skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've spent enough time doing my job and enough time on CanIUse to know that the era of worrying about browser compatibility is behind us.

Its not. Its just that many developers have stopped caring about it. Google is releasing new APIs at a ridiculous pace, many of which are not needed for a huge chunk of websites. if developers want, they can avoid using newer APIs, or use them but add fallbacks for older browsers.

> for anything other than Opera.

sure, if you look at the current version of major browsers, support is pretty good for everything. but some users are locked to an old version, either out of personal preference, or work mandates. so its helpful if web developers dont use assume everyone is one the latest browser version. they dont need to support every version of every browser, but I think its reasonable to expect a two year old browser to work with most current websites, and more and more that is not the case.
You can literally go down the FBI's list of common scams and imagine how genAI can be used to amplify each and every one https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/safety-resources/sca...
What? Are you saying that people putting their names on signs is racist if their name "reveals their race"?
Is "race baiting" really a sufficiently specific description? How often does NPR/NYTimes/Washington Post/CNN/.. highlight the race of white victims, as opposed to PoC?
I am confused. If nuclear fission/fusion was perfectly efficient, which it isn't, the energy produced still ends up as heat. The second law. A hundred watts of power, after being used, eventually ends up as heat. It doesn't disappear. This survey was looking for that waste heat.
for the love of god, stop calling things operating systems. it is so discrediting
Tried Threes yesterday. Realy cute game but for some reason these kinds of games don't really hook me(Threes and 2048). But thanks for the suggestion!
But nuclear waste isn't going to be mass distributed?
No, currently it doesn't.

This is a case where it could help to give the AI some example values of the actual data. The same applies for e.g. JSON fields.

I've been thinking about ways to make it possible for users to easily provide examples to the AI. Essentially that would mean selectively giving access for specific rows/columns to the AI.
Sure. Continue to pollute.
I did not have perfect pitch before this exercise. During it I very much had it.

I didn't recognize the notes like I do on bassoon. I just knew. I sometimes still do, but not every note I hear. Now it is just once in a while.
To be taken with a grain of salt: this guy has one of the most active troll farm. He knows what he's doing.
In fact, that the answer could theoretically be over 40 and that that would count against the candidate means it's probably illegal in the US without clear evidence that it directly relates to job performance.
Hey, it's tsoding, what did you expect? :D You should watch his past streams [1]; very cool stuff I have to admit!

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/tsoding/videos?filter=archives&sort=ti...
I'd suggest that everything output by an LLM is a hallucination, but it often enough hallucinates something that resembles reality.
Apple in the 90s didn’t net itself on a single product.

Apple bet on a ton of products. Then they almost all failed to generate good returns, whether good, bad or average.
It wasn't drained and the gain wasn't short term -- the water from the rivers that used to flow to the Aral See is used for irrigation.
Apple started what we would recognize as the modern smartphone market.

Before that, we had things like the danger hiptop and blackberries. Incomparable.
The 2 months of mixing
It always struck me as ironic that "the perfect murder" is such a big trope in fiction, while in real life an astonishing number of them go unsolved.
I would guess they are bringing up racism in the systemic sense. That relatively little resources are used to investigate those murders.
I get it, but building a prison for computing is a horrible fate to trap us in. Bad use constantly being used to consign us all to worse & worse forms of computing is a godforsaken trend.
Chess is not nearly as popular as Chinese chess (xiangqi) either.
https://alternativeto.net/ was always my go to website for this
Thoughts on a view?
I'd be genuinely curious to see you respond to the question/idea posed in the second part of that comment.
How come you didn't use ChatGPT 4?
Quick question out of curiosity: how do you handle the token limit of ChatGPT?
Its a poor metaphor because you're focusing on the wrong part of the metaphor.

It's called a papercut after the "death by a thousand papercuts" chinese torture / execution method. The idea is that a single papercut by itself may not "kill" the project, but collectively they will bleed the project to death out as much as a single massive death-blow.

When viewed from this angle, it's a perfect metaphor.
Thank you for sharing my notes!
> we don't have a big "killer app" like the PC

I think we do, though at a layer down the stack: do more at the edge using less power in the process. Just as the CPU<->memory pipeline lead to all sorts of interesting on-chip development (huge multi level cache architectures) network bandwidth in portable devices will increasingly be a bottleneck (it takes power to run the radio, and more and more devices will be competing for that bandwidth).
Terrawatt plant.

How many terra watt plants are there of any type in the world?
What’s the best-in-class Whisper implementation for real-time / streaming transcription? I’ve followed the various posts linked on this GitHub issue [1]; not sure if there’s more out there.

[1] https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2
No, the problem is you can't really move in the VR environment with current-generation products, so that ruins the illusion. But I think Apple is on the right track in betting on AR rather than VR.

Meta's other problem is that while it owns an overwhelming share of VR headsets thanks to subsidies, it is a pitiful also-ran in services with Horizon compared to the real leaders, Fortnite and Minecraft.
That wouldn’t affect the clearance rate
Glad you did, thank you! Just pushed a fix. Should look fine on mobile now.
So possibly some basic iGPU (maybe even Intel) with lots of VRAM assigned could be enough?
How would you feel if the UBI were, say, $10K per year which is the likely number compared to any (unlikely) number would be?
> > I would love some logarithmic y axes on these plots.

> I experimented with using the matplotlib `plt.xscale("log")` function, but because the x axis already distributed by powers of 2, [...]

I said y, not x ;)

Also, the x axis is not distributed by powers of 2, right? I see 0 through roughly 2.7*10^8 — either that or the axis is confusingly labeled. :)

I would want two graphs here:
1. High-res linear-linear to show the expected logarithmic behaviour (surely binary search is logarithmic, right?), as well as possibly some performance cliff as you run out of cache and start hitting RAM for a decent part of the search.
2. Linear x but logarithmic y, on which you compare the various implementations. The point is that because all implementations presumably have the same complexity, and furthermore probably have caching issues starting from similar (though not necessarily equal) points, the most interesting point of info is their _ratio_. And since log(2*f(x)) = log(2) + log(f(x)), the ratio between two functions is simply their _distance_ on an yscale("log") plot. Much easier to see, especially if the ratio is like 100x.

Perhaps you'll even see that for sufficiently large inputs, the ratio shrinks because the search becomes memory-bound. :)
The closest thing in Go I know of is bubbletea:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea
Was on a jury for a murder trial dec 2021. The trial gave me a new found respect for how trials are conducted, what evidence is allowed in, how defendants are protected, and the general thought and reasoning behind it all. Then, the jury deliberated and I lost a ton of respect for the ability of a jury of my peers to logically reason and responsibly decide. It was an absolute shit show in false pretenses, irrational conclusions, biases, logical fallacies. We ended up as a hung jury. I was in the minority opinion and we let the offending party ( again in my opinion ) walk.
The hopi didn't have a written language. Their prophecies were an oral tradition which is somewhat recently (1963) documented as a written work: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Hopi-Frank-Waters/dp/0140045279
With zero knowledge proofs, no it won’t be trivial. Because it will be binary as opposed to identifier based.
The comment section here is in poor shape. Violent crime is up all over the united states, and at least from what I've seen, there is not a single easy explanation for why. ie, I'm very sympathetic to the argument that "de-fund the police" has had very negative effects, however we're seeing violent crime rise in districts which were not de-funded. The whole red vs. blue states / cities thing doesn't seem to stack up either, as violent crime appears to be up just about everywhere.
Civil war any time soon?
I'd be very shocked if the percentage of all human users that have JS disabled is more than <0.1%. Even web crawlers and other bots can (and do) execute JS these days.

I don't think the demographic is realistically relevant.
Nah, conceptually a file system is already an object cache so you can use the filesystem then like use its atime
Oppenheimer famously quoted the Bhagavad-Gita to describe witnessing/pulling off the first atomic detonation. I'd say that it was the first time that humanity actually controlled a godlike power, but gods and prophecies of apocalypse have long been a feature of religion. And it hardly seems surprising that native people would take issue with despoiling the land.
The US has some of the strictest drug regulations and yet it’s home to most of the biggest drug makers.

The US and the EU have some of the strictest aircraft regulations and yet Boeing and Airbus are the world leaders.

Sure, people can build gpu farms in Somalia if they want to, but I doubt they will unless the regulation is so draconian that it completely stifles all progress.
Compilation is a horrible word for it. Especially when what it refers to is basically productizing / user-friendli(er) packaging.
Oh no, we are all going to die.
So the agent who lists the property can not attach their identity to the sale? What about independent agents? should they be banned from using their name as their company name?

You have yet to demonstrate these signs are actually targeting race beyond saying "they are not my race!" nor have I ever felt threatened by a for sale sign.
It's pretty clear that cops are staging a slowdown strike. They are one of the few industries where they get more money when their KPIs go south.
Japan's shrinking population faces point of no return
Your anecdote sounds like an example of the system working to me.

I'm absolutely sure your assessment is correct:

I lost a ton of respect for the ability of a jury of my peers to logically reason and responsibly decide

People as a rule are horrible at logical thinking.

But that's absolutely the right side to err on. Much better for twelve people to have to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt.

Put another way, it's way more important for the justice system to minimize false positives (wrongful convictions) than false negatives, so I'm happy to hear anecdotes where it's seemingly biased this way.
> It is the same thing in corporations too [...]

We have to be really careful with this sort of relativisation. Killing people in a foreign country is not the same thing as selling bad products or dealing with information in an inappropriate way, at home.
Hey, I'm a little baffled by your mention of Mogadishu...what are you refering?

- for reference, the battle of mogadishu is the Black hawk down incident, and Mogadishu is the capital of Somalia.
A Day Hike with Food and Drink
It’s an implementation of a speak to text software. Currently the best open source one, if not the best.

Particularly you can talk to it with a “international” English accent and it will work. Or French or Spanish or Norwegian… and it will transcribe English.
I think I used this site or a similar one when learning KSP - learning is easy when you make it fun.
> top officials in the agency overruled them

Unfortunately the article is unclear: was the overruling by appointees or civil servants? This distinction is crucial for any repair to the system.

There is unfortunately a serious and destructive plan from one of the political parties to abandon the Pendleton act and return to the spoils system. If that happens we will see a lot more of this happening.
Yeah I had non technical parents and a school that considered excell to be computer science.

I tried to learn at home but didn't get past simple scripts. I'm sure a more gifted person would have done better in my position but I think I could have done better if I'd had help.
Ah, that is fair. I misinterpreted your point. The reason I say the x axis is distributed by powers of two is because it is only evaluated at powers of two:

sizes = [2**i for i in range(1, 29)]

The limits that matplotlib fills in are largely superficial, the benchmarks and the x axis are only being evaluated at powers of two.

Your points about the other two graphs though is very good. I think my graphs could use some clarity.
The main reason why I didn't use a log scale and compute on much much larger inputs is mainly because it would just take too long for my laptop to compute.
They have a conflict of interest, which makes them unqualified for public service.
Shared object, it’s the traditional extension of dynamically likeable c++ libs.
Oh I agree completely. I do think education can help combat indoctrination though, at least while it's happening.

Teach kids there are other possibilities and how to think critically and they won't be so quick to accept BS.
Part of said "real world knowledge" is regulatory capture in this case, which a well compensated career civil servant wouldn't be so beholden to.
The caption directly under the lead photo explains why it was chosen.
> you say that like I am the only person who does this.

Essentially, yes: https://caniuse.com/usage-table
I think most (or at least significant portion of) perfect murders from fiction are murders of someone significant or the motive seems to be evident.
Tag v1.4.1 has been created, fixes bugs:

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/releases/tag/v1.4.1
Wow, they are putting out a blog series called "SEO for rookies" in 2023...
Radical Incrementalism
I haven’t read the paper but let’s be honest, current GPT style AI does not “think” in the way we think of humans thinking, and so it’s much more likely it’s “faking till it’s making it” and there were enough resources in its training model that let ChatGPT answer whatever questions were given in a convincing way. This feels like that recent post about ChatGPT being able to answer medical Reddit questions more empathetically, even though the accuracy of the responses wasn’t evaluated.
Author here. Thanks for the comment and feedback. Really interesting point on MIPS vs RISC-I approaches.

I was a bit puzzled by the IBM 801 comment as the second para of the previous post mentions the 801 and links to an earlier post that is all about the 801. Was there something you think I missed in these earlier posts?
This doesn't deserve to be downvoted. Despite the "defined the police" bogeyman, it seems as though the police budgets of every city have done nothing but increase every year.
Facebook is far from done or broke. Especially now where we have the hype and progress around chatgpt. They are in an excellent position regarding that tech.

*if they can execute
https//isitmuddy.com

I wanted to know if it was safe to take my dog to play fetch in a field, if it's too muddy I end up with a very dirty dog. Uses weather APIs after providing location to the browser to tell you if it's muddy, and when it will dry up.
This is a beautiful app - my problem with tools like this is I don't use a Kindle so ingesting highlights is painful, but I'll plan on giving this a shot nevertheless.
Counterpoint, I was on a murder jury several years ago where every part of the justice system was pretty abysmal. Whether the police who were near incompetent in their investigation, the forensics people who could barely maintain chain of evidence or both sets of attorneys who couldn’t make logical arguments on either side.

The only people who came out looking good was the judge who was able to keep this circus from blowing up and my fellow jury members who despite the system all ended up reasonable and serious in their deliberations.
China Locks Information on the Country Inside a Black Box
The Company Destroying Hollywood
> The Universal Declaration of Human Rights defines the right to adequate standards of living. It includes housing, food, medical care.

If I have a right to an adequate standard of living then why should I work? Why should anyone (except those uncommon cases of people who actually enjoy their jobs). I have a right to all the stuff I need already. Now, who do I sue so that it's actually delivered? :)
Who exacyia discredited by the analogy? Humans, computers, AIs…?
In Germany, most public transport is “barrier-free” and cash tickets are still available.
The sensor I used was one of these (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NSGY7B3) attached to a ESP32 sending data to my grafana/prom setup on my nas. If you have done those it's like 2 hours of work and about $40 per sensor/esp pair. I couldn't leave the house without a respirator when our aqi got up to 650 for 2 days.

Anyway it's pretty easy to play around with. I didn't save the data anywhere unfortunately.
If you want to solve more violent crimes, you need to hire more detectives. Here is an article that references all of the data:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/a-really-boring-way-to-solve-mo...
So could you use it to translate audio of a foreign language into english text?
If we're going to be purists, sh is a far cry from bash.

/s tongue in cheek, please don't kill me. I love bash and I use it often. I love Greg Wooledge's bash guides and all the people in #bash@libera.
i think that is your problem there. The product is too cheap. How much value do you think a customer could get if it were successful at selling?
It is embarrassing how much we seem to legislate out of a place of ignorance or fear.

Where was this attitude when social media was taking over the internet? We just stood back while it dramatically reordered society. But now we're expected to wring our hands about entirely hypothetical and likely imaginary risks related to AI because they echo of dystopian sci-fi themes? Seriously?

I've yet to see any AI catastrophist address the fact that the training set for current state of the art LLMs is already effectively "the whole internet". It's difficult to see how an LLM which sets out to improve itself overcomes this limitation. We haven't even seen the early stages of models able to reason or develop and retain new knowledge independently. Maybe at that point I would agree it's time to apply the brakes, but at the moment regulation would be tantamount to strangling AI in the crib.
> It's not made any significant headway

What counts as significant? 20m headsets sold on par with a gaming console at least counts for something. Have you actually tried the Quest 2 or Pro, it's pretty neat. Not an iphone moment yet, it seems it'll be a slower thing, like the PC or the internet.
The images were always what drew me to NKS, and CA in general obviously. I don't expect to find any answers in them; for me it's a gateway to ontological mysteries. I'm quite content spending time just in wonder.
Readwise reader is my go-to for articles; just hard to ingest from physical books.
You can try out the demo and benchmark yourself
This a meta comment. Many other comments here talk about a correlation between wealth and programming early in life, which really surprised me. I started programming on a commodore 64 in the early eighties, and I don't understand mentions of needing a desktop computer or powerful/expensive hardware; on the contrary, you could learn programming on any old computer with a keyboard.

Anybody cares to explain their reasoning here about the correlation with wealth? Besides any correlation between having started early and being a good prospective hire.
If you look at the settings, you’ll find that they are configurable.
I think pretty much all essential/monopoly/government industries get more money when kpis go south- health, education, sanitation, etc.

Pretty much all essential services get more funding when kpis go south. And I think that’s usually because lack of resources make kpis go south. Take a great teacher with 20 kids in their class. Make the class size 40 and KPIs will go down. Does that teacher become bad?
While the use cases are tailed for machine learning, that isn't as much of a limitation as it sounds. The computationally-heavy portions of a machine-learning model are usually matrix multiplication and/or convolutions. The low-level operations could be combined into the training/evaluation of a machine-learning model, or could be combined into a physics simulation. That they are marketed as ML co-processors doesn't restrict their usage, just as a "graphics processing unit" isn't restricted to use for graphics.
The main reason the USA is less "help the poor" than Europe, is because some of the poor in America were non-WASP, and, well I'll let President Lyndon B Johnson say it:

> "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
In some sectors software quality truly does not matter beyond a certain point (and the bar is really low). The customer very rarely has the resources or the time to try all the alternatives, especially if switching afterwards is expensive so if your marketing is good and your product works and has the needed features, you get sales, and if it's not, you don't.

Is it terrible that the app takes minutes to add a few thousand numbers? Of course it is. But it does not matter, the customer is used to software being terrible so he won't waste the time and money to switch to another software that is probably also terrible.
Cool can I use LLama or BERT with it?
I sent you a message, I would be happy to make a board for your mom!
Web dev has gotten more complex with more complex requirements, but not linearly - its easier to build more complicated products on the web, and as this article shows the primitives we have are much more powerful.

If you want to build something you build back in the 2000s, its so much easier than it was back then.
Great question! We will be adding a ChatGPT-based user-defined function this week (https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva/pull/655/).

With LLM-based functions, EVA will support more interesting queries like this:

SELECT ChatGPT(TextSummarizer(SpeechRecognizer(audio)),
"Is this video related to the Russia-Ukraine war?")
FROM VIDEO_CLIPS;

Here, EVA sends the audio of each video clip to a speech recognition model on Hugging Face. It then sends the recognized text to a text summarizer model. EVA executes both models on local GPUs. Lastly, EVA sends the text summary to ChatGPT as a part of the prompt. The ChatGPT UDF is executed remotely.

The critical feature of EVA is that the query optimizer factors the dollar cost of running models for a given AI task (like a question-answering LLM). It picks the appropriate model pipeline with the lowest price that satisfies the user's accuracy requirement.
I guess watching a tumble dryer too.
What is the point of photos of real estate agents on for sale signs?
Anyone trying this out now? I mostly blindly copied and pasted the instructions and it's not slow -- but I'm getting pure Zalgo here...(RX 570 fwiw?)