skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OpenAI also released the weights for Whisper. Some model releases, like LLaMa from Meta, just contain the code for training and the data. You can train the weights yourself, but for LLaMa that takes multiple weeks on very expensive hardware.

(LLaMa also released the weights for researchers and they leaked online, but the weights are not open-source.)

When a company releases a model including the weights, you can download their pre-trained weights and run inference with them, without having to train by yourself.
> without ever offering a good explanation of why it would want to

The point of much of the alignment debate is that people like Yudlowsky are pointing out that it doesn't need to want to, it just needs to not not want to enough.

You're hoping for an outcome ranging from "When The Yoghurt Took Over" to "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect", but many other people are expecting an outcome more similar to gwern's "Clippy".
It's $20/mo to pay for "ChatGPT Plus", and that gives you access to GPT-4.
During wet season its widest point can reach 30 miles. This means that if you're on a boat in the middle of the river, you can't see nothing but water in any direction. To cross it on foot, over some imaginary bridge, would take you over 8 hours.
We all see the world differently! :)

The Thinkpad X1 Carbon's "rubberized texture" is a valid comment. It's not rubber - it's an expensive carbon composite shell that makes the machine light as a feather. It's an acquired taste, but I like it and definitely appreciate how lightweight it makes the machine. It's not as sturdy as aluminum, but it's a fraction of the weight and not cold to the touch. It does feel expensive though. Like aerospace carbon fiber.

The Thinkpad's paint (textured finish) does wear and smooth out over time. That's a valid point. You will see darker worn regions around the palms and keys. If you're really handling the device, there's a chance that over years of use the dye at the corners begins to lighten. I've only seen that after five years of very heavy use, and it's only the very edge corners. Less than millimeters. You can probably Google and find example photos.

The Thinkpad's ever so slight departure from the standard keyboard layouts feels better to me. The keypress mechanics themselves feel more premium. Again, different stokes. I did enjoy replacing the Framework's keyboard for one of my choosing, though.

The Framework touchpad is a cheap knockoff of a Mac haptic touchpad. The depressed click feels gross. I'm hoping they improve this. I really don't like it.

I've never worn off the rubber feet of an X1 Carbon, but I have on other laptop models. You've given me a new fear as that's one of my biggest pet peeves. :P

I guess my biggest endorsement for the X1 is that I've owned two X1 Carbons (2016 and 2022) and plan to buy a third in five or six years, whenever my current one begins to show its age.

I'll probably try the new and upcoming Framework 16 at some point, but I won't get one this year and probably not for some time.
Things that are placed non orthogonally is a sign of high speed black magic to me.

Edit: the other thread shows me writing a reply at 2am this morning... Pretty sure I didn't dream walk just to post on HN...
Making a car-shaped electric vehicle is like attaching a GSM module to a rotary phone.

Building future cities around electric scooters, EUCs, etc - yeah, I can see that.

Electric car-shaped objects - not really. The current car-shaped infrastructure will have to change in any case.
One issue is methane emissions from the rice paddies, which is a rice-specific phenomenon which you wouldn't have growing wheat, millet etc.
As with all poisons, it's a question of concentration. Greed and nationalism are bad, in the same way that eating a kg of table salt is bad. That doesn't mean that salt in and of itself is bad.
Folks will cry "Protectioninsts!" and "Luddites!" with glee. This issue is a fish in a barrel for simple views.

Maybe it's more complicated. Maybe it's a good idea to put some kind of timeline on upsetting entire industries, overturning whole components of the economy and job market, maybe tap the brakes from time to time.

Just thinking the world economy is maybe complicated, and everybody shouting about ideals mightn't be the best way to adjust this enormous system.
> According to U.S. federal prosecutors, the use of booter and stresser services to conduct attacks is punishable under both wire fraud laws and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

How does wire fraud fit? What's the fraud?
and in the 1700 and 1800s - peasant farmers all wore the same thing. whats with all the wigs and makeup in that same eras aristocracy? AND WHATS THE DEAL WITH AIRLINE PEANUTS AM I RIGHT?!
"Anti-vegan sausage expert tricked on live TV"

https://youtu.be/Di55DEnNkUs
>IMO the hardware simply isn't good enough for the mass market yet.

>I think there might be some other factors at play, too. Throwing on a VR headset feels a lot more antisocial than watching TV or tinkering on your phone in the living room because you're wearing a giant headset that separates you from the real world. Even if the hardware does get really good, I'm not entirely sure how easy it is for manufacturers to convince families that headsets are a good purchase.

Forgive my ignorance, this is a genuine question.

Do people, on the whole, even want the metaverse? I see this massive push from the tech industry, a lot of public disinterest, and companies are still insisting that we want this. Do we have public polls that confirm people do crave the metaverse to the extent that tech wants us to? What is making them so confident beyond just hope?
If you have examples of #2 happening, in production code, from production compilers, then we might start to care. Examples, plural. Not just a handful, either. Enough examples that it becomes a statistically valid actual concern for those of us writing C++.

Otherwise... yeah, theoretically there could be monsters hiding under your bed. To be really safe, you should throw out your bed and sleep on the floor. But you're not going to, because the threat is theoretical but not real.
There is a good reason that these things don't move on a dime: you need to get them right. And as the underlying tug-of-war between the two main agencies shows: it isn't always clear-cut or simple. Not everything can be solved by a pull request or an over-the-air update, legal systems evolve and this is by design not a fast process.

Effectively this means that technology will always be able to outrun legal systems, for a little while anyway and that no legal system is ever a perfect match for the society it models and governs. This is not normally considered a problem.
There have been articles on this site in the past about cursive—basically that it was better. When we wrote with fountain pens. Once we switched to ballpoint pens, it stopped being better.
this article is what i thought of when i saw this post to HN. I am dying to hear an Italian tell me how controversial this opinion / person is and what conversation is around it/him
Less meat but better meat (yeah, provided it's not junk meat disguized in "heritage"-dress) , I can vote for that.
We kill millions of babys for joy or taste

A bull per month in a cultural ceremony feels like the least of the problems
I think the point here is that this word can be understood by a speaker of that language who didnt't know it prior to hearing it. It is succinct in that it is a description of itself, in a single word.
exactly. (< a b c) is much clearer than a < b < c
metaverse is just a map editor?
> Signatories:

- Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, Tesla & Twitter [and ex-co-founder of OpenAI]

- Emad Mostaque, CEO, Stability AI

- Victoria Krakovna, DeepMind, Research Scientist, co-founder of Future of Life Institute

Some people had made comparisons between the Crypto hype and the current AI wave.

I think I have to hand it to the crypto people that they are at least internally consistent and honest with themselves: I think many genuinely believe the tech is adding something good for the world. Others are grifters, but at least they know they are grifters and stick to it, I guess.

Meanwhile, statements from AI leaders lately remind me of some psychotic axe murder from a Stephen King novel, who yells "Stop me! Stop me! Why won't anyone stop me?" while running through a crowded street and swinging his axe.

If this tech has such potential to destroy humanity as we know it, and it's so important to keep it in check, why did you develop it in the first place?
Wonder how they're planning to get the signal back to earth - LTE ain't gonna reach 250,000 miles [reliably]
>> Problems with matching up different line items are really ubiquitous in healthcare systems because, despite the standardization that theoretically exists, there's huge variation in how different accounting and analytics systems represent line items.

Maybe the problem IS the line items. You know the labor cost of tracking the fact a person was given Tylenol is way more than the cost of the pill? Just give people the incidentals and stop billing for them. Half your overhead might vanish.

BTW, yes every medication need to go on their chart. But it does not need to go through the entire finance system and to insurance.
So this is what we have to look forward to in the age of AI-aided copywriting?
Interesting. Thanks. I think the following was particularly pertinent:

> Indeed it’s hard to imagine that people who survived the second world war eating chestnuts, as my grandfather did, would be concerned about using pork jowl instead of pork belly in a pasta recipe. Or as Grandi puts it, “Their ‘tradition’ was trying not to starve.”

I think it's wise to remember that for most of history the majority of people have been too poor to be picky.
This whole insect flour debate is so braindead. We have billions of people to feed. Dried and shredded insects provide a great protein yield, can be produced incredibly efficient, and aren’t as destructive to the planet as lifestock. Many cultures have been consuming insects for ages.

There is nothing unsafe, unnatural, or otherwise „bad“ about using insects for food - other than an embarrassing, unreflective revulsion.
> Chinese missiles or tanks

That's because Russian misses and tanks are better (as are their aircraft) than anything China can produce. Russia has no issue so far producing these domestically (evidenced by their usage contrary to predictions this time last year that they'd be out soon).

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme...

However, they are getting stuff like consumer drones, vests and clothing from China. And drones from Iran. Russia is behind on certain types of drones (but are very successful with domestic ones for taking out stationary targets like artillery):

https://airtable.com/shrWRJsWz0HY3UW02/tblGOzFRGPpsw551J
Well, it’s unnatural to begin with. Other good movements like “organic” worked hard for that label and the producers of those products work hard.

I don’t believe oat milk should be allowed to use the word “milk” and if it wants to then should be prefaced with words describing it as “imitation milk” or similar.
Wasn't it the devices which used FTDI FT232/233/2232/2233/4232/4233 device VID/PIDs that they targeted?
We start with what then much later to how which finally leads us to why.
I'm not in favor of banning GMOs, incidentally. The part of the-company-formerly-known-as-Monsanto I take issue with is their predatory practices, like suing farmers for inadvertently cross-pollinating their crops from Monsanto-copyrighted seeds from a neighboring farmer's fields.
./dead cows: THEY TOOK OUR JOBS
Everyone will start to use AI, so simply, don't.
My culture doesn’t consume insects and we don’t intend to start.
Every industry is doomed when developing countries can do the same for half the price...

Which is exactly why Europe delocalised a lot of industries in the first place and is now mostly stuck with services, tourism and tech. And it's exactly what we should stop doing if we want to have anything of value left

I know it's hard to believe for a lot of people on HN but not every country wants to become yet another soulless cog of the globalized world
Here you go:

https://f-droid.org/

Only works on Android though because Apple deems this type of non-Apple store a threat to their profits. Fortunately there are plenty of Android devices to be had on the market which can run a free AOSP-derived distribution like LineageOS. You'll get OTA updates until the cows come home or the developers move to another device, whichever comes first. The Galaxy SIII I'm using as a "dangerous work" phone - its screen got cracked when it fell of the barn roof for the second time while I was installing solar panels but it still works fine - still gets updates, it currently runs Android 11.
What's next, don't block your highly productive industry with CO2 import taxes?
The framework laptops are still very highly integrated. Yes there's a cost to connectors, screws, etc but it is very small compared to the cost of manufacturing ICs, displays, etc.

I don't think Apple really solders on RAM and storage to save money, energy or for performance. I don't think it would make any difference to energy and I doubt it makes a significant difference to performance.

The real reasons are to save space (so there's more room for the battery) and perhaps more importantly for price differentiation. You can tell that is the case because the price difference between models that only vary in disk size is far far greater than the actual extra cost of the storage.
> For a variety of reasons it is better to charge during the day than overnight

This was one of the examples given in the article - the answer on whether it's better to charge at night or during the day varies by who you ask.

Solar does work better when the sun is out, but what if your area isn't using solar power? Air conditioner use peaks when the sun is out, what is your area uses much of its electrical capacity during daylight hours on HVAC?

The answer always ends up at "it depends"
> But I've seen no justification why that should be co-mingled with package management.

Building sandboxing on top of package management makes a lot of sense because you want sandboxing to work by default, and for that you need to identify the sandboxable things without making the user point to each one individually.
It's possible to do it without their connect API for sure, but that would require users to

1. Look up their ssh password
2. Connect tablet to their computer
3. Run a (my) program on their computer to install custom sync software on the tablet

I'm not focusing on the technically capable ReMarkable users so I opted not to do this. Besides, it would involve a lot more development time which I don't have a lot of as I have a day-job as well.
It's not so much hard as it is just not easy and society has lost the will to do things that are not easy.
Don't ban it but make it very clear on the package what it is. Transparency is key.
Today VLC didn't start. No errors, no reason. Just didn't start.

Turns out snapd.apparmor, whatever that is, wasn't running. (I ran `vlc` on the cli to figure it out)

I love snaps, they're so convenient for the end user..
It's the concept that's interesting, more important than its succinctness, IMO.
I haven't had it often but I've had stuff break sufficiently badly that I couldn't boot to a graphical environment before.

I agree with the other posters that a lot of the stuff that breaks is in the AUR, but practically most users rely on the AUR so if the AUR is prone to breakage so is the typical user's arch Linux environment.

I'll also freely concede that part of this stems from the common practice of treating the AUR and pacman packages interchangeably through helpers, but that's a practice that's almost necessary for reasonable use and is present on the official wiki.

I think ultimately Arch is just a UX which was designed in a simpler time when users could reasonably expect to account for all the packages they installed
How is that obvious? At least in the U.S., there is a pretty high chance that nonrenewables are charging your battery.
Maybe not seasons 2-10 Homer, but I think this could pass for season 25 onwards Homer.
Apparently, because it ends discussion about CSS frameworks in a team once and for all.

That may sound absurd given tailwind classes represent single CSS property value assertions. But you can pretend and say "look we're using a preprocessor and pipeline step for our CSS" all the while you're hand-crafting your CSS like in days past, making tailwind act like a no-op submarine, and without the bad looks of inline styles.

The benefit is that you don't have to create a badass taxonomy for your frontend classes (that might or might not evolve well) just because CSS is there, especially if you're using CSS-in-JS anyway and might prefer relying on code organization via JS (that you're using anyway).

CSS rules are just a redundant syntax for markup attributes anyway.
> but if lab-grown meat is proven to be a safe

We need to fully understand its safety, nutritional content, and long-term health effects.

Our understanding of the full biochemical spectrum of our diets is still limited. Therefore, it's important to ensure that lab-grown meat adequately replicates the complex array of nutrients and other beneficial compounds found in conventionally produced meat.

Long-term effects: Since lab-grown meat is a relatively new technology, the long-term health effects of consuming it are not yet known. Rigorous safety testing and research are needed to establish its safety over time.

---------------

Modern nutrition is largely unexplored territory

"The unmapped chemical complexity of our diet" December 2019 Nature Food

DOI:10.1038/s43016-019-0005-1

"Our understanding of how diet affects health is limited to 150 key nutritional components that are tracked and catalogued by the United States Department of Agriculture and other national databases. Although this knowledge has been transformative for health sciences, helping unveil the role of calories, sugar, fat, vitamins and other nutritional factors in the emergence of common diseases, these nutritional components represent only a small fraction of the more than 26,000 distinct, definable biochemicals present in our food—many of which have documented effects on health but remain unquantified in any systematic fashion across different individual foods. Using new advances such as machine learning, a high-resolution library of these biochemicals could enable the systematic study of the full biochemical spectrum of our diets, opening new avenues for understanding the composition of what we eat, and how it affects health and disease."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337846288_The_unmap...
> NHTSA comprehending removal of backup camera requirement on some vehicles...

My understanding is that NHTSA has a visibility requirement. You can make a car without a backup camera provided the driver can see behind them. Seems pretty reasonable.
Eh. With all the „green“ stuff making euro food production expensive... All of that import shall be taxed through the roof.
I'm sure you just missed typing the 'e' ... but a group of arrogant, impetuous, fierce looking lobbyists made my morning :)
At the rate we're going, is it OK for me to eat anything now?
so the day of regulatory capture is finally here
Spyware vendors use 0-days and n-days against Android, iOS and Chrome
Gee, its almost like a private company is a useless middleman in cases like this and the government should just do it themselves.
Magnesium deficiency can cause Potassium deficiency.

Trying to fix Potassiun alone wont work because Magnesium is required to absorb it, or something like that; can't remember the full details now.

And obviously if your symptoms are actually from a Potassium deficiency, trying to fix Magnesium alone won't work either, if you're still not getting enough Potassium.

So, your best bet is magnesium supplements and lots of bananas :p
Non renewables are not all the same. What a car runs on and what is used to generate electricity are not the same non renewables.
This one paragraph is the sum total given for the diabetes angle:

"Rice’s nutritional quality is another growing concern. The grain is high in glucose, which contributes to diabetes and obesity, and low in iron and zinc, two important micronutrients. In South Asia the prevalence of diabetes and malnutrition can be traced to over-reliance on rice."
That Elon M will tarp down the change at Twitter leaving it profitable and sustainable as an ongoing concern no longer on his plate and he hires a new C.E.O.

That Elon M is looking healthier than ever before with brainbandwidth to spare for driving a probe to find gold in them asteroids beginning with Starship and Psyche. The use case is virtual currency on Twitter backed by gold.
> short term populism, long term damages, as always

I worked for a lab grown meat company and the CEO would give "Lab Grown Foie gras" to the media and investors, that was actually Foie gras. They could feel good about climate change, and he would take your money. Have you ever looked into the inefficiency of a bioreactor? Probably not.
Global rice shortage imminent,
anti-rice article on cue.
Rice the new smoking.
Pre-Notification Dilemmas
Velveeta predates 1973

And there's nothing "natural" about it :)
I find the pragmatic, if ideologically galling, choice is to leave Windows around permanently, shrinking its partition as small as it will go. This preserves the ability to run any vendor-supplied utilities in perpetuity, as well as leaving the door open to reliably run some Windows software in a life-or-death situation.
Exactly my point.

Based on time to charge vs time to pump gas, let's be charitable and say you need 30 minutes to charge an EV fully, vs. 5 minutes on a pump, so you'd need 6x the number of publicly available EV chargers to replace an existing gas station.

On my regular UK route, the motorway services have petrol garages that can fill 20 cars at once https://goo.gl/maps/wF7dxup3jBMAGqjg9, and only 6 EV points: https://goo.gl/maps/GXm2xoPNvXGZiMxU9 and they're always occupied when I pass through.

I'm sure every car park will eventually get more EV points, never one per space though, but we're not there yet. We're not even at 6x the gas station pump count yet.

I'm sure I'll be in the last group of people to buy an EV.
What would be the danger exactly if people confuse oat milk with cow milk?
> But social media is already terrible and we need to do something about it regardless of that.

So then instead of finding a solution to those issues, let's instead focus all resources on a tech which will make the issues worse...
I want to output an animated GIF. What is the command?

Do I run pix2pix at the end?

Also can I somehow have more frames and set the GIF speed?
Building a Yarn Project with Nix Flake
FWIW not everyone was saying this. some things in this video did not age well [1] I've also seen a lot of fringe science on TED that HN would be very skeptical of. I am not sure what the bar to entry is for TED.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU [video][15 mins]
> People with good printed penmanship are not rare.

Disagree. My anecdata suggests that out in The Real World(tm) legible penmanship is exceptionally rare and finding good penmanship is one step below finding Bigfoot.
If traditional food production is such a foundation of Italian culture, why exactly do you need to ban synthetic products rather than merely demanding they be labeled cleary so that people can make an informed decision?

The weakness of these culture warrior-ish positions is always proportionate to how quickly its proponents reach for the law.
FWIW that was my second thought; my first thought was "wow that's super convenient!!!"... and then I was sorely disappointed :(.