skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In both cases, yes, there are arguably better models but you get those by working for them, not freeloading.

For example, it’s easy to avoid YouTube but you’re supporting YouTube’s continued dominance by using it – even with an ad blocker, you’re contributing to views and likely engaged social activity which drives more traffic to YouTube, and for that matter there are a surprising number of people here contributing PR to YouTube pro bono by claiming there’s no alternative, which isn’t true but certainly what they want advertisers and creators to think.

Similarly, I also agree that there is a lot of unhealthy history around transit fares but dodging them does not build support for lowering them. You get that by working in the political process first and riding for free after that isn’t actively harmful for the service.
personalized medicine of this form is one case where at least for now the cost makes obvious sense. You’re paying like 8 FTE PhDs to hand-build you a therapy from your own body. It’s not even close to automated.

but: if it doesn’t work, sometimes you get your money back! (novartis has never had to pay out)

https://www.fastcompany.com/40461214/how-novartis-is-defendi...
Anyone that uses it will realise it quickly.
> either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer.

Or someone else at SpaceX is good at hiring engineers? Is your conclusion that everyone who owns a successful engineering company is a really good engineer?
YouTube premium also includes a music service with near peer features to Spotify/Apple music. On its own that’s worth $5-$10 a month. There’s also other features like offline downloads and background audio for podcasts.

Ad removal is just one feature amongst many with YouTube premium. So it’s not fair to compare the subscription price entirely against the CPM of the adverts you don’t have to watch.
Not the GP poster, but if you read some of the more recent research coming out of the groups that were originally founded by Facebook/Libra/Diem/Novi/whatever they call themselves this year, these actually do seem like substantial improvements eg over existing payment systems. Their papers (yet to be confirmed in live production systems afaik) report an order of magnitude capacity improvement over eg the Visa network (160k+ TPS vs 24k, at latency in the low seconds, or even subseconds).

For some of those systems, it would be a stretch to call them blockchains (there's no comparable data structure, sometimes not even consensus), but the important thing is that they come with peer-reviewed BFT security guarantees. So I do wonder, if you can have BFT guarantees for such a system, and still more capacity than you'll likely ever need, why wouldn't you?
You see these "x will happen" claims a lot in the hypesphere. Both crypto shills and ai-bros seem to love the construct.

Makes things sound more definitive, and since they're just statements detached from actual reasoning, they're difficult to contradict with anything other than "no" or "why though", which sounds like a much worse argument than it is, and is certainly less punchy than the original claim.
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> I always assumed it's 16 bit internally as well?

Correct, it's mostly 16-bit internally. Registers are 32-bit, but are split into 16-bit halves. The ALU is mostly 16-bit, but has a 32-bit shift register which is used for both shift/rotate operations and multiply/divide. There's a 32-bit adder in the "address unit" that's used for effective address calculations (including the LEA instruction), but it's much more limited than the ALU
'google quantum'? 'non-abalian anyons'??

i just hope they don't forget to famulate the amulite before encabulating the quantum braid of superconducting qubits
> ChatGPT is a great way to delve into new topics

Like bears in space? ))) seems like a great way to delve into known topics so that you are able to catch it when it starts to confidently and plausibly hallucinate
I don't do app development, is targeting Apple Silicon difficult? Don't know what the build process is, but so many apps don't support it I imagine its not a simple case of running a different compiler.
> Does that mean that the similarity in sound to formant-based speech synthesis is because they're both using a sawtooth wave, noise, or other relatively simple sound as the raw input?

Essentially, yes. Both are known as "source-filter" models. A sawtooth, narrow pulse, or impulse wave is a good approximation glottal excitation for the source signal, though many articulatory speech models use a more specialized source model that's analytically derived from real waveforms produce by the glottis. The Lilencrantz-Fant Derivative Glottal Waveform model is the most common, but a few others exist.

In formant synthesis, the formant frequencies are known ahead of time and are explicitly added to the spectrum using some kind of peak filter. With waveguides, those formants are implicitly created based on the shape of the vocal tract (the vocal tract here is approximated as a series of cylindrical tubes with varying diameters).
"Golden parachute collector"
This is very well written and made me laugh.
When you're objective about it, it's all accurate, and pretty shocking.
What's shocking to me is that Elon could be so successful at Tesla, and fail so spectacularly at Twitter. Of course the skills are different, but the general skillset of being a COE and not making stupid business decisions should be universal.

Also, he claimed Twitter was losing millions per day and that's why he had to fire everyone, when in reality, the millions per day in loses were interest on the loan he'd used to buy Twitter. So he created the problem, and then blamed that. Pretty shocking.
Thanks for using that feature! Here is more information on that: https://histre.com/features/share-hackernews-upvotes/

Re making the page dense like HN: I got the same feedback from couple of other people too. I can do that.
> It’s become clear Musk’s employment cuts haven’t brought Armageddon.

Is it clear? I haven't really used Twitter since well before the acquisition, but I've heard nothing but complaints about bugs, ad revenue falling off a cliff and replies being nothing but right-wing reply guys.

> This is a classic cut-the-fat corporate raid.

If this were true, Elon would have cut the actual fat. Instead he (directly and indirectly) destroyed Twitter's relationship with advertisers, which was the only meat in the company. All that's left is fat.
I was disappointed that "waves" didn't (quite) work.
How has your experience on Twitter gotten better over the last half year?

And are you sure that you are "The average Twitter user" since I am not even sure what that really means.
https://xkcd.com/1696/
Most of those aren't even allegations they happened in the open for everyone to see.
I wouldn't want to burden my family with the debt.

Especially if it might not ultimately work.

That said, I appreciate that costs will go down over time--even if only somewhat, if the author is correct.
You didn’t have to use two controllers. You could do the preset where you use the D-pad to strafe and the stick to turn. It’s basically the same as PC.
> You've latched on to "some people choosing", ignoring that once the desirable jobs are chosen, they are no longer an option. If there are 5 high quality jobs, 5 low quality jobs, 12 people, and 2 people choose a low quality job; then 3 people have no choice of job, and 2 have no job at all.

But none of those numbers were in the original scenario, and you've switched to low quality jobs from low paying jobs.

If there are 6 high paying jobs, 6 low paying jobs and 10 people, not all 10 people can have high paying jobs, but 4 or more of them might choose low paying jobs because of some countervailing advantage over the higher paying jobs.

The problem comes if you try to prohibit people from taking low paying jobs, because then you have 10 people and only 6 available jobs.

And even in your scenario, if you remove the option to take low paying jobs, what it does is cause 7 people to have no job instead of 2.
I haven't seen any official statements to that effect. This is from a month ago:

> Last November, General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) was among the first companies to announce pausing Twitter ads. Among those that took a similar path were General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS) and Volkswagen AG’s Audi unit.

> Brands such as Mondelez International Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ), Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO), Merck & Co Inc. (NYSE: MRK), Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HLT) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) have also not returned to Twitter in terms of advertising as of February, Bloomberg noted.

> Last month, Musk said that Twitter’s revenue had fallen by 50% since October because of a decline in advertising.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitters-revenue-drops-advert...

Don't forget that the company also has to pay $1.5bn a year to service the debt Musk used to buy it.
Doesn't matter now either way, he's destroyed twitter for me and I'm not coming back.
Maybe he means the person who makes the automobile can afford to buy an automobile?
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I’m glad there are options in development! Let’s hope there are parts of this that can be reduced in cost with scale
Vaccine seems like the wrong term as I think of it as preventative. Perhaps there is no precise term for a treatment that uses the immune system to fight an existing disease in the body
Not to worry, it’ll be 1000x cheaper in 10 years.
It was only 3 years before. Currently it is 5 years.
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/4457705?hl=en

Note that major OS updates != security updates.
Cars don't have wings full of fuel and are built to crash, not built for minimal weight
For the generation to turn away from get-rich-quick schemes pumped by millionnaires (incl crypto), there has to be a reasonable standard of living that's achievable by the majority of society.

Anything short of that will simply lead to crypto being replaced by some other craze: meme stock, MLM products, forex derivatives and what have you.
> $100,000/dose

I really wish I could see a transparent breakdown of that number. How much of that is the amortized cost of R&D, marketing costs, salaries for the executives and management, etc? How much of it is actual production costs, and what do those look like (raw materials, equipment, labor)? How much of it is profit? What else could be baked into that price?

Does anybody here know of any publicly available reports that detail cost breakdowns for pharmaceuticals like this?
Good catch. It’s been a while since I’ve been thought the ways of old JS so I’m misremembering. It’s all apocryphal anyhow.
US vehicle sales were up in April [1], [2], so someone is buying them.

[1] https://economics.td.com/us-vehicle-sales
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ALTSALES
They would at least get interest. But yes there isn't much in the way of consequences for being an asshole regarding AP.
Hammerhead sharks are first fish found to ‘hold their breath’
I hadn't heard of hackattic [0], but the challenges look great. Thanks.

[0] https://hackattic.com/
> Elon's big start came from the success of X and Paypal

Funny you mention this as why he was self-made, where by all accounts he was considered an awful coder in this Paypal position, and was only able to be in the country (illegally) at the time, or secure this job, was because of his family's money and connections.
Semantic similarity means similarity of meaning, not how frequently they appear together.

Try out semantle to get a better sense of it if it's not immediately intuitive what I mean by that.
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Can you explain? I find these threads fascinating because seemingly everyone has such ironclad logical reasons for thinking elon is actually just a big stinky doodoohead. Can you try to convince me?
less features, simpler admin, more compatibility, more familiarity. I agree
Eh - people's power isn't in lower their impact on the environnement, it's in stopping the corporations that are doing in by all means.

We act like all the options are is
a)Being mindful of your emissions (Which will change nothing for the planet)
b)Do nothing (Also changes nothing)

While the actual option is to stop the corporations by any and all means. Native americans have a history of doing this with little support form the rest of americans.

If global warming is a real issue, is ''buying an EV'' or ''taking the bus'' an acceptable solution to you? Sincelrely, is it at the height of the problem? Shouldn't you have more - say - radical, views?
The situation I’m considering is not people who are sitting in regions where Internet connectivity is fundamentally poor, because there is no infrastructure. The situation I’m considering is one where Internet connectivity exists but is being deliberately throttled or filtered: either through periodic Internet shutdowns (as is happening in Pakistan right now as described in TFA) or through ubiquitous content and site filtering (as happens routinely in China and increasingly in other nations.)

There are places where Internet access and compute resources are fundamentally limited by lack of infrastructure. Talking about LLMs in those places doesn’t make sense. But on the trajectory we’re currently on, those places will likely become more rare while political Internet filtering will become more common.
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Yes, and that "Only 24 bits of the 32 bit word are used" thing came back to bite Apple hard when the "32 bits for real" 68020 came out and the funny tricks they were pulling with the top 8 bits confused the processor.
They're talking about existing games already built with Unreal, for AS, being faster than before. You're changing the subject to complain about a separate topic
> A jubilee would only help those who caused these problems since they've reaped the rewards

Maybe jubilee wasn't the right word. I'm saying we stop accepting money for money's sake. So the reaped rewards would no longer be valuable.

Instead we need a system backed by something auditable, so that when a stranger offers it to you, you can investigate and decide if you actually value the activity that created it. Thus creating an incentive to work on projects that are more solution than problem.
given the number of (far) right figureheads she follows[1], appealing to advertisers that care about these kinds of optics doesn't seem to be part of the plan

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/13f45mw/com...
It was in beta for a limited number of users exclusively in the US, but it certainly already existed before he took over. The feature was announced as "Birdwatch" at the beginning of 2021, Elons only contributions were renaming it to "Community Notes", and getting it out of beta if you're feeling generous, but that probably would have happened without him.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
This. Being Asked to Conform https://www.onedayyoullfindyourself.com/being-asked-to-confo...

Consideration really helps in many situations over hissy fits but it usually requires skill and practice.
Wrong.

I've used every emulator including the switch emu, and not only do you randomly lose saves, you can lose duplicates.

I've used emulators on laptops, desktops, phones, etc.

And I have even transferred saves between them and see files being corrupted.

I have- right now, saves over 20+ years old (tales of fantasia in japanese).

I just lost 10 hours of gameplay from Seiken Densetsu 2 on Emu Deck last month.
> Like the article, I am only talking about technology that already exists although the progress in deep learning is still super-exponential.

> We will certainly achieve AGI during this year as it will only require making these systems self-play like we did with AlphaGo -> AlphaZero -> MuZero. Self-play, or reinforcement learning with machine feedback will skyrocket the performance of these systems in language domain, which conveniently encompasses much of what is still missing for AGI.

There’s an important difference between exponential and sigmoidal curves. The early stages are indistinguishable, and not enough time has passed to judge.

Personally, I don’t think AGI is possible with current techniques. You say all that’s needed is self play or RLHF. This is categorically not true. It doesn’t even guarantee that AIs will ever care whether they’re alive, a fundamental property of sentience.
Is this that thing where someone else is setup for the fall?
You're giving off strong "We're a family" vibes in this comment just so you know.
Every popular political thread on there is now a blue-check right-wing echo chamber. I guess if that's your personal political bubble it feels great, but I don't think that's the "average" user.
I like to see it the other way around: the partitioning was a smart way of doubling the number of registers that could be expressed in a fixed-length 16-bit instruction word.

There are many computational instructions that don't make much sense on addresses, especially if you have rich address modes to begin with. And if you'd need to, there was the "movea" instruction for copying between the register files.
And we should blindly trust anything you read on the internet written by a real person? It's still valuable as a "search engine" with a different interface, especially if you can describe the problem but don't know the words to search for. For me that's a common issue when jumping into a new space.
> "by coincidence, I've also read four of the eight Ramona books in the past couple days"

My daughter keeps relistening to the complete Ramona audio book collection, so I am extremely familiar with all of the Ramona series. :-)
I used to have a lot of fun reading Twitter while watching eurovision.

It's way worse now. It may be less content. Or it's showing me less relevant content. Or it may be due to eurovision apperatly dropping hashtags from onscrean promotion.

But the end result is, it's worse.
That a program like kde connect is necessary to communicate between a bunch of general purpose computers is the real funny thing. Its great that this software exists, but the reason it has to exist in the first place is depressing.
It does feel like they wanted the choir to stay true to the speech synthesizer's sounds, not the song itself. So (rendition of (rendition of Bicycle Built for Two)).
This is certainly the image he would love people to have: a humble immigrant from the poor South Africa, hustling his way into the American dream.

The reality is that he is from a wealthy, well-connected, post-apartheid white family. They funded his coming to Canada, the US, University, and getting first business off the ground. The reality is that he has had a silver spoon his entire life.
Societal cost of ‘forever chemicals’ about $17.5T across global economy
"Learning Video Representations from Large Language Models" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.04501
“Learned” or “was instructed”?
The series is great, wish I had more time to try out the projects!
We also love SQL, @potatoman22 :)

BTW, EVA itself is designed for analyzing sports games -- like touchdowns in a football game. This notebook shows how an action recognition model can be run on an American Sign Language video to identify the correct word [1]. Similarly, a model for identifying touchdowns and players can be used to run interesting queries over a football game.

SELECT FIRST(id), ASLActionRecognition(SEGMENT(data))
FROM ASL_ACTIONS
SAMPLE 5
GROUP BY '16f';

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/eva/blob/master/tutorials...
People had your exact sentiments, concerns and hesitations after gzip showed up in the early 90s. Eventually they moved on from pkzip/lzh/etc. to better, modern software - some on their own owed to being reasonable people, and some being dragged along with claws in ground while screaming about "breaking support".
Does pigz offer any advantages over bgzip?
> There are indeed modern releases that live up to nostalgia for games of yore and they are... games that are incredibly similar to their predecessors.

That just seems tautological to me. Of course things that are deliberately trying to tug on your nostalgia will "live up" to it.
Same here. Worrying about current timezones is a hard enough problem. Getting accurate historical timezones handling working is an even harder problem. Getting consistent results across Windows, Mac and Linux is an even harder problem. Needed it for proper handling of historical time series for financial data.
or unless your speech happens to make actual governments angry

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/tw...
The Pi-hole isn't hosted on my local network, but on my Tailscale network because it's running on a VPS. My router can't run Tailscale, so that's not possible.
Chiplets are the microservices of the semiconductor world. It’s good in that smaller individual chips are cheaper to produce, and the whole package is more scalable, but it’s bad in that there are interfaces that reduce performance vs a monolith
> For organizations providing grants, I don't think Mozilla even does that?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
I still cant believe people voluntarily scanned their fucking eyeballs!
The editorializing going on there is miles away from being an objective summary.
Sort of. Both use articulatory synthesis, which attempts to model speech by breaking it up into components and using some coordinated multi-dimensional continuous control to perform phonemes (the articulation aspect). The voder uses analog electronics, while Daisy does it digitally (and without a human performer).

The underlying signal processing used for both is different, but both use a source-filter mechanism.
The complexity with the Executive Chairman -> CEO -> CTO sandwich is that Elon also has a day-to-day operating role at the company.

That means that he's visible in the office (because bye-bye remote work), and when there are product/technical questions, it's unclear to employees whether Elon or Linda is the ultimate decider. It's normally not a problem that the board can fire the CEO, because employees never interact with the board and often don't know who they are. But when the chairman of the board is also an ordinary employee, some fraction of employees will follow the official reporting structure and do what the CEO wants, while some other fraction of employees will follow the "power behind the throne" and do what Elon wants. The result will be a company that can't agree what it's doing, with multiple competing groups working at cross purposes.

This was a huge problem at Google, both in the early days and today. Larry and Sergey would go directly to engineers with ideas, and then those engineers (hoping to get a coveted Founder's Award, and out of respect for the founders) would drop what they were doing and work on Larry's ideas. It worked in the 2000s, because Larry & Sergey's product judgment actually was really good - that's how we got GMail, and Chrome, and YouTube, and Android. But it's also the root cause of much of the organizational dysfunction that affects Google today. Google culture follows competence, not reporting lines, which means that one giant company is actually 1000+ small groups of unrelated projects, most of which duplicate each other, that never integrate quite right, which will often be technically brilliant but then blocked or unlaunched as soon as they cross some competing executive's path.
Netflix is irrelevant at this point, Microsoft is far more interesting
Just join the motorcycle club...
The demo video really just seems like a form input for something I could already just type into ChatGPT myself. Maybe it's because I'm not a LogicLoop user with the integration, but this doesn't seem all that useful nor novel as a standalone product.
The difference here is houses are actually useful for something
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would you mind sharing what you are doing for AI integration?
> So if Twitter fails, she’ll be the one to blame

not really, it's still his Twitter
Mass production requires mass consumption.