skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it follows the Apple Watch

At $3000 it is already nothing like the Apple Watch. That's the real deal breaker that I see.
Google is only temporarily behind. It will release a decent model in max 6-12 months, and not just Google, everyone will release a model, even open source will have some. OpenAI is enjoying a short window of exclusivity.
There are many languages with libraries that can use CSP (Communicating Sequential Processes)[0], but some popular languages that have it in the core libs are: Golang, Crystal and Clojure.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_pro...
I think some reasonable cigarette packet style warning and plain labelling should be used as well. Let's say covering 80% of surface.
Exactly my thought, this seems like a bunch of design compromises mostly towards backwards-compatibility, but I suspect they also did not want to make their flagship product reliant on a chinese MCU, hence the no-wifi variant.
These edits don't seem nearly as contentious, arbitrary, or destructive to the original prose as the ones in Dahl's works.
The goal is to stop manufacturing, the ban achieves that.
I can't relate to the other things, but I dislike the majority of things that constitute going on vacation. I don't like planning the vacation including what to do, where to stay or how to get there. I don't like having the vacation planned and looming over my head preventing me from making long term plans.

However, after all that, there are moments throughout which make up for it and make me glad I didn't just stay at home.
I'm not into Arduinos but I think they are not selling their products because they have the largest RAM or the fastest CPU but because of the Arduino IDE, the language and the community.
I guess what I'm getting at more is not enjoyment but intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation. A parent doesn't, for example, might not enjoy taking their kid to the doctor, but they do it because they want to, not because they have to. Nobody has to tell them to do it (in most cases--obviously bad parents exist).
Tbh for clash of clans, if it can set up the server infrastructure etc, then that will be quite scary.

The scariest thing is that... I did use Chatgpt to set up an aws cloud formation stack for a lambda function, and it gave me the right file to sync.

So... Yeah, it's not that many steps to a "text to (web|mobile) app generator" solution.

Uh.. I will get to work.
Is it crazy to imagine this is the “tit” for the “tat” of bailing out SVB?
Thanks for the reply! That makes sense, I just didn't see mention of coding in your bio. You've had a very varied career!
Search is just one product. They have YouTube, Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, etc etc etc. That much sticking power buys them tons of time to catch up.
The photographer here is one of the biggest users of topaz denoise/sharpening. It's an ai model that is really great at cleaning up back yard astrophotography.

It's considered cheating.
> I'm not from US by the way, I'm Belgian

i guess that makes you an expert at master-slave relationships
Should I feel relieved that the main chip is not carrying scary prefixes and suffixes like CXD, APQ, uPD, MB, etc., or be absolutely horrified still that it’s a Renesas built ARM?
ChatGPT can’t fetch URLs, right? Is this just extrapolation based on the title, or did you paste the article into chat?
If it had a camera I think I would leave my phone at home.
There are some good films about ecosystem damage, the documentary Mad Max for example.
The problem is that it is impossible to create an engine that will run on synthetic fuels, but is guaranteed to never run on fossil fuels even if modified / hacked, because they’re chemically identical for all practical purposes. There might be some type of DRM-like solution, but given the economical incentives involved, that will be circumvented by car owners. The whole thing is an incredibly stupid idea and will probably lead to the ICE ban being ineffective.
As I understand it, Apple is expected to only introduce a VR headset this year, like the new Sony VR headset or the high end Oculus. Apple’s AR headset is still many years away.
[Rick builds a robot]

Rick: Pass the butter.

[Robot brings the butter]

Robot: What is my purpose?

Rick: You pass the butter.

Robot: Oh, my God.

Rick: Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.
Wikipedia, incidentally, pegs the change at 1985(!). And as I wrote in another comment, it's definitely false it was only a title change.
You assume that technical specifications determine success - which, as Apple has shown, isn’t true.

Arduino is still unbeatable for community support, tutorials, and plug-and-play programming.
There is definitely a link with the lymphatic systems operation and movement. So there's even a mechanistic reason why sitting and standing but not moving aren't as good as moving around.
Transforming electricity in fuel (e-fuel) is like using EV but with extra steps and massive efficiency loss
In Returnal game they had to add an option for disabling hold for item pickup. In game you can easily die (from laser traps) while holding button.
This is not strictly true anymore as the low-level (FIRRTL) compilation is powered by CIRCT (http://GitHub.com/llvm/circt) which is built using MLIR (part of the LLVM project: https://GitHub.com/llvm/llvm-project)
From what I've seen, there's truth to this, but it's quite good at translation from one language to another. Not only that, but it does a great job understanding documentation and what code means. Those combined- there's a huge surface area of potential utility.
is compiz fun really gone though? You can have debates about the rest of it, but it seems like folks really have kept most of the compiz stuff like wobbly and burning windows alive :)
> Thanks for the causal ageism

I think you're misinterpreting here. GP didn't make any generalizations about people in their 40's. They were providing additional context about a specific individual. Moreover, the context they were trying to convey was more about the delta in years of experience than a particular age bracket.

Also, thanks for the casual sarcasm, casual assumption of ill-will, casual tone policing of others according to your personal whims, casual accuse-first-rather-than-clarify and embarass-in-public-rather-than-confront-in-private approach. Really brightens the mood in here!
A lot of it would have to be localised.
My opposite take from Germany:
electric cars still a niche, ICE as popular as ever, SUV's still the biggest growth segment, still plenty to catch up with the US, 2035 ban was never going to happen, just conveniently far off to allow for feel-good promises.

In Berlin people love to cruise around with electric scooters, dreaming of a co2-free future and maybe present. Early at dawn the scooters are collected by some polish guys in a dirty diesel van and taken outside town where they are fixed and charged with electricity from burning coal.

The FDP doesn't hold anyone hostage, and society is in consensus (in terms of its revealed preferences) about continuing to burn coal, gas, and oil far into the foreseeable future, while expressing the opposite preference, and while making ICE engines and cars for the rest of the world as well.

EDIT: as someone who doesn't drive, hates cars, and has a carbon footprint one tenth of the average green party voter.
Because with LLMs, bigger is better; monopolisation will be rapid and unassailable, smaller players won't get a look-in.
Just playing casually with NanoGPT (https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT) with a desktop holding a 2080ti, it's really really really clear to me that the path to get to a pre-fine-tuned LLM is remarkably easy. RLHF is the piece above this which appears to also be surprisingly easy (if Sam Altman is to be believed). The juice is making these tools incredibly easy.

I think the barrier to entry here is low. OpenAI is ahead now, but I doubt that lives forever.
Just from a glance at the microcontroller datasheets, it looks like the RA4M1's current draw in "Software Standby" mode is much lower than the older ATmega328P's "power down" mode (5μA vs. ~50μA).

But IIRC, the voltage regulators in previous Arduino boards already waste orders of magnitude more current than that, even while quiescent, making them not very suitable for battery-powered applications. So it remains to be seen if the R4 board improves on this.
I'm guessing you're a survivor of the dotcom bust, I think you shouldn't necessarily extrapolate from that scenario for the upcoming famine given the profitability of software and that it's a fundamental component of every single aspect of the economy today, but I hear you. Certain skills become useless almost overnight, as a large scale service can provide what an in-house SWE provides at a cheaper cost, and jobs get eliminated.
It's almost like a variation of Poe's law, where it's impossible to tell whether they're doing it out of some memetic bureaucratic desire to remove all the entropy from the universe, or if they're just trolling.
Enjoyable read. It looks like the real mistake Paul made was making his illicit sale bullets in the same way he made his normal stock.

Of course, he could have also avoided any legal scrutiny by himself being above board and only selling the bullets his clients were legally authorized.
not necessarily native text, but a flowing list of news links:

irc.libera.chat has

##hntop - updated as hacker news item cream rises to the top
##news - common interest international stuff
##alerts - earthquakes, electricity, ...

maybe others
Why are parts of the board covered, in their photo? Which parts are under there?
There is no need to address “unprovoked”. If it were provoked, would it make the invasion unwrong?

Edit: s/we’re/it were/
Do you think it takes as many people to build whatever software you want today vs in the 80s? I agree more software can be built with the improvements, but per unit of functionality, way less people are needed, or they can do it much faster, which in both cases mean you spend less of your revenue on labor, which means "less jobs".
But can you plug an ESP32 to HEW through the official $1k ICE?
So the censorship overlords are on the rise it seems.

The blue pencil is back. :(
Reading this I'm drawn to the idea that, if LLMs are so attractive to us as a productivity boost, and if they do that by synthesizing gobs of similar human output, then we have been asking humans too much for the same output as one another and we're still doing it. Finally, a tool: I no longer have to be the automaton. That's a blessing and an indictment.

I don't know if I'll feel the same way tomorrow; just thought it was a perspective worth sharing.
You could try asking it directly if it wrote the input.
Or a ban of AI as in Dune.

The only utopian sci-fi show I recall is Star Trek TNG. In that show the computer is intelligent but never takes initiative. I always wondered why the ship couldn’t just raise shields instead of waiting for Picard’s order. Now it makes sense. Data - the only true AGI is unique (except lore) and all attempts to replicate him fail.
let's even make it 10,000+ generation, this still makes it quite magical to see how these priors could evolve to make language acquisition so trivial to humans relative to chatgpt. Chatgpt requires on the order of gazillion of epochs and tokens, and can still confidently express elementary mistake that a 4 year old doesn't.
> Photographers think of "RAW" as the unmodified original data from the image sensor. It is raw in the sense that no further processing has been applied yet to make a human viewable image (or whatever you want to do with it). It would need to be demosaic'd, adjusted for lens distortion, have dynamic range and gamma adjustments, and other things to make a nice image for humans to view.

Yes, but even besides that, image sensors only capture a part of the spectrum.

Is a combination image from 3 different spectrums (let's say UV/X-Ray/Visible) raw or no? Is it less or more raw than individual images?

That's what my comment was about.
The old saying is not that "money is the root of all evil", but that "the love of money is the root of all evil".

I personally take a very different view, which is that voluntary transactions are inherently ethical. The questions of ethics rests not in the outcomes for me, but in the question of whether any force was initiated. I can voluntarily donate so much money to charity that I make myself insolvent - if that's my choice, it's fine. Conversely, if a mugger puts a gun to my head and demands I give all of my money to charity, that is not fine, the mugger is infringing upon my life, liberty, and property.

Outcomes are the exact same - one situation is ethical and voluntary, the other is unethical because it is involuntary.

Swindlers and charlatans are kinda a grey area, since that reaches into the realm of transactions that appear voluntary but are rooted in false premises or concealed information, and might therefore be considered unethical if not outright theft.

At the same time, if the state is responsible for providing individuals with mathematical literacy and it fails so horribly at that such that individuals voluntarily play games with a mathmatical expexted value (EV) of <$1 for every $1 they put in, which they do with the sole hope of reaping an EV of >$1, the same argument can be made about the state, who, worse than the charlatans and scammers, had the responsibility of educating their own victim well enough for the victim to not fall for such schemes.

That abdication of the responsibility paired with the exploitation of those same individuals the state has failed to responsibly educate makes the state activity feel much more reprehensible, in my opinion.

My subjective views aside, your point about being willing and able to tackle two problems at once is a perfectly valid one, and I concede even that it can be more efficient to target the lesser of two evils if the rate of evil reduction is greater due to the smaller evil being a quicker/easier fix.
Also you forget that there are 8 billion people who would need some acres of arable land
Yeah, but that's not a headset — that's more like being jacked into the matrix (or "Brainscan" (1994) if you like). We may still have another 50 years before that is ready.
> There is no “getting better” from this. If you gave a monkey a type writer and it occasionally typed words randomly you wouldn’t say “Wow this is just what it can do now, imagine several years out!”

So thinking that chatGTP could gain understanding is as crazy as the idea that primates could learn to use tools or type words?
I love RSS. I actually believe that it may become more relevant in the future, now that AI is so good at producing noise.

It will be more and more difficult to make a Google/DDG/Kagi search and spot the autogenerated crap. So maybe it will be time to manually select blogs/websites we like and trust. And RSS is amazing for that.
Yes they did, what are you thinking would have happened if all we had was assembly? To build any meaningful software you'd need armies of people and it'd take way longer and it wouldn't be as good.
Bet your manager’s manager’s manager will get one. Then your manager’s manager. Then your manager.

If you sit on Zoom calls all day it sounds amazing.
You can't expect coherent output from a system that lacks a physical component. There's a very strong physical component to human intelligence that machines lack.
or you build a short dev cycle that builds the way to consume it
> I’ve always been a Debian man, any one know of a good reason to switch?

Debian is always way too behind the times.

Even in unstable.
I still don’t get why people tip for to go orders. I don’t take up space in your restaurant, you don’t have to wait on me or clean after me. I’m coming in to just pick up good, never going to tip for that.
Modern peft methods with LoRA actually do reduce training time by orders of magnitude.

Here's an example of 20 seconds per epoch on a single consumer GPU: https://github.com/johnsmith0031/alpaca_lora_4bit/issues/7#i...
I meant that nobody knows.

There is a big difference between knowing how the models are trained and knowing how they actually work. This is a basic problem of machine learning (explainability) and we're nowhere understanding how or why LLMs have the emergent capabilities that they do (we're just getting started with that research)

Gradient descent training is just a little more efficient method of essentially permuting program code at random until you get something that passes all cases. Doesn't mean you understand the final program at all.
This is on par with arguing that automobiles will never amount to anything beyond an aristocratic toy because they can't navigate trails on their own like a horse can, can't feed like a horse can, and couldn't even go very far anyway without something breaking.
I‘m just citing what I read, my own opinion is different. The problem is that people here don‘t feel like they are responsible which is the biggest problem.
I predict users won't accept this and will have a choice in the matter due to a competitive landscape.

It lowers performance, and one artifact of a natural language interface is that it'll trip the red flags for salesmanship in the human brain and trigger revulsion and and anger in a way that an ad in a search results listing doesn't.

This is where marketers usually jump in with "if the user doesn't like it, it's just a bad ad - users will love useful ads, and targeting will make it work". I never buy this because simply there's too much contention for my wallet and the market wants to sell me things more often than I need to buy things, and ad companies like Google are so far pretty bad at refusing business.

I wouldn't be surprised if LLM search monetization is more likely to take a subscription form. If you told me that 2-3 years from now access to these systems is most commonly via the 365 subscription of your employer which it "graciously", as a standard benefit, also allows you to use at home, I would not be surprised.

Many variables here though. Cost of local inference over time being a massive one, copyright laws for training data another, etc.
Is it me being so insensitive or are these edits mostly overzealous?
Watches, phones, and music players also all existed for a long time, and weren't a huge leap.

Sure, smart watches were called revolutionary, but the first Apple Watch told the time and was fun but mostly unusable for much else. The notifications popped up, but actual interaction was so slow. But that's fine. It was great to have a watch (a >100 year old device), that shows texts.

Same for phones - it was just iterative, but done well.

Music players - obviously, around for a long, long time, and people were well used to portable tape, CD, and minidisk players, and even basic MP3 players existed.

This is a genuinely evolutionary change. People aren't used to information privately beamed to their eye-balls, walking around with glasses sure, but those don't provide information like a mechanical watch did, so not sure that's the analogy.

It's a Mac all over again - something actually new, interesting, and needing a killer app.
"[T]he Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising."

-- George Orwell, 1984.

Keep on editing the past, lest someone be offended or see reality as viewed by those who lived then.
The software mentioned above (Linux and others like GCC) started and remained free. I think it’s crucial to keep the foundations of the software industry as open as possible.
Anal cancer isn't the same as colorectal cancer, and the risk factor to look for with anal cancer is anal sex, so it should be pretty easy to sort out.
Well said. There is no Apple-scale market to disrupt. If the largest market for the wearable remains as gaming, Apple is in a very poor position since they have always only begrudgingly embraced gaming.

This isn't about disruption, this is about creating a new market.

If I think of myself as an example, I don't have interest in the gaming angle. If it is comfortable enough and the experience is great, I might buy it for telepresence, if for no other reason than richer visits with my children on the other side of the country. Maybe there is some other use I would buy into, but I'm sure not seeing it yet.
Remote “Things” over Internet
Neutralink
Slightly tangential, but I recently gave Wayland a try on KDE, as I kept reading how screen tearing is not an issue. On NixOS this is as simple as choosing a Wayland session in SDDM.

My setup was one main 4K screen in landscape, and one secondary 1080p screen in portrait.

Immediately I noticed several major bugs:

- The taskbar panel was stuck at 60% on the Y axis. Unlocking it and moving it manually was not possible. That's the furthest down it would go.

- The taskbar panel had very large icons. Much larger than the 64px I configured it with.

- Right-clicking on certain parts of the desktop would popup the menu on a different part of the screen.

- Hovering over the min/max/close buttons of any window would render the cursor at like 5 FPS.

- Scaling in Firefox was way too small. The cursor itself scaled down when hovered over the Firefox window.

- Playing a video in Firefox on the portrait screen and making it fullscreen, would rotate the video to landscape.

I briefly tried to look into some of these issues, but quickly gave up.

I'm sure veteran Wayland users will say that this is an issue with KDE, with Firefox, with Xwayland, or whatever else, but that doesn't help me one bit. The point is that the complexity in the display system is so high, that I have no idea where to look for the culprit.

Oh, at least screen tearing wasn't an issue.

It's frankly embarrassing that the state-of-the-art in rendering GUIs on Linux is so broken. Wayland is a decade old now, yet it hasn't made multi-monitor support easier, and has only introduced more complexity into the system, by leaving support up to each application. What a clusterfuck.

I went back to X, and I'm waiting for the screen tearing fix[1] to be released.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests...
As someone enthusiastic about it, VR is unlikely to go fully mainstream, however it will definitely still exist, but AR is a completely different beast.

AR glasses could replace your phone, TV and computer monitors. Of course we are a bit away from that future but just replacing screens alone has the capability to shake up the world.
I got to see F-15s flying every day for almost three years pretty close up. They are amazing machines.
https://twitter.com/Orwelian84/status/1639859947948363777?s=...

https://twitter.com/Orwelian84/status/1639850175161331712?s=...
> All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders.

ummmm, that is NOT how the EU works.