skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of jumping to conclusions in this thread, but no, Intel did not block undervolting across the board.

As the linked post explains, they implemented an option for vendors to block runtime undervolting from the BIOS/motherboard side. This was in response to a published CVE that used undervolting as a way of inducing and exploiting instability in the system: https://plundervolt.com/

If you buy an enthusiast motherboard with overclocking and voltage adjustment controls, it's extremely unlikely that the motherboard vendor would choose to block undervolting for you. Being able to adjust and tweak things is the whole point of premium motherboards. It would be illogical for them to choose to block a popular feature.

On the other hand, if you're using an OEM motherboard from some vendor that takes security seriously, I wouldn't be surprised to see undervolting blocked for security reasons. This seems logical, because not many people are buying OEM Dell workstations so they can go in and tweak every last detail in the BIOS.

IMO, Intel did the right thing here. They responded to a CVE by providing an option for vendors to enable that addresses the issue. Meanwhile, enthusiasts can continue doing what they want.

Seems like much ado about nothing.

There's even a fantastic timeline and explanation from an Intel community member as the top comment on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/10slejm/intel_blocks...
> Eh, Moscow always ran the USSR.

Have you heard about Stalin? Where was he from?
G930 got me too. If it's powered on while connected to external power (like a USB battery) it works as an audio device but none of the inputs work, including the mute command.
Hey, thank you for the feedback. I understand that having a requirement for OpenAI key isn’t good for folks. The project is 4 weeks old and OpenAI is what we started with as a LLM. We want to create interface for people to bring and connect their own models though. We will do a better work of explaining this in our readme
So do you assert that Stuart Russell, the guy who literally wrote the book on AI, is trying to also compete with OpenAI, or is he one of your well-meaning but misguided people[0]?
In fact will we find that anyone we call you on as not specifically competing with OpenAI (which None of Musk's companies are AFAIK, Autopilot != LLMs?) but is just a useful idiot?

Also just sort of a meta point but good lord to focus on one person out of a thousand who signed the letter, rather than the actual content of the letter has got to be one of the largest self-owns in the history of humanity.
"We were gonna prevent the AI from eating us all but the bad man signed so heck with it, full speed ahead!"

[0]: Stuart Russell on why A.I. experiments must be paused https://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2023/04/01/smr-experts-deman...
It's not their money, so why would it matter to them?
+1.

I've got a simple bike rear-view mirror, like $10 off of amazon. has a clip on thing, fits fine on my monitor stand.

Same goal -- I've got big ear covering headphones w/ noise cancelling, so you feel crazy isolated and it's hard to tell if/when people, my kids, the dog, etc. is around until basically they're on top of you.
Everyone has GPT Derangement Syndrome. Everything everywhere has to be related back to ChatGPT, specifically.
I very much don’t find the equivalent doses of Vyvanse and Adderall…uh, equivalent. I don’t know if it has to do with the delivery mechanism or the norepinephrine component but personally I feel like ~35mg of Adderall is closer to Vyvanse’s 50mg.

I have idiopathic hypersomnia and not ADHD, though.
You can request your data here https://www.goodreads.com/user/edit?ref=nav_profile_settings

They will send a confirmation email. After you click the link to confirm, it says "We will provide your information to you as soon as we can. Usually, this should take no more than a month."

EDIT: you can export your book database as CSV (shelves, ratings, reviews, etc) here https://www.goodreads.com/review/import (there's a link towards the top to export...disregard that the URL says "import".
Great work! I am also Italian and just released a similar app that anyone can run on their own machine, you can also change the initial prompt, model, temperature etc. It's open source so feel free to explore and adapt the code to your own needs!
You will need to use your own API key though:

https://github.com/gabacode/chatGPDP
Everyone seems to be overlooking that a total count + percentage gives you the number of active users. That’s generally not something broken down at a product level. So you can give percentage or absolute. If you only ever give percentage then you don’t have a problem and it gives you a sense of scale. If you give absolute numbers it doesn’t + you might accidentally give percentage out in a different venue allowing competitors to have a sense of how well your product is doing.

At least, that’s my generous interpretation of the incentives at play. I don’t think it’s as simple as “those engineers are dumb” / “corporations are evil”
Thanks for your feedback and looking forward to any questions you might have!
Downvoters must read first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip-flop_(electronics)
Hey, thanks for the feedback! There is a reason the article has the structure it does.

I'm going through the main Pilars of MLOps and explaining how they overlap with data engineering.

Also, the title says, "Mostly" not "just" data engineering.

It might be misleading if you just go through the sub-headers but I'm sure if you go through the content you will see that the title and the content are pretty aligned.
> it makes me wonder what drives billionaires to keep going. they're probably just bored when they're not working. it really might be as simple as that.

If we're looking at billionaires, it's a very different situation from the rest of the rich.

Billionaires carve out and control portions of civilization. I mean any business or other venture does this to a degree, but when you're working with billions of USD, you're playing a different game entirely. It is about power.
I thought that was where the article was heading when it mentioned that horizontal was better (and the unstated fact that mono was horizontal), but it still took me a minute to realize that the 45 degree pickups are equivalent to midside. In (digital) mid-side you encode M=L+R and S=L-R. With this, if you breakdown the horizontal and vertical components:

HL = +L/sqrt(2) VL = +L/sqrt(2) L = sqrt(HL^2 + VL^2)
HR = +R/sqrt(2) VR = -R/sqrt(2) R = sqrt(HR^2 + VR^2)
H = HL + HR V = VL + VR
= (L+R)/sqrt(2) V = (L-R)/sqrt(2)

Note that VR is negative and HR is positive because the sign of the pickup is inverted in the diagrams.
I've never had that issue. My pre-orders usually arrive within a couple of weeks of release date.

Too bad that I have a pre-order for a June release with them.
Ask HN: Courses/textbook recommendations for studying robotics?
Hi HN,

I am studying robotics and exoskeletons as a hobby. Can HN please recommend high quality resources for self study?
> the key is discipline + actually loving it

Oh, yeah.

I do luvs my programming. I couldn't imagine doing this for something I hate.

I should add that having a completely finished product, actively being used by end-users is also a very good feeling.
I don’t know if AGI is a great filter, or if a great filter even exists.

But seeing the way we approached both nuclear weapons development and AI development makes me highly confident that if there is a technological development great filter we are 100% going to run headlong into it.
Elon just getting some money out by bumping doge value
Guitar hero legitimately tricked me into learning (electric->classical->flamenco) guitar...
I get the concern expressed, but the fear-mongering is getting a little much these days. Innovation can be scary, and at this time, people are making assumptions based purely on things that we do not know. How this will impact the future of business and technology has yet to be determined. Only time will tell.

We must be careful as we chart this new scary world of large language models and Artificial Intelligence and their impacts on humanity, but we do need to slow down on using scare tactics.

Please note I do not fault the author or anyone else for this representation of these new technologies. Nonetheless, I find it counterproductive to our discussions about setting guidelines and ensuring accountability in developing these models and their use.

Right now, it sounds more like the CRISPR discussion all over again.

My 2 cents for what it is worth.
I would think an ongoing conversation would also get progressively more useful.
> understanding the issue intellectually does not necessarily mean making peace with it

well said

> What do you do when recovering from surgery? You watch TV to distract yourself from the pain, you don't touch it.

funnily enough, i'm remind of that scene from herzog's aguiree, the wrath of god: https://nobrashfestivity.tumblr.com/post/613347458700935168/...
Most of STEM isn't at home, either.
Even the "Embrace" is a bit like the embrace of a sarlacc.
This really messes with my head, and not in a bad way. So, you argue that followers are essentially looking for a Strong Man (psychologically) to have reality filtered through, truth be damned? Someone who "gets it," or "tells it like it is?" Essentially, this person is filling some sort of void?
What type of information is sent to GPT-4? This could be a security concern for some.
External blackboards and functional code that operate over them continues to pay dividends. I too have had an amazing amount of success with this pattern. The Redis api is just so damn nice.
"an edge in work"
Anecdata: anyone I've ever seen without ADHD who takes amphetamines for an "edge" does shit work. Period. Sure, they may do a lot of it, but it's complete and utter shit in quality.
I could have written the same comment, word for word.

Walmart completely blows away Amazon for shipping most things I buy. Further, while obviously not typically known as a bastion of quality, the items I get from Walmart are of higher quality than those on Amazon, in aggregate. Put another way, they don't carry a lot of the junk and misleading products that AMZ does.

Speaking to your last point, I love that it orders searches intelligently. If I search for 'cookie', the top result is the one my wife likes, and it tells me how many times I've purchased it. This helps so much in that I don't have to remember brands and such anymore, they do it for me.

If it wasn't blindingly clear, I'm a huge fan of everything they're doing online over the last couple years, and get immensely more value out of Walmart+ than Prime.
Not if you can condense the LLM into being able to run on the embedded hardware.

Article aside, reducing energy use for models is one of the research areas for TinyML.
It is a way to categorize tickets. It somehow influences what is going to be done next, but it is only one of many factors.

One project manager in our company started to actually use it for prioritization, the higher the priority the sooner it was done. Soon after, literally everything ended to labeled critical.
It's not at all about "labels" though (who cares), but about the very pragmatic and practical consequences, such as:
* in my comment above, the necessity of being able to evaluate whether a product is even fit for the job (which requires access to the code) BEFORE shelling out mucho money on it. Your licensing scheme is fundamentally incompatible with that pragmatic requirement, whereas open source is not. That's not a "label" issue.

* other such very practical consequences that I didn't even mention in my last comment include the following classic: when you make your product and business dependent on another (external) product, it is crucial to have some sound risk assessment: what about the bus factor of that external provider? What if they close? What if they suddenly change their licensing terms to the worse? What mess do I risk to find my business in and how hard is it to get out of that situation? With a permissive open source license, the maintained collective development can go on, whatever happens to the original developers and however they decide to change their course. With a closed license, the users and/or their businesses are doomed.

So the one part where I agree is that merely "getting the job done" for its technical part is not the ONLY thing that matters and not the ONLY relevant selection criterion. There are other very relevant and very pragmatic make-or-break criteria/issues, such as legal and business-critical questions like those that come in consequence of the license… not of their "label", but of their actual content.
I'm using a simple support arm[1]. It is not even a camera, as I mounted a smartphone running a remote webcam app[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/OXENDURE-Webcam-Stand/dp/B07RNHZYGW (look for a cheaper vendor)
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...
Some of the most precise clocks can actually measure precisely enough that a few feet of elevation change makes a measurable difference, which I expect also means that what you've placed under the table it's on also could.
It looks like this only works on JavaScript? It errors if you don't have a package.json
Coz it is not bad in other domains ?
Who's hiring also has many positions in each listing though, if that is consistent across time it wouldn't seem to matter as much.
You can also use GPT4All https://github.com/nomic-ai/gpt4all
Similar experience. Since October of 22' the number of recruitment mail I'm getting has decreased from several a week to a few a month.
RPKI (BGP signing) requirement for new and existing systems of Dutch government
TLSNotary – Cryptographic proofs of authenticity for web data
I've received several responses from Who Wants Hired posts.
Maybe, but not necessarily. It's all probabilities. A fatal heart attack in 2 years being X% more likely is one thing - actually having it happen and dying young from it is another thing entirely.
Frank founder allegedly defrauded JPMorgan out of $175M hit with federal charges
At which point the user can pick the optimal parameters anyway (and likely do a reasonable enough job) without fancy ML. Fancy ML would be things like “take out items xyz” to wash just whites.

That being said, it’s possible the ML piece is about reading multiple QR codes at once in different angles. I could see that requiring some ML. But still. It feels like a solution in search of a problem since they seem to be taking the “throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks” approach to building products.
Are you equating English to ai?
I hate to be “that guy,” but every time I go to a website that is not mobile friendly, I immediately discount it and close the tab.

There’s something in my head that thinks, “This writer is out of touch” (even if they are not).

I admit my logic may be faulty.
As I've become more experienced as a programmer, I've grown to hate unit tests that rely on mocks. They don't test a damn thing and they calcify code by making it a chore to update, since you have to update all the useless tests that don't do anything too.
There are no words for how much this sucks. If you are outside the US/EU, reasonably priced books in english aren't easy to find. CompSci literature in English? Forget it, buddy. Book Depository had decent prices with free international shipping to most of the world. Sure, I have to wait a month and sometimes they have to reship because it got damaged in transport, but if I need a book immediately Library Genesis is right there. Book Depository built out my home library for both fiction and non-fiction, and I will miss it dearly. Salute o7
Probably not, unless they did that in their first hour of employment.
Paying people to work on stuff that doesn’t doesn’t generate value is also tough on the employer.
I don't get the call to action at the end - do a 6 month moratorium on R&D to focus on safety.

That 6 month call is driven by people who write fanfic about AI.

There's been active research in AI safety for years and years and it hasn't been without controversy, but these groups have done far more to ensure safety in its various forms exists than the fanfic authors. I think that a 6 month pause of "GPT-5" doesn't accomplish anything other than further fuel radicals who buy into the fanfic to take action that harms people who work in AI.
>For this to work, the left and right signals were recorded in opposite phase.

I don't know, but found the following comment in an audiophile/collector forum, note the comment about phase.

https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/774378?message_id=76970...

"When Stereo records first appeared circa 1958, it was important that they were NOT played on existing mono equipment, as the two playback modes were incompatible with regards to wear and tear. A mono player would damage the stereo record primarily because a stereo record required the stylus to wiggle up and down as well as left and right. Mono only required left and right, and mono players of the time had little up and down capacity.

"Mono record players (or more specifically cartridges and stylii) then incorporated the ability to play stereo records and modern, of the time (late 1960's) players could therefore play a stereo record without damage. At the same time mono records were phased out, so people needed to be assured they could still purchase records (which were only available in stereo) and play them without causing damage.

"It has nothing to do with the record, everything to do with the playback equipment.

"As a further point stereo records were limited by phase - they needed to ensure that at various critical frequencies there was no difference in phase between left and right (bass is critical), otherwise the stylus might jump out of a groove. Some digital formats have recordings that contain much out of phase information - creating a holographic type impression. If these contain low frequency sounds out of phase, then these need to be modified prior to be prepared for release on a record. "
It's searching by semantic meaning, so it should be able to find all relevant pieces. Using overlap during chunking should help too.

Using the "give it everything" method will cause it to forget most of what you're feeding it if you have a large repo anyway, right?
The problem is that all the old digital cameras I have at hand are either too old or not high-price-segment enough to support any sort of looping video through, which is a shame. I have 2-3 of those and while they're not awesome, the video would totally beat every laptop webcam...
This is not how it works in most of the world. Usually you don't have to go through security when you transit, only when you arrive at the airport. The only time when I had a second security screening during transit was in the US.
will check it out
Yeah, I thought slim was already out for a while now?
In that case, here's what I'd say:

Tarkovsky, the director, is considered one of the greatest ever. He's not just some random Russian director, or some random 70s director. And he only made seven movies. Based on those facts alone, I would think it'd be worth seeing at least one or two of the seven. If you're into sf your best bets are Solaris or Stalker. Personally I prefer Stalker, but Solaris is also great.

There's plenty more that could be said about Tarkovsky, Solaris, Stalker, or his other films, but for me at least those facts alone would be enough to take a look.
If everything is fast, why do you even bother measuring?

The answer is no: not everything is fast. Measuring is as important as ever. Measuring translates into money users pay for hardware, rented or purchased.
>I find that the article hides a deep aggressivity towards overall mediocrity behind a thin veil of office-space-like humour. And I think that aggressivity is contagious and so not a good thing to spread

The post came off to me as frustrated not aggressive. I think you are overreaching here, and this can create very toxic environments as well. Disagreements, frustrations, and stress are just part of being a human. They're part of getting work done. Being toxically negative or positive is not a good thing both in the workplace and out of it, and this post was not aggressive, just being frustrated. Frustration can be good! It signals things that we need to talk about, so we can focus more on them. Hiding them only makes the problem worse.
They also deliver worldwide for free. Meanwhile ordering a 13.18€ book from Amazon.de will incure 9.85€ in postage because my closest Amazon is an entire Baltic Sea away.

(Well, technically Amazon.de has free deliveries too – you just need to buy order at least 99€ worth of them at once)
> How do you fundamentally build the editor differently if you are thinking about AI from the ground up?

Great question. I would love to hear the devs thoughts here. This is one of those questions where my intuition tells me there may be a really great "first principles" type of answer, but I don't know it myself.
Yes, there are python bindings for llama.cpp and the text-generation-webui already uses them for local inference. https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/llam...

"pip install llamacpp" or https://github.com/thomasantony/llamacpp-python
What'd you modify I'm curious?
At Elon Musk's Twitter, speech is anything but free
A very, very rough, back of envelope calculation makes that in the order of 1.5 times the revenue per child.

In 2022 (not 2000 when the fine applies to) they had approximately 1.5B users and $11.6B revenue which averages about $7.7 revenue per user (and less profit). The fine was £12.70 ($15) per user under the age of 13.

Obviously the revenue of an under 13 UK child might be more or less than the average.
Can you give an example of complex? I’ve used ChatGPT to help me build an app that authenticates a user using Oauth. That information creates a user in the backend (Rails). That user can then import issues tagged with specific information from a 3rd party task management tool (Linear). The title for these issues are then listed in the UI. From there, the user can create automatic release notes from those issues. They can provide a release version, description, tone, audience, etc.

All of that (issues list, version, tone, etc) is then formulated into a GPT prompt. The prompt is structured such that it returns written release notes. That note is then stored and the user can edit it using a rich text editor.

Once the first note is created the system can help the user write future notes by predicting release version, etc.

This isn’t that complex imo, but I’m curious to see if this is what people consider complex.

ChatGPT wrote 90% of the code for this.
Disaster capitalism!

Seriously though, if you are interested in addressing the real, presently-timed harms of large language models (and the capitalists who deploy them), this letter is just the thing:

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the “AI pause” letter
Timnit Gebru (DAIR), Emily M. Bender (University of Washington), Angelina McMillan-Major (University of Washington), Margaret Mitchell (Hugging Face)

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March20...
I visited India a few times in the last 9 months after digital payments had taken off due to COVID and can attest that these have been game changers that have led shopkeeps to accept e-payments.

More than anything to do with literacy, this basically allows Shopkeeper to keep doing what they are doing without fiddling with their phones etc to confirm they received money. The device just says the amount received out loud and at that point, the customer can leave with the goods. Haven't seen this tech anywhere else.

In my latest trip, I don't believe I paid cash in any shop and I was in a second tier city the whole time, not one of the big metropolitan cities.