skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Willow supports the Espressif ESP SR speech recognition framework to do completely on device speech recognition for up to 400 commands. When configured, we pull light and switch entities from home assistant and build the grammar to turn them on and off. There's no reason it has to be limited to that, we just need to do some extra work for better dynamic configuration and tighter integration with Home Assistant to allow users to define up to 400 commands to do whatever they want with their various entities.

With local command recognition with Willow I can turn my wemo switches on and off, completely on device, in roughly 300ms. That's not a typo. I'm going to make another demo video showing that.

We also support live streaming of audio after wake to our highly optimized Whisper inference server implementation (open source, releasing next week). That's what our current demo video uses[0]. It's really more intended for pro/commercial applications as it supports CPU but really flies with CUDA - where even on a GTX 1060 3GB you can do 3-5 seconds of speech in ~500ms or so.

We also plan to have a Willow Home Assistant component to support Willow "stuff" while enabling use of any of the STT/TTS modules in Home Assistant (including another component for our inference server you can self-host that does special Willow stuff).

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ETQaLfoImc
Not sure what to tell ya, but if you read thousands of HN comments under housing articles like I do, they are out there.
> I have read that too high powered a rifle can also be an issue, as the bullet just punches through the animal leaving a small entry wound and a relatively small exit wound, allowing the animal some significant time before it bleeds out.

It's not.

"Solid bullet" typically means hard cast lead; it's a non-deforming bullet. The name of the game when it comes to the "big 5" is penetration. If you hit the brain or heart, it's dead quickly. If not, it'll probably shrug off the wound.

These are animals that fight lions and crocodiles, not to mention other hippos. Their bodies can take pretty massive damage (compared to humans anyhow) and just keep trucking.
I subscribe to >2 papers. Some people even go as far as purchasing a Bloomberg terminal to get the news – albeit financial – as soon as it hits the wire.

The group who does pay for news, as I've alluded to, are people in the financial sector, or those who's knowledge of the news affects or is inherent to their job.

Business people, basically.

On a personal note, in high-school I competed on a team competition – Academic Decathlon – and my testing subject was Current Events. So I may be somewhat outside the norm.

I subscribe to the Financial Times, the Economist, WSJ, Bloomberg, and more.
> But a teaspoon of sugar is approx 20 calories. It's a rounding error in most people's calorie intake.

I agree with everything except for this in the context of this article.

A can of coke is about 8 teaspoons, which is closer to 150 calories. That number is higher for other sodas like Mountain Dew or larger bottle of soda.

Depending on your habits this may be a rounding error in a given week/month or a significant part of your calorie consumption.
I've tried to crawl through the underlying article - it basically sounds like non-sugar sweeteners have similar outcomes to consuming sugar... which is crazy. I can't find anything in the article - is there any theory about the mechanism? How NSS could cause diabetes? The way sugar causes diabetes is well-understood, I can't imagine it applies to other sweeteners.
Based on the sample of children I know (my nephews) yes. None of them are engaging in conversations on such a regular basis with Brits that they would change their speech pattern to do so, and the media they consume is overwhelmingly not affected either.

That's not to say that they haven't ever heard a British, Scottish, Geordie or Irish accent; they definitely have not heard or used it enough to naturally inflect their speech in such a way.

Pirating taskmaster and the occasional tiktok is about as close as it gets.
Unpopular opinion:

Life was better before smartphones. I wish they'd never been invented.
> Midwestern towns gutted by 40 years of foreign slave wages get an influx of new blood and a revitalized service sector.

I think that is what is most galling about the fight against remote work. It is the way for knowledge workers to have quality of life (versus heading to a coast to save up before you have to leave because the COL is unsustainable into parenthood or retirement) while also providing a sustainable economic base for smaller towns that would otherwise be hallowed out. You don't want to cater to companies (who can play jurisdictions against each other for tax breaks and if they leave, can cause outsized impact to the tax base and local economy), you want to cater to remote workers [1] [2] (who will settle down and anchor themselves to your community, hopefully).

[1] https://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/13-u-s-cities-incentivizin...

[2] https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job#relocatio...
duckdns is free.
Well it seems like Nvidia is taking some baby steps in that direction with the 'Grace Hopper Superchip'.
It's actually substantially different. Your own mental model of the world might lack the resolution to let you perceive that difference, though.
dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937938
"two, seemingly warring, demographics get to cross pollinate and empathize with each other"

Or fight to the death, like the European far left and far right in 1930s Berlin, Madrid etc. Proximity sometimes breeds understanding, sometimes explosion.
Finding WHOIS servers using SRV records
Im not so sure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4

:D
Given their setup of 120 to 160 cameras to capture the performances, the results seem kinda just "meh". While it's neat that they were able to generate 3D models from all that data, it's also not very surprising.
Maybe their data processing methods are more impressive than their end results.
It reminds me of the bullet time rigs used for The Matrix over 20 years ago except I don't think they were creating 3D models of people.
As much as social media companies like to preach about how they are trying to bring the world together, they are under a fiduciary duty to shareholders to maximize profits by any legal means necessary (including telling the world that their products are good for them to gain users, kind of like what smoking did back in the day).

Remember, your usage and engagement is what drives their ad revenues, it drives their product metrics which get reported out at quarterly earnings calls for shareholders.

The only incentive they have is to make the product just legal enough to avoid scrutiny and to maximize profits as much as possible.

Given this situation (much like we have legislation for smoking advertising, a type of proto-social media, and we have the FDA for pharma) social media absolutely needs to be regulated. It is another form of junk food for the brains and it is visibly damaging our society and our future generations.
The funding mechanism of these organizations reveals a lot about the trajectory. Some start out with a lot of seed money with few restrictions. If they start to rely on big advertisers or funding from 'philanthropists', the content is usually influenced by these sources. The best publications I find these days are funded by donations from readers. This keeps them independent and not beholden to those big funders. Fund the good organizations via Patreon, Locals, Substack, direct.. to keep them honest.
It makes sense. Low-wage workers simply can't afford to move to a lower cost of living city, even if there were better job opportunities and cost of living.
the original llama models are uncensored right? (since they’re not fine tuned on chatgpt, IIUC)

if i want an uncensored 30b model, is llama 30b the best option?
I've completely eliminated sugar from my diet. People are genuinely confused on how I do it. (the answer: just don't eat it.) But honestly, your sense of sweetness adjusts to it. Things with sugar in it are foul, as in I can't even eat them (for example, A1 steak sauce or spaghetti sauce).

The other thing that the article doesn't mention is that some of the alternative sweeteners are terrible for your gut biome, and an unhealthy gut biome is already linked to obesity.
I would come at this from a different angle in that this is just a subset of the hugely problematic tax free status of most charities, universities and churches, rather than a thing unique to mormons. Amassing a large pot of tax free money is not good for society no matter who is doing it for very obvious reasons.
Why do you believe the executives should be paid more in these situations? They take less personal health risk than the front-line workers and by your logic it seems that executive jobs aren't that difficult if the job can be acquired by just taking a management course. So they clearly aren't being paid more because the job is harder.
Altavista wasn't a startup, it was a spinoff from DEC, a company that had its own issues with sales at the time, which led to their ignominious takeover by HP.
And no surprise how people in this thread rush to defend amphetamine usage.

As someone who was diagnosed several times with “adhd” - there is zero science to it. No medical tests to prove its existence. You’ll just get a drug after the first or second visit and who doesn’t want to defend their addiction online?

If you want focus, don’t take drugs. Exercise, eat healthy, self-discipline yourself
Sometimes I feel like all 7 people who have JS disabled have an HN account so they can tell people that their site doesn't work with JS disabled
>The global health body said a systematic review of the available evidence had suggested that use of non-sugar sweeteners, or NSS, “does not confer any long-term benefit in reducing body fat in adults or children.”

As someone who used artificial sugars exclusively as part of a low carb diet to lose 40 pounds, this just seems like an insane statement to make no?

Unless the WHO no longer believes calories consumed matters at all, replacing sugar with a 0 calorie substitute literally leads to less calories. Obviously if someone just eats more to compensate there's no net gain, but that's pretty much the same as someone who eats 20 apples a day just because they heard they're healthy. That obviously wouldn't mean apples are bad for you.
Imho a language similar to the combo Dart and Flutter (which is pretty similar to this project) would be perfect to replace all the HTML, CSS and JS. Unfortunately, the former has a terrible web support, but a completely new language that implements styling like Flutter could literally be a game-changer in frontend
Kafka vs. Redpanda performance – do the claims add up?
Parameters is like the number of neurons in your brain

Context is how much short term memory you can retain at any one time (think how many cards you can remember the order of in a deck of cards)
Some of us late gen xers were ahead of the curve and had a very difficult time with strangers before the internet.

Born too soon I guess
Thanks for pointing this out. I updated my original comment.
If this sounds interesting, make sure to check out Spacemacs[0], which uses a similar principle (tapping a leader key - space), but transforms the editing experience in a much more radical way (evil-mode and such).

I've used Spacemacs for a while, and was quite happy with it, but I wanted a more lightweight editor for the terminal, something I can use on servers and embedded devices without installing an entire Emacs and a zillion packages. So my Emacs setup is much more standard nowadays, and I use mg[1] otherwise.

[0]: https://www.spacemacs.org/

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/mg
It's important to remember that a ton of people on here are victims of the things they defend. It's like Stockholm syndrome. Drugs, hardcore porn, you name it. They grew up with it, they've been conditioned to feel defensive when there is pushback against it, and to come to the conclusion that they themselves are victims would require facing some harsh emotions that many people would rather just not experience.
So your diagnosis was wrong and you apply that to the entire industry?
> I think part of the Vice pitch was always that it was a disruptor of the old-fashioned media narratives, uncovering the stories to which boring old media was blind.

That was a pitch that they stole from Unreported World [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477545/], and like the new Krishnan Guru-Murthy-produced version of Unreported World, Vice strictly stuck to areas of current US interest and tightly followed CIA and administration talking points.
Of course this is a security issue, I was just making a joke about how I hate meetings. If this is confusing see:

"Meetings are like lasagna without the cheese—dull, bland, and ultimately unsatisfying." - Garfield

"Garfield." Cartoon. Created by Jim Davis. Published May 5th, 1987. Garfield.com, https://www.garfield.com/comic/1987/05/05. Accessed 15 May 2023.

"Meetings: The art of keeping the people who need to work in a room too long so they can't get any work done." - Dilbert

"Dilbert." Cartoon. By Scott Adams. Published October 7th, 2003. Dilbert.com, https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-10-07. Accessed 15 May 2023.

(and yes both references and quotes are fake)
I didn't really understand your point. But bringing up Papyrus Author is a great example I think of what I was saying. I'm not previously familiar with Papyrus Author, and I don't know how popular they are, but it's clear they are very much targeting creative writing authors specifically. Their hope is clearly that they can provide enough value to this group so that their price is worth it over a more generic word processor.
Yes! If you do have ADHD, getting meds is a bloody nightmare of the most ADHD incompatible procedures that could exist. You can only get three months of scrip ahead of time. You can only get meds once a month. You can only get meds one week prior to the prior month running out. You can't call a pharmacy to see if they have it in stock, you must stop by directly.

And that's when you're already medicated. If you've been getting sugar pills (yes, this has been happening to some folks), you'll be trying to do all of this with high emotional disregulation, high executive disfunction, and a severely impaired sense of time.

Taxes are bloody easier, since there's a strict date once a year with lots of surprisingly clear written instructions. Plus you can pay someone to do it for you.
Dinosaurs didn't become oil. Marine plants and animals did.
We can't predict the future, so we have to maintain the integrity of democratic society even when doing so is dangerous, which means respecting people's freedom to invent and explore.

That said, if you can't imagine current AI progress leading (in 10, 20, 40 years) to a superintelligence, or you can't imagine a superintelligence being dangerous beyond humans' danger to each other, you should realize that you are surrounded by many people who can imagine this, and so you should question whether this might just be a failure of imagination on your part. (This failure of imagination is a classic cause of cybersecurity failures and even has a name: "Schneier's Law" [1])

Balancing these two priorities of protecting basic rights and averting the apocalypse is challenging, so the following is probably the best humanity can aim for:

Anyone should be able to create and publish any model with substantial legitimate uses, UNLESS some substantial body of experts consider it to be dangerously self-improving or a stepping stone to trivially building something that is.

In the latter case, democratic institutions and social/professional norms should err on the side of listening to the warnings of experts, even experts in the minority, and err on the side of protecting humanity.

1. “Any person can invent a security system so clever that she or he can’t think of how to break it.” https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/schneiers_law...
Considering, as per the article, that these trends have been going on for a while and include places like New York, which didn't see the upheaval that appears to be your particular bugbear, I'd say your argument is a non-sequitur.
Is "seems to" a legal term? That's a pretty wide open subjective gap there. One that "seems to" sound good, but is actually all inclusive depending on who's interpreting it.
If anyone has issues saving that video with yt-dlp [1] due to filename length, use the option

-o "%(title).150B [%(id)s].%(ext)s"

There are probably better options but this worked

[1] - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases
Would you mind sharing with use why you no longer use it as a PiHole? Is there some major disadvantage or problem with it? I ask this because I've been considering getting a Pi for a Pihole.
That's simply not true:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.6493...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12888-022-04290-7

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-5849/v1/d0dcddc0-...
How going into the hands of the evil empire is good for gamers?
I'm disappointed that it doesn't mirror the list from Logan Lucky
Not sure about disregarding copyright, like skimming around it?
This is completely untrue in modern times.
So many people are okay with unconstitutional things as long as it supports their side and beliefs.

It is genuinely unsettling. Personally, I don’t care about the underlying thing the protests are about, the important aspect is that if you allow unconstitutional government action like this, eventually it will be used against you. A decade from now we have no idea what the political climate will be. If the precedent is allowed to be set, there’s a good chance the power will be used against your cause in the future.
Show HN: I made a site to help you decarbonize with friends: Zero Percent Club
How did it hurt you?
Web3 Backups: All HackerNoon Stories Now Republish on Arweave
Can you elaborate on the difference? How is maintaining views that go against the accepted scientific consensus different between those two cases?
This bit:

> When I was 14, I witnessed the aftermath of my sisters being knocked down by a car. Ailis survived, Claire - who was 11 - died. Almost 17 years to the day, my dad died unexpectedly. I was a different person after those events. The reason I am sharing this is because I was told the effect of such trauma can sometimes manifest itself into symptoms similar to ADHD.

> A friend of mine - who had been privately diagnosed with the condition - had once suggested to me that I might have it too.
I watch a YouTube channel that frequently features a guest from New Zealand, and in every video in which he appears, different people in the background will parrot the guest after he says certain words that really show off the NZ accent. I think he's become numb to it, because he shows no reaction. I'm sure it gets very old, but hopefully it's seen as endearment. imo, it's the best accent one can have :)
I hope you mean hectomillionaire, because CentiMillionaire (~$10,000) is not what most people think of when they think of the trust fund crowd.
Phones are a factor, but social media is the pits. The more I engage with it, the worse I feel in general. It's a combination of endless advertising (whether via traditional ads or "sponsored posts") and endless rage bait.

Different platforms seem to optimize for different "mixes". On Instagram, everyone seems to be selling something. While Twitter is rage-bait central. Don't have enough experience with TikTok or Facebook to comment on those.
Could you send me an email? I've liked a few of your comments, want to say hi over email. Email in profile.
I can't remember where I read this now, but I seem to recall that dogs were primarily outside companions until recently; the invention of flea/tick controls helped ease their transition inside. I had an inside dog growing up that got fleas one time. It was definitely a lesson in making sure that sort of thing never happened again.
> Annoying notifications are a thing for most of the MS stack.

This. The whole notification mechanism is just awful and not actually very useful. I disable all of it, from any application. I don't want notifications, period.
Right - so of that supposed $100 billion, they claim they spent 0.04% of that per year on humanitarian giving.

I get 0.06% in interest from my bank each year. Accounts in the billions, let alone tens or hundreds of billions probably get rates higher than 0.06%. Hypothetically, The Church donates part of the interest it earns on its account(s) and claims that money alone is enough because the pure dollar amount seems large to folks like you or I - $40 million dollars is a large amount of money and probably does help a lot of people....just not enough people that they could help but make the deliberate choice not to.

A bit sickening? This is a religious organization after all which is supposedly dedicated to improving humanity. It's more than sickening at this state - it's vomit-inducing.
Then they won't be able to follow the courses because all of the data required for homework/tests etc is only available in some stupid app. And no, they don't issue the phones (obviously...). Though they probably should since it is their requirement.
Or in the case of desktop/laptop computers, "I want Microsoft to have the power". If Apple suddenly vanished, realistically speaking most of its desktop marketshare would fall directly into Microsoft's lap as those users switched to Windows. The only exception would be devs using Linux instead, which at best represents a single digit percentage of computer users.

So in this scenario you end up with Windows being catapulted from its current ~75% global marketshare to a 90%+ virtually-unopposed monopoly, and even less reason for Microsoft to make Windows a good product.
propublica is king of the hill right now.
Read this one as “the sugar lobby has bought control of the WHO”
By that logic, do you think we should be lowering the minimum wage to help reduce inflation? Or has the minimum wage miraculously remained at the exact right level without adjustment for the last 15 years despite its volatility in real terms?
The cat might already be out of the bag.

researchers want to be published.

OpenAI benefited from research from Google so it's not just open source.

fine tunning might be more useful for most use cases. I might be that a classifier that takes a prompt as input and outputs which model to use might be a better solution.
I'll just leave this here and see myself out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0
The amusing thing is how many of the items on their list bring to mind a great short story, or a great novel, or movie. Point being that many of them CAN be good, but usually aren't.