skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Baptists are naive ideologues, the Bootleggers are cynical operators, and so the result of reform movements like these is often that the Bootleggers get what they want – regulatory capture, insulation from competition, the formation of a cartel – and the Baptists are left wondering where their drive for social improvement went so wrong.

While I appreciate the Baptist/bootlegger analogy, it's oversimplifying things to categorize anyone who has ever opposed a new technology as a "naive ideologue". Am I naive ideologue if I don't love the fact that I'm an unwilling participant in self-driving car testing done on public roads?

Not everyone who opposes something is either naive or an opportunist.

> AI is highly likely to be the control layer for everything in the world. How it is allowed to operate is going to matter perhaps more than anything else has ever mattered. You should be aware of how a small and isolated coterie of partisan social engineers are trying to determine that right now, under cover of the age-old claim that they are protecting you.

In short, don't let the thought police suppress AI.

I can't figure out how the last sentence fits here. Is the thought police trying to suppress AI, or allow it to flourish, within the parameters they set for it?

Also, how is the rest of the article so optimistic about AI, when this section makes it seem like there's a decent chance that this elite coterie will shape "the control layer for everything in the world"?

> AI Risk #4; Will AI Lead to Crippling Inequality?

I was surprised he didn't discuss whether having a personal AI assistant would have a leveling effect (helping out those at the bottom achieve their maximum) or a disparity-increasing effect (amplifying the ability of the well-off to claim more wealth/opportunities for themselves). It seems like this is more important for understanding inequality than the Elon Musk example, which seems to conflate the "equality" that Musk creates by giving many people technologically advanced cars with the "inequality" that results from him becoming extremely wealthy in the process. When most people think about inequality, they're thinking about the latter, not the former.
This seems region specific. I tried searching for "chrome" on bing, in incognito with uBlock Origin turned off and all I got was a banner at the top of the search results asking me to try edge, all links below that were pages related to chrome. I'm in India.
Indeed, at worst you'll get a "no battery installed" and the laptop might not even try to discharge it.

The comment you're replying to is just paranoic FUD. Which removable laptop battery has external balancing contacts!?!? They're all +/-/data.
Isolate the prior logic into functional components. Find the inputs and outputs to each box. Identify which component ML can replace. Replace one after the next, sometimes merging if the ML can do it all on the gpu
Hey, we can have both huge waste and 80 years of global(ish) peace with safe(ish) international trade.
It's not the most robust theory given these stories appear each year.
They probably realised after that was done.
Yes, if we had the previous Internet to go on.

It's a sobering moment when you realize that a lot of tech is actually net negative to you - not the least because it outsourced to you the work that previously was done, much more efficiently, by specialized labor.
> the cretaceous saw co2 at 5,000-15,000ppm

Is this correct? The data I can see shows more like 1,000-2,000ppm.
The people operating the blockchains and exchanges aren't transparent. They're extremely secretive.

I consulted for a blockchain start up once. They raised money through ICO, did minimal product work, and spent most of the money on cruises and marketing to raise their token price.

So yes, the blockchain is transparent. It doesn't mean that much.
The current voice transcription engine at OpenAI is using Whisper-1[0] which is open source and runnable locally, if you wanted to keep it all on-device. I run it locally for various things and it works pretty damn well.

[0] https://github.com/openai/whisper
Could be people moving funds off Binance in BTC, could be Tether buying up BTC for a short squeeze.

Short-term trading in crypto is gambling against the house where the house decides the results based on whatever gives them the most profit.
> Fairly simple things like [1,2] < [10,2] return false (unlike every other language I’ve ever used)

What other languages, besides Python, does this builtin list comparison work in?
What's the result when the comparison is `[1, 2] < ["10", "2"]`?
Some engineers are probably of that persuasion too. I'm not going to judge. LOL.
It's not unfounded "moral panic" that AI will take our jobs, it will.

It's not hard to find accounts of people who say they're 2x, 3x, 5x more efficient in their work now. That's going to quickly translate into 1x person working at 5x efficiency putting 1-4 people out of work. It's not hard to find accounts of people who have already lost their jobs-- such stories have popped up here on HN.

Sure, you can argue that the jobs are simply displaced, and others will emerge requiring different skills than AI can easily perform, but that doesn't negate the reasonable panic individuals in jobs will feel. The article cites off-shoring as an example, but that's actually my point: I know various people who were ~55-60 when offshoring hit they industry or company. They were displaced and never found a new career-- their expertise was in areas that other corps were also outsourcing. I saw plenty of individuals hop to another company only to have their job and the new corp ofshored a few years later. Then if they're lucky & near the finish line they can take early retirement, but if they're a bit short of that mark they worked jobs that paid minimum wage+$1-$7/hour. Apart from other people I came across, I knew several such individuals when I worked a big box retail book store (when those were still relevant) during my college years.

So yeah, even if the author is correct that job loss or displacements are temporary, that's still a process that takes a minimum of 10-20 years. Retirement age minus 10-20 years is a whole heck of a lot of the population that are in jobs right now that can be automated of 3-5x'ed by a single person. Panic, or at least anxiety, is a rational response to that. Sure, a person should learn the new tools ASAP to be one of the 1x-now-5x workers but there's just not enough slots for everyone.
Diplomacy Victory? I’m not too sure.. Your friends are just rich, but not numerous. Most of the world hates us in various ways.

Culture victory? You did come up with the book of Mormon, which I guess is some kind of achievement.

Conquer Victory, now this eclipses everything. The size of US army apparatus is astounding. No doubt about that.
So if you're hungry, what should you eat?
Pish posh. Psy op.
Are that many users, particularly the high value users, all that unhappy with the model? For starters, businesses are generally thrilled for how it simplifies budgeting and maintenance issues, and they probably pay way more for software than individuals.

This feels like a particularly HN obsession, like complaining about Electron being part of everything or wondering why people pay for software in the first place when open source alternatives exist.
The article links to a better article, https://news.sky.com/story/royal-navys-experimental-ship-car..., which calls the device an accelerometer. I think the article linked here got literally all its information from that other article. Apparently it's a small number of rubidium atoms, cooled to near-absolute zero, under which conditions they can apparently measure gravitational effects and make deductions from that ("measure extremely accurately the influence of gravity on their system, which in turn allows them to measure the speed and direction of its movement").
>and AMD's cores have significantly higher IPC.

This is most certainly wrong. Apple Silicon has way higher IPC. AMD chips clock much higher, which uses much more energy. Hence, Apple Silicon is much more efficient.

>My 8 core Ryzen 5800x3D certainly compiles code a LOT faster than my 8 core M1 Mac despite the difference in main memory bandwidth.

Code compilation is not bound by memory bandwidth. But AI training and inference is. Hence, we're talking about it.

>Geekbench is a synthetic benchmark. I'd prefer real workloads like compiling code or tokens / s inference.

You send me a link to a synthetic benchmark. All I did was link you to a better and more accurate one.

Also, Geekbench performs real world workloads. You can easily look at individual scores for each test - besides the main score.
Because you don't want to use Windows? I use Linux for gaming becasue I use Linux in general. Wine / dxvk / vkd3d-proton do a great job of helping to run games, but native games on Linux would be still better.
PSVR2 uses it for foveated rendering where the eye tracking doesn't really have to be that precise. It's done for performance optimization, not input controls.
Europe is producing more startup ‘mafias’ than ever despite tech rout
It's not a matter of valuing a good education, it's a matter of making a limited education investment go further. I doubt the harms of whatever ideological tampering are so severe as to outweigh the sheer educational benefits to low income Americans and probably many middle income folks from developing nations.

It's not like individuals are free from their biases either. Humans can always learn more and change their beliefs, but without the basics of education they'll never get to a point where they can critically analyze the world around them.
More sense to put the Crimean canal source further up river (Dnipro Dam) to get more gravity rather than pump feed. Also, too little of an elevation drop that resulted in a rather large amount of land flooded for the Kakhovka reservoir that could be seen as legacy of Soviet dam building fervor.
Amethyst is not actually free / open source software
> has non-stupid package management systems

Excuse me what
NGL: I'd watch a deepfake of me having sex with myself. It might lead to some "Being John Malkovich" trauma though.
I'm so glad I went to lights in the sky. It felt pretty special.
I saw this article posted on another thread today. I already read it years ago, but returning to it still felt very fresh once again. DFW writes with such an aware, candid, and at times gentle voice. So glad he wrote as much as he did, so sad there isn't even more.

Thinking of him reminds me we all have to remember to cherish, take care of, and be gentle with ourselves and one another.
Linux is so much better for gaming, including in hardware options. Apple just doesn't compare.
It’s in settings under battery
Why would anyone take the extreme risk of starting any business at all in the United States unless they were already financially independent?

Also this idea that taxes are lower in the US is mostly bullshit - once you add together state income + sales + federal + healthcare insurance costs it's not meaningfully different from many European/Australasian nations.
> Or else Investors would sue the SEC for securities fraud

I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a conjecture.

With apologies to Mr. Babbage.
Perspective: 1/100,000th the # neurons of a human.
I've modernized a lot of legacy pipelines and can help you if you want.
It supports Bluetooth input. I wonder if the visual tracking system that tracks the hands is so good that it could accurately track controllers. Then third party motion controllers could be relatively cheap and plentiful.

Assuming it could run Virtual Desktop, there’s your Half Life Alyx in ultra high res.
Funnily all UFO sightings happened in America. Coincidenc i don't think so
In 1783 the Montgolfier brothers flew through the skies for the first time ever in a hot air balloon. It wasn't even sure if humans could survive being in the air so the King wouldn't let them send humans aloft until test animals survived first.

Later that same year, the hydrogen balloon was invented and that one was flown to an altitude of 3 km high.

And yes, the idea that you could write in Edinburgh and have it delivered to Berlin had already been invented much further back than after 1823. The Roman Empire had the Cursus Publicus which handled mail delivery between the Provinces and Italy.
I've got another one for you...
I was recently shopping online, and the company actually put a tip prompt in the checkout page! Not only is it self checkout, but there isn't even a retail store involved. Just a website. Wanting tips when you buy.
> and I haven't tracked how close that project is.

It's a while away yet. Exciting prospect though!
> Said world leaders really really want these things.

It's a bit much to start an entire deductive reasoning based on such a blatant assumption.
No, the meme goes: "Even Bitcoin?" / "Especially Bitcoin".

The tech is interesting, it was still embedded in and made to promote an ideology that's frankly just immature fantasy. You can't separate the symbol from the religion it was born in, and born to promote.
Protests don't really have much to do with the law. Indeed, protestors often expect to be arrested... and are willing to suffer those consequences in support of greater moral principles.
They should have picked a word without these connotations then.
Anyone surprised they didn't incorporate an EEG sensor and use that in conjunction with eye tracking? They could acquire someone like Neurosky.

I thought at this stage, it would be fairly foolproof to use that at the very least to simulate something like a click, no?
There's a fix for that, but it requires editing the registry: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...

I'm so much happier after doing it. Hard to believe Microsoft thought it was a good move for user happiness. Sure, they should avoid intimidating users with no computer savvy, but I doubt those users often open the context menu.
The daughter immediately received remedy from the court. The mother did not despite her far more severe injuries because, as you now admit, she was a nonimmigrant alien outside the US.
> That's slowing down;

That's not what the IT export numbers say.
“They said too many parents would be upset if they could not reach their children during the school day.”

This just seems so foreign to me. I could probably count on one hand the number of times my parents needed to get ahold of me during the school day.
This arrogance underpins so many comments on here. We don't know whether some breakthrough is possible that makes interstellar travel viable using hitherto unknown physics.
Make it at least five; I've been calling Uber and AirBnB all kinds of things for at least as long, and I was neither the first nor the most vocal one here.
The idea of waiting till a certain threshold is a lot like how Europe doesn’t have the “18-22 binge drinking” problem because they are conditioned to understand alcohol isn’t just a “I’m at a party, gotta get my monthly intake in one night” because they’re around it all the time rather than just once a month at a party.

Early exposure and proper regulation is key, and the hyperboles he used,IMO are very relevant and astute
It’s probably a similar reason why I enjoy many songs on YouTube better if I read subtitles when I listen?

You have much better comprehension of the dialogue if it’s both spoken and in text.

Comprehension defined as something specific: like how well you can recall dialogues from a movie X minutes since watching it.
This kind of QR codes should work nice on big billboards
Why are they so eager to IPO in the first place?
Less sex also. More obesity and mental illness.
>(as part of the meal, not as an assistant)

Did that really need to be said?
They want to ease us into the dystopian nightmare…
Beautifully said! As a thinker of philosophy, I have come to understand that our clip-society is based by design. People can express power over others if they tell you a construction and then show a clip to support it. They really don't want you to see the source/what it is/the truth. They want you want you see what they show you. This problem is accelerating in western societies and it is a fundamental problem of human nature. Journalism is the healthy expression and what we see in today's media is the sickly end.
The cover image certainly looks AI-generated. The rods on the top of the submarine seem oddly positioned.
Of course there will be variation in what people will accept. For many, near enough is good enough (I was surprised to hear that people had AI partners.)

You sound like those people who want AI to mimic human behavior, yet there are so many more interesting applications outside of that constraint.
The Russians intentionally increased the water level of the dam to cause the most damage and then intentionally blew it up.

At least two Russian soldiers have said they would blow the damn / they blew the dam and have admitted as much in camera.

Russia was celebrating this before they realised it was a war crime then they went into their typical deny and deflect everything mode.
Sounds like inertial navigation to me.
The article lacks detail, but sounds like it's talking about something like an atomic gyroscope[1].

There are a few types of passive quantum navigation systems, but the principle is similar to a using a stopwatch and an old-school gyroscope to measure changes in momentum and then calculating your position via dead reckoning. It just sounds like quantum methods have let them get a lot more precise.

This is actually pretty exciting from the perspective of deep sea exploration. Once you get below the surface there's no GPS and it becomes difficult to fix your position. With one of these, you'd have something like GPS no matter how deep you go.

[1]https://www.nist.gov/noac/technology/time-and-frequency/atom...
I've never really understood the significance.

Cows are sentient, does that mean the guy who artificially inseminates them is raping them?
In the US, your local County Extension office may be able to help with such issues.

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/extension-search
Tutanota Is Raising Prices
Ask HN: How to Find Problems to Work On?
For years I’ve built random projects that die out or go nowhere, mostly so I can learn some new tech.

This is draining without coding for some purpose. How do I find this purpose? The most passionate hobby I have is coding, but feeling lost in figuring out what to build.
Ok, sure - you got me. If you mess with obscure browser options, you will successfully change how google docs renders content. But I suspect all of the people who select that option would fit in one meeting room, with a sign out front from google which says "WONTFIX".

One thing people do do all the time in word processors is mash enter until the next bit of content ends up at the top of the following page. If a user does that, then they print their document from a different computer, it should print correctly. The next content should appear exactly at the top of the next page. If the word processor does anything else, users will be frustrated and blame the software. Word and Docs both put in a ton of engineering effort to get this right.

(Educated users will insert a page break instead, but plenty of users don't know about page breaks. They still expect their documents to render correctly.)
The ML/DL software ecosystem is dominated by Python. Python's dependency management can be especially tricky, so try to limit the dependencies you're pulling in for the final deployed artifact if your final artifact is also Python based.

CUDA can be difficult to set up correctly on your personal development machine and if you rely on it you're also limiting the development machines that other people can use. You're limiting the deployment options and the CI options. This may differ if you work at a larger company that has a team specializing in these things, but I had to work out everything from initial proof-of-concept to final deployment. Some applications absolutely need the higher performance from GPU execution but it's worth seeing if you can get away with CPU-only execution because it avoids operational complications.

I used the ONNX runtime (as this DeepFilterNet project does, indirectly, according to a top level comment by WiSaGaN) and I was able to get adequate inference speed running on plain CPU. It's a small Python service that just wraps the inference logic with a command interface and a connection to Redis. It takes protocol buffer inputs from a Redis based queue, does a little bit of control logic followed by inference, and writes the results as protocol buffers to another Redis based queue.

The only ML libraries I have on the Python side are the ones for ONNX. This saved over a gigabyte (!) of transitive dependencies compared to the first proof-of-concept I had that relied on PyTorch for runtime inference.

Final advice: you actually don't need to know much theory to start doing something useful. I hadn't studied neural networks since graduate school 20 years ago so my theory is hopelessly outdated. I just started hacking together a little demo for myself and it was good enough that I was encouraged to take it all the way to production.
There's software that could be used if public builds were used, and contributions were made in the open, but lawyers and security guys don't really like the risk that comes from using something you didn't built.
I wonder how much can be attributed to Radar, their homegrown bug tracking / project management service.
Comparing top marginal tax rates is kinda silly - makes much more sense to pick some "normal" ish salary or salary range (or just your current salary or expected future salary) and compare total percentage taken at that level.

The top federal and (California) state tax brackets both start at over 500k, and you'd have to be earning significantly more than that even for it to start affecting your overall tax percentage very much.
You've captured a fascinating aspect of AdS/CFT: how information in the interior, while local, can manifest non-locally on the surface, akin to a tug on a knot rippling through its structure.

The pseudoknot example underscores the need for a statistical approach in our understanding of quantum gravity. It brings to mind the question: could there be dynamics in quantum gravity analogous to decoherence in quantum mechanics that can account for this statistical nature?
this! it's a radically different website, and has been through some really intense changes over the years, from the people, the methods of influencing the platform, and the platform's own position on the content and it's moderation.
Same government that buys dowsing rods for de-mining.
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First principle's thinking's counterpart is analogical thinking -- which is pattern matching.
Interesting anecdote. Can't say I wouldn't be interested to hear the details of her story.
Frankly, what I hear is very similar to the results of classic spectral denoising, even with the characteristic FFT artifacts (for Linux, there's Noise Repellent [1] available for advanced spectral denoising; there's also a ton of commercial spectral processors available).

The demonstration could use more random background noises to separate it from FFT noise suppressors (as it's the primary benefit of ML-based filters), and more varied speech to separate it from RNNoise [2] which tends to suppress breath and cut the sibilants in an unnatural manner. The latency is also important - is it as low as in RNNoise? What about the CPU load?

[1] https://github.com/lucianodato/noise-repellent

[2] https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice