frankly if you have homework where WA can solve the integrals instead of you having to somehow "massage" them for it to even be able to "digest" it, your upper-division classes are not very upper at all.
You know, one could probably build a training loop to finetine LLaMA/Alpaca for SD prompting.

- Generate a randomized prompt with the LLM

- Run it with SD

- Rate it with an aesthetic score

- Train on that with a high score as a positive weight

- Repeat
Four years is nothing in HW timescales.
First result for me too
Woah, I looked around some more and it seems like the opposite is true. Multiple trusted keys per domain can exist, and additionally there is this option:

> UpdateHostKeys is enabled by default if the user has not overridden the default UserKnownHostsFile setting and has not enabled VerifyHostKeyDNS, otherwise UpdateHostKeys will be set to no.

This is an OpenSSH extension that allows any host to provide additional host keys the client will then silently add to `known_hosts`. This is really bad in this context as it can allow a one-time MITM to install rogue keys for github.com that can go unnoticed; check your `known_hosts` for any unexpected entries for github.com!
I'm about 80% sure that the reason why Google became so bad for my searches is that they added AI elements to it, to make it try to figure out what I'm searching for instead of taking my word for it.

In that sense, I'm not sure more AI would improve the situation. OTOH, better AI just might. There doesn't seem to be a "no AI" option on offer.
This is amazing.

And probably step three to being a multiplanetary species!
That's actually super impressive. So there's basically no "index" anymore, in the sense that the results returned are almost "dynamically" generated? And I'd guess that all of that still needs to be pretty cheap, computationally speaking.
Accusing someone of being a bot is not "constructive criticism."
> Honestly, it feels like ChatGPT understood the point of the question better than you did. And if it answered in your nitpicky style, then we'd probably be criticizing that.

Exactly. This is why the response is so impressive, IMO. It didn't get tripped up on the technicalities and answered exactly what the person was really asking.
I love this (even though I have ~25% of my net worth in $GOOG).

Google got fat and lazy. They focused inwards, on promo driven development and executive infighting. This was awful for the tech ecosystem as Google was held out for a long time as the company to emulate.

No longer.

They’re gonna be forced to actually compete: for talent, for users, for mindshare.
In most of the US you can. It would be very difficult to drive in the US in a way that avoids those trucks without restricting yourself to some tiny core.
What an odd things to say about software engineering... where your job is literally writing. Like telling a newspaper reporter that to get better at their job they should write more. I mean who would have thought that practicing your craft would improve it.

I know the author here is talking about non-code writing but it still sounds weird to hear it given that is our job. To write. I call myself a writer when people ask what I do as it represents it much better than any of the dumb technical names people have come up with. No I don't build houses nor do I design physical artifacts. I write.
>We collectlively should own the machines and guarantee just wealth distribution, so that its impossible for a few to have much more than than others.

OK, put your money where your mouth is and send me 10% of your pay check.
> Eventually it will negate the need to click through to many reference, then it will be better able to curate a list of alternative sources for what you seek.

Doesn't that just kind of describe google now though?
Their username is target fitting.
No. It incentives two things:

1. Consuming as much renewable/ cheap energy possible because of how mining works and consumed energy might heat houses but I have seen only ACs in this mining farms.

2. It decentivie energy usage for real use cases like humans who can't afford to compete with the GDP from some us dude who wants to get rich.

3. It also doesn't add any motivation to try to make this energy more accessible because mining will just eat it up anyway.

We don't need to burn of gas. We can regulate it and don't allow to just reap in profits without also taking care of the rest gas

It's the industry which is fucking with us.
ARM is so foundational, it should be bought by 3+ companies like Apple/Qualcomm/nvidia and turned into essentially a Chip ISA Lab where basically all of the companies that want to license stuff can pretty much do whatever they want and pay no licenses other than some set of dues that each company must pay each year to keep the thing alive. Then softbank gets its annoying payday for its dumb investment, and things can go back to how they were.
i do this for my own budgeting in 2023.

pdf / csv / excel export from my three webbanks, a bit of pdftotext, or soffice conversion just to pipe to awk to augment it and render properly formatted spreadsheet
> If it was that easy, we would also start seeing it in open source models.

Its mostly being done on the prompt side, either via ad hoc client code [0] or frameworks like langchain, which supports a variety of underlying models. [1]

[0] Here’s one that was posted to HN wrapping the ChatGPT API before ChatGPT announced plugins, but there’s nothing special about ChatGPT to it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/python-react-pattern

[1] https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules/agents/ge...
I don't see this, properly implemented, as incompatible with pseudonymity or anonymity.

With modern (even 90s) technology there is no reason why "Be able to prove that you checked their ID" has to mean "Keep their information on file."

The Utah government could generate public/private keypairs, and have the social network upon signup do a live call to check ID. The social network can use the public keys to encrypt photos of the ID picture and the user's face from the video, together with the ID numbers. They'd be required to not keep any unencrypted copies. Then the government could, if investigating violations, ask for the encrypted info, decrypt it and see what ID the user provided and whether it (A) looked real enough and (B) matched the person who appeared.
Its just wild to be shilling for Bitcoin this blatantly in 2023
Your arguments don't matter. If you aren't a leftist you are uncool in this day and age.
I don't feel stack overflow has been rendered obsolete because the snobbishness and moderation people complain about so much has caused the recommendations on stack overflow to generally be of higher quality than those ChatGPT offers and you have more metadata (answer age, votes) about which answers are especially trustworthy.
The VGHF is a part of the same community that builds things like the MiSTer. Just a different wing of it, doing a different job.

A wing that is advocating for changes to the law, by the way. So maybe you should donate! https://gamehistory.org/donate/
Did ChatGPT really write Go code with generics for you? Last time I fed it some code that implements generics it said, "this is invalid syntax, Go does not support generics" which would make sense since the knowledge cutoff date is 2021
Don't think the UK government can do much about it, the inflation is driven by USA rising interest rates which devalues the pound
Yes, I agree with this, if a public building probably takes 10x 20x slower. My city was rather fast too, but we still have one bridge Under Construction since 1986 :)

They just said it will be replaced any day now
HOAs are even worse than county & state governments when it comes to building a house. Many HOAs have building codes which include a minimum square footage. Some HOA regulations require over a 1000 sq ft livable footprint (garages don't count). The problem is HOAs have an incentive to raise property value, which makes it far more expensive for people to build a home to live in. HOAs are incentivized to increase property value of the neighborhood & large houses increase property value.

Small plots of land are dominated by HOAs. Finding small plots of "unregulated" (no HOA) land often requires one to live very far from a city & decent grocery stores.

I'm not a big fan of the red tape of regulation & how regulations can be abused by large capital, but in the case of housing, HOAs are a bigger problem. Of course, there are also municipal regulations which require small plots of land to be more tightly regulated re: housing.

A solution is to improve house design which can be modularly expanded as one gains more wealth. That way, a family can start small & gradually build additions or attach additional modules as time goes on.
Let me guess you are using chrome?
It is? That's not how I would normally interpret "interfering".

And why should random searches make my results significantly worse than the default? That doesn't exactly absolve google of screwing up.
> The major difference between some BNPL apps and credit cards is that the apps don't require a credit check.

But why would they extend a one-off unsecured line of credit without a check of creditworthiness? It’s not like they can repo the groceries if you don’t pay.
Perhaps the AI guys are insane as the Bitcoin guys
Review: Inked in India; Fountain Pens and a Story of Make and Unmake
Most of the Googles SERP results already are delusional or hallucinating spam, so the bar is low and for me at least ChatGTP is less bullshit.
I can't believe how disconnected I always feel on the Google search conversations here. It still does what I need it for fine, I don't remember it being significantly better than it is now. I guess I'm not a power user? But I also think this is how the most people feel. On this site Google has been a shockingly useless zombie for years.
Congrats to these teens and the work they have accomplished. If this holds true, that's a great achievement for them. The math that they have worked out is a bit beyond my depth but it sounds very interesting and likely a great addition to the understanding of large portions of the field of mathematics.

To the author of the Guardian article, no one cares about the color of their skin. Their skin color didn't enable them to do this work, and it didn't contribute to the work. Shame on you for making it a prominent part of your article headline.

EDIT: Some time between when the link was posted and I posted my comment the article title was changed from what the poster put and what the article headline is now currently. I confirmed before writing my comment, but unfortunately Wayback Machine did not capture this site before the change was made.
Look forward to a response. We are heading toward a 6X Bizon 4090 system as a test bed.

https://bizon-tech.com/bizon-zx5500.html
They're going to end up fumbling their momentum with the bad PR/optics.
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And the responses will be:

"No, you didn't"
"I didn't say that"
"Seems like your are using on old version"
I dunno. I'm kinda enjoying the billionaire space race. Some of those McDucks moved us off of 60+ year old launch systems for funzies.
one stupid person can certainly be a lot stupider than 10 other people.
I'm confused, why pin it on the guy when it's really caused by an open source library?

Do you want full transparency or what? Jesus.
Is Sundar a bad CEO or merely a mediocre one though? Who would replace him that could get the job done where Sundar failed? I think it's easier said than done to stay the undisputed leader in AI for over a decade even if your leadership is above-average.

Still Sundar is mediocre at best, and I certainly think Google's shareholders should be looking for a new person to run the place. It's not just AI, Google's entire portfolio has weakened.
My 89 year old mother-in-law doesn't have great vision but also poor situational awareness around web sites for government and financial services. For someone that is used to paper forms, it is extremely difficult to navigate your way around these places. Not intuitively knowing that a "profile" section will be somewhere to adjust account information, or when autocomplete and drop down menus make things jump around makes many of these experiences exhausting and frustrating (and even dangerous)
Who gets to decide what is "boring?"
A guy at a bar spotted me programming last night and forced a conversation on me about an email-processing script ChatGPT helped him write, and showed me the conversation on his phone.

It struck me, as a programmer with a creative writing background, that he was basically writing microfiction with a character (himself) that needed help, and a character (ChatGPT) to help him out.
Most likely they have them in an rdbms, so it's more like joining a forum thread together. Not expensive, but why not prebuild and store it instead?
Lol I am from Europe and I know how to repro this in a week so not a big deal.
I've been impressed with what Kagi is able to dig up for me on old and sometimes niche electronics test and measurement equipment. However, I don't think they are targeting the same set of users that early Google was. Among other things, you have to pay for Kagi.
I often think of legal professionals and law makers as "the programmers of people". I think I would have become a lawyer 100 years ago.
I think if I encountered that in a UI I would actively seek another product...

'Juice' is not universally good. In the context of a game there is utility, but even then the audio etc becomes grating. People tend to start turning off the sound because it gets so bad.

Somewhere around the first couple levels in that slider is I think I would fall - most people would agree click acknowledgement is good, but I found the animation actively unuseful, distracting, agravating.
Difference in philosophy is not "the world can't end fast enough and nothing matters."
A 'subterranean Galapagos' inside the Earth (2018)
hallucinations don't invalidate the product itself. I really hate to see this constant lazy refrain on here.

Its just like anything else. Trust but verify. Some will just trust, others never will... People probably over-trust the tech now, but just like wikipedia it will be approached a little more carefully as people learn its shortcomings.

Unless you're trying to perform open heart surgery or doing something intrinsically dangerous, its probably going to be additive. I wouldn't trust it to help me assemble a warp engine, but it may be able to give me some decent pointers for guitar technique or how to change my oil.
In the low and mid end there's plenty of competition. Andes, SiFive, Cortus, BA Semi and probably more. Many of them used to offer their own proprietary ISA and have moved to RISC V to leverage the ecosystem (software and tools). Instead of a semi frozen old GCC version their customers can now use a recent compiler directly from upstream for example.

Renesas has started replacing ARM core by RISC V in their new micro-controllers. They still offer their ARM products and will do for a long time, but move new ones to RISC V.

ARM's advantage is at the high end. For a high performance core it's key to work closely with TSMC and Samsung on the most advanced nodes, to tune the design to what leading edge processes can do. This is very labor and capital intensive. It definitely gives ARM an advantage against smaller IP providers at the high end. But at the low and mid end? Nope. It's where ARM is easier to replace.
is not accounting differences at all:
- Europeans (and I am one) live in tiny housing even compared to people in NYC.
- we have less cars (you can claim it's due to public transport but if public transport is not available most people would not afford cars regardless.
- overall less leisure expenditures and less disposable income.

That 10k doctor is a myth and certainly not something the 100k developer will have to pay. That's covered by his company. Healthcare is an issue in US when you're at the bottom of the food chain.
There's a logical disconnect in this jump though:

> Uranium-238 (U-238) is a radioactive isotope that releases energy through the process of radioactive decay. The energy content of uranium-238 can be calculated based on its energy release per fission event.

U-238 almost never decays by fission, but boy does this read like it would.
Or, on a much smaller scale...

http://www.tessellations.org/real-materials-tessellations-16...
I will definitely say that healing has a spiritual dimension to it, and it is a thing that happens to people who have had the worst kinds of trauma.

The way it seems to go is that people find others who can help in their healing and there may in fact be a "God consciousness" at play.

It's also true that people find other labels for the same thing, some call it Shamanism, it goes all the way back before Christianity, back to the times when all we had were tribal rituals.

It can happen in any culture under any belief system, and those who have seen it know what it is. The common theme is always one of giving, that by helping others you indirectly heal your own trauma.

To be clear, I'm not saying this doesn't happen under the Judeo-Christian paradigm. But that's all it is, a framework for accessing a phenomenon that is done from one human being to another. Here, now, and in this life.
Austin's Strangeworks lands $24M (even as many tech companies are cutting jobs)
Except in this case an adequate answer was provided without any additional context required.
This is what people mean when they say than the science of “race” is inherently flawed. American notions of race are based on these definitions of political convenience from centuries ago, and those old political decisions have gotten absorbed into culture and seem “obvious” to people inside the culture, even though they are arbitrary historical decisions.

(Europe has its own, different notions of race which are equally “obvious” to Europeans.)
The response speed of GPT isn't fast enough for me to want to use it like Google. Even with plus.
It's always the case. Someone, somewhere, is taking the opportunity to put prices up. It might be in some cases that it's triggered by a shortage, but they're still putting prices up because they can.
I'll bite. I mostly write for me. Because my memory is unperfect, because it shows gaps in my understanding, it forces me to gather all the links, resources, references. Because it feels so much more concrete than other software/computer endeavors.

It's also a great help to closing a topic. Once everything is put down and said, I can checkpoint in trust that I'll be able to restore later. Closing all the open loops. For some time at least.

And sometimes, most of the times, I end up sharing with interested parties. Either because someone needs to write up a conclusion or synthesis, and (very humbly) better me than someone else, especially if I'm the one doing or driving most of the work.

If you share widely, sometimes it's also a way to find other kindred souls, or to have a place to come back 'see, someone tried this and it worked'. And to challenge oneself against a larger public and see whether you need to improve in some ways.

Just don't look too much at HN or Twitter downers (use the mute and block features heavily), try and focus on positive and constructive, additive comments. Push back, shut down, leave alone anything harmful. It may come with the need for additional therapy sessions (it did for me the first times), so please beware.

It doesn't need to be a fight. I hope whenever/if you feel like writing something and share it, that I'll be able to read it and maybe enjoy the thoughtful ideas or conversation or inspiration, the challenge.
I mean the fact was it was the open source package, that is just factual, the implied blame and that language is your own.
I'm not sure that construction speed is the metric you want to optimize when it comes to skyscraper construction, although I suppose robustness is built-in to all the designs these days. A quick search for robust skyscraper design turns up this interesting effect-of-9/11 discussion:

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/09/07/911-anniversary-skyscraper...

Skyscrapers also have a footprint that might no be immediately obvious - it's their energy, water and food demand. Assuming they're inhabited by humans, what's the amount of agricultural land needed to provide for those humans? What's the energy demand, how many modular 100 MW nuclear power plants or hectares of solar PV panels (plus associated 24/7 storage/distribution centers) are needed to keep the elevator, lights, pumps, ventilation and heating/AC functioning? How much water do they consume daily?

That's the kind of 'skyscraper footprint analysis' that architects should be asked to submit for any building design.
The human form is great when it comes to scale. The world is made for the human form. Instead of making limited production runs of a robot that super-solves a particular task, they could make millions of generic robots with near-human capabilities.
> I have whenever discussing economics with Europeans — economic illiteracy is rampant

The economic illiteracy would be not being aware that all those megacorps are posting record profits and trying to gloss it over with made-up theories of your own and accusing an entire continent of people with economic illiteracy in the process:

https://theconversation.com/food-giants-reap-enormous-profit...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/business/food-prices-prof...

If their costs were rising more than their revenue, they wouldnt post record profits. They are posting record profits. You are simply wrong. You just !made up! a theory to avoid the actual reality.

Why have you made such a blunt, exaggerated, false statement like 'European economic illiteracy' without doing so much as a google search. Do you know how that made you look...