skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the in-wall would be good, but the standard socket (NEMA 5-15) definitely isn't rated for 240v and would need upgrading.
I have been to a Dennys. (euro enjoyer here)
CEO Update: Paving the road forward with AI and community at the center
Yes. Solved it with brute force street smart, tons of time on computers (not gaming) and Ritalin
CGA had fine colors on a composite monitor.
If this is the case, and I believe you, then this implies: "bytes are NOT all you need". You need a good representation of your image for the network to work well. It might so happen that one of the popular formats, maybe JPEG does a good job. But a dedicated ML person could do better most likely.

This is probably what you would classically call "feature engineering"? And this is all hyperparameter search stuff in a way.
Looking at that machine I'm amazed that we as a society are not advancing further. We have incredible engineering feats like that, yet at the same time, we have rampant poverty, homelessness, polluted oceans, smog clouds, and thousands of others.

That thing is a moving synchronized orchestra of a mini-factory, carrying it's own inventory and moving on the same railway track that it's servicing/fixing. And here I am, can barely coral a bunch of juniors to fix a basic CRUD app.
https://archive.ph/Svc9i
I agree. Vision only approaches are cheaper but far more difficult in the long run.

But that wouldn't be a problem if Tesla didn't advertise their cars as containing all the necessary hardware for self driving. If Tesla admitted that cameras were insufficient for self-driving, they would open themselves up to legal liability.
“Based on that sentence please formulate an article for my website. It’s gotta be at least 3,000 characters long. Try to add some speculative thoughts. Also please add a click-baity title.”
We can't go back to villages and working the fields by hand or with horses for the same reason we can't go back to living in caves and hunting/gathering. There's simply too many people now.
>Many of the issues being raised were valid at the time and have since been proven to be well-founded.

No, they were not.

More evidence of the Fox-ification of the Telegraph, a once respectable source of news...
I do not imagine that. Sometime in the future they will be safer, but as of now they are in the "unknown safety level" category.

Pretty much all those optimistic estimates were done by highly untrustworthy companies and in highly artificial conditions.
Talking about not understanding rigor in the context of calculus is silly.

Modern formalism is because of calculus!… and the fact that contrary results were obtained regarding continuity and derivatives due to subtly different conceptions of the terms.

Enter the Weierstrass function:

> Weierstrass's demonstration that continuity did not imply almost-everywhere differentiability upended mathematics, overturning several proofs that relied on geometric intuition and vague definitions of smoothness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weierstrass_function
I totally agree with your point here. I was just curious if I understood this issue properly. From other comments it sounds like an issue that may affect everyone despite our best efforts. Like you said, regulation is probably the only way this can be effectively fixed
You seem to be leaving out an awful lot of types of jobs there.

Do accountants have to provide a portfolio?

Do museum curators have to spend several hours curating a collection for their prospective employers, for free?

Do any of the 31 flavors of middle management have to sit through a "leet-manage" test?

Professions that require on-the-spot demonstration of your skills in order to be hired are very much the outlier, not the norm.
Here's a recent post about shipping and results: https://blog.chromium.org/2023/06/how-chrome-achieved-high-s...

Would be interesting to hear where they ended up with the parallelism that was mentioned in passing.
On one side it doesn't appear to be a big problem.
The palette is quite clever. It’s optimized for being able to reasonably represent real-world things, as well as gradients, unlike the garish primary color based palettes of some of its contemporaries.
IIRC single digit years probably - Apollo missions released a couple sub satellites and missions control was then very surprised when those satellites lost altitude and crashed in a matter of months.

In comparison, there is likely still stuff from the 60s in orbit around Mars, and that's for a body with (thin) atmosphere.
Have an ambition.
Why doesn't Alexa know that homonyms aren't homophones?
Reverse Engineering Self-Supervised Learning
Here is an example page I made inspired by StackOverflow and Quora.

I think StackOverflow could do something like that; have a bot account owned by StackOverflow that would respond to posts.

Here is the example I made: https://doc.nstr.no/bitcoin_background
Why can't pinout.xyz look like this?
Never heard this complain before

Definitely a new one for me and an easy 'what? It works really well...'
To be fair, what will happen is more likely to be 5 extra years on Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.
(Devil's advocate) And employers will be happy to cover it for their employees, especially since they'll be paying them 10-20% less to account for their increased costs :)
Actually a very valid point when computing is incredibly hypocritical about their footprint when compared to heavy industry.
Exactly. Missing a deadline would be understandable, but Tesla has been consistently dishonest about their software.

Unfortunately, neither consumers nor the market have punished them for it. So it's inevitable that they will continue, and that other companies will follow.
That’s why they send their kids to the UK?
You are making a classic straw man argument of the form: ”I shall take the thing and crank it up to the max & insist that only instantaneous change happen to show how ludicrous that would be”.

This is a wildly disingenuous argument! Incremental change is possible. Partial change is possible.
What I don't understand is why aren't companies pushing ahead with intermediate solutions on constrained paths that's more like public transport - imagine a small van or mini-bus carrying 4-10ish passengers that travels on well-mapped, public, main roads (and is allowed to use the bus lane).

The main paths in big cities already go pretty close to big venues, and we could set up these paths in such a way that the pickup and dropoff point is at most a few minutes walk away from people's true destinations.

It would serve as a replacement for public transport instead of a way of having your car drive itself (which isn't that big of a help considering the biggest issue with city driving is parking).
Lazy Loaded Meaning

Tempted to write that "Meaning".
Apple devices are luxury products, not necessities. Sure, they may make your life marginally better, but it's nothing world changing
Not a huge fanboy of LLMs, but is the name really all that misleading? It's a language model, a model designed to produce human language, and it is large, with billions of parameters. So it's quite descriptive.
Lived in the south my whole life and never heard of this once
Seems like an important and timely article.

I feel like SV has just become a hostile and quite frankly a "weird" place. I guess it always has been but the emperor really has no clothes now.

Not much can be done honestly. I think the mix between AI and social media is a poisonous and hyper dangerous mind control cocktail which really needs to be shutdown.

The big money in SV just seems quite rudderless and out of control. Dangerously out of control. Now we'll just throw some "AI" into the mix and hope for the best.

The US government is unlikely to help, they're totally reliant on the tech companies to help win elections so we're in for a very bumpy, hopefully not catastrophic ride while things plays out and hopefully improve.

The saddest thing I've seen lately is how addictive YouTube has become for children, it's absolutely disgusting. Yes, we can blame parents but can we really only blame parents? Most adults are addicted themselves and don't even understand why or how it's happening. I've seen kids having tantrums after looking at screens for hours watching rubbish like Minecraft commentary videos. They seem quite distressed in a way I've not really seen before. It's quite honestly disturbing. As a kid, I watched TV, yes, but I watched fairly benign shows and then when it was over, some "boring" adult show would come on like the news, and I'd go outside and play. Not take a device with me.

> Today the vast majority of Americans are inclined to fear the tech elite, and the industry’s approval dropped dramatically even before the pandemic. Today’s Valley is a far cry from the life-improving, concrete promise of twentieth-century industrial achievement. People see that tech’s giants reap fortunes from ever greater surveillance and socially destructive social media; tech’s contributions to well-being and economic prosperity are far more difficult to keep front of mind.

This has never been further from the truth, I think people are in shock honestly and I do feel like the average tech user is waking up from their addictions, but these companies truly have a mind an inertia of their own now.

Good luck to all. We can only remain hopeful and optimistic.
Unix/Linux make [0]. As originally written, the rules following a dependency line must be indented by a TAB character. Any other white space causes make to error. Early on, the author was asked to change the program to allow any white space indentation at the beginning of a rule line. The author replied: I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_(software)#Rules
Waverly, TN had bad floods a couple years ago because their long span of train tracks around the bottom of the hill hadn't had its drainage maintained. The ballasted, built up tracks trapped a large volume of water which blew out finally and caused catastrophic flooding.

The sheriff said he'd been complaining to the railroad for 2 years about the water building up, trying to get them to clean out the drains. That's an incredibly busy line tho.

After the floods they had the train tracks back up and running in weeks, before some the roads through town. I'm told they built exactly the same plan that had been there before, inadequate drainage and all.
Is this something you've benchmarked? If you're looking at Unicode, note that with just over a million possible code points, this is at the smaller end of speedups shown in the paper, which really gets going around 10 million. I don't know for sure but wouldn't be surprised if SIP and TIP typically only use one interpolation at such sizes.

How do you start a binary search at a single point exactly, search in the right direction doubling the interval size until you bracket it? The paper mentions what they call Interpolation-Sequential which does a sequential search instead and they claim this is faster if you get close enough. In any case, it doesn't seem right to call this "branchless" given that the number of steps is variable.

TIP uses rational functions, not linear. Still, I'm a bit skeptical that a global quadratic or logarithmic fit solves all problems: isn't piecewise data with one or two big gaps fairly common? With a distribution that's uniform only after taking a log, I see how a logarithmic fit would have some theoretical motivation; quadratic seems unmotivated.
There existed 10Base2 hubs (repeaters), because there were still limitations on cable length and the need to isolate bad segments.
Rambling about Microsoft, and testing alternatives to GitHub Copilot
Oh really?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/09/13/george-h...
A city that never got build. If you watch Walt Disney’s film about it looked really futuristic and could have been amazing. Instead we got a bunch of theme parks
> Pre-consumerist societies did not have a marketing sector

Soviet Russia totally did have a propaganda sector. And they sure used bright color, though limited by what colors were available.
You have pretty much described what Waymo is doing. They use specific, pre-mapped zones only in certain conditions.
Label Studio: Open-Source Data Labeling Platform
Many made the (somewhat reasonable) assumption that it was for EUrope, not the European Union.
iPhones aren't world changing?
I often need to change the author on commits that aren't the topmost one.
This is cool! Thanks especially for sharing the db files- that is very helpful work.
The point of the linked tweet (admittedly not obvious from the title here) is that AI is the misleading term.
Put wheels on the capsules and make it an electric pickup truck with the batteries on the bed, make the tube 10 feet across and I think I know the company for you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKblgZupOc

You can make funny tricks when passing image as composite. Where with those you can produce other colours. And state of computers were quite limited and primitive then.

On other hand for business use, those are still acceptable, everything was text anyway.
You are utterly overblowing one part (noise pollution from EVs, which is really just a bit louder humm, for whatever personal reasons you have) and ignoring the additional, massive and instant benefits of actually saving lives. I definitely appreciate the added noise, so do my small kids, and they don't have to learn this from having school mate killed by ultra quiet car, same for ie elderly. Not living on this planet alone, did you notice?

Noise pollution from ie ambulance, sports car, basically any motorbike, old car, trucks and so on is much much bigger. Where is your outrage for those?

And no, noise pollution from these cars discussed is not causing massive health issues that outweigh people getting maimed and killed by them, thats just your personal preferences (like not owning a car because you are young without a family etc) you would like to push on whole society for whatever personal reasons.
If the hotspot were compromised, why would you connect to it at all?
Now all we need to do is police the dissent caused by the speech restrictions; and counteract it by having media voices repeat loudly and often that such concerns are based on (mis|dis|mal)information; and everything is fixed and everyone happy, right?
Much hardware and software for codecs use wave basis as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform
Interesting to see what happens to the current campaign against encryption, in light of them trying to keep WhatsApp messages from an enquiry for the sake of their privacy.
Curiously, a multitude of AI algorithms can figure which 'features' are relevant (ignoring training data requirement for a second*), to what extent, and how to use them as needed. On the other hand, humans (the authors in this example) often don't understand that, and can take any of the input features as the key determining factor.

* When, why, and if, AI needs more training data than humans aside, even humans have received enough of it to have developed some common sense, but yet ...
Midinous non-linear music composition tool
Midinous is a non-linear MIDI sequencer allowing users to create expansive looping complex sequences which don’t subscribe to a definite timeline. Meter is determined only by a user’s imagination. Midinous can, however, still send MIDI clock messages to sync up devices and software.

Cool explanatory video, with an unfortunate clickbait title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtTWtzWav8I
How is this better than a regular bus?
The BBC article has photographs of her jewellery and a larger one of the painting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-63445805
downside is that there is no JIT-cache so it's much slower than Rosetta on Mac as it always does the translation on demand
Are you even closely related to this topic at all?

How would you know what and what not is going on in the background?
UTM also have their own docs on it:

https://docs.getutm.app/advanced/rosetta/

And FYI, this is also available in Docker Desktop for macOS, which allows better performance when running x86_64 containers compared to the older solution where Docker was using qemu.
>trains on modern rail lines don't make the familiar click-clack sound.

What does the click-clack sound have to do with thermal expansion? Is it because the track is expanding as the train moves over it, if so what’s causing that sound signature?
Controlling rocks is easy. Controlling people is hard.
> “They are creating this culture on Stack Overflow where it’s become a really safe place to ask a question, a safe place to provide an answer, and try to get people closer to their solution, and I think that’s part of what’s made it really successful and where we found a lot of value.”

Is this satire? Stack Overflow is infamous for how hostile its culture is towards people asking questions. And I'm sure that the CEO is well aware of that. The fact that they're dropping a quote like this one into the post without a single word even attempting to address SO's well-known culture problems is a slap in the face to anyone familiar with the platform.
Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023".

WHY, GOOGLE???

Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up??

Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth.

:(
BBC aims to compel remote control makers to add a BBC button
open source, long termism, transparency, interoperability, one login, no monitoring of personal data without control, no walled garden, no dark patterns, no weasel words, unions, basic respect for human rights, good ESG, that sort of thing :)
I've had a raspberry pi device project in my head for a while so this is helpful and timely
Surprise surprise, government can mobilise police/army to protect their citizens. Who would have thought.

Come on, no one knew if it was a new black death or just a harmless virus. The hysteria about government taking valid steps in an unclear situation is childish.
$80 Android phones are world changing
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc
It uses system which calls sh. So a script might behave differently on different systems.
If anything, what surprises me is that it's able to be confirmed so specifically and confidently this soon.

At least in the U.S., the "public health emergency" "ended" less than a month ago!
Not the same thing though. Windows Terminal is a terminal emulator. Rsh is a shell. Assuming rsh runs fine on windows, one could make another profile in Windows Terminal that starts in rsh.
What are you procrastinating? One of the issues I personally have with this is the idea that there is enough time for everything, but this isn't true. The way it actually works is that, the more you do right now is the less you will have to do later. And when you do it in reverse, the amount of work you have to do is compounded a hundredfold - which in itself can also cause issues with motivation and willpower.

I've made the mistake of thinking that "I can do it later" many times before. It's worse when you have to play catch up with yourself. It's equally as important to have the right motivation, "Why do I need/have to do this?". If you're financially stable but not goal-oriented, that can cause issues too.

It's also good to have goals/projects that yield results, because it creates a feedback loop where you aren't just throwing mud at a wall and seeing what sticks.

I've found that writing/development are two distinct areas where it is very easy to procrastinate. And there really isn't a secret recipe to fix it other than switching off that voice in your mind and doing what needs to be done. Anecdotally, you might find yourself having too much free time on your hands when you start doing stuff rather than thinking about it.
All it would take is everyone to shift DNS servers, to say a project like OpenNIC [1] and the internet would be freer of capitalistic data packets.

[1] https://www.opennic.org/
Even GPT wouldn't use "extremely" that many times.
> I want to study more, read more, and finish my coding projects.

Revise your goals. It seems you don't actually want to do those things, you just want to want to do them. It's a big distinction.
That's fantastic! But hopefully you were paying attention, ready to take control at any point in time. I've personally been inside a "self-driving" Tesla that would have crashed without human intervention.

So while we can give Tesla props for shipping a very useful feature, it's not reliable enough to be considered "fully self driving". There could easily be fatal consequences for consumers who don't babysit it diligently enough.
In general, the quality of the replies seems to have been affected.
More specifically:

- the context window seems to have been reduced: I only have access to the 4k model, but even when the prompts and replies are well under this limit, the model seems to loose context, as in, the replies have no connection to the prompt;

- hallucinations: while this has been a general issue with LLM's and even taking into account a reduction in the context window, GPT-4 seems to hallucinate a lot more now;

- not answering: prompts for which I have received answers before get a "my cut-off date ..." answer now.

I used GPT-4 mostly via the API and I saved the threads (history) of all prompts I've been sending, so it's fairly easy for me to "test" the before/after changes.

Some tests that are easy to run:

- the "apple" test: write 10 sentences that end with the word "apple" - I used to get 8/10 most of the time, sometimes even 10/10. Now it's more like 6-7/10.

- a friend suggested the "jwst" prompt: when was the jwst launched? Depending on the answer (sometimes it says it is scheduled to launch, sometimes it answers correctly), subsequently ask "what hour and minute"

- use a 1-2k prompt and analyse the answer - this shouldn't be an issue with a 4k limit, but sometimes it will hallucinate or respond with something totally unrelated

temperature: 0.2, top_p: 1, max_tokens: 4000, streaming: true

edit: I've noticed that speed has been improved, but that doesn't really help when the quality suffers; also, data point of 1, but when using it from Germany (Europe?), the quality suffers, when prompting via vpn from US, it seems to be slower but the quality is better (but again, take that with a big grain of salt)
So they used it as a manually synchronised dump from the same internal system & processes they had before it, and since that didn't work well and required extra effort (surprise!) they're stopping again.

I'm going back to managing my own rack, because logging in to rsync the new versions to S3 and then manually updating my Lambda definitions in the console is too much of a burden for the benefit running my app serverlessly in the cloud as well gives me.
Printed circuit board that solders itself
This seems similar to Safari’s JSCore 4 tiers architecture.

Imagine keeping execution smooth while switching between all those tiers. Modern JS engines are fascinating beasts.