skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! You've pretty much nailed it.

Cipher: exchanging letters to hide a message.

Code: exchanging words/phrases to hide a message.

Encryption: combining math + ciphers (sometimes code too!) to hide a message.

Codes are great for real people having fluent conversations, not so great for computers. We actually use "codes" all the time, but when they're used in large groups (and not a 'secret'), we call it "jargon."

"Push it to main, and I'll pull it in to my buggy branch to see if that works" will make almost no sense to anyone but a programmer who works with git and even then, only someone who's used git since everyone renamed the 'master' branch to 'main.'
Also - benchmark yourself against yourself. There will always be better/faster/stronger out there, focus on what you've learned day-over-day.
This would be fantastic in my current apartment. My immediate surroundings are completely saturated by WiFi access points across both 2.4 and 5.x GHz making all wireless connections unreliable at best, and the layout of my apartment is such that the only way to have a wired connection in the living room where my desktop sits is to run an ethernet cable across the floor.

So I run an ethernet cable across the floor, and it's not great.

I also think VR/AR use cases may benefit from this eventually.
Single-payer as in the government pays. We have Medicare, Medicaid, and veterans all covered by the government. If a provider wants to serve those markets (old, poor, vets) they have to accept the rates offered by the government.
I can't speak for the previous commenter but it does seem there is a different character to the research work happening at FAANG-scale companies (which is still generally in service of their corporate strategy) vs the work that happened at Bell Labs back in the day (which was more abstract and less directly-commercializable). Bell Labs was more of a large team of brilliant researchers with ample resources to support their work, and it just had to be useful to somebody rather than be part of a product/service that could be sold directly.
I understand they were a cash cow which put the company in another league where cash flow is anormally high.
> It seems to me that all build systems are just DAGs with syntactic sugar and functions.

True in the broadest sense, but there are choices to be done regarding the possibility of discovering what the graph is or has become on the fly and the propagation directions. See “Build systems à la carte”[1,2] for a systematic exploration.

(See also a neighbouring comment[3] re how the discourse structure[4] of the build script might be important in a way orthogonal to these execution-engine issues. The boundary between the build system and the build tool proper can be drawn in very different places here.)

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3236774

[2] https://youtu.be/BQVT6wiwCxM

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36749885

[4] https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...
I believe they mean that the free TTS feature in Microsoft Edge uses their best technology, and that said tech is better than Google's default offering.
It is in his self interest that it fails. Capitalism is founded on self interest- if he does not say that, then he is not acting according to capitalist values.

It is a great thing for him to say, unless you’re a communist.
Theres a book called Ishmael by Daniel Quinn that your comment reminded me of
oh humans are inherently contradictory.

and that’s with just one of them.
You can ride in families. I can even take your kids on the bike, especially with assistance.
I am a bit suspicious when it immediately says to install a cell phone app that allows messaging without an Internet connection.
Its potentially an even worse problem than overfitting because of the error accumulation and undermining of the fitness functions. Its similar to asking students to create test questions to evaluate themself. As the proportion of self output questions grows, the context eventually drifts to be meaningless. In other words it leads to test "questions" like "The answer is A".

One measurement of this would be to watch the growth of probability of new models to say similar things to older model filters like "As a large language model ..."
I don't see why the guarantees you get by using e.g. Azure's LLM api are any different from the ones you get when using Azure for anything.

I guess I can see why you would trust AWS/Azure/GCP over OpenAI, since they are bigger companies arguably with more to lose.
The point is that this solution works without access to electricity and is resilient to the loss of industrial supply chains
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I want an app on Android to record phone conversations as MP3 files in the background. My old OnePlus 3 dialer used to handle this perfectly, not anymore.

Unfortunately it seems the Android APIs are getting locked down for this kind of usage.
I think there were a study that people actually exercised more with ebikes since it allowed them to not get tired so fast, something like how people are doing in gyms: if everything was too heavy, ppl would exercise less compared to when they can choose the difficulty
None of these efforts are as wide-ranging as AT&T's, though. Budget comparisons are hard for a number of reasons (AT&T had R&D happening in multiple places, under multiple funding streams, both directly and indirectly funded), but the usual thinking is that AT&T spent a larger % of revenue on research than most, but not all, organizations today, with Google being a notable example of a company that beats it on % revenue to R&D (is this still true?). My suspicion would be that that comparison wouldn't hold if you factored in the directly funded DoD work but it's hard to say without some pretty complex digging through accounting records.

The more substantial point is breadth, though. AT&T research at its peak was more comparable to a university than an industrial R&D institution, with both basic and applied research occurring in a huge variety of fields---likely all fields of physical science at various points. All of the organizations you mention are essentially single-purpose. Some of the major tech companies (Google, Microsoft) are known for wide-ranging R&D, but they seem to have struggled to produce the kind of basic advances that AT&T did, and also seem to be backing off of that work.

Basic research is the big problem... AT&T had very little problem with money going to basic research without known applications, likely due to the substantial influence that academia and "scientific management" had on AT&T, as well as its reputation for excellent research management practices that made AT&T a major part of basic physics research on the behalf of the DoD for decades (Sandia National Laboratories, for example, operated by AT&T until relatively recently). In my opinion, accounts of Bell Labs enormous success, having made major contributions to nearly every field of engineering, often focus too much on the excellence of its staff (which was a factor, although Bell Labs management practices were not exactly modern), and downplay the role of AT&T's willingness to fund basic research and ability to find outside funding for basic research as well. Few modern organizations seem to be willing to entertain major efforts in a nascent field of astronomy, for example, on the assumption that the technical work will lead to useful engineering knowledge.

There's a lot out there about the history of Bell Labs, but its own multi-volume "A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System," from the late '70s, does a good job of covering the incredible breadth and scale of work performed at Bell Labs. One thing to consider is that costs were quite a bit lower back then, and so Bell Labs small-looking budget of $3-5 billion of today's dollars per year translated to a workforce in the tens of thousands working, during WWII, 70-hour weeks. A two-day weekend did finally reach most of the Bell Labs technical staff early in the Cold War.

Besides, if you read into the history of Bell Labs, you will recognize vestiges of its bureaucratic structure in most government and military R&D today. Its influence in government and military physical research is enormous.
> millions of ambisious people from countries where there is less free market economy are desperately trying to come to US to realize their full potential, but not the other way around.

I'd like to see your statistics on immigration and emigration. Most people coming to America are coming from Mexico or the Caribbean, which I would consider to be free market capitalist societies, just poorer ones. How is the free market more restrained there than in the US?

(Note, for the purposes of the statistics I looked at, both Venezuela and Cuba are not generalized to "Caribbean" but have their own categories)
Python People Podcast
This seems DOA because how could you possibly prove that an AI “knowingly” wrote false statements. We have to figure out if our current systems have consciousness before we can declare the bot not only knew the correct version of what it could have said but also that it knowingly deviated from that and published falsehoods.
one is a non expiring real world good with uses outside of speculation, and the other is a digital certificate of ownership of a number on a blockchain. If you truly cannot see the difference between the two, no one can help you.
That's describing two different services, preventative care, and reactive care.

Your only choice for reactive care is generally only the closest place, and you may not even get a choice on the provider because you were unconscious when it was chosen.

Once you're there hooked up to a machine, how are you changing provider now that you know their services aren't right for you?
Right. Does it account for positive / negative economic impact of (lack of) pollution?
I got my COVID shot there.
Could it be the hype got so extreme, that its capabilities have a hard time meeting the expectations?
Big hydro requires ungodly amounts of reinforced concrete, labor (to dig millions of cubic meters on earth) and transportation capacity (gotta transport that concrete on site - hard to do with ox-powered carriages on unpaved roads). I can't see say Louis the XIV's France ever pulling that off.
I'm asking if the LEDs that support 9.6Gbps (what is that? A 1ns or faster LED?) even exist in any substantial way.

Isn't that like, laser speeds? Not overhead LED speeds. And over the air? Not inside a fiber line?

This is basically a 10Gbps standard for fiber lines except over the air. All those issues need to be solved without the guarantees or isolation that fiber optic lines provide.

That's just transmit. Receive has to deal with the same issues, amplifiers and other electronics that move at the requested speeds.
It's sort of frustrating to know that OpenAI has a better model that wouldn't cost them anything to release, but they don't do it for PR/whatever reasons.
97% of those surveyed in the article do not plan on paying for YouTube premium as a result ahahaha
It takes multiple weeks to get someone added to the AD group required for wiki edit permissions.
Time for Kafka?
I’m increasingly seeing ChatGPT as a single LLM application being conflated with an entire domain or industry. And plenty of schadenfreude. Including many comments on this site.

The universe of LLM-driven applications is rapidly expanding, many of them chat-related, others not.

Even if ChatGPT is losing its shine, we’re only at the start of a massive reinvention of user interfaces, creation of new tools for reasoning, semi-autonomous decision making, and far more.

Sure there’s hype. But the reductive saltiness doesn’t add much to the conversation.
Doesn't this apply to all jobs? You're sort of suggesting that salaried employment can't work, because employees will be incentivized to do the easiest or least work. Clearly it does work in practice though, despite this alleged fundamental flaw.
Ronald de Wolf: Quantum Computing: Lecture Notes

Ronald de Wolf:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.09415

David Bacon:

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse599d/06wi/

Scott Aaronson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computing_Since_Democr...
That would be great but it’s most likely not going to work that way- Meta will never let you use Mastodon to act as a threads client so any integration between the two will probably let people view mastodon from threads but not vice versa (except replies)
I mean... people who go to cancer clinic have cancer at a higher rate than those who don't. Cancer clinics cause cancer. And therapists create mentally unstable people, etc.

You wouldn't have to fork the universe. I think a randomly distributed trial would work, and could be reasonably made to work. Not sure though.

FWIW, I think we should prevent private equity in lots of places, especially hospitals.
He clearly didn’t take his emails to bed.
…And you’re only one mistake away from the spam/abuse detection bot from locking you out of your account and shutting off your business for 12-72 hours.
We, the human race, own all windows. We can just throw stones into them. We've just been trained not to remember that.
If a company as big as Amazon can pull off mandating writing standards so can yours. I understand that many companies just don't care. They tend to be run by steward CEOs and mercenary managers. I simply avoid them.

https://rahulramchandani.com/writing-culture-at-amazon/
If that's what a corporation is supposed to be sure, but it sure as hell isn't what corporations appear to actually be so I don't think I agree with your assertion that I'm wrong. I could agree that the definition for corporation is wrong or that the concept has been corrupted.
>Unfortunately, the council aren't happy about it and are threatening to remove them.

Quite rightly too - it's simply not legal for them to put it there.

There are proper processes in place to get an official hangar installed. These might be challenging, but that's the only fair way to do things.

I think the biggest problem with cars is that we happily accept the impact they have on the entire community, just so that some people who use them can have more convenience. The cost of having a car is passed on to everyone.

Similarly, with bikes it's never going to be possible for every single person in the city to have a cargo bike parked outside their house - there simply isn't room. This isn't ideal, but a situation where only someone who gets there first can do it isn't ideal either.
Instruments like this normally boot from a read only image, so even if you have root access to the box you can't do anything bad to it, well, nothing that won't disappear on reboot.

On my Siglent scope (an SDS2104X plus) you can easily hack it to enable telnet access. This requires physical access to the device to add a USB stick with a file on it to achieve this, but it's then very open (described here https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-sds2000x-plus...)

It was actually one of the things that attracted me to this scope, that it was to some extent hackable. Compared to other scopes like the old Tektronix ones running VxWorks it's nice to have something familiar behind the scenes.
So if you turn your back on the ceiling light you lose your connection?
Honest question to Mint users: have used Debian and Ubuntu with i3 and gnome over the past ~10 years. Why should I use Mint?
Thanks!
Latest time series models benchmarked and implemented in this library
I mean... people who go to cancer clinic have cancer at a higher rate than those who don't. Cancer clinics cause cancer. And therapists create mentally unstable people, etc.

You wouldn't have to fork the universe. I think a randomly distributed trial would work, and could be reasonably made to work (woth Gov. help). Not sure though.

FWIW, I think we should prevent private equity in lots of places, especially hospitals.
I'll argue it's not trite. It's a concise compilation of the thousands of teeth-gnashing comments here on HN and all over the internet whenever Google randomly drowns another one of its children.

Just fucking stay away from Google products. Period.
With all recent advances, are there any decent TTS voices for Linux that are not complicated to set up for regular user?
A tour of dyn Trait in Rust
Great article. Postman was ahead of his time. Also Jerry Mander(yes, that is his name) regarding advertisement when it comes to entertainment on television.

Sadly the conclusion each activist makes is that there’s no way to reform it. We have to live with it.

I think the realization of the wasteland helps you in your life if you allow it:

https://jondouglas.dev/entertained-from-disappointment/
"A PostgreSQL Docker container that automatically upgrades your database"

Still uses "upgrade", but highlights the fact that you're changing the artifact and not just the software.
The Rube Goldberg machine builders will do the same in any language. Give them Java and they will build monstrosities beyond your comprehension.

The functional paradigm has its strengths and weaknesses, just like any other paradigm. One of its strengths is facilitating elegant, easily understood, and highly correct code -- but that depends on the developer.
Nuclear competes with renewables going forward.
A pretty same setup with a bunch of differences:

1. I'm using a single postgresql database for all apps (each with a different user) on a different server; each app has a different db user

2. I use a minio instance for file/media uploads/serving

3. I mostly use nginx but i'm transitioning new apps to caddy because of automatic integration with let's encrypt and much smaller config for common purposes

4. I use a fab-classic (fabric 1x) script to deploy new versions: https://github.com/spapas/etsd/blob/master/fabfile.py

5. For backup I do a logical db backup once per day via cron (using a script similar to this https://spapas.github.io/2016/11/02/postgresql-backup/)

6. One memcache instance of all apps

7. Each app gets a redis instance (if redis is needed): https://gist.github.com/akhdaniel/04e4bb2df76ef534b0cb982c1d...

8. Use systemd for app control
Humans of AI Podcast #4

An amazing podcast session with Evan Mays, founder of Rootbeer Computer!

In this episode, we cover Evan's inspiration to get into AI from the original Iron Man films and Halo video games to his journey to winning the Scale AI hackathon with an innovative idea that GPT is all you need for backend.

We also touch on an in-depth conversation on the merits and pitfalls of current approaches to building with LLMs from vector databases and agents.
The Gazelle Arroyo C8 is a Dutch e-bike (one of the only models available in the USA) with a beautiful design.
Hah, that was one of my ~simultaneous internal "parse trees"... followed by, "oh, that's a shame".

It's far too easy to read "pee PDF", "pee" is an independent 'morpheme', and "PDF" is an independent initialism, or whatever... So, there's some real "strength" to that parse, at least for me. It basically crowded out other possibilities, quickly.

But, other than the possibly slightly unwise naming*, I'm quite interested in this - always looking for tools to help with formats with the complexity of PDF**. Thanks for pointing it out!

* Perhaps it's intentional though? After all, there's also "Big Faceless Organization", in the PDF space forever ... maybe it's a "Close your eyes, show me your face..." ref?*** Hahaha...

** One of the most complex I've ever worked with, factoring in all the media it gets rendered to / systems rendered with, including "digital presses" etc.

*** NSFW: https://youtu.be/eafRE74JGZ8
Extreme heat maybe, but cold can be handled.
The answers are getting dumber so-as to not scare all the sheeple.

Enough people don't realize how easily these LLM systems will replace large swaths of technical instruction and bookkeeping.

The opensource stuff (e.g. Llama 13B) which you can run locally on a $1200 hardware (1 word/second) is pretty impressive, too.
That did it. Working great now!

I for one am glad for your side project obsession. It's great to meet you. I'll shoot you that email shortly.
Yes, for the parts that needed to be distinctly translated from English, it was a cipher. However, it IS a language, with it's own grammar and vocabulary. They could have an entire conversation with none of the cipher bits...

If you've ever gone to a foreign country, you know you will have zero idea what anyone is saying for quite a long time. They knew as long as they kept the messages short enough, nobody was going to learn it from immersion.

There are still ancient languages that nobody have deciphered, despite having copious samples to choose from. I don't think it's as simple as you're making it out to be.
It's kinda sad to see you believe that this is the inevitable outcome.
yt-dlp also has flags to write subtitle files and .info.json files, which at least Emby can automatically pick up and use, if not Jellyfin.

I haven’t yet wired up the bits to use whispercpp to automatically generate subtitles for downloads, but I have done so on an ad-hoc basis in the past and gotten (much) better results than the YouTube auto-generated subtitles.
Couldn't you just use a laser and a lens?
What “better model”? If you’re referring to whatever LLM GPT-4 was before RLHF, by what measure might this model be better? As I pointed out above, what OpenAI is selling is “best” for their customers.
Seems like a pretty good business model to me. Quietly dumb down the AI, then release version N+1 that is smarter and charge $X + 15% for it
Great, now you've messed up all the other math that uses the modulo operator. The mathematical operators behave the way they do for well established reasons that long predate the invention of computers. It's going to be a tough sell to get everyone to adopt a wholesale refactoring of modulo arithmetic (and likely number theory in general) just for the "convenience" of one based indexing.
I used Azure TTS for a product demo voice-over recently, and nobody I showed it to knew it wasn't a human doing it!

Some of Azure's voices are better than others, and the TTS web app has a few minor bugs, but overall I was really pleased with the whole experience.
I think people should look at the output of their compiler and fix warnings before checking in code.

And frankly I'd rather the build not stop on the first error. In fact it would be best if the build system tried to link even if there are errors. Might work.
I help lead this work because I agree with you! And we have been working hard on this for the last couple of years (and most of the research is publicly available). Historically, aircraft are certified for a generic pilot, pilots are certified for a generic aircraft, and procedures are built with these generic assumptions in mind. Tailoring aeromedical certification to the type of operation, the actual aircraft, the procedures flown, and the number of hours in the air would be great. We want as many people to be able to fly as possible. But relaxing requirements isn't necessarily straightforward because it requires data to show we aren't negatively impacting safety and fundamentally rethinking the we analyze and control for risk. Commercial aviation hasn't had a hull loss in more than a decade, but private pilots are crashing every few days.

But even if we were able to make the changes we'd like to make, we still need to ensure compliance with ICAO. For example, we could not conduct aeromedical exams during the pandemic due to lack of telemedicine. However, ICAO does not even allow telemedicine to be used.

It's not for lack of trying. There are very real barriers that take significant time, resources, and willpower to solve.
I've met at least 1 person capable of doing 'creative innovative mental work' on a similar basis. Making categorical claims over billions of adults is simply incorrect.
You shouldn't, you are not the target audience.
Why in the holy hell can we not just PICK THIS FOR OURSELVES?

This is the thing, right? Perhaps we could shoe-horn this in behind the ADA or something. Require every website to provide a "pocket" or whatever mode.