skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The political history of Thailand is something of a see-saw, actually. It's worth noting that as of 48 hours ago Thailand's opposition parties utterly smashed the military parties in an election with the highest turnout on record and the leading contender for PM is a Harvard-educated businessman who wants to cut the army's budget by 40%.
Crypto has been playing a decisive role as it provides new opportunities for anyone to have access not only to harder assets, but to more economic freedom.
Companies like belo.app and others are among the tools anyone, not experts, can use to hedge against terrible economic decisions from the government.
Thanks for this. Kind of happy my state of GA has none!
You should read the relevant part of that wikipedia page or maybe just all of it because it refutes your claims here.

> David Loy, legal director for the First Amendment Coalition, said that Twitter is legally able to choose what speech is allowed on their site, noting that both the Biden campaign, which was not part of the government, and the Trump White House could request specific content moderation actions.

It's probably not good but I haven't seen any reason to think the government's relationship to twitter was other than normative for social media companies. Whether it's "nothing of the sort" of censorship is a judgement call, I can certainly see how someone could make it in good faith.
Imagine thinking that NAND gates are capable of anything other than basic logic.
Not clueless, but unfortunately engaging in motivated reasoning.

Google spent years doing nothing much with its AI because its employees (like Hinton) got themselves locked in an elitist hard-left purity spiral in which they convinced each other that if plebby ordinary non-Googlers could use AI they would do terrible things, like draw pictures of non-diverse people. That's why they never launched Imagen and left the whole generative art space to OpenAI, Stability and Midjourney.

Now the tech finally leaked out of their ivory tower and AI progress is no longer where he was at, but Hinton finds himself at retirement age and no longer feeling much like hard-core product development. What to do? Lucky lucky, he lives in a world where the legacy media laps up any academic with a doomsday story. So he quits and starts enjoying the life of a celebrity public intellectual, being praised as a man of superior foresight and care for the world to those awful hoi polloi shipping products and irresponsibly not voting for Biden (see the last sentence of his Wired interview). If nothing happens and the boy cried wolf then nobody will mind, it'll all be forgotten. If there's any way what happens can be twisted into interpreting reality as AI being bad though, he's suddenly the man of the hour with Presidents and Prime Ministers queuing up to ask him what to do.

It's all really quite pathetic. Academic credentials are worth nothing with respect to such claims and Hinton hasn't yet managed to articulate how, exactly, AI doom is supposed to happen. But our society doesn't penalize wrongness when it comes from such types, not even a tiny bit, so it's a cost-free move for him.
So is https://github.com/Lightning-AI/lit-llama
Seven Tips to Build Scalable Node.js Applications
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/contemporary-classical-painti...

However, I've not got a horse in this "classical is overrated" race.
> 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.

That's genius!
There is the economy of scale problem you are talking about. There is just also a difference in culture. Many of the people at my work place are burned out from big tech jobs (or equally burned out from startup culture and want to work somewhere stable and established). I think they'd just leave if we implemented tracking. They are also unusually productive people who like the work they do. (At least it seems unusual from what I've heard about on here and elsewhere. I was self-employed before working here so unsure what is usual for wage earners.) Many of the people at my wife's workplace are hard-working but unenthusiastic and also tend to be older.
I think most of us go through that journey.

Can be hard to decouple overengineered messes from Good Software: an idiot admires complexity, et cetera.
I never thought about using that feature but I should for the same reasons. I have a LCD digital clock right under my monitor even tho the OS has a clock of course. But as soon as I'm "immersed" in something, or the menubar is obscured bc I do keep some apps fullscreen, time does not exist.

It also has the temp and humidity and looks attractive and runs on usb: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088LZRT94/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Its a good clock.
Do users actually care whether something is local or not?

(Edit: In terms of privacy as there are benefits in terms of speed and offline work)

It's not like we're not already storing all of our media on the cloud (including voice), passwords and other sensitive data.
I’ve been digging into Apple’s (existing) accessibility features last week and it made me think about what (for lack of a better term) an “accessibility first” app architecture might look like.
Current app UIs are all about how to visually represent the objects you can interact with and the actions you can take on them, and then accessibility features are layered on top.
(Warning: half-baked idea that’s probably been tried countless times) what if you started with semantic information about the objects and the actions you can take on them and then the GUI is just one of several interaction modes (along with voice, keyboard, CLI, etc)?
The whole point of sarcasm is that people misunderstand causing funny situations. If you are going to signal it with eg. /s you may as well just say what you mean.
They are almost hitting 3 trillion dollars, I can barely wrap my head around that number. It's easy to say it but just to imagine the amount is just mind boggling.
Taxpayers have to fund this. I pay a lot of taxes.
What if you don’t speak English? I guess it wouldn’t really matter but if you were leaning English it might not work with better pronunciation later.
You might mean air, not oxygen. Air is mostly nitrogen. Water ice is 1/3rd oxygen atoms (or about 8/9ths by mass).

Thinking more, molecular oxygen, O2, dissolved in water is a thing and it does have better solubility than nitrogen so maybe you did mean molecular oxygen.

And yeah, we tried that, putting water in a vacuum chamber and pumping out the dissolved air. It didn't seem to make much difference.
> Artists of the past were basically human rendering engines

A lie promulgated by modern art as justification for forcing out all prior art styles and aesthetics, but nothing could be further from the truth. Have you ever seen photos like the following?

https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdzislaw-beksinski/untitled-1976

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajikazawa_in_Kai_Province

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Aivazovsky#/media/File:St...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swing_(Fragonard)

https://www.bonhams.com/zh-cn/auction/27421/lot/413/kimura-b...
The form of atypical Parkinson's caused by mitochondrial complex 1 inhibitors (progresessive supranuclear palsy) is not treatable, at least with normal Parkinson's drugs. My wild speculative guess is that many of the soldiers in this article have a mild-enough form of PSP that it's being misdiagnosed as Parkinson's.
I'd rather regulators go after drug companies, medical insurance and hospital systems with antitrust lawsuits for their cartel than an emerging field that provides "nice to have" toys at this point.
It's not just you. All tech is the most magical, exciting and scary somewhere near the midpoint of its sigmoid development curve, whether it's rocket launches in the 1960's, radio in the 1920's or steam engines in the 1880's (or so). Sooner or later everything becomes mundane. I'm guessing we are near that midpoint now with ML/AI.
I loved the movie and own all three volumes of the book. To purchase one of the volumes about 20 years ago, I had to pay a significant amount of money for it from a dealer.

I have been working in the field of AI for 40 years, and that is probably why I found the three Colossus books so compelling.

After the wild ride we have had the last few years in exponential LLM improvements, it is time to re-read the books.
Or perhaps UC Berkeley's Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Course
https://cs61a.org/
Is this the case in most places (e.g. all of US, Europe?)
I think that was the quote I misquoted. I had heard it somewhere years ago backstage. Or maybe on a podcast. It resonated with me to the point where I remembered it (my way apparently) and put it in the old Rolodex.
America is going to freak when they realise that China has leapfrogged their car industry.

This year seems like the year that people will start to see the tidal wave coming, but it'll take a while to actually hit.

edit to add explanatory link:

"The US Hasn’t Noticed That China-Made Cars Are Taking Over the World"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-26/how-china...
Ah, the kind of stupid chain comments i come to Reddit for...

Oh wait
There are several factors, as I understand it, including which way the wind normally blows, the Hadley cell, and the location of mountains. All of these are applicable to the Qattara basin project.
There were body bets in Player of Games. In consider Phlebas they had the game Damage where players bet/lost lives either extra people you 'owned' or your own life depending on the size of the game.
Below millisecond audio latency in MenuetOS (64bit assembly OS)
Pointless rambling but I am tired of Kojima being titled as the sole creator every time he is involved in a game. This cult of personality is silly.
At least so far Apple has been so far more ethical than other fruit companies. No wars or banana republics as of yet
Of course, because they're giving people drugs capable of incapacitating them if handled wrongly....AI, on the other hand, why should someone need a license to train their large language model?
There is a huge selection bias when talking about something like this.

Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential is one of my fav books but he wrote two books before Kitchen Confidential that were utter failures. I am not sure how successful some of his later works were either.

Even a masterpiece that people would love could be a total failure with bad timing and poor marketing.
are they worth it if you already can use pgp?
I think this is confusingly phrased in the press release too, so it's probably on Apple rather than the Verge.

> With Live Speech on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, users can type what they want to say to have it be spoken out loud during phone and FaceTime calls as well as in-person conversations. Users can also save commonly used phrases to chime in quickly during lively conversation with family, friends, and colleagues. Live Speech has been designed to support millions of people globally who are unable to speak or who have lost their speech over time.

It's clearer that it's for "at risk" users after, but I guess "millions of" was a marketing requirement.

> For users at risk of losing their ability to speak — such as those with a recent diagnosis of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or other conditions that can progressively impact speaking ability — Personal Voice is a simple and secure way to create a voice that sounds like them.

[0] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-previews-live-s...
You can have the global function and make it work on "chunked partial inputs" while maintaining the state between calls (that state can be hidden in a closure or made explicit as an argument or a receiver - functions in JS can be called on objects even if they were defined outside of them). The very bad example of this is C's `strtok`, but it's pretty typical for JS to encapsulate the state in a closure to get similar functionality.

Said another way: the functional, simplified interface doesn't mean you have to get simplified or lacking functionality. Haskell wouldn't exist if that was the case. The simplified interface providing as much functionality as the more complex interface is possible because the expressive power of JS is leagues above Java - porting Java patterns that emerged due to Java's shortcomings (some call them "design decisions", and they're also right) to JavaScript is simply not a good use of JS as a language.
That makes sense for task-oriented work regardless of collar color.
Am I so old that I'm the only one that remembers the Forrest M Mims books that you could pick up at Radio Shack? He really did a great job of making some of this understandable without getting into complex math.

https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and...

Example: http://www.zpag.net/Electroniques/Kit/Getting_Started_in_Ele...
Simple is good, you have nothing to fear (as long as it's not naive/laggy).
Maybe add a little bit of foreign propaganda and psyops to the mix, too.
> But in the 20th century, TCE was used for many purposes, including making decaffeinated coffee, dry cleaning, carpet cleaning, and as an inhaled surgical anesthetic for children and women in labor.

The things we did with (now known) hazardous chemicals in the 20th century are really disturbing. My question is are there now enough safeguards in place that we're unlikely to be repeating the same mistakes?

My guess is no, certainly not with every product imported from other countries. We joke about sketchy smelling products from China, and you occasionally hear about imports being recalled or blocked. How much of it are we missing, both known and unknown chemicals?

On the other hand, it's also easy for people disposed to anxiety to go down a rabbit hole where the only conclusion is you should go live off the land in the middle of nowhere...
Strictly speaking, 'toe the line' in this case doesn't make sense either. A runner 'toeing the line' is trying to get as close as possible without overstepping it. The analogy would be if Tim Cook was criticizing the CCP as much as he could without actually crossing them. But he's not doing that, or OP claims he isn't, and that he's doing the opposite, enthusiastically. So even if 'tow the line' is wrong in the sense that's not a recognized idiom, it's more right in the sense that the image of someone pulling weight for somebody else is more like what OP claims that Tim Cook is doing.
I do, when I’m without a quality internet connection and a basic request to Siri to turn on a timer fails.
Right — "dystopian" is when white collar workers and professionals start getting treated like blue collar workers, or when people in the imperial core start getting treated like colonized people.
I am deeply spiritual, meditate a lot, etc., which is not 100% aligned with Absurdism. That said, I watched just about everything on Absurdism that I could find on YouTube.
I didn’t say any of that and that was just one illustrative example of how your method of delivery can have a big influence on whether your suggestions are received as well intentioned or hostile. If you are this prone to seeing attempts to offend you where none are there and responding in kind then I do think we’ve found the root of your problem.
Urban Air Mobility [pdf]
I’m in the process of getting rid of all my stuff and so I’m in the process of shredding old school work and it’s mad how much of is centred on the royal family, the UK military and the romans. The indoctrination starts early.
> The chance of that happing is close to nill.

Not nil as long as Taiwan is still "independent".
nope; just checked, there are none

(and even the ones that are pretending to not be here said they don't give a shit)
You can use that logic to defend anything.
https://archive.is/20230515160051/https://www.tabletmag.com/...
I know we shipped p-code for general usage, not just internal like Excel. But it might have been internal-only in the mid to late 80s. I found a link [1] talking about some p-code internals, from April 1992, by the guy who hired me at Microsoft about a year before that. The compiler team definitely viewed Excel as one of their most important customers, and were willing to do lots of work to satisfy them.

So p-code wasn't actually dead when I started, but instead shipped with the C/C++ 7.0 compiler, which predated Visual C++. I never worked on C7, since that was 16-bit, and p-code wasn't part of any 32-bit compiler, as I recall.

[1] https://techshelps.github.io/MSDN/BACKGRND/html/msdn_c7pcode...
You missed the point of the "nobody knows how a pencil is made". It is not about gathering all the knowledge in one place, but how knowing just enough enables us to go much further.
Apple gets lot of flak here in HN. But these features are really commendable.

The personal voice feature is one of the best uses of AI I have read about in recent times.

Kudos to Apple!!!
Real World Crypto 2023 Recap
Marketing matters. Apple's "narrative" is breaking their "privacy is a human right" motto so they can kowtow to China and keep their manufacturing margins. That's not very reassuring to people who want truly private AI hardware, but Apple can fix that with marketing.

If you trust them to provide a secure model, I'd wager you haven't fully explored the world of iCloud exploitation.
>> I kind of came to the realisation that I really am sick of being where I am and doing what I am doing which has lead to me selling up everything I own in order to go travelling. So maybe the journaling served its purpose of hammering home to me how dissatisfied I was with life and how I needed to make a radical change.

First of all - good luck, I hope traveling will help you clear your head and find that change you are looking for. It worked in my case. Also, you reminded me of two other things journaling can help with - as you point out, it can lead to insight. Trying to formulate your thoughts clearly in writing can be very potent. And journaling can also work as a storage of good feelings - for example, I walked multiple paths of Camino de Santiago [1], each of them was a few weeks of great times... and I was journaling them. Every now and then, when I feel down after especially long and dark winter, I re-read those journals and they make me feel good. Áh, nostalgia strikes... I am gonna read them right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camino_de_Santiago
An issue with flooding the Salton Sea to sea level is you'd submerge a lot of agricultural land that already exists to the north and south of the Sea. Plus a number of towns (like Coachella) that already exist in the area.

Though, if you could use this to maintain the water level and salinity at historical levels, you could avert the ecological disaster that's going to happen when the Salton Sea dries up. And it would likely become a popular area for recreation again, like it was in the 1950s and 60s.
‘Bigolas Dickolas’ is more powerful than the Pulitzer Prize
> “Type your password to buy this item on the App Store”. Why?

Because store items can be quite expensive (particularly the microtransactions), and it's using a stored credit card. I too get bugged by the plethora of prompts, but this is a good example of when to use one. Plus, after doing it once you can tie it back to Face ID or Touch ID and not have to enter it again for quite some time.
My home decor is now exclusively tasteful nudes.
As a tourist in Oxford or Princeton, how can you tell what resources are available?
SQLite 3.42.0
Ethanol is also a horrible toxin, it just happens to be common enough in nature that our bodies, and animal bodies as well, have had hundreds of thousands of years to evolve some mitigations against.
For a long time, the only (official) DVD available was a pan-and-scan version that was not very good. The new Shout Factory Blu-Ray release I have is excellent and worth buying if you want the best possible version. I need to hunt down a copy of the book, which I've never read.
A lot of end users do not and they have no interest in spending the time figuring it out. That's why it's very important that the companies behind the technology we use make ethical choices that are good for their users and when that doesn't happen, legislators need to step in.

Apple has been on both sides of that coin and what is ethical isn't always clear.
Most of the AI literature has moved past talking about the Turing test.

The metric now after goal post moving is "the Embodied Turing test".

That is, the test that someone interacting with two different people (standing in front of them, taking a walk, etc) would not be able to determine with statistical significance which one of the two is an AI.
So effectively, 'west world', is the new benchmark that the literature is interested in passing.
Because we didn't measure (count?) the number of birds then, and we've been noticing a decline in the last few decades.
I am sure the people living in Czechia will not like to live underwater.
Really well said, gets to the heart of the issue truly.
The Jeremy Clarkson one was pretty great, too.
Interestingly freezing hot or boiled water can be quicker due to the Mpemba effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect
I don’t think it does. This isn’t a hypothetical Siri v2 with some upgrades; it’s a hypothetical LLM chatbot speaking with Siri’s voice. I recall one of the first demonstrations of Bing’s ability was someone asking it to book him a concert where he wouldn’t need a jacket. It searched the web for concert locations, searched the web weather information, picked a location that fit the constraint and gave the booking link for that specific ticket. If you imagine an Apple LLM that has local rather than web search, it seems obvious that this exact ability that LLMs have to follow complicated requests and “figure things out” would be perfectly suited to reading your emails and figuring out which restaurant you mean. With ApplePay integration it could also go ahead and book for you.
Just keep work devices separate from personal. I think there may be some regulatory aspect to recording conversations in banks.

Either way workplace isn’t personal space. What exactly are folks planning at work that shouldn’t be recorded? Some may say have unions. But only Union activity would be covered under that. I don’t think you’ll ever get a Union that can negotiate for not tracking time and activity while on the clock.
I guess I only had a couple hundred, so it was working well for me.
GPT as a Compiler for Pseudocode
61B is the second beginners course of Berkeley Computer Science (61A being the first). This is essentially a 102 course.
I wouldn't say that.

So pure trustlessness start to finish is impossible. All information exchange requires shared protocols, and this necessitates trust. The idea here is to design protocols which, once the initial setup is complete, trust is no longer a factor.

This isn't just limited to cryptocurrency, it applies to all cryptography, and more broadly, to all security measures of any kind. Key exchange requires initial trust. The idea is that you do the due diligence to get set up, then you don't have to sweat it after. To say the entire system is flawed because setup requires trust is to say that all security measures are pointless.
> you can deploy hundreds of GPUs simultaneously.

> with over 2600 of them available for deployment.

guessing you mean 2600 in total.

FWIW we ran a workload recently on AWS that required a few thousand g4 instances in a single AWS region. We ended up scavenging and using g3s as well due to capacity constraints.