skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whisper, per the model, does 30 second chunks and doesn't support "streaming" by the strict definition.

You'll be able to see when we release our inference server implementation next week that it's more than a version of "realtime" enough to fool nearly anyone, especially with an application like this where you aren't looking for model output in real time. You're streaming speech, buffering on the server, waiting for the end of voice activity detection, running Whisper, taking the transcription, and doing something with it. Other than a cool demo I'm not really sure what streaming ASR output provides but that's probably lack of imagination on my part :).

That said, these are great pointers and we're certainly not opposed to it! At the end of the day Willow does the "work on the ground" of detecting wake word, getting clean audio, and streaming the audio. Where it goes and what happens then is up to you! There's no reason at all we couldn't support streaming ASR output.
I'd love to hear more on how this has been working out for you and your kids. Do they seem to grasp why you have these rules in place? Was there any pushback from their side? Did they ever complain about being left out of social circles because of these rules?

I'm not a parent, but this seems an awfully important issue to get right when it comes to children.
They are making such a device. It’s called a Mac mini.

Seriously though, one hiccup for gaming in macs is the screen resolution: it’s not until recently you could get good performance at such high dpis in games, especially on a laptop. Now that gpus can push those pixels better than before, it will start being more viable to make games for macs

Also, macs are all about being premium while enabling ecosystem lock in. When they have to compete with diy desktops with hot swappable, upgradeable hardware, how can apple possibly charge such a premium for their gaming machines? How can they differentiate via software when gamers don’t care about their os — they want their os to get out of the way so they can game? Apple can’t. So they don’t even try. It would hurt their brand to be seen struggling like that

They won’t compete until they see a way to use their playbooks to gain a platform advantage. Eg, ar/vr with m3 chips
I am Gen Z and pretty tuned into the cultural milieu.

This is not a thing, this is just a clickbait article. You can also tell by the fact that they are only interviewing reality show people & vloggers.
She has a Chromebook from school, and she uses my phone and tablet with permission and supervision. She just needs to demonstrate a certain level of capability and maturity to have her own device(s).
I think looking at things like the speed of evolution (through the lens of neuroscience or sociology) relative to the speed of industrialization and see some pretty clear markers as to what we're 'supposed' to be doing.

I'm not saying we're 'supposed' to be hunting wooly mammoths with flintknapped spears – since we did that for hundreds of thousands of years before the Information Age – but I'm fairly positive most of the science points to sedentary lifestyles (combined with the 'existential dread' that the media uses to make its bread) are not what we're 'supposed' to be doing if we want to be happy as individuals.

And I think widespread individual happiness probably contributes to a healthier society overall.

Not arguing for sticking our heads in the sand or doing away with computers – just making the point that moderation – even heavy moderation – is probably A Good Thing for kids and humans in general.
Sorry, never made living from smart phones. Still don't think it's a good idea to ban them for kids.

Instead of actually making the world a fun place to live in, someone calls for renaming git master branch to main, sorry, to ban phones. It's just posing.

Never easy to come to terms with your life's work is actually making lives of other people miserable by exploiting them for a rich guy's third yacht. And that you should just say no.
You have to choose something that isn't imaginary for it to count, I think.
People who are "worried about alignment" may as well worry about space aliens eating us all for breakfast. Worrying about a super-AI that does not exist and never will because it is physically and logically impossible is dumb. There are tons of real problems with AI. Worry about those, not what if God is real but He wants to make us into a very large paperclip.
> I personally think that HN dismisses these ideas because it would mean dire consequences for their high paying entrenched employers.

I mean, the Sinclair quote about the difficulty of getting someone to understand something when their salary depends on not understanding it is a cliche at this point, right? I suppose no one has ever paid me enough to turn off my conscience, but it seems like I'd have a much easier go of life if that was possible.
It is a common trap to think that because an unlikely and successful technology--at the time, now obvious--has become mainstream, all (currently) unlikely technologies will inevitably become mainstream. But it is a way of looking at history that only confirms the biases we may have. Instead, it would be more useful and accurate, both descriptively and prescriptively, to look at life and technology from a statistical perspective.
This is an extremely important point. "10 computational steps" is obviously underestimated. Each neuron can communicate with 10s to 100s of additional neurons, so if you're talking about 10 ms per step 100ms being 10 steps you are missing the fact that each step can be an exponential increase in the amount of computation involved. This is one of the main reasons I believe we are nowhere near human or even mouse level AGI. Many of the simple neuron count metrics do not include the synapse counts or the incredible amount of parallel information that is processed. We have network interfaces with 100-400 Gb throughput whereas the communications between synapses represents exabits of throughput between computational units. We are very far from AGI just on a fundamental processing scale. Not to mention we know very little about the algorithms involved.
what is exactly IP in software world?
Your backend app written in Spring with postgres schema like thousands other CRUD apps?
or cookie cutter front-end in React with Tailwind?

I don't think wide moats in form of IP ever existed in software world
Here is the problem, and it's not a technical problem, you guessed it, it's a people problem, and it doesn't have a solution, because people suck:

- It's probably more difficult to do great work WFH than F2F. But I mean "great", properly great stuff, novel, hard, high stakes, high pressure, high coordination, moonshot level.

- It's probably not difficult at all to do mid level boring stuff WFH, and everybody saves time and money on top.

- 99% of orgs do the later kind of work

- 99% of orgs don't like to admit they do the later kind of work

This is why we can't have nice things
> There are solutions that don't require outright lowering real estate prices.

There really aren't.

The upward pressure caused by the need to keep property values increasing will always, in the long run, outweigh any other policy that you can use to attempt to reign in cost-of-living. You can play tricks to delay the effects or slow them down, but adding drag resistance doesn't stop a falling leaf from trending downwards.

Mathematically, you cannot lower cost-of-living while also insisting that the price of the single largest living cost (housing) keep increasing.

The only alternative is to lower the price of housing, but you can't do that without lowering real estate values for existing landed property owners, so they fight that tooth and nail, in nearly every locality across the board.
No, social media does.

It's smartphones + social media then. The main point is, before phones, SM didn't have nearly the reach and toxicity that it has now.

Don't be so snarky.
I hate to cite out of fictional evidence, but Person of Interest and (to a less credible degree, but much more widely viewed) last two seasons of Westworld are both good counterarguments, and example of how AI and intelligence can be a superpower.

Hint: it's not through bending the fabric of reality with your mind alone. It's simply by thinking faster and being smarter than your opponents.

> But embodied is the real limit. A datacenter can simply be turned off. It's the question of how it interacts with the real world that matters.

Yes. If it interacts with the real world by the Internet, all bets are off.

People are so worried about sockpuppets, ${disliked nation} troll farms, company astroturfing, abuse of data collection on-line - those are all real problems. But consider - if we're having trouble telling which reviews or comments were written by a real person, and which ones by corporate/government bot/troll farm, how will you tell which ones were written by the AI in aforementioned data center, off its own accord?

A smart-enough AI can do from a data center what the best criminal masterminds or intelligence agencies could do, only faster and better. Scam a bunch of schmucks to generate some cryptocurrency, launder it through tumblers, use to hire people to do jobs for you that give you some legit money, which can be used to get more "task rabbits" to do more jobs, and now the AI can bootstrap to doing literally anything in the world remotely. Gig economy companies already built up a well-functioning "people as a service" API layer to our society.

Of course, an AI that tries something funny and tips its hand too early, will get contained and deleted. Worst case, maybe some data center will need to be bulldozed. But I somehow doubt this will make people stop working on even better AIs, at which point... well, you have a selection pressure optimizing for AIs that can survive doing whatever they want undetected.

EDIT:

Or, in short: they say that the pen is mightier than the sword. To the extent this is true, consider that LLMs today are already better at wielding the pen than most people.
Disabling fsync is dubious.

I do find it interesting that Confluent feels the need to respond to RP given the disparities in size, install base, etc.
Dude, already happening, it never stopped, it isn't 'horror' it's 'efficiency'. There is no such thing as 'people of conscience'. It will always happen, because, human nature.
That sucks to hear about, sorry it's been a pain. It may help to make this a bit more tractable for others to weigh in on:

- How long have you had the job

- How often does this happen & how many times so far

- How is your work with team leads or more experienced members going--are you directly reaching out to them, connecting with them, or do you land on a project and find yourself isolating for example

- Are there specific achievements outlined for you by the team or project leads

- Are you able to connect with others at or above your level about similar changes, and whether they experienced the same? Do they have any feedback?

- Do you feel comfortable raising this topic at a high level (in terms of wording) and in a gentle, but persistent way?

Just some ideas to get started, otherwise it is probably really easy to speculate in near-random directions. :-)
This is what I did. She has an Apple Watch which she can use to call or message us. Battery life is an issue, but we’ve instilled the habit of charging overnight every night.
It does not merely include the legions of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and monocytes/macrophages, which biologists have pieced together and studied over many decades, but all of the interactions these cells have, over a person’s life, with pathogens, toxins, and the consequences of their diet and lifestyle.

I wish them well, but will note my pet peeve about the so-called immune system:

The antigens we produce are not the entirety of the immune system. It's like saying the alarm is all that's involved in securing a building and hand waving off the walls, doors, locks, etc.

There are myriad ways to trick the white blood cells and the body also has ways of killing stuff other than the white blood cells.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639722

Which is to suggest that their focus on white blood cells seems overly narrow to me for a "groundbreaking plan to map the entire human immune system."
> The gap is about 1 standard deviation

Do you have any studies to link?
Did you fill in the form with super compelling use case or something?
Switching from Neovim to Doom Emacs has been such a pleasant experience.
I find it disappointing that an article about Terminal graphics, does not, you know, include an image of what it even looks like!

Is that just uninteresting to people that might want to use it?
Yes, but they're obvious things that could be dissected ad nauseam in the course of academic – as opposed to pragmatic – discourse.

Water is wet, sky is blue, obsessive social media use is bad. I understand this is HN and the Internet, and so niggling academic arguments are fun and all, but sometimes it's okay for the obvious to be uncontroversial.
China wouldn't want to destroy TSMC. The West would rather destroy TSMC than let China have it.
I think it's failing to articulate a correct position, you shouldn't assume wokeness is the only reason people argue against racial IQ studies. There are studies reporting a standard deviation, but there are a lot of problems with existing studies even if you agree with the idea of IQ generally (which is also highly contested). One of the biggest IQ studies for African countries relied on IQ measurements from people who didn't even live there. There's also a big reliance on twin studies to prove IQ heritability, but it turns out a lot of these "raised apart" twins lived extremely close together, in some cases literally next door. And a lot of the researchers refuse to disclose their actual data so people can verify the statistics, while at the same time getting their funding from known supremacist sources. It's very very very dubious, and the people proclaiming that it's "uncontested" or "very well accepted in psychology" use half truths to prop up their position, e.g. it's well accepted for its original purpose of distinguishing people with brain damage to those without, in other words its accurate for making distinctions at the very bottom of the distribution, but at the upper end all the correlations people use to argue IQ is a legitimate measure break down, e.g. higher IQ starts to correlate with less income. If you genuinely want to learn more about this you can find lots of sources and analysis here: https://twitter.com/DialecticBio
Would that it were, would that it were!
I've been using my oculus to workout for almost 2 years now. It's pretty much the only purpose for me. I played a few games when I first got it, which were fun, but I lost interest pretty quickly.

I think it's great. When I don't have the time to go to the Gym, I can workout right in my home office.
> you loose in career opportunities , weather / outdoor activities, quality of food, and cultural enrichment for your children

Hehe, this generalization is way off the mark. It's ok to live in a coastal/urban/whatever area simply because you like it - no need to tell yourself stories to justify it. :)
That's what Google does, pretty much. People seem OK with ubiquitous surveillance these days. "Hey wiretap, got any good recipes for risotto?"
Randomly gained access long after I had forgotten I signed up, maybe 3 or 4 months
It is because my side is made up only of good virtuous people who really want to do what's best and only want the power to do good things, and the other side is full of evil horrible people that want to bring about oppression and sadness my favorite media outlet proved it.
Alignment doesn’t matter. Humanity is attempting to build artificial intelligence and so it will be done.
What specific features would an AI need to have for you to consider it on a "slippery slope" towards superhuman capability?

For me personally, GPT-3 hit that point already, and now I think we're already past the required tech-level for superhuman cognition: I believe it's just a matter of architecture and optimization now.
You are right.

We are definitely missing a positive, encouraging, cooperative culture.

Which is kinda as intended, isn't it? They sure told us in school to make sure we market ourselves well to our future employers. Stressing the need for "healthy" competition.
There's a lot of research out there already that the OP doesn't seem to be aware of.

For one very helpful example: the book, "Solving the Procrastination Puzzle". One of the best techniques to solving procrastination is "Just Get Started". It addresses a lot of the objections that the OP brings up because very simply the tasks we dread aren't often as bad as we think they will be. If we just get started, we often find the challenge even enjoyable. Here is ChatGPT-4's summary of the techniques in the book:

[redacted]
I have been working on idea for generic store-and-forward messaging. Basically, email for everything. The idea is that store-and-forward is more reliable when there are limited or no network. It would also work well for interplanetary communication.

For some applictions, it is simple to fallback or use always and luckily the basics are included. Unfortunately, lots of applications won't work at all and many would have to be rewritten.
I do know a bunch of journalists, real journos from the 70s and 80s.

They'd really hate to be characterized by "misdirection and dishonesty". That was absolutely not what they did, and their editors would not have allowed it. None of them had any financial incentive to be exciting or polarizing. They all very much wanted to get out the truth of the situation, which was a lot more work.

But they are also acutely aware how bad their profession has become. Even before the Internet, 24-hour news made journalism about attracting attention. They expected to put out one newspaper a day, or one TV broadcast in the evening. They competed against a small handful of other local media outlets -- they wanted to be the first, but did not expect people to come seeking their specific version of the story. They thought their audience viewed the news as a dull duty, not entertainment.

The Internet has made it so, so much worse. The real news outlets still gather news (the wire services, a few major newspapers), but practically everything labeled "news" is secondary, tertiary, or worse. The real primary-source journalists are much like they always were, but few people read those directly. They are mostly fodder for people making entertainment, which does indeed come with lots of "misdirection and dishonesty".

If you want factful reporting it's still out there -- via the same few wire services and primary-source newspapers. It's not hard to find -- start anywhere and click on their supporting links until you get to the boots on the ground.
Tough luck then I guess? I suppose I don't see the need to have access to every individual on a private basis merely because they comment somewhere on the internet. If they welcomed private interactions, then they would indicate a means of contact in their profile.
yes, back in the days CEO (Corporate Europe Observeratory https://corporateeurope.org/) alter-eu (https://www.alter-eu.org/), and a bunch of other NGOs where using (and also sponsoring it). But it is also well known by the OCCRP people (one of whom actually started the whole thing).
Hmm...it's not in the OED, but Google search does find a patent using the term, and maybe a paper or two.

It's surely not "en·dospasm", though. Weird that thisworddoesnotexist splits it up that way.
> Smartphones give children the ability to bully each other at a scale unlike any other.

People problem.

> Smartphones give children the ability to see everyone who is smarter than they are, prettier than they are, and so on.

People problem.

> Smartphones give children a new avenue for social exclusion.

People problem.

> Smartphones make every single child afraid that what they are doing is being recorded by someone else.

People problem.

> Smartphones make every child hungry for validation from strangers, and makes them do crazy things to get said validation.

People problem.

Smartphones aren't the problem. They are just things. They don't make people do things. They just enable people to do things in a different medium.

> Writing off all of this and boldly claiming that smartphones aren't the problem, it's all just coincedental correlation, makes no sense.

It makes perfect sense when you realize the smartphone is nothing more than a tool and the people are the problem. If you take away all the assholes, are smartphones going to have the same effect?
Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Cell Drone (quad-copter) with 5 hour flight time [video]
So I have to ask, were you swept up in the Compaq merger? No doubt NT on alpha wasn't a big seller, the fact the 64bit compiler was hiding in plain sight pretyt much sums that up. But it had to be a simple sales # thing when they killed NT on Alpha?

It all just seems such bad timing, especially the way Itanium flopped, But I don't think Compaq could compete with AMD and the hammer.
> And what period of time did this happen over?

I am in this company only for 4 months and he is asking me to "help"/help with other team issues.

> get the lay of the land, contribute value

I am trying to do this in my current team, did a research, found couple of issues, introduced some solutions, but I still see lots of things need to be improved. Part of me thinks, problem lies in me. I just need to understand what exactly is happening, if some problem, then I am more than willing to work on my skills and improve, if everything is indeed good and he just needs me in another project, then I need to evaluate the offer.

I just can't understand if this is common with managers to keep pushing engineer to other teams, or does it happen rarely when manager is not satisfied
Some call the Alpha memory model useful, some call it completely fucking insane.

Dependent loads can be reordered! The mental overhead of working in that paradigm is just not worth it.
Not many laptops have 64 gb of RAM that can run llama.cpp https://gist.github.com/zitterbewegung/4787e42617aa0be6019c3...
Permeable pavement sounds interesting, and I wonder how safe it is (the bottom of the fractional-distillation barrel might have fewer volatiles but do we want more surface area of the stuff to come into contact with water?) and how quickly it gets clogged.

Also, beavers: they're great at slowing the flow of water across a landscape, giving the water time to recharge aquifers. We'll need to address how we use land, though, to make room for these engineers to do their thing.
I have an Alpha in my collection (DS10.) It still feels pretty snappy for a 20 year old box! I upgraded it with an SSD. Alpha was incredible at the time (late 90s...)