skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, electricity can’t be clean nor dirty. It can be generated cleanly. But it does not follow that it IS generated cleanly because it CAN BE generated cleanly.

Thats all I'm saying. If you drive an electric car and you know the energy mix that generated the electricity then maybe you can conclude its cleaner (although that’s not the only factor). If you dont, then you are definitely just guessing.
Your comment completely lacks understanding about human behavior. It's like saying that a heroin addict should just learn to ignore the ready opium-filled syringe on his bedside table.

No, humans don't work like this. You gotta throw the whole thing in the garbage or lock it down so much (basically possible with current platforms) to never encounter those addicting uses.
> The courts ruled that a bakery can deny a gay couple a cake. Trump was denied his gay cake. What is the problem?

The problem is that there's so much overlap between the people who think that court decision was wrong and that the bakery should have had to bake the gay cake and the people who support Twitter's ban of Trump. If you think something is unfair/unjust/unconstitutional/whatever and that it should be undone/repealed/overturned, then you shouldn't argue for other things using that thing as precedent. It's dishonest to say both "Y is okay because X is okay and X is basically the same as Y" and "X isn't okay".
Probably for the same reason that some suburban US kids try to talk like they're from the hood.
In practice this works only for trivial apps, that have no dynamic content, don't serve large files, don't see a lot of traffic, doesn't come from all over the world (each PoP has a separate cache), etc.

So something exactly like a blog then.
Would love to see this used in a spelling bee. From watching the last few years of the televised Scripps Spelling Bee it seems like most high level contestants can spell the words, not from memory so much as from constructing them from their root languages.
GPU (currently CUDA only) is our primary target for our inference server implementation. It "runs" on CPU but our goal is to enable an ecosystem that is competitive with Alexa in every possible way and even with the amazing work of whisper.cpp and other efforts it's just not happening (yet).

We're aware that's controversial and not really applicable to many home users - that's why we want to support any TTS/STT engine on any hardware supported by Home Assistant (or elsewhere) in addition to ESP BOX on device local command recognition.

But for the people such as yourself, and other commercial/power/whatever users our inference server that we're releasing next week that works with Willow provides impressive results - on anything from a GTX 1060 to an H100 (we've tested and optimized for anything in between the two).

We use ctranslate2 (like faster-whisper) and some other optimizations for performance improvements and conservative VRAM usage. We can simultaneously load large-v2, medium, and base on a GTX 1060 3GB and handle requests without issue.

Again, it's controversial but the fact remains a $100 Tesla P4 that idles at 5 watts and has max TDP of 60 watts from eBay with our inference server implementation does the following:

large-v2, beam 5 - 3.8s of speech, inference time 1.1s

medium, beam 1 (suitable for Willow tasks) - 3.8s of speech, inference time 588ms

medium, beam 1 (suitable for Willow tasks), 29.2s of speech, inference time 1.6s

An RTX 4090 with large-v2, beam 5 does 3.8s of speech in 140ms and 29.2s of speech with medium beam 1 (greedy) in 84ms.
Yes, but it is not only the difference in available energy that is important. Fibre, although it is a sugar, does not trigger the same insulin response that other sugars (and NNSs) do.
> In reality, it is about social pressure, not emergency use, all the other kids have phones, why can't I?

Straightforward, caring, non-judgemental talk might work: you shouldn't have it because your brain is at a too early developmental stage and you cannot cope with the addiction. This is how we explained it to our son. A relative had given him an old smartphone in 1st grade (I never appreciated that gift!), but we replaced it with a dumb phone in 2nd grade with zero problems. He was able to choose among a few models himself (picked a Nokia 105 [1]). He was absolutely okay with that.

It has a few silly demo games, but he doesn't play them much. When we go to grandma's for two days, he voluntarily leaves his phone at home, because "nobody will probably call me" (see: he realizes there's not much else he could do with the phone!). During the smartphone-year, in contrast, he had obvious trouble putting the smartphone away, even if he didn't really "do" anything in it; just scrolling around and launching grownups' old apps he couldn't understand. (I wonder if physical buttons cause less addiction than a touchscreen?)

In short, our kid is absolutely fine with the dumb phone. It really does work simply as a "tool", for calls and messages. Recently he even asked for a mechanical wrist watch because he doesn't seem to like carrying the phone in his pocket or backpack.

I'm close to 40 and a long-time hobbyist Linux nerd. I've intentionally never ever owned a smartphone (for some odd reason, reading mails etc on that laughably tiny screen seemed utterly stupid in 2003; even thinking about the endless possibilities (=bloat!) of later smartphones always made me feel overwhelmed, so I never wanted one). So I, too, only have a dumb phone -- and, same experience here: it really does work just as a "tool for making phone calls or sending messages". Nothing else. Living without smartphone apps is actually way easier than most people seem to imagine.

Another thing: I'm thinking that maybe (at least in our kid's public school in a Small East European Country) some kind of "anti tech addiction" meme is also making rounds amongst schoolchildren? If this is true, then maybe dumb phones are even somewhat, err, hip in some circles these days? At least elementary school children do seem to care about their mental well-being -- when you tell them about this with empathy, simple but honest cause-and-effect examples and without condemnation (I think this last bit is key: no judgements where judging is avoidable; show, don't tell!). It is also most interesting to get young children to really think about that they actually do have a brain up there, a brain that is an actual part of them, and that this brain always needs some care.

1: https://res.cloudinary.com/telia-pim/image/upload/v163282637...
What is your opinion on the future of film and acting given the trajectory of AI and tech like this? Do you see significant changes to the way movies will be shot, or to the level of involvement of human actors in film?
Kitty / Wezterm / iTerm2 / mintty and a few others already support base64 encoded gif/jpg/png, which are more space efficient, and easier to splat as b64 blobs than to dither and sixel-encode. Sixel needs to die.
I know very little about Japan or Tokyo.

But watching the public transport animation on https://minitokyo3d.com/ is amazing.

They also have links to live railcams.

Two of my favorite ones are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glw8cHPywtE exactly like the article describes, lots of bikes and some small cars. (It has several hours of buffer so you can scroll back if you happen to visit during Japanese night)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tet7qKMUncA this is the impatient train spotter's paradise. It never takes more than minute until the next train comes. As a bonus for hackers there is automatic detection of the rolling stock type. Not sure whether the code is open source, did not see a github link. (This camera is not 24 hours, so you need to visit during Japanese daytime.)
I found "Showstopper!" a very good read that portrays both the people involved, the environment the NT project grew out of, and some technical aspects of its development.
I agree that people who hold false beliefs in good faith are as big a problem—far bigger, actually—than deliberate shills [1].

The mistake in your argument is to assume that accusing them will reduce their influence. Just the opposite is true: it will amplify their views and stiffen their errors, and they will push back twice as hard and twice as much. Maybe their argument quality won't spike, but their energy level will.

Worse, if you're right, accusing them will discredit the truth and reduce your influence. Undecided readers will look at the thread, see you being aggressive, and instinctively side with the other.

It also poisons the forum, because when people feel unjustly accused, they take it as license to lash back twice as hard. "But they started it" is a deeply felt, maybe even hard-wired, justification for escalation. (I bet there are primate experiments demonstrating this.)

Therefore, accusing people or denouncing them as "repeating the lies of $BigCo" (or $Party or $Country in political arguments) is just what you should not do—there's no upside, beyond the momentary feeling of relief that comes after blasting someone. If you want to correct errors and combat lies, you need to provide correct information and good arguments in a way that the other person is more likely to hear. As a bonus, that will help you persuade the silent audience too.

The effects of PR and propaganda in getting people to hold false views is enormous, but I don't think it's possible to separate out from other reasons why people hold false views in good faith. It's much too big, and those influences are raining down on all of us from all angles.

How to dissuade someone of false beliefs is a pragmatic question. If you tell them "you've been deluded by propaganda", it will only land as a personal attack. Better persuade them that they've been working with incorrect information, and let them draw their own conclusions about the propaganda side of things. The latter medicine cannot be spoon-fed into someone else's mouth—one has to take it oneself.

[1] (Your usage of the word shill is different from the dictionary definition (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shill) and the etymology (https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=shill). Terminological differences make discussions slippery, but I'll respond to what I think you're saying.)
producers stuck != data loss (if you use transactional commits at least). If you run in multiple regions you dont need multi az in a lot of architectures
I got "hobogeography"... that is not a word, but it should be, haha
At least they had a sense of humor.
This is a bit comical. I've always figured that hiring a manager to just play baby sitter for professional adults is the most inefficient use of company resources. I understand that there are certain industries which this might be more important but I'm going to guess most industries would benefit from having better hiring practices and a more trusting culture.
Disney and Vice definitely do not belong in the same bed. Unless maybe it was a funny cartoon of Mickey Mouse doing something salacious
You can already make detailed bars with Unicode block drawing.
Do you think, giving birth is easier, than just taking a pill?

For men it is easy to "make babies". For women it isn't. They usually sacrifice at least a year for it. You aren't really productive, if your brain is a hormon slurry and everything hurts. And most women do get lasting injuries from the birth, taking years to recover. (have you ever sacrifized a year for someone else?)

So it seems, she tried at least. And then maybe discovered that she does not have anything more for you. Or not much.

That is shitty and not fair. No doubt and sorry to hear that.

But that is also how nature works. There is no fairness baked in anywhere. In the end life is a gift.

You can take it, or don't.

But if you continiue to choose life, you maybe would be better off, if one day you can let go of your anger over your childhood trauma of abandonment.

Sometimes things can work out with the old family. Sometimes not, but the world is full of people looking for a real family.

But a family can only work, if the partners respect and trust each other. And sorry if I am crossing a line again (I was aware with my question before, what your answer likely would be), but I think you would have a major struggle with that, with the fear of being abandoned again, this time by your partner. Which can easily lead to jealousy, pressure, all the usual stuff, breaking up and a new generation of half or full abandoned children.

And you might have sworn to yourself, that you would never abandon your children - but when you are done, you are done. I never thought I could get there, but I was close to that point with my children. Kids and everything around it, is undescribable intense, unless everything was set up perfectly before. And I am not aware of many such cases.

Your mother was a human. Faulty, with limited energy, understanding and naivity. Likely experienced her childhood traumatas.

She tried and failed - partly. Because you are alive and can choose now, what you do in this imperfect world of ours.

And going back to the original point, maybe, only maybe, if your mother as a child would have heard more often "girls can do it", instead of "you are just a girl", she would have been able to do it the whole way through.
Improving Performance and Lifetime – Scientists Solve Battery Mystery
> The TvTropes of the programming community

Not sure what you were expecting, but that was very much what some of us were looking for.
On the one hand, this is sorely needed: AI detection software will inevitably be mostly snake oil.

Academia and education desperately wants this software to work! As a result, selling them something that doesn't work is going to be very profitable.

The most obvious problem with this class of software is how easy it would be to defeat if the students could access it themselves: generate some text, run it through the detector, then fiddle with it (by manually tweaking it or by prompting the AI to "reword this to be less perfect") until it passes.

Which means these tools need to not be openly available... which makes them much harder to honestly test and evaluate, making it even easier to sell something that doesn't actually work.

But... I don't think this site is particularly convincing right now. It has spelling mistakes (which at least help demonstrate AI probably didn't write it) and the key "How AI Detection Software Works" page has a "Coming Soon" notice.

The "examples" page is pretty unconvincing right now too - and that's the page I expect to get the most attention: https://itwasntai.com/examples

It looks to me like this is still very much under development, and is not yet ready for wider distribution.
> While the US is busy polarizing its own population --alarmingly, through education-- actors around the world spend ever day placing one foot in front of the other. The result of this massive lack of foresight will not be pretty.

This is how it's always been, it's not new. Just look at the 1960's in America. I'm also not even sure how much of it's the systems in question and how much is the people in question using extreme confirmation bias to polarize themselves, in some cases.

Much of this is the age of the people in question, IMO. Whether they're at college or diver deeper into some social media, youth (late teens and early twenties) is when radicalization happens, whether they're been taught be an institution or not. That leads me to believe that while institutions may be part of the problem, there's something larger that goes on at that age which many different competing interests capitalize on to their own benefit.

Edit: That said, while it's not new, it does appear to be cyclical, and I'm not going to argue against it seeming to have a resurgence.
99% of the challenge in running a blog is authoring posts. Serving the content is trivial. If using an app improves writing stuff it's a win.
Depends on the type system - sounds trivial in dependently typed languages.
I certainly wouldn't discourage anyone from doing this. But there's some cachet to having your name on a book cover compared to being an unsung writer of docs. (Self-published vs. through a publisher is another more complicated discussion with both pros and cons on both sides.)
Requiring farms to have ponds/wells could be a way to create a distributed solution.

Joel Salatin has been teaching about the value of ponds for decades now. for example here's a video of him talking about ponds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o82ar51eIsE

This will require the water boards to rethink things like not allowing capture of rainwater/flow.

The evaporation of ponds becomes somewhere else's rainwater (potentially further inland creating a virtuous cycle). And you can use depth to control the capture vs evaporation ratio -- deeper ponds evaporate slower and hold more precipitation.

But this all goes against our very reductionistic thinking -- this quarter section is for corn, nothing else.
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I bet the SEO, dark patterns, and advertisement bullshit by Intuit et al. is going to be ridiculous if this releases to the masses. I bet they can get the IRS tool on page 3 of Google/Bing with enough effort
You're too old to be asking us for permission to do whatever you like.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929348
I think most whitewashing of history comes out of the urge to avoid uncomfortable topics, rather than any malice. The topic of genocide, for example, opens a huge can of worms. It's much easier to keep that can of worms out of sight.

Plus, in the interest of storytelling, you often don't want to open up "threads" in a story that don't support the main plot.

I've noticed this is especially true for children's books. They have to have a happy ending. (I mean, who wants to read a kids book that leaves the kid depressed about history?) Of course, because of this, many kids grow up thinking that "problems" like racism are things that were solved in the past. And that's because those problems were solved in the books that have been read to them, or that they've read. (This is based on my experience reading many hundreds of books to my kids.)

Anyways, that's a bit of a tangent.
My model of this is it's more of a show of power by Congress - hey we can make you come here and you have to answer our questions, and we get to show our constituents we have you under control and you are answering to us.

Is that the right model? Is there anything helpful that'd come of this testimony?
Some people just soak up accents and aren't intentionally trying to "have" one.
I've used freetaxusa for 3 years now and have the same positive experience as the parent poster.

And yeah my scenario includes investments. off the top of my head my return featured:

* income from 2 employers for the same person

* income in 2 states

* kids and the stuff that comes with that (child tax credits etc)

* capital losses (it's that time of the business cycle :< )

* interest (US treasury products)

* dividends

* mortgage stuff

So if tons of americans can just do a 1040-EZ, then I feel like my usage probably covers like 99% of the remaining folks (which I would characterize as "I could do a 1040-EZ but I have kids and stocks").
One of the things to watch out for is so many free options that are only usable if you taxes are already trivial.

Strangely enough that IRS search tool claims there are 0 options for me, even though FreeTax works just fine.
It's probably more-so that above a certain income threshold, your tax return becomes exponentially more complex.

Free-file is useful when all you have is 1-2 above-board wage earning jobs, maybe with a 1099 contract job where the employer is nice nice enough to pre-fill the form out for you.

Once you start dealing with non-trivial amounts of dividends, interest, securities, partnerships, real-estate, you really do need a professional to keep things organized.
What does it take to build an enterprise chatbot that uses GPT-4?
If "few people were looking" at OpenSSL, one of the most widely-used pieces of open source software in the entire industry, Eric Raymond's point is refuted.
> What I take issue with is the framing that a superior cognitive, generalized, adaptable intelligence is actually possible in the real world,

This is an odd attitude to take. We know it's possible because we have had exceptional humans like Albert Einstein, some were even polymaths with a broad range or contributions in many domains. Do you think peak humans are the absolute limit on how intelligent anything can become?
>> White protagonist is given wise and mystical advice by Holy Simple Native Folk.

That's Avatar ruined.
I have mild executive dysfunction that only seldomly interferes with my work. A strategy to defeating "Jim" as the article defines him, for me, is I often have trouble completing tasks if the goal/task is too broad. Going with agile methodology terms, if something is assigned to me that could be recategorized as as an epic with a bunch of sub-tasks or stories, it's very likely I procrastinate on that task, because I am not easily able to envision the series of steps to accomplish the larger goal.

So, I keep notes and to-do lists. I try to break tasks into as small of sequential tasks as possible, and then go back and prune this list throughout the week/day/hour, depending on how urgent it is and how bad the procrastination is.

Sometimes these tasks are extremely simple. As simple as "turn on your computer" sometimes. Completing them and checking it off gives that little dopamine burst and the confidence to continue the task. All you have to do is make sure that your smaller tasks are organized in a way that allow you to complete the larger goal (which admittedly isn't always easy).
The only thing that sucks is that HR Blocks and they’re equivalent fill what otherwise would be a vacant or slot machine spots in many neighborhoods. Either way, good riddance.
One key thing especially for writing is to give it examples or a starting paragraph that it should continue from. If you just tell it to “write a document about X” it defaults to a very poor style or worse a list format. So instead copy paste in examples of your own writing and instruct it to write in that style or provide instructions and then write the intro paragraph yourself.
cause its funny, that's why.
Like this: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/getting-started-with-gith...
Yeah. I vividly remember how it felt to drive all the way to the office one day only to spend my day in video calls. It was essentially like working from home with a longer drive and worse lighting.
Yesterday I was on a two lane country road where I saw a man standing on the opposite side of the road holding up a bright orange baseball cap in his hand and his other hand in a "stop" motion. I slowed down enough to where I didn't hit the crashed car which was just around the bend, but I may have hit it without the advance notice because the turn had very poor visibility. If I were an AI driver, I probably would have considered the man "not-an-obstacle" and promptly ignored him and hit the other car. After all, I'm trained to slow down when I see people in hi-vis with proper "slow traffic" signs. Some random person whose neighbor crashed and is waving the brightest color thing they have is not in the training data.

Or in other words, there are signals humans can send to other humans which can be understood even if you haven't seen that particular signal before, and those will be the biggest challenge for an AI driver, at least if it resembles the current generation of AI.
Can we have another, unbiased source please. That one is state-sponsored and doesn't provide a credible source.
I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s. I don't know how well they performed, but the price put them out of my range by such a wide margin I did not really care. I'd just look at the brochure and drool a little, even though in retrospect, I could not really have done anything with one of these.