skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I showed an AI a picture of a duck. They could remember that.

We already have models that can be shown multiple pictures of ducks, learn what the essential characteristics of a duck are and identify novel pictures of ducks.

So the AI has been taught. Has formed an abstract model of a duck and can reliably identify ducks.

When does that become AGI? It can't purely be writing proofs because that's niche even for humans.

Further what is intelligence? A professor of mathematics may be able to rattle off a proof. A 3 year old probably not. The 3 year old has amazing learning potential though. We accept that both the professor and the 3 year old display intelligence, but we dont seem to apply the same rules to AI.
No, yours is the kind of idealistic thinking that creates all kinds of issues when people don't act like you think they should. I just observe the world, you think the world should bend to fit your ideas.
This is good reminder, thank you. I am an advocate and user of GrapheneOS, but often find myself using Firefox because of Sync, and because of the bottom toolbar -- which is ridiculous to think about.

I understand the want to stay close to upstream and requests for such "usability" tweaks this should go to Chromium.

Alas the rigidity of the GrapheneOS project is a double edged sword.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/04/twitter-c...

>Musk has not explained the reason for the change, but some users speculated it was meant to be an April fool’s day gag that the company was unable to bring in on time on 1 April.
This ignores the whole human part of a job.

Many people are wage slaves: if they're job is gone, they have a big trouble. That's why they're scared of AI, that's why so many news count the potential jobs cuts: more fear means more clicks.

There's also a lot of inequality, and AIs will push for a bigger gap, not smaller. If everyone is 20% more productive, does everyone get a 20% raise? Historically, no: the company gets the extra profit.

So there's more to discuss than free market 101s, which don't capture the whole complexity of the world.
> Generally what's needed to climb career ladders are social skills and networking skills.

And also, just the will to climb. Smart people often look at the big picture and come to view the rat race as pointless, thus staying on a lower rung of the ladder for life.
> He very specifically said unless someone is killed.

And if you read... the rest of that very sentence... he notes that the penalty in such cases is effectively capped at $100,000. You quote him saying it. And then you rebut it by saying you can find penalties below $1,000,000, which isn't much of a rebuttal.
We went for the 3. option, store the timezone in a separate column for data where the timezone is needed.
Nice salaries.

I'm a software developer (C#, Java, TypeScript, Python) looking to transfer to AI/ML work. Do you think any of the data positions would be a good fit?
Used to have huge three screen set up, arch linux, all sorts of complicated nonsense.

These days I have a 14 inch macbook, which I put on top of a few books and control with a keyboard + magic trackpad. Can't say it's made me any more or less productive.

The biggest improvement i've made was acquiring a desk treadmill, hasn't affected my productivity but now I'm getting 10-20k steps a day without really thinking much about it.
"Can't say" is usually understood to mean "Can't say without disobeying orders or otherwise angering superiors". But yeah, it wouldn't hurt the people saying it to acknowledge that it is their choice.
it's just a crappy late april fools joke.
My guess is that this wasn't about clothing, but an careful attempt at a Women's Lib movement, couched in terms that nobody could reasonably oppose.
" that doesn't impede movement"

Could you comfortably do sports with it, or play with children? That's my definition of "doesn't impede movement".
Toslink switch. A kind of device that can switch a path between multiple inputs and multiple outputs. Mine has 4 inputs and 4 outputs and a remote that lets me select current input and output separately with two button presses.

My inputs:

- laptop with external Behringer audio interface with optical output,

- bluetooth receiver/transmitter with optical output

- PS4 (through toslink output)

My outputs:

- DAC (with optical input) into headphone amplifier into headphones

- "large" amplifier (with optical input) for my bookshelf speakers,

- bluetooth receiver/transmitter with optical input

The bluetooth receiver/transmitter is a funny device that can perform one of two roles and has separate remote to toggle. It is connected to the switch twice, once for output, once for input. I use this to send signal to up to two pairs of bluetooth headphones (for example for watching movies on external monitor). I also use this to capture output from my phone or laptop when the laptop is not connected to the docking stotion.

What all this does is it allows me to send any listed input to any listed output, except bluetooth into bluetooth -- that device can only operate in one selected mode. For example I may play PS4 on my speakers and with one button press send it to my bluetooth headphones or my wired headphones. Or I can use my bookshelf speakers with my laptop on my lap. Everything without connecting any cables at all -- just up to three presses on two remotes.

I had non-optical solution before but this caused a lot of interference. Rather than try to debug and fix this I decided to just not have any copper between devices. Optical cables fixed it all for me.
By using Codegeex, after generating a function, you can write "def test" below it to generate test cases.
I'm curious what's the point of a public-access Linux. Is that supposed to be a chat room with command line interface?
We've actually had those in Paris. Didn't quite follow the subject so don't know the details, but for some reason they've decided to stop the scheme and tear them down.
Lion cubs mewl and call, as do other cat kits.

https://youtu.be/WyhadRy4GJM?t=7
And to fast. Do intermittent fasting regularly. If you can, do a 3-day fast once a month or a week fast once every 6 months. To lose weight, eat fewer normal sized meals with a larger pause from the last to the first, not smaller meals spread over a large period. Also get your vitamin D, and magnesium, calcium, zinc. I take 4k IU of VitD and have never felt better.
Instead of "AI," I am thinking we should call it "last year's internet."
Personally, Safari left a bad taste in my mouth. We had to kill a product line because bugs in Safari's AudioWorklet. I don't think audio processing on Web is viable until Safari plays nicely with WebAudio.
> You can always see soldiers hit the ground... even when the impact is really far away.

Better be safe than sorry; with only two seconds of advance warning you don't want to take the risk / be smug about it. Plus, shockwaves and shrapnel can travel far.
Worse than that. Manners of speaking, narration, works of fiction, etc. will - both for convenience and from actual bias - focus strongly on people quite unlike you. So strongly that many people will start to doubt that your kind even exist.

Welcome to the short and dirty end of yet another dimension of human cognitive bias.
There's a principle in Jewish law that Dinah D'Malchuta Dinah - the law of the country you're in is considered binding. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_d%27malkhuta_dina

Given that the US law considers breaking copyright to be unlawful, Jewish law would too (in the US).
A 3D mouse like
https://3dconnexion.com/nl/product/spacemouse-wireless/
is really nice if you need it. It's basically a 6 degree of freedom input - you can move in x-y, up and down, tilt it or rotate it. Even for working in 2D it's useful. And it's a bit more ergonomic than a mouse as well.

I've also tried this weird mouse replacement:
https://www.marzhauser.com/en/products/operating-devices/erg...

It's basically the controls of microscope with a USB cable. So that people who are used to working with a microscope can continue to work the same way.

These are the only 2 lesser-known accessories, I used. Not sure why everyone needs to talk about mice and usb hubs here
This is really cool.

I had a 16mb Voodoo 3 2000 back in the day which seemed like magic to me. It was tremendous; and paired with a single core 500mhz Pentium 3 it did what I remember in my head as 240 fps at native 4K on my 17" 1280x1024 CRT of the time without breaking a sweat.

...

I know. But I remember it like that, and that's what matters okay!?
And if you are interested on encoding Geospatial Data there is a format called Geoparquet that is on the way of standarization: https://geoparquet.org/ Essentially adding metadata on the extensible schema metadata streucture that parquet supports. Think of WKB in a column. With more exciting stuff coming that way.
In Dubai, which is a massive transit hub, they do the security check upon arrival, before you enter the departures area. They still do some lighter spot checks at the gates, but liquids allowed.

Heathrow as a major transit hub also doesn’t do security checks at the gate, rather it’s when you enter airside. Far better.

Singapore and KL airports are the odd ones out. I suspect because they were built before the security rules required better separation of departing and arriving passengers, and retrofitting the added security paths made less sense financially than just doing checks at every gate.
I really don't get the BER hate. It's not only a huge improvement over SXF and TXL (minus T1 at TXL, RIP turning up 10 minutes before boarding), but it's a perfectly good airport in its own right.

The building of it and the budget overrun was a disaster, and demonstrated the worst of infrastructure building in this country, but will happily die on the hill that the result is good, actually. (If we want to get into contenders for "worst in the world", my opening bid is ATL.)
Meta-comment: I really love the expanding explanation hyperlinks in this article. It's a much better alternative (imo) than say, linking in a new tab, or a pop-up, etc.
Intro to Bash scripting for scraping and automation
Yarn provides a "Plug'n'Play" mode implementing exactly this behavior.

Dependencies are kept as compressed archives and a loader file is generated so Node can read them directly. If you start Node through Yarn (`yarn node main.js`), it automatically passes the correct flags, but you can also do it manually (something like `node -r .pnp.cjs --experimental-loader .pnp.loader.mjs main.js`).

Overall I found this mode to work pretty good. I'm using it for a medium-sized Angular (+ TypeScript) project. It also noticeably improves install times. The PnP mode is stricter about dependencies and expects dependencies to be readonly. A couple dependencies may need to be marked as "unplugged" (installed a regular decompressed dependencies) as a workaround.

I'd recommend using this mode if you can.
FDA draft guidance allows AI/ML devices to evolve without new submissions
I think all public spaces should have some kind of sensors that would inform you (maybe roughly) how many people are in the space and what the current air quality and volume levels are.

I don't have strong opinions about private offices/spaces.
> What's wrong with COVID vaccine mandates? It sort of stops people from dying.

Not so.

The UK government has now published its estimate of the number of people needed to vaccinate to prevent a COVID-19 hospitalisation:

25-Jan-2023 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

For example, in the 30-39 year no-risk group (my age group), the number needed to vaccinate to prevent a visit to a hospital is 9,900. To prevent one serious hospitalisation requiring oxygen or ventilation you would need to vaccinate 87,600.

As for the safety of the vaccines, in randomized control trials of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines here in the UK, we now know that the risk of serious adverse effects from the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines was 12.5 per 10,000 vaccinated i.e. a ~1 in 800 chance of serious adverse effects:

22-Sep-22 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36055877/

In other words, our risk associated with vaccination is more than 100 times greater than the protection we would receive from it - even if we didn't have some degree of natural immunity - which we do.
smaller and smaller, really? my friends (students as me) like it a lot for its simplicity and maturity: look at those new features inside, there is much more than the MERGE command ;D and this is the database we'll have to work with in large companies.

Oracle thank you for that one!
Not right now, no. From what I've seen from our previous suppliers (HSMs from Thales) no one will take on liability (if that's what you mean). The trust instead relies on the FIPS-140 certification process - certified devices are sold as-is.

In the case of the cloud I haven't seen FIPS certification of any of the internal systems from cloud providers yet.

This need for certification needs to be balanced against usability - it's relatively easier to certify a hardware design that has no compute, or a physically isolated CPU and memory like a SEE Machine, but it's also much less useful.

We prefer general purpose machines that have the same strength barriers that we already know are being deployed to protect customers from each other, that are being probed and tested all day every day both by AWS internally and by bad actors trying to steal other people's data. The lack of known pending exploits, continuous patching by AWS and being battle tested on a massive scale is more important to us than a FIPS certification at this point. Although if AWS managed to get FIPS to certify the Nitro system it would be a big plus.
In Super Smash Brothers, Captain Falcon will say "Falcon Punch" before delivering the Falcon Punch.
I would put up with almost any amount of systemic discrimination if it led to a $15M payout.
Compare also to "20 Crazy Facts About The Making Of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6654782], about the 1993 stop-motion classic.
I must admit I don't know much about economics. I do get tired of people dismissing arguments with free market 101s - the world seems much more complex than that, and the big capitalists have become specialists at exploiting the market for their gains.

But then I'll day: maybe these guidelines are outdated, 250 years later. For example, does the best product win? Not if the product is complex enough and people cannot quickly measure its quality. There's 10$ crap and 100$ crap, and fake reviews, and paid reviews, and swapped products, and misleading marketing.
I have an ARTcessories mixer and amplifier stacked on top of each other. Very compact, both are 4-channel stereo. I don't really use the mixer as much anymore, but it used to be connected to my desktop, laptop, phone and guitar amp. The (headphone) amplifier I connected to my headset, desk speakers and for a short time to a second headset and some recording device (I know, bad idea). When I was playing Rocksmith (think of it as Guitar Hero with real guitars) this was my contraption for routing the guitar sound through a real guitar pedal and maybe playing with a friend now and then who could also wear headphones. Nowadays it's mostly so I can switch between headphones and speakers quickly by basically just turning the speakers on and off.

The other thing are the lights that light up the walls behind my screens. I don't have a window there so it's easier on the eyes when the lights are on while I'm at my PC. They are controlled by a wi-fi power socket running Tasmota. On my NAS I got Node-RED running which pings my PC. I have an "automatic" setting for my lights so they are on if the PC is on, or when it's dark and before midnight. The "dark" part is currently determined by the time when the sun starts to set, but I'm planning on using a light sensor I already have somewhere else in my apartment instead. And I still need a better trigger that turns it off for the night - I think the humidity data from my bathroom might be the one, since the last thing I do before going to bed is showering.
I guess that's the proof things are going backwards in the UK, they've recently gotten rid of no. 1 - "Freedom of Movement": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-s...
Well, about safety concerns, I don't feel so confident that the US military would put safety of civilians in another country over the safety of their own institutions. They may well think the worst threat to the safety of Dutch civilians is that Dutch civilians get mad at them and won't let themselves be protected anymore.
Bucket of cold water for your feet
If you like metal/core/metalcore: Silent Planet, Banks Arcade, Revaira, Hacktivist, Aviana, Bleed from Within, Invent Animate, Aphyxion,
Wage War, Self Deception.
Another example is the Haka + all the visual intimidation associated.

Actually there's heaps of examples; in the modern day there's the flashbang, although it doesn't seem like modern day armies use much intimidation tactics anymore other than e.g. Shock & Awe, but that's actual destruction instead of just intimidation, similar to the Blitzkrieg.
I use the same trackball and I love it. * can't even imagine going back to a regular mouse.
How does that level set with scientific discoveries and paradigm shifts? Knowledge is scaffolded upon itself - that doesn't mean it is not reaching new heights. The author of that quote wouldn't recognize germ theory or understand powered flight and interstellar probes.
Google keeps shooting itself in the foot with google drive, it's insane.

When Google Docs came out, everyone thought Microsoft was screwed. They had such a headstart in cloud-based collaboration.

But somehow, they managed to eff up google drive and anything offline for so long that Dropbox is still the best option for cloud storage and Microsoft had the time to rebuild its whole Office suite in javascript.
There hasn‘t been a single day in Germany last year where renewable energy dropped below 30% of consumption. So overbuilt geographically dispersed systems can handle a very wide range of weather conditions, even without battery and hydrogen storage taken into account.
For energy efficient game loop, it still runs in a fixed frequency, e.g. in 60fps or 30fps. For each frame, the time is spent on event processing, state update, rendering, and sleep. Some of the steps can be skipped. The goal is to lower the times spent in the non-sleeping steps, and sleeps more for each frame.

Event queues are used to track things in long duration across multiple frames, like user input, animation sequences, sound sequences, pending state update, pending physics update, pending AI update, etc.

In each frame, check the event queues. If they are empty, sleep. Otherwise, process the events in the queues. For user input, do the state update corresponding to the input, like updating the camera position.

For ongoing animations, advance the steps in the sequences (the drawing is done in the rendering step). When an animation sequence completes, remove it from the queue. Same for sound.

For pending state update, run the update. E.g. the ship is moving, do the state update on its velocity and position. For ECS, you might end up calling or not calling the systems for the item type for batch update. E.g. when the bullet queue is not empty, you might just run the bullet related systems over all bullets for simplicity. When all the bullets end and the queue is empty, the bullet related systems can be skipped.

The physics queue has the items being simulated. Run those. Physics could run at a slower rate like 5fps, so the queued items would be skipped most of the times. Same with the AI items in the AI queue.

Whenever there's a state update, mark the screen as outdated. At the rendering step, run rendering if the screen is outdated. It's simpler to just run the whole rendering for any change. Ideally, when there's no event in the queues or the state updates are not triggered, there's no need for rendering.

This applies to using ECS or not. ECS is for tracking states of entities and do batch update with systems.
Dumb bugs: the PCI device that wasn't
Sugihara's Dog
>Is saving a few million even worth it if it ends up in articles like this.

Are you not going to be buying Apple's product anymore? I personally don't have any experiences with any Apple retail staff, so this won't affect my opinion in anyway.
> Also I never understood why is the default that we all have to have as much energy at our disposal as we want

And there it is. Active hostility to improving our civilisational capabilities, celebrating decline. "People shouldn't have so much", and of course they never mean themselves. Politburo mindset.
In the past, I just run it inside a docker container, and expose port 8888 to the network.

Example (not my repo) - https://github.com/MKAbuMattar/dockerized-jupyter-notebook/b...
I've got a Lenovo Yoga Tab 13 (https://www.amazon.de/Lenovo-2160x1350-WideView-Tablet-PC-Sn...) for "development" purposes. It's a nice tablet with 2k screen and enough power for pretty much everything, Android 13 and the killer feature for me: a micro-HDMI input. It works like a charm with MacOs/Linux as a second screen, but you can also connect a Switch or SteamDeck, grab a controller and you can play everywhere on a 13' screen.
I applied via email at mehmet@chainsage.com in march but haven't gotten any response.
That is exactly the problem, though. If you are planet scale, you don't get away with "we did an oopsie-whoopsie".

At a certain point trying to downplay impact becomes insulting, especially when this issue has been around for nearly two months and they are only backpedaling due to bad PR.
Now I can't immediately imagine how an air quality sensor could be used for surveillance but those other two are just a government camera and a government microphone.
"Thus, for statistical reasons, the more patients there are in a population, the more reliable a positive result will be. Conversely, a positive is more likely to be false in the case of rare diseases."

This description of Baye's theorem is wrong. It should say that the higher the prevalence of the disease in the population, the more reliable a positive result will be.

3blue1brown has a good yt video on the topic which I recommend:)
https://rentry.org/nur779 (scroll down to the Huggingface ones)
It's not clear from the page, but there's an issue somewhere that points out barrier has been abandoned for a fork called input-leap.

https://github.com/input-leap/input-leap

Also recently learned about waynergy as a upcoming wayland client. Haven't used either yet as barrier still handles my setup.
Lmao you can call these incompetents and corrupts all the name that you want but it doesn't change the fact that they are not neofascists or else, they are just playing a role, pretending to be on the right, in reality they are only fraudsters who siphon public money
"free the nipple" could be understood as "let people freely decide what they want to do with their nipples" :)
Mesh Shaders and Meshlet Culling in Metal 3
What is your point? This is normal stuff that happens with companies when economy is in down swing. You see that your profits are going down, you analyze what part of the company could be downsized or eliminated to increase profits and you do that.