skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This drives me nuts. I get it, sometimes albums and songs have similar names. It seems like Siri should be able to deduce which I'm asking for given I've listened to one album over a hundred times and never listened to the random thing with the same name it decides to pull up.
We’re talking on a message board. Nobody here has “geopolitical cred”

You can be pedantic about Nostradamus like predictions. But if you were surprised that Russia invaded Ukraine, your threshold for surprise is low. After all, they annexed a big part of the country a few years ago.
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Outside of driving, I never really understood the popular use case for these voice assistants. In most situations it is easier to type your query rather than say it out loud.

It was a novelty touted as a big leap in technology.
It's GNU, and they haven't changed.
Nominally the "check" on this would be impeachment-and-removal, I guess. In practice, given the current partisan environment and the very high vote requirement (2/3 of the Senate), I rather doubt it'll ever happen unless something even more ridiculously corrupt-looking than the current (quite corrupt-looking) news occurs...
To be fair PlanetScale is a whole lot more than hosted MySQL.
Siri's functionality is fine for me, it just seems to really struggle to understand me compared to Google
I generally find Voice Over Utility to work better, in terms of available commands and what it can do, but it's also harder to use.
The article suggests that the blackpower is used to make cartridge primers. I'm not sure if that is true or not.
Intel is a bad joke that just hasn't stopped moving yet.
Durov was seen in StPetersburg for years after the "exile" [1], and Telegram was being developed from exactly the same office it was before the "exile", one floor below Vkontakte. The story Durov tells is at the very least incomplete.

[1]: here's Durov breaking someone's phone for making his photo in a shopping centre in 2017 https://360tv.ru/news/proisshestviya/pavel-durov-razbil-tele...
It's like we're living in a parallel reality in 1st world countries
> We don't make the same argument for the President or Congress

We allow them (congress) to trade stocks with knowledge from their privileged positions that no one else has. A lot of them walk out millionaires, before any book deals or speaking fees.
Be nice to hook that up to some kind of watering system to always have the perfect moisture.
>OpEd section

Chomsky was asked about what to read and mentioned the financial papers as a great source of foreign news because you can't succeed in business with a fake version of reality. He called out the WSJ by name but said the opinion section was "the funnies."
What's the amount of money we can pay them to not be corrupt?
No, this is exactly in line with the GPL, e.g., "The work must carry prominent notices stating that you modified it, and giving a relevant date."

The kind of people who revise past works to be more in line with present-day political correctness also tend to try to pass off the revised version as the original and memoryhole the real original.
There is also some correlation between how solid the base is and how long a library/package/project is used, before it is cast aside for a new hip and trendy one.
Reddit is cracking down on 3rd party clients. The experience will be degraded later this year.
Useful link if anyone wants to keep track of all these layoffs going on: https://layoffs.fyi
> Across the ideological spectrum

daily reminder that we’re all aware of the ways each side is different, and that its valid to be more bothered by the ways in which they’re the same
So you're the party apartment!
I think games and graphics have some pretty inherent n^2 scaling which can make progress appear to have slowed down, despite large increases in computational performance.

Say your textures are 100x100px for example. If you double the size of your texture to 200x200px suddenly you have 4x as many pixels to deal with.
Emacs had a GUI mode with mouse support since the 80s.
I think we can all agree that single-sourcing critical materials is bad.
I'd rather have the albedo
Take a look at Unrecord, for the difference from 2010, photo realism has come a long way

https://www.polygon.com/23691482/unrecord-bodycam-fps-steam-...
Well I'll be. That's what I get for not watching videos before replying lmao
Yeah, us old timers that can remember the days before LLM just called this social engineering.

Customer Service: How can I help you today?

hacker: I need help resetting the password to this account that is totally mine.

CS: Sure, I just need you to verify a few things.

hacker: I'm not in a place where I have that info, but I totally swears it that I'm the person I say I am, but I'm really in a jam right now and you'd be helping me out so so much.

CS: Of course, I understand. Your new password is....
The bigger problem is likely water - both use and removal.

Most offices will have a couple bathrooms per floor and a kitchen. Those are used frequently 9-5 but rarely on nights and weekends and there's no heavy usage like showers or clothes washing.

If you build 100+ apartments, you need to either build 100+ bathrooms and kitchens (expensive!) or do it dorm style with common spaces plus private bedrooms. That brings it down to a smaller number but still probably 5:1 for 20+. That's just on the consumption side.

And the entire infrastructure - both inflows and outflows - are probably not sized to handle that change in usage.

It's definitely not impossible but the conversion costs are massive.
… sshfs pointed to your rsync.net account.

Your immutable daily snapshots would be mounted in your local file system in:

(Mount point)/.zfs/snapshot

… and even Mallory can’t alter them since they are read-only.
I just had four physicists in my Uber last weekend and we got into this a bit. The one guy said the biggest problem with gravity is we’ve never figured outs its opposite or if there even is an opposite. He mentioned something about negative mass, which is maybe the handwavium equivalent of anti-matter in science fiction?

Gravity only attracts. It never pushes away.

Yeah I’m way in over my head but it’s fun to poke around in things we don’t understand.
As with many here I'm sure, during "computer lab" I was often done with assignments quite quickly all through school.

The teachers rarely had any extra work to assign me so they pretty much gave me carte blanche to use my time however I wanted as long as it was on the computer.

Great memories of trying to skirt school "blockers" in order to get to gaming websites in high school (this would have been in the early 00s). Glad to see this spirit is still alive and well and probably even moreso now than ever.
Siri mostly runs on device. Having a LLM needs a much more powerful device or Apple would need to drastically scale up its cloud buys from AWS, GCP, and Azure (which would in turn make the service more expensive).
> these lines of code [were] pulling data from memory and software cannot beat Physics. [These] are elementary operations...

> measuring big effects is easy, measuring small ones becomes impossible because the action of measuring interacts with the software

> to multiply the performance by N, you need ... 2^N optimizations

> why companies do full rewrite of their code for performance
Totally agree, this fixes infrastructure problems, not so much end consumer problems.

Still, the carriers have to get people to upgrade their phones before 4G gets sunset. Can't exactly blame them for pushing the tech, seems like the transition to digital TV. No one was happy their old TVs were going to stop working, but such is progress.
That comment seems pretty reasonable. Would it be better if they didn't and have a O&G related name?
The world's fastest supercomputer, Frontier at Oak Ridge, and the third fastest Lumi, in Finland are both exclusively made with AMD hardware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_(supercomputer)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUMI

There's lots of demands for AMD hardware in datacenters and supercomputers.
Any evaluation process is subject to accusations of bias, including yours above:

Instead of asking whether or not XYZ is a dictatorship, ask "are they following their own laws and constitution?", "are they respecting universal human rights?", and "in whose interests are they acting?"

Instead of just nay-saying and trying to redirect the argument, you could try engaging with the question of what a dictatorship is as a political structure. Or not, as you prefer.
I have failed so much in my life career-wise: fired from multiple jobs, lost huge investments, failed in 3 businesses embarrassingly, burnt out and let everyone down etc...
What I thought initially is that I was never going to be able to get out of it, I am doomed. Reality is people forget instantly, but you get lessons that you use your entire life. If someone did not fail and directly succeeded, I am wary of them as something must be wrong. You will learn to love failure and appreciate the lessons.
This isn't about response time, but about what you can do *without looking*.

Everything I generally need to do while driving I can do without using the touch screen. Being experienced with my car I can do it purely by touch, no looking *at all*.

We make a big issue about hands-free use of phones while driving--other than for a new driver I do not believe that matters. I learned on stick, that most certainly isn't hands-free but nobody says it's unsafe. What's actually important is that driver tasks be eyes-free and concentration-free. (And, yes, once you've learned stick is concentration-free.) And hands-free doesn't eliminate the problem of people taking phone calls that require thought--that's what is actually dangerous.

I don't give the slightest hoot about the response time of the controls so long as they count activations independent of the response time. (I click a control 5 times, I care that it actually moved the relevant value 5 but if it takes a second per click to acknowledge that's irrelevant. I'm unlikely to even look at the result.)
Then I’d tell you I have a very particular set of skills, skills that could keep your files stored safely for a very long time. For money you would pay directly to me, in perpetuity.
With all the collection that goes on at the tower [1] and app level [2], I feel like this attention is not properly distributed. Maybe that’s my US perspective talking.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...

[2] https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli...
No need to be so antagonistic.

I guess what we disagree on is that conclusion. "Cloud gaming" is not a real market. It's a subsection of the larger gaming market, it will never grow much bigger than it currently is, and by the reports own admission it would be against Microsoft's interests go for anti competitive moves. Unless there's some miscommunication around what "cloud gaming" is, I don't see how their justification makes sense.

On the other hand, while this aquisition might not strengthen the console market, it would go a long way in preventing Microsoft from exiting the market. If Microsoft exits the market that will be a huge blow to gaming, and I would hope regulators can see that.
This is why I sometimes like to argue that Star Wars is a harder science fiction universe than Star Trek (at least comparing onscreen canon.) Space-wizards notwithstanding (which ST has plenty of anyway), Star Trek tries to explain too much, and pays little to no attention to actual science and it comes off seeming silly as a result.

Meanwhile, in the Millennium Falcon, you just pull the lever and spacetime goes brrr. No bullshit about subspace, inverse tachyon pulses, dilithium crystals, or negative space wedgies. It's seems realistic in ways Star Trek doesn't.
I can't believe we're still "debating" climate change/"global warming" in 2023
That's the trick with Siri. I use it on my Apple Watch when I'm riding my bike with an AirPod in: "Siri, play this podcast," or "Siri, call so-and-so."

I think the secret is low expectations.
> To be semantically driven, it would be reasonable to expect that synonyms would have similar representations.

How could a tokenizer do anything about that unless the synonyms actually share substrings? The vector embedding is learned, not part of the tokenizer.
> if you're gonna be that condescending about someone not considering that part of the population

We're talking about somewhere around 65% of the overall population. Entirely ignoring women and children from your target market warrants a little condescention
You will like this. ;-)

I made it to re-direct to people, some of whom, gets angry that I don't do unscheduled Voice calls.

https://phone.wtf
Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are all generally good at those things but honestly not much else. I use my Google Home every day for timers and to turn on/off lights. I don't think any of them will ever be the helpful AI that they were initially promoted as, though.
Well, I am certainly as far from techno-phobia as it might be possible, but oil rigs are examples of machinery which are connected to large damages to the environment. Not so much the machines themselves, but the oil they have been pumping. See also those - by themselves - magnificient excavators to dig for lignite. Great machinery, but if you consider the outcome, it is very dystropian.

Nevertheless, they are engineering marvels and as such quite a view to behold.
The check on Congress is the voting booth. Can’t vote out corrupt justices.
Climate change denial has never been a good look, but we're well past plausible deniability now.
I grew up playing God of War saga with my 3y old bro and other games like MK9 and so on. We just laugh at the fact.

Good memories. We enjoyed both R and kid games.
“For example, one argument would be that the evidence I’ve presented here is consistent with a strategy of quickly shipping “version one” with poor performance, then starting work on a high-performance “version two” to replace it. That would be completely consistent with the evidence we see.

But even if that turns out to be true, it still means programmers have to care about performance! It just means they need to learn two modes of programming: “throw-away”, and “performant”. There would still be no excuse for dismissing performance as a critical skill, because you always know the throw-away version has to be replaced with a more performant version in short order.

That kind of argument is great. We should have it. What we should not have are excuses — claims there is no argument to be had, and that performance somehow won’t matter anywhere in a product lifecycle, so developers simply don’t have to learn about it.”
A C standard library rewritten in Rust already exists. [0]

glibc has its share of CVEs, and many of the bugs are of the double free, use-after-free, buffer overflow variety. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/redox-os/relibc
[1]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=glibc
This really bothered me about censoring the Scrubs episode with blackface. Not that I think the joke was funny or good or needed to be preserved, but they censored it for the wrong reason.

The joke: Turk and JD go to a college party dressed as each other, in whiteface and blackface respectively. Turk gets distracted and leaves just as JD opens the door to an all-black frat. The frat beats the shit out of JD for his blackface.

It wasn't the blackface that made the joke racist, in my opinion. It was the tired stereotype of violent black men without deeper emotions. It was the assumption that racism is transactional in this way; you do a racism and you get your ass beat if you get caught.
One thing I’ve learned about vendors over a few decades of professional life and also little vignettes from my father’s job, is that most vendors only wake up when the checkbook is coming out or going back in your pocket. There’s a whole theatrical thing you have to do to be an effecting ombudsman for your company that is effective but that I resent.

I think we can see the Checkbook Effect in how Apple has navigated for the last fifteen or so years. And maybe a bit of the Stanford Effect (anyone can get in if there’s a building named after their family, especially if it’s still under construction).

Hey we want this part

oh we might be able to make 100k a year

Umm… we need at least five million

Gee, sorry.

What if we loaned you some money to build a new factory?

Oh, uh, sure?
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The will of the majority of people in the military is irrelevant, because they don't call the shots. The military is not a democracy.
No. End-to-end encryption means: only the sender and recipient can read the content, not any intermediate party or service provider.

And Google is not the sender of your password reset emails, they are a service provider, and they have full unencrypted access to the content.
I'd be curious as to where the magical 16ms figure comes from. Yeah, a single monitor refresh. But is that really needed for most UIs?

these imbecile developers ... under-experienced software "engineers."

Yes, I know we've all been conditioned by the relentless pecking order of this industry to direct our ire downwards and sideways, rather than where it belongs.

But in my experience, at least 80 percent of the time the developers (whatever their caliber) are perfectly aware of when stuff is inadequate, and how to do stuff better. Ultimately it's managers and executives who make the call on what to create, and when to release.
See my other comment here, this solves carrier problems not so much consumer problems.

Yeah it's a trick. Marketing being what it is, it's hard to sell it any other way, they have to fallback on "buy this new shiny thing".
Usually all of my ideas go through while I am walking or while I am reading a book that has nothing to do with my career etc... When the ideas come make sure you have a Notes app or notebook to keep track of it because in an hour there is 0% chance you remember what it is.
You control the network that device is on. Block and/or track access using that fact.

I use a combination of DNS via https://1.1.1.1/ and WiFi/DHCP via https://eero.com/.

Works great.

Yes. This should be way easier.
My favorite is “[Let’s] go home”, which is what I use to navigate back to my house via Apple Maps.

There’s also sending messages to people - you can send voice messages (“send a voice message to X”), which works decently well and avoids transcription failures.
It has to do with offloading computation to an external entity.

For example, lets take a simple example: CPU + DSP. I have an Atari Falcon here which sports something like that, but quite a few modern SoCs also have DSPs included (QCOM, TI, ...), or you have SBCs (single board computers, like Raspberry Pi) which sport an additional DSP chip on it.

Now what do you think the process will be to do the computations on the DSP?

You will need at the very minimum some way to hand data over to the DSP, execute some code, and retrieve whatever result back to the CPU. This can be as simple as just handing around memory pointers (in SoCs with "unified memory"), or as complicated as specifically triggering the communication line between these two chips (some fast serial connection, ... whatever). That also means you need buffers for that, i.e. the CPU has to somehow provide buffers to some API that deals with the handover; at the very minimum you need a buffer for the input data, the actual code, and for the output (unless you reuse the input). Now, you define some code to do whatever computation, who figures out the sizes of these buffers? For the code itself it can be easy, depending, but input and output?

From there it gets easily more complicated, and that is the very reason why there is so much "boilerplate" in APIs dealing with GPUs, and some drivers actually support OpenCL, but I'm not sure right now if that is made available in browsers even. This aims directly at "compute", but also brings all the aspects you need for properly offloading that with it. There is simply no way around that.
"Easy" vs "comprehensible" is exactly the trade-off Haskell makes: it might be difficult to learn, but it's easy to reason about once you learn it. (Of course, both sides of that equation come with their own caveats...)
> but that's like pretending UDP doesn't exist because all of your applications use TCP, or only logging traffic going to port 80 because you don't have HTTPS yet.

In fairness, neither of those things would be unreasonable stances, given those conditions.
I mentioned an example in another comment - basic manipulation of timers don’t work well - like, adding time to an existing timer. When I’m working in the kitchen this is really useful. There are also major performance issues - “working on it” and “sorry can you say that again” are probably two of it’s most common utterances. Random bus like “there’s nothing playing” and the wrong siri taking over the request from a million miles away and you just can’t even hear is extra annoying.
You're telling me these creators can't find a way to continue working without copyright? Come on. Even big companies use stuff like kickstarter and patreon to raise funds. They'll be fine.
Sounds good. You should submit a petition for rulemaking to the NHTSA to update the FMVSS accordingly.

https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/petitions
Sure, but those aren't a company-defining revenues or where huge growth is.
That is plainly false, as any yahoo with a PACER account can tell you. It also continues to conflate qualified immunity as a principle (which dates back in some form to 1789 and by that name specifically to 1967) with the presumption established in Harlow in 1982, despite my clear explanation above.
What country was under occupation? Certainly not Greece. There was no state of Greece at the time, nor had there ever been. What we call Greece now is entirely a construct of modern nationalism. And what we call "ancient Greece" was a collection of different states and cultures in no way resembling modern Greece.
Wow! Hard to believe that’s produced by Shell. A outside of any environmental or idealogical perspective, I found it deeply unsettling just on a visual and auditory level.
I thought Drew’s email was fairly poor written as these things go. Trying to Amp everyone on the future of AI for the company at this moment seemed odd.

Also I always hate “to those departing…” as if it was their idea. These emails always promise fully owning the decision but they never deliver.
Any similarity with tmux is purely because it's connectionless. It's mostly certainly more like ssh than it is like tmux. Both are remote shell protocols, while tmux is simply a terminal multiplexer.