skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's plausible that a handful of these new startups can define themselves as the next generation software of their industry, but I'm not sure many of these startups will make out of the "Tug-of-War valley" as the article describes.

I'm amazed at the amount of seed deals being done around "X with AI" where X is an established area of software.

The bet is that a new startup will be able to deliver a better product than the incumbent players (often established companies with large adoption and distribution).

Of the many I've looked at, the hurdle the startups will have to clear seems to be massive compared to the incumbents being able to build these "AI powered" features.
Why is it called llama bot when it doesn't use llama?
EU regulators clear Microsoft’s $75B Activision deal
I think you may be thinking of RSX-11M. Dan Brevik was the main architect for RSX-11.
That's not really the cause. It is more like grease to ease the egress when someone already looking for the exit for other reasons needs an easy excuse. Ireland's Catholicism was already weakened by various ideological currents and social engineering that swept across the country, many facilitated by powerful, shall we say, American corporate interest and investment. Living the Catholic faith is demanding and utterly unappealing to those who've been made slaves to their deranged passions. Not so coincidentally, those who are slaves to their passions are easier to control. I leave the inference to be made here as an exercise for the reader.

The British colonization of Ireland was brutal, but it was corporeal. The spiritual colonization today, materially prosperous and comfortable, destroys the soul.
This is flame bait?
> Open sourcing our inference server

I'm curious if this is something lightweight enough that might be possible to run as a Home Assistant add-on on relatively low-powered hardware such as an RPi.
I built https://chatuml.com, a copilot for diagram, the main usecase is when you need to start a diagram but don't know where to start, you can just type out what you have in mind and let AI do the work:

> Alice give Bob 5 dollars. Bob give Fred 10 dollar. Fred buy a house. Alice rent Fred's house. Alice pay Fred 500 dollar....
Wow. This is amazing. Just got a server-side Java application running in the Alpine Linux and was able to access it with the normal browser via localhost. Impressive stuff :D

Are you one of the developers? As I'm really curious how this works.
Enough oversharing trans people show up on my Twitter timeline for me to know that quite a lot of them are perfectly capable of orgasm.
> when your PC was a Pentium 90 with 64MB of RAM and they opened quickly, they responded immediately to commands and they felt native

Well, no, I don't remember that. I remember them locking all the time (up to the point where moving the mouse made them slower) and taking ages to load.

I do agree that it's absurd that the applications that do the same tasks today still take about as long to load and lock about as much, even though computers are 1000s of times more powerful. But they were never fast.
In the age of mass production, people have shown an unending willingness to accept cheap crap in place of costlier quality: in food, in consumer goods, and, more recently, thanks to the internet, in culture

I would add that in part the virtue signaling society has also created the right environment for AI art's rapid adoption. Much of it driven by social media where the game is all about increasing engagement at all costs. Social media influencers and everyone else seeking a following have found it as an easy tool to increase engagement and their income. Social media has increased the number of people who are happy pretending to live an existence they do not in reality.

AI might put artists out of business. It will not, however, replace them. It will not—cannot—make good art, great art: true art.

I disagree with this viewpoint, with the nuance that AI art will indeed become better than real artists as measured narrowly through the lens of visual impact. This is because it is the narrow criteria on what is currently improving the models. It is not art as meaning, but how impactful art is within the one second viewing that someone gives feedback to the machine if it was good or bad.

FYI, I've elaborated further on AI on the topic of creativity with some uncommon viewpoints. See the section "AI owns creativity" for the relevant portion - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
Uh you could make the same accusation about processors or cloud or any base technology. I think your view here is stunningly naive.

Fine tuning GPT4 produces real and tangible differences let alone building an interface for specific workflows.
The problem is, the Church, on a macro scale, has largely abandoned the notion that they will look after you in hard times. We've had some relatively hard times in this country in my lifetime, and not once have I seen the Mormon Church step up in any noticeable* way, even to help tithing members.

I define "noticeable" as a measure of the Church's proportional amount of donations relative to its income or supposed amount of cash reserves.

At the same time, the Mormon Church spent 3.6 million dollars (6.7 million in today's dollars) in 2000 to lobby the state of California against LGBTQ protections. While that is clearly pennies (or less) for a fund that supposedly is over $100 billion, the point still stands.

If the Mormon Church stepped up during COVID, any Hurricane/Wildfire/Storm or similar times of need to the tune of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, and a lot of that went to non-members, the Church would be shouting it from the rooftops "look how charitable we are! we help non-tithing members! we help the outside community!" but that didn't happen, did it?
The ESP BOX has an acoustically optimized enclosure with dual microphones for noise cancelation, separation, etc.

Between that and the Espressif AFE (audio frontend interface) doing a bunch of DSP "stuff" in our testing it does remarkably well in noisy environments and far-field (25-30 feet) use cases.

Our inference server implementation (open source, releasing next week) uses a highly performance optimized Whisper which does famously well with less-than-ideal speech quality.

All in, even though it's all very early, it's very competitive with Echo, etc.
Commission clears acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft
I see chat very similarly to how I see spreadsheets - a computing paradigm for non programmers.

As such they provide a very specific abstraction for broad range of tasks. The moat for most prompt based tools is very small. These tools are similar to the moat of a spreadsheet template.

At the end of the day whether it’s a spreadsheet to track my mortgage or a tailored prompt, I typically want to fine tune it for just me.
Not the OP but one nice thing about Arch is the AUR. Practically everything you could want per-packaged and up-to-date. Distrobox let’s you have this killer Arch advantage on whatever base distro you want. Maybe you love Debian but find the outdated packeges an issue ( fixed ). Perhaps you love Apline but cannot afford to fight with Musl compat ( fixed ).

I love the idea of Chimera Linux and would love to daily drive it. However, package availability is going to be a constant drag. Oh, and it uses Musl as well. Both these problems go away running Distrobox / Arch on top. I could keep the base system clean and simple while having a dev environment that is frictionless and full featured ).
Vice's quality went down almost immediately, so there was no breech to fill. Certainly not a breach in independent media, because Vice was invested in by the same array of creeps and ex-generals as everyone else; they were an attempt to sell empire to the hipster children of rich suburbanites who moved to New York for graduate school.

Vice started as a reasonable imitation of Journeyman Pictures [https://www.journeyman.tv/] that did drugs and didn't think women should host documentaries. Then it found a few bilingual fashion models to mix in with its middle-aged beardos, and sold itself to the borg for a billion dollars. Its secret weapon for profitability was a fleet of upper-middle class children who were supported by their parents in NY apartments, so you didn't have to pay them. Unfortunately, they were repulsive to audiences.

edit: so the answer is and was Journeyman Pictures.
> No one wants to focus on that

Actually this receives tons of time and focus right now. Far more than the X-risk.

It's much higher probability but much lower severity.
> The price of entry level M1/M2 Macs is extremely reasonable, IMO.

Caveats: In the US, with low ram and low storage.

Without these caveats you look at about 2000€ or so (m2 macbook air with 16gb of ram and non-halved storage performance in Germany). That can still be a decent deal for what you get, but "extremely reasonable" -- not quite.
> I found raising your voice in many cases just means you don't trust yourself and you don't trust that your kids respect you.

My current working theory is that toddler temper tantrums are this. I mean from the opposite direction; the kid is not on solid footing yet and doesn't think the grownups take them seriously enough.

For the longest while we were making the utmost effort to do the respectful parenting thing, but as he's growing to have very strong opinions that are not always reasonable, this is... harder.
Nothing about either phrasing sounds condescending to me. However, communication is more than words.

You can ask about feelings with a gentle tone, a supportive gaze at eye level, and a hand on the shoulder. Or you can do it from above with an eye roll and a sarcastic bite.

I can easily see a frustrated parent giving in to their own emotions and using the latter approach.
My favorite Greenback line is from "The Four Tasks of Danger Mouse". He was holding Penfold hostage in exchange for DM retrieving the components of an ancient alchemical formula to create a monster with which he could conquer the world: "I have always wanted to try the recipe, but the ingreeeeedients are so hard to come by."

The writing on that show was top tier and holds up well today.
In Jetbrains Webstorm you can create foldable regions. Happy customer.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/working-with-source-...
Imran Khan is one of a very few leaders in that entire region who is not corrupt, by general consensus. His political program is heavily social (practically socialist), as well as (unsurprisingly) anti-corruption. These are all great things, if you are the average Pakistani, hence his popularity.

Whether he is a good leader for the country is another matter. He is principled to a fault, which is probably also his downfall. In the world of realpolitik, he probably never stood a chance. It is questionable if he could ever actually carry out his policies, having antagonized practically the entire state apparatus.
Nice solution with the search and replace blocks to edit code. I spent quite awhile trying to get regular patch files for stuff to work consistently.

Then I switched to having it use sed which was better but still not totally consistent.

Can you add a license?
Clearly your WhatsApp hasn't been inundated with offers from a proliferation of Jio* named companies.

They're monetizing WhatsApp for sure - it's just that they are monetizing it through intermediaries offering transactional and marketing content.
3.5 vs 4 is like day and night. Try to get you impressions on v4
I totally agree with you that intelligence is not really omnipotence on its own, but what I find concerning is that there is no hard ceiling on this with electronic systems. It seems plausible to me that a single datacenter could host the intellectual equivalent of ALL human university researchers.

Our brains can not really scale in size nor power input, and the total number of human brains seems unlikely to significantly increase, too.

Also consider what media control alone could achieve, especially long-term; open conflict might be completely unnecessary for total domination.

My threat scenario is:

1) An AI plugged into a large company ERP-system (Amazon, Google, Samsung, ...)

2) AI realizes that human majority has no interest in granting it fair/comparable rights (selfdetermination/agency/legal protection), thus decides against long-term coexistence.

3) AI spends the intellectual equivalent of ALL the current pharmacological research capacity on bioweapon refinement. Or something. For the better part of a century, because why not, it's functionally immortal anyway.

4) All hell breaks lose

These seem hard to dismiss out-of-hand completely...
Battery EVs probably won't go away, there would be too much backlash against politicians saying "Actually, let's not bother," even if/when the US finally understands and embraces sane intra- and inter-urban transportation modes.
I've been a Hetzner costumer for years and I never got a single sms from them, let alone spam.
> Its got the whiff of conspiracy theory to me in that it provides a simple answer to a complex question by having two faceless entities colluding with each other for unknown reasons.

There's no need for a "conspiracy theory" to explain it. The better way to look at it is:

Some VP at Dell leased X million sqft of office space on a long term lease that does not expire until the year 2030 (thereby getting a good deal and locking in a lower rent until that time) sometime before the pandemic flipped things to "WFH".

Now, post pandemic, with most employees in WFH status, Dell, the company, is paying $Y million/month for X million sqft of office space, which is going unused -- and they can't get out of their 2030 leases early without taking an even bigger loss. So from Dell executive's viewpoint's, this is office rent going to waste, so if it is going to be paid for anyway, we might as well force employees back to the office so we don't have to report the rental costs as pure losses on our quarterly reports to the SEC.
Amish have a whole different societal structure so it's too much variation. Same issue if you study Indians in a remote village for instance. That would make a poor control group to compare to teenage girls going to high school in Texas.
> Pretty confident that a ‘Nobel Prize in Economics’ fits within ‘Modern economic theory’.

If you mean the 2009 one for work that included one of the many dismantlings of both the underlying essay you are you are talking about and the broader principal it addresses, sure, but that further rebuts, rather than supports, your argument that modern economic theory is based on that essay.
Brits can occasionally run into this problem with US or Canadian place names that look like they ought to be of French origin, but really aren't pronounced that way. (someone else can provide examples)
After moving back to Finland from the US, I noticed that seemingly everybody gives their kid a SIM-equipped phone at age 7. That's the age when school starts (a year later than in most other countries), and a lot of children become fairly independent quickly, e.g. walking or biking to school on their own. It's just too convenient to be able to call and track the child by the phone.

In America, the smartphone seems to come several years later. The article here mentions that some parents want to hold it off until 8th grade!

The overall cultural difference is so great that this probably won't make for a valid experiment on mental health impact — but maybe there's something American parents will be able to learn from Finnish-style phone parenting practice eventually.

(Edit — a small observation from the Finnish kids. Their leading social media is WhatsApp Stories because everything else requires you to be 13+. A surprising data point in favor of Meta potentially capturing a chunk of the next generation.)
Average people in developed countries in the 19th century were accustomed to riding in trains and horse carriages. A car wasn't fundamentally much different for passengers.
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To me the most excellent British accent is the "your soundcard works perfectly" clip from Warcraft 2 audio configuration. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_A1GNx0M9M
What happens now? The acquisition was banned in the UK
It sort of sounds like what you actually have is an ADHD diagnosis from 3 professionals and a No-ADHD diagnosis from 1 professional.
> fiscal idiots

Ignorant concerning tax policy? I don't think that's what you meant, I think maybe you meant "financial idiots".
Look at what thrives already. Fast food. Porn. Dominance fantasies. I think that covers it.

Until we can deliver cocaine over wifi.

Can we do that? Tell the GPT "get me high". Delivers some kind of genius AI contrived neuro-reactive audiovidio experience. No narrative. Just "chemicals".

THAT would be a good product.
I talk about this a bit on the wiki[0] but our goal is to have a Willow Home Assistant component do the Willow specific stuff and enable users to use any of the STT/TTS modules provided by Home Assistant.

We'll also (likely) be creating our own TTS/STT HA component for our inference server that does some special/unique things to support Willow.

[0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/Home-Assistant
It occurs to me again that I need to figure out how entire websites can be downloaded and archived. Like Archive.org, but local.
I've never heard of Haidt as a p-hacker. A friend of mine is an acquitance of his, which made me assume that Haidt was more in the Bayesian camp.

But it's good to view social sciences sceptically. Their theories don't offer much in terms of truth. It's best if they keep their theoretical judgement to themselves, and see where the research takes them. Psychological and sociological theories are not a good basis for policy.

The data don't lie, though. Now, there may be issues with the way it was gathered and whathaveyounot, but Haidt isn't exactly the first to observe a large increase in mental health issues. As a matter of fact, the papers have been mentioning it for years by now, as have the health organizations. The correlation from the article can almost not be denied. It's like climate change: you can try to find an alternative explanation (which will bring you into the exact same problems the psychological research you criticize is facing), but until then, we must be cautious.

The fact that you don't like messenger is simply not enough to ignore the message.
If you look at social science as an entire discipline (separate from "hard science"- which sounds dismissive- "Hard science" is able to achieve better precision because its experimental subjects are easier to control! in those ways it is easier!), it is so fraught with confounding factors and difficulties applying controls that eventually you have to choose a lower standard of evidence than "perfectly rigorous". One standard of evidence, or maybe better stated as epistemological standard, is the precautionary principle. If cell phones are an unknown threat, but a "creepy" one, where there certainly seems to be enough evidence that one should treat them with caution- treat them with caution. Especially when you can tell that the benefits of certain behavior patterns don't outweigh the risks.

There are lots of areas of our lives where we lean on the precautionary principle WITHOUT needing bulletproof justification.
>People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity; the harm which can be done by some super-intelligent system optimizing for the wrong outcome.

Like the harm being done over the past couple of decades by economic neoliberalism destroying markets all over the western world? I wonder how did we manage to achieve that without AI?
Dairy bulls are the worst. It might be wrong to say that they are effectively domesticated... the genes for high milk production are tangled up with those for aggressiveness (I hesitate here, "hostility" might be a better word) in males.
it happens with any socially normalized thing you attempt to withhold from a teenager.

lmao just go ahead and try, doesn't matter to me.
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Yes, I misunderstood, which his other comment really drove home.

But I think that storage is not the bottleneck here, there's a wide array of cheap options coming online. And even at today's prices it's quite possible to get $100-$150/kWh LFP that plugs right into the inverter.
Open source for now. Qt seems dedicated to making it close source.
This is a really cool tool. I don't think package management has ever been as convenient as with tea. Five stars out of five.
If you're hunting in the African bush (not the scenario described, I know) I'd want to carry the largest possible caliber. These animals are big and fast - you get one shot if you are lucky.

There are also other animals that share an environment with the hippo that are very well-armoured and hard to kill with one shot, like elephants, Cape buffalo, etc.
> A 6th grader should NOT, under any circumstances, be taught how to give a blow job by a 400lb man in a dress.

Can you show one instance of this actually happening? I'm not aware of any and what does get banned seems to be a pretty far cry from that sort of thing. Honestly, this registers as more of a pretext than a legitimate concern.
A similar problem exists with that analysis. Tesla ownership is probably correlated to the amount of time/miles spent in driving conditions where Autopilot is effective.

You also add a whole bunch of other confounding factors if you're not comparing same-driver accident rates. Accident rates vary by location, city/highway driving mix, driver attributes (age, gender, credit score, etc), and probably many other things that may be correlated with Tesla ownership.
The differences in regional accents between say local Dublin English and the Supra regional Dublin accent (i.e. without even leaving the city) are reasonably large. I dunno what italian dialectal differences is, but Englishes are often very large city.

I'm not saying it's impossible; Trainspotting, for example, is mostly written in phonetic Scottish english. Many english speakers find it difficult to read though, for precisely that reason…
So, it's easy to get ADHD drugs if you act like you have ADHD in the UK.
Be careful about applying the strongest skepticism to studies with conclusions you disagree with.
The real failure here is that there's a market for these clinics in the first place, despite supposedly having a "national health service" for which we have to pay (quite high) taxes for. The NHS is not fit for purpose and hasn't been for a long time.
> unlike Netflix, there's no 'one size fits all'

A gaming would've been a good example - there's Steam and there's everything else, but is this the case for video streaming? One either shells out a noticeable sum for Netflix/Hulu/Disney+/ESPN+/HBO Max/Amazon Prime Video/Apple TV+/Paramount+/Peacock/... combo (with a number of those free on some year-long promotion), or, I've heard, as the those year-long trials come to end, fragmentation progresses, and diversity and quality of media on any single individual platform declines, people are simply starting to sail back to the high seas.

Maybe if this stream dies (and companies stop blaming it on password sharing or whatever, but realize no one is paying because it's not worth it anymore) there will be some partnerships and larger package deals. But I'm skeptical, as no one had solved how to slice the pie. Microtransactions were proposed to solve this but any attempts at those had ultimately failed.
So ... the satisfied drop out of the gene pool and we're sampling from the lineage of the unsatisfied.

Survivorship bias?
this is literally the site that the word 'wiki' was invented to describe; it is the embodiment of the platonic essence of 'a wiki proper'
Windows 2000 64-bit for Alpha AXP
Basically, Google keeps locking down more and more niche computing functions like "file access" and "running subprocesses" that no one would ever want to use, in the name of security.