skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone who's tried it doesn't consider it a solution, and I described in a sibling thread why.

Universals are always wrong of course: we actually used a dongle for the kid's wired iPad headphones. It doesn't suck for us using a dongle, so I'm guessing our experience was really different from yours.

> If it were, then people wouldn't buy AirPods, so Apple would get rid of the dongle like they got rid of the jack :)

Nope, our 6 year old is not getting AirPods anytime soon.
It's a bullshit claim that only buries the sensible ones; but it's a popular one, so they probably figured it would help the sales pitch.
The worry is not human-level unaligned AI, but superhuman-level one.

There is no superhuman-level corporation yet.
If they can't even keep their releases a secret, how can I trust them with my data?
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Maybe, but combined with the downplayed stripping of features from the iCloud web interface, I'm still skeptical.
So what you're saying is the second tool in everyone's pipeline will be one that removes hidden characters?
There are leaks, and then there are leaks. The former is bad for business and the latter is marketing.
At $DayJob, we deal with OR problems for large companies and typically, when possible, we leverage Gurobi to solve Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MIP) formulations. However it's not unusual for the problems to be huge to the point even Gurobi can't solve them in a reasonable time. And of course, there's the case where the problem can't be formulated (or approximated) as a linear program at all.

So, in a couple projects I was involved we had to resort to manually constructed heuristics such as Simulated Annealing (SA) and Large Neighborhood Search (LNS).

A very cool large scale approach we resorted in some problems (eg. airline scheduling) was Column Generation[1]. Not only it solved in minutes what took hours in the MIP implementation, unlike SA and LNS it's and exact method that provide valid bounds to global optimality.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_generation
I think they've just stopped updating the cemetery page. Google killed Stadia this year.
> once a company creates a proto AGI where the path to a functional AGI is entirely predictable with more compute,

I find it hard to believe this will happen. I expect AGI training to be more like a phase transition (or a bit like grokking https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.02177.pdf)
Well, it's a little late for that one.

Fire one of the many offline LLMs up on a university network or somewhere else that a single IP connecting many times won't be too suspicious and let it go to town.
This.

There's no good reason to couple solar panels to anything. It's some non-engineer idea that got currency - I have a house but a small yard. Hey! Put it on the roof!

But if you have any choice whatsoever, do not do that. Put them in an unobstructed cheap ground-level serviceable location near the power grid. Because electricity can flow over wires for many many miles with little loss.

Hell, the midwestern farmer used to be the highest-risk job for accidents. But I hear solar installers have taken the crown. The cost in human capital has to be considered as well.
Librem Social is moderated and has a CoC: https://librem.one/conduct/

It wasn't initially as the idea was to disable things like direct messages and rely on blocking (IIRC some blocking features were even improved upstream as part of the Librem One project), but that was quickly scrapped as it's not something that works with federation very well.
Somewhat, it's only not really an issue currently because most of the top answers aren't great and you want to look for a better overview. You can't currently get the overview from Bing or Google, only whatever sentence they've decided to highlight.
Solar panels are pretty light weight compared to snow loads.
It certainly seems to have killed several businesses in my city.
> You can't just pick what you want and have it ready on a lot of your choice in two days

No kidding. And?

> If the only housing stock available/being built is houses you don't want to live in

These houses are exactly what their owners want to live in. Exactly. If the market demand weren't there, the contractors would be building something else.
most tasks that could be performed via textual discourse. math is the big exception here but gpt4 has been capable of most things i’ve thrown at it at a level on par with a smart person
> The only way our brains could be not algorithmic is if something like soul is a real thing that actually drives our intelligence.

Therein lies the question, one which deserves contemplation and can lead to Enlightenment.

Which then begs the question; is Enlightenment a "real thing" and, if not, how is it that it can be experienced?
I hate to continue being the lazy end-user on this, but it comes up in my mind every time that Purism or a Librem phone comes up. I don't know how to set it up as an actual phone, and it's expensive for a miniature tablet. I've never seen a thing that says, "do this to get it working on Tracfone".

Until there's an easy guide for end-users to interact with so they can use it on a BYOD plan, it's of little value.
LOL I was mostly thinking of the swiss roll but I know it's only called rocambole in Brazil. It's got all sorts of names all over the world according to Wikipedia
> I completely ignored both.

That's very wise.

Here's an illustrative tale, although I'm omitting details that could identify myself or the companies involved.

Many years ago when I was still pretty wet behind the ears, I had just completed the sale of my company to another. This was fairly big news at the time, and my phone was ringing off the hook with reporters wanting more details. The details -- especially the sale price -- were confidential, and I was contractually prohibited from discussing them.

One particularly devious reporter managed to get me involved in a "friendly" conversation talking generally (and safely) about the the two companies, then when my guard was down, asked me a question that wasn't directly about the sale price -- but my answer did tell him the general magnitude of it, which he reported.

It was a huge hairy problem that took weeks to smooth over. It nearly made the deal fall through. I learned to never talk to reporters. Some of them are very, very good at their job.
There are a also a lot of professional chefs rocking Victorinox Fibroxes which are quite cheap.

People like to fetishize knives, but for almost all uses, they really are pretty pedestrian and utilitarian. You don't need some $1,000 Japanese santoku forged from a meteorite to chop a bunch of veg well. You just need a comfortable grip and a little practice putting a good edge on the blade.

That being said, if nice knives bring you joy, then go for it. I have a couple of cooking knives that I like a lot.
Interesting Figure 2. I can only imagine the gymnastics needed to make a graph of scientific progress where UK is rocketing up at the top with about 60 score and China has been stagnating at about 20 score for the last fifty years. Probably most graphs of scientific progress won't look like that.
There are many people outside of the two groups yes men and people always talking how bad they are at something.

If you disagree, tell me which of the two groups you are in?
The tone in this comment section is, frankly, baffling. Nobody owes Apple any kind of right to control when or how their products are announced.
No, because Coca Cola doesn't have what plants crave.
> Robust against what?

I think I explained "robust" in the post above pretty well. It's about making a network that works and delivers information even when things go wrong or when there's not much infrastructure available.

Primarily for the use case where there's just not much reliable infrastructure. I like the idea of getting a local snapshot of news, important source repository updates, and other things important to me during little snippets of connectivity.

But this also makes things useful for the case where the infrastructure is impaired. Perhaps by natural disaster. Perhaps by state interference. Perhaps by individual commercial actors.

Yes, "how does one determine what the network distributes broadly" is a complicated question. It should be democratic and resilient to being coopted. I understand this is very, very hard. But I don't think it's intractable, and even without it the other building blocks of a network like this are attainable (general resilience and reliability).
Is Google scraping the dark web or using a data breach database such as Have I Been Pwned to provide this feature?
And we think tokens solve that problem? Spoiler alert: they don’t

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/124v2oi/hindi_8_tim...
> I heard there were Librem5 overheating issues and I'm not sure if that's been adequately addressed.

I have no troubles with overheating on my phone, I can even compile things on it. Some people living in warmer climates report that it may be challenging to charge the phone when it's on as it has a thermal threshold where it stops charging. Should get better with system suspend, which was very experimental until now (still not enabled by default, but it got reliable enough to actually use it on a daily driver).

When it comes to perceived performance, Librem 5 is definitely closer to PinePhone Pro than the original PinePhone, which was very slow.
Investors brace for a painful crash into America’s debt-ceiling
Makes me wonder how many people have died because of terrible headlines...
No, that napkin math doesn't check out unless you think Youtube is a non-profit. They pocket half of what creators make, and that has no relationship to their infrastructure cost, it's a function of their market power. They could change that revenue split tomorrow to 70/30 while they cut infrastructure costs for all you or I know.

You somehow turned my argument on its head. I don't care how much Netflix or YT pay for content, I only care that I pay directly for content, and because Netflix is a media company, not a platform, I don't need to guess how much they're squeezing creators or consumers. I transparently pay for a movie catalog, and that is the service provided.
> (old enough that I should be shot according to the movie Primer)

I think you mean Looper! Both are great movies though
My Pixel 6 Pro has 12GB of RAM and LLaMA-13B only uses 9GB in 4bit.
Maybe we'll end up in a place where most people ask an LLM and take the first opaque answer they're given and be done with it. But others with more curiosity and skepticism will continue to go to real sources, evaluate their trustworthiness, weigh a few against each other, bypass intentional or unintentional bias/censorship in some tech giant's algorithm.
I suspect the unusually high volume of google related posts is making people quick to flag. Others may dislike google generally. But I suspect most think this release of a LLM thats worse than gpt3 is a nonstarter.
I've also been using one sec, and ended up paying for Pro use. A feature I really like is the ability to increase the duration of the waiting period every time you successfully open the app within a 24 hour period. Just a suggestion if you're looking for them.

It's also very rigorous about switching to the app from other apps, to the point where even if you quickly switch out it will make you wait again when switching back. The ability to bypass this within a 10 minute window (or whatever) is what made me pay for it. Not sure if yours does the same thing, but thought I'd suggest that too. I'll give yours a try. Thanks for making my phone better!
I was thinking the other day it's funny there's like an entire generation of Apple enthusiasts have now grown up not even knowing about the site, and its not like its still online as a historical thing - the quality and accuracy of some of the stories "Nick dePlume" broke was pretty amazing back then. The wikipedia page doesn't do it justice.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Secret
How to Take Notes with Your Voice Using ChatGPT
CERN is big enough that they probably use a bunch of different EDA tools. But yes, they do have people contributing KiCad.
Yes. There is ongoing work in making succinct full text indexes that use substantially less space than the text they model. See work on the r-index: https://doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2019.0309
Algs/DS are still pretty fundamental to AI. Hyperparameter optimization algorithms like SHA/ASHA, stochastic gradient descent, PBT, etc. Structures like transformers, the various topologies, convolutions, etc. Not tickling the same itches?
No, just the ones where the result is a leak of information on some large government surveillance program, or, say, exposing incompetence of a company that sells security-related products - especially ones focused on "intellectual property".

Not that there's anything wrong with lulz as a motivation from the perspective of old-time hacker ethos.
Solar panel albedo isn’t as bad as it first appears because they’re converting significant energy into electricity. In terms of local heat a panel that reflects 10% of the suns energy and coverts 22% into electricity is similar to a surface that reflects 32% of the suns energy.

The net effect means solar panels end up roughly similar to grasslands and between typical bare soil and desert sand or in terms of effective albedo.
Why would they need anything like that? Rooftop solar is not a new idea; I don't see why a push to install panels on lots of warehouses would require any novel practices.
I don’t have a problem with hashes generally. Correct me if I’m wrong, but this scheme sounds like hashing with extra steps?

I agree this could be done. But diamond types (my library) considers every keystroke to be a new change. If we store a UUID for every keystroke, that’s very inefficient.
Yep. Not everyone wants to pay $5,000/month to live in a jumped-up coat closet in a "trendy" part of Manhattan.

Me, I live in a late '50s tract house and it suits me fine. I don't actually care what kinds of housing other people want to live in -- because it's none of my business. Manhattan coat closet or suburban "McMansion" -- whatever floats your boat.
That reminds me of the time I saw a local newspaper with the front page headline

"Fatal distraction kills driver"

But with the irony of a red square covering 80% of the page, as a Foxtel ad. Lemme see if I can find it..
Very good article on a very special topic.
If you haven’t seen it, do yourself a favor/favour and watch the classic movie “The Big Blue” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Blue

Some extra free diving movies: https://www.freediveacademy.com/best-freediving-movies/
spotifyd requires spotify premium though.
Just off the top of my head:

- Longer permitting delays, including structural engineering work and electrical design work to tie into the existing warehouse electrical system.

- Need to rent cranes or lifts to hoist equipment onto roof.

- Warehouses may need to be partially closed while roof work is being done, for safety.

- Probably need to do roof penetrations for fasteners and ensure they are sealed.

- Likely increase in worker death and injury rate from working on roofs instead of the ground.
IIRC the dynamic island functionality wasn't leaked, albeit the new notch design was. It felts so nice to be properly introduced to new ideas and work.

I'm not surprised that Apple can't contain supplier leaks, they produce these things on such a high scale that tight teams are not an option in production.

However I expect better from Apple when it comes to software leaks as they can have the employees close to themselves.

I definitely dig the leaks but it's much more satisfying to be surprised by a proper presentation. I remember the iPhone 4 situation where the whole device leaked and I was reluctant to believe that this is Apple design because of the poor presentation bu by the tech journalists. Later, after proper introduction and using the device, it become my favourite iPhone design ever. Proper introductions are important, I wish Apple Keynotes weren't spoiled as much.
> vastly inefficient sprawl that plagues the country.

If efficiency were the only important metric, we'd all be living in dormitories with 3-shifts-per-day "hot bunks" and institutional kitchens.
They're ultimately victims of their own political leaders who increased dependency on Russian gas in order to irrationally kill nuclear fission energy.

Anti-nuclear energy activists will likely go down in history as villains.
Around here, it was the local college and universities. My friend, in high school at the time, pwned CS departments at both an Ivy and state college, gave out dozens of cracked SunOS accounts to BBSers and script kiddies (the password file was unshadowed...) Tying up all the dialups with IRC and the non-stop downloading of warez eventually brought the attention of sysadmins, but it went on for months.
Here's one I had: I was trying to build a Bloom filter in parallel. Each thread had large-ish batches of hashes it wanted to insert into the filter. Naively, you'd just have each thread iterate through the batches and do __sync_fetch_and_or for each of the hashes (this was a register-blocked Bloom filter so we only needed to perform one 8-byte or operation per hash).

What ended up being MUCH faster was to partition the filter, and to have a lock per partition. Each thread would attempt to grab a random lock, perform its inserts into that partition, then release the lock and try to grab another random lock that it hasn't grabbed yet. Granted, these locks were just atomic booleans, not std::mutex or anything like that. But I think this illustrates that partitioning+locking can be better for throughput. If you want predictable latency for single inserts, then I'd imagine the __sync_fetch_and_or strategy would work better. Which maybe brings up a broader point that this whole discussion relies a lot on exactly what "faster" means to you.
Well I understood the first and last sentence.

Brb while I go back to uni to understand the rest.
Multiseat: Single PC with Multiple Seats
[Linux] Single machine with multiple "seats" allowing multiple users to sit down at the computer, log in, and use the computer at the same time. The computer has multiple keyboards, mice, and monitors attached.
When robots do all the work you can.
Yes, a malicious user. I’ve also seen buggy software try to reuse IDs - which causes similar mayhem. It would be better if we could remove this entire class of problems.
> One consideration is that "new homes" have historically been something of a "luxury good" but somehow become so normalized in the last couple decades, that people argue "middle class salary" should be able to buy one.

Yes, how dare the proles expect to live like the "best people".
The parent comment is that the roof is designed for the structural load of the snow load and not much else. Solar panels need ballast, racking, thick teck cable, etc and can easily overload the structural design. I’ve just gone through this on a warehouse I own. Cheaper to build over the parking lot than add structural reinforcements for every column.
I guess because that's cheap enough, because I can only recall ever seeing one big-box type of store (HD, Target, Walmart, Supermarket, etc.) where the corrugated roof was insulated in any way whatsoever.
Ads are generally not nostalgic references (and when they are, you still know that it's someone ultimately trying to push your emotional buttons to get you to give them money).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
Yeah these guys are total slime balls. Once they get what they want, their lack of concern for their sources is appalling. Breaking the news to drive eyeballs on their reporting is their 100% priority.
I recently changed employers, and one of the IT policy differences that I'm very happy with is that they do not disable IMAP, so I can use Thunderbird for my work email again.

I basically abandoned all hope of keeping on top of my email at my previous employer when they locked it down to gmail web UI only.
Paywall bypass / archive link: https://archive.is/A2UvS
This is a solved problem. Flat roofs exist in places like Colorado and New York, they are just designed to the appropriate snow load and then move on
While it could automate it I don't think it would be better.

In fact it would be worse. Websites would try and game the system to be the one that ChatGPT chooses for you. And now you are relying on a system that has no incentive of telling you the truth. At least if I check to go kayaking on day 2 of my vacation, I can compare the top 3 websites, cross reference with Yelp to see which one has the best value for the $.

Plus there still is the part where the data being sourced isn't formatted the same, so mistakes will be made. It even happens with manual research. You miss the part where one offers a pickup and the other one doesn't. ChatGPT will suffer from that too.
We need to start getting in the habit of building large awning's over parking lots, especially with a more extreme future. Mixing electric charging stations, it'll be trivially cheap to also tack on some solar panels.

This and also making all new commercial construction require load rating for 80% panel coverage is just sensible planning.
Is there any evidence the "Asteroid" device was fake for the purposes of finding a leaker? I've never heard that angle, and I'm pretty familiar with the case and followed the trial and Think Secret at the time.

While it never launched, it clearly made sense as a device given Apple's recent launch of Garage Band.

From what I've just searched, the only "evidence" it was a hoax appears to originate in this very speculative theory concocted on lowendmac.com that the entire thing was planned to take down the rumor industry, which seems possible but unlikely to me:

> https://lowendmac.com/2006/sudden-impact-apples-great-astero...

The article also argues its odd for Apple not to release something that was planned, but hardware companies I imagine cancel unannounced devices all the time. Audio interfaces is a crowded space thats hard to stand out in too, even for someone like Apple. This claim alone makes me not trust the article:

> "after over two years, Apple hasn’t released a breakout box for use with GarageBand... Sound suspicious? It should. If this was an important project, you’d think Apple would have gone ahead with it even after the “trade secret” of its existence was made known. You’d think they would have rushed to market to take advantage of the buzz."

I can't agree with that statement at all! There are countless reasons it could have been cancelled, and it was never all that "important" to begin with. It's also written by "Anne Onymus" - believe what you will.
It's still shipping through backorders as it caught many delays across development and production (including the whole COVID supply chain disruption), but it's pretty close to the finish line now. Once the backorders are fulfilled, it will be available in stock with no lead time (the version produced in USA already is).
I fully expect Discord to be a data source, if not already, then for a future version. I also expect that the only way the general public would ever find this out is via whistle-blower.
Abstractions of Import
that's an interesting one - it's one of the reasons we've opted for consumer subscription as a business model. we want our interests to be firmly aligned with our users best intentions for themselves. they pay us to spend less of their life doing things they ultimately don't are about. we make money by helping them spend less of their life doing things they ultimately don't care about. as long as that's true, I think it would be pretty easy to say no when snapchat comes along asking for a service-specific friction reduction.

our real hope is actually that tools like clearspace tip the balance of power to individuals. if snapchat or IG are taking a real hit, they'll finally be incentivized to minimize “regrettable time” spent on their apps. that's probably an easier task than doing a backdoor deal with a company who makes its money but protecting its users from regrettable screen time.