skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any chemists here know if use of TCE has been phased out in school and graduate labs? When I was doing my degree I recall benzene was out in favour of toluene - which adds a methyl group to the ring, massively reducing toxicity.

I'm pretty sure we used TCE however, its distinct smell still lives in my memory, and the fact if you got any on your fingers you could taste/smell it within seconds. Butanoic acid was the other one you didn't want to get on your fingers.

All this was 25 years ago, I assume things have changed since then. I'm surprised I remember any of this.
No one ever got fired for buying IBM
For instance, one I watched described the Clinton administration as being aimless because its policy was too driven by the whims of the public as expressed by polling. In context it seemed convincing but if I’m sitting here now thinking about it I don’t think it is remotely true.
They reached a wall, and need to ensure others have a more difficult path to the same place.
Smart Placement speeds up apps by automatically moving code close to the data
This is what GP is talking about. Chunking can be done cleanly with very few internal functions (and without changing the call signature, if you want), but you're implying it must be a class and already thinking about hypothetical hacks
“ain't nobody got no time for all that”

Until interest rates get hiked.
People doubt Microsoft because they've historically run a very aggressive business and done things of questionable morality many times.

They've been to court and they've lost and it definitely hasn't destroyed their business one bit.

For example, Microsoft subsidiary LinkedIn routed customer email through their servers so that they could scrape it. They did that without customer knowledge via a dark patten.

They later apologised for doing it but still used it to propel the company's growth. In the end it didn't hurt anything but their reputation for respecting people's privacy.

Microsoft's own anti-trust history is littered with exceptional behaviour too. They are the size they are now by dint of super aggressive business practices.
I've worked on complex UI's for creatives based on XAML.

An application like Photoshop is comprised of relatively simple controls (property sheets, etc.) that are combined in complex ways. (Users can add UI elements such as a color picker, dock them, have them floating in space.) Graphical UI builders are fine for the controls, but there has to be some framework for managing the particular set that is on the screen.
People actually still make websites from scratch? Why not just use a CMS. I think rather than focus on actual content, techies just want to tinker with the code. It's like building/restoring a vintage car rather than just buying a Prius when all you want to do is go from point A to B.
Given a relative amount of benefit, with a ratio of Watts/Benefit, a lower ratio of Watts/Benefit should cost less to the consumer.

So the consumer would care because the service is lower cost.
I love that Tutanota exists. There really should be more such privacy respecting / maintaining service offerings.

I might become a paying customer just to support their efforts and encourage others.

Disroot.org is of a similar philosophy.
It absolutely has. I don't think I can live without doing it anymore. I started in middle school and am currently in college. Being so close to me, it's not formal at all, being more like a stream of consciousness filled with anything I think is particularly interesting to myself. I don't do it according to any set schedule; just as I am not equally energetic and insightful every single day, I am not equally productive every day.

If I don't write something down, I forget it and move on to the next idea. While I rarely read what I have written, it is a massive benefit by itself to commit to paper what I am thinking because the process of transforming a pool of unorganized, but related thoughts into something resembling a cohesive idea that can be told linearly is invaluable in resolving contradictions and evaluating their value. I prefer to handwrite because I don't think in ASCII (or Unicode, or LaTeX, or any other computer format). Ninety-nine cent composition notebooks and commodity rollerball pens are all I need.
they do this every year. It’s because accessibility awareness day is later this week.
A large part of a credit score is determined by a track record of on time payments. You don't need to spend 95% of your net income on weird stuff to do that.

Are you sincerely confused that building a credit score requires you to actually use credit?
Neither is text generation as you continue generating text.
I don’t disagree with the author, but I don’t worry much about old tech that is no longer useful.

I have worked in the field of AI for 40 years, and we have had a huge trash heap of technologies that ended up being useless except for lessons learned from failure.

I have always been motivated to work for just two reasons: supporting myself and my family, and learning and using new tech. The great fun is in learning new things. That said, sometimes there is good short term work supporting old tech that companies still want to use.
While that sounds like it would unlock some very cool experiences it also scares me to think about the potential abuses of making personalized voice models fairly easily available. It seems like the sort of thing that would need to stay secure on your own device. It would be great to see some kind of middle ground where a text to speech mechanism would generate audio output and send that, rather than make the model itself available.
TCE is widely used in industry (and was introduced as a replacement for more toxic and persistent solvents like chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, etc.). Such non-polar solvents remain critically important for a wide variety of manufacturing processes, e.g.

> "TCE the solvent ENTEK uses is essential to ENTEK's separator manufacturing
process TCE has a unique combination of chemical properties that , together , facilitate the controlled removal of process oil while allowing ENTEK to efficiently recover and recycle previously used TCE for reuse in both the lead- acid and lithium separator production processes in a manner that minimizes worker exposure while resulting in a product with the characteristics demanded by the battery customers . TCE possesses the following properties critical to ENTEK's use and reuse" (ENTEK TCE rulemaking report to EPA, July 14 2021)

The fundamental issue (that led to widespread contamination in the past) is that capturing and recycling TCE after use is fairly expensive, and since it was cheaper to buy new TCE, manufacturers would just dump their dirty used TCE, creating superfund sites etc.

There are some approaches to replacing organic solvents entirely (supercritical CO2 for example) but they're often quite expensive.
Look this is great thinking... I don't want to diminish that but think of a brain like an fpga (parallel logic) not a synchronous chip with memory and fetch decode execute style steps....

We do things in a massively parallel way and that is why and how we can do things quickly and efficiently!
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It feels like there is zero chance it could be used as some sort of blanket copyright cleaner. If it is then I'll make my own "model" (Ok a 2 line python script) that produces royalty free bestseller novels if you just prompt it with the title (Its training is extremely simple it just responds with the content of the book file with the same filename!). The fact that in a LLM we don't quite understand the black box, and the novels are chopped into tokens doesn't mean that IF they are stringed back together they are still the same paragraph.
Yes, another immediate mode / retained hybrid GUI toolkit is NanoGUI. It uses NanoVG under the hood (which is used by a few DAWs already).
Game creators are also annoyed by it. ;) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFGyOnLWsAA0GF3?format=jpg&name=...
If people weren’t convinced about the typical Londoner’s superiority complex I present the above comment as exhibit A.

> Trust me, everyone in London has an equal amount of loathing for the parasitic gammons outside the London area who could not survive without the handouts we provide but still bitch and moan about every pound they get.

Congrats on your life in the dirty money capital of the world. I would like to see how long you survive in London if the surrounding areas of the country decided not to provide you with food on your table and energy for your home.
“TCE - a widely used chemical - found to …” would do the job
Entirely two different environments -- cats are a threat to birds in one of the oasis environments outside of modern mass agriculture -- urban areas. More and more, cities are becoming a place where certain key species actually find refuge. Unleashing cats in that environment is cruel to both cats and birds.

That, and if cats are our friends and we care about them, we should be sheltering them from the hostilities of an outdoor environment. I have had enough cats I knew in the past die from injuries from cars, or diseases/injuries they acquired outside to feel that it's just best to keep ours inside. We live rural, on 6 acres, and she loves it outside, naturally, but so do birds we love. Would she be "happier" outside? Maybe. But considering all trade-offs, I'll keep her pampered inside, and let the birds nest on my deck.
Ironically I want an iPhone feature that allows me to speak in a generic voice so scammers don't clone my voice.
>because it refutes your claims here.

It does nothing of the sort. The government shouldn't even be requesting it. Having the FBI do it is requesting it under duress. Having the FBI do it while bringing CEOs to testify before congress doubles down on the duress.

Nice company, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

>any reason to think the government's relationship to twitter was other than normative for social media companies

Yea, that's the problem, the news too. You might hate Musk and you might hate Twitter, but you shouldn't dismiss what's actually going on here.
I'm more creeped out by that than anything. I understand that losing a loved one is difficult, but with something like this just seems to be one of those things that would make moving on much more difficult. Photos/videos of things that actually happened are one thing. Having an artificial computer voice that can lead one to think they are really speaking to someone is just creepy and I could see where someone with actual mental issues could get really confused.
What are some of the stocks you view as fire sales?
As a previous Qt user, I never got on the qml train and stayed firmly in widgets land. Declarative uis work well, until they don't because of custom requirements, and then they simply get in the way. They are harder to debug and understand from a code perspective. Not everyone writes apps that target both desktop and mobile.
"Please help us stop the Open Source Competitors!"
I 100% believe that Apple is putting real effort into co-design of these features in a way that other similarly positioned companies do not.

As someone with a disability, these features—even those do not cater to my disability—speak to me in a much more direct way than the typical “let’s guess what the disabled people want” bucket of accessibility features.
It sounds dystopian as hell but the software engineer in me has some suspicions about how well the whole system works. Basically I see 3 places where this tech would not work quite like the commenter said:

* The base stack - This is JPM, not OpenAI or Google. I would assume what the commenter mentioned is the "ideal" and certainly not how the system functions on a day to day basis. I'm sure there are bugs, and areas where managers are told "don't trust this info, it's most likely wrong".

* The integrations - To be able to track you like the commenter mentioned, WADU would have to integrate with all of JPM's existing systems. I don't know how many different systems JPM has but I would assume it's in the hundreds or thousands. I'm gonna say that maybe 75% of those integrations are working at any given time.

* The Usage - So assuming the system works, and alerts a manager to an employee having a 'bad day', is the manager going to care? Are they even going to notice? I would assume that the system is not accessed by managers on a daily basis unless you have a manager that is extra anal. Most likely managers only look into an employee if they have been hearing that they are underpreforming.

All of this is pure speculation, not associated in any way with JPM.
You can see his comments, in context, here: https://youtu.be/T5cPoNwO7II?t=356

Economics was not hinted or implied in any way. Diminishing returns on model size doesn't mean there's nothing left to squeeze out, it just means that what gains are made are going to be in model refinement, rather than going the NVidia vision of a quadrillion weight system and expecting large, or even linear, gains from that hop up in model size.
do they just run to the ATM afterwards?
US Senate Committee on AI [video]
CPU Only LLM (Vicuna-13B) with Web Search
A Boltzmann brain just materialized over my house.
Jan 2020 club checking in :-) I remember joking about a big pandemic being around the corner at my families New Year's party. Back then it was a few vague rumors from Chinese doctors that I was keeping an eye on but not taking seriously yet.

It's been crazy how much "always been at war with Eastasia/Eurasia" I've seen people around me engage in.
What exactly is an EU accent?
It's called Cunningham's law

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
> Personal Voice: When my girlfriend texts me when I'm out with my AirPods, I think we'd both like me to hear her message in her actual voice rather than Siri's. (This feature doesn't allow for that yet, but the pieces are all there.)

Neat idea, same with carplay, having it reliably imitate the voice of the person who sent the message would make it a lot nicer.

Though they would need to get all the TTS and intonation right first, which IME is not the case, I think having the right voice but the wrong intonation entirely would be one hell of an uncanny valley.
Computers being able to impersonate your voice is clearly an area that is a danger in AI.

The tech has been around a while, but is getting better and better.

If I had a job as a voice-over artist, I'd be worried.
I'm surprised not to see a single mention of NLopt [0] in the discussion. I was under the impression most algorithms implemented in NLopt are in C and not using any Fortran77. But I'm sure the author knows something I don't (I've never really looked at NLopt's sources, but I've been using it for years).

Anyhow, the more alternatives the merrier I suppose!

[0]: https://nlopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is absolutely not the case for many DAW plugins
Fat chance Apple will alow us to do this locally. More like, upgrade to Apple Cloud Plus to get these features. But yeah, I've also dreamt of what my Apple hardware could do.
Rayiner is from Bangladesh originally, not the USA. You may be surprised to learn that the USA is by no means the culture with the strictest rules about sex and prostitution.
Time to rethink your understanding of disability.
Oh well, be sick, what do I care.
Dedollarization Is Not a Thing
You can get a payday loan, no credit check needed.
Most pet food is created from primarily "waste" meat product from the human food supply chain is my understanding? Though that may be changing.
I’ve been doing it for many years now and I’d recommend it to anyone.

Most people don’t like it. I think this is because they haven’t given it an honest try or considered the critical importance of being able to talk to yourself openly about what’s happening in your life and mind.

This would probably seem strange to a lot of people, or perhaps they believe they already do it with an internal monologue. Chances are pretty good that without a book to reflect on and the intent to do difficult things, your mind will readily distract itself and prevent you from doing difficult things that a journal might facilitate better.

For me it has made that personal exchange a lot more natural and easy. When I do foolish things I can talk to myself about it and figure out why I did it, what I can do differently next time, and feel better having put energy into doing better next time. When I do good things I can be grateful, consider what went right and why, and set intentions to do that more.

I also write about people I care about so I can be more intentional about how I’m present in their lives. I have ADHD and without being very intentional, I can figuratively and literally vanish from people’s lives due to getting in my head about things or being sucked into work or hobbies too much.

But I also know I’m happiest when I do things for people, I thrive on socializing despite being so good at being a hermit, and at the end of the day, I don’t think life is particularly worthwhile without a significant focus on being prosocial. So, I keep track of this stuff with the journal and make sure I’m staying on tracking with my goals and value system.

I can’t attribute all life changes to journaling, but I’d say it has made me a far better friend and parent since I started taking it seriously. I also know it has lead to me being better to myself, which is really important. Overall I’d say my personal affect is generally more constructive and positive, and I look at problems in my life as something I can engage with more now, whereas before I was far more avoidant.

There are other paths to similar practices, so journaling isn’t the only option. I highly recommend it to anyone willing to try, though. We should all be better at talking to ourselves. Our past, present, and even future selves.
Smells like fodder for a lawsuit that benefits nobody but lawyers and bureaucrats. Frankly, there’s nobody in the system who has any incentive to defend the taxpayers against these things. Imagine what it would be like if they could sue any organization for any disease prevalence that popped hot on a t-test for any period of time. And they had access to everybody’s medical records to do that. And the organization doesn’t even have to pay. It’s a nonprofit, and the people that have to pay are the original donors, again. But these weren’t willing donors; they were forced to ‘donate’ by people with guns. Oh, and they were also forced to pay for the study that is now forcing them to pay again for the result and of course more studies.

Torts against the government are a funny thing. It requires anti-government attitude to suggest that the government is incompetent, harmful, or criminal, but the solution is always more programs, more taxes, more laws, more bureaucracy. Oh and the ‘victims’? They will sign on expecting a huge payout, claim all kinds of problems, and end up with $0 and a weekly appointment with a VA occupational therapist. If they happen to have a problem that can actually be solved, too bad, no funding.
>If you time it right, 90% of the water freezes, and the water impurities pool at the bottom

And even if you don't, worst case you end up with a cloudy end on your clear ice that can be easily removed by rubbing it on an aluminum sheet pan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVgWpVXb64
We need to move away from agriculture as a means of food production and switch to becoming herders. Farming is an incredibly destructive practice.

If we were all to switch to eating only meat, then we could get rid of farming entirely and raise billions of cattle for food instead, which would be far better for human health and longevity, as well as being a far more environmentally-sustainable approach to food production.

I am in favor of using nuclear power to desalinate seawater in order to turn both the Sahara Desert and the Australian Desert into vast grasslands that can support billions of cattle, along with all the bugs and birds that such a regenerative approach would give rise to.

We really need to get humanity off of plant-based food.
One persons IP theft is another persons democratisation of technology.

Chinese Shanzhai culture is actually crazy interesting and full of insane reverse engineering efforts etc. Some of my best memories in Shenzen are talking with local EEs about how they RE all sorts of chips and circuits and not only produce good copies but usually more efficient/cost optimized.

As for Chinese quality, you get what you pay for - not much different to the rest of the world.

There are design firms and factories in China that make absolutely stellar products with insane fit and finish.

However there is tons across the whole quality spectrum with plenty catering to the low end of folks doing pure export products that are destined for those cheap $2 stores etc.
I think the logic at OpenAI is:

* AGI is going to happen whether they do it or not, and it's dangerous unless properly safeguarded

* OpenAI will try to get there before everyone else, but also do it safely and cheaply, so that their solution becomes ubiquitous rather than a reckless one

* Reckless AGI development should be not be allowed

It's basically the Manhattan project argument (either we build the nuke or the Nazis will).

I'm not saying I personally think this regulation is the right thing to do, but I don't think it's surprising or hypocritical given what their aims are.
A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope
“Scientists discover common chemical strongly linked to Parkinson… and you’ll ever believe what it is!”
I mean, they can beat the exchanges because retail flow is highly non toxic and taking the other side isn't risky.

This is the essence of PROF price improvement.
For me this is interesting from a technologist's perspective as much of the 'things' start out in non-US currency based countries.
ChatGPT is the only LLM I have seen that can count syllables at all. It seems to be a gap in the way most of them are trained, since they only get text and never “hear” words pronounced.
Filter your drinking water. From the Minnesota Dept. of Health:

"Activated carbon filtration can remove TCE from drinking water effectively."[1]

[1] https://www.health.state.mn.us/communities/environment/hazar...
it is poorly phrased, but “unable to speak” could equally refer to people who are entirely unable to speak as people who are unable to speak for prolonged periods of time
AFAI am aware, "use it and hope for the best" is kinda the way CloudFlare usage in all the "self-serve" tiers has always worked. You have service until you make them unhappy for any of a variety of reasons, at which point you'll be prodded to start paying [EDIT: or paying more].

They're not actually giving away service that others charge thousands of dollars a month for, for free. If they were, most of those others would be out of business. Their free and self-serve tiers are nice and can even be good deals (you really get a lot out of that top-tier self-serve plan, for the money—watch out, some of the lower ones didn't have any SLA at all, last I checked) but if you're pushing serious bits, you're gonna end up pushed to a thousands-a-month enterprise plan.

TL;DR unless you've got an enterprise plan with them, yeah, "use it and hope for the best, 'till you get a notification from CloudFlare" is pretty much how their plans work.
My first thought was “I’m totally going to turn this on on an off day”.
What is the difference in this version? I don't fully understand what "preserve angles" means.
Live Speech and Personal Voice are 2 different features, that's why you're getting confused. You can use Personal Voice to customize the Live Speech voice, but you don't have to.
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Incidentally YC has done non-profits as well (https://www.ycombinator.com/nonprofits/) which is interesting.

Some interesting companies: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?nonprofit=true
Berkshire Hathaway is becoming more and more a (badly) managed active fund.
My voice is my passport. Verify Me