skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada doesn't have an accept other than saying "out and about" like "oat in a boat"

Source: Texan who has been close to Canada once by visiting New York City. I know a Canadian and wouldn't have known it if he didn't tell me.

Serious answer, we hear a lot more British in pop culture than we hear Australian or NZ.
My read of this suggests that they're specifically looking for a link between "using NSS's" and the actual desired outcome of "people lose weight / are able to control it better". Does that sound right?

Given that, I think this isn't quite as strong of a suggestion as the title would imply at a glance. When I read the title, I thought "what? did we find out that NSS's are metabolizable or that they somehow offset something and cause other calories to be absorbed more readily?"

But no, this is just saying that, it turns out just switching to diet coke alone isn't enough to make you lose weight, and in aggregate it's not even a big enough dent to turn up in the statistics.

They say as much in the last paragraph: "Because the link observed in the evidence between NSS and disease outcomes might be confounded by baseline characteristics of study participants and complicated patterns of NSS use, the recommendation has been assessed as conditional, following WHO processes for developing guidelines. This signals that policy decisions based on this recommendation may require substantive discussion in specific country contexts, linked for example to the extent of consumption in different age groups."

"may require substantive discussion in specific country contexts" imo translates to "those facebook posts of morbidly obese people eating 3000 calories in one sitting but their otherwise-200-calorie soda can is instead 0-calorie-NSS".

I am a bit surprised it doesn't even make a dent in it though. But maybe it does have a psychological "offset" - people prone to overweightness will on average think "well my soda is 0-calorie so I can have this extra thing".

Overall, a bit of a non-statement from the WHO I think. I was hoping we'd learned more about the effects of non-metabolizable sugars on the gut biome or something similar.
This kind of mundane bullying betrays their lack of seriousness. If they truly believed the threat is as severe as they claim, then physical violence would obviously be on the table. If the survival of humanity itself were truly perceived to be threatened, then assassination of researchers would make a lot more sense than impotent complaints to employers. Think about it: if Hitler came back from the dead and started radicalizing Europe again, would you threaten to get him in trouble with HR? Or would you try to kill him?

Basically, this is just another case of bog-standard assholes cynically aligning themselves with some moral cause to give themselves an excuse to be assholes. If these models didn't exist, they'd be bullying somebody else with some other lame excuse. Maybe they'd be protesting outside of meat packing plants or abortion clinics ("It's LITERALLY MURDER, so naturally my response is to... impotently stand around with a sign and yell rude insults at people...")
The walled garden approach devalues the already-overpriced hardware they are making. If they are taking up 90% of TSMC capacity making shit I would never buy (out of hardware I would otherwise want), I am clearly missing out on the fruits of an alternative reality.

The success of capitalism to meet the demands of a consumer are entirely dependent on competition. By vertically integrating their business, Apple has made it impossible to compete.
To add,FANGA it does not go after $100 million ideas
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There are two issues.

1) Apple Silicon won't support PCIe.

2) Apple doesn't want it to.

#2 means Apple is taking nVidia and AMD head on in the GPU space. Apple wants to control everything, and allowing these competitors on their platform is giving away too much. Because Apple Silicon scales better than competitors' hw, the desire for third party GPU is probably going to evaporate within a few generations of Apple Silicon. I mean, we'll see, but that is my best guess, because it seems like that was an intentional decision rather than oversight.
I'm just grouping in general 34-48ish key keyboards into "40%" category regardless if they are split or not or something in between. So popular designs such as Corne falls in there.
You would be correct if investment were the bottleneck. It's not.

The bottleneck on advanced processes is how fast ASML can build its EUV fabrication machines and they're extremely complicated pieces of kit with lots of specialized parts that are also extremely complicated pieces of kit. Even with all our modern production ability we're limited in how quickly we can assemble these machines that can actually do the lithography and everybody wants them.

ASML currently has a backlog of 100 machines. Intel, Samsung, TSMC, they all want them. They sell for $200m+ a piece. Everyone has the cash for them. ASML just can't produce them fast enough.
Then follow the law and penalize already illegal misuse or already illegal collection of data. Any administration that says it’s for civil rights cannot also be for mass surveillance.
For political parties, not news organizations.
> “There will always be stories that need assigning,” I told the students in my lecture, “always be an audience who needs something to read.” I still believe that’s true. But with the industry being what it is, career seems like the wrong framework—it’s more like a monetized hobby.

No, there isn't. Because print news doesn't, just, compete with social media, it competes with games, with youtube and netflix and, yes, Facebook.

I realized some time ago that I only really need to know about specific news that is very local (impact <5 km from me at most) and global news. There is no newspaper that will only give me the first, and most give way too much news for the latter.

If you want something to cover local news, you are better of with an AI or a local Facebook group. For the global news, you can take you pick from any of the big media companies, they are pretty much identical.
> The double-O is short, as in "book"

Bad example, since some accents pronounce "book" like "kook" (not like "suck") ;)
Funny, I switched from ST in part because of the popup that an upgrade is available.

You could have just configured VS Code instead of completely changing editors. In fact, you're commenting on a post with a really fine-grained list of how to! Do you ever configure ST?
Thanks!

If I'm being perfectly honest I'm surprised we got it this far already. If I wanted to be really critical:

- Far-field speech is actually kind of hard. There are at least dozens of "knobs" we can tweak between the various component libraries, etc to improve speech quality and reliability for more users in more environments. We've tested as much as we can considering there's only two of us but we need more testing from more speakers in more environments.

- On the wire/protocol stuff. We're doing pretty rudimentary "open new connection, stream voice, POST somewhere". This adds extra latency and CPU usage because of repeated TLS handshakes, etc. We have plans to use Websockets and what-not to cut down on this.

- We don't really support audio playback yet. For a real "Amazon Echo" type experience you need to be able to ask it random things like "Hey what's the weather outside?" and it needs to "tell" you.

- Ecosystem support. Using the example above, something like Home Assistant or similar needs to know where you are, get the weather, do text to speech, etc for Willow to be able to play it back.

- Other integrations. Alexa has "skills" and stuff and we need to be able to talk to more things.

- UI/UX work. We support the touch display but we did just enough to show colors, print status, add a button, and make a touch cursor that follows your finger around. We also only give audio feedback with a kind-of annoying tone that beeps once for success and twice for failure.

- Speaking of failure, we don't do a great job of telling you what went wrong and where.

- Configuration and flashing. It's very static and has multiple steps. There are all kinds of things that need to get done to make Willow easy enough for less-technical users to deploy and actually use daily without any hassle.

- Local command recognition. It's very early but as noted in the README, wiki, etc the ESP BOX itself can recognize up to 400 commands directly on the device. In testing it works surprisingly well but we have a lot of work to do to make it actually practical for most people.

- Open sourcing our inference server. We plan to do this next week!
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> In theory, FAANG-co could do it. In practice, they can't.

It's usually more that FAANG doesn't believe in that product.

MS & Blackberry seemed pretty certain that keyboardless smartphones (the iPhone) weren't the future.

That turned out to be a really bad bet.
Just saying they identified the wrong thing that mattered
I thought this article could have been about 95% shorter (let's just say I saw high irony in the cartoon in the article about using AI to summarize needlessly wordy emails).

I think the only place "GPT startups" will really thrive long term is specific niche business areas where the big boys (Google/MSFT) are not likely to want to compete. For example, there was an HN post about a legal startup that used AI for various purposes. I could see that one building a sizable moat over time as "the go-to place for legal AI support" if their UI is good and very tailored to legal-specific workflows.

My primary point is that I think "generic" AI tool startups are likely to fail because the big boys will just build them into their products. E.g. a tool that just helps you write is going to have a hugely difficult time competing against the integrated functionality of Word or Google Docs (I'd be shuddering if I were Grammarly). Google and Microsoft, though, have largely stayed out of dedicated tools for highly specific verticals, and with all of the antitrust eyes on them I think they're likely to stay out of those spaces.
You know what is offline-tolerant? NNTP and email.
Do you have a source for this number?

*edit: looks like you're an order of magnitude off, the number is closer to 500k [0]

0 - https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2015/08/26/a-portrait-o...
> walk around the office and ... Interrupt whatever they're doing to ask anything you want anytime.

Without sarcasm, I think a lot of people think this is what "important hallway conversations" and "collaboration and innovation" are. I also find it hugely disruptive, and it caters to people can mostly only communicate verbally.
I think Haidt’s overarching argument is that negative effects are caused by continuous social media access facilitated by the smartphone. It’s not the smartphone itself, but the ability to constantly check social media.
Google/MS make generic software for businesses and developers. They don't really get involved in specific verticals (aside from obvious ones like cloud, gaming, marketing). Successful start-ups will be the ones taking models from big tech cos and bringing them to the boring verticals those companies have no interest in.
> Google hired radio DJs to record and broadcast detailed testimonials about their personal experiences with the Pixel 4, but Google refused to provide the DJs with a phone for them to use.

So they couldn’t give personal recommendations because they hadn’t used the product in question - what punishment are the radio DJs facing I wonder?
That second source was written by someone with an obvious agenda of whining against political correctness [1].

As for the first source: an interesting study indeed - the question is, what weighs higher: a potential risk of inability to have an orgasm, or the very real risk of suicide attempts and successful suicides? Usually, medicine goes for "least harm". The last paragraph is particularly telling:

> Laidlaw has called the Endocrine Society’s position “highly deceptive.” Most gender-dysphoric children experience other psychological or familial problems or pre-existing trauma or autism, he said. “These kids, given time and compassionate care, should be able to become comfortable in their bodies without the harmful interventions of hormones and surgeries.”

The core issue is: access to mental health care or getting children removed from abusive families outside of actual, massive physical violence is incredibly rare. CPS and its worldwide equivalents often barely have the resources to keep up with children being sexually and physically abused, and life in shelters or being constantly shuffled around foster families is a hell on its own - not to mention moving out of strongly "conservative" areas or out of the school district to escape bullies is often financially impossible for way too many families.

So again, from a harm reduction perspective, it's obvious that providing puberty blockers and, later on, a way to transition is the more realistic and better outcome way. Besides, even when one assumes the statement of "most" trans people having had prior issues as true (which I haven't seen data yet except a correlation with autism [2]), there will also be a lot of people with absolutely zero history of abuse or other issues beyond being trans who will be trans, and so you need a framework in place to help these as well.

[1] https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-720155

[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
> Writing off all of this ..., makes no sense.

It does make sense when you think of it as an addiction. Many people fear giving up their phone. They think it's essential. They feel it. They live it.
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> Apple has booked nearly 90% of chip supplier TSMC's first-generation 3-nanometer process capacity this year

No surprise, the N3B ("first gen") process has bad economics and poor yields. Everyone else is waiting for N3E, which is pretty different to N3B.

See:
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/tsmcs-3nm-conundrum-does-it-e...

https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/7048/n3e-replaces-n3-comes-in...
Like a lot of American 'o's, 'mommy' often sounds (I don't know the IPA for it) more like 'mahmmy' to me (my British ear) - but it's presumably regional. I mean mainly from TV/film, 'valley girl' sort of accent for example: 'oh my gahd he's so haht'.
Guns don't kill people bullets do
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I doubt kids were getting smart phone when they were born. Assume they were given smart phone at 7, they would be adults now.
When Vice's quality went down, did any other independent journalists step into the breach? There are plenty of good analysis channels on YouTube, but I mean actually going into (e.g.) a warzone and reporting from the ground.
> iOS is THE dominant gaming platform despite having the same APIs as a mac

The problem with OpenGL ES AIUI (especially in the early days) is that it exposes lots of hardware specific weirdness. The reason this works for iOS is the same reason it works for Nintendo etc. Millions of devices with identical hardware.
Given they are declaring bankruptcy, there seems to be a signal indicating the possibility that no one was willing to pay for the alternative either.
Maybe a law firm that specializes in AI law. Didn't get a job because turned down by an AI, etc
>I believe you have misunderstood the trajectory we are on.

Yeah, I read Accelerando twice in high school, and dozens more. That doesn't make it real.

>AGI might not be right round the corner, but it's coming all right, and we'd better be prepared.

Prepared for what? A program with general understanding that somehow escapes its box? Where does it run? Why does it run? Who made it run? Why will it screw with humans?

My point is that there's actual real harms occurring now, from really stupid intelligences. Companies use them to harm real people in the real world. It doesn't take a rogue AI to ruin someone's life with bad facial recognition, they get thrown in jail and lose their job. It doesn't take a rogue AI to launder mortgage denials to some crappy model so they never own a house, discriminated based upon their name.
I thought you were looking for a news service for flat earthers..
> what people call the 'royal posh talk'

That's not RP. RP is the accent of the older BBC news anchors. The aristocracy speak (or spoke) a horribly strangled accent:

"Ee-aw, heelyaw, Meekyeh!" -> "Oh, hello, Mickey".
I don't have ADHD, but three private clinics say I do, and offered me medication
As far as I can tell that doesn't include prettier which is an annoying configuration since eslint and prettier partially overlap in feature-set
Cool! What software is used for the wake word detection, speech to text and text to speech?
That's not the question, is it? You just jump to the conclusion that a child without a mobile phone becomes an outcast, and equate that to the classical outcast picture.
Very interesting, I would buy an "off the shelf" version if it worked out of the box with Vicuna13 or similar LLM.
In the source:

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<p>measured improvement in server performance</p>
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No, their accent is quite clearly identifiable as Kiwi to us Brits.

They're easy to understand, they enunciate when they speak but the intonation and inflections and general sound is very different.

As for "a British accent". Would an American say there's "an American accent"?

There is no single British accent, we have, English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish and others with their own languages (and thus accents), then in England, we have widely varying accents, many clearly identifiable to a Brit; Newcastle (Jordie), Birmingham (Brummie), Liverpool (Scouse), London (Cockney), Essex, Yorkshire, etc.

I think when people say "British" like the article in OP, they really mean what we call "posh". We do it ourselves at times, but most people don't actually speak that way.
IANAL

In most jurisdictions these are not enforceable if the work is done outside of work hours with no company resources. So make sure that you use your own devices, own accounts and so on. There can also be concerns if the products are related (as you may be benefiting from proprietary knowledge).

Of course it is a good idea to confirm with a laywer who can give you a good answer for your situation.
And on the censored local models too, like standard vicuna. If I am having my LLM play an adventure game or write a story and I ask "What does the princess look like?" I don't want a lecture on how judging people by their looks is bad (which I sometimes get) -- I can get, if not entirely agree with, stopping actual NSFW responses, but this condescending moralizing is absurd. That's why I'm glad people make uncensored Vicuna models and the like.
Are you talking about a glottal stop? I've noticed young Americans using it a lot more on Youtube.
>Is it possible these kids now just have a front row seat to witness their generation being systematically torn down in front of them before they even have a chance to get a footing?

First, that doesn't explain the gender effect.

It doesn't explain why the crises of the early 2000s didn't cause a similar problem. In three-ish years we saw the Asian financial crisis, the dotcom bust, Bush v. Gore, 9/11, the Afghanistan War, the Patriot Act and the Iraq War with no similar effects on teen mental health.

It should show a strong correlation between news — not social media — consumption and mental health which remains to be demonstrated.

>However, even though my home life sucked, society as a whole felt much better than it does currently and I still wanted nothing to do with it.

"Everything was better when you were twelve"
More like no Vulkan support.
The suffering of non-human animals holds zero moral weight.

I am having trouble deciding if a conversation with you is possible, you do not seem to be a rational being. You use the word "bad" in a way that another person would if they were saying "this is either bad for me personally, for those I care about, or humanity in general".

Does that mean you'd include sea urchins and wombats in "humanity in general"? If it did, then you're mentally ill in a way I'm not qualified to treat.

When a lion eats a gazelle in Africa (or anywhere else, I suppose, if such events occur), it is nothing that I or other humans should care about. It does not matter that the lion eats it while it is alive instead of "slaughtering it humanely" (imagine how I have to word that idea, it's absurd).

This "suffering" does not make the universe less optimal. If I could push a button to increase the intensity of that "suffering" a thousandfold, or increase its quantity (or even both!), is there any reason not to push that button? If I didn't push the button, mind you, it would only be because the suffering of those gazelles matters not to me one way or the other. If I could decrease the intensity/quantity with a different button, I wouldn't push it either... and for the same reason.

For that matter, if suffering exists at all in any meaningful way (that is, empirically quantifiable), I'd still contend that it only exists for humans. Non-humans can't suffer, they are from a moral standpoint nothing more than meat robots.
Well there isn’t a sure way to guarantee they won’t tap into your business

Just look at Apple

They eventually will, and it is totally legitimate for them to do so.
The complicated history of how the Earth’s atmosphere became breathable
That's correct. It's a longer term, monster cultural problem in the US.

We're spending plenty of money to have the nice things our society should have (eg universal guaranteed healthcare; better public transportation), and we're spending it wrong (eg paying way too much for healthcare) and or in many of the wrong places (eg the decades-long war on drugs and its consequences).

Nobody does inefficient government spending (and general spending, our consumers are fiscal idiots too) like the US. We spend more and get less for it than any affluent peer nation.
I think that the games on my iphone would disagree.
> Early on, ChatGPT knocked a bunch of highly technical questions I sent it out of the park

I hear this all the time but never with a transcript. I wonder how much experts “read into” responses to make them seem more impressive. (Accidentally you understand, no malice). Or if in the moment it feels impressive but on review it’s mostly banal / platitudes / vague.

The few times I’ve used it for precise answers they were wrong in subtle but significant ways.
Every culture that has ever existed is more nuanced than outsiders think.

I grew up in Texas and I’m a liberal who’s lived all over the country. I meet lots of people in California who’ve never left home and think people from X are like A and from Y are like B.

But put four people from any location into the same room and you’ll find plenty of differences between them.
It sure does. The repository's standards don't matter one whit until I'm ready to submit my code.

I squash, amend, and delete history with aplomb as I develop. I simply do not need to be informed of adherence to code standards during that.
What are these "contracts" you're referring to? I've worked full time in tech for 25 years and I've never had a contract of any sort that I'm aware of.
Depression and mental health issues is directly coming from the software on mobile phones not the fact that you carry a computer in your pocket.

They focus on the wrong variable. It would be hard to ban mobile phones. But less hard to curb down on social media.